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A cloud of secrecy yesterday surrounded the expected signing in Macau of a deal between Next Media Group (壹傳媒集團) and a consortium of three Taiwanese business leaders for the acquisition of Next Media's four outlets in Taiwan, a deal that raises the specter of increased Chinese influence over Taiwanese media.
According to reports by the Hong Kong-based Apple Daily, a consortium led by Chinatrust Charity Foundation (中信慈善基金會) chairman Jeffrey Koo Jr (辜仲諒), Formosa Plastics Group (台塑集團) chairman William Wong (王文淵) and Want Want China Times Group (旺旺中時集團) chairman Tsai Eng-meng (蔡衍明) was to sign a contract to buy the media outlets from the Hong Kong-listed Next Media at 3pm in Macau.
The former Portuguese colony was reportedly chosen as the location for the signing because of tax incentives.
As of press time, none of the parties involved in the acquisition had confirmed news of the signing. Reports said that as of 8pm, negotiations were still ongoing.
Next Media signed a memorandum of understanding with Koo in the middle of last month, following Hong Kong media baron Jimmy Lai's (黎智英) announcement that he was selling the four outlets — the Chinese-language Apple Daily, Next Magazine, Sharp Daily and Next TV — for NT$17.5 billion (US$600 million).
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd (鴻海精密), which had also been tipped as a potential fourth buyer, rejected rumors of a role in the deal yesterday and declined to comment further.
There was also media speculation that Lung Yen Life Service Co (龍巖集團) could be a fourth buyer.
In Hong Kong, Next Media did not suspend trading of its shares and experienced a quiet trading session in the morning.
Following media reports in the afternoon that the deal for the Taiwanese outlets was to be finalized, the company's shares rose 4.6 percent to HK$1.59 and closed with a trading volume of HK$15 million (US$1.9 million).
The deal will require the approval of Taiwan's regulatory authorities — the Financial Supervisory Commission, the Fair Trade Commission and the National Communications Commission — to be valid.
Meanwhile, the unions of the four Taiwanese outlets, which staged an overnight sit-in at the company's headquarters in Taipei's Neihu District (內湖) on Monday night, issued a statement urging the new owners to sign a deal with journalists to safeguard their editorial independence.
"Today, Nov. 27, 2012, is an unfortunate day for all Next Media Group employees. It is on this day that the contract for Next Media buyout is signed and one month from now, the group will have new owners," the statement said.
The statement added that while they were forced to accept the new owners, of whose credentials and motives the public and Next Media Group employees are skeptical, the owners should think about how to regain the trust of their employees and their readers.
"If you [the new owners] are only buying these outlets for the sake of glorifying or covering up the negative news for your flagship enterprises, or for the purpose of using the group as a bargaining chip when your corporations enter the Chinese market, you are doomed to be despised by the Taiwanese public and eventually get caught in your own traps," the statement said.
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Liver abscess caused by toothpick and treated by laparoscopic left hepatic resection: case report and literature review
- 1Department of Surgery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- 2Department of Radiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Correspondence to Dr Michele Molinari, michele.molinari{at}cdha.nshealth.ca
Hepatic abscesses caused by ingested foreign bodies have been reported in the medical literature but represent very uncommon events. Extra-luminal migration of sawing needles and pins is the most common cause of perforation of the gastrointestinal tract associated with liver infections. Other non-metallic sharp objects such as animal bones and toothpicks have been described but are less frequent. The authors present a case of a 45-year-old woman who suffered from sepsis and a liver abscess because of the migration of a toothpick that lodged in the left hepatic lobe. Review of the literature on the pathogenesis and clinical management of liver abscesses caused by ingested foreign is presented.
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'The Son of No One' -- 1 1/2 stars
R; 1:35 running time Featuring Ray Liotta and Al Pacino as high-ranking cops, Katie Holmes and Juliette Binoche as stressed-out femmes in the line of fire, and Tracy Morgan as a mute Queens rooftop-dweller, the film's wildly eccentric ensemble acquits itself through performances that are vastly more concentrated than the script demands. Still, one can't help feeling that a set of campy, tongue-in-cheek turns would've better served the silly film, wherein Tatum's rookie officer is wracked with guilt over having snuffed a pair of menacing junkies in the Queensborough projects when he was a wee middle-schooler. Read the full "The Son of No One" movie review
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IPS stands ground on ID cards
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The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) is resisting some elements of the recommendations from MPs on the National Identity Card Programme
It has responded to a number of criticisms and recommendations made in the report from Parliament's Science and Technology Committee, published in August, with rebuffs in some instances and agreement in others. On the key points of transparency on advice and the use of the card it has claimed it is not possible to follow the MPs' recommendations closely.
The new report notes the committee's call for more transparency on the scientific advice provided to the programme team. It says a Concept Viability report was published in August as part of the procurement strategy, but claims full transparency is impossible until after the scheme's requirements are published.
Similarly, a call for more detail on how the card might be used is met by an assertion that, until the card is in widespread use, it will not be possible to say for which processes it will be used. It reiterates, however, that no medical data will go into the National Identity Register that will be developed alongside the card.
The IPS disputes the committee's claim that consultation with academics has not gone far enough, and says existing efforts in specialised groups negates the need for a cross-government consultation focused on the technology for identity cards. It also rebuffs the call for it to publish an overview of the scientific advice it has received from international schemes, claiming this would undermine its ability to take part in them in future.
There are, however, areas in which the IPS emphasises that it goes along with the views of the committee. One is the establishment of an ICT Assurance Committee of academics and industry experts to review the programme's specifications. The government and Home Office chief information officers are leading the effort to set up this group, although the report shies away from saying when it will be in place.
