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Atak terrorystyczny na szkołę w Biesłanie został przeprowadzony na terytorium Osetii Północnej w Rosji w dniu 1 września 2004 roku, pierwszego dnia roku szkolnego w Biesłanie. Szkoła w Biesłanie została opanowana przez grupę uzbrojonych terrorystów należących do sił czeczeńskiego dowódcy polowego Szamila Basajewa.

Teren szkoły został otoczony przez milicję i jednostki sił specjalnych. Prowadzono negocjacje z napastnikami, a po dwóch dniach, aby uniemożliwić ucieczkę terrorystom, nastąpił szturm wojsk rosyjskich. W jego wyniku zginęły 334 osoby, a ok. 700 zostało rannych, z czego 450 osób trafiło do szpitali. Zginęło też 32 napastników. Według oświadczenia prezydenta Władimira Putina w ataku zginęło 11 żołnierzy służb specjalnych, a kilkudziesięciu zostało rannych.

Przebieg ataku

1 września
O 9:30 czasu lokalnego, 1 września, pierwszego dnia roku szkolnego, grupa trzydziestu trzech terrorystów przyjechała pod szkołę w skradzionej ciężarówce wojskowej Gaz-66 i zaatakowała Szkołę nr 1 w Biesłanie, do której chodzą dzieci w wieku od siedmiu do osiemnastu lat. Większość atakujących nosiła kominiarki, zaś niektórzy z nich mieli na sobie pasy z materiałami wybuchowymi (tzw. pasy szahida). Po wymianie ognia z milicją, podczas której zginęło dwóch zamachowców i jeden milicjant, napastnicy opanowali budynek szkoły, biorąc około 1181 zakładników, z czego większość miała poniżej 18 lat. W momencie ataku, w powstałym zamieszaniu, około pięćdziesięcioro z nich uciekło.

Od początku istniały wątpliwości, ilu zakładników pozostało w środku. Rząd twierdził, że jest ich tylko niewiele ponad 350, inne źródła podawały liczby nawet do 1500. Z wnętrza budynku słychać było później strzały, według niektórych mające na celu zastraszenie rosyjskich sił specjalnych. Później ustalono, że pierwszego dnia napastnicy zabili dwudziestu dorosłych zakładników płci męskiej w szkolnym korytarzu. Ich ciała zostały później wyrzucone przez okno. Jeden z porywaczy zdetonował, prawdopodobnie przypadkiem, noszony pas z materiałami wybuchowymi – zabijając siebie, drugiego porywacza i trzech zakładników.

Szkoła została wkrótce otoczona kordonem milicji, Specnazu oraz OMON-u.

Napastnicy wkrótce przemieścili zakładników na salę gimnastyczną i zaminowali budynek (agencja ITAR-TASS doniosła, że materiały wybuchowe i część broni zostały tam wniesione jeszcze w czasie lipcowych prac remontowych przed rokiem szkolnym). Aby zapobiec dalszym próbom odbicia zakładników, zagrozili, że zabiją pięćdziesięciu z nich za każdego bojownika zabitego przez milicję oraz dwudziestu za każdego rannego. Rząd rosyjski zapowiedział, że na razie nie użyje siły do uwolnienia zakładników.

Na prośbę Rosji wieczorem 1 września zwołana została narada Rady Bezpieczeństwa ONZ, której uczestnicy zażądali natychmiastowego i bezwarunkowego zwolnienia wszystkich zakładników.

2 września
2 września 2004 negocjacje wskazanego przez terrorystów doktora Leonida Roszala nie odniosły skutku. Napastnicy nie pozwolili na przyniesienie wody, jedzenia i leków dla zakładników ani na wyniesienie ze szkoły ciał zabitych. Warunki w szkole pogorszyły się.

Wieczorem dwadzieścia sześć kobiet i niemowląt zostało zwolnionych po negocjacjach z byłym prezydentem Inguszetii Rusłanem Auszewem. Około 15:30 w ciągu dziesięciu minut nastąpiły dwie eksplozje. Ustalono później, że to napastnicy oddali strzały z granatników w kierunku sił specjalnych, żeby utrzymać je z dala od szkoły.

3 września

Po południu 3 września napastnicy zgodzili się na usunięcie ciał z terenu szkoły przez ratowników. Kilka minut po tym, jak zespół mający usunąć ciała wkroczył do szkoły, około 13:04, napastnicy otworzyli ogień i nastąpiły dwie kolejne eksplozje. Dwóch z ratowników zginęło, pozostali uciekli przed ostrzałem. Kilka minut później grupie około trzydziestu zakładników udało się uciec z terenu szkoły, ale zostali oni ostrzelani przez napastników. Niektórzy z uciekinierów zostali ranni.

Asłanbek Asłachanow, doradca prezydenta Putina, oświadczył później, że przyczyną ostrzału i następującego po nim szturmu była spontaniczna eksplozja. Według rządowej wersji oficjalnej jedna z bomb była źle przyklejona taśmą i spadła, co było przyczyną wybuchu.

Według sprzecznego z powyższym zeznania anonimowego pracownika Ministerstwa Sytuacji Wyjątkowych strzelanina zaczęła się po tym, jak ich ciężarówka przyjechała po odbiór ciał. Zarówno on, jak i dziennikarze słyszeli strzały z broni maszynowej przed wybuchami.

Rusłan Auszew powiedział dziennikowi Nowaja Gazieta, że pierwszy wybuch spowodowany został przypadkiem przez jednego z napastników. W rezultacie uzbrojeni cywile, wśród nich ojcowie zakładników, zaczęli strzelać. W tym momencie nie strzelali jeszcze ani napastnicy, ani rosyjskie siły specjalne. Ostrzał sprawił jednak, że napastnicy stwierdzili, iż rozpoczął się szturm na szkołę, mimo zapewnień negocjatorów, że tak nie jest. Napastnicy oświadczyli wtedy ponoć, że zaczną detonować bomby, co według Auszewa było przyczyną wydania rozkazu do szturmu.

Według pół-oficjalnych śledztw (odpowiednio parlamentu osetyjskiego i członków Dumy Państwowej) i sprzecznych zeznań zakładników pierwszy wybuch spowodowany mógł być przez trafienie przez snajpera porywacza stojącego na detonatorze albo przez pocisk rakietowy wystrzelony z dachu jednego z bloków mieszkalnych po drugiej stronie ulicy.

Wydaje się, że wtedy OMON zaczął szturm na szkołę. Wywiązała się długotrwała strzelanina, podczas której komandosi z oddziałów specjalnych próbowali dostać się do szkoły i umożliwić zakładnikom ucieczkę. Podczas całej akcji użyto także dwóch czołgów.

W lipcu 2005 roku zastępca prokuratora generalnego Rosji Nikołaj Szepel przyznał, że "Specnaz strzelał w czasie ataku z miotaczy Trzmiel", zaraz jednak dodał, że "pociski nie były zapalające" i nie mogły spowodować pożaru (istnieją także pociski dymne RPO-D do miotaczy ognia "Trzmiel). Wersji tej przeczą zeznania dzieci-zakładników, przedstawione we wrześniu 2005 podczas procesu Nur-Paszy Kułajewa.

Według Rosjan napastnicy zdetonowali kolejne ładunki wybuchowe, całkowicie niszcząc salę gimnastyczną. Specnaz robił dziury w ścianach budynku, aby pomóc zakładnikom w ucieczce. Około 15:00 – dwie godziny po rozpoczęciu szturmu – rosyjscy antyterroryści oświadczyli, że opanowali szkołę. Do wieczora jednak trwały walki na jej terenie, jako że trzech napastników skryło się w piwnicach szkoły z częścią zakładników. Ostatecznie zarówno trzej porywacze, jak i zakładnicy, zginęli.

Podczas walk grupa napastników (trzynastu według oficjalnych informacji) przedarła się przez wojskowy kordon i schroniła w okolicy. Wśród nich były ponoć dwie kobiety, które próbowały wtopić się w tłum w przebraniu pielęgniarek. Część z nich została przepuszczona przez kordon, gdyż podawali się za krewnych zakładników. Kilku z nich schroniło się w dwupiętrowym budynku mieszkalnym w odległości 40 metrów od sali gimnastycznej. Nie wiadomo, czy mieli zakładników. Budynek został zniszczony przez czołgi i miotacze ognia 3 września o godzinie 23:00.

Siergiej Fridinski, zastępca prokuratora generalnego, oświadczył, że 31 z 32 porywaczy zostało zabitych, zaś jeden z nich został schwytany. Jeden z rannych napastników został zabity przez ojców zakładników podczas transportu do szpitala.

Według oficjalnych danych zginęły 334 osoby, w tym 156 dzieci, zaś 700 (głównie dzieci) zostało rannych. Tuż po szturmie europejscy dziennikarze sugerowali, że liczba ofiar może przekroczyć 400, jako że 176 ludzi uznano za zaginionych. Rząd rosyjski spotkał się z krytyką mieszkańców Biesłanu, którzy po kilku dniach od ataku wciąż nie wiedzieli, czy ich dzieci żyją, czy nie.

Podczas operacji zginęło 11 antyterrorystów.

5 września – 7 września

Pogrzebane zostały pierwsze ofiary ataku w Biesłanie. Pochowano 18 z zabitych podczas ataku.

Prezydent Rosji Władimir Putin ogłosił 6 i 7 września dwudniową żałobę narodową. 7 września 135 tys. ludzi uczestniczyło w demonstracji przeciwko terroryzmowi na Placu Czerwonym w Moskwie. Zagraniczne media stwierdziły jednak, że demonstracja ta nie miała charakteru spontanicznego protestu, a była zorganizowanym wiecem poparcia dla rządów Putina przypominająca komunistyczne pochody pierwszomajowe. Świadczył o tym fakt dokładnego dobierania demonstrantów (których m.in. dowożono autobusami na Plac Czerwony), jak i cenzurowania haseł na transparentach. Odwołano też wcześniej zaplanowane spotkanie w Niemczech prezydenta Putina z niemieckim kanclerzem Gerhardem Schröderem – przypuszczano, że ze względu na obawy Putina, iż ze strony Niemców i kanclerza będzie krytykowany za reakcje rządu rosyjskiego na kryzys w Biesłanie.

