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Total Re-Ignition Of My Love For Underworld
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'Barbara Barbara we face a shining future'... how many times have you overheard an incomplete fragment of a stranger's conversation and thought hmmmm that sounds like the opening chapter of a book, or the final scene in next summer's blockbuster, or indeed the lyrics to the latest tune from techno wizard-god duo Underworld?
"Life. It's a touch. Everything is golden." The opening words on the opening track "I Exhale" (also the first single) hit you after almost a minute and a half of repetitive drum beat and downright tuneful seediness, with reminiscent traces of Wilson Pickett's "In the midnight hour". Lyrically, it's akin to being on the last drunken train home listening in to a carriage full of revelers on their mobiles. Tiny extracts of disjointed speech, building up to the repeated final refrain "A light grows over the horizon" mash together to form eight minutes of gorgeousness.
Track two "If Rah" continues in a similar vein, with echoes of "Born Slippy" coming through in the chanted exhortation of "Lunar lunar lunar lunar". This one definitely disappears off through the stratosphere with a space exploration vibe, and I'd happily bet my bottom dollar that there are little space dudes dancing to this right now on Mars.
"Low Burn" the third track on the album kicks in with a pulsating little rhythm, inducing sensations of being lost in the middle of a field at 3am, all hands waving and some trance-y kind of moves going on.
The mid-point of the album veers off in a different mood and direction altogether. Picked out Spanish guitar solo kind of introduction and a little bit flamenco in style, it's not at all what I expect to hear after the first three. Life. It's a touch. And full of surprises. "Santiago Cuatro" is full of delicacy and has shades of fragility and minor chord melancholy. Which makes sense as a bridge across to the other side and the appearance of the final three tracks, all dreamy wistfulness, and a beautiful contrast to the album's preamble of vivacious playfulness. The only word for "Motorhome" is uplifting, it's got some kind of pixie/faerie/elf thing going on, overlaid by the stirring reprise to "keep away from the dark side". Just lovely.
The mellow funkiness of penultimate track "Ova Nova" flows easily and sounds both new and familiar. It's all spring showers and sunny spells and daffodils dancing in an evening breeze.
Album closer "Nylon Strung" continues with the repetition of the snippets of phrases, but in a softer, gentler and altogether more blissful way than at the beginning of this album. "Open me up. I want to hold you. Laughing." Evocative of the dawn of every love affair there ever was or ever will be. It's a total re-ignition of my love for Underworld, and cements my feeling that this album is practically perfect in every way.


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NAW Interview with Allison Butler
Allison Butler spent her early years in country NSW, Australia, building pretend castles with hay bales and leaping white posts with her army of two older sisters and a younger brother.
She is also a proud member of Romance Writers of Australia, New Zealand and America. She lives in a small town in NSW, Australia, with her very own Scottish hero, two beautiful daughters and a Jack Russell named Wallace. Visit her here.
NAW- Tell us about your book, The Healer. How did you get the idea for it? What is it about?
I've been given so much helpful and encouraging advice from authors since I started my writing journey. One of the first gems was to 'write what you know'. The idea for The Healer came about when I applied this advice to me and my writing. I care for the elderly in an aged care facility and wondered what it would have been like for a nurse/healer to care for people hundreds of years ago.
The Healer is the story of an English woman, a Scottish Laird, a case of mistaken identity, and a love that will surpass all barriers.
An outcast in her own home for as long as she can remember, Lynelle Fenwick will do anything to earn her father's approval including exaggerating her healing skills, and setting off alone to rescue her step-brother from a band of raiding Scots.
Living under a curse that has haunted the Closeburn Clan for years, Laird William Kirkpatrick, will do anything to save his sole surviving brother. He may not believe in curses, but his clan does, and the growing number of graves seems to support their side. Having banished all healers from the clan for trickery, he has no choice but to allow an Englishwoman, claiming to be a skilled healer, into his home and into the room of his wounded brother.
NAW- Tell us about the character of Lynelle Fenwick. How did you develop the character?
Lynelle's life should have been one of privilege, but due to a tragedy, she ends up an outcast instead. Despite this, she grows into a strong young woman with a beautiful soul and an instinctive need to help others. I decided to have her raised by Fenwick's aging healer, which would give her some healing knowledge, something not everyone had. I then had Lynelle spend her years observing her people live their lives when she simply exists. She reaches a point where she's tired of watching and desperately wants to live among them. The Scots raid gives her the chance to gain her father's approval. Lynelle takes the chance, but she will be forced to make choices, something she's never had to deal with before, and even she doesn't know how far she will go to finally belong.
NAW- How do you carry out relevant research for your books?
When I started my writing journey, I chose to write Scottish historical romance and began building my reference library. I now have an assortment of books on Scottish history, castles, battles and more. I also use maps, guidebooks and photos I've gathered during my travels to Scotland. Bliss! For The Healer, I also needed to research herbs and healing techniques used in medieval Scotland, so I've added a few herbal books to my shelves, too.
NAW- What drew you to writing?
I love words. I'd even written a few poems for friends many years ago. My reading tastes leaned toward the Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror genres at that time. Then I read, Simply Love by Catherine Anderson and fell in love with the romance genre. For me, it's all about the Happily Ever After. In the back of the book was a question for the reader, 'Have you ever dreamed of writing a romance?' That's when my writing dream began.
NAW- How long did you take to finish the book? How did you decide the title?
The Healer took about two and a half years to write. I'm not a fast writer, but the more I write, the more my writing process improves. As for the title, I did try to come up with something more enticing, something to showed it was set in Scotland, but nothing else seemed to 'fit' the story as perfectly as The Healer.
NAW- What can a novice reader expect from The Healer?
My hope is that any reader will fall in love with Lynelle and William and find themselves cheering them on to the 'Happily Ever After' they both deserve. I'd also like the reader to believe they've experienced a glimpse of medieval Scotland through the characters eyes and the words on the page. But mostly, I want readers to feel warm and happy when they reach 'The End', and to be inspired to stay positive and to never give up hope even when all seems lost.
NAW- Tell us about your other works.
The Healer is my second published book. My first is titled, The Border Laird's Bride.
To fulfil his father's dying wish, border laird Jamie Graham must marry and sire a legitimate heir. But his marriage will be one of convenience, for he has vowed never to open his heart to betrayal. While guarding his cattle from thieves, Jamie catches the spirited daughter of a neighbouring laird stealing his horse. Despite viewing an arranged marriage as a death sentence, feisty Kenzie Irvine has no choice but to wed the domineering Jamie. But she has sworn an oath never to bring a child into an uncaring world. And Kenzie also has a dark secret she has no intention of giving away – even if she finds herself her on the wrong side of the law…
NAW- Tell us about yourself. What do you do when you are not writing?
When I'm not writing or caring for the elderly, I love to spend time with family and friends, to travel, to dine out, and to see the sights from the back of my husband's motorcycle.
NAW- Please name your favourite writers. Are there any who you'd like to name as an inspiration?
My favourite writer is Marsha Canham. I love her stories, her writing style and her voice, and am swept away to another place and time, again and again. Years ago, I joined Romance Writers Of Australia and since then, I have met so many amazing writers, including Anna Campbell, who was my Mentor Extraordinaire for several years and Alissa Callen who is my talented critique partner. These two lovely ladies and every other writer have their own writing journey and I am inspired by each and every one.
NAW-What are you currently reading?
I'm currently reading, Life In A Jar: The Irena Sendler Project by Jack Mayer. Amazing!
NAW- What will you be working on next?
I'm excited about my current work in progress. I've almost finished the first draft of Book 1 in my Unnamed Scots Trilogy. 3 stories about 3 skilled swordsmen who are friends and share a common bond. None know their origins. Having grown up together in the Lowlands, and having no luck finding any family connections there, they all have a year to search the Highlands or they must return to their adopted clan, find a woman to marry and settle down. But how can they marry when they can't even offer their name?
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The Glen Helen Eco-Resort is located in the West MacDonnell National Park, west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. After the success of the Ormiston Gorge project for National Parks, The Ngurratjuta Corporation engaged Dunn & Hillam to masterplan and reinvigorate the site as an eco resort worthy of its spectacular location. Rural architects - those with an affinity for the stark beauty of Australia's rural and remote landscape - bring a unique empathy to the design process required for a project like this.
The new resort will include a mix of high end facilities for international and local tourists – 64 hotel rooms, four villas, a restaurant and other facilities, - plus a new take on the traditional Australian 'stockmans quarters' and campsites for tent camping. The resort will also be designed with local residents in mind, with facilities for weddings and events, so guests can stay overnight.
Phase 1: The new terrace facing the sandstone bluff at the rear of the homestead has been completed.


