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Tum Hi Ho, Ilahi, Zinda, Ranjhanaa: Which Male Singer Rocked 2013′s Music Chart?
From classical numbers to semi classical love ballads and some refreshingly powerful and arousing numbers, 2013 was a mishmash of everything! Added with a lot of fervor and breathtaking finesse by few of industry's treasured finds this year, most of the albums this year had something or the other to fall back on. While some of us moved, grooved to the hip-hop party numbers, others decided to just cue up consoling ourselves during our heartbreaks, reminiscing the beautiful moments and the others were just busy slow-dancing coyly with their partners.
Ranbir Kapoor, Aditya Roy Kapur and Farhan Akhtar
Definitely few of the best singing gems we have nurtured and unearthed this year, we bring you the 2013 list for the Best Male Singer, sans any heavyweight name, which is the surprising element!
Shafqat Amanat Ali for Teri Jhuki Nazar (Murder 3)
He wowed me with his Mitwaa, awed my fancies with the Tere Naina number and Dildaara track and swept me off my feet with his Phir Le Aya Dil last year. But when it came to 2013, he gave me reasons to fall in love, after ceremoniously shedding tears for his slow Barfi! number. Teri Jhuki Nazar, the romantic melody from the Murder 3 album gave us goosebumps as Shafqat Amanat Ali's haunting vocals spread magic like no other. The guitar strumming and the sublime drum kicks in the background added to the aura as Shafqat drove us way past romance and love. A musical magician, as I rightfully call him, he was superb with his rendition.
Arijit Singh for Tum Hi Ho (Aashiqui 2)
A film that resonated Love like no other, it was reality show find Arijit Singh who gained huge momentum after becoming a rage amongst the youth with his Tum Hi Ho number. There was something so alluring in this man's voice that connected oh-so-well to the ears. To a person who is lovelorn, Tum hi Ho was poetry to the ears. With time, as Tum hi Ho definitely became the romantic anthem of the year, we could not help but devour into this young budding storehouse of talent all the more. Ahh, Arijit, you are definitely the best find of 2013, yaar!
Ankit Tiwari for Sun Raha Hai Na Tu (Aashiqui 2)
While most were found with Tum Hi Ho on top of their playlists and busting the musical charts, I somehow had a little inclination towards the Sun Raha Hai Na Tu number. A song that even now, makes me and my friend run for our hankies, Ankit Tiwari infused life into the morose track and made it look a lot more believable. When he takes the higher pitches and then mixes it up with the soft rock boundaries, we couldn't help but gasp on our breaths. A song that somehow reaches the crescendo of human emotions and expressions, Ankit Tiwari proved his mettle as he walked away with this song, eating away the cake from a rather stronger Shreya Ghoshal!
Arijit Singh for Ilahi (Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani)
Another fantastic track, post his Aashiqui stint stamped Arijit as the new age singing sensation as he lip synced to Ranbir in this out-rightly simple yet complex number! Although Mohit Chauhan sang the reprise version, the original version by Arijit Singh soothed the ears a lot more than what Mohit's vocals did. Sorry Mohit, we love you but Arijit brought in a certain amount of sincerity and brickbat solidarity in the temp which somehow heightened the otherwise bland number. It is his voice that spreads magic over the ears and how!
Tochi Raina for Kabira (Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani)
When I had heard Iktaara from Ayan Mukerji's debut film, I somehow felt there can be no better song than this. But with Kabira, Tochi Raina shunned me to my own surprise. A powerfully rendered songs, one that speaks of Tochi's impeccable singing strength and control over his pitch and tone, Kabira is one of the most refreshingly arousing semi philosophical numbers I have ever heard of! Pairing up with Rekha Bharadwaj, Tochi created a sensational song, one that will be remembered for ages. True that.
Javed Bashir for Mera Yaar (Bhaag Milkha Bhaag)
This blended Sufi track from Bhaag Milkha Bhaag is simply breathtaking for many reasons: one, this is by far the best from the entire album and takes the music album to an all together high with elan, plus the soulful track has that naughty tinge in the flavor. Sung by Javed Bashir, the naughty nonchalance is evident from the way he jives up the contemporary Sufi ballad with his Punjabi tone amidst a continuous sweet melody being played in the background. The lyrics are penned well and the robust Javed Bashir voice adds more tenacity to the number.
Sidhharth Mahadevan for Zinda (Bhaag Milkha Bhaag)
With his dad composing the music for the film, Siddharth lent his beautiful voice to the arousing Zinda number, which was high on passion and scored humungously on the intensity levels. Siddharth baffled with an ornate piece, one that easily metamorphosed from hard rock to a softer and smoother melody with consummate ease. Such was the technique and credentials of another power-packed singing starlet!
Jaswinder Singh & Shiraz Uppal for Ranjhanaa Hua (Ranjhanaa)
A list for the musical numbers wont be complete unless we add this track to it. One of the most refreshing, energetic and vibrant romantic numbers of recent times, Shiraz Uppal mesmerized us with a brilliantly concocted Ranjhanaa hua, with Jaswinder Singh's voice giving it a certain semi-classical touch! The captivating beats of the dhol around the number caught frenzy and made the song a lot more appealing. But Shiraz Uppal's voice blended with this romantic number like a blob of molten butter. Pure bliss, we must say!
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Patiala House Music Is Not Different But Entertaining
Music directors' trio Shankar Ehsaan Loy has composed some entertaining numbers for Akshay Kumar's latest offering Patiala House, which is his first release of 2011.
The new trend: Women not allowed in music!
Are we going to see a revolution of sorts in months to come as far as soundtracks of Bollywood films is considered? That's because if one looks at the recent album releases like TUM MILE and LONDON DREAMS, there is something in common- 'There is no female singer roped in to render even a single track'.


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I knew a kid in school with albinism. He had white hair and pink eyes. Some people were afraid of him, but I found him fascinating. I became his first friend at our school.
When we entered high school, we had biology class together, and our teacher educated everyone on albinism. The condition is caused by altered genes that cannot allow a person to produce melanin as they should.
We learned that my friend has pink eyes not because his iris is actually pink, but because the lack of color in the iris lets his blood vessels within his eye show through. He had extreme albinism, but some people with mild cases have blue or even brownish or purple eyes.

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Souvaroffs (Butter Cookies with Jam)
Makes about 3 1/2 dozen sandwich cookies
The magazine's recipe format changed once again in 1984. Now the ingredients were lined up as a kind of shopping list that you could check before you began to cook. The directions changed too, into the terse language that we now consider de rigueur for recipes. This recipe belonged to Gourmet contributor Lillian Langseth-Christensen. Known as Liesl, she was an extraordinary writer and designer as well as a talented baker. She lived in a hunting lodge outside Vienna, where she developed recipes using American ingredients that she bought at the PX on a nearby U.S. military base. We have hundreds of her recipes, but we particularly like these buttery treats filled with apricot or strawberry jam. A little rum in the dough sets off its tangy sweetness.
For the dough
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 1/2 sticks (3/4 cup) cold unsalted butter, cut into bits
- 1 large egg yolk, beaten lightly
- 1/2 teaspoon light rum or vanilla
- 2/3 cup cup jam such as apricot or strawberry, heated and strained
Make the dough:
Into a bowl, sift together the flour and the sugar, add the butter, and blend the mixture until it resembles meal. Add the egg yolk, the rum, and 2 tablespoons ice water, toss the mixture until it is combined, and form the dough into a ball. Knead the dough lightly with the heel of the hand against a smooth surface for a few seconds to distribute the fat evenly, and re-form it into a ball. Dust the dough with flour and chill it, wrapped in wax paper, for 30 minutes.
