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Transcripts of telephone calls, text messages and e-mails between Ruhi Hamid with the Hmong people in Laos, and Will Daws, series producer in London, record Ruhi's remarkable journey.
Some of the place names in this log have been changed in order to protect the people involved.
All times GMT
Got visas for Laos.
The village I'm going to has 217 villagers (the bigger village is too far), where there will be people with guns patrolling.
The boatman will take them from xxxx. He will be monitoring the river for three days running before they're due out of the jungle.
The guys in the jungle have radio link-ups with the blackbirds (Hmong underground network) in Laos.
xx (underground network) will not enter Laos. He'll stay near the Laos border.
When I travel up river I won't have a translator. The boat journeys will be staggered but I'll meet up at several points on the river, but will always have a blackbird (Hmong underground network) with me.
I am walking, heading east. We stayed hidden in the jungle for several hours till night fall. We are with six armed guards. It is hard walking. Too dark to get a GPS reading.
I arrived safely on location.
Every muscle aching. Got there safely. Tough walk, had to scale a mountain in the middle of the night.
Chong-Cha Lee is our character; one of the people who brought us in. He is fighting for the Hmong CIA secret veterans.
He has a wife and seven kids. His 14-year-old son has to defend his siblings when he's out. He lost his father during the Vietnam war and has an old mother.
Good at talking.
They all have weapons, even the 14-year-old boys.
Chong-Cha Lee plays this amazing traditional instrument down by the river with his Kalashnikov.
They have pigs and chickens and dogs here which makes it look settled but it's not. They're all muzzled to stop them barking.
No one wears uniforms. They have trousers held together with bits of string.
Coming into the village it was so moving. Everyone was crying. It was an incredible sound. They hugged us. I carried on filming.
I'm the first Westerner they've seen.
Just ringing to say I'm fine. Last night we had a hell of a thunderstorm and everything got drenched. We were undercover. I filmed Chong-Cha Lee on night patrol.
The rains have arrived early. The road we got dropped off on is a complete dirt road and we were struggling even when it was dry. If it rains for two solid days it will slow our walk out and may disrupt the road so boat may be a possibility.
We were thinking of a shorter route but it means more road blocks so we'll do the same route out which is two and a half days. We all have swollen ankles from the walk.
06:00-08:00 The men meet up and discuss the days patrolling
08:00-10:00 Breakfast with 13-year-old boy he's patrolling with that day. They set off on patrol.
10:00-12:00 More patrol with our character teaching the young boy how to patrol. Lots of nice talking. The boy gets leaves from forest for traditional healing.
12:00-14:00 Lunch and then a shaman does some traditional healing on his sick mother.
14:00-16:00 Tour of the wounded, including a three-year-old boy with a bullet wound in his leg who can only crawl - his older brother starts crying and asking why they didn't shoot him instead. Another man with a bullet wound through his jaw. (The day before there was a boy with a shattered leg who still walks around with his gun).
16:00-18:00 Hanging out. He cleaned his gun; he made the barrel out of wood from the forest. Played his musical instrument; very sad song about how they are people with no mothers or fathers.
Ruhi Hamid was accompanied by Misha Maltsev
One Day of War was broadcast in the UK on Thursday, 27 May, 2004 at 2100 BST on BBC Two.


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SWINDON Town manager Mark Cooper has long since forgotten the experience of his visit to Bramall Lane earlier this season, and he's not about to remind his players of the miserable trip ahead of the return meeting with Sheffield United tomorrow.
Town lacked incision, creativity and discipline in the first clash between the sides back in December, eventually slipping to a 1-0 defeat, but three and a half months on Cooper is not going to use that performance as a reference point as he prepares the Robins for the arrival of League One's form side.
He said: "That was months ago, we don't talk about that. We talk about the positives from the last three games and we show players what can happen if they do things right and what can happen if they don't.
"We're concentrating on the positives of the last three games and trying to instil that into them and making sure we give a really good performance on Saturday.
"We didn't have any strikers for that Sheffield United game. (Nile) Ranger was injured so we went with Ryan Mason as the furthest man forward and it didn't work, for one reason or another.
"That's at the back of our minds now - what's at the forefront is Bristol City, Preston and Tranmere and if we can put bits of each of those performances together we will be a difficult team to play against."
Town are unbeaten in three matches going into the game this weekend and can achieve their longest run without defeat in League One this term with a win or a draw at the County Ground.
Cooper is unable to define exactly why Swindon's form has improved significantly of late, not that he's complaining.
"It's difficult to pinpoint it," he said. "I think there was a lot of soul-searching done after the Wolves game when we conceded four goals and didn't play particularly well in the first half.
"We had a good discussion at half-time in that game and played well in the second half, had a good performance against the odds at Bristol City with 10 men, a very good performance against Preston and not a great performance in terms of dominating the game on Tuesday but one of desire and determination.
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Calcutta, March 21: Mamata Banerjee sitting by him, Pranab Mukherjee today sent out a stern message to Congress workers that the party would not baulk at disciplining anyone found dishonouring the poll pact with the Trinamul Congress.
With Sonia Gandhis approval, Congress has struck an alliance with Trinamul and that has to be respected and taken forward as people of our state want the adjustment to be successful in order to oust the ruling CPM, the Bengal PCC chief said after talks with Mamata at his residence.
I would like to assert that if any of our party leaders or workers acts against the interests of the Congress-Trinamul alliance, disciplinary action will be taken against him or her. The disciplinary action could amount to suspension from the party for six months, he said.
If the offence is committed by a panchayat leader, the district Congress leadership will take action. At the Assembly and Lok Sabha levels, the PCC president is authorised to initiate action.
The foreign minister said there could be differences of opinion within any party, which could be aired while talks were on. But after a decision is taken, it will have to be obeyed by every party leader and worker.
Mukherjees tough talk was interpreted as a warning to Congress leaders who had gone public with their criticism of the pact. Reports of resentment among the rank and file had also reached the Congress office.
A section of the Congress said todays statement would caution Congress leaders Deepa Das Munshi, Abdul Mannan and Shankar Singh that their comments would not be taken lightly.
Deepa, the Raiganj candidate, had termed the alliance a surrender at Mamatas feet. Mannan dubbed it a raw deal in which unwinnable seats were given to the Congress.
Singh was working against the alliance in Krishnagar, Tapas Pal, the Trinamul candidate for the seat, is believed to have told Mamata.
Mukherjee said he had been moved to see Mamatas flock rallying for him during his three-day Jangipur campaign. The Congress needed to reciprocate the gesture, he said.
I was overwhelmed to find hundreds of Trinamul supporters carrying flags and festoons backing me. This has to be done by both parties.
On his way back to Calcutta today, he had been requested by Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Trinamuls Barasat candidate, to get out of the car and wave at party supporters, he said.
I blessed Kakoli and want this gesture in all the 42 Lok Sabha seats, he said, adding both parties would instruct their workers to display the others symbol in their seats.
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Michael Ignatieff
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|Birth Date:
|May 12, 1947 (Age 67)
|Birth Place:
|Toronto, Canada
|Liberal Party of Canada
|Susan Barrowclough (1977-1997)
|Zsuzsanna Zsohar (1999-present)
|Alma Mater:
|University of Toronto
|University of Oxford
|Harvard University
|King's College, Cambridge
|Russian Orthodoxy
"Some newspapers don't reflect his best qualities. Which is better than all mirrors, which I doubt reflect any."
"The Liberal Party of Canada's foundation is its ethical beliefs. Everyone involved with this Party is quite liberal in regard to ethics."
"This guy is an idiot."
