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The tomb at the cemetery's entrance. Said to belong to a rich kid who drowned in Germany, many believe it can grant miracles. |
Bogotá's Central Cemetery is a place of history and religion, but also magic, miracles and faith.
A believer asks for aid. |
Amidst this magic and miracles lie the Great Men of Colombian history - generals and guerrillas, political leaders and presidents.
In life, Colombia is a classist society with little social mobility. But in the Central Cemetery, rich and poor mix, common citizens lie near presidents, guerrillas near generals and revolutionaries near dictators.
The tomb of astronomer Julio Garavito, and behind it that of a woman called the saint - or martyr - of the prostitutes. |
Believers ask Garavito for his blessing and aid. What would this man of science think of such superstitions? |
Candles at Garavito's tomb. |
A message of thanks to Garavito. |
Alongside Garavito, flowers at a tomb said by some to belong to a prostitute with a heart of gold, by others to a rich woman who helped the prostitutes and was murdered by her husband when he discovered her. Another tradition holds that lying down on the tomb helps a woman become pregnant. |
Flowers bedeck the tomb of presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galán, assassinated by Pablo Escobar in 1989. |
Poet Jose Silva, who is on the 5,000 peso bill. His life was tragic and he was said to have been in love with his sister Elvira, who shares his tomb. |
A Polish nationalist, whose hopes for a free homeland died while he was in Colombia, and who died soon after. |
Believers line up to ask favors of Leo Seigfried Kopp, a German Jew who founded Bogotá's Bavaria beer brewery and is remembered for his good works. |
Asking Sr. Kopp for a favor. |
A thank-you note for miracles granted by the Bavaria beer brewery founder. |
A Catholic mass at the Jewish brewery founder's tomb. |
One of the priests told me that he didn't believe in the Leo Kopp legend, but that it's a good place to do mass. |
Kopp's ear - always open for believers. |
One of the four Bodmer sisters, who died in infancy or childhood. This one is said to be pointing the way toward heaven for her sister who died the following day. Today, people leave the sisters tributes of flowers, candies and toys. |
One Bodmer sister's hand, holding sweet gifts, points the way to heaven for her sister who died the day after. |
Asking favors of Jose Mercado, a union leader killed and murdered by the M-19 guerrillas. |
A more real-life wish - a visitor promises a fallen communist leader that his philosophy will triumph. |
This guy had just gotten out of jail, and came to the cemetery for unclear reasons. He seemed to be stoned on something. He's showing off his artwork. |
The closest thing I've seen to a spirit. This woman was dressed for a video shoot. |
This blind woman plays her accordeon at funerals in the cemetery. |
An angel, with pigeons, overlooks the cemetery. |
Candles for sale outside the cemetery. |


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Japanese media giant Enterbrain recently surveyed retailers, as reported by Gamefront.de, about their expectations for game system sales this holiday season. We know you're not surprised, but right now? The show is all Nintendo.
Retailers were asked, "Which next generation console do you think will sell better this Christmas?" The results lean heavily toward Nintendo -- 88% thought the Wii would boast better sales, and 11% settled on the PS3. We're not sure if it's worse that Microsoft wasn't even listed (perhaps because the Xbox 360 was released last year) or that Sony only garnered 11% in the poll.
The Wii loses, however, when it comes to all systems ... because 60% of retailers queried thought the Nintendo DS would be the top dog of all holiday console sales. Only 32.8% chose the Wii ... and a shocking 3.3% picked the PS3.

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SCARY IF YOU GET THEM ALL RIGHT : Don't go ahead and cheat, do it fair. IF YOU MAKE 100, YOU'RE OLDER THAN DIRT. (I scored 16…. I'm not sure if that's good or bad…......?) This is NOT a pushover test.. There are 20 questions. Average score is 12. Check your paper & pencil answers with the ones at the bottom. This one will be difficult for the younger set. Have fun, but no peeking! 1. What builds strong bodies 12 ways? 2. Before he was Muhammed Ali, he was… 3. Pogo, the comic strip character said, 'We have met the enemy and… 4. Good night David. 5. You'll wonder where the yellow went… 6. Before he was the Skipper's Little Buddy, Bob Denver was Dobie's friend… 7. Liar, liar. 8. Meanwhile, back in Metropolis, Superman fights a never ending battle for truth, justice and… 9. Hey kids! What time is it? 10. Lions and tigers and bears… 11. Bob Dylan advised us never to trust anyone… 12. NFL quarterback who appeared in a television commercial wearing women's 13. Brylcream. 14. I found my thrill… 15. Before Robin Williams, Peter Pan was played by… 16. Name the Beatles… 17. I wonder, wonder, who.. 18. I'm strong to the finish… 19. When it's least expected, you're elected, you're the star today… 20. What do M & M's do? Below are the right answers: |


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Dr Christina Butler
BA MA PhD PGDip Teaching and Learning SFHEA ACIPD
Senior Lecturer
KHBS305 Kingston Business School
Kingston University
Kingston Hill
Kingston Upon Thames
- Phone:
- 020 8417 9000 Ext: 65123
- E-mail:
- firstname.lastname@example.com
- Website:
- business.kingston.ac.uk
Christina joined Kingston in 2001. The topic of her doctorate at London Business School was Performance Differences between Multinational and Nationally Homogeneous Teams: The Influence of Status Cues.
Her research lies at the intersection of International Management and Organisational Behaviour. Current projects concern global team performance, the changing nature of teams, leadership of global teams, and the development of the workforce for the demands of global work. She is Co-ordinator of CRESS and a founding member of the international network Leveraging Culture in Teams based at Uppsala University.
Prior to beginning her doctoral work, Christina was a Research Associate at IMD in Lausanne, conducting a study into how manufacturers in the US, Japan and Europe involve their suppliers in the development of new products. The results from this work have been published in Research Policy, the International Journal of Technology Management, and in a book entitled Leveraged Innovation.
Recent Publications
Daskalaki, Maria, Butler, Christina and Petrovic, Jelena (2016) Somewhere in-between : narratives of place, identity and translocal work. Journal of Management Inquiry, 25(2), pp. 184-198. ISSN (print) 1056-4926
Soane, Emma, Butler, Christina and Stanton, Emma (2015) Followers' personality, transformational leadership and performance. Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal, 5(1), pp. 65-78. ISSN (online) 2042-678X
Newman, Alexander and Butler, Christina (2014) The influence of follower cultural orientation on attitudinal responses towards transformational leadership: evidence from the Chinese hospitality industry. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 25(7), pp. 1024-1045. ISSN (print) 0958-5192
Jonsen, Karsten, Butler, Christina L., Mäkelä, Kristiina, Piekkari, Rebecca, Drogendijk, Rian, Lauring, Jakob, Lervik, Jon E., Pahlberg, Cecilia, Vodosek, Markus and Zander, Lena (2013) Processes of international collaboration in management research: a reflexive, autoethnographic approach. Journal of Management Inquiry, 22(4), pp. 394-413. ISSN (print) 1056-4926
Zander, Lena, Mockaitis, Audra I. and Butler, Christina (2012) Leading global teams. Journal of World Business, 47(4), pp. 592-603. ISSN (print) 1090-9516
Butler, Christina L., Zander, Lena, Mockaitis, Audra and Sutton, Ciara (2012) The global leader as boundary spanner, bridge maker, and blender. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 5(2), pp. 240-243. ISSN (online) 1754-9434
Juanchich, Marie, Sirota, Miroslav and Butler, Christina Lea (2012) The perceived functions of linguistic risk quantifiers and their effect on risk, negativity perception and decision making. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 118(1), pp. 72-81. ISSN (print) 0749-5978
Zander, Lena and Butler, Christina L. (2010) Leadership modes: success strategies for multicultural teams. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 26(3), pp. 258-267. ISSN (print) 0956-5221
Butler, Christina and Zander, Lena (2008) The business of teaching and learning through multicultural teams. Journal of Teaching in International Business, 19(2), pp. 192-218. ISSN (print) 0897-5930
Bidualt, Francis, Despres, Charles and Butler, Christina (1998) The drivers of cooperation between buyers and suppliers for product innovation. Research Policy, 26(7-8), pp. 719-723. ISSN (print) 0048-7333
Book Section
Butler, Christina and Mador, Martha (2015) Kingston University London: using entrepreneurship programs to attract talent and to enhance educational impact. In: Foss, Lene and Gibson, David V., (eds.) The entrepreneurial university: context and institutional change. London, U.K. : Routledge. (Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology) ISBN 9781138830776 (In Press)
Lauring, J., Makela, K., Butler, C., Lee, H., Luecke, G., Miska, C., Pahlberg, C., Stahl, G. and Zander, L. (2015) Meeting the challenges of globalization in order to make a difference: implications for teams and team leadership. In: Zander, Lena, (ed.) Research handbook of global leadership: making a difference. Cheltenham, U.K. : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited. (In Press)
Zander, Lena, Butler, Christina L., Mockaitis, Audra I., Herbert, Kendall, Lauring, Jakob, Makela, Kristiina, Paunova, Minna, Umans, Timurs and Zettinig, Peter (2015) Team-based global organizations : the future of global organizing. In: Verbeke, Alain , van Tulder, Rob and Drogendijk, Rian, (eds.) The future of global organizing. Emerald Group Publishing Limited. ISSN (print) 1745-8862 ISBN 9781785604232 (In Press)