Halve the dough, roll out half of it 1/8 inch thick on a floured surface, and cut it into rounds with a 1 1/2-inch fluted cutter. Gather the scraps together, re-roll them, and cut out more rounds. Roll out the remaining half of the dough 1/8 inch thick and cut out more rounds in the same manner. Cut out the center of half the rounds with a 1/2-inch plain round cutter to form rings. Bake the rounds and rings in batches on greased baking sheets in the middle of a preheated 325 F oven for 12 minutes, or until the edges are faintly golden. Transfer the cookies to a rack and let them cool. Sandwich the cookies together with the jam.
Recipe Notes
1. Roll out the dough between sheets of parchment or wax paper.
2. For cleaner edges, chill or freeze the dough before and after cutting the rounds.
3. After sandwiching the cookies, use extra jam to top off the centers.
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Open-Source Diplomacy
Instead of hunkering down in the wake of the WikiLeaks fiasco, Foggy Bottom should move toward a less secretive diplomacy.
November 29th may be remembered as one of the most important anniversaries in the annals of American diplomacy. On this day, in two separate centuries, events occurred that shaped—and will continue to shape—the course of U.S. statecraft.
On November 29, 1775, the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, established the Committee of Secret Correspondence. The goal of this committee, comprised of an illustrious band of revolutionaries including Benjamin Franklin and John Jay, was to solicit aid from potential European allies for the nascent American war effort. Equipped with codes and ciphers, the committee became the forerunner of the U.S. State Department, and the habits of secrecy it initiated have over the centuries become the modus operandi for modern American diplomacy.
It was also on November 29 of last year that the world's newspapers announced the release of the WikiLeaks cables, the enormous and infamous cache of classified State Department cables that suddenly and unprecedentedly fell into the hands of the uncleared public.
There is little doubt that the WikiLeaks breach caused serious and potentially long-term damage to U.S. diplomatic interests. The leaked cables included critical comments made by Saudi King Abdullah and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan about Pakistan's civilian leaders, making it unlikely these leaders, or many others, will offer their candid assessments to American diplomats anytime soon. U.S. programs to reclaim enriched uranium from a Pakistani research reactor were also revealed, as were the details of how U.S. Special Forces have been providing support to Pakistan's own military operations. Also swept up were some of America's most talented diplomats, including Carlos Pascual, who stepped down from his post as U.S. ambassador to Mexico after his blunt assessment of Mexican President Felipe Calderón's anti-drug efforts turned up in the document dump.
In its wholesale violation of U.S. diplomatic secrecy, WikiLeaks's actions have only intensified the prevailing tendency in Foggy Bottom and in the Administration to "batten down the hatches." In October, President Obama signed a sweeping executive order—the so-called "WikiLeaks order"—instructing the national security community to deploy more robust cybersecurity technologies and measures to make the secrecy infrastructure of American diplomacy more restrictive, pervasive, and impenetrable, including more aggressive enforcement mechanisms, new data breach prevention systems, and significantly enhanced protocols for access to official communications. Indeed, this bulked-up secrecy infrastructure may prove effective in preventing future breaches.
American diplomacy, however, need not proceed inflexibly along this track. As traumatic and embarrassing as it may have been, the WikiLeaks episode offers the United States a timely opportunity to reassess its approach to diplomacy to ensure it can remain relevant in the new global information ecosystem. In this new track, rather than trying to resist the increasingly transparent and networked global communications infrastructure in which American diplomacy is now enmeshed, America's diplomats may choose instead to adapt to new technical, cultural, and policy realities. It has become one of the great ironies of our time that while the United States has one of the most open societies in the world, its diplomatic activities and the technology infrastructure that supports them still remain among the world's most secretive and siloed.
One urgent consequence of this contradiction is that American diplomacy risks becoming ever more out of touch with, and therefore of less consequence to, the emerging mainstream of engaged citizens around the world for whom concepts such as national interest, identity, and political affiliation are influenced increasingly by the interactive social networks they have formed, rather than by traditional elites and governments. As billions of cell-phone-carrying and Internet-equipped citizens around the world move relentlessly toward more open, participatory, and collaborative forms of communication, American diplomacy—still mired in its habits of secrecy—risks being left behind.
This lag was glaringly apparent during the wave of democratic activism witnessed these past months not only in the streets, but also in the text messages and online social networks of the Maghreb and Middle East. These extraordinary events were not anticipated by American diplomats, and American diplomacy was not able to establish in a timely way a coherent, coordinated, or trusted voice within those critically important new networks of engaged citizens. If the State Department proves unable to maintain America's leadership—either in physical or now increasingly in virtual environments—other institutions, individuals, networks, or governments surely will fill the vacuum, and not always in ways that serve America's interests.
Today, one year after the WikiLeaks fiasco and in the wake of the Arab Spring, America's diplomatic enterprise urgently needs to be retooled. What should be the source code for this new diplomatic track? In a world whose politics increasingly are shaped by ubiquitous networks enabled by social media, the answer lies in the "open source" principles that have drastically reinvented the way citizens, markets, economies, and governments now interact.
America in the Bazaar
In practical terms, the concept of "open source"—which first gained momentum in the early days of the commercial deployment of the Internet in the mid-1990s—describes a means of developing software that ensures it can be licensed, modified, and distributed freely and transparently. Anyone can download open-source software for little or no cost, and can use, share, borrow, or change it without restriction. Relying on open collaboration by software developers, and the transparent sharing of insights between developers and users, open source has become a design principle not merely for software, but also now for a broader range of human endeavors, including business, medical research, biotechnology, and even government. (See "Wiki-Government" by Beth Simone Noveck, Issue #7.)
As the American computer programmer and author Eric S. Raymond described in his famous 1997 essay "The Cathedral and the Bazaar," adherents of the open-source movement saw in software-code writing nothing less than a political philosophy. The core tenet of this philosophy was that the authoritarian and buttressed "cathedrals" of hierarchical and proprietary information systems, whether they exist in cyberspace or in the brick-and-mortar structures of business or government, necessarily will give way to the more collaborative and self-organizing "bazaar" that is the new, networked, information society. In this open-source ecosystem, everything is shared, and adheres to Stewart Brand's famous adage that "information wants to be free."
Already, open source has become the dominant ethos for much of the world's information architecture. Everything from the way we communicate to the way we work, learn, and play is increasingly informed by the principles of open-source software design, which operates on a community model with more decentralized governance. One of the most successful examples of collaborative, peer-based, open-source design is Wikipedia, the online, not-for-profit, and user-generated encyclopedia that has revolutionized the very idea of content creation and distribution. With nearly 20 million articles, 90,000 active volunteer contributors, and more than 365 million readers, the site can be edited by anyone in any of the now 282 languages in which it is published.
If U.S. diplomacy is to flourish in this new environment, it too must prudently but deliberately integrate an increasingly open-source outlook in its operations, its culture, and the design and conduct of the communications networks and systems it deploys. This new diplomacy will leverage many of the attributes and instincts of the open-source technology movement itself—and will look vastly different from diplomacy as we know it. The practice of traditional cable writing from ambassadors at post to their superiors at Foggy Bottom—more often than not ghost written by staff officers and requiring elaborate clearance processes—will give way to platforms of reporting that are not always confidential, and will be accessible to wider internal and external audiences and open to their commentary and critique.
Technical fluency, just like language fluency, will be tested and developed in our diplomats before they are stationed overseas, so that communication via social media, web logs, and other technical means can be more efficient, more pervasive, and more systematic. Feedback about American policies, principles, and practices will be openly sought, encouraged, and actively measured. And our diplomats will focus not only on interaction with government officials, state institutions, and elites, but increasingly on building partnerships with local businesses, students, universities, organizations, and other non-governmental actors supporting issues and values of importance to the United States.
A Strategy for Reform
For any bureaucratic organization, change is hard. But for an institution as globally dispersed and organizationally complex as the State Department, it is exquisitely challenging. Lacking the command-and-control ethos of the Pentagon, and dependent on the morale, dedication, and commitment of its talented civil service, the State Department is an inherently conservative institution, deeply protective of its prerogatives, its personnel, and its traditions. It was not surprising when the White House website reported recently in its open government scorecard that the State Department lagged behind all the 15 cabinet departments in its progress toward implementing the President's open government and transparency goals.
