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Lumiere. Miramar. Star 3. Theatre Croisette. Palais B, C, D, E, F and J. Lerins. Riviera 1, 2, 3, Arcades 2 are the theatres screening films throughout with premieres from every imaginable place and where international filmmaker names start becoming familiar. Having a festival pass allows you to obtain tickets for the screenings and at the time, I had seen films such as Waltz With Bashir, Three Monkeys and Lorna's Silence with an international audience.
This week, Romanian director Cristian Mungiu having won the Palme d'Or in 2007 with 4 Weeks, 3 Days and 2 Days is back in competition with Beyond the Hills produced by Jean-Pierre Dardenne. The film was inspired by a true story of a young woman who died during an attempted exorcism in a remote monastery that brought a mixed reception of boos and applause at its premiere.
Of course, there's the USA film in competition, a thriller (yawn) Killing Them Softly, placed at last year's Cannes market as a debut, in the lineup at Toronto and AFM and this year with full blown promotion by the Weinstein Company. What for? The film is a no brainer with 18 distributors lined up. The stars include celebrity Brad Pitt (also a producer), Ray Liotta, Richard jenkins, James Gandolfini. This obviously is one of those films the Cannes submission committee can safely uphold as one based on merit alone for the competition. Logline for this one? The Mob calls in enforcer Jackie Cogan (Brad Pitt) to restore order in the criminal economy. (Yawn)
Jennifer Gargano from the U.S. has her film 8:45 scheduled for several screenings. It has no recognizable named actors and the film is not in competition. The log line reads: a glimpse into the lives of an ensemble cast of characters leading up to the fateful moment on 9/11. Okay, there are certain events that are timeless and people cannot get enough of the subject.
Another American film story that distributors are lining up for is On The Road, promoted as the first adaptation of Jack Kerouac's cult novel. Cast includes Kristen Stewart, Amy Adams, Elizabeth Moss (Mad Men), Kirsten Dunst and Viggo Mortensen. The film was made in 2010, had a debut in 2011 at Cannes, Toronto, Berlin, directed by Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries, Paris, Je T'Aime) and in competition for the big prize.
Interesting films will come out of nowhere such as the one from Ukraine by Mykhailo Illienko. Firecrosser is based on true events where a WWII soldier, Ivan Datsenko, freed from a Nazi prison, then charged with treason by the Soviets, escapes from a Siberian labor camp, emigrates to North America and becomes an Indian Chief. An action movie coming from a worldwide history that always finds an audience.
Crowds of onlookers and paparazzi are drawn to the celebrities to watch them walk the red carpet and see what they are wearing during the premieres. Thy often miss out completely on the slew of films scheduled in local screening venues some in the old part of town (a wonderful labyrinth of cobblestone streets and private alleyways). Really, the best thing to do is score the tickets, see the films that sound almost too absurd to be true and there's always the rush lines where people are much nicer than some Americans I ran into on the red carpet.
While standing in the queue for the Indiana Jones premiere, a loudmouth woman from LA tried to bully her way past us calling us old grandmas that should stay home in our rockers and threatening to hit me over the head with her telephone if I didn't get out of her way. She demanded my friend Adriana and I let her by since she makes more money than we will ever dream of and that we were currently in a free country – America. That's when the polite young man in a tuxedo turned and reminded her that we were in France.


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DARE COUNTY, Va. — Taser stun guns have been a helpful law enforcement tool for the Dare County Sheriff's Office, with the non lethal weapons used to stun troublesome people without injury, Sheriff Rodney Midgett says.
"We have some, but we want to get more," Midgett said. "Ideally, I would like each officer to have one."
The Sheriff's Office has applied to the Governor's Crime Commission for a $10,465 matching grant to purchase 13 more. The county would pay 25 percent - $2,616 - with the rest coming from federal funds. They cost $805 apiece, with holsters.
Five Taser guns currently are available to supervisors at the Dare County Detention Center, the three Sheriff's Office districts and the narcotics unit. Not including the detention center, the sheriff said, they have been used 21 times: two times in 2004;\ 10 times in 2005; six times in 2006; and three times in 2007.
Police typically would have one on hand to employ in high-risk entries or issuance of search warrants, or when suspects are resisting arrest, Midgett said. They also are used to subdue disruptive inmates or in dangerous situations with mentally ill individuals.
"We use it when people are showing aggression toward our officers or when there's a high potential for assaulting an officer," he said.
Information from the county detention center was not immediately available, but Midgett said he knows a Taser gun has been used there "a very few times."
Taser guns fire small probes that transmit surges of electrical current at suspects to incapacitate them.
The Taser manufacturer says on its Web site that the electrical current is a minimal amount. When the technology is used properly, it is "generally safe and effective," the site said.
The weapon gained notoriety in September after video of a man shot with one in Florida was viewed widely on the Internet.
His plea, "Don't Tase me, bro" has been turned into a youth culture punch line.
Midgett says he is not aware of any person being injured by a Taser gun used by the sheriff's office.
"Our officers are trained on the proper way to use them," the sheriff said.
Police in Duck, Kill Devil Hills, Nags Head and Manteo also have the non lethal weapons ; they do not in Southern Shores. Information was not available Wednesday from the Kitty Hawk Police Department.
