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"TRRRRIIiiiinnnnggg", I always hated this bloody barking of my alarm clock, but I had no choice other than to wake up. It was already 7 in the morning. Its too intimidating to get up in the morning and move to office after two days of joyous weekend. This weekend was extremely good, a lot of partying, outing with friends and ofcourse Riya did miss me a lot; the frequency of her miss calls were just a bit thicker than a thin line. Even I was eager to meet her, I too missed her a lot.
At office right at 9'o clock, she was there at her desk. She gave me a rise smile when I passed across to my desk. I loved her smile. As expected, she came to me after 5 minutes; we were at the same project team and so we could easily find excuses to be together. She enquired about my weekend, I asked about how she spend the days.
" Hmm it was a kinda ok, I went to my husband's home, went to meet his parents and family".She replied.
"SO you must have had a great time", I said.
"Not exactly, I have always found it hard to adjust with them, I don't know if its my fault or their's, but whatever , it wasn't that great", her face turned pale as she spoke.
I just changed the topic and finally we got busy with our work.
Days went by, weeks went by and with every moment passing by, I was getting close to her. Now probably I had known much about her, may be more than her husband would ever know. The feeling within me was getting thicker with every tick of a second, I wanted her in my life.Even her eyes mirrored the same feeling, she wanted someone to share her feelings, may be more than a friend. Our relation was no longer a friendship, may be beyond that, its not a mere infatuation that I have for her, but an eternal desire for the binding of two souls who were left stranded in the junk of society and life.
Now my aim was getting transformed. It was not just about loving her, but getting her away from her husband. Of course, my presence and our closeness was helping the cause, but I needed a stronger catalyst to fasten up the process.I don't know if I am doing a Sin, but I love to follow my heart and my heart says, " Go, get her".
Another weekend was on the verge, we got off early from the office and planned to spent the evening together. I had a plan for a movie, but time wouldn't entertain the choice, so we preferred to move to park. We walked along the lanes chit chatting and finally to a nearby coffee shop.
We ordered coffee and I started talking about her husband. She never liked talking about him and I loved her hatred for him.
" He never cares for me, he is so workaholic, he needs his lap and nothing else. Its been almost an year now that we are married, he never thought of taking me out, atleast a movie, my life is being wasted with him", she was getting furious.
"But he is your life partner, so probably you need to adjust", I said ,but I hoped it not to happen.
"A partner is not just made on bed, you expect a lot more care and love, you expect to know each other, I was so depressed with these thoughts , but now you seem to be my lone consolation, I am really done by your care and feelings for me, I wish if I had a husband like you", she gasped.
I wish if she had rephrased the sentence as "if you were my husband", but I knew I was getting close.
She came close to me and whispered. " I treasure your presence a lot, be there with me".
I took her hands reassuringly, looked into her eyes and said, "I promise , I will be there for you".
The stage was set, everything seemed to be working in my favour, I had almost made the entry into her heart, but against the run of play, the next scene spoiled the plot, a scene similar to one I had seen in a movie or in a book I had read off late, but whatever , I never wanted it to happen, but it was inevitable, it was coming.
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3 comments:
- Aslam's World said...
wonderful work of fiction...
but according to me its a pure sin.
put yourself in place of her husband and think..u will realise the sin u r committing...
- June 5, 2008 at 7:42 PM
- Shantharam Shenoy K said...
nice job...ya aslam said if u put urselves in her husband's place it is a sin...but her husband is also a sinner...Marrying does not mean to sleep together on the bed but there is more to it..And there is nothing wrong to give comforts or care for a woman who needs it..but "using" her would be even bigger sin
- June 5, 2008 at 8:41 PM
- Saheer Kumble said...
an emotional drive along the highway of love and loneliness.. worthy read again.. readin d next part
- November 3, 2011 at 2:55 PM
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I was witnessing to a woman who does not believe in tongues for this present day. She asked me what the purpose of prophecy in the present day is. Her reasoning was that the Bible is complete giving all the information we need to live now, as well as what will happen in the future. I had never thought about it like that before. I didn't know how to respond to her. I didn't try to fudge. I admitted that I was unsure how to answer but that I'd look into it and get back to her. What do you think of that?
There are several ways to respond to the contention that prophecy is not for today since the Bible has been completed. First, Roman 12:6 lists prophecy as a gift of grace along with ministry, teaching, exhortation, etc. Are we to believe that these other gifts are no longer for today too? What justification is there for singling out prophecy?
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"For its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons"
The 2013 Nobel Prize for Peace was awarded to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on 10 December 2013 for 'its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons'. The Nobel Committee stated: 'The conventions and the work of the OPCW have defined the use of chemical weapons as a taboo under international law. Recent events in Syria, where chemical weapons have again been put to use, have underlined the need to enhance the efforts to do away with such weapons. (…) By means of the present award to the OPCW, the Committee is seeking to contribute to the elimination of chemical weapons.'
Working Together for a World Free of Chemical Weapons, and Beyond
The 2013 Nobel Peace Prize Lecture delivered by OPCW Director-General Ahmet Üzümcü
Your Majesties,
Distinguished members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee,
Ladies and gentlemen,
It is with profound humility that I accept this prize on behalf of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, its Member States, their Ambassadors and Secretariat staff, past and present – some of whom are with us today, including my immediate predecessor, Ambassador Rogelio Pfirter.
This award recognises our combined efforts.
Efforts which flow from the collective spirit of the OPCW in working towards a common good that serves all humanity.
I feel deeply privileged to be able to address you on this occasion.
I also take this opportunity to honour the memory of Nelson Mandela.
He will remain, for all of us and future generations, a beacon for what can be achieved against overwhelming odds to advance peace, dignity and reconciliation.
The Nobel Committee has a long history of honouring achievement in disarmament.
Yet, this is the first time that the Peace Prize has been awarded to an organisation that is actively engaged in disarmament as a practical and ongoing reality.
For sixteen years now, the OPCW has been overseeing the elimination of an entire category of weapons of mass destruction.
Our task is to consign chemical weapons to history, forever.
A task we have been carrying out with quiet determination, and no small measure of success.
Under the terms of the Chemical Weapons Convention, the OPCW has so far verified the destruction of more than 80% of all declared chemical weapons.
We have also implemented a wide range of measures to prevent such weapons from re-emerging.
And with 190 states now members of this global ban, we are hastening the vision of a world free of chemical weapons to reality.
The remarkable success of chemical disarmament has born out the promise made by Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, when he characterised the first meeting of Member States, back in 1997, with the following words:
"It is not merely a great step in the cause of disarmament and non-proliferation. It is not merely a signal of restraint and discipline in war. It is much more. It is a momentous act of peace."
