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CILAVS Seminars
Trajectories of the Militant Image: Filmmaking as Social Intervention and Experiment in Rural Portugal and Mozambique
Ros Gray (Goldsmiths)
Friday 24 June 2016, 6.00pm, Room 112, 43 Gordon Square, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, London WC1H 0PD
Please note that due to unforseen circumstances this event has been cancelled.
This seminar will examine practices and theories of militant filmmaking in the context of land occupations during the Carnation Revolution in Portugal and rural transformation in Mozambique after independence. It will focus on the extension of media networks across rural areas and different attempts to use filmmaking as a form of revolutionary intervention. Case studies will include Thomas Harlan's film Torre Bela and a number of interconnected projects in Mozambique associated with Eduardo Mondlane University. What questions do these projects, which were marginal to the Instituto Nactional de Cinema in Mozambique raise about archives and legacies of militant filmmaking? Angela Ferreira's work Political Cameras, which revisits the TBARN project carried out in Niassa in the 1980s, will be considered alongside other visual materials.
Ros Gray is Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, Critical Studies in the Art Department at Goldsmiths. She is the author of numerous articles journals including ARTMargins, The Journal of Visual Cultures, The Journal of African Cinemas and Textile: Journal of Cloth and Culture. Ros has contributed to books such as Postcommunist Film: Russian, Eastern European and World Culture, the Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, Renée Green's book Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams and a three-volume book published in Portuguese on the history of filmmaking in Angola. Ros Gray was co-editor with Kodwo Eshun of a special issue of Third Text entitled 'The Militant Image: A Ciné-Geography', and co-curated a number of related film programmes in Iniva in London and at Musée Quai de Branly in Paris. She is on the Editorial Board of Third Text, and is currently preparing two publications - a monograph entitled Cinemas of the Mozambican Revolution and a special issue of Third Text called 'Botanical Conflicts: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Soil and Planting'.
A drinks reception will follow.
All welcome, no booking is required.
Public Tears and Secrets of the Heart: Political Emotions in a State of Crisis
L. Elena Delgado (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Wednesday 11 May 2016, 6.00pm, Room 112, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, London WC1H 0PD
In a society of hyper-communication, compulsive transparency and prescribed positivity, who can make claims, express political grievances and "speak from the heart" in the public sphere? How does the study of political emotions, particularly at a time of economic and social crisis, illuminate current notions of democratic citizenship and social justice? This talk will start by analyzing the ubiquitous presence of heart-centered images and rhetoric in the "Spain of crisis" (as it has come to be known in Spanish), something quite remarkable considering that its prevalence coincides with the rising public visibility of fraud and corruption scandals, in all segments of society. I will continue by examining the contradiction implicit in the exigency of a transparent heart when the visceral truths that are exposed to the public unsettle and stir, rather than soothe and patch up. I will then focus on recent movements that have successfully mobilized social and political activism, and in doing so have been accused of stirring visceral (and therefore irrational) reactions: secessionism in Scotland and Catalonia and the movement of the Outraged (Indignados) in Spain. I will show how through the deployment of both "negative" (outrage or anger) and "positive" (hope, joy) emotions, those movements have contested the orchestration of neoliberal psycho-politics in times of crisis and managed to reclaim their space in the democratic public sphere.
L. Elena Delgado is Professor of Spanish Literature and Cultures, Criticism and Interpretive Theory and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). She is also affiliated with the Center for Global Studies and The European Union Center. The focus of her current research and teaching is the construction of a Spanish national cultural identity in the democratic period, aesthetics and ideology in modern and contemporary Spanish literature, and emotions and affects in/as culture. Her most recent authored book is La nación singular. Fantasías de la normalidad democrática española (1996-2011) [Siglo XXI, 2014, The Singular Nation: Fantasies of Spanish democratic normalcy] for which she was a finalist for the National Book Award in Spain, in the category of essay. She has recently completed a co-edited book entitled Engaging the Emotions in Spanish History and Culture (from the Enlightment to the Present) published by Vanderbilt UP (2016). She has written numerous articles and given presentations and keynote lectures all over the world. She is the editor of a book series on contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Studies for Liverpool University Press, and a permanent member of the editorial team of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. She is currently working on two projects: one a cultural history of modern Spanish literature, co-authored with Jo Labanyi (Polity Press) and another, tentatively entitled The Transparent Heart: Political Emotions in a state of crisis, on which she will be working on next year thanks to a fellowship from the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities.
