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Great RR, beautiful portraits of the people, beautiful landscape photos... thank you very much for sharing them all with us
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The report continues to be a great read.
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This continues to be a stunning RR.
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The ride report speaks for itself, exceptionally well. Let's please not litter it with other folks' political commentary.
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Incredible report with excellent narrative and exceptional photographs. Thanks for taking us along.
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Got home from work, cracked open a beer, and found a link to this post from a local forum. What a treat.
Tourist, you're my new hero. The photos and commentary are phenomenal. I read the entire 13 pages through in one sitting and I'm looking forward to more. Congratulations for living a life most can only dream of.
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Thank you for taking me to another dimension! I am all dreamy...
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Stonking report Tourist! You are a brave man travelling into Kabul. Love your style and pictures!
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Kabul, Panjshir & finally a beer.
Looking over Kabul from the Hillside Slums.
You've got to love that sound flick, flick, flick of the Atm counting your money just before it dispenses into your hot little hands. It was such a relief to be cashed up once again before I head into the city to sort out my new visa in order to leave this country. (In Afghanistan you cant just go to the airport with a expired visa & pay an overstay fine like so many other countries, you need a new visa entirely!) My first port of call was the passport office to apply for the exit visa. The office is out of the CBD some 3-4$ in taxi fares & 10-15mins depending on the hectic traffic. Kabul has to be one of the easiest to get a ride in, as soon as you stop on the side of the road either a taxi but most probably a private car will stop asking where you want to go. I arrive in the hot summers morning heat and after a pat down outside I enter and line up along with the many foreign contractors also waiting with their ISAF ids hanging around their necks, handguns holstered and some in protective vests.
ISAF roaming the streets.
Blast walls are a way of life.
Im told, I first need to go to the Ministry of tourism for a letter approving me to exit. I taxi back to the center and visit the ministry. The ministry of tourism then tell me I need a letter from the Minster of Culture & information before they can write a letter to the minister of internal affairs at the passport office. I walk to the ministry of culture.. and up the 4 floors wondering where the heck to go before Im ushered into an office. Im told I am lucky that they can prepare my letter but it wont be ready until tomorrow morning. I pass back around the many Bazaars and alleyways around the center marveling at all the life that is going on here and none of it is for tourism.
I arrive the following morning at the time nominated and am back in the same office on the 4th floor. Im told to wait 5 minutes and in this time I watch them hand write the letter of 3 lines. I deliver the letter to the tourism ministry and they inform me that they dont work Wednesday or Thursday's so I need to come back on Friday in which they tell me my visa will be ready. No letter? I ask and again if I have to go to passport office and they say no, they will give me a visa on Friday. I feel some relief from rushing over town these past 2 days so now with 2 days off I decide to ride up Panjshir valley for a nice day ride and quite possibly my last ride in Afghanistan (but now as I write this 6 weeks on, I'm thinking its not... )
Within the narrow alleys.
Ka-Faroshi bird market.
My Foreign Exchange man, He's got everything!
Father & Son Date Vendors.
Crossing the Shomali Plains to Panjshir.
I leave the guesthouse by 7am the next morning without breakfast, I make my way out of the city in the same manner as I entered. But a more direct route this time. The roads arent too busy but busy enough, I stop at one intersection with over 50 or so locals with their hand tools waiting to be picked up for laboring work that day and ask for directions. As with anyone else here once they have given me directions, they usually ask something regarding the Motorcycle, I just point and say Russian, then point to myself and say New Zealand with a smile and a thank-you I ride away. The turnoff isnt for over 80kms and it takes me 1.5hrs to arrive at the turn off. Stopping on the way at one of the many highway cafes for something closely resembling a chebureki (Russian food for hangovers). Some tea and small conversation involving the Ural, the tourist and Panjshir.
Entering the valley.
Ural and one of the many Massoud tributes.
It was a nice morning for a ride; slow traffic in the valley, a nice sealed road with plenty of corners and a cool breeze coming off the mountain river. Panjshir has always been able to keep either the Soviets or Taliban out due to the high mountains that surround it. There is so many dirt roads here heading off the main sealed road into the mountains to be explored, too many for one day so I just stick to being a tourist in the valley today. I'm signaled to stop as i pass an army checkpoint and with none of them making any sense of my English an officer jumps on the back and we ride up stream 5km to the larger checkpoint outside the barracks. I sign in and show my passport, they are happy with me just coming for the day and let me go on after arranging a time that I need to exit by. 5mins later I am stopped by now a police checkpoint, after searching my side and shoulder bag/ passport they are happy as well and again let me proceed.
More Police here
Another Police Checkpoint negotiated.
Massouds mausoleum along with plenty of soviet hardware still keeping tire pressure after all these years. There's many tanks up here, some still even with their engines and switchgear etc. climbing on inside, I peered out one of the periscopes to see it had been shattered by a bullet. impressive yes but to think these guys were sitting blind in this tin can in a land that wasn't theirs, far from home just made me feel sad for them no matter what their end was.
