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A wide variety of formulas for becoming successful in both one's personal and professional life are presented in this collection of speeches on success. These keynotes demonstrate the many ways people interpret success; becoming successful isn't always related to a large salary and a luxurious lifestyle. For some, becoming successful means finding purpose in one's career and achieving peace of mind and a fulfilling life both at home and at work. Psychologist and consultant Daniel Crosby offers seven hard truths about building a successful life in his keynote. Some might interpret Crosby's speech as pessimistic, but he argues that people must be realistic in life. He believes that a large proportion of society feels too entitled and special. He warns his audience of this mindset because it sets people up for disappointment too often. Taking the small victories, as they come, is the key to happiness and success according to Crosby. Innovation keynote speaker Jeremy Gutsche discusses how to become successful in business. He prescribes a strong cultural connection with consumers as the key to success in today's hectic market. Whether you're looking for inspiration and tips to succeed in life or at work, these speeches on success will have something for you. 55 Speeches on Success Traffic More Stats +/- - The Power of Enthusiasm - The Art of Focusing - The Golden Circle Theory - Inspiring Others to Succeed - The Role of Character in Success Get inspired by 3,000+ keynote speaker videos, courses and our founder, the top keynote speaker on innovation.

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[tag: science] Substrate specialists Kekkilä Group are using bark sand as a new raw material in their landscaping products. Bark sand is a side stream of UPM’s pulp and paper production processes. Kekkilä Group is the Nordic market leader in home gardening, substrate and landscaping products. Their products are developed and marketed for professional growers, landscapers and hobby gardeners. “One of our business areas specializes and sand wedged in the trees. Improving soil biodiversity The. “I am confident that we can use up all the bark sand coming from the Kymi mill as we produce hundreds of thousands of tonnes of landscaping substrate per year in Finland. Although it is a seasonal product, we fabricate it for storage as well,” adds Järvenpää. Exploiting side streams The collaboration between UPM and Kekkilä started at the suggestion of waste management partner Lassila & Tikanoja. Both benefit from the cooperation as UPM aims to recycle all the side streams of its production processes. Before the collaboration began, the bark sand was used as landfill. “We also recycled all the ash from the mill’s power plant last year. The sludge from the effluent treatment plant will be incinerated to produce energy and the lime waste will be provided to fertilizer manufacturers,” says environmental technician Teija Ahola from the Kymi mill. “But a suitable end-use for soda precipitate from pulp production is yet to be found,” she adds.

By Oscarline Onwuemenyi & Martina Okeke LAGOS — THE verbal exchange between former Governor of Delta state, Chief James Ibori and former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, is far from over, as Ibori yesterday, lashed out on Ribadu, calling him a serial liar. Ribadu, on his part, challenged Ibori to return his alleged loot to the state coffers and make peace with God. Chief Ibori, in a press release yesterday, said: “Ribadu engaged self-glorification in his press statement published on September 27, 2009, taking an ignoble flight of fancy instead of addressing the issues I raised in my media chat of the preceding Friday, which, by the way, did not focus solely on Ribadu. The indecorum and name-calling in his language was not surprising too, they have combined to become the Ribadu signature tune. I never bribed Ribadu “Yes, I maintain that I never, repeat never, bribed or attempted to bribe Ribadu, who, always loose with the facts, tried to hoodwink the public by alleging that I was speaking after two years of being investigated. Yet, the bribery allegation I reacted to publicly, was the one he made in a witness statement in London as recently as August 26th, 2009. I had to reply to that one publicly because, as Ribadu himself knows, that allegation will not be tested by any trial, as no charge whatsoever, whether related to that bribery allegation or not, has ever been leveled against me in any court of law in the entire United Kingdom. His allegation of two years ago, which I have not publicly reacted to, is being tested in court. “I expected Ribadu to disprove the contradictions I pointed out in his Nigerian and London statements as well as those of his Director of Operations and second-in-command at the EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, and Mr. James Garba, a Central Bank of Nigeria staff seconded to EFCC. Instead, he employed his usual rabble-rousing antics of name calling, which was the trademark of his reign as EFCC chairman. “On my position on resource control and the driving principle behind my determination to redress the injustice done to the people of the Niger Delta, Ribadu asked “if it is in keeping with his promise that he became a billionaire overnight on behalf of the suffering masses of Delta State.†Ribadu should know that before I became Governor, my collective wealth was substantial. Even the London Metropolitan Police admitted in their own witness statement filed in court that one of my private companies earned in excess of $5 million annually. I have been the most investigated Governor in Nigeria and the EFCC and London Metropolitan Police are in possession of my Account statements from the Bank of Austria, Merrill Lynch, Citibank (I was a CitiGold memberùa club of high net worth customers) and Barclays Bank before I became a Governor. Both the EFCC under Ribadu and the London Metropolitan Police have dubiously refused to exhibit these Account statements to maintain their lie. How Ribadu plotted to unseat Yar’Adua “Second, Nuhu Ribadu must be a serial liar, to attempt to deny that he approached me to help unseat the present President. This is one of his numerous on-going attempts to recruit both local and international friends to undermine President Yar’Adua’s administration. The persons he approached, including me, are still alive and they have given testimonies to security agencies. Ribadu even contacted a high-ranking member of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) with complaints that a “sick Yar’Adua†should not be allowed to remain in office, and also wanted a serving judge and member of the electoral panel to convince the team of INEC officials to concur with his evil plot that the ballot papers were not serially numbered — to damage Yar’Adua’s defence. And he did this with some of his foreign friends who, to date, still wish President Yar’Adua dead. “Thirdly, Ribadu said: “I am also open to his friendship but that will never be at the expense of my loyalty to my fatherland and commitment to transparency and honesty in public office.†Ribadu should shut up and stop boasting about having been Nigeria’s anti-corruption Czar. He compromised himself, politicising his office, and teamed up with politicians to influence National Assembly members in the failed third-term tenure elongation gambit. He was a politician, not anti-corruption fighter. “Ribadu “anti- corruption Czar†who operated with instruments of blackmail. “He should tell the world who paid for his hotel accommodation at 47 Park Street, Mayfair, London where he stayed on his way from San Francisco, USA. Additionally, Ribadu went about soliciting for support from those he claimed to be investigating, towards a non-existent EFCC Football Club He lobbied me to become IGP “Worst of all, Ribadu denies that he lobbied me to be Inspector-General of Police, (IGP). I never expected him to admit that fact. But if he did not approach me to be IGP, at what point did he inform me of his intention to seek appointment into a narcotics control arm of the United Nations? That day, he appealed to me to keep it away from the public, but surprisingly, former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, told me, a few days after, that Mr. Ribadu was indeed seeking for the office and he heard this from the former World Bank boss, Paul Wolfensohn. Of course, Ribadu also pursued Kalu everywhere in the name of investigation, while, all the time hiding evidence that Kalu had millions of dollars in foreign accounts before he became Abia State Governor. Furthermore, that Ribadu claims to have deposited $15 million at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is not, and cannot, be proof that I gave that or any sum of money to him. Also, what greater character could there be than he, an architect of a third-term tenure for a President whose constitutional entitlement is for two terms only, and who tried to induce, harass, embarrass and humiliate National Assembly members to support the project. “Now, Ribadu is using colonial police in London to settle petty political scores in Nigeria, and he, a lawyer, denigrates and disrespects our judicial system by constant allegation of judicial incompetence. My advice to Ribadu is that President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has been elected the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, by the Grace of Almighty God. Ribadu should respect the mandate Nigerians gave to Yar’Adua and stop hopping from one international capital of the world to another like a junketing gadabout, maligning the elected President of his country. “Ribadu also ranted he would use the London Metropolitan Police to send a certain Nigerian businessman to prison for alleged money laundering because he wrote and published a damaging piece about former President Olusegun Obasanjo. He actually tried to but only succeeded in wasting British taxpayer’s money as the businessman was discharged and acquitted on the orchestrated money laundering charges. My question is, was that businessman a public officer in Nigeria? Was it not his masters’ bidding to go after that man? May I also ask if Otunba Mike Adenuga, the eminently popular business mogul and chairman of Globacom, whom he targeted and hounded into exile, is also a public officer? “The same Ribadu, master-minded the ex-convict plot against me. One night after a meeting of the co-conspirators to frame and denigrate me at all costs, Ribadu called the businessman to “shoot his mouth†as usual. That same night, the benefactor phoned former Vice President Atiku Abubakar alerting him of Ribadu’s plot against me. “Sooner Nigerians would know how Ribadu purchased by proxy the shares that he owns in his friends’ companies. Ribadu would then have to tell the world whether he bought those shares with proceeds from his salary. No wonder he has failed to declare his assets — which is tantamount to a crime. Ribadu still my friend Finally, Ribadu, on our friendship, said: “Since I couldn’t see you when I visited Lagos recently why don’t you visit me in London to catch up with your other friendsâ€? I will accept his invitation to visit London as soon as he can prove to me that the matter in London is not driven by malice and vindictiveness. Let me remind Ribadu my friend, that by now I am too smart to be caught in a political game which himself and his collaborators in the London Metropolitan Police are playing. If he indeed believes that the trial of the women they have held hostage in London is not political, he should allow the process of the court to prove that, instead of pronouncing people guilty even before they appear in court as he usually did as EFCC chairman in Nigeria. He is not a staff of the London Metropolitan Police. He is not a member of the Crown Prosecution Service. Neither is he a member of the jury nor the Judge in the matter. “If you, Nuhu Ribadu, a Nigerian in London, think you have the right to invite me to London to face some trumped up charges, I, a Nigerian with all the rights as a Nigerian, invite you to Nigeria your home country, where you are a pitiable fugitive from justiceâ€. Ibori should return loot to Delta – Ribadu Ribadu, however challenged Chief Ibori, to return his alleged loot to the state and make peace with God. Ribadu said Ibori was desperate and would do anything to escape justice. According to him, “instead of wasting the money of Delta State people that he stole to pay lawyers all over the world, isn’t it better as a ‘Christian’ that he claims to be to return his loot to the people of Delta State and have peace with his God? If he fails to do so, at the appropriate time, no matter how much the Iboris of this world run from the law, they would one day be made to atone for their sundry crimes. If they are able to bribe their way through in Nigeria and get men and women of questionable character appointed into office to shield themselves from prosecution, they cannot do the same in the United Kingdom and before God. But even in Nigeria, the protection that they enjoy today is temporary. Ibori desperate to escape justice “Ibori, just like the others we tried to bring to justice, is desperate and would do anything to escape justice as he has always done. Nothing emphasizes Ibori’s capacity for falsehood and felony than his claim, at the press conference, that I “framed†him for attempting to bribe me with $15 million dollars. As he told the lie, and as I write this, the $15 million remain as an exhibit deposited with the Central Bank of Nigeria. “It has now become fashionable for all sorts of morally-bankrupt people to try to use me to do one thing or the other. I had it on record, while in office as the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) that James Ibori was a double convict. First, as a police officer and also as an anti-corruption campaigner who was committed to doing his part to rid Nigeria of rogues, how could I have been seeking the assistance of a convicted felon for the highest police position in the country? If I wanted to be IG, he would be the last person I will consider to help me. IGP? Ibori lied “Any close observer of the events in Nigeria in the last decade would agree that what we were able to achieve as founders and operators of the EFCC was of a more fundamental nature, in the context of our urgent national crisis, than becoming IGP. It was a waste of time attempting to dignify Mr. Ibori, former governor of Delta State, with a response to the tissue of lies and cheap fabrications that he let loose,†but added that it was “important to set the records straight, particularly against one of those who perpetrated the worst heist against the treasury since Nigeria’s independence. That Ibori is finally finding his voice after two years since his prosecution both at home and abroad started is a testimony to his desperation as the cases, particularly the ones in the United Kingdom, move toward legal resolution. “As regards the allegation that Ibori made on the 2007 presidential election petition, let me state clearly that it is totally untrue. However, I am also aware that there is a whole industry of seeking favour from President Umaru Yar’Adua based on the legal tussle over the 2007 presidential election. Already, many fortune and favour-seekers have imagined many plots and many plotters in their attempt to deceive the man in power that I tried to scuttle the Appeal Court case on the election. Many got offices, positions, and others and even got me out of the EFCC telling this lie to Aso Rock Villa. “They continue to use it. If Ibori claims that I sought his support to truncate Yar’Adua’s contested victory at the Appeal Court, is he claiming to have the power to influence the judges and pervert the course of justice?†He asked.

Another day of sunshine warmed the tenth World Athletics Championships in Finland. VOA's Jim Stevenson reports that made conditions excellent for the men's marathon. Jaouad Gharib of Morocco broke from the pack Saturday at the 30-kilometer mark of the 42-kilometer race. The 2003 winner at the last world championships cruised into Olympic Stadium and crossed the line in two hours, 10 minutes, 11 seconds. "I am very happy to become only the second athlete in the world to get the title for the second time (in a row)," Mr. Gharib said. "And I prepared very well. I got a little bit hurt in the stomach during the race. But I continued doing it (run). And I am very, very happy to get the world championship for the second time here in Helsinki after Paris." Tirunesh Dibaba is the first athlete, man or woman, to win both the five-thousand and 10,000-meter titles at the world championships. The 19-year-old Ethiopian covered the shorter distance in 14 minutes, 39.59 seconds. Meseret Defar took silver (14:39.54) while Tirunesh's sister, Ejegayehu, won the bronze (14:42.47). Ethiopia claimed the top four spots, and Tirunesh Dibaba says that was the plan. "The race was a little bit fast. We had been hoping to take first through fourth places. So that is what I had been thinking," Tirunesh Dibaba said. American Dwight Phillips was the men's long jump champion. He became the fourth winner in world championship history to post the best distance in the first round, soaring 8.60 meters. "After that jump, I just never felt pressured. And it was kind of difficult for me to jump far after that," he said. Tommy Evilä of Finland excited the local crowd with a thrilling bronze medal performance (8.25). Ghanaian Ignisious Gaisah was the silver medalist (8.34). The women's shot put title went to Bulgarian Nadezhda Ostapchuk with a 20.51 meter effort. In relay events, France handed off the baton the fastest in the men's four-by-100 meter event in 38.08 seconds, followed by Trinidad and Tobago (38.10) and Great Britain (38.27). The U.S team, a gold medal favorite, was absent after a dropped baton in the qualifying heats. But the American women were champions, taking gold in their version of the event with a time of 41.78 seconds. Jamaica (41.99) and Belarus (42.56) followed. With one day remaining, the United States has a commanding lead in the overall standings with 13 gold, eight silver and three bronze. Russia is second with five of each medal. Ethiopia has three gold, three silver and two bronze.

[tag: science, how-to] Sales of Global Positioning Systems, navigational devices that use radio signals from satellites to determine locations, are on the rise in the United States. GPS navigation equipment owes its newfound popularity to both conventional and unconventional users. Auto manufacturers are putting them in upscale car models and predict the navigation tools will soon be as common in automobiles as radios are today. Pilots and boaters are using them, and so are a growing number of treasure hunters. That's because the navigation devices have given rise to a new sport called "Geocaching", where people hide treasures or "caches" and then post the treasure's GPS coordinates at a the web site "Geocaching.com." "You go to the web site and it will tell you the caches that are in the [your] area," said Jeremy Irish, who set up the web site. "And then you just click on each cache page and there's a longitudinal and latitude listing that gives you the location of the cache. And you just enter that in your GPS unit and get in your car or go on foot or by bike and get to the cache." Amazingly, more than 30,000 people in 59 countries around the world are doing just that. The treasures, things like toys or CDs or trinkets, are provided by those who plant the caches. Ardent geocacher Jon Stanley has both planted treasures and searched for some. "Working in a tech field, I was attracted by the electronics, and I've always been fascinated by the outdoors and maps," he said. "It's that primal urge to go out into the unknown and try to find a point that's showing up on your GPS." Jon Stanley gives into that "primal" urge as many weekends as he can. "For me the the peak of excitement is actually, physically seeing it," he said. "I don't care too much what is in the cache. For me, it's the hunt." Like Jon Stanley and other geocaching enthusiasts, web site creator Jeremy Irish earns his living in a field unrelated to geocashing. "Some of the people who sell Global Positioning Systems from the web site help to pay for some of the equipment I use to run the web site, but otherwise, it's just a hobby for me right now," he said. "I don't want to jeopardize the sport itself by over-commercializing it." Created by a U.S. military program, the Global Positioning System seems to have given rise unexpectedly to a new sport.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, is calling for an international investigation into conditions of detention in Iraq. She says the recent discovery in an Interior Ministry building of detainees who appear to have been tortured point to widespread problems with the system of detention in the country. The U.N.'s top Human Rights Official, Louise Arbour, says there's evidence that prisoner abuse in Iraq is widespread and systemic. She says the large number of detainees in the country is very worrisome. She says a report by her office and the U.N. Assistance Mission in Iraq shows the number of people detained continues to increase due to mass arrests carried out during security and military operations. U.N. human rights spokesman, Jose Diaz, says the high commissioner is concerned that many people interned for lengthy periods for security reasons have no legal recourse. "We have detainees who are still being held even after there have been judicial orders for their release," he said. "I think one of the biggest problems is that there is no adequate judicial oversight. So, all of these problems are going to have to be looked at comprehensively. I think a system-wide investigation with an international element will go a long way toward assuaging a lot of concern and having some public confidence in the results of such an inquiry." Mr. Diaz says it is difficult to know how many people are detained in prisons under Iraqi control because many are being held in undisclosed locations. Iraq's interior minister said Thursday abuse reports had been exaggerated, saying only seven detainees showed signs of abuse. He said those responsible will be held accountable. Nearly 170 Iraqis discovered by American soldiers on Sunday were found in a secret police prison in central Baghdad. They reported the men were malnourished and had signs of having been tortured. Mr. Diaz says the allegations are deeply disturbing and must be thoroughly investigated. "I think there is a recognition by all that a purely national inquiry would not have the necessary public confidence to assuage these very serious concerns," he said. "It is very important not only that the investigation be objective and impartial, but that it is perceived by Iraqis from all quarters and from all persuasions that it is being objective and not favoring one side or another." Virtually all the prisoners discovered in the Interior Ministry complex were Sunni Arabs. Their jailers were Shi'ites. Mr. Diaz calls this ethnic divide a potentially explosive mix and says it is hard to know what would happen if a probe into the treatment of the prisoners was not perceived to be fair and just.

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British R&B artist Rag’n’Bone Man has added some tour dates for the UK and Ireland this November. Rag'n'Bone Man is currently working the festival circuit, doing shows all over Europe before heading to Australia to perform at a couple of sold out concerts. Following a stop in Japan, Rag'n'Bone Man is performing at several shows in North America with Ivy Sole in August, as well as Lollapalooza and Outside Lands Festival, before heading back to Europe for the last leg of the tour taking place from September to November. The recently added UK and Ireland dates range from November 15th in Dublin to November 28th in Brighton. When do Rag’n’Bone Man 2017 tour tickets go on sale and what is the presale code? For the newly added dates, the general public on-sale begins as early as July 7, 2017. The presale registration has ended. We recommend signing up for Rag’n’Bone Man's email newsletter for future offers. Keep in mind, each date can be different and details are subject to change. Click the links below for the show you’re interested in. [tourdates] Rag'n'Bone Man has become an international sensation, following the release of his first full-length studio album Human, which came out this past February on Columbia Records. The LP debuted at number 1 on the UK Album chart and was the fastest selling debut album so far this decade by a male musician in the UK. The album's second single, "Human," reached number 1 on the singles charts in 11 different countries. In a February interview with BBC, the musician explained that his unusual name was influenced by the British sitcom Steptoe and Son, which is about a rag-and-bone business run by a father-son duo. He also acknowledged that a significant reason behind his name choice is that it sounds like a "blues name." For more, check out the Rag’n’Bone Man's Zumic artist page.

It's basically a take on a traditional sponge topped pudding - the kind of thing I used to get as a child for pudding on a Sunday. It makes me a little sad that life has changed and we don't have a traditional family dinner around the table at Sunday lunchtime. That said, I don't really like roast dinners enough to eat them every week and it's a lot of effort to do for just two - especially with all the washing up. We probably have about two roasts a year in this house - one of them being Christmas dinner. So as a little family bonding exercise, I decided to allow this treat. Because it's a kids recipe it makes four small portions and with the high sugar content I don't think even an adult could eat that much (well there are times when I probably could eat the whole thing myself!). To balance all the naughtiness out, I served it with low fat Greek yogurt (good source of calcium for my milk-hating child) and fresh strawberries - one of the five a day and the slight acidity worked well against the sickly sweet pudding. Had my sous chef not eaten one of the bananas during prep, I'd've also served some fresh chopped banana with it. But I could hardly complain, could I? The base of the pudding is toffee sauce. My latest and greatest food find is Bonne Maman Confiture de Caramel. Basically Dulche de Leche or Toffee Sauce but in a screw top jar rather than all those annoying tins of caramel that the shops seem so keen to peddle. They're fine if you need the whole lot for a recipe, but if you only need a spoon or two, as in this case, you have that old half-opened-tin-of-something-stuffed-in-the-back-of-the-fridge-and-then-it-eventually-gets-knocked-over dilemma. Or is that just me because I'm a bit of a slummy mummy? Anyway, caramel in a glass jar is a winner. I just have to resist taking the jar and spoon to a secret corner when I'm having a bad day. My sous-chef's new skill of the day is banana chopping. I love watching her develop her fine motor skills. To start with, the poor bananas were just bludgeoned to a pulp but a bit of input from mummy and we ended up with arty chunks. In they went on top of the toffee. The sponge is a simple, even mix of flour to butter to sugar to egg (70g of each). I adapted the recipe slightly to fill my pie dish so used 100g of each, an egg and 30ml of milk to slacken the batter off. Then it's just into the oven at 180c for 35 minutes (in my case as I used a deep dish). And out came a light, fluffy sponge with a banana flavoured toffee base. Perfect. This is a lovely little recipe to make with little ones as a special treat. There are loads of different skills involved and the result is a definite crowd pleaser. Well for most of the crowd. Someone actually only managed three toddler spoonfuls of pudding because she actually preferred the strawberries. Big respect to my child and her good food choices :o) One small point of note. If cooking several things at the same time, make sure the pudding is on the lower shelf with a tray underneath as the toffee in mine tried to make an escape. Miss A had toffee flavoured Pussy Pieces (home made fish fingers) for her tea... Recipe - adapted from CBeebies I Can Cook Serves 4 - 100g butter, softened - 100g caster sugar - 100g flour - 1 egg, beaten - 1 tsp mixed spice - 30ml milk - 2 bananas - 3 tbsp toffee sauce - Preheat the oven to 180c/160c fan/Gas 4. - Oil the sides and base of an oven proof dish. Place on a baking tray and add the toffee. Lay the banana slices on top. - Cream the butter and sugar together. Add the beaten egg and mix well. Mix in the flour, mixed spice and the milk until well combined. Scoop the sponge mixture into the dish on top of the bananas and smooth out with a spatula. - Place the dish in the oven for 25-35 minutes (depending on the depth of your dish) until the sponge is well risen and springs back when touched. I turned the heat up for the last five minutes of cooking to get a nice crispy top on mine. - Serve with fresh fruit and yogurt.

Indian team of Deepika Kumari, L Bombayla Devi, Laxmirani Majhi shock Germany at Archery World Cup Earlier on Wednesday, Deepika Kumari had made a shock quarterfinal exit from the Archery World Cup. remained in medal hunt in the men’s team and mixed pair in the recurve section but it was a forgettable outing for the compound archers who will return empty-handed after failing to progress to any medal round. The trio of Deepika Kumari, Laishram Bombayla Devi and Laxmirani Majhi bounced back from their disappointing run in the individual events on Thursday to down their German opponents. Seventh seed Chinese Taipei thrashed higher-ranked Russia 6-0 in the other semifinal. All the recurve medals events will be held Sunday, while on Saturday will be the compound finals. The Indian trio shot three 9s, followed by three Xs (closest to the centre) to take a 2-0 lead in the first set. The German team of Lisa Unruh, Elena Richter and Karina Winter recovered in the second to total 57 points but the Indians matched them to take a 3-1 lead. There was a minor blip by the Indians in the third set where they shot two 8s as Germans levelled 3-3 but Deepika, Laxmirani and Bombayla were back in their elements in the decider to edge their opponents by a solitary point to wrap the issue 5-3. The fourth seeds began their campaign with a 6-0 blanking of the US, seeded 13th, while in the quarters they overcame a stiff challenge from their Chinese opponents 5-4 in a match that was decided in the shoot-off. Locked 4-4 after four sets, India shot 29 (9-10-X) compared to China’s 28 (10-9-9) in the shoot-off. The recurve men’s team of Atanu Das, Jayanta Talukdar and Mangal Singh Champia who qualified as third seed were pipped by second-seed Netherlands 5-4 in the shoot off (28-30) in the semi-finals. India had beaten France 5-3 in the first round, while in the quarters they downed 11th seed Germany 6-2. The Indian men’s team will face ninth seed Britain in the bronze play-off. It was a disappointing outing for men’s compound team who made a first round exit losing to lower-ranked Iran 226-233. Sixth seeded women’s compound team were a shade better to go past the first round hurdle, downing Malaysia 224-223 with a solitary point, but only to suffer a 220-229 defeat against third ranked Germany.

Despite his tremendous output of instrumental and keyboard music, it is as a composer of sacred choral music that many believe the true legacy of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750) is to be found. That Bach was a highly devout and deeply spiritual composer, totally committed to the dogma and doctrine of the Lutheran church, which he served faithfully throughout his life as both musician and employee, is revealed in the skill and care which he takes when setting Christian texts. During the periods of his life spent as court organist and Konzertmeister at Weimar and as Kantor and Kappelmeister at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, a significant part of Bach’s duty was to produce sacred cantatas to enhance worship throughout the changing seasons of the Christian year. During these periods he wrote literally hundreds of these, of which about three fifths survive. Add to this the two almighty settings of the passion story from the gospels of John and Matthew, lost and incomplete settings of the same from the gospels of Mark and Luke respectively, the three immense oratorios written for Christmas, Easter and Ascensiontide, the numerous motets, chorale settings, chorale preludes, mass movements, sacred arias, and the epic Mass in B Minor, it is, perhaps, surprising that Bach made only one setting of the Magnificat – particularly since the Magnificat was a central part of the Lutheran Vespers on Sundays and feast days. Like Praetorius’s Quinto Tono, Bach's Magnificat in D was written to celebrate Christmas, a year and a century later, in the year of 1723 – Bach’s first Christmas at Leipzig. The original version was written in E♭ major and, as was customary with public worship in Leipzig at the time, was interpolated with four other compositions (three popular Christmas carols and a Gloria in Excelsis Deo). It was performed in the Thomaskirche on Christmas Day 1723. Between 1728 and 1731, Bach revisited this Magnificat, transposed it down a semitone to D major (a more usual key for Baroque trumpets), withdrew the interpolations, and made significant other detailed alterations. An autograph copy of this new edition, in Bach’s own hand, exists in the Prussian State Library in Berlin. This is the version which is being performed this evening. Scored for 2 flutes, 2 oboes (doubling oboe d’amore), 3 trumpets in D, strings, timpani, continuo, and SSATB with soloists, the work alternates between exciting and vibrant tutti choruses (mostly fugal), and tender, reflective movements for soloists and much reduced orchestral forces. Earlier Baroque examples of the Magnificat, notably those by Buxtehude and Schütz, had begun to treat the various verses of the text as separate movements, as opposed to the earlier and more through-composed examples by composers such as Palestrina, Gabrieli and Monteverdi. Bach’s certainly treats each verse of the text as a different movement, and each has its own distinct material, except that the second half of the final chorus returns us to the same material as the opening movement, so bringing the work to a unifying and satisfying close. Individually, both the choral and the solo movements are short by Bach’s standard, certainly when compared with some of the considerably more lengthy solo movements, da capo arias and extended fugal movements in the cantatas and oratorios. The text is set highly effectively but with a concise brevity. The work opens with a flamboyant and joyous chorus. The words are set to a musical motif which is reminiscent of laughter – the unconfined joy of a newly expectant mother perhaps? This is followed by two arias for soprano. The first, an upbeat one accompanied by strings, and the second, a more reflective and plaintive movement, accompanied by oboe d’amore. In this latter aria a minor key is used to give greater context to the meaning of the words. Bach draws our attention to the word humilitatem (the low estate), at each reoccurrence, by setting it to a motif which descends down a scale which includes the poignant interval of the falling augmented second. Through the second half of this movement, however, Bach sets the exclamation Ecce enim (for behold, from henceforth) to a much more optimistic rising phrase. This leads without a break into the vigorous fugal chorus Omnes Generationes. In two extended sequences in the middle of this movement, the fugal entries are skilfully arranged in a stepwise, ascending pattern, with each vocal part swiftly imitating the last, one degree of the scale higher and at an equal half-bar’s distance, providing a brilliant musical representation of the successive generations represented by the vocal parts rising gradually in pitch and superseding each other at a regular 2 beats’ distance, with the fugal subject. The bass aria which follows this, Quia fecit mihi magna, is built over a ground, or repeating, bass pattern, although Bach is not consistent in his treatment of this motif as the movement progresses. The duet for alto and tenor which follows, Et Misericordia, has an immediate similarity with the opening chorus of the St Matthew Passion (1727), being in compound quadruple time and in E minor, and the two accompanying flutes have inversions of the vocal parts through much of this movement. Fecit Potentiam, another, large fugal chorus, follows, and here the fugue subject is accompanied by a fanfare figure in the other vocal parts and instruments at each repetition. Just before the movement closes, with a majestic, adagio, tutti passage with coloratura trumpet, the word dispersit is literally ‘scattered’ though the vocal parts, one at a time, from soprano to bass. A bold and defiant tenor aria, Deposuit, follows this and again Bach draws our attention to the words by providing a falling motif for the words Deposuit potentes and, contrastingly, a rising melismatic one for the words et exultavit. Movement nine, Esurientes, is an alto aria, again accompanied by two flutes. The irony of the words et divites dimisit in anes (the rich He hath sent empty away) is played out in the final bar of the movement in which the two flutes are abandoned by Bach, midway through a perfect cadence, leaving the harmony incomplete and only a single note low down in the continuo to provide the resolution to the phrase. The highly contrapuntal Suscepit Israel is accompanied by the oboes, which play, in augmented note values, high above the three upper voices, the ancient plainsong melody of the Magnificat as used in the Lutheran church. (Incidentally, this melody was also used by Mozart in the Lux Aeterna section of his Requiem Mass.) Sicut locutus est is a fugue for voices and continuo only, in which the voices enter with the fugue subject in ascending pitch order, starting with the basses. The Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto, in which Bach gives a musical nod in the direction of the Holy Trinity by setting the voices of the chorus to a rhythm based on a repeated triplet rhythm, leads us into a recapitulation of the opening movement for the Sicut Erat (literally, “As it was in the beginning”). Notes by Peter Parfitt ©2010 Aberdeen Bach Choir

