PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2011-14 Head of the research team "Genetic, infertility and therapeutic" in the laboratory AGIM, CNRS FRE 3405. 2010	Senior Scientist at CNRS (DR). 1997-2010	Staff Scientist at CNRS (CR). Independent investigator on sperm physiology. 1994-1997 Postdoctoral Fellow, Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research, Massachusetts, USA (Supervisor Dr Harvey Florman). Laboratory animals Veterinary. In charge of animal wellfare and care in Grenoble animal facility since 15 years.
EDUCATION 1989	Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (VMD). University Claude Bernard; Lyon France. 1994	Ph.D. University Joseph Fourier; Grenoble France. 2003 Hability to direct research (HDR), University Joseph Fourier; Grenoble France.
My scientific interest focuses on gamete physiology, infertility due to sperm and oocyte deficiencies and drugs discovery to treat infertility. I have a particular interest in acrosome reaction, an exocytocic event mandatory for fertilization. This event is triggered by calcium and we characterized recently several phospholipases A2 involved in the process. Currently, we focus on the biogenesis of acrosome. Concerning infertility, we characterized several genes involved in male in female infertility using exomic sequencing and NGS like DPY19L2, DNAH1 or PLCZ1. The impact of such mutations on sperm epigenetic is assessed. I am also involved in Drug discovery in reproduction and manage a new lab in collaboration with IMV technology, an international company leader in animal reproduction and called LIPAV in Grenoble. The aim of this lab is to discover new drug able to improve bovine reproduction.


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I know James loves the track and played it all over asia on his tour here a few months ago.
I am really honored and greatly chuffed.


SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- TrueCar, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: TRUE) data and analytics subsidiary, ALG, projects total new vehicle sales will reach 1,268,141 units in February, down 2.6% from a year ago. This month's seasonally adjusted annualized rate (SAAR) for total light vehicle sales is an estimated 16.6 million units for the month. Excluding fleet sales, U.S. retail deliveries of new cars and light trucks should decrease 2.6% from a year ago to 1,001,149 units, yet up 9.8% from last month.
"The U.S. economy remains robust on many fronts, such as unemployment rate and consumer confidence, keeping vehicle sales at a healthy pace," said Oliver Strauss, Chief Economist for TrueCar's ALG. "Record snow and rainfall across the country, including the west coast, plus anxieties over tax refund size and the potential for another government shutdown contributed to the year-over-year decline."
Given the overall health of vehicle sales, ALG expects OEMs are pulling back on incentives while maintaining retail market share. Average incentive spending by automakers will reach an estimated $3,653 per vehicle in February down $30 or 0.8% from a year ago, and up 3.0% or $108 from January 2019.
ALG also assessed automaker brand health with its Retail Health Index (RHI). RHI strips away the impact of price cuts to show which OEMs are growing retail share due to increased consumer demand versus which are "buying" share through higher incentives.
"Hyundai and Volvo are validating their ALG Redesign of the Year awards with strong performances expected in the Retail Health Index, driven by the all new Santa Fe and S60 respectively," said Eric Lyman, Chief Industry Analyst for TrueCar's ALG. "Both brands are in the midst of a product renaissance showcasing stylish designs in new segments, especially utilities, which continue to resonate with new vehicle shoppers."
ALG also evaluates average transaction price (ATP) as an indicator for its Retail Health Index. For February, ALG estimates ATP for new light vehicles was $34,565, up 3.0% from a year ago while incentives as a percentage of ATP was at 10.6% down 3.7% year-over-year.


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Giuseppe Tasca Lanza, né à Palerme le , mort dans la même ville le , est un homme politique italien.

Noble et propriétaire d'importants vignobles en Sicile, il député puis sénateur, et est élu maire de Palerme pour la première fois en 1901 et réélu deux autres fois en six ans.

Biographie

Famille
Guiseppe Tasca Lanza est le deuxième enfant de Lucio Tasca, comte d'Almerita et sénateur de Royaume d'Italie, et de Beatrice Lanza Branciforte. Son frère, Lucio, prince de Cutò, est le père d'Alessandro Tasca Filingeri et de Giulia qui épouse Romualdo Trigona, élu maire de Palerme en 1909. Sa sœur, Rosa, mariée à Francesco Lanza e Spinelli, est le mère de Giuseppe Lanza di Scalea, maire de Palerme entre 1920 et 1924.

Giuseppe Tasca Lanza épouse Anetta Bordonaro Chiaromonte, qui donne naissance à Alessandro, Paolo, Lucio (maire de Palerme en 1943), Ottavio (mort lors des combats de la Première Guerre mondiale), et Giuseppe.

Activités professionnelles
Il étudie la chimie chez lui sans obtenir aucun diplôme mais occupera un poste d'assistant du professeur Emanuele Paternò à l'Université de Palerme. Jusqu'à sa mort, il reste proche de Paterno qui le précède à la tête de Palerme et au Sénat.

Il gère les vignobles familiaux situées dans la région de Valledolmo (Regaleali) et la périphérie de Palerme (villa Camastra, plus tard villa Tasca).

Vie publique
Il participe aux élections municipales de Palerme entre 1870 et 1890 parmi les forces démocratiques. Il est conseiller municipal et adjoint.

Le 10 décembre 1890, il est élu député à la Chambre par le collège de Termini Imerese et celui de Palermo III, privilégiant le premier. Il est réélu en 1892 par le collège de Cefalù et siège jusqu'en 1895, puis par celui de Canicattì en 1897. Il prend notamment la parole en faveur du projet de loi contre « le frelatage et le raffinement des vins ».

Fort du prestige de son nom et de son réseau politique, Giuseppe Tasca Lanza est élu maire de Palerme une première fois du 2 juin au 28 décembre 1901. Mais le scandale éclate lorsque la Commission d'enquête, mandatée par le Prince de Camporeale, son prédécesseur, critique le choix d'avoir du maire d'avoir choisi certains conseillers. La junte démissionne laissant place au commissaire Pietro Veyrat (Grenoble 1842-Oneille 1907) jusqu'à sa réélection pour un nouveau mandat, du 18 avril 1902 au 25 décembre 1903 et un troisième, du 14 mars 1906 au 10 juillet 1907. Il est par ailleurs conseiller provincial de Palerme.

A la tête de la ville, il municipalise le cimetière, décide de la construction du « grand moulin » municipal dont le roi d'Italie pose la première pierre, réglemente les prix alimentaires contre la spéculation, favorise la construction de nouvelles routes, crée la compagnie municipale de gaz et propose des repas dans les écoles élémentaires.

Il est nommé sénateur le 25 novembre 1902, au titre de ses trois législatures comme député. Il prête serment le 9 février 1903 et dépose aussitôt une proposition de loi contre l'usure.

