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Singapore's Land Transport Authority (LTA) has awarded two more civil contracts, C930 and C932, with a total value of S$361.56M for the Downtown Line Stage 3 (DTL3) project.
Contract 930 is for the construction of Ubi station and its associated tunnels and has been awarded to SK Engineering & Construction Co. Ltd for a contract sum of S$161.71M. SK Engineering & Construction Co. Ltd, a major civil engineering contractor from Korea, is also currently involved in the construction of tunnels between Beauty World and Hillview stations for the DTL Stage 2.
Contract 932 is for the construction and completion of Mattar station and its associated tunnels and has been awarded to Sato Kogyo (S) Pte Ltd at a cost of S$199.85M. Sato Kogyo has extensive experience in the construction of rail infrastructural projects in Singapore. They are currently involved in the construction of the Marina Coastal Expressway and Jurong East Modification Project. They also clinched another DTL3 contract for the construction of the Bedok Town Park station and its tunnels.
Construction of the two stations and tunnels are scheduled to commence in the second quarter of this year and targeted to complete in 2017.
The 21km long, entirely underground DTL3 is the final stretch of the 42-km Downtown Line. It will enhance rail connectivity in the eastern corridors to the Central Business District (CBD) and developments in the Marina Bay area. Fully underground, DTL3 comprises 16 stations, including three interchange stations: MacPherson, Tampines and Expo. These interchange stations will link to the Circle Line (CCL) and the East West Line (EWL), providing greater accessibility and significantly improve travel time for commuters.
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Q: _objc_empty_vtable The file "..." couldn't be opened because there is no such file this is a self answering question. Putting it out there to help others.
I just had a really interesting crash with my app. What I wanted to do was to define a sort comparator that would be returned a static method in the model.
So, for example if my model is Car, and I want to sort by name, I would have in Car.m:
+ (NSComparator)nameSortAscendingComparator {
    NSComparator nameSortAscendingComparator = ^NSComparisonResult(id obj1, id obj2) {
        NSString *a = [(Car *)obj1 name];
        NSString *b = [(Car *)obj2 name] ;
        return [a compare:b] ;
    };
}

The invoking code looks something like this:
    NSComparator comparator = [Car nameSortAscendingComparator];
   _sortedCars = [cars sortedArrayUsingComparator:comparator];

Running this gave a real red herring exception. In fact, it looked something like this:

With the breakpoint stopped on:
Thread 1, Queue : com.apple.main-thread
#0  0x0231fcbc in _objc_empty_vtable ()
#1  0x0280c70a in __56-[NSArray sortedArrayFromRange:options:usingComparator:]_block_invoke_0 ()
#2  0x0273f07d in __CFSimpleMergeSort ()
#3  0x0273f124 in __CFSimpleMergeSort ()
#4  0x0273f008 in CFSortIndexes ()
#5  0x0277ad71 in -[NSArray sortedArrayFromRange:options:usingComparator:] ()
#6  0x0279a2b5 in -[NSArray sortedArrayUsingComparator:] ()

It led me up all sorts of garden paths. Could a block not be accessed as a static variable, or via a static method? Possibly it was doing all this in the initialize that was causing the problem?

A: The give away was a compiler warning I failed to spot. As always, allowing compiler warnings to accumulate can be deadly. They obscure a real problem when it occurs.
In this case, it was:
Control reaches end of non-void function

Yep, my nameSortAscendingComparator method didn't actually return anything. Doh! Problem solved.
What I'd be curious about, would be the explanation behind the obscure "no such file" message? Not to mention the _objc_empty_vtable. I'd love to know more about the vtable, and it's relationship to the non-void function crash.

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The following people have been arrested by local law enforcement agencies:
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Angela Mae Swope, 35, 2228 Second St., #8, Basile, theft by fraud, monetary instrument abuse.
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Darrell Wayne Olivier, 33, 220 S. Mills St., Arnaudville, felony theft. Arrested by Arnaudville Police Department.
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canvas wraps in the shop!
I've been hard at work setting up my new shop. Today, I'm excited to announce that it is finally open! (Insert applause and a few shouts of joy!) Hooray! You can now purchase these canvas wraps in my Shop. So exciting!
If you're new to canvas, no worries. My hubby wasn't sure what gallery-wrapped canvas were either. In case you're in the dark, let me explain.
The images are printed directly onto fine art canvas with archival inks (you'll be able to pass these onto your grandkids). Then, they are wrapped around a 1.5" wooden frame and stretched to fit.
The term "gallery wrap" refers to the fact that there are no visible staples on the front or sides of the frame. The canvas wraps the frame up like pretty present.
Ta-da. Just like that, a beautiful piece of artwork, ready to hang on the wall straight out of the box.


Just a side note, I miss the milk from Quebec. The milk here in Toronto is way more expensive and doesn't taste as good. They don't sell my favorite Lactantia milk!
There are some tips in making the pancake, so I have taken some step-by-step pictures.
1. In a small bowl sift together the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
2. In a big bowl, combine the eggs with the buttermilk and melted butter.
3. Combine the dry into wet ingredients into a lumpy batter. BE CAREFUL NOT TO OVER MIX!
4. Heat some butter in a skillet.
6. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes on each side on medium heat. The first batch usually takes longer.
7. Serve with strawberries and maple syrup.


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News Archive / Tagged: NROL-42
Gallery: Atlas V roars spaceward with secret NROL-42 payload
Derek RichardsonSeptember 25th, 2017
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — Launching into the dark West Coast night was a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office. Carried by a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket, the NROL-42 mission lifted away from Space Launch Complex 3 at 1:49 a.m. EDT (05:49 GMT) Sept. 24, 2017.
ULA Atlas V places NROL-42 classified payload into orbit
Lloyd CampbellSeptember 24th, 2017
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket has successfully lifted off from Launch Complex 3 at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to deliver a classified satellite into orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).
NROL-42 classified surveillance satellite set to launch
A secretive National Reconnaissance Office satellite, NROL-42, is poised to launch from Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Thursday, September 21, 2017.
ULA Atlas V NROL-42 scheduled for Sept. 14
Jason RhianAugust 31st, 2017
United Launch Alliance (ULA) recently announced that it is currently planning on launching the NROL-42 mission from Vandenberg Air Force Base's Space Launch Complex-3 (SLC-3) in California. At present, the mission is slated for launch on Sept. 14 of this year (2017).


