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BT to fibre up another 163 exchanges, coy on exactly where
BT has indicated another 163 exchanges will deploy fibre in 2013 as part of its £2.5bn broadband upgrade for two thirds of the UK. The national telco said the rollout will lead to more than one million homes and businesses witnessing hordes of BT Openreach engineers laying high-speed optic cabling mainly to street cabinets. …
Said to be up to 80Mbps
"with downstream speeds said to be up to 80Mbps" - no need to be mealy-mouthed about it, I'm about 50m from the cabinet and get 80 down and 20 up. It's perfectly possible if you are close and the copper to the cabinet is in good condition.
Re: Said to be up to 80Mbps
I'm nearly 500 metres from the cabinet (pretty average) and get 78/20. My modem claims I could get 30 up if it was allowed. I reckon most people will get somewhere above 70 and and a fair few will indeed get 80.
Re: Said to be up to 80Mbps
"I reckon most people will get somewhere above 70"
The vast majority of "BT Infinity" customers do get very high speeds.
However, a big part of this (if I have been given the correct info) is that BT refuse to allow anyone on "Infinity" who they are not certain will get a decent speed, instead pushing you onto a different product. It is used as a way to fiddle the figures for their Infinity product.
That said, many more will get the higher end of the speed range purely because people tend to be closer to their cab than their exchange.
Re: Said to be up to 80Mbps
On Tuesday 25th September at 14:50 AndrueC said "I reckon most people will get somewhere above 70."
My area was upgraded a few months back. I switched to fibre last week (the up to 76Mb BT package). I'm pretty impressed with so far. Due to my location BT estimated that I'd get about 25/6. My actual 'speeds' are 56/14 which was a pleasant surprise. (Are BT deliberately conservative with their estimates or did they hook me up to the 100Mb by mistake I wonder?)
The bonus is, it costs not a penny more than my previous standard broadband package, which ran at 9/1.5 :)
An no, I don't work for BT or any of their other companies.
How about...
enabling the fricking cabinets attached to the exchanges, rather than just a small percentage.
Re: How about...
Same reason as ever: RoI. Cabinets aren't cheap to install - on a typical exchange they probably represent the bulk of the cost. If a particular cabinet doesn't have enough properties it might not be upgraded in the first wave. And of course if it happens to be in a conservation area that can be a problem as well.
Re: How about...
Oddly enough in my area they've already plonked the cabinets in along the conservation area (14/15th C cottages) last month, but not yet near the 60s/70s houses that make up the bulk of the village; the scheduled date for the exchange is this month, so there's still time, and I understand they are running up to two months behind schedule in some regions anyway.
Due to have the switch flicked on my local olive drab monolith this weekend. That said, it was due end of July until they changed their minds four days beforehand, so there's time for a repeat.
Me too. You're not EACOS, are you?
Does that 75% and 25%
Include EVERY home or just the ones located near BT Main exchanges?
Lots of Norfolk still get only dial-up as they are more than 4Km from their exchanges, will this improve?
or does the 25% and75% still only mean in major cities and towns of 5,000 or more homes?
Re: Does that 75% and 25%
Its a big ripoff using 75% 25% as its 75% of home/businesses not 75% of the country, almost all of Scotland and Wales will not see Fiber from BT, so no to you I'm afraid your best bet for the future in flat Norfolk is 4G.....
Re: Does that 75% and 25%
Maybe not Wales as the Welsh Government is separately funding high speed braodband rollout to be started in Q1 2013 and completed by 2015.
This will give 80Mbs FTTC or 330Mbs FTTP to 96% of Welsh properties.
Re: Does that 75% and 25%
I know of an exchange with close to 11000 lines that is STILL on ADSL Max... Fibre will only come if BtTare paid to do it out of pubic funds, and then still expect to charge full price despite having invested much less of thier own cash in the AREA
BT and their announcements
BT said they will upgrade my exchange ( SE1 london so not out in the sticks ) by 2011 Dec then it got delayed without explanation to 2012 dec and now it say by the end of 2013
so I think it is just all promises , smoke and mirror.
also they have no intention to provide LLu services in their exchanges in the foreseeable future, all this from projects that partially funded from our taxes and EU money ??
Well they've deferred upgrading my Exchange (Worthing West) twice - first it was Jan 2012, then July - now it's Sept.
I'll believe it when I see it.
Re: Hah!!
If it was Sept, it's now Dec. The checker has been updated.
Re: Hah!!
Same here in my part of Glasgow. Delayed 3 times and now looking like we won't get fiber this year. There are plenty of homes and businesses in the area so why do BT insist on getting fibre to villages before us?
Re: Hah!!
3 times! My exchange (Greenhithe) has been deferred every quarter (usually 2 weeks before the end of it, like just now, End of September now end of December) for the last 2 years!! It's just BT's way of keeping people from going for another solution, cos theirs is "just round the corner". There aren't enough rude words available to call them!!!
Re: Hah!!
sounds like the ducts are blocked. Look for TRO popping up digging the road along the ducting paths. This is a sign they are actively working on getting to a cabinet.
That 75/25 split sounds wrong.
The 75% is correct but the remaining 25% doesn't sound right. I thought BT was doing:
10% Gawd only knows.
The article implies everyone will get either FTTC or FTTP and I'm pretty sure BT have never said that.
And the rest of us?
My local exchange isn't even unbundled. I get stuck with 'up to 8meg' and limited downloads.
Re: And the rest of us?
Try the Post Office. I'm in a limited up to 8mbps area (No LLU) but get unlimited downloads and a decent router from them!
Re: And the rest of us?
Post Office unlimited is a pile of FUP.
What they don't mention...
... is that they have also delayed many already-announced exchanges. My exchange was due to get FTTC in summer of 2011, but every three months, a week before the deadline, they put it back three months (and yes, today it's changed from 30 September to 31 December). So these 2013 announcements should be taken with a pinch of salt.
Re: What they don't mention...
Was 2010
Was 2012
Now 2013 ish
Mightily pissed off. My connection has slowly decreased from 3.3 to 1.9 at the master socket, new equip, while the next road round gets 5.5.
I could do with this.
Coming soon exchange list, hidden in plain view.
nice find
How about
Concentrating on enabling the cabinets around the exchanges already with the upgrade instead of headline grabbing, we are a small office on a business park in the middle of Bedford, the exchange has been ready for over a year, most of the cabinets in our street that are connected to homes have been upgraded yet we're all stuck with 3mb download speeds and they have no date for a planned upgrade they can give me, come on BT i've been on 50mb at home from Virgin for 2 years and you can only offer 3mb to a business? What year is this? 2004?
Have you tried asking one of BT's resellers like Sky or TalkTalk they might have a list of exchanges er possibly not that it will help as its the cabinets that have to be enabled and not every cab off an exchange is fibred up
Any chance we can just have DCTTH (decent cable to the house) BT, instead of FTTC? Replacing 30 year old wire would sure be a start in improving our broadband, instead of trying to squirt many more MB's through the old crusty wires.
