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How the Game of Thrones Composer Scored the Massively Epic Music of Pac Rim
Ramin Djawadi's got a knack for sonic boom. As the composer for movies like Iron Man and Blade: Trinity and TV shows like Game of Thrones, he's created a songbook filled with everything from ominous doom-and-gloom tones to fist-pumping musical adrenaline. Now he's brought his brand of utter badassery to the kaiju-on-mecha saga Pacific Rim.
Under the direction of the film's director Guillermo del Toro and with help from former collaborators like Tom Morello (whose signature guitar work defines the film's title track) and the RZA (who contributed his songwriting and production skills to a bonus track), Djawadi has crafted a behemoth, 100-plus-minute score that ought to convince even the biggest skeptics and genre purists that this is an apocalypse worth getting jacked up for.
When Wired called him last week at his studio at Remote Control Productions – the Santa Monica, California company founded by scoring legend Hans Zimmer, who's mentored Djawadi for over a decade – he said that when he saw Pacific Rim in theaters he could swear it was even more impressive than he remembered.
"Working on the movie, you hear everything over and over, and you do get to see the final product when it's finished, but in the theater, it sounded like they must have been adding extra sound effects up until the very last minute," he said.
Wired asked him about his professional epicification process when it comes to creating soundtracks that are as big – if not bigger – than the stories they vivify.
Wired: How did you originally sign on to this project?
Ramin Djawadi: Awhile back, Guillermo [del Toro] was interested in working with me so he reached out. He was shooting in Toronto, so I flew up there from LA and we met on the set. It was amazing to already see the beautiful sets he'd created for this. So then we started talking creatively and hit it off right away.
Wired: So he was hoping to impress you with what he'd already been working on?
Djawadi: Oh, no, he didn't have to impress me. It was just because he was already working. I've always been a huge Guillermo del Toro fan, so when I got the call, I already said, "I'm in." But yeah, it was wonderful to meet him for the first time, actually on his set. Really cool.
Wired: Were you familiar with the kaiju/mecha genres before you signed on to do Pacific Rim?
Djawadi: Before I flew up [to Toronto], they sent me the script so I was able to read it before I arrived. I actually made [del Toro] laugh: without even having talked to him, I read the script and realized the sheer size of this project – you know, like in Jaws, when they see the shark for the first time and say, "I think we're gonna need a bigger boat"? I read the script and said to him, "I think we're gonna need a bigger orchestra." How are we going to keep up with these huge robots and monsters with a regular-sized one?
Wired: How big did your orchestra actually end up being?
Djawadi: It was over 100 players, and we had a big Russian choir, lots of extra percussion. We just beefed up everything. In each [instrumental] section alone, we had more players than the average-sized orchestra. We needed that big sound. I wanted to be really big, to go all out for this, so we kept it big from the beginning.
Wired: After your work on films like Iron Man and shows like Game of Thrones, you obviously must be pretty used to these huge productions by now. Do you have a game plan from the beginning? What was your goal with this particular score?
Djawadi: We started out with broad-stroke discussions. Guillermo had a great vision of what he wanted for the film straight from the beginning. He wanted it to be a nice adventure film; he said, "I definitely want to be able to hum my theme." He knew he wanted guitars. He always referred to his Jaeger pilots as not really military people, but more like modern cowboys, more rock-n-roll, so he wanted their theme to be twangy, with more guitars. For the kaiju, he wanted to stay more on the traditional side, to pay homage to the Godzilla-type theme, so we used big trombone sections. So based on those conversations, I sat down and started writing theme ideas. Before we even put music to picture, I played him these, and then we started plugging them into the film to see what would work.
Wired: The theme song you ended up with really fit in with your previous work. All these theme songs, Iron Man, Game of Thrones, Blade: Trinity – they all have this repetitive, building, addictive qualities to them. What's the recipe for making a good theme?
Djawadi: I wish I knew the recipe. If only I did, maybe this would come a lot easier to me. I think it's maybe just a way of contemporary scoring, of combining orchestra with modern elements, with synthesizers and guitars. I always find it very tricky, because sometimes the two elements don't necessarily blend well. You've got a big orchestra with a really lush sound, and then a guitar or other single instrument, that's really in-your-face and upfront, so to blend the two can be challenging. I experimented with that [balance] on Iron Man, and it ended up going more in that direction; once we started plugging in a couple guitars, we realized "Wow, [that blend] sounds really badass, let's keep that going."
Wired: And of course, you brought back Tom Morello, who worked with you on Iron Man, to help with that badassery for the Pacific Rim score.
Djawadi: That's right. We're good friends, and when [Guillermo and I] realized that this movie would be going even more into the guitars direction than we anticipated, we started talking about finding someone really special. Of course, Tom was the person who came to my mind—not only because he's a great player, but because the special effects he does on his guitar, I don't even know how he does them. They're so unique. He gave that extra element, that uniqueness, to the robots.


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"This hilarious dance was a gem of understatement… This was dancemaking of great sophistication." -The Star-Ledger
LOVE SUITE LOVE enchants the audience with the bittersweet love songs of Patsy Cline. In this nostalgic ode to youthful romance, CDDC's dancers portray the numerous hopeful – if misallied – hearts lamented in six of the country-western singing legend's hit songs. Using pillows and chairs as props that are very much a part of the action, Dorfman "gives new meaning to the phrase 'pillow talk'." (Echoes-Sentinel).
"…the great interwoven threads of love, hope, and youth, and, of course, the unbounded joy of dance well done" -The Martha's Vineyard Times
"Dorfman smartly explores her theme of unrequited love in wry, on-the-mark variations." -The Baltimore Sun
Choreography by: Carolyn Dorfman
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Tuesday, June 21 2011
To Be Or Not to Be Isn't the Only Question: The Nature of Being in 'Synecdoche, New York'
By desperately trying to create an authentic piece of art, Caden Cotard, the central character in Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York, ends up dooming himself to live what Heidegger calls an inauthentic life.
Thursday, January 7 2010
The Best DVDs of 2009
Let's face it, when the content inside is less than meaningful, how better to market your particular movie than with plenty of digital packaging bells and whistles. Many of our 2009 choices reflect this strategy. Others are great all by themselves.
Thursday, January 15 2009
The New Classics - The 30 Best Films of 2008
Unlike previous years, where classics came crawling out of the celluloid woodwork with regular reckless abandon, 2008 was more calm… and considered. That's not to say that choosing 30 top titles was hard. The difficulty in placing them in some manner of rank order suggests the actual depth of quality involved.
Tuesday, January 13 2009
Tough and Tender - The Top 20 Female Performances of 2008
Twenty talented ladies, 20 performances worthy of multiple little gold men. Unfortunately, as in all years, someone has to come out on top. But after looking over this impressive list, picking the preeminent turn of 2008 seems almost impossible.
Tuesday, September 9 2008
Talk, Talk, Talk: October 2008
What studio suit thought this was a good idea? With four months to schedule your high priced efforts, you instead unload almost 30 overpriced pictures on an unsuspecting movie audience.
