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There are fears the death toll could rise as communities have been left stranded without food or medicine.
In Malaysia, eight people have reportedly been killed so far by the monsoon rains. The government on Sunday pledged more funds to help people hit by the country's worst flooding in decades.
About $14m has been disbursed to manage relief centres. Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin admitted rescuers were facing challenges amid power outages and roads being washed away by the floods.
The number of people evacuated topped 160,000 on Saturday, according to local media reports, a sharp increase from 100,000 a day before.
Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak reached Kelantan, the worst-hit state, after cutting short a vacation in the US.
Malaysians have vented their anger at Razak after the release of photos which went viral on social media showing him playing golf with US President Barack Obama during the storms.
In Thailand, the government has declared eight of its southern provinces disaster zones. Local media reports said that 13 people have been confirmed dead.
Thai authorities warned residents in at least seven southern provinces to brace for more flash floods in the coming days as rain shows no sign of letting up, local media reported on Saturday.
In Sri Lanka, floods and mudslides triggered by heavy rain have killed at least 17 people with a further 15 people missing, according to police and officials.
The meteorological department issued a severe weather warning over the floods.
Nominations for 248 Local Government institutions will be accepted from today until noon on December 21, the Elections Commission said.
Deposits to the 248 institutions could be paid until 12 noon on December 20.
Nominations for 93 Local Government bodies were accepted from December 11 to 14 noon.
According to the new Mixed Electoral System under which the Local Government Elections will be held, the number of Local Government bodies have been increased up to 341. The number of councillors have increased up to 8,356.
The Chairman of the Elections Commission Mahinda Deshapriya will announce the date for the election after the accepting nominations end on December 21 and after looking into any objections raised, Deputy Elections Commissioner M.M.Mohammed said.
The Elections Commission had to call for nominations in two stages due to legal reasons.
Meanwhile, after the closure of nominations for 93 LG bodies on December 14, the Returning Officers had rejected the nomination papers of 23 political parties and independent groups due to flaws.
Out of the rejections, 19 nominations were submitted by recognised political parties, while nominations were filed from independent groups.
Mohammed yesterday urged both political parties and independent groups submitting nominations to be more vigilant in order to avoid further rejections.
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Our scurvy crew of readers, fighting among themselves, couldn't settle on which Tucson Symphony performance this season was best, so here's a suggestion: the May concerts under guest conductor Guillermo Figueroa. No offense to music director George Hanson, but the TSO players are always at their peak when they're trying to impress a visiting maestro, and Figueroa--formerly a member of the superb Orpheus Chamber Orchestra--knew how to draw mostly expert work from the orchestra in a program of Berlioz, Shostakovich and Rachmaninov. Not that we'd ever advocate mutiny, but when Hanson ultimately decides to abandon ship, Figueroa might be a fine captain at this helm.
Is this it? The end of the Oprah Book Club as we know it?
number 251 in a select studio audience of about 300, I find myself privy to this news before it has broken over the general populace. It is with no small sense of irony that I find myself here at this unforeseeably historic taping. For one thing, I don’t even own a TV and have had little direct exposure to The Oprah Winfrey Show up until this moment. For another, I’m here not because I’m a fan but because I’m hurrying to finish my lengthy English thesis on the impact of the Oprah Book Club on American literary culture. In fact, my very arrival here at Harpo Studios played out something like a game of six degrees of separation, starting during a thesis-writing seminar last fall when a friend and fellow student mentioned that her mother’s cousin’s friend knew Oprah’s makeup artist, and would I like help getting tickets.
I sit stunned in my seat listening to the rest of her official statement that will air during her regularly scheduled program on Friday, the statement in which she explains before the cameras that “the truth is, it has just become harder and harder for me to find books on a monthly basis that I am really passionate about.” I hear from Winfrey–as will anyone else who watches the show, listens to the soundbites or reads the papers–that “I have to read a lot of books to get to something that I really passionately love, so I don’t know when the next book will be. It might be next fall or it could be next year. But I have saved one of the best for last. It’s one of my all-time favorites, and we’ll be discussing this selection as usual in about a month. So my final selection is Sula. Sula, by my favorite author, Toni Morrison.” Unlike most other people who will hear this quote bandied about the press for weeks to come, from my position, dead-center in the third row, I have the advantage of hearing those parts of Winfrey’s explanation that will not make the TV edit.