It also goes along with the recommendation that adequate testing is not sacrificed to "chasing unrealistic delivery dates", but claims it would not be realistic to test everything before the scheme goes live. It relates this to plans to roll out identity cards incrementally, stating it will evolve over time.
Overall, the IPS claims to have been on the right track all along. In response to the MPs' conclusion that, if changes are made, the scheme could become an example of good practice in handling scientific advice, it says "the government believes this is already the case".
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All talks of a truce have now ceased between Jon Gosselin and former girlfriend Hailey Glassman as RadarOnline is reporting the Jon & Kate Plus 8 dad is moving forward with pursuing charges against Hailey.
Those charges would be for robbing and ransacking his NYC apartment. Both Jon and his lawyer believe Hailey is the responsible party. Hailey has also accused Jon of physically abusing her by pushing her up against a wall.
It was reported last week that both parties were going to meet and try to resolve their differences. But Jon has now decided he does not want to let Hailey off the hook.
In other news, things continue to get serious between Jon and his new 25 year old girlfriend Morgan Christie. PEOPLE magazine is now reporting that Jon met up with Morgan and her mother over the weekend in Utah.
You can see a photo of Morgan Christie here!
"Based on the body language, it seemed like Jon and the mother have met before," said an onlooker. "It was really quiet at their table, but the mom was doing most of the talking throughout the night."
Kate Gosselin also stepped out this weekend, showing off her highly talked about new hair extensions. The 34 year old mother of eight was spotted in her PA hometown as she ran errands during the weekend.
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STOCKTON - The City Council, which has drawn unwanted attention for its raucous and out-of-control meetings, took its first step Wednesday toward writing a policy that allows its members to censure one another's bad behavior.
STOCKTON - The City Council, which has drawn unwanted attention for its raucous and out-of-control meetings, took its first step Wednesday toward writing a policy that allows its members to censure one another's bad behavior.
Mayor Anthony Silva, who runs the council meetings and has become politically isolated from the six others on the dais, said that he's looking closely at the proposed changes city staff proposed.
In addition to adopting a censure policy, other provisions being developed are designed to increase decorum inside council chambers and head off violations of open government rules under the Ralph M. Brown Act, city officials said.
"I hope there's no political maneuvering or tricks and gimmicks, and it's just straight good intentions on council policy," Silva said after the council's legislative subcommittee.
Silva doesn't sit on the subcommittee that met Wednesday and began the debate. But he watched the meeting online and said that he remains focused on serving residents according to the city charter.
Councilman Moses Zapien chairs the legislative subcommittee with Councilwoman Dyane Burgos serving as vice chairwoman. Councilman Michael Tubbs fills out the board.
The three met for their first time Wednesday. Any recommendations from city staff that they agree to must win support of the full City Council to become policy.
In a packed agenda, they also discussed adopting a policy to restrict council members from using cellphones to send and receive text messages during closed sessions and open council meetings, which may be a violation of open government rules.
They moved toward adopting a policy clarifying how members of the public can make PowerPoint presentations during council meetings, and they agreed to adopt Rosenberg's Rules of Order rather than the archaic Robert's Rules, among other topics.
But the censure policy was the most sensitive proposal considered.
Assistant City Attorney Michael Roush said that any city council member in California has the ability to censure another member, which is never a pleasant process. Stockton is absent a formal policy.
"Better to have a policy in place if needed ... rather than making it up as it occurs," Roush said.
The draft language says that a council member can initiate a censure by filing a written complaint with the City Clerk's Office. A subcommittee of two other council members will investigate the alleged offense with city staff's help.
A censure is used in case a member violates a law or city policy deemed to be serious. It carries no fine or suspension and constitutes a punitive punishment.
After its probe, the subcommittee, if it feels so moved, can take the proposed censure to the full council, which will hold a hearing. There the subject can make his case and question the accuser.
The full council - minus the subject - must adopt a resolution with at least four votes.
After Wednesday's discussion of the proposed policy, Zapien asked city staff to do more research on who should make up the two-member subcommittee assigned to investigate the alleged misconduct.
City Attorney John Luebberke is expected to bring the item back to the legislative subcommittee at its next meeting, which has yet to be scheduled.
Burgos, the vice chairwoman, said after the meeting that the host of issues undertaken Wednesday has accumulated, and the public has commented on the council's lack of decorum in meetings.
"This is a way to rein them in," she said, noting the need for a censure policy. "It's a good idea to deal with it now before it becomes an issue."
City Hall watchdog Gary Malloy said it was no mystery to him that many of the proposed policies are directed at Silva, a lone wolf on the council.
But Malloy blamed all of the council members on the dais for the rampant disorder, which - except for the past couple of quiet meetings - had dipped to a low not seen in many years.
"To be honest with you, trying to make more rules will end up causing more animosity up there," Malloy said. "Hopefully, they all got the message that they look like children."
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NEW YORK (AP) — The satellite TV broadcaster Dish Network fell short of Wall Street expectations for the first quarter and shares slid to a three-week low Thursday.
Dish last month put in a $25.5 billion bid for cell carrier Sprint Nextel Corp., attempting to derail a competing bid from Japan's Softbank Corp and vault itself into the market for mobile entertainment.
Nomura analyst Mike McCormack said the earnings miss was driven by the higher cost of setting up new subscribers with set-top boxes. Dish introduced a new "Hopper" box this year that can send TV content to tablet computers.
The company earned $215.6 million, or 47 cents per share, for the period ended March 31. That was down 41 percent from $360.3 million, or 80 cents per share, a year earlier.
Revenue slipped 1 percent to $3.55 billion as rentals declined at the Blockbuster video-store chain, which Dish owns.
Analysts polled by FactSet expected earnings of 53 cents per share, and revenue of $3.62 billion.
