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By Nick Choo
(Updated at 2:18pm, 7 March 2011)
Reza Salleh (All pics courtesy of Reza Salleh)
DURING his college days at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, singer-songwriter Reza Salleh would organise open-mic gigs, where he would entertain campus crowds with his music.
Moving back and forth between Melbourne and Kuala Lumpur proved to be a stepping stone for Reza in developing his craft. Today, he is a central figure in Malaysia's independent music circuit. In 2005, he founded Moonshine, a twice-monthly gig for indie singer-songwriters and home-grown bands. It has been touted as one of the most popular live music circuits in the Klang Valley.
Last year, Reza released his debut album, Realize. He continues to gig regularly around Kuala Lumpur, and has also performed in Singapore, Thailand and Laos, and in Sydney and Tasmania. (Updated) He will be performing at Dewan Filharmonik Petronas in June.
The Nut Graph finds out more about Reza in this 23 Feb 2011 e-mail interview.
Reza at four years old, with his maternal grandparents, cousin and sister.
TNG: Where were you born and where did you grow up?
Reza Salleh: I was born in Kuala Lumpur in 1982. Almost immediately, my family moved to Air Tawar in Perak. My father was an engineer and got a job there. We were there for two years before we moved to Melbourne, [where] father studied for his masters [degree]. I remember being enrolled in a playschool there when I was three.
After two years, we came back to Malaysia and stayed with my grandmother in Section 12 in Petaling Jaya (PJ), before moving into our own place in Damansara Utama. I went to school there until I was in Standard Two. Then my father got a job in Alor Setar, Kedah, so we stayed there until I was in Form One before moving back to KL. We stayed in Bukit Damansara until 2001 and eventually moved back to PJ.
Can you trace your ancestry? What generation Malaysian are you?
On my father's maternal side, we're descended from Javanese nobility — specifically from Solo — who came here approximately 150 years ago to open farms. They settled in Muar and my great-grandfather — a tall, fair man who was half-Dutch — was known as Orang Kaya Parit Bakar due to the plantations he owned and his personal wealth.
With his aunt, paternal grandmother and parents at eight months old
On my mother's maternal side, we're descended from Johor Bugis nobility that moved to Pahang in the 18th century, specifically Tok Tuan Keraing Haji. He was a Bugis high official and [expert] silk weaver who fled Makassar Island in [Indonesia] when the Dutch invaded. He settled in Kampung Mengkasar, Pekan.
On my mother's paternal side, my great-great-grandfather was a customs officer who worked in Klang for the English. He had migrated there from Durian Tunggal, a border town in Malacca, and his father was a penghulu in Rembau, Negeri Sembilan. A lot of Arab, Singapore and Sulawesi [heritage] mixed up on that side, too.
According to my maternal side, I'm a 10th-generation Malaysian.
What is your strongest memory of the place where you grew up?
I remember waking up really early in Clayton, Melbourne to watch He-Man on my own, walking back from playschool with my mom, and getting presents during Christmas. I remember playing badminton in front of my house in PJ when I was six, and the huge kerengga nest my sister and I walked by every day to school.
I remember being a bit of an outsider in Alor Setar due to my English being so good. Yet how much fun I had growing up there. I remember discovering girls when I came back to PJ. I think my strongest memories tend to be from my grandmother's house in PJ, where I spent a lot of time growing up. We had the best Raya celebrations.
Reza and his band in Form Five in 1999, winning the annual talentime
What stories or personal anecdotes do you hold on to the most from your family?
My maternal grandfather was a strict Arab-blooded man who worked hard, partied like P Ramlee, and kept his kids in line with an iron fist. He had a major soft spot for his grandchildren, though, and loved it when we played around the house. He suffered a stroke nine years before he passed, and half of his body was paralysed, severely restricting his mobility.
I remember us setting up "camp" over the bordered bed he had at home and how he didn't mind us at all making such a ruckus. There is a certain kind of warmth I associate with those memories, ones I will never forget.
I also have one regret with regard to my grandfather. When I was reaching my teens and was getting more into video games, I would sit at the computer at my grandparents' house and be engrossed in whatever game I was playing. I remember him calling out to me from his wheelchair in the dining room on a few occasions, and I would tell him that I was busy. He died not long after. I will always regret not going to him. I think about that almost every time I feel I'm too busy for a loved one.
What aspects of your identity do you struggle with the most as a Malaysian?
Reza with his sister and father on a trip to Penang in 1990
I have issues with a number of things associated with being a Malaysian. I love my country and the ideas that it stands for, but it's hard sometimes to be a proud citizen.
We see words like harmony, equality and diversity paraded around whenever Malaysia is described, either to the rest of the world or to each other, but the reality is a much more bitter, hollow truth. Many preach these things, but at the same time endorse, encourage and promote racial agendas.
I've seen people get all riled up when someone even attempts to discuss Islam, but at the same time have no qualms about supporting people who stamp on a cow's head during a protest [against the relocation of a Hindu temple]. I've seen religion used as a tool to control and judge people here, helmed by narrow-minded people unwilling to budge on religious discourse. I tire of how something as open and welcoming as Islam is used by people who are inflexible and devoid of common sense.
We talk about losing touch with our culture and heritage, but we tear down heritage sites and our forests. We talk about how foreign music acts coming in will promote negative elements among our youth, but we show 10 times more on TV (and our kids are still okay, mind you). We ban animated movies about Moses because we think the people's faith will be shaken. Are we so weak in our faith that a mere movie is going to make me want to renounce my religion? I feel insulted.
I have issues with how there are resources at hand to say, develop the creative arts scene, but the money never gets to the people who would actually know what to do with it. I am saddened that our greatest resource, our own people, have been packing up and leaving the country because they have had enough.
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Describe the kind of Malaysia you would like for yourself and future generations.
I'd like to live in a Malaysia where how well you do in life is based on merit rather than ethnicity. Where your race is just something interesting about you rather than something that dictates how you live your life, who you hang out with, and who you might vote for.
I'd like a Malaysia where politics weren't race-based and leaders don't wave weapons in the air at general assemblies.
I'd like a Malaysia that is safe, where the education system isn't just about mugging for SPM examinations, and where the "brain drain" is a thing of the distant past.
The book Found in Malaysia, featuring 50 of our best interviews plus four previously unpublished ones with Datuk Zaid Ibrahim, Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz, Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir and Ramli Ibrahim, is now available at all good bookstores for RM45.
Filed Under: Found in Malaysia Tagged With: Found in Malaysia, Indonesia, indy, Javanese, Makassar, Melbourne, meritocracy, Moonshine, Muar, music, Nick Choo, Orang Kaya Parit Bakar, Pekan, race, Realize, religion, Reza Salleh, Solo
Mooky says
I've known Reza for more than a decade, he is one of the warmest, kindest and not forgetting most intelligent persons I know. Not only does he have fans, people really look up to him, including myself. Thank you Reza, you are indeed an inspiration to us all.
Main says
This is pure Malaysian. There's a 'term' […] for this ,"banana". In Reza's case, I still need to find one that is suitable… 🙂
Bleah says
Are there any Malay Malaysians who AREN'T descended from some regional/tribal nobility or other?
That seems to be the recurring claim in a lot of interviews I've read.
JW Tan says
Lots of little kingdoms = lots of noble families to be descended from.
Most Chinese Malaysians (and many Indian Malaysians), in contrast, are descended from peasants or indentured labour. Not many Found in Malaysia interviewees boast about that!
Shahi says
There is a certain egalitarian sense in Malay culture, as long as you have a certain quality you would be respected and could make a name for yourself. A [person] can become [ruler], a commoner a warrior. This was not restricted to the Malay race, but also to other races: Arab traders turned into religious sheiks, Chinese to Kapitans and Indians to Bendahara. Fear, perhaps, has changed this nature to that of a protective one, protective of ancestry, protective of race … a fear that there is a possibility of losing one's land, culture and influence.
I love reading about open-minded and exposed people. Thanks!
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Howard Kelly's avant-garde autopsy method
Julius P. Bonello,
George E. Tsourdinis
Peoria, Illinois, United States
Figure 1. Dr. Howard Kelly (Photo courtesy of The Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions)3
Once dubbed the "Prince of Gynecology," Dr. Howard A. Kelly was one of the most prominent surgeons in the United States in the early twentieth century.1 Through the blessing of Sir William Osler, Kelly had risen to the rank of Head of Gynecology at Johns Hopkins Medical School at the height of his career.2 Among his many contributions to gynecology and surgery, Kelly's legacy lives on in his creation of an autopsy technique that circumvents incising the abdominal and thoracic cavities.
Kelly was born on February 20, 1858 in Camden, New Jersey. After the Civil War his family relocated to Philadelphia, where he pursued general studies at the Classic Institute of Dr. John W. Fares and obtained a degree in arts at the University of Pennsylvania. Thereafter, he attended his alma mater's medical school, studying under such renowned physicians as Pancoast, Penrose, Goodell, and Wood. It was not until his third year that he began to suffer severe bouts of insomnia, prompting him to take a leave of absence to work as a ranch hand and cowboy in Colorado in 1882. Returning with improved health to Philadelphia, Kelly completed his medical training and was awarded his Doctorate of Medicine in 1882. He served his medical internship at the Episcopal Hospital in Kensington, a working-class district of Philadelphia. It was during his internship that he caught the attention of Sir William Osler after publishing his article "On a Method of Post-Mortem Examination of the Thoracic and Abdominal Viscera Through Vagina, Perineum, and Rectum and Without Incision of the Abdominal Parietes."
Following his internship, he returned to the Kensington area of Philadelphia among the steelworkers whom he had known throughout his earlier years. After three years of practice, his interest narrowed to surgery and gynecology. Realizing the need for a hospital devoted solely to gynecology, he founded the Kensington Hospital for Women in 1887, the sixth women's hospital in the United States. Concurrently, William Osler moved from Montreal and accepted a position in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania. Fond of Kelly after reading about his novel autopsy method, Osler often visited Kelly to watch him operate and reportedly remarked that he had never seen a more skilled surgeon. Osler offered him a position at the University of Pennsylvania as assistant professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, which Kelly accepted. Simultaneously, Johns Hopkins, a wealthy philanthropist, wished to establish a university and hospital in Baltimore. In 1884 this wish came to fruition with the appointment of William Osler as Head of Medicine and William Halstead as Head of Surgery. With his newfound influence over the Hopkins trustees, Osler insisted that Kelly be offered the position of Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Kelly reluctantly accepted the position, for he had misgivings about a combined Obstetrics and Gynecology Department. When Johns Hopkins Medical School began in 1893, the trustees agreed to develop a separate Department of Obstetrics headed by John W. Williams.
During his years of service in Baltimore, Kelly devised a number of gynecologic operations and instruments. Among his discoveries were the aeroscopic method of cystoscopy and the creation of the eponymous "Kelly" clamp, a ubiquitously used surgical instrument. He first introduced into common practice the examination of the air-distended rectum in the knee-chest position using a scope he designed himself.
In addition to his surgical prowess, Dr. Kelly was a pioneer in the radical surgical treatment of cancers of the uterus by radiation. In the fall of 1892, he opened a private clinic, which was later incorporated in 1913 as the Howard A. Kelly Hospital. Here, his use of radiotherapy continued until the 1940s. Kelly's technique was notable for being one of the first to exclusively use radium for treatment. For years the Kelly Hospital had administered all of the radiation for patients at Johns Hopkins and most of the radiotherapy in Baltimore and the state of Maryland. According to one biographer, Kelly was said to have received from his private patients the largest fees of any surgeon in the country. He often opined that a physician of experience and skills should command large fees when feasible, to give both time and service to the poor to whom he would submit no bill. Another interest of Kelly's that came to fruition under his direction was a medical illustration department that began in the early 1900s. With the help of this department, he authored or coauthored over 200 articles and fifteen books over the next thirty years. Finally, as a true women's advocate, he preached against the prejudicial treatment of women in medicine and championed their increased role as physicians and nurses. He retired after thirty years as Head of the Department of Gynecology at Johns Hopkins. In his lifetime, Kelly received numerous honors and awards, including five honorary doctorates. He died in 1943.
Figure 2. (left to right) Dr. William Stewart Halsted, Dr. William Osler, and Dr. Howard Kelly (Photo courtesy of The Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions)
