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Statement by Palestinian performing arts organizations
Posted on July 20, 2014 | No Comments
17 July, 2014
We, cultural workers representing the majority of Palestinian performing art organizations, condemn the current Israeli attack and aggression on Gaza, and the indiscriminate killing and maiming of mainly civilians, among them many children and women.
As artists, the most powerful weapon we have is our ability to play, dream and imagine. The oppressive forces fear this weapon because as long as we are able to imagine another kind of reality, we have the power to pursue it – a free and just Palestine.
Israel is portraying the ongoing massacre in Gaza as a war between them and Hamas, as part of an obnoxious media campaign of turning the oppressed into the villains. This latest Israeli attack against Gaza is a crime that must be understood within the context of Israeli occupation and apartheid. For over six decades Palestinians have been systematically bereaved of their lands, their water and their freedom of movement. Settlements continue to be built, a wall is erected on occupied lands and Gaza has been under a suffocating blockade for over six years. These crimes must be condemned and acted upon immediately.
Among our companions are institutions that despite all the hardships continue to work in Gaza, using music, theatre and drama to comprehend, process, educate and mobilize. We stand with them and we ask you to do the same.
While governments are once again turning their backs, people around the world are raising their voices; taking to the streets and refusing to let the people of Gaza suffer in silence. We urge our colleagues, friends and partners not to stay silent and join us in our protest.
We call upon the world to put pressure on Israel to stop the blockade of Gaza.
We particularly call upon our fellow artists and cultural organizations to condemn the current aggressions against Gaza and the occupation of Palestine through petitions, protests and statements. Further to that, we urge you to act by supporting the Palestinian cultural and academic boycott of Israel (PACBI), thereby refusing to be complicit in the ongoing occupation and apartheid.
Together, we can turn hopelessness into determination and the forces of division into unity. It is within our power.
The undersigned, as founding members of the Palestinian Performing Art Programme (PPAN)
Al-Harah Theatre:www.alharah.org
The Magnificat Association: www.magnificat.custodia.org
The Edward Said National Conservatory of Music: http://ncm.birzeit.edu/en
Al Kamandjati Association: www.alkamandjati.com
Theatre Day Productions: www.theatreday.org
Yes Theatre: www.yestheatre.org
The Palestine Circus School: www.palcircus.ps
The Freedom Theatre: www.thefreedomtheatre.org
Popular Art Center: http://www.popularartcentre.org/
El Funoun Dance Troupe: www.el-funoun.org
Ashtar Theatre: www.ashtar-theatre.org
Text reposted from TheFreedomTheatre.org
Tags: Freedom Theatre > Gaza > PACBI > Palestine
Analysing the Art of Resistance – World Policy Institute
Posted on July 10, 2014 | No Comments
freeDimensional has posted the following blog as part of the World Policy Institute's Arts-Policy Nexus
A theatre director is beaten and stabbed to death in front of his apartment. Another is shot to death in front of his wife and child. A filmmaker is kidnapped, his fingers cut off, and he's left to bleed along the roadside. A radio DJ wakes to see his car in flames. A writer comes home to a house drenched in kerosene. A dancer is raped. A performance artist is kidnapped and beaten. A singer is imprisoned for years. A television comedian is kidnapped, threatened and told to never work again or be killed. These are real cases of artists whose artwork speaks truth to power and upholds social justice.
Shall we measure the work of these artists by the number of people in their audiences, how many workshops they have given or how much turnover their artistic output has generated, directly or indirectly, to the 'evening economy' of the city? Can these standardized indicators capture the depth or long term effect of thought-provoking artistic interventions in highly charged public and political contexts?
We are living in a period of measurement by economic indicators that define financial and legal support. The arts sector has continuously baulked at submitting its 'intrinsic values' to market measures, even if it has been tempting to play the risky game of citing urban regeneration and 'creative' economic development as benefits.
Today, we believe that public and private financial support ought to be awarded on the basis of objective criteria that confirm an (often elusive) idea of quality. The distribution of money must be accountable to taxpayers and donors. Subjective choice here is suspect, yet evaluation concepts have been offered, argued, and contested with no clear conclusion. Are we hell-bent on finding the perfect means of objectively assessing artistic quality, aesthetic delight, taste, and the impact of thought on human development?
Evaluating the impact of art and cultural activity is tough already. Throwing in human rights and free speech complicates the issue. Support for human rights defenders who confront governments, civil or religious groups is justified by international law. But how do we evaluate arts practices that raise awareness of universal rights or individual identities in situations where they are denied? Egyptian writer Alaa Al-Aswany writes, "My father told me his legacy to me was prison cells. My legacy to my son will be prison cells." On what 'impact measures' are artists risking their lives?
More research is needed on alternative methods to analyse fields that resist economic-based measurement. We need to describe the real impact of supporting artists and cultural communicators whose politically or socially charged work places them into the crosshairs of repressive regimes intent on quashing perspectives differing from their own. If numbers-driven criteria can be supplanted by deeper, more long-term analysis, donors can feel confident supporting such work.
Some researchers are trying to explain what happens in circumstances where traditional quantity measures are not the most meaningful indicators. In arecent article, Dr. Patrycja Kaszynska dissects "the difficult relationship between cultural value, economics and the problem of measurement and evaluation." She concludes that a major problem is the assumption that a natural hierarchy of disciplines places economics on top, as the final arbiter of all other disciplines: a hierarchy, which is not accepted by many, and is accompanied by "the fear of flattening all expressions of value into a single register."
Regarding human rights, Johannes Thoolen adds, " The first problem of assessment is that common to all human rights advocacy work, namely the difficulty of measuring and establishing a causal link between a particular intervention and an outcome…. assessing advocacy for individual cases is the least developed."
Clearly, the current means of valuing art that upholds social justice is inadequate. There must be a more comprehensive method that brings together different disciplines as well as value systems and objectives.
freeDimensional (fD) is one of a very few NGOs and non-profit associations working at the intersection of arts and human rights. Since 2006, fD has supported artists and culture workers whose artistic work presents alternatives, challenges the status quo, a government line, or fundamentalist views. These cultural communicators may be threatened, their economic livelihood denied; they and their families can be physically harmed, imprisoned, or worse. fD recognizes them as doing the work of human rights defenders, identifies shelters in artists residencies, and develops artists' safety networks in high risk regions.
But non-profits such as fD are mired in the current evaluation stalemate, pressed by funders to demonstrate impact in an interdisciplinary area comprising sectors bogged down by lack of adequate evaluation methodologies.
There is light at the end of the tunnel. At the upcoming International Conference on Cultural Policy Research (ICCPR) in Hildesheim, Germany, fD will call out to universities and researchers interested in tackling these issues, identifying best practices and exploring alternative methods to describe the impact of supporting artists whose work defends human rights and social justice.
The challenge is about measuring the impact of work that influences thought, poses a question to engrained perspectives, and may take years or even generations to reach a concrete tipping point. Rebecca Solnit finds, "many now do not even hope for a better society, but they recognize it when they encounter it, and that discovery shines out even through the namelessness of their experience."
Let's work across disciplines – cultural workers, human rights workers, universities, and researchers – to share information, build upon lessons learned, and ultimately find ways to measure impact and convince potential legal and financial supporters. It is important to uncover the ripple effects of these artists' courageous behaviour and in doing so, learn how to better support, defend, and protect those who undertake it, at great risk to their own safety.
Mary Ann DeVlieg
To send letters of support for Moroccan musician Mouad (El Haqed)
Posted on July 7, 2014 | 2 Comments
If you would like to send support letters to the Moroccan musician, Mouad Belghouate (aka El Haqed), please note:
- keep messages short with simple message wishing El Haqed well and that he will soon be free.
- no political or religious comment or images ( tourist cards are appreciated….)
- Give return address/email.