Michael (Iggie) Ignatieff is an industrious propagandist, a pseudo-intellectual academic, the leader of the largest organized crime gang in Canada, and one of the most well-respected citizens in the country. Using his ties to the Russian KGB to build a career, Iggie has worked in the UK and America, acting as a journalist for the BBC and as a professor at Harvard. While his journalism career was filled with his being tossed around in positions than a contortionist whore, with his background and charming good looks, he found success in the largely cosmetic environment of academia. As a professor at Harvard, an independent assessment organization gave Ignatieff good reviews on his teaching ability, scoring him above average on the dimensions of average clarity (3.5/5), average easiness (2.8/5), and average helpfulness (3.4/5).[1]
edit The Flight that Night
As the carriages came through the pass, the castle came into view. Silhouetted against the moonlight, the spires cut the air alongside the jagged mountain peaks. From the vantage of the pass, one could romance in the beauty of the night, the landscape awash in the golden glow of the moon, the valleys seas of velvety blackness. The steeds drew the carriages up to the castle facade; the guests were greeted by an old man who motioned them in with his right hand with a courtly gesture, saying, "Welcome to the house! Enter freely and of your own will!"
The interior was brightly lit, and the guests swarmed together on the ground floor. Inside, the party was full of energy as people mingled and danced. However, this energy seemingly escaped as a large pair of doors yawned open high atop the main staircase in the hall. In came Count George Ignatieff, who welcomed his guests with a buoyant speech. He appeared charming and capable, but upon close review, was deemed unworthy of the vast respect he adorned. It seemed that, while capable, he could easily have been switched with any ordinary man of professional qualification: a professor, a writer, any skilled man who lacked the wealth. Even this specific party, where everyone could be considered to be equal, only the richest men could ever have. If everyone inside wanted to be placed on level ground, how could he retain so much support within? And what would such inequality mean for the country?
The revolutionaries outside could wonder the same thing. Such problems weighed on them before. How could they ever breach the walls of this residence? The castle was soundly built, with all the stability of the family's financial position. It was as strong as their grip on society, and as enormous as their individual potentials. Only together could the people hope to disrupt the party, and as they rallied at the large main doors, the barrier failed under their collective weight, winning them access to the inside.
"In Tsarist Russia, poor oppress you!"
The Count was the first to stand in opposition to the mass. In his throneroom he met with the people's champion to settle the war in a duel. This champion, forever the saviour of the poor and the punished, would stop at nothing to kill, torture, and enslave hundreds of Russia's bourgeois. In an epic battle, this man managed to slaughter the Count. The remaining Ignatieffs withdrew, fleeing to Canada to regroup, swearing that their bloodline would forever stand to protect the populace from this terrifying slayer. Historians have pieced together the findings from the desolate castle, and created a model of the encounter. Recently, it has been digitally remastered and made available for public viewing.
edit Position, Prestige, and Power(s)
Having fled their Motherland, the family settled across the enormous ocean, providing the Count's grandson, Michael Ignatieff, with his beginnings in Canada. Born into such a powerful family, he was raised in the ways of the Ignatieffs, and taught the methods in which they preserve themselves. The young Michael was trained as a fraud and a liar; he was trained to be aggressive and ruthless in the pursuit of power. Of course, with such an stance, he was called many things: cold-blooded, Machiavellian, and even a horrible bloodsucking monster. But it was not the chatter of the few that concerned him; there were so many strangers with opinions untainted by such gossip. The Ignatieffs could march through the towns, heads held high, if it were not for the 4-foot high Michael stumbling a few paces behind, out of breath. They wondered if he would ever be suitable to lead; his parents hesitating, looking back with a scowl at this incapable, oft-inept young man, with tears in his eyes, begging his mother for help. How could the boy could possibly survive life in Canada? The country is built upon the idea of merit dictating position; could he regain his position at this level of society? Few have ever known a person able to climb such heights. Well, maybe the young Michael Ignatieff has hereditary talents -- he has taken many forms...
|Leader of the Opposition
|Gun Control, Propaganda
|Armed and Aggressive Poor
|Preceeded By:
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|Succeeded By:
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Fake, and developed at outrageous expense in order to present the proper image, Mr. Ignatieff is the Liberal party's artificial lake. Far from the hustle and bustle, and uncontaminated by the trash, Iggie maintains a pristine natural image. Of course, you won't succeed in politics by exposing yourself, but Ignatieff lies far more remote than most people care for. This separation could be fine; it ensures most never see the man or hear of him, what you get of him has been filtered by his communications team. Yet it is what the man Michael Ignatieff is known to be: a professionally designed construction who didn't come back for you, excessively hyped and lacking depth.
Occasionally, this character is presented in isolation to small groups of Canadians, because it is not only Ignatieff that preys on the poor, the pathetic, and the downright stupid. It is also the Liberal Party of Canada, like television news and magazines such as Macleans, that are interested in such circulation. These people are brought close to the Liberals, because their hope is that with such intimate associations, they will bind these people to them forever.
Which could, perhaps, be the ideal campaign strategy if it proves to be successful. Even with complete control of the censorship of these meetings, Ignatieff never really looks very good on camera. Prancing around with geriatrics in a dance at an old folk's home makes him look about as fake as a Mona Lisa done in finger paint. Listening to an heir promote the advantages of Canadian life: a level playing field and equal opportunity, must have been more tiring than a Wheel of Fortune marathon and aquarobics session combined. He comes across as such a prick sometimes – the only time I've ever babbled on about equal opportunity was during a game of Mario Kart when I'd taken a commanding lead. I suppose it's sad that even with a group of rich kids working for someone with 20 years experience in journalism and a dozen books the Liberals still demonstrate ineptitude in their communications – watching that nursing home square dance I saw Iggie deliver his very best spin. [2]
Still, Ignatieff is supported by many people. These are a moral people, a people with strong beliefs in liberalism and equality, a people who deserve the very best. And who could be better than an Ignatieff? With the unique advantages he has inherited, he is one of the few who could be placed into such a significant political position. No longer a shut-away historical researcher, advancing knowledge in the hallowed halls of academic institutions, he takes the stage as a man set to advance a nation. He serves now as an image of Canada to the outside world, an immortal face both cheaper than Rushmore and less pretentious than the Lincoln monument. And for those who strive to be more, the achievers who mastered their art in order to find a better place in the world, he promises rewards. Through regulation, maneuvering, and expanding markets in life sciences and clean tech, they will give these masters of the system positions as cogs in the machine of business enterprise. Such talented Canadians will likely find their new places here, ever growing more aware that to be remembered by history one does not necessarily need to be a good student of it.
Upper Canada College, December 1987
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|Falling Short of Expectations
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edit Boy
Maybe from small origins truly can come great things. On a cool, dark night at a rural hospital, a child is born. A wild flow of rain from the clouds coats the building in a liquid shell. The pressure of the atmosphere in the east rises, and the outside air rips across the exterior, carrying with it a rampaging mob of dirt and fallen leaves. However, between the walls, nature is subdued. Bright lights blast the interior with artificial light, and under a team of nurses and physicians lies Ignatieff's mother. She screams and she reels as the medical team remain steadfast by her side, tending to her pain as the bolts of lightning strike down around the building. Outside, people are frightened and frantically searching for shelter, but there, inside the facility, people are insulated from the impotent acts of a raging God.
