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Does your organization's budget depend heavily on a signature activity or one big event, which could be easily affected by weather, timing, or competing activities? Is the biggest percentage of revenues tied to individual or corporate donations that vary from one year to the next? Diversifying the organization's income beyond direct fundraising can provide short-term economic stability as well as long-term viability .
Nonprofits have a variety of options for generating revenue, including the following.
Corporate sponsorships. For years, corporations have signed up to support a particular cause or effort. Eat a particular cereal, and you support the U.S. Olympic Team. Drink a specific brand of coffee, and you help save the rainforest. Purchase a certain piece of clothing, and you can aid a children's welfare organization. In fact, several research studies have confirmed that consumers are more likely to purchase products from companies that exhibit active community involvement. In addition, employees whose companies team up with nonprofits usually feel a greater loyalty to their employers.
Corporate sponsorships typically involve a specific product or signature event, although sometimes they apply to an organization's activities in general. They don't necessarily have to take the form of a cash donation. An airline, for example, may wish to provide corporate sponsorship by providing several round-trip tickets each year, which your organization can use as prizes. Some organizations have formalized corporate sponsorship programs with specified levels of involvement. That is, as a company invests more with the organization, it moves up the sponsorship ladder and in return receives additional recognition and public acknowledgments.
Note: The Internal Revenue Service keeps close watch on sponsorships, which, unlike advertising, are not subject to unrelated business income tax. Therefore recognition of sponsorships is allowed, provided it does not constitute advertising by granting substantial benefits to the company in return.
Affinity programs. Whether offered by credit card, car rental, or overnight shipping companies, affinity programs pay royalties to the nonprofits in return for use of their names, logos, and mailing lists. If someone carries a credit card with your organization's logo, for instance, you'll receive a royalty every time the card is used. These programs differ from sponsorships because they are not custom-crafted. Affinity programs typically offer a one size fits all solution for which the nonprofit simply signs up as a participant.
Revenue'sharing programs. Found often on the Internet, these programs involve a merchant or retailer of goods and services paying a royalty or commission to the Web site's owner based on leads, referrals, or actual sales.
Licensing agreements. Through licensing, you give a company or another nonprofit the right to use the organization's intellectual property (such as a trademarked or copyrighted name, logo, slogan, or products) in exchange for royalties. Licensing agreements are often part of revenue-sharing and affinity programs, but they can stand on their own as well.
Cause'related marketing. In this situation, a corporation makes a designated contribution to the nonprofit organization every time a customer makes a particular purchase. A restaurant, for example, might donate $1 to your organization for every steak dinner it sells or donate 1 percent of its total sales on a particular evening. Typically, the nonprofit organization is mentioned in the company's advertising and promotional materials, which can boost visibility of its mission. Just be sure that you are not linking your organization's good name and reputation with a company that might undermine that very mission. For instance, a health-related organization probably wouldn't want to partner with a company connected to the manufacturing or distribution of tobacco or alcohol products. The connections are not always obvious, especially with multinational corporations, so research potential partners carefully before undertaking any cause-related marketing.
Entrepreneurial ventures. Your organization may have the expertise to launch its own business or commercial enterprise that addresses unmet needs within the community or sector. Often, a nonprofit's venture into the business marketplace is a natural extension of something it was already doing such as a homeless shelter opening an employment agency. In fact, the board should ensure that any commercial or business venture supports or advances the main reason the organization exists.
Some organizations self-finance such a venture by drawing on their reserves or redirecting funds from another activity. Others take a pure business approach and obtain traditional bank financing, usually using reserves or building equity as collateral. You might even be able to tap into a venture philanthropy source a funder that provides technical assistance or consulting, as well as dollars, to assist nonprofits with ventures that have a promise of sustain-ability for the long term. Such funding typically comes with specific conditions the nonprofit must meet.
The board should ask staff to undertake a feasibility study, which includes preparing a financial analysis with projected expenses, revenues, implications for unrelated business income tax, and a break-even point for the business venture. These projections, when considered as part of your organization's financial picture, and the nature of the venture itself (how closely related it is to your mission and purpose) will help you decide whether setting up a for-profit subsidiary may be the best route to take . The feasibility study can form the foundation for a detailed business plan to guide the new venture.
Although the board must approve the policies governing the types of income-generating activities undertaken by the organization, it should hold the chief executive accountable for overseeing all those efforts. The chief executive's duties should include approving contracts, approving the promotional language and images used in marketing efforts, tracking royalty or sponsorship payments to the organization, and ensuring that corporate sponsors or supporters are properly acknowledged.
1. Board members, appoint a business ventures task group, consisting of staff, board members, and other stakeholders, to analyze the feasibility of generating revenues through other means.
2. Board members, benchmark what other nonprofits are doing in your community and across the nation. Discuss what lessons you have drawn from reviewing others missteps and successes.
3. Board members, develop policies to guide staff members on such issues as selecting appropriate partners, using the organization's name and logo, and providing recognition.
4. Board members, before pursuing a business venture, require the staff to develop a full-blown business plan for presentation to board members and potential funders.


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Safe Passage 2013 Annual Report Video
Safe Passage 2012 Annual Report Video
Feature Length Documentary: Manos de Madre
Escuelita Mother's Day Dance Video 2012
Sports Program: Juegos por la Vida
Learning English Live: Chicken-Pollito 2
Learning English Live: Chicken-Pollito
Identity Mural
Escuelita Inauguration
Special News: Introducing the Escuelita!
Interview: English Program Coordinator Megan McAdams
Thanks Catie Curtis!
Entrevista con Camino Seguro Alfabetización Graduado Jose Diaz
Interview with Adult Literacy Graduate Jose Diaz
Entrevista con Flor Pinera, graduando de Camino Seguro
Interview with Graduate Flor Pinera
Voice of a Student: Santos Guzman
Voice of a Volunteer: Story Time with Alice
Breakfast with Richard (Safe Passage Executive Director)
Madre / "Mother's Hands" - Trailer by One Spark Films
About the Film
Manos de Madre follows Irina, a Safe Passage adult literacy student and single mother of five, as she navigates life within the Guatemala City garbage dump – her home, and the largest dump in Central America. While the film's central focus is on Irina, it also tells the story of Safe Passage's fight to provide opportunities and hope to children raised in a world where hope is in desperately short supply.
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"Imagino" / "I Imagine" - Lyrics and Music by Marta Gomez
Thank you to Marta and her band for playing this beautiful song - in Michigan, Maine Guatemala, North Carolina, and more - to help Safe Passage celebrate its tenth anniversary in 2009.
"Empowerment through Play & Game" - A Look at our Sports Program
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- 4 tablespoons water
- 1 teaspoon unflavored gelatin
- 3/4 cup orange juice
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon plus 2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 2 large egg yolks
- 1 teaspoon grated orange peel
- 1 1/4 cups chilled whipping cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 12-ounce purchased pound cake, cut horizontally into 5 layers
- Thin strips of orange peel
Place 2 tablespoon water in small bowl. Sprinkle gelatin over. Let stand until softened, about 10 minutes.
