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Nilgiri mountains
Nilgiri Hills | |
View of Nilgiri Hills
Elevation | 2,637 m (8,652 ft) |
Translation | Blue Mountains (Sanskrit) |
Location | |
Location | Tamil Nadu, South India |
Range | Western Ghats |
Geology | |
Type | Fault[1] |
Age of rock | Cenozoic, 100 to 80 mya |
Climbing | |
Easiest route | NH 67 (Satellite view) or Nilgiri Mountain Railway |
The Nilgiri (Tamil: நீலகிரி, Badaga: நீலகி:ரி or blue mountains), often referred to as the Nilgiri Hills, are a range of mountains with at least 24 peaks above 2,000 metres (6,600 ft), in the westernmost part of Tamil Nadu state at the junction of Karnataka and Kerala states in Southern India. They are part of the larger Western Ghats mountain chain making up the southwestern edge of the Deccan Plateau.
The hills are separated from the Karnataka plateau to the north by the Moyar River and from the Anaimalai Hills and Palni Hills to the south by the Palghat Gap. The Nilgiris District of Tamil Nadu lies within these mountains. Its latitudinal and longitudinal dimensions are 130 km (Latitude: 11° 08' to 11° 37' N) by 185 km (Longitude: 76° 27' E to 77° 4' E). Central location is: 11°22′30″N 76°45′30″E / 11.37500°N 76.75833°E. It has an area of 2,479 square kilometres (957 sq mi).[2]
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has started evaluating the Western Ghats, Nilgiri Sub-Cluster (6,000+ km²) for selection as a World Heritage Site.[3] Such a site would include all of Mukurthi National Park in the south-eastern corner of the Nilgiris.
The Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, which includes the Nilgiri Hills, forms part of the UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves.
The first recorded use of the word Nila applied to this region can be traced to 1117 AD in the report of a general of Vishnuvardhana, King of Hoysalas, who in reference to his enemies, claimed to have "frightened the Todas, driven the Kangas underground, slaughtered the Pallavas, put to death the Malayalas, terrified King Kala and then proceeded to offer the peak of Nila Mountain (presumably Dodabetta) to Lakshmi, Goddess of Wealth.[4]
The original inhabitants of the Nilgiri Hills were the Toda, Badaga, Kota, Irula and kurumbas. The Nilgiri Hills were part of Chera Empire in ancient times. Later, the area came under the rule of the Western Ganga Dynasty, and then Hoysala empire in the 12th century. They then became part of the Kingdom of Mysore of Tipu Sultan who later surrendered them to the British in the 18th century.
The first Europeans to attempt the grueling climb to the Nilgiris included an enigmatic Jesuit priest, Father Fininicio, in 1603. They struggled up the mountains, avoiding elephants, tigers and other wild beasts, and met the Todas at the top.
In 1814, Mr, Keys, a sub-assistant, and Mr. McMahon, an apprentice in the Survey Department, ascended the hills by the Danaynkeucottah Pass, penetrated into the remotest parts, made plans, and sent in reports of their discoveries. As a result of these accounts, Messrs. Whish and Kindersley, two young Madras civilians, ventured up in pursuit of some criminal's taking refuge in the mountains, and proceeded to reconnoitre the interior. They soon saw and felt enough favorable climate and terrain to excite their own curiosity and that of others.[5]
In 1819, John Sullivan, the British Collector of Coimbatore, set out to explore the Nilgiris after obtaining an order from the British East India Company charging him to investigate the "origin of the fabulous tales that are circulated concerning the Blue Mountains to verify their authenticity and to send a report to the authorities".
With a detachment of Europeans and Indian sepoys, he set out on his mission on January 2, 1819. The journey involved crossing rough and harsh terrain, steep precipices and danger from wild animals. After an expedition that lasted for six days and loss of the lives of some of the expedition members, Sullivan finally reached a plateau from where he proudly hoisted the British flag.[6]
In May, 1819, the same tourists from Coimbatore, accompanied by Monsieur Leschnault de la Tour, naturalist to the King of France, repeated their excursion. They asserted the temperature in the shade to be 74 °F (23 °C) at a time when the temperature of the plains was up to 100 °F (38 °C). Such a climate within the tropics was considered so great an anomaly that few at first believed its existence.
After the early 1820s, the hills were developed rapidly under the British Raj because most of the land was by then privately owned by British citizens. It was a popular summer and weekend getaway for the British during the colonial days. In 1827 Ooty became the official sanatorium and the summer capital of the Madras Presidency. Many winding hill roads were built. In 1899, The Nilgiri Mountain Railway was completed by influential and enterprising British citizens with venture capital from the Madras government.[7]
Peaks in the Nilgiris[edit]
Doddabetta Peak, 4 km east southeast from Udhagamandalam, 11°24′10″N 76°44′14″E / 11.40278°N 76.73722°E, with a height of 2,637 metres (8,652 ft) is the highest point in the Nilgiris and the southern extent of the range. Kolaribetta (height: 2,630 metres (8,629 ft), Hecuba (2,375 metres (7,792 ft)), Kattadadu (2,418 metres (7,933 ft)) and Kulkudi (2,439 metres (8,002 ft)) are closely linked peaks in the west of Doddabetta range and nearby Udhagamandalam.
Snowdon (height: (2,530 metres (8,301 ft)) 11°26′N 76°46′E / 11.433°N 76.767°E is the northern extent of the range. Club Hill (2,448 metres (8,031 ft)) and Elk Hill (2,466 metres (8,091 ft)) 11°23′55″N 76°42′39″E / 11.39861°N 76.71083°E are significant elevations in this range. Snowdon, Club Hill and Elk Hill with Doddabetta, form the impressive Udhagamandalam Valley.
Devashola (height: 2,261 metres (7,418 ft)), notable for its blue gum trees, is in the south of Doddabetta range.
Kulakombai (1,707 metres (5,600 ft)) is east of the Devashola. The Bhavani Valley and the Lambton's peak range of Coimbatore district stretch from here.
Hullikal Durg: (height: 562 metres (1,844 ft)), 11°19′N 76°53′E / 11.317°N 76.883°E In the Kannada language, Hulikal Durg means Tiger Rock Fort. The Sanskrit name of his place is Bakasura Parvata. It is 3 km. southeast of Coonoor. Tropical pine forest flourishes at the base of this hill, while the valleys support green foliage.
Coonoor Betta (2,101 metres (6,893 ft)) is also called Teneriffe. It is on the northern side of the gorge, accommodating the Nilgiri Mountain Railway to Coonoor.
Rallia Hill (height: 2,248 metres (7,375 ft))11°25′N 76°53′E / 11.417°N 76.883°E is in the midst of a reserved forest and almost equidistant from Udhagamandalam and Kotagiri.
Dimhatti Hill (height: 1,788 metres (5,866 ft)) 11°26′N 76°01′E / 11.433°N 76.017°E is above the Gajalahatti pass, which provided a short cut from Mysore to the Carnatic plains and was of much strategic importance in the eighteenth century. This peak, dedicated to the deity Rangaswamy, is considered holy by the people of the surrounding villages.
Nilgiris Peaks in Mukurthi National Park[edit]
On the Nilgiri Plateau, the Kundah range of the Nilgiri hills is a ridge on the southwestern side of Mukurthi National Park bordering Kerala. With elevations greater than the general level of the plateau, the range possesses some peaks close to the height of Doddabetta.
