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One of the most bittersweet moments of last night's Golden Globes occurred during the deployment of the Best Actress – Drama prize. Requisite shots of each nominee accompanied Mickey Rourke's reading of their names: Emily Blunt, grinning in rather extreme close-up; Sandra Bullock, the favorite, perched and ready to rise; Helen Mirren, the distinguished elder; Gabourey Sidibe, the gleeful neophyte… and just prior to Sidibe, Carey Mulligan, the one-time favorite for this prize and perhaps every other in 2009, meekly clapping, dwarfed in the back of the room, all but invisible with the tiny entourage from her breakthrough An Education. The viewer knew just as well as Mulligan did: She didn't have a chance. But why?
After all, it was almost a year ago when An Education's Sundance premiere sparked instant Oscar chatter for Mulligan, not to mention a lightning-quick, seven-figure distribution deal with awards-savvy distributors Sony Pictures Classics. The 24-year-old ingenue's performance as Jenny Miller — faltering at the fork in the road leading to either bohemian early-'60s living or a conservative Oxford education — yielded just the right class, brass and vulnerability to dazzle critics and Oscar voters. Assuming Sony Classics could strategically cultivate Mulligan's It-Girl status in the months to come, the general public would fall in line behind them. Apart from Mo'Nique's own towering performance in Precious, she was the closest thing to an Oscar lock Sundance had.
That remained the conventional wisdom throughout spring and early summer, when SPC and Lionsgate (which had bought Precious after a bit of saber-rattling with Harvey Weinstein) each clamped down on their stars' and their movies' visibility, carefully controlling against overexposure. But while Lionsgate secured a Cannes berth, a Toronto Film Festival gala and a prestigious centerpiece slot at the New York Film Festival for Precious, SPC went only so far as to drop An Education into Berlin and Toronto. It seemed a perfect fit for the NYFF's opening-night selection (the programmers instead went for Alain Resnais's Wild Grass, another SPC release), but Mulligan and her film remained hidden almost entirely from view as its Oct. 9 release date approached.
While that approach never stopped An Education from remaining near the front of the Oscar pack for much of 2009, you don't need hindsight to conclude it was an overreaction against peaking too soon. That might work if you're Mo'Nique, a brilliantly self-promoting, pay-to-play diva with whom Mulligan once shared an almost equivalent level of Oscar certitude. It isn't working so well for Team Mulligan, however, which utterly failed to build any public image or brand for their awards hopeful. Any number of unknowable internal factors contributed to this, from Mulligan's personal reluctance to play the game (especially after she started dating Shia LaBeouf) to SPC's institutional thriftiness to simply taking an awards nod for granted, thus planning to regroup in February — after the Oscar nominations are announced — for a legitimate campaign.
All of those dynamics may have been workable four or five years ago, before the Oscars started drawing fire (and crummy ratings) for its seeming insularity. But in 2009, Team Mulligan most severely miscalculated where her real competition would come from. While Gabourey Sidibe was dancing with Ellen DeGeneres, for example, Mulligan wowed exactly no one on The Late Show with David Letterman (just one day before An Education opened in New York and Los Angeles, by the way). While Meryl Streep was dominating August as Julia Child, Mulligan was dolled up in the NYT talking about the "insane" people she encounters in Los Angeles while riding the bus to meetings. And while Sandra Bullock scored the biggest hit — and the most awards traction by far — of her career in The Blind Side, Mulligan idled inconspicuously the art house, where An Education never expanded beyond 317 theaters. On the one hand, sure: You don't want it to turn out like Nine, overextended and flailing in medium-wide release. On the other, at least the Weinstein Company would wheedle and pester their actresses to nominations — or die trying, maybe even literally.
The consequences will come in waves. We witnessed the first in that sad scene at the Globes, with its lone shot of Mulligan as neither an underdog nor even a dark horse but — Heaven forbid — a slouching, cheek-biting also-ran. The next will arrive this week during Sundance, when some other budding actress will be coronated "this year's Carey Mulligan," possibly restoring a bit of late, insider luster to Mulligan's awards-season standing. The last wave will come Feb. 2, when the Oscar nominations could snub her entirely in favor of a Weinstein special (Marion Cotillard, Melanie Laurent) or a late-coming ingenue (Blunt, Abbie Cornish — both of whom have Cotillard's one-time Oscar guru Bob Berney working their cases behind the scenes). Despite myself, as one who was in that first Sundance audience and enjoyed the rare privilege of seeing a star born in person, I fear the worst.