I hear her say during one of the final commercial breaks that six years’ worth of book club has been long enough for her, that having to read so many contemporary novels with an eye toward picking one for the show is just too much pressure in conjunction with everything else she has to do, and that she wants to take time now to return to the classics. I hear her say that she spent the previous weekend rereading The Great Gatsby, a title to which the audience responds appreciatively with knowing oohs, ahhs and nods.
Back on the air again at a few minutes before 4 o’clock, an assortment of staffers pass out copies, both hardcover and paperback, of the final selection. Winfrey reminds all of us in the audience and, of course, everyone watching at home, “After you read it, write me a nice letter. A great Toni Morrison-worthy letter, OK, because in the end she’s going to see your letters too,” before laughing, thanking us and plunging into the well-mannered crowd herself to help with the distribution of books. The cameras are rolling as I receive my copy of Sula straight from Winfrey’s hand; I could reach up and touch the sleeve of her fuzzy, pale blue sweater or the crease of her tailored gray trousers were I so inclined. By slightly after 4 , the show is over. The books have all been handed out, but Winfrey sticks around, as is her habit, to chat with the audience after hours. It is during this unaired window of time that Winfrey’s fans have the opportunity to tell their heroine what’s on their minds. It is during this time, too, that I witness the saddest part of my in-studio experience, sadder even than Winfrey’s initial announcement, sadder because it is heartfelt and wholly unorchestrated.
Rising before posing her question, as we were instructed to do at the beginning of the taping, a well-spoken middle-aged woman in a periwinkle blue shirt addresses Winfrey. I do not catch her name because she is speaking quickly and earnestly, and I couldn’t record it anyway because writing materials are not allowed. I do catch that she is a former English teacher, a current mother and homemaker, and a longtime fan of the Oprah Book Club. As such, she thanks Winfrey for having done so much for reading and literature. Then, standing unselfconsciously in front of us all, she pleads with Winfrey not to stop now. Recalling Winfrey’s rereading of The Great Gatsby and desire to return to the works of dead authors, she wonders if it might be possible to continue to include literature in the show’s format by, say, hosting a themed dinner, throwing a Roaring Twenties party or inviting a Fitzgerald professor to say a few words about the works of F. Scott. There’s something strange and desperate and true in her plea, and I want so badly for Winfrey to assent. Instead, Winfrey explains that she just wants to be a “normal reader” for a while, and that although she and her staff certainly considered such alternatives, the likelihood that any of them could ever take place is slim. She does not want, she says laughing, to have to read and select classic novels on the basis of their potential for an accompanying dinner. By a quarter after 4, the discussion turns from the announcement entirely. At approximately 4:30, Winfrey announces that she must take her leave. Without another word about the cancellation of the club, she’s gone.
Filing from my section to the studio exit, I can’t help considering that this unexpected last chapter in the story of the Oprah Book Club is not dissimilar to the kind of secret or surprise divulged in a number of the novels that were her book club picks. Unlike the best of the Oprah selections, though, this story seems to have a highly unsatisfying conclusion. Nonetheless, it is done, and it seems a shame that the club was never discussed as the rich cultural phenomenon that it really was, but rather, as is typical of so much contemporary cultural commentary, almost exclusively in terms of commerce. In fairness, each and every one of Winfrey’s forty-eight selections over the past six years became a bestseller, and in an industry in which only a few novels sell more than 30,000 copies, the fact that those recommended by Winfrey routinely sold a million or more secures the club’s status as an undeniable economic marvel.
Still, even when the opportunity for broad-based exploration of the club arose, as in the case of last fall’s dust-up with Jonathan Franzen, reductive high-versus-low cultural bickering seemed the only result. Now that the club is over, perhaps we can examine the story of the Oprah Book Club with the care we would devote to the analysis of any complete story.
