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"English, Motherfucker! Do You Speak It?"
In late 1992, Quentin Tarantino left Amsterdam, where he had spent three months writing the script that would become Pulp Fiction. Written in a dozen notebooks he took on a plane with him to Los Angeles, his screenplay was a mess. Linda Chen, a typist and unofficial script consultant for Robert Towne, the screenwriter Chinatown, was tasked with transforming these scribbles into a screenplay.
The producer, Lawrence Bender, and TriStar Pictures, which had invested $900,000 to develop the project, were pressing Tarantino to deliver the now overdue script.
His screenplay of 159 pages was completed in May 1993. On the cover, Tarantino had Chen type 'MAY 1993 LAST DRAFT,' which was his way of signaling that there would be no further notes or revisions at the studio's behest.
Pulp Fiction first played the Cannes Film Festival in May 1994. It was then shown on the full festival circuit around the world, from Munich to Locarno, before returning to American shores on September 23, 1994, at the New York Film Festival.
The film's staggered Worldwide release began in South Korea, Japan, and Slovakia before it officially opened in the U.S. on October 14, 1994. The feature rolled out across Asia and Europe throughout 1994 and 1995.
The budget cost $8.5m and even though the movie ended up being a commercial and critical behemoth, it took its time getting there. The film had already been in theaters for 178 days before it finally pulled in $100 million domestic dollars.
$5 million went to the actors' salaries. It made that all back in its first week at the U.S. box office where the film pulled in $9.3 million the first weekend of release.
"That's A Pretty Fucking Good Milkshake."
Despite Tarantino's claims that she is his muse, Uma Thurman was not his first choice to play Mia Wallace, his preference for the role was supposedly Michelle Pfeiffer.
Others considered for the part were:
Alfre Woodard
The part of Jules may have been written for Samuel L. Jackson, but he came seriously close to losing the part. Tarantino also auditioned Paul Calderon and was so struck by his performance that he nearly hired him.
Jackson, desperate to make the role his, flew back to Los Angeles and auditioned for a second time.
When Tarantino is on screen as Jimmie, someone else had to be behind the camera, and that someone was Robert Rodriguez. This ignited a brief collaboration between the pair on a number of other projects, including From Dusk Till Dawn and Grindhouse.
Butch was supposed to be a lot younger, Tarantino wrote the part of a young boxer, with Matt Dillon specifically in mind for the role.
When Dillon took too much time considering the part, it was tweaked slightly to accommodate Bruce Willis.
Tarantino specifically wrote a number of roles in the film for chosen actors including Jackson, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, and Amanda Plummer, and he was determined to having Michael Madsen play Vincent Vega.
Madsen, who knew of Tarantino's plans and said he wanted to do the part, dropped out two weeks before the script was finished to star in Kevin Costner's Wyatt Earp instead.
Honey Bunny was the name of Chen's pet rabbit, the typist who deciphered and delivered a script for Pulp Fiction.
In lieu of payment, she asked Tarantino to watch her animal when she went on location, Tarantino wouldn't do it, and when the rabbit later died, he named Amanda Plummer's character after Chen's pet.
"Zed's Dead Baby…Zed's Dead."
John Travolta's character, Vincent Vega, drives a classic automobile in the movie, which in real life, belonged to Tarantino. It was so sweet that it was stolen soon after the film's release.
It wasn't found for nearly two decades when two cops happened on a pair of kids stripping an older car. After running the Vehicle Identification Number, they found it shared the number with a car in Oakland, which turned out to be Tarantino's car.
The infamous overdose sequence in which Mia Wallace is stabbed with a very necessary adrenaline shot was stressful enough, so Tarantino took off some of the pressure. During the scene when the needle is inserted, and then Travolta pulls it back out, was reversed in post-production so it looks as if Vincent really is plunging the syringe into her.
Jules' (Samuel L. Jackson) monologue, supposedly from Ezekiel 25:17, was largely made up. Only the final two lines are actually from the verse.
Tarantino is a board game collector, which is why the film features Operation and The Game of Life. Tarantino convinced Travolta to come on board with an all-day Welcome Back, Kotter, Grease, and Saturday Night Fever board game marathon.
The film contains over 265 F-bombs. That number isn't even Tarantino's highest (1992's Reservoir Dogs used it 269 times). Still, the film was the big F-bomb winner of 1994, as no other film released that year even came close to that amount of profanity.
Despite the drug usage and general debauchery in the movie, the shoot was designated a "dry set" by production manager Paul Hellerman who asked the cast, crew and staff to kindly "not consume alcohol or drugs while … on our work premises."
The first poster had Thurman smoking from a box of Lucky Strike cigarettes—but Miramax hadn't licensed usage rights from Lucky Strikes, who threatened to sue.
Rather than fight it, Miramax had the posters returned. Those that survived are now worth big money.
Robert Ruth, the actor who played the manager in the diner is credited as "Coffee Shop" because he gets cut off before he can finish his line:
"I'm not a hero, I'm just a coffee shop—"
Pulp Fiction was the third biggest R-rated hit of 1994. It lost out on the title to True Lies ($146.2 million) and Speed ($121.2 million).
The film's earnings were strong enough to place it in the overall top 10 for the year, though 1994 was dominated by Forrest Gump, which made $329.6 million that year.
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The Elephant and the Eagle at Sweet 16
05 Sun Jun 2016
Posted by Jaideep A. Prabhu in India, South Asia, United States
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It has been 16 years since George W Bush fundamentally altered the way the United States looked at India. As the old Cold War with the Soviet Union receded into memory and a new one with China appeared imminent, at least to the Bush White House, India emerged as an important potential ally in the new world order. India's economy had recently started down the road to liberalisation too, making the South Asian country attractive to US industry as well as the government.
Despite frequent kerfuffles in the media – and there have been plenty – India-US relations have moved from strength to strength over the past 16 years. From the Strategic Quartet – high technology trade, space cooperation, nuclear energy, and missile defence – through the Next Steps in Strategic Partnership to the historic Indo-US nuclear deal and the Defence Technology and Trade Initiative, Washington and Delhi appear poised on the brink of a century-defining partnership. If state visits are any indication of warmth, prime minister Narendra Modi is visiting the United States at this moment for the fourth time in just two years – something his predecessor required nine years to necessitate.
Defence ties are usually the most prominent measure of relations between nations for obvious reasons: not only do they declare how much skin each state has in the other's security, but they are also a statement of how much states trust each other with their prized technology. No wonder, then, that India's defence purchases from the United States have attracted so much attention. Between CH-47 Chinooks, AH-64 Apaches, C-17 Globemasters, and C-130J Super Hercules, India's aggregate defence acquisitions from the United States has crossed $13 billion. The loss of India's Multirole Medium Range Combat Aircraft contract disappointed Washington but under Modi's Make in India programme, US defence firms are considering moving the production of the F-16 and F-18 to India.
The United States has moved beyond the role of being a mere supplier of weapons to India: officials have been engaged in talks that, if successful, would result in the co-production of systems. Under the DTTI, the next generation of Raven unmanned aerial vehicle will be jointly developed and produced. Other projects include intelligence gathering and reconnaissance pods for the C-130J, mobile electric hybrid power sources, helmet-mounted digital displays for aircraft and helicopter pilots, high energy lasers, and chemical and biological warfare protection gear for soldiers.
Washington has also been keen to assist India with core defence technologies such as the development of jet engines and the catapult launching system on board US aircraft carriers. India's Kaveri programme has been a miserable failure and with Delhi's increasing focus on maritime security, the US offer could provide a healthy boost to Indian capabilities.
India's change of mind on what the Pentagon calls the foundational treaties – LSA, BECA, and CISMOA – has been a welcome surprise. These agreements formalise the sharing of logistical facilities and align communication protocols between the US military and their partners, greatly enhancing the range and capabilities of both forces in joint humanitarian or security missions. Although the agreements will remain unsigned during Modi's visit this June, it is reported that they are close to conclusion.
The United States' support for Indian admission to the permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council and technology export control groups such as the Missile Technology Control Regime, the Nuclear Suppliers Group, the Australia Group, and the Wassenaar Group gives some weight to Philip Zelikow's statement in 2005 that the United States intends to help India become a major power.
Although both India and the United States have come a long way in defence cooperation, one cannot shake the feeling that both sides are still hedging from a complete commitment. India has lost no opportunity to stress that the signing of the foundational agreements with the United States will in no way erode its sovereignty, that it is happy to conduct numerous maritime joint exercises but will not be persuaded to conduct joint patrols, and that India sees itself as a friend and partner of the United States but not quite an ally. On the American side, senators questioned the wisdom of a bill that proposed elevating India to the status of a NATO ally in all but name given that the South Asian country did not see itself in that role. The US bill would have amended the Arms Export Control Act and made defence transfers to India quicker and smoother.