Though Mulligan's Oscar chances are flagging, they're not unsalvageable. That said, what do you do if you're Sony Classics? As noted above, Mulligan has been a cinch for a nomination for nearly 12 months; a new round of press or for-your-consideration ads probably just seems like a waste of money with that kind of myth and momentum behind you. Moreover, it seems like panic — such a Harvey move. Still, this is a young woman who was once expected to win this award, not just be satisfied with a nomination. (Surely SPC didn't spend $4 million on this at Sundance to merely be nominated.) If ever there were a time to repeal this doctrine of underexposure — to get Mulligan in front of a few smart, Academy-concentrated audiences where her Oscar trajectory can find a boost before it's too late — now is the hour. Suggestions?


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Beijing 1948
To the Editor:
In "Beijing 1947" [July], Michael Loewe mentions the raging inflation under the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek in the years following World War II. Seeing this inflation firsthand, as I had occasion to do in April 1948, was a sobering experience. When a nation's currency becomes worthless, it is more than an economic disaster: civil and moral structures also break down.
From 1946 to 1948 I served with the 11th Airborne Division and saved up a month's leave to spend in China. In the course of my trip to Shanghai and Beijing, I discovered it was a dangerous time indeed. American military personnel were frequently assaulted and killed in Shanghai, and we were warned to keep to well-lighted streets. Vice was rampant, and desperate refugee women from all over postwar Europe and Asia Minor were available everywhere.
But the monetary debacle is what remains most vividly in my mind. In that month of April, the official rate of exchange was 470,000 Chinese dollars to one American dollar and it rose hourly. The black market was so widespread that only a fool would exchange money at the official rate. The money came in stacks of ten 1,000-dollar notes. My room boy at the hotel would get money for me at 100,000 Chinese dollars—and higher—over the official rate. My first week's bill at the hotel was over 35 million dollars, and it took two trips to the cashier with a full suitcase to pay it. Although it was against the law for merchants to accept other currency, this rule was flouted in virtually every shop. After checking for the presence of police, shopkeepers would snatch American dollars to add to their hoard, and One could get sensational bargains. Eventually, after I left, the exchange rate went to over a million to one, and the money was finally recalled. It cost more to print than it was worth.
When I was there, Beijing was much as Mr. Loewe describes it. Mao's Communist army was only 50 miles away and gunfire could be heard in the distance. Those were exciting times in and around the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven, the summer and winter palaces, the Jade Buddha. I thank Michael Loewe for recapturing them for me.
Stanley P. Kessel
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Can you tell I am missing wherever you are?
Do you call my name upon the night?
Is there a part of you searching
for the missing pieces of me?
A paper is a cold lonely world without your heartbeat
Of course the curious question is do I miss it?
I wonder what I look like now,
would there be a change in my eyes?
Do you see it?
Sometimes when the stars come out,
I remember. I call out across the sky
but slowly I learned;
you can't hear me anymore.
For months I waited, hiding between pages
in the space between words, but you
couldn't see me anymore.
The world was haunted, full of
so many ghosts, the beckoned. I went.
I tread where mortality
was forbidden.
And like faeries, the ghosts
forbid me return. They lulled me to sleep
slowly at night and I slowly
forgot why I should ever wake up.
Once or twice I thought I heard you
but they were dreams and slowly
those faded too.
The ghosts turned into just sheets I slept in
and then I can't remember.
Who are you?
Are the dreams just ghosts
caught in cobwebs in my head?
So tonight I will lay us down to sleep
with the sound of your voice upon the night
unless it's just a ghost screaming.


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Thanks to Quixotica for tipping us off to this video. Warcraft Final Fantasy Style 7 by Sefearion is an interesting and complex blend of animation styles. Some of it is machinima, certainly. In many other locations, however, Sefearion took obvious pains to create the animation from scratch.
I found the story a little confusing, since I am picking up the series late in its development. However, the basic idea is that we're now following the adventures of the Orc Warrior Orson. That much was fairly easy to grasp. Sefearion has done so many interesting things with his graphics, I'll admit the story almost could have been "Orc think Dragon pretty!" and I would have watched.
I'd encourage Sefearion to continue the series, but maybe grab an editor to help give it a little more narrative focus. But that's pretty shallow criticism, when you consider the obvious skills Sefearion is displaying here. Overall, it's a great job.


