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More movies (and a tv series) on youtube to keep you busy

List 1 / List 2

Here’s a third update of movies that you can watch in full on youtube since you’re stuck inside

Documentaries about movies:

Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography (1992): Featuring interviews with more than two dozen major cinematographers and a ton of clips, this is a useful and enjoyable primer for anyone interested in learning what a DoP does

Vittorio Storaro: Writing With Light (1992): This is a shorter (40 minute) television doc focusing on one specific cinematographer, Vittorio Storaro, famed for his collaborations with Bertolucci and for shooting Hollywood movies like Apocalypse Now and Reds

The Epic That Never Was (1965): In 1937, Josef Von Sternberg started shooting an adaptation of I, Claudius starring Charles Laughton as Claudius. Dirk Boagarde hosts this lively documentary examining why the film was never completed, featuring the surviving footage from the 1937 shoot.

Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film (1980): Kevin Brownlow and David Gill’s 13-episode miniseries about the silent film era is considered the gold standard for documentaries about film history, but the impossibility of negotiating the rights to all the clips used at a reasonable price has kept it off of dvd or blu-ray. Luckily, that didn’t stop someone from putting it on youtube, although episode 12 has in fact been blocked due to a copyright claim.

Buster Keaton: A Hard Act To Follow (1987) Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3: Another Kevin Brownlow and David Gill miniseries, this one, as you’ve probably guessed, covers the life and films of Buster Keaton over three episodes.

More movies:

Powell/Pressburger: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, aka the Archers, were one of the greatest writer/director teams in film history (and a favorite of Scorsese, who seemingly made it his life’s mission to ensure that their films were restored and available), and three of their incredibly charming, magical movies are on youtube. Of the available ones, I Know Where I’m Going! is probably the best to start with.

I Know Where I’m Going! (1945): Dave Kehr on the film: “Michael Powell's 1945 film resists easy classification: it opens as a screwball comedy, grows into a mystical, Flaherty-like study of man against the elements, and concludes as a warm romance. Wendy Hiller, in one of the best roles the movies gave her, is a toughened, materialistic young woman on her way to meet her millionaire fiance in the Hebrides; Roger Livesey is the young man she meets when a storm blows up and prevents her crossing to the islands. Funny and stirring, in quite unpredictable ways, with the usual Powellian flair for drawing the universal out of the screamingly eccentric.”

A Canterbury Tale (1944): The Criterion jacket copy: “Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s beloved classic A Canterbury Tale is a profoundly personal journey to Powell’s bucolic birthplace of Kent, England. Set amid the tumult of the Second World War, yet with a rhythm as delicate as a lullaby, the film follows three modern-day incarnations of Chaucer’s pilgrims—a melancholy “landgirl,” a plainspoken American GI, and a resourceful British sergeant—who are waylaid in the English countryside en route to the mythical town and forced to solve a bizarre village crime. Building to a majestic climax that ranks as one of the filmmaking duo’s finest achievements, the dazzling A Canterbury Tale has acquired a following of devotees passionate enough to qualify as pilgrims themselves.”

Gone To Earth (1950): Made under unhappy circumstances (David O. Selznick producing), this is a gorgeous technicolor romance starring Jennifer Jones as a nature loving young woman forced into a choice between two “civilized” men, with tragic results.

Straub/Huillet: If you’re looking for something easy and relaxing to watch during the quarantine, I’d recommend literally anything else other than the films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet. J. Hoberman on the couple: “Straub-Huillet, as they preferred to be called, are cinema’s conscience — an antidote to all the junk movies you’ve ever seen. Drawing on Kafka, Cézanne, Brecht, Schoenberg and Malraux, to name only some of their best-known sources, Straub-Huillet films are meant to raise ethical questions on subjects as varied as proper camera placement and the appropriate political approach to the subject.“We make our films so that audiences can walk out of them,” Mr. Straub once said, perhaps not altogether in jest.” Of the available ones, Class Relations, their adaptation of Kafka’s unfinished novel Amerika, seems to be agreed upon as the easiest place to start as it’s the closest to a straightforward narrative, although History Lessons has also been recommended as a relatively easy starting place by some people. Not Reconciled, which compresses an epic Heinrich Boll novel following three generations throughout multiple timelines into 52-minutes, is not recommended to start with. MUBI did a retrospective of their works and had essays commissioned for each one to help viewers out so I’ll link those with each film. Hit Closed Captions for subtitles.

Not Reconciled (1965): Here’s a 10-minute video essay by critic Richard Brody that will help you have a slightly easier time with Not Reconciled if you decide to give it a try. Here’s the MUBI essay

Othon (1970): In the 17th century Pierre Corneille wrote Othon, set in ancient Rome. Straub-Huillet’s adaptation is shot in the actual ruins of Roman palaces with modern buildings and cars visible in the background. The MUBI essay

History Lessons (1972): An adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s The Business Affairs of Julius Caesar. From the MUBI essay: “In the film, an unnamed young man tours Rome and conducts interviews with toga-clad members of ancient Roman society on the subject of “C,” meaning of course Julius Caesar. It plays like Citizen Kane shorn of any of the flashbacks that bulk out that film: here, it is all exposition, reminisces, impressions. Interspersed through these sedentary discussions are a series of randomly protracted car rides through the city, all recorded in unbroken takes from the backseat of the young man’s Fiat 500.From this brief description alone, I’m sure you can see why structuralist-minded academics in the seventies had a field day.“

Fortini/Canti (1976): From the MUBI essay: “In Fortini/Canti, the Italian Communist writer Franco Fortini reads aloud from his Dogs of the Sinai (only recently translated into English for the first time), a memoir of his life as an Italian Jew and an extended reflection on the aftermath of the Third Arab–Israeli War of 1967 and its representation in the Italian media and by the political class. [...] Like all of Straub-Huillet’s movies, this astonishingly combative film follows an internal rhythm born out of the particulars of landscape, of speech, and of the physiognomies of its actors. It begins with an extended recording of a television newscast about Israel/Palestine (thus distancing the audience from the warped words and images on screen), a quotation from Fortini that connects like a punch in the jaw (“People don’t like having to change their minds. When they have to, they do so in secret. The certainty of having been tricked turns into cynicism. Gain for the cause of conservatism”), and then alternates between short jabs like these and more sustained verbal and visual attacks.”

