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NY Times confirms US involvement in Nuclear Black Market
In last Monday's New York Times, David Sanger and William Broad wrote a front-page article about the CIA's involvement in the nuclear black market.
The article demonstrates (again) that the New York Times, Sanger & Broad in particular, has simply become a mouthpiece for the government (see my previous articles 1, 2, 3) but they did let one fact slip through to the readership. I can only presume that the slip was accidental, because they don't appear to have understood the ramifications of what they reported:
The US Government is covering up the fact that US citizens and entities are involved in the nuclear black market.
Three members of the Tinner family in Switzerland were key suppliers to AQ Khan's nuclear black market ring. They were arrested in 2004 and have been awaiting trial but the US government has been trying to sabotage the Swiss trial because "compromising and embarrassing information about the CIA's activities with the Khan network" would be exposed if the trial were to proceed.
High-Level Visit
The New York Times reported that in July 2007, the Swiss Justice Minister came to the US to discuss the case with high-level US officials, apparently to find a mutually-acceptable arrangement regarding how to deal with the Tinner case.
According to an anonymous former Bush administration official:
"The State Department wanted the bomb plans destroyed as a way to stem nuclear proliferation, while the C.I.A. wanted to protect its methods for combating illicit nuclear trade."
Whether those two things are true or not I don't know - but the NY Times also notes, without elaboration, that the Swiss Justice Minister met with former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller (and Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence).
Domestic US Involvement
The US Dept of Justice and FBI have exclusively domestic jurisdiction. Why would the Swiss Justice Minister meet with Mueller and Gonzales regarding the planned destruction of evidence in a Swiss case involving the nuclear black market? The only logical explanation is that the case also involves US persons and US entities who have yet to be named and indicted. I presume that Gonzales and Mueller desperately argued that the Swiss needed to derail the Tinners' trial by destroying all the evidence because the FBI had an 'ongoing investigation' which would otherwise be exposed. What else could they have argued? Of course, there is no 'ongoing investigation, and there will not be any forthcoming indictments.
The AQ Khan network was officially exposed in 2003. Now we have proof that the Bush administration is well aware of the involvement of US persons and entities, and is apparently refusing to bring indictments against these people.
Sibel Edmonds Case
We know from the case of former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds that the FBI has long been aware of nuclear black market activities within the US and has failed to do anything about it, going to such extraordinary lengths to gag Sibel using the State Secrets Privilege, and to illegally gag congress involving Sibel's case.
We know that high-level US officials were directly involved in these activities. We know that the Pentagon and State Department actively shut down the investigations that Sibel was involved with, and they also actively facilitated the gagging of Sibel.
We even know at least 3 of the US persons/groups that were actively involved in the nuclear black market:
Marc Grossman
Former #3 at the State Dept, Marc Grossman, was heard on FBI wiretaps facilitating the theft of nuclear secrets "from every nuclear agency in the United States." Other participants in the ring include officials from Pakistan, Turkey and Israel who were operating out of their respective embassies. Once the ring stole these secrets they were sold to the highest bidders on the nuclear black market.
Could it be that the US government was desperate to sabotage the Swiss case because they were afraid that Grossman's role in criminal activity would finally be exposed?
American Turkish Council (ATC)
The ATC is a powerful Military-Industrial-Complex lobby, home to some of the most pwerful people and companies in the US. It is also the "nexus" of nuclear black market activity in the US.
We also know that the CIA, via Valerie Plame's cover company Brewster Jennings, was investigating the ATC for its role in illegal nuclear proliferation.
Sibel Edmonds heard wiretaps of phone traffic between the Turkish embassy and the American Turkish Council involving dealings in the nuclear black market.
Could it be that the US government was desperate to sabotage the Swiss case because they were afraid that the ATC's role in criminal activity would finally be exposed?Zeki Bilmen & Giza Technologies
Turkish businessman and US citizen, Zeki Bilmen, illegally supplied nuclear hardware to Pakistan's military program via Asher Karni, an Isaeli businessman in South Africa. Karni was indicted, but Bilmen was never charged, and his company, New Jersey-based Giza Technologies, continues operating to this day, with shipments to and from from proliferation hotspots "like Dubai, Spain, South Africa, Turkey."
Bilmen was also heard organizing the transfer of nuclear technology on wiretaps translated by Sibel, meaning that his FBI file is at least seven years old.
Could it be that the US government was desperate to sabotage the Swiss case because they were afraid that Zeki Bilmen's role in criminal activity would finally be exposed?
Former CIA official Phil Giraldi:
"Nothing deserves more attention than the possibility of ongoing national-security failures and the proliferation of nuclear weapons with the connivance of corrupt senior government officials."
The involvement of domestic US agencies in the decision to destroy evidence in the Tinner case in Switzerland proves that there is a domestic US component to the nuclear black market. Five years after the public exposure of the AQ Khan network, the US government still refuses to bring indictments against a number of criminal US participants.
(Email me if you want to be added to my Sibel email list. Subject: 'Sibel email list')
NY Times does it again: More 'Judy Miller' tapdancing (Pt3)
A front page article "In Nuclear Net's Undoing, a Web of Shadowy Deals" in last Monday's New York Times by David Sanger and William Broad details the destruction of evidence by the US government in a case involving the nuclear black market.
The article highlights again that the New York Times continues to engage in 'Judy Miller reporting' by warmongering and acting as a mouthpiece for the government.
This is the third article in a multi-part series. This article will focus on the NY Times' appalling reliance on government-friendly sources, the lack of any actual investigative reporting, the lack of supporting evidence, and the absence of any dissenting views. (The first piece of the series focused on the players in the AQ Khan / BSA Tahir nuclear smuggling ring, the second article focused on the countries involved.)
Given the New York Times recent history of being used and abused by their anonymous government sources you might think they ought to be a little more diligent when reporting a story such as this, but apparently they haven't learnt their lesson from the recent debacles such as Iraq/WMD or Anthrax/Hatfill.
David Sanger and William Broad need look no further back than their early reporting on this same story to see how badly they are getting spun - although given their performance, it appears that they don't even care.
As just one example, that previous article was a transparent attempt to spin the story away from the fact that the US government bailed out members of the AQ Khan nuclear proliferation network. The article noted that the AQ Khan had nuclear "blueprints" which are "rapidly reproducible for creating a weapon that is relatively small and easy to hide" which makes these weapons "attractive to terrorists."
Now Sanger and Broad tell us in their current article that these plans are "sketchy and incomplete" which have "little or no value for a terrorist..." There was no correction, no apology, no remorse or embarrassment, and apparently no lessons learned.
Despite this history, Broad and Sanger again spoke to "five current and former Bush administration officials" - presumably the same sources as their previous article - and gave them the cover of anonymity to again spread transparent nonsense. Apparently Sanger and Broad didn't even wonder why a handful of Bush administration officials were willing to talk to them about these 'classified' operations, and it surely won't occur to them to ask why the Bush administration hasn't opened up a leak investigation either.
Corroboration?
Last month, investigative journalist Joe Lauria joked that American journalists need five sources for something personally witnessed by the journalist. This is true for whistle-blowers, but there is a double-standard when it comes to official government sources. This kid-glove treatment of US officials is remarkable given the lies that we have been fed, particularly over the past seven years.