Tożsamość napastników
17 września 2004 roku Szamil Basajew oświadczył, że to on zorganizował zamach. Wśród napastników było 12 Czeczenów, 2 Czeczenki, 9 Inguszy, 3 Rosjan, 2 Arabów, 2 Osetyjczyków, 1 Tatar, 1 Kabardyjczyk i 1 Guran. Część źródeł łączy z atakiem Jewłojewa, inguskiego zastępcę Basajewa. Przywódca powstania czeczeńskiego Asłan Maschadow potępił atak i oświadczył, że jego siły nie brały w nim udziału.

Tożsamość większości napastników nie jest znana. Znaleziono ciała 30 spośród 33 napastników – dwóch prawdopodobnie zbiegło, zaś jeden został schwytany. Schwytano też, jak donoszą media, dwie osoby współpracujące z napastnikami. Schwytany napastnik to 24-letni Czeczen Nur-Pasza Kułajew. Według oficjalnych informacji Kułajew zeznał, że oddziałem dowodzili człowiek używający pseudonimu "Pułkownik" oraz Anatolij Chodorow, podejrzewany o udział w zamachu na pociąg Moskwa-Władykaukaz 15 maja 2004. Według Kułajewa, "Pułkownik" zastrzelił jednego z członków oddziału, który był przeciwny porywaniu dzieci. Proces Kułajewa toczący się od lata 2005 we Władykaukazie ujawnił wiele nowych szczegółów na temat ataku.

Tożsamość "Pułkownika" jest kwestią sporną. Według informacji oficjalnych jego zwłoki zidentyfikowano jako Rusłana Choczubarowa. Dane te pokrywają się ze wcześniejszymi doniesieniami niektórych mediów. Sprzeczne są jednak z oświadczeniem Basajewa, według którego grupą dowodził "pułkownik Orstchojew". Na temat Orstchojewa nie ma żadnych danych, natomiast Choczubarow nie był z kolei dotychczas znany jako czeczeński bojownik.

W związku z obecnością Arabów rosyjski rząd podał, że komando było powiązane z Al-Kaidą. Basajew zdecydowanie temu zaprzeczył. Oświadczył, że nie ma powiązań z Al-Kaidą, a jego celem jest jedynie Rosja. Rosjanie twierdzą również, że w organizacji ataku z Basajewem współpracował też Maschadow, który jednak zdecydowanie się od niego odciął.

Relacje zakładników podkreślają okrucieństwo napastników, którzy już w pierwszych godzinach zamordowali wiele osób i dopuszczali się licznych aktów udręczania uwięzionych (stłoczenie w sali gimnastycznej, odmawianie wody, jedzenia i lekarstw, zastraszanie egzekucjami w razie sprzeciwu, zmuszanie do stania na stosach książek pod groźbą wybuchu granatu lub do wielogodzinnego siedzenia na parapetach okien). Według oficjalnych źródeł podczas ataku sił specjalnych napastnicy strzelali uciekającym uczniom w plecy, prawdopodobnie chcąc zabić jak najwięcej zakładników, choć według Basajewa jego ludzie nie strzelali do dzieci.

Kryzys w Biesłanie nastąpił po tygodniu zamachów, do których również przyznał się Basajew: eksplozji bomby na stacji metra w Moskwie (10 zabitych) i zamachach na dwa startujące z Moskwy samoloty pasażerskie, w których zginęło 89 osób.

Żądania i cele napastników
Według przekazywanych w różny sposób informacji napastnicy domagali się:
 zwolnienia rebeliantów schwytanych podczas ataku na Inguszetię 21–22 czerwca 2004 r.;
 wycofania wojsk federalnych z Czeczenii;
 bezpośrednich negocjacji z prezydentami Północnej Osetii i Inguszetii;
 niepodległości Czeczenii.

W późniejszym okresie pojawiły się też informacje, że 3 września był gotowy do przybycia do Biesłanu separatystyczny prezydent Czeczenii Maschadow, czemu w sytuacji bezprecedensowego dotychczas zdarzenia z tak masowym udziałem dzieci nie był przeciwny prezydent Putin, co miało doprowadzić do uznania Maschadowa. Szturm i krwawe zakończenie kryzysu taką możliwość – o ile miała miejsce – uczyniło bezprzedmiotową.

Wewnętrzne reperkusje kryzysu

Zdaniem niektórych ekspertów nieudana próba uratowania życia zakładników mogła mieć ogromne skutki dla administracji Władimira Putina. Pomimo wcześniejszych obietnic pokojowego rozwiązania kryzysu rosyjskie siły specjalne zostały zmuszone do rozwiązania siłowego, nie zabezpieczając jednak otoczenia (obecność tysięcy cywilów – rodzin dzieci, którzy siłą rzeczy przeszkadzali w prowadzeniu akcji i których część rzuciła się na ratunek dzieciom w chwili wybuchu strzelaniny), nie blokując ucieczki części napastników i nie potrafiąc dostarczyć spójnego opisu wydarzeń mediom. Rosyjski rząd tłumaczy się, że napastnicy pierwsi otworzyli ogień, zmuszając siły bezpieczeństwa do działania, aby ratować zakładników. Byłaby to więc w większej mierze akcja ratunkowa, a nie zorganizowana akcja antyterrorystyczna. Według Basajewa jest to kłamstwo – twierdzi on, że szturm nie został sprowokowany przez napastników.

Większość ekspertów zajmujących się antyterroryzmem ocenia działania rosyjskich służb jako nieprofesjonalne i źle zorganizowane, pomimo wystarczająco długiego czasu na przygotowania. Podkreśla się, że władze nie wyciągnęły wniosków z tragicznych wydarzeń w teatrze na Dubrowce – dotyczących zarówno operacji bojowej, jak i należytej opieki medycznej dla uwolnionych zakładników.

Z operacją w Biesłanie (jak i wcześniej na Dubrowce) związana była natężona akcja dezinformacyjna. Informacje o ataku podano w mediach rosyjskich z kilkunastogodzinnym opóźnieniem, od początku do końca zaniżano liczbę zakładników, a później ofiar. Media rosyjskie konsekwentnie twierdziły także, że napastnicy nie przedstawili żadnych żądań. Nie wyjaśniono również skąd w pełnej wojska i milicji republice pojawiły się samochody ciężarowe z bronią i uzbrojonymi napastnikami. Według wersji Basajewa rosyjskie służby specjalne wiedziały o planowanym ataku od wprowadzonego w otoczenie Basajewa agenta, który jednak przeszedł na stronę bojowników. Rosjanie spodziewali się, że atak nastąpi w Nazraniu, gdzie przygotowano zasadzkę. Atak w bliższym Biesłanie był dla nich zaskoczeniem. Wersja ta została przedstawiona we wrześniu 2005 na łamach portalu Kavkaz Center.

Polski specjalista od szkolenia jednostek antyterrorystycznych, Marcin Kossek, podkreślił, że nawet profesjonalnym działaniom bojowym rosyjskich jednostek specjalnych (np. Alfa) towarzyszy zwykle chaos logistyczny, czego dowodem była najpierw niepotrzebna śmierć zakładników uwolnionych na Dubrowce, którym nie zapewniono na czas należnej opieki medycznej, a obecnie brak zorganizowanej opieki dla ofiar ataku na szkołę w Biesłanie, którą musiały w znacznej mierze zastąpić spontaniczne działania cywilów, przewożących rannych prywatnymi samochodami do szpitali.

Dwójka reporterów znanych z krytyki rządu nie dotarła do Biesłanu. Andriej Babicki, dziennikarz z rosyjskiego oddziału Radia Wolna Europa, został zatrzymany pod zarzutem konfliktu z ochroną na moskiewskim lotnisku Wnukowo i skazany na pięć dni aresztu. Anna Politkowska z dziennika "Nowaja Gazeta" zapadła w śpiączkę podczas lotu samolotem. Istnieją obawy, że oba te incydenty spowodowane zostały przez Federalną Służbę Bezpieczeństwa w celu uniemożliwienia im dotarcia na miejsce ataku.

Lokalnym pracownikom służby zdrowia odebrano telefony komórkowe i zabroniono opuszczać szpitale, prawdopodobnie aby zapobiec szerzeniu się paniki. Według doniesień minister spraw wewnętrznych Północnej Osetii podał się do dymisji.

Do ustąpienia ze stanowiska redaktora naczelnego gazety "Izwiestia" zmuszony został przez jej właścicieli Raf Szakirow. 4 września "Izwiestia" opublikowała zdjęcia rannych i zabitych zakładników oraz wyraziła wątpliwość w oficjalną wersję wydarzeń.

Zwiększono środki bezpieczeństwa w rosyjskich miastach, a jednocześnie oczekiwano wybuchu społecznych nastrojów antyczeczeńskich i antykaukaskich, których ostatecznie nie zanotowano.

Prezydent Putin po ataku w Biesłanie zapowiedział szereg reform. Według jego planu gubernatorzy rosyjskich okręgów, obecnie wyłaniani w bezpośrednich wyborach, będą wyznaczani przez prezydenta. System wyborów do Dumy również ma zostać zmieniony. Przywrócona zostanie kara śmierci i wzmocniony zostanie system bezpieczeństwa. Plany reform spotkały się z krytyką Stanów Zjednoczonych i krajów europejskich, a także rosyjskich liberałów. Według krytyków prezydenta Putin próbuje wykorzystać zamach w Biesłanie do wzmocnienia swojej osobistej władzy.