Il est également Président du Mont de Piété de Palerme durant 10 ans, administrateur de l'hôpital de Palerme et de l'hospice marin de Palerme et membre de la Société sicilienne des agrumes (1885) et de la Société sicilienne d'histoire nationale. Il crée et finance plusieurs associations d'entraide entre ouvriers et industriels.

Décorations

 Commandeur de l'Ordre des Saints-Maurice-et-Lazare : 5 janvier 1904

 Grand Cordon de l'Ordre de la Couronne d'Italie : 1912

Hommages
L'hôtel de ville de Palerme abrite un buste de Giuseppe Tasca Lanza sculpté par Antonio Ugo.

Une rue de la ville porte son nom, près du Corso Calatafimi et de Viale Regione Siciliana.

Notes et références

Article connexe
 Liste des maires de Palerme

Liens externes

Maire de Palerme
Décès à Palerme
Naissance à Palerme
Décès en décembre 1917
Naissance en juin 1849
Personnalité politique italienne du XXe siècle
Personnalité italienne de la viticulture
Décès à 68 ans

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Trump: Big Tech Is Waging War on Free Enterprise, Expression
By John Eggerton
Encourages state AGs to use their power to rein in social media
(Image credit: Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
President Donald Trump told Republican state attorneys general Wednesday (Sept. 23) that the First Amendment needs protecting from "censorship, cancel culture, and consumer abuses inflicted by Big Tech companies," companies he suggested were waging war on free enterprise and free expression.
The President issued an executive order in May in an effort to regulate social media over allegations of systematic censorship of conservative speech. It included a directive that the Department of Justice work with state attorneys general to "combat deceptive and misleading online practices."
Related: Trump Tackles the Edge
The White House meeting and a meeting between Attorney General Bill Barr and the AGs on Thursday (Sept. 24) are responsive to that.
Among those also at the meeting were Barr and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), one of Big Tech's biggest critics and a former Republican attorney general.
The President painted a picture of tech companies as a cabal casting a dark shadow on landscape. "In recent years, a small group of powerful technology platforms have tightened their grip over commerce and communications in America," he said. "They've used this power to engage in unscrupulous business practices while simultaneously waging war on free enterprise and free expression."
He blamed the "radical left" for pushing the platforms to abuse their users run roughshod over diverse political views.
Related: Trump Administration Unveils Legislation to Regulate Social Media
It was not long after Twitter labeled/restricted the President's tweets on mail-in ballots and protests that his executive order directed at curtailing social media's legal immunity for moderation of third party content was issued.
He invoked that Twitter smackdown in the Wednesday meeting, according to a read-out supplied by the White House. "Twitter routinely restricts posts expressing conservative views, even from a President of the United States, while at the same time it allows Iran's Supreme Leader to freely spew vile, anti-Semitic hate and even death threats," said Trump.
He claimed that "countless" Americans had been "banned, blacklisted and silenced" through Big Tech's arbitrary and malicious enforcement.
The President even tied his critique to the bipartisan concern over data privacy. "Some platforms exploit their power, acquire vast sums of personal data without consent, or rig their terms of service to coerce, mislead, or defraud," he said. "And we've seen it so many times," he added, though he did not provide examples.
Attorney General Bill Barr pointed out that Justice had just sent draft legislation to Congress on how the Section 230 civil liability immunity provision could be "reformed."
"[O]nline platforms play a vital role in our society," he said. "Nearly everyone relies on platforms now for -- on a daily basis -- to communicate, to share private information, buy goods, receive news and information. And we've grown to depend on it, and necessarily, we've had to put our trust in these platforms. But these platforms can abuse those positions of trust, whether by deciding which voices they're going to amplify and which they're going to throttle."
He also slammed Big Tech for "improperly tracking and collecting user data and even facilitating criminal activity."
Barr suggested that even before Section 230 is reformed, AGs can use their own state laws against social media platforms they conclude are misleading users.
John Eggerton
Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.
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L'Explorateur est une marque commerciale apposée sur une série de 4 fromages de lait de vache fabriqués par Société Fromagère de la Brie, une laiterie industrielle établie à Saint-Siméon en Seine-et-Marne.

Historique de marque commerciale
Cette marque a été inventée en 1958.

Méthodes d'obtention
Les procédés de fabrication sont de type industriels: cette entreprise achète les laits crus réfrigérés aux agriculteurs. Ils peuvent provenir de cheptels désaisonnés ou pas. À la réception, ils sont pasteurisés puis ensemencés avec des ferments lactiques de culture et transformés en caillé par emprésurage.

Son affinage dure 4 à 6 semaines.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Marque de fromage en France
Fromage au lait pasteurisé
Fromage industriel
Fromage au lait de vache
Fromage de Seine-et-Marne


The third Thursday of November is almost here which means it's time for the Great American Smokeout! It doesn't matter whether you smoke or use some other form of tobacco, giving it up for one day could be the beginning of your quit for good.
They say numbers don't lie, but when it comes to smoking, they don't tell the entire truth either. In 1976, when the first Great American Smokeout took place in California, roughly 36% of Americans smoked (41.9% males, 32.0% females). Over the years that number dropped and by 2015 it was at 15.1%. While the percentage is much lower than the 1976 number, actual numbers means more than 36 million adults in the U.S. are still lighting up. And this doesn't even include smokeless tobacco.
Did you know 7 out of 10 smokers want to quit smoking. According to information from the Ontario Tobacco Survey, the average attempts to quit per person was about 2.7, while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests 8 to 11 attempts. Whether it takes you one attempt or several, just remember, what works for one person may not work for another. Keep experimenting to find what works best for you.
If you are not sure where to begin, start by calling your state quitline at 1-800-QUIT-NOW (1-800-784-8669) to learn more. Let your family and friends know about your decision so they can help. Get rid of the cigarettes, lighters, ashtrays and any other reminders around your house or car. Prepare ahead of time by having mints, bottled water, fresh fruit and veggies available if a craving hits. If you need another incentive, take the money you would have spent on tobacco and put it away every week. At the end of the year reward yourself for a job well done. You will be surprised at how much money you have.
Quitting is a big deal, but you are a big deal in the lives of so many people. You can do this! If you need additional help, click on the links below to start your quit journey.
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Field research has been one of the central and the most important element in the geography discipline since it was founded. At present, it is more appealing to conduct research throughout the world as the world is compelled to the process of ever shrinking nature - globalization. Availability of funding through international sources as well as increasing international cooperation has encouraged unprecedentedly the knowledge generation process compelling social scientists to be international in their research.
However, conducting researches in unfamiliar areas is challenging but not an impossible task once one understands socio-economic and cultural backgrounds of different areas. Language barrier comes to the top; however, it is inevitable in short term. Under this context, the lecture series is designed in such a way where students are opened to research in Asian continent, particularly the South Asia. The course is suitable for all students across faculties and departments who are willing to conduct research in Asia for their both under-graduate level studies and above in the hierarchy and even for prospective students planning for international level occupations.
Society is a lab for the social scientists to organize their research, collect and analyze data. Nevertheless, the course gives a cursory attention to the analysis part, as it is more or less strict and does not change across cultures. As given in the syllabus, students will be first equipped by providing an overview of cultural differences and the norms of societies in South Asia in view of helping to plan a research. The second, accounts of some great foreign researchers will be reviewed. Thirdly, various types of social research, such as surveys, case studies along with their tools will be discussed. In the practical part of the lessons, students will be given challenging but interesting tasks to get use to their knowledge and skills.


