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President Obama said today he not only had the privilege of awarding the Medal of Honor to a living soldier, but he also gave it to a young man "as humble as he is heroic."
"Now, I'm going to go off-script here for a second and just say I really like this guy," Obama said at an East Room ceremony for Army Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta. "When you meet Sal and you meet his family, you are just absolutely convinced that this is what America is all about. And it just makes you proud."
Giunta suffered bullet wounds and risked his life to protect his comrades during an ambush in Afghanistan on Oct. 25, 2007.
The 25-year-old Iowan is the first living soldier to receive the Medal of Honor for actions in Afghanistan and Iraq. He is also the first living soldier to receive the military's highest honor for valor since the Vietnam War, nearly 40 years ago.
After the ceremony, Giunta said he would gladly give back the Medal of Honor if he could have his fallen comrades back with him. Giunta called the ceremony "an incredible experience" and said the medal honors all of those who have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Obama, who spoke with Giunta by phone in September and met with him today in the Oval Office, called the Medal of Honor winner a "low-key guy" who "doesn't seek the limelight."
Giunta didn't think he deserved the medal, but Obama said he and others disagree:
Staff Sergeant Giunta, repeatedly and without hesitation, you charged forward through extreme enemy fire, embodying the warrior ethos that says, 'I will never leave a fallen comrade.' Your actions disrupted a devastating ambush before it could claim more lives.
Your courage prevented the capture of an American soldier and brought that soldier back to his family. You may believe that you don't deserve this honor, but it was your fellow soldiers who recommended you for it.
In fact, your commander specifically said in his recommendation that you lived up to the standards of the most decorated American soldier of World War II, Audie Murphy, who famously repelled an overwhelming enemy attack by himself for one simple reason: "They were killing my friends."
The president paid tribute to Giunta's comrades and all U.S. soldiers who have served "tour after tour" in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. "All of them deserve our enduring thanks and gratitude," Obama said.
Giunta's Medal of Honor citation reads:
The President of the United States of America, authorized by act of Congress, March 3, 1863, has awarded, in the name of Congress, the Medal of Honor to then Specialist Salvatore A. Giunta, United States Army.
Specialist Salvatore A. Giunta distinguished himself conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity, at the risk of his life, above and beyond the call of duty, in action, with an armed enemy in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan, on October 25, 2007.
While conducting a patrol as team leader, with Company B, 2nd Battalion Airborne, 503d Infantry Regiment, Specialist Giunta and his team were navigating through harsh terrain when they were ambushed by a well-armed and well-coordinated insurgent force.
While under heavy enemy fire, Specialist Giunta immediately sprinted towards cover and engaged the enemy. Seeing that his squad leader had fallen, and believing that he had been injured, Specialist Giunta exposed himself to withering enemy fire and raced towards his squad leader, helped him to cover and administered medical aid.
While administering first aid, enemy fire struck Special Giunta's body armor and his secondary weapon. Without regard to the ongoing fire, Specialist Giunta engaged the enemy before prepping and throwing grenades, using the explosions for cover in order to conceal his position.
Attempting to reach additional wounded fellow soldiers who were separated from the squad, Specialist Giunta and his team encountered a barrage of enemy fire that forced them to the ground. The team continued forward, and upon reaching the wounded soldiers, Specialist Giunta realized that another soldier was still separated from the element.
Specialist Giunta then advanced forward on his own initiative. As he crested the top of a hill, he observed two insurgents carrying away an American soldier. He immediately engaged the enemy, killing one and wounding the other. Upon reaching the wounded soldier, he began to provide medical aid, as his squad caught up and provided security.
Specialist Giunta's unwavering courage, selflessness and decisive leadership while under extreme enemy fire were integral to his platoon's ability to defeat an enemy ambush and recover a fellow American soldier from the enemy.
Specialist Salvatore A. Giunta's extraordinary heroism and selflessness above and beyond the call of duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon himself, Company B, 2d Battalion Airborne, 503d Infantry Regiment and the United States Army.
In an interview yesterday with NBC News, Giunta said he is "just one of many."
"I know a lot braver people than me," Giunta said. "And I know a lot stronger people than me, and I've served with a lot of them."
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David's journalism career spans three decades, including coverage of five presidential elections, the Oklahoma City bombing, the 2000 Florida presidential recount and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He has covered the White House for USA TODAY since 2005. His interests include history, politics, books, movies and college football -- not necessarily in that order. More about David
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What have you read or seen lately (book, play, film, etc.) that moved or surprised you?
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Blood Feathers / Goodness Gracious.
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I hate election season.
Between the robo-calls, the mailings and the hyperactive press coverage, it's all a little too much.
Especially when there is no respite from it at home.
That's right, I'm in a mixed relationship. One of us is red state, and one of us is blue state.
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Since 1993, the annual Cutting Edge Conference has brought together thousands of established and aspiring musicians and music professionals to network and share ideas. Lectures, demonstrations and panel discussions cover the latest topics and business trends of the music industry and film/interactive media. Overall, this action- and information-packed entertainment industry conference is broken down into five main areas:
Music Business: This is the main focus of the conference overall. Pros and aspiring musicians alike benefit from lectures, demos and other events exploring all things "music business:" equipment, booking & touring tips, critiques, social media marketing and more. Click here for current schedule.
Continuing Legal Education: These seminars focus on media legal issues, from royalty fee disputes to contract negotiation. The sticky legal side of things has long been an important topic for artists; it's even more important with today's media. Click for current schedule.
Cutting Edge Film Workshop: For both professional and aspiring filmmakers, this symposium covers both legal and craft aspects of filmmaking.
Roots Music Gathering: Join in discussions, master classes and lectures on the roots musical tradition. It's also a great opportunity to hear oral histories and live performances by legendary roots musicians.
NewWorks Showcase: It couldn't be a complete music business event without some live music! Throughout the five-day event, the NewWorks Showcases will take place in the evening at nightclubs and other New Orleans venues. Aspiring artists have a great chance to perform and network.
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Jack-o-lanterns are fun. But they do have a limited shelf life.
The first of November rolls around and the grinning or grimacing face that you've carved into that big orange orb seems to be either mocking you or begging for extermination.
So why not do something a little different this year? You know, less flash in the October pan, more enduring fall glam.
Sure, you could leave your pumpkins just as they are: uncarved. They look OK like that and will last through the season.
But with a little creativity and a few simple, inexpensive supplies, you can turn an ordinary gourd into a gorgeous, boutique-like accessory that'll last from the start of fall through November.
I created these particular pumpkins after browsing the Internet to get inspired. Websites like Pinterest, Houzz.com and Better Homes & Gardens are full of great ideas for decorating and displaying pumpkins.
Then I stood around in a craft store staring at little bottles of acrylic paint and spools of satin ribbon for, oh, about 23 minutes, until I came up with color schemes and a concept that I like to call Painted, Pushpin Pumpkins.
I could go on and on about what I did next, but you can look at them and pretty much figure it out on your own. Nevertheless, here are the simple steps:
· Paint the pumpkins.
· Wrap satin ribbon around pumpkins and attach with tacks, hot glue or an adhesive.
