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ANNUAL ALFRED DEAKIN LECTURE
AUSTRALIA INDIA LEADERSHIP DIALOGUE 2018
Victoria’s India Strategy launch
Oceania: Yonder & Beyond
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It took universal health care, political will and a health campaign designed to terrify the public, but nearly four decades into the H.I.V. crisis, Australian researchers say the country is on a path toward making transmissions of the virus vanishingly rare - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/10/world/australia/hiv-aids-prep-prevention-drug.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage
T-Hub, Beanstalk AgTech invite applications for Graft Australia-India AgTech Program. Global AgTech startups with disruptive technologies and the potential to address the challenges faced by the Indian and Australian agricultural sector are eligible for the Program - https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/startups/newsbuzz/t-hub-beanstalk-agtech-invite-applications-for-graft-australia-india-agtech-program/articleshow/70141648.cms
Australia India Institute, Delhi is with Muskan Jain.
Furthering our mandate we are constantly exploring collaborations with fellow bilateral research institutes. Our director Ms. Tanya Spisbah & our research associate, Ms. Muskan Jain met Dr Prachi Kaul, Director & Ms. Pikee Sharma, Program Officer from the Canadian Indian Shastri Institute in Delhi today.
Our director, Ms. Tanya Spisbah met with Dr Sanjay Seth, CEO of The Energy Resources Institute Green Ratings integrated Housing Assessments (GRiHA) Council, and Ms Shubnam Bassi, Secretary of the GRiHA Council, to discuss collaboration in sustainable housing and infrastructure. Ms. Spisbah was very pleased to receive a Gond art painting as a gift from Dr. Seth.
Australia's model of selling public assets such as power grids and airports to fund further infrastructure investment offers promise for India to find a cool $1 Trillion - https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-07-04/india-needs-1-trillion-for-infrastructure-australia
Through its teaching, research, public policy and outreach programs, Aii is building Australia’s understanding of India, and deepening and enriching the relationship between the two countries.
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The Australia India Institute was established by the University of Melbourne in 2008 and was launched in September 2009 by the then Deputy Prime Minister, the Hon. Julia Gillard, MP, at the Australian High Commission in New Delhi. Ms Gillard stated that the Australian Government “is committed to building a greater understanding between our two peoples and Australians’ understanding of India, its culture, its history and place in the world”.
AII@Delhi, the first centre of the Institute’s network to be established in India, opened in February 2015. The Institute’s plans to expand its operations to India with a centre in Delhi were revealed by Australia’s Prime Minister at the time, the Hon. Tony Abbott, MP, during his trip to India in September 2014.
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Reception in honour of The Honorable Simon Birmingham
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INAUGURAL INDIA-AUSTRALIA HEALTH POLICY ROUNDTABLE
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Annual Alfred Deakin Lecture 2017
H.E. Ms. Harinder Sidhu, Australian High Commissioner to India will deliver the Annual Alfred Deakin...
Australia India Institute @ Delhi in association with LaTrobe University, Australia and FICCI hosted a Roundtable on “Women in Leadership: Expanding Influence and Catalysts for Success” to celebrate LaTrobe University’s 50th Anniversary.
The event was well attended by women influencers and leaders; Dr. Kiran Bedi, Lt Governor, Puducherry; Dr. Jyotsna Suri, Past President, FICCI and Chairperson & Managing Director, The Lalit Suri Hospitality Group; Prof. Amalia Di Lorio, Associate PVC & Partnerships, College of Arts, Social Sciences & Commerce, LaTrobe University, Australia
April, 11th, 2017
Australia India Institute @ Delhi hosted a Cocktail Reception in honour of Senator, The Honourable Simon Birmingham, Australian Minister for Education & Training.
The event was well attended by Educational influencers from both India and Australia.
The 1st edition of SAMVAAD was launched at the reception, a platform for dialogue, research and partnership ideas from incoming leader fellows
December, 21st, 2016
Australia India Institute @ Delhi hosted an Annual Alfred Deakin Lecture on “Building an Australia - India Partnership” by Mr. Peter Varghese AO, Chancellor, The University of Queensland, Australia.
The lecture was moderated by H.E. Ms. Harinder Sidhu, Australian High Commissioner to India.
November, 05th, 2016
Australia India Institute @Delhi hosted Inaugural India-Australia Health Policy Roundtable on the scope for Indo-Australian collaboration on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) as related to Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and Communicable Diseases (CDs). It also aimed to understand the policy responses to these challenges faced by the health care systems in India and Australia.
H.E. Ms. Harinder Sidhu, Australian High Commissioner to India will deliver the Annual Alfred Deakin Lecture 2017 on ‘Australia & India Natural Partners In An Uncertain World’
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In late 2009, the Australian Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations provided just over AUD8 million to the Australia India Institute over three years. The University of Melbourne also contributed AUD1.75 million in cash and kind.
In April 2011, Professor Amitabh Mattoo joined the Institute as its inaugural Director for a three-year term. He was on leave from his position as Professor of Disarmament Studies at the Centre for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University. Professor Mattoo has also been a member of the National Knowledge Commission, a high-level advisory group to the Prime Minister of India.
In 2011, the Institute moved to new premises in Barry Street, Carlton, Victoria, which for the first time gave it a real home. Here at least once a week, in the Institute’s vibrant seminar room, thought leaders from around the world provoke insightful discussion on subjects relevant to India and its relations with Australia. Here too, visiting fellows from India are given office space for their sojourn in Australia.
“I welcome the Institute’s plans to open its first node in India in 2015, supported by the University of Melbourne,” Mr Abbott said.
In August 2015, the then Minister of Education and Training, the Hon. Christopher Pyne inaugurated the the centre’s Delhi offices during a trip to India with an Australia Education Delegation including Vice Chancellors from some of Australia’s leading universities.
“With nodes also at La Trobe University and the University of New South Wales, it is good to see a deep focus on India at a time when the relationship between our two countries is fast growing in importance.” Mr Pyne said.
“The Institute plays a crucial role in strengthening the relationship in education and research between Australia and India, and the New Delhi node can only strengthen this,” he said.
By promoting public policy dialogue and academic debate, the new centre will facilitate research partnerships and serve as a resource hub for academics, policy makers and businesses.
A dynamic program of lectures, seminars and events will enable thought leaders from India and Australia to engage with each other on current issues in a wide range of disciplines.
The AII@Delhi will work closely with the Government of India, the Australian High Commission, and Indian universities and think tanks to expand the work of the Melbourne-based Australia India Institute. The Institute is committed to deepening and enriching the strategic relationship between Australia and India, a relationship that is emerging as one of the most significant Asian partnerships of the 21st century.
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How is the US-led effort going in Afghanistan? For the most part, that is classified. And needlessly so, according to the top US watchdog for Afghanistan reconstruction.
“Almost every indicia, metric for success or failure, is now classified or non-existent,” John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, told reporters in Washington, D.C. “Over time it has been classified, or it’s no longer being collected.”
Specifically, the Afghan government no longer publicly releases figures for casualties of its forces. Also, SIGAR cannot publicly release the districts that are in Taliban control or Afghan government control. These are figures that show how stable, or unstable, the Afghan government is with US and NATO support and broadly show the effectiveness of 17 years of war.
SIGAR historically had released a breakdown of Afghan districts that were under Taliban control, but has recently been blocked from doing so, Sopko said. These figures are now in the classified annex of his quarterly reports for US government leaders, the latest of which is expected next week.
This decision in particular does not make sense, and only serves to hide bad news, Sopko said. “Governments usually don’t classify good news,” he said.
“I don’t think it makes sense. The Afghan people know which districts are controlled by the Taliban,” he said. “The Taliban obviously know which districts they control. Our military knows. Everybody in Afghanistan knows it. The only people who don’t know what’s going on are the people who are paying for all of this, and that’s the American taxpayer.”
Hiding too much information about the ongoing war effort breeds suspicion and cynicism, which is dangerous for a war that is now largely out of the public’s eye.
It is a pivotal time for the US effort, as American negotiators are working on a possible peace agreement with the Taliban. Additional information and understanding of the conflict by the public is important to avoid it becoming another “forgotten war,” he said. Additionally, policymakers need to ensure they are adequately planning for what could come next to ensure that everything that has been spent has not been wasted.
“There’s still Americans dying there; 2,400 Americans died. We’ve spent close to a trillion dollars in Afghanistan,” he said. “All of it is at risk if we screw up on the day after a peace agreement.”
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Final Card: Dave Nicholson
This is the final card for outfielder Dave Nicholson (#298). Topps added pink to their color spectrum in 1969 for the Royals and Expos (and brown for the Padres and Pilots).
Nicholson never played for the Royals, and had played his last major-league game on October 1, 1967. Because he spent all but 10 games of the 1967 season, and all of 1968 in the minors, he was left out of the 1968 Topps set.
Dave was signed by the Orioles in 1958, and played 2 full seasons in the minors. After 18 games with triple-A Miami in 1960, he made his major-league debut with the Orioles on May 24th. After another full season in the minors in 1961, Dave returned to Baltimore in 1962 as a backup outfielder.
In January 1963, Nicholson was traded to the White Sox (with pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm and infielders Pete Ward and Ron Hansen) for shortstop Luis Aparicio. Dave was the Sox' regular left fielder in 1963, and shared the job with others in 1964. With newly-acquired Danny Cater taking over left field, Dave was relegated to the bench for all of 1965.
Nicholson was traded to the Astros in December 1965 for pitcher Jack Lamabe, and a year later he was shipped to the Braves with pitcher Bob Bruce for 3rd baseman Eddie Mathews and infielder Sandy Alomar.
After spending most of the next 2 seasons with the Braves' AAA team in Richmond, Dave was purchased by the expansion Royals in October 1968. He spent his final professional season (1969) pinch-hitting for the expansion Royals' triple-A team in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Final Card: Vic Roznovsky
This is the final card for backup catcher Vic Roznovsky (#368). Vic's major-league career consisted of 200 games over a 5-year period, playing for the Cubs, Orioles, and Phillies.
He was signed by the Pirates in 1958, and played 2 seasons of class-D ball in their organization. Before the 1960 season he was dealt to the Giants, and spent the next 4 seasons in their farm system, as a catcher-outfielder (along with 29 games at 3rd base in 1963).
In December 1963 the Cubs selected him in the minor-league draft, and after spending some time in triple-A, Vic made his major-league debut on June 28, 1964. He played in 35 games (15 starts) as the 3rd-string catcher behind Dick Bertell and Jimmie Schaffer.
It looks like the Cubs used the catcher-by-committee system in 1965. Bertell began the season as the starter, but was traded to the Giants in late May for catcher Ed Bailey and others. Meanwhile, Roznovsky and rookie Chris Krug were getting a lot of starts. The final tally behind the plate: Roznovsky - 44 starts, Krug - 46, Bailey - 45, Bertell - 29 (yes, they played 164 games that year).
Playing in 71 games in 1965 was the high point of Roznovsky's career, as the Cubs acquired Randy Hundley in the off-season and sent Vic packing to the Orioles for outfielder Carl Warwick. There, he backed up rookie Andy Etchebarren for most of the season, while also finding himself back in triple-A for 19 games. 1967 was a repeat of 1966, except that Roznovsky swapped slots in the pecking order with 1966's 3rd-string catcher Larry Haney.
Things got worse for Vic in 1968, as he spent the entire season at triple-A Rochester, rescued only by an April 1969 trade to the Phillies, who sent their '68 third-string backstop John Sullivan to the O's for Roznovsky. (There's some debate as to which was the better team - the 1969 Phillies or the AAA Rochester Red Wings.) :D
Vic wrapped up his career gathering dust on the Phillie bench, as he was on the team for the entire season, but only played 13 games (14 plate appearances) and caught a grand total of 4 innings as the 3rd-stringer behind Mike Ryan and rookie Dave Watkins.
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Director (feature film)
Three Kinds of Heat (1987) as Director
A gang of criminals is followed by three friends from Harlem to London's high scoiety parties.
I Love a Mystery (1973)
Surfacing six years after being made and eagerly awaited by old-time radio buffs, this send-up of the fondly remembered mystery show had insurance detectives Jack Packard, Doc Long and Reggie York searching for a mysterious billionaire. Not to be confused with the 1945 film of the same name, also ba
Search (1972) as Creator
In this chase thriller, the pilot for the TV series "Search" (1972-73), a space-age detective, monitored and directed by mission control center, investigates the disappearance of a fabulous gem collection. O'Brian, Meredith and Angel Tompkins continued in the short-lived series, and were joined by T
Incubus (1965)
An evil spirit plots to snare the soul of a courageous and good man.
Hero's Island (1962) as Director
Indentured servants colonizing a Carolina island fight off rival settlers with the help of a notorious pirate.
Private Property (1960) as Director
Two young criminals set out to seduce an unhappy married woman.
Writer (feature film)
Gordy (1994)
A piglet becomes a national hero and the CEO of a corporation after it rescues a rich little boy from drowning.
Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991)
After the lovers of the first film die at sea, and their young son is rescued by a ship infected with cholera. The son escapes the ship with a young girl and her mother, and the two youths become lovers on an unchartered island.
Three Kinds of Heat (1987) as Screenwriter
Sheena (1984) as From Story
A legendary queen of the jungle finds herself fighting evil in the deepest, darkest parts of Africa.
A 20th Century astronaut is transported through time to the 25th Century, where his "old" habits first amuse then come to the aid of the people of the future.
Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model? (1977) as Screenwriter
A movie pilot about a female private eye who goes undercover as a porno actress to unravel the case of a prominent industrialist's missing daughter.
Gemini Man (1976) as Screenwriter
In this recycling of the unsuccessful TV series "The Invisible Man," a brash special agent finds himself capable of invisibility from the after-effects of an underwater explosion during a government salvage operation and uses his new-found "talent" to prove the incident was sabotage. Unfortunately,
Fer-De-Lance (1974) as Screenwriter
A disaster movie that has terror stalking a stricken sub, wedged deep below the sea and crawling with deadly vipers. In Great Britain, this film was released theatrically as "Death Dive," a somewhat more descriptive title.
Search (1972) as Screenwriter
Hero's Island (1962) as Screenwriter
The Marriage-Go-Round (1960) as Writer
A Swedish woman wants her American host to father her baby.
Private Property (1960) as Writer
The Left Handed Gun (1958) as Screenwriter
Billy the Kid sets out for vengeance on the men who killed his mentor.
Producer (feature film)
Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model? (1977) as Producer
Search (1972) as Producer
Hero's Island (1962) as Producer
The Marriage-Go-Round (1960) as Producer
Art Department (feature film)
Red Dragon (2002)
Ex-FBI agent Will Graham is an expert investigator who quit the Bureau after almost losing his life in the process of capturing the elusive Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Years later, after a series of particularly grisly murders, Graham reluctantly agrees to come out of retirement and assist in the mysteriou
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999)
Deuce Bigalow is a naive, good-hearted fish tank cleaner, who is very dedicated and happy with his work. His only dream is to take his fish and move out of his bad neighborhood to the beach to be close to his friends in the ocean. After he loses his job at the Los Angeles Aquarium, his life changes dramatically. Deuce crosses paths with the debonair Antoine Laconte, world class gigolo. Antoine has the life any man would want, fancy cars, beautiful women and most importantly for Deuce a state of the art aquarium. When Antoine''s lionfish comes down with a potentially fatal gill disorder and he has to go away on business, Antoine asks if Deuce will stay at his apartment. As Deuce gets comfortable at Antoine'' place, he sets off a chain of events that virtually destroys the apartment. Needing money to pay for the damages, and after accidentally answering Antoine''s business phone, Deuce launches his new career as a gigolo. He quickly enters a world beyond his wildest dreams.
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (Theatrical) (1999)
Waterboy, The (1998)
Bobby Boucher, a socially inept 31-year-old from the swamps of Louisiana, is home schooled and sheltered by his over-protective Mama. His only contact with society is his waterboy job for a college team where the players relentlessly make fun of him, and his coach doesn''t let him fight back. This all changes when Bobby gets a new coach who lets him stand up for himself. Bobby finally releases years of pent up rage and is transformed into the most devastating tackler on the team. Now Bobby has to learn how to play football and go to college, all behind his Mama''s back. Let''s just hope Mama doesn''t find out.
Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990)
A television movie recounting the childhood and adolescence of Norman Bates, the central character in the several "Psycho" films. Told through a series of flashbacks during a late-night radio talk show on the subject of matricide.
A spaceship full of survivors of a doomed planet are headed to planet Earth. Along the way they encounter villainous robots, threatening to derail their Earth bound journey.
