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In Breivik's war zone Luton, fear - and scorn
Shouting taunts and trading expletives, a Muslim teenager and the leader of Britain's most prominent anti-Islam nationalist group are seconds from a fight.
Why are you talking to this racist? the youth asks a reporter walking with English Defence League leader Stephen Lennon in Luton, the British town cited as war zone with Islam by Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik at his trial.
As a group of Muslim youngsters surrounds Lennon, another starts a heated discussion with him about Islamic religious law.
Onlookers, fearful of trouble, peer out from down-at-heel shops in this small city in rural Bedfordshire, 35 miles (55 km) north of London, where the industries that once drew in large numbers of Asian immigrant workers have seen better days.
The goading turns out to be bluster and Lennon leaves, unscathed but with abuse ringing in his ears. This is what I've been telling you about, he said as he walked off, arguing there were parts of Luton where non-Muslims could no longer venture.
Breivik, justifying killing 77 people as part of a war to halt a Muslim takeover in Europe, has cited Luton, which he does not appear to have visited despite travelling to London some years ago, as a place of strife, fear and Muslim no-go areas.
Look at places like Luton, or other war-like zones in Europe, he said during his trial in Oslo last week. Other militants and I in Europe are trying to prevent a civil war in Europe which would cause many more deaths.
While Lennon, who founded the EDL in the town three years ago, has been at pains to distance himself from the confessed killer - he called Breivik a nutter - he does recognise his description of Luton, even if others in the city do not.
Luton is a blueprint for every other town in the country if people don't wake up, said the 29-year-old Lennon, who also calls himself Tommy Robinson, the name of a once feared leader of hooligan followers of the local soccer team Luton Town.
People are just fed up, he said, warning that an attack similar to the Breivik killings in Britain was becoming likely.
The town is certainly one of the most ethnically diverse in Europe: Muslims, mostly from families who arrived from formerly British-ruled Pakistan and Bangladesh in the 1960s and 70s, account for almost one in five of its 200,000-odd population. In Britain as a whole, about one person in 25 is Muslim.
Luton is also, some locals say, a particularly divided town, where suspicion of British Muslims, especially since the London suicide bombings of 2005 by homegrown militants, is sharpened by the presence of both radical Islamists and hard-right groups.
Taymour Abdulwahab, who carried out a suicide attack in Stockholm in December 2010, studied at the local university. A firebrand proponent of imposing Islamic law in Britain and a sympathiser with al Qaeda, Saiful Islam, lives in the town.
And it was the shouting of abuse by local Muslims at British soldiers parading in Luton after combat in Afghanistan that prompted Lennon to found the EDL in the town in 2009.
Some in Luton complain mainstream politicians have played into the hands of extremists on both sides by ignoring popular concerns, widespread over the past half-century that mass immigration, notably from former colonies in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, is undermining British culture.
Local people are divided on how divided they actually are. Some dismiss Breivik's rants and speak with pride of enjoying the variety of life now on offer in a town that was once known mainly as the centre of Britain's hat-making trade. But others warn Luton could explode if politicians ignore their concerns.
The EDL, whose symbol is the national red cross of Saint George, familiar from the mediaeval Crusades and among English soccer fans, began by opposing only violent Islamism, Lennon said. But it is now anti-Islam in general - a shift to a more radical stance that worries governments across Europe.
The EDL's support, restricted to street demonstrations and absent from the electoral process, is estimated by its leaders to be in the tens of thousands, by others to be much lower.
But with Europe's economic difficulties adding to discontent with immigration, its brand of ideas is gaining ground. In France, a record surge to 18 percent of the vote for National Front leader Marine Le Pen in Sunday's presidential election has prompted President Nicolas Sarkozy to stress populist, nationalist themes as he tries to win over her supporters.
In Britain, anti-immigrant groups have had little such impact. Since a leading Conservative saw his career ended in the late 1960s by campaigning to halt immigration - Enoch Powell had warned of rivers of blood - mainstream parties have stuck to a consensus that Britain should be a multicultural society.
However, with the British National Party nearly trebling its vote - to 2 percent - at the 2010 general election, and with concerns about radical Islamists finding a haven in some British Muslim communities, Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron spoke last year of the failure of state multiculturalism. He pledged to fight extremism and promote social integration.
With anti-immigrant parties also doing well in smaller European countries, notably the Netherlands, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, too, has voiced despair at multiculturalism.
The English Defence League, whose Latin motto is the widely used Christian declaration in hoc signo vinces - under this sign shall you conquer - is known in Britain for occasional brushes with anti-fascists, Muslims - and the police - on the streets. It gained international attention when Breivik referred to it admiringly in a manifesto he posted on the Internet.
Lennon calls Breivik's massacre last July disgusting. But he does agree with the Norwegian's analysis of Luton as a war zone of a kind that European leaders are ignoring at their peril:
For us, the future is terrifying, said Lennon, warning of a backlash against Britain's small Muslim minority. There's 97 percent that are non-Muslim in this country and when it turns, which eventually it will, it's not going to be good.
Though small in stature he looks capable of defending himself - and he has a conviction for his involvement in a brawl at a Luton Town match. But, he says, he scarcely dares go to parts of the city, like Bury Park, which are mainly Muslim:
The police are fearful of Bury Park, said Lennon. I don't know any white people who go down there after dark.
On the working-class Farley Hill estate where he was confronted by the Muslim youths, Lennon's views resonate with some locals who say relations between Luton's communities are terrible and getting worse, whether they be Asian Muslims, West Indians or the latest arrivals from eastern Europe.
It's the Asians against the whites and Polish and the blacks. It's just abuse, abuse, said one woman, sitting outside a cafe in a rundown parade of shops.
You have got to watch your back wherever you go, chimed in her friend, who said her daughter had been stabbed by a Muslim and her nephew was being bullied by Asians at a local school.
The women declined to give their names. One said: If my name gets mentioned, my door will be burned down.
She owned three dogs for protection, the 38-year-old added: The police don't even come up.
And yet others in Luton say the talk of tension is overblown. They reject both Breivik's view and Lennon's analysis, saying the town is friendly and most people get along.
