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Rebekah Brooks Arrested: The Rise and Fall of Murdoch's Protegee
UPDATE: Scotland Yard has informed the mother of Sarah Payne, an eight-year-old girl who was abducted and murdered in 2000, that they have found evidence her voicemail was hacked by News of the World investigator Glen Mulcaire. Police found personal information about the Paynes in Mulcaire's notes, which they believe may be related to a special phone given to the girl's mother by then-editor Rebekah Brooks.
Minutes after Rebekah Brooks announced her resignation as chief executive of News International—among the most stunning reversals in Rupert Murdoch's monumental career as a media baron—the plaintive words of a former staffer at the now-shut News of the World were posted on Twitter: "It feels a bit like we've been sacrificed for nothing."
An image of sacrifice was present, ironically, in Brooks's parting statement, when she said that her "desire to remain on the bridge" was "detracting attention from all our honest endeavors to fix the problems" that beset Murdoch's News Corp. "Therefore," she said, "I have given Rupert and James Murdoch my resignation." With that, the woman at the heart of the scandal that is consuming Britain—a tabloid editor who was the apotheosis of Fleet Street's incomparably amoral "hack" culture—opened a new chapter in a tale that promises to be littered with many more scalps than Brooks's own.
And what a scalp hers is, metaphorically and—as we're constantly reminded—literally. There is scarcely a story about her in the British press that does not dwell on her magnificent mane. The tabloids refer to her unfailingly as a "flame-haired temptress"; the broadsheets—the more up-market newspapers that affect a disdain for the tabs—as "Titian-tressed" or "Pre-Raphaelite." Either way, Brooks's appearance is an essential part of the narrative—offering a disconcertingly sexy complement to a biography that boasts great prowess in the exercise of power, vengeance, and subterfuge, dark arts that many observers have come to associate with Murdoch's media empire.
The 43-year-old Brooks was, until her resignation on July 15, a member of Murdoch's innermost circle. As editor of News of the World from 2000 to 2003, she is a pivotal figure in the worst scandal to have engulfed the Murdoch media, including charges of hacking by News of the World and Sun reporters into the cell phones of celebrities, politicians, 9/11 victims, and a murdered English teenager, as well as the payment of bribes to policemen for scoops and information. The hacking took place on an industrial scale: Scotland Yard suspects that there were 4,000 victims. And yet Brooks, on whose watch at News of the World much of the worst malfeasance occurred, has insisted that she didn't know it was happening.
This assertion has always seemed incredible. Brooks was a textbook Murdoch tabloid editor, hands-on, scoop-obsessed, and steeped in cutthroat competition in which the ends—a good story—always justified the frequently unedifying means. A veteran media executive with intimate knowledge of Murdoch newspapers told NEWSWEEK that it was as inconceivable that she did not know about (or even greenlight) the hacking as it would have been for her to go to Les Hinton, then executive chairman of News International, and say, "Les, there are terrible things happening at the paper, and I have to fire all these hackers."
Now Hinton, too, has resigned—he did so as NEWSWEEK went to press—paying the price for telling a parliamentary select committee in 2007 (and again in 2009) that the hacking at News of the World was merely the work of a rogue reporter. He is the highest-ranking Murdoch executive to fall on his sword. Above him, now, are the Murdochs themselves.
So how did Brooks surf on the power wave so high and for so long? She became CEO of News International in June 2009, but her job title scarcely begins to do justice to her profile in Britain. "She was drunk on power, and she had amazing power," says Hugh Grant, the movie star and a frequent tabloid target who has become Britain's favorite critic of Fleet Street. "She was best chums with the prime minister—this prime minister, the previous prime minister—and was virtually running the country. And people liked that. They said they thought she was an interesting person to have to dinner. I'd explain about the evils and excesses of the press, and they thought, oh, Hugh's chippy."
For all her potency, Brooks was recognized—sometimes grudgingly—as a person of considerable charm, which she used to achieve not just unusual career success but also a deep penetration into the Murdoch family circle. Those who know her say she knew how to play both father and son, swiftly adjusting her point of view or position almost in midsentence if she sensed it wasn't going over well with one of them. And no one was more susceptible to her charm than Rupert Murdoch, who treated her, in effect, like a daughter.
As recently as July 9, the tycoon rushed to London from a media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, to huddle with Brooks. The next day, as News of the World was selling out its final issue, a beaming Murdoch put his arm around her for the benefit of a media scrum outside. Asked his first priority, he pointed at Brooks and said, "This one." The two made a cozy picture—deeply paternal older man alongside his eye-catching protégée—even as News of the World staffers seethed, their pink slips in their pockets. (The newspaper's premises have now been cordoned off as a crime scene.)
The picture masked a growing rupture within the Murdoch family. Five days later, Elisabeth—Rupert's powerful daughter—was reported in The Daily Telegraph as having said that Brooks had "f--ked the company." This from a woman who was—if not Brooks's BFF—close enough to her to invite her to her hen party when she was married in 2001.
Elisabeth Murdoch's anger at Brooks was not the only rage on display. Leaders from every party took to the floor in the Commons to denounce News International and, in many instances, Brooks personally—confirming her status as the most infamous woman in Britain. A former News of the World employee (who wished to be described as "loyal") told NEWSWEEK: "Murdoch is very weakened. Even his support of Rebekah Brooks last weekend shows that Rupert himself—who's been respected for years in the industry—has lost the plot. What Rebekah's done is worn the cape of Rupert Murdoch as a kind of wizard's cloak to weave all the magic she wants to weave. It's all come tumbling down now, because people aren't afraid of Rupert Murdoch anymore. David Cameron realizes that he didn't win the general election. It wasn't 'The Sun Wot Won It," it was 'The Sun Wot Didn't Make Any F--king Difference at All.'?"
So great has been the consternation over Murdoch's tabloids that even former prime minister Gordon Brown made a rare appearance in the Commons to rail against them. And in an interview with the BBC, Brown recounted how, in 2006, Brooks, then editor of The Sun, called to inform him that she was going to reveal, against their wishes, that the Browns' newborn son suffered from cystic fibrosis. "We were in tears" after the call, Brown said, describing his wife's condition and his own. And yet, three years later, he was able to put that hurt exquisitely behind him and attend—along with Prime Minister David Cameron, and a host of Britain's celebrities and power elite—Brooks's 2009 wedding to her second husband, a horse trainer named Charlie Brooks. (Her first husband was a bull-necked actor from the soap opera EastEnders. Their marriage ended some time after she allegedly assaulted him in the course of a domestic row, and spent a night in jail. She was later released without charge.)
Brooks and her new husband became part of "the Chipping Norton set," a group of powerful people in politics and the media who live close to each other in a set of Cotswold villages that are a very English version of the Hamptons. This is the milieu in which Brooks's ambition achieved its fulfillment—a place where the worlds of Thackeray and Jilly Cooper came together. Brooks is a Becky Sharpe, a Northern girl who has vaulted ever upward into the political stratosphere, her husband a well-bred hunk straight out of the pages of Cooper's Rutshire Chronicles. Their neighbors include the Camerons and Elisabeth Murdoch, whose husband, Matthew Freud, is a PR honcho whose firm is acknowledged to be the beneficiary of News International connections. (People who know him say that he is furious—and despondent—over the present combustion of his Rolodex.) The area borders Cameron's parliamentary constituency, and is a place where the powerful seek to hang out away from the media glare. Now it can be said with only a trace of exaggeration that every satellite truck in the country is in Chipping Norton.
Brooks seems, at first blush, an unlikely villain: fun-loving and flirty, but with a presence that exacts awe (and occasionally lust) from grizzled hacks. From the age of 14, Rebekah Wade—her maiden name—knew she wanted to be a journalist. She grew up in a middle-class family in Cheshire, spent a short time in Paris learning French (a language not often encountered on the CVs of Fleet Street hacks), and returned to London to land a secretarial job at a short-lived tabloid called The Post.