Dish added 36,000 TV subscribers in its first quarter, the fewest since 2009 when the recession and a dismal housing market hammered consumers.
The first quarter is usually the strongest of the year, and analyst Christopher King at Stifel Nicolaus had expected 64,000 new subscribers. King said the weakness was not specific to Dish — the U.S. pay-TV industry is seeing an overall decline.
The number of Dish subscribers has declined slowly since 2010.
Dish began selling a faster satellite Internet service in September, resulting in a net 66,000 new broadband subscribers. It's using satellites from ViaSat and Hughes for the service. They also resell their services under other brands.
Shares of Dish Network Corp., based in Englewood, Colo., fell $1.11, or 2.8 percent, to $38.50, dipping as low as $38 at one point.


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Address: 50 Red Lion Street
London WC1R 4PF
Tel: 020 7242 3490
Nearest Tube station: Holborn
Ratings (out of 5 *)
Price: below £30 pp
Service charge: 12.5%
Taste: ***
Service: ****
Ambience: ****There are only a couple of Japanese restaurants in London that greet you in Japanese when taking a reservation. Mitsukoshi and Edokko are two of them. While Mitsukoshi are often filled with Japanese tourists heading to Mitsukishi shopping centre along Regent Street (I wonder why the Japanese would go to a Japanese mall in London), Edokko, located quite a distance at a quieter part of Holborn, is more subdued.
Unassuming and discreet would aptly describe Edokko. One could easily walk past the restaurant along Red Lion Street without noticing it. It's not exactly the place where you would 'walk-in' for a meal. The lack of publicity probably contributed to why Eddoko was barely half filled whenever we visited. Which is just as well for Edokko, in my opinion, is a hidden gem.
Food aside, Edokko's strength lies in the subtlety in its ambience. You would almost sense the zen in the restaurant the moment you step right into the restaurant. That's only on the ground floor. The real deal lies on its first floor. Tatami mats lined the raised floor with sunken in foot rests.
Erm, there's no holes for your feet
"Erm, but there is no holes to put your feet," a staff replied when I requested for the only private room Edokko has. This one private room comes without any foot rests. Perfect for those looking for a bit of privacy and don't mind sitting cross-legged.
We got Edokko's 'special dinner set' when we first visited it two years back. It used to go for £35 per person (min 2 persons). This time round, we noted that the price has increased to £40. Having taken a bite earlier, the three of us decided to go ala carte instead.
Shake chazuke (£4.80) – green tea with rice on grilled salmon and imago chazuke (£7.80) – green tea with rice on grilled eel were rather interesting. Both came with pots of green tea, which were promptly emptied into the bowl of rice when they were brought to the table. It reminded me of some fish porridge that I came across in a food court in Singapore – fish on rice with a ladle of fish soup over it. I thought that the tea took the edge off the salmon and eel. A stomach filler but rather underwhelming.
Wife was raving about Edokko's nabeyaki udon (£13). According to her, Edokko's is one of the few places that serves it in London. Other than a single strand of udon, she refused to share it with me. It must be really good then. It could be that London was hit by a heavy downpour not to mention a chilly wind that night but the warm flavoured soup did cheer her up quite a bit. The udon? Its texture rivals that at Koya's.
We were quite disappointed with the stewed belly pork (£6.80). It came across as a tad tough and heavily flavoured with aniseed.
The agedashi tofu (£6) was of the correct variety; we were understandably paranoid after our experience at Crane and Tortoise. I thought that the tofu dish was overpriced compare to say the rice dishes. Will give this a skip if I were to return.
It was getting a bit warm in the room and the Little One was kicking up a fuss when the softshell crab and tuna roll were served so I couldn't really recall exactly how they turned out. But Wife said later that they weren't spectacular so I guess I didn't miss much.
While we weren't awed by Edokko's food this time round, having a private room (on tatami mats, no less) to ourselves was a treat. Imagine enjoying a hot broth with green tea and sesame ice-cream for desserts in the dead of winter. That's definitely something worth looking forward to.
Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Edokko review - privacy in the Holborn Japanese restaurant
Address: 50 Red Lion Street
4 comments:
- TomEats said...
Shame the food didn't quite match up but sometimes (as here) the whole experience (and foreign - ness) goes a long... way
I am also impressed at your cross legged abilities. No matter how much yoga I do it still hurts :)
- November 09, 2010
- C K said...
the private room did it for me here. Hah, eating cross legged comes as a natural for me.... all those hours munching on tidbits in front of the TV finally paying off... :)
- November 12, 2010
Dude, your wife would only share a single strand of udon? Time for a new wife
- November 19, 2010
- C K said...
Well, considering that I refused to let her touch any of my food... she was rather generous. :)
- November 20, 2010


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The Model T medallion at the corner of the Tunnel Garage at Broome and Watts Sts., long obscured by a parking sign, was recently uncovered in preparation for the buildings demolition.
Trying to save bit thats left at end of the Tunnel
By Alex Schmidt
Although their efforts to save the historic Tunnel Garage in Soho have failed, preservationists are now focusing on keeping the terracotta medallion that sits high atop the front corner of the garage from being destroyed.
The garage was built in 1922, five years before completion of the Holland Tunnel, in anticipation of the new spate of drives with access to Manhattan. The medallion, hidden for over 20 years by a 24-Hour Parking sign, depicts a Model T Ford emerging from the tunnel. Painted in bright colors, it recalls the innocent excitement at the prospect of an underwater motorists route connecting New York and New Jersey.
If you look closely you can see a guy behind the wheel of the automobile. Theres even a license plate complete with numbers. Its an incredible artifact and just such a wonderfully rich piece of history, said Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. Wed hate to see it lost or removed from public view.
Berman rejects the use that Bob Esnard, a representative of Broome Thompson LLC, the propertys owner, said the owner is proposing for the medallion to locate it inside the lobby of the new residential building slated to go up at the location.