It is no surprise to the modern physician that a surgeon such as Kelly, who specialized in operations of the pelvis, would develop a minimally invasive method via pelvic anatomy for inconspicuously accessing internal organs post mortem. In this seminal case series Kelly described an alternative autopsy method of retrieving organs for examination per vaginam, per rectum, and per perineum. He described his rationale for developing this new method: "It is often a source of great disappointment to physicians to be unable to secure autopsies in obscure cases, on account of the unwillingness of relations and friends to permit any 'mutilation' of the body. In a large proportion of such cases the difficulty may be met, and a satisfactory autopsy secured by the method described in this paper, which I have now practiced in five cases."4
His first case was that of "a powerful Irishman aged thirty-two years, who died in the Episcopal Hospital of right apex pneumonia." The patient's friends had refused any obvious "disturbance" of the patient's body, so Kelly opted for a method that "should not make any visible mutilation of the body." Cutting from the "penoscrotal junction to the margin of the anus and down to the bulb," Kelly was able to work his hand through into the pelvic and abdominal cavities without injuring the bladder or rectum. Advancing his arm until his shoulder was engulfed by the body cavity, he palpated the free border of the liver and—with difficulty—pierced through the diaphragm, allowing him to remove the lungs and heart for examination.
Another case was that of a "fine-looking, well-formed Irish girl of twenty-two . . . was brought to the hospital in a condition of extreme anasarca, from which she shortly afterward died." A per vaginam autopsy was made here, allowing Kelly to access the abdominal cavity and remove two enlarged kidneys. In keeping with his promise, "the vagina was packed with cotton and the body replaced in the coffin, bearing no marks which could suggest a disturbance of the remains."
The last case he outlined involved "a man twenty years of age, who died in the ward in consequence of large pleuritic effusion and complete splenization of the right lung . . . and marked pericarditis." Kelly successfully attempted an autopsy per rectum, washing out the gut and accessing the abdomen via an incision in the rectal vault. The thoracic contents were successfully removed for examination, but compared to his prior two methods, the incision was "a far more conspicuous object than the closed perineal wound well concealed by the legs and scrotum."
Kelly's legacy continues to live on in modern adaptations of his procedures. Knowledge of this novel method motivated Bonello et al. to perform a hand-assisted laparoscopic resection of a carcinoma of the rectum that followed in true Kelly-esque fashion. Just as Dr. Kelly extracted intrathoracic and abdominal organs via a perineal incision, so too were Bonello and colleagues able to remove the rectum similarly while minimizing the invasiveness of the procedure.5
Finally, it is imperative to note that Kelly's novel idea did not come without ethical concern by modern standards. He often performed these autopsies oblivious to universal precautions and without obtaining informed consent from the family of the deceased. However, the true message of this article is not to promote his reckless abandonment of autopsy decorum, but rather to underscore his relentless drive to seek out the cause of his patients' demise. Necessity begets inventiveness, and thus created Kelly's unorthodox procedure. The next time you find yourself assisting in a surgery or operating, and request or hand over a "Kelly," coursing through that clamp's name is the history of a compassionate physician, an adept surgeon, and a champion of women's rights, who endeavored to better his patients' lives—even if it meant doing so through alternative routes.
Kelly, Howard A. "Pre-1933 History of Gynecology in Maryland. Part 2." Maryland State Medical Journal 29, no. 7 (July 1980): 21–30.
Allen, P M, and T K Setze. "Howard Atwood Kelly (1858-1943): His Life and His Enduring Legacy." Southern Medical Journal 84, no. 3 (March 1991): 361–68.
Davis, Audrey W. Dr. Kelly Of Hopkins: Surgeon, Scientist, Christian. 1st ed. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1959.
Kelly, Howard A. "On a Method of Post-Mortem Examination of the Thoracic and Abdominal Viscera Through Vagina, Perineum, and Rectum and Without Incision of the Abdominal Parietes." The Medical News 42, no. 26 (1883): 733–34.
Dodson, R W, M J Cullado, L E Tangen, and J C Bonello. " Laparoscopic Assisted Abdominoperineal Resection." Contemporary Surgery 42, no. 1 (1993): 42–44.
Acknowledgments: We would like to thank The Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions for the use of their photographic material.
JULIUS P. BONELLO, MD, FACS, has taught students and residents for the last forty years at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. He now holds the title of Professor Emeritus of Clinical Surgery. He has eight children and lives in Peoria IL with his wife of thirty years.
GEORGE E. TSOURDINIS is from Chicago, IL and received his undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences from The University of Chicago in 2017. He currently attends the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Peoria, IL as a third-year medical student and intends to pursue a career in Internal Medicine. His research interests include Alzheimer's disease, the history of medicine, and bioethics.
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YouTube expands information panels in Philippines in bid to fight misinformation
YouTube on Thursday said it has expanded its information panel to give topical context in the Philippines to boost the fight against misinformation.
An information panel appears on search results or watch pages to provide context on a topic.
Beginning Dec. 9, aside from COVID-19 information panels, people in the Philippines will be seeing information from third-party sources like Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica, alongside videos on a number of topics that are "prone to misinformation," YouTube said in a statement.
"YouTube believes that people should be able to choose and make their own judgments about the information they consume along with context to inform their judgments," Google Philippines country director Bernadette Nacario said.
"The expansion of YouTube's information panels providing topical context to the Philippines is critical next step to connect people with additional context," she added.
Some topics that were identified as prone to misinformation include the following:
the 9/11 attacks
the Apollo moon land, and
the Martial Law in the Philippines
Several experts have said some Filipinos have difficulties spotting fake news. Victims of the martial law regime have also claimed that the kin of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos was guilty of historical revisionism.
The upgrade is part of YouTube's existing portfolio which seeks to raise "authoritative information" that is essential to viewers especially during breaking news events, the platform said.
YouTube said the information panel will appear regardless of opinions and perspectives expressed on the video being played, on both search results and watch pages when people search for topics that are prone to misinformation.
The information panel for topical context was first launched by YouTube in 2018.
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Education at OISE ranked in world's top 10
Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) was recently ranked within the Top 10 in the 2017 QS World University Rankings.
OISE came 10th in the list, up from 11th place in 2016. Education at the University of British Columbia, which is second in Canada, dropped down to 19th place.
Education joins five other University of Toronto subject areas that were ranked within the top 10 of each group.
"It is great to be recognized as one of the top 10 educational institutes in the world, and this latest ranking places education among the most highly ranked subject areas at the University of Toronto. We are extremely proud of this accomplishment," said OISE Dean Glen Jones.
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NEW NOISE: JULIA STONE
It's not often that musical outfits can claim to have been together since birth, but as brother and sister, Angus and Julia Stone can. Having created blissful folk music with tracks such as "Big Jet Plane", the Australian duo have sound-tracked tender moments on TV shows like One Tree Hill to movie drama Twilight. Having released music together since 2006, Julia has now taken the bold step to go it alone to release her debut solo album "By The Horns" in May. Wonderland talks to the singer/songwriter as she releases her second single, "It's All Ok" today.
Julia Stone
Julia Stone single artwork
Describe your music in five words
Fuck that's hard. Love songs.
What happened to Angus?
Last time I spoke to him he had just moved into a place out the back of Byron. He was merry in his new place and said it was beautiful there and the surf was good. We both wanted to venture into the world of music, and the world itself, without each other. Our friendship and time touring finished at the best place it had ever been and yet we were both ready to have some time creating separately. We had already been working on a new record together but it didn't feel right.
What do you hope to achieve as a solo artist?
I have always wanted the same thing from working with angus and now working in this way. To be open enough to enjoy whatever feelings and opportunities come along. I like to think of it as being able to adapt to working with different people. How each person will generate sound in a different way and to work with people who are making different creative choices. I'm inspired by different voices and the million different ways one idea can turn out. You put together a few people in a room and start jamming and something magical happens… put the same group in a room on a different day and something dark happens… someone wants to kill someone, someone wants to fuck someone. It's all so unique and strange how life plays out.
What is your personal favourite track from your upcoming new record?
'Justine' at the moment. It was a ramshackle song written on a mandolin in the car on the way home from a festival drunk and lonely, thinking about a time when it all seemed so possible. 'It all' being god only knows what. I liked the melody and the finger-picking pattern on the guitar, then on the day of recording I sang through the song a few times and when I finally chose a take, I wasn't sure that it was right or wrong, good or bad, I just had to make a decision and now when I listen to it, I understand what I'm singing about.
Do you always select "stone", (or rather, "rock") when playing "Rock, Paper, Scissors"?
Of course, but it makes it shit for winning. Everybody knows that's what I'm going to go with.
Do you prefer the Stone Roses or the Rolling Stones?
By default I have to say the Rolling Stones because I don't know the music of 'Stone Roses' and my dad's band covered heaps of Rolling Stones songs so I'm totally in love with their music. From another perspective, unrelated to music, I also like the feeling when I picture a rolling stone much more than the feeling I get thinking of the image of a stone rose. Something so heart breaking about a beautiful flower being frozen in stone.
Although you are now solo, is there anyone you would want to duet with?
I love singing duets. I'm singing with a guy called Sam Amidon at some of the shows. His music is extraordinary, really special. I'm looking forward to singing with him. I love more than anything when voices come together in harmony.
It's All Okay is out today and By The Horns is released on May 28th on Picture Show Records and is preceded by an introductory EP, 'Let's Forget All The Things That We Say' – out now. Polaroid images of Julia by Imogene Barron.
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happy new years & the event that you should all add to your bucket lists!
Hello and Happy New Years from Amsterdam! This post was originally going to be about a particular bucket list event that I took care of today in Amsterdam (seeing the Van Gogh Museum), but instead I have much more interesting news to report!
This evening my parents and I spent a quiet night in, much to the dismay of literally every Dutch person we spoke to over the course of the day. We received a half-jokes about the debauchery that occurs in Amsterdam on New Years Eve, including a story from a girl who refused to ride her bike because, apparently, people often throw fireworks at you if you do.
Initially it wasn't shaping up to be a very remarkable night for us; it was cold and rainy, so we limited our 'partying' to getting one drink downstairs at the hotel bar, then went upstairs and watched Julie and Julia for the better part of two hours. And then the clock struck midnight.
We all scrambled to the large windows in our hotel room, which conveniently overlooked a balcony with a panoramic view of our section of the city. Our hotel is slightly outside of the center of town, but this only worked in our favor. Fireworks had started going off around five PM, but obviously reached their apex at midnight. And then we got to experience the most awe-inspiring, illuminating, and incredibly long-lived firework display of our lives.
The fireworks went off intensely for forty-five minutes without pause, culminating in a series of awesome finales that went on for another ten minutes or so. The fireworks didn't stop then, but they did diminish in frequency and in size. After the finales the streets absolutely filled with smoke, which was probably made worse by the unceasingly rainy weather outside.
I did manage to snap a few photos, but they really do not do this event justice. It was an absolutely amazing, unexpected experience, and one of those awesome reminders about how the unplanned things that happen in your life can be some of the best. At any rate, I would definitely recommend putting "see the fireworks in Amsterdam on New Years" at the very top of your bucket list!
Natalie climbed out her hotel room window in her bathrobe in the rain to get that shot.
Sure did! It was cold and wet and mossy and gross, too!
Bylinda January 27th, 2012 I flew to Nassau, Bahamas for a week of R&R. I decided to book myself into two different resorts so that I could experience what each had to offer my clients. I started out by staying at the RIU Paradise Island Resort. This hotel was originally the Sheraton but was purchased by the RIU brand of hotels about three years ago. The RIU Paradise Island neighbors' the Atlantis so I was quite happy to explore both the RIU and the Atlantis Resorts while on Paradise Island. We moved over to Sandals Royal Bahamian for the next four nights. Simply elegant and luxury in every sense, definitely 5* service all the way. I enjoyed Nassau, I found it very easy to get around and everything was within walking distance down town. You can take the No6 bus for $1.50 per direction from any hotel around Nassau to the straw market down town. There is also a water taxi that leaves Paradise Harbour and arrives at Nassau's main dock every 25minutes for those who are interested in shopping or just touring around the main land. This August my husband and I will board the Uniworld River Queen to travel From Amsterdam to Budapest – that's one off my bucket list.