"She was very good at empathizing with people, and perhaps sincere in it, too," recalls Tim Minogue, an editor at Private Eye, who worked alongside Brooks at The Post. "She was very keen on moving up and wanted to learn how reporters went about their work. It was rather touching that she was so keen to get on." And get on she did, with gusto, becoming not merely an exemplar of the incestuous nexus between the political establishment and the media, but also the face of the Murdoch empire in Britain.
Brooks's charm, while seemingly infectious on powerful men like Blair, Brown, and Cameron, is lost on Hugh Grant. "I've bumped into her a couple of times at parties and I've always run straightaway. It used to make me absolutely livid that she was invited to showbiz society do's and would stand there as though she were a perfectly civilized human being."
Why did Murdoch keep her on board for so long, even as every major British politician called for her dismissal? "Anybody else would have gone in a flash," says Minogue. "The hold she has over Murdoch is extraordinary." Fleet Street believes she was acting as a firewall for James Murdoch, the heir apparent. James kept a relatively low profile in the days preceding Brooks's resignation and was readying himself for his interrogation on July 19—along with his father—by the Commons' media select committee. Brooks will be questioned, too, and Britain can't wait for the drama to begin. What will she say? How damaging might she prove to her former bosses and to the company that employed her for 20 of her 43 years? To be sure, her resignation leaves James directly exposed to the elements of withering censure. With his Marine crewcut and overemphatic confidence, he does not have his father's charm or humor. A senior British editor told NEWSWEEK: "I think James is not in a good place."
Tony Blair, supine throughout his years at 10 Downing Street in his desire to please Rupert Murdoch, has finally started to ask himself some questions. "There is this issue with the way the media interacts with politics and public life," he told NEWSWEEK. "It's in the public's interest for that to be transparent. Part of the problem has been a tendency where really powerful news organizations with massive penetration…can become incredibly powerful instruments … of political movement." In office, Blair had pandered to the Murdoch machine. As Peter Oborne has written in The Daily Telegraph, Brooks and other News International editors were seated right behind the cabinet whenever he addressed the Labour Party conference.
Sensing his weakness, Brooks appears to have played psychological games with Blair, offering him the support of her pages while also using them to pursue campaigns he found distasteful. One of those was "Sarah's Law," a campaign against pedophiles that involved naming and shaming them on the pages of the paper, inciting mobs to take vigilante action. A Murdoch reporter recalls that Brooks sent a gift of baby furniture to the Blairs after their son Leo was born, and wrapped it in Sarah's Law newspaper covers—even though Blair hated the campaign. "She always had the edge," this reporter recalls.
Blair now acknowledges that politicians are constantly worried about maintaining friendly relations with powerful media types. "Yeah, well, why wouldn't you be? That's the honest truth about it. I was at the top of the British politics for 15 years. And the fact is your relationship with the media mattered. Did it make you feel uncomfortable about it from time to time? Yes, absolutely."
London's mayor, Boris Johnson, a former journalist, has a typically contrarian view: "I think we're going through one of these periodic firestorms of hypocrisy," he told NEWSWEEK. "I've got no doubt that a good number of papers were engaged in identical practices to those of News of the World. The confected outrage about the intrusions that you're reading in some newspapers that I won't mention by name, except to say that they're the Daily Mail—I'd be amazed if these papers weren't engaged in similar practices. Including the Daily Mirror and maybe others as well."
What is not in doubt is that a newly emboldened Britain has taken a heavy toll on News Corp., and on Brooks. On July 8, the Friday afternoon after which she informed News of the World staffers of the imminent shutdown of the paper, an all-hands meeting took place at News International's Wapping HQ. An employee who was there told NEWSWEEK: "Everybody was understandably down—having been branded toxic in the press and given their severance packages, etc. And Rebekah was no different. Normally she's a very glamorous-looking woman, but she had her famous red locks tied behind her head in a Victorian-style bun. She looked a bit like a homeless person, actually—disheveled. She had a blotchy complexion—the look of someone who's under a lot of stress."
In truth, Brooks was not always reviled—and certainly not by her peers before she became editor. When she started at News of the World two decades ago, old hands, it is said, liked what they saw, and went out of their way to help her. A window into her management style, however, is offered by Ian Kirby, who, until July 10, was its politics editor. "People were either scared of her, or they loved her, and quite often it was both." Kirby recalls that Brooks "was a good editor," even though she was very green when she took over the paper. "She was a brilliant networker and drew News of the World into the mainstream. Before, we'd been the bad boy on the outside. What she was good at was raising the profile of the paper. She realized how to have an impact."
Brooks rejected the snobbery of anybody who derided tabloids, and encouraged her staff to be proud to work for News of the World. "You were always at the front of the queue," said Kirby. "Absolutely everyone would take your call."
Those days are over for News of the World. And they are quite over, it would seem, for Rebekah Brooks as well.
With Dan Ephron and William Underhill


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Contact: Dr. Joseph V. Scelsa
An Italian nationalist, revolutionary hero and leader in the struggle for Italian Unification and Independence, was born in 1807 in Nice, France. He joined Mazzini's movement in 1833. In 1834, Garibaldi was ordered to seize a warship but the plot was discovered by police and he was condemned to death. He escaped to South America, where he lived for 12 years. There he displayed unusual qualities of military leadership while participating in the revolt of the state of Rio Grande do Sul against Brazil, as well as later in a civil war in Uruguay.
In 1848, Garibaldi traveled to the United States settled in Staten Island, New York, and later became a US citizen. During the same year he returned to Italy and participated (again) in the movement for Italian freedom and unification, which became widely known as the Risorgimento (Italian for "revival"). He organized a corps of volunteers, which served under the Piedmontese ruler Charles Albert, King of Sardinia. He unsuccessfully waged war against the Austrians in Lombardy and led his volunteers to Rome to support the Roman Republic established by Mazzini and others in 1849. Garibaldi defended Rome, initially successfully, against French forces, but in the end was forced to "settle" with the French. He was allowed to depart from Rome with about 5000 of his followers. However, the line of retreat reached directly through Austrians controlled territory. Garibaldi's force was killed, captured, or dispersed during his attempt to retreat, and Garibaldi had to flee Italy to save his life.
He returned to Italy in 1854 where he settled down on the island of Caprera northeast of Sardinia. By this time, Garibaldi had separated politically from Mazzini, and had formed an alliance with Victor Emmanuel II, the king of Sardinia, and his premier, Conte Camillo Benso di Cavour. Given Garibaldi's popularity and large following, thousands of Italians gave their allegiance to the Sardinian monarch.
Garibaldi's dream of a united Italy motivated his successful expedition against the Austrian forces in the Alps in 1859. In 1860 he conquered Sicily and set up a provisional insular government. Garibaldi then conquered Naples, which he then delivered to Victor Emmanuel in 1861 and returned to his home on Caprera. With the annexation of Umbria and Marches from the papal government, a united Italy was finally established in 1861 with Victor Emmanuel as its king. The Italian kingdom was missing Rome, which was still a papal possession, and Venice, which was controlled by the Austrians.
Venice was added to Italy in 1866 after Prussia defeated Austria in the Seven Weeks' War, in which Italy sided with Prussia; Venice was its reward. Then, in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War, Napoleon III withdrew his troops from Rome. With the city of Rome and the remaining Papal States left unprotected, Italian troops moved into Rome without opposition. Rome voted for union with Italy in October 1870 and, in July 1871, Rome became the capital of a united Italy.
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Arrive at Katunayake International Airport. You will be welcomed and assisted by a representative of Alpha Tours who will then take you to for Colombo. Check in to the hotel in Colombo. Overnight stay will be provided at Colombo.