Crusty old wires
Don't quote me on this but I'm pretty sure that if your connection from your house to the pole is the old style single pair cable in a figure 8 arrangement then openreach will swap it out as part of the FTTC installation.
All the cables from the pole to the cabinet and the cabinet to the exchange should be fairly modern anyway.
Re: Crusty old wires
"All the cables from the pole to the cabinet and the cabinet to the exchange should be fairly modern anyway."
Depends on what you mean by fairly modern. When the BT engineer installed my new pole-to-house cable last year I remarked that "at least it's copper all the way from my front room to the DSLAM now" to which he replied that no, it wasn't. It's still aluminium from the pole to the cab and there on to the exchange. BT claim they don't have any Al cabling left, but according to this chap that's not strictly 100% true. Fortunately I'm only 300m from the exchange so it's not a big deal.
We were meant to get Fiber down in weymouth before the olympics. Now we're getting split information, there are still posters about everywhere saying we already have BT Infinity as of a few months ago, on BBC they're saying they planned to start work in September after the paralympics are over (I haven't seen a single openreach van) and on the BT site we're "December 2013"
I just want a decent speed of broadband god dammit.
Well looks like the 2 remaining exchanges inside the M60 ring (Greater Manchester) are now on the map as "Future Exchanges" - including mine (yay!)
No guarantee they'll do my cab though.
BT Infinity - oh the irony.
"Bringing us all together for London 2012"
httpp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dPjSBL2VOo (or just search YouTube for the above title)
One of the 'falling stars' is heading towards the roof of my house.
Guess who is stuck with 6.5Mbps ADSL2 then.....
For fuck's sake
Still not on the list. It's like living in the dark ages.
Enabled date slipping by 3 months every 3 months?
If you currently have FTTC, what speed are you getting and what speed did you get on ADSL? It'd be useful for many of us to know if 50% of ADSL theoretical maximum can be translated to approximately 50% of VDSL theoretical maximum.
Like many others I see today that the line-enabled date that was 30th September is now 31st December. That's the 5th time its changed:
31/12/2011 (changed 20/12/2011)
31/03/2012 (changed 26/03/2012)
30/06/2012 (changed 26/06/2012)
30/09/2012 (changed 25/09/2012)
The ADSL Max speed is 5.5 ~ 6 Mbps with an SNR of 8~12 db. On that basis I figured we could expect at least 40Mbps on VDSL (shorter length of copper, 50% of theoretical maximum).
I emailed email@example.com to ask about the line last week and today got this reply:
"Thank you for your interest in our Fibre Broadband deployment. We are deploying one of the fastest and largest commercial deployments in the world. Our commercial deployment will have extended to 66% of the UK by the end of December 2014. We aim extend this to 90% of the UK, in partnership with other sources of funding, e.g. local and National government.
Unfortunately, we are technically unable to provide fibre broadband to your premise because of the excessive length of line between your premise and the fibre broadband cabinet"
So when the local exchange is enabled but the line-enabled date keeps slipping it could be because O.R. have decided the line won't handle VDSL at a sufficient speed.
Meanwhile back in Market 1
More customers are still stranded on ADSL 1 as BT can't be arsed to even move them to the 21st Century Network which gives uses ADSL2+.
What the hell? They don't even have to touch the wiring and I bet the DSLAM is already ADSL2+ compatible! That or they were idiots when they ordered it in 2005 or whatever.
BT's "Where and When" website...
... merely tells you whether the exchange is enabled.
Fat lot of good that is if BT CBA to upgrade your local cabinet.
Re: BT's "Where and When" website...
Hi Mike,
Use http://fttc-check.alc.im/ this tells you if your cabinet is due for upgrade and in what phase. Mine is in 9b which I have read is due beginning of 2013. But as always the phases are not exactally well known and I found getting info on them hard.
Re: BT's "Where and When" website...
Just as a note I looked at the PCP to Postcode list and the main exchange was phase 7b and that was only done in July so I am not too hopefull for a begining of 2013 for my phase 9b.
You never know though BT may suprise me.
Re: BT's "Where and When" website...
> Use http://fttc-check.alc.im/
"Not part of a phase"
Ah, well.
Was No current plans...
.... now future. yeay!
BT Suck its about time that fiber was run to all houses my download speeds are not good between 16 and19.74 some days i get no megs stop being tight bt u have won all the contracts to cabinets so do the houses same
My response from BT today:
"The exchange seems to be enabled, however it appears the cabinet in the street is in need of further upgrading. These upgrades look to be completed by the middle of next year."
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Database numpty question time
Why does the entire DB need to be in memory, as opposed to just the hottest parts or indexes or memory mapping it or any of the other locality & cache & 80/20 notions that we all teethed on? Is the data being used in such a chaotic way that true random access is the only hope?
<=== I so feel a blonde
Re: Database numpty question time
Shush!! The salesgrunts will hunt you down and cry on your shoulder if you carry on! They need to sell all that lovely memory, it's so much more expensive than just selling the customer half that much memory and the rest as disk.
Re: Database numpty question time
Salesdroid here, but trying to be both sensible and honest:
The idea is to let users make more searches with more variables and get faster responsetimes than ever before. More advanced searches can help you get immediate insight in data gathered seconds ago. Having older data in memory as well allows you to incorporate trends etc. in your reports.
Some get 1.000x or even more than 100.000x faster responsetimes from their reports, compared to traditional methods.
For some it is useful in decision making, for others it's just a feature. If you are a utility provider, being able to realtime/near-realtime monitor end-customers usage and could help you make the most profitable decisions regarding your production.
When everybody is talking about the possibilities of big data, think of SAP HANA as a "small big data" solution, allowing you near-instant reports on the data you already have.
Re: Database numpty question time
Because it uses all the information and it doesn't want cache roll?
Because it has massive amount of cores and they're doing vector processing type parallel jobs where the time to complete is on the worst scenario?
in mem vs ssd
HP really thinks there will be a lot of folks out there doing large scale stuff in memory in single images? Seems strange.. I think most expect most of that to be done with fast SSDs, and systems that use large amounts of memory would instead be some sort of distributed system.
Anyone know if SAP has or is building an alternative to this in memory system to running on SSD instead? I'm not familiar with the platform myself, but it strikes me as an older product line which was developed long before SSD.
Also the DL980 is a 8-way system not 4-way. Though perhaps SAP only supports 4 sockets on the 980.. I doubt it though - DL980 tops out at 4TB which given the memory controllers are on the CPUs would mean all 8 CPUs are required.
Flash is the way to go
Our SAP image is plenty small enough to put into all flash. The real big db is in our data warehouse....err sorry its called "Big Data System" now.
The DL980 is two four socket boxes tied together with two glue chips. The problem is the I/O is tied to the processors so it is unbearable to get from one processor thru the glue chip to the other processor then finally out to the network.