· Stick pushpins, upholstery tacks and linoleum nails into pumpkins in various patterns.
I tied pieces of gold ribbon and twine around some of the tacks on the biggest, platinum pumpkin to give it a textured look. Then I spread moss on the candle and cake pedestals and plopped some of the pumpkins on top of them.
How much easier can a craft project get? It's inexpensive to boot.
Pushpin pumpkin supplies
· Pumpkins
· Krylon Brushed Metallic paint in satin nickel (for the biggest pumpkin)
· Krylon ColorMaster paint in white gloss (for the black and white pumpkin)
· Folk Art Extreme Glitter blue acrylic paint (it automatically created the streaky opaque pattern on the orange pumpkin)
· Folk Art Metallic paint (for the green pumpkin with brown ribbon)
· Apple Barrel matte acrylic paint in pewter gray (for the pumpkin with the gold horizontal ribbons)
· Offray satin ribbon in varying widths, colors and patterns
· Crown Bolt yellow zinc linoleum nails (tiny heads) and antique brass upholstery nails (darker heads)
· Brass thumb tacks
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By Nick Teale
Wojciech Szczesny will be Arsenal's No. 1 in the future - that's the view of Arsène Wenger.
The 20-year-old has been on loan at Brentford since November and has earned many plaudits for his eye-catching performances for the Bees.
The keeper has made 24 appearances for the League One side and their manager Andy Scott has already been quoted as saying he wants to take the stopper on loan again next term.
But Szczesny himself has said he is determined to be the Gunners' No. 1 next term. Speaking at Friday's press conference, Wenger asserted his belief that the youngster will wear the Arsenal gloves in the future, though maybe not next season.
"It is reasonable to have the ambition to be No 1 here next season," said the manager. "I believe he is doing extremely well.
"I believe one day he will be the No 1 at Arsenal certainly. But we will see next season. It is down to his performances.
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- Assist with meals, personal hygiene, medications and portability.
- More help the senior can no longer live alone or compared to the family or current caregiver can provide.
- Assisted living communities are urged when the senior doesn't require medical care than can be supplied in their property, but they do need more help.
- Provide meals, housekeeping and transport services whether it's to the shop, hairdresser/barber or a medical appointment.
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Lee's Summit Parks & Recreation is offering week long Animal Wonders Summer Camps. June camps are June 16-20 and June 23-27. Both are from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. These exciting camps allows kids ages five through twelve to get up close and personal with live examples and learn about the lives of animals from tiny insects to exotic birds and mammals. New topics will be covered each day. Students will learn about animal care, behaviors, ecosystems, terminology, and perform age appropriate experiments. For those who prefer to stretch out the program, Animal Wonders Workshops are also available. In July participants ages two to twelve can choose from Monday classes, 2-3 p.m. from July 7-28 or Tuesday classes, 7-8 p.m. from July 8-29.
Camps and Workships are held at Legacy Park Community Center at 901 NE Bluestem Drive in Lee's Summit.
If acting is more your child's interest, be sure to check out Camp Shakespeare for kids ages 8 to 14. The camp is a unique summer arts experience that will create lasting memories and is set from 8:30 a.m.- 3:30 p.m. July 7-18. Students will improve their understanding of literature and renaissance times while creating their own version of a Shakespearean classic, "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Drama, visual art, dance and stage combat all come together in the delightful camp, taught by professional actors. Participants will build confidence, be encouraged to use teamwork, and be motivated to unleash creativity. The camp can also improve reading skills and concentration. Parents and friends will be able to enjoy the fruits of the students' labor by attending a final performance on the evening of the final day of camp. Camp Shakespeare will take place at Legacy Park Community Center.
For the more business minded child Lee's Summit Parks and Recreation is offering Babysitter Bootcamp. There are two classes being offered this summer. The first class is on June 20 from 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and the second on July 18 also from 9a.m.-2:30 p.m. The instructor creates an environment where new recruits will learn how to play effectively with children of all ages, prepare chow, manage lights-out, discipline, personal and child safety, first aid and CPR. Participants will also prepare business cards, create a marketing plan and determine how to prepare for any sitting job. Participants need to bring a sack lunch and drink. Babysitter Boot Camp will be held at Legacy Park Community Center.
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Writer/singer Jim Morrison and keyboard player Ray Manzarek met at the UCLA film school and decided to form a band. Recruiting drummer John Densmore and ex-jug band guitarist Robby Krieger, The Doors began a club residency at the London Fog on Sunset Boulevard in early 1966.
Foregoing a bass player, the classically-trained Manzarek preferred to play bass notes on his Fender Rhodes piano (and later, his Vox Continental organ).
It was only when The Doors were hired for a six-month stint at the Whisky A Go Go that their reputation began to spread.
They were quickly snaffled by Elektra boss Jac Holzman on the recommendation of Arthur Lee from Love.
Their signature sound was first heard on record on Break On Through (To The Other Side), issued in January 1967.
A month later, The Doors' self-titled debut album hit #2 in the US album charts.
On 9 December 1967, while waiting to take to the stage in New Haven, Connecticut, Morrison was passing time with a young girl backstage when a policeman (failing to recognise Morrison) ordered the couple to leave.
Morrison responded with a verbal tirade causing the policeman to mace the singer. Once on stage Morrison took the first available opportunity to relate his dealings with the police to the crowd.
The police present in the venue were incensed and promptly turned on the house lights and arrested Morrison, charging him with breach of the peace and resisting arrest.
On 19 September 1968 a drugged and drunken Jim Morrison was taken to hospital after collapsing on the stage of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, having stumbled into the middle of a live set by Jefferson Airplane.
Morrison's consumption of alcohol and hallucinogenic drugs was legendary, but the incident suggested he might no longer be in control of his intake.
His collapse in Amsterdam came after a day of heavy drinking, and sources close to the band revealed he swallowed a sizeable block of hashish given to him by a fan immediately before the show.
The Doors' year had started well. Their second album Strange Days went gold in January and, in early February, Universal offered the band $500,000 to star in a feature film. Plans were also announced for an ABC-TV special, a 'humour book' by the group, and a book of Morrison's poetry and lyrics.
Their artistic and commercial success was at risk, though, from Morrison's personal failures. Life magazine writer Fred Powledge noted in April that the 24-year-old Morrison "appears in public and on his records to be moody, temperamental, enchanted in the mind and extremely stoned".
On 10 May, Morrison courted disaster when he incited a Chicago audience to riot. After performing Five To One- a song about violent youth insurrection - Morrison took the group into When The Music's Over, a lengthy dramatic piece climaxing in a scream of "We want the world and we want it now".
The crowd screamed it back, louder. Raising them to fever pitch, Morrison virtually led the crowd to a riot which was only subdued by baton-swinging police reinforcements. Challenged about his position, he retorted;
"It's all done tongue in cheek. I don't think people realise it's not meant to be taken seriously. When you play the bad guy in a western, that's not you. It's supposed to be ironic".
Ironic or not, the kids bought what was on offer in bucket-loads. Waiting For The Sun was soon certified as the band's third consecutive gold LP.