This boy was enrolled in an elite school for his education. Cold and isolated, Michael Ignatieff wandered about the campus alone during his spare time. The boy could never get along with the other students, and many were concerned about his future. The staff at Upper Canada College were eager to move him along with the other children in his year, relating that, "I wouldn't want to mess with that family," and, "I think most people were scared to cross him." And so, Ignatieff got through school contrary to his relentless desire to fail. Though attending a school that offered a fantastic variety of sporting programs and academic subjects, Iggie maintained a firm resolve to be noteworthy in none of them. Yet after a dismal 4 years, after graduation Iggie was offered a university placement, a Ph.D., a professorship, and a senior research fellowship. Iggie nearly managed to evade success by giving up this career in research for one in journalism, but he was plagued by job offers typically inaccessible to regular people, like news anchor positions at major networks. It seemed he couldn't escape success; universities were throwing job offers at him like Tories throw rocks at the poor.
| Russian Security,
American Supremacy
|Preceeded By:
|Aldrich Ames
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edit SpyInfiltrating western society to create a system of human networks to filter information back to the east is no simple task, but Ignatieff was sent anyway. A staunch republican, Michael had always strived to sway audiences to the right, and with a position secured at Harvard, he could easily poison the minds of his students and colleagues with his masterful rhetoric (or millions of dollars). Ranting and raving about the necessity for torture in interrogation, Iggie's could spread his shit through his classes just like it was flung by any other lesser primate. His colleagues lauded him as a phenomenal professor, as his students were immersed in human rights rhetoric to supplement their outstanding knowledge of the basics like "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations," "Leviathan," and "Blood and Belonging." He switched gears and transferred into politics, because like most educated people who are incapable of doing research work, he understood only the political, and not the science. Later moving back north into Canada, Ignatieff's riches and red tie made him the perfect candidate for leader of the Liberal Party.
The career move forced the intelligence centres into moving Ignatieff towards a focus on the most influential networks. The students and professors could relate industry knowledge and personal data for wealthy Americans, but as leader of the opposition, Ignatieff would have access to some of the most powerful men in Canada. These businessmen, politicians, and social leaders would be brought close to Michael, giving him the opportunity to make them his.
"Art begins with abstract decoration, with purely imaginative and pleasurable work dealing with what is unreal and nonexistent."
Achieving the delicate balance required to work within an opposition group while attaining a competing objective can be difficult, but authorship has schooled Ignatieff in the age-old art of lying. To muddle a group and contain it is rather aggressive, but the general Liberal argument that no man should harm another except in preservation of himself, is open to interpretation. Locke's writings are eloquent and complex, which allows the reader to romance in the beauty of the mind, in a world given freely to man by God, where he can love and he can labour and he can benefit all... It's so wonderful, so much so that Liberal theory has become the new religion, and endorsing it, Machiavellian practice. And while Ignatieff is accused of being an audacious fraud, a treacherous opportunist, and a terrible monster, some remain trapped in the fantasy. They are seduced by Iggie's charming demeanor and invincible status, both of which he has equipped in pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness.
edit Mysterynonymous' Journal
As much as an undeserving fiend Ignatieff is, people say this bash is a thing he deserves the least. People have told me, "Mystery, this article is nonsense; you haven't presented this man in the right light." but I dissent -- this is my interpretation of Ignatieff. The work I've presented, I'm certain, is the cumulative impact of a variety of newsreports: radio broadcasts, television spots, and article clippings; those little things that contain the elements of truth that help us navigate our lives. Maybe I can read into these broadcasts; understand what's happening now, and make plans based on what I can predict. We should all be so lucky to have news broadcasters, so we understand the political battleground that reshapes our beautiful country, and know perfectly well what's going to happen in the future...
Presumable when Jack Lenin reaches Ignatieff in his throne room, he will have first acquired a high-level whip, using it to destroy all nearby candles, harvesting their supplies prior to the encounter. Although flasks of holy water will deal significant damage, it is doubtful they will be used due to their limited range. Crosses adequately affect the beast, and have such a range that they be tossed wildly around the room, dealing damaging blows while still allowing Jack adequate room to avoid the fireballs, and the advantage in battle. But consider that Ignatieff can easily bring forward an assault lawsuit. He'll have $10 million in the bank if not his back pocket.
edit Supporters
edit See also
edit References
- ↑ "Michael Ignatieff - Harvard Kennedy School of Government" ratemyprofessors.com. Retrieved August 8, 2010.
- ↑ Wherry, Aaron. (2009-05-07) "Mountains of Youth" Macleans. Retrieved September 27, 2010.


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Young lovers make out okay, but the poetry suffers in this busy revival
The kids are all right. That's the takeaway from "Romeo and Juliet," with movie heartthrob Orlando Bloom and ingenue stunner Condola Rashad as Shakespeare's star-cross'd lovers. The interracial casting of the feuding Montague and Capulet clans sounds bold, but has surprisingly little dramatic impact. The tragedy also survives its gimmicky update to modern-ish times. Bottom line: This enduring love story stands or falls on the appeal of its lovers, and the young stars bring a sweet passion — if no ear whatsoever for romantic poetry — to their immortal roles.
Helmer David Leveaux ("Nine") appears to have gone out of his way to disguise the fact that this is (horrors!) a 16th-century Elizabethan drama and the characters are speaking (eek!) blank verse.
The most distracting feature of Jesse Poleshuck's set design is the huge metal bell with the aggressively loud tone that hangs just above the actors' heads. The sizzling flames that periodically shoot across the stage and streak up vertical rods are also hard to ignore. A giant mural in the style of Duccio, depicting stern-faced Renaissance figures in stark profile, is actually quite wonderful — except for the steel pegs that turn it into a climbing wall for wanton youth with nothing better to do.
Some of the gimmicky staging, although arbitrary, is harmless: Romeo makes his noisy entrance on a beast of a motorcycle. Juliet delivers a pensive soliloquy from her precarious seat on a swing. Juliet's nurse wheels a bicycle to her meeting with Romeo. The Capulets don bizarre masks and perform a primitive dance at their elegant ball. Juliet's bier is lifted from the family crypt and winched up to the rafters.
Real damage is done, though, in the balcony scenes, in which the traditional Juliet balcony is replaced by a rough wooden platform that resembles a gangplank. To their great credit, Bloom and Rashad stay focused and manage to convince us that the young lovers only have eyes for each other. This Romeo and Juliet touch a lot and kiss as though they mean it. But more than passion, it's the joyous sense of discovery that makes their love scenes so lovely — and that intimacy is precisely what's compromised by all the running and leaping and jumping and other jittery movement.
Whenever action is actually called for, as it surely is in the street brawls between the warring Montagues and Capulets, fight director Thomas Schall takes care of business with some fast footwork and tricky swordplay. But when there's no obvious need for it, this relentless physicality takes a toll on the language of the play, which the younger members of the company don't seem to trust, and only Brent Carver, as Friar Laurence, seems to savor.
Christian Camargo cuts a fine figure as the irrepressible Mercutio, but the way he runs from the voluptuous images in his Queen Mab speech, you'd think they were killer bees. Once poetry is off the table, everyone seems to breathe easier. Chuck Cooper can fling his verbal thunderbolts as the powerful patriarch of the Capulet clan, and Roslyn Ruff can be as fierce as she likes as Lady Capulet. And since nobody expects Juliet's nurse to spout blank verse, Jayne Houdyshell can be down-to-earth and kind of funny in this warm maternal role.
The ones who really suffer from this strange resistance to Shakespeare's lyricism are Bloom and Rashad, who do good work when they're not hanging from a scaffold or scaling a wall, and deserve a better chance.
Broadway Review: 'Romeo and Juliet'
Richard Rodgers Theater; 1200 seats; $145 top. Opened Sept. 19, 20013. Reviewed Sept. 14. Running time: TWO HOURS, 15 MIN.
A presentation by Susan Bristow, James L. Nederlander, Terry Allen Kramer, Merritt Forrest Baer, Paula Marie Black, Stephen C. Byrd, Alia Jones Harvey, Jon B. Platt, Stewart F. Lane / Bonnie Comley, in association with Manny Bello, Peter May, Douglas Smith, Jonathan M. Tisch, of a play in two acts by William Shakespeare.
