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I'm on board with this in principle — scrappy council-house kid gives stuffy old-rich-gentlemen's club a kick in the ass is a solid enough baseline for the old-fashioned secret-agents-save-the-world story, and scenes of over-the-top, balletic violence provide an enticing hook. This is also an origin story — the jumping-off point for an obviously hoped-for franchise turning the film's unknown Welsh star, Taron Egerton, into a street-smart action hero — and so we spend much of the film stuck in spy-school, where director Matthew Vaughn and co-screenwriter Jane Goldman spit up a range of pre-chewed chestnuts from the history of elite-training narratives on film to show how fatherless protag "Eggsy" Unwin (Egerton) earns his super-spy status under the mentorship of the ever-dapper veteran Harry (Colin Firth). It's not unpleasant, but it doesn't go anywhere new.
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The Night Porter
The Night Porter is one of the most bizarre psychodramas in the history of film, using the Holocaust as a dreamy, abstract backdrop for a toxic romance between a former SS officer (Dirk Bogarde) and the "little girl" (Charlotte Rampling) he isolated, humiliated, and raped in a Nazi concentration camp. If that sounds absolutely outrageous, that was surely part of the design. This wasn't Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS or another in the short-lived cycle of Nazi-themed exploitation pictures. […]Read this review at FilmFreakCentral ...
Gone Girl
Gone Girl is a David Fincher kind of date movie. It begins with a disappearance—pretty wife Amy Dunne (Rosamund Pike), relocated from New York to the Missouri hometown of her husband Nick (Ben Affleck), a failed journalist turned career bartender, vanishes from the couple's home one morning. There are signs of a struggle. The police investigate. As TV newscasts spotlight the mystery, Nick barely seems distraught. His devotion to his wife proves to have been less than complete, if you get my meaning. And it turns out the police consider him not just a grieving widower but also the prime suspect.
A Most Violent Year
A Most Violent Year doesn't give viewers much to chew on, which is a shame given the film's deliberately retro palette, recalling the glory days of New York filmmaking in the 1970s. Thing is, while movies by Scorsese and Coppola hummed with what felt like a novelistic depth and intensity, A Most Violent Year just sort of scoots along the surface of its milieu — heating oil distribution in greater New York City, circa 1981. And the violence of the title isn't Scorsese violence, or even Coppola violence. Literally, it refers to the high crime rates in New York in the 1980s. Figuratively, it's a metaphor for the pain caused by the unpleasant ethical dilemmas that are the film's subject. Expect lots of terse exchanges and meaningful looks, not so much gunplay and fistfights.
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The high concept — boot camp at a music conservatory with J.K. Simmons doing a displaced R. Lee Ermey — gets this pretty far right out of the gate. For about 20 or 30 intense, Simmons-driven minutes, Whiplash feels like one of the best films of the year. It's the rest of the picture that has a problem, with contrivance piled upon story-driving contrivance so high that the film lacks a believable ground-level view of young drummer Andrew's (Miles Teller) struggle toward expertise and mastery. Instead, we see a few sessions where he works under the sadistic tutelage of bandleader Terence Fletcher, who teases out his students' weaknesses in order to pounce on them and humiliate them over what he insists are their shortcomings.
The Vanishing
What scares you the most? If you chew on that question for a while, then imagine a narrative that gets you to that terrible place, your story might be a little like the one in The Vanishing. Completed in 1988, this downbeat thriller didn't make it to the U.S. until a couple of years later, when it coincidentally landed in New York within weeks of The Silence of the Lambs. The Vanishing isn't, strictly speaking, a serial-killer movie like Silence, […]Read this review at FilmFreakCentral ...
F for Fake
In 1971, Pauline Kael did her best to kill Orson Welles. In "Raising Kane," an essay originally published in The New Yorker and later used as a lengthy introduction to the published screenplay, she argued that Welles had unfairly taken authorial credit for a film whose real creative force was Welles' credited co-screenwriter, Herman J. Mankiewicz. Kael's piece was persuasive but hardly comprehensive, cherry-picking evidence in an effort to make a liar of Welles. (In his definitive 1978 book on […]Read this review at FilmFreakCentral ...
The Babadook
The most feted horror film of the year, The Babadook is an exercise in psychological horror that mixes elements from Roman Polanski's Repulsion and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. Delving into the fraying emotional states of a woman and her special-needs son, director Jennifer Kent spins a harrowing yarn about the terror that accompanies the pleasures of motherhood — the fear that you will be unable to do enough, to muster all the spirit and goodheartedness that are required, to care for your child.
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
I opted to see this at the last minute, instead of Interstellar, because I worried that Interstellar might have too much of a feeling of self-importance about it for an early Saturday matinee. Hoo boy. There is no doubt in my mind that I made the wrong choice. Birdman wants to say something about what it means to be an artist — what it means to invest your heart and your soul in a project and to be racked with anxiety over the potential outcomes: fame! fortune! ruin! mockery! — but the chosen method of delivery is a hoary old backstage drama bereft of ideas.
The Normal Heart
The Normal Heart begins in 1981, as a ferry pulls in to Fire Island Pines, the nexus of social life for well-off gay New Yorkers who prize sunshine and sexual freedom. Stepping off that boat is Ned Weeks (Mark Ruffalo), a writer from New York who seems simultaneously titillated and disturbed by the buff, barely dressed men who suddenly surround him. Weeks, it turns out, is a notorious buzzkill. He wrote an infamous novel criticizing promiscuity ("All I said was […]Read this review at FilmFreakCentral ...
All That Jazz
Celebrated as an incisive, self-lacerating backstage spectacle and razzed as an indulgent and pretentious passion project, genius director-choreographer Bob Fosse's All That Jazz is one of the most ambitious American films of the 1970s. At this point in his career, Fosse had nothing to prove to the show-business establishment — in 1973, he won the Oscar, the Tony, and the Emmy, all for directing — but a 1974 brush with death (exhaustion, heart attack, life-saving surgery) put him in an […]Read this review at FilmFreakCentral ...
