text:
Movie review: Into the Storm lacks emotional pull (with video)
Sarah Wayne Callies, Matt Walsh star in Steven Quale film
Into the Storm
2.5 stars out of 5
Starring: Richard Armitage, Sarah Wayne Callies, Matt Welsh, Max Deacon, Nathan Kress
Directed by: Steven Quale
Running time: 89 minutes
It sucks. It blows. And in this faux-verité take on Twister, a tornado could tear a town down in one huffing funnel of death, but still bring a family together.
It's all heartland fable, complete with father-son bonding and good ol' boys having some fun. Which is why Into the Storm bears a certain amount of truth in form, despite its irritating, post-Blair Witch disguise as a "documentary film."
From the moment the movie begins with a bunch of kids trying to get their iPhones out to record power lines arcing, only to be sucked into the sky, we know the movie is a great big phoney pretending to be real.
So why the pretence, given we bought our ticket to this apocalyptic spectacle for the special effects?
We want the biggest lie imaginable. We want gigantic black clouds that spiral down from the sky with Old Testament thunder and purpose. We want to see semi-trailers flung into cornfields like so much trash from a car window and buildings implode from pressure.
More than anything, we want to be Dorothy and feel what it might be like to be lifted from the earth and pulled into the heavens in start-to-finish high-def.
Director Steven Quale and the hard-working effects team deliver most of these necessities: Into the Storm gives us "the biggest tornado modern history has ever seen" — a writhing black python of wind and dirt miles wide sweeping across the landscape, destroying everything in its path.
The images are convincing, and despite the obvious Hollywood steroids, feel depressingly plausible in light of the planet's changing climate and the increasing frequency of extreme weather events.
All the fake stuff in this movie works extremely well. It's the attempt at communicating human truth that fails completely.
One central problem is the nauseating device that demands every character essentially possess a camera, address the camera or pretend to avoid the cameras completely, as though we just happened into stumble into a slickly edited collection of survivor footage of a disaster as it was happening.
It's an absurd conceit designed to appeal to our desire for Instagram gratification, and it's becoming increasingly popular: Movies such as Cloverfield and Chronicle used it to offer audiences a new, accessible perspective on monsters and superheroes — two genres that require us to suspend disbelief.
But weather disasters are already accessible. In fact, they seem all too real already in the wake of Sandy and Katrina and killer tsunamis. So the device not only feels forced, it actually gets in the way of story and our connection to the supposedly "real" characters — who, go figure, feel like they came right out of Scooby-Doo's Mystery Bus.
There are two teenage brothers who live with their dad, a token black guy, a single mom meteorologist who looks at Doppler radar screens with raised eyebrows and issues Bones McCoy-styled bursts of scientific "OMG!" and, of course, the egotistical storm chaser who puts everyone in harm's way to satisfy his own need for sound-bite glory.
We have to care about these characters to care about the movie because they're the ones who anchor us to the emotional arc, and create the human pull that gives context and meaning to consequence.
If climate change is man-made, these are the souls who are now staring into the eye of God and paying for our collective sins.
We have to care if they survive, but because they all feel so fake, it's hard to muster much empathy. And as a result, all the non-storming moments in this movie feel painfully slow and formless: cheap filler between the pricey monster funnels.
It's like reading the Bible and leaving out the people. It may satisfy a dark curiosity about disasters, but without soul or a sense of connection, it lacks the power to enlighten.


text:
A quick summary of where we are in the "global currency war:"
For several years now, global central banks have been engaging quietly in this war. Each central bank has been implicitly playing "beggar-thy-neighbor" by making its currency relatively plentiful, and therefore relatively cheaper, than its neighbors. In one case, that of Switzerland, the currency issue became explicit rather than implicit, though not to weaken its currency but rather to stop it from strengthening without bound (see Chart, source Bloomberg). It is instructive that, in order to accomplish this end, the SNB had to pledge to print unlimited quantities of Swiss Francs to sell – essentially saying that if it can't beat 'em, it would have to join 'em.
Now, in January some well-known asset managers muttered the 'currency war' phrase, and Japan's Economic Minister Akira Amari suggested that the Yen could fall 10% (and Japanese officials have implied that they are looking for such a move to help end deflation). Since then, both the G20 and the G7 have discussed whether countries ought to be engaging in currency adjustment as a means of confronting macroeconomic challenges. Searches for the term "currency war" on Google (see chart, source Google) have risen appreciably. But again, this isn't really new; what's new is that people are actually talking about it.
Earlier this month, Adair Turner, chairman of the Financial Services Authority, talked about "permanent monetary easing" and said that central bankers "may need to be a little bit more relaxed about the creation" of money. By permanent, he means that the central bank would print money with the express intention that the printing would never be reversed. Ignoring history, Lord Turner said "the potential benefits of paper money creation [to stimulate the economy] should not be ignored."
Yesterday, the Bank of England released its quarterly forecasts, showing policymaker expectations that inflation will stay higher than the Bank's target for longer than expected, and growth will be weaker than expected. Even less surprising, given talk about "permanent" easing, is that 10-year UK inflation swaps are now back above 3.40% (see chart, source Bloomberg). The first 30bps of this jump was due to the decision by the ONS to maintain the current definition of RPI for existing contracts (I mentioned this here), but some amount of it is probably due to the currency wars talk.
It bears noting too that the 10-year U.S. inflation swap is within a handful of basis points of its post-Lehman highs.
The UK inflation market has been around longer than other inflation markets. Index-linked Gilts date back to the early 1980s. So I wonder whether we shouldn't be a bit more curious about how much of the rise in UK inflation expectations actually reflect a rise in global inflation expectations due to the currency wars that are (and have been) underway.
Because to some extent, the question of "who will win" the currency war is difficult to discern, and to some extent the question is moot. Like in the movie "WarGames," the only thing that has been certain since the currency war started a couple of years ago is that there will be a lot of scorched earth. The only real "winners" are debtors, relative to lenders.
Who will win? To change the analogy: if you're in a bay surrounded by people in boats who are pumping water in so that they can see who can sink his boat the fastest, the winner is the one who is wearing a life vest. All the others are just some varying grade of losers. Don't be the last one to grab a life vest.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
In case you haven't heard, Samsung is launching the long-awaited Galaxy S3 tomorrow – and the rumour mill is furiously churning out reports of ceramic construction, NFC and even wireless charging all making the rounds.
One oft-overlooked rumour is whether the Galaxy S3' will come packed with a stylus to take advantage of its reportedly 4.8in screen.
The Samsung Galaxy Note is famous for its S Pen, which makes use of Wacom's screen digitiser technology to offer accurate, pressure sensitive drawing and writing abilities on the Note's huge 5.3in screen. Could we see the same tech in the Samsung Galaxy S3? Cnet's mulled on the possibility – making the somewhat tenuous connection between the paint splodges on Samsung's S3 invite and the potential inclusion of an S Pen with the S3.
Samsung has the technology sussed already – and S Pen specific apps like S Memo should already be compatible with Ice Cream Sandwich, seeing as they're already being updated for the Galaxy Note's Android 4.0 update.
However, the Samsung Galaxy S3 is rumoured to be around 8mm thin. That's oticeably slimmer than the Galaxy Note's 9.7mm body, making an embedded stylus unlikely – unless it's reduced to toothpick-like dimensions.
That's not to say that a separate Galaxy S3-compatible stylus couldn't be used however, and it's certainly not the most far-fetched accessory we can think of.
Those of you looking forward to Samsung Galaxy S3 Draw Something shenanigans will have to join us in waiting till tomorrow, where all will be revealed.
Samsung Galaxy S3 rumour round up
5 of the best Samsung Galaxy S3 concepts
Amazon to take on iPhone with Kindle Phone?
Pure flies the flag with Evoke Mio Union Jack
Icon – Acura NSX


text:
Golden Girl Award
I was really excited to see what Kristen Stewart would wear at the 2011 People's Choice Awards and she didn't let me down.
She also skipped the red carpet, but dazzled on-stage wearing a Reem Acra Spring 2011 dress when she collected her 'Favorite Movie Actress' award.
Her gold sequined dress was typically shortened from the runway, which tells us that Kristen knows her best feature are her legs.
The back of the dress has an interesting twist as it's peach satin and not gold sequined like the front.
A thick brown belt and black Jimmy Choo peep-toes completed her look.
Credit: Style.com & Getty


text:
Results 1 to 10 of 51
Thread: Seems Unfair !
The review by Bevnet seemed to be more about the name of the product than the product itself. I always hear how excited everyone is when they find a product with real sugar in it and they are even willing to drive hundreds of miles for it. Well... SumPoosie is made with Real Cane Sugar. It is by far the best looking, smelling, and tasting energy drink on the market. If you don't believe me compare it to ANY on the market side by side and see if I am right. Better ingredients make a better product. I wish the review was more about the look and the taste and less about the name.
That should be a wake up call to you on the name of your product.If what you did yesterday still looks big, you haven't done much today.
07-11-2006, 03:58 PM #3Senior Member
- Join Date
- Jul 2004
- Location
- Jupiter, Florida, United States
- Posts
- 1,575
I agree with your assessment that your drink taste great. But the reality of any product is NAME recognition. Nike, Coke, Pepsi, Playboy, etc: All of these names do not imply something other than what it is. If your drink was called Fred's Energy Juice it may get a real favorable straight forward critique. However, calling it "Sum Poosie", a reference that every adolescent young man(as well as woman) is very familiar with makes your product seem like a novelty item that is bbest suited for the shelf at Spencer Gifts or at the local sex/head shop.
You can tell me and everyone on this board about your gramndmothers cat, but how do you tell that to someone who is looking for an energy drink to take back to work with them? Furthermore, how are they going to explain to their co-workers their choice of drink.
Like I said, your prodcuct taste GREAT! But the name will hold it back from really getting the recognition it deserves.
Just being honest with My Opinion.Whether you think can or think you can\'t, you\'re probably right!
07-11-2006, 04:40 PM #4Senior Member
- Join Date
- Jun 2006
- Location
- Illinois
- Posts
- 52
Just think about the Guy trying to explain to his wife or girlfriend why he is drinking SP!
Most of them won't believe him if he says..."but honey it tastes great!"
I am not going to defend the name Poosie. Poosie is the same as Focker and that was on 7,000 movie screens. In this day and age when children 8 years old are looking at things on the internet we did not talk about until we were 15.... the word Poosie is the least of our worries. You have near naked women on TV commercials for Girls Gone Wild yet SumPoosie Energy Drink in the Beer isle is just too much to imagine... where do you people live??? SumPoosie in a bar where blowjobs and sex on the beach has been ordered for years is a big deal ??? SumPoosie in a convenience store where they sell all kinds of speed, condoms, liquor, cigarettes and porn magazines is too much too???
By the way liquor and cigarettes kill half a million people a year... where is the outrage?Poosie Galore was the name of a bond girl back in the 1960's !!! But SumPoosie is too much... come on..... anyway the POINT I was making is that the review should be on the CONTENTS of what is inside. Its a shame that such a fine made product gets slighted because of the name Poosie. I just don't focking get it.
By the way Greg.... Coke is named Coke because it contained COCAINE at one time....!
07-11-2006, 06:50 PM #7Junior Member
- Join Date
- May 2006
- Location
- Ohio
- Posts
- 18
SP from what I have seen is mainly in "RAVE" or after hours clubs beverage alone or w/ liquor a little bidie said it effects the narcotics for more or better high AND Im not saying from experience, However I did see a thing or to when I was in Miami a few months ago the S. Beach club scene Is one of a kind, CRAZY ! SP actually had decked out high grafic Pink full size trucks with the beds of the trucks full of Ice and beautiful ladies handing it out like is was candy..
The trucks were the only thing to really talk about !Just 4 Today : )
07-11-2006, 08:27 PM #8BevNET Guest
If beverages were valued based on taste alone, neither Red Bull, Coke, or Pepsi would be popular drinks...
07-11-2006, 08:38 PM #9BevNET Guest
In all seriousness, the comments in the review weren't about being offended or something like that. The product is a novelty product, which is fine if you'll accept that it's just that. It probably can make some $$$, but this isn't a product that can compete with mainstream drinks.
Ok... then what were the comments about? Why give only 2 stars? The look of the can? The taste of the drink? That is what the review should be based on. Is there a better looking, smelling or tasting energy drink? Novelty drinks as you call them get a lower score no matter what? The category is somehow doomed by Bevnet? Nothing is good or bad except by comparison... when compared with others it gets 2 stars? Based... on ... what?