It would be a very nice gesture on his part to make sure it is preserved in perpetuity in a place where the public can see it, Berman said. Its the public who should be able to appreciate it.
Also in doubt is whether the artifact will make it down from its high perch intact.
It has some very serious cracks through it, so its taken a very long time to try to pull it off. Were just starting the removal and if it stays together we will preserve it and use it in our new building, said Esnard.
Berman stated that for a delicate artifact of this kind, you really need to get a conservationist or a preservation architect to create a plan for its removal
. At one point workers were hacking away at it in a manner that seemed they were not committed to preserving it.
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If there's one guy who knows a thing or two about oven-baked ribs, it's Joey Campanaro. These ribs take on their bourbon brine and an exotic barbecue sauce scented with coriander. Finger lickin' good, for real.
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- 2 cups Makers Mark® Bourbon
- 1 bunch cilantro – cleaned and roughly chopped
- 4 cloves garlic, peeled and minced
- 1/4 cup fresh ginger, peeled and chopped
- 1 tablespoon coriander seeds
- 1 tablespoon mustard seeds
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon cayenne
- 1 teaspoon curry powder
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 1/2 cup dark brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons kosher salt
- 1 rack of peeled pork spare ribs
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 1/2 white onion, peeled and diced 1/2"
- 1 cup pineapple juice
- 1 cup tomato juice
- 1 cup ketchup
- 1 cup water
- Fresh cilantro leaves, for garnish
- Fresh red radish, for garnish
- In a large bowl, mix the Maker's Mark®, cilantro, garlic, ginger, cumin, cayenne, curry, mustard seeds, Dijon, and brown sugar and salt until well-combined.
- Pour into a shallow baking dish.
- Submerge the full rack of ribs in the marinade and refrigerate over night.
- Preheat the oven to 400°F.
- After 24 hours, remove the ribs, brushing off any excess marinade and spices (reserve the marinade for the barbecue sauce), place on baking sheet and roast in the oven for 45 minutes.
- Remove the rack from the oven, wrap the ribs tightly in foil and cool in the refrigerator for at least 3 hours.
- Heat the butter in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat.
- Add the diced onion and cook for 10 minutes, stirring often.
- Add the marinade liquid and all of its components, the pineapple and tomato juice, ketchup and water.
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We need our own "Justin Smith" to unleash the potential of our own "Aldon Smith" (Irvin). Melton or Starks are the closest options. If we don't get one of them then we better spend that first rounder on a DT. This is by far our #1 priority in the offseason if we're gonna keep up with the 9ers and keep ahead of the Rams.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama wants Asia to be a growing focus of his second-term foreign policy, but whether that happens could depend on his ability to manage global hot spots and avert a fiscal crisis at home.
Within two weeks of his Nov. 6 re-election, Obama became the first U.S. president to visit Myanmar. The historic visit was a sign that he intended to sustain his administration's commitment to the region following the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
That's a reflection of Asia's growing economic and strategic importance. In the past three years, Washington has embroiled itself in diplomacy over the disputed South China Sea, sent more military assets to the Asia-Pacific and pushed forward a regional trade pact. The Obama administration also has put much effort into managing ties with emerging rival China.
Asia has welcomed those moves, but governments in the region question the U.S. ability to sustain its policy.
While Sen. John Kerry, the nominee to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state, is expected to continue the focus, the Middle East seems destined to demand the lion's share of his attention. There's no end in sight to the civil war in Syria and pressure could mount to take military action over Iran's nuclear program.
It also will be tough to enhance the U.S. profile in Asia in an age of austerity. In contrast to China, the U.S. can little afford more aid for its allies or to expand its military presence.
Perhaps most critical to U.S. stature in the region will be how it manages its deep political divisions at home.
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Australia's foreign minister, Bob Carr, warned after a last-gasp deal at the new year — staving off an immediate tax hike and budget cuts — that the massive U.S. debt has raised questions about the United States' ability to provide world leadership. But the trusted ally put a positive spin on things: "America is one budget deal away from resolving the issue of American decline," he said.
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Kurt Campbell, who is expected to step down soon, said last week how the U.S. conducts itself domestically and handles its budget problems "will be at the heart of how Asia views our enduring role in the Asia-Pacific region."
For all the divisiveness in Washington, Asia policy remains an area of broad agreement.
Both parties have supported efforts to build stronger ties with Asia to position the U.S. to benefit from the region's rapid economic growth: cementing alliances in South Korea and Japan, building a strategic partnership with India and expanding ties in Southeast Asia.
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The U.S. declaration in 2010 of its national interest in the peaceful resolution of maritime territorial disputes in the South China Sea has boosted Washington's standing among nations intimidated by China's assertive behavior in the resource-rich region.
But the Southeast Asian bloc that the U.S. wants to tackle the disputes appears ill-suited to cope. It is at risk of fracturing between those nations that want collective negotiations advocated by the U.S. and those opposing such diplomacy in deference to China.
Doubts remain over the commitment of Myanmar's military to democratic reform. Despite a shift away from authoritarian rule that has been rewarded by the relaxation of U.S. penalties, the military has waged an offensive against ethnic rebels in the country's north.
If confirmed as secretary of state, an immediate concern for Kerry will be the rising tension in Northeast Asia, where China, Japan and South Korea all are ushering in new leaders.
China's spat with Japan over contested islands threatens to embroil the U.S. if it escalates. While Washington will reaffirm its alliance with Japan, it also wants deeper ties with Beijing to dilute the risk of conflict breaking out. The U.S. will encourage Japan and South Korea, which both host American forces, to patch up relations strained over Tokyo's attitude toward its colonial past.