But while Morrison sang "I am the Lizard King, I can do anything", the gap between what the Lizard King believed he could do and what he could actually handle became manifest more and more frequently.
A bloated and puffy Morrison was arrested on 1 March 1969 for exposing himself during a concert at the Dinner Key Auditorium in Miami.
In November he was forcibly removed from a Continental Airlines plane and arrested again on charges of assaulting an Air Hostess while on a flight from LA to Phoenix.
Once again, Morrison found himself arrested for public drunkenness in August 1970. He had been out drinking with a friend when he asked to be dropped at another friend's house so he could crash. He banged on the door and fell asleep on the porch moments later.
Unfortunately for Jim, it wasn't his friend's porch, but that of a 68-year-old woman who saw fit to call the police.
A night out for Jim just wasn't complete without drugs, booze, more booze, some more drugs and a violent encounter with one of his many lovers. One night, suspecting his muse Pamela Courson was cheating on him, he locked her in a wardrobe and set fire to it.
LA Woman, the Doors' seventh album, was a turnaround from a band most people had written off by 1971. Featuring Riders On The Storm, Love Her Madly and the title track, the album was full of promise.
Sadly, that promise was never fulfilled. Jim Morrison was found dead in a Paris hotel in November 1971, prior to LA Woman's release.
The band limped on for two more albums and very nearly replaced Morrison with Kevin Coyne.
Then almost 30 years later Ian Astbury took the lead vocals spot with The Doors Of The 21st Century with spectacularly underwhelming results.
Keyboard player Ray Manzarek passed away in 2013.
To avoid the draft, Morrison stuffed himself full of drugs in order to mess up his blood pressure, temperature and balance during his medical examination. For good measure, he also announced that he was gay. He was refused.
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Rally West Virginia - July 27/28, 2012
Hope you can make it down to Snowshoe, WV this year for some awesome rally action!
We're just about three and a half weeks away from Rally West Virginia on July 27-28. I know that for me now about when I can actually start to imagine what I'm going to be doing in 3-4 weeks time. *grin* So take a look at your calendar and see what's happening, then put a big red circle around 27th and 28th for Rally West Virginia!
You can bounce into the volunteering system here with just a few clicks:
Remember that when you sign up, you can say when you'll be showing up, what you want to do, and who you would like to be stationed with. I'll do my best to put you in a great spot!
The entry field is coming along nicely, over 50 paid entries so far!
For some basic info on volunteering tasks, here's the link:
Pass on the message that Rally West Virginia needs volunteers... this is always recruiting time! If you could send this out to your local motorheads, that would be awesome! Please post up a reminder on your Facebook page as well and in your local bulletin boards.
And thanks for being part of the passion and action of grassroots rally!
Cheers! Eric
p.s. a bunch of new stages this year including TWO hillclimb stages to the service park on the top of Snowshoe. AWESOME!
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It is littered with pate rind, bread crumbs, greaseproof paper, orange peel and banana skins.
To top with a flamed orange twist, hold a piece of orange peel about the size of a silver dollar, skin side down, over the drink.
So rich and delicious, so dark and layered with coffee and hazelnuts, toffee, orange peel, cigar box.
Express the oil of an orange peel over the top of the cocktail.
I 'ave slipped upon a piece of orange peel and broke me 'ead!
Mr. Hay stumbled on a piece of orange peel and jostled against me.
Now he was very grave; he leaned towards her, and she smelled the warm, stinging scent of the orange peel.
An ounce and a half of peruvian bark bruised, and an ounce of orange peel, steeped in a pint of the best brandy, for ten days.
Mrs. Lazarus put the orange peel into the newspaper and placed it all carefully in her pocket.
It is best combined with a little confection of orange peel, which effectually covers the taste of the copaiba.


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Saturday wrap:
Sebastien Loeb is one stage away from winning Rallye Monte-Carlo for a sixth time after he completed the penultimate day of the FIA World Rally Championship powered by Nokia season-opener leading by 2m41.6s.
Loeb, in a Citroen DS3 WRC, started the penultimate day's stages in the mountains above Monaco intent on avoiding taking any risks in order to preserve his commanding advantage. He failed to set a fastest stage time alongside his Monegasque co-driver Daniel Elena as a result but was nevertheless highly satisfied at the end of day four.
"We have one small stage tomorrow but at the moment it has been great and really fantastic to drive those stages with an atmosphere like that," said Loeb. "It's a real pleasure for me to be here and leading the rally right now."
With Loeb continuing to dominate out front, the battle for the final podium places has taken centre stage today. Dani Sordo continues to hold second in his MINI John Cooper Works WRC but Petter Solberg has closed to within 19.1s of the Spaniard in his Ford Fiesta RS WRC after winning three of Saturday's four stages.
"Everything is so nice and easy and I am really enjoying this rally," said Solberg. "Being back in a factory team is great, I've been made to feel so welcome."
Sordo added: "Petter was pushing hard but I think the gap is now too much for him. To finish second is really important because we can show Prodrive and MINI can do a really good job."
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Updated: Muscat candidacy in Gozo would be another gimmick - Gonzi
PL - 'Figment of Dr Gonzi's imagination'
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Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi this morning referred to reports that Joseph Muscat may stand as a candidate on the Gozo electoral district and said that this, if confirmed, would be yet another of the Labour gimmicks rolled out this week.
Speaking in a Radio 101 interview in Gozo, Dr Gonzi said there was no logical reason for Dr Muscat to stand in Gozo other than that this would be another electoral gimmick.
He said Gozo always suffered when a Labour government was in place, and the Gozitans were insulted when Alfred Sant, supported by Joseph Muscat, had demoted the Gozo ministry to a secretariat.
In a reaction, the Labour Party said that one day after some desperate-sounding claims about Labour's campaign spending, the prime minister popped up again with another hysterical attack, this time on where Joseph Muscat's candidacy might be.
"This is another figment of his imagination," it said.
It pointed out that Lawrence Gonzi was born in Valletta and lives in Marsascala, but at the last election contested the Swieqi district.
"So much for "gimmicks". It might be better for leaders to focus on policies.
And Joseph Muscat will be announcing his second district in the next few days," the PL said.
Dr Gonzi spoke on the PN's plans for Gozo. He said the PN would roll out a tourism plan for Gozo which would include incentives for investors and for tourism accommodation upgrading.
There would also be a new ferry service between Grand Harbour and Gozo and if the tunnel project proved feasible, the government would go for it. The eco-Gozo policy would continue to be improved.
Further incentives would be given for SMEs in Gozo, including income tax cuts for those who opened a business in Gozo and employed people. The Gozo Ministry would be supplemented by a Gozo Regional Council which would include the MPs elected from Gozo.
As at present, at least 10% of EU funds for Malta would be allocated to Gozo.
Dr Gonzi also recalled projects and other measures being taken by the government in Gozo including the ferry terminals, the ferries, rebuilt roads, new schools, an allowance over and above the stipend given to Gozitan students in Malta, fiscal incentives for Gozo businesses and more generous schemes than in Malta for those who invested in alternative energy.