This seminar is organized by CILAVS in collaboration with the Comparative Research in European Cultures and Identities (CRECI) Centre.
All welcome, no booking is required
Memory as Montage: The Visual Archive of the Spanish Civil War
Sebastiaan Faber (Oberlin College)
Tuesday 9 February 2016, 6.00pm, Keynes Library, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, London WC1H 0PD
Images were central to the story of the Spanish Civil War and continue to be central in its memory today. After all, the war in Spain was the first major armed conflict to be covered by the modern visual media, equipped with newly portable photo and film cameras. Telling this visual story was not a mere matter of shooting films and photographs, however; it was also one of cutting and pasting. The photomontage, whose use had spread rapidly since the 1920s, became a crucial tool not just for propaganda posters but in journalism as well. And yet the centrality of montage as a tool for truth-telling has not been sufficiently acknowledged. A treasure hunt through the visual archive of the Spanish Civil War yields some surprising finds that place long-standing debates about the historical memory of the conflict in a new light.
Sebastiaan Faber is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Oberlin College and visiting researcher at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. He has published widely on Spanish and Latin American literature and culture. He is the author of Exile and Cultural Hegemony: Spanish Intellectuals in Mexico, 1939-1975 (Vanderbilt, 2002) and Anglo-American Hispanists and the Spanish Civil War: Hispanophilia, Commitment, and Discipline (Palgrave, 2008), and has co-edited Contra el olvido. El exilio expañol en Estados Unidos (U de Alcalá, 2009). From 2010 till 2015 he served as the Chair of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA), whose quarterly journal The Volunteer he co-edits.
A drinks reception will follow.
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Anachronisms? El Escorial and the Christian Reconquest: Preserving Visual Chronicles of Warfare in Early Modern Castile
Laura Fernández-González (University of Lincoln)
Wednesday 18 November 2015, 6.00pm, Keynes Library, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, London WC1H 0PD
The Hall of Battles in El Escorial Monastery is a long gallery covered in frescoes commissioned by Philip II of Spain (1527-1598). The gallery is one among of the most remarkable spaces in El Escorial. The building itself is a prime example of the Austriaco style in architecture developed by Philip II and his architects. The longest fresco in the Hall depicting the Battle of La Higueruela of 1431 against the moors of the Kingdom of Granada, completely covers the wall adjacent to the basilica. Facing this, in the wall panels between the nine windows of the chamber, a number of scenes are depicted representing Philip II's victories in the Netherlands and France, including the famous battle of St. Quentin (1557). The remaining walls in the room are painted with frescoes of the battles of the Azores and of Tercera. The battles represent some of Philip II's triumphs and those of his ancestry.
The selection of battles represented in the frescoes has been highly debated by scholars. Many have wondered why the Lepanto and Tunis campaigns were not present, and more importantly, why Philip decided to include La Higueruela.This fresco has been believed to be only surviving copy of a fifteenth-century 'contemporary' battle representation in Castile (and not a representation of a Biblical or mythological battle), other than the Pastrana tapestry series which display a complete different artistic style. However, a series of drawings copying mural representations of battles in the south of Castile have emerged recently, among them, a copy of a fresco that represent the Battle of Jimena (1431) which formed part of the same campaign led by Joan II of Castile against the Kingdom of Granada, (which was defeated in the battle of La Higueruela). Thus this paper compares both depictions and contextualises the representation of warfare in Philip II's royal collections. In addition, this paper will consider chronicles of warfare and history recording during Philip's reign.