Avalanche hill of this range has the twin-peaks of Kudikkadu (height: 2,590 metres (8,497 ft)) and Kolaribetta (2,630 metres (8,629 ft)).
Derbetta (or Bear Hill) (height: 2,531 metres (8,304 ft)) and Kolibetta (height: 2,494 metres (8,182 ft)), south of the Ouchterlony valley, are a continuation of the Kundah range.
Mukurthi Peak 2,554 metres (8,379 ft)) 11°23′29″N 76°31′38″E / 11.39139°N 76.52722°E, Pichalbetta (height: 2,544 metres (8,346 ft)) and Nilgiri Peak (2,474 metres (8,117 ft)) 11°24′0″N 76°30′4″E / 11.40000°N 76.50111°E are the important heights of this area. These three hills of the Wayanad district are generally low in relation to other heights of the district but are distinguished in relation to the generally uniform level of this area.
Maruppanmudi hill (height: 1,528 metres (5,013 ft)) 11°31′N 76°27′E / 11.517°N 76.450°E is 10 km northwest of Gudalur.
Other heights deserving notice are Needle Rock, Hadiabetta Hill (height: 1,155 metres (3,789 ft)), Glulur hill (1,148 metres (3,766 ft)).
Chinna Doddabetta (height: 2,392 metres (7,848 ft)) 11°28′N 76°45′E / 11.467°N 76.750°E is about 5 km south of Udhagamandalam. Konabetta: (height: 1,880 metres (6,168 ft)) 11°30′N 76°46′E / 11.500°N 76.767°E is about 5 km, northnortheast of Udhagamandalam. It is also called Sigur Peak. Koodal Betta (height: 2,183 metres (7,162 ft)) 11°28′N 76°50′E / 11.467°N 76.833°E means 'Echoing rock'. It is about 13 km north-east of Udhagamandalam. Kundah Betta (1,998 metres (6,555 ft)) 11°07′N 76°43′E / 11.117°N 76.717°E is about 10 km south-southwest of Udhagamandalam. Kundah Mugi (2,344 metres (7,690 ft)) 11°24′N 76°51′E / 11.400°N 76.850°E is about 11 km east of Udhagamandalam.
Dolphin's Nose 11°22′N 76°51′E / 11.367°N 76.850°E is a promonotory over the Kotagiri valley about 6 km east-northeast of Coonoor. The place provides an excellent view of the Catherine falls and a vast expanse of verdant plains. Ibex Hill 11°27′N 76°35′E / 11.450°N 76.583°E is about 17 km west-southwest of Udhagamandalam. It is a straight cliff in the proximity of Sigur Pass.
Muttunadu Betta (height: 2,323 metres (7,621 ft)) 11°27′N 76°43′E / 11.450°N 76.717°E is about 5 km, north northwest of Udhagamandalam. Tamrabetta (Coppery Hill) (height: 2,120 metres (6,955 ft)) 11°22′N 76°48′E / 11.367°N 76.800°E is about 8 km southeast of Udhagamandalam. Vellangiri (Silvery Hill) (2,120 metres (6,955 ft)) is 16 km west-northwest of Udhagamandalam.[8]
List of peaks in the Nilgiri Hills[edit]
No. | Local name | Height | English name | Location |
1 | Anginda peak | 2,383 metres (7,818 ft) | 11°12′26″N 76°27′51″E / 11.20722°N 76.46417°E | |
2 | Chinna Doddabetta | 2,392 metres (7,848 ft) | ||
3 | C | 2,448 metres (8,031 ft) | Club Hill | |
4 | Coonoor Betta | 2,101 metres (6,893 ft) | Teneriffe | |
5 | Derbetta | 2,531 metres (8,304 ft) | Bear Hill | |
6 | Devashola | 2,261 metres (7,418 ft) | ||
7 | Dimhatti Hill | 1,788 metres (5,866 ft) | 11°26′N 76°01′E / 11.433°N 76.017°E | |
8 | Doddabetta Peak | 2,637 metres (8,652 ft) | ||
9 | D | Dolphin's Nose | 11°22′09″N 76°51′33″E / 11.36917°N 76.85917°E | |
10 | E | 2,466 metres (8,091 ft) | Elk Hill | 11°23′55″N 76°42′39″E / 11.39861°N 76.71083°E |
11 | Glulur hill | 1,148 metres (3,766 ft) | 11°28′N 76°45′E / 11.467°N 76.750°E | |
12 | Gulkal Malai | 2,467.7 metres (8,096 ft) | 11°14′47″N 76°28′1″E / 11.24639°N 76.46694°E | |
13 | Hadiabetta Hill | 1,155 metres (3,789 ft) | ||
14 | Hecuba | 2,375 metres (7,792 ft) | ||
15 | Hullikal Durg | 0,562 metres (1,844 ft) | Tiger Rock Fort | 11°19′N 76°53′E / 11.317°N 76.883°E |
16 | I | Ibex Hill | 11°27′N 76°35′E / 11.450°N 76.583°E | |
17 | Kattadadu | 2,418 metres (7,933 ft) | ||
18 | Kolaribetta | 2,630 metres (8,629 ft) | ||
19 | Kolibetta | 2,494 metres (8,182 ft) | ||
20 | Konabetta | 2,066 metres (6,778 ft) | Sigur Peak. | 11°30′N 76°46′E / 11.500°N 76.767°E |
21 | Koodal Betta | 2,183 metres (7,162 ft) | Echoing rock | 11°28′N 76°50′E / 11.467°N 76.833°E |
22 | Kudikkadu | 2,590 metres (8,497 ft) | Avalanche Hill | |
23 | Kulakombai | 1,707 metres (5,600 ft) | ||
24 | Kulkudi | 2,439 metres (8,002 ft) | ||
25 | Kundah Betta | 1,998 metres (6,555 ft) | 11°07′N 76°43′E / 11.117°N 76.717°E | |
26 | Kundah Mugi | 2,344 metres (7,690 ft) | 11°24′N 76°51′E / 11.400°N 76.850°E | |
27 | Muttunadu Betta | 2,323 metres (7,621 ft) | ||
28 | Mukurthi Peak | 2,554 metres (8,379 ft) | 11°23′29″N 76°31′38″E / 11.39139°N 76.52722°E | |
29 | Maruppanmudi hill | 1,528 metres (5,013 ft) | 11°31′N 76°27′E / 11.517°N 76.450°E | |
30 | Nadugani Peak | 2,320 metres (7,612 ft) | 11°13′48″N 76°27′37″E / 11.23000°N 76.46028°E | |
31 | N | 1,438 metres (4,718 ft) | Needle Rock | |
32 | Nilgiri Peak | 2,474 metres (8,117 ft) | 11°24′0″N 76°30′4″E / 11.40000°N 76.50111°E | |
33 | Pichalbetta | 2,544 metres (8,346 ft) | ||
34 | R | 2,248 metres (7,375 ft) | Rallia Hill | 11°25′N 76°53′E / 11.417°N 76.883°E |
35 | S | 2,530 metres (8,301 ft) | Snowdon | 11°25′27″N 76°43′45″E / 11.42417°N 76.72917°E |
36 | Tamrabetta | 2,120 metres (6,955 ft) | Coppery Hill | |
37 | Vellangiri | 2,120 metres (6,955 ft) | Silvery Hill | |
38 | Rangaswamy Peak and Pillar | 1,794 metres (5,886 ft) | 11°27′39″N 76°59′13″E / 11.46083°N 76.98694°E | |
39 | Kilkotagiri bettu | 2,000 metres (6,562 ft) |
The highest waterfall, Kolakambai Fall, north of Kolakambai hill, has an unbroken fall of 400 feet (120 m). Nearby is the 150 feet (46 m) Halashana falls Second is Catherine Falls, near Kotagiri, with a 250-foot (76 m) fall, named after the wife of M.D. Cockburn, believed to have introduced coffee plantations to the Nilgiri Hills. The Upper and Lower Pykara falls have falls of 180 feet (55 m), and 200 feet (61 m), respectively. The 170 feet (52 m) Kalhutti Fall is off the Segur Peak. The Karteri Fall, near Aruvankadu had the first power station which supplied the original Cordite Factory with electricity. Law's Fall, near Coonoor, is interesting due to its association with the engineer Major G. C. Law who supervised building of the Coonoor Ghat road.[2]
Over 2700 species of flowering plants, 160 species of fern and fern allies, countless types of flowerless plants, mosses, fungi, algae, land lichens are found in the sholas of the Nilgiris. No other Hill station has so many exotic species.[9]
The Nilgiri tahr animal can be found in the hills.[10]