During my service in Washington as a national security official in the late 1990s, I saw just how stubbornly opposed to innovation the State Department often could be. Even as the World Wide Web became globally available, most State Department personnel abroad had limited or no access to the Internet. Those few who did were forced for security reasons to locate their "open" terminals several feet away from their classified desktops. These open terminals had to be connected to the government's expensive proprietary global network, which was so inefficient it often provided download speeds as slow as data speeds for faxes.
The technology teams I led at the United States Information Agency recognized that commercial solutions to this problem were readily available, and sought to provide to diplomats in selected embassies around the world higher-speed Internet access using commonly available satellite technology. Over the often-strenuous objections of many in the State Department, the project was able to proceed—but only by using funds solicited directly from Congress. When it came to promoting innovation within the State Department, the key lesson for would-be innovators was that the best approach often was to ask not for permission, but for forgiveness.
Fortunately, attitudes and practices have evolved significantly in the past decade. Despite what some critics on the left may assert, the pre-WikiLeaks Obama Administration took some important steps in the direction of transparency and innovation in American diplomacy. Among other measures, it adapted a decidedly more open-source attitude in its first efforts to wean the U.S. national security community away from reflexive secrecy. In one of his first acts, President Obama issued the Open Government Directive, requiring all federal agencies to take immediate steps to foster transparency, collaboration, and participation. Since then, the Administration has made government data and documents more accessible, launched citizen-generated idea sharing platforms such as Challenge.gov to promote collaborative problem-solving between the public and government officials on a range of policy issues, and created the previously mentioned scorecard, which tracks overall performance on openness and transparency across the government.
The Administration has also made investments in more modern technology infrastructure and devoted greater attention to streamlining and modernizing federal communications, technology, and acquisition policies. This includes the establishment of the federal government's first chief information and technology officers based in the White House, a greater reliance on cloud technologies for data storage, patent reform, initiatives to speed up commercialization of government research and development, and efforts to make broadband spectrum more widely available.
The changes have not been restricted to the White House. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also has championed a more vocal mission for the State Department in the areas of innovation, openness, and technology, including the appointment of the first coordinator for cyber issues, as well as a senior adviser for innovation to help manage technology initiatives across the State Department's many bureaus focusing on security, privacy, spectrum, and Internet access. A range of new programs also has been launched, including a national innovation competition to elicit new ideas about how technology can more effectively support diplomacy.
But the WikiLeaks contretemps threatens to roll back some of these innovations. And while these initiatives certainly are important steps, we still need a longer-term strategy to ensure America's diplomatic corps is ready to engage effectively in an open-source world. The full transition from the "traditional" practice of statecraft dominated by more secretive interaction among elites to a more decentralized, technologically enabled, and transparent approach to diplomacy will be accomplished neither under the watch of any one secretary of state nor by any one administration. It will require a sustained, multiyear focus on the part of the executive branch, Congress, and the Foreign Service itself. It also will need to adopt the following set of bottom-line principles and practices—based themselves on core open-source tenets—in order to flourish.
The core principle for this new American diplomacy will be a deeper commitment to transparency itself. This call for openness in diplomatic practice, though often out of fashion since World War I, is not entirely new for American statecraft. In fact, transparency was the first of Woodrow Wilson's famous Fourteen Points of 1918, in which he laid before Congress a vision for a new postwar diplomacy based above all upon "[o]pen covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view."
Wilson's perception that the confidence of both the American people and of our allies requires an open approach to diplomacy could not be more relevant today. More than ever, there is a strategic premium in the marketplace and within civil society on open and unfettered communications. American diplomacy ignores this phenomenon at its peril. In this new environment, efforts by American diplomats to engage more openly with publics will be rewarded with increasing trust.
In practical terms, our diplomats must be given significantly more leeway in the future to engage with communities of interest without onerous clearance procedures, permissions, and approved talking points. It also means that the buildings in which our diplomats work must be designed and sited not only with security in mind, but also to facilitate optimal communication with access for local citizens. Locating our diplomatic offices closer to urban centers when feasible will be an important step in this direction.
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Artfully presented.
As crisis is opportunity, policy makers would do well to heed your call for transparency.
High unemployment among the under 25 demo may present the seeds of a solution. The under 25 set best understand social media, a core communication tool for organizers around the world. This demo must be leveraged for diplomacy through another technology meme: crowdsourcing.
Governments that engage, serve and mobilize their citizens reduce the risk of facing the ire of those citizens in the square, in the park, in the halls, or at the ballot box.
Nov 28, 2011, 5:58 PMDidn't someone use a very similar analogy a couple of years back?
I stumbled across this post that talks about the same cathedral and bazaar analogy and an open source approach to diplomacy - were you aware of it?
Nov 30, 2011, 10:27 AMThanks for sharing this post, which I hadn't seen. The essay it cites uses Eric Raymond's famous metaphor as a powerful framework for analyzing a branch of statecraft known as public diplomacy. Its author also cleverly puts into context the issues raised in Greg Fawcett's earlier post regarding modes of communication with the "under-25" demographic though such technology memes as crowd-sourcing. (My article notes the growing relevance of this demographic to diplomacy, which now comprises fully 45% of the world's population.)
The post adds yet more proof that Raymond's concept of the "cathedral and the bazaar" is now the central and most widely referenced metaphor for understanding the open-source software movement, and for explaining how open-source concepts can -- or should -- also extend beyond technology to other spheres of human activity -- from science, to education, capital markets, business and government.
On another point -- it is interesting to note that earlier this week, the lawyer for Bradley Manning, the US Army private accused of illegally passing classified documents to WikiLeaks, said in a court filing that the document dump did not do "any real damage to national security." (Link: http://bit.ly/uNUL9W)
I would disagree. The WikiLeaks breach had immediate impacts on important US relationships, diplomatic careers, and possibly certain national security initiatives. In the longer term, it may call into question the critical issue of trust: Can foreign leaders ever feel reasonably confident they can communicate opens and candidly with American government officials? The restoration of that trust will be an ongoing effort for American diplomats, and I argue in my essay that confidence-building will be facilitated by the integration of a more open-source outlook in the design and conduct of US diplomacy.
Dec 1, 2011, 7:39 AMThe traditional level of secrecy in government agencies is for another age. The world is a lot smaller now than ever.
I believe that much of the conflict and problems
currently filling our TV screens every evening are due to the world trying to adapt to this new reality of a true global village. Its not an easy adaptation process due to cultural, economic and still outstanding development issues, but also due to the practices of the traditional nation state governments who up to now had been operating in a much more dispersed world.
What the author argues truly is the future. But right now it seems our political leaders
lack the vision to move things forward more creatively to the space where we can have less stringent security. Less stringent security will naturally come when nations,
or rather humanity perhaps in general, adapts to this global village.
great article, well written and researched, and spot on.
a couple of thoughts to take your analysis a few steps further:
1. Wiki-leaks as a catalyst for the Arab spring: it is perhaps not coincidental that the two leaders taken out by the Arab street were viewed as staunch US allies and proteges of Washington; indeed it is common knowledge that former Tunisian intelligence chief Ben Ali was viewed -- rightly or wrongly -- as the CIA's man in Tunis. US support conferred an air on invincibility, if not impunity. When the Arab street realized -- thanks to the publication of State Department cables by Wiki Leaks -- that we Americans were as shocked and dismayed by the human rights abuses, corruption and injustice that Ben Ali and Mubarak presided over in their stagnant regimes, that was a game changer. The Arab street realized that Ben Ali and Mubarak were fair game, and the rest is history.