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RIP: Hamp Cook, 86, a Hall of Famer in so many ways
By Rick Cleveland, Sports Columnist | December 25, 2019
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Trying to figure out how to start this column, a really hard one, and there's no other way to start but this: Hamp Cook was the best guy I've ever known.
Hamp, who died early Christmas morning at 86, checked all the "best guy" boxes: genuinely kind, honest, funny, dependable, tough (in a good way), loving, proud, humble and loyal. He was my dad's best pal. He became one of mine.
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Hamp was an All American football player at Mississippi Southern College back in the early 1950s. He played guard on offense and linebacker on defense. He was under-sized but he was fast and tough and had a heart bigger than Georgiana, Alabama, which is where he was from. I am too young to remember him as a player, but that's a first-hand account from my daddy, who wrote about Hamp back then and loved him as a brother later on.
I had heard all my life about Southern's two great, back-to-back victories over Alabama in 1953 and 1954. Hamp was a star player in both and also in victories over Georgia and Florida State and other teams Southern wasn't supposed to beat. And this will tell you much about Hamp Cook: He sacked the legendary Bart Starr on the last play of the 1954 victory over Alabama and I never knew it until somebody else told me about it 50 years later.
So I asked Hamp about it, saying, "That's a big deal, man. How come you never told me about it? You sacked great Bart freaking Starr on the last play of one of the biggest upsets in college football history."
Hamp smiled and thought about it for a long minute. "You know, it was a pretty big deal then, but it would have been a bigger deal if I had known Bart Starr was going to become Bart Starr."
In many ways, Hamp was the last man standing from a truly golden era of Southern Miss athletics. Reed Green was the athletic director and Pie Vann and later P.W. Underwood were the head football coaches. Lee Floyd was the head basketball coach. Pete Taylor coached baseball. All are Mississippi Sports Hall of Famers. Many of the athletes from that era were war veterans. They were a family, a close and proud family.
Vann would eventually hire Hamp back to coach his offensive line. Southern won mostly with defense and a great kicking game in those days. Vann put his best athletes on defense figuring, "They can't beat you if they can't score." That meant that Hamp was always coaching the second- and third-best athletes on the offensive line. If you weren't quick and athletic enough to play defensive line, you became offensive linemen. Those were Hamp's guys. He coached 'em up, as they say in coaching. He loved his guys and they loved him back. They played hard for him. They failed on occasion, but they never failed because they weren't trying.
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Because of his magnetic personality, Hamp became one of Vann's greatest recruiters. Among the many, many USM heroes he helped recruit were Willie Heidelburg and Ray Guy.
Funny story: In 1970, Southern stunned Ole Miss, Johnny Vaught and Archie Manning 30-14 in what remains the most stunning upset in my more than half century of chronicling Mississippi sports. Heidelburg jitter-bugged into the end zone twice on 11-yard runs on the same reverse play. He wasn't touched on either.
Said Hamp, "I couldn't wait to get back to the film room and see how well my guys had blocked on those two touchdowns. Well, hell, we got back and I watched the film and my guys didn't block anybody. Willie just dodged them all."
Cook helped coax Guy to Hattiesburg with the promise he could play a position and not just be a kicking specialist. Both Bear Bryant at Alabama and Vince Dooley at Georgia had told Guy he would be too valuable as a punter and placekicker to use as a defensive back.
Once Guy got to USM, P.W. Underwood, the head coach, made one of the great strategical moves ever when he told his coaches, "This isn't a threat. It's a promise. The first one of you who tries to coach that Guy how to punt or kick is fired."
Hamp left USM in the early 70s to become a New Orleans Saints scout. He outlasted many coaches and scouts for two reasons: He was good at what he did, and everybody loved and respected him, including Archie Manning, the star quarterback.
That doesn't mean Manning wasn't above playing a joke or two on his pal. Hamp would leave Saints camp on Friday afternoons to head back to Hattiesburg or somewhere else to watch a college football game. Nearly always, before leaving, he would ice down a case of beer using the Saints' ice machine. Hamp Cook did love a cold beer. Once, he got called to another task in the middle of the beer-icing chore. Archie and Bobby Scott, the other Saints quarterback, finished it for him, but not before exchanging the beer for Gatorade.
Said Manning, "I just wish I had been there when Hamp got to Slidell or Picayune and decided to reach in and pull out a cold beer."
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In 1986, Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Finks took over the stumbling, bumbling Saints and turned them into a real, honest-to-God NFL team. Finks pretty much cleaned house, but he recognized Hamp's talent and loyalty and kept him. What's more, he assigned ex-Saints player Hokie Gajan to Hamp to train as a scout. They became like father and son.
Hamp had scouted Hokie when the latter was at LSU. "Hokie didn't have the speed you wanted at that position but I gave him a plus-plus grade because of how hard he played, how tough he was and what a good teammate he would be."
"Plus-plus" would also describe Hamp Cook as a player, coach, scout, person, friend – and as a husband, father and family man. After a long, long illness, in his final hours, he was with his three grown children, nine grandchildren and two great grandchildren. As Hamp's oldest son, Chuck, a USM Hall of Fame football player himself and an NFL scout like his dad, described those final hours, "We all just loved on him. Hamp knew he was loved."
Services for Charles Hampton "Hamp" Cook will be at 2 p.m. Friday at First Presbyterian Church of Hattiesburg with interment to follow at Lee Family Cemetery in Purvis. Visitation will begin at 11 a.m. at First Presbyterian.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the M Club Foundation at USM or to the Community of Christ Church in Georgiana, Ala.
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Rick Cleveland, a native of Hattiesburg and resident of Jackson, has been Mississippi Today's sports columnist since 2016. A graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi with a bachelor's in journalism, Rick has worked for the Monroe (La.) News Star World, Jackson Daily News and Clarion Ledger. He was sports editor of Hattiesburg American, executive director of the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame. His work as a syndicated columnist and celebrated sports writer has appeared in numerous magazines, periodicals and newspapers. Rick has been recognized 11 times as Mississippi Sports Writer of the Year, and is recipient of multiple awards and honors for his reporting and writing.
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RIP: Hamp Cook, 86, a Hall of Famer in so many ways

by Rick Cleveland, Mississippi Today
December 25, 2019

Trying to figure out how to start this column, a really hard one, and there's no other way to start but this: Hamp Cook was the best guy I've ever known.

Hamp, who died early Christmas morning at 86, checked all the "best guy" boxes: genuinely kind, honest, funny, dependable, tough (in a good way), loving, proud, humble and loyal. He was my dad's best pal. He became one of mine.

Hamp was an All American football player at Mississippi Southern College back in the early 1950s. He played guard on offense and linebacker on defense. He was under-sized but he was fast and tough and had a heart bigger than Georgiana, Alabama, which is where he was from. I am too young to remember him as a player, but that's a first-hand account from my daddy, who wrote about Hamp back then and loved him as a brother later on.

I had heard all my life about Southern's two great, back-to-back victories over Alabama in 1953 and 1954. Hamp was a star player in both and also in victories over Georgia and Florida State and other teams Southern wasn't supposed to beat. And this will tell you much about Hamp Cook: He sacked the legendary Bart Starr on the last play of the 1954 victory over Alabama and I never knew it until somebody else told me about it 50 years later.

So I asked Hamp about it, saying, "That's a big deal, man. How come you never told me about it? You sacked great Bart freaking Starr on the last play of one of the biggest upsets in college football history."

Hamp smiled and thought about it for a long minute. "You know, it was a pretty big deal then, but it would have been a bigger deal if I had known Bart Starr was going to become Bart Starr."