Much of the Nilgiris natural Montane grasslands and shrublands interspersed with sholas has been much disturbed or destroyed by extensive tea plantations, easy motor vehicle access and extensive commercial planting and harvesting of non-native eucalyptus and wattle plantations (Acacia dealbata, Acacia mearnsii and cattle grazing.[11] In addition there is one large, and several smaller hydro-electric impoundments in the area.[12] Scotch broom has become an ecologically damaging invasive species.[13]
Threatened plants of the Nilgiris include the Vulnerable species: Miliusa nilagirica, Nothapodytes nimmoniana, Commelina wightii and
Rare species: Ceropegia decaisneana Ceropegia pusilla, Senecio kundaicus and endangered species: Youngia nilgiriensis, Impatiens neo-barnesii, Impatiens nilagirica, Euonymus angulatus and Euonymus serratifolius.[14]
Visitor information[edit]
The Nilgiri hills can be reached by the Nilgiri Mountain Railway.[15]
The best trekking seasons are April–June and September–December.[16] Application for trekking permits should be made in advance with the Wildlife warden.[17]
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- ^ UNESCO, World Heritage sites, Tentative lists, Western Ghats (sub cluster nomination), retrieved 4/20/2007 World Heritage sites, Nilgiri Sub-Cluster
- ^ Pai, Mohan (January 15, 2009). "...and they created little England". The Western Ghats - Hill Stations (the-western-ghats-by-mohan-pai-hill-stations, Egmore, Chennai). pp. Ootacamund.
- ^ Burton, Richard Francis, ((1851)). "Nilgiri Hills (India), Description and travel; Nilgiri Hills (India), Social life and customs". Goa, and the Blue Mountains, or, Six months of sick leave. London: R. Bentley.
- ^ "To the Bue Mountains". The Hindu. 2005-10-06. Retrieved 2006-03-17.[dead link]
- ^ "Ooty Queen of hill stations". www.ooty.com. Retrieved 2011-06-05.
- ^ District Administration, Nilgiris (8/20/2007) National Informatics Centre, Nilgiris, retrieved 8/31/2007 Hills and Peaks
- ^ The District Collector, Collector's Office, Udhagamandalam, The Nilgiris District, Tamil Nadu, General Information, RARE TREES, FRUITS, FLOWERS & ANIMALS retrieved 9/2/2007.
- ^ "Nilgiri Tahr". WWF. Retrieved 8 March 2013.
- ^ Davidar, E. R. C. 1978. Distribution and status of the Nilgiri tahr (Hemitragus hylocrius) 1975-1978. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society; 75: 815-844.
- ^ Rice, C G Dr (1984) US Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, USA, "The behaviour and ecology of Nilgiri Tahr", Tahr Foundation, retrieved 4/17/2007.[dead link]
- ^ Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 103 (2-3), May-Dec 2006 356-365 HABITAT MODIFICATIONS BY SCOTCH BROOM CYTISUS SCOPARIUS INVASION OF GRASSLANDS OF THE UPPER NILGIRIS IN INDIA, ASHFAQ AHMED ZARRI1, 2, ASAD R. RAHMANI1,4 AND MARK J. BEHAN3[dead link]
- ^ Nayar & Sastry (1987-88) Red Data Book, Plants of India Threatened Plants of Tamil Nadu
- ^ "Nilgiri Mountain Railway". railtourismindia.com. Retrieved 8 March 2013.
- ^ Venugopal Dharmalingam (7/8/2002) The Hindu, retrieved 8/25/2007 Stairway to heaven, up the blue mountain[dead link]
- ^ K. Kalyanasundaram (2005) "Wildlife sanctuaries of Tamilnadu - Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary - National Park", Tamil Electronic Library, retrieved 4/4/2007 Wildlife sanctuaries of Tamilnadu
External links[edit]
Media related to Nilgiris at Wikimedia Commons
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text: To print this article open the file menu and choose Print. Click here to return to previous page Article published Dec 23, 2012 Sharing a gift of joyRobert Nemeth Depressed by that horrible tragedy in a Connecticut elementary school, I had a hard time choosing a topic for my next column that was to appear a couple of days before Christmas. I didnĺt want to write about the killing of 26 people, including 20 small children in their classrooms, for what is there to say that hasnĺt been said, time and again, about this gun-crazed society where the killerĺs own gun-packing mother was known to take her son to target practice and then became a target herself? I was looking for something cheerful when I remembered my recent encounter with Tony King at the Pucker Gallery on Newbury Street in Boston. He and his wife, Judy, had a joint exhibition of their respective art there: his photography and her collages. When asked what he was doing these days, he replied: ôIĺm publishing small books for little children.ö They come in two sizes: The smaller ones, called ôLook Around Books,ö measure just 4 by 2 Ż inches, and the larger ones, titled ôGoing Home Books, are 7 by 5 inches. ôThe little ones are to encourage children to pay attention to out-of-doors, and the larger ones are to celebrate and share what pleasure and fun Iĺve had living when and where I have,ö he explained. Illustrated by his striking photography, these booklets are both entertaining and enlightening. The introduction to the ôLook Around Booksö states the mission: ôEach of these small books aims to help children make friends with their large-capacity, our large-capacity. 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last updated: February 19, 2013
- Hoover Institution: Senior Fellow
- Rice Hadley Group: Cofounder
- State Department: Secretary of State (2005-2009)
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Condoleezza Rice is a conservative academic and writer who served as national security adviser and later secretary of state in the George W. Bush administration.[1] After leaving the administration, Rice became a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution—a hawkish think tank where Rice had been based before Bush was elected—and co-founded with fellow ex-Bush official Stephen Hadley the consulting firm the Rice Hadley Group.[2]
From her perch at Hoover, Rice has written op-eds for major news and opinion outlets covering mainly foreign policy, including everything from relations with Russia (one of Rice's specialties) to the impact of the Arab Spring."[3] She also worked to boost the 2012 GOP presidential ticket of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, implying in her public statements that President Obama was weak in his leadership on foreign affairs, despite his string of foreign policy successes during his first term, including most notably the killing of Osama bin Laden and bringing the Iraq War to an end.
