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Harping on……
6th June 2007 by Helena 3 Comments
I am a failure as a mother. Aged almost eight Olivia has yet to pick up a harp, unlike Ophelia, a five-year old girl who goes to a small school in Chelsea around the corner from where I'm staying.
Last night I had a conversation about bedtimes with the two daughters of the friends I am staying with aged three and five. Like most English children they are in bed by 7pm. I can rarely get mine anywhere near the bathroom before 8pm.
"But my friend Ophelia," said the five-year old, "goes to bed at 10pm."
That's a bit late even by my standards. "Why?" I asked.
"She has a harp lesson at 9pm."
Call me old-fashioned, but I find the thought of a five-year-old having harp lesson slightly tragic, and a little bit comic. Shouldn't she be doing 'normal' childlike things such as fighting with her siblings or drawing on the walls?
Anyway, it gets worse. Stunned as I am by this news of late-night harp playing I talk to my friend this morning about it.
"Oh yes," she says. "Ophelia gave a concert at the last school event. I think she was just five at the time. At the end the headmistress announced that it had been a very special performance by Ophelia as she had written the music herself."
You couldn't make it up. And I know what Olivia's getting for her birthday next week. But how will I lug it back on the Eurostar?
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3 thoughts on Harping on......
Amber Lee says:
6th June 2007 at 3:01 pm
I'm pretty old-fashioned myself – children should be outside playing. Maybe taking dance lessons, but at 3pm not 9pm!
SpiralSkies says:
7th June 2007 at 8:33 am
Good grief. I'm in the Quentin Crisp camp:
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.
Motheratlarge says:
I've heard about someone taking their harp to a party, and no-one asking them to play, but this beggars belief. Perhaps the mother chose the instrument because at least a harp played badly is less grating on the ears than a violin. Or then again, maybe an entire generation of middle-class English kids will grow up expecting harp proficiency as a social must. Oh dear. How depressing.
Helena Frith Powell was born in Sweden to a Swedish mother and Italian father, but grew up mainly in England. She is the author of eleven books, translated into several languages including Chinese and Russian. She wrote the French Mistress column The Sunday Times about life in France for several years. She is a regular contributor to the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Tatler Magazine and Harper's Bazaar.
Helena has been the editor of four magazines, including M Magazine, a supplement for the Abu Dhabi based National Newspaper and FIVE, a high-end fashion glossy, also published in Abu Dhabi. Helena was also editor in chief of 360 Life, a quarterly glossy magazine published with the Sports 360 Newspaper in Dubai, part of the Chalhoub Group. She writes a beauty blog www.beautyorbeast.uk.
Her third novel, The Arnolfini Marriage, based on a romance that evolves around a van Eyck masterpiece came out in 2016. As well as contributing regularly for newspapers and magazines, writing short stories and studying for a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Cambridge, Helena is also working on a thriller called Welcome to Smullö that will be published in spring 2020.
Her latest non-fiction work Smart Women Don't Get Wrinkles came out in hardback in 2016 and came out in paperback in April 2018.
Helena was educated at Durham University and lived in the Languedoc region of France for eight years, where the family still have a home. She lives between there and London with her husband Rupert and their three children.
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Top U.S. safety officials were meeting with their Chinese counterparts to discuss complaints from American homeowners of illness and other damage from suspect drywall imported from China.
Consumer Products Safety Commission Chairman Inez Tenenbaum said Friday that the two sides were talking about the issue while they await results of tests on what is causing the problems.
"All we're asking is for them to realize that in the global economy everyone has to be responsible to the end user, the consumer. We're asking them to participate in this in ways that are just and fair," Tenenbaum said in an interview with The Associated Press.
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American construction companies imported the drywall, also known as wallboard or gypsum board, at the height of the housing boom, when building materials were in short supply. The drywall apparently causes a chemical reaction releasing fumes that reek like rotten eggs and grows worse with heat and humidity.
U.S. homeowners, mostly in the Southeast, say the drywall is making them sick and corroding wiring throughout their homes. Lawmakers from Florida, Louisiana and elsewhere are pressing Tenenbaum for answers about its safety.
The costs to homeowners could be in the billions of dollars, according to some estimates, and homeowners have struggled to get help from insurers or relief from mortgage payments on homes that are in some cases uninhabitable.
Builders have filed lawsuits against suppliers and manufacturers, claiming they unknowingly used the bad building materials. But progress will likely depend on the results of tests on affected homes and materials. Some of those results are due next week, with more due next month.
In the meantime, Tenenbaum, who was in China for annual seminars on product safety and regulations, said CPSC staff were meeting with officials from Beijing's product safety watchdog, the Administration of Quality Supervision Inspection and Quarantine.
"We've been continuing our dialogue with them on what we're finding and keeping them up-to-date on the situation," she said.
The drywall problem is the latest in a slew of product safety troubles that have prompted a tightening of standards and enforcement both in China and overseas.
Tenenbaum said the Chinese side has helped with technical aspects of her agency's investigation.
"They have been most cooperative in that regard," she said.
The CPSC delegation was also updating the Chinese side on U.S. regulations. Among them, the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act or CPSIA, that took effect in August and imposes heavy fines for violation of rules meant to protect children from lead, which can cause irreversible brain damage.
Friday's talks were mainly devoted to new mandatory safety standards for all-terrain vehicles, which the CPSC says are involved in 900 deaths and more than 150,000 injuries every year in the U.S., many of them children.
Tenenbaum, who took over the CPSC in June, said she expected the U.S. to end up with mandatory standards for drywall, in line with the shift toward such requirements for toys and some other products.
"In a global economy, with goods coming from all over the world, it's important that we have clear standards that we can enforce on imports," she said.
The CPSC, headquartered in Bethesda, Md., has about 500 employees and oversees about 15,000 products.
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My name is Sanaz Raji, and until recently, I was a PhD candidate at the School of Media and Commuication, formerly the Institute of Communications Studies (ICS), University of Leeds, UK. I was awarded in September 2009 a 3 year full tuition fees and maintenance scholarship from the ICS. My scholarship was wrongfully revoked by the ICS on the 15 August 2011, without the ICS following rules and regulations set forth in the University of Leeds Research Student Handbook. This was done only TWO WEEKS before the start of enrollment for the 2011-2012 academic year, effectively preventing me from being able to continue my PhD research as I had no financial means to afford the steep £13,700 tuition fee along with supporting myself for another year. The ICS took away my scholarship without following their own rules and procedures as set forth both in the Research Student Handbook and other protocols for scholarship students. For more than 2 years, I have been embroiled in a dispute with the ICS, University of Leeds that has prevented me from completing my PhD research.
In short, the message that the ICS, University of Leeds sends to international students is that their education, their well-being, even their health is of lesser importance than that of home students.
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2. I was repeatedly denied on 3 occasions a change of supervisors, and bullied by the Postgraduate Research Tutor to continue with an unworkable supervisory arrangement. This violates the rules and procedures set forth in the Research Student Handbook.
3. I was not provided sick leave from the ICS when I suffered a broken right ankle. The ICS failed to meet their required pastoral role in this matter.
4. I was racially discriminated at a supervision meeting on the 23 March 2011, when my co-supervisor asked if English was my first language. I was perplexed why I was asked such a question given that English is my native language. Likewise, this co-supervisor had never taken issue with my writing style before this date or when I contributed a chapter for her co-edited book. None of my other PhD colleagues who come from South America, North America, Europe or Asia were asked about their English language capabilities. This ridiculous question was brought up in order to undermine my confidence and make me feel incompetence because I am a minority student in this country.
"It is essential that the student should be given clear information in writing on the assessment of progress. Where progress is deemed to be unsatisfactory, the student should be interviewed by the Postgraduate Research Tutor and the supervisor and specific instructions and objectives given. The student should be advised that failure to meet those requirements may lead to a recommendation for the termination of the candidature." (2009/2010: 74).
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WELLESLEY, Mass.—Visiting Babson College took two of three doubles matches and won three of four singles matches in straight sets on its way to defeating 36th-ranked Wellesley College, 6-3, in New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) women's tennis action on Tuesday inside the Dorothy Towne Fieldhouse.
Babson, which has won three straight matches, improves to 9-2 overall and 5-0 in league play, while Wellesley slips to 10-6 overall and 3-1 in the NEWMAC.
Senior Kylie Kam (Honolulu, Hawaii) and first-year Carolina Merz (Santa Tecla, El Salvador) were 8-4 winners at second doubles, while senior Claire Foster (Orange, Conn.) and sophomore Emily Roeper (Belle Mead, N.J.) followed with an 8-4 victory at number three for the Beavers. The Blue got on the board as junior Justine Huang (Coto de Caza, Calif.) and sophomore Selina Peng (Taichung, Taiwan) defeated senior Jenny Quenard (St.-Legier, Switzerland) and first-year Alexa Tutecky (North York, Ontario), 8-6, at number one.
Wellesley pulled even in the match with a straight-set win at number three singles, but Merz downed Peng 6-1, 6-3 at number two and Tutecky followed with a 7-6 (8-6), 6-2 triumph at number one. Foster clinched the winning point for the Green and White with a 6-1, 6-4 victory at number four.
Kam rallied after dropping the first set for a 4-6, 6-2, 1-0 (11-9) win at number five, while Roeper won the first set before falling 2-6, 6-2, 1-0 (10-3) at sixth singles.
Both teams return to action on Saturday as Babson travels to Clark at 2 p.m., while Wellesley visits Springfield for a 12 p.m. match.
• The Beavers have now won four of their last six matches against Wellesley.
• Babson's last 5-0 start in NEWMAC play came in 2003, when it went 7-0 on the way to winning the regular season title.
• Tutecky, Merz and Foster have all won three straight matches in singles, while the duo of Kam and Merz improved to 4-0 this spring against league foes at second doubles.
• The Green and White is now 2-1 this season against nationally-ranked opponents.


