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Writers from the Royal College of Art have explored The Royal Opera's new production of Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny in an unprecedented collaboration between the Royal Opera House and the RCA. John Fulljames, Associate Director of Opera for The Royal Opera, invited students from the RCA's MA programme in Critical Writing in Art and Design to investigate aspects of his new production of Weill and Brecht's stinging satire on consumerism.
The RCA's postgraduate course offers students opportunities to discover – and create – new ways of writing about contemporary art and design. The 15 writers explored aspects of the production with the creative team and John Snelson, Head of Publishing and Interpretation at the Royal Opera House, to produce a portfolio of essays of remarkable breadth and diversity – embracing such aspects as Brecht's relationship with Charlie Chaplin, the everyday violence of boxing and the lure of Las Vegas (one real-world version of Mahagonny).
Student Rosanna Mclaughlin was interested in the opera's popular ballad the 'Alabama Song', calling card of the prostitute Jenny. She spoke to singer Christine Rice about how the song's smooth and easy melody sits at odds with the text.
'The Alabama Song' is first sung in Mahagonny by Jenny Hill. Jenny is a prostitute who, in the current production, has arrived in Mahagonny in the back of a lorry, one of many women trafficked to the city for sex work. As the women disembark from their carriage, dishevelled after a long journey, they perform the song as a way of attracting custom. Jenny is played by mezzo-soprano Christine Rice, whom I asked about her delivery of the famous song. It's treated, Rice says, like 'the sort of song you hum in shower. It has that casual relationship to the nature of singing – you're not deeply invested in it, you're just skimming the surface of a song that's very familiar.' In order to make her way from the bottom up in Mahagonny Jenny must be adaptable, and the knowing detachment of her delivery are the hallmarks of her chameleon character. 'You never get to see the real Jenny at any point during the opera', say Rice. 'She reinvents herself and that's how she survives. As a mezzo I get to play lots of prostitutes and sexually available women. We get boys, and we get old bags, but we tend not to be the consumptive, romantic heroine. In terms of playing women who exploit their sexuality in order to survive there is plenty of that in opera. But in terms of her shiftiness she's quite unusual.'
When David Bowie sings the 'Alabama Song' – cigarette in hand and brow furrowed, a vision of brooding intensity – Jenny's shiftiness is absent. The lyrics have changed, too. The opening line of the third verse, originally 'Oh, show me the way to the next pretty boy', has become 'Oh show me the way to the next little girl'. Bowie borrows both lyrics and attitude from The Doors' version, and Jenny's wry call for the next 'pretty' john is updated to fit with rock-and-roll's familiar triad of wayward morality: drugs, money, and – of course – young, female flesh. While Jenny remains detached from the role she knows she must perform, Bowie and Morrison inhabit the song as a type of self-portraiture. In doing so, they enact popular culture's consummate feat: the ability to absorb criticism and assume it as an attractive feature.
Student Molly Richards was intrigued by the extensive use of projections in the production, and the place of this relatively new technology within opera's history as a spectacular art form. She spoke to Finn Ross, video designer of the production, about the need to integrate projections within the other stage languages at play in opera.
Tradition is a paperweight that can hold opera down – yet the Royal Opera House embraces the latest technology with kite-like freedom. I spoke about this balance to Olivier award winning video director Finn Ross, whose latest project, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny uses digital projections throughout: 'I think we can understand it a lot better than we could twenty years ago, the idea of an electronic image and the juxtaposition with live image on stage – I think through mass exposure to television, and certainly with our society becoming a society of spectacle and image rather than one of word and thought. We can really easily engage in that and understand the pluralism of those images when presented with them. It is partially that the technology was ready, people were ready, the technology growing made the people ready, the technology growing enabled us to do it.'
Wagner's vision of artistic synthesis [in The Artwork of the Future] means responding to growing technological opportunities and accepting them into opera's multiple characteristics. Wagner wrote about the imperative for opera to reveal a deep, integrated statement of sociological truths. In Mahagonny, where brands are the monarchy and currency is power, adverts package the city and civilians are commoditized, it doesn't sound too dissimilar from the world outside the Royal Opera House. Ross mentions that from the first musical note the audience see projected images on top of the gauze, perhaps an echo of today's screen obsessed culture. Acknowledging that the story is one of excess, does the extravagance of technology also become excessive? Ross spoke about the synthesis of multi-media with other elements.
'I would like to think that it is not a foreground element unless it is specifically trying to be a foreground element. When there are singers on the stage you need to find a balance so you're not creating something so spectacular that you actually forget that there are people within it. I would always seek to lead where I can and then form an intelligent part of the world around the singer that accessorizes, accentuates, develops, layers, subtextualizes whatever they are doing, rather than shouting in the background.'
Student Thea Smith was struck by the difficulty of creating the desolation and squalor of Mahagonny within the plush surroundings of the Royal Opera House. She spoke to Fulljames, who argued that this contradiction between the illusion on stage and the reality of the audience's surroundings is all part of Brecht's ideas of epic theatre.
Mahagonny begins with nothing. But how much of a desert, how much of nothingness can you get onto the stage at the Royal Opera House? The auditorium is a plush four-tiered red velvet cake: an apotheosis of 19th-century romanticism. The stage itself is framed with an ornate gold design, quite the opposite of the ideal space for a production of Brecht and Weill – but this reimagining of Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny plays it to its own advantage. Director John Fulljames spoke to me of the significance of harnessing this frame. 'If you were to hang a painting in an art gallery you would choose an appropriate frame. We're stuck with the same frame. The tension is always there, but particularly with this piece as it is only concerned with the future. So much of its attitude to the past is satirical and therefore it questions the validity of the frame, even the building we're in: does it still need to be here?'
So how does the opera challenge the frame? There's a sense that the frame is supposed to contain the production in some way. Spilling out through the proscenium is a postmodern cliché that Fulljames avoids, preferring to use the architecture radically: the frame tries to define a set of spatial rules but this production of Mahagonny doesn't accept them. When the city is built [in Act II] there is a sense that the containers don't fit on the stage – they're multiplying out through the wings, there's a sprawl of furtive backstreets and alleyways we're not party to.
You can read Oscar Gaynor's full article on whiskey and debt in Mahagonny here, and more from other students in the RCA programme in the digital programme for Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny runs until 4 April 2015. Tickets are sold out, but returns may become available and there are 67 day tickets available for each performance.
The production will be broadcast live to cinemas around the world on 1 April 2015. Find your nearest cinema.
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny is staged with generous philanthropic support from The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Inc., New York, NY, Stefan Sten Olsson, Richard and Ginny Salter, Hamish and Sophie Forsyth and The Royal Opera Circle.]]>
On 4 March, Will Self, the novelist, journalist and Professor of Contemporary Thought at Brunel University, presented a lecture discussing the themes of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. Self states that, 'in the past operas provoked riots – I want my lecture about an opera to provoke one.'