This article was published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 9, (MUP), 1983 Neville Howse, by Lafayette, 1920s National Library of Australia, nla.pic-an23449059 Sir Neville Reginald Howse (1863-1930), surgeon, soldier and politician, was born on 26 October 1863 at Stogursey, Somerset, England, son of Alfred Howse, surgeon, and his wife Lucy Elizabeth, née Conroy. He was educated at Fullard's House School, Taunton, and studied medicine at London Hospital (M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., 1886). Howse was a demonstrator in anatomy at the University of Durham when declining health caused him to migrate to New South Wales. Registered to practise on 11 December 1889 he set up at Newcastle but soon moved to Taree. In 1895 he visited England for postgraduate work in surgery, became F.R.C.S. in 1897, then bought a practice at Orange. On 17 January 1900 he was commissioned lieutenant in the New South Wales Medical Corps and sailed with the 2nd Contingent for South Africa. While with a mounted infantry brigade in the Orange Free State during the action of Vredefort on 24 July, Howse 'went out under a heavy crossfire and picked up a wounded man and carried him to a place of shelter'. For this action he was awarded the Victoria Cross on 4 June 1901. Howse had been promoted captain in October 1900. Later he was captured by the Boers but released as a non-combatant. After returning to Australia, he went back to South Africa as an honorary major in the Australian Army Medical Corps in February 1902, just as the war ended. Howse became widely known in Orange for his skill as a surgeon and was twice mayor. On 31 January 1905 he married Evelyn Gertrude Northcote Pilcher at Bathurst. He remained a major in the A.A.M.C. Reserve and in August 1914 was appointed principal medical officer to the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force to German New Guinea, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. On his own initiative drugs and medical equipment (including a unique dental arrangement) suitable for a tropical campaign were obtained and the troops were protected against typhoid and smallpox. The brief action in New Britain was completed without a single case of serious illness up to 15 October as a result of his thoroughness. The ambitious Howse returned alone just in time to join the Australian Imperial Force and sail with the first convoy as staff officer to Surgeon General (Sir) W. C. D. Williams, director of medical services. During the voyage he won the confidence of the commander of the A.I.F. Major General (Sir) W. T. Bridges and the friendship of Colonel (Sir) Brudenell White. In December Howse was appointed assistant director of medical services, 1st Australian Division, with the rank of colonel. He was gravely perturbed by the inadequacy and confusion of the Imperial forces' medical plan for the Gallipoli landing and obtained improvements in the arrangements for the evacuation of Australian wounded. When the perilous situation of the 1st Division at the landing made his plans impossible Howse took personal charge of the evacuation of the wounded men crowding the beach under increasing shell-fire, 'giving and disregarding orders in a manner quite shocking but strangely productive of results. Shells and bullets he completely disregarded', wrote White. 'To the wounded he was gentleness itself'. By 3 a.m. on 26 April the beach was clear but Howse continued to superintend evacuation to the ships for two more days. To Howse the medical service was no mere humane amenity for soldiers but a fundamental of fighting efficiency. So he strove to improve sanitation and food, to expedite the return of the wounded to units and, after Gallipoli, to combat venereal disease and to resist every attempt to lower the physical standard of the A.I.F. On Gallipoli he established the Anzac Medical Society which met regularly to disseminate knowledge among his officers. In July 1915 he was appointed C.B. and in September was given command of the medical services, Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, as deputy director; from November he was director of medical services of the A.I.F. In this appointment, which he had been strongly urging, Howse could ensure the independence of the A.A.M.C. from the British medical authorities and give it the cohesion and leadership which it had lacked. When the infantry divisions went to France in 1916 Howse set up his headquarters with A.I.F. administrative headquarters in London. He retained control of the A.A.M.C. in Egypt and Palestine, made frequent visits to the A.I.F. in France and reported each month to the director general of medical services in Melbourne. If he had much to learn about the vast, complex organism of the army at war, he revealed a capacity to learn and grow with the magnitude of his task. Mistakes were made but Howse never lost the confidence of the commander of the A.I.F., Lieutenant-General Sir William Birdwood, nor of Brudenell White. Among his achievements were recognition by the army of the need for direct access by the director of medical services to the general officer commanding the A.I.F., and his acceptance by the War Office as chief medical officer of the A.I.F. He established clear policies for the A.A.M.C. in line with those of the Royal Army Medical Corps and preserved the independence of his corps. When Major General (Sir) John Monash ordered A.A.M.C. officers on his headquarters to wear the 3rd Division colour patch instead of their own, Howse forced Monash to withdraw the order; he won the same battle against Major General (Sir) Talbot Hobbs. In January 1917 he was promoted major general and appointed K.C.B. Howse gave evidence before the Dardanelles Commission in 1917. The arrangements for the wounded at the landing he characterized as 'so inadequate that they amounted to criminal negligence' on the part of the Imperial authorities. In the field, Howse had introduced surgical teams and had supported the work of Major A. W. Holmes à Court in developing resuscitation teams with each division. His reorganization of the field ambulances in two sections, rejected by the War Office in 1916, was readopted in the A.I.F. in September 1918. In October Howse went briefly to Australia to advise the minister of defence on A.I.F. affairs and on crippled returned soldiers. He returned to London in February 1919 to assist on the medical side of repatriation. He was mentioned in dispatches, and was appointed K.C.M.G. and knight of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in 1919. Howse returned home in January 1920 but his resumption of private practice was short lived. He had been appointed chairman of a committee on the reorganization of the Army Medical Service which began work in 1921 but in July 1921 he was made D.G.M.S. as a regular major general stationed in Melbourne. From the day of his return he had spoken out in public on the achievement of the A.A.M.C. in maintaining the health of the A.I.F. and had insisted that the same must be done for all Australians in peacetime. As a regular officer could not campaign in public he resigned in November 1922 and was elected to the House of Representatives for the seat of Calare, which included Orange, as a member of the National Party. He was then reappointed D.G.M.S., on a part-time basis, until he entered the cabinet in 1925. He was a member of the Australian delegation to the fourth assembly of the League of Nations in 1923 and commissioned by the government to inquire into the medical examination of migrants to Australia and into the Spahlinger treatment of tuberculosis. From January 1925 to April 1927 Howse was minister for defence and health and minister in charge of repatriation. He accompanied the prime minister, S. M. (Viscount) Bruce to the Imperial Conference in 1926 but was taken ill and returned to Australia. He relinquished defence and health but remained in the cabinet as assistant minister without portfolio. Nevertheless he continued to administer repatriation and even acted as secretary to the cabinet. In February 1928 he again became minister for health and repatriation and also for home and territories. He was campaign manager for the 1929 election in which he lost his seat. In his brief parliamentary career he was recognized as champion of the returned servicemen and as a pioneer in public health. He spoke on the need for the Commonwealth to improve public health, on the treatment of cancer and venereal disease, maternity allowances and the welfare of returned servicemen. With the purchase of £100,000 worth of radium in 1928 Howse set up one of the world's first radium banks. The first conference of cancer organizations in Australia was inspired by him and he was responsible for the transfer of the Institute of Anatomy to Canberra. He helped to found the Federal Health Council in 1925 and the College of Surgeons of Australasia in 1928. Howse went to England for medical treatment in 1930. He died of cancer on 19 September 1930 and was buried in Kensal Green cemetery, London, survived by his wife, two sons and three daughters. Neville Howse was an Englishman who expressed the nascent Australian nationalism vigorously and directly. He was a pragmatist who nevertheless saw far ahead, a surgeon who had a flair for soldiering, an organizer who had deep insight into the essential relationship between the medical service and the force it served and who had the courage and persistence to establish policies not always understood by combatant officers. His confidence, good humour and diplomacy were matched by his shrewd appreciation of character. If his ambition carried him far, it was motivated by his recognition of human need in war and peace and sustained by confidence in his own capacity to help. His successes, in the words of another great D.G.M.S., Colonel R. M. Downes, 'made him one of the outstanding Australians of the Great War … one of the most remarkable and self-sacrificing medical administrators any military force has ever known'. Memorials to Howse are at the Orange sub-branch of the Returned Servicemen's League of Australia, in the Orange Base Hospital and in the Australian Institute of Anatomy. His portrait by James Quinn is in the Australian War Memorial and a painting of Howse winning the V.C., by William Dargie, is in the headquarters of the R.A.M.C., London. A. J. Hill, 'Howse, Sir Neville Reginald (1863–1930)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University,, published first in hardcopy 1983, accessed online 20 September 2017. This article was first published in hardcopy in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 9, (MUP), 1983 Neville Howse, by Lafayette, 1920s National Library of Australia, nla.pic-an23449059 26 October 1863 Stogursey, Somerset, England 19 September 1930 England

UK Communication Minister Ed Vaizey has confirmed the terms of the £180 million scheme to help householders prevent 4G services interfering with television signals. The scheme was originally announced in February 2012. In a letter to UK comms regulator Ofcom – which ran a consultation on the issues for digital TV raised by the launch of 4G services – Vaizey. Vaizey. According to Vaizey,,” he said. Ilse Howling, Managing Director of UK DTT platform Freeview speaking June 26 at the Westminster eForum Keynote Seminar on ‘The future of free-to-air TV’ suggested that the future of the service was at risk should unfavourable decisions be made in terms of the reuse of UHF spectrum and called on the Government urgently to revise its 4G proposals on the levels of support being offered to consumers. Addressing the Future of Broadcasting Conference the following day, Vaizey refuted Howling’s suggestions that as many as 2.3 million homes risked losing their DTT service, countering that the real number was as little as four to five thousand homes. “We’re on top of the DTT interference issue,” he stated. “We’re working with Ofcom. It’s a very, very small number of consumers who will have to move platform,” he claimed.”. In response to the Minister’s revised proposals, Howling said that Freeview welcomed the Government’s announcement of additional support, describing this as “a clear omission in earlier proposals,” and noted that, should the costs for protecting people’s television services exceed the £180 million the Government has set aside, Ministers were committed to bearing the risk of any overspend. ,” she stated. “We also believe it would be in consumers’ interests for the Government and Ofcom to mandate a trial of 4G services in a limited area before proceeding to national roll out.” She confirmed that Freeview would continue to represent the interests of all its viewers and ensure that when the roll out of 4G mobile broadband begins next year they were not overly inconvenienced, nor have to bear a disproportionate cost.

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The story takes place in Russia in 1889. Katerina (Katiya) Alexandrovna, the Duches of Oldenburg is a necromancer (can bring people back from the dead) and many of those around her also posses supernatural abilities. Katiya wants very much to be a doctor and has been given permission to do so, until Konstantin the Deathless returns threatening Katiya. Instead of being able to go off to medical school, she is sent back to her old finishing school where the empress is able to protect her using a spell. The spell however, has awakened a ghost. I rather liked Katiya who is just 17 and seemed to me dealing with all this supernatural stuff by herself. At the beginning of the book she was very close with her cousin, Dariya but after Katiya returns to her old school she no longer feels she can trust her cousin (a lady in waiting). There is also an interesting love triangle. There is George who has Katiya’s heart, but after he goes off to Paris he really doesn’t seem to have too much to do with her. Then there is Danilo, whom she has a blood bond with (not sure of the whole back story, but she isn't interested and he wants to marry her). During her time at the school Danilo is able to communicate with her telepathically. Oh and she wants nothing to do with Danilo! Katiya for me was a very likable character. I felt bad for her because she wanted nothing more than to help, but sometimes her helping caused more issues. I also felt bad for her because she clearly needs some sort of a mentor to help her with her powers. The story starts kinda slow with little bits of action and information, but sort of explodes at the end of the book. There was even a moment where I was blown away! I'll be honest and say I had a hard time keeping track of all the characters and keeping straight who was in the dark and who was in the light court (a chart in the front would have been helpful). Also, all those Russian names! The story itself was very enjoyable. I wished I had read book #1 THE GATHERING STORM and I will be watching for the next book in the series. If you enjoy Gothic books at all I would recommend this one! Follow Robin Bridges Buy THE UNFAILING LIGHT. Here are Other stops for

I can already tell that December is going to have a lot less posts than November. With my job picking up in regard to hours, and good friends in town who I haven't (mostly) seen in months, and sewing Christmas presents, and then the holidays themselves, I'm fairly busy. However, here is the post about casting which I mentioned yesterday: As a stage manager, I've sat in on a lot of auditions. I've sat in on auditions for my shows, shows that I thought I was working but didn't, and shows that I knew that I wasn't working but was helping out with as a favor to a friend. The thing that always struck me was how horribly horribly shallow the process was. Certainly there was discussion of: "Oh, he's really talented" and "She just commands the room" but for all of those comments, there were a lot more: "He's just too fat", "She's just too tall", "I wish she was a brunette", "He just doesn't fit the vision in my head". And the thing is, to some extent, directors are justified in many cases. A character whose supposed to be a starving orphan just wouldn't make as much sense played by a chubby actor. A character who is specifically said to have red hair in the dialogue of the script, couldn't really be played by a blonde (unless hair was dyed). Casting is a horribly superficial process, but I'm not sure there is a way to make it better. You can talk about color blind casting, but really that only works in plays that aren't about gender issues or about racial issues or etc etc. It would just be horribly offensive if you cast a white man to play a black slave. Not to mention blackface is ILLEGAL, for quite good reasons. My choreographer was talking to some of the actors the other day and she had worked at Disney Land as Wendy. And she was just listing off the height requirements for the "face characters" (the ones not in masks like Mickey or Goofy). *Note: these are rough guesses of what she said, I'm just ball-parking. Wendy and Alice need to be 5'-5'2"; Belle and Cinderella need to be 5'3"-5"6"; Tinkerbell needs to be 4'8"-5'; any Disney prince needs to be 5'11-6'3"; on and on and on. She said that the audition process was just brutal because the people picking would just look at you and kick 90% of the people out based on nothing more than looks. And apparently the mask characters are treated poorly because they are viewed as expendable. It was just astounding how much actual people were treated like nothing more than a piece of meat. And this isn't even discussing the fact the the princes are expected to be (at very minimum) 5" taller than the princesses. Because apparently the magic would just be ruined if they were about the same height or (oh no) if the woman were actually taller. I talk all the time about how nice and non-judgmental theatre is, but in this one area, theatre is behind nearly every other field in existence.

Iraq Baghdad University’s Kurdish Departments Face Threat of Closure By Nawzad Mahmoud for Rudaw Media Network A lack of professors in the Kurdish Department of Baghdad University means Kurdish studies are disappearing in Iraq, MPs and lecturers have warned. Baghdad University was the first to open Kurdish language departments in Iraq, including the Kurdistan Region. “The good news is that Baghdad University’s Kurdish departments will enroll students next year,” said Farhad Qadir, member of the Iraqi parliament’s higher education committee. “Kurdish departments didn’t enroll students [this year] due to the lack of requisite academics in this field. But we have now managed to secure an agreement that will allow them to enroll students next year and fix their shortages,” he added. Two Kurdish language lecturers are currently on a visit to the Kurdistan Region to “convince local academics with a Master’s or PhD in Kurdish to go and teach the language in Baghdad,” Qadir said, pointing out that Kurdish departments in Baghdad have a shortage of Master’s and PhD holders. “Not appointing Kurdish language lecturers is a big problem and heads of Kurdish departments are not putting pressure on the government to appoint lecturers for them,” a Kurdish language lecturer told Rudaw on condition of anonymity. People are not willing to move to Baghdad to teach Kurdish there, he explained. “Moreover, the Iraqi government is not appointing Kurdish language graduates. If the situation continues this way, there won’t be any students left in these departments.” Kurdish language studies in Baghdad suffered after Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi initiated some changes and reshuffled federal government departments nearly two years ago. One of the changes he made was the removal of the head of Kurdish studies in Baghdad, Hussein Jaf. Jaf is currently a lecturer in Baghdad University’s Education Faculty, Kurdish Department. If the Kurdistan Region places any importance on the availability of Kurdish studies in Baghdad, then it should send lecturers to Kurdish departments there, a former education committee member in the Iraqi parliament, Burhan Faraj, noted. He thinks that there are currently no Kurdish schools in Baghdad. “There are Kurdish classes taken in Baghdad schools, rather than Kurdish schools in the city,” he said, adding, “We suggested that Anfal and Halabja be studied in Baghdad and other cities so that Arab children have an understanding of the past, too. These classes were approved. But currently the bigger problem is the lack of teachers.” Anfal and Halabja are two genocide campaigns carried out by previous Iraqi governments against the Kurdish population in the country. “The higher education minister has promised to appoint the top three graduates of both Kurdish departments next year to undergo preparation for Master’s programs. He has also promised to appoint two more lecturers for Baghdad University’s Kurdish departments next month,” Qadir detailed. There are more than 450 students in the Kurdish department of the faculty of education at Baghdad University, and nearly 100 in its faculty of languages. “Not every one of these students is Kurdish. Some of them are Arabs who study Kurdish,” Qadir said. Rudaw tried to contact the current head of Kurdish studies in Baghdad, but he was unavailable for comment.

April 15, 2013 Not in our town: A strategy for dealing with community conflicts Public lecture by Patrice O’Neill (Filmmaker and founder, Not In Our Town), with introductions by Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis, U.S. Ambassador to Hungary; Tove Skarstein, Norwegian Ambassador to Hungary; and Zoltan Kovacs, Hungarian Minister of State for Social Inclusion. They tackle questions such as: What can ordinary people do about racial, ethnic and cultural tensions and violence in their neighborhoods? What can media, mayors, police, religious leaders and teachers do? What can the Not In Our Town model offer Hungarian communities that are experiencing tensions between their Roma and non-Roma populations? November 15, 2012 From Digital Terrestrial TV to Hybrid and Connected TV: Challenges from a regulatory perspective Public lecture by Joan Barata Mir (Professor of Communication Law and Vice Dean at the Blanquerna Communication and International Relations School, Universitat Ramon Llull, in Barcelona), who provided a broad reflection on how to regulate media an in the digital and convergent world - and the question if it is even possible to regulate them at all. June 21, 2012 How Content Gains Meaning and Value in the Era of Spreadable Media Public lecture by Henry Jenkins (Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts, and Education at the University of Southern California) about the shift that has been taking place in how media content circulates -- away from top-down corporate controlled distribution and into a still emerging hybrid system where everyday people play an increasingly central role in how media spreads. The lecture was hosted by the CMCS, the Open Society Archives, the Center for Media Research and Education at BME MOKK and the Open Society Institute. March 5, 2012 Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom Public lecture by Rebecca MacKinnon, Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation and cofounder of Global Voices, about the themes she raises in her new book, Consent of the Networked. MacKinnon's main point was the pressing need for people to take responsibility for the future development of the Internet. At stake, she argued, are no less than civil liberties, privacy and even the character of democracy in the 21st century. Instead of engaging in sweeping arguments about whether the Internet is a force for political liberation or for alienation, we should address the more urgent question of how technology should be structured and governed to support the rights and liberties of all the world’s Internet users. MacKinnon was introduced by Kate Coyer, Director of the CMCS, and a Q&A session afterward was moderated by CEU Assistant Professor Youngmi Kim. January 23, 2012 Religion and Media in Russia Public lecture by Victor Khroul, Associate Professor at the Journalism Faculty of Moscow State University, who was at the CMCS for a three-month CEU Professorial Research Fellowship. In his lecture, Khroul asked: Can we understand religion without media, or media without religion? How do they interact in the public sphere as two social sub-systems? He placed these questions in the context of contemporary Russia and its challenges, problems and hopes. November 2, 2011 Democratization processes and Media Transitions After the Arab Spring Public lecture by Professor Joan Barata (Universitat Ramon Llull) about the historical, political and social backgrounds of the Arab Spring movements and the role that traditional and new media have been playing. Prof. Barata focused in particular on the challenges for the immediate future, which include the creation of a new communications landscape, the effective protection of freedom of expression and information, the role of state media, and the creation of new democratic regulatory authorities. April 4, 2011 New challenges to freedom of expression Public lecture by Frank La Rue, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, sponsored by the CMCS and the Open Society Archive (OSA). La Rue talked about his work over the past 25 years as Special Rapporteur, as Presidential Commissioner for Human Rights in Guatemala, and as long-time human rights advocate, and provided a broad overview of global challenges to freedom of expression. March 10, 2011 The Political Communication of Regulatory Agencies: Between Legitimacy Management and New Governance Public lecture by Manuel Puppis, senior research and teaching associate and managing director of the division "Media & Politics," Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research (IPMZ), University of Zurich, Switzerland. February 16, 2011 Law and Disorder: Wikileaks and the Future of Information Freedom Public lecture by David McCraw, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel of The New York Times Company, where he is responsible for newsroom legal affairs and serves as lead legal counsel for The Times’ freedom-of-information litigation. In this lecture, which was sponsored by the CMCS and the Open Society Archives (OSA) and introduced by CEU President and Rector John Shattuck, McCraw described in his lecture how The New York Times became involved in a partnership with Wikileaks and fellow news outlets to publish revelations that were contained in leaked collections of classified documents on both Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as an expansive collection of diplomatic cables. February 14, 2011 Civil Society Representation in Intergovernmental Organisations: The way inside OECD Public lecture by Anna Fielder, senior policy advisor to Consumer Focus (UK) and Trustee and Company Secretary of Privacy International, who has been a key player in the establishment of the Civil Society Information Society Advisory Council (CSISAC), which contributes constructively to the policy work of the OECD Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy (ICCP). January 25, 2011 Mobile phones and security events in Israel: Facts and policy implications Public lecture by Amit Schejter, Associate professor of communications and co-director of the Institute for Information Policy at Pennsylvania State University October 26, 2010 Challenges of Internet Governance: New multistakeholder models for global policy development Public lecture by Wolfgang Kleinwaechter, Professor for International Communication Policy and Regulation, Department for Media and Information Studies, University of Aarhus; Chair of the Nomination Committee of ICANN; Member of the UN Working Group on Internet Governance. October 19, 2010 From Losing the News to Finding it Again: Some New Routes for News Bill Mitchell, Head of Entrepreneurial and International Programs at the Poynter Institute and a veteran journalist, discussed the future of news media and journalism. Mitchell was director of electronic publishing for the San Jose Mercury News, Detroit Bureau Chief for Time magazine, Assistant Managing Editor of the Detroit Free Press, and Washington correspondent for Knight Ridder newspapers, The discussion was moderated by Ellen Hume, Annenberg Fellow in Civic Media at the CMCS. October 19, 2010 Battle of Ideas / "Read all about it: Truth in demand" At this satellite event of the Battle of Ideas 2010 festival, sponsored by the CMCS and the Institute of Ideas, four experts discussed changes in journalism and the mass media in the age of digital media, citizen journalism and “pay-walls”: Eszter Babarczy, cultural historian and journalist; Frank Furedi, professor of sociology at the University of Kent; Ellen Hume, former journalist and Annenberg Fellow in Civic Media at the CMCS; and Eva Katona, freelance journalist and chief secretary of the Association of Hungarian Content Providers. June 7, 2010 Europe and the Global Information Society Revisited: Cyber Security in Europe Public presentation by Andrea Servida, Deputy Head of the Unit "Internet; Network and Information Security", Information Society and Media Directorate-General, European Commission. May 25, 2010 News Literacy in a Digital Age: Stony Brook University's innovative curriculum to develop the critical thinking skills of young news consumers A public lecture by Richard Hornik, Lecturer at Stony Brook University and Director of Southeast Asia Programs for the Independent Journalism Foundation. March 22, 2010 Book launch and public talk by Monroe E. Price on the occasion of the English-language publication of his memoir: Objects of Remembrance: A Memoir of American Opportunities and Viennese Dreams February 17, 2010 Reinventing Public Service Communication A public lecture by Associate Professor Petros Iosifidis (City University London). December 1, 2009 Do media matter rephrased: Media and political systems as determinants of media influence on public opinion A public lecture by Dr. Marina Popescu (University of Essex and MRC-Median Research Centre). November 24, 2009 Modern Russian Journalism and its Soviet heritage A public lecture by Prof. Alexander Altunyan (International University in Moscow). October 22, 2009 On the Horizon: Emerging Information and Communication Law and Policy Issues A public lecture by Prof. Sandra Braman (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). March 25, 2009 Makeover television, audiences, and the reflexive self A Public Lecture by Katherine Sender, Associate Professor, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania (more information). Much has been written about reality television in general, and makeover shows in particular, but little attention has been paid to their audiences. Katherine Sender, whose forthcoming book, The Big Reveal: Makeover Television, Audiences, and the Promise of Transformation, will be published by New York University Press, talked about the study she has been undertaking of audience responses to four US makeover shows: The Biggest Loser, Queer Eye, Starting Over, and What Not to Wear. In the course of the study, preliminary findings of which were presented in 2007, over 1,500 survey responses were collected and more than 50 interviews conducted with viewers. Seder researches audiences' conceptions of the "inner" and "outer" self and the relations between these, and reviews how makeover shows encourage candidates to change in line with dominant social norms, while they interject commercial appeals into the processes of change. January 7, 2009 "Telepopulism: Media and Politics in Israel and the U.S." A Public Lecture by: Professor Yoram Peri, Head, The Chaim Herzog Institute, for Media, Politics and Society. Tel Aviv University (more information). In the first part of his lecture, Prof. Yoram Peri gave an interesting overview of the latest use of new social media in the election campaigns in the US and Israel. Using specific cases from the recent presidential elections campaign of Barack Obama, he focused on the impact of new communication technologies in creating a new, youth-oriented and youth-engaging "political class" in the US. Furthermore, he emphasized the differences between the use of such media tools in promoting populist speech in US and Israel, pointing out the less-innovative employment of new technologies in the Israeli political campaigns. Prof. Peri shared his views on the "Americanization" of elections throughout the world, and forecast the consequences of this great shift in the media. In the final part of his talk, Prof. Peri, having just returned from Israel, was able to give an up-to-date overview of the current situation of the Gaza Strip conflict and shared a brief analysis of the Israeli, Palestinian and international media coverage of the on-going conflict. November 10, 2008 "Complexity and the Future of the University" A Public Lecture by Dr. Linda Garcia, Director of the Communication, Culture and Technology Program, Georgetown University (more information). Chair: Dr. Liviu Matei CEU Academic Secretary and Deputy Chief Operating Officer Linda Garcia's talk addressed the increasing challenges that today's universities must meet in order to adapt to the complexity surrounding them, especially in a rapidly changing digital environment. To fulfill their mission of providing useful, up-to-date knowledge, which can be drawn upon by others to address today's thorny problems, universities must constantly regenerate themselves by promoting interdisciplinarity and expanding their inter-organizational ties. Read more... November 6, 2008 "Breaking news! - Why is news from the Middle-East often so different from reality?" A Public Lecture by Joris Luyendijk, international journalist, former Middle-East correspondent (more information). Between 1998 and 2003 Joris Luyendijk worked as Middle-East correspondent for various Dutch media. After returning to the Netherlands he spent three years analyzing why news about the Arab world and Israel is filtered, distorted, manipulated, biased and simplified. His conclusion: the problem is not only that journalists often fail to adhere to their methods and codes. It goes deeper: even when they follow their methods and codes by the letter, a fundamentally skewed picture emerges. Drawing on his own field experiences, Joris Luyendijk presented strong arguments for rethinking what news is, what we expect from it and what it can and should be. October 21, 2008 "Mobile TV and its implementation in Central and Eastern Europe" A public lecture by Dr. Claus Sattler, Executive Director "Broadcast Mobile Convergence Forum" (bmcoforum), Berlin (more information). Chair: Kristina Irion Department for Pubic Policy and Center for Media and Communication Studies, Central European University Professor Sattler presented recent developments in mobile TV in a comparative perspective and discussed challenges concerning business and policy aspects. From a business perspective, his presentation provided an overview on technology choices, business models and the state of implementation of Mobile TV applications, with a particular focus on Central and Eastern Europe. The discussion subsequently turned to the regulatory conditions that would best facilitate mobile TV and the consequences of subordinating Mobile TV to the general broadcasting rules." (2008. 73 min., J. Richardson, D Media). A counter-documentary about activism in Romania that simultaneously questions the difference between making a film about politics and making a film politically. October 9, 2008 "Secrets and Spies: How the CIA has evaded the U.S. Freedom of Information Act" A Public Lecture by Martin Halstuk, Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University (more information). Discussant: Peter Molnar Senior Research Fellow, Center for Media and Communication Studies, Central European University Martin Halstuk discussed how the CIA, in violation of the FOIA and congressional authority, has withheld information of crucially important interest from the public and the government itself. A number of critics, including leading members of the U.S. Congress, have concluded that the attacks of 9/11 could have been averted had the CIA not been obsessed with secrecy.. September 25, 2008 "Developing Organized Networks: The Imaginary Example of Special Embassies" A Public Lecture by Andrew Gryf Paterson, Artist-organizer, cultural producer and researcher, Media Lab, Helsinki (more information). 'Special Embassy' is an imagined alternative to the ‘traditional embassy', both in conceptual and architectural-hardware terms. With the increase of global movement of people outside the sanction of the state, a reconfigured understanding of relations of 'embassy' and the represented collective appears. In a post-national, globalized social order, who represents the collective? What services can be offered to one another, between the sender and the receiver organizations? What non-state, i.e. autonomous, embassy architecture would be useful? Andrew spent a month as researcher-in-residence at the Kitchen Budapest media lab exploring these questions, researching the conceptual and historical elements of bilateral embassy missions and the history of diplomatic network relations, and considering how alternative 'special embassies' might work in relation to open source activism and networked and mobile platforms. Following his presentation, he opened up a discussion meant to explore what sort of services the 'Special Embassy' can and would offer. Read more... Archive (public lectures, 2005 - 2008)

Twenty years into his political career, Highland Park Mayor Daniel Pierce changed hats. After being state representative for the 58th District for two decades, Pierce shifted to local government when he was elected mayor in the spring of 1987. Twenty years into his political career, Highland Park Mayor Daniel Pierce changed hats. After being state representative for the 58th District for two decades, Pierce shifted to local government when he was elected mayor in the spring of 1987. ``Some people were surprised and asked why I wanted to go to the municipal level of government after being at the state level,`` says Pierce, 60. ``It`s a much different experience, but the move to mayor of my own hometown was very satisfactory and challenging. Being mayor puts you right in the heart of the community. And I like that.`` Born in Chicago, he lived in Glencoe before his family settled in Highland Park in 1944. He graduated from New Trier Township High School in 1946, got a bachelor of arts degree from Harvard University in 1949 and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1952. Then he served in the Air Force in the Korean War. On returning to Highland Park in 1957, he began practicing law in Chicago (he is a partner in a Loop law firm) and found he had a strong interest in politics. He soon hooked up with the Democrats of South Lake County. ``I found that one of the two major political parties in the state-the Democratic Party-was virtually inactive or dormant in Lake County,`` Pierce says. ``And that gave me an opportunity. They had no county candidates (for the 1958 county and state elections). So we organized a write-in ticket for the primary.`` Pierce ran for county treasurer on the write-in ticket and lost. Nevertheless, he escalated his party involvement in the next several years, serving as vice chairman of the Lake County Democratic Party and Deerfield Township. He won the state representative`s post in 1965 for the 58th District, which includes all of Highwood and Glencoe, most of Highland Park and Wheeling, and parts of Northbrook and Buffalo Grove. Some of the issues he concentrated on in Springfield were environmental matters, special education and handicapped services. He also was chairman of the House Revenue Committee. He decided to step down in 1985. ``It was getting a little stale doing the same job after 20 years,`` he says. ``I thought it was time to move on.`` When his term ended, Pierce concentrated on his job and family. He also took time to re-evaluate his political goals. About a year later, the topic of the Highland Park mayoral election was raised. ``I missed government, and here was a chance in my own hometown to be active in government-not so much politics as government, because (the mayor`s post) was nonpartisan,`` he recalls. In the spring of 1987, Pierce ran against the incumbent mayor, who was running for his fourth four-year term. Pierce waged his successful campaign on a ``back-to-basics`` platform for Highland Park. One of the needs he has addressed so far is downtown revitalization, which the town began in the late 1970s under Mayor Robert Buhai. ``There was a lot of emphasis on downtown because of legitimate concerns that it could become a decaying center like many other suburban downtown areas,`` he says. The revitalization ``looks very good. People like the ambiance of it. ``I decided that part of my job as mayor was to find a balance between downtown redevelopment and keeping Highland Park a first-class residential community. And that`s not an easy balance to find.`` Pierce takes the most pride in the installation of traffic signals in front of the city`s post office, 833 Central Ave. ``It was part of my campaign,`` he says. ``It was a very unsafe area. The traffic experts said a stoplight wouldn`t work, but after I was elected it went in, and it has been working perfectly. It should have been done years ago.`` Pierce also points proudly to his ability to work closely with the City Council`s six members (he is one of the few mayors in the city`s history who never served on the council) and city officials. With Pierce`s first year in office behind him, his colleagues seem to agree. ``He`s made an excellent transition,`` says Margie Weiss, a council member for seven years. ``It`s probably partly because he`s extremely knowledgeable and because of his background as a state legislator. But he`s also done a lot of homework and spent a lot of time learning how Highland Park works. He has an excellent grasp of all the different issues that have confronted us.`` ``Things are going well for his first year in office,`` says Al MacLeod, a council member for five years. ``We work with him, and he works with us. He is mayor, but he has just one vote. He doesn`t have the veto power, as some mayors do, which makes for a good working relationship with the council. We don`t always agree on things, but that`s the way we`re supposed to be.`` The job, a part-time position, pays $7,500 a year, and the mayor also functions as liquor commissioner. Pierce appears in City Hall three mornings a week and at City Council meetings twice a month. He spends Saturdays in meetings and Sundays at fundraisers.

The FBI has identified a gunman who robbed a Plantation savings and loan as one of its 10 most wanted fugitives . Gilbert James Everett, 45, on the FBI list since May 1981, is a suspect in the Thursday robbery of $1,745 from American Savings and Loan, 268 S. University Drive. FBI spokesman Joe Del Campo said the identification was made by witnesses to the holdup and by photographs taken by surveillance cameras at the savings and loan. Del Campo said an arrest warrant for Everett in connection with the Plantation robbery was issued Friday by federal magistrate Patricia Kyle in Fort Lauderdale. Everett has been a fugitive since Sept. 26, 1980, when he escaped from the Knox County Jail in Tennessee. He had been held there on charges relating to robberies and multiple car thefts, Del Campo said. Everett`s escape came about six weeks after the FBI arrested him in Knoxville. Del Campo said. He was awaiting trial at the time. FBI officials said they have positively identified Everett in a total of 40 robberies of banks and savings and loans in Florida, Tennessee, California and North Carolina. Del Campo said the FBI has learned that Everett, who uses at least 14 aliases, has lived in Knoxville, Denver and Placerville, Calif., since his escape.

PALM BEACH — Like champagne that went flat, the grounded Mercedes I stopped just short of being refloated Tuesday night and becoming a cause celebre. Under a nearly full moon matched by strong seas, the salvage crew moved the ship straight out to sea almost 100 more feet, to the cheers of a crowd of more than 200 people. But the stern remained lodged on socialite Mollie Wilmot`s beach, where the vessel first landed last Thanksgiving. The crew from Donjon Marine Co., which stopped pulling after three hours, was to resume this morning. Wilmot, whose back yard was transformed into a party of would-be celebrants, did not lose her high spirits when the crew gave up for the night. ``Tomorrow is sort of assured. I`m not that disappointed because tomorrow is very close,`` said Wilmot, who spent the evening surrounded by French- speaking friends, at least four of them European princes, and sipping Moet Chandon. Royalty, residents, tourists and journalists filled Wilmot`s property, just south of Rose Kennedy`s estate. They perched like so many birds on the remains of Wilmot`s sea wall, cheering, whistling and even shrieking as the salvage crew continued moving the ship in what has usually been a painfully tedious, day-by-day journey back to sea. Rosemarie Leonhardt was visably delighted. Her in-laws, in their 80s, suddenly arrived just in time from Long Island, N.Y., to see the ship. ``Oh my God! I don`t believe you made it. You`re here!`` said Leonhardt, whose Orange Grove home is a few blocks from Wilmot`s. ``They drove here all the way from New York in a Mercedes to see the Mercedes.``

A substitute school teacher was sentenced Thursday to two years in prison in what is said to be the most severe penalty for drunken-driving in South Florida history. County Judge Steven Shutter designated William Choplinski, 48, a habitual offender, which allowed Shutter to sentence him to twice the maximum one-year term. ``I`m not a criminal,`` Choplinski protested angrily as he was led away in handcuffs. Choplinski had been convicted four times for DUI in the last 10 years. In November 1984, he was charged with drunken driving a fifth time a few blocks from his home in Lauderhill home, even though he had been put on probation and had his driver`s license revoked for life on a DUI charge 10 months earlier. Shutter said he checked with all of Broward County`s judges as well as court officials in Dade and Palm Beach counties and found no precedent for such a sentence. ``That`s because we used to treat these things like traffic tickets,`` Shutter said after the sentencing. ``You could be sentenced and go right out the next day and do it again. Thirty days, 30 days, 30 days.`` Prosecutor Parke Masterson credited the creation of his misdemeanor- recidivism prosecutorial unit a year ago with allowing him the time to compile a case against Choplinski. ``It took me a month to pull this together,`` he said. ``Normally, a prosecutor would not have time to do that.`` Shutter told Choplinski it was sheer luck that he had not injured someone during his years of drunken driving. Shutter, who had put Choplinski on probation for one of his earlier DUI offenses, said the videotape following Choplinski`s latest DUI arrest showed an extreme level of intoxication.