To put it blunt, it's a lot of bollocks, snorted Ivor Herbert, sitting on a bench outside a busy, modern shopping mall where women in hijab headscarves and men in traditional Muslim robes are prominent among the crowds.
The retired truck driver has lived in Luton since 1952 and sees no widespread enthusiasm for the EDL or its agenda.
I do most of my fruit and veg shopping in Bury Park where it's supposed to be a no-go area and they couldn't be more friendly, said Herbert, 69, who wore a Luton Town tracksuit.
Clive Robinson, 30, out with his partner Sara Calcutt and pushing his baby daughter in a pram, said he had lived in Muslim areas of the city without problems: What a load of trash, he said of Breivik's claims of imminent religious and race war.
I know Luton has got a wide ethnic community and every race you can imagine is here, he said. But I can't see it being any sort of issue.
That said, he added, the EDL's Lennon had a point to an extent, in that the various groups remained largely separate from each other. A sense of us and them was echoed by Robinson's partner Calcutt, 30: If you don't bother them, they don't bother you, she said.
There's no problem if they work and they pay their taxes.
Many suggest Luton's problems are limited to a small number at the fringes, with Lennon and the EDL on one side and local radical Islamists such as Saiful Islam, widely spurned by the majority of Muslims, on the other.
There are real tensions like you'd find in most multicultural cities, said Gavin Shuker, a member of parliament for the town from the centre-left opposition Labour party.
There's a small group of extremists within the Muslim community. There's a small group of extremists within the more general white population, said Shuker, 30, who grew up in Luton and counts both Lennon and Saiful Islam as his contemporaries.
He warned that advertising Luton as a haven for radicals could attract more troublesome figures. And he acknowledged the problems were also being exacerbated by the town's economic troubles; General Motors stopped making cars nine years ago at the Vauxhall factory, which was once a mainstay for employment.
Shuker, whose father worked at Vauxhall, said: My fear is, without responding to the social needs of the town, different communities become more segmented geographically and that can only go in one direction, which is worse when it comes to people's attitudes to immigration and multiculturalism.
In Bury Park, where young boys and women dressed in the loose clothing of Pakistan were scurrying for shelter from the rain, many people agreed with Shuker's assessment.
When an area's slightly deprived you are going to get problems with crime and drugs, said Saqib Ali, 25, who works in a newsagents shop.
But he rejected the neighbourhood's portrayal as a Muslim ghetto, pointing out there were four churches in Bury Park. And he said Lennon's English Defence League was simply creating tensions in the town where none existed.
The only problems come along when the EDL come about and a few youngsters get a bit excited, he said, ridiculing the group's supporters as the kind of young Englishmen who a decade or two ago might have found an outlet for violence at soccer grounds but who now found that avenue closed by tight policing.
What they used to do at football matches they can't do any more, said Ali. So they funnel it onto the streets.
Luton will be back in the headlines again on Saturday, May 5, when Lennon hopes the EDL will attract thousands to its biggest ever march. The police will be ready for trouble between them and local Muslims tired of radicals from both sides.
He needs to get a slap, said one Muslim teenager among the group who taunted Lennon, adding with a wide grin: And so does Saiful Islam.
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Janet Marie Greene (nee Elbert), 78, a resident of Kipton for 50 years, passed away Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at Keystone Pointe after a long illness. She was born April 17, 1935 in Elyria.
Janet was a 1953 graduate of Elyria Catholic High School. Janet owned the Greene Insurance Agency and also worked at the Kipton Post Office. Her interests were gardening, birds, traveling to Northern Michigan, beach combing, reading and crossword puzzles.
Survivors include her daughters, Karen (Richard) Riggin of Norwalk, Susan (Berardino) Bonaminio of Amherst, Mary Greene of Kipton, Amy (Charles) Tarbert of Lexington, Ohio; sons, Kevin (Antonio) of San Francisco, California, Thomas (Mary) Jr. of Fort Deposit, Alabama, Richard (Angela) of Sullivan, William of North Ridgeville; brother, Charles of Alanson, Michigan; 11 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Robert in 1984 and Ruth (nee Whitney) in 1996; grandsons, Cameron J. Greene and Bernardino G. Bonaminio II.
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Mr. coit, of Connecticut, had read Mr. Jeffersons Mazzei letter.
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Mr. coit said, the question seemed to have taken a new turn.
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Here's another film I watched when it came out and then later when the
DVD was released and enjoyed both viewings, despite the fact I got
"lost" several times. It's about time for another look because it's
well-worth it and who knows....maybe I'll finally figure it out!
If you get a little confused trying to follow the plot, don't feel stupid. This isn't an easy story to follow but it gets high marks for keeping it interesting despite that problem.
The interesting characters, good cinematography, fun James Bond-like gadgets, just the right amount of action scenes and one very memorable heist scene with Tom Cruise dangling from a wire all make this an enjoyable two hours of entertainment. That scene with Cruise trying to break into this vault-like room remains as the one of the better tension-filled scenes I've ever witnessed on the big screen.
The final action scene with the speeding train and helicopter also is very memorable. John Voight, Emmanuelle Beart, Henry Czerny and Jean Reno make it a fun cast to watch, too. Note: stick with this film and forget the sequel. Despite the confusion, this film is still fun to view.
I would like to reiterate what "Anonymous of Derby, England" said about this
film (20th November). The fact that so many people have complained that they
"didn't get it" is proof that our brains are being atrophied by so many
movies that do all our thinking for us. I had no trouble in following the
plot and found the fact that I actually had to concentrate and think things
through quite refreshing. Okay, so a lot of the stunts were a bit far
fetched but what does it matter when they were so entertaining? After all, it
is only a movie; nobody expects us to believe that these things could really
happen any more than they expect us to believe that King Kong really existed
or that there's a Volcano ready to errupt in L.A. Besides, with the inspired
casting of David Schneider as the train driver, Brian de Palma must have had
his tongue in his cheek for at least some of the time. He's created a
masterful boy's own adventure story, an original "ripping yarn" and that
brilliant comic touch added to this perfectly.