2. Paradox of thrift and paradox of secrecy: here's a bit of an economics analogy for you poli-sci types: in Econonmics 101 we all learn the paradox of thrift, which says that when one person saves money, that's good. But when everyone in the economy hoards their cash, you have a recession. That's bad. I would advance a similar paradigm with respect to secrecy and diplomacy. In the world of national security and diplomacy, protecting sources and methods is critical. So classifying a State Department cable conveying the intimate thoughts which a local leader confided to a US ambassador, or the ambassador's personal views on a specific political or economic issue in his country, makes absolute sense, if only to protect the privacy (and indeed in some cases, the lives) of the individuals concerned. In fact journalists try to do much the same thing to protect their sources. And that is good. But when everything the USG thinks and does is wrapped in a veil of secrecy, only the bad guys benefit, and that is bad. the Arab street still looks up to the United States, to our values and our ability to live by those values. We are after all a free and democratic society, reasonably free of corruption and with a justice system that works quite well most of the time. That is something that inspires the Arab street and people all over the world. Getting our own views out into the open a little more often -- as was done in a rather untidy fashion by Wiki Leaks -- is a good thing. Hoarding US views only plays into the hands of the corrupt cronies who pretend to be annointed by Washington.
Finally, three personal and somewhat contradictory anecdotes from my life in the State Department to illustrate how much I agree with your analysis, and the need to "reboot" US diplomacy:
1. Rwanda: I was a first tour FSO in Kigali during the invasion of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF -- mainly Ugandan army elements who had "deserted") in 1990. This invasion and the subsequent war of attrition led to the attempted genocide of 1994. At the Embassy we produced copious reporting (I was wondering last year if any of my cables would end up on Wiki leaks!) trying to analyze who was fighting whom, why, and where the weapons were coming from. We conveyed the Rwandan government's pleas for intervention -- it wouldn't have taken much, a few hundered soldiers with some armor to separate the combattants -- but with apartheid ending in South Africa, Mobutu and Zaire dying, and UNITA finally coming to the negotiating table in Angola, there was no bandwidth in Washington to deal with Rwanda, where "our interests are solely humanitarian." (That's a real quote, and arguably true.) After a change of Ambassadors -- an inexperienced political appointee was replaced by a frustrated career diplomat with no Africa experience but intimate knowledge of how to get things done in Washington -- we resorted to sending cables to Washington with the highest classification -- in hopes that the "7th floor" would take notice. And this from an Embassy with no US Marines and no real physical security. But the highly classified cables did yield results, and ultimately led to engagement from Washington and the short lived Arusha peace accords between the Rwandan Government and the RPF. The perverted lesson learned by a junior FSO -- me -- was if you want to get your cables read in State, overclassify them. (Ironically, Rwanda was never really a focus of US foreign policy until CNN captured compelling images of the genocide in 1994, highly classified cables notwithstanding.)
2. Washington: I spent my third tour as an FSO in Washington running economic sanctions policy against Iraq, Libya and North Korea. This meant working closely with US allies in the UN Security Council, and the US intelligence community, to plug holes in the sanctions regimes, by identifying and stopping sanctions violations. The US intelligence community would regularly bring us proof positive -- intercepts, etc. -- of blatant violations of UN sanctions -- including proposed shipments of dual use or military equipment -- by various criminal organizations and individuals in Europe and Russia. At the time we had quite strong support for sanctions in New York. But more often than not, when we tried to get the information into a form that was releasable to other governments -- i.e. a smoking gun -- inevitably ran into the iron curtain of "protecting sources and methods." Finally I had to tell my intelligence community colleagues that much of their data was certainly interesting, but if I couldn't take action on it, I just didn't need to know. The second lesson for a junior FSO: highly classified information may be useful for soldiers and spies, but the benefit to business of diplomacy is marginal at best.
3. France: France at the time of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin was full of spies and informants, and led to the US Government's first use of encryption to keep its correspondence -- which was inevitably read by the French -- private. Encryption, by the way, is not just useful for keeping government secrets under wraps, it is an essential engine of electronic commerce over the internet (secure payments and data transmissions, for example). On my fourth and final tour in the US Foreign Servcie, I got involved in lengthy negotiations with the French in the mid 1990's on electronic commerce and encryption. This was when Windows 95 and Netscape Navigator software were opening the door to the internet on every desktop around the world. The US Government was convinced -- and they were right -- that the business of the internet -- electronic commerce, the buying and selling of physical goods and digital content -- could only flourish if it was protected from the asphyxiating embrace of European regulation, taxes and content quotas. (These are a traditional French specialty, as Franklin himself surmised at the time.) This led to long drawn out negotiations with the French Socialist government of the time, including Finance Minister Dominic Strauss Kahn of recent fame in NYC. The key to an agreement was understanding the motivations and objectives of the French side, which were in fact quite different from the US objectives. Our side was focused on the business objectives -- making the world safe for the likes of Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle, and Cisco -- while the the French were focused on the social objectives -- education, tele-medicine, and rural access to information, etc. That was the easy part. The hard part was getting the information back to the Washington agencies participating in the talks -- USTR, the FCC, the White House, and Commerce. We quickly learned that outside of the State Department no one could read our classified cables from their desktops. We realized that 90% of the content in our cables were "open source," i.e. you could read the same content in the French press or by chatting with the French 'man in the street." The remaining 10% were the personal insights, opinions, and recommendations of the French officials with whom we spoke. We quickly learned to classify our cables paragraph by paragraph, putting the 10% of personal insights that were worthy of "Confidential" treatment in one or two paragraphs, and leaving all the rest unlassified, so that Washington agencies could read the material and act on it. It worked, we got a deal with the French (and the Japanese too, but that's a separate narrative) to preclude taxation and quotas on e-commerce, which has been an engine for economic growth, new jobs, business, and the expansion of the internet around the world. And the rest is history, as you so artfully capture in your piece.
all the best,
tom marten
ps sorry i missed you on your last trip to paris, i'm living in saudi arabia these days. and now i know what you've been doing with your free time in berkley! keep up the good work.
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February 2010 Archives
The former Tory mover and shaker is reading Agatha Christie's The Complete Miss Marple Short Stories (HarperCollins £14.99).
"Every one is a bloody-handed murder. I read them out loud in bed with my wife. I totally irritate her when I figure out who did it.
● The Reluctant Hero by Michael Dobbs (Simon & Schuster £12.99) is on sale now.
(Jonathan Cape £18.99)
Martin Amis simply can't write a bad sentence. For nearly 40 years he has been Britain's leading literary writer - an unmatched prose stylist, comic and intellectual.
He is also our most controversial author, never shirking from saying the unsayable, and never afraid to push the boundaries of fiction and the printed word into new, uncharted and often uncomfortable terrain.
For that, of course, Amis has attracted as much criticism as praise. Yet, to read his work and to gain some understanding of his mind, extraordinary humour, and Amis's brilliantly playful and innovative use of words is a real and all too rare joy for anyone remotely interested in writing.
Just as he's incapable of writing a bad sentence so Amis is incapable of writing a bad novel. The Pregnant Widow, his 12th, is a formidably rich, funny and wonderfully entertaining take on the sexual revolution and its appalling hangover. The action, and indeed the lusting, begins during one long, hot summer in Italy in 1970. A sweaty ménage à trois strikes up between three students who are on holiday in an impressive and fancy castle belonging to a cheese baron.
There's Keith, his frisky and promiscuous girlfriend Lily, and their strikingly tall and beautiful friend Scheherazade. Other colourful characters dip in and out - there's
much lounging and eyeing-up around the pool - including a tiny Count and
a bulging Mexican.
However, the crux of the story centres on Keith's attempts to seduce Scheherazade behind Lily's back.
He is finding women's liberation - where, as Amis effectively attests, the girls began to behave like the boys - almost too much to bear.