Victoria Goodthunder of Stockton, California takes pictures of the Presidential Gallery portraits inside the Mohave Museum of History and Arts.
Originally Published: April 13, 2018 5:53 a.m.
KINGMAN – The Mohave Museum of History and Arts, 400 W. Beale St., is celebrating its 50th anniversary with discounted gift prices, special events and free admission for Saturdays in April and Friday, April 27.
Kingman native Jeff McMichael will kick off the month-long celebration at 2 p.m. Saturday by telling stories and histories of Mohave County.
Jim Hinckley, local author and historian, will give a Route 66 presentation at 2 p.m. April 14.
Free museum tours will be held at 10 a.m., noon and 2 p.m. April 21. Museum board members and exhibit guides will be present giving information and answering questions.
The Hualapai Tribe will conclude the month's celebration from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 27 with presentations and demonstrations from its cultural center, including special speakers and dancers. Roy Purcell and other former museum directors will also give presentations.
The Daughters of the Mohave County Pioneers are celebrating their 60th anniversary, and will sell pioneer bricks for $50 at the museum. Bricks will be put on display on a wall outside the museum, and will include a family name and date of entry into Mohave County. Order forms are available at the museum's gift shop.
Admission to the museum is free for Saturdays in April and for Friday's culminating event. Discounts, 10 percent and 20 percent for museum members, will also be offered during those times. Hualapai Tribe exhibits will be on display April 4 to April 28.
Information provided by the Mohave Museum of History and Arts.