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Courts: Stanford Law Defends Documentary Filmmaker
Lecturer in Law and Executive Director of the Fair Use Project Anthony Falzone is quoted and the Fair Use Project of the Center for Internet and Society, which is defending a documentary filmmaker sued for copyright infringement:, is referenced in Washington Internet Daily:
A documentary filmmaker sued for promotional materials he used on the Internet is getting help from the Fair Use Project at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. The group filed an answer and counterclaims to a suit brought in U.S. District Court, Boston. Producer Floyd Webb is making a documentary on John Keehan, aka Count Dante, a quirky Chicago martial-arts figure who founded the Black Dragon Fighting Society.
... Webb's "First Amendment rights are at stake here," Anthony Falzone, Fair Use Project executive director, said in a written statement.


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The US has announced another series of sanctions on Putin connected companies over the troubles in the Ukraine. They're ever so slightly odd sanctions as well: they don't stop people dealing with companies like Rosneft Rosneft but they do stop that company from being able to make any significant new long term borrowings in US dollars. This is a rather subtle use of the United States' power over the currency but it's possible that this might, in the longer term, lead to a development of a market for oil in other currencies.
To give a very rough pencil sketch of the background. The United States isn't buying the argument that the takeover of the Crimea, the unrest in the eastern part of the Ukraine, is all just loyal Russian speakers agitating to be allowed to rejoin Mother Russia. There is, with a certain justice to the thought, a feeling that this is rather being whipped up by Putin and his circle for their own domestic and foreign political policy. The US would therefore like to do something about this. But general sanctions against Russia are thought to not be the solution. For why should either Americans, denied the opportunity to trade with Russia, or Russians in general, denied the opportunity to trade with Americans, suffer for the behaviour of the ruling clique?
Thus highly targeted sanctions aimed at the people, and the companies they own and or run, in said ruling group. For example, in the last round of sanctions a bank that Putin has close ties with and also the previous part owner of commodity trading firm Gunvor, Gennady Timchenko, were placed under sanctions. This meant that Americans were not able to deal with these people but could still trade more generally in the Russian economy (Timchencko sold out of Gunvor the the day before the sanctions were announced, meaning that the firm could still be traded with). It's still possible to trade with Rosneft but not to deal directly with Igor Sechin, the Executive Chairman of the company and a close ally of Putin.
What's interesting about this latest set of sanctions is quite how selective they are:
In announcing the sanctions, which also hit No. 2 natural gas producer Novatek Novatek as well as two banks and eight defense firms, the Treasury Department said U.S. companies were only prohibited from engaging in any "new debt of longer than 90 days maturity or new equity" with the energy firms and banks.
The measures would not freeze the Russian firms' assets "nor prohibit transactions with them beyond these specific restrictions," the Treasury Department said. That marked a change from many earlier measures that effectively shut down a sanctioned firm's ability to do any business with U.S. entities.
That would appear to mean that only US companies would not be able to offer such loans and or equity stakes. So, for example, Glencore, which is Swiss based, can carry on to its heart's content. But that's not quite the way that the US asserts its power over the US dollar. Recall what happened with BNP Paribas BNP Paribas who have just paid that $9 billion fine. The US had sanctions against Sudan: OK. So a French bank, in Paris, continued to deal with Sudan. That shouldn't be a breach of US sanctions, at least so you might have thought. But it was, for BNP Paribas continued to deal with the Sudan in US dollars. And in a US dollar transaction there will, inevitably, be a moment when the transaction clears through a bank account actually in the US. Meaning that any and all transactions in US dollars, done by any entity from any country, become subject to those US sanctions. The only way around this is suitcases full of cash and while Russia does operate in that manner at times it's not really feasible for the sort of amounts that are used in oil deals.
That may or may not be quite the way that the details of international law are written down but that is the de facto state of play.
Thus Rosneft isn't just locked out of long term finance from US companies, it's really locked out of long term finance in US dollars. Which is a problem for the firm, for almost all dealings in oil around the world are conducted in the US dollar.
Rosneft is entirely at liberty to borrow in any other currency it can manage to gain a loan in. Rubles, Yuan, Pounds Sterling, Vietnamese Dong, all are just entirely fine. And any non-US financial or trading company or organisation is entirely at liberty to lend or invest equity into such a project with or through Rosneft. Which means that it doesn't sound like much of a problem,: until you recall that oil is almost always traded in US dollars.
That means that there would be a currency mismatch between any borrowings or equity that was, say, denominated in euros and the future revenue stream, which will still be in dollars. That's simple enough to cover, there are deep and liquid currency markets and futures or options could be arranged, possibly even currency swaps. But as soon as that happens then we're back to dealing in US dollars again and thus come under the sanctions (and no, the US would not look kindly upon anyone who did something cure to get around this. See BNP Paribas above).