Panjshir Beauty.
A downed Soviet Mi-8 military Helicopter.
Tanks. The Ural is Older.
While riding up one side of the valley i see many little villages tucked away on the other side of the river only accessible by swing bridges, So i thought well I guess they get less tourists over there so I should pay them a visit. After Leaning the Ural up against a tree on the river banks and walking across watching locals fish for trout with their long primitive fishing rods. Then as I'm walking up through the small dusty lane ways to the village, a local passes me and asks me something indecipherable, he motions me to follow him back to the bridge, I'm a bit reluctant but we go and he makes a call, while we cross the bridge an older heavy set man approaches us and asks for my passport. this isn't the first time locals have taken the law into their own hands here so I tell him to go away and i keep walking. he grabs me by my arm and insists again, passport! I pull free of his hold and tell them again in which he pulls out a police ID, ahh ok if you say so then officer. Quite conveniently a car pulls up on the road from when we leave the bridge and we drive 10mins back to town where the police HQ is. we drive through a barrier arm before coming to a rest inside the heavily fortified station. I'm ushered into a small office where 5 officers all try to interrogate me with their basic English. I'm there for over a hour as they just wouldn't believe i was a tourist! this has now been an everyday activity of mine since leaving Eshkashem, It's getting a bit tiring! The police chief is now available for his round of questioning. I have to leave behind my camera behind as they think its a bomb and am escorted into another office block. Walking into his large upstairs office, He Offers me a seat on a leather couch and he sits opposite me on another. He just stares at me at first, then asks question by question... each one followed by what feels like a minutes silence of him just staring at me making the whole situation feel a bit awkward, So I just stare straight back at him hoping to do exactly the same to him & hopefully expedite my release from here. 30mins later he is content with my answers and orders lunch for me. I'm taken back down stairs to find a large plate of mutton pulau (sheeps knuckle & rice) and a room full of officers to watch me eat it. They apologize for taking my time and drive me back to find my the Ural happily un-disturbed under the same tree that i had left it. After this little bad experience I'm a bit peeved off how the day has gone so with it now mid afternoon I make my way back to Kabul.
The road is busy and dangerous just as it had been days before. I arrive back at the Guesthouse after dark and am relived to find some half decent Tv to watch for the remainder of the night. The following day I book some cheapish air tickets to fly Sunday; 350$ to Delhi followed by 120$ from Delhi to Bangkok in which i had a previous return ticket bought for back to Brisbane, Australia.
Friday; I am back in at the Ministry of tourism awaiting my visa, they tell me to come back after lunch because the letter, (now no visa) has to be sent back to the Minstry of culture & information to be signed.. this is madness! Once I receive it I head back out to the Passport office where I am told I have to come back at 7am the following morning to make the application, I let them know I need to be leaving on Sunday and they assure me I would have my visa in time. I arrive back at 6.30am to see already a massive line up of mostly foreign workers and their local fixers. The foreigners are just waiting idly by chatting while their fixer is standing in line with me, after 2 hours everybody's passports are collected and we are told to come back the next day to collect further paperwork, I again inform them that I have my flights for the next day (as the tourism ministry led me to believe that I would have my visa by now) it falls on deaf ears with them all shying away from just telling me the truth in that I would not have my visa in time. Familiar faces meet once again the following morning at 8am to collect our paperwork, we need to pay the bank 50$ for the month long visa, as my free exit visa has now turned into a monthly one. I share a cab back into the city and after security checks and lining up we pay the fee and taxi back. I'm told I will finally have my visa tomorrow, Monday morning... but then the clerk is reminded that Monday is a public holiday so it will have to be Tuesday! I just can't believe this, I rebook my tickets for Wednesday and am amazed its taken over a week to get this visa just so I can bloody leave this country to get my cold beer.
Last Sunset in Kabul.
Mahmoud back at the guesthouse in my final days offers me to store my bike there for if I ever want to come back for it one day, In'shallah! which gives me the idea of doing exactly that. The next day I do indeed pick my passport up and go on and make my flight Wednesday. 4 hours flying over the Khyber pass... Pakistan and landing in Delhi, I have 3 hours before my connecting flight, just the right amount of time for a cold beer or 2. I savor this time to reflect on this years summer and for what also lies ahead in my immediate future returning to Australia jobless In the now unbooming mineral resources sector. Mahmoud's offer sticks with me and today as I write this it is even stronger gathering more and more momentum the longer I am here. I Can't commit to anything just yet... but keep an eye out for Part 2 next spring.
Just wanted to thank all my readers out there for giving me the confidence in writing this RR up. Its been a great experience to look back on my photos and journal notes to put this out there.
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Holy cow! What an amazing ride report. I read the reports of Colebatch, Noah, etc. and think that someday I'd like to follow in their footsteps. This report is just terrifying. I'm happy to get the chance to read it and to see in some way what it's like over there, but I would never attempt this myself. It seems that you were constantly under threat of being locked up in some prison for doing nothing, and possibly never seeing the light of day again. Good on you, and thanks for the report. But I think you need to change your screen name to something that reflects either the huge balls you have, or the sense of self preservation you seem to be missing. Much respect......