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After lunch, proceed to Nuwara-eliya. Set in the heart of tea-country, this beautiful town is where the British succeeded in creating an English countryside, with homes in styles from Georgian to Queen Anne. Well-kept lawns with hedges, an Anglican church, and the famous golf course and beautiful parks give the place an air of nostalgia. Situated 1,890 meters above sea level, the air is cool and fresh – serene retreat from the hustle and bustle of Colombo. Acres and acres of tea with its lush green foliage extend miles across the hills, and no visit to the hill country is complete without a visit to a tea estate, and the chance to purchase some of the world's finest flavored tea. Check-in to hotel in Nuwara Eliya for overnight stay.
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I have lots of pix to share with you but first, my card for today . . . .
|My card
|The front and back of my card and the front of my envelope
|The inside of my card and the reverse of my envelope
- White C6/S2, 250gsm, card and matching sized envelope
- Two pieces of white card cut to 3.75" x 5"
- One piece of blue card cut to 4" x 5.25"
- Snippets of white card and blue paper
- White satin ribbon coloured using alcohol markers
- Dina Wakely image stamped using Memento luxe nautical blue ink
- Stampendous sentiment stamped using Ranger Archival watering can ink
- Diamond stickles used to highlight
- Kaisercraft gel pens used to embellish the sentiment panel
- Dimensional foam pads, used to attach the sentiment
- Aud sentiments - challenge No. 168 - ANYTHING GOES + A SENTIMENT
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- Crafting with an attitude - challenge No. 21 - ANYTHING GOES
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As my regular visitors will have read (in Wednesday's post) I've recently been in Florida and I have some more pix to share with you - hope you are ready for this .
|Treasure Shores on Florida's east coast
|Port Canaveral
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|Loving the lights and reflections
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Mad Marketing #26: Why It's Time for Sales and Marketing to Merge
Well it's that time again folks! In this episode of the Mad Marketing Podcast, we go off script a bit this week to discuss something that has been on my mind for quite some time now–the problem of silos in most organizations when it comes to sales and marketing departments. To help with the discussion, I invited my friend and author of Same-Side Selling, Ian Altman, to share the Mad Marketing floor. For those of you that don't know Ian, he (along with Joey Coleman) is my partner with the Remarkable Growth Experience and is one of the best speakers and presenters I've ever heard on the subject of sales. As always, don't hesitate to leave your thoughts below and thanks so much for being a part of the Mad Marketing community!
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How to Control the Hyper-V with Python? Collection of links for writing Hyper-V script to control Hyper-V from Python To manage Hyper-V machines there's WMI API (in my case I'll use Python WMI. There's also PowerShell version too, obviously)
- Python 2.7 x64 bit
- pywin32 – build 218 was latest on publication date
- WMI package – https://pypi.python.org/pypi/WMI/
When Windows 8 came out two versions of API appeared: root\virtualization and root\virtualization\v2 I think code is the best documentation for API (at least when I wrote my scripts it was much more useful when I found code examples), so without any words, without tl;dr – read code of my scripts.
Hyper-V WMI Provider Version 1
Namespace: root\virtualization My script: https://github.com/rrader/hue-build/blob/master/sandbox/hyperv.py MSDN Documentation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh850319%28v=vs.85%29.aspx Control Hyper-V VMs with Python – http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12970303/control-hyper-v-vms-with-python Most useful source is Nova (OpenStack) driver for Hyper-V https://github.com/openstack/nova/tree/master/nova/virt/hyperv (all files without v2 suffix).
Hyper-V WMI Provider Version 2
Namespace: root\virtualization\v2 My script: https://github.com/rrader/hue-build/blob/master/sandbox/hypervv2.py Also, most useful source is Nova (OpenStack) driver for Hyper-V https://github.com/openstack/nova/tree/master/nova/virt/hyperv (all files with v2 suffix). Network operations: https://github.com/petrutlucian94/nova_dev/blob/master/nova/virt/hyperv/networkutilsv2.py Attaching a VHD To A VM Using The Hyper-V WMI V2 Namespace – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/taylorb/archive/2013/08/12/attaching-a-vhd-to-a-vm-using-the-hyper-v-wmi-v2-namespace.aspx


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Collective memory is a weapon: Ilan Pappe, 'The Uses and Abuses of Collective Memory', Anthropological Quarterly, 90, 1, 2017 pp. 255-266
Excerpt: One of Michel Foucault's enduring scholarly legacies is his formulation of biopolitics as a potent force in our lives. What he had in mind, among other issues, was the pervasive and comprehensive power of states and industries to affect all aspects of life. Power, for Foucault, could insinuate itself into all microphysical social and physical contact and thus disciplined bodies and minds alike. Ever since his death in 1984, we are looking for ways of shaking off his gloomy observation that rings true and yet we wish to resist (Foucault 2003:242–243).
Quite surprisingly, Foucault did not relate the concept of biopolitics, or biopower, to racism and colonialism as Robert Young observed already in 1995. For Foucault this was the domain of the modern nation state and its particular mode of domination (although he inspired one of the most important work on colonialism, Edward Said's Orientalism [1979]). However, what happens if the modern state is a settler colonial state? Are we allowed to apply this micro domination to such a case study? I think we can, as the two books under review—without committing them to this paradigm they have not chosen—indicate the usefulness of this possible departure point for discussing the relationship between the settler colonial state of Israel and the native Palestinian population.
The first book, Palestinian Commemoration in Israel: Calendars, Monuments, and Martyrs, by Tamir Sorek examines the commemorative culture of the Palestinian minority in Israel through formative events in their national lives (beginning, of course, with the 1948 catastrophe, the Nakbah). For Sorek, these commemorative spaces empower the minority within the Jewish state, but also indicate its willingness to dialogue with it. His approach is multidisciplinary and he provides us with a very thorough and comprehensive view on this culture in various manifestations since the inception of the Jewish State.
In Colonial Jerusalem: The Spatial Construction of Identity and Difference in a City of Myth, 1948-2012, Thomas Philip Abowd roams the streets of Jerusalem with local friends and tries to share with them the harsh reality of colonization. His focus is the urban reality as a scene of colonialist erasure and counter commemoration by the colonized. The book moves in and out of history, covering some of the most known acts of urbicide that Israel committed in Jerusalem as well as less known instances of the colonization as a project of the de-Arabization of the city. He gives much space to the people themselves and conveys not just their thoughts, but their emotions and aspirations as much as he can.
There are still today quite a few students of Israel and Palestine who find it hard to append the adjectives colonial, or settler colonial, to the Jewish State. However, recent scholarship is quite adamant that this is the appropriate paradigm for analyzing the past and the present of Israel and Palestine.1 This paradigm was applied by scholars to review the events of 1948; the Judaization policies in the south of Israel; the economic policies of Israel in the occupied West Bank and the industrial relationship during the Mandatory period, to mention but few of the major works in this area of inquiry (Lloyd 2012, Nasara 2012, Hever 2012, Mansour 2012). Major works in the field are those by Patrick Wolfe (2006), Lorenzo Veracini (2006), and Gaby Piterberg (2008).
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Hearts Surrender: Softcover
Kiara Jordan is a sophisticated modernista, but beneath an engaging personality and super-model looks, her heart hungers, and she longs for deeper meaning in her life. Ken Lucerne is the charismatic young pastor of Woodland Church; he's adjusting to life as a widower and copes by keeping as busy as possible with his parish and missionary work. A home-building mission in Pennsylvania brings them together, and forces them to look hard and deep at the relationship they share, and where God means for it to go. Already bound by mutual respect and caring, love dawns, a love that takes them to a life-point neither would have expected. After all, can a chic, vivacious woman find fulfillment within the quiet, mission-centered life of a clergyman? Can they trust God's hand strongly enough to surrender their hearts to one another...forever?