Hell of the Living Dead
It's quite possible that there is no better-known director of truly terrible genre movies than the late Italian filmmaker Bruno Mattei. Though I've not seen any other Mattei films, I feel comfortable making that assessment based solely on the "blood-soaked double feature" assembled here by the B-movie mavens at Blue Underground.Read this review at FilmFreakCentral ...
Rats: Night of Terror
By any rational measure, Hell of the Living Dead and Rats: Night of Terror are cheesy barrel scrapings, budget-starved and blandly offensive horror counterfeits. But by the standards of Mattei's filmmaking ouevre—which also includes nunsploitation, Nazisploitation, women-in-prison flicks, and mondo-style "documentaries"—they are the cream that rises to the top of the milk.Read this review at FilmFreakCentral ...
Jake Gyllenhaal is Lou Bloom, a petty thief in the Los Angeles dark whose shamelessness — specifically his lack of anything like a moral compass — becomes an enormous asset when he manages to get a foothold in the straight world. Pawning a fancy bicycle (was it stolen?) in exchange for a camcorder and a police scanner, he joins the ranks of the video shooters who prowl at night, angling for close-up footage of bloody meat on the city streets.
The Zero Theorem
The list of things Terry Gilliam doesn't like includes iPhones, earphones, computers in general, advertising, modern pop music, and the yawning vacuum at the end of the universe. Gilliam drafts Christof Waltz as his beaten-down-by-bureaucracy surrogate this time around, casting him as a kind of genius math whiz who's put to work as a kind of human calculator, performing numeric operations to help prove the titular postulation about the fate of the universe and the meaninglessness to which it suggests human existence amounts.
It's schematic and mostly redundant in Gilliam's body of work, but still there's stuff to like here, including the performances (David Thewlis does a mean Michael Palin, as it turns out) and some of the production design. I liked the parody of targeted advertising, in which annoying talking billboards follow right on your heels as you walk down the sidewalks of the future. I was pretty impressed, even, by Gilliam's crude-by-CG-standards visualization of mathematical problem-solving as a huge three-dimensional puzzle, especially the deflating moments when huge masses of perfectly stacked building blocks come tumbling down, another big idea collapsed into rubble. (Gilliam knows a thing or two about that kind of heartbreak.)
There are some striking moments where the grim conditions of Waltz's life are compared to the benevolent, it's-always-the-golden-hour fantasies that a virtual-reality suit bestows, but mostly it feels like Gilliam is directing a screenplay written by a tyro who was really, really impressed by Brazil — homage becomes cannibalization, and as Big Statements go The Zero Theorem doesn't add anything to what Gilliam's delivered before. Part of the problem is surely budgetary, lack of funds limiting the film's visual scope and finesse. On the other hand, there's that script. Emotionally stunted hooker with a heart of gold falls in love with disturbed hermit 25 years her elder? Ye gods, Gilliam, you can do better than this.
Christopher Nolan Said What?, IMAX, Apophenia, and the Shutting of the Piehole
Say what you want, dude gives a good interview. You may well be sick of hearing about Interstellar, the new nearly-three-hour opus from director Christopher Nolan that is, depending on whose critical take you favor, "a sweeping, futuristic adventure driven by grief, dread and regret" or "a spectacular, redundant puzzle." This mostly flattering profile by Tom Shone in The Guardian is still worth a read for its colorful depiction of what I can only describe as breathtaking high-handedness. (I want to send flowers to Walter Volpatto, the DI colorist sitting on the wrong side of the computer from Nolan.) By the way, if you're going to see Interstellar, you may as well drag your ass out to an actual IMAX theater running 15-perf 70mm, assuming there's one near you. The picture quality is better than anything, and one day soon you know that one of these "real IMAX" releases is going to be the last one.
Apophenia. Thanks to Sam Adams (he runs the engaging Criticwire subsite at Indiewire) for the word of the day, a term I was unfamiliar with until he deployed it while defending Rodney Ascher's The Shining interpretation documentary Room 237 from a dismissal by no less an authority than Stephen King* as "academic bullshit." (The film is about interpretation, you see; representation does not equal endorsement; this seems as good a place as any to link to my own review, which set off a bit of a firestorm in the Film Freak Central comments section.) The Wikipedia entry on apophenia is a story in itself, tracing the word's origins to an untranslated monograph published in German back in 1958 before characterizing the term as "a misnomer that has taken on a bastardized meaning." Take that, apophenia!
* I'm kidding. Stephen King is a lousy authority on visual media based in any way on his books.
Piehole should be quiet. Here's a street preacher getting served by an obnoxious little girl during Halloween season in Salem, MA.
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Convention Girls
Ah, the good old days — when an introspective B movie with an incongruously complex, multi-threaded narrative got sold on the drive-in circuit as a straightforward sex comedy. Directed in Miami Beach by NYU film school grad Joseph Adler, and shot in 16mm, it all takes place over the course of a couple of days at a toy manufacturers' convention. One "convention girl" is looking for sweet corporate revenge against her ex. An older wife is looking for no-strings-attached sex with a genial cabana boy. Another woman is trying to sell the industry on her anatomically correct Barbie and Ken, including Ken's tiny, magnet-induced erection. I'm not making any special claims for the quality of this generally drab little movie, but it clearly has things on its mind — infidelity, parenting, sexism, depression — and it's an interesting artifact.
Buddha's Palm
Seeing an outrageous cult movie on DVD is one thing; seeing it projected from a 35mm print on a huge movie theater screen is another. In your living room, Buddha's Palm might be a mildly headache-inducing oddity from the twilight years of the legendary Shaw Brothers studio. In a movie theater, it's a mind-altering hallucinogen, stuffed to bursting with wizard battles and wuxia action and edited with a head-spinning propulsiveness that can make you wonder if shots, scenes, or entire reels have gone missing.