Ladies and gentlemen,
There can be no doubt about the value of this work.
For chemical weapons have been used with brutal regularity over the twentieth century – and, tragically, in this century as well.
No weapon, of course, has a monopoly on cruelty or lethality.
But chemical weapons have, by any measure, an especially nefarious legacy.
Almost one hundred years since their first large-scale use on the battlefields of Flanders, it is worth reminding ourselves of the reasons why these weapons invoke such horror, right up to our own time.
Chemical weapons stir the deep-rooted and pathological fear all humans share of being poisoned.
They do not discriminate between combatant and civilian, nor between battlefield and village.
You cannot see them.
You cannot smell them.
And they offer no warning for the unsuspecting.
But their effects are devastating – burning, blinding or suffocating their victims.
Death is rarely instant and never painless.
And when they fail to kill, as they often do, these weapons inflict lasting damage on people and their environment, denying them the opportunity to repair and rebuild in the wake of conflict.
I need not describe these effects in all their gruesome variations. They would defy any description.
It is enough to look at the pictures of victims to understand the agony that they must have gone through – from Ieper in Belgium to Sardasht in Iran, from Halabja in Iraq to Ghouta in Syria.
And we only need to look at the fate of the survivors of such attacks – people destined to spend the rest of their lives suffering unbearable physical and psychological pain – to understand why such weapons must be banned.
Chemical weapons evolved over time, with the discovery of new and deadlier agents.
But, whatever their form, they share one common purpose – to invoke fear and submission through the horrifying nature of their impact.
Scores of victims beyond the battlefield have attested to this.
In accepting this prize on behalf of the OPCW, I also pay homage to all these victims.
The first attempt to ban the use of chemical weapons under international law was the Hague Convention of 1899.
The fact that this treaty was not observed during the First World War prompted immediate efforts to negotiate a stronger norm. These efforts resulted in the 1925 Geneva Protocol.
While it prohibited the use of chemical weapons, the Protocol did not ban their production or possession.
History, alas, did not bear out its robustness.
Chemical weapons continued to be used across the globe, including against civilian populations. And, alarmingly, large and more sophisticated arsenals were developed during the Cold War.
It was not until the 1980s that negotiations for a more comprehensive chemical weapons treaty got underway in earnest. Chemical attacks being perpetrated at that time by the former regime in Iraq added to the urgency of this process.
Fortunately, it was not only the brutal effects of chemical weapons that focused minds.
What drove the negotiators was also the imperative to ensure the effectiveness of the future norm to ban these weapons.
States were adamant that chemical weapons had to be made a thing of the past – by deeds, not just words.
What they strove for was a treaty that all but enforced compliance, coming closer than any predecessor to guaranteeing adherence to its provisions.
And, after almost two decades of difficult negotiations, they succeeded.
Their efforts gave birth to the full global ban that came to be known as the Chemical Weapons Convention.
And to an entirely independent organisation, the OPCW, to oversee its implementation.
As difficult as the challenges in bilateral arms control have been, concluding this multilateral treaty was, clearly, a singular achievement.
It also stands as a major triumph in the history of multilateralism.
Almost eighty years after the first large-scale use of chemical weapons, the collective determination of states was finally able to shine through in comprehensively banning these weapons.
This resolve of the community of nations lays testimony to the very best that can be achieved by multilateralism in the cause of peace and security.
As Benjamin Disraeli observed, "Through perseverance, many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure."
I pay tribute here to all those who, through their dedication and resolve, contributed to this hard-won success for chemical disarmament.
And I commend Governments for their courage and foresight in taking this bold step.
It was out of these negotiations that the crucible of the unique success of the Chemical Weapons Convention was forged – a comprehensive international verification mechanism.
A mechanism that had no prior model and had to be developed from scratch.
A mechanism that obliges every one of the Convention's 190 Member States, without discrimination, to destroy its chemical weapon stocks and production facilities.
And to lay bare, through inspection, any industrial facilities that could be used for purposes prohibited by this treaty.
A mechanism that brooks no exceptions, and can conduct inspections at short notice to investigate alleged use of chemical weapons, or suspicions over banned activities.
In short, a mechanism that places the onus on states to ensure full transparency vis-à-vis their obligations – with the OPCW acting as arbiter and guardian of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
With the entry into force of the Convention in 1997, we have thus been able to cross, and link, the wide space in disarmament between passion and practicality, between sentiment and action, between noble ambition and concrete achievements.
And, for the first time in the history of multilateral diplomacy, we were able to show that consensus-based decision-making can yield practical, effective and, above all, verifiable results in disarmament.
From where we stand now, I commend Member States' commitment to effective implementation of the Convention.
The Convention's achievements make the recent chemical attacks in Syria, which shocked us all, even more tragic.
For they highlight the manifest security advantages that states adhering to the Convention enjoy.
In the sixteen years that the Convention has been in force, no Member State has experienced an attack with chemical weapons.
Thankfully, the international response to those attacks set in motion an extraordinary series of events.
These resulted in Syria's accession to the Convention and a front-line role for the OPCW, working together with the United Nations, to eliminate Syrian chemical weapons.
Never in its history has the OPCW overseen the destruction of such a major chemical weapons stockpile in the midst of a civil war, and in such compressed timeframes.
But, as much as this mission is testing our capacities and resources, our progress so far has only strengthened our confidence that we can succeed.
I am immensely proud of those staff members, from the OPCW as well as the UN, who have volunteered to work in Syria in what are extremely challenging circumstances.
Their dedication and personal courage do great credit to both organisations.
Ladies and gentlemen,
International consensus on the elimination of Syria's chemical weapons has as its basis the same consensus that drove the Chemical Weapons Convention to conclusion.
The challenge now is to persuade those six countries still outside the Convention to join it – without delay or conditions.
There has long been no reasonable defence for not doing so – all the more now in the wake of the robust international reaction to recent use of chemical weapons.
No national interest can credibly outweigh either the security or economic benefits of adhering to the global chemical ban.
It is my fervent hope that this award will spur on efforts to make the Chemical Weapons Convention a truly universal norm.
Universal adherence to the Convention would be the most enduring investment in its integrity – and the best guarantee of its reach.
We cannot allow the tragedy that befell the people of Ghouta to be repeated.
The durability of the Chemical Weapons Convention owes as much to what followed in the implementation of the treaty as to what was negotiated into it.
Key in this regard are the OPCW's active partnerships with science.
These partnerships have in significant measure defined the success of the Convention because of the dual-use nature of what goes into making chemical weapons.
Many of their materials and technologies also have beneficial commercial and industrial applications.
Without a common understanding of where the line must be drawn between what helps us, and what harms us, there can be no effective verification.
It is the OPCW's partnerships with science that have drawn this line – in a clear and defensible way.