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And in Iceland, 65-foot fin whales are still being hunted despite being endangered. In 2002, the nation filed a reservation to a treaty passed in 1986 that prohibits killing whales around the world. The "treaty", however, is not legally binding and is more of a formal agreement between countries. That means there are no economic penalties or other consequences besides other nations, organizations, and activists publicly shaming Iceland. So whalers in Iceland have been hunting, killing, and selling whale meat to Japan as well as using it their own country in a variety of ways.
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Fin and blue whales are both considered endangered species, and some say that Iceland is in violation of the Magnuson‐Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act of 2006. The Act, passed in the U.S., says foreign countries can be punished for illegal fishing and killing endangered species. The Icelandic government has banned killing blue whales, but fin whales are still considered okay. But a blue whale was recently killed in Iceland, which raises questions about the legitimacy of the entire industry.
And some agree that Iceland is in violation of it's own conditional agreement to the treaty, which states commercial whaling shall not be conducted "without a sound scientific basis." Under that rationale, hunting the endangered fin whales seems very problematic. Many people around the world view Iceland's whale hunting practices as an inhumane industry that is being permitted because of a flimsy loophole. Let's hope it ends sooner than later.
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Draftsman, watercolourist, painter. Painted landscapes, portraits, domestic interiors and everyday life scenes. Illustrator. Produced also posters, sketches for theatre. He was born in Tiflis. Studied at the Saratov Real School where his teacher of drawing was the artist V.Konovalov, who also worked at the Bogolyubov Drawing School and its evening classes were attended by the future artist (1906-1907). He studied drawing and painting in the studios of A.Grot and E.Steinberg (1911-1913) in Kharkov. He also was educated at the Higher Art School of the Academy of Art in St.Petersburg at the architectural department. His teachers were N.Bruni, I.Tvorozhnikov, G.Zaleman, A.Makovskiy. Worked at the "New Art Studio" (1913-1915) under the guidance of M.Dobuzhinskiy, E.Lancere, A.Yakovlev. For the first time exhibited his works at the Exhibition of works by the artists - members of the House of Art (1921) in Petrograd. From 1924 onward lived in Moscow. One of the founders of the "13" group. Participant of numerous exhibitions in the USSR and abroad.


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Thank you to Mesa Fire and Medical Department and all of the volunteers who joined us in Mesa on April 6th to install free smoke alarms. We were able to install 94 new alarms and provide important education materials to help make the community safer!
It's not too late to make your charitable tax donation! Arizona offers a dollar-for-dollar tax credit for contributions to qualifying charities and The Arizona Burn Foundation is one such organization. This means you can make a donation (of any amount) and receive a dollar-for-dollar credit (up to $400 for single filers, $800 if married filing jointly) when you file your Arizona tax return.
Three people are dead and three firefighters have been seriously hurt in a crash involving a Phoenix fire truck.
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Camp Courage is staffed by volunteers including doctors, nurses, social workers, physical and occupational therapists, fire service personnel, teachers, and other professionals. Many of the staff are burn survivors themselves, a few were even campers at one point. The qualified staff participates in various professional development, team-building, and training sessions designed to prepare them to deal with the specific needs of burn survivors. This results in a highly dedicated group of volunteers.
Each year we need volunteers for the following positions: Counselors (guide campers through all activities all week); Ropes Crew (be a part of the ropes course, challenge course, archery or rifles); Art and Crafts (help campers express themselves creatively); and, Lifeguards (for the swimming pool and Lake Day).
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Anderson Cooper to receive less than $1.5 million from mother Gloria Vanderbilt, a sum far less than initially reported
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper will end up receiving less than $1.5 million from his mother, heiress and socialite Gloria Vanderbilt. The CNN personality's mother was said to have left her apartment to her eldest son, and "all the rest" of the estate to Cooper. Vanderbilt's wealth had been valued at $200 million.
However, citing probate documents filed after her death, the remainder of her wealth is the figure shy of $1.5 million. "Her family's fortune… diminished over the years due to charitable donations and lavish spending," reports FOX Business.
Cooper had made previous remarks about not expecting to get anything from her, labeling inheritances as an "initiative sucker" and a "curse." He had previously told Howard Stern on his radio program, "My mom's made clear to me that there's no trust fund. There's none of that."
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I don't think the amount of inheritance is relevant to anything any of us need to know. Those who watched the documentary about Anderson and his mother could see the beautiful relationship they had. Gloria Vanderbilt was keenly aware of hardships that so many people experience in all of life's stages and she was very generous with her gifts to a number of different charities. Anderson Cooper and his family have and are living out their lives in the public's eye and I think the documentary is what people should want to know about and the way to remember Ms. Vanderbilt. Comparing the value of an estate and the innuendo that a lesser amount than what was previously reported means anything is not necessary and frankly, disrespectful.
I understand this is a commentary on the happenings at CNN and the people who work there. I subscribe to your newsletter because I watch CNN and I like to know about changes when they happen at the network so I'm not pointing a finger at you. I just think the "gossip" that goes on particularly when we know people are grieving a loss is something we all should think twice about.
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His name means 'Black God'. He is a dark demonic deity, a hideous shadowy figure dressed in black who only appears at night.
The lord of evil, CHERNOBOG causes calamity and disaster, bringing bad luck and misfortune wherever he turns. There is no hidden agenda — he just enjoys being a black-hearted villain. He is the Darth Vader of Slavic mythology. His opposite number is BELOBOG, the White God of Goodness. The two of them are in eternal conflict.
CHERNOBOG is feared all over Russia as a being of pure nastiness, in the same evil club as AHRIMAN or SATAN. Not many would pray to such a deity, but one early passage reveals that people would spit curses into a bowl during feasts to keep him at bay. What a wonderful idea — a holy swearbox.
CHERNOBOG is so utterly malevolent that few writers dared to jot down details of his foul deeds. All we have are shadows and rumor and hints. It's almost as if early priests invented him as a Slavic SATAN figure to keep the locals terrified. Could this all be a blackwash?
Saunders, Chas, and Peter J. Allen, eds. "CHERNOBOG - the Slavic God of Evil (Slavic mythology)." Godchecker. Godchecker.com / CID, 18 Oct. 2013. Web. 25 April 2019.
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My Journey to Fit: Play Ball!
I've always loved baseball - I was on the baseball support team (NOT called a ball girl, ick) in high school, our kids played it starting with T-ball (Sam played all the way until 8th grade), and we used to go to the San Antonio Missions games (Minor League) back when we lived there. So naturally, when we came to North Carolina during baseball season, we had to make a trip to watch the Durham Bulls (yes, like the movie) play.
The Durham Bulls ballpark is so nice. The current version was built in 1995 and was designed by the architects who did Camden Yards and Jacobs Field, among others. We lucked out with the weather - it was maybe 80 degrees when the game started, overcast, and there was a cool breeze! I was totally expecting a humid swamp, but I guess the weather gods took pity on us...we get enough of that in Texas.
We splurged a bit on the tickets and got seats in the premium section, which not only had us super close to all the action, but we also were protected from foul balls by a net - my reflexes have never been fast, and I didn't want to spend the game ducking and/or cringing as errant balls flew at me. This was a good decision, because there were A LOT of foul balls during the game! We were in row C, which is the third row, right behind home plate. Sam said that we were going to see a lot of butts. I replied that it wasn't a problem for me...good to know I can still make my kids cringe, haha!
Our view. A player from the opposing team got hit by a pitch on his hand/wrist area, and we could see his pain clearly, poor guy. The other weird thing was that wads of bubble gum kept appearing on the grass behind home plate. I counted 11 by end of game - gross! This was all coming from the players as they stepped up to bat.
Minor league baseball games are always fun because of the entertainment that is constantly going on - lots of interaction with the mascot, little kids, and even the workers - at one point a crew came out to sweep the infield while "Ice Ice Baby" was playing over the loudspeakers, and they all dropped their brooms and started dancing - too funny!
Wool E. Bull is the mascot and he was everywhere! Lined up with the group who sang the national anthem, zipped around the field on his go cart (that Sam and Jeff both wanted to drive), got chased around the bases by little kids several times, shot t-shirts into the crowds from a hot dog gun - he was awesome!
We had a great time - only thing missing was our youngest, who was working back in Texas.
Can you see us? My light green shirt makes it somewhat easy to find us in the crowd.
All together now: OOOH! AHHH!
This was a great experience - we ate traditional ballpark food (hot dogs and Cracker Jack) and were tempted to buy some peanuts from the very entertaining vendors who were roaming around our seats, but none of use really wanted peanuts. Even with a near-full ballpark, it wasn't crazy getting out of the parking garage afterward. We'd definitely go back for another game!
I saw your photo on facebook and SMILED.
Seven years in CHAPEL HILL and so so many many durham bulls games.
Such a fun place to live - I still can't believe you left this area!
Looks like so much fun! I don't really like soccer but it's the biggest sport here in Holland so I went to a game once with my parents and it was fun to do even though I didn't really like it. But you do like baseball which makes this trip so much more fun.
I agree, going to a sporting event is usually fun in person, even if you're not really into it.
You are having such vacation-y good fun back there! Have you seen that show "The Mask?" About mascots? I've seen bits and parts. Those people really get into that job!
I haven't seen that show - but I can see how they'd have to be super enthusiastic to be a mascot. They really keep the crowd pumped up!
That looked like danged good fun! Just what summer is meant to be. The gum made me think about prizes given away by the Red Wings hockey team where part of it is being able to sit in the players bench. Gag. I don't THINK so! 'Nuff said.
LOL - I agree, it would probably be pretty gross there.
what fun - I love minor league baseball... sounds like you had a great time. Did you get a little t shirt for paco ??
Was the hot dog worth it? I went to a professional game a few years back and had heard that the food was soooo good. I was actually disappointed! But the game is always fun, right?
Baseball, hands down, is my favorite sport. I played from 4th grade on, and played in an adult league until well into my 30s - I used to even bring Hannah when she was little and she was our bat girl!
When we went to Florida for a spring break one year (I think 2005?) we went to a major league game's spring training game - it was the Cleveland Indians and Coco Crisp was playing for them then. Our 1st base outfield seats were so close I felt like I could reach and out touch him in the outfield!
And I always loved seeing him on t.v. after that, and Tony got sick of me saying "hey, there is Coco Crisp!" Ha!
Sorry your one son missed out on a fun day!
I never liked baseball until I moved to Colorado and I was there for the birth of the Rockies, so I got swept up in it. We went to some games,which was really fun, actually. Not to mention how beautiful Coors Field is.
Once we moved to IL and then there was some player thing about money and I lost interest in baseball. Football is still my true love.