I've seen a lot of Shaw Brothers films, but none of them like this —which probably just means I haven't dipped deeply enough into the studio's 1980s catalog, which chronicles a time when the studio ventured further into low-budget genre territory, borrowing ideas from American horror and science-fiction films and incorporating them into very Chinese narratives. Buddha's Palm has animated FX that are strongly inspired by the Star Wars movies — at one point someone switches on a lightsaber, and, I swear to god, the sound-effects editor swiped a snippet of audio from The Empire Strikes Back, including Darth Vader's breathing, to match the visual — but it has its own charms, too, including the out-of-nowhere appearance of a strange sort of dog-dragon hybrid that perhaps anticipated Falkor in The NeverEnding Story. It's completely phony, of course, just two guys in a suit. (I kept imagining Secretariat from The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson up there with the swastika-blasting grandmasters, with a huge grin on my face.) But it's also raggedly impressive, like something you'd want to applaud if it appeared in a live performance on stage. And then there's the killer combo of a very big man carrying a very small one (a child? a dwarf? I couldn't tell you, officer; it happened so fast) who squirts skin-burning acid from a, erm, sizable pimple on his chin. Yeah, holy shit.
At times it all seems kind of … let's say inept and desperate, but then again there are moments so perfectly judged — like a breathtaking decapitation near the climax — that you know there was talent at work here, though probably squeezed by time and money constraints that made just getting this thing in the can a herculean task. It's amazing, especially in a theatrical print with those trademark Hong Kong-movie subtitles that force you to swivel your head back and forth like you're taking in a tennis match just to scan every word from the lower-left-hand corner of the screen to the lower right. I'm just trying to say: I had a fantastic time with this. I'll never forget it. I wouldn't necessarily want to see it again — at least not without a crowd — but does it exponentially increase my interest in this period of the Shaw Brothers catalog? You bet.
Pale Flower
Wow — here's misery, violence, and cruel fate seen through a prism of yakuza assassinations, gambling addiction, and a sublimated tough-guy love affair. Muraki (Ryo Ikebe) is a hit man fresh out of prison who falls for Saeko (Mariko Kaga), a mysterious, big-eyed beauty who hangs around in gambling parlors and asks Muraki to find her a game with bigger stakes.
Director Masahiro Shinoda lets the story's yakuza intrigue play out around the margins — Muraki returns to a new world where the gang bosses he knew as arch-rivals have joined forces to close ranks against a threatening newcomer — but is more interested in Muraki's frame of mind, which tends to nihilism. Muraki has never felt more alive than he did as an assassin; he and Saeko grow close but stop short of declaring their love either verbally or physically. A midnight race through the streets of Tokyo leaves Muraki in awe of Saeko's thrill-seeking spirit, but a make-believe hand of cards played between the sheets in a borrowed hotel room is the closest they come to an erotic consummation. Muraki is preoccupied with Saeko, but he's worried about Yo, a glassy-eyed killer from the younger generation of yakuza who he notices in the game rooms. As it turns out, Yo represents more than one kind of threat.
Pale Flower is the only Shinoda film I've seen (yes, I know, Double Suicide; I'll get to it), but I was surprised to see it so skillfully working Seijun Suzuki territory in a somewhat less outré, more naturalistic way. That's not to say it's a naturalistic film. It's at least more restrained than Suzuki's pistol operas, but all the elements are potent, from avant-garde composer Toru Takemitsu's modernist score and the odd clack-clack of the hanafuda cards (they were replaced with tap-dancing sound FX, per Donald Richie's A Hundred Years of Japanese Film) to the minimal set design, lithe montage, and expressionistic cinematography. And Mariko Kaga, of course, portraying a woman of leisure infiltrating a man's world — she is tough, self-assured, but still very vulnerable.
In its shadowy depictions of the city after dark it out-noirs some of the best films noirs ever made, and some of Shinoda's shot compositions are just dynamite — like the one that has Muraki sitting in a chair in a small, sparsely furnished room in front of a wall that's blank but for a jagged mark that curves up and around his body on the right, as though gouged by a samurai sword. There's a great use of negative space throughout (which may be crucial to making good use of the widescreen frame) and repeated employment of camera angles that peer through windows and doorways and down hallways and alleyways, as though taking in the action voyeuristically.
And there's a moment at the film's climax, as Muraki is commiting a swift but brutal murder, where Shinoda cuts to Saeko watching helplessly while the camera is still whip-panning to get her in frame — the camera jerks to a stop on her face, a now-common trick that gives the image an urgent, almost documentary edge. In fact, in an essay on the film included with the Criterion DVD and Blu-ray release, critic Chuck Stephens says this scene is deliberately modeled on the 1960 assassination of Inejiro Asanuma, a socialist politician, on-stage during a political debate by a 17-year-old nationalist. After looking up the footage on YouTube, I certainly believe him, and the reference gives the film a political resonance that I'm not ready to attempt unpacking. (According to Wikipedia, the kid hung himself less than three weeks later, after writing, "Long live his Imperial Majesty, the Emperor!" in toothpaste on the wall of his prison cell. ) Anyway, it does not surprise me at all that writer Masaru Baba was appalled by what Shinoda did to his script — but the script isn't what makes this great. Pale Flower grows in my estimation the more I look at it.
In this cool, seductive jewel of the Japanese New Wave, a yakuza, fresh out of prison, becomes entangled with a beautiful yet enigmatic gambling addict; what at first seems a redemptive relationship ends up leading him further down the criminal path. Bewitchingly shot and edited and laced with a fever-dream-like score by Toru Takemitsu (Woman in the Dunes, Ran), this breakthrough gangster romance from Masahiro Shinoda (Samurai Spy, Double Suicide) announced an idiosyncratic major filmmaking talent. The pitch-black Pale Flower (Kawaita hana) is an unforgettable excursion into the underworld.