text:
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
some of the colors of the rainbow
"black", "white", and "yellow" are not allowed. presumably because blizzard wants to prevent fucktwats from using racist names.
"red" and "brown" are allowed. presumably because blizzard doesn't want to prevent fucktwats using racist names enough to be completely thorough.
"green" is allowed. presumably because blizzard doesn't give a flying fuck about offending martians.
6 comments:
For some reason "mister" and "mr" is not allowed either. So many cat names wasted. :(ReplyDeleteReplies
Yeah, a lot of titles are blocked. Female versions as well.Delete
I found out that Godmother was not allowed so had to settle for Thegodmother, so I was happy.ReplyDeleteReplies
"the" is also not allowed. amusing that combining the two is okay though.Delete
Two of my best that are also not allowed:ReplyDelete
Optimus Grime (So much for the best name ever for a personal world destroyer)
Hot Air (Seemed perfect for a zeppelin or balloon, no? Apparently not.)
There were many others I recall during my naming binge, but those two are the ones that stuck out the most.
"optimus grime" woulda been freaking awesome. guessing it was the "optimus" part that got blocked, for trademark issues. no guess as to whathell is wrong with "hot air"ReplyDelete


text:
The Venice of the North
In Bruges you can lose yourself in another time, wandering the maze of winding lanes or drifting along the canals of its medieval core, the whole of which is a UNESCO World Heritage site. You can also have a wonderful time discovering the fascinating stories behind the products for which Belgium is famous, in an unexpected array of museums.
For sparkle visit the Diamond Museum, and for exquisite artistry the Lace Center. At Choco-Story, learn all about chocolate's origins and production.
And for lots of fun and more tempting tastes, don't miss the Frietmuseum, dedicated to Belgian Fries, and presented with no doubt as to who actually invented this universally adored snack.
Featured Voyages
- Departing: August 17, 2019
- Starting at: $3,199 USD
- Port Fees: $412.73
Market Square sits at the center of the ancient walled city of Bruges, lined with 17th century gabled houses, the Government Provincial, and dominated by the 14th century Belfort. Climb the 350 steps up the belfry to enjoy panoramic views of the city, and listen for the renowned 47 bells that ring a variety of melodies.
The Basilica of the Holy Blood sits next to the Town Hall and consists of a 12th century Romanesque Lower Chapel (housing the relics of St. Basil) and a 15th century Gothic Upper Chapel (housing the basilica's best-known relic, that of the Holy Blood). The building is also home to the Heilig-Bloed Museum, which exhibits vestments, religious paintings, and statuary.
Bruges Sightseeing
Bruges Sightseeing
A guided walk through the historical center will introduce you to this exquisitely preserved medieval town. Explore major sights, including the Market Square with its Guild houses, the Belfry Tower, Burg Square and Chapel of the Holy Blood. See the beauty of medieval Bruges from a different perspective from the canals and waterways of the city.About Shore Excursions +Book Now +
Featured Zeebrugge (Bruges), Belgium
Shore Excursions
Zeebrugge (Bruges), Belgium At a glance
- 1.16
- 1.50
- 0.87
- 1.52
- 75.18
- 3.81
- 22.28
- 1.69
Featured Blogs Related To
Zeebrugge (Bruges), Belgium
A Brief History of the Michelin Food Guide
What could a tire company possibly know about good food? Quite a lot, it turns out. Earning a Michelin star (or two, or three) is a coveted seal of...
Azamara's Guide to the Best Street Food Around the World
We love a Michelin Star restaurant as much as the next foodie, but every great meal doesn't have to be accompanied by crystal, china and white...


text:
Working from home today, but beat writer Steve Corkran was good enough to pass along some of today's interview subjects, which included offensive coordinator Hue Jackson.
Some highlights:
On the Yahoo Sports! story which detailed tension between himself and coach Tom Cable
"Just what Tom said, we laughed about it. I'm really surprised. I don't know where this stuff comes from. We all have a pretty good working relationship. I have known Tom here longer than anybody that's on staff, other than Mike Waufle, because I worked with those guys before. There's no truth to it. It's amazing how things get out there like that."
On whether his relationship with Cable is `typical' between a coordinator and head coach
"Maybe it's a little different because we have a prior relationship. We can talk about other things that happen along the lines of football, along the lines of life, a little bit different than with somebody that you don't know."
Whether he's interested in being a head coach somewhere
"Let me say this: I have the best job in football right here . . I like what I do, I like our players. I like the people I'm around every day. I would be wrong to say that everybody who's in my position doesn't want to have that opportunity someday to go be the best they can be. That's what I want to do. That's what we all want to do. But I love what I'm doing right now. I've got three games to, hopefully, earn a fourth game here. That's the most important thing I've got going.
"My mind is so far away from what's going to happen down the road because I have a great job here, with great people, a great owner, a great city. I'm enjoying it."
What if someone calls in the offseason
"I would say if someone calls, I'm not going to tell you I'm going to say no because it depends on what the situation is. But I'm not going to tell you I'm going to say yes, either, because I've really enjoyed what's happening here with Oakland Raider football."
On why Darren McFadden's use is mostly restricted to the backfield
"I think a great runner likes to be able to look at the defense and put the ball in his hand and play . . . by putting him out there (as a receiver) now people know all (he) can do is go catch it as opposed to being in the backfield where he can run it and catch it. It gives us an advantage keeping him back tghere also so the defense doesn't know exactly what we're trying to do."
On whether Jason Campbell's development was helped because Bruce Gradkowski is on IR
"I don't think that has anything to do with it. These guys are pro football player and there is pressure from every situation . . . everybody handles different stresses differently . . I think just the element of time, knowing who you're playing with, getting to know them better, spending more time with those guys and then just going out and playing more consecutive games with those players over and over."
The production of Darrius Heyward-Bey
"In order for Darren to do what he's doing, it means somebody better be running downfield to get some of these guys up off us a little bit. I think Darrius has done his job. It's unfortunate but I think everybody has the expectation that he's supposed to catch seven or eight balls in every game. I don't think that's what it's all about . . .
"This guy was a year ago, was ridiculed, honestly, for dropping balls. I don't see that at all. We can all agree to that, right? That's not happening. This guy is catching balls in games. He has more catches than he did a year ago and he's playing with confidence. I see improvement. There's no question we want to see the big jump and I think that's coming. I want him to have that eight-catch game for 224 yards and three touchdowns. I think that's just around the corner."


text:
Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan See Small GDP Boost from Tax Bill
Goldman Sachs economists see the tax bill adding 0.3 percentage points to GDP growth in 2018 and 2019 while JP Morgan forecasts a similar gain of 0.3 percentage points next year and 0.2 percentage points the year after.
Goldman's analysts add that federal spending, which is likely to grow more quickly next year than it has recently, will bring the total fiscal boost to around 0.6 percentage points for 2018 and 0.4 percentage points in 2019.
Both banks see deficits likely rising above $1 trillion, or about 5 percent of GDP, in 2019.
Chart of the Day: GDP Growth Before and After the Tax Bill
President Trump and the rest of the GOP are celebrating the recent burst in economic growth in the wake of the tax cuts, with the president claiming that it's unprecedented and defies what the experts were predicting just a year ago. But Rex Nutting of MarketWatch points out that elevated growth rates over a few quarters have been seen plenty of times in recent years, and the extra growth generated by the Republican tax cuts was predicted by most economists, including those at the Congressional Budget Office, whose revised projections are shown below.
Are States Ready for the Next Downturn?
The Great Recession hit state budgets hard, but nearly half are now prepared to weather the next modest downturn. Moody's Analytics says that 23 states have enough reserves to meet budget shortfalls in a moderate economic contraction, up from just 16 last year, Bloomberg reports. Another 10 states are close. The map below shows which states are within 1 percent of their funding needs for their rainy day funds (in green) and which states are falling short.
Chart of the Day: Evolving Price of the F-35
The 2019 National Defense Authorization Act signed in August included 77 F-35 Lightning II jets for the Defense Department, but Congress decided to bump up that number in the defense spending bill finalized this week, for a total of 93 in the next fiscal year – 16 more than requested by the Pentagon. Here's a look from Forbes at the evolving per unit cost of the stealth jet, which is expected to eventually fall to roughly $80 million when full-rate production begins in the next few years.
Wages Are Finally Going Up, Sort of
Average hourly earnings last month rose by 2.9 percent from a year earlier, the Labor Department said Friday — the fastest wage growth since the recession ended in 2009. The economy added 201,000 jobs in August, marking the 95th straight month of gains, while the unemployment rate held steady at 3.9 percent.
Analysts noted, though, that the welcome wage gains merely kept pace with a leading measure of inflation, meaning that pay increases are largely or entirely being canceled out by higher prices. "The last time unemployment was this low, during the dot-com boom, wage growth was significantly faster — well above 3.5 percent," The Washington Post's Heather Long wrote. The White House Council of Economic Advisers this week issued a report arguing that wage gains over the past year have been better than they appear in official statistics.
Quote of the Day: Time to Raise Taxes?
"Tax revenue as a percentage of gross domestic product is expected to be 16.5 percent next year. The long-term average in a full-employment economy is 18.5 percent of GDP; if revenue were at that level for the coming decade, debt would be $3.2 trillion lower and the 10-year fiscal gap would be halved. Returning to past revenue levels, however, will be inadequate over time, because an aging population will increase Medicare and Social Security costs. This need not pose a problem: Revenue was roughly 19 percent of GDP in the late 1990s, and economic conditions were excellent."
– Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Richard E. Rubin, writing in The Washington Post


