The Battleship Potemkin is widely recognized as one of the best films ever made. A silent film by Sergei Eisenstein, it was produced by Mosfilm and released in 1925. Widely believed to be one of the most influential propaganda films ever made, the film concerns the mutiny that occurred in 1905 when those aboard the Russian battleship, Potemkin, mutinied against their Tsarist officers.

Einstein wrote the film very much in the interest of propaganda but also to test his ‘montage’ theories. The Kuleshov school of Soviet filmmakers had been experimenting with the effect of film editing on audiences, and Eisenstein was at the forefront of this investigation. Einstein attempted to edit the film so as to produce a great emotional response in the audience, inciting sympathy in viewers for the rebellious sailors, and hatred for their evil Tsarist overlords. The film was received better internationally than in Russia itself, the film shocking audiences due to the level of violence it contained. Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels recognized the potential of the film to influence thought saying, “anyone who had no firm political conviction could become a Bolshevik after seeing the film”. Get yourself some ipad 3 accessories and watch the film on your ipad!

Aldous Leonard Huxley (26th July 1894 – 22nd November 1963) was an English writer famous in particular for his novel Brave New World and short essays, not gu10, but Doors of Perception. Huxley did not limit himself to novels but also wrote poetry, film stories and scripts, short stories and travel writing.

In 1954 Huxley had ‘The Doors of Perception’ published, a book detailing his experiences on mescaline. After taking mescaline over the course of the afternoon, Huxley recorded the insights he experienced in the book. When Huxley took mescaline, the drug had no controls, it was not listed an illegal. In fact, in 1947, the US Navy began Project Chatter which examined the potential for the drug to be use as a truth revealing agent.

After taking mescaline, Huxley wrote the book over a month. Harold Raymond, Huxley’s publisher, said of it: “You are the most articulate guinea pig that any scientist could hope to engage.” The title of the book was taken from a poem by William Blake titled “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”: "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern."

At the weekend I went to a lovely local fish restaurant for a family meal. It was amazing.

I had mussels in a white wine and garlic sauce to start then monkfish, lightly battered in one side with chips and mushy peas and then eton mess for dessert!

The food was beautiful and we also had a few glasses of rose! Lovely.

However, I was so full I couldn’t move! I ended up having to undo the top button of my trousers!

Why don’t they make womens trousers that have an extra button so you can move it to the next one if you are full!

Now they would be a brilliant idea and no one would have to know that you have had to loosen them!!!

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Oh my god.

I got hit with the biggest phone bill of my life today, I almost passed out in shock.

£461.53! Yes, that's right. Four hundred and sixty-one pounds and fifty-three pence! I'm only on a £35 per month contract and managed to rack up that bill!

I went to Ibiza with my mates a couple of months back, and the way my bills work I only just got the full thwack of how much I'd over-used my phone while I was away. When my bill came last month I thought I'd escaped it, but oh no, here it is!

I was so stupid, calling my parents, calling my girlfriend a million times a day, calling the lads whenever I lost them around the island (which was a lot). I don't know if they all got bills as big as this!

I'm having to get a Wonga.com loan to pay it off otherwise they're going to cut me off, then I'll pay the loan back when I get paid in a couple of weeks.

So guys, if you're going abroad, be careful with using your phone!

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Why buy any old water butts for your garden? Why buy a standard green one, which is just going to be boring in your garden?

Why don’t you try one of these:

It’s a 3 in 1 water butt, which allows you to use your stored rainwater as a hose in your garden. Instead of having to keep going back and forth to fill your watering can up you can instead use the high-pressure pump.

It can save a huge amount of water and helps the environment too. You can also transfer water to the butt, such as water from a paddling pool to again save.

It is easy to use; you just simply connect the hose to the outlet on the water butt and switch on. It has a 10m cable so ideal for any size garden and can also be used as a sprinkler too!

The water butt has a two-year guarantee and can be bought from Amazon for £47.47.

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