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Naxxar (o In-Naxxar) es un consejo local y una ciudad de la parte norte del centro de Malta, que tiene una población de unos 13,678 habitantes (en 2010). La iglesia de Naxxar está dedicada a Nuestra Señora de la Victoria, cuya fiesta se celebra el 8 de septiembre. Naxxar es conocida por la Feria Internacional Comercial Maltesa.

La localidad se extiende por un área de 11,6 km², y comprende, además del centro de Naxxar, el área de Sghajtar, Santa Marija tax-Xaghra, San Pawl tat-Targa, Birguma, Maghtab, Salina, Bahar ic-Caghaq y parte de Madliena.

Origen de la ciudad
No es fácil saber cuándo comenzó Naxxar a existir como ciudad. Es seguro que hace miles de años la zona ya estaba poblada, como lo demuestran las cuevas existentes en Tal-Qattara y Ta' San Brinkaw; los restos megalíticos de la Edad del Bronce en Tal-Qadi y Qaliet Marku; los surcos de carros que van desde Salina hasta it-Targa y aparecen más tarde en el Ghadira tal-Wej y que datan probablemente de la Edad del Bronce; las tumbas púnicas de la Escuela Primaria de Naxar y que según parece existen también en St George Street y Leli Falzon Street; así como las catacumbas de Salina y Maghtab.

Origen del nombre
Según la tradición, las gentes de Naxar estuvieron entre los primeros que auxiliaron a San Pablo cuando su barco se estrelló contra las rocas. Por esta razón muchos relacionan el nombre Naxxar con Nassar (Nasra), que significaría "conversión al cristianismo". Otros piensan que el nombre procede de "Nsara" o "Nazaroei", que significaría 'los que creen en las enseñanzas de Cristo, que vino de Nazaret, esto es, "Nozri"'. Algunos opinan que la palabra Naxxar significa 'el que sierra, separa o corta'; hay que tener en cuenta que en Naxxar hay numerosas casas de piedra. Magri afirma en su libro que la palabra naxar viene de "nazar", que en hebreo significa "elegido por él" o tal vez "el que se guarda a sí mismo". Esto se debe a que los árabes habían fundado en las proximidades un pueblo llamado Hal Muselmiet, es decir, "el pueblo de los musulmanes". Por este motivo, los cristianos habrían fundado otro pueblo, que por ser cristiano habría tomado el nombre de Naxxar.