One hurdle in closer ties is Pakistan: India is displeased with the continued sale of US weapons to the Islamic republic despite ample evidence pointing to terrorist ties and an unhelpful disposition towards US goals in South and Central Asia. However, the dynamics of these ties have remained relatively unchanged since the 1950s: Pakistan provides services in the region that the United States cannot get elsewhere in return for White House forbearance on matters Islamabad sees as vital to its interests. In the 1950s and 1960s, it was basing privileges for US reconnaissance aircraft conducting missions over China and the Soviet Union; in the 1970s, Islamabad served as the channel to Beijing and a rapprochement with China; in the 1980s, it was the shipment of arms to the mujaheddin in Afghanistan. In the 2010s, Islamabad has become the conduit to the Taliban, with whom Washington hopes to negotiate a "decent interval." Even now, though the United States has been urging India to play a greater role in Afghanistan, Delhi has declined, choosing to involve itself more in important but not critical facets of Afghanistan's development.
India's reluctance to play a more significant role in its own interests may frustrate observers but this has, understandably, in large part to do with the country's capabilities. Couched in the rhetoric of multipolarity and morality, India's inaction misleads the casual observer. The ignored pachyderm in the room is that Delhi lacks the financial and industrial wherewithal to flex its military muscle in Central Asia or the South China Sea, and any attempt to persuade it to do so will fail. The remedy to this is economic growth, technological development, and strategic coalitions.
On the surface of it, economic relations seem to have grown substantially between India and the United States. Both countries are investing more in each other's economies and trade between the two stands hovers around $70 billion. More and more US companies are setting up shop in India as Indian companies are expanding their business beyond the Atlantic. Washington is the lead partner for developing Allahabad, Ajmer, and Vishakapatnam as smart cities. There is still plenty of room to grow and Modi has ambitiously suggested aiming for $500 billion in trade in a few years. However, there are several issues that will plague relations. The first is subsidies: Washington recently won a case against India at the World Trade Organisation that prohibited the Indian government from giving preferential treatment to domestic solar panel manufacturers. US firms are also pushing Washington to act against subsidies the Indian Space Research Organisation gets from the government for its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle programme.
A second hurdle is intellectual property. In several sectors, India has brought its laws into alignment with US and international norms yet there remain significant differences in philosophy. Pharmaceuticals is one such field, where Indian courts have been hostile to the US practice of evergreening patents, instead seeing a social dimension to the industry. India has also had disagreements with the United States on its agricultural subsidies and food security programme.
A sector-specific yet politically potent point of friction is nuclear energy. Although the Indo-US nuclear deal was announced in 2005 and came into force in 2008, there has been little movement on that front since. India's nuclear liability laws were found to be at odds with international norms and it was only in 2015 when US president Barack Obama visited India during the Republic Day celebrations that some headway was made in easing the logjam. The Indian side came up with a convoluted mechanism to bypass its own law without losing face and satisfied Washington but private companies are still uncomfortable with the provisions. As a result, a number of nuclear energy projects have stalled across the country; GE has flatly refused to participate in the Indian nuclear energy market as long as the present law stands and Westinghouse has delayed the submission of its project proposals. The sins committed by the BJP while in Opposition have been visited upon the BJP while in power.
A probable future cause for concern is the US creation of large trading spheres via the Trans Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. India is not party to either of these blocs and its efforts to forge free trade agreements with important partners such as the European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations has proceeded at a snail's pace. There is a danger that the implementation of the TPP and TPIP will take trade away from Indian shores to within the bloc, dampening much-needed Indian economic growth.
Many of these frictions arise from the fact that the US and Indian economies are at different points: certain Indian policies may not optimize on economic efficiency but are geared towards lifting more of its population out of poverty or establishing its own industries firmly in the international arena. Delhi and Washington have much work to do to negotiate through the clashing policies that will certainly arise in the future and early recognition and amelioration will insulate relations from harsh market realities.
After 16 years, India-US relations are on a firm footing. Much has been accomplished though a lot more remains to be done. It was feared that the warmth between the two would dissipate after the exit of Bush and the election of Obama but despite the lull due to an international economic slowdown and a paralysed UPA government, ties have started to blossom again in the past two years since Modi took office. India enjoys bipartisan support in the US and Washington a hesitant embrace in Delhi. Can relations be derailed? There will always be swings and roundabouts but it seems to have dawned on both countries that the geopolitics of this century are best navigated as friends than estranged democracies.
This post appeared on FirstPost on June 06, 2016.
An Unofficial Alliance
15 Tue Dec 2015
Posted by Jaideep A. Prabhu in India, Security, South Asia, United States
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The outcome of Indian defence minister Manohar Parrikar's recent visit to the United States to meet with his counterpart Ashton Carter has met with approval from all corners. Even critics of the Narendra Modi government were somewhat muted for once, as several columns reported that the agenda for the visit indicated a shift in Indian foreign policy from style to substance. Two projects critical to Indian defence modernisation, the development of jet engines and aircraft carrier technology, have received greater impetus under the Defence Technology and Trade Initiative (DTTI). Calling the US-India relationship an anchor of global security, Carter expressed satisfaction with the new pace defence cooperation between the two states has taken. "We've done so much more in the last year, probably than we've done in the 10 years before that," Carter said. "And I'm guessing that in the next 10 months, we will do yet again more than we've done in the last year."
The United States' approach to India underwent a sea change during the presidency of George W Bush. Although the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 would end up absorbing much of the administration's energy, Bush and his team had come to office with the aim of curbing the rise of China. The Bush White House moved from the previous regime's view of China as a strategic partner to one where the Asian giant was a strategic competitor. The neoconservative world view, as David Frum, speechwriter for Bush, explained it later, sought close ties with India and a pragmatic relationship with China that combined economic engagement with military containment. Part of the US strategy was to make India a part of the international system and midwife its rise asa counterbalance to China. The Indo-US nuclear deal was part of that plan, as was the DTTI. As Philip Zelikow, a counselor for the Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, had said, the goal was "to help India become a major world power in the 21st century."
From the US point of view, however, defence relations could have developed much faster had India accepted what the Pentagon calls "foundational agreements." These pacts, typical military alphabet soups like the LSA (Logistics Sharing Agreement), CISMOA (Communication Interoperability and Security Memorandum of Agreement), and BECA (Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement for Geo-spatial Cooperation), facilitate military-to-military cooperation primarily at a tactical level though they can be developed further into strategic cooperation.
The LSA, for example, allows the navies and air forces of each country to share each other's facilities for berthing and refueling without making payments each time; instead, accounts would be settled periodically. The LSA also negotiates several practices that are presently decided upon on a case-by-case basis such as the pre-positioning of military materiel in each other's countries (Cooperative Security Location – CSL), playing host during exercises, and permitting operations of the other in-country. The LSA is similar to the Acquisition and Cross Servicing Agreement (ACSA) that the United States has with over 75 countries, including its NATO partners and Sri Lanka in India's own neighbourhood.
Similarly, the CISMOA allows interoperability of Indian and US equipment. For example, if Indian troops wish to call in a US airstrike at a certain location, or if US Special Forces are "lighting up" a target for a precision munitions strike by an Indian bomber, their hardware, which is normally encrypted, must be able to communicate with each other to relay information accurately and quickly. In a crowded theatre of operations that nowadays involves non-state actors, drones, Improvised Explosive Devices (IED), coalition militaries, and electronic warfare, spectrum management is crucial.
Admittedly, the Indian Navy has been able to operate the Boeing P-8I Multi-mission Maritime Aircraft without the advanced communications equipment it would have come with had India signed the CISMOA. The gaps were filled with indigenous electronic equipment that did not diminish the aircrafts' capabilities. However, in a multi-nation environment, be it during a humanitarian relief mission or anti-piracy operations, these gaps would have been felt acutely.
The purpose of BECA is to facilitate the exchange of geospatial information between governments for military as well as civilian use. It includes maps, charts, satellite imagery, geodetic, geophysical, geomagnetic, and gravity data. One practical application of this for the military is that aircraft such as the C-17 Globemaster III and the C-130 Hercules can fly very close to the ground and evade enemy radar; another is improved accuracy of munitions. India cannot rely on foreign global positioning system in times of war and has therefore developed its own Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System. However, the coverage of this system is yet limited and geospatial data from the United States can improve its performance. The civilian application of geospatial data can contribute to infrastructural and other requirements as well.