Did Sanger and Broad actually do anything to corroborate the story apart from speak to the five Bush officials who were all singing off the same hymn-sheet? Did they interview Richard Barlow, expert on Pakistan's nuclear program for his thoughts? Did they ask decorated British customs agent Atif Amin whether the story made any sense? Or former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds? Of course not.
Perhaps Sanger and Broad could have, for example, asked 'Dr Brian Jones, a former defence intelligence WMD specialist,' for his opinion. He was quoted in the Guardian on this very story back in June saying that he was "suspicious that the disclosure might be politically motivated." But that sort of thing would never get published in a US newspaper - unless it was a government source trying to undermine a whistle-blower.
If a whistle-blower tries to shed some light on government wrongdoing, then the Corporate Press in the US demands documents and multiple points of corroboration, and even then often don't run the story. They will question his or her motives, or they will argue that it is too difficult to establish the legitimacy of the whistle-blower case, or simply accept the government's denials.
In many cases, this standard of proof is legitimate, but it is applied so inconsistently that it turns the newspapers into organs of the government. The US corporate media will publish just about anything the government says, despite the Bush administration's documented history of lying to the press and the public. On the other hand, it is nearly impossible to get the US press to write about important matters that are not government-approved.
Again, take the case of Sibel Edmonds. Despite the fact that senators from both major parties reported that the case is credible, despite the fact that the FBI confirmed a lot of the case, despite the Justice Department's Inspector General's report, despite the State Secrets Privilege, despite the fact that there has not been a single substantial denial, despite the corroboration by Phil Giraldi, a CIA agent based in Turkey, despite the corroboration from veteran FBI agents John Cole and Gilbert Graham, the US media still can't report on the story.
I asked Sibel for a quote on this story, she said:
"You see this over and over again, and I'm not just talking about my case. As you know, my organization represents nearly 150 National Security whistle-blowers, and dealing with the US mainstream media, both the networks and print, we have faced the same double standards and bias consistently. Even if you get a high-ranking National Security whistle-blower with an impeccable record and no agenda, the response from the US media is "We need at least 2 or 3 more independent witnesses, as well as hard documents."
The same media reports the government propaganda & agenda-driven leaks as undisputed fact, based on a statement from a spokesperson from one of the agencies; no request for documents, no request for independent witnesses...
Another interesting thing with the whistle-blower cases is that the MSM always use words such as 'allegations' but when they act as government mouthpieces, you rarely see any evidence of doubt or phrases like that."
We've heard from numerous sources that the US government warned reporters off writing about Sibel's story earlier this year after the UK's Times published their series on the case. The reporters were told that they would be compromising a sting operation and harming national security if they published any information about this case - and they all fell for it! The same is true of the alternate media including the blogosphere to a large extent. Steve Clemons, respected by many, apparently spoke to some of his State Dept friends before deciding that Sibel must have been only seen the ""raw intel", unprocessed, or coordinated" communications of a sting operation - despite the corroboration of the FBI agents involved in the operation.
US Press vs Foreign Press
Sibel has another example involving the nuclear black market and the US press:
"Let me give you one other example, Luke. In 2004 when Josh Meyer of the LA Times did a long but incomplete story on the Karni case, it was reported to him that one of the most important actors and angles in his article was that of Zeki Bilmen & Giza Technology. Bilmen's role and nationality were conveniently censored in the article.
Despite my efforts to get Meyer to report the relevance and significance of the Bilmen angle, and the FBI's files on him, Meyer bought in to the government's protection of Turkey and the Turkish angle. Of course, later, other outlets (mostly foreign) picked up Bilmen's significance, but still not a peep or follow-up to this day from the LA Times on this important story."
Somehow, in the logic of the US corporate press, it is more legitimate to print unsubstantiated claims of a warmongering administration, with a history of lying in order to go to war, than the substantiated claims of Sibel Edmonds who has consistently demonstrated a clean, agenda-free, non-partisan, track record of trying to expose high-level officials whose activities endanger us all.
The foreign press is much better in these matters. The Guardian's reporting on the nuclear black market has been way ahead of the pack. Their May 31 article on the destruction of evidence in the Tinner case was 3 months ahead of this latest nonsense from the NY Times (which also calls into question the timing of this later Sanger/broad article), they have also reported on the case of Atif Amin, and shown appropriate skepticism regarding the leaks and spin on the Tinner case. ermany's Der Spiegel has also done great reporting on this nuclear black market ring.
"Make-Believe Journalism
For this article, I also interviewed Joe Lauria who was co-author of the UK's Sunday Times series on Sibel's case. I'll quote him extensively here:
"Obviously I believe that government sources must be held up to the same scrutiny as critics of government. Both need supporting evidence to back up their claims. When an official says something it might be "official" but it's not necessarily true. The role of corporate media as stenographer for government has grown in recent years, with Judy Miller's case being the most prominent. But I believe the dictates of careerism and the desire to be included in the "inner circle", especially in Washington, coupled with a vicarious sense of power, leads mainstream journalists to uncritically report the statements of government officials...
There was a brief period when American journalism fulfilled its promised, during the Watergate scandal. But today the vast majority of corporate reporters essentially fulfill the role of a state-owned press. Since we live in a corporatist state, it's not far off from the truth. I also think there is an element of naivete here. Many journalists really believe that government officials are working in the people's interests and not, more often, working for their own interests and those of their elite backers...
The result of all this is that American news reporting creates a "make-believe", almost childish view of America's role in the world. It transmits the American myth of the nobility of America's foreign policy and use of the military to spread democracy, or look for weapons of mass destruction, never entertaining that America could be the aggressor. The media is still rooted in America's role in the Second World War as liberator, not explaining that that has diametrically changed. The reason for this is simple: it is a corporate press providing this "make-believe" cover for corporate and government agendas. Behind this media-created buffer or curtain between the people and the power is US involvement in the shadows with drug dealing, nuclear proliferation and terrorism. Even a suspicion of these dealings never gets through the curtain of news and entertainment distraction to reach the American people. The leading presidential candidates and the conventions of both parties of course uphold these myths, never leveling with the American people. Therefore they do not know that there is only so much money to pay for a military empire or for social services at home. And the press never explains it in these stark terms."
David Sanger & William Broad continue to promote the "make-believe" view of American foreign policy, hiding anything of significance from the American people.
They might serve a useful purpose for their government masters, but their function certainly isn't as 'journalists.' Whatever the reason for the Times to provide the government's preferred spin on this case, David Sanger and William Broad have earned their place in the Judy Miller Hall of Fame.
Cross-posted at Let Sibel Edmonds Speak
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Some of the biggest things right now are 90's style chokers, record players, typewriters, and high waisted "mom" jeans. So what's the draw?
For some it is the aesthetic, others the lifestyle, and for most it is the ability to be different. Since the dawn of fashion, people have been using clothing to stand out and express their creativity. Since vintage is a now a trend it's originality is questionable, regardless, people still find the draw.
Happy hunting my vintage babes.


