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Bibi Goes There: Compares Militant Islam With Nazis
Monday during his United Nations address, the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu compared the "militant Islam" ideology of terrorist groups like ISIS and Hamas killing for a "master faith" to the Nazis goal of a "master race." Netanyahu said, "Militant Islam's mission to dominate the world seems mad. But so too did the global ambitions of another fanatic ideology that swept into power eight decades ago" The Nazis believed in a master race militant islamist believe in a master faith they just disagree who among them will be the master of the master faith thats what they truly disagree on. Therefore the question before us is whether militant Islam will have the power to realize it's unbridled ambitions."PLEASE! Can't we elect him President of the United States? If we can have a Kenyan, why not an Israeli? Transcript below the fold.
PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: Thank you, Mr. President. Distinguished delegates, I come here from Jerusalem to speak on behalf of my people, the people of Israel. I've come here to speak about the dangers we face and about the opportunities we seek. I've come here to expose the brazen lies spoken from this very podium against my country and against the brave soldiers who defend it. Ladies and gentlemen, the people of Israel pray for peace, but our hopes and the world's hopes for peace are in danger because everywhere we look militant Islam is on the march. It's not militants. It's not Islam. It's militant Islam. And typically its first victims are other Muslims, but it spares no one: Christians, Jews, Yazidis, Kurds. No creed, no faith, no ethnic group is beyond its sights. And it's rapidly spreading in every part of the world. You know the famous American saying, all politics is local? For the militant Islamists, all politics is global, because their ultimate goal is to dominate the world. Now, that threat might seem exaggerated to some since it starts out small, like a cancer that attacks a particular part of the body. But left unchecked, the cancer grows, metastasizing over wider and wider areas. To protect the peace and security of the world, we must remove this cancer before it's too late. Last week, many of the countries represented here rightly applauded President Obama for leading the effort to confront ISIS, and yet weeks before, some of these same countries, the same countries that now support confronting ISIS, opposed Israel for confronting Hamas. They evidently don't understand that ISIS and Hamas are branches of the same poisonous tree. ISIS and Hamas share a fanatical creed, which they both seek to impose well beyond the territory under their control. Listen to ISIS' self-declared caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. This is what he said two months ago: A day will soon come when the Muslim will walk everywhere as a master. The Muslims will cause the world to hear and understand the meaning of terrorism and destroy the idol of democracy. Now listen to Khaled Mashal, the leader of Hamas. He proclaims a similar vision of the future: We say this to the West -- by Allah you will be defeated. Tomorrow our nation will sit on the throne of the world. As Hamas' charter makes clear, Hamas' immediate goal is to destroy Israel, but Hamas has a broader objective. They also want a caliphate. Hamas shares the global ambitions of its fellow militant Islamists, and that's why its supporters wildly cheered in the streets of Gaza as thousands of Americans were murdered in 9/11, and that's why its leaders condemn the United States for killing Osama bin Laden whom they praised as a holy warrior. So when it comes to their ultimate goals, Hamas is ISIS and ISIS is Hamas. And what they share in common all militant Islamists share in common. Boko Haram in Nigeria, Al-Shabab in Somalia, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Al-Nusra in Syria, the Mahdi army in Iraq, and the Al-Qaida branches in Yemen, Libya, the Philippines, India and elsewhere. Some are radical Sunnis, some are radical Shiites, some want to restore a pre-medieval caliphate from the seventh century, others want to trigger the apocalyptic return of an imam from the ninth century. They operate in different lands, they target different victims and they even kill each other in their battle for supremacy. But they all share a fanatic ideology. They all seek to create ever-expanding enclaves of militant Islam where there is no freedom and no tolerance, where women are treated as chattel, Christians are decimated and minorities are subjugated, sometimes given the stark choice, convert or die. For them, anyone can be considered an infidel, including fellow Muslims. Ladies and gentlemen, militant Islam's ambition to dominate the world seems mad, but so too did the global ambitions of another fanatic ideology that swept into power eight decades ago. The Nazis believed in a master race. The militant Islamists believe in a master faith. They just disagree who among them will be the master of the master faith. That's what they truly disagree about. And therefore, the question before us is whether militant Islam will have the power to realize its unbridled ambitions. There is one place where that could soon happen -- the Islamic State of Iran. For 35 years, Iran has relentlessly pursued the global mission which was set forth by its founding ruler, Ayatollah Khomeini, in these words. "We will export our revolution to the entire world until the cry 'there is no god but Allah' will echo throughout the world over." And ever since, the regime's brutal enforcers, Iran's revolutionary guards, have done exactly that. Listen to its current commander, General Mohammad Ali Jafari. And he clearly stated his goal. He said "Our imam did not limit the Islamic revolution to this country, our duty is to prepare the way for an Islamic world government." Iran's President Rohani stood here last week and shed crocodile tears over what he called the globalization of terrorism. Maybe he should spare us those phony tears and have a word instead with the commanders of Iran's revolutionary guards. He could ask them to call off Iran's global terror campaign, which has included attacks in two dozen countries on five continents since 2011 alone. You know, to say that Iran doesn't practice terrorism is like saying Derek Jeter never played shortstop for the New York Yankees. This is -- this bemoaning by the Iranian president of the spread of terrorism has got to be one of history's greatest displays of doubletalk. Now, some argue that Iran's global terror campaign, its subversion of countries throughout the Middle East and well beyond the Middle East, some argue that this is the work of the extremists. They say things are changing. They point to last year's election in Iran. They claim that Iran's smooth-talking president and foreign minister, they've changed not only the tone of Iran's foreign policy but also its substance. They believe that Rohani and Zarif (generally/genuinely ?) want to reconcile with the West, that they've abandoned the global mission of the Islamic Revolution. Really? So let's look at what Foreign Minister Zarif wrote in his book just a few years ago: We have a fundamental problem with the West, and especially with America. This is because we are heirs to a global mission which is tied to our raison d'ętre, a global mission which is tied to our very reason for being. And then Zarif asks a question -- I think an interesting one. He says: How come Malaysia -- he's referring to an overwhelmingly Muslim country -- how come Malaysia doesn't have similar problems? And he answers: Because Malaysia is not trying to change the international order. That's your moderate. So don't be fooled by Iran's manipulative charm offensive. It's designed for one purpose and for one purpose only: to lift the sanctions and remove the obstacles to Iran's path to the bomb. The Islamic Republic is now trying to bamboozle its way to an agreement that will remove the sanctions it still faces and leave it with a capacity of thousands of refugees -- of centrifuges, rather -- to enrich uranium. This would effectively cement Iran's place as a threshold military nuclear power. And in the future, at the time of its choosing, Iran, the world's most dangerous regime, in the world's most dangerous region, would obtain the world's most dangerous weapons. Allowing that to happen would pose the gravest threat to us all. It's one thing to confront militant Islamists on pickup trucks armed with Kalashnikov rifles. It's another thing to confront militant Islamists armed with weapons of mass destruction. I remember that last year, everyone here was rightly concerned about the chemical weapons in Syria, including the possibility that they would fall into the hands of terrorists. Well, that didn't happen, and President Obama deserves great credit for leading the diplomatic effort to dismantle virtually all of Syria's chemical weapons capability. Imagine how much more dangerous the Islamic State, ISIS, would be if it possessed chemical weapons. Now imagine how much more dangerous the Islamic state of Iran would be if it possessed nuclear weapons. Ladies and gentlemen, would you let ISIS enrich uranium? Would you let ISIS build a heavy water reactor? Would you let ISIS develop intercontinental ballistic missiles? Of course you wouldn't. Then you mustn't let the Islamic state of Iran do those things either, because here's what will happen. Once Iran produces atomic bombs, all the charms and all the smiles will suddenly disappear. They'll just vanish. And it's then that the ayatollahs will show their true face and unleash their aggressive fanaticism on the entire world. There's only one responsible course of action to address this threat. Iran's nuclear military capabilities must be fully dismantled. (Applause.) Make no mistake: ISIS must be defeated. But to defeat ISIS and leave Iran as a threshold nuclear power is to win the battle and lose the war. (Applause.) To defeat ISIS and leave Iran as a threshold nuclear power is to win the battle and lose the war. Ladies and gentlemen, the fight against militant Islam is indivisible. When militant Islam succeeds anywhere, it's emboldened everywhere. When it suffers a blow in one place, it's set back in every place. That's why Israel's fight against Hamas is not just our fight, it's your fight. Israel is fighting a fanaticism today that your countries may be forced to fight tomorrow. For 50 days this past summer Hamas fired thousands of rockets at Israel, many of them supplied by Iran. I want you to think about what your countries would do if thousands of rockets were fired at your cities. Imagine millions of your citizens having seconds at most to scramble to bomb shelters day after day. You wouldn't let terrorists fire rockets at your cities with impunity, nor would you let terrorists dig dozens of terror tunnels under your borders to infiltrate your towns in order to murder and kidnap your citizens. Israel justly defended itself against both rocket attacks and terror tunnels. (Applause.) Yet Israel faced another challenge. We faced a propaganda war because in an attempt to win the world sympathy, Hamas cynically used Palestinian civilians as human shields. It used schools -- not just schools; UN schools -- private homes, mosques, even hospitals to store and fire rockets at Israel. As Israel surgically struck at the rocket launchers and at the tunnels, Palestinian civilians were tragically but unintentionally killed. There are heartrending images that resulted, and these fueled libelous charges that Israel was deliberately targeting civilians. We were not. We deeply regret every single civilian casualties. And the truth is this: Israel was doing everything to minimize Palestinian civilian casualties. Hamas was doing everything to maximize Israeli civilian casualties and Palestinian civilian casualties. Israel dropped flyers, made phone calls, sent text messages, broadcast warnings in Arabic on Palestinian television, all this to enable Palestinian civilians to evaluate targeted areas. No other country and no other army in history have gone to greater lengths to avoid casualties among the civilian population of their enemies. (Applause.) Now, this concern for Palestinian life was all the more remarkable given that Israeli civilians were being bombarded by rockets day after day, night after night. And as their families were being rocketed by Hamas, Israel's citizen army, the brave soldiers of the IDF, our young boys and girls, they upheld the highest moral values of any army in the world. (Applause.) Israel's soldiers deserve not condemnation but admiration, admiration from decent people everywhere. (Applause.) Now, here is what Hamas did. Here is what Hamas did. Hamas embedded its missile batteries in residential areas and told Palestinians to ignore Israel's warnings to leave. And just in case people didn't get the message, they executed Palestinian civilians in Gaza who dared to protest. And no less reprehensible, Hamas deliberately placed its rockets where Palestinian children live and play. Let me show you a photograph. It was taken by a France 24 crew during the recent conflict. It shows two Hamas rocket launchers, which were used to attack us. You see three children playing next to them. Hamas deliberately put its rockets in hundreds of residential areas like this -- hundreds of them. Ladies and gentlemen, this is a war crime. And I say to President Abbas, these are the crimes, the war crimes, committed by your Hamas partners in the national unity government which you head and you are responsible for. And these are the real war crimes you should have investigated or spoken out against from this podium last week. (Applause.) Ladies and gentlemen, as Israel's children huddle in bomb shelters and Israel's Iron Dome missile defense knocked Hamas rockets out of the sky, the profound moral difference between Israel and Hamas couldn't have been clearer. Israel was using its missiles to protect its children. Hamas was using its children to protect its missiles. (Applause.) By investigating Israel rather than Hamas for war crimes, the UN Human Rights Council has betrayed its noble mission to protect the innocent. In fact, what it's doing is to turn the laws of war upside down. Israel, which took unprecedented steps to minimize civilian casualties -- Israel is condemned. Hamas, which both targeted and hid behind civilians -- that's a double war crime -- Hamas is given a pass. The Human Rights Council is thus sending a clear message to terrorists everywhere: Use civilians as a human shield. Use them again and again and again. And you know why? Because, sadly, it works. By granting international legitimacy to the use of human shields, the UN Human Rights Council has thus become a terrorist rights council, and it will have repercussions -- it probably already has -- about the use of civilians as human shields. It's not just our interests. It's not just our values that are under attack. It's your interests and your values. Ladies and gentlemen, we live in a world steeped in tyranny and terror where gays are hanged from cranes in Tehran, political prisoners are executed in Gaza, young girls are abducted en masse in Nigeria, and hundreds of thousands are butchered in Syria, Libya and Iraq, yet nearly half -- nearly half of the UN Human Rights Council's resolutions focusing on a single country have been directed against Israel, the one true democracy in the Middle East; Israel, where issues are openly debated in a boisterous parliament, where human rights are protected by the -- by independent courts, and where women, gays and minorities live in a genuinely free society. The human rights -- that's an oxymoron, the human -- UN Human Rights Council, but I'll use it just the same. The council's biased treatment of Israel is only one manifestation of the return of one of the world's largest prejudices. We hear mobs today in Europe call for the gassing of Jews. We hear some national leaders compare Israel to the Nazis. This is not a function of Israel's policies. It's a function of diseased minds. and that disease has a name. It's called anti-Semitism. It is now spreading in polite society where it masquerades as legitimate criticism of Israel. For centuries the Jewish people have been demonized with blood libels and charges of deicide. Today the Jewish state is demonized with the apartheid libel and charges of genocide -- genocide. In what moral universe does genocide include warning the enemy civilian population to get out of harm's way, or ensuring that they receive tons -- tons of humanitarian aid each day even as thousands of rockets are being fired at us, or setting up a field hospital to aid their wounded? Well, I suppose it's the same moral universe where a man who wrote a dissertation of lies about the Holocaust and who insists on a Palestine free of Jews -- Judenrein -- can stand at this podium and shamelessly accuse Israel of genocide and ethnic cleansing. In the past, outrageous lies against the Jews were the precursors to the wholesale slaughter of our people, but no more. Today, we, the Jewish people, have the power to defend ourselves. We will defend ourselves against our enemies on the battlefield -- (applause) -- we will expose their lies against us in the court of public opinion. Israel will continue to stand proud and unbowed. (Applause.) Ladies and gentlemen, despite the enormous challenges facing Israel, I believe we have a historic opportunity. After decades of seeing Israel as their enemy, leading states in the Arab world increasingly recognize that together, we and they face many of the same dangers, and principally, this means a nuclear-armed Iran and militant Islamist movements gaining ground in the Sunni world. Our challenge is to transform these common interests to create a productive partnership, one that would build a more secure, peaceful and prosperous Middle East. Together, we can strengthen regional security, we can advance projects in water and agricultural, in transportation and health and energy in so many fields. I believe the partnership between us can also help facilitate peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Now, many have long assumed that an Israeli-Palestinian peace can help facilitate a broader rapprochement between Israel and the Arab world. But these days, I think it may work the other way around, namely that a broader rapprochement between Israel and the Arab world may help facilitate an Israeli-Palestinian peace. And therefore, to achieve that peace, we must look not only to Jerusalem and Ramallah but also to Cairo, to Amman, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh and elsewhere. I believe peace can be realized with the active involvement of Arab countries -- those that are willing to provide political, material and other indispensable support. I'm ready to make a historic compromise, not because Israel occupies a foreign land. The people of Israel are not occupiers in the land of Israel. (Applause.) History, archaeology and common sense all make clear that we have had a singular attachment to this land for over 3,000 years. I want peace because I want to create a better future for my people, but it must be a genuine peace -- one that is anchored in mutual recognition and enduring security arrangements -- rock solid security arrangements on the ground, because you see, Israeli withdrawals from Lebanon and Gaza created two militant Islamic enclaves on our borders for which tens of thousands of rockets have been fired at Israel, and these sobering experiences heightens Israel's security concerns (regarding ?) potential territorial concessions in the future. Now, those security concerns are even greater today. Just look around you. The Middle East is in chaos, states are disintegrating, and militant Islamists are filling the void. Israel cannot have territories from which it withdraws taken over by Islamic militants yet again, as happened in Gaza and Lebanon. That would place the likes of ISIS within mortar range, a few miles, of 80 percent of our population. Now think about that. The distance between the 1967 lines and the suburbs of Tel Aviv is like the distance between the UN building here and Times Square. Israel is a tiny country. That's why in any peace agreement, which will obviously necessitate a territorial compromise, I will always insist that Israel be able to defend itself by itself against any threat. (Applause.) And yet despite everything that has happened, some still don't take Israel's security concerns seriously. But I do and I always will -- (applause) -- because as prime minister of Israel, I'm entrusted with the awesome responsibility of ensuring the future of the Jewish people and the future of the Jewish state. And no matter what pressure is brought to bear, I will never waiver in fulfilling that responsibility. (Applause.) I believe that with a fresh approach from our neighbors, we can advance peace despite the difficulties we face. See, in Israel, we have a record of making the impossible possible. We've made a desolate land flourish, and with very few natural resources, we've used the fertile minds of our people to turn Israel into a global center of technology and innovation, and peace, of course, would enable Israel to realize its full potential and to bring a promising future not only for our people, not only for the Palestinian people, but for many, many others in our region. But the old template for peace must be updated. It must take into account new realities and new roles and responsibilities for our Arab neighbors. Ladies and gentlemen, there is a new Middle East. It presents new dangers but also new opportunities. Israel is prepared to work with Arab partners and the international community to confront those dangers and to seize those opportunities. Together, we must recognize the global threat of militant Islam, the primacy of dismantling Iran's nuclear weapons capability and the indispensable role of Arab states in advancing peace with the Palestinians. All this may fly in the face of conventional wisdom, but it's the truth, and the truth must always be spoken, especially here in the United Nations. (Applause.) Isaiah, our great prophet of peace, taught us nearly 3,000 years ago in Jerusalem to speak truth to power. (Speaks in Hebrew.) For the sake of Zion, I will not be silent, for the sake of Jerusalem, I will not be still until her justice shines bright and her salvation glows like a flaming torch. Ladies and gentlemen, let us light a torch of truth and justice to safeguard our common future. Thank you.Transcript from Haaretz.
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1 Yeeeeeee. Haaaaaw!
And why shouldn't Netanyahu make the comparison? The entire Leftist/Jihadist horde has made the Nazi/Israel connection incessantly during the last few years. Boy those Joooooz are so clever. Not one train loaded with rounded-up people on their way to be incinerated has been detected.
Netanyahu's comparison is simply the truth. It's a good thing he said it that cesspool of the UN.
And why shouldn't Netanyahu make the comparison? The entire Leftist/Jihadist horde has made the Nazi/Israel connection incessantly during the last few years. Boy those Joooooz are so clever. Not one train loaded with rounded-up people on their way to be incinerated has been detected.
Netanyahu's comparison is simply the truth. It's a good thing he said it that cesspool of the UN.
Posted by: LarDog at September 29, 2014 04:23 PM
2 Considering netanyahu crooked past and present he better hope know one compares him to past crooks!
Posted by: captain*arizona at September 29, 2014 05:27 PM
3 Great speech -w/o a teleprompter.
Posted by: Bubbe at September 29, 2014 05:37 PM
4 He doesn't play the political correctness game and it is a beautiful thing. What would happen if politicians simply told the truth and called them like they saw them without endlessly worrying whose feelings might get hurt or who might get pissed off. It would be a much less tangled world out there...
Posted by: Frustrated Teacher at September 29, 2014 10:58 PM
5 Bibi for Emperor of the Universe!
Posted by: shadowman at September 30, 2014 05:11 PM
6 John Lennon song?
Every bodies talking about NAZIS, nazi's, nazi's billy is nazi, susy is a nazi allah is a nazi Bi Bi is a nazi, Bush is a nazi, Obama is a nazi everyones a nazi, all we are saying is give peace a chance.
Every bodies talking about NAZIS, nazi's, nazi's billy is nazi, susy is a nazi allah is a nazi Bi Bi is a nazi, Bush is a nazi, Obama is a nazi everyones a nazi, all we are saying is give peace a chance.
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When I drank I bizarrely almost exclusive drank beer; there are some awful incidents involving vodka that meant I thought it best I avoid shorts and stick to beer only. That was "sensible". I almost exclusively drank in pubs - because that gave my drinking an air of "acceptability", it was "social", also it oddly hid my drinking, by moving from pub to pub through the day I looked like a guy in a suit having a couple at lunchtime, on his way home, after work, in the evening. If I'd have drunk at home my family would have rumbled me not that frankly the whole world didn't know about it really I was frankly deluding myself about the "normality" and the "hidden" nature of my alcohol abuse. On reflection in rehab I realised what a twit I'd been, if I'd have bought a bottle of vodka or two a day from the supermarket I'd have saved myself thousands of pounds over the years! (I don't recommend that course frankly!)
So for years I paid well over the minimum per unit amounts considered currently a deterrent and I gladly did that for all the reasons above and more. I was lucky I held down a good job which meant I had the money but I'd have found the funds somehow and/or changed how, what and when I drank if the money hadn't have been there. How many alcoholics do I know with similar stories? More numerous than I can count often involving "just buying a half bottle in the morning - only to buy another by lunchtime" or "I'd get 6 cans on the way home - only to have to stagger out late to get another 6"... you get the picture. We all have the same issue. Once we start drinking a craving is initiated in us that can only be sedated with more alcohol no matter how good or noble our intentions initially were.
For me these days the minimum price is clearly not an issue - I don't buy alcohol! But with all this hoohah with it I'll return to those stats with interest in a couple of years to come. Do you think really that our purchases will be any closer to our disclosures? Or that the deaths due to alcohol will have stopped rising from 8,700 a year? I doubt it frankly - drinking for alcoholics isn't a fiscal issue.