The United States' eagerness for closer ties with India is plain. The Bush White House made that very clear, as did Wikileaks in a collection of cables that expressed Washington's priorities in the Indo-Pacific region and suggestions on how to achieve them. As the US embassy in New Delhi wrote to the Under Secretary for Defence, Michelle Flournoy, in October 2009, the way forward lies in "nudging India to expand their commitments by signing the foundational agreements and by moving forward with military sales [which] will provide opportunities for a sustained relationship far more robust than exercises and exchanges. If we can continue our trend of major military sales, we will cement a relationship for the next several decades with the most stable country in South Asia." India is not doing the United States a favour by signing the foundational documents and nor is the case vice versa.
What none of these agreements do is compel India to side with the United States in any conflict, allow Washington to permanently station troops on Indian soil yet under the jurisdiction of American courts (that would be the Status of Forces Agreement – SOFA), or permit hostile military action against other countries from bases in India. These agreements are also reciprocal, giving the Indian military access to American facilities around the world. This could come in particularly handy at Diego Garcia or Guam, for example, in anti-piracy or regional collective security operations. The sharing of supplies has not only a strategic argument but an economic one as well: Indian forces can resupply at any US facility and pay back in kind when American forces travel through the Indian Ocean, an especially useful arrangement during extended war games.
It is unlikely that the Indian side has not seen the material benefits of these agreements. Certainly, the Indian military can operate without subscribing to an American framework but doing so will drastically expand its capabilities until such a time as when Delhi develops its own defence network. When the subject of India signing on to the foundational agreements was first broached, several senior Indian military officials played down their importance, saying that the pacts make no difference to the Indian operational scope. Such opinions might be dismissed as being bound by political views of the time – non-alignment, and an intellectual inertia that was sold as pacifism. However, with a new and more ambitious government in Delhi, the time might be ripe to conclude these agreements.
India's equivocal response to the Pentagon's protocols does have a legitimate basis – a deep-rooted suspicion of the United States. For earlier generations, this was ideological: India eschewed the free market, embraced state socialism, and was in closer orbit to the Soviet Union diplomatically and militarily than it was to the West. For the younger generation, mistrust of Washington stems from what appears from Delhi as unwavering support of a hostile neighbour, Pakistan. Despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary, Foggy Bottom sees Islamabad as a close non-NATO ally and supplies it with advanced military equipment that includes nuclear-capable F-16 fighter jets. The United States has also earned a reputation as an unreliable patron, ironically from both India and Pakistan. Foggy Bottom cut off arms supplies in 1965 as well as in 1971 when war broke out between India and Pakistan; in 1974 and in 1998, after India's nuclear tests, it became the subject of US sanctions. Delhi worries that if it relies too much on an American defence framework, it might find its options in a conflict circumscribed by US interests and worldview. More recently, Washington's ridiculous good Taliban/bad Taliban routine got no chuckles in Delhi.
Delhi's greater concern is that forging closer military-to-military relations with the United States may appear to other important powers, particularly Russia and China, as an Indo-American alliance. Given the proximity of these powers to India and an overt US desire to contain their power, Indian action might speak louder than Indian intentions and antagonise them into a firmer response. Indian accession to the treaties will certainly stir otherwise friendly waters with Russia and likely precipitate a reaction from China that India is not ready for yet. Russia is already flirting with the idea of weapons sales to Pakistan and seeing US warships in Vishakapatnam might tilt the scales unfavourably to India. These treacherous diplomatic waters must be navigated by the Indian Foreign Service, convincing India's partners that logistical cooperation with the United States would not hurt their interests. It might even be worth considering expanding logistical support to Russian, Australian, or Japanese naval vessels at Indian bases. In the meantime, India might also consider the spate of weapons deals and joint military exercises it as had with the United States – there is no need of deals to divine which way the geopolitical winds are blowing.
In January this year, it was reported that Modi gave his officials a non-paper on the Pentagon's foundational agreements. It is a new India now, and the ambitions of the Modi government are substantially more than the timid considerations of the Congress regime. Delhi is striving to forge strong bonds around the Indian Ocean rim as well as with Japan and contribute to regional security and stability. Its aims of taking a no-nonsense approach to its borders in the northeast as well as the west demand better infrastructure, logistics, and hardware. While there might have been no need for India to consider the Pentagon's pacts earlier, an India aspiring to fill the role of a regional power certainly does. Modi's muscular foreign policy needs a defence doctrine to match, and loose coalitions are a healthy way to test the waters. As the subhashita advises,
न अभिशेको न संस्कार: सिम्हस्य क्रियते वने |
विक्रमार्जिता सत्वस्य स्वयमेव मृगेन्द्रता ||
There is no official coronation ceremony held to declare lion king of jungle He becomes king by his own attributes and heroic actions.
This post appeared on FirstPost on December 22, 2015.
Obama in India
25 Sun Jan 2015
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As you read this, US president Barack Obama lands in Delhi to attend the Republic Day celebrations. This is not his first trip – he visited India previously in 2010 and this, his second trip, makes him the only sitting POTUS to visit the country twice. Litres of ink have been spilled on articles about this visit, as was the case during his last visit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the United States in September, and every senior delegation from the United States to India over the past five years.
Unfortunately, these meetings have been unable to provide any major breakthroughs on the issues that find the two countries at loggerheads. To be fair, progress has been made, but only in inches while new differences – such as the infamous Devyani Khobragade case – have been significant. However, such is the nature of India-US relations – despite little by way of tangible measures to show for their 'strategic relationship,' ties between the two countries remain fuelled by emotion and hope in the enormous potential of finding the right frequency.
There was little reason to write new op-eds for this visit – recycling any old one would have done just as well. During this trip, one is most likely to hear the same buzzwords being mentioned: nuclear suppliers' liability, defence manufacturing, weapons sales, access to technology, cooperation in counter-terrorism, climate change, economic reforms, time to sweat the little stuff, strategic partnership, importance of symbolism. The denial of a US visa to Modi in 2005 will also find the obligatory mention.
There is nothing wrong with this menu – indeed, these are many of the issues that vex lawyers and lawmakers in India and the United States. Yet it is this same menu that has been brought out at every state visit. Years of hoping for an administrative alignment that would deliver on the breakthroughs achieved during the Bush administration leaves one resigned to the bureaucratic stagnation that has been the flavour of India-US relations ever since the agreement on civil nuclear cooperation.
Is anything different this time? Perhaps. A new government has come to power in Delhi, one that holds a single-party majority in the Lok Sabha. The last time this happened was in 1984. This gives hope that any bold decisions that have to be taken will meet with less resistance and avoid the perilous scrutiny of coalition politics. Furthermore, Modi has surprised his supporters and detractors alike on being quick to embrace the United States and its president despite the common Indian perception of a White House lukewarm towards India. On all other fronts, including the much vaunted American pivot to Asia, there is little change.
There have been some rumblings about the United States setting up a manufacturing plant for one of its unmanned aerial vehicles, the RQ-11 Raven, in Bangalore. There has also been talk of the establishment of a nuclear insurance pool for suppliers, enabling them to skirt the liability they would face as per present Indian law. It is hoped – that magic word again – that the Raven manufacturing facility will be the first of many but several hurdles are yet to be crossed – land acquisition, licenses – and processes streamlined if such investments are to become common. To this end, a somewhat unrelated but constructive step is the acceptance of a few key protocols such as the Communications and Information Security Memorandum of Agreement (CISMOA) and the Logistics Support Agreement (LSA). Reports that the Modi government is considering this is heartening for it would pave the way for enhanced military cooperation between India and the United States as well as contribute to the building of trust between the two countries.
It should be noted, however, that such trickling of cooperation has always preceded or followed a state visit. India has bought increasingly sophisticated arms and recently the anti-tank guided missile FGM-148 Javelin was also offered to India after initial hesitation. Obama's trip also carries such trinkets but sustained and institutionalised betterment of relations may yet be a bridge too far. This is disappointing, given that relations between Washington and Delhi have been generally on the upswing for the past 17 years. After a low point in the immediate aftermath of the Pokhran II nuclear tests, the Jaswant Singh – Strobe Talbott channel paved the way for a constructive dialogue between Delhi and Washington. The nuclear agreement in announced in July 2005 came on the heels of this groundwork and several smaller measures during the Vajpayee government.
It would be nice to see some positive developments that establish India-US cooperation on a firmer institutional setting during Obama's current visit. If Hope lived in Pandora's box amidst all sorts of nuisance and evil, surely we can also hope and reread the old op-eds on India-US relations until things actually begin to change.
This post first appeared on Swarajya on January 25, 2015.
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Птолемей Апіон (*Πτολεμαίος ο Απίων, між 154 до н. е. та 150 до н. е. — 96 до н. е.) — цар Киренаїки з 116 до 96 року до н. е.

