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I can't think of another band that has so constantly and successfully reinnovated themselves as have Norway's Ulver. Like a modern day King Crimson, Ulver have never stayed in one spot for too long, always pushing towards uncharted territory even well into their maturity. While I'll always have a soft spot for 1995's Bergtatt, their decision to swerve away from their roots in black metal has given Ulver a much longer-lasting musical relevance than most of the bands from the Norwegian Second Wave. No matter where Ulver has travelled with their sound, it's always resulted in something interesting and sincere.
Of course, none of what I've just said should come as any surprise to anyone who has experienced Ulver before. The questions then are: where have they gone with their latest opus Messe I.X-VI.X, and what musical stones are yet unturned?
Teaming up with the Tromsø Chamber Orchestra, Ulver's latest incarnation is based in minimalist neoclassical music. Slow, brooding and steeped in their unique brand of experimentation, this orchestral approach seems a logical evolution from the band's previous ambient work, particularly the sombre Shadows of the Sun. Messe I.X-VI.X may suffer the pangs of an uneven flow and a few less impressive moments, but its unique marriage of chamber music with dark ambient, electronic and jazz is impressive, and at its best, some of the most sublime material Ulver have ever produced.
Calling Messe I.X-VI.X an 'album' may be improper, as it has more in common with a modern classical work than anything in the popular canon. "As Syrians Pour in, Lebanon Grapples with Ghosts of a Bloody Past" introduces the album with a hauntingly profound soundscape. A hurdy-gurdy carries on a sombre dirge over the crackle of distant gunfire and grim wartime ambiance. Although the exotic atmosphere makes for a slow start to the album, the track ultimately evolves into a more focused modern classical composition. A string section gradually adds layers to a sombre arrangement that immediately recalls Henryk Górecki's "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs". Although first impressions had me yearning for a quicker start to the album, the track is damned near-perfect, both in its composition and execution.
Although Messe seems predominantly inspired by neoclassical composers, it most strongly gives the impression of being the soundtrack for a film that exists only in the listener's mind. "Shri Schneider" and "Glamour Hole (Ostinati)" would be fitting scores for a tense espionage thriller. Blending electronic experimentation with the neoclassical template, Ulver are exploring a fusion of genre I haven't had the pleasure of hearing before. The resulting atmosphere is immense and futuristic. While Ulver may have been influenced by tradition and longheld conventions on Messe, the music is anything but.
In homage to Western classical tradition, Messe I.X-VI.X adopts a liturgical theme, reflected in the work's solemn atmosphere, use of choirs, and minimal, religiously-oriented lyrics. Kristtofer Rygg's voice has remained a constant throughout Ulver's work, and the common utterance of Rygg as one of the most powerful, diverse vocalists out there does not go unfounded. Especially on Shadows of the Sun, his deep, gloomy vocals were profound and emotionally penetrating. Having been a fan of just about every vocal performance I've heard from him, it was all the more surprising and every bit unfortunate that Rygg's vocals seem out of place here on Messe. Although the first half of the album is nearly-perfect in its instrumental ambiance, the vocals on "Son of Man" have never struck me the right way. Maybe it's a result of the lyrics- the religiosity of which feels contrived and minimalistic without being particularly profound- or perhaps I simple became so immersed in the atmosphere of the album that lead vocals of any kind would have hurt my enjoyment. "Mother of Mercy"- the album's other vocal track- fares better both lyrically and musically. Rygg's voice retains its trademark depth and resonance, but the band's neoclassical direction doesn't fit his voice nearly as well as the electronic approach of yesteryear. Although I wouldn't dismiss the possibility that Ulver will find a way to make lead vocals work for this neoclassical style, I'm left with the (possibly) unpopular opinion that Messe I.X-VI.X could have been even better if it had been kept purely instrumental and ambient.
"Noche Oscura Del Alma" is a solid ambient piece, with warped samples of Helen Forrest's "Mad About the Boy" conjuring an impression of the post-apocalypse. Especially compared to the three other instrumental tracks however, it's the weakest offering here and doesn't really work without the two vocal tracks around it. Really, I'm left with two impressions of Messe. While the first half of the album is downright masterful, the second side is disappointing by contrast. The misguided vocals aside, Messe loses its sublime sense of pacing after "Son of Man". To the album's credit though, it would be difficult for any music to follow up the near-perfection heard on the first track and "Shri Schneider". The second half of Messe I.X-VI.X is quite good, but I'm left longing for a more consistently satisfying experience.
The title Messe I.X-VI.X implies the coming of a second installment to comprise the last four movements. If that's true, then I have high hopes for more of Ulver's neoclassical-electronic fusion. While the album does not impress me as much as their best ambient work in Perdition City or the devastating Shadows of the Sun, this next evolution leaves plenty of room for Ulver to create something worthy of awe and wonder.
Rather unsure what was going to happen with this album- Childhood's End was pretty good, if not the most earth-shaking thing ever, but I'm still somewhat traumatized from the flat out awfulness that was War of the Roses. Ulver's awful fanbase rarely helps.. it's hard not getting totally burnt out from the avalanche of Ulver: MOVING BEYOND BLACK METAL, ECLECTIC MUSICAL OPEN MINDEDNESS (really? wow! how about that, crazy innit) reviews that were plaguing my news feed/everywhere I looked. Therefore, it's rather lucky that Ulver have done a very good album here- maybe even their best post-Bergtatt effort, because when you have such a cloying, massively over-the-top fanbase it's hard not to write off everything the band do. This stuff kills and I really enjoy it, despite the baggage that comes with it.