text:
Sports fans hold strong opinions about which pro basketball players deserve their massive salaries, and which ones don't. One fan, however, has gone further than the average barstool commentator --- Southern Utah University economics professor David Berri.
Berri is co-author of the 2006 book "The Wages of Wins," which determines which players are overpaid with a statistical method called "Wins Produced" that he and his co-authors developed.
According to Berri, NBA players are paid for high scoring, so the more points an athlete racks up, the more money he earns. Berri believes that this overlooks other factors that contribute to a victory, such as shots taken, turnovers, rebounds and fouls.
These and other elements are included in the "Wins Produced" algorithm.
"Wins in basketball are primarily about a team's ability to get and keep possession of the ball and then turning those possessions into points," Berri told CNBC.com in an e-mail. "In 2011-12, NBA teams paid $1.9 billion for 990 regular season wins. This means that the cost per win was $1.946 million. Given the cost of each win and knowing both how many victories each player produced and his salary allows us to see which players were overpaid."
CNBC.com presents the list compiled by Berri and his team of the most overpaid players in the NBA, as determined by the "Wins Produced" algorithm.
All salary information was provided by Berri, who used data from the NBA draft projection site DraftExpress.com and from basketball analyst Patricia Bender. All data was compiled by Berri's colleague Arturo Galletti.
Read ahead to see David Berri's 10 most overpaid players in the NBA.
By Daniel Bukszpan
Posted 15 June 2012


text:
find a contractor
find an agent
find an agency
find an umbrella/asp
search our site
Our data protection rules are outlined in Privacy Policy and Site Security
Email address
Attach CV
By submitting your CV, you indicate your consent for freelancesupermarket.com and Pathway First Ltd to process your personal details in relation to potential job vacancies. Your details will be processed by freelancesupermarket.com in accordance with our Privacy Policy and Site Security.
freelancesupermarket.com services
showcasing freelance services
news archives
hot contract jobs
hot contractors
featured articles
freelance forum
Popular Stories
from our news, blog & features
The OFS (Office for Students) have put aside 6 million p…
General Freelance
09 Oct 2018
As you watch your neighbour scraping ice from their wind…
25 Sep 2018
"It's just a shot away, It's just a shot away," was the …
11 Sep 2018
A lot of letters are landing on my desk here at Freelanc…
28 Aug 2018
Click here for more news stories
set flsm to your home page
add flsm to your favorites


text:
Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - Marc and Jan - Screen Test - FULL CONTACT
Marc and Jan - Screen Test - FULL CONTACT
Marc Harer was very keen to have a screentest, so we paired him with the lovely Jan Faust. We find them on the bed, with Jan interviewing Marc. Then they start to kiss each other and they reach over to have a feel as well. Almost immediately they are wanking each other and Marc then goes down on Jan's cock and starts to suck. Jan's cock responds and gets rock hard. He removes his pants and Marc goes right back down on that big cock. As he sucks he is on his knees, giving a great view of his hot ass. Jan reaches for Marc's cock and wanks it, as we get to see that hot ass hole. Marc's cock is getting hard under Jan's touch, and his balls have tightened nicely. Marc comes off Jan's throbbing cock and he presents his own for sucking. Jan goes right to it, taking that big dick in his mouth. He sucks on it, lips wrapped tightly around the head. Then they move into a 69 position, with Marc on top so we can see his sexy ass some more. He goes up on his knees so that Jan can rim that hot hole. His tongue works on that hole as Marc uses his hands to spread the cheeks. Then he goes back down on Jan's cock. Jan then moves Marc into doggy position and slides his hard cock deep into that sexy ass. He starts to fuck with nice long strokes. He really works that hole well. When they move again Marc sits his ass right down on Jan's big cock. He rides up and down on that cock, wanking himself at the same time. Another move, into missionary position, has Jan's dick really fucking that ass, stretching it so good. Then it's back to doggy style, with Marc wanking hard and fast, until he shoots his cum all over the bed. Jan pulls out of that hot ass and dumps his cum all over it, to finish off a wonderful screentest. Then, after a final kiss the guys go off to the shower to clean up.
... more about Marc and Jan - Screen Test - FULL CONTACT further in this newsletter
Our Coming Soon Set Preview
Daniel Koc came in for a Screentest. We paired him up with Borek Sokol for the scene and they certainly look good together. Things start with Borek interviewing Daniel, who then lays on his stomach for a massage. Borek kneels and begins to rub Daniel's back, a little. His hands quickly lower Daniels underwear revealing his hot bubble butt, beautifully pale against his summer tan. Borek starts kneeding that sexy ass and then straddles it, rubbing himself against it. He moves to the side again, bending over to kiss on Daniel's back. Then he takes Daniels hand and guides it to his crotch. Daniel then turns over and Borek starts to feel and kiss that sexy body. Then his mouth moves to meet Daniels and they really start to kiss. Borek lowers Daniel's underwear and straddles him again, rubbing his clothed groin against that cock. Taking hold of that cock Borek wanks it a bit and then starts sucking it. He sucks on the cock and licks at the balls until his tongue has an effect. That cock swells nicely as Borek's mouth encloses it. Then it is Daniel's turn, with Borek's cock out of the underwear he starts sucking on it. He sucks and wanks the cock and licks the balls. Moving to a 69, with Borek above Daniel they suck on each other's hard dicks. Then Borek lays on the bed with his legs up, so that his ass is available for Daniel to rim his hot hole. He tongues that hole and then begins to finger it. He really works on Borek's ass until it is ready for more. With Borek laying on the bed Daniel slides his throbbing cock deep into that ass, fucking it with nice long strokes. The guys move, so that Daniel is underneath with Borek riding his cock. His own dick is rock hard and sways as he bounces up and down on Daniel's. Then Borek holds still and Daniel takes over the fucking, thrusting his cock up into the waiting ass. Another move has them in missionary, with Borek wanking himself hard and fast as Daniel continues to fuck him. Soon Borek is shooting his creamy cum all over himself. Daniel pulls out of that hot ass and shoots his load too. Then they guys kiss and move to the shower to clean up. What a lovely scene, and Daniel certainly proved himself to be a very able performer in his screentest.
You can watch my Vlog for this Newsletter by clicking above or by going over to the Blog : http://www.wheuro.com/?p=11532
Something happened, the lovely weather turned to dreary. Hopefully, later in the week, it will clear up and we'll be able to do a grill party in the back garden.
Things are getting interesting in Czech politics. The former foreign minister and runner up in the presidential contest had some rather uncomplimentary things to say about the current president.
Former President Klaus keeps dropping hints that he'll return to politics. Now there's talk of a Klaus/Zeman alliance to control the country. It couldn't get more interesting than that folks.
Our lead feature today is Marc Harer's Screentest, with Jan Faust. That is followed by Radim Hora's massage, Tomas Zadany's erotic video and Filip Soho's session stills.
We also have four very good castees indeed, with Filip Soho, Roman Bolek, Zdenek Kamil and Leo Klich. What a good selection that is. My pick for today will be Filip Soho, whose solo shoot is also in this newsletter.
MESSAGE ABOUT LINKS TO THE OLD WH WEBSITE - WILLIAMHIGGINS.com ARCHIVES:
Please be aware that the link www.williamhiggins.com takes you to this brand new website now. If you bookmarked our old website in the past and you want to keep the bookmark as a shortest way to access the old WH website you need to change the link in the bookmark to:
You do not need to remember this link, you can conveniently get to the old WH Website - WilliamHiggins.com Archives anytime you need through the "WH 2001-2010" in the top menu of the new WilliamHiggins.com website.
Today's Weather in Prague
We have launched our all new Kink only site with no solos. It's not for the feint hearted. Do take a look (if you dare):
At present, Members of CzechGuysNextDoor will be able to access the new site with their user information. If you have problems, write firstname.lastname@example.com
Latest Sets At Our NEW STR8HELL.com Website
Open Set "Lukas Pribyl - CFNM"
Open Set "Martin Pudil - Mad Monk - SPANKING"
Members of CzechGuysnextDoor.com - to log in the member's section of the new STR8HELL website use your present username and password, if you forgot your password or encounter a log in problem please feel free to contact us at: firstname.lastname@example.com
Non-members - you are welcome to browse our complete content - each regular set contains free video preview and free photos, if you decide not to become a member of our website you can also buy sets separately (we huge, well organized and easy to search library of models - there is always few models you may like) you can pay only for what you really want see ;-). You are always welcome to come back.
All members of www.CzechGuysNextDoor.com get a free access to STR8HELL.com till the end of November 2011!
Please use your present CzechGuysNextDoor username and password to log into the members area.
We have terminated updates to CzechGuysNextDoor.com website. CzechGuysNextDoor.com website will stay online, but now only as an archive of all CzechGuysNextdoor.com sets. Anyone who wants to access CzechGuysNextDoor.com Archives needs to have a STR8HELL.com membership. STR8HELL.com will continue with most of the czechguysnextdoor.com projects. Anyone who joins STR8HELL.com will gain access to two websites STR8HELL.com and CzechGuyNextDoor.com Archives which contain 2500+ sets. STR8HELL.com has exactly same features and controls as NEW WilliamHiggins.com website.
Direct access to CzechGuysNextDoor.com website is now through the link: archive.czechguysnextdoor.com or through "Archive Sets 2004-2011" links on the new STR8HELL website.
Thank you for your loyalty to CzechGuysNextDoor.com website,
William Higgins
BurnDVD.tv Website Latest Updates
Starting today you can download our videos in Full HD quality 1920x1080px!
Please remember that most of the videos available on BurnDVD are easily able to be downloaded with a single link, but some of the very large files, such as the newsletter DVDs have to be split into three separate links, as detailed below.
The videos with very large file sizes are now split into more than one part, using a program called HJSplit. If you wish to buy one of these larger videos to Burn to DVD, you will receive a link for file and then it is a simple process to join the downloaded files together to make the .iso file for Burning to DVD.
You can see all the available videos at www.burndvd.tv
Before downloading any videos to burn to DVD I advise you to read the BURNDVD Manual, which explains how you can burn the file to DVD. The file is an ISO file which contains all the required DVD files. The process for burning to DVD is fully explained.
The BurnDVD manual is easy to follow, with a step by step guide. Burning a DVD is easy to do, though it is helpful if you have previously burned DVDs or CDs.
The manual can be viewed here: BURNDVD Manual
Anyone who has any problems understanding the manual, or burning their download to DVD, or indeed any questions about this service please email firstname.lastname@example.com . Geoff will be happy to assist you.
You can view all the available downloads at www.burndvd.tv, by clicking the on the categories. A direct link to the latest files available will be published in each newsletter.
Our Latest Sets at www.BurnDVD.tv
Today we have Screentest Marc Harer & Jan Faust and Radim Hora's Massage, Libor Bores Spanking and CFNM Horny Maid – Part 1.
The direct link to "SCREEN TEST - Marc and Jan"
The direct link to "MASSAGE - Radim Hora"
The direct link to "SPANKING - Libor Bores"
The direct link to "CFNM - Horny Maid - Part 1"
Special Offer for William Higgins Newsletter Readers
William Higgins Newsletter readers are able to obtain a discount on the price of BURNDVD downloads by using the coupons that we will be publishing in each Members Newsletter. The coupon published in each newsletter will be valid for a period of 7 days.
Copy today's coupon code here: qp91mz7
Our Partners:
PLEASE PROCEED TO THE NEXT PAGE FOR THE LATEST WilliamHiggins.com UPDATES