The Sheriff's Office this month also has applied to the Governor's Crime Commission for a $12,498 grant to pay officers' overtime costs in efforts to reduce drug operations and drug-related crime in the county. Dare County would be responsible for $3,125 of it.
There were 393 arrests for drug violations in the county in 2007, Midgett said.
Midgett said the competitive grant, available to jurisdictions with populations of 75,000 or less, was not awarded to the county last year, although it had qualified for it each of the previous three years .
The grant would cover the additional overtime costs involved in such activities as when officers saturate areas suspected of drug activity, go door-to-door on "knock and talks" and check on parole and probation violators.
The sheriff said he expects to know the status of the grants by early May.
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THOUSANDS of people died today. But then, thousands more were born. The moment that should have marked the Mayan apocalypse has come and gone... and life goes on.
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text: Culture 28 February 2000 Good Grief! Charles Schulz, creator of Charlie Brown, died on 13 February, taking a bit of the American idyll wi Sign up for our weekly email * It has been 20 years since I thought of Charlie Brown. Oh, there were occasions when, visiting my native country, I glimpsed Peanuts in the Sunday paper. At Christmas, Snoopy, the black-eared beagle, first-world-war flying ace and aspiring novelist who thought in aphorisms, couldn't be avoided in cheap cloth or even cheaper plastic. And if I noticed any passing references to Charles Schulz, the only ones that stuck with me were about his penchant for litigation against anyone who co-opted his "children" - Lucy, Linus, Pigpen, even Beethoven-playing Schroeder - without due remuneration. But that was about it: no wistful evocations of childhood, no fondness for lost years and "home", not even the animus that I could work up against Mickey, Donald, Pluto and the other lackeys of Disney Inc. Charlie Brown and I parted on bad terms in the 1970s. My best friend was a cartoonist who could, in moments, bring out both the charm and the horror of one's distinguishing features - in my case, an ill-advised Afro and the absence of a chin. Compared to this talent, Schulz's kids were a one-dimensional neighbourhood: round-faced, squat and (except for one very minor, belated addition) white. They were distinct only because of hair colour and an accessory: the zig-zag horizontal stripe on Charlie Brown's shirt, Linus's security blanket, Pigpen's dirt-cloud, Schroeder's piano. The "stories" were variants on themes that had been fresh decades earlier: how many times could Lucy pull that American football away just before Charlie Brown kicked it, leaving our hero forlorn on his back? How often would Snoopy start the Great but Unfinished American Novel, "It was a dark and stormy night . . ."? And would the gang ever see the Great Pumpkin at Halloween? Peanuts wasn't funny and, to worldly high-school students, Snoopy definitely wasn't Joe Cool. But, as I read in Schulz's obituaries yet another platitude elevating Charlie Brown to Everyman, I have to admit that our separation wouldn't have been so memorable had Peanuts not been an important part of my life. The importance, I hasten to add, was not because it was a "favourite", even in my years of innocence before high school. While it benefited by comparison with some truly dreadful strips - the sub-soap opera of Mary Worth, the hyperglycaemic platitudes of Love Is and so on - I always preferred the action of Dick Tracy and the shenanigans of military life in Beetle Bailey. No, Peanuts was part of my life because it was part of my parents' lives. On my father's dresser was a model of Lucy in a wooden booth, dispensing advice over the sign, "THE DOCTOR IS IN - 5 CENTS". My father was a preacher, a strong but gentle speaker with messages usually on the theme of "Be nice to each other". On one occasion, the church elders half-joked with him that he would be fired if he used Peanuts yet again in his sermon; the next Sunday, he opened with the story of Charlie Brown's eternal infatuation with the little red-haired girl. When life imitated Lucy's booth and he became a marriage and family counsellor, my father decorated his office with Peanuts posters. My mother, who taught high-school psychology, remembers the slogans on her posters - Charlie Brown complaining: "I've been nervous so long that, when I relax, it makes me nervous" and "Even my anxieties have anxieties". Every occasion was a Peanuts occasion. At birthdays and Christmas, my sisters and I scrambled to get the best presents for my father: Snoopy golf socks were always a good bet, but I think the final winner was a Snoopy telephone. One day, Walker, a friend of my parents, was badly injured in a plane crash in Germany. My father wrote as Snoopy to say: "Watch out for the Red Baron and return safely." Walker kept the framed letter on his wall until the day he died. And then, during a rough patch for my family, there was the card from my father to my mother telling her how important she was and ending, "5 cents, please". Thirty years and 4,000 miles away, I can offer an academic explanation for the appeal of Peanuts to my parents and many thousands like them. The strip debuted on 2 October 1950, three months after the outbreak of the Korean war, eight months after Joe McCarthy waved a piece of paper with the names of 205 non-existent communists in the State Department. The United States might be a prosperous country, but it was also a very nervous one. At a time when US comics were being criticised at home and abroad for their violence and deviancy (even the relationship of Batman and Robin was considered suspect), Schulz's kids succeeded because they provided nicer, more manageable neuroses. Instead of worrying about the Bomb, we could suffer with Charlie Brown's perpetual clumsiness and his pangs of unrequited love. Forget about the Reds, it was Lucy's