In an unexpected, graceful motion, Ken caught her swing by the chains. He held her in place, suspended backward, with nothing but a cushion of air between them. All at once Kiara went dizzy and hyper-focused, tempted once more by that full, supple mouth, and the satiny-looking fall of his thick brown hair as he leaned over her. He was close enough to touch. In this moment, she wanted nothing more than to do just that.
"Some time, at some point, I'd like to hear more about that, Kiara. I'd like very much to know how you became the woman you are."
She looked at him steadily. "I'd bore you to tears. It's nothing extraordinary."
"All present evidence to the contrary." He set her gliding once again and Kiara's stomach performed a sparkling fall-away. She delighted in his words but forced herself to brush them aside before they could take root and sway her into believing he saw richness to her spirit. After all, it was part of Ken's persona to be gracious and encouraging.
But he continued, and those arguments splintered to shards when he said, "You're moving forward in directions that are not only admirable, but eye-opening—not just for you, most likely, but to everyone who's part of your life—don't hold to what other people see, or expect of you. Be who you are. And while you're at it, create the best version of yourself you can imagine. The only question, with the only relevance that matters, is this, Kiara: Who are you now?"
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7/23: Joe Mancuso & Dave Black "CD Release Show"
7pm doors / 8pm show, $10 advance / $15 day of show
Joe Mancuso & Dave Black
"Album Release Show"
7pm doors / 8pm show
$10 adv / $15 day of show
Vocalist, Joe Mancuso & Guitarist, Dave Black have been performing all over St. Louis for the last couple of years as an Acoustic Jazz Duo. They perform a very unique blend of Jazz Standards, Rock, Pop, Blues & R&B classics re-harmonized and re-imagined in the Jazz idiom.
This award winning Duo is very excited about releasing their first record at The Kranzberg Arts Center on July 23rd at 8pm!


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Rally Fighter Takes Flight
I am a big fan of Local Motors and their crowd-sourced Rally Fighter. A custom vehicle with its own frame and body–built borrowing many bits from dozens of other cars–the Rally Fighter manages to merge fun and fuel efficiency in one cool-looking body. Plus, CEO Jay Rogers built it to prove that there is a better way to build an automobile.
The Rally Fighter has been under development for some time now, but it is finally ready to take flight, as this video (after the jump) shows. The video combines some quality off-roading with interviews, some technical info, and a brief explanation of why Teddy Roosevelt and Pancho Villa adorn the Rally Fighter's doors.
In case you missed it, I had a chance to sit down with Jay Rogers and talk to him a bit about the Rally Fighter, Local Motors, and their future plans. Here is Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of the interview. A brief overview of the Rally Fighter; the design was selected from a contest where Local Motors asked designers from all over the world to come up with an idea for a vehicle. Then a devoted community voted for what they thought was the best design, and Local Motors decided to make the Rally Fighter, based on the design of Sangho Kim. Part P-51 Mustang, part off-road mud machine, the Rally Fighter definitely looks at home away from the asphalt.
Local Motors has plenty of other designs in the pipeline, and their idea of having the consumer design the car is one that could have huge impact on how cars are designed. I for one am rooting for them, and I can't wait to see what they come up with next. For now, I'll enjoy this awesome off-roading video.
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The Pinkaboos: Belladonna and the Nightmare Academy
Illustrations by: Billy Kelly
Category: Children's Chapter Book
Suitable for: All Ages, ideal for ages 5-10
My Rating: 5 Stars
Format Read for Review: ARC e-book from the author/publisher
Pages: 96
This is a sequel to The Pinkaboos: Bitterly and the Giant Problem. View my review of that book here.
This book will be released Sept. 6, 2016. Follow this affiliate link to find pricing and pre-order options on Amazon.
Description: In this installment the school bully, Vex has left Fright School and is trying to start her own Nightmare Academy to turn the sweet Frights, who help little girls, into evil monsters who scare little girls! Vex is playing on the insecurities of some of the students, like Wither, who was the only one not to get assigned a little girl. She convinces these characters who lack confidence to join her in terrifying little girls. The Pinkaboos discover her evil agenda and have to go into the dreams of a little girl to stop Vex and also use creative means to help the little girl overcome her fears. Like the previous book it is highly entertaining and features themes of bullying, teamwork, and overcoming fears.
In Short: I was really excited to read this book after reading the previous one because of how shocking the ending of that one was. If your child loved the first one they will definitely want to continue reading with this one. This is a great early-chapter book series that isn't very long. Ideal for kids beginning to get into chapter books. Also, it's very, very pink, so if you know a child who loves pink, this would be a great gift for them.
Pros: I love the friendships between the characters and they way they work together to solve problems. The story line is very interesting, fast paced and super fun to read. I thought this book was a little more light-hearted than the first one. It is also well written and edited. There are fun crafts, activities, and facts about bats in the back of the book. The art in this book is cute. At first I thought it was a bit weird-looking but it's grown on me.
Cons: The characters are listed in the back in the Major Frights section, which is cool except that in this book it is the same bios as the previous one and I think it should have been updated to match the new information that developed in this book.
I received a free copy of this book in return for my honest review.
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*Public is a user Group which can be configured to allow anyone to access AssetBank without needing a user account.
When active, the login screen will be removed for anyone visiting the site. They will instead be presented with access based on the permissions an administrator has granted the *Public group in Admin > Groups
Users who have an account can still log in to AssetBank using the link at the top right corner of any page
Any user on the site whether they are logged in or not falls into this group. So if a user has logged in they will be a member both the *Public and the *Logged-in users group.
Enabling the *Public group
Navigate to Admin > Groups and click on the Folder Permissions link for the *Public group. By default you'll see that all folder permissions for this group are set to 'Cannot View'.
In the above example, if we were to change the permission for the Images folder from 'Cannot View' to 'View', we would expect that any user visiting AssetBank without being logged-in would now be able to view the Images folder and all assets within it.
They would not however, be able to view any assets within the sub-folders of Images (Unlicensed Images, Leisure, Nature, etc.) unless we also changed their permissions to 'View'.


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Jonathan Katz is a guest voice actor who does the voice of the Woobeewoo Elder in "The Hard Easy." His show, Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, was animated by the same people who did Home Movies. It used to feature on Comedy Central and still draws a cult following. He was originally going to do the voice of Banana Man.[citation needed]


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It felt like one step forward, two steps back for Italy this week, as its two populist political parties – the League and Five Star Movement – persisted in their attempts to form a "neutral" coalition government.
After more than three months in administrative limbo, things were looking up until President Mattarella vetoed their choice of finance minister – Eurosceptic Paolo Savona. His intervention effectively blocked the two parties joining forces and sparked outrage from supporters in both camps, with calls for the President to be impeached. Where have we heard that before?
So another day, another deadlock, which markets did not like. Italian equities sold off and government bond yields surged to 2012 Greek-crisis levels. The Italian banks, already struggling to get back on their feet, were hit hard and some face the threat of ratings downgrades.
By the end of the week, however, the political machinations had taken on an entirely different complexion and some calm was restored. After the low-key 'exit stage left' of Mr Savona, the two parties revived their coalition plans, proposing Giuseppe Conte as Prime Minister for the second time in eight days. Mr Conte, having again accepted the President's mandate to lead the country, presented a list of new, more palatable candidates for the key finance job, from which economics professor Giovanni Tria emerged victorious.
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So it looks like Italy's current political impasse may have passed, with the new government sworn in on Friday. However, investors will likely remain cautious on what's to come from Italy's first populist Eurosceptic coalition. We watch and wait.
US tests EU's metal
Not content with just the one trade war on his hands, President Trump has provoked anger from so-called "friendly" countries with his latest protectionist measures. Having previously granted a temporary 'stay of execution' to major trading partners the EU, Mexico and Canada on metal import tariffs, trade talks failed to secure a permanent exemption. So, with effect from 1 June, imports to the US of steel and aluminium now face duties of 25% and 10%, respectively.