The Israeli musician Idan Raichel made a stop at Florida International University during his musical tour. Raichel, who visited Miami to perform at a concert, stopped by the university to converse with the students and speak about The Idan Raichel Project, a cross-cultural collaboration musical project he founded 10 years ago that blends African, Latin American, Caribbean and Middle Eastern sound, as well as perform a few songs. This discussion was presented by the Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center's Hillel Young Adult Division. Raichel, who is a keyboardist, producer and composer from Kfar Saba, a city near Tel Aviv, was born to a family of Eastern European roots. He told the students that the idea for the project was to start a musical one with friends from his neighborhood who immigrated from different parts of the world. "Israeli society is about immigrants who came from all over the world," he remarked. "Every 10 or 15 years there is a new immigration that changes Israeli society." Raichel remarked that the project's biggest achievement was to bring the voices of the minorities living in Israel to Israeli mainstream radio. He told students to emphasize on the beautiful things of Israel and not only the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "Israel has one of the most interesting melting pots," he told the students. "It is one of the most interesting multi-cultural nations." Raichel also said that unfortunately, many young Israelis could not name one Palestinian song, or a play from Lebanon, or a movie from Syria, and vice versa young Syrians couldn't name an Israeli song. Ely, a freshman at FIU and Miami Beach resident who grew up in Israel and didn't want to disclose his last name, thought Raichel was right.

Dear Miami Dolphins, There's this vibrant hum of hope surrounding you today. And this undercurrent of civic fear. That's the intersection where this season idles as Dolphins fans feel the promise this Sunday and run fingers over scars of the last 10 years. Beat a third-string quarterback at 5-9 Buffalo and you might be in the playoffs. Win again over the troubled New York Jets next week in the season finale at Sun Life Stadium and you're definitely in. That's why fans are excited right now. The quarterback, Ryan Tannehill, is making visible strides, the defense keeps making timely stops and Michael Thomas going from zero to AFC defensive player of the week in five Dolphins days tells the good fortune of a season trending to January. And that's why fans are uneasy. It looks so good right now. This moment has been dangled before them too many times in the past several years only to crash over them like the Sunday That Stole Christmas. Hope is one thing for Dolphins nation to have this Sunday. But trust? Belief? And "swagger," as school-marm Dolphins coach Joe Philbin was asked about this week, sending him to the dictionary to look up the word and read its definition the next day. "'To strut or to boast or brag,''' Philbin said. "So, obviously, swagger doesn't fit us." Obviously, it doesn't fit the fan base, either. It once did. Go back two decades, and receiver Mark Duper remembers strutting on game-day field beside Dan Marino, "knowing we were going to cut up whatever team we were playing." The playoffs were a guarantee then. Now the Dolphins haven't been to the playoffs in five years, haven't won a playoff game in 12 years, haven't made the AFC Championship Game in 21 years – need we go on? - haven't attended a Super Bowl in 29 years and haven't won a title in four decades.

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3413477571485423494.post7167599755453995667..comments2017-08-25T21:03:06.234-07:00Comments on A Thriller a Day...: Guillotine: Season 2 Episode 2John Scoleri more I've thought about this episode for t...The more I've thought about this episode for two days now, it's one of the best. Difficult to watch, like a 60s version of a Haneke or Noe film. Objectivity is impossible, but objectively and aesthetically this is a great episode. My personal taste just doesn't bond with it.Jack Rabbit, INLAND EMPIREnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3413477571485423494.post-14483723674040836712015-12-03T18:17:26.802-08:002015-12-03T18:17:26.802-08:00The more I've thought about this episode today...The more I've thought about this episode today, it's my least favorite Thriller episode so far. I hate the drawn out death walk, and all the characters. It looks good, yeah, but I didn't like the story at all. But I did enjoy looking at Alejandro Rey, because he's pretty gorgeous.Jack Rabbit, INLAND EMPIREnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3413477571485423494.post-5064964502977198252015-12-03T01:12:52.210-08:002015-12-03T01:12:52.210-08:00Yeah, the audio sync is way off. Not a big fan of ...Yeah, the audio sync is way off. Not a big fan of this episode, I prefer "What Beckoning Ghost?" which had room for ambiguity. This episode seems without poetry to me.Jack Rabbit, INLAND EMPIREnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3413477571485423494.post-79093767521970613932015-09-26T18:03:50.615-07:002015-09-26T18:03:50.615-07:00I enjoyed the story in the episode by I'm surp...I enjoyed the story in the episode by I'm surprised that no one has brought up the fact that the audio synchronization in this episode goes way off at about 9:30 with the audio abruptly jumping way ahead of the video and it remains noticeable for another 10 or 12 minutes. Sadly, Image never created a replacement disc program for what is quite obviously a flaw in the disc or the source material that they used.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3413477571485423494.post-64761615144344944142014-11-29T18:27:15.498-08:002014-11-29T18:27:15.498-08:00I saw it last night for maybe the first time compl...I saw it last night for maybe the first time completely.<br />I have some of the same problems as GraemeCree, when it comes to the character's over-the-top arrogance, even though Alejandro Rey really "sells it" in an entertaining way. There's another great line of his, where (if you take it literally) he includes pretty out-there blasphemy (at least, if I heard it correctly). When Babette's letter ends "God forgive us both" he smiles and says "I forgive you." As if to say, "Never mind the God part."<br /><br />I also agree that the detail of the other man holding and letting go of Middleton's hand muddles things. Even if it's COMPLETELY an accident, it still gives him a role in the execution. <br /><br />Those are nearly my only complaints, except for the roach scene. I have an incredibly horror of them (they're the only animal that can make me react entirely that way), so that scene was the "real horror story" of the episode for me.<br /><br />If Anonymous is asking which Twilight Zone was referred to, it's their version of Ambrose Bierce's "Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge."Grant with the consensus. Last scene pure Hitchco...Agree with the consensus. Last scene pure Hitchcock. About the Twilight Zone episode where the hangman's rope breaks, que pasa? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3413477571485423494.post-18669036797846731422013-03-18T09:51:55.078-07:002013-03-18T09:51:55.078-07:00On the whole, I like this episode. This is one of...On the whole, I like this episode. This is one of the two or three Thriller episodes that I remember seeing in reruns as a kid, by the way (the next episode is another).<br /><br />Most of the episode works. Middleton is great, La Metz is ooo-la-la. The Ambrose Biercian twist at the end is exactly the kind of thing that a lot of these shows have needed. Overall eval is thumbs up. But there are a couple of minor problems.<br /><br />What's the difference between a minor problem and a major problem, by the way? I just finished raking "What Beckoning Ghost?" over the coals, for what I thought were major problems. The difference between a minor and a major problem is in what happens if you don't fix it, but just remove it from the story entirely? With a major problem, you have no story left if you remove it. With a minor problem, the story would go on pretty much the same as before in its absence.<br /><br />With that in mind, one minor problem I have with this story is Rey's attitude. He boasts to one and all that the execution will not come off. He makes it clear that his hope of salvation is based on that law that lets him free if the executioner doesn't make it. He even takes bets on whether or not de Paris would make it there alive. Long before the end, it was clear to me that even if he succeeded in getting himself freed, that he would be up on a fresh murder charge. If de Paris dies of poisoning, all the evidence points right at him. This was confirmed a few minutes before the end, when de Paris identifies Babette as his poisoner. At this point, it is absolutely certain that Rey is either going to be executed for the original charge, or for killing de Paris. Freedom is no longer an option.<br /><br />And yet, all of this idle boasting could be removed entirely without changing the plot one iota. I understood that this was a 30 minute story, being padded out to 60, and that they had to fill the time somehow.<br /><br />I was a bit incredulous that a foot pedal could be activated just by having an arm dropped on it, but find that overlookable too. Maybe de Paris just liked a hair trigger. Not a serious flaw, and the ending is good enough to grant it a little leeway. A lot of these shows get a bit too talky at the end. Take a decent episode like "Parasite Mansion". The story ends about 4 minutes before the end, and the last 4 minutes are taken up with the visitor explaining to the survivors that they mustn't blame themselves, it was all granny's doing all along (Yeah, we'd figured that out). This is the first Thriller episode with a major plot development in the last two seconds. Good work.<br /><br />When I saw this as a kid, I never was sure if the doctor had dropped the executioner's arm on the lever deliberately or accidentally (and I never saw it again until recently). I'm still not 100% sure, but lean towards the accident view. It's a good thing the episode ended right there, because if it had gone on even one more minute, the aftereffect of "The Mother of All Whoopses" would have killed the mood.<br /><br />They certainly love poisoning on this show. Doesn't this make something like a half dozen episodes that have used it as a major theme?<br />GraemeCree just saw it on TV. Thought it was solid but impe...I just saw it on TV. Thought it was solid but imperfect. Good acting, great filming, so-so script. <br /><br />Middleton's character is so gentle, yet committed to doing what he believes is right. His pursuit of his (in his mind) noble job, aware of what missing his appointment would mean, was incredible. Too much? Not in the context of the film. <br /><br />The guard dropping Middleton's hand on the lever was silly. They should have found another way. <br /><br />De Metz is sweet enough to believe she is truly wooing Middleton. De Metz seems to be a little implausible, as she had already moved on from Rey. That's a script problem, and maybe a directing issue. The transition was abrupt from (preshow), an affair, then scheming to help Rey, then amazing ingénue-like wooing, then the harsh denial. Strong acting from De Metz, but she should not have needed to have that range. <br /><br />Rey is pure evil -- a little hard to buy as his crime was not that of a habitual murderer, but one of passion. His glib attitude near the end was a little over the top, as was the coarse harassing of him by prison staff. His horror as he was lead to be killed felt real.Tony the season opener flop its great to see Lupi...After the season opener flop its great to see Lupino and Beumont hit one out of the park with Guillotine. I haven`t seen the rest of the series yet but have to agree with Peter this is by far the best crime thriller I`ve seen and definitely a candidate for top ten.JCRnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3413477571485423494.post-13216936229734246142011-12-12T18:44:10.484-08:002011-12-12T18:44:10.484-08:00Thriller has a date with Madame Guillotine. The op...Thriller has a date with Madame Guillotine. The opening scene with guillotine brought back memories of Peter Lorre in Mad Love. After the basic plot premise was laid out I didn't have high hopes for this one, but wound up enjoying the episode as it slowly crept towards the final chop.<br /><br />Alejandro Rey and Danielle De Metz were good enough as the two young lovers who found themselves in rather dire circumstances, but it was Robert Middleton whose splendid performance as Monsieur de Paris that really lifted the blade up high.<br /><br />The scenes with Rey and De Metz seem childish and immature, but De Metz has a major babe factor, which kept me interested. As soon as Monsieur de Paris gets in on the screen time he gets and holds my attention. Middleton perfectly conveys the brutish, but lonely and misunderstood headhunter. I wanted to yell at the TV when he quickly fell to Babette's poisonous charms. Even though a child could guess each forthcoming bit in her seduction, the scenes were acted with an understated bit of 1920s chutzpah that worked.<br /><br />Poisoned fruit turnovers. What a terrible way to start a day. Monsieur de Paris should have ordered the Denver Omelette. I thought that Monsieur would next go grab a latte at Starbucks, but evidently he was late for work and didn't have time. Now it's the start of the long slow stagger. Yup, this was one drawn out scene, but it worked for me. The camera work, and relatively deserted streets along with the wonderful sickened grimaces from Middleton never gave me a chance at boredom. <br /><br />Up until this elongated act I thought that the Monsieur was gonna croak right off the bat, Lamont would get his freedom and Babette would be caught and found guilty for the murder. The story would end with her walking towards the guillotine. Nope, I guessed wrong. The plot played out straight and after several light years de Paris finally makes his appointment, but he expires before he can do his duty. Not really, the hand of fate appears and we get our plot twist.<br /><br />I was entertained. Three Karloff heads for Madame Guillotine.Hynek and I are in the same court on this one, Bobby...You and I are in the same court on this one, Bobby. I think it's the best crime show as well and I picked it as the 6th best show overall.Peter Enfantino my God! After having to rely on a dim VHS print...Oh my God! After having to rely on a dim VHS print for years, I just watched this last night (catching up Thrillers I'd missed) and what a revelation a clean print makes. I'd have to rate this my clear, undisputed favourite crime 'Thriller'. The pacing and cutting in between the different locales in a series of beautifully staged match cuts and the subtle angular framing.... Lupino drains every acre of suspense and the maximum value from each, sequence and shot. It's the masterpiece that she always threatened the show with if she got her hands on a first rate script. Marvellous...bobby J.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3413477571485423494.post-11928494457825517222010-10-19T15:00:10.113-07:002010-10-19T15:00:10.113-07:00BEAUMONT, BRADBURY & HEFNER Hugh Hefner gives...BEAUMONT, BRADBURY & HEFNER<br /><br />Hugh Hefner gives Beaumont a very nice shout-out at about the 8:00-minute mark:<br /><br />'m sorry but I feel that Guillotine is tres m...I'm sorry but I feel that Guillotine is tres magnifique. That slow, determined pacing through the whole show, which reaches a staggering crawl in the final quarter, fit the plot like a glove. Lupino provides some polished, impressive angles and keeps the shots embraced in shadows at all the right times. Then, the acting takes it up a notch -- especially Middleton (who i considered a one-dimensional thug from previous roles) and the lovely De Metz (why didn't i see her more often? I'm certainly going to see her in my dreams, to the lush sounds of Stranger in Paradise)... Middleton, especially, established his lonely, meticulous blademan as a sympathetic character. Some nice piece work by the supporting cast -- great to see Marcel Hillaire providing his ample accent as the jailhouse barber. The music by Goldsmith, especially in Middleton's painful march, tenses it up with snare and bass drums. And as perusual, Karloff launches it with a stupendous intro (thank gosh they dumped the 'it's a thriller!' season one forced tag). I've admittedly fallen behind in my viewing, thanks to Mary Tyler Moore's appearance in my mailbox. But this was one that restored the pall that satisfies... Eight and a half Karloffs!rockfish Walker, they are releasing 'The Seeds of D...hey Walker, they are releasing 'The Seeds of Doom' in a couple of weeks, which mixes Quatermass, The Thing, The Day of the Triffids and 'The Avengers'. Sheer bliss for fans of small screen master-works of horror and SF. The 3 year Hincliffe/Holmes era is one of the summits of fantasy/SF and in terms of creativity, one would have to go back to Stefano's brilliant 'Outer Limits' with which it stands comparison.bobby J.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3413477571485423494.post-11223835693512555182010-10-14T20:45:09.711-07:002010-10-14T20:45:09.711-07:00Bobby J mentions one of the greatest TV serials th...Bobby J mentions one of the greatest TV serials that I've seen: "The Talons of Weng-Chiang", a Dr Who adventure that combines so many crazy story elements that I started to buy the rest of the series on dvd. One of the most interesting episodes in the history of TV.Walker Martin to mention Goldsmith's fine score. Unli...Forgot to mention Goldsmith's fine score. Unlike Season 1, which featured an autonomous score for every episode, Season 2 would see an increase in scores "tracked" from previous episodes; thus, the "Guillotine" score would be chopped up and reused in later shows.<br /><br />It's another terrific Goldsmith opus (with NO strings this time), featuring not only that seductive, French/impressionistic duet for clarinets and harp, but also a series of horn calls, somber chorales, dirges, and that militaristic snare drum that punctuates Mr. Middleton's torturous journey through the deserted streets. There's no doubt that Goldmsith's expert sense of pace and character helped immensely in sustaining tension during the final 10-15 minutes of the show.<br /><br />LRLarry Rapchaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3413477571485423494.post-58159788237233032342010-10-14T20:14:56.642-07:002010-10-14T20:14:56.642-07:00Make that three Beaumont screenplays in the Corman...Make that three Beaumont screenplays in the Corman/Poe cycle, including THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, on which he shared credit with R. Wright Campbell. The late Jerry Sohl, who ghosted three of Beaumont's TWILIGHT ZONE scripts, confirmed to me that his health issues did indeed contribute to the need to farm them out.Matthew Bradley think the problem I had with this one was that I...I think the problem I had with this one was that I'd already seen the 'Darkroom' version first and for me, this episode plus 'Stay Tuned, We'll Be Right Back' were the highlights of that anthology's short life.<br /><br />I personally don't mind a show being so ambitious and trying to do a period piece, after all, the Tom Baker 'Dr Who' serial - 'The Talons of Weng-Chiang', fuses Sherlock Holmes, Fu Manchu, the Phantom of the Opera, Jack the Ripper, ventiloqists dummies and whole host of other elements of Victoriana into the most sublime steam-punk and is voted as one of the 2 or 3 finest shows done for the series.<br /><br />For me, the problem was the pacing of the show and the sensuality. To expand a short story into an hour requires immense crafting skill and artful creativity, such as Heyes' taking a mightily short little tale like 'The Hungry House' and giving it echoes and resonances that the original never had. He was so good, so inspired, he could made a feature. The 'Darkroom' version is approximately 35 minutes, 15 shorter than 'Thriller' and it's far tighter and the end sledges a shock with marvellous guillotine fast cut. And the sense of corrupting sexual favours (she's his lover, I believe, rather than his wife) favours the remake vastly.<br /><br />You guys can catch it here...and compare for yourselves:<br /> J.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3413477571485423494.post-8772706741978504132010-10-14T13:11:24.442-07:002010-10-14T13:11:24.442-07:00For a 1961 weekly hour-long show to even attempt a...For a 1961 weekly hour-long show to even attempt a reasonably accurate (outdoor)recreation of another historic locale/era is a stretch; true, Revue had the Universal backlot and (I assume) costumes and props at their disposal. In the end, "Guillotine" accomplishes all that it possibly could have in terms of it's visual setting on its relatively tiny budget.<br /><br />The opening scene may be a bit slow (if you agree, wait 'til we see Senor Alejandro Rey's NEXT romantic encounter on "Thriller"), but it really didn't bother me; the fact that the lover's dialogue takes place while they are watching the other unfortunate prisoner being beheaded in the courtyard below is but the first of MANY such clever and telling juxtapositions in this show, neatly laid in by Beaumont and director Lupino.<br /><br />Great work from Ida throghout; I find myself thoroughly invested in the interaction between the characters. One always questions the use of French dialect/accents in these things--but Alejandro delivers in his heavily accented Argentinian, Danielle de Metz ("Thriller" babe-of-the-week...right, guys??...Yes?) is authentically French...so what's Middleton to do? Use a bronx accent? C'mon--he does just fine. Also, some of the supporting players are also "real" French (ie; Marcel Hillaire).(Again, wait 'til a later episode wherein Jack Weston takes on the role of a French elitist....oi!)<br /><br />Middleton steals the damn show from beginning to end; his CLEARLY belongs in the annals of great Thriller performances. His excruciating trek through the (almost entirely) bare streets is one of the entire series' most memorable sequences; yes, it's long...but this, in my opinion, makes it all the more suspenseful and emotionally grueling for the viewer. Again, his long walk is cleverly intercut with the real-time parallel events as the prisoner is ritualistically prepared for the slaughter. And Middleton's final scene with De Metz is heartrending; beautifully played.<br /><br />Boris is at his best in the prologue; the writers and Mr. Karloff were really grooved in for the second season.<br /><br />I'll never forget the morning after we watched the premiere of this episode back in September, '61; I was on the school bus, excitedly telling a friend about the end of this show and shouting "I ween! I ween!...." to the consternation of all around me. <br /><br />Neuf tetes de Karloff!<br /><br />LRLarry Rapchaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3413477571485423494.post-64257136656640698832010-10-14T11:48:04.564-07:002010-10-14T11:48:04.564-07:00I prefer to let our comments stand as originally w...I prefer to let our comments stand as originally written, but I wanted to clarify one of my points from today's review. <br /><br />I did not intend for it to come across as if I was criticizing the show for looking like it was shot in the 60s; that's one of the things I love most about Thriller. I was trying to elicit what it was about the episode that so impressed upon Peter the feel of 19th Century Paris.John Scoleri't Beaumont's health problems also a ...Weren't Beaumont's health problems also a factor in his farming out scripts?<br /><br />I love this one. Sure it has its longueurs--the opening scene in the cell seems to take forever, as does the dinner scene. And Middleton's performance is the only really good one of the three leads. Still, it perfectly captures that Cornell Woolrich clockwork-of-doom feel. Also, I love Karloff's intro of the cast.<br /><br />And it's hard for me to get worked up over the 1960s TV feel, as the original story seems more like 1930s New York than 1870s Paris.Stan Wedekingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3413477571485423494.post-38706747819759316002010-10-14T08:07:51.452-07:002010-10-14T08:07:51.452-07:00Robert Middleton saves this episode for me. I have...Robert Middleton saves this episode for me. I have the DARKROOM series on two bootleg dvds and so I watched the 1982 remake of GUILLOTINE. Follows the THRILLER plot except they make it even clearer that the girl sleeps with both the prison guard and the executioner. One funny addition is when the guards trip the prisoner and he falls down a flight of stairs because they are afraid the executioner will not show up! But then he jumps up grinning saying "so you try to break my neck since you cannot cut it".<br /><br />I give the THRILLER 2 Karloffs and since James Coburn was the host of DARKROOM, it gets 1 Coburn.Walker Martin on, men. STAR WARS is no standard of excelle...Come on, men. STAR WARS is no standard of excellence for anything.<br /><br />It is merely a spike to hammer deeper, again and again, to no point whatsoever, as a default gag when you get bored by something that looks like 1960s television ... because it IS 1960s television.<br /><br />With that mindset, THRILLER is doomed for lack of modern conceits like action-packed car chases and lots of explosions. <br /><br />"Guillotine" is much more akin to a Victorian parlor drama dragged down into the dungeons and out into the streets ... as told by a guy in 1939. Call it buildup, padding or boredom if you will, but it's all aimed at that exciting climax, and Robert Middleton sells the hell out of it. I love the detail that the death crew comes in stealthy, without shoes. Or that the executioner has a special, handy-dandy carrying case for his favorite blade (what, does he have a collection of them? And if so, we should see them!). I don't care about the particulars of Lamont and Babette's deep, abiding love any more than I care about the utility leads in any Corman film — they're all interchangeable pawns to shove the plot along.<br /><br />And nearly EVERYTHING Beaumont wrote after his first few TWILIGHT ZONEs is suspect, as he had the habit of farming scripts out to his cohorts. Beaumont is without a doubt a talented writer, and I champion him, but he spread himself too thin, too fast — even in some of his prose. The proper provenances of his script work — especially his television work, when he wanted to be known as a feature screenplay writer — may never be reliably sorted out.DJSnoreply@blogger.com

What a great summer for watching sports. First the World Cup and now the Tour de France. Selling road bikes I have to blog about the Tour de France. With everyone watching the World Cup this year though I thought I better wait until after the Finals. Germany Wins! The Tour started on July 5th and goes through July 27th. Still plenty of chances to watch the excitement. One thing cool about the race in 2014 is that the race started in Northern England. After reaching London the race moves to France, diverts into Belgium and Spain, then back to France and Paris to finish on the Champs-Elysees. TRIVIA - First Tour de France was in 1903. - 2014 is the 101st running of the tour. The race wasn't run during the two world wars - Record number of wins was by Lance Armstrong with seven. The record book shows him with zero wins as all were taken away for doping. - Four riders have won five times. - In 1904 the leader was found to have caught a train for part of the event and had his win taken away. - The overall leader(the rider with the lowest cumulative time) wears the yellow jersey. - After 21 days and 2000 miles, the time between first and second place is sometimes mere seconds. - Gearing systems were banned in the early races so some riders would use a flip-flop hub to change to another gear for steep hills. - Early riders sometimes smoked during the race and instead of energy drinks, riders would share wine when riding. - Early tour organizers designed the route to be as grueling as possible. One of the founders said: "The ideal Tour would be one in which only one rider survived the ordeal." - Four cyclists have died during the tour. Three from crashes, one from heart failure. - Freddie Mercury wrote Queen's "Bicycle" after watching a stage of the Tour de France in 1978.

Japanese car maker Honda has created a special test track to replicate the terrible conditions on the UK's roads, it was revealed today. The company has created a track complete with potholes and cracks at its Takasu test-facility in Hokkaido, because Japanese roads are too good to mimic the conditions in Britain. Honda has claimed British roads are more absorbent than surfaces used in the rest of Europe, leading to damage as water which has seeped in freezes in cold weather and expands. Agencies responsible for roads in the UK are said to be embarrassed by the move, which was revealed by the investigative news website Exaro. Honda, which is the world's eighth largest maker of cars and trucks, has built the track to ensure cars intended for the UK market are robust enough - and have enough sound-proofing. Poor road surfaces have often been blamed for hefty repair bills and last year local councils in Britain had to pay out nearly £23million in compensation to drivers whose cars have been damaged by potholes. But, Honda says, the main reason for building their four-and-a-quarter mile track - which is so realistic it even includes UK road signs - is to mimic the soft road surfaces of British roads. Source: Dailymail

Charles Mueller struggles with his bishop, Frederick Patrick Sweeney, whose exercise of authority clashes with the ideals that brought Charles to the priesthood. Mueller loves the Church too much to be silent when his friends Monsignor (Frost) Oberkirche and Sister Maggie are battered under the bishop's guidance. A tale of tragedy and hope.*Review* "A powerful story written by a man whose experience makes this truth-in-fiction credible...and who shows great love for his church." ~James Patrick Shannon, Former Auxiliary Bishop - Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis ISBN 262 pages Paperback $14.95

Brown: No conversations about lieutenant governor slot Mayor Byron W. Brown on Wednesday said that he has not received a call from anyone in Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s camp about potentially becoming a candidate for lieutenant governor. “There have been no conversations,” Brown said during a brief interview Wednesday. Democrats are meeting on Long Island for their statewide nominating convention, where the party rallies around its candidates. Cuomo has not named a successor to Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy. The announcement of Cuomo’s running mate is expected before the end of the convention. Brown has been mentioned as a possible running mate for Cuomo, and he has not ruled out accepting a place on the ticket if it is offered. Cuomo seeks his second term. Republican Rob Astorino on Tuesday announced Chemung County Sheriff Christopher Moss as his running mate. The apparent silent treatment by Cuomo’s campaign towards Brown stands in sharp contrast to how Republican candidate Rob Astorino handled his lieutenant governor deliberations. A spokesman for Astorino’s campaign said this afternoon that Moss was first contacted in late November or early December by Astorino about possibly joining the GOP ticket to take on the Democratic governor. Moss, the spokesman said, was on Astorino’s short list from the very beginning.

Press Release – Copyright Licensing Ltd New Zealand’s print copyright protection agency, Copyright Licensing Ltd (CLL) announces Paula Browning as its new Chief Executive Officer. Paula will take up the position on 14 June 2010.Copyright Watchdog Appoints New Chief New Zealand’s print copyright protection agency, Copyright Licensing Ltd (CLL) announces Paula Browning as its new Chief Executive Officer. Paula will take up the position on 14 June 2010. Confirming the appointment, CLL’s Chairman, Chris Else said he was delighted. ’Paula has held senior roles in the commercial, education and sport sectors that have included strategic communications, contract management, community engagement, finance and advocacy. ‘I am very confident that Paula’s mix of skills and experience will make a strong contribution to CLL’s success both in its current role and in new directions.’ Paula is currently the Business Manager at Sport Auckland where she has recently led the establishment of the Auckland Sports Reference Group and worked with the Auckland Transition Agency in the development of the new Auckland local government structure. Paula takes over the role from Kathy Moore who has moved on after 15 years at CLL. The CLL Board and Staff are looking forward to working with Paula as the organisation moves to embrace the opportunities offered by the new digital age. Copyright Licensing Ltd is a non-profit copyright collective, looking after the interests of publishers and authors in New Zealand. CLL is part of a global network of copyright collectives that provide centralised licensing services for the reproduction of extracts from published works. Ends Content Sourced from scoop.co.nz Original url

OPENING HOURS: MON - FRI 10 - 4, SAT - SUN 10 - 2. $ FREE ADMISSION 24 Victoria St, Cambridge , NZ Collections Our Cambridge Collection has changing exhibitions about Cambridge. Much of our collection is in storage to ensure its preservation for future generations. Cambridge Collections Other Cambridge Lodges The Alpha Waikato Lodge, No. 449, I.C., Cambridge was opened on 15 December 1865, in a hotel later known as the Masonic Hotel, by dispensation by the Provincial Grand Master of New Zealand, I.C. This lodge lasted only two years. The Loyal Duke of Cambridge Lodge opened its doors in Cambridge in April 1867. Fifteen members joined up on 28 May 1867 at a meeting in the Duke of Cambridge Hotel with William Henry Burbridge the first Noble Grand. This lodge folded not long after it celebrated its centennial in 1967. The Alpha Lodge No. 81 was constituted 11 June 1883 with Morris Moses the first Master. In 1899 they had their own hall built for £149 in Chapel (later Anzac) Street where the Lodge stayed for over thirty years. The Alpha Lodge is still active in Cambridge and carries on with good deeds from their hall on the corner of Queen and Bryce Streets. Star of Cambridge Tent No 8 NZ District 84 Independent Order of Rechabites. The Rechabites, who were a Temperance lodge, started in Cambridge on 23 November 1904. It offered to the young men of the district exceptional advantages in the shape of medical and sickness benefits. Charles Beer (a Rechabite of 18 years) took the chair as Chief Ruler and meetings were held monthly in the St Pauls Methodists Schoolroom on Wednesdays nearest the full moon. By 1915 Honorary Members were A Jamieson, C S Beer, J Looker, R Ching, W Harries, Mrs Farnsworth and W H Davies. The Independent Order of Oddfellows is another benevolent society offering its members various medical and sickness benefits and Arawa Lodge No. 97, IOOF, opened in Cambridge 13 February 1912. The local newspaper reported – “Twenty-two candidates were initiated into the mysteries of the Order, who, with four clearance members from distant Lodges, formed the new Lodge. Bro E A Healy was elected NG, Bro J Wansbone as VG, Bro H Reeves the Secretary, and Bro C Ekman Treasurer.” In 1932, the Brothers of Arawa Lodge took the Rebekah Degree, enabling the Lodge to then start their own Rebekah Lodge for ladies, and Te Koutu Rebekah Lodge No. 78, IOOF, was instituted on 21 January 1933. Sister Jessie Watt was installed as the first Noble Grand. Due to falling numbers among the brothers, on November 29 1996, Arawa Lodge No.97 combined with Te Koutu Rebekah Lodge No.78 and Sis M Clarke, P L D D G M, was installed as Noble Grand. They continued meeting in this form with Te Koutu celebrating their 70th anniversary in 2003, until Te Koutu also closed in 2012. Researched and written by Eris Parker Ref: Cambridge Museum Archives

CAMEROON SOCIAL CLUB (CAMSOC) is a nonprofit organization since 2003. The Mission of the Cameroon social club is to promote, encourage and sustain good fellowship, social vitality and cultural vibrancy of our Cameroon heritage. CAMSOC aims at promoting shared understanding and values for the development of an inclusive Cameroon community through the reinforcement of the social link between Cameroonian living in N.E. Before the inception of CAMSOC, various attempts had been made by well meaning Cameroonians to create a national organization here in New England, but all attempts came up short. Actually, some of the founding members of CAMSOC had been in earlier teams which did not succeed. However, they had faith, and trudged along. “There were three attempts, I remember”, says one of the people who had been in attendance at the earlier trials. He continued by saying there was a zeal to form a group, but somehow it did not catch. After these attempts, most of the earlier group got discouraged, but then some of them still believed. So, in September 2003, Peter Tamajong, Nawain Kangsen, Bernard Nkwantah, Bouh, Ben Nkeng, John Salle who had been part of the earlier team, made another try. They contacted a group of Cameroonians in whom they had faith and convinced them to join this group t hey were creating. Those who were contacted were Ntang Elad, Julius Enang, Divine Ngah, Romeo N, Merimee Kwagheu, Cyril Fankam, Njiki Osseini, Ikeh, Henry Ntoro, Lizette Ebua, along with a few others and asked them to join in the launch of a Cameroonian association. They all enthusiastically accepted and put in their effort and dedication, which culminated in the launch of the Cameroon Social Club. To celebrate the creation of this group, a party was held at John Salle’s Mattapan abode at which the group was introduced to Cameroonians. This get together marked the beginning of CAMSOC. Through the years, CAMSOC has grown into a well recognized organization, not only in New England, but in the rest of the country. Earlier, at its start, CAMSOC celebrated our national days, i.e. Youth Day, and 20th May. On May 20th, we would have a soccer competition during the day and culminate the festivities with a party at night. However, anyone who knows New England knows its weather. It either snowed or rained on our parade during these celebrations. So, instead of subjecting ourselves to the temperamental weather hiccups of New England, we created an All Cameroon Cultural Day, which would serve to celebrate our heritage and sort of bundle our national day festivities into this one event. This started in 2006. The occasion is celebrated in collaboration with every Cameroonian civic and cultural group in New England. We have also had the pleasure of a cultural group from the DRC and Gabon grace us, with the DRC being featured at the celebration every year. The event showcases our traditional attires, our food, and our dances; in short, our culture and heritage. This event is celebrated every summer and it sometimes assembles all of 2000 Cameroonians and well wishers in the hall. Along with the All Cameroon Cultural Day, CAMSOC also instituted a life insurance policy for all its members. Since the introduction of this program, we have lost four members and the insurance has come in handy. CAMSOC as an organization, is still growing, it is young, but even at this juncture, it has accomplished quite a bit, so as to receive citations from Hon. Senator John Kerry, former Senator from Massachusetts and now Secretary of State, Hon. Governor Deval Patrick, Governor of Massachusetts, and the Limbe Association. All these recognitions for the work CAMSOC is doing in mobilizing Cameroonians to participate and build a better community wherever they live. CAMSOC had a fundraiser for the Haitian quake and the proceeds were handed over to the Red Cross of Massachusetts. Credit: Eric Chu (Bouh).

