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Between Flint and Trumpcare: Give the Class War Two Sides
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On the eve of Trump’s inauguration, IGD along with many other revolutionary anarchist groups, organizations, and media projects all signed onto a statement that called for a mass militant disruption of the Trump inauguration. The text stated: “”
@realDonaldTrump I voted for you cuz I thought you was different from the rest but I see now. Your the biggest lier of them all…
— S.3rd (@Binno23) May 5, 2017
https://twitter.com/kennethckrieger/status/860854932840337410
In t, signed new executive orders, and started the process of pushing through it’s new healthcare plan. The reaction to all of these actions has largely been negative and accelerated grassroots opposition to Trump. Meanwhile, the lackluster response from Trump supporters throughout March, on ‘Loyalty Day,’ and in celebrating Trump’s ‘100 Days in Office,’ speaks volumes. Furthermore, many Trump supporters themselves will be feeling the brunt of Trump’s attack on healthcare, which for some threatens their very lives.
To many Americans, the rich kids running around Milo’s Miami office in red MAGA hats aren’t funny, shocking, or ‘triggering’ to anyone – they all just look like fucking fools, pretending to be rebels. Even some within the Alt-Right, the neo-Nazi ‘edgy shitlords’ who helped propel Trump into power are recoiling their support, while others begrudgingly continue to mobilize to support Trump events – as it’s one of the few ways they can actually manifest an offline presence.
#TFW the whole world is laughing at the #AltRight pic.twitter.com/zJRSwbFzbx
— It's Going Down (@IGD_News) May 4, 2017
“The veneer of ‘Trump the Populist’ is dead and the only people who still support him are Alt-Right trolls who still think it’s 2016.”
The recent actions by the Trump administration also represent a shift away from trying to placate Steve Bannon and the insurgent far-Right base, who made up a section of the backbone of support for Trump. Gone seems to be talk of building a wall and instead Trump rams through tax cuts for the wealthy, a healthcare plan that threatens the lives of literally millions, and in a move towards a more conventional conservative base, an executive order aimed at attacking the LGBTQ community. Meanwhile, as mass deportations and ICE raids have continued since Trump took power, many of the news stories Trump used to drum up support for his policies have turned out to be fakes, entire town have become deserted, and across the board even most economists and business owners agree that such policies are ‘bad for business.’
Meanwhile, life for poor, working, and middle class Americans is getting worse. One of the most obvious examples of this is playing out in Flint, Michigan, where the water crisis offers a glimpse at what is to come for the rest of the US, as thousands of people are now threatened with foreclosures if they don’t pay massive water bills for poised tap water. As Jerry White wrote:
But while Flint offers a glimpse at widespread collapse, the fallout over Trumpcare is also foreshadowing a growing tide of mass anger. As Damon Liner wrote:
You don’t need to be a communist revolutionary to recognize that this contradiction — one in which the GOP incubates, catalyzes, and unleashes growing waves of populist fury in the very act of pursuing flagrantly anti-populist policies — is unlikely to end well. On the contrary, it is likely to ensure that the anti-establishment passions of the present will only increase. If they become intense enough, there’s no telling how much of the political system they may end up tearing down.
I voted for you and I regret it. Thought you might be for the common people not just for rich, but I was wrong due to this Healthcare plan
— Mary Stern (@soaringdove05) May 5, 2017
https://twitter.com/bcr1414/status/860314835543887873
https://twitter.com/TheresaDannenbr/status/860338800282578944
But these attacks go much deeper than just the provisions in the AHCA. Trumpcare is also coupleddrastically cut taxes on the mega-rich. As we wrote just before May Day:
The non-profit, reformist, and bureaucratic Left, largely aligned with the Democratic Party offers no solutions for the current crisis, nor have the Democrats themselves put up any significant resistance to the Trump administration or it’s attacks on poor and working people, the environment, and immigrant populations who have been under constant attack since Trump has allowed ICE agents free reign.
“We are entering into a period where the State is less concerned about maintaining social peace as it is with simply maintaining power.”
But while the State suffers from an extreme lack of legitimacy and the far-Right goes through an identity crisis, it is time for us as anarchists, autonomists, and anti-capitalists, to begin to think about the next phase of our struggle and where the next several months will take us in the midst of this continued social, political, and economic breakdown.


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Sangakkara took 152 innings to accomplish this feat -- two less than Sachin Tendulkar.
He reached the milestone in the last over of the third day, becoming the second Sri Lankan after Mahela Jayawardene.
Fastest to 8000-run mark:
Most successful against Zimbabwe and Pakistan
In his illustrious career, he has scored 23 centuries and 33 half-centuries. He also has five double centuries in his kitty.
A look at his Test career.
Performance against each country:
Sangakkara's batting record has got better, ever since he has taken over the captaincy. Though still in his early days of captaincy, he averages 72.70 in his eight Tests, with five centuries and three half-centuries.
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I think it's probably official now. Grouper is no longer nursing. I would like to say that he completely self-weaned, but that wouldn't be completely honest. My screaming "OW! OW! OW! What are you DOING to me?!" every time he latched on during the fourth month of this pregnancy probably had some effect on his desire to be near my breasts.
We were already down to four times a day -- before and after each sleep. Soon bedtime was out, because that was when I was grouchiest and least able to tolerate being touched. He tried to adjust his suckle so as not to hurt me, but that just made it tickle, which was even more irritating. Early morning, when I was still half-asleep and well-rested, became the only safe time for him to curl up next to me and quietly ask to nurse. Even then, we were down to two seconds at a time with me gritting my teeth.
We had what will probably be our last positive nursing experience together one morning last week. He hadn't nursed in a few days, and he took a chance. I stayed relaxed for a whole five minutes. He hasn't asked since then. I think he decided to savor the memory.
Tonight he fell asleep on my shoulder at 6:30. He'd gotten one of his beautiful long lashes stuck in his eye and it wouldn't stop hurting even after I got it out. He usually has a very high pain tolerance, but this really upset him, so it was clear he was tired. But he didn't sleep through. He woke at 8, in time for a snack, teeth brushing and jammies, and then went back down at 9 or so.
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R.I.P. Alyce L. Clapp - A True "Angel"
Shronda Bruce
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Eugene Clapp true "earth angel" my mother, Mrs. Alyce L. Clapp.