Dr Laura Fernández-González is a Lecturer in Architectural History at the University of Lincoln. Laura's research programme and publication record concern cultural exchange, the relationship between centres and peripheries, and how these tensions are reflected in the artistic and architectural production of the early modern Spanish and Portuguese global empires. Laura is currently completing a monograph entitled Philip II of Spain and the Wider World. The City, the Archive and the Fame of the Universal Monarch. In addition, Laura has co-edited a book titled Festival Culture in the World of the Spanish Habsburgs that will be published by Ashgate on September 2015.
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Tejas Verdes: I was not there
An Aesthetic Intervention and a Meditation on Absence
Friday 3 June - 15 July 2016, Peltz Gallery, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, London WC1H 0PD
'Tejas Verdes: I was not there' is a collaborative project between sociologist Margarita Palacios and visual artist Livia Marin. Bringing together Palacios' research on violence and Marin's work around loss and care, the project consists of visiting several ex-detention and extermination sites in Chile and the performing of an aesthetic intervention in each of them. The result of the intervention is the production of a series of abstract realist objects that register traces of the material remains of these sites, marking the materiality of the violent event in its multiple layers of meaning and yet registering its unreadability. This aesthetic intervention explores the possibilities of representing violence without reproducing it and the challenges of non-colonizing experiences of witnessing. The exhibition includes as well a photo projection that shows numerous images of both sites and objects aiming to document the places and the experience of collaboration.
This project is part of an itinerant exhibition and academic events that starts in London in June 2016 and then visits Berlin and Vienna. In each opportunity there will be an exhibition and an academic event organised with Birkbeck College, University of London, Lateinamerika-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, and the Institut für Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften, Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna. The project will the continue touring to Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile during 2017.
This collaborative research project was funded by The Leverhulme Trust and FONDART (Chilean National Fund for the Arts and Culture) and the itinerant exhibition has been made possible through the funding of DIRAC (Chilean Office of Cultural Affairs) and the support of CILAVS.
Opening hours
Monday-Friday: 10am - 8pm
Saturday: 10am - 5pm (Unless otherwise stated)
The exhibition's opening reception at the Peltz Gallery will be held at the gallery on Friday 3 June from 6 to 8pm. The following week, in the School of Arts a roundtable titled, 'The Aesthetics of Witnessing: A Conversation about Violence and the Challenges of its Representation' will be held. Running on Thursday 9 June at 6pm in room B04, as part of the Birkbeck Department of Psychosocial Studies' summer programme 2016, the event will feature live discussion between top academics:
· Vikki Bell (Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths College)
· Natalia Sobrevilla Perea (Reader in Hispanic Studies, University of Kent)
· Jelke Boesten (Reader in Emerging Economies and International Development, Kings College London)
· Margarita Palacios (Senior Lecturer in Social Theory, Birkbeck)
· Livia Marin (visual artist)
This event is sponsored by Birkbeck's MA in Psychosocial Studies programme. Find out more about the roundtable event here (attendance is free but booking is essential).
CILAVS Events at Birkbeck Arts Week
Indigenous filmmaking in Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia
Monday 16 May 2016, 6.00-9.00pm, Room B04, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, London WC1H 0PD
Tuesday 17 May 2016, 6.00-9.00pm, Room 110, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, London WC1H 0PD
Sunday 22 May 2016, 6.30-8.30pm, Muxima Cafe, 618 Roman Road, Bow, London E3 2RW
A unique opportunity to see four contemporary films by Arhuaco Indigenous filmmaker Amado Villafaña, including discussions and Q&A sessions with critics and filmmakers.
These events are free and open to all.
Click here for the programme.
Please follow the links below to book a place. Booking is not required for the event on Sunday 22 May.
Hollywood depictions of Portugal and Europe
Friday 20 May 2016, 2.00-5.00pm, Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
During World War II and the Cold War, Europe served as the setting of numerous Hollywood productions, particularly stories of intrigue and espionage. This event will include a screening of the 1944 spy thriller The Conspirators (a follow-up to Casablanca, set in Lisbon) as well as a conversation with historians Rui Lopes and Martin Shipway about the ways in which US cinema depicted Portugal and other European countries during this historical period.