Zander, Lena, Butler, Christina L., Mockaitis, Audra I., Herbert, Kendall, Lauring, Jakob, Mäkelä, Kristiina, Paunova, Minna, Umans, Timurs and Zettinig, Peter (2015) Team-based global organizations: the future of global organizing. In: Van Tulder, Rob , Verbeke, Alain and Drogendijk, Rian, (eds.) The future of global organizing. Emerald Group Publishing Limited. pp. 227-243. (Progress in International Business Research) ISSN (print) 1745-8862 ISBN 9781785604232
Butler, C., Sutton, C., Mockaitis, A. and Zander, L. (2015) The new millennial global leaders: what a difference a generation makes! In: Zander, Lena, (ed.) Research handbook of global leadership: making a difference. Cheltenham, U.K. : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited. (In Press)
Butler, Christina L. and Earley, P. Christopher (2001) Multinational groups and the structuration of organizational culture: a sociological perspective. In: Cooper, Cary L. , Cartwright, Sue and Earley, P. Christopher, (eds.) The international handbook of organizational culture and climate. Chichester, U.K. : John Wiley & Sons. pp. 53-84. ISBN 9780471491262
Conference or Workshop Item
Einola, Katja Maria, Zettinig, Peter, Mäkelä, Kristiina, Kauppila, Olli-Pekka and Butler, Christina Lea (2016) Multiple team membership – what drives employee commitment to competing demands? In: INGRoup Conference; 14-16 Jul 2016, Helsinki, Finland. (Unpublished)
Butler, Christina (2015) New challenges for leading teams in global team-based organizations. In: 2015 Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting: Opening Governance; 7-11 Aug 2015, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. (In Press)
Lauring, Jakob, Paunova, Minna and Butler, Christina (2015) Openness to language and value diversity fosters multicultural team creativity and performance. In: 2015 Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting: Opening Governance; 7-11 Aug 2015, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. (In Press)
Butler, Christina (2014) Global mobility challenges for HRM. In: Research in Practice Seminar Series: The Future of HR and Internationalisation; 11 Sep 2014, Kingston upon Thames, U.K.. (Unpublished)
Zander, Lena and Butler, Christina (2014) Globalisation and the diminishing influence of national culture on company culture. In: European Academy of Management (EURAM) Annual Conference 2014: Waves and Winds of Strategic Leadership for Sustainable Competitiveness; 4-7 Jun 2014, Valencia, Spain. (Unpublished)
Butler, Christina (2014) Implications of social capital and status cues on global team leader roles. In: 40th European International Business Academy (EIBA) Annual Conference: The Future of Global Organizing; 11-13 Dec 2014, Uppsala, Sweden. (Unpublished)
Butler, Christina and Chongarova, Irina (2014) Leading global teams. In: Kingston Business School Business Breakfast: Leading Global Teams; 11 Nov 2014, Kingston upon Thames, U.K.. (Unpublished)
Lauring, Jakob, Paunova, Minna, Umans, Timurs, Butler, Christina and Zander, Lena (2014) Openness to language and value diversity fosters multicultural team creativity and performance. In: 40th European International Business Academy (EIBA) Annual Conference: The Future of Global Organizing; 11-13 Dec 2014, Uppsala, Sweden. (Unpublished)
Juanchich, Marie, Sirota, Miroslav and Butler, Christina (2011) Functions of linguistic risk quantifiers and related risk perception. In: Experimental Psychology Society Meeting; 13 - 15 Apr 2011, Oxford, U.K.. (Unpublished)
Daskalaki, Maria, Butler, Christina and Petrovic, Jelena (2011) Narrating cosmopolis: 'in another place, not here'. In: The 2nd Annual Faculty of Business and Law Conference: Emerging Issues in Business and Law; 10 May 2011, Kingston upon Thames, U.K.. (Unpublished)
Butler, Christina, Juanchich, Marie and Sirota, Miroslav (2011) Uncertain of tactful? Effect of risk quantifiers' interpretation on risk perception and decision making. In: 16th EASP General Meeting; 12 - 16 July 2011, Stockholm, Sweden. (Unpublished)
Butler, Christina and Mahadeva, Meera (2010) At the crossroads of visible and invisible characteristics: signposts to virtue in multinational teams. In: Conference of the International Network of Business and Management Journals (INBAM): Creativity and Innovation in an International Context; 01 - 04 Jun 2010, Valencia, Spain.
Butler, Christina, Hatzidimitriadou, Eleni and Psoinos, Maria (2010) Managing equality and diversity in health care: the case of ethnic monitoring at St George's NHS trust. In: EAWOP Small Group Meeting - Managing diversity in organisations; 23-24 Sep 2010, Birmigham, U.K..
Mahieu, Christian, Nilles, Jean-Jacques, Butler, Christina, Gourlay, Stephen and Narendran, Sunitha (2010) Training for ethical discernment as a company policy: the eval'ethic experience. In: 9th Annual Colloquium of The European Academy of Business in Society (EABIS): Corporate Responsibility and Emerging Markets; 20-21 Sep 2010, St.Petersburg, Russia. (Unpublished)
Butler, Christina Lea (2010) The challenge of the 'in-between' multinational team: is a bicultural leader the answer? In: 2010 Academy of Management Annual Meeting: Dare to care: passion and compassion in management practice and research; 06 - 10 Aug 2010, Montreal, Canada.
Butler, Christina (2010) The interaction of surface- and deep-level national diversity: the case of global teams. In: European Academy of Management (EURAM) Annual Conference 2010: Back to the future; 19-22 May 2010, Rome, Italy.
Butler, Christina, Soane, Emma and Stanton, Emma (2009) All at sea: team conflict during the Clipper round the World Sailing Race 2005-2006. In: British Academy of Management (BAM) Conference 2009: The End of the Pier? Competing perspectives on the challenges facing business and management; 15-17 Sep 2009, Brighton, U.K..
Zander, Lena and Butler, Christina (2009) Team leadership models: modeling multicultural team success based on team composition. In: European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM) 7th Workshop on International Strategy and Cross Cultural Management; 25-26 Sep 2009, Helsinki, Finland.
Butler, Christina (2008) Cross-cultural leadership, teams and faultlines. In: 50th annual meeting of the Academy of International Business "Knowledge development and exchange in international business networks"; 30 June - 3 July 2008, Milan, Italy.
Zander, Lena and Butler, Christina (2008) Team leadership models: modelling multicultural team success. In: 22nd Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) Annual Conference: Managing in the Pacific Century; 2-5 Dec 2008, Auckland, New Zealand.
Butler, Christina Lea and Price, Stephen Michael (2006) Local time global change: differences between Kenyan and British perceptions. In: 2006 Academy of Management Annual Meeting : Knowledge, action and the public concern; 11 - 16 Aug 2006, Atlanta, U.S.. (Unpublished)
Butler, Christina Lea (2006) The influence of status cues on collective identity in teams of different national composition. In: 2006 Academy of Management Annual Meeting : Knowledge, action and the public concern; 11 - 16 Aug 2006, Atlanta, U.S.. (Unpublished)
Butler, Christina Lea (2005) Differences between mutlinational & nationally homogeneous groups: the influence of status cues. In: 65th Academy of Marketing Annual Meeting: A New Vision of Management in the 21st Century; 05 - 10 Aug 2005, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.. (Unpublished)
Butler, C. and Price, S. (2004) Kenyan and British perceptions of time: the importance of understanding differences for change programmes. In: British Academy of Management Annual Conference : Management Futures; 30 Aug - 01 Sep 2004, St Andrews, U.K..
Psoinos, Maria, Hatzidimitriadou, Eleni, Butler, Christina and Barn, Ravinder (2011) Ethnic monitoring in healthcare services in the UK as a mechanism to address health disparities: a narrative review. (Other) London : SWan IPI. 35 p. ISBN 9780955832987


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Beef Olives
Thinly sliced topside beef
bacon pieces
sweet/sour cucumber
salt & pepper
Cut onion, bacon pieces and cucumber very very fine. Sprinkle salt and pepper onto the beef, then put the onions, bacon and cucumber onto the beef slices. Roll them up and secure them with toothpicks. Fry them in a frypan with oil or butter until golden brown. Add water and simmer for about 1 hour or until well cooked.
An attempt at a close up of the spiral inside - sorry about my retarded flash mucking that up.


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Happy first day of school, kids.
Zachary has always loved style but this year he has kicked it up a notch. He is Mr. Cool. He has mastered the Justin head/hair shake. And, he can whip it. Mostly when a cute girl is around. Remember....middle schooler. I secretly laugh my head off.
Avery is in 2nd grade this year and going to a new elementary school. For those of you keeping score, this is Avery's 4th elementary school in just 2 years. I am banking on the fact that these changes are building up her character. She was most excited about 3 things: lockers!!!, her teacher, and riding her bike to school. A first for her. She feels pretty old now...and now so do I.
I think she looks pretty cute, inspite of the quick "first day outfit" change at the last minute.
(and just for the record we have only moved her twice. A boundary change enrolled her to a new building for 1/2 of her first grade year.)


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Posts Tagged 'Walter Bond'
Barclays bank firebombed in Bristol – statement and reflection by a FAI group (UK)
Monday, September 2nd, 2013
Censored by the reactionary civil servants who administer Bristol IMC:
The full weight of our entrapment in within this society presses down on us unbearably. Un-named grief, frustration, loneliness and insecurity are the stories of our lives for the most part, stretching back generations. Like money talks loudest and silences all other principles, like concrete and tarmac isolate us from the rest of the planet as it sickens, and like the dominant culture casts humans as robots to work-consume-reproduce-obey… we are physically and emotionally smothered every day by a cheapened, artificial existence keeping us far from our dreams outside the mould.