They have done so by devising tools and methods for defining, detecting and protecting against chemical weapon agents, and monitoring new and emerging technologies of potential concern.
More than this, they have facilitated the sharing of such information between peers.
And, crucially, they have opened up a new sort of dialogue that makes the impact of scientific discoveries better understood.
We need to deal with the situation in which, as Isaac Asimov put it, "science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
It is for this reason that the OPCW has worked hard to enhance awareness of the often fine line between beneficial and harmful applications in chemistry through education programmes and outreach to academia.
Our aim is to contribute to efforts towards fostering a culture of responsible science.
This will ensure that current and future generations of scientists understand – and respect – the impact that their work can have on security.
What we are striving to create, together with our partners, is a two-tiered structure for supporting advances in chemistry.
One that accommodates a collective early-warning system for scientific discoveries that could be misused, and a global repository for knowledge, expertise and technologies that should benefit all nations.
Industry has been no less important a partner for the achievement of goals enshrined in the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Its concerns were discussed and addressed from the very beginning of the negotiations on the Convention.
Specifically, industry had to have complete confidence in arrangements made for commercial protection.
Without such arrangements, there could be no productive collaboration and, therefore, no access to commercial chemical facilities for inspection.
Given the degree to which the Convention's verification requirements are entangled with normal commercial and industrial processes, industry's active participation is vital.
Some 2,500 inspections later, in more than 80 countries, we have shown that the Convention's arrangements work.
Our ambition now is to better integrate industry as a partner working to ensure continued and effective implementation of the Convention.
More broadly, this sort of partnership with the private sector points a way forward for many of the non-traditional multilateral challenges we are facing, from climate change to poverty alleviation.
It is a key area of focus for the OPCW's efforts to augment the Convention's profile, and adherence to it.
When the Chemical Weapons Convention was concluded in 1992, it was rightly heralded as the most tangible disarmament outcome of the immediate post-Cold War period.
But over the more than two decades since then, we have little else to show in the area of disarmament for the enormous peace dividend that the end of the Cold War brought us.
It is high time to move towards a different, more durable security in keeping with the extraordinary opportunities that globalisation has brought.
A security that accommodates human development, economic cooperation and mutual prosperity.
Effective implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention has played a definitive role in empowering a broader community of stakeholders to this end.
Their voices are persuasive because they are pragmatic.
They eschew moral argument in favour of facts.
And their modes of presentation only enhance their credibility.
These include: objective assessments of verification methods, innovative cost-benefit analyses of retaining weapons of mass destruction, and frank reviews of the commercial impact of treaty compliance.
Finally, they have been able to give expression to their voices and test their judgements through new habits of dialogue and cooperation between scientists and policy-makers, between industry and academia, and between civil society and government officials.
It is these sorts of habits that the OPCW is committed to fostering.
As a means of preserving the legacy of the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize, I announce here that the prize money awarded by the Nobel Committee will be used to fund annual OPCW awards.
These awards will recognise outstanding contributions to advancing the goals of the Convention.
I am sure that along with other stakeholders the civil society will continue to play a significant role in this regard.
For its part, the OPCW will do its utmost to remain a highly effective organisation.
An organisation that continues to invest in its most valuable asset – a cadre of highly skilled and dedicated people.
An organisation that anticipates future challenges.
And an organisation that adapts its resources and expertise to be able to respond to them.
Syria has tested us in this regard.
Verifying the declaration of a Member State is a routine activity for the OPCW. But there is clearly nothing routine about the circumstances in which we are doing so in that country.
We would welcome the opportunity of new Member States submitting themselves to the verification regime of the Convention.
At the same time, we are looking beyond what we do, to how we do it.
Our aim is to build on our sixteen-year record of success by increasing our efficiency and broadening our reach.
This not only means staying abreast of scientific and technological advances that may test our understanding of what constitutes a chemical weapon.
It also requires us to ensure that we are making the best possible use of advances in communication, especially publicly available tools.
Having seen how rapidly information can be conveyed by social media and, critically, verified through images, we need to consider how we might harness such tools for our monitoring, verification and investigation activities.
This could render particular benefits for our work with Member States to prevent non-state actors from gaining access to dual-use materials and know-how.
And, in our world of globalised trade and supply chains, it could potentially help Member States further improve their ability to track exports of dual-use goods and materials, to ensure that these goods go where they are supposed to go, and are used for purposes they are intended to be used for.
We are also thinking about how we can employ new communication tools to raise awareness of the need to practise responsible science, to instil the highest ethical standards in our future scientists and researchers.
Finally, we are expanding and deepening our interaction with other international organisations.
The United Nations is central in this regard, whether in partnership on the ground in Syria, or in our broader, mutually reinforcing efforts to promote disarmament.
We are likewise engaging regional organisations to use their forums and networks for raising awareness of the goals of the Chemical Weapons Convention, including in helping to secure universality.
Our interaction with other specialised international agencies is usefully identifying areas of overlap that enhance chemical security, ranging from addressing transnational crime and terrorism, to building capacity for chemical emergency response.
And we are working with other arms control treaty organisations to exchange best practices in areas ranging from dual-use challenges to verification methods.
Institutional cooperation is the bedrock of the broader stakeholder engagement on which the OPCW prides itself.
Cooperation which I hope we can underwrite with increased communication and social networking, stimulating fresh ideas and innovative inputs.
Your Majesties,
Distinguished members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee,
Ladies and gentlemen,
The history of arms control has shown no lack of passion.
Yet, when so much is at stake, passion must take care to ground itself in reality, if it is to achieve its ambitions.
This means being pragmatic, clear-minded – even dispassionate – about acquiring the best possible tools for achieving and consolidating disarmament goals.
And it often means governments showing the political courage to take tough decisions for the benefit of the community of nations.
The Chemical Weapons Convention has shown that this sort of an approach yields results.
For the Convention is more than mere words and promises on a piece of paper.
It is a comprehensive regime geared towards ridding the world of chemical weapons, and making sure they never again threaten humankind.
In this regime, member states provide the will behind the Convention.
And it is the OPCW that provides the force for making its goals a reality.
Our work, imbued with resolve and certitude, is the international community's guarantee of the Convention's implementation.
It shows that from lofty dreams we can carve out steps leading us from vision to reality.
It took almost a century to achieve a total ban on chemical weapons.
A century over which thousands fell victim to these heinous weapons.
A century at whose end we can now look to a future free of the scourge they represent.
No value can be placed on this achievement.
And no effort should be spared in sharing the gains it has brought us.
Those of us who have worked towards chemical disarmament recognise that with our success also comes an obligation to broaden it.
The Chemical Weapons Convention has given us a legacy that no future disarmament effort can afford to ignore.