Lema
Aunque nunca se ha explicado claramente el origen del nombre de Naxxar, es un hecho seguro que existe una antigua tradición según la cual los habitantes de Naxxar fueron los primeros en convertirse al cristianismo. De hecho, la parroquia de Naxxar fue la primera de Malta, después de la de la Catedral (Mdina) y la de Vittoriosa. Esto es corroborado por el lema de la ciudad -Prior Credidi-, que significa "Creí en primer lugar".

Sitios de interés histórico y turístico

La iglesia parroquial
La iglesia fue convertida en sede parroquial por el obispo De Mello en 1436, y los pueblos de Mosta y Gharghur quedaron bajo su jurisdicción. De hecho, el obispo De Mello la menciona como una de las diez parroquias de Malta, y fue la primera en ser consagrada a Nuestra Señora después de la Catedral. En 1575, la parroquia ejercía su autoridad sobre un total de 36 iglesias (14 en Naxxar, 5 en Gharghur, 12 en Mosta and 5 en las cercanías de dichos pueblos. Tal y como la conocemos hoy, la iglesia fue construida entre 1616 y 1630, cuando Naxxar tenía 1200 habitantes y se vio la necesidad de construir un templo de mayores dimensiones. La iglesia fue proyectada por el arquitecto Tommaso Dingli, uno de los mejores de la época, cuando el párroco era el padre Gakbu Pace. El coro y el área circundante fueron reconstruidos en 1691 bajo la dirección de Lorenzo Gafa', el mismo arquitecto que había proyectado la Catedral de Mdina. La iglesia parroquial fue solemnemente consagrada por el obispo Alpheran el 11 de diciembre de 1732.

Knisja tan-Naxxar
La iglesia tiene un coro, dos transeptos y una nave de 130 pies de largo. La anchura del transepto es de 94 pies, y la de la nave de 30. La gran campana fue realizada por el fundidor Toni Tanti en 1840 y costó 225 libras esterlinas. La fachada de la iglesia tiene dos relojes, de los cuales uno refleja la hora real, y el otro, una pintura, las doce menos cuarto.

La pintura principal, que representa el nacimiento de la Virgen, es atribuida a la escuela de Mattia Preti (1613-1699), y a su lado se encuentran otras dos pinturas de Stefano Erardi (1650-1733) acerca de la Huida a Egipto y la Adoración de los Magos. Otros cuadros que representan a la Virgen con el Niño, San Cayetano, San Luis Gonzaga, el Salvador y la Virgen de los Dolores, son obra del pintor maltés Frangisku Zahra (1680-1765). En la sacristía se conserva una antigua pintura en madera que representa a la Virgen del Rosario, obra de Gio Maria Abela (1595).

Il-Festa tan-Naxxar
La puerta principal de la ciudad, construida en bronce, data de 1913 y es obra de Pio Cellini. Está formada por cuatro paneles que muestran el escudo de armas de Nuestra Señora, patrona de Naxxar, el escudo de armas de la ciudad, el escudo del Papa Pío X y el de la familia Zammit, que donó la obra. En 1952 fue desmantelada, limpiada y reparada por el herrero Mastru Lucens Agius. Los costos de la reparación fueron pagados por los benefactores originales.

La estatua de la victoria (Vitorja), cuya fiesta se celebra el 8 de septiembre es una tradición originada en Roma en la que las esculturas son obra de artesanos malteses. Naxxar fue una de las primeras ciudads en contar con esculturas rememorando la Pasión de Cristo, y se cree que las procesionmes comenzaron en 1750. El 9 de noviembre de 1787 se trajeron desde el cementerio de San Calepodio en Roma las reliquias de San Vittorio, que se conservan en el altar de la iglesia. Varias de las esculturas y fachadas se deben a Angelo Quatromani.

Capillas
Existen varias capillas en el área, como la de la Inmaculada Concepción construida en el ; la capilla de Santa Lucía, la Capilla del Naufragio de San Pablo(San Pawl tat-Targa), la iglesia de la Natividad de San Juan Bautista, la capilla de San Jacobo apóstol, Santa Maria tax-Xaghra, la Asunción de la Virgen en Maghtab (también del ), la Anunciación de la Virgen en Salina (), la iglesia de San Miguel Arcángel en Salina, la de Juan Evangelista y la de Santa Maria de los Angeles en Bahar ic-Caghaq.

Fortificaciones
El área donde se implanta la ciudad ofrece un refugio natural a sus habitantes. De hecho, en los primeros tiempos la población se utilizó para espiar los movimientos del enemigo. Plataforma plana cuyos bordes caen abruptamente al mar, a través de los distintos períodos se utilizaron tres tipos de fortificaciones:
 Defensa marítima, constituida por torres, baterías, reductos, trincheras y cabezas de playa.
 Defensa interior: casamatas para evitar la invasión enemiga si tenía éxito al desembarcar.
 Defensas elevadas

Palazzo Parisio
El Palazzo Parisio fue construido por el marqués Giuseppe Scicluna. Antes, el lugar había sido ocupado por la residencia de verano de una comunidad jesuítica. Tras adquirir la propiedad en 1898, el marqués Scicluna la transformó, dejándola en su actual estado, y compró más tierra en la parte trasera para construir un gran jardín. Todo esto se hizo entre 1898 y 1906.

Principales calles de Naxxar
Pjazza Vittorja (Victory Square)
Telgħa t'Alla u Ommu (T'Alla u Ommu Hill)
Triq San Pawl Tat-Tarġa (San Pawl Tat-Tarġa Road)
Triq Ħal-Għargħur (Għargħur Road)
Triq iċ-Ċikk
Triq il-Ħaddieda (Blacksmiths Street)
Triq il-Knisja (Church Street)
Triq il-Kurradu
Triq il-Forga
Triq il-Labour (Labour Road)
Triq il-Markiż Scicluna
Triq il-Mosta (Mosta Road)
Triq il-Parroċċa (Parish Road)
Triq il-Qoton
Triq is-Sgħajtar (Is-Sgħajtar Road)
Triq it-Tuffieħ
Triq Jules Verne (Jules Verne Street)
Triq l-Amerika (America Street)
Triq l-Emigranti (Emigrants Street)
Triq l-Ingilterra (England Street)
Triq Leli Falzon (Leli Falzon Street)
Triq San Ġorġ (St George Street)
Triq San Pubilju (St Publius Street)
Triq Santa Marija (St Mary Street)
Triq Stivala (Stivala Street)
Triq Tal-Balal (Tal-Balal Road)
Vjal il-21 ta' Settembru (21st September Avenue)

Referencias

Enlaces externos
Ayuntamiento de Naxxar

Consejos Locales de Malta

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599 Lakewood/Tacoma was an express bus route operated by Sound Transit in the Puget Sound area of Washington State. This route is operated by Pierce Transit under contract.
This north-south express bus route runs between Tacoma and Lakewood with connection to the Sound Transit Sounder Rail system. This route provides two way service with two trips in the non-peak directiona and seven trips in the peak direction during peak hours. Southbound service to Lakewood is timed so that trips do not depart until the Sounder arrives at Tacoma Dome Station. No weekend or holiday service is available.
Fares for this route must be prepaid at station ticket vending machines prior to boarding. Pierce Transit buses provide service on this route.
This is a temporary bus route; the 2009 Service Implementation Plan budgeted for this route to be discontinued in 2012 with the extension of Sounder commuter rail services from Tacoma Dome Station to South Tacoma and Lakewood. However, due to funding constraints, the 2011 Draft Service Implementation Plan has provisions for the discontinuation of the route as of June 2011 if approved by the Sound Transit Board of Directors.
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Following our meeting today with Raymond Vezeau, we are writing to officially request an official investigation by Environment Canada into the allegations of discharges of deleterious substances from the Technoparc site in Montreal.
Today we provided Mr. Vezeau with a full brief, which includes samples results, notes, pictures, and a biologist's report.
Mr. Vezeau indicated that your department would respond to us in writing within two weeks as to whether or not you plan to initiate an official investigation into this matter.
Thank you for your attention to this matter and for your co-operation.