Yeah, Messe is a pretty all-time effort. The simplest way to describe this is: get Shadows of the Sun, strip away all the rock music elements and voila. This is a simplification, though; it's not just a Godspeed You Black Emperor ripoff (and I'm really grateful for that!)- it's based far less on repetition than you may think, and it's definitely been super thoroughly composed. I don't want to say "this defies description" but this sort of contemporary, very modern, rather academic "modern classical" stuff is hard to describe unless you're doing modern composition at a music college. Perhaps the best thing I can come up with is to imagine a very engaging soundtrack for an extremely depressing movie.
It does the slow and somber thing remarkably well, and it's a pleasure seeing Ulver throw an occasional electric guitar or bit of electronics (the sublime Shri Schneider a fantastic example) into an otherwise very familiar sonic palette. Here, I think, is where Ulver really succeed in this album- there's an accessibility to this whole deal, even though it's generally just a whole lot of gentle, string driven depression. Textures are introduced, key changes happen- Glamour Box's fantastically paced, perfectly placed outro-, things are often morphing into new and exciting things, going in unexpected directions, etc. There are flaws- the first song does stretch the attention somewhat, and Garm's vocals seem to be getting increasingly bad as he gets older but yeah, this stuff is good man. Again, it's those little things- that awareness of when to change things up a tiny bit, or to throw a subtle, somewhat dissonant interval in a place to throw you off guard and get you engaged. Really, really good composition throughout.
There's little to criticize here, if we're being blunt. Certainly, the minimalist, fairly quiet tones throughout make this a bit of a challenge to listen through super actively, but it sure as hell makes hanging out the washing a dense, thought provoking experience. Much respect is due to Ulver for releasing a record that's fascinating, deep but most of all, an almost immediate pleasure to listen to. Their best in a long time, and well worth yours!
As time goes by one loses the ability to be surprised. This has often more to do with the fact that things in general tend to be less surprising as time goes by, technology evolves and ideas become immediately stale as soon as they come out of the oven and less to do with the oft forgotten fact that, as brains decay, functions such as the release of hormones and neuron syntax take toll. Not only that, but the more information and experience you gather from a particular field, in this case music, the less likely you are to be surprised by a musical work. Again, often a lack of response is well earned, but it's not rare to succumb to the automatic deconstruction, dissection and classification of all new experiences based on older ones.
What a lousy introduction to a musical review.
Moving on, I'd like to tell you a short story about musical vanguards of the first half of the XXth century. Namely I'd like to mention, if only just for the record, the Futurist adventures into the realm of mechanic noise by the likes of Luigi Russolo, the electric adventures of Pierre Schaeffer and his Musique Concrète, where electrically produced sounds and textures mingle with more Academia-approved instrumentation, not unlike the acosumatic orchestras for amplifiers and microphones, and the emergent world of electronic music, by the hand of Stockhausen and Varèse alike. I'm chiefly talking about their common explorations of both the borders of the role electricity plays in music and how to go beyond them, and the borders between music, non-music and noise, and how to blur them. What are you going on about, you verbose lunatic?
Enter Ulver.
These might not be the most complex, most daring and challenging compositions; neither the "classical" bits nor the electronic bits are especially of note, from a technical point of view. A few violins play mournful and elongated melodies while cellos and contra-bass serve as both a guide and a support, and you've got yourself a dandy, accessible yet refined piece of contemporary classical (or academical) music. It's a formula that's been with us since, at the very least, the advent of Godspeed You Black Emperors. The electrical components of the music are perhaps of more interest, if a bit unsurprising if you're familiar with either Ulver's electronic forays since 1999 or that of some of the bigger names in Krautrock-derived electronic music (such as Manuel Göttsching) and the more successful (artistically speaking) Industrial acts such as Coil and Throbbing Gristle. These two sides of this coin result in a contemporary response (or reflex, even) to the base ideas those musical movements I mentioned earlier were trying to put to trial and did with historic success. Their influence, or rather, the influence of their ideas, made ripples that are still being felt today. This is called a segue.
So, you might be a bit confused now, and I understand your confusion. On the one hand I'm ranking this album rather high, but on the other I'm implying this album amounts to little more than a response to old vanguards. Well, you see, many people have, since the late 60's and especially in the 90's and 00's, either tried to recreate or simply continue the great ideas those men of vanguard had, to varied degrees of success. I would usually accuse them of being lazy revivalists or even worse, pretending to be pioneering something that had a name and a theory before they were even born. That is not the case in this particular department. Academic music does not evolve at the same rate than popular music, and the reason, more often than not, is technology, and the limitations of those who use it.
I cannot imagine what works like Mixtur (Stockhausen), Suite Pour 14 Instruments (Schaeffer) or even Risveglio Di Una Città (Russolo) would sound like, had they been composed today, with today's mindblowingly advanced recording, sound-producing and sound-managing technology and techniques.
Ulver can.
If you've humoured me enough to read this far, feeling a distinct feeling of lack inside the little space in your head you were going to use to store the gist of a proper musical review, here's my best attempt at narrowing it down: The Tromsø guys do their very best to give Ulver's eerie and everchanging Elektronische/Concrète landscapes both a foundation upon which unfold and a structure through which raise and play, from which suckle and on which play and dance. And they managed like champs. Imagine Shadows Of The Sun processed through a polarised filter made of equal parts Svidd Neger and Perdition City and you might get a glimpse at this work. But there are surprises in the way. Things I don't think I can describe in simple words. Experiments that perhaps force me to give the band credit where credit is not actually due. I've no idea whether Mr. Rygg even knows about Pierre Henry or Bernard Parmegiani, but it sure feels like an attempted hello and a very subtle one-up from him. Either way, the music, as usual, speaks for itself. And even though I understand its language, for I have heard it before, I've never heard it expressed in such a refreshed, resourceful and more importantly personal fashion.