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Director, John Fulljames, opened the event by giving a brief introduction to his production of Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.
The Insights event also featured a performance from internationally acclaimed soprano Angel Blue who recently played Mimì in ENO's autumn 2014 season. Blue sang works including Mahagonny's now iconic 'Alabama Song', a piece that has been sung by many non-operatic artists including David Bowie and The Doors.
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'The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny is about the economic crisis that we have now, and the crisis of individualism,' says director John Fulljames. 'It's about what sort of society we want; it's our world reflected on the stage.'
In March 2015, The Royal Opera will stage Kurt Weill and Bertholt Brecht's satirical opera for the first time, starring Anne Sofie von Otter, Willard White and Christine Rice. Mark Wigglesworth will conduct a work that's as relevant in 2015 as it was at the opera's 1930 premiere.
'The opera tells the story of the founding of a city, its uncontrolled, excessive growth into a city of consumption and pleasure; and then its decay, gridlock, and inability to progress because it's become a society built on gratification and consumption,' John says.
'Brecht and Weill - writing in the 1920s - were writing at a time of great economic change, in an era in which Germany was going through a period of hyperinflation. Clearly there are parallels with the economic crisis which we find ourselves in at the start of the 21st century. But as well as there being parallels with the West - which feels like it's reached the gridlock which Weill and Brecht were writing about - in the 21st century we see the beginnings of the story in somewhere like China. It's as if the rise and fall has begun again, in a new cycle where China is Act I and America or Britain is Act III.'
Weill's score for The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny draws upon diverse influences, from the popular songs of the 1920s and the tradition of the music hall, to film music:
'What we end up with is a score that's made up of individual numbers,' says John. 'Some of those songs are known today more widely - 'Alabama Song' is a good example of a Kurt Weill song that's been sung by many non-operatic artists [including The Doors and David Bowie], as well as opera singers.'
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Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny runs 10 March—4 April 2015. Tickets are available to Friends of Covent Garden now, with General booking opening on 27 January 2015. Find out more about becoming a Friend.
The production is staged with generous philanthropic support from Hamish and Sophie Forsyth, Richard and Ginny Salter, The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Inc., New York, NY and The Royal Opera Circle.]]>
Harrison Birtwistle, one of the foremost figures of contemporary music, celebrates his 80th birthday on 15 July 2014. The Royal Opera has the privilege of sharing a relationship with Birtwistle that stretches back to 1991, with its commission of Gawain. This was followed by 2008's The Minotaur, revived in 2013, and we now look forward to the premiere of The Cure in 2015, a new chamber opera co-commissioned with Aldeburgh Festival and London Sinfonietta. His works have an amazing sense of colour, of imagination, of integrity and of line – an astonishing output for a composer who, with characteristic understatement, describes composing as 'just like knitting'.
For all three of his Royal Opera works Birtwistle has joined forces with poet David Harsent. Speaking before the premiere of The Minotaur, Harsent described their relationship: 'It's a terrific collaboration, it always has been on each occasion that we've worked together… Quite often when I'm writing about something I dream aspects of it too. And I would suspect that if Harry and I both had dreams about the piece we were working on, they would be versions of the same dream.'
Birtwistle is a master of orchestral colour; talking to Tom Service, he explains how in The Minotaur he uses the otherness of the saxophone sound to convey in sound Ariadne's isolation, and the cimbalom as 'an instrument of decay'.
Ryan Wigglesworth, who conducted The Minotaur for The Royal Opera in 2013, describes 'the endless melody that goes through this piece – but it's constantly changing shape and colour and form and is not something you're necessarily conscious of; it works somewhere in the back of your mind. You know that there is a presence somewhere that is constant.'
The Royal Opera's Associate Director of Opera, John Fulljames, picks up on the way that Birtwistle's stage works are 'brilliant theatre music'. This innate sense of drama is strikingly clear in Birtwistle's Royal Opera commissions. Harsent has described how, 'Sometimes he'll suggest a change that is wholly theatrical rather than musical. He asked me to write something extra for a moment in which Ariadne is alone on stage: "A little aria, about eight lines, make it dark". So I wrote her the aria "The Cretan sun is black". And it turned out to be one of the best moments in the piece, I thought.'
John Fulljames again: 'The mastery across the range of Harry's output – from the large-scale canvases of Gawain and The Minotaur, to the chamber-scale music theatre of both his early and latest works surely mark him out as one of the giants of our time, in any artistic discipline. We await The Cure, and all his future operas, eagerly.'
The Royal Opera's double programme of Birtwistle's chamber operas The Corridor/The Cure will be performed in the Linbury Studio Theatre in summer 2015.
The Royal Opera's premiere production of The Minotaur is available on DVD and Blu-ray.]]>
Two new Royal Opera commissions will have their world premiere in the Linbury Studio Theatre this April as part of A Faustian Pack, a series that explores the fascination of the Faust legend.
'Faust is the story of an educated person who makes a pact with the devil and exchanges his soul in return for unlimited knowledge,' says John Fulljames. 'This myth is so rich and complex, that it has inspired many different interpretations over history - there are more than 40 operas. A Faustian Pack is a set of projects that will re-interpret the Faust myth for today.' Find out more from John Fulljames about the lure of the Faustian legend.
Rising star Luke Bedford has collaborated with Scottish playwright David Harrower to write Through His Teeth. Directed by Bijan Sheibani, the opera explores the psychological relationship between Faust and Mephistopheles through the story of a woman seduced by a charismatic conman. Look back at the development of Through His Teeth.
In The Crackle, pioneering sound artist Matthew Herbert explores the Faustian myth in the context of a technological revolution. Incorporating new digital technologies into the music, including a data-sharing app called Chirp, he questions whether music itself can be a Faustian protagonist.
A Faustian Pack also includes David McVicar's production of Gounod's Faust on the main stage; an Insights event with prize-winning author Hilary Mantel; and a Faust-inspired performance by Street Stories. Author and poet Ruth Padel has joined rehearsals for all of the Faustian Pack operas as The Royal Opera's first Writer-in-Residence. Find out more about Ruth's role.
The Crackle runs from 5-12 April 2014. Tickets are still available.
Through His Teeth runs from 3-11 April 2014. Tickets are available. The production is staged with generous philanthropic support from The John S Cohen Foundation, the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, the Boltini Trust and the RVW Trust, with Research and Development generously supported by PRS for Music Foundation.
Faust runs from 4-25 April 2014. Some tickets are still available.
Find out more about A Faustian Pack.]]>
Quartett, a bitter tale that explores power, deception, love and torment in a post-apocalyptic world, has its UK premiere in the Linbury Studio Theatre on 18 June.
Luca Francesconi's opera, which had its world premiere at Milan's La Scala in 2011, is based on Heiner Müller's vision of Laclos's Les Liaisons dangereuses. His interpretation depicts two characters – former or potential lovers, and sworn enemies – trapped in a post-apocalyptic world. The UK premiere is directed by John Fulljames.