Send to:
Mouad Belghouate
Prison local Oukacha
Quartier Oukacha
20 580 Casablanca, Morocco
Tags: censorship > democracy movement > Morocco > musician > prison
Letter to Moroccan Minister of Justice re: musician Mouad Belghouate
Posted on July 7, 2014 | No Comments
Open Letter to the Moroccan Minister of Justice and Liberties El Mustapha Ramid on the Four-month Sentence Against Musician Mouad Belghouate (aka El Haqed)
7 July 2014
Mr El Mustapha Ramid
Minister of Justice and Liberties
Ministère de la Justice et des libertés Place El Mamounia – BP 1015
Fax:+212 537 73 47 25
We the undersigned organisations committed to the defence of the rights to freedom of expression, culture and the arts, condemn the four-month sentence served against musician Mouad Belghouate (aka El Haqed) following a trial that fell short of international standards. We are concerned that the sentence has been given in retribution for his involvement in Morocco's pro-democracy movement, and specifically his condemnation of corruption and police violence through his music.
Convicted of assaulting police officers during an incident in Casablanca on 18 May 2014, evidence including testimonies of witnesses to the incident were not accepted by the court. This led defence lawyers to withdraw from the proceedings calling them "unjust" and "unfair".
This is the third incident since 2011 where Belghouate has been imprisoned following trials that have been condemned as highly flawed. Notably in May 2012 he was imprisoned for 12 months for insulting police in a song and its accompanying video, a charge that clearly violated his rights to freedom of expression.
Belghouate has been closely engaged with the 20th February democracy movement, and he has been openly critical of corruption in Morocco and accused police of brutality in his lyrics, leading to concerns that these are the source of the accusations against him, concerns that are heightened by trial irregularities.
Morocco has ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which includes the rights to freedom of expression and fair trial. We therefore call on the Moroccan authorities to immediately release Mouad Belghouate and to ensure that any appeal be carried out fairly and include all evidence and witnesses relevant to the case.
Yours sincerely,
Arterial Network
Article 19
European Council of Artists
Index on Censorship
Institute for Freedom of Expression, Turkey
Observatoire de la liberté de creation, France
Copies to:
President of National Human Rights Council Mr. Driss El Yazmi
Minister of Culture, Mr Mohamed Amine Sbihi
Association Marocaine des Droits Humains (AMDH), Mr. Ahmed El Haij (President)
Tags: censorship > democracy movement > Morocco > music > prison
Press Release: Central America Forum on Art, Culture & Human Rights
Posted on June 12, 2014 | No Comments
The Central America Regional Forum on Arts, Culture and Human Rights takes place June 18-20 – Tegucigalpa, Honduras
freeDimensional (www.freedimensional.org), Colectivo Hormiga (http://colectivohormiga.com) HIVOS (www.hivos.nl) are pleased to announce the launch of the Central American Regional Forum on Arts, Culture and Human Rights, June 18-20 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
The Forum is the first-ever three-day participatory forum aiming to support, unite and inspire the arts & culture and human rights sectors in Central America to collaborate, uphold freedom of expression as a basic human right and acknowledge artists and culture workers as primary defenders of it. Approximately 50 Central American cultural and human rights organizations will participate.
Increasing numbers of artists and culture workers are using their artistic expression to support human rights and social justice objectives for their communities. In return they can face physical violence, imprisonment or even death. It is crucial that human rights, free speech and culture organizations work together to ensure their safety and the continuation of the important work they do for society.
The Regional Forum will trace the history of socially and politically engaged artistic practice in Central America, identify common issues and experiences, develop a collective vision of the future and lead to the establishment of a regional platform for exchange and collaboration between artists and culture workers working towards transformative societal change.
The Regional Forum is guided by freeDimensional, an internationally networked organization, that assists artists, culture workers and communicators at risk by brokering resources and services, linking them to art spaces that can provide temporary safe haven and by facilitating the development of safety and support networks in regions around the world.
Based in Tegucigalpa, Colectivo Hormiga is a group of five organizations committed to art, linked to the community and dedicated to the enhancement of the old Casa Central Penitentiary of Honduras as an open and culturally diverse space.
HIVOS is an international development organization based in the Netherlands guided by humanist values. Working in collaboration with local civil society organizations in developing countries, Hivos aims to contribute to a free, fair and sustainable world.
The Forum is supported by Actors for Change (http://central-america.hivos.org/actors-change), a program funded by SIDA (http://www.sida.se) and implemented by Hivos throughout Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. Actors for Change include independent media, journalists, artists, cultural activists, and human rights defenders and aims to build a collective strategy that includes enhancing free expression, capacity building, and safety and protection.
Tags: Actors for Change > Central America > Colectivo Hormiga > freeDimensional > Hivos > Honduras > Tegucigalpa
Show on African homosexuality shut down after fundamentalist attack
Posted on June 9, 2014 | No Comments
Senegal exhibition, part of the Dak'Art Biennale, closed due to pressure from extremist Islamic groups.
By: Anny Shaw
The Senegalese government has shut down one of the first exhibitions in Africa to focus on homosexuality on the continent. The move comes several weeks after an attack on the Dakar gallery by Muslim fundamentalists, says the French-Algerian artist Kader Attia. "Precarious Imaging: Visibility and Media Surrounding African Queerness" opened at Raw Material Company on 11 May, but a day later, the non-profit art centre was vandalised and the building damaged, according to Attia, whose video about the lives of transsexuals in Algiers and Mumbai was included in the show. No one was hurt in the attack.
Following pressure from extremist Islamic organisations, the exhibition, which was part of the informal programme for Dak'Art 2014, the 11th Biennale of Contemporary African Art (9 May-8 June), was cancelled on 31 May. According to the news service Times24.info, the Senegalese government also ordered the suspension of all exhibitions in the biennial that refer to homosexuality. Raw Material Space remains closed, according to a spokeswoman for the biennial, who could not confirm if any further exhibitions had been shut down.
"Senegal is well-known for its peaceful and moderated Islam. Such an aggressive attack is absolutely unexpected, as is the government's decision to shut down all the exhibitions in the biennial that deal with homosexuality," Attia says. "It is highly concerning that a country that has always been protected from fundamentalism is now opening the door through an official path."
The aim of the "Precarious Imaging" exhibition, which was co-organsied by Koyo Kouoh, the artistic director at Raw Material Company, and the independent curator Ato Malinda, was to shed light on a persecuted African minority. Homosexuality is illegal in Senegal, as it is in 37 other African countries, according to Amnesty International. Malinda told The Art Newspaper in April that a leading academic had advised the gallery against holding the exhibition. "The show will cause controversy, but we will not censor ourselves," Malinda said at the time.
Alongside Attia's video, the exhibition featured photographs of gay men from Lagos by the Nigerian artist Andrew Esiebo; a photographic series of black lesbian and transgender women by the South African activist and photographer Zanele Muholi; a video of Egyptian women smoking by the Egyptian-American artist Amanda Kerdahi M.; and works from Jim Chuchu's "Pagan" series. Raw Material Company could not be reached for comment at the time of publication.
Text and image reposted from TheArtNewspaper.com
Photo credit: Nigerian photographer Andrew Esiebo's ongoing series "Who We Are" portrays gay men from Lagos
Tags: 'Precarious Imaging' > Ato Malinda > Dak'Art Biennale > Koyo Kouoh > Raw Material Space > Senegal
Ai Weiwei on Tiananmen Square
Posted on June 5, 2014 | No Comments
China Loses by Forgetting about Tiananmen Square
by: Ai Weiwei
In the last month, in two separate cities, I was involved in events related to the rewriting of the history of Chinese contemporary art. In Shanghai, two of my works, "Stool" and "Sunflower Seeds," were included in an exhibition commemorating the 15th year of the Chinese Contemporary Art Award. A half-hour before the show opened, local officials had my name erased from the exhibition's wall text and barred the artworks from being displayed.
A few weeks later in Beijing, under similar pressure, the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art excised my name from publicity information about an upcoming show honoring my late friend Hans van Dijk, with whom I had founded one of the first experimental art spaces in China. I decided to withdraw all my pieces from the exhibition in protest.
In both cases, the works in question were deemed uncontroversial in themselves. The point was to remove any reference to me and my work to keep me out of the public eye in the run-up to the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.
