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Photo: Mexico's Attorney General's OfficePhoto: Mexico's Attorney General's Office
El Chapo and the Fog of the Drug War
Ryan Devereaux
January 13 2016, 6:04 p.m.
THE FOOTAGE IS unquestionably dramatic: Members of Mexico's most elite security forces clear a four-bedroom house in a predawn raid. Over the course of 15 chaotic minutes, the Mexican marines can be seen moving room to room through the smoky building. Gunfire thunders. The walls are pocked with bullet holes. The commandos toss grenades. A marine goes down. "They got me," he screams. The marines detain an unidentified individual with flex cuffs and find two women hiding in a bathroom. Garbage and high-powered rifles litter the floor.
The narrative that follows the gunfight is every bit as fast-paced. When the smoke cleared, four people were under arrest, with five more reported dead. Photos of their bloody bodies appeared online the next day. Two others escaped, however — one of them a stocky, bearded man named Ivan Gastelum, the alleged assassin-in-chief for the Sinaloa cartel, Mexico's most powerful and sophisticated drug-trafficking organization. Gastelum, who goes by the nickname "El Cholo Ivan," was accompanied in flight by his boss, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera, the world's most infamous drug trafficker and Mexico's most wanted man.
According to a video of the raid obtained by Mexico's Televisa network, which published the footage Monday accompanied by interviews with marines who took part in the operation, Gastelum and Guzmán relied on a familiar trick to elude the well-armed men bearing down on them: They dropped into a tunnel, the same tactic Guzmán had famously used six months earlier when he escaped from Mexico's top maximum security prison, the second early exit from incarceration of his storied criminal career. This time around, Guzmán's route to freedom was apparently hidden behind a closet mirror. It reportedly took an hour and a half for the marines to locate the lever, hidden in a ceiling fan, which allowed them to access the tunnel. According to some media accounts, the marines entered the passage carrying torches.
Gastelum and Guzmán used their head start to escape through the sewer system of Los Mochis, a coastal city in Guzmán's home state of Sinaloa. Upon emerging, the men stole a vehicle, which ran out of gas. So they stole another. The driver of the second vehicle called in the theft, authorities said, permitting security forces to capture the pair alive. They were taken to what The Guardian described as "a sex motel," complete with a "laminated menu of sex toys, condoms and lubricants," before being handed over to the military. Speaking to Televisa, the head of the Mexican special operations unit, the same man said to have captured El Chapo in 2014, said he told the drug boss, "Your six-month vacation is over," to which Guzmán replied, "Yes, my holiday is over."
And so ended Operation Black Swan. Of course, how much of that story is true remains to be seen. Initial accounts of high-stakes military raids, particularly those with profound political implications, are notoriously prone to inaccuracies and often take years to sort out, regardless of the country in question. The raid that killed Osama bin Laden is but one prominent example. In Mexico, where it is not uncommon for journalists covering drug-related violence to be killed on the job, or for the government to obfuscate facts, the truth can be especially difficult to pin down.
Arturo Fontes, a former FBI investigator who spent nearly 30 years working drug cases in Mexico, much of that time focused on the hunt for Guzmán, applauded the drug lord's arrest. At the same time, however, he suggested that broader political motivations, particularly the current record low value of the Mexican peso, might have played a role in triggering the raid. "I believe that Chapo could have been arrested about two months, or six months ago," Fontes told The Intercept.
When Mexican authorities commit themselves to making arrests, Fontes argued, they often succeed. The problem, he said, is one of will and corruption. "They have the people, they have good police officers, a good military," he said. "It's corruption [that] gets the best of it." That corruption, which Guzmán no doubt has intimate knowledge of, is likely making a number of Mexican politicians, businesspeople, and law enforcement and military officials uneasy now that he is in custody, Fontes added.
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera is escorted by Mexican security forces into a helicopter at a navy hangar in Mexico City, Mexico, on Friday, Jan. 8, 2016.
Photo: Susana Gonzalez/Bloomberg/Getty Images
Some have already begun calling the official account of Guzmán's arrest last weekend into question. The novelist Don Winslow, who has written two heavily researched, fictionalized accounts of the drug war in Mexico based largely on Guzmán's real-life rise to power, has repeatedly slammed the official narrative on Twitter, pointing to a Reuters report that found "no signs of bullet holes" on the exterior of the building where Guzmán's men died. Noting edits in the raid footage and the fact that none of Guzmán's men were shot on camera, Winslow also tweeted, "Dear President Nieto … Please release the UNEDITED video of the El Chapo 'raid' to the American media."
The extent to which Mexican security forces received help on the ground during last week's events remains unclear. While there is little question that U.S. intelligence aided in the run-up to the operation, the official line out of Mexico City has credited Mexican security forces with the capture. Yet Reuters, citing a senior Mexican police source and a U.S. source, reported that U.S. marshals and DEA agents were "involved" in Guzmán's capture.
Such cooperation is commonplace. The Wall Street Journal has reported that U.S. marshals have made a practice of dressing as Mexican marines and joining in armed drug raids in recent years. The Mexican investigative newsmagazine Proceso, in a story sourced to two American officials in Washington, D.C., reported that El Chapo was last apprehended by American members of the Marshals Service, the DEA, and an unnamed U.S. intelligence agency wearing the uniforms of Mexican marines.
On Monday, SOFREP, a news website run by U.S. special operations veterans that covers secretive missions around the world, added a new wrinkle to the evolving account of Guzmán's capture, reporting that members of the U.S. Army's Delta Force were also on the scene during the mission. Attributed to multiple anonymous sources, the article reported that the U.S. marshals played an "important role in tracking down the drug lord" and that Delta commandos, part of the U.S. military's super-secretive Joint Special Operations Command, "served as tactical advisors but did not directly participate in the operation," adding that "law enforcement agencies are said to regard the presence of a JSOC operator as a sort of lucky talisman."
An assist from the U.S. military's most elite fighters in taking down a major Latin American drug trafficker would not be unprecedented. In his book Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command, journalist Sean Naylor delves into the role U.S. special operations forces, including members of Delta Force and SEAL Team 6, played in tracking down Colombian kingpin Pablo Escobar nearly two-and-a-half decades ago. Naylor explains how the mission, which was technically supposed to be limited to training elite Colombian security forces but led to Escobar's death on December 2, 1993, capitalized on communications surveillance and laid the groundwork for the so-called high-value targeting missions that would come to define JSOC's role in a post-9/11 world.
Fontes said he did not believe U.S. elements were directly involved in Guzmán's most recent capture. "Not on this one," he said. "There's been a lot of information sharing on telephone numbers, on key people," Fontes said. "Whether the information was not shared this time, it's been shared in the past."
Carl Pike, a former assistant special agent in charge of the DEA's special operations division, who retired in December 2014 after Guzmán's second arrest, said he had no information on U.S. personnel actively participating in Guzmán's most recent apprehension. Typically, he explained, "When it gets down to the nut-cutting itself, the actual act, it's all GOM [government of Mexico]."
The U.S. government's national security apparatus has enjoyed unprecedented access to Mexican counternarcotics efforts since the administration of Felipe Calderón. Pike acknowledged that the relationship has continued under Peña Nieto, though longstanding concerns over the encroachment of the Americans in Mexican affairs have not disappeared. "I'm amazed sometimes at the stereotypical view of Mexico," Pike said, pointing out that memories of U.S. military incursions into Mexico continue to color perceptions of American operations on Mexican soil to this day, sometimes resulting in a reluctance on the part of Mexican officials to be perceived as bowing to the whims of the United States. What's more, Pike added, the U.S.-trained Mexican marine forces responsible for Guzmán's last two arrests are, in their own right, "a very, very highly advanced, highly trained military group."
THE EMERGING DETAILS of the operations that led to Guzmán's capture add to a highly cinematic and surreal story, and at the heart of the weirdness is the role of Sean Penn and his 10,000-word article for Rolling Stone.
Faced with mounting evidence that his meeting may have helped lead authorities to Guzmán, Penn has defended his interview, telling the AP by email, "I've got nothin' to hide." Rolling Stone, for its part, has insisted that it maintained the highest levels of security in reporting and publishing the interview. The magazine's founder, Jann Wenner, said in an interview with the New York Times that for much of the reporting process he and Penn kept the story between them, avoided discussing it on the phone, and kept emails pertaining to the project on "a separate protected part of our server."
(For more on the failures of operational security that plagued Penn's encounter, see this piece by The Intercept's Andrew Fishman.)
The former federal investigators who spoke to The Intercept largely downplayed the role of the Penn narrative. "It doesn't surprise me," Fontes said, that Mexican authorities used Penn and the Mexican actor Kate del Castillo to locate Guzmán. "They had other ways to catch him, not just this, but it did help," he said. Fontes suggested that for El Chapo, there was perhaps more at stake than simply making a movie, including a potential "infatuation" with Castillo. "When I've worked him over the years," Fontes said, "a young woman and famous actresses like her … that was his weakness."
Gone largely unnoticed in media discussions of the Rolling Stone article has been any recognition of the cost paid by Mexican citizens living in the area where Guzmán was apparently hiding at the time of his meeting with Penn. If the statements from Mexican officials are true, Penn's interview may have triggered a string of heavy-handed military operations that drove hundreds of Mexican ranchers from their homes.
After his October 2 meeting with Guzmán, Penn returned to Los Angeles. "What I didn't know," he wrote, "was that from the time the weather cleared, a military siege on Sinaloa was imminent." The day after Penn left, the Mexican military began sweeping through the mountains in hopes capturing or killing El Chapo. The raids following Penn's visit appear to have peaked on October 6, though English-language media did not report on their scope until October 17, when NBC News, citing "three sources with knowledge of the operation," reported that "Mexican marines zeroed in on the Sinaloa cartel kingpin after U.S. drug agents intercepted cellphone signals suggesting 'El Chapo' was hiding at a ranch near Cosala in the rugged Sierra Madre mountains in western Mexico." NBC reported that Guzmán narrowly escaped the operation and in the process suffered injuries to his face and leg. Guzmán confirmed the raids in a message to Kate del Castillo, but said reports of his injuries had been exaggerated.
Proceso followed up on the NBC report in its October 18 issue, publishing its own front-page feature examining the failed operation and the intelligence that led to it. According to an unnamed "American intelligence agent," information regarding U.S. communications intercepts pointing to Guzmán's presence in Durango, near the border with Sinaloa, was shared with Mexican authorities. The source added that the mission was delayed by "several hours" because the area where Guzmán was holed up was difficult to access.
While details on the intelligence that led up to the early October operations have been limited, Penn himself acknowledged that he was likely subject to intense U.S. and Mexican surveillance. In describing his October 2 arrival in the country, Penn wrote, "There is no question in my mind but that the DEA and the Mexican government are tracking our movements." In Penn's account, English-language reports describing the Mexican military raids that followed his visit were watered down. "By the time news agencies broadcast the story in the United States," he wrote, "the mayhem throughout Sinaloa in those days had been essentially reduced to a nearly successful raid that had surgically targeted only Chapo and his men, and claimed he had been injured in flight with face and leg wounds."
A man, his hands bound behind his back, killed execution style along the banks of a river in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, March 7, 2012.
Photo: Louie Palu/zReportage/Zumapress.com