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Friday, September 17, 1999 Published at 14:55 GMT 15:55 UK
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Poland remembers Katyn dead
Russia's Katyn forest houses the graves of 4,400 Polish officers
By Mary Sobirski in Warsaw
President Aleksander Kwasniewski has paid tribute to those he described as the martyrs of Polish history - thousands of Polish officers massacred by the Soviets some time in 1940.
The speech was the focal point of ceremonies commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland.
President Kwasniewski's visit to the Russian forest of Katyn near Smolensk where 4,400 officers are buried, took place despite tensions with Moscow.
Remaining silent throughout the solemn ceremony, President Kwasniewski laid a wreath of flowers in Poland's national colours of red and white in tribute to the officers.
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Only one official representative of Russian President Boris Yeltsin attended the ceremony in Katyn.
Polish-Russian relations were strained earlier this week when the Russian Foreign Ministry denied that the Soviet Army invaded Poland in 1939.
Instead, it insisted that Soviet forces merely seized territory as a buffer to forestall an attack by Nazi Germany.
The Polish Foreign Ministry rebuked the Russian claim and President Kwasniewski stressed that, 60 years ago, the Soviet invasion of Poland cost untold suffering to millions of Polish civilians. Following their invasion of Poland, the Soviets sent more than 1.5 million Poles to labour camps in Russia and executed at least 15,000 Polish officers.