In retort, Uncle Sam's vexed trading partners have subsequently threatened retaliation by hitting the US where it hurts – in its blue jeans, bourbon whiskey and Harley-Davidson motorbikes.
A tasty treat for sandwich maker's staff
You might have noticed the staff in Pret A Manger just that little bit perkier this week when serving your lunch. The soup and sandwich maker, currently owned by private equity firm Bridgepoint, has been bought by JAB Holdings in a deal reported to be worth £1.5bn. When the deal is concluded, every staff member has been promised a £1,000 bonus.
Elsewhere, after a near two-year courtship fraught with knockbacks and wrangles, German pharma and chemicals giant Bayer has finally crossed the last hurdle in its proposed takeover of US agriculture firm Monsanto. Like any relationship, there has been give and take. Bayer had to agree to give up a $9bn chunk of its assets before US antitrust authorities could approve the union – the "largest merger divestiture ever required by the United States". Similar competition concerns had to also be allayed for European authorities to give their blessing. With the deal almost sealed, we wonder if there has been a more attractive US/German coupling since Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf?
Given the week's not inconsiderable drama, markets were unsurprisingly weak. To the close on Thursday, the FTSE World Europe (ex-UK) had lost 2.2%, while the FTSE 100 and S&P 500 indices were 0.6% and 0.5% lower respectively.
And finally…
It would appear that President Trump has more than one 'special' Kim in his life. Demurely suited but still stilettoed, the seemingly ubiquitous Kim Kardashian West visited the Oval Office on Wednesday to discuss prison reform and sentencing. Indeed.
The two prolific tweeters issued positive posts afterwards. Could KKW, a former supporter of Hillary Clinton, be following husband Kanye's lead and warming to Mr Trump?
Not forgetting the President's other Kim, fresh negotiations for a North Korea/US summit in June were said by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to be "moving in the right direction". He enjoyed a lavish dinner date with Kim-Jong-un's Vice Chairman, Gen Kim Yong-chol, in New York this week.
Perhaps familiar with Albert Einstein's view that "an empty stomach is not a good political advisor," the two men are said to have enjoyed steak, sweetcorn and cheese, washed down with Islay Malt Whisky.
With such convivial interactions, we could see the historic rendezvous back on the table. Who knows what might be on that menu…
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BPD Investigates Person Shot in the Area of 5 Castle Court/
At about 1:50 AM on Sunday, June 29, 2014, officers from District D-4 (South End) responded to a radio call for a person shot in the area of 5 Castle Court.
Upon arrival, officers observed a 17-year-old male suffering from what appeared to be a gunshot wound outside of a party near the above address. The victim was transported to Boston Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.
The Boston Police Department is actively investigating the facts and circumstances surrounding this incident. Anyone with information is strongly urged to contact the Boston Police Homicide Unit at (617) 343-4470.
Community members who wish to assist this investigation anonymously can call the CrimeStoppers Tip Line at 1-(800)-494-TIPS. You may also text the word 'TIP' to CRIME (27463). The Boston Police Department stringently protects the identities of those who wish to remain anonymous and is interested only in your information, not your identity.


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Parasailing in Gulf Shores
Ever been parasailing before? Here's your chance! Feel free as a bird as you soar high above the Gulf of Mexico, enjoying spectacular views of everything the Gulf Coast has to offer. Parasailing is known to be one of the most adventurous activities to do on the Gulf Coast and if you try it once, we bet you'll want to do it again! Parasailing is not just any ordinary day task. Chances are if you don't try it while you're visiting Pleasure Island, the opportunity may never come up again. So up, up, and away! Get ready for a parasailing adventure of a lifetime. Feel the tingle in your stomach and the adrenaline rushing through your body, as you're being pulled high into the sky.
The History of Parasailing:
Pierre Lamoigne couldn't have known that he was making aviation sport history when in the early 1960's he attached a parachute to his moving car and invented parasailing. Lamoigne was a parachute teacher, and the easiest method then to teach the use of a parachute was to raise the "pilot" into the air to a certain height and then untie the parachute to let the pilot float free. People often confuse this method called parascending with hang gliding. But when Lamoigne did not release the parachute and pulled the pilot along in the air behind in a high-speed vehicle, parasailing truly began.
Higher standards for parasailing were set in the 1970s when a man named Mark McCulloh made history by using the parachutes at sea. He started first by raising parachutes from the shore but then went on to design a motorized platform, then a boat to pull the parachute back to the ship. These days there is even a specially designed ship with a built-in platform for take off and landing.
The Pioneer Parachute Company started making parachutes under the protected name of "Parasail" back in the 1960s after Lamoigne's first successes. Parasailing historically has enjoyed most of its popularity as an air and water sport, but there are now land-based parasailing competitions that are especially popular in Northern Europe and Finland. History was made again with the first international competitions being held in 2004.
Parasailing does not have to rely on competitions to be a popular sport. History shows that the thrill and excitement of being airborne has made the sport of parasailing very popular with families. But caution and good judgment should always be used, especially with the equipment and weather conditions for flying. Everyone should get training from a certified parasailing instructor before attempting a first flight.
To schedule your parasailing ride or for more information please call one of the numbers below:
ABC Parasailing Outcast Marina, Orange Beach 251-981-9080
Chute em up Parasailing Happy Harbor Marina, Orange Beach 251-981-7673
Perdido Key Parasailing in front of Seawinds Condo, Gulf Shores 251-948-7433.
Pleasure Island Parasail in front of Pink Pony Pub, Gulf Shores 251-946-9000 or in front of Bahama Bobs, Gulf Shores 251-974-5359


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February 28, 1953 – March 1, 2015
It is with great sadness we announce that Robin left us peacefully with all of his family at his side. Pre-deceased by his mother Ann and father Bob, he will be lovingly remembered by his wife Laurie of 41 years, his children Jaime (Jeff), Colin, Jordy and grandchildren Mackenzie, Hunter, Jamieson and Piper. Service to be held at Haney Presbyterian Church 11858 216 St. Maple Ridge on Monday, March 9th, 2015 at 11 am.
In lieu of flowers, donations in Robin's name to the Lung Association of BC would be greatly appreciated.
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It is easy to see, now, why some pictures which sound promising at the start, on the strength of the ideas behind them, turn out to be dismal flops. "Hollywood Story" demonstrates it. This film, which came to the Paramount yesterday, is, in fact, a detailed demonstration of the collapse of a good idea upon which a movie producer hopefully launches himself. And with the collapse of his idea, this picture collapses, too. Only goes to show what a gamble the movie business is.At the start of "Hollywood Story," a new producer with fresh ideas expresses a burning ambition to make a sensational film. It will be about the unsolved murder of a famous director back in 1929. "Great Stuff," he says. "Full of the color, the glamour of the old 'silent' days!" (It doesn't say whether he got the idea before or after seeing "Sunset Boulevard," but, in either case, the proposition is one that the traffic could bear.)And with that our boy starts sleuthing. He moves into the bungalow in which the famous director was murdered so many years ago. He digs up the down-at-heel writer who used to do the director's scripts and he routs out a few old-time actors such as Francis X. Bushman and Betty Blythe. (Why he should call them to the studio before he has a script is not clearly explained.) In short, he foresees a mystery drama of the old movie days with sock and zing.But, alas, what he finally discovers about the director's death—or, at least, what Scriptwriters Frederick Kohner and Fred Brady have cooked up in the way of a plot—is a pretty routine assembly of simple who-dunnit cliches into a silly and not very startling disclosure of a motive for a crime. The police must have been awfully lazy back in 1929.In the role of the producer, Richard Conte works hard, with a tense and truculent air, and Fred Clark gives an ulcerous performance as his dubious associate. Henry Hull throws himself around quite grandly as the ancient writer of scripts and Richard Egan seems a bit more amiable as a cop than he needs to be. Julia Adams, who plays the daughter of the murdered director's favorite star, is Obviously planted in the picture more for pulchritude than plot.Some of the Hollywood background in this picture is mildly colorful and the idea, at least, is intriguing. But the story itself is a bust.On the stage at the Paramount are the Ames Brothers, Gracie Barrie, Bobby Sargent, Bunny Briggs and Herbie Fields and his orchestra.
