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The Good Fairy (1935, William Wyler)
January 19, 2016 by Brandon·Comments Off on The Good Fairy (1935, William Wyler)
Pretty-good movie with convoluted plot based on a Hungarian play with English dialogue rewritten by Preston Sturges. Wyler didn't have a knack for this sort of thing. Comic timing is off from the start, and the Frank Morgan character crosses the line from annoying the protagonist to annoying the audience, but the second half seems to settle into a nice groove, thanks to the soothing influence of actor Herbert Marshall.
Margaret Sullavan (of The Shop Around The Corner, also set in Budapest) is quite good anyway. She's an orphan recruited by Alan Hale (does he buy her? adopt her?) to work at his movie theater. Trying to avoid sexual harrassment in the street she latches onto sensitive, protective Detlaff (Reginald Owen, Scrooge a few years later), who works as a waiter at a restaurant where she meets wealthy, sexually aggressive annoyance Konrad (Frank Morgan, Sullavan's costar again in Shop Around The Corner) who works for hilarious drunken gov't minister Eric Blore.
Through a series of preposterous events, Margaret, who wants only to be a "good fairy" and help others, gets Konrad to enrichen randomly-selected destitute & honest (the movie isn't necessarily saying he's destitute because he's honest) lawyer Max (Herbert Marshall, star of Trouble In Paradise). She then tries to carry on a relationship with Max while pretending to Konrad that they're married, all under the watchful eyes of Detlaff.
Wikipedia: "In particular, Sturges added a movie-within-the-movie in which the actors communicate in one-syllable sentences." Beulah Bondi of the Sturges-written Remember the Night plays the orphanarian, and the musical remake I'll Be Yours a decade later featured Sturges regular Franklin Pangborn.
We also rewatched the Sturges-written Remember The Night for Christmas.
White God (2014, Kornél Mundruczó)
July 26, 2015 by Brandon·Comments Off on White God (2014, Kornél Mundruczó)
Deserved winner of the Palm Dog at Cannes. Truly, the dogs were great. However I was frustrated and confused by the rest of the movie, which was relentless misery until the climactic explosion of dog vengeance. The movie has been compared to Au Hasard Balthasar, but it's maybe closer to I Spit On Your Grave.
Girl is abandoned by her mom to live with her shitty dad for the summer. She is devoted to her dog Hagen, gets kicked out of her orchestra by the asshole band leader because of Hagen, but after pressure from horrid neighbors, Dad kicks the dog out on the street. Horrible people + handheld camera = no fun. Dog catchers, dog fighters, etc. The fighter trains Hagen to be hateful and violent, a la this movie's great namesake. The girl's bike is stolen, woman at dog shelter is a liar and dog murderer, and so on. Then: a well orchestrated bloodbath of revenge, with a picturesque but mysterious ending.
M. D'Angelo:
This movie's stupid. I suppose it's slightly less stupid if one views it allegorically — that is, if the dogs are supposed to represent minorities — but that barely seems tenable, especially w/r/t the laughable ending. Otherwise, its sole point of interest is its use of real dogs at the climax, which isn't remotely scary (Mundruzcó has no feel whatsoever for horror) but does at least represent an impressive feat of screw-you-CGI logistics. And then he goes and ruins that by using said climax, which should arise out of nowhere, as a surreal flash-forward "grabber" at the outset, a ploy that smacks of bad television. At best, this might have worked as a segment of Amores perros (which it explicitly apes for a while); two hours is beyond laborious, and every cut away from Hagen to the little girl and her dad feels like Mundruzcó deliberately wasting your time.
Damnation (1988, Bela Tarr)
November 19, 2013 by Brandon·Comments Off on Damnation (1988, Bela Tarr)
Karrer (Futaki in Satantango) is kind of a loser. Dumped by his married girlfriend, he hangs out at local bars in a mining town until one bartender hires him to transport a package. So he talks the married girlfriend and her husband into helping him – they must be the only people he knows – and oh, how he talks them into it:
"This way it's a nice family story. But it finishes like any other story, because stories end badly. Stories are all stories of disintegration. The heroes always disintegrate, and they disintegrate the same way."
I'm not sure about the details. A coat check woman philosophizes. Karrer gets back with his girl, whose husband is in debt. The package has been opened. Things are missing. Karrer ends up at a police station. "It was this awful inner tension that brought me here, because of my deep respect for order. Please do not consider my report as a confidential case, but cheap tattling, and I authorize you, if necessary, to mention my name."
Karrer ends the movie out in a junkyard barking at a dog.
Along the way: long shots, pouring rain, 4:3 b/w cinematography. Bela Tarr-like. It's supposed to be the movie that kicked off Tarr's long-take style, which means now I have only the social realist early films to check out. Finally watched this because I got a free preview offer for Janice Lee's new Bela Tarr-inspired book, also entitled Damnation. Apologies to the publisher, but I am months and months behind right now – still looking forward to reading the book, and will post on it when I do.
P. Bradshaw: "Any conceivable drama or furtive eroticism latent in all this is entirely passed over in favour of a dark and general assessment of the futility of it all. It is as if Tarr has disengaged from these preposterous local activities and stepped back to inspect the bigger picture. … This is not a film that will have you whistling a happy tune on your way out of the theatre. In fact, a responsible manager will demand your tie and bootlaces on the way in."
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011, Tomas Alfredson)
January 16, 2012 by Brandon·Comments Off on Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011, Tomas Alfredson)
On the way out, I commented that this should really have been a miniseries, since Gary Oldman is conducting an investigation into Tinker (Toby Jones), Tailor (Colin Firth), Soldier (Ciaran Hinds) and Poor Man (David Dencik of both Dragon Tattoo and its remake) but we know nothing about the four men, so aren't invested in the outcome (except through the cathartic rifle-shot of tortured ex-operative Mark Strong). And Chris told me it WAS a miniseries, starring Alec Guinness. Not only that, I now see that Tinker Tailor follows The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, and is followed by Smiley's People (another miniseries), all tied into a seven-part series of novels. So this two-hour movie is hardly the whole story.
Colin Firth is hiding behind Poor Man's head:
But as a film, it works. Alfredson (Film-grain-happy director of Let The Right One In, with the same cinematographer) has the best cast you could hope for, including Gary Oldman as the lead, John Hurt as the (late) boss of it all, and someone named Benedict Cumberbatch (TV's latest Sherlock Holmes) as Oldman's main man. Such a very British cast and film (plus a notable scene in Hungary), I'm surprised they hired a Swede to direct.
It's complicated how Oldman identifies the mole in MI6's spy ring – something to do with a Russian who's fed information by everybody, but only true information by one of them (Firth, of course, since he's the most respectable-looking of the crew). Side plots include Tom Hardy (who was he in Inception?) hiding out at Oldman's place with his flashback story of a woman he failed to save, Cumberbatch's file-snatching escapade (spying on the spies), Firth stealing Oldman's wife, and the sad, trailer-by-the-river life of Mark Strong.
The Turin Horse (2011, Bela Tarr)
December 29, 2011 by Brandon·Comments Off on The Turin Horse (2011, Bela Tarr)
Bela Tarr is back, with the same crew he's been using since Damnation (plus DP Fred Kelemen, a relative newcomer). And he is BACK this time, with another wind-filled, nearly apocalyptic-feeling black-and-white masterpiece. It seems almost like a horror film, which seemed exciting until I remembered that Werckmeister Harmonies and Satantango could be just as bleak.