This event is free and open to all.
Please click here to book a place.
Film Screening with Q&A
London as a Village
Talk with filmmaker Takumã Kuikuro
Moderated by Prof Paul Heritage (Queen Mary University of London)
Wednesday 24 February 2016, 6.00-7.00pm, Birkbeck Cinema, Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
In April 2015, filmmaker Takumã Kuikuro travelled all the way from his village, set within the Xingu Indigenous Territory (North Brazil), to the UK to take up a challenge from People's Palace Projects: to spend a month in London producing and directing a film that would capture his vision of the city as a "village".Takumã was selected from dozens of applicants through a grant scheme called Culture Connection Brazil, promoted by Brazil's Ministry of Culture with the support of British Council and the Transform Programme. He was commissioned to record London from an indigenous perspective, exploring similarities and differences between his Kuikuro culture and the Londoners he christened "the Hyper-Whites". The result is a captivating and humorous anthropological documentary about western society and the many villages hidden under the skyscrapers of London.
Internationally recognised filmmaker Takumã is a member of the Kuikuro people, and grew up in the Ipatse village within the Alto Xingú Indigenous Territory in Mato Grosso state, central Brazil. Aged 18, he was introduced to a group of anthropologists studying the villages, and became keen to learn Portuguese. It was through the anthropologists' documentary team that he also discovered a passion: filmmaking. Through the project Video nas Aldeias - a film project that trains indigenous people to document their society and culture through images, founded by anthropologist Vicente Carelli, – Takumã started to shoot, direct and edit films about his village's day to day activities, rituals and oral stories. His films started to spread quickly across Brazil and internationally, and soon he was presenting them in both local and international Festivals. He was acclaimed for films such as The Day the Moon Menstruated, The Hyperwomen and Kariokas.
Takumã became an Associate Artist of People's Palace Projects in Autumn 2015.
Please click here to download a copy of the poster.
All are welcome, no booking is required.
Film Festival
UTOPIA - 6th UK Portuguese Film Festival
Saturday 21 November 2015, Room B04, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, London WC1H 0PD
- 2.15pm - Warriors (Quem vai à guerra, Marta Pessoa, Portugal, 2011, 130mins)
Forty years after its abrupt conclusion, Portugal's colonial war is still a sensitive and opaque topic, with narratives built mostly around male protagonist, as if only the men had been veterans of war and only they became its victims. A country at war: could anyone not be affected by it? The unexpected stories this documentary has pieced together, along with the charismatic personalities of its storytellers, trigger in us the desire to know more about the history of the colonial war and about the role of women in it. Warriors is told by those who were left behind to wait, those who surprisingly chose to stay on the war front with their husbands and those who ran onward to rescue the soldiers from the front lines. This film is an unveiling of women´s role in colonial history while, at the same time, a rare insight by a woman filmmaker on the topic of war.
- 4.30-5.30pm - Roundtable and Q&A: On the invisibility of women in film and history
A must-see debate where Al jazeera filmmaker Ana Noemi de Sousa and film historian Maria do Carmo Piçarra will be joined by Warriors' director Marta Pessoa to discuss 'the invisibility of women in film and in the histories of colonialism and war'. The debate will open up to questions from the audience after the round table.
Please click here to watch a video of this roundtable.
Both events are free
Panelists' biographies
Marta Pessoa was born in Lisbon in 1974. Has a degree in Cinema Studies (areas of Cinematography and Directing) by the ESTC – Polythecnic of Lisbon and a Masters in Communication Sciences by the FCSH - New University of Lisbon. Has worked as Director of Photography on numerous documentaries and fiction films since 1996. Among other films, directed the shorts Fair Day (2004), Someone Will Watch Over You (2005), Manual Of The Domestic Feeling (2007), Black Mold (2015) and the documentaries Lisbon's Under Arrest (2009), Warriors (2011) and The Lurking Fear (2015). In 2013, along with Rita Palma and João Pinto Nogueira she founded the production company Três Vinténs.