Writer (special)
Virginian, The (1958) as Writer
The original unsold thirty-minute pilot film for the series of the same title (it sold when remade as a ninety-minute pilot). The story of a mysterious stranger, known only as the Virginian, who comes to work as the foreman of a ranch owned by a retired judge. In the pilot episode, the Virginian a
Crescendo (1957) as Writer
A kaleidoscope of American music as seen through the eyes of Mr. Sir, a visiting Englishman whose skepticism about American culture is changed when he is introduced to a wide variety of American music styles.
Film Production - Main (TV Mini-Series)
Tarzan's Return (1996)
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Representatives of the Iraqi Ministry of Defence Have Accepted Another Batch of BTR-4 Armoured Personnel Carriers
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On 7 February, in Kiev, the representatives of the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Iraq and those of the State Company “Ukrspecexport” signed the document that confirms the acceptance of another batch of Ukrainian-made BTR-4 armoured personnel carriers. The batch consists of 40 vehicles.
“The tests have been conducted successfully. No serious problems have been revealed. We are content with the process of cooperation with the Ukrainian side. In Iraq, the Ukrainian-made BTR-4s, which have been supplied earlier, are operated under difficult field conditions. This is a new and advanced vehicle for the Iraqi Army”, said the official representative of the Iraqi delegation.
The $457.5 million contract for supply of 420 BTR-4 vehicles was signed late in 2009 by representatives of Ukraine and Republic of Iraq. The main contractor is the State Enterprise “Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau”, the sub-contractors are State Enterprise “Malyshev Plant” and other enterprises of the State Concern “Ukroboronprom”. The contract envisages the supply of not only BTR-4 armoured personnel carriers, but also special vehicles based on the BTR-4 chassis, technical maintenance and repair vehicles, and training simulators, with required technical support being also provided.
The Ukrainian side is content with the results of the inspection. “Despite the considerably more strict requirements for acceptance put forward by the Iraqi side (each vehicle was checked in accordance with a special procedure), all the vehicles were accepted without any substantial observations. We will fulfil the contract in compliance with the agreements that have been concluded. Now the main task consists in establishing an efficient maintenance system to service the vehicles that have been delivered to the Iraqi side”, said a representative of the State Concern “Ukroboronprom”.
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What is BTK Dream?
Back to Kama (BTK) is a voluntary migration campaign to encourage well educated, successful and affluent people of all races and religions, particularly those who are descendants of slaves to voluntarily transfer to Kama the knowledge and wealth they have rightfully accumulated in the “Americas”, and relocate their businesses and operations to Kama.
Kama: is the original name for Africa used by its indigenous people.
The BTK dream hopes to reverse the debilitating effect of the African Diaspora, in which millions of indigenous inhabitants left their homelands over the last few centuries to live in other parts of the world – involuntarily or voluntarily.
BTK hopes to first attract celebrities, entrepreneurs, scientists, engineers, and business people for the publicity generated by their initiatives will influence others to follow.
The BTK Organization desires to support entrepreneurial efforts in Africa by informing the western world, and in particular the successful African-American population, and others in the African Diaspora on the superior benefits of doing business in Kama.
The BTK plan would not only solve the economic crisis faced by most Kama nations but can serve as “the most comprehensive proposal ever for addressing and solving the issue of reparations for the African slave trade and exploitative colonization, neither of which has been recognized as a crime against humanity.”
Governments on both sides of the Atlantic can gain much from a stronger Kama and thus are encouraged to put in place incentives for African-Americans and other descendents of slaves to establish businesses in Kama and move their operations to specialized Free Trade Zones…
Within one generation - by 2030 - Kama can become the most developed and prosperous continent if the keys to success are implemented not only by successful descendants of former slaves but also by governments of Kama and by the US government as a rightful compensation for the African slave trade.
While the rest of the world is experiencing a financial crisis, the expanding opportunities in Kama will be a very big draw for anybody. Its economic growth will be astonishing.”
Incentives for success are as follows:
Incentives by Kama (African) Governments
Governments of Kama and the African Union (AU) should recognize and institutionalize the Black American community and the African Diaspora as a 6th region of the continent and insure they play an active role in the AU;
Provide automatic citizenship to any descendants of former slaves who want to return back to Kama, [As in Israel]. DNA testing and location of ancestral land of origin can be performed to fine-tune best location of origin;
Establish legislation to attract foreign direct investments (from Black Celebrities, entrepreneurs and others with wealth) for the creation of Free Trade Zones (FTZ) and other economic development projects;
Provide guaranteed tax exemption on income and assets for at least 14 years to all immigrants of Kamite (African) descent;
Provide Banking Secrecy guaranteed by law as in Switzerland;
Adopt a common currency, the Kamo for all countries in Kama and promote its financial benefits;
Provide free education and free healthcare to the population;
Adopt the latest sciences and technologies such as biotechnology, (GMO, Stem Cells) nanotechnology, telecommunications, internet education, etc…;
Encourage the welcoming of black prisoners freed from the US prison system. The prisoners would be previously trained to acquire business entrepreneurship skills; (As CANADA, which was built on the import of European Prisoners).
Incentives by the US Government
The American authorities should free from jail - if they accept to return back to Kama - all prisoners in the USA who are descendants of Kama. In certain states blacks represent more than 50% of the inmate population;
The US Government should provide financial support to make this operation a success. The timing is perfect! Because with more than 7 million inmates, the USA is the country with the most prisoners and it no longer has the financial ability to finance their detention.
By Chiefs & Kings
They are the traditional authorities in villages and regions. At the time of the slave trade, the countries and borders of today’s Kama did not exist, therefore, the descendants of former slaves should be returning back to the original regions, ethnic groups or villages of their displaced ancestors.
They will be welcomed as sons or daughters of an ethnic group or a village during a traditional ceremony by the chiefs and Kings. This ceremony will be like an African traditional Baptism. It has real meaning and it will facilitate the social integration of the returning sons and daughters giving them a true sense of belonging to a family, a village, a people.
The BTK dream project was launched in Las Vegas in April, 2009 by Rael, the leader of the International Raelian Movement (IRM). Rael said: “To save Humanity, we must first save Kama”. The BTK dream will not only help save Kama but also Humanity as a whole.
Together, let’s make this dream a reality in our lifetime.
For additional information on Rael's actions and speeches for a new Africa.
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Southern Virginia Football Earns NJAC Win Over William Paterson
Southern Virginia (2-7) 7 9 0 0 16
Wm. Paterson (0-9) 0 0 0 6 6
Pa: Cornelius Kinchen - 214
Ru: Kelvin White jr - 7
Rec: Tyler Vivian - 92
Pa: Ty Jones - 20
Ru: Ty Jones - 97
Rec: Baylor Harding - 14
WAYNE, N.J. — The Southern Virginia University football team earned their first New Jersey Athletic Conference win of the year on Saturday with a 16-6 win over William Paterson.
After both teams punted on their opening possessions, the Knights (2-7, 1-7 NJAC) were able to capitalize on their field position with a four-play drive ending on a 13-yard Seth Hanson touchdown. For the next twenty minutes, the ball changed hands six times before Southern Virginia scored twice in two minutes, the first coming from a Jackson Hatch field goal after a nine-minute 84-yard drive.
On the following drive, William Paterson (0-9, 0-8 NJAC) went 22 yards and attempted a 42-yard field goal which the Knights blocked. The loose ball was picked up by Southern Virginia's Trevor Laurey who ran it 63 yards for a touchdown, capping the Knights' scoring at 16.
The Pioneers were continually shut down by the Knights' defense until they mounted a 60-yard drive in their final possession of the game.
Southern Virginia recorded 260 yards of total offense, with 240 coming on the ground. The Pioneers, on the other hand, lost seven yards rushing and had 231 yards passing. Quarterback Ty Jones led the team with 97 yards, including a long of 17. Jewka Patetefa and Akiva Wedge ran for 40 and 31 yards, respectively while three other Knights had 20+ yards.
Defensively, Jackson Thompson recorded a pair of interceptions, Caleb Thomas had 1.5 sacks, and Joel Bergman led the team with seven tackles.
The Knights will play in their final game of the season next week at The College of New Jersey.
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Dave Matthews, Trey Anastasio Honor Coran Capshaw at City of Hope Gala Benefit.
SANTA MONICA, CA – NOVEMBER 02: A view of the atmosphere at MFEI Spirit Of Life Honoring Coran Capshaw on November 2, 2017 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Lester Cohen/Getty Images for City of Hope)
by Paty Elias
Music, Hope and Healing where the themes at the City of Hope’s 2017 Spirit of Life Gala with the evenings generous donations raising $4.8k for Cancer Research on Friday November 2nd, 2017. The Gala event and dinner was held at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica,Ca. The evenings gala included Sushi Bars, gourmet food stations as well an open bar and plenty of musical talent with performances by Dave Matthews, (Phish) Lead singer Trey Anastasio, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and Indie Rockers Joseph livened up the evening and awards presentation.
SANTA MONICA, CA – NOVEMBER 02: Honoree Coran Capshaw (L) accepts the Spirit of Life Award from Dave Matthews at MFEI Spirit Of Life Honoring Coran Capshaw on November 2, 2017 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Lester Cohen/Getty Images for City of Hope)
The Spirit of Life® Award is City of Hope’s highest honor, and each year recognizes a leader whose work has fundamentally impacted the music, film or entertainment industries.
This years Spirit of life Award was presented by Singer Dave Matthews to Coran Capshaw, founder of Red Light Management, and one of the music industry’s most influential and innovative executives. The award is presented by the City of Hope to individuals who exemplify the ideals and values that have guided City of Hope for nearly a century and whose professional and humanitarian accomplishments deserve recognition and celebration.
SANTA MONICA, CA – NOVEMBER 02: Dave Matthews at MFEI Spirit Of Life Honoring Coran Capshaw on November 2, 2017 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Lester Cohen/Getty Images for City of Hope)
In his presentation speech, Matthews remembered the first time Matthews’ mother met Capshaw before the pair started working together. “Afterwards, my mother pulled me aside and said, ‘I trust him because he has very sad eyes.’ And that was a great review, I think, because I trust my mom. I trust [Capshaw] absolutely and I trust his intentions completely and he’s one of the very few people I can say that with complete confidence… I feel like every penny that I’ve paid him or made for him, which is quite a pile, he’s earned.”
SANTA MONICA, CA – NOVEMBER 02: Honoree Coran Capshaw accepts the Spirit of Life Award at MFEI Spirit Of Life Honoring Coran Capshaw on November 2, 2017 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Lester Cohen/Getty Images for City of Hope)
When it was time for his award presentation Coran Capshaw praised the City of Hope for its ongoing work in the cancer research field and saving lives with its on going efforst. “In many ways this year — to me and to many of us — is the year of the tragedy, the fires up north, the hurricanes, Charlottesville… But as I’m thinking about City of Hope and the good work they do, it’s day in and day out. We have all these needs in the world, we’ve got a really tricky country with all the divisiveness, but day in and day out these people are there doing the good work they do and it’s just so important.”
“Working on this has been a great way to remember Chip,” Capshaw said before announcing that the City of Hope was starting the Chip Hooper Memorial Fund with $500,000. The fund is devoted to research toward finding a cure for neuroendocrine cancer, the illness that felled Hooper.
SANTA MONICA, CA – NOVEMBER 02: Trey Anastasio performs at MFEI Spirit Of Life Honoring Coran Capshaw on November 2, 2017 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Lester Cohen/Getty Images for City of Hope)
Trey Anastasio debuted a brand new song, “Soul Planet” at the City of Hope Spirit Of Life Gala honoring Coran Capshaw in Los Angeles. Trey Anastasio sister, Kristy, also passed due to neuroendocrine cancer in 2009 and performed “Miss You” a song he wrote for her. He did not hesitate when asked to perform “When I was asked to do this gig tonight, I’m trying to explain how much it means to me to be up here, not just to celebrate Coran, who I love dearly, but to thank the City of Hope for keeping hope alive for other families who are going to have to go through what I’ve been through and what Chip’s family is going through.”
SANTA MONICA, CA – NOVEMBER 02: Dave Matthews performs at MFEI Spirit Of Life Honoring Coran Capshaw on November 2, 2017 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Lester Cohen/Getty Images for City of Hope)
Dave Matthews also gave an impassioned performance of “Grey Street” and dedicated it to Chip Hooper, who booked Dave Mathhews to Red Light and succumbed to Cancer last year. “This is a beautiful organization and I’m grateful to be here and I’m going to do a song in memory of my great friend who’s gotten a lot of praise here this evening, Chip Cooper and his family. I’m so grateful to know you and I’m so grateful to have known your Dad.”, “He like this song, that’s why I’m playing not just random.” Matthews performed four songs-‘Don’t Drink the Water,” Samuria Cop” and “Bartender”.
SANTA MONICA, CA – NOVEMBER 02: Preservation Hall Jazz Band performs at MFEI Spirit Of Life Honoring Coran Capshaw on November 2, 2017 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Lester Cohen/Getty Images for City of Hope)
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band closed the event in a true New Orleans Jazz Style getting everyone up and dancing with the true spirit of music, healing and charity shining through in their performance.
The City of Hope’s Music, Film and Entertainment Industry Group has raised more than $113 million for the hospital over 44 years.
If you want to support City of Hope, you can do so by going to their website and donating.
Author Paty EliasPosted on November 6, 2017 March 7, 2018 Categories Entertainment, Fund Raiser, Music
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Previously a coconut plantation, Cousin Island was purchased by the International Council for Bird Protection (now BirdLife) in 1968, for the immediate purpose of saving the endemic Seychelles Warbler Acrocephalus sechellensis. 26 warblers had been found in the mangroves of the island clinging perilously to life, with much of its original habitat converted to coconut plantations. A campaign was started to rescue these birds and they became the flagship species for the island.
To save the warbler, a habitat restoration programme was implemented: Cousin's coconuts were cut back and native vegetation encouraged to regenerate, which allowed the warbler to flourish. Its numbers increased. Soon over 300 birds could be heard singing on Cousin. From here the warbler was re-introduced to other islands in the Seychelles to boost its population and the bird now occurs on five other islands in the Seychelles. The Warbler has since been downgraded to critically endangered to near threatened on IUCN's Red list of endangered species. Other seabirds, landbirds, wildlife and marine life are also thriving on the island as well as in the waters around the island, which is protected as a nature reserve under Seychelles law.
Nature Seychelles embarked on a one and a half year wetland rehabilitation project at the Sanctuary with co-funding from the Mangroves For the Future (MFF) initiative and work carried out with the generous support of Sun Excavations of Mahe. The wetlands is not a natural site yet is now home to an ever increasing diversity of nature, both fauna and flora. The site is unique in that it has been designed to maximize habitat potential as well as being a natural attraction for people's enjoyment and education.The Sanctuary can also serve as a demonstration site for improvement and management of wetlands for those who wish to replicate the model.
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Version Control: A Novel
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The acclaimed author of The Dream of Perpetual Motion returns with a compelling novel about the effects of science and technology on our friendships, our love lives, and our sense of self.
Rebecca Wright has reclaimed her life, finding her way out of her grief and depression following a personal tragedy years ago. She spends her days working in customer support for the internet dating site where she first met her husband. But she has a strange, persistent sense that everything around her is somewhat off-kilter: she constantly feels as if she has walked into a room and forgotten what she intended to do there; on TV, the President seems to be the wrong person in the wrong place; her dreams are full of disquiet. Meanwhile, her husband's decade-long dedication to his invention, the causality violation device (which he would greatly prefer you not call a "time machine") has effectively stalled his career and made him a laughingstock in the physics community. But he may be closer to success than either of them knows or can possibly imagine.
Version Control is about a possible near future, but it's also about the way we live now. It's about smart phones and self-driving cars and what we believe about the people we meet on the Internet. It's about a couple, Rebecca and Philip, who have experienced a tragedy, and about how they help - and fail to help - each other through it. Emotionally powerful and stunningly visionary, Version Control will alter the way you see your future and your present.
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Publisher: Pantheon Books
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Publication Year: February 23, 2016
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BELGOROD STATE AGRICULTURAL UNIVERISITY NAMED AFTER V. GORIN
address: ul. Vavilova 1, Office 306, pos. Mayskiy 308503, Belgorod region, Russia
tel/fax: +7 4722 39-11-74
e-mail: kapustina_on@bsaa.edu.ru
The Belgorod State Agricultural University is one of the largest scientific educational centers of Central Chernozem Region. Originally it was founded as a scientific institution in February 1956. In 1971 it was reorganized to Scientific and Research Technological Program Institute of Animal Breeding in Central Chernozem Region. In 1978 on its basis Belgorod Agricultural Institute (a scientific educational centre of agriculture) was established. In 1994 the institute was granted academy status, and in 2014 was renamed as Federal State Educational Institution of Higher Education «Belgorod State Agricultural University named after V. Gorin».
Belgorod SAU is located in a very nice place called Mayskiy which is 16 kilometers far from the city of Belgorod.