More than anything else, we’ll find that the club was not just extremely significant, hopeful and positive as a development but was actually a revolutionary cultural event. The use of such a far-reaching television program–The Oprah Winfrey Show charts a domestic audience of an estimated 26 million viewers per week, plus a foreign distribution in 106 countries ranging from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe–as a deliberate means to such a flourishing literary end was unheard-of before Winfrey. More than any other cultural authority, Winfrey made an almost subversive use of television, a categorically “low” medium, to bridge the high-low cultural chasm that cleaves the American literary landscape. Thus, Winfrey fought the good fight for literature in America by promoting an enormous and active readership, racking up her victories–succeeding with grace and ease in the creation of new readers where the book industry itself had failed. Indeed, her widely inclusive televised discussion of books had millions of people reading within the club and outside it. Typically, by the time a book club segment appeared, more than 500,000 people had read at least part of the novel and nearly as many would buy the book in ensuing weeks. Moreover, the club resulted in people reading titles other than those featured on the show. According to Bob Weitrach, director of merchandise at Barnes & Noble, 75 percent of the people who bought a book club title bought something else too. And even though there are some who would say–and who did say–that the revolution should not have been televised, they were, quite simply and sadly, wrong, and now we’re seeing the cost of their snide, misguided complaints.
Whatever else can be said about the Oprah Book Club–that it superficially treated fictional works as Things That Really Happen; that the narratives of the books themselves were flattened by the pandering, shallow narrative of the television program; that it drew an inordinate amount of attention to the personalities of the authors–the reality that it offered or came close to offering a third way of sorts between America’s high and low cultural literary camps cannot be denied. By providing substantial evidence that such arbitrary and binaristic classifications as high and low may actually have the same limits, boundaries and scope, the Oprah Book Club presented a way to begin healing the senseless rift in American literary culture.
Paradoxically, within Oprah’s success rested the very problem so many people had with the book club, and that led to its untimely demise. For as Richard Lacayo noted in Time, “Culture snobs who thought of her as that mawkish woman who was always on a diet now think of her as that mawkish woman on a diet who has got millions of people to read Toni Morrison.” In short, even though Winfrey’s position as a major arbiter of literary taste was undoubtedly established, her right to hold that position in the first place was subject to a great deal of unabashed public doubt. As C. Wright Mills observed, virtually all taste is dictated, if not by recognized cultural authorities at the so-called top, then from somewhere. All reviewing of or advocacy for a particular book–whether it appears on the book’s jacket, in The New York Times Book Review or wherever else–may be construed as suggestion or even a subtle form of coercion from those in positions of cultural superiority to those at lower levels. Worthy of note, too, is the fact that most people seem fairly comfortable with this long-established tradition of how we, the public, are told how and what to read by various powers that be, many of whom are perceived as members of some kind of specialized literary class.
A reasonable question, then, becomes why widespread signs of discomfort surfaced only when said power manifested itself in the form of a middle-aged black woman and, more precisely, a middle-aged black woman with lots and lots of money (her net worth is estimated at $425 million). For even though Winfrey picked a multitude of critically acclaimed books (including Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize-winning Song of Solomon and Jane Hamilton’s PEN/Hemingway-winning The Book of Ruth), her picks still managed to be subject to critical scorn once they had received her approbation. In short, Winfrey books exhibited an inversely proportional relationship between their cultural capital–low–and their economic capital–high. The critical backlash against the selections of the club presented unfortunate proof of how caught up in a kind of textbook hierarchy of legitimacy American literary culture really is.