Thursday, October 23 2008
Identities in Flux
Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York is performance art as civilization-annihilating Godzilla, whereas Eastwood's Changeling is a film that wins the stranger than fiction category, hands-down.
Thursday, March 19 2009
Synecdoche New York
Consumed with existential dread, this film captures the feeling of near-death angst remarkably well, enough to the point where it's not Caden that's feeling it -- it's the audience.
Thursday, October 23 2008
Synecdoche, New York
Much like protagonists in previous Charlie Kaufman scripts, Caden is an artist in search of his art.
Thursday, December 18 2008
Kaufman's 'Synecdoche' Is Complex, Compelling Quirk
Love isn't easy. Neither is life. Both bring us so much sorrow and pain that it's weird how obsessive we are over each one. We
Wednesday, November 5 2008
Charlie Kaufman as director: On the whole, he's up to the parts
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their lofty perches, first at Spain's central bank and then as the I.M.F.'s top executives assessing global banking risk, José Viñals
and Jaime Caruana were well positioned to sound alarms about the looming bank debacle. But at a news conference in Washington
in April 2010, when analysts were raising red flags about failing Spanish real estate loans, Mr. Viñals — who a year earlier
had succeeded Mr. Caruana — offered assurances. The Spanish system was "fundamentally sound," he said, and its needs for cash "very small." A year later, as the banking crisis showed little sign of improving, Mr. Viñals
again called for calm, saying the market panic that had led to bailouts in Ireland and Portugal would not infect
Spain. Now that the recent failure of Bankia, the big mortgage lender, has prompted a 100 billion euro (about $125 billion)
European rescue, it is clear that Mr. Viñals's forecasts were too sanguine. Mr. Caruana was no more prescient. Pressed at an I.M.F. news conference in July 2008 about falling house prices in Spain, he acknowledged
there might be loan losses. But he said, "The financial system in Spain is able to cope with that and is properly capitalized." It is not that the I.M.F. was not paying attention. Under Mr. Caruana and
then Mr. Viñals, the organization's economists produced thousands of pages of analysis that, in real time, chronicled Spain's unspooling bank crisis. The I.M.F. says that it is not a regulator and that its economists and officials warned early
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Stoke City manager Tony Pulis was impressed with Norwich City's Cup win on Wednesday.
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Stoke boss Tony Pulis is backing Norwich to preserve their Barclays Premier League status under Chris Hughton this season.
Following his appointment over the summer as successor to Paul Lambert – who defected to Aston Villa after guiding the Canaries to two successive promotions and then a 12th-placed top-flight finish – Hughton endured a difficult start to life as manager at Carrow Road, with the team failing to win any of their opening seven league games this term.
The Canaries were being widely tipped for relegation, but there have been encouraging signs in recent weeks, particularly at home, where they have beaten Arsenal 1-0 in the league and on Wednesday defeated Tottenham 2-1 in the Capital One Cup with a much-changed side.
Pulis, whose team play at Carrow Road in the league today, was at the Spurs match and is predicting that with the squad Hughton has at his disposal, Norwich will avoid the drop.
"I went to watch the game and Chris made a lot of changes. They are well set up," Pulis said.
"Looking at the strength of what he played on Wednesday, I think they will be fine.''
Pulis feels former Newcastle and Birmingham manager Hughton and his assistant Colin Calderwood and first-team coach Paul Trollope make for a good team, although the Potters boss believes they have been fortunate with what they have inherited at Norwich from Lambert.
Pulis said: "It will be a tough game – they are full confidence and they have had some good results. They have got players who can hurt you.
"I think Chris has done a good job wherever he has been and Colin and Paul are very good assistants for him – they have both managed and understand what management is about.
"It is a good football club, always has been, and they have been very fortunate in some respects to take over a football club that was well-run before they got there as well.
"As managers – and Chris will be the first one to point this out – nine times out of 10 you are taking jobs because the club has not been successful.
"They actually took over a job where the club had been very successful. Paul had left that football club in a good state.''
Pulis' men are currently 13th in the table on nine points – three positions and two points better off than Norwich – after nine fixtures, in which they have registered six draws. One of those came against Liverpool, whose captain Steven Gerrard this week insisted he did not mean any disrespect towards Stoke when he compared Everton's playing style to that of the Potters after last weekend's Merseyside derby.
The Staffordshire side are frequently derided as a long-ball team, and Gerrard said his words had gone "too far''.
But when asked about the comments, Pulis said he viewed them as a compliment.
"I don't take the criticism to heart – if it even was criticism," said Pulis. "People know me by now."
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Though the indigenous Tetley`s is even less sapid. Real mens` ale from God`s (abandoned) City.
Sunday, November 4, 2012
That's good planning IMO as it ensures that you Billy will be 50 miles from Carrow road! Perfect!
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Newmarket races and Norwich same day , =Bad planning
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Is there a racecourse near Leeds? Probably be whippet or pigeon racing though. Or both, with a "guess how long the froth takes to settle on a pint of John Smith`s Smoothie" competition in the interval. Real Yaarkshire nitropap.
Sunday, November 4, 2012
I`d rather have the civilised Hughton than that ranting bully Pulis. B*****ks to Newmarket races. PS:- Stevie G, you did not go too far. Stoke are truly horrendous.
Sunday, November 4, 2012
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Either give us the facilities or you close us
What the Consultants told the HSE
People Editor Paul Healy
responds to Deputy Frank Feighan
One of many crucial, indeed frantic, meetings held between senior HSE officials and management of Roscommon County Hospital including consultants took place on the 12th of May 2011. The storm clouds had been gathering; the closure of Roscommon A&E was only a matter of weeks away.
One of the consultants from Roscommon who was present, subsequently said:
We said to them that you cant have your cake and eat it, you cant tell us that we are unsafe and not give us any supply of extra casualty consultants and extra medical consultants. Either give us the facilities or you close us.
Frank, there really is no answer to that, is there?
On and on it goes. Theyre spinning so much in Government circles over the demise of Roscommon A&E .its no wonder they sometimes seem a bit dazed.
Would it be too much to expect politicians to actually call a spade a spade? Of course it would.
You remember The Emperors New Clothes that story from our childhood in which more and more people began to believe the Emperor actually had new clothes .just because others kept saying it.
The modern-day version is The Consultants closed the A&E. Some people think enough people will believe if its repeated often enough.
I have no wish to argue in these columns with Deputy Frank Feighan, but am happy to address his letter, published in last weeks Roscommon People.
First, a brief recap .
Before the 2011 General Election the then Fine Gael Health Spokesperson Dr. James Reilly wrote to the people of Roscommon.
He wrote: I would like to confirm that Fine Gael undertakes, in accordance with the Fine Gael Policy on Local Hospitals, to retain the Emergency, Surgical, Medical and other health services at Roscommon Hospital which are present on the formation of the 31st Dail .
Forget the Emperors New Clothes Reillys letter really was a fairytale.
Enda Kenny made the same commitment publicly and for good measure added that he was not saying those words lightly. He hasnt been seen in Roscommon town since (personally I think a visit from him would be welcome).