Despite heavy rain, activists trooped to the Chinese embassy to protest China's encroachment in Philippine territory. A cardboard mask is worn by an activist depicting President Rodrigo Duterte as a subservient lapdog.
After the protest at the Chinese embassy in Makati, patriotic groups went to the American Embassy.
Youth leaders carry a banner with the slogan 'Down with US Imperialism'.
Danny Fabella, a musician known for his patriotic and pro-people songs, performed at the HINDIpendence Day gathering at the Liwasang Bonifacio. Fabella exposed the government's failure through satirical lyrics.
Nanette Castillo, mother of victim Aldrin Castillo take to the stage to denounce the government's policy of extrajudicial killings. Her eldest and only son, Aldrin Castillo, was amongst those killed in Duterte's war on drugs in October 2017.
Towards the end of the program at Liwasang Bonifacio, the people raised their fists while reciting the 'Declaration of Hindipendence,' a vow of vigilance against tyranny.
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Clint Eastwood's biography
Clinton Eastwood Jr. is 92 years old actor born at San Francisco. He was born on Saturday 31st of May 1930. Clinton is often nicknamed as Clinton Eastwood Jr., Clinton Eastwood, Clint Eastwood. According to year of birth 1930 he belongs to Silent Generation. Birthday on 31st of May means he is Gemini. Gemini is a dual sign of Zodiac Belt. One born with this rising sign is very dual and creative in nature with lots of verbosity. They are the most expressive people as they love talking.Clinton was married 2 times.
He is native english speaker. He is white american. Clinton is citizen of United States of America. He is deist. Clinton´s primary profession is to be actor. You can know Clinton also as film producer, film actor, film director, restaurateur, composer, aircraft pilot, helicopter pilot, jazz musician, character actor, screenwriter, television actor, songwriter, film score composer, peace activist, soldier. He is recently known as singer.
Clint Eastwood's dad
Clint Eastwood's father's name is Clint Eastwood Sr..
Clint Eastwood's mom
Clint Eastwood's mother's name is Margaret Ruth Runner.
Clint Eastwood's family
Clint Eastwood's ex wifes
Dina Eastwood
Clint Eastwood and Dina Eastwood have been together since 1996 for 18 years. She is known as journalist. Clinton´s ex wife was born on Friday 11th of June 1965 in Castro Valley.
Maggie Johnson
Clint Eastwood and Maggie Johnson have been together since 1953 for 31 years. She is known as model. Clinton´s ex wife was born in 1931.
He has 2 sons and 5 daughters
Clint Eastwood's son: Kyle Eastwood
Clint Eastwood's son's name is Kyle Eastwood. He is known as actor. Clinton´s son was born on Sunday 19th of May 1968 in Los Angeles.
Clint Eastwood's son: Scott Eastwood
Clint Eastwood's son's name is Scott Eastwood. He is known as actor. His son was born on Friday 21st of March 1986 in Carmel-by-the-Sea.
Clint Eastwood's daughter: Kimber Eastwood
Clint Eastwood's daughter's name is Kimber Eastwood. She is known as actor. His daughter was born on Wednesday 17th of June 1964 in Los Angeles.
Clint Eastwood's daughter: Alison Eastwood
Clint Eastwood's daughter's name is Alison Eastwood. She is known as film director. Clinton´s daughter was born on Monday 22nd of May 1972 in Carmel-by-the-Sea.
Clint Eastwood's daughter: Kathryn Eastwood
Clint Eastwood's daughter's name is Kathryn Eastwood. She is known as actor. His daughter was born on Wednesday 2nd of March 1988 in Carmel-by-the-Sea.
Clint Eastwood's daughter: Francesca Eastwood
Clint Eastwood's daughter's name is Francesca Eastwood. Francesca is known as actor. His daughter was born on Saturday 7th of August 1993.
Clint Eastwood's daughter: Morgan Eastwood
Clint Eastwood's daughter's name is Morgan Eastwood. She is known as actor. His daughter was born on Thursday 12th of December 1996 in Los Angeles.
Clint Eastwood's schools
We found 4 schools Clinton attended. Complete list of schools: Los Angeles City College, Seattle University, Oakland Technical High School, Piedmont High School.
Roxanne Tunis, the mother of his daughter Kimber Eastwood (born in 1964), was legally married to Jack Scheck from 1956 to 1984. Kimber attended at least one school under the name Kimber Scheck.
Clint Eastwood's career
Clinton´s main focus is to be actor. He is famous thanks to For A Few Dollars More. You could see Clinton also in Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby. He is also a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Maybe you are curious what instrument does he play ? Clinton plays piano.
Is Clint Eastwood gay ?
Clint Eastwood's girlfriends
Frances Fisher
Clint Eastwood and Frances Fisher have been together since 1990 for 5 years. She is known as television actor. Clinton´s girlfriend was born on Sunday 11th of May 1952.
Sondra Locke
Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke have been together since 1975 for 14 years. Sondra is known as singer. Clinton´s girlfriend was born on Sunday 28th of May 1944 in Shelbyville. His girlfriend died on Saturday 3rd of November 2018. Sondra Locke was 88 years old, when this happened.
Clint Eastwood's Awards
Received an honorary Cesar award in Paris, France for his body of work. [February 1998]
At The 72nd Annual Academy Awards (2000) he presented the Best Picture statuette to American Beauty (1999).
He, Warren Beatty, Robert Redford, Mel Gibson, Richard Attenborough and Kevin Costner are the only directors best known as actors who have won an Academy Award as Best Director.
Presented the Golden Globe Award for Best Director to Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain (2005).
Had to fill in for Charlton Heston at The 44th Annual Academy Awards (1972) until Heston arrived.
He was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts on February 25, 2010 for his services and contributions to the arts.
He appeared in and directed two Best Picture Academy Award winners: Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Baby (2004). Morgan Freeman also appeared in both films.
Clint Eastwood's Rankings
Ranked #2 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
Premiere Magazine ranked him as #43 on a list of the Greatest Movie Stars of All Time in their Stars in Our Constellation feature. [2005]
His performance as "Dirty" Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry (1971) is ranked #92 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time.
His performance as Blondie in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) is ranked #50 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
His performance as "Dirty" Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry (1971) is ranked #42 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
Ranked #19 in Forbes magazine's list of the world's 40 best-paid entertainers, with estimated earnings of $44 million in 1995 and 1996. [September 1996]
Clint Eastwood's Nominations
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor for work Unforgiven in 1992
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor for work Million Dollar Baby in 2005
Clinton was nominated for Academy Award for Best Director
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Director
Clinton was nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture
Clinton was nominated for European Film Award for Best Non-European Film for work Mystic River in 2003
What else you don't know about Clint Eastwood ?
Clinton likes to spend time in: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Berlin, Malibu, Miami, Oakland, New York, London.
What Clint Eastwood has done for a first time
When he directs, he insists that his actors wear as little makeup as possible and he likes to print first takes. As a result, his films consistently finish on schedule and on budget.
His production company is Malpaso Productions, which he formed in 1968. The company's first feature release was Hang 'Em High (1968).
Mentioned on T.G. Sheppard's hit single "Make My Day," which in the first half of 1984 reached #12 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart and also reached #62 on that magazine's Hot 100 singles survey.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Eastwood into the California Hall of Fame located at The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts. [December 2006]
Considered for the role of Rambo in First Blood (1982) long before Sylvester Stallone was hired.
His first onscreen kiss was with Carol Channing in The First Traveling Saleslady (1956).
In general, he wraps films early and uses the actors' first takes. Most of his films are shot in the spring or summer and released around Christmastime.
Got the role of Dirty Harry after first choice Frank Sinatra suffered an arm injury.
In 1960, Clint Eastwood was one of Lucille Ball's first choices to play her romantic lead in the Broadway musical "Wildcat." When he (and a few A-list marquee names) were not available, she settled on Keith Andes.
Grandson Titan Wraith Eastwood was born September 16, 2018 to daughter Francesca Eastwood and her boyfriend Alexander Wraith. Titan is Clint's first grandchild whose birth has been publicly announced.
His first wife was good friends with TV writer Sonia Chernus. According to early fan mag publicity, the connection led to him being cast in Rawhide (1959).
Clint Eastwood's quotes
[on Sondra Locke] She plays the victim very well. Unfortunately she had cancer and so she plays that card.
[to Eli Wallach prior to starting work on The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)] Never trust anyone on an Italian movie. I know about these things. Stay away from special effects and explosives.
[what he says after a take, instead of "Cut!"] That's enough of that shit.
I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. Even as a kid, I was annoyed by people who wanted to tell everyone how to live.
I love every aspect of the creation of motion pictures and I guess I am committed to it for life.
Right now, the state of the movies in America, there's an awful lot of people hanging on wires and floating across things and comic book characters and what have you. There seems to be a lot of big business in that, a nice return on some of those.
And I like to direct the same way that I like to be directed.
I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don't have a toy they'll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.
There's really no way to teach you how to act, but there is a way to teach you how to teach yourself to act. That's kind of what it is; once you learn the little tricks that work for you, pretty soon you find yourself doing that.
Again, after you've gone through all the various processes and the film comes out and is very successful, you're almost afraid to revisit it. You want to save it for a rainy day.
You know when you think of a particular director, you think you would have liked to be with them on one particular film and not necessarily on some other one.
At the studios, everybody's into sequels or remakes or adaptations of old TV shows. I don't know if it's because of the corporate environment or they're just out of ideas. Pretty soon, they're going to be wanting to do one of Rawhide (1959).
[on trying to get Million Dollar Baby (2004) made at Warner Bros.] They might have been a little more interested if I said I wanted to do "Dirty Harry 9" or something.
[1985] My old drama coach used to say, "Don't just do something, stand there." Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.
The plan was, when I first started directing in the 1970s, to get more involved in production and directing so at some point in my life, when I decided I didn't want to act anymore, I didn't have to suit up.
I feel very close to the western. There are not too many American art forms that are original. Most are derived from European art forms. Other than the western and jazz or blues, that's all that's really original.
In The Bridges of Madison County (1995) Kincaid's a peculiar guy. Really, he's kind of a lonely individual. He's sort of a lost soul in mid-America. I've been that guy.
I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead.
This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.
[on World War II] I feel terrible for both sides in that war and in all wars. A lot of innocent people get sacrificed. It's not about winning or losing, but mostly about the interrupted lives of young people.
I like to play the line and not wander too far to either side. If a guy has just had a bad day in the mines and wants to see a good shoot 'em up, that's great.
My involvement goes deeper than acting or directing. I love every aspect of the creation of motion pictures and I guess I'm committed to it for life.
Whatever success I've had is due to a lot of instinct and a little luck.
I've always had the ability to say to the audience, watch this if you like, and if you don't, take a hike.
I've actually had people come up to me and ask me to autograph their guns.
When I was doing The Bridges of Madison County (1995), I said to myself, "This romantic stuff is really tough. I can't wait to get back to shooting and killing."
I never considered myself a cowboy, because I wasn't. But I guess when I got into cowboy gear I looked enough like one to convince people that I was.
I always cry when I watch myself on screen.
[on the Iraq war] I wasn't for going in there. Only because democracy isn't something that you get overnight. I don't think America got democracy overnight. It's something we had to fight for and believe in.
I like working with actors who don't have anything to prove.
[on Ambush at Cimarron Pass (1958)] Probably the lousiest western ever made.
[on Gran Torino (2008)] That will probably do it for me as far as acting is concerned. You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best.
There are certain things you have to be realistic about. Dirty Harry would not be on a police department at my age so we'll move on from that.
Having a good person as a foil certainly helps, because acting is an ensemble art form. Clark Gable is only as good as Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night (1934).
I keep finding interesting stories, or they come to me, so I'll keep making movies.
[on a possible return to acting after saying he was giving it up with Gran Torino (2008)] I'm like Jaws 2 (1978): "Just when you think it's safe to go back in the water..."
[on Million Dollar Baby (2004)] It's a tragedy that could have been written by the Greeks or Shakespeare.
I don't quite understand this obsession about doing remakes and making television series into feature films. I would rather see them encourage writers with new ideas in all different genres like they used to in the heyday of movies.
[on the Rocky (1976) movies] I loved the first one. I always admired Sylvester Stallone's tenacity to go ahead and get that made.
I would never have been able to pass the Bill Clinton-Gary Hart test. No one short of Mother Teresa could pass.
[on directing Leonardo DiCaprio as J. Edgar Hoover] He could make a lot of money making mechanical genre pictures but he wants to be challenged. And it's much more of a challenge to play someone who doesn't have the slightest thing in common with you.
I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come out the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.
Extremism is so easy. You've got your position and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right,you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.
The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men.
I like the image of the piano player: the piano player sits down, plays, tells his story, and then gets up and leaves - letting the music speak for itself.
My father used to say to me, 'Show 'em what you can do, and don't worry about what you're gonna get. Say you'll work for free and make yourself invaluable'.
[asked by Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes (1968) how many children he has, 11/16/97] I have a few.
[on misrepresentation of his early work] My parts ranged from one-liners to four-liners, but to look at some of the billings in TV Guide these days, you'd think I co-starred in those films.
[on director Arthur Lubin] We spent a lot of time together, traveled together. He liked me a lot; got me into the talent program at Universal, gave me a lot of breaks. Bought me some nice clothes, too. That's when people started wondering about us!
I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.
[to Sondra Locke, 1975] I've never known anyone that I wanted to be around me all the time. I guess I'm usually trying to get away.
[in bed with Sondra Locke on Thanksgiving night 1975] I never knew I could love somebody so much, and feel so peaceful about it at the same time.
Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
[1/14/09, his reply to David Letterman's question "You have uh--is it seven children?"] Uh, at least.
I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's OK, too. It's whatever suits you.
[on home pornography] The ultimate turn-on.
My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn't take very good care of himself.
It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.
[characterizing his relationship with Roxanne Tunis] It didn't mean anything; it was just an affair. I was young and . . . anyway she was a stand-in and extra on the show, and she was really crazy about me, and always hanging out in my dressing room.
Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.
I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.
I love stories about women.
When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.
Why am I a star? It can't be because of looks.
I kind of make a film for myself to sort of express myself.
I've been through my womanizer part of my life. There was a point when it was an illness, just compulsive, but that's behind me now. I've never considered myself addicted to anything, but if I was, that was it.
Everybody has certain things they wish they hadn't done in life. They wish they hadn't kicked their dog when they were ten or something.
I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the '60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff.
[January 1962] There has to be something for me beyond western roles, which rarely give you a full feeling of acting accomplishment. Have you ever heard of a western star being called an actor's actor? I'll bet not!
[April 2010] I planned on not working at this time in my life, but I am enjoying working more now than I ever have. I have been lucky enough to work in a profession I really like and I figure I will continue until somebody hits me over the head.
[if he could give advice to his younger self] He was never a smart kid. I was a slow learner, so I'd say speed up the process a bit-and maybe practice a little more!
[December 2014] I just went through a period where my DNA was in demand for a while. I think that's all ended-but, you never know!
As soon as I read that line in the script, "Go ahead make my day", I knew audiences would love it.
Too many directors don't know what the hell they're doing. They'll do multiple takes on scenes and try out different angles and lighting. I don't like that. If you can't see it yourself straight away, you shouldn't be a director.
[on his dissatisfaction with his diminishing role in the "Dollars" trilogy] In the first, I was just about alone. Then there were two of us. And now are three of us. If it goes on like this I'm going to end up in a detachment of cavalry.
There's a bar I used to go to on Sunset Boulevard that was a straight bar that's now a gay bar. I think I went into it once some years later, and I looked around and said, 'Oh, yeah, it's a gay bar.' I still finished my beer.
I don't know what I am. I'm a little of everything.
100 years from now and more, people will look back on this generation of films, and the guy who will standout more than anyone else will be Tom Cruise.
What's one great thing about a theater is it's got an exit.
One of the most important things in life is feeling good about yourself. And when you're in decent shape, when you like the way your body looks and feels and your energy levels are at their highest, it's a lot easier to feel good about yourself.
I am a junior, and all my younger life I was called Sonny or Junior, and I think a kid deserves his own name.
Follow what you think. You want to do something? Just do it the best you can. Not everyone makes something phenomenal, but at least you can fail on your own terms.
I was a bit of a screw-up, a loner.
The important thing to remember about women is that they're a lot smarter than men and they don't play fair.
[asked on the red carpet at The Bridges of Madison County (1995) premiere if he thinks men become sexier with age] That's in the eyes of the beholder. I know nothing about how men become sexy because men aren't sexy to me, so I really don't know.
I'm just doing a job, I'm just in the entertainment business doing the kinds of films that appeal to me. You've got to keep that in perspective. Fame is fleeting.
I think I'm reasonably intelligent.
[in GQ magazine, October 2011] I don't give a fuck about who wants to get married to anybody else! Why not?! We're making a big deal out of things we shouldn't be making a deal out of ... Just give everybody the chance to have the life they want
I can get into the nostalgia thing sometimes, but to me the good old days are right now.
I am very well mannered, and that, believe it or not, stands me in very good stead.
Marriage is not just about 'love.' It's about 'like' as well.
The main thing is not how long you're on the planet, but the quality you have while you're here.
In some ways I know I didn't live up to my parents' hopes. It was a long time before I wanted to go to college--but in some ways I surpassed my parents' hopes.
I guess I'm just a bum and a drifter by nature. I don't think of myself as a "star." I don't have any image of myself.
Sometimes I think I disappoint people by not being more like the characters I play in the movies. But who wants to be those guys? The best kind of fan is the one who tells you he loved your film and then, boom, is off.
I'm in the entertainment business, NOT in the business of trying to shape social opinions.
My dad was always talking about retiring and sitting next to a stream with a couple of beers in his hand. Sounds like a commercial - but it's not for me!
I'm not a person who pre-plans life.
[asked for the secret to a lasting marriage, 1971] We don't believe in 'togetherness'. We've stayed together by staying apart.
[in the early '70s] I'm number one at the box office, but Hollywood considers me a bore.
I've always felt that if I examine myself too much, I'll find out what I know and don't know, and I'll burst the bubble. I've gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I'd rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.
Guys appreciate a man's ingenuity to make a buck and have a certain cool. The girls like it too . . . A guy who knows exactly what he wants and goes out and gets it, is reassuring to people.
The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
I'll never win a Best Actor Oscar. First of all, I'm not Jewish, and second, I'm too successful for all those old farts at the Academy.
I'm like Hitchcock; I believe when you CHOOSE the actors, that's the direction.
[when Frances Fisher announced "We're pregnant!" during dinner with Richard D. Zanuck & Lili Fini Zanuck] Who's this "we"? YOU are pregnant, not we!
[when Rawhide (1959) cast members kidded him about having had "a hard night in the sack with the old lady"] Don't make me barf!
[January 1989, when his mother Ruth Wood had been in the hospital with pneumonia] She's okay now. For a minute there I thought it was gonna be the end of an era.
Everything has a price. Especially lunch.
I feel like I should just throw myself off the Golden Gate Bridge.
By nature I'm not a person who likes to expound. My nature is to be more within. That sometimes can be an advantage and sometimes not.
I was born looking like what most people perceive as the western type. I have no burning desire to play Henry V. I'm totally unsuited for it.
[to Maria Shriver in January 1989] Maybe it's time to get rid of everybody in my life and start over.
[on turning down Superman (1978)] I was like, 'Superman? Nah, nah, that's not for me.' Not that there's anything wrong with it. It's for somebody, but not me.
I think that the sad trick of nature is that people propagate at a rather early age when they really enjoy it at a later age.
Men can probably identify more with me than the prettier actor.
I guess I am vain. I never thought about it. I don't look in the mirror and ask: "Who is the fairest of them all?" If you do that a voice comes out and says: "Snow White, baby, and don't you forget it!"
I like people but I'm not that comfortable with them.
I was never a discovery of the press. I never had a publicity build-up or any amazing covers. I had to have the success first.
I do the kind of roles I'd like to see if I were digging swimming pools and wanted to escape my problems.
Sex can be overrated.
I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.
It's kind of a boring life. I guess movie-making is my biggest obsession ... I just like it.
There's a little bit of me in every character I play.
Nobody really knows me . . . I've never been an extrovert or even inclined to be one.
Dustin Hoffman and Al Pacino play losers very well, but my audience likes to be in there vicariously with a winner.
My limitations are real.
I never begged for respectability. I never said, 'Come, let me show you, come like me.'
Maybe being an introvert gives me, by sheer accident, a certain screen presence, a mystique.
I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.
[why he turned down The Towering Inferno (1974)] Financially, it would have been a smart move. It made an awful lot of money. I could've played it. Just couldn't see the reason why. The effects, the tower, was the star!
Call me lucky, if you want to, but people don't know about the weeks and months I was a regular customer at the unemployment office in Hollywood.
Sergio [Leone] was great fun, but he didn't speak much English. None, in fact. So we communicated in Spanish mostly. But, come to think of it, he didn't speak much Spanish either.
I don't get tired. That's because I took up lumber jacking and being a swimming instructor instead of playing chess and watching birds.
Of course I saw Angelina [Jolie] in Girl, Interrupted (1999). She's a tremendous actress. Sometimes she's taken for granted because you see her in the tabloids. But she's terribly smart.
[observation, 1964] I'm not too wild about some of these new hair styles. I like hair that you can touch. But most of these gals . . . their hair is like barbed wire or straw or something. You don't even want to touch it! It has to be soft and pretty.
[on mayonnaise] You might as well shoot up Crisco, right into your veins.
The first time I went to Italy, I just sneaked in. I had a beard, but it didn't matter. Nobody knew me anyway. And no one paid me any attention.
[when told Sophia Loren wants to meet him] That's news to me. But if the lady wants to meet me, I'd sure enjoy meeting her.
[his rationale for making Frances Fisher keep her pregnancy a secret until her third trimester] I don't want that kinda thing taking attention away from my Oscar race!
[asked in 1969 if he would ever consider playing a gay character] Only if I was sure I could convince people I was merely acting.
It's not healthy to go out with a woman who has a connection to the business and might look at you as some kind of stepping stone. When you have a certain standing, it isn't easy weeding out the predators.
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
I have no choice but to look the way I am because they don't make enough shoe polish for my hair and they don't have a sander for my face. At some point you have to say: "This is who I am."
If you spew enough negativity, it has to come back to you in some form. I do believe that philosophically.
Women who are homemakers work harder than most. Their services are vastly underrated. But I don't mind career women either -- I love all women.
The older I get, the more I realize it's okay to live a life others don't understand.
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// Copyright (c) 2009-2010 Satoshi Nakamoto
// Copyright (c) 2009-2014 The Bitcoin developers
// Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
// file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.