I'm sure you've all heard the saying derived from Voltaire, "Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good," which in a way is encapsulated in the lean start-up movement and the ideology of shipping a "minimum viable product" (MVP), and then learning from your customer base.
"The 20-minute walk I take is better than the three-mile run I never start. Having people over for take-out is better than never having people to an elegant dinner party."
I think about this topic of perfection being the enemy of the good often. Because I live in start-up land where everybody is a perfectionist. I think this is particularly true because every start-up entrepreneur is trying to catch lightning in a bottle.
I hear about it in every first product release. You can see it in the founders' eyes. They want the perfect feature set, the PR company lined up to do the perfect press release, they want maximum coverage, rave reviews, viral adoption and they want to sit back and then wait for the signups to come roaring in.
Life doesn't work like that. And gearing yourself up for a lighting-in-a-bottle moment leads to bad company decisions.
Even in the age of MVP worship I see founders who want to bundle too many features into a release because they're worried that customers will be unhappy if they don't.
I see teams holding back on product releases even when the product is complete because they're nervous it's not yet good enough to get positive journalist reviews.
They hold back on announcing their funding because they want to be sure they have three other important announcements to bundle--I often counsel against this.
Stop trying to catch lighting in a bottle.
Your announcement will lead to more traffic than you've had in the past. But it's highly unlikely to have that aha moment that Apple gets when it announces new products.
The much more likely result is that you get some positive feedback from the community, you get some strong users who like your product, you get some people telling you your product isn't as good as the competitors or isn't as good as your marketing hype.
No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy. So the sooner you're live, the sooner you'll be able to separate your own internal BS from what the market really wants and thinks.
The other reason I counsel so much on this topic is confidence.
You gear your team up for your TC Disrupt presentation, your interview with Kara Swisher, your graduation day from YC and waiting for the product success.
And when it doesn't come in droves, it feels like defeat. And the whole company feels it because you set expectations too high.
The golden rule of management is to set low expectations and beat them. Lightning in a bottle breaks the cardinal rule.
So be prepared for the marathon. Expects a long, slow linear climb.
Take some comfort in Fred Wilson's blog post about Meetup and the 20-year-build.
After all--some people win the lottery. And that's who you read about in the papers. And it feels nice to think that $285 million is just one Lotto ticket away.
But you're a pragmatist. And you know that your success will come from the hard work and refinement of 20 different product releases each that incrementally made you the great company that you are.
And by being in the game long enough--if you're lucky, smart, and tenacious--you might just see that traffic and revenue arc up.
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According to the work of Gloria Ladson-Billings, culturally relevant teaching "empowers students intellectually, socially, emotionally, and politically by using cultural references to impart knowledge, skills and attitudes."
The books selected for the Rooted and Reading initiative are designed to build cultural awareness and boost social emotional learning. By reading books where African American students can see themselves positively represented, we can begin to create a bridge between students' home and school lives that celebrates, who they are, acknowledges their lived experiences, while reinforcing their cultural values.
We believe that the 5 competencies of Social Emotional Learning are best understood in both a child development and cultural context; as children do not develop these skills and abilities in a vacuum.
Understanding Social Emotional Learning from a child developmental perspective helps us understand the skills that children should be able to learn and demonstrate at each developmental level. Additionally we must ensure that children are able to learn these skills in age appropriate ways. Not only that, but when we consider a child development perspective, it gives us clues and indicators of a child's capacity to grasp concepts and demonstrate skills. Failing to consider a child's developmental level can impose a set of unrealistic expectations on children that may be impossible for them to meet. If teachers, therapist and social service professionals set the benchmarks too high, then they may feel that that programs and strategies are not working and if they set the benchmarks too low, then they may not be appropriately preparing the students to use their skills to navigate difficult social situations they are likely to encounter.
Often left out of the conversation of Social Emotional Learning is the vital role that culture plays in shaping and developing relational expectations, values around decision making, and ideas about identity, connection to self and spirit. Building upon these concepts at an early age is very important for a child's social expression and emotional regulation. This is why it is imperative to infuse within our understanding of Social Emotional Learning, the knowledge of self as well as a high degree of African American cultural awareness and appreciation.


MELT 2 tbsp butter in a large, oven-safe pot over medium. Add leek and cook, stirring, until softened, 5 min. Stir in rice and 1 cup broth. Cook, stirring until liquid is absorbed, 2 min. Stir in water, remaining 1 cup broth, oregano, garlic and salt. Bring to a boil, stirring often. Cover pan and bake until all liquid is absorbed, 20 to 25 min.
SPRINKLE paprika over scallops. Melt remaining 1 tbsp butter in a frying pan over medium-high. Cook scallops until golden, 1 to 2 min per side.
STIR ricotta and 3 cups arugula into risotto. Serve topped with remaining arugula and scallops.


Water conservation techniques showcase innovation and bring a sense of community to the pool industry.
Brendan Watkins, General Manager of the Swimming Pool and Spa Association of Victoria (SPASA Victoria ) says the industry spend their lives working with water so feel very strongly about using it responsibly.
"The new industry initiatives include a water recycling program for filling pools and storage bladders to hold water during pool renovations," he said.
"SPASA Victoria developed the database mid year to help members locate pool water for their clients as it made sense to have a central point for water," he said.
"The way it works is pool owners or builders advise SPASA Victoria of the quantity and location of the water - we then send out an alert and our members make arrangements to have it transported to its new home," he said.
"No money changes hands and as the water is treated it is best to be re-used in another pool," says Mr Watkins.
"The bladders come in a range of sizes and water is drained straight into them on site and stored until the pool renovation is finished and put back," he said.
"The inflatable nature of the bladder is the perfect tool to store water for a short period of time," said Mr Watkins.
One member who was quick to support both initiatives is Gary Kilworth, owner of Out From the Blue in Hawthorn.
"The water database is very useful and we are always finding new homes for the water," says Mr Kilworth.
"We have a staff member who co-ordinates the swaps and she works hard to match up the water to suit the size of the pool, timing and location," he said.
"It's a great way the pool community can help one another out," he says.
"When I tell my clients about it, they are happy to wait for a couple of weeks to have their pool filled," he said.