high-handed tormenting of Charlie Brown and her brother Linus that made us shake our heads. And who among us didn't dream with Snoopy of rising above the mundane? With no knowledge of existentialism, we could play with existential angst because, in the end, there was the illusion of innocence and the permanence of hope. Charlie Brown, much like Forrest Gump 40 years later, was the simple, confused, trusting boy to whom bad things happened but who, in the end, maintained his faith that all would end well. He would kick that football, he would win the baseball game, he would capture the heart of the little red-headed girl. We had a "philosophy", even a religious belief. The Reverend Robert Short packaged it for us in the books, The Gospel According to Peanuts and The Parables of Peanuts. Beyond the surface image of frustration and despair, the philosophy might not be a fancy one - learn from experience but never lose hope, follow your dreams but don't lose sight of "reality" - but it fits the image of "common sense" that many Americans liked to uphold in an era when the bestselling book was The Power of Positive Thinking. There have been many imitators of this wisdom - recent versions including the bestseller Chicken Soup for the Soul and the offerings of Oprah Winfrey and her rivals - but none has captured the simply drawn community of Peanuts. Of course, Schulz could not disturb his world by referring to current events. This detachment would become more marked in the 1960s. There would be turmoil over civil rights; violence and bombings would erupt in Birmingham, Alabama, where I lived with my parents; but it would not touch Schulz's all-white world, where no one fretted about the Berlin Wall, civil war in the Congo, or Soviet missiles in Cuba. Yet, far from hindering the strip, this detachment only enhanced its popularity. In 1965, B-52s were carpet- bombing Vietnam, but readers were more interested in Snoopy's battles with the Red Baron. As US ground troops celebrated Yuletide, CBS television aired A Charlie Brown Christmas, notable for Linus's rendition of the Nativity tale as Charlie Brown's hapless sapling was transformed into the prettiest Christmas tree in the world. It is possible that more Americans have heard the story of Jesus's birth from the programme, broadcast every December for the past 35 years, than from church services. As the present grew increasingly uncomfortable for Schulz - his most notable encounter with the 1960s was Snoopy telling a "bird hippie": "No one understands my generation either" - he reached his largest audiences by retreating into a sanitised past. A Charlie Brown Christmas was followed by, among other television specials, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, which reinforced my childhood of whites sharing turkey with "Indians" rather than killing them. The final destination was So This is America, Charlie Brown, which reduced 212 years of history to Captain Pugwash-style animation and a series of "great presidents": Abraham Lincoln saved the Union; Teddy Roosevelt saved the environment; and Franklin Roosevelt saved the unemployed. Peanuts finally suffered because, amid the traumas of a lost war and Watergate, its kids were left behind as America painfully grew up. Schulz did pilfer from the changing society, lifting Snoopy's sidekick, Woodstock, from the counter-culture and incorporating the scourge of disco into Snoopy's incarnation as Joe Cool. But his world was a hermetic one. (It is telling that, when the Broadway play You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown was revived last year, Schulz was uncomfortable about multi-ethnic casting that included a "black Schroeder": "I did the whole thing and now you're going to come in and show me how wonderfully open-minded and liberal you are.") And in the 1970s, alternatives to that world were emerging. Readers could now turn to the direct comment of Doonesbury and the surrealism of The Far Side. Peanuts even had, in Bloom County, a warped alter-ego. Charlie Brown was now the hapless Opus the Penguin, and Snoopy had been transformed into the drug-addled CIA agent and rock star, Bill the Cat. Mad Magazine spoofed cultural icons and reduced the cold war to "Spy v Spy"; National Lampoon was now required reading for its irreverence towards all things social and political. Eventually, this sharper dissection of all that a previous generation had assumed sacred finally emerged from the wasteland of TV animation. Where Charlie Brown, Peppermint Patty et al worried about being underachievers, Bart Simpson basked in it, to the public disgust of George Bush (a president who also couldn't see the humour in Doonesbury). Even here, though, family values would survive: The Simpsons and later series such as King of the Hill ultimately revolve around a faith in home and nation far richer than the proclamations of Peanuts. It is South Park that has excelled in blowing that faith apart: at the end of every episode, politics, households, religion, even Barbra Streisand, lie in ruins. But, having constructed this academic explanation for the rise and fall of Peanuts, I find that it does not work. Peanuts did not fall. It might have lost its originality, its insight and its humour; my arrogance was to believe that, since I had left it, it had lost its following. In the eulogies for Schulz, the depth of the tributes from colleagues past and present went beyond the mandatory, Doonesbury's Garry Trudeau calling Peanuts "the uncontested goal- standard for comics". And the well-prepared frenzy of the media - Schulz, suffering from colon cancer, had announced the retirement of Peanuts last autumn; the last strip was set for publication on 13 February - could not obscure a genuine sense of loss. "My best friend the cartoonist" and "a kinder person than I" captured it perfectly. Peanuts might no longer be funny, but it was part of America's cultural furniture: "It was important because it was there. You might not pay attention to it but, once it was gone, you'd notice." And why not? For there is a constancy