The wife of a dockworker killed when a mooring line snapped on a cargo ship has filed a $15 million wrongful death lawsuit against the ship's owner and operators, according to documents filed in the U.S. District Court of Portland, Oregon.
Byron J. Jacobs, a member of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, died July 2 in the early morning hours when the cargo ship, ANSAC Splendor, was moving along the dock in an attempt to better position it for loading when the line broke, according to Oregonlive.com.
The line struck Jacobs and another dockworker at 700 feet per second. The accident was reported to the U.S. Coast Guard at 1:46 a.m. local time.
Jacobs worked as a dockworker and longshoreman for 17 years and the father of three young children in addition to be married to Megan Jacobs, who filed the lawsuit on his behalf.
The $15 million wrongful death lawsuit names SE Harmony Corp., the Taiwan-based vessel owner, and Bright Charter Shipping Ltd., which managed and operated the ship, per The Oregonian.
The wrongful death lawsuit alleges workers for Bright Charter Shipping Ltd. repositioned the cargo ship without making sure whether of not the crew was in danger, did not provide safe lines to shift the cargo ship, and failed to inspect the lines before trying to move the cargo ship.
According to marine traffic documents, the ANSAC Splendor sailed to the Port of Portland to unload cement and then sailed to Longview, Washington, to load cargo for export.


Katelyn Moon, 13 years old, is 7th grade at the Dwight School in New York and she has been playing the violin from the age of 6. She completed 5 levels of the Royal Conservatory Music Development Program and received First Class Honors for her violin performance in violin study within 2 years.
Katelyn has already performed her solo concerto at Merkin Hall with Camerata Virtuosi New Jersey Orchestra when she was 9. She performed several times at major venues including the Weill Recital Hall, Zankel Hall and Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie as well.
Katelyn is a prizewinner of numerous competitions such as the New York International Music Competition, International Grande Music Competition, International Virtuoso Competition, and more. She has been attending the Meadowmount School of Music in the past summer.
Katelyn currently studies under Dr. Ann Setzer at the Pre-College Division of The Juilliard School, where she is serving as a concertmaster at the orchestra.