text:
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
12 comments:
What a smart idea, cutting them into squares! For some reason, I've never thought of that. Will have to give it a shot...ReplyDelete
I just found out this week that I am allergic to milk, wheat, gluten and eggs. This recipe was my first attempt at an allergen-free life - and life is looking pretty good. I used "safe" margarine instead of butter and rice milk. I topped it with sugar and cinnamon. It turned out fantastic.ReplyDelete
I have been hurting big time over what to eat for breakfast, since all of my breakfast foods are gone. But this has recipe has given me hope. Thanks for sharing it.
Thank you for this recipe! I had all but given up on a GF biscuit. I made a few modifications (using a mix of sorghum and brown rice flour, and tapioca starch; and all firm coconut oil instead of butter/shortening). Mine were more of a drop biscuit, but baked up beautifully and delicious!ReplyDelete
When you say "rice flour mix" do you mean a mixture of white and brown rice flour or does it matter? Thank you.ReplyDelete


text:
Mother's Day, Memorial Day, Father's Day... wait, don't forget Best Friend Day! Even if it's news to you, there is in fact an official holiday to honor friendship (and it's tomorrow, June 8!). We're celebrating with fun fashionable finds that any dynamic duo will love because while trends might change, a good friend is always in style.
We're especially coveting a cool heavy-chained update on the traditional BFF necklace from Fallon. Also on our wishlist? Tiny braided bracelets from Opening Ceremony and darling dino necklaces sold on Etsy. Click through to see all the cute best friend-appropriate picks!