/**
 * Why base-58 instead of standard base-64 encoding?
 * - Don't want 0OIl characters that look the same in some fonts and
 *      could be used to create visually identical looking account numbers.
 * - A string with non-alphanumeric characters is not as easily accepted as an account number.
 * - E-mail usually won't line-break if there's no punctuation to break at.
 * - Double-clicking selects the whole number as one word if it's all alphanumeric.
 */
#ifndef BITCOIN_BASE58_H
#define BITCOIN_BASE58_H

#include "chainparams.h"
#include "key.h"
#include "pubkey.h"
#include "script/script.h"
#include "script/standard.h"

#include <string>
#include <vector>

/**
 * Encode a byte sequence as a base58-encoded string.
 * pbegin and pend cannot be NULL, unless both are.
 */
std::string EncodeBase58(const unsigned char* pbegin, const unsigned char* pend);

/**
 * Encode a byte vector as a base58-encoded string
 */
std::string EncodeBase58(const std::vector<unsigned char>& vch);

/**
 * Decode a base58-encoded string (psz) into a byte vector (vchRet).
 * return true if decoding is successful.
 * psz cannot be NULL.
 */
bool DecodeBase58(const char* psz, std::vector<unsigned char>& vchRet);

/**
 * Decode a base58-encoded string (psz) into a string.
 * psz cannot be NULL.
 */
std::string DecodeBase58(const char* psz);

/**
 * Decode a base58-encoded string (str) into a byte vector (vchRet).
 * return true if decoding is successful.
 */
bool DecodeBase58(const std::string& str, std::vector<unsigned char>& vchRet);

/**
 * Encode a byte vector into a base58-encoded string, including checksum
 */
std::string EncodeBase58Check(const std::vector<unsigned char>& vchIn);

/**
 * Decode a base58-encoded string (psz) that includes a checksum into a byte
 * vector (vchRet), return true if decoding is successful
 */
inline bool DecodeBase58Check(const char* psz, std::vector<unsigned char>& vchRet);

/**
 * Decode a base58-encoded string (str) that includes a checksum into a byte
 * vector (vchRet), return true if decoding is successful
 */
inline bool DecodeBase58Check(const std::string& str, std::vector<unsigned char>& vchRet);

/**
 * Base class for all base58-encoded data
 */
class CBase58Data
{
protected:
    //! the version byte(s)
    std::vector<unsigned char> vchVersion;

    //! the actually encoded data
    typedef std::vector<unsigned char, zero_after_free_allocator<unsigned char> > vector_uchar;
    vector_uchar vchData;

    CBase58Data();
    void SetData(const std::vector<unsigned char>& vchVersionIn, const void* pdata, size_t nSize);
    void SetData(const std::vector<unsigned char>& vchVersionIn, const unsigned char* pbegin, const unsigned char* pend);

public:
    bool SetString(const char* psz, unsigned int nVersionBytes = 1);
    bool SetString(const std::string& str);
    std::string ToString() const;
    int CompareTo(const CBase58Data& b58) const;

    bool operator==(const CBase58Data& b58) const { return CompareTo(b58) == 0; }
    bool operator<=(const CBase58Data& b58) const { return CompareTo(b58) <= 0; }
    bool operator>=(const CBase58Data& b58) const { return CompareTo(b58) >= 0; }
    bool operator<(const CBase58Data& b58) const { return CompareTo(b58) < 0; }
    bool operator>(const CBase58Data& b58) const { return CompareTo(b58) > 0; }
};

/** base58-encoded AmsterdamCoin addresses.
 * Public-key-hash-addresses have version 0 (or 111 testnet).
 * The data vector contains RIPEMD160(SHA256(pubkey)), where pubkey is the serialized public key.
 * Script-hash-addresses have version 5 (or 196 testnet).
 * The data vector contains RIPEMD160(SHA256(cscript)), where cscript is the serialized redemption script.
 */
class CBitcoinAddress : public CBase58Data
{
public:
    bool Set(const CKeyID& id);
    bool Set(const CScriptID& id);
    bool Set(const CTxDestination& dest);
    bool IsValid() const;
    bool IsValid(const CChainParams& params) const;

    CBitcoinAddress() {}
    CBitcoinAddress(const CTxDestination& dest) { Set(dest); }
    CBitcoinAddress(const std::string& strAddress) { SetString(strAddress); }
    CBitcoinAddress(const char* pszAddress) { SetString(pszAddress); }

    CTxDestination Get() const;
    bool GetKeyID(CKeyID& keyID) const;
    bool IsScript() const;
};

/**
 * A base58-encoded secret key
 */
class CBitcoinSecret : public CBase58Data
{
public:
    void SetKey(const CKey& vchSecret);
    CKey GetKey();
    bool IsValid() const;
    bool SetString(const char* pszSecret);
    bool SetString(const std::string& strSecret);

    CBitcoinSecret(const CKey& vchSecret) { SetKey(vchSecret); }
    CBitcoinSecret() {}
};

template <typename K, int Size, CChainParams::Base58Type Type>
class CBitcoinExtKeyBase : public CBase58Data
{
public:
    void SetKey(const K& key)
    {
        unsigned char vch[Size];
        key.Encode(vch);
        SetData(Params().Base58Prefix(Type), vch, vch + Size);
    }

    K GetKey()
    {
        K ret;
        ret.Decode(&vchData[0], &vchData[Size]);
        return ret;
    }

    CBitcoinExtKeyBase(const K& key)
    {
        SetKey(key);
    }

    CBitcoinExtKeyBase() {}
};

typedef CBitcoinExtKeyBase<CExtKey, 74, CChainParams::EXT_SECRET_KEY> CBitcoinExtKey;
typedef CBitcoinExtKeyBase<CExtPubKey, 74, CChainParams::EXT_PUBLIC_KEY> CBitcoinExtPubKey;