Awakening anger pierces the fog of confusion from our alienated condition, seeking out worthy targets for the rage. Any notion of truce with the ruling institutions aiming at reform only conforms to the disarmed roles they would coerce us into. Immediate insurrection seems vital. We raise our masks and step out into the night to speak through a language as old as Domination: sabotage and conspiracy. (more…)
Tags: Arson, Barclays bank, Bristol, Freddy Fuentevilla Saa, Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI), International Solidarity, Juan Aliste Vega, Kozani, Marcelo Villarroel Sepúlveda, Marco Camenisch, Roger Clement, Sabotage, UK, Walter Bond
Posted in Direct Action
'Solidarity And Liberation' by Walter Bond, A.L.F. Prisoner of War (USA)
Wednesday, August 21st, 2013
From behind fences and razor wire, from behind concrete walls and steel bars, from deep within the United States Penitentiary of Marion, from the CMU unit, from this counter-terrorism prison unit for political prisoners, I send revolutionary greetings to all Straight Edge, Vegan and Anarchist Comrades where ever you may be. From the confines of this dungeon of gray concrete I send a message of solidarity and hope to all the sisters and brothers worldwide, in hopes that all our causes for liberation will one day coalesce into the realization of Total Liberation. Just as the rivers all lead to the ocean, so too will the movements for Human, Earth and Animal Liberation pool into a far larger initiative. (more…)
Tags: ALF, Animal Liberation, Letter, Supreme Vegan Power, USA, Walter Bond
Posted in Prison Struggle
Excavator and bulldozer torched in Moscow region during the ongoing Khimki forest struggle (Russia)
Wednesday, March 13th, 2013
During the night of 08/03/13 we placed 3 incendiaries on construction vehicles in a sand extraction complex of Solnechnogorsk district (near Moscow).
The sand from this site goes to the highway construction projects in Khimki forest as well as some other regional development projects. Two vehicles were completely destroyed: a tracked dozer and an excavator.
Because of damp weather one of the devices failed to ignite, so we had to backtrack. With ravaging flames from burning excavator at our backs, we approached the bomb and re-wired it.
Wholehearted support to CCF-Russia, Indonesian rebels from Kulon-Progo, ALF/ELF/FAI groups around the world.
Combative solidarity with "ALF lone wolf" Walter Bond, imprisoned members of Greek CCF, Marco Camenisch and Italian anarchist persecuted under the police operations of 2012 like Thor etc.
Felicity Rider: remain free!
Tortuga: we enjoyed reading your letters man!
– Wolfpack, ELF/FAI
Tags: Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, Felicity Ann Ryder, Forest Struggle, International Solidarity, Khimki, Kulon Progo, Lone Wolf, Luciano Tortuga Pitronello, Marco Camenisch, Operation Ardire, Operation Thor, Russia, Solnechnogorsk, Walter Bond, Wolfpack ELF/FAI
Posted in Direct Action
Total Liberation: An interview with Walter Bond on Anarchy, Abortion rights, Anti-Colonialism & Animal Liberation
Sunday, February 17th, 2013
via anarchistnews.org:
Punk bands tour the world singing anthems that promote militant direct action & activism, putting out albums with flaming Molotovs emblazoned across their covers, with militant messages; but few of us ever truly put those words into action. Walter Bond on the other hand has spent decades working tirelessly, whether leafleting at shows and in the streets, tabling at Pride events, protesting, or volunteering at animal sanctuaries before finally turning to the more militant tactics of the Animal Liberation Front. Walter is a proud anarchist, Vegan, of Latino heritage, who identifies as bisexual. He also is currently a prisoner in one of the most controversial and restrictive prisons in the USA today.
I have been writing to Walter in prison since he was first arrested 2 years ago, after his brother snitched him out. At the time of his arrest, Walter was living on the streets while attacking businesses that profit from animal exploitation.
interview by Comrade Black originally posted on Profane Existence
PE: – You identified as an anarchist for most of your life. Can you tell us what being an anarchist means to you, and how it connects with Animal Liberation, and Total Liberation?
WALTER: When I was in 7th grade in 1989 I used to make all kinds of clip art fliers with my friends under the name 'Anti-Statist Counter Culture'. We would distribute them mostly to local corporate businesses and churches in the area, mostly to agitate. By the end of 8th grade I had completely dropped out of school and was living this nihilist lifestyle and was just very reactionary and angry at the whole world, parents, school, everything! Back then I was dealing with a world of shit that was to much for me to handle. I turned to drug abuse and vandalism as an outlet. Anarchism back then was a personal vendetta I had about how my life and the world around me was and how I felt it should be. (more…)
Tags: ALF, Animal Liberation, USA, Walter Bond
Posted in Prison Struggle
Domodedovo: Three wooden crosses cut down (Russia)
Wednesday, January 30th, 2013
Three wooden crosses were cut in Domodedovo area of Moscow during the nights of 25/12/12, 07/01/13 and 20/01/13. Situated near elite cottages, on the territory of a hunting resort, and near sand borrow works these symbols of religios dogmatism were standing there as a blessing upon thieves, murderers and rapists. Moreover, they are used as way stones marking the direction of further domestication and development projects. This is something we stand in opposition to.
Against clerical intrusion into nature!
Against any religion
Salute to our brother Walter Bond. It was good to hear of his recent decision about Islam. No mosques in our parts, so our iconoclast activity is focused on crazy orthodox fundamentalists.
Salute to our anti-religious comrades from Australia and UK!
Eat and Billy, we welcome you back!
– Autonomous Carpenters, FAI-IRF
Tags: Autonomous Carpenters, Billy, Domodedovo, Eat, FAI-IRF, Fuck the Church, Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI), Moscow, Russia, Walter Bond
Posted in Direct Action
Letters and considerations from Lone Wolf ALF Prisoner of War, Walter Bond… not 'Abdul Haqq' (USA)
Wednesday, December 19th, 2012
Walter Bond, the animal liberation fighter who embraced Islam, has dropped the name 'Abdul Haqq', and he has written in one of his new letters: "Religion, all religion is a waste of my time! I'm through with it, I don't believe it and the whole business of it makes me want to fucking puke!". In this prison letter, and also this one, he publicly talks about rumours, misconceptions and changes of his opinions, and below you can find his reasons why he decided to drop the name 'Adul Haqq'.
What's In A Name?
I have decided to drop the name 'Abdul Haqq' for the following reasons:
First, religion is not the defining aspect of my struggle, Animal Liberation is. While my spirituality is an Important aspect of my personal life it has nothing to do with the fight for the total freedom of the oppressed. Religion has a terrible track record of persecution of just about every social group one could possibly imagine and I am not here to play apologist to tyranny, in the name of God, or politricks, or consumerism, or any of the other stupid ass reasons people find to justify their bloodlust! Furthermore, the more my own spirituality in mysticism has progressed the more I realize that the institution of religion is poison to my spiritual path. Sufis of the past often had to speak and write their esoteric wisdom in parables and riddles to avoid being murdered by the orthodox regimes of their times, I don't. And I find the whole business of labeling, and packaging my beliefs and faith under the auspices of this or that religion to be narrowing in and of itself. (more…)
Tags: ALF, Animal Liberation, USA, Walter Bond
Posted in Prison Struggle
Anarchists sabotage rail line to disrupt flows of capital – Southern Oregon (USA)
Thursday, December 15th, 2011
325 receives and transmits:
28 November 2011
On the night of November 28th, 2011, we sabotaged a rail line in Southern Oregon as part of a coordinated effort to disrupt the flow of commerce on the West Coast. We got tired of watching trains pass through our towns loaded with lumber, ore, cheap commodities, and other resources pillaged from the earth without consequence. We didn't do this out of a desire to create a more green, sustainable or humane civilization—we want nothing less than to see the total failure of this sick and rotten society.
This action was not only easy to carry out, but positively satisfying. We used 4AWG copper wire with the ends stripped of insulation and wrapped around the two sides of the track with the rest of it buried in the middle, which falsely indicated to a sensor that there was a train stopped on the railway.
We did this in solidarity with currently imprisoned members of the Long-Live Luciano Tortuga Cell/Indonesian FAI, to whom we send our most passionate revolutionary greetings.
We would also like to send our love to ALF prisoner of war, Walter Bond.
Towards an end to this nightmare world
Tags: Billy, Eat, Indonesia, International Solidarity, Luciano Pitronello Schuffeneger, Oregon, RO-FAI (Indonesia Section), Sabotage, USA, Walter Bond
Posted in Direct Action
A Letter of Solidarity with the Informal Anarchist Federation by Walter Bond, A.L.F Prisoner of War (USA)
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
Hello, my name is Walter Bond. I am currently serving a prison sentence in the United States for 3 A.L.F. arsons totaling nearly 2 million dollars' worth of damage. Recently, I read a statement in solidarity with the Conspiracy Cells of Fire attempting to create a real voice for all of us political prisoners and prisoners of war, those of us that have fought and still fight from our prison cells against all civilization. I was happy to see that solidarity was signed with me in that article as well. As a small token of my support please accept the enclosed brief letter of solidarity that I have written for the Informal Anarchist Federation. Animal Liberation, Whatever It May Take! (more…)
Tags: ALF, Animal Liberation, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire : Imprisoned Members Cell, Earth Liberation Front, ELF, Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI), International Words of Solidarity with the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire pamphlet, USA, Walter Bond
Posted in Eco Struggle, Prison Struggle
Words of Solidarity with Conspiracy of Cells of Fire from some members of Russian Earth Liberation Front / FAI-IRF (Russia)
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
So many of us captured, thrown into prisons, tortured, wounded or even dead. It's getting more and more difficult to mention every comrade in each communique. Yet they are all worth mentioning, they shouldn't fade into obscurity of silence of prison cells. Names spin in the head… People we've never known, but their dedication and sacrifice for the cause resonates with our worldview, with our own cause. And faces of friends we'll never see again. Dead, murdered by the System. Is it everywhere like this? Are we all alone in this hostile world? Are there other mutineers, saboteurs, discontent? How do we get in touch with all this censorship?