A legacy that has, at its core, verification, broad stakeholder engagement, consensus born of trust and, above all, a commitment to science that actively serves the cause of peace and security.
It is this legacy that we must set as the keystone in an ever-widening arch of disarmament.
Only by building such an arch will we be able to bridge our security and our prosperity.
Destiny has ruled that we rid the world of chemical weapons.
And that we achieve this in our lifetime.
This is our place in history.
And this is the future we are creating.
A future for which our children and grandchildren can be truly thankful.
Get a sneak peek into events behind the scenes of this prestigious award
Award Ceremony Speech
Presentation Speech by Thorbjørn Jagland, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Oslo, 10 December 2013.
Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, representatives of the Laureate, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen,
The entry into force of the Chemical Weapons Convention in 1997 prohibiting the development, production, storage and use of chemical weapons states that the parties to the Convention are "Determined for the sake of all mankind, to exclude completely the possibility of the use of chemical weapons."
Is that not beautiful?
Still more beautiful: it can be achieved. We are in fact close to the target.
This is to a large degree due to the work of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which was created to ensure the implementation of the Convention.
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2013 therefore goes most deservedly to an organisation and its personnel, who have been quietly working to remove an entire category of weapons.
Our congratulations!
And with this year's prize, we prompt those states that have not acceded to the convention to do so.
The use of chemicals in warfare is nearly as old as mankind. For thousands of years, spears and arrows have had poison applied to them to enhance their effect. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey tell us that such poisoned arrows were used by the parties to the Trojan War. Chinese Sun Tzu mentions the use of fire with various weapons. In Hinduism, the Law of Manu favours a ban on poison and fire arrows, recommending the poisoning of food and water instead.
Up through the centuries, there are masses of examples of the use of various chemical weapons.
In due course there followed demands for bans on such weapons. The Hague Convention from the Peace Congress of 1899, and the Convention from the Congress of 1907, recommended the prohibition of "poison and poison weapons" in the waging of war.
But it was so little use.
World War One marked the first massive use of chemical weapons in war. By the end of the war, a total of 124,000 tonnes of gas had been produced. 85,000 are reckoned to have lost their lives owing to chemical weapons, while almost 1.2 million were injured.
In the wake of World War I, international efforts to ban the use of chemical weapons and prevent such suffering from being inflicted again, on soldiers and civilians, intensified. The result of this renewed global commitment was the 1925 Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and Bacteriological Methods of Warfare. But it did not have much effect, because it did not forbid the production and storage of such weapons. As long as possession of such weapons was permitted, there was a strong temptation to use them. Hitler used chemical means to take the lives of millions of people during World War Two, but surprised many by not making direct use of chemical weapons when waging the war itself. In Berlin they were probably afraid of what the Allied response might be if the Germans were the first to use such weapons. Their own forces might also suffer from their use on the battlefield.
Since World War Two, chemical weapons have been used frequently. The former regime in Iraq made extensive use of chemical weapons both in the war on Iran in the 1980s and on its own Kurdish population. Terrorists have also used such weapons.
The Geneva Protocol of 1925 had in other words not had the required effect.
A more comprehensive agreement was clearly needed. The new Chemical Weapons Convention was drawn up in 1992-93. It prohibits the use, production and storage of such weapons. The Convention entered into force in 1997. The OPCW was established to see that the Convention was implemented.
The OPCW's objective, then, is not arms control, as so often in such connections; the objective is disarmament in the form of elimination of chemical weapons. In effect a huge step in human history. Because never before has a weapon, previously integrated in the armed forces and doctrines of states, been banned and its removal sought from the earth's surface.
The Convention, which entered into force in 1997, has rendered chemical weapons taboo under international law.
The Convention imposes many and detailed obligations. All countries that ratify the agreement undertake to submit a full survey of whatever they may possess of chemical weapons and equipment for the production of such weapons. They furthermore undertake to destroy whatever they possess of such weapons and production facilities, and to admit international inspectors to ensure that such destruction has taken place. The destruction must be carried out in cooperation with the OPCW. The OPCW has the right to inspect any production facility in a signatory state at 76 hours' notice.
190 countries are currently members of the OPCW. The members represent 98 per cent of the world's population and territory as well as 98 per cent of the world's total chemical industry. 80 per cent of the chemical weapons have been removed. 90 per cent of the production capacity has been destroyed.
We are accordingly quite close to achieving the highly ambitious target of totally eliminating chemical weapons. This is the result not only of cooperation between many countries, but also of cooperation undertaken between the business and industry, research institutions and organisations of those countries. Without such cooperation, the implementation of many of the provisions in the Convention would not have been possible.
This year's prize is therefore being awarded to a form of international cooperation of which we need more in other areas.
But it has not all been successes. The OPCW was unable to observe the deadline, which was April 2012, for the destruction of declared chemical weapons. Some 20 per cent, chiefly American and Russian weapons, have not yet been destroyed. It is of course not acceptable that two leading powers, themselves so eager to see others destroying their stores as quickly as possible, have not yet themselves managed to do the same. Please, speed up the process!
Now that Syria has joined the OPCW, only 6 states remain non-members. Two, Israel and Myanmar, have signed, but not ratified, the Convention. Please ratify it!
Angola, North Korea, Egypt and South Sudan have neither signed nor ratified. Please do so!
It marks a big step forward that Syria has joined the OPCW, and that plans are now being drawn up for the destruction of all its chemical weapons. It is of course a huge challenge for the OPCW to manage to destroy all these weapons under the conditions of war and chaos prevailing in the country, and in much less time than is normally available.
The anonymous inspectors from the OPCW do an extremely important and difficult job. That makes the presence of many of you here today so significant. Today's prize is also your prize.
The target of removing chemical weapons from the surface of the earth is highly ambitious, but it is not necessarily the case that it will be achieved once and for all. Development does not stop. We suspect the emergence of new forms of warfare, new types of chemical weapons, types which the world has not seen up to now and which are potentially dreadful in their consequences. Discussion of possible new substances that are not currently defined in the Convention will confront the OPCW with new challenges.
We should never underestimate the policy of small steps. The follow-up on the Chemical Weapons Convention by the OPCW has shown how small steps can produce large results.
The dominant direction of the Norwegian Nobel Committee's work over the years has partly been the struggle for disarmament, but still more the struggle for international cooperation, whether through the League of Nations or the United Nations. The OPCW has its feet firmly planted in both traditions, which also figure so prominently in Alfred Nobel's will.
The current situation in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf lends an important perspective to the Chemical Weapons Convention and the existence of the OPCW, namely that such a multilateral framework once again became a platform from which to attempt to resolve a current crisis without the use of weapons. We were on the verge of a new military confrontation in the Middle East which could have unimaginable consequences. That has so far been avoided.