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As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he was critical of the Obama administration's reluctance to negotiate with North Korea on its nuclear program, and held informal talks last year with visiting North Korean officials in New York.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Actor Benedict Cumberbatch didn't get any help from Julian Assange in his preparation to play the founder of WikiLeaks in the film "The Fifth Estate," and guesses Assange probably won't like his portrayal, even though the actor sees it as celebration of the activist's achievements.
Cumberbatch said he didn't have access to the polarizing figure behind the whistleblower website after Assange "stated very clearly at the beginning of the project that he didn't want to condone the film."
"I am not a betting man, but I imagine he won't particularly want to support the film," the 37-year-old British actor told reporters on Friday, the morning after the film opened the Toronto International Film Festival to somewhat mixed reviews.
Trade publication Variety called the film "stimulating but overly frenetic" and Cumberbatch's performance "a somewhat one-dimensional turn," although it did praise his ability to "capture Assange's slightly otherworldly air."
"The Fifth Estate" follows Assange as WikiLeaks racks up its first successes as a conduit for whistleblowers from Africa to Iceland on the way to its biggest disclosure in 2010 of American intelligence: war logs from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and thousands of diplomatic cables.
Assange's pursuit of transparency at all costs, potentially including the lives of government informants named in the disclosures, alienates some of his most loyal supporters, including his top lieutenant.
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Cumberbatch said he was careful to not have a "thumbs up, thumbs down" approach to playing Assange, who remains holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, fighting extradition to Sweden over accusations of rape and sexual assault.
And the actor didn't want to speculate about how Assange's situation would play out.
"What I would like to see is the man able to carry on doing his work as the founder of WikiLeaks, and due process has to take place in whatever shape or form that happens," Cumberbatch said.
In addition to his lead role in the opening film, Cumberbatch has smaller roles in two of the most anticipated movies opening at the Toronto Film Festival: slavery drama "12 Years a Slave" debuting Friday and dysfunctional family drama "August: Osage County."
Cumberbatch, best known for his role as a contemporary Sherlock Holmes in the BBC television series "Sherlock," has been called by organizers "the man of the festival," a label that he says makes him feel uncomfortable.
"Variety is very much a prerogative for me," the actor said in his first showing at Toronto, a festival that can make a huge difference for a film's ability to garner top awards like the Oscars. "I am thrilled that three so different and extraordinary films that I am involved with are showcasing at this festival."
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23 December 2010
My dear Wormwood
In particular, your suggestion that they "should have shut Ratzinger up" demonstrates not only a degree of disrespect for workers who, believe me, are very much worse than you, but also a quite woeful, not to say admirably punishable, misunderstanding of the broad lines of current strategy. Protocol 7/12/666, which was very adequately expounded at your seminary, explains clearly that Ratzinger appears to have a strong degree of protection. Accordingly, policy is - do you remember all this now? - to concentrate on the ready malevolence of those we have trained to report and comment on what he says or writes. The departmental bottoms at CPPP have successfully put in place a number of highly productive antinomies of the sort that the humans would describe as "Heads I win, tails you lose". Thus, if Ratzinger is silent on some topic, he is "failing to speak clearly". But if he utters ... even just one sentence ... it is rich material for misrepresentation. Such misrepresentations will be what stick in the mind of most hearers. Not for nothing have we slaved for centuries to ensure that as few humans as possible are capable of even the simplest logical processes. But little is lost if a few humans remain who do perceive an inkling of the truth: we have multiple fall-backs in place. One of these is to suggest that Ratzinger, even if admittedly correct, is "accident-prone" and "should have realised how his words would be misinterpreted". This, of course, neatly diverts into renewed condemnation of the man a perception which, if left unmanipulated, might have opened some human minds to the accuracy of what he had said.
You are particularly concerned that Ratzinger recently "blew the gaffe" on our strategy (8/5/999) of promoting 'relativism' in the 1960s/1970s. It is true that there are thousands of clergy trained in those decades, tens of thousands of 'moral philosophers' who taught at that time in very low-down universities, who will remember systems such as 'Situation ethics' which were propounded and widely accepted. (This in itself was a spectacular success on the part of the CPPP.) But those humans whom we control in what they call their 'media' had no trouble providing a very satisfactory gloss upon Ratzinger's words. With our help, they picked on a couple of truths: that such systems were widely held; and that the implication of these systems is that paedophile actions were not ex sese "wrong". And they ensured that two responses would be inevitable: firstly; when victims of paedophile priests were told Ratzinger believed "Everybody thought that sort of thing was All Right", they very naturally responded that, in their own communities, paedophilia was certainly not considered "All Right" by everyone. And, for them, this is perfectly true. At that time, common folk lagged sadly behind the sophisticated moral innovations of our friends in universities and seminaries and the Intelligensia. Many of those dreary peasants would not even have understood the meaning of the phrase 'trahison des clercs'. So, for them, the claim, attributed to Ratzinger, that "Everybody believed paedophilia was All Right" simply sounds like a lie.
The second response calls in aid the policy embodied in 4/3/969. This -I presume you will again need to be reminded - concerned the inculcation of the idea that "What everybody does/thinks" is automatically "Right". You and I, of course, know that such a principle would, for example, have made the Jewish Holocaust and the practice of Slavery and the Burning of Widows into acceptable systems. Indeed, we successfully used this very idea to erode the consciences of those we wished to become involved in the Jewish Holocaust. But only a few off-message academics realise the logical absurdity of treating "Everybody thinks it is Right" as equivalent to "It is Right". Most of the common people cheerfully accept this equivalence. So, when our workers were able to simplify Ratzinger's words into a suggestion that "Everybody thought paedophilia was All Right", the minds of many humans automatically glossed this as meaning "Ratzinger thinks paedophilia is All Right".