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Seriously Sony? Your new patent and potential big draw for a new gaming console is the ability to 'tag' a game disc with information such as which consoles the game has been played on, and which user on the PlayStation Network first played it? Information that is going to be recorded so each game disc will require permission to run, and effectively allow you to kill the second hand games market?
Good luck with that.
Patent 20130007892 has the snappy title of 'Electronic content processing system, electronic content processing method, package of electronic content, and use permission apparatus.' Here's the abstract:
A game playing system includes a use permission tag provided for use in a game disk for a user of a game, a disk drive, and a reproduction device for reproducing the game. The disk drive reads out a disk ID from the game disk. When the game is to be played, the reproduction device conveys the disk ID and a player ID to the use permission tag. The use permission tag stores the terms of use of the game and determines whether a combination of the disk ID and the player ID conveyed from the reproduction device fulfils the terms of use or not.
I'm already hesitant to buy second hand games for my PS VIta. I;ve been looking at Lumines a few times, but every time I see it second hand I have to wonder if it's been activated online. If it has, I'm going to need to pay Sony a fee to play online. The majority of online titles need this online pass.
I cna probably pick up Lumines second hand for around £6 in the Uk with a bit of bartering and shopping. Right now, if I look on Amazon the title is £10 new, or £6.80 under New+Used.
If I head to Sony's PSN online store, it costs £29.99... Guess where Sony would like me to buy my games from?
Sony are looking to do an end run around the first sale doctrine. Frankly, I hope it fails, but I worry that Sony, along with Nintendo and Microsoft, are going to bring this in as an industry wide project.
First they came for the second hand shelf in Game. Then they came for Game. Then everything will go 100% digital. And then there will be no market, no competition, no trading, no exchanging... and likely even lower sales of games and even more draconian measures targeted on the honest gamer's wallet.