How do we let them know with all this conspiracy of silence in media and society, even among political left? How do we communicate? We don't know their language even. How do we write? Can they translate from Russian? OK, let's just give it a try, we'll see where this'll go soon enough… (more…)
Tags: Alexis Grigoropoulos, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire : Imprisoned Members Cell, Earth Liberation Front, Earth Liberation Front (Russia), ELF, Greece, Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI), International Revolutionary Front, International Solidarity, International Words of Solidarity with the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire pamphlet, Luciano Pitronello Schuffeneger, Russia, Walter Bond
Posted in Prison Struggle
International Proposal from the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire (Greece)
Monday, September 26th, 2011
Note: Updated corrected email address – sinomosiapf (at) riseup (dot) net
To all anarchist prisoners:
Prison is the country of prisoners. From here inside, we want to send greetings to our comrades imprisoned around the world, as well as set a proposal in motion.
In the country of prisoners, the days go by one after the other, slow and indifferent, while everywhere cement and an immense boredom prevail.
Nevertheless, our minds often escape and secretly visit our brothers and sisters imprisoned in Chile, Mexico, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, England, Russia, Denmark, and wherever else there are cells full of people who haven't lost the desire for freedom.
Comrades, we talk to you even though we don't speak the same language. We see you even though we've never met face-to-face. We smile at you even though we don't know one another.
The enemy believes it can break our morale by locking us up in its cells for months and years. Power thus expects to receive a declaration of remorse, a renunciation of direct action, a revision of our anarchist values.
But the only thing it will receive is our utter contempt and our most potent rage. All of us who have assumed responsibility for belonging to the first phase of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire expect sentences of many years—condemnation by a system we have declared war on because we will not tolerate it governing our lives.
We want to transform the upcoming trial of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire into a trial of the system.
By way of our discourse and our attitude, it won't be us defending ourselves in front of the judges, but they defending themselves in front of us for the crimes committed by the Power they serve.
At the same time, we want to draw attention to the fascist mechanism constructed to persecute us via the collaboration of the police, the judiciary, and the mass media.
A mechanism that launched an unprecedented anti-anarchist campaign whose goal was not just our arrest, but also the creation of a climate of widespread fear in which even the possession of previously published texts by anarchist prisoners could lead to a date with the prosecutor.
This was preceded by numerous detentions, the issuing of arrest warrants, the publication of photos of those of us who were at large, mass media screenplays about "connections between all the guerrilla organizations," reports about the "revolutionary fund" and our participation in bank robberies, "specialist" analyses of each of our "psychological profiles," and many other methodical schemes whose objective was to isolate us morally and marginalize anarchist urban guerrilla warfare.
The State wants to wipe the choice of anarchist direct action off the map of values held by subversive circles.
It wants to portray direct action as a futile decision that leads directly to prison, changing nothing.
However, when you choose direct action, you choose to take your life into your own hands.
Through direct action, we break away from stagnant thinking, we negate spineless movements, and we sabotage the clocks of discipline, creating free time and space within the hostile environment of the metropolis.
There, where surveillance cameras record our every move, uniformed police pigs memorize our faces, and the screens of the spectacle fabricate our desires, we once again don our masks. Our hands grab hold of stones, Molotovs, bombs, pistols, and we pour into the streets in search of freedom.
Now, even in prison, we don't ever forget that feeling, and we'll do exactly the same thing again the first chance we get.
We therefore don't want intellectuals, university professors, or any of the well-known hacks from leftist cliques defending us at our trial.
What do any of them know about the adventure of direct action and its values?
What can be said by those who spend all day firmly seated in their comfortable offices, chitchatting against the system from the vantage point of their leftist salon culture while that very system feeds them?
No, let them keep their "sensitivity" and the guilt they feel for having sold out to the Power that wants to portray us as "troubled, socially impressionable youths."
We're not looking for fake sympathy or support from the Left. Far from it. We seek accomplices to the same crime: the fight for anarchy and freedom.
There can be no more appropriate place for our search than the prisons that constitute an obligatory stop on the path of many anarchist comrades.
Therefore, comrades, we present you with a proposal/invitation.
In a few months the second Conspiracy of Cells of Fire trial will be held.
Even now we know that they will sentence us, and not for one minute will we take a step back, nor will we lower our heads or our voices in order to benefit from some "extenuating circumstance."
Therefore, there can be no better or stronger argument for our defense that your own voice, comrades. It's from your expressions of solidarity and the attacks carried out by anarchist direct action groups that we draw the courage to look our persecutors directly in the eye. Surely you've felt the same thing, imprisoned in other countries and paying the same price for our shared passion for freedom.
More specifically, what we're thinking about and proposing is to release, ahead of the trial, a pamphlet containing your international words of solidarity with the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire case.
At the same time, given that solidarity is a reciprocal concept to us, we'd like it if those of you who want to contribute something—thereby giving us strength and support—accompany it with an introductory text explaining your own case.
The pamphlet we want to release will thus include summaries of each of your cases, carrying your own experience of struggle to Greece and the other countries where the publication will be distributed, creating new opportunities to instigate hostilities with the system as part of international solidarity.
Together we will create an international experience of struggle that far exceeds our specific case, since we don't view the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire as the simple calling card of an organization. We view it as a way of being that describes and comprises the features and trajectory of the anarchist struggle we're all engaged in, another part of which is our time spent in prison.
This is an experience we want to share with all you comrades who find yourselves prisoners in the hands of the State, and it's simultaneously a proposal through which we can also be accomplices to your experiences.
It thus becomes possible to reach, within international anarchist circles, a level of unity and coordination that isn't vague, but essential.
Contact between comrade prisoners at an international level transforms solidarity into a revolutionary workshop, revealing the different perceptions that shape a joint anarchist action front.
The first contact between us will be capable of creating the preconditions that open up an international dialogue among prisoners as well as comrades on the other side of the prison walls—a dialogue in which each person's specific perceptions and analyses can be discussed, thereby promoting coordinated attacking actions against the State. Of course, this doesn't mean the fusion or the dismissal of different opinions
Additionally, such differences cannot and must not be obstacles to reciprocal support.
This is about trying to move from sympathy, which has developed among us through letters and shared textual references, to international coordination. It's about trying to become accomplices, together forming the Black International of anarchist prisoners and supporting—if so desired—our Italian comrades' proposal regarding the strengthening and broadening of the Informal Anarchist Federation/International Revolutionary Front.
The potentialities opened by this commitment are enormous, since it concerns a process of intensifying hostilities between revolutionary anarchists and the system.
It's worth imagining the strength gained by something that, for example, begins in Chilean prisons, crosses borders, and winds up in the cells of Greece. An international solidarity campaign can thus be initiated from prison, just like in the past when it was a matter of supporting comrade Gabriel Pombo da Silva.
At the same time, the formation of an autonomous network of communication among prisoners creates the appropriate preconditions for the existence of a permanent flow of information about what's going on in each prison, the conditions of imprisonment, upcoming trials, potential sentences, and ultimately the preparation of a counterattack plan by comrades outside prison.
For each sentenced comrade, for each disciplinary measure, for each prohibited letter or visit, for each vindictive transfer: no guard, no embassy, and no police officer should feel safe. When prisoners have the potential to communicate in their hands, there will be decisive comrades everywhere responding with action, sabotage, and fire.
We consider the proposal to release the International Words of Solidarity with the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire pamphlet to be the first step in that direction.
There will certainly be many more steps to come, but at some point one must simply begin.
In conclusion, we salute and stand beside—with our thoughts as well as our hearts—the Chilean comrades charged in the Bombings Case and also comrade Tamara, who is facing State persecution for sending a letter-bomb.
From the prisons of Greece we send anarchist smoke signals to Mónica Caballero, Andrea Urzúa, El Viejo Loco, and the rest of the comrades charged in the Bombings Case; Gabriel Pombo da Silva; Thomas Meyer-Falk; Marco Camenisch; Silvia, Billy, and Costa; Braulio Arturo; Walter Bond; Villarroel and Fuentevilla; Thomas Black and the English antifascists; the imprisoned Italian insurrectionists; the Russians and Belarusians; the Danes; and all those we've forgotten or whose names we simply don't know but want to know, because all of us have together chosen to sail against our epoch, using anarchy as our compass.
The following excerpt is dedicated to us all:
One day of prison. Two days of prison. Three days of prison. A month of prison.
The door closes and opens, then closes and opens again. Three months of prison. A year of prison. I need to know if others are thinking about me as much as I'm thinking about them. The days can't go by fast enough now. Four-hundred-eighty-two days of prison. Four-hundred-eighty-three days of prison. Four-hundred-eighty . . . I've lost count. Fuck. It's better that way. Counting is no good in prison. The arithmetic makes no sense whatsoever. Prison has its own smell. A smell that gets all over you and follows you around. I'll never manage to get it off me. Yesterday marked two calendars in prison. Two fucking years. I don't get any sleep. I've forgotten how to smile and now I can't dream. "Clink clink" in the night. They wake me up for a search. Maybe they'll find the shanks? Seven-hundred-fifty-one days of prison. Are you satisfied, my dear judges? Pigs. Seven-hundred-fifty-two days of prison, pigs. Seven-hundred-fifty-three pigs. Coming and going and off I go. Coming and going and off I go. My cell is three meters by three meters. From the second floor window I see 20% of the sky over the top of the fucking prison wall. I walk through the yard like an automaton. I walk kilometers in a yard measuring just a few meters. Boredom and boredom again. Today I vomited up my very soul. I vomited bars, walls, solitary confinements, years of prison, judicial sentences. I vomited three years of prison. I don't want to count anymore. I completely close my eyes and think. I think about my comrades, whom they're keeping far away from me in other prisons. I think about fires on the prison roofs. I think about everything prison has tried to make me forget. I think about a smile, a caress, a journey that doesn't end over there where the wall ends, a glance that isn't trapped behind the fucking prison bars. I stop thinking. I open my hand. I look at the metal file I have. Now I know. I know exactly what I have to do. Let's go then, once again. This time with feeling. Until the end. Long live Anarchy.