Maria do Carmo Piçarra is a film historian and post-doctoral researcher on the topic of 'Portugal, France and England: Empire Representations in Film' at University of Minho, Portugal, and University of Reading, England. Amongst other publications, she is the author of Salazar vai ao cinema (Salazar goes to the movies) and of a trilogy on Angolan cinema. She is a journalist, film critic and film programmer, and the co-editor of Aniki, the journal of the Portuguese Association of film Researchers (AIM).
Ana Naomi de Sousa is an independent documentary filmmaker born and raised in London. She studied modern languages at Bristol University, and went on to work as a translator, living in Portugal, Cape Verde, Brazil and Angola. In 2010 she joined the international TV network, Al Jazeera English, where she worked across a variety of current affairs and documentary programmes. She is the director of the documentaries Angola: Birth of a Movement (2012); Guerrilla Architect (2013); The Architecture of Violence (2014) and Hacking Madrid (2015).
Further information on all films www.utopiafestival.org.uk
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Download programme here.
The festival is funded by Instituto Camões, sponsored by TAP Portugal and kindly supported by the Portuguese Embassy in London
Circular: 4th Brazilian Youth Film Festival
Saturday 24 October 2015, 1.30-5.30pm, Room B33, Main Building, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street (entrance via Torrington Square), London WC1E 7HX
CILAVS is delighted to host the 4th edition of Circular: Brazilian Youth Film Festival, bringing to London the best films made in Brazil for youthful audiences. The films screened at the Circular Festival offer the opportunity for all to have a direct contact with the Portuguese language and the reality of Brazilian children in different regions across the country, bringing into focus their habits, their customs and their different regional accents.The Festival's aim is to provide to children and teenagers alike, residing outside Brazil, the valuable opportunity to link the Portuguese language to the Brazilian culture and their roots through carefully selected films made in Brazil, portraying Brazilian stories that are not easily accessible to a wider audience in the UK.
For more details and the programme please follow this link.
Birkbeck Food Group Seminar
Eating the New World: Foods from the Americas in the Old World, 1500-1700
Rebecca Earle (Warwick University)
Wednesday 11 November 2015, 11-12.30pm, Paul Hirst Room (102), 10 Gower Street, Birkbeck, University of London, London WC1E 6HJ
Prof Rebecca Earle is a cultural historian of Spanish America and early modern Europe at Warwick University. She is interested in how ordinary, every-day cultural practices such as eating or dressing, or using stamps, or reading poems, shapes how we think about the world.
This event is organized by the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research - Birkbeck Food Group in collaboration with CILAVS.
All welcome, no booking is required.


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Hey Guys... grab a cup of coffee or a beer ... this is pretty good.
I saw an ad in Craigslist for a 1950 Bach for $55 .. how could I go wrong ... so we drive 70 miles and meet a guy who has to be Tavin's brother or relative
please watch attached video to get the picture of Tavin
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now you have the jist of our salesman ..
here's vid of what happened
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I was going to pass on it ... he asked me if it would make a good lamp ... why do people.. never mind
He drops the price so low but really... I don't want it..
Cathy (my wife) felt otherwise and hands him $15 .. he then trieds to give us $5 back ... which of course ain't happening
Cathy wants everyone to know the slides and valves move freely... and the compression.. pops nicely
Does anyone recougnise what the horn the tuning slide goes to? It looks familiar.. definitely not Bach
We figure the body is a Buescher body.. has a Bach bell.. and of course light flex shaft lead pipe.
anyone need some parts..PM me
So Cathy feels good at least these guys got there beer money for Friday night.
Words cannot express how excited I am with this find


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AMMAN -- Jordan Petroleum Refinery Company (JPRC) was authorised this week by its shareholders to raise the firm's capital by JD10 million, or 25 per cent, to JD50 million.