Directed by David Leveaux. Sets, Jesse Poleshuck; costumes, Fabio Toblini; lighting, David Weiner; original music & sound, David Van Tieghem; hair, David Brian Brown; fight direction, Thomas Schall; production stage manager, Kristen Harris.
Orlando Bloom, Condola Rashad, Brent Carver, Jayne Houdyshell, Chuck Cooper, Christian Camargo, Roslyn Ruff, Conrad Kemp, Corey Hawkins, Justin Guarini. With Donte Bonner, Joe Carroll, Don Guillory, Sheria Irving, Maurice Jones, Geoffrey Owens, Spencer Plachy, Michael Rudko, Tracy Sallows, Thomas Schall, Carolyn Michelle Smith, Nance Williamson.


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Art in America, Deborah Oropallo's Atypical Archetypes, by Cherie Turner, 4/2011
Deborah Oropallo's "Tale Spin" at Gallery 16 in San Francisco is a big, bold show of female fairy-tale characters and other alluring archetypes—Snow White, Goldie Locks, the French maid and the Catholic schoolgirl, among others. Each of these collaged pieces amounts to an almost life-size full figure or portrait, comprising layered pieces of sheer material, each with a part of a figure printed on it. The figure is made up of about 10 sourced images, sourced from costume websites, which are assembled and mounted on paper to form a single woman. Gas masks and bondage accessories also appear-these are characters facing today's world.
The 56-year-old, Berkeley-based Oropallo addresses each new body of work, as a series, distinctly different from previous work. "It's not just searching for the new; it's building on the old," Oropallo toldA.i.A. during a recent tour of her show. "As a painter you are painting on the shoulders of everyone who came before you, and all of the work you have seen and made in the past 30 years—that's in every piece."
In 2009, she made the "Wild Wild West.Show," an exploration of cowgirl imagery. The 2008 "Guise" series, featured in a solo exhibition at San Francisco's de Young Museum, comprised prints that melded 17th- and 18th-century male portraits with images of women modeling lingerie.
In this latest work, Oropallo deftly updates age-old tales, a theme Oropallo has treated previously. The "Guise" series demonstrates the similarities in poses between her subjects, begging questions about portrayal of power and how it differs between the sexes. Fortified(2011) shows an adult Rapunzel. With her braided hair tied like a rope-ladder down the front of her body andshiny black gloved arms encircling her head, this modern woman is going to protect and save herself.
Uniforms and costumes are deployed for their relationships to gender and power. The interest stems from Oropallo's childhood, she explained, including memories of her uncle's grand presence in full Navy garb, as well as her experience wearing the traditional blue-and-green uniform to Catholic school for years.
Oropallo grew up in Hackensack, New Jersey, and started making art at a young age. But it wasn't until she started the fine art graduate school program at UC Berkeley, where she earned her MFA, that she got her first formal art training, studying under esteemed Bay Area Figurative painter Elmer Bischoff. Shades of those early self-teaching, however, continue to be visible in her work today.
"I actually think of paint-by-numbers paintings as the original conceptual paintings... They have a prescribed beginning and end," said Oropallo in an interview for her 2001 midcareer retrospective at the San Jose Museum of Art. "This has been in my work since I was a kid. I copied things out of how-to books, always using this type of methodology."
Oropallo's work is structured according to a modular, graphic, Pop ethic. She used to often work with silk-screened images or patterns, all sourced from photographs. For the 2003 series "Replica," she arranged repeating depictions of duck figurines for Spill, a toy suburban tract house for Free House. For Oropallo's 2005 "Stretch" pieces, she digitally pushed, pulled, and stretched, images to the verge of being unrecognizable. What remained was their contemporaneity.
Berkeleyside, Deborah Oropallo explores the dark side of fairy tales, by Tracey Taylor, 3/2011
Deborah Oropallo has been fascinated with dress-up costumes for a while. The type adults order online, as opposed to the kids' variety. French maid and nurses' uniforms, Little Bo Peep get-ups and frilly princess dresses informed the pieces she created for her previous body of work, and they reappear in "Tale Spin", her new exhibition which opened on Friday at Gallery 16 at 501 Third Street in San Francisco.
This time, the theme is fairy tales and Lolita says Oropallo, who has lived and worked in West Berkeley for the past 30 years. "There is always a very subversive edge to fairy tales," she says. "And girls are always the victims." As she writes in the exhibition catalog: "Fairy tales were morality plays meant to scare girls into being good. In that tradition, these paintings are cautionary tales; meant to be dark, fractured, edgy, sexy, and funny. Dangerous and wicked, the girls have turned into women, in a post feminist age… and the wolf is on the run."
But there's a lighter side to the work too. "I'm also making fun of these costumes," Oropallo says. "I didn't grow up with Grimm fairytles, so in a way I'm creating a Looney Tunes version of them."
Gallery 16, which is a press as well as a gallery, was founded by painter Griff Williams, also a Berkeleyan. In the same style as a traditional press, artists are invited to work there with digital media and a variety of large scale printers.
Oropallo says she used chiffon, silk and several different rag papers for the new pieces, in an effort to ensure the pieces were not flat. For the same reason, the pieces are not presented under glass.
"Tale Spin" runs through April 30, and mid-way through the exhibition, on April 7, there will be a performance by Fauxnique, followed by an informal dialogue with San Francisco writer and critic Glen Helfand.


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Prof. Armida Alisjahbana is a Professor of economics at the Department of Economics, Padjadjaran University. She has been a researcher at CEDS since 1991. Prof. Alisjahbana earned her bachelor degree in economics and development studies from Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia (1985), a Masters degree in economics from Northwestern University, USA (1987), and a Ph.D in economics from University of Washington, USA (1994). Prof. Alisjahbana's research interest is in the area of environmental and resource economics, labor economics, decentralization and her recent research topic is on the Labor market issues of non-farm enterprises. Prof. Alisjahbana is a former Director of CEDS and is currently the State Minister of National Development Planning/head of BAPPENAS and President of Indonesian Regional Science Association (IRSA).
Recent publications:
- Armida Alisjahbana, 2006, "Does Indonesia have the Balance Right in Natural Revenue Sharing", in Resosudarmo (ed), the Politics and Economics of Indonesia's Natural Resource, ISEAS, Singapore.
- Armida Alisjahbana & Chris Manning, 2006."Labour market dimensions of poverty in Indonesia," Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 42(2), pages 235-261.
- Armida Alisjahbana & Chris Manning, 2007."Trends and Constraints Associated with Labor Faced by Non-Farm Enterprises,"Working Papers in Economics and Development Studies (WoPEDS) 200711, Department of Economics, Padjadjaran University, revised Oct 2007.
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CARTHAGE, Mo. (AP) — Carthage police say a 22-year-old man died after he stabbed himself in the heart while running from officers.
Police Chief Greg Dagnan says officers made contact with the man Sunday afternoon after receiving a report he was walking down a street carrying two knives.
The man ran when officers found him. Dagnan says eventually the man began stabbing himself and, before officers could stop him, he stabbed himself in the heart.
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After much speculation and many rumors, Animal chefs Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo have released the name and concept of their new restaurant, opening at 8379 West Third Street. As the Animal team told Food & Wine Magazine, the restaurant will be called Son of a Gun, and will focus on a seafood-driven menu. The kitchen will be headed up by Animal alum Frank Anderson, and word is that they expect to open in three weeks, if all goes well. They will start with dinner service, eventually expanding it into lunch as well.
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Glory Christmas Cruise!: Carnival Glory Cruise Review by djptcp
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Glory Christmas Cruise!