[tag: science] Abstract 5742 Background: The STK15 (also known as Aurora-A/BTAK) gene localized on chromosome 20q13 and encoding a centrosome-associated serine/threonine kinase, is amplified and overexpressed in multiple human tumor-cell types. Over expression of this gene is involved in tumorigenic transformation, induction of centrosome duplication-distribution abnormalities, and aneuploidy in mammalian cells. Methods: To examine the potential role of STK15 in ovarian tumorigenesis, its mRNA and protein expression status were examined in cells grown in culture from 15 ovarian cancer specimens using semi-quantitative RT-PCR and Western blot analysis. Normal ovarian surface tissues and the near diploid non-tumor α-satellite probes for chromosome 3 and 17. Results: STK15 mRNA was found over expressed in 10 of the 15 ovarian cancer cell cultures. Five of these cell cultures revealed a truncated form of the STK15 protein with a molecular mass of 36 kDa. When tested for tumorigenicity in nude mice, nine of the ten cell cultures that over expressed STK15 mRNA formed tumors in nude mice, while only one of the five cell cultures with no over-expression did. Cells over expressing STK15 mRNA showed significant correlation with chromosome 3 polysomy. Six of the 13 (46%) cell cultures analyzed for p53 expression revealed over expression of p53 and five of these six (83%) also overexpressed STK15. Four of the remaining seven cultures (57%), with over expression of STK15, revealed minimal or no expression of P53. Conclusions:. - American Association for Cancer Research

PHOENIX — A Republican representative from Arizona has introduced a bill that seeks to protect the rights of religious business owners to refuse to facilitate acts that violate their faith. Senator Steve Yarbrough (R-Chandler) recently presented SB 1062 to the Senate Government and Environment Committee, which approved the legislation to move forward to the full Senate by a 4-2 vote. SB 1062 serves to provide clarification to the existing protections afforded to religious exercise, ensuring that the applicability of the protections includes “any individual, association, partnership, corporation, church, religious assembly or institution, estate, trust, foundation or other legal entity.” “Free exercise of religion is a fundamental right that applies in this state even if laws, rules or other government actions are facially neutral,” the proposed law outlines. It bars the state from substantially burdening an entity’s free exercise or religion unless there is a “compelling government interest” and the least restrictive means are used to further the interest. As the U.S. Supreme Court and federal circuit courts already use this standard to test the constitutionality of laws, the statute would simply ensure that the same protections are enforced by the state. Yarbrough said that he was prompted to propose the legislation after the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that a photographer in the state could not decline to shoot a same-sex ceremony, thus violating the Biblical command in 1 Timothy 5:22 to not be “partakers in other men’s sins.” The case is now on appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. However, critics of the bill assert that the legislation wrongfully allows for the unlawful discrimination of minorities, dubbing it the “right to discriminate bill” and the “religious bigotry bill.” “[These bills] generally result from persons claiming that their religious beliefs entitle them to disregard civil-rights laws that protect against various discrimination including on the basis of religion, gender, marital status, national origin and sexual orientation,” Dan Pochoda, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) told the East Valley Tribune. Others assert that the legislation would allow businesses to refuse to serve non-Christians and homosexuals, as well as women who co-habitate or have sex outside of marriage. But Yarbrough said that the proposal would not change any existing laws. “Prohibited discrimination remains prohibited,” he told reporters. “In no way does this bill allow discrimination of any kind. … [A]ll this going crazy lighting their hair on fire is misplaced.” John Kredit, an attorney with the Pheonix-based Center for Arizona Policy, agreed. He told Christian News Network that SB 1023 simply echoes federal law and ensures that it is reinforced on a state level. “The federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act has been around since 1993,” he explained, “and none of these ‘sky is falling’ things have happened.” “Recent cases have brought to light areas that we are correcting,” Kredit stated. “We just want to ensure that a citizen does not surrender their religious rights in the workplace.” A special message from the publisher...

Note: This post, originally published June 13,. Musical Influences Leonard Cohen’s musical influences are varied and sometimes surprising. He includes, for example, among his early influences “Scottish Border ballads, the Spanish flamenco songs, the Portuguese fado.”1 The People’s Songbook At age 15, Cohen was introduced to “The People’s Songbook,” and through it to such songs as “Passing Through,” “The Partisan,” and “Beloved Comrade.” The song “Passing Through” is a song I learned when I was fifteen, from a very devoted socialist that I knew. That particular version of the song comes out of “The People’s Songbook” which was a song book developed out of the interest that the socialists had at one time in Folk Music, still have. It came out of the “Almanac Singers” who later became “The Weavers”, that’s the group that Pete Seeger was in – the book was edited by John Lomax. The book itself was very influential in interesting me in song and songwriting. I came across it when I was about fifteen.2 Country Music Leonard Cohen has frequently and unabashedly attested to his enjoyment of country music and the strong influence that genre has had on his own work. It is significant that Leonard Cohen has himself pointed out that “When I was 17, I was in a country music group called the Buckskin Boys. Writing came later, after music.”3 I’ve always loved country music. I lived in Nashville for a couple of years. Even in the dark periods of the seventies and the early eighties, I listened to a lot of country music because I felt that that’s where the emotion was, that’s where the lyric was, and that’s where real problems were being addressed. Country singers tend to be a little older. The audience tends to be a lot more loyal. So the singers and the writers can reveal themselves over a long period of time. You know that Johnny Cash is not going to be singing about anything frivolous, and you know that George Jones is not going to be presenting himself with any kind of bravado; you know that he is going to be telling the truth about himself in his song. When you have pop groups coming and going with tremendous rapidity, you can’t get the feel of the artist. 4 The musical values [of “urban folk music, country western”] are very sophisticated, not primitive as it’s usually taken to be. Very sophisticated and very, very minimal, but the emphasis is on the voice and the experience in the voice.5 [Country, eh, sometimes quite obscure feelings that make most pop music very, very kindergarten.6 [Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here – it’s called Country Western Music… I think that’s where the deeper and more complex subjects are treated.7 Sid Vicious Vs Frank Sinatra Similarly indicative of Cohen’s thoughtful, counterintuitive musical pathway is his preference for the Sid Vicious cover of “My Way” over Frank Sinatra’s: I never liked this song [“My Way”] except when Sid Vicious did it. Sung straight, it somehow deprives the appetite of a certain taste we’d like to have on our lips. When Sid Vicious did it, he provided that other side to the song; the certainty, the self-congratulation, the daily heroism of Sinatra’s version is completely exploded by this desperate, mad, humorous voice. I can’t go round in a raincoat and fedora looking over my life saying I did it my way — well, for 10 minutes in some American bar over a gin and tonic you might be able to get away with it. But Sid Vicious’s rendition takes in everybody; everybody is messed up like that, everybody is the mad hero of his own drama. It explodes the whole culture this self-presentation can take place in, so it completes the song for me.8 Pop Music On Leonard Cohen’s Jukebox Tellingly, Cohen has identified the “biggest influence on [his] music” as.9 Where The Good Songs Come From One of the most popular Leonard Cohen quotes is “I don’t know where the good songs come from or else I’d go there more often.”10 Well, if Mr Cohen hasn’t found the home of good songs, it isn’t for lack of looking. Consider his portfolio of referenced singers, songs, and lyric sources. Leonard Cohen has specifically endorsed such disparate tracks as “I Fall To Pieces” by Patsy Cline, “Je ne regrette rien” by Joaquín Rodrigo, “Tomorrow Never Knows,” by The Beatles, “Etude Op. 10, No. 1” by Chopin, “Black Lace” by Frankie Laine, “Y.M.C.A.” by Village People, and “Gums Bleed” by You’ve Got Foetus On Your Breath.11 The list of musicians Cohen enjoys is equally long and varied, including Waylon Jennings, Beethoven, Pete Seeger, The Beatles, Chopin, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, Josh White, Van Morrison, George Jones, Billy Joel, and King David. And, Cohen has derived lyrics from an especially extensive, eclectic group of sources, including the King James Bible, an Andrews Sisters song, a Yom Kippur prayer, poems by Federico García Lorca, and Whitman, a Scientology precept, and a Burger King commercial. I’m beginning to think that Mr Cohen, his protestations notwithstanding, has indeed discovered where good songs come from – and returns there quite often. Next in this series: Three Characteristics That Make A Song A Leonard Cohen Song: #3. Artistic Design – The Mystery & Practicality Of Songs ________________ - Conversations from a Room by Tom Chaffin. Canadian Forum: August/September 1983. [↩] - The Song Of Leonard Cohen – Portrait Of A Poet, A Friendship And A Film by Harry Rasky (1979) [↩] - Leonard Cohen: Cohen’s New Skin by Harvey Kubernik. Melody Maker:1 March 1975. [↩] - Aurora Online With Leonard Cohen by Marco Adria. Aurora: July, 1990 [↩] - Haute Dog by Mr. Bonzai (David Goggin). Music Smarts: July 10, 2010 (archived from 1988). [↩] - Tortoise-Shell Hero by Biba Kopf. New Musical Express, March 2, 1985. [↩] - Backstage Interview With Leonard Cohen with Ralph Benmergui. Toronto: Nov 9, 1988. The concert was broadcast live on CBC radio and rebroadcast on March 11, 1990 on The Entertainers. [↩] - Cohen’s Way by Mat Snow. The Guardian: February 1988. [↩] - Yakety Yak by Scott Cohen (1994) [↩] - This has been used in many interviews, including in a June 28, 2006 NPR interview [↩] - For information about these Leonard Cohen–endorsed songs and many others, see Leonard Cohen’s Jukebox. [↩]

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Past Master - Peter Knight Very Sad Passing of Past Master Peter Knight FRICS FCILA ACII ACIArb FRSH; 2004/05 It is announced that Peter passed away on Christmas Eve 2010. A memorial service is to be held on The City on 15th February 2011 at 2pm. The venue is confirmed at St. Mary-le-Bow on Cheapside ( ) the service will be given by the Reverend George R. Bush. The reason for this choice is several, not least that Peter was very fond of George, and that it is the family Church in the City; Peters` daughter was married there. Peter also was a great supporter and Trustee of the East London Charity "Arts for All", which he first encountered at St Mary-le-Bow. Peters family have said livery members all will be warmly welcome to join the service, if they do so it would be hugely appreciated. Peter was also a member of the Worshipful Company of Insurers, The Worshipful Company of Painter Stainers and The Worshipful Company of Arbitrators plus the City Livery Club. Any further information required please seek from The Clerk please. Peter Knight from The Buntingford & Royston News: A LARGER than life former Buntingford deputy mayor who ran businesses in the town and headed up the town’s Scouts has died aged 67. Peter Knight was born in Bishop’s Stortford in 1944, attending schools in the town and was county diving champion at 14. The youngest qualified Scout master at 18, Peter spent time in America running scout camps. He started working life as a quantity surveyor for Herts County Council, marrying Diana Dedman in 1965. The couple had three children together, Andrew, Jacqueline and Jonathan. Andrew tragically died in a road accident aged four. Moving to Westland Green outside Little Hadham in 1977, he later qualified as a chartered loss adjuster. He opened a branch of his surveying and valuing business Knight & Co. into Buntingford’s Red House on High Street in 1985. Soon after, a history in scouting re-emerged and Peter found himself as the town’s group Scout leader, later organising a one-off family camp in Little Court, on The Causeway. In 1993, he started estate agency Churchills from the same premises with Alan Brown. Peter ran for the town council in 1995, serving for three years as councillor and finishing off as deputy mayor. The same year he bought a hotel in Lowestoft coast which he and Diane transformed into the Flying Fifteens tea room. After stepping down from the council he was also involved in setting up the Town Centre Management Team with John Warren, becoming chairman in its first year. Peter was appointed President of The Insurance Benevolent and Orphans Funds at the 1997 AGM which was held at The Insurance Hall on 22 July. The Funds give vital financial support and practical advice to insurance people and their dependent relatives. He also gained freedom of the City of London in the 1970s, also serving as president of the National Insurance Charities as well as Master of the Worshipful Company of Constructors. In September, he saw the conclusion of 20 years of fundraising that started on his watch materialise in the form of the new Buntingford Scout hut. He died of a heart attack on Christmas Eve. Peter was be laid to rest today at Epping Forest Funeral Park, North Weald. He is survived by his second wife Catherine, his children Jacqueline and Jonathan and four grandchildren. Peter Knight and Arts for All Arts For All is a community creative centre based in Shoreditch in the East End of London. They run creative clubs and classes for local people, and aim to build confidence through creative achievement. They run exciting clubs for all ages, working in many different art forms and materials. An important part of their work is with local children and young people. With junior art and craft clubs and youth work as a priority, Arts For All is enriching lives. They encourage children to develop creative hobbies and interests, in an atmosphere of fun and laughter; and offer a colourful, vibrant place for them to call their own! They believe strongly in inclusion and, at Arts For All, people from many different social and cultural backgrounds unite in friendship and creative exploration. Peter introduced Arts for All to The Company during his year as Master. We supported their excellent youth work and later during his year Peter arranged a exhibition followed by a reception INSIDE the Guildhall Art Gallery. See above Peter with some of the exhibitors and right making the welome speach on behalf of The Company. Later on but when Bob Craig was Master, Arts for All paintings by the youngsters of the Lord Mayors (November 2004) Parade were made to decorate the inside and outside of a beautiful Fruit Bowl. The Bowl itself was made by the craftsmen of Lowestoft and presented by Peter from both The Company and Arts for All to The Lord Mayor (Now Sir) David Brewer CMG JP (also like Peter a member of The Insurers Livery Company) and Lady Mayoress at a reception we held in May 2006. All at the inspiration of Peter. See above Peter (in the gown of Immediate Past Master) with the Bowl and then showing John Trussler and Kenneth Kent. Finally with The Lord Mayor David Brewer and staff of Arts for All. Golf Day at Tandridge 2005 Peter was not a golfer! But here he is in the Clubhouse on his golf day supervising the marking of the cards with Alan Longhurst. Alan always seemed to either win or be runner up and Peter certainly had in mind to keep an eye on the cards. Looking now at the outcome Peter was quite right too! Following the golf itself The Company always enjoys the evening Dinner. Livery Luncheons Peter loved our Livery lunches see here with Past Master Paul Lacey and on right with former Clerk Tim Nicolson.

Each industry is constantly influenced by external factors, including the economy and other critical developments. No matter whether young graduate or seasoned worker bee - everybody needs to take the evolving work environment into consideration. What are the hottest careers right now? Which career path should you venture on? If you’re undecided about your career, you might want to look out for these industries that are about to make a splash in Singapore’s workforce in the near future: The IT sector Technological growth has come to its peak, with the growing pace of technology creating disruptions across all industries. New roles are created by the minute, while universities and technical institutions are already preparing candidates for roles that do not even exist today! As the industry is set for an explosive growth in the years to come, job seekers can no longer escape from these changes and should think about how they can adapt to this new environment. Find technology jobs here. The hospitality sector As the Singapore government continues to channel support towards this ever-growing sector, the country remains a melting pot for both traditional and emerging job opportunities. Especially with more and more high-end restaurants and hotels opening every year. According to the latest new reports, the country has already seen an upward trend in visitor numbers in the first quarter of 2017, while demand for new hotels in Singapore remains rampant. This will likely translate to demands for talent across multiple hotel operations and backend roles in the years to come. Find hospitality jobs here. The healthcare sector With a rising demand for support within the healthcare sector, and an ageing population, Singapore’s government has also channelled a proportion of the country’s budget towards growing Singapore’s healthcare sector. This includes additional expenditure going towards grooming new healthcare professionals across multiple levels and skill sets, on-the-job training and upgrading of medical facilities to raise the attractiveness of working in this sectors. Doctors, nurses and practitioners - you’re wanted! Find healthcare jobs here. The early childhood education sector While junior colleges and primary schools are merging, pre-schools are rapidly growing their footprint across the country, with up to 800 new jobs getting created every year until 2020. Apart from early childhood educators, principals are also looking to fill backend roles, including cluster principals and centre managers, who will look after the day-to-day activities of childcare centres and provide a growth direction for the children. Find education jobs here.

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Republic. “Grandma isn’t scared of Paul Ryan,” wrote The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake, in an article titled “Seniors <3 Paul Ryan.” And the president focused on student loans and young voters throughout mid-August, according to Bloomberg, suggesting the campaign is retreating from what used to be politically safe territory after initially hitting the Romney campaign on Medicare. The situation comes as a surprise to a party that, in previous election cycles, deliberately avoided entitlement talk on the campaign trail. Inside the beltway, GOP officials call the issue the “third rail of politics,” a political landmine that could destroy careers and end bids for public office. That explains why many on the left collectively jumped for joy when Romney announced his vice presidential pick on Aug. 11. Ryan, a young and energetic House Budget Committee chairman from the Midwest, is well-known in Washington for his complex budget plans, which call for numerous cuts and sweeping reforms of Medicare. “Paul Ryan is a right-wing extremist who wants to end Medicare,” Adam Green, founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, said in a statement after Romney made his announcement. “If Democrats win in a landslide, this was the game changer.” But in the two weeks since Romney picked Ryan, Republicans have shattered expectations and overcome that rhetoric, largely thanks to their presidential candidate’s aggressive campaign strategy. In his remarks at the event announcing Ryan’s selection, Romney pointed out that Obama cut more $700 billion from Medicare to pay for his health care plan. “Unlike the current president who has cut Medicare funding by $700 billion, we will preserve and protect Medicare and Social Security,” Romney said on the USS Wisconsin when he named Ryan his running mate. On Aug. 14, Romney’s campaign released a new television ad, called “Paid In,” that attacked those cuts Obama made to Medicare. That same day, House Speaker John Boehner urged his House GOP caucus members to get aggressive on Medicare all around the country.

Poker wunderkind Tom "durrrr" Dwan has never been afraid of mixing it up at the tables, especially if the stakes are sky-high. So it should be no surprise that the 22-year-old Full Tilt pro is issuing a $1 million challenge to the online poker world. Dwan told Bluff Magazine that he will put up $1 million to prove that he is the best online player in cyberspace. photo by Matt Waldron "I'm making this heads-up challenge to the world," he said. ." According to PokerNews, Dwan's challenge stipulates the minimum of 50,000 online hands need to be played simultaneously at four or more tables of no-limit hold'em or pot-limit Omaha. Dwan has made an exception to the "anyone" proclamation. His good friend Phil "OMGClayAiken" Galfond will not be allowed to participate. In a post on the "2+2" forums, Dwan laid out a few more ground rules on the challenge: • A player can change to another table at anytime if their chip stacks are greater than 250 big blinds. • A player must reload when their chip stacks fall below 75 big blinds. • Money won during the matches will be kept by that player plus the bonus wager. For example, if Dwan was up $750,000 by the end of the challenge, he would keep that amount plus the additional $500,000 wager. If his opponent was up by $750,000 his opponent would keep it plus the $1.5 million Dwan said he would pay out. • The same stakes will be played the entire time. Some poker heavyweights have already accepted the challenge. Phil Ivey said on Barry Greenstein's "Tuesdays with Ivey" podcast on PokerRoad Radio that he will take on Dwan. "Somebody's probably going to go broke," he said. "That's a lot of money, and a lot of time." Ivey said that he is probably at a disadvantage because he doesn't play as many multi-table games as Dwan does. He also said that fellow pros Patrik Antonius and David Benyamine have accepted Dwan's challenge. Antonius confirmed this to CardPlayer magazine. "It sounded too good to be true," he said. "I tried to figure out what would be the trap there and I still haven't really figured it out. But I'm sure he's really thought about it. For sure, he's one of the best at the moment. It's like Phil Ivey says. He plays anyone, and everybody knows that. I'm basically the same." There has been no official confirmation from Benyamine on his involvement in the challenge.

EXCLUSIVE: Collette Wolfe (Young Adult) has landed the female lead in NBC’s comedy pilot Next Caller Please. The Lionsgate/Universal TV project, written by Stephen Falk, centers on Colorado public radio personality Stella Hoobler (Wolfe), who is thrilled when she’s recruited to co-host a radio show for Orbit Satellite Radio in New York City until she meets her co-host, Cam Doherty, an abrasive, hard-drinking, sexist loose cannon. Wolfe is with Gersh and Untitled. Jon Dore has been cast parents, Elaine and Max, a couple who’s full of life but knows no boundaries. Dore, repped by Gersh and Diamondfield, will play Polly’s “Big Lebowski-esque” ex-husband. Are We There Yet? star Terry Crews has landed an arc on Aaron Sorkin’s upcoming HBO series The Newsroom. The show, set behind the scenes of a cable news network, stars Jeff Daniels as primetime anchor Will McAvoy. Crews will play Lonny, Will’s bodyguard and would-be-confidant or life coach of sorts. Actor and Old Spice spokesman Crews, repped by WME, next reprises his role in The Expendables 2.

With more than a decade of experience as a high school coach and teacher, Doug Lum knew plenty about having a lot on his plate. Then, he added another helping. Lum earned a Master of Education in Educational Administration online from Lamar University while he balanced coaching, teaching and helping his wife, Monica, raise their children, Shane and Abby. “There’s no other way I could have done it,” Lum said. “I got into the education field in 2002, so for 10 or 11 years of my career, people kept telling me, ‘Hey, you need to go pursue this.’ Without an online format, there’s no way that I could have had the time to go to class. I looked into the weekends, going once a month for eight hours. As a coach, there’s no way I could have done that consistently; it would have taken me 10 years to get done.” Instead, it took Lum 18 months to earn his graduate degree and a Program Certificate in Principal Education online, which helped him land his current job as assistant principal at Jourdanton Junior High, south of San Antonio. “People are like, ‘You did that in 18 months?’,” Lum said. “I say, ‘There’s no rest for the wicked. You’ve got to get after it. If you put your head down and work hard, you can get it done.'” A New Game Plan Lum, who grew up playing multiple sports in Poteet, Texas, originally wanted to become a sports journalist after majoring in communications with a concentration in technical writing at the University of Texas San Antonio. “I thought that would be cool,” Lum said. “That was my dream as a kid, to be a sports writer. I dabbled into it a little bit. Before I really pursued my degree, I did some radio and stuff like that, wrote for some small-town papers. I realized there was no money there, and you can’t survive.” So, Lum got an emergency certification and immediately went into teaching English and coaching basketball, football and track and field at Natalia ISD after graduating from UTSA. He also did a stint at McMullen County ISD, where he was the head coach of the boys’ varsity basketball team. Lum was then hired as the girls’ varsity basketball head coach at Jourdanton. “Everything was going good in the fall of 2013 when we were in the middle of basketball season, but my kids were getting older,” Lum said. “I finally bit the bullet. A friend of mine [Shane Wilton], who I coached with way back in Natalia, got his degree through Lamar University. He recommended it, and I started in with it in the spring of 2014. I just worked away at it. One year was pretty hard for me. I was still the girls’ head basketball coach, taking a full load and during hard courses.” Wilton also gave Lum a game plan to earn his degree while coaching and teaching. “He said, ‘Man, you can just do it. It’s inexpensive, and you set your own hours,'” Lum said. “He was also a basketball coach when he did it. He said, ‘Work on Wednesdays and Sundays.’ It was hard being a football fan and stuff like that, but I just had to keep the TV off until I got all of my work done.” A Tough Decision In addition to adding so much to his workload, the decision to leave coaching in May 2016 was even more difficult because Abby was about to be a senior on the basketball team, which meant he wouldn’t coach her during her final season of high school basketball. Shane is a student at Texas Tech University who is majoring in communications. “They were behind me 100 percent,” Lum said. “We all sat down as a family when the decision came to get out of the coaching aspect of it and into administration and talked about how this was the opportunity we were waiting for. It’s kind of nice for her, too, as a senior to not be the coach’s daughter.” Lum said he’s happy with the decision he made but that he absolutely misses coaching. “When I got here to this district, the girls’ basketball program was struggling,” he said. “I spent a lot of years building it. The last two years of my tenure, we won the district championship. They had not won district in like 15 years or something. We built it from not much to winning back-to-back district titles. Then, we had basically the entire team coming back this year. They’re going to have a really good season, but I had this opportunity arise. Sometimes you just have to do what’s best for your family.” Fortunately, he has a mentor at his new job who really knows the ropes. “Our assistant principal moved to our central office, so this job came open,” Lum said. “I interviewed with our principal [Robert Rutkowski], who has been the principal at our junior high — this is his 28th year. I couldn’t ask for a better first administrative job and getting to learn from somebody.” Laying the Foundation Lum said his Master of Education in Educational Administration helped give him some valuable insight to the most important part of his first administrative position. “I really liked the courses that focused on the human resources aspect of it, because I feel like you can learn the nuts and bolts as far as the curriculum and all of that stuff you need to know for this job, but dealing with people and managing people is really the important aspect of this job,” he said. Lum said if he can manage to earn a degree online with so many other things going on his life, anybody can make it work. “I would say that before you get into it that you correctly know how to budget your time,” he said. “That’s basically the toughest aspect of it. And to keep an open mind about it. The discussion forums, the online group discussions and the videos are probably the most helpful things you’re going to get out of the program because you get to pick other people’s brains, and then you realize most people out there are going through the same situations as you.” Lum said after he gets a year of experience as an assistant principal, he plans to go back and earn a Program Certificate in Superintendent Education online at Lamar University. “I’m proud of it,” Lum said. “People ask me where I got my master’s, and I say, ‘Lamar University. They have an extensive online program you can do. The flexibility really drew me to it.” Learn more about the Lamar University online M.Ed. in Educational Administration program. Have a question or concern about this article? Please contact us.

Diaz and Urshela Extend Streaks, Zimmer Adjusting Well, and More in Clipnotes Bob Toth | On 06, Aug 2016 PUSHES STREAK TO 24 Yandy Diaz remains an everyday component of the Clippers lineup and is contributing night in and night out. He has pushed his batting average to a season high .344 with a .418 on-base percentage and .495 slugging mark over the course of a 24-game hitting streak that he brought into Saturday’s action. He used a lot of singles during the week to maintain the streak, but doubled on back-to-back days against Indianapolis on Tuesday and Wednesday. He added a homer and four RBI in the offensive eruption on Friday night against Louisville. URSHELA’S STREAK REACHES 19 IN A BIG WAY Giovanny Urshela pushed his hitting streak to 19 on Friday with a four-hit effort against Louisville. He appeared in six of the last seven Clippers games and had four multi-hit games throughout the week. He had back-to-back two-hit games against Indianapolis to begin the month, then hit a homer and drove in three in the third game of the series. He had a pair of doubles and two RBI in a three-hit game in the finale and started the series with the Louisville Bats with a four-hit game, supplying the Clippers with three singles and a double while driving in two. He entered play on Saturday with at least two runs batted in over each of his last four games. His batting average has climbed from .238 to .272 over the course of his hitting streak. ZIMMER ADJUSTING WELL TO LIFE IN AAA Bradley Zimmer had his second career four-hit game on Friday in Columbus’ rout of Louisville. Zimmer has hit safely in eight of his first eleven games at the Triple-A level since his promotion, hitting .357 during that stretch with a homer, two doubles, and three RBI. The two doubles came in that four-hit outburst on Friday, when he was 4-for-6 against the Bats with three runs scored and one run batted in. AGUILAR WITH SEASON-HIGH RBI OUTPUT On Friday, Jesus Aguilar went 3-for-5 with two runs scored. He had a pair of doubles, a home run, and drove in five as the Clippers routed the Bats, 17-4. The five RBI exceeded his previous season-high of four, done twice this season on June 9 and June 11. The 26-year-old right-handed hitter is hitting .224 for the year with 18 doubles, 21 homers, and 70 RBI. CLIPPERS RECEIVE HAVILAND Right-hander Shawn Haviland was signed on Friday to a minor league contract by the Indians and assigned to Columbus. Released prior to the season by the Charlotte Knights, Haviland has yet to pitch this season. The 30-year-old split last season between Pawtucket and Charlotte, posting a 5-10 record with a 4.18 ERA in 25 games, including 19 starts. PITCHING ON THE MOVE Over the course of the last week, the Indians have called up Shawn Armstrong, Mike Clevinger, Ryan Merritt, Shawn Morimando, and T.J. House from the Clippers. They have also optioned Austin Adams, Cody Anderson, Armstrong, Merritt, and Morimando back to Columbus during that stretch, as the team seeks to work through short outings from the starting rotation. Clevinger aided the club by starting in Thursday’s win over the Minnesota Twins and has remained in the rotation while the team awaits the return of Danny Salazar from the 15-day disabled list. Cortland Cox was assigned to the Clippers on Saturday morning from the Lake County Captains to help out in the Columbus bullpen. Lefty Craig Stammen moved up from Akron on Tuesday. Argenis Angulo was assigned back to Lake County on Friday after his promotion on Thursday. The same occurred for D.J. Brown, who was shifted back to Akron on Thursday after his brief promotion on Wednesday for a start. Matt Whitehouse joined the club from the Lynchburg Hillcats on Thursday but was returned on Saturday. COLON ON ASSIGNMENT Joseph Colon has returned to the Clippers as well, albeit this trip may just be temporary as he began his rehab assignment for the Indians on Saturday. OTHER TRANSACTIONS Erik Gonzalez was optioned to Columbus on Friday when the Indians added former Clipper Michael Martinez off of waivers from Boston. The club designated left-hander Tyler Olson for assignment to make room on the 40-man roster for the addition of Martinez. The Indians retained outfielder Joey Butler, who had been designated for assignment on Sunday to make room for reliever Andrew Miller. He returned to the Clippers. Photo: Chris Russell/The Columbus Dispatch

Creation Date 5-3-2009 Description Anderson Hall UF Plaque, FL. It is a historic building in Gainesville, Florida, in the northeastern section of the University of Florida campus. On June 27, 1979, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places #79000562. Built in 1913 and originally called Language Hall, Anderson Hall was designed as a multipurpose building, housing the classrooms and offices for the Departments of English, Language, History and Mathematics. It also housed the offices of the Registrar as well as Graduate Studies. The building was renamed in 1949 in honor of James Nesbitt Anderson, who was the first Dean of The graduate School in 1930 till he retired. It was designed in collegiate gothic style by architect William A. Edward. This plaque shows the date it was built and name of hall. Latitude, Longitude 29.651323, -82.342615 Keywords Taylor, George Lansing, Jr.; Lance Taylor; Photographers -- Florida --Jacksonville; Photograph collections -- Florida -- Jacksonville; College campuses; College building; Historic building; Historical markers; Plaque; University of Florida; Gainesville, FL

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Ms. Pamela Bone and Associate Professor Andrew Marcus Address At the November meeting a panel of two speakers addressed us on "What has been learned from the Holocaust". Both are prominent in their field: "Age" journalist Ms. Pamela Bone and Associate Professor Andrew Marcus from the History Department at Monash University. Ms. Bone spoke first and her view was that humanity has learned something from the Holocaust, but cautioned us that we are in danger of forgetting the lessons. Ms. Bone quoted David Ben Gurion's statement made in the 1950's "that the gas chambers and the soap factories are what anti-semitism may lead to". She went on to say that since the Holocaust, decent people not only had shied away from expressions of anti-semitism but also racism in general. It is a tragedy that racism has become respectable in Australia today. Pauline Hanson has not specified Jews in her diatribe against Asians, Aboriginals, foreign aid and the United Nations, but suggested that we should be concerned about the climate that is surfacing in our country. She quoted Thomas Keneally: "There has been an empowerment of the unspeakable. Some of the people speaking out now, even if they don't know it, are at the first station on the long road that leads to Auschwitz". Ms. Bone spoke with compassion, conviction and authority. Six months ago she had been to Rwanda and witnessed the aftermath of the evil perpetrated there, she now has recurring dreams which are filled with blood. She empathizes with Holocaust survivors and the trauma they continuously relive. Associate Professor Andrew Markus, who lectures on the Holocaust at Monash University, was the second speaker. He reminded us that we have learned little in the last 50 years. He reflected on the Holocaust, the arms race, Bosnia, Rwanda and the Hanson issue. He posed the question - "have views changed?" He reminded us of the vibrant Jewish culture of Poland which is now wiped out. This brings home to us the dark side of mankind. There are groups today that talk of the destruction of Israel. Implicit in these comments is the annihilation of all its inhabitants. The United Nations, for example, are more concerned about Zionism as a racist force that the regime in Iraq which proliferates chemical warfare and other weapons of mass destruction. Professor Marcus asked: have bystanders, come to grips with, what it is to stand witness to the commitment of genocide in our commonly shared globe. Really, we haven't learned. Were we proactive to stop the human slaughter in Bosnia? Clearly we haven't learned. The deeper you explore the topics, the more uncertainties they seem to create. Elie Wiesel said he could not understand why the Allies, who had the munitions to bomb the neighbouring factories of Auschwitz, did not bomb the factories of human suffering and the feeder rail network. He asks us to look within and judge our reactions to the occurrences of the past 50 years. The audience was treated to two informed insights to issues that unfortunately are surfacing before our very eyes. Back to Reviews Index Page

Aluminum Terrarium What you'll need: This summer, build a terrarium out of acrylic and aluminum to bring a little nature inside your home. Other Supplies: • (2) 48" 1" x 1" x 1/16" aluminum angle • (2) 13" 1" x 1" x 1/16" aluminum angle • (5) 24" 1" x 1" x 1/16" aluminum angle • (1) 24" 1 1/2" x 1 1/2" x 1/16" aluminum angle • (5) Acrylic sheets - 18" x 24" .093" thick • Thin marker • Aluminum rivets- 1/8" x 3/8" • Rivet gun • Vise • Clamps • Silicone Caulk Step 1: To begin creating the ends of the terrarium, cut three slots into the 48" aluminum angle with the Dremel Ultra-Saw the following way: (3) 1/4" slots, 15" from the left and the right end, and (1) 1/4" slot at the 24" mark Step 2: Using a vise for a fulcrum point, secure the aluminum from step 1 at the center slot. Bend the center slot to a 90 degree angle. Then, bend the other two side slots to equal degrees to form a symmetrical shape with a 13" span at the bottom ends. Step 3: Next, using the Ultra-Saw and metal cutting blade, remove overlapping aluminum from the bended pieces. To do this, cut a line from the inside of the overlap to the top point, which will allow the acrylic sheet to lay flush against the aluminum. Step 4: Trace the terrarium end pieces created in step 3 on to an acrylic sheet. Cut out the shape by following the traced pattern using the Ultra-Saw again. Then, using a Dremel rotary tool and 1/8" drill bit, drill holes into the acrylic and 13" aluminum angle evenly spaced around the perimeter. Following the instructions on the rivet gun, attach the rivets to the end pieces where the holes were drilled. Repeat steps 1-4 to make the second side of the terrarium. Step 5: Once both sides are completed, clamp the five 24" aluminum pieces to the completed end pieces. Drill holes and secure with rivets to form the frame, clamping, drilling and attaching one side at a time. Then, meaure and cut the acrylic to form the sides. Cut the roof pieces of acrylic 1/2" wider to form the overhang of the terrarium. Step 6: Drill holes and rivet the remaining roof pieces of acrylic around the roof's aluminum perimeter. Step 7: Finally, adhere the 24" 1 1/2" x 1 1/2" x 1/16" aluminum angle to the top peak with Silicone caulk. Add a few succulents to your terrarium and enjoy the tranquility of a mini greenhouse this summer.