—An altered excerpt from the text signed by J. and V.
P.S. The current proposal to release the International Words of Solidarity with the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire pamphlet will be mailed to all our imprisoned comrades around the world. In order to counteract potential difficulties (censored correspondence), and due to the lack of information regarding certain comrade prisoners (unknown prison mailing addresses), our proposal will also be posted on anarchist Web sites. But what's crucially needed is that our comrade prisoners be informed. All responses, texts, comments, and critiques can be sent by e-mail to sinomosiapf (at) riseup (dot) net and by conventional mail to:
Post Box 51076
TK 14510 Nea Kifissia
— Imprisoned Members of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire : Panayiotis Argyrou, Michalis Nikolopoulos, Giorgos Nikolopoulos, Gerasimos Tsakalos, Christos Tsakalos, Giorgos Polydoras, Damiano Bolano, Haris Hatzimichelakis, Olga Economidou
Tags: 14/14, Braulio Arturo, Chile, Christos Tsakalos, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire : Imprisoned Members Cell, Damiano Bolano, Gabriel Pombo da Silva, Gerasimos Tsakalos, Giorgos Nikolopoulos, Giorgos Polydoras, Haris Hatzimichelakis, Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI), International Revolutionary Front, International Solidarity, International Words of Solidarity with the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire pamphlet, Marco Camenisch, Michalis Nikolopoulos, Olga Economidou, Panayiotis Argyrou, Proposal, Thomas Blak, Thomas Meyer Falk, Walter Bond
Posted in Prison Struggle
'Resist to Exist' by Walter Bond, imprisoned anarchist comrade (USA)
Monday, June 27th, 2011
Walter Bond was arrested on July 23, 2010 and has plead guilty to the arson of the Sheepskin Factory in Colorado and openly admits that he is the ALF (Animal Liberation Front) "Lone Wolf". Bond has plead not guilty to federal charges. He has also been indicted in Utah for the arsons of the Tandy Leather Factory and Tiburon (foie gras restaurant).
Resist to Exist
I am an anarchist.
I'm not the politically-correct hipster anarchist.
I am not the rhetorical anarchist either.
Reading dry accounts of the various factions of anarchism has never held much interest for me. I am an insurgent, an opposser. Why? Because I was born that way. When I was in kindergarten my teacher, Ms. Whirly, had a parent/teacher conference with my mom. I remember her saying something about me being a very bright young man but that I had serious problems with authority and one day it would get me in a lot of trouble. I do, and it did.
I came to find out that school doesn't want you to be a 'bright young man'. Serious questioning is the enemy of primary and secondary schools' indoctrination of youth. While my grade school teachers prattled on and all the kids answered in unison, I sat at the back of the class reading about dinosaurs, mythology, and astronomy. It made me feel hopeful that places or times existed that were far from here. far from Iowa's Aryan education. times and places where humans weren't the center of the entire universe. (more…)
Tags: ALF, Letter, Lone Wolf, USA, Walter Bond
Posted in Prison Struggle
Communique from Luciano Pitronello Incendarity Cell in solidarity with prisoners of the world (Argentina)
Friday, June 24th, 2011
From culmine, translated by war on society:
During the international week for total liberation we went to the Banco Santander Rio at Av. Gaona and Cuenca in the Flores Neighborhood, we doused two ATMs with gasoline and we left an incendiary device that then burned and destroyed them.
We share this action with those who take the decision to go on the offensive for human, animal and earth liberation.
Remembering Mauricio Morales.
For the freedom of Walter Bond, Marie Mason and Eric McDavid in the United States; Silvia, Billy and Costa in Switzerland who next month will be judged by the authorities of that country; 10 months into the bombs case, solidarity with the anarchists in Chile.
The war against this society continues in all places, in Italy, France, Spain, Mexico, etc.
Imprisoned, the comrades of Conspiracy of Cells of Fire do not collaborate with their enemies and struggle until the end.
For those fallen in combat against the forces of social control in Argentina, prisoners in the Ezeiza, Marcos Paz, Devoto prisons…
For all those who conspire in the extension of permanent conflict against the powers that dominate our lives. A fraternal greeting.
For the proliferation of attacks against authority and its properties.
Until the last animal is free, we are all prisoners.
Long live direct action that breaks with those established in the system.
To not wait; the spectacle must end; to be participants in what we desire.
Luciano Pitronello Incendiary Cell
Tags: Argentina, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, Costantino Ragusa, Eric McDavid, International Solidarity, June 11th Solidarity, Luca Bernasconi, Luciano Pitronello Incendiary Cell, Luciano Pitronello Schuffeneger, Marcos Paz, Mauricio Morales, Prisoners in the Devoto prisons, Prisoners in the Ezeiza, Santander Bank, Silvia Guerin, Walter Bond
Posted in Direct Action
ALF Claim Raids on Two Lab Breeders (UK)
Sunday, February 13th, 2011
11 February 2011
From Biteback:
"Two farms supplying chickens to be used in laboratory experiments were raided in one night. 25 chickens were freed from these disgusting business. We will return to free the rest!
AE Binning in Besselsleigh, Oxfordshire and Ross Poultry Farms, Martin Hussingtree, Worcester were the targets.
The fall of the animal supply network will be brought about and with this comes victory and closure of the laboratories.
Action, not words!"
Animal Liberation Front
This action was dedicated to Walter Bond given 5 years inside in the USA for burning down a sheepskin factory.
Tags: AE Binning, ALF, Animal Liberation, Chickens, International Solidarity, Oxfordshire, Ross Poultry Farms, UK, Walter Bond, Worcester
Posted in Eco Struggle


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New immigrants arriving at Ellis Island. At Ellis they will be "processed" before they are allowed to continue their journey to find a new home. |
This thread of learning activities for "Through Immigrants' Eyes" at the Johnstown Heritage Discovery Center explores why immigrants came to this area over the years; what they brought with them, and what their dreams were for their lives in America.
We suggest reading through the Teachers' Guide first, then use the links under Student Resources for this Thread as quick access to the learning materials for this theme. Referenced PA Standards are available.
Teachers' Guide for this Thread
Student Resources for this Thread
Before your museum visit
- Peopling Pennsylvania: Push and Pull
- Chart and Timeline of US Immigration, 1821-1990 (PDF version for ease of printing)
Primary sources
- Documents
- Photograph Galleries
- Museum characters
- Weighing Costs, Risks, and Benefits of Leaving and Staying Behind
- Good-Bye Letter to my Best Friend (PDF for printing ease)
- Move it Out packing list (PDF for printing ease)
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Monday, January 29, 2007
Sunday, January 28, 2007
More sultans elephant stuff - #2's crazy flying pig and some heads.
Saturday, January 27, 2007
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Thursday, January 25, 2007
Girl and sketchbook page progression.
I post on this blog for me. For what ever reason I get something out of posting each day. If other people are watching great. If not - as I stated before I'm having fun. That said I feel like posting the progression of one of my sketchbook pages. I try and sketch at the end of each day. Usually I get about an hour in before sleep calls. I started this last night and I'll scan and post the progression each morning.
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Monday, January 22, 2007
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Friday, January 19, 2007
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Unfinished TMNT sketch...
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Monday, January 15, 2007
Cheech Bat!
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Neon sign Skull?
Friday, January 12, 2007
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Some older sketchbook stuff
Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Monday, January 8, 2007
Sunday, January 7, 2007
busy busy busy
Saturday, January 6, 2007
Monster hunter Raph
I did a frontispiece for an early issue of Tales of the TMNT V.2 featuring Raphael as a monster hunter ala Hellboy.
A few years later my buddy Pete Laird gave me a pencil drawing to ink up for the Toronto comicon (I think).
As I remember it - he suggested I add the monster hunter gear to Raph.
This is the final result - one of my favorite TMNT pieces.


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Thursday, January 20, 2011
NOTD: China Glaze Sugar Plums
Very pretty color, not that pretty of a manicure. Even with 2 coats of Seche this polish had a gritty finish, not what I expected from something with such minimal glitter. Still pretty, although the holo shows much more in the bottle than on the nail; just I tend to kind on feel my nails throughout the day - and I didn't enjoy them feeling textured rather than smooth. You don't notice it much or really at all in pics - from the holiday collection, this is China Glaze Sugar Plums:
I don't normally tease you guys ... but I am so in love I can't resist. Here is a tiny peek, just one nail, from my current mani:
The tutorial for this is going to be my 100th vid on YouTube - I wanted to do something gorgeous & purple & I'm very happy with the results. I'm still trying to come up with a good name for it that conveys the full awesomeness, but I plan to get the rest of the pics & the video edited tomorrow night, so stay tuned for a full post =) Thanks for reading.
China Glaze,
Coming Attractions,
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- AnonymousJanuary 20, 2011 at 11:55 PM
Congratulations! Thank you for the sneak preview! How about just naming it, "Purple Awesomeness!", lol.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousJanuary 21, 2011 at 7:19 AM
I had the same problem with China Glaze Sugar Plum! It was gritty, even with the top coat. It had to come off after 1 day! -Sophia
ReplyDelete Can't wait to see the purple water marble video Colette.
Your creativity inspired me last night. I did a mani last night with Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure in Plum's the Word and then did a swipe of Cover Girls Boundless Color in Amethyst Mist (a holographic glitter) across the tips like a french. It's subtle and elegant. Thanks!