Anyways, in February 2011, Fine Gael duly marched into Government they, with our good wishes, we, with their crystal clear health policy but they promptly betrayed the people. (Labour? Just as guilty).
Instead of retaining the services then in place at Roscommon Hospital, the new Government closed the A&E Unit.
A year on, Deputy Feighan gamely battles on as the local Government TD, insisting that he has a duty to ensure that Roscommon Hospital and its staff has a long-term future. This is a smokescreen .talking about the wider hospital and its staff (about whose futures there should be no doubt) when the issue, obviously, has been the loss of A&E.
But times moves on and, like others, I accept that. It would be blinkered and probably soul-destroying to keep going on about the debacle of summer 2011. Better for all of us to look to the future and try even to help shape it in some tiny way. The A&E is gone, but there is a hospital to salvage, to develop even, and a future health service to shape, perhaps even a fight for emergency services still to be fought.
So, faithfully we monitor developments at the hospital in a twin-track approach, looking at track one with its cargo of new arrivals while trying not to focus on track two, laden as it is with the debris from the summer of 2011.
We welcome sleep studies experts and an endoscopy suite and positive soundings on junior doctors and quite genuinely hope that a new jigsaw is being formed and that the pieces lost from the old one might be replaced or found and maybe even have a place again one day.
I personally dont doubt that the beleagured Deputy Feighan is working tirelessly to increase activity and services at Roscommon Hospital.
Last week however Deputy Feighan took me to task for something Id written on the hospital the previous week. Frank, youre well entitled to do it, but I smell smoke again .another smokescreen!
Yes, another favoured smokescreen of the Government when they speak of Roscommon Hospital its the consultants! They just love playing the consultants card.
Deputy Feighan referred to this issue last week (and actually misrepresented what I said the previous week, but thats not important).
Basically, Deputy Feighan, loyal to Government and therefore an apologist for the Kenny/Reilly double act which reneged on Roscommon Hospital, is peddling the insinuation he is not the only one to have done it that consultants at Roscommon Hospital recommended closure of the A&E.
It is utterly disingenuous.
If you were to believe the spinners, youd believe consultants wrote to the HSE in 2011 and demanded closure of Roscommon A&E.
Readers will recall that some of that management team consultants and doctors had pleaded in public for Roscommon Hospital to be saved.
But the threat to the hospital had merely grown and now the HSE had asked the management team at the hospital for a report.
Now, they were at the end of their tether. They delivered a report to the HSE alright; one dripping in regret that Roscommon Hospital had been under-resourced.
In their correspondence to the HSE, they pointed out that .
* They were waiting for a new consultant to be appointed.
* With just three weeks to go to the next rotation of junior doctors, 45% of Junior Doctor posts at Roscommon remained vacant
* There was no Anaesthetic cover when the anaesthetist was required to accompany a critically ill patient on transfer.
* The reduction in staff from 365 to 298 since 2008 had created difficulties for the hospital in maintaining safe services.
And so on and so on .
Having listed the shortcomings they faced, the management team basically told the HSE that they had no option but to recommend a change in services in view of the lack of staff and lack of resources.
To ensure patient patient safety, quality of care and the quality and safety of all services provided at Roscommon County Hospital with the current staffing complement and resources available to the hospital, the Hospital Management team has no option but to suggest that ..
For anyone to say the consultants recommended downgrading of Roscommon without adding that the consultants did so only because of the consequences of under-funding and under-staffing is utterly disingenuous and indeed mischevious.
The Emperor of course had no clothes at all, and this implicate the consultants mullarkey is just as exposed.
The comments of the Roscommon consultant at the beginning of this article represent clear evidence that the consultants only alluded to downgrading because the hospital was short of resources and staff. (This of course could not be the fault of the new Government, but why did James Reilly make his cast-iron pre-election commitments?).
Anyways, I genuinely wish Deputy Feighan well with his efforts on the hospital and I know that it has been a difficult year for him and that it has taken a personal toll.
We would all have been better off without this debacle. What a pity Deputies Kenny and Reilly misled and betrayed the people, handled the fall-out disastrously and then failed to fix the problem. It ought not be too late but no-one is holding their breath. Present and future generations shall watch this space with a mixture of interest and weariness.
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Aerospace engineers and enthusiasts, as well as science-fiction fans, are the latest Eagleworks experiment.
The White-Juday warp field interferometer was designed and developed to record warped space and help scientists better understand the space-time bubble that would be required to break Einstein's theory of general relativity.
Albert Einstein theorized that a particle cannot travel faster than the speed of light because it would require infinite energy. Specifically,in his 1905 paper "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies," Einstein describes what has been called the special theory of relativity: A particle (that has rest mass) with subluminal velocity needs infinite energy to accelerate to the speed of light, although special relativity does not forbid the existence of particles that travel faster than light at all times.
The current Eagleworks experiment uses a helium laser which is split; one beam passes through a ring lined with high-voltage capacitors (23,000 volts when charged), and the other beam passes unimpeded to the data recording device, a black-and-white commercial charge-coupled device (CCD). If the beam going through the ring warps space, NASA Engineer Harold "Sonny" White says, "the resulting interference pattern will be starkly different."
This experiment is the first step in creating a warp drive, detecting whether we can actually warp space. The second step involves negative energy and White is very tight-lipped about this subject except to say that they have had a breakthrough. The warp drive is based on the Alcubierre drive explored in 1994 by Miguel Alcubierre, a Mexican theoretical physicist.
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Shiner beers of all shades flowed freely at the Victoria Country Club while servers poured out of the kitchen as if choreographed and rehearsed before service.
Country Club Executive Chef James Canter flexed his muscles Thursday night with a seven-course meal paired with seven of Spoetzl Brewery's best, from the mellow blonde to the hoppy pale ale.
The evening was set to amaze palates as well as raise money for the Boot Campaign, a Texas grassroots initiative formed by five women who set out to show support for troops, spread awareness and raise money for military programs.
A portion of the event's proceeds and charity auction will benefit the Boot Campaign.
"We're able to do this because of the people fighting in our name," said Canter, 41. "I have respect for all the people who are willing to throw down what they're doing to fight for this country."
And because Spoetzl is an area brewery, he was thrilled to build a menu to pair with its seasonal and trademark beers. After two months of tweaking and playing with flavor combinations, Canter and his crew of men dressed in black chef coats carefully set more than 60 plates for the guests sitting in the dining room.
Melissa Wilson sat next to her friend, Barbi Bridges, at a table in the corner, waiting to take in what the chef had prepared for them. No amateur to wine pairing, Wilson, 35, was interested in trying beer pairing for a change.
"I've never been to one of these," she said. "I'm open to trying everything."
The servers whirled around tables and chairs as they set the first course in front of the diners. On the plates: a small, cream-colored cube topped with a sliver of wet sea urchin sandwiched between a light pink powder and what appeared to be granola.
"I wanted to start with the slap-you-in-the-face dish then bring you back to Earth with the rest of it," Canter explained of the sea urchin cereal, homemade grape nuts and malt vinegar powder.