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There Are No Simple People: An interview with Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple by Alia Malek
The writers on their latest collaboration, Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War.
Photo courtesy of Molly Crabapple and Marwan Hisham.
The disaster in Syria has taken on many forms, and no singular experience can define it, except perhaps, heartbreak. Geography is one of the key factors that ultimately determines a Syrian's experience during this war. Some towns were starved. Others were bombarded (by regime forces, as well as by– amongst others–Russian, American, and French fighter jets). Others yet were taken over by ISIS. The capital, Damascus, remained relatively tranquil while coastal cities like Latakia and Tartous enjoyed a wartime boom. In Brothers of the Gun (One World), Marwan Hisham and his co-author Molly Crabapple, textually and graphically recount Marwan's experiences in the city of Raqqa, most likely known to Americans as the "capital" of the so-called Islamic State's Caliphate. The book is a tightly told narrative that is relatively devoid of explication, focusing on the complexities of friendship and brotherhood in war, brought to life by Crabapple's haunting illustrations. Brothers of the Gun convincingly demonstrates the importance of and the need for many more in-depth testimonials from Syrians, if we are ever to begin to piece together the magnitude and meaning of this calamity.
Alia Malek How did the idea for this book come about?
Marwan Hisham The idea came to us after we finished three collaborative projects for Vanity Fair in March 2015. Molly suggested we expand and make it a book. The first two pieces were just captions describing or giving context to the illustrations. But the third one was a bit about my personal experience in Aleppo.
AM What made you decide to make it a memoir and put yourself in the story?
MH I think it's important to show the interested reader outside of Syria how wars affect people and what it means to live in a situation like that. We're also in a kind of rhetoric war, and it's important to shed light on things that are completely neglected, to fight stereotypes and try to show people the complicated reality. Because it's not a normal situation, it's an extraordinary experience and I've experienced many things in a very short time, I felt I was obligated to convey the story, and the written form is the best way for me. I wanted to portray people who had their own political views, their own understandings of life, and who changed over time. They were people just like other people in other countries. Their environment was probably different, but they're still complicated people. There are no simple people.
AM Marwan, did you consider writing it in Arabic?
MH No, I never thought it would be directed to an Arab audience in the first place. I decided right from the beginning to do it in English. It's not easy to get it published in the Arab world in Arabic because it's more conservative and you cannot actually write what you really want to write without interference from editors. English was obviously a better choice and carried a wider audience. I also wanted to prove to myself that I could do it.
AM I personally wish a lot of this were being said in Arabic to an Arab audience because there is this general misconception that there's some kind of consensus on what is "authentic." Voices of dissent, or voices like yours, would be great. In the book you talk about having loved English before you even knew what the language was. And Molly, I know you're super attracted to Arabic. Was this something that drew you to each other? Did you even note it or am I noting it for you?
Molly Crabapple Actually my friendship with Marwan got much closer because I was learning Arabic and he helped me so much. He gave me copies of Nizar Qabbani and an Arabic translation of the Kurdish epic Mem wa Zin by Ahmed Khani. He taught me so much in terms of poetry, music, novels, classical sayings. I really learned my Arabic at his hand. While we were writing the book, I would be sending pirated e-books to Marwan when he was in Raqqa, like Lolita, and Homage to Catalonia, and The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin. In return, Marwan would send me poems by Nizar Qabbani like "(Al deek), The Rooster." He would correct all of my Arabic essays, and introduced me to different political figures and classical historians. We would argue about Ibn Khaldun and I would track specific lines down (laughter). Much of our friendship has really been based on loving each other's literature.
AM Marwan, in the book you are obviously critical, and rightly so, of the west. How do reconcile that with your love of English?
MH My love for English started as wonderment for the outside world. I love many things about the west, even if I have issues with certain government policies, it has nothing to do with the country. As I mention in the book, my father was interested in politics and naturally I became interested at a very young age. So of course at the beginning I would kind of mix them together, you know, the notion than America is evil, that the West is evil in general, and English is western… but that did not last long, simply because it does not make sense.
AM Yes, even though it doesn't make sense, do you think that, for whatever reason, it seems to be the consensus in many places? In the same way that people are so Islamophobic, they think there's nothing beautiful to be learned from knowing Arabic?
MH One of the very negative things in the west is that these specific things make people ignorant about other countries and cultures. But you don't need to read much about any other culture to see that there are many things, if not the summer or sand, you're going to like too.
AM Molly, have you been to Syria?
Molly Crabapple I only went for one day. I was in Azaz in 2014. I've reported many times from the Middle East, including in Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon, Abu Dhabi. I've been to Turkey at least 12 times to write this book. The first time I went to the Middle East I was 18, and I traveled all around Turkey alone. I went right to the Syrian border, and I really wanted to get a visa but I wasn't smart enough because I was 18, and I got detained a lot by Turkish Gendarmie, who didn't understand why a teenage girl was wandering around alone in the east at that time.
AM What draws you there?
MCPart of why I kept covering Syria is that I made friends who were from there. I met people of astounding courage and dignity who were profoundly misrepresented and erased. In 2013, when I was reporting for the Times, I went to Tripoli and I met a lot of Syrian refugees. The reason I originally went was because so many people around me had many different opinions about the Syrian War and I had no idea what to think, and I thought maybe if I could speak to some people who are living repercussions of it, I would have a clearer understanding. I met a woman from Baba Amr, who was living in an abandoned building with her husband who had no legs, because he was a diabetic, and he couldn't get insulin, and they had a bunch of kids and grandkids. She had worked as a field nurse for a rebel group and was just this tough working class woman. This was right after the Obama red-line speech, and she was like, What the hell man? Is he saying it's okay when they kill us with bombs? And I didn't really know what to say to her. I just wrote down what she said. But because I didn't know what to say to her, and I still don't know what to say. I think that's perhaps why I keep covering Syria.
AM And what have you learned?
MC (Laughter) I don't think I could answer that in a succinct and snappy way.
AM I know for me, I used to have a lot more hope, and I've changed a lot in the last seven years. Marwan, you were young seven years ago, but have you felt a change in yourself?
MH Definitely. I grew up intellectually. I had to face very important questions in my life, and so many things I had to question, starting with the very basic thing I took for granted, like the political views of the whole world. Also "universal values." I have different opinions about where they do or don't exist.
Photo by Steve Prue.
AM I noticed that you guys seldom digress from the narrative to give context. When I wrote my book, I remember feeling really burdened that I had to explain everything. How did you make that choice?
MC That was something Marwan and I disagreed about a lot. I said Western readers don't know anything. They barely know that Syria is in the Middle East. They are so uneducated. Marwan said, 'this is a literary book. It's not written for morons, and they can Google.' And if we keep doing digressions like, 'Syria is a country in the Middle East,' this book will have no literary value. In the end I think Marwan was right, and that it is a burden on a lot of people who are writing about Syria that they have to deal with Western readers' not only ignorance, but reluctance to use Google and discover and research basic facts to understand the context.
AM I don't trust the internet, especially with Syria. There are so many agents of misinformation. I remember thinking, 'I want to control this.' In my book, I would have liked to never have had to digress, but I also felt the need to do that. As I was reading your book, I was trying to decide where I landed on that. I obviously get all of the references, and I find the book very accessible, it's very cinematic. Marwan's personality comes through strongly and charismatically. I was trying to imagine having to Google Seferberlik or Hama or what other information another reader could find there that might not be correct. These are the risks. But I think you guys felt very unfettered by context.
MH It wouldn't be as understandable as it is if it wasn't for Molly, simply because as an author living in this region and writing for an entirely different audience, I had no idea what is known and what isn't known, and what needs more explanation and not. I was writing with respect to people who are really following the news, and there are many references I took for granted as known. As Molly said, we had a lot of discussions and then Molly started to point out the things that needed more explanation, and the editor helped us also a lot with this. I'm glad it's now pretty readable for an American, especially.
MC One of the funny things I remember was, before we wrote this, Marwan read Drawing Blood. And he was telling me there's a certain passage where I was talking about the New York Burlesque scene, and he said, I had a hard time understanding this, because there are all of these words… What's a Swarovski? What's a dive bar? What's go-go? And I thought, oh my god, this is all specialized jargon that if you aren't a New York nightlife scenester, why the hell would you know what a Swarovski was, right? So I think when we were writing this we were trying to keep in mind what you didn't need context for, and what was the technical jargon at the level of Swarovski. In terms of craft, I was also looking at novels that present totally new worlds, and we were reading The Handmaid's Tale, and it presents so many new terms, like, an Aunt or a Commander, or a Ceremony. And it doesn't define like, An Aunt is a woman who wears green, and she carries a taser, and she is chosen to control. That's one choice you can make when you are writing about a foreign country, you can use a similar tool as a novelist does, except you're doing it with facts.
AM Marwan, at one point you write about arguing with people you loathe who represent the views of the majority, "As we spoke my thoughts circled back to the thing we all knew but would not say. We were an extreme minority within Raqqa," the "we" referring to secular society. There are so many people who feel the need to defend the revolution uncritically. I don't know if the secular part of the opposition is the extreme minority overall or if we're 50-50, but it does feel like there are Syrians who feel like they can't even afford to admit that a significant part of the uprising might not be secular or civil society-minded lest they delegitimize the revolution completely.
MHI don't think I was speaking for all Syrians here as much as I was for the people in my environment, and my experience in Raqqa. But still, there are so many principles that we activist and protestors started to call for. I think understanding, first of all, that there was no general outlook of what we want as protesters, and no one can basically represent this movement. So obviously people who were involved in these protests had conversations about these things. Things like, everyone has heard of democracy, but what's democracy? There are so many explanations and understandings of this in our society, but so many of them are wrong. You can barely find two people who would agree on how our country should be governed or changed. And there were so many people who were just like photographers. Some had no interest in any of those words, and what they mean, and what should happen next, they just had their own reasons to join this movement.
AM In one of the scenes with Tareq you wrote, "Regardless of our fierce disagreements over priorities and objectives, we liked to discuss everything. But the old Tareq with whom Nael and I discussed over a year earlier was another person now. I feared he was slipping into a Jihadi's ideology…" Do you believe these conversations are possible, even among family and friends, and do you think there's ever a transformation? Is there room for us to disagree?
MHThe only reason Tareq and I had this relationship was because we were old friends. If we weren't, we definitely would have separated a long time ago without having any of these conversations, without being so angry with each other. I sat with many people, either when I was in Syria, or here in Turkey, and as we talk about this war, I do not hear any conversation that it intended to resolve the situation. People express their political views, no one is flexible to adapt another idea, to say they were wrong or that they need to research something more, especially since many of the ideas are not correct. We do not have this culture of debating and having conversations that could reach us. Mostly it's arguing for the sake of arguing.
AM I would say we don't have that culture now, I don't know if that's historically the case. Molly, does any of this feel similar to what's going on in the U.S.?
MC Oh man. In some ways I hesitate to draw parallels. I will say this about the Americans that congratulate themselves about [being different from] the Middle East. If you had to look at Christianist politicians and the influence of Christianist politicians on America, and Ben Carson talking about the secularists and how they're tied to the devil, and how truly fundamentalist people have to be honored in our political discourse, it is worth noting that the will of the majority in America often isn't a secular one either, and the only thing that keeps that back is that we have a constitution in addition to a democracy. We are increasingly unable to speak to each other, and there is an increasing isolation inside people's ideological bubbles. This isn't just because people are bad people and people can't tolerate dissent, it's very often for safety. Being a queer kid from an intolerant, rural area, there are a lot of reasons why you wouldn't necessarily want to express yourself or try to gently convince people who hate your humanity. I also think that there's a huge gulf in America between people who are able to get a certain type of elite university education and then join the media class, and then people who don't have access to that.
Class disparities have grown and part of why it's been easy to demonize the press is because the press is much less working class than it was just a generation or two ago. One thing that always amazed me when I was looking at discourse on Syria was that a lot of "woke leftists" for lack of a better word, view looting during protests by disenfranchised or poor people in Western countries as the language of the "unlistened to," and certainly not as something to be demonized. But when those same people saw, for instance, the way some people who lived in say, the slums of Aleppo, might have looted the factories they worked at, they suddenly had an entirely different view on it, in part because they're viewing everything through Islam. One thing that I really thought was important in the book that was ignored in a lot of western discussions about Syria (I'm not sure about Arabic ones), was class. And I don't know, please correct me if I'm wrong, if there have been any books written by a working class Syrian who lived through the war, in English at least.
AM How much room do you think there is for more books about Syria? That's the way publishing works here. They're always looking for the one book on the insert-ethnic-experience that they can point to and that's it.
MH I think they can't find any that tell the whole story because it's not just one country. This war has been going on for seven years and so many countries are involved. It's impossible to find just one book that will explain all these things to you. It started with people against the government but then it changed to a million other things. Now there are many parties, and within each party there are more parties fighting each other.
MC Part of the reason I wanted to do this book with Marwan was because I got so sick of how books about war were either by an American soldier or an American journalist, or perhaps by someone whose family was from the same country that the war happened in but who had lived in America most of their lives. There's a certain type of person that gets access to the New York publishing industry and that type of person isn't necessarily the one who had the longest or truest experience with the war they're writing about. I wanted to work with Marwan because he is brilliant, totally his own person, as opposed to someone who's prescribed to any particular dogma, but also because he lived through the war, and he had seen things in Raqqa first hand and I really believe that voices like his need to have big books with access to those sort of platforms.
AM To shift gears a bit, can you each tell me what your favorite image here is? I love the cover. Will you explain it?
MH It's a photo of Tareq. It was taken by his friend, and he posted it on Instagram. I don't know exactly what he was thinking in that moment, but knowing him as someone who loved to write poetry, who had a different life in Beirut, and then spent time in the trenches, I can guess that he felt nostalgic, maybe. It's tragic that he became fully militarized. This was my favorite image and we asked the publisher to use it as the cover for the same reason.
AM Molly, do you have a favorite?
MC I have a few that I love. I want to talk about the picture of the Yazidi women because it's a good example of how Marwan and I work together. Marwan obviously did not take photos of enslaved Yazidi women, and we were very frustrated, both of us, at the way the Yazidi women were sensationalized in the press, and very often not given the same protection that a western rape survivor would have been given. We wanted to do something that would be real, that would get beyond cliché. We did so many sketches. Marwan would say, "Make her hands careless." And I'd say, "What does that mean, careless? What does that mean?"
We were hard on each other, we were parsing words, not because of a problem with English, but because art direction is always like this. You have an art director say, "I want something cheerful," and you're like "what does cheerful mean?" That conversion between words and visuals, is one of the hardest translations I think. Initially I had this really stupid way of doing it actually, it looked very Madonna and Childish, and Marwan's looking at it like, "It's so cliche, don't do it like this, this is wrong." I did sketch after sketch, and Marwan was like, "she's too old, she's too young." It was also very important to us not to use photos of real women because we didn't want to violate anyone's privacy.
AM I also love this picture.
MC That's of the first civilian killed in Raqqa by American bombs and it's from a video Marwan shot and they were digging him out —
AM And he was this white?
MC Yes, from dust. And his clothes were torn off. It was hard to tell because the video was blurry and it was at night, but I was inspired stylistically by traditional Pietas.
AM I thought so. Which are often carved from white marble.
MC Exactly. What I would do with something like this is I would take lots and lots of screenshots and because they're so blurry and you can't draw directly from them, I would repose people to get the anatomy right, and try to get the light and the shadow to make a certain emotional point. Because, you know, no one in America is going to know that name of the first Raqqan civilian that American bombs killed. He's never going to have a name in America. And now he does. His name's Ismail. Now he has a face.
AM Marwan, in the epilogue you referred to yourself and said that an air of detachment set you free and you were destined to be centerless. Do you still feel like that?
MHI do, because even if I find people with the same views of life as my own, they're not going to be Syrian. It's unlikely. So I'm alone and I have this type of identity I can't get rid of.
Alia Malek is a former civil rights lawyer, journalist, and the author of The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria (Nation Books 2017), A Country Called Amreeka: US History Re-Told Through Arab American Lives (Simon & Schuster 2009) and editor of Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post 9/11 Injustices (McSweeney's 2011) and EUROPA أوروپا : An Illustrated Introduction to Europe for Migrants and Refugees (2016). Her reportage has appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Policy, the New Yorker online, McSweeney's, Guernica and other publications. She is a recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the New York Foundation for the Arts. In November 2016, she was honored with the 12th annual Hiett Prize in the Humanities.
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Microblading is a newer, semi-permanent solution to thin and unshapely eye brows. The microblading procedure is a type of eyebrow tattooing which involves placement of the semi-permanent pigment with a specialized sterile handheld tool in the shape of individual eyebrow hairs instead of a solid pigment line drawn with a tattoo machine. Because the pigment is matched to your eyebrow hairs and placed in short hair like strokes, microblading for eyebrow enhancement leads to very natural looking eyebrows.
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For your microblading treatment, we suggest that you arrive promptly for your appointment. Your aesthetician will apply topical numbing creme to the eyebrows and she will meticulously map your eyebrows for the most flattering, natural shape suited to your face. Your first microblading treatment can take about 2 hours due to the time it takes to map the eyebrows before inserting pigment in the area. She will then 'draw" individual eyebrow hairs with a specialized, sterile, hand held microblading tool using the semi-permanent pigment matched to your eyebrow hairs. Your eyebrows will appear darker right after the microblading and will fade by up to 40%-50% within 5-7 days for a softer, more natural look.
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'Wednesday': Christina Ricci Worried That the Cast Would Die; Here's Why
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Wednesday premiered just last week, and it has quickly become a Netflix hit. In the week since it debuted, it has become the #1 television show on Netflix in 83 countries. Jenna Ortega, who leads the cast as Wednesday Addams, has received plenty of praise for the way she has reimagined the beloved character. But while the show is a treat to watch, it was a bit of a challenge to film. In fact, Christina Ricci was concerned that the whole cast would die at one point.
'Wednesday' cast members Gwendoline Christie, Jenna Ortega, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Christina Ricci | Gregg DeGuire/WireImage
Who does Christina Ricci portray in the 'Wednesday' cast?
Though Ricci has had a long and successful career (her most recent hit is the Showtime thriller, Yellowjackets), she is still well-known for her portrayal of Wednesday. Ricci made the Addams' daughter famous in the '90s with the films The Addams Family and Addams Family Values. However, she doesn't reprise her role in the Netflix series. Instead, she was cast as Wednesday's teacher and dorm mother, Marilyn Thornhill.
Where was the Netflix series 'Wednesday' filmed?
After being cast in Wednesday, Ricci flew out to Romania to film the project. The gorgeous forests, medieval towns, and distinct architecture of the European country provided the perfect backdrop for the show. However, Ricci admits to feeling nervous about filming in Romania after Russia's war in Ukraine broke out. In a conversation with Ortega for Interview Magazine, the Sleepy Hollow alum admitted she had fears that the cast would somehow die up until the day they left.
Why Ricci thought the 'Wednesday' cast would die in Romania
"I remember that morning at 4 a.m. when everybody was in the lounge leaving Romania," Ricci recalled of the Wednesday cast. "You guys were exhausted. I was crazed because I was sure that a nuclear power plant was going to be bombed somewhere near us, and we'd all die. I remember that feeling like we were escaping. We were getting out."
Jenna Ortega felt bonded to her castmates after they wrapped season 1
Ortega seemed to agree with a few of Ricci's sentiments. She expressed that she felt particularly bonded to the rest of the Wednesday cast due to what they managed to endure. "Everything was closed because you couldn't do anything," Ortega explained about filming in Romania for eight months. "It feels like we survived something. I wear that as a badge of honor now. I won't be able to compare that to anything else."
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Ultimately, Ricci, Ortega, and the rest of the Wednesday cast were happy to be headed home after they wrapped season one. But despite all that, Ortega still has very fond memories of her time in Romania. "I had, I think, the biggest grin on my face," The Fallout star shared about the day she left. "Not to say that Romania isn't lovely and wonderful. I have met some of my favorite people that I still communicate with there." Clearly, filming Wednesday was no walk in the park. Only time will tell if the cast returns to Romania if Netflix renews the show for season 2.
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Just a few shopping days left to get your holiday gifts! b-glowing offers a curated beauty collection, featuring some of my favorite brands and new ones I can't wait to try. Here are some of my holiday favorites from Serge Normant, Sara Happ, Lipstick Queen, Tocca and Koh Gen Do. You can split up some of these sets to use as stocking stuffers, or keep a few products for yourself.
Dry Shampoo is great for adding volume and texture to my hair, and of all the ones I've tried so far, Serge Normant has been the best. Everyone I've recommended dry shampoo to has been obsessed with it ever since, so I know a few people that would love this gift. Serge Normant Meta Revive Dry Shampoo is available as a mini ($15) or full size ($25).
I've been a fan of Sara Happ for years, and the Sparkling Peach Lip Scrub and Lip Slip ($40) is a must-have duo for exfoliating, hydrating and avoiding chapped lips. The Sara Happ Lip Scrub ($24) in Red Velvet and Sparkling Pink Grapefruit are two of my favorite flavors, but I'd also love to try the Limited Edition Lavender.
Lipstick Queen is known for their collectable storybook of lipstick trios. I've been a fan ever since I was introduced to the very first edition in the Lipstick Library - Liptropolis Volume 1 ($48).
Tocca Meet The Girls Fragrance Collection ($62) is an incredible value for 10 fragrance sprays. It's also a great way to try them out, find your favorite and keep in your bag for an on-the-go spritz. I've always loved the Stella fragrance but I'd love to try some of the other scents.
Koh Gen Do Cleansing Spa Water and Pure Cotton Value Set ($39) is the perfect size for traveling or leaving at the office. It's refreshing, nourishing and oil-free, with no washing or rinsing required. This is my go-to makeup remover and Pure Cotton pads are an added bonus!