During her speech at the 2012 Republican Party Convention in Tampa, Florida, Rice said: "We cannot be reluctant to lead. And you cannot lead from behind. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand this reality, that our leadership abroad and our well-being at home are inextricably linked." She then added, paraphrasing a rallying cry of neoconservative groups like the Center for Security Policy, "Our adversaries must have no reason to doubt our resolve because peace really does come through strength."[4]
Earlier in 2012, after protests erupted in Russia over the election of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as president, Rice wrote that "this victory may be both Putin's last and the final one for Putinism. The future turns on the behavior of a rising Russian middle class that is integrated into the world and alienated by the Kremlin's corrupt politics." She concluded that the United States has "a stake in their success and an obligation to help them achieve it." Rice, a former board member at the Chevron oil company, conceded that the United States did not have much influence on the outcome, but suggested that the United States could assist the Russian protesters by speaking out for human rights—and by developing its own domestic energy resources. "Undoubtedly," she wrote, "lower oil prices would rob the Kremlin of the easy money that fuels corruption, personal fortunes and authoritarianism. This is yet another compelling argument for developing North America's significant sources of energy."[5]
Rice saw a bigger hand for the United States in Egypt following the fall of dictator Hosni Mubarak, although she expressed a measure of regret for past U.S. policies in the region. In a February 2011 Washington Post op-ed published shortly after Mubarak's ouster, Rice conceded that "the United States had, in the Middle East more than any other region, sought stability at the expense of democracy, and had achieved neither." Although U.S. support for Egypt's military had sustained the Mubarak regime for decades, Rice suggested preserving such ties during Egypt's democratic transition, "We cannot determine the foreign policy preferences of Egypt's next government," she admitted. "But we can influence them through our ties to the military, links to civil society, and a promise of economic assistance and free trade to help improve the lot of the Egyptian people. The most important step now is to express confidence in the future of a democratic Egypt."[6]
Secretary of State
Rice served as a secretary of state during Bush's second term, replacing Colin Powell. Her tenure was marked in part by her efforts to revive U.S. diplomacy, which had severely languished during Bush's first term. In an apparent departure from the preemptive, go-it-alone posture that had dominated U.S. policy in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Bush allowed Rice to attempt to repair relations with key allies in Europe and elsewhere, initiate talks with "enemy" states like Iran, and pursue multilateral diplomatic efforts, most notably in response to North Korea's provocative missile tests in July 2006.[7] Commenting on the administration's restrained response to those tests, Time magazine observed, "Under the old Bush Doctrine, defiance by a dictator like Kim Jong Il would have merited threats of punitive U.S. action—or at least a tongue lashing. Instead, the administration has mainly been talking up multilateralism and downplaying Pyongyang's provocation. As much as anything, it's confirmation of what Princeton political scientist Gary J. Bass calls 'doctrinal flameout.' Put another way: cowboy diplomacy, RIP."[8]
This diplomatic shift was applauded both at home and abroad, despite the vociferous criticism of many hard-line nationalists and neoconservatives in the United States. Once again crying "appeasement," groups like the Center for Security Policy (CSP) and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) excoriated the administration for a supposed failure of nerve in the face of "existential threats." In a June 7, 2006 National Review article entitled "Is Bill Clinton Still President?" AEI scholar Michael Ledeen characterized the "appeasement of North Korea" thus: "We're offering light-water reactors, which aren't as dangerous as heavy-water reactors, we won't give them anything unless they agree to stop enrichment, blah, blah, blah. All of which is true, and totally insane, since a madman is, famously, a person who thinks that he will produce a different outcome by doing the same thing over and over again."[9]
Similarly, in mid-2006, CSP attacked Rice for her efforts to pursue negotiations with Iran. A CSP editorial said, "In the face of intensifying Iranian intransigence and provocations, President Bush has decided to adopt the recommendations of appeasement-prone subordinates. The decision announced by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice today that the United States would be prepared to participate directly—as opposed to through European and United Nations proxies—in negotiations with the terrorist-sponsoring mullahocracy in Tehran, if only it will promise to suspend its nuclear weapons activities, will only reward and lead to more of such behavior."[10]
But Rice's diplomatic turn was also trumped by her use of hawkish crisis rhetoric. After the outbreak of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah in July 2006, for example, Rice echoed neoconservatives like Richard Perle in arguing that the Israeli strikes are "an entirely appropriate response to the existential struggle in which Israel is now engaged."[11] Rice rejected calls for an early ceasefire, arguing that it "would be a false promise if it simply returns us to the status quo." As for the destruction wrought by the Israeli strikes, Rice commented that these were the "birth pangs of a new Middle East."[12]
Contradictory postures were also apparent in the Rice State Department's dealings with Iran. While offering direct negotiations with Iran if the country were to cease its uranium enrichment program, State promoted regime-change strategies, budgeting some $85 million for this purpose and establishing a bevy of specialized outfits—including the Office of Iranian Affairs and the Iran-Syria Policy and Operations Group—which at minimum seemed aimed at communicating that the administration's real goal was overturning Tehran's "mullahocracy." As Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations and a State Department official under Colin Powell, told the Los Angeles Times, "We are telling Iran, 'We want regime change, but while you're still here, we'd like to negotiate with you to stop your nuclear program.' "[13]
Commenting on Rice's first months at State, which included refusing to a give a post to John Bolton, the Washington Post's Jackson Diehl wrote: "The emerging picture is of a secretary of state focused on solving problems and cutting deals with key allies. That necessarily means toning down U.S. preeminence and occasionally compromising on the hot-button causes of U.S. conservatives, such as Cuba or the [International Criminal Court]. Colin Powell tried and failed to lead Bush's first-term foreign policy in that direction. If her first months are any indication, Condoleezza Rice will make pragmatism a stronger feature of the second term."[14]
NSC Record
Rice's tenure as Bush's national security advisor was plagued with controversy. Her assistant, Stephen Hadley, took the fall for the administration's effort to push the idea that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger, thereby throwing a harsh light on the NSC. According to the Washington Post, then-CIA Director George Tenet told Hadley that the Niger allegations, which Bush and Cheney repeatedly used as a justification for invading Iraq, were probably bogus and should be discarded.[15]
Both Hadley and Rice were subjects of the 9/11 Commission's investigation of the intelligence failures that preceded the attacks. Even though both had seen a counterterrorism report in August 2001 warning that Al Qaeda was planning an attack on the United States, Rice told the commission, "There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks. There was nothing demonstrating or showing that something was coming in the United States. If there had been something, we would have acted on it."[16]
During the debate over her nomination as secretary of state, lawmakers charged Rice with refusing to acknowledge errors in planning or judgment and avoiding accountability for the absence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. "In the end, I could not excuse Dr. Rice's repeated misstatements," Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), said of his vote against Rice. Massachusetts Senators Edward M. Kennedy and John Kerry were among the Democrats who also voted against her.[17]
As the Washington Post reported in a front-page story on Rice, "She has ... become enmeshed in the controversy over the administration's use of intelligence about Iraq's weapons in the run-up to the war. She has been made to appear out of the loop by colleagues' claims that she did not read or recall vital pieces of intelligence. And she has made statements about U.S. intelligence on Iraq that have been contradicted by facts that later emerged. Either she missed or overlooked numerous warnings from intelligence agencies seeking to put caveats on claims about Iraq's nuclear weapons program, or she made public claims that she knew to be false."[18]
Professional Trajectory
Prior to Bush's election in 2000, Rice was known for advocating a restrained foreign policy, one that would be strictly tied to U.S. national interests. But Rice quickly expressed a new comfort level with the aggressive ideological agendas promoted by the likes of Paul Wolfowitz and Dick Cheney. In September 2002, for instance, she famously claimed, "There will always be some uncertainty about how quickly [Saddam Hussein] can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."[19]
Despite her association with the neoconservative agenda during Bush's first term, it would be inaccurate to describe Rice as a neoconservative, even if parts of her background and record—including her shift from the political left to the right—are similar to that of others affiliated with that political faction. Regarding her decision to leave the Democratic Party for the Republicans, Rice said: "I found a party that sees me as an individual, not as part of a group. In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you come from—it matters where you are going." After joining the administration, Rice often resorted to neocon-flavored rhetoric, as in her February 2003 remark: "Power matters. But there can be no absence of moral content in American foreign policy, and furthermore, the American people wouldn't accept such an absence. Europeans giggle at this and say we're naive and so on, but we're not Europeans, we're Americans—and we have different principles."[20]
Since the mid-1980s, Rice has moved briskly through the revolving door connecting government, corporate America, academia, and think tanks. Rice got her start in government in 1986, when she received a Council on Foreign Relations fellowship to serve on the strategic planning staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. During the administration of President George H.W. Bush, Rice was an assistant to the National Security Council (NSC), where she became a go-to person for Soviet affairs. Bush senior once told Gorbachev: "This is Condoleezza Rice. She tells me everything I know about the Soviet Union."[21]
Rice's ties with corporate America include her former membership on the boards of Transamerica Corporation, Hewlett Packard, and Chevron. Chevron named an oil tanker after her but renamed it after she became national security advisor.