When his sly conquest goes spectacularly and (for us) hilariously wrong, poor Keith is left with so many hang-ups that the next 40 years of his life - including his three marriages - are more than blighted.
Throughout, Amis sprinkles the story with blindingly appropriate literary references and nuances, yet his extraordinary learning and talent never overshadows the considerable drama and entertainment at hand.
This is a very sophisticated, knowing and utterly original comedy of manners.
Cert 12A, 101mins
For his first-ever movie, fashion designer Tom Ford delivers the surprise of the year with a startlingly beautiful and sorrowful meditation on grief.
Less surprising was last week's news that its star, Colin Firth, has been nominated for an Oscar. He gives the performance of his life - good enough, in fact, for us to finally shake off that wet-shirted Mr Darcy moment we all carry around in our heads.
Set over one day in 1962, Firth plays George Falconer, a gay British professor at an LA college who, having just learned of his lover's death, plans to kill himself. During what may be his last few hours, he hangs out with one of his students (About A Boy's Nicholas Hoult) and drops in on an old friend (Julianne Moore) while his time with his partner Jim (Matthew Goode) is revisited in black and white flashbacks.
As you'd expect from a director who used to be Gucci's glamour boy, everything looks great. Falconer wears the sharpest of suits, hides behind a pair of groovy horn-rimmed glasses and whizzes around in just the most darling little sports car.
Meanwhile, Firth is a revelation as a man gently falling to pieces behind his stiff upper lip. A class act.
IF YOU LIKED... Under The Sand, Three Colours: Blue... YOU'LL LIKE THIS.
Cert 12A, 125mins ★★
Sappiness overflows in a rom-com possessing little humour and all the romance of a bouquet of garage roses. The intention is to put a warm, fuzzy feeling in our tummies. Often it feels like nausea.
Florist Ashton Kutcher is on cloud nine after proposing to his girlfriend (Jessica Alba, sporting an atomic orange tan), while his best friend Jennifer Garner is newly in love with a man who just happens to be married.
Also dropping by the flower shop is a cynical sports journalist (Jamie Foxx) forced to film a puff piece by his producer (Kathy Bates), a schoolboy who fancies an older woman and a secretary (Anne Hathaway) who hasn't told her new bloke she's moonlighting as a phone-sex operator.
Also making small - although not small enough - appearances are Julia Roberts and
Shirley Maclaine.
It's essentially a lot of pretty people with perfect teeth either looking for or avoiding the L word, with the smell of cynicism pervading the whole sickly confection.
IF YOU LIKED... Love Actually, The Holiday... YOU'LL LIKE THIS.
Cert PG, 119mins
Barely has the New Year begun and we have the 423rd attempt by a studio to launch a teen-friendly franchise to rival Harry Potter. And boy is this not it.
While the Hogwarts saga may be getting long in the tooth, at least it has decent characters and a sense of humour. This has neither.
Here, the ordinary teenage boy who must save the world using his magical powers is New Yorker Percy Jackson, who learns that not only is he Poseidon's son but is suspected of stealing Zeus's lightning bolt.
With war about to erupt between the gods, the lad and two pals must defeat Medusa (Uma Thurman), slay a hydra and travel to the Underworld.
Also starring Steve Coogan and Pierce Brosnan, the special effects aren't bad, but that's about it. The problem is flat characters and a script that takes itself far too seriously, making the enterprise feel deeply ridiculous.
IF YOU LIKED... The Golden Compass, The Neverending Story... YOU'LL LIKE THIS.
Cert PG, 79mins ★★★
It must be a sign of these war-weary times that we can now walk into a cinema and be expected to cheer as US soldiers are blasted into oblivion by aliens, first in Avatar
and now in this remarkably similar animation.
Plotwise, it's a familiar beast as we journey to a distant planet inhabited by the tadpole-like Terrans, whose world comes under threat with the arrival of the Earthforce Army.
Commanded by the militaristic General Hemmer (Brian Cox), their mission is kill the locals and claim the place for themselves. But when one of the invaders, a square-jawed marine (Luke Wilson), is shot down and rescued by a young alien (Evan Rachel Wood), the full extent of the Earthlings' genocidal mission becomes unpalatably clear, prompting him to swap sides.
Despite the déjà vu there's plenty to enjoy, and not just for kids, from an earnest environmental message to animation that comes alive when seen in 3D.
IF YOU LIKED... Planet 51, FernGully... YOU'LL LIKE THIS.
Until February 19
Here's a rare chance to see in Britain a significant European artist rarely exhibited outside his own country.
A small selection of Belgrade artist Stojan Milanov's work is on show at the Serbian embassy in Central London, as part of a promotion of Serbian artists.
Other featured artists are Dusan Djukaric, Ema Radanovic, Dragan Petrovic, Silva Vujovic, Zoran Calija, Branko Dimitrijevic and Tomislav Suhecki.
Better known in the U.S. than here Milanov, a trained draughtsman, has a brilliant grasp of composition and is able to paint seemingly awkward depictions of daily life while balancing the elements of light and brushstrokes in a perfectly harmonious work.
His subjects for the most part are women, like Beauty, top, and street scenes, and his style varies between openly commercial, modern expressionism (popular in the boutique galleries around Belgrade's Knez Mahajlova street) and more thoughtful, philosophical pieces.
The latter aren't as popular, but show the true depth of Milanov's artistic vision.
Cert 12A, 133mins 5/5
Don't know about you, but when I'm verging on 80 the ability to string together a sentence and tell my grandchildren apart will be enough. You can bet I won't be directing one of 2053's best movies.
Yet, continuing a startling renaissance, 79-year-old Clint Eastwood delivers yet another tub-thumping classic - a sports drama that'll have all but the most cynical cheering from their seats. Aside from leaving the cinema with a huge grin on your face, chances are you'll be marvelling at how Dirty Harry is still churning out films of such high quality. The Changeling, Gran Torino and now this. It's scarcely believable.
The setting is early 90s South Africa as exiled ANC leader Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) is at last released from Robben Island to become the country's leader. Presiding over a population of vengeful blacks and nervous whites, the new president must bring about racial unity. Cannily, he seizes upon the nation's rugby team, the Springboks, to do just that.
Mandela impresses upon the struggling, all-white side's captain François Pienaar (Matt Damon) that winning the 1995 Rugby World Cup will be just the thing to bring the country together.
Taking its name from William Henley's admittedly trite poem, which Mandela quotes here and there over the action, Invictus may occasionally be corny, but then there's no genre better suited for cheese than the sports drama. As Damon leads his team charging onto the field, we want our buttons to be pushed - the harder the better - and Clint doesn't disappoint. Even those unfamiliar with the game will be cheering the tries and booing when the side fail to convert.
Also, Morgan Freeman gives a magisterial performance. This guy never feels less than the real deal, while the muscled-up Damon is just as convincing. Some may criticise the film for never delving too far into the players' lives or personal stories - Winnie Mandela is nowhere to be seen, while Pienaar's own political views are kept secret. But that's forgetting the story is an allegory for tolerance and forgiveness, not a character piece.
It all adds up to yet another improbable victory for Clint.
The Reel Lowdown
BEST QUOTE: Mandela: "If we take away their Springboks and their national anthem, we just reinforce the cycle of fear between us."
BEST BIT: Freeman is on top acting form.
WORST BIT: A few uneven accents.
IF YOU LIKED... Escape To Victory, Cry Freedom... YOU'LL LIKE THIS.
(Hutchinson £18.99) 4.5
Alastair Campbell's insightful and highly entertaining second novel tackles fame and its impact on a celebrity and her inner circle. Maya Lowe is a Hollywood star, yet she's never forgotten her old school friend Steve Watkins. Steve, however, is unimpressed with Maya's new husband Dan... Here, Campbell reveals, exclusively to The Ticket, his inspiration for the novel.
Maya is more compelling and assured than your debut novel, All In The Mind. Was it easier?