Carlotta Gall, The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan: 2001-2014. Haryana: Penguin Books Ltd, 2014, pages 329. United States fought its ever-longest war in history in Afghanistan. The al-Qaeda, Taliban terrorists, and militants were not completely washed out, however. Carlotta Gall is an American journalist worked for The New York Times during 2001-20014. She closely watched events inside Afghanistan and Pakistan and reported. She coined the title of the book from the remarks of the late U.S. Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard C. Hollbrooke, who remarked that ‘we may be fighting the wrong enemy in the wrong country’. Gall indicates that the ‘right enemy’ was Pakistan’s, its trainings camps for Jihadis, and madaris, and its intelligence agencies. Gall also observes that the war in Afghanistan was fought for thirteen years without solution (p.xiii). In foreword, she described her experience as a journalist working in Pakistan facing many arduous situations. She throws blames on security agencies disrupting her reporting. However, some of her observations were based upon exaggerations. In fact, Pakistan has developed more freedom of press during the American war in Afghanistan than many other countries. While reporting from war zones, there are hazards. The work has been divided into fourteen chapters ranging from surrender of the Taliban 2001 up to the events in Zangabad in 2013. Gall narrates the events in detail that how the Taliban were defeated and how the American collaborated with the United Front formed by the late Ahmed Shah Massoud driven by Uzbeks, Hazaras, and Tajiks, also known as the Northern Alliance, the staunch enemy of the Taliban. Gall says that Pakistan was having a proxy war inside Afghanistan particularly in Kunduz and rescued two thousand people through military flights but the remaining one thousand were left behind in lurch (p.8). Gall describes that Hamid Karazi needed the support of the Americans. He carried large sums of cash from the Americans and distributed ammunitions to fight the Taliban and clear many strongholds of the Taliban. Gall interestingly notes that how came Mullah Omar became the resistance force from 1994 to 2001 – a man never seemed marked for leadership (p.39). He wanted to overthrow the Kabul government and establish an Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan (p.47). Gall wonders how Pakistani establishment considered Omar as able leader. Quoting an interview of the author with Amrullah Saleh taken in Kabul on 30 September 2012, Gall mentioned that ‘Pakistani diplomatic cables found in Kabul in 2001 warned that the Arab militants in Afghanistan were growing “too big to handle”.’ (p.51). Lt. General Ziauddin Butt, the then Director-General of the Inter-Survives Intelligence (ISI) travelled to Kandahar and told Omar to get rid of Osama bin Laden but Omar could not move against Osama. (p.51). It is a very revealing point, which shows that the ISI was not behind Osama as was portrayed in media, books, analyses, and comments. Osama was Omar’s guest and he found difficult to send him back under Afghan’s traditions of hospitality. This point was highlighted in the media when Americans were ready to bomb Afghanistan. Gall doubts about General Pervez Musharraf’s support to the United States extended after 9/11. She says that Musharraf was not ready to dismantle thousands of home-grown fighters especially those fighting for Kashmir (pp. 60-61). He, however, handed over Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, Taliban’s Ambassador to Pakistan, to CIA onward detention in Guantanamo Bay. The writer also narrates the story of Sufi Muhammad of Swat and the formation of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), a religious political group assisted the regime of Musharraf while he ousted main political opponents in exile. Gall, however, did not throw light on the missing persons case of Pakistani nationals handed over to America. Gall also suspects that ‘al-Qaeda had spread its tentacles into Pakistani armed forces’ (p.84). She, however, could not come with evidence and elaborate such accusations. These accusations continued throughout the war and operation in Afghanistan by many quarters while Pakistan continued its efforts against terrorism. In fact, Gall came up with a wrong assumption and she could not appreciate Pakistan’s role against terrorism. Gall tells interesting episodes about the invention of the suicide bombers. She says that they were unknown before 2001 in Afghanistan. A number of militant organizations were involved in training the suicide bombers. They were Harkat-u-Mujahideen, Jaish-e-Mohammad, and Hesbe-Islami etc under the command of al-Qaeda and supported by the Taliban. The author says that religious madaris were the starting point of producing suicide bombers with the assistance of a middleman, al-Qaeda, and ISI (pp.154-5). The author tells that many Taliban leaders were detained by ISI in order to control them and keep them away from contacting the Karzai Government (p. 161). Citing one of Osama’s wives, the author says that Osama moved to Haripur after 2004, short while in Swat, and then to Abbottabad in 2006 (p. 91-2). Again, the author did not elaborate the crucial event leading to the end of Osama’s life – the Abbottabad action taken by US Navy SEAL commandos in May 2011. Quoting her interactions with a number of people, she was convinced that Musharraf knew about Osama’s presence in Pakistan but again she did not forward solid evidence. Gall also describes militancy in Pakistan in her own style following the Afghan war. Against this context, the controversial Red Mosque backlash was discussed. Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto ‘spoke out more than any other Pakistani politician about the dangers of militant extremism’ Gall writes. (p. 174). Extracting information from multiple sources, Gall notes that Benazir was killed by al-Qaeda and Baitullah Mehsud, a militant commander from South Waziristan (p.181). The work is a blunt story and minor details of war events rather than a well researched study from the point of view of an American journalist actively watching the American-NATO-ISAF actions and political and social developments inside Afghanistan and Pakistan over a number of years. The author’s narratives were largely based upon her conversations rather than dwelling on strong arguments. They, however, were penetrating, drawing the attention of readers to make their analyses. By Dr Ahmed Rashid Malik The writer is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad.

“It’s driven me to near insanity” Alastair Morgan confesses. For 28 years Morgan has relentlessly fought to establish the truth behind the murder of his brother, Daniel Morgan, a private investigator found with an axe in his head in a Sydenham pub car park. “That feeling of powerlessness, that nobody is listening to you when you know serious stuff is going on. It’s soul destroying. That can really send you close to the edge mentally. And it can be like that for years.” Five failed police investigations and an ongoing independent inquiry, Morgan is still searching for the truth. Living in leafy Islington with his “hugely supporting” partner Kirsteen, a producer at BBC Radio 4, the 66-year-old translator is at the fore-front of what has been called the most notorious unsolved murder of the last 50 years. His younger brother’s death is stained with police corruption, tangled in a web of allegedly corrupt relationships between police officers, private investigators and journalists. Seeking justice for nearly 30 years, a period in which he has probably attended “nearly 600 meetings”, anyone would forgive Morgan for calling it a day. However, Morgan has the fight of a Rottweiler. With such an unswerving determination, it’s no surprise that at long last it seems his voice is finally being heard. On March 16, Morgan received a personal letter from Rupert Murdoch. Inside was a promise to co-operate with the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel, a judge-led enquiry launched in 2013 by the Home Secretary Theresa May, to investigate police involvement within Daniel’s murder and the following failed investigations. The media moguls assurance comes after it emerged during the 2012 Leveson Inquiry that News of The World journalists had placed Detective Chief Superintendent Dave Cook, an officer on the fourth investigation into Daniel’s murder, under surveillance. There have been claims that the surveillance was the result of corrupt relations between suspects within the case and the now-disbanded-publication’s journalists. Morgan is convinced that “bent coppers” have protected those responsible for Daniel’s death, claiming there have been repeated attempts by the Metropolitan Police to cover up embarrassing malpractice within the failed investigations. “The system is so discredited that it is no good. It is not fit for purpose” he declares solemnly. “Cover up is the Met’s default position” he alleges, “if there’s a worse case than Daniels, I don’t know about it.” He describes how at the time of Daniel’s brutal death in 1987, his brother was about to “blow the whistle on police corruption” he had uncovered. Allegations have emerged that shortly before his murder, the private investigator had approached the News of the World with a story disclosing a group of corrupt officers potentially involved in a cocaine smuggling ring. It was this knowledge, Morgan says, that led to his horrific killing. Daniel Morgan was found next to his BMW at the Golden Lion pub in Sydenham, with an axe embedded in his head. The 37-year-old still had two packets of crisps in his hand that he had bought moments earlier. He left behind two young children and a wife. “You think it’s something that happens to other people until it happens to your own family”, Morgan said quietly. “When we were at the inquest, the solicitor asked if we wanted to see the photographs [of Daniel’s body]. I said no. I’m glad I did because if I ever saw them it would be etched in my mind, I would never be able to forget it. I want to remember him as I remember him, not that.” The son of an army officer, Morgan was born in Singapore before moving to Monmouthshire, Wales. He and Daniel were close as brothers, he recalls, with only eleven months between them. The death of their father when Morgan was just 16 brought the family – Morgan has a younger sister called Jane, now 62 – closer together. “I think if any of us were in real trouble, we would go to our siblings for help.” He remembers Daniel as having a great memory. “We would be driving along and he would say to me ‘I know that car. I was looking for that car two years ago’”. Daniel was bright too, according to his older brother, but not in the academia sense. “Daniel wasn’t interested in academic studies. It’s not that he wasn’t clever, he just wasn’t interested.” After leaving school, Daniel attended an agricultural college at Usk, South Wales, before moving to Denmark. After a few years away he returned to the UK as a travel guide for foreign tourists. In 1997 he began working as a private investigator in London. On the night of his murder, Daniel had been at a pre-arranged meeting in the Golden Lion with Jonathan Rees, a business partner at his detective agency Southern Investigations. Rees denied having any involvement in Daniel’s death, despite allegations by a former colleague that Rees had told him of his plans to kill Daniel, six months before the murder. In 2011 Rees and two other suspects were cleared of killing Daniel. The trial had collapsed after 18 months of legal argument. Two years after the collapsed trial, The Daniel Morgan Independent Panel was launced. The ongoing enquiry, investigating police involvement into Daniel’s murder, received its first set of documents from the Metropolitan Police in December 2014. 18 months after the Morgan panel first requested the case files. “The panel has no statutory law, so it can’t order people to disclose anything. The only weapon it has is embarrassment.” Morgan explains that it was this lack of power that led him to personally write to Murdoch in March this year. He asked the media mogul to co-operate with the panel by allowing it access to all archive files, email evidence and results of any internal investigations relating to the 2002 surveillance. “I thought [the letter] will be a way of putting pressure on NewsUK and making it embarrassing for them if they didn’t co-operate with the panel. Also, if it is coming from me and my family, it’s got more emotional and moral pull than if the panel asks.” Jaqui Hames, the ex-wife of Dave Cook and a former Crimewatch presenter, told the Leveson Inquiry that she believed the reason for the publication surveilling her family was that suspects in Daniel’s case were using their association with a powerful newspaper “to intimidate them and so attempt to subvert the investigation.” According to Hames, police did little to protect the couple. The inquiry heard that that when editor Rebekah Brooks was confronted about the surveillance in 2003, Brooks claimed the tabloid had targeted the couple because they believed Cook and Hames were having an affair. Had News of the World done a simple background search, Morgan explains, they would have known that Hames and Cook were married with two children. Six days after Morgan wrote to Murdoch, Murdoch responded saying that he was “confident we will respond appropriately to any further government investigation into this tragedy”. While the reply seems to indicate co-operation on Murdoch’s half, Morgan remains “cautiously optimistic” about the future outcome of the independent panel. “How much [paperwork] has been destroyed?” Morgan says cooly. It is clear that after all these years, no level of deception or corruption would surprise him. “My experience of this case is, and it has been right from the word go, the more you find out the worse it gets. You never find out anything that makes it better.” The toll of the last 28 years has certainly not escaped him, nor has the thought of giving up at times. “On occasions I feel sick to death of fighting, but then I will pretend not to think about it for a couple of weeks and then get back at it. I mean there have been times when I think what do I do next? Where do I go next? Who do I turn to now?” He cites “depression” as a personal effect of the never-ending battle, as well as bouts of stress and anxiety. “I mean five murder investigations. Living through a murder investigation is hell.” However, for Morgan the biggest sacrifice he has had to make is establishing a career for himself. “The one big loss for me is developing a career for the rest of my life. My job has always had to come second. I’m a translator and I do that because it means I can work freelance. I can go to meetings with police or the panel. If I had a nine till five job, I would never have been able to do it.” Despite periods of despair and life-changing sacrifices, Morgan holds an unswerving determination to expose the police corruption that he believed led to the killing of Daniel and contributed to the failings of the investigations. “I think trust in police is in inverse proportion to how much you have had to do with them.” “Systematic corruption, deliberate corruption, can’t be tolerated. The more you let it slip, the more you let it go by, the worse it gets.” Morgan speaks so fervently that it’s clear how he has been able to endure for so long. Although nearly three decades have passed, a burning passion for justice still ignites. As the independent panel continue reviewing Daniel’s case, Morgan hopes the inquiry will bring out “as much of the truth as possible.” With Murdoch having given word that he will co-operate, his battle seems much more likely to succeed than before. “I’m going to continue until I have exposed police corruption. It’s not if, it’s when, as far as i’m concerned.” Daniel Morgan Case: Timeline 10 March 1987 Daniel Morgan is found dead next to his BMW in the car park of the Golden Lion Pub in Sydenham, south London. Detective Sergeant Sid Fillery, of Catford police station, is assigned to the case. April 1987 Six people are arrested on suspicion of Daniel’s murder. The six include Sid Fillery, Jonathan Rees – Morgan’s former business partner – Glenn Vian, Garry Vian, and two other Met officers. All six are released with no charge. 1988 An inquest at Southwark coroners court returns a verdict of unlawful killing. July 1988 Hampshire Police begin an outside inquiry into the handling of the case and the murder inquiry itself. February 1989 Three people are arrested on suspicion of Daniel’s murder. Rees and another man are charged with the murder. May 1989 Charges are dropped due to lack of evidence. Sid Fillery joins Rees as his partner at Southern Investigations. 1998-99 Scotland Yard place a bug in Southern Investigations office. The bug reveals a plot by Rees to plant cocaine on a woman so that her estranged husband could get custody of their child. Rees is arrested. 2000 Rees is jailed for seven years after being found guilty of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. 2002 A fourth inquiry begins. News of the World places the investigating officer, Detective Chief Superintendent Dave Cook, under surveillance. The Metropolitan Police puts forward evidence on a number of people relating to Daniel’s murder, but the Crown Prosecution Service decides not to prosecute. 2005 A fifth inquiry led by Detective Chief Superintendent Dave Cook is begun in secret. April 2008 Police arrest and charge Rees, the Vian brothers and a Surrey-based builder called James Cook on suspicion of Daniel’s murder and Fillery on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice. October 2009 Legal arguments begin at the Old Bailey. March 2011 The director of public prosecutions decides to pull the case after police files are discovered that should have been disclosed to defence lawyers two years previously, and evidence from super-grasses is discredited. The trail collapses after 18 months of legal argument. Chief Crown prosecutor for London, Alison Saunders, and Cressida Dick, Assistant Commissioner, said the issues around disclosure were such that they could not guarantee “all relevant material had been identified, considered and disclosed so as to ensure a fair trial”. February 2012 Jaqui Hames tells the Leveson Inquiry that News of the World placed her husband – Dave Cook – and herself under surveillance because suspects in Daniel’s case were using their association with the publication to intimidate them “and so subvert the investigation.” 10 May 2013 Home Secretary Theresa May announces the launch of The Daniel Morgan Independent Panel, an independent judge-led inquiry that will look into Daniel’s case. December 2014 The independent panel receive the first batch of documents from the Metropolitan Police. 10 March 2015 Daniel Morgan hand-delivers a letter to head offices of NewsUK, addressed to Rupert Murdoch. Inside, he asks Murdoch to co-operate with the independent panel. 16 March 2015 Murdoch replies to Morgan saying he was “confident we will respond appropriately to any further government investigation into this tragedy”.

Roy Hodgson Raised By Goats ENGLAND boss Roy Hodgson has stunned the media by confirming that he never went to school and was raised in the wild by a pack of goats. The former Malmo chief made the claims after taking a powerful sedative to help him forget about his worthless existence. He said: “The mother goat was very kind to me. I walked on all fours till the age of 32.” A source close to Hodgson insisted that the story was not true. “It’s not true.” The manager’s loyal sidekick Frank Lampard, revealed that Hodgson is in the middle of a nervous breakdown and has tried to run away on numerous occasions. He said: “At training today the gaffer was lying flat, face down on the grass motionless. “All he kept saying was ‘I don’t belong here’.” A spokesperson for the goat charity, Goats Forever In Our Hearts, welcomed the rare opportunity to promote their silly cause. “We hope that the England manager’s comments will make people think more about goats and their place within society.”

[slideshow id=18] Following the Social Tsunami in the Arab World, it is a high time the continent of Africa to get rid of its dictators and join the democratic world. Recently Associated Press dressed a list of African remaining “Big Men” – the leaders who refuse to surrender power, and their sons. We have added the Algerian dictator to the list and made the images to complete the work. Teodoro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea, 69 – Took power in a bloody coup in 1979. Jose Eduardo dos Santos of Angola, 68 – President since 1979. Promised elections from 2006 until last year, when a new constitution abolished presidential balloting. The leader of the party that wins most parliament seats becomes president. Denis Sassou-Nguesso of Republic of Congo, 67 – President from 1979 until a 1992 election defeat, seized power again in 1997 with help from Angolan troops. Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, 87 – Elected 1980 after a seven-year war for black rule. Refused to accept a 2008 election defeat and is pushing to end a shaky unity government coalition. Paul Biya of Cameroon, 77 – President since 1982. Has won questionable elections since 1992. Changed constitution so he can run again this year. Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, about 66 – President since 1986 when he took power as a rebel leader and ended a civil war. Refused to hold elections until 1996. Most recently reelected March 9 in elections opposition claims were rigged. King Mswati III of Swaziland, 42 – Succeeded his father in 1986. The last absolute monarch in the world. Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso, 60 – Took power from his best friend, assassinated in the 1987 palace coup. Changed the constitution limiting presidential terms. Holds elections whose results are disputed by a fragmented msg opposition. Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, 67 – Led a bloodless coup in 1989. First sitting head of state indicted by the International Criminal Court, for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Idriss Deby of Chad, 59 or 60 – Seized power in a 1990 coup. Eliminated constitutional term limits to contest questionable elections. Faces voters in April. Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, 55 – Part of a rebel group that ended a civil war in 1991. Elected in 1995. Has held questionable elections marred by riots and bloodshed. Isaias Afwerki of Eritrea, 65 – Led the Eritrean rebel movement that helped end Ethiopia’s civil war in 1991 and ushered in Eritrea’s independence, with him as president, in 1993. Says he expects to live another 40 to 50 years and Eritrea may hold elections in 30 or 40 years. Paul Kagame of Rwanda, 53 – Led rebels who ended Rwanda’s genocide in 1994. Elected since 2000 in elections from which all meaningful opponents have been barred. Yahya Jammeh of Gambia, 45 – Took power in a 1994 coup and vows to never leave. Tribal chieftains are campaigning to make him king. Ismail Omar Guelleh of Djibouti, 67 – Elected 1999 to continue a 30-year family dynasty. Changed constitution so he can run for a third term in April. Faure Gnassingbe of Togo, 44 – Won disputed 2005 elections to succeed his father, who ruled for 38 years. Ali Bongo of Gabon, 52 – Won 2009 elections amid charges of vote-rigging and violent protests after the death of his father, who had ruled since 1967. Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast, 65 – Assumed office in 2000 after elections barring leading opponents. Lost 2010 elections but refuses to step down. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 74 President of Algeria. He has been in office since 1999. He has continued emergency rule and presided over the end of the bloody Algerian Civil War in 2002

Cropping photos is one of the most basic, but important, photo editing skills. A crooked horizon or something distracting on the edge can ruin a great image. I’m going to show you the basics of how to do it in Photoshop, however, the tools are very similar in any other good image editing app. This is the image I’m using. I love it, but there are two problems. First, there is too much of the land in the bottom right corner; I want the image to be cropped tighter to the lighthouse. Second, the horizon is crooked. I’ve highlighted that in pink below. The way to fix both of these problems is with the Crop Tool. Using the Crop Tool Select the Crop Tool from the Tool Bar or press C on your keyboard. Once you’ve selected the Crop Tool, you’ll see something that looks like this. The dotted outline represents the new crop. You’ve two options. First, you can use the cursor to drag a new crop around any area of the image you want. Second, you can drag in from any of the handles to adjust the crop. If you hold down the Alt or Option key, the handle opposite will move in as well. This is the more accurate option. . You can also enter your own. To swap the two values, click the two arrows icon. To reset the ratio, click the Clear button. To rotate the crop, click and drag anywhere outside the crop boundary. To move the crop, click and drag anywhere inside the crop boundary. Before we finish, look at the top of the window, and you’ll see a few options. The Delete Cropped Pixels checkbox should almost never be checked. If it is checked, when you crop the image anything outside the crop boundary is deleted. This means you can’t re-crop the image at a later point. It’s safer to just leave it unchecked. If Content-Aware is checked, Photoshop will attempt to automatically fill any blank areas left by the crop. It can work if the area Photoshop tries to fill in is really simple like a blue sky, but it’s best not to rely on it. Just crop your image within the boundaries. The three icons on the right only appear when you’re cropping an image. Click the Checkmark icon to accept the crop, the Cancel icon to cancel it and the Reset icon to reset the current crop. You can also use the keyboard shortcuts Enter or Return to accept the crop and Escape to cancel it. Using the Straighten Tool In our example image, we not only want to put the lighthouse closer to the center of the frame, but rotate it so the horizon is straight. While I could straighten the horizon by eye, there’s a better way to do it.. And there you have it, a perfectly cropped and straightened image. With the number of megapixels in a modern digital camera or smartphone, you have a lot of leeway with how you crop your images. If the horizon isn’t straight or you want a tighter framing, go ahead and fix it in Photoshop. You now know how.

John Schultz's 1996 directorial debut BANDWAGON has never been released on DVD, but it's available now streaming on Netflix Instant. This is great news as its a hilarious indie mostly locally shot, and features a strong soundtrack with songs by Greg Kendall. The film focuses on a fictional band just starting out named Circus Monkey - an endearing quartet of indie underdogs played by Lee Holmes, Kevin Corrigan, Steve Parlavecchio, and Matthew Hennessey. N.C. native Schultz (formerly the drummer for the Connells) enlisted his old band mate lead singer Doug MacMillan to play the band's zen-like manager Linus Tate. Many area locations can be seen throughout the film including the Brewery, the Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, andthere's a climatic concert set at the Rialto Theatre.Holmes is the protagonist, an earnest withdrawn guitarist/songwriter who seems to use the name Ann in every song he writes - "So Long (Ann)", "Ann It Goes", and the incredibly catchy "It Couldn't Be Ann" among them. Holmes meets drummer Hennessey who is working as a clerk at School Kids Records, and before you know it they soon recruit bassist Parlavecchio and lead guitarist Corrigan to join their band. Corrigan is for sure the most recognizable actor in BANDWAGON as he was the kid stirring the sauce in a crucial scene in the Scorsese classic GOODFELLAS and he's gone on to be in many films and television series including PINEAPPLE EXPRESS, Freaks And Geeks, Community, and UNSTOPPABLE. The bulk of the film concerns the band taking to the road in a old beat-up van with manager MacMillan in tow. Circus Monkey's scrappy misadventures involving a gun, bar brawls, and the object of Holmes' affection - Ann (Lisa Keller) keep the film rolling from beat to beat. Despite some stiff acting, BANDWAGON is a thoroughly enjoyable musical comedy that is really nice to see again - I long ago lost my VHS copy of the film so I was thrilled to find out from a friend that it is available via Netflix Instant. Indie comedy fans as well as rock fans of all kinds should eat it up too. More later... 1 comment: Love this film! I used to have a letterboxed copy taped off the Sundance Channel but lost it long ago. Thanks for the heads up about it being on Netflix. This is one of my all-time fave films about a fictious band - it perfectly captures the catchy alt-rock of the '90s.

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Marriage is already meaningless. Seriously, even before today's ruling, even 25 years ago when same-sex marriage wasn't a major issue in the public eye, what is marriage? As far as I can tell, marriage is a conflation of at least three different things, none of which need to coexist anymore: - a legal kinship contract - a religious rite - a sexual relationship There is no logical reason for these three to coincide, and, in a pluralistic society like the 21st-century United States, there's no legal or moral way to ensure they do. A lot of people get terrible upset about the relationship between the legal and religious sides of marriage, but it seems pretty clear to me. Constitutionally, the legal and religious sides have to remain separate. Look at other religious rites: there is no religious monopoly or mandate with respect to birth or naming or death. These are legal matters in civil society, and you have the option to involve your religion if that's your jam. Truth be told, this is how marriage already operates. I got married in a courthouse. So did plenty of heterosexual couples. You sign a contract in a little room that is nominally a chapel, but there's nothing inherently religious or spiritual about it (other than the civil religion of US law and politics, but that's a different conversation I won't get into here). Non-religious straight people have been getting married forever. From a legal perspective, religion is an optional add-on to legal matters of birth, marriage, death, etc. In the course of human history, the religious meaning of these rites of passage arguably preexists the legal meaning, but this is 2015 CE, not 8000 BCE. As to the sexual component of marriage, my general feeling is that it's nobody's business outside of the members of the marriage (assuming consent and legality and all that good stuff). In practice, mandating the sexuality of a marriage has always been deeply misogynistic, whether it's contemporary purity culture's obsession with female virginity, or the centuries of men's control over women's sexual and reproductive rights. But even just ideologically, the sexual component of marriage is plain incoherent. In the conservative imagination, marriage involves a sexual initiation. This demands an arbitrary declaration of a singular sexual act as uniquely constitutive of sexual and marital union, and/or an asinine blanket ban on all extramarital sexuality, as though sexuality were wholly separable from friendship, romance, and other forms of relationship. Even if you don't buy the initiation thing, the assumption of sexuality within marriage is both creepy and unnecessary. Not all couples want sex; not all couples have sex; and telling an asexual couple that their marriage is incomplete is both rude and factually inaccurate. Mandating (or even normalizing) sexuality of any kind within marriage is as incoherent as insisting that all married couples have to, I don't know, share an umbrella. What frustrates me the most about the whole same-sex marriage argument, though, is that it's a public debate where both sides rely on an adherence to the legal enshrinement of the gender binary. In New York, even before today's ruling, the "gender" fields on a marriage license application are optional, and we left ours blank. I'm pretty sure that my ungendered marriage is therefore neither "same-sex" nor "opposite-sex" -- an all-too-rare instance in which the legal paperwork accurately reflects reality. Once you recognize that the religious, sexual, and gendered aspects of marriage are and have always been irrelevant to the legal side, there's only one logical course of action: create a legal framework for kinship contracts among partners and families of all configurations. Phase out "marriage," with its archaic focus on the monogamous pair-bond with an assumed reproductive capability. Make life easier for the genderqueers, the polyamorous, the three-parent families, the siblings who live together, the consenting adults and the children they may or may not take responsibility for. We're here. We've always been here. We're not going away. It's time the legal system caught up to that reality.