In fact, the stories describing the scenes on the ground in Durango were detailed and vivid. On October 18, the AFP published an interview with Ayon Mendoza, a 24-year-old housewife in Durango whose home was riddled with bullets allegedly fired by Mexican military helicopters on the hunt for Guzmán. According to the report, Mendoza, her husband, and their 3-year-old daughter were just a handful of the more than 600 people displaced by the Mexican military operations. Speaking to the AFP, Francisca Quintero Sánchez said military helicopters unleashed a "rain of bullets" on her home as well. Hiding under her bed with her three children, she described the attack as "a time of terror."
In December, reporters from Vice News traveled to Sinaloa and met ranchers who remained displaced from their homes. Several claimed that their properties had been ransacked after they were forced to flee. Responding to the allegations, a spokesperson for the Mexican navy dismissed claims that the military fired on civilian homes and stressed that the military would only open fire if fired upon. "In every operation carried out by naval personnel, in every moment and in every situation, human rights are strictly protected in any circumstance, as established by Mexico's constitution," the navy said in a statement following the initial October reports.
Pike, the former DEA agent, argued that statements from Mexican officials claiming that an anonymous phone tip from a vigilant citizen led to Guzmán's capture were evidence that the military's pressure on Sinaloa and surrounding areas had paid off.
"For a long time, Sinaloa, as far as law enforcement was concerned and the military was concerned, was no man's land," he said. "Nobody even went in there because you went into the cartel firefights up there."
In recent months, he said, the Mexican marines appeared to have adopted a new mindset that "if we're going to flush the rabbit out of the briar patch we're gonna have to get into the briar patch." The continued presence of the Mexican marines, the use of checkpoints, roadblocks, and random searches, Pike said, forced the population to choose between protecting a drug lord and their own personal freedom. "They just squeezed Sinaloa to the point that Chapo popped out."
THE DRAMA SURROUNDING Guzmán's capture is unlikely to let up anytime soon. For veterans of the drug war, the re-arrest of a man believed to be responsible for a significant portion of the estimated 160,000 people killed in Mexico over the last decade is cause for celebration.
Any belief that Guzmán's arrest will make a substantive difference in the flow of drugs to the United States, however, is a different matter. As Guzmán told Rolling Stone, "The day I don't exist, it's not going to decrease in any way at all."
"He's absolutely right," Pike said. "Him being arrested is not really going to impact the drug trade whatsoever. It's a big machine and it's just gonna happen." Will there be fallout within the Sinaloa cartel and other criminal organizations? "Yeah, sure. There will be," Pike said. "But is it going to stop it? No. Not at all."
Pike expressed relief that El Chapo was captured alive. "What it actually goes to show is, the rule of law works," he said. Without "slamming any other part of the government," he added, "you can obviously fly a drone and drop a Hellfire missile on somebody, but rule of law works when you get out, work hard, and arrest somebody and bring them to a court of law."
Ryan Devereaux[email protected]theintercept.com@rdevro
There never has been a war on drugs.
There always has been a drug war on the competition.
The collateral damage fills prisons, cemeteries and battlefields, across the world.
Approximately 20,000 people die each year in Mexico's drug war.
There are 5 liters of blood in a human being.
There are about 20 microliters in a drop.
So there are 5,000,000,000 drops of dead man's blood shed for Mexico's drug war
There are about 100,000,000,000 dollars spent by Americans on drugs each year.
Therefore, in spirit, on average, every 20 dollars' worth of drugs contains one drop of a murdered man's blood.
Sid Wnt
January 14 2016, 10:40 p.m.
Are maybe every letter of a law that criminalizes intoxication is worth so many pounds of flesh? People should own their bodies. It's really a question of basic human decency. The violence you cite exists exclusively because of the American drug laws and American money that supports similar drug laws around the world. End Prohibition and allow humans to own their bodies for crying out loud.
Mike T Sid
Sid is correct. Drug prohibition is the cause of nearly all drug-related violence, just as alcohol prohibition in the US a century ago caused violence in this country to skyrocket (and then drop again when alcohol was made legal again).
Besides that, the notion that grown adults don't have the absolute right to do as they wish with their own bodies and health is highly offensive and tyrannical.
stalked562
¡Free El Chapo!
william w Haywood
Pike's rule of law is all about military law!
Joe Hill william w Haywood
Big Bill? Is that really the Wobbly's Big Bill? I saw your headstone in the Kremlin wall. Welcome home.
Now come my friend I'll take your hand and lead you home...
I have never understood the appeal of cocaine, it does nothing good for me, just makes me nazi-arrogant and weirdly hyper-wired and ever-close-to-violent like it does so many other people I have had to live with in my younger days. A few years ago it finally killed my old best friend, a very rich and successful man who was seduced by a buzz I never got. I have seen it motivate and dictate the behaviour of many people around me, rich and poor, but I cannot say any one of them did anything glorious whilst high on cocaine.
Instead its legacy that I have witnessed has been violent, sexually abusive, psychotic, expensively wasteful, addictive, physically and mentally destructive, cheating, thieving, divisive, elitist, obnoxious, and arrogant; all for a buzz that seems to me just to make you want to take more.
It seems the ultimate Stupid Shithead's Drug to me, for selfish idiots who can't drink and lack a genuine personality to display in public. I have seen it destroy the lives of several close friends, some who had real talent and a special spark and others who just wished they did. I've had my head smashed open, female friends sexually attacked, stopped a cocaine-fuelled gang rape, and had to pin friends down who were in fits of murderous snowblind frenzy. To me it is just a fucking horrible drug, and mixed with alcohol it is insane. No wonder America is so fucked and hatefully fascist. It's C-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-co-caine!
If you read this and disagree then you are either in denial or getting some rubbish gear, because EVERYONE who has done coke has done something base and shitty to the people around them at some point. And then there's Mexico and Columbia.
January 14 2016, 2:00 a.m.
I'm in love with that Mexican actress, too. My god, she's hot! Does anyone think that the guy who takes Guzman's place will be nicer and less violent? Time to end the war on drugs. Peace in Our Time.
"That corruption, which Guzmán . . has intimate knowledge of, is likely making a number of . . officials uneasy now that he is in custody" – Fontes.
He was in custody before, what's so different about now? Are they planning to rendition him or something?
Robert Farrior
The drug war tyranny must be ended, along with all the other tyrannies!
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James Jhonson
today if you destroy all the sources of drugs, most of the societies will back to stone age. In USA alone it will cause a depression that will make 30ies look like a cake walk. In 2002 when USA attacked Afghanistan, there was 0% drugs was coming from Afghanistan and now They are setting new records every year. CIA takes the drugs sells it in the local markets around the areas and then recycles the money using local housing and other markets and then spends that on fueling local conflicts.
DEA is to drugs what FDA is to regular Food. Their only purpose is make sure everything is under their control from source to destination. From time to time they make raids to control the prices and such.
There are only two possible reasons they are after this Al-Chapo. 1) He might be thinking about reforming him self. 2) He might have stepped on wrong toe (conflict of interest and such).
We (USA) are trying to get rid of sources of Drugs? it is the biggest joke of the century.
stigira man
All of this stinks to heaven.A nice video has one problem, El-Chapo was supposedly caught in the street after escaping through sewage tunnel to manhole on the street. Looks like false flag and in fact he might have surrendered after interview with SP for Hollywood film not to be extradited to US since in Mexico ho judge would really put him down. But not for reasons many think.
I wonder why Penn was not blindfolded for his own good since now he may have be part of a trial since he saw people who work for El Chapo. But it won't be any trial. It was like El-Chapo wanted to be arrested or to surrender, so reckless. Usually killers let you see their face when you are to be killed. So what happened?
But there is wider, historical context of this story. There is a cultural fusion between twenty families ruling Mexico since anti-Spanish revolution and so-called permanent rebels, akin to legendary outlaws who brought Mexico independence from Spain.
The rebels suppose to provide balance between exploitive aristocrats and popular rebel heroes expressing people's grievances against ruling elite. This is how El-Chapo and other drug lords exists in Mexican culture. like mafia exists in Italian culture.
Unfortunately, rebels in Mexican culture are the only hope of Mexican people dying under boot of Mexican aristocrats and their US handlers.
It is sad but all leftist movements are being eradicated methodically since 1938, time of last socialist Mexico government ran by revolutionary PRI (not today's corporate PRI).
James Jhonson stigira man
Thanks for you interesting take.
for me the key is "Unfortunately, rebels in Mexican culture are the only hope of Mexican people dying under boot of Mexican aristocrats and their US handlers."
This sentence applies to so many countries in the world. Word "Maxican" is a wildcard and could be replaced with nationality of 50 other nations.
Wnt James Jhonson
Well, they didn't eradicate the EZLN, did they? As far as I know, Chiapas doesn't make the headlines because they succeeded. That's how the System deals with it when the people win – they act like it never happened, and hope the rest of us will too.
"Colombian kindpin Pablo Escobar"
William Bednarz
The C.I.A. drug trade started with the Ronald Reagan/George Bush administration – Arms for Hostages – Iran/Contra……employed by the C.I.A. – – all those escapes?? and not killed??
As an addendum to this piece, how about a discussion of how the cartels in Mexico launder their drug money through the US and Mexican banking system? For example, a detailed discussion of HSBC laundering Sinaloa cartel profits and, instead of being raided by special forces, the guilty bankers get 'deferred prosecution agreements' and continue laundering drug money?
Take cocaine – estimates hover around 300 tons per year consumption in the US, about 275,000 kilograms, or 275 million grams sold at a minimal street price of $50 a gram, resulting in at least $14 billion in gross sales in the US alone – all that cash then must be shipped to a bank that will accept it, and for a large fee, convert it into legitimate cash in a legitimate bank somewhere – such as HSBC, which was fined about $2 billion for laundering $10 billion in cartel cash – so we can guess that the big banks charge 20% of the take to launder drug money, and where is the FBI and DEA on that?
As long as demand for illegal drugs remains high, and it will, since cocaine is a luxury status drug in cities all across the US, the cash will continue to accumulate and the coca leaf production will continue and the chemical processing of coca leaf into purified cocaine will continue, regardless of who goes to jail where. If one route is shut down, another will open up, and what Wall Street-backed politician would want to halt the vast flow of drug cash into major US banks?
So the only realistic solution is to allow the drug cartels to register as pharmaceutical corporations, and then they will be taxed, regulated, and also, protected by the police (consider that the biggest opiate suppliers in the US are legitimate pharmaceutical corporations, and when pharmacies are robbed by opiate addicts, the police investigate and attempt to find the culprits – when cartels 'investigate' thefts of their products, that's when the violence explodes and street wars take place).
That's how alcohol prohibition ended – the illegal producers became legal producers, the machine-gun and dynamite wars in the streets of US cities over control of distribution by gangsters ended, and alcohol use rates actually decreased a little bit. The same would happen with opiate and cocaine use – and American prison populations would decrease dramatically, saving lots of money for better uses.
General Hercules photosymbiosis
Good ideas but the profits will decrease. You should consider the effect over the entire spectrum of businesses that will be affected. For instance, the prison industry will fold up.
James Jhonson General Hercules
No it wont!
They will just increases the fine of Speeding and other such things.
From $50-$100 a pop to six month imprisonment.
Joel Grant photosymbiosis
January 14 2016, 12:48 a.m.
Note also that banks will not handle legal (in WA, CO, OR, AK) cannabis businesses. But they have no problem laundering cartel billions.
Wnt photosymbiosis
I agree with legalization, but I don't think the prohibitionists are so well-meaning. They don't have the laws they do because they want to decrease drug use. If they wanted to do that, they would not give people the same prison time for selling fake drugs as real drugs, in order to make it safe for wealthy consumers to drive into poor neighborhoods and do business with the first thug they see on a street corner.
Deadheded photosymbiosis
here is how all that drug cartel money is laundered. http://Www.dunwalke.com