She had been seriously ill for a number of years but made it a point of "fighting the good fight". However, today on Jun 18, 2014 at 3:55 a.m. God saw fit to call one of his bravest soldiers and must humble servants home to rest.
Through all of her trials and tribulations, she kept a kind word and a smile on her face for anyone she came in contact with, as well as keeping a prayer on her lips and the faith in her heart that one day it would get better - whatever situation came her way.
The strength and grace that she exibited on a day-to-day basis while fighting this battle was truly awe-inspiring and something to behold. Trust and believe that she was scared - but she chose to ALWAYS keep her trust and faith in whatever God's plan for her was. She accepted what was - and what was going to be.
Her love for her family, friends, associates, and her fellow man was evident in how she lived her life and the deeds she did. Whatever Alyce L. Clapp did for others she did it from the bottom of her heart. All her life she "paid it forward" with her time, her money, her knowledge, her friendship, and her faith. Never once did she ask anything of anybody in return. She ALWAYS gave more than she got in every shape, form and fashion.
As great as she was, she NEVER yearned to bask in the limelight. She wasn't about that. If anything, she pushed and encouraged others. She was a "kingmaker" and a "queenmaker". She was the "wind beneath the wings" of in various disciplines.Though understated, her overall greatness was obvious to all who had the honor to make her acquaintance.
Now I have something to ask of you.......
I want you to "pay it forward" in memory of Alyce L. Clapp. Now, I'm not asking you to give a donation to help with her burial. If you choose to do that then it would be accepted and greatly appreciated.
However, in her memory, I want you to find a good cause or a charity and make it your business to help out that charity or cause by "paying it forward" to them in rememberance and on behalf of Alyce L. Clapp
Because that is was what she did everyday when she was able. She "paid it forward" in some sort of way.


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3. Classifying Climate Koppen System Most widely used Based on temperature and precipitation patterns Correspond with vegetation regions Includes 6 major climate categories
4. Koppen System Based on temperature characteristics (A)humid tropical climates (C) humid mesothermal climates -mild winter (D) humid microthermal climates - severe winter (E) polar climates
5. Koppen System Characteristically dry regions (B) Arid climates desert climates- extremely arid steppe climates- semiarid Temperatures range from very hot to very cold.
6. Koppen System (H) Highland climates worlds mountainous regions vegetation and climate vary rapidly with elevation
7. World Climate Regions
8. World Vegetation Regions
9. Humid Tropical Climates(A) Tropical Rainforest and Tropical Monsoon High temperature and humidity Frequent heavy rain Massive vegetation growth Tropical Savanna Climate High temperature Less rain, transition zone
10. Humid Tropical Climates
11. Arid Climates (B) Steppe Climate Transitional between humid and deserts dry savanna Desert Climate Very dry Amount of precipitation is less than half of potential ET Greatest temperature ranges in the world! Result of precipitation effectiveness
12. Arid Climates
13. Humid Mesothermal Climate (C) (mild winter) Mediterranean Climate Warm/dry in summer and mild/wet in winter Dry season in summer Humid Subtropical Climate Mild winters and hot summers No dry season (high humidity/ showers) Marine West Coast Climate Temperate oceanic climate Westerlies Cloudy foggy and rainy
14. Humid Mesothermal Climate
15. Humid Microthermal Climates (D) (severe winter) Humid Continental (hot summer) Productive agriculturally Climate classification for New Jersey! Humid Continental (mild summer) Poleward of the hot summer regions (like New England) Subarctic climate Short/cool summers and long/very cold winters Permafrost- permanently frozen layer of subsoil
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17. Polar Climates (E) Tundra Climate Close to the poles, avg. temp around 40 F Treeless, low growing vegetation Ice-sheet climate All average monthly temperatures below freezing Precipitation limited to fine/dry snow
18. Polar Climates
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21. Highlands Climate
22. Climograph Plots average monthly temperature and rainfall
23. Climographs
24. Climate Factors
25. Climate Controls Latitude Air circulation and pressure belts Ocean currents Altitude Landform barriers Human activity Deforestation, increase of heat trapping gases
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28. High and Low Pressure Cyclone- warm air converges and rises Anticyclone- cool air sinks and diverges
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34. Altitude Temperatures fall by 6 C with every 1000 m gained in elevation
35. Landform Barriers Windward- facing the direction the wind is coming from Leeward- facing the direction the wind is blowing away from
36. Future Climate
37. Climate Change Global Warming- recent rise in atmospheric temperatures 11 of 12 hottest years in recorded history have occurred since 1995 What are the causes? Natural or human related? Remember, correlation does not imply causation!
38. Hockey Stick Graph
39. Bigger Picture
43. Possible Causes Orbital variations Milankovitch Cycles variations in eccentricity, obliquity, and precession Happens over thousands of years
44. Possible Causes Atmospheric changes Change in composition of atmosphere Increase in greenhouse gases Volcanic activity
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46. Possible Causes Landmass changes Plate tectonics/movement of land masses continents in polar latitudes Impact events Asteroids/comets largest known-15 km diameter Impact winter
47. Future Climates Hard to predict because of high variability We know climate will change based on studies of the past We will most likely go through periods of warming and cooling, just as in the past Changes in human population and activity will change our predictions.


We've just received word the "test lift" of the 1957 Plymouth Belvedere in Tulsa, Oklahoma went just peachy. And by peachy we mean they were able to lift the car using a humongous 120-ton crane/strap setup and it didn't fall apart. Actually Tulsarama (don't ask) chairwoman Sharon King Davis said she feels "much better" about the condition of the car. Of course, after sitting in a buried vault in a pool of rust-colored water for 50 years the fact it didn't immediately disintegrate is probably cause for celebration. But check out that tailfin there above and in the gallery below — what do we think — is it mud and grime on the vacuum-sealed car-covering, or is that a thin veneer of rust?We'll find out at either noon when the Belvedere's pulled from the vault or at 7:00 PM tonight when Mr. Belvedere loses his soggy wet condom-like protection. We're on pins and needles. [Hat tip to Michael!


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As I get older, I am realising that there are perhaps parallel Indian value systems that might never reconcile with each other. Over the past week, there has been outrage over in Jammu and Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh, the kind we thought we left behind in the Dark Ages. Urban India's Twitter exploded, understandably, with calls for the harshest punishment. Celebrities joined in asking: "Who we've become?"