My lawyer and friend Pu Zhiqiang has suffered worse: He and four others were recently detained for discussing Tiananmen – where he'd been one of the student protesters – in a private gathering.
Pu Zhiqiang is one of the few people in this country who insists on not having his history completely erased. I, too, was censored not for the content of my work, but because I am a person who insists on the facts, who wants an admission of history and who has constantly voiced these concerns on the Internet. These are all sins in China today – especially now, with this anniversary upon us.
Modern China's forgetfulness did not start or end with Tiananmen. Even before the summer of 1989, dozens of darker, crueler incidents lay hidden in Chinese history. Today's leaders cannot acknowledge their stated ideology before 1949, the principles that helped the Communists gain power over the Nationalist government: establishing a democratic and law-abiding society, ending the one-party system and having an independent judiciary. In 1989, the students in Tiananmen Square asked for those same things. Since then, they've become unmentionable.
During Chairman Mao's lifetime, he started dozens of political movements, none of which have been re-examined by the party in a forthright way. Huge topics such as the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward lack any accepted accounting.
Because there is no discussion of these events, Chinese still have little understanding of their consequences. Censorship has in effect neutered society, transforming it into a damaged, irrational and purposeless creature.
In the West, there are those who think that a new group of leaders can somehow bring change to China – that "reformers" can eventually outweigh the "hardliners" within the party. Yet while China has progressed in many ways since 1989, the system has not. How can it, when those who run things refuse to analyze or discuss the morality of past decisions? How can a government that alters or even completely erases history, acknowledge its faults and adjust its actions in the future? We Chinese are not blameless either. While Chinese society has undergone some of the most extreme changes in human history in the last 25 years, in the realm of values, very little has changed. Most of us are first and foremost concerned with our day-to-day needs and ambitions – jobs, education, apartments – and won't exert much effort or sacrifice to achieve anything beyond that.
China has chosen to forget, or to allow forgetting – an attitude the West will find hard to understand. This provides China a way to liberate itself from heavy self-criticism, as well as a heavier moral burden. More important, it frees Chinese from responsibility for their actions and acquiescence.
If China has pulled off an economic miracle since 1989, this self-imposed amnesia is also a sort of Chinese miracle. The mindset will not change until Chinese themselves understand that the lack of accurate information about their own past injures their well-being just as much as the polluted air or corruption.
How long can China continue on this forgetful path? With the Internet and globalization exposing citizens to truths that are self-evident elsewhere in the world, the country is facing an internal crisis of credibility. The loss of trust and moral common ground between individuals and the state is the most dangerous issue facing the regime today. China cannot move forward unless it first confronts this problem – rather than suppressing it like so much else in our history.
Ai Weiwei is a Beijing-based artist and sociocultural critic.
Text reposted from Newsday.com
Tags: Ai Weiwei > China > June 5 1989 > Pu Zhiqiang > Tiananmen Square
Learning from Experience
Posted on May 9, 2014 | No Comments
By: Arahmaiani
In 1993, I was confronted by an improbable and inextricable problem. A group of people claiming to be pious Muslims "secured" 2 of my works (an installation and a painting) part of a solo exhibition titled "Sex, Religion & Coca -Cola". They were adamant that I had committed blasphemy against Islam, because in my installation a copy of the Koran was presented next to a pack of condoms. While in the painting there were Arabic letters adjacent to the Lingga-Yoni, which was a picture of a phallus and a vagina. Their interpretation of the visualization or these works was so negative that they were compelled to without any hesitation, "secure" the works.
I was taken aback upon finding my works had disappeared from the exhibition space and hearing the explanation above from the owner of the space. I then asked him to organize a discussion because in my view the issue at hand was a difference of interpretation, and this needed to be talked about and discussed so that it would be clear for various parties such as activists, artists, culture experts, and spiritualists, as well as me, and the objecting party.
In the beginning the discussion proceeded smoothly although in the end it became rather tense because the people who had "secured" my works were adamant with their interpretation and considered me guilty and deserving of punishment! This resulted in a threat to me: that drinking my blood, was explicitly halal, allowed by law!
I then consulted several senior artists who all advised me to practice self-preservation because the meeting had proven that this Islamist group could not be expected to practice the common sense of rational thinking. This is the condition of life in this country that is considered to be a democracy.
So with unfocussed and confused feelings I first travelled to Solo where I stayed for more or less 6 months, until I received an invitation for a residency in Perth, Australia, where I stayed for a year. Eventually, I was able to return to my country, but it would not be last time that my views expressed through my artistic practice would result in the threatening of my safety and force me underground.
Organizations like freeDimensional provide crucial support to artists and culture workers who find themselves in situations like mine. Because I have experienced displacement and exile personally, I know the weight and significance of this work and support fD as an advisor and advocate. To ensure that artists can continue to create freely, and spark meaningful and necessary conversations in our society, please make your contribution to fD today.
How I got back the energy and confidence to keep doing…
Posted on May 6, 2014 | No Comments
In 2006, I came to New York for a yearlong artist residency program and during that time, I was warned that my safety could not be assured if I were to return to Burma. The reason I could not return was my artwork, interviews I had given with the international media and newspaper articles about my work as it related to a critique of the political situation in Burma at that time. Unable to return home, I was facing very difficult time settling in to life in New York; I was totally frustrated and very worried about how to live, find a way to survive and uncertain as to whether I could continue my career as an artist in this new place with its new challenges.
Then in 2010, one of my friends, an artist who lives in Brooklyn introduced me to Todd Lester, founder of freeDimensional. fD provided the support I needed to restart my life as an artist in New York City, connecting me to the arts community, pro-bono legal counsel for my asylum process, immigrant resources and services. fD recommended me for several artist residency programs and arranged talks at cultural institutions, universities and arts organizations to share my experiences and through my artwork raise awareness about the situation of freedom of expression and democracy in my home country. These opportunities to engage with people, to tell my story, is how I got back the energy and confidence I needed to keep doing what I had been doing before and deal with the new challenges I was faced with.
Through fD I have made many new friends, who like me were forced to leave their countries because of their art and activities defending human rights and freedom of expression. Having a community of like-minded individuals with similar experiences, who could learn from each other to keep moving forward, made me feel like I was not alone.
These days, when artists, journalists and cultural workers who fight for social justice face great risks and personal danger, organizations like fD that protect and support vulnerable individuals are of crucial importance to defending freedom of expression around the world.
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Artists often use their creative practice to voice the concerns of their communities and challenge injustice, but in return they may be harassed, attacked, exiled, imprisoned, tortured or worse…fD defends these essential voices but to do so we need your financial support today.
Since 2006, fD has worked with nearly 200 culture workers at risk, from over 35 countries, by brokering safe haven in artists residencies and developing tools for partners across sectors to help assess and support artists in danger. Right now we need your support for:
- One-to-One case management for artists, culture workers and communicators in need of critical personal and professional support.
- Design and translation of our DIY guidebook for individuals at risk – Creative Safe Haven Advo-kit – into the languages of territories where culture workers are most in need.
- Development of 5 'regional safety networks' around the world to provide immediate and accessible response when individuals are in situations of dangers.
Your contribution will make a real difference in the lives of artists, culture workers and communicators who find themselves at risk, around the world.
the fD Team
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Donate today! – click here to make your donation online or send a check payable to freeDimensional to P.O. Box 301, New York, NY 10276
Tags: chaw ei thein > Creative Safe Haven > fD > freeDimensional
U Win Tin, Writer Jailed by Myanmar Junta, Dies
Posted on April 22, 2014 | No Comments
U Win Tin, a journalist, author and poet who became a leading opponent of the military rulers of Myanmar, where he was imprisoned and tortured for 19 years, died on Monday in Yangon, formerly Rangoon. Sources differ on whether he was 84 or 85.
The political party he helped found, the National League for Democracy, announced the death. Reports in the local news media said his kidneys and other organs had failed.