The improved climate this creates may pave the way for negotiations for a solution to the whole conflict in Syria. We know from experience that one good step may be followed by others.
I hope everyone is with me in a plea to the parties: lay down your arms, stop the bloodbath, come to the negotiating table.
That the leadership of the Russian Federation saw that the Chemical Weapons Convention and the OPCW could be used to shift the conflict over chemical weapons onto a new track, and that President Obama responded favourably, may also have contributed to creating a new climate around Iran's nuclear program. President Rouhani went to the UN General Assembly with a more favourable message than we have heard before. A telephone conversation between the Presidents of Iran and the United States took place for the first time for over 30 years. An important, though as yet only preliminary, agreement has been concluded to limit Iran's nuclear program.
We know that a political solution in Syria and a peaceful solution to Iran's nuclear weapons program are difficult. But developments are more promising than for a long time.
Peace is a difficult issue, as we see even in the debate on the Nobel Peace Prize. Many feel that the prize should always go to bold individuals with firm principles. We need such role models to create hope in a complicated and for many a threatening world. The prize has often gone to such outstanding individuals. Many of them have moved the world in the right direction.
But peace is not brought about by individuals and idealists alone. We also need practical politicians, capable of moving the world away from confrontation within often narrow limits. We also need institutions, not least the global ones within the United Nations.
It is the interplay between all of these that can create peace. The Nobel Peace Prize has accordingly honoured all these directions.
This must remain the Nobel Committee's platform.
Alfred Nobel's will is a visionary document. And concrete at the same time. He wrote that the prize should go to whoever had done most for fraternity between nations, the reduction of standing armies, and the holding of peace congresses.
The agreement of 2010 between Presidents Obama and Medvedev concerning strategic nuclear arms was important because the alternative was a new nuclear arms race. So it fitted in with a modern understanding of Alfred Nobel's demand for the reduction of standing armies.
The Chemical Weapons Convention and the work of the OPCW meet all of Alfred Nobel's requirements. They concern disarmament, are a form of modern peace congress, and strengthen fraternity between nations.
What is more: while negotiations concerning nuclear arms have been based on the exclusive right claimed by the nuclear powers to have nuclear arms, the Chemical Weapons Convention contains no such right. It is a real disarmament agreement. All countries must eliminate their chemical weapons. All nations are treated equally.
This must be the perspective also where nuclear arms are concerned, as was resolved by the UN Security Council meeting called by President Obama in 2009.
Nuclear weapons, too, must vanish from the face of the earth!
Many people ask, not least in Syria itself, whether it really makes any difference whether one is killed by chemical weapons or by conventional means. For those who are hit, the answer is no, though no one should underestimate the suffering that chemical weapons impose on their victims.
On the road to a more peaceful world, it is nevertheless important to combat the most monstrous weapons first, the weapons of mass destruction. We have banned the biological weapons. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded many prizes to the struggle against nuclear weapons.
Today the focus is on chemical weapons, and on the progress we have made. The honour for that goes to the 1997 Convention and to the OPCW. We praise today's laureate and extend our best wishes for success in the important tasks remaining.
Thank you for your attention.
OPCW-The Hague Award – A Lasting Legacy
In 2014, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons established the OPCW–The Hague Award to recognise and honour individuals and institutions that have made an outstanding contribution towards the goal of a world permanently free of chemical weapons; such contributions include promoting the peaceful uses of chemistry and preventing its misuse. The Award is a tribute reflecting the honour bestowed upon the OPCW for winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013 and is supported by a generous financial contribution from the City of The Hague.
The OPCW-The Hague Award Fund was created using the nearly €900,000 monetary prize accompanying the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the OPCW.
The fund is supplemented by contributions from the City of The Hague. The OPCW–The Hague Awards are made available with a maximum annual monetary prize of €90,000. The Award is accompanied by a certificate and a commemorative medal featuring both the OPCW and the coat of arms of the City of The Hague.


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Wildlife Heroes is an awesome book, and we have the author coming to the Zoo!
Join us on May 19th and 20th for Wildlife Heroes weekend at the Houston Zoo. On May 20th we welcome Jeff Flocken, co-author of Wildlife Heroes: 40 Leading Conservationists and the Animals they are Committed to Saving for a book-signing and presentations by zoo staff on the focus species of the book. Wildlife Heroes will be available for sale at the zoo on May 20th, quantities are limited! Books are also available for pre-order on the Houston Zoo website at: https://www.houstonzoo.org/wildlife-heroes/for a dicounted price until May 17th.
My first heroes were animal people. When I went to zoos my heroes were the zoo keepers and when I watched animal documentaries the researchers were my heroes. We all need amazing people to inspire us and that is why the new book Wildlife Heroes is so wonderful.
The book includes 40 people overcoming impossible odds to save endangered species all over the world. If you are looking for real heroes for your children to look up to look now further!
The unique stories in this book of local communities becoming involved in anti-poaching, education and research efforts for wildlife in their own back yard are immeasurably inspiring! In one story a young boy, Thia grew up in Northern Vietnam watching his village hunt the very species he fights to save today. His passion to help a unique species called the pangolin will warm your heart!
I have had the honor of meeting many of the heroes in this book (including the authors) over the years and they inspire me to move forward in my own wildlife conservation work. These are real people making a real difference!
This book introduces readers to pollinator and amphibian decline and other environment issues that continue to threaten our world. But it also offers great messages of hope. In the last chapter Jack Hannah suggests ways the reader can help, and the good news is that by purchasing the Wildlife Heroes book you are already helping- 100 % of the proceeds go to the projects featured in the book. A win for everyone!
Hope to see you at the Houston Zoo for our Wildlife Heroes weekend May 19th and 20th!


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103.5 FM, Brady's Bend
3 radio transmitters, 10 radio receivers, found audio footage, 2 mile underground radius.
A subterranean radio network broadcasting competing apocalypse survival shelter advertisements on three FM transmitters. As the audience walks through and around the transmitters and receivers, their bodies block and disrupt the broadcast of each track, allowing the various narratives to overlay, dissolve and intermingle. The radio transmission was available on 103.5FM only while underground in a Western Pennsylvania limestone mine.
Collaborative project with Alex Lukas.


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On Tuesday, Shares of Central Fund of Canada Limited (USA) (NYSEMKT:CEF), gained 0.28% to $10.66.
Focal Fund of Canada Limited pronounced that Glenn Fox has been assigned as Lead Director and Chair of the Corporate Governance Committee of the Board of Directors of Central Fund. Mr. Fox is a financial expert and has been an individual from the workforce and analyst at the University of Guelph since 1985 and was named a senior examination individual of the Fraser Institute in 2013. He started serving as a chief of Central Fund in February, 2015.