I surprised myself in doing the first one at all, and learned a lot. All In The Mind was a novel with a purpose - to draw attention to mental health issues. Maya is more 'just a novel', and perhaps I did work harder on the plot and rhythm.
In it you explore the nature of celebrity. Why - and what does it say about the age we're living in?
It's not a polemic, but I think we've become over-obsessed with celebrity. I wanted to explore fame and friendship, how it changes not just the famous but those around them - family, friends, fans, agents, media.
In Treatment: The Complete First Season (15, £44.99) 4/5
Gabriel Byrne is a therapist struggling with his own demons while trying to sort out patients, such as a young anaesthetist (Melissa George) and an arrogant Navy pilot (Blair Underwood). Mostly filmed in one room with clever writing and earnest turns from all concerned, this therapy works for me.
Nip/Tuck: The Complete First Season
(18, £49.99) 4/5
There's the usual heady concoction of surgery, sex and scandal in the latest dose of drama from plastic surgeons Sean (Dylan Walsh) and Christian (Julian McMahon). And now they've relocated to LA from Miami, things get even more sordid. The gag reel offers relief.
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River Monsters (12, £24.99) 3/5
Extreme angler Jeremy Wade is on the hunt for some of the world's most dangerous fish. He explores the Amazon to check whether piranhas deserve their fearsome reputation and gets wary around freshwater sharks. Educational stuff shown in an exciting fashion.
Eastenders: Last Tango In Walford (PG, £tbc) 3/5
Ricky and Bianca's tumultuous relationship is under the microscope in this 'Enders special. Bianca's little minx Tiffany, determined to give mum a wedding present to remember, records residents' memories of the pair. A must-have trip down Walford's memory lane for fans.


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A natural artist, Jeanette doodled flowers and cartoon characters on her notebook paper in middle school. Teachers noticed and suggested she paint a brightly colored food mural including pineapples, pizza, and French fries on the cafeteria wall in 1989. She worked on the project for three months with a group of students and won an award for her dedication. (The mural was recently painted over.)
Throughout high school, she was at the top of her English class and earned A's and B's. At one point, she began wearing makeup and skimpy clothes that accented her good looks, drawing notice wherever she went. Shopping at Pembroke Lakes Mall with her mother, Jeanette was stopped by an older woman. "You should think about modeling," the stranger recommended.
In 1991, Ray lost his job and the family felt a financial crunch. "We weren't poor," Gina says. "But we didn't have extravagant things." There was also trouble at Cooper City High, where Jeanette met a boy named Jason Rodriguez, a slick bodybuilder with a chiseled face who had perfected the bad-boy persona. He was a "wild juvenile delinquent," Gina says.
After high school, Jason went to jail. Jeanette stuck by him until he got out, despite Krissy's concern that "he hit and abused her." When Jeanette was upset — perhaps when they fought — she would blast Whitney Houston's soundtrack to the movie The Bodyguard.
Jeanette worked at Frank's Nursery and Crafts, selling plants and lawn furniture in Cooper City, and dabbled in modeling. Her parents couldn't afford the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, so she compromised by taking classes at Broward Community College. "Jeanette wanted to be a million things," says Krissy, who is two years older and got into more trouble. "She was finding herself."
During winter 1995, Jeanette began working at the Goldfinger strip club on North University Drive in Sunrise. About two years later, she moved to the flashier, more lucrative Thee Dollhouse in Sunny Isles Beach. The club drew a clientele of well-off older gentlemen, and girls danced to alternative-rock radio hits. There she made a name for herself as Jade.
"She just started living the crazy life and got in with the wrong people," says neighbor Eddie Sedawie. "It wasn't her. I think if you're as pretty as her — and you have a body like she did — it's easy to have someone talk you into it."
Adds best friend Tina: "I think her insecurities led her down the wrong path. She knew she was pretty, and she used it to her advantage."
When she began working at Thee Dollhouse, Jeanette lived with her parents. She and Gina agreed not to tell Ray about her occupation. The place was notorious for "shower shows" (involving "friction" as a customer bathes backstage with a dancer, a step up from a lap dance). Popular girls such as Jeanette would leave with as much as $2,000 a night. "I think she got a taste of the money," Gina says. "The cash was just incredible."
Though Jeanette moved with her sister to an apartment in Pembroke Pines, she would take her mom shopping on weekends. With the newfound cash, Jeanette bought Gina $100 shoes, plane tickets, and decorations for the house. She kept herself in shape by kickboxing and going to Gold's Gym in Pembroke Pines four times a week.
At work, Jeanette put up a tough image, says former club makeup artist Helen McDonald. Unlike dancers who built their social scene around the strip club, Jeanette kept to herself and never got arrested. "She was very strait-laced," says smooth-faced club manager Marty Blumquist, sporting a comb-over. "No hanky-panky, no drinking, no drugs. After her shift, she'd get in the car and go."
Before leaving her apartment Friday, March 19, she kissed Krissy on the cheek and told her there was pie in the fridge. It was the last time Krissy would see her baby sister alive.
Four hours later, about 2 a.m. Saturday, Ariel Hernandez leaned against a cluttered bar at Thee Dollhouse and ordered a Johnny Walker straight up with a Budweiser on the side. Clean-shaven and cocksure, he had the body of a linebacker and an outfit torn from the pages of GQ. On his right arm was a cast, and above it a bulldog tattoo read, "United States Marine Corps."
Businessmen puffed cigarettes at round, café-style tables as they watched Jade's sculpted body twist to the throb of early-Nineties rock on a licorice-black stage at the club's center. A gray fog of smoke curled over the tan, toned five-foot-three beauty. An aging businessman tucked a bill into her G-string. She tossed back her thick light-brown hair and returned to a silver pole, caressing it like a lover as a disco ball showered the place in dappled light.
Hernandez told a regular named Chris Cunniff that he planned to sleep with Jade. The men begin to argue drunkenly.
"Suck my dick," Hernandez said.
"Whip it out," Cunniff shot back.
Hernandez unzipped his dress pants and exposed himself. A cocktail waitress noticed and complained, demanding his removal. After a commotion, he was allowed to stay, and as Jade got off the stage, he gave her money and put his arm around her. He told Cunniff: "This is my girl. I'm taking her home with me tonight."


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Emerson Room, Austin Hall
The University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma (USAO) is located in the heart of Oklahoma, built upon land donated by a Chickasaw tribal member. Located between the Five Civilized Tribes to the east and the Plains Indian Tribes of the west, the region around USAO is home to over 40 federally recognized Indian tribes. As a state-supported liberal arts college serving a rural population, USAO has long attracted a large number of American Indian college students (13% of enrollment).
The American Indian Arts and Humanities Project is one of two remaining that will complete Phase I as the anchor in a multiyear, comprehensive "Realizing Great Expectations" capital campaign. That campaign will fully restore and rehabilitate the "Oklahoma College for Women National Historic District" listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Chair, Dr. Chris Walker
USAO Regents Staff Achievement Winners 2009-2010
1st Quarter - Sharon Ast
2nd Quarter - Judy Hanson
3rd Quarter - Kellie Driscoll
4th Quarter - Don Page
USAO Regents Staff Achievement Winner of the Year 2009-2010 - Kellie Driscoll
The USAO Student Leadership Conference will provide students an opportunity to develop and enhance their leadership skills, learn about various leadership topics and network with other leaders on campus. This event will include a keynote speaker and breakout sessions based on various leadership topics. Students, faculty, staff and alumni are encouraged to submit a session proposal to facilitate/present at the conference. If you are interested please fill out the information below.
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We make a thousand little choices in a day; all of them count. For every choice we make, there is a consequence: good or bad. Think before you speak. Pray about each decision. Choose wisely. "Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices." ~Alfred A. Montapert


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Charles Bronson is one of the greatest American action stars. Sadly, he is no longer with us. But on the news that his great nephew Justin Bronson is rumored to be attached to the new Expendables project, the web is buzzing about the new face of action flicks.