Combine juice and sugar in heavy medium saucepan. Stir over medium heater until sugar dissolves. Whisk cornstarch and 3 tablespoons water in medium bowl until blended. Whisk in egg yolks. Gradually whisk half of hot juice mixture into egg mixture. Return mixture to same saucepan. Stir over medium heat until mixture boils and thickens, about 2 minutes. Strain into large bowl. Add gelatin mixture and 1 teaspoon grated peel; stir until gelatin dissolves. Press plastic onto surface of custard; chill until cool but not set, about 30 minutes.
Beat cream and vanilla in another bowl until stiff peaks form. Whisk custard until smooth. Fold 1/2 cup whipped cream into custard. Gently fold remaining cream into custard in 2 additions.
Place bottom cake layer on platter. Place strips of waxed paper under edges of cake to protect platter. Spread 1/2 cup orange cream over cake. Repeat layering with remaining cake layers and 1 1/2 cups orange cream, using 1/2 cup cream per layer and ending with top cake layer. Spread remaining orange cream over top and sides of cake. Sprinkle thin strips of orange peel down center of cake. Remove waxed paper.(Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover with cake dome and chill.)
my notes
- Calories340
- Carbohydrates34 g (11%)
- Fat21 g (33%)
- Protein4 g (8%)
- Saturated Fat13 g (63%)
- Sodium185 mg (8%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat1 g
- Fiber0 g (1%)
- Monounsaturated Fat6 g
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Little late but no one has mentioned it. Saw that Army and Marines have canceled there TA programs due to sequestration. The Navy and Air Force are still assessing what their plans are.
With rising Tricare premiums, base facilities closing, and now TA being yanked, the "incentives" to serve through continual deployments are becoming even more scarce.
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By now you've heard the good news that Khloe Kardashian won't be returning for the third season of The X Factor. The painful truth (for her) was that she just plain sucked as the co-host of the show next to veteran host Mario Lopez and she had to get the boot. Apparently, Khloe's mother Kris Jenner had some pretty interesting plans for the show! Who knew she was even in charge?!? (Spoiler alert: she's not!)
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When we say someone is shrewd, we are saying that they are clever, astute, and exhibit a practical intelligence and insight, but this was not always so. Some seven hundred years ago, a shrewd person was an evil or malicious one.
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Robots are a staple of science fiction and increasingly an important part of life in our present-day world. The word comes from the Czech robota, a word literally meaning forced labor, but which is also used figuratively to mean drudgery, hard work. Robota has cognates in several Slavic languages, and the use of robot in English to refer to the system of serfdom in Eastern Europe dates to the early nineteenth century.
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The Old South Church in Boston has sold one of its two copies of the Bay Psalm Book for $14.2 million dollars, making it the most expensive printed book in history. The Bay Psalm Book, printed in 1640, is the first book printed in North America. Eleven copies of the first edition are extant. While this is the highest price fetched for a printed book, it's not the the most expensive book ever; a handwritten notebook of Leonardo da Vinci sold for $30.8 million in 1994.
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The meaning of words change over time. But when a particular sense of a word falls out of general use, sometimes the old meaning sticks around in idiomatic and stock phrases. Such is the case with quick, which did not always mean fast, rapid.
Read the rest of the article...12 Grammar Myths
Jonathan Owen over at the Arrant Pedantry blog has a list of twelve mistakes that people tend to make when opining about "grammar." It's a comprehensive and sensible encapsulation. (I've been trying to compile a similar list for the past few years, but keep getting distracted.)
pork, pork barrel
If you watch the Sunday morning political talk shows or 24-hour cable TV news, you will inevitably hear talk of pork, government funds dispensed by politicians to win favor from their constituents. But why pork? Where does the term come from?
Read the rest of the article...Video: The Making of a Book, 1925
Running eighteen minutes, this film is a bit long, but it's a must see for anyone interested in the history of publishing. The 1925 silent film documents the entire process of creating a book, from creating the type to loading the volumes on a truck for distribution. It features Oxford's Clarendon press and at some points you see the Oxford English Dictionary being printed and bound.
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It is quite common for a word with a specific and literal meaning to develop figurative or metaphorical meanings that are related to the literal one. And sometimes we can see this same change across multiple languages. Such is the case with polite. The Latin verb polire means to smooth, to polish, and its past participle, politus, and adverbial form, polite, came in that language to mean cultured or refined, a metaphorical polish.
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The opening line of Beowulf has always posed a bit of problem for translators:
Hwæt! We Gar-Dena in geardagum,
þeodcyninga þrym gefrunon,
hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.
The problem is exactly what the word hwæt is doing. Hwæt is the etymological ancestor of the modern what, but the Old English word's semantic and grammatical functions are not the same as the modern word's. Most translators have treated it as an exclamation, along the lines "listen!" or "lo!" rendering the line as something along the lines of:
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This interesting-looking vine with Orange blooms coming out of pod like things, with large heart-shaped leaves is growing in Sarasota, FL. Can anyone ID this please? |
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Thanks Dryadella! I think I made a mistake in my description, as the heard shaped leaves are from another vine. The pods' leaves are long and narrow. |
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The International Olympic Committee has launched The Olympic Athletes' Hub, a site designed as a platform to unite athletes with fans, USA Today reported.
The Hub aggregates the Facebook and Twitter feeds of over 1,000 current and former Olympians and tracks user use -- rewarding fans who interact daily on the site with exclusive video and prizes.
During the Olympic Games, which start July 27, fans will be able to interact with the athletes, get live updates, watch videos and get training tips from the likes of Nadia Comaneci, Edwin Moses, Mark Spitz and others. Cooler still, fans will be able to engage in text chats with athletes live from the Olympic Village during the games, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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Movie News By Jack Giroux on November 25, 2014 | Be the First To CommentIt's been 11 years since we last saw Peter Pan. In 2003 P.J. Hogan made a surprisingly exciting and faithful adaptation of Peter Pan — one that really delved into the sexual subtext of J.M. Barrie's text — but it didn't exactly set the world on fire. Since it wasn't much of a hit, that means nobody is complaining about already bringing the character back to the big screen. Joe Wright's Pan isn't a remake or reboot, though, but a prequel. Pan stars Hugh Jackman as Blackbeard, Rooney Mara as Tiger Lily, and Garrett Hedlund as the innocent James Hook (who one day, of course, becomes Captain Hook). The trailer begins with an introduction to Pan (Levi Miller), an orphan during WWII. One night him and his buddies are kidnapped by pirates disguised as clowns, led by Blackbeard.
Hugh Jackman to Make Natural Progression Toward Playing a Pirate in 'Pan'
Casting Couch By Samantha Wilson on December 19, 2013 | Be the First To CommentAfter Hollywood heard the resounding cries of "I guess that would be okay, whatever!" in response to the barrage of Peter Pan films slated for revival, the writers behind one of the films have decided to do us one better and add double the pirates to the mix. The origin story Pan, directed by Joe Wright, will include the traditional character of Captain Hook, but will also feature the fearsome pirate Blackbeard to antagonize the poor little orphan Peter. Stepping into that role? Hugh Jackman is in negotiations to take the part after Javier Bardem passed. The film follows a young orphan (presumably one who never wants to grow up?) who is brought to the magical world of Neverland, where he becomes a hero to the native people by leading a revolt against the dreaded pirates. In previous incarnations of Peter Pan, Captain Hook took the reins in leading the pirates to torture Peter and his band of misfits. However, this new vision realizes Blackbeard as the main villain with Hook serving as Pan's "close ally" before turning evil himself. Hey, every villain has their origin story too.