USA Today jumped ahead, in an article on 7 Jan 2000: “Decree to protect rugged Ariz. land”, behind a front page: “Arizona land will be preserved”, with a photo — cliffs and chasms, the Canyon’s watershed would be protected. Action is opposed due to fears of tourists despoiling and grazing being prohibited. No immediate threats, but set aside to prevent any. The protection of huge, largely roadless chunk brings joy to environmentalists and outrage from Congress. Many streams feed into Canyon, so need to protect area to north. Wilderness Society “could not be more pleased”. Utah’s Hansen: peaceful land will be threatened by attracting tourists. Many more words would be spieled, but there was the essence. The presidential proclamation itself is dated 11 Jan 2000. I have included the text in the next entry. In summary, it started appropriately, citing the Antiquities Act’s “an array of scientific and historic objects”. The first page is geological details, almost entirely about the Canyon. The archeology runs from 9000 years ago to the Southern Paiute. Whitefolk history is comprised of 200 years of exploration, sawmills, ranches, mines. The biomes are extreme, stark desert to complex high plateaus, providing for distinctive and diverse floristic and animal life. Again appropriately, the 1,014,000 acres are called the “smallest area” compatible with its proper care and management. [But truly, isnt the entire Canyon the “smallest area” compatible with the Canyon’s proper care?] Off road vehicle use is prohibited. Arizona manages fish & game. Valid rights excepted, all lands are withdrawn from the land laws, including mining. Land exchange is permitted. Sale of “vegetative material” is permitted only for restoration. Water rights are not affected. Management shall be a cooperative endeavor; however Lake Mead NRA will be under the primary jurisdiction of the Park Service. Grazing shall continue under existing laws & policies. Here is BLM’ s map: and, just for fun, below I have drawn in, roughly, the Grand Canyon drainage divide. North and west of that line, the Monument drainage goes into Hoover dam’s reservoir west of the Grand Wash Cliffs, but not into the Grand Canyon. The accompanying “fact sheet” stressed that current management will continue, but “subject to the overriding purposes of protecting the (Monument’s) scientific and historic objects”. It linked historic events with this: “Congress enlarged the Park in 1975 (but) left open whether several drainages north of the Grand Canyon should be protected and directed that the Secretary of the Interior study and issue a report on these lands. Most of the studied lands are included within the monument.” Babbitt has made three trips to the lands, had two large public meetings, and over 59 meetings with locals, tribes, and others. Two alternative bills would lower protection. The proclamation was accompanied by a defense of the designation, based on interpreting the Antiquities Act. There is no mention of Babbitt’s original justification of protecting the Grand Canyon drainage. Also, a long section defends the notion of preserving areas large enough to maintain the monument’s objects and their interactions. Many species rely upon the entire area, it asserts, so protection of the aggregate area is necessary for their proper care. A fragmentation would endanger objects, undermine purposes, and impede effective management. (Really, this argument is self-defeating, since anyone familiar with the area knew that these arguments imply it should have been bigger, over to the Hurricane Cliffs, for instance. No details are offered to justify adding the westward facing Grand Wash Cliffs to the southward-oriented Grand Canyon drainage. But, sigh, for 50 years the Park Service has insisted that the northwestern section of the Canyon be administered by Lake Mead NRA out of Boulder City, Nevada. Logic of administration or the Canyon’s topography has often not been a factor in the Canyon’s history.) In delineating the impact on existing uses, all was protected, but nevertheless, the explanation pointed out that if there were a need to protect monument resources from threat, “swift protective action” could be taken. A news conference was held that day as well, with Babbitt offering some informal details about his decision-making. He tied the Canyon protective story to his own family’s background. He mentioned the Adjacent Lands Study of 1981, gathering “dust like most studies in my department, until it was rediscovered by a public lands archaeologist about a year ago.” He said, “The addition (is) within the drainage of the Grand Canyon.” — It’s where the Canyon begins on the north side; where the rain and snow move through the side canyons of the Colorado to join the river. His original idea, he said, was an arbitrary boundary across the north side of Mt Trumbull over to the Nevada border and then connected up with Kaibab National Forest. But when he got out there, to his surprise, that line didnt make any sense; if we’re going to protect the Canyon, we had to protect the waters that create it, the watersheds that generate the waterfalls, the topography of the side canyons and the river. That means following out the drainage of canyons — Parashant, Andrus, Cottonwood Wash. “And you will see that the boundary reflects exactly that hydrographic and topographic divide.” (My underline. This summary highlights a confusion over drainages. Parashant and Andrus drain into the Grand Canyon. Cottonwood Wash drains into the Colorado at Grand Wash west of the Grand Wash Cliffs, a different “hydrographic and topographic divide” the top of which ends the Grand Canyon drainage.) Asked specifically about the Stump bill, Babbitt repeated the mantra about public meetings, mentioning his Counselor, Molly McUsic, and her knowledge of the Strip. “We’re not making it on the legislative front… As I testified, the bill reduces protection for the area. It encourages mining, and thats just a non-starter.” President Clinton had arrived at Grand Canyon National Park late Monday night, 10 Jan. News stories on the 11th & 12th wallowed in the “rekindled old antagonisms about Washington’s control …of Western land”, as the Arizona Republic put it. For anyone who had been tracking the issue, this was a mail-in performance by Arizona politicos & other Republicans. Or mail-out: Rep. Stump sent his complaint out on his own, but without refreshing his rant: unilateral, repeatedly ignored me, my bill protects, no immediate threat. CNN noted that Clinton took a helicopter and walking tour over the new Monument, then went to Hopi Point on the South Rim , although the Republic had the event over at Toroweap. (This was explained later: the signing was in Tuweep; a public announcement at Hopi Pt.) But most of its “report” was about opponents blasting or lamenting. Mayor Jordan of Fredonia felt helpless since she hoped to have input about their fears of “a hectic, tourist economy”, although the town was working to get its new visitor center open. Governor “praised” Clinton for burnishing his own legacy, but did not deign to attend in spite of Clinton’s welcome. Throwing in the towel, Stump’s mouthpiece said the action usurped any legislative opportunity, reinforcing the general opinion that the congressional delegation had little interest in spending time on such matters. Babbitt bragged about doubling the size of Grand Canyon National Park, misleading to say the least, since most of the new Monument is not part of the Canyon’s watershed that he prized, and the protections quite a bit less strong. The Republic’s parting shot was that the Monument is more part of Utah, with its ranchers, miners, and hunters, than Arizona. The New York Times headlined the protection for thousands of acres, and described Clinton as sitting at a desk in the center of Tuweep Valley to sign the proclamations. Opponents were cited, but so also was a local poll (sponsored by environmental groups) showing 80% of Arizonans approving. The reporter was careful to note the president’s nonchalance on the helicopter flight, flipping through paperwork, and occasionally looking over his reading glasses at the rocks below. But Clinton did recall he had first seen the Canyon at 24 on a cross-country trip, and even watched the sunset. And he used the sunrise that morning to celebrate his memories and those of millions & millions of Americans. He was interested and moved enough to joke with Secretary Babbitt about staying to ride horses. Calling it a “biological hotspot”, Geoff Barnard, president of the Grand Canyon Trust, celebrated “another superb example” of the Antiquities Act legacy of 17 U.S. Presidents. In the Trust press release, he said Babbitt’s original idea had been doubled at the urging of the Trust, the Grand Canyon Wildlands Council, Sierra Club, NRDC, NPCA, Wilderness Society, & SW Forest Alliance. The monument’s “boundaries follow the watershed protecting the westernmost tributaries of the Colorado River and the entire length of the Grand Wash Cliffs (which) mark the western extent of the Grand Canyon”, and provide a home for endangered species including condors and the desert tortoise, and protect a diverse array of floral & faunal species that may include several possibly rare or sensitive. Its “health is directly connected to the long-term health of the Grand Canyon.” Then, with misleading exaggeration, it ends by calling the covered lands previously “unprotected”, vitally linked to the long-term health of the Grand Canyon, and, an untrue statement, recommended for addition to the Park by a pre-1975 multi-agency task force, an error repeated in an expanded treatment. That document also detailed the reasons why the Stump legislation would have been destructive. The million-acre proposal justification was enumerated in a 1 Jan 2000 ecological assessment by the Wildlands Council supporting Monument designation. It listed nine characteristics for the 3 million acre Shivwits Plateau: 1 a continentally significant boundary between Basin & Range and Colorado Plateau; 2 paleologically, it shows vegetative responses to climate change over 50 millennia; 3 refuge for many endemic species; 4 refuge for sensitive game; 5 its two large north-south escarpments (Grand Wash & Hurricane Cliffs) may be a corridor for migratory raptors and others; 6 its value in landscape and wildlife restoration; 7 eight millennia of human occupation; 8 exploration and settlement history of over two centuries; 9 rarely visited and little developed character, and world-class scenery. The arguments offered by the supporting groups emphasized wildlife: important habitat for desert bighorn, pronghorn, bear, cougar, mule deer, and the reintroduced condor. There were 23 faunal and 50 floral species listed as needed federal attention. The large carnivores were mentioned for their role in the area, shown on this Trust map: There were concerns about dramatically increased human use, and the value of remoteness for some of the region’s species. Habitats and movement corridors for wildlife would need protection. The Park is increasingly an island of protection; yet 12 vertebrate species were lost in the twentieth century. The expansion “is more likely to permanently safeguard the area’s wild character, ecological integrity, and protection of native species. Specifically, there were: a wild corridor along the Grand Wash Cliffs, Shivwits Plateau, and Virgin Mtns linking the Strip to protected areas in Utah, giving continuity for movement of cougar, pronghorn, and desert bighorn; an east-west connection from Mt Trumbull to Grand Wash; roadless & wilderness study areas, designated Wilderness, and spring habitats; links between high and low elevation habitats; links between the Park area extending north into Utah. A proper management plan, environmentalists said,November 9, 2000 would limit and close many of the roads and tracks, ban off-road use, mitigate grazing impacts on riparian and other sensitive soil areas, ban mining, promote restoration, prevent exotics, designate all wild areas as Wilderness, restrict visitor access and development to the current level or less. On 9 Nov 2000, Babbitt further saw the President recognize Arizona Strip values by designation of the Vermillion Cliffs National Monument (including the Paria Plateau-River complex), continuing protections started by a far-seeing state BLM Director in the 1960’s — Scenic Area, Wild Area, Wilderness, Monument;.This piece of geology, far-seen vistas, and remote recreation is firmly set as the eastern anchor of the magnificent stretch of the American West called the Arizona Strip. With, of course, the Grand Canyon as its incomparable southern climax. Sources: From my files newspaper articles, notes on my contacts, official papers, my correspondence, pages from internet files from the Grand Canyon Trust, BLM, and others.

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I think his character shows that entities of all sorts can be frightening and demonic on the outside, yet be good hearted, gentle souls on the inside. Even if Edward was considered a menace at times and made to look like so, he still retained a kindness and gentle spirit which at times was very heartwarming. Heck, one of the film's covers shows Edward reaching out for a butterfly. You can just tell that he wants to explore the world around him, yet be careful and thoughtful as he does it. He's not a artificial man that likes to rush into things and purposely cause panic, he likes to observe things first and then, when it is needed he helps out and even saves lives, even if he injures or maims in the process. He's got a mechanical heart of love and I think it's quite touching that the first emotion he shows is love, when he sees the picture of Winona Ryder's character, Kim. Edward's face and Elfman's score really make the scene as exemplary as it is and we can just feel the butterflies flapping their wings inside Edward. It's that emotional. And even if he was an outcast and weirdo to her at first, Kim comes to love and appreciate Edward for who he is by the film's conclusion. Many people like to compare this film to Beauty and the Beast and this is one of the reasons why. Another story the film brings to mind is Frankenstein. Of course Burton made his own version of Frankenstein with Frankenweenie, but with this film, he really nails it and helps us better understand the hard life of an artificially built man. We see that Edward struggles to understand the human ways, much like the Frankenstein monster. We see that he longs to understand why he was made, what he was meant to do and what destiny has in store for him, things that the Frankenstein monster no doubt dealt with and even questioned his creator of in different adaptations. We also see how the townspeople act around Edward, just like the townspeople acted around the Frankenstein monster in the many variations of Shelley's classic tale and most importantly, the 1931 film. One of the neighbors of the Boggs' family even calls Edward a product of the devil. Intense stuff, yes, but the reason the scene is so saddening is because Edward can't understand what the nasty neighbor is accusing him of. That's another reason why I like Edward so much. In some instances and situations, he doesn't know how to act and what to do. In one scene of the film, he is forced to rob a house and as the cops come to arrest him, they tell him to put his hands in the air. As the frail and nervous Edward comes out with his hands up, the police think he has knives in his hands and they tell him to put them down or they will open fire. Since the scissors are obviously his hands, he obviously can put them down, so the police prepare to shoot, that is until the neighbors rush to the scene and tell the police what he is and who he is. Another scene that shows how Edward's mind works is when Mr. Boggs, played by Alan Arkin asks Edward what he would do if he found a suitcase full of money. Do you A. Keep the money B. Use it to buy gifts for your friends and your loved ones C. You give it to the poor or D. You turn it into the police. Edward, having the love filled heart that he has says that he would give it to his loved ones, only to be ridiculed by Mr. Boggs and his son. It's not that he doesn't think, it's just that he has an entirely different way of thinking and hasn't really been taught anything essential except for the inventor's teachings. In fact, it's almost like Edward's entire purpose of being built in the first place was to love and ONLY love. Think about it. A scene in the movie shows the inventor (played by Vincent Price), watching his cooking making machine make dozens of multi shaped cookies. He then takes one of the cookies, which is shaped like a heart and holds it up to the chest of one of his lettuce slicing robots, intending to make a man out of the automaton. It's the film's most touching sequence in my opinion. Another scene shows the pages of a book depicting Edward's building process and one of the pages shows a completed Edward without the scissorhands, with shorter hair and a suit that looks like something a teenager would wear to prom. He looks like an ideal "prince" or man women would drool over. Perhaps Edward was made to charm a young woman in the inventor's life or charm any woman in general. Perhaps he was built to be the son the inventor never had and he would meet a woman, marry her and keep the inventor's family going. Many questions are raised when you REALLY watch the movie and ponder on what it has to offer, but I think in times like this, we can let our imaginations fill in the empty spaces. But my favorite scene out of the entire movie is when the neighbor, Joyce opens a beauty salon in which Edward will work at and cut hair. She leads Edward into the back room and tries to sexually seduce him, that is until the chair Edward is sitting in falls over, prompting Edward to get up and leave the salon. Later on, Edward meets up with the Boggs family at a diner and as Mr. Boggs asks Edward how his day went, Edward tells him of the marvels in the beauty salon, just before saying this.... And then she showed the back room where she took all of her clothes off. The first time I saw this scene, I thought it was (Literally) the funniest thing I had ever seen. Just the fact that Edward just comes out and says it, the way he says, the way the family reacts and the unexpectedness really adds to the scene's overall charm and hilarity. I still wet my pants every time I see it and it's undeniably the film's funniest scene, along with the scene where Edward gets drunk off of "lemonade" and falls to the floor. Peg Boggs, played by Dianne Wiest comes off as a sweet motherly figure to Edward and even when things get rough and rocky, she still tries to look on the bright side of things and see the goodness that lies within Edward. She knows and understands why Edward is the way he is and tries to help him understand right from wrong. She's the true person Edward needed in his life and the relationship between the two is probably the film's most touching relationship. The relationship between Edward and Kim's boyfriend (played by Anthony Michael Hall) is also fun to watch. Right from the beginning, the guy has an immediate dislike for Edward and tries to humiliate him and force him into trouble every chance he gets. He is also disgusted at Edward for liking Kim and when Edward accidentally cuts Kim's hand, Hall's character believes him to have done it on purpose and tells him to go away and never return. Hall's character is that guy we love to hate and in the end, he gets what all the baddies get, an over the top demise. In a moment that will leave you gasping, Edward impales Hall and sends him flying out the window of the abandoned castle. It's another one of those jarring moments in the film, but since Hall was such an unlikeable character, many were probably glad to see him go. Go back to the Breakfast Club, you dirtbag! Then there's Vincent Price, who gives a heartwarming performance as the old inventor who dies before he gets to finish Edward, living him with the scissorhands for the rest of time. I just love how he observes the contraptions he builds, he's like a kid in a Toys R Us. I wonder if he's the one that taught Pee Wee Herman how to build his breakfast machine. The scene in which he teaches etiquette to an unfinished Edward will have you chuckling and tearing up, all at the same time! Seeing Edward try to smile for the first time, it kind of reminds me of when the Terminator tried to smile in a deleted scene from Terminator 2: Judgment Day. The scene where the old inventor dies is one of the most heartwrenching scenes in a movie, and what makes it so sad is that this really was Vincent Price's last major performance in a motion picture. He gives it all he's got and for his last performance, he goes out with a powerful, yet sorrowful bang. What makes my heart break is that he died right when he was going to give real hands to Edward and as he falls to the floor, Edward's scissorhands go right through the hands, breaking them to bits. Then Edward looks down at the dead body of his mentor and because he doesn't fully understand death, he cuts the inventor's cheek, observing his blood and realizing that he will be stuck with the scissorhands for all eternity. That's a powerful moment and gets me choked up each time. I think a lot of us feel the same way, for Vincent Price was truly a remarkable man and a true inspiration, not only to Tim Burton, but to countless others as well. He is certainly an inspiration for me. His voice, his charm, his sense of humor and his love for the arts are certainly the things that made him special. He was one of the world's greatest actors and this film was a great swan song for his entire career. If there are two other aspects that must be praised, it's the design and the film's soundtrack. The way the inventor's castle looks is very reminiscent of the castles from Roger Corman's Poe films which Vincent Price starred in in the 60s. I also like the look of suburbia and the hedge trimming Edward does to the neighborhood's plants. He makes people, dinosaurs, and even demons! The exotic haircuts Edward gives the ladies of the neighborhood are also interesting to look at and look like something the Whos would don in How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The way Edward looks is very iconic and nice to look at as well and looks like a mashup between Marilyn Manson and Freddy Krueger. The man who designed Edward and his scissorhands was Stan Winston, the special effects and makeup artist whose work includes the Terminator series, the Jurassic Park series, Aliens, Avatar and Iron Man. You could just tell that Winston had a passion and heart for his work and he did a fantastic job making Edward actually look like an artificial gentle man. The score by Danny Elfman is simply his best work, at least in my opinion. His score for Edward Scissorhands is melancholy and sweet when it needs to be and it's dark and menacing when it needs to be and I have never heard a score as beautiful as the Ice Dance score. One time, when I was younger, I saw snow falling outside on a cold winter's night. It was dark, but not to the point that stopped me from seeing each individual snowflake fall to the white ground. I immediately thought of the Ice Dance theme. It's the very epitome of a beautiful tune. The theme that plays during the opening montage of the inventor's exotic lab equipment is also delightful to the ears and sets the mood for an odd, yet incredible flick. I could sit and talk and talk and talk about every single aspect of this movie, but I won't. I'll let you see this one for yourself if you haven't already and perhaps you will be blown away just as I was when I first saw it. If you have seen it already, then why not give it another watch. It may be depressing and dramatic at times, but I doubt you will walk away feeling that you wasted two hours of your time. It's got the perfect mix of what makes Tim Burton's films so great and the ending to the movie sums up the entire picture perfectly, giving us one more heartwarming scene before the screen turns black. Edward Scissorhands makes us think about a lot of things. What makes a man? What can one do to impact the lives of others? What does one do when he's got obvious deformities? What does it take to be loved? Only you can interpret these things for yourself and make them last a lifetime.

Interpreter for deaf during Mandela event called faker By ALAN CLENDENNING and RAY FAURE Associated Press Barack Obama. It also was another example of the problems plaguing Tuesday’s memorial, including public transportation breakdowns that hindered mourners going to the soccer stadium and a faulty audio system that made the speeches inaudible for many. Police also failed to search the first wave of crowds who rushed into the stadium after the gates were opened just after dawn. The man, who stood about a yard (one meter) from Obama and other leaders, “was moving his hands around, but there was no meaning in what he used his hands for,” Bruno Druchen, national director of the Deaf Federation of South Africa, told the Associated Press on Wednesday. When South African Deputy President Cyril Rampaphosa told the crowd.

Both, Walk By Sea featured in KZUM’s Lincoln Calling performances Amidst the downtown-wide bustle during last year’s Lincoln Calling, 1867 Bar served as a haven for artists looking to kick back. New to the local scene, the venue’s music room housed the festival’s more intimate offerings, in the form of KZUM live remotes. The Lincoln nonprofit radio station has released the first two in a series of videos and live interviews, the first batch with Omaha hip-hop duo Both and Lincoln indie/folk band Walk By Sea. Conducted throughout the weekend, the sessions gave live listeners a chance to get to know local and touring festival artists and hear their stories. The end result — seen and heard below — is not unlike what you would hear on Hear Nebraska FM, the weekly two-hour radio show KZUM graciously allows us to program. See what Both and Walk By Sea got into, and watch for more in the coming days. And listen to the full interviews below: * * * Tomorrow night, we will announce the first wave of the 2017 Lincoln Calling lineup at Duffy’s Tavern. The event starts with drinks and a social hour at 7 p.m., followed by the reveal video at 8 p.m. Be among the first to see what all the excitement about. RSVP here. And be sure to stick around after, as CJ Mills, Emily Bass & the Near Miracle and The Morbs take the Duffy’s indoor stage. 9 p.m., $5, RSVP here. * * * Twinsmith announces third LP ‘Stay Cool,’ releases shimmering new track “Matters” Twinsmith has shared “Matters,” the shimmering, synth-heavy first single from its forthcoming third album, via All Things Go on Monday. The music website blog calls it “earworm perfection,” no doubt due to its smooth melody, casual refrain and reverberating guitar chords. In the same breath, the Omaha indie rock band — the trio of Jordan Smith, Matt Regner and Bill Sharp — announced its third album Stay Cool, on which the new track will appear. While “Matters” is not as immediately bright as some of the cuts from predecessor Alligator Years, the new track previews a maturing yet still catchy sound with a classic pop influence in the vein of Fleetwood Mac. Stay Cool, produced by Graham Ulicny (Reptar, Thick Paint) is out July 14 on Saddle Creek Records. With drummer Jake Newbold, the band heads on tour this June in support of Rooney. Hear “Matters” and check the tour dates below: May 5 — Naperville, Ind at The Union May 7 — Sioux Falls, S.D. at The District June 20 — Kansas City, Mo. at Record Bar* June 21 — Omaha at The Waiting Room* June 22 — Chicago at Lincoln Hall* June 23 — Minneapolis at 7th Street Entry* June 24 — Davenport, Iowa at Village Theater* June 25 — St Louis at Off Broadway* * supporting Rooney * * * OPA announces 2017 Jazz on the Green lineup Turner Park will again ring with sound smooth sounds of jazz this summer. Omaha Performing Arts has announced the artist lineup for its 2017 Jazz on the Green free outdoor concert series. The popular summer attraction runs consecutive Thursday evenings from July 6-August 10 and features a mix of local and nationally touring jazz, soul and blues acts. The Potash Twins, Omaha-natives Adeev and Ezra Potash, return to their hometown to kick off the series on July 6. See the full list of performers below. Performances begin at 7:30 p.m., with pre-show activities at 6:30 p.m. For more information, visit Jazz on the Green’s website here. July 6 — The Potash Twins (jazz) July 13 — Hector Rosado y Su Orquesta Hache (salsa) July 20 — The Sugar Thieves (soul/blues/gospel) July 27 — Bayou City Brass Band (New Orleans/R&B) Aug 3 — Ron E. Beck Soul Revue (soul) Aug 10 — Sammy Miller & the Congregation (jazz/swing) * * * Photo coverage: Charly Bliss, See Through Dresses at Reverb Lounge HN multimedia intern Lauren Farris went to Reverb Lounge Monday night to catch Brooklyn bubble grunge band Charly Bliss and Omaha’s See Through Dresses. The two passed through town while on a joint Midwest tour. Charly Bliss just released its massively poppy, lyrically incisive debut full-length Guppy on Sub Pop Records to positive critical reviews. Pitchfork’s Katherine St. Asaph calls its impossibly catchy hooks “delivery mechanisms for often acerbic, often exhausted lyrics about the endless crap conveyor belt that is life and love as a girl.” As for See Through Dresses, they’ll release an album of their own this June, their sophomore effort Horse of the Other World. The first track debuted a couple weeks ago via Stereogum. View photos below: Charly Bliss See Through Dresses photos by Lauren Farris * * * Concert Round-Up Here’s a look at the next couple of nights in shows. Check a fuller listing at our statewide events calendar here and add your own upcoming events via the contribute feature here. Wednesday David Nance Group, Olga, Dimples at Brothers Lounge – Los Angeles bands Olga and Dimples come to Omaha to play with David Nance Group. Nance will release a new LP, Negative Boogie, on July 14. Hear new track “Give It Some Time” here. 9 p.m., $5, RSVP here. See Through Dresses, Sweats, Death Cow at Duffy’s Tavern – The Omaha indie rock band breaks off tour for a second to play a Lincoln show with a pair of locals in Sweats and Death Cow. 9 p.m., $5, 21-plus, RSVP here. Thursday A Benson Home Companion at Barley Street Tavern – Kait Berreckman and house band The Homebodies take over Barley Street with their variety show. Guests include Iowa duo Pink Neighbor, comedian Brenna Grabow and stories from the Basement on a Hill podcast. It’s also “Hoot n Holler Dollar Night.” 9 p.m., $1, RSVP here.

Accounting for Health: Economic Practices and Medical Knowledge, 1500–1970 Chris Sirrs How do countries know how much they are spending on health care? What proportion of this money comes from the public sector, and what proportion is private – for example investment in hospital facilities by private organisations, or out-of-pocket spending by households? Often, figures are banded around by the media, politicians and interest groups without much thought about how they are produced. Moreover, one country’s health spending is often compared to another with little appreciation of the fundamental differences between their health systems. For over fifty years, there have been various attempts by international organisations to produce a comparative basis for national health spending. Amid concerns about the rising costs of medical care under social security systems, in 1959 Laura Bodmer, an official in the International Labour Organisation penned The Cost of Medical Care, a ground-breaking report comparing health spending in 14 developed economies. Four years later, the health economist Brian Abel-Smith pioneered an ‘international language of health-service finance’ that could be used to classify and compare health spending. The OECD produced a health database for its member states from the 1980s. However, it is only comparatively recently that a ‘system of health accounts’ has been developed to systematically tabulate health expenditures worldwide, and even today, international health accounting is fraught with methodological difficulties: many countries have yet to produce national health accounts according to this agreed framework, meaning that the World Health Organisation is forced to provide ‘best estimates’. These issues are currently being studied by Chris Sirrs in his contribution to a new working group of historians organized by the Charité – Universitätsmedizin in Berlin. Part of a wider European Research Council-funded project on the use of paper technology in medicine, ‘Accounting for Health’ explores the history of economic and accounting practices in medicine, ranging from the household economy of early hospitals, to the recording of transactions in physicians’ notebooks and the administration of smallpox vaccination. The aim of the working group is to produce a new collective volume on health accounting, and Chris’s contribution to the volume will be distinctive insofar as it is international in scope, more recent in historical focus, and crosses the paper-digital divide (the WHO’s online Global Health Expenditure Database records the health spending of all 194 WHO member states). Fellow participants include: Barry Doyle, University of Huddersfield; Theodore Porter, University of California, Berkeley; Andrea Rusnock, University of Rhode Island; Michael Stolberg, University of Würtzburg; and Andrew Mendelsohn, Queen Mary, University of London. ‘Accounting for Health’ is organised by Axel C. Hüntelmann and Oliver Falk. Further meetings of the working group will be held in December 2016 and spring 2017. For further details please email: christopher.sirrs@lshtm.ac.uk. Back

[tag: science] Synthesis and Characterisation of Co (II), Cu(II) and Fe (III) Macrocyclic Complex of 2, 3, 4 -Pyridine- 1, 3, 5, 8, 11, 14- Hexaazacyclohexadeca-2-ene bonded With Cyano and Thiocyanato LigandsDownload PDF Macrocylclic complexes axially bonded with cyano and thiocyanato ligands, synthesized and characterized using FR, UV-Visible Spectra. Macrocyclic ligand find their importance uses as model for protein-metal binding sites in biological system and selective metal extrants in hydrometallergy and study host-guest interactions (8). The Macrocyclic molecules are also widely used as catalyst for industrial application (9). Macrocylic complex show greater biocidial effect as they are potentially active against few bacteria and fungi. Recently a large number of macrocylic ligands have been synthesized using Mass spectroscopy (15-20). Curtius (23) demonstrated the case of inter conversion of a series of complex containing different degree of unsaturation. A number of membrane were prepared with ionophore, PVC, anion excluder (STB) and solvent mediators (DBP and DOP) and were equilibrated with various metal ions. The sensor assembly was used as an indicator electrode in the potentionmetric titration of Co(II) with EDTA. The practical utility of the proposed sensor was investigated in partially non-Aquous media 30% water-methanol and water ethanol mixtures. 2,6- dichloropyridine (0.01 mol, 1.42g) was dissolved in minimum amount (20 ml) of methanol and tetraethylenepentaamine (1.26 ml, 0.01 mol) was added to it. To this mixture a methanol solution of metal salt (chloride /nitrate) (0.01 mol) was added with constant stirring and heating. The mixture was refluxed for 8 h and coloured precipitate thus formed, was filtered in sintered crucible, washed with methanol and dried vacuum. The magnetic and electronic spectral values given in Table are entirely consistent with the octahedral geometry for the complexes of these metals. All the complexes are paramagnetic. 1H NMR spectrum of Fe (III) complex shows a multiplet in the region 6.28-7.89 ppm due to pyridine ring protons (3H) multiplet in the region 8.22-8.42 ppm corresponds to secondary amine protons (5H) and a broad multiplet in the region 2.64-4.32 ppm due to methylene protons (16H). Keywords: Analytical spectra, macrocyclic complex IR, UV-Visible, CHN, Mass spectroscopy, NMR.

St: Edward Enninful Continue reading “W MAGAZINE: Katy Perry by Steven Klein” The Flash and Glam of Pop Culture! St: Grace Coddington Ph: Mert & Marcus Continue reading “VOGUE MAGAZINE: Katy Perry by Mert & Marcus” When it comes to star power (and nearly everything else too), let’s face it: Hillary has it in the bag. Madonna, Beyonce, Jay Z, Katy Perry, Jon Bon Jovi, and Gaga have lined up to support her. But add to that list the filmmakers supporting Clinton. Pedro Almodovar? J.J. Abrams? Lake Bell? Joss Whedon? Sorry, Donald, but you just can’t compete. While I don’t necessarily think filmmakers are political geniuses by default, it is nice to know that whatever the outcome of today’s election, I’m with them. And we’re all with her. Continue reading “FILMMAKERS SUPPORTING CLINTON: Quentin Tarantino, George Clooney, Pedro Almodovar, Others Go Pro-Hillary” SOUND CAFFEINE: Katy Perry, “This Is How We Do (Official)” Continue reading “SOUND CAFFEINE: Katy Perry, “This Is How We Do (Official)” Music Video” Katy Perry had a listening party for Prism and here are some details from Billboard… With her performance at this year’s MTV Music Video Awards just around the corner, Katy Perry continues her launch of victorious Prism with leaks of two new songs, “Dark Horse” and “Walking On Air”…

(Adds Harley-Davidson case) WASHINGTON, June 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department has barred legal settlements in federal investigations that include donating funds to community organizations or other third-party groups, rather than to those directly harmed by the wrongdoing, in a change that could affect banks and other corporations. Settlement payments must be directed to victims affected by the defendants’ actions and then to the federal government, according to a statement on Wednesday by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions. It was the latest action by the Republican Trump administration to end policies put in place by former President Barack Obama, a Democrat. Such agreements were a feature of several U.S. settlements with banks in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Under over similar claims. change could affect other banks still under federal investigations over mortgage issues such as Credit Suisse Group AG, Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, Wells Fargo & Co, UBS Group AG and HSBC. Representatives for the banks could not be immediately reached for comment. Sessions, in a one-page memo dated on Monday, told the nation’s 94 U.S. attorney generals they could not make any agreements in civil or criminal cases “that directs or provides for a payment or loan to any non-governmental person or entity that is not a party to the dispute.” Sessions cited three exceptions to the new policy: payments or loans that directly aim to address harm such as to the environment or official corruption; legal or other professional services from the case; and restitution, forfeiture and other payments required by law. Sessions’ memo raises questions about whether the Justice Department will finalize a $12 million settlement against Harley-Davidson Inc announced in August. The company also agreed to stop selling illegal after-market devices that cause its motorcycles to emit too much pollution. As part of the settlement, Harley agreed to spend $3 million on an unrelated project to reduce air pollution, the Justice Department said in August. The new policy would likely have barred part of the Environmental Protection Agency’s diesel emissions settlement with Volkswagen AG, which requires the German automaker to invest $2 billion in zero emission vehicle efforts over 10 years. (Reporting by Karen Freifeld in New York and; David Shepardson in Washington; Writng by Susan Heavey and Doina Chiacu; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama, Bernard Orr)

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(Rating 4 of 5) Robert Asprey’s book traces the journey of a small boy from Corsica, on a journey from solider to emperor. He would turn the entire world on its ear; nothing would ever be the same again because Napoleon existed. He would knock kings off their ancient thrones and put his own relatives upon them. He would win battles against formidable odds; he would make incredible discoveries from his time in Egypt that would change the way we look at ancient history. He was a man who fought in the army of the Republic but would give himself a crown. There are more books written about this man then any other. Yet, he loses in the end. However, this book is not about his defeats but about how he rises to become the most powerful man in world who is sitting in the center of the stage. Napoleon starts his life in Corsica, one year after France annexed it, during the reign of King Louis XV. Asprey covers a great deal of his early years growing up in Corsica under the watchful eye of his mother, Letizia Ramolino, then being sent to school in mainland France. He was able to get into French school because his father, Carlo Bonaparte, was the Corsican representative to the court of King Louis XVI. School is difficult for him; he always teased and made to feel like an outsider because of his accented French. Nevertheless, he did well at French military school and was commissioned in the French Army. (King Louis XV who conquered Corsica) (Napoleon's mother) (Napoleon's father) (King Louis XVI) During a leave of absence from the French Army, Napoleon would try to join the Corsican Nationalist Movement led by Pasquale Paoli. He would join them, even leading troops against the French, but he was never fully accepted. Napoleon would get away with this behavior because this was all happen as French Revolution was going down. He would find himself with a strong ally in the younger brother of the most feared Maximilien Robespierre, Augustine. Napoleon would earn his respect by his performance at the siege of Toulon. Napoleon’s actions were not one of military genius, just competence. Nevertheless, it made Napoleon a general in the French Army. (Pasquale Paoli) (Young Napoleon) “Napoleon had never attempted to hide his preference for Jacobin rule insofar as it promised an end to tyranny and the establishment of an egalitarian republic. Nevertheless, he did not like certain aspects of the formative period: he loathed the mob attacks on the Tuileries, and he approved neither of the execution of King Louis XVI nor of the hideous excesses of the Terror. Yet, what were the alternatives? Certainly not a monarchy and rule by feudal lords. Certainly not rule by assembly, a mumbo-jumbo of screeching lawyers who could scarcely agree on the time of day, a disastrous regime that threatened to plunge the country into anarchy and open its borders to foreign invasion. No one could deny that Robespierre’s quasi-dictatorship, despite or perhaps because of its excesses, had brought a semblance of order to a torn country.” p.102 (Death of Louis XVI) (Maximilien Robespierre, quasi-dictator of France) (Augustine Robespierre, Maximilien's younger brother) After the fall of Robespierre, Napoleon was almost imprisoned but a reactionary mob trying to bring down the Republic allowed him to demonstrate his abilities by putting it down. The Directory, the new power in France, knew it now had a champion and sent him to campaign in Italy, shortly after his marriage to Josephine, and from there, he would begin to earn incredible fame as a military commander. (General Bonaparte) (Josephine, Napoleon's wife) “The offensive began auspiciously by pushing Archduke Charles behind the Tagliamento. ‘The enemy appears very uneasy,’ Napoleon wrote Massena on 13 March, ‘and once more finds himself caught with his pants down after executing his adopted plan. Everything presages our great success.’ Two days later he qualified this ebullience in a long operations order to Joubert which warned that under certain circumstances he might find himself beaten and ‘even obliged to take refuge in Mantua.’ Should this happen he was to play for as much time as possible to allow the main army to extricate itself. Napoleon’s major worry at this point centered on the Austrian right flank and was considerably eased when he learned the Massena had sent that column flying with a haul of 800 prisoners including its commander, the disreputable General Lusignon.” p.211 After his incredible success in Italy, Napoleon finally meets Talleyrand* and the Directory sends him to Egypt to undermine British trade routes to India. While he has initial success and made incredible discoveries, most famously the Rosetta Stone, Admiral Nelson’s victory at sea, put Napoleon’s army in a terrible position. With the wars in Europe going badly, the Directory recalled Napoleon. (Talleyrand) (Napoleon in Egypt) “Napoleon chose to fight the big battle with tactics similar to those employed at Chabrakhyt (which must have seemed an eternity ago to his exhausted troops). This time there would be no fleet action owing to an adverse wind. Division deployed in echelons of mutually protective battalion squares, the artillery filling the intervals, the tirailleurs carefully placed. Moving up toward Embabeh, moving toward Mourad’s horsemen, he deployed Bon on the left, Vial on the right and Dugua in reserve on Vial’s flank (where Napoleon stationed himself). Reynier and Desaix’s divisions deployed ahead and to the right of the assault divisions deployed ahead and to the right of the assault divisons to block what Napoleon believed was Mourad’s natural line of retreat. This move caused the Mameluke commander to open the action be sending a corps to attack Reynier and Desaix.” p.267 (Napoleon in Egypt) When Napoleon he pulled the original coup d'état on the Directory and establish the consulate with Napoleon as the First Cousul**. From this point on Napoleon rules France as a monarch in all but name. This led to a great many positive developments, first needed bureaucratic reform in the administration of government, banking, and civil law. Military victories on land in the War of the Second Coalition, although the sea still eluded them. This period also had a great deal of set backs, a rebellion in Haiti convinced Napoleon to give up France’s empire in North America by selling the Louisiana territory to the United States under President Jefferson. “The Bonaparte brothers, Sieyes and the coterie of generals were severally upset, and with good reason. The coup stood at a crossroad. It was one thing to disband the generally scorned Directory, but it was a far more serious matter to challenge the freedom of the elected legislature. But if that body were not quickly brought to heel the conspirators would undoubtedly end on the guillotine. No realized this more than Sieyes who had a carriage and six horses standing by for a quick escape. Ironically it was he who at this critical moment kept his cool and advised Napoleon to send in the grenadiers.” p.338 (coup d'état) In 1804, tired of plots against him Napoleon, decided to take the crown, mimicking Roman history he takes the title emperor. In December of that year, Napoleon has his grand coronation. (Napoleon is Emperor, Napoleon put his mother in the picture even though she was not there) “Napoleon’s sudden elevation to imperial status had brought mixed reactions at home and abroad. European rulers in general, including the English king, cautiously welcomed the move as indicating an end to the dangers of revolution—Napoleon, so to speak, had joined the ‘family,’ albeit as an uncouth parvenu. A good many statesmen were not so optimistic, looking on the event a consolidation of his power, a basis on which to build further mischief. Liberals everywhere were dismayed and saddened. Upon learning of the news the composer Ludwig van Beethoven, who had just dedicated a new symphony to his hero, furiously tore up the dedication, retitled the work ‘Eroica’ and dedicated it to ‘the memory of a great man.’” p.489 This book by Asprey is extremely well done; in addition to the historical information, Asprey also discusses Napoleon’s personnel life, his marriage, and relationship with his political brothers and his mother. Asprey’s work also has a smooth narrative that is easy for the reader to follow. *His full name was Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord. **In a clear allusion to the Roman Republic that was governed by two consuls, and the Triumvirates that preceded the personnel rule of Julius Caesar and Emperor Augustus. {Video is taken from the 2002 TV movie Napoleon} Please feel free to leave a comment on any article at anytime, regardless how long ago I posted it. I will most likely respond.