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It's impossible to underestimate the impact Stevo has made on both the global cinematic landscape and on me as a tedious film nerd; anyone who grew up in the cinema in the '80s will know that he was always there, whether directing or producing, presenting you with an invaluable gift or two each year by which you would come to define your childhood. And having reeled us in as kids and teens with aliens, archaeologists and dinosaurs, he ensured an in-built audience for his grown-up tales of war, slavery and terrorism.
Watching his thirty features, it wasn't how few duffers (let's say eight for the sake of argument) or works of sheer genius (seven) he's directed that struck me, so much as the other half of his output in between: a rock-solid brick wall of beautifully-crafted, endlessly engaging stories, any one of which most directors would kill to have created in their career. These are the films it's hardest to rank, suggesting that this entire exercise might have just been a complete waste of time ahahahahaha.
So here goes, and don't @ me because I've included Duel; despite being made for TV it did eventually get a theatrical release, and besides it's precisely one spillion times more cinematic than most telly was in the early '70s. OK? Good. Let's Bergolate!
If further proof were required of just how awful 2016 was, then the fact that it vomited up Steven Spielberg's worst film is it. Both Sophie and BFG lack any of the charisma with which Roald Dahl imbued them, the giants are all lifelong residents of the uncanny valley, and the innovation and inspiration of E.T. or Tintin - this film's closest cousins - have utterly eluded Spielberg here. It's a limp, lifeless slog through scenes that drag on for days without any sense of urgency or aim, and the absence of any kind of momentum is deeply concerning. And like Hook and War Horse before it, The BFG dishes up another example of Spielberg's comically romanticised, chocolate-box idea of England, making you wonder why Sophie would ever want to leave it to live with a man whose bogeys are bigger than she is.
This is Spielberg's third film tinkering around the edges of World War II, as if he's gently prodding the beast before plucking up the courage to launch the full-scale assaults of Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan on it. He hasn't quite worked out his plan of attack yet though, and Empire Of The Sun fails to adequately convey both the geopolitical situation of Japanese-occupied China and the microcosmic story of JG Ballard's own personal war. A disjointed, uncertain and consequently dull meander through Ballard's memoirs, it hinges on the performance of young Christian Bale, who - while never bad - is largely unlikeable and annoying. Spielberg lets his visual metaphors get out of hand too, many of them feeling more at home in a soft rock music video than a wartime drama.
Exhausting levels of visual carnage and prolonged shouting characterise this blip in Spielberg's otherwise solid run of early films. The lightness of touch he usually combines with megabudget spectacle evades him on this occasion, and while watching an entire house fall off a cliff (for example) might be fun, it's not necessarily funny. The dance hall sequence is a blast though, and while it's hard to identify with most of the characters, I can, at least, fully appreciate the appeal of getting Nancy Allen into an aeroplane.
It isn't that Harrison Ford's too old for this shit, it's that this shit's too old for Harrison Ford. There's enough charm in the franchise and fizz in Spielberg's bottle to make this work if only the script wasn't so dumb and overwritten: the trail of the crystal skull is needlessly complicated, both Mutt and Mac are dead weights to the plot, and there's more than one unnecessary set-piece that ends with our heroes exactly where they were when it began. Spielberg's comic-strip compositions rekindle a little of the magic, but he loses his touch in the drawn-out jeep chase and his over-reliance on CGI. CG gophers are one thing, but CG scorpions, CG ants, CG monkeys and - most egregiously - CG fucking aliens make you yearn for the spiders, bugs and snakes of what I fear we may soon be referring to as The Original Trilogy.
After the breathless excitement of Tintin it only seems logical that Spielberg might want to spend half an hour showing a bloody horse ploughing a bloody field, but personally I could have done without it. Everything post-plough marathon is fine though, provided you're an incredibly patient under-12-year-old; as the equine Forrest Gump leads us through a bloodless first world war, carrying us from one syrupy tale of human kindness to another, only the cynicism-free innocence of a child could stand the amount of cheese that flows from every frame. Tremendous to see Hiddleston and Cumberbatch go head-to-head, but otherwise I could cheerily boil this down for glue.
There's magic sprinkled all over the place here, from the riotous production design to John Williams' swashbuckling score, but even the happiest thoughts can't make Hook fly. Its middle is as flabby as Peter Banning's (A HUNDRED MINUTES elapse before Peter fully Pans out) and Robin Williams is miscast, looking understandably uncomfortable in those tights. Hoffman gives good sneer though, Julia Roberts is delightful, and it's fun to see the genesis of Jurassic Park's lawyer-munching scene in Captain Hook's death-by-croc-from-above.
Part 1 of Spielberg's The Trouble With Slavery double bill is an even lower-key affair than Lincoln, to the point of being bone dry for much of its running time. A harrowing flashback at the mid-point injects some much-needed emotional fuel, and from then on Amistad becomes a semi-gripping depiction of the neverending fight for justice in the face of entrenched bigotry. Perhaps for the first time in his career, Spielberg's Spielbergery is kept to a respectful minimum, the performances (notwithstanding Anthony Hopkins' hammed-up, accent-ambivalent John Quincy Adams) doing the talking instead. Worthy, but lacking the watchability of the equally noble Schindler's List.
This Chaplinesque oddity begins well, before descending into an overstretched 'What if...?' scenario that can't satisfactorily answer its own question. What could have been an incisive allegory for the immigrant experience (particularly post-9/11) gets bogged down in a tedious romantic subplot and an unsustainable personal war between The Little Guy and The Man. Tom Hanks handles the physical comedy well but his casting as an Eastern European outsider is uncomfortable, reminding you that Spielberg is often risk-averse with his leading roles (he's never cast a person of colour as the lead in a film that isn't specifically about people of colour). Still, nice to see Zoë Saldana as a Trekkie, five years before she played Uhura.
A rickety, insubstantial machine powered by the twin engines of Richard Dreyfuss and Holly Hunter at their most lovable, Always is Spielberg's barely-concealed dream of working in Hollywood's golden age come true. Unashamedly romantic and absolutely awash with cheese, it doesn't stand up to much scrutiny (Dreyfuss' replacement in Hunter's affections, Brad Johnson, is a charisma vacuum; Marg Helgenberger disappears mid-movie) but is as good a way as any to spend a couple of hours having your heartstrings tugged at by a master heartstring-tugger.
There's as much daftness in Jurassic Park as there is in its unfairly-overlooked sequel, it's just hidden less well here. Granted, the story doesn't take us anywhere new (barring the misjudged San Diego excursion), but the darker tone - which matches Spielberg's only other Part 2, Temple Of Doom - and the masterful execution of the set pieces are enough to warrant the film's existence. Jeff Goldblum makes for a refreshing anti-action hero, arguably underwritten but magnetic enough not to be overshadowed by the CG spectacle surrounding him.
Spielberg's first men-on-a-mission movie is, of course, not a men-on-a-mission movie at all, but a real-individual-human-beings-with-lives-dreams-and-mothers-on-a-mission movie. Like Captain Miller's quest to find one man among tens of thousands of soldiers, though, the script's search for the individual among the many is worthy but beset with hurdles. Every cross in that Normandy graveyard is a person, Spielberg says, but it's tough to identify with any of them bar Jeremy Davies' Corporal "they don't like it" Upham, and a quarter of the film is over before we're plucked from Miller's safe (if shaky) arms and handed over to the one character who reacts like most of us would in a warzone.The battle scenes are an undeniably visceral cinematic achievement, but without a consistent pair of eyes to see them through or any characters to truly cling to, Saving Private Ryan is ultimately "just" a very well-made war film. Without any disrespect to Davies, a 25-year-old Tom Hanks as Upham and a 45-year-old hardass like, say, Clint Eastwood as Miller, might have put this a step closer to achieving its mission.
There's an exceptional murder-mystery-slash-chase-movie with a futuristic spin screaming to be set free from the shackles of a Tom Cruise summer blockbuster here. Cruise's presence (and, in fairness, his ownership of the rights to the story) undoubtedly got the film made - and made by Steven Spielberg - but a couple of the set-pieces are blatantly crowbarred in to please plot-phobic audience members and sell a few videogames. Still, the world-building is flawless, the eye motif is fun and Colin Farrell's angry palm-punching is never not hilarious. I could have done without the aggressively twee coda (success and happiness can only be achieved with a complete family unit), and any commentary about the saturation of advertising in the future is self-defeating when it requires intrusive product placement (Nokia are doing surprisingly well in 2054), but it's great to see Spielberg find his fun mojo again after the sentimentality of Saving Private Ryan and A.I..
So dry and bewildering for its first hour that it virtually challenges you to keep watching (I've gone into both my viewings armed with this invaluable primer), Lincoln's rewards for the tenacious are plentiful. Not the least of these, naturally, is Daniel Day-Lewis' mesmerising performance, even if he often seems to be performing a deeply earnest one-man show while Tommy Lee Jones is providing the bulk of the entertainment elsewhere. Every frame feels so steeped in authenticity that watching the 13th Amendment being passed genuinely feels like witnessing history in the making, and the despondency of emerging from an age of hard-won social progress into the cold reality of Planet Trump is tough to bear.
A low-key but perfectly-crafted Cold War drama, Bridge Of Spies often feels more like Janusz Kaminski's film than Steven Spielberg's. While it's hard to fault any of Kaminski's work with The Berg, every frame of this is impressionistic eyeball sex of the most arousing order. It helps that the costume and set design are equally classy; the deep blues and expensive mahoganies of the early scenes - in sharp contrast to the cold greys of the Berlin sections - are divine to behold. Meanwhile Spielberg turns out another lesson in the importance of liberal values at a time when the world needs them more than ever, and sure enough, the world completely ignored him. Just imagine if it hadn't: Trump would've gone away and we'd all be wearing sensible cardigans like Tom Hanks does.