Will be interesting to see when HP actually gets this system out the door. ivy wont be until 4q at the earliest and HP never does anything before OCT 31st so many 1Q '14 or will this be like Integrity schedules which never had ny integrity and after being 3 months late HP would finally admit that it will be another year before they come out....i.e. Tukwila it was not ddr3 that held up product for 18 months.
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Re: Allison Park: Flash is the way to go
".....The DL980 is two four socket boxes tied together with two glue chips. The problem is the I/O is tied to the processors so it is unbearable to get from one processor thru the glue chip to the other processor then finally out to the network....." The IBM FUD on the DL980 has had years to ferment given that IBM can't make x64 above four sockets. And why is it modular systems, glue chips and crossbar switches are only a problem in non-IBM systems, and NEVER in IBM systems like the Power servers? LOL!
".....Will be interesting to see when HP actually gets this system out the door....." Don't worry, Alli, by then IBM will have sold their failing x64 server biz to Lenovo and retreated to the mainframe market, and then all you'll have to worry about if FUDding NonStop, ClearPath and BS2000.
"Survival of the thickest"
SAP: Make our system perform better, give us more memory
Unix: Tune your f**king bloated application better
SAP: But its easier to add more memory
Unix: And its expensive and a short-term fix
SAP: We don't understand the principles of tuning
Unix: Learn
SAP: Not enough time
Unix: Delay the implementation then
SAP: We already promised this as a solution without checking with you.
Unix: That will be 1 jillion dollars for new hardware
SAP: Our ego is worth 10 x that, sold!
Unix: Those who can,do; those who can't, SAP
(Variations of this conversation used to occur monthly at my last employer - I'm the Unix guy BTW)
If you want to name it after dark things whose awakening brings despair, why not go the whole way and call it "Project Cthulhu"?
Copyright expired in 2008, so that's not what keeps them back.
"...adding that it is difficult to find a single database with 6TB, 9TB, or 12TB of data."
Really? We have several. And doesn't stop at 12TB either. I guess that means HP has lost any reasonable size customers.
big working databases
" .... that it is difficult to find a single database with 6TB, 9TB, or 12TB of data."
Urrr -- I have a cluster or 6 around here supporting at least 10 DB's of that size, and several of those are copied out to "QA and Testing" environments.
And putting the entire DB in memory STILL wont help if the app is crap.
Its Friday of a long weekend, after a long night beating on a problem.
Re: big working databases
The new Oracle M5 SPARC server has 32TB RAM and 32 cpus. With HANA compressing the data, the M5 will be capable of handling 64TB in RAM. Would that suffice for your needs? (Fujitsu has also a 32TB RAM server called M10-4S but it has 64 cpus).
"This is a much larger memory footprint than most relational databases have today, says Miller, adding that it is difficult to find a single database with 6TB, 9TB, or 12TB of data."
No. No it isn't....
Big SAP Databases
In this context he may well be talking about big SAP databases.
There aren't that may SAP DBs over 12TB.
The beauty of having your DB in memory is fast reporting without having to set up a dedicated data warehouse reducing server count and storage requirements.
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Jul 29th 2010 By Amy Keyishian
Confession -- My Abusive Ex Was Just Like Mel Gibson
His "Gallipoli" days far behind him, Mel's become a bit of a frootbat in recent years, in case you haven't noticed. And I know you have. I really can't think of a more humiliating, scathing example of naked, caught-on-tape aggression than his recent Oksana-bashing rants.
As a pop-culture voyeur, I do get a certain schadenfreude from listening. But as a woman, I also get a chill. Because brutal as those rants are, it took me a couple rounds before I finally said, "OK, I haven't heard that before." Because I have an abusive ex exactly like Mel, and I had tapes like Oksana's. And hearing it all again makes me just a teeny bit sick to my stomach.
I should interject here to say: my ex went to AA, got sober and made amends, and not just to me. These days we're arm's-length friendly: He might ask me for relationship advice, I might send a link about Mario Brothers for him to share with his kids (whom I still adore).
In fact, when the Mel Gibson brouhaha hit, he called and asked, "Didja hear the tapes?"
"Are you kidding? I got déjà vu," I told him.
"Ah, you're a b***h," he laughed. Then, after a pause, "I'm sorry."
There's a lot to be said for amends. But the years I spent being called hideous names, shrinking under the sonic boom of his screaming temper tantrums, and walking on eggshells hoping to avoid a new rant didn't just disappear. I no longer hear him in my sleep (correction: after writing the rough draft of this post, I did have some night-sweats), but it's sometimes hard to hear him when I'm awake.
As I read the Tweets and various comments on articles about Mel, I'm depressed (though unsurprised) by the number of people who express empathy for him; apparently, there are a lot of angry mates out there who might not like what he said, but feel we all lose our cool sometimes. That assumes that screaming, "If you get raped by a pack of n*ggers, it'll be your fault" qualifies as losing your cool, but all right.
However, I'm downright annoyed by the "gold-digger" accusations flying around. The idea is that Oksana only released the tapes so she could shake Mel down for more money. But I mean, here's the thing: the tapes still exist. He still said that stuff. She couldn't shake him down for a single cent if he hadn't given her enough rope to hang him with.
So, why stay with him? That's the next question on everyone's lips. Why, if he was the kind of guy to say this brutal stuff, did she have a kid with him, stay with him, continue to see him even after he broke her teeth?
I get it.
It doesn't start out like that. It starts out great, like any relationship with a narcissist. They turn their limelight on you, and you bask in the warm glow of their attention till you're hooked. You experience love and connection as never before. But you're not in a relationship with a normal person; you're in a relationship with a cipher. And as the facade slowly vanishes, you start frantically chasing after him emotionally, figuring it must be something you did.
As the abuse ramps up, from verbal to emotional to physical, you begin to doubt your own perceptions, even your own sanity. This can't be happening, because it's so illogical. There's nothing else in your life you can point to where this cause (say, rolling up some Ethernet cable in a particular way) had this particular effect (being screamed at for a half-hour).
But the other person completely denies any wrongdoing, so your brain -- your normal brain -- decides the only logical conclusion is that you're simply mistaken. Anything that upsets that status quo gets sent somewhere else; the memories are stored in a different way, so you can't access them easily. It's a way to survive in crazy situations, and it serves you well if you're living under an oppressive regime you can't escape. If you're living under an oppressive regime that you could escape, if you weren't in such slippery denial, well, then it's less helpful.
If this is starting to ring a bell for you, I recommend the book "Dragonslippers: This Is What an Abusive Relationship Looks Like," by Rosalind Penfold. The illustrations border on cheesy, but the information is solid.
I used to make tapes like Oksana's, store them in a secret corner of my laptop, and listen to them when he wasn't around in an effort to shock myself out of the relationship. I also took snapshots of things he destroyed, wrote myself peppy and encouraging notes, and sought out therapy whenever I could get away. So, I get why Oksana was making these recordings.
And even though she says she's not the one who released them, I'd be totally on board if she were. Because when you're in the shadows, emotionally alone with crap like this, it's hard to convince yourself it's as bad as you think. It's only when it comes into the light that you can see what's really up and do something about it.