It's true, the action star died out in the early 90s. No one is interested in seeing burly, over-muscled man fight off leagues of terrorists. Not at that point, anyways. Jason Statham revamped how we viewed action stars. Given, his presence is much akin to Jean Claude Van Damme, the idea that an action star doesn't have to be a body builder revitalized the viewers. This concept is giving backing for more smaller body typed action stars, like Bronson.
The first Expendables movie integrated both kinds of action stars (strength and speed). Rumors are flying over the inclusion of John Travolta, Dolph Lundgren, and Chuck Norris for the sequel. But the mere utterance that Charles Bronson's nephew might be included has those in the know smiling. Justin Bronson is young, and has dealt with rumors in 2008 about being attached to star in the remake of Deathwish. The remake never came to fruition, but did bring Bronson's name back to the limelight.
While his acting resume is light, he hopes to be a back up character at best. Bronson, a martial arts expert living and teaching out of Chicago, combines the diligence of Van Damme, and the grace of Jet Li. Whether or not he is included is up to the producers, but word on the street is that the young actor is honored to even be considered.
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ASHLAND, Ore. — Ashland-based motorcycle company Brammo is working to equip police forces across the country with their electric bikes.
The Fort Collins Police Department in Colorado is currently testing an Enertia Plus LE Motorcycle in its police fleet.
The police departments of Colorado State University, Harvard, Kansas City and other universities are also looking to join the pilot program in an effort to maximize fuel efficiency.
The Hong Kong Police Department currently uses Brammo motorcycles in its entire fleet and the Ashland Police Department is using one Brammo bike.


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Jane and I make it back to the kitchen just as our pot of water begins to rumple. In go a shucked baker's dozen, and five minutes later, they are out and on the table, next to the dish of huitlacoche. Mark has still not gotten over the fact that his bantamweight wife can eat six ears in a sitting. Some nights I like it with homemade mayonnaise, sometimes rubbed with garlic butter, and sometimes grilled like the Mexicans do it, dusted with chile and spritzed with lime. But from now until frost, nobody has to ask me what's for dinner.
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"I have made this orange raisin cake a lot with pulpy oranges. So good when served warm. Use a blender or a food processor to grind the orange."
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1 large orange
1 cup raisins
1/3 cup chopped walnuts
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
1/2 cup shortening
2 eggs
1/3 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 cup chopped walnuts
I used butter instead of shortening. The ingredients list should include additional 1/4 cup of walnuts. I made the topping and placed it on top of the cake prior to baking. The cake tasted wonderful.
This is just an OK cake. I followed the recipe exactly, did not change a thing. But although I enjoyed the taste of the cake, did not like the texture. It was so dense, not a light moist cake at all. Hopefully it will taste a little better in the morning! Just did not wow me!
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I made this for the photo contest and was amazed by how good it was. The cinnamon sugar topping made the cake. It was great warm or cold and will be perfect around the holidays.
This is a great recipie. It's not overly sweet and by using the whole orange you minimize food waste. The cake was moist, tangy, and packed with flavor; it was a welcome alternative to the super sweet desserts. Thanks.
YUM! Really good, as a coffee cake or a morning snack! I took someone's advice and added the topping before baking; it worked nicely. I might omit the cinnamon in the topping next time, because I'm not 100% certain it works with the orange flavour. But otherwise, very good cake!! And I love using the WHOLE orange!
This is a great cake and a great way to use up your entire orange. I ate it for breakfast all week long.
This is a GREAT cake - very moist, very flavorful and a crowd pleaser! I think you could easily serve this as a coffee cake with a crumb topping for breakfast. I frosted it with cream cheese icing for a birthday party and had compliments galore (a nice change from carrot cake was a frequent comment). This would also make great muffins w/ streusel topping - so many options! I plan to make this a lot at my B&B - thanks so much for a wonderful recipe!
Great tasting cake; I substituted butter for shortening (and decreased it slightly) and added cardamom to the batter and used it for the topping instead of cinnamon. This is a comforting, old-fashioned style cake, not too sweet and great for brunch. I would use a smaller cake pan for a higher cake, and also the ingredient list is missing the sugar that goes in the batter.
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Orange Raisin Cake
Serving Size: 1/24 of a recipe Servings Per Recipe: 24 Amount Per Serving Calories: 168 Calories from Fat: 63
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Sign of the times or serious taboo? Female sex tourists sample the delights of Jordan's desert.
"In the Middle East they have this opinion of Western women that they are very loose, and all of their suspicions are coming true in Wadi Rum. Women definitely aren't making a good name for themselves down there," she said.
Many women new to the region say it is difficult to immediately see the cultural divides that can create problems. For example, Pia, an Italian who had worked in Jordan for several months before traveling to Petra on vacation, admitted that she was still "ignorant."
"I went there just like I was in a Western country," she said. When she fell for her Bedouin guide, he admitted that he was in a relationship with another woman who had returned to Italy. He said, however, that he was in an open relationship and that he was free to date.
"The Bedouin men give you the impression that they are free and have the same mentality as Western people. They tell you, 'I am not like other Arab people, we are free.' … Of course, it's fake, it's a lie."
Pia said she discovered this when she got into a quarrel with another guide because she rejected his advance. As revenge, the slighted guide sent her phone number to the other guide's girlfriend back in Italy. Pia stopped her flirtations with the guide after that incident. Later, she said she called his girlfriend in Italy and learned that the woman was paying his rent and planning to give up her acting career in Italy to move to Petra for him. The guide told Pia that his main reason for keeping the relationship with the other woman was because she paid his rent.
Walking the canyons of Petra, it's not uncommon to see many foreign women swoon over the local men. At Love Lion, a snack shop in the ancient city of Petra, a young, female tourist from the U.S. approached a Bedouin man. "Excuse me," she said, embarrassed. "But you have the most beautiful eyes I've ever seen. Can I please take your picture?" The vendor already had a serious girlfriend in Portugal.
Many Bedouin men have little modesty about their appeal to women.
"There's the cowboy in the American movies and he knows how to ride horses very well and deal with nature. He's something different than the city man. In the movies, women fall in love with this man and maybe have sex with him in the end of the movie," said Saleem Ali, a tour guide in Wadi Rum. "Bedouin men are pretty good looking, they climb very well, they ride horses and camels very well, and they know how make tea and cook, and deal with nature. So it's not the fault of the girl that she falls in love with the man. It's nature."
In an essay Jacobs explains that Western women tend to see Bedouins as "real" men who fit neatly into "traditional stereotypes of masculinity."
When Anne, an American who asked not to use her real name, went to the Western desert in Egypt for the first time, she said it was difficult not to become smitten.


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Totem Talk: Elemental candy like goodness
So, hands up: Who saw this coming? No, I don't mean the fact that Lightning Shield is now our preferred shield, but rather the Unrelenting Storm vanishing act, the mana restore when casting Lightning Bolt or Chain Lightning and the introduction of Earth Shock into the rotation. Yes, that's right. Earth Shock. Seems a bit odd for us elementals to be stealing abilities from enhancement rather than the other way around. Also, some of you may be wondering why I'm on fire in the screenshot above. Well, that happens to be the new animation for the Unleash Elements Flametongue Weapon proc.
Before we begin, there has already been feedback on the forums about some internal beta changes that haven't been pushed out to the external beta yet (software in development goes alpha, internal beta, external beta, internal live and then external live), so I will be breaking down the notes and updating them with what we know as I go. I'll post a modified list of the changes at the end, too.
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When you are stuffed into cramped quarters, there's a good chance that your computer also has to pull double duty as your television. Naturally, not all computers come with a built-in TV tuner, so you may have to consider external options like the recently released COMPRO Vista U890F TV Stick.