So Rosneft must borrow in non-dollars and thus opens itself up to the problem of having a currency mismatch that it cannot cover. That's a big, big, risk. So it will inevitably reduce the company's access to long term finance. It's a clever way to hobble the future performance of the company without affecting the current market for oil. The 90 day exemption on new debt also means that standard trade finance (things like letters of credit for an oil shipment, that sort of thing) also won't be affected.
One possibility is that Rosneft and others will use this as a reason to try and expand the amount of oil that is traded not in dollars but in some other currency. To which good luck really because people have been trying to do that for years and not really got very far with it.


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Uncertainty Looms in Investment Real Estate
January 6, 2010
Robert Knakal has written an article for the Observer detailing the various mechanisms the FED has at its disposal to address liquidity in the market. Just reading the article gives me a headache. Not because it's confusing, but because there are just so many variables now in play that it becomes nearly impossible to figure out what is going to happen and when. Here's a sample from the article:
What happens after property values bottom out? Will property values bounce along this bottom for a while? Will values bounce but trend upward or trend downward? The answers to these questions are dependent upon a battle that will take place among the following factors: the speed and extent of inflation; the de-leveraging process; the massive amount of capital on the sidelines; job growth; the state of fundamentals; the Fed's monetary policy (and how it sequences its exit); and good old-fashion supply and demand. We firmly believe that 2009's low volume of sales was more a function of constrained supply rather than a lack of demand, which remained healthy.
Despite all this uncertainty, there is a lot of money still waiting to come in off the sidelines. In fact, we've seen an uptick in activity over the past quarter and there are numerous office assets in the $20-40M range in the SF Bay Area currently under contract.
Most of the money though will flow to the core markets, leaving the secondary and tertiary markets to suffer longer and harder as yields will rise in these "less-than-core" markets.
Anyhow, read the whole article, it's a fairly good read…
[via The Observer]
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The last day to register to vote in the Aug. 7 state primary and county general election is just one week away, and those wanting to weigh in on federal, state and local contests must do so no later than Tuesday, July 8.
"People can go to our website, as well as Carter and Unicoi countys' websites for information and to download registration forms," said Maybell Stewart, Washington County administrator of elections. "If people are not sure if they are currently registered, or if they have any questions at all, they can call us or the other election commission offices. Citizens also can mail registration forms to election commission offices, but they must be postmarked by July 8."
At the federal level, incumbent U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., will defend his seat in Congress against six Republican challengers in the Aug. 7 primary. Four Democratic hopefuls are competing for a chance to face off in the general election. Nine independents and one Green Party candidate automatically move to the Nov. 4 ballot.
Incumbent Phil Roe will defend his District 1 U.S. House of Representatives seat against two fellow Republicans in the state primary. There are no Democrats making a run, but two independents and one Green Party candidate will join the pack in the general election.
At the state level, incumbent Republican Gov. Bill Haslam faces three GOP contenders and three Democratic hopefuls. Three independents, as well as one Green Party and one Constitution Party entries, will move to the Nov. 4 general election ballot.
Two Tennessee House of Representatives races are of particular interest. District 6 incumbent Micah Van Huss is being challenged in the all-Republican primary by Johnson City Vice Mayor Clayton Stout. These are the only contestants for this seat, making it a winner-take-all affair.
The same principle applies in the District 7 race, though three Republicans are in the running: incumbent Matthew Hill, former Johnson City Commissioner Phil Carriger and Todd Mitchell Franklin.
Local contests include a race for all 25 Washington County Commission district seats.
There were some surprises during the May 6 Republican primary. Incumbents Doyle Cloyd, Alpha Bridger, Mark Ferguson, Roger Nave and Gearld Sparks lost their bids to move on to the county general election. Another incumbent, David Shanks, has withdrawn his name from contention, moving a total of six sitting commissioners off the board.
The district attorney general and various judicial positions will be finalized Aug. 7, a date coinciding with the county general election. Elizabethton, Jonesborough and the towns of Erwin and Unicoi will hold municipal elections Nov. 4.
Citizens can register to vote at the following locations:
• Washington County Election Commission office, 100 E. Main St., Jonesborough, TN 37659. Call 753-1688 or visit the website at wcecoffice.com.
• Carter County Election Commission Office, Carter County Courthouse, 801 East Elk Ave., Room 207, Elizabethton, TN 37643. Call 542-1822 or visit cartercountytn.gov/government/election-commission.
• Unicoi County Election Commission office, 106 Nolichucky Ave., Erwin, TN 37650. Call 735-7327 or visit unicoicountytn.gov/government/election-commission.
