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Christopher's: The Big Cherry started in 1887 with Christopher's Candy, the oldest candy company in Southern California. Christopher?s have a big chocolate covered cherry in their repetoire the first ingredient on the label is not chocolate or cherries, but peanuts. Each individually-wrapped candy contains a real maraschino at the center mixed with bright pink goo and layered with chocolate and peanut hunks. Golf ball-sized, this is a three-biter.
"When I found the old popcorn maker stashed away in a back closet of our FOB (Forward Operating Base), I couldn't imagine it would ever work. After some parts and TLC, I got it running again. The next step was figuring out how to get the troops working for me some popcorn to eat! I called several companies, tried Amazon, etc. Nobody was able to ship a large bag of popcorn, salt, and oil to an APO address. Then I tried Nationwide Candy, and Jason was immediately able to put together my order and get it shipped out to me. Nationwide Candy and Jason have no idea how happy they have made my 200 troops to have a little taste of home out here in Afghanistan. It's the little things from back home that keep us going, and Nationwide Candy had a big part in that. THANK YOU!"by Mitchell H. on 10/16/2014
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Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 375°F.
Stir together cheese, bacon, onion, horseradish, salt, and pepper in a bowl with a rubber spatula until blended well.
Spread about 1 1/2 tablespoons mixture evenly to edges of each slice of bread with a small offset spatula or butter knife. Arrange slices in 1 layer on a large baking sheet and freeze, covered with wax paper, until firm, about 15 minutes.
Trim crusts off bread and reserve for another use (see cooks' note, below), then cut each slice into 4 squares. Bake toasts on baking sheet until beginning to brown on edges, about 20 minutes.
Cooks' notes: Reserved crusts (with some of topping still on them) can be baked at 375°F until lightly browned, about 10 minutes, then cooled. Break up crusts and sprinkle over salads. Toasts can be prepared and cut 2 weeks ahead and frozen, layered between sheets of wax paper in an airtight container. Thaw before baking.

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Back in December, we had to put our weekly streaming albums feature on hiatus due to the music industry's annual holiday fallow period. But three weeks into the new year, we're back in a big way. Perhaps our most anticipated album of 2012, Leonard Cohen's Old Ideas, is newly available for preview — and we're fairly awed by what we've heard so far. Your January 23rd roundup also features a pair of very different but equally wonderful debuts, from Porcelain Raft and Dodecahedron, as well as thoroughly enjoyable releases by Chairlift and Gonjasufi. Find something to love — be it brand-new black metal or iconic folk-rock — after the jump.
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This week's installment of our regular mixtape series brings brilliant tidings from established artists experimenting with new sounds (Cut Copy, M.I.A.) or returning with their signature masterwork (Ra Ra Riot, Jenny Lewis) and new bands we're falling deeply in love with (The Naked and Famous, Rai Knight). There's also a Drake cover. Right Click + Save As to find the one you love (or download the entire collection) after the jump.
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Earlier this year, Brooklyn synth-pop trio Chairlift told us about Killers frontman Brandon Flowers' secret obsessions and Prince-inspired dirtiness behind closed doors. When we heard they were headed to Lollapalooza 2009, we asked Aaron Pfenning, Caroline Polachek, and Patrick Wimberly to take some pictures for us. They kindly obliged. View the slideshow here, and find the dates for their upcoming fall tour with Phoenix after the jump.… Read More
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A very Happy Father's Day to all!
What's that old saying: "Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a Dad."
Colleen Mitchell and brother Kevin know all about special parents, the kind that make the world a better place, who brighten dark days, who listen, encourage and love you -- no matter what.
Each Father's day is special. Yet, Father's Day 2014 is gearing up to be so much better for Glenn Mitchell of Forks Township. You see, last year, he was struggling to survive with a heart that was nearly worn out. On a much needed transplant list, he was anxiously awaiting a perfect match.
There were two false alarms for a new heart. The first was turned down by the heart transplant team and second was turned down by Glenn for various medical reasons; and finally, a third and much awaited call. On October 29, 2013, Glenn underwent intensive surgery, receiving a priceless, beating gift.
Eight months later, a healthier Glenn has the following words of advice: "Don't give up hope" and "Keep your faith." Asked if God's strength upheld him throughout his tough ordeal, Glenn instantly answered "absolutely."
Once gravely ill, he's been given a new lease on life, one of independence, travel and trips to the gym. Having just returned from Florida, Glenn says air travel is limited to a couple of hours. But that doesn't mean he's given up hope of a return trip to Ireland sometime in the future. It'll have to wait at least a year out from the transplant date - doctor's orders.
Medications have dramatically dropped from 35 to 40 pills post-transplant to about 25 pills taken daily nowadays. And yes, diet and exercise are strict, with triple trips to the gym weekly and diet restricted in fat, sugar and salt intake. But he's not complaining. It's just so good to be alive, to spend time with family and friends.
His life's motto… "Make the most of each day. Have a list of things to do each day and try to accomplish them."
There's an important item on Glenn's bucket list that he'll definitely fulfill in the near future. "One year after transplant, we can write a letter (to the donor's family," he explained. That's when he'll pen the biggest "thank you" ever. There aren't enough words in the English language to describe the ultimate gift that he's been given.
Glenn and his entire family are strong supporters of organ donation.
"All of us, the whole family, are so proud of him," Colleen said.
To learn more about organ donation, please visit organdonor.gov.
Colleen Mitchell is enrolled in the management training program at Woodloch Pines Resort.
~Shared by J. Ranner
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."
Now that I think of it, I've learned more from Dr. Seuss than I did throughout four years of college. There's an awful lot of truth in his words. We live in a world with almost 7 billion other people, so at times it's somewhat easy to feel small and insignificant.
Even though there's nothing further from the truth.
Change has to start sometime, somewhere, with someone. So why not be the one to make it happen?
We're proud to announce that Woodloch's very own guest, staff member and friend is doing what she can to make some positive change in our world. Jocelyn Gebhardt of Fallston, Maryland, will be running in the Saint Luke's Half Marathon on April 28th, 2013. She is doing it all to raise awareness for melanoma.
Her motivation comes from the heart. She will be running in memory of her mother, Teri. Teri was not only a Woodloch guest but a very special Woodloch guest; she was the recipient of Woodloch's "Chuck Russell Award," which is handed out during the summer to people who demonstrate the true meaning of the Woodloch Games. Teri had a very welcoming disposition and knew how to make everyone smile. "She loved everyone," says Jocelyn. "No matter who you were or what you did, she just loved you, and she let you know that. I remember her as always trying to help someone." Woodloch provided the Gebhardt family with 15 years of "leaving reality" for a week. To Teri, Woodloch was a special place where she could just be herself and be "crazy" without anyone thinking it was odd!
Teri was diagnosed with stage three melanoma in 2004 when Jocelyn was just 16 years old. Though doctors gave her just 6 months to live, Teri, alongside her loving family, fought as valiantly as possible. "She didn't let the disease get the best of her," says Jocelyn. "She still came to my college lacrosse tournaments and went to our beach house on the weekends. I learned so much from her during that time about what it was to be strong."
Sadly, Teri lost a very tough battle with melanoma in 2007. Though she was deeply saddened by her loss, Jocelyn keeps her spirit alive with a great attitude and willingness to help others. "She was always so positive and upbeat, living everyday like it was her last. Today, I try to live my life just the way she did, never taking anything or anyone for granted."
She set out to find ways that she could help and make a difference against the disease. Jocelyn, a proud Woodloch competitor herself, found Miles for Melanoma, which raises funds for the Melanoma Research Foundation. This organization gives people the opportunity to run for sponsorships that will all go to fighting melanoma, so even if you aren't the next Steve Prefontaine, you can still help. All of the framework in place, she started her training routine.
For the past few months, she has been following a rigorous training routine that has her running three to five miles three days a week and seven to nine miles at least two days a week. This is certainly no easy task, but it will prepare her for the half marathon (13 miles) that she will be undertaking in a few short weeks. She trains most days at the Sports Complex at Woodloch Springs, and if she gets a nice break in the weather, she jogs around the famously serene Woodloch Nature Trail. An absolutely great way to stay fit, if you ask me!