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The Kongregate Arcade app which was released last week and subsequently pulled by Google has now returned on the Android app store. Google removed the app from the store a few hours following its arrival, where it had been generating a lot of positive buzz. The app was pulled, says Google, because it violated the service's policy on having marketplace apps within the App store.
Kongregate has now reworked their app in a way which is seemingly satisfactory. Games now download and run within a browser cache instead of being installed as separate entities on the device.
Hopefully that's the end of all of this. I rather like the app, which I snagged before it was removed, and the mobile contest winners are really good examples of designing specifically to suit touchscreen devices (with varying success). You should probably go snag it now, just in case.


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Most agency appointees come in planning to shape policy, and quickly find it's not as easy as they had hoped.
Many new political appointees want to shape the world of policy, but they need to know how to navigate the process. (FCW image)
A strong motivation for political appointees to come to Washington is the opportunity to positively influence policy — to make a difference. Senior-level appointees might also bring the expectation of setting a portion of the administration's agenda related to their agency's mission. This is particularly likely for a first-time appointee who hasn't previously experienced or operated within the government complex.
In fact, the characteristics that enabled executives to set and achieve goals in the private sector — being decisive, directive, a risk taker — could undermine their prospects for success as government officials.
It is crucial to understand who drives agency policy agendas. The new executive-level appointee must determine whether he or she is in the driver's seat or is a passenger in the agenda-setting process. Regardless of their role, here are some steps that newly appointed leaders can take to be influential contributors.
Step 1: Know what aspects of the agenda have already been set
A new administration's agenda has its roots in the presidential campaign, when the candidate is surrounded by advisers who help establish key policy positions. Those positions, particularly if they are associated with specific actions, are further developed during the post-election transition period, when the focus expands to include implementation.
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The newly appointed leader is expected to support the administration's agenda and needs to be quickly briefed on that agenda. However, the briefing process might also be used to reveal opportunities to provide policy refinements and other forms of influence.
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A related step is to identify and establish relationships with the people in your agency who have held key responsibilities for carrying out its mission. The support of your "go-to" people will enable the responsiveness required to establish your reputation as a reliable member of the administration's policy-setting team.
Political appointees, particularly those in leadership positions, need to remember that they are part of a select team — the president's team. Their success will be closely associated with that of the administration in which they serve. Knowing the basics will serve as a foundation on which the political appointee can develop a position of influence in driving, as well as executing, the administration's agenda.
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In the course of owning a house, it becomes necessary from time to time, to clean out unneeded clutter. Sometimes a new member of the family requires their own room, other times you might just become scared straight after watching an episode of Hoarders. In these events many people might often times have a garage sale. Having a garage sale is a great way to free up more space in your home and life, as well as to earn a little cash for fun or to put back into your house. The great part about having a garage sale is that you can schedule the event at a convenient time when some of your friends and family may be available to help or when the weather is ideal. The other great part about garage sales is that you only have to let strangers into your garage and if you prefer, you can even set all sale items up outside. Sometimes in the course of owning a house, the owners are outlived by the house. Depending on whether or not another family member moves in or not, an estate sale is likely in order. Settling an estate can be a difficult and time consuming process. There are funeral arrangements to make, insurance papers to sort through and taxes to be paid. Families of the deceased also have to decide what to do with their property and belongings.
In certain situations, a home may stay in the family's possession. For example your grandmother owns a lake house that has been in the family for generations. Your family will likely want to continue visiting the lake house and keep it in the family. For many families, the house of a deceased loved one is not suitable for one reason or another. Sometimes family members would have to consider relocating out of state or their family may have outgrown the deceased's residence. When it comes time to sell a loved one's home or property, many families choose to hold an estate sale to prepare the house to be sold.
When it comes to staging an estate sale, there are two options. You can hire a professional crew of estate sale facilitators to manage every aspect of your estate sale, from pricing to delivering large items to your customers. The other option is to get your friends and family together and do it yourself. The benefit of doing it yourself can be found in not having to pay for the services of the estate sale professionals. There are tradeoffs for running the operation yourself. If you don't run your sale in an organized fashion or prepare properly, you might miss out on more sales than it would have cost to hire a professional team. Below are some helpful tips we've compiled to help you make the most of your estate sale, should you choose to embark on the journey without a professional team.
Remember, there will be high volumes of foot traffic all over your house.
Make each room, hallway and exit, safe and easy to access. Clearly mark areas of the house that might present difficulties, like inconspicuous step-downs between rooms or low hanging pipes in basements.
Since there is the potential for high foot traffic, consider runner rugs or drop clothes on areas of the house which feature carpeting that you want to protect.
If you put down a runner rug for for foot traffic, be prepared to answer how much it costs. Anything and everything can be up for grabs at some estate sales. Light fixtures and even shampoo can and will be inquired about. If you don't want to sell it, hide it or take it out of the house.
Put a price on everything, otherwise you will be inadvertently put on the spot for pricing inquiries.
Keep your customers in mind. Group like items together.
Separate items that are for sale, from furniture that is for sale. Don't make your customers wait for you to rearrange a room, to remove a book shelf.
Be thorough with cleaning out furniture like desks or cabinets. They can often contain important documents or valuables. Besides the outright risk of loss of valuables, the information contained in unseen paperwork could result in identity theft.
Remember that electronic devices and equipment can also contain valuable personal information inside of their internal memory or storage or in usb drives, memory cards or media that is also stored inside of the equipment.
Have dollies available to help assist impulsive buyers in loading items into their van, truck or SUV.
Most importantly, have lots of friends available to answer any questions or assist your customers. If you can give them something like simple like a name tag, it will help customers easily identify them from other customers.
Hopefully you will find these tips helpful and your estate sale will be smooth sailing.