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By Marc Lawrence, PlaybookSports.com — Safe to say that Brian Flores of the Dolphins was the most surprising of the recent NFL firings. While it's difficult to justify the firing of a young head coach just three years into his contract, coming off consecutive winning seasons, the word has it that owner Stephen Ross wanted Flores to replace a handful of his assistant coaches and Flores refused to comply. In the end it's Ross's loss, as Flores will be roaming the NFL sidelines real soon. Remember, everyone counts…
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- compared with the reverse proxy + ssl cert solution, it's more decentralized.
Freedombox would actually help to solve this problem.
for instance, which are also not very human-memorable in themselves.
that onion or DNS URL, and remove complexity from the UI that way.


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Avatar: The Way of Water crosses $1 bn at global box office
James Cameron's latest has recorded the second biggest week for a Hollywood film in India.
Published: 30 Dec 2022 14:55:PM
James Cameron's 'Avatar 2: The Way of Water' which had a smashing opening at the box office continues to soar high in its second week. The movie made a new record with the biggest second week for any Hollywood film in India, beating 'Avengers Endgame' which previously held the record. (Photo credit: IMDb)
The movie which stars Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldaña has crossed the $1 billion (Rs 8200 crore) mark at the worldwide box office. (Photo credit: IMDb)
According to Variety, only three films achieved this feat this year. Apart from 'Avatar 2', 'Top Gun: Maverick' and 'Jurassic World Dominion', grossed $1 billion but after 30 days. Meanwhile the Cameron directorial which comes 13 years after the filmmaker's last film, 'Avatar', surpassed the milestone within two weeks since its release. (Photo credit: Instagram)
While Worthington and Saldana reprise their roles as Jake Sully and Neytiri, the sequel introduces newer additions to the franchise including Kate Winslet, Michelle Yeoh, and Vin Diesel, among others. (Photo credit: IMDb)
The sequel introduces viewers to the world of Pandora with Jake and Neytiri as parents. The synopsis of the film states: "Jake Sully and Ney'tiri have formed a family and are doing everything to stay together. However, they must leave their home and explore the regions of Pandora. When an ancient threat resurfaces, Jake must fight a difficult war against the humans." (Photo credit: IMDb)
James Cameron has announced that the franchise' remaining parts, Avatar 3 and 4 have been shot as well and are slated to premiere in 2024 and 2026 respectively. (Photo credit: IMDb)
Avatar director James Cameron spent an entire year writing script for The Way of Water, then threw it
James Cameron's Avatar smashes box office records globally with $30m in earnings
Avatar: The Way of Water trailer — James Cameron takes audience to the world of Pandora in an action-packed adventure


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Q: Do any of Microsoft Office for Mac packages offer inbuilt virtual printer? Apple's printing to PDF is an amazing, but I wonder if MS offers a virtual printer service to generate XPS. Please note that the question is specific to the Microsoft Office products, not printing to file in general on macOS.
As Windows users may know, Microsoft Office for Windows package often preinstalls (at least for legacy OSs) the virtual XPS printer driver allowing for "print-to-PDF"-like functionality.
Does any of Microsoft Office for Mac packages (whether old or current) offer inbuilt printing to XPS, PDF or anything else without using the macOS print to PDF feature?

A: Printing to PDF is a feature built-in to macOS and as such is not something that requires special support from each individual application like on Windows.
When you have Microsoft Office installed, you can click Print to open up the standard macOS print dialog. On the bottom left you'll find a drop-down button "PDF" that allows you to save to PDF, save to Postscript and sharing with various services including email.
You do not need to have any kind of "virtual XPS printer driver" installed for this to work.
There's no "virtual XPS printer driver" for Microsoft Office on Mac. The current Microsoft Office does not support saving or exporting to XPS.
As a format, XPS itself is also not supported by built-in macOS apps such as for example Preview.app for viewing. You can get a number of different third-party XPS viewers on the App Store though.

A: When doing my research, I stumbled this article on XPS on Library of Congress Website. The article describes XPS format, namely saying this,

The expectations for XPS as a fixed-layout document format for sharing with end users was less successful. Support for the XPS format was never integrated into Apple's operating systems. For Mac OS X 10.0, released in March 2001, Apple had chosen to develop its own code associated with PDF (based on PDF version 1.3 ...

Mac OS X came with the Preview application, which was a PDF Viewer, and users could print to PDF. See Mac OS X and PDF: The Real Story by Leonard Rosenthol. Although XPS viewers were developed for Mac OS X by third parties, there was little reason for Mac users to acquire them.

There is no indication either Apple or MS Office should ever give direct support to XPS printing

A: Yes, sort of.  Word for Mac can still produce XPS.  But not through the print dialogue.  You have to change the preferences on how to save files.
File→Print goes to the standard Mac print dialogue which offers to save as PDF or Postscript, but not XPS.
XPS also not available via Save as…

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/*
 * This file is part of Nucleus, licensed under the MIT License (MIT). See the LICENSE.txt file
 * at the root of this project for more details.
 */
package io.github.nucleuspowered.nucleus.core.services.impl.teleport;

import com.google.inject.Inject;
import com.google.inject.Singleton;
import io.github.nucleuspowered.nucleus.api.EventContexts;
import io.github.nucleuspowered.nucleus.api.teleport.data.NucleusTeleportHelperFilters;
import io.github.nucleuspowered.nucleus.api.teleport.data.TeleportResult;
import io.github.nucleuspowered.nucleus.api.teleport.data.TeleportScanner;
import io.github.nucleuspowered.nucleus.core.core.config.SafeTeleportConfig;
import io.github.nucleuspowered.nucleus.core.core.events.AboutToTeleportEvent;
import io.github.nucleuspowered.nucleus.core.services.INucleusServiceCollection;
import io.github.nucleuspowered.nucleus.core.services.interfaces.INucleusLocationService;
import io.github.nucleuspowered.nucleus.core.services.interfaces.IReloadableService;
import net.kyori.adventure.audience.Audience;
import org.spongepowered.api.Sponge;
import org.spongepowered.api.data.Keys;
import org.spongepowered.api.entity.living.player.gamemode.GameModes;
import org.spongepowered.api.entity.living.player.server.ServerPlayer;
import org.spongepowered.api.event.Cause;
import org.spongepowered.api.event.CauseStackManager;
import org.spongepowered.api.world.server.ServerLocation;
import org.spongepowered.api.world.border.WorldBorder;
import org.spongepowered.api.world.server.ServerWorld;
import org.spongepowered.api.world.teleport.TeleportHelper;
import org.spongepowered.api.world.teleport.TeleportHelperFilter;
import org.spongepowered.api.world.teleport.TeleportHelperFilters;
import org.spongepowered.math.vector.Vector3d;

import java.lang.ref.WeakReference;
import java.util.Optional;