Mr. Fox has consented to expect these parts at a discriminating time when Central Fund and its chiefs are confronting suit by an accomplice of Sprott Asset Administration LP looking for certain help under the Business Corporations Act (Alberta), relying on grounds of persecution. Mr. Fox expressed, "I am respected to assume a raised part with Central Fund at this essential time in its history."
Focal Fund of Canada is a shut finished thing shared trust propelled and oversaw by Central Group Alberta, Ltd. It puts resources into the item advertises. The trust basically puts resources into items like silver and gold. Focal Fund of Canada was shaped on November 15, 1961 and is domiciled in Canada.
Shares of Liberty Global plc – Class C Ordinary Shares (NASDAQ:LBTYK), declined -1.33% to $48.29, during its last trading session.
Freedom Global plc, proclaimed that it has accomplished 138.7 million shares in ITV plc ("ITV"), subsequently expanding its current stake to an aggregate of 398.5 million shares in ITV or around 9.9% of ITV's conventional shares exceptional. Freedom Global has in the meantime come to a supporting exchange concerning the ITV offers it has accomplished and gotten further financing from its fence counterparty. The obtaining of the extra ITV shares, consolidated with revising a current supporting exchange concerning ITV shares, will bring about net money being discharged to Liberty Global.
President Mike Fries expressed, "Given ITV's working and stock value execution, we had the capacity improve our stake to 9.9% with no incremental speculation by supporting our current value position. This venture remains a pioneering one for us in our biggest business sector. ITV is a well-run organization with appealing development potential, and we are glad to upgrade our position as their biggest shareholder."
Freedom Global plc, together with its helpers, gives feature, broadband Internet, settled line telephony, and versatile administrations in Europe, Chile, Puerto Rico, and universally.
At the end of Tuesday's trade, Shares of Parsley Energy Inc (NYSE:PE), gained 2.77% to $15.58.
Parsley Energy, pronounced money related and working results for the quarter finished June 30, 2015. The Company has presented on its site a presentation that supplements the data in this discharge.
Second Quarter 2015 Financial Highlights
Income for the second quarter of 2015 was $77.9 million, up 41% from Q1 2015, reflecting higher generation and ware value acknowledge.
Amid the second quarter of 2015, the Company recorded a net misfortune owing to its stockholders of $19.1 million, or $0.18 per weighted normal offer. Not considering non-repeating things on an assessment balanced premise and including back the non-controlling interest assigned to Class B stockholders, the balanced net misfortune for the second quarter of 2015 was $1.8 million, or $0.01 per weakened offer. Balanced profit before interest, pay charges, devaluation, consumption, amortization, and investigation cost for the second quarter of 2015 was $53.4 million, up 48% difference to the first quarter 2015.
Parsley Energy, Inc., a free oil and regular gas organization, takes part in the procurement, improvement, creation, investigation, and offer of raw petroleum and characteristic gas properties in the Permian Basin situated in West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico.
Finally, Amgen, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMGN), ended its last trade with -1.20% loss, and closed at $168.56.
Amgen, proclaimed that its Board of Directors pronounced a $0.79 per offer profit for the second from last quarter of 2015. The profit will be paid on Sept. 8, 2015, to all stockholders of record as of the end of business on Aug. 17, 2015.
Amgen Inc., a biotechnology organization, finds, creates, produces, and conveys human therapeutics around the world. It centers for the treatment of sickness in the territories of oncology, hematology, irritation, bone wellbeing, nephrology, cardiovascular, and general pharmaceutical.


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Kathy Fatica wins election to serve out her late husband's term.
Erie County Council members appointed Democrat Kathy Fatica to fill her husband's 1st District council seat when Phil Fatica unexpectedly died in 2015.
Voters returned her to council on Tuesday, choosing the 73-year-old retired public-health nurse over Republican challenger Robert Yates, 42, to serve the final two years of Phil Fatica's term.
Fatica won with 6,040 votes, according to unofficial results with all 149 precincts reporting. Yates, a substitute teacher and chairman of the Millcreek Republican Committee, received 4,373 votes.
The 1st District includes most of Millcreek Township.
Fatica was one of four people to win council seats in Tuesday's municipal election.
In the 4th District, Democrat Carl Anderson III defeated Republican Paul Hirsch to win the seat currently held by Jay Breneman, who ran for Erie mayor but lost in the primary. Anderson, a 50-year-old historical consultant and researcher, received 5,000 votes, compared with 2,517 votes for Hirsch, who is an admissions and enrollment coordinator at Mercyhurst University.
Anderson had run unsuccessfully for council in 2003 and 2005.
The 4th District encompasses southeast Erie, western Wesleyville, and the Belle Valley section of Millcreek.
In the 6th District, Republican Scott Rastetter beat Democrat Mary Jo Campbell to win the seat now held by Edward DiMattio, who ran for county executive but lost in the primary. Rastetter, a 63-year-old longtime carpet installer, received 3,631 votes, compared with 3,094 votes for Campbell, a 66-year-old retired education professor at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and 10-year member of the Washington Township Council.
The 6th District includes much of southern Erie County.
Andre Horton, a 57-year-old Democrat, was unopposed in his attempt to win a second term representing the 2nd District, which includes Erie's bayfront from Millcreek to Lawrence Park townships.
County Council terms are for four years, with an annual part-time salary of $9,500 a year.
David Bruce can be reached at 870-1736 or by email. Follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ETNbruce.


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The Southland's top 25 girls' basketball teams:
1. Lynwood (11-0, SS-San Gabriel)
Sade Wiley-Gatewood led Knights to Campbell County title in Wyoming, with 66-52 victory over Fort Smith (Ark.) Northside, ranked No. 3 in nation.
2. Narbonne (9-3, CS-Marine)
No Southern hospitality in Atlanta as Gauchos lose a tournament semifinal to Hollywood (Fla.) South Broward, 63-42.
3. San Clemente (9-3, SS-South Coast)
Tritons didn't play last week, and won't this week either.
4. Troy (12-0, SS-Freeway)
Led Norco by 27 in fourth quarter before finishing with 69-55 victory.
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David Tilson will be presenting on a panel regarding the work that West Monroe Partners did with Benton PUD, "Delivering Ideal Customer Experience through Communication and Collaboration."
With over 45,000 customers, Benton PUD will share how they are implementing new customer facing processes and technology that will transform the entire organization to be more customer-centric while transforming their current customer service model to one that actively creates relationships with customers. The project (along with PG&E examples) focused on improving customer communication, tech enablement, change management and a brand campaign.