I think even my ex agrees with that.
Amy L. Keyishian lives in San Francisco, but left her heart in Brooklyn. She's written for every magazine you can think of, having spent four years as a Cosmopolitan staff writer and then freelancing for Self, Glamour, Maxim, Men's Health, Seventeen, Inc., Mac Life, and who the hell knows what else. She has a couple kids, a couple step-kids, a husband, and a severe Twitter hashtag addiction.
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Thursday 29 July
By Alicia
THANK YOU! I'm tired of hearing people bash Oksana when she's the victim of this bile. Gibson is cruel, crude and needs to be committed.
And Amy, you're beautiful, courageous and so strong to have not only shared your opinions, but your story and even more so to have survived it and still be friends with your ex. Thank you.
Thursday 29 July
By Lon
Mel is a lunatic but the gold digger is a victim because she gets yelled at?? I feel sorry for the innocent women who are in a relationship with a abusive man, lord knows how many are. But this woman is no innocent. Im going to swindle someone and when they yell at me I can be the victim.
Thursday 29 July
By amc
I agree with you fully. Everytime I hear Mel Gibson ranting on TV for a split moment I hear my ex screaming in my ear. People have a hard time believing that Mel Gibson could never be the way he is. Lets face it, I have found a way to discribe my ex in two words "MEL GIBSON" it amazes me that it takes a recording for anyone to actually believe that is what they live with.
Thursday 29 July
By garry
after weeks of this stuff on the net and in the papers, another woman comes forth. looking for some glory are we. why didnt you spring this back when. no, just bidding your time. why? mel is wrong, period. why stay on it. shes wrong also. tapes,lies,caught inlies,man are we forgetting something. until proven guilty.lawyers are ramping up this crap and making a fortune out of it.all the tapes cant be doctored. but so what. ok hes a racist, bigot, womenizer,so what .rappers are,directors are,producers are, actresses are, and actors are.so are half the country. north and south,east and west. get over it. its been here for ages, and its not going away soon...........
Thursday 29 July
By Jen
I don't understand why she is immediately labeled a gold digger. Because she did not stay with him? Which of you would like to live with that tell me? She has repeatedly told him I DON'T WANT YOUR MONEY and I WILL SIGN A PAPER TO SAY THAT.
Perhaps she started out wanting to get his money who know, only she really knows that. But, oh how that would change once you found out you were married to this! People that have not lived through this have absolutely NO IDEA how terrifying this is. And believe me he WILL NOT take care of the child. He will do things like not put her in a car seat, not watch her closely, talk to her in a terrifying way, drive around with her in a car while drunk and make sure mom knows they are doing that and more and more and more. Why? Because THAT is what these guys DO. And they do it to get back at you and control you. And social services will do NOTHING.
So you leave but, now the terror has just begun, because now you have to drop your child off with a monster every other weekend. AND if you think he will not treat the child, with the same disregard in the same scarey manner that he does the mother, I have a bridge I can sell you in Brooklyn. The statistics on this are reproducible, these guys may or many not leave marks but they abuse their kids too.
This guys first wife STAYED. If she let him run the show and kept her mouth shut when he screwed around and he was not afraid she would leave he would still treat her like crap but NOT KILL HER. People don't you understand, these terrorist guys - THEY ABUSE YOU WHEN YOU STAY , BUT THEY KILL YOU WHEN YOU LEAVE THEM. AND once they can't get to you they GO AFTER YOUR KIDS. THIS is the reason abused women dont leave, they do not want to get KILLED
Saturday 31 July
By billy bo bo
THANK YOU! I'm tired of hearing people bash Oksana when she's the victim of this bile. Gibson is cruel, crude and needs to be committed.
you are soooo wrong ... she is a devious psycho who looks for famous men to line her pockets with ... SHE is cruel and crude ... she is the epitome of poor self esteem and falsehood ... she lies and appeals to a lesser truth because it is the only one she knows ( like most women nowadays) ... she waits in secret and cowardly backstabs the men she has loved, instead of finding the courage to be the woman she presented herself as when she first fell in love with him Yes, her life is a sham and a disgrace ... I wonder who she will run to next with that very coy flair and open her legs
Thursday 29 July
By mark
It has been proven by an recording expert that the tapes were doctored and edited. It is very easy to take something someone said and edit it to make them say what you want for example what you originally wrote!
THANK YOU! I'm tired of hearing people bash Gibson when he's the victim of this bile. She is cruel, crude and needs to be committed.
And about your ex, you're not beautiful, courageous or so strong to have only shared your opinion, but I am even more a victim to have survived reading your story and still be friends with you .
Thank you for nothing.
See how easy it is to edit actual words for 2 different posting and you actual post and make you say something you didn't either!
Friday 30 July
By Robert
Wait, let me see if I understand this; Mel Gibson, at the age of 55 and previously married for about 30 years, NEVER hit his ex-wife, but then, after all this time on our planet, decides to beat up Oksana. Right................................Oksana is a money-grubbing whore who used her looks to break up a long marriage. But to women, she's a victim. And you whores wonder why no one takes feminism seriously.
Friday 30 July
By Mel
She is a gold digger. She got what she derserved.
Friday 30 July
By RON
Maybe, she could get Obama's dick in her! Then it would be different!!!!!
Friday 30 July
By knowitall
We are commenting on a relationship we personally have no knowledge about. We know only what we are fed by the media and the parties involved. We were never there in their bedroom or even remotely involved in any part of their relationship, yet we believe these statements by these individuals as fact or we are convinced that we KNOW things happened THIS way, and not THAT way. How can we know what is the truth -- ignorant ones !? Because you see a couple arguing and one is yelling at the other, does not mean that the person doing the yelling is the one at fault !!! The other party could have been so disrestectful or done something totally wrong that the other party is simply venting and voicing their displeasure !! Tell me...Is there something wrong with that ?? Is it OK for women to yel, scream, act out in voilent ways, but when men do the same they are being abusive ?!? What a load of CROCK! That is just tooo nice and neat to make the aggressive one out to be the abuser when they may actually be the victim. Women have been using children for financial gain for decades - and he should not have had the child with her - couldn't there be a possibility that she is using the child as a purse and is actually causing this whole drama ? It's hard to believe he is just a rampant violent abuser who lives his daily life getting on the phone yelling and cussing people out, even more hard to believe that he is an habitual abuser. Male and female can be abusive. I piss off my spouse, she gets to yelling and carrying on-- I guess she's being abusive...
Friday 30 July
By handsome
So you illegally recorded someones private phone conversations. Did you bait your ex to encourage his ill behavior? Did you release portions of the tapes to the public? There are two sides to a story, and we are only getting one halves edited view. I believe Mel Gibsons a kook, but how balanced is she and any other woman who fails to see that behavior before they get involved. Especially when they pursue a married man. I have no sympathy for this woman. She's on the grift, and should be arrested and prosecuted for her illegal activities.