Over the years, Rice developed a close relationship with the Bush family, including with former first lady Barbara Bush. During the two years prior to the election of George W. Bush, Rice was one of the most frequent overnight guests at the governor's mansion in Austin. During the presidential campaign, Rice repeatedly demonstrated her loyalty to candidate Bush, once referring to him as "someone of tremendous intellect."
When George W. Bush began assembling advisors for his run at the White House, his foreign policy team, which included Rice, was nicknamed the "Vulcans," a reference to the Roman god of fire and metal, as well as to Rice's hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, which is known as the center of the Southern steel industry. Among the other Vulcans were Stephen Hadley, Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz. "The Vulcans," wrote James Mann in his 2004 history of the Bush war cabinet, "represented the generation that bridged what are commonly depicted as two separate and distinct periods of modern history: Cold War and post-Cold War. For the Vulcans, the disintegration of the Soviet Union represented only a middle chapter in the narrative, not the end or the beginning."[22]
A year before Bush took office, Rice wrote a widely noted essay in Foreign Affairs entitled "Promoting the National Interest." Her prescription for a new U.S. foreign policy centered on a critique of Clinton policy, which she argued was disconnected from U.S. national interests and was tied too closely to multilateral concerns. "Foreign policy in a Republican administration will proceed from the firm ground of the national interest, not from the interests of an illusory international community," she wrote. According to Rice, "multilateral agreements and institutions should not be ends in themselves" and measures such as the Kyoto Protocol and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty would constrain U.S. national interests. The United States, she argued, should return to the core principle that "power matters." Rice asserted that rather than "exercising power legitimately only when doing so on behalf of someone else," the United States should focus solely on pursuing its national interest. The "second-order effect" of this pursuit, she said, would be that the rest of the world would benefit. Concerning Iraq, Rice wrote: "Nothing will change until Saddam is gone, so the United States must mobilize whatever resources it can, including support from the opposition, to remove him."[23]
Rice's books include Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (1995) with Philip Zelikow; The Gorbachev Era (1986) with Alexander Dallin; and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army (1984).
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Condoleezza Rice Résumé
- Hoover Institution: Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow
- Stanford University: Professor, Political Science; Former Provost
- Council on Foreign Relations: Member, Former Fellow
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Fellow
- Flora Hewlett Foundation: Former Board Member
- University of Notre Dame: Former Board Member
- Carnegie Corporation: Former Board Member
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Former Board Member
- National Council for Soviet and East European Studies: Former Board Member
- Secretary of State (2005-2009)
- National Security Advisor (2001-2005)
- Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for Soviet Affairs: George H.W. Bush Administration
- National Security Council: Director of Soviet and East European Affairs (1989)
- Joint Chiefs of Staff: Council on Foreign Relations Fellow on Nuclear Strategic Planning (late 1980s)
- Advisory Committee on Gender/Integrated Training in the Military: Member, 1997
- Chevron: Former Board Member
- Hewlett Foundation: Former Board Member
- Charles Schwab: Former Board Member
- J.P. Morgan: Former Member, International Advisory Board
- Transamerica Foundation: Former Board Member
- Hewlett Packard: Former Board Member
- University of Denver: B.A. in Political Science
- University of Notre Dame: M.A. in Political Science
- University of Denver's Graduate School of International Studies: PhD
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[1] Hoover Institution, "Condoleezza Rice," http://www.hoover.org/bios/rice.html.
[2] Janine Zacharia, "Rice, Hadley Form Firm to Help U.S. Companies Invest Abroad," Bloomberg, November 12, 2009.
[3] Hoover Institution, Condoleezza Rice: Op-Ed Archive, http://www.hoover.org/news/daily-report/by-author/10078.
[4] Gregory Krieg, "Condoleezza Rice Hits Obama On Foreign Policy," ABC News, August 29, 2012, http://news.yahoo.com/condoleezza-rice-hits-obama-foreign-policy-020948614.html.
[5] Condoleezza Rice, "The promise of Russia's urban middle class," Washington Post, March 8, 2012, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-russias-urban-middle-class-can-bring-an-end-to-putinism/2012/03/08/gIQA1FL1zR_print.html.
[6] Condoleezza Rice, "The future of a democratic Egypt," Washington Post, February 16, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/15/AR2011021504306.html?hpid=opinionsbox1.
[7] Mike Allen and Romesh Ratnesar, "The End of Cowboy Diplomacy," Time, July 17, 2006.
[8] Mike Allen and Romesh Ratnesar, "The End of Cowboy Diplomacy," Time, July 17, 2006.
[9] Michael Ledeen, "Is Bill Clinton Still President?" National Review, June 7, 2006.
[10] Center for Security Policy, "Burns Fiddles While Tehran Arms," Security Forum, No. 06-F12, May 31, 2006.
[11] Richard Perle, "An Appropriate Response," New York Times, July 22, 2006.
[12] Rami G. Khouri, "Rice's Fantasy Ride," TomPaine.com, July 24, 2006.
[13] Laura Rozen, "U.S. Moves to Weaken Iran," Los Angeles Times, May 19, 2006, p. A29.
[14] Jackson Diehl, "The Rice Touch," Washington Post, May 9, 2005, p. A23
[15] Dana Milbank and Mike Allen, "Iraq Flap Shakes Rice's Image," Washington Post, July 27, 2003.
[16] CNN.com, transcript of Rice's 9/11 commission statement, www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/08/rice.transcript/.
[17] "Rice Sworn in as Secretary of State," CNN.com, January 27, 2005
[18] Dana Milbank and Mike Allen, "Iraq Flap Shakes Rice's Image," Washington Post, July 27, 2003
[19] "Rice in Her Own Words," BBC, November 17, 2004, news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4019395.stm
[20] "Rice in Her Own Words," BBC, November 17, 2004, news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4019395.stm
[21] Steve Kettman, "Bush's Secret Weapon," Salon.com, March 20, 2000.