Dr Gonzi reiterated his criticism of the PL's energy plans, saying the PL had under-estimated its spending by €200m. The Labour plans, he said, would actually lead to an increase in power tariffs and run the Maltese economy into a wall. The PN, he said, would in the coming days give more details of the mistakes the PL was making in this case.
It was significant, however, that the PL plan was not in line with what the party's own independent consultants had recommended. And the consultants were not being allowed to comment on the plan, he said.
He was seriously concerned, he said, that Dr Muscat was saying he was 'certain' of private sector investment in the Labour plan. Who had the Labour Party spoken to? No one, anywhere else, gave guarantees before a call for tenders was even issued.
Why had Labour opted against a gas pipeline partly funded by the EU, preferring more expensive transport by ships?
Furthermore, how could anyone believe that Labour could negotiate a fixed gas price for 10 years when prices were rising?
Next week or the week after, the PN would publish its own proposals for this sector, including the commissioning of the interconnector in a year's time and a gas pipeline. At the same time, one should recall that the government was discussing a Qatari proposal to set up a gas terminal in Malta to sell gas to Europe.
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I've been writing a lot recently about the feedstock disadvantage naphtha-based European chemical producers have over Middle East and US ethane consumers. In the long term this could have a severe impact on chemical production here.
So the news that INEOS is going to build a 1m tonne/year ethylene terminal at Zwijndrecht, Belgium, raises some interesting possibilities. INEOS could chose to import cheap ethylene from the Middle East and close some European capacity. It has been mulling the future of its smaller, G4 cracker at Grangemouth, Scotland, for some time.
Importing and processing ethylene will not help with the impending structural shortage of propylene, however, caused by greater cracking of ethane and lower refining rates. Cracker economics is a complicated business.
Market sources suggest the new terminal will cost E80m-E100m to build. We at ICIS Chemical Business have been trying for an interview with INEOS since the announcement but they're being tight lipped.
According to the press release: "Operation of the new deep-sea terminal, which is expected to start in 2012, will significantly change the shape of the ethylene market in Europe." "Shape" is an interesting word to use.
Once completed, the new INEOS Terminal will be connected directly to INEOS' ethylene consuming facilities in the Antwerp Rotterdam Area and into Europe via the ARG ethylene pipeline (formerly Aethylen-Rohrleitungs-Gesellschaft pipeline) linking Antwerp to Cologne and the Ruhr industrial areas.
"The INEOS Group is the largest consumer of ethylene in Europe and I am pleased to confirm this significant investment at our Antwerp facility," said Hans Casier CEO INEOS Oxide. "The new terminal secures the competitiveness of our site and underlines the importance of our production facilities in Antwerp, located at the heart of the largest Petrochemical area of Europe.
"Additionally by connecting INEOS Olefins & Polymers Europe and the INEOS Oligomers LAO/PAO facility in Belgium to the new terminal, INEOS will be able to efficiently balance its ethylene requirements over its facilities in Europe.
"It is also clear the new INEOS Ethylene Terminal will re-shape the ethylene market in Europe, opening up a new gateway to world markets", he concluded.


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Birmingham, AL (SportsNetwork.com) - The Southwestern Athletic Conference Council of Presidents and Chancellors have upheld penalties against Grambling State as a result of the university's forfeited football game at Jackson State in October.
The SWAC is imposing a $50,000 fine and a three-game mandate for Grambling State to play in Jackson, Miss., during the 2014, 2015, and 2016 seasons. The ruling is an effort to compensate for Jackson State's lost revenues at its canceled Homecoming game Oct. 19.
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Germany remembers Allied firebombing of Dresden 70 years on
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DRESDEN, Germany (Reuters) - Seventy years after the Allies firebombed the east German city of Dresden, Germany remembered the tens of thousands who were burned alive with a somber church service and a silent human chain to symbolize peace and opposition to racism.
At the Baroque domed Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady), bells rag out as a service started with delegates from other cities that suffered massive air attacks - Coventry, Breslau, Ostrava and St. Petersburg - lighting candles for peace. Some survivors of the bombing attended.
Around 10,000 people joined hands along the Elbe river and across bridges. While Dresden has been the scene of some of Europe's biggest neo-Nazi marches on Feb. 13 in recent years, right-wing activists were noticeably absent on Friday.
Antifascists gathered on the square outside the church carrying a green banner urging people to "Fight for a humane society. Take action against the Nazis".
Dresden has recently become the center of an anti-Islam movement that has seen as many as 25,000 protesting against what they see as the growing influence of Islam.
Speaking at the church that was left as a symbolic ruin for years before being rebuilt and topped with a golden 'cross of peace' made by the son of a British bomber, German President Joachim Gauck described how the bombers had arrived as children in colourful hats and red noses celebrated carnival.
"Bombs and fire indiscriminately annihilated both guilty and innocent, party members and small children, war criminals and nuns, guards and forced laborers, combat soldiers and refugees who had left their homes to save their lives and believed themselves to be in a safe place," he said.


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Stabroek Business has been informed that the first phase of the long-awaited small business support project, officially titled 'Micro and Small Enterprise Development and Building Alternative Livelihoods for Vulnerable Groups' will get underway in January next year.
The project, which is being executed by the Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce through the Small Business Bureau (SBB), will oversee the disbursement of US$10 million from the Guyana REDD +Investment Fund (GRIF) to support the countrywide development of small and micro enterprises and to create business options that will provide a livelihood for vulnerable groups.
The source of the GRIF derives from an agreement reached between Guyana and Norway and concretized in a 2009 Memorandum of Understanding under which Guyana would receive financial support of up to US$250 million based on results achieved by the country in limiting emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. The funds, for which the World Bank is trustee, are to be used to support the implementation of Guyana's Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS). The Government of Guyana has identified the development of small and micro enterprises and providing alternative livelihoods for vulnerable groups as a key component of the LCDS.
The launch of the project will effectively herald the long-awaited kick start of the SBB, the state-run institution created out of the 2004 legislation that gave birth to the Small Business Act. Phase One of the project, scheduled to be rolled out between 2012 and 2013, will see the project expend US$5 million of a US$10 million allocation. Chief Executive Officer of the Bureau Derrick Cummings told Stabroek Business earlier this week that staff of the organisation had been visiting Linden as part of a planned countrywide sensitisation programme aimed at ensuring that vulnerable communities become aware of how the project could benefit them. Cummings said the project would focus on unclogging two of the major bottlenecks that constrain the ability of local micro and small enterprises to grow, the first being their limited access to finance and the second being technical and business skills deficiencies.
Providing improved access to capital and financial services is high on the list of the project. An official document, which provides details of the project, points out that "providing improved access to to capital and financial services helps households meet basic needs and protects against risks." The thrust of the project is also predicated on the view that "improved financial services promote long-term self-sufficiency and wealth-creation strategies."
The bureau will facilitate access to finance for MSE's through two mechanisms. First, a Mutual Guarantee Fund (MGF) will be set up to guarantee part of the collateral of a loan, thereby positioning the borrower to secure loans at affordable rates. Second, the bureau will operate a Low Carbon Grant Scheme to assist vulnerable persons with viable business propositions. In this instance the bureau will apply financing to a training voucher scheme that will enable MSE's to obtain the skills they require at existing training institutions. Cummings told Stabroek Business that some local entities including Republic Grant Guyana Ltd, the Institute for Private Enterprise Development (IPED) and EMPRETEC have already been identified as institutions with which the bureau was likely to partner in the execution of the project. He said other training institutions will, over time, be approached to help meet the training needs of the project.