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Christmas Rescue: Flagler Beach Firemen Save Knocked-Out Veteran From Blazing Home
FlaglerLive | December 23, 2010
The fire started on the bed in the bedroom of the unit at The Village. Somehow, Old Glory escaped with only a few scrapes. (© FlaglerLive)
The Flagler Beach Fire Department pulled off what residents of The Village neighborhood might consider a couple of miracles. Three, if you include the circumstances that led to a neighbor's quick call to 911. First, two firemen—Inspector Scott Jackson and Alex Wilhite—found and pulled an unconscious, 44-year-old disabled veteran out of his home through blinding smoke and fire. Second, they managed to contain then kill the house fire within 40 minutes, preventing it from touching two adjoining units in the 64-unit multiplex compound.
Roy Davis, the veteran who'd lived at 7 Village Drive for the past three years, is recovering, in stable condition, at Florida Hospital Flagler.
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Debbie Bancroft doesn't usually live next door to Davis. Her permanent home is in Virginia. She keeps the place at #5 Village Drive so she can visit her children and grandchildren. She happened to be visiting these days. She was getting ready to go Christmas shopping with her daughter just after 10 this morning when she heard what she thought was the garbage truck, because it went bee-bee-beep. "But it was his smoke alarm, because it didn't stop," Bancroft said. She went out the door, briefly freaked out at the sight—smoke pouring out of windows—and started beating on Davis's door. "I just beat on it and hollered and I didn't hear anything, so that's when I grabbed my cell phone, you know, in the meantime of trying to beat on the door, running in and got my cell phone, I was on 911. They were here very quickly. Very quickly, because I said, 'where are they?,' and she said they're on their way, it's only been a minute or two. I'm like OK. When you're in a panic like that, you think it's hours when it's only been minutes."
Meanwhile the young resident on the other side of Davis' place was sound asleep as the fire began. Another neighbor pounded on her door repeatedly to wake her up, and managed to do so.
The fire department got the call at precisely 10:14. It was at the scene at 10:18.
Shane Wood and Scott Jackson Describe the Scene (Wood Speaks First)
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Flagler Beach Police office R.S. Burns got there just before the fire department did. "I arrived on scene, saw heavy smoke coming out of the north window of the unit," Burns said. "When I started approaching the building, flames were coming out by that time. Neighbors were yelling that somebody was inside the residence. Forced entry, attempted to locate, but smoke was overwhelming. I went in there twice. That's when the fire department arrived on scene. They got the breathing apparatuses and proper equipment."
Assistant Fire Chief Shane Wood was in charge (Flagler Beach Fire Chief Martin Roberts was on his way out of town to be with family for Christmas when he got the call and turned around). "We were advised that there was possibly a victim inside, so they did their rescue sweep and found him," Wood said. He was in the living room, in the back part of the 785-square-foot apartment. Unconscious, on the floor.
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"I barely found him," Jackson said, describing the scene: "As I went in—I mean, I'm the officer, so as I went in, I went in first, and went to the right, where the fire was, to see if that might be where the vic was, it was black smoke to the ground, we couldn't see, there was no visibility, so we felt around the bed, and it got so hot in there we had to come out. As I walked by the door, my hose team was there, I told them to proceed in and head right and get that fire knocked down, then me and my other partner, my two guys on one side went and got the fire, me and my other partner went toward the back looking for the victim, and once we got to the end of the living room, we found him laying on the ground, unconscious. So we picked him up and carried him out."
At that point, the main bedroom on the front of the house was ablaze. The patterns showed that the fire started in the bed, according to firemen. As to why: that question is officially undetermined until the fire marshal determines it. Davis is a smoker.
The priority for the firemen was to save Davis. "Once we were told there was a victim, we don't really worry about anything other than getting him out then," Jackson said. "We don't care what the conditions are. From that point, that's part of our job, is not to worry about ourselves, worry about what to do, and that's save somebody, and we ended up saving the guy's life, so it's good."
Once he was out of the house, the next priority was to kill the fire, which they did in less than 40 minutes. "We train hard, train a lot. We're very aggressive," Jackson said, "and I come from a long line of super-aggressive firemen training me. I started out in Alachua, came here. We move fast. We make sure we get ahead of it. I can walk up and look at the conditions of a house and tell from the outside if it's something we can catch quick or if we're going to have to just step back. And when I looked at it we were there in time to catch it." The fire started making its way out the bedroom and into the hallway toward the living room. That's where it was stopped and worked back toward its origin.
The house is smoke-damaged, but salvageable, according to firemen.
"Everything was really quick. They did a really good job," Wood said. "We had the possibility of losing two other units, with them being connected structures."
Standing in the driveway, between two fire trucks and looking calmly sad, were Michael and Meryle Fonte of Palm Coast: the owners of the unit that had caught fire. They own many properties in the county. They've owned the one on Village Drive since 1992. The unit, built in 1985, is valued at $47,000 this year.
Flagler Beach had 10 men and women on the call, including two members of its fire police. The Flagler County Fire Department's Engine 92 and Rescue 11 also responded and assisted.
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11 Responses for "Christmas Rescue: Flagler Beach Firemen Save Knocked-Out Veteran From Blazing Home"
lawabidingcitizen says:
Kudos to all and even to this website for reporting the emergency.
We frequently hear the sirens screaming by, but rarely hear about what was happening.
Glad everyone was safe.
o/t Whatever happened to the comments feed?
Nice to get compliments even from you libidinizen. What's the issue with the feed?
Thats our boys, great job. You guys are worth every penny we spend on you. Thank you from one who cares about our Fire Dept.
Great job! This will prove that the people like Art Woosley are wrong about the Fire Department. We need them and yes they are worth every penny!!!!! Mr. Campbell are you listening? Ron Vath are you listening? Steve Settle are you listening?
I guess the agenda will prove itself over the next few weeks.
Orion says:
While this comment may not be directly related to this particular fire, Just why are there so many building fires in Flagler Beach.? I would bet that FB has had more house and building fires, than any other municipality in Flagler County. Going back to the unsolved fire at the restaurant North on A1A, and others, I am concerned, that even with the FB property being older buildings, there may be c common denominator.. Just a thought…
Orion, before you run your mouth you need to get your facts straight. Their are other cities in the county such as Bunnell, Palm coast and even the county area in the Mondex that out does the Beach in house fires. Tell us what your thought is about the common denominator, both fires on A1A north of the city at the Sandpiper and the Shark House is in the county disrtict and were declared ARSON by state investigators. I would really like to know what your thought is.
ART WOOSLEY says:
My most sincere congratulations go out to all our firefighters and police officers, that responded to this alarm. Because of your quick and decisive actions at this scene, you certainly saved that gentlemans life, "GREAT JOB",
Merry Christmas, and Happy Holidays to all.
Debbie Bancroft says:
First of all, let me extend my sincere thanks to all who responded so quickly to the 911 call I frantically placed yesterday morning! To watch these heros in action – from the first policeman on the scene who risked his own life to try and save another one – to the firemen who did the same – well, it makes me wonder if the people who want to discuss ANYTHING about this story other than the miracle that a HUMAN BEINGS' LIFE was saved by these wonderful people who serve our community!!! I just wonder if they have ever really seen that & understand that! I wonder if they READ this article!! Let me correct one thing reported in this article. I am a resident of Flagler Beach & have been for 14 years! I am in VA more now due to elderly parents with a multitude of health problems. As a resident of Flagler County I was extremely proud of all these heros at work here yesterday!! I can't believe, especially during the Christmas season, that people aren't seeing the miracle that God worked through these heros! So thank you from someone who has never called 911 in my 53 years of living, but who now really knows what these wonderful people do after that call is made! Thank you for saving a man's life, for risking your own to save another, for arriving so very quickly, for saving my neighbor's condo from total destruction and possibly my own and others!! You are ALL worth every penny … And more!! Merry Christmas to all of you … And I urge everyone who reads this article to remember what Christmas is really all about … A miracle … And know that one happened right here yesterday by people who serve our community every single day!!! God bless!!! Debbie Bancroft
Joe A. says:
Kudos to the Flagler Beach Fire Department and Inspector Scott Jackson. They saved a persons life while putting their own at risk. A job well done!
Oh my here is one for the books. Art Woosley giving the FD a pat on the back. You can not kid a kidder Art.
elaygee says:
Hope they press charges against the bed smoker who caused the fire and ruined other people's property and jeopardized their lives. It's not an "accident"
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Jean-Claude Duplessy, né le 3 octobre 1942, est un géochimiste français. Il est directeur de recherche émérite au CNRS et membre de l'Académie des sciences.

Biographie
Jean-Claude Duplessy, ancien élève de l'École normale supérieure (Ulm), agrégé de physique, est géochimiste. Ses travaux ont contribué à mieux connaître le fonctionnement de l'océan au cours de l'histoire récente de la Terre. Il est un pionnier reconnu de la reconstitution de la dynamique des océans grâce à l'utilisation des isotopes du carbone et de l'oxygène des coquilles des foraminifères présent dans les sédiments marins. Il fut un des premiers à percevoir toute l'importance d'une chronologie de haute qualité pour une interprétation fiable des mesures liées aux variations climatiques du passé de la Terre.