[22] James Mann, The Rise of the Vulcans, 2004.
[23] Condoleezza Rice, "Campaign 2000: Promoting the National Interest," Foreign Affairs, January/February 2000.


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A man struggles to keep his family and himself together under trying circumstances in this independent drama from writer and director Richard Levine. Ned (Liev Schreiber) works as a writer for a television series, "Mercy Medical," and his job has become increasingly difficult as his producer Garrett (Eddie Izzard) demands increasingly outlandish storylines; Ned objects, but the new guy on the staff, Brian (David Harbour), is more than happy to deliver. At home, Ned's wife, Jeannie (Helen Hunt), is dividing her time between running a business and looking after her elderly father, Ernie (Brian Dennehy), whose uncertain temper is all the more precarious as his ill health has pushed him into suicidal depression. With Helen occupied with her dad's problems, Ned has to deal with their two sons, teenage Jonah (Ezra Miller), who has recently acknowledged his homosexuality, and younger Ethan (Skyler Fortgang), a talented musician deeply troubled by his grandfather's ill health. Meanwhile, as his home life becomes more chaotic, Ned is given a new writing partner, Robin (Carla Gugino), who is smart, sexy, and clearly attracted to him. Every Day received its world premiere at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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300's Zack Snyder brings Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' critically acclaimed comic book Watchmen to the big screen, courtesy of DC Comics and Warner Bros. Pictures. Set in an alternate universe circa 1985, the film's world is a highly unstable one where a nuclear war is imminent between America and Russia. Superheroes have long been made to hang up their tights thanks to the government-sponsored Keene Act, but that all changes with the death of The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a robust ex-hero commando whose mysterious free fall out a window perks the interest of one of the country's last remaining vigilantes, Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley). His investigation leads him to caution many of his other former costumed colleagues, including Dr. Manhattan, Night Owl (Patrick Wilson), Ozymandias (Matthew Goode), Sally Jupiter (Carla Gugino), and her daughter, The Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman). Heralded for bringing the world of superheroes into the literary world, Watchmen gave the super-powered mythos a real-life grounding that had been missing in mainstream comics to that point. The film adaptation had languished in one form of development hell or another for years after the book's release, with various directors on and off the project, including Terry Gilliam, David Hayter, and Darren Aronofsky, as well as Paul Greengrass, whose eventual dismissal stemmed from budget conflicts with the studio. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi
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Walt Disney Pictures resurrects one of their time-honored franchises with Race to Witch Mountain, a family-oriented sci-fi adventure that tells the story of two alien visitors (AnnaSophia Robb and Alexander Ludwig) whose search for their spacecraft gets them caught up in an adventure with a cab driver (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) and a UFO specialist (Carla Gugino). As the group races toward the mysterious mountain in the Nevada desert that has mystified scientists and paranormal researchers for years, the government, gangsters, and an extraterrestrial bounty hunter attempt to prevent them from reaching their intended destination. Should the two planetary travelers fail in recovering their ship, an alien invasion will be launched against the entire planet. The original 1975 picture Escape to Witch Mountain was followed by the sequel Return From Witch Mountain, as well as a 1995 made-for-TV remake. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi
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Blade II and Batman Begins scribe David S. Goyer writes and directs this supernatural thriller about a 19-year-old girl (Odette Yustman) haunted by a "dybbuk" (a malevolent wandering soul of Jewish folklore) that was once a young boy ruthlessly slaughtered in Auschwitz. Casey Beldon (Yustman) was just a young girl when her mother vanished out of her life. And though Casey has never forgiven her mother for abandoning their family, she begins to understand why when a tortured ghost begins stalking her by day, and horrific nightmares make her scared of falling asleep at night. Hoping that her spiritual advisor, Rabbi Sendak (Gary Oldman), possesses the power to make these awful visions stop, Casey enlists his aid and gradually uncovers a family curse that stretches all the way back to Nazi Germany. An entity with the ability to possess anyone or anything that it comes into contact with is stalking Casey from another plane of reality, and it's gaining strength with each new possession. Now, as the curse is unleashed, the frightened girl realizes that her only chance for survival is to close a door that was pried open by someone who was never born, and prevent the force from crossing over into the physical world. Though her sympathetic boyfriend (Cam Gigandet) and best friend (Meagan Good) do everything they can to help, Casey is ultimately left to face this otherworldly horror on her own. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Discover how Hollis Mason became the masked avenger known as Nite Owl while learning how the original Minutemen were formed in this live action, documentary-style special starring Carla Gugino, Matt Frewer, Stephen McHattie, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. A faux, tell-all autobiography written by Hans Rodionoff and directed by Eric Matthies, Under the Hood was produced by Wesley Coller in tandem with Zack Snyder's 2009 film Watchmen. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Filmmaker Sebastian Gutierrez writes and directs this ensemble comedy following ten Los Angeles women over the course of 24 hours. When porn starlet Electra Luxx (Carla Gugino) discovers that she's pregnant, her wild world of pleasure and excess is suddenly turned upside down. Subsequently stuck in an elevator with neurotic Doris (Connie Britton), Electra realizes she's standing at a pivotal crossroads in life. Meanwhile, adult film up-and-comer Holly Rocket (Adrianne Palicki) struggles with her reluctance to go girl-on-girl in front of the cameras by putting on a private show with her sexy friend Bambi (Emmanuelle Chriqui), a therapist (Sarah Clarke) turns to the bottle after discovering her husband has been unfaithful, a flight attendant (Marley Shelton) applies for membership in the Mile High Club with a famous passenger, and a precocious teen (Isabella Gutierrez) realizes that the adults in her life aren't nearly as well adjusted as they'd like her to believe. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Jon Avnet's thriller Righteous Kill stars Al Pacino and Robert De Niro as a pair of Big Apple police officers investigating a series of murders committed by a serial killer. Carla Gugino co-stars as a crime-scene investigator who has romantic ties to De Niro. 50 Cent, Donnie Wahlberg, Brian Dennehy, and John Leguizamo co-star. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
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Forest Whitaker, Kim Basinger, Jay Mohr, Danny DeVito, Nick Cannon, and Carla Gugino star in director Mark Rydell's ensemble addiction drama detailing the manner in which gambling and drugs affect a variety of people's lives during the weeks leading up to a championship college basketball game. Carolyn (Basinger) is a struggling novelist whose addiction to the slots drives her to deceive her husband Tom (Liotta). Though Carloyn claims to be working on her latest manuscript at a nearby coffee shop, the reality of her situation is decidedly more desperate. Meanwhile, local maintenance worker Clyde (Whitaker) stands at the sidelines of the basketball court cheering for his little brother Godfrey (Cannon) while keeping his lingering gambling debts a well-guarded secret. In another part of town, the ageing Detective Bruner (Kelsey Grammer) methodically trails malevolent bookie Victor (Tim Roth) as Victor's small-time counterpart Augie (Mohr) patiently waits for his ship to come in. As the big game draws near and casino magician Walter (DeVito) befriends gambling-addicted novelist Carolyn, all of these disparate characters slowly come together on a tragic collision course. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Entourage: Return of the King