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New Delhi [India], Mar. 29 : India's 'star serial entrepreneur' Sandeep Aggarwal announced plans of investing Rs. 20 Crore in up to 12 start-ups by the end of this year, in the areas of healthcare, tech and retail.
Aggarwal, who is the Founder of ShopClues and Droom, has already invested in seven start-ups across various industry verticals and is looking to further expand his investment portfolio by entering the data science app development arena as well.
Dekoruma, Wydr, Shopsity, Data Guise, Give Club, Duriana and Curo Healthcare have all received funding during the past few months. While Wydr, Shopsity and Curo Healthcare are Indian companies, the rest mostly belong to South East Asian markets and the Silicon Valley.
He is also looking to invest more in business ideas emerging in Tier II and Tier III cities in India to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation in these areas.
"As an early-stage entrepreneur, I often felt helpless myself at the lack of funding and mentorship during the most crucial phases of my business. I have always strived to provide young entrepreneurs the necessary resources and guidance required to let them realise their vision. This year, too, will be no different and I will ensure in my personal capacity that no great idea is nipped in the bud due to lack of capital or the right guidance," said Aggarwal.
The serial investor has time and again stressed on the extremely important role technology plays in businesses of today and highly regards the possibilities of a tech-driven business to turn big. High-energy, passion, long-term vision, ability to take risks, the art of prioritisation and austerity along with the ability to implement technology well are some of the attributes Sandeep believes to be important for entrepreneurial success. (ANI)


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All week we're going to be looking at people, companies, and organizations who dominated their sectors in 2016. Other winners: Kairos (tech), Swire and Brickell City Center (real estate)
First ride-hailing companies like Lyft and Uber were zooming around Miami lawlessly. Then they got banned and fined. Then they got un-banned.
This year, after a three-year saga, ride-hailing companies and the county finally figured out how to make it work. That's why we're naming it the biggest transit win of 2016.
Yes, our public transit is slowly getting better, but there are still huge swathes of the county not accessible – and few of them easily accessible – by transit. Ride-hailing has filled a gap that existed between taxis people couldn't afford and the affordable but often tedious or inconvenient public transit.
On May 3, 2016, after a packed, nine-hour county commission meeting, the commissioners voted to legalize the ride-hailing companies in a 9 to 2 vote, ending the standoff with Lyft and Uber.
The compromise was a requirement that ride-hailing companies conduct their own background checks and submit them to the county on request. They also have to provide insurance coverage for a driver when they are driving a passenger. They also don't need a chauffeur's license requirement.
Lyft and Uber were pretty jazzed about it. But taxi companies weren't.
The very next day, they filed a $1 billion lawsuit against Miami-Dade County. The taxi companies say that now the value of their medallions have plunged, and the county owes them the amount they've lost.
But it's not an easy suit to win — a similar one was defeated in a New York court. The suit is still moving through the Miami-Dade County court system. And the county commissioners are pretty set on keeping the ride-hailing companies around.
"We think it's a major step in addressing the transportation needs in our community and in figuring out a way to give folks options without having to take their car on a daily basis," said county commissioner Esteban Bovo, commission chair and chair of the Transit and Mobility Services Committee.
"We're enthusiastic and the board supported it, but there's still an issue with regards to the fines that have not been settled. We hope that's something taken care of in an expedited fashion."
For Lyft and Uber, the demand just continues to grow. Both launched their own shared-ride option this year and Uber also launched Uber Eats, a food delivery service.
For Bovo, next year "priority number one, two, and three is transportation."
"How do we deliver real transportation options in 2017?," he asked. Lyft and Uber are some of those options, but Bovo also stressed that he'd like to strengthen the county's public transit systems.
"[Let's] not talk just talk about it, but actually move the dial on two components: funding and pick one of the 6 corridors on the SMART plans and move on them. Let's talk less and do more in 2017."
The future of ride-hailing and Miami-Dade County is far from smooth sailing. The taxi company's lawsuit is still moving through courts. And Lyft and Uber still have to fight this battle county by county, so they're pushing now on a statewide law that legalizes the ride-hailing services.
Beyond that, both Lyft and Uber are already making plans for rolling out a fleet of self-driving cars. Lyft previously said the first phase of their autonomous vehicles will be available by early next year, nationally, and most of their cars will be driverless in the next five years.
This year Uber put self driving cars on the road in Pittsburgh. They tried to also expand to San Francisco but after an Uber blew through a red light, the California DMV demanded it stop testing out the technology immediately.
We might see some autonomous vehicles on our roads pretty soon because Florida's one of the only states in the country to allow driverless cars on the road, anytime, anywhere.
Bovo also hinted that the mayor's office was in talks with ride-hailing companies to begin rolling out test pilots in Miami-Dade County, but couldn't offer specifics. Neither could Lyft or Uber.
"I'm waiting to see how this gets rolled out. There would have to be some legislation to protect the consumer," he said. "It's a little scary to think how fast the future is upon us but we can't bury head in the sand. We have to embrace it, deal with it, and move on."
Lyft is a sponsor of The New Tropic but was not involved with the planning or production of this story.