Everything in the movie seems concrete and real, pre-existing the film by decades. The characters are real too, even though I recognize the daughter. Once I realized the father has a bad arm that he never uses, I didn't wonder why the actor or filmmakers decided to add that detail – I wondered what happened to the poor man's arm. And yet, with its long takes and methodically roving camera, sometimes shoving the camera right in the face of a person or horse, I'm constantly thinking about the film's structure and photography. Knowing Tarr's love for artificial weather, at one point when the camera turned in an unexpected direction outdoors, I was actually surprised not to catch sight of a giant wind machine. I can't figure out how Tarr manages to hold this atmosphere of complete reality with showy technique.
Having read no plot summaries, I was surprised that this turned out so similar to the second half of Melancholia, which I also watched this month. Both are about a small, isolated group who we gradually realize may be facing the end of the world. But Von Trier tells us about his apocalypse ahead of time. Tarr's heroes don't have access to google.
A cart driver (Janos Derzsi, a killer in The Man From London, Kraner in Satantango) lives with his daughter (Erike Bok, the lead couple's daughter in Man From London, cat tormenter in Satantango) in a small house away from the main town. Besides a chatterbox neighbor who shows up one day to borrow some brandy and a band of gypsies who stop at the well for a few minutes, they are the only two people in the movie. After the prologue they barely leave the house, so we get to know their routines and mannerisms – but Tarr shoots repeated actions in a different way each time. For instance, at the first dinner scene it's a tight shot on the father's face as he peels and eats his potato in a great hurry while it's still too hot. Next time we watch the daughter instead, from further away over her father's arm. And the third time it's a two-shot with the camera centered on the table.
Of course I counted shots. Might be off by one or two, but it's definitely fewer than Werckmeister Harmonies, which was the same length. Five-minute average!
Prologue (1): After a black-screen voiceover tells us the title story, about Nietzche losing his mind after protecting a horse that was being brutally whipped. The man rides his cart home, the story in our minds as the camera watches his horse, which doesn't seem to be suffering.
The First Day (4): The girl comes out and they put the cart and horse in the barn. She helps him change clothes. They each have a potato then go to bed, after taking turns staring out the window. "The woodworms: they're not making any noise. I've heard them for 58 years, but I don't hear them now." A narrator unexpectedly bursts in, telling us the man's name (Ohlsdorfer), that he's the girl's father (I assumed) and that it's windy out (heh).
The Second Day (7): She gets water at the well, helps father dress. They gear up the horse, but it won't move. After some attempts with the whip (nothing that would give Nietzche a breakdown), they give up, put the cart and horse back and give it fresh food. Dressing again. He splits wood one-handed while she does laundry. Potatoes. Then the neighbor wanting brandy. We're not sure what to make of his rant (does it come from Nietzche?). "The wind's blown [the town] away. It's gone to ruin. Everything's in ruins." Then he gets more abstract, about how "they" have acquired and debased everything, that no god exists, nor does anything. "Extinguished and burnt out." In five minutes he delivers more than half the dialogue in the entire 150-minute film.
The Third Day (5): Water at the well, father gets dressed, off to the barn. The horse hasn't eaten, has no energy. They don't even try to make it pull the cart, just retreat back indoors. A gypsy cart approaches and the man gets anxious. The daughter tries to shoo them away as they get water from the well – one grabs her, "Come with us to America!" The father chases them off with a hatchet. Back indoors, she reads the book a gypsy gave her, something about the violation of holy places, ending with the words "Morning will turn to night… night will end…" before she's cut off by the narrator telling us more about the wind.
The Fourth Day (6): The well is dry. The horse won't eat. He's had enough, decides they need to move. They pack their possessions into the hand cart and head off, the horse walking behind. In a wide shot, they walk past a distant tree, over a hill beyond which the camera can't see. In a minute they're back on our side of the hill, returning home, wordlessly unpacking. The camera is outside in the wind as the girl stares out the window.
The Fifth Day (5): Wake up, have some brandy, give up on the horse. Dad barely eats, stares out the window. Then a blackout. No sun. They light the lamps, but a few minutes later those go out too, though they're full of oil. "Tomorrow we'll try again."
The Sixth Day (1): Dim light (is it really there, or is the film cheating?). No water, no fire. He attempts to eat a raw potato while she stares into her empty dish.
J. Romney:
Composer Mihaly Vig contributes an intermittent score, leaden with organ and abrasive violin, that alludes to folk music while also invoking the repetitions of minimalist composers such as Steve Reich. The omnipresent sound of a raging gale has a quasi-musical presence of its own.
R. Koehler in Cinema Scope:
The film's text . . . can be pegged as a tale of an oncoming apocalypse with great implications for today's viewers. Such a reading tends to ignore the story's essential absurdist essence, the will to go on despite all dire signs to the contrary. The Turin Horse is as much tied to Samuel Beckett as it is to Friedrich Nietzsche.
Fred Kelemen reveals that the house was outfitted with around 30 lights on dimmers – the natural-looking light completely faked. And in addition to wind machines, they sometimes used a helicopter.
Kelemen on the moving camera: "It is like the movement of thoughts, your thoughts move and you reveal something. We move in the world and by moving we discover and understand. The human being is a moving being — physically and spiritually — not a stationary one. The moving image is thus a thinking image."
In a separate article, Koehler says it's wrong to call the film apocalyptic, but I don't follow his reasoning. "Tarr's cinematic design begins with elaborate camera dances, the pure celebration of cinematic movement through space, and ends with absolute stasis and darkness."
The Man From London (2007, Bela Tarr)
February 6, 2010 by Brandon·Comments Off on The Man From London (2007, Bela Tarr)
Tarr Noir! Tarr doing suspense/crime drama seems unnecessary since his use of the camera and film editing are suspenseful in itself. The crime doesn't seem that important (until the very end) and the lead guy is kind of an ass, so the suspense remains in the shots and editing, not much carries over into the story. To get my other complaint out of the way (I quite liked the movie), the sound is off because everything is distractingly dubbed into French and English (voices include Edward Fox of Gandhi and The Duellists and Michael Lonsdale of Stavisky and Out 1). It must be for commercial reasons, but I don't see it playing anywhere except a few film festivals, so what commercial reasons? Seeing the cast of Satantango hanging out in the bar only makes the dubbing seem weirder. Research indicates that there's a Hungarian version out there, so I guess Tilda Swinton (French-dubbed in my version) gets screwed in both.
Big-time Euro film producer Humbert Balsan (who worked with Youssef Chahine, Merchant/Ivory, Elia Suleiman, Lars von Trier) committed suicide during production, complicating things. Based on a novel by Georges Simenon (Night at the Crossroads, Betty, Magnet of Doom) which has been filmed before in the 40's. I dig the Mihály Vig music, but it's no Werckmeister Harmonies, which I listened to obsessively for a month.