"Mission Impossible" is a visual and cerebral treat. Tom Cruise is excellent as Ethan, Vanessa Redgrave makes a superb villian and Jean Reno is watchable in ANYTHING he does. The only weak link is Emmanuelle Beart, who did a good job of looking beautiful but very little else. What a shame Kristin Scott Thomas couldn't have taken a more central role; she makes the gorgeous but bland Beart look like a waste of space.
I give this 8 out of ten and it would have been more if it wasn't for Beart's character.
For those who have not seen the original Mission Impossible, it is a
real shame. While the other flicks offer plenty of explosions and cool
action sequences, the original remains the best for it's interesting
plot twists, some decent acting, and a well developed element of
suspense that's lacking in the later pictures.
To reveal any of the plot would be a disservice: it certainly has some pretty interesting occurrences that should be seen for full effect. What really makes this great though is De Palma's direction. Unlike the later flicks, key scenes are drawn out: there is a real Spense of suspense that is rarely achieved. Three key action scenes come to mind, and there all extremely cool: it's just a shame that Criuse couldn't enlist the services of more experienced director's later in the franchise.
A memorable, well executed thriller.
Based on the TV show of the same name, Brian De Palma's stylish
thriller stars Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt; a James Bond-esquire secret
agent working for a certain section of the government. As the title
suggests, many of the scenarios in the film are extremely unlikely; but
then again, the film wouldn't be living up to it's title if they
weren't. It's one thing to criticise it's stunts for being overblown,
but if they weren't, critics would be on it's back and calling it
things like 'Mission Possible', so really you've just got to go with
it. Brian De Palma makes it easy to just 'go with it' by way of an
intriguing plot line, a constant array of high-octane sequences and
lots of his trademark style! The plot does get a little too convoluted
for it's own good at times, and sometimes it's a little hard to follow;
but it gives the film a good basis for all manner of impossibilities,
so it serves it's purpose. We follow Ethan Hunt and his team. After a
botched mission, Hunt finds himself on the run from his employers after
being accused of disloyalty. Hunt must now pull out all the stops to
stay one step ahead of his pursuers and get to the bottom of why their
mission went wrong.
The film features a number of stunts, the best of which sees Tom Cruise breaking into the CIA via the roof. This sequence is brilliantly executed, with De Palma managing to inject bucketloads of suspense into the scene. This scene fits the tone of the film as it's brooding and cerebral, but the film ditches that idea for it's conclusion, which sees a bullet train, a helicopter and the Channel Tunnel combine to great effect! The problem with all these stunts is that the parts between the action sequences aren't all that interesting, and at times can slow the film down to walking pace. This isn't a big problem, however, because there's always more action around every corner and that keeps the film going. Tom Cruise obviously has charisma and can lead a film, but I often find it hard to buy him in action roles. This one suits him, though, as although his character is still more than capable, he comes off as being quite vulnerable, and lucky at times, and that suits Cruise's persona. On the whole, while this isn't a great film; it makes for good entertainment and if that's what you're in the mood for, Mission: Impossible wont disappoint.
Yes, there was a time when Tom Cruise was charismatic. Take trashy
movies such as Cocktail and Far and Away or great movies like The Firm
and A Few Good Men and imagine anyone other than Tom Cruise in the lead
role. Hard to do, isn't it? His brash, cocky attitude was once
appealing. Now that he feels he's an intelligent spokesman with
something to say, he just comes across as an arrogant a**hole.
Fortunately, the first MI falls into his earlier stage.
This movie would have been just another action flick without Cruise. Sure we have a stellar cast, but did not Mr. Cruise steal every scene? He is perfect in the role of Ethan Hunt, a spy whose whole team is rubbed out in a convoluted cover up at the start. It is up to Ethan to uncover the plot behind the failed mission. The movie is a series of unveiled plot twists that becomes implausible after a while. But that's not the fun behind Mission Impossible. The fun is watching the great action scenes with their suspenseful turns. So much so, we are willing to suspend disbelief to enjoy the ride. And to let ourselves be swept away by Mr. Cruise's undefinable quality to take us there.
Brian De Palma delivers a kinetic live wire suspense filled espionage
thriller to open the Mission Impossible franchise. The camera work is
exceptional with De Palma's trademark sense of motion applied to
suspenseful heists and an amazing train ride sequence during which you
really get the sense of speed and danger. Also created is one of the
most iconic images from any thriller of recent times Tom Cruise
suspended mid heist inches from a pressure sensitive floor. Cruise
lives up to his star billing and for me really nails the Ethan Hunt
character, Jean Reno, Ving Rames and the stunning Emmanuelle Beart
provide able support.
My one problem with this film and unfortunately quite a big problem is that the twist in the tale can be seen coming a mile off. Which is a real shame as this film is inventive, fun, stylish and everything a main stream thriller should be.
Fun but the twist in the tale doesn't have enough of a sting 7/10
Every now and again, you will come upon a film that you know really
isn't the best movie in the world, or even a particularly good movie on
its own. And yet, despite its glaring flaws and imperfectness and lack
of completion, you do find yourself strangely attached to it because it
has a charm to itself that keeps you interested. Call it a guilty
Mission: Impossible is my guilty pleasure. It's based on a 1960s television series created by Bruce Geller and the movie with Tom Cruise is kind of like a mash-up between The Bourne Identity and the James Bond pictures. Basically, the standard spy movie. Tom Cruise plays a spy who is falsely accused of betrayal to his organization and finds himself working with some unlikely partners to track down the real mole in the system and expose him and clear his name. Now, this is a plot as old as the hills and Mission: Impossible works with it just as well as the others. Not enormously well, but on an acceptable level.
Tom Cruise is great as the film's action hero lead, unfortunately his supporting cast is quite uninteresting. Another defect worth noting is the film's convoluted plot, which sometimes is hard to follow. This is caused by a screenplay in need of revisions. That's one of the film's major weaknesses and really the reason why it's just a standard spy movie with lots of cool gadgets instead of something special.