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Devānampiyatissa
King of Ceylon (247-207 B.C.). He was the second son of Mutasīva. It is said that on the day of his coronation many wonderful treasures miraculously appeared, some of which he resolved to send as tokens of esteem to his contemporary Dhammāsoka of India, with whom he had long been on terms of friendship. An embassy, led by his nephew Mahārittha, was despatched to Pātaliputta, and the emperor showed the ambassadors every mark of honour. He sent back with them all the requisites for a coronation, with instructions to celebrate the inauguration of the Sinhalese king, whom he invited to embrace Buddhism. On the return of the embassy, the king was solemnly crowned a second time. This confirmation of Devānampiyatissa's sovereignty under the aegis of Asoka may have been due either to the commanding position of Asoka or for the strengthening of family connections. Asoka was a Moriyan (a branch of the Sākiyans) and Devānampiyatissa had Sākiyan blood.
The chief event in the reign of Devānampiyatissa was the arrival of Mahinda in Ceylon. He arrived at the head of a mission in the year of the king's second coronation. Mahinda met the king hunting on the full-moon day of Jettha. The king welcomed him with great honour and speedily embraced the new religion, to which Asoka had already drawn his attention.
His conversion was the direct result of Mahinda's preaching of the Cūlahatthipadopama Sutta. His earlier religion is not known, it may have been Jainism. His example was followed by a large number of his subjects, many of whom entered the Order. Devānampiyatissa dedicated to their use the Nandana park and the Mahāmeghavana, which he himself had laid out a little earlier. In the Mahāmeghavana he built the famous Mahā-Vihāra which, for many centuries, remained the centre of the orthodox religion in Ceylon. The dedication of the Mahā-Vihāra took place in the two hundred and thirty-sixth year after the death of the Buddha. The king's next pious work was the erection of the Cetiyapabbata-vihāra and he, later, built the Thūpārāma, containing the Buddha's right collar-bone.
When the women of the palace, led by Anulā, wife of the sub-king, Mahānāga, expressed a desire to become nuns, Devānampiyatissa sent another embassy to Asoka asking him to send Sanghamittā, together with the right branch of the sacred Bodhi-tree. This branch miraculously severed itself from the parent tree and, together with Sanghamittā, was conveyed down the Ganges and arrived in Jambukola, where it was received with all honour by Devānampiyatissa. From Jambukola it was taken in procession to Anurādhapura, where it was planted in the Mahāmeghavana, the king instituting in its honour a festival, which was observed for many centuries. For the use of Sanghamittā and the nuns the king erected various buildings, the chief of which was the Hatthālhaka-vihāra and the Upāsikā-vihāra with its twelve mansions. (This account is summarised from the Mahāvamsa (chaps.xi., xiii.-xx.); also Dpv.xi.14ff; xii.7; xvii.92).
Among other works of Devānampiyatissa we are told of the building of the Issarasamana- and the Vessagiri-vihāras, the refectory called Mahāpāli, the Jambukola-vihāra in Nāgadīpa, the Tissamahā-vihāra, the Pācīnārāma and the Pathamathūpa. He also built the Tissavāpi at Anurādhapura. (The Cv. (xxxvii.94) mentions also the Dhammacakka as having been built by Devānampiyatissa. It later became the Temple of the Tooth at Anurādhapura).
Mahinda survived him by eight years. Devānampiyatissa seems to have died without issue, for he was succeeded by four of his brothers.

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For this month's reading list I thought it'd be fun to get a little spooky. Whether you're looking for a good mystery or murder novel or a crime-solving thriller this is the list for you! Two of my favorites are on this list too!
Altar of Bones by Philip Carter – This is one of my favorite reads – A deathbed confession ignites a globe-spanning race for answers in this page-turning thriller. Cryptic dying words from a murdered homeless woman in present-day San Francisco unlock a long-buried secret that alters history. Now, a pair of ruthless assassins are sent to cut the few living "loose ends." And a young, resourceful woman on the run encounters a determined man with his own connected past and vengeful agenda. Forced to partner for survival and answers, a fast-paced and deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, whisking the duo from the winding streets of Paris to the faded palaces of Budapest to the frozen lakes of Mongolia…where destiny, passion, and further betrayal await them. Jam-packed with pulse-pounding action and featuring a high-profile assassination, a doomed Hollywood legend, and guardians of an ancient religious icon housing a secret others will kill to possess, this novel is certain to leave readers stunned and breathless.
It by Stephen King – With all the hype around with the remake of the movie coming out this book has made its way back on many reading lists this year – Welcome to Derry, Maine. It's a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real. They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But the promise they made twenty-eight years ago calls them reunite in the same place where, as teenagers, they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city's children. Now, children are being murdered again and their repressed memories of that terrifying summer return as they prepare to once again battle the monster lurking in Derry's sewers.
Brimstone by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child – It's been awhile since I've read this novel but the memory of it still sneaks into my mind. This is one that sticks with you – A body is found in the attic of a fabulous Long Island estate. There is a claw print scorched into the wall, and the stench of sulfur chokes the air. When FBI Special Agent Pendergast investigates the gruesome crime, he discovers that thirty years ago four men conjured something unspeakable. Has the devil come to claim his due? Some things can't be undone.
T he Fisherman by John Langan – I haven't read this one yet but it's definitely made it onto my list after reading the reviews – In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked, fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true. When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other's company and a shared passion for fishing, hear rumors of the Creek, and what might be found there, the remedy to both their losses, they dismiss it as just another fish story. Soon, though, the men find themselves drawn into a tale as deep and old as the Reservoir. It's a tale of dark pacts, of long-buried secrets, and of a mysterious figure known as Der Fisher: the Fisherman. It will bring Abe and Dan face to face with all that they have lost, and with the price they must pay to regain it.
The Girl in the Ice by Robert Bryndza – I always love a good detective thriller so this one of course made it to my list with all the twists and turns it is claiming to have – When a young boy discovers the body of a woman beneath a thick sheet of ice in a South London park, Detective Erika Foster is called in to lead the murder investigation. The victim, a beautiful young socialite, appeared to have the perfect life. Yet when Erika begins to dig deeper, she starts to connect the dots between the murder and the killings of three prostitutes, all found strangled, hands bound and dumped in water around London. What dark secrets is the girl in the ice hiding? As Erika inches closer to uncovering the truth, the killer is closing in on Erika.The last investigation Erika led went badly wrong… resulting in the death of her husband. With her career hanging by a thread, Erika must now battle her own personal demons as well as a killer more deadly than any she's faced before. But will she get to him before he strikes again?
Sweet Treats by Jeremy Magargee – Not for the weak-hearted, this twisted horror will take you down a dark path – There's a human monster stalking the streets in the little town of Greyfield. He has a taste for lollipops and he keeps a collection of terrible secrets locked away in glass jars. His addiction is the suffering of others and he'll go to any lengths to get that fix. The police don't suspect him. He hides in plain sight, the wolf among sheep. The only one that can stop him is a young boy named Jack, his latest victim. Jack is hopeless and dying when an unlikely savior comes to him, offering a deal that will aide him in exacting his vengeance against his kidnapper. All Jack has to do is invite the wicked visitor inside…and sacrifice a piece of himself in the process. Will Jack have his vengeance and put an end to Greyfield's gruesome killer once and for all? Or will the pact Jack made with the visitor come back to haunt him?