'The last two human beings alive are trapped in a concrete bunker after World War III and in the middle of the French Revolution – the piece happens in both times at once,' explains John. 'We, the audience, are trapped in that bunker with them, voyeurs in their intimate games. This really is immersive opera.'
Quartett features two fiendishly difficult vocal roles, supported by a chamber orchestra and an ambitious electronic sound design.
'The two roles are very difficult because they are polyphonic roles,' says Luca. 'There are only two characters but each character is at least five different people, which we all are. It calls for many different ways of singing.'
Quartett runs from 18-28 June 2014. Tickets are on sale to Friends of Covent Garden from 19 March 2014 and available for general booking from 8 April 2014.]]>
The nominations for this year's Olivier Awards have been announced.
Joyce Di Donato, Juan Diego Flórez and Plácido Domingo have been nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Opera alongside English Touring Opera.
Stefan Herheim's Royal Opera production of Les Vêpres Siciliennes and John Fulljames's ROH2 production of The Firework-Maker's Daughter (a co-production with The Opera Group and Opera North in association with the ROH and Watford Palace Theatre) have been nominated for Best New Opera production alongside ENO's Wozzeck.
The ROH's West End transfer of The Wind in the Willows has received two nominations - in the Best Entertainment and Family category and designer Nicky Gillibrand in the Best Costume Design.
A number of companies and artists who have recently performed at the ROH also feature:
Metamorphosis choreographer Arthur Pita (for his work with Ballet Black) and Clemmie Sveaas (for her performance in Cathy Marston's Witch-hunt) have been are nominated in the Outstanding Achievement in Dance category.
Designer Es Devlin is nominated for Best Set Design for Chimerica, while lighting designer Paule Constable has been nominated for her work on the National Theatre's The Light Princess.
Richard Eyre - whose production of La traviata returns to Covent Garden this Season - is nominated for his production of Ghosts in the Best Director category.
The ceremony will take place on 13 April at the Royal Opera House.
See the full list of Olivier Award 2014 nominations.
Highlights of The Olivier Awards will be broadcast by ITV at 10.15pm on 13 April. The ceremony itself will be live-streamed on a big screen in Covent Garden Piazza.]]>
Rossini's La donna del lago is something of an underperformed gem: John Fulljames's new production, which opens on 17 May, is the first time the opera has been performed by The Royal Opera since 1985.
The opera is based on The Lady of the Lake, a poem by Sir Walter Scott, whose work has inspired more than eighty operas.
'I've become fascinated by the world in which Walter Scott was writing,' explains John. 'I hope that, when the curtain rises on La donna del lago, you will enjoy seeing how this giant of Scottish literature has inspired The Royal Opera.'
Set in the atmospheric surroundings of the Scottish highlands, the opera explores themes of landscape, kingship and nationhood.
'Landscape is essential for understanding this piece,' says John. 'The emotional impact of the highlands is central to the story. In the opera, landscape is personified in the character of Elena. She is the landscape, she is Scotland.'
To find out more about La donna del lago, watch the model showing, in which John discusses some of his ideas behind the design of the production. John also recently wrote an article about the appeal of Sir Walter Scott. Read the full article here.
Let us know what you think of the trailer, and if you'll be seeing the production on stage or in cinemas.
La donna del lago opens on 17 May 2013 and runs until 11 June. Tickets are available here. La donna del lago will be relayed live to cinemas around the world on Monday 27 May.
The production is sponsored by the Peter Moores Foundation and the Friends of Covent Garden with generous philanthropic support from Celia Blakey, Hélène and Jean Peters, Judith Portrait and Susan and John Singer. The Production Director generously supported by Hamish and Sophie Forsyth.]]>
Walter Scott's work was the inspiration for more than eighty operas, most written in the first half of the 19th century. The first of these was Rossini's La donna del lago, which I will direct in a new Royal Opera production this spring. Opera was a key medium for the spread of Scott's popularity through Europe and it is interesting to think about why his work was taken up so enthusiastically by operatic composers.
I believe that it's the mix of romanticism and nationalism, often with a heady dose of the supernatural thrown in, which so inspired composers. Opera has always been concerned with building a case for what philosopher Mladen Dolar calls the 'myth of community'; either as court opera in the 18th century or as state opera later in the 19th century. Writing at a time when nations were being born, Scott offers a view of a community that had its roots in customs, value and culture. This is romantic nationalism. Scott tries to help us see who we are, by inventing who we were.
Getting to know La donna del lago, I've found that this particular opera comes to life when we view it as 'national myth making' and read the story in the context of Scott's own life: his stage-management of King George IV's visit to Edinburgh, his claimed discovery of the regalia of Scotland, and his raising of a private militia when he feared that a revolution might be coming from across the Channel all feel like events which are in the same world as opera's story.
For me, Scott's work lives on most vividly through adaptation rather than through the original prose or poetry. His work is at its most engaging and powerful to modern eyes and ears when his ideas, fantasy and invention are revealed through adaptation and biography.
We're very excited then that our stage adaptation coincides with a season of programmes about, and adapted from the work of, the author on BBC Radio 4.
The series will include 'The Man who made Scotland', a documentary about Scott presented by James Naughtie; radio adaptations of his works, beginning with The Fair Maid of Perth; and an Open Book special to be recorded live at the Royal Opera House.
Over one hundred and eighty years on from his birth, Scott continues to inspire and I hope that, when the curtain rises on La donna del lago on 17 May, you will enjoy seeing how this giant of Scottish literature has inspired The Royal Opera.
La donna del lago runs from 17 May – 11 June 2013.
The production is sponsored by the Peter Moores Foundation and the Friends of Covent Garden with generous philanthropic support from Celia Blakey, Hélène and Jean Peters, Judith Portrait and Susan and John Singer. The Production Director generously supported by Hamish and Sophie Forsyth.]]>
A new opera based on the Philip Pullman children's novel of the same name, The Firework-Maker's Daughter has been adapted for the lyric stage by director John Fulljames.
'It feels like the dream book to take as the starting point for an opera,' says John, 'it's got a fantastic story, it's full of magical adventure, and it takes place in a fantasy world which is ideal for setting to music.'
The opera examines at the relationship of the young Lila who desperately wants to be a firework-maker like her father, but he claims it is no job for a girl. She runs away to learn the trade, meeting pirates, tigers and the terrifying Fire-Fiend on the way. 'She goes on a journey to the ends of the world in order to prove to herself, as well as to her father, what she can achieve.'
John's production reflects one of the inspirations behind Pullman's original, Balinese shadow puppetry, while composer David Bruce's music is folk-inspired: 'It's impossible not to smile when you hear it'. The director promises a fun theatrical spectacle for audiences.