Google's OnHub devices would like to change the way you look at and interact with routers. They are designed to be simple to use, attractive, and intelligent. That's nice, since most routers are fairly complicated for the technically challenged and their blinking lights and protruding antennas make them look like tiny, ugly, Romulan mining vessels (most people would think of this as a negative, but I'm not so sure about the AP crowd).
If you've been interested in trying out an OnHub router for a while, but have been waiting for the right deal to pop up, then now is your time to flash some plastic and buy one. As part of their daily Gold Box promotion, Amazon has the Asus OnHub Wireless AC Router on sale today for just $130 – that's $70 off the MSRP, and $20 less than the last time we saw it go on sale.
Not a bad deal, eh? If you want to pick one up then you'll need to act quick. The deal expires at the end of the day (or when Amazon runs out of inventory). There are no codes to fiddle with and the router ships free whether you are a Prime subscriber or not. Just follow the link if you are interested and you can buy for yourself. Happy interneting!


Purshottam Das Jalota was 85 years, 5 months	& 9 days old age.
Purshottam Das Jalota was born on 09-08-1925 in Phagwara in the state of Punjab, India. He was an Indian Singer.
Purshottam Das Jalota died on 18-01-2011 in India. He died at the age of 85.


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5:15 p.m. University of Panama Orchestra, directed by Efrain Pin Castro
Gala Night at the National Theatre
Afternoon concert at Teatro Ascanio Arosemena.
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4:00 p.m. Babito Samba Jazz
5:00 p.m. Victor Vitin Paz Quintet with Carlos Campos, Fernando del Rio, Carlos Perez and Edmundo Melo
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9:15 p.m. Chucho Valdes Quintet with Lazaro Rivero, Yaroldy Abreu, Mayra Valdes, and Juan Carlos Rojas.
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8:00 p.m. Luba Mason and his group Kava with Hubert Laws, Jimmy Haslip and Ruben Blades
9:15 p.m. Wayne Shorter Quartet with Danilo Perez, John Patitucci and Brian Blade
Noon – Open-air, free concert at the Cathedral Plaza, Casco Viejo.

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Is Wall Street Abandoning Gun Manufacturers?
There have been clear signs this week that after the tragedy in Newtown, Conn., the balance of power in the debate over gun control is shifting. Pro-gun Democrats with stellar ratings from the NRA like West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin and Viriginia Senator Mark Warner came out in favor of increasing federal restrictions on gun ownership, while Republicans like Iowa Senator Charles Grassley and ten-term Republican Representative Jack Kingston of Georgia both agreed that Congress should at least consider tightening gun control as part of a broader effort to curb gun violence, according to the Associated Press.
Of course there's a big difference between politicians talking about reform and actually passing potent legislation. After all, we've witnessed a number of these shootings over the years, and few if any have lead to a statutory response that had an appreciable effect on gun violence. But if you pay attention to Wall Street, there's reason to believe that this time may be different.
The stocks of two of the largest publicly-owned gun manufacturers — Smith and Wesson Holding Company and Sturm Ruger and Co. — have both seen their stock prices tumble since Friday's shooting, even though CNBC.com is reporting anecdotally that gun sales have gone through the roof in the wake of the shootings. This is in stark contrast to the days following the Aurora, Colo., and Oak Creek, Wis., shootings, when share prices in gun companies declined only slightly or actually increased, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
In addition, following an announcement from the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) that it would review it's $751.4 million investment in private equity firm Cerberus — which owns Freedom Group, the manufacturer of the Bushmaster rifle allegedly used in Friday's shooting — Cerberus announced yesterday morning that it would immediately explore options to sell the gunmaker.
Which is to say, it looks like the smart money on Wall Street is betting on increased gun regulation. After all, a company like Freedom Group would stand to lose a lot from the reintroduction of a so-called assault weapons ban, which would likely prohibit the sale or manufacture of more than a dozen different gun models. And while it's not clear that increased regulation would do a lot to restrict access to guns, it would almost certainly hamper the growth prospects of gun manufacturers.
Business leaders tend to engage in politics only when such engagement can help their bottom line — and they generally avoid getting involved when it can't. This is to be expected. It's exceedingly rare to see social change instigated by business, and the gun control debate will probably be no different.