'Peter Pan' Doesn't Need One Origin Story, Much Less Eight
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Features By Jack Giroux on November 16, 2012 | Comments (2)Joe Wright set up a big challenge for himself with Anna Karenina. The material could easily lend itself to the stuffy brand of period piece, which is the type of film we see all too often during the awards season. Wright didn't want to make that film, though. With his theater concept, he may have stripped the budget down, but, according to Wright, it was the exact type of challenge where the most creativity comes from. That notably happened with his previous project, Hanna, as well. Everyone adored the long-take fight scenes in that film, and that approach came out of saving time, budget, and, of course, creative impulse. It's those type of decisions Wright seems the most excited by. Here's what director Joe Wright had to say about why his brain switches off when filming, the power of limitations, and why Anna Karenina is his least indulgent film:
Review: Beautiful, Bold 'Anna Karenina' Breaks Under the Weight of Its Own Ambition
Movie Reviews By Kate Erbland on November 16, 2012 | Be the First To CommentDirector Joe Wright's latest film, a lush and visually striking adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina," is uniquely suited to the filmmaker's tastes and tones. Joining his other love-struck and leading lady-centric films like Pride & Prejudice and Atonement, Wright again adapts well-tread material with an eye for emotion, dizzying and overwrought as it may be (or truly, as it can be). Utilizing a "theater-set" concept to frame up his film, Wright's Anna Karenina offers up his most original film yet, but one that still fails to ultimately come together and connect with his audience. Tolstoy's novel has been adapted countless times before and in a variety of mediums. While not a complicated story, the trials and tribulations of the young Mrs. Anna Karenina (Keira Knightley) are still ripe for discussion and dissection, and Wright's choice to keep the film in the book's period setting does nothing to diminish its aching relatability. A dazzling society maven, Anna's life centers on her husband (the beloved politician Alexei Karenin, Jude Law, whom she seems to simply admire, not adore), parties, and her young son. Mildly upended by the news of her brother's (Matthew Macfadyen) cheating ways, Anna sets off to visit the broken family in Moscow and to help mend some long-simmering wounds. Upon her arrival in Moscow, she meets the dashing (sure) Count Vronsky (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), and the pair eventually fall into an all-consuming affair that threatens to destroy every element of Anna's life.
Joe Wright May Help Houdini Reappear On the Big Screen
In Development By Nathan Adams on October 16, 2012 | Be the First To CommentMaking a movie about the life of Harry Houdini has been a recent priority of Lionsgate's Summit for a few good reasons. For one, the famed magician just lived a really interesting life, which would probably make for the rare, non-boring biopic. For another, Houdini is a name that lots of people already recognize, but that hasn't been the subject of a movie in a while, and studios are always looking for something that has name recognition they can get their hands on. Add that to the fact that there's a biography out there, by William Kalush and Larry Sloman, called "The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero" that's very cinematic and pretty much ready-made to be adapted into a film (screenwriter Noah Oppenheim has already done a draft), and putting together a Houdini project seems like something of a no-brainer. But, for some reason (Gary Ross looking at it and eventually passing is probably a contributing factor), Summit has been sitting on this project for a while now without it gaining any real momentum. The good news is, that may soon change, because another notable and talented director is said to be circling the screenplay. According to sources that have spoken to the L.A. Times, Hanna helmer Joe Wright has taken a liking to the script and is currently in negotiations to become attached as director.
'Anna Karenina' Featurette: What's the Point in Doing a Safe Adaptation?
Features By Scott Beggs on July 30, 2012 | Comments (1)Focus Features has a new behind-the-scenes look at Joe Wright's Anna Karenina adaptation that showcases the lavish potential of the movie's look and the experimental bat pointed toward the left field bleachers of Russia. Wright's track record is solid for both historical fiction and methods that are out of the ordinary, and it's excellent to see the two blended here for a Tolstoy novel that's seen the screen more than a few times already. The only strange thing about this featurette is how joyous and life-affirming it seems in the face of utterly bleak source material. Check it out for yourself, and see how Wright brought Russia onto a stage and filmed it.
'Anna Karenina' Trailer: Aaron Johnson's Mustache Seduces Keira Knightley
Movie News By Kate Erbland on June 20, 2012 | Comments (3)Oh, look, Joe Wright went and directed a historically-set film based on a novel that stars Keira Knightley! I am positively shocked! This time around, Wright and Knightley are taking on no less than Tolstoy (after already going after Austen with Pride and Prejudice and McEwan with Atonement), with Wright directing his frequent muse as the eponymous character in Leo Tolstoy's enduring work, "Anna Karenina." Wright's Anna Karenina hews close to the basic story – Knightley's Anna, a high society aristocrat, gets caught up in a consuming affair with the dashing Count Vronsky (Aaron Johnson, sporting one hell of a mustache) that has repercussions far beyond just her unsatisfying marriage to a smarmy-looking Jude Law as Alexei Karenin. It's tragic, it's sad, it's Russian. So let's see what Wright can do with it with the film's first full trailer and an overly Moulin Rouge-d poster.
Joe Wright to Direct 'Anna Karenina' Adaptation, Provide High School Teachers with Sexy Reading Tie-in
Movie News By Kate Erbland on September 8, 2011 | Comments (1)Focus Features has just announced a helmer for their Anna Karenina adaptation penned by Tom Stoppard, and while it's a bit of a no-duh assignment, it's still a very fine one. Joe Wright will direct the film, adapted from Leo Tolstoy's classic (read: every high school kid is assigned to read it, and none of them ever do) novel. Despite my more bookwormish tendencies, my familiarity with Anna Karenina is quite lacking, so we'll turn to Focus' plotline for the film, which tells us that "the story unfolds in its original late-19th-century Russia high-society setting and powerfully explores the capacity for love that surges through the human heart, from the passion between adulterers to the bond between a mother and her children. As Anna questions her happiness, change comes to her family, friends, and community." Also, it's Russian and it's Tolstoy, so it's also not a feel-good work by any stretch. But the film has a solid cast already attached to it, including some names that Wright has worked with before, including Keira Knightley as Anna Karenina (in her third role in a Wright production), with Jude Law as her husband Alexei Karenin, and Aaron Johnson as Count Vronksy, with other roles filled by Kelly Macdonald, Matthew Macfayden (Mr. Darcy in Wright's Pride & Prejudice), Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Emily Watson, Olivia Williams (from Hanna), and Ruth Wilson.