Right Behind You by Lisa Gardner – Another great best-selling thriller to add to the list – Eight years ago, Sharlah May Nash's older brother beat their drunken father to death with a baseball bat in order to save both of their lives. Now thirteen years old, Sharlah has finally moved on. About to be adopted by retired FBI profiler Pierce Quincy and his partner, Rainie Conner, Sharlah loves one thing best about her new family: They are all experts on monsters. Then the call comes in. A double murder at a local gas station, followed by reports of an armed suspect shooting his way through the wilds of Oregon. As Quincy and Rainie race to assist, they are forced to confront mounting evidence: The shooter may very well be Sharlah's older brother, Telly Ray Nash, and it appears his killing spree has only just begun.


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I was tired of having these annoying problems with PPTP (out of buffer space etc), I just changed my primary router from MPD via netgraph to a userland VPN Client named vpnc. As I wanted to avoid any problems with the availability of the main services, I used different hardware. I guess that was a good idea.
As a coward, I had a longer test running with a similar configuration on my backup router, I just wasn't happy with the way PPTP worked for me. I also got new hardware, a Supermicro 5013G-i equipped with 512MB RAM and a 3.06GHz Pentium 4, a nice box!
So I replaced the dual Xeon box that calculated the PPTP tunnel that particular box after having it stress tested for maybe one or two weeks (in fact I don't remember). As I only have two physical uplinks, I configured the new router to dial in until it detects a suitable link, changed the uplink cables and reconfigured the internal routes. Although there were some minor probs with my pf setup, (did I ever say I hate NAT) it should do the job from now on, until it gets broken one day.
So, for the record - under FreeBSD 5.5, UP kernel, a P3 650MHz peaks at ~400kB/s of ESP encapsulated traffic. A Pentium 4 3GHz under FreeBSD, 6.2 SMP kernel does a way better job, it reaches ~2000kB/s which is ok for me. I didn't do the tests with the dual Xeon, because I was too lazy, I wonder (read == doubt) if vpnc is SMP aware, but as soon as I have the replacement board for the main router, I'll post the data.


Connecticut College students walk the snow covered lanes of the college taking advantage of the college being closed to enjoy the snow as a serious winter storm hits the seacoast area hard Friday, Feb. 8, 2013.
James Jandreau slides down the hill at the Greeneville play area with his daughter Madison, 3, in Norwich Friday, Feb. 8, 2013.
Catherine Hyland, left, and Chris Walsh, center, talk to Norwich Police Officer Richard Cannata after the car in which they were driving slid off Beech St. and crashed into the front port of #15 Friday, Feb. 8, 2013.
Dion Barker, 10, carries a load of laundry into the Wauregan Laundromat on Broadway in Norwich to help his mother Tayla, (not pictured) as snow blankets the region Friday, Feb. 8, 2013.
Robert Maynard shovels in front of the Lawrence R. Shea Building on Bank Street to try and keep up as snow falls on New London Friday, Feb. 8, 2013, at the start of what may be an historic blizzard that could possibly drop about two feet of snow by the time it ends Saturday afternoon.
Ledyard and Center Groton firefighters work the scene of a single car, rollover accident on Center Groton Road in Ledyard Friday Feb. 8, 2013, as a serious winter storm hits the seacoast area hard.
Connecticut College students take full advantage of the college being closed to enjoy a snow football game as a serious winter storm hits the seacoast area hard Friday, Feb. 8, 2013.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has declared a state of emergency in response to the approaching blizzard, which he said could produce as much as 36 to 40 inches of snow Friday and Saturday.


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The Weird and Wacky Wrestlers from Yesteryear.
Two men wrestle in a ring full of smelt (whitebait) during the Smelt Carnival in Marinette, Wisconsin, in 1939. via Wisconsin Historical Society
Hoodslam — a popular spectacle that is staged monthly in Oakland, California — is described by the San Francisco Chronicle as "part wrestling show, part carnival act and all comedy."
The foul-mouthed, adult-humored extravaganza is raunchy and rollicking as wrestlers "battle" each other while occasionally wielding strange weapons or tossing powder in faces.
This is wrestling meets video game meets heavy metal nightmare.
The event's founder, Sam Khandaghabadi (pictured) who appears in the combat ring as the Dark Sheik — tells the newspaper: "We aren't trying to be pro wrestling. We are performance art."
Truth is, a lot of wrestling — professional, semipro and exhibition — in America has been performance art for a long, long time.
Those Crazy Americans
Pinning down some of the strange goings-on in American wrestling history can be a bit slippery.
After all, what is real and what is fake — or kayfabe, in wrestling lingo — is often up for grabs. And for body slams. And for chokeholds.
"Gimmicks of some sort have been part of professional wrestling since the late 19th century," says Scott Beekman, a history professor at the University of Rio Grande and author of Ringside: A History of Professional Wrestling in America.
During the Great Depression, impresarios struggled to come up with bigger and better bizarrities to attract paying audiences.
"Wrestling promoters turned to novelty matches as part of their attempts to keep the doors open," he says.
Which led to matches involving women and diminutive people. "Comedy elements and wrestling in substances developed during that period."
While doing historical research, Scott uncovered wrestling matches staged in a gamut of grotty substances, such as iron shavings, coal, banana peels and margaritas.
Read on via Wacky Wrestlers Of Yesteryear : The Protojournalist : NPR.
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In the inky-black darkness of the rainforest night, we stand, ankle-deep in water. With only head torches to guide us, we scan the riverbanks for signs of life. One eye means spider, two eyes means frog, we're told, as we dodge low-hanging branches and navigate slippery rocks. Tree frogs reveal themselves, including a strange white one with translucent skin and tiny froglets the size of fingernails. A giant river toad, native to Borneo, perches on a rock, showing off its craggy, wart-covered skin. Tonight we're looking for amphibians, but somewhere out there lurks another creature, the real object of our fascination.
It's the first evening on the Red Ape Trail, an extended, multi-day trek taking us through prime orangutan terrain in Borneo's remote Batang Ai region. It has already taken an adventure to get to this point — a five-hour, 170-mile drive from the cosmopolitan city of Kuching, past ever-more dense jungle and terraces dotted with pepper and rice plantations to a jetty on the shores of the vast Batang Ai reservoir. Then, a bracing two-hour journey upriver by longboat — the traditional wooden vessel favoured by Borneo's indigenous Iban tribe — to reach Nanga Sumpa lodge on the upper reaches of the Delok River. After a night spent acclimatising to jungle life, a three-hour hike has taken us even deeper into the forest to reach Mawang Camp, our home for the next few days.
The Red Ape Trail was created in 2000 by Borneo Adventure, a local tour operator, founded by Philip Yong and Robert Basuik in 1987. The pair came in search of an experience that would offer travellers the chance to glimpse Borneo's prized wildlife, while learning something of the region's dominant Iban tribe. They settled on Nanga Sumpa, a traditional, timber longhouse in which the locals lived communally.