Shareholders, including the Social Security Corporation with a 20.4 per cent equity and the Islamic Development Bank at 6.2 per cent, will receive bonus shares at a rate of 25 per cent as the increase will be achieved through capitalising part of the retained earnings.
Chairman Waleed Mithcal Asfour wrote in the 57th annual report that the company intends to continue raising the capital gradually.
Chief Executive Officer Abdul Hadi Alawin told the shareholders during an extraordinary meeting on Monday that the company is in the process of appointing a financial adviser to help it determine the best approach for securing the financing for the fourth expansion project.
"In light of the recent changes, especially the pipeline project for exporting Iraqi oil through Jordan and the prospect of JPRC receiving supplies from it, the company will reconsider the priorities previously set, in particular the fourth expansion scheme," Asfour said in the report.
According to the chairman, this matter makes it imperative now to review previous studies and to update them with possible alternatives that correspond with the size of the expansion and its costs.
Asfour indicated that JPRC is now moving towards horizontal and not vertical expansion by setting up a number of conversion units aimed at transforming heavy fuel oil into light products such as gasoline, aviation fuel and gas.
JPRC is also establishing other units to improve the quality of oil products in order to bring down the investment costs to the lowest possible level.
In the forward to annual report, the chairman said the company is entering a competitive business environment that entails major challenges to upgrade performance, rationalise expenditures, and boost income.
He referred to a deal reached with the government in September 2012 that organised the relationship between the two parties and guaranteed JPRC a JD15 million annual profit excluding the lubricants and gas activities as well as those of the Company for Marketing Petroleum Products which is a firm wholly owned by JPRC.
Previously, JPRC established two other independent entities, one for gas filling and distribution, and the other for mixing, filling and distributing lubricants.
"After years of indecision, the government actually started in May 2013 to apply its energy strategy allowing two new competitors to compete in marketing petroleum products in addition to the JPRC one mentioned earlier," Asfour wrote, noting that the gradual liberalisation of the energy market will usher a fundamental change in JPRC's strategy in the coming years.
Under the deal with the government, JPRC is assured to sell 100 per cent of its products to the three marketing entities for a transitional period of six years before the market is fully liberalised.
Besides the decision to raise capital, the shareholders approved during an ordinary meeting the board's recommendation to distribute cash dividends at a rate of 15 per cent.
The annual report showed that JPRC sales amounted to JD4 billion in 2012, 15 per cent higher than the JD3.5 billion posted in 2011 due to higher volumes and sale prices of petroleum derivatives in line with the international crude oil prices.
According to the report, the oil price per barrel averaged $112 last year compared to $109 in 2011. This brought up the cost of imported crude oil by $78 million or JD55.5 million in addition to the higher cost ensuing from extensive consumption.
As a result, JPRC generated a JD25.8 million net pre-tax profit in 2012, 1.2 per cent higher than the JD25.5 million registered in the previous year.
The profit after tax was given as JD21.6 million, lower than the JD21.8 million in 2011.
The balance sheet as of December 31, 2012 showed total assets at JD1.5 billion (JD1.3 billion in 2011) mainly because of an increase in accounts receivables by JD188 million to JD991.7 million and inventory by JD35 million to JD424.4 million.
The income and loss statement showed that JPRC paid JD56.7 million (JD44.5 million in 2011) in interest and commission to banks and JD8.1 million (JD1.8 million) in fines related to general sales tax and special tax.
Other disclosures put the amount of capital investment in JPRC's activities at JD21.5 million.
At the end of last year, a total of 3,364 employees worked at JPRC. Of those, the education level of 1,577 workers or 47 per cent was below the general secondary level.
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The weekend rescue on the Millard E. Tydings Memorial Bridge in Port Deposit was recorded by Trooper Joshua Kim's dashboard camera.
Kim said that he saw the man walking on the bridge, which carries Interstate 95 over the Susquehanna River in northeastern Maryland. Kim says he turned around and parked, but when he approached the man, the man began to climb over the bridge.