This album is a great example (even for today's cynical and overexperienced standards) of contemporary academic music mixed with the very edges of Ulver Brand post-industrial ambient. While not nearly as ambitious, complex nor encompassing as the attempts of their predecessors (all the weird german, french and italian dudes I named throughout the review as if I was trying to impress someone), and definitely not as influential (this is not a "time shall tell" situation, sadly), this work gets a shining golden star from me because it is the image that the mirror of Today offers to those often frustrating albeit always awe-inspiring first steps towards contemporary experimental music, and Ulver are, in my mind, the only ones who were able to take such challenge. They took the challenge of being Today's representation of explorations more than seventy years old, and they managed. Not only that, but they managed to also remain Ulver in the process. Tracks like Son Of Man and Noche Oscura Del Alma retain all the tense emotion and almost cleric impetus of vintage Ulver, while, as a whole, the compositions are a strong response, a loud and clear answer to the call of yesteryear's vanguards: We Are Still Able.


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text: Prevent Knee Injury to Prevent OsteoarthritisIf you want to avoid knee osteoarthritis later in life, you may need to rethink the sports you play. Prevention - and injury - both take place in childhood and collegiate sports.By Madeline Vann, MPHMedically reviewed by Niya Jones MD, MPH People who play sports from childhood through college have a higher risk for knee osteoarthritis later in life, particularly if they sustain a knee injury during their years of play. The risk for joint pain and other arthritic symptoms among these elite athletes seems counterintuitive at first, but arthritic conditions often arise from the kind of high-impact, repetitive motions involved in sports such as running, soccer, and (for women) basketball. "I loved the endorphin rush of running," confesses John Kelly, MD, an associate professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. 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Bio: With four starring serials (and two in supporting roles) to her credit, as well as a string of B-Westerns with the likes of Hoot Gibson and Jack Hoxie, brunette Dorothy Gulliver was an action heroine of some stature in the early days of sound. Yet she is remembered solely for The Collegians, a series of two-reel comedies produced by Universal (who also cast her in… More Bio: With four starring serials (and two in supporting roles) to her credit, as well as a string of B-Westerns with the likes of Hoot Gibson and Jack Hoxie, brunette Dorothy Gulliver was an action heroine of some stature in the early days of sound. Yet she is remembered solely for The Collegians, a series of two-reel comedies produced by Universal (who also cast her in a 1929 feature version entitled College Love and voted her a 1928 WAMPAS Baby Star) and as a blowsy harridan in John Cassavetes' Faces (released 1968). This last comeback stunned Hollywood and there were whispers of a possible Academy Award. Alas, it was to be her final film. Gulliver is often credited with appearing as an old lady on a bus in the ill-fated Won Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976), but always vehemently denied any participation in the film.A former Miss Salt Lake City, Dorothy Gulliver was ready to sign with Paramount when she won another contest, this time conducted by Universal, who sent her to Hollywood. She starred opposite George J. Lewis and Eddie Phillips in all 44 installments of The Collegians (1926-1929), set at imaginary Calford College and did yeoman duty opposite the established serial team of William Desmond and Eileen Sedgwick in both The Winking Idol (1926) and Strings of Steel (1926). She became a serial star in her own right five years later but not at Universal, who had dismissed her along with most of their B-Western units at the changeover to sound. Picked up by low-budget Mascot Pictures, Gulliver played Tom Tyler's leading lady in the ten-chapter Phantom of the West (1931) and immediately established her potential as a latter-day serial queen. The Galloping Ghost (1931) with sports hero Harold "Red" Grange and The Shadow of the Eagle (1932), with John Wayne, followed and she co-starred opposite Lon Chaney Jr. (known at the time as Creighton Chaney) in RKO's sole attempt at serial making, The Last Frontier (1932). A non-movie-involved accident curtailed this long string of action successes and when she returned it was in independently produced fare, such as Fighting Caballero (1935) with Rex Lease and Custer's Last Stand (1935), from ultra low-budget Stage and Screen, and her final chapterplay. She would do the odd B-movie until 1942, but then concentrated on her marriage to publicist Jack Proctor. (A previous union, with assistant director Chester De Vito, had ended in divorce.) Gulliver reportedly appeared in summer stock in Laguna, CA, but she was all but forgotten when Cassavetes surprisingly chose her to play a middle-aged woman picking up young hustlers in Faces. Cassavates' slow, methodic way of filming astonished the veteran B-movie performer, who also got a kick out of appearing opposite such modern method actors as Gena Rowlands and John Marley. "They were all such fine actors," she told the Los Angeles Times, "but I admit I was amazed when this actress asked 'What is my motivation for going to the phone?'" ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi
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If you, in common with millions of contented swashbucklers the world over, love William Goldman's 'The Princess Bride', then the new Special Edition DVD from MGM will have you throwing away the previous bare-bones issue and rejoicing in the new.