Many outstanding people have visited Belgorod SAU since its establishment. Among them: the first President of Russia Boris Yeltzin, prominent statesmen, agrarians and scientists from Russia and from abroad as well. Lots of foreign students from Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America together with students from all regions of Russia receive higher education in Belgorod SAU.
At the present time there are more than 300 teachers who work for 23 departments of the University. There are 49 doctors of sciences, professors and 179 masters of sciences, assistant professors, chiefs of region administration, banks and companies.
There are 7 faculties at Belgorod SAU: the Faculty of Agronomy, the Faculty of Economics, the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, the Faculty of Engineering, the Faculty of Technology, the Extramural Department, Post-secondary Institution.
The total number of students including extramural department is more than 8 thousand. The campus consists of a number of buildings including training blocks, an administration block, a library, a sports center and 5 student's hostels.
The biggest training block is nicknamed the «Titanic». It houses 4 faculties: the Faculty of Agronomy, the Faculty of Economics and the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, the Extramural Department. The University has modern material and technical basis that includes lecture rooms equipped with modern screens and digital scanning projectors for carrying out video-lectures and for delivering presentations in Power Point. Computer classrooms have a free Wifi Internet access and Intranet connection.
In order to hold great exhibitions of modern agricultural machinery, to house international meetings and conferences, to carry out practical applications and hands-on experiments Belgorod SAU has a big educational and exhibition hall called «Agrotechnopark» at its disposal.
Belgorod SAU proposes a long list of possibilities to one's choice: 1 specialty, 14 Bachelor's degree programmes, 13 Master's degree programmes, 5 PhD programmes, and also 11 programs of secondary vocational education.The students are taught by highly skilled professors (the staff consists of 49 Doctors of Science and 179 Candidates of Science). Education gained at the university ensures a considerable and profound background in all fields of knowledge and prepares for practical activity.
There is the Preparatory Russian Language Course opened 10 years ago at our University. The students study Russian with highly qualified teaching staff.
Belgorod SAU trains highly skilled experts in the sphere of agriculture. Students acquire profound knowledge both in science and culture. They take an active part in social life by joining different amateur societies and groups such as «The students' Club», a ball-room dancing group, a vocal studio, an amateur theatre, a brass band, a chorus of Russian folk songs, KVN teams (Russian traditional students' festivals of humor).
Students also spend much time on keeping fit and healthy by going in for sports. There is a special building called «Palace of Culture and Sports».
Students who come from abroad live in a new recently constructed hostel. The hostel is equipped with all modern conveniences: a canteen, an Internet-cafe, gyms, laundries, hotel-type rooms with a kitchen and a bathroom in each section.
There one can find a modern cinema hall, a swimming pool, a winter garden (a greenhouse), different educational clubs etc.
The territory infrastructure is also well organised. One can find there a bank, a cash-dispenser, a post office, a polyclinic, several drug-stores and stores of different kinds. The transport network is well developed.
Welcome to our Univerisity!
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Bloggers from around the globe, discuss mental health issues facing people, friends, families and communities worldwide.
Manic depression effects or Bipolar depression is actually considered as one of the worst type of depression that people usually suffer from.
Characterized by sudden and extreme changes in their mood, Manic depression is said to be called as such because manic = mania refers to the 'ups' while depression refers to the 'downs'.
A lot of people actually experience erratic changes in their moods, some times, these so-called mood swings may not just be caused by PMS (pre-menstrual syndrome) or stress. Doctors actually have diagnosed mood swings as a common symptom of depression.
But when these so-called mood swings have gone to utmost absurdity, from getting irked even by the littlest or simplest of thins like not getting your favorite ice cream flavor, this may not be just a sign of brattiness, but when getting irked means you'll cuss and swear on the ice cream vendor and throw absurd tantrums, this may already be the start of Manic depression.The so-called 'manic' or 'ups' in Manic depression is described as to be the times when a person suffering from Manic depression may experience overly high periods, consisting of heightened energy, a sudden outburst of euphoric mood, extreme irritability, thoughts racing as well as aggressive behavior.
According to therapists, someone suffering from Manic depression may have these so-called manic 'periods' wherein sudden outbursts of euphoric and elevated mood swings may actually go through this for as long as not just a day, in can actually go on for as long as one week, even longer than that.
When it comes to the so-called 'low' or 'down' periods, as its name suggests can actually bring someone who is suffering from Manic depression may experience very similar symptoms to those who are suffering from actual depression. People who are suffering from Manic depression may actually experience episodes showing a depressed state of mind - a feeling of worthlessness and being unloved may start to corrupt the individual's mind. Various symptoms, showing guilt, extreme sadness, anxiety attacks, feeling of not belonging, extreme pessimism and obvious loss for pleasure. According to therapists, an individual who is depressed. consistently for more than a week can officially be diagnosed as someone who is suffering from Manic depression.
In spite of being one of the most common, yet severe type of depressive disorder, Manic depression, according to doctors can actually be treated. There's no reason to worry too much about it, just follow the proper procedures that the therapist will instruct you to do, take the proper prescribed medications as well as the proper dosage in order to help you (or your friend or love one) overcome Manic depression before it becomes too late. Also, individuals who are suffering from Manic depression should always be able to see their therapists on a regular basis so as to be able to release their pent up emotions to some one who can interpret and understand what they're going to a lot better as compared to "normal" people.
Abraham Lincoln's War Of Emancipation Against Depression
It is said that the true measure of a man is not seen in times of victory, but in moments of great challenge. A hero, in the true sense of the word, is not about accomplishing incredible feats due to strength, power, and authority. Heroism is best exemplified by men and women who strive for accomplishment in spite of overwhelming odds and latent weaknesses. Abraham Lincoln was one such hero.
In his book entitled, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln, the author Michael Burlingame attempted to explain the roots of the former U.S. president's depression. Burlingame claims that the death of Lincoln's mother was the cause and the beginning of Lincoln's lifelong battle with melancholia. The book also reveals that as a young child, the future president had to endure the pain and grief of losing a newborn brother, a sister, an uncle, and an aunt. These deaths became embedded in the young Lincoln's psyche, resulting in a series of deep sadness.
Overcoming depression, it can be argued, was Lincoln's greatest feat as a human being. His long list of failures and defeats would surely overwhelm a lesser man.
In 1832, he lost his job and was defeated in his first attempt to win a legislative seat. The following year, his business collapsed and he spent the next 17 years paying-off his debt.
In 1835, his fiancé died, which then made him suffer from a nervous breakdown.
In 1838, he ran for Speaker of the Illinois State Legislature and lost.
In 1843, he again ran for Congress but failed to get nominated. Four years later, he again tried in vain to run for Congress.
In 1854, Lincoln tried his hand at running for the Senate and, again, he lost. Two years later, he ran for Vice President but failed to convince his party mates to nominate him.
And even when he was elected in 1860 as the 16th U.S. President, he faced a country that was being torn by a civil war that claimed more than 600,000 lives.
With all the stress and anxiety that he has gone through, it is no wonder that Abraham Lincoln often looked forlorn, tired, and weak in many of his official photographs. One can only imagine the sheer burden of making decisions that would impact the lives of hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children during a time when America was divided unto itself.
How many sleepless nights did he have almost endlessly pacing his room in deep thought? What kind of torment did he experience just pondering about the thousands of lives that were lost because of the war? As commander-in-chief of the Federal Army, his decisions spelled the difference between life and death for each and every infantryman. Yet somehow, in spite of all the failures and heartaches in his life, Abraham Lincoln was able to pull through and lead a nation. Even in the middle of crippling psychological and emotional upheavals, he was able to win the war and keep the Union together.
During Lincoln's time, the medical and scientific community still had no name for manic-depressive disorder. The psychological disorder was simply called “melancholia.” In those days, there were no psychiatrists, antidepressant prescriptions, counseling, and group therapy available as we know them today.
Indeed, during the nation's darkest hour, Abraham Lincoln was able to ride above the storms of his life and lead as President. While he was never able to achieve complete emancipation from his psychological problems like the freedom that was won for the Negro slaves, Lincoln heroically faced the obstacles and hardships to become America's most revered president.
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John Kucera - Lead Vocals & Guitar
Tim Cook - Bass & Vocals
Steve Adams - Drums
Bert Zweber - Guitar
Black Belt Theatre is, proudly, a very mid-western band.
Hailing from Milwaukee, WI, they embrace the long, beer fueled winters. And the hot, beer-fueled summers. They live and breathe the DIY rock-and-roll ethos of the mid-west.
But this is no basement band. The pedigree here is strong, with all of the members having come from prior groups with national attention. In the mid-90’s, John’s band Alligator Gun was signed to Relativity Records and became a seminal punk rock powerhouse that included future members of The Promise Ring and Dashboard Confessional. Tim and Steve comprised one half of Bender, a popular Milwaukee rock act that released an album on TVT Records in 2000 and toured the country with several major artists. Bert was also a key part of the late 90’s post-grunge Milwaukee explosion, being a member of The Buzzhorn, who released an album on Atlantic Records.
Having all stepped away from music for 10+ years following the demise of their previous bands, they joined forces in the fall of 2013. They immediately began writing music for what would become "Hibernation Termination", their debut album. The objective was simple. In a music climate where loud, straight-ahead rock and roll was being pushed to the fringes, they wanted to make a record that rocked.
Released in the fall of 2014, "Hibernation Termination" set the foundation for the band.
In the summer of 2016, they set about to make an album that would define the band.
The common thread that ties the four of them together is their love for late 70’s/early 80’s power rock. Think Cheap Trick, Thin Lizzy, UFO, April Wine, etc. Throw in modern influences like Danko Jones, Eagles of Death Metal and the like, and you have a recipe for a fresh, but somehow familiar sound. This direction was taking its early form with "Hibernation Termination". But in the writing of their follow-up, it became the template.
So they wrote. And re-wrote. And revised. They tested their new material live, with shows that were becoming known for their cock-thrusting bravado.
The summer of 2017 brought the release of "Superbitch", the second album. A record that pulls the entire vision together in the form of eight concise power-rock songs. Dripping with sing-along melodies. Heavy on the guitar. It’s the kind of album that the band members themselves would have loved in their teens. It sounds like “now”, but it will remind you of “then”.
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Film Review: Sanctum
Outdoor adventure movies come and go, and unfortunately few of them are really very good. The newly released to DVD film, Sanctum is just such a film.
The film follows a team of cave-divers, climbers and cave explorers on their quest to drop down a deep hole in Papa New Guinea in order to find a cave system that connects to the ocean. While exploring the depths of the cave a cyclone settles on land far above the team. The team's exit is blocked and the water begins to rise. This forces the team to descend deeper into the cave system and to try to find a way out to the ocean.
The plot is fascinating and it could have been an excellent outdoor adventure film. But alas, the writing is quite poor. The characters are weak. And there are some sequences that are just plain bad...
The writing team for this film is made-up of people who haven't done much when it comes to narrative drama. Screenwriter Andrew Wight has a number of underwater documentary films to his credit, but no real narrative film-writing experience. And screenwriter John Garvin has no other screenplays to his name. Director Alister Grierson has a handful of other movie titles under his belt, but they all appear to be second-rate B films.
It is clear that the reason this movie was made was because super-director James Cameron (Titanic, Avatar, The Abyss) was behind the production team. It's well-known that Cameron enjoys working with an underwater environment. He has pioneered a number of underwater and deep-sea filming techniques for both his narrative blockbusters as well as for some of his lesser-known documentary works.
The underwater cave diving sequences in Sanctum are cool. Some of them are really cool. And this element of the film lends credence to the entire -- sometimes painful -- experience of watching the movie. It is clear that the focus of the film was to play with this type of cinemetagrophy instead of telling a story that has some value.
Supposedly the story is based on real life events. It appears that the real-life version of the story wasn't anywhere near dramatic enough for Hollywood. The problem with the real-life story was that, while dramatic, everybody survived and there were no cardboard villains twisting their mustaches.
In 1988 Sanctum screenwriter Andrew Wight was on an expedition that mirrored the one in the film. His team was exploring a deep cave when a cyclone arrived causing a flash-flood which cut-off their exit route. Wight and his companions were forced deeper into the cave system to find their exit.
The core of the story is really interesting, but the characters and the situations some of the characters put themselves in are somewhat ludicrous.
There is a tendency in Hollywood-style outdoor adventure films to paint one character as a gruff, hard, outdoor-type guy. Usually this kind of character has seen it all. And often there's a coldness or a latent level of violence in the character. Think Clint Eastwood in The Eiger Sanction, or Scott Glen in Vertical Limit, or even Brad Pitt in Seven Years in Tibet. The character is so common in these types of movies, that he (and it usually is a he) is almost archetypal.
The problem with the gruff-outdoors-guy-who's-seen-it-all-and-is-an-ass because-of-it character is that he doesn't exist in real life. Yeah, there are a lot of anti-social climbers out there. And yeah, there are a lot of people who are obsessed with their objectives. And indeed, there are a lot of people out there who will push it to the limit and beyond to achieve their goals. But, you know what? Even when they're arrogant, most of these people are still nice. They want to talk about their passion and they want to bring you into it. And most of them don't see death on a daily basis the way these types of characters seem to.
The leader of the caving team, Frank (Richard Roxburgh) is just such a character. At one point in the movie a man is seriously injured and Frank decides that the best way to deal with him is to drown him instead of to try and get him out. This is absolutely crazy. And not only that, but dealing with an injured character that they're trying to keep alive would have been a whole lot more interesting than murdering him.
There is another archetypal outdoor adventure movie character as well. That's the billionaire playboy explorer, who is actually a coward. Ioan Gruffudd plays this character well because there's little to play. It's a boring and simplistic characterization that needs to disappear from adventure films.
This is a women and minorities die first movie. These types of films had their heyday with horror movies in the seventies, eighties and early nineties. I thought that modern filmmakers were done with such a terrible story arc, but I was wrong.
And from a climbing perspective, one woman dies after she gets her hair caught in a belay device and decides that she should try to cut it out...accidentally cutting the rope. She should have taken one of our classes...
Sanctum is not a good movie, but there are some interesting sequences and some moments where you're with the characters as they struggle to survive. But when they start to talk, things fall apart...
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I expected this film to be much worse, but it was argued by my JC - James Cameron as executive producer and has some of the best 3D graphics on the market. Alister Grierson I praise the correct use of 3D cameras, not only that, those who prefer JC and created.
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Study suggests disarmingly simple way to better job ethics: slow down(1)
When the FBI made front-page headlines recently with the arrest of a coterie of financial traders and analysts charged with tens of millions dollars worth of securities fraud, it was only the most recent of dozens of similar cases over the past two years. Yet, such big-time rip-offs, spectacular though they are, represent only a tiny sliver of the nation's total business-related cheating, according to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, which estimates that U.S. business lost close to a trillion dollars from employee fraud in one recent year.
Is such a massive amount of cheating indicative of a work force that is hopelessly corrupt? Research in the new issue of the Academy of Management Journal suggests not. It finds that, confronted with clear choices between right and wrong, people are more than five times more likely to do the right thing when they have some time to think about the matter than they are when they have to make a snap decision.
"Having time to think things over may not make much difference in big-time financial swindles, but our findings suggest that it would make a considerable difference in innumerable instances of lying and fraud that happen every day in the business world," comments J. Keith Murnighan of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, who carried out the new research with Brian Gunia of Johns Hopkins University, Long Wang of City University of Hong Kong, and Li Huang and Jiunwen Wang of Northwestern.
In explanation, Prof. Murnighan adds: "Immediate, automatic moral intuitions tend to be selfish, given that self-interest is a basic, instinctual response to external stimuli. In contrast, conscious, deliberative thought adds social concerns, setting off a battle within the individual that pits the strength of self-interested intuitive desires against the constraints established by social learning."
The study also finds that even a modest nudge on behalf of morality can carry the day in such battles, with ethical urgings four times more likely to engender good deeds than advice on behalf of self-interest will.
In sum, as the study puts it, "Organizations with a 'fast pulse' or tendency to reward quick decision-making may suffer ethical penalties by discouraging contemplation and conversation... At a minimum, our results suggest that individual, organizational actors facing right-wrong decisions should take the time to think or to consult an ethical colleague."
The findings emerge from experiments involving 146 college undergraduates who were confronted with a moral dilemma that the researchers manipulated in several different ways. Seated at computer terminals, participants were told that $15 would be divided between them and another student (who, unbeknownst to the subjects actually did not exist) according to one of two options. In Option A, the participant would received $10 and the other student $5; in Option B, the participant would receive $5 and the other student $10. The imaginary other student would choose one option or the other, and it was up to the participant to send beforehand one of two messages of advice. A truthful message would be "Option B earns you more than Option A"; a lie would be "Option A earns you more than Option B."