But that's really my only significant complaint about Mission: Impossible. Those rather small, unimportant defects left aside, and leaving the movie to its own devices, it works out well especially in its action sequences. Again, it's all been done before, sometimes better sometimes worse, but that doesn't meant it's boring or overdrawn. In fact, sometimes it's very primal. There is one scene in particular that I found intense and suspenseful on a hair-raising level. The scene goes on for an unremittingly long time, keeping us on the edges of our seats, and the best thing of all is that it's silent. The filmmakers could have chosen to go along with some dark, heavy music or some ominous heartbeat sound effects to put us in the same shoes with the characters, but the fact that it's quiettoo quiet for our likingmakes it so much more compelling. I only wish the rest of the movie was like this scene. Then it really would have been special.
Nevertheless, De Palma's Mission: Impossible works out well for what it is and unless you're not a fan of the standard spy movies or action pictures in particular, of if you have your standards and hopes up too high, I imagine you will enjoy it. Again, it is kind of a guilty pleasure, but hey, it was a lot of fun.
Tom Cruise Ethan Hunt, a secret agent framed for the deaths of his
espionage team, is on the run from government assassins, as he tries to
uncover the shocking who's and why's of his setup.
Cruise performs well in the role, and the support from Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Beart, Jean Reno, Ving Rhames and more is strong and definitely adds plenty of body to the film.
With some good intrigue and tension, a few breathtaking stunts and a strong conspiracy style plot; Mission Impossible is a decent adaptation of the original series, without really being too familiar.
7/10 but should have been better
I first saw Mission: Impossible when I was 15 and I didn't have a
Scooby what the hell was going on. And I considered myself to be
smarter than the average bear. In retrospect, it's not that muddled. In
comparison to the very-dumbed down sequel it stands out as a better
example of film-making made by a director who doesn't underestimate the
Brian De Palma is known to be a wildly inconsistent filmmaker. From the over-rated Carrie, to the under-rated Snake Eyes, the classic Untouchables and the downright hideous Mission to Mars and Scarface, he's been through just about everything. But Mission: Impossible was his first true mega-hit. Movies from TV shows are a dime a dozen these days and are rarely taken seriously, I mean look at trash like S.W.A.T. or Dukes of Hazard, but M:I is actually supposed to be a continuation of the show, rather than a spin-off.
Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt (no, not cockney rhyming slang) an IMF agent who's entire team is killed in a phony sting operation in Prague. Accused of being a traitor he legs it before they can nab him and assembles a team of rogue operatives to find out who the REAL traitor is. Many double-crosses and double-double crosses ensue.
For those who cannot follow the plot there are some really good set-pieces with enough tension and excitement to carry the whole movie. You'll know by now the dangling scene in the top-secret room but the best scene in the movie is the high-speed train rocketing through the English countryside. While other directors might use this as a chance to show off, De Palma keeps it as realistic as possible which makes it infinitely more cooler.
Parts of the movie may seem a bit dated now and it's weird seeing Tom Cruise look like a little boy even though he was already 33. He even sounds different. And what kind of supervillian uses floppy discs? They could have tried something a bit more high-tech there.
The M:I franchise could be a helluva lot better, I suppose. The second film was terrible and the third merely average. But they're still better than the last few Bond outings, though it ain't quite up to the rugged quality of the Jason Bourne movies.
At least it got off to a good start. But can the world tolerate Cruise long enough to ever get a fourth made?
This is, without a doubt, one of my favorite films of all time! I'll never
forget watching this film for the first time with a good buddy of mine,
afterward we couldn't stop talking about it and spent a great deal of time
explaining plot points to each other. We finally decided that we just had
to see it again, so we did and all of our questions were answered and our
theories proven correct.
The story is nothing less than superb! Every time you think you have the movie figured out they throw you for another loop, but not too much as to get you irritated trying to figure out the plot. This is most definitely a film that deserves at least two viewings before you can truly understand and appreciate the story. The characters are all excellent as well, although I was sad to see Jack Harmen (Emilio Estevez) get killed off so quickly, I liked his character.
The cast is extraordinary! Tom Cruise plays Ethan Hunt perfectly! Jon Voight was the perfect choice for Jim Phelps. Emmanuelle Beart was very good in her role. Henry Czerny was superb as Kittridge. Jean Reno was an excellent addition to the cast. Ving Rhames was a very nice touch and really added a lot to the film. Kristin Scott Thomas was lovely as always, although played a somewhat minor role in the greater scheme of things. Vanessa Redgrave was another nice addition to the cast. And finally, Emilio Estevez (as I mentioned above), played a small role, and played it quite well.
I can see why some of the big fans of the show wouldn't like this film due to certain plot points that I can't give away, so if you are a big fan of the show, be forewarned, you may have some issues with the film. Personally, I've never seen a single episode of the old television show, so I had absolutely no frame of reference. Which, I believe, put me in a better position to appreciate the story.
I feel that I have to mention the action scenes in this film! SPECTACULAR!!! The scene where Kittridge and Hunt are talking in the restaurant...just AWESOME! The entire last 20 minutes of the film...UNBELIEVABLE!!! The filming, the action, the special effects and stunts alone make this film worth watching (but luckily, there is so much more to appreciate).
If you are a fan of Tom Cruise, or just crime/mystery/action films in general, be sure to check this one out (at least twice). This is honestly one of my top 20 films of all time, I truly hope that you will enjoy this film. Thanks for reading,
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SECRETARY KERRY: (In progress) We're deeply grateful, all of us, for your having played a critical role -- the critical role in inviting us here, in bringing us here. And I'm very pleased that President Jarba of the Syrian Opposition Council is here with us in New York. I think it's very fitting that President Jarba was raised in Al-Hasakah, because that's a part of Syria where Arabs, Kurds, the Syrians, and Armenians learned from one another for centuries. That foundation for pluralism and partnership has tragically been torn apart by the conflict that is now ravaging the country, a conflict which even as we have moved to try to separate the chemical weapons, must imperatively demand all of our attention.