A trail network has since been developed from the longhouse into the surrounding forest. The Red Ape Trail is the most challenging of these, taking walkers out into the jungle to camp out over multiple nights, in the hope of glimpsing wild orangutans. It originally started as an epic, 10-day challenge, but has since been reduced to a more manageable five-day trek — wise, in a country with humidity levels that can rise to up to 80%.
At camp after our frog hunt, we sit playing cards with our Iban guides, drinking potent tuak rice wine. As well as two guides, Bayang and Sobeng, we're accompanied by a team of Iban men, who lavish us with spicy Malaysian curries and fried jungle ferns.
The biggest character is Ronny, who speaks great English, having worked on the oil and gas rigs in Bintulu further north. With a big smile and prominent tribal tattoos, he sports a football shirt with his name on it — a modern token in an otherwise traditional life.
Among the tourists are two young engineers from England and a French couple in their mid-50s. With anticipation high, we try to bed down for the night, donning long sleeves and trousers to keep the insects at bay, before clambering under mosquito nets to sleep on simple roll-out mattresses. But the jungle has other ideas. As the sound of cicadas chimes out, howls and cries join in to disrupt the silence of night. I listen to the hypnotic chorus, eyes wide open.
Life at Mawang Camp is simple, and over the next few days, we settle into the easy rhythm of waking early to bathe in the river, before feasting on a breakfast of eggs, toast and banana fritters. Morning treks are followed by lunch at camp, and afternoon hikes, carried out when the weather is cooler and the orangutans are busy building their nests in the trees for the coming night.
We spot many of these sturdy nests crafted from folded back branches, and can tell if they're old or new from whether the leaves are brown or green. The technological skills needed to create them are often cited as evidence of the primates' innate intelligence.
But the significance of the nests goes beyond this. When logging companies recently started rounding in on the prized timber of the region's Dipterocarp forest, a team spearheaded by Robert Basuik set out to protect the area. Together with the Forestry Department of Sarawak, the World Conservation Society and the local Iban, they carried out surveys, counting nests to prove this was a crucial orangutan habitat. Their efforts resulted in the creation of the 34,000-acre Sungai Menyang conservation area, between the reservoir and the upper Delok River. It was a vital move, especially as Batang Ai is now the last remaining viable orangutan habitat in the state of Sarawak.
It was good news, too, for the rest of the forest's residents, which includes 200 species of bird, from yellow-eared spiderhunters to red-crowned barbers, as well as bearded pigs, horned deer, civets and reticulated pythons — though I'm in no rush to meet these. Instead, I spy fruit bats hanging from a riverside cave, tarantula nests, pig-tailed macaques and several of the eight different species of hornbill that reside in Batang Ai.
The walking, though, is the real highlight, taking us through glassine rivers, silent valleys and dense jungle. Indeed, to call it the Red Ape Trail is something of a misnomer, as any evidence of a clearly marked trail seems entirely absent at times. Instead, our Iban guides use their knowledge of the jungle to forge a way through, hacking down six-foot ferns and persistent palms with long machetes to create a path where previously there was none. At other times, we use tree roots and bamboo shoots to clamber up and down steep slopes. With the humidity high, it makes for sweaty going and demands a certain level of fitness from the walker. But regular breaks, peppered with tales of the forest and the Iban's customs, make it a fascinating adventure.
Each night, as evening falls, we return to camp, muscles aching and heads filled with the day's exploits. We sit at long wooden benches, staring out at the mist rising over the river, listening to the jungle start up its nightly song. With candles flickering on the tables, dinner arrives and we fill our hungry bellies, before retiring for the night.
With all this excitement, it seems to matter little that the orangutans remain elusive. We spy evidence of their existence everywhere, from nests and discarded fruit on the forest floor, to ripped palm shoots, which the animals tear apart to reach the hearts.
The Red Ape Trail is over, but the adventure is not yet finished. After a night back at Nanga Sumpa, with a trip to swim in the refreshing waters of Enseluai waterfall, we board a longboat once again for the journey back.
The going is smoother this time and calmer than the way in — there's no need for the Iban to use their long wooden poles to push us up river, or get out to push when the boat drags along the river's floor. Suddenly, the calm is broken by a rustle in the trees. Our guides have spotted an orangutan, a female with at least one, possibly two, infants in tow.
From the boats, we sit and watch as the apes move from tree to tree, a tiny face at one point clearly visible, staring back at us inquisitively. Of course, they would be here: basking beside the cool, shaded waters of this mighty waterway, that has helped shape this landscape for centuries. While we toiled and tired on the Red Ape Trail, all this time, they were sitting beside the Batang Ai, hiding in plain sight.


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Minjung meets Sangnam and tells him to go back to Gwangbak, but Sangnam tells him he doesn't want to make things hard for her.
Wang Bong meets Sedal to apologize and to tell him to go home, but Sedal goes to Hobak and asks for a divorce.
Meanwhile, Minjung and Sunjeong run into Subak at the hospital.


Tessa and Marius are mercenary partners who eliminate those using magic to hurt others. When they betray a powerful patron intending to kill them, they're forced to flee and join the Inquisition. Later, they're taken captive during a mission and it's up to an unwitting agent to rescue them- elven squire Vaea, who's just arrived in Kirkwall for a lavish party thrown by Varric Tethras. A talented thief, Vaea takes on an easy side job . . . but when she chooses to change the terms of the deal mid-heist, she is entangled in this dangerous recovery mission that is surely above her pay grade.
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Amongst the millions of questions regarding financial matters, the most popular one is undoubtedly "How do I save my money?". Here are 3 common ways that could help you save a sizable amount for when it's time to retire.
For Malaysians, EPF is undoubtedly the easiest way to save your money. Your personal contribution of 11% aside, your employer's mandatory contribution of 13% (for employees earning less than RM5,000 monthly salaries) makes it a total of 24% of your monthly wages saved under your name each and every month.
To top it off, EPF's average return of 5% per year is significantly higher than any fixed deposit interests in the market right now.
Tips: Firstly, get employed at a company that contributes to EPF. Try to keep your money in your EPF account for as long as possible because there simply aren't any other bank deposits with higher interest rates in the market. If you can help it, DO NOT use any of your EPF sub accounts to pay for your home or buy a computer, so you can take full advantage of EPF's high interest rate to maximize your returns.
Saving your money requires determination and discipline. If you aren't already doing so, try putting aside a small percentage of your salary every month-end and save it in a separate bank account, preferably one without any easy withdrawal facilities (eg. ATM).
When you have a moderate amount, transfer the money to a high-interest fixed deposit account so it can generate greater interests whilst stopping you from accessing the funds every time you feel like getting a new handphone or a new pair of shoes.
To find the best fixed deposits in the market right now, check out our fixed deposit comparison table.
Tips: Like many other things in life, saving is an endeavour that many find hard to adopt especially in the beginning. To ease yourself into your money-saving journey, you may wish to start off with a moderate amount (say 5-10% of your wages) so that it does not affect your cash flow to the extend of making you give up altogether. Over time, you can try to increase the amount as the act of saving becomes a habit. Also, when it comes to saving, it helps to start as young as possible so you can reap the benefits of compound interest over the long run.