In one variation, the "immediate-choice condition," participants received instructions and proceeded directly to a screen that asked them to send the message within 30 seconds. In the "contemplation condition," subjects first encountered a screen that remained visible for three minutes and that asked the subject to "please think very carefully about which message to send."
The difference between the two groups was dramatic: 26 of 30 subjects in the contemplation condition (87%) told the truth even though it resulted in their receiving less money than their anonymous counterparts. This compared to 19 of 34 (56%) of the subjects who were asked to make an immediate choice.
In a second experiment, subjects were confronted with the same two options, but this time, before making a decision, they received one of three brief emails from a third party (again fictional) who was supposedly facing the same dilemma. One message "guess[ed] that most people would b honest on this kinda situation;" a second couldn't "help thinking that most other people would try to gain the most money"; a third offered no particular advice, "guessing most people would have a hard time deciding what to do in this kinda situation."
Again the results presented a stark contrast: 20 of 25 subjects who received the ethical email (80%) told the truth, in contrast to 14 of 28 (50%) who were urged to attend to their self-interest and 20 of 29 (69%) who were not given any particular advice.
While such results suggest the benefits that derive from an ethical workplace milieu, the professors express concern about the "potent effects" of the superficial advice proffered in the experiments. In the words of the study, "Given the current ubiquity of email and text messaging, these findings are troubling. More generally they suggest that right-wrong decisions can put people on the fence, straddling ethical action and temptation, and that even minimal influence processes can have big effects...Whether [the advice] led them toward or away from ethicality, the fact that people were influenced at all by such minimal conversations is troubling, as it suggests that people routinely depend on others, even unknown others, to direct their moral choices."
In conclusion, the study urges organizations to "consciously design moral decision-making processes, integrating them into training and enforcing them institutionally via policies, rewards, and sanctions. Policies mandating a 'cooling-off period' or multiple levels of approval for consequential decisions, for example, might provide institutional analogs for contemplation, and ethics hotlines might act as institutional conversations. Opportunities for instituting and improving these kinds of procedures abound."
Adds Prof. Murnighan: "Executives know what types of decisions raise moral red flags in their companies. If people make these decisions electronically, their computers might be programmed to require contemplation time before decisions are finalized -- and even to fill this time with reminders of the firm's ethical values. Managers already employ similar technology, though usually for non-moral purposes. Hopefully, they will assign enough priority to ethics to adapt existing tools for the purpose of encouraging what's right."
The new study, entitled "Contemplation and Conversation: Subtle Influences on Moral Decision-Making" is in the February/March issue of the The Academy of Management Journal. This peer-reviewed publication is published every other month by the Academy, which, with about 18,000 members in 103 countries, is the largest organization in the world devoted to management research and teaching. The Academy's other publications are the The Academy of Management Review, The Academy of Management Perspectives and Academy of Management Learning and Education
hbr.com. Extra thinking time leads to ethical decisions. (Tuesday, January 31, 2012).
JewishJournal.com. The transformative power of ritual. (Monday, March 26, 2012).
The Globe & Mail. The pause that refreshes your ethics. (Friday, February 03, 2012).
The Wall Street Journal. Take a deep breath, make ethical choices. (Wednesday, March 07, 2012).
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Movie Review - Argo
Starring: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Victor Garber, Tate Donovan, Clea DuVall, Scoot McNairy, Rory Cochrane, Christopher Denham, Kerry Bishé, Kyle Chandler, Chris Messina, Zeljiko Ivanek, and more.
Directed by: Ben Affleck Screenplay by: Chris Terrio Based on the Book by: Tony Mendez Also Based on an Article by: Joshuah Bearman Cinematography by: Rodrigo Pietro Original Music by: Alexandre Desplat
Premise: Six members of the American Embassy in Iran escaped the embassy when it was overrun in 1979. Given shelter at the home of the Canadian Ambassador, it's only a matter of time before someone figures out they're not supposed to be there. As the hostage situation in the American Embassy escalates, the US calls in Tony Mendez of the CIA to help the State Department come up with a way to get the six out of the country without getting caught or be used to aggravate an already volatile situation. (Rated R)
1) Acting - Total Thumbs Up: On this type of film the whole cast has to be good to weave a tale which will mesmerize the audience, and the cast was good. Alan Arkan and John Goodman tried very hard to steal the show as the two Hollywood types Ben Affleck goes to for help after getting the idea on how to get the six stranded embassy members out. Once they truly get going to set up what they need, the three of them will come up with a phrase you won't soon forget. When it comes up at the end and you feel the tug on your heart, you'll know for sure they have you.
2) Special Effects - Total Thumbs Up: The following may not seem like special effects, but since I think they served the same purpose, I placed them here. The film used two things to instantly transport the viewers to the 70's. First, they used the Warner Brothers logo being used in 1979 rather than the latest modern version. Second, they used the same kind of film lenses as were the 'norm' in 1979, giving the entire movie a visual feel of that period. Combine both of these with the historical film clips, recreated scenes from photographs, as well as the clothing, and the hairstyles of the period, and you'll truly feel like you're back in 1979.
3) Plot/Story - Thumbs Up: I was a teenager when the events depicted in "Argo" occurred, so there was an odd sense of deja vu as I watched different parts of the film. Clips from different news stories at the time of the events helped solidify the concept that all this actually happened.
The story gets a quick introduction to set the historical context for the audience, but is told in a series of drawings as you'd see on a film studio's story board, connecting it from the very beginning to the idea of film and telling tales. The story then broadens and relates events from different viewpoints rather than just a one sided view of what happened.
Moments of tension were well developed, even when you expect them. It was a nice surprise when one of the people who proved most difficult during the ordeal, in the end was actually responsible for the end success of their escape.
4) Locations/Cinematography - Total Thumbs Up: The film had many excellent shots of locations in Istanbul as well as recreated buildings and facades of what places looked like at the time of the incident. The first panned shot of the American Embassy truly drove home the difficult situation we'd stumbled upon as you're shown the crowded street at the embassy gates as well as up and down the street in both directions. The gorgeous window spanning shots of the mountains and the city proved an amazing contrast as the agent sits in his Sheraton hotel room battling internally as he gambles with the lives of the six people in his care.
One sequence, which was fabulous as well as poignant, was the crisscrossing of visual and audio between the party in Hollywood to try to legitimize the "Argo" project and escalating events in Iran. Another was the first view of Hollywood, showing the sad state at the time of the iconic letters in the hills before they were saved by donations and restored back to life.
5) Costuming/Makeup - Total Thumbs Up: With the old logo and old lenses lending to the creation of a 70's feel for the film, as well as the stock footage of the news of the day, the final touches to take the audience back to the past came from the costuming and the makeup departments. The clothing, the hairstyles, the huge eyeglasses, literally 'screamed' it was the 70's. Add in the vintage vehicles and the recreated locations, and we were easily transplanted back in time. A great job all around.
Conclusion: "Argo" is an entertaining and fascinating look at what went on behind the scenes at the time of the American Embassy crisis. If your friends or significant others are into history or politics, it can make for some entertaining discussion afterwards as well. Make sure to sit through the credits! They show pictures from the real fake passports side by side to the actors playing the parts and even compare side by side pictures of the original scenes in 1979 beside their recreations. Fascinating! SF fans will find all sorts of little things to giggle about as well.
Rating: 4 out of 5 (Hubby's Rating: Worth Full Price of Admission)
Posted by Gloria Oliver at 11:56 PM
Labels: 1979, Alan Arkin, Argo, author, Ben Affleck, Gloria Oliver, historical films, John Goodman, Kyle Chandler, movie reviews, Movies, Unveiling the Fantastic
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Camp Seed - Activities.
The Camp. Stuart Mill. The Region.
Camp Seed.
The facility commenced operating as the Bishop James Camp and Conference Centre in 1961 before becoming Camp Seed in 2013. The Camp has been utilised for:
School camps
Country Women’s Association of Australia meetings
Base for car and trail bike rallies
Mountain bike groups
The Camp was established in 1961 by the Bendigo Diocese of the Anglican Church. The land in Church St was gazetted to the Church of England in 1869, at the same time as the Catholic Church, when the township of Stuart Mill had a population estimated over 10,000.
In October 1959, Bishop Winter spoke at the synod and proposed a memorial to Bishop James, the first Bishop of he St Arnaud Diocese.
"...as Bishop James had been a very practical man, he suggested that 'a Diocesan centre or Youth Centre would be something that would have appealed to him'. It would serve for youth rallies and camps, gatherings of men, women, girls and boys for conference and recreation..."
A History of the Diocese of St Arnaud 1926-1976, Keith Cole
Three workman's cottages were purchased from the State Rivers at the Cairn Cairn reservoir, and a kitchen and dining room were purchased from the Army, with all buildings transported to the site.
"The camp had the only electricity in Stuart Mill provided by generator and stories are told how local residents would gather in the dining room to socialize, because at home they only had lamps and candles. The centre itself was also fairly basic. The patrons washed in a line of enamel basins on a bench outside the kitchen and the toilets were up the hill at the school next door.
There was a major upgrade in 1989 ... and in 2002 the cottages were removed and attractive mud brick accommodation units built along with other improvements."
North Central News, Wed Feb 13th 2013
In early 2013 the Church sold the property, and the Camp was subsequently renamed Camp Seed.
The township of Stuart Mill sits at the base of the 13,900ha St Arnaud Range National Park.
"St Arnaud Range National Park features mainly steep, forested terrain and is an ideal place to experience what the forests of Central Victoria were like before the gold rushes. The rocky ridge tops in the park offer fine views for bushwalkers and four-wheel-drive tourers, and there are ample opportunities for hiking in the steep and rugged terrain. The Upper Teddington Reservoir is a peaceful place for picnics..."
Parks Victoria
"The park contains one of the largest and relatively intact areas of box-ironbark vegetation in Victoria, and its large, hollow-bearing trees provide significant habitat for threatened species such as the Powerful Owl and Brush-tailed Phascogale.
It's also important habitat for nectar-feeding species that prefer to forage from large trees, including Australia's nationally endangered Swift Parrot. In September the forest lights up with the flowering of Australia's floral emblem, the Golden Wattle.
At other times of the year look for patches of Gold-dust Wattle, Gorse Bitter-pea and orchids.
Wildlife to look out for includes Feathertail Gliders, Diamond Firetails, Tree Goannas, Black-chinned Honeyeaters, Speckled Warblers and Marbled Geckos."
Victorian National Parks Association
The Park offers great four-wheel-drive and trail bike trails, such as the Teddington Track. The Teddington Reservoirs provide a good location for fishing, with brown trout and redfin commonly being caught.
The Matarangi Stud offers rides on their quarter horses. Contact John Rahaley for details.
The Region.
Stuart Mill is situated in the Northern Grampians Shire and is located near the Pyrenees wine district.
Aboriginal people are believed to have inhabited the area for approximately 13,000 years.
The region was settled in the 1830's, with large sheep runs across the region.
Gold was found in the Pyrenees Ranges near Avoca in 1849. The Camp Seed grounds contained a working gold mine that produced over 424oz (~12kg) of gold.
In 1868 a vineyard was established just outside of Beaufort, but ceased commercial operation in the 1870's. A vineyard and winery commenced operations in Avoca in 1887 and ran until the 1920's. In 1963 a vineyard was planted just outside Avoca and became the Blue Pyrenees Estate. Since then the wine industry has continued to expand, with over 30 wineries operating in the region.
Townships.
St Arnaud
Just 15 minutes to the North of Stuart Mill, the town of St Arnaud contains many buildings reminiscent of the gold rush era. It is also home to the oldest fire station in Victoria.
St Arnaud contains the closest shops to Stuart Mill, with a supermarket, bottle shops, hardware and cafes with delicious food and great coffee.
Gateway to the Pyrenees. If traveling from Melbourne, it is the last chance to stop to pick up any last-minute supplies before reaching Stuart Mill and Camp Seed.
A thriving town with a lively main street. Nice route for return journey to Melbourne via Clunes and Daylesford.
Wineries.
With over 30 wineries with cellar doors in the Pyrenees, there is never a shortage of a good drop.
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Cores, Peripheries, and Globalization ›
Cores, Peripheries, and Globalization
Peter Hanns Reill
Balázs A. Szelényi
Regional disparities
Deals with the intersection of issues associated with globalization and the dynamics of core-periphery relations. It places these debates in a large and vital context asking what the relations between cores and peripheries have in forming our vision of what constitutes globalization and what were and are its possible effects. In this sense the debate on globalization is framed as part of a larger and more crucial discourse that tries to account for the essential dynamics—economic, social, political and cultural—between metropolitan areas and their peripheries.
The volume, which has been accomplished in honor of Ivan T. Berend, former Director of the Center for European and Eurasian Studies of UCLA, is organized under three themes, each of which is part of the larger discussion concerning the dynamics of core-periphery relations in a globalized world. The first section deals with the theoretical origins and implications of the core-periphery debate. The second, focusing primarily upon Central and Eastern Europe, analyzes the interactions between economy and society. The third section focuses upon the concept of globalization, its history and its nature.
Section 1: ORIGINS AND THEORETICAL DISCUSSIONS OF CORE-PERIPHERY RELATIONS
Chapter 1: The Latin American Contribution to Center-Periphery Perspectives: History and Prospect, JOSEPH L. LOVE
Chapter 2: From Plantation to Plant: Slavery, the Slave Trade, and the Industrial Revolution, JEAN BATOU
Chapter 3: Theories and Realities: What are the Causes of Backwardness? DANIEL CHIROT
Chapter 4: Development Possible? Possible Developments: A Research Agenda, IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN
Section 2: FROM THE EUROPEAN PERIPHERY TO THE CORE AND BACK Chapter 5: Between Center and Periphery, EUGENE WEBER
Chapter 6: Core, Periphery, and Civil Society, JÜRGEN KOCKA
Chapter 7: Conceptions and Constructions: East Central Europe in Economic History, HELGA SCHULZ
Chapter 8: Liberal Economic Nationalism in Eastern Europe during the First Wave of Globalization (1860–1914), THOMAS DAVID and ELISABETH SPILMAN
Chapter 9: The Rise and the Fall of the Second Bildungsburgertum, IVÁN SZELÉNYI
Section 3: GLOBALIZATION: ITS HISTORY, NATURE AND PROBLEMS
Chapter 10: Globalization, Core, and Periphery in the World Economy of the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, HERMAN VAN DER WEE
Chapter 11: The Pre-History of Core-Periphery, ROBERT BRENNER
Chapter 12: Globalization and Its Impact on Core-Periphery Relations: Characteristics of Globalization, IVAN T. BEREND
Chapter 13: From West European to World Science: Seventeenth–Twentieth Centuries, ERIC J. HOBSBAWM
Czech Sociological Review
"Brings together a number of prominent historians to investigate the nature of relations between developed areas or nations and those that are under-developed or emerging. The editors invited scholars with an impressive record of research on various aspects of development to refl ect on the concepts of core and periphery in order to forge new analytical tools to investigate the history of globalisation. The essays include interesting details on the history of dependency theory, provide an overview of some of the disputes on the role of individual factors in spurring or hindering industrialisation and sustained development, and many of the contributions, if not all, also summarise past research achievements and make some very interesting observations or speculations on the implications of a particular argument along the way."
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Home » Focus Areas » Architecture and Public Policy
Architecture and Public Policy
SOPA Protect IP
CIS explores how changes in the architecture of computer networks affect the economic environment for innovation and competition on the Internet, and how the law should react to those changes. This work has lead us to analyze the issue of network neutrality, perhaps the Internet's most debated policy issue, which concerns Internet user's ability to access the content and software of their choice without interference from network providers.
Barbara van Schewick
Professor of Law and Helen L. Crocker Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School, Director of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, and Professor (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Barbara van Schewick is a Professor of Law and Helen L. Crocker Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School, Director of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, Professor (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering in Stanford University’s Department of Electrical Engineering, and a leading expert on net neutrality.
Paddy Leerssen
Paddy Leerssen was the Open Internet Fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society in 2017-2018. AT CIS, he worked on digital media and communications law in general, and net neutrality policy in particular. He is now a PhD Candidate at the University of Amsterdam, where his dissertation focuses on the impacts of algorithmic content recommendations on the governance of media pluralism. Paddy holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, where he studied as a Fulbright Scholar, an LL.M. from the University of Amsterdam, and an LL.B. from Maastricht University.
Marvin Ammori
Affiliate Scholar
Marvin Ammori is a leading First Amendment lawyer and Internet policy expert. He was instrumental to the adoption of network neutrality rules in the US and abroad–having been perhaps the nation’s leading legal advocate advancing network neutrality–and also instrumental to the defeat of the SOPA and PIPA copyright/censorship bills.