It's more successful as a lyrical but lightweight story about extraterrestrial contact than a study of obsession (and it seems to want to be both), but CE3K sure looks purty and sounds incredible; the early sightings are beautifully eerie while the third act is a full-on John Williams operagasm. I would love to see a special feature in which Vilmos Zsigmond presents his receipt for lightbulbs to Columbia for reimbursement.
Spielberg's (eventual) theatrical debut, a Hitchcockian Twilight Zone episode teased out to feature length, sees the 25-year-old director already letting rip with a fearlessly kinetic camera and lughole-troubling sound design. You can see him experimenting with lenses to remarkable effect, and his natural eye for a shot is, at this stage, an unhoned but powerful tool. To me (although Spielberg and writer Richard Matheson say otherwise), Duel is a hugely unsubtle metaphor about threatened masculinity, with the beefy, macho truck being the first of Spielberg's unstoppable forces (cf. sharks, dinosaurs, Nazis) to be overcome if man - or, in this case, Mann - is going to win back his place in the world. A little overlong and repetitive in places, but it's still the best film to feature a roadside gas-station-slash-herpetarium.
The Bergomeister finds a new twist for his dysfunctional family motif in the tale of a boy running away from one father into the arms of another, albeit somewhat circuitously (if only Tom Hanks' Carl Hanratty and Christopher Walken's Frank Abagnale Sr had just moved in together, this could have been Spielberg's own My Two Dads). Frank Jr's unwitting search for a new family floats on a breeze of effortless storytelling here, punctuated by adoring snapshots of '60s pop culture and the slickly deceptive luxury escapism found in the Pan Am and James Bond brands. Arguably a better film now than on release thanks to the 26-year-old in pigtails and braces who went on to become Amy Adams.
Goldie Hawn is off-the-scale adorable in this deceptively charming road trip caper, with William Atherton a revelation for those of us (i.e. me) who only know him as a pompous prick from the likes of Ghostbusters and Die Hard. Sugarland's trump card, though, is its cast of supporting characters: a menagerie of sharply-crafted bit players, each given a rich vignette or two to enhance the overall comedy. The film's rep has suffered in the shadow of Spielberg's higher-concept fare, but it's obvious that in lesser hands this would have been even more forgotten by now.
Kubrickian pessimism and Spielbergian optimism blend surprisingly well in this worryingly just-about-believable vision of what will happen when Apple finally get around to the iChild. Moral and ethical quandaries taint Spielbrick's uncannily realised world with an eerie discomfort about what we're capable of, matched only by the freaky weirdness conjured up by Haley Joel Osment (surely Stan Winston's greatest animatronic creation). A beautiful film but also a touching tribute to a friend; if anyone was going to bring Stanley Kubrick back to life for a heartbreakingly brief amount of time, it was Steven Spielberg.
Inevitably simplifying a complex operation which took place against an unfathomably bewildering political background, Munich is easily accused of boiling its delicate subject matter down to Eurotrip for amateur assassins. But Spielberg's grown-up dramas have always been about the situation in microcosm; conflict internalised in small groups or individuals. It's his way of humanising the inhuman, and although it's not very subtle here, it is very effective. Personal morals and ethics are stirred into the alphabet soup of international agencies until they dissolve completely, leaving behind only the acrid taste of paranoia.Even without the presence of one James Bond and two Bond villains (Michael Lonsdale and Mathieu Amalric - playing father and son, no less), Munich would be a fascinating alternative view of government-sponsored killers inhabiting "a world of intersecting secrecies". The futility of knocking off a bad guy only for two more to take his place, combined with the reality of never truly knowing why you're doing the job, fosters the kind of existential crisis that would have driven Bond insane years ago. Spielberg's depressingly obvious conclusion that state-sanctioned violence is eternally self-perpetuating is hauntingly conveyed in the film's final shot, and reveals a bleak despair that suggests his more fun films are as much escapism for him as they are for us.
An exceptionally-crafted disaster movie with jaw-dropping scenes of destruction and carnage, War Of The Worlds - cannily appropriating HG Wells' double meaning of the title to subtly nod at ideological as well as interplanetary conflict - also functions as one of the smartest post-9/11 films to come out of Hollywood. Under attack from malevolent, unimaginably patient and calculating metaphors, humanity's survival instinct is laid bare in its best and worst forms, and Spielberg frequently confronts us with actions of barbaric selfishness with which we cannot help but empathise.The script stumbles slightly in abandoning the hero's reactionary, gung-ho son once he's fulfilled his symbolic purpose, but given that the remarkable 11-year-old Dakota Fanning is doing all the heavy lifting he isn't missed. And, as with Minority Report, Tom Cruise's presence is a necessity born of the fact that he brought the project to Spielberg but highlights the sense that a better, lesser-known actor might have pulled us further into the film's world.
After a three-year gap to let the stench of Crystal Skull dissipate, Spielberg's comeback was everything Indy used to be: breathless, air-punching adventure from beginning to end. The performance-capture format was a bold move but there's simply no other way this could have worked, and you can feel The Berg's excitement at its possibilities in every frame (not least in that glorious 152-second shot that crowns the tremendous escape from Bagghar). The wait for a sequel continues to rank as one of the worst experiences mankind has ever faced.
A few too many misfiring gags in the first half and an overdependence on getting to another set piece as soon as possible still can't cancel out the winning charm of Lucas, Spielberg and Ford's timeless creation. Casting James Bond as Indiana Jones' Dad is inspired, and more than makes up for the weak villain and villainess. Vic Armstrong's incredible stunt work and the mighty John Williams help make Last Crusade eternally re-watchable, but it's the most dated of the original trilogy. See, I told you we'd all be calling it that soon.
Spielberg's inner child was never more visible than in this tale of a young boy and his intergalactic alcoholic botanist chum. Like the best kids' films, it deals with the misery of growing up: the magical twilight of the first half, with its faceless grown-ups (except for Mom) and literal wide-eyed optimism, gives way to a harshly-lit second full of mean adults, death and loss. Spielberg never forgets the simple innocence of children though, and sees it in every three-quarter lit profile shot of their faces.
As incredible an achievement as this simple tale of a hungry, tuba-playing fish is, I've always felt it loses momentum when it heads out to sea to become Alien on a boat. I miss the island-based tension, the pig-headedness of Mayor Vaughn (the film's true villain), Spielberg's impeccable deep staging and the terror that comes from never seeing the shark. That said, John Williams' score more than makes up for any of Jaws' second-half deficiencies, plugging the gaps where the director's catastrophically unreliable mechanical star let him down. For some reason we still appear to be waiting for Jaws Origins: Quint; this doesn't count.
Welcome... to peak Spielberg: the grand convergence of all the director's talents in one glorious, toothy package. Everything he ever did well, he does perfectly here, demonstrating the finest control over audiences since Alfred J Hitchcock popped his chubby clogs. If the exposition's a little clunky and the plot occasionally nonsense, it simply doesn't matter: Spielberg conducts a symphony of across-the-board technical excellence (of which Gary Rydstrom's eviscerating sound design deserves top billing) that drowns out any flaws in an opus of peerless entertainment. Having said all that, he still made four films that are even better.
I suppose you have to take the questionable ethnic representations and woefully underserved female character in the spirit of the serials and adventures that inspired the Indy films, lest they overshadow what is a breathlessly exciting and gleefully dark se/prequel. Every fight and stunt matters, every set-piece is seared into action cinema lore and the script (barring Screamin' Willie Scott's near-constant wailing) is emblematic of the wit that characterises the Golden Age of Spielberg. Temple Of Doom is Raiders' evil twin, and anyone who prefers Last Crusade is an unbearable goody-goody.
Whoopi Goldberg is terrific in her first screen role as punchbag and doormat to a hardscrabble existence in early 20th century Georgia. Spielberg transforms the gobby New York stand-up into a shy, downtrodden housewife who just about keeps a slender grip on her pride in the director's first "grown up" film, retaining his effortless visual storytelling tics and necessary sense of humour despite the bleak subject matter. The Colo(u)r Purple wrings joy from small kindnesses, lacing a potentially crushing experience with the sweet potential of hope, but despite all that I definitely did not cry. (I definitely did)
Twelve years after Raiders Of The Lost Ark, SS takes on the SS again - and this time it's war. Schindler's List is a masterclass in balancing tone under the trickiest conditions: it effortlessly shifts from heartbreaking poignancy to unflinching brutality, even finding time for some refreshing LOLs along the way (some of Spielberg's best visual gags can be found in the first hour of this otherwise sombre epic). There's a sense that, in Spielberg's vision, the necessarily horrific depictions of the ghetto liquidation and Płaszów concentration camp took precedence over really understanding Oskar Schindler, but it hardly matters; few directors in the history of cinema have been in a position to adequately convey such inexplicable evil to a mass audience. Spielberg recognises and respects his awesome responsibility, and the result is a devastating lesson in the consequences of intolerance that, tragically, is no less relevant now than it was then.
I've spent my life digging around in this movie for that most elusive of artefacts: a flaw. I'm calling off the search now though, because Raiders is the perfect film - not just my favourite Spielberg, but probably my favourite film ever. Never have a character and actor been so impeccably matched as Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford; John Williams and Douglas Slocombe are right at the top of their considerable games, and Lawrence Kasdan's script is as loving a tribute to its inspirations in serial film as is possible. Tying all this and more together with unlimited invention, charm and wit, Spielberg makes up for previous disaster 1941 and earns himself a Get Out Of Jail Free card for every future indiscretion. Roll on Indy 5! (*crosses everything*)Thanks to Christian Annyas and Movie Screencaps for the title cards.