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The Hill That Never Sleeps Have you heard of the hill, That never sleeps? We’ve been properly acquainted, In my virtuous sheets. Watching-your every move, In search of flaws.
Kids may say I'm uglyKids may say I'm dumbKids may say I'm weirdI'm fatThat I've pimples all over my faceThat I've got butter-teeth
Looking around, there are smiles everywhere The more I'm surrounded by people, the more anguish feeling of lonliness I feel and then you realize, nobody cares and you feel as if you will never heal
It's happened to you it's happened to me By word of mouth Or physically It's an eight letter word No body likes That word is bullying And it needs to cease to exist
As my heart beats to the rhythm of love and happiness; It slips into a coma of depression, Hidden from my laughter and smiles, Teasing everyone who passes by. Days pass of nothing but a drop of excitement,
The autumn is upon usit must be an enrichmentof all that went beforen is not a cure, for this kind of agony..
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His head is low, his eyes full of tears. He gets upset easily, but I know it's not anything small. There are people laughing, people laughing at him. I say something, something blunt but true.
when i get tired (this feeling of lonliness) i close my eyes (come meet me) i walk through my dimly lit mind (everything is empty) and i begin to pray (there you are)
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He first treated you like you wore a crown. He fucked with your mind until your smile was a permanent frown. He convinced you as if you were the one at fault. Like a daily dose of a wound filled with salt.
Those words go deep as you toy with my heart and emotions My very essence being ripped out and examined by vermin like you Looking for any weakness like being too nice to speak out against the torment.
Gently falling down, The poem of my lifetime, It's never ending.
Have you ever seen someone going through a anxiety attack?It's not an east to thing to witness. Their body tenses against their willThey shake and cry with no cause or relief
Her mind flooded by judgment and oppression Her body aching from hate Her soul yearning to escape the cage it was forced into She is only accelerating her fate She is only accelerating what is intended
Beauty is the eyes of the beholder That's why he always found beauty in my body And you always saw it in my eyes He was only looking for one thing; and liked what he saw
My mind is depraved. A sarcastic fringehead, erasing my thoughts faster than they can swim. Breathing in water, my lungs fill with salted froth. I bite my tongue and an acrid brine pervades the void.
How can you claim to "love" someone when all you do is hurt them ? What is "Love" ? People say its a big word with so much meaning... Everyone who said they "love" me, all ended up hurting me.
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 is a testament to the success of that have paved the way for PRH to becomet," said Dennis. "As we approached this milestone anniversary, we found that now was the time for us to share, in our own words, the history behind our transformation. This book is an ode to the many funders who have supported our core belief of."
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Description and General Synopsis
The Corrections is over 560 pages long and the majority of the action in the book takes place shortly after the turn of the recent millennium, in the year 2000. The book centers around the Lambert family, who are originally from St. Jude, Kansas. The father, Alfred, is losing his mind due to dementia or Alzheimer's, or a combination of the two, and is wearing on the nerves of his wife, Enid. Enid is still sprightly and in full grasp of her senses, and coming to terms with the compounded anxiey of nearly five decades under Alfred's stoic and affection-less thumb. They are in their late 70s and have three children who represent Generation X to a stereotypical T.
Gary, the oldest, is a successful financial planner who appears even more successful in the heady days of the internet technology stock market bubble. While it seems he can't lose in his career, he is not as sucessful in his home life. His wife, whom he adores for her looks, uses their three boys as proxy to wage a brutally taxing psychological campaign against him, a campaign in which he seems only too happy to play the frustrated pawn. Gary is on the verge of depression and functional alcoholism.
Chip, the middle child, is in his mid- to late-thirties and almost a total mess. He was fired from a tenure-track position as a professor at a well-known liberal arts college in the northeast for having had an affair with one of his students. He has since moved to New York and started writing a screenplay about the affair, while working as a legal proofreader and freelance writer and sponging off his much-more-financially-successful younger sister. Much of Chip's time in the book is taken up by his involvement in a scheme to get people to invest in post-communist Lithuania; a scheme that requires him to live in that country and almost gets him killed.
Denise, the youngest child, is in her early thirties and has already had a successful career as a chef at a new restaurant in Philadelphia, and subsequently been fired from that position because she had simultaneous affairs with the owner of the restaurant and his wife. She is sexually confused, having already been through a divorce prior to her career at the restaurant, and by the end of the book she is virtually out of the closet.
These are the main players in a drama that pits old-school American "values" (which in this case are stubborness, sexual inhibition, and resistance to change) against the modern world of the new millennium. We watch each of the characters, mostly the children, navigate their lives as best they can with the yokes of general maladjustment, misplaced intellect and sexual dysfunction that seem to have been passed to them from their parents. Their experiences are frightfully similar; they each battle their own impulses and question their own tendencies until they find themselves in worse trouble than they ever would have endured had they followed those impulses in the first place. They each seem hell-bent on living out their own versions of reality, at the expense of their individual sanity. This goes on, in various forms and in various entertaining iterations, until they are all reunited for Christmas dinner in St. Jude one last time. Shortly after that, Alfred is confined to a hospital and lives out his remaining years as a confused invalid. Alfred's acquiescence to his illness seems to free the characters--especially his wife Enid--from a certain shackle that kept them in a cycle of self-destructive neuroses. Hence, I believe, the title of the book.
This novel is a complex one and it is rich with various themes that drive the plot. Among those are; generational conflict; the inability of people to let go of themselves; sexuality and gender roles; drug use and abuse; the absurdity of the post-millennium, pre-bubble financial markets; and the absurdity of the modern world in general.
The conflict between the two generations of the family plays out directly in the form of each child's relationship to his parents. The children (and I will refer to them en masse at times, bear with me) are resentful of their parents and the way they live, and yet none of them has completely separated themselves from their parent's influence. The father is stuck in a mental time warp that stopped advancing sometime in the late '40s, it seems, and the mother is stuck in the same warp, if only because she had not the will or the capability to get away from her husband. Their own refusal to accept themselves and the world has kept their values and beliefs stuck in the past, refusing to move on.