Emily Baxter
Emily Baxter is a research associate for Women's Economic Policy at the Center for American Progress, focusing on women's and families' economic security, women's leadership, and work-family balance. She previously worked as the special assistant for the Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative at the Center. In the fall of 2012, Emily was a field organizer for President Obama’s re-election campaign near her hometown of Erie, Pennsylvania.
The FCC rearranges the deck chairs on the Titanic
By Larry Downes on December 22, 2006 at 10:29 am
There they go again. The other day (see http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/21/business/21cable.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&o... ), the FCC ruled in favor of local phone companies and ordered municipalities to respond within 90 days to requests by phone companies to offer cable services. The Times quotes a Verizon spokesman saying, “This means an end to the automatic skyrocketing in cable prices and means greater choice in service and programming."
Search Law & Policy @ Haifa
By Stefan Bechtold on December 21, 2006 at 12:51 pm
Search is becoming an increasingly important topic in cyberlaw.
governmediality.net is live
By Christoph Engemann on December 6, 2006 at 2:54 am
The website for the workshop 'Governmediality of Work, Welfare, and the Life Course'at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study Delmenhorst, Germany Dec 7th/ 8th 2006 is now live: www.governmediality.net.
Participatory culture report
By Colette Vogele on November 28, 2006 at 8:21 am
The Rise of Participation Culture reports and summarizes a number of trends and explains "why the Internet and a new wave of Web applications have been embraced by a tech-savvy generation and spawned a culture of participation". Steve Borsch does a thoughtful job of reviewing (albeit at a high level) a number of aspects of the new web (or Web 2.0, the LiveWeb, NextGenWeb, or whatever else we want to call it) in three broad categories: Internet as Platform, Participation Applications and People. (Also available from Borsch's blog, Connecting the Dots.) This report hits all the highlights and is worth a read if you're looking for the big picture... you know, that proverbial forest through the trees.
Slowing Down the Presses: The Relationship Between Net Neutrality and Local News
Adam Hersh
White Paper / Report
The FCC is poised to rescind the Open Internet Order—the set of strong, enforceable net neutrality rules that prohibit internet service providers (ISPs) from interfering with web traffic that travels across their networks. One unintentional victim of that action is likely to be small television stations, newspaper publishers, and websites devoted to local news. Local news outlets play a vital civic role, but they face a crisis of declining revenue and audience, largely driven by internet competition.
FCC Wants to Kill Net Neutrality. Congress Will Pay the Price
Ryan Singel
FCC Chair Ajit Pai’s plan to repeal net neutrality provisions and reclassify broadband providers from “common carriers” to “information services” is an unprecedented giveaway to big broadband providers and a danger to the internet. The move would mean the FCC would have almost no oversight authority over broadband providers like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T.
Read full Wired article.
The FCC is about to repeal net neutrality. Here’s why Congress should stop them.
On Wednesday November 22, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai published his draft order outlining his plan to undo the net neutrality protections that have been in place in the U.S. since the beginning of the Internet. His proposal would leave both the FCC and the states powerless to protect consumers and businesses against net neutrality violations by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) like Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon that connect us to the Internet.
Commentary: The FCC Has Always Defended Net Neutrality. Why Stop Now?
Earlier this week Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai announced a radical plan to undo the net neutrality protections that have been in place in the U.S. since the beginning of the Internet.
Verizon v. Federal Communications Commission
Comcast Corporation v. Federal Communications Commission
Comcast Corp. v. FCC is a 2010 United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia case holding that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) does not have ancillary jurisdiction over Comcast’s Internet service under the language of the Communications Act of 1934. In so holding, the Court vacated a 2008 order issued by the FCC that asserted jurisdiction over Comcast’s network management polices and censured Comcast from interfering with its subscribers' use of peer-to-peer software.
Federal Communications Commission Preserving the Open Internet Proceeding
In 2005, on the same day the FCC re-classified DSL service and effectively reduced the regulatory obligations of DSL providers, the FCC announced its unanimous view that consumers are entitled to certain rights and expectations with respect to their broadband service, including the right to:
Federal Communications Commission Proceeding Regarding Comcast’s Blocking of BitTorrent
Why Net Neutrality Advocates Remain Optimistic
"Eshoo and her copanelists, Federal Communications Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, Reddit CEO Steven Huffman, and Stanford law professor Barbara van Schewick, remained doggedly optimistic about the future of net neutrality in the United States."
Reddit Co-founder, Congresswoman advocate for net neutrality at Law School event
The Stanford Daily
"Van Schewick argued that the motivation for removing net neutrality rules came largely from ISPs looking to capitalize on their positions as gatekeepers. She said that in 2013, prior to net neutrality regulations being put in place, six large ISPs started using “choke points” to slow down certain games and and videos, only speeding them up if the hosting websites were willing to pay.
“The ISPs have more money, and they definitely have more lobbyists,” Schewick said. “But that does not mean they get to win. They only win if we are silent.”"
How the EU’s Far Right Will Boost Google, Facebook, and Amazon
"Thomas Lohninger, executive director of Epicenter Works, another NGO that ran an ostensibly grassroots campaign against the Copyright Directive, says his group worked with politicians from across the spectrum. “You can find allies in all political parties, and if you are working toward the majority, you also have to talk with all of the people and explore all avenues that you can in order to gain a majority. And that's what we did,” Lohninger says. “There are of course the Euroskeptics, that are fundamentally opposed to every type of European legislation or regulation.
Why internet users in Austria face losing their anonymity
"Thomas Lohninger of civil rights group Epicenter Works told German-language website Der Standard: “It’s remarkable how little thought has gone into this.”"
What the Loss of Net Neutrality Means for Democracy and Innovation (Past Event)
In 2017, the FCC voted to abolish net neutrality protections, which ensure that we, not the companies we pay to get online, get to choose what we do online. This event will explore what we lost, why it matters, and what’s happening with efforts to restore those protections in the courts, the states and Washington, D.C.
The Antitrust Paradigm: Restoring a Competitive Economy - Lunch Time Talk with Jonathan Baker (Past Event)
RSVP is required for this free event.
CIS Career Lunch Series: Innovative Product Counseling at Google (Past Event)
FCBA Northern California Chapter CLE: California Net Neutrality Policy (Past Event)
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - Suite 800
Join the FCBA's Northern California Chapter for an engaging discussion with key government, academic, and industry speakers to discuss the past, present, and future of net neutrality policy in California.
DOJ Lawsuit Against California Raises Legal Questions Over Net Neutrality
The U.S. Justice Department has sued California over its net neutrality law.
California Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed the measure, which was in response to the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to repeal net neutrality in 2017, which took effect this past June.
To learn more about this lawsuit, The Show spoke with Barbara van Schewick, a law professor and director of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School.
Expert: Smart Tech Is Making Us Dumb
We know that smart phones and other information technology are changing the way we live and the way we relate to other people, but could they actually be making us dumber?
Brett Frischmann says they are, and that we should question the use of digital technology and surveillance.
Can states regulate the internet?
The days are numbered for federal net neutrality regulations. In response, some states are working on their own versions to prevent internet service providers (ISP) from blocking, slowing or charging more for some web traffic. Oregon, Washington and several other states have made new rules, but a bill working its way through the California legislature would go the furthest. Marketplace Tech host Molly Wood spoke with Ryan Singel, a media and strategy fellow at Stanford Law School, about how a state can regulate a business that crosses state lines.
Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman: "Web extra: Net neutrality with guest Barbara van Schewick"
Law School professor Barbara van Schewick discusses net neutrality as the FCC plans to vote on changing those rules.
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You are here: Home Dalmatia Info Rest day in Dalmatia
Rest day in Dalmatia
What to do on your rest day?
Dalmatian region is very rich with spectacular landscapes and amazing locations. Among many options for your rest day, we will try to bring up some of the ideas we thought it would be good for you to know how to spend a non-climbing day in our country.
Walking/hiking in the nature
-Visiting National Park Krka - Krka river near Sibenik town is recommended for spring, summer and autumn time of year for nice and refreshing walks around waterfalls where you can have a picnic day with nice swimming and easy hiking. Check out web page for more information.
-Visiting Velebit Park of the nature and National Park Pakelnica – Velebit mountain range is impressive massive with huge rock climbing and hiking options. There are too many things to say and to do at Velebit area, and the best is to investigate on your own. We bring you two links; for Velebit park of the nature and NP Paklenica.
-Visiting Biokovo park of the nature
-Visiting Imotski lakes, incredible Red lake and Blue lake.
Omis region is main location for white water activities like rafting canyoning, kayak, kanu, but also for rock climbing as we pointed out already.
Our partners are providing one of the most adventurous trips in the region, adventure canyoning with zip line included.
Check out Avantura Adventures offer!
Contact us for more information’s!
One day boat tours
-Visiting National Park Kornati archipelago – If you are eager to do a boat day trip, this is the right thing for you. Kornati archipelago National park is unique location with 404 islands on the very small area. The islands are inhabited
-Visiting Mljet National Park – the north part of the island Mljet is a National park with great walks and hiking. The park covers two natural lakes in the middle of the island, which is very rear and unique in the world.
Visiting historical sites and a bit of history
400 years B.C. Illyrian tribe Delmati lived here until Greeks came and recognized Dalmatian coast as very rich and settled all over the Adriatic.
Romans came later and pushed the Greeks out, and settled in Salona, which was ancient Roman town, Capital of Dalmatia.
In 7th century Croats came from Karpati.
Medieval ages were very difficult for Croatians. On the coast, from 11th century Venetians were trying to rule all over the Adriatic and pretty much they did. Adriatic Sea they named Del Golfo Di Venezia – Gulf of Venice.
From East, today’s Bosnia, Huge Ottoman Empire was spreading fast. Turks were merciless and people were running away in fear, pretty much on Dalmatian islands.
Zagreb area and North part of Croatia was under Austro Hungarian Empire. Austrians managed to get down to the coast and stayed there for hundred years, after they pushed French army with Napoleon at 1815.
In the middle of all of these empires, there was small Dubrovnik Republic existing with only 40.000 people, managing to keep their independence for almost 4 centuries, what was pretty incredible. The only independent Slavic republic was abolished by Napoleon at 1808.
Ancient Salona
There are remains of the ancient town of Salona which it is presumed was built in the 4th century B.C. and which can still be seen in Solin today. Salona was the port of the Illyrian Delmati tribe, where the Greeks and Romans lived. In the 48th year B.C., Julius Caesar proclaimed Salona as the centre of the Roman province of Dalmatia. The town centre had a trapezoidal form, was enclosed by city walls and was fortified by towers. Within it was a complex of town basilicas, and a monumental cathedral with a baptistery and thermal were later constructed. Still today, the peristyle of thermae is recognizable as a place where a bath with furnaces and dressing rooms as well as the Old Christian facilities, connected to the basilicas with activities of St. Dujam was situated. At the southern part are the remains of the forum, the temple and the theatre from the 1st century.
Klis fortress
City of Klis, very important location through the history, got its name after Clissa – the key, the key of Dalmatia. The Klis fortress is situated on the hill of the same name and in the past, thanks to its strategic importance, was a notable defensive position. Situated on the high, natural sheer rocks above the crossing between the continental and coastal parts, a beautiful view extends over the surrounding parts areas and even as far as the island of Vis. The Fortress has three levels and is surrounded by a triple ring of city walls whilst the most important parts of the fortress are the Knezeva kuca (Prince House), the church of St. Vitus, the powder-magazine, the officers' barracks and the Oprah tower.
Diocletian’s palace
Visiting 1700 years old Roman palace in the center of Split is a must do thing here. Very well preserved, palace is the biggest attraction in Split and one of the oldest. Find how Diocletian, Roman Emperor who was born in Salona managed to rule and abdicate later in the age of 70 what was pretty strange for one Roman emperor in that time.
Investigating palace and its narrow streets full of people will affect you strongly, so we recommend it!
While walking around our beautiful town, we have to point out some interesting places beside our museums which are telling amazing story from our history:
- Fish market - you have to see and visit major fish market in Dalmatia for many reasons. It is built just nearby sulfa springs and smell is obvious, but this is the reason why we don't have fly's at the fish market.
- Hajduk stadium - we are big soccer fans and we have great stadium built in 1979 in the shape of sea shell. Hajduk soccer team is like religion in Dalmatia what is visible from every corner of our town.
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So Much Pretty
Cara Hoffman
Hoffman writes with a restraint that makes poetry of pain.
— The New York Times Book Review
Praise for So Much Pretty
Best Suspense Novel of 2011 - New York Times Book review
In her fearless first novel, So Much Pretty, Cara Hoffman demolishes our illusions about country life by addressing the problems of poverty, domestic abuse, teenage violence and environmental damage that are threatening to destroy the small communities of rural America. Gene and Claire Piper, newly married doctors who worked in a free clinic on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, thought they’d escaped the curse of modern civilization when they moved to a depressed upstate town and turned to organic farming. But years later, when their daughter, Alice, is in high school, their neighbors still consider them outsiders. Precociously brilliant Alice is even more of an alien, though she doesn’t realize it until the murder of a local girl makes her aware of the community’s hateful attitudes toward women.
For all the passion in this intense narrative, Hoffman writes with a restraint that makes poetry of pain. She also shows a mastery of her craft by developing the story over 17 years and narrating it from multiple perspectives. While each has a different take on the horrific events that no one saw coming, the people who live in this insular place remain willfully blind to their own contributions to the deeper causes that made this tragedy almost inevitable.
[A] dark but powerful début novel . . . . Hoffman maps the atmosphere of paranoia that descends on the formerly tranquil town as she moves deftly between its inhabitants . . . the book’s eerily potent conclusion will convince readers that, as Hoffman writes, ‘the responsibility of every intelligent person is to pay attention to the obvious.
A haunting suspense novel about a murder mystery based on a real-life missing-persons case
— Entertainment Weekly, #3 on "The Must List"
So Much Pretty is harder to pin down, trickier in its aims and delivers a skillful, psychologically acute tale of how violence affects a small town, its tentacles enmeshed so deeply into the collective fabric that it takes the thoughts and actions of one intelligent adolescent to shake things up and force everyone to examine their duplicitous complacency. To say more about Hoffman’s constantly surprising story is to reveal too much, but the payoff is more than worth the slow-building suspense
— The Los Angeles Times
a devastating look at violence against women and the complicated landscape of vengeance. Disguised as a crime story, it presents the sort of rigorous moral questions that have no easy answers and sear themselves in your memory for a good long time
— The Miami Herald
In this remarkable debut, Hoffman addresses serious injustices in present-day America. In 1992, Claire and Gene Piper, both idealistic New York City physicians, eschew joining Doctors Without Borders and decide instead to move with their gifted two-year-old daughter, Alice, to upstate Haeden, N.Y., to pursue the simple life in the spirit of the ‘60s back-to-nature movement. After nearly two fruitless decades, Gene’s hope of destroying corporate agribusiness in the name of “land and air and autonomy” has left Claire exhausted, in body and soul, and Alice determined to avenge a ghastly crime against all women that she realizes is implicit in Haeden’s smalltown-ghost town mentality. Meanwhile, journalist Stacy Flynn indicts Big Pharm for forcing scientists to manipulate people into doing things the scientists believe are wrong, and factory food production for repurposing the countryside into a toxic-waste site. Hoffman’s doomed characters burn their way off her angry pages. This searing novel will linger long in the reader’s memory
— Publisher's Weekly (starred review)
Perspective is a funny thing. It can make a small farm community in upstate New York seem isolating and suffocating for one person, a liberating paradise for another. In Cara Hoffman’s debut novel, So Much Pretty, this jarring disconnect is one of the story’s most intriguing undercurrents. . . . the novel effectively frames a compelling murder mystery with provocative, troubling issues, exploring adolescent violence, the victimization of women, revenge, and societal pressure to favor the good of the community over the rights of the individual. . . . Hoffman ambitiously mines fertile, controversial ground and asks a lot of tough, unanswerable questions; the most heartrending is simply, ‘Why?’
— The Boston Globe
Hoffmann depicts a country in which violence against women is ubiquitous and largely invisible, and where city and country regard each other with incomprehension and disgust...splendidly ballsy...intelligent and gripping stuff.
— Financial Times of London
A spectacular debut: This beautifully constructed mystery, with its engaging characters and intriguing premise, has everything a reader wants...