For some, it was delicious, and for others, it was the first time trying the soft, briny shellfish.
"It was interesting and different," said Bridges, 39.
As the chilled glasses were filled with cold beer and delivered to the diners, the plates came and went: a Texas watermelon gazpacho, quail breast terrine, chicken livers, ginger-vanilla poached gulf shrimp, roasted venison and eventually a spiced caramel carrot and buttermilk tart.
Mike Wuensche, 47, sat at the biggest table in the center of the room with his wife, Denise, 44. A dirty martini with a few olives speared with a toothpick sat in front of him, nearly untouched. The chilled beer glass had made a few rings next to his plate as he'd been pairing it with each course.
"The first two courses were different and unique," he said hinting to the urchin and interactive gazpacho that had diners pouring it into the bowl of homegrown tomatoes and sunflower seeds. "It's been a pleasure and a treat coupled with Shiner beer."
All the hard work and preparation Canter put into the dinner was paying off as empty plates came back to through the doors of the kitchen.
Meanwhile, the men in the kitchen operated an assembly line to fix the next course of plates.
"I wanted to showcase Shiner beers," said Canter.
After taking a look at the remaining courses, Bridges said she would not try the truffled chicken livers set for the fifth course, claiming it brought back childhood memories she didn't want to relive. Wilson, on the other hand, was embracing the dinner fully.
"It's all been wonderful," said Wilson.


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State of Rail Transit October 29, 2009 1:30 p.m. Mission Memorial Auditorium [Video] Now this is a commute: Riding in air-conditioned comfort. It's quiet, quick, and always on time . . . and traveling above traffic. Wow, look at this fantastic view! Okay, here's our stop. The Honolulu rail system will have 21 rail stations. Each station will have a canopy inspired by the sails of the Hokule`a to protect travelers from the rain and sun. All the stations will have escalators, elevators, and stairs so commuters can conveniently reach the boarding platforms. The platforms will be level with the train floor, so whether you walk, use a wheelchair, or a walker, it will be easy to get on your train. Plus, the fares are interchangeable, which means that it will be the same as TheBus and you can use transfers between the two. So if you have a bus pass, you can transfer from the bus to the train to the bus and back. Trains will run every three minutes during rush hour, so you won't have to worry about a schedule. You just wait at the platform and the next train pulls up. This is not a virtual dream folks … this is our reality. Aloha, ladies and gentlemen. I hope you enjoyed the ride. That commute from East Kapolei to downtown Honolulu took just 38 minutes, a fraction of the time it now takes to drive the same distance in rush-hour traffic. But the brevity of our commute belies the saga that preceded it. As we're poised to break ground for rail transit, it's worth noting that our journey began some 40 years ago. That was in 1967—I was just a kid in Kalihi—when the Oahu Transportation Study recommended a fixed guideway from Pearl City to Hawaii Kai, and Mayor Neal Blaisdell took up the challenge. Let's jump ahead 10 years. Mayor Frank Fasi receives federal money for the Honolulu Area Rapid Transit, a fixed guideway connecting Aloha Stadium and Kahala Mall. With the preparations all but completed, first-year Mayor Eileen Anderson torpedoes the project and ends the City's initial foray into transit. Four years later, Hizzoner is back at Honolulu Hale and suggests raising gasoline taxes for a fixed guideway, a motion seconded by State Transportation Director Ed Hirata of the Waihee administration. In early 1990, the City and state put their heads together as Governor John Waihee proposes a half-percent general excise tax increase to allow the counties to pay for transit projects, including a fixed guideway linking the A Congressional committee authorizes 618 million dollars, representing a third of our projected cost. With most of the preparations done, all that's left is for the City Council to approve the tax increase for the local share. But with the game at stake, we fumble on the goal line when the Council votes 5 to 4 against the legislation in September 1992. Our federal money is lost and so is 25 years of work. That fateful vote took place shortly after the Gulf War and the bursting of the Japanese bubble, when our economy was struggling. Had we the foresight to build a rail system at the time, the construction jobs created by that project would have softened the blow of tourism's steep decline. Fast forward more than a decade. In his opening day speech to the 2003 Legislature, Senate President Bobby Bunda proposes dusting off our plans for a light rail system. He says our Congressional delegation is willing to go to bat for us, and [quote] "those of us in the Legislature must be willing to revisit this proposal to break the gridlock of indecision." Before the year is out, Governor Linda Lingle unveils an ambitious proposal for light rail and an elevated highway. She backs off after an outcry from her party regulars. But in her state-of-the-state address in 2005, my first year in office, Governor Lingle says to the Legislature and to me, [quote] "I am honored that we are joined today by the state's mayors, including I take her at her word and lobby the Senate and House. The Legislature acts promptly and approves a measure allowing the counties to enact a half-percent general excise tax surcharge to finance transit projects. The governor doesn't sign the bill, but it becomes law. Progress on the City's part comes swiftly. In August, the City Council approves the tax surcharge. We swing into action on the Alternatives Analysis, the prerequisite to federal funding that evaluates alternatives to our growing traffic congestion. We begin seeking public input on the alternatives. We hold dozens of community meetings, make presentations to Neighborhood Boards, and speak to anyone who'll listen. I make more than 200 speeches on the subject, not to mention meet regularly with our Congressional delegation, federal transit officials, and local decision-makers to generate support. The Alternatives Analysis is released in October 2006. It offers four scenarios, of which we recommend a fixed guideway because we conclude it's the only one that offers long-term solutions to our traffic and transportation challenges and has a realistic financial plan. That December, the Council adopts the fixed guideway system as the preferred alternative. I sign the bill into law. For the next several months, the City continues its exhaustive studies and analyses, crunches the numbers and crunches them some more, consults with experts in the field, and does all the preparation necessary to make a financially feasible project recommendation to the Council. In February 2007, the Council approves the 20-mile route from Kapolei to The members of our Congressional delegation, Senators Inouye and Akaka and Representatives Abercrombie and Hirono, are unanimous in their support for rail transit and deliver 15.5 million dollars, the first in what will be many demonstrations of solid federal support. Two thousand eight brings a whirlwind of activity. An independent panel of transportation experts selects steel-wheel-on-steel-rail as the most reliable and cost-effective technology for us. That choice is validated by the fact that the Federal Transit Administration has a clear preference for funding steel-on-steel systems throughout the nation. Four former state transportation directors endorse rail, telling us "it's about time" and "no more studies." We continue to speak to anyone who'll listen to tout the importance of rail. Despite the groundswell of support, opponents push to put the question on the ballot in November's election. The Council places an amendment before the voters asking them to vote yea or nay on a steel-on-steel transit system. We keep to our timetable and publish the Draft Environmental Impact Statement days before the election. On Election Day, 53 percent of Oahu's voters approve the transit system, the same margin of victory that carries Fast forward to earlier this month, when we receive the FTA's okay to begin the preliminary engineering that qualifies us for federal money. Permit me to make two points with this history: First, we've waited so long, too long, I would argue, for this day to come. Second, critics and doubters have dubbed this, "Mufi's Train." It just isn't so. As our history shows, this belongs to all of us. You, and you, and you. A fixed guideway was backed by Mayors Blaisdell and Fasi. It was endorsed at one time or another by a transportation director of every state administration since Governor John A. Burns. City Councils blessed it. This time around, both houses of the Legislature, and members on both sides of the aisle, voted for the transit tax surcharge. It's supported by key business leaders and organizations . . . labor, particularly the building