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Many thanks for sharing this phantastic experience.
It's among the best travel journals I had the pleasure to read.
Looking forward to as many episodes you might gift us with.
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We decided to get a taxi from Managua to Selva Negra. It is about a 2 hour drive and we paid $80, It was expensive and you can get a taxi cheaper but we did not know at the time what the going rate is, I would say that $50 would be about right. You can get a bus to Matagalpa and then get a taxi to Selva Negra or get a bus from Matagalpa to Jinotega and hop off at the entrance to Selva Negra which is marked by a tank, it will be a lot cheaper but it will take much longer. The walk from the road to the actual hotel is about 1.5 kilometres with a steep hill at the end, something to consider if you have a heavy pack.
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In the disappointing musical "Flashdance" that landed with a thud at the Marcus Center Tuesday night, we begin in Alex's dreary steel mill, where a search for gravitas means a lengthy backstory about recession and cutbacks — one of many places where this musical unsuccessfully attempts to channel "Billy Elliot." »Read Full Article(4)
'Old' rockers really are a Benign Compulsion
Mike Benign knows what some people might think when they go to see his band, the Mike Benign Compulsion.
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Present Music, Danceworks remix Stravinsky with 'Temptation's Snare'
In putting together their contemporary take on Stravinsky's "The Soldier's Tale," Present Music and Danceworks Performance Company changed only a few things.
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Reading the John Updike stories: 'A Sense of Shelter'
I'm reading and commenting on a story from The Library of America's recently published 'John Updike: The Collected Stories' each Wednesday until I finish the collection or give up.
Published in The New Yorker in January, 1960, when the author was 27, "A Sense of Shelter" recycles familiar raw materials from John Updike's early stories: an awkward high school boy whose community believes he will become something special one day, a small-town milieu, and a girl he can't make a match with because his future special destiny gets in the way. »Read Full Blog Post
Distil's chef adds Umami Moto duties
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In journalism school we were discouraged from writing leads about the weather. It's a classic rookie move and almost always a cliche. Yet, we've been breaking our own rules day after day for weeks now. That's how exceptional this winter and the anticipation of spring has been.
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Over the course of a story an insane character actually becomes less insane and more sane as time passes. The opposite of SanitySlippage. They may start out sane and become insane before becoming sane again. The point of the trope is that they ultimately end up as more or less sane or saner.
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* Harry in ''OutlawStar''. He starts off as an AxCrazy StalkerWithACrush to Melfina but as the series goes on he becomes more loving and gentle towards her and even makes peace with Gene his enemy before his death.
* Anemone from ''Anime/EurekaSeven'' starts off as a violently psychotic TykeBomb, but grows much stabler in the presence of her handler/guardian Dominic. Late in the series, [[spoiler:he manages to restore her sanity completely through the PowerOfLove]].
* ''{{Naruto}}'' has Gaara. He starts out AxCrazy but is now a nice mentally stable guy and is actively trying his best to help Naruto, his friend who he once considered his enemy and tried to kill.
* Nina Einstein of ''CodeGeass'' starts out sane, exhibits SanitySlippage and and then in the beginning of R2 recovers much of her sanity. Later scenes indicate that her insanity was not so much defeated as it was [[MoreThanMindControl redirected]]. [[spoiler:Near the end of the series is where she starts to actually recover.]]
* Hayato Jin in ''Manga/GetterRobo'' starts out as an insane student activist-terrorist with brainwashed followers and gets drunk with power the first time he pilots Getter Robo itself. Though his ruthlessness stays with him through the entire Getter saga, he becomes more pragmatic and well-adjusted.
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* Parker from ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' fits this trope well. In the pilot, Nate actually says "Parker? She's insane!" And he means it. As the series progresses, she becomes more normal as a result of the [[TrueCompanions family bonding]] the team experiences as they run jobs together.
* River Tam on ''{{Series/Firefly}}''. PlayedForDrama as it just means her lucid periods get more frequent, so she's more often ''aware'' of her [[ReluctantPsycho insanity]].
* Connor on ''{{Series/Angel}}''. He starts out a warped LaserGuidedTykebomb raised in a hell dimension by a vengeful KnightTemplar and [[SanitySlippage gets worse]]. Angel then uses a DealWithTheDevil to rewrite reality to give Connor a happy life and fake memories. Even after Connor regains his true memories, the knowledge of what Angel did for him keeps him stable.
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* You can try doing this in ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' (requires Psychology skill), but ultimately it's just [[CosmicHorrorStory delaying the inevitable]].
* In ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' this can be attempted with mundane therapy or "psychosurgery" that reprograms the software of the brain with nanites. Or failing that revert to an earlier [[BodyBackupDrive backup]].