• Registration forms also can be downloaded by going to tn.gov and clicking the link to the election page. Registration forms also are available at Department of Safety and Human Services offices.
Dates to know:
• July 31: Last day to request absentee ballot.
• July 18-Aug. 2: Early voting.
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- Certificate of Authority to Remain in Australia issued to Zofia Antoniszyn (later Kozuch) and child by the Commonwealth of Australia, dated 29 April 1951. This certificate gave Zofia permanent residency status but did not confer naturalization/citizenship status. Permanent residency status still required nominees to comply with the Aliens Act, such as notifying the Department of Immigration of change of address or employment.
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text: Next A hearse leaves the Municipal Auditorium in Charleston, W.Va. after a joint funeral for "Buckwild" star Shain Gandee and his uncle David Gandee Sunday afternoon, April 7, 2013. Gandee, his 48-year-old uncle, David Gandee, and 27-year-old friend Donald Robert Myers were found dead April 1 in a sport utility vehicle that was partially submerged in a deep mud pit near Sissonville. (AP Photo/The Charleston Gazette, Kenny Kemp) Gallery: Funeral for 'BUCKWILD' star Shain Gandee Apr. 07, 2013 @ 09:42 PM The Herald-Dispatch / 2015 Family, friends and fans gathered in camouflage in West Virginia on Sunday for the funeral for "BUCKWILD" reality TV star Shain Gandee. (u'nobuy',)


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Times are changing for gay inclusion in sports. Here are four stories from the month of April that demonstrate gay inclusion may soon be a non-issue.
1) Basketball Player Jason Collins Comes Out
Washington Wizards' 34-year-old NBA center Jason Collins has come out as gay in a piece appearing in May's Sports Illustrated, making history as the only openly gay active male athlete playing in any of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States.
The piece opens, saying:
I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay.
I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation. I wish I wasn't the kid in the classroom raising his hand and saying, "I'm different." If I had my way, someone else would have already done this. Nobody has, which is why I'm raising my hand.
Collins goes on to say in the three page editorial that recent events reminded him of the necessity of living his life authentically:
The recent Boston Marathon bombing reinforced the notion that I shouldn't wait for the circumstances of my coming out to be perfect. Things can change in an instant, so why not live truthfully? When I told Joe a few weeks ago that I was gay, he was grateful that I trusted him. He asked me to join him in 2013. We'll be marching on June 8.
He also points to March's Supreme Court hearings and how personal it felt while "nine jurists argued about my happiness and my future. Here was my chance to be heard, and I couldn't say a thing."
Collins, who notes he presents "against the gay stereotype," acknowledges that loyalty to his team and not wanting to overshadow the game did play a part in the timing of his coming out. He also notes that his "double-life," hiding his sexuality from his teammates, has isolated him. Now, though, he seems mindful he has the power to change that isolation for other gay sportsmen, closing his article with:
Some people insist they've never met a gay person. But Three Degrees of Jason Collins dictates that no NBA player can claim that anymore. Pro basketball is a family. And pretty much every family I know has a brother, sister or cousin who's gay. In the brotherhood of the NBA, I just happen to be the one who's out.
Will more players from across the major leagues come out? Now that the taboo is broken, it certainly seems like change could be in the air.
Read more: gay athletes, gay rights, gay sports players, lgbt rights, lgbt Sport, nba, nfl, nhl, openly gay athletes
Thanks Steve.
A SHOWER of green stars to Lyn B, who quietly and truthfully expresses the WHY so many of you ''Christians"" whine about when you insist that same-sex couples are ''jamming their lifestyle down our throats!"
When the bible bangers stop insisting that the entire world must live by their hypocritical rules...that's when!
When will the time for sexual preference not become a major media event?
Good for Nike! Really! It's good to see players feeling that they can be who they really are without fear.
And Carol M, it WASN'T "made known that Tim Tebow is an Xian" he flouted it on the playing field. Rubbed in it everyone's face in inappropriate ways DURING the game. So get over it. No one asked Tebow to hide that he was Xian, they just expected him not to turn his religion into game-time theater.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing.
Additionally, and I've posted this before, it's also all the little things straight people take for granted like being able to walk hand in hand with your partner possibly also along with your child/children without being beaten up or killed for doing so.
We come out so we can have the same types of pictures on our desks/walls at work; pictures of us on vacation with our partner or our partner and our children or dogs or whatever!
So we can safely come to the holiday party with our significant other/partner/husband/wife.
So we can get married if we love that deeply.