trade unions . . . the Honolulu Advertiser, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Pacific Business News, and other prominent members of the news media . . . the majority of the City Council, which did yeoman work in shepherding all of the enabling legislation through vote after vote . . . and so many others. This has been an amazing journey, all the more so considering our checkered history. FTA insiders and rail experts tell us this process takes anywhere from five to 15 years. We've done it in four, and that's because we all worked together to accomplish it. This belongs to all of us. Now, if you think that's something, let me tell you about all the exciting things in store for us. I can't think of a "shovel-ready" economic stimulus project that's timelier, or more vital, than rail transit. No other project will create as many jobs or offer as much hope and opportunity for our people. An island-wide poll taken last month of 900 citizens revealed that 60 percent support the project. Support is consistent in every City Council district, with a range of 52 percent to a high of 70 percent. And when queried if they think rail is a good investment, responses revealed that an average of 69 percent of residents, a majority in every Council district, agreed that it's a sound investment. Just last week, we awarded a 483-million dollar contract to Kiewit Pacific to design and build the first increment from Kapolei to the Leeward Community College area. By the way, that contract was 90 million dollars less than what we had anticipated. We're so encouraged by the results that we've moved up bidding for the next phase to this November rather than wait to 2012 as we had originally scheduled. Early next year, we'll start relocating underground utilities and preparing sites for the guideway columns. We'll be drilling foundations and erecting concrete columns at several locations so you can follow the path of the guideway. By the end of the year, the contractor will be assembling a crane called a gantry, which will be used to lift the concrete slabs that form the guideway. We project rail transit will create 10,000 jobs during its construction phase, more than 4,000 in construction alone, and the balance in related industries. We're making sure these will be local jobs for local people. Already, we've engaged 41 engineering, architectural, and landscaping companies for the planning and design phase, representing more than 250 jobs. Once we get the go-ahead to begin construction, we'll be investing 330 million dollars in our local economy next year alone and putting even more people to work. We believe 4,000 people will have jobs by the end of 2010. On Capitol Hill, Senator Inouye and our delegation have secured 39 million dollars for us, with as much as 30 million awaiting appropriation in the 2010 transportation bill. We expect more to come. Before I leave the subject of money, for those still nervous about the cost, let me assure you that the federal government has been looking over our shoulder every step of the way. Top rail experts have vetted our financial plans and we're earned plaudits for our financial audits. No less a top money man than Don Horner, head of First Hawaiian Bank, said that the Hawaii Business Roundtable conducted an independent study of the City's funding plan, taking into account current reduced revenue projections, and found the plan to be sound and conservatively prepared. If there's anything my administration prides itself on, it's fiscal accountability. We're prudent about spending your tax dollars, and that's reflected in our clean audits, our use of special funds only for their intended purposes, our commitment to saving money, and our coveted bond ratings. Just yesterday, our double-A bond ratings were reaffirmed by three national rating agencies. We're also guarding against the risks associated with large construction projects involving multiple contractors and labor sources. We're working to create an agreement to address working conditions, health and safety, and other important labor concerns. This pact will help ensure that construction proceeds without disruption and that we have a steady source of skilled workers to produce work of the highest quality with a minimum of interruption. Our goal is to be on time, on budget, and on schedule. We'll be collaborating with the UH Community Colleges to develop a curriculum to train the people who'll operate the transit system: mechanics, maintenance and operations personnel, information technology experts, and more. We estimate the system will need a work force of 400 people and we want to begin training them well before operations commence. We'll engage and involve the Native Hawaiian community all along the way. We remain keenly sensitive to cultural matters. We're forming an advisory council of cultural experts and practitioners to provide their mana`o and expertise on iwi concerns, historic and cultural issues, and other transit affairs. I ask you: As island people, what good would this project be if it caused us to sacrifice the very island values and history that we hold dear? And let me be clear: As a keiki o ka aina, there is no way that I would advocate for a project that would desecrate or destroy the land of my birth. We'll establish a semi-autonomous transit authority to manage the construction and operation of the system. A transit authority will give us an entity to operate and maintain the system. As we have seen in other transit cities, it would provide a business-like approach with clear accountability for contracting, procurement, compliance, and staffing. We're working with the Council on the wording for a Charter amendment to give you an opportunity to vote on its creation. We're making tremendous strides with transit-oriented development, TOD for short. The areas surrounding the transit stations will be revitalized and renewed, believe me, as so many mainland municipalities, like Portland, Washington, D.C., and Phoenix, have experienced. We've been holding community-based workshops to encourage residents to tell us what they envision for their neighborhoods. We'll be working closely with the private sector to establish public-private partnerships that will underwrite the cost of TOD. We want private landowners to integrate their plans with ours to create vibrant, exciting neighborhoods in places like Kapolei, Waipahu, Pearl City, Aiea, Kalihi, Chinatown, Kakaako, Ala Moana, and eventually McCully, Moiliili, and UH Manoa, where we can live, work, and enjoy a quality of life second to none. Looking even further into the future, I see rail transit as a boon to our environment as it enables us to concentrate development in the urban corridor and thereby preserve the green, open spaces that make our island so beautiful . . . lessens our dependence on the automobile and miles of roads for transportation . . . paves the way for attractive bicycle and walking paths . . . slashes our need for costly imported oil, which exports billions of our hard-earned dollars to oil-producing countries . . . and clears our air. It will be the realization of the 21st Century Ahupua`a in Hawaii nei. But despite all the progress we've made, harkening back to my high school and collegiate playing days, we can't be a team that lets up just because we have a comfortable lead. There are two major steps awaiting us. First, we have to publish our final environmental impact statement. Second, we need the FTA to authorize us to proceed with construction. Regarding the EIS, for the past two years, we've followed all the federal and state requirements to make sure we do this right. The EIS has to be approved by those two jurisdictions. We published the draft version after it had been scrutinized by the FTA and the state transportation and health departments. That was followed by a public comment period, during which we received 3,000 comments, all of which we addressed in the final EIS. The state's Office of Environmental Quality Control has the lead at the local level and the governor closes the loop by formally accepting the EIS. These steps are critical to the timely approval of our project. After that, we wait for the FTA to give us something called a record of decision, which signals we've met all the federal environmental requirements, gotten an okay from the White House Council on Environmental Quality, and received the FTA's concurrence. Once that decision is handed down, we can give our contractor the notice to proceed with construction. By rejecting the EIS, the state could put the kibosh on our work and end four years of herculean effort. Governor Lingle said recently—in reference to the Superferry and other projects—that groups oppose things, but rarely offer alternatives. She said, and I quote, "There were consequences for the political leadership here not stepping up and coming out strong and saying, 'We need this. If there were steps that weren't followed, let's get that handled; but we're for this alternative for our people.' " This parallels a couple of personal leadership maxims that I hold near and dear: One, problems are not as important as solutions. Two, never