Offscreen, a man is selling his theater for a suitcase full of money, which gets stolen. The thieves get the suitcase onto the docks, under the watchful eye of stoic Maloin, then one kills the other and runs. Maloin snags the money and hides it. That's the first half hour in maybe six or seven shots, with no dialogue at all. Crisp b/w images with achingly slow, fluid camera movements, as can be expected.
Maloin takes time out from the crime drama to torment his family. He pulls daughter Henrietta (cat-torturing poster girl from Satantango) out of work, buys her furs, then gets screamed at by wife Tilda Swinton. Inspector (from London) questions blond killer Brown. We don't find out exactly how Maloin kills Brown at the end before returning the money to the Inspector. That's about it for the plot. Most of the time a very enjoyable flick. Moments of otherworldly Twin Peaks-ish parody during dubbed dialogue scenes are immediately forgiven when we come across some Satantango actors performing random hilarity in the bar, urged on by an accordianist. If Tarr fans can't have the sustained magic of the last couple movies, at least we can all enjoy some drunken accordian antics together.
More Shorts watched August 2009
September 2, 2009 by Brandon·Comments Off on More Shorts watched August 2009
I'd considered declaring August to be Shorts Month and watching hundreds of those, so I stocked up, but the inspiration had fled by the time the month rolled around. But we can't let all these shorts go to waste, so I still watched more than usual.
73 Suspect Words and Heaven's Gate (2000, Peggy Ahwesh)
Fun gimmick videos, one displaying the "suspect words" found by running the Unabomber manifesto through a spell checker, and the other listing off the search keywords of the Heaven's Gate cult's website. In the first the text appears quickly and fades out, and in the second the words flicker constantly.
Apocalypse Pooh (1987, T. Graham)
scenes from Apocalypse Now and Winnie The Pooh inexpertly combined. Actually the lipsync and some of the shot selections were pretty wonderful. I'm pretty sure nobody will ever care about this movie again now that a hundred thousand video mashups are clogging youtube, but it's a cute piece of cult history. The poor video quality would turn on the guy who made Out of Print.
Thanksgiving Prayer (1991, Gus Van Sant)
William S. Burroughs hatin' on America, being a general bummer, as is the fashion among leftists around Thanksgiving time. Decent video but I far prefer Ballad of the Skeletons with Allen Ginsberg.
Szalontudo (2006, Szirmai Marton)
That joke where guy 1 thinks guy 2 has stolen his food, so he starts eating from the other side, and they glare at each other eating the same food, then guy 2 walks off and guy 1 sees his food still untouched… he was eating guy 2's food! Ah! This was terrible, with gross squishy chewing sound effects. Won an audience award in north-central Spain where they've never heard that joke before.
Le Vol d'Icare (1974, Georges Schwitzgebel)
I think it's primitive animation made on a lite-brite. Or maybe it's HyperStudio version 0.1. Story of icarus, I suppose. I liked the flocks of birds. What is that, a harpsichord?
Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (2005, Peter Tscherkassky)
Pumping stutter-motion! Variable-speed lock-groove dude in a Leone western having a death-dream. Ends with words "Start," "End" and "Finish" overlapping as the guy, appearing to be on fire, runs with mirrored graveyards above and below him.
The Adventurer (1917, Charles Chaplin)
Weird to see Charlie as an escaped convict threatening cops with a shotgun. But there's plenty of ass-kickin and cliff-jumpin so it's alright. I forgot the encoding quality is garbage on my copy of these… must buy a better one.
Inflation (1927, Hans Richter)
Rich people, money, poor people, more money, stock traders, more and more and more money, digits rushing at the screen whilst speed-adjusted carnival nightmare music plays until the whole damn thing comes crashing down. Only two minutes long! An achievement.
Yellow Tag (2004, Jan Troell)
In the old days we were close to our farm animals but today governments require tracking ear-tags. Fun movie… maybe didn't need the classroom and religious art scenes, but it makes up for that in the end by going all wacky with shooting galleries and suited men raining down outside some kinda UN building.
Crac! (1981, Frédéric Back)
Animated story of the creation and long life of a rocking chair, accompanied by drum and fiddle music. It's much better than it sounds.
Thigh Line Lyre Triangular (1961, Stan Brakhage)
Arrrrgh, another birthing movie! Why did nobody warn me? Apparently the title is Brak-code for "vagina." Once I got over the initial shock, this is excellent. Hand-processed frames over live-action film, intense.
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army (2008, Guillermo del Toro)
August 9, 2009 by Brandon·Comments Off on Hellboy 2: The Golden Army (2008, Guillermo del Toro)
Let's see, this opened last July and apparently I was too busy watching classic Hollywood comedies, french auteur cinema, documentaries and Wall*E to go see it. Also I wasn't so wowed by Pan's Labyrinth and I figured an action-comedy sequel could only be worse than that. Turns out it's a very good action-comedy sequel. I should've guessed. Anyway, looked great in high-def.
I guess Hellboy was dating fire woman Selma Blair in the first one – I barely remember the movie even though I've seen it twice. Anyway she's pregnant in this one with twin fire demons, but that's hardly discussed because we are busy being introduced to, then figuring out how to kill, various wonderful creatures.
Also Doug "Silver Surfer" Jones is back as Abe the aquatic poetry-reading scientist psychic fellow, Jeffrey Tambor as the comic relief operations manager, and introducing the voice of Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane as the ectoplasmic being encased in a steamy glass-topped robot suit.
This time the crew goes to Ireland (actually filmed in Budapest) to fight some Lord of the Rings holdovers.
They win at the end.
Did I mention John Hurt appears in the intro?
The Round-Up (1965, Miklós Jancsó)
March 1, 2009 by Brandon·Comments Off on The Round-Up (1965, Miklós Jancsó)
Emory played this for us on 35mm, introduced by poet and politician Gyula Kodolányi who watched it in Hungary during its opening run… and this is the night after I saw a perfect print of The Age of Innocence introduced by Salman Rushdie. If their film screenings are about to stop, as has been rumored, at least they're going out on top.
Scary movie. First 90ish minutes I'm wondering "where are they going with this", then it all comes together in the last five. Set in the 1860's but meant to illustrate and refer to interrogation techniques of the 1960's (surprised he got away with it). Stark black-and-white, artfully composed in widescreen, with long-ish shots (nothing over a couple minutes), set at a prison out on the plains and a few surrounding buildings.
A hundred or more prisoners are being held together, a few in solitary covered with hoods and the rest in a large courtyard, but the guards don't know whether they've captured the rebel leader and which of the prisoners are his horsemen. Threat of execution turns one prisonder, a pointy-hatted murderer, into a not-so-covert inside agent for the jailers. Guards capture a local woman and torture her to death in view of the prisoners, provoking suicides. Ultimately the jailers succeed through some twisty psych tricks into getting two elder rebel soldiers to identify themselves. A competition is staged, and the winner gets to select a troop of men to leave prison and join him. It's announced that the rebel leader has been granted amnesty, and the new troops all cheer. The guards, now having identified the rebels, descend upon them with hoods…
Bright Lights:
In the concise (20-minute) but revealing interview included by Second Run with The Round-Up, Jancsó pauses to explain the larger context intended by these films, that is, how they were meant to universalize human cruelty beyond apparent, coded references to the then recent 1956 Soviet action. Speaking carefully and succinctly, Jancsó offers two themes: "the humiliation by the powerful" and "the defenselessness of the people."