So we can have a family if that's what we truly want.
So we can have equal rights when it comes to the law.
So we can be in a hospital and NOT have our life partner denied the right to see me, to help me, to love me. To have that same partner be able to make life/death decisions instead of strangers or worse, family who Hate me!
So we can go to a restaurant, a sporting event and again NOT DIE or be beaten up for doing so.
And yes, it's STILL that dangerous for all of us, LGBTQ's, JUST depending on who we sit next to, what city/state/country we live in.
And I'm not talking even talking about PDA's (public displays of affection). I'm just saying holding hands. Now mind you, ALL of us LGBTQ's have to put up with hetereosexual PDA's ALL THE TIME! Sometimes some of the grossest stuff imaginable!
None of us want to "flaunt" our sex lives. What we want is equality.
This post is in response to "why must sexual preferences be shared".
I have shared most of this before but obviously it bears repeating.
I agree that we shouldn't have to tell or share all of our "business" although that's EXACTLY what Everyone does anyway, currently via social media. BUT the reality is that if people stay silent, nothing changes.
The point of celebrating people with high visibility (actors, athletes, politicians, etc) coming out is that it helps to put a face to the label, to the idea or concept. It helps humanize the label.
It starts to show that although someone says that they don't know anyone that's gay or bi or fill in the blank, that, Yes, they Do know someone and maybe today that someone is only on the tv but that may make them realize that they Do know someone in "real" life.
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Made in Countdown 2010
It's 2010 – a year of stock-taking for world governments and for the Countdown 2010 initiative. The 2010 Biodiversity Target was not reached but the thousands of biodiversity actions taken by Countdown 2010 partners are an important step towards the improvement of the status of biodiversity and the increase of public awareness. Thousands of biodiversity actions all over the world have contributed to conserving biodiversity. These actions are a model for other communities, regions and countries. The initiative itself has served as a springboard for increased, and concrete, action beyond 2010. A renewed and enhanced phase of biodiversity conservation and awareness raising can now start. …
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Protecting Europe's cultural landscapes and biodiversity heritage
European landscapes reflect not only the continent's diverse climate and geology but also centuries of interaction between man and nature. A new European Environment Agency (EEA) study reviews this interplay, highlighting the main threats to this rich heritage and initiatives to protect it. …
28 Sep 2010 | News story
A decade for Biodiversity?
16 September, Brussels: Japan is proposing to the United Nations General Assembly to promote the next decade as the International Decade of Biodiversity, according to the representative from the Japanese Mission to the European Union. Mr Tanaka joined a group of 20 or so policy experts from various backgrounds at a briefing session organised by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in their EU Representative Office in Brussels. …
28 Sep 2010 | News story
Ecological Networks to Safeguard Biodiversity and Human Wellbeing
Strasbourg (France) – Biodiversity plays an immense role in maintaining natural processes and delivering numerous essential ecosystem services to human society. Favourable conservation status of wild flora and fauna is therefore essential not only for securing healthy ecosystems but human wellbeing too. "We have to employ the best of our knowledge while setting up and applying conservation tools such as protected areas and ecological networks. In order effectively to do so, on the ground conservation efforts have to be backed with well defined and commonly agreed policies", says Boris Erg, Director of IUCN Programme Office for South-Eastern Europe. …
28 Sep 2010 | News story
Protection areas across borders- learning by visiting
Representatives of Albania, Macedonia, and Kosovo visited protected areas of Czech Republic and Germany eager to learn about best practices and successes in organization and management of protected areas across borders. …
24 Sep 2010 | News story
Visions for the Future in Ghent
Ghent, 9 September, IUCN Director-General Julia Marton-Lefèvre gave the closing keynote address at the Belgian EU Presidency event "Biodiversity in a changing world".
In her speech "Visions for the Future" Julia highlighted that the EU, as the world's largest economic block, has the power to make a huge impact (both positive and negative) on the future of biodiversity in coming decade.
16 Sep 2010 | News story
Saving biodiversity
Ghent (Belgium), 8 September 2010 – The IUCN's Countdown 2010 initiative is almost over. But the actions of its nearly 1,100 partners worldwide are not!
It's 2010 – a year of stock-taking for world governments and for the Countdown 2010 initiative. The 2010 Biodiversity Target was not reached but the thousands of biodiversity actions taken by Countdown 2010 partners are an important step towards the improvement of the status of biodiversity and the increase of public awareness.