text:
Toggle navigation
Remember me
Law School Discussion
Off-Topic Area
Politics and Law-Related News
SOMALIA...the new crescenting global guerrilla "islamist militant" problem
Pages: [
SOMALIA...the new crescenting global guerrilla "islamist militant" problem
8 Replies
5070 Views
"make a friend who was once a stranger" br.war.
SOMALIA...the new crescenting global guerrilla "islamist militant" problem
November 18, 2008, 11:31:51 PM »
brainwashing of poor youth is quite a growing problem in africa...us will have to be prudent...fundamental islamist radicals are dangerous to stability...
Islamists poised to seize Somalia again in setback to U.S.
By Shashank Bengali | McClatchy Newspapers
NAIROBI, Kenya Al Shabaab, a radical Islamist group that U.S. officials say is tied to al Qaida, has methodically seized much of southern Somalia and is poised to take the capital, Mogadishu, as the country's internationally backed government nears collapse.
The rise of al Shabaab from the Arabic word for "youth"
in many ways represents the very scenario that the Bush administration sought to avoid two years ago, when it quietly backed an invasion by Somalia's neighbor, Ethiopia, to drive a federation of hard-line Islamic courts out of Mogadishu.
The invasion aimed to forestall a Taliban-style regime that could have become an East African haven for jihadists. But diplomats, regional analysts and former Shabaab fighters say that it's fueled a diverse Islamist insurgency that's now stronger and more sophisticated than ever, and seems bent on retaking control of the country.
American officials "are fearful" of a return to hard-line Islamist rule in Somalia, according to one official who wasn't authorized to discuss the subject publicly. "There's no question that (the insurgency) is more violent than it has been in recent history, and we are extremely concerned about that," the U.S. official said.
Of several insurgent factions claiming territory in southern Somalia, the most powerful is unquestionably al Shabaab, whose leaders claim allegiance to Osama bin Laden and rule based on a strict form of sharia, or Islamic law.
In recent months, their forces have been bolstered by the arrival of foreign-trained jihadists and by ready supplies of cash, weapons and mercenaries flowing easily through one of the most lawless and impoverished regions of Africa.
The group has recruited perhaps hundreds of fighters from across the permeable border in Kenya, paying young, jobless Muslim men upward of $100 a month and promising large sums to the families of martyrs, say Kenyan ex-militants.
They're also joined by a small but influential number of jihadists from Arab countries who train the mostly young and inexperienced Somali fighters in suicide bombing and other tactics, the fighters say.
Despite nearly two decades of chaos and militia rule, foreign fighters are a new phenomenon in Somalia and a sign that al Shabaab is "becoming more dangerous," said Richard Barno of the Institute for Security Studies, a South Africa-based think tank. Analysts credit Shabaab's foreign wing with plotting five coordinated car bombings in northern Somalia last month that killed at least 31 people the worst terrorist strike in the country in recent memory.
Analysts say it's unclear if Shabaab's links to al Qaida are operational or mere bluster, but CIA director Michael Hayden last week identified Somalia as a region where al Qaida was forming new partnerships. In March, the State Department designated al Shabaab as a terrorist organization that included "a number of individuals affiliated with al Qaida" and that "many of its senior leaders . . . trained and fought with al Qaida in Afghanistan."
U.S. officials accuse the group of sheltering suspects in the 1998 attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed more than 220 people. The Pentagon has launched several airstrikes inside Somalia against suspected terrorists, including Aden Hashi Ayro, a top Shabaab commander and reputed al Qaida operative, who was killed in a U.S. strike in May.
In backing the Ethiopian invasion two years ago, Bush administration officials made similar allegations about leaders of the Islamic courts, including Hassan Dahir Aweys, a hard-liner who commands a militia from his base in neighboring Eritrea. But in a sign of a softer approach this time around, the U.S. official said that American envoys had met with allies of Aweys in recent months.
Aweys's forces have sometimes fought alongside al Shabaab against Ethiopian forces and secular, clan-based militias. In a recent interview with McClatchy, Mukhtar Robow, a Shabaab senior commander, said that he and Aweys "have a common enemy and are pursuing a common goal in the struggle to liberate our country" from Ethiopian forces.
While Robow accused the United Nations and the African Union peacekeeping mission of siding with the Somali government his fighters have attacked peacekeepers and are suspected of murdering and kidnapping aid workers he denied a global or anti-American agenda.
But he expressed allegiance to bin Laden's worldview and said that his fighters, if called upon by Islamic militant groups in other countries, would "join them to liberate them from Americans' interference in their affairs."
Meanwhile, Somali leaders have been paralyzed by a bitter power struggle between President Abdullahi Yusuf and Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein. With insurgents gaining ground, the dispute could signal "the beginning of the end" for the country's four-year-old transitional government, said Abdikarim Farah, a senior Somali diplomat based in Ethiopia.
Last week Shabaab forces overran the strategic port of Merka, 60 miles south of Mogadishu, and a smaller town 10 miles southwest of the capital in both cases without firing a shot.
In Shabaab-controlled areas, the imposition of sharia law has brought sometimes-gruesome consequences. Last month in the southern port of Kismayo, a 13-year-old girl who reported being raped by three men was accused of adultery and stoned to death in a stadium in front of about 1,000 spectators, according to Amnesty International.
"Their agenda is to control the whole country with sharia. They are in it for power," said Issa Abdi Ismail, a rail-thin Kenyan who joined al Shabaab this year for the promise of a $150 monthly salary. He quit about two months ago after commanders sent him to train with a foreign jihadist to become a suicide bomber and attack Ethiopian troops in the government-controlled town of Baidoa.
"I was told that even if you kill one person, you will have sacrificed yourself for God," Ismail said at a cafe in the teeming Somali enclave of Eastleigh, in Nairobi. "I had joined just for the money. I could not go through with that."
Despite the influence of foreign fighters, however, analysts say that al Shabaab can only take Mogadishu by forming alliances with other Islamist militias, which could weaken their influence. Somali officials say that al Shabaab's strict version of sharia is unpopular among other groups and everyday Somalis, many of whom opposed the Islamic courts for similar reasons in 2006.
"Tensions between the groups are there already. Once you take out the hard-core members, there are divisions among the foot soldiers," said Abdisaid M. Ali, an analyst and former Somali cabinet secretary.
Questions also surround Ethiopia's plan to withdraw the several thousand troops still guarding government sites in Mogadishu. Experts believe that al Shabaab and its allies are waiting for Ethiopian forces to leave to avoid a bloody battle for Mogadishu, but Ethiopia has been vague about a timetable for withdrawal.
Already, more than 1.3 million Somalis have fled their homes since 2007, with many living in squalid encampments on the outskirts of cities and in Kenya, the United Nations says. Some 3.2 million people more than half the country need urgent humanitarian assistance, a number that relief agencies say will surely rise with the next round of fighting.
Julie Fern
hillary clinton say "boo!"
Re: SOMALIA...the new crescenting global guerrilla "islamist militant" problem
Reply #1 on:
November 20, 2008, 04:17:34 AM »
Re: SOMALIA...the new crescenting global guerrilla "islamist militant" problem
Reply #2 on:
November 20, 2008, 05:04:14 AM »
Wait, for a problem to be new, doesn't it have to be younger than 20 years old?
"make a friend who was once a stranger" br.war.
Re: SOMALIA...the new crescenting global guerrilla "islamist militant" problem
Reply #3 on:
November 22, 2008, 11:06:22 PM »
um everyday there is something new...don't be ignorant"...the media is hiding the big problem behind the byproduct of piracy...the real problem which is on the failed state and the inner termoil...this problem is being blunted by the western media's focus on piracy...but jackasses like keith olbermann and anderson cooper and bill o'reilly will focus on bush...give me a break.
guardian uk...
Somalia sinks deeper into a state of total disintegrationMillions have fled their homes in terror; a raped 13-year-old has been stoned to death for 'adultery'; aid workers have been murdered by Islamist militias. While the world's attention is on the pirates off its coast, the failed African state is being ripped apart by violence.Peter Beaumont guardian.co.uk, Sunday November 23 2008 00.01 GMT The Observer, Sunday November 23 2008 Article history
A Somali boy carries a newly-caught fish through the war-scarred streets of Mogadishu last week. Photograph: Mohamed Sheikh Nor/AP
Zam Zam Abdi fled Mogadishu after being threatened with death by the hardline Islamist militia - the Shabab. The message from the armed group once allied to the Union of Islamic Courts, the coalition that briefly seized power in 2006, was simple: if she continued working for her women's rights organisation in the Somali capital, she would be killed. The warning was posted on her office gates. But it is what happened to a friend and colleague, working for another organisation, that persuaded her to escape. He was shot dead and the same note left on his body.
'Most of us had to leave,' she said. 'We had emails and phone calls telling us to stop working. They used an expression famous in Somalia: Falka aad ku jirtid maka baxeeysa. May ama haa? It means - "Stop what you are doing or we will act. Yes or no?" Then someone spoke on the radio - a local leader called Sheikh Mahmoud - delivering the same warning.'
Zam Zam, 28, separates the chaos and violence that has pervaded her country since the overthrow of President Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991 into 'ordinary Mogadishu' and 'not ordinary'. 'Ordinary', in Zam Zam's definition, describes her country's persistent clan warfare, even the heavy fighting in the city that drove her to leave before with her daughter when Ethiopian troops - supporting the internationally recognised government - shelled her neighbourhood in 2006 to drive the Islamic Courts out after six months in power.
In the ordinary violence and chaos, Zam Zam and her colleagues could still work, negotiating with the clan warlords. In common with the UN, Zam Zam believes that what is happening now is something else. Something terrible, exceeding perhaps even the bloodsoaked chaotic days of the early 1990s when Somalia was last plunged into anarchy.
It is Mogadishu that symbolises what is happening. A large proportion of its population - already jobless, hungry and surviving on aid - has fled the fighting in the city between the Shabab and the forces of the country's weak and rapidly imploding government, backed by its Ethiopian allies. The streets are stalked by assassins, kidnappers and suicide bombers. And the Shabab is threatening to overrun the country's south and centre.
If what is happening is a disaster, it is a disaster hardly noticed by the world. Yet it has not only been human rights workers who have been attacked. Government officials, politicians and journalists, anyone who does not fit in with the Shabab's world view, have been threatened and killed, mostly for being tainted by Western ideas. 'When the leadership of the Islamic Courts fled in 2006, the Shabab became more independent,' said Zam Zam.
For humanitarian workers, problems were exacerbated when one of the Shabab's leaders, accused also of being a leader of al-Qaeda, was killed in a US air strike in late spring in the town of Dusa Mareeb. 'When the US hit Shabab hideouts they started seeing us as being spies of the West. If people were kidnapped they would ask to see our laptops before releasing us to see what information we held on them.'
While the world has focused on the rampant piracy problem afflicting the Gulf of Aden, which saw yet another tanker held for ransom last week, the seizing of ships is only a symptom of a much more terrifying malaise.
What it points to is the wholesale failure of a state and the international community's abandonment of the Somalia problem except where it affects its interests - in terms of shipping trade and the 'war on terror' for the West and on a more local scale for the regional interests of Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Last week, however, the African Union Commission's chairman, Jean Ping, reiterated what many are convinced of: that the piracy problem is inseparable from Somalia's caustic political and security problems. 'Piracy is an extension on the sea of the problem you are facing on the land ... [it] is an important aspect of all the disorder you already have in Somali territory,' he said.
Somalia is not so much a failed state as one that is atomising. Forty-three per cent of the country is in dire need of humanitarian assistance, about 3.2 million people at the last count. There are 1.3 million internally displaced, 100,000 of them fleeing the fighting in Mogadishu alone since the beginning of September. Inflation is running at 1,600 per cent. One in six children in southern and central Somalia is acutely malnourished.
Dozens of aid workers, most of them locals, have been murdered this year, largely by members of the Shabab. According to the Shabab, even locals who take money from the UN are therefore in the pay of foreign interests and enemies to be killed.
Mogadishu and other centres have been hit by suicide attacks - merely one aspect of an intensely violent society. There is the religious conflict between the factions of the Islamic Courts allied to the Shabab and those they regard as insufficiently Islamic. Then there are the ever-present clan conflicts, at the centre of which is the rivalry between the Hawiye and the Darod groups. Added to this is the battle between the Transitional Federal government backed by Ethiopia and the Islamic Courts.
These conflicts are underscored by complex, interleaving rivalries even within the Islamist factions which have pitted the Shabab - literally the 'Youth' - against the more moderate Djibouti faction. On top of all this has been the mushrooming of criminal activity, piracy, smuggling and people-trafficking, some of it linked to groups such as the Shabab. Foreign jihadi fighters have also been attracted into the chaos. The consequence has been a disaster.
'The situation is very serious,' said a Mogadishu businessman who spoke to The Observer on Friday asking not to be identified for fear of being targeted by one of the rival groups. 'A lot of the population has fled from the city. Some areas are deserted and it is very difficult and dangerous. There are no jobs. People are only surviving on the food provided at the kitchens of the aid organisations. Others get money sent from their relatives overseas.
'The military loyal to the government are looting. They are taking mobiles from people and committing other crimes. Then there are the different factions of the resistance who call themselves names like the Union of Islamic Courts or Islamic Jihad. Last week the Shabab took two more towns. This is the worst situation since the civil war began,' he added. 'You don't know who will attack or kill you.'
"make a friend who was once a stranger" br.war.
Re: SOMALIA...the new crescenting global guerrilla "islamist militant" problem
Reply #4 on:
November 22, 2008, 11:08:06 PM »
And despite the advances on the battlefield made by the Shabab, he does not believe that the period of calm and order enjoyed in Somalia in 2006 when the Islamic Courts first took over would be replicated if the Islamist groups won once more. 'This time it will be worse,' he said. 'The Courts replaced the clan warlords but had no ideas for the future and were driven back. This time the Islamic groups will fight among themselves. This time we will have Islamic warlords. They will fight and there will be more difficult problems.'
Somalia's tragedy has been a slow, deadly and divisive affair that has ground out over the years since the fall of the socialist state founded by Siad Barre in 1991. Its roots, at least partly, are to be found in his disastrous war to seize the Ogaden region of Ethiopia, an adventure that would lead to eventual defeat for Somalia's forces and the beginning of Ethiopia's long history of interference in Somalia, which saw it arm the warlords who brought Siad Barre down.
Despite the overthrow of his authoritarian regime, the rival clans responsible for his downfall could not agree on a replacement, leading to lawlessness and social collapse. The result was a country that, when confronted with famine, was unable to cope, leading to the deaths of more than a million of its people.
While the rest of the world knows Somalia for the intervention by American and Pakistani troops as part of Operation Restore Hope in 1993, for Somalis the country's story has been told in clan strife and repeated failures - 14 to date - to establish a government whose writ runs throughout the state.
The most recent effort was the establishment of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in Djibouti in 2004 whose authority was quickly challenged by the Islamic Courts, which emerged out of the port city of Kismayo and sought to establish a strict interpretation of sharia law before being driven out by Ethiopian troops who intervened on behalf of the TFG.
While the rule of the Islamic Courts was, by most Somali accounts, a period of relative calm, it is what has happened since that has driven Somalia towards a new catastrophe. Despite a peace deal between one of the factions of the Islamic Courts and the TFG, the Courts' former militia, the Shabab, has split apart - with the most militant faction responsible for the most violence, in particular those who look to the leadership of Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, a hardline Salafist said to be close to al-Qaeda.
The outcome so many Somalis feared has already come to pass in large areas of south-central Somalia that have fallen under the control of the country's reinvented militant Islamist movement. In recent days its fighters have captured two more towns close to the capital, including Elasha, nine miles south of Mogadishu. In Elasha in recent days rival Islamist groups have already clashed violently.
Elsewhere, the Shabab is already consolidating its victories, including in Marka, capital of the Lower Shabele region. Speaking to a crowd in Marka, Muktar Robow - known as 'Abu Mansur' - a spokesman for the Shabab said the group had come to secure the region against foreigners and criminals.
According to the community-based station Radio Garowe, in the north of the country, he said that the Shabab intended to establish an Islamic court to administer justice, adding: 'We will not allow the citizens to be oppressed again.'
Militarily, it is a situation so bleak for the forces of the TFG and its Ethiopian allies that President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed admitted two weeks ago that Islamists now control most of Somalia, raising the prospect that his government could completely collapse. 'We are only in Mogadishu and Baidoa, where there is daily war,' he said.
That leaves a fundamental question: will the Shabab press its advantage to attempt to take Mogadishu once again? On Friday the indication was that it might be its intention, as the capital saw one of the fiercest gun battles in recent weeks when Islamist fighters attacked the house of a local government official, leaving 17 dead.
The Islamist factions have also become increasingly bold in recent weeks, with their spokesmen in Mogadishu regularly holding news conferences and carrying out floggings in the parts of the capital they control, whereas only a few months ago they were careful not to be seen in the open.
Despite the high profile of the Shabab in recent weeks, some analysts believe that it may be content with the chaos in Mogadishu that has bogged down the contingent of African peacekeepers as well as Somali-Ethiopian troops. They believe, too, that the Shabab is wary of the several thousand Ethiopian troops who defeated them before.
Fears over what would happen if the Islamists were to take the capital and impose sharia law across the south were underlined by a single incident at the beginning of the month - the stoning to death for adultery of a 13-year-old rape victim, Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow, in Kismayo. 'You know how bad it is getting,' said Zam Zam, 'when a 13-year-old is stoned to death. Then you know that it is really scary.'
'Somalia in general and Mogadishu is in the midst of a deep political, humanitarian and security crisis,' said Asha Haji Elmi, an MP and activist and delegate to the UN-led peace process, who fled before the Ethiopian advance in 2006. Now based in Nairobi, she remains in daily contact with people in Somalia.
'They talk to me about a precarious situation, and it is civilians who are paying the heaviest price, especially women and children. It is unbelievable. There are internally displaced spread everywhere. There is no secure place.'
She forcefully rejects any new attempt to impose a military solution on her country: 'The solution is political. It requires dialogue. That is the only symbol of hope. A military solution cannot be the answer to the problem. Everyone who has tried to solve Somalia's problems by force has failed.'
A short and bloody history
1960 Britain withdraws from British Somaliland, making way for a union with Italian Somaliland. The new country is known as the Somali Republic.
1969 A coup launched by Mohamed Siad Barre ushers in a period of increasingly authoritarian rule.
1977 Siad Barre invades the Ethiopian territory of Ogaden in a bid to create a Greater Somalia. The Soviet Union and Cuba back Ethiopia.
1991 Siad Barre is deposed by warlords, largely from the south, armed and supported by Ethiopia. The country descends into factional fighting. In May the northern clans declare an independent Republic of Somalia.
1993 Facing an appalling famine, the UN launches a humanitarian effort led by US and Pakistani troops. Thwarted by General Mohamed Farah Aideed, the mission suffers casualties, including the episode described in the film Black Hawk Down, above right, when 17 US Rangers were killed - and the UN mission leaves in 1995 in the wake of the US withdrawal.
2004 The two-year peace process concludes in the establishment of the Transitional Federal Government. It never manages to establish real authority.
2006 A coalition of businessmen, clerics and militias known as the Union of Islamic Courts sweeps to power. Ethiopia, encouraged by the US, intervenes to support the TFG and drives back the Courts, claiming they are allied to al-Qaeda's East African network.
2008 With the leadership of the Courts in exile, a resurgent Islamist movement, focused on the hardline Shabab militia group, makes gains throughout the country, threatening Mogadishu and Baidoa by November.
Julie Fern
hillary clinton say "boo!"
Re: SOMALIA...the new crescenting global guerrilla "islamist militant" problem
Reply #5 on:
November 23, 2008, 05:22:01 AM »
"make a friend who was once a stranger" br.war.
Re: SOMALIA...the new crescenting global guerrilla "islamist militant" problem
Reply #6 on:
November 23, 2008, 10:23:58 PM »
...this is going to have to be addressed in very short order...
Dozens Killed as Fighting Intensifies in Somalia
By MOHAMMED IBRAHIM and SHARON OTTERMAN
Published: November 21, 2008
MOGADISHU, Somalia At least two dozen people, including six children, were killed in heavy fighting here in Somalias capital on Friday as government troops tried to reassert control and Islamist insurgents fought back fiercely, witnesses said.
Times Topics: SomaliaBodies littered the streets of the bullet-pocked city, and hundreds of residents began to flee. Both sides claimed victory.
Violence between Islamist rebels and government forces has intensified over the past few weeks. Islamist insurgents now control much of south central Somalia, including many neighborhoods within Mogadishu, and seem intent on seizing the few enclaves the government, with Ethiopian muscle, still controls.
The gun battles on Friday started just after dawn outside the house of a local district commissioner, Ahmed Daaci, in a southern neighborhood of the city. At least 17 people died and 6 were wounded in that fighting, according to witnesses accounts.
Mr. Daaci, who survived the attack, said that government forces had repulsed a group of insurgents who attacked his house, and that 17 of the attackers were killed.
The bodies were left on display for hours, after government forces blocked residents from collecting them, an apparent attempt to ward off further attacks.
I saw 12 dead bodies lying on the streets, and there were 2 bodies in front of my house, said Abdurashid Abdullahi, a resident of the Medina neighborhood, where the fighting took place. They are the Islamists, he said.
More fighting erupted in the afternoon, when Islamist insurgents and government forces, backed by Ethiopian troops, fired artillery at each other. Six children were killed when a mortar shell slammed into their house, said a resident who lived next to the crushed building.
Ethiopian troops were to start leaving some positions in Mogadishu on Friday, under terms of a recent United Nations-brokered peace deal in Djibouti between the transitional government and a coalition of Islamist groups. African Union troops are scheduled to replace them.
But there were no signs of a withdrawal, witnesses said.
One of the insurgent groups, a faction of the Union of Islamic Courts, considered one of the more moderate Islamist groups in Somalia, said it had lost six men in the days fighting and had killed 15 government soldiers. The figures could not be independently verified.
Ethiopian troops entered the country in late 2006 and ousted an Islamist administration that briefly controlled much of south and central Somalia. But the Islamists regrouped, and have steadily progressed from staging sporadic hit-and-run guerrilla attacks to seizing and holding large swaths of territory.
A deal reached late last month between the transitional government and the main Islamist-led opposition group called for Ethiopian troops to pull out of areas in Mogadishu and the central garrison town of Beledweyne by Nov. 21, which was Friday.
Under the deal, the Somali government and the opposition Alliance for the Reliberation of Somalia are to assemble a 10,000-strong police force to help the African Union peacekeepers control the areas.
Somalia has been without a functioning central government since 1991, when Mohammed Siad Barre was removed from power and the army fell into the hands of clan militias, throwing the country into lawlessness.
Mohammed Ibrahim reported from Mogadishu, and Sharon Otterman from New York.
Julie Fern
hillary clinton say "boo!"
Re: SOMALIA...the new crescenting global guerrilla "islamist militant" problem
Reply #7 on:
November 24, 2008, 04:29:17 AM »
and what your boy gump ever do about it?
Julie Fern
hillary clinton say "boo!"
Re: SOMALIA...the new crescenting global guerrilla "islamist militant" problem
Reply #8 on:
June 27, 2009, 04:49:13 PM »
like, for britney spears?
Pages: [
Law School Discussion
Off-Topic Area
Politics and Law-Related News
SOMALIA...the new crescenting global guerrilla "islamist militant" problem