An example of this is when Gary discovers that a corporation, for which Alfred used to work, bought one of Alfred's patents for an electromagnetic gel. The corporation wants to pay Alfred $5000 for use of the patent. Gary is irate, insisting the corporation should pay twenty times that much. Furthermore, Alfred wants to give half the already meager payment back to the corporation, because part of the research was done with company materials. Gary insists his father should bleed the company for every cent it is willing to give, also to buttress his father's retirement income. Alfred staunchly clings to his principles, in spite of apparent financial good sense.
Gary and his father clash about this issue until the end of the book. It is merely one of a number of ways Alfred holds to his beliefs despite the realities of the modern world, to the constant frustration of his wife and children.
Now that Alfred has been established as someone who holds on to his beliefs, his out-of-date reality, we come to another element of this book; the ability to "let go" and its salutary effects on one's sanity.
The mother in the book, Alfred's wife Enid, is on the inside of a neurotic and anxious bubble, biting her lip as she looks out. It is clear she has been frustrated in every way by Alfred--sexually, mentally, emotionally--and it has taken a toll on her sanity. From early on in their marriage she wanted more from Alfred than he was willing (but not more than he was capable) to give her. Instead, he remained physically and emotionally distant from her. She remained his wife, dutifully, but instead lost herself and drifted into sentimental angst at her children and her life in general.
Alfred was unwilling to let go of his hopelessly iconic and cold vision of himself, and to love his wife. Whether this was out of stubborness, fear or simple dislike of his wife, we are not sure. Enid, in turn, was unable to let go of Alfred and find another mate. Thus, they lived their lives in a constant state of up-tightness; emotional constipation. Alfred's emotional constipation turns into real constipation, and later incontinence, as the book wears on.
Each of the children also battles this unwillingness to let go in some form or another. Luckily, it seems that they each begin to overcome it before they reach middle age.
Drug Use to Cure Depression And Anxiety
Another theme of this book is brain chemistry, and modern attempts to manipulate it through drug use. Throughout the book, the Lamberts plan to put Alfred on a psycho-tropic drug called Corecktall. Chip, early in the book, has a sex-filled weekend with one of his students, fuelled by a drug referred to as "Mexican-A," which we later find out is a legal anti-anxiety drug in which Enid dabbled on a vacation cruise with Alfred. Gary attempts to medicate himself with alcohol throughout the book. Denise's drug, for a time, is sex with her boss's wife, however, Denise and her father Alfred are the only ones who are unwilling to chemically medicate themselves.
One scene is particularly indicative of Franzen's message about the lunacy of tampering with brain chemistry. Gary and Denise are in a stock-holder's meeting for the company who created Corecktall. In that meeting, psycho-tropic medication is advertised like a new kind of dish-soap and with the same kind of "Gee-Whizz!" results.
Almost all of the characters' attempts to alter their brain chemistry are met with bad results. Drugs enable Chip to have an affair with a student, which results in his losing his job. Alcohol causes Gary to severely cut his finger with an electric hedge-clipper in the midst of spite and anger at his wife. A legal psycho-tropic drug causes Enid to have little or no reaction to Alfred's accident on their pleasure cruise. However, Enid's drug use almost seems to help her in this case.
Having been written, or at least published, in 2000 and set largely in the present day, this book could not help but be laden with references and plot twists concerning the financial markets. The year 2000 was the zenith of the technology bubble, which, not coincidentally, parallels the tribulations of the characters of the book. The tech bubble was a great upward progression, a growth of the financial markets and the economy, based on something that was 10% substance and 90% illusion. When the illusion got out of control, there was a "correction," and the market came tumbling back to earth.
The lives of the characters in the book unfold in much the same way. Each ultimately has his or her own "correction" that causes them to come back to earth, stop living in fantasy land, and accept who they are.
Sexuality And Gender Roles
This element relates to the modern world versus old world theme, however, it must be treated as separate in an examination of this novel.
The vortex of this story, the eye around which the entire hurricane spins, is Alfred and the craziness which he has wrought on his entire family. Each of the characters expresses a deep frustration with Alfred and, by extension, Enid. Though sometimes they may seem to love Alfred at the expense and to the spite of Enid.
We see through the book that the dysfunction in the family came as a direct result of the fundamentally dysfunctional relationship between Enid and Alfred. Alfred is dead-set on his out-dated vision of masculinity, which entails discipline, emotional unavailability, and a bizarre prudish-ness which will not even allow him to enjoy sex with his wife. The results of that vision are plainly visible in Alfred's mental deterioration.
Enid is, in her own way, guilty of living out the same out-dated vision of womanhood. She sticks by Alfred in spite of his coldness and his invalidation of her. She very well could have acted out, left him or at least threatened to leave him, and forced some sort of change. However, she stubbornly bore everything, and in the end, the spite and frustration almost killed her.
Each of the children deals with a similar burden. Gary cannot distance himself from his wife's psychological games and assume the role to which their relationship has led him; Chip cannot be with a woman who is genuinely available or hold down a productive job and become an adult; Denise cannot confront her sexuality openly enough to allow her to function at her peak.
It is all, ostensibly, because of Alfred. However, it must be noted that, under-girding the deep frustration and resentment of the man is a deep love and a stong, shared family spirit. For all his faults--and the book paints him with many--Alfred was truly the patriarch of the family and was beloved by his wife and children. His failure was only that he could not and would not allow himself to be loved, or allow himself to be an individual.
As evidenced by the foregoing, some may say excessive, analysis of this book's many themes, there is a lot going going on in this book. It is nearly 600 pages, and is sweeping in its treatment of the various character's lives and thoughts. With a section of the book devoted to each one, it is difficult to know which is the main character. That is, most definitely, Alfred.
Franzen's writing is direct and human, and he communicates his thoughts in a current and modern style. The book is truly of the new millennium, for the new millennium. As a result, I do not think it will stand the test of time as a "classic" of literature. But perhaps that very period-sensitive quality will make it the foremost classic of our time. I don't know, and any attempt on my part to speculate would surely be wrong.
However, this book works. Probably because each of us--most of us--can see ourselves in any and all of the characters in this book. Franzen gives us such a varied smörgåsbord of neuroses that anyone who reads this book will be able to pick out something with which he can identify, and, my friends, is what makes compelling literature. However, as I said, since this book deals so intimately with the tribulations of the immediately modern world, it may survive only as a period piece.