HOLLYWOOD STORY, story and screen play by Frederick Kohner and Fred Brady; directed by William Castle; produced by Leonard Goldstein for Universal-International. At the Paramount.Larry O'Brien . . . . . Richard ConteSally Rousseau . . . . . Julia AdamsLieut. Lennox . . . . . Richard EganVincent St. Clair . . . . Henry HullSam Collyer . . . . . Fred ClarkMitch Davis . . . . . Jim BackusMr. Miller . . . . . Houseley StevensonRoland Paul . . . . . Paul CavanaghMary . . . . . Katherine MeskillJimmy . . . . . Louis LettieriContinue reading the main story


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Quinn breaks with Democrats on redistricting plan
Posted by Monique Garcia at 1:22 p.m.As lawmakers in Springfield prepare to vote on a proposal to change the way state House and Senate districts are drawn, Gov. Pat Quinn today said he's not a fan of the plan his fellow Democrats drafted.
The governor said that he doesn't see the proposed changes "as moving the ball forward all that much" and worries districts will be crafted to protect sitting lawmakers instead of reflecting a particular geographic area.
"It's awfully complicated," Quinn said. "I'm not sure if it's a reform or not, to be honest."
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The headline article in the March 8th edition of the Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS) startled me yesterday as I was visiting some of my former colleagues in the State Capitol. Dr. Ronald Mason, the president of Jackson State University, basically asserted in an e-mail to one of his faculty members that the Mississippi Legislative Black Caucus could not be trusted and that the caucus was out to get him.
As a personal note to Dr. Mason, I just want to say thanks, sarcastically. Since I served in the Mississippi Legislature during that time, I just want to thank him for painting us all in such a broad brush. I personally don't know what I did to earn his distrust, considering I was one of his biggest supporters to be hired, and virtually shut down the House of Representatives to make sure JSU received their fair share of funding prior to Billy McCoy being the Speaker of the House.
True, there are some members of the MSLBC that would like to see Dr. Mason leave, but not all of the members, past or current. It was an unfair assessment of those public servants who have done everything they could to represent the best interests of Mississippi Public Historically Black Colleges and some kind of gesture should be made to make amends to those of us who respected his presidency, especially those of us who are alumni of that fine institution.
However, I don't think the damage he has done since talks of mergers of the HBCU's can really be repaired, primarily after his electronic critique has been published statewide. I just hope someday he will eventually understand that the majority of Mississippi's African-American legislators are the best allies he has in this state, no matter how many pats on the back he gets from others.
Really, Dr. Mason, I assumed you were better than that. I guess it is my disappointment.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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HROM-JI: A new distributed computing java framework (0 messages)
A Beta version of HROM-JI was released. It is available for download at http://www.hromji.com.ar/en/pages/index.html . There are examples and documentation too. What kind of distributed computing? It is good for cooperative systems with any number of hosts (or instances). A simple case is the client/server architecture. Grid computing is also possible if performance is not critic. Although load balancing (or dynamic asignation to execution units) is not supported. Pros:
- Posted by: Fernando García
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- Non invasivity
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- No security support
- Some applications may be limited by networking performance
- It is a too yung project What does it looks like? The central idea is that sometimes you get a proxy as method invocation result. Specially you can use a RemotingAccesor to instantiate remote objects. Greeter greeter = accessor.instantiate(theServer, Greeter.class); String message = greeter.greet("World"); Such proxies are used to operate on the remote objects. It is also valid: A a = accessor.instantiate(theServer, A.class); a.b().c(x).d(y); being A an ordinary class or interface, methods a, b, c y d could return local or remote objects interchangeably, and objects x and y could be either local or remote too. All method executions are made on the execution units (hosts) where the objects reside. No object transference is made except for Strings and numbers. ... what do you think about it?


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"If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;…….and now there doth remain faith, hope, love — these three; and the greatest of these [is] love." – 1 Corinthians 13:1 ; 13 – YLT – Young's Literal Translation
Excerpt of YouTube video linked below:
"……In some ways [you know] Thomas is fortunate because he won't experience first broken heart. His dad will never spank him. He'll never get grounded. He'll never get picked on, at school. The only thing that Thomas will ever know in this world is, love………
……..I'm afraid to say goodbye. But I can't imagine what it would been like to not have this opportunity to go through this with him; and to get to know him and to, love him. It really has been amazing, as opposed to just shoving him down and forgetting about him and pretending that his life didn't happen or it didn't matter……….
……….We didn't not terminate because we were hanging on to some sort of hope; that there was a medical mistake, or that there was going to be some medical miracle. We didn't terminate, because he's our son."
Choosing Thomas — Inside a family's decision to let their son live, if only for a brief time – youtube.com/watch?v=ToNWquoXqJI
Source of the above video – The Dallas Morning News – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCACRim7l0tmc5lhNnDQyUvQ
Related to the above. Informational links relating to crimes against peace and crimes against humanity:
Tens of Thousands of Pro-Lifers March for Life and Mourn 58 Million – lifenews.com/
- Abortion genocide – conservapedia.com/
- Why abortion is genocide – liveactionnews.org/why-abortion-is-genocide/
- Post-Abortion Help – YOU CAN GET HELP AND HEALING AFTER YOUR ABORTION – operationrescue.org
- Planned Parenthood Sold Hearts and Brains of 18-Week-Old Babies Minutes After Aborting Them – lifenews.com/
- Aka Obama's 4th Reich Atrocities: Body Parts Of Slaughtered Innocent Babies Sold For Added Profit – moralmatters.org
- Planned Parenthood Modern-Day Nazis Deciding Who Have Mental Problems – moralmatters.org
- Nazi Obama, Center For Medical Progress, Planned Parenthood Exposure And God Almighty's DOJ Judgment – moralmatters.org
STEVEN ERTELT from lifenews.com quotes aka Obama:
Remember and realize whom he is referencing. He is criminal ID forgery fraud, modern-day Nazi, aka Obama, who supports Planned Parenthood's black market-selling baby parts. He's a world-wide terrorist. And, crimes against peace and crimes against humanity, aka Obama, is the de facto commander-in-chief of ISIS.
Aka Obama's words of "rights," "freedoms," "opportunities" and "fulfillment," are all lies. They are all deceptions spawned by aka Obama's "father of lies:"
"President Barack Obama issued a statement today celebrating the 43-year-old Roe v. Wade decision that allowed for virtually unlimited abortions. In a written statement that celebrated killing little boys and girls in abortions as giving people 'the rights, freedoms, and opportunities to fulfill our dreams.'
– lifenews.com/2016/01/22/obama-celebrates-43-years-of-abortion-roe-gives-us-rights-freedoms-and-opportunities/
Also related to the above. America's top abortion genocide supporter:
The Infanticide / Abortion Genocide US "President" Obama – thechristianmessage.org/
- The President of the United States: A Sex Offender? – Why Obama's support of the abortion industry is the worst molestation of youth – thechristianmessage.org/
- TREASONOUS OBAMA BUILT ISIS: FOIA DOCUMENTS DISCLOSE WILLFUL DECISION – moralmatters.org
- Nazi Bâri' Hitler-Shabazz: Aka Barack Obama – moralmatters.org/
- Demonic Obama: America's Omen Child – moralmatters.org
- Liars go to hell – christianmessage.org
- Open online letter to aka "president" Obama: Repentance is in order for your wicked, troubled and tortured soul – moralmatters.org
- The Grace of Repentance – thechristianmessage.org
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"When did big government and its mainstream media tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?"