Travaux scientifiques
Il a commencé ses recherches au moment où les fondements de la géochimie isotopique commençaient à être bien établis grâce aux travaux de Harold Urey et Cesare Emiliani à Chicago. L'analyse des isotopes stables et des éléments radioactifs naturels permettent d'aborder de manière originale l'étude des grands cycles biogéochimiques et de reconstituer les changements du climat et de l'environnement de la Terre en appliquant les principes actualistes.

Jean-Claude Duplessy s'est intéressé dans un premier temps aux concrétions des cavernes et a démontré qu'elles constituaient de bons enregistreurs du cycle hydrologique et de la température de l'air au moment où elles se formaient. Il a obtenu les premières reconstitutions des températures de l'air et des conditions climatiques dans le sud de la France pour les derniers millénaires et pour la période interglaciaire précédente. Récemment, ce type d'étude a été repris en Europe en raison du développement de méthodes de datation nouvelles et l'étude des stalagmites semble ouverte à un grand avenir.

Duplessy s'est tourné vers l'océan en raison de son rôle régulateur du climat et de son impact majeur sur les cycles biogéochimiques, notamment le cycle du carbone.  Ses travaux de thèse de doctorat d'État ont porté sur la géochimie des isotopes stables du carbone dans la mer. Il a montré comment la distribution de l'isotope stable lourd du carbone, le carbone-13, était gouvernée par les fractionnements biologiques liés à l'assimilation chlorophylienne par le phytoplancton, puis par la circulation océanique et enfin, dans une moindre mesure, par les échanges gazeux entre l'océan et l'atmosphère. Tous ces phénomènes, qui dominent le cycle du carbone dans l'océan, sont maintenant pris en compte pour étudier le devenir du gaz carbonique émis par les activités humaines.

Duplessy a dirigé de nombreuses campagnes océanographiques et montré que les variations de la composition isotopique des foraminifères fossiles présents dans les sédiments des divers océans permettaient de reconstituer les changements de la composition isotopique de l'océan et de la circulation océanique à grande échelle, ce qui a ouvert un champ scientifique nouveau, la paléo-océanographie. Celle-ci a pris un essor tel qu'il existe aujourd'hui une revue internationale consacrée à cette discipline et dont il a été l'un des premiers éditeurs associés.

Il a établi les premières reconstitutions de la circulation océanique profonde  pendant le paroxysme de la dernière période glaciaire et pendant la dernière période interglaciaire. Ceci l'a conduit à mettre en évidence un bouleversement du fonctionnement de l'océan : l'eau profonde Nord-Atlantique disparaît en conditions glaciaires, ce qui s'accompagne d'un ralentissement général de la circulation océanique à grande échelle, de l'intensité du Gulf Stream et du flux de chaleur transporté par l'océan Atlantique vers les côtes de l'Europe occidentale.

Les eaux profondes de l'océan mondial se forment par convection et plongée des eaux superficielles denses pendant les périodes hivernales. Pour comprendre les causes des changements de la circulation océanique profonde, il fallait développer une méthode pour reconstituer non seulement la température (ce qui était déjà acquis), mais aussi la salinité des eaux superficielles dans le passé. Duplessy a développé une méthode reposant sur les fractionnements qui affectent les isotopes stables de l'oxygène au cours du cycle de l'eau. Il a ainsi pu reconstituer la salinité de l'océan Atlantique pendant le dernier maximum glaciaire avec une précision suffisante pour que les principaux groupes de modélisation puissent utiliser ces données pour simuler la circulation de l'océan mondial à l'aide de modèles de circulation générale de l'océan. Ces résultats ont été à la base de la compréhension de la circulation océanique en climat glaciaire et du rôle que peut jouer l'océan pour perturber le climat, comme il l'a exposé dans un livre écrit pour le grand public et intitulé "Quand l'océan se fâche". Il est aussi le co-auteur de "Gros temps sur la planète", de "Paléoclimatologie : Tome 1, et le Tome 2 "Paléoclimatologie : Tome 2, Emboiter les pièces du puzzle : comprendre et modéliser un système complexe".

La chronologie joue un rôle essentiel pour comprendre l'évolution des climats et les liens avec la théorie astronomique initiée par M. Milankovitch, puis développée par André Berger à Louvain-la-Neuve et John Imbrie à l'université Brown. Duplessy a lancé le premier laboratoire de spectrométrie de masse par accélérateur dont l'un des objectifs est la mesure fine du carbone-14 pour dater les sédiments marins. Avec ses collaborateurs, il a pu apporter les premières preuves de changement de la température de l'eau de mer d'une dizaine de degrés en des temps compatibles avec la vie humaine. Ces résultats ont été confirmés et précisés par l'étude des forages effectués dans les glaces du Groenland. Aujourd'hui, les variations climatiques rapides sont reconnues comme une caractéristique majeure de l'évolution des climats.

Tout en développant ces recherches et un groupe de paléoclimatologie marine, il s'est attaché à faire émerger en France l'étude des cycles biogéochimiques au sein des enveloppes superficielles de notre planète. Il a lancé, avec le soutien du CNRS, le programme d'étude des flux de matière dans l'océan. Ce programme allait fédérer les actions de biologistes, de chimistes et de géochimistes en mettant en évidence le rôle fondamental du couplage entre biologie et géochimie, ce qui a conduit à la notion maintenant reconnue de biogéochimie. Cet effort a conduit les équipes françaises à initier avec leurs collègues américains et européens le programme International Joint Global Ocean Flux Study pour quantifier des flux de carbone dans l'océan et le rôle du transfert de matière particulaire produit par le plancton pour alimenter le milieu océanique profond en carbone, en nourriture et en énergie.