text:
Brief SummaryRead full entry
Quince grows as a multi-stemmed shrub or small tree, 5 to 7 m in height, and has pubescent to tomentose buds, petioles (leaf stalks), leaves, and fruit. The leaves are ovate to oblong, around 5 centimeters across and 10 centimeters long. The solitary pink and white flowers, borne at the ends of short young shoots in spring, are 4 to 5 centimeters across and have 5 petals, 20 or more stamens, 5 styles, and an inferior ovary with many ovules. The flowering period overlaps with that of apples, usually beginning in mid-April in the central latitudes of the northern hemisphere. The fruit is a fragrant, many-seeded pome around 8 centimeters in diameter. It is similar to a pear or apple, but has many ovules in each carpel rather than just two. The shape ranges from round to pear-like and the flesh is yellow, Fruit size and leaf size of cultivated varieties can be many times larger than the wild type described above. All varieties are self-pollinating.
The raw fruit is hard and unpalatable, but when cooked the flesh turns a brownish pink and has a pleasant flavor. A Quince fruit contains around 6% sugar, is a good source of potassium, and has a vitamin C content of 15 mg/100g. The malic acid percentage is high (0.8%). Quince fruits are used to make jams, jellies, and pastes and to flavor cooked apples and pears. Dulce de membrillo, or quince paste, is a sweet, fragrant jellylike confection that is popular (under various names) in several European and South American countries. Quince is also served poached in either water or wine and when so prepared develops a rich aroma and deep caramel-red color. In Armenia, Quince is used in many savory as well as sweet dishes and is often cooked with lamb. Quince fruit is also used by some home brewers to make very fine hard ciders.
Worldwide, there are around 43,000 hectares (106,000 acres) of Quince in production with a total crop of 335,000 metric tons. Turkey is the largest producer, accounting for about 25% of world production. China, Iran, Argentina, and Morocco each account for less than 10% of world production. The United States is a very minor player in Quince fruit production with only about 250 acres (about 100 hectares) planted, mainly in California's San Joaquin Valley. While Quince is still grown for its fruit in some parts of the world, in England, France, and the United States it is primarily grown for use as a dwarfing pear rootstock. In the region around Angers, France, Quince has been used as a pear rootstock since before 1500.
The so-called "Flowering Quinces" (Chaenomeles spp.) can be distinguished from Cydonia by their toothed leaves and the united (not free) styles in their flowers. Chaenomeles fruits are more acidic than those of from Cydonia, but can nevertheless be used in similar ways.
(Vaughan and Geissler 1997; Postman 2009 and references therein)


text:
Busted! Toddler Lies to His Mom About Eating Sprinkles
Uh oh, looks like someone is in trouble! Recently, a mom caught her son red handed, or red sprinkle faced rather, and confronted him about whether or not he ate some treats behind her back. Well, it's pretty obvious that he did, but the 3-year-old refuses to tell the truth. The mom asks him over and over again, and even shows him evidence, but the kid won't fess up.
While the mom wasn't mad, she did write in the YouTube description: "My 3 year old fibbing to my face, and it is surprisingly cute haha! After I filmed it we had a VERY long talk about the difference between telling the truth and not telling the truth. He has an amazing imagination and loves to tell us stories. I saw this as a sweet moment, something that every child goes through…where they try to push the boundaries to see how far they can go."
Watch the cute video for yourself above.


text:
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stock futures pointed to further pain for Wall Street on Friday, slipping after weaker-than-expected earnings from J.P. Morgan Chase, though they pared some of their losses after an inflation gauge showed a bigger-than-expected rise.
Futures for the S&P 500 index US:SPM4 were last down 6.20 points, or 0.3%, to 1,820.90 a day after a tech-led hammering, while those for the Dow Jones Industrial Average US:DJM4 eased 58 points, or 0.4%, to 16,052. Futures for the Nasdaq-100 index US:NDM4 fell 18.50 points, or 0.5%, to 3,461.50.
Shares of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. JPM, -0.17% lost 3% ahead of the open after the banking giant reported first-quarter earnings below market expectations. On the upside, Wells Fargo WFC, -0.40% rose 0.2% in premarket action after its quarterly profit beat forecasts.
Also ahead of Wall Street's open, the Labor Department said the producer-price index gained 0.5% in March, topping the 0.1% increase seen by economists polled by MarketWatch. The Federal Reserve wants inflation to rise, but the central bank hasn't had much success in nudging it higher, so officials likely welcomed Friday's news on wholesale prices.
The preliminary reading for the consumer sentiment index in April from the University of Michigan/Thomson Reuters will be released at 9:55 a.m. Eastern. The index will get a close look because last month it fell to the lowest level since November, led by gloomier expectations. Spotlight on the economy: Inflation still low, consumers still cautious
Thursday's sharp selloff for Wall Street markets triggered heavy selling elsewhere. In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 index NIK, -0.56% slid 2.4%, hitting a low for the year so far. The Stoxx Europe 600 SXXP, -0.12% was down 1.6%, headed for a loss of more than 3% on the week.
Traders on Thursday brushed aside an upbeat report on weekly jobless claims, and went after biotech and other high-growth stocks with a vengeance, driving the Nasdaq Composite COMP, -0.48% to a 3.1% fall, its worst one-day percentage fall since November 2011. The S&P 500 SPX, -0.04% dropped 2.1% to 1,833.08, falling below its 50-day moving average and dangerously close to crossing its 100-day moving average. The Dow industrials DJIA, +0.26% saw the worst one-day percentage loss in more than two months.
Strategist: Be wary of hasty selling on the S&P 500
Henrik Drusebjerg, senior strategist at Nordea, said he can understand the Nasdaq getting hit, as many high-growth stocks have lofty valuations. However, he doesn't think the S&P 500 deserves to get dragged down so fiercely along with those stocks.
"In Denmark, we've had a lot of discussion in the last two weeks or so about whether we are in an equity bubble or not. I don't think there is even the slightest indication we're in an overall equity bubble," said Drusebjerg.
He said he thinks it is unwise to sell so aggressively ahead of the start of earnings, especially amid generally improving economic data. Translating pricey biotech and tech stocks into an "overall equity bubble is a mistake," as investors are largely gambling that growth in the U.S. is not OK, he said. Read what Drusebjerg had to say about biotech outflows in March
Ahead of the open, Fastenal Co. FAST, -1.03% reported a 2.6% rise in first-quarter profit and a 8.7% improvement in sales. Shares were up 3% in premarket action.
Gap Inc. GPS, -1.10% fell 4% ahead of the open after announcing a 6% drop in March same-store sales late Thursday, steeper than the 4.7% drop expected by Thomson Reuters.
Shares of H&R Block Inc. HRB, -0.69% rose nearly 6% in premarket trade, after the tax-preparation company said it agreed to sell certain bank assets and liabilities to BofI Federal Bank for an undisclosed price.
Across other markets, oil prices CLK4, +0.00% edged higher, while the dollar gained against its major rivals. Gold GCM4, +0.00% edged lower.
More must-reads from MarketWatch:
This stock market needs a correction
Live-blog recap: Jeffrey Gundlach: Don't sell gold, bearish on China
Time to sell dividend stocks? Not so fast
Providing critical information for the U.S. trading day. Subscribe to MarketWatch's free Need to Know newsletter. Sign up here.