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Походив з династії Птолемеїв. Позашлюбний син Птолемея VIII Фіскона та коханки Ірен. Народився у 150-х роках до н. е. за часів володарювання його батька в Киренському царстві. Після отримання Птолемеєм Фісконом влади в Єгипті у 145 році до н. е., Апіон перебирався до Александрійського царського двору. Там мешкав до 116 року до н. е., коли Фіскон помер. За заповітом останнього отримав Киренаїку.

У 116 році до н. е. перебирався до Кирени, де став самостійним царем. Про правління Апіона немає якихось достовірних знань. Близько 105 або 101 року до н. е. написав заповіт, відповідно до якого Киренське царство мало перейти до Римської республіки. Помер у 96 році до н. е.

Спочатку римський сенат відмовився приймати це царство, надавши містам Киренаїки волю. Це призвело до безладдя, а згодом — анархії. Тому 76 року до н. е. сенат вирішив прийняти цю область, призначивши як намісника квестора Гнея Корнелія Лентула Марцелліна. Останній облаштував Киренаїку як нову римську провінцію.

Джерела
 Hans Volkmann: Ptolemaios (11). In: Der Kleine Pauly. Bd. 4, 1979, Sp. 1221.

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Q: Effort (C#) - 'Sequence contains no matching element' when seeding data to any of my entities I am trying to build some unit tests for a few web service calls in my project. I am using Entity Framework 6.1.3 in my project to retrieve the data at the service layer (with a code-first approach). I did some research on how to Mock a DatabaseContext object and I found out that Effort can do this.
I followed the documentation when implementing Effort in my unit tests but when I try to seed data to my entities I get a "System.InvalidOperationException: 'Sequence contains no matching element'" exception. I am not entirely sure why this is happening. Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks!
Here is how the code looks like....
  //THE CALLER -- Doing what Effort suggests to do.

    var dbConnection = DbConnectionFactory.CreateTransient();
        FakeDbContext = new FakeDbContext(dbConnection);
        DatabaseSeed.AddTestData(FakeDbContext);

Here is where I seed data to the entities...
public static void AddTestData(IFakeDbContext context)
    {
        //**************** IT CRASHES HERE *********************
        context.FakeEntity1.AddOrUpdate(new FakeEntity1
        {
           Name1 = "TestingName1",
           LastName1 = "TestingLastName1"

        });

        context.SaveChanges();
    }

Here is my Entity Model...
[Table("rpt.FakeEntity1")]
public partial class FakeEntity1 : IFakeEntity1
{
    [Key]
    [Column(Order = 0)]
    [StringLength(20)]
    public string Name1 { get; set; }

    [Key]
    [Column(Order = 1)]
    [StringLength(20)]
    public string LastName1 { get; set; }

}

Here is my DatabaseContext...
public partial class FakeDbContext: IFakeDbContext
{

    public FakeDbContext(DbConnection dbConnection)
                          : base(dbConnection, true)
    {
        //Effort requires this.
    }

}

public interface IFakeDbContext :IDisposable
{

    DbSet<FakeEntity1> FakeEntity1 {get; set;}

}

I also have another class FakeDbContext.Base that overrides OnModelCreating.
Here is the Stack Trace:
StackTrace

A: The stack trace shows that the exception is thrown when the data provider is looking for a "store type from name". This indicates that you're using a data type that Effort doesn't support. This is confirmed by an issue in the Effort project.