Culture Warrior: A Magnolia By Any Other Name
Culture Warrior By Landon Palmer on July 12, 2011 | Comments (2)Last week, as I watched Quentin Dupieux's Rubber, I noticed that the trailers on the rental Blu-Ray were all of titles sharing space at the top of my queue: titles like Takashi Miike's 13 Assassins, Kim Ji-woon's I Saw the Devil, and Jason Eisener's Hobo with a Shotgun. All, I quickly realized, had been released by the same studio, Magnet Releasing, whose label I recalled first noticing in front of Nicolas Winding Refn's Bronson. After some quick Internet searching, I quickly realized what I should have known initially, that Magnet was a subsidiary of indie distributor Magnolia Pictures. The practices of "indie" subsidiaries of studios has become commonplace. That majors like Universal and 20th Century Fox carry specialty labels Focus Features and Fox Searchlight which market to discerning audiences irrespective of whether or not the individual titles released are independently financed or studio-produced has become a defining practice for limited release titles and has, perhaps more than any other factor, obscured the meaning of the term "independent film" (Sony Pictures Classics, which only distributes existing films, is perhaps the only subsidiary arm of a major studio whose releases are actually independent of the system itself). This fact is simply one that has been accepted for quite some time in the narrative of small-scale American (or imported) filmmaking. Especially in the case of Fox Searchlight, whose opening banner distinguishes itself from the major in variation on name only, subsidiaries of the majors can hardly even be argued as "tricking" audiences into […]
Movie News After Dark: Green Lantern, Michael Fassbender, #Super8Secret and Doctor Who Anime
Movie News By Neil Miller on June 5, 2011 | Be the First To CommentWhat is Movie News After Dark? It's a movie news round-up column that comes to you from deep space. It comes as a protector of all that is good and interesting in the movie news world. It also totally swoons over Michael Fassbender. Seriously, have you seen this guy act? He's the man… man. As my good friend Rusty Gordon pointed out to me this evening, "this summer is already better than last summer," and it's just now June. With two-thirds of its movie releasing to go, Summer 2011 is already coming along great. With that, there's plenty to still be excited about. Like Green Lantern, which continues to look cool as WB dumps a giant batch of photos on the web. So much detail, so much cool.
Reel Sex: The Intensity of Chastely On-Screen Love
Features By Gwen Reyes on May 4, 2011 | Comments (2)This time a week ago I never would have imagined I'd stay up all night Thursday, having my own little tea and scones party, to watch a wedding of two people I didn't know. Even if the festivities were thrown by the English Royal Family in honor of the most recognizable union of royal and commoner. It wasn't until Wednesday that I caught the bug and started feeling a connection to these two genetically gifted kids who had the balls to get up in front of 15 billion people and pledge themselves to each other and their country. I had Royal Wedding fever, and I was going to do everything I could to make that moment last. The decision to keep many details of the wedding a secret and the media inflated love story spanning almost a decade was too much for even my cold heart to keep from melting. It was the real life movie version of all those BBC costume dramas and Jane Austen adaptations I spent years watching. The chaste, passionate love of two people who shouldn't be together defying the odds, marrying, and starting a life so many of us will never experience. But at the same time it was relatable and sweet—just like Jane Austen always promised.
The Week That Was: From Ayn Rand to Wes Craven, And Back Again
Features By Neil Miller on April 17, 2011 | Comments (1)What is The Week That Was? Nothing much, just a recap of all that was great and wonderful here on Film School Rejects over the course of the last week. And in a week such as this, when we reviewed controversial and conversation-worthy films from the minds of Ayn Rand, Wes Craven and Robert Redford, it's important to take a look back at the best of what was written. That, and we interviewed Takashi Miike, so we've got that going for us. Also, I have access to the traffic stats. I know that all of you did not read every one of our best articles. What's the deal with that, beloved readers? Lets right those wrongs on a pantsless Sunday afternoon. Start with the articles listed in this compilation and work your way back. Do it now.
Interview: Joe Wright on the Fairytale Dreamscapes of 'Hanna'
Features By Robert Levin on April 13, 2011 | Comments (2)On the surface, Hanna is just the latest action flick centered on a petite, butt-kicking young woman and the sinister world she inhabits. Yet, were that all it was, the new film from director Joe Wright (Atonement, The Soloist) would be a tired, forced enterprise, arriving in theaters a mere two weeks after Sucker Punch and just about one year following Kick-Ass. Fortunately, Wright is too sharp a director for that. His keen visual eye and knack for character-driven nuance turns the story of highly-trained teenage killing machine Hanna (Saoirse Ronan) into an engagingly twisted fairytale/coming of age drama. With a soundtrack fueled by electronica wizards The Chemical Brothers, tightly coiled supporting work from Cate Blanchett and Eric Bana and a schema that offers a world of out-sized colors, foreboding shapes and demented villains, the Focus Features release is an offbeat, engaging blend of David Lynchian and kinetic action tropes. We spoke with the acclaimed filmmaker about his latest directorial effort.
Culture Warrior: 3 Rules of Child Assassin Movies
Culture Warrior By Landon Palmer on April 12, 2011 | Comments (1)This editorial features some spoilers for Hanna and Kick-Ass. Consider yourself warned. In preparation for this post I ran a quick Internet search on child assassins and found this video from New York Magazine. While I wasn't promised a video exclusively on child assassins here, and instead got something that explores the notion of child killers at large, this video conflates two categories of child killers that I think deserve remarkably different types of consideration. The great majority of killings performed by children in this video are from horror movies. From Rosemary's Baby to The Omen to The Brood to Firestarter to the other Omen and beyond, the child/killer is an exhaustively repeated horror trope to the point of cliche (and is often confused with the simple overlapping category of "scary children," like in The Shining and The Sixth Sense). But every so often a child-killer horror film comes along that works in line with the formula (The Children, anyone? Bueller? Okay, how about Let Me In?), reminding us why child killers still have the capacity to be engrossing and entertaining even if they've lost the ability to be outright horrifying: because they play on our society's veneration of childhood innocence, replacing the ignorant bliss of childhood with benevolent, malicious intent to do harm to the much taller individuals that surround them. But child assassins are quite different from the overall category of child killers. And while two recent films in two subsequent spring movie seasons that feature child assassins, […]
Kevin Carr's Weekly Report Card: April 8, 2011
Features By Kevin Carr on April 9, 2011 | Be the First To CommentThis week, Fat Guy Kevin Carr spends a long day in the multiplex, checking out a variety of films from alcoholic romantic comedies to nature documentaries with elephants and orangutans. He drinks himself silly and hits on Greta Gerwig in Arthur, narrowly escapes being killed by ass-kicking teen assassin Hanna, narrowly escapes getting his arm bitten off by a tiger shark in Soul Surfer and peeps in on Natalie Portman undressing for a swim in Your Highness. Too bad she's pregnant now, 'cause Kevin just ain't into that scene.
Review: 'Hanna' Is A Thrilling And Exciting Cinematic Fairy Tale, Warts And All
Movie Reviews By Rob Hunter on April 8, 2011 | Comments (2)Hanna opens on the blinding white tundra of Finland like a blank page before the beginning of a fairy tale, and that's fitting for what the film ultimately delivers. It's a coming of age story about a young heroine forced to grow up amidst the harsh outside world, and while it's missing a bag of breadcrumbs it does feature several other elements of the genre including a literal entrance into the maw of a big, bad wolf and even an evil step-mother of sorts. It's the Brothers Grimm set to the beats of The Chemical Brothers and is as sublime an entertainment as you'd hope to find in a pre-summer action movie. Young Hanna (Saoirse Ronan) has lived in rural seclusion with a father Erik (Eric Bana) who's been her sole source of knowledge. He's trained her to be self sufficient, aware, and deadly with everything from guns to her bony white hands, and now that she's turned sixteen the time has come for her to enter the real world. She's not venturing out aimlessly though as her father has prepared her for a very specific mission. That quest will put her life in danger as well as those she meets along the way, but completing it is her only way to freedom. If only good old dad had thought to show his daughter a picture of her target…
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'Wedding theme' is one of the silliest things I've heard. Surely the theme of your wedding is just 'wedding'?