07 Sep 2010 | News story
UICN – Reuters – COMplus anuncian ganadores del premio al periodismo ambiental 2010
Los ganadores regionales fueron seleccionados de 418 artículos, provenientes de 81 países. Ellos competirán por el premio mundial, de USD 5000. … | English
07 Sep 2010 | News story
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The future of water in the face of climate change
There needs to be significant investment to solve the growing water crisis that threatens water supplies and water quality for both people and nature, says IUCN. Climate change makes the search for practical solutions for water management increasingly urgent. …
06 Sep 2010 | News story
Message from the Deputy Director General: Freshwater conservation
Watch IUCN Deputy Director General Bill Jackson talk about freshwater conservation challenges and explain what IUCN is doing to make sure that there's enough water in the world both for nature and for people. …
04 Sep 2010 | News story


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ADSL2+ is the most popular form of home internet connection in Australia. The internet is connected through your existing home telephone line through an ADSL2+ splitter, meaning you can still use the telephone whilst using the internet.
The download speed of ADSL2+ connections is dependent on a number of factors such as the distance from your residence to the ADSL2+ exchange. The theoretical maximum download speed of an ADSL2+ connection is 20Mbps, though the most common speeds achieved are around 8-12Mbps, which is fine for everyday web browsing.
In Australia, ADSL comes in two forms; ADSL (aka ADSL1) and ADSL2+. Both these forms of broadband work over a standard copper phone line and differ only in the speeds they deliver. ADSL and ADSL2+ are the most widely offered forms of high-speed broadband of any kind in Australia. ADSL1 was the first iteration of ADSL in Australia and is supported over a wider area than ADSL2+, especially in regional areas where ADSL2+ still may not be available. ADSL1 speeds generally max out at around 8Mbps, making it faster than most wireless networks but still slower than other fixed-line broadband internet like ADSL2+ and Cable. ADSL2+ generally offers advertised speeds of up to 20-24Mbps. There isn't a huge difference in pricing between ADSL and ADSL2+ broadband plans, so if you can get ADSL2+ in your area , go for it. Start Comparing ADSL / ADSL 2+ Plans
A bundle means that you combine your broadband and home phone in one plan so they are invoiced together by the same company. For example, you can combine together these services in your bundle:broadband, home phone, mobile phone and mobile wireless broadband.
The advantages of subscribing to a bundle are that services are often cheaper together than if subscribed separately and there is only one bill at the end of the month, which means less paperwork and time spent on paying bills.
Most providers give the choice to customers to choose between wired, wireless or their own modem when subscribing to a new plan. Some providers offer a free modem to customers who sign up to a 24 month plan, but some ask customers to pay a fee if they bring their own modem.
Naked ADSL is a great way to get fast, stable broadband if you don't have an active phone line. Increasingly, households are beginning to find their home phone landline going unused for anything other than internet. Unlike regular ADSL or ADSL2+, Naked ADSL does not require you to have a valid landline contract with a phone carrier. That means lower monthly fees for the same internet service. Naked ADSL runs at ADSL2+ speeds and tends to be a little more expensive than normal ADSL2+., but cheaper than an ADSL2+ and home phone bundle when you add both prices together - when you factor in what you save by not having an active phone line you can definitely come out ahead with a Naked ADSL plan. Start Comparing Naked ADSL Plans
Cable broadband is the fastest and most reliable form of broadband internet. Cable is so named because it runs over optical fibre cable, capable of literally sending information at near light-speeds. Cable Broadband generally offers advertised speeds of up to 30Mbps, but recently that number has jumped to a lightning-fast 100Mbps with some new offers in capital cities from Telstra and Optus. Cable is by far and away the most impressive form of broadband internet due to the amazing speeds that are possible where large movie files can be downloaded in minutes. That being said, it's also the most difficult to get with a limited footprint in Australia as it hard to build (hence the government stepping in the National Broadband Network to build cable connections to all homes in the next 5 years). Right now, Cable broadband is certainly not available everywhere. If you do live in a cable broadband supported area then you have the limited choice of going with either Optus or Telstra with your connection. No other broadband internet service providers (ISPs) in Australia offer the Cable service. Start Comparing Cable Broadband Plans
The only form of mobile / wireless broadband available in Australia is 3G and variants thereof. 2G is not fast enough to be considered broadband and 4G has unfortunately not yet reached our shores. Due to its wireless nature, 3G is the favoured form of broadband for portable devices. It is most commonly used by smartphones and portable USB modems. The fastest form of 3G in Australia right now is 3G HSDPA (sometimes referred to as 3.5G). Telstra, Optus, Vodafone and Three all support 3G HSDPA. Telstra's HSDPA network is called NextG and is the fastest available in Australia. Where Optus, Vodafone and Three are all limited to speeds of around 8Mbps and below, Telstra now offers a 20Mbps USB modem. This is easily Australia's fastest mobile broadband deal. Start Comparing Mobile Broadband Plans
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Rome: Rise and Fall of a Dictator Perpetuus
It is obvious where Rome got its primary inspiration. In 1976, I, Claudius was quite the phenomenon, a well-written British drama series that portrayed key events in Rome from the days of the first Emperor, Augustus, to the death of Emperor Claudius. The characters were portrayed by reliable stage actors and the setting was as sparse as possible. When Bruno Heller, the head writer of Rome, and his colleagues decided to make a modern equivalent, the backing of American, British and Italian financiers made it possible to spend a lot of money on not just actors and writers but also the actual depiction of what Rome must have looked like in those days. Add to that juicy sex scenes and bloody violence; success was guaranteed.