It could be argued (and if I had the time or the inclination, I would argue it properly) that Franzen tries to do too much with this book, and tries to do it with the wrong materials. There are so many themes in this book that none of them is properly ex foliated. Furthermore, the modern world, the minutiae of modern lives, just seemed too inconsequential as a canvas on which to paint those themes.
The plot devices in general are too linked to early-millennium fads and trends that may be lost on readers over the next ten years. I think the impact of those fads and trends is already wearing off and, as a reader, I even had to tax my memory to understand some of the references.
This book is absolutely worth a read, however, it takes endurance, and like with all books, if it doesn't hook you quickly you will be tempted to abandon it. Do not. At times it is convoluted and the micro- and psycho-plot lines will fatigue you, but it is entertaining and it ultimately has a powerful message. Though it may be too linked to its time-period for its own good, you still have time to read it before the effect of it's period references wears off.
the only comment i can make is how in the opening 4 words of your review, you allow the reader to appreciate what type of work you did to make this book review, '...560 pages long.' i love it. what happened to cliff notes?? it would have been more revealing in your review once establishing how long the book was, to state how long it took you to read. a 560 pager that took a week, that is a good read. a 560 pager that took 3 months, that is a library donation, or better yet, an offering to one of those coffee shops or restaurants that has bookshelves all over the place that people look around at the bindings only to realize they have not read anything since judy bloom's worm eating book.
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tical leaders, policy makers and practitioners from major cities including London, Madrid, Berlin, Lyon, Stuttgart, Rotterdam, Turin, Naples, Istanbul, Bremen, Marseille, Gdansk, Leicester, Manchester and Liverpool will be sharing their experiences and provide examples of how being intercultural can bring social, cultural and economic advantages. Speakers include globalisation guru Saskia Sassen, head of CEOs for Cities Carol Coletta, the world authority on cultural diversity and city planning Leonie Sandercock, Kworld renowned economic geographer Ash Amin and many more. The conference aims to engage and inspire everyone interested in the intercultural city, particularly those responsible for planning and regeneration, local economy, community cohesion, education and cultural service
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As part of the INTERREG 3A funded project Female Entrepreneurship Ireland and Wales (FEIW),  and their partners at Aberystwyth University are jointly hosting a conference on the development of enterprise policy for women entrepreneurs. The Shape of Tomorrow: The dawning of a new enterprise policy for women will take place at Faithlegg House, Waterford on 13 May with conference speakers from across the EU. Further details from:>
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Future National Lisbon Programmes require better local/regional input
Programmes were based upon an agreed set of guidelines, covering macro-economic, micro-economic and employment policies. Irelands Lisbon programme has since put in place a range of measures to support R&D, to address infrastructure deficits aacross the economy. With the forthcoming second generation of NRPs in mind, the European Council at its recent summit has pointedly acknowledged that "incrmaking". This recognition of the (potential) role of the a buoyant jobs market "invitesinvolvement of relevant stakeholders in the Lisbon process " - setting out a vision whereby sub-national input and perspectives as well as those of economic and social actors should be more fully incorporated into achieving competitiveness objectives. This is a further emphasis upon the importance of territorial cohesion alongside its economic and social counterparts and is of importance to Ireland as the negotiation of the original NRP took place almost entirely within the social partnership process and has been explicitly tied in with ensuring the full implementation of the Towards 2016 agreement. The Council also "welcomes the progress made in targeting cohesion funds in support of national reform programmes" and calls on Member States "to ensure that expenditure reflects the earmarking commitments made". Further details from
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Conference on Regional Networking and International Partnerships in Technology Transfer & Innovation: 23-25 April, Valencia
The Technology Transfer & Innovation conference is the annual gathering of Europe's largest and longest-standingactitioners who come together to share experience, exchange ideas and to build and strengthen their profession. This year's event is on the theme "From Regional Networking toand Innovation Support". Session themes include strategies and tactics of networking and creating partnerships on different geographical levels; open innovation; and public-private partnerships for improved technology transfer. The latter topic focuses exclusively on the outcomes of an EU-funded project called STAIRS, which aims to implement new strategies for improved trans-regional technology transfer involving public and private sector players. Register at:
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Following two years of solid economic growth and job creation since the Lisbon Agenda was renewed with a growth and jobs focus, the EU Councils spring summit's response to increasing public concern over challenges such as climate change and social exclusion brought an agreement to place these matters towards the forefront of future approaches.
A statement from the Slovenian Presidency after the meeting noted that "economic groware, in essence, a pro-active responses to c". Member states have agreed upon the following priorities: national action plans to reduce the number of early school leavers; future industry skills requirement assessment (accounting for technological change and ageing population impacts) - notably in the key business opportunity areas of climate and energy-efficient technologies;dge (now the EU's "fifth freedom"), thus advancing long-established RTDI goals by boosting cross-border mobility of researchers, students, scientists and university teachers; the "flexicurity" labour market principle which combines greater skills training availability and higher benefits for the unemployed with easier hiring and firing rules for employers to be implemented at national level; and reducing administrative burdens on businesses including red tape hindering them from operating across the entire EU Single Market through approval of the 'Small Business Act' (see the article published on this website in February) including financing and support measures aimed specifically at helping SMEs access new markets and callse. Further details from:
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As much as 5% of all traffic offences across the EU are estimated to fall into this category - thereby going unsanctioned as national police systems are currently not empowered to pursue the matter in another jurisdiction. The draft directive seeks to create an EU-wide electronic data exchange network (to join-up national databases) and the necessary legal instruments to identify and prosecute perpetrators. This is part of the Commission's continuing efforts to cut the 43,000 killed annually on the EU's roads. "Today, drivers too often think they can escape fines when they are abroad. This proposal should put a stop to this," said EU Transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot. Provided technical issuescan be overcome, the Commission hopes to find an agreement by next spring, and Member States should then have two years to contribute to the establishment of the data exchange system. Further details from
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The European Commission intends to adapt legislation on the Community's Structural Funds by April to allow the co-financing of housing-related energy investments within the EU15.
The current 1080/2006) provides that housing-related expenditure of any kind is only eligible in the 12 new member states - thwarting attempts to co-finance energy-related investments in buildings elsewhere. Regional policy Commissioner Danuta Hubner has now announced a change in emphasis to allow all EU Member States to bring forward certain energy measures in favour of buildings so as to "increase the possibilities of investi". Regulation 1828/2006 on the application of Structural Funds will now require amendment in order that housing e reclassified as energy expenditure.