Destination: Eastern Caribbean
Embarkation: Port Canaveral (Orlando)
Embarkation: DH and I live in Florida, so we drove to Port Canaveral in a couple of hours, dropped off the luggage with a porter, and parked the car in the garage ($84 for the week). We arrived at PC about 12:30 and were on board within 45 minutes. The port staff was very friendly and helpful. We were glad to have the deck plan because the Glory is the largest cruise ship we have sailed on and we needed to consult the plan a number of times. We headed up to lunch in the Red Sail Restaurant and found it to be very busy. The buffet lines went fast, though, and we were soon eating lunch. We had requested early seating, but received late seating. To change it, we had to wait in line for over an hour to talk with the Maitre'D in the Golden Dining Room. On our last two cruises, More we did not receive the seating time we requested and did not like that at all, especially since we had made our cruise reservations more than six months before the cruise. I got tired of waiting in line, so DH stayed and got our seating changed for the next day.
Cabin: Our cabin was a balcony cabin on Deck 6 (Upper Deck), midship. It was a nice size with more than enough storage space and closet space for the week. There was a mini-bar fridge, but it was locked and we never did need it. A hair dryer was available and worked just fine.
Dining: Food was excellent, especially the steaks -- medium rare each time just as requested. As I mentioned above, our seating was changed to early, but we were given a table for two in between two wait staff stations, so it was quite chaotic and not pleasant. The cruise was full, so we could not change again. We prefer a table with 6-8 people. Not a deal breaker for the cruise, but it was disappointing. Buffet was very good. Room service menu was very limited, but we ordered lunch twice and it came very promptly. We tipped the waiter in cash each time.
Service: Cabin steward did a great job and was very unobtrusive. Wait staff in the Platinum Dining Room was very good; the Maitre'D was not at all friendly and never came around during the week to say hello. We did not give him a tip. Overall, the crew was nice, but not overly friendly as we have experienced on other cruises.
Casino: I had a royal flush playing $1 video poker and DH won $1,000 playing craps one day, so the casino was good to us! Casino staff were very friendly. We spent alot of time in the casino and I thoroughly enjoyed being able to put money on my Sail and Sign card and using it as a bank instead of having to put money in the machines and take money out.
Entertainment: We did not attend any shows, as we spent our time in the casino.
Islands: We love Nassau and wish the ship was there longer. St. Thomas is our shopping mecca, so we always enjoy going downtown to shop and have a few cocktails. Mr. Tablecloth and Riise are our favorite stores. Cab fare is $4 per person to downtown. This was our first time in St. Maarten and we would love to return for a week. Beautiful port with stores and you can buy roundtrip cabfare for only a few dollars. Shopping was great!
Shopping: In general, we thought liquor prices had risen significantly since our last cruise 6 months previously. We brought a flyer from our local liquor store to compare and we did not find the great deals we used to on liquor, so instead of bringing lots of bottles home, we only brought two bottles of Crown Royal with us. Everything is made in China, even in the islands, and we tried to find things that weren't for a number of reasons that are probably pretty obvious, but it wasn't easy. It became a quest of sorts.
Christmas: As this cruise was during the week of Christmas, it was full and lots of kids were on board. Since we don't have kids, I can't comment on Camp Carnival. Behavior seemed pretty good until the next to the last day when kids were running wild in the hallways and even in the public areas. Very annoying to say the least, but overall, the kids seemed pretty unobtrusive most of the week. The ship was decorated beautifully for the holidays and there was carol singing a number of times. Families gathered in large spaces to open gifts, so it felt like Christmas to us.
Debarkation: We had #27 out of 42 and were in our car by 10am. Great experience with no lines. The porter took our luggage right to our car in the parking garage, so great service.
Overall: We enjoyed the Glory cruise very much and would definitely recommend it. In fact, we had already booked it for Christmas week 2008 before we went last week and we will keep the reservation. The negative was our dining room location and we probably should have stayed with the late seating with the table for 8. The other negative one is pretty subjective, but here goes. There was a dress code each night which said "no shorts, no t-shirts". With the exception of the two formal nights, we felt like we were eating in McDonald's every night because there was a total disregard for the dress code and the Maitre'd never enforced it. I never saw so many shorts and inappropriate clothing in a dining room as on this cruise. Eating Chateaubriand in a restaurant that felt like some fast food joint was not particularly enjoyable. Either enforce the dress code or not even bother having one, Carnival! Also, people were arriving at all different times and sometimes 30 minutes after the appointed hour -- very rude to the wait staff and one table was consistently 30 minutes late and it wasn't because they took any care with their dress, as they were always in shorts. Freestyle cruising with NCL would have been much more appropriate for these folks! Less
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The last bit of the giant province: Sault Ste. Marie to Ottawa.
From Sault Ste. Marie to Ottawa I felt like I was finally back in the land of semi civilization. (I keep having to erase "we" or "Mary Anne and I" - I don't think of myself in the singular way any more, I have become a unit!!)
We visited some pretty small communities leaving Sault Ste Marie, including Bruce Mines (which had a very nice white gazebo and one picnic table that we claimed for our lunch break) and Thessalon, which was right up against the shores of Lake Huron - a "one of everything you need and that's it" kind of town (my favourite kind). The first community we went through was actually an Ojibway community, and on the railway bridge there was an announcement painted in large white print: "THIS IS INDIAN TERRITORY". We had a tailwind all day and we must have felt rested because we were laughing at everything again.
For example: Mary Anne and I decide that we need to pee. Scanning... scanning... oop, there's a nice deep ditch with lots of tall grasses. Perfect. Mary Anne heads in and when she's ready to come out, she listens for traffic. Traffic from the highway on the left? Nope - check. On the right? Nope, check. Standing annnnd pulling up pants. OHHHH MYYY there is a POSTAL VAN RIGHT THERE from the OTHER road we didn't see in FRONT of her. Woops!!! Oh well, can't win'em all.
The best was trying to get the food into the tree. Always entertaining for Mary Anne (because lately I've been the one throwing the ropes up into the tree), and moreso for the other campers I discovered. I was trying to get the ropes into the tree and it got all tangled up in the branches - almost hopelessly tangled. As I was working it out (involving a lot of re-throwing my water bottle attached to the rope end and vigorously swinging and swatting the other rope end to encourage things to loosen up) an older man asked me, "WHAT are you doing?"
"I'm doing what you do when you don't have a trunk" I replied.
"Do you want help?" he asked.
"No," I said, "I do this almost every night!"
"Oh! Then you must entertain multiple campgrounds, not just this one!" he chuckled.
Even better was when Mary Anne got back and decided to take matters into her own hands and attach the stew and food bags up into the tree herself. She had pulled the bags about halfway up the tree when I cracked a joke and poor Mary Anne dissolved into giggles, and the food started slowly slipping back down the rope towards the ground. It eventually got up the tree, safe from bears and chipmunks and dogs.
Later on that evening we took the time to wander around the shore of Lake Huron - taking pictures, reflecting, watching the Canada geese, and enjoying our rare moments of free time on a biking day!!
The next day riding from Thessalon to Spragge was our 2-month on the road together anniversary. Mary Anne spied a small restaurant on our way out of Thessalon, and since we thought we were going to have a short biking day, she suggested coffee and a hot chocolate, which actually turned into bacon, eggs, hashbrowns, and toast... woops, hellooo second breakfast. Oh well, happy anniversary! Later on that day we actually smelled a field of strawberries and couldn't resist cycling in to check it out. A u-pick - perfect! When the woman selling the strawberries found out what we were up to, and that Mary Anne was from Peterborough (her hometown too) she insisted that we take the berries for free. Yes, please! We ate them later on in Blind River with ice cream. Oh, bike touring.
We found out that there was no campsite in Blind River (oops!) and our short day turned into a medium-sized one - but we weren't too upset because our day had felt so relaxed, it was worth it.