In addition to those components associated with access to finance and training the project will also consider the creation of an Innovator Incubator Hub which will enable MSE's to quickly develop and become competitive through networking and providing access to sources of funding, media exposure and a knowledge centre. The project will also consider the creation of an MSE Business Centre to support the startup of small businesses through advisory and technical assistance, business counselling, business plans and financial projections.
Another critical component of the project is its Low Carbon Grant Scheme, a pool of money which will be set aside to assist vulnerable persons for existing or potential business ventures. Persons who are already operating business enterprises and require additional financing will be eligible for funding under the Low Carbon Grant Scheme.
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The sun is setting on USA TODAY's Green House blog after nearly three years. Yet this no farewell since I'll still be covering energy and environmental issues. This is really, as fellow blogger Cathy Lynn Grossman puts it, more of a "change of address" notice.
The change comes as USA TODAY celebrates its 30th anniversary with a website redesign that will simplify and expedite reader access to news. So my stories aren't going away; they'll just appear in new places online. You can also find them by following me on Twitter.
Green House has been a thrilling, and exhausting, experience. It started in Dec. 2009 as a personal tale of building my own eco-friendly home and expanded into coverage of broader environmental issues, including the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that drew more than one million monthly page views during the summer of 2010.
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text: For those of you who may really not be up to speed on all things Clone Wars, tonight is the one-hour season finale. There is no way we could forget this fact at our house, because L. has been reminding us about it for weeks now. I have a love-hate sort of relationship with the show. I feel indebted to it in some ways: I had always wished that L.'s very eclectic interests could, for once, intersect just a little with those of his peers, and Star Wars and Clone Wars opened up a door to a social world he had stood on the outside of for many years. Yet we have also been struggling with limiting L.'s screen time at home--I much preferred, in a way, when L.'s life centered around office supplies and he spent many happy hours in his room organizing and using his supplies. Over the course of this past year, my nine-year old has developed what can only be called a media addiction. I didn't even know this term existed until I went to an amazing talk at one of our monthly AS Support Group meetings. And yes! a media addiction to Clone Wars is definitely what L. has. We have managed, through the use of lots of schedules and timers to get his computer time down to a more acceptable level, but we have to stay on top of the schedules constantly, and it can wear a person out. This is not an easy battle--not in the least--and things have gotten ugly in the process. Despite all this, we really do look forward every week to watching a new Clone Wars episode with L. This is a big thing for him: staying up a little later than normal, watching TV downstairs in the "grownup" room. And we look forward to spending this special one-on-one time with him. I've even gotten into the tradition of preparing a special dessert for Clone Wars night and, of course, because tonight is the season finale, I had to pull out all the stops. Figuring out dessert around our house isn't easy. T. doesn't like vanilla ice cream and L. ONLY likes vanilla ice cream. He doesn't do "messy" desserts like crumbly cake, or things with too much icing. He's not a huge cookie fan, and he doesn't much like chocolate, but T. loves chocolate. Both kids love sorbets--in any flavor. There's something happy and sunny about sorbets--especially the store-bought rainbow kind. Of course, you could make your own sorbet, too, if you weren't in the middle of slogging through some 50 final research papers, that is. So I settled on a recipe form one of my favorite cookbooks: Mollie Katzen's Vegetable Heaven. I cook so many main-meal dishes out of her book that I often forget she has a delicious selection of dessert recipes at the back of her book! Rainbow Sorbet Pie adapted from Katzen's Rainbow Torte recipe Here's what you'll need: Approx. 2 cups crushed cookies, or graham cracker crumbs. We happened to have a bakery package of those super-crumbly Italian cookies that look so good in the grocery store but then you bring them home and they all taste...the same. I crumbled up 1 1/2 cups of those, and then used crushed graham cracker crumbs for the rest. 6 tablespoons melted butter Approx. 3 pints/small tubs frozen sorbet Preheat the oven to 350. Pull out tubs of sorbet and let them soften at room temperature. Combine crumbs and butter in a medium-sized bowl, and press mixture into the bottom of a springform pan. Bake crust for 10 minutes, and then cool. Spread one layer of one flavor of sorbet over the cooled crust. Top with another layer of another flavor, and so on. You can make the pie as high as you like or just stick with two layers. When you're done, cover with saran wrap and let chill for at least 4 hours, or until firm. You can serve with whipped cream, or chopped up fruit, or even lightly toasted almonds, or just as it is, the way my kids like it. *********** Do you have Derby plans on Saturday? Last year I made this dreamy Derby Day Pie, and T. and I whipped up a batch of virgin mint juleps--some ended up on the floor, of course, but the end results were well worth the rocky start. Happy Derby Day and Happy Weekend!


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ONE FOR THE MONEY A Stephanie Plum Novel
"Comes roaring in like a blast of very fresh air...Goes down like a tall, cool, drink."
-The Washington Post
"Snappily written, fast paced and witty."
-USA Today
ONE FINE MESS Welcome to Trenton, New Jersey, home to wiseguys, average Joes, and Stephanie Plum, who sports a big attitude and even bigger money problems (since losing her job as a lingerie buyer for a department store). Stephanie needs cash - fast - but times are tough, and soon she's forced to turn to the last resort of the truly desperate: family...
ONE FALSE MOVE Stephanie lands a gig at her sleazy cousin Vinnie's bail bonding company. She's got no experience. But that doesn't matter. As does the fact that the bail jumper in question is local vice cop Joe Morelli. From the time he first looked up her dress to the time he first got into her pants, to the time Steph hit him with her father's Buick, M-o-r-e-l-l-i has spelled t-r-o-u-b-l-e. And now the hot guy is in hot water-wanted for murder...
ONE FOR THE MONEY Abject poverty is a great motivator for learning new skills, but being trained in the school of hard knocks by people like psycho prizefighter Benito Ramirez isn't. Still, if Stephanie can nab Morelli in a week, she'll make a cool ten grand. All she has to do is become an expert bounty hunter overnight-and keep herself from getting killed before she gets her man...
"Evanovich is funny and ceaselessy inventive."
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"Evanovich's writing is smooth, clever and laugh-aloud. Her plot is ingenious and fresh, her dialogue breezy, bright, witty, and gutsy." -Booklist p0(starred Review)
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Janet Evanovich lives in New Hampshire and has won major crime fiction awards for her Stephanie Plum novels: ONE FOR THE MONEY received the Crime Writers Association John Creasey Award and the Dilys Award, TWO FOR THE DOUGH won the CWA Last Laugh Award and THREE TO GET DEADLY was awarded the CWA Silver Dagger for 1997.