Need a little ambition to go out there and make things happen? Heed Jocelyn's advice: "We are all put here to make a difference. Whether it is to impact something or someone, we are all here for a purpose. Make your purpose be known. Get out and do the things that you are passionate about, appreciate the little things, and love everything and everyone unconditionally. Live every day like it's your last because you never know when it will be. Appreciate the life you were given!"
On a personal note, I'm proud of my friend and wish her the best of luck. I love seeing positive change and am reminded of my favorite Latin phrase Sic Parvis Magna, meaning "greatness from small beginnings." Your journey of a thousand miles starts with just a single step; never underestimate your ability to inspire others!
Find your "marathon," and go run it.
Throughout the month January, the Woodloch Springs Sports Complex will host the Hope Floats Swim-a-thon to raise money for BK Hope Cures.
BK Hope Cures was established by Bob Kiesendahl (BK), a leukemia survivor and recent recipient of the Lance Armstrong Foundation LIVESTRONG Challenge Survivorship Award. The organization's mission is to raise awareness and funds in the fight against cancer. Over $9,000 was raised through last year's Swim-a-thon event.
The Swim-a-thon will be open to Sports Complex members as well as non-members from the local community. Swimmers will compete to swim the most laps in order to raise money for the charities. Non-members are eligible to partake in this effort by obtaining at least three sponsors at $0.10 per lap. This allows them free access to the pool facility for the entire month of January. Participants will also have the opportunity to earn money through a variety of 45-minute water aerobics classes. These are each worth 22 laps or one-half mile.
This year, a team competition is being added to the Swim-a-thon. Teams of four will compete, and the top three swimmer's laps weekly will count towards the total. Children ages 5-10 are also eligible to participate if they obtain one sponsor at $0.10 per lap. The width, rather than the length, of the pool will count as one lap for them.
Gift certificates to Woodloch Pines, Woodloch Springs, the Boathouse, and Woodloch Springs Sports Complex will also be awarded weekly to the most active participants.
Additionally, prizes will be given to those raising the most money each week. Current Sports Complex members who earn more than $350 for the cause will receive a $50 credit to Woodloch; non-members will receive a free one-month membership when they purchase a six-month or one-year Sports Complex membership.
The two individual grand prizes winners will each receive a bed and breakfast package for two at Woodloch Pines. The two team competition winners will each get to choose between a day package for four at Woodloch Pines or a spa day at The Lodge at Woodloch.
The Swim-a-thon promotes Woodloch's ongoing tradition of hospitality and togetherness by teaming people up to support an important cause. By allowing participants free pool access at the Sports Complex, individuals will also be working towards improving their overall health in a fun and encouraging environment.
We look forward to a very successful Swim-a-thon this year! For more information on participation or to donate to the cause, please visit: http://www.bkhopecures.com.
The Woodloch Springs Sports Complex Swim-a-thon raised over $9,000 to support cancer awareness and research.
Throughout the month of January, both members and non-members of the Woodloch Springs Sports Complex competed to swim the most laps to raise the most moeny. "This event was an opportunity for us as a team to raise money for the BK Hope Cures Fund, supporting cancer awareness and research" says Erica Collins, manager of the Sports Complex. Non-members earned eligibility by receiving 3 sponsors at $.10 a lap. Full access to the establishment was granted to each contributor, offering a variety of water aerobics and free range of the pool. Participants earned money for the distance swam throughout the month- for those non-swimmers each 45-minute water aerobic class attended was worth 22 laps or ½ mile.
Gift certificates to the Boathouse, Woodloch Springs, Woodloch Pines, and also the Sports Complex were handed out weekly to the most active participants. Prizes were not only awarded to the contestant with the most laps and/or joining in the most water aerobic classes weekly, but also to those raising the most money week to week.
Grand prize winners, Steven Lundgren who swam the most with 53 miles and Robin Ditman who raised over $1,900, both received a complimentary Bed & Breakfast Package for two at Woodloch Pines.
The rewarding event mirrored the Woodloch way of "togethering" by pulling people together as a team to do something great for others. While enjoying the Sports Complex at Woodloch Springs and additional pool amenities, contestants were able to increase overall health, and compete for wonderful prizes.
Shared by: Rory O'Fee, Woodloch Staff
So… I'm not really a spa guy. Well, at least, I wasn't. Then I threw my back out. Ugh, it was really frustrating, I could barely stand up, walking was a real challenge; I only felt as ease flat on my back staring at the ceiling. I found if someone rubbed my back it seemed to feel better – so it was suggested I "get to the lodge" because "it'll be great" and I will "feel like a million bucks" – or something like that. But I had never received a professional massage before, and I was nervous about it. "Alright… I'll do it", I found myself at The Lodge at Woodloch Sunday evening. I had frequented the Lodge many times before, as I would be working ~ a tour, a meeting, film crew, etc… ~ but never as a patron, it was about time. What I was most excited for were the spa facilities. I made it a point to try every option in the aqua garden. I spent 10 solid minutes in the eucalyptus hot tub (wow) and 5 minutes in the sauna and 5 minutes in the steam room (hotter than I expected…). Soothing music emanated from the ceilings and calmed my nerves, the smell of eucalyptus was inviting and calming. I really enjoyed having pitchers of ice water with optional lemon wedges waiting outside the saunas – unbelievably refreshing. The main pool was amazing, equipped with 2 hydro-massage waterfall hot tubs, I let the water vibrate the stress from my trapezius. I relaxed for about an hour and then it was time for what I feared most. Vernelle met me outside the men's retreat and led me downstairs – while I expressed my hesitation and fears. She laughed comfortably and assured me I had nothing to worry about. Well, before going to the Lodge, everyone told me "if it hurts, you can stop the treatment" and "they shouldn't hurt you, this is relaxing" – ok, great, so it's not going to hurt… As we got situated in the treatment room (which was pleasantly warm and calm) Vernelle explained to me that she specializes in sports massage and injury massage therapy – ok, great, so it's not going to hurt… "Now I have to tell you Rory, for this to work, I'm going to have to hurt you" **WHAT?** "trust me". Against every fiber in my body, I gave in and trusted her – and she did hurt me… But in the end the pain went away and I felt so much better.
As she pressed hard on tight focal points in my back muscles she explained to me every step she was taking. She taught me about the different muscles in my back and how they worked; she released the tension and warmed the tissue, then cooled the trouble spots with ice to circulate the blood. After a about an hour our time was through, I stood up from the table and felt instantly improved (not 100% yet, but that was to be expected). What an experience, therapeutic, relaxing, fun and even educational! I showered then made my way home after that, soon to enjoy a long, relaxing and comfortable night sleep.
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Attention GameSpotters, recently GameSpot has started turning more of it's attention to focusing on user contributions, and to continue with that we are rebooting the Top 100 and Top 500 Game Reviewers for GameSpot! With that said, we want to hear who you think deserves to become a holder of a Top 500 or even a Top 100 reviewer emblem!
How to make a recommendation!
The player review emblems are hand picked by the Community Team to avoid any emblem exploits such as disruptive posting and to highlight the best writers in the community. The users who are selected are often featured in the Weekly Community News Report too.
If you have a recommendation on an excellent review writer or video reviews uploader please use this thread to alert us.
1) Please be very clear about who you are recommending and if it is a VIDEO or WRITTEN game review emblem. Now that we have a video reviewer emblem on the way, it is best to mention that you want us to check their user videos and not their user reviews.
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3) If you plan to recommend yourself recommend someone else with your resubmission. Otherwise, this becomes a self-centered thread, which is not the purpose of bringing awareness to good writers.
4) Make sure the user has updated a review in the past 6 months. Some recommendations in the last batch had users who have not posted a review in 6+ months. We often remove the Top 100 or Top 500 emblems from users who have not updated their reviews in a year, and these users are granted the Grandfather emblem category (top 1000 review) for not being active. We use the Top 100 or Top 500 status in community news updates. Therefore, it is best to recommend people who post a review at least once every few weeks.
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First -- yeah, I've been surprised when I shoved it in km/h. It's further off than that, and in mph still. I wish I was that dumb. :)
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This problem has been reported on the WR site (I saw your post). It appears that the problem occurs when the battery is drained while the key is on. If you pull up, turn the bike off with the kill switch, forget to turn the key off, and run the battery down while the key is on it FUBARS the head unit. I have seen a couple for sale on ebay, but I don't think there is any way to repair one once it screws up.