In many ways, Hamp was the last man standing from a truly golden era of Southern Miss athletics. Reed Green was the athletic director and Pie Vann and later P.W. Underwood were the head football coaches. Lee Floyd was the head basketball coach. Pete Taylor coached baseball. All are Mississippi Sports Hall of Famers. Many of the athletes from that era were war veterans. They were a family, a close and proud family.

Vann would eventually hire Hamp back to coach his offensive line. Southern won mostly with defense and a great kicking game in those days. Vann put his best athletes on defense figuring, "They can't beat you if they can't score." That meant that Hamp was always coaching the second- and third-best athletes on the offensive line. If you weren't quick and athletic enough to play defensive line, you became offensive linemen. Those were Hamp's guys. He coached 'em up, as they say in coaching. He loved his guys and they loved him back. They played hard for him. They failed on occasion, but they never failed because they weren't trying.

Because of his magnetic personality, Hamp became one of Vann's greatest recruiters. Among the many, many USM heroes he helped recruit were Willie Heidelburg and Ray Guy.

Funny story: In 1970, Southern stunned Ole Miss, Johnny Vaught and Archie Manning 30-14 in what remains the most stunning upset in my more than half century of chronicling Mississippi sports. Heidelburg jitter-bugged into the end zone twice on 11-yard runs on the same reverse play. He wasn't touched on either.

Said Hamp, "I couldn't wait to get back to the film room and see how well my guys had blocked on those two touchdowns. Well, hell, we got back and I watched the film and my guys didn't block anybody. Willie just dodged them all."

Cook helped coax Guy to Hattiesburg with the promise he could play a position and not just be a kicking specialist. Both Bear Bryant at Alabama and Vince Dooley at Georgia had told Guy he would be too valuable as a punter and placekicker to use as a defensive back.

Once Guy got to USM, P.W. Underwood, the head coach, made one of the great strategical moves ever when he told his coaches, "This isn't a threat. It's a promise. The first one of you who tries to coach that Guy how to punt or kick is fired."

Hamp left USM in the early 70s to become a New Orleans Saints scout. He outlasted many coaches and scouts for two reasons: He was good at what he did, and everybody loved and respected him, including Archie Manning, the star quarterback.

That doesn't mean Manning wasn't above playing a joke or two on his pal. Hamp would leave Saints camp on Friday afternoons to head back to Hattiesburg or somewhere else to watch a college football game. Nearly always, before leaving, he would ice down a case of beer using the Saints' ice machine. Hamp Cook did love a cold beer. Once, he got called to another task in the middle of the beer-icing chore. Archie and Bobby Scott, the other Saints quarterback, finished it for him, but not before exchanging the beer for Gatorade.

Said Manning, "I just wish I had been there when Hamp got to Slidell or Picayune and decided to reach in and pull out a cold beer."

In 1986, Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Finks took over the stumbling, bumbling Saints and turned them into a real, honest-to-God NFL team. Finks pretty much cleaned house, but he recognized Hamp's talent and loyalty and kept him. What's more, he assigned ex-Saints player Hokie Gajan to Hamp to train as a scout. They became like father and son.

Hamp had scouted Hokie when the latter was at LSU. "Hokie didn't have the speed you wanted at that position but I gave him a plus-plus grade because of how hard he played, how tough he was and what a good teammate he would be."

"Plus-plus" would also describe Hamp Cook as a player, coach, scout, person, friend – and as a husband, father and family man. After a long, long illness, in his final hours, he was with his three grown children, nine grandchildren and two great grandchildren. As Hamp's oldest son, Chuck, a USM Hall of Fame football player himself and an NFL scout like his dad, described those final hours, "We all just loved on him. Hamp knew he was loved."

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Services for Charles Hampton "Hamp" Cook will be at 2 p.m. Friday at First Presbyterian Church of Hattiesburg with interment to follow at Lee Family Cemetery in Purvis. Visitation will begin at 11 a.m. at First Presbyterian.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the M Club Foundation at USM or to the Community of Christ Church in Georgiana, Ala.

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The 1966 Picayune High football team finished winless in 10 games. The Maroon Tide was so bad, the scores are not listed in the school's annual. The most memorable aspect of that '66 season is that Jimmy Johnson, a member of the College Football Hall of Fame and soon to be inducted into the Pro Football of Fame, was a Picayune assistant coach
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ELSA UK National Board, with Exeter Student Ethan Dodd (President) – 3rd to left.
ELSA Exeter hosts National Council Meeting for ELSA UK
The European Law Students' Association is the largest student-led legal association in the world with over 52,000 members, spread across 44 National ELSA Groups with over 360 Local ELSA Groups. It operates with a vision for a just world in which there is respect for human dignity and cultural diversity and it does so through its four Key Areas; Academic Activities, Seminars & Conferences, the Student Trainee Exchange Programme, and Moot Court Competitions. The organisation is continually growing and with it so does our alumni network and reach.
ELSA United Kingdom is the national group of the UK. It is made up of 8 annually-elected board members from our network; the current President of ELSA Exeter is also the President of ELSA United Kingdom. It serves as the intermediary between the 18 Local Groups found at prestigious Universities across the United Kingdom, other groups across Europe and ELSA International.
In order to ensure that ELSA is able to function as a single, cohesive unit it has to be regulated. Every year, ELSA International holds two International Council Meetings (ICMs), attended by every National Group, where we discuss our Statutes and Standing Orders and share ideas to help forward the network. Every National Group also holds two of its own National Council Meetings (NCMs) where it discusses its internal regulations and shares experiences learnt at the ICMs.
After a successful bid at the last NCM in London, ELSA Exeter was elected to host the Autumn NCM of 2017. It took place from the 17 to 19 November and by all accounts it was a resounding success with over 60 attendees - a record number in recent years. This NCM brought major change to the national network with the very structure of the NCM itself changing. There was a greater focus on the Local Groups and their training. Additionally, the National Board were given permission to look into officially registering ELSA United Kingdom a charity and Bristol, King's College London and the London School of Economics were welcomed into the network as new ELSA groups after successful pitches!
As a new group to the ELSA network, hosting this event was important to ELSA Exeter. It gave groups an awareness of our existence down here in the South and sets a very high standard for future events.