"Comes roaring in like a blast of very fresh air...Goes down like a tall, cool, drink." --The Washington Post"Snappily written, fast paced and witty." --USA Today"Evanovich is funny and ceaselessy inventive." --Los Angeles Times Book Review"Evanovich's writing is smooth, clever and laugh-aloud. Her plot is ingenious and fresh, her dialogue breezy, bright, witty, and gutsy." --Booklist (starred review)
Series: Stephanie Plum Novels
Audience: General
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 352
Published: April 2003
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 17.1 x 10.8 x 2.5
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Comments come in the same week Cal State University in the US finds 1 in 10 of its student body is homeless
Comments come in the same week Cal State University in the US finds 1 in 10 of its student body is homeless
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I have not seen a 7.62x54 but on the 7.62x54r the r stands for a rimmed round.
This is a discussion on is there a difference? within the Defensive Ammunition & Ballistics forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Is there a difference between 7.62x54 and 7.62x54r? I just picked up a mosin nagant It's stamped 7.62x54r, and I just want to make sure ...
Is there a difference between 7.62x54 and 7.62x54r? I just picked up a mosin nagant It's stamped 7.62x54r, and I just want to make sure I don't put the wrong ammo thru it, and if there is a difference, what is it? Thanks
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I have not seen a 7.62x54 but on the 7.62x54r the r stands for a rimmed round.
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Yes there is a difference. Using a round without the rim will result in extraction problems and possibly headspace problems.
One headspaces on the rim, the other on the shoulder and they are not interchangable.
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The 'R' denotes it as a rimmed cartridge. Historically, I believe there was was a non-rimmed 7.62x54 chambering in Europe - I recall seeing that recently in one of my reference books. But in 3 reloading manuals and all the commercial ammo sites I have bookmarked, not a one references anything other then the rimmed 7.62x54R. I think you're pretty safe using what's commercially available these days.
If you make it up to Prescott, J+G usually has great prices on the "spam" cans of this stuff.
Note that just about any of the canned ammo available for the Mosins has corrosive primers (the current production Privi Partizan, Norma, etc. most decidedly are not). No worries; neutralize any of those corrosive salts by starting your bore cleaning with good ol' Windex and a patch or two, followed by your normal regime.
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Seriously... who the hell do you think Superman is?
VILLAINS find causing the fear of innocenct people amusing.
HEROES find causing the fear of innocent people disturbing.
That is not a hard concept to grasp, and no matter how 'tired' you are of that formula, it is simply basic recognition of what makes a person GOOD rather than EVIL.
So no... not even a little bit... not even at first.
Superman would NEVER find it amusing that people were afraid of him.
I mean, how would you even visualise that? People cowering in a corner after a display of strength, and then Superman laughing and saying 'Oh you silly humans'?
I swear, this forum never ceases to amaze me...
Just accept that this is the direction they have taken.
Then, you can either decide this version isn't for you and stop watching.
you can decide to enjoy it for what it is - an elseworlds tale.
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Alfred James Bud Carter Jr., 84, West Liberty
Obituaries · November 15, 2013
Alfred James Bud Carter Jr., 84, of West Liberty died Monday, Nov. 11, 2013, at his home in West Liberty.
A memorial service will be held 10:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 15, 2013 at the First Church United in West Liberty. Burial will be in the Oak Ridge Cemetery in West Liberty. A memorial fund has been established. Online condolences may be made to the family at www.hendersonbarkerfuneralhome.com.
Bud was born June 3, 1929, in West Liberty, the son of Alfred and Gladys Watkins Carter. He was a graduate of West Liberty High School. On June 22, 1962, he was united in marriage to Mary Patterson Hudson.
He was a skilled tool-and-die maker worker for Schmarje in Muscatine, and G.E. and Oral B in Iowa City. He enjoyed his time with family at his cabin on the Cedar River, fishing and boating. He was a handyman and was always tinkering with something: auto mechanics and putting together and fixing computers.
He is survived by four stepchildren: Sherry Hudson Grable (Wayne Hartwig) of Solon, Iowa, Terry (Ramonne) Hudson of Davie, Fla., Robert (Mary) Hudson of Fairfax, Iowa and James Hudson of Iowa City; four grandchildren: Heather (Ray) Carrizales, Marcy (Kurt) Weber, Eric Hudson and Sonia Hudson; six great-grandchildren: Maya, Cole, Ava and Cade Carrizales and Whitney and Kalli Weber; brother Robert (Dorothy) Carter of Melbourne, Fla.; sister Donna (Wendell) Johnson of Springfield, Mo.; and brother-in-law Rex Swails of Coralville.
He was preceded in death by his parents; wife Mary in October 2012; and sister Jean Swails.
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CHENEY, Wash. – Down 3-2, Northern Arizona picked up wins from junior David Flodberg and freshman Kevin Taylor at No. 5 and 6 singles to rally to a 4-3 Big Sky victory over Eastern Washington on Saturday in Cheney. The Lumberjacks pulled even with Weber State for second place in the Big Sky at 5-2 and improved their overall record to 11-8 while Eastern Washington dropped to 6-12 overall and 3-3 in conference.
Northern Arizona got an 8-5 doubles win from sophomores Andrew Reiff and Robin Pezzutto at No. 2, but Eastern Washington claimed victories at No. 1 and 3 to earn the first point of the match.
In singles play, Reiff was cruising to a victory at No. 1 before Eastern Washington's Stefan Simikic retired in the second set due to injury. Pezzutto rallied for a three-set win at No. 4, but Eagle wins at No. 2 and 3 gave the home team a 3-2 lead. Flodberg would outlast sophomore Julian Sanchez for a 6-4, 6-1 win at No. 5, leaving the match up to the No. 6 position. Taylor faced Eastern Washington freshman Flavio Malagutti in the final match of the day and claimed a 6-4, 6-2 win to give NAU the victory.
"The match wasn't easy and it did not look good for us most of the day," assistant coach Rich Paulosky said. "The guys were up to the test and were able to edge out the victory. That is what this team is all about; someone has to step up and today that happened in the end."
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You enter the grand vizier's potting shed at your peril. A notice pinned to the door warns off "Avidseekers", and is signed "The Vue". It is addressed, in plaintive retrospect, to the burglars who made four visits while Greenaway's new film The Pillow Book was being edited - using Avid computer software - on the premises. Perhaps the cryptic jargon was lost on them; possibly they overlooked it, since on each occasion they avoided the flimsy front door and entered through a skylight, following the path of some plants which send their tendrils snaking down from the roof. Despite their repeated visits, they took nothing. It is as though Prospero is stalked by the spectres he himself has dreamt up.
It may have been the clammy alley and the damp gloom of the shed, but Greenaway is an eerie, unsettling figure. You seem to be meeting him by moonlight, like Oberon, another of Shakespeare's sinister magicians; he radiates chilliness. In person, he is not quite there. Or at least he gives the impression that he would rather not be. His eyes erase you, anxious to retreat behind a view-finder, or one of those perspective glasses employed by the landscape painter in The Draughtsman's Contract. Throughout our conversation, he studied his familiars - abused dolls, the cage of a papier-mache bird, a life-sized dummy with blotched purple skin - and took stock of the dented cans of film where his magical creatures are coiled on celluloid. Mostly he perused a list on the wall behind me, which with obsessive orderliness had broken down the universal jumble of phenomena into a series of archetypes, tabling the names of actors who might impersonate them. There was a column for Christs, and another for dwarfs, with notes about the hats each might wear. There were even details of a casting call for corpses.