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Around 52% of road deaths in Scotland happen on country roads, and loss of control is the most common cause. Last year alone 649 people were killed or seriously injured whilst driving on country roads. Over two thirds of them were male.
This campaign aims to show that you never know what's round the corner when travelling on a country road, and driving at an appropriate speed gives you more time to react.
Find more information on the Don't Risk it website: http://dontriskit.info/country-roads/view-the-campaign/
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|Police Scotland are issuing a warning following three reports of bogus callers targeting residents in East Lothian and the Scottish Borders.
The incidents happened in Kirk Park, Dunbar; Callandar Place Cockburnspath and Croft Road, Kelso on Monday 3rd October.
In the Kirk Park incident, a 92 year old man was charged an excessive three-figure sum to have some gardening work done. The suspect bogus workman called himself John Smith and left a business card.
The suspect in the Cockburnspath incident called unannounced and offered to tarmac the driveway, leaving a business card.
In the Croft Road Kelso incident, a workman was contacted via social media, he asked for payment up front and left without completing the work.
Officers are advising residents to be on their guard for bogus callers, rogue traders and not to engage anyone cold-calling to do property maintenance, gardening or home repairs.
Sergeant Michele Lindsay said: " Police Scotland is committed to tackling those involved in this crime and will use all means at our disposal to ensure they are swiftly brought to justice. Rogue traders usually turn up announced, claim to be bona fide tradesmen when they are not and charge inflated prices for shoddy or unnecessary work.
"However, an effective way of preventing these incidents from happening in the first place is by raising awareness of the problem and advising members of the public on what steps they can take to better protect themselves from falling victim.
"We would recommend that you never engage anyone who turns up at your door and never give them money up front.
"We would also caution against keeping large sums of cash in your own home.
"More information about how to protect yourself against bogus callers can be found on the Police Scotland website at the address below:"
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Michelle Cain has a lot at stake.
Michelle Cain has a lot at stake.
She has a full-time job at Walmart, a home in Peoria and a personal assistant.
She also has cerebral palsy.
The personal assistant helps Cain eat, get dressed and manage other daily tasks. Last year, the program that funds her PA was almost cut.
A year later, Gov. Pat Quinn faces a decision that could affect Cain's life and the lives of thousands of others in Illinois living with disabilities.
Quinn has been given the responsibility of deciding whether to cut funding for services to disabled people, seniors and others in the community.
Legislators assembled Saturday at PARC in North Peoria for a Disability Legislative Forum, where addressed were possible budget cuts and their long-term effects on the community and state finances.
A panel of six participated in the discussion, including State Sen. Dale Risinger, R-Peoria, and State Reps. David Leitch, R-Peoria, Mike Smith, D-Canton, and Jehan Gordon, D-Peoria.
Also present were Mike Unes, an East Peoria city councilman who is challenging Smith in the November election, and Jim Montelongo, an at-large member of the Peoria City Council who is running against Gordon for a seat in the General Assembly.
Cain spoke at the forum, explaining the importance of programs for those with learning and physical disabilities.
"If we don't speak up for ourselves, who is?" Cain said afterward.
Panelists were each given the chance to answer questions about budget cuts, underfunding and future plans for Illinois.
"They made it clear that common sense says that you don't cut the most susceptible people," said Kim Cornwell, the chief operating officer of PARC.
Leitch has served on the human services appropriation committee for the majority of his 24 years in the General Assembly.
"I think it's absolutely ludicrous that state employees were given $336 million in pay raises while people serving developmentally disabled struggle to keep their doors open," Leitch said.
"This is all upside down. Why is the state feeding itself at the expense of the community of people whom the state is supposed to be serving?"
One statistic that was often cited was the cost of housing someone in a state-run institution ($146,000 a year) is almost three times more than housing that individual in a living community ($50,000).
Jim Runyon, the grants team leader and writer for PARC, believes the issue needs to go beyond the local level.
"One of the real problems, and I heard it several times today, was that they all know what the right thing to do is, they just need to maybe tell their own leadership, be it the Republican leadership or the Democratic leadership," Runyon said.
Cornwell believes election season has put much of this responsibility on the governor rather than others in government.
She contends many legislators do not want to be held responsible for cutting these programs and are leaving it up to Quinn to handle.
"It's funny that they all say, 'They did this, they did this,' but it's like, you know, you are 'They.' They always seem to distance themselves when they get on a roll."
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Did y'all catch the Doctor Who Christmas Special: The Time of The Doctor last night? Anyone else a little underwhelmed? The ending and Matt's send off was fairly golden and touching, but the whole episode was a bit of a mess. I dunno, maybe this 12-minute behind-the-scenes look at The Time of the Doctor will help with the appreciation and understanding of such a significant episode.
Yep, no… the episode made no sense and the regeneration thing was lame (worlds fastest regeneration – makes me worried that if I sneeze I'll change faces). It seems anytime the creatives go into WHO mythology – regeneration, Gallifrey…etc – the episodes are far too grand and convoluted. They're not easy to process. WHO is best when it's at it's most simplest. It's the small stuff that really makes WHO great.
I will say, that despite the squished story telling in The Time of the Doctor, it all fell 2nd to the real moments when Matt shined. I really loved Matt and he will surely be missed. The feels!
Onward to Peter Capaldi as the 13th Doctor…
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"Ain't Good Enough For You" by Bruce Springsteen: If you're a fan of both the music from "Grease" AND Springsteen (I count myself among those fans), then this is the song for you! The youthful, energetic vibe of this song really recaptures not only the swingin' beat of many '50s rock songs, but also even lyrically in some parts (like the call-and-response "whoa-oh-ho-hoh"s and "little darlin'"s in the chorus!!) The masking of sexual frustration over a toe-tappin' rhythm make it seem all the more like a '50s rock song, as many songs in "Grease" were kinda like this (come to think of it, the whole MOVIE was, really). Here's to yet another sign of The Boss gettin' back to his roots!
"Give Me Something" by Scars On 45: There were a couple songs like this one last year, and two of them just happened to make my Top 20 of the year ("New Morning" by Alpha Rev and "Take Everything" by Greg Laswell). There's something about "romantic" sounding Britpop (i.e. Oasis, Travis, Snow Patrol, etc.) type material that I seem to like! Perhaps it's just so sincere and heartfelt that it just tugs at the ol' heartstrings. It doesn't always work, though (Alpha Rev's "Phoenix Burn", for instance, I found a bit dull for my tastes). So what makes "Give Me Something" work for me?! Perhaps the guitars sound a bit like a cross between Travis and Death Cab for Cutie in this song, both of whom I like, and it also sounds like Scars on 45's lead singer is more focused on delivering a positive message than focusing on trying to make a "hit".