At 44, I sometimes feel like I've been growing up for decades while popular culture has been standing still. Radio stations I hear in grocery stores and coffee shops play the same songs that were popular when I was in high school. The comic books and fantasy novels that I read in the 1970s and 1980s (or their derivatives) have become the blockbuster TV and film franchises of the 2010s.Saturday Night Live has been on the air, in sickness and in health, since I was 5. And Hollywood studios are still making sequels to the movie that was my favorite at the age of 7.
But one thing has changed — we no longer get raunchy R-rated comedies targeted at teenagers. Back in their heyday, movies likePorky's and Zapped and Screwballs were all about high school and high-schoolers, and they were obviously designed to appeal to viewers of the same age. Hell, the good ones — I think immediately of Fast Times at Ridgemont High, but I know there are others — had three-dimensional female characters and could even teach a kid something useful about human relations. But over the years, culture has changed. Now we get raunchy R-rated comedies about and for adults. We get 40-Year Old Virgins andThis Is 40s and, Neighbors. in which the buff, sexy frat kids are actually the bad guys and the square 30-something couple next door are the righteous heroes, able to smoke up and party down to spec but still coming out righteously on top of the extended kerfuffle.
I approve of the loose, matter-of-fact approach to adult sex, with Seth Rogen's soft hips making another appearance on the big screen, as well as the irreverent treatment of parenthood. But I wonder at the way this film turns suburban schlubs like me into wise-cracking, big-screen heroes with enough of the right moves to completely shut down the cool kids. It makes me laugh, and that's the main thing. But is it wrong to be a little annoyed by the flattery?


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Actions matter more than words, but in his speech to Americans, Obama's words overshadowed his actions. He spoke to hearts and minds, outlining an aspirational set of shared values on immigration. His subtext was 'we're not there yet,' but speaking ten steps ahead of hearts and minds is how to get there.
I heard a story this week about a civics lesson. It did not take place in a high school. It was a lesson both learned and taught by some elderly newcomers who were participants in a civic awareness project. Along with learning to speak English and finding out about the systems and the laws of Canada, these folks are being challenged to engage with their new communities.
In case those of you who are Canadian-born and not just naturalized citizens are wiping your brow in relief and resting on your laurels, think again. Canadian-born and raised Deepan Budlakoti is facing deportation under the Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act because of drug and gun offenses. It is not clear to where Mr. Budlakoti will be deported to since he was born here and has no ties to any other country.
Poet, Anatole France, once observed that, "it is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel." He could just as easily be commenting on two recent actions of our present federal government that fly directly in the face of what is supposed to be good politics: giving the people what they want. How else to explain the undue harshness against this country's veterans, or the outright attack and manipulation in the Harper government's attempts to revamp Elections Canada to its own purposes? What makes both of these instances so remarkable is the sheer arrogance of a government acting against the best interests of its own people.
Bob Cratchit comes out as the true hero of Dicken's novel A Christmas Carol -- a worker, a family man, a believer in the goodness of people. London, Ontario just witnessed a similar example yesterday, as Kellogg's employees, despite the devastating news of the impending shutdown, raised $10,000 and purchased quality foodstuffs for the local food bank. If we are ever to find a reason for believing in Christmas, this is it.
I don't like when tax dollars are wasted -- whether at the provincial level by relocating gas plants, or at City Hall by tearing up LRT contracts willy-nilly, or even by the federal government straight up losing $3.1 billion (whatever happened to that scandal, by the way?). And I get that times are tough. Saving pennies matters to a lot of people these days, and it should to our governments, too.
Since 2006, when the residing Kenyan government signed an economic cooperative agreement with China and partnering Asia-Pacific countries, there has been a concurrent influx of 'yellow faces'. The relatively new entrants are professionals and labourers contracted to bolster the two nations' budding alignment on various aspects of development. Most visible is the construction of infrastructure, such as buildings, energy sources and roads
Before we left Kampala, Uganda's capital, it was a daily occurrence for me as a young child to see dead bodies in the street and to fall asleep to the sounds of machine guns and screams. And when my father failed to come home, I always thought that his voice was one of those screams I heard in the night.
What is happening in both the House of Commons and the Senate at the moment represents a serious enough threat to our democracy that we require remedial efforts in real time, far in advance of whatever constitutional refinements to these institutions that might lie in the future. Our focus should be upon the selection process for Senators, at least in the interim.
At present, Canadians are of the belief that the political class has sunk so far beyond redemption that little of importance remains in the Senate. That's an illusion, and deserves some further thought and reflection. While there are non-trivial problems within the Canadian senate, it still serves a purpose.
The Prime Minister's personal poll numbers are receding (dropping almost by half since 2010), as are those of his government. Sensing the decline, the Conservatives have taken to their historic method of going negative, as with their recent attack ads on Justin Trudeau. Yet it's not working as effectively because Canadians themselves have faced too many negative indicators in the last five years.
Just north of the city, I sat in a room full of frustrated immigrants who had gathered to listen to promises made by Cécile Kyenge, who just last week made history when she was appointed Italy's first black cabinet minister. In Italy, if you are a child of immigrant parents, you are considered extracomunitari, a "foreigner" before the law. But maybe not for long.
I've been watching the discussion of millennial citizenship on the HuffPost. It's a spirited exchange. Perhaps it's worth taking a step back and re-examining what we mean when we talk about political engagement; at the core, I'd submit, are principles that apply regardless of age or demographic. It's the ability to engage in critical thought that makes us "citizens," rather than mere "consumers" or "taxpayers." It's the ability to follow a line of reasoning, to view an argument analytically, to evaluate the evidence on which it's based and determine whether it makes sense.


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Meet Taikobo: Demon Hunter! Trained by Demons to hunt Demons? Whose side is Taikobo really on?! Demons beware: a new hunter's in town. And he's pissed. Betrayed by an immortal, trained by a God, hunted by Demons. It's time the tables were turned.
Taikobo goes in search of mysterious sennin Taijo Rokun. But to get his help, Taikobo must enter a mysterious dream world. What secrets will Taijo reveal to Taikobo? And what will happen to the war while he is sleeping?
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Egypt and Kenya explore maritime trade joint agreement. (Shipping).