in American life that goes back to 1950. All the talk of multiculturalism, all the supposed scrutiny of foreign policy post-Vietnam and post-cold war, and especially the wise-ass cynicism of South Park, cannot push aside the "mainstream" view. Americans fight the constant struggle between believing in an exceptional superiority and worrying whether they are liked at home and abroad. Yet to carry that struggle into considered evaluation of, say, Iraq or Kosovo might be very unpleasant; it is bad enough having to wring hands periodically over drug use and gun control, as nothing very significant is likely to be done about either. Peanuts is a safe way, pre-Oprah and pre-Jerry Springer, of self-regard, both of ourselves and of our nation. I spoke with my parents last night. We never talk politics, apart from ritual denunciation of Bill Clinton; conversation revolves around their grandchildren and my father's golf game. But last night, for 30 minutes, they talked Peanuts with me, recalling letters to injured friends and slogans from posters and offering an analysis of Charlie Brown that I would happily plagiarise. My father and mother, the psychologists, hadn't just read and evaluated Peanuts, they had used it in every facet of their lives. Schulz would have been proud: he always claimed that it was "experience", rather than the "experts", that guided his work. Five cents please. Scott Lucas is head of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Birmingham. His most recent book, "Freedom's War: the US crusade against the Soviet Union, 1945-1956", is published by Manchester University Press Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 28 February 2000 issue of the New Statesman, Why the party still needs its soul More


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/// Apple: Google Warned Samsung Against Copying Us
University of Nebraska When Apple's patent battle with Samsung heads to trial next week, the iPhone maker plans to build its case using its Korean rival's own words against it. An unredacted version of Apple's trial brief bluntly states that Samsung was well aware that its smartphones and tablets bore a striking resemblance to Apple's iPhone and iPad and that the issue was one the company discussed internally. "Samsung's documents show the similarity of Samsung's products is no accident or, as Samsung would have it, a 'natural evolution,'" Apple argues in its brief. "Rather, it results from Samsung's deliberate plan to free-ride on the iPhone's and iPad's extraordinary success by copying their iconic designs and intuitive user interface. Apple will rely on Samsung's own documents, which tell an unambiguous story." Among those documents are a few purported to show that Samsung not only deliberately copied certain characteristics of the iPhone and iPad, but was also explicitily warned away from doing so by various third parties, including Google. Below, a sampling of some of Apple's more compelling points. In February 2010, Google told Samsung that Samsung's "P1" and "P3" tablets (Galaxy Tab and Galaxy Tab 10.1) were "too similar" to the iPad and demanded "distinguishable design vis-à-vis the iPad for the P3." In 2011, Samsung's own Product Design Group noted that it is "regrettable" that the Galaxy S "looks similar" to older iPhone models. As part of a formal, Samsung-sponsored evaluation, famous designers warned Samsung that the Galaxy S "looked like it copied the iPhone too much," and that "innovation is needed." The designers explained that the appearance of the Galaxy S "[c]losely resembles the iPhone shape so as to have no distinguishable elements," and "[a]ll you have to do is cover up the Samsung logo and it's difficult to find anything different from the iPhone." Damning stuff — as presented in this context, anyway. And it will be interesting to see how Samsung's legal team rebuts it. That said, Samsung does have some ammunition of its own. Specifically, some 2006 internal design presentations that outline a mobile UI similar to the one that ultimately debuted on the iPhone, a handy before-and-after-the-iPhone-handset comparison and some internal Apple emails that it claims suggest "Apple's 'revolutionary' iPhone design was derived from the designs of a competitor — Sony." Add to that Samsung's claim that Apple's lawsuit is anticompetitive and its argument that the iPhone maker should pay it for using patented technology, without which it "could not have become a successful participant in the mobile telecommunications industry," and next week's trial is shaping up to be a contentious one indeed.
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The 1948 war .
It was the First Arab-Israeli round , The Jews call it "The Independence war" , While the Arabs call it "Al-Nakba (the catasstroph)"
it was fought between 5 Arab armies and Israel , Forces from Egypt , Jordan , Iraq , Syria and Lebanon shared in this war
At the begining of that war the Israelis were fighting with 64,000 soldiors , while the whole Arab armies didn't exeed 19,300 soldiors , Because all the Arab countries were still under the British occupation , and Britain never allowed any country of it's terrotories to have an army including more than 10,000 troops .
Moreover , Unlike the Jewish forces , The Arab armies were with no unified command , nor a Prior agreement for the Tasks of their armies .
Egypt shared with 9,300 soldior , Jordan with 4,500, Iraq with 2,500 Syria with 200 , and Lebanon with 1000
Although all these Factors , The Arab armies achieved great victories in Palestine (at the Beginings) and liberated many Lands , and The Israeli side suffered many losses .
The Egyptian Army crossed the Borders liberating Rafah , the Khanyounis, Gaza , Deir snied, Then occupied Ashdoud , 30 Kilometres south of Tel-Aviv, And the Egyptian Airforce made Daily bombardements to Tel-Aviv causing Heavy losses ,
The right wing of the Egyptian army crossed the borders through Netsana , then Aslouj , Then Beersheba then to Hebron and continued advancing till Bethelehm , 5 Kilometres south of Jerusalem .