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Q: I am on a condominium board of directors. Some of our owners are not paying their assessments and others refuse to pay fines. We sent a demand letter and the owner claims that we are in violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Can you explain?
A: The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) is a Federal law intended to regulate debt collection. It does not apply to all debt collection, but only to consumer debt collection and to debt collectors as defined by the statute.
Under the statute, a debt collector is any person who uses interstate commerce or the mails for purposes of debt collection and who regularly collects or attempts to collect debts. Debt is defined as any obligation of a consumer to pay money arising out of a transaction primarily for personal, family or household purposes. That means, commercial transactions and obligations which do not arise from a "transaction" are not subject to FDCPA.
The Federal Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has explained that transaction implies some type of business dealing between parties. That means, FDCPA is limited to consensual transactions, where parties negotiate or contract for consumer-related goods or services. The Eleventh Circuit has ruled FDCPA does not cover obligations arising from a tort suit.
FDCPA places restrictions on communication with a debtor and requires various disclosures. Communication is generally limited to the hours between 8:00am and 9:00pm local time. If a debtor is represented by an attorney, communication must generally through the attorney. Communication at work is not allowed if the debtor collector has reason to know the employer prohibits such communication. Communication must cease if the debtor so requests, although the debt collector can notify the debtor of intent to pursue a specific remedy. Debt collectors are also prohibited from using miss leading methods or communicate in a public style, so as postcard.
Written communication is also regulated and it is the regulation on written communication that is most often the subject of claims against debt collectors. This may be because written documents are easiest to prove. Violation of FDCPA exposes debt collectors to an award of actual damages plus up to $1,000.00 additional damages, attorney fees and court costs.
Debt collectors are required to provide written notice to a debtor, within five (5) after initial communication, containing the amount of the debt, name of the creditor, a statement that unless the debtor disputes the debt, the debt will be assumed valid, a statement that if the debtor disputes the debt, the debt collector will obtain verification and mail the verification to the debtor and, that if requested in writing by the debtor, the name and address of the original creditor will be provided, if different from a current creditor. Failure to meet that obligation is the violation most often creating liability.
Numerous court cases have held that homeowner association and condominium association maintenance fees are debts for purposes of FDCPA (although some have ruled to the contrary.) The rationale is that homeowners become obligated to pay the assessments pursuant to governing documents of the association and promise to pay for the particular goods or services to be provided by the association.
On June 23, 2008, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida addressed the issue of whether association fines are debts under FDCPA. In what appears to be the first reported decision to address the issue, the court noted that other cases have held traffic ticket fines and late fees for overdue library books are not debts under FDCPA. The court explained that association fines are similar, is a penalty for violation of rules and not the result of a business dealing or an obligation to pay for goods or services. The court ruled that association fines are not subject to the limitations of FDCPA.
Although the FDCPA excludes people attempting to collect a debt in which they were involved with creation from its mandates, liability may arise where a third party is employed to collect assessments through liens or otherwise. Florida federal court cases are in conflict over whether property managers filing liens are involved in process of debt collection, without at least one deciding collection under a fiduciary duty is property management and not debt collection.
The application of FDCPA to associations is complex. If FDCPA applies, failure to meet all of its requirements can be expensive. Associations are well advised to retain an experienced attorney in connection with any collection effort against property owners. Rather than be exposed to potential liability under FDCPA, caution should rule the day.