base decisions on fear. We can complain, complain, complain, monku, monku, monku, but what we need is solutions. If any group or agency is contemplating a challenge to our project in these final hours, then I challenge them to offer a viable solution that is accompanied by a substantive funding source. For these reasons, I'm hopeful that the state and governor will give us the green light because there are no other meaningful alternatives on the table that will bolster the economy like rail during this very difficult period in That said, I recognize the approving entities require time to examine our EIS, particularly some of the federal agencies that are just now responding to our draft, and with which we must enter into agreements before publishing our final EIS. I have said, the longer we delay, the more we're going to pay. But I believe we must be prudent at this critical juncture because thorough preparation will contribute to our ultimate success. That's why I've instructed our transit team to ensure our EIS can be held up to the most rigorous scrutiny. I'm announcing today that I'm willing to push back our ground-breaking schedule for at least another month to allow the appropriate federal, state, and community organizations to cross the T's and dot the I's to bring to fruition what House Transportation and Infrastructure Chair, Congressman Jim Oberstar, has described as [quote] "the most exciting transportation project in the nation." Yes, it's a compromise, but we've been willing to compromise along the way to keep this train moving, as we did with the state's 10-percent take on the general excise tax surcharge during its 15-year life, delaying the inclusion of the airport route while the Council struggled to find five votes to make it happen, and other matters large and small. But while I'm willing to wait to address these environmental matters, the longer we delay, the greater the chance the money will go away. The longer we delay, the greater the economic disarray. I speak, of course, of some in the state Legislature and administration desperately searching for a way out of their budget woes and eyeing our transit tax revenues as an easy take-away. The federal government, meanwhile, could find many other uses for the tens of millions Senator Inouye has secured for transit. Transit systems in other cities would gladly jockey for a chance at Let rail be our gift to future generations. Rail will give us choices that only an integrated multi-modal transportation system can provide. Rail will give our youth a better quality of life. Rail will afford working men and women a convenient and economical means of transportation. Rail will enable seniors to preserve their mobility, independence, and dignity. 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MISSISSAUGA, Ontario – Rexall Pharma Plus is urging Ontario residents to get their flu shot and take other preventive measures amid reports of increased incidence of flu across the province.
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In celebration of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the church's 175th Anniversary, the people of St. John's United Church of Georgetown and Glen Williams invited friends and neighbours to relive the excitement of the Queen Elizabeth's 1953 Coronation.
A Coronation Tea was held Saturday complete with sandwiches, scones, sweets and tea, followed by the showing of the original CBC footage of the 1953 Coronation.
A Coronation Service was held on June 3, including hymns and music from the original 1953 Coronation Service in Westminster Abbey. Guests included Paul and Mike Armstrong, sons of the John Armstrong, the Mayor of Georgetown in 1953. The Armstrong twins spoke about what it was like to grow up in Georgetown in 1953 and the positive impact the members of St. John's had on the community.
A recently discovered home movie clip of the June 2, 1953 Georgetown Coronation Parade coming up Guelph St. right in front of St. John's church was also shown. The Service ended with the arrival of "Queen Elizabeth" (St. John's member, Caroline Peasgood), who invited all to join her outside under the tents for Queen Elizabeth Cake, to play schoolyard games and to view some classic cars of the era.
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Presto app coming to Telstra T-Box
Telstra has leveraged its partnership with Foxtel, with a reseller agreement meaning it can bundle the service as well as offer a Presto app on its T-Box.
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You are here: Publications > Girona Judaica Collection
The Girona Judaica CollectionThe Call de Girona Municipal Board has published a representative volume on an annual basis since 2004. This may be concerned with any aspect of Jewish culture. These volumes make up the Girona Judaica Collection, which currently consists of six works. These works may be acquired at the Museum shop, which also has an on-line sales service. The Jews of Girona and their organization. 12th-15th centuriesThis volume presents the history of the internal organization of the Jewish community of Girona, from its beginnings, in the twelfth century, until the expulsion in 1492. From bibliography and unpublished data provided by the research, the author tries to explain how the Jewish community worked, to stand out the names of the people in charge of it and to find out about the power structures within the community. Publishing information Riera i Sans, Jaume. Els jueus de Girona i la seva organització. Segles XII-XV. Girona Judaica Collection 6. Pub. Patronat Call de Girona. Girona, 2012. Times and Spaces of Jewish GironaMinutes of the International Symposium held in Girona on March 23rd, 24th and 25th 2009. Collection of lectures about different aspects of material and cultural history of the Jewish Girona. This publication makes accessible to all interested people the last lines of research, the latest discoveries and the most relevant historical and historiographical advances that increase the knowledge of the Jewish community of Girona. Publishing information Patronat Call de Girona. Temps i espais de la Girona Jueva. Girona Judaica Collection 5. Pub. Patronat Call de Girona. Girona, 2011. The Poems of Messullam de Piera- Girona, 13th centuryA collection of poems by this disciple of Mossé ben Nahman, popularly known as Vides of Girona, who was at the same time one of the main leaders of the city's Jewish community. These verses, translated and edited by the late Dr. Josep Ribera Florit, are the work of one of the greatest exponents of poetry in Hebrew to be found in medieval Catalonia. Messullam de Piera produced in this work a compendium of his cryptic, highly intellectual poetry, which won him considerable recognition in his own lifetime. Publishing information Ribera Florit, Josep; Jiménez, Esther. Poemes de Meixul·lam de Piera. Girona s. XIII. Girona Judaica Collection 4. Pub.: Patronat Call de Girona. Girona, 2008. Public power and the synagogues in the 13th-14th centuryAn in-depth study of documents concerning the former medieval synagogues in the Kingdom of Aragon. In this book we find, firstly, a study of the relationship that public authorities maintained with the synagogues, and secondly, a full collection of relevant documents, i.e., a series of texts from all over the territories governed by the Crown of Aragon, transcribed in chronological order. Publishing information Riera i Sans, Jaume. Els poders públics i les sinagogues segles XIIIXV. Girona Judaica Collection 3. Pub.: Patronat Call de Girona. Girona, 2006. Jewish Nights. Traditional legends of IsraelA collection of traditions and legends taken from Hebrew literature and showing the Jewish vision of the world and man's place in it. A work that contains a good selection of some of the texts that defined medieval Jewish culture. Publishing information Ferrer, Joan; Martínez, Assumpta; Boix, Marc (illustrations). Les Nits Jueves. Llegendes de la tradició d'Israel. Girona Judaica Collection 2. Pub.: Patronat Call de Girona. Girona, 2005. Hebrew Deeds of Catalan Jews 1117-1316A work that won the 2nd Mossé ben Nahman Prize (1999) and includes an in-depth analysis of documents written in Hebrew by Catalan Jews from Girona and Barcelona between the 12th and 14th centuries. Publishing information Klein, Elka. Documents hebraics de la Catalunya medieval. Hebrew Deeds of Catalan Jews 11171316. Girona Judaica Collection 1. Pub.: Patronat Call de Girona and Societat Catalana d'Estudis Hebraics. Barcelona, 2004. |
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A three-part story inspired by Wagner's classic opera The Ring of the Nibelung. Siegfried, born of the love between a mortal man and a Valkyrie, is a young orphan being raised by Mime, one of the last of the dwarf-goblin Nibelungs, in a dark forest with only wolves for friends and family. While his foster parent only wants to live in peace and solitude, Siegfried yearns to discover who his real parents were and live amongst his own kind, not knowing that Odin, father of the Norse gods, has a destiny planned for him: to fight the dragon Fafnir, guardian of the Rheingold.