Indeed, in large part because Winfrey selected titles with an eye toward both their literary merits and their ability to go over well with an audience consisting chiefly of women between the ages of 18 and 54–which women, incidentally, purchase and read more than 70 percent of the fiction sold in this country–the club was perceived as an easy target, open to countless cheap shots. I’m not suggesting here that all the Winfrey-selected books of the past six years–thirty-five of them by women and thirteen of them by men–were brilliant, nor that there should be no distinction drawn between top- and poor-quality literature. What I am suggesting, having read the majority of the novels myself, is that Winfrey’s picks proved that readable literature is not by definition unchallenging or unworthy of both popular acclaim and critical respect. Put another way, for every stray inferior club pick, like The Pilot’s Wife, there were multiple superior club picks, like The Poisonwood Bible. Moreover, Winfrey continued to move the club in increasingly challenging directions right up to the bitter end, picking such serious and demanding works as Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance and Franzen’s The Corrections. The disinvitation fiasco–wherein Franzen insulted Winfrey and she, in turn, canceled his appearance on the show–could have served as a tremendous asset to the club, the literary community and the country. Instead, it became a liability, a disheartening battle of egos between its figureheads and led to attendant galvanization along the lines of high culture versus low among the population at large. Owing in no small part to this highly publicized challenge to her cultural authority, Winfrey seems to have come now to the conclusion that the club is just no longer worth it if it means being exposed to such derision.
None of this alters the fact that while it lasted, the club was an unquestionably encouraging phenomenon, indicative of an American impulse toward intellectual self-improvement and a hunger for the kind of seriousness and stimulation that good literary fiction can offer. Such a story as that of the Oprah Book Club should not suffer from so weak an ending. The closing of the book before a satisfactory denouement represents a tremendous loss to the promotion of active readership.
Kathy RooneyKathy Rooney is a poet and writer living in Boston.
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The FBI on Friday offered evidence that links the North Korean government to the hacking of Sony Pictures computers.
“We are deeply concerned about the destructive nature of this attack on a private sector entity and the ordinary citizens who worked there. Further, North Korea’s attack on SPE reaffirms that cyber threats pose one of the gravest national security dangers to the United States,” the FBI said in a statement.
The FBI, in a press release disclosed evidence it has gathered in the probe.
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Tiffany is one of the largest diamond retailers making a play in Botswana to cut and polish its own diamonds . But other firms are setting up shop there, too. Vanessa O'Connell takes a tour inside a new factory in Gaborone which produces polished gems for Graff Diamonds.
Walk up to 2362 Market Street and you'll see Catch, a trendy seafood restaurant. But unless you're familiar with the history of the neighborhood, you'd never know this building has been the home to way more than lobster rolls: Before Catch arrived in 2002, the building was home to the NAMES Project, and the first-ever AIDS Memorial Quilt. And before that, it was the final location of Castro Camera, a store owned and operated by gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk.
In every city, there are unassuming buildings and neighborhoods with fascinating backstories. Earlier this year, a new app called Detour, created by Groupon co-founder Andrew Mason, offered a way to help you find them. Now, by enabling anyone to use his geolocation engine, Mason wants to give locals the tools they need to record their own audio tours.
Detour uses a phone's GPS tracker to guide users on audio tours of neighborhoods, and providing background information and directions as listeners arrive at different landmarks, or “narration triggers.” Each tour takes around an hour to complete, but the actual time depends on the listener's walking speed. And since it calibrates to your pace, there’s no need to pull out your phone and pause. This keeps the experience seamless and engaging.
Mason first conceived of Detour while on vacation in Rome. “Walking around the ruins, there’s all this clear stuff that happened there, but you need some interpretive layer,” he says. But the available options—a walking tour with other tourists, constantly consulting a guidebook, a time-regimented audiobook—didn’t appeal.
In several of the tours, listeners are instructed to engage with members of the community—an effort to prevent augmented reality from removing users from the world around them. While on a tour of San Francisco’s TenderNob area, users are instructed to go into a vintage magazine shop. “When the owner sees them with the headphones on, he pulls out an old TIME magazine with the Golden Gate bridge on the cover and puts it on the counter,” Mason says. This way, the listener gets to interact with someone who knows the neighborhood well (albeit briefly, with one earbud in).
The use of technology to tell a more subtle, specific story is on the rise, from the small-scale—like New York Magazine’s “One Block”—to the New York Public Library’s ongoing Space/Time Directory, which will combine historical maps of Manhattan with a time slider to let "scholars, students, and enthusiasts... explore New York City across time periods." Krissy Clark, a reporter for APM’s Marketplace, has designed several location-based digital stories: “Block of Time,” about the 900 block of O’Farrell Street in San Francisco; “Hear and There,” a project with Storycorps about the Lower East Side; and “York and Fig,” about a rapidly gentrifying intersection in Los Angeles.