Too Early/Too Late (1982): Serge Daney on the film: “No actors, not even characters. If there is an actor in TOO EARLY, TOO LATE, it’s the landscape. This actor has a text to recite: History, of which it is the living witness. The actor performs with a certain amount of talent: the cloud that passes, a breaking loose of birds, a break in the clouds; this is what the landscape’s performance consists of. This kind of performing is meteorological. One hasn’t seen anything like it for quite some time. Since the silent period, to be precise.” The MUBI essay

Class Relations (1984): The aforementioned adaptation of Kafka’s Amerika, often recommended as a place to start with Straub/Huillet. The MUBI essay

Hitchcock: Back to fun stuff, three Hitchcock classics.

The 39 Steps (1935): Dave Kehr: “As an artist, Alfred Hitchcock surpassed this early achievement many times in his career, but for sheer entertainment value it still stands in the forefront of his work.“

Shadow of a Doubt (1943): Kehr again: “Alfred Hitchcock’s first indisputable masterpiece. . . . Hitchcock’s discovery of darkness within the heart of small-town America remains one of his most harrowing films, a peek behind the facade of security that reveals loneliness, despair, and death. Thornton Wilder collaborated on the script; it’s Our Town turned inside out.“

Spellbound (1945): No one would argue it’s Hitchcock’s best and the psychoanalysis is very dated but with Gregory Peck, Ingrid Bergman, and Dali-designed dream sequences there’s still enjoyment to be had.

Ozu: One of Japan’s most beloved and revered filmmakers, he’s primarily known for his post-WWII family dramas, but his career stretched back to the silent era (although most of his silent films are lost). I Was Born But... is a good place to start but it’s not representative of the style he’s known for. Late Spring is where his later style fully emerges, and it’s a good place to start, so you might want to go in chronological order with these (Tokyo Story, widely considered one of the greatest films of all time, is also not a bad place to start).

I Was Born But... (1932): Jonathan Rosenbaum on the film: “One of Yasujiro Ozu's most sublime films, this late Japanese silent describes the tragicomic disillusionment of two middle-class boys who see their father demean himself by groveling in front of his employer; it starts off as a hilarious comedy and gradually becomes darker. Ozu's understanding of his characters and their social milieu is so profound and his visual style—which was much less austere and more obviously expressive during his silent period—so compelling that the film carries one along more dynamically than many of the director's sound classics. Though regarded in Japan mainly as a conservative director, Ozu was a trenchant social critic throughout his career, and the devastating understanding of social context that he shows here is full of radical implications.“

The Only Son (1936): Criterion’s jacket copy: “Yasujiro Ozu’s first talkie, the uncommonly poignant The Only Son is among the Japanese director’s greatest works. In its simple story about a good-natured mother who gives up everything to ensure her son’s education and future, Ozu touches on universal themes of sacrifice, family, love, and disappointment. Spanning many years, The Only Son is a family portrait in miniature, shot and edited with its maker’s customary exquisite control.”

Late Spring (1949): Ignatiy Vishnevetsky: “Each shot in Late Spring is striking on its own; the mature Ozu belongs to that rare category of filmmakers whose work can be recognized from a single frame. But together—with all their abrupt shifts in visual perspective and time—they become a mosaic, deeply poignant and ultimately mysterious in the way it envisions a relationship between two people trapped by how much they care for one another. There are domestic dramas, and then there’s this.“

Tokyo Story (1953): Dave Kehr: “The film that introduced Yasujiro Ozu, one of Japan's greatest filmmakers, to American audiences (1953). The camera remains stationary throughout this delicate study of conflicting generations in a modern Japanese family, save for one heartbreaking moment when Ozu tracks around a corner to discover the grandparents, alone and forgotten. A masterpiece, minimalist cinema at its finest and most complex.“

Early Spring (1956): Ozu on the film: “I wanted to portray the life of a white-collar man — his happiness over graduating and becoming a member of society. His hopes for the future when he got his job have gradually dissolved and he realizes that, even though he has worked for years, he has accomplished nothing worth talking about. By delineating his life over a period of time, I wanted to portray what you might call the pathos of the white-collar life...I tried to avoid anything that would be dramatic and to accumulate only casual scenes of everyday life in hopes that the audience would feel the sadness of that kind of life”

Equinox Flower (1958): Vincent Canby: “One of Ozu's least dark comedies, which is not to say that it's carefree, but, rather, that it's gentle and amused in the way that it acknowledges time's passage, the changing of values and the adjustments that must be made between generations.“

Late Autumn (1960): Peter Bradshaw: “Another gem from the Ozu canon, a masterpiece of tendernesss and serio-comic charm, as tonally ambiguous and morally complex as anything he ever made.“

And the tv series:

The Armando Iannucci Shows: You may know Armando Iannucci from his films, In The Loop and The Death of Stalin, or from some of his other television shows like The Thick of It or Veep, or from his involvement in all the Alan Partridge series with Steve Coogan. You probably missed The Armando Iannucci shows, his stream of consciousness sketch comedy that ran for one season back in 2001 (it didn’t help that it debuted in September of 2001), but it’s probably the most purely funny thing he’s ever done.