[REVIEW]: The Age of Innocence martial arts movie is already gone, and now use high-tech means, big investment, big-budget martial arts film shooting mode, swords, bustling cleared after the people left only desolation and short-lived noise, no trace rich aroma of social and cultural values, there is no ray of thought-provoking atmosphere Shensui. A person's Mood for Love like Wong Kar-wai's movies, like sad story is plain crumple aroma, confused and hurt the hearts of bone.His film, suitable for a person to see, lonely through the streets after a suitable person reading alone thin aftertaste romantic flowing between the mind, poignant shadow. His films like to use dim light, dim shadow, penetrate the skin's music, together with the unique beauty of props consisting of a slowly flowing river of films, shimmering dripping, falling on both sides of the endless.The film "In the Mood for Love", the story is simple, trivial plot.Heroine dress, eyes, the hero of the cigarette, eyes, faint secretly in the corner of the city, a pleasant aroma to weak boneless love about was helpless, sad. I remember when I was alone watching the movie, floating in the sky drizzling rain, a Unit of fresh air blowing through the flowers and quiet of night.Instant light goes out of the theater, a picture of the silent face floating in darkness, shortness of breath, a little bit of flowing gently Rehan.Heroine or bright or dark dress, the characteristics of the 1960 Hong Kong's performance thoroughly.Dazzling dress maid hero sometimes melancholy, sometimes elegant, sometimes sad, sometimes generous.Each a dress are like a blooming flower, suggesting heroine every moment mood.Her beauty and maturity, love her now like a night-blooming cereus, leaving a little bit of light and the smell away in the quiet of the night, the rain like the taste of elegance, blurred, incense exudes cold.Those vast time and youth, those lonely boundless knows no boundaries, love and pain of those struggling in a slow sad sentence lines slowly seeping obsession broke our hearts, it keeps sobbing people under the screen leisurely walk Come. "If more than one ticket, would you come with me?"" Those who disappeared years, as if through a glass product with dust."Standing deserted streets, blowing rain, overflowing window light, I reflected back on those beautiful over and over again, haggard lines, one trivial details of life.Resentment, pain, hurt the feelings of these so broken words closer and closer to happiness, gradually drifting from a ray of quiet beauty fragrance.At the moment, all the joys and sorrows not me, I have been ups and downs in the movie drowned.I was in for the movie's characters tell their stories to the silence of the night: love, touching, assault, very strong, very deep; acquaintance, friend, love, deeply and then forget. "In the Mood for Love," the story narrative to explain the accent, greasy mundane plot, let me know the movie is part of a man's, yours or mine.Thousands of colors outline dress patterns, as a special sign language, interpretation of a lonely life, to tell people of the city in the solitude of a person's lifestyle black and blue. The city of Feng Xiaogang's movie to see the cold humor, fun and festivity figure is. Urban Life will laugh quietly rendered helpless, blurred, deep, flowing out of a few occasional humorous one-liners, so life has been a heavy pink warmth.Feng Xiaogang's film is not particularly solemn themes, mostly relaxed, happy, especially in recent years drew to a close year-end launch of the Surreal, to go about their day ease the taut nerves year, plan a fun, festive dip. Emotional story of urban men and women, in the narrative Feng Xiaogang looked lively in the cold, ethereal.There are real persecution, but also fierce collision outlook on life, love, values, and sometimes appear too cynical.A show of hands, every move she makes, a look soulmate, deemed dubious.Always test each other in the heart of the extent of cool, blending the two hearts there are many unwilling, isolated there are so many desperate sadness.Perhaps it is this sharp contradictions, make sweet love urban men and women, have twists and turns Ruqirusu. "Life is a spiritual practice."" You are looking for feelings, I was looking for marriage, we both left the fork."These," If You Are the One 2 "in the lines, marriage sentiment, there is life is short sigh, but also criticism of social ills, telling the people by cold-liners subconscious understanding of the world.The opening film is Xiangshan and mango divorce ceremony at the end of life is Xiangshan farewell.In fact, think of it, Feng Xiaogang wit and joy elaborated the Dongche marriage and life and death.We are inseparable, inseparable, how can not find the scissors are a bunch of random things out of hemp rope entangled with the joy of life, sorrow and traumas. Feng Xiaogang's movie every detail of the penetration of cold humor, Ge is its capability to deduce the perfect implication.Ge play the fool charge stunned expressions and emotions are no match.Feng Xiaogang and writer Wang Shuo echoed each other's cooperation in the movie "A Sigh" in reaching perfection.Feng Xiaogang affinity with the dough, with delicate feelings tell rope female audience; Wang Shuo places half-baked philosophical tone to attract male viewers.But in the "If You Are the One 2" and "trial marriage" between Xiangshan "Death philosophy of" consistency with a little harmony between the glue, there has been irreparable cracks in the audience there is a people have changed, the late Guanghua lament. Martial arts film The Age of Innocence already gone "New Shaolin Temple" is broadcast, so that people who think like nostalgia mid-1982 version starring Jet Li, "Shaolin Temple".This community has just born in China's reform and opening, monotonous life image movie era, has become a cultural symbol, not the hearts of a generation old fairy tale, it will be pure action film, clear and vivid, lively engraved in people's memory, Tsui Hark's new breed of martial arts film "Di Renjie," John Woo's metaphysics martial arts movie "Reign of Assassins" unsurpassable.When the "Shaolin Temple" at the box office 1.400 million yuan, the fare Second, the Threepenny, that there are four.400 million people watched this made plain, simple video shoot. "Shaolin Temple" adapted from the historical legends, old-fashioned plot, full of wonders, like martial arts choreography teaching film, making way original rough.But the real fight, the kind of meat, to reflect the force of Chinese martial arts, clever, and spirit, no clouds nowadays martial arts movie, aerial fighting, a Yedu Jiang's Xumiao, closer to people's lives and imagination; drama actor no stage acting experience, are involved in the institute directly from the stadium or cinema, very young, but the brow British gas reveals a simple and unpolished.Color empty actor Sunjian Kui said, why the film look good, because each actor is a piece of paper.Non-professional actors performing style is pure nostalgia for a long time people.Today, there are still a handful of actors play occasionally appear in the martial arts film, the face of thunder, sometimes on bamboo, sometimes fight scene on the roof, eyes blurred, cringe, giving a confused feeling of helplessness, people feel gloomy time, years of vast. "Shaolin Temple," the director, photography are from Hong Kong.Hong Kong martial arts star of the most glorious period in late 1980 and early 1990 for 10 years, 30 years without much progress, nearly Get the lead out of the situation."New Shaolin Temple" based on the story of the early Republic set fire to Shaolin, there are horse-drawn carriage chase, betrothal feast, burned the Shaolin Temple and other grand fight scenes, the story is boring, no aura, figures pale, lack of emotion.Director Benny Chan said: "Shaolin Temple so many years there is a Zen martial spirit, is your own how to practice, how to improve their personal potential, which was previously the subject matter is not about the Shaolin Temple filmed.I would like to say a few Linda Yi of the essence."" New Shaolin Temple "describes the Shaolin Temple of Zen martial spirit and the idea of redemption is the only saving grace movie, shooting their scenes, explosions, chase and other old-fashioned, and so bright light goes out, leaving only a naked-making coin machines, meaning and form than pale ashes. The Age of Innocence martial arts movie is already gone, and now use high-tech means, big investment, big-budget martial arts film shooting mode, swords, bustling cleared after the people left desolation of short-lived and noise, there is no trace of the rich aroma social and cultural values, there is no ray of thought-provoking atmosphere Shensui.