The Firework-Maker's Daughter runs from 3 - 13 April 2013 in the Linbury. Tickets are still available.]]>


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In Picasa 3 Essential Training, Dane Howard demonstrates how the latest upgrade of this free program from Google will allow photographers to organize, share, and edit digital photos more easily and effectively than ever before. Dane shows newcomers and experienced users how to archive and share photos from a desktop or online. Exercise files accompany the course, but using personal media is encouraged.
Now it's time to explore the interface. I'm going to do a quick walk-through of the things that you actually see while you're driving the interface itself. On the left-hand side, you'll use the left hand column to navigate between the content itself. By clicking on the individual items, it will redirect the pane on the right-hand side. So you can use this for gross navigation of your photos itself. Along at the top you have some buttons here that will correspond to different types of actions that you want to take. You've got an Import button, which will allow you to import when connected to a particular device or hard drive.
You've got a new album that you can create directly which allows you to create an empty area that you can drag photos directly within it. We've talked a little bit about the Folder Views, and then we've got the Sort methods. Then lastly, if you have a web cam connected, you can use that as an input device directly into Picasa itself. Now one of the things that you'll want to take a note of here is the very powerful tools that are used for searching and for filtering. So you can imagine Picasa is made by Google. Google is fantastic at searching on things.
We'll talk a little bit more about searching in a moment. But one of things that you can start to do is search on everything within the metadata itself. For example, if I was looking for a RAW photo, I know that the file extension is a .nef. So if I just type nef, you can see that all of my RAW photos are immediately presented within the View pane here. Additionally, there are Sort methods. So I can begin to start to look for individual things and just look at movies only. You could see that I have just movies. Or one of the things that's very valuable is the facial recognition within Picasa itself.
Here you can actually click on photos that have detected faces within them. This is new within Picasa 3. Starred photos are those that you've specifically gone through and selected stars or favorites within them. To do this, you can go ahead and select a particular star, directly from the pane below. By selecting the star, you can select photos that aren't something that you like as a favorite photograph. Then when filtering, go ahead and select the star and you can see all the photographs that have the star within them.
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Somewhere in there I think you have to get your hands wet and actually make the photograph, the print. Otherwise you are just a camera operator. You may be a talented and very good, successful, camera operator, but not a full-blown photographer unless you are souping stuff.
As John said above:"- Have mastered their craft end to end. Know how to use it to be expressive in a final image."
I think that's among the problems with digital printing. The hands-on wet stuff is missing. To me it is a critical part. I think you need the whole cycle of intent, talented seeing, shooting, processing, and printing to be a Photographer with a capital P. Or maybe that makes you a photographic artist rather than just a shooter.
Shooter, camera operator, photographer, photographic artist...any difference to anyone else? I mean, anyone can take a picture with a camera. If a casual snapshooter always takes good snapshots, does that make them a good photographer? Does that make them a photographer at all???


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Overall, consumers have filed 6,437 complaints with the BBB thus far this year, a mere two percent increase compared to this time last year.
Consumers are doing their homework before contracting with companies, said BBB President Tom Bartholomy in a statement. They have gotten the message about how important it is to check a company out before doing business with them.
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Just because you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town!!
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We spent 4 weeks in San Pedro La Laguna, Guatemala taking spanish school. It was a great learning experience and we really enjoyed slowing down our pace and getting to know one location intimately. However, after a month in one spot our brains were burned out on spanish and we were ready to move on.
Our last night at school they threw a big bash for all the students. We cooked up a traditional meal of Chuchitos and Jicacma tea. Laurens teacher loaned her a traditional mayan outfit for the event.
The school got together and started cranking out Chuchitos (basically a Tamale with a lot less work) You take a ball of maiz flour and some oil, mash it up into a tortilla shape and fill it with some chicken/vegetables, close it up and wrap it in a leaf from a ear of corn.
Chuchitos ready for cooking
Throw them in a pot on top of the fire with a bit of water, steam for 45 minutes.
Serve with salsa and EAT!
For a beverage, take a pot of water, add a boatload of Jicama (Hibiscus) flowers, and some sugar. Heat for a while, add sugar, and serve. Jicama tea.
We are going to miss our cabin in San Pedro, but all good things must come to an end and the trip must continue!
We said goodbye to our teachers at Corazon Maya spanish school in San Pedro La Laguna, Guatemala. We became very good friends with our teachers. You spend 4 hours a day for 3 weeks talking to someone and you form bonds. We often wonder what our guatemalan teachers are up to these days
We said goodbye to our sweet ass cabin
And took in our last views of Lago Atitlan
Were off to Guatemala City to get some much needed repairs done to the truck (reoccurring theme??) and meet up with some friends.
Road Warrior
Joined: Nov 2011
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We made some friends off the internet (surprise, surprise) who offered up their place for us to crash in Guatemala City while we got some 4runner repairs done (by another friend from the internet!). We pushed into Guat City with no real idea where we were going. Guatemala City is a crazy town, traffic is horrible, the streets are a maze, and the signage slim. After driving around in circles for a while, making a few payphone calls, and being lost for about 2 hours we finally found our way to our friend Julios place. Probably the nicest home we have seen so far in Central America.
Julio and his wife Karina welcome us into their home. We busted out the bottles of booze and became fast friends. They asked us what we missed most from the states. Our answers were #1 Chinese Food. #2 Movie theaters. (It doesnt take much to please us )
That night we went to get some Chinese food. Wantons and Brahva beer!
Our new friends, Julio and Karina.
After stuffing our face we went to the movies and watched Girl with Dragon Tattoo (subtitled in spanish). In one fell swoop Julio and Karina satisfied our American desires. (Tickets were $2.50 each for a state of the art movie theater, Julio couldnt believe we paid $10-$15 to see a movie in the states)
Next morning we took the truck to our mechanic Adrian in Guatemala City. I had a laundry list of things I needed done/fixed on the truck. Adrian said he would treat the truck as his own and we placed our baby in his hands.
The repairs ended up taking a while and we spent the next few weeks partying it up with Julio and Karina. We met all their friends and family and got to see a side of Guatemala City most travelers never see.
Guatemala Cities Eiffel Tower
The worlds biggest plate of Guatemalan typical snacks. Julio got very excited.
Capital building of Guatemala (The Green House)
Guachitos! Guatemalan Drunk food. Greasy delicious hamburgers served up till 4AM.
Old town Guatemala City
Read the rest of the story and see more pics on the blog at http://homeonthehighway.com
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Road Warrior
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Location: PanAmerican Highway
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Before our trip we researched all the countries we would be visiting on the PanAm. Overwhelmingly, overlanders reported the most issues with border crossings, corrupt cops, bribery, and theft in Honduras. From what we read the cops seem to like to play it fast and loose in Honduras with official laws changing daily or even in between car checkpoints...
We came prepared with our Anti-Bribery toolkit". 3 reflective triangles, 1 fire extinguisher, roll of reflective tape, crappy porn mags and cheap cigarettes.
We mentally prepped ourselves for chaos and headed towards El Florido. We reached the border, nestled in a small valley between some large green hills.