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* Wanda Maximoff from ''XMenEvolution'', who was sent to an asylum by her father Magneto shortly after her mutant powers emerged. Magneto eventually has Mastermind [[MindRape mess with her head]], replacing all her bad memories with good ones so she believes he'd been a loving father. Ironically, she became less psycho and more kind and gentle towards others.


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Three Days in Rome Redux: The Cocktail Napkin Plan for an Iran Coup
More on the covert meetings between Pentagon officials and shady Iranian expats, plus other intel details from a new Senate report.
The proposed plan to change the Iran regime, which requested $5 million in initial "seed" money from the U.S. government, was outlined on a cocktail napkin by Iran contra arms dealer Manucher Ghorbanifar at a Rome bar during a three-day meeting in December 2001 that brought the Iran contra actors together with two officials from the Pentagon. (Read the original Mother Jones story.) The Pentagon officials attendance at the meeting was authorized by Stephen Hadley, now the top White House national security advisor, the report found. Revelations that Iran Contra figures Ledeen and Ghorbanifar were involved in a new channel to the Bush administration set off alarm bells throughout the US government, and prompted multiple inquiries into whether the channel amounted to an unauthorized covert action and a possible counterintelligence threat. The latter issue was never resolved, after a top Pentagon official shut down the counterintelligence inquiry only a month after it had begun.
Later operations would require as much as $25 million, Ledeen and Ghorbanifar advised US officials, but could be financed in part, they said, by a foreign government in exchange for commitments of future Iran oil contracts to the foreign governments state energy company, believed to be Italys ENI. Italys military intelligence service Sismi facilitated Ledeens Rome meeting, which, highly unusually, was not cleared with the US embassy in Rome or the CIA, even though it involved interaction with a foreign intelligence service.
The new Senate Intelligence committee report presents more evidence that the U.S. government under the Bush administration has been uniquely vulnerable to the intelligence schemes and foreign policy freelancing of discredited individuals and deemed fabricators such as Manoucher Ghorbanifar, and potentially even counterintelligence threats of an Iranian or other nature. It details how top officials in the Bush administration endeavored to permit such an ill-advised channel, took affirmative measures to conceal it in order to bypass the professional intelligence service, and then took steps to protect their role in the matter by shutting down the counterintelligence investigation launched by the Pentagon and to stall the Senate probe. The report also documents that Ghorbanifar has been able to influence US policy and intelligence channels in particular through Ledeen's contacts within Cheney's office and the Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz Pentagon.
"The questions is: is information from Ledeen and Ghorbanifar still going to the vice president's office, and is it affecting them?" a former senior CIA offiicial said. "It's a logical assumption. That is what is known in the intelligence business as circular reporting: the same information, coming through the same source, peddled through different channels, slightly altered to make it look like it's coming from multiple sources. And it's one of the biggest dangers in the intelligence business. That is what Iraq Niger was all about."
On one of the December evenings in an unidentified Roman bar, Ghorbanifar used the cocktail napkin to sketch out a coup plan that would start with the simultaneous disruption of traffic at key intersections leading to Tehran, the report states. The traffic jams would create anxiety, work stoppages and other disruptive measures. Ghorbanifar wanted $5 million to get the plan off the ground.
Ledeen and Ghorbanifar advised US officials of a foreign government—presumably Italy—support for this information collection opportunity and financing by [foreign] corporate enterprises midway through the interviews, the report states. The contracts would be part of multimillion-dollar business deals that the [Italian] government arranged for the two Iranian interlocutors. Ledeen refused to identity the two Iranians who Ghorbanifar had brought to the meeting to Pentagon human intelligence officers, the report found, until the US government indicated it was committing to the Ghorbanifar plan.
The report sheds additional light on the actions of highly placed U.S. officials who were involved in approving the Ledeen Iran channel and suppressing knowledge of it from normal US government intelligence channels.
Then deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz placed the meeting plan on a "close-hold status to protect it from unwelcome inquiries. Later, then Pentagon intelligence czar Steve Cambone ordered halted a Pentagon counterintelligence inquiry of the channel, which had raised the possibility that Ghorbanifar or his associates are being used as agents of a foreign intelligence service to leverage[e] his continuing contact with Michael Ledeen and others to reach into and influence the highest levels of the US government.
Cambone also rejected Pentagon counterintelligence investigators recommendations, including that a comprehensive analysis be conducted of the counterintelligence implications related to the ability of Mr. Ghorbanifar or his associates to directly or indirectly influence or access U.S. government officials. The Senate Intelligence committee described Cambones decision to kill the counterintelligence inquiry as premature, and criticized his failure to implement the groups recommendations for further analysis of the counterintelligence implications of Ghorbanifar's contacts to the US government through Ledeen.
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Global demand for smart phones has never been stronger, but for some of the biggest handset makers times have rarely been tougher.
Shares of Nokia Corp. tumbled more than 18 per cent over two days this week after the world's largest maker of mobile phones warned it would miss its financial targets this quarter. The situation is so uncertain for the company that it said it would no longer provide forecasts to investors.