If you have moderate tolerance to risk, are not close to retirement age and have a sizable amount in your savings or fixed deposit account, you'll probably want to consider using some of the monies you have for investment purposes.
Be it in shares, gold or real estate; investment is a great way to save even MORE money because the potential returns are usually much greater than, say, putting your money into a bank. The downside, however, is that investment involves RISKS – the risk of non-performance from your investments, or in certain cases, the risk of total evaporation of value for your investments caused by adverse market conditions.
Tips: Not all categories of investments are born equal, so you are advised to do your homework well before you engage with any kind of investment. For example: properties are considered medium-risk investments; they generally enjoy consistent growth but they also have low liquidity (i.e. not easily turned to cash). Shares, on the other hand, are considered high-risk investments; they are prone to fluctuations in value caused by volatile market, which basically means you could potentially GAIN a lot or LOSE a lot. Whichever form of investment you choose, it is best to make a genuine effort to learn about it before you commit.
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Danish artists Superflex confront the idea of Europe in their visually beautiful but disturbing and eye-opening film 'Kwassa Kwassa', which deals with the dangerous journey between two islands, one of them located in the outermost region of the EU. Read more …
It all began in 2014 when Superflex were invited by the French Cultural Ministry to do a public arts commission on two French islands – Anjouan and Mayotte – located between Madagascar and Mozambique. While they were filming the movie in the Indian Ocean, 8000 kilometres away from Europe – where they met with human smugglers and boat builders, who made boats for migrants – the refugee crisis happened back home, which "spiced things up mentally." As a consequence, the movie then also came to be about the idea of Europe: "It was a strange, almost surreal feeling of being very close to this issue, and then very, very far away."
"For me, it became a very direct 'smash in the face'-situation, where you need to understand how complex it is." As a migrant, the journey to Mayotte is one of great danger – the boat is overcrowded and the sea wild and full of sharks. Moreover, they don't consider themselves to be refugees at all, many of them simply want to visit relatives or go to a hospital with better facilities. Because of the Frontex border they have to pass, a journey of 60-70 kilometres, which would normally take two to three hours can sometimes take up to 25-30 hours: "Everyone is a potential boat user, taking that dangerous voyage."
"The starting point of the movie was to focus on the boat builder and also the boat as such – as this kind of medium that can transport you into another situation." A lot of the film shots are done with drones and the idea of freedom and escape is emphasized by the sensation that is created when filming from the air.
Superflex is a Danish artists' group founded in 1993 by Jakob Fenger, Rasmus Nielsen and Bjørnstjerne Christiansen. They describe their projects as "tools": a model or proposal that can actively be used and further utilized and modified by the user. Their oeuvre spans from beer ('Free Beer') and soda ('Guaraná Power') to alternative energy production methods to movies and installations, and their projects are often related to economic forces, democratic production conditions and self-organization. Superflex have gained international recognition for their projects and have held solo exhibitions at venues such as Kunsthalle Basel in Switzerland, Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt am Main, Mori Museum in Tokyo and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. Furthermore, they have participated in various art biennials throughout the world. For more about them see: http://superflex.net/
Featured in the video are extracts from the film 'Kwassa Kwassa' (2015), which is directed by Tuan Andrew Nguyen and Superflex. The film portrays a boat builder on the island of Anjouan in the Comoro Islands. The boats are used for fishing but also to transport migrants to the neighbouring island of Mayotte (French overseas territory in the outermost region of the EU) 70 kilometres away. 'Kwassa Kwassa' (meaning "unstable boat") intends to use the construction of the boat as a carrier of migrants on a dangerous ocean in a complex political setup as well as their symbolic meaning as a carrier of dreams of reaching a better life on the other shore.
Superflex were interviewed by Christian Lund at their office in Copenhagen, Denmark in November 2015 in connection to the exhibition 'You Can't Eat Identity' at Gallery Nils Stærk in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Window flashing is a thin continuous piece of material that is installed to prevent water from getting into a structure from an angle or joint near windows. It is key to preventing water intrusion. Window flashing is arranged in a manner that directs water down and away from the structure. It is typically used on roofs, around windows and doors, and around any opening for pipes or electrical lines. Window flashing can be exposed or concealed. Exposed flashing—as seen on roofs—can be copper, lead-coated copper, aluminum, galvanized steel, galvanized sheet metal, stainless steel, mineral-surfaced roll roof flashing, or ice and water barrier membrane.
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Flashing can be used in a number of ways: Roof flashing is used on roof hips or installed around objects that protrude from the roof of a building (such as pipes and chimneys, or the edges of other roofs) to deflect water away from seams or joints. Wall flashing is embedded in a wall to either direct water that has penetrated the wall back outside or installed to prevent the entry of water into the wall. Wall flashing is typically found around windows and doors. Sill window flashing is a concealed flashing that is installed under windowsills or door thresholds to prevent water from entering a wall at those points. Base flashing is found at the base of a wall and usually has weep holes to let water escape. It is installed at the building grade.
Window flashing is important because it is the only way to prevent water intrusion. Improperly flashed roofs, windows, doors, and other openings will leak. A good seal guides water around the opening and keeps the interior wall protected and dry. Properly installed, window flashing will control almost all water intrusion into the structure and will work for the life of the structure.
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The village of Burin came under attack from the nearby illegal settlement of Bracha on Monday the 28th of September. At 5am 25 settlers invaded the farmland of Abid Moussar, taking to his olive trees with chainsaws. 150 trees in total, covering 4 dunums of land were destroyed, just one day before Moussar planned to begin harvesting his crops. A demonstration was called for the following Saturday on the devastated land, only for protesters to be forced off the site by the military.
The trees, planted 30 years ago by Moussar himself, will take another 10 years to rejuvenate to a point at which they can once again be harvested for their olives. The same farmland has come under attack year after year, with settlers attempting to burn the trees on several occasions. For Moussar, though he owns the largest farm in the area of Burin, the economic consequences are dire – this is his only source of income. More widely, the effects of the annexation of thousands of dunums of land by settlements Yitzhar and Bracha that envelope Burin, ripple throughout the community.
The harvest has begun regardless, with villagers working the wasted land before the trees can be cleared. Military and international presence maintain a close watch with minimal settler incursion since the initial attacks.
The following Saturday, 3 October, local and international protesters gathered in the centre of the village to march to the site of the destruction, where they hoped to demonstrate peacefully against the violent adversity on their doorstep by clearing the land, readying it for the next year and hopefully a more successful harvest. Soldiers surrounded the protesters as they approached the land, allowing them stay long enough only to clear the trees. The protesters were then forced off, as the army stated the villagers could return only on the dates given to them by the District Coordinating Office.
The village of Burin and its surrounding neighbours lost thousands of dunums of land and have been subject to numerous violent attacks from the two illegal settlements of Bracha and Yitzhar that sandwich the Palestinian villages.
Settlements are illegal under international law and both settlements have numerous outposts that continue to annex further Palestinian land in violation of both Israeli and international law.