Didn't /think/ I left the key on; it wasn't on when I loaded the thing to take it down to Arroyo Seco.
Still -- definitely got the unit FUBAR, showing all the symptoms of the buggered head unit from the WR forum. I just haven't seen it reported anywhere else but there, and it's a pretty serious issue.
I don't know what the adjustment ranges is on one of these, but maybe????......................................... .............
I have one; I don't think it's do /that/ much of an adjustment. It is at least 3x off, and possibly more than that. Quite exciting, really.
The new head unit is less than I feared, more than I hoped. I'll probably just stalk eBay for a bit and if that fails, get a new one. Boo.
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The Matrisome Project
The Matrisome Project is a collaborative effort between scientists from the Hynes Lab at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, aimed at defining bioinformatically and experimentally the ensemble of genes encoding the "matrisome", i.e. the ensemble of extracellular matrix and ECM-associated proteins (Naba et al, 2012).
The purpose of the Matrisome Project web page is to provide information and resources relevant to research on ECM proteins and to be a platform for deploying data collections, methods, and protocols. Our aim is to facilitate the use of our protocols by other scientists and to allow their widespread use in future studies.
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The matrisome: in silico definition and in vivo characterization by proteomics of normal and tumor extracellular matrices. Alexandra Naba, Karl R. Clauser, Sebastian Hoersch, Hui Liu, Steven A. Carr and Richard O. Hynes. Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, 2012 (doi: 10.1074/mcp.M111.014647). PMID:22159717
Overview of the Matrisome - An Inventory of Extracellular Matrix Constituents and Functions. Richard O. Hynes and Alexandra Naba In: Extracellular Matrix Biology. Hynes RO, Yamada KM (Editors). Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 2012. PMID:21937732.
Towards Definition of an ECM Parts List: an Advance on GO Categories. Alexandra Naba, Sebastian Hoersch and Richard O. Hynes. Matrix Biology, 2012, 31(7/8):371-372. PMID: 23199376
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Extracellular matrix signatures of human mammary carcinoma identify novel metastasis promoters. Alexandra Naba, Karl R. Clauser, John M. Lamar, Steven A. Carr, Richard O. Hynes. eLife, 2014, 3:e01308. PMID: 24618895
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Extracellular matrix signatures of primary human colon cancer and their metastases to liver. Alexandra Naba, Karl R. Clauser, Charles A. Whittaker, Steven A. Carr, Kenneth K. Tanabe, Richard O. Hynes. BMC Cancer, 2014, 14(1):518. PMID: 25037231


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Planet of the Apes Has Arrived, and It Is Spain
An editorial
Nikolas Kozloff, special to mongabay.com
July 3, 2008
Snowflake (known as Copito de Nieve in Spanish) had a small outside enclosure where he could romp and play with several female apes as well as his offspring which, unlike him, were non-albino. At least the apes had a place to stretch their legs outside, though unfortunately the enclosure was surrounded by concrete walls. There were no trees, just a couple of structures with metal bars from which Snowflake and his new family could hang from.
Though Snowflake was a source of endless fascination for thousands of Spanish children, few paused to consider the ape's tragic story and the deplorable circumstances surrounding his capture. In 1966, a local farmer in Equatorial Guinea (at the time a Spanish colony) saw Snowflake outside his village and killed all the rest of the poor ape's family, who were charcoal in color. Terrorized, Snowflake clung to his mother's neck and buried his head in her fur. Copito, the only albino gorilla known to man, was later purchased by a Catalan primatologist, Jordi Sabater.
Snowflake as a juvenile. Courtesy of The Barcelona Zoo
A Legal Breakthrough
Fortunately, Spain is now seeking to make amends for its historic lack of regard toward primates. Last week, the country's parliament voiced its support for the rights of great apes (which include gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans) to life and freedom. It's the first time any national legislature has called for such rights for non-humans and represents a great breakthrough. "This is a historic day in the struggle for animal rights and in defense of our evolutionary comrades, which will doubtless go down in the history of humanity," said Pedro Pozas, an animal rights advocate.
Pozas is the Spanish director of the Great Apes Project, a Seattle-based organization which started up in 1993. The group was founded by philosophers Peter Singer and Paola Cavalieri, who argued that that "non-human hominids" like chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and bonobos should enjoy the right to life, freedom and not to be tortured. Pozas and his colleagues have long argued that great apes share more than genetically similar DNA with their human counterparts. According to the organization's own Web site, "They [apes] enjoy a rich emotional and cultural existence in which they experience emotions such as fear, anxiety and happiness. They share the intellectual capacity to create and use tools, learn and teach other languages. They remember their past and plan for their future." Such claims have been bolstered by an enormous amount of data collected by scientists such as Jane Goodall, Diane Fossey and Birute Galdikas.
Wild silverback gorilla in Gabon.
The political momentum for ape legislation has been building for some time. In 2007 the Spanish Balearic Islands, a popular tourist destination located in the western Mediterranean, approved a similar resolution to grant legal rights to great apes. The Balearic legislation did not provide "human rights" to apes, though it did recognize basic legal protections supported by biological and scientific evidence that great apes, like human children, experience an emotional and intellectual conscience similar to that of human children. By declaring its support for fundamental rights for great apes, the Balearic Parliament established an important legal precedent that primates were conscious, self-aware beings that should not be tortured, abused and neglected.
Both legislative efforts are significant in that they represent an important step toward future governmental support for great apes worldwide. Under most government structures, legal rights are the only way to insure that non-human great apes are free from torture, unnecessary death and capture; simple "animal protection" laws are not enough.
Why Spain?
On the face of it, Spain is hardly the first place in the world that one would expect to take up breakthrough animal rights legislation. In the eighteenth century the Enlightenment didn't have much of an ideological impact upon Spain. In the early nineteenth century, when Napoleon invaded the Iberian nation, French forces were not greeted as liberators but as oppressors. In the twentieth century Spain saw the emergence of a strong left political movement but it was quickly liquidated by the fascist general Francisco Franco. For forty years, Spaniards lived under military dictatorship and the stultifying and backward influence of the Catholic Church. Conservative rule continued even after the country returned to democracy: until recently, Spain was governed by José María Aznar who had reorganized Spanish conservatives into the People's Party (Partido Popular or PP). Aznar's grandfather served as Franco's ambassador to Morocco and the United Nations and his father was a pro-Franco journalist. Despite robust public opposition to the war in Iraq, Aznar supported Bush's 2003 invasion by contributing 1,300 Spanish peacekeeping troops. In part the PP owed its popularity due to its tough stand on terrorism and the Basque separatist group ETA.
Then, three days prior to the March, 2004 presidential election bombings of Madrid commuter trains killed 201 people and injured 1,500. The PP hastily blamed ETA for the bombings but as suspicions grew of al Qaeda involvement Aznar's party suffered. Some analysts argued that the PP held some responsibility for the Madrid bombings because it sent troops to Iraq and acquiesced in U.S. foreign policy. Thousands poured out on to the streets to protest the PP. Jorge Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (the leader of the Partido Socialista Obrero Español, PSOE or Spanish Socialists' Workers Party) pulled off an incredible upset electoral victory.
The socialists quickly shifted away from the strongly pro-U.S. focus of the PP. Zapatero described Spain's participation in the Iraq war as "a total error." In May, two months after his electoral victory, Zapatero withdrew Spanish troops. In opposing the Bush White House, Zapatero shared some ideological affinity with Hugo Chávez of Venezuela (for more on these questions see my recent book Revolution! South America and the Rise of the New Left).
You can't really understand the rise of Zapatero however in purely political terms. Today, Spain is in the midst of tremendous cultural ferment and the socialists are taking on once sacrosanct institutions like the Catholic Church with a vengeance. Indeed, it might be said that Spain is presently one of the most socially dynamic and politically progressive countries in Europe. In short order, Zapatero has legalized gay marriage, reduced the influence of the Catholic Church in education and set up an Equality Ministry. That's saying a lot, in light of the fact that Spain only legalized divorce in the 1980s.