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Daphne 's75,000-200,000 euro (up to 80% of costs) are available. Further details from:

The themes of the workshop are eAgeing and Hard To Reach Groups (Socially Disadvantaged) - how ICT can improve service delivery & improve citizens lives. For further details contact Marie Collins, Project Manager, Mid-West Regional Authority on + 353 67 33197/37353 or mcollins@mwra.ie. The project website is
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The Commission's guidance is based on a ruling of the European Court of Justice, the ‘"Stadt Halle"’ case, which requires transparent and competitive award procedures whenever public contracts or concessions are awarded to public-private partnerships. The guidelines clarify the EC rules that apply when an IPPP is set up. In so doing, it provides greater legal certainty not only for the public sector but also for private investors. An Interpretative Communication - C(2007)6661 - expresses the Commission view that under Community law one tendering procedure suffices when an IPPP is set up, clarifying that Community law does not require a double tendering - one for selecting the private partner to the IPPP and another. Access the text of the Interpretative Communication from:

Following on from the launch of the 'Covenant of Mayors' pledge (see article on 'Promoting Energy Efficiency at Local and Regional Level' published on this website on 26 February) by local and regional authorities to exceed stated EU objectives in the fields, one of the 95 signatories, Cork County Council, will host the 13th Energie-Cites Rendezvous entitled 'Towards Europe’s sustainable energy future...Local authorities are ready to act!'. This event will provide an open discussion on local implications of European energy strategiesand European Commission DG Energy and Transport representatives as well as detailed profiles of ongoing local energy initiatives throughout the network. A forum to develop Intelligent Energy Europe and INTERREG projects will also be arranged along with a site visit to the 'Baile Glas' Sustainable housing estat6, 2008 02:12 PM
Publication: "Working for the Regions: EU Regional Policy 2007-13"
A new brochure is now available from the Inforegio website. The 36-page publication explains how EU regional policy works and how it supports transport, innovation, environmental and urban development in Europe's regions and cities. Cooperation between regions, evaluation of programmes, as well as audit, control and publicity requirements are other aspects covered. Figures explain how much will be spent by EU Structural Funds and on what in the 27 EU Member States in the years to come. Further details at:
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Conference on 'Greener, safer and smarter transport for Europe': 21-24 April, Ljubljana
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This event will focus os on bicycle networking of European cities. The event will address practical questions on topics such as bicycle planning and management, regulation and financing, citizen’s involvement, bikes as business, networking and research aspects. Special attention will be given to how cycling, walking and public transport can work hand in hand in a joint effort to reduce car us5, 2008 01:27 PM
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Publication: The State of Local & Regional Authorities in Europe
The De. This set of 12 factsheets comprises key comparative figures on Member States' internal organisation of sub-national government, public sector finances (expenditure, public investments, public debt), Structural and Cohesion Funds, town twinning, and. DEXIA's "2007 Economic Outlook" on sub-national public finance in the EU has also been published and provides an overview of the institutional and financial situation of this tier in the 27 Member States from 2000 to 2006. Further details at:
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Irish Chair for ECOS Commission
A member of Offaly County Council, the Midland Regional Authority and Mrs Hanniffy will serve for the next two years in the post. The new chair said she was honoured to take up the appointment "at a time when we will be considering a number of important issues which will have significance for the competitiveness of all our regions". Among her priorities are developing ever more proactive dialogue with improved follow-up of CoR opinions throughout the EU law-making process to highlight local and regional authorities' valuable contribution to decision-making. As part of her tenure, in September in Athlone, Cllr. Hanniffy will host a meeting of ECOS along with a conference which will focus on the proposed Small Business Act for Europe and its implications for SMEs. Further details from the IRO
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Today (9th) afternoon: We have noticed that China has issued the “Dual Chairperson Statement of the Special Foreign Ministers’Dialogue Relations.” Can China introduce the relevant situation? What is your comment on this special foreign minister?
Wang Wenbin introduced that the special foreign ministers’ held in Chongqing, China on June 7, 2021.extensive and in-depth exchanges  on  ASEAN under the current situation, advancing cooperation in anti-epidemic and recovery, and promoting the quality and upgrading of bilateral relations, and reached important consensus. After the meeting, we issued the Co-Chairman’sDialogue Relations between China and ASEAN. The statement was rich in content and reiterated that both sides are committed to pushing China-ASEAN relations to a new height, adhering to multilateralism, and supporting ASEAN’s regional structure. China’s central position and other principles and positions, and make plans for cooperation in various fields such as the fight against the epidemic, economic recovery, and sustainable development.
Wang Wenbin said that he would like to share a few points with you here: First, the meeting is held at the right time and is of special significance. Over the past 30 years, China-ASEAN dialogue relations have achieved leapfrog development and milestone results, which have become an important pillar of Under the current severe global epidemi two sides convened this special foreign ministers’ meeting to reiterate, jointly cope with challenges, and focus on discussing plans for the next specific cooperation, which released China-ASEAN solidarity. The positive signals of cooperation and joint maintenancehave strengthened the determination and confidence of the countries in the region .
Second, the achievements are hard to come by, and the experience is precious. The meet past 30 years, China-ASEAN cooperation in the three major areas of political security, economics and trade, and society and humanities has yielded fruitful results, becoming partner, and the most dynamic strategic partner. This is due to the fact that both parties always put each other first in their foreign relations; always put people first and focus on pragmatic cooperation; alwaysdeal with major challenges; always adhere to ope; always take the overall situation as the It’s important to put the differences in place.
At the 30th anniversary, a key point in the past, we have learned valuable experience from history and will inject lasting impetus into the better and more stabl. T improved and there is much to be done. The Chinese side emphasized at the meetiwhich will provide countries in the world including ASEAN countries with a larger market, more opportunities, and stronger functions. China has put forward six suggestions on jointly achieving, maintaining, and developing East Asian regional cooperation in the next 30 years,, and building a closer community of shared destiny, including deepening the fight against the epidemic. Cooperation, promoting economic recovery, improving the level of relations, reaching the “South China Sea Code of Conduct” as soon as possible, persisting in upholding multilateralism, and jointly promoting Asian values have all received positive responses from ASEAN countries.SEAN relations will continue to reach a new level and usher in the next more exciting 30 years.