Egypt has invited Kenya to set up a trade council to develop maritime business between the two nations. At a meeting in Mombasa on October 5, officials from the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) and Egyptian representatives from the Red Sea and Suez Canal ports agreed that both countries would benefit from intra-African trade.
In the meantime both countries have set up working committees to explore the scope of the proposed council. The Egyptians have offered Kenyans the opportunity to train ports personnel at their more advanced ports under the auspices of the council. This is seen as a key plank of any agreement as it enables the Kenyan ports to catch up with those in Egypt. The KPA chairman, Major Gen. (Rtd) Aboud Rafrouf, and other port executives will visit ports in the Red Sea and Suez Canal as part of the joint strategy to strengthen maritime trade opportunities. No timetable has been set for an official inauguration of a council.
A KPA source said that the hardest obstacle to overcome will be that of competition over hinterland markets such as Ethiopia and Sudan. But the training offered by Egypt is seen as an act of goodwill that should allay initial scepticism over competitive motives.
Commenting on the joint agreement, Mostafa El Ahwal, in an address to the members of the Kenya National Chamber Of Commerce & Industry, said: "We are sure to boost trade and ease problems here and enhance activities between both countries."
African observers such as Herman de Meester of the European Community Shipowners Association (ECSA) in Brussels expressed doubts as to the value of a maritime agreement between the two countries: "I can see the logic of Kenya and Tanzania working closely together, but there is no obvious synergy with Egypt."
The initiative comes at a time when both countries have sought to improve relations that have been put under severe strain by years of trade wars. The road to agreement, however, will be a rocky one. Just days after the Mombasa meeting, the two countries clashed on the issue of the export of Egyptian toiletries into the Kenyan market. Kenya Revenue Authority Commissioner General John Munge commented: "There are certain trade protocols in the Comesa treaty that allow member-countries to take action in cases where their industries are being threatened by imports from other countries." Yet press counsellor at the Egyptian Embassy, Sohair Younis, rebutted this claim by saying "Egyptian exports to Kenya are very few. There is no threat of flooding the Kenyan market by products from Egypt." Both countries are signatories to the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) Free Trade Area (FTA) protocol which provides for duty-free access for members' products. The protocol looks likely to be disregarded for the immediate future.
In Nairobi on September 20, the two countries had previously agreed to iron out outstanding trade issues on certain products including tea, textiles and tyres. They agreed to adopt a customs certification process similar to that under the US's African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) which entails the removal of commercial invoices and a requirement to identify the products being exported. Currently, trade between the countries is in favour of Kenya in a ratio of six to one.
The jury is still out as to whether the maritime trade council will succeed. But as long as both countries share the will, then the chances of success must be supported. And if the council succeeds, then this could help pave the way for greater understanding between the two nations and bolster wavering commitment to institutions such as Comesa's Free Trade Area.
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Kakinada: A unique musical fete- `Sri Ramadas keerthana tharangini'-in which for the first time in past five decades nine top musicians are taking part, will be organised at the Suryakala Mandir here on April 2 under the joint auspices of Abhyudaya foundation and Badam Apparao Guptha memorial trust.
Addressing a press conference here on Sunday Badam Madhava Rao chairman of the Foundation said that Music maestro Nedunuri Krishnamurthy would conduct the entire programme in which doyens such as Garimella Balakrishna Prasad, Malladi Suribabu, Ramprasad and Ravi Kumar -Malladi brothers, Akondi Srinivasa Rajarao, Chaitanya brothers and V. Lalitha Chandrasekhar and J. Sarada Subrahmanyam would participate. The highlight of the programme, he said, was distribution of akshinthalu used for the celestial wedding at Bhadrachalam temple on Sriramanavami, to the audience and artistes as well by the Vedic pundits.
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To start with, he said, Nedunuri Krishnamurthy would be conferred with the `Puraskar' tomorrow.
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If the primary goal of school is "educate and prepare tomorrow's leaders," then teachers, school boards, policymakers, and others need to recognize the extent to which education has a new target audience: older adults.
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I realize this is an odd question but does anyone know the exact dimension of the aft birth on the o'day centercockpit 37 footer?
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CHEX is a perfect device for testing CCPM servo setup. This device allows you to connect 1-3 servos simultaneously. It can be used as a servo signal generator for testing electronic speed controller (ESC) without using a transmitter and receiver. Also, this device can be used to check other RC devices as shown in the features below.
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This is a camera switch that uses a servo to activate the shutter. This page include links to the complete circuit diagram, the .HEX file required to program the 12F675, and complete construction details. The switch consists of a PIC and a small number of standard components. The Servo Camera Switch connects inline between the receiver and the servo and manages the operation of the servo.
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Mark Roosevelt is a skilled politician, at ease in the media fishbowl. His maverick streak runs deep—his great-grandfather was President Theodore Roosevelt.
Perhaps that explains why this former state lawmaker and one-time Democratic candidate for governor of Massachusetts has had no qualms about shaking up the Pittsburgh school system in his rookie year as a superintendent.
In just 10 months, Mr. Roosevelt, a 50-year-old Harvard University-educated lawyer, pushed through a plan to close 22 schools. He negotiated an overdue contract with the teachers' union, and, in May, he announced a strategy to raise achievement, especially among African-American students.
He has aggressively pursued his initiatives despite a fractious school board that did not unanimously support his appointment. Viewing his outsider status as an asset, he has not flinched. The 32,000-student district, which was facing a $40 million deficit in its $533 million annual budget and the threat of state takeover when he started, needed some audacious decisionmaking, he said in a recent telephone interview.
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He acknowledges his lack of classroom savvy, but believes that hiring veteran academic chief Lynn Spampinato (who is a fellow Broad Academy graduate) to oversee curriculum and instruction should ease worries about his inexperience.
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Pakistan Railway Minister Disqualified Over Rigging in 2013 Polls
World News | Press Trust of India | Monday May 4, 2015
In a setback for Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, an election tribunal in Pakistan today disqualified his confidant and Railway Minister for vote rigging in 2013 general elections and ordered re-poll in a constituency in Lahore from where he was...