Princess Bride, The: Special Edition
Directors: Rob Reiner
Producers: Andrew Scheinman, Rob Reiner
Writers: William Goldman
Features: Anamorphic (16.9) widescreen transfer. 5.1 dolby soundtrack; music by Mark Knopfler. Three 'making of' featurettes. Two optional audio commentaries: William Goldman and Rob Reiner Photo Gallery TV promos and movie trailers
Buttercup - Robin Wright
Westley - Cary Elwes
Inigo Monyoya - Mandy Patinkin
Fezzik - Andre the Giant
Vizzini - Wallace Shawn
Prince Humperdinck - Chris Sarandon
Count Rugen - Christopher Guest
Miracle Max - Billy Crystal
Mrs Miracle Max - Carol Kane
Grandfather - Peter Falk
Young Boy - Fred Savage
Impressive Clergyman - Peter Cook
Albino Monk/torturer - Mel Smith
Genre: Comedy
If you, in common with millions of contented swashbucklers the world over, love William Goldman's 'The Princess Bride', then the new Special Edition DVD from MGM will have you throwing away the previous bare-bones issue and rejoicing in the new.
This wonderful, joyous movie has now been issued in the way MGM should have from the first. The company should in fact give free replacements to all those who purchased the now worthless standard edition. For standard, read sub-par.
For a start, the movie has now been given the proper anamorphic transfer it deserves. The previous edition's straight letterbox widescreen transfer was good. But the extra resolution that comes with viewing in widescreen anamorphic mode has the image leaping from the screen. Colours are natural, particularly flesh tones, and the image is complemented by a very clean-sounding 5.1 Dolby soundtrack, to give justice to William Goldman's exhilarating dialogue and Mark Knopfler's music.
'The Princess Bride' is wittily directed by Rob Reiner, who earlier brought us the amazing 'This is Spinal Tap'. It is, very simply, a story of unconquerable romance, punctuated by rapier-like wit, steely strength, swashing swords and buckling beaus. The lovely Robin Wright plays the Princess Buttercup; Cary Elwes plays her beloved Wesley, who loses her, but wins her back, against all odds. He is abetted by Fezzik, played by the unbelievable but true Andre the Giant, and the greatest swordsman in the entire world (apart from Wesley, of course), Inigo Montoya, played by Mandy Patinkin.
Chris Sarandon as Humperdinck is chief villain, aided in cold-blooded fashion by Christopher Guest, one of the original Spinal Taps. Throw in performances by the likes of Billy Crystal, Wallace Shawn and Carol Kane, and this is a feast indeed. For dessert, try a taste of the late but always great English comedian Peter Cook, as The Impressive Clergyman ' impressive, that is, until he tries to speak. And then there's Peter Falk and Fred Savage (the boy from The Wonder Years) ' and strictly speaking, they're not even part of the story!
There are two optional audio commentaries, by the two most appropriate people of all, director Rob Reiner and writer William Goldman. I've heard brief portions of both, and they will make for absorbing listening one day ' I prefer to wait a few months after viewing a movie and then taking in optional audio tracks. And there are three 'the making of' features. Two of these date from the film's original release and are around eight minutes each; the third is new, and runs for about half an hour, with modern interviews with all the key players. It's fun, even if a tad repetitive at times about how 'this was just the best film any of us have ever worked on'what a great family we were' etc etc.
Cary Elwes has yielded up some home video footage to give us some behind-the-scenes shots he took during the making of the film, and to round the whole special package out, there are four TV promotion clips and two theatre shorts, and a photo gallery with four-score shots.
Yes, this is a case of obligatory replacement, I'm afraid. Give away your old edition to someone who can't appreciate anamorphic transfers, and rejoice in the new version of this film, a classic of our time.
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Most Kenyans and Tanzanians have not yet heard about a company called Scoul. When they eventually do, they will wear a scowl on their faces. For the Sugar Corporation Of Uganda Lugazi/Ltd is determined to cut down a third of the tropical rainforest on the northern shore of Lake Victoria, reportedly to plant sugarcane. The Ugandans who are fighting to save Mabira forest have so far kept their campaign local. As a result, Kenyans and Tanzanians as co-owners of Lake Victoria have been left out of the efforts to safeguard their lake, which directly supports the livelihoods of 30 million East Africans. The governments of Kenya and Tanzania owe it to their citizens to file an injunction against the cutting down of Mabira until Scoul presents incontrovertible scientific evidence that Lake Victoria will not be affected. It could even help to involve the international community in the campaign to save Mabira because matters of environmental protection should not remain local. The current Ugandan government has set a precedent by taking its domestic political problem of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army to the International Criminal Court. The threat to a major regional environmental resource by a sugar company should be reported to the relevant international bodies as well. However, the involvement of Kenya and Tanzania cannot be treated as involvement of outsiders, because they are direct stakeholders in the wellbeing of the climate and water resources around Lake Victoria. That is why the East African Community is the one spearheading and implementing the multimillion-dollar project to restore the health of Lake Victoria. Logically, the task could not be left to individual governments. Nor can the saving of Mabira forest from the threat of being cut down be left to the citizens of a single East African state. The grabbing process For the information of Kenyan and Tanzanian stakeholders who may have missed the saga, it started in or before 2007 when Scoul unveiled plans to acquire 7,100 hectares of the lush Mabira forest that lies half an hour's drive east of Kampala city to plant sugar cane. In 2007, thousands of people marched in Kampala's streets to protest the move and three people died in the process. The Uganda government thereafter appeared to shelve its plans to give away the gazetted forest reserve. Then, earlier this month, amid rising sugar prices, the government suddenly renewed its bid to give Scoul the forest. Many Ugandans suspect the sugar scarcities have been orchestrated, and that in any case there would be enough sugar produced for Uganda were it not for the lucrative South Sudan market that the manufacturers are eyeing.
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Neither political party is going to get kudos for what they failed to do a few weeks ago on visa reform. This is a pretty easy slam dunk for them, particularly if other companies come out for it.
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Recommendations include creation of 'manufacturing universities,' lower tax rates and more funding for trade agencies.