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import it.sephiroth.android.library.imagezoom.ImageViewTouch;
import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.graphics.Matrix;
import android.graphics.Paint;
import android.graphics.Path;
import android.graphics.RectF;
import android.graphics.drawable.Drawable;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.view.MotionEvent;
import com.aviary.android.feather.library.graphics.drawable.IBitmapDrawable;

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 * The Class ImageViewSpotDraw.
 */
public class ImageViewSpotDraw extends ImageViewTouch {

	/**
	 * The Enum TouchMode.
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Cromer Academy (formerly Cromer High School, Sports College, Cromer Institute of Science) is a 11- 16 secondary school with academy status in Cromer, Norfolk. It is part of the Inspiration Trust federation.

Description
The school is coeducational and students are admitted without regard to ability. It is part of a partnership of schools known as the Cromer Campus, with the neighbouring Suffield Park Infants and Cromer Junior School. Many pupils go through all three schools in the campus.

In December 2016, the school was rated "good" by Ofsted. They found a smaller than average comprehensive school, with just 495 students who are mainly white British, with a below average number from minority ethnic groups and similarly a lower than average number of students with Special Educational Needs.

On 1 June 2020, Darren Hollingsworth replaced Stewart Little as the school's principal.

Curriculum and Enrichment
Virtually all maintained schools and academies follow the National Curriculum, and are inspected by Ofsted on how well they succeed in delivering a 'broad and balanced curriculum'. The school has to decide whether Key Stage 3 contains years 7, 8 and 9- or whether and year 9 should be in Key Stage 4 so the students will just study their chosen GCSE exam subjects for the final three years. Cromer has selected the three year Key Stage 3 so in Years 7-9 all students study the core curriculum of math, English, and science, with art, computer science, design technology, drama, geography, history, the modern language (French or Spanish, music, philosophy, and physical education. There are sessions covering personal, social, and health issues.

The library is at the heart of the school, and literacy is strongly promoted. Their external visits and activity weeks function to broaden the student's horizons. Ofsted judged the school to 'outstanding management' and commented on the schools efforts to stretch the more able and support the weak. Bullying was non-existent and pupils felt safe and cared for.
In Key Stage 4 students still do the 30 period week, and lessons are still 55 minutes long but there is an element of choice. Half the week is spent studying the core subjects of math, double English and science with a compulsory language, and a compulsory Humanity in addition. These are the subjects demanded to achieve the English Baccalaureate. They can choose two optional subjects from art, performing arts, music, design technology (DT), computer science, sport, photography, philosophy and not psychology, and Statistics or further sport.

Community involvement
1895 (Cromer) Air Training Corps and Cromer Platoon, Britannia Coy., Norfolk Army Cadet Force are based at Cromer Academy.

Notable students
Automotive journalist (BBC, ITV, Sky) Jess Shanahan attended Cromer Academy (at the time, Cromer High School) from 2000-2007.