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package org.terracotta.context.query;

import org.terracotta.context.ContextElement;
import org.terracotta.context.TreeNode;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;

/**
 * @author cdennis
 */
public class QueryTestUtils {

  public static TreeNode createTreeNode(Class<?> identifier) {
    return createTreeNode(identifier, Collections.emptyMap());
  }

  public static TreeNode createTreeNode(Class<?> identifier, Map<String, Object> attributes) {
    return createTreeNode(identifier, attributes, Collections.emptySet());
  }

  public static TreeNode createTreeNode(Class<?> identifier, Set<TreeNode> children) {
    return createTreeNode(identifier, Collections.emptyMap(), children);
  }

  public static TreeNode createTreeNode(Class<?> identifier, Map<String, Object> attributes, Set<TreeNode> children) {
    return new ImmutableTreeNode(children, new ImmutableContextElement(identifier, attributes));
  }

  static class ImmutableTreeNode implements TreeNode {

    private final Set<? extends TreeNode> children;
    private final ContextElement context;

    public ImmutableTreeNode(Set<? extends TreeNode> children, ContextElement context) {
      this.children = Collections.unmodifiableSet(children);
      this.context = context;
    }

    @Override
    public Set<? extends TreeNode> getChildren() {
      return children;
    }

    @Override
    public List<? extends TreeNode> getPath() {
      throw new IllegalStateException();
    }

    @Override
    public Collection<List<? extends TreeNode>> getPaths() {
      return Collections.emptyList();
    }

    @Override
    public ContextElement getContext() {
      return context;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
      return context.toString();
    }

    @Override
    public String toTreeString() {
      throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not supported yet.");
    }

    @Override
    public void clean() {
      throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not supported yet.");
    }
  }

  static class ImmutableContextElement implements ContextElement {

    private final Class<?> identifier;
    private final Map<String, Object> attributes;

    public ImmutableContextElement(Class<?> identifier, Map<String, Object> attributes) {
      this.identifier = identifier;
      this.attributes = Collections.unmodifiableMap(attributes);
    }

    @Override
    public Class<?> identifier() {
      return identifier;
    }

    @Override
    public Map<String, Object> attributes() {
      return attributes;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
      if (attributes.isEmpty()) {
        return "Node:" + identifier;
      } else {
        return "Node:" + identifier + " " + attributes.toString();
      }
    }
  }

  public static class A {}

  public static class B {}

  public static class C {}

  public static class D {}

  public static class E {}

  public static class F {}

  public static class G {}

  public static class H {}

  public static class I {}

  public static class J {}
}

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Q: Exclude external javascript file from loading I have a problem. In layout.phtml I load javascript file which I need in all pages except few:

$this->headScript()->prependFile($this->basePath('js.js'), 'text/javascript');
echo $this->headScript()

How can I exclude this javascript in index.phtml file which uses layout.phtml ?

A: You can do it like this:
if (__FILE__ != $YOUR_PATH_NAME) {
  $this->headScript()->prependFile($this->basePath('js.js'), 'text/javascript');
  echo $this->headScript()
}

Replace $YOUR_PATH_NAME with the actual path. This script should execute snippet inside if block only if it's not on the  index page

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Understanding the Whisky Regions of Scotland
Bordeaux Index Spirits Team
As the birthplace of Whisky, it's no surprise that Scotland is home to some of the finest and rarest distilleries on earth. There are over 120 active distilleries in Scotland spanning across 5 major whisky-making regions - Speyside, the Highlands and the Islands, Islay, Campbeltown, and the Lowlands. Dating back to 1494, the origins of Whisky have been found in records describing the production of 'Acqua Vitae' (meaning 'water of life'). Much of whisky production in the early days was kept firmly under wraps due to high taxes, hence the remote locations of many distilleries still today. A great example of this was found in records detailing a royal declaration from King James IV to Fife-based Friar John Cor to distil his malted barley spirit. Fast forward to modern times and production methods have moved on to the state-of-the-art distilleries we know and love, with computers ensuring accuracy and highly trained distillery managers and stillmen dedicating their life's work to perfecting the art of whisky-making. While the methods to monitor the distilling process may have improved, the core ingredients haven't changed a bit. Abundant access to rich water sources is still as integral as ever, moderate temperatures for ageing and access to nutrient-rich peat and barley have all been key to Scotland's whisky success. The treasured liquid gold has developed signature styles dependent on the particular Scottish region in which it was born. Understanding these regions will not only shed light on the wonders of whisky but also unveil the intricate details and subtle differences between these world renowned whisky-making paradises.
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Nestled in the heart of the Highlands, Speyside is one of the founding fathers of whisky production. Although it is not a classified geographical location, it is renowned the world over for its distilling and is one of the original whisky-making hubs in Scotland. Home to over half of the distilleries in Scotland, this region is arguably one of the most well known and recognisable today. The reason for the unbelievably high concentration of distilleries in Speyside is that you'd be hard pushed to find a location with better conditions for whisky-making. With its abundance and quality of water from the River Spey (with its low mineral content), a ready supply of peat from the surrounding mountains, and remoteness (ideal in 19th century for avoiding the whisky excise tax collectors). It's no secret that the former two elements play a pivotal role in whisky production, perhaps today not so much the latter.
Typical style - full-bodied, creamy, sherry-cask influence is the typical style in Speyside. Notes of vanilla, dried fruits and honey.
Featured Speyside Distillery
Glenfarclas distillery is one of Scotland's few family-run distilleries, now in the hands of the fifth and sixth generations. The Grants are still committed to creating the highest quality 'Single Highland Malt Scotch Whisky' in the traditional Speyside style. It's no wonder they are often referred to as 'Probably Speyside's Finest', maintaining such incredible consistency and quality across their range. In fact, they were the very first distillery to release a cask-strength single malt whisky. One factor key to the quality is the maturation of their whisky taking place solely in sherry casks, something that is increasingly rare due to the spiralling costs of the sherry casks themselves. Glenfarclas is renowned for producing high-quality whiskies with immense flavour complexity and superb value, what more could you wish for?
Taking a step back from honing in on Speyside which is only one small section of the Highlands, it is important to highlight the region as a whole. After all, it is the largest of all the whisky regions in Scotland. Stretching from just north of Glasgow and Edinburgh all the way to Dunnet Head, the northernmost part of the country. As an 'appellation' the Highlands is a region consisting of immensely varied landscapes. From sandy shorelines and lapping waves at seaside based distilleries, to vast expanses of heather and stark moorlands at distilleries situated on the peat abundant fells - the Highlands offer the greatest variation in style.
Typical style - malt, dried fruits, heather, light peat-smoke.
Featured Highlands Distillery
Tomatin's origins as a whisky distillery go farther back than the proven records show, as it is thought that Whisky has been distilled on site since the 16th century, albeit illegally, it was formally established in 1897. Tomatin (translated as Hill of the Juniper Bush) is based just south of Inverness, with over 80% of their staff based on-site, Tomatin is a truly local artisanal Highland crafted dram. Located on the 'Alt na Frith' burn the distillery has a perfect source of soft, Highland water, essential for the creation of their mellow, fruity spirit. Tomatin's strong reputation is likely due to its appearance in some of the world's most famous blends including Johnnie Walker, J&B and Chivas Regal. As a single malt, however, you see the true beauty of the Highland malt.
Typical Style - Notes of wild heather, apples and pears.
The Scottish isles are home to more than 800 islands. A selective few of these produce world-class whisky. Scattered off Scotland's stunning coastline you will find charming holiday spots and more importantly the well established whisky hubs of Skye, Arran, Mull, Orkney and Jura. These five Scottish islands are known across the globe for their prodigious whisky production. The islands benefit from the close proximity to the sea, providing a unique fresh saltiness to the liquid.
Typical Style - Island distilleries can be seen to produce varied notes of seaweed and peat smoke (Talisker) to nuts and fudge (Jura).
Featured Islands Distillery
One of only two distilleries on the remote islands of Orkney, Highland Park is identified by their unique taste, heritage brand and distinguished history - they are unquestionably one of Scotland's greatest producers. Their distinctive style and acute quality is thanks to their supply of 9,000 year old, heather-infused Orkney Peat (decayed organic matter, turned fossil fuel). The extreme weather conditions and strong winds which so frequently sweep across the isles means few natural plants like trees can survive. The peat is therefore covered and flavoured by thick heather, which when burned to dry their malted barley and imparts a distinctive smoky yet floral flavour on the malt, creating unique whiskies. Highland Park is also rare in that they are one of the few distilleries that perform in-house malting, turning their malt by hand to precisely control the process and quality to perfection. With a line of Master Distillers dating back 222 years combined with their laboriously precise whisky-making methods, one thing is for sure, Highland Park's craft is truly perfected.
The Southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides and the fifth largest Scottish island, Islay is fondly known as 'The Queen of the Hebrides' and more importantly, Scotland's 'Whisky Isle'. Islay is one of the oldest producing regions in Scotland and is widely known for its malt whisky distillation, with the whisky industry being the second largest employer on the island. Legend has it that the recipe for the 'water of life' was brought over to Scotland from Ireland via Islay. Currently housing nine working distilleries, its whiskies are known for their distinctly divisive nature and very strong peaty flavours with almost all the distilleries on the island using the readily available peat.
Typical style - Expect a strong smokey peat note from Islay whiskies. A fresh saline character is common due to its proximity to the sea. The whiskies saline character is complemented by the peaty nature of the whisky, resulting in beautifully medicinal drams. Notes of seaweed, smoke and apple.
Featured Islay Distillery
Undoubtedly one of the most iconic distilleries in the world, enthusiasts and critics alike praise the consistency of quality whisky produced by Laphroaig. Based on the south coast of Islay and established in 1815, Laphroaig is the only whisky to carry the Royal Warrant of the Prince of Wales - an impressive accolade. With spirits juggernaut (and now owners of Laphroaig) Beam Suntory having been behind the brand in one form or another, their global appeal has continued to rise.
Dubbed 'the whisky capital of the world' with over 32 distilleries in its heyday, Campbeltown was once a thriving Whisky Metropolis. As a result of the First World War, the Great Depression and a focus on quantity rather than quality this golden era for Campbeltown was short lived. Despite the misfortune and bad luck this region has seen over the decades, Campbeltown is seeing a resurgence which is testament to the pedigree and quality of their drams which are enjoyed the world over. Today Campbeltown has only three distilleries that remain: Springbank, Glengyle and Glen Scotia. Located on the Kintyre peninsula there are strong maritime notes throughout and they are renowned for their distinctive bold whiskies.
Typical style - creamy, bold style with vanilla, smoke, toffee and dried fruits.
Featured Campbeltown Distillery
In 1828 Springbank became the 14th licensed distillery in Campbeltown, founded by the Mitchell family, but like many distilleries across Scotland, it is widely agreed that Springbank distillery had been operating as an illicit still as far back as the late 18th century. Uniquely, they are the only distillery in Scotland who carry out 100% of their production process at their Campbeltown site. From traditional floor maltings, to maturation and bottling, every step of the whisky-making process happens at their Campbeltown distillery. In fact, Springbank is the only remaining distillery to malt all of its barley on a traditional malting floor. Springbank offers a comprehensive range of whiskies that have been developed and nurtured over time. In 1973, Springbank pioneered the trend of experimenting with different releases when it produced a highly peated malt which later became Longrow. In 1997, it began experimenting with triple distillation, giving birth to the delicious Hazelburn.
The Lowlands
Arguably Scotland's most accessible Whisky region thanks to its proximity to travel hubs Glasgow and Edinburgh, the Lowlands cover the southernmost parts of Scotland. To give you a better idea of the boundaries - if the Highlands encompass everything above an imaginary line between Greenock (North West of Glasgow) and Dundee, then the Lowlands covers everything south of that line. Historically the Lowlands specialised in blended whiskeys and whiskies from this region are generally deemed as lighter, often triple-distilled unpeated malts. Traditionally overshadowed by the bolder, larger aforementioned regions, the Lowlands have undergone a minor revolution with a resurgence of single malt distilleries and grain whisky coming back into fashion. The Lowlands whiskeys are more numerous and varied than they have been for decades, coupled with its growing popularity, being regarded as the region that is 'overlooked' will be something of the past.
Typical style - light, grassy styles that can be featured as single malts or key ingredients in blends. Notes of toffee, honey, and toast.
Featured Lowlands Distillery
Famous for their triple distilled Scottish single malt, Auchentoshan exclusively produces whiskies that have been through a triple distillation. This is tradition in the Lowlands, where the output from the wash still is distilled twice more to produce a lighter, more refined spirit. Auchentoshan is one of 10 Lowland distilleries, located in Dalmuir at the foot of the Kilpatrick hills, alluding to its name which is Gaelic for 'corner of the field'. Perched on the banks of the river Clyde, this distillery has a fascinating and checkered history. Established in 1823 and producing 50,000 gallons of Whisky by 1878 following a change in ownership, the distillery set off to a flying start. However, in 1941 a German bomb raid destroyed a warehouse and all production was stopped as the River Clyde and surrounding shipyards were prime targets during the war. Astonishingly, Auchentoshan survived the World War II bombings and the distillery was repaired in 1949 and re-equipped in 1974. With a final refurbishment in the 1980's Auchentoshan is thriving, boasting a range of exciting new products with some releases just last year.