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I stand on the road, listening to the tick of the cooling engine. The crunch of gravel underfoot and the fluttering of my loose hiking pants in the cold, brisk breeze are the only other sounds I can hear. I walk a few steps away, putting some distance between myself and the shoulder of the road that I have parked on. All about me is a desolate, wind-blasted landscape. There are rocks in all manner of shapes and sizes, from squat troll-like creatures to huge sharp-edged monsters that would cut you if you stroked them. The road itself stretches on like a ribbon into the distance, down the hill I am currently on and into a valley. Lake Myvatn is somewhere beyond the ridge of spiny mountains in the distance, and with the light fading fast I have to be quick about my stop. 15 minutes, no more.
There is very little life around me. A few lichens and low grasses can be spotted and, in the west, in line to catch the rays of the setting sun, is a tiny burst of bright silver flowers that cling to life in this otherwise barren place. When you're cocooned in your car driving down Iceland's Highway 1, the ring road that circumnavigates the country, you're insulated from the sheer starkness of the landscape. The engine sounds fill the otherwise remarkable silence and the car blocks out the wind. The countryside is demanding of attention, though. You can't drive in Iceland and not encounter a stop-worthy sight every so often. (A phenomenon that sends carefully-planned schedules to hell) Each time you stop, the bigness of the land gets to you and suddenly your car and all its insulation seems like a dreadfully thin skin, easily punctured and deflated. I imagine this must be what astronauts feel about their even more fragile spacecraft, but on a much more magnified level.
I am on the 5th day of my 10-day trip around the country. Unlike conventional travelers, I am driving anti-clockwise from my start in Reykjavik, Iceland's capital city. My trusty Toyota Yaris hatchback has been eating up the miles. Everything in Iceland is dramatic on a massive scale. Little wonder then, that the ancient Icelandic peoples, the Vikings, had a rich and dramatic mythology and a tradition of sagas that were, completely accurately, epic. It's as though the land forged and inspired the tales and anyone living there would pick up on the latent dramatic potential.
It is interesting to note that this tradition of storytelling and sagas is still firmly alive. In 2013 construction work on a highway project was halted by a group that felt the proposed route of the highway would pass through an elf church and thus disrupt an elf community. The project was halted until the supreme court of Iceland could rule on the case. If that sounds crazy, a survey conducted by the University of Iceland in 2007 found that 62% of 1,000 respondents thought it was at least possible that elves exist. All of Scandinavia has legends and folklore about 'hidden folk' (fairies, elves, gnomes, trolls and other imaginary denizens of the dark places of the mind) but unlike Norway, Denmark and Sweden, to at least some Icelanders, these creatures are as real as the dramatic landscape that inspires them.
The scientific reason for Iceland's dramatic landscape has to do with how young it is. Not the political country, which is arguably the oldest democracy in the world – their parliament, the Alþingi was founded in 930 AD but suspended between 1799 and 1854. The actual geological age of the land itself. Iceland sits atop the Iceland plume, an area of unusually hot rock in the Earth's mantle and it is postulated that the plume is what led to the recent formation of Iceland. The very oldest parts of Iceland were formed only as little as 20 million years ago (a blink of an eye, geologically) – so while the rest of the earth has been worn away and eroded over millions of years, in Iceland we can get a window into the past. We can see how the Earth would have looked before the processes of wind, water, ice and sun chipped away and smoothed over the land.
Nowhere is this more visible than in Þingvellir National Park. The park is on land that shows the continental drift between the Northern American and Eurasian continental plates. It's amazing to look out on a landscape and see before your very eyes, how two ranges of land once met and now are separated by a low rift valley that will itself, over time, stretch out until the seam in the land is unrecognizable.
Before I know it, my self-allotted fifteen minutes of halt time is up and I have to get going again. The low sun reminds me that I need to reach Lake Myvatn and find a campsite soon, or else I'd have to drive in the dark and risk missing some sight or spectacle that I might have stopped for. Also, the steep grades and patches of gravel that sometimes lie on the highway make night driving a pain.
Sure enough, as I drive into the road that encircles Lake Myvatn, the sun dips and I have to do the last couple of kilometers in the dark. The lake is in a geologically active area, with lots of lava formations from past volcanoes and geothermal springs, so I'm not surprised when I smell the Sulphur stench in the air. In fact, that smell was the first indicator that I was finally near the lake. However, I can't see a thing as the surrounding countryside is pitch black, the sort of oppressive darkness that even a car's headlamps illuminate only faintly.
My night vision is ruined by the headlamps, so starlight isn't helping either. I roll into town (really just a collection of shapes in the night) and find a campsite to stay. In Iceland you can camp anywhere that's not fenced in, and not a national park. Which means you can camp anywhere on public land – however I'm unable to find any public land this close to a town and I have to pay for a camp site for the very first time on this trip. Formalities done, I cook a light dinner of Thai food in the kitchen area that's included in my rent and then erect my tent. I bed down immediately after dinner and fall into a deep, dreamless sleep that has become the norm for my visit to Iceland.
Waking up the next morning, I realized why it was a blessing to have driven in at night. The approach road to the town is studded with steaming and bubbling hot springs. They're far too hot to bathe in – most of them are above 230⁰ C – but the mineral content of the water and the high temperatures have given each of these pools a vibrant, beautiful blue that's stunning to behold in clear daylight, but which would have been very undramatic at duskm which is when I had originally planned to arrive in town. By arriving late, I was treated to the more spectacular experience of waking up to the view. There are fields of these pools, a carpet of sapphires stretching between the town and the nearest hill, at least twenty large pools and many more tiny ones. They're all being tapped for geothermal power and the resulting mess where heavy industrial piping (some rusting, others painted in efficient black and brown colors) meets a fractured and torn earth are a steampunk fan's dream landscape.
Driving along further, I paused next at Dimmuborgir, where I was highly amused at the fact that a Norwegian black metal band had chosen their name after an Icelandic volcanic rock formation, the name of which meant "dark castles" or "dark cities". Dimmu Borgir (the band) are now much more famous than the formation whose name they took. Pop culture references aside there are many reasons to visit Dimmuborgir, and they all have to do with the eerie evil looking lava spires left over from old eruptions. The lava cools unevenly and some of the resulting rock chips away leaving the stronger bits in place, but in strange and otherworldly shapes. It seems as though an ancient battle-field of monsters has been frozen in time, and you can now wander about the frozen grimacing warriors caught in the act of rending each other to bits. It's really special because while this phenomenon occurred all over the world many ages ago, this is the last example that you can see. The lava rock is so brittle that, geologically speaking, it takes no time at all to break down and disappear into the soil. Iceland's youth means that while this extremely fleeting formation is still visible, we are able to witness it.
Ultimately, this ability to glimpse the past is what Iceland's legacy is, to me. A fascinating window into a world gone by: politically, through its ancient government; geographically, through its landscapes and unique rock formations; culturally, through its tales of Norse heroes and hidden folk. If you want a raw, primal setting for a holiday or an adventure or even a movie (Iceland's glaciers are incredibly popular in Hollywood as backdrops for ads and action sequences) then go to Iceland!
 The Icelandic character 'Þ' sometimes called a 'thorn', is pronounced with a 'th' sound – thus Þingvellir becomes 'thingvellir' and 'Alþingi' becomes 'Althing'.
This story was first published in Forbes India.


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Yeah, except it was Hilldog and Obama who made the decision to do so, right?