A: hope this helps.
Many answers says you have to add FirstorDefault() in your EF statements but this error also occurs in the incorrect properties using data annotations.
When using Data Annotations, be careful with the properties that you add.
Example below, I missed the TypeName = "string", which should have been nvarchar as it is the data type in the database.
Also, take note of the Order = n,(starts with 0)
Encountered this while updating a past colleagues source code.
[Display(Name = "Name")]
[MaxLength(4000)]
[Column("Name", Order = 14, TypeName = "string")]
public string Name { get; set; }

then I corrected my code with
[Display(Name = "Name")]
[MaxLength(4000)]
[Column("Name", Order = 15, TypeName = "nvarchar")]
public string Name { get; set; }

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"KAMAZ has radically changed the image of machine engineering and the country!"
Celebrations on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the auto giant have started in Naberezhnye Chelny, Vladimir Putin is expected to arrive
Photo: tatarstan.ru
A series of festive events dedicated to the half-century anniversary of KAMAZ has started in Naberezhnye Chelny. President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, who arrived with congratulations, announced that President of Russia Vladimir Putin is expected to come to Kaliningrad for the main celebrations on December 13. The Tatarstan leader awarded KAMAZ PJSC and its staff with the order 'For Merits to the Republic of Tatarstan' and stressed that the project laid down in 1969 has radically changed the face of machine engineering and the face of the country, introducing it into the cohort of world leaders in heavy vehicles. The correspondent of Realnoe Vremya who attended the gala evening watched as Mayor of Naberezhnye Chelny Nail Magdeev confessed his love for the auto giant and personally to Sergey Kogogin, and listened to the theory of Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Alfiya Kogogina that "a special type of patriotism was created in Naberezhnye Chelny, which saved the city in the 'dashing 1990s".
Minnikhanov: "Putin is going to visit KAMAZ"
The gala evening dedicated to the 50th anniversary of KAMAZ was held in the organ hall in the city of Naberezhnye Chelny. Veterans of the plant and current employees, as well as partners of the company, business representatives, city and republican officials headed by President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, were invited to it. The evening was opened by Igor Lerman's chamber orchestra, performing Vivaldi's compositions as a dedication to the auto giant — KAMAZ PJSC has sponsored the orchestra for many years.
Rustam Minnikhanov, opening the evening, reminded that the republic, of course, will not be limited to this celebration: it only opens a series of events dedicated to the 50th anniversary of KAMAZ. On December 13, he promised, the anniversary will be celebrated at the site of the plant itself — what is more, he revealed the intrigue, with the participation of the top official of the state, that is, Russian President Vladimir Putin is going to visit the automotive city for the anniversary (as we predicted).
Veterans of the plant and current employees were invited to the gala evening dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the founding of KAMAZ in the organ hall of Naberezhnye Chelny. Photo: Sergey Afanasyev
KAMAZ was built by more than 100k people
Minnikhanov especially acknowledged those who participated in the implementation of the grandiose project — builders, power engineers, engineers, and KAMAZ employees.
"On the banks of the Kama River [50 years ago], the project was laid that radically changed the face of mechanical engineering, the face of the country. It introduced it to the cohort of world leaders in heavy vehicles. Many regions of the country aspired to build the auto giant," he reminded. "Considerable merit in deciding on the construction site belongs to our former first secretary of the regional committee, Fikryat Tabeev."
Minnikhanov reminded how in the early 1970s more than 100,000 people worked at the construction site. 4,2 billion rubles of capital investments were utilized for the construction. More than 30,000 units of the most modern equipment were installed, more than 700 foreign companies and 2,000 plants from 500 cities of the Soviet Union took part in the great KAMAZ epic. Along with KAMAZ, there were created dozens of component manufacturing plants, as a result, almost all sectors of the national economy of the USSR received a huge boost. Thanks to the construction of the Kama Automobile Plant, Naberezhnye Chelny turned from a small town with 30,000 population into one of the largest cities of Tatarstan and "the machine-building centre of the country with wide avenues, high-quality roads, and comfortable housing, landscaped parks and squares". The president of Tatarstan drew attention to that projects in social, transport and road infrastructure have been implemented in the city particularly by the anniversary of KAMAZ, the work will continue, he promised.
"Indoor swimming pool is being built, new public spaces are appearing, a branch of the republican oncologic dispensary is being under construction, a theatre, we are laying the stone for the construction of a closed football arena in a few days," Minnikhanov listed the projects, which the team of CEO Sergey Kogogin had lobbied by the plant's anniversary.
"Today, KAMAZ is one of the twenty world truck manufacturers, it produces every third truck in Russia and CIS countries. They are operated in 80 countries of the world," the president of Tatarstan said. Photo: Sergey Afanasyev
"KAMAZ is one of the twenty world truck manufacturers, it produces every third truck in Russia"
The head of the republic was the first of the leaders (among them — Vladimir Faustov, Nikolay Bekh, Ivan Kostin) to mention the first director general of the auto giant — Lev Vasilyev. The veteran is still alive, he is 94 years old. The Republic of Tatarstan awarded him for contribution in the construction of the plant and development of engineering industry of the region with the highest award of the Republic of Tatarstan — the order 'For Merits to the Republic of Tatarstan', and on 9 October a bust of the first CEO was set up in the motor city. Mentioning the last CEO of KAMAZ Sergey Kogogin, the president of Tatarstan said that under his leadership the company began to move to 'innovative track'. Among other important figures, Rustam Minnikhanov distinguished the former head of Kamgesenergostroy, Yevgeny Batenchuk.
"Indeed, on the way of the auto giant, there have been many both pleasant and sad events. This is the crisis of the 1990s, the fire at the plant [of engines]. But despite all the difficulties, we have managed to maintain the unique quality of production. Today KAMAZ is one of the twenty world truck manufacturers, it produces every third truck in Russia and CIS countries. They are used in 80 countries of the world," said the president of Tatarstan, reminding about Master Kama Industrial Park (Master KIP). "We have created the largest industrial park in Europe, the area of its closed premises is 1,4 million square metres. For example, there are 284 enterprises, which employ more than 9,000 people."
Tatarstan President awards the order 'For Merits to the Republic of Tatarstan' to KAMAZ PJSC
In the first place, Rustam Minnikhanov was happy that KAMAZ was celebrating its anniversary 'with dignity': complete update of production — the plant for the production of frames cabs was opened, a production line of aluminum fuel tanks was launched, the conveyor for the production of advanced in-line engine R5 was launched, the production of trucks generation K5 will start by the end of this year, not to mention the prospects of the project of unmanned vehicles. These projects would not have been possible without the support of the federal authorities and the shareholder of KAMAZ — Rostec Group," he noted gratefully and asked them to applaud, and after deafening applause, he immediately added:
"But the republic is always near! You can applaud the republic!" for which he received an even louder ovation.
The president presented the first award to KAMAZ itself: the order and the banner were handed over to Sergey Kogogin. Photo: tatarstan.ru
Minnikhanov was personally awarding KAMAZ workers for about 10 minutes — from locksmiths to deputy directors. The first award to KAMAZ, the order and the banner of the order, he presented to Sergey Kogogin: "By the decree of the president of the Republic of Tatarstan for meritorious service of the collective society in domestic mechanical engineering and contribution to the economy of the republic, KAMAZ PJSC is awarded the order 'For Merits to the Republic of Tatarstan."