He's clever, the little Bavarian, but we have him by the short and curlies. What we are best at is turning his cleverness against him. And this is not just CPPP policy; it was explicitly approved by Our Father Below in his weekly audience with the Prefect of the Congregation, and ordered to be published. You will find texts in Acta Infernorum Locorum. Indeed, rumours down here suggest that it may soon be incorporated into a Diabolic Constitution. You had better watch your words, and keep just a teensy weensy bit more up-to-date in your reading ... if you know what is bad for you ... as (given my own very great desire for you) I profoundly hope you do not.
As loving, as hungry, as ravenous, as ever
Your Uncle
9 comments:
- Fr Levi said...
Fr Humwicke,
Excellent piece.
I doubt that anyone truly believes that the Holy Father was trying to say that he thought the evil that is paedophilia was 'all right.' Anyone not bound and determined to put the worst interpretation possible on his words must know that. The way that they are determined to use the pain of others in pursuit of their anti-Church agenda is truly vile.
- 23 December, 2010
- GOR said...
Excellent, Father!
We have had a need for another Lewis, Chesterton or Belloc for some time. I'm sure you can expand upon this with other examples.
Perhaps a book...?
- 23 December, 2010
- Joshua said...
- 23 December, 2010
- David said...
There is also the method whereby one claims that the Pope is blaming secularism and relativism in order to ward off any criticism of the Church. This ignores the fact that in the paragraph before he has criticised the Church's behaviour in the strongest terms, terms never uttered, at least not in my memory, by a Pope.
- 24 December, 2010
- Jonathan said...
It's no good trying to defend the indefensible. Numerous statements e.g. on the holocaust and those who deny its horrors,and this issue of sexual abuse by priests are indicators that the popes inept public statements are systemic rather than occasional. This is not just a media beat up, victims of abuse are appalled by the popes statements and only an ostrich would fail to see why. For some, particularly some anglicans it would seem, this pope can do no wrong, but such a posiition is looking increasingly untenable.
- 24 December, 2010
- The Raven (C. Corax) said...
Is "Jonathan" a plant? He seems to demonstrate the case perfectly.
- 24 December, 2010
- Fr John Hunwicke said...
"Jonathan" provides indeed an amusing parody of the fodder who are taken in by the Enemy and his media. The essence of the real "Jonathans" is that they have clearly never actually read what the Bishop of Rome says; they are simple souls who are overwhelmed by the consensus of the public commentators ... "Everybody says it so it must be right".
In the chilly world we are entering, it is clear that it will be vey difficult to be a Christian without having a capacity for being counter-cultural: which is what our great Tractarian predecessors were. And courses in elementary logic ought to have a central place in catechesis.
- 24 December, 2010
- Jonathan said...
You've missed the point - I can only assume that this is deliberate. I have indeed read what the Bishop of Rome has said on the issues I refererred to earlier. I understand what he is saying and why, but I also see the context and the way he expresses himself and only a fool could fail to see why this is often a gift to the hostile media or an affront to those who feel raw about a particular issue. Are you really suggesting that if the victims of sexual abuse by clergy feel offended by the pope's response it is their own fault? Sure they may have misunderstood, but they also feel that the popes response is inadequate. I doubt that in your own life and dealings with others you refuse to take responsibility if the manner or context of something you say confuses the message you want to convey.
- 24 December, 2010
- Fr John Hunwicke said...
Jonathan: I am suggesting that when journalists approach victims of paedophilia with their own heavily massaged, selective, and tendentious accounts of what the pope has said, the victims are very naturally extremely upset.
If the journalists, on the other hand, were to approach the victims with the question:"The pope is very angry with the teachers who, back in the 1960s, taught trainee priests that there is nothing which is always and automatically wrong: do you share his anger?", their answer might very well have been "Yes".
It is, furthermore, my view that the journalists who, just to get an easy 'story' to the pope's discredit, approach victims in this sort of way, are in fact compounding and aggravating the original obscene and appalling violence for cheap personal motives.
- 24 December, 2010


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Luc Besson is best known for his testosterone-fueled action thrillers, so the dark comedy "The Family" represents a major departure for the French-born multi-hyphenate. It's also his first English-language film in over a decade, not counting the numerous action franchises (like "The Transporter" and "Taken") that he helped shepherd as a writer/producer. Though many of Besson's past movies have had shades of humor, this is the first one he's helmed that could be described as a comedy. Adapted from Tonino Benacquista's novel "Malavita" (renamed "Badfellas" for the English translation), "The Family" is a surprisingly funny fish-out-of-water tale that succeeds thanks to its excellent cast.
Robert De Niro stars as Giovanni Manzoni, a respected member of the New York mob who's been in witness protection for the better part of the last decade after snitching on his mafia family. Unable to stay out of trouble wherever he goes, Giovanni is relocated to a small, quiet town in Normandy, France with his wife Maggie (Michelle Pfeiffer) and their two kids, Belle (Diane Agron) and Warren (John D'Leo). But before they've even unpacked, the incognito Blake family doesn't waste any time in reverting to their old ways. Maggie blows up the local supermarket after being treated poorly by the staff; Belle teaches some horny teenagers a lesson in how to treat a woman; and Warren sets up several rackets at school. When Giovanni's old mafia don is tipped off to their location by pure chance, however, a team of hitmen is sent to Normandy to exact revenge on him and his family mob-style.
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PART IV: OTHER ASPECTS OF THE NEW ENGLAND MINDChapter I THE REIGN OF THE GENTEEL I
I have not seen Swinburne's new volume-but a poem or two from it which I have seen shocked me, and I am not squeamish. . . . Why should a man by choice go down to live in his cellar, instead of mounting to those fair upper chambers which look towards the sunrise of that Easter which shall greet the resurrection of the soul from the body of this death? Virginibus puerisque? To be sure! let no man write a line that he would not have his daughter read. . . . But I have outlived many heresies, and shall outlive this new Adamite one of Swinburne. The true Church of poetry is founded on a rock, and I have no fear that these smutchy back-doors of hell shall prevail against her. (Letters , Vol. I, p. 377.)