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I believe these music streaming/subscription services are a taste of what will be available for video in the near future-- interactive communities that allow users to build playlists of content either for a low monthly fee or "free" ad-supported. Hulu.com is the closest and most successful video version of this step in the evolution of the business of digital content delivery.
According to a new report from NPD, which calls video games "an important source for music discovery," consumer demand for music dropped 2 percent in the third quarter of 2008 and the industry suffered an overall decline in purchased CDs, digital music downloads, and even peer-to-peer sharing. Certain demographics saw some pretty substantial drops; sales in the teenage demographic dropped 34 percent while sales in the adults aged 26 to 35 demographic dropped 36 percent.
However, the music industry did see some interesting growth in one specific area: music games. 35 percent of consumers under the age of 35 reported buying music directly as a result of playing games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero.
Hulu Picked as "Website of the Year."
Hulu hosts more than 1,000 shows, from "Family Guy" to "Saturday Night Live." There are more than 130 content providers, not only NBC and Fox, but Sony Pictures Television, MGM Studios, Lionsgate, Paramount Pictures and PBS. The site's database of full-length films also has grown.
ComScore pegged its unique monthly visitors for October at 24 million. On average, a visitor watches 10 videos on Hulu in a month, which is good enough to chart Hulu sixth in videos viewed online.
Previously Internet-shy content providers — notably the TV networks — seem to have embraced the Hulu model. The Viacom-owned CBS.com recently relaunched in a design very similar to Hulu's clean, white interface and user-friendly functionality.
Television industry revenues are expected to be down 7% this year, according to BIA Advisory Services estimates.
BIA's Investing in Television Market Report estimates that TV station revenues will be $20.1 billion in 2008, their lowest number in seven years. The decline is attributed to the economic crisis and stagnant ad spending since 2000.
The music industry's highly controversial strategy of suing customers for file sharing has mostly ended.
According to a story in The Wall Street Journal (subscription required), which broke the news about the RIAA's new strategy, unidentified Internet service providers have agreed to "reduce the service," to chronic file-sharers.
The industry has learned that the answer to piracy isn't to intimidate people into obtaining music legally. The recording companies have made music available in ways that actually appeal to consumers.
If people don't want to pay for music, they can go to MySpace Music, YouTube or iMeem and listen to all the ad-supported streaming songs they want. And a huge number of digital music fans are willing to pay for songs at iTunes.
Demand for music among U.S. Internet users fell 2% in the third quarter of 2008, a figure that includes CDs, purchased downloads, songs downloaded via file-sharing networks, and borrowing CDs to rip to computers, according to a report from market research firm NPD Group.
The proportion of consumers purchasing a CD fell from 25% in the third quarter of 2007 to 22% this year, and NPD estimated that the volume of CDs purchased overall declined 19% compared to last year.
By contrast, the number of digital downloads purchased, and number of buyers both saw an increase.
Fifteen percent of Internet users, up 2% from last year, purchased tracks from online music stores, and legal music download volumes were up 29%.
Major record label EMI Music on Wednesday launched its own digital music service at EMI.com, offering artist bios and photos, streaming songs and music videos on-demand, playlist creation and music recommendations. London-based EMI said it plans to add the ability to create widgets and purchase music, "in ways that will enable the company to test different values of increasing consumers' music experience."
The MPAA is often successful in its piecemeal legal approach to combat the underground trade of its intellectual property. U.S. judges have shuttered at least four sites since March -- although illegal downloading is skyrocketing.
an untold number of freebie sites also exist overseas, including the world's largest, The Pirate Bay. While The Bay, a torrent-tracking service, is facing copyright charges in a Swedish court, online piracy is running rampant, so much so the U.S. government just created a copyright czar.
...sales of e-books will be $9.6 billion annually by 2012, but won't pass sales of paper books until 2018.
"The Future of Comedy in New Media..."
The writers will be paid a small, unspecified upfront fee to write pilots, which will be produced quickly and on the cheap for distribution as early as second-quarter 2009. All pilots produced will be posted online; successful ones that attract sponsorships will get additional episode orders -- and if they're really lucky, cross over to television. Writers also will get a significant ownership stake in the intellectual property they create.
"This is the future of comedy in new media, a fast and low-cost way for writers to create shows that attract an existing audience," Verrone said.
...the older you get, the more you watch, according to a report due out today from Deloitte indicating that "Millennials," the generation of 14- to 25-year-olds, watches just 10.5 hours of TV a week.
That compares to 15.1 hours for those belonging to Generation X (ages 26-42), 19.2 hours for Baby Boomers (33-61) and 21.5 hours for Matures (62-75).
Lest one assume Millennials are shunning broadcast and cable in favor of watching DVDs on their TV screens -- they're not. They spend less time watching DVDs of movies and TV shows on television sets, 4.8 hours a week, than do Gen Xers.
They are, though, spending more time watching DVDs on a computer -- 1.9 hours a week -- than any other age group.
But while Millennials are watching the least amount of TV, they are spending the most time with media in general, making that up with video games, music and the Internet.
Inspired by the explosion of online video this year at venues like Hulu, CBS is said to be working on a major TV.com redesign that will meld a bountiful catalog of full-length content with the site's rich information and community, according to paidContent.org. Hulu's lack of community participation and relevant features has so far crafted its reputation to be "that online video box where you can watch the latest Simpsons episode." CBS hopes that infusing a rich content catalog will entice users to come for the full episodes, stay for the forums, surveys, and in-depth information that the site is already known for.
The mobile phone will become the primary means of Internet access across the globe, and DRM will be well on its way out the door by 2020, according to a survey of Internet leaders, activists, and analysts. Those are just two of the trends predicted by a panel of experts surveyed by thePew Internet & American Life Project in order to get a feeling for where key influencers feel technology is going over the next decade or so. In addition to DRM and mobile phones, these experts also believe that we will be more hyperconnected than ever and that people will become more transparent, but that social tolerance will likely get worse.
Anyone expecting 2009 to be the long-awaited "Year of Mobile" may have to wait a little longer. Wireless devices will be the primary means of connecting to the Internet for most people worldwide in 2020, according to a new report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
The "Future of the Internet III" study, surveying nearly 600 Internet experts about the role of technology in the year 2020, suggested that the combination of portability and relative affordability will turn the cell phone into the leading Internet gateway 12 years from now.
The mid-November update was a much needed overhaul of the Xbox interface...It is no surprise that a cleaner, friendlier and better organized marketplace has spurred the sale of downloadable content. Greenberg says it's a sign that the NXE's new social features (avatars and a "party mode" that keeps players together as they move from game to game) appeal to mainstream consumers.
On average, movie downloads increased by 49% and television show downloads increased by 30% the week after the launch of the NXE. The sale of Xbox Live Arcade games tripled.
Broadcast TV's fall season is going so poorly that four out of five returning programs have a smaller audience than they had in 2007.
A top TV researcher said Wednesday that it's shaping up as a historically bad season for ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox. Only eight of the 66 returning shows have gained viewers, five of them on CBS. Five shows have no change. "Heroes," "Private Practice" and "Prison Break" are among the big losers.
The Turner Networks' research chief Jack Wakshlag said there are even darker clouds on the horizon for broadcasters. The mandatory conversion to digital TV by Feb. 17, 2009, will further cut into viewing. Current estimates are about one in 10 homes would lose TV service altogether that day if they don't buy new sets or order cable or converter boxes beforehand.
Overall TV viewing is up this year because of cable station gains, especially the news networks.
...by January 2014 almost all forms of tangible media will be either in sharp decline or completely extinct in the U.S. I am talking about not just print but all tangible forms of media -- newspapers, magazines, books, DVDs, boxed software and video games.
Citing the success of the Amazon Kindle, Random House is making nearly 15,000 books available in digital form.
Microsoft (an Edelman client) opened up the XBox 360 to user-generated games, all of which will be available only via download -- there will be no DVDs. It also launched a store to sell software online for immediate download.
Apple is selling record numbers of downloadable games for the iPhone and iPod Touch. This is attracting publishers because the lack of physical media offers better economics.
Netflix is making parts of its catalog available over the internet and on set-top boxes.
The Christian Science Monitor is folding its daily print edition, moving it online.