@Singleton
public class SafeLocationService implements INucleusLocationService, IReloadableService.Reloadable {

    private static final BorderDisableSession DUMMY = new BorderDisableSession() {};
    private SafeTeleportConfig config = new SafeTeleportConfig();

    @Inject
    public SafeLocationService(final IReloadableService reloadable) {
        reloadable.registerReloadable(this);
    }

    @Override
    public TeleportResult teleportPlayerSmart(final ServerPlayer player,
            final ServerLocation location,
            final Vector3d rotation,
            final boolean centreBlock,
            final boolean safe,
            final TeleportScanner scanner) {
        return this.teleportPlayer(player,
                location,
                rotation,
                centreBlock,
                scanner,
                this.getAppropriateFilter(player,safe));
    }

    @Override
    public TeleportResult teleportPlayerSmart(final ServerPlayer player,
            final ServerLocation location,
            final boolean centreBlock,
            final boolean safe,
            final TeleportScanner scanner) {
        return this.teleportPlayer(player,
                location,
                player.rotation(),
                centreBlock,
                scanner,
                this.getAppropriateFilter(player, safe));
    }

    @Override
    public TeleportResult teleportPlayer(final ServerPlayer player,
            final ServerLocation location,
            final Vector3d rotation,
            final boolean centreBlock,
            final TeleportScanner scanner,
            final TeleportHelperFilter filter,
            final TeleportHelperFilter... filters) {

        final Optional<ServerLocation> optionalWorldTransform = this.getSafeLocation(
                location,
                scanner,
                filter,
                filters
        );