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NYC Parks Events Calendar
Get up, get out, and do something! Just about any day of the year, you can find something fun, informative, and healthy to enjoy at an area park. Feel free to browse the listings below, or use the search tools to find an event that matches your interests and location.
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Saturday, February 1, 2014
Mad. Sq. Art 2013: Giuseppe Penone: "Ideas of Stone (Idee di pietra)"
at Oval Lawn (in Madison Square Park), Manhattan
6:00 a.m.
Madison Square Park Conservancy's Mad. Sq. Art announces a new sculptural installation for fall 2013 by renowned Italian artist Giuseppe Penone, consisting of three monumental, 30-foot tall bronze trees. "Ideas of Stone (Idee di pietra)" featuring Penone's signature manipulation of the trees' natural forms, will interact with Madison Square Park's lush landscape to highlight the relationships amongst man, sculpture and nature.
Category: Arts & Crafts, Art, Tours
Coffee Bark
at Picnic House (in Prospect Park), Brooklyn
7:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m.
Bring your pups to Prospect Park for treats and great company.
Category: Dogs
Greenmarket at Grand Army Plaza
at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn
8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Fresh produce and so much more, all year long! See what farm fresh is all about.
Category: Markets, Food
Whimsical Winter Wonderland exhibit
at Poe Park Visitor Center (in Poe Park), Bronx
8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
These American and international artists' works will charm and delight the spirit of the child or the child within.
Category: Art, Winter Holidays
ESL Beginners Class
at Poe Park Visitor Center (in Poe Park), Bronx
8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m.
Spanish-speaking adults will learn the basic structure of English from an ESL instructor.
Category: Education
Close: A Journey in Scotland at The New York Botanical Garden
at The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx
10:00 a.m.
A look at Scottish landscape design and land art.
Category: Arts & Crafts, Nature, Art
Crochet Two-Color Easy Open Mesh Beach/Market Bag
at Poe Park Visitor Center (in Poe Park), Bronx
10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
Category: Arts & Crafts
GreenThumb Membership Update
at Alfred E. Smith Recreation Center (in Alfred E. Smith Playground), Manhattan
10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
It is that time of the year when gardeners need to update their community garden membership lists. We are also introducing our new Membership Agreement Form (available in four…
Wave Hill Winter Survival Wonders: Talk and Walk
at Wave Hill House (in Wave Hill), Bronx
10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Naturalist Gabriel Willow combines a multimedia presentation with an outdoor walk to illustrate the challenges faced by plant and animals during the chilliest months.
Category: Nature, Kids
Tunisian Crochet Beginners
at Poe Park Visitor Center (in Poe Park), Bronx
10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
Learn basic Tunisian (Afghan) crochet. Make a pot holder. Materials required: One skein light colored worsted weight (#4) yarn #H crochet hook
Category: Arts & Crafts, Education
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How It Works
Gemcitabine is an intravenous (IV) medication that is usually given in a dose based on body surface area. The type and extent of a cancer determines the exact dose and schedule of administering this drug.
Why It Is Used
Gemcitabine interferes with how cells divide, which stops the growth of the cancer cells. It is used to treat pancreatic and lung cancer. It may also be used to treat bladder, breast, ovarian, or cervical cancer or lymphoma.
How Well It Works
Gemcitabine is effective against many forms of cancer. However, the type and extent of a cancer determines how effectively this medication slows or stops the growth of cancer cells in the body.
Side Effects
Possible serious side effects of gemcitabine include:
- Allergic reactions. Signs of allergic reaction can include trouble breathing; swelling or closing of the throat; swollen face, tongue, or lips; or hives.
- Feeling extremely tired, bruising or bleeding easily, or signs of infection such as a fever or chills. These symptoms may mean that the medicine caused the numbers of your white or red blood cells or platelets to drop.
- Severe nausea and vomiting.
- Severe diarrhea.
- Blood in the urine or rarely needing to urinate.
Less serious side effects are more common and may include:
- Fever and flu-like symptoms.
- Mouth sores (stomatitis).
- Nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite.
- Rash.
- Hair loss. This is reversible, and hair will grow back when treatment ends.
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference is not available in all systems.)
What To Think About
Gemcitabine should be administered only under the supervision of a medical oncologist.
You may not be able to become pregnant or father a child after taking this medication. Discuss fertility with your doctor before starting treatment.
Gemcitabine can cause birth defects. Do not use this medication if you are pregnant or wish to become pregnant or to father a child while you are taking it.
Do not breast-feed while you are using gemcitabine.
Do not use this medication if you have:
- Kidney or liver disease.
- Chickenpox or shingles.
Complete the new medication information form (PDF)(What is a PDF document?) to help you understand this medication.
Last Updated: June 4, 2008
Author: Bets Davis, MFA
Medical Review: Anne C. Poinier, MD - Internal Medicine & Michael Seth Rabin, MD - Medical Oncology


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LIFE MEMBER Between supporting a woman as tough and good as Rose Johnson ("Profile") and investigating companies such as Echo Bay Mines ("The Cost of Doing Business"), you can consider me a member for life. The May/June issue sets an example of how and why journalism can improve our world. Pete Friedrich New York, New York
WHO'S A TERRORIST? Shame on you for publishing such a shallow article on the social, political, and environmental problems that plague Mindanao and other places like it around the world ("The Cost of Doing Business," May/June). You acknowledge that the Philippine government all but gave away the island's mineral resources to foreign interests and then label those fighting this crime as faceless "terrorists."
Friends working in the South Pacific have told me of valleys so filled with toxic mine waste that rivers changed course. Is anyone who fights the United States to stop such economic thievery and environmental devastation now automatically labeled a terrorist?
If our government gave our redwood forests to a Philippine logging company and left no recourse to challenge them, would you likewise label me a terrorist if I took up arms and tried to extort money and supplies from the foreigners so that my family could survive the onslaught? Roger Brewer Pacifica, California
Author Marilyn Berlin Snell replies: When the Philippine mining act passed in 1995, it was publicly, and rightly, denounced by many groups, including the National Council of Churches of the Philippines, the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, and the Philippine Indigenous Peoples Links. These organizations have long fought to protect the nation from the environmental devastation wrought by multinational mining corporations.
But none resorted to beheadings, bombings, and guerrilla attacks on civilian populations. The agenda of organizations like Abu Sayyaf and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front is not environmental health, but the creation of an Islamic state on Mindanao similar to Afghanistan under the Taliban.