I don't recall Mc$hitstain being in the WH at the time.
Too costly. Bean counters. Gotta love them.
LOL. Like the initial invasion was popular amongst ordinary Iraqis.
We invaded the place and the set the rules.
Somebody with balls could have changed the course of events there.
Were administration officials "cooking the books" regarding trhe ISIS threat?
Hussein, just what the hell are you doing?
Obozo doesn't like Russia. Partly because of what Putin did in the Ukraine (annexed Crimea).
A coalition will involve Russia.
The Saudis sized up Obozo and saw this coming.
Look, Obama's and Hilldog's and Lurch's foreign policy in this regard have been an unmitigated disaster.
Our country is at war with adversaries who are decidedly more intelligent and ruthless than the morons currently occupying the white house.
so obvious that a blind libtard who only reads the new york times can see it.
stuff like this is a reflection of poor leadership at the top.
This one seems to implicate lurch.
Pretty one-sided if you ask me.
JV president sticking his head in the sand.
Just as well, the military and intelligence communities can't stand Obozo.
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What Was the Mannequin Challenge?
An expert on how planking's weird descendant went HAM on Black Twitter.
The Mannequin Challenge became, for a brief moment, a physical challenge levied at the American people. Hillary Clinton rose to it. So did the Dallas Cowboys and the Red Lobster marketing team. Each of them froze in place, straining their muscles and suppressing the urge to gasp, as a cameraperson wove through an elaborate, frozen tableau like Quicksilver in the X-Men movies. Masterminded by a group of Florida teenagers, the viral meme documented implied dramas, prompting friends, classmates, and coworkers to envision the most intense moments they could spend together.
Not only was the Challenge a viral sensation for creators, it drew a massive viewership that to professional athletes and rappers like 2 Chainz embracing the fad and stirring up a competitive approach that led to increasingly intricate videos.
Eager to understand why challenge went so profoundly viral so quickly, Inverse talked to Know Your Meme Editor-in-Chief Brad Kim about the history of similar trends, Black Twitter's role in blowing the MC up, and what the future of online challenges might look like.
What other memes and challenges influenced the Mannequin Challenge?
The mannequin challenge can be seen as a next level iteration that draws inspiration from a bunch of different photo fads that have gone viral in the past. Many of these kind of photo games were static. I can name at least three distinct challenges that involve basically looking lifeless: playing dead, the lying down game, and planking.
After that era, we started seeing more adventurous and action-driven games. People weren't posing lifeless anymore; it wasn't a static thing. They would stage these unusual photos of people jumping in the mid air and taking a well-timed photo of it. Some examples being leisure diving during summer 2011. That was an early example of the second generation of photo fads, there were others like Pottering. It was a thing among Harry Potter fans where they would do a little jump with a broom between their legs and it looked like they were playing a game of Quidditch.
There's a couple of examples leading up to 2014. People were still using the medium of still images, but they were bringing some dynamic elements into the games. Now what we have is a video format. The Mannequin Challenge is a video challenge that basically reverses what has been played out before. Essentially they are living portraits. It's the panning of the camera to show everybody staying still.
Why did the Mannequin Challenge become so popular?
It's a combination of factors as to why the Mannequin Challenge kind of stood out. I think the fact that the social media platforms have been encouraging video sharing and communication in the past couple of years or so has helped. Video fads in general have been pretty rare. Using the video format to make still-like videos is a clever diversion of the medium. When photo fads were trending, YouTube was probably the only outlet where you can easily upload a video challenge until the Ice Bucket Challenge when Instagram and Facebook videos started taking off.
I would consider the Mannequin Challenge as is a super meme that combines a variety of visual elements that have been trending in the past five years and put it into a video format.
How has Black Twitter influenced the popularity of the challenge?
I think in the past couple of years basically, Black Twitter has become a powerhouse of memes especially among teenagers. The first big photo fad that caught on with Black Twitter is the Selfie Olympics which has a resemblance to the Mannequin Challenge with posing in physically difficult positions.
Black Twitter also played a big part in popularizing dances. Theres a bunch of dances that we can name, but the most recent relevant one is the dab. A lot of these things go from the local hip-hop subcultures and blows up into a thing on Vine or Twitter. Black Twitter has long been building its own collection of social media challenges, but mainly involving dances. But the Mannequin Challenge is pretty interesting because is kind of counters the trend of Black Twitter dance memes that weve seen so far where you have to learn the moves step by step. This one is kind of doing nothing.
What happens when a brand or company partakes in one of these challenges?
As far as the online reaction to commercialization of these things, most people have come to terms about it. It usually signals the beginning of the decline of that meme when it either reaches the commercial level or the political level. The's when the joke is over. In comparison to how people are reacting to the Harlem Shake showing up in television commercials, things have changed a lot. Most media outlets and people who are looped into the meme culture see that as the beginning of the decline of the meme.
What do you think the next viral challenge might entail?
It's hard to say. All I know and all I can say for certain is the average life cycle of these fads has gotten way shorter; it's suddenly getting shorter and shorter. The average frequency of these challenges has also been speeding up. As far as forecasting, it's a little bit cyclical. A lot of memes do tend to have some sort of connection or ties to culturally relevant things. Whether its a song or current events. As far as teenage fads go, its kind of absurdism played out of boredom. It's rather unpredictable.
One thing I would like to mention is that it does reflect one of the main mechanisms of how memes continue to evolve and play off of one another — you can really see the one-upmanship. If anything, the Mannequin Challenge shows that even though we can say all these old photo challenges are dead, someone will bring either new elements to it or recycle an old one and incorporate it into a new thing. It illustrates the one-upmanship of memeing.


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Max Pagehasm was the little man behind the Darth Vader mask in a VW commercial
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A 6-year-old heart patient from Children's Hospital Los Angeles appeared in a Super Bowl commercial Sunday, playing Darth Vader in a car commercial.
Max Pagehasm, who is also part of the cast of "The Young and the Restless" was the little "man behind the Darth Vader mask'' in a Volkswagen ad that aired during Super Bowl XLV.
Max took off his mask Monday on TODAY. He said he had never seen Star Wars, so he didn't know a lot about the character he was playing.
In 24 hours, the number of YouTube hits to the TV commercial -- created by LA-based Deutsch Inc. -- went from 1.5 million on Thursday to more than 7 million on Friday. The number of views reached more than 13.7 million Sunday evening.
Make that, 15.6 million Monday morning.
"I can't even keep up with the messages and the calls," his mother, Jennifer, said. "It's just overwhelming."
When Max was just 4 months old, he was diagnosed with Tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital heart defect. His parents, Buck and Jennifer Page, brought Max to Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, where he received a pacemaker.
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Max's parents see the attention as an opportunity to reach out to parents whose children suffer from heart conditions.
"When we first received the diagnosis, we were lost,'' Buck Page said.
Going through the experience, they learned how traumatic it can be as a parent of a child with a serious ailment.
They said they hoped that in sharing their experience, they can help other parents of sick children understand they are not alone.
"Before our experience with Max, I would walk through the hospital and see sick children and be afraid to look at them,'' Buck Page said. "Now, I make a point to look them all in the eye and say, 'Hello.'"
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