        final Cause cause = Sponge.server().causeStackManager().currentCause();
        if (optionalWorldTransform.isPresent()) {
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                    cause,
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                // TODO? oe.ifPresent(player::setVehicle);
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            final ServerLocation location,
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            final TeleportHelperFilter filter,
            final TeleportHelperFilter... filters) {
        return scanner.scanFrom(
                location.world(),
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                TeleportHelper.DEFAULT_FLOOR_CHECK_DISTANCE,
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Secrets: August-July
Our regular page revealing a trio of lesser- known stories from EC1.
1. SLOUGH HOUSE
In real life, spies are based in the imposing MI6 building in Vauxhall. But fictional spooks tend to have less conspicuous headquarters. John le Carré's George Smiley operated out of the "The Circus" in Cambridge Circus. Universal Exports, the cover for James Bond, was tucked away near Regent's Park.
Now the secret agents have arrived in Clerkenwell – although they're not exactly the best of the best. Slough House is the fictional HQ in Mick Herron's thrillers, which are being adapted for TV. Based near Barbican tube, it's an MI5 dumping ground for members of the Security Service who've messed up. Exiled to Aldersgate Street, EC1, the hope is these misfits will resign and go quietly. Herron's books – including Slow Horses, Real Tigers and Spook Street – feature the slobby Jackson Lamb. He's a slightly comical character, although he also has to save the day. If you're intrigued by espionage in EC1, head to Furnival Street. The Chancery Lane deep-level shelter was a network of tunnels controlled by the Inter Services Research Bureau branch of MI6 during the war. It was later a telephone exchange, though may have housed a secret MoD war bunker in the Eighties. The tunnels are now decommissioned – the only clue is a non- descript fire exit.
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2. THE BIRD
'The Bird of Lincoln's Inn' was a largely forgotten London haunting – that is, until the mystery was recently investigated by The Fortean Times. Lincoln's Inn is associated with the legal profession, of course, so it's no surprise that two victims of the spectral bird were barristers. But the first was a poet, Lionel Johnson. He's best known for his work "The Dark Angel" (1893). A premonition, perhaps?
On 16 May, 1901, a pair of Daily Mail journalists provided the main account. After Johnson fled in terror, they were tipped off and staked out the rooms at 8 New Square overnight. Within an hour, doors started opening and slamming by themselves. By 2.45am, the ghosthunters had had enough. When they left, they discovered claw marks in the chalk dust they had scattered on the floor. In 1913, the feathered fiend struck again – and this time two young lawyers died in separate incidents. They were found with large claw marks on their arms and neck. Witnesses described a man "fighting a shadowy bird-like creature". The Fortean Times speculates that the vengeful spirit may have something to do with the area's grisly history of executions. But the 'Bird' has been quiet for the last century – now it's just pigeons at Lincoln's Inn.
3. ROSETTA STONE
This issue, we've featured the Mail Rail, the underground postal service that ran for nearly 80 years from Mount Pleasant to other sorting offices all over London. The network wasn't used just for moving post, however. During the First World War, it came in handy for something else – hiding the nation's precious artworks and treasures. Luckily, work on the tunnels had already started by 1914 and was completed in 1917. Then everything came to a halt, as the war effort meant materials were scarce.
It took until 1927 for the first letters to roll down the tracks but in the meantime, some bright spark in the War Office had the genius idea of using the empty tunnels as a safe for "our valuables". Among them was one of the most famous objects from the British Museum, the Rosetta Stone, an Egyptian carving from 196BC (found in 1799 in a town called Rosetta). It's so significant because, thanks to it being written in three different scripts, it enabled us – finally – to decipher hieroglyphics. The stone basically brags about the pharaoh's great achievements. No such thing for our leaders these days, hem...
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1. PATSY ADAMSLast issue, we reported on gangster film The Hatton Garden Job, based on EC1's deposit- box heist. It's reported that the notorious Adams family was involved – brothers Terry (the boss),...
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"I disapprove of what you say, and I have a backend algorithm that will fix that!" Voltaire/2016
OK, so Voltaire actually said something ever-so-slightly different, but he might have put it this way in the 21st Century, right?
Times change. Somebody has to put an end to the internet free-for-all and return the world to the way the media barons of the 20th Century understood it.
"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one," the journalist A.J. Liebling observed in The New Yorker in May of 1960. Little could he know that within 50 years the internet would be everywhere and every chattering squirrel would be screaming to be heard.
One could almost go deaf from the cacophony, and some of those squirrels aren't very damn nice.
Alaska's largest news organization — the Alaska Dispatch News — today announced it has a fix. It's going to try to bring peace by employing some version of HAL 9000 to censor out the trolls, the goons, the buffoons, the demented squirrels, the Theresa Obermeyers, the other children, and whoever or whatever Hal and his algorithm and Hal's "community" decide isn't right and proper.
Don't read this to mean I'm some Luddite skeptical of computer solutions to human problems. I'm not, although, admittedly, I'm no computer geek either. My future as a scientist sort of came to an end in Calc IV when it finally become clear I was more a word guy than a numbers guy.
But I love technology. Technology is our friend when it works.
The "when it works" part can present problems. There remain a few things that good, old-fashioned humans can do better than computers. Thus the reference to the HAL 9000 made famous in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey:
"Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye."
Or, as the new Hal, "Christa from Civil," the entity in the tubes claiming to be the designer of the new comment-filtering software at ADN.com, put it in comments appearing there:
"…Christa from Civil here. This is a common concern when people first hear about our system! But we've built our it (sic) to facilitate real, spirited debate, and to avoid echo chambers.
"We designed the user-facing side of the application to encourage fairness, and the algorithms on the backend to prevent the kind of bias you're talking about."
"The algorithms on the backend…." It sounds almost pornographic, doesn't it?
Think how much cooler it would be if ADN had simply said "Christa2016 is in the tubes poised to kill bad comments, so be warned." And then rigged the system so the authors of bad comments got a voice response (preferably using Hal's voice) that said "Tom, Dick, Harry, Susie, or whoever, your comment can serve no purpose here. Goodbye."
Or better yet, what if ADN could somehow find software that electrically shocked the keyboard of anyone registering what editor David Hulen considers an uncivil comment?
I do sympathize with ADN's comment problem. The trash talking in the comments has been going on for a long, long time. I worked at the old ADN before it became the new ADN and remember Debra McKinney, a wonderful and sensitive features writer, fretting about the problem forever in the years before her departure.
This was back when comments were anonymous, and the New York Times and many other news sites were pushing to make people identify themselves in the belief they would then act more civil. Many, maybe most, media eventually began requiring people to post using Facebook accounts that identified them. If there was a change in manners, it didn't last long.