“It’s like geologic strata—there’s also a layer of stories on any block, anywhere that you go,” Clark says. “The magic of this stuff is that anybody who happens to be walking through has a fleeting interest in the place.” By capitalizing on that momentary curiosity, geolocated storytelling can give casual passersby a more genuine understanding of the backgrounds against which their lives are set.
With the 24-hour news cycle, we often evaluate whether stories are relevant to us based on timeliness—but as Clark sees it, “we have an equal interest in the world we’re passing through right now.” What if we saw physical proximity as a way to find stories relevant to us, as we see time?
To compile her tech-enabled audio experiences, Clark turned to the people who know their neighborhoods best, knocking on doors and asking for hyper-local histories. Detour strives for the same authentic voice, sourcing their narratives from prominent neighborhood voices.
“Every neighborhood has its own history. If you can find somebody who’s been really involved over a long period of time, you get a much deeper sense of who lives there, and what their lives are like,” says Cleve Jones, who narrates Detour’s walk through the Castro. Jones is an instrumental figure in the neighborhood’s history: After working as an intern for Harvey Milk’s office in the 1970s (he was played by Emile Hirsch in Milk), Jones went on to co-found the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.
Cleve Jones narrates the Castro Detour.
On Detour, Jones accompanies listeners through locations significant to the history of the Castro and the AIDS pandemic. While standing at the corner of 18th and Castro, listeners hear Jones’ account of a night when he and other activists fought police there, alongside archival audio footage of the riot. To a random passerby, a stately home at 108 Diamond Street or a seafood restaurant on Market may have no deeper meaning. But to Jones, these addresses are the Coming Home Hospice and the building where he made the first square for the first-ever AIDS Memorial Quilt. “Walking in his shoes, seeing in his eyes—you can’t experience the Castro in a more empathetic way,” says Mason. By telling the story of the Castro himself—as someone who has a long, emotional conversation with the neighborhood—he gives readers a way to listen in.
As of November, Detour has redesigned its tours to offer city-specific packages, starting with San Francisco. (It previously offered single tours in seven other cities.) By offering the package as a 10-tour set, Mason hopes users will develop a more subtle view of the city as a whole. The new edition contains a few different features, including a group option, so you can take tours timed alongside fellow explorers. Detour will release packages for New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles in 2016, all informed by the stories of local residents.
And in 2016, Detour will release Descript, the engine behind its tours, to enable people to create those experiences within their own communities. “Detour can invest in producing content for the big destinations, but we’ve heard from a lot of small towns, small institutions, parks, where people have some sort of poorly executed audio tour content already,” Mason says. “It’s a long-tail business—our goal is to not be the bottleneck for getting content created.” The most meaningful tours are created by knowledgeable locals, whether that's Cleve Jones in the Castro or the ranger at a suburban park or you in your own neighborhood.
Geolocated audio tours of unfamiliar places, like Jones’ guide through the Castro, could help listeners have a more meaningful experience while traveling. But Clark and Mason both see a larger role for geolocated storytelling. As Clark puts it, it’s a chance for listeners to “kindle that same curiosity in your own everyday home turf.” And providing a tool for people to create their own location-based audio experiences helps them tell meaningful stories about the places they know best. It's a way to be a tourist, and a guide, in the known and unknown cities we call home.
The Nigeria Liquefied and Natural Gas Limited (NLNG) is expected to produce 30 metric tonnes per annum (MTPA) on completion of its Train 7, its former Managing Director, .Godswill Ihetu, has said.
Train is a vehicle through which the gas giant exports Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) to developed countries, such as China and Asia.
He said when Train 7 is completed, Nigeria would improve its Gross Domestic Product (GDP), increase its foreign exchange earnings, make our revenue through taxes and create more employment, among others.