"Mine Smell Like Honey" by R.E.M.: What, ANOTHER new R.E.M. song?!? But there was just one last month!! I'm a bit surprised this one's a hard-rockin' song, too, like their effort from last month, "Discoverer". Perhaps their album "Collapse Into Now" will be their new "Monster" (the one that featured "Bang And Blame" and "What's the Frequency Kenneth?") The brand of "hard rock" (or, more aptly, power pop) that R.E.M. use for this song is a bit more of a fast-paced Matthew Sweet/"edgier" Gin Blossoms type sound than it is the more straight-ahead classic rock influence of "Discoverer", though. R.E.M. seem to want to steer away from their more "sensitive" side with their latest two songs, and "Mine Smell Like Honey" makes that especially clear with its garbled lyrics (which Michael Stipe probably made sound that way on purpose!) Well, one thing is clear, though, R.E.M. are back and ready to rock out!!
"Pill" by Edie Brickell: Most people remember Edie for being a one-hit wonder for her vibrant, unique, almost Rickie Lee Jones-ish late '80s tune, "What I Am". Adult alt radio has focused on her work a little bit more, though. Some of such stations might also play her more depressing, somewhat Fleetwood Mac-ish "Circle", and in '05 a more pleasant sounding folk-pop-y song called "Rush Around" became a minor hit, too (I didn't like "Rush Around" that much, though). I've gotta say, though, I was pleasantly surprised when I heard "Pill", which evokes such indie songstresses as Neko Case and Beth Orton (almost reminds of some of Rickie Lee Jones' newer material). Perhaps wanting to fulfill more of an "indie" image, Brickell seems to almost deliver the chorus ("They've got a pill for that") in a somewhat deadpan, sarcastic sort of manner.
"Shell Games" by Bright Eyes: Conor Oberst and co continue to have their talent shine in this tune!! For awhile, they seemed to take a more Petty/Springsteen based "roots-rock" approach, but for their longtime "indie" fans, Bright Eyes are back!! "Shell Games" starts out with a melancholy piano, and then turns into a full-on indie tune with the pianos, synthesizers, and electric guitars dueling with each other! No this doesn't mean they've reached "arena rock" proportions, but they've added a bit more of an Arcade Fire/later Wilco/Phoenix type sound to their music this time. So THIS is probably why they're headlining Coachella's second day with Mumford and Sons and Arcade Fire. They're in that kind of company once again!
"That's Some Dream" by Good Old War: One of the shortest songs I've reviewed in awhile (about 2 and a half minutes), but still worth listening to. GOW manage to squeeze in all the neo-folk-rock bliss they can within such a short amount of time, so much so that the entire SONG feels like "some dream". It's also interesting to note that the title is only mentioned at the very end of the song (perhaps to evoke the feel that this song goes by faster than expected, like a dream). I made a comparison of Good Old War to Simon and Garfunkel the last time I reviewed them ("My Own Sinking Ship" - July '10), and it seems even MORE apt on this one, with the "lie-lie-lie, la-la-lie"s in the chorus, perhaps borrowed straight from "The Boxer".
"This Is Why We Fight" by The Decemberists: For the original generation of folk-rockers not satisfied with the more emotionally centered topics of the "neo-folk-rock" boom of indie musicians, it might help to know that Colin Meloy and his unusually large band are not afraid to address political issues like Woody and Arlo Guthrie's songs, "Eve of Destruction, Neil Young's songs, and the early Bob Dylan tunes did. The title alone seems to indicate grim, war-related subject matter, and indeed it does. This is not the first time The Decemberists have addressed political topics, though, as "16 Military Wives" was a critical attack on news programs and the American political system in general, and The Decemberists even made a guest appearance on "The Colbert Report" at one time! The bluegrass-meets-folk-rock type sound of this song might bring to mind acts like Mumford and Sons and The Avett Brothers, though The Decemberists might evoke the latter a bit more on this song with its harmonica solos.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
New songs for Jan. 19th, 2011
Labels: Bright Eyes, Bruce Springsteen, Edie Brickell, Good Old War, R.E.M., Scars on 45, The Decemberists


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Saturday, 24 May 2014
Fixing dents in Ercol tables
I'm slowly progressing with the refurbishment of my nest of dark Ercol Pebble occasional tables. The smallest has been completely rubbed down and I've set to work on the largest. Apart from the nasty cream paint and removal of the original dark stain it has a few little 5mm wide dents on the surface of the tabletop. I had starting sanding this and it became apparent that marks would still be visible below stain level and I didn't want to have to carry on sanding good wood to remove them. Apart from the work involved, pebble tops are rather thin and I didn't want to weaken it more than necessary. Sanding had reached the level that clean wood was visible overall but stain still remained in the grain. I had come across a dent removal solution involving use of a steam iron but decided to try just cold water with a tiny amount of washing up detergent. The dents in the top were just compression damage and no wood had been removed and I was hoping that water would soak into the crushed wood fibres causing them to swell to their original shape and the dents would "heal". The technique used was to wet the immediate area around a dent leaving a standing puddle which was left for several hours, (or days depending on what I was doing), then repeated probably 6-7 times. I haven't made any scientific measurement but it does seem to have been successful in reducing denting significantly to the extent that the sanding still needed to remove the grain staining will be enough and this final rub down will also remove some light water staining has occurred.
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Chicago cyclist Greta Neimanas finished seventh Thursday in the 3,000-meter individual pursuit, her first race at the 2012 Paralympics.
"Didn't have the race I wanted or that I can do," she tweeted. "Sometimes it happens. On to the next day & next race."
Neimanas, reigning world silver medalist in the event, clocked 4 minutes, 3.20 seconds. It took 3:49 to make the semifinals.
Sarah Storey of Great Britain, the favorite and eventual gold medalist, set a Para-cycling world record of 3:32.17 in the qualifying. That was a slightly more than a second better than her old world record.
Neimanas' next race is the 500-meter time trial Saturday. She also will do two road cycling events next week.


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STRIKES could hit universities for the second consecutive winter as lecturers push government for an independent pay review body, writes Alan Thomson.
Delegates at the Association of University Teachers special council last Friday voted to prepare plans for further campaigning and for industrial action if the government fails to back an independent and permanent pay review body for academic and related staff.
The association has raised the strike threat in the hope of influencing the deliberations of the pay review committee which was recommended in the Dearing report. The report said that the committee should report by April next year on the framework for determining pay and conditions.
Alan Carr, AUT national executive member, said: "Nowhere is the work in Dearing more shoddy than in relation to pay. Instead of a clear-cut recognition of a pay review body we have a fudged recognition of an employer-appointed review committee. Our argument is not something that will go away."
The union says that academic pay has fallen so far behind professional equivalents that only a permanent PRB would be able to bridge the gap over the next few years.


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