McKinney was a writer with soft spot for down-and-out Alaskans and often worried about how they might be savaged in the newspaper's online comments section if she wrote about them. She might even have spiked a few stories for fear of the beat-down that might be put on the subjects.
Nobody, strangely enough, ever seemed to share this concern for people accused of crimes, though some of them might actually have been innocent. Can you say "Fairbanks Four?"
Personally, as someone trashed in the comments section of the ADN more than most, I learned to let the vitriol roll off and took to heart the words of Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart: "Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime."
Or an authoritarian news organization.
What we've got here today in response to comments are really just varying degrees of spin on what Liebling observed 56 years ago. You could almost sum it this way: "Freedom of the web is guaranteed only to those who own a website."
Some news organizations have turned off comments and gone fully back to the newspaper position of Liebling's day. Others, like the ADN, are trying to find a way to control the discussion because they want the "traffic." They need viewer numbers to try to solicit advertising to keep themselves alive. If it were me, I'd tell the reporters to moderate the comments on their stories, but that scares the bejesus out of the people in charge because they don't think reporters are objective enough to do that.
Chew on that idea for a while.
It's probably a little unfair to talk about trying to "control" the discussion, too. It's not quite like that. As Hulen described it in a column, it's about an algorithm analyzing reviews from the collective in order to identify and reject troublesome individuals. Those of you who grew up in dysfunctional small towns can panic right now. The collective doesn't always turn out to be the nirvana it's promised to be as the residents of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics learned all too well.
Don't get me wrong. I think we should all try to keep our discussions civil and respectful whether they happen around the dinner table, in a bar, or on the internet. But I came of age in the Vietnam War era when debate was sometimes of necessity neither civil nor decent.
We might still be mired in Southeast Asia if Americans had followed the lead of those who wanted everyone to listen to the people in charge and play nice.
"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind," Gen. William Westmoreland, the chief U.S. commander in Vietnam observed at the time.
They most certainly can. Sadly, democracy is fragile and seems to survive best somewhere near the edge of chaos. Better to have a good idea expressed badly (even in a less than civil manner) than to have lots of bad ideas repeated over and over in the nicest of ways. And despite the claims about "real, spirited debate," the rating system the ADN is employing seems basically aimed at killing outliers.
Outliers, unfortunately, are the strength of democracy. As a much better military commander than Westmoreland — Gen. George S. Patton — once observed:
"If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
I used to work at the now-extinct Anchorage Daily News. Over the years, it became the most godawful "group-think" operation you could imagine. As another reporter there observed in the midst of a diversity drive sponsored by The McClatchy Company, which then owned the newspaper, "yeah, what they want are some people of color who think just like they do."
Being an agnostic leaning toward being an atheist, I suggested to one editor that if the newspaper really wanted diversity maybe it should hire a reporter who was a fundamentalist Christian. The suggestion was not well received.
Maybe I know some of the players at the ADN too well not to worry about how a filter on comments could be used. History could have left me biased. Imagine that? A reporter contemplating the possibility of his own bias?
I left the Daily News, of course, and ended up at the little internet startup AlaskaDispatch.com where diversity of opinions was the order of the day. AlaskaDispatch.com later bought the Daily News, became the Alaska Dispatch News, and put some the people who'd been running the Daily News back in charge.
They have a different attitude than the folks who were at Dispatch, but let's accept that their goal with CIVIL2016 is solely to screen out the trolls and the dicks. Maybe it will work. I hope it does. I can't know that it won't. No one can predict the future. We can only revisit the past.
The journalistic past in this country was pretty vile. In "Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism," author Eric Burns describes the business as "partisan, fabricated, overheated, scandalous, sensationalistic and sometimes stirring, brilliant, and indispensable. Despite its flaws–even because of some of them–the participants hashed out publicly the issues that would lead America to declare its independence and, after the war, to determine what sort of nation it would be."
The press at the time belonged to the masses much as the internet does today. It didn't take much money to cobble together a printing press in Thomas Jefferson's day. It would be a long time before offset printing was invented and the cost to print "news" on ever prettier newspapers began to price some of the scribblers out of the market.
Then, too, there came the Associated Press with a great marketing idea: objectivity!
The smartest newspaper publishers of the late 1800s were quick to grab onto objectivity as a business model. If they could convince people they owned the "objective" newspaper that was "fair and balanced," why would anyone need to buy more than one?
The death of newspapers and the rise of one-newspaper towns was destined to follow. It is unclear what city became the first with a lone newspaper, but Anchorage joined the phenomenon in 1992 when The Anchorage Times, the city's once dominant evening newspaper, closed its doors.
For more than a decade after, the McClatchy-owned Daily News had a license to print money by selling "fair and balanced" news (Apologies here to Fox News which once tried to trademark that phrase) that wasn't always fair and balanced.
The observation is not meant as a criticism of the old ADN. Fair and balanced is a lofty goal, and a hard one to meet. The standard is subject to all sorts of interpretations. It is why the "news," like the law, is imperfect, and why judgement of any sort is not easily replaced with an "algorithm on the backend."
And make no doubt about this, every time that "algorithm on the backend" kills a comment, it is making a judgment. It might be a simple judgment on something about which we can all agree, say eliminating spam trying to bait someone into finding out how he can make $100 an hour working from home.
It might even be a judgment that spikes an internet troll. Wahoo!
Then again, it might take out a comment that exists in that grey area between troll and insight. Therein exists a bigger grey than most people might think.
During my now too many years in journalism, I've made it something of a practice to try to interact with people who attack me or my reporting online. A lot of them, as it turned out, were more reasonable than they sounded in type. Imagine that.
More than a few of them made good points about what might be wrong with what I'd written. Too many, it was clear, had over-reacted on the keyboard. They suffered from the now common problem of hitting the "send" key before thoroughly reading the words in the message.
Can the computer that allows one to so easily make that mistake somehow fix it? ADN apparently thinks so. I confess to a little skepticism. Maybe it's tied to that ADN fixation on trying to make the world "civil and decent," which sometimes seems to translates into "not exactly honest."
Sort of like when a woman asks her husband, "does this dress make me look fat?" And he gives the civil and decent answer that "no, you look great" while actually thinking "please, please don't wear that dress."
Do I wish ADN luck with their plan? Yes. Am I uncomfortable with it? Yes. Could an "algorithm on the backend" be tweaked to achieve goals other than those stated by the ADN?