text:
Volvo Ocean Race with PUMA at the V&A Waterfront
Catch all the action of the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12 stopover with PUMA at the V&A Waterfront from 1 to 11 December. A pop-up store and entertainment zone called the PUMA Quad is located opposite the V&A Amphitheatre for the two week stopover, where PUMA will host daily activities. The PUMA Quad is open to the public and all activities are FREE!
Sailing prowess will be tested with grinding competitions taking place between 3 and 6pm on 1, 3 and 8 December as well as between 2 and 4pm on 10 and 11 December. The contestant with the best grinding results on competition days will win a R1 000 PUMA voucher. Two grand prizes of R10 000 in PUMA vouchers will be awarded to the contestants with the top grinding scores on 10 and 11 December.
Daily sundowner Spinnaker Sessions include the likes of local DJs Dino Moran and Craig De Sousa spinning cool tunes at the PUMA Quad every Thursday to Saturday from 6.15 to 9pm and between 7.15 to 9pm on 10 and 11 December. Sit back, relax and enjoy the sounds of Joaquin Teran and be a part of his musical journey every Monday to Wednesday from 6:15 to 8pm.
Catch Marmo, PUMA Ocean Racing's mascot and 13th crew member, for daily story time readings of his book "Marmo Saves our Seas" at the PUMA Quad between 2 and 11 December at 2:30pm.
On Friday, 9 December PUMA will host the PUMA Social Club presents All Hands on Deck party at Quay Four from 4pm to 1am. This is the official Volvo Ocean Race party with live performances by Jack Parow, Craig de Sousa, Holiday Murray, Anthea Scholtz, Them Tornados and The Wedding DJs. Ping pong, darts and bowling are a few of the games that can be played with a drink in your hand on the night. Tickets are limited and will be sold at the door for R50 per person.
While at the PUMA Quad, don't forget to try out KREECHR, a full-bodied and gorgeously malty, strong lager created in collaboration with CSG to celebrate PUMA's entry into the Volvo Ocean Race. The PUMA Ocean Racing team is led by Skipper Ken Read, who has amassed ten of the most elite off-shore sailors from across the globe, including South African born Jono Swain, to compete in this epic race. For more information on the race, team, and crew visit www.puma.com/sailing or "Like" us on Facebook


text:
LeTourneau University offers residential programs in the arts & sciences, aviation & aeronautical science, business & technology, engineering & engineering technology, computer science, criminal justice, kinesiology, nursing, teacher education, psychology & counseling, theology & vocation and more. But no matter your major, you'll quickly find that at LETU, we believe that a hands-on approach to learning is the best approach. That we're radical in the way we fuse faith and work. That we're innovative in the ways we solve problems. And that we value personal relationships as the heart of what we do.
Our undergraduate freshmen often have the opportunity to be a part of research and lab opportunities that are only found in most graduate schools. LETU faculty are proven, respected leaders in their fields, as well as the classroom. And with an average class size of 15, you'll engage personally with them—including Fulbright Scholars and a man who traveled to space on two space shuttle missions and orbited the earth more than 300 times.
Check out all of the majors & minors offered at our residential campus:
The exceptional hands-on learning offered at LETU is paired with a vibrant student life and residence life (dorm) buildings that have been described by touring students as "as nice as a five-star hotel." Nearly 1,400 students from all nearly all 50 states and 32 countries call our Longview, Texas, campus home. Take your pick from 13 varsity NCAA Division III athletics teams, 12+ housing options, 50+ student activities, 3 weekly chapel services, 25+ student clubs and organizations, countless events, and then some.
For LETU students, graduation day isn't the end of the road. It is only the beginning. Our graduates are making an impact in the cockpits, board rooms, factories, and court rooms of our world. Why? Because they leave here with the hands-on skills that employers demand.


text:
The First Art Newspaper on the Net
Established in 1996
United States
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Critics to Artdaily
Referral Links
Last Week
Special Photos
New Work by Renowned Sculptor and Glass Artist Dale Chihuly at Marlborough
Dale Chihuly, Chelsea Persians, 2010, hand blown glass © Dale Chihuly, courtesy Marlborough Gallery , New York.
Marlborough Gallery
presents an important exhibition of new work by renowned sculptor and glass artist Dale Chihuly will open at Marlborough Chelsea on September 16 and continue through October 16, 2010. Called the greatest living master of the ancient medium of glass, this will be Chihulys first gallery exhibition in New York since 2006.
On the occasion of his first show at Marlborough Chelsea on West 25th Street, Chihuly will create a spectacular site-specific installation entitled Chelsea Persians featuring over one hundred Persian blown glass elements which are open, disc-like forms with striations (called body wraps). The Persian glass elements are mounted on curvilinear stainless steel armatures that dramatically move across the walls, ceilings and columns of the gallery. This new environmentally-scaled work fundamentally alters the architectural space through the use of light, color, line and gesture.
Chihuly describes his specific approach to the Marlborough installation: In comparison to earlier work, the Chelsea installation is more open. I have always been interested in architectural spaces and how a work of art can bring energy and attention to a room. For Chelseas large ground floor gallery, I wanted to create an installation that is dramatic and powerful. I do that with form, light and color. The magic is in the light. Each Persian glass element is dramatically lit to bring out the details in the white, clear and red glass. Chihuly remarks that this reduced palette emphasizes the delicate nature of the individual works, seen clearly upon close inspection. He continues, Light plays a key role in the Chelsea Persians. During the day when natural light floods the space, the glass is subdued, but at night the Persians are lit dramatically, creating excitement and a sense of movement.
Some people will say that the Persians and the stainless steel armatures remind them of branches, vines or ivy, or something aquatic, from the sea. A lot of my work seems to be derived from nature, but I do not actually imitate it. Over time, I developed a natural way of working with glass, using the fewest number of tools possible: fire, gravity, centrifugal force. As a result, it begins to look like it was made by nature.
In addition to Chelsea Persians, Chihuly will exhibit a group of silvered sculptures that continue his exploration of glass and its relationship with light and reflection. These works, specifically Silvered Venetian with Gold Amber Horns, 2010, and Silvered Venetian with Trio of Horns, 2010, are essays in light and, according to the artist, were inspired by his series Grande Venetians executed in 2009. He has also applied this technique to a series of Jerusalem Cylinders, also in the show, to great effect.
Art historian Barbara Rose aptly characterized Chihulys achievements: He has single-handedly elevated glass from craft to art and reconciled glassblowing with the demands of contemporary avant-garde concerns and aesthetics.
Dale Chihulys work is included in over one-hundred-ninety museum collections on five continents. These include such diverse institutions as the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Japan; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia; Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
Highlights of Chihulys extensive exhibition history include the ambitious show, Chihuly in the Light of Jerusalem 2000, for which he created extraordinary installations within the ancient stone walls of the Tower of David Museum. In September of that same year he traveled to the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, to unveil an eighteen-foot chandelier gracing the main entrance of the museum. In 2001, the V&A devoted an important solo exhibition to Chihulys work. The next year, Chihuly unveiled the Chihuly Bridge of Glass, an extraordinary technical and artistic accomplishment, in Tacoma, Washington, and millions viewed his installations for the Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Winter Games. Since then he has exhibited in numerous public institutions, including a series of sublime exhibitions at botanical gardens, including the New York Botanical Garden in 2006.
Concurrent with Marlboroughs exhibition, Chilulys work can be seen in numerous solo shows at museums across the United States, including at the Frederik Meijer Garden and Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids through September 30 and the Cheekwood Gardens and the Frist Center for the Arts, both in Nashville, TN, on view through October 31 and January 2, 2011, respectively.
Marlborough Gallery
Dale Chihuly
Barbara Rose
Today's News
September 17, 2010
Do or Die: The Human Condition in Painting and Photography at the Wallraf-Richartz Museum
Newspaper's Revelation Rocks Civil Rights Photographer Ernest C. Withers' Family
Sotheby's Sets Record for Any Single Print Sold at Auction
New House Record at Christie's for the Most Expensive Item Sold Online
Sotheby's Asia Week Sales in New York Total $27,649,251
New Works in Bronze and Steel by John McCracken at David Zwirner
Smithsonian American Art Museum Announces E. Carmen Ramos as Curator for Latino Art
Former Director of the Nelson-Atkins Ted Coe has Died
Mark Twain: A Skeptic's Progress Opens at the Morgan Library
Dr. Michael W. Schantz appointed to Serve as Executive Director of The Heckscher Museum of Art
Rare Chinese Woodblock Prints on Display at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Peter Blum Gallery Shows Works of Art by Matthew Day Jackson
Virtual Fire by Thyra Hilden and Pio Diaz to Rage in the Colosseum for Art
Ellen Lesperance Named 2010 Betty Bowen Award Winner
Sotheby's Presents Its Strongest Arts of The Islamic World Sale Ever Staged
Art Institute Showcases Seventeen Major Works of Pre-Columbian Art from Mexico
Shortlist Announced: Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2010
Michael Dweck's American Mermaids Opens at acte2galerie in Paris
Exhibition Explores a Foundation for Chinese Contemporary Art
Bold and Powerfully Inventive Artist Salvator Rosa Featured in Exhibition
Crystal Bridges Museum Hires Rod Bigelow as Deputy Director
Public Art Fund Presents a New Project by Ryan Gander Entitled The Happy Prince
Major Bruno Di Bello Retrospective Opens at Fondazione Marconi
Bauhaus Archive Commemorates Hajo Rose's 100th Anniversary with Exhibition
Saint Louis Art Museum Receives Major Gift from Danforth Family
Extending the Runway: Tatiana Sorokko Style Makes U.S. Debut
Rare Arcimboldo Painting Acquired by the National Gallery of Art
Copy of Annie Leibovitz's 'John and Yoko' Up for Auction
The City Bakery Opens Birdbath Café at New Museum on the Bowery
New Works, Inspired on Childhood Games, by Adam Fuss at Cheim & Read
Fossil of Giant, Bony-Toothed Bird from Chile Sets New Record for Wingspan
Tate Appoints Jessica Morgan as The Daskalopoulos Curator, International Art
Spectrum Jesus by Keith Coventry Scoops UK's Biggest Painting Prize
Official: Missing Painting Found by New York City Doorman
New Work by Renowned Sculptor and Glass Artist Dale Chihuly at Marlborough
Hitler's Car Gift to Nepal King to Get a New Life
Most Popular Last Seven Days
The Mummy poised to reclaim its title as the world's most expensive film poster
Money museum showcases 1943 Cent valued at $1 million
Is Robin Cunningham the Mysterious and Unknown Grafitti Artist Banksy?
Freeman's autumn jewelry auction set to dazzle
Phoenix Art Museum presents never-before-seen artifacts from Teotihuacan
Sotheby's breaks auction record for any bottle of wine twice in one sale
Buyer of shredded Banksy work goes through with deal
The Frick Pittsburgh opens a major exhibition of works by Isabelle de Borchgrave
Prime Minister Mark Rutte gives a history lesson in the Rijksmuseum
Paris finds spot for controversial Jeff Koons tribute
Related Stories
Marlborough Gallery presents an exhibition by Red Grooms on the theme of New York
Recent Paintings by Contemporary Scottish Painter Stephen Conroy at Marlborough Gallery
Recent Paintings by Contemporary Scottish Painter Stephen Conroy at Marlborough Gallery
Exhibition of Monumental Sculpture by Colombian Artist Fernando Botero at Marlborough
Renowned Polish Sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz Exhibits at Marlborough
Marlborough Offers First Comprehensive Overview of Women in Picasso's Prints 1905-1968
Important Works from George Rickey's Estate at Marlborough
Beverly Pepper Exhibits Sixteen New Works at Marlborough
Marlborough Gallery Presents Group Exhibition "Look Again"
Exhibition of Sculpture by Blanca Muñoz Opens at Marlborough Chelsea
Digital Art
Special Photos
Special Reports
Featured Stories
Art Fairs
Art Quiz
3D Images
Last Week
Ignacio Villarreal
Editor & Publisher:
Jose Villarreal
- Consultant:
Ignacio Villarreal Jr.
Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez
Royalville Communications, Inc
Founder's Site.
The most varied versions
of this beautiful prayer.
to a Mexican poet.
Tell a Friend
Dear User, please complete the form below in order to recommend the Artdaily newsletter to someone you know.
Please complete all fields marked *.
Your name *
Your e-mail address *
Name of recipient *
Recipient's e-mail address *
Your message *
Sending Mail
Sending Successful