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All Teams Ashbury Colonel By Immaculata St. Matthew St. Patrick's St. Peter Franco-Cité Glebe Sacred Heart St. Joseph St. Mark St. Mother Teresa
St. Peter 19 50 Colonel By 1:00 PM Colonel By Secondary School
St. Joseph 0 41 Franco-Cité 1:00 PM Franco-Cite E. s.c.
Immaculata 8 39 Ashbury 4:00 PM Ashbury College
St. Patrick's 0 53 St. Matthew 4:00 PM St. Matthew High School
Friday, Sep 20
St. Mother Teresa 13 0 St. Mark 1:00 PM St. Mark High School
Sacred Heart 11 22 St. Mother Teresa 1:00 PM St. Mother Teresa High School
St. Matthew 15 0 Immaculata 3:45 PM Immaculata High School
Glebe 7 15 St. Joseph 1:00 PM St. Joseph High School
Franco-Cité 27 10 St. Mark 3:00 PM St. Mark High School
St. Peter 20 10 St. Patrick's 3:30 PM St. Patrick's High School
Saturday, Sep 28
Colonel By 25 39 Ashbury 11:00 AM Ashbury College
Monday, Sep 30
Sacred Heart 25 0 Glebe 1:00 PM Glebe Collegiate Institute
St. Patrick's 12 21 Immaculata 1:00 PM TD Place
Ashbury 42 0 St. Peter 12:30 PM St. Peter High School
St. Matthew 24 23 Colonel By 3:30 PM Colonel By Secondary School
Thursday, Oct 3
St. Mother Teresa 1 17 Franco-Cité 3:00 PM Franco-Cite E. s.c.
Friday, Oct 4
St. Mark 31 7 Glebe 12:00 PM Glebe Collegiate Institute
St. Joseph 8 29 Sacred Heart 3:00 PM Sacred Heart High School
Monday, Oct 7
Colonel By 40 7 Immaculata 1:00 PM Immaculata High School
Sacred Heart 6 17 St. Mark 12:00 PM St. Mark High School
Franco-Cité 42 0 St. Patrick's 12:00 PM St. Patrick's High School
Glebe 10 38 Ashbury 7:30 PM TD Place
St. Peter 0 50 St. Matthew 1:00 PM St. Matthew High School
St. Joseph 20 17 St. Mother Teresa 3:00 PM St. Mother Teresa High School
Franco-Cité 42 15 Sacred Heart 12:00 PM Sacred Heart High School
St. Mark 18 15 St. Joseph 3:00 PM St. Joseph High School
St. Patrick's 7 38 Colonel By 12:30 PM Colonel By Secondary School
Immaculata 13 16 St. Peter 3:00 PM St. Peter High School
Ashbury 10 12 St. Matthew 3:00 PM St. Matthew High School
Friday, Oct 18
St. Mother Teresa 52 0 Glebe 1:00 PM Glebe Collegiate Institute
St. Mark 23 7 St. Peter 1:00 PM St. Peter High School
Ashbury 51 0 St. Patrick's 1:00 PM St. Patrick's High School
Immaculata 6 16 Sacred Heart 1:00 PM Sacred Heart High School
Glebe 0 51 Franco-Cité 3:00 PM Franco-Cite E. s.c.
Colonel By 38 7 St. Mother Teresa 12:30 PM St. Mother Teresa High School
St. Matthew 53 0 St. Joseph 3:00 PM St. Joseph High School
St. Mother Teresa 14 38 Ashbury 1:30 PM
Game B 3rd West @ 2nd East Ashbury College
Colonel By 33 0 St. Mark 1:30 PM
Game A 3rd East @ 2nd west St. Mark High School
Colonel By 15 14 St. Matthew 1:30 PM
Tier 1: winner of game A @1st East Millenium Park Field/Stadium
Ashbury 24 17 Franco-Cité 1:30 PM
Tier 1: winner of game B @ 1st West Franco-Cite E. s.c.
Wednesday, Nov 6
St. Joseph 23 2 St. Peter 1:30 PM
Tier 2 Game A 5th West @ 4th East St. Peter High School
Immaculata 20 6 Sacred Heart 1:30 PM
Tier 2: Game B 5th East @ 4th West Sacred Heart High School
Tuesday, Nov 19
Immaculata 0 23 St. Joseph 10:30 AM
Tier 2 Championship Immaculata High School
Colonel By 12 42 Ashbury 1:30 PM


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With Father's Day quickly approaching, I have been looking for some products that any dad can use. It didn't take long before I found Pendleton Woolen Mills. As I started looking into the company, something seemed familiar. I went to the site to see clothes, but I kept finding myself drawn to the blankets. Were these the same wool blankets that covered the beds in my grandparents' spare room? I didn't know what to expect when writing this article, but I found a fascinating history.
The business started in 1863 when English immigrant Thomas Kay opened the Thomas Kay Woolen Mills in Salem, Oregon. His daughter, Fannie Kay, became involved in management of the mill, and eventually married retail merchant Charles Pleasant Bishop. Together, they combined their expertise to start what would soon become Pendleton Woolen Mills.
In 1909, the Bishop family took over an abandoned mill in Pendleton, Oregon. This mill had been built to supply the local Native American tribes with blankets. With the construction of a new plant on this site, the Bishops resumed the practice of making fine Native-American robes and blankets, expanding their trade to the tribes of the southwest.
Collars now 15% tighter!
In 1912, Pendleton Woolen Mills opened a second plant in Washougal, Washington. This new plant focused on the production of wool fabrics for use in suits and sportswear. At that time, most sportswear for men also doubled as work shirts and were available only in dull colors. In 1924, Clarence Morton Bishop (son of Charles and Fannie) marketed a new line of men's sport shirts in a variety of rich colors and patterns, introducing to America the first men's wool plaid shirt.
Over the next few decades, Pendleton increased their visibility by giving President Harding a blanket while he was on a State Visit (always a good move), sending train cars full of blankets to the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, and eventually landing a government contract to manufacture uniforms and blankets for the troops in World War II.
That must be one heavy board.
By the time the war was over, Pendleton was a well known and trusted brand. In 1949 they released their enormously popular 49'er Jacket ">49er jacket for women, and shortly thereafter, the reversible pleated skirt ">skirt. Then in 1962, a band formerly known as The Pendletones released their debut album Surfin' Safari, as The Beach Boys. On the cover of both the album and the single, members of the band all proudly wear matching Pendleton shirts.
Since then Pendleton has expanded its product line. Sensing a demand for lighter weight clothing that still had their unique style, Pendleton Woolen Mills in 1972 introduced clothing that could be worn comfortably in spring and summer. Pendleton also started making sweaters. There's quite a variety, but allow me to point out that recently Pendleton released a tribute to the original sweater that Jeff Bridges wore in The Big Lebowski. It's known simply as The Dude Shawl Cardigan and is available in only Dude approved colors. It's not an exact match, but it definitely gives off an impression of complete apathy when worn by the right person.
Destined to keep guests warm for generations to come.
I intended to focus on the clothing in their article, but I kept finding myself looking at the blankets. Having simple tastes, I especially like the National Park series . They still have the same bold colors that Pendleton blankets are known for, but are not overly busy. The Glacier National Park blanket is being displayed by my lovely assistant in the illustration on the right.
The Pendleton Woolen Mills company now has a seven facilities in Oregon, Washington, and Nebraska. It is still owned and operated by the Bishop family, and remain a heavily involved social issues on a local, national, and global scale. For over 100 years, Pendleton has been sponsoring the the Pendleton Roundup, a rodeo held right there in Pendleton, Oregon. Pendleton regularly contributes to the American Indian College Fund, as well as establishing partnerships to raise money for various causes, such as the National Museum of the American Indian, the Fisher House Program, the Men's Health Network, and the Jack and Jill Rappaport Foundation. Furthermore, Pendleton has developed a line of "Eco-wise" wools, that can be recycled or composted, all the time maintaining their high standards of durability and design.
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Her choreography includes Clearing (finalist in The Place Prize for Choreography 2008), I Am Falling at The Gate Theatre London (South Bank Show nominee) and The Thought That Counts for Theatre-Rites at the Barbican, London. She has made commissions for Lone Twin and Clod Ensemble and will premiered her new solo work This Woman's Hour in the summer of 2014.
She was an original member of the dancer-led Ricochet Dance Company performing and creating original works by choreographers such as Stephen Petronio, Javier de Frutos, Wayne McGregor, Rosemary Lee and Nigel Charnock. She was a dancer and soloist with the Russell Maliphant Dance Company for seven years and has danced with Random Dance Company, Aletta Collins, Carol Brown Dances, New Art Club and Nik Haffner.
She began working with the ground-breaking La Ribot in 2001 performing Anna Y Las Más Distinguidas which toured the art galleries and theatres of Europe after its premiere 2002. Anna re-joined the company to tour Paradistinguidas in May 2011.
Williams has extensive experience as a teacher. She has taught professional class to Protein, Ricochet, Russell Maliphant on the professional training programmes at The Place and Greenwich Dance Agency, graduate courses at LCDS, Laban Centre, Leeds Metropolitan and Leicester De Montfort.
She is currently the rehearsal director for Vincent Dance Theatre and is performing in the Red Ladies project with Clod Ensemble.