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Known for his 1981 hit "Super Freak," Rick James also gained notoriety for his wild lifestyle. Later in life, his drug abuse led to widely publicized legal problems. After serving a two-year prison term for assault, James was on tour to promote his comeback album Urban Rapsody in November 1998.
At Denver's Mammoth Gardens, right before his first encore, the self-described king of "punk funk" became ill backstage, barely able to move. He regained his strength to perform "Super Freak" but he had ruptured a blood vessel in his neck, causing a blood clot. After the concert, James returned to his hotel and collapsed.
"I was kicking it with my security guys when I felt a funny sensation in my neck and elbow, a tightening on the left side. Rubbing it didn't help. Then my whole right side, from my head down to my toes, went to sleep. Whatever it was, I knew it was no joke," he said.
Doctors in Denver examined James and advised him to return to Los Angeles, where he lived, for further evaluation. The doctors performed a battery of tests and diagnosed a stroke.
"When I was onstage, I noticed it was really hot. Maybe being a mile above sea level had something to do with it. I can't really say. I played Denver before, in the '80s and I was doing cocaine up the ying-yang and shaking it up.
"But I don't do those things now—I'm older."
Doctors called James' stroke the result of "rock 'n' roll neck," caused by the head's "repeated rhythmic whiplash movement."
"It's just me moving my head too fast, while I'm playing bass," James said. "Like any athlete, you shouldn't go out there cold—you should warm up backstage. I don't."
Clean and sober at 50 and thinking times were promising, James was sidetracked. And the irony wasn't lost on him.
"It's God's way of saying, 'Well, me and you got to chat. It doesn't seem like you know how to talk to me, moving around like this, and I've got some things you really got to know. So let me just sit you down for a minute—bam! I'm going to give you this stroke. I'm not going to make it real heavy, but you'll feel it."
A recuperation period at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center was necessary before James could walk again, and the stroke effectively ended his musical career. He died of a heart attack at his Los Angeles home in August 2004.
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Create super fun and easy post Bitsy Earrings with the technique of colorizing Nunn Design Resin with Castin' Crafts Opaque Pigments.
Here is how the technique, of colorizing resin and applying it into the Bitsy Earring Posts is done. Scroll to the bottom to watch the video tutorial too!
The Nunn Design Bezels are oxidized to provide the antique look to the precious metal plating. The oxidization, when it comes into contact with the resin, could change the color of the resin. To avoid this, clean the bezel thoroughly prior to application of the resin. Get the tip of a Q-Tip wet with rubbing alcohol and clean away any of the blackened oxidization, especially from the inside of the bezel.
Squeeze a little of the Castin' Crafts Opaque Pigments onto a plastic bag. To prevent your Castin' Crafts Opaque Pigments from being contaminated with mixed resin, you will want to use a fresh toothpick with each "toothpick tip" worth. I cut my toothpicks in half so I could easily use both ends.
For this tutorial, I used the color formula for Pantone 15-3919 TCX from our blog post here.
If you are following the color formulas, add the required amount of Casin' Crafts Opaque Pigment to the mixed resin.
My color was still a little off after adding too much red, so I needed to add another tiny toothpick of the blue.
Drizzle colorized resin into the bezels slowly with a toothpick or a stir stick. Since they are so bitsy in size, it is really easy to overflow.
Do you see how there are bubbles forming in the resin in this photo? Use your hot breath to "huff" on them. Your hot breath will make the bubbles expand and pop.
If you had any over pour of resin that is stuck to the sides of the bezel, use a pair of needle nose pliers to gentle remove the resin. When the resin is 12 hours into the curing process it is still not fully cured, but this soft cure state makes it really easy to remove the excess resin from the bezel.
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From Betsy, 20: I know you want people to like you, but don"t sell out. I used sarcasm as my weapon. Someone would whisper, "What"s number six?" and I"d say, lightly, "Wouldn"t you like to know!" They soon stopped bugging me.
From Ashley, 21: The next time this happens, offer to study together. That way you can make friends and still do the right thing.
From Mariah, 16: I"d give them the wrong answers. Or have your parents talk with the school about the oblivious teacher. If they can"t tough out the class, they should drop it.
Letting someone cheat off you is worse than being a cheater. It represents a weak character — and repercussions for getting caught will be the same as for the cheater. You work hard to earn an A, so represent that! Be a leader others look up to, not a wimp who dispenses answers.
From Graham, 15: I"m also a freshman in honors. If anyone asks me for homework answers, I say, "No, but I can help you figure it out!" Think of it this way: if people get mad because they can"t cheat off you, are those the friends you want?
From Elise, 17: Stand up for what you believe. True friends will understand.
From Peter, 21: People always wanted my help, too, and I"m a nice guy so I"d help them. But letting people copy isn"t helping them, it"s hurting them — and it"s wrong. Refusing to help someone cheat shows you"ve got morals. If you"re worried about your social status, remember: nobody likes a cheater.
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Baby goats, laundry and the songs we love
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Jon Brauchle
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My brother says, "There ain't nuthin' cuter than a baby goat." My wife and I raise goats on our small farm, and I really can't disagree. Recently, our nannies have started kidding, but they're not trying to be funny. There's really nothing funny about it. It's been a bad week for goat teats. We have babies that can't nurse because of one issue or an udder. Consequently, we have to hand-milk the affected nannies and bottle feed the babes. Man—this is starting to sound like a sad country song. Whether it's sad or not, every day is a song when you think about it (I think John Lee Hooker said that).
They say the songs we listen to provide the soundtrack to our lives. Do you ever hear a song that takes you back to a time when all was right with the world? Or maybe a certain song takes you to a pivotal point in the past when you could have gone one way but went the other? Do you ever find yourself listening to a song repeatedly, hoping that doing so will magically transport you back to that time and place where hindsight will allow you to make the decision that will right all your wrongs and make everything better? Yeah, me neither.
Music is powerful and is indeed conducive to a bit of time travel. However, some things are best left in the past. The Rolling Stones were all the rage back in the summer of '65 when "Satisfaction" hit the radio waves. But when those now geriatrics gents are still up on stage gyrating to the same old song to the tune of $200 a ticket in 2021, it's no longer quite so cool. People still pay to see them though.
Advertising firms know the power of music. Often, an ad agency will take a song you love and use it to persuade you to purchase whatever product they are peddling. The problem is that no one—and I mean no one— wants to hear one of their favorite songs associated with fast food, cat food, car-care products, toilet paper, the latest toenail fungus tonic or drugs that raise one thing or decrease another (easy—I'm talking about blood sugar meds here, people). They might as well be slowly pouring gas on the soonto be fire of your favorite song and laughing as they strike the match.
It pains me deeply to hear a beloved song being used this way. I curse the ad agency, the product, and whoever controlled the licensing to the song that allowed it to be used with such evil intent. If I thought about it rationally, I could see where a songwriter getting a little low on revenue flow might like a little extra dough to afford more fast food, cat food or fungus tonics, but I'm not capable of thinking rationally when it comes to such transgressions.
The worst Madison Avenue slap upside the head I've ever experienced happened a few days ago. My wife and I were bottle feeding baby goats on the couch and watching "Little House on the Prairie" reruns for a little homestead hardship inspiration. We don't have cable. I got up to go get another goat when the show was about to cut to a commercial. As I opened the back door to go outside, I heard the chorus to one of my favorite songs emanate from the TV. My heart sank when I turned back to watch and listen to the horror unfold.
"September" by Earth Wind and Fire takes me back to the days of cassette tapes, boom boxes and playing basketball with friends for hours on end in the driveway of my childhood home. The commercial I was now watching, with that song playing in the background, seemed surreal to me. There were no boom boxes or basketballs, but there were people bouncing happily around about something. I squinted and mumbled, "What is that— laundry?" My wife didn't hear me. A voice from the TV was saying something about, "Nothing keeps your clothes smelling fresh and clean like …" Fortunately, I found the remote and hit the power button before the product name registered. I was dumbfounded. Nobody could be that happy about doing laundry, could they?
I still don't know the name of the product being pushed by that commercial. If I see it now, I'm ready with a remote to shut it down. I still listen to "September", only now it's with the little computer in my pocket instead of that old boom box. Maybe I should forgive and forget and go get me some of whatever that laundry product was. I could crank up that song and see if cleaning clothes can really be that much fun. Ha—just kidding.
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SWEDEN. Hanif Bali is a Member of Parliament for the Moderate Party who speaks his mind and that's why many likes him. Except for the left who routinely go crazy over something he does.
His great sin this time was to call the ISIS-brides who want to return ISIS-honor (female animals) and since the left always care more about using the right word than dealing with reality all hell broke loose. Bali published the text below on his FB site and then the newspaper Aftonbladet published it. It is an amazingly well put text and I agree whole-heartedly.
The Coptic Martyrs
I am looking at a picture of a seven-month-old baby wearing a white full body pajamas. One of the sleeves is empty because he lacks an arm. Sukaina Ali Younis, founder of an orphanage in Mosul, Iraq, describes what happened to him. "IS left him on the ground to trick Iraqi soldiers," she says. "Three soldiers were trying to save the baby and a sniper shot and killed them all."
The Iraqi army sent out a tank, but before it arrived at the baby, the baby was attacked by a stray dog that pulled the child away in the arm. When they rescued the little boy, they had to amputate his arm. They named him Hammoudi.
Today I have been criticized for expressing myself too hard about the IS groupies who are now stuck in various camps around the Middle East and who are asking their former Western countries for help to get back. In 2015, I advocated for tribunals to bring IS terrorists back to Sweden for trial. But there was nothing done. Later that year, I proposed to make a change to the treason law in order to prosecute IS terrorists who returned or tried to get to Syria. But nothing happened. Today, 150 people who have traveled to Syria for jihad have returned to Sweden. Sweden has still not judged a single IS terrorist for its involvement in one of the most brutal killings that existed in modern times.
Many of them are women who went down to marry their jihad heroes. Most of them have squeezed out a few youngsters well in place. These children now use them as "Get out of Syria" free cards. The children are certainly innocent – but it is the seven-month-old Hammoudi also. Why should the children with inner IS parents have more right to come here than the Yezidian orphans who have become orphans because of the IS terrorists. The world is full of innocent children – as if that has ever been a ticket to Sweden. The children in Sukaina's orphanage will never see Sweden.
Today, Anne Ramberg, Annika Strandhäll, Eva Dahlgren and some left-wing economists have in various ways shown their disapproval because I felt these terrorist groups should rot in Syria. Morgan Johansson and other politicians who plead for court for these caliph brides lie either to themselves or to others. It is too late. The policy has been in his hands. The legislative window has expired. The alternative to letting the IS crying cats rot in the Middle East is that they are free in Sweden. Believe nothing else.
Anne Ramberg, Secretary General of the Swedish Bar Association writes that I do not belong in "a civilized and human Sweden". At the same time, I see a clip released by IS just before many of these IS brides went down the caliphate to be besieged by their jihadists. It shows four men hanging with their arms and feet tied back from chains in a stand with their faces facing the ground staring at an oil pool. The oil pool lights up and you hear the men's screams as they burn up alive. And then I think of what does not belong in a civilized society.
It has been more important for the political establishment to complain about my tone than to stop these people coming into Sweden for five years now. More journalists have asked my party what they intend to do about me and my "tone" than they have asked party leaders about what to do to stop the inflow of IS terrorists. The Swedish Radio called two IS terrorists from Växjö "IS activists". Aftonbladet calls them "IS travelers", SVT call them as "IS sympathizers". These constant mitigating rewrites are one reason why the Swedish political establishment does not care. It is the reason why Swedish politics deals with IS terrorists as cases for social services or as a home & school project.
Eva Dahlgren says that I make her vomits. I see a video when IS throws a gay man to his death from the roof of a building in Raqqa. And then I think about what makes me vomit.
Daniel Suhonen calls me too disgusting. I read about how an IS terrorist cut the head off a four-year-old girl while she screamed for her mother on a street in Raqqa, how they stomped the heads of babies to pieces, drowned people alive in cages, how they raped and killed indiscriminately. I think about that which is disgusting.
What is the big danger of using harsh words against these Satan's creatures? What is the danger of using dehumanizing words about people whose actions cannot be put into words?
The LO big shot Mats Erikson, husband of Cabinet Minister Ann Linde (S), says that my hard words against IS show that I share the same view of humans as them. Likes from Social Democratic MPs hail in.
I'm actually bewildered. How big is this hatred for me really?
My phone rings, it's my party leadership. They are angry about my tone again. I look again at the picture of the seven-month-old Hammoudi, who lacks an arm, before I answer.
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Venom é uma banda de metal inglesa, formada em 1979. Proveniente do NWOBHM, a formação clássica da banda era composta por Cronos (voz e baixo), Mantas (guitarra) e Abaddon (bateria).

O estilo inovador do Venom, com um som muito pesado para a sua época, o vocal ríspido de Cronos, o ritmo veloz e as letras satânicas, fizeram a banda se destacar no cenário mundial consagrando-os como um dos grupos mais conhecidos e importantes do metal dos anos 1980. Seus dois primeiros álbuns, Welcome to Hell (1981) e Black Metal (1982), tornaram-se referência no gênero e são considerados os primeiros discos de metal extremo lançados. Sua influência sobre o thrash metal e outros estilos foi tamanha, que seu segundo disco deu nome ao subgênero black metal.

Biografia

As origens (1978 - 1980)
O Venom foi originalmente formado como um quinteto (vocal, duas guitarras, baixo e bateria), sob o nome  Guillotine, em 1978. Suas influências originais, ou mais propriamente dito, do seu guitarrista Jeff Dunn, que comandava musical e ideologicamente a banda, eram as junções musicais entre o punk e o metal de bandas como Motörhead, os riffs agressivos e rápidos de grupos como Judas Priest, a atração por grupos ocultistas, como Black Sabbath, e do drama visual de bandas como Kiss. Eles também foram influenciados por lendárias bandas de hard rock setentistas como Led Zeppelin.

Após o vocalista e baterista originais deixarem a banda devido a diferenças pessoais (o baterista Chris McPeters decidiu se casar e o vocalista Dave Blackman se aborreceu quando um ensaio do grupo com fogos de artifício terminou incendiando seu jardim), o
acaso determinou que Jeff Dunn conhecesse em um show do Judas Priest em Newcastle, os que, até então, eram membros da banda Oberon: o baterista Tony Bray e vocalista Clive Archer. Observando que ambos mostraram insatisfação com a cena metal na época, onde as bandas mais pesadas passaram a ser Judas Priest e Motörhead, Dunn ofereceu a ambos os músicos audição para os cargos vagos na banda.