References

Academies in Norfolk
Cromer
Secondary schools in Norfolk
Inspiration Trust

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Kristin Coyner
Reclaiming Those Negative Images, Roll Call Inc.
February 19, 2011 in review
Amber Robles-Gordon's "Cosmic Black 2" is one of the works on display at the Corner Store Gallery"
Reclaiming Those Negative Images
By Kristin Coyner
Roll Call Staff
Oftentimes, there's more talent under our noses than we realize. That's certainly true when it comes to "Mixed Media Reflections," a new gallery at the Corner Store, a multiuse arts space at 900 South Carolina Ave. SE.
Alec Simpson and Tray Patterson, both Washington artists, are acting co-curators for the gallery. Simpson, who often deals in abstract art, is one of 12 Washington-area African-American artists whose works are on display.
The idea for the show started rather simply, over a meal between Patterson and Simpson.
"We just got together over lunch one day and decided to put on a show last fall," Simpson said.
In light of Simpson's own success last year with a one-man show at the Corner Store — Simpson sold all his small works in "Flashback/Fast Forward" — it followed that the planners focused on small works. "In view of what people were saying about the economy, we just thought that maybe we'd stick with that concept," Simpson said. All works at the gallery are on sale for $240 to $1,000.
"We didn't have any idea how many artists there would be in it, how many pieces there were going to be, how big they were going to be, but we did know that we didn't want them to be priced out of the market," Simpson said. With the theme of Black History Month, the mixed media motif pulls everything together.
Stepping into the front room of the Corner Store, where the works are on display, is a treat. The front space is warm and beautiful, with colored walls and exposed brick. The artists' works are accentuated by the lack of a modern white-walled space.
As for the works, some pieces use found objects, others use silk, some are on ceramic and still others are on paper. One artist, Alonzo Davis, even uses bamboo poles and fabrics.
The show is a mixture of materials and artistic styles, but the works manage to tie to the theme of Black History Month in a compelling way. All the artists in some way touch on the African diaspora, from clear visual images of brutality to parodies of mockery of black personhood to abstract works that offer the chance to create new meaning.
Works by Aziza Gibson Hunter, "Prayers to Haiti," were a late addition to the show. Gibson Hunter composed a series that incorporates elements of African cloth and other found objects, including Haitian money, to offer homage to the small island nation devastated by an earthquake a month ago. Gibson Hunter intends to donate all proceeds to Doctors Without Borders.
One wall in particular seems to deal most directly with ancestral issues and imagery, which are most readily visualized through Anne Bouie's "Ancestry 5," "Ancestry 6" and "Ancestry 8." Bouie incorporates Aunt Jemima and Uncle Tom figures but creates new meaning with the images.
And that, to Simpson, underscores a driving theme of the entire show. "It's a matter of transformation, transforming it into something different and new," he said. "It's about seeing new things in what wasn't necessarily good."
Patterson added: "It's also reclaiming it. Reclaiming a negative stereotype that was out there to turn it." The breadth of artistic techniques that individual artists have perfected is another striking aspect of the show. For example, artist Juliette Madison uses mixed media clay pieces by transferring images onto clay using ink that she created.
Madison's "Lord Why" displays the technique with a veritable gut punch. The work shows the archival photograph of a lynched woman who, along with her son, was accused of theft. The significance of the story is made clear with the phrase "Lord why is my seed in the wind?" emblazoned on top of the image.
"African-American artists don't feel backed into a corner," Simpson said. "They create and let the chips fall where they may. There's an authenticity to what you see."
The exhibit, which opened Feb. 5, will run until the 28th. The Corner Store doubles as an art space and home to Kris Swanson, a sculptor who for the past eight years has welcomed any variety of art events into her home, including author readings, CD release parties and theatrical performances.
Because the space functions as a home, the Corner Store isn't open for regular hours. However, Swanson makes appointments at webmaster@cornerstorearts.org or 202-544-5807.
The Corner Store Gallery
900 South Carolina Avenue, SE
www.cornerstorearts.org
Metro: Within 2 blocks of the Eastern Market Station
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Two pups born to this duo. Not exactly sure on date born, strong vigourous pups when I found them.
Miss Tansy gave us three babies. The last litter from SpottedNose before he found a new place to hang out.


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Thousands of people were milling around in the square. One cannot embrace the unembraceable. I'm sure it can wait a few minutes. Let's just get to work. Don't you recognize it? Catherine's house is near the beach. I wonder if there's a connection. He's crazy. He often asks silly questions. Grishkin is nice: her russian eye is underlined for emphasis; uncorseted, her friendly bust gives promise of pneumatic bliss.
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Hello! I feel like it's been awhile.
I also feel like this how every undisciplined, cliche writer on WordPress starts a post. And then repeats the routine every three months. See you in January?
I just wanted to take some time to let you know Hollywood is eating me alive. I'm currently PAing on a gig that usually goes 12-16 hours a day, six to seven days a week. I'm not complaining. This is actually quite common in my industry. And it's fun at times. But it's a big change from my last show which was only 11 hours a day, five days a week. I had so much free time!! Anyway, my current gig will take me through mid-December. The good news is I'm making lots of money (GoPro Hero4, anyone?). The bad news is I don't see how I'll have time for road trips anytime soon. Maybe I'll try to do a Sunday day trip if I'm not too exhausted. Or maybe I'll write a post about my job.
I also bought a new night stand. And black socks.
I've made a few changes to the blog. If you didn't notice, I don't blame you, but just pretend you did. I added a nice new "Video" tab on the top navigation bar with some videos you probably haven't seen yet. Check 'em out.
I have 60 WordPress readers, which means 54 are probably spammers. So there are at least six of you who are real. Let's connect.
Right on. I'm new here. Maybe that makes me 61. I'm a fan of black socks, nightstands, as well as road trips.
You are actually 75! Even better! Thanks for following.
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On Friday, Shares of Callon Petroleum Company (NYSE: CPE) showed the bearish trend with a lower momentum of -4.17% and ended its trading session at $11.96. The company traded total volume of 32,690,273 shares as contrast to its average volume of 4.29M shares. The company has a market value of $2.52B and about 210.74M shares outstanding. During the 52-week trading session, the minimum price at which share price traded was registered at $9.34 and reached the max level of $14.65.
Callon Petroleum Company (CPE) recently stated results of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2018.
For the three months ended March 31, 2018, we incurred $105.30M in cash operational capital expenditures (counting other items) contrast to $128.70M in the fourth quarter of 2017.
Total Revenue: For the quarter ended March 31, 2018, Callon stated total revenue of $127.40M and total revenue counting cash-settled derivatives of $118.90M, counting the impact of an $8.50M loss from the settlement of derivative contracts.
General and Administrative ("G&A"): G&A, excluding certain non-cash incentive share-based compensation valuation adjustments, was $7.80M, or $3.25 per BOE, for the three months ended March 31, 2018 contrast to $7.30M, or $3.00 per BOE, for the fourth quarter of 2017. The cash component of Adjusted G&A was $6.50M, or $2.74 per BOE, for the three months ended March 31, 2018 contrast to $6.00M, or $2.46 per BOE, for the fourth quarter of 2017.
Income Available to Common Shareholders: The Company stated net income available to common shareholders of $53.90M for the three months ended March 31, 2018 and Adjusted Income available to common shareholders of $39.80M, or $0.20 per fully diluted share.
Discretionary Cash Flow: Discretionary cash flow, a non-GAAP measure, for the three months ended March 31, 2018 was $91.20M.
The Company offered net profit margin of 29.50% while its gross profit margin was 81.80%. ROE was recorded as 6.60% while beta factor was 1.12. The stock, as of recent close, has shown the weekly downbeat performance of -11.86% which was maintained at -1.56% in this year.
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Comfort Women in "Zomergasten" on Dutch tv
Sunday August 26, famous Dutch writer Adriaan van Dis is guest on Dutch National tv in the 3-hour long interview program "Zomergasten" (NL2, 8.15 pm: http://programma.vpro.nl/zomergasten). Among the tv fragments show during the interview will be one from the documentary "Omdat wij mooi waren" ("Because We Were Beautiful"), in which film maker Frank van Osch is following writer Hilde Janssen and me during our search for "comfort women."
During World War II, the Japanese military set up a system for sex slavery: Tens of thousands of "comfort women" in the Asian countries they occupied were forced into prostitution at military brothels. In addition, many girls were abused sexually in railroad wagons, factory warehouses or night after night at home. Most of these women have suffered physical and emotional consequences ever since.
Jan Banning and Hilde Janssen visited Indonesian women who during the war were victims of forced sexual labor. In their photo book "Comfort Women", 18 of them break the persistent taboo against speaking out on the issue. Short narratives accompanying the portraits depict the fate of these and other former comfort women, painting a gripping picture of this hidden history.