IIThough it willingly recognized the superior claims of poetry and the essay, the Brahmin mind found a more congenial field for its literary ambitions in history; and the quiet scholarship that it pursued with exemplary diligence was likely to flower in substantial historical studies. Excellent work much of it is, brilliant in certain instances; yet it too is subtly marked by the psychology of the environment that produced it. The renaissance of Boston scholarship began with Everett and Ticknor, whose German training was imposed on natures instinctively aristocratic, swayed by the older Federalist prejudices. The latter applied himself to Spanish literature, but his colleague and fellow historian, Jared Sparks, proved that in the American field even painstaking scholarship could not subdue the temptation to improve upon reality. Sparks applied Boston ethics to biography and conceived that his mission in writing the life of a great American like Washington was to portray a national hero as a model to the youth of the land In pursuance of this aim he studiously perfected nature by correcting all the little blemishes of manner and little weaknesses of character in order to produce an immaculate effect. He edited Washington's letters with a free hand, not only correcting the grammar and spelling, but silently deleting such passages as did not become the hero he had in mind. He did not of course go to the absurd lengths of Parson Weems in inventing episodes and effects, but he refused to deal with his materials realistically and the result was a falsifying of the total impression. The greatest and in certain respects the most characteristic work of the period was George Bancroft's History of the United States, to which with single-minded purpose he devoted sixty laborious years. Trained in Gottingen, he gathered his materials with German thoroughness, but the underlying spirit and purpose of his exposition were native to the ardent nationalism of Jacksonian America. Bancroft was the only important member of the New England group of historians who was a militant Democrat, and he set out to justify to the world the ways of democratic America. It was a great undertaking and in the opinion of Ranke, the German historian, it justified itself. "Your history is the best book ever written from the democratic point of view,"1 he wrote Bancroft. The praise was perhaps not excessive. Conceived in the early days of the Jacksonian triumph, it reflects the grandiose conception of the future of America and the beneficent influence of republican institutions on western civilization, that were common in the golden days of equalitarianism and that even such a scholarly legalist as Hugh Legaré shared. But unfortunately, with his generation Bancroft had lost his economic bearings, and he drove forward somewhat too confidently into the new seas of political idealism trusting to the pole-star of emancipated human nature. As a democrat he was too easily persuaded that democratic America lay in the particular keeping of Providence, and he assumed too readily that the democratic development of American institutions was in response to the divine will. It reflects something of the partisanship of honest patriots who believe God is on their side; but it served to correct the teachings of Federalists like Richard Hildreth who insisted that God was on the side of Federalism. Till Bancroft took up his pen the bias of American chronicles had been anti-democratic. Every Federalist with leisure, a quill, and a smattering of historical knowledge, had added his mite to the Federalist myths that long constituted the body of our history. The democratic interpretation ran so counter to Boston tradition that Bancroft found little congeniality amongst his fellow historians, and he eventually quitted his native state and took up his home in Washington. More representative of the Brahmin spirit was the work of William H. Prescott, John L. Matey, and Francis Parkman, who constitute what may be called the romantic school of Boston historians. They sought the romantic in theme and aspired to the romantic in treatment quite as consciously as did the contemporary novelists. Of excellent Brahmin strain, with leisure, wealth, opportunity, they were free to pick and choose as they would. Prescott and Motley turned away from the partisanships of America, and while Jacksonianism was in full swing the former wrote his Ferdinand and Isabella, and while the country was wrangling over slavery the latter wrote his Rise of the Dutch Republic. Broad in conception and dramatic in treatment, they are admirable works, yet they suggest that aloofness from the sordid realities of America so characteristic of the Brahmin mind. Far more brilliant and significant was the work of Francis Parkman who turned his imagination to the far West over which the struggle for exploration and conquest had long persisted between the French and English. In his twenties he had made a venturesome trip to the great plains, and that experience gave life and vitality to his later historical writings, that were enriched by close research, a brilliant style, and a creative imagination. The theme he set himself was not alone a "history of the American forest," but a clash between civilizations - the "feudal, militant, and Catholic France in conflict with democratic, industrial, and Protestant England"; and with fine tenacity of purpose, in the teeth of ill health, he wrought at his project till the America of the old French War times was gathered into his pages. The Brahmin mind has contributed to American letters no more brilliant work than came from the pen of Francis Parkman.