Catholics and Socialists Spar over Bullfighting
Even before parliament voted over the ape question, another controversy of sorts had erupted over bullfighting. Public appetite for this cruel blood sport has long been on the decline, but that hasn't stopped the Spanish government from heavily subsidizing the industry. Over 550 million Euros of Spanish taxpayer money is provided to the bullfighting industry per year, even though Spanish state broadcaster RTVE stopped live coverage of bullfights in August 2007 because the blood sport was judged too violent for children.
Recent Gallup polls indicate that 72 per cent of Spaniards lack interest in bullfighting and just 7 per cent say they are very interested. In Catalonia more than 80 per cent of the population shares no interest at all. In 2007, anti-bullfighting campaigners rejoiced when RTVE stopped live coverage of this barbaric "sport." Theo Oberhuber, a coordinator of Ecologists in Action, which had been campaigning for a total ban, said: "This is not a total victory but it opens the door to the beginning of the end. We are very pleased."
Though the Spanish public wants to turn the page on its brutal and backward past, the forces of reaction have lined up against the animal rights lobby. Predictably, it has been the PP which has taken up the gauntlet. The conservative party of Aznar has attacked RTVE's new programming policy, while Zapatero is thought to disapprove of bullfighting. The Spanish Prime Minister has never made his views publicly known but his Environment Minister Cristina Narbona has said that Spain should stage bullfights without killing the animals.
Debating Apes' Rights
With the public mood increasingly turning hostile against blood sport, animal rights activists grew more optimistic about their future prospects. Campaigners may have benefited from some curious political timing: some philosophers believed that the deadly Madrid bombings in March, 2004 forced a radical rethink within society. "The Madrid bombing made many people think about the consequences of selfishly letting one's compatriots act wrongly," remarked philosopher Paula Casal, Executive Director of the Great Ape Project. "(Spain's) new president, (José Luis Rodríguez) Zapatero, counts on passionate support for all his radical political changes, and determination to tackle even our oldest vices," she added.
Once again it was members of the PP, now backed by the Catholic Church, which came out most vociferously against the idea of extending legal protections to apes. The archbishop of Pamplona and Tudela, Fernando Sebastián, said that only a "ridiculous or distorted society" could propose such legislation. "We don't give rights to some people -- such as unborn children,
human embryos, and we are going to give them to apes," the archbishop remarked. The Church was reportedly concerned about the new law because the measure would undermine an anthropocentric world view and thereby call into question the special status of human beings. Meanwhile the PP complained that the resolution sought to give animals the same rights as humans — something that the Socialist Government has denied. A senior PP member, Arturo Esteban, called the proposal an "act of moral poverty."
Reactions to the parliamentary vote have been mixed. Many Spaniards were perplexed that the country should consider apes a priority when the economy is slowing sharply and Spain has been rocked by violent fuel protests. Others thought it was a strange decision, given that Spain has no wild apes of its own. Some critics have justifiably questioned why Spain has provided legal protection from death or torture to great apes but not to bulls.
A Philosophical Milestone
While Pozas hasn't denied these fundamental contradictions, he believes that the vote will nevertheless set an important precedent by establishing legal rights for other animals. "We are seeking to break the species barrier — we are just the point of the spear," he said.
Having been successful in Spain, animal rights advocates will now be encouraged to press for similar measures in other European countries. Indeed, such efforts have been picking up steam for the last fifteen years. In 1992, Switzerland amended its constitution to allow animals to be considered "beings" and not things. A decade later, German legislators voted to add the words "and animals" to a constitutional clause obliging the state to respect and protect the dignity of human beings.
Writing in the normally right wing National Review, political scientist Richard Stevens praised the audacity of the Spanish legislation. "After a quiescence lasting half a millennium, Spain has distinguished itself by a return to the legal genius demonstrated by Francisco de Vitoria [a Spanish theologian best remembered for his defense of the rights of the Indians of the New World against Spanish colonists and for his ideas of the limitations of justifiable warfare] and Francisco Suarez in the 16th century [a Spanish theologian and philosopher, a founder of international law, often considered the most prominent Scholastic philosopher after St. Thomas Aquinas, and the major theologian of the Roman Catholic order known as the Society of Jesus or Jesuits].
"The genius of the Spaniards," Stevens added, "is evidenced by their abandonment of the Aristotelian claptrap holding that what distinguishes man from the brutes is that man is endowed with logos, that is, reasoned speech that enables him to question the good and the bad, the just and the unjust, and the noble and the base. What Aristotle in his ignorance misses has been shown by modern science, namely, that the great apes and men have nearly identical DNA."
Another legal expert, Thomas Rose of the University of Western Ontario, has also addressed the ethical dimensions of the Spanish decision. Writing for the online edition of the Canadian Broadcast Corporation he wrote "Apes are even capable of learning to communicate in another language and teach it to their offspring. In other words, apes are conscious, self-aware beings, just like humans. But does that mean they deserve to be granted personhood? Well, why not? Consider that under most international law corporations are recognized as legal persons and are granted many of the same rights humans enjoy, the right to sue, to vote and to freedom of speech. What enables an inanimate object like a corporation to enjoy personhood is a nicety called a legal fiction. A legal fiction is something assumed in law to be fact, irrespective of the truth or accuracy of that assumption. Corporate personhood is recognized the world over, so why not ape personhood? More than 2,000 years after Aristotle declared that Mother Nature had made all animals for the sake of humankind, that assumption might soon be stood on its head."
Nikolas Kozloff is the author of Revolution! South America and The Rise of The New Left (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008)


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okay so as you all know i am a proud Persian-American and i take great pride in my culture and since i will be having many references to my culture and heritage in my fanfiction i will have interactive stories so here is a picture of a lovely Persian Rose which only grows in one Small town of Kashan, Iran and they are said to grow only there because the golden tears of the great and mighty Lion in which represents in iran on our flag spilt in the town of Kashan and that is where the Persian rose originated it is also the rose they use to make the fragrant Rose Water used in gourmet cuisine all over the world
This is the beautiful Persian Flag which waved proudly over our country before the dictators took over
This is the necklace depicting Faravahar the former prophet of the iranian culture he was the Prophet of the Zoroastrian faith of which i personally am and i have a necklace just like this one that i wear 24/7 like even in the shower since i have never taken it off and i dont plan on doing so any time soon
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Professor Philip John Rawlings, LLB (Hull), PhD (Hull) ACIB (Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers)
The Roy Goode Professor of Commercial Law
email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Philip Rawlings is the inaugural Roy Goode Professor of Commercial Law and Director of the Insurance Law Institute at CCLS. He is a member of the committee of the British Insurance Law Association, of the editorial boards for the journals 'International Corporate Rescue' and 'Journal of Financial Perspectives', and of the advisory board for Palgrave Macmillan's Corporate and Finance Law series of books. He is also a member of the Institute of International Financial Law at CCLS.
Before joining CCLS in 2011 he was Professor of the Law of Finance at University College London. Previously, he held posts at the University of Warwick, Brunel University and Aberystwyth University. He has been Visiting Professor at Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), and is an associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (now the ifs).
He is the author/co-author of more than ten books and fifty papers on, among other things, the law of insurance, banking and sales, as well as on legal history and criminal justice. Among his books are: Insurance Law: Doctrines and Principles (3rd edition, Hart, 2011, with Lowry and Merkin); Insurance Law: Cases and Materials (Hart, 2004, with Lowry); Policing: A Short History (Willan, 2002); Crime and Power (Longman, 1999); Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices: Criminal Biographies of the Eighteenth Century (Routledge, 1992). He is a contributing editor to Benjamin's Sale of Goods (8th edition, Sweet & Maxwell, 2011) and wrote six biographies for The New Dictionary of National Biography (OUP, 2004).
A copy of Philip Rawlings' book, Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices, which was annotated by Peter Carey during his research for his Booker prize novel, The True History of the Kelly Gang, has been included in the papers he donated to the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, and appeared in an exhibition of some of those papers held at the library in 2013.
Among current research projects are papers on the history of insurance regulation in the UK, on cyber insurance and on fraudulent insurance claims, along with continuing responsibility for the first three chapters of Benjamin's Sale of Goods.