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The veteran sportswriter died Friday at the age of 72. Ziegel wrote mostly for the New York Post and New York Daily News. Here's the NY Times obit by Richard Goldstein. More tributes from the Daily News, (this one by Filip Bondy), and the Post (and another), as well as Greg Prince's Faith and Fear [...]
So here's a list of unusual injuries sustained by players this season, courtesy of SI.com's Hot Clicks blog: – Feb. 12: Brad Bergesen, Orioles: Strained his shoulder filming a TV commercial for the team. – May 29: Kendry Morales, Angels: Broke his leg celebrating a walk-off home run at home plate. – June 30: Luke [...]
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I agree with you all but this is NOT just in Memphis.This goes on everywhere especially in the military. I am sick of the mayor too but how is it someone (RTKoenig)can always manage to bring him up in every discussion.If we stop talking about the Mayor maybe he will go away.
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Lebanon could have large offshore gas fields
Lebanon may have more offshore natural gas deposits than Cyprus and Syria, based on a recent 3-D seismic survey, the CEO of Norway-based Spectrum Company said Thursday.
"My humble opinion based on the data that I have is that there is greater potential [for natural gas] offshore Lebanon than offshore Cyprus and offshore Syria," David Rowlands told The Daily Star over the telephone. He added that the Levantine basin offshore Lebanon was more perceptive than offshore Cyprus and Syria.
These results, Rowlands stressed, were based on data gathered from Lebanon, Cyprus and Syria by Spectrum and its partner Dolphin Geophysical, which is surveying the Lebanese coast with its high-capacity seismic vessel, M/V Polar Duke."We compared the data of offshore Lebanon with the data of offshore Cyprus and Syria."
But Rowlands declined to compare the potential size of Lebanon's natural gas to Israel.
M/V Polar Duke has been surveying the Lebanese coast since last Sunday and the initial results, according to officials in the company, were more than encouraging. "As of this morning, the Polar Duke has acquired 650 square kilometers off the Lebanese coast. The productivity of the vessel is excellent and much better than average," Rowlands explained.
He added that normally a 3-D vessel acquired about 50 km each day but Polar Duke was averaging 85 km each day off the Lebanese coast."We have achieved this result because the sea is very calm so the productivity is excellent," the CEO said.
Rowlands added that processing this data would not be completed until January 2013."The processing of the data will be then done onshore. The early results have shown us structure which has never been seen before. The geological structures are favorable for accumulation of gas and this has never been seen before at this early stage," Rowlands said.
He added that the area which the vessel was surveying was 3,000 square km in the southwest offshore Lebanon.Rowlands stressed that the prospects of finding oil off the Lebanese coast were good but noted that gas was still more favorable. He added that many of the energy companies that were waiting for the bidding for gas to start were very frustrated by the government's inability to name the six members for the Petroleum Committee which would oversee the issuance of the licenses.
"It is vitally important that the Lebanese government announce the petroleum administration so it can do its work and announce the opening of the first license. I talked to foreign oil companies and I can tell you that they are frustrated by the delay in appointing members of the administration." The Cabinet has failed to name the six members amid signs of deep differences between some ministers over who should be in the administration.
Energy and Water Minister Gebran Bassil said earlier that 26 foreign companies have expressed interest in exploring gas and oil off the Lebanese coast. "Some of the companies interested in exploring gas in Lebanon are following the politics in the country. Frustration is an understatement because the oil companies are very disappointed," Rowlands said. He added that the companies would be invited to bid for what is termed as "acreage" offshore Lebanon.
"Offshore Lebanon is a 22,000-square-km zone and the bidding companies will bid for blocs in this zone. The foreign oil companies will make the investment and drill the well. The Lebanese government will not pay anything because the foreign firms will make this investment," Rowlands said.
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Costa Rica: Human rights commission head 'believes sexual orientation can be changed'
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It is often the case that those who believe that sexuality is a mutable characteristic feel that way because, for the, it is.
Sexually confident men and women, whether gay or straight or bi, know that their sexual orientation is not subject to change.
Even if sexuality were mutable, so what? Why should someone change their sexual orientation? I wouldn't change my sexuality to suit this creep.
Yes if Christians and Muslims murder them or bully them until they kill themselves.
Human rights or religious rights commissioner? A 'little' difference between two must exist, even by weak imagination.
Religious people should have the right to practice their religion, not mistreat others and deny them rights. Get it through your brainwashed little mind
Says the woman who denies trans rights.
No, I don't support the right for people to enable a mental illness by mutilating their bodies and lying about their sex. On the other hand, I support the rights of people attracted to the same sex.
I could not read too much before I got angry.
It would appear that this man is not capable of thinking for himself as he reads the worlds oldest piece of fiction, the Bible.
Unlike sexuality, this man needs to change and be put out to pasture and not lead up a human rights organisation
If you are homophobic/heterosexist, you are already wrong.
So are you with youir transphobia.
Indeed D.McCabe that is the problem. These people don't think for themselves and clearly feel threatened by people like us that do.
Being gay IS natural. Being bi IS natural.
Being Trans is natural to transsexuals.
No, it's not. You're either female, male, or intersex. Surgery and hormones are not natural. You are naturally your biological sex.
Scientific evidence disagrees with your empty assertion.
It is wrong for people to follow most religions, especially Christianity. Do you know how evil the Bible is? Read Truth-Saves, Skeptics Annotated Bible, Evil Bible, God Is Imaginary.
If you're a person who believes fictious stories are real, you're pathetic. Like I said, "A delusion is a belief held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary".
I think he should be forced into gay sex, then. He'll more than likely enjoy it. Because conversion is easy, right?