Mr. Win Tin joined eight other political activists to form the National League for Democracy in 1988. Led by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her human rights advocacy, the party won a landslide victory in national elections in 1990, but the governing generals refused to cede power.
Even before the elections, the military government placed Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest, where she remained for 15 of the next 21 years. It was widely assumed that the government had been reluctant to jail her because her father had been a hero of the nation's independence struggle against the British and a founder of the modern Burmese army.
But the government had no compunction about incarcerating Mr. Win Tin, whom Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi and other party leaders called Saya, or "the wise one." It accused him of being a Communist, a charge he denied.
As described in a memoir, "What's That? A Human Hell" (2010), his imprisonment, beginning in 1989, was harrowing. He was placed in a tiny cell in what had been a dog kennel and given no bedding. He was fed sparingly and given inadequate medical care. An operation for a strangulated hernia, performed in a dirty prison hospital cell, resulted in the loss of a testicle. He lost most of his teeth in a beating and was then denied dentures. He had two heart attacks in prison. Much of the time he was in solitary confinement. He was deprived of sleep. He was denied visits from the Red Cross. New charges were often added to his sentence.
To keep his sanity, Mr. Win Tin smuggled fragments of brick into his cell and ground them into paste to write poems and philosophy on his cell walls. "I could not bow down to them," he said in an interview with The New York Times in 2009, the year after his unexpected release.
In one of his most dangerous acts of defiance, he disseminated writing about his plight. In 1996, seven years were added to his sentence after he petitioned the United Nations about conditions in Myanmar's prisons.
Once a year during his imprisonment Mr. Win Tin's captors offered him a chance to renounce his political beliefs and resign from his party. Each time, he had the same response: a wordless smile. His stubbornness continued after his release. He refused to stop wearing his blue prison shirt, or a replica of it, until all political prisoners were released.
Relations between the United States and Myanmar improved after Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi's release in 2010, with the countries exchanging ambassadors and President Obama visiting in November 2012. Washington also expressed approval that elections were held in 2012 in which the National League for Democracy won 43 of the 44 seats it sought, out of 45.
Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi led the party in that successful campaign and announced in June that she wanted to run for the presidency in 2015. Mr. Win Tin expressed gentle disapproval, saying that the system she would participate in was still corrupt because the constitution imposed by the military remained in effect.
"Some of us would like to push the military into the Bay of Bengal," he told The Washington Post in 2013. "She only wants to push them into Kandawgyi Lake," a reference to the heart of Yangon.
U Win Tin was born in Pegu, Burma, which in 1989 became Bago, Myanmar. He was variously reported to have been born in March of 1929 or 1930.
He earned a bachelor's degree for his work in English literature, modern history and political science from Rangoon (now Yangon) University. He worked for Agence France-Presse and for three years was a consultant to a publishing company in the Netherlands. He was top editor of several Burmese newspapers.
In 1978, the newspaper he was editing, The Hanthawaddy Daily, was shut down for satirizing the local authorities. Military officials suspected that he had advised Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi to begin her civil disobedience campaign in 1988. During his imprisonment, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi said his torturers "wished to force him to admit he was my adviser on political tactics; in other words, that he was my puppet master."
After his release, Mr. Win Tin wrote a weekly column and broadcast a weekly radio show, using satire to mock the government. He founded a political journal he had conceived in jail with other political prisoners.
Mr. Win Tin, who never married, adopted a daughter who he said had been forced into exile in Australia. He left no other immediate survivors.
After his release, Mr. Win Tin, a man of deep humility, continued to eat sparingly, having one meal early in the day and a bit of fruit in the evening. "I don't want to be a burden on anyone," he said.
Text and image reposted from NYTimes.com
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi > burma > Myanmar > political prisoner > U Win Tin


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The civil war battle of Newtonia Missouri celebrates 150 years with reenactments.
Thousands of visitors from across the four states came to watch various reenactments from the famous battle. Re-enactors represented both Federal and Union forces. They held drills, cannon firing and demonstrated some graphic scenes of medical treatment from the era.
"We've actually owned this particular property since 2002, so this is the, we've had different events going on here over those years, but this is really the biggest event we've had out here" says Larry James, President of the Newtonia Battle Fields Protection Association.
A memorial service celebrating the lives of those lost will be held at the site on Sunday 9/30

subset: commoncrawl


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Those who accepted the 2012 ReALLIEty Challenge know all too well why it's called "Southwest Louisiana's Dirtiest Party of the Year." According to organizer Allie Ieyoub Davis 2013's challenge is about to get even dirtier.
"A lot more mud, a lot more water and lot more balancing," said Ieyoub.
Ieyoub said you can expect some of the same military-style drills with several new obstacles. One of the new obstacles will have challengers balancing across a narrow pole over a watery creek. The only assistance they will have is a series of ropes suspended overhead.
Ieyoub and her husband John Davis along with volunteers build the 3.5 mile course themselves.
"It's not really that hard until you look down at the water. It will be a lot more shaky when you get a bunch of people on it," said Davis.
"You definitely have to use your core on this one. Keep it engaged so you don't fall off," said Ieyoub.
The couple should know. They've done similar courses across the country, but said theirs is tougher.
"We think our obstacles are equally if not better. We have a great piece of land to work with and natural obstacles to work with and the Louisiana terrain is the best," said Ieyoub.
They hope everyone comes prepared to leave a winner.
"I want them to feel a sense of accomplishment because it's going to be tough. But I want them to think that was fun," said Ieyoub.
Also new this year a kiddy course for children 5 to 13.
The event will be held Saturday, April 13th. The deadline to pre-register is April 9th. Kids don't need to pre-register. Ieyoub said local politicians and celebrities will also run the kiddy course at noon.
There will also be music, food and drinks.
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Chocolate - Meantime Brewing Company Limited
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3.25/5 rDev -11%
07-02-2014 01:19:25 | More by AndreBileski
4/5 rDev +9.6%
03-26-2014 15:19:03 | More by JavierGC
United Kingdom (England)
3.75/5 rDev +2.7%
11-01-2013 14:42:04 | More by EmperorBevis
3.5/5 rDev -4.1%
09-18-2013 10:26:28 | More by Olavi
3.33/5 rDev -8.8%
330 ml. bottle. Pretty cool bottle, pours ana lmost black colour with asamll head that goes away in a minute, levaing some lace. Smell is chocolate, or rather chocolate liquor cream, I can't smell any other thing, even if chocolate is not really that pronounced. I also expected a thicker body. Taste is chocolate liquor cream, with notes of dark fruits, but again is somehow a faint one. It's really pleasant, but it could be stronger in every sense. But I'll try it again if i have the chance.
08-14-2013 19:52:03 | More by janubio
3.25/5 rDev -11%
06-08-2013 23:32:01 | More by crosenkrantz
3.75/5 rDev +2.7%
03-10-2013 20:22:22 | More by spycow
1/5 rDev -72.6%
11-19-2012 21:33:49 | More by nico_freespirit
4.13/5 rDev +13.2%
When it comes to beers that you'll be happy to have on stock, to shock the occasional unsuspecting friend INTO real beer (or at least into admitting that beers are not all created equal) the Meantime is definitely a favorite of mine.
The beer is not only exuberantly unique, but at the same time, very much within style guidelines which is relatively important as one can easily be tempted into deriding the beer as a gimmick. It's not.
One might also be tempted to attribute the laurels of the gourmet chocolate perfume to the chocolate used. I'm going to go out on a limb and state that this is also incorrect. It's actually a little known fact that unless you're using chocolate extract the flavor imparted by the chocolate, is ironically, really not that protuberant.
So, to me the fact they managed to obtain such a delightful and complex character with notes of milk chocolate (the main note), cocoa and even dark fruit and vanilla using mostly grains while still keeping it in good taste, speaks volumes of the level of craftsmanship involved.
On the tongue it's robust yet coating, smooth yet structured with assertive bitterness, low carbonation and soothing alcohol warmth.