Concrete repairs to various bridge components, including; decks, wingwalls, abutments, soffits, spandrel walls, diaphragms and girder ends.
Tender documents may be obtained from the office of Jewell Engineering Inc., Suite 208, 4 Cataraqui Street, Kingston, Ontario between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. local time, Monday to Friday commencing Monday, February 18, 2019. There is a one-time charge of $50.00 (including H.S.T.) per copy (non-refundable) for the Tender Documents made payable to Jewell Engineering Inc. (cheque or cash). If further information is required, please contact the Engineer.
Each Tender must be accompanied by a Tender deposit in the form of a Bid Bond or Certified Cheque in the amount specified in the Contract Documents payable to the County of Lennox and Addington.
Tender documents will be available for viewing at local construction exchanges. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.


Hello my friends. As i promised i have recovered old PokemonCraft accounts. If you do not remember your password you can recover from login screen. There won't be anymore account deletion, monster deletionor item deletion again.
All Pokemon are replaced with Monsters.
All Monsters level kept same but their EXP are reassigned according to the new EXP requirements. Some increased some decreased.
All Monsters hold items are deleted.
All users all items are deleted.
All Monsters at the market returned to the storage.
All items prices are 1/4 of their original price now. They will return normal as we add NPC system and voting system.
Now starter Monsters start with level 10 and all starter Monsters which level is below 10 assigned to level 10.
Now starter Monsters start with 25 UV points. All previous starter Monsters UV points are set to 25.
Now all donation Monsters has 45 UV points. All previous donation Monsters UV points are set to 45.
All non donation and non starter Monsters all UV points increased by 10.
All user messages are deleted.
All banned accounts are opened ban removed.
All Monsters nature set to Steadfast.
Currently all Monsters abilities are random and they will be corrected later.
All Monsters move sets will be corrected later.


We have teamed up with French company Coq en Pate to create these colourful organic cotton T shirts. Here we have an African elephant proudly standing her ground. Elephants are very family orientated animals and even visit places where the bones of their ancestors lie.


BERKELEY — Saying it wants to increase government transparency, accountability and civic engagement, the city has announced the launch of a one-stop Open Data portal for disseminating information to the public.
An Open Data Portal pilot project page on the city website, at www.cityofberkeley.info/opendata, includes links to a tutorial page with videos, an open data handbook, frequently asked questions and a feedback form.
Berkeley joins a handful of other Bay Area locales with open-data websites, including Oakland, Alameda County and San Francisco, as well as several state agencies, the White House and the cities of Boston and New York, according to the news release.
Berkeley's open-data effort was spearheaded by its Department of Information Technology and involved staff members from all city departments as well as student volunteers from UC Berkeley and the Presidio Graduate School of Management in San Francisco.
Berkeley began its open-data effort in August 2013 by researching and testing different platforms, according to a staff report.


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Casting History
Thousands of Virginians wanted to be part of the "Loving" film
by Joan Tupponce
Location casting directors Richmond-based Anne Chapman and Erica Arvold from Charlottesville were responsible for casting the majority of the speaking roles in the Focus Features film "Loving," opening nationally this month. The film was shot in Virginia last fall.
The pair knew their job would be challenging because the story is part of history. "When you are casting a historical film, you have the responsibility not only to have the aura of that person embodied authentically but also the physical resemblance," says Arvold, noting that it took about five months to cast the film.
She and Chapman conducted extensive research. "Anne and I study the story and the characters as well as the director and producer of the project," Arvold says.
In order to see as many people possible, they held three open casting calls in Bowling Green, Petersburg and Richmond. They were pleased with the large turnouts. "So many people were excited to audition or be in the process because they were so familiar with the story," Arvold says. "In our open calls we saw what the Lovings were able to allow to happen in the state legally right there in front of us. It was awe inspiring to see what had happened in our lifetime."
Three of the most challenging roles to cast were the Lovings' children because they age over the course of the story. "That was the very first conversation we had when we were hired," Chapman says. "Everyone knew that age progression of the children was imperative to the film. We saw in the hundreds, even thousands of children. That was incredibly rewarding."
"It was a wonderful Rubik's Cube to solve," Arvold adds.
'Loving' the film film Virginia films