Shares of Research In Motion Ltd., meanwhile, trade at a deep discount. Investors value RIM at less than seven times estimated 2012 earnings, even though the BlackBerry maker grew by 33 per cent in its last fiscal year. And Motorola Mobility Holdings, which makes mobile devices and set-top boxes, has yet to show a profit since splitting from the rest of Motorola in January.
Many investors are learning the hard way that the speed with which the market for smart phones is developing leaves little room for error. During the last 18 months, two related events have disrupted the business models of both Nokia and RIM. Google Inc.'s Android software platform began to gain traction with handset manufacturers, and inexpensive handsets from Asia began to hit the market.
Apple Inc.'s game-changing iPhone, launched in June, 2007, intensified competition for both RIM and Nokia. But it's the free Android operating system and the commoditization of hardware that are making it so hard for both companies to maintain margins.
Android has made rapid inroads to become the world's best-selling smart phone platform. It commanded a 36-per-cent market share in the first quarter, up from just 11 per cent a year earlier, according to the marketing and consulting firm Strategy Analytics.
Google gives its Android software to handset manufacturers without charge, making money instead by taking a small percentage of revenues from independent application-sellers as well as from advertisements that run inside some apps. Google also benefits by using Android as a platform for its mobile search engine, map software and other products.
Google is able to target all segments of the market with its Android software, which can run on a range of handsets at a variety of prices. Three Chinese manufacturers – HTC Corp., ZTE and Huawei – have brought low-cost smart phones to market, some selling for less than $150. Sony Ericsson, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Motorola Mobility have delivered more-expensive products.
Gains by Android and the iPhone have been crushing Nokia's own smart phone platform called Symbian, forcing the Finnish company to take dramatic steps. In February, chief executive officer Stephen Elop announced that the platform would be phased out and Nokia would rely on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows mobile operating system.
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Investors and analysts, however, are skeptical about the plan, citing among other things lukewarm support among wireless carriers for the new Nokia/Windows devices, which are scheduled to arrive in the fourth quarter.
"The business is becoming unglued," says Stephen Patel, an analyst with Gleacher & Co. He rates Nokia's shares "neutral" and lowered his price target to $6.50 (U.S.). "Symbian smart phone sales are falling off faster than expected and we are skeptical that the new Windows phone models will be able to replace lost profits," he wrote in a report this week.
Pierre Ferragu, of Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., says the launch of Windows-based phones will be challenging for Nokia as "precipitous market-share losses will take Nokia's brand visibility to all-time low levels and potentially create negative brand equity amongst consumers."
Apple, Android and BlackBerry are rapidly becoming the three brands consumers want and the window of opportunity for Nokia is "vanishing rapidly," he says.
Similar to Nokia, RIM is also rushing to get a more competitive smart phone platform to market. Although the company hasn't given a launch date for its QNX smart phone, expectations are that it won't arrive until 2012.
T. Michael Walkley, of Canaccord Genuity, thinks RIM will struggle with the transition and that the Nokia-Microsoft partnership has the best chance at creating "a third viable ecosystem" to compete against Apple and Google.
Mike Abramsky, of RBC Dominion Securities Inc., agrees that both Nokia and RIM face the risk that wireless companies will reduce inventories of their devices during the transition process. But he thinks RIM is better positioned because he says the BlackBerry has a more loyal fan base than Nokia.


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The works of García Lorca, internationally recognized as Spain's most prominent lyric poet and dramatist of the twentieth century, are filled with thinly veiled homosexual motifs and themes.
There has always been homosexual involvement in American musical theatre and a homosexual sensibility even in straight musicals, and recently the Broadway musical has welcomed openly homosexual themes and situations.
Best known for his genius in art and architecture, Michelangelo was also an accomplished author of homoerotic poetry.
The African-American gay male literary tradition consists of a substantial body of texts and includes some of the most gifted writers of the twentieth century.
Combining elements of incongruity, theatricality, and exaggeration, camp is a form of humor that helps homosexuals cope with a hostile environment.
Langston Hughes, whose literary legacy is enormous and varied, was closeted, but homosexuality was an important influence on his literary imagination, and many of his poems may be read as gay texts.
James Baldwin, a pioneering figure in twentieth-century literature, wrote sustained and articulate challenges to American racism and mandatory heterosexuality.
Oscar Wilde is important both as an accomplished writer and as a symbolic figure who exemplified a way of being homosexual at a pivotal moment in the emergence of gay consciousness.
Matt Bomer (left) with Simon Halls.
GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network, has announced that it will honor actor Matt Bomer and his husband Hollywood publicist Simon Halls with its Inspiration Award at its eighth annual Respect Awards in Los Angeles on October 5, 2012. It will also present a Lifetime Achievement Award to DreamWorks Animation co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and his wife Marilyn Katzenberg.
Founded in 1990 by Kevin Jennings, GLSEN is the leading national education organization focused on ensuring safe schools for all students. Its mission is to reform the American educational system in order to ensure that children accept and respect one another, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity and expression.