Thursday 29 July
By Montreal_1
Great article Amy. Thanks for voice of reason
Thursday 29 July
By Katya
Yes, I agree..great article..It's about time someone comes forth and says it like it is. Mel deserves NO sympathy. It is not just a "losing your temper" deal. He is a predator and the reason he is so "nice" in his public persona is because he needs that feedback from the public to fill his unsatiable need for adoration, but in reality he is a destructive narcissist who vents his hate on those who are closest to him. There is a book about these cruel people..it is called "Children of the self-absorbed" by Nina W. Brown. I know..my mother is one. Only those who are around them know the extent of their abuse and "on-lookers" do not understand because they only see the fake outer persona meant to draw attention. I empathize with Oksana and that poor baby. Thankyou Amy for sharing. YOU are wonderful and I wish you the best.
Thursday 29 July
By DAvid
Oksana is a manipulative gold digger.....planned EVERYTHING and is ABOSULUTELY NOT a victim. Her recorderings are nothing but actions of her bating Mel Gibson into an angry fit. She's a very sly tool.....and I'm sure Amy is no angel either....I"m so sick of these women users who play the "I'm a victim" card....sick to DEATH!!! Get a life, get a job and take care of yourselves...and stop being gold digging users!!! Not all of us are drinking the victim kool aide....and not all of us are buying your "stories."
Thursday 29 July
By jj
Thank you, Amy!! I wish everyone would see this who has followed this story! I too have lived (was married) with someone like this and I feel the same way. I have a lot of trouble listening to people bashing Oksana as well. Thank you for so elequently expressing what I think is an insight many people don't have. (Lucky for them!)
Thursday 29 July
By johnjohn
mel did nothing against the law.... freedom of speech is a wonderful thing there baby
Thursday 29 July
By Private Number
Thank you Amy for putting into words experiences that many of us don't even want to revisit when we are awake and in a safe place. The trick is, not to get back into a similar relationship.
Thursday 29 July
By MMMM
I just want to say that it is imperative that people with violent history get help, it this does not happen the pattern continues and there will always be someone else paying the prize for their irresponsible actions. I was brutally beaten by my ex and he did not accept the responsibility instead he got himself a good attorney and the charges were reduced to a missed demeanor parking violation. So according to him he never did anything wrong.
Let's change the laws!
Thursday 29 July
By Dana
There is one thing if he is physically assaulting you and another if he is screaming at you when you provoke it. You can tell by the tapes that she provokes this whole situation, using the kids to get to him and basically did a bait and switch in their relationship.
So many biatches are like this and you can't deny it. He gave and gave and she just took and took..... Eff all you gold digging biatches...
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Button move a mistake, says Stewart
18 November 2009 – Sir Jackie Stewart feels that Jenson Button is making a mistake in moving to McLaren ahead of his season of title defence. The Scot, who claimed three world titles between 1969 and 1973, believes that the Englishman should have pursued closer a deal to stay at Brawn GP, now Mercedes.
With Brawn - which Button joined in 2003, as B.A.R - having been regarded by many as 'Button's team' and the same applying to Lewis Hamilton's relationship with McLaren, Stewart believes that the 2009 World Champion will face difficulties in overhauling his predecessor and compatriot in an identical car.
"It will be difficult for him to take on Lewis Hamilton," Stewart explained to BBC Radio 5 Live. "It's like walking into the lion's den because Lewis has had three years with McLaren now and he has it his way - he's already disposed of one driver that came in there, Alonso."
With Hamilton being the higher paid of the pairing and preparing for his fourth season with the Woking outfit, Stewart is confident that Button may soon reflect on the deal with regret. "I think it's a mistake by Jenson," Sir Jackie said plainly. "If I was Jenson, I would have wanted to do a deal with Brawn because I would know the culture of the Brawn team, have high respect for Ross Brawn (Team Principal) and know the mechanics.
"There's a totally different culture at McLaren, something that he might never have experienced before; they have a very clinical culture which doesn't have the emotion or the drive in the same passionate way that Brawn would have had with him there as the reigning World Champion."
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Quality of Dialogue
The Evolution of Collaborative Creativity
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We know that we are now living in a time of profound unpredictability. As a result of the degree of uncertainty and change in global economics and society, design practice in many areas is undergoing considerable transformation. Many designers are making a more profound contribution to a larger range of company decision-making embracing user, market, and global issues. Design thinking is now a familiar aspect of company life with new career paths for design managers and organization leaders. Key issues have emerged that increasingly affect design activity: a marked concern with the environment, demographic change and user collaboration, business ethics, and sustainability.
Paradoxically, at the same time that new design structures and strategies are being put in place, it would appear that the design community in 2008 is in reflective rather than experimental mode. This could be a very human reaction to massive change. Maybe as the world gets more complex, people shy away from the big decisions? At a recent design management conference, participants were asked to suggest the primary characteristics designers would need in the future. "Designers must be brave" was first on the list. Of course, there is evidence of progress, but there needs to be a more sustained dialogue between business and design that connects with society as a whole. This will lead to more investigation and development in both design practice and education. It will also lead to new forms of leadership and team activity as well as significant new directions for design. In a research group at Goldsmiths College, University of London, we are calling one of these directions metadesign.
First of all, we have to be aware of these transformations that are taking place, some of them very subtle. Many leading design consultancies have responded to these contextual factors by acquiring new knowledge either internally with an enlarged discipline base or externally through alliances with experts in other fields. This paper is concerned with the emergence of enhanced creativity and innovation through these new collaborations. It is particularly focused on diverse knowledge transfer possibilities and the way everyday conversation plays a major part in creative development. Collaborative systems and techniques in design have been studied and recorded, notably since the 1990s. What we are seeing now is a reappraisal of these techniques and a more confirmed connection to organizational psychology in the light of global changes.


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"The budget is a multitudinous document and it's our one shot, on a financial basis, to get what the state and district will need for the year, so it's a lot of battles all at once," Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz said in an interview on Tuesday.
Chang-Diaz and her Senate colleague, Linda Dorcena Forry, collectively had an interest in more than 200 of the nearly 1,000 amendments filed for the $36.2 billion Senate bill. After a week of haggling over line items and long nights for the senators and their staffs, a relative few out of the initial outlay were left standing and adopted.
Those that made the final cut included $200,000 for the St. Mary's Woman and Infant Center's "Woman at Work" program, which is meant to help women with significant barriers to employment achieve self-sufficiency, and $9.5 million (a hike of $300,000 from last year) for the Safe and Successful Youth Initiative grant program, which gives money directly to the 11 cities and towns with the state's highest number of youth homicides and serious assaults.
Funding was also provided for full-day kindergarten for all five year olds in Boston, for teen pregnancy prevention, for improvements to Ventura Park and baseball field, and for an Iraq and Afghanistan Fallen Heroes Veterans Memorial in the Seaport District.
The memorial amendment passed unanimously, with Dorcena Forry, the amendment's sponsor, noting that the $250,000 allotted by the Senate for construction is at the mercy of the six-legislator conference committee that has been charged with reconciling the House and Senate bills, both of which are laden with amendments that would cost many millions.