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Celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe posted a photo of her two sons – Skyler, 6, and Kaius, 3 — via Instagram.
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Earlier this month, A-listers such as Jessica Alba and Nicole Richie supported Zoe at her SS18 Presentation in West Hollywood.
In July, the celebrity designer posted a photo with her sons in the Hamptons.
In March, we spotted the mom-of-two and her preschooler running errands in Los Angeles.
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A remote controlled dragonfly, a stomach-mounted drill and a camera designed to reduce documents to the size of a full stop. The contents of the CIA museum in Langley, Virginia (home to the CIA headquarters) make fascinatingly odd exhibits, not least because until very recently no one had actually been allowed to see them. The museum is closed to the public, but earlier this month, a selection of its daftest treasures went on display on the agency's Flickr page. Here are some of our favourite devices:
Robot fish 'Charlie'
This Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) was never created to spy directly but used, according to the museum's less-than-helpful captioning, to study "aquatic robot technology". Powered by a propulsion system in its tail, Charlie's controller uses a "wireless line-of-sight radio handset" to steer him. Which sounds like it means they'd need to be in the water themselves anyway. The more I look at this one, the more I'm convinced it's actually just a child's toy.
The pigeon camera
Created by the CIA's Office of Research and Development, this tiny camera was light enough for a pigeon to carry in flight, providing detailed aerial photos of its targets. Training the pigeons was vital. On their first few flights, most birds would return with a film full of soft-focus, black-and-white shots of them and their mates pouting and holding cigarettes.
The modified ladies makeup compact concealment device
A mirror that, when looked at from a certain angle, reveals a top secret code. Which raises some questions: Why didn't spies just learn the codes? Did they really need to revise the codes while doing their makeup? What happened when they had to lend it to a friend who had an eyelash in their eye? Anticipating these queries, the caption helpfully explains: "A code is a system of communication in which symbols represent words."
Seismic intruder detection devices
Cunningly disguised as a stick and a stone that looks like a tiny roast chicken, these are actually sophisticated cold war-era detection devices, capable of alerting their user to the movement of people, animals or objects up to 300 metres away, granting operatives vital seconds to ready themselves for a life-threatening encounter. The stick, or possibly the chicken, relays this information to the user via "coded impulses", a phrase too secret to be explained.


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While it looks like Kobe Bryant will be playing at least two more seasons, the length of his $48.5 million deal, this could be the final NBA season for several of the league's stars.
That group will be headlined with certain Hall of Famers Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett.
Steve Nash should also be on that list while Vince Carter and Andre Miller might be playing their final years too. Ray Allen and Antawn Jamison, both free agents, might give the NBA one more whirl too.
All of that could make for a season filled with plenty of goodbyes.
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There was some thought that the 38-year-old Duncan wouldn't be back at all, but he came back and will earn $10.3 million. He's won five NBA titles, two MVPs, three Finals MVPs and made 14 All-Star teams.
"There was some hesitation there," Duncan told the San Antonio Express-News. "It came down to, I'm not going to be able to do this again. So as long as I'm feeling I can (play), and I feel good about it, this is where I want to be."
Garnett's impact has diminished
Garnett, also 38, came to the NBA straight from high school and became just the fourth guy to play 20 NBA seasons, averaging just 6.6 rebounds and 6.5 points last season for the Brooklyn Nets. He'll make $12 million this season for the team.
"I like to come in each year and assess it," Garnett said Friday at the team's annual media day. "I've always said the days when I'm not feeling basketball again, which is absurd, or when I don't have the motivation to come in here, it's time to move on. But that's not the case. I'm very much motivated. I'm looking to have a better year than last year and I'm looking to enjoy this year."
Nash says he's finished after this year
While some guys are still leaving their options open, the 40-year-old Nash has been clear this will be his final season, making $9.7 million for the Lakers.
"I think this is my last season," Nash told Sport TV in late July. "But I still love to play, practice and work on my game. I'm going to spend hopefully many many years living this life without basketball. It'll be nice to play one more year."
Miller will make $4.6 million this year for the Wizards after the team exercised its option on the backup point guard.
Vince Carter, meanwhile, signed with the Memphis Grizzlies after hitting 20,000 career points last season.
Ray Allen, meanwhile, has talked to several teams but still is reportedly also considering retiring before the season while Antawn Jamison is waiting for his right opportunity to play. He averaged less than 14 per game the past two seasons.
"I still can play," Jamison told the Sporting News. "Hopefully, that call will come, but it's my job right now to make sure I'm ready when it does call. And if it doesn't happen, I'm still going to stay in shape. It's pretty much who I am."