The Jordanian army succefully Defended the Jordan river and directed a part of it's army northwards to Besan , and some Jordanian forces succefully entered the eastern part of Jerusalem , The Iraqi army entered and stayed at the triangle of Janin-Tulkatm-Nablus .
The Jews suffered many losses , their army tried to occupy the cities on the shore to keep recieving supplies and emigrants , they succefully occupied the whole shore of Galilee .
Then the whole Arab armies attacked the western part of Jerusalem and sieged it , the situation of the Israeli forces inside it were pretty bad , the world expected the fallance of this city in the Arab hands after a moment and another , But Britain forced the Arabs to accept the first truce , it was enforced on the 11th of June 1948 at 08:00 and continued till the 8th of July . it had been agreed on keeping battelfields without changing and each of the parties (the Arabs and the Jews) should avoid indreasing their forces or amount of waepons besides preventing the entrance of the Jewish emigrants to Palestine .
The Arab armies were in avanced positions when the first truce was declared , by the end of the first phase they reached positions that terrified the Israelis and the foriegn forces supporting them .
The Arabs respected the truce while the Jews violated it , and increased their forces' numbers and recieved more and more emigrants .
The truce was ended and the fighting was resumed it was hard for the Arabs to liberate or enter ney cities and lands because the Jewish forces were much more in numbers ,and were fighting with much more modern waepons than the Arabs'
in that phase the Jews succefully occupied the city of al-Ramla then the city of Al-Lud , By occupying Al-Lud The Jews got the Best airport on the Land of Palestine , and the right wing of the Egyptian army became a subject of attacks .
The situation of the Iraqi army was stable , and also the Jordanian till the second truce was announced on the 18th of July 1948 , By the End of the second phase , the military situation was equal , nor the Jews nor the Arabs were in advanced positions .
on the 19th of June , the Israelis forces deliberately attacked mant Palestinian villages throwing out their inhabitans and pillaging their houses , the refugees problem began to appear, till this moment more than 700,000 Palestinian were kicked out their homes .
The Israeli forces made the Best use of the second truce , they violated it like the first one and recieved new supplies containing waepons, ammunations and fighters , on the contrary of the Arab armies that didn't receive any new supply .
Now the Jewish army became 144,000 , While the whole Arab armies didn't exeed 63,000 , it was easy to expect how the war will be ended .
The third phase of fighting began on the 5th of November 1948 till the 11th of January 1948 , The Arab armies began to withdraw toward their Borders (exept the Egyptian army) the Jews began to occupy more and more lands , then a chain of Arab defeats and the war ended .
The Jews captured 78% of the Land of Palestine , and just 2 small parts of 22% percents remained in Arab Hands , The West Bank and Gaza
Here are some pictures from this war :-
-By Lu'ay El-Menshawy-


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Rumors Audi product, spied test mules and prototypes.
When it comes to rendering future Audi product, we're always most fond of future S-cars. Why? Audi's consistency in design of their S-car range makes creation of renders easy to do providing you pay attention to the cues. Last time around, in the case of the S8, we'd been tipped about when the car would bow and we'd known the then-new S design grille was grey with vertical chrome struts and the then-new wheel looked much like
We found a collection of renderings over at Audiblog.nl by Portuguese artist Nuno Silva. Effectively Silva imagineered what a production e-tron might look like by adding more production believable components such as wheels, grille and rearview mirrors to e-tron imagery.
So what do we think?
The images are purely from Silva's
We've written about the place before if not the car. Just below building A50 on the Audi Forum Ingolstadt is where certain Audi AG board members like to park. Short of seeing them actually exiting the car we're never exactly sure which car belongs to whom but there are some obvious elements of taste that we can identify. Audi AG boss Rupert Stadler likes metallic whites while development board member and long proven gearhead
When photos of a new Audi test mule go into circulation, you can be sure that many, many publications will run a story and a believed S7 prototype photographed in camo this week continues to prove that point.
So what makes everyone assume this is an S7? The main clues are a larger and lower front fascia,
We know Audi is at least working on an S1 version of its new A1 hatch if not a full-blown RS 1. Still, that hasn't stopped the photoshoposphere from imagineering such a beast and we like what we see. We found this particular shot that uses many cues from the RS 5 PR photography over at AudiBlog.nl. Read more about it after the jump.
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We regularly sing the praises of Georg Kacher, contributor for mags like Automobile, UK-based CAR and more. The German automotive journalist is in like flynn with many German auto executives including those at Audi which has all combined to earn him E.F. Hutton status in these pages. Kacher's just published a piece with the cool render
AutoCar has run a piece this week on a new second-generation Audi A2. Audi executives have confirmed this model to many of the press including Fourtitude. Most of those mentions have also confirmed the likelihood of electric drive and a foregoing of an Audi Space Frame like the first generation in order to keep costs in line. This is all mentioned in the AutoCar piece so no new news here but the British
AutoCar has run a new report about the upcoming Audi A7 four door coupe due sometime later this year. The story includes two new spy photos of an A7 mule in testing and suggests a few details that we can comment on based on our own intel sources.
First is the release date, set for a Paris Auto Show reveal says AutoCar. We'd said the Moscow Auto Show earlier but we hear that's been changed.