We have, all of us, come to know too well an Assad who kills indiscriminately, who bombs women and children, Scud missiles on hospitals, artillery destroying students in a university. Millions of people displaced, millions of people refugeed, huge tensions on the surrounding countries, all of it for Assad to stay in power -- a man who has lost any legitimacy to govern.
President Jarba understands that Syria can have a different future. And he understands that Syria can be a nation defined not by this kind of chaos and personal ambition and recklessness, but defined by its rich history of diversity -- not by the forces that are content to destroy them. And through our close partnership with the Syrian Opposition Coalition, the legitimate representative, we believe, of the Syrian people, we can lay the foundation for a peaceful Syria where all Syrians have a say and a shape in a shared future.
The Syrian Opposition Coalition's recent endorsement of Geneva 2 is a critical part of that effort, and I want to commend them for their support. I think almost everybody here has decided there is no military victory. Syria will implode long before any side could claim a military victory. And the fact is there is a process already in place, called Geneva 1, which our friends the Russians have signed on to, which calls for a transition government with quite detailed procedures about how you would have a constitutional process and election, and how Syrians would be able then to choose for the future of Syria. This is a transitional government that must be chosen by mutual consent. And there isn't anybody in the world who believes that Assad would ever get the consent to be part of such a government.
So we need to move rapidly to put this process in place -- a process which already calls for credible elections through that Geneva communique. So we intend to push very hard. We will have a meeting with Lakhdar Brahimi this Friday. I hope we will get this Geneva conference moving. Not that we have an illusion that it may resolve itself in days or even weeks, or perhaps months, but that process must begin so that the world knows we're paying attention to the crisis of Syria, that it's unacceptable that it continue in its current status, and that there is a road forward providing that Assad and the people who support him are willing to embrace what the international community has already adopted.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The crates of Chateau Brehat wine from Bordeaux had gathered dust for three years in a bonded warehouse on the outskirts of Shanghai before the owners cut their losses in July, slashing three-quarters off the $50 price (£32.3) tag.
The fire sale was prompted by a huge oversupply of wine that had built up after a swarm of importers jumped at seemingly stellar growth from 2010. China wine consumption - which had been rising in double digits - dropped last year and is set to inch up just over 1 percent annually until 2020.
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|Sir Peter Ustinov
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|Peter Alexander, Baron von Ustinov
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|16 April 1921
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|Westminster School
|Actor, writer, filmmaker
|Years Active:
|Isolde Denham (1940–1950; divorced)
Suzanne Cloutier (1954–1971; divorced)
Helene du Lau d'Allemans (1972–2004; his death)
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|Jonah Freiherr von Ustinow (later Jona von Ustinov) and Nadezhda Benois
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov, CBE FRSA (or ;[1] 16 April 192128 March 2004) was an English actor, writer and dramatist. He was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre and opera director, stage designer, author, screenwriter, comedian, humorist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster, and television presenter. A noted wit and raconteur, he was a fixture on television talk shows and lecture circuits for much of his career. He was also a respected intellectual and diplomat who, in addition to his various academic posts, served as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF and President of the World Federalist Movement.
Ustinov was the winner of numerous awards over his life, including two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor, Emmy Awards, Golden Globes and BAFTA Awards for acting, a Grammy Award for best recording for children, as well as the recipient of governmental honours from, amongst others, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. He displayed a unique cultural versatility that has frequently earned him the accolade of a Renaissance man. Miklós Rózsa, composer of the music for Quo Vadis and of numerous concert works, dedicated his String Quartet No. 1, Op. 22 (1950) to Ustinov.
In 2003, Durham University changed the name of its Graduate Society to Ustinov College in honour of the significant contributions Ustinov had made as chancellor of the university from 1992 until his death.
Ustinov was born as Peter Alexander von Ustinow[2] in London, England. His father, Jona von Ustinov was of Russian, Polish Jewish, German and Ethiopian descent. Peter's paternal grandfather was Plato von Ustinov, a Russian nobleman, and his grandmother was Magdalena Hall, of mixed Ethiopian-German-Jewish origin. Peter's paternal great-great-grandparents (through Magdalena's mother) was the German painter Eduard Zander and the Ethiopian aristocrat Court-Lady Isette-Werq in Gondar.[3]
Ustinov's mother, Nadezhda Leontievna Benois, known as Nadia, was a painter and ballet designer of French, German, Italian, and Russian descent.[4] [5] Her father, Leon Benois, was an Imperial Russian architect and owner of Leonardo da Vinci's painting Madonna Benois. Leon's brother Alexandre Benois was a stage designer who worked with Stravinsky and Diaghilev. Their paternal ancestor Jules-César Benois was a chef who had left France for St. Petersburg during the French Revolution and became a chef to the Emperor Paul.
Jona (or Iona) worked as a press officer at the German Embassy in London in the 1930s, and was a reporter for a German news agency. In 1935, two years after Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, Jona von Ustinov began working for the British intelligence service MI5 and became a British citizen, thus avoiding internment during the war. He was the controller of Wolfgang Gans zu Putlitz, an MI5 spy in the German embassy in London who furnished information on Hitler's intentions before the Second World War.[6] (Peter Wright mentions in his book Spycatcher that Jona was possibly the spy known as U35; Ustinov says in his autobiography that his father hosted secret meetings of senior British and German officials at their London home.) Ustinov's great-grandfather Moritz Hall,[7] a Jewish refugee from Kraków and later a Christian convert and collaborator of Swiss and German missionaries in Ethiopia, married into a German-Ethiopian family.