Netgear has now three different mobile LTE routers for the network providers in Europe, making it become a serious contender for the top dogs Huawei and ZTE. The latest model with the name AirCard 790 dominates LTE Category 6 (CAT6) and can reach speeds of up to 300 MBit/s download. Operation is via a large, color touch screen and the battery is even used for charging other devices. How does the Aircard 790 perform in practice, you will find from 4gltemall.com/blog.
The Netgear AirCard 790 router is supplied in a small cardboard box along with a power adapter and a USB cable. The USB cable can be used to charge the battery and to connect to a computer. In addition, there may be a user manual in different language to guide users how to do the simple settings in Netgear AC790 for internet connection.
The body of the Netgear AirCard 790 is made entirely of plastic in order to achieve the best possible optical outputs and inputs. The surface of the body is matt and feels high-quality, the workmanship is very good. The flaps on the side antenna connectors (TS-9) make a good impression. The back can be easily removed to change the battery and the SIM card. This feature is better than other brand models such as Huawei E5786 and ZTE MF970, whose batteries are built-in, user can't remove them for change.
Many mobile LTE routers have a small display on the front, which shows the most important information clearly. On AirCard 790 Hotspot, the manufacturer Netgear has gone one step further and has integrated a large touch screen in the unit, the operation can be done via the scrren like on a smartphone. The display is 2.4 inches in size, bright and easy to read. Thanks to the large icons and clear labels, it's simple to operate the 790 Aircard for everyone. The functions are quite extensive: There are statistics about data usage and online time, and as needed user can setup the volume limit of its own tariff and be alerted at certain boundaries. Of course there is also the on or off option for data roaming abroad and if necessary, user can link data by entering the APN and password, if the Netgear 790 does not automatically detect.
Regarding the operation via touch scrren, it is an improvement over devices which can also be controlled via web interface; users can do more deep settings from the web interface.
The Netgear AirCard 790 Router achieved at speeds up to 300 Mbit/s downstream and up to 50 Mbit/s upstream in LTE network in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. This is made possible by the integrated LTE Advanced Cat. 6 modem from Qualcomm, which additionally supports UMTS with DC-HSPA+. GSM and EDGE cannot be reached by Netgear AirCard 790, which is still a bit strange, since all the other hotspots on the market support the 2G network. On the other hand, it did not bother the test because stable and fast surfing anyway are possible only with UMTS and LTE and the network extension by now is quite good.
In the test, we use the SIM cards from Vodafone and Telekom, which were released in each case for the fastest speed. The Netgear AirCard 790 Router reaching speeds of just over 200 Mbit/s in download and up to 44 Mbit/s upstream. But the usual data rates were between 50 and 120 Mbit/s. The latency times were between 20 and 40 milliseconds (depending on the test server).
Up to 15 devices could connect with Netgear AC790 router via wireless internet; the maximum unit number can also be set lower in the settings. Thus, the high LTE speeds can also be used at the connected devices, and the latest WLAN AC standard available. This delivers speeds up to 1200 Mbit/s in the frequency ranges of 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. On request it is also possible to open a guest network, which is then provided with its own name and its own password and is separate from the main Wi-Fi. A wireless extender or wireless repeater is installed in some Huawei LTE hotspots such as similar model E5786, but this function is not available in Netgear AirCard 790, which is one of the few weaknesses compared to the competition.
The battery in the Netgear AirCard 790 router is about 3,000 mAh strong and can be easily exchanged by the user, which is a positive exception compared to similar models. The operating time is lasting approximately 10 to 11 hours, taking into account factors such as reception level, frequency of cell change and number of connected devices, which can significantly affect battery life. A special feature is the so-called Power Bank Function: With the supplied USB cable, other devices such as Smartphones can be charged via the Netgear AirCard 790 Battery. This is ideal, for example, when the phone battery is empty, you would like to make a call and needs only to reload short.
In our opinion, the Netgear AirCard 790 LTE Hotspot currently is one of the best mobile routers in 2016. The device offers all important functions, has a fast LTE Advanced Cat. 6 Modem and can be operated comfortably via touch screen. The battery life is very good and can connect, if required, an external LTE antenna to improve the speed. With around 280 USD (as of April 2016), you will definitely get a future-proof device. Here now, there is unlocked Aircard AC790S available on www.4gltemall.com. With the unlocked aircard 790S, you can use any network providers' SIM without any limit. So it's a good partner to take for overseas travelling or business.


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Why Urban Meyer's Recent Statement Means Nothing
By mlmintampa Jan 25, 2010, 1:08am EST
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The power of Florida Football was witnessed Saturday night when Urban Meyer's simple declaration that he would coach spring practice got the "BREAKING NEWS" red line on ESPN. If the Gators' recent recruits wasn't a large enough example of Meyer maintaining a grip on the program, here was on-the-record proof.
The problem is that spring is a long time before August and September. Urban Meyer isn't "back" until September 4. The Orlando Sentinel's Jeremy Fowler breaks it down pretty well;
But just because Meyer spoke positively about a return doesn't offset the already-ambiguous situation. He says he needs to make changes, but he doesn't know what those are. He says he's healthier, but we still don't know the extent of what he's recovering from other than stress, anxiety and chest pains. There's still plenty to come of this.
It was nice to see Meyer at basketball games, especially with recruits. We know his thought process is to take off time, but as little as possible. But we don't know how his body will respond. He doesn't know either. That's why he has not given a solid answer as to if he is coaching in 2010. With each day, the probability of Meyer returning as head coach rises. There is still some doubt, however.
I have always thought that Meyer was a lunatic, just like Tim Tebow. While Tebow has played with a broken leg and broken hand, Meyer has plowed through chest pains and a brain cyst. Maybe he coaches until he is carried out in a box, but it's more likely another episode like in December will send him home. Even if Meyer if back to his fighting weight and texting recruits, one more trip to the hospital or bad test result could end his Florida career. We have to keep that in the back of our minds.