"When it comes to conference committees, anything is negotiable," Dorcena Forry said. "Everything is on the table."
The best way to ensure an amendment's survival in the final budget proposal? Make sure there's no difference between the House and Senate amendments. Or simply ask for no money at all.
A number of no-cost amendments made it through the Senate, including a bill giving communities impacted by new late-night MBTA hours the option of extending liquor licensing hours, a favorite of Mayor Martin J. Walsh that was sponsored by Dorcena Forry. Another would permanently codify the Office of Access and Opportunity, which Gov. Deval Patrick created by executive order. Dorcena Forry sponsored the bill and Chang-Diaz was one of the co-sponsors.
Of course, even free is not always possible. The success and failure of the amendments ultimately comes down to relationships, both in and outside the Legislature, and the power of the pen. "The key is going to be doing letters, working with my colleagues in the House and Senate, and supporting particular amendments to co-sign letters" of support to the conference committee members, said Dorcena Forry. "Rep. Dan Hunt was in here earlier talking about some of the amendments that he cared about. I said 'Okay,' so we'll craft a letter and send it off."


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Liberating Rhythm
20-Year-Old Poet Sheri Booker Drops Spirit, Rhythm, and Revolution in Her Debut Book One Woman, One Hustle
"I like to write in quiet spaces," says 20-year-old poet Sheri Booker, who has worked at the mortuary as an administrative assistant for the past six years.
Booker's recently self-published literary debut, a collection of poetry and prose that is as uplifting as it is entrenched in the realities of the streets, announces a startling new talent. The book, One Woman, One Hustle, is aptly titled, though Booker really seems to have many hustles. For starters, she's a political science major at the College of Notre Dome and the assistant to a pastor at one of the fastest-growing African Methodist Episcopal congregations in Baltimore, in addition to working at the funeral parlor in the evenings. When, you may ask, does she find time to write?
"Sometimes I write my stories and poems in class," says the honey-colored Booker, who sits perfectly poised in one of the funeral parlor's conference-room chairs. "And sometimes I write in church, too, when I should be paying attention."
But even a sideways glance at her writing makes it clear that Booker pays keen attention to everything she hears, in class, at church, on the streets, and on the radio. Her poems read like lost chapters of history books, while spirituality flows through her work freely, without welling up on self-righteousness. Her agenda is one of documenting culture, speaking to injustice, and offering realistic resolutions, she says. What's more, she writes with an edge that rebirths hip-hop's early social angst, but voices it in the language of today's more polished and broad hip-hop sound. Lines like those from her book's title poem exemplify the strength of Booker's voice:
Never had no rhythm
But I'll switch these hips
Up and down a walkway
until my joints get tired
Of my own beat
In person, Booker's easy manner belies her hectic schedule, much in the same way that the pink cover of her new book shows no trace of the gritty ground that it covers inside.
"People ask me why I have the pink," she remarks, tilting her head to the side. Perfectly upturned curls frame her face. "Of course, it's feminine, it's woman, but I just wanted to do something young girls would want to read and women in general would want to read."
The poems in One Woman are divided into three parts, each devoted to themes of self-image, empowerment, and love. "One Life," for instance, is the section that addresses identity and self-concept; in one of its poems, "Beauty," Booker writes about her own appearance and how it plays against beauty's more commercial standards. Several pages later she reveals why she writes and gives readers a glance at the breadth of what she calls her "open mind" in one of the section's strongest works, "I Ain't No Poet."
because everybody who spits,
mouth ain't clean
and I've heard dope poetry
from men who fiend.
Likewise, many of Booker's poems in the "One Liberty" section, dedicated to sowing the seeds of activism and change, leave readers with the inclination to start a revolution rather than finger-snap in unison. In "Press Release," Booker warns against complacency within the African-American community and gives some insight into her own interest in politics by writing about the rights denied her grandfather.
But memories are meaningless to a
struggle-free generation X who painted
plastic spoons silver
So I listen to the words of my granddaddy
when he quoted to me that democracy
is synonymous with hypocrisy
he's watching me
And that's why I vote
every opportunity that I get
'cause he never had the luxury
In "Daddy," Booker addresses another issue that plagues many African-American families.
"Most of my female friends didn't have a father, but I did," Booker says, noting that he could be pesky in his demands around the house. "And even though he would get on my nerves, my friends would be like, 'Dag. I wish I had a father to ask me for ice water.'"
Booker visits the father-daughter relationship in "Thug Love," a verse about the daughter of a cop who finds herself ensnared in a love affair with a drug dealer. Like many of the poems in One Woman, Booker's flow and emphasis on irony in "Thug Love" could be set to a bassed-up track as easily as the lines of some of hip-hop's greatest lyricists.
Who knew that me
The offspring of a knocker
Street rocking copper
my gun popping poppa
would grow to love a thug
I shrug 2 'cause who knew
That my boo would be a hustler street buster
For sure, Booker's verses create a sound of their own. So it may not be surprising that Booker attributes musicians--especially those who have been instrumental in hip-hop's evolution--as the models for her distinctive voice. "Lauryn Hill is probably the greatest influence in my life," she says.
Aside from music and politics, religion has also had a heavy bearing on Booker's life. Much like the main character of One Woman's sole prose offering, "And God Said What???", Booker grew up in the church. After working as a volunteer under the Rev. Jamal-Harrison Bryant when he was the National Director of the Youth and College Division of the NAACP, Booker soon became a kind of acolyte to Bryant. When he decided to begin his own church in 2000, Booker was one of the people he called to help get things started.
"I'm one of the original 43 members. I was there from the beginning, from before it was a church," Booker recalls of the Empowerment Temple AME Church, which now boasts a membership of nearly 7,000. The Temple is also where Booker began her career as a spoken-word poet. A casual call to Bryant to share one of her latest poems, "Endangered Black Man," landed Booker at the head of what is now the church's poetry ministry, Liberating Yourself Rhythmically in Christ, aka LYRIC.
"[Bryant] said, 'Do this in church tomorrow,' after I read the poem," Booker recalls. "I said, 'No,' and he said, 'Well, don't come to church tomorrow unless you are going to do it.'" Booker re-enacts the pivotal moment in her career with enjoyment. "I didn't have a choice, so that was the first time I have ever performed in front of anyone."
After overcoming her fear of reading publicly--and after seeing the response of the church's then-300 attendees--Booker suggested that the Empowerment Temple make poetry a part of its ministrations. LYRIC was born.
About the same time in 2000, another local poet, Myisha Cherry, heard Booker promoting the Poetry Ministry on the radio and immediately decided to join.
"Prior to [joining LYRIC] I was not writing like I used to," Cherry says. "But during the ministry, I was able to get back to writing again." That writing led to the completion of an entire book of poetry, Psalm Epic, which Cherry self-published in 2000 while also starting Mwaza Publications, a publishing outfit that assisted in issuing One Woman.