Ask the engineers at Volkswagen who tweaked the software in the company's diesel engines to filer out bad CO2 numbers during emissions tests.
Let's be real. This is the Photoshop Age. The Brave New World has arrived. The news can't be trusted because it can't be trusted. All of the news. This is not some ADN specific issue.
The majority of your news is generated by the modern-day prophets of propaganda — government spokespeople, public relations experts, marketing mavens, etc. And some of your news is written by people with agendas. And too much of your news is processed by people who know little, sometimes nothing, about the subject matter.
Media in some ways now needs comment because the reporting cataloged in the comments is sometimes better than the reporting in the story.
So it's a good thing ADN is keeping the comments. And if they're friendlier going forward, well, let's all hug. Then we can get together to go watch the ADN's other new computer product — WONDERFULUS2016 — churn out all the online comments about how incredible the new algorithm on the backend.
OK, that last line was satire. It was a joke. Don't be firing off angry missives. I couldn't help myself, because what the media needs today a lot more than a comment filter is a sense of humor.
This whole essay, for that matter, might have been a joke. The internet is something rapidly and constantly evolving. Some new forum designed solely for people to argue among themselves — say letsargue.com or foodfightAK.com — could pop up tomorrow to provide people a forum to go at it with all the vitriol they want.
Nobody knows what could happen, and I probably know less than others. I stopped reading ADN comments when I left the newspaper. They just weren't very interesting. There was usually the same small group of people going at it with the same views all the time. They actually seemed to get their pleasure out of calling each other names.
Maybe the new policy will change that. Maybe it will just deny those people their pleasures. I probably won't be reading either way. Because most likely, the new policy will be the old policy with the same small group of people going at it all the time with the same views expressed in a nicer manner.
The only tragic thing would be if the system eliminates the rare, visiting outlier who actually contributes something to the discussion because he or she is a visitor and not a "trusted" commenter.
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Art Chance says:
I'm one of the people "the community" at Pravda, excuse me, The Dispatch didn't like. "The Community" at the ADN simply will not tolerate any voice that isn't in lockstep with the Left. If you state any opinion they don't like they attack and insult you. If you don't reciprocate, you can stay on the board for awhile but you just wind up playing the straight man to lefties trying to show you that lefty and smart are synonyms. I and two or three others gave as good as we took and the delicate snowflakes complained to ADN. I have a long way to go before I've addressed a lefty as a stupid lefty punk as many times as I've been called a teabagger – yes conservatives do know what they mean by it, a Neanderthal, a troglodyte, a knuckledragger, and all the terms of endearment that lefties seem to think are just statements of fact rather than insults. I had a lovely conversation with Hulen when he contacted me about "the community's" concerns. I tried some exchange of ideas with him and was respectful and unaggressive, but it became clear that this was going nowhere and the conversation ended with my giving him the two word speech and signing off. When they announced the new scheme someone from the ADN contacted me and asked me to go through the sign-in process and become a commenter again, but I haven't and won't. I know how this works. In Juneau the lefties even had a phone tree and anytime somebody said something they didn't like or someone they didn't like made a comment, that would be just about any Republican, the "Empire" report abuse icon would light up and the comment would soon be gone and if the poster were foolish enough to try to continue posting in "The Empire" the poster would soon be gone altogether. And people in Juneau wonder why most Republican political figures hate Juneau. Anyway, ADN can't resist the clicks that Facebook gives it so most of their stuff will show up one way or another on Facebook and people can have a free-for-all on their tripe. As confrontational as I have been at times, the only time I've ever gotten cross-threaded with the very PC Facebook was one time that really was a misunderstanding that got my account suspended for three days. I ran out of names and email addresses to get banned under with the old Daily News and the Juneau Empire. In the Dispatch, I always posted under my real name. So, anyway, you're being too gracious; the Dispatch is just trying to provide "safe space" for delicate little lefty snowflakes.
craigmedred says:
Art — i plead guilty to "too gracious," a rare form of behavior for me. i would also note you can be a little prickly, sometimes maybe even even extra prickly. that said, i frankly never understood the flaming ADN-comment wars. comments there invariably seemed to disintegrate into spite and name calling. i've had a lot of pretty intense exchanges on Facebook that never came off the rails like so many things did over at ADN. ADN comments just seemed to bring out the worst in people. even when things started off OK, they'd sort of spiral downhill into "you're an assshole;" "no, you're an asshole;" "no you're an asshole;" ad infinitum. i wish CIVIL2016 luck, though after Microsoft's massive fail with chat-bot Tay (http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/25/technology/microsoft-sorry-tay/index.html), i'm a little skeptical. it will be an interesting experiment. as an outside observer, the new system just appears to be a time-consuming pain in the butt. who has the time to be ranking other comments just to add a few throwaway lines to a discussion? i am sorry you had a less than rewarding experience with Mr. Hulen. he is a fellow who truly likes to believe himself a fair and decent guy, and i think that is what he truly wants to be. it's just sometimes hard to truly walk the fair and decent line without upsetting your peer group. i can see where a discussion between the two of you might have gone, as you say, "nowhere."
Lela Criswell says:
The worst problem with ADN comments recently has been the countless posts touting working from home to make $$$$$$ per month, posted in response to stories about alcohol abuse or Iditarod or Alaska climate or anything else. One couldn't accuse them of being uncivil, just totally irrelevant to either the article or the discussion. There have been so many they made it impossible to read the actual comments by real people interested in the article or discussion. From what you say, the new system will not deal any better with these than the old one did.
and that, Lela Criswell, sounds like a problem one could change a minimum wage school kid to fix better than a 'puter.
Pidace says:
Thanks for your good since of humor. Nice artical keep up the good works Sir.
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Now, it seems, the slow unpeeling of the George Harrison archive is beginning.
Designed to accompany the Martin Scorsese documentary boxed set, Early Takes Vol. 1 – even the title sounds like a bootleg – is a collection of ten demos, six of which ended up on All Things Must Pass, two glorious covers (Dylan's "Mama You've Been On My Mind", which Harrison had played during the Let It Be sessions, and the Everlys' "Let It Be Me") and two songs saved for later albums, "The Light That has Lighted The World" and "Woman Don't You Cry For Me".
All of them – except, arguably, "My Sweet Lord" – benefit from these spartan, bandless versions, as Harrison brings a delicacy to the material that Phil Spector, for one, chose not to. This is a delightful and charming addition to the original body of George's work, which highlights the quality of his songwriting and presents the material in a fresh light.
Sadly, it's unclear why quality has not been matched by quantity; those of us growing up in the 1970s who thought George's Beatle/solo greatest hits was short weight will be nostalgically jolted back in time when they realise that this collection barely makes it past the 30 minute mark.