UPDATE: January 28, 2019: The Unsecured Creditors Committee of Sears Holdings on Saturday filed an objection to ESL's $5.2 billion bid to buy Sears, according to court documents. See below to read the documents.
A committee of unsecured Sears creditors are taking steps to file a lawsuit against ESL Investments and Sears Chairman Eddie Lampert. On Wednesday, the committee filed a motion calling for a hearing to air their grievances regarding Lampert and ESL's role in the demise of the 126-year-old retailer. In a series of documents laid out in five acts totaling 574 pages, the creditors assert the fall of the once iconic retailer mirrors a Shakespearean play.
Last week, the creditors filed an initial document teeing up the process. Now, they're asking the court for approval to litigate their claims. A court hearing on the matter has not yet been set, according to the documents. The creditors are asking the court to recharacterize ESL's debt as equity and to allow them to recover funds and value lost from ESL's and Lampert's past dealings with Sears, including the spin-off of Land's End and the transfer of real estate to Seritage Growth Properties.
A Sears Holdings spokesperson declined to comment to Retail Dive on the matter. In a statement emailed to Retail Dive, a spokesperson for ESL Investments called the creditors' claims "misleading or just flat wrong." "ESL has been a constant source of financing for Sears Holdings over the past several years, including through the extension of $2.4 billion in various secured financings to the company," the spokesperson said. "These financings and other transactions involving Sears' assets were undertaken to facilitate the company's continued operations and implement its transformation plan."
Many of the claims raised by the creditors in the recently filed documents as well as their objection to the sale argue against ESL's $5.2 billion bid to buy Sears. A court hearing to approve the bid is slated for Feb. 4 and objections to the sale must be filed by Saturday, according to other court documents.
This new litigation will run in parallel to Sears' bankruptcy proceedings regardless of whether the bid goes through. If it does, creditors could lose some of their leverage, Joshua Friedman, global head of restructuring data at Debtwire, told Retail Dive in an interview Thursday. In short, if the creditors want to upend the sale, they'll need to file an objection. They can simultaneously try to recover money through the proposed lawsuit, he said.
The creditors specifically oppose a portion of ESL's most recently proposed bid which includes a $1.3 billion credit bid, which would forgive ESL's loans to Sears. The creditors argue that the money being used for the credit bid shouldn't be considered as debt to be repaid, but rather as capital contributions because Sears was in such a dire financial situation when the loans were given. If a judge were to agree, the deal could not go through as proposed, Friedman said.
If the deal does go through, the creditors would need to pivot to a different method of recovering the funds they feel they're owed. "As opposed to recharacterizing [the debt as equity] you'd have to unwind the transaction or force [ESL and Lampert] to pay money back to some degree," he added.
The move on the behalf of creditors shouldn't come as a surprise, according to Friedman. "For years people were talking about a Sears bankruptcy and what would happen and you knew these transactions were going to get challenged," he said. "But on the flip side, being this is a company largely controlled by one party, you know they're very aware of the potential for that being challenged."


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Iran Reveals Details Of Its Latest Long Range Radar Systems 5 out of 5 based on 1 ratings. 1 user reviews.
Iran Reveals Details Of Its Latest Long Range Radar Systems
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Earlier this week, Iran revealed some of its latest military and defence technology achievements. Particular emphasis was given to a new radar system, said to be capable of detecting aircraft at a range of several thousand kilometres.
Speaking at an exhibition of over two dozen 'salient achievements' of the air defence forces on Wednesday, the commander of Iran's Air Defence Force, Alireza Sabahifard, said Iran's new radar systems are capable of detecting and destroying objects of 'any size' if they violate the country's airspace.
He further stated that "today, we have the ability to identify any drones in the sky of the country and the region and destroy it if necessary."
Among the systems that were unveiled was the Emad ('Pillar' in Persian), a virtual warfare simulator designed for use by all branches of the military for exercises and simulation purposes.
Another system that was discussed is the Kashef-99 (lit. 'Discoverer') radar, a 3D phased-array vehicle-mountable radar capable of detecting small aircraft, drones, and even micro air vehicles (MAVs). According to the official statements, the system can detect up to 300 targets simultaneously within a 12 km range, and was developed by Iran Electronic Industries, the state-owned defence electronics company which also created the Kashef 1 and Kashef 2 2D S-Band radars.
Earlier this year, Iran announced the development of two other radars – the Khalij-e Fars ('Persian Gulf') and Moraqeb ('Watchful) strategic 3D phased array radar systems, which officials say are capable of monitoring US military bases at distances of between 400 and 800 km. The Islamic Republic is also reportedly working on even longer range radar systems with the ability to detect enemy targets at ranges of as much as 'thousands of miles'.
In July, Iran demonstrated the capabilities of its orbiting 'Noor' military satellite, releasing satellite pictures of the US's Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar, a key facility for the the United States Central Command.
In June 2019, the Khordad-3 air defence system produced by Iran Aviation Industries Organization shot down a Northrup Grumman Global Hawk surveillance drone in the Strait of Hormuz. LINK
The announcement of the advanced radar system was met with considerable scepticism in Israel. The Jerusalem Post commented:
"The articles at Fars News are not the first time Iran said it would be able to create radar with a range of up to 3,000 kilometers. It has made this claim before, dating back to 2015. It hasn't shown any evidence that the radar it has built has this range. Nevertheless radar technology does exist that could give Iran the ability to produce long-range radar, whether it could reach so far seems unlikely."
The report further commented that:
"Radar can help Iran monitor aircraft over the Persian Gulf or further away. Iran shot down a US drone last year over the Gulf of Oman. Iran's discussion of its new radar capabilities comes days after Iranian media also reported Israeli airstrikes on Syria. This could mean Iran is sending a message about deploying radar to Syria. Iran allegedly deployed a 3rd Khordad air defense system to Syria in 2018. Iran has sent radar to Syria before, in 2010. It has defense agreements with Syria as well. In July US jets intercepted an Iranian aircraft over Syria. In January Iran shot down a Ukrainian airliner by mistake.
A foreign report in the summer of 2019 indicated Iran had sent radar installations to Syria but that they had actually not been compatible with Syrian air defense. May reports said that Syria was using Chinese-made radar after Russian radar were not successfully detecting Israeli airstrikes. Israel has said it struck more than 1,000 Iranian targets in Syria as of 2019. An August 13, 2020 report in Haaretz said that airstrikes on 'Syrian anti-air systems also struck about a fifth of the country's radar systems'." LINK
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And Then it Hit Me: My Cure for Boredom [BLOG]
I wanted to share an important revelation that I had a few weeks ago when I got back-to-back sick with the stomach flu and then the flu flu, and spent two weeks glued to my sweat-drenched pillowcase.
Ironically, it was in this two-week period that I had finally completed an important writing project that I had been avoiding since the beginning of the year. I knew that it would take a large chunk of time and that it would require me to be extremely detail-oriented and organized. (Two things that don't come naturally to me and aren't particularly fun to do.)
Since the perfectionist in me demanded that it had to be flawless, I had to really brace myself for the task - so naturally, I put it off.
That was until the historic day (historic for me), as my ears rang from an infection and fever, I sat dizzily up in bed, opened my laptop and went to work on my three-part executive function guide for parents. I remember thinking then about Frida Kahlo laying in a hospital bed with a paintbrush strapped to her chin, painting.
She was just a 19-year-old girl then. One who had suffered from polio since the age of six and who had, at the time, been immobilized by a full-body cast after a traffic accident had landed her in the hospital for three months. The next year, she painted her first self-portrait to win back the heart of her estranged lover, Alejandro; then went on to paint 55 self-portraits and over a hundred more works of art.
But Frida - as inspirational as she is - wasn't what finally got me to take action and sustain my focus on a task I considered both difficult and not-fun. Here's what finally did it. I had gotten so bored. So stir crazy. So over Youtube life coaches and business gurus. Sick of The Office reruns (even bloopers!). Even my favorite music started to annoy me. I was sick of the quiet and sick of meditating. I was sick of the birds chirping. I was sick of the gardeners with their leaf blowers. But more than anything, I was bored out of my freaking mind.
Then It Hit Me
My revelation was so simple and so profound. At the height of boredom, I had burned through all of what I considered my "favorite" activities (more specifically: passive, low-investment activities that delivered instant pleasure and stimulation). I had actually run out of stuff to keep me entertained, and I was only one week in!
How would I describe the feeling of the intense boredom that followed that week?I was so bored that after recharging my phone for the second time that night, I started researching boredom (I was hoping it would lull me to sleep!). Instead, I learned something new; a definition of boredom that was so simple and made so much sense that it led me to a profound discovery - and my personal "cure" for boredom.
So many sources, like this book on the psychology of torture, put boredom into a category of psychological torture akin to the isolation experienced in solitary confinement. In fact, the scientific name for boredom is hypostress, a lack of stimulation that causes our body to produce cortisol (a stress hormone). This is the opposite of the usual distress that we feel when we are overwhelmed or over-stimulated. In a different study, participants chose to shock themselves rather than sit idle for 15 minutes in a (boring) room with nothing but their thoughts. I imagined what I would do in that situation - 15 minutes didn't seem that long of a time, but who knows?
My "Cure" For Boredom
In that moment of intense boredom, when I couldn't stand it anymore, I chose to "suffer" the pain of a not-fun activity (my meticulous writing project) rather than to put up with the torture of being bored for one more minute. But that's still not what got me to sustain my attention on this task until it was complete.
When I had started writing, to my surprise, I didn't feel the feeling of "dread" that I normally would feel when forcing myself to do something I didn't feel like doing. Instead, I was so grateful to have something of VALUE to do to occupy my time.That's when I realized that it was my work and my mission that brought me joy in that time of stress. Because I was doing work that I was GOOD at doing, and doing it out of LOVE and SERVICE for others.
Motivation, Procrastination, & Other 'Ations'
I spend a lot of time speaking to parents about procrastination, overwhelm, motivation, and how to help their kids change "dysfunctional" habits. Many of my clients believe that this stuff (or executive function) comes naturally to me. That I have found the magic formula that keeps me motivated and focused. That's far from the truth!
The truth is that a lot of what is required to live a happy and successful life (however you define that for yourself) is to do the mundane, routine stuff that nobody wants to do. The trick is to figure out why you're doing it all for. What is your ultimate purpose and what brings you joy? It's usually a combination of stuff that you're passionate about, stuff that you're good at, and stuff that brings value to your life and to the lives of people connected to you.
What I gained from this grapple with intense boredom was a sense of validation. Because the thing I chose to do for fun during a time when I was TIRED, SICK, and BORED is also the thing I choose to do every single day to make a living.
I think back to that now when I feel overwhelmed with the long list of stuff on my to-do list, and I realize how grateful I am for it all.
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I created an inspiration board for my wedding using our chosen wedding colours - mainly navy and silver with a splash of fuchsia.
Love the colours for your wedding. How did u create the board itself: colours and pics together? Is there a website or app to use?
Thankyou! I just copied and pasted from the internet to PowerPoint and added the coloured circles. I use pinterest as well which is really good but not as presentable in this format.