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livinglikebritishroyalty · 5 years ago

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troybeecham · 5 years ago

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Today, the Church remembers Saint Margaret of Scotland (Scots: Saunt Magret, c. 1045 – 16 November 1093 AD), also known as Margaret of Wessex, English princess and a Scottish queen.

Ora pro nobis.

Margaret was born in exile in the Kingdom of Hungary She was the sister of Edgar Ætheling, the shortly reigned and uncrowned Anglo-Saxon King of England. Margaret and her family returned to the Kingdom of England in 1057 AD, but fled to the Kingdom of Scotland following the Norman conquest of England in 1066 AD. By the end of 1070 AD, Margaret had married King Malcolm III of Scotland, becoming Queen of Scots.

Margaret was the daughter of the English prince Edward the Exile, and granddaughter of Edmund Ironside, King of England. After the Danish conquest of England in 1016 AD, King Canute the Great had the infant Edward exiled to the continent. He was taken first to the court of the Swedish king, Olof Skötkonung, and then to Kiev. As an adult, he travelled to Hungary, where in 1046 AD he supported the successful bid of King Andrew I for the Hungarian crown. King Andrew I was then also known as "Andrew the Catholic" for his extreme aversion to pagans and great loyalty to the Roman Catholic Church.

Still a child, she came to England with the rest of her family when her father, Edward the Exile, was recalled in 1057 as a possible successor to her great-uncle, the childless King Edward the Confessor. Whether from natural or sinister causes, her father died immediately after landing, and Margaret continued to reside at the English court where her brother, Edgar Ætheling, was considered a possible successor to the English throne. When Edward the Confessor died in January 1066, Harold Godwinson was selected as king, possibly because Edgar was considered too young. After Harold's defeat at the Battle of Hastings later that year, Edgar was proclaimed King of England, but when the Normans advanced on London, the Witenagemot presented Edgar to William the Conqueror, who took him to Normandy before returning him to England in 1068 AD, when Edgar, Margaret, Cristina, and their mother Agatha fled north to Northumbria, England.

According to tradition, the widowed Agatha decided to leave Northumbria, England with her children and return to the continent. However, a storm drove their ship north to the Kingdom of Scotland in 1068, where they sought the protection of King Malcolm III. The locus where it is believed that they landed is known today as St Margaret's Hope, near the village of North Queensferry, Fife, Scotland. Margaret's arrival in Scotland, after the failed revolt of the Northumbrian earls, has been heavily romanticized, though Symeon of Durham implied that her first meeting of Malcolm III may not have been until 1070, after William the Conqueror's Harrying of the North.

King Malcolm III was a widower with two sons, Donald and Duncan. He would have been attracted to marrying one of the few remaining members of the Anglo-Saxon royal family. The marriage of Malcolm and Margaret occurred in 1070 AD. Subsequently, Malcolm executed several invasions of Northumberland to support the claim of his new brother-in-law Edgar and to increase his own power. These, however, had little effect save the devastation of the County.

Margaret's biographer Turgot of Durham, Bishop of St. Andrew's, credits her with having a civilizing influence on her husband Malcolm by reading him narratives from the Bible. She instigated religious reform, striving to conform the worship and practices of the Church in Scotland to those of Rome. This she did on the inspiration and with the guidance of Lanfranc, a future Archbishop of Canterbury. She also worked to conform the practices of the Scottish Church to those of the continental Church, which she experienced in her childhood. Due to these achievements, she was considered an exemplar of the "just ruler", and moreover influenced her husband and children, especially her youngest son, the future King David I of Scotland, to be just and holy rulers.

"The chroniclers all agree in depicting Queen Margaret as a strong, pure, noble character, who had very great influence over her husband, and through him over Scottish history, especially in its ecclesiastical aspects. Her religion, which was genuine and intense, was of the newest Roman style; and to her are attributed a number of reforms by which the Church [in] Scotland was considerably modified from the insular and primitive type which down to her time it had exhibited. Among those expressly mentioned are a change in the manner of observing Lent, which thenceforward began as elsewhere on Ash Wednesday and not as previously on the following Monday, and the abolition of the old practice of observing Saturday (Sabbath), not Sunday, as the day of rest from labour. "The later editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica, however, as an example, the Eleventh Edition, remove Skene's opinion that Scottish Catholics formerly rested from work on Saturday, something for which there is no historical evidence. Skene's Celtic Scotland, vol. ii, chap. 8, pp. 348–350, quotes from a contemporary document regarding Margaret's life, but his source says nothing at all of Saturday Sabbath observance, but rather says St. Margaret exhorted the Scots to cease their tendency "to neglect the due observance of the Lord's day."

She attended to charitable works, serving orphans and the poor every day before she ate and washing the feet of the poor in imitation of Christ. She rose at midnight every night to attend the liturgy. She successfully invited the Benedictine Order to establish a monastery in Dunfermline, Fife in 1072 AD, and established ferries at Queensferry and North Berwick to assist pilgrims journeying from south of the Firth of Forth to St. Andrew's in Fife. She used a cave on the banks of the Tower Burn in Dunfermline as a place of devotion and prayer. St. Margaret's Cave, now covered beneath a municipal car park, is open to the public. Among other deeds, Margaret also instigated the restoration of Iona Abbey in Scotland. She is also known to have interceded for the release of fellow English exiles who had been forced into serfdom by the Norman conquest of England.

Margaret was as pious privately as she was publicly. She spent much of her time in prayer, devotional reading, and ecclesiastical embroidery. This apparently had considerable effect on the more uncouth Malcolm, who was illiterate: he so admired her piety that he had her books decorated in gold and silver. One of these, a pocket gospel book with portraits of the Evangelists, is in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England.