MELBOURNE, Australia -- Holden Ltd., the Australian arm of General Motors, said Friday that it expected General Motors' 2004 Asia Pacific profit to exceed $750 million, up from $577 million last year, driven by growth in China.
"Profitwise, we made over half a billion dollars in Asia Pacific last year; we are looking at over three quarters of a billion plus this year," Holden Chairman Dennis Mooney, said in a conference.
In January, GM, said it expected Asia Pacific earnings to grow in the range of $700 million to $800 million in calendar 2004.
In Australia's $12 billion auto industry, Mooney said he expected prices of new cars to fall further as tariffs for imported cars fell and competition increased.
This year, Holden said it would withdraw the GM Daewoo brand from Australia by year end because of intense price competition from Japanese manufacturers.
Holden's biggest rival in Australia is Toyota Motor Corp., which has a 21.3 percent market share. Holden has an 18.7 percent market share in Australia with sales in the first six months of this year at 88,381.


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Qtel introduces SMS directory service
Qtel has rolled out a new SMS directory that allows residents to solicit business or government body information by texting 180.
According to the press release:
In cases where the search item cannot be found, customers will be offered the option to try again with the correct spelling, or directed through to the Qtel Mozaic Portal, which has a directory enquiries search page…
In the case of general searches – such as SMSing "Pizza" when they want to order pizza – the customer will receive back up to 10 records with contact details which match the requested word…
Qtel, which has just reported an 11 percent drop in profit during its second quarter, says the new feature hews to its promise to customers to make information available as conveniently as possible.
The country's largest telecom provider, which said market forces in Indonesia and Algeria accounted for the drop, has expanded into other markets in recent years, particularly after the introduction of competition from Vodafone.
The competitor has claimed that nearly half of Qatar's population now uses its services.
Both companies are also moving toward the much-asked for number portability, which will allow residents to change providers without losing their mobile numbers.
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Based on a preclinical research published Might 15th within the journal Immunity.
Because of their own part, Marsland and his team will examine how dietary changes influence the disease fighting capability further, and how changes in the gut can influence lung diseases particularly. Currently, they're planning dietary involvement studies in human beings to find out how their outcomes could best become translated to day-to-day living. There's a dependence on carefully designed and controlled diet or SCFA treatment studies in human beings to handle how these results could possibly be exploited to advantage people who have asthma, or for preventing viral attacks, Marsland says.Our next thing would be to determine why the Tfh cell dysfunction happens in HIV-infected sufferers, shifting us one stage nearer to better understanding the computer virus. .. U.S. Drug pricing watchdog gets funding to expand efforts – A U.S. Impartial nonprofit firm that evaluates the scientific and cost efficiency of new medications said on Wednesday they have received significant brand-new funding which will enable it to significantly expand its function. The Boston-based Institute for Clinical and Economic Review announced a three-year, $13.9 million grant from the John and Laura Arnold Foundation, which follows its initial two-year $5.2 million prize from the building blocks in 2015.


THPBlog: Green Diamond Resource Company to clearcut log near McKinleyville on steep and unstable soils.
Green Diamond Resource Company to clearcut log near McKinleyville on steep and unstable soils.
THP 1-13-091 HUM (Murray Road 14 THP) Green Diamond Resource Company, 72 acres; 59% clearcut, 32% no-harvest, 8% selection, misc roadside logging. Warren Creek, Norton Creek, Mill Creek (HUM: T6N R1E Sec.3, 4, 10; T7N R1E Sec.32, 33). Wet weather operations, high erosion hazard, steep slopes up to 80%, steep roads, landslide terrain, impaired 303.d watershed, herbicides, coho watershed, 1 spotted owl within 1.3mi, trees up to 60" dbh. Estimated public comment deadline: 11/16/13.
This THP is about 2.2 miles SE of McKinleyville, CA and a few miles north of Highway 299 at elevations up to 560 feet. Green Diamond Resource Company is planning a feller buncher, shovel and cable logging operation in redwood, Douglas fir, Sitka spruce and grand fir forest. The THP area flows into the Mad River which is listed as impaired for sediment, temperature and turbidity, and is an important Coho, Chinook, steelhead and coastal cutthroat trout fishery. There is 1 shallow rapid landslide in unit A, and 7 head wall swalles in units A and B. Over 5,280 feet of temporary road is proposed and a steep temporary road is proposed over 15% grade in unit A for 210 feet. One spotted owl territory was reported to be within .5 mi of units B and C. More information is available on the THP Tracking Center website.