I hope your sister's wedding was nothing like the Kardashian Katastrophe.
Zombies = the ultimate in weight loss.
Ooh, I definitely second Juno. God that movie was terrible.
And Wolf Creek! And The Loved Ones, and Snowtown!
Australians: We're good at serial killer movies.
As an Australian, it offends me that this movie was so full of totally incorrect stereotypes regarding Australian life.
What a waste of money. I rode my pet kangaroo all the way to the movies for THIS?
I watched it when I was 19 and hated it just as much as I hate it now. Maybe I was an early bloomer?
19 year old me (and current me) hate 14 year old me, though. 14 year old me thought Marilyn Manson was just the best thing ever.
This movie and Amelie are my dealbreakers. I watched them both in one day and wanted to stab myself in the face a lot.
The ending is probably the worst part, but it's hard to narrow down one specific example of worst in a whole mess of bad.
OMG you're THIRTY!1? Pick out your plot at the local cemetery right now!
The wildly inappropriate 9/11 references were what made me see this movie.
Best friend: "Oh hey, let's see Remember Me'
Me: "Ugh fuck Robert Pattinson, I do not want to see his foot-face ever again"
BF: "But he dies because 9/11″
Me: "Fuck yeah"
I also thought, as per Rescue Me and other 9/11 themed media, that there would be hot firefighters and WHY NO HOT FIREFIGHTERS.
Upvoted. "Oh look at my *spontaneous* eg. utterly planned f-bomb!"
At least she gave Christian Bale the opportunity to make fun of himself. Yay Christian Bale!
It's not just an LA thing. On September 11th I was at high school in Australia, and 80% of our year level started freaking out like 'WE'RE NEXT' and threatening the Muslim kids because they were classy like that.
Yep. In terms of bad taste, A Serbian Film is the hands down worst film I've ever seen (and I actually enjoy finding ridiculously bad taste films to watch).
Baby rape. That is all.
Oh, Chris O'Dowd. You will make me watch this movie because you are funny and your accent is pants-jizzingly awesome.
Jenna Maroney, but only because she can't compete with Kimiko-chan.
I read the entire Twilight series so I could turn my vague hatred of them into a well-informed, more vicious hatred.
He was my reason for watching. Trent! In a tux! This is so not the person I used to worship as a whiny little teenager!
I wanted to be Daria, but really, I was more the black girl whose name I can't remember who was obsessed with school work and whose parents were similarly obsessed. Except less popular and without the jock boyfriend.
Sounds like an interesting form of parenting. "Now Betty, did you see how Susie Salmon got ambiguously raped and most definitely murdered and also heaven is boring as fuck? Well THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS if you don't eat your vegetables."
But what if the crowd it's meant to appeal to are wankers? I think that makes it eligible, surely.
This movie is an embarrassment to all of us.
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Never seen The Godfather III, but so with you on Amelie. One of the most boring movies I've ever struggled through.
Seriously? Sunshine isn't perfect, but it's far from the worst of all time.
This movie made me wonder if it is actually normal for mothers and daughters to discuss orgasms.
Please tell me it's not. I think both my mother and I would rather eat an ostrich than discuss our sex lives.
I will watch this. But only because there is a fair chance that both Cillian Murphy and Trent Reznor will be in attendance, wearing suits.
I may have just jizzed in my pants.
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BC Tree Fruits Ltd. hires chief executive officer
BC Tree Fruits Ltd., Kelowna, British Columbia, has a new chief executive officer.
The Okanagan Tree Fruit Cooperative selected Allen Tyabji to take over the position, welcoming him back to BC Tree Fruits.
Tyabji began with the organization in 1985, where he held various positions. He was appointed chief executive officer in 2008, but left shortly after to pursue other ventures, according to a news release.
The change took place Nov. 1 and should not have many immediate effects as the apple season moves on this year, marketing manager Chris Pollock said.
BelleHarvest Sales adds sorter, bagging system
BelleHarvest Sales Inc., Belding, Mich., continues to upgrade its facilities and technology, president Mike Rothwell said.
"We put in a new sorter, and last year we added a single-lane bagging system," he said.
This year, the company plans to build more controlled-atmosphere storage.
"We're going to build six new CA rooms, increasing our storage capacity by 20%," Rothwell said.
The rooms should ready by the fall of 2013, he said.
Crunch Pak adds products to value-added line
Crunch Pak, Cashmere, Wash., released several new products in 2012, all with an emphasis on saving consumers time and money.
The company released FlavorZ, sliced apples infused with natural flavorings, and Salad Kitz, available in two versions, including a Sweet and Creamy Tropical Salad variety that includes diced sweet and tart apples, said Tony Freytag, senior vice president of sales and marketing.
The products are designed to meet the needs of consumers who want products that can be kept in the refrigerator without needing an additional container for storage, or "grab-and-go" products, Freytag said.
Also this year, Crunch Pak expanded its plant in Washington state by 38,000 square feet and partnered with two East Coast production facilities.
"We are excited about the efficiencies and new opportunities that the plant expansion and increased capacity on the East Coast will afford," Freytag said.
Domex Superfresh Growers opens plant in Yakima
Domex Superfresh Growers, Yakima, Wash., began packing at a new facility in Yakima in November.
The addition comes on the heels of a new packing facility that opened in September 2011 in Selah, Wash., as well as other improvements and updates to various Superfresh facilities.
"We have been very busy making capital improvements in our facilities in order to efficiently run additional volumes while maintaining the high quality of the fruit during the packing process," vice of president of marketing Howard Nager said.


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South Park Arts keeps it local with its annual affordable-art sale — paintings, sculpture, jewelry, clothing, photography, glass and letterpress items are priced at $100 or less. (Shown here is a work by participating Seattle artist Leslie Nan Moon.) DJs will spin tunes; wine and appetizers will be available; a raffle will be held every 30 minutes; 3-9 p.m. Saturday, South Park Community Center, 8319 Eighth Ave. S., Seattle; free (southparkarts.org).
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How to ride out an emergencyIn the event of calamity, be prepared to hunker down for one week without utilities or access to grocery and hardware stores. Besides supplies necessary for basic survival, have tools for repairing the highest priority home damage.
Extra batteries (including cellphone batteries)
Niosh-N95 dust mask
Duct tape
50 ft. of heavy-duty rope
Chain saw and fuel or bow saw and ax
Assortment of nails, screws and bolts
Flexible repair clamps for burst pipes
Tarp large enough to cover half of your home's roof
Scrap framing lumber
Rain gear
Work gloves
Go kit
These items are essential for evacuation. Three days of water for four people weighs close to 100 pounds, so line up a rolling ice chest, backpacks or other method to carry the load. Also, count on being separated. Choose a location where family members can reunite, and designate one out-of-town person for everyone to check in with.
Bottled water (1 gal. per person per day)
Nonperishable food
First-aid kit
Battery-powered or hand-cranked radio
Prescription medications
Vital documents in a waterproof bag (deeds, birth certificates, phone numbers)


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NATO airstrike in Kunduz kills scores
More than 90 Taliban fighters and civilians are reported to have been killed in a NATO airstrike in a region under the control of the Taliban in northern Afghanistan. Germany insists no civilians were killed in the attack, however.