10-22-2012 20:21:12 | More by endovelico
United Kingdom (England)
4/5 rDev +9.6%
09-12-2012 00:52:41 | More by Viceroy
4.25/5 rDev +16.4%
04-07-2012 09:34:06 | More by mnixon86
United Kingdom (Scotland)
3.3/5 rDev -9.6%
Dark chestnut brown colour with a bubbly, off-white to brown head that stays for a minute or two and leaves good lacing.
Rich smelling with tonnes of cocoa and a strong roasted malt aroma. Not the most pronounced smelling beer with some dark dried fruits but it is the dark chocolate smell that dominates along with the cocoa.
Chocolate taste that is much like the smell with some roasted malts flavour and some milk chocolate. There is the mildest hint of vanilla and subtle coffee notes.
Medium and smooth with very low carbonation levels and a bitter sweet but dry finish.
A strong chocolate taste but not in the same way that I was expecting, pleasant but not a great beer sadly.
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04-02-2012 19:21:18 | More by flyingpig
United Kingdom (England)
3.58/5 rDev -1.9%
A 330ml bottle with a BB of Feb 2014. The label mentions that this is bottle-conditioned.
Poured into a Sam Smith's pint glass. A dark ruby-brown with good carbonation. Produces a large head of creamy light-brown foam that lasts for several minutes before subsiding. Aroma of sweet chocolate underpinned by roasted malt and faint hints of dried fruit. Surprisingly syrupy, but fits the description to a tee.
Tastes of chocolate and dark malt, with a mild bitter finish. Notes of chocolate, roasted malt, syrup, caramel, dry yeast and hints of dried fruit. A subtle stewed hop/roasted malt bitterness upon swallowing. Mouthfeel is smooth but rather thin and prickly. A little astringent. Aftertaste of chocolate and roasted malt.
Quite nice - the chocolate definitely comes across. The taste is more milk chocolate than cocoa, and rather sweet, but it blends nicely with the roasted malt. The weakest element is the mouthfeel, which ought to be thicker and more substantial. However, it goes down nicely enough. Worth trying.
03-24-2012 21:57:47 | More by jazzyjeff13
3.5/5 rDev -4.1%
01-11-2012 10:38:42 | More by mokumies
3.6/5 rDev -1.4%
Poured from a 330mL into a tulip, just below room temperature.
A: Poured dark brown, a tinge of red, with a one and a half finger, off-white head. No lacing on this one.
S: Straight chocolate. It's unbelievable how chocolate-y it smells, like beer chocolate milk. There are also some malts coming through in the nose, which go nicely with the chocolate.
T: Tastes of malts and chocolate. It's a good malt profile, not overly roasted or dark. It seems like mostly caramel malts. There is prominent chocolate, but it's not quite as enticing as it smells.
M: It's not quite as big bodied as I'd like. The carbonation is a little excessive too. There's a very tiny bit of astringency.
A nice beer, it has element of a milk stout, and I wish it had the body of an oatmeal stout. Good, but not great.
12-13-2011 18:58:15 | More by maxk
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4/5 rDev +9.6%
11-28-2011 17:14:08 | More by Rochefort10nh
New York
3.58/5 rDev -1.9%
A: Very dark brown with reddish hues and a significant light-brown frothy head that sticks around for a little over a minute. Some patchy lacing on the glass.
S: Some light cocoa notes mixed with roasted barley. It might be because I'm a little sick, but the aroma isn't very pronounced. Faint herbal hop notes.
T: Dark baking chocolate mixed with some burnt and lightly roasted barley. Relatively balanced, but lacking in depth. Slightly bitter, albeit weak, finish. Not particularly dry.
M: Feels a little too light in body, which I think contributes to the lackluster finish, though overall it is nice and smooth. Subtle but adequate carbonation.
O: Kind of a disappointment (that's what I get for being a sucker for advertising). The chocolate flavor is there, but is lacking in depth. Overall it's pretty easy drinking, which makes it a little underwhelming.
11-25-2011 13:41:12 | More by BMoldy
3.23/5 rDev -11.5%
Love the Meantime bottles. Awesome. Now let's get to the beer. Served cold, as recommended on the bottle.
Pours a very faint and light-bodied brown, only an oily amber on the pour, with a frothy and large-bubbled head of light brown.Lacing is pretty solid, although the head dissipates rather quickly. Not bad, but the lack of body is very disappointing.
Nose is certainly chocolatey, with a dusty thin cocoa character coming through quite strongly. Smooth and quite sweet, it's a very pleasant aroma, and nicely done, if one-dimensional.
Taste is light, and indeed chocolatey, but here the chocolate characters seem to come more from the lightly roasted malt characters, which lend a bittersweet astringency to the palate. Feel is very thin, and the clinging bitterness and slight seltzer acidity on the back grate against the smooth chocolate characters. Mouthfeel is too light as well.
Eh. I've had better beers from Meantime. This is a pretty insipid one, with the chocolate adding little more than gimmick, to my mind.
08-02-2011 07:56:01 | More by lacqueredmouse
3.85/5 rDev +5.5%
Poured from a nicely-curved 33cL bottle into a cervoise glass. Best before 4 November 2013. From notes. Reviewed 30 May 2011.
A: Half a finger of light beige head. Fades fast. Darkest brown with reddish glints. Opaque.
S: Dry, roasted malt and strong milk chocolate.
T: Chocolate milk with hops! Finish is dry and bitter, more hoppy than roasted. A bit of carbonation. Super milk-chocolatey. That's the gimmick...but it's good and, more importantly, it works.
M: Creamy, but carbonated and dry. VERY nice.
O: A chocolatey beer...what else is there to say? I'd have another, but I'd really have to be in the mood. Recommended if you want chocolate beer. An honest label.
07-30-2011 02:33:56 | More by AgentMunky
3.8/5 rDev +4.1%
A bit fancy image, this beer.
The drinking experience was very ok, though.
Fizzy , thin, beige head on chestnut brown beer.
Smell nice dark chocolate.
Taste similar. Hardly any sweetness, just dark chocolate malts, with a hint of dark fruits.
Bitter dry finish, medium bodied.
Interesting overall. Chocolate, but no sweetness. That's a leap for the senses.
06-23-2011 18:23:18 | More by RuudJH
3.48/5 rDev -4.7%
This brew pours a dark cherry cola hue with decent carbonation that leaves behind a creamy two finger head and lacing everywhere,the smell is straight out dutch chocolate,coccoa nibs and not much else,it has a light-medium bodied well carbonated mouthfeel and has tastes of rich dutch chocolate,light fruity hops,dark coccoa nibs,ovaltine and milky chocolate and overall this is definately a dessert brew the only clear taste i get is chocolate and even though im a chocolate fan there is a fine line between choc and beer cheers.
06-15-2011 13:25:50 | More by ADZA
3.83/5 rDev +4.9%
Pours clear dark brown with fizzy head that dissipates fast, leaving cola like looks, no lacing. Aroma is light roasted malt, vanilla.
Taste is bitter dark chocolate, hints of roasted, as well as dark dried fruit. Mouthfeel is more on the thin side with moderate carbonation with gentle alcohol warming slowly developing.
Overall, nice and very drinkable chocolate porter.
06-06-2011 18:39:23 | More by atis
United Kingdom (Northern Ireland)
4/5 rDev +9.6%
330ml bottle, consumed May 2011, BBE 2013.
A - Dark brown body with a relatively small head that dissipates fairly quickly, leaving slight lacing.
S - Bittersweet dark chocolate aromas definitely take the lead, with some coffee coming behind.
T - The taste follows the aromas, with bittersweet dark chocolate leading, balanced by a coffee-like bitterness from the roasted malts coming behind for a gently lingering bittersweet aftertaste.
M - Medium body, light carbonation, smooth and lingering.
O - Overall a very nice beer to sit and enjoy on its own. Probably not one for a session, but very pleasant.
06-04-2011 18:57:20 | More by Wattsox
United Kingdom (England)
3.6/5 rDev -1.4%
First of all, it looks okay. I like my stouts to be quiet viscous but this seems a little watery for me. Kind of like Meantime Porter, which is not as thick and smooth as I prefer.