Alfiya Kogogina: "A special type of patriotism was created in the motor city, which saved Naberezhnye Chelny in the 'dashing 1990s"
The chief KAMAZ lobbyist and, concurrently, the wife of the CEO of the auto giant, Deputy of the State Duma Alfiya Kogogina called the KAMAZ construction, which started in 1969, "great, unprecedented in scale in Europe". According to her, then "the best representatives of youth, intellectuals, working class" who dreamed to build the plant and "the city of the future" went to Tatarstan, Naberezhnye Chelny:
"You, the veterans, did it," she said confidently. "KAMAZ rallied all layers of society: youth and adult generation, Russians, Tatars, Mari, Chuvash, Bashkirs, Ukrainians, Belarusians — all peoples lived, worked and had a rest together, one family! It was a pot, in which a special fusion of the qualities of Soviet society was prepared, in which there was no place for envy or chauvinism."
Moreover, Alfiya Kogogina believes that in the 1970s a special type of patriotism was created in the motor city, which saved Naberezhnye Chelny in the "dashing 1990s" and preserved KAMAZ in that time of crisis. After her speech, girls from the studio of pop vocals '21st century' went on stage and, just in advance knowing about the rhetorical figure of Kogogin, performed a patriotic song with the words "Always forward, we will win" and the chorus "Forward, Russia!"
Alfiya Kogogina believes that in the 1970s a special type of patriotism was created in the motor city, which saved Naberezhnye Chelny in the "dashing 1990s" and preserved KAMAZ in that time of crisis. Photo: tatarstan.ru
Nail Magdeev — to Sergey Kogogin: "We love you, we are proud of you, we rely on you"
The mayor of Naberezhnye Chelny found himself in a somewhat awkward situation at the event when he was meant to sincerely thank the team of Sergey Kogogin and him personally, wishing them success, at the time of the unresolved dispute with him. Let us remind that KAMAZ is going to take away from the Executive Committee of Naberezhnye Chelny through court action once issued to him 190 buses, leasing payments for which, according to the auto giant, the city has long overdue. This could cause a transport collapse in the city, but obviously, on such an extreme step in the jubilee December — and even before the arrival of Vladimir Putin — Sergey Kogogin's team will not decide on (it is possible that by now some kind of behind-the-scenes agreement has already been concluded in this regard). However, the mayor's face did not twitch a muscle as he stepped onto the stage with a smile. However, he initially sent congratulations to the veterans of the KAMAZ construction "on behalf of the grateful residents of Naberezhnye Chelny", whom today are 534,000, KAMAZ gave exactly half a million citizens to a small town for half a century who came here from all over the USSR. KAMAZ significantly changed the fate of the 30-thousandth city, Nail Magdeev believes. Many generations of KAMAZ employees actually chose a new homeland, where more than 80 ethnicities live today. In the end, he personally addressed Sergey Kogogin with words of gratitude:
"To my friend, our comrade — for service and friendship! For that KAMAZ with honours performs all the tasks that face the company. Today Rustam Minnikhanov and I have watched the latest developments, and, to be honest, I once again fell in love with KAMAZ! We love you, we are proud of you, we rely on you. KAMAZ and the city — our destiny!" the mayor of Naberezhnye Chelny told.
Today Rustam Minnikhanov and I have watched the latest developments, and, to be honest, I once again fell in love with KAMAZ!" the mayor of Naberezhnye Chelny told. Photo: tatarstan.ru
Sergey Kogogin: current sales are not enough, and in 2020 an explosive growth of consumption at KAMAZ is not expected
At the evening, where young KAMAZ workers performed their numbers (presenting a large literary and musical play 'The History of Strong People', based on the letters of the first KAMAZ pioneers), and city collectives, and honoured artists of Tatarstan, tried not to talk about the economy in general, of course. In the meantime, precisely on the anniversary day, Sergey Kogoghin gave an interview to Vesti KAMAZa corporate newspaper, which did not conceal the difficult situation of the hero of the day: "In our business, it is very difficult to say a good year or a bad year. Very rarely the market is quite so good, for all the time of my work — only 2007, more of this happiness we did not get, everything was as always: it is necessary to fight for a place in the market." And now there are alarming questions, but the date of '50 years' draws attention to what you can be proud of," he commented on the situation with the fall in truck sales in the Russian market. According to him, marketers have slightly increased the forecast for the market: previously gave 55-56 thousand trucks, now brought to 59 thousand registrations this year. "We expect to sell 29 thousand [KAMAZ vehicles] in the domestic market and a little more than 5 thousand — for export. There are a number of difficulties in the implementation of export contracts, however, we should finish the year with 33-34 thousand. Is it much or little? For KAMAZ, this is not enough, but it is a given that we have faced and live with," he said with regret. In 2019, the segment of mainline tractors fell very much, almost twofold, so the company produced fewer K4 cars than planned. And next year, alas, will not be better than 2019, an explosive growth of consumption in KAMAZ is not expected.
Between 1969 and 2019, more than 2,3 million vehicles have been produced.
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With a spike on 4th down, No. 3 Darien holds on to beat No. 4 Greenwich
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Updated 2:22 pm EDT, Sunday, October 27, 2019
GREENWICH — It was one of the more dramatic football games of the FCIAC season, with the most anti-climactic of endings.
After a roller-coaster ride which saw a couple of huge momentum swings, the game ended when Greenwich QB James Rinello spiked the ball on fourth-and-one at the 13-yard line, as No. 4 Darien held on for a 27-21 victory over the No. 3 Cardinals Saturday at Cardinal Stadium.
The Blue Wave (6-0) had come out strong, building a 21-0 lead early in the second quarter before the Cardinals (5-1) roared back to tie it 21-21 in the third quarter.
Darien's defense then regained its swagger, allowing the offense to go back to work. Quarterback Peter Graham connected with receiver Jackson Peters for what proved to be the winning score: A 19-yard touchdown strike with 7:25 to play.
"It was a tale of two halves," Darien coach Rob Trifone said. "Obviously, we played extremely well in the first half, and then in the second half, two or three of our best players were cramping and we were shuffling people around. All of a sudden, it was a back-and-forth slugfest. You can't give a team like that so many opportunities, but I was happy with the way we responded."
The result ended Greenwich's 18-game winning streak, which dates back to the 2017 Class LL final, when the Cards fell to Darien 31-22 at Stamford's Boyle Stadium. Greenwich is 30-2 since the start of the 2017 season.
Darien's Jackson Peters (22) celebrates his game winning reception with Sean Gifford (3) against Greenwich in an FCIAC football game of unbeatens at Cardinal Stadium in Greenwich, Conn. on Oct. 26, 2019. Darien defeated Greenwich 27-21.
Darien's Jackson Peters (22) celebrates his game winning reception with Sean Gifford (3) against Greenwich in an FCIAC football game of unbeatens at Cardinal Stadium in Greenwich, Conn. on Oct. 26, 2019. Darien
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"It's difficult to come back from a 21-point deficit," Greenwich coach Anthony Morello said. "Darien is a great football program, a great football program, and we put ourselves behind the eight-ball. We were playing catch-up. I'm proud of this team and these players to be able to come back and put ourselves in a 21-21 tie. That showed a lot of heart. We just ran out of time tonight."
The loss overshadowed a great performance by Rinello, who was 23-for-32 passing for 290 yards and two touchdowns. His top targets were AJ Barber (5 catches, 48 yards), Kobe Comizio (5-112) and Matthew Pilc (5-46).
"They're a great football team," Trifone said. "They have so many weapons and although we sometimes handled Barber, (Pilc) killed us, Comizio killed us, and they have so many different options to go to. It's very hard to defend."
The Wave received a great performance from the defense, which consistently got into the Greenwich backfield during the first half. Will Bothwell had three sacks, David Evanchick had two, and Sam Wilson added one.