Ihetu said NLNG has completed Train 1, 2, 3, 4 5 and 6. It has also generated revenue of over N10 billion for the government, adding that the cash would increase substantially, when Train 7 takes off.
Ihetu said: “NLNG capacity will increase from 22 to 30 metric tonnes per annum, when Train 7 is completed. NLNG has made considerable investment in building the trains and further increase exportation of gas for the growth of the economy. The intentions for building the trains are laudable and the results will impact positively on the economy. Besides improvement in gas exports, various efforts made by NLNG and its partners, including the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Total, Eni and Shell in producing gas, would lead to the growth of the domestic economy.
Foreign direct investments (FDIs), Ihetu said, have been created to speed up the process of building the Trains by NLNG and further galvanise the economy.
He said various Trains built by NLNG provide immense benefits for the government, urging the firm to continue to create opportunities that would enable local and international companies get added value through gas.
On funding, he said NLNG has overcome its problem of raising money for the take-off of various Trains, stressing that Federal Government through NLNG could access funds through various windows.
He said foreign lenders have confidence in NLNG, which gives it access to borrow money for big-ticket transactions and pay back. He said foreign financial institutions enjoy working with the firm.
He said infrastructure is a problem facing operators in the gas value chain, adding that NLNG, which is a major stakeholder in the gas value chain, is working to solve the problem by venturing into projects that would provide money for such purpose.
North Korea must drop nuclear, missile programs to achieve progress: U.S.
GENEVA (Reuters) - A senior U.S. arms control official said on Tuesday the only way for North Korea to achieve security and development is to abandon all of its weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs.
The Hanoi summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un last month broke down over differences about U.S. demands for Pyongyang to denuclearize, as well as Pyongyang’s demand for major relief from international sanctions imposed for its nuclear and missile tests, which it pursued for years in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions.
“North Korea must understand that the only way to achieve the security and development that it seeks is to abandon all of its weapons of mass destruction, all of its ballistic missile programs as numerous U.N. Security Council resolutions demand,” said Yleem Poblete, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Verification and Compliance.
“You are violating U.N. Security Council resolutions that explicitly prohibit such transfers,” she said without naming names.
On Tuesday, a North Korean diplomat said there was no justification for maintaining full sanctions on Pyongyang given that it has halted nuclear and missile testing for the past 15 months.
Ju Yong Chol said that U.S.-North Korean differences should be tackled one-by-one in a phased way to build trust.
“Instead, they came up with the preposterous argument that sanctions relief is impossible prior to denuclearization,” Ju told the Geneva forum.
In 2017, the Detroit Red Wings picked inside the top 10 for the first time in three decades.
The 2017 NHL entry draft saw the Detroit Red Wings make their highest pick since 1990.
The playoff streak that spanned 1991-2016 yielded four Stanley Cup championships for the Wings — but springtime success also left the team without high-end prospects. When the Wings drafted Michael Rasmussen at ninth overall a year go, it was their first top-10 pick since 1991, and their highest selection since drafting Keith Primeau at third overall in 1990. It was their first time being a part of the draft lottery, in which the teams that miss the playoffs are entered in a weighted lottery to determine the initial picks. The Wings finished 2016-17 with the sixth-worst record (33-36-13, 79 points) but expansion Vegas had the same odds of winning the lottery as the team with the third-fewest points. When Philadelphia and Dallas won lottery picks, the Wings were bumped back to ninth.
The Wings made 11 selections, having stockpiled picks via trades involving Thomas Vanek, Brendan Smith and Tomas Jurco, and compensation from Toronto for hiring Mike Babcock. They selected five defensemen, five forwards and one goaltender. The Wings also hold 11 picks going into the 2018 draft, which is Friday and Saturday in Dallas.
This is the final installment in a five-part series looking back at how Wings draft selections have panned out since 2013. In this edition: the class of 2017.
Draft year doings: 32 goals, 23 assists in 50 games for Tri-City Americans (Western Hockey League).
Draft day scouting report: Goes to the hard areas. Plays the net-front on the power play. Good scoring touch around the net. Competitive. Good skater. Has got a chance to be really good.