A guide of conferences, conventions and special events taking place at the London Convention Centre.
For more information about the London Convention Centre, please visit our website.
The London Hospitality Awards Gala is your opportunity to help us bring together and formally recognize some of the great Hospitality and Tourism professionals in our region.
As part of ORHMA's commitment to professional development, our goal is to raise scholarship funds that will directly support students in the Fanshawe hospitality program. Any remaining funds will go to the ORHMA London Regional board to support local efforts that strengthen the voice of Tourism and Hospitality in our region.
Breakfast for YOU helps fund much-needed programs and services for youth in London and Middlesex county.
The London Sports Celebrity Dinner and Auction is an annual must-attend event in London, ON. The volunteer-organized event is an evening celebrating sports and creating opportunities for children and youth to reach beyond disability.
For over 34 years, the Chinese Canadian National Council – London Chapter has celebrated Chinese New Year with the London community.Dragon Gala has become an annual fundraising gala known to support charitable organizations in need, locally and internationally, e.g. Canadian Diabetes Association/Banting House, Meals on Wheels, Smile Train, YMCA Strong Kids, Skate Canada World's CanSkate Legacy Program and Patrick Chan.
Night of Heroes is an annual celebration of people, a celebration of heroes and a celebration of achievement.
During this special evening, local community heroes pair up with people supported by Community Living London and inspire all in attendance. Models showcase their best moves on the runway while dressed up in fashions provided by local retailers.
Established in 1982 to acknowledge and celebrate local achievement, the Business Achievement Awards has become London's most prestigious business event of the year. Designed to publicly recognize London businesses that exemplify excellence, to be a finalist for an award is in itself a great accomplishment.


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NOTE: This fork was meant for use in resin.io devices, but it **only works on ResinOS 1.X**. ResinOS 2.0 and higher
don't use connman at all.

Connman-api
===============
Node.js Connman (Opensource connection manager) client.

Forked from [jsdx-connman](https://github.com/cfsghost/jsdx-connman).

Connman: http://www.connman.net/

Install
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```$npm install```

Note on systems without X11
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If no X server is running, the module fails when attempting to obtain
a D-Bus connection at dbus._dbus.getBus(). This can be remedied by
setting two environment variables manually (the actual bus address might be different):

``` javascript
process.env.DISPLAY = ':0';
process.env.DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS = 'unix:path=/run/dbus/system_bus_socket';
```

Credits
---
Original module developed by Fred Chien <<fred@mandice.com>> @ [Mandice Company](http://www.mandice.com/).

Improved by [Peter Uithoven](http://github.com/peteruithoven/) @ [Doodle3D](http://doodle3d.com/)

License
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Licensed under the MIT License