Postgraduate teaching:
In 2012-13, as part of the launch of the new Institute for Insurance Law, Professor Rawlings will be leading teaching in a number of areas of Insurance Law.
Research interests:
Banking Law and international finance law, in particular syndicated lending, bonds and bond trustees, securitisation and regulation. Aside from various papers in these areas, currently working on Law and Practice of International Finance (with Graham Penn) (Sweet & Maxwell).
Insurance Law, author of papers and (with John Lowry and Rob Merkin) of Insurance Law: Doctrines and Principles (3rd edn, 2011). Currently writing a paper (with Joanna Rudd of University College London) on the intricacies of the calculation of awards of damages following car accidents, which focuses, in particular, on issues relating to the credit car hire industry.
Sale of goods: one of the authors of Benjamin's Sale of Goods (8th edn, 2010), which is the leading text in the field and has been cited more than 25 times in the senior courts of England and Wales over the last two years. This work is updated annually through the issue of a supplement.
History: author of various books and articles on the history of crime, crime literature and criminal justice, and contributor to Handbook of Policing (2nd edn, 2008). Also author of a long paper on the early history of financial regulation ("A compleat system of knavery" (2008)) and seven biographies for The Dictionary of National Biography (2004). Currently, working on a paper on the rise, fall and rise of the Bank of England as supervisor of the banking system.
Authored Books
- Benjamin's Sale of Goods, 8th edn. (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2010), (co-author). First supplement (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2012); second supplement (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2013); 9th edn (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2014).
- Insurance Law: Cases and Materials (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2004), xiii + 675 (co-author Professor John Lowry, UCL).
- Policing: A Short History (Cullompton: Willan Publishing, 2002), vi + 274
- Insurance Law: Doctrines and Principles (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 1999), lxiv + 454 (co-author Professor John Lowry).
2nd edn (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2005), lxxx + 447 (contribution by Professor Rob Merkin, Southampton).
3rd edn (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2011) (co-authors Professor John Lowry and Professor Rob Merkin).
- Crime and Power: A History of Criminal Justice 1688-1998 (London: Longman, 1999), ix + 212.
- Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices: Criminal Biographies of the Eighteenth Century (London: Routledge, 1992), xi + 224.
Review (1993) 18 Social History 396-9 (Robert Shoesmith, Sheffield).
- English Legal History (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1990), ix + 205. Co-authors W. Hines (chief editor), R.W. Ireland, C.P. Rodgers.
- Imprisonment in England and Wales: A Concise History (London: Croom Helm, 1985), xiii + 308. Co-authors R.W. Hines, R.W. Ireland, C. Harding.
Edited Books
- Kluwer's Handbook of Insurance Law (London: Croner CCH, 2002). Contributing editor.
- Financial Services in the United Kingdom (Bremen: Zentrum fur Europaische Rechtspolitik, 1994). General editor. (UK report for a four-nation study led by ZERP on financial services funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.)
Chapters in Books
- "Policing Before the Police" in T. Newburn, ed., Handbook of Policing (Cullompton: Willan Publishing, 2008), pp 47-71 (extensively rewritten from first edition, published 2003, pp 41-65).
- The New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Biographies of James Dalton, Mary Young, John Poulter, Charles Speckman, Sir John Fielding and the Rev. James Hackman (1000 words), and Dr William Dodd (2000 words).
- "Rethinking Insurable Interests" in S. Worthington, ed., Commercial Law and Commercial Practice (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2003), pp 335-64. Co-author John Lowry.
- "General Principles of Insurance Law" in Kluwer's Handbook of Insurance Law (London, Croner CCH, 2002), unpaginated.
- "True Crime" in J. Vagg and T. Newburn, eds, British Criminology Conference: Selected Proceedings. Volume 1: Emerging Themes in Criminology (Loughborough: British Society of Criminology, 1998), unpaginated, 13,000 words.
- "Consumer Empowerment and the Citizen's Charter" in C. Willett, ed., Public Sector Reform and the Citizen's Charter (London: Blackstone Press, 1996), pp 25-42. Co-author C. Willett.
- "The Citizen's Charter and the Police" in C. Willett, ed., Public Sector Reform and the Citizen's Charter (London: Blackstone Press, 1996), pp 81-105. Co-author S. Easton.
- "Social change, Police and Protection" in L. Shelley and J. Vigh, eds., Social Changes, Crime and Police (Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1995), pp 225-28. Co-author E.A. Stanko.
- "The Ordinary of Newgate's Account: Mary Young", in D. Hobbs, ed., Professional Criminals (Aldershot: Dartmouth Publishing, 1995), pp 269-84.
- "The Regulation of Financial Services in the United Kingdom", in P. Rawlings, ed., Financial Services in the United Kingdom (Bremen: Zentrum fur Europaische Rechtspolitik, 1994).
- "Creeping Privatisation? The Police, Policing and the Conservative Government in the Late 1980s" in R. Reiner and M. Cross, eds., Beyond Law and Order; Criminal Justice Policy and Politics into the 1990s (London: Macmillan, 1991), pp 41-58.
- "Bobbies, Aliens and Subversives: The Relationship between Community Policing and Coercive Policing" in J.D. Baxter and L. Koffman, eds, Police: The Constitution and the Community (London: Professional Books, 1985), pp 72-90.
- Regulation of Financial Services: Aims and Methods (April 2014) (with Andromachi Georgosouli and Costanza Russo). Report commissioned by Deloitte to initiate the joint Deloitte-CCLS roundtable on regulation (held October 2014).
- "Cyber risk: insurance for the digital age" (2015) 128 British Insurance Law Association Journal.
- "Restrictions on the Transfer of Rights in Loan Contracts" (2013) Journal of International Banking and Finance Law 543
- "Without Feeling and Without Remorse?" Making Sense of Employers' Liability and Insurance in the Nineteenth Century" (2013) 126 BILA Journal.
- "'That Wicked, that Evil Doctrine…': Reforming the Law on Disclosure in Insurance Contracts" (2012) 75(6) MLR 1100 (with Prof J Lowry).
- "Car Accidents and Credit Hire Agreements" (2012) LMCLQ 426 (with J Rudd).
- 'When Interest Rates Do Not Match Funding Costs' (2012) JIBFL 216.
- 'Avoiding the Obligation to Lend' [2012] Journal of Business Law 89-110.
- "All Change: The Fall of the FSA and the Further Rise of the Bank of England" (2011) 30 (4) U.S. Banking & Financial Services Policy Report 16.
- "Bank Reform in the UK: Part II – Return to the Dark Ages?" [2010] International Corporate Rescue. (Parts I and II reprinted as special issue, 2011.)
- "Bank Reform in the UK: Part I – Future of Banking Commission" [2010] International Corporate Rescue 410.
- "Reform of Bank Regulation in the UK: The Opening Salvo" (2010) 25(10) Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation 522.
- "Market Disruption Clauses in Syndicated Loans" [2009] Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 446.
- "Reinforcing Collectivity: The Liability of Trustees and the Power of Investors in Finance Transactions" (2009) 23(1) Trust Law International 14.
- "The Management of Loan Syndicates and the Rights of Individual Lenders' [2009] Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation 179.
- "(Re)calibrating the Scope of Notification Clauses in Insurance Contracts' (with Professor John Lowry) (2009) 27(3) Canadian Journal of Insurance Law 43.
- "Conditions Precedent in Insurance Contracts" (with Professor John Lowry) [2009] Journal of Business Law 275.
- "'A Compleat System of Knavery: Folk Devils, Moral Panics and the Origins of Financial Regulation" [2008] Current Legal Problems 325.
- "Blame in a Cold Climate: Bank Liability for Investment Advice" [2008] Journal of International Banking Law 581.
- "Claims: Conditions Precedent to Liability and Waiver" (with Professor John Lowry) [2007] Journal of Business Law 179.
- "The Changing Role of the Trustee in International Bond Issues" [2007] Journal of Business Law 43.
- "Innominate Terms in Insurance Contracts" (with John Lowry) [2006] Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 135.
- "International Bonds and Trustees" [2006] Trust Law International 205.
- "Third Party Rights in Contract" [2006] Lloyd's Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly 7.
- "Fraudulent Claims: Framing the Appropriate Remedy" (with John Lowry) [2006] Journal of Business Law 338.