What we found was not quite the insanity we expected. In fact it was actually a pretty sleepy frontera with just a few trucks idling about. Not a single scamming tramidor or corrupt official to be seen.
Equipped with our new spanish skills we asked around a bit and figured out the process. We found the aduana office and talked with a customs official who took care of stamping our passports out of Guatemala and canceling our car permit. We gave him all the paperwork and just sat back, he ran around various offices taking care of everything for us. Gratis! (Free)
Well that was easy. It must get crazy on the Honduras side right??
We get back in the truck, drive a few hundred feet down the road and park in front of the Honduras Customs office. A man in a customs shirt comes up to us and says he is headed to lunch... OK?
Apparently, the customs office closes daily for lunch. (OVERLANDING PROTIP: Get your border crossings done before 12:00PM)
The official instructed us to get our passports stamped into Honduras and then come back later to handle the truck paperwork. Alrighty We didnt really have much of a choice so we stamped into Honduras and headed over to the comedor (restaurant) to have some lunch.
We entered the small lunchroom and the customs official waved howdy to us over his bowl of soup. We spent an hour eating lunch with the entire customs office watching Scrubs dubbed in spanish on the lunchroom T.V.
FYI: I dont think Scrubs style of humor translates to Central America though that Zach Braff sure is dreamy.
When lunch was over we headed back with the customs official to the office. A bunch of stamps, bunch of copies, and we were in. No strange fees, no bribes. Easy. Just how we like it.
As long as you have plenty of time to hang out for lunch El Florido is a great border crossing.
Welcome to Honduras.
I read somewhere that 75% of Honduras is on at least a 25% incline. I believe it, this country is full of rolling hills and mountains.
Our first stop in Honduras was Copan Ruinas. We had heard tale of a bar there with a german owner who was brewing up 100% organic hefeweizen and other german beers. After drinking nothing but tasteless lagers for the past 5 months I was dying for a beer with some real flavor. Oh ya. I heard there were some Mayan ruins nearby too
We pull into the city of Copan Ruinas and start asking beer questions, someone points us in the direction toSol De Copan, German Bar and Restaurant.
We walked up and met Tomas outside smoking a cigarette, He saw our truck driving down the street with the California plates. He said You guys must be thirsty?
We spent the rest of the entire day and evening hanging out with Tomas and making all kinds of new friends in Copan Ruinas. Once Tomas said we could just camp outside the bar we REALLY hit the sauce
I dont recall much from that night. I do remember we woke up the next morning in a fog. We drove 5 hazy minutes to the ruins, stepped outside the truck. Looked at the steep hike, looked at the hot sun, and then looked at each other We jumped back in the A/C cooled truck and headed to the beach chugging water and tylenol the whole way.
Maybe next time Ruinas!
Up until Honduras the weather has been fairly mild, not too incredibly hot, not to cold. The instant we crossed into Honduras it started to heat up and humidify quickly. We thanked baby jesus that Adrian fixed our A/C in Guatemala City every time we stepped foot out of the truck into the inferno outside.
The palm-tree lined sandy shores of Tela, Honduras were more our speed on that hot day. We sat in the shade, ate fresh ceviche, and nursed our hangovers.
Sunset over the Caribbean. Tela, Honduras
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This is definitely wetting my appetite for a ride South.
Out of curiosity, how often are you camping in your 4runner, vs staying places?
Thanks Defrag.
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Just found the thread, thanks so much for sharing your cool adventure with us.
That Prada "store" pic made me look it up.
Its an art installation, not cheap either.
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Road Warrior
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At this point we are probably camping 65% of the time and the rest in motels
We are looking forward to South America where I hear the landscape opens up again and pirate camping abounds.
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Joined: Nov 2011
Location: PanAmerican Highway
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Thoroughly relaxed and recovered from our hangovers we pushed towards La Ceiba, Honduras and Pico Bonito National Park.
Semana Santa (Holy Week) was rapidly approaching. During Semana Santa the entire latin american populace takes the week off and heads to the coastline to party it up. On the beaches of Tela we were sitting at ground-zero for the madness. The hotel owners all said we should get the hell out of dodge before Monday, every single hotel room was booked up for the next 8 days and people were flocking in by the thousands when we hit the road.
We headed for the hills! Specifically Pico Bonito national park located outside the town of La Ceiba, Honduras. We stopped by the grocery and stocked up on supplies. We were planning to be gone for at least a week up in the mountain, vowing only to come out once the madness had ended.
The Rio Cangrejal winds through Pico Bonito park. Rio Cangrejal is known for its world-class white-water rafting.
We followed dirt roads all throughout the park searching for free place to pirate camp. Unfortunately you had the river on one side and crazy dense jungle on the other. Not many opportunity's for camping. Beautiful country though.
I had some fun mashing through some wild river crossings and getting some weird looks from kids wondering why this gringo is driving in their swimming holes.
On the road we pass this hut slinging some sort of jungle hooch. We, of course, pulled over to have a taste.
Guifiti/Gifiti is a Garifun native drink made out of sticks, herbs (including that good good), spices, and rum. It tastes like crap but they say its good for your health and vigor.
They also had this bottle of AIDS for sale. Surprisingly it was pretty damn good.
Sun was starting to set and we still had not found a place to camp, We passed a few hostel/hotels on the way up the mountain so doubled-back to check them out.
We found a spot called Omega Tours who offer cabins/camping/rafting tours in Pico Bonito. $5 a night and they have a bar. Sold!
More pics and the rest of the story on the blog at http://homeonthehighway.com
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Great report
Loving your 'ride' report. I want to do the same sort of thing with our Xterra. I think I will need two spare gas cans though
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It's so cool stumbling across unexpected gems. Thanks.
Absolutely stunning.
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GREAT read so far! Keep up the travelling, we will be watching from our armchairs!
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We packed up our stuff from the Omega Tours in Pico Bonito and headed to town to stock up on supplies, gas, and cash. We were planning to drive out to the remote Miskito Coast and needed to be prepared for anything.
We load up the grocery cart with tons of food, water, beer etc. Hit the register and try to pay with our debit card. Lady tells me its not working for some reason OK, try this one? Still not working Great. OK Let me go pull some cash from the ATM.
ATM is not working either. Crap. We try Laurens card, same thing. Nada. Please contact your bank UGH. Worst case scenario as we now have no money, no food, and no phone to call to figure out what is going on.
We apologize to the clerk and abandon our cart full of crap in the store, luckily we were in a mall and figured we could find a payphone/internet café to call the bank and see what was up. We went out to the truck and pilfered our last few bits of change from the ashtray to pay for a call.
We find an internet café which is setup for international dialing, after messing around for 20 minutes trying to dial a 1800 number (If you have ever tried to use a phone outside the country you will understand!) we finally get through. Then we end up waiting on hold for 45 minutes . Lauren and I start to wonder if we have enough change to cover this damn call.