"The purpose of Mwaza Publishing is to give young writers the opportunity to allow their voice to be heard," Cherry states. "Sheri expressed to me some months ago that it was about time for her to put her work in a book. I always credit Sheri with allowing me to be where I am now, because I wouldn't have started writing again if it wasn't for her. So I had no alternative but to help her."
Though Booker decided to self-publish One Woman, she admits that getting picked up by a major publisher is one of her goals--along with becoming a freestyle rapper, and a host of other things.
"I'm kind of in a bind," Booker says. "I am interested in political journalism, but I really don't know whether or not I want to go to mortuary school, and I really don't know if I want to go to law school. I don't know what I want to do."
In the meantime, recording some of her spoken word and writing a novel, which may expand on the short story in One Woman, are on Booker's more immediate horizon. And while she asserts in the refrain of her poem "Microphone Checker" that she's "not the greatest M.C.," Booker may be on to something when she says she can affect change if she's heard--or read.
"I'm not the greatest MC," she says with a look of confidence. "But let me get someone's attention and I'll start a revolution."
For more information about One Woman, One Hustle, visit www.lyricallykorrect.com.
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Born 17th February, 1941 (in Tibet)
The eldest child of a family of four sons and one daughter, recognized as the incarnation of previous Doboom Tulku at the age of three by Ven. Lama Phurchog Jamgon Rinpoche.
Brought to the hermitage in Tehor province, near the Dhargye Monastery in eastern Tibet where previous incarnation lived.
Formal education initiated at the age of seven, comprising reading and memorizing Buddhist scriptures under a private tutor at the hermitage and Dhargye Monastery.
At the age of twelve, went to Lhasa to enter the Drepung Monastery, the biggest in Tibet. Studied mainly Buddhist Philosophy for six years, until 1959.
Fled to India from Tibet during the uprising of 1959, lived in a transit camp for Lamas at Buxar, West Bengal, India. Continued studies there until 1969.
In 1969, joined the Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies at Sarnath, then under the auspices of Sanskrit University, Varanasi, studied Buddhist philosophy for three years and received Geshe-Acharya degree in 1972.
Appointed as Librarian at Tibet House, New Delhi in 1972; worked for one and half years.
At the end of 1973, joined the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Dharamsala, H.P. as Librarian and research assistant, main responsibility was to supervise cataloguing and to evolve a proper classification system for Tibetan texts. Also, involved in translation and editing.
In 1997, joined the Private Office of H.H. the Dalai Lama as Secretary, dealing mainly with Tibetan correspondence. Worked for about five years, during which time accompanied His Holiness the Dalai Lama on visits to Japan, USSR, Mongolia, Switzerland, Greece and USA.
Since 1981 to till date, Director of Tibet House, Cultural Centre of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in New Delhi. Working for promotion of Tibetan cultural heritage to a wide audience through a diverse range of programmes at Tibet House.
In 1996, appointed by His Holiness as Director of His Foundation for Universal Responsibility established with the Nobel Peace Prize money as its initial corpus fund to work for universal harmony and well-being.
Since 1997 onwards pursued a project of World Festival of Sacred Music which ushered in the third millennium under the auspices of Tibet House and Foundation for Universal Responsibility. It became a worldwide event with festivals taking place at several venues on the different continents. In October 1999, the first festival took place in Los Angeles, the Global event at Banglore in April 2000, and it successfully concluded in Berlin in December 2001.
As of now, engaged in various Inter Cultural and Intra Buddhist dialogue activities at a Global level.
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Dr. Malcolm J. Solomon is a composer, a writer, a director and an independent filmmaker. Having earned a doctoral degree from Rice University, he divides his time between the previous occupations and teaching at the university level.
Dr. Solomon earned a bachelor's degree in classical composition at the University of St. Thomas, followed by both master's and doctoral degrees from Rice University. Among other awards, he was honored by the American Festival of the Arts and the Sonoklect International Concert Series of 20th Century Music. His compositions have been commissioned and actively sought by a member of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Wilson Symphony Orchestra, the Durham Arts Council, and Rice University's choral conductor among others. His electroacoustic piece "Two" was included on the internationally distributed CD 60 X 60. It was also performed on the radio in Amherst, MA, in a weekly program that features the finest in contemporary classical and experimental music on WMUA FM 91.1. His piece Music for Clarinet and Piano was performed at the 2008 Society of Composers, Inc. National Conference.
Additional recent performances include the world premiere of his multimedia piece SS St. Louis, which honors the passengers of the SS St. Louis and other holocaust victims, in April 2009's Composers Concert at the University of St. Thomas. It featured computer music and video and was performed by flautist Dr. Ann Fairbanks. His solo piano piece Blitzkrieg was performed in the same concert by Jasmine Hatem. Blitzkrieg was also included in a lecture-recital entitled The Black Composer: Influence, Inspiration and Identity given by Dr. Marie-Louise Catsalis. It was performed at Brisbane, for the 2007 joint Australian/New Zealand musicological conference Islands, at Notre Dame de Namur University and at Santa Clara University. Other performances include Shabbat Shalom (for choir, piano and horn), performed at last year's conference of the Society of Composers, Inc., and Life and Silhouette (both for voice and piano), which were performed at the National Association of Negro Musicians conference, where Dr. Solomon participated in a panel discussion of African-American art songs.
A full concert of Dr. Solomon's works entitled The Music of Malcolm Solomon was presented by University of St. Thomas in Houston, TX, where Dr. Solomon's string quartet S.q 2 (S dot q 2) was performed by the Enso String Quartet and two of his jazz pieces, Legend and Dancing Dare, were performed by the Tom Borling Quartet. Excerpts of two short films Dr. Solomon wrote, directed, produced and scored, The Contest and The Stairwell, were also shown.
Dr. Solomon also has a strong background in jazz composition and has been performing (solo piano, small ensemble and big band) at public and private functions ever since he was a teenager. While a student, he studied jazz privately with Tom Borling and Ronnie Matthews. He was one of the featured entertainers at the Houston International Festival, where he performed both standards and originals.
His film scoring has drawn praise from such notable figures as Isaac Hayes, Ken Sutherland and international concert singer Robert Gerber. In 2001, Dr. Solomon won the film scoring competition at the Acapulco Black Film Festival. He has scored a number of short films, feature films, television pilots and movie trailers, including:
Dr. Solomon was the music editor for:
Dr. Solomon was both an assistant composer and music editor for:
As an undergraduate, Dr. Solomon studied screenwriting and playwriting extensively. He is a prolific writer and has since written over a dozen screenplays that range in genre from comedy and romantic comedy to horror and drama. His most recent screenplay, Raped, has been chosen as a semi-finalist in:
Additional screenplays have won and been finalists in a number of international competitions, including:
Dr. Solomon's full-length novel The Suirlang Chronicles: Lee was a finalist in
This novel is also available as a screenplay.