text:
- Holiday
- Gifts
- Personalized Gifts
- Bedding
- Bath
- Kitchen
- Dining
- Furniture
- Home Decor
- Curtains & Window
- Storage & Cleaning
- Smart Home & Home Improvement
- Outdoor
- Baby & Kids
- Health & Beauty
- More
- Shops
- Healthy Living
- Designer Picks
- Shop by Brand
- Shop For Mover
- Shop For College
- New Arrivals
- Clearance & Savings
- Lookbook
Experience our new curated collections showcasing modern, eclectic and traditional styles to suit all your decorating needs.Shop All
Remain Neutral
Soulful Blues
Touch of Velvet
Hygge: Relaxed, Casual, & Cozy
- Shop the Room
Shop the Room
Design the room of your dreams effortlessly with the help of our Shop the Room guide. Filled with unique and beautiful pieces made to cater to your taste, the carefully curated rooms showcase an array of styles destined to be perfect for you and your home.Shop All Rooms
Living Room
- Designer Picks
Designer Picks
Designers put together their favorite finds from throughout our website to create showcase spaces. Get ready to be inspired.Shop All Designer Picks
ED Ellen DeGeneres - Puppy Love
By Ellen DeGeneres, Creative Director
Ugg - Bayside
By Jen Somers, Vice-President
Lacoste - Sport and Style
By Lacoste, Design Studio
Coastal Living - Ocean Blues
By Sid Evans, Editor in Cheif
Frette at Home - Malachite
By Filippo Arnaboldi, CEO
- Interior Decorating Services NEW
Design your room without leaving your computer! Introducing Bed Bath & Beyond Interior decorating services by Decorist - all online for a low, flat fee.LEARN MORE
- Healthy Living
Well Beyond
A program designed to support overall well-being that includes dozens of smart solutions to improve nutrition, sleep, fitness, relaxation and your home environment.Shop All Healthy Living
Eat Better
Get Fit
Clean Purify
Sleep Well
Relax & Restore
- Shops
Discover a curated assortment of products and solutions to fit your lifestyle.View All Shops
Coastal Shop
Chef Central NEW
Fall Shop
Allergy & Asthma NEW
Sleepaway Camp NEW
- Above & Beyond Blog Opens a new window
- Bed Bath & Beyond TV Opens a new window
- Photo Gallery


text:
ALM Events is the world's leading legal and business-2-business (B2B) event producer. With more than 300 national and international events, our events bring together over 50,000 business professionals every year.
Our events are the leading destination for getting business leaders together, provide extensive education and information on market trends, and technological advances.
We provide the audience and stage for industry thought leaders, strategic partners, and a vibrant B2B audience to meet and engage with impactful and influential discussion makers. ALM Events' tradeshows, conferences, recognition dinners and online events bring the editorial content of our award-winning media brands to life.
Use the Filter Search Box to find an upcoming event, i.e. topic, city.


text:
What, Guy Carbonneau wasn't available?
Just kidding. We know the odds that Bruins head coach Claude Julien would hire his longtime rival and eventual replacement in Montreal are almost as low as Cam Neely taking over as president the Canadiens. But instead, today Julien hired Carbonneau's former associate coach Doug Jarvis to replace Craig Ramsay as an assistant on the Boston staff.


text:
Dave White Profile
Dave White
Your Movies.com Man at the Multiplex
Dave White's first movie review was of the animated feature Snoopy Come Home. He was seven years old...Read full profile
Your Movies.com Man at the Multiplex
Dave White's first movie review was of the animated feature Snoopy Come Home. He was seven years old...Read full profile
Bloodsuck Read full review
Grae Drake Profile
Grae Drake
Movie maven about town
Grae Drake began her love affair with cinema as a wee bairn, as she spent every weekend corralling her friends over to the local...Read full profile
Movie maven about town
Grae Drake began her love affair with cinema as a wee bairn, as she spent every weekend corralling her friends over to the local...Read full profile
I'm the opposite of a moth to a flame. Read full review
Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
out of 100
Metascore®Generally unfavorable reviewsbased on a weighted average of allcritic review scores.
All three give performances that would suit a better movie than this pallid shocker with little heart and no bite.
Read Full Review
Suspenseless, uninvolving and underdeveloped, it wastes the talents of an almost entirely distaff cast that deserves much stronger material.
Roiling with jealousy, suicide and latent lesbian urges, The Moth Diaries dances on the border between hallucination and reality without fully committing to either. Yet the film's narrative frailties are offset by impeccable performances and a consistently eerie tone, helped along by a location as forbidding as the "Overlook."
Her (Harron) torpid adaptation of Rachel Klein's novel about female sexual desire, jealousy, death wishes, and vampires at a girls' boarding school defeats Harron's talent for exploring darkness on the edge of kinkiness.
See all The Moth Diaries reviews at Metacritic.com
Iffy for 16+
Angst-ridden teen horror movie has suicide themes.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that The Moth Diaries is a horror movie set at a girls' boarding school. Some of the events contain vampire-like elements, but the movie's main theme seems to be about suicide. It's clearly intended to follow in the footsteps of the popular Twilight movies and their mix of horror and teen angst, but there's much more gore -- and sex -- here. Viewers see several dead bodies -- including suicide victims -- and lots of blood. Sex scenes include partial nudity and two women in bed together; there's also strong innuendo and sex talk throughout. Language is quite infrequent but includes one "f--k," and there are scenes of teens smoking pot, with consequences.
Messages: The Moth Diaries begins with a tough and confusing problem, and the way to deal with it isn't clear. Help is requested but not received, and the problem is solved with violence. Suicide is a major theme as well. The main character thinks about it and must decide whether or not to do it.
Role models: The main character mostly breaks down when faced with something troubling or challenging. Her strength seems to come through moments of pain, and her only moment of triumph manifests itself in destructive violence (for which she pays a penalty).
Violence: Two flashbacks to suicide victims, with lots of blood. A razor blade is the implement used, and viewers see it again and again. In a dream sequence, a girl slices her wrist, and it "rains" blood all over a library. The main character gets a terrible bloody nose. Several dead bodies. Threats ("I'd like to kill her"). A sex scene includes screams of pain.
Sex: One quick sex scene in a dream sequence. A boy is shown on top, thrusting. The girl is shown first moaning and then screaming in pain. One naked breast is shown. Another partial breast is shown during a suicide sequence. A teacher kisses a female student and begins unbuttoning her top. Two women are shown naked in bed together, though nothing sensitive is seen (the scene is meant to imply vampire-like violence as well as pleasure). Persistent sex talk throughout, including discussions about women's "cycles.
Language: Language is very infrequent but includes one use of "f--k." The rest is mostly sex-related talk/insults: "whore," "virgin," "dyke," etc.
Consumerism: A single mention of Facebook.
Drinking, drugs and smoking: Teens are shown smoking pot in two scenes. Some of them react badly; one girl collapses on a bed, feeling sick, and another goes crazy and throws a chair out a window.
An independent nonprofit dedicated to providing families the information they need to help kids thrive in a world of media and technology.
© Common Sense Media Inc. 2010. All rights reserved.
Movies.com, the ultimate source for everything movies, is your destination for new movie trailers, reviews, photos, times, tickets + more! Stay in the know with the latest movie news and cast interviews at Movies.com.
Copyright © 2018 FANDANGO MOVIES.


text:
Moderator: B&F Moderator
underated wrote:@ Ringo
Me Me Me I know !
4 String...........E A D G
5 String Extra....B
so more options for phrasing, a whole new Bottom end could open up.
Yes leroy was the master of simple melodic b lines, time less classics.
Users browsing this forum: Google [Bot] and 5 guests