- "A Force Divided" [2006] 65 Criminal Justice Matters 22.
- "Insurers, Claims and the Boundaries of Good Faith" (with John Lowry) [2005] Modern Law Review 82.
- "Proximate Causation in Insurance Law" (with John Lowry) [2005] Modern Law Review 309.
- "Yuppies, Drugs and Tesco: Should the Bank of England Blame Itself for Bank Failures?" (with M. D'Ingeo, Securities and Investment Board) [1998] Journal of Money Laundering Control 39.
- "The Idea of Policing: A History" [1995] Policing and Society 129.
- "Ombudsman Schemes in the United Kingdom's Financial Sector: The Insurance Ombudsman, the Banking Ombudsman, and the Building Societies Ombudsman", (with C. Willett) [1994] Journal of Consumer Policy 307.
- "Consumerism and the Citizen's Charter" (with C. Willett) (1994) 2 Consumer Law Journal 3.
- "Who Needs a Royal Commission?" (1992) 8 Policing 15.
- "The Citizen's Charter" (with G. Morris and C. Willett) [1992] Journal of Business Law 88.
- "Police Complaints under PACE" (with J. Williams and J.D. Baxter) [1986] Journal of Criminal Law 178.
- "PACE: Protecting the Suspect" (with J. Williams and J.D. Baxter) [1986] Journal of Criminal Law 68.
- "Arrest - A New Balance?" (with J. Williams and J.D. Baxter) [1985] Journal of Criminal Law 358.
- "PACE: Entry, Search and Seizure" (with J. Williams and J.D. Baxter) [1985] Journal of Criminal Law 274.
- "PACE: Safeguards - Real or Imagined?" (with J. Williams and J.D. Baxter) [1985] Journal of Criminal Law 164.
- "Judges, Politics and Property: The Interpretation of Race Relations and Immigration Legislation" [1985] Cambrian Law Review 98.
Study guides: External degrees of University of London
- Law of International Finance: Syndicated Loans LLM (2013).
- International and Comparative Bank Regulation LLM (2010).
- Banking Law: Bank-Customer Relationship LLM (2010).
- Insurance Law LLM (2006).
- Commercial Law LLB (2007; 2nd edn, 2011).
Shorter Articles and Commentaries
- Review article on David Smith's "The Sleep of Reason: The James Bulger Case" [1995] Journal of Forensic Psychiatry 632.
- Eleven articles on the Police and Criminal Evidence Bill (with J. Williams and J.D. Baxter) published in Justice of the Peace, 1984-1985.
- "Defoe and Street Robberies" [1983] Notes and Queries 23.
- "The Crisis in the Modern Prison: Historical Perspective" (1982) 87(9) Ethical Record 11.
PhD Supervision
Public engagement
From 2015
- 3 June 2015, Professor Rawlings invited by the Prudental Regulation Authority (at the Bank of England) to give a talk at its Moorgate office on the history of insurance regulation, 'What can history tells us about insurance regulation?' This is the first of a projected series of collaborations between the PRA and the Insurance Law Institute at CCLS.
- 22 April 2015, Professor Rawlings invited to a meeting called by the Insurance Fraud Taskforce, which has been established by government and is headed by David Hertzell (formerly at the Law Commission and visiting professor at CCLS).
- 28 October 2014, Professor Rawlings, Dr Andromachi Georgosouli and Dr Costanza Russo led a roundtable discussion, Regulation in Financial Services: Prevention, Prescription and Punishment, hosted by the EMEA Centre for Regulatory Strategy and CCLS at Deloitte, Hill House, London. Other contributors were Professor Julia Black (LSE) and Clifford Smout (Deloitte). Participants included colleagues from CCLS, Cass Business School, King's College London and University College London, senior compliance executives and general counsels from major banks, regulators from the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority and senior solicitors.
- Professor Rawlings, Dr Andromachi Georgosouli and Dr Costanza Russo published, Regulation of Financial Services: Aims and Methods (April 2014), which had been commissioned by Deloitte.
- Along with Dr Andromachi Georgosouli and Dr Costanza Russo, Professor Rawlings is working on a report for Deloitte on credible deterrence and financial regulation (£20,000).
- Professor Rawlings has been a committee member of the British Insurance Law Association since 2011, and also a member of the Association's sub-committee on law reform. In June 2014, at the invitation of the Law Commission, the sub-committee commented on a draft of the Insurance Contracts Bill.
- Professor Rawlings' work (sole and joint authorship) has been cited in the senior English courts, most recently in
- VFS Financial Services Ltd v JF Plant Tyres Ltd [2013] EWHC 346 (QB) (citing Benjamin's Sale of Goods)
- Grupo Hotelero Urvasco SA v Carey Value Added SL [2013] EWHC 1039 (Comm) (citing article, "Avoiding the Obligation to Lend")
- FG Wilson (Engineering) Ltd v John Holt & Co (Liverpool) Ltd [2012] EWHC 2477 (Comm) (citing Benjamin's Sale of Goods)
- It has also been cited in senior courts elsewhere in the world:
- Origin Energy Electricity Ltd v Queensland Competition Authority [2012] QSC 414 (Australia) (citing Benjamin's Sale of Goods)
- Hearns v Rizzolo, 2012 NSSC 256 (Canada) (citing Benjamin's Sale of Goods)
- CGU Workers Compensation NSW Ltd v Garcia [2007] NSWCA 193 (Australia) (citing Insurance Law: Doctrines and Principles)
- Oldfield v Transamerica Life Insurance of Canada (2002) 5 LRC 477 (Canadian Supreme Court) (citing Insurance Law: Doctrines and Principles)
- His work (joint authorship) has also been cited by law reform bodies:
- Law Commission and Scottish Law Commission, Insurance Contract Law: Analysis of Responses and Decisions on Scope (2006); Insurance Contract: A Joint Scoping Paper (2005), which refers the discussion of the law on late claims payment (p.20) and Insurance Contract Law: Issues Paper 6 - Damages for Late Payment and the Insurer's Duty of Good Faith (2010) (citing article "Insurers, Claims and the Boundaries of Good Faith").
- Law Reform Commission (Ireland), Insurance Contracts (2011) LRC CP 65-2011 (Insurance Law: Doctrines and Principles, and "Insurers, Claims and the Boundaries of Good Faith")
- A copy of Philip Rawlings' book, Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices, which was annotated by Peter Carey during his research for his Booker prize novel, The True History of the Kelly Gang, has been included in the papers he donated to the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, and appeared in an exhibition of some of those papers held at the library in 2013. The book is held in MS13420, Series 1, Box 7.0.
- Professor Rawlings is the Director of the Insurance Law Institute
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My Oscar Nominations Wish-List
When the Oscar nominations are announced on Tuesday (Jan 23) morning, none of these will make the cut. They should, darnit.
Rian Johnson, best original screenplay for "Brick" -- It's shouldn't work. High school students talking like rejects from a Raymond Chandler novel, trying to solve a mystery that I don't understand despite seeing the movie multiple times in the theater. But the dialogue, complete with created slang and near-Mamet rhythms, often seems to sing, making actors like Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lukas Haas seem plausibly tough and hard-boiled.
"The Aura" for foreign language film -- Did anybody see Fabian Bielinsky's bizarre thriller about a narcoleptic taxidermist forced to mastermind the perfect crime? It's a pity. The late director of "Nine Queens" turned in the kind of intellectual puzzle picture that David Mamet turns in at his best. Throw in a great performance by Ricardo Darin and you have Argentina's Oscar submission, so at least it's eligible.
"Dave Chappelle's Block Party" for documentary feature -- If the odds of every other ideal nomination here taking form are *near* zero, they're still better than this one. Michel Gondry's subversively political, unexpectedly hilarious, exuberantly musical concert flick wasn't even on the documentary branch's short-list, meaning that the year's best non-fiction film is fated to join docs like "Grizzly Man" or "Hoop Dreams" on the too-good-for-Oscar list.
"Click" for outstanding makeup -- While "Block Party" may not have made the Academy short-list in its main category, "Click" was announced as one of the potential finalists in the make-up field. The old-age make-up in "Click" was horrible, as was the film itself. The idea of it earning an Oscar nomination just makes me giggle. Sorry.