NATO fighter-bombers attacked two fuel trucks after the Taliban hijacked the vehicles in Kunduz province and beheaded the drivers. The trucks stalled while crossing a riverbed in the Taliban-controlled Ali Abad district and were reportedly hit just as local villagers swarmed the tankers to siphon fuel. The Taliban reportedly encouraged the villagers to take the fuel just before the airstrike.
Casualty reports on the number of Taliban and civilians killed have varied, but 93 people have been reported killed. Kunduz Governor Engineer Mohammad Omar claimed 45 Taliban fighters as well as their commander, Mullah Abdul Rahman, were killed during the attack. Razaq Yaqoobi, the provincial chief of police, said 65 Taliban fighters were among those killed.
Haji Habibullah, the district governor of the Ali Abad district, said that "some of the dead were civilians and some were Taliban fighters." More than a hundred people were reported to have suffered serious injuries, including burns. Civilians have been seen burying their dead and have taken the wounded to local hospitals; some are being transported to Kabul for treatment.
The Germans, who make up the biggest NATO contingent in Kunduz, said the strike occurred at 2:30 AM local time and that civilians were not present.
"According to the information available to us there have been no civilian casualties," ministry spokesman Christian Dienst said. "Had civilians been present, the air strikes could not have been called in."
The strike was ordered by the Kunduz Operational Command Center after the fuel tankers were reported stolen and the local commander assessed that civilians were not in the area.
"After ISAF [International Security Assistance Force] observed the insurgent activity and assessed civilians were not in the area, a local ISAF commander authorized an air strike," the initial ISAF press release on the incident stated. "A large number of insurgents were reported killed or injured and the fuel trucks were destroyed in the attack."
ISAF later stated that it was investigating the attack to determine exactly what happened. "While the air strike was clearly directed at the insurgents, ISAF will do whatever is necessary to help the community including medical assistance and evacuation as requested," Brigadier General Eric Tremblay, the ISAF spokesperson, said in a press release. "ISAF regrets any unnecessary loss of human life and is deeply concerned for the suffering that this action may have caused to our Afghan friends."
The strike takes place as NATO is seeking to limit civilian casualties and has tightened the rules of engagement when confronting the Taliban. Coalition aircraft are not to fire on Taliban targets if civilians are thought to be present.
Kunduz the new northern battleground
Map of Afghanistan showing Taliban control. Kunduz and Baghlan provinces are directly north of Kabul. Data from Afghanistan's Interior Ministry; map from Reuters. |
Today's airstrike in Kunduz highlights the rapidly deteriorating security situation in the northern province, as well as in neighboring Bahglan province.
Of the seven districts in Kunduz province, only two are considered under government control; the rest of the districts - Chahara Dara, Dashti Archi, Ali Abab, Khan Abad, and Iman Sahib - are considered contested or under Taliban control, according to a map produced by Afghanistan's Interior Ministry. Two districts in neighboring Baghlan province - Baghlan-i-Jadid and Burka - are under the control of the Taliban [see LWJ report, Afghan forces and Taliban clash in Kunduz, and Threat Matrix report, Afghanistan's wild-wild North].
Fighting in Kunduz has intensified over the past month despite a series of operations launched in the spring and summer to drive out the Taliban.
The Taliban have conducted assaults against police checkpoints, killed senior political and military leaders, and kidnapped civilians sending their daughters to school.
Just yesterday, Afghan security forces claimed they killed 15 Taliban fighters, including Mullah Abdul Salam, the Taliban's shadow governor for the province. The Taliban denied Salam was killed.
The Taliban, along with the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, have sought to put pressure on the Afghan government in the north while opening a corridor into the Central Asian countries.
List of major incidents in Kunduz since Aug. 3
Sept. 4, 2009: A NATO airstrike in the Ali Abad district killed 93 people after the Taliban hijacked two oil tankers and beheaded the drivers.
Sept. 3, 2009: Afghan security forces killed 15 Taliban fighters, and claimed the Taliban's Shadow governor was also killed.
Sept. 1, 2009: Afghan police killed a Taliban commander and wounded his driver in the Qala-i-Zal district.
Aug. 28, 2009: Afghan forces killed seven Taliban fighters and captured four members of the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan in Kunduz province.
Aug. 26, 2009: A director of the justice department was killed in a bomb attack on his car in Kunduz province.
Aug. 26, 2009: Security forces killed seven Taliban fighters during an operation in the Hazrat-e-Sultan area of Kunduz.
Aug. 25, 2009: The Taliban killed a policeman in Kunduz.
Aug. 18, 2009: A Taliban commander and nine fighters were killed during a joint operation of Afghan and US forces in Kunduz province.
Aug. 16, 2009: One Afghan Army soldier was killed and four more were wounded during a Taliban ambush.
Aug. 13, 2009: Former President Rabbani survived an ambush on his convoy in Kunduz. Also, police killed and wounded more than 20 Taliban fighters after the Taliban attacked a police station.
Aug. 13, 2009: Eight Taliban fighters and two Afghan security personnel were killed and more than a dozen more fighters and four security men were wounded during an operation in Kunduz province.
Aug. 12, 2009: Taliban fighters attacked the Dashti Archi district headquarters and killed the district police chief and three other policemen.
Aug. 10, 2009: A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-filled car close to an ISAF convoy in Kunduz City.
Aug. 3, 2009: The Taliban kidnapped a woman as she took her daughter to a school in the Bagh Shirkat area of Kunduz province. The Taliban warned families not to send their daughters to schools.
READER COMMENTS: "NATO airstrike in Kunduz kills scores"
Posted by Max at September 4, 2009 10:13 AM ET:
I'm not saying that no civilians were killed in this attack, but no matter what really happened, it seems that the news media seizes on any report of "civilians" being killed and that is the only story worth reporting, and then the US is left looking like the bad guy while the enemy gets away scott free as far as any negative publicity goes. Is it any wonder that we are left wondering whose side the news media is on?
Posted by Klosck at September 4, 2009 10:16 AM ET:
Please say that this isn't another mass-civilian casualty incident. Although the details in this aren't clear, and I obviously wasn't there to see what happened, it seems that its possible this could be the case..The details seem to point to civilians bein g killed..For one, what were 90 insurgents doing surrounding the fuel trucks? Fuel trucks can only carry about 5 personnel at the most...If there were a large convoy traveling together they would of had to dismount their vehicles and surround the fuel trucks..but why would they do that?
Villagers on the other hand seem the most likely to be the ones to gather around the fuel trucks...
Posted by T Ruth at September 4, 2009 11:02 AM ET:
Bloomberg is reporting that Germany is saying that no civilians were killed. Further that the strike was called in at 2.30am local time, not at dawn.
While it would seem there were some civilians caught in the fire, one sincerely hopes its not dozens as some are reporting.
One can guess that the insurgents were in a convoy and were also syphoning out fuel to lighten the tankers in order to push them out of the mud.
Posted by pedestrian at September 4, 2009 11:43 AM ET:
No! Not you don't call these bombed people civilians! You call these idiots who approached the truck to steal are get some oil criminals!
Posted by jim2 at September 4, 2009 11:56 AM ET:
By dusk today, the news reports will say that it was a wedding party using the tanker as a limo.