It was actually funny because at the strawberry field a man warned us about two guys hitchiking who had been "attacked by bears and then saved by a man in a transport truck". When we were biking towards the KOA campground in Spragge, I stopped to pee on the side of the road and a man drove up in his truck - great timing Erica - to tell us that there were two bears right on our side of the road at the end of this guardrail!! I got out the bearspray just in case and we did what we usually do - talk loud and bike on the other side of the highway. Another car had stopped in front of the bears to make sure that we made it ok. Strangers are so nice!
The next day was from Spragge to Chutes Provincial Park, another short day. We had decided to do the trip from Sault Ste Marie (an awkward distance of 310 km) in four days instead of three to give ourselves a little break, so we had a bit of extra time. We went through a bunch of construction and as we passed the guy smoothing the pavement, I yelled out, "HEY! ADD A SHOULDER WHILE YOU'RE AT IT!" He gave a great guffaw of laughter and it made me smile too. The roads are VERY narrow, and the shoulders - when present - are rough.
We went swimming when we got to Chutes Park - now this is a place I can highly recommend. Big thick white waterfall, GORGEOUS, with a great big shallow pool at the bottom where everyone swims - sandy bottom, a little bit of gentle rapids, big sandbar with a few trees for shade - it was like stumbling upon paradise and it's only about 1 km from the highway. Amazing! In Chutes we met two older couples also biking across Canada - one couple on a tandem bike!! The two guys came to our campsite and we chatted with them for a bit while making dinner - were they ever nice. We ended up running into them again and again until North Bay, which was really awesome. They shared strawberries and stories with us. It is such a special feeling to be in a city where you know you know NO ONE, and then all of the sudden a bike rolls up and a familiar smiling face appears. We even saw them in their day off clothes - hard to recognize them at first - and had to laugh at our newfound appreciation of each other!
The next morning it started raining again right after breakfast - happened in Thessalon and would happen again in Mattawa - very frustrating. It seems like it rains every other day or more, and everyone we meet says, "Oh we've never had such a wet cold summer". Sigh.
We met a girl that afternoon biking for the children's wish foundation - she was a machine! Although she was riding unloaded on a road bike, she actually covered 260 km in ONE DAY in Lake Superior - and that's hilly. Verrrry hilly. I was pretty impressed.
I called my uncle David to confirm our meeting in Sturgeon Falls - he and my aunt Hazel were coming up to treat us to dinner and a HOTEL(!) the next day. They were originally going to motorcycle up but David said that they had changed their minds - "It's alternately going to be sweltering hot and thundershowering" he said. I laughed and said, "sounds like our entire trip!" The campground we stayed at just outside of Sudbury was... weird. That's the only way you can describe a collection of RVs that big. Sitting right beside the busy highway, dirty, crowded. Why would you stay in a place like that if you have a PORTABLE CAMPING SYSTEM???? I'll never understand RVs.
We woke up that night to the sound of thunder BOOOOOMING around us and flashes of white hot lightning illuminating the tent, and then "PSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" of rain streaming down the sides of the tent. Thank god our little tent is waterproof, waterproof, waterproof. I looked at my watch, terrified it was almost morning and breathed a silent thanks when I realized it was only 2 AM. It was still raining in the morning and continued until the early afternoon, but not pouring.
We were SOOO happy to have a night in a hotel thanks to David and Hazel. They brought us delicious fruit and took us out, and we shared breakfast too the next morning.
The next day we visited a beautiful little lakeside park in downtown North Bay for lunch and continued on to Mattawa, where Josh Mohan (a mutual friend from our bike tour last year) was coming up to meet us for our rest day. We had a gorgeous tailwind and the road was fun - gentle hills and beautiful scenery.
This was the day I realized my blue water bottle was feeling a little down. I'll tell you about it.
Every night I use my blue water bottle as a weight to throw the food-hanging rope into the tree, and it is often left hanging there, for hours, until we hang the food. Choked and miserable, coated in sap and dirt (the mementos of several inevitable failed throws), it stares at me moodily, begging to be put back on my bike. However, it being the harder bottle to drink from, it always takes second place on my bike because I use the white one first. The final straw, I'm sure, for poor ol' blue water bottle was when I was taking a drink at the top of the hill on the ride towards Mattawa. Now, usually I take a drink on the way UP the hill because I'm more in control of my bike. But it was REALLY hot so I took a drink at the top. Bad idea. Top of hill turning into downhill at disturbing rate. Water bottle in right hand. Grade increasing. Speed: also increasing. Checking rearview mirror. OH! Observe two large transports heading my way. Checking pavement. Shoulder! Rapidly deteriorating! Shoulder now forming distinct v-shaped rut with large crack in center! Speed, still rapidly increasing! Left hand reaching for brakes! Brain interupting! Front brakes alone = bad idea when cruising downhill. Shite. Eyes: moving to right hand still holding blue water bottle! Ah! Ahhh! AHHHHH!!! THROWING ILL FATED BLUE WATER BOTTLE MADLY INTO DITCH!! BRAKING WITH BOTH HANDS! Speed decreasing... decreasing... stopping.
Looking back at Mary Anne holding my water bottle, I saw one very confused expression.
We met Josh in Mattawa and thus passed a very pleasant day off - swimming, reading, cooking, and WATCHING A MOVIE (a big deal for us - go see WALL-E if you can, a great movie!) It was really nice to be with another mutual friend from Otesha and Josh was excited to get out of the city and do a little camping. Other than the gang of rowdy, loud, cussing teenagers that kept us up late late and woke up at 5:30 to giggle and talk, we had a good time.
The bike from Mattawa to Mackey was... interesting. We had been told by one woman that there was "one big hill" out of Mattawa and then "fairly flat until Ottawa", and that it was "hilly until Deep River" by a biker in North Bay. On about the 5th big, steady, steep climb, I turned to Mary Anne and said, "you know, if this is that woman's idea of flat, I'd looOOOVe to see her idea of hilly". Mind you, she did say it was "all downhill to Mattawa" which is a red light as far as I'm concerned. Bikers. Again. Never trust ANYONE who says, "It's all downhill to _____ (insert any place name here longer than 5 km away from present location). Mary Anne was quiet for a bit and then suddenly remarked, "You know, I've come to a realization. When people say something is going to be scenic, what they really mean is, this part is going to be hard biking.". yeah. agreed.
In spite of (because of?) the rain that morning, it was a stunning ride. Here's my attempt at an artistic description: The clouds were low - resting with their vague tiptoes on far sides of wetlands, creeping over a dip in the road, hovering flat and long over the opposite shore of the Ottawa river. The white water littles were ALL in bloom, and they coat the surface of many bogs. We saw one bog blanketed with white water lilies, with a midnight blue path around several large dead trees and leading to a massive beaver house; in the background a lazy white fog cloud rested on dark evergreens. I breathed a sigh - OaaahHHHHHHH - half awe, half a moan of regret that it was raining and I couldn't risk a picture.
The next day - the day of the nice and AGGRESSIVELY NICE people:
- Alex, from Quebec who is cycling around his province with so much gear! Really nice guy, and we had a good chat with him on the road.
- Guy in bistro in Deep River giving us advice on routes whether we wanted it or not.
- Guy asking Mary Anne in campsite whether we were lost - "I'm a local! I can help!"
- Woman in bathroom who offered us chili and wanted to take our picture and add us to facebook?
- Newfoundlander. The worst of the aggressively nice people, a dirty old man with a little black dog who came over to our picnic table on the pretense of introducing his dog to us. Upon finding out I was from Nova Scotia, he announced that he HAD to give me a hug - and when I refused, ("No thank you, I'm eating" - code for, "You're nasty and I don't feel AT ALL comfortable touching you") he actually came up and hugged me from behind. Then he had the audacity to warn us about creepy people in campgrounds in Quebec. I wanted to scream, "YOU'RE THE CREEPIEST PERSON WE'VE MET so GO AWAY!!!"