Members of GLSEN work to combat homophobia and heterosexism in schools by educating students, teachers, administrators, and the general public about the causes and effects of anti-glbtq prejudice and violence. GLSEN fosters school climates where difference is valued for the positive contribution it makes to creating a more vibrant and diverse community.
The Respect Awards honor the work of corporations, individuals, students and educators who have made a significant difference in the areas of diversity, inclusion and the safe schools movement, and who serve as exemplary role models.
The Katzenbergs have provided leadership and generous support to many organizations focused on healthcare, tolerance, education, the arts, children, Jewish causes, and the environment.
They are longtime supporters of the glbtq community through their commitment to GLSEN, Human Rights Watch, the ACLU, the American Foundation for Equal Rights, People for the American Way, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, and the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center.
GLSEN is honoring Halls and Bomer for their commitment to family and equal rights. They live in Los Angeles with their three sons, Kit, Walker, and Henry.
Bomer, who stars as Neal Caffrey on USA's critically acclaimed drama White Collar, which debuted in 2009, has also performed in Dustin Lance Black's dramatic account of the Proposition 8 trial, 8, and in the recent film Magic Mike. He will appear with Julia Roberts and Mark Ruffalo in the forthcoming film based on Larry Kramer's AIDS play, The Normal Heart.
Halls is a publicist at Slate PR, who represents such well-known clients as Ang Lee, Tom Ford, Jude Law, and Annette Bening.
Bomer came out publicly in February 2012, when he accepted an award for his activism in the fight against HIV/AIDS. While accepting the Steve Chase Foundation's New Generation Arts and Activism Award in Palm Springs, he said, "I'd really especially like to thank my beautiful family: Simon, Kit, Walker, Henry. Thank you for teaching me what unconditional love is. You will always be my proudest accomplishment."
BuzzFeed has assembled a gallery of photos of Halls and Bomer with their children. It can be accessed here.
In the clip below, Bomer portrays Jeff Zarillo, one the plaintiffs in the lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8, in Dustin Lance Black's 8.
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It's been a while since we had Curtis Jackson around these parts in Mixtape Daily. Our fellow Queens native has been on the road for a while, making movies and touring overseas. While hollering at our colleagues at MTV UK, Fif revealed that he wants his Black Magic album to drop before summer is over — oh, and the title has nothing to do with witchcraft.
"I don't believe in voodoo," he said. "But it'll be very addictive. The first time you'll hear it, you'll remember the songs that's on there. It's designed for fun — for listening pleasure.
"I'm not in a hurry," he added about the recording process and release date. "I kind of planned on releasing Black Magic … I gave myself a goal to try and put it out by the end of the summer, so I'll work that hard on the actual project. If I don't feel it's ready by the end of the summer, I'll just jeep it."
Fif is also going on tour this summer, but said members of his current G-Unit family, including Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo, most likely won't make the trek.
"It's interesting because they probably won't be coming with me. In the U.S., Banks has momentum with the first single off his new album, 'Beamer, Benz or Bentley.' So he'll be out [on his own tour] with H.F.M. 2 (The Hunger For More 2). While he's doing that, it probably wouldn't make sense for Yayo to come with me because his record is almost done now — he should use that time to complete his record and release it shortly after. But I'll be running around."
No Banks or Yayo, but Fif says he will not be alone — he's recruiting new members to his camp now.
"You'll see new faces, because I'm looking for new artists now. I'll sign new artists and take them with me and kinda groom them. I don't specifically say, 'I want this kind of artist' — I look for talent that inspires me, that complements what I do with their own thing. Some of the stuff you can't teach a person; they gotta have it."
While 50 didn't name any specific prospects, but did say he wouldn't mind adding movie heartthrob Robert Pattinson to the Unit's fold. The star of the "Twilight" franchise (50 said he's seen "New Moon") has dabbled in singing in addition to his acting.
"Robert Pattinson. He has a big enough following to be the frontline," 50 laughed. " 'Twilight' ain't no joke."
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The thinking is since the Hawks just signed Joe Johnson (six years, $124 million) and Al Horford (five years, $60 million) to new deals, they won't be able to afford to keep the remaining three years and $37 million left on Smith's deal.
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St. Louis, MO 63103
Phone: 314-977-3951
Fax: 314-977-1474
Schedule an Appointment
Important DatesAug. 1 — Application deadline for transfer student admission, fall semester
Aug. 20 — Reception for Presidential Scholars
Aug. 24 — Orientation for Honors program
Aug. 28 — Honors Ice Cream Social
Dec. 1 — Application deadline for freshman student admission
Dec. 3 — Deadline for Presidential Scholar applications
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May 5 — Graduating seniors may pick up their Honors cords
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UEaW TeamDeveloper & Publisher with 9 members, invitation only
The group for the staff working on Ultimate Empire at War.
Trust me, I'm The Doctor. 4th-year medical student, crazy professor in a 22 year old's body and general modding multi-tool.