A la fin des années 1980, il était devenu évident que la compréhension des conditions de vie à la surface de la Terre nécessitait l'étude des couplages entre la géosphère et les êtres vivants. À la demande du COFUSI (Comité français des unions Scientifiques internationales), Duplessy a présidé le comité scientifique français du Programme International Géosphère-Biosphère. Celui-ci a fédéré les recherches sur les mécanismes physiques, chimiques et biologiques qui gouvernent l'évolution de notre environnement. Ce programme de recherche a initié l'étude de la variabilité du système couplé géosphère-biosphère, en donnant une priorité forte aux reconstitutions paléoclimatiques et paléo-environnementales au cours des temps géologiques. Ces études ont ainsi permis de mettre en évidence des phénomènes aussi inattendus que la grande variabilité du cycle du carbone en relation avec les changements de la végétation. Ces thèmes vont prendre une importance de plus en plus grande au cours des prochaines années dans l'étude du changement climatique induit par les activités humaines, car l'évolution future des concentrations en gaz à effet de serre ne pourra être simulée avec réalisme que si les interactions entre la biosphère et les cycles biogéochimiques sont bien comprises, de façon à pouvoir être prises en compte dans les modèles simulant le comportement du système "Terre". La dernière période interglaciaire datant de , souvent prise comme analogue d'un climat sensiblement plus chaud que celui d'aujourd'hui, témoigne de changements majeurs de la température et de la circulation de l'océan mondial qui ont contribué à déstabiliser la calotte glaciaire Antarctique de l'Ouest.

Honneurs et distinctions
Jean-Claude Duplessy a été l'un des auteurs principaux (lead author) du chapitre « paleoclimatology » du rapport du Groupe d'experts intergouvernemental sur l'évolution du climat (GIEC) qui a été publié en 2007.

Il  a eu mission de coordonner l'activité d'une vingtaine de scientifiques de la communauté internationale avec l'objectif de montrer comment l'étude des climats anciens permet de mieux comprendre les mécanismes susceptibles d'entrer en jeu dans un monde dont le climat est perturbé pat les émissions de gaz à effet de serre et de poussières. Il a été co-récipiendaire, avec ses collègues du GIEC, du prix Nobel de la paix 2007 à ce titre.

Il est membre de l'Académie des sciences depuis 2011 dans la section "sciences de l'Univers".

Il est membre de l'Académie européenne des sciences, Academia europaea depuis 1989

Lauréat du prix Aimé-Berthé de l'Académie des sciences (1987)

Médaille Milankovitch de l'EGS (1995).

Lauréat du prix Georges-Lemaître de l'université catholique de Louvain (1997)

 honoris causa de l'université de Kiel, Allemagne (2003).

Grand Prix Louis D de l'Institut de France 2004.

Prix Prestwich de la Société géologique de France 2004.

Grand prix Dolomieu du BRGM décerné par l'Académie des sciences en 2004.

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Naissance en mars 1942
Géochimiste
Climatologue français
Membre de l'Académie des sciences (France)
Directeur de recherche au CNRS
Élève de l'École normale supérieure
Lauréat du prix Georges-Lemaître
Membre de l'Académie catholique de France

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Os seus afluentes principais são, além do Khastakh, o Selenniakh, o Ouiandina, o Allaïkha, o Berelekh, o Moma, o Badiarikha, o Nera, o Badiarikha e o Elguine.

O Indigirka atravessa uma região onde domina a taiga que vai sendo substituída por tundra florestada à medida que se aproxima da costa siberiana.

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Advocates for the elderly persuaded federal housing officials two years ago to offer more rights and protections to the spouse of a borrower who takes out a reverse mortgage and later dies.
Now there is concern that a small wording change in the Trump administration's proposed budget request for the Department of Housing and Urban Development could undo some of those protections — potentially increasing the chances that a surviving spouse who did not sign the mortgage documents could lose a home in a foreclosure.
Two United State senators sent a joint letter to Ben Carson, the secretary of HUD and Mick Mulvaney, director of the Office of Management and the Budget two months ago, seeking clarity on the proposed wording in the budget request. The two — Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, and Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, a Nevada Democrat — asked whether the agency was seeking to reverse the earlier policy change.
The senators have yet to receive a response from the housing agency about its intent for reverse mortgages, investment products that allow the elderly to tap the equity they have built up in their homes. And that is causing some concern.
The three-decade-old market for reverse mortgages is a niche one — there are about one million such loans outstanding.
But reverse mortgages are viewed as crucial pieces in helping an aging population plan for retirement, and new lenders are coming into the market. The loans permit an elderly person to borrow against the equity in his or her home and avoid making any monthly payments until the borrower either dies or sells the house.
Before the change in policy two years ago, a surviving spouse who had not signed the mortgage document often had to pay what was left on the loan in full or risk being evicted in a foreclosure.
The phrase appears in a section of the housing act discussing what kinds of reverse mortgages are eligible for insurance guarantees from the Federal Housing Administration, a division of HUD.
The revised wording would seem to suggest that a surviving spouse is not necessarily entitled to stay in the home. At the same time, however, the budget proposal includes a new line that would give the secretary of HUD wide discretion to determine when a loan is payable after the death of the borrower.
Making the wording change all the more perplexing is that the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association, the industry's primary trade group, has not pushed for any regulatory changes over the ability of a surviving spouse to stay in a home after the death of a spouse.
HUD extended the protections to surviving spouses after a series of lawsuits and critical news coverage about spouses losing their homes after the death of a partner.
Controversy over reverse mortgages is not new.
It is an industry that has drawn its fair share of scorn for using Hollywood actors to hawk its loans on late-night television advertisements. Some consumer advocates have complained that the reverse mortgage business preys on the financially ill-informed, who might be better off simply selling their homes and banking the cash.
Yet for those over age 62 who want to stay in their homes and owe little to nothing on a mortgage, these investment products have some appeal. The loans, which the Federal Housing Administration guarantees against default, are also known as home equity conversion mortgages.
The market peaked in 2008, when the industry funded 114,923 loans, but it fell off sharply during the financial crisis, according to Reverse Market Insight. The industry has slowly rebounded with 48,732 loans funded in 2016 and 24,000 this year as of the end of May.
The most active reverse mortgage lenders this year, according to Reverse Market Insight, are: the American Advisors Group; Finance of America Reverse, an affiliate of the private equity giant the Blackstone Group; and Reverse Mortgage Funding, a relative upstart in the business.
Many predict that with home prices rising again and a growing number of baby boomers reaching retirement age, there will be a revival in this market as the elderly look to supplement their living expenses.