Anywhoo. We did have a good day, we stopped in the very nice town of Deep River to make Carnivorous Chili (the first time we've cooked with meat) and swam in the Ottawa River in our campsite in Pembroke, the warmest water we've experienced so far. We did some mutant synchronized swimming and generally had a pretty fun time.
We discovered some lovely secondary roads on the way to Fitzroy Provincial Park the next day. It was the day of colour and texture - sagey green soft fields with little yellow sprigs throughout, soft tufts of rich burnt yellow fronds of grain with braided core, curly deep fresh green herbs, muted grey barns with creeping ivy, and all the while the Ottawa River on our left. Mmmmmm! I loved Beachburg, another "one of everything and that's it" kind of town. We passed through some very obviously Scottish-founded communities "McNab and Braeside" and had a fun time listing every Scottish last name that we could think of and sounding them all out with a Scottish burr. Our favourite was the next town's name, Arnprior. Arrrrrnprior. Arrrrrrrnprrrrrrior. Arrrrrrrrprrrrrriorrrrrrrrrrrrr. At one point I stopped being able to breathe I was laughing so hard, realized with some part of my rational brain I couldn't possibly bike any more without oxygen, started laughing harder, and had to throw myself off of my bike so I could breathe again and take some giant gasps of air to feed the laughter that was pouring out of me in screams and tears!
The next day although we woke up to rain, we were sheltered by a large tree. Unfortunately it didn't stop raining and just got worse... and worse... and worse... until it was a giant thunderstorm and we were biking in a warm, pounding waterfall that was the heaviest rain I think I've ever biked in so far (having escaped under a canopy in Penticton in similar - colder - circumstances). "You know what!" Mary Anne shot at me over the dull roar of the water. "What!" I yelled back. "WE'RE HARDCORE!!!!!!" She volleyed back. Ohhhhh, yeahhhhh. It was dripping off of my eyelashes, sluicing into my contacts and rendering it near impossible to see - I was wiping my eyes so often and only really seeing through a crack in my right eye which was somehow missing most of the drops. Water screaming down my back and arms, little streams from all points of my body onto the wet road. Oop, and now that's water raging down my back down into my bum. Shiver. We found a gas station and huddled under the awning for about half an hour until I realized my tire was flat (thanks, life) and got rid of another tire which had worn out, changed the tube, started biking in more rain (the lightning having stopped by now), tire flat again, sighiiiiing.
When we finally did get to Ottawa, I was so impressed by the bike paths! Mary Anne's brother picked us up on his bike and I biked to Emily and Julien's, good friends from Acadia. I'm here now, using Em's computer, and basking in how good it feels to be with people I really love in a real home under a real roof, with a real towel and a fridge and comforter and different PJs (thank you Emily) and different food and good conversation. AHhhhhhhh.
Here's to making it out of this giant province in one piece, and to only 3 WEEKS left on the road!!!! WAHOOOOOO!
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Recently it was filmmaker Kiran Rao who took a pledge that she will donate her organs and now her husband Aamir Khan is following her footsteps.
On July 13, Kiran was at an organ donation camp and she revealed that Aamir wants to donate his organs. "Aamir is definitely keen to donate his organs as well." Kiran was present at this event along with Ship Of Theseus director Anand Gandhi.
Kiran Rao has not stopped praising Ship Of Theseus and the message it puts across. She said, "If anyone has seen Ship Of Theseus, I hope they will definitely be convinced that it's the most beautiful and most logical thing to do." Click here for more images of Aamir Khan
Kiran will even try to create more awareness and persuade people about organ donation because it is for a best cause. "Anyone I will meet, I will definitely discuss it with them. I am not necessarily going to call up the celebrities, tell them and convince them of this cause," Kiran said.
"I don't know whether it is going to be easy for me to talk to all the celebrities and become the ambassador for this (organ donation). I am happy to try, but certainly I would like to encourage friends in the fraternity, people I know and definitely my family to donate their organs," she added.


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Children's fantasy comedy Tooth and comedy thriller Max Dark are among the first projects at the newly-launched production operation of UK distributor Helkon SK. Emma Berkosfky, former head of development at BSkyB film arm Sky Pictures, will head up development at the outfit.
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This article was published 3/7/2012 (1876 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Arctic Glacier investors have been kicked around pretty badly over the past few years.
But last week was particularly raw and some investors are concerned that privileged information was used to reap fat profits.
Unitholders heard on June 8 that Miami-based private equity firm H.I.G. Capital would be the buyer of the assets of the company through a court-sanctioned investor solicitation process that was part of Arctic's bankruptcy protection.
But that's all they heard. There was no price disclosure to the owners of the company, something that one U.S. banker said was unheard of.
Early Thursday evening, June 28, the company issued a press release disclosing the price -- $434.5 million -- noting "Arctic Glacier expects that the net proceeds of the sale will be sufficient to pay all of its remaining known creditors and may be sufficient to permit a distribution to its unitholders after all creditor claims have been proven and satisfied pursuant to a court-ordered claims process."
Even though that unquantifiable but hopeful message came out after the close of trading Thursday, by late Wednesday afternoon the trading volume and price on Arctic units on the CNSX had already shot up dramatically -- as if some knew something before everyone else.
The closing price Wednesday more than quadrupled to 17 cents from four cents, with 12.7 million units trading, up from a daily average of just more than one million.
One unitholder who was watching the price wrote on a message board late Wednesday afternoon, "What"s going on!? Up 300%. Anyone hear anything?"
But there was no press release after close of trading Wednesday and still nothing all day Thursday.
Very heavy trading continued Thursday with more than 14 million units trading, with the price remaining up near the 20-cent mark, a level the units had not seen in more than a year.
It wasn't until early evening Thursday after markets closed that Arctic issued its Market Update Regarding Its Proposed Sale Transaction disclosing the price.
There are still plenty of unknowns, according to one sophisticated banker who knows how to crunch these kinds of number and who spoke on condition his name not be used.
But he said depending on how certain liabilities of the estate are dealt with, the distribution to unitholders could possibly be more than 25 cents.
Is that what some had already figured out on Wednesday afternoon? Who were they and how did they know, because there was no way for the general public to have known any of that.
"It looks like an example of the Canadian retail investor getting screwed by sophisticated U.S. investors sitting in meetings, getting information they can trade on and the information not getting shared with the Canadian retail base," said the U.S. banker.
Greg Klassen, a broker with National Bank Financial in Winnipeg who has followed Arctic Glacier for years, said, "I am surprised no one has been called to the carpet. I can't believe they didn't halt the stock and ask the company to make an announcement."
In Canada, it is the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) that monitors unusual trading activity with sophisticated technology that can identify possible violations of its Universal Market Integrity Rules.
But an IIROC official said Tuesday, "We would not be able to confirm or deny any actual investigation."
The U.S. banker said in fairness to the company, in a bankruptcy process the company may not know all of the answers and might be reticent about saying something that proves later to be incorrect.
"But Arctic has done a terrible job of informing the market," he said. "How do you sell something and not say what you sold it for?"
Arctic units closed at 20 cents on Tuesday with another 3.7 million units traded, making it the most active on the CNSX exchange once again.
Arctic's new owners say they believe the Winnipeg-based company now has a great future with a cleaned-up balance sheet.
Unfortunately, it looks like the punters who backed the company through the tough times are still getting preyed upon.


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Back from office, read some news updates on Aquarium, remembering when I was in High School, I used to do programming in Pascal Programming Language. Simple application for PC run on x86 machine is just a single file or a bit of files only, do all process needed; such as computing, data or I/0 access and network interfacing.