Wally Pfister, outstanding cinematography for "The Prestige" -- As Christopher Nolan has grown more confident as a cinematographer, he's brought Pfister along with him, as the DP has grown ever more assured. Or perhaps it's the other way around. "The Prestige" is a beautifully made on every level, full of memorable images, none moreso than the field of light-bulbs charged from the ground, as lovingly composed a frame as I saw at the movies all year. "The Prestige" is a near-brilliant movie about illusion and Pfister was complicit with Nolan on every level, weaving the magic.
"Marie Antoinette" best costumes (because outstanding achievement in cinematic pastry isn't available)-- With "Marie Antoinette," Sofia Coppola may have made the year's most superficial film, but that doesn't mean that you can't give awards to those pretty surfaces. Heck, no film last year won more Oscars than "Memoirs of a Geisha."
Warren Ellis and Nick Cave, best original score for "The Proposition" -- Perhaps the year's finest 100 minutes of pure mood, John Hillcoat's mediation on human savagery flowed by like a haunting dream, punctuated only by moments of extreme violence. The violence sold itself, the backwards-looking score sold the rest of the movie.
Ellen Page, best actress for "Hard Candy" -- I think the genius of her performance is that even after all of the facts were revealed and everybody's motivations were laid out on the table, I still wasn't sure if I was supposed to believe that she was who she said she was and I built an entirely different backstory in my head based on details from the performance. What I'm saying is that she was good enough that she created an entirely world around her character and that's kinda cool for a tiny Canadian gal.
Edward Norton, best actor for "Down in the Valley" -- I thought Norton gave one of his worst performances in "The Illusionist" and I still haven't seen "The Painted Veil," but he did vintage work in "Down in the Valley," not that anybody saw David Jacobson's warped vision of The Valley as a Western frontier town, with Norton as the last outlaw hero. At times charming and sympathetic, at other times charming and off-his rocker, Norton created a portrait of complete self-denial and self-illusion.
Alfonso Cuaron, best director for "Children of Men" -- Watch the entire 'Fugee camp sequence, an unflinching and kinetic depiction of hell-on-Earth, and tell me how any director could have done it better.
"Pan's Labyrinth" for best picture -- Magic. Pure and simple. The idea that a contrived and utterly mediocre indie-by-numbers comedy like "Little Miss Sunshine" will be nominated for best picture but the best film I've seen in three or four years will have to pick up scraps is part of why nobody with any sense takes the Academy seriously.


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Man Nabbed By FBI In Lax May Be Chicago Gang Member
We now know the name of the man arrested in La Crosse yesterday, during an FBI raid.
Fifty-year-old Walter Blackman, also known as 'Gangster,' of Gary, Indiana was picked up Thursday morning at a house on Verchota Street. A statement by the FBI identifies Blackman as one of 18 persons associated with the Black Disciples street gang facing federal charges in a drug and weapon investigation. He appeared yesterday before a magistrate judge in Chicago, and is being jailed without bond. Blackman's brother, Ken Blackman, is still at large, but he may not have been in the La Crosse area. One other suspect was arrested in Wisconsin, in the Kenosha area.


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Posted by Michael David Smith on May 24, 2012, 10:56 AM EDT
The Lions and defensive end Cliff Avril still have quite a bit of work to do if they're going to come to terms before the July 16 deadline for franchise players to sign long-term contract extensions.
Albert Breer of NFL Network reports thatAvril is asking for about $2 million a year more than the Lions are offering. Avril is looking for a four-year, $42 million deal with most of that money guaranteed, and although the Lions are engaged in talks and have offered several contract proposals, none of the proposals are enough for Avril to be willing to sign.
The good news for both sides is that everyone seems to recognize that there's no personal acrimony even if they disagree about what a fair contract would constitute.
"I'm fortunate enough to play football for a living, first off," Avril said. "I'm thankful for that. But I know it's a business. I knew that from Day 1. I have to do what's right for my family. I'm a businessman. I can't be mad. If they lowball you, you can't be mad, because you ask yourself, if you were them, what would you do initially? So I'm not mad. It's not personal. I just want to be here long term."
Avril likes Detroit well enough that he decided to stay in Detroit and work out with a personal trainer in the area during the offseason, while his teammates are working out at the team facility. Eventually, if a long-term deal can't get worked out, he'll sign the franchise tender and play the 2012 season at a guaranteed base salary of $10.6 million, knowing that next year he'll either get franchised again with a pay raise of at least 20 percent, or he'll work out a long-term deal with the Lions, or he'll test the market as an unrestricted free agent. None of those are bad options.
So even though the team and the player are $2 million apart, one way or another things are going to work out. Avril sounds content with that.
Avril is a big part of what the Lions do defensively. He is a very good fit for their wide nine scheme with his quick first step and his overall athleticism. However, I think he is well aware of that fact that he is in the best place, for the success of his career. I don't see the Lions paying much more than this offer for him with guys like Willie Young, Lawrence Jackson, Everette Brown, and Ronnell Lewis waiting in the wings for playing time. Ultimately I expect them to met somewhere above where they are at now, and he will continue to produce in this system.


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The recent India-Pakistan trade breakthrough was a long time in the making.
What is in a name? That we call a rose by any other name will smell as sweet", said the Bard. But that was nearly four-and-a-half centuries ago.
In present times, things seem to have changed. What better evidence can there be than the enormous fuss Pakistan has made for long years over the expression "most favoured nation (MFN)" trading status, which almost all other governments and people around the globe have been using for nearly seven decades without any difficulty.
At last, commerce ministers of India and Pakistan — Anand Sharma and Khurram Dastgir Khan respectively — sorted out the problem last week by dumping MFN and coining instead the phrase "non-discriminatory market access" to enable the two neighbours to trade with each other. There is a long and painful story behind this highly belated accord.
After the 1965 war, Pakistan broke off all trading relations with this country, and the prohibition was made even stricter after the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971. The question of Pakistan giving India MFN status just did not arise because of Islamabad's policy of no agreement with India on any subject until the "core issue" of Kashmir was solved.
During the 1980s, Pakistan once had an acute shortage of wheat. It was buying wheat from Argentina, Australia and other countries at high cost. Its problem was aggravated because its port of Karachi was choked, and the unloading of wheat shipments took an unduly long time. At that time, India had a big surplus of wheat. In this atmosphere, Pakistan's suave and astute foreign minister, Sahabzada Yaqub Ali Khan, came to Delhi on one of his frequent visits. At his usual off-the-record interaction with a select group of journalists, we asked him why Pakistan didn't take all the wheat it needed from India, especially when it could be transported from Amritsar to Lahore in a jiffy. His reply was candid: "Our people don't like the idea of eating Indian wheat."
What the Sahabzada said politely was put more bluntly only the other day by Pakistan's highly respected commentator, Khaled Ahmed: All Pakistanis are brought up on "textbook anti-India sentiment". The raison d'etre of the all-powerful Pakistan army is its proclaimed conviction that India is an "existential and eternal" threat to Pakistan. No wonder, therefore, that when the World Trade Organisation (WTO) was formed in 1995, and all its members were urged to extend MFN status to all others, Pakistan defiantly refused to do so in India's case. It also defied the mandate of the South Asian Association for …continued »


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What's next when your PVR gives up the ghost?
By Adam TURNER
When the smoke comes out of my Aussie TiVo, I'll need a shortlist of replacements.
Not all Personal Video Recorders are created equal. In Australia, many PVRs are hampered by the fact that they rely on the Electronic Program Guide embedded in the broadcast signal. The networks have proven time and again that they can't be trusted to provide accurate EPG data. If you want something more reliable you need to look to a PVR with access to a custom TV guide downloaded from the internet.
A flashback to happier times for TiVo owners.
In Australia that leaves you with a handful of options such as a TiVo, Fetch TV, Telstra T-Box or Foxtel iQ2. Alternatively you might consider a media centre PC or one of the off-the-shelf recorders which are compatible with IceTV ? such as a Humax, Topfield, Beyonwiz or Strong.