IIIIf the highest aspirations of the Brahmin nature sought satisfaction in poetry, Longfellow may be reckoned its most characteristic product. In his work the romantic, the sentimental, and the moralistic, blended in such just proportions, and expressed themselves with such homely simplicity as to hit exactly the current taste and establish a reputation that later generations have difficulty in understanding. A gentle, lovable soul, widely read and in maturer years possessing a ripe literary scholarship, he was a skillful purveyor of gentle, lovable ideals. Although he drew his materials from Spain and Sweden and Italy, from primitive New England and aboriginal America, it was Germany that largely provided the staple of his romance. With Emerson and Margaret Fuller and Theodore Parker, he found Germany a singularly congenial land - not Konigsberg with its transcendental metaphysics, nor Weimar with its pagan culture, nor Tubingen with its higher criticism. Such things, transcendental and critical, he was not concerned about; it was the minor romantics, Freiligrath rather than Heine, the gentle melancholy and pervasive Sehnsucht of the German folk-nature, that drew him irresistibly and quickened his sympathetic pen. There was little intellect in Longfellow, little creative originality. He was the poet of an uncritical and unsophisticated generation, as yet untroubled by science and industrialism, and his mind was detached from politics and his conscience rarely disturbed by social questions. He came of excellent Federalist stock, his father having been a delegate from Maine to the Hartford Convention; and with his courteous manners he fitted easily into the little world of Cambridge Brahmins. However one might question his poetry, none could question that he was a gentleman amongst gentlemen. If he was never the omnivorous bookman that Lowell was, he was distinctly a poet of the library. His placid and singularly happy life was pretty much bounded by his library walls. One could scarcely have lived more detached from contemporary America, more effectively insulated against the electric currents of the times. Though Thoreau might flee to Walden he carried his questioning intellect with him; even the constable would not leave him alone there. But Longfellow's door shut securely against all intrusion. The winds of doctrine and policy might rage through the land, but they did not rattle the windows of his study to disturb his quiet poring over Dante. The translation of the Divina Commedia would go forward even while the country was being torn asunder. In a sense such work was his refuge against the storm and stress of malignant forces that troubled him. He did not like the tumult and the shouting, and much of Longfellow is compressed into the sonnets that preface the translation, much of the gentleness of his evasion, and much of the finer craftsmanship of his later years.
Oft have I seen at some cathedral door A laborer, pausing in the dust and heat, Lay down his burden, and with reverent feet Enter, and cross himself, and on the floor Kneel to repeat his paternoster o'er; Far off the noises of the world retreat; The loud vociferations of the street Become an undistinguishable roar. So, as I enter here from day to day, And leave my burden at this minster gate, Kneeling in prayer, and not ashamed to pray, The tumult of the time disconsolate To inarticulate murmurs dies away, While the eternal ages watch and wait. How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers! This crowd of statues, in whose folded sleeves Birds build their nests; while canopied with leaves Parvis and portal bloom like trellised bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers! But fiends and dragons on the gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves, And underneath, the traitor Judas lowers! Ah! from what agonies of heart and brain, What exultations trampling on despair, What tenderness, what tears, what hate of wrong, What passionate outcry of a soul in pain, Uprose this poem of the earth and air, This mediaeval miracle of song!A single incursion Longfellow made into the field of Abolition controversy, prompted perhaps by Dickens, whose "grand chapter on slavery" in American Notes he had read in London. The seven poems were written to beguile the tedium of a sea voyage. They are unreal enough to seem quite harmless, yet they created a decided stir on their appearance. For a Harvard professor to express publicly even a mild sympathy with the Abolition movement, may well have been somewhat perilous, considering the fate of Professor Follen; and the sacred institution may have scented a real danger in such romanticisms. Grotesque as these academic poems were, with their burnt-cork figures, they perhaps served to romanticize and sentimentalize the negro for northern minds, as Uncle Tom's Cabin did a decade later with tremendous effect. Slavery had no weapon against such an attack, and no doubt Longfellow's contributions proved serviceable to the cause of Abolitionism. But this one venture satisfied him, and having got safely back to his library, he shut the door on the whole vexatious question of slavery. He was not made for battle, and causes commanded an unwilling allegiance. Little remained of his Puritanism save conscience, a sense of struggle against somewhat vague and indolent powers of evil, a pleasant melancholy that transmuted itself into pleasant verse. He lived vicariously the lives of other poets, sharing their emotions, repeating their thoughts, reproducing their pictures; yet adding some individual color from his own sincere nature. Not richly endowed, he was more than an echo. He marked the transition from the nebulous ferment of the creative renaissance to the scholarly culture of Brahmin Cambridge. After Longfellow came Charles Eliot Norton in whose blameless life that culture flowered, and after that came sterility. 1 Quoted in Stanton, Manual of American Literature


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World Food Programme, WFP
Haiti: Women Take Lead As Food Coupons System Rolls Out
Nyhet • Feb 03, 2010 10:43 CET
As WFP's food coupon system ensures delivery of two weeks of rice rations, women are always at the front of the line at the 16 fixed distribution points in the Haitian capital. It's part of a system that ensures the weakest don't get left behind.
PORT-AU-PRINCE – Natalie, a 26-year-old mother of three, grips her food coupon firmly as she stands in the queue on the dusty field of makeshift tents, waiting to pick up a 25-kilogram bag of rice. Last month's earthquake devastated her home. It also deprived her and her husband of their main source of income.
"My husband was a professor, but now he has no school to teach at since it was flattened. I don't know what I would do without this food," said Natalie, who has aspirations to be a make-up artist.
In scaling up its food distribution to quake survivors, WFP is targeting primarily female heads of household, as women are usually the first to be pushed out of line if people get hungry and desperate at food distributions. The women are the ones who get the coupons to collect food for the family and they alone are allowed into the distribution compound.
Countless made homeless
"My mother died in the earthquake. I have no food," says Bealta, 24, another woman waiting in line near the impoverished neighbourhood known as Cité Soleil, where countless thousands have been made homeless. Bealta said she intended to go off immediately to see if she could find some vegetables to cook with the rice.
The women are encouraged to bring male family members or friends to wait for them outside the distribution compound, to protect them and help them take their food home.
WFP is aiming to deliver around 10,000 of the 25-kg rice rations at each site over the next two weeks, reaching nearly 2 million people. Working through the local authorities and with its NGO partners, who help operate the distribution sites, WFP is seeking to reach all those people in Port-au-Prince affected by the earthquake.
Distribute coupons
Community leaders – under the guidance of the Haitian authorities – have visited various neighbourhoods to distribute coupons which would entitle families to two-week rations of rice.
WFP also worked closely with the local authorities in the city on a public information campaign, to let the tens of thousands of homeless and desperate people know how the new system would work and to reassure them that no one would be left behind.