It seems like any period in the history of Rome was equally dramatic. The one the creators of this series chose takes place between 49 BC and 31 BC. The first season portrays the Roman civil war where Julius Caesar (Ciarán Hinds), a successful general, becomes a rival to a highly esteemed colleague, Pompey (Kenneth Cranham). The men have very different views of how Rome should be governed; Pompey, aided by the influential senator Cicero (David Bamber), wants to preserve the power of the Senate and keep the Republic as it is. Caesar on the other hand wants to reform it and after a civil war that ends in Pompey's death, Caesar is able to declare himself dictator for life. The first season ends in Caesar's death, the dictator stabbed by a group of senators led by Brutus (Tobias Menzies), a former ally. The second one continues immediately after the first, with another former Caesar ally, Mark Antony (James Purefoy), rising to the task of leading Rome. He's soon challenged by Octavian (played as a teenager by Max Pirkis, as a young man by Simon Woods), the true heir to Caesar. The rivalry between the two men soon drives Antony into the arms of Cleopatra (Lyndsey Marshal).
These are all famous real-life persons, but the main characters of Rome were two retired Roman soldiers, Titus Pullo (Ray Stevenson) and Lucius Vorenus (Kevin McKidd). They always managed to stay close to the leaders of Rome, but they were our link to everyday life in the city. We saw how common people lived, how they prepared meals, what their customs, attitudes and sexual mores were like. These were all ingredients completely ignored in I, Claudius. Still, the most thrilling parts of Rome were the political intrigues. In the second season, Purefoy made the most of his Mark Antony, a delight to watch as a foolish, corrupt, wicked, stupid and arrogant man who eventually embarked on a self-destructive (and dramatically fascinating) relationship with Cleopatra. The character of Atia (Polly Walker) was obviously inspired by the scheming, vicious Livia in I, Claudius and the writers turned Octavian (the future Augustus) into a complex man, sexually deviant and cold, but always concerned with justice and the well-being of the people.
Rome was generally interesting and well-made, although historical accuracy may not have been its primary concern. It was interesting to see how much it influenced subsequent historical dramas like The Tudors… for better or worse.
Rome 2005-2007:U.S.-Britain-Italy. Made for TV. 22 episodes. Color. Created by Bruno Heller, William J. MacDonald, John Milius. Theme: Jeff Beal. Cast: Ray Stevenson (Titus Pullo), Kevin McKidd (Lucius Vorenus), Polly Walker (Atia), James Purefoy, Ciarán Hinds (05), Simon Woods (07), Lindsay Duncan, Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies, Indira Varma (05), David Bamber, Max Pirkis, Esther Hall, Coral Amiga, Kenneth Cranham (05), Lyndsey Marshal (07), Karl Johnson (05).
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Anthony Samad: The presence of gay men in black churches, and not just in the choir, is significant. This is an issue waiting to break in probably every city in America. And it's not that the congregation doesn't know it. It is now the silent concern in the black church.
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Carl Bloice: In most of the rest of the world the prescribed method for dealing with economic crisis is austerity. That's what it is when, in order to deal with the economic malfunctioning, you cut education budgets and fire teachers, enact special taxes that hit working people hardest, reduce services for the indigent and threaten to reduce or eliminate retirement and medical programs for seniors. It comes down to who, in a pinch, is going to be required to lower their living standards, and which individuals and families are expected to lead more austere lives.
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here's a story out of Philadelphia that's enough to break your heart. On April 21, a man shot his girlfriend to death in front of her 11-year old daughter, then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide. Aleen Ali, 45, a supervisor at the city's Department of Human Services (DHS), walked up to the […]