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Release Date Change, More Info On Friday The 13th Book 'On Location In Blairstown'
Jason Parker September 12, 2012
Our website has been covering David Grove's new Friday The 13th (1980) book On Location In Blairstown: The Making Of Friday The 13th since its very first announcement back in December 2010 with much anticipation. Over the last few years we have been bringing fans updates on the contents of the book, the new cover for the publication as well as the tentative book release date. Author David Grove has been very gracious about providing us updates on the status of the book and fans have been appreciative. Fangoria Magazine recently caught up with Author/Publisher Michael Aloisi of AuthorMike Ink (who also wrote Kane Hodder's book Unmasked) and discussed David Grove's new Friday The 13th book.
Among things discussed with Fangoria, Michael lays out more of what fans can expect in the new book as well as an apparent release date shift from the proposed October 2012 date our website was told previously. Read on below for the discussion and check back here often for more information as it becomes available.
From Fangoria
He (David Grove) interviewed something like 200 people, literally every single person who was on the set, right down to the guy who was cooking and handing out the food and the people working at the hotels. I think the only one we didn't get so far is Kevin Bacon, and we're still trying to get him for a last-minute quote. So it's incredibly detailed, and very involved."
While Peter Bracke's CRYSTAL LAKE MEMORIES covered the making of the FRIDAY franchise in great detail, Aloisi promises that ON LOCATION IN BLAIRSTOWN will contain "so much more" about the one that started it all. "It's all about the day-to-day life on the shoot, who did what, different events that happened—everything from Tom Savini getting into fights with his girlfriend at the time and leaving the set to Sean Cunningham arguing with this person or that person. There are one or two stories we're holding back on for now, because the people involved found out, and we're working with them to get releases and say, 'This is true, it's in there, is it OK?' We don't want to ruffle any feathers, but there's plenty of great stuff in there that fans will be interested in."
All those tales will be accompanied by never-before-seen photos from various sources, one in particular. "There are several that Savini gave to me that are really cool," Aloisi says. "It's funny, because he and I were just going through stacks of these pictures at his house, and he was like, 'Oh, look at this!' and throwing pictures at me that no one has ever seen—personal photos he took on set, like Kevin Bacon on the bed laughing, and I was like, 'These pictures are amazing!' I believe there will also be original script pages in there that are different from what you see in the movie, with notes from Sean and a couple of other people. I would say it'll probably come out probably early next year."
Source: Fangoria.com
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A royal welcome for Grey Owl cheese
By Lise Lafond
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Make a special trip to Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac this summer just to taste the Grey Owl goat's milk cheese. It is really worth le détour to try this delicious cheese that melts in your mouth.
Quebec celebrates its heroes during the Fête nationale
By Cassandra Kerwin
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All across the province, Quebecers displayed their blue-and-white flags and highlighted their rich history and culture on June 23 and 24. Through music and art, people celebrated the 184th Fête nationale and the 70th anniversary of the Fleurdelisé (the Quebec flag) at parties organized by the Mouvement national des Québécoises et des Québécois (MNQ).
New Mendel Guides book focuses on Charlevoix
David Mendel, president of Mendel Tours, along with fellow authors François Tremblay and Judy Bross, launched a new book in the Mendel Guides series.
It's barbecue time, but where's the (Quebec) beef?
By Peter Black
Photo: Wikimedia Commons - Public Domain
There's this supermarket in the city where they keep slabs of beef in a display case under lock and key, like in a jewelry store or antique boutique. It's not clear whether you have to show the butcher your stock portfolio or credit rating to get a slice or two of the sensually marbled, richly aged meat, but it seems that way.
Memorials and Things of Fame
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Memorials and Thing of Fame
June 28, 1818 – The Quebec Gazette
Fêtes de la Nouvelle-France invite you to become a part of history
It's party time in Quebec City, and the festivities will continue in early August when the organizers of the Fêtes de la Nouvelle-France (FNF) invite everyone to become a part of history. Dress up like an 18th-century colonist and march in the opening and closing festive parades in Lower Town.
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Rue des Anciens-Combattants, in the Sainte-Foy borough of Quebec City, is named in honour of veterans who served in the Canadian Armed Forces.
Many of the surrounding streets are named in honour of Canadians who took part in the two World Wars, many of them decorated war heroes. Rue des Anciens-Combattants is a reminder of their heroism.
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Sebastian Ludwik Kudas (ur. 31 sierpnia 1978 w Krakowie) – polski rysownik, ilustrator, scenograf Piwnicy pod Baranami.

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Absolwent VIII Prywatnego Liceum Ogólnokształcącego w Krakowie. Od 1995, dzięki Jerzemu Skarżyńskiemu i Piotrowi Skrzyneckiemu, związany z jako scenograf i rysownik  "Piwnicą pod Baranami". Zrealizował kilkadziesiąt scenografii do programów "Piwnicy" (również za granicą: w Sztokholmie, Malmö, Oslo, Wiedniu, Chicago, Toronto i Nowym Jorku), recitali artystów piwnicznych, oraz filmu dokumentalnego o Wisławie Szymborskiej w reżyserii Antoniego Krauze. W 1997 wybrany do Rady Artystycznej "Piwnicy pod Baranami".

Jako ilustrator współpracował z Jackiem Kaczmarskim, Ewą Lipską, Janem Nowickim, Janem Kantym Pawluśkiewiczem, Januszem Radkiem, Michałem Rusinkiem. Autor ilustracji do tomików poezji (m.in. Epitafia Wisławy Szymborskiej, Ewy Lipskiej, Bronisława Maja, Michała Rusinka oraz Apologia Balceroviciana i Balceroviciana varia), wydawanych przez kawiarnię Nowa Prowincja. W 1999 wraz z Janem Kantym Pawluśkiewiczem i Grzegorzem Turnauem założył "Chwilową Grupę Artystyczną TRIO" (wystawy w Gliwicach, Bytomiu, Jeleniej Górze i Krakowie), a w 2001 z Barbarą Stępniak-Wilk i Maciejem Dancewiczem – "Grupę Apokryficzną". Pracował jako asystent reżysera z Antonim Krauze (film dokumentalny o "Piwnicy po Baranami") i Mártą Mészáros (spektakl "Tramwaj zwany pożądaniem").

Współpracował z "Dziennikiem Polskim", "Przekrojem" i "Zwierciadłem", "Bluszczem", "Gazetą Wyborczą". Kurator wystaw "Szuflada Szymborskiej" w Muzeum Narodowym w Krakowie (oddział Kamienica Szołayskich) oraz "Szymborska- wyklejanki". Współredaktor zbioru zabaw literackich Wisławy Szymborskiej "Błysk rewolwru" (Wydawnictwo Agora, 2013) oraz zbioru korespondencji "Najlepiej w życiu ma twój kot" (Wydawnictwo Znak, 2016).

Swoje rysunki pokazywał na wystawach w Krakowie, Sopocie, Częstochowie, Sandomierzu, Tarnobrzegu oraz Wiedniu, Ebenfurth, Norymberdze, Sofii i Nowej Zagorze.

W 2007 otrzymał Nagrodę im. Wiesława Dymnego, przyznawaną za wszechstronną działalność artystyczną przez Fundację im. Wiesława Dymnego z siedzibą w Montrealu.