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Companies AU ASX Disruptive Investment Group Limited
Disruptive Investment Group Limited (DVI)
About DVI
About Disruptive Investment Group
Contact DVI
DVI Share Registry
Disruptive Investment Group Limited is a technology investment company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX: DVI). It focuses on niche markets with attractive growth prospects and has partnered with high quality, established businesses in order to maximise shareholder value. DVI's business strategy involves investing in profitable businesses, operating in large markets with a differentiated business model. DVI has a highly experienced board and management team that has a proven track record in technology, corporate finance and sales, which it applies to increase the growth and profitability of its investments. The board is committed to providing management with the assistance and contacts required, in order to take their businesses to the next level.
Currently, DVI's primary investment is Find Solutions Australia (FSA), owner and operator of iBuyNew.com.au (iBuyNew). iBuyNew is an online, off-the-plan property platform operating in Australia's eastern states. DVI currently holds 50% of FSA and has entered into a binding term sheet to acquire the remaining 50%. The transaction is expected to complete before 1 July 2016. FSA has been profitable since inception and has delivered consistent growth over the last five years.
Following the accelerated sell down of Professional Performance Systems (PPS), owner and operator of the BYOjet Group to Flight Centre Travel Group Ltd. (ASX: FLT), DVI has maintained a 8.205% equity-like exposure via a potential future payment. The agreed potential future payment is to be determined by reference to PPS' EBITDA for the financial year ending 30 June 2018.
DVI is focused on further growth using its existing acquisition protocols to drive synergies within retail, franchise and e-commerce sectors as well as other markets.
Disruptive Investment Group Limited
137-139 Bathurst Street
Website: http://www.disruptive.net.au
The General Overview, Services, Products and Projects information for this profile was last edited on 15 Sep 2016.