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I have to complete the following idiomatic expressions:
Several trouble-makers were thrown out neck and ______________
The Navy will not accept you unless you are sound in wind and ____________
I keep this dress for high days and _____________________
Thank you
Neck and heels definition by Babylon's free dictionary
to be sound in wind and limbs
Two further idioms crossed my mind:
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I've never heard of 'neck and heels', but I have heard 'neck and crop'. So has Google:
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Neck \Neck\, n. [OE. necke, AS. hnecca; akin to D. nek the nape of the neck, G. nacken, OHG. nacch, hnacch, Icel. hnakki, Sw. nacke, Dan. nakke.] 1.
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Is the 'S' added to 'limb' a correction? I've only ever met the singular.
"neck and heels - Google Search -- 19.1k hits
"neck and crop - Google Search -- 23.1k
19.1/23.1 = 0.82 ~ 1.0
PS I've seen 'holiidays' spelt like that*, but I've also seen it spelt Holy Days and I usually hear it pronounced with a long O. It's an abbreviation (for some) of 'Holy Days of Obligation' - like Ascension Day or Christmas Day - when Roman Catholics are (or were - I've lost track of the rules) required to go to Mass.
PS *I had to leave that typo; only a killjoy would have put it right.
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For some reason "high days and holy days" makes more sense to me. (I can't explain why.)


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In a veiled manner, former Military Head of States, General Ibrahim Gbadamosi Babangida, Popularly known as IBB, a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, now Emir of Kano, Emir, Sanusi Lamido II may have been mentioned as prominent Nigerians who have benefitted from the arm slush fund allegedly misappropriated by former National Security Adviser to ExPresident Goodluck Jonathan, Colonel Sambo Dasuki.
Though the names of IBB and Emir Sanusi were not directly mentioned as beneficiaries of the slush fund, but the description of a certain ex-Head of State flown to Germany for medical attention pointed at IBB in yesterday's Punch Newspaper's report pointed an obvious direction at the former ruler . The Former President was sometime 2015 flown to Germany when he was serious ill.
Also, the same Punch Newspaper described another beneficiary as a certain monarch, whose coronation was funded with Dasuki's scam fund; the description which could be said to have matched Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi's, who also coincidentally had his coronation shrtly before the ouster of former President Goodluck Jonathan.
Well, the above mentioned may not be the beneficiaries, but Punch Newspaper's description of the fresh beneficiaries pointed to them arguably.
Below is the Full report according to Punch Newspaper:
There were indications on Thursday that former Nigerian leaders, traditional and religious leaders from across the country were listed as beneficiaries of the $2.1bn arms funds in the final report of the Presidential panel which probed military contracts from 2007 to 2015.
It was gathered that the report, which had been submitted to President Muhammadu Buhari, recommended the retrieval of undisclosed sums of money from some indicted persons, while in some cases, it recommended their prosecution.
A highly-placed security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, said some former Heads of State, were listed as having received various sums of money from the Office of the National Security Adviser under Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.).
The source added that a prominent northern traditional ruler was provided funds from the NSA's office for the monarch's coronation.
Giving further insights into what some of the funds were used for, the source explained that some were spent to pay the medical bills as well as travel expenses of some of the ex-leaders, who had to travel abroad to seek medical help for undisclosed aliments.
In one of the most notable cases, the report stated that the ONSA shouldered the cost of the medical trips of one of the ex-Heads of State to Germany.
The source added, "The list of beneficiaries from the ONSA under Col. Sambo Dasuki is very long.
"The list comprises very prominent Nigerians, including former Heads of State, many traditional rulers from the North and the South.
"Several religious leaders from the two dominant religions in the country also got funds from the ONSA.
"A former President of the country, who was sick, was flown out of the country to Germany for medical treatment. In fact, the former ONSA paid for the three trips the former leader made to Germany."
It was learnt that the prosecution team was opposed to an open trial of Dasuki as this could result in disturbing revelations on how the $2.1bn under probe was disbursed.
The arms panel also established that the procurement processes adopted for the purchase of military hardware were arbitrarily and generally characterised by irregularities and fraud.
The highly-placed security official said the panel had interrogated some of the indicted officials, serving and retired officers, and some contractors.
The PUNCH learnt that the Federal Government would soon make public the final report just like it did with the interim report.
Barely three months after he assumed office in 2015, Buhari inaugurated a 13-man panel to probe procurement of arms and related military contracts between 2007 and 2015.
The panel had submitted two interim reports, where several serving and retired military officers were indicted.
Those indicted in the first two reports included Dasuki; a former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh (retd.); two former Chiefs of Army Staff – Lt. Gen. Azubike Ihejirika (retd.), and Lt. Gen. Kenneth Minimah (retd.) – and ex-Chiefs of Air Staff, Air Marshal M. D. Umar (retd.), and Air Marshal Adesola Amosu (retd.).
Others indicted were Maj. Gen. E. R. Chioba (retd.), AVM I. A. Balogun (retd.), AVM A. G. Tsakr (retd.), AVM A. G. Idowu (retd.), AVM A. M. Mamu, AVM O. T. Oguntoyinbo, AVM T. Omenyi, AVM J. B. Adigun and AVM R. A. Ojuawo.
Among those also indicted were AVM J. A. Kayode-Beckley, Air Cdre S. A. Yushau (retd.), Air Cdre A. O. Ogunjobi, Air Cdre G. M. Gwani, Air Cdre S. O. Makinde, Air Cdre A. Y. Lassa and Col. N. Ashinze.
Several contractors, former ministers and government officials are currently being prosecuted for the roles they played in the disbursement of the funds.
In one of the interim reports, the panel said, "The procurement processes were arbitrarily carried out and generally characterised by irregularities and fraud.
"In many cases, the procured items failed to meet the purposes they were procured for, especially for the counter-insurgency efforts in the North-East.
"A major procurement activity undertaken by ONSA for NAF was that concerning the contracts awarded to Societe D' Equipment Internationaux Nig. Limited between January 2014 and February 2015. NAF awarded 10 contracts totalling $930,500,690 to SEI Nig. Ltd.
"Letters of award and End User Certificates for all the contracts issued by NAF and ONSA respectively did not reflect the contract sums.
"Rather, these were only found in the vendor's invoices, all dated March 19, 2015."
A statement credited to the presidential spokesman, Mr. Femi Adesina, had said the Ode-led panel "comes against the background of the myriad of challenges that the Nigerian Armed Forces have faced in the course of ongoing counter-insurgency operations in the North-East, including the apparent deficit in military platforms with its attendant negative effects of troops' morale."
He added, "The committee will specifically investigate allegations of non-adherence to correct equipment procurement procedures and the exclusion of relevant logistics branches from arms procurement under past administrations, which, very often resulted in the acquisition of sub-standard and unserviceable equipment."
It was not clear on Thursday if the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had received a copy of the report or not, which was said to contain a list of those for further investigation and prosecution.
The spokesman for the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, said he did not have information on the subject.
When asked if the commission had received the report, he simply said, "I don't know."
More Shocking Secrets Of $2.1b Dasuki Scam: IBB, Emir Sanusi, Others MENTIONED As Beneficiaries
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Captured from Tejgaon Church during the All Souls Day celebrations.
All Souls' Day memorialize the all faithful departed souls. In Western Christianity, this day is observed principally in the Catholic Church. The Eastern Orthodox Church observes several All Souls' Days during the year. The Roman Catholic celebration is associated with the doctrine that the souls of the faithful who at death have not been cleansed from the temporal punishment due to venial sins and from attachment to mortal sins cannot immediately attain the beatific vision in heaven, and that they may be helped to do so by prayer and by the sacrifice of the Mass. The Western celebration of All Souls' Day is on 2 November and follows All Saints' Day
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A girl and a mother returned from a boat ride.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
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I'm sure they enjoyed the beautiful scenery as well as the ride. I saw a beautiful white cruise boat sail past during my Floria 2009 visit. I was so excited I waved to the few passengers inside as the boat zoom pass me. Maybe they think that I have gone cuckoo or gila but at that moment, I was really awed by the lovely scenery of this lake and all the beautiful flowers around me everywhere.
Boat ride is fun, gliding across water as Jo Pointed out. Huh,.. putting on 1 inch thick orange colored life vest is a nuisance... but that is part of the fun... haha.,
Its interesting to see people supposedly having fun and imagine what's going on in their mind...... Catherine, our assumption could be wrong at times.
But I wont call you gila if you wave at me Belle.., I will wave back from the boat, harder and more frantic!... aha.
Happy Gardening or Boating everyone
~bangchikHi ROSEY, I thought the subject was interesting as it slowed down at the jetty therefore the camera clicked multiple shots. I was actually imagining myself, Kakdah and the eldest grandchild getting off the boat then... (Our youngest son is too old to enjoy such a ride)...... I think they were very happy.
~bangchikThanks STEPH, WENDY and KIM and VICTORIA for the visit and comments. The boat ride is fairly educational, going through bridges and interesting buildings and gardens along the way. It was not a revelation of me and kakdah, I was imagining it could have been us, cruising on a hot summer afternoon....


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Thursday, April 26, 2012
[News] SHINee's Minho and f(x)'s Sulli confirmed as lead roles for SM Entertainment's adaptation of 'Hana Kimi'.
Last year, SM Entertainment announced that they would be producing a Korean drama adaptation, 'To the Beautiful You', off the insanely popular Japanese comic, 'Hana Kimi'.
Although several names have been on and off the potential cast list, rumors started circulating last month that SHINee's Minho and f(x)'s Sulli may be selected for the lead roles. It seems those rumors have finally been confirmed, for a source within the drama staff revealed that Minho and Sulli have indeed been cast as the leading roles for the drama.
PD Jun Ki Sang of 'Boys Over Flowers' will be directing the drama, and it's also been revealed that the drama has been picked up by SBS to begin airing in the second half of this year as well.
SBS had originally aimed to begin airing it as the follow-up to 'Ghost' but delayed it to the second half of the year instead, putting 'Faith' in its place.
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