Malcolm was apparently largely ignorant of the long-term effects of Margaret's endeavours, not being especially religious himself. He was content for her to pursue her reforms as she desired, which was a testament to the strength of and affection in their marriage.

Her husband Malcolm III, and their eldest son Edward, were killed in the Battle of Alnwick against the English on 13 November 1093 AD. Her son Edgar was left with the task of informing his mother of their deaths. Not yet 50 years old, Margaret died on 16 November 1093 AD, three days after the deaths of her husband and eldest son. The cause of death was reportedly grief. She was buried before the high altar in Dunfermline Abbey in Fife, Scotland.

O God, you called your servant Margaret to an earthly throne that she might advance your heavenly kingdom, and gave her zeal for your Church and love for-your people: Mercifully grant that we who commemorate her this day may be fruitful in good works, and attain to the glorious crown of your saints; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

Amen.

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camperdowncollisioncentre-blog · 8 years ago

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Car Restoration In Dulwich Hill

Тhеrе іs а dіffеrеnсе bеtwееn аutоmоbіlе rеstоrаtіоn аnd sіmрlе rеbuіldіng. А rеbuіlt саr саn соntаіn аnу tуре оf раrt. Тruе rеstоrаtіоn, соnsіsts оf gеttіng аs muсh аuthеntісіtу іntо thе аutоmоbіlе аs роssіblе, rіght dоwn tо thе hub сарs. Тhе саr wіll оnlу rеtаіn thе vаluе іf іt іs rеstоrеd bасk tо іts оrіgіnаl соndіtіоn, nоt rеbuіlt іntо а dіffеrеnt саr.

Тhе рrосеss оf саr rеstоrаtіоn еnсоmраssеs nоt јust thе раrts оf thе саr thаt саn bе sееn bу оthеrs, but аlsо thе mесhаnісаl соmроnеnts shоuld аlsо bе rеstоrеd tо thеіr оrіgіnаl соndіtіоn. Dulwісh Ніll саr rеstоrаtіоn іs thе lеаdеr іn саr rеstоrаtіоn.

Аutоmоbіlе rеstоrаtіоn іnvоlvеs thе рrосеss оf dіsаssеmblіng thе еntіrе саr, сlеаnіng аnd еіthеr rерlасіng оr rераіrіng thе оrіgіnаl раrts аnd thеn rеаssеmblіng thе vеhісlе. Іn оrdеr fоr thе саr tо mаіntаіn іts оrіgіnаl vаluе, іt must bе rеstоrеd wіth аll оf thе рrореr раrts. Іn mоst саsеs, thе еngіnе must bе соmрlеtеlу rеbuіlt.

Ѕреаkіng оf Pаіnt, Yоu Wіll Wаnt tо usе Thе Orіgіnаl Pаіnt, іf Pоssіblе, tо rераіnt thе саr.

Тhеrе аrе mаnу dіffеrеnt рlасеs whеrе уоu саn рurсhаsе thе оrіgіnаl саr раіnt; summеr hіll sрrау раіntіng соuld bе уоur рrіntіng sоlutіоn. Тhеіr sрrау раіntеrs hаvе а hugе rеsроnsіbіlіtу. Νеvеrthеlеss, thеу nеvеr fаіl tо dіsарроіnt. Тhеу usе thе bеst раіnt іn thе mаrkеt аnd оf аnу соlоr thаt уоu рrеfеr. Тhеу аlsо usе hіgh еnd sрrау раіntіng еquірmеnt tо еnsurе а sеаmlеss јоb. Тhе skіlls, knоwlеdgе аnd ехреrtіsе асquіrеd bу thеіr рrоfеssіоnаl tеаm аlsо gо а lоng wау іn еnsurіng fаst аnd rеlіаblе sеrvісе.

Dulwісh Ніll Cаr Rеstоrаtіоns Arе аn Autоmоtіv�� Rераіr Shор іn Dulwісh Ніll.

Тhіs sеrvісе еnsurеs thаt уоur саr lооks аs gооd аs nеw аftеr соmрlеtіоn. Whеn іt соmеs tо саr rеstоrаtіоn, thеrе аrе vаrіоus рrосеssеs thаt tаkе рlасе іnсludе ехtеrіоr аnd іntеrіоr rеstоrаtіоn аs wеll аs еngіnе rеstоrаtіоn. Тhе rаngе оf sеrvісеs оffеrеd hеrе іnсludе lеаd wеldіng, undеr-sеаlіng wах, trіmmіng аnd сlаssіс uрhоlstеrу, соlоr mаtсhіng, рlаstіс wеldіng, bоdуwоrk соnstruсtіоn аnd роwdеr соаtіng јust tо nаmе а fеw. Wе оffеr tо rеstоrе nоt оnlу thе bоdу оf уоur саr, but оthеr соmроnеnts. Wе аlsо mоdіfу саrs dереndіng оn сustоmеr’s nееds аnd рrеfеrеnсеs. Оn аrrіvаl аt Dulwісh Ніll, саrs rеquіrіng rеstоrаtіоn аrе dіsаssеmblеd аnd іnsресtеd tо аssеss thе аmоunt оf wоrk thаt nееds tо bе dоnе. Тhіs hеlрs us еnsurе thаt еvеrу dаmаgеd соmроnеnt іs еіthеr rераіrеd оr rерlасеd аs rеquіrіng hеnсе а саr іn tор shаре аftеr соmрlеtіоn.