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The group for the staff working on Ultimate Empire at War.
A group for the people of The United Kingdom on ModDB. Jolly good isn't it?
LTCC, UEaW needs you, please come back, it has almost been finished with only the GUI and a few other things left to finish. At more than 90 percent finished, it would be a shame for the mod to die
that guy made CIWS by his own hands:DDDD ©
Dude are you still working on this or di you leave the group?
i like the techy system except for dstsar, i just dont really like a dstar blowing up everything and leaving me nothing to conquer :(, other than that i cannot wait for the mod :)
never mind :0, didnt read everything, LOL XD
So When's it coming out?
You UEAW guys never saw when to expect your next version.
Nice mod, keep it up.
nice, look forward to the release the game is awesome but cant read german lol took me a few minutes to get into the game randomly clicking buttons


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Grassy Palm Beach Could Lead to Derby Trail
Though the race is on the grass, the $150,000 Palm Beach Stakes (gr. IIIT) for 3-year-olds at 1 1/8 miles March 3 at Gulfstream Park has the potential to serve as a springboard to the Triple Crown trail .
Narrow down your picks for the Triple Crown with the 2013 Triple Crown Preview from BloodHorse.com!
The Ramseys will have another runner in the Palm Beach with their Illinois homebred Amen Kitten, also a son of Kitten's Joy. Trained by Wesley Ward, Amen Kitten broke his maiden last out over the course Jan. 11 in his seventh start for a $75,000 claiming tag.
$150,000 Palm Beach Stakes (gr. IIIT, Race 10, 5:35 p.m.), 3YOs, 1 1/8 Miles (Turf)
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Originally written on Puck Daddy | Last updated 1/12/12
J.J. Abrams is the creator of many cool things: "Lost", "Alias", the resurgent "Star Trek" and "Mission: Impossible" franchises, our junior year college crush on Keri Russell. Now, he's helped create an iPhone app called Action Movie FX that "gives users the ability to insert special effects into any video they take with Apple's smartphone," according to the LA Times. As is our nature, puckheads can quickly utilize any new technology for maximum hockey enjoyment. So now the most banal NHL video can be turned into something that would make Michael Bay climax. Wanna blow up Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals? There's an app for that. A tornado at a San Jose Sharks game? There's an app for that. And if the tornado doesn't get'em, well … These clips via 'dmikob' on YouTube. If you attend a hockey game, have this FX app and create a cool video, send it on over to email@example.com. Because it's entirely possible we're going to become addicted these of they proliferate. Ot...
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ACTIVE TIME: 15 minutes
TOTAL TIME: 25 minutes
Make toasts:
Preheat oven to 425°F.
Stir together oils, cumin, and salt and pepper to taste and brush on cut sides of pitas. Cut each pita half into 8 wedges and arrange, cut sides up, on a large baking sheet.
Bake pitas in middle of oven until edges are crisp, about 10 minutes. Transfer to a rack to cool (toasts will continue to crisp as they cool).
Make crab mixture while pitas are baking:
Stir together crab ingredients and salt and pepper to taste.
Top each toast with some crab.
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John Fisher
20 of 32 portraits of John Fisher
© National Portrait Gallery, London
John Fisher
after Hans Holbein the Younger
line engraving, probably 18th century
5 7/8 in. x 3 7/8 in. (150 mm x 100 mm) plate size
Given by the daughter of compiler William Fleming MD, Mary Elizabeth Stopford, 1931
Reference Collection
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- John Fisher (1469-1535), Bishop of Rochester, cardinal and martyr. Sitter associated with 32 portraits.
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- Hans Holbein the Younger (1497 or 1498-1543). Artist associated with 302 portraits, Sitter in 12 portraits.
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Vestas trims hours for Colorado workers
Vestas Wind Systems is trimming hours for employees at another of its four Colorado wind turbine factories.
Vestas employees at a plant near Pueblo that makes towers for turbines will see their workweek sheared to 24 hours a week, beginning Jan. 14, the Greeley Tribune reported.
That's despite the fact that a wind-power tax credit whose threatened expiration was blamed for previous rounds of layoffs and reduced hours at Vestas plants was extended by Congress for another year.
Vestas said a month ago that it would reduce the hours of workers at its turbine-blade factories in Brighton and Windsor to 32 a week.
Hours are not affected at the Vestas nacelle plant in Brighton.
A state program called WorkShare will make up some of the money Vestas employees will lose from having their hours cut. WorkShare, a program of the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, pays about 80 percent of what employees would have earned.
The company has said it's making the adjustment in hours to avoid having to trim more jobs. Vestas now has 1,100 plant workers in Colorado, down from a high of 1,700 a year ago.


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Shark Conservation Weekend
Saturday, August 09, 2014 — 10:00am - 5:00pm
Most programs are free with the price of regular admission. See daily schedule for additional details.
They are an ancient species with a lineage that extends back millions of years. They are perfectly adapted to their environment. They inspire fear and fascination.