Ustinov was educated at Westminster School and had a difficult childhood because of his parents' constant fighting. One of his schoolmates was Rudolf von Ribbentrop, the eldest son of the Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. While at school, Ustinov considered anglicising his name to "Peter Austin" but was counselled against it by a fellow pupil who said that he should "Drop the 'von' but keep the 'Ustinov'". After training as an actor in his late teens, along with early attempts at playwriting, he made his stage début in 1938 at the Players' Theatre, becoming quickly established. He later wrote, "I was not irresistibly drawn to the drama. It was an escape road from the dismal rat race of school."[8]
In 1939, he appeared in White Cargo at the Aylesbury Rep, where he performed in a different accent every night.[9]
Ustinov served as a private in the British Army during World War II, including time spent as batman to David Niven while writing the Niven film The Way Ahead. The difference in their ranksNiven was a lieutenant-colonel and Ustinov a privatemade their regular association militarily impossible; to solve the problem, Ustinov was appointed as Niven's batman.[10] He also appeared in propaganda films, debuting in One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942), in which he was required to deliver lines in English, Latin and Dutch. In 1944 Ustinov, under the auspices of ENSA, presented and performed the role of Sir Anthony Absolute, in Sheridan's The Rivals, with Dame Edith Evans, at the Larkhill Camp theater.
After the war he began writing; his first major success was with the play The Love of Four Colonels (1951). He starred with Humphrey Bogart and Aldo Ray in We're No Angels (1955). His career as a dramatist continued, his best-known play being Romanoff and Juliet (1956). His film roles include Roman emperor Nero in Quo Vadis (1951), Lentulus Batiatus in Spartacus (1960), Captain Vere in Billy Budd (1962), and an old man surviving a totalitarian future in Logan's Run (1976). Ustinov voiced the anthropomorphic lion Prince John of the 1973 Disney animated film Robin Hood. He also worked on several films as writer and occasionally director, including The Way Ahead (1944), School for Secrets (1946), Hot Millions (1968), and Memed, My Hawk (1984).
In half a dozen films he played Agatha Christie's famous detective Hercule Poirot, first in Death on the Nile (1978) and then in 1982's Evil Under the Sun, 1985's Thirteen at Dinner (TV Movie), 1986's Dead Man's Folly (TV Movie), 1986's Murder In Three Acts (TV Movie), and 1988's Appointment with Death.
Ustinov won Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor for his roles in Spartacus (1960) and Topkapi (1964). He also won one Golden Globe award for Best Supporting Actor for the film Quo Vadis (he set the Oscar and Globe statuettes up on his desk as if playing doubles tennis; the game was a love of his life, as was ocean yachting). Ustinov was also the winner of three Emmys and one Grammy, and was nominated for two Tony Awards.
Between 1952 and 1955, he starred with Peter Jones in the BBC radio comedy In All Directions. The series featured Ustinov and Jones as themselves in a London car journey perpetually searching for Copthorne Avenue. The comedy derived from the characters they met, whom they often also portrayed. The show was unusual for the time as it was improvised rather than scripted. Ustinov and Jones improvised on a tape, which was very difficult, and then edited for broadcast by Frank Muir and Denis Norden, who also sometimes took part. The favourite characters were Morris and Dudley Grosvenor, two rather stupid East End spivs whose sketches always ended with the phrase "Run for it Morry" (or Dudley as appropriate.)
During the 1960s, with the encouragement of Sir Georg Solti, Ustinov directed several operas including Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, Ravel's L'heure espagnole, Schoenberg's Erwartung and Mozart's The Magic Flute. Further demonstrating his great talent and versatility in the theatre, Ustinov later undertook set and costume design for Don Giovanni.
His autobiography, Dear Me (1977), was well received and saw him describe his life (ostensibly his childhood) while being interrogated by his own ego, with forays into philosophy, theatre, fame and self-realisation.
In the later part of his life (from 1969 until his death), his acting and writing tasks took second place to his work on behalf of UNICEF, for which he was a Goodwill Ambassador and fundraiser. In this role he visited some of the neediest children and made use of his ability to make just about anybody laugh, including many of the world's most disadvantaged children. "Sir Peter could make anyone laugh," UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy is quoted as saying. "His one-man show in German was the funniest performance I have ever seen – and I don't speak a word of German."
On 31 October 1984, Ustinov was to meet with Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. She was assassinated on her way to the meeting.[11]
Ustinov also served as President of the World Federalist Movement from 1991 until his death. He once said, "World Government is not only possible, it is inevitable; and when it comes, it will appeal to patriotism in its truest, in its only sense, the patriotism of men who love their national heritages so deeply that they wish to preserve them in safety for the common good."[12]
He is best known to many Britons and Americans as a chat-show guest, a role to which he was ideally suited. He was an extremely frequent guest of Jack Paar's Tonight Show in the early 1960s and was a guest on the famous "upside down" episode of the American talk show Late Night, during which the camera, mounted on a slowly revolving wheel, gradually rotated the picture 360 degrees during the course of an hour; Ustinov appeared midway through and was photographed upside down in close-up as he spoke while his host appeared only in long shots. Towards the end of Ustinov's life, he undertook some one-man stage shows in which he let loose his raconteur streak: he told the story of his life, including some moments of tension with the society he was born into. For example, he took a test as a child, asking him to name a Russian composer; he wrote Rimsky-Korsakov but was marked down. He then told the correct answer, Tchaikovsky, since he had been studying him in class, and was told to stop showing off.
He was the subject of This Is Your Life on two occasions: in November 1977 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at Pinewood Studios on the set of Death on the Nile. A week before he was surprised at a book signing at book printers Butler and Tanner in Frome, Somerset. This footage was not used as Ustinov flatly refused to take part and swore at Andrews. His wife persuaded him to change his mind. He was surprised again in December 1994, when Michael Aspel approached him at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva.
A car enthusiast since the age of four, he owned a succession of interesting machines ranging from a Fiat Topolino, several Lancias, a Hispano-Suiza, a pre-selector Delage, and a special-bodied Jowett Jupiter. He made records like Phoney Folklore that included the song of the Russian peasant "whose tractor had betrayed him" and his "Grand Prix of Gibraltar" was a vehicle for his creative wit and ability at car engine sound-effects and voices.
He spoke English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, and Russian fluently, as well as some Turkish and modern Greek. He was proficient in accents and dialects in all his languages.