Posted by Tayyab at September 4, 2009 12:27 PM ET:
Some of the relatives of these idiots might do another silly thing and join taliban ranks to do further silly things like planting IED's, doing suicide attacks etc. But that's nothing to be worried of for intellectuals like us.
Posted by klosck at September 4, 2009 1:01 PM ET:
@ T ruth - That Bloomberg report helps provides a lot of clarification...I was wasn't understanding how two different trucks would "stall out" exactly the same time..turns out they were stuck in the mud, which makes a lot of sense.
@jim 2 - lol
@Tayyab - agreed, which was why I was initially surprised that NATO blew the trucks up as civilians were approaching...even if they didn't have a right to the fuel, it still probably frustrated them that they were about to get free fuel from the Taliban and we and went and blew it up..we lost that battle for hearts and minds..lol
Posted by Rational Enquirer at September 4, 2009 1:51 PM ET:
Klosck -- The incident happened around 2:30 in the morning local time. What makes you think NATO forces had any idea that civilians were in the vicinity at that time? All of the reports so far say NATO thought it was only Taliban near the trucks at that point.
Posted by Render at September 4, 2009 3:18 PM ET:
Kunduz AB has been getting pounded with rockets since at least December of last year.
I wonder where the Talib has been getting all those 107mm rockets? And the freedom to move around within range setting up all those rockets?
Posted by My2cents at September 4, 2009 3:23 PM ET:
I wonder if they are installing Lo-Jack systems in the trucks?
When the fuel truckis stolen, wait for it to stop moving and hit it with a JDAM. The load of fuel gives a nice secondary incendiary effect. Odds are the only people around were the Taliban/thieves, possibly their 'fence', and maybe some of their families.
Moral of the story: Do not steal, especially from people with high tech and lost of firepower.
Posted by doug at September 4, 2009 4:02 PM ET:
If the Taliban had control of the fuel tankers it seems logical to me that they would take all the fuel they could possibly use before letting any "civilians" take any. Fuel is valuable and the Taliban aren't in the habit of giving away value for nothing.
Posted by Neo at September 4, 2009 6:57 PM ET:
Things do get a bit murky in Taliban controlled areas. If the Taliban has control over the area than in all probability they can draw from most of the male population over the age of 10. It's the middle of the night and their stuck in the middle stream. Time to call in the bucket brigade with every container they can find. The majority of these guy's are probably marginal as fighters but if the Taliban needs some help they will show up within hours to help out. It's kind of a tragedy waiting to happen, there's going to be lots of diesel slopped over all those long beards.
It's not exactly a good hearts and minds approach. One would prefer a more circumspect approach, but a large portion of the Talibans local support base may now be toast, at least in this immediate area. I do suppose this will be huge in the German press with all sorts of recriminations.
Posted by KP at September 4, 2009 7:18 PM ET:
More details here.
It seems the drivers weren't beheaded either. One survived. One was killed in the air strike.
The primary reason for the airstrike was that the German forces believed the tankers would be converted into bombs so they wanted them destroyed. The German election is coming up and I'm sure the Talibs would like to see the Germans out of Kunduz. Their initial unmanned recce showed no civilians present. The air strike too place 40 minutes after that.
Don't forget it's Ramadan too ... people do stay up late. Though they do roll out the "late-night wedding party" comment too.
The info also says 4 Chechens killed plus the local commander and that most of the killed were Taliban or their families.
I suspect it will turn out to be similar to previous strikes. A significant number (smaller than the Afghani estimates) will be Taliban and there will be a non-trivial number of civilians.
Posted by KW64 at September 4, 2009 11:09 PM ET:
Sounds like a legitimate target to me. If some punks break the locks off a gasoline pump and offer to let you fill your car on them, do you have a real legitimate beef if the cops bust you? Besides, do you want to leave fuel trucks in the hands of suicide bombers?
Either these guys were called out after the trucks got stuck or these "civilians were told ahead of time that they could get free fuel. I suspect the former.
Posted by Paul Hirsch at September 5, 2009 5:45 AM ET:
You got it, Jim2: Another tragedy.
Posted by Render at September 5, 2009 7:10 AM ET:
Both local Taliban and embedded Expeditionary Taliban (the Chechens) got hit. None of the reports have mentioned women among the victims.
Tactically from the Talib point of view the entire operation was a disaster. It started out well for them with the hijacking of the two fuel trucks with no casualties. But it all went pear shaped the moment the decision was made to cross over the Kunduz River which snakes its way from north on the Tajik border and south past the Baghlan Provincial border twelve miles south of Kunduz AB. The river itself isn't very deep or very wide in most places and has no bridges but it does provide the anchor to the provinces primary green zone. It generally passes just slightly to the West of Kunduz City and the German held Kunduz AB.
Fully loaded fuel tankers and soft riverbeds are not a good combination and the results were quite inevitable. Both tankers stuck fast in the soft sandy mud of the shallow river bottom to the south of Kunduz AB. The hijack team (apparently five Chechens from the embedded Expeditionary Talib (ET) unit including the team leader) called for backup instead of abandoning and destroying the now hopelessly mired trucks. First to arrive was the back-up platoon from the ET with the plan to off load enough of the fuel to lighten up the trucks. Part of the ET platoon was sent off to round up all the local Talib within walking distance to help with the off loading. The remainder of the ET platoon and the five man strike team remained with their prize. This is apparently when the German UAV coverage found them. It took forty minutes before an air strike using one of the six German Tornados located 100 miles away at Mazar-e-Sharif was authorized, armed, launched, and arrived. In that forty minutes the other ET half platoon had returned with their local Talib reinforcements (a hundred or more including civilian volunteers, showing their local strength) and the off loading had begun with much attendant spillage flowing down river. A bucket brigade is a really bad idea for emptying a fuel tanker.
The Tornado pilot didn't really even have to "bomb"� the Talib per say; all he had to do was drop a fistful of flares from low altitude and be on his way. But it really doesn't matter which of the many precision weapon types that the Tornado can carry was used. The result was a massive fuel air bomb in the midst of over a company of armed Taliban and their local civilian supporters.
On the plus side it might be a while before the local Taliban within 40 minutes walking distance of the strike zone south of Kunduz AB is strong again. If the rocket attacks on Kunduz AB drop off that'll be icing on the cake.
On the negative side the Germans reveled that they have a forty minute response time for air support and no persistent real-time UAV coverage, at least for that area. The Talib already know there are just six Tornados at Mazar-e-Sharif and of the 667 Germans at Kunduz AB only about half are combat troops.
The Talib were able to pull together over one hundred armed and unarmed reinforcements from the area within walking distance of where the trucks got stuck just twelve or so miles south of Kunduz AB and they did so in under forty minutes. How many other locations up and down the Kunduz River green zone can the Talib do that? How many more will be added or lost as a result of this strike?
Posted by pedestrian at September 5, 2009 9:10 AM ET:
The map from the Interior Minister gives a good picture about the Taliban structure and strategy in Afghan.
Posted by zotz at September 5, 2009 10:48 AM ET:
I read that it was an F-15E not a Tornado. Now, I am reading that villagers are coming forward in droves to claim their relatives were killed. NATO has a policy of reimbursing civilians whose relatives were killed by NATO thousands of dollars. Obviously, this gives them a strong motivation to exaggerate the death toll. Also, these villages are firmly under Taliban control so giving them a lot of money would be unwise in the extreme. NATO should first drive out the Taliban from these villages and then hold them. Reparations should be made by building a health clinic or school, not in cash payments. And the Germans got to get their act together. I have read nothing good about their operations.