Of course TiVo is dead and buried in Australia, even though its backers refuse to admit that they've closed up shop. The fact is that you won't find TiVos in the stores anymore and the head office refuses to answer the phone. When your TiVo gives up the ghost, they're not going to sell you another one.
While it got a rough time from some tech journos, the TiVo is actually a pretty slick PVR. If you've become accustomed to your TiVo, finding a replacement which satisfies your household won't be easy. In terms of advanced recording features and tight EPG access I'd say Fetch TV and Foxtel's iQ2 are your best options (with the iQ3 scheduled for this year).
Unfortunately both of these PVRs require a monthly subscription, but that seems to be the price you have to pay in Australia if you want a PVR you can trust to record your favourite shows every week from start to end. I'm not convinced a Foxtel subscription is worth the money in my home, so I'm leaning towards Fetch TV.
If neither of these options grab your fancy the IceTV-compatible Humax 7510T is the one to watch, although I'm also holding out to see IceTV's own PVR which is hopefully coming in the next few months. There's always a schism between onboard and remote scheduling features on IceTV devices, but their own PVR should deal with this.
Which PVR holds pride of place in your lounge room? What else have you got your eye on?
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C30, C60, C90, Go
By Stephen WITHERS
While writing last week's post about iTunes Radio it occurred to me how easy it would be to record the tracks, so I wasn't surprised to see the arrival of a commercial product - doubleTwist AirPlay Recorder - to do just that.
While that $US9.99 utility is specific to iTunes Radio, a lot of people don't realise there's a general method of capturing the Mac's audio output using two pieces of free software. Soundflower lets you route audio between programs, and Audacity lets you record and edit audio.
So whether you want to relive your (or perhaps your parents' or even grandparents'!) youthful habit of recording music from the radio or TV onto a cassette player as documented by Bow Wow Wow - assuming that's permissible in your jurisdiction - or to record a Skype call, there's a free and reasonably easy way of doing it. (The Skype tutorial I've linked to uses QuickTime Player as the recording program, but the principles are the same - I prefer to use Audacity as there's almost always some editing to do).
In a nutshell, what you need to do is this:
After installing Soundflower, hold down the Option key, click what's usually the volume control at the right side of the menu bar, and set the output device to "Soundflower (2ch).
Run Audacity and set its input device to "Soundflower (2ch)".
Then all the sound that would normally emerge from the speakers goes to Audacity where it can be recorded, edited and then exported to various formats depending on what other software is installed (hint: Audacity cannot save MP3 files by itself - it needs help).
There are a few other wrinkles such as avoiding alert sounds and so on from other applications, but you'll get some useful info from web resources such as Tutorial - Recording Computer Playback on Mac, which is part of the Audacity documentation.
There are other programs for diverting Mac audio and for making sound recordings, but the Soundflower/Audacity combo has the advantages of being free, flexible and fairly well supported by the user community - so if you do run into difficulties, there will probably be someone around that can help if you ask nicely and in the appropriate part of the forums.
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Technology is wonderful. But ... there is no substitute for common sense.
By David HAGUE
Technology is wonderful. I have been writing about it and saying that since around 1979. From computers to cameras to video and all manner of gadgets in between, I think I have reviewed them all at some point in time.
One of the biggest benefits of technology has been the humble motor car. I remember fondly my Torana SS LX with a 4 speed manual and 253 V8 engine; it went like a stabbed rat and I had many enjoyable moments ripping up the bitumen at Wanneroo Park Raceway (now Barbagello) in WA.
But if I put it and my current drive, a 5.7 litre, 6 speed V8 Holden Monaro, side by side, they are chalk and cheese. Look under the bonnet and there is even more difference.
But under the externals, the biggest changes are in the ?brains? of the car ? the computers that control every facet of its performance, handling and safety.
But despite all these wondrous gizmos that stop the car losing traction, airbags that inflate in microseconds, self-tensioning seat belts and lots more, there is no substitute for plain old common sense and that hackneyed phrase, ?driving to the conditions?.
What has brought this on, you ask?
Over the past weekend, I had occasion to drive from here in northern central Victoria to Sydney. As a bit of a holiday, I diverted via Batemans Bay and Sussex Inlet, to both go fishing and see some old friends. (In truth these were the prime reasons, and the Sydney part to see companies such as Panasonic, Canon and Sony ?justified? the trip business wise).
The weather when I left on Saturday morning was diabolical. After weeks of temperatures over 35 degrees, the lower temperatures and rain were welcome on the surface. By the time I had hit the Hume Highway just south of Albury-Wondonga, though, it was atrocious with lashing rain, fog and road conditions, that after so long without rain, were treacherous due to leached oil and other fluids.
Indeed, just south of Gundagai, after many times of the anti skid and anti lock devices kicking in due to surface water and slippery roads, my car aqua-planed for I reckon 30 metres plus, which was downright scary. This was despite four brand new performance tyres and driving at 15 Kms / hour below the limit of the freeway. Many times I thanked the folk at Ian Luff?s Advanced Driving School for the many courses I have done to train for these very circumstances.
Despite the conditions however, I can?t count the number of cars and trucks that zipped past me at over the speed limit in times of driving rain and extremely low visibility.
The stupidity of this later manifested itself in the ugliest of forms, when on the road from Quenbeyan to Braidwood and on to Batemans Bay, I came across two fatal crashes ? I refuse to the word ?accident? - within minutes of each other, both obviously caused by losing control and probably excessive speed for the conditions.
On arriving at Batemans Bay, I found out there had been a third fatal just out of town as well.
Yes I know this blog is designed to primarily talk about ?production? of video and audio, but I feel strongly enough about this subject to digress on occasion and I hope you?ll forgive me.
After all, I want you to be around to read my norm al missives, and I want to be able to see the video magic you may weave in the future.
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Long live the sysadmin!
By Ian GRAYSON
While there's been a lot of recent focus on job losses in the Australian car industry, it's not the only sector experiencing rapid and fundamental change.
Everywhere you look the combination of market forces and new technology is causing jobs once thought to be safe for life to disappear.
A classic example is in the data centre. In a place where large teams of system administrators once roamed, now the server isles are strangely deserted.
The change is automation. Where once a typical sysadmin might have been responsible for managing a fleet of, say, 30 servers, this number is now climbing into the thousands.
The result is fewer people doing much more work.
But it's not necessarily all bad. Freed from the day-to-day tedium of keeping the lights flashing, skilled sysadmins can be redeployed to other more 'value-add' activities.
These could include anything from deploying new mobile apps to exploring how an organisation can harness the evolving area of big data.
So, while the doors of some jobs swing shut, many others are only just starting to open.
Far from looking bleak, the future for sysadmins is exciting.
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iTunes Radio - can you surrender control of your playlists?
By Adam TURNER
Can you let go of the reins and let someone else choose the music?
As a freelancer who works from home, I listen to music all day and I've got complete control over the playlist. I don't listen to the radio, not because I hate variety but just because the hourly slab of ads is annoying and distracting. Instead I tend to listen to albums, from my own library or streamed from Rdio.
iTunes Radio is a great way to revisit the classics, but you have to take the good with the bad.
I'm a creature of habit and I know it would probably be good to broaden my listening habits, but every time I hand over control of my playlist I give up in frustration. iTunes Radio is no exception. I've spent the last few days tweaking several stations, as I explained to Alex in this week's Vertical Hold, but I still can't find a happy balance.
Whether it's a station based on an artist, song or genre, iTunes Radio just keeps throwing in too many odd choices ? like Pearl Jam in a mix focused on BB King and The Rolling Stones. It's not that I don't like Pearl Jam, it's just that the band clearly doesn't belong on this station. I've been fine-tuning my stations, but it's still hit and miss.
iTunes Radio can still pull out great artists which I haven't heard for ages, such as George Thorogood & The Destroyers, but when it does find a great track the first thing I think is "I really should add this album to my Rdio collection and listen to it now". At least this will broaden my listening habits when I go back to listening to albums from start to end.
The whole idea of content on demand is that I can enjoy exactly what I want, when I want, rather than let someone else dictate the content. I'm having trouble letting go of that, although it would be easier if iTunes Radio's choices were less hit and miss. I find I can listen to a custom Pandora station much longer than I can tolerate a custom iTunes Radio station.
Who dictates your playlists? Can you hand over control?
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