When Yom Kippur rolls around and Ari chances into "Medellin" producer Nick Rubenstein at temple, the announcement that the long-in-gestation biopic is back in production prompts the dedicated agent to try and clinch Vince for the lead before sundown. As Amanda wrestles with the prospect of working so closely with Ari, Vince and the crew head out for some fun at the racetracks. Feeling bad that his horse will likely be put down after finishing as an also-ran, Drama purchases the steed without realizing just how expensive it is to board and care for a proper racehorse. Meanwhile, as the "Medellin" deadline draws near, Eric bypasses Amanda in order to close the deal and inadvertently sends the whole situation spiraling into chaos. By the end of the evening Vince is off the project and officially dumped by Amanda both personally and professionally. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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As Vince and Amanda attempt to resume their professional relationship after an impromptu hook-up, Eric becomes suspicious of the pair's post-coital glow and Drama incurs the wrath of UFC Champion Chuck Liddell after becoming convinced that Pauly Shore is about to play a practical joke on her for his new hidden camera show. Back at Ari's house, Mrs. Ari is visibly agitated by the announcement that her husband's boorish college buddy is dropping by for a visit, but soon finds her worst fears lessened when the frat boy-turned-dot com millionaire proves uncharacteristically civil. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Amanda attempts to get a concrete answer from Vince regarding the period film as Barbara leans on Ari to fire an unqualified agent and a new honesty policy finds professional relationships heating up to a passionate pitch. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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When Vince's birthday rolls around and his new agent Amanda presents him with courtside tickets to a Lakers game and an offer to star in an upcoming adaptation of an Edith Wharton novel, a chance connection with his old agent Ari causes the upcoming star to experience doubts about his current career trajectory. Upon taking his seat at the game, Vince is discomforted to notice Ari across the court. Still longing to win back his old client, Ari convinces Vince to join him for a friendly birthday meal, and is somewhat taken aback when Vince shows up with E in tow. But it's going to take more than a human buffer to sideline the determined Ari, and before the meal is over he tells Vince that his dream project, "Medellin," is one again on the fast track to production. Though Amanda is vehement that "Medellin" will never happen, she is troubled to note that he seems to be second-guessing his decision to take her on as his manager. Meanwhile, as Turtle and Drama draw up plans for Vince's surprise birthday party, they realize that the only way to overcome their financial restraints and hold the party in a suitable venue is to land a sponsor for the big event. Of course the party is a massive success, but before the night is over Ari and Amanda will go toe to toe in front of Vince in a desperate attempt to win him over once and for all. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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As Amanda attempts to press Vince about the Sam Mendes project, all Vince can think about is his upcoming trip to Wine Country with Eric and Sloan. Meanwhile, Drama and Turtle take Ahnold for a stroll in the dog park hoping to make a hit with the ladies, and Ari steps up his efforts to sign A-list scribe Jay Lester before having a serious crisis of conscience. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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A woman who joins the undead against her will seeks vengeance against the ghouls who transformed her in this thriller. Sadie Blake (Lucy Liu) is a journalist who becomes acquainted with a group of beautiful but doomstruck partiers while following a story, led by the charismatic Bishop (James D'Arcy). While Sadie is taken with Bishop's good looks and sinister charm, she senses there's something dangerous about him, but it's not until she wakes up in the city morgue that she learns his secret -- Bishop is a vampire, and Sadie has joined his underlings as one of the undead. Angry and betrayed, Sadie is determined to stop Bishop and his compatriots, and she prowls the city with bow and arrow, ready to stake them from a distance when she spies them. Sadie finds an unlikely ally in her crusade in Detective Rawlins (Michael Chiklis), a police investigator whose daughter was transformed into a night creature by Bishop. However, Sadie is finding it increasingly difficult to resist her growing thirst for the blood of the living, becoming the sort of being she has grown to hate. Also featuring Carla Gugino, Robert Forster, and Nick Lachey, Rise: Blood Hunter received its world premiere with a special midnight screening at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Director Ridley Scott spins this yarn concerning a Harlem drug kingpin (Denzel Washington) who smuggles heroin into the country by hiding it in the bodies of U.S. soldiers killed during battle in Vietnam. There was a time when no one noticed reserved driver Frank Lucas (Washington), but when the criminal kingpin he was charged with transporting through the city streets suddenly dies, Lucas seizes the opportunity to build his own criminal empire. In the following months, Lucas solidifies his status as Harlem's most innovative drug dealer by delivering a product that is purer than the competitors' and cheaper, as well. When innovative businessman Lukas attempts to go semi-legit by becoming one of the Manhattan borough's biggest civil supporters, however, street-savvy outcast cop Ritchie Roberts (Russell Crowe) begins to sense a sizable shift in the hierarchy of the drug underworld. But Roberts is one of the few honest detectives operating within a corrupt system, and as he sets out to investigate the case, crooked detective Trupo (Josh Brolin) does everything in his power to compromise the integrity of his idealistic counterpart. Upon clearing all of the usual Mafia-connected suspects, Roberts begins to believe that a previously unknown black power player has come out of the woodwork to dominate the local drug trade. While Roberts and Lucas may be operating on opposite sides of the law, the one thing that both men have in common is a strict code of ethics that separates them from their opportunistic colleagues. Now, as a confrontation between the two men becomes inevitable and the fate of each becomes inexorably tied to the other, it gradually becomes apparent that only one of them will emerge from the conflict victorious. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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A former high-school hockey star handicapped in a tragic car accident becomes an unlikely ally to a crack team of determined bank robbers in this thriller starring Jeff Daniels and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. When his promising career on the ice is suddenly cut short, former athlete Chris Pratt (Gordon-Levitt) goes to work as a janitor in a local bank. Cleaning floors soon gives way to criminal enterprise when the onetime puck-slinger is recruited to help clean out the very bank that employs him. Screenwriter Scott Frank (Out of Sight and Minority Report) makes his directorial debut, working from his own original screenplay. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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The new night watchman at New York's Museum of Natural History finds that the job comes with more responsibility than he ever dreamed in this wild fantasy comedy directed by Shawn Levy and starring Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Mickey Rooney, and Dick Van Dyke. Larry Daley (Stiller) is a kind-hearted dreamer who always knew that he was destined for greatness, he just never quite knew how. None of his ideas or inventions has panned out, so with a heavy heart, he takes a regular job as a lowly graveyard-shift security guard at the Museum of Natural History in order to provide a more stable life for himself and his ten-year-old son. His first night on the job, however, he finds that guardianship of the museum is far from stable -- at nightfall, an Egyptian spell brings the artifacts and wax figures to life! With Attila the Hun charging to war through the hallways, the diorama miniatures embroiled in a deadly feud, and a two-ton Tyrannosaurus Rex nagging to play fetch, Larry has half a mind to turn tail and run. On top of cleaning up after two million years of historical chaos every night, he also has to make sure that not a single museum piece leaves the building -- from the bratty Capuchin monkey in the African exhibit, to the life-sized Neanderthal in the prehistoric display -- because if morning light falls on an escaped artifact, it will turn to dust. Larry turns to a wax replica of President Roosevelt (Williams) for a little advice on keeping things in tact, but Teddy seems to think that a man of Larry's greatness needs little help. Larry isn't sure if the former commander in chief is right; this is hardly what he signed up for, but he can't pass up the chance to care for a museum where history really does come to life. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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The Eisner Award-winning comic series Sin City comes to life in this live-action feature adaptation from director Robert Rodriguez and creator Frank Miller. Interweaving multiple storylines from the series' history, this violent crime noir paints the picture of the ultimate town without pity through the eyes of its roughest characters. There's the street thug Marv (Mickey Rourke), whose desperate quest to find the killer of a prostitute named Goldie (Jaime King) will lead him to the foulest edges of town. Inhabiting many of those areas is Dwight (Clive Owen), a photographer in league with the sordid ladies of Sin City, headed by Gail (Rosario Dawson), who opens up a mess of trouble after tangling with a corrupt cop by the name of Jackie Boy (Benicio Del Toro). Finally, there's Hartigan (Bruce Willis), an ex-cop with a heart problem who's hell-bent on protecting a stripper named Nancy (Jessica Alba). Featuring a who's who supporting cast that includes Elijah Wood, Brittany Murphy, Devon Aoki, and Nick Stahl, Sin City promises to be one of the most direct translations from page to screen of a comic series, with shots and dialogue adapted straight from the original comic's panels. Rodriguez quit the Director's Guild when they refused to let Frank Miller co-direct the film, a deal hashed out after the two collaborators developed and shot the opening scene utilizing a green-screen process to harness the stark, black-and-white look of the books as a litmus test for the rest of the production. Quentin Tarantino was brought in and reportedly paid one dollar to direct an extended scene between Del Toro and Owen that amounts to one issue of The Big Fat Kill miniseries. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi
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I'm in the middle of a PSX / DESR assembly guide, but my time is limited at present due to family & seasonal commitments. I promise to tidy this all up and complete the guide asap, but in the meantime if you have a PSX / DESR unit and want to see what lurks beneath it's sleek exterior here is a basic guide (incomplete as I stopped at the DVD section as it is clearly rather complex and at 2am I was not up for dealing with it).