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Enbridge Gateway Pipeline [BC] is a category that involves the end of the pipeline's proposed route and attendant offshore shipping needed if heavy oil is transported to the proposed facility near Kitimat, British Columbia. To transport that heavy oil, a pipeline is proposed that would traverse the forests and land from Alberta's Peace Region across northern British Columbia to the coast of the Pacific Ocean, where an attendant marine facility would also be built.
As with most components of the tarsands, the escalation in tar sand production being proposed by the US Department of Energy and Natural Resources Canada would likely require this infrastructure. This infrastructure may lay the basis for further encroachments. Many indigenous nations from the region have launched objections to this pipeline, including legal challenges. The possibility is very strong that this would immediately include opening the coast to shipping, including the Inside Passage of Alaska's Panhandle. The tar sand oil to be shipped by this or an alternate pipeline system to the BC Coast would be shipped to China and California, and may also include more shipments on their way to or from places such as Prince William Sound in Alaska, breaking an offshore shipping moratorium in British Columbia. Once that moratorium is removed, then places such as Russia can import light hydro carbonic liquids to pipe the other way-- into Alberta-- to help yet more tarsand production and possible further expansion.
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Enbridge Gateway Pipeline [BC] is a category that involves the end of the pipeline's proposed route and attendant offshore shipping needed if heavy oil is transported to the proposed facility near Kitimat, British Columbia. To transport that heavy oil, a pipeline is proposed that would traverse the forests and land from Alberta's Peace Region across northern British Columbia to the coast of the Pacific Ocean, where an attendant marine facility would also be built. As with most components of the tarsands, the escalation in tar sand production being proposed by the US Department of Energy and Natural Resources Canada would likely require this infrastructure. This infrastructure may lay the basis for further encroachments. Many indigenous nations from the region have launched objections to this pipeline, including legal challenges. The possibility is very strong that this would immediately include opening the coast to shipping, including the Inside Passage of Alaska's Panhandle. The tar sand oil to be shipped by this or an alternate pipeline system to the BC Coast would be shipped to China and California, and may also include more shipments on their way to or from places such as Prince William Sound in Alaska, breaking an offshore shipping moratorium in British Columbia. Once that moratorium is removed, then places such as Russia can import light hydro carbonic liquids to pipe the other way-- into Alberta-- to help yet more tarsand production and possible further expansion.
Harper government alters climate targets; protects tar sands
Harper government alters climate targets, but protects oil sands
By Mychaylo Prystupa | May 15th 2015
National Observer
The Harper government is pledging to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, but in a way that does not affect the oil sands emissions - the largest source of Canada's climate warming pollution, say environmental critics.
Oil Spill on Beaches of World's 'Greenest City'
Bunker (Fuel) Down
by MACDONALD STAINSBY
Vancouver, British Columbia, Coast Salish Territories
Weekend edition, April 10-12, 2015
Canada Losing $30+ Bn a Year on Tar-Sands Oil
Mackenzie Gas Project / Alaska Highway pipelines [NWT/AK]
International oil & gas
Labour / Migration
Consider the right wing source and revel in the take down of Stephen Harper.
--M
By Sprott Money
Oil is our most-precious commodity as fuel for the global economy. It is also becoming a scarce commodity, as global production has flattened, while global demand continues to climb relentlessly, everywhere in the world except for the dying economies of Europe and North America. It is a classic "seller's market."
Here are the other tar-sands pipelines Canada is trying to build
By Bobby Magill on 31 Mar 2015
A decision on whether to allow the Keystone XL pipeline to be built in the U.S. could come at any time, but there are myriad other projects on the table designed to do exactly what Keystone XL was designed to do: transport Canadian tar-sands oil to refineries.
Tar sands campaigners are Canada's new 'terrorists'
Canada's 'Anti-Terrorism Bill' proposes a massive increase in the power of security services, writes Pete Dolack - and in the crosshairs are campaigners against a tar sands industry that's intent on releasing 240 billion tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere, and those fighting the pipelines needed to get the heavy crude to market. Who are the real 'extremists'?
Climate Change and Cultural Adaptation in Coastal Louisiana
Facing the Rising Tide
by JULIA KOPPEL MALDONADO
Canada's $207,000 tar sands ad: Putting a price on deception
Canada's $207,000 oil sands ad: Putting a price on deception
Eric Reguly
Published Friday, May. 09 2014
The ad in The New Yorker is pretty, if not quite arresting. The full-page photo on the inside back cover – prime real estate in the United States' leading upmarket magazine – features a pristine river meandering through a lush mountain valley, untouched by humanity. It is not a tourism ad. It is designed to convince influential Americans that the Keystone XL pipeline is environmentally safe, even desirable.
Tar sands experts on tap for town hall
by Jennifer Feinberg - Chilliwack Progress
The risks and the realities of pipelines are the focus of a town hall meeting March 7 at the Best Western Rainbow Country Inn, hosted by the PIPE UP Network.
The timing has to do with the National Energy Board gearing up for hearings on the proposed pipeline project by Kinder Morgan, which is planned to cut through communities across the Lower Mainland.
Canada's carbon emissions projected to soar by 2030
Tar sands expected to help drive 38% increase in emissions, Harper government admits in submission to the UN
theguardian.com, Tuesday 14 January 2014
The tailings pond at the Syncrude mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Tar sands could become a 'stranded asset', campaigners say The tailings pond at the Syncrude mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Tar sands could become a 'stranded asset', campaigners say Photograph: Ashley Cooper pics/Alamy
How Is Climate Change Reshaping Our Culture?
Tell us what you think. Then hear leading thinkers on shifts in tech, business, politics and nature at free Jan. 22 event.
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Irving council members may have improperly picked finalist in closed meeting
Posted on January 22, 2014 by foiftexas
By Avi Selk
Originally published Jan. 21, 2014
Irving City Council members may have broken transparency rules when, in closed-door talks, they told staffers to start negotiating with Steve Sarkozy to become the next city manager.
The council was scheduled to interview three finalists for the job on Friday. After the interviews, according to people in the room, members told the staff to begin pursuing a contract for Sarkozy, the former city manager of Bellevue, Wash.
By doing so, the council essentially chose a lone finalist without public notice, according to a legal expert and two council members who skipped the meeting.
"Friday was just supposed to be an interview," said council member Allan Meagher, who said he stayed home to care for his ill son. "But they picked out a city manager without the entire council there."
In a statement forwarded by Mayor Beth Van Duyne, the city attorney's office defended Friday's discussions, pointing out that no city manager can be hired until the council votes to approve a contract.
Friday's "posted agenda authorized the City Council to deliberate regarding the appointment or employment of any" candidate, the statement said. "The consensus to bring an action item back to a future council meeting" complied with the Texas Open Meetings Act.
But the city attorney was wrong, according to Bill Aleshire, an open-meetings lawyer in Austin who volunteers with the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas.
"They can't take a decision in executive session" without public notice, he said. "And from what you're describing, it sounds like a decision was made. They're negotiating with only one person. That direction had to come from somewhere."
Aleshire said the city needs to call a new meeting to discuss the candidates, vote for Sarkozy as the finalist and begin negotiations. Friday's agenda simply read: "Personnel Matters — City Manager Interviews."
"They get a mulligan under the open meetings act if they go and properly post and take action," he said. But: "The longer they wait, the greater the chances that someone's going to sue them over this and enjoin them from even discussing it."
Meagher said he was waiting to hear from the city attorney and outside experts before he decides what to do.
He and the other council member who missed the meeting, Joe Putnam, both want to scrap the search process and extend interim City Manager Steve McCullough's contract.
No one at Friday's meeting has publicly acknowledged that council members tapped Sarkozy for the job, though many have confirmed it in private.
Reached by phone, Sarkozy said no one had told him he was the lone finalist. He resigned as Bellevue's city manager last year, after 12 years with the booming Seattle suburb.
"I would be very interested in that position if we can work out some of the details," he said, adding that he has been scouting possible homes and schools in Irving.
But, he cautioned: "We're still just talking."
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The Drive 1177
Low-rise condo in North Vancouver
1177 Marine Drive, North Vancouver, BC
Onni has been creating communities for homebuyers to live, work, and play in for over a half-century. Their success is a result of our dedication to their workers and partners, as well as to quality construction, innovation, sustainability, and customer happiness.
The Drive 1177, located at 1177 Marine Drive in North Vancouver, is Onni Group of Companies' new gorgeously built mixed-use building featuring retail on the ground floor.
This building will have 81 homes and will be four floors high, with houses ranging in size from one to three bedrooms. The construction was finished in 2013.
Come home to The Drive, tucked away in the Marine Drive Corridor between Pemberton and Lloyd.
Starting from: -
Size Range: -
Occupancy: Completed
Type: Low-Rise Condo
Location: North Vancouver
Developers: Onni Group of Companies
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Located in North Vancouver's Norgate neighbourhood
Has a walk score of 76; WALKABLE EVERYWHERE
Easy access to BC Transit busses
Close access to Highway 1
A 17-minute drive from the Vancouver Campus and University Canada West
Close to shops, restaurants, entertainment
Short drive to Marine Plaza and Capilano Mall
Nearby parks include Capilano Reserve Park, Mahon Park, and Victoria Park
People to the North Shore value a well-rounded quality of life, and the Norgate area is no different.
This 1177 Marine Drive location has a terrific walk score of 76. As a result, residents can walk to many open areas, lively and diverse shopping centres, cafés, a variety of restaurants, high-end schools, quick access to major routes and public transit, and much more.
The residents at Drive 1177 condos enjoy fantastic transportation choices! Homeowners who choose to commute can take advantage of BC Transit, which runs frequently along Marine Drive and connects to Seabus at Lonsdale Quay, West Vancouver, and downtown Vancouver.
Additionally, Marine Drive is a major east-west artery that connects to Highway 1, the Lions Gate Bridge, and Grouse Mountain, which is advantageous for motorists.
The condo is also close to elementary and secondary schools such as Larson Elementary School, Capilano Elementary School, Bodwell High School, and many more, which adds to the area's appeal, particularly among families with school-aged children.
Do you want to continue your study at a university? Simon Fraser University – Vancouver Campus and University Canada West are both only approximately 17 minutes away.
This location also has the benefit of being next to Marine Plaza, Capilano Mall, and the Lonsdale Quay Market, which are the area's primary shopping destinations, with big-name shops, grocers, designer labels, restaurants, and a movie theatre, among other amenities.[mobileonly]Read More
Furthermore, this North Vancouver neighbourhood is well-known around the region for its woodland escapes, hiking routes, and fantastic skiing and snowboarding in nearby mountains.
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Welcome to The Drive 1177! The new condo project by the Onni Group of Companies is located at 1177 Marine Drive in North Vancouver.
The development includes a mixed-use 4-story structure with retail on the ground level and 81 units ranging from one to three bedrooms. The construction was finished in 2013.
The development's features and amenities include substantial building setbacks for improved privacy, huge open-air balconies and terraces, high-performance KitchenAid stainless steel appliances, and solid composite stone worktops.
In addition, there will be 1,500 square feet of common amenity space, including a gym and multipurpose room, as well as a second-floor terrace with a children's playground, a party room, and a barbeque area.
For over half a century, Onni has been building communities for people to live, work, and play. Our success reflects our commitment to our employees and partners, and our dedication to quality construction, innovation, sustainability, and customer satisfaction. Our expertise expands across North American cities such as Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, Phoenix, Toronto, and Vancouver.
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Its not the money that i fear, will be wasted. The stunts were unimpressive and not really required. But alas, music is more pathetic than the movie itself.
Its hard to know exactly where Akshay Kumar's career started to really hit the sewerage farm. Kambakkht Ishq is a very cheap comedy. Add for good measure a beauty and a gangster and the trouble is no one can be trusted. It also has a poor screenplay as shown by the poorly written dialogues and uninteresting characters.
Post success streak that became his style. No point hailing her as a superstar, we all know how her acting has deteriorated over the years. On that same note, yesterday I read the producers of Namaste London suing the Bengali filmmaker for copyright infringement.
If you're looking for longing looks or montages in front of exotic places, you're mostly going to be disappointed. Akshay Kumar gets checked Kambakkht Ishq. Was this scene supposed to be comic? But Vindu Dara Singh's role as Tiger who is co-stuntman of Viraj, is completely well balanced and justified to his character. Actors like Javed Jaffri, Boman Irani and Kirron Kher are seen on roles which are poorly written and absolutely make no sense in the movie.
Unfortunately, you will not find it here. The movie is neither a comedy, nor a romantic one. The problem with Kambakkht Ishq is that it's a senseless film. His performance is better than other roles he has been offered, and he proudly handled playing his role along with some renowned Hollywood celebrities like Stallone, Denise Richards or Holly Valance.
After the movie started, my misery also started. It is a typical bollywood crap of a movie showing how desperate bollywood directors, producers and actors are that they would do just about anything to associate themselves with Hollywood. Mr Balboa just happens to be walking by at that time. The plan backfires out of a police raid and Kamini and Lucky end up in divorce court where the judge puts them on a three-month probation and marriage counselling. Following the surgery, Viraj overhears the truth and leaves.
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According to me, the most minus point in the movie is with short role of Boman Irani. Much before he struck gold I always carried an opinion that give him a nickel and Akshay delivers in dimes. He has such great acting potential last seen in Hera Pheri and Namaste London. Instead of Kareena, they should have gone for any voluptuous babe with sexy figure like Bipasha, Shilpa or even Deepika. Kambakkht Ishq - Airport Comedy Scene.
For fans of Akshaye Kumar, please avoid this flick if you want to remain his fan for long. Calling it the worst movie ever will be giving it the importance it does not deserve. As the characters roll on it is not hard to guess or predict as to what can we see in the next few scenes. But you will get to see a brawl at a wedding reception, women getting hit randomly, and someone getting kicked in the crotch.
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Akshay is going down the line. This movie is awful, just about everything in the move is bad. Upon realising her mistake, Simrita helps Lucky and Kamini reconcile and decides to confess her love for Viraj at the wedding ceremony. Talented actors like Kirron Khan and Jaaved Jaffery are wasted in apologetic roles. Whoever thought the Keswani character was a good idea should be taken outside and beaten to death.
Enjoy a night in with these popular movies available to stream now with Prime Video. The songs are lousy and definitely something that you would love to fastforward if given a chance. The cinematography and editing was good, anno 2070 and so were three of the songs.
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So they go out hurling abuse on the opposite sex without any justification. Akshay Kumar, Asin, Himesh Reshammiya. But Akshay is so normal and interesting, though I'm not his fan. From the Hollywood brigade there is Sylvester Stallone, Denise Richards, Branden Routh, i think all of them are wasted to some extent, they should have be given some more meaty role.
Having said that, there was immense potential to improvise - but hey, who am I to say! Kareena Kapoor's close dance - Kambakkht Ishq.
First he pins them to a wall by pushing a car against them with his bare hands. How the hell did a superstar like Sylvester Stallone wind up in the middle of a gang-way alley to save Bebo from gangsters?
Coming to the grand budget of the movie, it had a highly supportive producer who actually spent more than required on the project, to make it look glossy, majestic and larger than life. And the movie does have the Royal look with all those famous Hollywood actors featuring in it for the first time. In the very next shot Kareena Kapoor is shown with long nails and pink nail polish. Firstly, in a movie based on the life of a Hollywood Stuntman, you don't find any amazing stunts and action sequences performed by Akshay Kumar.
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