Finally an exasperated man picks up the line, Before I get a chance to say anything he yells THE VISA NETWORK IS DOWN! YOU CANT USE YOUR CARD!
Oh. Looks like we weren't the only ones with problems .
It turns out while we were staring blankly at the grocery store clerk and then confusedly stumbling from ATM to ATM with no success. The entire VISA network in the states was taking a 45-minute coffee break.
We hung up the phone, walked out to the ATM, and tried again. The sweet whiiir of cash being queued up was like music to our ears.
Life is all about timing my friends 10 minutes earlier we would have had no problems getting cash, 45 minutes later the same. We just happened to arrive at the perfectly incorrect time.
Overlanding ProTip: We have a stash of US currency in the truck for emergencies like this, however the store did not take U.S. money. We now keep a little stash of local currency in the truck as well. You never know when your card is going to crap out on you.
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Stocked up, fueled up, and ready for adventure! We hit the road to the Moskito coast.
The directions we had were shaky at best and we ended up taking a wrong turn into a small sketchy neighborhood. Before I got a chance to turn around we found ourselves smack in the middle of a police-checkpoint in this barrio.
The checkpoint was manned by 6 young fellas. They see us coming and pull me over. Young guy asks me the usual paperwork questions and then says he needs to search my truck... OK. We havent been asked to search our truck yet in Honduras so I thought it a bit odd.
Then he asks me to get out of the truck. Again odd, I haven't been asked to get out in quite some time either.
So I get out and he puts me up against the truck and gives me a crappy cursory pat-down. The first pat-down I have received since leaving the U.S. Obviously he wasnt looking very hard since he doesn't notice I have a damn buck knife in my pocket. He starts asking me if I have drugs, where we are from, did we come here to buy drugs. We are conversing in spanish, I am telling him No we are just lost, we are tourists bla bla blah.
He continues to search the truck, I roll down the rear-window, he opens the cooler and comes back around to the front of the truck. He then tells me Having a cooler full of beer during Semana Santa is illegal...
I say... Por Que? (Why?) and he says because the police say so...
So from this point on we know this guy is trying to take us for a bribe and we mentally shift gears.
As sick as it sounds We have been preparing for this moment now for so long we are almost excited to get a chance to have a go at some corrupt cops. The game is a-foot!
He rechecks all of our papers and tells us our vehicle import papers are only good for Guatemala (which is bullshit. Why would Honduran immigration give me an vehicle import document for Guatemala?) so I call him out on that in spanish. Surprised by our confidence. He moves on.
Then he says I need a front plate. I explain to him you do not need one in the United States and they do not issue you a front Honduran plate at the border, in spanish. He moves on again.
He starts saying I have drugs in the car, since I am from California and Californias love drugs! (I see our reputation precedes us ) I tell him we do not have any in spanish. He moves on.
The cop just keeps coming up random crap hoping we cave and just offer him cash. I keep calling him on his B.S. in spanish. He is almost smiling at this point, unable to keep the con alive and remain serious.
Eventually he just straight up starts asking for a bribe/regalo (gift). That is when we start playing the fool and immediately forget all the spanish we know .
Everything he asks now is met with a "no entiendo"(I dont understand)
He asks Lauren something, she replies No entiendo
We go back and forth for 10 more minutes with him asking me for a regalo and me saying no entiendoand talking to him about random nonsense in rapid fire english which really confuses him.
He keeps saying in frustration You dont understand my language!?. Guess he forgot about the 1st half of our conversation that took place entirely in spanish
Eventually he calls his buddy over who just tells him to knock it off. Young Cop #2 takes our paperwork from Young Cop #1 hands it to me and tells us to get going.
Home on the Highway-1 Honduran Corrupt Cop-0
While every case dealing with the police is different we have found, as have most others, if you play along with the cop long enough, waste their time, or just downright confuse them. You can get out of most bribery incidents without paying a nickel.
NOTE: This was our first bribe attempt in over 5 months of travel and 20,000+ miles covered. The majority of police/military we have encountered have been friendly and helpful.
PS: He never did ask about our reflective triangles, fire extinguisher, or reflective tape!!!
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19.05.07 - By James Slater: Last night, on the under card of the main event between middleweight king Jermain Taylor and his challenger Cory Spinks, a quite awesome fight too place - one that lived up to ALL its hype. Without doubt stealing the show from the headliner, the war the unbeaten puncher Kelly Pavlik and the once beaten puncher Edison Miranda put on has to rank as a possible candidate for fight of the year. Beforehand some people compared the match-up to the legendary Hagler-Hearns thriller from 1985, and anticipated a fight that would perhaps be almost as good. These people were correct in their thinking.
After the intros by Michael Buffer - which included a ten-count given in memory of the recently and shockingly deceased Diego Chico Corrales - the action began. And what action!
In round one, Pavlik went straight out on the attack and his awesome power began to have an effect quickly. Miranda was willing to trade with him, however, and the war began. Pavliks hands clearly carry raw power and this power was definitely registering on the hard man from Columbia. Pantera was stuck on the ropes for long periods of the round and wore a thoughtful look on his face. He had talked a lot in the run up to the fight, now he was trying to back up his boasting. He found out how hard it is to trade with the punishing and hard punching Ghost, though. Indeed, rights and lefts aplenty scored upstairs for the lethal hitting Pavlik. Mirandas chin was being severely tested already. Edison managed to come back in the last seconds of a savage and brutal round of fighting which also included a warning given to him for a low blow. Indeed, Steve Smoger would have his hands full tonight. In a breathtaking three minutes of action, Pavlik won his first round.
In the second, Kelly carried on doing what hed started in the opener, namely push Miranda back while trying to send him into orbit. Again he drove the Columbian to the ropes, and again he hurt him whilst there. A big right hand to the head scored for Edison as he countered off the ropes, though, and then came another one in quick succession. Pantera was coming back into it. They began to trade yet again and a brutal slugfest ensued. Yet another low blow landed by Miranda earned him another warning by Smoger. A legal punch by way of a superb uppercut landed and tested Pavliks chin also, however, and the two men finished the round by trading along the ropes. I scored this one even.
The third, and there was more good action. Pavlik carried on throwing his cracking shots to the head, but Miranda was trying his best to match him. Then yet another low blow hit Kelly, this one blatantly low, and one more warning was given by referee Smoger. How many warnings would he give before taking away a point? Other questions that arose were, is Miranda a dirty fighter, and was he hitting low due to sheer frustration/fear? He wasnt getting the fight hed thought he would, thats for sure. Kelly Pavlik was hurting him time and again. Still, there was always the chance that the man from Ohio would punch himself out, such was his relentless work rate. Once again, Miranda saw the round out whilst stuck on the ropes. Pavliks round.
The fourth now, and Miranda was under almost constant pressure. He was hanging tough, though, and punching back whilst on the back foot. The ropes were his home yet again, and from these too, he tried to fire back. Pavlik was marked up above the left eye at this point, testament to the fact that he had eaten his share of punches, too. Kelly also looked to be showing the first signs of tiredness as well. He was a touch open-mouthed, but the man from Youngstown put another round in the bank for me.