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Economic outlook bleak
BY ERIC BLOCH President Robert Mugabe and his ministers have tried vigorously to convince the nation and the world that the distressed Zimbabwean economy is on the threshold of a turnaround. Regrettably, however, there is little to give credibility to their positive projections. To support h
is forecast of growth in the agricultural sector, the President predicated that the present season would see some 43 000 to 53 0000 hectares of tobacco, the basis of that prediction being, he cited, the extent of tobacco seedlings. Unfortunately, his advisors did not disclose to him that many of those seedlings have not been planted (and seedlings that are not planted do not grow!). Authoritative sources within the tobacco industry allege that only 20 000 to 26 000 hectares of land were prepared for a tobacco crop, subsequently planted, and now under cultivation. Thus, the actuality of the 2005/6 tobacco season is a probable crop of about 30 per cent less than the approximately 80 million kgs produced in 2004/5 (which will be only some 20 per cent of the 2001 harvest of 237 million kgs.)
The Minister of Finance projected a 14,8 per cent increase in agricultural production, basing his expectations upon a projected increase in maize production of 33 per cent, and of cotton by 26 per cent. Even if these projections materialize, which is unlikely, their benefit will be offset by the decreases in production of tobacco, sugar, tea and coffee. And the projected improvement in maize production disregards the extent to which recipients of inputs from Government have, in many instances, not used them for intended purposes. There are countless instances of fuel required for field preparation being sold in the Black Market, and of other inputs being illicitly exported to, and sold in, Zambia and Mozambique.
Minister Murerwa also predicted his bullish expectations of a 27 per cent growth in mining. It is indisputable that Zimbabwe's mining sector is set for growth, for the rise in the world price of gold and the significant movement in exchange rates, has restored viability to many existing mines, enabling them to target increased production. Concurrently, there is some marked increase in investor interest in the potential of platinum and uranium mining, and exploitation of the vast methane gas field in Matabeleland North. Nevertheless, a 27 per cent growth in 2006 appears to be grossly optimistic, as many possible investors are holding back until Government discloses its intentions on economic empowerment within the mining sector.
The Minister further founded his positive projections upon an expectation of increased tourist arrivals, in view of Zimbabwe's "track record of peacefulness and tranquility". He was evidently unaware that perceptions (internationally and at home) of Zimbabwe are diametrically opposite to that contention. Farm invasions continue unimpeded, as do car-jackings, armed robberies, and the like. Only five days prior to the Minister's statement, a white farmer was viciously strangled, and then burned to death. In practice, tourists are not significantly exposed to that lawlessness, which is targeted mainly at residents, away from the principal centres, but nevertheless the international image is very negative. In addition, the gross unreliability of air services by Air Zimbabwe, which has become a characteristic of almost all its internal, and regional schedules, and the nationwide scarcity of fuel, are major deterrents to tourists.
But the bleakest of the 2006 circumstances will be that of inflation. Following a prior optimistic projection by the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, Dr. Gideon Gono, the Minister of Finance expects that the year-on-year rate of inflation (which was a horrendous 502,5 per cent in November, 2005, will fall to a maximum of 80 per cent by December, 2006). He wishes to achieve this first and foremost, by curbing money supply growth through constrained spending by Government and lesser recourse by the State to borrowings. Unfortunately, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Because the economic growth will not materialize as projected, the revenue flows to Government must be less than expected. Concurrently, exceptionally high inflation early in the year must swell State expenditure.
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Cirrus Minor est une chanson de Pink Floyd, figurant sur l'album More. C'est la première chanson de l'album.

Cette chanson, écrite par Roger Waters, est chantée par David Gilmour.  Accompagnée à la guitare acoustique et à l'orgue Farfisa, on y entend de très nombreux chants d'oiseaux, ce qui lui donne une ambiance hallucinogène, presque pastorale. Ces chants d'oiseaux sont très proches de ceux présents dans les pièces Grantchester Meadows et Sysyphus de l'album Ummagumma. On ne trouve aucune percussion dans cette chanson.

Les chants d'oiseaux au début proviennent d'un enregistrement de 1961 intitulé "Dawn Chorus" et le seul oiseau présenté sur la partie d'orgue est également un rossignol tiré d'un regroupement d'effets sonores de 1961. Les deux figuraient sur un single d'effets sonores HMV (avec un enregistrement de hiboux) mais vraisemblablement le groupe a emprunté les originaux de la bibliothèque d'effets sonores EMI car celle-ci possédait HMV.

Cirrus Minor apparaît aussi sur la compilation Relics.

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"Cirrus Minor" a une séquence d'accords inhabituelle : mi mineur, mi bémol augmenté, sol majeur, do # mineur 7, do majeur 7, do mineur 7 et si 7. Les accords sont construits autour de la ligne de basse chromatiquement descendante. Les accords si 7, ut majeur 7 et sol majeur sont les seuls accords qui s'inscrivent dans le contexte fonctionnel de la tonalité de mi mineur. Cette séquence d'accords donne à la chanson une atmosphère surréaliste.

La coda d'orgues Hammond et Farfisa est similaire à celle trouvée dans la section "Celestial Voices" de A Saucerful of Secrets. Alors que le Hammond fournit une base majestueuse avec une séquence Em-Bm-D-A-G-D-B, à environ 1/4 de chemin dans la coda, Wright introduit le Farfisa qui, parcouru par un écho de plateau Binson Echorec, produit le son tourbillonnant, tremblant et en écho qui plane au-dessus de l'orgue Hammond.

Musiciens
David Gilmour – guitare acoustique, chant
Roger Waters - basse (vers la fin de la chanson), effets sonores (chants d'oiseaux)
Richard Wright – orgues Hammond et Farfisa