GREENAWAY looks at the world like a mortician. The hero of Drowning by Numbers is a coroner, with a precociously morbid son; Death in the Seine, made for French television, trawls corpses from the river; A Zed and Two Noughts deals with vivisection and surgical butchery. His new film, The Pillow Book, couples necrophilia with aestheticism. A Japanese woman writes calligraphic lyrics on the bodies of her lovers. One young man inscribed by her dies; he is exhumed and flayed, his skin dried out and folded up as parchment. The 10th-century Japanese courtier Sei Shonagon compiled a list of precious objects in her own Pillow Book, which was Greenaway's source; to her treasury of Zen pebbles and sumptuous fabrics, he adds a man who is cut, sewn and pasted into a text.
Corpses suit Greenaway because they are obligingly inanimate, like those inset stills of Sei Shonagon's favourite things which often threaten to turn The Pillow Book from a moving picture into an album of exquisite photographs. "This," Greenaway proudly pointed out, "is my second film with the word 'book' in the title. I believe, like Lacan and Derrida and the French philosophers, that text is primary. I'm a visualist, but my images are text. Lists fascinate me because they break the world down into an artificial order, like encyclopaedias. I display the objects; you supply the verbs. It's like John Cage's games with musical time, his attempt to write music which is motionless. I offer the argument with irony, of course." Greenaway's talk is as riddling as the admonition to the burglars on his front door. The hermetic soliloquy is sealed against intrusion by his proviso that he is being ironic, and does not mean what he says. The abstruse names on the reading list - Lacan, Derrida, Cage - also intend to intimidate anyone avidly seeking a clue to his motives.
I persisted, and asked about a formal quirk which perplexed me in The Pillow Book and its predecessors. How can there be a cinema of objects without verbs to mobilise them? Shouldn't films be moving pictures? Otherwise aren't they beautiful portraits of corpses? "I began my career as a painter," said Greenaway, "and I think of painting as a far more radical and adventurous art than film. I work like Picasso, who said that he didn't paint what he saw but what he thought. So I am," he added with a sapient smirk, "not unconscious of the contradiction. Of course paintings don't move. But sooner that than the heinous narrative which DW Griffith inflicted on the cinema, in the very same period when the Cubist painters were exploring sequence as an alternative to story-telling. I blame Griffith for a notion which has done as much harm to the art of film as the cult of virgin birth has done to Roman Catholicism." Here there should really have been a puff of smoke and a muffled explosion. Greenaway's fugitive eyes even briefly revisited my face, to check on my response to this intellectual conjuring feat. The soliloquy then resumed. "My lists and alphabets, the numerology in Drowning by Numbers, are attempts to find a visual order which does not depend on narrative. In The Pillow Book, I suggest we should reinvent the cinema on the example of the hieroglyph: a word that's also an image."
I ventured to defend Griffith. Surely his chases, jumping across space between different, convergent actions - or, in Intolerance, eliding centuries to make Babylon and contemporary America collide - were Cubist experiments of the kind which Greenaway proposed as his own prerogative? And didn't Intolerance long ago pre-empt Greenaway's grand idea about hieroglyphs? The universal language of cuneiform is lost when the Tower of Babel falls; the messianic Griffith believed that its secret was revived by cinema, the Esperanto of images. Greenaway smiled as if he had foreseen and disposed of my objections, but did not answer them. He dealt in the same way with protests at a recent German screening of The Pillow Book: "When the critics there saw the young man's skin peeled off and bound as a book, they all thought of Jews being made into lampshades." So how did he appease them? "I pointed out that this was something I had not been unconscious of," he said serenely.
I explained the problem which my over-taxed eyes have with his films. Paintings keep still so you inspect them; books can be read at your own tempo. But film charges indefatigably on at its fixed speed of 24 frames a second. The richness of Greenaway's images works against the natural volatility of the medium. In Drowning by Numbers, I spent so much effort seeking out the numerals hidden in the decor that I lost track of and interest in the people. In The Pillow Book, I wondered how it was possible to watch a film about calligraphy without understanding Japanese.
"May I suggest," said Greenaway, like a sorcerer dealing with a dim-witted apprentice, "that you've not gone far enough? We really have so little visual education in our society. My work relies on a degree of repeatability. I expect the viewer to play the game; I'm very ludic, myself. You should go back and re-read, as you would with a book. Put the video into reverse, study films on CD-ROM. People using the Internet freeze frames in my early movies and blow them up so they can read the titles of books on the shelves behind minor characters!" Technology here abets the magic of Prospero. Ariel casts spells by paralysing characters, as if freezing them inside a frame. Greenaway grinned at the thought of all his acolytes in cyberspace, investigating the mysteries absconded in the grainy dots they have enlarged, gladly applying the pause button to their own lives while they pondered his conceits and conundrums. I didn't dare to tell him that the films I loved best were westerns. The big sky, the open air, the galloping horses: size, speed, energy, all of which are excluded from Greenaway's private, static island.
THE INTERNET of course suits Greenaway's solipsism. "Only one person can use it at a time; it's the same with CD-ROM. What the art of film has to do is get rid of the camera, to abandon this heritage of mimesis. And then we can think about getting rid of the cinemas too. My next film is going to be eight hours long, so it's not likely to be shown in the multiplexes." Did he have no nostalgia for those grand, dim hangars of fantasy, with their sweet reek of popcorn and their back rows devoted to sexual adventure? Greenaway remembered the traditional cinema with a disdainful curl of the lip. "Naturally I'm interested in something that's bigger and noisier than I am." He did not need to add that he offered this argument ironically. "Cinema is not a social activity. It turns man into a nocturnal animal. We choose to sit there in the dark, watching shadows on a screen. That's what my films are - they are not slices of life, like something by Ken Loach." He shuddered slightly at the thought of Loach, or life, or both of them.
Why call cinematic images shadows? They could equally well - given a director with a different temperament, like the sun-worshipping Griffith - be described as beams of light, emanations from glowing flesh. But that sense of kindred, which should make films so intimate and intoxicating, no longer exists for Greenaway. "Our technology has removed us from the physical world. When I painted, I got my hands dirty. Now, behind the camera, I have a much cleaner job." Perhaps the gruesome post-mortem operation in The Pillow Book is a fable about his view of his own art. The celluloid on which light writes its images is called "pellicule" in French, which means "little skin". To make a film is to strip from things the membrane of appearance, and to preserve that thin, dead integument. Hence, despite their barrage of ideas, the decorative superficiality of Greenaway's films. Maurice Denis instigated modernism in painting by pointing out that pictures were not actually representations of biblical tableaux or rustic anecdotes; they were simply coloured marks on a flat plane. A hundred years later, Greenaway is making a similar claim about the cinema. But abstraction comes more naturally to painting. You can only arrive at an abstract cinema by getting rid of the camera, so obstinately attracted to human beings, who - equally obstinate - keep on straying outside the frame.