"Guys like Dave Evanchick and Will Bothwell are just ballers, great players," Wilson said. "We didn't have to send a lot of blitzes because we were able to get there with four guys, which helped out a lot."
On offense, Graham was held in check for much of the second half and finished with 188 passing yards and three TDs. Peters had five catches for 72 yards with one touchdown, and Will Kirby rushed 12 times for 71 yards and one touchdown.
The Wave put the first points on the board on their opening drive, covering 61 yards on 10 plays. Graham capped the drive with a 10-yard strike to Peters.
An interception and 19-yard return by Peters then set up Darien with a short field, and Graham connected with Ryan Mulliken, this time for 21 yards and a 14-0 lead after one quarter.
After a three-and-out series for the Cards, the Blue Wave went 56 yards on three plays and scored on a three-yard run by Will Kirby for a 21-0 lead.
Greenwich received a much-needed shot in the arm when Rinello hit a wide open Comizio deep down the middle for a 65-yard TD with 58 seconds to go in the half.
Greenwich crept closer to start the third quarter when the Wave fumbled the opening kickoff and the Cardinals recovered at the Darien 18-yard line. Two plays later, Hunter Clark scored on a 10-yard run to close the gap to 21-14.
Later in the third, AJ Barber caught a 24-yard TD pass from Rinello to get Greenwich all the way back at 21-21.
A sack by Evanchick and a short punt helped the Wave get back in front. Graham threw a 19-yard TD pass to Peters with 7:25 remaining in the game.
Greenwich had one final chance with the ball in the closing minutes and drove from its own 40-yard line into the red zone. On third-and-nine, Rinello hit Mason Muir for eight yards, but then the Cards rushed to the line and spiked the ball, setting off a Darien celebration.
"That's the first time I've ever seen a game end on a spike," Morello said. "I think the kids out there thought it was a first down and we didn't have any timeouts left. It was a 10-yard gain, but it was something like third-and-12, so we were trying to get another play in there, but the kids couldn't hear us with the noise."
"I didn't even know that it was fourth down," Darien's Wilson said. "So I was screaming fake spike because that's what I thought was going to happen," Wilson said. "When he spiked it, everyone started going crazy and then I saw the fourth down marker and it was a kind of shock and joy."
Will Bothwell, Darien. The senior co-captain and defensive end was part of a great defensive effort for the Blue Wave. He led the team with three sacks, including one for a 12-yard loss which ended a Greenwich drive in the fourth quarter.
"It was a weird ending. I did not like how we played in the second half but our defense rose to the challenge and I'm proud of all of them. We knew we had to come out with everything we've got." - Darien senior co-captain Will Bothwell
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14 7 0 6 - 27
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G - Hunter Clark, 10-yard run (Howarth kick), 10:55
G - AJ Barber, 24-yard pass from Rinello (Howarth kick), 3:40
D - Peters, 19-yard pass from Graham (kick blocked), 7:25
Records: Darien (6-0); Greenwich (5-1)
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Geek Review: Gemini Man
On paper, Gemini Man has all the makings of a great blockbuster flick. An old soldier looking to leave, only to be the target of another assassin, who turns out to be a younger version of himself.
And behind the camera, the award-winning Ang Lee, who has tackled everything from rampaging green giant, passion and lust, as well as the passion of two cowboys. But something had to give, when the director does more than necessary.
Think Face/Off, where two adversaries switch faces. Or a man trapped on an island with a volleyball – simple, slightly impossible and ludicrous premises, held together by a visionary director who took things a little too far.
Here, Ang Lee effectively turns this into a showcase of new motion capture technology thinly veiled behind a movie premise, where a legendary actor ends up fighting himself in a farfetched and morally ambiguous plot.
While we can all love Will Smith as much as the next guy, this movie is probably the worst project he has taken on in recent years, and that's saying a lot, given his recent turn in Suicide Squad and Bright. It is not a question of his capabilities as an action star because we have seen him fight aliens, robots, metal spiders and the annoying Martin Lawrence, but how do you fight an awkward version of yourself?
Smith plays Henry Brogan, the best assassin people have ever seen. But after expressing his desire to retire, Henry discovers the agency he has dedicated his life to has been partaking in some shady business and he quickly becomes a target of one of their elite operatives, a younger version of himself named Junior.
The problem here isn't with Henry, but with Junior. It's an older Will Smith playing Will Smith from 20 years ago, but Will has outgrown himself. After audiences saw the first trailer, there was already an unsettling feeling that the special effects on Junior's face looked unnatural and distracting. It was like looking at an extremely human-like doll, where the motion-capture face is truly stunning and disturbing all at once.
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Smith is probably the best casting choice for this project, as most audiences are not only familiar with his most recent work, but also those from his younger self, from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air to Men In Black. This makes watching Junior way more believable and you might even be impressed at how Junior is that familiar face you can't quite put a name to.
However, the cons of the film far outweigh the pros of such advanced motion capture. For starters, the story and characters are remarkably forgettable and lacklustre. And there isn't much of a plot either, as there are zero surprises from start to finish. Emotionally, the only depths reached by the characters is a two-minute ramble from Henry about his life in a nutshell.
It was especially disappointing when the film attempted to create an understanding of the villain nearing the end, by providing a superficial philosophical dilemma.
We can all agree that Will Smith is a great actor that has only gotten better with time but his talent was underutilised with poorly written dialogue and a bland character that would be better suited as a supporting character.
Speaking of supporting characters, Danny (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and Baron (Benedict Wong) don't bring much to the table except a couple of snarky quips.
To be fair, nobody ever says that the strength of an action film is its dialogue. Unfortunately, this movie does not even satisfy the itch for sheer mind-numbing action. There is one scene that was particularly gratifying involving a motorcycle but many of the choreographed sequences are just dull.
Many of the scenes are shot in dark settings that undermine the severity of the scene because audiences can barely see what is going on. Even the solid action scenes are peppered with dialogue, killing the mood entirely.
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This movie was made specifically for 3D, so here is a warning from a fellow sufferer of motion sickness: take a pill or just see it in 2D.
Lee intended for this movie to be seen at a framerate of 120 frames per second, using a 4K projector and in 3D. Another example of how his ambition became his undoing is that no cinema in the US can even support all of that.
There is really no reason why this movie had to be shot in 3D. Most of the time, you'll be staring at the back of someone's head and the other times, it is like someone lit a sparkler and put it a little too close to your face.
Overall, the only draw to this movie would be seeing Will Smith fight himself. Knowing that Ang Lee directed this film only made things worse as having an A-lister is sure to bring in viewers but it is clear that the priority in this movie was not the art.
GEEK REVIEW SCORE
Gemini Man illustrates the future of cinema and motion capture graphics but fails in its key purpose of entertaining audiences through vivid storytelling.
Direction - 4/10
Characterisation - 3/10
Geek Satisfaction - 3/10
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Greek National Road 9 (, abbreviated as EO9) is a single carriageway with at-grade intersections in the West Greece and Peloponnese regions. It runs along the west coast of the Peloponnese peninsula, from Patras to Methoni via Pyrgos. Its length is around , making it the second-longest national highway of Greece.