No final de 1979, o segundo guitarrista, D. Rutherford também decidiu deixar o projeto por motivos pessoais e à segunda posição guitarra foi ocupada por Conrad Lant, o qual Dunn tinha encontrado na casa de um amigo em comum.
Com o advento da Lant, o Venom tinha definido completamente o caráter musical e lírico, pelo qual viria a ser conhecido, a banda mudou o nome de Guillotine para Venom e seus membros adotaram pseudônimos pelo que hoje são conhecidos (Cronos: Conrad Lant , Mantas: Jeff Dunn, Abbadon: Tony Bray e Jesuschrist: Clive Archer). Nessa época, o baixista original Dean Hewitt foi substituído por Alan Winston, o recém-chegado.

Winston acabaria por deixar o conjunto em menos de um ano, uma semana antes do primeiro show da banda no Clube Meth em Wallsend, Inglaterra. A partir desse momento Cronos assumiu a responsabilidade de interpretar o baixo, dizendo que "tocar baixo não poderia ser tão difícil, afinal". Venom tornou-se assim um quarteto com um vocalista (Jesuschrist) um guitarrista (Mantas), um baixista (Cronos) e um baterista (Abbadon).

Em abril de 1980, esta formação entrou em estúdio para gravar a primeira demo incluindo três de suas músicas clássicas, "Angel Dust", "Raise the Dead" e "Red Light Fever". Mas esta seria a única gravação conhecida do Venom como um quarteto, porque Clive Archer deixou a banda logo depois. Em seguida, o grupo se concentraria em compor novas músicas e em ensaiar aqueles que já tinham, até acharem um novo vocalista.

Foi durante um desses testes que Cronos tomou o microfone para acompanhar uma das canções recém-compostas por Mantas ("Live like an Angel") e, em seguida, Mantas e Abaddon reconheceram que a combinação de cantos e gritos guturais eram exatamente o tipo de som que estavam procurando para a banda. Assim sendo, Cronos fica como baixista e vocalista.

Primeiros álbuns - formação clássica (1981 - 1986)

A primeira gravação do Venom como um trio foi o single "In League with Satan". Esta foi uma das canções incluídas no álbum de estreia do  Venom, "Welcome to Hell" , lançado no fim de 1981. É considerado por muitos como o primeiro álbum de thrash metal e black metal, e teve uma grande influência sobre o desenvolvimento desses estilos, tornando-se um "divisor de águas" no metal. Welcome to Hell contém a música "Mayhem com Mercy", que foi a inspiração para o nome da banda norueguesa Mayhem. O álbum foi na realidade uma coleção de demos e, de acordo com o próprio Cronos, é a razão pela qual há uma grande diferença na qualidade de som entre Welcome to Hell e seu segundo álbum.

Um ano após o lançamento de Welcome to Hell, foi lançado o álbum "Black Metal", considerado por muitos o álbum mais importante do Venom. Black Metal é citado como talvez  a influência mais importante para o desenvolvimento de black metal, thrash metal, death metal, e outros estilos que formariam o que seria definido como metal extremo. Foi o responsável por batizar o gênero black metal surgido na Noruega início dos anos 1990, devido à admiração que os músicos tinham pela banda.

O terceiro LP do grupo "At War with Satan" trouxe uma variação no nível estilístico das interpretações (incluindo uma faixa-título em forma de epopeia de 20 minutos, que já havia sido introduzido na gravação anterior). At War with Satan colocou o  Venom no mesmo nível que outros grupos de sucesso da época como Iron Maiden e Motörhead. Também apareceu sorrateiramente nas paradas de álbuns no Reino Unido (n º 64) e Suécia (n º 48).

Em 1985 o Venom apresentou "Possessed", lançamento que, embora essencialmente mantivesse os elementos básicos da banda, flerta abertamente com as fronteiras comerciais do gênero, propondo uma visão mais refinada do som do grupo e afastando-se do satanismo clássico para abordar o ocultismo como temática. A banda imediatamente recebeu rejeição pelo disco e rapidamente gravou um novo álbum chamado Deadline, mas este nunca veria a luz porque Mantas sairia do Venom para tentar uma carreira solo.

No ano de 1986 saiu a coletânea The Singles 1980-1986, contendo, como o nome diz, os singles lançados em 1980 e 1986. Dentre as canções incluídas, dez delas não haviam aparecido em nenhum disco, mas acabaram tornando-se famosas entre os fãs, como "Bloodlust", "In Nomine Satanas", "Die Hard" e "Seven Gates of Hell". No fim do mesmo ano, foi lançado Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, disco duplo ao vivo que marcou o encerramento da formação clássica do trio britânico.

Mudanças na formação e fim da banda (1987 - 1993)
Para substituir Mantas foram recrutados dois guitarristas: Mike Hickey e Jim Clare. Seu álbum de 1987 "Calm Before the Storm" apresentou um som mais polido, deixando os temas satânicos de lado para abordar a literatura de J.R.R. Tolkien. Excursionaram neste ano pela América do Sul, inclusive no Brasil, juntamente com a banda canadense Exciter. As vendas do álbum foram bem abaixo do antecessor, "Possessed". Lant, Clare e Hickey saíram do Venom após a turnê promocional e formaram um novo grupo com o nome Cronos.

Abaddon retomou contato com Mantas e convenceu-o a trabalhar com ele em um novo projeto chamado Sons of Satan. Em uma conversa por telefone com Cronos, Abaddon perguntou se ele teria algum problema em continuar usando o nome Venom em vez de Sons of Satan. O baixista disse que ele não tinha nenhuma objeção, porque eles eram membros originais do Venom e tinha todo o direito de continuar com esse nome.

Abaddon e Mantas contrataram o guitarrista Al Barnes e o substituto de Cronos, Tony Dolan, conhecido por ser o baixista do grupo britânico Atomkraft. A banda começou a trabalhar em seu próximo álbum, Prime Evil. Dolan tinha uma voz semelhante à de Cronos e era um baixista talentoso; a banda definiu o apelido de "Demolition Man" para ele. Ainda assim, Dolan não se via como um substituto para Cronos: "Não estou tentando substituir Cronos, seria loucura pensar que eu poderia fazer isso. O que ele fez nesta banda foi algo sensacional e único. Porém eu posso ser eu mesmo, e sinto que deveria trazer algo novo para Venom. É um novo começo e é do jeito que queremos seguir com a nossa música".

A banda gravou Prime Evil, em 1989, que foi muito bem recebido pela crítica, mas não por alguns fãs que alegaram estar sentindo falta de Cronos. O som da banda parece voltar às suas raízes e a re-experimentar as letras sobre satanismo. Mas o Venom ainda seguia sem recuperar sua reputação e popularidade que continuava a cair. A onda de thrash metal, iniciada na Europa pelo Venom não estava passando por um bom momento, e a tendência da década de 1990 é, na verdade, mais voltada para bandas de death metal como Cannibal Corpse e Deicide.

Tony Dolan, apesar de suas qualidades como líder, não foi bem aceito entre os fãs do grupo e sofreu as consequências: "Há pessoas que gritam para que Cronos volte em nossos concertos. Que eu gostaria que acontecesse. Mas por enquanto tudo o que peço é que as pessoas me deem a chance de mostrar o que posso fazer."

A banda mudou seu guitarrista (Al Barnes foi substituído por Steve White), continuou a turnê e acabou sendo uma sombra do que tinha sido. Dois novos álbuns foram publicados: Temples of Ice e The Waste Lands, em 1991 e 1992, respectivamente; que foram completamente ignorados pelos críticos e fãs. Nestes discos, o grupo experimentou novos sons, incluindo sintetizadores, mas mesmo assim não conseguiram chamar atenção.

Em 1993 o Venom anuncia sua separação.

Retorno com a formação clássica (1995 - 2002)

Em 1995, Cronos retomou contato com Mantas e Abaddon com a intenção de reunir a formação clássica do Venom. A notícia da reforma da banda foi uma notícia de grande importância para a imprensa e deu esperança aos seus fãs. O Venom foi a atração principal do festival holandês Dynamo Open Air de 1996 tocando para cerca de 90.000 pessoas.

Em 1997 foi publicado o esperado álbum de reunião, Cast in Stone. Ele foi muito bem recebido pela crítica e fãs, e foi uma surpresa para muitos que esperavam um retorno ao som de Black Metal. As letras, escritas por Cronos, no entanto, seguem a linha das feitas na década de 1980. O álbum também foi lançado com um CD bônus incluindo novas versões de suas canções clássicas. Depois de uma turnê mundial, o Venom lançou o disco duplo "New, Live & Rare" em meados de 1998.

No entanto, apesar do sucesso cênico e comercial desta formação, a situação nos bastidores estava longe de ser idílica. Abaddon e Cronos não conseguiam trabalhar juntos. O baterista, que estava na banda desde o início, queria continuar como líder do grupo, apesar das tentativas de Cronos retomar o posto. Cronos respondeu que ele era um membro insubstituível dentro do grupo e, se alguém deveria sair, seria melhor este fosse Abaddon. No entanto, os três membros concordaram em tentar gravar um novo álbum.

Cronos e Mantas se reuniram em um estúdio na Alemanha para começar a compor. Para gravar as faixas de bateria Cronos chamou seu irmão Anthony "Antton" Lant como músico de estúdio. Abaddon deixou a banda permanentemente e Antton tornou-se um membro oficial. O novo álbum, chamado Resurrection, foi publicado em 2000. Embora seja geralmente referido como uma continuação do Cast In Stone, principalmente em relação as letras, a banda musicalmente inova aproximando do groove metal de bandas como Pantera, Sepultura e Soulfly. Participou no verão do mesmo ano no festival alemão Wacken Open Air como um dos headliners.

Hiato e turnê de 25 anos (2002 - 2006)

Em fevereiro de 2002, Cronos teve um acidente durante uma escalada no País de Gales. A queda foi muito grave e o impediu de cantar e tocar seu instrumento por um tempo. Todos os shows da banda foram cancelados e Cronos começou a sua reabilitação.