In todays Distributed Computing model, application is not just a single or several files in same places and work on stand alone machine anymore, by machine limitation to process heavy load of computation, to distribute computing power in networked machine is a must, separating data access and processing module, and even graphical view is sometime also needed. In complex application model, where it need to be deployed on Server architecture machine with high processing and I/0 capability, separating data and application itself is a need, there are database machine to store, retrieve and managing data, application machine where logic and data processing happen, called 'business logic' container. To increase performance, computing process also distributed.
There are paradigm to separate above entity as server-side architectural design, in order to achieve scalability, availability, manageability, performance stability and interoperability, such as in Java arena, we already knew about Java EE (Enterprise Edition), standard server-side development framework and design for heavy transactional application was introduced. Application separeted into Multi-tier, Database Entity Back End/EIS Tier, Business Logic Container/ Business Tier and View/Web Tier where user interaction maintained.
This archetural approach make 'life easier', in development and production of complex server-side application, managing data source, application modules, user view, session and all components in one place is not an easy tasks. Updating one part will affect to another part, it is also dangerous when updating module then affecting critical data changes. Another pain part is, to put data and processing module un-encapsulated module, all in one place components will make risk of unwanted data access of outsider into system, it make system un-secure. But dividing software component into modules also need complicated technical understanding of framework itself, implementing the rules, surely resource utilization to make development on this model come true.
Day by day, simplicity in development and maintenance is increased, I found Java EE make server-side software development easier and simpler, most commons functionality already provided by Java EE container (Application Server) as a standard compliant Java EE implementation, develop application become fun, server-side development is not a nighmare anymore. On other way, run simple application on full-supported Java EE compliant container is a bit wasting processing resources. For example, to run simple application on GlassFish Application Server, first you have to install it, configure the server and domain, make datasource connection with external database, set JMS, Web Services, EJB or JNDI if needed and finally put your application (.WAR, .EAR) in this. It is also take time to boot up the server with available implemented modules. Since GlassFish ver. 3.0, Java EE container is available in embedded manner, GlassFish Embedded was introduced. Although it mentioned that it is proposed for testing purposes, but all Java EE compliant implementation component are supported.
It is not you put your application into Server, but you embed the GlassFish Server into your application, as simple as you put a library, single JAR file to your application. It is just work, with all advantages of Java EE implementation on GlassFish Application Server. Application, Server, Database in JAR files with simple design, less maintenance and less resource utilization. Here I tried to make light server-side application with minimum development effort and resources, yes just 3 files.
- 1 file of your application WAR or EAR file.
- 1 file of GlassFish Embedded (Application Server + Java DB included) + 1 configuration file (optional).
- 1 folder of Database. here embedded reliable Java DB in GlassFish is used to access.
That is it!
Embedding GlassFish, starting server and deploying application just as simple as code below:
GlassFishProperties gfProperties = new GlassFishProperties();
gfProperties.setPort("http-listener", serverPort);
GlassFishRuntime gfRuntime = GlassFishRuntime.bootstrap();
GlassFish glassfish = gfRuntime.newGlassFish(gfProperties);
glassfish.getDeployer().deploy(new File(appName));
serverPort is port address used by GlassFish, appName is application name path to deploy. Separating configurable values into configuration file is better if you need to deploy several applications.
Stopping server and shutting down just as below:
To start embedded Java DB (known as Apache Derby) is just 2 lines of code. This code will be implemented in your WAR or EAR application.
Connection dbConn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:derby:" + dbName + ";create=true");
Disconnecting and stopping database just another two lines of codes.
To make server more configurable, need to put 1 configuration file to register list of deployed application, its location, port address used, database paths and any parameter needed. Enough, no nightmare anymore, here how server-side Java EE programming and deployment is as easy as doing this in Pascal, is it?


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It's Time To Cry: Watch Unsuspecting Families Get Their Holiday Groceries Paid For
Most YouTube pranks involve smug bros pretending to cheat on their girlfriends, but this one has a much kinder agenda: a YouTube prankster set up a hidden camera at a grocery store to capture the reactions of families as they were told they wouldn't have to pay for their huge holiday grocery bills. There's actually no prank about it — the groceries really were paid for and many tears were shed. (The video is sponsored by an energy supplement, so just ignore the awkward infomercial at the end, but I swear the first four minutes are worth it.) [Laughing Squid]


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My recipe...SHRIMP AND CAULIFLOWER MASH. I have to be honest with you guys, I only made this with a half a head of cauliflower, but I ate the whole thing...BY MYSELF. It was delicious. I just simply could not say, "NO". It was creamy and buttery and tangy and of course a little spicy. It had me saying, "mashed potatoes, what??". I am sure I have you guys drooling now and anticipating trying recipe!! ;) So, without further ado...my scrumptious dinner I shamelessly devoured tonight.
|JUST KIDDING!!!!!!!!! I would never use butter...bleh.
10-12 medium to large sized shrimp
1-2 tsp. oregano
1 clove garlic, minced
Squeeze 1/2 Lemon
salt and pepper, to taste
Directions: Preheat the oven to 400 F. In a bowl, combine the shrimp and the rest of the ingredients. Allow to marinate for 10-15 minutes, but no longer than 15!
Transfer to a baking sheet and bake for 6-7 minutes.
For the Cauliflower Mash: (2 generous servings)
1/2 head of cauliflower
1-2 Cups *Almond Milk
2 cloves garlic, peeled
salt, to taste
1-2 tsp. dijon mustard
1/4 Cup crumbled feta
cayenne pepper, to taste
Directions: Combine cauliflower, garlic cloves and almond milk in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil; cover and reduce to simmer for about 15 minutes, or until the cauliflower is tender.
Transfer the cauliflower to a food processor. Add about 1/2 cup of the milk. Pulse until smooth. Add more milk, if needed. Add dijon, feta, and cayenne. Pulse to combine.
*You can use skim milk as a substitute or any other milk you have on hand. I love almond milk and happened to have some so that's what I used!
I am sorry I do not have a picture. My camera is broken at the moment. Hope to get it fixed shortly. :/
I hope you guys enjoy it as much as I did!! This is a recipe I will be adding to my favorites list!! Let me know how you guys like it!
Also, if you have any recipes that you want to see made over, please let me know!! I will be happy to renovate it for you all!!
I am excited about the my new readers out there! Please stop by and say, "hello"! I love reading your comments. Make sure to leave your blog website so I can visit yours and get to know you as well!
Hope you all enjoy!!
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Set after Blair (Michael Sheen) has become PM, the focus switches to his relationship with Bill Clinton (Dennis Quaid), the US President with whom he forges an immediate bond. Into the mix comes the scandalous spectre of Monica Lewinsky and that dress...
And thus we reach Episode III of Peter Morgan and Michael Sheen's Tony Blair saga: which, like another Episode III, sees its 'hero' finally turning to the Dark Side. Where The Deal dipped into the source of the Brown/Blair rivalry, and The Queen focused on his early days as PM and his first crisis, The Special Relationship traces his friendship with Bill Clinton (Dennis Quaid).
The obvious theme is how the personal affects the political, so Morgan and director Richard Loncraine are as concerned with the mechanics of two other 'special' relationships: Tony with Cherie (The Queen's Helen McCrory) and Bill with Hillary (an excellent Hope Davis). Unsurprising, then, that the Lewinsky scandal forms the film's centrepiece. Yet Sheen's Blair is at the core, and how he becomes infected by the Clintons' obsession with legacy, before sliming to the Right and hogging the world stage.
As you'd expect, the performances are expertly transformative — Quaid's Arkansas croak is astonishing — but the rushed pace leaves you wondering if the subject-matter would have been far better serviced by a mini-series.
The performances are as impressive as you'd expect and there's plenty of delving into the real men - and egos - behind the office, but the challenge of squeezing so much into 90 minutes just about defeats Morgan's script. Close but no cigar.