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What is happening with Joost van Aken? Is he still injured?
Out for the season isn't he.?
He got his ankle destroyed by a shocking tackle didn't he?
What the hell is his injury. ?
Seems each time we get long termers.
Hes only a young guy.
Still in Wigan, running round claiming offside.
I think it will be a shame if he is sold. When he first arrived he looked full of confidence, He looked comformatable on the ball, capable of bringing the ball out of defence and passing the ball 40/50 yards and landing at the feet of our attacking players created opportunities. He didnt look too bad making takles either and quickly won the fans over.
Im convinced that something happened to him. Maybe he was told to stop making those passes.... maybe he was told to stop bringing the ball out of defence. It was a strange to see because we would often play it round the back a few times, pass back to the keeper to lump it up field or all of our play had to go through Bannan, even if it was a 2 yard pass for Bannan to ping the ball forwards. Van Aken offerred a different dimension at least.
Whatever happened, whatever the reason, he had a mare against United (But to be fair, he was far from being the only one!) and never recovered from that.
If he was fit now, theres no way he would be able to break into the current back 4 but look at how we had our wingers virtually hugging the touchline against Blackburn in acres of space. Imagine Joost pinging the ball from the back to our wingers in space.
If we could get him back before the end of the season it'd really boost our slim play-off hopes.
Went up for a header......leg fell off.
Just a week or 2 behind Abdi in his rehabilitation.
Bruce said JvA had ankle surgery. Out for season.


Bernie Sanders will be visiting New Mexico.
The presidential candidate's campaign announced Monday that he will appear at rallies in Santa Fe and Albuquerque this Friday, May 20.
The first, in Santa Fe, won't be one of the massive rallies that Sanders has become famous for—attendance is capped at just 2,500 for the small space, per the New Mexican. The rally will take place in the Witter Fitness Center, which is the Santa Fe Community College's gym.
Doors open to the Santa Fe rally at 1:00 p.m.
The second rally will take place at the Albuquerque Convention Center at 7:00 p.m. The doors open at 4:00 p.m. and it will also be first-come first-serve.
The two rallies will be the first public appearances by a presidential candidate so far this year. They also come just weeks ahead of New Mexico's primaries on June 7.
Update: The Sanders campaign announced a southern New Mexico rally this Saturday.
Sanders' campaign recently opened their first New Mexico campaign office in Albuquerque.
Sanders is a U.S. Senator from Vermont. He faces Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary.
The Santa Fe Reporter first reported that Sanders would appear in New Mexico. A report from the Santa Fe New Mexican and the Albuquerque Journal followed.
Clinton currently holds a lead of over 275 pledged delegates (the exact number depends on the source). Sanders hopes to convince superdelegates, party officials and others, to support him at the Democratic National Convention in July, though it seems unlikely. One superdelegate who supported Sanders even announced a switch to Clinton.
Sanders has, however, been more successful in recent months.
Hillary Clinton has yet to announce if she will appear in New Mexico, though former President Bill Clinton will campaign in the state later this month.
New Mexico's primaries take place the same day as California and New Jersey.
Update: Added more information about the Santa Fe rally and the Albuquerque rally. Moved around information.
Update: Sanders campaign changed times for doors opening at the Santa Fe, Albuquerque rallies. This post has been updated to reflect the new times.


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The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975 is a 2011 Swedish documentary film directed by Göran Olsson, that examines the evolution of the Black Power movement in American society from 1967 to 1975 as viewed through Swedish journalists and filmmakers. It features footage of the movement shot by Swedish journalists in the United States at that time, with appearances by Angela Davis, Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, and other activists, artists, and leaders central to the movement.

Summary
The documentary features the found footage shot by a group of Swedish journalists (discovered some 30 years later in the cellar of Swedish Television) overlaid with commentaries and interviews from leading contemporary African-American artists, activists, musicians, and scholars. Divided into 9 sections based chronologically on each successive year between 1967 and 1975, the film focuses on several topics and subjects relevant to the Black Power Movement including Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War, the Black Panther Party, COINTELPRO, and the War on Drugs. The film documents these events with footage of individuals who were highly important to the movement including but not limited to Angela Davis, Stokely Carmichael, and Huey P. Newton. David Fear of Time Out New York referred to the film as "a time capsule of a turbulent era, essential viewing for anyone concerned with our nation's history—and its present".
The footage includes appearances by Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King Jr., Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton, Louis Farrakhan, Emile de Antonio, Richard Nixon, Ingrid Dahlberg and Angela Davis who also provides contemporary voice commentary.

Additional contemporary voice commentaries are provided by Erykah Badu, Ahmir Questlove Thompson, who is also credited with scoring the music for the film along with Om'Mas Keith, Talib Kweli, Harry Belafonte, Kathleen Cleaver, Angela Davis, John Forté, Sonia Sanchez, Bobby Seale, Robin Kelley, Abiodun Oyewole and Melvin Van Peebles. Mark Jenkins of NPR has commented that the prominence of music artists rather than political activists who provide commentary throughout the film is "a sign of how African-American culture has shifted".