Anyway, it has quiet a pleasent aroma, very chocolaty which i like in chocolate stouts and also sweet tangs of vanilla and honey.
As i tasted it, i was expecting it to be kind of watery from its appearance, and it was. It had a very nice flavor when it first hits your palatte but then that is washed away by the (in my own opinion) over-carbonation and fluidness of this beer.
Good effort, but could be better. Just like Meantimes London Porter.
03-26-2011 15:10:51 | More by London1985
4.1/5 rDev +12.3%
A- dark, with a thin head that quickly disapeears.
S- Light chocolate
T- Chocolate and Vanilla
M- Not much body.
D- It's almost like a liquor, but not too thick. The taste is just rich enough that you can sip it slower, while it's still light enough to have a few glasses.
03-24-2011 09:41:33 | More by stmod
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07-01-2014 00:58:23 | More by acurtis
1.29/5 rDev -63.4%
Two explanations for why I bought this, even in spite of its middling reviews and exorbitant price:
1. The first edition was amazing, and so maybe I figured this would be just as good.
2. I am basically a beer snob lab rat, and if a product evinces strong signs of rarity I automatically assume that it will be good. It's a small bottle that comes in a can! Oh my, how jealous they all shall be when they see me coming around with my fancy beer.
As soon as I poured it, I realized painfully that the second explanation makes much more sense.
It pours dark red with--I'm not kidding--and unpleasant greenish hue. It looks like sewage.
Smells like the most overpoweringly sweet barley I've ever come across.
Tastes like the most overpoweringly sweet barley I've ever come across. Like if you mixed together teryaki sauce with Hershey's syrup with several cups of white sugar. The nearest thing I can compare it to is Sam Adams' abominable Triple Bock, only Triple Bock was more balanced and at least had a novelty factor going for it.
Imagine adding a half cup of white sugar to 8 ounces of Malta Goya and then sitting it out in the sun for a week so it gets nice and flat.
Absolutely undrinkable. Three people combined could not finish an 8 ounce bottle.
06-29-2014 18:26:03 | More by mynie
4.5/5 rDev +27.8%
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4.25/5 rDev +20.7%
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3.5/5 rDev -0.6%
03-17-2014 00:09:15 | More by GABrew
3.5/5 rDev -0.6%
8.5oz bottle
Pours a dark brown color, some hints of black in the center, no head, doesn't appear to be flat just no bubbles formed a cap on top... hopefully that's the case.
Smell starts out primarily roasted malt with hints of fig, upon further investigation with my nose, I find subtle hints of coffee, quite surprising how long I've sat on this bottle, a little evidence of chocolate grazes the nostrils as well.
Taste is like woah, I wasn't expecting it to be so sweet, roasted malt with copious amounts of sugar just assault the mouth and takes awhile to adjust, behind the sweetness there is some decent flavor, huge dark fruit presence, slight bitter aftertaste of coffee but it's not nearly strong enough to balance this beast, carbonation is very low but there's enough activity to warrant mention, definitely a syrupy sticky finish.
The Dark Horizon's seem to be worse each time, edition #1 was amazing, #2 less so, this one even further down the line and most of the offshoots haven't been impressive either. Either way, I'm glad this is such a small bottle since I'm sipping on it by myself.
02-22-2014 00:40:48 | More by deltatauhobbit
New Jersey
3.75/5 rDev +6.5%
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12-11-2013 21:31:15 | More by Drknight
New Jersey
4/5 rDev +13.6%
11-16-2013 07:06:32 | More by st9647v3
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11-11-2013 06:28:46 | More by bleeps
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11-09-2013 23:13:41 | More by Benesi88
4/5 rDev +13.6%
11-02-2013 08:11:13 | More by david131
4.5/5 rDev +27.8%
10-27-2013 01:10:46 | More by Scapino
Alberta (Canada)
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250ml nip poured into tulip 11/10/13, cheers Adam for opening this little monster
A Just a splash so no head or lace shouldn't surprise me especially in a 15.5%er, legs galore
S tobacco smoked apple, bacon and teriyaki with a little soy but it works fairly well
T more like a cooking marinade then anything but its decent, coffee on the finish but reminds me more of a cooking sauce then anything
M thick and smokey, no heat impresses me
O I'd stopped taking notes about halfway through the feel it would seem but overall I'd say its a decent beer but nothing great, I sound like I'm being hard on it wanting to cook with it but I'd try it again.
After the Abyss, Mellow Corn 50-50, Black Tuesday, Grey Monday, Chocolate Rain, and Mikkeller Black Islay I'm a little surprised I can even read my notes. That was a lot of big stout for one night, my head still hurts.
10-13-2013 21:03:53 | More by wordemupg
Alberta (Canada)
4/5 rDev +13.6%
10-12-2013 05:46:03 | More by Kmat10
Alberta (Canada)
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10-12-2013 04:14:51 | More by IanSpindler
3.3/5 rDev -6.3%
Found this brew heavily discounted so had to give it a try. 8.5 oz bottle poured into CBS snifter. Pours an opaque dark brown with no head to speak of. The nose start with bold smokey notes followed by candy sweetness and earth tone coffee. The taste starts with loads of residual sugar, Heavy brown sugar and dark fruits mainly, this is followed by a hint of smoke with almost no coffee. The mouthfeel is heavy and somewhat syrupy with low carbonation. Overall, this is interesting, but way too heavy handed on the malty sweetness. I'm glad I only have 8.5 ounces of this to tackle as that in itself will be tough.
10-03-2013 06:58:33 | More by homebrew311
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08-28-2013 22:22:03 | More by ejimhof
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08-19-2013 22:10:01 | More by pisano
4/5 rDev +13.6%
250 ml bottle into tulip glass, bottled in 2010. Pours pitch black color with a small foamy tan head with poor retention, that reduces to a ring of lace. Slight spotty lacing clings on the glass. Aromas of big dark chocolate, cocoa, roasted malt, coffee, toast, toffee, light char, molasses, and roasted earthiness; with some slight booze. Nice aromas with good balance and complexity of coffee and roasted/dark malt notes; and good strength. Taste of big dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, roasted malt, toast, toffee, light char, molasses, tobacco, and roasted earthiness. Lingering notes of coffee, dark chocolate, cocoa, roasted malt, toast, toffee, molasses, tobacco, light char, and roasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Very nice balance and complexity of intense dark/roasted malt flavors with coffee; with zero booze or cloying sweetness after the finish. Light carbonation and very full bodied; with a creamy, slick, syrupy, and fairly chalky mouthfeel that is good. Alcohol is very well hidden for 15.5%, with only a small warming noticed after the finish. Overall this is a damn nice imperial coffee stout. Very nice intense and balanced dark/roasted malt flavors with coffee; and definitely a sipper to enjoy slowly. A very enjoyable offering.
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Tracy McGrady, a NBA veteran of 15 years, is close to a one-year deal with Qingdao, a team in the Chinese Basketball Association, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports.
The 33-year-old McGrady spent last season with the Atlanta Hawks. He was unable to secure a guaranteed deal with an NBA team, and instead decided to play the season in China. McGrady worked out for both the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs recently, but neither team offered a guaranteed roster spot.
He's coming off a season in which he averaged 5.3 points per game in a reserve role for the Hawks. That scoring average was a career low. He's battled knee injuries recently and has played for four different NBA teams over the last three seasons.
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Kate Bosworth serves as a guest judge alongside Heidi Klum, Zac Posen, and Nina Garcia in this recent pic promoting the Season 12 premiere of Project Runway, airing TONIGHT (July 18), at 9pm ET/PT on Lifetime.
"The first episode we start immediately with a brain challenge," Heidi told JustJared.com during a recent visit to the Runway set. "We shot outside of Manhattan and there are 16 skydivers with beautiful parachutes coming down. The designers have to run and grab a parachute and design an outfit out of parachute material. I love it when we use unconventional materials."
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Heidi Klum holds onto her umbrella as she walks in the rain on Monday (July 23) in New York City.