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Author: denton.2@osu.edu
A grim vigil
Dissident Liu Xiaobo 刘晓波, out on medical parole from his 11-year prison sentence to have his terminal liver cancer treated, has been seen by two doctors from the U.S. and Germany:
The foreign doctors contradicted Chinese government statements that Liu was too sick to travel.
The Global Times published an edited video clip (with no context) of the German doctor praising the Chinese doctors who have been treating Liu. Also circulated by an unknown leaker: images and video of Liu's wife at his bedside surrounded by a medical team, including the foreign doctors. Continue reading →
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Footage of comfort women in Yunnan (3)
For what it's worth – perhaps if MCLC editors are gauging list members' responses to this – I absolutely agree. I've always found it strange how the war-time Japanese euphemism for sex slaves is the term in common use.
Luke Gilkison <luke.gilkison@gmail.com>
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Tsai Ing-wen embraces Twitter as megaphone
by denton.2@osu.edu at 10:32am July 10, 2017
Muffled by China, Taiwan President Embraces Twitter as Megaphone
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By CHRIS HORTON
President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan inspecting an honor guard at a ceremony for the anniversary of the Whampoa Military Academy in Kaohsiung in June. CreditTyrone Siu/Reuters
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Over the past year, China has doubled down on its campaign to reduce Taiwan's presence on the world stage, whether by luring away its few remaining diplomatic allies — most recently Panama — or blocking its participation in international organizations like Interpol and the World Health Organization.
Now President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan is trying to tweet the island back into the global conversation. Continue reading →
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Singapore dispute
Dispute Over Singapore Founder's House Becomes a National Crisis
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By RICHARD C. PADDOCK
Former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew's residence, center, in Singapore. He did not want it to become a museum after his death. CreditEdgar Su/Reuters
SINGAPORE — Two years after his death, no memorials, statues or streets in Singapore are named after Lee Kuan Yew, who established this city-state as a modern nation and built it into a prosperous showcase for his view that limited political freedoms best suit Asian values.
Now a bitter and public family dispute over the fate of his modest house has shattered Singapore's image as an orderly authoritarian ideal and hinted at deeper divisions about its political future. Continue reading →
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I emailed the Pacific War historian my recent post, and he further corrected my terms to "(military) gang-rape facilities" and "(military) sex slaves," and stated that: "these things should not be talked about/normalized in terms of prostitution, brothels or anything of that sort."
Nick Kaldis <nkaldis@gmail.com>
Zhang Yang's 'Paths to the Soul'
by denton.2@osu.edu at 10:42am July 8, 2017
Source: Caixin (7/7/17)
Why are China's Venture Capitalists Going Gaga Over A Tibetan Pilgrimage Film?
By Liu Fang and Han Wei
A scene from the low-budget docudrama "Paths to the Soul," which follows a group of pilgrims on a 1,200-mile trek from their village to Mt. Kailash in Tibet. In an act of Buddhist devotion, the pilgrims make the journey while prostrate. Photo: IC
(Beijing) — A birth, a death, a pilgrimage. A film about the 1,200-mile journey of a pregnant woman, a butcher who wants to atone for his sins and a rag-tag band of villagers who go on foot from their small village in Tibet to the sacred Mt. Kailash has become a surprise winner at the Chinese box office.
It has also found a cult following among an unexpected audience — China's venture capitalists and startup founders.
The low-budget docudrama, "Paths to the Soul," has been more profitable per screening than Hollywood juggernauts such as the latest "Transformers" movie, which opened in late June. "Paths to the Soul" raked in over 40 million yuan ($5.88 million), or nearly three times its production cost, during its first 11-day run despite being shown in less than 2% of theaters in the country. Continue reading →
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Hol Xil joins World Heritage list
Hol Xil joins UNESCO's World Heritage List
The 41st session of the World Heritage Committee decided to add a large nature reserve at Hol Xil — 可可西里 kěkě xīlǐ in Chinese — to its World Heritage List. The vast park is located in the northwest of Qinghai Province, covering 45,000 square kilometers of almost uninhabited land.
Part of the high-altitude Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Hol Xil is home to more than 200 species of wild animals, including the endangered Tibetan antelope, or chiru, whose existence has been threatened for years due to excessive poaching. Most people who live in the area are Tibetan nomads, who maintain their pre-modern lifestyle of sleeping in tents and raising livestock. Continue reading →
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At a panel of the annual New York Conference on Asian Studies just a few years ago, it was strongly suggested by an historian of the Pacific War that more accurate vocabulary be used when referring to this phenomenon, namely: we should refer to "rape stations" rather than "comfort stations", and "sex slaves" rather than "comfort women." He further suggested that "stations" was a euphemism, since the women were forcibly kept there, as prisoners.
Footage of comfort women in Yunnan
Source: What's on Weibo (7/6/17)
Footage of Comfort Women in Yunnan Made Public after 73 Years
For the first time in 73 years, moving images have been made public that show Korean women imprisoned by the Japanese army in China, where they served as comfort women. The 18-second-clip made its rounds on Chinese social media on June 5th.
The footage was filmed in Yunnan province, in southwest China, in 1944. Previously, there were numerous texts and photographs documenting the imprisonment of comfort women in China, but this is the first time for these moving images to be made public showing these particular scenes of wartime China.
A South-Korean research group, consisting of members of the Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Seoul National University Human Rights Center, made the footage public. Researchers say the clip shows seven Korean women in front of a private house used as a "comfort station" in Songshan, Yunnan Province.