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This website is a repository of information for use by past, present, and future paralegal students and anyone in the field or those interested in learning more. In particular, this site will hold information on the Paralegal Club @ Baker College of Auburn Hills.
This site is still under development, although the section on the Paralegal Club at Auburn Hills is the most complete at this time. Additional information is forthcoming and will be added to the site as it becomes available or is developed.


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Award winning by the magazine guitars for the competition "Buona musica a tutti!" and included in the prestigious charts "Best New Talent" Top Jazz 2014. Filippo Cosentino is the author of the best CD 2015 L'astronauta (Smemoranda 2015 jazz charts) and awarded as one of best Talent 2015 in the charts by ilSussidiario. About that Luigi Viva wrotes that "his music is recomended to the lovers of ECM sound".
Filippo Cosentino is one of the most appreciated italian guitar players and he is considered a new
talent of the italian jazz scene.
Graduate cum laude at Conservatorio G.B.Martini in Bologna under the supervision of M° Tomaso
He performed on tour and in studio with many famous italian and foreign artists: Javier Girotto, Fabrizio Bosso, Michael Rosen, Rita Marcotulli, Danilo Rea, Andrea Marcelli, Antonio Zambrini, Jesper Bodilsen, Ekkehard Wölk, Johannes Fink, Tom Kirckpatrick, Ludovico Fulci, Andrej Polevikov, Vytis Nivinskas, Andreas Rodosthenous; he also performed with some italian famous singers: Paola Turci, Francesco Tricarico e Mauro Ermanno Giovanardi. He also worked for theatre (with the italian actor Andrea Giordana) and cinema: in 2010 he composed the soundtrack of the short movie Praise to loneliness (RaiCinema). The movie has been selected for the 63° Festival de Cannes and for Trento Film Festival and in 2012 he composed also the soundtrack of the documentary "Meno 100 chili", an important now in the cinemas, praised at Festival International du Film d'Environment in Paris. Guitar player appreciated for his versatility, he is often invited to important italian and international festivals: Bologna Jazz Festival, Sori Winter Jazz Festival, Festival Italiano del Jazz a Berlino (Germania), Eunic Jazz Festival (Germania), Dancing on the string jazz festival, Jazz Club Torino, Roero Music Fest, Maggio di Napoli, A.r.t.e.r.i.e., Fara Music Fest, TDL Jazz Festival, Alba Music Festival, Jazz&Co, Cantautori d'Italia, Festival D'Incanto, Tastar de corda, Brainwaves, TDL Jazz Festival, etc), Roccella Jazz (winter edition), Birstonas Jazz Festival (Lituania), Festival chitarristico della Valle d'Ossola, Sile Jazz, Open Jazz Festival, Jazzit Fest, Musicultura. In 2003 he won the national contest of italian review "Chitarre". He is the artistic director of the Festival Cantautori d'Italia for italian songwriters where he has the possibility to play with some of the most important artists of pop scene like Paola Turci, Francesco Tricarico, Mauro Ermanno Giovanardi and others. He is also the artistic director of two jazz festivals, Jazz&Co. and Roero Music Fest. He played his music on tour in Italy, France, Spain, Uk, Germany, Lithuania, Finland, Switzerland.
Filippo is also know as great baritone acoustic guitar player, famous is his baritone guitar method (Volontè&Co) and next June the top label NAU Records will be release his last CD.


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It was seven years ago this month that China purposely destroyed its own Fengyun-1C meteorological-monitoring spacecraft via a Chinese anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon.
That January 11, 2007 event represents the worst single debris contamination of low Earth orbit.
NASA's just-issued Orbital Debris Quarterly News has spotlighted the event, noting that the ASAT test placed hundreds of operational spacecraft, including all human space flight missions, at continuing risk.
The newsletter observes: "To date, the U.S. Space Surveillance Network has cataloged nearly 3,400 distinct debris from the former meteorological satellite. These debris range in size from 5 cm to nearly a meter."
Lingering leftovers
Furthermore, the rate of reentry of these debris has been very slow, due in part to the high altitude of Fengyun-1C at the time of its destruction, and in part to the recent lower-than-normal level of solar activity.
Because of the cosmic leftovers, numerous spacecraft have already been forced to execute evasive maneuvers to avoid potentially catastrophic collisions with debris from Fengyun-1C.
The International Space Station conducted such a maneuver in January 2012, as have NASA's Terra, Aqua, and Cloudsat satellites and many other spacecraft, the newsletter reports.
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8 photos of Daft Punk mowing the lawn, taking selfies and doing other everyday things
Daft Punk is a massively popular band whose album Random Access Memories comes out on May 21 and is one of the most eagerly anticipated albums of 2013. Daft Punk has won a Grammy, collaborated with superstars like Pharrell Williams, and created the soundtrack for Tron: Legacy. But at its core, Daft Punk is just two French guys, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, who like to make some funky music. Despite their music idol status, the members of Daft Punk are still human beings, who try to lead an everyday life and do normal things as this collection of photos from CoolMaterial.com shows. Guy and Thomas have to do chores like mowing the lawn and go grocery shopping. But they also like to unwind and have fun, whether it's celebrating a birthday with sparklers or hucking some disc at an ultimate frisbee match. Daft Punk is basically just a couple of bros. These photos could be something out of Us magazine, "Daft Punk: They're just like Us!" Sure Daft Punk's tendency to take selfies and Instagram its food can be annoying, but no more so than any of your other friends on social media. And we bet none of them has ever been featured on a limited edition Coca-Cola bottle.
See the full collection of photos here.
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Safa is always awesome to work with because she is a posing machine. She will move from pose to pose in seconds and each is unique and often pretty bizarre (chalk her up some points for limberness). As you know most of the time I have an image in mind, but on this occasion I was at a group event and she was next on the list for me to shoot. So, she did what she does for everyone else and performs her posing magic while I light her and take pics. I do this while scores of people watch and sneak underexposed shots of my work (cause they don't have my trigger frequency). I hate group events for this reason and tend to camp out away from everyone else and then go kidnap a model for a while.
Because she does this posing thing for everyone, I wanted to be sure the image I created was unique compared to the others at the event. I despise group shoots where everyone gets the same image, so I wanted to depart from that with the finished product that is really different and work this more into a poster type of image.
Lighting the Model
Alien Bees with their large softbox on it. I wuv muh beez!
Post Production
Ok, so here is where we depart from the reality others will produce and really artsy up the image. First we do our retouching and fix anything the model will hate (not always what I will hate). For example, she has a bruise on her leg I will remove, but I know she will think her leg looks fat because the thigh of the back leg is pressing on the front one in this pose. So, we will use liquify to remedy that. No one wants to show off a photo that they think makes them look fat.
We will also handle the armpit and other areas of the human body that just never photograph well. I used the patch tools as well as dodge and burn here to make the tone even, not so much remove the texture. Dodge and Burn are your primary go-to tools for skin work, get used to them as they don't remove texture and can give the skin the even tone you want.
Digital Photo Manipulation
Okay, now onto the fun part. I want to make this photo appear to be much more painterly and "poster-like" and obviously not photo realistic. Much like my previous image I am shooting for a drawn look to the image, nothing realistic as I stated before. So, first thing we need to do is eliminate some of her texture. Yes, that hurts, but if we leave it in there she will appear out-of-place with the other things we have planned. So, I use some blurring to remove her skin texture. Please note that I did save this as another file before I moved to this destructive phase. I may want to use the retouched version with skin texture later in life, so don't destroy that which is usable. After I get the texture toned down I apply a pretty strong curve and set that adjustment layer to soft light, which will increase the brightness of her skin as well as the contrast. This is already looking pretty artistic, but we not need to add some background and foreground interest.