Earlier in the day, the 39-year-old model sported a more casual look as she left her apartment in the Soho neighborhood of the city.
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Project Runway returned for its tenth season last week, but unfortunately the ratings were off from last year. 2 million people tuned in for the premiere episode, which was down 25% from last season's premiere, according to TV Line.
Heidi Klum: 'Project Runway' Premieres Tonight!
Heidi Klum and her Project Runway co-star Michael Kors pose before making an appearance on Good Morning America on Thursday (July 19) in New York City.
The 39-year-old model was also joined by Nina Garcia and Tim Gunn to promote their show, which premieres its new season TONIGHT at 9/8c on Lifetime!
Heidi wore a Haider Ackerman jacket, an M. Patmos top, Balenciaga leggings, and Jimmy Choo shoes for the appearance.
Also pictured inside: Heidi heading to Live! with Kelly wearing a Costume National top, Paige jeans, Jimmy Choo shoes, and a Wildlife by Heidi Klum necklace.
FYI: Project Runway picked up four Emmy nominations this morning, including Outstanding Reality-Competition Program!
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Heidi Klum hits the stage during the Project Runway fashion show during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week held at The Theater at Lincoln Center on Friday (September 9) in New York City.
The 38-year-old model was joined at the show by her fellow judges Michael Kors and Nina Garcia.
The next day, Heidi stepped out to support her Project Runway protege Christian Siriano at the presentation of his spring 2012 collection.
Also pictured inside: Modern Family actress Sarah Hyland at the Christian Siriano show, which was styled by Danielle Nachmani for the second time in a row.
FYI: Heidi is wearing a black crepe jersey crystal halter jumpsuit and a black python obi belt by from the Michael Kors Fall 2011 collection.
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Thirteen memorable contestants are back to make it work in Project Runway All Stars, which will debut later in the year on Lifetime!
Supermodel Angela Lindvall will host, while designers Georgina Chapman and Isaac Mizrahi will serve as judges.
Marie Claire Editor-in-Chief Joanna Coles will serve as a mentor for the contestants.
The winner of Project Runway All Stars will have his/her line featured in an exclusive designer's boutique at Neiman Marcus, $100,000 dollars in technology and office space from HP and Intel, $100,000 cash from L'Oreal Paris, a spread in Marie Claire and a role as a guest editor for one year, and a sewing and embroidery studio provided by Brother International. Wow!!
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The 30-year-old singer turned designer joined Michael Kors, Nina Garcia and Heidi Klum as a guest judge for the show's finale runway show!
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A skijoring event takes place on Mirror Lake (Photo by New England Ski Museum/WikiMedia Commons)
Wish there were more horses in the Winter Olympics? According to an article in Slate today by Justin Peters, there very nearly were.
In 1928, the sport of skijoring was part of the St. Moritz games as an Olympic demonstration sport. Prior to that, it was a part of the Nordic Games, where Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the International Olympic Committee, first saw it. He wanted skijoring to become an Olympic sport and lobbied for its inclusion.
What is skijoring? It's snow skiing behind a horse! When snow jumps are involved and the horses are controlled by riders, it actually looks crazy and a lot of fun. When skiers are pulled behind riderless horses on frozen lakes for a few minutes, as was the case at the 1928 St. Moritz games, it is pretty lame.
Skijoring failed to win inclusion as an Olympic sport, that year or any other thereafter.
Today skijoring is still practiced, from the Nordic region of Europe to the wild west of the United States. In fact, the World Championships are held right here in good old Montana.
Peters pledges his support to help bring back the conversation around skijoring as an Olympic sport. I'll throw my lot in with him, just so long as we can bet on it.


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GEORGETOWN — Several people were injured last night after a bus carrying 21 members of the University of Maine at Orono's women's basketball team crashed into the woods on the northbound side of Interstate 95 between Tenney and Jewett streets.
The 8:30 p.m. accident appears to have been caused when the driver suffered from some kind of medical seizure and blacked out, forcing the coach to grab the wheel of the commercial bus as it veered from the southbound side of the highway, across the median strip, over the northbound lanes and into the woods.
No other vehicles were involved.
The driver, whose name was not available last night, was pinned inside the vehicle and had to be extricated by firefighters at the scene. A medical helicopter landed on the highway and flew the man to Boston Medical Center for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.
Coach Richard Barron was treated for facial lacerations. Two of the players, Ashleigh Roberts and Corinne Wellington, were also injured, as was the team's director of basketball operations, Samantha Wheeler, according to a statement released by the school last night.
Reports from the scene said all the players and staff were transported to area hospitals, including Beverly, Anna Jaques in Newburyport and Merrimack Valley Hospital in Haverhill. It was unclear last night if more people were injured.
"We're very thankful that this accident was not any worse than it was," said Robert Dana, vice president for student affairs and dean of students. "The thoughts of the entire University of Maine community are with the bus driver and the team as they contend with this very frightening event."
The University of Maine athletic director, Steve Abbott, said in a TV interview that he was told by the coach that the driver was suffering from some kind of medical problem and passed out while driving. Abbott said the coach told him he tried grabbing the steering wheel at one point.


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Three armed robbery suspects remain at large after a robbery near Central Michigan University on Saturday night.
According to the Morning Sun newspaper, the robbery happened about 11 p.m., about a block from the CMU campus at Main and May streets.
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One of the suspects is described as wearing a gray jacket, blue jeans and brown boots.
There's no information on the victim of the robbery or what was taken.
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The Harrison County lawyer emerged as the prevailing candidate after fellow contender and Finance Chairman Harry Keith White endorsed him Friday.
Miley is 47 and was first elected to the House in 2004. He became Judiciary chairman under Speaker Rick Thompson, who is leaving the Legislature to head the Department of Veterans' Assistance.
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin is expected to convene the House on Tuesday to elect a new speaker.
Miley must now unite the House's 54 Democrats in advance of a closed-door meeting to nominate a speaker candidate. But Republicans have one of their largest House minorities in decades. GOP delegates hope enough Democrats will defect to hand them the speakership.


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Students explore poison prevention. In this poison prevention lesson, students define poisons, and discover what poisons are and how they can harm people. Students hear different examples of posioning and view examples. Students do worksheets and take letters home to their parents about poisons.
Students explain appropriate procedures for responding to personal, school and community emergencies and demonstrate basic first aid skills.
In this boy scout merit badge: emergency preparedness worksheet, 8th graders research the topic using websites listed, answer 9 detailed questions about emergency situations of any kind, safety and first aid, troop mobilization, emergency kit, checklist and plan, then perform specific activities.
Learners watch a video prior to developing a family emergency preparedness plan and kit. They decide with their families what local media sources they would use to get information during an emergency situation.
Students explore the meaning and purpose of the "Montana Good Samaritan Law." They learn procedures for providing first aid for common emergencies.
What is an actual emergency situation and what should you do to prepare for it? Learners will identify a variety of emergency situations and the appropriate way to address first aid concerns to minimize injuries. They will also discover the planning and preparedness strategies for dealing with emergencies through resources and practice.
Students identify and practice the proper techniques for conducting an emergency rescue and transport of an injured person. In this health lesson, students examine circumstances to determine if and how patients should be safely moved after an injury.
Young scholars examine the problem of children being poisoned by lead in the United States. After discussing the uses of lead, they brainstorm a list of ways they can be poisoned by the substance. In groups, they discover how they can stay healthy if they have lead in their house and test for the chemical in experiments.
In this first aid and safety activity, students define the steps needed in emergency situations. They provide short answers to 15 questions. The activity also includes a list of online resources.
Help, there's an emergency! Adult English language learners need to know how to express concern and call for help in an emergency. Provide them with this comprehensive list of vocabulary and lead them through the exercises given. Consider providing model sentences and having learners recite them together to improve fluency and intonation.
Students review a list of vocabulary words needed in emergency procedures at home and work. They discuss safety procedures for each work emergency; choking, Heart Attack, and Chemical burn.