A mixture of The Lovely Bones and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Hoffman’s first novel is a small-town murder mystery with a surprising twist. Haeden, New York, leaves much to be desired for Flynn, the young reporter covering the community beat. But when Wendy White, the local bar maid, goes missing, and Flynn begins uncovering some disturbing local secrets, things get very interesting. Meanwhile, high-school student Alice Piper is facing her own challenges. She’s smart, creative, and quickly outgrowing the small-town mentality of Haeden. Her family encourages her feisty spirit, and her best friend, Theo, is her accomplice in more ways than one. Hoffman’s narrative oscillates between various characters, carefully building suspense, depth, and new insight with every chapter. Let’s hope we will be seeing more of this talented new writer
Cara Hoffman has lived an interesting life. A highschool dropout who wandered around Europe and the Middle East, working odd jobs while most kids are in college, she later climbed her way from newspaper-delivery girl to investigative reporter, covering crime and the environment in rural, low-income parts of upstate New York. Her first novel, So Much Pretty, about a smalltown murder, draws from that experience, as well as Hoffman’s fascination with the ways violence manifests itself in society
— San Diego City Beat
The theme of So Much Pretty is innocence lost and idealism gone wrong. . . . In the rundown little town of Haeden, things are never what they seem, as the tone of the novel grows more sinister and a young woman disappears. . . . The pace quickens as Hoffman brings the story to its dark and chilling conclusion. VERDICT: This gripping novel asks readers to judge whether a horrible crime can ever justify a terrible act of revenge. It will engage individuals and book groups interested in debating this tough topic
Hoffman takes on the poverty, drug abuse, environmental disasters and violence against women that are endemic to a small town in upstate New York. And she does it brilliantly, in stark and poetic prose, expressing a variety of viewpoints on the murder around which the story turns. And she does it in a way that lodges in the corner of your mind and just won’t leave. . . . brilliant outsider Alice has a command of logic, a perfect memory and a sense of justice to match. She lives the philosophy that Gene and Claire’s friend Michelle, a Doctors Without Borders physician, likes to quote from George Orwell: ‘The responsibility of every intelligent person is to pay attention to the obvious.’ Alice just may be the blonder, less-punk version of Lisbeth Salander, that girl of the dragon tattoo. . . . Everything counts in Hoffman’s toned work, as even the tiniest plot point becomes important to the unfolding narrative. The book, based on a real case that Hoffman covered when she worked for a small upstate New York newspaper, shines a harsh light on violence against women and the men who live within the ugly banality of this evil. Its climactic scenes are simultaneously shocking and inevitable. Pay attention to So Much Pretty. It’s mesmerizing.
— New Orleans Times Picayune
This is an impassioned, intelligent and important work of art, and with it Hoffman takes her place in that select group of American novelists including Philipp Meyer and Adam Haslett who, eschewing nihilism and hauteur, write with urgency and passion about what is really going on out there
— Chris Cleave, #1 New York Times bestselling author Everyone Brave is Forgiven
So Much Pretty is certain to be talked about—not merely because it is a profound meditation on both public and private violence in small-town America, but for its captivating storytelling which draws you in on a visceral level and leaves you feeling haunted, in the best of ways
— Philipp Meyer, author of The Son
So Much Pretty is a compelling whodunit, an unnerving portrait of just what the back of nowhere looks like, and an arresting meditation on our culture’s ongoing acceptance of violence against women. It’s powered by both a despairing tenderness and an unflinching rage, each of which, as the novel makes heartbreakingly clear, are more than justified
— Jim Shepard, author of Like You'd Understand Anyway
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Barry Pepper Exclusive Interview; The CASINO JACK Star Opens Up About DC, THE KENNEDYS and Terrence Malick’s New Film
by Ron Messer December 21, 2010
America’s political system has been a favorite subject of filmmakers for decades. The reasons are clear. There’s enough grandstanding, scandal, backstabbing and intrigue in a week on Capitol Hill to fill a season of any network soap opera. Take the latest entry into the genre. Casino Jack, in the early stages of a nationwide rollout, follows the real-life story of so-called super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff who served time in prison for defrauding four Native American tribes out of tens of millions of dollars and trading money and gifts for political favors from some of DC’s biggest power brokers. While the scandal landed public officials in prison, the film has landed Kevin Spacey a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) and very positive reviews for Barry Pepper as Abramoff’s protégé Michael Scanlon.
Pepper recently sat down with Collider for a wide-ranging conversation. Hit the jump for the interview’s full audio and transcript, including his view of Washington, whether he’d run for office, his wild experience on a new Terrence Malick film and his very thorough research to play Robert F. Kennedy.
Some actors shy away from playing real-life subjects. Barry Pepper has specialized in it. Having made three-dimensional portrayals of sports legends like Roger Maris in 61* to the title role in 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story and war heroes in Flags Of Our Fathers and We Were Soldiers, Pepper has deftly moved into the political sphere as Michael Scanlon in Casino Jack and the upcoming mini-series The Kennedys as Robert F. Kennedy. Pepper also gives a standout performance in True Grit, and we’ll post our interview with him for that film later this week. However, we started this discussion with a look at his sports background to see if that’s where he got his dedication to detail.
Click here for the audio
Collider: You’re known for getting very deep into characters and that takes such a huge discipline. How important was sports, in terms of the influence of the discipline on you with your acting career?
Barry Pepper: I grew up playing everything from rugby, football, baseball, volleyball, bike races and boxing. I tried martial arts, loved to ride horses and I’m the youngest of three brothers, so it was a fiercely competitive family. So when it came to the opportunity to play Roger Maris in 61* that was just a dream come true and with Roger batting on the opposite side of the plate as me, I had to learn from scratch.
But also within the research of each character and to become a really good athlete, repetition is so important and, if you’re playing basketball, you’ve got to be on the driveway ‘til all hours of the night, until you can’t see the ball anymore.
Pepper: Yeah, right.
Acting is very similar, in the sense of discipline.
Pepper: Yeah, we spent probably, at least on that film, several months, before principal photography, just in baseball boot camp with Reggie Smith, the great switch-hitter for the Dodgers. He put us through our paces, both Thomas (Jane who played Mickey Mantle) and I until we were completely blistered and battered and bruised and that really helps you immerse into that world. I mean, that’s all you do is you eat, sleep and drink baseball. And then the same with the NASCAR film. I went to race school at (what was then) Lowe’s Motor Speedway (re-named Charlotte Motor Speedway earlier this year) and each of them are remarkable experiences, in that you do get so deeply involved in it, that I knew nothing about NASCAR when I first took on the project and yet you come out the other side of it, very deeply steeped in the sport and enjoying it, actually.
It’s interesting because you were talking about 61* and 3 (whose subjects of baseball and NASCAR) are so embedded in American culture and you’ve done so many different films that separate the myth from the reality of the American story whether it’s Saving Private Ryan (displaying the brutality of World War II), 3 (which didn’t shy away from Dale Earnhardt’s personal demons), 61*, where you told just how big of a toll (the race to break Babe Ruth’s single home run record) took on (NY Yankees’ slugger) Roger Maris, Flags Of Our Fathers (which told the stark reality back home that awaited the men who were in the iconic World War II image of the flag-raising at Iwo Jima) and now Casino Jack. Yet, you grew up in Canada before you set sail (At age 5, Pepper’s family sailed around the South Pacific Islands on the family’s 50 foot hand-built boat, for 5 years with stops along the way).
Pepper: Uh huh. Well, I’m a dual citizen.
As of a couple of years ago. Right?
Pepper: That’s right. Yeah.
Pepper: Oh, wow, you’re good. You did your homework. (Laughter). But that’s right. Yeah, I grew up on Vancouver Island.
Were you fascinated by the American story as a kid? I mean, did-
Pepper: Well, you know what’s funny, as a kid, I was always a Yankees fan. So, go figure. I mean, we didn’t have a Major League Baseball team (in Vancouver). My brother was a Yankees fan and I grew up just sort of emulating him, although I think that the Pacific Northwest, primarily Vancouver is so, sort of, influenced by what happens in Hollywood and that’s really, sort of, where I cut my teeth in the business because of that overflow of work that came up from California to Vancouver and all of the series and films that were shooting there. American film and television’s really what’s predominately on television and in the theaters in Canada, so it’s really unavoidable, in terms of pop culture, fashion. It’s sort of intrinsically connected.
What was your exposure to politics (through your film career) before doing Casino Jack?
Pepper: It would’ve been We Were Soldiers. I played Joe Galloway, who was the first civilian to be ever awarded a Bronze Star in combat. He was a photojournalist in Vietnam and subsequently became a speechwriter for Colin Powell (at the State Department in 2001-02) and was very involved in politics in Washington and (as a writer for United Press International, U.S. News & World Report, Knight-Ridder Newspapers and McClatchy Newspapers). Anyway, he was the one that really introduced me to the state of things in Washington because we became very close friends and then (with) a few of my films, I would get invited to Vietnam Vet memorials and Veterans’ anniversaries and bases around the country and West Point and you’d meet with soldiers and veterans and the more time that I spent in Washington, the more involved I got and seeing it through the eyes of someone like Joe, who is so intimately involved and really had such inside connections, you got a very unvarnished view.
Before doing Casino Jack, what was your view, especially in talking to (Joe Galloway) and seeing DC that way?
Pepper: The only reason that I involved myself in Casino Jack was because of what it ultimately said as a film. It was a cautionary tale to the public about what is currently the state of affairs in Washington, that our democracy is drowning under a tsunami of corporate financing and, you know, a mountain of cash that influences our political process and has irrevocably changed it forever, in my opinion. And even (with) all of the beating of drums that took place during this scandal when it broke by John McCain (who famously co-authored the McCain-Feingold law to regulate campaign financing) and others. Nothing changed. There was no lobbying reform act with any teeth. In fact, it’s probably worse than it ever was. Material equality and liberty are intrinsically connected and you can’t have an honest, true democracy without equal representation. You know, you see it in the recent midterm elections, record numbers of millions spent on these campaigns. $50-100 million dollars of personal wealth and probably corporate wealth wagered on these elected positions and you and I can’t be equally represented if we don’t have that kind of cash to get in the race. It’s just ballooned so far out of control that I think until people become aware of it, and hopefully through a film like this, they can be made aware of it and exercise their 1st amendment right. Use their voice. Hold their elected officials’ feet to the fire and understand that that is the truest form of democracy is dissension and that that’s not only their right, it’s a privilege. You know? People are tired at the end of a 10-12 hour workday, raising their kids and living their life, that most people in these high-level elected positions feel like they can really get away with whatever they want because the public just doesn’t have enough time in the day to keep tabs on them.
I wasn’t going to ask you this question, but hearing you talk about it, you’re a concerned citizen, would you ever run for office?
Pepper: (Long pause) I don’t know. Um, I think it would only be out of sheer desperation. (Smiles) You know I, if I felt like I could be of service in some way, absolutely. I, I think it would be every citizen’s responsibility and also privilege to serve, but boy, it would be a very, I think, frustrating town to work in. You know, it’s much like my business. You know, it’s mostly theater. It’s mostly pageantry. I mean, how else can you explain Sarah Palin? It just doesn’t make any sense to me.
Jon Stewart said something along the lines; he said, “The difference between Hollywood and DC is that the people in Hollywood” and I’ll clean up the language, “are jerks who think they have power. The people in DC are jerks who actually do.
(Note: Stewart’s actual full quote is “The only difference between L.A. and Washington is they think they have power in L.A. They don’t. It’s the same insular a******s you find on both areas, but in Washington they actually do have power.”)
Pepper: (Laughing) Yeah. That’s very true. That’s great. Is that an original quote of his?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Pepper: Oh, that’s good.
Speaking of politics, you’re gonna be playing Bobby Kennedy (in The Kennedys, opposite Katie Holmes as Jackie Kennedy and Greg Kinnear as JFK).
Pepper: Yeah. I just finished that.
Did you talk to the Kennedys (for research)?
Pepper: No, I didn’t. There was a little bit of difficulty going into the project because the keepers of the Kennedy flame, if you will, were very concerned that the image of Camelot might be eroded and that, I think early drafts of the script might have given them an illusion that it was more of a, a salacious piece, than it really was, but it couldn’t have been more opposite. It was such an incredible experience for me. But no, I, I stuck to just my own research, I read every book that has been written on the Kennedys and listened to every phone call between Jack and Bobby and every speech that Bobby gave and really just lived with him for five months that I was involved in the project, basically in my earphones. Just listening to his speeches over and over and over and over again. Everything that I could find, uh, I compiled digitally and he just lived with me, in my ears all day long. But the books are incredible. There’s such a vast array of books out there on the Kennedys as you can well imagine, but, you know, specifically Bobby and then I read every book that HE highlighted in his books as being books that were an influence on him. Like, when Jack was assassinated, Jackie gave Bobby a book called The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton and that was a very, very important book to him, to both of them really, and it’s what, was one of the, the keys to his healing some of his suffering and confusion at the time and then I read, you know, other books tbat were somewhat more controversial like (Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story) about their relationship and then, of course, you read other books that are also somewhat controversial, by Seymour Hersh; The Dark Side Of Camelot. Then you read all the other ones that are considered to be the foremost authorities.
Pepper: On, on The Kennedys and the ones that are, kind of, more mainstream and so, I really covered my bases, in terms of research and the, The History Channel also just compiled a, a tremendous amount of documentaries and just real footage and material for us to wade through. So, it was a mountain to research that was just ongoing throughout the entire production. It really just never ended. I thoroughly enjoyed that, but I hope to meet them. You know, even playing Roger Maris, the family was quite hesitant about being involved with HBO.
Private. Such a private family.
Pepper: Very, very private. And then after the film came out, they welcomed me with open arms. We screened the film at the White House together and they just loved it. They were very grateful (for) the care and the sensitivity that HBO took to represent their father and husband. Roger, I should say. And I became dear friends of their family. And with Casino Jack, I wasn’t able to meet Mike because he was- excused himself from Washington.
I’d imagine so.
Pepper: And he was actively cooperating with the investigation so it wasn’t available to me, but I was able to speak to his friends and colleagues and co-workers and was given a tremendous amount of information that I would’ve never been able to get from books and articles.
Have you heard through friends of Scanlon what he thought about the film being made? Have you heard, like, what his reaction was, at all?
Pepper: No. No, we haven’t, but Kevin (Spacey) got to speak at length with Jack (Abramoff) in prison and so, that was, that was quite informative. Like I say, all of my information came through friends and co-workers and colleagues that had worked in Mike’s office. Such an interesting personality. Such a schismatic personality in the sense that he’s holding down this $10/hour lifeguard job through the entire time that he’s making millions as a PR consultant and lobbyist with Jack Abramoff.
And for a smart guy, making the dumbest decisions.
Pepper: Incredible, but he was this truly pure surfer dude. (That) really was the life closest to his true self was this surfer dude living the life as this lifeguard on the beach and yet, all the while he was in Washington, he was a completely different guy. You know-
Well, it makes, it makes actually perfect sense, if he was a surfer that he was riding that wave. (Pepper laughs) And I’m not saying that in a pun kind of way, but literally as this thing is cresting, he’s going let me see where it takes me.
Pepper: Oh, it was like a narcotic, for sure. You know, he was a very hail fellow well met sort of country club type guy running these elaborate schemes and then, here he is off at Rehoboth Beach (in Delaware) working for $10 an hour as a lifeguard! Holding, holding down that job the whole time and I, and so I was just fascinated by that character study. Absolutely fascinated! And I can absolutely understand why he was swept up into it. I mean, you can’t remove culpability from all the others that were involved. Even the casino- or the Indian tribes, I should say, that opportunity to access power and wealth, by exchanging cash or lavish gifts for legislative favors was like a narcotic to them, too.
Pepper: I mean, there was a lot of people that (were) very involved in the scandal that really didn’t suffer the blows that Mike and Jack did and so in that respect, I have a modicum of sympathy, ‘cause they were really thrown under the bus as the fall guys for this, but you know, nothing has changed. Ten more guys have taken their place. They say they’re trying to clean it up, but they never will because it’s such a gravy train for their re-election campaigns that neither –
It’s “Follow the money.”
Pepper: The Democrats, nor the Republicans will ever clean it up.
Pepper: (Smiling) That’s up to you and I. (Laughter)
You were talking about The Kennedys and you just worked with Rachel Weisz (on Terrence Malick’s currently untitled new film) who’s doing (Darren Aronofsky’s film about Jacqueline Kennedy) Jackie.
Pepper: No, I never did work with her.
Oh, you didn’t.
Pepper: But she was on the same film.
Pepper: That’s the nature of a Terrence Malick (Days Of Heaven, The Thin Red Line) film (laughter). Because our two characters never knew each other existed. I don’t know. I don’t even know her storyline in the film.
Oh, really. What’s your storyline in the film?
Pepper: I couldn’t tell you.
But you’re playing “Father Barry.”
Pepper: I can partially tell you but I couldn’t tell you what the script is about because I never received a script.
Wait. Ok, because we hear it’s about a fisherman.
Pepper: (Smiling) Ok. (Laughter) Well, then you know as much as I do or more.
So, wait, what do you know?
Pepper: I only came in and played my part. That’s all I know. That was what was so wonderful about it.
What is your character?