This person is a little late on the band wagon we have already been through this. He needs to catch up and then resign.
Whose human rights is this guy protecting? Apparently, he thinks his job doesn't include protecting the human rights of LGBT people. He shoud be fired, not to mention screamed at every where he appears.
"Unfortunately I do believe that, because it was written in the Bible." How can a moron like this head a Commission on Human Rights? They are not recognised by the bible.
It's safe to assume that he's speaking from personal experience; he used to be straight but was then converted to gay (he should enlighten us how that conversion happened). Now he's your typical closeted gay homophobe with boyfriends on the DL.
It's too easy when these haters start talking about changing sexual orientation.
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Why? Did he change his?
Then he is deluded!
Only religion thinks you can and should change the way someone is born even though they are the ones choosing a lifestyle choice.
I seriously would like to witness someone straight going to these people wanting to be gay and seeing the reaction They get. Bet is wouldn't be polite.
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I had to chuckle when I read this Sunday s short piece entitled "Meet your child's new teacher" (USA Weekend, August 9-11). The article features one of the exciting innovations helping kids succeed in school, a robot named Projo. I was a bit perplexed as to why the robot was considered a new innovation. The […]
CPS turn-over surprising, intriguing
08/12/13 at 11:52am by Letters Editor | Comments
As a retired school head, I found Jessica Brown's story surprising and significant ("more than a third of the CPS' teaching force has turned over in the past three years, and the staff is getting younger." Aug. 9) It might be fascinating, further, to compare how these figures break down in individual CPS schools, including […]
Teaching evolution is unethical
08/06/13 at 11:55am by Letters Editor | Comments
I contend it is unethical to teach evolution (macro-evolution) as fact, when it is in reality a THEORY. Britannica.com says this about scientific theory: "theories are imaginative constructions of the human mind" "theories cannot ordinarily be tested and accepted on the same grounds as laws" Evolution (macro-evolution) is still a "theory" because it has NEVER […]
Teach both science and different beliefs
08/05/13 at 11:59am by Letters Editor | Comments
I follow with interest the subject of creationism vs. Science. I have no qualms with my grandchildren being taught theories of evolution. The 'Big Bang' may also be a valid explanation for our universe, but until science can explain to me how you get a primordial soup from a vacuum of nothingness, I believe teachers […]
It's unwise to mandate the teaching of creation
07/31/13 at 8:09am by Letters Editor | Comments
Two counter-arguments to the letter writers (July 27) seeking to protect their evolution-based belief system in public schools. Most creationists are not trying "to force" their views on others. Our view is that it is not wise to mandate the teaching of creation, for evolution-believing instructors will teach it poorly and the exercise will be […]
'One size fits all' system fails students
07/29/13 at 9:10am by Letters Editor | Comments
The editorial "Read, then write bill" (July 24) attacked opposition to Common Core, obscuring the opposition's concerns. Forcing schools into conformity with federal standards forces students into a "one size fits all" education system. Such a system means teachers and administrators will be unable to accommodate individual students or community needs. This has united conservatives […]
Suspension not enough for 'sexting' teacher
07/22/13 at 4:56pm by Letters Editor | Comments
Having spent 35 years in eight excellent independent (once called "private") schools, I can recall no situation in which a veteran teacher would have only had his license suspended for 45 days in the summer, been told to learn something about "appropriate teacher-student boundaries," and "no longer communicate with current students using social media," after […]
How can state education official not have answer?
07/19/13 at 8:38am by Letters Editor | Comments
I read Denise Amos's article "Teachers suspected of cheating" (July 13) with interest. I was surprised to see John Charlton's remark regarding the 42 cases of suspected cheating over the last two years. He said, "those cases were substantiated and resolved," but then he says he did not how many educators were fired, reprimanded, or […]
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MIAMI, Fla. (WAVY) - A missing North Carolina girl and a sex offender were reportedly located close to Miami.
Abigale Lefevers of Carteret County was last seen by her father on the evening of Sept. 23. When her father awoke the next morning shortly after 6 a.m., he noticed Abigale was missing.
Abigale was located unharmed and uninjured in Hallandale Beach, Fl. with 38-year-old Timothy Newman, a registered sex offender.
NBC affiliate WTVJ reports Newman was arrested near a Denny's restaurant shortly after his car was spotted by officers near Interstate 95.
Additionally, investigators say Newman and Abigale had been communicating via text in the past few weeks.
"Please, Abigale, if you're out there baby, please come home," Lefevers' father, Robert, told WITN in Greenville, North Carolina. "Daddy's not mad at you. I'm not mad at you, baby, please come home."
According to North Carolina Crime Control, Newman was driving a red 1998 Chrysler Sebring with a North Carolina license plate of AKT6534.
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I haven't sent mine yet (naughty me) but it will be going on Monday. I know at least one of the other pitch-ers hasn't sent hers and I think ?Jan said on one of the forums she had revisions to do on partial and I'm fairly certain she hadn't sent hers in either. I'm a foster carer and sometimes things happen and I don't write for weeks. I hope Flo won't be upset with me that I'm sending mine really late! I do have another partial already done that I could use for the fast track but I'm thinking a new story might grab their attention more.
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November 7th, 2013 - by: Angel Chernoff
50 Happiness Quotes to Change the Way You Think
"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
―Abraham Lincoln
It usually isn't what you have, where you are, or what you've been through that makes you happy or unhappy, it's how you think about it all. It starts on the inside. You control your thoughts. The only person who can hurt your happiness in the long run is YOU.
Here are 50 thought-provoking quotes about happiness gathered from recent entries in our blog archive that will help you think on the bright side.