Those users downloaded a total of 100 million apps within that time, with the number of titles on the platform's marketplace - Windows Store - having already quadrupled since day one.
These are the kind of facts Microsoft was keen to push during its meeting with Pocket Gamer at this year's GDC in San Francisco, and it's not hard to understand why: They're the kind of numbers that, to this point, only iOS and Android have been able to muster.
 In fact, it wants you to play a lot of them.
Highlights include the likes of Temple Run Brave (apparently 'coming soon') and Fruit Ninja (available now) - the latter no doubt bolstered by playing out on what surely will be its biggest set of screens to date - as well as Bejeweled Live from PopCap and Glu's Samarai vs Zomdies Defense (both out now).
Samarai vs Zombies Defense is one of a batch of titles that supports Microsoft's Xbox 360 controller, with PC or Surface players able to plug it in via a USB port and take on the game with actual, physical buttons. Do you remember those?
Indeed, the desire to allow players play games the way they want seems to form the backbone of Microsoft's Windows 8 strategy moving forward, with Pocket Gamer also being shown third-party app Steam Tile, which allows players to pin Steam games to their Start screen, complete with live tiles showcasing their progress and achievements to date.
Flores was able to switch between high-powered PC games and Yippee Entertainment's Chimpact, which has been one of the platform's stars to date, with just the press of a button.
It's the kind of advantage that even the most loyal iPad user would have to admit just isn't available on iOS.
On the flip side, while the first thing most Surface owners will do is head straight to the Windows Store to see what games they can pick up, Microsoft's long term challenge will convincing mobile gamers that their Windows 8 PC is the perfect home for pick-up-and-play releases they love, too.
GameHouse's new Windows 8 releases - which includes Emily's True Love (out now) and time management release Emily's Wonder Wedding (coming soon) - will push this ideal to the extreme: Largely casual releases, aimed at an audience perhaps less used to taking on titles while sat at their PC.
Adding to turn-based RTS Galactic Reign - which is can be purchased on either Windows 8 or Windows Phone 8 and then downloaded for free on the corresponding platform - is 17 Bit's Skulls of the Shogun and Rebellion Studios' Guns 4 Hire (both out now), as well as Microsoft's own top down shooter The Harvest (coming soon), which picked up plaudits aplenty on Windows Phone.
Also making up the line-up of new and recently released titles are DoodleGod from Joybits, Mudvark's Mortar Melon (both available now), and - all from Microsoft - shuffleboard bowling hit Shuffle Party (out now), Doritos Crash Course Go!, Endless Skater, Ty the Tasmanian Tiger: Bush Rescuers, Field & Stream Fishing and match-three puzzler Fishdom 3, all coming soon.


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RIO DELL, California – At least a dozen people were injured, and two others died from "medical emergencies" that occurred during or just after the quak tremor, which struck at 2:30 am PST and was followed by about 80 aftershocks, was centered 350 km north of San Francisco offshore of Humboldt County, a largely rural area known for its redwood forests, local seafood, lumber industry and dairy farms.
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Tuesday's temblor set off one structure fire – by severing the gas line of a hot-water heater – and caused at least two other buildings to collapse, authorities said. The blaze was quickly extinguished, and fire crews rescued a resident briefly trapped in the home, according to fire officials.
"And it just kept shaking and shaking, and things were crashing," she recalled. "The TV was coming down, the microwave, everything, like all my little knickknacks were crashing everywhere."
California's earthquake early warning system sent electronic alerts to the mobile devices of some 3 million northern California residents 10 seconds before the first shaking was even felt, said state emergency chief Mark Ghilarducci.
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M: It's really bad, right? Like, OFFENSIVE?
 SERIOUSLY KIDS I WAS THERE THE FIRST TIME IT WAS BAD I PROMISE.
M: One of these days a 19-year-old is going to flounce by me dressed like Annie Oakley crossed with Pippi Longstocking and I'm not going to have the inner grace to stop myself from tripping her.
I'm sure it won't be hard to figure out which one I am.
A: That dress is why I hate ruffles so bad now. And glasses. And plaid. And everything else. God.
M: You are like Bershon Junior there.
A: That was a bad year for me, sartorially speaking. And in pretty much every other way.
M: Anyone that truly enjoyed 5th grade is a mystery to me.
A: Liars, is what those people are. Sorry, I didn't mean to make this all about me, more a cautionary tale about trying to replicate the 80s.
M: Well, I can't stop trolling the Urban Outfitters site and now I have convinced myself that I kind of love this tiny harmonica necklace?
I don't even like the harmonica!
A: $45? Dude.
M: Right? I think I have Stockholm Syndrome. Stop me before I end up in a romper.
A: Empty your shopping cart RIGHT NOW DO IT.
M: I am all shaky. I need you to show me something pretty, stat.
She looked like a million bucks in it and we cried and cried afterwards because they can't be together.
M: Oh, that is just fantastic. And now I'm back where I belong, coveting things I can't afford. Thank you, buddy.
A: Anytime, my friend.
Adrien, you were the original hipster!
Hahaha! omg 5th grade was horrible! I had no style. none. We're talking sweatshirts with geese wearing bonnets.
I look like a cracked-out Laura Ingalls Wilder in that photo, so yeah.
I know a bartending 20-something who looks exactly like your 5th grade self. And, not surprisingly, she also wears headdresses (only to SXSW, of course).
Urban Outfitters has lost their damn mind. If they ever had one, which I'm really not sure of.
Adrien! You look just like my best friend from sixth grade in that picture. I had Pat Benatar hair in 5th grade. It went superawesome with my parachute pants.


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Lest anyone think I’m saying being gay is the cause of my shame, my depression, and my anger [and my social anorexia], I point out that not all LGBT persons feel shame or are depressed or deal with anger issues. Most do not have the struggle I’ve had with those characteristics. I know a gay couple who grew up in essentially the same circumstances as mine in Nebraska (neither of their fathers was a Baptist preacher) neither of whom has ever been treated for depression or any of its manifestations.
My work for most of my life has been to try to sort all of these things out and to make a life for myself. I have succeeded pretty well in the latter. And I’m finally beginning either to succeed at the former or to come to some sort of peace with it. I guess I’m writing this because I am living this moment in the wake of an extraordinarily difficult time that has helped me sort, and I have new insight.