After BJP Defeat, Grassroot Workers Point to the Gaps
Elections News | Written by Ketki Angre | Wednesday February 11, 2015
At approximately 32% vote share, the BJP has lost just 1 percentage point of its 2013 Assembly poll voteshare. For the party, that was the only good news today.
Delhi Elections 2015: Kaun Banega Chief Minister? 67 Per Cent of Delhi Has Voted
Cheat Sheet | Abhishek Chakraborty | Saturday February 7, 2015
67 per cent of 1.3 crore voters had been inked by 6 pm on Saturday, as Delhi looked set for a record turnout after a slow morning. Chief Election Commissioner HS Brahma said he expected a 65-70 per cent voter turnout today. 66 per cent had voted in t...
BJP Emerges on Top in Landmark Panchayat Polls in Rajasthan
India News | Written by Harsha Kumari Singh | Friday February 6, 2015
The panchayat elections in Rajasthan have seen the BJP come out on top. However, the performance does not measure up to the party's landslide victories in the 2013 Assembly and 2014 Lok Sabha elections. The polls were also the first elections that ha...
Kiran Bedi Will Take Delhi to New Heights, Says PM Modi at Poll Rally
Assembly Delhi | Rahul Srivastava | Monday February 2, 2015
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived by chopper at a densely populated east Delhi locality on Saturday evening to lead the BJP's charge against the Aam Aadmi Party for the Delhi elections a week away.
'No Way!' Says Congress on Supporting Aam Aadmi Party
Assembly | Written by Sandeep Phukan | Thursday January 29, 2015
At a time when some surveys suggest another fractured verdict in Delhi, the Congress has made it clear that it will not repeat its 2013 experiment and support Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party.
'No Way!' Says Congress on Supporting Aam Aadmi Party
Assembly | Written by Sandeep Phukan | Friday January 30, 2015
At a time when some surveys suggest another fractured verdict in Delhi, the Congress has made it clear that it will not repeat its 2013 experiment and support Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party.
In Jharkhand, Elections Under the Shadow of Naxalism
Assembly | Written by Alok Pandey | Monday November 24, 2014
In 2013, Jharkhand saw the maximum number of incidents, and deaths due to Naxalism, as per figures from the Union Home Ministry. The state saw 383 incidents and 150 deaths.
Pakistan Supreme Court to Hear Petition Against Last Year's General Elections
World News | Press Trust of India | Sunday October 26, 2014
The Supreme Court of Pakistan has admitted a plea by a former judge of the apex court, seeking to declare the 2013 general elections null and void and order fresh polls.
Country's Richest Woman Loses in Haryana Polls
Assembly | Press Trust of India | Sunday October 19, 2014
She was elected from Hisar in 2005 and 2009, and is a minister in the outgoing Bhupinder Singh Hooda-led Congress government in the state.
Election Results 2014: From Nitish Kumar, Only a Glum Silence
Elections News | Written by Alok Pandey | Friday May 16, 2014
At the JD(U) office, except a few bored policemen, not a single person was to be spotted. In an election where the BJP and JD(U) fought separately after a political divorce in 2013 over Narendra Modi , Nitish Kumar's party is down to just two seats.
Geo had Played Role in 'Rigging' 2013 Elections: Imran Khan
World News | Press Trust of India | Saturday May 3, 2014
Pakistan's cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan today accused Jang media group of playing a role in the alleged "rigging" in last year's general elections.
Will support Congress if it seeks our help after the polls: Karunanidhi
Elections News | Edited by Devesh Kumar | Thursday March 27, 2014
M Karunanidhi's DMK, which left the UPA in 2013 after accusing the Centre of failing to protect the interests of Sri Lankan Tamils, today said that it would be willing to back a Congress-led government after the Lok Sabha polls beginning next month.
US says Asia's rights record poor in 2013
World News | Agence France Press | Friday February 28, 2014
From China's crackdown on activists to flawed elections in Cambodia and widespread violence against Muslims in Myanmar, Asia's human rights record in 2013 remained poor, US officials said Thursday.
Delhi: High Court refuses to hear plea for quashing nomination of Arvind Kejriwal
Delhi News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday January 22, 2014
The Delhi High Court today refused to entertain a plea of an NGO seeking quashing of the nomination paper of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on the ground of "illegalities" in his affidavit filed before the poll panel in the 2013 Assembly election.
Another AAP member attacks party leadership
India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday January 15, 2014
After Vinod Kumar Binny, another AAP member Tina Sharma attacked the party leadership over alleged non-fulfilment of the promises made in its 2013 manifesto and ignoring the issue of women's security.
Market wish list: Stable government, improved current account deficit, sustained FI inflows
Wednesday January 1, 2014
Driven by robust overseas investment and election euphoria, stock markets scaled new peaks in 2013, with the benchmark Sensex reaping a gain of nearly 9 per cent.
Rupee closes 2013 as Asia's third weakest currency
Tuesday December 31, 2013
The rupee ended higher on Tuesday, closing the year as Asia's third worst performer, with the quantum of future stimulus tapering by the Federal Reserve and the general elections due by May to set direction in the new year.
2013, the year that was for Indian sports
Indo-Asian News Service | Thursday December 26, 2013
The year 2013 was a mixed bag for Indian sports. The positives saw the rise of a new star in Pusarla Venkata Sindhu who would finish with a bronze medal at the world championships. The more gloomy side saw India's image suffer as the International Ol...
Am a revolutionary, says Rakhi Birla, set to be Delhi's youngest minister
India News | Tanima Biswas | Thursday December 26, 2013
On Saturday, Rakhi Birla, 26, will become the youngest minister in Delhi's 20-year history as a state. The former TV journalist is one of the 28 candidates of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to have won the recent elections in the capital. She defeated f...