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An Army Veteran, I am currently majoring in Leadership Development, Human Resource Management and Manufacturing Management at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College. I am the President of Leaders in Action, a Vice President in Phi Theta Kappa and a student ambassador. I love going to church and my faith is very important to me. I look forward to serving Wisconsin Student Government as the President for 2016-2017
School: Moraine Park Technical College
Program: Interactive Media
Important Issues: There are numerous important issues facing our elected representatives. It behooves us the make sure our representatives in Madison keep the technical college system in the forefront. Additionally, I think it is critical for the students of the technical college system to identify avenues of entrepreneurship within our areas of study. If we can build our own enterprises we will not be dependent on the economy to provide our livelihood. Where possible, we should encourage our schools to add classes to their curriculum that would promote this way of thinking.
Looking forward to: On a regular basis I interact with politicians on a local level. I am looking forward to building a dialogue with our representatives on the state level.
Degree Program – I graduated in May 2011 with my Network Specialist Degree. I am currently working on programming/administration for the IBM iSeries and a Computer Support Specialist Degree. I plan to graduate in May 2012. I am hoping to find a position where I am the liaison between the end user and the program designer. Traveling would be a bonus!
Important Issues to you – Technical Colleges have never been more important to the State of Wisconsin than they are now. We need to ensure that they have the funding necessary to meet the current and future needs of our students and business partners. The three areas I feel are very important right now are:
Sustainability because if we do not take care of our resources today, there will be none for tomorrow.
Entrepreneurship as every big business began as one person having a dream, setting goals and succeeding.
Service Learning because it is important to give back to our communities both our time and knowledge so that the next generation learns from our successes and our failures.
What are you looking forward to most in your position – I look forward to meeting with legislators to let them know how important the success of our technical college system is to the state of Wisconsin's economy. Technical Colleges touch on every aspect of the working class. They give young students the hands-on training necessary to enter the workforce with real-world skills. They give older, displaced worker students the opportunity to garner new skills in a timely fashion to return to the workforce. Finally, they also offer the opportunity for current workers to take specialized classes needed for them to continue on their career path. As President of WSG, I look forward to being the spokesperson for technical college students throughout the state to present their concerns and goals to leaders in the State of Wisconsin.
Degree Program - Golf Management
Issues Important to me - There are many important issues that the Technical College System faces in a typical year. I plan on making sure that the legislatures in Madison are aware on where we Technical College stand on issues for they are well aware on how we feel on legislation that affects how the Technical Colleges Operate.
What are you looking forward to most in your position- I look forward to representing WSG and building a relationship with our organizations and our state legislatures.
SCHOOL - MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE Program - Liberal Arts
Issues I feel are important - Improving the the Image of the of the Technical College System, Keeping costs affordable for students, Continual integration of technology into the classrooms.
Things I am looking forward to in my new position - I am looking forward to becoming more politically involved in legislative affairs that affect our technical colleges. This year I would like to take a deep look at all new legislation that is being introduced and give our position and input to our legislators. I am also looking forward to promoting important skills, such as leadership that can be used in WSG, local student governments and in the work field.
School - Gateway Technical College Program - Human Services with certification in AODA
Issues I feel are important - For the last 7 years I have advocated for students on many different levelss and issues. My advocacy efforts started when my son was diagnosed with Autism in 2005. I am passionate about education and everyone having an opportunity to continue on after they graduate high school. Students can only do this if the cost of college is kept to a minimum. I believe in the Technical College System and am excited to promote all that our schools have to offer students.
Things I am looking forward to in my position - In this next year I am preparing to build a stronger relationship between Wisconsin Student Government and our state LEgislators. I also hope that as an organization we will not only look at our local issues, but keep an eye on the national issues that will inflence our colleges as well. I am personally delighted and honored to nuture leadership skills; not only in myself but in my peers as well.
School - Gateway Technical College Program - Accounting
Issues I feel are important - Improved articulation agreements between WTCS and UW schools, maintenance of State-sponsored Financial Aid opportunities, more Service Learning opportunities at schools, and improved communication of WTCS-related legislative issues to students.
Things I am looking forward to in my position - In the Vice-President position of WSG, I am looking forward to working with other officers and delegates in WSG to create a mission statement that will encapsulate all that this organization hopes to achieve. I am looking forward to getting to know the diverse members of WSG and learning what the needs of their constituent student population is. I look forward to supporting our newly-elected President, Caroline Russell in the direction she would like to guide the organization. Finally, I look forward to the enhancing the good working relationship our organization has with both the Wisconsin Technical Colleges District Boards Association and the Wisconsin Technical College System Board for the purposes of promoting students' interests.
As the 2012-2013 AFO
Issues I feel are important - Improved credit transfer agreements between WTCS and UW schools, maintenance of State-sponsored Financial Aid opportunities, more Service Learning opportunities at schools, and improved communication of WTCS-related legislative issues to students, exploring and initiating relations with the Tribal Community Colleges in Wisconsin, and continued participation in ASACC-related events and initiatives.
Things I am looking forward to in my position - In the AFO position, I am looking forward to the experience of the process of developing an annual budget. I look forward to getting to know my fellow officers as well as the members of the delegations from around Wisconsin. Finally, I look forward to the wonderful opportunity of advocating the wishes of the WTCS students to state legislators.
My name is Caroline Russell and I am currently a freshmen at Madison College in Madison, WI. I have served on our Student Senate since October and was also Lieutenant Governor until April 13th, 2013 when I was elected President of WSG. I am in the Liberal Arts Transfer major right now at Madison College but I am also a UW-Connections student. I will be transitioning to UW-Madison in the Fall of 2014 and am hoping to obtain my masters in Political Science and Sociology with certificates in German, Macroeconomics and Anthropology by 2017.
As President of WSG I would like to make our wonderful organization into an institutional powerhouse that legislators, local and state, can come to for advice and guidance on issues that are central to our students. I want all of our Governors and Lieutenant Governors to be extremely familiar with their legislators and meet with them often. I also would like us to work more fluidly together in order to achieve the goals we have for each of our individual colleges. Lastly I want to maintain the credibility of our tremendous work by ensuring that the entirety of the state's technical colleges remain an active within this organization; we are stronger together than we would be apart. I am extremely excited to work with my Vice President Mark Short, and all of the Governors and Lieutenant Governors!
WSG Goals: To provide logistical support, facilitate communications and advise WSG members to assure the continued operation and development of WSG as an organization. To work in support of technical college student leaders throughout the state.


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I am going to link up again with Finding Joy In My Kitchen this week. I so look forward to seeing what everyone else has bookmarked this week. Here is my top 5 for the week:
Does that look as good to everyone else as it does to me?
String Beane has a sever milk/dairy allergy so I think these will make him very happy!
This is one of the cutest things I have ever seen! And strawberries were on sale at Food Lion last week ;-)
Yum! That is all I have to say.
Looking at these cookies makes me want to break out the old Buddy Burner from long ago Brownie Scout Days!
I hope I have some time to try some of these soon! They all look so good.


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FPG Director Sam Odom's Statement on Immigration Policy
In this era of "fake news" and "alternative facts," science can reliably inform policy. Child development research advises that a sense of security provided by family and community is fundamental, that socially insecure environments and circumstances can lead to toxic levels of stress, which, in turn, can affect brain architecture and social-emotional development, and that healthy attitudes toward others are built through a history of positive interactions rather than establishing walls of separation.
In U.S. society, our families face political and personal travel restrictions, deportations of mothers and fathers who have lived here since childhood, and implicit attitudes we often do not perceive or acknowledge that hinder the inclusion and acceptance of all children. In this tumultuous time for many children and families, I reiterate FPG's policy of tolerance, acceptance, and inclusion. We remain open to a wide range of perspectives, and we remain committed to the work of supporting all children and families, regardless of how they have arrived at our doorstep.
Sam Odom, director
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


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Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton have performed together several times over the years. They've even toured together.
But in terms of pure entertainment value, I haven't found anything as enjoyable than the clip at the bottom of this story.
It's from the Secret Policeman's Other Ball, a benefit show that took place September 9, 1981, at the Drury Lane Theatre in London. The show was produced by John Cleese of Monty Python and was eventually released as a film and album.
Although Beck and Clapton performed several songs together that day, including "Crossroads," the one performance that has sort of taken on a life of its own—with its nearly 1.3 million-plus plays on YouTube—is their hopping rendition of Bobby "Blue" Bland's "Farther Up the Road."
It finds them trading solos, Clapton on a Strat with his clean late-Seventies sound, Beck playing Seymour Duncan's Telecaster, starting out high on the neck, then launching into a Billy Gibbons-like pinch harmonic. While there's a great deal of tasteful stuff flying off the frets of both veteran players, Clapton's facial expression during Beck's solos sort of says it all.
His reaction is capped off at the 2:29 mark, when he lifts his arm as if to say, "Yeah, that was some pretty cool stuff, folks. I'm as impressed as you are."
Of course, there's more Beck after that; his next solo starts at 3:24. The band is rounded out by Mo Foster on bass and Simon Phillips on drums. Enjoy!
Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck Perform "Farther Up the Road" in 1981
Source: Guitar World