Our friends over at GermanCarBlog sent us a link to this image earlier today, said to potentially be a leaked shot of the upcoming D4-based S-car. First and foremost, the picture is most decidedly a photoshop render and we hear it was originally posted on WorldCarFans.
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Union Square In Motion: MTA's Underground Interactive Installation
A art project set up in New York's main subway interchange attempts to break commuters out of the frustrating monotony of daily travel.
A new interactive installation offers riders a break from all the hustle and bustle of one of New York's busiest subway stations.
Union Square in Motion consists of nine sets of abstract images projected onto two digital lenticular linear zoetropes, creating an animated illusion for passers-by. Created by three Parsons students, three Parsons' Alumni, and New York City's Submedia LLC Advertising, the project is a continuation of MTA's 'Bryant Park in Motion' installation last year.
With 34,730,692 passing through the subway station last year, the public intervention is hoping to make the subway experience 'a little more interesting and enjoyable.'


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Kevin Huber is the ultimate
Last year, in his rookie season, his 43.2-yard per punt average tied for the second best on the team since 1999.
This year, he's been off to a hot start, including a difference-making performance against
I caught up with Huber this week to talk a little bit about how he attended the Reds game on Tuesday night (and even won a $100 gift certificate playing the Hollywood Casino Fan Fortune game), how much time he has spent keeping up with UC and where he's going from here with the Bengals.
PDJ: How many Reds games do you get to during the year?
KH: Try to get to as many as I can, a lot more during the summer. As many as I can.
PDJ: Do you keep much contact with what's going on at UC?
KH: Try to, when they came down here to practice before the game last Thursday I was out there talking with the guys, the punter and kicker, seeing how they were doing, if they needed any help with anything. I try to get up there as much as I can. I haven't been able to get to a game yet, I hope to get to a few before the season is over.
PDJ: How much of a connection to you still feel with the coaching change it is a whole different group than when you were there?
KH: It's a little hard to connect with the coaches still. I know coach (Kerry) Coombs. The other coaches I have met them, I haven't gotten to know them.
PDJ: What do you make of the struggles they had through the first four games?
KH: Its hard, they got a lot of good players .They are going to be all right. They had some tough games, some good teams, to be close to a team like
PDJ: How much do you keep track with some of the other former Bearcats in the NFL? They had a big week last week. You played well, Trent Cole had two sacks, Mardy Gilyard with his first NFL catch.
KH: I talk to some of the guys.
PDJ: How was Tony mentality about his situation down there?
KH: He was pretty positive about it. He thought he was in a good situation. He was doing what he can to make himself better everyday. And hopefully one day, he just wants to get that chance to get in there and try to get a spot.
PDJ: Where are you at, what are you trying to work on most at this point?
KH: My consistency. That has been my knock on myself as long as I can remember. I would always have the one or two punts that kind of gets me every time. I had that two weeks ago. I had the pretty good average going into the game and I had those last two punts that kind of killed me. The biggest thing I am working on is plus-50 hits. The biggest improvement I want to make last week, getting the ball inside the 20.
PDJ: Pretty gratifying to have that kind of profound effect on a game from the punting position, don't see that too often.
KH: Part of it is the field position I was punting from. A lot were plus-50 hits where I just had to get it down there. The last one in particular, the gunners Morgan (
PDJ: You guys are pretty comfortable in those slow, grinding types of games?
KH: When it comes down to it, it's not anything different. We practice those kind of punts and those kind of situations all the time, backed up, you just have to take advantage of where you are and make the best of the field.


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June 24, 2013
I've got two gigs coming up with the Olie Brice Quartet. My Quartet usually features Mark Hanslip, Alex Bonney and Jeff Williams, but both gigs will be taking place when neither Jeff nor Mark are in town, so I've invited a couple of fantastic musicians to stand in for them – Tim Giles on drums and George Crowley on tenor and clarinet. Really looking forward to hearing them play my tunes!
We're playing at the Shaftesbury Tavern (534 Hornsey Rd, London) tomorrow – 25th June. This is a fairly new night, 2 sets, only £5, 8.30pm start. Then on the 18th of July we're at an even newer night run by Dee Byrne and Cath Roberts, called 'Lume'. This is also two sets for £5 with an 8.30 start. Information about the night can be found on their rather lovely looking new website – here.
Both gig will feature music from our newly recorded, yet to be released album…
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that wearing glasses makes you look clever and that wearing sunglasses makes you look like a poser.
So Larry Leight, co-founder of cult shades label Oliver Peoples, hit on a streak of genius with his idea to market a range of sunglasses that profess to be "intellectual".
"It's American intellectual," he says. "A look; a style of eyewear that doesn't really exist any more, but we focused on an intellectual, unisex, smart and simple-looking frame. Like Manolo Blahnik does heeled shoes or Levi's does jeans, we created something that will be forever known as a retro, intellectual category of eyewear.
"The recession had a lot to do with it," Leight explains. "When we first started in 1986, there had been a rough time on the stock market.
"During times like that, people go back to classics and things they really think are valuable. If you're going to spend money, you want something that will look good and last.