These preferences emerged in Greenaway's praise of Eisenstein, "for me the greatest director". When I asked what exactly he liked about Eisenstein, he replied, "He was polyglot, a polymath - I'm often accused of anal retentiveness, but he too controlled everything." Yes, but apart from the global culture and psychic quirks they shared, what did he admire about Eisenstein's films? He responded with a lecture on montage, and the way it "gives resonance to images". It struck me as odd to praise form while ignoring content. Montage, like all of Eisenstein's technical innovations, was a model of revolution; the jittery rhythmic exhilaration matched the accelerated tempo of history. "None of that matters," said Greenaway impatiently. "The Battleship Potemkin is a film about some bad meat." Revolution is a pretext for the director's exhibitionism. Aware that he might have overstated, Greenaway made a concession. "All right, so all great art is propaganda. But when you look at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, do you remember the Council of Trent?" Maybe not - still, if you don't think about religion and its effort to render the world intelligible, then the ceiling is just a specimen of florid interior decor. Accepting Greenaway's premise, I asked what his own art propagandised for. "For the fact," he said, "that the world contains a multiplicity of things, and of colours." As gospels go, this is a good deal less nutritious than Eisenstein's liberating ideology.
The heroine of The Pillow Book escapes to Hong Kong and becomes a fashion model, teetering down a catwalk on vertiginous heels. "In feudal Japan, there was an elite of five thousand people, supported by five million invisible toilers. I wanted to find an equivalent today to the artificiality and etiquette of the court. That's why I introduced fashion: those women on their 20-inch heels are martyrs to elegance. Sei Shonagon had the same snobbery. In her book, she asks indignantly why beautiful snow should fall on ugly people." That question perplexes Greenaway too. Joan Plowright answers it for him in Drowning by Numbers when she placidly murders her husband. She sees this as an act of aesthetic cleansing: she did it, she explains, because he was fat.
"The body which kisses also farts," shrugged Greenaway. Nevertheless his work executes its own aesthetic revenge on a physical existence which the cinema customarily celebrates. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover concludes with judicial cannibalism. For his Viennese exhibition "100 Objects to Represent the World", he was, he says, "privileged to exhibit a severed head". Yet this gruesome "viscerality," as he calls it, is meant to be playful, fictitious, hollow. "You may be more literal than I am, but there are two things in the cinema that I never believe - death and copulation. I want to point out the artifice of cinematic death." So much for our mortal agony, and the tears we generously shed when Garbo expires. Copulation, as choreographed by Greenaway, has the same frigid falsity. I asked about his preface to the press release for The Pillow Book, which muses that: "There are two simulations in life guaranteed to excite and tease - sex and text, flesh and literature." I was hoping for a riff on cybersex, quite the rage in Japan. "Can I look at that?" asked Greenaway, who had never set eyes on the ex cathedra statement attributed to him. He then confirmed that simulations should have been stimulations. But typos are trouvailles, and his discomfiture perhaps disclosed that, for him, there is not much difference between the two conditions.
Viscerality yields to virtuality, and twinned, writhing bodies fade into transparent wraiths. "Yes, with virtual reality we have come to the end of the illusionist line. That's what I like about cinema. Like the baroque, it's empty, it's all show. There's nothing there." Prospero's visions evaporate, and the food cycle in The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover leads inevitably to evacuation in the privy. A Zed and Two Noughts concludes in a row of empty, aerated zeroes. Greenaway takes desolate delight in his nihilism: he enjoys cancelling out the art he practises. Orson Welles, a magus reduced to the status of a card sharp, also called himself a fake, but he did so more winningly, with an appeal for our forgiveness. Less contrite, Greenaway accuses the so-called real world of fraudulence, but exempts himself. During our conversation, he commemorated the centenary of cinema by erasing all its achievements to date: "I don't think we've seen any cinema yet." We must patiently wait, he implied, until he created it. "My next film will end in Manchuria, where we'll unearth the lost city of Kubla Khan. That will be my commentary on Welles's Xanadu in Citizen Kane. But now I must go. I am off to Israel to talk about The Pillow Book." It was not surprising to discover that he was about to take flight. His talk is a tempest, and like the spurious maelstrom conjured up by Prospero, it consists very largely of over-heated air.
Before emplaning, he performed a last feat of cosmic legerdemain. "Here's my pen," he said, producing it from his pocket with a whiff of abracadabra. "It's made of metal and plastic. Metal gives you guns and battleships; plastic is polymers and all the synthetic alternatives to nature. It has a clip: that involves fashion. And it's a machine, a writing implement. By association, it contains everything. If I threw it across the room, like the ape with the bone in 2001, it would reach to the edge of the universe." Well, I thought, not quite...
No wonder that the burglars, even after repeated forays, stole nothing. Despite his encyclopaedic ambitions, Greenaway's is a small world, as stifling as the interior of Tulse Luper's suitcase, inside which the next eight-hour film will be set. It is Onan's empire: a place of strict psychological monopoly. Emerging from the alley, I was happy to find the uproarious traffic still trundling back towards unvirtual Hammersmith.
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Evergreen Arts & Humanities Series Features Local Group – The Rain Crows
The Evergreen Arts & Humanities Series of Washington State Community College (WSCC) is proud to present the very popular local group, The Rain Crows, in concert. This event will be held on January 25th at 7:30pm at Graham Auditorium on the WSCC campus.
The Rain Crows are an eclectic group of musicians from across the state of Ohio that met fortuitously at a "rustically quaint Lake Erie resort." Lead guitarist, Bill Thompson, III, the editor of Bird Watcher's Digest, is joined by his wife, author and naturalist, Julie Zickefoose, and former sessions singer, Wendy Clark Eller on vocals. Local musicians, Craig Gibbs and Cage Queen round out the group on bass and percussion. Even though the members of the group come from diverse backgrounds in varying fields, all of them have made a point of including music as an active part of their lives. What started out as a jam session with some like-minded performers evolved into a group that has recorded two full-length albums. Their first album, "Looks Like Rain," was recorded and produced at Moviesound Studio in Parkersburg, West Virginia in 2012.
Not long thereafter, the group came together again at the Indigo Hill Sound Cave outside of Whipple, Ohio, to collaborate on their new album "Dream of Flying Dream". The tracks on the album are all tied together through the inspiration of nature and birds, but the tracks are made distinct by the different styles of music that are featured throughout the album. The band has said that the tracks on their newest album feature styles "from country to classical to Celtic and from southern rock to 1930's jazz." Their playful approach to different styles of music is sure to delight music lovers of all ages.
Additionally, the opening reception of the Spring Semester Art Exhibit sponsored by the Evergreen Arts & Humanities will also take place beginning at 6:30 PM on Saturday evening, January 25th. The exhibit features a variety of work of Beth Cox, art instructor at WVU-P, and the pencil drawings of Anthony Wilson, a Marietta artist.
Make sure to come out to see The Rain Crows in the Graham Auditorium at WSCC on January 25th at 7:30pm. This event is free and open to the public. Advance seat pass reservations can be made by contacting Tanya Wilder by phone at 740-374-8716 or by e-mail at email@example.com.