The government of Greece plans to replace the road by a new motorway. This will be a southern extension of the Ionia Odos, numbered A5, which will connect the Albanian border near Ioannina with the A7 north of Kalamata. It is expected to be completed in 2015.

Route

The National Road 9 passes through or along the following towns:

Patras (centre)
Paralia
Vrachnaiika
Alissos
Kato Achaia
Kareika
Lappas
Varda
Lechaina
Andravida
Kavasila
Gastouni
Savalia
Chanakia
Pyrgos
Epitalio
Kallikomo
Zacharo
Giannitsochori
Kalo Nero
Kyparissia
Filiatra
Gargalianoi
Pylos
Methoni

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Amid Wednesday's live breaking news coverage of authorities intercepting mail bombs sent to prominent Democrats and CNN's New York City headquarters, MSNBC anchor Craig Melvin teed up a former Hillary Clinton aide to blame President Trump for the incidents without knowing who sent the explosives or why.
Today is the 643rd day he has been in office. I don't think he has uttered a single word on any of those days that in any way condemns violence or tells people to dial it down. He thrives on it, he requires it. He cannot succeed without hate and anger. He – for him to say everyone should dial it back would basically be him acknowledging and raising a white flag, and it's absolutely horrible.
Melvin didn't challenge a single controversial word uttered by Reines, he simply thanked him for his incendiary comments and hoped he could "stick around" to offer more irresponsible analysis.
But if you are looking at who they've targeted so far, it's almost like they're following Donald Trump's Twitter feed....And what struck me about the White House statement, when you said they quickly issued one. I don't think that's quick, because until Donald Trump tweeted a few moments ago, he's been mum. And the other part of Sarah Sanders' statement is those who are responsible will be held accountable. And I think you have to ask how much Donald Trump is responsible for the climate that we're in, where things like this happen.
Like Melvin, Mitchell offered no push-back.
CRAIG MELVIN: Philippe Reines joins me now as well. Philippe is a Deputy Assistant Secretary, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under Hillary Clinton. And Philippe, we know that the Secretary is in Florida right now for some preplanned events, some fundraising events. And we don't want to jump the gun too much here, we don't want to get too far out in front of our skis, but we do know that we are, shall we say, in a climate now where there are often attacks made on the media, the press, journalists. And we know that there are attacks that are often made on George Soros and Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Two weeks before these midterms, Philippe, does it seem like someone might be trying to send a message here?
PHILIPPE REINES [FMR. HILLARY CLINTON AIDE]: Well, look, obviously someone who sends bombs in the mail or in any way delivers or tries to hurt people, isn't a sane or good person. So, don't want to ascribe to them of any higher political strategy of affecting midterms. But I think your larger point is correct, in that, you know, irrespective of what this person's political leanings or motivations are, we are living in an atmosphere where hate and violence have been not only incited but condoned by Donald Trump.
And, look, you know, this could be the most liberal person in America who has some problem with these four individuals and institutions. It doesn't really matter. Excuse me, there are a lot of people who are living on the edge of sanity in general, I don't mean that to be facetious. And when people in authority kind of lift the guardrails from that, people are gonna act out, and there is no human being more responsible for the climate we're in than Donald Trump.
MELVIN: Alright, Philippe Reines there, former aide to Hillary Clinton. Philippe, thank you. Stick around for me, if you can.


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A Husband So Devoted To His Wife, He Spent 20 Years Sitting At Her Grave
They had been together since they were teenagers. And, having spent the last 20 years sitting next to her Boston grave in mourning, Rocky Abalsamo will now forever be by the side of his wife Julita.
By Sadho Ram — 29 Jan 2014, 03:50 PM — Updated almost 7 years ago
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97-year-old Rocky Abalsamo will never have to leave his wife again
When Rocky Abalsamo's wife died in 1993, part of him died too.
Out of sadness and longing, he would hold vigil by her grave site at St. Joseph Cemetery in West Roxbury all day, every day, rarely eating or drinking and weathering all temperatures and conditions.
Rain, hail or shine: Rocky 'Roque' Abalsamo has sat by the grave of his wife, Julita, at St. Joseph's Cemetery in Boston since she died in 1993. On January 22 he passed away
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Now, over 20 years after his beautiful Julia 'Julita' passed away, Rocky 'Roque' continues to sit next to his beloved, after being buried in the plot next to her.
Rocky died on Janaury 22 at Stonehedge Health Care Center in West Roxbury after several months of declining health, reports The Boston Globe.
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Rocky became something of a celebrity in 2000 after The Boston Globe ran a story about his unwavering devotion to his late wife
The story was picked up by media outlets all over the world.
The attention amused Rocky, but all he wanted was to remain close to his wife.
The love of Rocky's life: Julita Abalsamo died from complications with heart surgery in 1993
The pair met as teenagers in a cafe in their native Buenos Aires.
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Rocky was sitting with his back to Julita when he overheard her talking with friends 'about the soul, about life, goodness,' Rocky said in the 2000 interview.
Even before seeing her face, he decided: 'This is for me. I must know her.'
'She was pure love,' he said.
'Her beauty was a gift apart, a reward.'
They shared a first kiss on September 16, 1937 - a date Rocky - celebrated annually - and married the following April
They had a daughter, Angela, and a son, Roque Jr.
In 1971 the followed their children to the United States and settled in Boston a year later.
Rocky Abalsamo and Julia.
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Rocky and Julita had been married for 55 years when she died of complications after heart surgery in 1993 . Distraught, he began spending his days at St. Joseph Cemetery.
Rocky went to the cemetery when it opened and would leave at closing. He rarely ate during the visits, mostly out of respect but also so he didn't need a bathroom
In 2000, at age 84, he said he had spent the seven years since his wife's death keeping vigil, arriving when the cemetery opened and heading home when it closed.
'She is part of me, so here I am whole,' he said previously.
'Being here makes me feel better. Not good, but better. I do it for Julita, and for myself.'
Each morning he would greet Julia - 'I am here!' - unfold his blue chair and unpack the belongings he would bring with him, such as photos and other tokens.
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Rocky Abalsamo beside his wife's grave in St. Joseph Cemetery in West Roxbury, MA.
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At night he would pray and sprinkle crumbs on the grave so that chipmunks would keep her company after he leaves.
Over time, what began as a personal act of mourning touched dozens of others who came to the cemetery.
People would bring meals, boots, hats, and scarves, and they decorated Julita's grave with plants, ceramic angels, flags, and stuffed animals.
He told them stories and shared his wisdom about life and love.
Abalsamo's daughter, Angela Arai, told the Boston Globe her father will be buried to his wife's left-hand side in accordance with his final wishes
"The most special thing about my father was that he lived his life his way," Arai said.
"He lived one day at a time and enjoyed that day without preoccupations for tomorrow."
Now, after 20 years of waiting, Abalsamo and his love are side by side for eternity.
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Al Casey
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Alvin W. Casey (October 26 1936 - September 17 2006) was an American guitarist. He was mainly noted for his work as a session musician but also released his own records and scored three Billboard Hot 100 hits in the United States. His contribution to the rockabilly genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.
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Well this was a very uplifting way to start the day. It's a video from Fox News pitting an Eric Holder lap dog, Tamara Holder (no relation, I assume) with Bill Cunningham, TV and radio host. Perjury investigation.
I suppose it is true that the Dems and Repubs are doing a lot of finger-pointing.
Here is a description of worthless and wicked people: They are constant liars.
Wrongdoers listen to wicked talk; liars pay attention to destructive words.
I do not spend time with liars or go along with hypocrites.
O God, take up my cause! Defend me against these ungodly people. Rescue me from these unjust liars.
I will not allow deceivers to serve me, and liars will not be allowed to enter my presence.
But the king will rejoice in God. All who trust in him will praise him, while liars will be silenced.
If a ruler honors liars, all his advisers will be wicked.
Look! I will force those who belong to Satan--those liars who say they are Jews but are not--to come and bow down at your feet. They will acknowledge that you are the ones I love.
I know all the things you do. I have seen your hard work and your patient endurance. I know you don't tolerate evil people. You have examined the claims of those who say they are apostles but are not. You have discovered they are liars.
Don't let liars prosper here in our land. Cause disaster to fall with great force on the violent.
At that time I will put you on trial. I will be a ready witness against all sorcerers and adulterers and liars. I will speak against those who cheat employees of their wages, who oppress widows and orphans, or who deprive the foreigners living among you of justice, for these people do not fear me," says the LORD Almighty.
I think that when Tamara dyed her hair, some of the bleach killed a few gray cells. Which she didn't have many to start with.
Where are you when we need you brother!!
One more reason never watch shows like Hannity. Regardless of the substance of what is being discussed, childish behavior like this isn't helpful to anyone, except maybe the station Execs for ratings. It's more like Maury or Springer than it is a political debate show.


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    /**
     * @Id
     * @GeneratedValue
     * @Column(type="integer")
     */
    protected $id;

    /**
     * @ManyToOne(targetEntity="Console\Entity\Message", cascade={"all"})
     */
    protected $message;

    /**
     * @Column(name="is_read", type="boolean",options={"comment":"Is Read"})
     */
    protected $isRead = false;