In round five, there was yet another low blow warning given to Miranda, before more great-to-watch slugging ensued. Rarely has there been a more easy to watch fight this year than this one - the fans were getting their moneys worth tonight, without a doubt. Miranda seemed to come on and shake his man in the final thirty seconds or so of the round. But if he did hurt Pavlik, his final chance at victory had gone. That much was clear in the next round of the fight. The fifth was Edisons for me, though.
The sixth, and something had to give. Unfortunately for Miranda, it was he who gave. There were more exchanges at the start of the session, and the fight looked like it may become a case of who wants it more. Then Pavlik turned destroyer. He smashed a brutal combo into the head of Miranda, who was again along the ropes, and at last saw the desired effect. A big right in particular hurt Edison, and the Columbian slid to the canvas. He was very badly hurt. He beat the count, just, and then bought time by spitting out his mouthpiece ( a la, the man who the fight was dedicated to beforehand, in Diego Chico Corrales, somewhat ironically). The precious extra seconds didnt help him too much, though, and he was soon on the floor for a second
time. Pavlik would not let him breathe and blazed away with hurtful leather. Miranda looked all gone as he hit the mat for this second occasion and only just beat the count. Then came the bell. He had been saved, for the time being. A huge round for Pavlik - 10-7.
The seventh now, and only a super human effort would prevent Miranda from being stopped. No super human effort was witnessed. Edison, with his right eye completely swollen shut, was under fierce pressure at the sound of the bell and looked all finished. This was indeed the case, as Smogers hovering over the action indicated. He gave Miranda a few seconds to see if he could possibly muster anything, and bravely, Miranda got himself off the ropes and tried to fight back. But he was soon stuck on the other side of the ring and this time, seeing that he had absolutely nothing left and that he was being battered by a ruthless Pavlik, Smoger dived in and stopped the fight. The time was one minute and fifty-four seconds.
A quite brilliant victory had been earned by Kelly Pavlik last night in Memphis. One that just might have made him a fighter considered THE best in the world at middleweight. For Edison Miranda, a man who had such faith that God would make him a world champion, the future looks uncertain. One things for sure, he believes in ghosts now! Will Jermain Taylor, too?
Pavlik improved to 31-0 (28) Miranda fell to 28-2 (24).
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So it is with four failed attempts under its belt that Washington turns to the debt super-committee.
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"There weren't people who were totally committed as they are now," Archer said. "I'm not sure there is any amount of pressure that the Republican leaders in the House and Senate, even if they are willing to do it, can put on Republican members of this commission to include some increases in taxes."
Archer said the final deal will probably boil down to terminology, like "tax reform" versus "tax increases," which he said can "create an image which is different than what is actually going to happen."
He said if a compromise is reached, it will probably be because one Republican breaks ranks and supports a Democratic plan that includes tax revenue.
"I don't know what in the world they can promise him or use to coax him across the line, but that will be their goal," Archer said.
"In this type of negotiation you normally want to get something for what you give up," he continued. "And in most instances you want to be able to come out and say you got more than you gave up. The problem in this instance is, if you are a Republican and you give up anything on tax increases, you've really gone out on a very thin political limb. I'm not sure you would politically be forgiven."


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Friday Double Feature – Free Rides and WebCrypto
This article will cover not one, but two topics!
NFC For Free Rides and Rooms (on your phone)
First up is a quick review of the research Corey Benninger and Max Sobell presented in Amsterdam this week. Corey and Max have spent considerable time hacking on NFC related topics. This time, they discovered a flaw in the way many municipalities implement "disposable" fare cards. In many cases there is no central authentication or tracking and the tags are read, and can be written to, via NFC. This allows Max and Corey to overwrite the section of the card that tracks how many rides are left. This is accomplished via their UltraReset Android application. One misconception that should be cleared up is that this is an NFC problem. The Android application was just a convenient method of accessing the data on the fare cards via NFC.
You can see the app in action over at Vimeo. The relevant coverage can be found at the following places:
- Android NFC hack enables travelers to ride US subways for free, researchers say
- Shoddy NFC security could allow free metro rides; could lack of maturity fail NFC?
- Slashdot: Another EUSecWest NFC Trick: Ride the Subway For Free
WebCrypto first working draft released
The first working draft of the WebCrypto API has been released. Much has been written about cryptography, cryptography for pen testers, cryptography for developers, crypto for everone! Crypto, crypto, crypto. It is a fascinating topic and a required part of having a more safe digital world. Nothing gets a crypto geeks blood' pumping like a new spec that focuses on crypto. This week there has been quite a bit of discussion about WebCrypto and its API. It is pretty new and is going to need some very careful consideration, but it is my estimation that WebCrypto is not off to a great start. Many of our customers out there writing applications in HTML 5 are going to rely on this API and it does not solve many of the fundamental problems they will face in utilizing cryptography. The WebCrypto API is really only half of the story for most developers, and it really needs to be a complete picture.
My main complaint, aside from some broken and already known to be flawed algorithms and crypto primitives sneaking into the API, is that this API only provides primitives. If you sit a group of developers down and ask them to implement cryptography securely using a library with nothing but primitives such as "AES-128-CBC" and "ECDSA", chances are very good that you will end up with trivial and not so trivial flaws in the implementation the first go around. Just convincing everyone that authentication is as important as confidentiality can be a real challenge (Hello Padding Oracle!). As a long time software developer I look for APIs that expose just the "tip" of the iceberg in terms of functionality. A truly beautiful API only exposes as much as it needs to and hides the rest. Never is there a time where experienced designers should be hiding details than in a crypto library. For the vast majority of crypto code I have seen, if there was a much simpler API that abstracted out a lot of the common pitfalls and got rid of the insecure and flawed modes and algorithms, my crypto reviews would have been a lot less interesting. Developers need functions that are simple and safe, by default: encrypt(some_data), decrypt(some_data), verify(some_data), sign(some_data). It needs to be almost that simple!
Developers are not (typically) cryptography practitioners, and should not have to make algorithm and primitive choices. Instead when I look at the standard, I see a bunch of primitives! For some examples of APIs done right, check out Bernstein's NaCl or the Windows Data Protection API (DPAPI). Nate Lawson has also written on this topic, you could take his blog post and the same arguments apply.Even these APIs are too low level for my taste, but it is far better than thrusting a bunch of crypto primitives at developers. And my final problem is that many development teams *will* abstract WebCrypto, and they will do it using JavaScript, which puts us right back in the mess of having to deal with sensitive crypto code written in a language and runtime that is not trustworthy. So really, what are we accomplishing here? DRM for Netflix (via @tqbf)?