Dr. Solomon and M. J. Solomon Productions recently completed A Haunting at Giger State University, a horror feature film. Boasting a compact, talented cast, the film revolves around two music students who agree to work late in a university's music library after the campus closes for the summer, a typically mundane task. The events that follow, however, will push the students to the brink of insanity and leave them fighting for their lives.
To learn more, please view the film's Press Kit.
Dr. Solomon has also written, directed and produced three short films. He also scored the films and their trailers.
The Stairwell is a surreal drama in which a man faces the darkness that has guided him throughout his life. Chosen for one of only sixteen highly coveted slots, it was shown at the 2002 Jamerican International Film & Music Festival -- one of the top ten international film festivals in the world, according to E! Entertainment. There it won the Final Draft Screenwriters Award for best short script.
The Contest is a romantic comedy in which a young composer chosen as a finalist in an international composition competition falls in love with the one woman who can cost him the contest. This short film was also chosen for one of the sixteen coveted slots at the 2002 Jamerican International Film & Music Festival. It is based on a full-length script that reached the finals in the Sundance Feature Film Program. Dr. Solomon composed all of the modern classical music showcased in the competition scenes. A talented and accomplished pianist, Dr. Solomon performed one piece himself along with Robert Gerber: a piece for voice and piano.
Fallen Diva is a surreal drama that tells the story of a much lauded diva who abandons her family for her singing career as drugs lead her down a dark, destructive path. It was filmed in 2007-2008 and is currently making the film festival circuit.
Dr. Solomon has also combined his love of music with his love of filmmaking by producing, directing, editing and composing and arranging the music for three music videos.
His latest music video X-Man revolves around an American soldier stationed in Iraq and is currently making the film festival circuit. Thus far it has been selected as an Official Selection of the Toronto Independent Film Festival, an Official Selection of the New York City Independent Film Festival, Official Selection of the Cannes Independent Film Festival, an Official Selection of the London Independent Film Festival, an Official Selection of the Hollywood Black Film Festival, an Official Selection of the San Diego Black Film Festival and an Official Finalist in the Canada International Film Festival. It also won the Silver Remi Award for Creative Excellence at Worldfest - Houston International Film Festival.
That's Life, which focuses upon the apathy that afflicts society, was chosen as an Official Selection of the Toronto Online Film Festival.
Wack Attack (Crack Attack) reveals the duality of a crack addict's existence and is currently making the film festival circuit as well.
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An ingenious choreographer premieres a new ballet, courtesy of Prokofiev
A company honors established comets, dancing stars, and talented novas
Alexei Ratmansky and Twyla Tharp offer up new ballets
A ballet veteran looks back; young dancers gaze into the future
A venerable dance company shows off its treasures
The American Ballet Theatre doctors up The Sleeping Beauty
ABT offers modern ballet gems in its fall season
Two ballets, composed almost 50 years apart, speak in different voices on profound matters
In art from postwar Japan and between-wars Europe, light and dark fight for soul and body
To some, a ballet evening without tutus is like a martini without gin
Christians battle Muslims in Russian ballet! (Anybody notice?); Eliot in drag downtown!
Uptown and downtown variants of obsession, corruption, alienation, and other sad facts
Tharp's Dancers Gleam on Broadway, and ABTs at City Center
When a Lot Is All Wrong and a Little Just Right


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Posted by: Allenperry
Tree carnage - 09/12/03 06:28 PM
I was rapping off Northern Pillar Wednesday when near the bottom of the cliff I saw what I thought was a lame attempt at tree carving. Looked liked it was done with a chainsaw! Then I remembered hearing about rockfall there during a rap. There were football size chunks of broken rock at the base of the tree. Are the unfortunate witnesses to the rockfall O.K?


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November 28, 2014
A student group is pushing for a tobacco-free campus at the University of Nebraska Kearney.
Students will be asked in emails on Wednesday and Thursday if they support the Peer Health Education group's proposal. Depending on the outcome, it may be presented to the chancellor's cabinet for consideration.
The team began exploring the issue in 2012 after receiving UNK student opinions from a national health survey, which indicated support for a tobacco-free campus.
Current UNK policy prohibits tobacco use in campus facilities and vehicles, and within 10 feet of entrances. Similar policies are in place on the university's Omaha and Lincoln campuses. The University of Nebraska Medical Center has been tobacco-free since 2009.
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Considering this installation was dubbed the "Rose Valley Project" for the beautiful area in Washington state where custom electronics pro Charisma Productions worked on it, we'd say everything's coming up roses.
For one thing, it features state-of-the-art CinemaScope widescreen video from a combination of JVC Professional DLA-RS2U projector, Stewart Filmscreen CineCurve Firehawk screen (110 inches) and Panamorph anamorphic motorized lens sled system.
That gets the full no-black-bars viewing for superwide 2.35:1 content shown on the Sony Blu-ray player, and one touch of the RTI T3-V touchscreen remote can accommodate the more traditional 16:9 and 4:3 aspect ratio content for optimum viewing of DISH Network programming. It accommodates these multiple aspect ratios by using an external RSVP1 THX-Certified Scaler by JVC Pro, according to Charisma's Johann Peters.
The room is amplified by a Marantz 8002 AV Receiver, and the speaker system is a 7.1 Klipsch Reference system using RB-81 for the fronts LR's and a Klipsch RC-64 Center for dialog with a dual 12-Inch Klipsch RW-12D Subs for the bottom-end, says Peters. The rear in-ceiling surrounds are the Klipsch R-5650-S in-wall surround sound speaker.
For convenient control in the room, the RTI T3-V touchscreen remote with a RF RTI's RP-6 and RP-1 Remote Control Processor are put to use. "The light control is by Lutron, using the spacer system which performs 6-zone lighting and provides four separate scenes. Drape control system is performed by Makita for closing the drapes in the three windows," Peters notes.
There's also room for iPod, of course, which streams in via a Colorado vNet audio zone touchscreen with an iPod docking iPort for the gaming area in the kitchenette.
For aesthetics, the room is just as rosy. The knotty alder woodwork was custom-built to accommodate the Klipsch speakers and the Lutron lighting system which incorporated into the theater's arches, and as you can see below, the lovely cabinetry has plenty of room to add future components.
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Systems Design & Installation
Charisma Productions
Kelso, Wash.
JVC Professional DLA-RS2U
110-inch Stewart Filmscreen CineCurve Firehawk
Panamorph Anamorphic Motorized Lens Sled System RSVP1 JVC PRO RSVP1 THX-Certified Scaler
Marantz 8002 AV Receiver
Sony Blu-Ray BDP-S550
Dish Network VIP 722
Klipsch Reference RB-81
Klipsch RC-64 Center
(2) 12-Inch Klipsch RW-12D Subs
Klipsch R-5650-S Surround Speakers
RTI T3-V Touchscreen Remote
RTI RP-6 Remote Control Processor
RTI RP-1 Remote Control Processor
Lutron spacer system
Drape Control System by Makita
Colorado vNet Audio Zone Touchscreen
iPort iPod Docking Station
Liberty THX Ultra II Certified Speaker Cable
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