Mantas aproveitou esta inesperada pausa para iniciar novos projetos: o principal deles foi a reforma de seu projeto homônimo que lançou o álbum Zero Tolerance em 2004, sendo que  Tony Dolan e Al Barnes (ex-integrantes do Venom) também tocaram no disco. Antton também participou de alguns grupos britânicos.

A década de 2000 também foi o período em que a maior parte da discografia do Venom foi remasterizada e relançada, principalmente pela Sanctuary Records, que havia reeditado grande parte dos discos de Black Sabbath e Motörhead.

Em 2004, Cronos saiu de sua reabilitação e participou do Probot, um projeto de heavy metal formado por Dave Grohl (ex-baterista do Nirvana) e no qual também colaboraram Lemmy Kilmister, King Diamond, Lee Dorrian, Tom Warrior e Max Cavalera.
Cronos anunciou logo depois que ele pretendia trazer o Venom de volta ao estúdio de gravação. Mantas disse oficialmente que não continuaria na banda. O guitarrista ainda concordou em colaborar com a composição do álbum e afirmou que Cronos era livre para usar o nome Venom à vontade e lançar o álbum que quisesse. Mantas fundou logo depois a banda Dryll.

Para substituir Mantas, Cronos chamou seu ex-colega Mike Hickey, que já tinha substituído Mantas na gravação do álbum Calm Before The Storm. Depois da separação do projeto homônimo de Cronos, em 1995, Mike Hickey trabalhou com bandas como Carcass e Cathedral. Em seu retorno ao Venom, ele escolheu o pseudônimo de "Mykvs".

Depois de reformar a banda com uma formação completamente nova, o Venom começou a trabalhar em um novo álbum. Foi publicado em 2006 e intitulado Metal Black. O título e a capa do álbum fazem uma referência óbvia ao seu álbum Black Metal, anunciando uma vontade real do grupo de regressar às suas origens. O álbum é notável por ser menos produzido do que seu álbum anterior, Resurrection. Os riffs são menos desenvolvidos e as letras estão no limite da auto-paródia. O álbum, promovido pelo single "Antichrist" (primeiro single publicado pelo Venom em mais de 15 anos), foi um sucesso e foi seguido por uma extensa turnê. A rota passou pela Europa central, Reino Unido, Escandinávia e, eventualmente, nos Estados Unidos. Phil Anselmo, ex-vocalista do Pantera foi convidado para cantar com a banda em diversas datas.

História recente (2007 - atualmente)

Mike Hickey deixou a banda em 2007 por motivos pessoais. Ele foi substituído por Stuart Dixon (aka "Rage"), um jovem e desconhecido guitarrista de Newcastle.  Com a nova formação, o Venom seguiu o seu caminho, e publicou em 2008, o álbum Hell. Apesar da relativa falta de originalidade, o álbum foi consideravelmente bem sucedido.

A banda fez uma turnê após o lançamento do álbum. Dentre eles, o grupo fez alguns shows importantes, principalmente a participação como headline no festival francês Hellfest em 2008. O grupo não tocava na França desde os anos 80. A banda também encabeçou o Festival Rock'em All em Atenas, acompanhado por Iced Earth.

Em 2009, Antton, baterista do Venom desde 2000, anunciou sua saída do grupo. Antton disse que estava satisfeito com o seu papel como sucessor de Abaddon, mas precisava de mais tempo para o projeto DefConOne. Cronos encontrou seu substituto Danny Needham, um jovem baterista que tocou no projeto solo de Tony Martin (ex-vocalista do Black Sabbath). Needham recebeu o apelido de "Dante".

O grupo se apresentou em Dezembro de 2009 em uma mini-tour de 5 datas na América do Sul chamada  "The South American Datas Of Hell 2009". A tour foi um evento pequeno, já que a banda não tocava na América do Sul desde a turnê do álbum Calm Before the Storm, em 1988. Em fevereiro de 2010, anunciaram o lançamento de um novo álbum no verão. Em agosto, pela primeira, vez participaram do festival de metal extremo norueguês Hole in the Sky como headliners.

Foi divulgado em 2011 um novo álbum de inéditas, "Fallen Angels". Nos anos que se seguiram, a banda se apresentou em inúmeros festivais de metal pelo mundo como: Getaway Rock Festival,  70000 Tons of Metal (2012),  Masters of Rock,   Party.San Metal Open Air (2013), Maryland Deathfest XI, Hell & Heaven Metal Fest e Brutal Assault XIX (2014).

No fim de 2014, a banda confirmou o lançamento de seu décimo quarto disco de estúdio, From the Very Depths, que ocorreu em 27 de janeiro de 2015.

Influência

Os álbuns  Welcome to Hell e Black Metal influenciaram inúmeras bandas de metal posteriormente. A música do Venom ajudou a moldar o desenvolvimento de muitos grupos de thrash metal, especialmente o "Big Four of Thrash"  (Slayer, Metallica, Anthrax e Megadeth): o Metallica veio a abrir um show do Venom no início dos anos 1980, e o Slayer executou junto a eles a Combat Tour de 1985. O Venom também seria de extrema importância para o black metal e para a cena inicial do death metal, com diversas bandas copiando o estilo, temas e a imagem da banda, tal como os suíços do Hellhammer também foram pioneiros do gênero. Além dos mencionados, outros grupos que citaram o Venom como influência e que já fizeram versões cover de suas canções, destacam-se: Aura Noir, Acheron, Behemoth, Carpathian Forest, Hypocrisy, Mayhem, Obituary, Burzum, Immortal, Darkthrone, Cradle of Filth, Pantera, Devildriver, Therion, Satanic Warmaster, entre outras.

Tanto a banda quanto seus discos figuram em listas de melhores e mais importantes dentro do heavy metal ao longo dos anos.

Membros

Formação atual
 Cronos (Conrad Lant) — vocal (1980-1987, 1995-hoje), baixo (1979-1987, 1995-hoje), guitarra (1979)
 La Rage (Stuart Dixon) — guitarra (2008-hoje)
 Dante (Danny Needham) — bateria (2009-hoje)

Ex-membros
 Mantas (Jeff Dunn)  — guitarra (1979-1985, 1989-1992, 1995-2004)
 Abaddon (Tony Bray) — bateria (1979-1992, 1995-1999)
 Jesus Christ (Clive Archer) — vocal (1979-1980)
 Alan Winston — baixo (1979)
 Mykus (Mike Hickey) — guitarra (1987, 2005-2007)
 James Clare — guitarra, teclado (1987)
 Demolition Man (Tony Dolan) — vocal, baixo (1989-1992)
 Alisdair Barnes — guitarra, baixo (1989-1991)
 Trevor Sewell — teclado (1979-1985, 1989-1992, 1995-2004)
 War Maniac (Steve White) — guitarra (1992)
 Antton (Antony Lant) — bateria (2000-2009)

Linha do tempo

Discografia

 Álbuns de estúdio
 Welcome to Hell (1981)
 Black Metal (1982)
 At War with Satan (1984)
 Possessed (1985)
 Calm Before the Storm (1987)
 Prime Evil (1989)
 Temples of Ice (1991)
 The Waste Lands (1992)
 Cast in Stone (1997)
 Resurrection (2000)
 Metal Black (2006)
 Hell (2008)
 Fallen Angels (2011)
 From the Very Depths (2015)
 Storm the Gates (2018)

Singles e EP
 In League with Satan (single, 1981)
 Bloodlust (single, 1982)
 Die Hard (single, 1983)
 Manitou (EP, 1984)
 Warhead (single, 1984)
 Hell at Hammersmith (EP, 1985)
 American Assault (EP, 1985)
 Canadian Assault (EP, 1985)
 French Assault (EP, 1985)
 Scandinavian Assault (EP, 1985)
 Manitou (single, 1985)
 Nightmare (single, 1985)
 German Assault (EP, 1987)
 Tear Your Soul Apart (EP, 1990)
 Venom '96 (EP, 1996)
 Antechrist (single, 2006)
 Hammerhead (single, 2011)

Álbuns ao vivo
 Official Bootleg  (1986)
 Eine Kleine Nachtmusik  (1986)
 The Second Coming  (1997)
 Bitten  (2002)
 Witching Hour (2003)

Coletâneas
Japanese Assault (1985)
From Hell to the Unknown... (1985)
 The Singles 1980-1986 (1986)
Acid Queen (1991)
In Memorium (1991)
The Book of Armageddon (1992)
Leave Me in Hell (1993)Skeletons in the Closet	 (1993)Kissing the Beast (1993)Old, New, Borrowed and Blue (1993)Black Reign	 (1996)From Heaven to the Unknown (1997)New, Live, and Rare (1998)Buried Alive	 (1999)The Collection (2000)Court of Death (2000)The Venom Archive (2001)Greatest Hits & More	(2001)Kissing the Beast	 (2002)Darkest Hour	 (2002)Welcome to Hell	(2002)Lay Down Your Soul! (2002)In League with Satan (2003)Witching Hour - The Best of Venom (2003)
The Seven Gates of Hell - Singles 1980-1985 (2003)MMV (2005)

Vídeos
Combat Tour Live: The Ultimate Revenge (1985)
Hell at Hammersmith (1985)
Alive in '85 (1986)
Metal City (1987)
Live '90 (1990)
The Second Coming (1996)
Live in London 85 (2004)

Tributos
  In the Name of Satan - A Tribute to Venom (1998)
  In the Sign of the Horns: A Tribute to Venom (2000)

Ligações externas

Bandas de metal extremo
Bandas de black metal do Reino Unido
Bandas de heavy metal do Reino Unido
Bandas de speed metal
Bandas da Inglaterra
Bandas formadas em 1979
Trios musicais


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This Year's Model è il secondo album di Elvis Costello e il primo con il gruppo di supporto The Attractions, formato da Steve Nieve alle tastiere, Bruce Thomas al basso e Pete Thomas alla batteria, oltre che dallo stesso Costello alla chitarra (tuttavia il gruppo The Attractions non viene accreditato).

Fu registrato principalmente negli Eden Studios di Londra tra il 1977 ed il 1978.