Posted by Render at September 5, 2009 3:24 PM ET:
Zotz: You may very well be correct that it was an American aircraft. I'll try to explain...
The Germans are indeed claiming that it was an "American aircraft" in the MSNBC article linked in comments above.
There are F-15E's in Afghanistan but all are reportedly tasked with supporting operations in other, more southern and eastern regions.
The six Tornado's at Mazar-e-Sharif are, at least officially, the air support for the German commanded northern area (RC North). The Germans have already been playing fast and loose with the air units involved. Officially the six German aircraft are all from a recon squadron (31st Immelmann) but at least one German pilot of those six aircraft has been identified as being from a strike squadron not officially in Afghanistan (51st Boelke).
Ultimately the only difference between a US or German aircraft conducting this strike will be the German government explaining why they are paying to keep six Tornados in country while asking the US to provide air support from their own southern RC responsibilities. But the German government is going to have a good bit of explaining to do as to why and how the Talib were able to steal two fuel tankers from right in front of the German base and (as I've noted above) were able to raise a one hundred man plus unit of Talib reinforcements less then 12 miles away with less then 40 minutes notice (newest reporting says the strike took place 7 kilometers south of Kunduz AB, or inside 107mm rocket range).
Posted by chatiii at September 5, 2009 5:57 PM ET:
instead of gaining hearts and minds, nato are deterring hearts and minds by conducting ridiculous airstrike operations such as this that end up killing scores of civillians, but at the same time, em-power the taliban with a massive recruitment tool to use in the aftermath. Just put it this way, we can say that 70 "taliban" or "taliban supporters" were killed in the airstrike.........in 6-12 months time, those killed will be replaced by 500/600 "taliban" or "taliban supporters" thirsty for nato blood. I have always said and always will say that the war is being lost due to incidents such as this, that end up severly undermining the effort. It creates an anti Western/U.S/Nato feeling that will only make more everyday afghan support the taliban with shelter, supplies, intel, recruits and most imortantly........conversion to their ideology! AND REMEMBER, THATS WHERE THE REAL BATTLE MUST BE FOUGHT
Posted by KnightHawk at September 6, 2009 2:12 AM ET:
Render's account seems most plausible to me which means there should be no apologizing or reparations. Quite the opposite, let the message that if you assist the enemy you might get dead stand.
Posted by Render at September 6, 2009 10:07 AM ET:
Actually one of the locals interviewed mentioned something along the lines that two or three more strikes like that and the entire Kunduz region would be free of Taliban.
Violent intimidation trumps ideology - everytime.
Posted by Paul Hirsch at September 6, 2009 10:57 AM ET:
chatiii: Maybe that's how it works, but I doubt it. I think most Afghans will take the lesson that when the Taliban steal the Great Satan's fuel trucks the wise ones will stay well away from those trucks. And if the Taliban press-gang your relatives into working on those trucks, who is it that got them killed?
Posted by Render at September 6, 2009 11:50 AM ET:
The Talib conduct numerous operations that kill scores of civilians.
What's the difference?
Posted by Dan at September 7, 2009 1:33 PM ET:
There seems to be differences in who flew the air strike. Do you have any insight into weather or not it was USAF or Luftwaffe?
Posted by chatiii at September 7, 2009 2:02 PM ET:
You're weak chatiii, I'm sure your idea of war is one where you pat all the bad guys on the head and tell them to behave as long as they haven't murdered thousands of people... oh wait.
... or supported their murderers... oh wait, the strictest RoEs in the history of man?
Posted by Bill Roggio at September 7, 2009 2:11 PM ET:
Everything I've seen indicated it was indeed an F15E vectored to conduct the strike.
Posted by Render at September 8, 2009 10:13 AM ET:
Concour with Bill.
Everything I've read since I posted that early analysis indicates that it was an F-15E Strike Eagle using two 500lb JDAM's.
There was also a B-1 involved, but apparently it ran low on fuel shortly after finding the hijacked trucks. Waiting for the F-15's to arrive on station was supposedly part of the delay.
"...waiting for an F-15" sure sounds like a contradiction in terms, don't it? How many people can say they've had to wait on an F-15?
Posted by Master Jedi at September 8, 2009 10:23 AM ET:
Fox telephone interview with Captain James Peck who led the search operations is of course very different from the
terrorist propaganda. Obviously the Afghan Swedish aid agency did not want to become victims of Taliban terrorist attacks and threats.
Posted by chatiii at September 10, 2009 5:56 PM ET:
"The Talib conduct numerous operations that kill scores of civilians.
What's the difference?"
an invading/occupying force killing civillians is 10 times worse than the taliban doing it. remember, their mullahs have gave fatwas that allow conducting operations which may put civillians at risk (hence suicide attacks), as long as the target is high profile such as a politician or someone high in the military
and remember one thing, the afghans see Nato as an invading/occupying force.....and they see taliban as their afghan/pashtun brothers, you tell me who they are likely to forgive in the case of civillians being killed?
even hamid karzai refered to the taliban as "our afghan brothers" in one of his speeches regarding taliban laying down weapons and joining the political system
"Maybe that's how it works, but I doubt it. I think most Afghans will take the lesson that when the Taliban steal the Great Satan's fuel trucks the wise ones will stay well away from those trucks. And if the Taliban press-gang your relatives into working on those trucks, who is it that got them killed?"
i very much doubt the taliban are "press-ganging" the local population into helping them. remember, many taliban fighters have emerged as recruits from villages and towns with-in afghan provinces......so why would these taliban gang-press their own people? their own families, friends and tribesmen.
i personally think afghans go out of their way in helping the taliban in anyway possible...WHY IS THAT YOU MIGHT BE THINKING? its because of these airstrikes that kill dozens of people that create anti U.S feelings
AND RENDER - "Violent intimidation trumps ideology - everytime."...................why did the insurgents in Iraq turn against zarqawi's "violent intimidation"?
just like the afghans are turning against their Nato occupiers.....read - http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090910/ts_nm/us_afghanistan_taliban
to further understand what im talking about
the statistics say it all, the population is the back-bone of an insurgency. the taliban have gained considerable strength over the years and just look at the casualty figures for july and august, they resemble the darkest days of the Iraqi insurgency, just check icasualties.org out.
maybe Bill should have a spot on this website for Nato death counts in Afghanistan to make you guys realise what were dealing with
Posted by chatiii at September 10, 2009 6:11 PM ET:
and to the person who decided to hide his username and instead, use my username:
tell me the new strategy Army Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal is employing in Afghanistan?
tell me how he has changed the fight strategy to try and win hearts and minds, instead of trying to kill the enemy?
tell me whether or not reducing civillian deaths will encourage the everyday afghan to reject the taliban war path and accept karzai as a legitimate goverment.
let me tell you one thing son, even dropping a nuke on afghanistan wouldn't work, it would probably make the situation MANY times worse, seen as tho such acts would seriously radicalize over 1.5 BILLION muslims around the world.....and not mention the danger from taliban sympathizers with-in the ISI who have full access to Nukes themselves


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