[tag: science] on fasting of pregnant women in the holy month of Ramadan Sayed Alireza Mirsane Surgical Technology student, School of Nursing and Midwifery,Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan,I.R.IRAN author Shima Shafagh General Surgery Specialist, Medical School, Kashan University of Medical Science,Kashan,I.R.IRAN. author text article 2016 eng. Journal of Fasting and Health Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (MUMS) 2345-2587 4 v. 2 no. 2016 53 56 dx.doi.org/10.22038/jfh.2016.7032 Effect of islamic fasting on glucose, lipid profiles and Body Mass Index, adiponectin and leptin in obese individuals Naeeme Ganjali Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd. Iran. author Hassan Mozaffari-Khosravi Department of Nutrition, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences author Mohammad Afkhami Ardakani Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd. Iran. author Mansur Shahraki 4. Department of Nutrition, Health School, Medical University of Zahedan, Zahedan. Iran. author Hosein Fallahzadeh 5. Department of Biostatistics & Epidemiology, Faculty of Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd. Iran. author text article 2016 eng. Journal of Fasting and Health Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (MUMS) 2345-2587 4 v. 2 no. 2016 57 63 dx.doi.org/10.22038/jfh.2016.7077 Physiology of Ramadan fasting Shokoufeh Bonakdaran Department of Endocrinology, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran. author text article 2016 eng. Journal of Fasting and Health Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (MUMS) 2345-2587 4 v. 2 no. 2016 64 69 dx.doi.org/10.22038/jfh.2016.7279 Management of thyroid diseases and steroid replacement in Ramadan: A review study Maliha Hameed Jinnah Hospital, Lahore author Syed Raza Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital and Research Center author text article 2016 eng. Journal of Fasting and Health Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (MUMS) 2345-2587 4 v. 2 no. 2016 70 74 dx.doi.org/10.22038/jfh.2016.7332 Effects of fasting on Blood pressure in normotensive males Fatima Samad Aurora Health Care – Saint Lukes, Milwaukee Wisconsin author text article 2016 eng. Journal of Fasting and Health Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (MUMS) 2345-2587 4 v. 2 no. 2016 75 76 dx.doi.org/10.22038/jfh.2016.7379 Can we prepare our bodies over the year to cope with Ramadan fasting more easily? Imam Reza’s health and dietary recommendations for different months of the year Masoumeh Roudi MSc of Philosophy and Islamic wisdom, Mashhad Iran author Fatemeh Resketi MSc of Jurisprudence and Principles of Islamic Law, Mashhad Iran author Akram Behrouznia Resident of Gynecology, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad Iran author Gholamreza Khademi Neonatal research center, Faculty of medicine, Mashhad university of medical sciences author text article 2016. Journal of Fasting and Health Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (MUMS) 2345-2587 4 v. 2 no. 2016 77 81 dx.doi.org/10.22038/jfh.2016.6866 Safety of sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors during Ramadan fasting: Evidence, perceptions and guidelines Salem A. Beshyah Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist, Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, P O Box 59472, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. author text article 2016 eng. Journal of Fasting and Health Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (MUMS) 2345-2587 4 v. 2 no. 2016 82 87 dx.doi.org/10.22038/jfh.2016.7099 Evaluation of the effects of Islamic fasting on the biochemical markers of health. Akbar Ali Babaei Faculty of nursing and midwifery, Islamic azad university, Bojnurd, Iran. author Maryam khosravi Department of Nutrition, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of medical Sciences, Mashhad; and Department of Public Health, North Khorasan University of medical Sciences, Bojnurd, Iran. author Mohsen Ghasemi Faculty of medicine, North Khorasan University of medical Sciences, Bojnurd, Iran. author Hamid Tavakoli Ghouchani Department of Public Health, North Khorasan University of medical Sciences, Bojnurd, Iran. author Ali Yousefi Management of treatment, North Khorasan University of medical Sciences, Bojnurd, Iran. author text article 2016 eng. Journal of Fasting and Health Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (MUMS) 2345-2587 4 v. 2 no. 2016 88 91 dx.doi.org/10.22038/jfh.2016.7393

Sh. 13 Riders In the 13 Riders alternate special, Kitaoka went to see Asakura, knowing he was a Rider and bumped into Shinji who revealed he was another Rider. By accident, Asakura succeeds getting his card deck back and transforms, escaping prison. Kitaoka later joins the other Riders and traps Knight and Ryuki in a fight. He with the other remaining Riders activated Final Vent on Shinji, then as Kamen Rider Knight Survive. Episode Final In the movie: Episode Final (alternate ending), Kitaoka puts his grudge against Asakura on hold out of guilt for his actions of defending him when he murdered the sister of Miho Kirishima, who became a Rider to get revenge on her sister's murderer. Though he attempted to protect her from Ouja, Zolda gets the full blunt of her Blanc Visor, injuring his wrist. He later decides to end fighting, stating that he is tired of it. He then calls Reiko out for dinner, and goes with Goro to purchase flowers (at first he decided to just send Goro to do the purchase), forfeiting. Kamen Rider Decade In the special version of episode 31, Kamen Rider Zolda is seen on top of Zero-Liner, using his Final Vent against Decade's Final Attack Ride. Unfortunately, the attack fails, and he dies. Fighting Style Zolda is a master of ranged combat, and the only one whose forte is ranged combat. He uses his Magna Visor and Strike Vent on closer enemies, while destroying his opponents with his heavy artillery in two different Shoot Vents: A bazooka and twin turrets. His defense surpasses even Ryuki, as he has two Guard Vents: Twin pauldrons called the Giga Tector and a shield called the Giga Armor, leading to a total of three shields. However, Zolda is weaker in close range, and his Final Vent may be spectacular, but its long charge time prevents it from reliably killing Riders. His far-range style also cannot be duplicated, as proven when Goro, Kitaoka's butler, died battling Ouja, while when Kitaoka was Zolda, Ouja could barely touch him. Rider Forms Contract Monster Advent Deck Equipment - Advent Deck - Advent Card holder, also used as a key to transformation. As long as Shuichi holds one, he can detect the presence of other Riders and Mirror Monsters inside the Mirror World, as well as being able to survive for decent periods of time within the Mirror World without disintegrating. - V-Buckle - Transformation belt materialized from a mirror reflection. - Advent Cards - Trading cards that supply the user powers, weapons and Mirror Monsters (if they catch any). Weapons - Magna Visor - Loadgun/Visor used by Zolda to summon the Advent Cards' powers to him and other Riders if he used their cards. - Giga Horn - Gauntlet modeled after Magnugiga's head. Never used in series but featured in Kamen Rider: Climax Heroes OOO and so on. - Giga Armor - Shield modeled after Magnugiga's chest. - Giga Tector - A pair of shields modeled after Magnugiga's knee pads. Never used. - Giga Cannon - Bazooka modeled after Magnugiga's right arm. - Giga Launcher - Shoulder Cannons modeled after Magnugiga's legs.. On the other media - Zolda's V-Buckle and Visor toy were used in one chapter of the World God Only Knows in the Swimming Girl Arc. See Also - Chance & Drew Lansing - Shuichi's American counterparts in Kamen Rider Dragon Knight.

Contributions Welcome This blog belongs to everyone interested in preserving and promoting traditional Indian wrestling. Please feel free to contribute photos, videos, links to news articles or your own blog posts. E-mail contributions to kushtiwrestling@gmail.com. Nov 20, 2011 Phoolwalon Ki Sair Dangal A festival celebrating the flower sellers of Delhi is bound to be colorful, but the annual “Phoolwalon ki Sair” in the village of Mehrauli is also noteworthy because of its long history and its greater purpose of bringing Hindus and Muslims closer together. The festival began about 200 years ago and continued until the waning days of colonial rule, when the British put an end to it because they worried about Hindus and Muslims joining together in the struggle for independence. In the early 1960s, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru revived the fair with the help of Padma Shree Late Yogeshwar Dayal, a member of one of the oldest and richest families of Delhi. Since his death, Ms Usha Kumar has continued the tradition. The fair today, which is free for all to attend, has lots to offer – all kinds of food, a Ferris wheel and games for kids. There’s traditional dancing, kite flying – where 150 kites would be flown at once, kabaddi, and of course, wrestling. One of the highlights is a show of goodwill between Hindus and Muslims. Hindus go to the shrine of renowned Muslim Sufi Bakhtiyar Kaki and lay a sheet of flowers called “foolon ki chaddar” over the tomb and Muslims reciprocate the friendly gesture by visiting the temple of Yogmaya and offering a flowery umbrella called “chatra”. I only wish this kind of festival could be held throughout India to showcase what the country is known for – a vibrant, colorful culture where people of all religion can live together peacefully. Mr. G.S. Gulati, who for the past two decades has been organizing the wrestling event told me that each winning wrestler would receive a minimum of Rs 50/- prize and a maximum of 5000/- as the event was mainly for younger wrestlers. He told me that the final match would be fought between the best wrestlers in the dangal. There were a number of wrestling bouts held for kids and they collected lots of prizes, which made them all very happy. A great young wrestler named Moughli won four matches. A wrestler from Mehrauli named Deepak pinned his opponent in seconds and the crowd erupted in cheers. He collected a lot of money as the spectators celebrated the victory of a local boy. The first prize match was between Gullu Pahalwan and a wrestler from Fatehpur Akhara. The match went on for more than 30 minutes and ended in a draw as the wrestlers were getting exhausted. The chief guest at the dangal was Pandit Yoganand Shastri the prominent leader and Hindu Brahmin who is also the president of the Phoolwalon ki Sair. He was honored with a fan of flowers and posed for pictures with the Holy Kaba of Muslims and one side and a picture of the goddess Durga on the other. He inaugurated the bouts of kushti and kabaddi and also distributed the prizes to wrestlers. The organizers were: Ms Usha Kumar and Chairman of Sports Committee Mr. B.S. Gulati. Other officials: Yogesh Gupta, Ram Avtar, Paras Saini, Jain Sahab Referees: Satveer Pahlwan, Kamal Pahlwan, Dhannu Pahlwan, Dhanna. The S.H.O and other officers of the Mehrauli Police Station were responsible for security arrangements. The officers were present throughout the dangal and made sure everything went smoothly. Gulati ji, one of the organiser, asked one of the police officers, to inaugurate a bout, which he readily agreed to. 1 comment: This is India's most like game and but no one can make the carrier in this sport.

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The New Museum is New York’s only museum dedicated exclusively to emerging artists—mostly works created within the last decade. But for Surround Audience, the third iteration of the museum’s triennial exhibition, 10 years old is just too old. Assistant curator Sara O’Keeffe isn’t waiting for new trends to emerge and appear on gallery walls. She’s going out and finding them well before that. This month, the museum presents more than 50 young artists from over 25 countries. O’Keeffe, along with curator Lauren Cornell and artist Ryan Trecartin, searched the world for compelling work that addressed the show’s theme—how we’re documented, directed and, to some extent, defined by the unending stream of data that flows through our lives. Past triennials have focused on a specific age group to show how members of a generation share a vision. But here it’s less about age and more about technology, new media and the social and psychological changes they create. Artists selected are presenting sculpture, painting, photography, sound, dance, poetry, installation, video and even an avatar that address issues of identity, privacy, publicity, commoditization and the myriad ways new forms of communication impact today’s world. It all fits into what O’Keeffe describes as her “wholistic” approach to curating. In the past, she’s worked with artists and chefs to create salon-like experiences that involve both artists and audience equally. It’s not surprising that O’Keeffe sees art as something that spills beyond museums and galleries. She’s the daughter of two artists and art has informed every day of her life. Born in Ohio, O’Keeffe headed to the West Coast for college and her early curatorial work. Before long, the call of New York drew her to settle in Brooklyn and find her first museum gig at the Guggenheim in 2010. Last year, she started at the New Museum, helping select triennial artists and working with others who are creating new pieces. Almost a third of the 51 artists will be showing art commissioned specifically for the show. In most cases the art is so new it didn’t exist until shortly before the opening. In some performance pieces, it won’t exist until after the show starts. O’Keeffe’s role was to meet with artists, discuss plans and help them hone and realize their visions. “Digital technologies are collapsing the binaries between what’s online and what’s actually in the world,” she said, adding that it can be liberatory. But at the same time, “knowing we’re all so closely tracked when we’re online makes many of us frustrated.” For years we’ve seen social activism and performance art swimming in the same pool as movements around the world have been organized, promulgated and given voice through connected devices and networks. In Surround Audience, New Zealand artist Luke Willis Thompson’s performance responds to stop-and-frisk programs and asks the audience to walk in someone else’s shoes in an immediate, physical way. “Timeless Alex,” Eduardo Navarro’s sculpture/performance work based on an extinct Galapagos tortoise’s shell, addresses inhabiting other frameworks and psychologies. The curators hope Surround Audience captures a moment, a shared experience. “Art presents models for operating in the world we live in,” O’Keeffe said. “Many of the artists are activists who try to change the world through protesting and works they do.” Though the triennial bills itself as “predictive,” O’Keeffe admitted that we can’t know today which pieces will have been important. “We just put together a show of artists who’re grappling with concerns that we feel are urgent now. It’s for history to decide.” Surround Audience fills the Bowery’s New Museum and off-site locations with experimental new work by international artists from New York to New Zealand. Feb 25—May 24.

His previous release, Sleeping With the Stars, displayed his talent for introspective, intelligent lyrics, but it was lacking in the melody department, each song a strummed confessional, nice but rather monotonous. On this outing it becomes obvious he’s spent much of the last year listening to Elliott Smith, and it’s definitely influenced his songwriting. While it hints at just a tad obsessive, Finkel traveled to Portland, Oregon to record these songs at the legendary Jackpot! Studios where Smith also recorded, even using the same piano. There is no doubt that this immersion benefited his songwriting. Each song has something to recommend it- from the opener “Months and Weeks,” a guitar and piano burner with the occasional ping of a xylophone, through penultimate track, the Beatle-esque “Dance With Me” which uses the start-soft-and-build blueprint of their “Carry That Weight.” It probably isn’t a coincidence that Smith was also often called Beatle-esque. Second track “Billy Soder-Sakk” actually echoes another Portland band (and Jackpot! Studios alumnus) the Decemberists. The shortest song of the bunch, its plaintive request “I want my best friend back” and assertion that “He was going to be a man today/ there was nothing we could do” implies a bad ending, belied by the song’s bouncy tune. “I’m Going With You” could have been an outtake from “Wide Awake, It’s Morning,” the more country of Bright Eyes’ pair of ’05 albums. All that’s missing is an Emmy Lou Harris backing vocal. Even more country is the lovely “Only One Who Makes You Sing” which features a lovely slide guitar turn from co-producer Adam Pike to compliment Finkel’s jangly guitar and brushed drums. If Finkel’s songwriting continues to grow at this impressive rate, his next work could be a masterpiece. As for this record, well, I agree with his mom, I like these songs too.

“Harry Potter” NYC Premiere to Stream Live on MTV.com [VIDEO] /2012%2F12%2F04%2F1f%2Fharrypotter.ctb.jpg). MTV's movie expert, Joshua Horowitz (@joshuahorowitz), will rely on Twitter to ask questions submitted by fans using the hashtag #askPotter. The premiere is being held four days before the first part of the final Harry Potter installment hits theaters on Friday, November 19. The movie's London premiere was also shown online last week, and similar live-streamed events have become more common over the past year. Last November, The Twilight Saga: New Moon premiere was streamed through a partnership between MySpace and Ustream — the event garnered more than 100,000 viewers within minutes of its kickoff. The third installment, Eclipse, also had its premiere streamed live this past June. Vampire and wizard movie franchises aren't the only Hollywood juggernauts to receive the live-stream treatment. Last December, Fox partnered up with UStream to broadcast red carpet arrivals during the Avatar premiere. And even the Academy Awards's red carpet event streamed online earlier this year. You can watch the New York City Harry Potter red carpet premiere below, starting at 6 p.m. ET.

Sydney Ritter Mesa Legend Maricopa Community Colleges (MCCCD) has released a set of logos for each of the 10 MCCCD colleges. The series of logos have been created by a team of six graphic designers. The project has been a continual effort between the MCCCD team and the community surrounding the schools for two years ever since the idea was first proposed in 2015. According to the Director of Communications at MCCCD Matthew Hasson, MCCCD’s goal was to make all 10 of the MCCCD colleges to have their own uniquely individual logo for the school but to also be connected to each other as an MCCCD college. “This was a collaborative district-wide effort. Each college president and district leadership were a part of the development of the new logos,” he said. “The project focused on honoring the school’s’ individual identities and respective communities. The icons in each circle are each school’s original icon. School colors stayed the same. The circle and type treatment became the unifying element to create a family of logos.” Although the project has now been released to the public and for the colleges to start using, the initial start of the idea did not sit well with some of the surrounding community. Former Vice Mayor of Mesa Dennis Kavanaugh, whose district included MCC’s main campus, was very vocal about his concern in the “rebranding” process while in office. “In the end, [the logos] were pretty good. [The district] achieved their goal while keeping each college’s individuality,” he said. “I have to give credit to the chancellor and the governing board who decided to work on [the logos] and take our criticisms in a constructive way instead of digging their heels in and they ended up with an outcome that I think is beneficial to people in the communities and the colleges.” The project was proposed in 2015 and the team’s first designs to the city of Mesa, where Mesa Community College (MCC) has been rooted into the city for more than 50 years, did not take to the logos lightly. “We got some good reactionary responses from a number of the governing board members. They also provided input so that we knew what the district was trying to do and we supported them but the heritage of MCC and the other colleges was too important to leave behind,” Kavanaugh added. Along with the changing logos, MCCCD also was considering changing the names of the colleges entirely. MCC’s chairperson for the alumni advisory board, Arlen Sykes, added his own commentary to the process when he heard about the change. “Last year when we started talking about taking another step and making the school Maricopa Community College then Mesa my feeling was it did not give enough of the identity to the college,” he said. “Each [city] has it’s own identity, so each school has it’s own identity and I think this change that they did really did a really quality and creative job in being able to continue to have that identity but also show that affiliation to Maricopa Community Colleges.” The 10 new logos were released to the public on August 24. “Mesa Community College has a strong reputation for excellence in education. Our logo is the visual representation of that reputation. It is our signature. It instantly identifies who we are and what we stand for,” according to the MCC website. MCC alumnus and current interim president, Sasan Poureetezadi, is very pleased with the new modern logo that MCCCD has given. In an Intranet post to the MCC staff and faculty, the Director of Institutional Advancement Sonia Filan, explained that the new website is meant “to incorporate the updated logo and provide a more contemporary look.” “When we looked at updating the website, something we planned on the last year to coincide with the launch of the new logo. So with the new logo we also launched the new website because part of that is the logo is part of your brand so you want to insure the website reflects the logo,” Poureetezadi added. The launch of the website coincided with the start of the school year, on August 21.

Premiere: Catz 'N Dogz journey on the adventurous 'Fire Burning When We Are' The kind of tune you put on blast driving down the highway Catz 'N Dogz have returned to Berlin's Watergate Records with their upcoming compilation 'Watergate 22 EP #1', the first of a two-piece eight-track output. The first EP arrives with two originals and two remixes on deck, the first of which titled 'Fire Burning When We Are' joins us early on Mixmag ahead of its May 22 release date. As the name suggests, 'Fire Burning When We Are' is a lusty, slow-burning track that unfolds into a soundscape journey across a pattering house line. "We got to the studio after a long tour and you can really hear that we were inspired by our travels, watching the world from the planes and cars," the Polish duo explain about the creative thought behind the EP. "Lots of analog synths, 909 drums and analog bass. It's very emotional and powerful." It's easy to feel the inspirations come through on the building, sweeping tones of the tune, a perfect dance floor peak or a track to turn up on full blast while driving late at night. "When we work together in the studio we keep each other motivated and inspired," Catz 'N Dogz explains further. "It’s much easier to do things together and we keep the 'Fire Burning' in the studio." The 'Watergate 22 EP #1' EP is out on Watergate on May 22. Purchase it here. Valerie Lee is Mixmag's US Digital Editor. Follow her on Twitter here

Apple has Jony Ive -- the design genius that makes its products slick, beautiful and easy to use. Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30) has Panos Panay -- and he still has a lot to prove. But there's no question: Microsoft's products keep getting better. The latest example is Surface 3, the tablet/laptop hybrid. In an exclusive interview with CNNMoney, Panay says his team has grown obsessed with the "third look." When you pick up a new gadget the first time, you might think it looks pretty. But when you look a little closer, you'll likely start to find some imperfections that you didn't initially see. By the third time you look at it -- if you even manage to get that far -- you're either sold or you'll move on. For the Surface 3 to stand out, it has to make it past the third look, thinks Panay. It has to be "perfect." So how much is Panay like Ive? Both have the same passion for the manufacturing process, flawless design and fierce devotion to their teams. Both Ive and Panay also have strong family ties. Ive has spoken extensively about the influence he received from his silversmith father.. To accomplish that feat, Panay spends three hours a day in Building 87, a prototyping laboratory on Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Washington. There, Panay and his team of engineers and designers work on refining their Surface ideas. The Surface team consists of 120-or-so people with expertise in 25 different disciplines, including radios, hinges, magnets, metallic rigidity, fabrics and fashion. There are tooling engineers, mechanical engineers and optical engineers. They create prototype after prototype until Panay and the team leaders are satisfied. "If you don't get an emotional experience, it's not right," Panay said. The toy-factory-like lab allows the Surface team to build prototypes quickly -- and throw them out if they detect even the slightest imperfection. The lab has 3-D printers that can print as thinly as 1/10th the width of a human hair. There are class-four lasers that can hack to pieces anything on the planet. There's a paint room and a light lab that lets you detect whether there's a hint of a color you don't like under certain lighting conditions. "When you're able to innovate every hour, you can put your hands on it and know every detail," Panay said. "You can know if people are going to love it. (Is it thin enough? Is it light enough?) That's how you get emotion into your products." The Surface tablets are beautiful, and the new Surface 3 is the best-looking of them all. Its gorgeous, polished magnesium logo on the kickstand, super-bright and trendy-colored keyboard/covers, and pristine attention to detail are Apple-like (AAPL, Tech30). "You don't leave anything on the table when you pick up this device," Panay said. "You have some pride in the craftsmanship. You feel proud to hold it. Hopefully some people say, 'I don't know why but it just looks beautiful.' And if that happens, we achieved what we wanted to achieve."

In Photos: Remembering Rene Angelil Rene Angelil's funeral to take place at Notre Dame Basilica CTV Montreal Published Thursday, January 14, 2016 8:21PM EST Last Updated Friday, January 15, 2016 9:25PM EST A key venue in the story of Rene Angelil and Celine Dion will host Angelil's funeral next week. A visitation for Angelil will take place Thursday and his funeral will occur Friday afternoon at Montreal's Notre Dame Basilica, where he and Dion were married 21 years ago. The premier's office confirmed Friday evening that Angelil would receive a national funeral. The Quebec flag that flies atop the National Assembly's central tower will be lowered to half-mast during the ceremony. A national funeral takes place in honour of someone who had an illustrious career in the political, cultural or social realms. Angelil, who was 73, died of cancer at home in Las Vegas Thursday morning. He was first diagnosed with the disease in the late 90s. Barry Garber, a successful manager, agent and producer in his own right, met Angelil and Dion years ago and helped them get their production company off the ground and worked with them until they moved to Las Vegas. “I feel like we've lost someone who is irreplaceable, one of a kind, a grand, grand, grand, gentleman and a gentleman above all else. There was no one like him, I don’t think the country hasn’t seen a figure quite like Rene in terms of artist management, and not only this country. I think in the past 20 years there hasn't been another artist manager quite like him. He’s unique and he stands alone,” he said. TV personality Sonia Benezra has interviewed Angelil and Dion many times and said she was saddened by the news. "She will honour his memory. She performed this year in Vegas at his request, she didn't need to do that, we know they don't need the money. She did it because he wanted her to do it, So I'm sure she will continue honouring him with things that he wanted for her," she said. Politicians, fellow musicians and fans all took to Twitter to express their condolences to Dion and pay tribute to Angelil, a titan in the Quebec and Canadian entertainment industry. My condolences to @CelineDion, and to the children, friends and loved ones of René Angélil on his passing.— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) January 14, 2016 Sharon and I are saddened by the passing of René Angelil. Our condolences to @CelineDion, their children and relatives. He was a visionary.— David Johnston (@GGDavidJohnston) January 14, 2016 René Angélil, un homme que nous avons appris à connaître, à apprécier, à admirer et surtout à aimer! @celinedion— Philippe Couillard (@phcouillard) January 14, 2016 Décès René Angélil 73ans Monument du monde du spectacle nous a quitté Un grand Québécois qui n'a jamais oublié ses racines et les siens #RIP— DenisCoderre (@DenisCoderre) January 14, 2016 RIP Rene Angélil, great friend & human being!The world will take @celinedion &ur boys into its arms & continue 2 love & care 4 them 4 U.❤️— Gloria Estefan (@GloriaEstefan) Un moment de silence au Centre Bell à la mémoire de René Angélil. / A moment of silence in memory of Rene Angelil. pic.twitter.com/44EgsSXdZ3— Canadiens Montréal (@CanadiensMTL) January 15, 2016 A Beautful Couple.. A Beautiful Love Story #RIPRene #CelineDion pic.twitter.com/VfW77H7dsE— Amy Lynne (@Amy14354) January 15, 2016 The visitation, which is public, will take place from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. Jan. 21 at the Basilica. The funeral will take place the following day at 3 p.m. Another ceremony will take place at the Caesars Palace Colosseum Feb. 3 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Latest Montreal News

Dressed for Success: Jessica Chastain, Colin Firth, Eddie Redmayne and Diane Kruger Among Actors on Vanity Fair Best-Dressed List Jessica Chastain can hold her own with British royalty when it comes to fashion. The Tree of Life actresss and the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, each adorn a cover of Vanity Fair magazine's September Style issue, which includes the magazine's annual International Best Dressed List. The red-headed beauty — whose cover will go to subsribers — made the list for the first time, but joins other actors who are no strangers to the honor. Inglourious Basterds actress Diane Kruger made the list for the second time as did Best-Dressed Couple, The King's Speech star Colin Firth and his producer wife Livia. Chinese actress Fan Bingbing (Shaolin), France's Léa Seydoux (Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol) and model, actress, filmmaker and Schiaparelli muse Farida Khelfa. How to Get Ahead in Advertising actor and Wah-Wah director Richard E. Grant returns to the list for the first time since 2007, and My Week with Marilyn heartthrob Eddie Redmayne makes his debut in the Best-Dressed Men category. Jay-Z is named to the list for the first time, along with fellow musician Alicia Keys, who is back on the list for the first time since her inaugural appearance, in 2009. Actor Richard E. Grant makes a fashion comeback as well, named to the list for the first time since 2007. Colin Firth is on the list for the second year in a row, along with stylish wife Livia, in the Best-Dressed Couples category, and newcomer Eddie Redmayne is one of the Best-Dressed Men. You can see more photos of the Best-Dressed at Vanity Fair.com. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

. STATE & REGIONAL TITLES Here are some titles ideas women can use or make up their own. There can be more than one contestant representing a state. Examples below of different titles using the state of California - you can do the same with other states too! Ms. California Ms. California State Ms. California Coast Ms. So. California Ms. No. California Ms. Central California Ms. California Regional Ms. Regional California Ms. California Empire Ms. California Riviera Ms. Southern Coast Regional Ms. SoCal Ms. Orange County Regional Ms. San Diego Regional Ms. California Shores Ms. Northern Sierra Ms. California Beach Cities Ms. Greater California Ms. California North Coast Ms. California South Coast Ms. California Gold Coast Ms. California Pacific Coast Regional Titles: Ms. Coastal States Ms. Canyon States Ms. Desert States Ms. Middle Atlantic Ms. Northeast Regional Ms. New England Ms. Middle Atlantic Regional Ms. South Atlantic Regional Ms. East South Central Region Ms. Gulf Coast America - FL Ms. Pacific America - AK HI WA Oregon CA Ms. Pacific Northwest Ms. Pacific States Ms. Midwest States America Ms. Atlantic States Ms. East Coast America Ms. Mid Atlantic - Delaware, Maryland, NJ, and other State? Ms. New England - Main NH, Vermont, Mass, Conn, Rhode Island, Ms. Northern New England - Main, NH and Vermont Ms. Southern New England - RI, Mass and Connecticut Ms. Southeast America Ms. Northeast America NY, Ms. Northwest America Ms. Southwest America Ms. Northern America Ms. Northern States America Ms. Southern States America Ms. Eastern States America Ms. Western States America Ms. Pacific Coast America Ms. West Coast America Ms. East Coast America Ms. Plains States America Ms. Great Lakes America Ms. Alabama Ms. Yellowhammer State Ms. Heart of Dixie Ms. Alaska ™ Ms. North Pole ™ Ms. North Star ™ Ms. Arizona ™ Ms. Grand Canyon State Ms. Copper State ™ Ms. Arkansas ™ Ms. Natural State ™ Ms. California ™ Ms. Golden State ™ Ms. California Coast ™ Ms. Colorado ™ Ms. Centennial State ™ Ms. Rocky Mountain State ™ Ms. Connecticut ™ Ms. Nutmeg State ™ Ms. Constitution State ™ Ms. Delaware ™ Ms. First State ™ Ms. Diamond State ™ Ms. District of Columbia ™ Ms. Nation's Capital ™ Ms. Florida ™ Ms. Sunshine State ™ Ms. Florida Gulf Coast Ms. Georgia ™ Ms. Peach State ™ Ms. Heart of Georgia ™ Ms. Hawaii ™ Ms. Aloha State ™ Ms. Idaho ™ Ms. Gem State ™ Ms. Illinois ™ Ms. Prairie State ™ Ms. Indiana ™ Ms. Heritage State ™ Ms. Hoosier State ™ Ms. Iowa ™ Ms. Hawkeye State ™ Ms. Kansas ™ Ms. Sunflower State ™ Ms. Kentucky ™ Ms. Bluegrass State ™ Ms. Louisiana ™ Ms. Bayou State ™ Ms. Pelican State ™ Ms. Maine ™ Ms. Pine Tree State ™ Ms. Maryland ™ Ms. Old Line State ™ Ms. Free State ™ Ms. Massachusetts ™ Ms. Bay State ™ Ms. Old Colony State ™ Ms. Michigan ™ Ms. Great Lakes State ™ Ms. Wolverine State ™ Ms. Minnesota ™ Ms. North Star State ™ Ms. Mississippi ™ Ms. Magnolia State ™ Ms. Delta State ™ Ms. Hospitality State ™ Ms. Missouri ™ Ms. Show Me State ™ Ms. Heart of Missouri ™ Ms. Montana ™ Ms. Treasure State ™ Ms. Nebraska ™ Ms. Cornhusker State ™ Ms. Heart of Nebraska ™ Ms. Nevada ™ Ms. Silver State ™ Ms. Sagebrush State ™ Ms. New Hampshire ™ Ms. Granite State ™ Ms. New Jersey ™ Ms. Garden State ™ Ms. New Mexico ™ Ms. Land of Enchantment ™ Ms. New York ™ Ms. Empire State ™ Ms. North Carolina ™ Ms. Old North State ™ Ms. Tar Heel State ™ Ms. North Dakota ™ Ms. Peace Garden State Ms Flickertail State ™ Ms. Ohio ™ Ms. Buckeye State ™ Ms. Heart of it All ™ Ms. Oklahoma ™ Ms. Sooner State ™ Ms. Oregon ™ Ms. Beaver State ™ Ms. Pacific Woodland ™ Ms. Pennsylvania ™ Ms. Keystone State ™ Ms. First Capital ™ Ms. Rhode Island ™ Ms. Ocean State ™ Ms. South Carolina ™ Ms. Palmetto State ™ Ms. South Dakota ™ Ms. Mount Rushmore State ™ Ms. Coyote State ™ Ms. Tennessee ™ Ms. Volunteer State ™ Ms. Big Bend State ™ Ms. Texas ™ Ms. Lone Star State ™ Ms. Utah ™ Ms. Beehive State ™ Ms. Vermont ™ Ms. Green Mountain State ™ Ms. Virginia ™ Ms. Commonwealth of Virginia™ Ms. Old Dominion State ™ Ms. Cavalier State ™ Ms. Washington ™ Ms. Evergreen State ™ Ms. West Virginia ™ Ms. Mountain State ™ Ms. Wisconsin ™ Ms. Badger State ™ Ms. Wyoming ™ Ms. Equality State ™ Make Your Own Website! No Skills Required!