#endif // BITCOIN_BASE58_H

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Home Features Movie Review – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Movie Review – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Jeff Malone
Greg Gaines (the titular "me") is reminiscent of Community's Jeff Winger. In the beginning of his story, he puts a great deal of effort into proving that he does not care, only for his ending to underscore the lengths to which he does care.
Greg defines himself by how detached he is from the high school clique system. He affects a dispassionate disposition, but he puts so much effort into being on amicable terms with every group. He goes so far as to devise a taxonomy that is thorough enough to include "Boring Jewish Senior Girls, Subgroup 2A."
Every other major character is presented through Greg's limited perspective, and accordingly they register as if they are all in their own distinct movies. Nick Offerman and Connie Britton play slightly against type/slightly extending from their types as Greg's parents, making for a pretentious art flick and a slightly overbearing dramedy. Molly Shannon is right in her wheelhouse in the overbearing comedy portion as the mother of the girl with cancer. Jon Bernthal is Greg's history teacher in the slightly dangerous bildungsroman. And Katherine C. Hughes, as the hot girl who means well but makes Greg feel terrible by virtue of being a hot girl, prompts the animated fantasy sequences.
Fuller portraits of Earl and Rachel (the titular girl) manage to shine through, thanks to their significant screen time. Greg refers to Earl, his filmmaking partner, as his "co-worker," but Earl is quick to point out that they are in fact friends. There is a bit of a magical Negro vibe at play, which could have been unfortunate save for RJ Cyler making Earl so strong-willed and the narrative presenting plenty of personal background.
Rachel could have very well been the embodiment of cancer-related epiphanies or just one half of a typical teenage weepie romance. Indeed, Greg often suggests that the story seems to be going in that direction, only to immediately rebuke that idea. Instead, Olivia Cooke keeps Rachel appropriately grounded, as she comes across as just a person dealing with her illness on her own terms. As far as Greg and Rachel's relationship goes, they develop a true friendship as a result of spending a lot of time with each other. Potential interpretations of the exact nature of their friendship are left wide open.
Madison represents an intriguingly unique story tack. She emerges as another love interest for Greg, which – for a character with only a handful of scenes in a movie with a more expected potential romance – is disconcerting, but also resonant. Greg assumes that Madison's attention towards him is just pity, but there are enough subtle tells to suggest that her interest is genuine. What emerges is a film accomplished in its thorough commitment to taking on the subjective perspective of a protagonist so insecure that he cannot imagine that anyone would actually think highly of him. As Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is stuck in Greg's head for so long, it is cathartic when he is finally able to get out of it.
A few words must also be devoted to Greg and Earl's parody films (with dumbly brilliant pun titles like "Eyes Wide Butt," "My Dinner with Andre the Giant," and "Pittsburghasqatsi"). Because Greg is so unassuming regarding their quality, they come off as more charming than annoying. And based on what footage is actually shown, there appears to be decent composition and editing. It helps that Earl's committed performances consistently shine through. Much of the story is leading up to the premiere of the film that the duo are making for Rachel, which could have ended up as so many clichés, but instead emerges as an idiosyncratic vision (regardless of quality level) and hardly what anyone could have possibly expected.
Jeff Malone is a voracious entertainment consumer and entertainment creator. He currently resides in New York City, where he received his Master's in Media Studies at The New School. In addition to his pieces on TMRzoo.com and StarPulse.com, you can check out his blog (jmunney.wordpress.com), where he provides regular coverage of Community and Saturday Night Live, as well as other television, film, music, and the rest of pop culture.
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Міхал Шміґель () — словацький історик. Дослідник української військової історії часів Другої світової війни, зокрема УПА, 1-ї Української Дивізії УНА, участі українців у Антинімецькому словацькому повстанні 1944. Окремі праці присвячені проблемі геноциду етнічних груп та діяльності спеціальних розвідувальних установ країн Східної Європи.

Сповідує загальнодержавну словацьку концепцію про існування русинського народу.

Науковий профіль

Шміґель — доцент кафедри історії факультету гуманітарних знань Університету Матея Бела в Банській Бистриці. З 2000-х — професійно вивчає історію Української Повстанської Армії, зокрема феномен рейдів УПА по території Словаччини 1945-1947 років. Серед наукових здобутків: документальне спростування версії про причетність відділів УПА до убивства 14-ти євреїв у словацьких селах Уліч та Колбасов:

2007 — окремою книжкою у м. Банська Бистриця вийшла його монографія «Бандерівці у Словаччині, 1945—1947» (Banderovci na Slovensku 1945—1947). Відкрив маловідомі факти про вплив УПА на словацький антисталінський рух та бойові дії на території Словаччини проти чеських, польських та радянських каральних загонів (1947).

Шміґель — активний учасник наукових конференцій, присвячених вивченню терористичній діяльності радянських спецслужб та їх співпраці із секретними установами країн-сателітів у Східній Європі. Також досліджує проблему переселень лемківської групи українського народу з території повоєнної Польщі до Словаччини. Співпрацює із польськими та українськими колегами.

Наукові праці

 Súvislosti opcie a presídlenia obyvateľov ČSR do Sovietskeho zväzu v roku 1947, 2002
 Presídlenie Rusínov na Ukrajinu, 2003
 K problematike takzvaných ukrajinských utečencov na Slovensku v roku 1944, 2003
 K problematike postavenia Lemkov v Poľsku v druhej polovici 20. storočia a ich presídlenie do Sovietskeho zväzu. Akcia "Visla", 2004
 Banderovci. Dve tvare ukrajinského nacionalizmu, 2004
 Ruská a ukrajinská politická emigrácia v Česko-Slovensku (1918-1945) a spôsoby jej likvidácie v povojnových rokoch, 2004
 Organizačná štruktúra príchodu a odchodu ukrajinských utečencov na Slovensko na konci druhej svetovej vojny, 2004
 Reoptácia rusínskeho obyvateľstva z Ukrajiny na Slovensko v rokoch 1993 – 1998 a ich začlenenie do sociálno-ekonomických štruktúr Slovenskej republiky v súčasnosti, 2004
 Tábor v Javožnom (Про концтабір для українців у ПНР), 2005
 Ukrajinský nacionalizmus medzi boľševizmom a nacizmom, 2006
 Činnosť a propaganda oddielov Ukrajinskej povstaleckej armády (tzv. banderovcov) na území slovenska pred voľbami v roku 1946 (Дії та пропаганда відділів УПА на словацьких землях перед виборами 1946 року), 2006
 Український легіон Романа Сушка. Напад зі Словаччини на Польщу (1939). Український визвольний рух № 11. – Львів : Інститут українознавства ім. І. Крип´якевича НАН України – Центр досліджень визвольного руху, 2007. – S. 81-93.
 V bojích s banderovci na Slovensku (1945 – 1947): aktivity československých bezpečnostních složek proti UPA – spolupráce s Polskem a SSSR, 2009.

Джерела та посилання

 Профайл вченого на вебсторінці Університету Матея Бела
 International Conference "NKVD/KGB Activities and its Cooperation with other Secret Services in Central and Eastern Europe 1945-1989"
 Матеріали конференції "УПА в історії повоєнної Словаччини. 1945-1947 роки", К., 2006.
 Радіо "Свобода". У полоні старих міфів. 2009

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Michael Hidetoshi Mori
Michael Hidetoshi Mori is a "shot of adrenaline to opera". Michael is a leading international voice in socially and artistically progressive opera and music theatre. An award-winning Canadian/American stage director, and the General Director of Tapestry Opera in Toronto, he is frequently sought as a director, dramaturge, producer and speaker. Bringing new works from concept to full realization is his specialty, having commissioned and developed more than ten new operas over the past five years. Michael is the Chair of Opera.ca, Canada's association of professional opera companies, and was recently one of two delegates invited to represent Canada at the 2018 World Opera Forum in Madrid, where he presented on diversity in opera. Michael's leadership at Tapestry Opera has led to the Globe and Mail naming Tapestry as the "Leader of the Canadian opera pack" in 2019. Michael was named one of ten Torontonians to watch by the Toronto Star for his ambitious direction at Tapestry Opera and his leadership among independent producers.
Since taking over the company in 2014, Michael has more than doubled its annual commissions and productions, spearheading projects and partnerships with Scottish Opera, Vancouver Opera, The Luminato Festival, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canadian Stage, Pride Toronto and Opera on the Avalon. In 2017, Michael led Tapestry Opera and its world premiere of Gareth Williams' and Anna Chatterton's Rocking Horse Winner to nine nominations and five awards at Toronto's Dora Mavor Moore awards, including Outstanding Production and winning Michael the award for Outstanding Direction. Michael is a versatile stage director, working both in site-specific settings and conventional theatres. Recent directing credits include co-directing Shanawdithit for Tapestry Opera and Opera on the Avalon; Puccini's Rigoletto for Sacramento Opera; a new production of David T. Little and Royce Vavrek's Vinkensport for Opera Saratoga; Puccini's Il Trittico for West Bay Opera in Palo Alto; the world premiere of Brian Finley and Agnes Herzberg's The Pencil Salesman at the Westben Festival; the world premiere of Benton Roark and Julie Tepperman's historical comedy Bandits in the Valley for Tapestry Opera; Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking for Fresno Grand Opera and Townsend Opera; and a new production of The Marriage of Figaro for Opera Columbus. A highlight among Michael's most innovative creations is Tapestry Explorations (Tap:Ex), an annual concert experience that collides opera with other artistic forms. The series has experimented with mixed reality in Augmented Opera, fully choreographed art-music in Revolutions, synthesized cut-film, track, turn-table, live soprano and percussion Tables-Turned, a collaboration with punk band Fucked Up Metallurgy, and a mash-up of opera, Persian music and hip-hop dealing with gender and sexual politics Forbidden. The series has attracted a great deal of attention.
In early 2018 BBC World profiled Michael's direction of Forbidden as an example of barrier-breaking in opera, and in 2016 the CBC named Tapestry Opera and Michael as a force reshaping the Canadian artistic landscape. As an artist-activist with a passion for grassroots collaborations, Michael co-founded Indie Opera T.O, an association of twelve small-to-medium Toronto companies working together to forge a vibrant underground opera scene.
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