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Does anyone even use file cabinets anymore? Much of today's storage lives on a datachip, and competent database administrators (DBAs) are needed to build and maintain the systems used to house that information. Challenger explains why now is prime time to enter into this IT job: "The educational system hasn't caught up with the demand for technology skills. ... The education and preparation people need to qualify for science and technology jobs is extensive enough and requires so much that the population has yet to fully recognize the requirements to do the job." DBAs should earn a bachelor's degree in computer science or management information systems, and might want to pursue a master's in business administration. You should also obtain certification for as many database platforms as possible, so that your skills are transferable from one company to the next.
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The Labor Department reports that there is no formal training required to become a medical assistant. But if you want to distinguish yourself from the more than 160,000 persons looking to enter this profession, then training is preferred. Some vocational high schools and colleges offer medical assisting programs. And professional associations like the American Association of Medical Assistants offer certification credentials. It's also possible for a medical assistant to receive certification in particular specialties, such as podiatry or optometry.
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There are some obvious perks to this profession. The compensation is one—pharmacists earn one of the highest average salaries of all of our Best Jobs—and excellent job prospects is another. But these literal pill pushers also undergo years of study, several examinations, and a postgraduate residency before donning their white coats. And like many healthcare practitioners, pharmacists frequently work evening shifts, weekends, and some holidays. Place yourself ahead of the competition during your job hunt by trying to secure internships early in your education. Also consider taking a few business courses if your program doesn't already include them in the curriculum, since many pharmacists work within retail facilities.
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According to Bryan Cantrill, the vice president of engineering with the cloud-computing company Joyent, software developers should have one hand writing code and the other on the pulse of the evolving IT world. Advances are constant in this industry, and having an inquisitive nature will serve a budding developer well. Nailing as much on-the-job training as possible will also help, particularly as some software developers are able to advance through the ranks based on their experience.
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One of the first things you should determine when entering this field is what type of nursing you'd like to do. According to Michael Wolf, an economist with the BLS, one of the reasons this profession will gain nearly 712,000 positions this decade is because it's such an expansive profession, period. "Actually its growth rate is good, but not out of line with some other occupations," he says. "Registered nurses should grow by about 26 percent. The healthcare practitioner occupations as a whole have a growth rate of about 26 percent, though." The bench might be deep, but the playing field is still competitive. For a better chance at landing a nursing job, you'll want to determine your niche early, consider using virtual networking tools, and look for employment outside a hospital setting.


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Exploring the use of iPads and mobile devices in education.
The one problem I have with the iPad, and the one issue I don't see anyone bringing up (maybe it isn't an issue?) is the idea of cloning.
Yes, you can easily synchronize multiple iPads to one iTunes account. You should also check out the new Apple Volume Purchasing Plan regarding their policy on purchasing of applications for multiple devices.
Generally schools lock the iTunes account so that only administrators have access. You can also implement Parental Controls on certain applications - you'll find that in Settings.
Thanks for the feedback.
Unfortunately, the New York City Dept of Ed has not approved the Volume Pricing Program yet, probably wont for this school year, so for now we are going with free apps.
We have teachers up and running on iPads and are getting 20 for our science labs.
Fun times, good stuff...
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> www.ipadcart.info
No simple situation for updating iPads due to Apple's every two week update process. My school has 30 iPads and I have to sync each iPad with the new updates. You also have to keep up the the update of iTunes also. With blocking the iPad, this can be done in the "Preference" setting in iTunes or on the iPad's under the "Setting" and then "Restrictions" tab. Also, in the "Preference" tab, the "Device" tab is great for letting you know when you lastly updated your iPad.
Thanks for the replies.
I've got it sorted. Datamation has a multi-function cart we have purchased. The internal dividers are adjustable so it can fit 14 laptops or 30 iPads. I've got 20 iPads and a MacBook Pro in it.
Each iPad was synced to the MacBook Pro and given a unique name, number, and home image (corresponding #). The iTunes account on the MacBook has all the free apps we use (DropBox, PlainText, NASA, etc...).
In Sept Datamation will have a "syncing" adapter available for the cart so I'll be able to sync all 20 at once (right now I do them individually, every Friday afternoon so as not to disrupt instruction).
Keep coming with the insights, always good to hear how others are doing it.
I'll update this thread with any/all issues we come across...
thanks again
For anyone interested in this challenge, I'd strongly recommend getting a copy ofthe book
Enterprise iphone and ipad administrator's guidehttp://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-iPhone-Administrators-Guide-Profes...
It covers a lot of information that is hard to find elsewhere and provides a good overview of MDM vendors like jamfsoftware and others
I set up an iTunes account for my iPad cart. I have a computer dedicated to the cart. I sync all iPads to that single iTunes account. When I purchase an app it is synced on every iPad. My teacher sync there iPad to their personal accounts and the students normally do not use their iPads.
Obviously iOS 5/iCloud made all of this much more complicated--I have a chart with what can be synced/backup over at iear, constructive feedback welcomed---iear.wikispaces.com/Comparison+of+iOS+5+Syncing+Options
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A written contract in which the owner of a patent, copyright, trademark, or trade secret authorizes, for a limited time, someone (the licensee) to exclusively exercise one or more of the rights. For example, the copyright owner of a comic book may exclusively license the video game rights to a game company. Once a license terminates, the owner regains the rights. Compare: assignment
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The intricate weave and bold colors of this Geometric Pillow are consistent with its Indian pedigree. Its rich tones are highlighted by a back panel in a complementary solid, making each cushion an explosion of color.
Includes a cover and pillow insert. Cover features a back zipper closure. Insert is made from 95% feather and 5% down with a white cotton shell. Dry clean cover the first time; after that, washing by hand in cold water is recommended. This product was made under conditions that conform to International Fair Trade and anti-child labor guidelines.