Adding Background Textures
The first thing I moved into place was a sky. Of course this is applied with a blending mode and is going to be very subtle. I also used a custom brush that makes little circles and stars and made some swirls around her. This is one of those little touches I enjoy in images, so you will see it more often in the future as I post more of this type of work.
Working With Angles
Her arms and legs form a very dramatic pose as well as create some opportunity for playing with these angles. I added some strips of white to the image that work parallel and perpendicular to the angles of her arms and leg. I set the blending modes on these to various settings until I liked what they did to the cloud layer as well as to each other.
Final Touches
For the final touch we need to terminate this image on the bottom somehow, and a walk in the grass on such a bright day seems to be the ticket. I create a custom brush of a large "grass blade" and then adjusted the scattering, color, and angle jitter until I was pleased with the swath of greenery that was created. I choose to make the grass a color that worked better with the tonal palette I had in the rest of the image as green would have looked like ass. Make sure to place growies some behind the model as well as in front to make the grass look convincing in depth. Remember that objects in the distance are always desaturated and less contrasty then those in the front. I added her name across this image so she could use it as an avatar, and I think it completed the "poster" look I was after.
That about wraps up this image. Please let me know what you think.
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Home > Android Tablet Reviews > Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9
What's hot: Great display, super-thin and light. Also available with 3G/4G HSPA+ on AT&T.
What's not: Like the Tab 10.1, fewer ports and slots than most Android tablets.
Reviewed October 6, 2011 by Lisa Gade, Editor
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The Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 is the slightly more portable version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android Honeycomb tablet. In terms of software and hardware the two tablets are nearly identical, with the Tab 8.9 being 1.2" smaller (diagonally) and a quarter pound lighter. It runs on Android OS 3.1 Honeycomb with Samsung's pleasing TouchWiz UI customizations for tablets. The 1 pound tablet is incredibly slim and slips easily into a bag.
The Galaxy Tab 8.9 runs on the usual NVIDIA Tegra 2 1GHz dual core CPU with a gig of RAM, and it's available in 16 and 32 gig versions. This is a WiFi 802.11b/g/n tablet, and there's currently no 3G or 4G option. It has Bluetooth, a GPS and both front and rear cameras. It does not have an HDMI port or SD card slot, but Samsung sells adapters for those. The Tab 8.9 is priced just $30 less than the Tab 10.1, and honestly they're not that far apart in size so we don't feel the 8.9 should be lots cheaper than the 10.1. Samsung's believes that one size doesn't fit all, and they're making very similar tablets in a variety of sizes as a result.
Because the Galaxy Tab 8.9 is so similar to the Tab 10.1, we're not writing a full review. If you want to learn more about the tablet, do check out our review of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1; beyond size and weight, they're the same.
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Space Needle Holga Homage
For over three and a half years now, I've been living just a few blocks from the world famous Space Needle (if you point the webcam to -45º you can see my apartment just left of center). Everyday I'm lucky enough to see something that symbolizes the great city of Seattle, and also one of the most iconic structures in the entire country.
So with that being said, I thought I'd dig up some Holgas I've taken over the recent past of this needle of space, as a reminder to myself to not take this beautiful thing for granted. Because I'm sure I have. My eyes have probably passed over some bit of its 605 feet and not a thought ran through my head about how incredible it is, or how lucky I am to view such a massive piece of art day in and day out. Here's to being lucky.


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Florida State University
National-title game, Heisman Trophy on line for FSU Seminoles in ACC Championship
Voters for the Heisman Trophy can breathe a little easier.
Now that Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston is off the hook in a sexual assault case that left his candidacy in limbo, they can put his name at the top of their ballots without fear it could come back to haunt them later had he been charged.
All Winston has left to do to validate his status as the nation's premier player is prove his case on the field once more Saturday night and guide FSU to a victory over Duke in the Atlantic Coast Conference Championship Game to secure a spot for the Seminoles in the national title game.
FSU (12-0) is a heavy favorite to defeat the surprising Blue Devils, who haven't exactly been known for their prowess on the gridiron over the years. But they went 10-2 to finish atop the Coastal Division of the ACC, ahead of more decorated programs such as the University of Miami and Virginia Tech — and they aren't backing down from Saturday's challenge.
"Duke football has been the underdogs ever since I've gotten here," Duke senior offensive lineman Dave Harding said. "We know nobody is going to give us a chance to win."
It will be a stiff challenge for Duke. The Seminoles are more than a four-touchdown favorite. If that's all FSU wins by, the Blue Devils might consider it a moral victory, given the fact that the Seminoles have been crushing opponents since the start of the season. Their average margin of victory is 42.7 points.
The Blue Devils, meanwhile, barely squeaked past North Carolina, 27-25, in their final regular-season game to win the Coastal. Still, they're not the Duke most fans are familiar with, the habitual doormats of the ACC.
Coach David Cutcliffe has managed to successfully turn the program around. When he took over in 2008, Cutcliffe inherited a program that had compiled only three winning records over the previous 25 years. Duke ended an 18-year bowl drought last season when the Blue Devils reached the Belk Bowl, yet they still finished with a 6-7 overall record.
This year, Duke registered its first 10-win season in school history.
Said Harding: "Coach Cutcliffe he's just a guy that is committed to the process and loves a challenge, and that's what made him perfect to turn really the worst Division I football program in the country around."
The Seminoles have taken notice.
"I don't know what they did, but they got some faster guys than what I remember, and they all play together," FSU center Bryan Stork said. "They're very disciplined. They're very smart. They play intelligent, and teams like that you've got to watch out for. We're not taking them lightly."
The Seminoles are no johnny-come-latelys. They need no introduction.
With Winston and his cast of four exceptional receiving targets paving the way, the Seminoles are poised to win their third national championship and first since 1999 when they finished 12-0 under Bobby Bowden.
Winston is the heavy favorite to give FSU its third Heisman winner, joining Charlie Ward (1993) and Chris Weinke (2000), especially now that his legal issues are behind him.
"How could anyone in their right mind not think Jameis Winston is the best player in the country?" said Bob Lutz, a Heisman voter and columnist for The Wichita Eagle. "I suspect he'll be the runaway winner when this is announced."
But Lutz and a lot of other voters fretted that it would have looked bad if Winston had won the Heisman while also facing rape charges. The deadline to submit ballots is Monday, with the Heisman announcement set for Dec. 14. Lutz was prepared to vote for Winston and cross his fingers.
Now he and the rest of the voters can relax, waiting only to see if Winston puts on another display against Duke the way he has throughout the season.
"There's still some legitimate candidates," Orlando Sentinel columnist Mike Bianchi said. "But Winston, because he's unbeaten, because he's sort of led Florida State to this incredible season, he should be the clear-cut favorite."


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01-16-2013Twenty-one choral students will travel to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Jan. 17-20 to perform in honor of the 50th anniversary of the city's U.S. Civil Rights Movement and the first signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Participating students are enrolled in "Virginia Wesleyan Choral Tour," an intensive three-week winter session course taught by Dr. Michael Trotta, Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Choral Music. Students will perform nightly, premiering "The Emancipation Project," a series of original music by Trotta and composer Glenn McClure. The compositions convey emotion that may have been felt during the historic time, according to freshman Elizabeth Sims: "The songs reflect the hope that people needed during that time. It's really upbeat, inspirational music and gives the feeling that things will get better in time." VWC's student ensemble will perform alongside the UAB Honor Choir, Concert Choir and Steel Drum Band. UAB will in turn visit Virginia Wesleyan for the Emancipation Day concert at Virginia Beach United Methodist Church on April 8. For more information, contact Michael Trotta at firstname.lastname@example.com