JACKSONVILLE – The Jacksonville Sharks announced today that quarterback Tommy Grady signed with the Jacksonville Sharks for his ninth year of arena football and fourth season with the Jacksonville Sharks. Grady (6’7”, 250) started the first six games last season for the Sharks before suffering a foot injury against the Monterrey Steel to end his season. Prior to injury, Grady threw 71 completions for 1060 yards and 23 touchdowns. Grady only had one interception, earned NAL Offensive Player of the Week twice and was on his way to becoming the NAL MVP before being injured. During Grady’s eight year career he has completed 2,864 passes for 33,068 yards and 724 touchdowns.The 6’7 quarterback earned Offensive MVP in 2012 with Utah Blaze and has won many awards throughout his career including Offensive Player of the Year and First Team All-Arena Honors. The Sharks star quarterback played for the Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz (2010), Utah Blaze (2011-13) and Pittsburgh Power (2014) before joining the Sharks in 2015. Grady began his collegiate career at the University of Oklahoma before transferring to the University of Utah. Grady is a native of Huntington Beach, California and currently resides in.

Milos Raonic of Thornhill, Ont., is champion of the SAP Open tennis tournament for the second straight year. Raonic defeated Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan 7-6, 6-2 in the final of the ATP World Tour event Sunday in San Jose, Calif. “I feel amazing. It’s definitely a different feeling from the first time last year,” said Raonic, who fired seven aces and dispatched Istomen in one hour and 19 minutes to become the first two-time winner on the circuit this season. “I think I’m more aware and a lot happier. I think everything I wanted to do, I did and I did it right. I’m very proud of that.” It’s the third ATP title for the rising star of Canadian tennis. His 2011 SAP Open win was his first on the tour and last month he won the Chennai Open in India. Raonic also became the first repeat winner in San Jose since Andy Murray accomplished the feat in 2006 and ’07. [np-related] At the trophy presentation after the match, Raonic, ranked No. 32 by the ATP, joked that he likes San Jose so much he’d consider moving here. “It’s amazing. If the real estate wasn’t so expensive here, maybe I’d buy a place,” he said. That Raonic even played in the tournament is something of a surprise. He was forced to skip his final singles match at last weekend’s Davis Cup tie in Vancouver, which Canada lost 4-1 to France. Last season, he was hampered by a hip injury that required surgery. “It was the toughest time and it was probably the hardest thing I hope I’ll have to go through,” he said of his injuries. “These kind of moments make you forget that. It’s in the past. “I just hope to keep playing good tennis. Hopefully the things go my may. Hopefully people will judge me that way (as having) a breakthrough year. Hopefully on to better and bigger things.

[tag: legal] , 1943 UNITED STATES v. KRUPNICK et al., and fifteen other cases The opinion of the court was delivered by: MEANEY MEANEY, District Judge. Defendants were indicted for violations of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, 50 U.S.C.A. Appendix § 201 et seq., and Maximum Price Regulation No. 169 as revised and amended, in that they knowingly, wilfully and unlawfully sold quantities of beef in excess of prices permitted under the regulation and failed to keep and preserve a complete and accurate record of such sales. There is also an indictment for conspiracy to violate the aforesaid Act and Regulation considered in this opinion. Motions to quash the indictments are made with various grounds assigned therefor. First: The Emergency Price Control Act of 1942 is unconstitutional. Second: The Regulation No. 169 is unconstitutional and discriminatory. Third: The indictments are generally vague and indefinite and fail fairly to apprise the defendants of the crime charged. These are the main objections to the indictment, though others will be disposed of also. To take up the constitutionality of the Emergency Price Control Act, it would appear that the basis of objection to the enforcement, by criminal prosecution or otherwise, of regulations of Administrative bodies authorized by Congress, such as those under consideration, seems to be, that such regulations, aimed though they may be at the prevention of inflation, profiteering, hoarding, manipulation, and other disruptive practices arising directly or indirectly out of the national emergency, are violative of constitutional prohibitions and directions. In a government such as ours, founded as it is upon a charter of rights, and upon nominated safeguards against tyranny, it is vitally essential that those constitutional restrictions on legislative action which are necessary for such protection, be preserved in their full force and vigor. In the prosecution of a war as all-affecting and all inclusive as is the one in which we are at present involved, it must be remembered that the constitution with all of its provisions must be preserved inviolate, no matter what the temptation to suspend it in any of its parts in behalf of an all out endeavor to render the war effort of our people totally effective. To win the war abroad at the cost of freedom at home would be a cruel mockery and stultification of the aspirations of a people dedicated to the sacred cause of human liberty. And therefore legislation passed under the guise of an exercise of the "war powers" of government must be carefully scrutinized, for nothing is granted to Congress for its action during war time, and under its war powers, which is categorically denied it by constitutional provisions, for these are supreme in every condition of the nation's existence, be it war with its menaces, or peace with its promises. Sacrifices, unnecessary in quieter times, become the ordinary lot of war-tortured peoples; but those sacrifices which our citizens are called upon to make, must not be accompanied by the destruction of basic rights which make this a land of freedom, orderly government, and constitutional guarantees. But within the confines of constitutional limitations the will of Congress in its attempts to foster proper prosecution of the war and at the same time to preserve economic stability, should be given sympathetic and reasonable interpretation. That hardships may ensue from the enforcement of its expressed will as enacted into law is no reason for refusing to accept such enforcement where it is a proper exercise of authority. In many instances, measures deemed necessary for the maintenance of the structure of government and for the protection of the decent democratic way of life may result in deprivation and loss to many citizens; but such woes, attendant on the battle of civilization, are not of necessity improper distortions of our way of life, and are negligible when compared to what the armed forces endure, all in the way of lawful compliance with the requirements of bearing the burden of participation in the total of citizenship. Being ever mindful of the exigences of the particular occasion, the Congress in creating an act such as the Emergency Price Control Act delegating powers to a particular agency or administration, is bound by certain definite and circumscribing limitations, these limitations being coextensive with the powers granted by its mainspring -- the Constitution. The taking over and operation of railroads ( Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. North Dakota, 250 U.S. 135, 39 S. Ct. 502, 63 L. Ed. 897); the taking over the operation of telephone and telegraph lines ( Dakota Central Telephone Co. v. State of South Dakota, 250 U.S. 163, 39 S. Ct. 507, 63 L. Ed. 910, 4 A.L.R. 1623); compulsory military service ( Arver v. United States, 245 U.S. 366, 38 S. Ct. 159, 62 L. Ed. 349, L.R.A.1918C, 361, Ann. Cas.1918B, 856); authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to set minimum milk prices based on parity, and adjusted if necessary ( United States v. Rock Royal Co-op., 307 U.S. 533, 59 S. Ct. 993, 83 L. Ed. 1446); the delegation of powers by Congress under the Bituminous Coal Act of 1937, 15 U.S.C.A. § 828 et seq. ( Sunshine Anthracite Coal Co. v. Adkins, 310 U.S. 381, 60 S. Ct. 907, 84 L. Ed. 1263) are some of the many delegations of power exercised by the Congress under the Constitution which have been upheld by the Supreme Court. The Act in question was sustained by a three-judge court in Henderson v. Kimmel, D.C., 47 F.Supp. 635, in its relation to the ceiling on rents; and with reference to the price control feature ( United States v. Hark, D.C., 49 F.Supp. 95); indictment dismissed on other grounds. On an indictment for selling commodities in violation of maximum prices, demurrers to the indictment were overruled in United States v. C. Thomas Stores, Inc., D.C., 49 F.Supp. 111, 112, 113. The court in the latter case said: "The test, therefore, to be applied is this: Has Congress clearly and fully stated its purposes and objects, and has it established standards by which such purposes are to be accomplished?" The present act meets this test. It is on a parity with the other powers exercised by the Congress in the situations heretofore set forth. The method of establishing maximum prices was generally outlined, but detailed and itemized specifications to be relied upon by the administrator were not, and by the very nature of the task, could not be meticulously provided. The Act does, however, make manifest its policy or purpose and establishes the standards which are to serve as basis for the development of that policy and the working out of its details. This is sufficient specification to meet the requirements for justification of delegation, not of law making authority, but of powers necessary to carry out the legislative purpose. The provisions of the Act are applicable to all portions of the country and are to be applied to those portions, which may vary from day to day, wherein the emergency situation may be declared to exist. No special singling out of any district limits its application, it is general in its scope and extension. Where local agencies operate to render them unnecessary, the regulations authorized by the Act are not imposed. The Act places a duty on the Administrator to study pertinent data and to establish prices as a result of adjustment made in view of relevant factors of general applicability. In this connection defendants make the point that the Act is unconstitutional since it grants power to the Administrator which amounts to determination of what acts shall be criminal. Looking to the Act, it is found that Congress declared what acts shall be criminal in section 205(b), 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix § 925(b), and has relegated to the Administrator the task of making the detailed specifications necessary for the fulfillment of Congressional will. See United States v. Grimaud, 220 U.S. 506, 517, 31 S. Ct. 480, 55 L. Ed. 563. It is contended that the regulations, violation of which are charged, are unconstitutional for the reason that by operation of these regulations, the defendants are deprived of their property without due process of law, and without due compensation, and that their rights to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation against them have been violated. It is further alleged that the provisions of the regulation contravene the express provisions of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942 and that the Price Administrator in promulgating the regulations acted arbitrarily, capriciously and beyond the scope of his authority. Insofar as the assertion is concerned that the regulation in question violates the 5th and 6th Amendments to the Constitution, it would seem to the Court that such is not the case. The regulation was made by virtue of the authority expressly granted by the Act itself, an authority which, it has been determined, was bestowed by Congress without conflict with constitutional restriction. Whether or not that authority was transcended, and whether the Administrator acted capriciously and arbitrarily in devising the terms of the regulation and whether the regulation conformed to the provisions of the Act is another question. There is a well defined distinction between the question of the constitutionality of the Act itself and the validity of the Regulation made by virtue of the Act and the powers granted the Administrator therein. Both the Government and the defendants recognize the inherent right of the Court to pass on the constitutionality of the Act in all of its phases. The difficulty is created when the defendants assume to attack the constitutionality of the regulations when (as a matter of fact) what they are in reality attacking is the validity of the regulations or their conformity to the provisions of the Act. There would seem to be no doubt that the Emergency Price Control Act is constitutional. And it would further seem incontestible that the Administrator, in devising the schedules and terms of the Regulation, acted under the directions to him contained in the Act. Whether he acted within the confines of his province and met the requirements of the act in framing Regulation

Street Sweeper Social Club. But this was my first real Nightwatchman show (other than a brief appearance at Pete Seeger's 90th birthday concert). At that show, Tom and Bruce Springsteen did an acoustic duet of "The Ghost Of Tom Joad," a song that Rage surprised people with when they covered it in the '90s. These days, it makes a lot more sense. Tom's dedication to sticking up for the less fortunate, and his outrage at the evils of society is similar to Bruce's (he's even more "left" than Bruce, I think). But performing as The Nightwatchman, Tom makes a compelling case as a guy with two different and legit musical personas. One - the guitar shredder from Rage and Street Sweeper, and, two, The Nightwatchman either solo or backed by a band. The Nightwatchman is something he can always do, whether or not he is with a band. Or whether or not he has electricity. There's a bit of a misperception about Tom doing The Nightwatchman. Because his debut album, 2007's One Man Revolution was a bit sparse and dry, people probably think his shows will be slow and boring. I think on some level, even Tom realized that he could be playing to bigger audiences by, well, having a bit more fun. If you listen to "The Iron Wheel" (a duet with Shooter Jennings) from his second album, 2008's The Fabled City, it's a great sing-along tune. Some of Woody Guthrie's songs were fun, I think Tom caught on to that. I think his earlier tours were like Bruce's first solo acoustic tour for The Ghost Of Tom Joad. I saw that show twice: it was good, but demanding, and it felt like fun was not allowed. You can pull that off if you're, like Leonard Cohen or something. But Woody, Pete Seeger, even Steve Earle, they have fun at their shows. I think Tom realized this. This tour was more like Bruce's Devils and Dust tour: he realized that it's ok to do serious solo acoustic shows and still have a good time. Everyone walked out of the show with a smile on their face, but also charged up. here). He also did a version of Pink Floyd's "When The Tigers Broke Free" from The Wall (about how the main character's father died in the war), updating the lyrics for 2011. But those songs had greater weight, because, as Tom put it, he brought the "heavy metal thunder" on many other songs. "Save The Hammer For The Man" from his new album, World Wide Rebel Songs, was incredible (the original is a duet with the great Ben Harper, Carl did his best to sing Ben's part, and he did so ably). "The Ghost Of Tom Joad" was mindblowing - Tom switching to an electric in the middle of the song to melt faces. Maybe the most rockin song was "This Land Is Your Land." Tom added the "censored" lyrics, which make it much more radical (see the lyrics and a historic performance of that song by Seeger and Springsteen here). He had the whole room jumping - explaining that everyone HAD to jump, as his show was "an irony free zone" even though it was in New York City. You can see a bootleggy video of the performance here. It's obvious he has taken notes from Springsteen, but he's clearly doing his own thing. He finished up by inviting the audience on stage for "World Wide Rebel Songs," instructing one woman in the audience to film the show for YouTube, and demanding that the rest of us stop tweeting and filming and live in the moment. I was fortunate enough to be invited to the after-party (and this is a good place to mention that I got complimentary tickets, in the interest of full disclosure). I met some nice folks from Tom's management team, and even introduced my wife - who took these excellent photos, and who is a public school teacher and a proud union woman - to Tom. She got to thank him for his support. It was a great moment. One moment that I wish he had was "The Iron Wheel," one of The Nightwatchman's greatest songs. Shooter Jennings was there, I couldn't believe they didn't perform together! Maybe next time. On a final note, I'll mention that I got to chat with Mr. Morello the day before - I filmed him for SiriusXM's E Street Radio. We discussed a recent quote of his from Rolling Stone magazine, where he said that he's the last man in America who thinks Bob Dylan sold out by going electric. So, I'm here to say that Tom has at least one stance that I totally disagree with. "Hurricane" is way better with a band than it would be without, and ditto for "Lovesick." That's just off the top of my head. But anyway, thank you Tom for a great show, hope to see you again soon. (Tom will be on E Street Radio on September 5 and 6, for listings and rebroadcast times, go here). Friday, September 2, 2011 THE NIGHTWATCHMAN AT CITY WINERY: A (GLORIOUSLY) IRONY-FREE ZONE 1 comment: I think this soundtrack is terrific. When I grew up in the sixties, I remember being addicted to old time music and listening to it on our tube mono upright phonograph. Of course I didn't realize it was old time music as a little kid. I just knew it was easy to latch onto. This CD reminds me how much the world and popular music as changed.

ANC president criticised for joining 'blacks-only' lunch in South Africa Jacob Zuma, the newly elected president of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), was at the centre of renewed controversy yesterday after accepting an invitation to address a “blacks-only” meeting of South African journalists. Mr Zuma, who is in line to become the country's next president in 2009, said that he saw nothing wrong in the decision by the Forum of Black Journalists (FBJ) not to allow any white journalists, including those known to be favourable to the ANC, to attend a luncheon at which he was the guest speaker. Three well-known white journalists who tried to attend were asked to leave. The incident has infuriated many South Africans, of all races, who fear that it is a sign of Mr Zuma's intentions if he succeeds to the presidency when Thabo Mbeki steps down. Mr Zuma, who currently faces corruption charges, was elected ANC president in a bitterly fought contest last year. NWN: No surprise to us, but shocking for those idiots who follow the general world concensus about 'equality'. 1 comment: Its a black thing,he is a racialist so what is wrong with that ,nothing. Keyser soze

Mary was born on 8 November 1950. She was born under the zodiac sign of Scorpio and she was born in Madison in South Dakota in the United States of America. It is known that her childhood was spent in Sioux Falls and for a short period of time she also lived in Denmark. Records suggest that Mary is quite fluent with Swedish along with English and Danish since an early age. The name of her mother is Dorothy Harum but the name of her father is not known. Apart from Mary, her parents had two more children and both were boys. The name of Mary’s brother is Michael Harum and David Harum. She went to Augustana Academy and she later enrolled at Augustana College to complete her education. Later, after completing her graduation, she started working for Washington High School and she worked there for two years. It is known that Mary also competed in several beauty competitions, for example, she competed in Miss South Dakota in 1970 and she won the competition. Next, she also competed in Miss America in 1971 and she was one of the semi-finalists in the beauty pageant. After leaving Washington High School, Mary started producing a show on KSFY – TV. She was also the anchor of the show. This was basically the start of her career. Later in 1976, she started working for KMTV. She hosted a show known as Doomsday. Later she started working in TV commercials and there shows. It is known that she tried to leave the TV industry but she had to return because of her financial needs. As per the information, Mary gained a lot of popularity because of her legs and she ended up insuring her legs for a sum of 1 Million Dollar each. As per the records, Mary got married in 1972 and she chose Terry Hart as her husband. She owned several properties with her husband and it is known that her husband was a well-known film producer. Two of her houses were located near the Yellowstone Club. The records suggest that Mary also owns a couple of more homes in California. In 1979, she called off her marriage with Terry Hart after 7 years of marriage and 10 years later she decided to get married to Burt Sugarman. Burt is also a television producer and he produced several famous shows. It is known that Mary had a child from her first marriage and the name of her son is Alec Jay. She had also been very actively participating in charity programs and it is known that she also helped in opening a Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles. Mary is known to be a spokeswoman for the famous Edit Sanford Breast Cancer Initiative. The annual salary of Mary is not known as the information is not available on public domain but as per the information, her net worth is over 10 Million American Dollars. Some of the sources suggest that her net worth is being understated by her.

Short History of Java Java originated in 1995 and it was the language of the Internet and provided some unheard of capabilities in mainstream static typed languages, such as garbage collection, cross-platform out of the box (Write Once Run Anywhere), automatic documentation and the ability to run inside the browser as Java Applet. It quickly became very popular, especially for enterprise systems. About six years later, C# was released. The C# designers had taken a good look at Java and produced a language that was very similar, but addressed many of the issues that came to the front during Java's first years. Ever since, Java has been playing catch-up with C# and other languages in terms of language features.

[tag: legal] .KENNETH DALE ARNDT, APPELLANT No. 265 Special Transfer Docket Appeal from the Judgment of Sentence of the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Criminal Division, No. 820 of 1976. COUNSEL Theodore A. Parker, Lancaster, for appellant. John A. Kenneff, Assistant District Attorney, Lancaster, for Commonwealth, appellee. Montgomery, O'Brien and Honeyman, JJ.*fn* Author: Montgomery [ 269 Pa. Super. Page 580] On January 19, 1977, appellant pled guilty to an information charging him with the murder of Mary Schinzing, a 43 year old physically handicapped woman, in her apartment in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Following a hearing before a three-judge panel, appellant was adjudged guilty of first degree murder, and was thereafter sentenced to life imprisonment. Post verdict motions were properly filed and denied below. Appellant alleges that the lower court erred in not suppressing his confession which he contends was the product of subtle coercion and not voluntary; and also that his guilty plea was not knowingly and voluntarily entered because appellant did not understand that he could receive the death penalty after pleading guilty generally. However, before any decision, on the merits, as to whether appellant's guilty plea was voluntary and knowing, we must first determine if this issue is properly before this court on appeal. Appellant pled guilty on January 19, 1977, and this was subsequent to this court's decision in Commonwealth v. Roberts, 237 Pa. Super. 336, 352 A.2d 140 (1975). Roberts mandated that a defendant must file a petition in the lower court requesting to withdraw his guilty plea before a direct appeal to this court challenging the validity of that plea could be entertained.*fn1 Under a strict interpretation of Roberts, absent the filing of a withdrawal petition, any voluntariness issue would be automatically waived. However, the later decisions in Commonwealth v. McCusker, 245 Pa. Super. 402, 369 A.2d 465 (1976) (dissenting opinion by Spaeth, J.; [ 269 Pa. Super. Page 581] rev'd 485 Pa. 313, 402 A.2d 500 (1977) and Commonwealth v. Johnson, 258 Pa. Super. 214, 392 A.2d 760 (1978),*fn2 have since tempered this automatic waiver rule by holding that prior to a finding of waiver, this court must determine, from the record, whether appellant was fully informed by the trial court of his right to file a petition to withdraw his plea, and the consequences of his failure to do so. If the record is devoid of such instructions, an invalid waiver would be conclusively presumed, and the proper procedure would be to remand for the filing of a petition to withdraw nunc pro tunc. The purpose of this remedy was to afford the trial court the first opportunity to rule on the underlying waiver issue. The foregoing digression is necessary because in the instant case, the appellant failed to file a petition to withdraw his plea as required by Roberts ; however, a review of the record reveals that he was not informed of the requirement to do so by the court below. As in McCusker and Johnson, we will, therefore, not find a conclusive waiver of his challenge to the validity of his guilty plea. However, we will also not remand for the filing of a petition to withdraw nunc pro tunc in that a mechanical application of Johnson to this case would produce a remand that would be a mere procedural exercise. Appellant did, in fact, file comprehensive post verdict motions which alleged numerous grounds as a basis for challenging the validity of his plea. These same issues are presented to us on appeal. There was a full hearing below before the court en banc, and the lower court opinion discusses and resolves each issue. In this instance, this court has the benefit of the lower court's views on the issues

The Montco Chapter Hall of Fame is looking to honor the No. 1 All-Time team in Montgomery County during the chapter’s seventh-annual induction ceremony on October 13, 2017 from the Valley Forge Casino Resort. How will you help? It’s easy. Comment below (via Facebook or our commenting system) with your nominations of who YOU think was the best high school team of all time in Montgomery County. The top nominees will enter the voting stage at the end of the week where you’ll once again be able to vote to crown the No. 1 All-Time team in Montgomery County. Here is a list of individual inductees whose athletic and community related career accomplishments have clearly warranted their recognition: Alisia “Lisa” Salters, Lisa is an internationally renowned award winning journalist. Her career features in-the-moment first hand reporting across a sweeping variety of personalities, cultures and underlying issues. While most recognize Lisa for her Sports Emmy nominated and Gracie Award winning sports reporting, Lisa also travelled the world to bring stories from the Middle East, Italy, Haiti, and even the OJ Simpson Trial. As a basketball star for the Upper Merion Vikings and a guard for the Penn State Lady Lions basketball team Lisa embodied all the attributes of a natural leader. Lisa is currently a sideline reporter for NBA Basketball and ESPN’s Monday Night Football. Lisa won a Gracie Award from the Association for Women in Radio and Television for best feature in 2009 and a Sports Emmy nomination for the touching story “Ray of Hope” in 2008. She traveled to Haiti for a powerful story on the U17 national women’s soccer team just months after the country was devastated by an earthquake in 2010. As a reporter for ESPN and ESPN on ABC since 2000 Lisa covered the O.J. Simpson murder case for ABC and reported worldwide for ESPN. Lisa also provided a series of reports from the Middle East prior to the Iraq War, hosted ESPN’s coverage of the 2006 Winter Olympics from Turin, Italy and coverage of the 2002 FIFA Soccer World Cup. Tony Resch, Named to the National Lacrosse League (NLL) Hall of Fame in 2008. At Yale University was a two-time All-American and a three-time All-Ivy League. Won a gold medal in the 1990 World Lacrosse Championship in Perth, Australia. Tony was a Captain of the Philadelphia Wings and won the NLL championship in 1989 and 1990. Tony was also head coach of the Philadelphia Wings of the from 1994 to 2001. As head coach he led the Wings to four MLL Championships and the Wings made the playoffs every year while he was coach. Currently an assistant Lacrosse coach at LaSalle College High School, and assistant coach of the US Lacrosse team. Lisa Ortlip Cornish Led Norristown High School to the Pennsylvania Girls State Basketball Championship in 1977 and was named to the PA State All-Tournament team. Played basketball and volleyball all four years at Villanova and was selected to the All-Big 5 Basketball Team in her sophomore, junior and senior years. She was voted MVP for the 1979-1980 and 1981-1982 seasons. Currently holds 13 basketball records including 3rd all-time scoring leader, 2nd all-time leading rebounder, and blocked-shot leader for the season and her career and was Inducted into Villanova’s Basketball Hall of Fame in June 1988. Coached Bishop Kenrick High School volleyball team for five years winning the Philadelphia Catholic League Championship in 1986. Head basketball coach at Ursinus College and led them to Tri-Champion of the Southeast Middle Atlantic Conference. In 2017, as a player, won the US Senior Women’s Basketball Gold Medal. Susan Francia 2 Time Olympic Rowing Gold Medalist, 5 time national champion. She was the US Rowing Female Athlete of the Year and won multiple championships with the University of Penn and the US Women’s National Team. U.S. National Team Gold Medal with the 2012 Olympic Team in London, England and the 2008 Olympic Team in Beijing, China. She won the Remenham Cup at the 2011 and 2006 Henley Royal Regatta. At the FISA World Rowing Championships in 2006 won the gold medal in the women’s eight with a new world’s best time of 5:55.50. Won the championship eight at the 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, and 2012 Head of the Charles Regatta in Cambridge, Mass. Fran Murphy (Deceased) Montco Coaches Hall of Fame. Two Suburban One championships at Upper Merion High School and ninety-six wins over 15 seasons. Twice honored as Football Coach of the Year. Upper Merion High 1971 and 1972 Suburban League championships, and piloted the Pennsylvania Big 33 squad to a 21-19 victory over Archie Griffin led Ohio team in 1973. A 35-year Upper Merion faculty member, Murphy led his varsity team to a 96-51-4 record over 15 seasons (a .653 winning percentage). In 1999, two decades after retiring as Upper Merion head coach, he was named Honorary Coach at the Montgomery County All-Star Football Game. Richard Springman Pennsylvania State Wrestling Champion 1997. All-State; 1994, ’95, ’96, ’97. 3rd place nationally in 1997. 1st Team USA Wrestling Academic All-American. HS 149 – 15 and a record for most wins in a season – 42. 6th all-time winner in PA HS wrestling history. 1st Team USA Wrestling Academic All-American, 1997; Academic All-American NHSCA, 1996; NHSCA All-American, 1997; Amateur Wrestling News All-American, 1997. Three time captain at the University of Penn. Two time NCAA semi-finalist. University of Penn NCAA All-American, NWCA Academic All-American, Three time captain of Penn; 1999 Penn State Open Champion; two time All-Ivy League; 1998 Ivy League Rookie of the Year. Two time selection to NWCA All-Star Wrestling Classic; 5th place in World Trials and 2nd place in Midlands Open while wrestling for Penn. He was only the 16th four time finalist in EIWA history; two-time NCAA semi-finalist. Hugh McGovern Athletic Director at Springfield (Montco) and St. Basil’s Academy for over 25 years. All-time great track and field athlete at Father Judge High School and was Inducted into Father Judge HOF (2008). Was a full scholarship track athlete at the University of Nebraska where he held numerous track and field records. Was a 1968 NCAA All American in the 4X880 relay. Was named to the All-American Track team and was a Silver medalist in the US Track and Field Championships. Jack Ladden Won 7 straight PIAA State Team Tennis Championships and 7 PA District One Championships in 9 years as coach of the Harriton High School girl’s tennis team. Jack was a baseball player, coach and umpire for 50 years. He played 1st base for Lafayette College in the college world series. After retiring at age 60 from the electrical business, he was named head coach of the Harriton HS Girls Tennis Team in 2004 and led them to the PIAA State team championship that year, followed by another 6 State team championships in a row. Bill Leahy LaSalle High School Lacrosse Coach winning four PA State Championship titles (2004, 2008, 2009 and 2013), PA State runner-up (2010, 2012 and 2016) and was the Philadelphia Inquirer Lacrosse Coach of the Year (1997 and 2004), with a LaSalle H.S. record 454 wins and 101 losses. He played with the Philadelphia Wings from 1994-1996. Member of the US Lacrosse Eastern PA HOF, Montgomery County Coaches Hall of Fame and LaSalle High School Hall of Fame. His coaching career began at La Salle College High School where he started the program of boys’ lacrosse and has been the only coach since 1992. His record is 360-76 with 18 Philadelphia Catholic League championships. His team was the first PIAA Champion in 2009 and he won the EPSLA Championships in 2004 and 2008. He was elected Philadelphia Coach of the year in 1997 and 2004. Jim Serratore, 2017 HoF “Unsung Hero” Founding Advisory Board member of Montgomery County Coaches Hall of Fame, currently First Vice President. Chairman of volunteers for Montgomery County Amateur Golf Championship since 2004. Board of Directors member and secretary for Holy Saviour Club since 2002, overseeing expansion of the club while founding the Triple S Bocce courts and Bocce league. Joined the Sister Cities Program between Norristown and Montella, Italy in 1999. Became president of Sister Cities in 2005 and has hosted high school age children from Montella on cultural exchange trip to Norristown, as well as taking high school age children from Norristown to Montella in alternate years. Board of Directors for Greater Norristown Police Athletic League from 1998 through the present, coached and volunteered for West Norriton and East Norriton Biddy Basketball from 1989 through 1996. Volunteer coach with East Norriton Junior Legion baseball from 1994 through 1997. Volunteer statistician for Norristown High basketball since 1998. Ascended to volunteer assistant coach for Norristown High basketball in 2000. Tickets to the Montgomery County Chapter of Pennsylvania’s Sports Hall of Fame October 13th Induction Celebration Banquet are available at $75 each ($700 for a 10-person table) from Chapter president David Ritting at 476 Brookwood Rd., Wayne, PA 19087; phone 610 256-0300. Tickets, Tables and Ads are also available on the Montco Sports Hall of Fame Website: Issue checks or money orders to PSHoF – Montco Chapter.

Rihanna Unapologetic | POP The song that is sure to cause the most controversy on Unapologetic-Rihanna’s seventh(!) studio album in just eight years-is “Nobody’s Business,” her duet with one-time love (and current, um, close pal) Chris Brown. “Ain’t nobody’s business but mine and my baby,” she defiantly sings as they channel Michael Jackson while mixing in a bit of “The Way You Make Me Feel.” Surely some will cringe at the line “Let’s make out in this Lexus” after the beating she suffered in a car at his hands in 2009. Still, Rihanna’s “Navy” of fans should remain loyal: Although Unapologetic doesn’t offer the immediate pop pleasures of 2011’s Talk That Talk-which could have been mined for more singles before releasing this-or 2010’s Loud, it’s her deepest, most ambitious effort since 2009’s Rated R. The first single, “Diamonds,” a softly shimmering hit, sets the slower, moodier tone of the album. “Numb,” which reteams her with “Love the Way You Lie” partner Eminem, is downright dark. There’s some edgier electronica too, along with ballads that, like the nude photo on the cover, leave Rihanna more exposed. Keyshia Cole Woman to Woman | R&B Yes, she went back to being a BET reality star this fall, but that doesn’t mean Keyshia Cole has given up her day job as a recording artist. Her fifth album again finds the R&B diva speaking to the ladies on tracks like the title tune, a sister-to-sister confab with Ashanti. It beats collaborations with rappers Lil Wayne (“Enough of No Love”) and Meek Mill (“Zero”). On standout ballad “I Choose You,” though, Cole is woman enough all on her own. Phillip Phillips The World from the Side of the Moon | POP-ROCK Forget Mariah and Nicki: What the American Idol franchise really needs is for Phillip Phillips to succeed. It would provide a huge boost to the show’s credibility and relevance in launching a real artist’s career going into its 12th season. The 2012 champ’s debut largely lives up to the promise that he demonstrated while winning over the judges and voters alike. It’s led by the heartfelt “Home,” his coronation song from the finale that has become a deserved hit. Other folkified tunes, such as “Gone, Gone, Gone,” also suggest a poppier Mumford & Sons. Elsewhere, soulful, horn-infused numbers like “Get Up Get Down”-one of nine songs Phillips had a hand in writing-bring out his Dave Matthews side.