- It only takes one person to make you happy and change your life: YOU.
- Your life will improve only when you take small chances, and the first and most difficult chance you can take is to be honest with yourself.
- Stop focusing on how stressed you are and remember how blessed you are. It could be so much worse.
- It is not what happens to you, but how you respond to what happens to you. Count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
- Look for something positive about this moment. Even if you have to look a little harder than usual, it still exists.
- When you smile about the life you live, you end up living a life worth smiling about.
- Remember, social comparison is the thief of happiness. You could spend a lifetime worrying about what others have, but it wouldn't get you anything. Keep reading →


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- The exam period for classes that meet Tuesday-Thurs 4 p.m. is now rescheduled to Saturday, 12/14/2013 from 8 a.m. - 10 a.m.
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Texas Instruments Is Selling Its Sensors Unit for $3 Billion
Texas Instruments said that it had reached a deal to sell its sensors and controls unit to a private equity firm, Bain Capital, for $3 billion in cash.
January 10, 2006, TuesdayTalks to Buy Sensor Maker
Bain Capital, the private equity firm, is near a deal to acquire the sensors and controls unit of Texas Instruments for more than $2.4 billion, executives involved in the deal said last night.
December 23, 2005, FridayTexas Instruments Profit Up 12%
Texas Instruments said that third-quarter profit rose 12 percent but that sales in its current quarter were lagging Wall Street estimates.
October 25, 2005, TuesdayTexas Instruments Will Offer a Video Technology Platform
Texas Instruments succeeded in transforming itself from the best-known maker of calculators to the largest seller of chips for mobile phones. Now it wants to repeat that success in the market for video chips.
September 08, 2005, Thursday'The Man Behind the Microchip': The Next Small Thing
Robert Noyce, who founded Intel and helped invent the microchip, is the subject of a new biography by Leslie Berlin.
August 28, 2005, SundayProfit Rises 42% at Chip Maker
DALLAS, July 25 (AP) - Texas Instruments, one of the world's largest semiconductor makers, said Monday that its second-quarter profit climbed 42 percent on stronger sales of core chip products and educational calculators.
July 26, 2005, TuesdayJack S. Kilby, an Inventor of the Microchip, Is Dead at 81
Jack S. Kilby, an electrical engineer whose invention of the integrated circuit gave rise to the information age, died Monday in Dallas.
June 22, 2005, WednesdayTexas Instruments Raises Forecasts
Texas Instruments raised its second-quarter earnings forecast, citing higher demand for semiconductor products and seasonal growth for educational calculators.
June 08, 2005, WednesdayTexas Instruments Posts Increase of 12% in First-Quarter Income
Texas Instruments, whose processors run more than half the mobile phones sold last year, said that profit might exceed analysts' estimates this period.
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He does nothing, but you fall for him, you miss him, even though you know he's never thought about you.
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- Waiter: "Would you like a table?"
- Me: "No, not at all. I came here to eat on the floor. Carpet for 5 please."
- 911: 911, what's your emergency?
- me: i'm hungry and there's no food to eat.
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Everyone has those words in their head that they wanna say. But It won't come out its like a cat got their tongue. But in a way they don't wanna say it because it might hurt you. They are just saying the words you wanna hear because they don't wanna make you mad. Because they know if they say what's on their mind it might frustrate you.
Be careful who you trust, and vent to. You never know who could turn against you. You never know if they are going to tell everyone your secrets. You will never know if will stay and who will leave.
Just keep your head up and keep smiling no matter the bullshit you're being put through, in the end.. its always worth it.
Those anonymous messages. Usually its says "your ugly" or "go to fucking hell" or even sometimes comparing you to other people. First of all..why would you want to send it anonymous in the first place? Second of all, why would you want to say it to anyone in the first place. This is for the anonymous people out there that are writing those messages to other people. You gotta understand that some people out there take it seriously, it lowers their self-esteem. Do you really want them to be jealous of all the girls at their school their whole life? Everyone has different faces structures, different eyes, lips, nose, eyebrows. Everyone is different. You shouldn't make them feel bad for what they look like and you shouldn't compare them either. Especially to someone their close too. I'm just saying ..instead of writing hurtful messages to other people, start writing nice messages.
I think I have a feeling i know who it is…but im not sure lol. But thanks anon ! (:
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Funeral For A Friend Added To Slam Dunk
The band are currently working on a brand new album, the follow-up to their 2011 full-length 'Welcome To Armageddon'.
Posted 4th April 2012, 9:04am in News, by Sarah Jamieson
Funeral For A Friend have been added to this year's Slam Dunk Festival line-up.The band announced earlier this week that they are currently working on a brand new album, which will be the follow-up to their 2011 full-length 'Welcome To Armageddon'.
The Welsh quintet join the likes of Taking Back Sunday, Every Time I Die, Mayday Parade, Forever The Sickest Kids, Made Do And Mend, Cancer Bats, Architects. The Blackout, Motion City Soundtrack, Say Anything, Hit The Lights, The Story So Far and Lower Than Atlantis, who have already been confirmed to perform at the two day festivals.
Slam Dunk Festival 2012 will take place at both Leeds University and Hatfield's University Of Hertfordshire on the 26th and 27th May, respectively.
Slam Dunk have also revealed details of two side shows; one set to take place in Wales and one in Scotland. Full details are as follows.