The video shows the 24-year-old Kim pulling the man from the wall to the ground and handcuffing him. Police say that was for his safety.
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|Most of this was bought, but I had to alter a lot of it because when I bought it the sized was completely off. xD
I chose to do Tsunade because she's a stronge character in the Naruto series, and we share a lot of similar assets. xD
Her outfit is decently comfortable, but I probably won't be cosplaying her again as I've fell out of the Naruto fandom.


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Lucky 10s: First iPhone 4 iOS 4.1 Jailbreak Will Air 10/10/10
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October 8, 2010 10:25 AM
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Apple won't be able to fix this one without hardware changes
is about to land. The Chronic Dev Team, a group of iPhone firmware hacking enthusiasts and affiliates of the well-known iPhone Dev Team, announced
via Twitter
that the new software is progressing nicely and should be released this Sunday -- 10/10/10. So what is greenpois0n and why should you care?
This clever piece of software, like the iPhone Dev Team's redsn0w, which preceded it, takes jailbreakers' war against zealously-restrictive Apple to new heights. It allows another unbreakable path to removing Apple's restrictions in the short term, applicable to the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch devices running on iOS 4.1.
Apple has long begrudged purchasers of its devices the right to run software it finds annoying or morally offensive. From the
Flash multimedia player
to entertainment apps like a
South Park app
, many pieces of software have been banned from Apple's tightly locked App Store ecosystem.
Many technology enthusiasts appreciate Apple's mobile hardware, but don't appreciate Apple making these decisions for them, so they've worked together to defeat the software protections that Apple has installed to prevent free software installation. This process is known as jailbreaking (not to be confused with unlocking, which is freeing the phone of its carrier restrictions, e.g. AT&T in the U.S.).
Jailbreaking was long a legal gray area, but recent amendments to 1998's Digital Millenium Copyright Act have
formally legalized it
Apple's chief executive Steve Jobs has expressed a fervent disdain for these actions that borders on hatred. He has committed his company to "
a cat and mouse war
" with the jailbreakers. He complains that jailbreaking ruins his company's "magical" experience and his personal campaign to offer customers "freedom" from many
evils such as pornography and poor performance
If previous jailbreaking efforts irked Mr. Jobs, greenpois0n should be a worse blow. Most past efforts focused on exploiting the device's software (such as a previous exploit that
used a PDF vulnerability
in the Safari web browser to execute arbitrary code) or its firmware.
However, the new hack will directly use an exploit of the bootrom,
first discovered by the iPhone Dev Team.
Since Apple can't alter the bootrom, it will be powerless to stop its users from gaining freedom (well not Apple's definition of "freedom", but freedom in a typical sense), barring a hardware update. In other words, current model phones/iDevices should be permanently jailbroken.
About the only thing Apple
do is to try to roll out an update that detects jailbroken phones and breaks them. Apple has
tried this approach
in the past and has been
beaten back by lawsuits
. And such a measure would likely draw a public backlash, which is the last thing Apple given its fierce battle with a surging Android OS.
Ultimately, for Apple the new jailbreak is made more bitter in that they draw attention to the company's poor software and security performance. Among security professionals Apple's software has long been considered
buggy and easily exploitable
; Apple devices are only "more secure" in that they have traditionally either had a small market share or are entering into new markets which have not drawn significant exploitation interest yet.
So for Apple greenpois0n may be quite a bitter pill to swallow, but for customers it is a sweet and long awaited pathway to freedom.
The key difference between greenpois0n and the previous redsn0w is that greenpois0n can jailbreak the iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4G and Apple TV. Redsn0w uses the SAME bootrom vulnerability, but can only jailbreak the older iPhone 3G, iPod Touch 2G. Greenpois0n also adds linux support.
Also another
very important
note -- beware torrents purporting to be greenpois0n. Antivirus software vendor Kapersky reports that hackers have
cooked up fake "greenpois0n" torrents
and downloads that really contain Trojan viruses.