Students participate in a survival instructional activity that teaches four steps to take in the event of dealing with an emergency. The skill of improvising is practiced and its importance is stressed as being resourceful. Students also cover the precautions that are necessary for hiking in the wilderness.
Students identify how household materials can be hazardous to themselves and family members. Precautions for preventing and/or minimizing various hazards are discussed as a class. Working in pairs, students create a directory of emergency telephone numbers.
Students discover general rules and procedures for giving first aid. In this first aid instructional activity, students identify three cases in which first aid must be given immediately, illustrate ways to stop bleeding, and demonstrate the proper method of giving artificial respiration.
Students role play reporting emergency situations to the proper authorities. Working as a class, students create a list of possible emergencies that may need to be reporetd. Working with their partner, they role play reporting as many details as possible about an emergency to the proper authorities. This lesson is intended for students acquiring English.
Students identify gerunds and infinitives in emergency-related scenarios. They replace gerunds with infinitives in written and spoken exercises. They create and perform an emergency dialogue using gerunds and infinitives.
Students read articles about alcohol poisoning from teenGetgoing.com. They discuss as a class ways to help the victim and how they would react to the situation. They role-play with the teacher, acting as the victim at first and then allowing students to reverse roles.
Now here is a really helpful lesson that incorporates plant parts and the all-so-important identification of poison ivy. First graders examine all the parts common to plants; stems, roots, leaves, and flowers. They then turn their attention to one plant with a poisonous touch. They read a very cute story about a pig who outsmarted a wolf using poison ivy, look at several pictures of the ivy in various environments, and then discuss why poison ivy makes you itch. The lesson culminates with a summative assessment where the class draws, writes, and labels mini-posters warning others about the poisonous plant.
What do you do when you are alone and the phone rings? How do you handle an emergency situation? Learners discuss and practice how to use the phone when they are home alone. They use clear communication, look up phone numbers, and talk about how they know whether or not they are in need of emergency assistance. This would be a great resource for a teacher, a parent, or an afterschool program.
Students, after reviewing and drilling on a unique vocabulary list of terms, analyze the proper procedures for fire, crime or medical emergencies. They examine how to stay calm and collected during such emergencies and why its important to carry all appropriate insurance documents with you at all times.


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A welfare check led to the discovery of a murder victim.
Huntsville Police said Delois Lightford's relatives found her dead with several gunshot wounds in a home Friday afternoon in the 3600 block of Maggie Avenue,.
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---- — KEENE — Linda Deyo waded through waist-deep water to escape her home when Tropical Storm Irene hit last August.
A year later, it's paperwork she must wade through to get the Federal Emergency Management Agency to buy her wrecked property in the Town of Keene.
"We're in the process," she said. "We're waiting for word from FEMA. It's a little discouraging. You don't know if you're going to get any money for your old property."
She and her husband, Danny, had to buy a new house. The old one off Route 9 in the town's hamlet of Keene was destroyed by flood waters.
"We left when we realized the water was coming through the house," Mrs. Deyo said. "I knew it was faster and harder than the previous flood (in June 2011). I took things upstairs."
As well, she said, "we had to get horses and dogs out."
She said she's never seen a flood of that magnitude.
"It was an amazing occurrence. I had a barn that was picked up and smashed to pieces. It was truly unreal to see huge white pines floating down the river on both sides of the house."
The Deyos are among 69 homeowners in the North Country waiting to find out whether FEMA will buy them out.
Some areas were really hard hit, like Grove Road and the Jersey section of AuSable Forks, and multiple buyout applications were submitted from people who lived on those streets.
Essex County Board of Supervisors Chair Randy Douglas (D-Jay) said Grove Road — the site of a 1998 FEMA buyout of about 20 homes — was hit hard again, along with the town's youth facilities there. Many homes on Route 9N in Upper Jay were also destroyed this time, he said, and there was severe damage in Keene and other communities, as well.
FEMA offers two buyout programs, Essex County Director of Community Resources Michael Mascarenas explained.
"One is for substantially damaged homes. You have to have 50 percent or greater damage and reside in the 100-year food plain."
There are 54 homes in that segment: in Jay, Elizabethtown, Keene, North Hudson, Westport and Essex.
"The lion's share is in (the Jay hamlets of) AuSable Forks, Jay and Upper Jay and quite a few in Keene," he said.
The second buyout is for non-substantially damaged property, not in a flood plain, and 15 homes fit in that program, most in Jay.
A cost-benefit analysis was required for the non-substantially damaged properties but not for the substantially damaged group, he said.
"It was an unprecedented storm," Mascarenas said. "Some say it was a 500-year flood."
Nothing has been approved yet, he said, but "FEMA says within a month we may know something."
If FEMA approves the buyout, he said, the county must get an appraisal of each home, because the feds will only pay 75 percent of the appraised value.
"It's quite a process. We have been diligent. Some of these houses are uninhabitable; some houses don't exist anymore.
"They were taken down the river and deposited somewhere."
FEMA's payment would include the demolition cost, restoration of the site and appraisal fees.
"They lump all that cost together," Mascarenas said. "Then we have to go the homeowner and negotiate a price."
The county will own the property after that, he said.
"We have to destroy the home and restore the site. It's another year for us. The homeowner, hopefully, will be able to move on."
Some people have been staying in apartments or living with relatives since the storm.
"They're struggling to make ends meet while they wait," Mascarenas said.
Douglas said Mascarenas has a good handle on the program.
"Mike has done an outstanding job," he said. "He's our go-to guy."
Douglas said he's been told by his contacts that they should know within two weeks who qualifies for a buyout.
"We had a representative from the State Emergency Management Agency looking at homes. The qualifications are being part of multiple (flood) events and more than 50 percent damage. Some might not have qualified.
"They're still evaluating all the homes."
The maximum FEMA payment is about $30,000 for anyone who does not qualify for the buyout.
The property owner doesn't have to take the amount offered for a buyout, and some people probably will not, Essex County Emergency Services Director Donald Jaquish said.
"It's not going to make people whole. Some people will absolutely turn it down."
Jaquish said they're working hard to do everything they can for flood victims.
"Many homeowners still have no resolution to the storm," Mascarenas said. "Their lives haven't been able to go on.
"I feel bad for a lot of these people. These lives were turned upside down."
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Em and I were on an acquisition trip to the southern part of Maine. We met up with Jeff and Vonla (Jeff M) at a little homestyle restaurant (a local Maine chain) where we stopped for lunch in Old Town Maine. Good friends and a good lunch make for a great day
First thing I noticed when we walked in the door was this really cool suspended O Scale train set I like model trains, always have (I have a whack of HO scale stuff that I wanted to do something similar with in the Cub Cave ) They had a pair of trains -- separated by a pretty fair spacing and on a timer. There was always one of em running past our table every few minutes
The second thing I noticed on the way in -- the dessert cabinet unless you are a diabetic The dessert cabinet should have been the main menu cabinet cause they were not only scrumptious looking but were also very aromatically pleasing. Enough to get a diabetic off the diet....
The third thing I noticed was the folks... Mainers are so much like folks here in New Brunswick... well should be.. pretty much related especially in the border communities. The wait staff was exceptional, and I do mean exceptional. Attentive, funny, folksy, friendly and quick with recommendations.
The food is definitley home style, freshly made including the bread/buns and other bakery delight. I chose the Mozza/Mushroom Burger upgraded to homemade Onion Rings, Em got the Cheeze Burger with home made Sweet Potato fries, Vonla ordered the Seafood Sandwich with the seafood chowder side and Jeff.. like had the Cheese Burger I think. It was all very appetizing looking and the taste did not disappoint. The food was amazing -- awesome. My Mozza/Mushroom burger was simply to die for.. great lunch.
If you are in the Old Town area, this is the place to stop for lunch. Absolutely great food, great folks and great atmosphere. One of the best meals we have had in the US while travelling.. gotta go back again. I think we found ourselves a must stop when we travel through the state. Course the company at lunch really made the experience Jeff says that there are a number of Governor's Restaurants in Maine, and if you run by one, be sure to stop in