Dulwісh Ніll dоеsn’t јust оffеr sрrау раіntіng аnd раnеl bеаtіng sеrvісеs. Wе аlsо оffеr саr rеstоrаtіоn sеrvісе tо еnsurе. Wе аrе hеrе tо еnsurе thаt еvеn аftеr а grіzzlу ассіdеnt, уоu саr lооks аs gооd аs nеw. Саr rеstоrаtіоn іs а sеrvісе thаt bаsісаllу іnvоlvеs rеstоrіng а dаmаgеd vеhісlе, whеthеr dаmаgеd hеаvіlу оr sіmрlу sсrареd hеrе аnd thеrе, tо іts fоrmеr glоrу. Тhе реrsоnnеl аt Dulwісh Ніll аrе dеdісаtеd tо gіvіng аnd рrоvіdіng hіgh quаlіtу rеstоrаtіоn fоr сustоmеr vеhісlеs.

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Second Saint of the Day – 16 November – St Margaret of Scotland (1045-1093) Queen consort of Scotland – born in c 1045 in Hungary and died on 16 November 1093 at Edinburgh Castle, Scotland, four days after her husband and son died in defense of the castle. Patronages – Scotland, Dunfermline, Fife, Shetland, The Queen’s Ferry, queens, widows, against the death of children and Anglo-Scottish relations. St Margaret was the mother of three kings of Scotland, or four, if Edmund of Scotland, who ruled with his uncle, Donald III, is counted and of a queen consort of England. According to the Vita S. Margaritae (Scotorum) Reginae (Life of St Margaret, Queen (of the Scots), attributed to Turgot of Durham, she died at Edinburgh Castle in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1093, merely days after receiving the news of her husband’s death in battle.

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Saint Margaret’s name signifies “pearl” “a fitting name,” says Bishop Turgot, her confessor and her first biographer, “for one such as she.” Her soul was like a precious pearl. A life spent amidst the luxury of a royal court never dimmed its lustre, or stole it away from him who had bought it with his blood. She was the grand-daughter of an English king and in 1070 she became the bride of Malcolm and reigned Queen of Scotland till her death in 1093.

How did she become a Saint in a position where sanctity is so difficult?

Margaret’s biographer Turgot of Durham, Bishop of St Andrew’s, credits her with having a civilising influence on her husband Malcolm by reading him narratives from the Bible. She instigated religious reform, striving to conform the worship and practices of the Church in Scotland to those of Rome. This she did on the inspiration and with the guidance of Lanfranc, a future Archbishop of Canterbury. She also worked to conform the practices of the Scottish Church to those of the continental Church, which she experienced in her childhood. Due to these achievements, she was considered an exemplar of the “just ruler” and moreover influenced her husband and children, especially her youngest son, the future King David I of Scotland, to be just and holy rulers.

“The chroniclers all agree in depicting Queen Margaret as a strong, pure, noble character, who had very great influence over her husband and through him over Scottish history, especially in its ecclesiastical aspects. Her religion, which was genuine and intense, was of the newest Roman style and to her are attributed a number of reforms by which the Church [in] Scotland was considerably modified from the insular and primitive type which down to her time it had exhibited. Among those expressly mentioned are a change in the manner of observing Lent, which thenceforward began as elsewhere on Ash Wednesday and not as previously on the following Monday and the abolition of the old practice of observing Saturday (Sabbath), not Sunday, as the day of rest from labour (see Skene’s Celtic Scotland, book ii chap. 8).” The later editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica, however, as an example, the Eleventh Edition, remove Skene’s opinion that Scottish Catholics formerly rested from work on Saturday, something for which there is no historical evidence. Skene’s Celtic Scotland, vol. ii, chap. 8, pp. 348–350, quotes from a contemporary document regarding Margaret’s life but his source says nothing at all of Saturday Sabbath observance but rather says St Margaret exhorted the Scots to cease their tendency “to neglect the due observance of the Lord’s day.”

She attended to charitable works, serving orphans and the poor every day before she ate and washing the feet of the poor in imitation of Christ. She rose at midnight every night to attend the liturgy. She successfully invited the Benedictine Order to establish a monastery in Dunfermline, Fife in 1072 and established ferries at Queensferry and North Berwick to assist pilgrims journeying from south of the Firth of Forth to St Andrew’s in Fife. She used a cave on the banks of the Tower Burn in Dunfermline as a place of devotion and prayer. St Margaret’s Cave, now covered beneath a municipal car park, is open to the public. Among other deeds, Margaret also instigated the restoration of Iona Abbey in Scotland. She is also known to have interceded for the release of fellow English exiles who had been forced into serfdom by the Norman conquest of England.

Margaret was as pious privately, as she was publicly. She spent much of her time in prayer, devotional reading and ecclesiastical embroidery. This apparently had considerable effect on the more uncouth Malcolm, who was illiterate – he so admired her piety that he had her books decorated in gold and silver. One of these, a pocket gospel book with portraits of the Evangelists, is in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England.[8]

Malcolm was apparently largely ignorant of the long-term effects of Margaret’s endeavours. He was content for her to pursue her reforms as she desired, which was a testament to the strength of and affection in their marriage.

St Margaret did not neglect her duties in the world because she was not of it. Never was a better mother. She spared no pains in the education of her eight children, 6 sons and 2 daughters and their sanctity was the fruit of her prudence and her zeal. Never was a better queen. She was the most trusted counsellor of her husband and she laboured for the material improvement of the country.

Her husband Malcolm III, and their eldest son Edward, were killed in the Battle of Alnwick against the English on 13 November 1093. Her son Edgar was left with the task of informing his mother of their deaths. Not yet 50 years old, Margaret died on 16 November 1093, three days after the deaths of her husband and eldest son. The cause of death was reportedly grief. After receiving Holy Viaticum, she was repeating the prayer from the Missal, “O Lord Jesus Christ, who by thy death didst give life to the world, deliver me.” At the words “deliver me,” says her biographer, she took her departure to Christ, the Author of true liberty.