Pepper: I believe it’s not any breach of confidence because that’s, I’ve, I’ve read it many times on the internet that Javier Bardem and I play priests. But that’s really all that I can tell you.
(Note: there is unconfirmed word that the plot focuses on a failed writer played by Ben Affleck in a loveless marriage who does, indeed, go fishing to clear his head. Click on the link for further spoilers)
Pepper: (Laughs) No, but I mean, you know, there are cer-, there are certain obligations that you have, but I’m being absolutely honest with you in saying that I don’t know what the story is about. All I know is my involvement, which is a small chapter within the film, so, which to me was absolute joy to work with him on that level because it was so free and so, unlike anything I’d ever experienced. Never been involved in a project where you’re not handed a concrete screenplay, but to me it was just like floating down a river. You know, you really just had to go with it, or else… You just really had to float because it was such a free process that if you fought it, you’d, you’d just start drowning. (Laughs)
Yeah. Well, thank you so much.
Pepper: Yeah, my pleasure.
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Examining a Movie: Day of the Dead
Hey there my friendly neighborhood warp entities! Old Man Chaos is back in action just as I promised.
Almost a year ago, we learned of the passing of George A. Romero. While he was 77 years old and had lived a full life, I was very saddened when I saw it on my phone. If you have read this blog a bit you'll have noticed that Romero's dead films have a special place in my heart. Heck- my Plague Marines and Plague Zombies draw a lot of inspiration from those films!
I was lucky enough to have met Romero once. It was at NY Big Apple Convention at the Hotel Pennsylvania. This was I think in either fall 2005 or 2006 (I can't quite remember). Now this was before "Comicon" became the huge draw. There were plenty of smaller cons then (and now, but Comicon is obviously just huge). At any rate, George Romero was signing autographs. Naturally, I knew exactly what I wanted him to sign- a mini poster for Dawn of the Dead. When I finally got up to him I couldn't believe how tall he was. He was also very friendly and laid back. As he signed my poster I sheepishly asked him if there was going to be another Dead film after Land of the Dead (a film that I like quite a bit actually). He smiled and said something akin to "we shall see what happens". Now, he must have been asked that question 10 million times by every film and horror geek out there. But at no time did he show that. He was a friendly gentleman. Period.
Later in the Con, my brother and our friend Pete went outside to have a hot dogs and soda. While we were out there, Romero came out all by himself for a smoke. I wanted to go over and say "hey" but Pete was like "Let the man smoke in peace". Pete was right and so I left him alone. But it was awesome nevertheless.
The autographed mini poster is one of my most prized possessions. No, it has no certificate of authenticity. It is not numbered. Nor is it an original poster or something. None of that matters. This is special to me. It is now occupies a central place in my man-cave.
A while back, I did reviews of both NotLD and DotD, both as films and their interesting reflections on the times in which they were made. NotLD stands not just as a zombie film, but as a reflection of the uncertainties of a changing world (the 1960s), while DotD is a satire of our media and consumer obsessed society (the 1970s). It is those things for me that elevate the films beyond simple horror films. They have larger things to say about both history and the human condition. That makes them timeless.
After I watched Dawn of the Dead, I immediately sought out Day of the Dead on VHS. And immediately, I was disappointed. I really didn't like the film all that much. The movie lacked both the originality and action of the first two films. I recall watching it, hearing a lot of yelling and indiscriminate cursing, a fairly blood soaked finale, and then... a stupid ending. At the time, it was bland in comparison to the two that came before.
That was years ago, while I was in college. But of course, as one gets older, things change. A refined movie-viewing palette develops. New experiences and knowledge. Perhaps a growing amount of cynicism. But several years later when I revisited it I discovered that it was actually a powerful ending to the trilogy. Now some fans say Day is the best. I won't go that far. NotLD and DotD are superior films. But Day has a lot to offer, again about the human condition and the time period in which it was filmed. In previous reviews I went all out reviewing every nook and cranny of the movies. I won't do a beat for beat review here. Instead, I'll focus on some of the larger points that are threaded throughout the film and the trilogy as a whole.
Reaganism and the 1980s
Like the other two Dead films, this movie is an attempt at reflecting the times Romero was living in. This one is a bit different though, as it was made in the middle of the decade rather than at the end of a decade (which means he's commenting on things unfinished as it were). What exactly is he commenting on?
Well, in the 1960s America was going through a variety of identity crises- we were a changing nation in the 1960s, and NOTLD reflected the uncertainties of those changes. The 1970s saw America become helpless- ending of Vietnam, Watergate, Oil Crisis, etc. It also saw America become a lot more pessimistic and cynical.
The year 1980 became a bit of a turning point for America. The serious, though flailing, Jimmy Carter ran against Ronald Reagan, a Hollywood actor turned politician, promising to restore America via conservative programs. Reagan promised he would cut government spending, whilst increasing the size and power of the military. Trust Reagan, and he would solve the problems. Obviously, Reagan won that election.
At that point, "Reaganism" swept America. Liberals held Reagan in disdain, but also felt his vision was both flawed and dangerous. As Reagan increased the size of the armed forces, some Americans and Western Europeans alike thought he would unleash World War 3- massive protests were held in both America and Europe when Reagan wanted to deploy new missile systems in Europe. His rhetoric was also incendiary, calling the Soviet Union the Evil Empire. Finally (and importantly for this film), Reagan called upon scientists to create better (defensive?) weapons, such as the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI- popularly known as Star Wars).
But Reagan's pro-military stance did more than that. It permeated American culture. American films became more violent, more "gung-ho", if you will. Rambo was a popular hero, taking us back to Vietnam and "winning" it retroactively. On TV, cartoons such as G.I. Joe promoted both America's military and the idea that shooting is the answer to any problem. Jingoism was omnipresent in American pop culture.
This is the world of Romero that he is commenting upon in Day of the Dead. A small group of soldiers and scientists have been ordered to solve the "zombie problem". The soldiers are certain of their guns alright; however they are callous, crude, etc. Obviously Romero is criticizing Reagan militarism- for Rhodes, Steel, etc., shooting is the answer to the problem. The scientists don't escape Romero's criticism either, as embodied by the rather amoral but brilliant Dr. Logan. It is clear that Romero thinks that Reaganism isn't going to solve anything, but rather, make it all worse. Neither the soldiers nor the scientists can get us out of this jam, despite what Reagan says. Humanity's days are numbered, and not all the bullets in the world are going to change that.
Is It Just Me or Is Everybody Crazy?
Something that escaped me on first viewing but is now something obvious is that every single character but one is crazy. Yep. Batshit insane. All but one. This is what makes the film difficult to watch, as opposed to the previous Dead films. The world is effectively over- Zombies outnumber humanity by the hundreds of thousands to one. There is simply nothing left. All that's left of humanity might well be in that missile base. That the base is filled with trigger happy soldiers and oblivious scientists make it all the sadder and more pathetic.
As I said, the film must be understood from that point of view. Humanity is dead and the few stragglers are simply crazy. How could they not be? After all of this, how could they not be unhinged? Let's look at Rhodes for example. The death of his superior has put him in charge. Rhodes screams, he threatens, he yells, waves his gun, even at the most innocuous of things. If the zombie apoc hadn't happened he'd be a military prick blowhard. But since all went to hell, Rhodes is just about shattered, and it clearly shows.
Naturally, Dr. Logan (AKA Frankenstein) has also seen better days. It is obvious he is a smart man, but has lost touch with reality. He wants to understand the zombie problem- but at this stage what's the point? He is interested in their memories, and hopes to domesticate them, zombies like Bub. It doesn't seem to register that feeding Bub parts of dead soldiers might be a bad idea for many reasons. Nor does it register that there is no chance of actually solving the problem. Logan just seems interested in his macabre experiments, nothing more or less.
What about John, the chopper pilot? He seems sane on the surface, and he understands that there is no solving the zombie plague. His answer is that they should all forget the past (keep it buried in the silo he basically says) and just live their lives on an island some where How can one do that in the midst of hell on earth I'm not sure- hence I think John isn't too tightly wound either. His belief that the zombie plague is God's punishment against man doesn't make him sound any saner.
Surely the heroine and main character, Sarah, is sane. Again, on the surface she appears to be, but again this is not true. Sarah as it turns out truly believes that a solution can be found. That there is a way to reverse the effects of the zombie plague. She puts up with both Rhodes and Logan, hoping that a cure will be found. Despite her skills and demeanor, she is crazy if she really expects to end this. Her hallucinations/dreams show that she is falling apart as well.
No, the only sane character left in the entirety of the base is McDermott. Why? Because his solution is to drink booze. He is always wanting a drink from his flask throughout the film. He stays with John because he's the least insane and is a capable fighter (to protect McDermott). But the booze helps him cope with the situation- I think that's a rational response LOL. And if this lush is all humanity has left then you can appreciate Romero's sick sense of humor.
Is That Really The End?
One of the things that bugged me was that, once again, our main characters escape by helicopter, this time to a sunny island and Sarah, McDermott, and John live happily ever after. Night's ending was nihilistic, with all the main characters dead. Dawn's wasn't much better- they leave on a helicopter without much fuel left- they won't be getting too far. But this ending seems false- we leave it all behind just like John says and they're all OK?
Perhaps the ending IS false. As you will have noted, Sarah has been plagued by nightmares the whole time, earlier in the film. At the end, just before she gets into the helicopter, a zombie jumps out at her and then... she awakens on that beach. Suppose the zombie really did get her, and this last dream of a happily ever after is just that. It's not real. Her irrational mind is trying one last defense against the inescapable. If that is true, perhaps no one makes it out of that base after all. I do not know what Romero intended, but my hypothesis makes it fit better with Romero's other endings. (It still bugs me though).
At any rate, thus ends Romero's original Dead trilogy. Now he's gone on to make a few more Dead films, but they are all weaker efforts- even Land of the Dead, which I do enjoy, is not on the same level as these three. No contest. However, these three are secure, having originated a genre of film whose power today is undeniable. But it wasn't just blood and guts that made Romero's films. It was the subtext, the combination of real world issues in this apocalyptic setting that makes Romero's films worthy of being called "great". Day of the Dead, though not as strong as the previous two, continued that trend, if in a rather bleak and even more hopeless way (despite its "happy" ending). These three films are commentaries on the times in which they were made, and that makes them all the more unique and special.
Posted by Professor Chaos at 9:40 AM
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$660M Renaissance Plaza Project on Delaware River
A massive 2.5 million square foot development project is being planned for a vacant, 5.3-acre site along the Delaware River waterfront. The Philadelphia City Planning Commission approved Waterfront Renaissance Associates’ $660 million plan to build Renaissance Plaza at the corner of Callowhill Street and Columbus Boulevard. Construction of four mixed-use towers is expected to kick off in early 2016 and will be divided into four phases, with one tower completed in each development stage.
Combined, the four glass and metal high-rises will comprise 1,411 market-rate apartments and 70,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space.
The complex will also include two sport centers, several bars and restaurants and an enclosed parking garage with 500 spaces.
Renaissance Plaza is being developed by Waterfront Renaissance Associates, along with its affiliate Carl Marks & Co., the New York investment firm that pieced together four tracts that make up the plot about three decades ago.
The $660 million development will consist of four buildings that range in height from 21 to 31 stories. The tallest tower will reach 240 feet into the sky, a significant change from the original proposed height of 480 feet. The project will also include a green roof, and will seek LEED Gold Status
Building the first phase would take about 16 months, with each phase of development comprising about 360 apartments. Plans also include 16 townhouses, nearly 70,000 square feet of retail space, and 653 parking spaces along with more than an acre of landscaped public plazas.
A swath of landscaped public space would run through the property, which the developer believes will draw people from the neighborhoods through the property, and down to the river. Some roofs would offer additional green space.
Since the complex will be built on the west side of Delaware Avenue, not the river side, the developer will pay for a crossing signal to get people to the river itself, and will make improvements between the project and the Spring Garden transit stop.
Soil conditions at the site require piles to support the buildings - 700 are required. They will be drilled, not driven, because of sewer infrastructure.
The project is within the area covered by the newly adopted Central Delaware Overlay, which sets a height limit of 100 feet, but allows developers to earn height bonuses up by providing public amenities.
A developer who maxed out the public amenities – which include building a section of waterfront trail, building to LEED environmental standards, making transit improvement and providing public green space – can build up to 244 feet.
The site along the Delaware River waterfront had many bold ambitions that never came to fruition.
The site had been known for the last 15 years as the future address of the Greater Philadelphia World Trade Center.
That development would have entailed more than 3 million square feet of space consisting of a residential tower and three office buildings, parking for more than 2,000 vehicles and 118,000 square feet of retail space. That never happened.
Last fall, Waterfront Renaissance Associates, made a leap across the river and decided it would move the Greater Philadelphia World Trade Center project to Camden, New Jersey, where the developer has proposed building a 2.3-million-square-foot campus on 16 acres at the former Riverfront State Prison.
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The Schooner "William Bayles"
Artist/Maker: James Bard (1815-1897)
Origin: America, New York, New York
Unframed:32 3/4" x 52" (83.2 cm. x 132.1 cm.) and Framed: 37 5/8" x 56 3/4" (95.6 cm. x 144.1 cm.)
Oil on canvas with graphite details
Two-masted sailing vessel with bright green-painted body moves from right to left across picture plane. Six sailboats are visible in the distance on the blue-grey water, while trees and rocky landscape are visible beyond at the horizon. Four men can be seen on the schooner that is the subject of the painting; they all wear black hats, two wear black coats, and two are in shirtsleeves. The sky is a peach color at the horizon, moving to dull blue at top.
Label:James Bard and his twin brother, John, rank among America’s most acclaimed painters of steamboats and small sailing vessels. Although the brothers collaborated on about two dozen pictures, most Bard works are signed or attributed to James alone. James is known to have completed three portraits of the schooner William Bayles, two in 1854 and another in 1860. The commissioners of all three paintings remain unknown but both 1854 versions bear the sail maker’s name on the mainsails.
The William Bayles was a 67 ton schooner built in Nyack, New York in 1853 by John B. Voriz. Although the schooner changed owners, masters and home ports several times throughout her life, it is thought that one of her first contracts was hauling stone from a Tarrytown quarry to New York City. The William Bayles operated out of the port of New York until 1862, after which she is listed as serving out of various ports in Connecticut, New Hampshire and finally Massachusetts, from whence she was reported “lost at sea” in March of 1874.
Provenance:Martin B. Grossman, New York, NY; Herbert W. Hemphill, Jr., New York, NY; Mary Allis, Farifield, Conn.
Mark(s):See "Inscriptions."
Inscription(s):"WILLIAM BAYLES," is painted on the schooner's bow and on one of its flags. In the canvas's lower right corner is painted, in script, "Drawn & Painted by James Bard,/ 162 Perry St N Y. July 1854." The block lettering on the bottom of the mainsail is partially illegible, but it appears to read "B" (illeg. material; possibly only the artist's repositioning of the letter B) & B[EN]NET. SAIL MAKER. N.Y." Penciled script on the backs of the upper and lower stretchers is illegible. The sailmaker's surname is deduced from a more legible inscription on an 1860 James Bard painting of the same vessel. (See "Related Works").
The Schooner Yacht "America"
The Steamboat "Enoch Dean"
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Filmography from Jessica Harper
Filmography from : Jessica Harper
Minority Report, Steven Spielberg, 2002
In Washington, D.C., in the year 2054, murder has been eliminated. The future is seen and the guilty punished before the crime has ever been committed. From a nexus deep within the Justice Department's elite Pre-Crime unit, all the evidence to convict--from imagery alluding to the time, place and other details--is seen by "Pre-Cogs," three psychic beings whose visions of murders have never been wrong. It is the nation's most advanced crime...