Ghaziabad: Five cops waited for 24 hours to guard Arvind Kejriwal, who again said 'No Thanks'
Ghaziabad News | Edited by Diana George | Thursday December 26, 2013
For nearly 24 hours, five police officers have been parked near Arvind Kejriwal's home, wondering just how exactly they're meant to protect the man who has flatly refused any security cover.
Inflation remained the biggest headache for government, RBI in 2013
Tuesday December 24, 2013
The UPA government paid for its failure to control prices in the assembly polls held recently. Analysts say the government may feel the heat in next year's general elections as well if inflation is not controlled.
Cauvery water sharing, BJP's loss in Assembly elections highlights of 2013 for Karnataka
South | Press Trust of India | Tuesday December 24, 2013
A tectonic political shift that brought the Congress back to power dismantling the BJP's first-ever government in the South topped the developments during 2013 in Karnataka.
Aam Aadmi Party betrayed the people of Delhi, says BJP
Assembly | Indo-Asian News Service | Monday December 23, 2013
The BJP on Monday accused the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) of "betraying the people of Delhi" after its leader Arvind Kejriwal said he will form a minority government with outside support of the Congress.


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I kinda agree with Fedor in the sense that UFC needs to respect its fighters more.
Fedor Emelianenko,
"UFC is a money making machine. The most important thing for this organization is a brand and it's marketing. They have a couple of good fighters and there are also some very good champions; but they are trying to keep everyone at the same level. The most important thing for them is the promotion, not the fighters. I think that they lack a respect for their fighters. As for me, I became a thorn in their side… We are constantly negotiating, but only during recent time the Americans began to show some respect. The dialogue between us is completely different right now. They are more interested in our opinion." [Trans: LowKick]
Fedor Emelianenko is proving to be a "Thorn in the UFC's side". In a recent UFC rant on a Russian MMA news site, Fedor claims that the UFC has finally starting to show him respect in recent negotiations.
Dana White on sports talk 790, talks about the difficulty signing Fedor.
I kinda agree with Fedor in the sense that UFC needs to respect its fighters more.
How should they respect the more them more, give a few examples:
I hear ya dude and I agree, UFC allows their fighters to turn down opponents, biggest paydays overall, best coverage, and best marketing by far; that's pretty damn good. What else does Fedor want?
It's a Fight League, not a club.
This is what I have been saying all along about Dana White. Instead of promoting his fighters, he is too busy disrespecting other promotions and fighters outside of his reach. He also is too concerned about how much control he has over each UFC fighter. If you don't do things his way you are out, regardless of how good you are. While there is a part of this I can respect, there is a limit to everything. Dana only signs fighters who will do exactly as he says. He has gotten away with it so far somehow. There are even those on this website who frequently say that it was all Fedor's fault and that he must be too afraid of the UFC HWs which is a joke for anyone who truly follows this sport. One of these days, it will catch up to him and he'll lose a guy like Anderson Silva at the top of his game and the blind followers of Dana's will finally stop trusting and supporting him. We all saw Don King take down boxing and Dana is aquiring the same power and attitude.
There is a lot of truth to that, but there is certainly a lot of respect toward his fighters as well. How may HTH Organizations do you know that gives Fighters a choice of who they wish to face. Which I think is absurd.
You are right, its not Fedor's fault, but it is his choice.
Fedor does not want to face the best. END OF STORY
Let's get on with the great HW matches!
Dana is a cocky bastard and it is killing him that he cannot sign Fedor. All while Dana is trying to make Fedor look bad, Dana is looking like the asshole. Dana spoke very repectfully of Fedor, then when they could not reach the negotiations, he trashed him…come on Dana! He has gone through this before with fighters, coaches, sponsors and he finally is dealing with someone that has the power to say no. It cracks me up that the more Fedor gives him the finger, the more Dana wants him. How you like them apples Dana?
I hope that he does sign at some point but that he milks Dana for every last penny he can!
Guys, I came to the realization that Fedor does not want to fight the best fighters in the world. I have done everything possible to make this happen. I have flown to crazy parts of the world…sucked the Russian's dick, swallowed him, tea bagged him……………
lets all be completely honest…the time to watch Fedor vs the best fighters has passed. After Overeem is done with him, the mystique will be over and fewer fans will care anymore. Truth be told, That is the guy I would like to see move up and onward…much more interesting, much scarier. Should Dana ever do what is needed to land Affraidor…it will be too late, like wandI vs chuck….and btw, what is more respectful than offering more money than you have ever made in your life?! if that is negative sand disrespectful, PLEASE be negative and disrespectful to me.
Afraidor, While I am a Fedor fan, I can honestly say that I cannot disagree with your last post. All jokes and bullshit aside, you bring up 3 great points. #1. Overeem is a freaking monster. Rogers is not even in the top ten but Overeem just destroyed him. Overeem is not the same fighter that we saw in Pride. His striking would have to be the best of all HWTs- not talking power, I am talking about the technical aspects of striking, considering he was a K1 fighter. And based on his size and strength, his power has to be up there with Brock and Carwin. His ground game is not the best but is decent. His stance in his fight with Rogers was perfect-he was low in his stance where he would not give a wrestler the opportunity to take him down. I honestly could see him beating Fedor, not so much because he is better than Fedor but more than anything, due to his power and size. #2. A deal will get done with Fedor at some point but by then, it will be too late, where he will not be the same fighter that he has been. #3. In the long run, the better option would be for the UFC to sign Overeem. I predict that Overeem could be the future champ of the UFC.
Who cares what Fedor has to say. He is a joke. He fights for M-1 who wont let him fight anyone worth a shit. I hope he retires soon so we don't have to talk about this has been anymore.
I won't call Fedor a has been, not yet. Although, as M1's bread and butter, it would seem that he would have more pull than he claims. He strikes me as a man devoid of the passion for the sport he once had. He obviously has no interest in taking out the top competition, and I won't be surprised to see him/them find a way to further delay a match with overeem should he get past werdum. When I see him beat a guy who isn't a former ufc champ, or tire jockey, then I will be impressed. Till then- yawn.