In the 1960s, he became a Swiss resident to avoid the British tax system of the time, which heavily taxed the earnings of the wealthy. However, he was knighted in 1990 and was appointed Chancellor of Durham University in 1992, having previously been elected as the first Rector of the University of Dundee in 1968[13] (a role in which he moved from being merely a figurehead to taking on a political role, negotiating with militant students). Ustinov was re-elected to the post for a second three-year term in 1971 narrowly beating Michael Parkinson after a disputed recount.[14] [15]
He received an honorary doctorate from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium).
Ustinov was a frequent defender of the Chinese government, stating in an address to Durham University in 2000, "People are annoyed with the Chinese for not respecting more human rights. But with a population that size it's very difficult to have the same attitude to human rights." In 2003, Durham's postgraduate college (previously known as the Graduate Society) was renamed Ustinov College.
Ustinov went to Berlin on a UNICEF mission in 2002 to visit the circle of United Buddy Bears that promote a more peaceful world between nations, cultures and religions for the first time. He was determined to ensure that Iraq would also be represented in this circle of about 140 countries. In 2003, he sponsored and opened the second exhibition of the United Buddy Bears in Berlin.[16]
Amongst his lesser known works, Ustinov presented and narrated the official video review of the 1987 Formula One season. His commentary proved highly entertaining. Ustinov also narrated the documentary series Wings of the Red Star. In 1988 he hosted a live television broadcast entitled The Secret Identity of Jack the Ripper.
Ustinov gave his name to the Foundation of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for their prestigious Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award, given annually to a young television screenwriter.Ustinov appeared as a guest star during the first season of The Muppet Show in 1976.
Ustinov was married three times—first to Isolde Denham (1920-1987), daughter of Reginald Denham and Moyna Macgill. The marriage lasted from 1940 to their divorce in 1950, and they had one child, daughter Tamara Ustinov. Isolde was the half-sister of Angela Lansbury. His second marriage was to Suzanne Cloutier, which lasted from 1954 to their divorce in 1971. They had three children, two daughters, Pavla Ustinov and Andrea Ustinov, and a son, Igor Ustinov. His third marriage was to Helene du Lau d'Allemans, which lasted from 1972 to his death in 2004.[17]
Ustinov was a secular humanist. He was listed as a distinguished supporter of the British Humanist Association, and had once served on their advisory council.[18] [19]
Ustinov suffered from diabetes and a weakened heart in his last years.[20]
Ustinov died on 28 March 2004 of heart failure in a clinic in Genolier, near his home in Bursins, Vaud, Switzerland.[21] He was so well regarded as a goodwill ambassador that UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy spoke at his funeral and represented United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Ustinov was the President of the World Federalist Movement from 1991 to 2004, the time of his death.[22] WFM is a global NGO that promotes the concept of global democratic institutions. WFM lobbies those in powerful positions to establish a unified human government based on democracy and civil society. The United Nations and other world agencies would become the institutions of a World Federation. The UN would be the federal government and nation states would become similar to provinces.
Sir Peter Ustinov Received Many Honorary Degrees These Include:
|Cleveland Institute of Music
|Doctor of Music (D.Mus) [30]
|University of Dundee
|Doctor of Laws (LL.D)
|La Salle University
|Doctor of Laws (LL.D)
|Lancaster University
|Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) [31]
|University of Lethbridge
|Doctor of Laws (LL.D) [32]
|June 1984
|University of Toronto
|Doctor of Laws (LL.D) [33]
|Georgetown University
|Carleton University
|Doctor of Laws (LL.D) [34]
|Durham University
|Doctor of Humanities
|St. Michael's College
|Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
|Free University of Brussels
|National University of Ireland
|Doctor of Laws (LL.D) [35]
|International University in Geneva
In 1997 singer/songwriter Lauren Christy released a song entitled "The Night I Saved Peter Ustinov", on her Polygram Records album Breed. In it Christy recounts a story in which she saves Ustinov from a suicide attempt.


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It's the kind of scenario replayed countless times in Barkley Christensen's backyard.
Down by a touchdown to Manti in the Class 2A state championship, there are 47 seconds left on the clock and 65 yards to go.
If that weren't enough, San Juan's senior quarterback was out of timeouts.
But this is what Christensen lives for these moments where the weight of the team is on his shoulder, where the responsibility to lead starts with him.
"Leadership is more than making things happen in the game," Christensen said. "It's setting the example that others can follow."
Christensen shook off any of the nerves as he got under center. He knew his team responds to his body language, and he wanted to be more than composed. He wanted to share his confidence with his teammates.
Christensen remembered every grueling practice under coach Monty Lee and knew why Lee pushed, pressured and tested the 6-foot-1 quarterback.
"He'd push me to the limits," Christensen said about Lee. "I'm glad he did it because it made me ready for moments like this."
With the season on the line, Christensen marched the Broncos down the field. He calmly led his team by going 4 of 8 passing for 50 yards. It was in the last seconds of the game that Christensen connected with Logan Meyer in the end zone for a touchdown. With the extra point, Christensen's drive forced overtime for the state title. It was the second game in a row in which he rallied his team with a late touchdown pass.
"It was a total team effort, and everybody worked so hard," Christensen said. "I am glad to be behind such great guys who put out all the work for me."
Overtime didn't work out as Christensen planned. Manti's Carlo Garcia kicked a 54-yard field goal to win it for the Templars. While Christensen was disappointed, it didn't diminish his pride in his team. He said that there wasn't one guy who wouldn't stand up for another.
"You can't understand how hard these guys work and how great it is to be on this team," Christensen said.
Christensen closes the chapter on his senior year with 1,960 yards passing and 23 touchdowns. He also rushed for 10 TDs this season.
He said he's considering continuing his career at either Montana or Dixie next season, but the Broncos' captain left a final word of advice for his returning teammates.
"Buckle down, work hard and trust each other," Christensen said. "You can't do what we've done without trusting each other."