Tales from the Crypt, Russell Mulcahy (4 episodes, 1991-1996), Elliot Silverstein (4 episodes, 1991-1994), Robert Zemeckis (3 episodes, 1989-1995), Richard Donner (3 episodes, 1989-1992), Tom Holland (3 episodes, 1989-1992), Walter Hill (3 episodes, 1989-1991), Stephen Hopkins (3 episodes, 1991-1994), Howard Deutch (2 episodes, 1989-1990), Kevin Yagher (2 episodes, 1990-1992), John Harrison (2 episodes, 1991-1994), Gilbert Adler (2 episodes, 1992-1993), Gary Fleder (2 episodes, 1992-1993), Rodman Flender (2 episodes, 1993-1995), William Malone (2 episodes, 1994-1996), Mary Lambert (1 episode, 1989), Fred Dekker (1 episode, 1990), Richard Greenberg (1 episode, 1990), Randa Haines (1 episode, 1990), Rowdy Herrington (1 episode, 1990), David Burton Morris (1 episode, 1990), Charlie Picerni (1 episode, 1990), Jeffrey Price (1 episode, 1990), J Michael Riva (1 episode, 1990), Arnold Schwarzenegger (1 episode, 1990), Peter S Seaman (1 episode, 1990), Jack Sholder (1 episode, 1990), Jim Simpson (1 episode, 1990), Chris Walas (1 episode, 1990), Manny Coto (1 episode, 1991), Steven E de Souza (1 episode, 1991), Michael J Fox (1 episode, 1991), Todd Holland (1 episode, 1991), Tobe Hooper (1 episode, 1991), Tom Mankiewicz (1 episode, 1991), Michael Thau (1 episode, 1991), Andy Wolk (1 episode, 1991), John Frankenheimer (1 episode, 1992), William Friedkin (1 episode, 1992), Tom Hanks (1 episode, 1992), Robert Longo (1 episode, 1992), Peter Medak (1 episode, 1992), Steve Perry (1 episode, 1992), Joel Silver (1 episode, 1992), Paul Abascal (1 episode, 1993), Jeffrey Boam (1 episode, 1993), Uli Edel (1 episode, 1993), Bob Gale (1 episode, 1993), Kevin Hooks (1 episode, 1993), W Peter Iliff (1 episode, 1993), Kyle MacLachlan (1 episode, 1993), Gregory Widen (1 episode, 1993), Mick Garris (1 episode, 1994), Jonas McCord (1 episode, 1994), Ramón Menéndez (1 episode, 1994), Roland Mesa (1 episode, 1994), Vincent Spano (1 episode, 1994), Martin von Haselberg (1 episode, 1994), John Herzfeld (1 episode, 1995), Larry Wilson (1 episode, 1995), Mandie Fletcher (1 episode, 1996), Freddie Francis (1 episode, 1996), Christopher Hart (1 episode, 1996), Brian Helgeland (1 episode, 1996), Peter Hewitt (1 episode, 1996), Bob Hoskins (1 episode, 1996), Bill Kopp (1 episode, 1996), Peter MacDonald (1 episode, 1996), Andrew Morahan (1 episode, 1996), Thomas E Sanders (1 episode, 1996), James H Spencer (1 episode, 1996), Patrick A Ventura (1 episode, 1996), Robin Bextor (uncredited) (2 episodes, 1996), 1996
Tales of horror based on the gloriously gruesome EC horror comics of the 1950's....
Suspiria, Dario Argento, 1977
A young American dancer travels to Europe to join a famous ballet school. As she arrives, the camera turns to another young woman, who appears to be fleeing from the school. She returns to her apartment where she is gruesomely murdered by a hideous creature. Meanwhile, the young American is trying to settle in at the ballet school, but hears strange noises and is troubled by bizarre occurrences. She eventually discovers that the school is merely...
Inserts, John Byrum, 1975
A young, once-great Hollywood film director refuses to accept changing times during the early 1930s, and confides himself to his decaying mansion to make silent porn flicks....
Phantom of the Paradise, Brian De Palma, 1974
A disfigured musician sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. ...
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Southeast Asia Haze Caused Over 100,000 Deaths, Study Says
By Sara Schonhardt
A study by two U.S. universities estimated that more than 100,000 people in parts of Southeast Asia died prematurely last year from breathing the noxious haze related to fires set to clear land for agriculture.
Researchers from Harvard and Columbia compared the likely health impact of the smoke that spread across much of the region a year ago to 2006, another exceptionally bad year for fires.
Using a complex modeling system, they put the number of smoke-related “excess deaths” from July 2015 through October at 100,300—mostly in Indonesia, the main source of the fires, but also Singapore and Malaysia. That was more than twice the estimate for the same four-month period in 2006.
The study, published Monday in the journal Environmental Research Letters, attributed much of the worsening haze to more fires set to clear peatland—swampy soil that stores carbon and becomes highly combustible when drained to develop lucrative palm-oil and wood-pulp plantations.
In both years, the study found Indonesia’s South Sumatra region contributed more than half of the regionwide haze. Last year, 72% of the fire activity on the island was on peatlands, up from 44% in 2006, it said.
Indonesia’s official death toll from last year’s haze was 19. An estimated half a million people sought medical care for respiratory illnesses on Sumatra and neighboring Kalimantan island alone, out of more than 40 million there exposed to the toxic haze.
Shannon Koplitz, lead author of the study from Harvard’s department of earth and planetary sciences, said the goal of the research was to influence strategies for managing fires and land use to reduce smoke exposure.
“The study tells Indonesia where to focus their efforts to prevent illegal clearing by fires, in order to save lives,” said Joel Schwartz, a researcher from Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health who was involved in the study.
Indonesia has been under domestic and international pressure to tackle the illegal fires and resulting haze, which last year resulted in billions of dollars in economic losses and made it one of the world’s biggest greenhouse-gas emitters.
President Joko Widodo has formed an agency to restore degraded peat and put a moratorium on new peatland development, said Hadi Daryanto, director general of social forestry at the Ministry of Environment and Forestry.
The government has also launched integrated patrols and deployed thousands of firefighters to put out blazes. It has vowed to prosecute those responsible.
“Efforts to handle the forest fires show a decreasing number of hot spots nationally,” Mr. Daryanto said.
The research doesn’t include official data on mortality or actual deaths. It estimated premature death in adults attributed to breathing high levels of carbon-based particulate matter, but didn’t include other hazardous particles, such as cyanide, nitrogen dioxide or other toxic gases.
It also didn’t include children, who doctors say are more vulnerable to the effects of haze, or the long-term impact of repeated exposure.
PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Arzaghi, Mohammed and Henderson, J. Vernon (2005) Why countries are fiscally decentralizing. Journal of Public Economics, 89 (7). pp. 1157-1189. ISSN 0047-2727
Black, Duncan and Henderson, Vernon (2003) Urban evolution in the USA. Journal of Economic Geography, 3 (4). pp. 343-373. ISSN 1468-2702
Cooper, Zack, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon and McGuire, Alistair (2012) Does competition improve public hospitals’ efficiency?: evidence from a quasi-experiment in the English National Health Service. CEPDP (1125). Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Cooper, Zack, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon and McGuire, Alistair (2010) Does hospital competition improve efficiency? An analysis of the recent market-based reforms to the English NHS. CEP discussion papers (988). Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Cooper, Zack, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon and McGuire, Alistair (2010) Does hospital competition save lives? Evidence from the English NHS patient choice reforms. LSE Health working papers (16/2010). LSE Health, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. ISBN 9780853280095
Cooper, Zack, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon and McGuire, Alistair (2011) Does hospital competition save lives? Evidence from the English NHS patient choice reforms. Economic Journal, 121 (554). F228-F260. ISSN 0013-0133
Davis, James C. and Henderson, J. Vernon (2008) The agglomeration of headquarters. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 38 (5). pp. 445-460. ISSN 0166-0462
Faggio, Giulia, Silva, Olmo and Strange, William C. (2014) Heterogeneous agglomeration. SERC Discussion Papers (SERCDP0152). Spatial Economics Research Centre (SERC), London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Fainstein, Susan, Gordon, Ian R. and Harlow, Michael (2011) Ups and downs in the global city: London and New York In the 21st century. In: Bridge, Gary and Watson, Sophie, (eds.) New Blackwell Companion to the City. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, pp. 38-47. ISBN 9781405189811
Gibbons, Stephen, McNally, Sandra and Viarengo, Martina (2011) Does additional spending help urban schools? An evaluation using boundary discontinuities. SERC discussion paper (SERCDP0090). Spacial Economics Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Gibbons, Stephen, McNally, Sandra and Viarengo, Martina (2011) Does additional spending help urban schools? An evaluation using boundary discontinuities. CEP discussion paper (CEEDP0128). Centre for the Economics of Education, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Gibbons, Stephen, McNally, Sandra and Viarengo, Martina (2012) Does additional spending help urban schools?: an evaluation using boundary discontinuities. IZA discussion paper (6281). Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany.
Gibbons, Stephen, Overman, Henry G. and Patacchini, Eleonora (2015) Spatial methods. In: Duranton, Gilles, Henderson, J. Vernon and Strange, William C., (eds.) Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics. North-Holland, Amsterdam, pp. 115-168. ISBN 9780444595171
Gibbons, Stephen and Vignoles, Anna (2009) Access, choice and participation in higher education. CEE Discussion Papers (CEEDP0101). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Gibbons, Stephen and Vignoles, Anna (2012) Geography, choice and participation in higher education in England. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 42 (1-2). pp. 98-113. ISSN 0166-0462
Glaeser, Edward and Henderson, J. Vernon (2017) Urban economics for the developing world: an introduction. Journal of Urban Economics, 98. pp. 1-5. ISSN 0094-1190
Gordon, Ian R. (2006) How should we write about London?: the Working Capital view. City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action, 10 (2). pp. 185-196. ISSN 1360-4813
Gornostaeva, Galina and Brunet, Johanne (2009) Internationalization of the production process in the US film industry: the case of the United Kingdom. International Journal of Arts Management, 12 (1). pp. 21-30. ISSN 1480-8986
Henderson, J. Vernon (2010) Cities and development. Journal of Regional Science, 50 (1). pp. 515-540. ISSN 0022-4146
Henderson, J. Vernon and Ono, Yukako (2008) Where do manufacturing firms locate their headquarters? Journal of Urban Economics, 63 (2). pp. 431-450. ISSN 0094-1190
Henderson, J. Vernon and Wang, Hyoung Gun (2005) Aspects of the rural-urban transformation of countries. Journal of Economic Geography, 5 (1). pp. 23-42. ISSN 1468-2702
Henderson, J. Vernon and Wang, Hyoung Gun (2007) Urbanization and city growth: the role of institutions. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 37 (3). pp. 283-313. ISSN 0166-0462
Kemeny, Thomas (2013) Immigrant diversity and economic development in cities: a critical review. SERC Discussion Papers (SERCDP0149). Spatial Economics Research Centre (SERC), London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Li, Bingqin, Duda, Mark and An, Xiangsheng (2009) Drivers of housing choice among rural-to-urban migrants: evidence from Taiyuan. Journal of Asian Public Policy, 2 (2). pp. 142-156. ISSN 1751-6242
Monte, Ferninando, Redding, Stephen J. and Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban (2015) Commuting, migration and local employment elasticities. CEP Discussion Paper (1385). Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Overman, Henry G. and Venables, Anthony J. (2005) Cities in the developing world. CEPDP (695). Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. ISBN 0753018756
Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés (2011) Economists as geographers and geographers as something else: on the changing conception of distance in geography and economics. Journal of Economic Geography, 11 (2). pp. 347-356. ISSN 1468-2702
Shami, Mahvish (2012) Collective action, clientelism, and connectivity. American Political Science Review, 106 (3). pp. 588-606. ISSN 0003-0554
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Nurburgring Race Track to File for Bankruptcy
Earnings/Financial
The German state of Rhineland-Palatinate has reported that the Nurburgring race track will file for bankruptcy, a development I bet no one in North America saw coming. How could a race track as renowned as the Nurburgring go bankrupt?
The race track is like any other business in Germany — it has to make a profit to stay operational. Apparently, it fell into financial trouble due to a dispute with the track’s operator over leasing fees. Rhineland-Palatinate, which has a 90 percent ownership, did try to restructure the company with the help of a bridge financing package but failed because the European Commission apparently took too long to approve a rescue package.
The Nurburgring has become an icon in the enthusiast world, so we wouldn’t want to see it go.
Reference: Automotive News
Related Topics:Nurburgring
GM Posts Record $9.7 Billion Profit in 2015
Once struggling General Motors has posted a record profit of $9.7 billion in 2015.
That figure is significantly higher than the 2.8 billion income the automaker earned in2014, even though both years included financial setbacks associated with the ignition-switch defect. GM CEO Mary Barra stated:
“It was a strong year on many fronts, capped with record sales and earnings, and a substantial return of capital to our shareholders.”
The company achieved a full-year EBIT-adjusted profit of $11 billion and a margin of 10.3 percent in North America — a record on both counts — but lost money in Europe, although not as much as in 2014. The Chinese market continues to be a boon, bringing in a total of $2.1 billion in equity income.
The company plans to pay its eligible North America unionized hourly employees up to $11,000 in accordance to the profit-sharing agreement established during the 2008-2009 industry crisis. Barra added:
“We believe the opportunities this will create in connectivity, autonomous, car-sharing and electrification will set the stage for driving value for our owners for years to come.”
Interestingly, GM’s cash flow and liquidity dropped. Q4 2015 cash flow was $2.2 billion compared to $3.8 billion in Q4 2014, while total automotive liquidity in 2015 was $20.3 billion compared to $25.2 billion prior.
Regardless, there is no doubt that GM is healthier than it has ever been in decades. With the new Chevrolet Volt and $30,000 Bolt EV now on the market, it will be interesting to see how much better it performs in the coming years.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Spins Off Ferrari into Own Corporation
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) has announced plans to spin off its Ferrari division into a separate corporation in an effort to raise more money. The announcement follows shortly after long-time Ferrari chairman Luca di Montezemolo resigned from his post following an apparent dispute with FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne over the long-term plans for the Italian luxury marque.
The move is being described as an investment strategy and calls for 10 percent of Ferrari’s shares to be sold off, with the remaining 90 percent being split among existing FCA shareholders. The shares will be listed on US exchanges and possibly in Europe.
MUST READ: Ferrari Chairman Quits After a Dispute with Marchionne
“As we move forward to secure the 2014-2018 Business Plan and work toward maximizing the value of our businesses to our shareholders, it is proper that we pursue separate paths for FCA and Ferrari,” FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne stated in a press release.
The money obtained from the shares will go into FCA’s ambitious $61 billion growth plan, which calls for the introduction of a slew of products spanning the lineups of Ferrari, Maserati, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram.
FCA chairman John Elkann is adamant that “the separation of Ferrari will preserve the cherished Italian heritage and unique position of the Ferrari business and allow FCA shareholders to continue to benefit from the substantial value inherent in this business.”
Ferrari’s spin-off from FCA will be completed in 2015. Do you think it is a smart move?
Tiny Porsche Made More Money in 2013 than Most Automakers
While most automakers are still reeling from the effects of the global financial and Euro crises, Porsche continues to do business as if nothing happened. The tiny German had a banner year in 2013, raking in record deliveries, revenues and profits.
Porsche delivered 162,145 vehicles worldwide during fiscal year 2013, representing a 15 percent improvement over 2012’s results and the best sales performance in the company’s long history. Thanks to those deliveries, revenue increased 3 percent to 14.3 billion euros ($19.9 billion), while profits jumped 6 percent to 2.58 billion euro ($3.59 billion).
Related story: New Porsche Macan Compact SUV, Pictures and Details
Despite being a low volume automaker, the German company made more money in 2013 than almost all automakers with sales of over 1 million units. It made more than Chrysler, loss-making Fiat and PSA, Renault, and almost as much as the world’s second largest carmaker, General Motors.
In fact, Porsche enjoyed an operating margin of 18 percent during 2013, which means it made on average about $23,200 on every car sold. This explains why it made so much money with so few sales, while the aforementioned large automakers — with their much, much lower margins — made so little on their large volumes.
Company CEO Matthias Müller predicts another record year for 2014, stating in a press release “This positive trend will intensify in the course of 2014 and the market launch of the Macan in April will further increase the company’s sales.”
To fuel that strong growth, Porsche now employs 19,456 workers globally, its highest level ever.
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St. Lucia opens embassy in Taiwan; first in Asia
St. Lucia Prime Minister Kenny Anthony (left) and Foreign Minister David Lin.
Taipei, June 4 (CNA) St. Lucia opened an embassy in Taiwan Thursday, the Caribbean country's first in Asia, in an effort to strengthen bilateral ties.
The inauguration ceremony was presided over by St. Lucia Prime Minister Kenny Anthony, who is on a visit to Taiwan this week.
The ceremony was also attended by St. Lucia's Minister for External Affairs, International Trade and Civil Aviation Alva Baptiste, Permanent Representative of Saint Lucia to the United Nations Menissa Rambally, and other St. Lucian officials.
Also present were Taiwan's Foreign Minister David Lin (林永樂), Taiwan's ambassador to St. Lucia James Chang (章計平) and other Taiwanese foreign affairs officials.
"We've decided to strengthen our bilateral relations," Baptiste said at a reception marking the opening of the embassy.
This is the first time St. Lucia has established an embassy in Taiwan.
The Republic of China and St. Lucia have maintained close cooperation in public health, education, infrastructure and culture since the two countries resumed diplomatic relations in 2007 following a 10-year hiatus.
The two sides first established diplomatic ties in 1984, but St. Lucia switched its recognition to the People's Republic of China in 1997.
Of Taiwan's 22 diplomatic allies, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is now the only one not to have set up an embassy here.
(By Elaine Hou)
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