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Place: Medialab Prado · Plaza de las Letras, C/ Alameda, 15 Madrid
Roundtable about The Gift Practices and P2P , moderated by Antonio Lafuente. Participants: Margarita Padilla and Susana Narotzky, as part of the activities of the Seminar of the 4th Inclusiva-net Meeting: P2P Networks and Processes (July 6 - 10, 2009).
Gift economies are not surplus or abundance economies; they have nothing to do with exchanges of surplus or inexhaustible goods outside the market. Firstly, because the majority of what circulates is hybrid in nature and therefore, the perfect gift exists only in anthropologists' imaginations. Secondly, because over half of economic transactions take place outside the marketplace, if we count public activity, affectionate and domestic work, payment in kind, and altruistic gifts. Last but not least, because people want to share their ideas, give of their time, and exchange their goods. Studies have measured these contributions against world GDP and assigned an economic weight of up to 9% to the heterogeneous world of giving. This recent rebirth of interest in P2P and/or non-mercantile exchanges can be considered from a variety of viewpoints. Based on the core notion of gift technologies, this presentation aims to examine a variety of innovative social and technological devices that sustain the open flow of goods that expand the Commons.
Ten years ago now, in 1999, young Shawn Fanning wrote a little program to share music with his friends via the Internet… it was to become Napster, no less. This clever invention that enabled file sharing without uploading the files to a central computer was not only a prodigious technical innovation, but also showed certain features of P2P networks: people wanted to share; they wanted to do so with no prior technical knowledge; they wanted to share something as "incidental" as music; and so-called "garage" innovations could take on academic or industrial innovations… Ten years later, all of these factors continue to be at issue, only now they are entangled with Web 2.0 practices, which sometimes clarify and sometimes obscure the philosophy of P2P networks.
An economist schooled in the workings of the capitalist system— or, better yet, of the crumbling capitalism of the early 21st century—would be unwilling to admit, despite indisputable facts confirming it, that the economic practice of capitalism had a specific historical origin and its expiration date may be coming quite soon. That awareness would come from having read Polanyi. If that model economist had, for some reason, some familiarity with economic anthropology, he or she would certainly be willing to admit, at least, that various economic practices other than capitalism do exist, arranged along a diachronic axis throughout history as well as along a synchronic axis throughout today's world that shows the cultural diversity of the same practices. It would be sufficient to have read, to give one of the abundant examples literature offers, one of the few bestsellers among books on anthropology: Argonauts of the Western Pacific. It is even possible that this prototypical cultured and well-informed economist would know about what sociologists call different types of capital; that is, different ways that various cultures in the world, diachronically or synchronically, have accumulated a type of flow or cash not necessarily coinciding with the strictly monetary capital that current economist tend to identify as the only prevailing and still legitimate type of capital. A look around the world and through anthropological literature shows us that the logic of the accumulation of various types of capital used by cultures now and in the past (symbolic, educational, cultural, and economic) is based on the particular logic of each type and its exchange value—the possibility of converting one type of capital into another— depends on the community's acceptance of that agreement. In numerous cultures, for example, strictly material capital took on value only when it was converted into symbolic capital. A member of such a culture who attempted to prevail over the others solely through a demonstration of his or her material wealth would not have received the slightest attention from his or her peer group. To obtain even a minimal amount of recognition and support from his or her peers, that person aspiring to rule or simply stand out above others would have had to convert his or her material capital into symbolic capital, perhaps even using all that material capital to obtain the symbolic credit given by the community in exchange for it. Having read Pierre Bourdieu and The Social Structures of the Economy would have been a great help. Perhaps he or she would have finally understood that our current economic practices, clearly in decline, are merely one of many possible economic practices and, therefore, that no specific economic practice should ever be confused with the broad, all-encompassing science of the economy of practices. Wikipedia and its organizational logic is a contemporary example of digital potlatch, of a contribution of a considerable flow of time and knowledge whose only return is recognition of the community, something that happened to a large extent in the genesis of the scientific field, which has been perverted today, due to multiple causes.