WHAT NEXT? What follow-ups have you made regarding the involvement of Echo Bay Mines with terrorist groups ("The Cost of Doing Business," May/June)? William A. Fraenkel Flagler Beach, Florida
Editor's reply: Marilyn Berlin Snell's story was featured on ABC's World News Tonight and Primetime. Later MSNBC and Fox aired their own segments. The story also landed on the AP and Reuters wires and in newspapers all over the world.
Just as the ABC show was about to air in April, the U.S. Justice Department admitted it had made "a simple mistake" in dropping the Echo Bay investigation--and promised to resume its work. Meanwhile, Representatives Mark Udall (D) of Colorado and Edward J. Markey (D) of Massachusetts wrote letters urging the Bush administration to look into Echo Bay's and other corporations' links to terrorists.
For readers who want to help build public support for a broad investigation, we've prepared a Web letter for you to send to decision-makers. For updates as the story unfolds, sign up for our e-mail newsletter, "Inside Sierra," at www.sierraclub.org/sierra/inside.
SMALL WORLD, BIG BUSH The article by Carl Pope and Paul Rauber in your latest issue concerning Bush, science, and politics ("Strategic Ignorance," May/June) should be disseminated to as many humans everywhere as possible. It's not just Americans who are at risk, but everything that lives on this planet. Steven Holland West Yellowstone, Montana
LOVINS ON HYDROGEN Readers lost in Dashka Slater's sargasso of recirculating misconceptions about hydrogen ("Lay of the Land," May/June, page 16), and curious why a hydrogen transition could make sense and money, may find clarity in "Twenty Hydrogen Myths" at www.rmi.org. Of course Slater is right that efficient gasoline hybrid cars should come first--indeed they must, or hydrogen lacks a robust business case--but we should have both superefficient cars and hydrogen cars. They're mutually supportive. Once superefficient cars are on the road, hydrogen can follow surprisingly quickly.
Hydrogen's validity shouldn't be judged by who supports it. Why do the coal and nuclear industries love hydrogen? Nuclear because they've never understood economics--they haven't even noticed that their option has died of an incurable attack of market forces. Coal because it's actually good at pulling hydrogen out of steam, and just might be a cost- effective, climate-safe way to make bulk hydrogen if carbon sequestration can be perfected.
We already have at least two methods that don't use coal (reforming natural gas at the wellhead and reinjecting the CO2, or splitting water with sufficiently cheap renewable electricity), but if other acceptably benign competitors exist too, they should get to compete. Amory Lovins CEO, Rocky Mountain Institute Snowmass, Colorado
AN APOLOGY The May/June issue of Sierra contained "The Virus of Hate" ("Ways & Means"), in which Carl Pope said that racism and intolerance lie beneath the effort to limit immigration and that the Sierra Club should continue its policy of neutrality on immigration. I am one of those who want strict limits on immigration, and I am sure that many are like me in opposing the present high levels of immigration for reasons having nothing to do with ethnic intolerance. Alan E. Johnsrud Arlington, Virginia
Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope replies: I wrote that only "a few" of the advocates of changing the Club's immigration stand were guilty of prejudice, but perhaps I didn't make that point clearly enough. There are a host of perfectly good and unbiased arguments for restricting immigration. Some are environmental; others are not. The fact that there are some prejudiced people with the same positions cannot, and should not, be used to tar those who don't share those attitudes. I apologize to those who felt that I was suggesting such a connection.
CORRECTION Our May/June "Profile" headline, "Delta Defender," was geographically challenged. Most of Rose Johnson's work is in Gulfport, which is along the Mississippi coast, while "the Delta" is in the northwest part of the state.
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Cost agreements
When retained by a client, legal practitioners and law practices must adhere to the requirements and procedures under the Legal Profession Act 2004 (Vic) ("the Act") in relation to legal costs.
A costs agreement is a formal arrangement between a law practice and client in relation to costs, which details the costs which will be incurred by the client in order for the law practice to act on the client's behalf.
There are strict requirements relating to legal costs agreements.
Who can enter into a costs agreement?
A costs agreement may be made between:
- a client and a law practice retained by the client;
- a client and a law practice retained on behalf of the client by another law practice;
- a law practice and another law practice that retained that law practice on behalf of a client;
- a law practice and an associated third party payer (a person who is not the client of the law practice but is under a legal obligation to pay for legal services provided to the client).
What form should a costs agreement take?
A costs agreement must be in writing.
It may consist of a written offer which clearly states:
- that it is an offer to enter a costs agreement; and
- that the client may accept it in writing or by other conduct (except for conditional costs agreements); and
- what type of conduct constitutes acceptance.
Making a costs disclosure to a client
A law practice must disclose prescribed information relating to legal costs in writing before, or as soon as practicable after, the practice has been retained by a client. The disclosure must be in clear plain language, and may be in a language other than English if the client prefers.
See further information about Costs disclosure.
Conditional costs agreements
A costs agreement may include a provision that the payment of some or all of the legal costs is conditional on a successful outcome. A conditional costs agreement may relate to any matter except criminal proceedings or proceedings under the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth). A conditional costs agreement may provide for the payment of a reasonable premium on the legal costs (excluding unpaid disbursements) on the successful outcome of the matter. The law practice must have a reasonable belief that a successful outcome of the matter is reasonably likely.
Uplift fees in a costs agreement
Uplift fees are additional legal costs (excluding disbursements) payable under a costs agreement on the successful outcome of the matter to which the agreement relates. If a costs agreement involves an uplift fee, the law practice must disclose to the client in writing, before entering the agreement, the law practice's usual fees, the uplift fee or the basis of the calculation of the uplift fee and reasons why the uplift fee is warranted.
The above disclosure is not required to be made by a law practice to a "sophisticated client". "Sophisticated client" is defined in the Act and includes, for example, a law practice, Australian legal practitioner, public company or large proprietary company. See further information about sophisticated clients.
If a conditional costs agreement relates to a litigious matter, the premium must not exceed 25% of the legal costs (excluding unpaid disbursements) otherwise payable.
A law practice that has entered into a costs agreement in contravention of the provisions of the Act is not entitled to recover the whole or any part of the uplift fee and must repay the uplift fee to the client.
Contingency fees are prohibited
A law practice must not enter in a costs agreement under which the amount payable, or any part of that amount, is calculated by reference to the amount of any award or settlement or the value of any property that may be recovered in any proceedings to which the agreement relates.
This does not apply to any applicable practitioner remuneration order or scale of costs. This does not apply to any applicable practitioner remuneration order or scale of costs. A law practice that has entered into a costs agreement in contravention of the Act's contingency fee provisions is not entitled to recover any amount in respect of the provision of legal services in the matter to which the costs agreement related and must repay any amount received in respect of those services to the person from whom they were received.
Setting aside costs agreement
A client can apply to VCAT for an order that a costs agreement be set aside. VCAT may order the setting aside of the costs agreement if it is satisfied that the agreement is not fair, just or reasonable.
Visit the VCAT website.