It is a wonder to me that never have my family, my colleagues, and my friends left me to struggle with my chaos, shame, confusion, or anger alone. I live in gratitude that for 67 years I have always had someone to give me assurance. Gratitude may be a form of spiritual remedy.
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Mankiwicz was unceremoniously fired by new studio head Darryl F. Zanuck during post-production, but he had to be re-hired when Zanuck realised that only Mankiewicz knew how all the footage fit together. Re-shoots were filmed in early 1963 – by Mankiewicz – but his early cut lasted six hours (in line with his idea of releasing two separate movies). Zanuck baulked at this, and decided to re-cut the movie himself. The result was the four hour version that was released in June 1963. The movie received mixed reviews, but was surprisingly a commercial success, becoming that year’s highest grossing earner at the box office. However, due to the spiralling costs of making the movie, over $31 million, it failed to make a profit, only breaking even in 1973.
But what of the movie itself? Well, yes, it is bloated and arguably in need of some judicious editing, but it is a fascinating viewing experience, with so much to recommend it that it’s a shame it lacks an overall shape to hold all its various elements together. Mankiewicz was a writer who didn’t lack for a great turn of phrasewas one of his, for All About Eve (1950) – and he doesn’t disappoint here, but amid all the declamatory, theatrical-sounding dialogue, there’s too much that sounds rooted in modern day psychology. Antony has a great speech after the disaster of the Battle of Actium that is an actor’s dream, but you have to wonder if Antony himself would have been quite so self-analytical. And Taylor has some of the most florid speeches about love you’re ever likely to hear.
So, is it a good movie? Overall, yes it is. It’s clearly got its faults – the Battle of Actium, fought on water, suffers from having very little money spent on it – and some of the spectacle is there just because it can be, but it does have depth, and Mankiewicz is adept at navigating the political nuances of the era, making them accessible to the layman when necessary. In the director’s chair, Mankiewicz, along with DoP Leon Shamroy, creates a visual world for his cast to act in front of that feels both real and organic, and he keeps things moving with a great deal of style and purpose, which, considering the production’s problems, is a fantastic achievement. It’s never going to top any Top 10 Movies of All Time lists but it doesn’t have to. It’s a tribute to the folly of epic moviemaking, to studio perseverance in the face of an apparent disaster, and a monument to what can be achieved on a practical level when a production’s back is against the wall. Simply put, it’s a triumph over adversity.
Rating: 8/10 – much, much better than many people will tell you, and with a reputation for being bloated and unwieldy that just isn’t the case, Cleopatra is an event movie in more ways than one, and manages to achieve much of what it aspires to; with efforts being made to find the rest of Mankiewicz’s six-hour cut, let’s hope a fuller appreciation of this unfairly maligned movie will be available soon.
TV production associate Eylül (Abdullah) has a dream career, a handsome actor boyfriend, Atil (Tuna), and is living life to the full. But when a car crash causes her to lose her memory of the month immediately before the accident, it also causes her to wonder just why she can’t remember that time, and why she is getting sudden flashes of being on an island. Pressuring her best friend Berrak (Moray) into telling her where she was, Eylül learns that she and Berrak and Atil took a break to the island of Bozcaada a month before the accident.
Eylül insists on returning there, and reluctantly, Berrak goes with her. With her friend clearly hiding something, Eylül separates from her and encounters a young man, Lone (Akyürek), who recognises her. But she doesn’t recognise him, however, he manages to persuade her to meet him at a nearby restaurant. There, he begins to tell her of the way in which they met, and their first “date”. But when Berrak calls her and warns her to get away, Eylül becomes frightened and runs away. Lone follows her; when he catches up to her he shares another memory of their time together. When Berrak finds her, Eylül is even more confused by what her emerging memories are telling her, and Berrak’s insistence that they should leave and that everything is all right.
The central romance between Eylül and Lone is handled with a great deal of whimsy but it’s also well sustained by Deren and his two leads. Abdullah, with her blonde hair and depthless eyes, shines, both as the fun-seeking Eylül and her disconcerted, amnesiac future self. She’s an attractive screen presence, sprightly and high-spirited, allowing the audience to empathise with Eylül’s predicament and urge her onwards in her search for the “truth”. As her paramour Lone, Akyürek employs a winning, puppy dog look that screams younger Ashton Kutcher lookalike, but it proves a strangely apt fit for a character who admits to being scared of everything, and who is joyful in ways that Eylül can only dream of. Together they play out a romantic game of charades that allows both actors to give completely endearing performances.
As might be expected, though, there are a couple of flaws in Deren’s script. Berrak’s behaviour, while explained at the end, is still too aggressive to be entirely acceptable in someone who is supposed to be Eylül’s best friend; and it’s hard to work out why Eylül herself is so suddenly convinced of her need to leave Lone and Bozcaada behind, given that she’s acclimated to the island lifestyle so quickly and with such fervour (it’s that predictable moment in a romantic drama where an obstacle to everlasting love rears its ugly head and spoils things).
Away from Smith’s painful attempts at looking lovelorn, we have a movie that struggles to add any thrills to proceedings and only really comes alive thanks to Wong’s involvement at the Superbowl game; his extrovert performance is the movie’s one highlight. Afterwards it’s all downhill with a less than convoluted con game that steals shamelessly from The Sting (1974) and asks us to take such a leap of faith in terms of what happens to Nicky that most viewers will be picking their jaws up off the floor in stunned disbelief (or amusement). Slackly directed, and with a supporting cast reduced to mouthing platitudes, Focus won’t hang around long in the memory, and proves another stumbling block in Smith’s return to the A-list.
Rating: 5/10 – good location photography and a glossy sheen to things lift Focus out of the doldrums, and the pickpocket sequences – overseen by Apollo Robbins – are cleverly constructed and edited; with Robbie adrift in a sea of watered-down machismo, however, this is not a movie that serves its cast particularly well and is worryingly predictable.
A somewhat surreal, non-linear drama, The Sin of Nora Moran is a strange, visually inventive movie that resists easy categorisation – it has elements of murder, mystery, romance, redemption and sacrifice – and gives Johann her best role by far. It’s also a far cry from the more usual romantic dramas of the period, and doesn’t shy away from showing the terrors of pre-execution incarceration.