Critica e riconoscimenti
Fu eletto miglior disco dell'anno dai critici di The Village Voice. Nel 2000, il magazine Q ha posizionato This Year's Model al numero 82 nella sua lista dei 100 più grandi album britannici di sempre. Nel 1987, la rivista Rolling Stone ha inserito il disco al numero 11 della sua lista dei migliori album del periodo 1967-1987. Nel 2003, l'album è stato posizionato al numero 98 nella Lista dei 500 migliori album secondo Rolling Stone.

Confezione e grafica
Le prime versioni dell'album hanno una copertina apparentemente mal stampata, che taglia il lato sinistro dell'immagine (fra cui la "E" di "Elvis" e la "T" di "This") e mostra la barra di colori da tipografo lungo il lato destro. Questo è un errore intenzionale dell'autore della copertina Barney Bubbles.
La versione statunitense riporta in copertina un'altra foto dalla stessa sessione.

Tracce

La versione U.S.A. edita dalla Columbia Records presenta Radio Radio al posto di (I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea e Night Rally.

Formazione
Elvis Costello - voce, chitarra
Steve Nieve - piano, organo
Bruce Thomas - basso
Pete Thomas - batteria
Mick Jones - chitarra in Big Tears

Classifiche
Official Albums Chart (Regno Unito) - #4
Billboard 200 (Stati Uniti) - #30

Certificazioni
RIAA (Stati Uniti) - disco d'oro (oltre  copie)
British Phonographic Industry (Regno Unito) - disco d'oro (oltre  copie)

Note

Collegamenti esterni

Album di Elvis Costello


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Home » News » Advocacy » Governor McDonnell Announces 15.7 Percent Increase in Film Industry Employment in Virginia
Governor McDonnell Announces 15.7 Percent Increase in Film Industry Employment in Virginia
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Governor Bob McDonnell announced a 15.7% increase in employment in the Virginia film industry. The data comes from the release of the Economic Impact of Major Film and Television Productions Shot in Virginia Between 2011 and 2013 report by Magnum Economics. The report details the impact of the state's film incentive program, enhanced in 2010 to attract film and television productions to the Commonwealth. Virginia's program uniquely combines a commonly used film tax credit with the Governor's Motion Picture Opportunity Fund. By combining these tools, the state effort has created jobs, added revenue and delivered international advertising for Virginia.
The report concludes that eleven projects received $11.8 million in incentives and spent $66.4 million in the state - generating a total economic impact of $139.1 million. The projects included Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, the documentary dramas Killing Lincoln and Killing Kennedy for the National Geographic Channel, Captain Phillips starring Tom Hanks for Sony Pictures and television pilots Company Town for CBS and Turn for AMC, among others. The report further concludes the benefit/cost ratio of the incentive investment was 11.8 to 1; meaning for every incentive dollar provided, $11.80 was returned to Virginia's economy.
Governor McDonnell commented, "Our administration has been committed to helping the private sector create new jobs in the Commonwealth, and the film industry is a success story in this effort. Since we increased funding in the Governor's Motion Picture Opportunity Fund and enacted tax credit legislation, employment in the Virginia film industry has increased 15.7 percent, after a previous decline of 9.5 percent. These numbers demonstrate the kind of positive results a targeted film incentive program can have for Virginia."
Film Office Director Andy Edmunds noted, "11.8 to 1 is a superb value for Virginians, but that does not even tell the whole story. Added-value we have uniquely incorporated into our incentive program is buying advertising for Virginia as a tourism destination. Killing Lincoln for example produced and broadcast a commercial promoting the Commonwealth that was seen in over 170 countries."
The study further reports significant collateral contributions made by the film industry in Virginia. The industry significantly benefits small businesses having an average of seven employees. Film jobs provide some of the highest wages in the state with an average weekly salary of $1,277.00, which is 23 percent above the average weekly wage for all other industries. There are currently 32 public and private colleges and universities in Virginia providing film-related education. The growth in the state's film industry provides graduates from these programs with the opportunity to stay in the state and work, rather than relocating to other more active areas. Finally, a healthy and thriving film industry has a strong positive impact on travel and tourism, as has been demonstrated in Virginia with such popular film and television projects as Lincoln, Killing Lincoln and HBO's John Adams.
The film industry in Virginia plays a significant role in the state's economy. In 2011, total economic impact of the film and television industry in Virginia was $394.4 million, a 14.5 percent increase over 2010. In addition, 3,817 jobs were attributed to the film industry in 2011, up from 2,651 jobs in 2010.
For more information about Virginia's film industry, visit the Virginia Film Office website at FilmVirginia.org.
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Conceived as a lone-wolf sleuth, prowling the fog-embraced hills and criminal redoubts of modern San Francisco, Bill Pronzini's Nameless Detective has evolved over the course of 29 novels into a semi-retired family man and mentor to two younger operatives, neither of whom seems any more capable of staying out of trouble than Nameless was in his prime. Fortunately, Nightcrawlers (the sequel to Spook) packs enough grim drama and emotional traumas to go around.
A couple of short-fused homophobes are putting the hurt on gay men in the city's Castro district, and among their victims is Kenneth Hitchcock, the elder lover of investigator Jake Runyon's estranged 22-year-old son, Joshua. So, for professional as well as personal reasons, the widowed Runyon takes an interest in these attacks, connecting the bashers to an underage hustler and an "old-fashioned meat market" called the Dark Spot. Meanwhile, Nameless is summoned to the death bed of Russell Dancer, a manifestly repulsive former pulp-magazine contributor (first introduced in 1973's Undercurrent), now fallen on hard times, who has an unpublished manuscript he wants delivered to Nameless's mother-in-law, Cybil Wade, after whom he's lusted--unrequitedly--for half a century. It will be a test of Nameless's diplomatic acumen to fulfill Dancer's request, without drawing rancor from both Cybil and his wife, Kerry. A still greater test, however, awaits Nameless's black junior partner, Tamara Corbin, whose assignment to stake out a deadbeat dad turns into something more perilous, after she spots her subject's neighbor sneaking an unidentified, squirming bundle into his house one dark eve.


Afro Celt Sound System - Capture Ian Mann 2010-09-09T16:23:17+00:00 Rating: 4 out of 5 An impressive and lovingly compiled collection that captures the essence of one of the most innovative and influential world and roots music groups of recent years.
The extraordinary Afro Celt Sound System are well named. Their music is a unique blend of traditional Irish music, African percussion and other ethnic sounds plus programmed rhythms and beats. They blend folk, world and club/dance music into an infectious musical cocktail that sounds totally unforced and wholly organic.
It's a formula that has proved enduringly popular making them a huge live draw at both folk and world music festivals. Signed to Peter Gabriel's Real World record label the band are great favourites at the annual WOMAD (World of Music and Dance) Festival, currently held at Charlton Park near Malmesbury in Wiltshire.
I must admit, cocooned as I am in something of a jazz bubble, that the Afro Celts have rather passed me by until now. I've heard great reports of their live shows (from guest contributor Alistair Fields among others) and I have to say that the music on "Capture" comes as a most welcome surprise.
The origins of the band date back to 1991 and this double CD set compiled by band members James McNally and Martin Russell captures some of this extraordinary group's best performances from the last fifteen years and spans their five studio albums. The core group currently consists of guitarist and founder Simon Emmerson, multi instrumentalist McNally, keyboard player and programmer/sound wizard Russell and Irish singer Iarla O' Lionaird. Also playing a major role in the music represented on this collection are N'Faly Kouate (kora, balaphon, ngoma drums, vocals), Moussa Sisskho (djembe, talking drum), Emer Maycock (whistles, flutes, uillean pipes) plus on dhol Johnny Kalsi leader of the Dhol Foundation.
"Capture" is split into two distinct entities. CD1 subtitled "Verse" showcases the band's songs, many of them featuring the voice and lyrics of O'Lionaird but elsewhere including the contributions of a succession of famous guest vocalists. Thus we hear Sinead O' Connor on "Release", one of the band's early hits, Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant on "Life Begin Again" and label boss Peter Gabriel on "When You're Falling". Notable as these performances are it's the band's pan cultural "house style" that impresses most. Pipes and whistles integrate with African percussion as if it was the most natural thing in the world with the kora sounding remarkably similar to the Irish harp. All this is topped off with Russell's sonic wizardry which blends Irish, African and Indian traditional instruments together with modern musical digital technology and does so seamlessly.
These qualities are heard to even better effect on "Chorus" which gathers together the group's finest instrumental moments. Highlights here include "Dark Moon" and "Whirl-Y-Reel #2" which both appeared on the soundtrack of the film "Gangs Of New York". However perhaps best of all is the atmospheric and epic ten minute opener "Mojave" which takes Irish traditional melodies and re-contextualises them on a grandiose, cinematic scale courtesy of modern musical technology. More than other item in the collection this piece seems to sum up the sheer breadth of the Afro Celt's musical vision.
Afro Celt Sound System are one of the biggest selling acts on the Real World label, second only to Peter Gabriel himself, and their success has spawned a slew of imitators as world and roots music has moved closer to the mainstream. However none have done the whole pan cultural approach quite as successfully as the Afro Celts. There is a definite chemistry within the band and the way they blend the traditional with the contemporary is masterful.
Eminently danceable as well as being consistently musically interesting it is little surprise that they are such a successful live act. The group doesn't harbour any stars as such, but there is a strong group vision and a clear sense of purpose. If there's a jazz equivalent to their approach it's probably the musical globe trotting of the late, great Don Cherry.
With twenty five tracks spread across two discs this splendid collection is too lengthy and too diverse for a full track by track analysis. However there is much to enjoy here from the powerful and distinctive contributions of the famous guests to the epic sweep of "Mojave". Occasionally things stray towards the bland and towards its closing stages the instrumental disc can begin to flag a little. Nevertheless this is an impressive and lovingly compiled collection that captures the essence of one of the most innovative and influential world and roots music groups of recent years. Established fans may have much of this material already but for newcomers to the group, such as myself, "Capture" represents a great place to begin a belated acquaintance.
An impressive and lovingly compiled collection that captures the essence of one of the most innovative and influential world and roots music groups of recent years.