"Our frames are smart-looking, they go with everything, so they've always been bestsellers." Since its launch in the mid-Eighties, Oliver Peoples has cultivated the sort of quietly cool and studiedly nonchalant reputation that every marketer yearns for. Its first store in West Hollywood's Sunset Plaza remains a site of pilgrimage for the fabulous and the fashionable.
"We loved it, that's all we knew," continues Leight. "The first kind of people who came were the ones who hung out up there every day; the writers and directors and producers of movies. Then the producers and stylists and propmasters came in and they were all buying the glasses. Then they would tell a flock of people and more would start coming in. Helmut Newton used to come, Elton John, Barbra Streisand, Sting, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Sharon Stone."
It's quite a role call and it's fitting then that the brand achieved near cult status within only a few years of its inception. Now celebrating its 25th anniversary, Oliver Peoples is relaunching the vintage styles that made the name famous. "The 505, the O'Malley and the 1955," says Larry Leight. "Those were what people knew us most for. These are the styles that defined our brand and these went into the magazines.
"They were originally designed by us not to be 'vintage' but to look how we wanted at that time. It just turns out today they are our vintage, and everybody else copied them!"
The conspicuous circular frames reference classic Twenties and Fifties Americana, with their fine metal legs and intricate detailing, and are part of a retro aesthetic picked up recently in the realm of sunglasses, with a general clamour for other relaunched styles such as Ray-Bans Wayfarers and Clubmasters.
"You've probably heard that word a lot – 'vintage'," Leight explains. "But what we have is heritage. The company is 25 years old and these were the first three frames we launched 25 years ago. They've been dormant for 15 years; they were the most famous frames in the mid-Eighties into the early Nineties and then styles moved on and we've always kept a bunch of them in the archive."
The styles are referenced in American Psycho – that paean to yuppie lifestyle – and Christian Bale wears a pair of the O'Malley frames in the film adaptation. "At that time, in the Nineties, for this look – the intellectual look – these were the best in the world. We did all kinds, from Andy Warhol frames, thicker ones, thinner ones, to metal, Lenin-looking ones."
And for summer, Oliver Peoples raises the intellectual bar a little higher, with a specially commissioned limited-edition frame in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the classic film To Kill a Mockingbird. "Gregory Peck's son is an Oliver Peoples customer," explains Leight, "and he had the original prop from the movie, so we made the exact frame."
Profits from sales of the Peck family frame will go towards a scheme at the Los Angeles Public Library to encourage young people to read the great American classics.
This fairly sums up the motivation behind Oliver Peoples and its distinctive look. It is very much inspired by an affectionate remembrance of America past. When Leight founded the company, he did so after buying a consignment of vintage frames.
"I was an optician," he recalls, "my brother was an optician, my grandfather was – we worked at high-class optical stores, selling lots of glasses. And we started our own shop in 1986 with all these vintage frames."
In his role as buyer, Leight received a call from a merchant who had come by a stash of more than 6,000 frames, dating from the Twenties and Thirties. He had been trying to sell them piecemeal with little luck, but Leight offered to take the lot off his hands.
"They were American frames," he continues. "American Optical is an old, old American name that made machinery and eyewear, mostly all metal, some plastics. Bausch and Lomb, too. That's the machine age, the Twenties and Thirties were all about USA-made frames. They made the ones the president wore, the ones John Lennon wore; all those metal, rimless-type frames from the Twenties that you see people wearing, the cat-eyes and the rimless ones mostly. They were really intricate frames, 18-carat gold filigree. You know, they were only $5 or $6 then, if you look in the 1935 catalogue.
"Today they'd go for $700. In fact, you couldn't even make that now – modern machines aren't set up to work that slowly or intricately."
And that consignment of bric-a-brac (one man's treasure, and all that) also gave Oliver Peoples its name. So who is Oliver Peoples? "We could tell from all these old invoices and catalogues that Oliver Peoples was a person who must have been in the family," he explains, "a distributor maybe. I don't know if it was the name of a company or just the person who owned it. The guy who sold it all to us was like, 'whatever'. Ten years later, he was like, 'wow, look what those guys did with that'."
And from reclaimed specs to new-age high-tech, Oliver Peoples branched out in the following years, creating its own original sunglass and optical ranges. While many brands were managing production in Italy (then the home of eyewear manufacture), Larry Leight and his team took their production process to Japan, to find flexible factories prepared to render their idiosyncratic designs in plastics and Plexiglass. "They were just making for themselves over there, but the Japanese were onto some pretty hip thing, you know? Comme des Garçons and Yohji Yamamoto were just coming up."
But where those names are more associated with high fashion, Oliver Peoples deals in modern classics and dependable, wearable styles. "We're a Hollywood brand, of course, and all of our collections are based on old Hollywood glamour and glamorous figures and the reinterpreting of that look," says Larry Leight.
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The whitewash of India during the Test series was all quality, although India's much hyped elder statesman were less than impressive.
Sehwag fired blanks all series, Tendulkar wasn't himself on and off the field, VVS Laxman looked well past his best, Rahul Dravid kept finding ways to get out, and Zaheer Khan looked pedestrian at times, although did well to carry that bowling line-up on his shoulders.