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Jason Stephens
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Jason Stephens is a native Hoosier, born and raised near Muncie, Indiana, where he also received his Bachelor's degree in English from Ball State University. Immediately following college, he served two years as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching English and American History in Far Eastern Russia. He lived in Washington, DC for three years after returning from Russia where, while working in various public relations and lobbying positions, he became involved with the independent theatre and film community of the nation's capital. His experiences brought him back to the Midwest to pursue a Masters degree in Arts Management from Columbia College Chicago. While a graduate student, he founded the non-profit organization Split Pillow to help foster and support local filmmaking. In 2004 the Chicago Tribune named him one of their "Chicagoans of the Year" for "providing a national platform for local talent."
He is currently a full-time lecturer in the Arts, Entertainment and Media Management Department at Columbia College Chicago, specializing in Finance and Entrepreneurship, after spending six years as an adjunct faculty member there and at Tribeca-Flashpoint Media Arts Academy, where he helped to develop and implement their media literacy/ethics/humanities core studies classes. He currently sits on the Board of Kartemquin Films.
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March is finally here!
I know that February is the shortest month of the year, but did anyone else have the feeling that it took forever for March to arrive? Here in New England, March came in like a lion -- with a sprinkling of snow. I am so ready for spring weather, so I'm keeping my chin up and crossing my fingers for warmer temperatures soon! I am seriously daydreaming of laying on the grass in the sunshine with a book and an ice coffee in hand. Spring, please hurry!!
I went to the library this past weekend for the first time in forever, and had great luck in finding a book that has me completely enraptured and reading passages out loud to anyone who will listen. (Hint: You can see what I'm reading by checking out the "Currently Reading" widget on the right-hand side of your screen.)
I have so many awesome books on my shelves right now waiting to be read, so sometimes I think to myself, why am I even looking for new books? My roommate even asked why I was going to the library when I have about ten books stacked on my desk that I haven't gotten to yet. All I can say is, it's an addiction. For this month's currently coveting, I stumbled across three books that are sure to make it into my library stack at some point this year.
The Goddess and the Thief by Essie Fox // This book caught my eye because of its beautiful cover art, but the story inside sounds just as intriguing. Victorian influences, a plot to steal an exotic diamond, and a collection of eccentric characters all under the gem's spell -- it all sounds like a crazy dream, or a twist on The Little Princess.
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller // I'm cheating a bit by putting this one on my list, because it actually is on my shelf already. I picked it up in the bargain section at our university store a week ago to add to my ever-growing stack. It's part apocalypse, part saga, and it made it on to a few of the Goodreads member's 'best books of 2012' lists. From browsing the reviews, it seems like one of those stories that you either fall in love with or completely despise. I'm definitely willing to give it a shot.
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly // You may already have picked up on the fact that I am a fan of fairytales, but if you know me personally then you know that they simply captivate me. I will pick a fairytale over another book any day, and I love writing that is influenced by them. The influence for this story originates with the tales of the Brothers Grimm, and is supposed to be a great read. An unfortunate boy's books begin to whisper to him from their shelves, and soon he finds himself in an alternate world filled with creatures from the imagination: monsters, heroes, and a king with a secret hidden in The Book of Lost Things. One review described it as "a fairytale turned nightmare."
Clearly I am on a bit of a fantasy/unrealistic kick with my picks this month. What's on your to-read list for March?
p.s. Don't forget, today is World Read Aloud Day! Celebrate the infinite power of words and help to spread a love of literacy!


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Buzzed-about film 'Our Nixon' sprang from UK law professor's curiosity
Brian L. Frye was teaching film at Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., in 2002 when a colleague told him about a little treasure trove.
"In addition to being a professor, he did film preservation for the National Archives," Frye say of his coworker, William Brand. "He told me the project that he was working on was these Nixon staff super 8 films. It was this wonderful combination of personal and public, and I was really interested in them at the time.
"He showed me a couple of reels while he was working on them, and I thought this would be a great collection to make a movie from."
At that time, though, the National Archives was only preserving the 35 hours of film, not making them available for public viewing. And the cost to make a version that Frye could work with was prohibitive.
Fast-forward a decade. Frye, 38, now an assistant law professor at the University of Kentucky, has used the National Archives footage to make a movie with director Penny Lane.
The film, Our Nixon, is getting national attention, including a scheduled airing next week on CNN.
But first, Lexingtonians will get a chance to see it Thursday in a screening at the Kentucky Theatre to benefit Friends of the Kentucky Theatre, a group dedicated to preservation and renovation of the theater.
To Frye, the interest in the film is different from other peeks inside the administration of Richard M. Nixon, the only U.S. president to resign from the office. Nixon left the White House on Aug. 9, 1974, in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal. Several of his re-election campaign staffers broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters, and the administration went to great lengths to cover it up.
The films that Frye and Lane worked from were home movies shot by Nixon's chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman; John Ehrlichman, assistant to the president for domestic affairs; and deputy assistant Dwight Chapin, all of whom went to prison for their roles in Watergate. The silent footage is combined with audio from Nixon's secret White House tapes and archival news and interview clips.
"The history of the Nixon White House has been done to death," Frye says. "The goal of the film was to think about who the people were who worked for the president, why they chose to do what they did, what led them to want to work for the president, what led them to do the criminal things that they did, and how did they understand their own relationship to the power, as it was.
"If there is a revelation, ... the revelation we were interested in was that Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Chapin were human beings who made bad decisions and did things they shouldn't have done, but they did them for human reasons, and it's worth trying to understand why they did these things."
It was six years after Frye's initial encounter with the films that he met Lane and discussed the footage.
"Her comment to me was, 'If you don't make this movie, I'm going to make it,'" Frye said.
So they began to collaborate on the film, which was no small feat or expense. Their first move was to have the National Archives' reels transferred to video, which initially cost $18,000, Frye said.
"That was essentially sight unseen," Frye said. "We didn't know what we were getting when we initially invested in the project."
That price tag ballooned to more than $25,000 when the Archives received a donation of higher-quality originals.
With the video transfer in hand, the duo, who were briefly married, went to the Yaddo artist community in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., to watch the film and begin work. It was there that they realized that they had the story of the men and their relationships to Nixon, which grew increasingly distant as the scandal went on, Frye said.
The subject matter played into Frye's dual interests in film and the law.
Frye studied film and philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and the San Francisco Art Institute. He said he went into law "looking for something new and interesting to do," with the recognition that arts institutions often have limited comprehension of the law, and lawyers often don't understand arts groups well.
Frye studied law at Georgetown University and New York University, where he received his degree, and he came to Kentucky after his study of turn-of-the-20th century Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan, a Boyle County native, introduced him to the commonwealth.
At UK, Frye lectures on topics including intellectual property and not-for-profit organizations, and he has been part of an effort to launch Lawyers for the Arts, a group to help arts groups in legal matters.
But he admits that for the past few months, Our Nixon has distracted him from his legal work.
The movie, which runs an hour and 25 minutes, is making the film-festival circuit and getting buzz as one of this year's must-see documentaries. In a review last week, the Los Angeles Times called Our Nixon "a haunting, thoroughly evocative ride." Variety called it "brisk, eye-opening" and a "triumph of editing."
The big news has been the film's acquisition by CNN's film division. The cable network will broadcast it for the first time at 9 p.m. Aug. 1.
"That's totally bizarre, to see it on the schedule," says Frye, who is credited as a producer of the film. "I just keep pinching myself that CNN is showing my film."
Cinedigm has acquired the film for theatrical release.
"Hopefully the film connects with audiences," Frye says. He is working on another archival film project now, although he declined to elaborate on the subject.
'Our Nixon'
What: Documentary made of archival home movies by members of President Richard M. Nixon's staff.
When: 7 p.m. July 25
Where: Kentucky Theatre, 214 E. Main St.
Tickets: $19.99. Available in advance at Kentuckytheater.com. Proceeds benefit the Friends of the Kentucky Theatre.
Learn more: Ournixon.com