They are sharks.
But due to prejudice, habitat destruction, climate change and over-hunting, sharks are rapidly becoming one of the most imperiled creatures on Earth. Every year, humans harvest millions of sharks from the world's oceans, sometimes for
Join the
Daily ScheduleSATURDAY, AUGUST 9
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.: "The Art of Sharks" with wildlife artist Michael Cole.
10:00 to 11:00 a.m.: Shark
12:00 to 12:30 p.m.: Shark dive
1:30 to 2:30 p.m.: "The Flying Great White Sharks of South Africa" with Chris Spaulding. Spaulding, the Aquarium
6:00 p.m.: Shark Conservation Weekend Sleepover begins.
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.: "The Art of Sharks" with wildlife artist Michael Cole. Aquarium artist Michael Cole will provide a shark painting demonstration and
10:00 to 11:00 a.m.: Shark
1:30 to 2:30 p.m.: "The Flying Great White Sharks of South Africa" with Chris Spaulding. Spaulding, the Aquarium Science
Additional Weekend Activities
- Shark-related activities which promote imagination and
playamong younger visitorswill be available in the Sea & Me exhibit.
- Aquarium volunteers will help educate the public about shark biology
and conservation issues using interactive iPad programs and will give
out Great White Shark bookmarks while supplies last.
- Sharpshooter will provide free commemorative photos of Oregon shark
species throughout the weekend as part of their regular
- Online
activitieswill be available through the Aquarium's Oceanscape Network web site for preteens and teenagers. Features will include articles, interviews, amazing videos and a fully illustrated downloadable guide to Oregon's native shark species.
Learn More About Sharks:
Check out these pages on our website and learn more about these shark species, some of which can be viewed at the Aquarium.
- Blue Shark
- Broadnose Sevengill Shark
- Filetail Cat Shark
- Horn Shark
- Leopard Shark
- Spiny Dogfish Shark
- Great White Shark
Visit the Oceanscape Network for additional information on the Sharks of Oregon!


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Trinny and Susannah, Terry and Lampard, Ant and Dec; there have been some memorable double acts in recent times.
Up to 80 per cent of your marketing is wasted. Why? Well, much of what most organisations do is born of an industry that was created in a broadcast mindset and was designed to be interruptive.


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When I bought my 90mm for my 4x5 Cambo, it came mounted to a recessed board. I also bought a bag bellows for movements. I don't know any reason not to have the lens mounted to a recessed board, although you might need an "angled" cable release adapter to access the place on the lens barrel. Once I had the bag bellows, I never carried the long bellows with me again (including for the 210mm lens) unless I knew I was going to do work at less than 3-5 feet from the subject.
This is my situation, I don't know how it would apply to you. There are others on this forum with more gear knowledge. It might be useful to know what camera you have.


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In 2008, there were more young people voting then all years since 1972 when 18 year old individuals were first allowed to vote. With President Barack Obama fighting for reelection and the GOP trying to pull some of the those votes away, there are some in that 18-24 bracket trying to motivate their contemporaries to vote and convey to them that voting matters. A few Montclair State University students headed to the Essex County Hall of Records in Newark with the names and addresses of more than 1,100 new voters a few weeks ago. Those were only about one-third of the total that students at Montclair State submitted as part of major registration push before the October 16th deadline.
As Jonathan Royle, one of the Montclair State students doing the drive, stated;
"Every year is important. It affects a lot of us — health care, jobs, my loans."
For Royle and others around the state trying to collect thousands of registration forms leading up the deadline, it was not as much about the two presidential candidates; but the ideal of voting. And voting on referendums as well including a particular one that young voters have the most to gain from.
This year there is a referendum that if passed would allow New Jersey to borrow up to $750 million to fund the construction of new classrooms and labs at the state's public and private colleges. It is the first time in 24 years a higher education bond has appeared on the ballot.
According to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, a nonpartisan research center; four years ago voter turnout among 18- to 29-year-olds rose slightly when young voters turned out in large numbers nationwide to help elect President Obama. But the youth turnout was still only 53 percent in New Jersey that year, which was distantly behind the 67 percent of voters over age 30 who went to the polls.
One of the biggest issues facing those on college campuses is the uncertainty of how to register and where to vote on their campus. To assist with that, each election cycle there are more groups on campuses helping students out and making sure their campus address is their primary address if they happened to have registered in their hometowns. Those organizations also assist with absentee ballots and ensure young voters know all their options.
As Cat Iribarne, a campus organizer with a statewide group on college campuses called NJPIRG, expressed;
"We're finding a lot of students are already registered. We are encouraging students to update their registration so they can vote here."
Young voters often allow those older than them to dictate their agendas with having them be the large core of voters. However, one day those 18-24 year olds will be 38-44 year olds or 58-64 year olds and then will have a larger appreciation for the issues and elections. With referendums like the one this year and important developments on the economy and education and multiple areas; every vote matters.