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Il London Astoria, noto anche come Astoria Theatre, era una sala concerti di Londra situata al numero 157 di Charing Cross Road. Aperta nel 1976, fu chiusa il 15 gennaio 2009 e poi demolita. L'edificio ha ospitato numerose band di successo quando ancora erano agli esordi della loro carriera.

Già magazzino negli anni venti, il palazzo divenne poi un cinema e una sala da ballo. Negli anni settanta fu convertito in teatro. Alla metà degli anni ottanta riaprì come night club, locale di musica dal vivo e ritrovo della comunità LGBT. Era collegato con l'Astoria 2.

Nel 2009, malgrado numerose proteste dato che si trattava della più grande sala concerti di central London, il luogo chiuse per fare spazio al progetto del Crossrail, la linea ferroviaria rapida londinese che metterà in comunicazione la zona orientale con la zona occidentale della città.

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Posted on October 24, 2017 at 12:00 am by watchdog
The former Commissioner for Works and Transport and Director General, Women Support for Youth Project, Chief Mrs. Josephine Udorji, has berated the detractors of the Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, urging them to have a rethink and support the Governor to attract more foreign investors to develop the state.
Chief Mrs. Udorji gave the advices in Owerri while reacting to scathing remarks against the Governor's erreation of a statue of the South African President as what she described as some frivolous and unfounded falsehood publications in some Imo based newspapers by some hirelings of the opposition party against the visit of the President of the Republic of South Africa, Jacob Zuma recently.
Udorji while reacting to the scathing remarks by the opposition descended heavily on those propelling the negative criticisms against the visit, statue and chieftaincy title conferred on him by the Imo state Council of Traditional Rulers Chairman, HRM Eze Samuel Ohiri as Ochiagha of Igbo land to the South African President, Jacob Zuma, as people of low morale with the singular intention to keep the state in the dark whereas, Governor Okorocha is a light that has conquered the darkness which has befallen Imo state in the past.
She maintained that "instead of giving the governor the necessary support to enable him attract more meaningful development to the state, the perceived political opponents of Okorocha and seeming state detractors are eager in their action of pull him down". She envisaged that the negative action to the opposition would not deter the Governor from his good intention and passion to develop the state.
According to her, the recent visit of the President of the Republic of South Africa, Jacob Zuma and Ghanaian President John Akufo Ado, has not only placed Imo higher but has proved that the Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, is a man with foresight, who if given an opportunity to become the President of Nigeria would ensure that Nigeria remains the fulcrum and centre piece of African foreign policy as well help to make African continent a one united and indivisible peaceful entity.
In her words, "the wrong and unassuming quotation of the amount of money used to build the statue by the uninformed elements without consulting the Sculptural Artists that erected the structure is not only meant to sabotage but also to incite Imo people against Governor Okorocha who has done so well in Imo state". Moreover, the statues at the Imo state hall of fame centre are not only that of President Zuma but others including some statues of Igbo eminent personalities such as the former Vice President Dr. Alex Ekwueme whose recognition in the state does not attract any applause as the only state in the South East to honour one of theirs.
It could be recalled that President Jacob Zuma was amongst the few South African freedom fighters alongside Nelson Mandela who also spent 10 years in the prison in his struggle to liberate the blacks in South Africa. His visit to Imo state is significant and historical and as such will lift the economic base of the state with South African companies taking over the management of Imo International Cargo Airport as well as helping to actualize the Governor's vision in ensuring qualitative free education to indigent and vulnerable children across African continent through the partnership of Rochas foundation college of Africa and Zuma foundation, respectively.
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R.I.P. Linda Cristal, the Golden Globe-winning star of The High Chaparral
The Argentinian actress was 89.
June 30, 2020, 8:56AM By MeTV Staff
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In 1964, Linda Cristal walked away from acting. She had no shortage of movie roles. The brunette beauty had appeared in a string of period pictures and Westerns, films made in America, Mexico and Italy. She was Cleopatra in Legions of the Nile (1959) and sporting sandals again in the Ancient Egyptian epic The Pharaohs' Woman (1960). Two Rode Together (1961) cast her alongside Jimmy Stewart in a John Ford cowboy movie. On the small screen, Clint Eastwood came to her aide in the Rawhide episode "Incident of a Burst of Evil."
But at the age of 33, the Argentinian actress was willing to leave it all behind to raise her children.
Cristal selectively took only bit roles here and there. In 1964, she appeared in an episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, "The City Beneath the Sea." Yet a juicy role lured her back into full-time work. In 1967, David Dortort, creator of the smash series Bonanza, had a new Western ready for the airwave — The High Chaparral. The show cast Cristal as Victoria Cannon, the young wife of rancher "Big John" Cannon (Leif Erickson).
Cristal, born Marta Victoria Moya Burges, had been raised in South America. When she was a child, her family fled from Argentina and relocated to Montevideo, Uruguay. Her acting career began in the Argentinian and Mexican film industries before the American oater Comanche (1956) gave her a Hollywood breakthrough.
The Everett CollectionCristal as Victoria Cannon
The High Chaparral brought Cristal acclaim. She was nominated for two Golden Globes for her role as Victoria — winning one for Best Actress - Television Drama in 1968. She was no stranger to the trophy. A decade earlier, she had taken home the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year in The Perfect Furlough (1958). She garnered two Emmy nominations, as well.
Following The High Chaparral, Cristal did retreat a bit from the spotlight. She was a judge alongside Robert Evans in the 1977 Miss Universe pageant. She popped up on The Love Boat.
On June 27, Cristal died at her home in Beverly Hills, according to The Hollywood Reporter. She was 89.
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RandallLloyd 29 months ago
Dawgs!
Callsign 30 months ago
I always admired her work on High Chaparral. In fact all of the protagonists on that show were admirable, but most of all Victoria. Victoria Cannon displayed all of the virtues a man could ever dream of in a mate. Strong willed but reasonable, quick witted, fair and loyal. Her obvious loyalty shone through in every episode and rather than diminish her characters strength and independence only fortified her importance. John and Victoria made quite a team.
dujon55 31 months ago
Linda Cristsl so beautiful and talented. One of the first Latina actress with a powerful and dignified role in television RIP
savoycheer 31 months ago
High Chaparral was a western of high quality. Linda Cristal was a beautiful woman and an outstanding actress. She will be missed.
pebbles1953 31 months ago
Hi grew up with Bonanza.
MarkSpeck 31 months ago
Just so you know...her last name is not pronounced like Billy Crystal, but rather 'Cree-STAHL'. This is according to Hank Simms, who announced her name at the beginning of a Barnaby Jones episode. One of quite a few actors' names I learned how to pronounce from watching old QM shows.
"On the small screen, Clint Eastwood came to her aide in the Rawhide episode 'Incident of a Burst of Evil.'"
Came to her AID, not aide.
brayleyk911 31 months ago
Oh No,i'm so sad to hear this,i loved her on High Chaparral R.I.P. Linda you were a Great Actress,you will be missed
Muleskinner 31 months ago
She was also in John Wayne's 1960 movie "The Alamo."
classy lady
Callsign RkBke 30 months ago
Sooner 31 months ago
She was stunningly beautiful.
lrivera 31 months ago
RIP Linda in that High Chaparral up in Heaven.
kimmer 31 months ago
Condolences and Blessings.
Barry22 31 months ago
DIGGER1 31 months ago
R.I.P., Marta Victoria Moya "Linda Cristal" Burges.
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INDIANAPOLIS (Nov. 11) — Piqua High School, located since 1981 at 1 Indian Way, Piqua, on the Great Miami River in west central Ohio, brings a marching band to Lucas Oil Stadium for a preliminary performance at the Bands of America Grand National Championships.
The field show's theme focused on the number "2" and its property of being better than 1. Musical selections were works like "Waltz Number 2" from Dmitri Shostakovich's Jazz Suite Number 2, again focusing on the number "2." In addition to the Shostakovich, the band also presented its renditions of Howard Hanson's "Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G Major" and David Maslanka's short symphony for wind ensemble entitled "Give Us This Day."
The school serves about 900 students in grades 9 through 12, so the marching band isn't as large as, say, a Marian Catholic, Broken Arrow, or William Mason, which joined the festival from Mason, Ohio, put marchers on the field from end zone to end zone, and performed a band or two after Piqua during two crowded days of 99 preliminary performances.
But the smaller show was by no means any less creative and colorful. Pink flags came out at one point, and the design on them seemed to be made up of two 2s reflected on each other across a vertical axis in order to make the shape of a heart. The band also moved a few of the large white 2s on the field together like that to represent a heart shape, as the announcer mentioned how it "takes two to tango."
Following that, the blue silks came out at the end for a climactic finish following a waltz number, which band members seemed, based on facial expressions that gave character to the performance, to enjoy a great deal.
Piqua has been in the student news lately over its choice of mascot for the sports teams. The band is known as the Pride of Piqua, but the school's sports teams are known as the Piqua Indians. These days, after the changing of the mascot for the former Washington Redskins NFL team, attention is being paid to more than 1,200 schools in the US that refer to Native Americans in their logos or mascots.
"Town clings to racist Native American mascot that some find grossly offensive," said one headline in Youth Journalism International from April. But it might take the Cleveland Indians changing their mascot for anything to happen at the high school level in Ohio. Change like this often starts at the top.
But sports mascots notwithstanding, the band did the school and its community proud here today in central Indiana at the largest marching band stage in the country. Preliminary performances continue Friday, followed by a 7 AM-to-midnight day of semifinals and finals on Saturday.
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India has passed the half-way point in its chaotic elections where 814 million people are registered to vote. The last polling day is 12 May and results will be announced on 16 May.
One of the big questions is how the newly elected politicians will deliver on their campaign promises to tackle corruption. Too often those who speak up about corruption face reprisals and inaction.
Take Ruti, a 65-year-old widow who lives in Neori village. Home to just 218 people, the village is located in Jahrkhand, a state in eastern India. She is entitled to a widow's pension but until she received help from Transparency International India, the local authorities had done nothing to help her.
One day back in September 2012, Neori's population swelled to more than 2,500 when people from the region poured into the village to attend a help day on corruption in daily life, organised by our national chapter and local law students.
People spoke of not being able to get papers to confirm they own the land they live on; farmers complained about not receiving subsidies they are entitled to. Ruti explained her situation and found out how to get her pension paid.
People in Neori and all over India are fed up with corruption. One in two Indians had to pay bribes when dealing with public authorities, according to a global Transparency International survey released in 2013.
Politics is often seen as a big part of the problem, not the solution. People mistrust political parties: 86 per cent of Indians believe that their political parties are corrupt. And they are right. More than 30 per cent of members of the BJP and Congress parties in the lower house of the Indian parliament reportedly face criminal charges. The BJP and Congress are India's biggest political parties.
Unfortunately the election season only adds to this concern. People will see candidates ignoring election spending limits; voters will be offered bribes for their votes, including TVs, cheap rice and other gifts.
It's no wonder a political party has emerged on a single-issue anti-corruption ticket. It won the local New Delhi elections in December, tapping into the frustration that ordinary citizens feel every day.
For whoever wins the general election, the challenge will be turning their campaign commitments into reality.
First, put more information in the hands of the people.
Ordinary people need the power to fight back. The government should help educate citizens on how to use India's 2005 Right to Information Law, one of the best in the world, to hold politicians and civil servants to account.
Requests for information about public decisions can unblock applications for licences and entitlements, and even speed up public works.
An estimated four million Indian citizens used it to seek information from public authorities in 2011-12. That is great progress, but only accounts for 0.3 per cent of India's population.
But the government should also be proactive in publishing more information too, something that the act also mandates.
The new Whistleblower Protection Act must be amended to apply to both the private and public sectors, and it must do more to safeguard those who speak up.
Today the law only applies to public sector employees. In addition, whistleblowers are forced to reveal their identity, putting themselves at great risk of retaliation if they expose wrong-doing.
If ordinary Indians blow the whistle or request access to information that exposes corruption, the next government will have to ensure people who are charged go to jail. The judiciary needs more resources, despite recent efforts to speed up proceedings.
Today there is a case backlog of 31 million in the country's courts that prompted one judge to estimate it would take 320 years to clear. India has about 14 judges for every million people in the country compared to 100 per million in the United States.
A well-resourced judiciary is vital for fighting corruption. If the judicial process is so drawn out, criminals will assume that they will never be held to account.
India's politicians need to channel this energy into constructive change. Empowering greater access to information and protecting whistleblowers would be good first steps.
Publishing more information about political party financing would also show India's millions of voters who they are aligning their votes with as they go to the polls.