Slam Dunk Wales takes place at Cardiff University on Monday 28th May. Doors are at 5pm and the line-up, so far, is:
Taking Back Sunday, Motion City Soundtrack, Say Anything, Cancer Bats, While She Sleeps, Of Mice & Men, The Audition, Don Broco & Straight Lines
Slam Dunk Scotland takes place at Glasgow O2 ABC on Tuesday 29th May. Doors are at 6pm and the line-up, so far, is:
Taking Back Sunday, Motion City Soundtrack, Say Anything, Cancer Bats, Hit The Lights, The Story So Far
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Biden urges US lawmakers to hold off on any new Iran sanctions
Vice President Joe Biden led a high-powered delegation to Capitol Hill to try to persuade US lawmakers to hold off on any more sanctions against Iran and let delicate diplomatic talks over Tehran's nuclear program unfold.
President Barack Obama is convinced that there is the potential for an international deal to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon but worries that congressional pressure for additional sanctions could complicate negotiations.
Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew held a closed-door session with Senate Democratic leaders and Republican and Democratic members of the Senate Banking Committee to update them on major power talks with Iran. A new round of negotiations is set for next week in Geneva.
An official in Biden's office said the administration's message was that there may come a point when more sanctions are needed, but now may not be the best time for Congress to act.
But the appeal to wait is a tough sell in Congress, which tends to take a harder line on Iran than the administration. Several lawmakers said after the meeting they had not been convinced, and that fresh sanctions are needed to discourage Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
"I'm not ready to commit" to further delay, Robert Menendez, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a member of the Banking Committee, told reporters.
Republican Senator Mark Kirk, who strongly opposes any move to hold off on sanctions, said that if the banking committee delays its vote, he would seek to add more Iran sanctions to a defense authorization bill that could come to the Senate floor in November.
Others said they were more open to the appeal for a delay.
"I am mindful of the fact that maybe these discussions will bear fruit, and so we'll see," Republican Senator Mike Johanns said, although he added that any delay would not be long.
Democratic Senator Tim Johnson, chairman of the Banking Committee, said he had not yet decided whether to put off the committee's vote on new sanctions again. The banking panel, which has jurisdiction over sanctions bills, has delayed the measure from September at the administration's request.


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<![CDATA[Information about winners of area duplicate bridge clubs during November has been submitted as follows: * Nov. 4 -- Pierre Hoover and Stan Stankus * Nov. 7 -- Mary Peterson and Diana Turner * Nov. 11 -- Dave Lawhon and Stan Stankus * Nov. 14 -- William Jordan and Linda Jirka * Nov. 18 -- Carol Stansbury and Margie Brown; William Jordan and Linda Jirka * Nov. 21 -- William Jordan and Linda Jirka * Nov. 25 -- Stan Stankus and Pierre Hoover * Nov. 1 -- Dick Baltz and Lois Smith * Nov. 5 -- Connie Davis and John Uhrhammer * Nov. 8 -- Bob Lyons and Kay Hutchison * Nov. 12 -- Lynn Lawhon and Lois Smith * Nov. 15 -- Janey Buck and John Buck * Nov. 19 -- Janey Buck and John Buck * Nov. 26 -- Lois Smith and Lynn Lawhon.
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The narrator of The Zahir is a bestselling novelist who lives in Paris and enjoys all the privileges money and celebrity bring. His wife of ten years, Esther, is a war correspondent who has disappeared along with a friend, Mikhail, who may or may not be her lover. Was Esther kidnapped, murdered, or did she simply escape a marriage that left her unfulfilled? The narrator doesn't have any answers, but he has plenty of questions of his own. Then one day Mikhail finds the narrator and promises to reunite him with his wife. In his attempt to recapture a lost love, the narrator discovers something unexpected about himself.
The Brazilian author PAULO COELHO was born in 1947 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Before dedicating his life completely to literature, he worked as theatre director and actor, lyricist and journalist.
In 1986, PAULO COELHO did the pilgrimage to Saint James of Compostella, an experience later to be documented in his book The Pilgrimage.
In the following year, COELHO published The Alchemist. Slow initial sales convinced his first publisher to drop the novel, but it went on to become one of the best selling Brazilian books of all time.
Other titles include Brida (1990), The Valkyries (1992), By the river Piedra I sat Down and Wept (1994), the collection of his best columns published in the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S'o Paulo entitle Maktub (1994), the compilation of texts Phrases (1995), The Fifth Mountain (1996), Manual of a Warrior of Light (1997), Veronika decides to die (1998), The Devil and Miss Prym (2000), the compilation of traditional tales in Stories for parents, children and grandchildren (2001), Eleven Minutes (2003), The Zahir (2005)
During the months of March, April, May and June 2006, Paulo Coelho traveled to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his pilgrimage to Saint James of Compostella in 1986. He also held surprise book signings - announced one day in advance - in some cities along the way, to have a chance to meet his readers. In ninety days of pilgrimage the author traveled around the globe and took the famous Transiberrian train that took him to Vladivostok. During this experience Paulo Coelho launched his blog Walking the Path - The Pilgrimage in order to share with his readers his impressions.
Since this first blog Paulo Coelho has expanded his presence in the internet with his daily blogs in Wordpress (http://paulocoelhoblog.com), Myspace (http://www.myspace.com/paulocoelho) & Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Paulo-Coelho/11777366210). He is equally present in media sharing sites such as Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=paulabraconnot) and Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulo_coelho/sets) , offering on a regular basis not only texts but also videos and pictures to his readers.
From this intensive interest and use of the Internet sprang his bold new project: The Experimental Witch http://paulocoelhoblog.com/experimental-witch where he invites his readers to adapt to the screen his book The Witch of Portobello. You can still subscribe in this experiment!
Indeed Paulo Coelho is a firm believer of Internet as a new media and is the first Best-selling author to actively support online free distribution http://piratecoelho.wordpress.com of his work.