Whether you are rocking a notebook or a desktop, the U890F USB TV Tuner from COMPRO appears to be a remarkably simple solution, because all you have to do is shove this thing into any available USB port. Of course, there's a little more to it than that, but that's the gist of it. How does it stand up against other similar products? Let's have a look-see.
Features and Specifications
- Watch TV on laptop or desktop PC with USB 2.0 interface
- Worldwide analog TV (NTSC/SECAM/PAL) and FM reception
- Bundles with Microsoft certified remote control for Windows Media Center
- Included Microsoft certified MPEG-2 encoder support TV watching/recording
- ComproDTV 4 software with Vista Gadget and DTV Add-In
- S3 (standby)/ S4 (hibernation) mode power up scheduled recording
- USB bus powered, no external power adaptor required
- Timeshift and instant replay live TV
- Customize channel order and my favorite list
- Single/Multiple still frame captures and remote snapshot
- Capture analog video from Composite or S-Video
- Certified for Windows Vista 32/64 bit
The U890F USB TV Tuner is perfectly compatible with both Windows Media Center and Windows Vista, including the ability to use the provided remote control, just as you would with a real television. This isn't exactly groundbreaking stuff, but it's still very much appreciated. Unfortunately, the Apple crowd is slighted with this product so no joy for Mac OSX users...at least officially. I guess that's why they call it the "Vista".
Looking Inside the Box
Poking around inside the box of the COMPRO U890F, you'll find just about everything that you need to transform that budget Dell laptop into a full-fledged television. Naturally, you'll need a proper TV signal if you want to watch anything. Contents are as follows...
- VideoMate Vista U890F USB TV/FM Tuner
- Vista/MCE remote control
- USB 2.0 extension cable
- FM antenna
- 3-in-1 A/V input cable
- I-type to F-type converter
- Software installation CD
- Ulead DVD MovieFactory 5 SE CD
- Start Up Guide
Unlike some similar USB TV tuners that I've seen around, the COMPRO VideoMate U890F does not come with an antenna for you to grab free over-the-air ATSC HD signals. That's not a huge deal, considering that most parts of North America are severely lacking in this area, but it would have been a nice inclusion.
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A simple yet compelling logo design that's both delicate and cohesive.
Tung Lam Truong VoPosted in Branding → LogoExpressive typography logo with negative number 8 hidden in the first letter. The logo is made with letters only and the initial E brings its meaning in the negative space.
Nicky GenovPosted in Branding → LogoA superb and instantly recognisable logo that uses the initials of the business but goes in an interesting abstract direction.
Posted in Branding → LogoLogo concept for a blog about software/web development with a sense of journey, ships, career adventure, code and programming.
Samadara GinigePosted in Branding → LogoI love the symmetry of this logo and the use of primary colours to make an impact.
Posted in Branding → LogoA fascinating exploration of a concept for a logo mark. I love the symmetry and the interesting way the shadows play with your expectations.
Posted in Branding → LogoDesigning a unique and bold mark for a student card for university students to receive discounts at food and drink venues. First concept I came up with. They want the 19 in the logo.
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Hi, I'm Cory. For the past four years I've worked as a field producer and researcher for the filmmaker Michael Moore (I worked on SICKO and CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY). I'm now interested in making my own documentary and would like to learn more aspects of doc filmmaking from the ground up.
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In reply to Alessandro's post my email address is on my profile please feel free to get in contact. Non parlo molto Italiano ma mia moglia è Italiana è può tradurre se necessario.
I'm currently taking Thom Powers' class at NYU and learned of d-word from him. So far, and I'm sure it's not going to change, it's a great class!
I run The Edit Center in Manhattan where we teach editing (FCP). In short: we partner with filmmakers to have their films go through the class – where the students assemble a rough cut of the filmmakers' film. If interested, you can check out more at www.theeditcenter.com
Personally, I've just come on to produce a film about Paul Liebrandt – the youngest chef to receive 3 stars from the NY Times. It's my first full fledged producing gig so I'm looking forward to talking to other doc filmmakers here. I'm sure I'll have many questions in the coming weeks.
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Iam Sophy from Mumbai, India setting up a not for profit company for Distributing international documentaries in India and co producing documentries that are picked up at Docedge which is a pitching forum in Kolkotta India..Iam working on a documentaries awarness movement in India to create shelf space in stores for documentaries in retail stores to increase viewership.,to finally get a theatrical release for a documentary and have it on a television channel .. looking forward to interacting with your'l
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Dear Doug, Am new to D-word! I was wondering if you had a contact email for Nina Chaudry at Wide Angle? Are you coming to Hot Docs this year? Johanna
I am a senior at Elon University (North Carolina) majoring in Media Arts and Entertainment: Cinema. I am having a blast in a class called Producing the Documentary, working my way through Michael Rabiger's book "Directing the Documentary" (which is where I found out about this website). I'm just beginning to work on a short doc called "Contrary Movement" about contra dancing, filmed around Asheville, NC. I would appreciate any help/advice/networking you can give!
Welcome, Johanna and Katie. Johanna, no, don't have Nina's email address (someone else here hopefully does). Yes, I'll be at Hot Docs this year. Hope to see you there.
I'm an economist and former journalist and just finished my third documentary for the portuguese television: "Neighbors – Turkey: Europe and Beyond" will be screened next wednesday (February, 17) at RTP 2. You can see a trailer here:
Hi All,
My name is Onkar and I am from India. I am a Geologist by profession. I am here because I have always been interested in creative pursuits and although I never really thought I could myself ever be a film-maker, would like to give it a try all the same! Nice to meet you all!
Greetings to João and Onkar. Glad you found us and hope you'll participate in the discussions.
Nice to meet you
We are freelance filmmakers from Egypt and Morocco working in documentary , drama, programs and ads. Also we are correspondents journalists, researchers and writers
We also have a a non profit company called 'African Shot' for production and development through media, aim to get attached more to the African identity but we are still looking for funds
So I want to introduce myself to you in order to get to know each other more.and hop to coop soon
Thanks a lot
I'm based in San Francisco, recent long-form docs include Special Circumstances (Voces on PBS, 2009) and New Muslim Cool (POV, 2009).
Wow, such great doc makers flooding in here! Welcome aboard, Shereen and Jennifer. Shereen, feel free to register here to get full access to all the discussions. "Enthusiasts" see only about 10% of them.
Hi Jennifer, I saw New Muslim Cool at SFIFF last year. Great job. Welcome to D-Word.
yeah welcome jennifer. i saw new muslim cool on POV and liked a lot as well.
also, danielle b. posted a great video of you a while back at some sort of seminar or screening. your insight on developing relationships with your characters was fascinating. definitely an issue we are all fine tuning.
Hello, I'm Jennifer. I've been working on a documentary about my sister for the last 10 years. She is developmentally disabled and a fascinating subject. Right now we're collaborating on a video blog to foster discussion and interest in the project. I've worked in Film, Comedy and Video Games since graduating from UCLA. Some of the films that inspire me: Genghis Blues, The Sound and the Fury, Fast, Cheap and Out of Control, The Cruise.
In reply to Piers Sanderson's post on Thu 11 Feb 2010 21:16 UTC : i din't find any other email address, i wrote you on @highonhope does that work? thank you
Welcome, Jennifer. How have you been supporting yourself all these years? Do you do other doc work for pay? Or do you have, like, a real job?
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This bi-weekly series represents a powerful and varied mix of overlooked gems, out-of-print and cult classics, niche audience favorites, and seminal works that have helped to shape the non-fiction film landscape.
While dealing with a wide variety of subjects, each film has both connected with its core audience and resonated with a broader audience that isn't always associated with traditional documentary film. In short, Tribeca Cinemas Presents: Doc Series is here to bring you the must-sees of documentary cinema.
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In response to Alessandro http://www.d-word.com/topics/show/97?post=201031 i have sent you an email so you now have my address.
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