Do you really believe Dana when he saying that he offered Fedor bogus amounts of money? I mean Dana is a smart business man Do you really think he would offer one man 10 or 20 times more than top fighters like GSp and Brock?
im glad he dissed them
In Fedors video interview he said "I don't think I'm the best or the strongest fighter."
I agree with Fedor about what he said about himself. I don't think he's the best or the strongest either. In strikeforce the best HW is Overeem ( and I hope dana signs him also, he's a monster). And until Fedor beats Overeem then I say Overeem is the best and the strongest in strikeforce.
And since he's so loyal to M-shit and will never fight in the UFC then he can never claim to be better than any of their heavyweights either. The best HW in the ufc will be decided when the winner of Carwin/Lesnar faces Cain.
I totally agree with what Fedor says about Himself. He's NOT the best. The champs are the best and he hasnt fought any of them in the past 3 years.
Scarier still was how Overeem just ManHandleD that dude…made him look like a friggin high school kid in the ring with him,,,tossed him into the corner like he had an invisible helper! Plus he has decent ground game…? Dunno, but my top 3 HW's just got a little shuffled.
Has anyone heard anything on Josh Barnett? While I don't feel sorry for the guy due to him taking roids, he has beaten some good fighters and he was really looking sharp in the Affliction events…I wonder if he will fight in the US again.
Agred Overeem the best striker along with Anderson silva. Shogun coudnt handle overeem's striking he had to take him down and ground him out.
P4P #1 Fan….Josh Barnett has a fight coming up with Geronimo Dos Santos. I truthfully don't know much about this Dos Santos guy. I think Barnetts in the same situation as Fedor. He will never be top ranked again because he doesn't have the competition to fight and I don't think the UFC. I have never really been impressed with Barnett. I mean the guy was ranked number 2 heavyweight by beating Pedro Rizzo and Gilbert Yvel. I remember everyone talked about how good Yvel was and he came to the UFC and got destroyed. Never been impressed with Barnett. Overeem I think has potential but I'm not ready to put him in the same class of striker as Anderson Silva. I personally think that Overeem is the best HW in Strikeforce. I think he could beat Fedor. I dont think M-1 will ever let him face Overeem but I think Overeem could beat him. I dont think I would put Overeem in my top 5. Maybe one more fight like he had against Rodgers and he would be top 5 for me.
Well for starters the UFC closes an eye to steriods. They have hall of famers who take steriods like Ken Shamrock, Royce Gracie. Also Ex champion belt holders like Sean Sherk, Tim Sylvia etc. In a way they allow steriods to make more money because freak shows attract viewers. Fedor is a true sportsman and will not take steriods, just look at the physique differences between Fedor and UFC champs. Naturally muscluar? Yeah right.
Sherk is the only one of those fighters you mentioned that currently fights in the UFC, and while I agree that Fedor is an honorable fighter, the fact that he ducks any serious contenders speaks much louder.


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Six reasons why rotating banners are evil and should be removed from your site immediately.
We've all seen them, on large e-commerce websites as well as small online retailers. CEOs love them, and conversion optimizers loathe them. I'm talking about the large rotating banner that slides, fades, or otherwise transitions from one promotion to the next across a website home page. This popular design element is - for many - the go-to solution when there are more messages to put on the home page than there is room to put them. Rather than make the tough decisions that require prioritizing conversion goals, web teams turn to the rotating banner as an offer of compromise - giving each message prime positioning, if only for a second or two before the slideshow loops and the next message is presented.
If this scenario sounds familiar, then this post is for you. Rotating banners are absolutely evil and should be removed immediately. Here is a short list of the many reasons why:
Large File Sizes
Typically banners include several still images, animation, or video that result in larger files sizes compared to other page elements. Google in particular is on a mission to speed up the online experience because it has found that longer page load times will result in lower conversion rates and lower user satisfaction with the search experience (reflecting on them). As a result, Google has started to consider page load times in its search results algorithm.
Inconsistent Messaging and Look
Often the individual frames of your slideshow will look very different. They will use wildly divergent messaging, visual imagery, and calls to action. Since they are so visually dominant on the page, the experience of your site radically and repeatedly changes within the span of a few seconds - creating a schizophrenic identity for your site.
Lack of Editorial Responsibility
Rotating banners are a bad idea because you have basically abdicated your responsibility for curating and editing the content on your page. You have thrown up your hands and said, "I'm not sure what is important, so I am going to throw it all up against the wall and see what sticks." You need to prioritize importance of your content and edit or remove non-essential items. If something is truly important, it deserves permanent real estate on your page.
Wasted Time
No one likes to wait. On the web, people are especially impatient because they are in a highly activated, information-seeking mode and because there is a world of infinite options available. By forcing the visitor to involuntarily sit through a series of commercials, you are forcing them to have a linear and out-of-control experience. This is the wrong metaphor for the web. We will (barely) tolerate interruptive commercials when watching TV, but only because we have voluntarily locked ourselves into longer-timeframe and passive linear unfolding experiences. On the web we are in control, and a 10- to 15-second slideshow is way outside what we are willing to sit still for. Instead of letting someone actively find what they are looking for, you are wasting their time.
Motion-Triggered Reassessment
Motion in a scene triggers the reptilian portion of our brain. This occurs at the level of automatic survival instinct and cannot be avoided. Frequent motion changes in a part of the page keep stealing the visitors' attention and make it difficult to visually prioritize or to consume any other content on the page.
Pushing Navigation Down
The primary purpose of your home page should be to create a high-level map of the world for your visitors so they can understand the range of available products that you carry. The giant banner will take up all of the prime real estate on the home page and push this navigation off the visible top of the page - sabotaging the page's primary purpose.
Print this column out and keep a copy in your desk drawer. Chances are good that someday your CEO, product managers, or other heavyweights in your organization are going to ask you to put up a home page banner. It's your job to just say "No." Then hand them this post and politely send them on their way.
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