Then came the CB series. Revived to the popular 90's and early 2000's format, the Triangular series was a beauty, and really was the saving grace of a dour-ish summer. It produced some magnificent cricket. India and Sri Lanka's pulsating draw in Adelaide, MS Dhoni's heroics with bat in hand one game later against Australia at the same ground, was something to treasure, as was David Warner twin hundreds in the first and second finals. And who could forget Virat Kohli, ever the thorn in Australia and Sri Lanka's side, taking 24 off one Lasith Malinga over, on his way to an unbeaten century, and leading his side to a bonus point victory to keep them in the finals race.
An honourable mention must also go to Mahela Jaywardene and his Sri Lankan team as a whole, for bringing some wonderful one-day cricket down under. As captain, Mahela was phenomenal. Often using initiative and cricket nous- Jaywardene always seemed one step ahead of the batsman. The Lankans win in Melbourne against Australia drew amazing scenes. Many wondered if the match was at the SSC in Colombo, not the MCG in Melbourne; such was the
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For the Australians, captain Michael Clarke came of age, winning the AB Medal, richly deserved after his monumental 329* in the Sydney test, not to mention his 626 runs in the Indian series, as well as a ton against New Zealand, and another century in the CB series against Sri Lanka, oozed class and confidence with bat and captaincy duties all summer. He was simply awesome. Ricky Ponting showed he has still something to offer in the test arena, after 544 runs at 108 against MS Dhoni's men, after the calls for him to retire grew until his 134 in that Sydney test, Ponting's first test ton in two years.
The decision to drop both Ponting and keeper Brad Haddin, two men who have enormous leadership integrity, and experience in the dressing room, for the ODI series- showed that John Inverarity's men are finally getting it right.
The decision to drop both Ponting and keeper Brad Haddin, two men who have enormous leadership integrity, and experience in the dressing room, for the ODI series- showed that John Inverarity's men are finally getting it right.
Sticking with off-spinner Nathan Lyon throughout all the Tests against New Zealand and India, even if at times he only troubled tailenders, was another good decision. The wispy haired spinner repaid the faith, with four quality wickets in the 2nd innings in Adelaide, including Sehwag and Tendulkar.
Some young players to shine were Victorian seamer James Pattinson, who has the eyes of a raging bull when celebrating a wicket, and bowled with pace and swing in both the Test series', picking up 25 wickets at 18 throughout the summer. David Warner's 180 at the WACA test, the 5th fifth fastest ton of all time won't be forgotten, and has growing leadership qualities. Peter Forrest, Dan Christian and Matthew Wade all showed they are ones for the future in all forms.
For the two visitors, the three the stood out most were Indian pair Virat Kohli and Umesh Yadav, and Sri Lankan batsman Dinesh Chandimal. Kohli was all class, his batting mirrors his personality. It's brash, unforgiving but you can't get your eyes to look anywhere else. His fielding stands out like a beacon compared to the test war horses he calls team-mates. Fast bowler Yadav surprised all with his genuine pace, and was good at the WACA test- getting a maiden test 5-fer, and impressed throughout. But the young Sri Lankan tyro Chandimal was the real plus for me. He racked up 414 runs in the CB series, and not once looked overawed. His footwork to both spin and pace was brilliant, and looks an assured player, earmarked as a future gun.
Off the field there were some strange moments. The WACA ground staff sitting on the prepared wicket the day before the game, drinking a few quiet ones- was odd. The Indian team being left outside the Prime Minister's house for an extended period of time in searing heat, and of course the new Big Bash league.
While it was no doubt a both cricketing and marketing success, it hampered the Sheffield Shield season and Test hopefuls. When two talented New South Welshman batsmen, Phil Hughes and Usman Khawaja- two guys who have big technical problems, were dropped for the Indian series, there was no Shield games from late December for seven weeks, because of the BBL, to try and rectify things and get back in the Baggy Green. Playing some Twenty-20 games was not ideal at all for those two. Shaun Marsh was in the same boat to a degree.
The same problem is being faced by England's Eoin Morgan as we speak. The Irish born left hander is a short format player by trade, and after being thrust into the Test team to face Pakistan, his One-day pyrotechnics were not up to the longest format, and his glaring technical problems were there for all to see. Instead of plying his trade in the nets, he is going to the IPL. Go figure.
Thank goodness for the CB series, one of the best ever, because the Indian test series wasn't exactly exciting. India's preparation was poor, and it showed. By the Adelaide test, and even into the final CB games, it looked as if India wanted to go home. Maybe the hype surrounding Tendulkar one hundredth 100 was a weight too big to handle, or the will to win had simply diminished. Either way, it's eight tests in a row lost abroad, and something in Indian cricket needs to change.
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MILWAUKIE, Ore. — James Stahlke, 79, formerly of Henry, S.D., died Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012.
Memorial services were Jan. 3.
He was born Aug. 2, 1933, to Herbert and Eunice (Erickson) Stahlke. In 1960, he married Viola Stanley.
Survivors include his wife, Viola; his children, Debbi Moore, David Stahlke, Carol Stahlke Jordan, Jamie Stahlke and Lynn Stahlke Norris; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his daughter, Kathleen Stahlke and his brothers, Larry Stahlke and Bob Stahlke.