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On a whim of sorts, my sister bought me a grey tulle skirt from Jabong. She was having a phase where she loved them, and decided to spread the love to me. Needless to say, with a salwar-only dress code at college + not too much of a life outside of it, I never got too much wear out of it. The whole concept seemed to be unwearable in general.
However, the perfect way to pair it ended up being with another whim of a purchase — a crop top in a flamingo print. I only bought it because it was longer than the general crop top variety and hence wearable in a place like Chennai.
The pairing makes the skirt super suitable for the day, while still retaining its femininity.
A closer look at the accessories — I went with a messy bun (tbh it became messy because damn Chennai humidity) and a simple headband, a studded handbag for some edge, and my watch as usual. Sparkly shoes because a tulle skirt's vibe is contagious.
Honestly, there are so many ways to wear a tulle skirt — it seems like an impractical thing to own, and in some ways, that's true. But it's quite versatile, especially in a dove grey.
Skirt: Lola Sky; Top: Robinsons (Bangkok); Headband: Forever21; Shoes: Pavers England; Watch: Tommy Hilfiger; Handbag: Guess
Some colour pairing/outfit ideas I found on the treasure trove of the internet!
Grey on grey is one of the best ways to wear this colour — it adds depth and elegance to an outfit if you dress in shades of the same colour, no matter what the colour is.
A feminine combination, pastel pink and dove grey makes for a sweet pairing, and perfectly suited for the day.
I'm a huge sucker for stripes, and this outfit by Merrick's Art ticks all the right boxes for me! You could ditch the jacket and just go for a striped top and black accessories, or you could wear a denim shirt instead with a tulle skirt — both will work extremely well.
A classy evening pairing, black and grey exudes elegance. Accessorised with either antique gold elements (like a belt or choker) or a gorgeous berry lip, your tulle skirt just got elevated to a whole new level.
As usual, repeating pieces of clothing is the BEST way to be sustainable and get the most out of what you already own. I like putting outfits out as colour combinations — that way, you can adjust what I've said to suit what you already own, instead of buying 10 extra things. Bottom line, don't go out and buy clothing from sustainable brands when you already have enough clothes — use what you have. It's more affordable, and better for everyone around you!
Thoughts on tulle? I'd love to hear them in the comments!


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Gooey grilled cheese sandwiches filled with braised short rib. Homemade fig and mascarpone ice cream sandwiched between warm oatmeal cookies. Chunks of fresh lobster meat bursting out of a toasted roll. Three reasons L.A. street fairs -- from Downtown's Art Walk to Venice's First Fridays -- have become a breakaway hit within the city's food scene. Today is no exception, as Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade plays host to Malaysia Kitchen Night Market from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., transforming part of the three-block tourist (err, shopping) Mecca into a Malaysian street food celebration.
L.A.'s nighttime open-air market -- brainchild of Malaysian Kitchen For The World's campaign to promote Malaysian cuisine in the U.S -- follows on the heels of a similar event held in New York's Grand Central Terminal's Vanderbilt Hall. This Friday, however, local Malaysian restaurants such as Yazmin, Manja, Belacan Grill, Monsoon Café, and Starry Kitchen are sharing free samples of Malaysian street food specialties like chicken satay with spicy peanut sauce, pickled cucumbers, beef rendang (in layman terms: spiced dry beef curry), and nasi lemak (a coconut rice dish served with spicy curry chicken or beef rendang).
In addition, Southeast Asian and Malaysian food expert and cookbook author Robert Danhi is handing out tastes of his very own Coconut "Kaya" Toast: a local spread made from eggs, sugar, coconut milk, flavored with pandan and then eaten on toast. And while we know better than most how strong the lure of samples can be, take some time to enjoy the traditional Malaysian dance performances and overall atmosphere, which mimics the brightly-colored tents, umbrellas and glowing lanterns found in Kuala Lumpur's open air markets.
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Ireland's Sean Greenwood last night had two unofficial practice runs at the Olympic Sliding Centre.
Greenwood who had track time last November said,
"The track is now in much better condition since last year, the ice is world class. The bottom half of the track is where sliders will gain or lose places". His New Balance sponsored performance suit is wind tunnel tested and the fabric used makes it the fastest suit on the circuit.
28 athletes have qualified for Men's Skeleton, each will undertake two runs on the 14th February, a further run on the 15th, with the top 20 completing a fourth run – with the best overall aggregate score to decide final position.
Greenwood had a final training camp in Konigssee last month, and has world class coaching support from former World Champion and Olympic Medallist Jeff Pain (Canada)
Each slider will now gets 2 official practice runs per day for 3 days before competition starts on the 14th February.
This morning however he watched teammate Seamus O'Connor with the rest of Team Ireland at Slopestyle adjacent to the Olympic Mountain Village.
Born in Vancouver, Sean, age 26, grew up in Western Canada and partly on the west coast of Ireland.
His mother, Sibéal Foyle (Ní Fhoighíl) emigrated to Canada from Galway in the early 1980′s and maintains deep family connections in Ireland. His father is Canadian, a chartered business valuator. Sean started skeleton racing in 2008 following a sporting career in competitive rugby.
After gaining a BA in Economics from the University of Calgary, he decided to take the opportunity to slide at the site of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Whistler BC, on the world's fastest skeleton track.
A commercial helicopter pilot, Sean is based in Whistler, Canada working on fitness, sled preparation and general racing experience in order to compete for Team Ireland for four runs against the best in the world.
To date, Sean has performed impressively, winning gold, silver and bronze medals in the North America's Cup in Whistler and New York's Lake Placid, and at the Elektro Melcher competitions in San Moritz. Switzerland. He recently gained a World Cup spot as a result of his 2012-13 season and is currently ranked 25th in the world.


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3rd November 2017 08:00 - 22:00 (GMT+03:00) Europe/Istanbul
Ukrainian Association of investment professionals "CFA Society Ukraine" supported by CFA Institute is pleased to announce VIII Ukrainian Investment Forum: Deducing the Industry Future to be held at Hilton Kyiv, Ukraine on November 3, 2017.
The throughline of the 8th Ukrainian Investment Forum will be challenges which investment professionals face nowadays in the world that becomes less predictable and more volatile. Global political shifts, rapid development of innovative IT technologies and AI, big data analysis may shake the very fundamentals of finances and investments. How investment professionals can stay relevant and trustworthy in such rapidly changing world? What can Ukraine offer to global and local investors and will Ukrainian investment professionals be in demand locally and globally?
We invite to discussion prominent economists, successful investors, policy makers and top level government officials, owners and top executives of largest Ukrainian companies, commercial and investment bankers, investment fund managers, international financial institutions and leading business media.
This event is supported by the CFA Institute and outstands among others being free from direct corporate or political influence making it a consistently unique and independent networking environment.
This year we are envisaging changing the format of the event to make it more applicable and practical for the investment professionals. Along with plenary sessions overviewing the global macro trends and capital markets tendencies, we are offering several practical workshops, and Future of Finance TEDx-style talks on the cutting edge investment ideas and technologies.
The organization process of the events of the CFA Society Ukraine, including annual Ukrainian Investment Forum, remains free from direct corporate or political influence making it a consistently unique and independent networking environment.
Working language: English (simultaneous translation into Ukrainian will be provided)
Format: Interactive panel discussions with pre- and post polling of audience. Targeted professional workshops