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Polscy ilustratorzy
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Polscy scenografowie teatralni
Polscy scenografowie filmowi
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Ludzie urodzeni w Krakowie
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CARTHAGE – Former professional wrestler Matt Hardy sparked about 30 calls to Moore County 911 dispatchers late Tuesday when he posted ominous messages on social media that led fans to fear he was planning to kill himself.
Hardy, a former member of the famous Hardy Boyz wrestling team, and a prolific voice on social media posted a video on YouTube titled "Goodbye" around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Within an hour of the video being posted and linked on the social networking site Twitter, Moore County sheriff's deputies received 25 to 30 calls asking for police to check on the 36-year-old at his home in the 300 block of Boys Camp Road in Cameron, said Capt. Henry Marion with the sheriff's office.
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The apparent hoax drew immediate reaction from commenters on Twitter and YouTube.
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The Boatman: An Indian Love Story
-John Burbidge (burbidge@centurytel.net), author.
Although I was not a member of the Peace Corps, I have a strong affinity for it since I have lived in the US for 27 years, am married to an American, and belonged to an organization whose work paralleled the Peace Corps in many ways.
The Boatman: An Indian Love Story is a memoir of the six years I spent working as a volunteer with an international NGO in India and my coming out as a gay man in that society. It describes my roller-coaster journey of sexual adventuring while living in a tightly knit community and playing a public relations role for the organization, and the delicate balancing act this called for.
The Boatman took 13 years to write and its publication in India in February last year was most timely. Shortly before I arrived in New Delhi for its launch, the Indian Supreme Court reinstated a law criminalizing homosexuality that had been repealed by the Delhi High Court four years before. One of the main justifications for this action was that the law only affected a minuscule portion of the population. In the words of one journalist, "The Boatman provides a much-needed reality check of that view."
A new edition of the book with an afterword that places it in the context of the current Indian political situation has recently been released. It is available from Amazon.com as a print and e-book.
For RPCVs in the Seattle area, I will be doing a reading at the University Bookstore in the U District on September 18th at 7:00PM. I would love to meet you there. CLICK HERE for more information.
Details of all events are on the book's Facebook page – https://www.facebook.com/theboatmanjohnburbidge
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We are an organization of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and others who are Peace Corps volunteer alumni, current volunteers, former and current staff members and friends. Founded in Washington D.C. in 1991, we have several hundred members throughout the country and around the world who have served in Peace Corps since its beginning in 1961. We are an active affiliate member of the National Peace Corps Association.
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I just bought The Boatman! Can't wait to read it. Thanks.
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The Apple Company has had great success with the iPod but now needs to figure out a way they can create a sustainable comparative advantage in the Mp3 player market or they will lose demand and market share, and decrease profits and revenue . Analysis I am now going to analyze the PC and Music Player industry using Porter's five forces. ~Competitors The competitors in the PC industry are fierce and intense. There is a very high rivalry in the industry causing the price to decline. For Apple there are two types of competitors, Hardware, for example Dell, and Software like IBM and Microsoft. In either case, the competition is still high.
Also now Apple has to compete in the Music Player industry with the invention of the iPod. They control 70 percent of the market in music players just themselves. The competition is increases as Microsoft and Creative get into the market but iPod has still been able to control most of the market. ~Buyers The cost of switching from one brand to another brand is very low. Companies with more product differentiation. It is hard to get buyers at first in the market. When computers first came out buyers were easy to please. Now they are a lot harder to please since they know what to expect and they only want the best.
The industry has matured over the time and buyers have become a lot more powerful. Also in the music player industry, since iPod is very compatible to Apple computer's they are starting to have a lot more brand loyalty. ~Suppliers There are very few suppliers in processors and With Apple's operating systems OS. On the other hand with the plastic, keyboards, memory drives and chips, and disk drives, rewritable CD's, there are many suppliers. Suppliers are going to want to make there parts cheaper and better so there is a lot of competition with suppliers causing them to have a lower power position.
~New Entrants Since the market is mature now and there are already big power house names like Dell, Microsoft and IBM not a lot of people are going to want to invest there many into a new company for fear they will not be able to go up against these giants. Therefore the threat of new entrants is low in the PC market. New entrants are springing up in the Music player market do to the rising success of Apple. Microsoft and Creative are two big names who have stepped into the race to see if they combat this ever growing iPod trend. The threat of new entrants in high in the music player market.
~Substitutes Substitutes in the PC industry are higher if the company doesn't have a lot of differentiation. Apple has a lot of differentiation making it harder for substitutes to replace them. This causes them to charge a higher price to graphic designers but it is a bit harder to do this with the regular consumer because they can go to Dell or Lenovo. Substitutes in the music player industry are a little easy but as far as the whole package like Apple has, it is a lot harder for a smaller company to have its own software to download and be compatible with both PC and Mac.
This also helps Apple to sell more computers because people become fans of the design and Ease of use design. Plan of Action (POA) The best way for Apple to develop a sustainable comparative advantage is to develop a sustainable comparative advantage is to: A) Concentrate on their core competencies like innovation and differentiation. Have a new product come out every year or six months, possibly get into the video game market. B) Get back into the education market. Since they used to be the leader and every since the iPod came out, they sort have shifted all focus toward it.
involved with education Macs are by far more secure and easier to work with then a Dell or Compact. They have everything you need for school/education and they rarely have technical issues. If the Apple company would target more education systems they will increase their market share and help them to develop a sustainable comparative advantage. They also need to get back to being different from the rest of the companies which they have done very well in the past and stick to the core competencies but also I believe more importantly, they need to concentrate on their innovation.
The iPod will only be able to stay at the top of the charts for so long before the demand for them will decrease and something newer and better will replace them. With technology increases rapidly in this market they need to be on their toes thinking about what new product can we develop next. Also with this product they need to still have the same looping effect as they did with the iPod to keep customers brand loyal and attract more customers. For example the iPhone came out just recently and has been selling like hot cakes. I know of 10 of my friends that already have the iPhone and they love them.
The final thing is that Apple seems to specialize in graphic design. The average consumer doesn't like to pay a lot of money when there are Dell and Compact selling computers with the same software they need at a cheaper price. To combat this, I believe a new product or division should be created to target the average consumer with the objectives of lower prices. I know some premium companies have smaller companies/divisions that produce somewhat cheaper products to expand their customer base. I believe this will help Apple to get atop the PC industry and have this sustainable comparative advantage.
Some of the drawbacks of this plan are that Apple may lose some of their premium computer sales to that of their cheaper products that target average consumers. Also Apple will focusing on their innovation they may need to hire more developers so they can be two steps ahead of their competitors. Another drawback may be since they may explore possible new markets their products may be busts or they might not sell real well right away. Every plan has its risks and benefits but I believe that in my plan, the benefits greatly outweigh the risks.


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Review: Yes, Chef! by Lisa Joy
Aussie author Lisa Joy's debut novel Yes, Chef! offers readers an entertaining glimpse into the life of a young woman who finds herself working as a PA to an unpleasant celebrity chef. At age twenty-nine, Becca Stone is not in a great place in her life--although she is intelligent and well-educated, she has struggled with her career and relationship choices. For many young women this is a relatable scenario--feeling that by the time they are almost thirty that they have missed out the two big things that are often held up as the benchmarks of a successful adulthood. Anyway, Becca finds herself promoted from her position of taking reservations at a restaurant to being the PA of Damien, the nasty celebrity chef who owns the business, and soon after finds herself a string of wealthy suitors, and discovers that life at the top is really not so wonderful.
Yes, Chef! contains some dark themes the heroine has flaws that make her seem more human that endearing and parts of the novel pushed me out of my comfort zone in ways that I was not expecting, for example a surprise kiss between two characters that leads nowhere (and that feels out of sync with the rest of the story,) and there are a few scenes that depict sexual harassment as being more or less ingrained in the food and hospitality industry until an event occurs that makes Becca realise that she should not have to just accept it. Although uncomfortable, it does feel quite realistic as, sadly, people will often tolerate sexual harassment or not understand the impact that it has on others, until it is too late. I thoroughly enjoyed the scenes where Becca stands up to her boss--you go girl!
Becca's growth as a character was slow at first, though as she came to understand more about her circumstances, she became quite a strong and capable woman. Although intelligent, she was initially somewhat naive and was easily led astray first by Aaron and then by Jonah, both men who had their own self-serving agendas. (Becca is unaware that Aaron is engaged to a colleague's daughter, while Jonah at least is a bit more upfront about just wanting a fling.) This is not entirely unrealistic--often intelligent women can also be the most naive when it comes to men and dating. Still, she learns her lesson in the end and Dean comes across as a wholly likeable suitor.
Although I enjoyed reading Yes, Chef! I disagree with the description that this is a romantic story. It may have a romantic ending, but Dean feels more like a side character, rather than someone who drives the plot. I think it is also a perfect example of the way books with female characters and that are aimed at a female audience are marketed--parts of this novel are dark and our narrator is flawed. There is nothing wrong with either of those things--I think it is great and I love it when fiction challenges me in unexpected ways--but the current cover suggests a much lighter and fluffier story. There are some great bits in there about food and cooking.
Thank you to Penguin Books Australia and Netgalley for my review copy.
This book was read as part of the Eclectic Reader Challenge 2015
Catagory: Fiction for Foodies
Progress 3/13
Lisa Joy Yes Chef!
shelleyrae @ book'd out said…
I agree this is not really a romance, more straight women's fiction. Thanks for sharing your #eclecticreader review,
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Slow down, keep quiet and think. This is the Ride of Silence in a nutshell. Wednesday, May 20 6:15pm, cyclists from the greater Rochester area will gather at Penfield's highway dept. parking lot (on Jackson Rd) for the national 11th annual RoS and Rochester's 4th.
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