That said, this API is a nice set of primitives and it does include some practical things like PBKDF2 (Password Based Key Derivation Function 2), which will be really useful for the applications that need it. Explaining to everyone what PBKDF2 is, and why they should be using it to derive an encryption key is a task in and of itself. Enough of my soapbox. I will review this spec in more detail and give more constructive thoughts in the future. Thanks to @DarthNull and @tqbf for rousing me enough to write this post. WebCrypto has been on my mind, I know it will be creeping into our application work for years to come. Let this blog post serve as a point of reference for when we start seeing real apps using WebCrypto.
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Good to hear feedbacks on the webcrypto. As chair of Web Crypto WG, I will transmit your complains and compliment to the group
Virginie Galindo
Thanks for pointing out @tqbf's misinformational twitter comment on DRM. Luckily my responses (to that tweet) clear up the fact that DRM is not part of this spec, and Netflix's use is also not DRM. Why don't you read up a bit before pushing disinfo?
Was just a bit of hyperbole on my part. I know DRM isn't a part of the spec. Rants are no fun if they aren't at least a little provocative.
I will give some serious comments to the W3C group mailing list for WebCrypto to atone for this blog post, since it was less than constructive


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Ah thanks Arterra, looks sweet.Originally Posted by Arterra
Every so often, the boat in LA ID1 gets taken entirely over by mesmers. And what a stylish crew we make.
From Left to Right: Mog Ruith Of Armagh, Indigo Montari, Remy Guiraud and Pendaran Caradec.
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super work on the photo shoot!!!!
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WOW 4 MALE mesmers, indeed a unique happening!Originally Posted by jciardha
Tasteful suits as well, gentlemen ;)
Perhaphs you could go on adventure as the "Fabulous 4 Mesmer Boys"
My female mes was on the boat with them for just a few minutes. Delightful! I do so love the mesmer boys...very cute.
Dratted mesmers driving up the price of black dye. Just look at them... grrr.
mmm yummy... just look at them.
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My mesmer Enchanted Auress:
15K Kurzick mes armour is the whole reason I made a PvE mes! I play PvP mes, but I seriously just fell in love with this armour. Hehe :)
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and this is Brooke Burke:
It was quite a challenge to find images of either of them that were suitable for posting here, but in the interest of public service, I made the effort.
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Lucke Glanville argues in his recent Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect (2014) that this responsibility dates back from the 16th and 17th centuries. However, a good number of scholars believe that the first "humanitarian intervention" took place in Bulgaria in 1876, when Ottoman troops attacked villages killing thousands of civilians. Outraged, the British public demanded action, and indeed European Powers mobilised to require the Sultan to protect the Christians living in Eastern Europe. Former PM Gladstone famously campaigned for intervention echoing "the moral sense of mankind at large". Western Europe intervened. Eastern European Christians were to be protected.
Last Thursday, President Obama announced that he had authorised "limited air strikes" against the combatants of the self-named Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. It was the first American military action in the country since 2011. But this is not 2003, and President Obama did his best to "make this perfectly clear": It is a "humanitarian intervention"; it is "at the request of the Iraqi Government"; "we have a mandate to help"; "we cannot turn a blind eye"; "we must prevent the total destruction of innocent Iraqis, which would constitute a potential act of genocide". America intervenes. Iraqi Christians (and Kurdish Yazidis) are to be protected.
It can hardly come as a surprise that the US is leading this mission with no end date for the time being. So far, the UK Government has only pledged the delivery of humanitarian and medical support. Meanwhile, le Quai d'Orsay has been trying to push its European counterparts to agree on something on the matter. The EU Political and Security Committee recognised on Tuesday that individual members states are free to send weapons to the Kurdish militia, but did not reach an agreement on any EU-level intervention.
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Early sound features
Although the coming of sound had ended many careers, it was a challenge that Vidor quickly mastered. Hallelujah!, which was made into a talkie in postproduction, may have been the best picture of 1929, and it remains one of the seminal films of that transitional period. The drama was the first feature from a major studio to have an all-black cast, and Vidor had to invest his own salary in order to get the project approved. It starred Daniel L. Haynes as Zeke, a cotton picker who turns to religion after accidentally killing his brother; Nina Mae McKinney was especially memorable as a scheming dancer. The critics praised Vidor's blend of melodrama and music, and he earned another Oscar nomination for best director. American audiences, however, were not quite ready to embrace the ground-breaking film, and it was a box-office failure.
If Vidor was disappointed, he did not let it affect his next project. The popular Not So Dumb (1930), adapted from a George S. Kaufman–Marc Connelly Broadway play, was another effervescent comedy with Davies. However, Billy the Kid (1930), with Johnny Mack Brown as the famed outlaw and Wallace Beery as Pat Garrett, the sheriff who killed him, was a box-office disappointment. Much better was the inventively naturalistic Street Scene (1931), from Elmer Rice's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. The moving drama, which was set on a New York street, follows the lives of the various residents. The acting was especially notable, with Sylvia Sidney appearing in one of her best roles. Vidor's success continued with The Champ (1931), an unabashedly maudlin—but wildly popular—tale of father-son love. Beery starred as a washed-up boxer who looks to make a comeback in order to keep custody of his son (Jackie Cooper). The film received an Academy Award nomination for outstanding production, and Beery won the statuette for best actor (shared with Fredric March). In addition, Vidor earned another Oscar nod for best director.
In 1932 Vidor directed Cynara, a mediocre drama about a straying husband that starred Ronald Colman and Kay Francis, and Bird of Paradise, which cast Joel McCrea as an American who visits a South Seas island and falls in love with a woman (Dolores Del Rio) who is to be sacrificed to a volcano god. Next was The Stranger's Return (1933), which centres on an unhappily married woman who leaves New York City and moves in with her grandfather, who owns a farm in the Midwest; it is a little-remembered drama about the merits of returning to one's bucolic roots. That theme was explored with a different slant in what became Vidor's biggest artistic gamble, Our Daily Bread (1934), a Depression-era drama about a struggling couple who create a farm collective. An unapologetically didactic picture (heavily influenced by Sergey Eisenstein and other Soviet filmmakers) about the rewards of communal living, it was not popular with audiences, and Vidor—who had once again invested his own money to get the production off the ground—reaped a major financial loss.
The elaborate romance The Wedding Night (1935) was made for producer Samuel Goldwyn, who intended it to be a showcase for Anna Sten (in her third American movie), a Russian-born actress he unsuccessfully tried to turn into the next Greta Garbo. Despite the presence of Gary Cooper, the film was not a commercial success, though the reviews were largely positive. So Red the Rose (1935) was a passable Civil War romance starring Margaret Sullavan as a wealthy Southerner who struggles to keep her family's plantation and Randolph Scott as the pacifist turned Confederate officer she loves. In 1936 Vidor made The Texas Rangers (1936), an unpretentious well-paced western, with Fred MacMurray and Jack Oakie as ex-bandits who become Rangers and are tasked with finding a former partner-in-crime (Lloyd Nolan).