Production
The conception of The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 is unique in that the 16 mm film footage used was originally shot by Swedish journalists in the 1960s and 1970s for Swedish Television, but the editing and release of the film did not take place for more than 3 decades after the era when it was discovered by director Göran Olsson. The setting of the footage featured in the documentary spans across the US and Europe and includes shots in Harlem, Oakland, and Brooklyn. Although Swedish journalists conducted the interviews, the film was co-produced by Americans Joslyn Barnes and actor Danny Glover through their independent film production company, Louverture Films. The production company is geared toward producing "independent films of historical relevance, social purpose, commercial value and artistic integrity". The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 was screened at both the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and the  61st Berlin International Film Festival. The rights of the documentary were later acquired by Sundance Selects, a sister label to IFC Films. The documentary was also featured on a February 2012 episode of PBS's Independent Lens.

Reception

Critical reception
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of  based on  reviews, with an average rating of . On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 73 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Accolades
The documentary was nominated for and won and number of awards throughout 2011-2012.

Historical context
Some of the criticism that the documentary has received has been directed toward its limited coverage of everything that the Black Power movement encapsulated. Joe Williams of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch opined that the "'Black Power Mixtape, 1967-1975' is a potent time capsule, but without a skeleton of facts and figures, it's a deficient history lesson". NPR acknowledged that the film "includes plenty of interest, but it would be stronger if the filmmakers had dug a little deeper into the footage from 1967 to 1972 and skipped the final years altogether". In its review for the film, The New York Times commented, "As its title suggests, 'The Black Power Mixtape' is not a comprehensive history". However, this outlook on the subject matter of the film is not universal. Diane Archer of Film Comment wrote that The Black Power Mixtape is "a chronological, musically structured collage tracing the arc of the Black Power movement from its inception during the civil rights era through its dissolution as drugs began to erode black communities in the Seventies, created with rarely seen footage culled from the archives of Swedish Television". Given this commentary, it is apparent that two of the historical events that the film does a particularly fine job of covering is that of the Civil Rights Movement and the effects of the War on Drugs. Olsson frames these themes to be highly relevant to the Black Power movement throughout the documentary.

Civil Rights Movement
The most telling aspect of the film which reveals the strong thematic presence of the Civil Rights Movement from the beginning is its early depiction of Martin Luther King Jr. The film begins its documentation in 1967 which is at the heels of the Civil Rights Movement and rise of the Black Power movement. Featured in the 1967 recap within the film, Stokely Carmichael is seen offering his thoughts on Dr. King in a vintage interview. In reflecting, Carmichael claims that King is "A great man full of compassion. He is full of mercy and he is very patient. He is a man who can accept the uncivilized behavior of white Americans and their unceasing taunts and still have in his heart forgiveness. Unfortunately, I am from a younger generation. I'm not as patient as Dr. King, nor am I as merciful as Dr. King". In documenting both the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement, Olsson portrays the tension present as the two movement attempted to coexist despite the differing goals and tactics of the movements.

In documenting the rift between King and Carmichael, the film portrays the tension between the two distinct movements. Carmichael, who popularized the term "Black Power", used the Black Power movement to promote Black nationalism and Self-determination. King, as the leader of the Civil Rights Movement, promoted political cooperation and nonviolence, and the 1967 and 1968 recaps within the film offer a display, explanation, and illustration of why these movements were at odds with each other. In the 1968 section of the film specifically, the film documents the intersections of the two movements when Dr. King is shown speaking out against the Vietnam War and Income inequality, political movements more closely associated with the Black Power movement. The film goes as far to suggest that his assassination was heeded by an ideological movement towards Black Power, a movement he initially condemned.

While the Black Power movement is often characterized as violent, the film challenges conventions in its effort to portray the movement in a more positive light. This is accomplished in the way in which the film humanizes the leaders of the Black Power movement. In his review of the film, A.O. Scott of The New York Times commented on the film's portrayal of Stokely Carmichael, writing "Carmichael, who later moved to Guinea and took the name Kwame Ture, is remembered for the militancy of his views and his confrontational, often slashingly witty speeches, but the Swedish cameras captured another side of him. In the most touching and arresting scene in 'Mixtape,' he interviews his mother, Mable, gently prodding her to talk about the effects of poverty and discrimination on her family". The film does the same with Black Power leaders and icons including Angela Davis, Bobby Seale, and Eldridge Cleaver, and thus the Black Power movement is portrayed in a more positive light that is usually reserved for the Civil Rights Movement when analyzing United States History. The film also includes a scene in which the head of TV Guide, an American publication, claims that Swedish coverage of American news stories, specifically the ones sympathetic to the Black Panther Party, are overly negative and "Anti-American".

War on Drugs
The 1973-1975 recap documented within the film focuses heavily on the detrimental effects of the War on Drugs in African-American communities including its contribution to the heroin epidemic, while also documenting the rise of Nation of Islam. In the Film Juice review of the film, editor Alex Moss claims,

Craig Detweiler of Paste offers similar sentiments in his review of the film, suggesting that drugs are portrayed in the documentary as a way that Black communities were placated in the midst of all the anger from the movement. "The '70s are portrayed as a lost decade, where heroin floods the streets of Harlem. Vietnam veterans return home as addicts. Leaders' focus gets fuzzy. And the war on drugs becomes a war against a particular community".

This confusion between the actual detriments of the War on Drugs give way to an ending of the film that several critics have express does not seem quite complete. In the 1973 section of the documentary, one of the film's more memorable scenes includes a bus full of Swedes who are taking a tour through Harlem and are warned not to visit the neighborhood for "personal studies" because it is "only for black people" adding that it is a "black man's ghetto where everyone is trying to get high." Though the scene may call into question the intent of the Swedes depicted on the bus during a trying time for the African-American community, Olsson has acknowledged that the purpose of the scene was to portray "passive racism" on behalf of the Swedish tourists. The film also includes a scene in the 1974 section that depicts a young woman explaining her fight with heroin addiction and its prominence in the community. In documenting these interviews in the film, Olsson vividly displays the detriments of a community ravaged by drugs.