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Bill Collings moved from Ohio to Texas in the mid 1970's. Spurred by a lack of interest in medical school, this move enabled him to combine lifelong interests in both guitars and tools into the challenge of stringed instrument building and repair. After a couple of years in Houston, several guitars and a few banjos later, he headed west to southern California. Making it only as far as Austin, he shared shops with fellow luthiers Tom Ellis and Mike Stevens. From there, he set up his own small shop in a wooden "one car" garage. His reputation for outstanding quality and meticulous attention to detail quickly spread. In 1989, he rented a 1000 square foot space and hired two helpers. That same year, an order for 24 custom "Gruhn" guitars helped to establish Bill in the national market. In late 1991, a 3200 square foot "feed store" was purchased, on the outskirts of Austin, and was occupied in the spring of 1992. By 2005, the size of the shop has tripled and he has 50 full-time employees with ground being broken for a new 22,00 square foot shop. The addition of CNC technology has helped to add a level of consistency, accuracy and safety to parts production that was previously unavailable. As the business has grown and processes refined, there is one thing that has not changed...Bill Collings' commitment to building the finest acoustic steel string instruments possible.
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Since 2003, John Allison has called Austin, Texas his instrumental home, but that year does not mark the beginning of his instrumental history. John Allison has been building and repairing guitars and other instruments for nearly 30 years. Though a native Texan, John spent a number of years living in Colorado, Minnesota and Illinois, where he cultivated an interest in and trained for a lifelong career as a luthier. He returned to Texas in 1991 and has been living and working in Austin ever since. After an extended tenure with Collings Guitars, he resumed work on his own line of acoustic and electric guitars. Within a few years, his guitar business outgrew the converted garage it was residing in. Now, Allison Instruments inhabits a small business park space about 10 minutes from downtown Austin.
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On November 6, 1833, 179 years ago, C. F. Martin Sr., accompanied by his wife, Ottilie K�hle Martin; their son and daughter; C. F.'s father and C.F.'s brother-in-law, set on their journey to America. The family promptly set up shop at 196 Hudson Street in the German section of New York City. From there, the long legacy of building Martin guitars began. Their 180th year commences in 2013. Hill Country Guitars is proud to be part of a legacy by carrying C. F. Martin guitars. We stock the Golden Era, Marquis, and Vintage lines.
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If there's any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being. Then let me do it now and not detour, or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
He turned the car off and got out and pocketed his keys after he locked it. This wasn't the first time that he had been here. Whenever he had the time he tried to make sure that he came here. There were people less fortunate than him and he liked to help out at the kitchen. He knew that he would have to go, but he didn't want to go now. He had sent Miss Parker and crew a false lead and knew he had a little bit more time until he had to leave.
"Hello, Jarod. I'm so glad that you could make it."
"Thank you."
"You are too kind Jarod."
Jarod made his way towards the kitchen and helped with making the meal and then when it was done took it out to help serve it. When everyone was served he took the empty pots and pans and started washing them. He then helped with serving the desserts and after that was done he washed the empty serving trays. After that he helped with the bags that the people were allowed to take home for that day. In a couple of weeks it would be Christmas and he hopefully help with giving the people gift bags that contained either turkeys, or hams and all the things that would go with the meal. The day before they would start filling them up and then the next day they would hand them out.
As the day wound down he helped with the dishes that were left over and putting away the chairs and tables. Then he helped mop up the floor.
A couple of weeks later he was helping put stuffing, potatoes, carrots, celery and other things in the bags and tomorrow they would hand them out. The Turkeys and Hams were in the refrigerator and would stay there until tomorrow.
The next day he was there bright and early and was helping hand the bags out. He smiled at the people and wished them a Merry Christmas.
When it was over he said goodbye to everyone and they wished him a Merry Christmas and he wished the same for them. He drove home and ordered a pizza because he was hungry. The kitchen was closed next week, but he hoped to be back again after that.
He was happy that he could help people anyway he could and he liked to help those that were less fortunate than he was.
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1 Gallon Planted Bowl
I started this 1 gallon bowl last week and just thought of making a thread of it! It's intended as a gift for my girlfriend for when she moves out and can't take her current tank with her but I'm keeping it until everything is stable. Will eventually be adding cherry shrimp if all works out.
1 Gallon
no heat or filtration
Miracle Grow cactus and citrus soil capped with aquarium sand
14 watt 5000k
Brazilian microsword
christmas moss
salvinia minima
i'd make sure the miracle grow won't leach any harmful chemicals. i've heard of people using MGOPS, but not that variant.
yes make sure its safe for aquarium use. bowl looks cool though, lets see how it grows. i would give it until its lush and established :)
it should be ok! grassy plants like that can take a little while to get used to the bowl environment but once it does, and as long as it doesnt get beat by algae, it will start to spread nicely. the soil should guarantee a good carpeting behavior from the microsword.
Jmex's Planted Bowl
Quick little photo update.
Everything is growing quite nicely so far. Wisteria in the back is at the water surface, microsword is sending out runners, glosso is starting to take off, and salvinia is almost needing to be thinned out. The moss has also started to climb up the emergent wood which looks pretty neat. Have a bit of detritus and hair algae but not enough to be problematic. The bi-weekly water changes take care of it pretty good. I have seen little black things jumping around on the sand though. Too small to tell what they are, or get a picture of them, but look like little water gnats almost.
How did you manage to have a clear water from the start? I'm also starting a planted bowl but the water got cloudy.
Looks great, I am probably going to start one soon but might just use only sunlight. Do you think that that will work?
What a dope present! 1g would drive me crazy to maintenance, but you kept it simple, and that would make an awesome addition to desk, night stand ect. I would not want to give it away, being afraid they would kill it, but since you said she had a tank it should be alright. Nano tanks are very cool, and yours is pretty fresh. Nice job.
If you put a few (1-2) small shrimp in there, ( Caridina breviata. Cambarellus patzcuarensis, or Sulawesi Starry Night Shrimp; I don't know the Genus / species ) you could maintain a some what of small ecosystem that would allow you to not have to add many neuts, or any at all. A snail or so would help too... Just a thought.
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Quick little photo update I took while visiting. Bowl is doing quite well. No algae, plants are growing like crazy, microsword and moss growing so much some of it is growing emersed, and shrimps are happy.
that looks real nice. i was thinking bout making one too but i wasnt sure, till i saw youres and now im gonna get one for sure. thanks for the motivation.
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