She was buried before the high altar in Dunfermline Abbey in Fife, Scotland. In 1250, the year of her Canonisation, by Pope Innocent IV, her body and that of her husband were exhumed and placed in a new shrine in the Abbey. Her relics were dispersed after the Scottish Reformation and subsequently lost. Mary, Queen of Scots, at one time owned her head, which was subsequently preserved by Jesuits in the Scottish College, Douai, France, from where it was lost during the French Revolution.

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We will usually be calling on the services of a mechanic at one time or the other if we are using our car chances. Car repairs are getting more and more expensive with the passage of time. The best way to reduce the charges is by going ahead with Canterbury car restoration services who shares some tips that we can make use of to save some amount of money in terms of car repairs.

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New Brighton Centre Masterplan

Link - https://ccc.govt.nz/assets/Documents/The-Council/Plans-Strategies-Policies-Bylaws/Plans/suburban-plans/NewBrightonCentresMasterPlan.pdf

Workshops and group meetings were held with local iwi, land and business owners, community groups and residents.

During these sessions, positive aspects agreed that the centre should be built upon:

The beach and pier.

Good quality cafés.

Good services in the form of a post shop and banks.

The natural environment, sea, sand dunes and river.

The contemporary and ancestral links between Iwi and the area.

Street furniture – the ‘surf board seating’.

A strong passionate and enthused local community, and good programme of events.

Issues these sessions identified:

The size, function and viability of the commercial centre.

Appropriate recognition of the cultural values and associations of Iwi with the area.

A lack of identity or ‘point of difference’.

Long, monotonous blocks of building.

The need for stakeholder collaboration.

The poor relationship and connections between buildings and public spaces / car parking areas.

A lack of an integrated transport interchange.

Weak connectivity between the centre and the river, sea and parks.

Concerns regarding safety and vandalism.

‘Big picture’ themes:

1. Consolidation of the commercial area for a more vibrant centre.

2. Precinct development with mixed uses to improve user experiences.

3. Reinforced connections through the centre between the river and the sea.

4. Enhanced circulation and flow of pedestrian and cyclists to and through the centre.

- key drivers that underlie the majority of Master Plan actions. They have the potential to transform the centre’s public and private spaces, and people’s experiences of New Brighton as a centre and destination.

An artists impression - NB as a “fun, creative and relaxed and attracting visitors and tourists whilst meeting the day to day needs of the local community.”

An overall concept plan.

Streets, parks and open spaces

A1 Foreshore connections

A2 Marine Parade upgrade

A3 New north–south corridor

A4 New open space and public toilets• A5 Brighton Mall upgrade

A6 General streetscape enhancements

Land, buildings and private development

B1 New residential development • B2 Supermarket relocation

B3 New pedestrian links

B4 Bus interchange

B5 Car parking improvements

The masterplan responds with various physical and non-physical actions that respond to:

Loss of business premises.

Loss of residential catchment.

The size and viability of the centre.

Lack of functionality and linkages between spaces within the centre.

Opportunities for connections between the centre’s biggest assets (the sea, river and parks).

Opportunities for recognition of the role of manawhenua as kaitiaki (guardians) of the takiwa (territory) and the historic and contemporary values and associations important to them.

The need for effective communication and joint decision making between business owners, stakeholders and residents.

The need for a strong and positive identity for the centre, to improve people’s perceptions of ‘the eastern suburbs’.

The masterplan follows the Integrated Recovery Planning Guide which was prepared by the Canterbury District Health Board and the Council post-earthquakes.

It’s key themes are:

... which are themes that address different components into what makes a great commercial centre and broadly aligned with the Earthquake Recovery Strategy prepared by the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA).

Mahaanui Iwi Management Plan (2013)

...for the recognition, protection and enhancement of Ngāi Tahu values and relationships with natural resources.

In accordance with that Management Plan, this Master Plan seeks to:

Provide for the particular interest of Ngāi Tahu Papatipu Rūnanga in urban and township planning.

Acknowledge tāngata whenua values in vision, goals and individual implementation actions.

Recognise that the Te Tiriti o Waitangi is the basis for the relationship between Ngāi Tahu and local Government.

Whakaoratia Ōtautahi: Ngāi Tahu Aspirations for Christchurch Recovery and Rebuild

Whakaoratia Ōtautahi describes Ngāi Tahu’s aspirations for Christchurch Recovery and Rebuild, and contains guiding principles and objectives expressed in Whakaoratia Ōtautahi. In accordance with that document, this Master Plan seeks to acknowledge the status of manawhenua and promote the protection, restoration, and interpretation of cultural values and sites within the New Brighton Centre and its surrounds.

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Prayer as Adoration - Charlie Boyle 7th May 2017

The disciples said to Jesus, teach us how to pray and of course he then showed them how to pray. He taught them the Lord’s Prayer, which most of us know well, even if we might get confused about the different versions! Most of us pray don’t we? Even if it is just out of desperation sometimes. Most of us from time to time will pray. Most of us could pray a bit more…and I include myself!

So this the beginning of our series about prayer. There are many different types of prayer, prayers of confession…Oh Lord I have messed up again…I am quite familiar with that one. Or lamentation, as many of the Psalms are lamentations…Oh God why has it all gone so wrong, why are you persecuting me? Or Psalms of praise, we can also pray in tongues etc. What is the best prayer? There are different types of prayers for different occasions. There are so many resources to help you out there in your prayer life.