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Where in the world is Morgan Spurlock's 'stache?
Likable "Super Size Me" director searches for video-game villain (and '80s rapper) Osama bin Laden, yuks it up with Arab citizenry.
By Andrew O'Hehir
April 18, 2008 11:02PM (UTC)
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Morgan Spurlock searches for the world's most wanted man in "Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?"
Morgan Spurlock is such a genial, good-natured guy that you can't resist him, even when his vehicle of self-delivery is as awkward and ass-backward as "Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?", Spurlock's new documentary. Spurlock's likable-Joe persona (and his ever variable hipster-meathead facial hair) are both the method and the message of "Where in the World," in which the "Super Size Me" director travels to Egypt, Morocco, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and other contemporary fear-zones, purportedly in search of "the world's most dangerous man."
Most people in those places find Spurlock as appealing as we do, it seems. He swaps Erma Bombeck-style parenting gags with a Moroccan family in a dire shantytown outside Casablanca and a nomadic Afghan family who live in a United Nations tent they bought on the black market. He even cracks up a truly frightening Saudi imam who has just preached a sermon urging Allah to "make Palestine a graveyard for the Jews" and to "make Iraq a graveyard for the Christians." I'm not dismissing Spurlock's desire to find humor and humanity even in that guy; there's an insight at work there that, like so much of this film, hovers on the cusp between stupidity and profundity.
Of course we don't believe for a second that this dude with the affect of a '57 Chevy enthusiast, or maybe of that older guy in "Dazed and Confused" who still hung out with high school students, is seriously looking for Osama bin Laden. That's both a strength and a great weakness of "Where in the World," which tries a little too consciously to replicate the ingenious formula of "Super Size Me." In that film, Spurlock used a one-note joke or frat-boy stunt (eating nothing but McDonald's food for a month) as a way of opening up a profound and depressing truth: The food many Americans eat is literally killing us.
But the joke in "Super Size Me" was both funny and shocking, and Spurlock followed through on it. Suffering an ordeal of body, mind and spirit to rival the medieval saints, this one ordinary guy took on the world's most ubiquitous corporations. The joke in "Where in the World" -- one ordinary guy taking on the ultimate supervillain, I guess -- isn't as funny or as genuine. Spurlock's wife is pregnant with their first child as he undertakes his search, and his idea is to find the man who has made the world into such a terrifying place for innocent babes. First of all, Spurlock isn't going to get anywhere near Osama, and the humor involved in asking random civilians in Riyadh or Ramallah or Kabul about him quickly wears thin.
More important, Osama didn't make the world a more dangerous or evil place for Spurlock's kids and yours and mine, or at least not much more. He just made Americans batshit-crazy about it. (I lived through 9/11 in Manhattan and do not require a lecture on terrorism, thank you very much.) And as the film ruefully admits, wherever in the world Osama bin Laden is or isn't, he just isn't important anymore, if he ever was. Islamic terrorism has become a global idea or meme, and it wouldn't disappear if he was killed or captured. To most ordinary Muslims in most places, caught between the mistrust of the West and their own corrupt and despotic ruling class, Osama is an embarrassing irrelevance who has done them a tremendous disservice.
Beneath his shtick Spurlock actually isn't a dumbass, even if his film yo-yos from recycled Bush administration rhetoric at one end to we-are-the-world sentimentality on the other. The point he's striving for here is both simple and valid. If more Americans got out of our cubicle-to-couch cycles and went places, including the countries where we are told everyone hates us for our freedom, we'd find much more commonality than difference. We might begin to view the grand, mythic narratives that govern American foreign policy and domestic politics with some skepticism, or at least some perspective. Spurlock comes closest to showing his ideological hand in the only two episodes where he encounters overt hostility. Both are in countries defined as staunch American allies: One is in the ultra-consumerist, ultra-fundamentalist society of Saudi Arabia, and the other is in an Orthodox Jewish enclave of Jerusalem.
"Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?" feels like two different movies working at cross-purposes, which may account for the hostile reviews it's been piling up. The second film, Spurlock's point of arrival, is the warm, engaging, Michael Moore-flavored Arab world travelogue I've been discussing. The first one is a mind-bendingly dumb, if occasionally amusing, series of pop-culture riffs on Osama himself, who appears as a clownish rapper (taunting the West with the MC Hammer dance to "Can't Touch This") and then as the villain of a video game, going mano-a-mano with mustachioed hero Morgan Spurlock, of course.
I can see that each of these movies might appeal to somebody, and I suppose Spurlock is betting that the combination can break "Where in the World" out of the cramped commercial ghetto to which all DAFURs -- documentaries about fucked-up reality -- are consigned. Who knows? If I was any good at judging audience taste, I'd have invested in "Juno." Spurlock seems like a terrific guy: I'd love to have a beer with him (to quote the American voter) and I wish him every success. But he's got to learn more than one joke. "Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?" is now playing in New York, Los Angeles and other major cities, with wide national release to follow.
Andrew O'Hehir
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The nose of the mezcal reaches me, its earhty…and smoky…but not overwelmingly so – in a pleasant way it invites you to take a sip.
Its a very smooth and pleasant mezcal which keeps the smokiness lingering in the background and not upfront – instead it grows upon you as it should if well made. At least that`s what i think.
I`ve tried two of Ilegal mezcals – the joven (young/unaged) which i graciously received here just before i left for the US and then the anejo which was brought to the Mixoloseum house in New Orleans courtesy Ilegal mezcal and which i was lucky to sample there. Both are very good, these mezcals are very smooth and they belong to the top shelf mezcals.
I have also tried a few bad mezcals and all i can say is that there´s a huge difference between a good one and a not so good.
The joven is a young mezcal, double and triple distilled made from espadin agave.The anejo is aged one year in medium charred new oak barrels.They also make a reposado which i haven´t tried. Its aged 4-5 months in the same type of barrels as the anejo.The bottle labels are also very nice and the paper has a special feel to it.
Try to find mezcal here in this country…just the thought of it is almost ridiculous, on the shelf i can count on one hand the brands of tequila that i can pick, so what does it take to get something like mezcal to be sold here? few people even knows what it is. Well, i`m happy i do because its deliscious, good to sip neat and good to mix with as well.
I had a few nice tequila and mezcal cocktails at Mayahuel in NYC and i specifically remember one called "Slight Detour" with joven and reposado mezcals, agave and Xocoatl mole bitters and a trio of jalapeno tequila – and peppers is something i think goes really well with these spirits.
I`m currently experimenting with mezcal cocktails and infusions and there will definetily be more of it here.The fun thing with infusing mezcal is that you have its rich flavour profile and smokiness that challenges you. You can infuse it with many things but not all will end up with a good result.
For instance i have a green tomato infusion that have been sitting for a week now and the tomatos hasn´t yet imparted any much to the infusion because they are to light in flavour. I wanted to use tomatillos but they are only occasionally available here, say once a year or so. There´s no mexican food store here either and that is very unfortunate i think.
The pineapple infusion on the other hand turned out really good, the mexcal has just a hint of pineapple and its just the way i like it. I made a chorizo infusion as well and made it to be subtle too (1-2 days – you gotta taste your way) and i think it turned out well. When i make my infusion experiments i always make very small jars, just enough for about 2 drinks because i don´t want to waste the spirit. Two other infusions that works well with mezcal is habanero and jalapeno peppers.
I like to combine mezcal and tequila with freshly muddled herbs and spices combined with fresh juices and simple, flavoured or agave syrups – it`s a nice thing for the palate.
Here´s another cocktail i made using one of my favorite bitters – Bitter Truth´s celery bitters and my pineapple infused joven mezcal with fresh lime, raw sugar cane and aperol garnished with a mezcal soaked cherry from my backyard.
Shake over ice and strain into a glass filled with crushed ice.Garnish with a mezcal soaked cherry and a thin celery stick.
This cocktail turned out really fresh and nice tasting with the slightly pineapple flavoured mezcal playing nicely with both the aperol and celery bitters. But the big win was at the end – to eat the mezcal soaked cherry.That was nom nom.
Add fresh cherries to a jar filled with joven mezcal and soak for at least a week before use. I actually used this cherry a bit too early, only after a few days.They get even better with time but it was very flavourful already. Last year i soaked all my cherries in Luxardo maraschino, i had a supply that lasted the whole winter.This fall i`m gonna soak more cherries in mezcal and then make a jar with Luxardo and a jar with tequila.That should take me through the coming winter.
Just lately for the equal parts TDN i decided to use this mezcal in a drink that i called "Bitter Smoke". I think this mezcal goes pretty well with Campari, and the Fevertree tonic is just what is needed to give it a fresh sparkle. Now this drink was made after the TDN rules of equal parts that night, so just a bit more tonic would be even nicer i believe. And add just a small a sprinkle of fresh lime as well.
Build over big chunks of ice.
But the best way to take full advantage of and enjoy all the complex flavours of a good mezcal is to sip it neat.
There´s something mysterious in the feel about mezcal, something ancient… and it transports you.