See also
List of black films of the 2010s

References

2011 films
American documentary films
Documentary films about African Americans
Angela Davis
Documentary films about the Black Panther Party
Documentary films about racism in the United States
2010s American films


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Thornton Burgess (born Sandwich, Massachusetts, 1874; died Hampton, Massachusetts, June 5, 1965) wrote over 170 books for children. His works include Old Mother West and The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat. Children can read many of his works at: Project Gutenberg. They can learn more at: Thornton Burgess.
Hugh Lofting (born Maidenhead, England, 1886; died Santa Monica, California, September 26, 1947) was an author. He is famous for his ten Dr. Dolittle books. His Voyages of Dr. Dolittle won the 1923 Newbery Award. Children could read his works at: Project Gutenberg. They can learn more at: Hugh Lofting.
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Q: Viewing list from database using Visual Basic in Xojo Every time I run the application I am presented with this error message and would like to know how I can alter my code so it runs
Error details

A: RecordSet is not meant to be used in that way. SQLSelect will return a RecordSet, so you don't want to declare a new one with the new keyword.
Documentation: http://docs.xojo.com/RecordSet
If you fix that, the other errors should suppress.

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Q: Problems using GlobalMemoryStatusEX on Win32 I am facing the following problem: I need to find the available memory on my system. GlobalMemoryStatusEX works fine when built on x64. But gives wrong answer when built on Win32. I am using Intel Visual Fortran 2010 on Windows 7 64-bit.
Here is a sample of my code:
program test
use kernel32
use ifwinty
implicit none
type(t_memorystatusex) :: status
integer :: RetVal

status%dwLength = sizeof(status)
RetVal =  GlobalMemoryStatusEX(status)

end program test

Thank you very much!

A: Your program doesn't ever display the values returned, and you don't say what is "wrong", so I don't know what problem you're referring to. Intel Visual Fortran supplies a MemoryStatus example program (in the Win32 sample collection) that uses GlobalMemoryStatusEx. When I run it on my 64-bit system in 32-bit mode it displays:
48% of memory is in use
15.99GB total physical memory
8.28GB available physical memory
31.98GB total pageable memory
24.42GB available pageable memory
2.00GB total virtual memory
1.98GB available virtual memory

and when run in 64-bit mode:
48% of memory is in use
15.99GB total physical memory
8.28GB available physical memory
31.98GB total pageable memory
24.42GB available pageable memory
8192.00GB total virtual memory
8191.99GB available virtual memory

Notice that the only difference is in virtual memory, correctly reflecting the difference between 32-bit and 64-bit mode.
In most cases, you don't need to find the amount of available memory - pretty much every indication you can get is not going to be helpful during run of a program. In particular, available virtual memory doesn't necessarily mean you can allocate a single chunk of data that size, as the memory pool may be somewhat fragmented.
So my answer is that your code, what you showed of it, is the correct way to find out what memory, physical and virtual, is available to Windows. You just need to know how to interpret it correctly.


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Growth in upper-level models key to BMW success
The unstoppable letters and numbers catalogue of BMW models sees no sign of slowing, as the brand looks to more higher-end models to help stimulate further growth.
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Speaking at the unveiling of the 2018 BMW 8 Series concept in Italy, the coupe itself part of the premium strategy, BMW AG Management Board Member Ian Robertson noted that the push toward an ever more premium top-end "is about giving a special treatment to the customer".
"There is lots of opportunity for BMW at the upper end."
The expansion of markets in Asia and the Middle East, along with continued growth in Europe and North America, has indicated a high demand for the best the brand can offer.
Personalisation is important too, as Robertson noted that some 20 per cent of all 7 Series sales included elements from the BMW Individual catalogue.
And despite the early success of the G11 7 Series, the big saloon cannot do all the heavy lifting by itself.
The presentation of the new 8 Series coupe is just the start, with the large X7 SUV also scheduled to break cover in 2018. It doesn't stop there, with Robertson teasing the brand is "working on other options too."
Above: last year's BMW Vision Next 100 concept
According to Robertson, the next few years will see the most aggressive and most comprehensive change in product offering the brand has seen, in its now 101-year history.
BMW has already committed to a new EV for 2020 as part of the NEXT strategy, but what else might we expect?
There's a convertible version of the i8 super sports car in the works, and we're likely to see a cabriolet variant of the new 8 Series, plus BMW's M Division showed a camouflaged M8 concept at the 2017 Nurburgring 24hr race.
Even without the Rolls Royce brand, there is room above the 7 Series, as shown by the 2014 Vision Future Luxury show car - and do we dare suggest an X8 coupe derivative of the large X7?
Whatever the case, BMW's direction for 2020 and beyond looks set to be a premium one.
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CNN ran a piece with Dr. Sanjay Gupta this morning. The idea was that "terrorists seek to make us feel insecure wherever we are." They can suddenly attack anywhere, at anyone, at any time. This gives the terrorist a "psychological" seniority over us and a sense of cultural pessimism.
Okay, let's say this is true. The terrorists are having an impact. What's a solution?
A solution, possibly the only solution, is for the mainstream media to stop reporting on terrorism in a sensational and political manner. If the mainstream media simply under-reported on terrorism, few of us would be as scared. This would thus contribute to a defeat of the terrorist mission: to make us feel scared, hence vulnerable.
Of course, when a terrorist attack happens, those local to the attack inevitably feel vulnerable, but, if the mainstream media doesn't widely report it, at least the vulnerability will not be spread to millions of others. If this policy were effectuated by the mainstream media, eventually the effectiveness of terrorist attacks may die out. Terrorists, not able to promote their message or deeds using the massive strength of the mainstream media, would experience their psychological superiority over the masses diminishing.
Since there is little or nothing the average citizen can do about terrorism anyway, what is the reason the average citizen needs to know all the bloody details? Given this, the mainstream media is not really providing any service to the citizenry by informing it about attacks in any sort of bloody, sensational or political way. In fact, the mainstream media should be viewed as a prime suspect for the abetting of terrorism by promoting its acts so widely and so frequently. The mainstream media could thus be seen as putting the citizenry into increasingly serious positions of psychological submission to the tactic of terrorism.
THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA ABETS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TERRORISM AND CONTRIBUTES TO ITS EXPANSION WORLD WIDE.
That said, and if true, the public does need to know the qualitative facts -- just the quantitative facts. The reporting to the public should be in the form of statistics and graphs, possibly related on public service channels. Pictures, video and sensational, politically-spun "news stories" from women in red dresses with blond hair need not be part of the reports. Just the facts: Stat: is terrorism increasing or decreasing? Stat: how effective has the government been in dealing with it? Stat: how much money are we spending? Stat: who receives that money?
The mainstream media, by endlessly presenting terrorist acts in a sensational manner, is exploiting news of public concern and in effect profiting from it as if it were "entertainment." This practice is despicable, especially when one considers the damage and lives its profitable TV show -- THE WAR ON TERROR – has caused or contributed to since September 2001.


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