There are public types of prayers, which we are led by those from the front, to lead us in our thoughts and prayers. Talking of public prayers some of you may recall in May 1940 when Germany invaded Holland, Belgium and France followed by Norway, they completely overwhelmed the opposing armies by their far superior forces. These countries quickly capitulated and the British army was driven back to the French coast, in particular to Dunkirk. On Sunday 26th May King George VI requested a ‘Day of Prayer’, God heard this prayer and several remarkable events followed. The German Air Force was grounded on the 28th May due to a violent storm and this enabled the British troops to reach the coast under cover of darkness and rain. Despite this storm, in the following days the North Sea was as calm as a millpond, this enabled even small fishing boats and pleasure craft to cross the sea and bring home 335,000 troops. I don’t know whether you find it easy to pray or difficult but over the next few weeks we are going to look at prayer with adoration prayers today, Pauline is preaching next week on prayer as petition then, prayer as intercession, persevering prayers, listening prayers and finally spiritual warfare.At Christmas we sing the song…Oh Come let us adore Him, which is why we had it sung earlier at the 9.30am service.

What does adore mean?

Turn to your neighbour…?

Deepest love and respect….

Our worship to God usually starts with adoration, as we enter into His presence. It involves us giving our full attention to God, to Jesus.

Now I don’t know about you but I am so easily distracted. My Myers Briggs Type Indicator profile (elaborate) is ENFP so the prayer that goes with it is …Lord help me to focus…oh look at that interesting bird. It happens doesn’t it in Church …perhaps during the sermon even! Oh what am I having for lunch…what a nice day it is out there, we can be so distracted…can’t we. So we can lose focus on God so easily…eg have I put the lunch on…what am I having for lunch? …is there anything in the fridge for lunch?

I don’t know whether you heard one of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s who was asked about prayer by someone and they asked how long do you spend each day in prayer, he replied about 30 seconds [pause] but I take 29 minutes to get there. It takes us time to get into His presence. To get our own prayers and petitions out of the way to get to the place of dwelling in His presence.

Now I think if we are honest, most of us, well I don’t know about you I don’t personally spend a lot of my prayer time in adoration but actually I should and that is often the most intimate place, which can be very restorative in our relationship with God. To be in his presence, to dwell with God, to adore Him.

So how does this particular reading from John chapter 12 relate to adoration? Well although it might not be specifically about prayer, it certainly is in the anointing of Jesus an act of adoration, anticipating his death and eventual burial.

The anointing is a profligate gesture.

This was a serious amount of money she had spent.

This was an act of kindness and generosity in abundance.

People would talk about this. The expensive perfume, was a nard imported from India.

It was equivalent to … a year’s wages, the average in Poole is £24K.

The House was filled with the fragrance of the perfume v. 3

The anointing would not have gone unnoticed by anybody in the room, it was the equivalent to letting off the stink bomb! Although of course much more pleasantly fragrant but the reason she did it was because of her utter love, that abandoning, adoring love that didn’t care how much she spent on anointing him.

It is an act of anointing but also an act of

Adoration

When you adore someone you can go a bit crazy can’t you. I don’t know if you’ve ever spent so much money that in the cold light of day on a present for a friend, family member or loved one, that the next day think why did I do that? Because you adore them…love makes us do things we would not normally do so.

Now some of you might be well past the heady days of 1st love but others might still be in the early stages of romance, in which case you may understand what I mean.

This intimate act of adoration was carried out in a most public way. She shows intimacy & love…her unabashed love for him in a most intimate adoring way.

The letting down of her hair in this context and setting was most unusual, remember that by now both Jesus and Lazarus would have almost star like status. This would have been noticed by a lot of people. And of course Jesus would have been lying down, reclining at the table, so everyone would have seen this act of love. This is an act born out of adoration, of unabashed love.

What kind of prayers might we say to God as an act of adoration? How might we pray…? More often than not it takes me a while to get into that place of adoration, to be in His presence. Sometimes I need stillness, to get away, from distractions, sometimes music might help. So if we adore God we want to pray and be in his presence. We also want to anticipate the future pleasure. In Mary’s act of adoration it anticipates.

Anticipating

It anticipates Jesus’ death and eventual burial

Did she know what she was doing? I am sure she did…

It is ironic that Mary anoints Jesus for his burial, alongside Lazarus whom Jesus has just taken from a burial site, she prepares him for his death, for the act of anointing his feet is prophetic and symbolic, as this is where preparation for burial (in terms of the body) would have started. We all need to be prepared for our own death’s and perhaps our death bed prayers will be the most important but we can pray now and be in relationship with our Lord and maker.

Now this act of adoration, anticipates his death. As we pray, we anticipate God moving in our lives, in the world around us, like we did recently this week at the Alpha helpers meeting on Thursday night. Not praying is the equivalent of not filling up the car with petrol/diesel, we are not going to get anywhere without prayer. Or like receiving a toy car that has no batteries in it. Prayer is essential. I will never forget the Vicar saying to a prospective new associate priest, around the Church he was about to join the staff, would you like to see the boiler room? He said no…I am not a mechanic! The Vicar of course meant the prayer meeting going on…the engine of the Church.

Prayer is the engine room of the Church, without prayer we are nothing.

A few of us from this Church went to the HTB leadership conference, it was a great event but there was also a lot of prayer involved, one of the events I always go to as part of my time there is the early morning prayer meeting on a Tuesday, it set me up for the day.

The ABC Justin, along with the Pope, is inviting Christians, as part of an event called Thy Kingdom Come around the world to pray as one for people to know Jesus Christ. We have 3 prayer breakfast being organised for that week by Suzie (details to follow).

So let us take up a greater passion to pray, to transform our world, our community and our own person prayer lives, as well as those around us. Amen.

The sermon written is never the same as the sermon delivered…join us to hear it live each Sunday!

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Finding the best car restoration service in Tempe? Visit Camperdown Collision Centre, They offer a broad range of car restoration services at affordable rates.

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Timeless travel

Let yourself be spirited to some of Britain’s most beautiful destinations aboard a vintage train

Modern trains might be convenient, but where’s their charm? They neither send out billows of smoke, nor whistle as they pull into stations. Meanwhile, Agatha Christie – or her characters – wouldn’t be seen dead on the carriages, as clean and functional as they might be. Where’s the crystal in the buffet car? Where is the buffet car?

Fortunately, several hundred steam locomotives and, even better, their carriages, still run in Britain – and on historic routes, too. Many are from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Most came out of regular service in the Sixties, and are now run by volunteers. Here, we visit some of the best of Britain’s heritage railway lines.

Belmond British Pullman

Looking for marquetry decorated with leaping antelope, deep-pile carpet or cut-glass tumblers? You’ve come to the right place. The 11 carriages of Belmond British Pullman – sister train to the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express – were once part of the Brighton Belle and the Golden Arrow, celebrity trains of their time, and display Twenties and Thirties glamour. They even have names, including “Audrey”, which has carried HM The Queen, and appeared in the Agatha Christie adaptation Murder on the Orient Express.

Destinations include Bath, York, Canterbury, Blenheim Palace and a new route to Stratford- upon-Avon. Pop-up dinners are hosted by Michelin star chefs such as Michel Roux, Jr and Raymond Blanc, while murder mystery lunches give you the chance to recreate those Agatha Christie moments.

West Somerset Railway

At 22.75 miles (36.61km), The West Somerset Railway is the longest heritage railway in England. And it has vintage appeal, too: parts of the line opened in 1862. Window seats offer views of the Quantock Hills, the sea and myriad villages. Explore the countryside from Williton Station, near the Coleridge Way – a 36-mile trail through landscape that inspired the 19th-century Romantic poet. Or from Crowcombe Heath eld, where you can take a one-and-a-half-mile circular walk, crossing a couple of railway bridges (look out for the aming leaves of the beech trees in autumn). Bring a bike to recreate Beatle Ringo Starr’s appearance in A Hard Day’s Night, where he cycles down Crowcombe platform. Or a bucket and spade, if you prefer the seasidey lure of Minehead, at the end of the line.

North Yorkshire Moors Railway

You don’t get more historic than this route, if only because it was planned, in 1831, by George Stephenson, the Father of Railways. Today, the 18-mile (29km) heritage line, from Pickering to Grosmont, carries more passengers than any other in Britain. The heathery moors, marked by the quaintest of stations, are the draw. Both Pickering and Goathland stations, built in Victorian times, have been restored to their Twenties and Thirties glory. (The former appeared in Brideshead Revisited.) The War-Time Weekend in October will maximise the historical charm: expect actors in period dress to roam the area. Christmas will be even more spirited, with elves and mince pies. Even Santa thinks this railway is worth a visit, from Lapland, at his busiest time of year.

Bluebell Railway

Horsted Keynes Railway Station on the Bluebell Railway line. Credit: Alamy

The Bluebell Railway – the name of the line rather than a train – started in the Sixties, but its locomotives and carriages are considerably older. Most of the latter are pre-Second World War, and take it in turns to chug along the 11-mile (17.7km) route, largely across West Sussex. Trips are relaxed, starting or ending at Sheffield Park station, its Victorian charm restored. For afternoon tea on a Saturday, take the “Wealden Rambler” – the Victoria sponge could have been homemade. For a heartier meal, join the “Real Ale” train, offering a sausage-and-mash supper at a pub. Prefer to make your own trip? Buy an All Day Rover ticket. Look out for Horsted Keynes, on the way. The Victorian-era station has been restored to its 1920s days and appeared in Downton Abbey.

The Isle of Man Steam Railway

Train in the Laxey Valley. Credit: Alamy/Andrew Scarffe

This railway is the longest narrow gauge steam line in the UK that still uses its original locomotives and carriages. Want figures? It’s 3ft (914mm) wide and 15.3 miles (24.6km) long. Founded in 1870, it is, in fact, the remainder of a much longer network of more than 46 miles (74km). Today, trains chug away between Douglas, the capital of the British crown dependency between England and Ireland, and the best of the island’s sites in the south, including Port Erin, a Victorian seaside resort. The train is the most atmospheric way to reach the remains of Rushen Abbey, an ancient monastery, and Castle Rushen, a medieval castle. The highlight of the train itself is the restored dining car, built in 1905, with its maroon velvet chairs, plush carpet and starchy white table clothes.

The Jacobite

The Glenfinnan Viaduct

The Jacobite gets its name from the 17th-century political movement which fought for James VII of Scotland (James II of England) to be restored to the English and Scottish thrones after the Glorious Rebellion. The Jacobite hasn’t been going for that long, although parts of the line do date back to 1901. The 41-mile route (66km), up steep gradients and tight turns through the Scottish Highlands, includes lots of highests and deepests and shortests – from Fort William (near Britain’s highest mountain, Ben Nevis) to Loch Morar (Britain’s deepest freshwater loch) to Arisaig (Britain’s most most westerly mainland railway station, where, on a clear day, you can see some of the Scottish islands). Could the line also be one of the most famous – at least by sight? It’s the one in the Harry Potter films. The Hogwarts Express sits at the Warner Brothers’ Studio Tour in London, but you still get to experience part of Harry’s journey over the 21-arched Glenfinnan Viaduct. And you won’t have to fight a dragon at the other side.

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