According to the Korea Times, the research team found the footage at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration after a two-year search for film records. This source also says that the film allegedly shows a Chinese military officer of the US-China Allied forces speaking with the women.
At the time the moving images were filmed, Japan was losing the war and the US-China Allied Forces defeated the Japanese in Songshan, where 'military comfort stations' for the Japanese troops were situated.
Footage of Comfort Women in Yunnan Made Public… by whatsonweibo Continue reading →
King of Peking
Source: China Film Insider (7/5/17)
Film Review: 'King of Peking'
By JONATHAN LANDRETH
King of Peking (2017)
This must-see gem of a comedy from sophomore writer and director Sam Voutas is about father and son projectionists who stick together through hard times in Beijing, making ends meet by pirating movies.
Honed in the forge of dishonest dealings, their street savvy reflects the calculus of two thieves arrived at a tipping point in China's recent past: how to survive when it becomes clear that everybody else is playing by different rules and change is necessary?
King of Peking is set in China's capital 20 years ago, in the summer of 1997, just as the mainland was reunited with Hong Kong — the rule-of- law British colony from which Chinese-language cinema spread around the world while for decades Communist censors blunted the work of filmmakers north of the border. Continue reading →
China Reading ipo
More money for … online literature
By Jeremy Goldkorn
Tencent — the internet behemoth behind WeChat — runs a digital literature publishing company called China Reading, which has begun filing for an initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong, proposing to raise $600 to $800 million. It would be the first listing of a company dedicated to internet literature.
China Reading was originally a company owned by Chinese games giant Shanda. According to TechNode, "China Reading logged $390 million (RMB 2.6 billion) in operating income last year, 77 percent of which came from its reading-related businesses." The company had around 175 million users at the end of 2016.
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Made in China 2.2
I am glad to announce the publication of the latest issue of Made in China, the open access quarterly on Chinese labour and civil society supported by the Australian Centre on China in the World, the Australian National University. You can download the pdf for free and subscribe at this link: http://www.chinoiresie.info/made-in-china-quarterly/. Below you can find the editorial of the new issue:
The Good Earth
In June, the government of the United States announced its intention to withdraw from the Paris Accords, severely undermining the global effort to contain climate change. Since then, China has entered the fray, attempting to portray itself as a world leader on environmental issues. Considering that China is currently the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, this development might appear paradoxical. Nevertheless, in recent years the Chinese authorities have become increasingly concerned with the toll that environmental catastrophes are taking on the health of the country's citizens, as this has the potential to spark unrest that could negatively affect governmental legitimacy. The 'airpocalypses' that have hit major Chinese cities and the 'cancer villages', where disease has spread due to soil and water pollution caused by industries, are just two instances of major environmental scandals that have made the headlines in China over the years. It is in light of this crisis—and also in an attempt to capitalise on environmental protection economically—that the Chinese leadership has been pushing forward ambitious plans for 'environmental rejuvenation', which include new policies and massive investments in renewable energies. Continue reading →
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Bloggers, filmmakers feel chill of crackdown
Source: Reuters (7/4/17)
China's bloggers, filmmakers feel chill of internet crackdown
By Pei Li and Adam Jourdan, BEIJING/SHANGHAI
FILE PHOTO – People use computers at an internet cafe in Hefei, Anhui province, September 15, 2011. REUTERS/Stringer
China's latest maneuvre in a sweeping crackdown on internet content has sent a chill through a diverse community of filmmakers, bloggers, media and educators who fear their sites could be shut down as Beijing tightens control.
Over the last month, Chinese regulators have closed celebrity gossip websites, restricted what video people can post and suspended online streaming, all on grounds of inappropriate content.
On Friday, an industry association circulated new regulations that at least two "auditors" will, with immediate effect, be required to check all audiovisual content posted online – from films to "micro" movies, documentaries, sports, educational material and animation – to ensure they adhere to "core socialist values". Continue reading →
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Propaganda trailers at cinemas
Source: China Film Insider (6/30/17)
Chinese Cinemas to Show Propaganda Trailer Ahead of Screenings
By WAN HUANG
In preparation for an important Party meeting later this year, four videos remind viewers of key ideological points.
Moviegoers in China will have to watch public service advertisements that extol the "China Dream" and other ideological slogans, according to a directive from the country's media regulator that will take effect July 1.
Industry insiders said that cinemas have been instructed to show one of four, minute-long videos collectively titled "The Glory and the Dream" before every movie screening. The clips will be shown from July through October in the run-up to the Communist Party's 19th National Congress in November — China's most important political event held every five years. Continue reading →
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Freedom of expression under attack in HK
Posted by Jeff Wasserstrom <wasserstromjeff@gmail.com>
Source: Dissent (7/4/17)
Freedom of Expression Under Attack in Hong Kong
By Louisa Lim
"Enthusiastically Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Hong Kong's Return to the Motherland…" (courtesy Sampson Wong)
Late last week, as Hong Kong celebrated the twentieth anniversary of its return to Chinese sovereignty, pixels of white flickered on the slick glass façade of Hong Kong's second-tallest skyscraper. The Chinese characters gliding up the building's 108 stories bore a staunch Communist-style exhortation: "Enthusiastically Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Hong Kong's Return to the Motherland, Fervently Welcome President Xi Jinping's Inspection of Hong Kong." This greeting—coinciding with President Xi's first visit to Hong Kong since taking power—is now raising fears about the freedom of artistic expression in Hong Kong, calling into question its future as an international arts hub. Continue reading →
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Napoleão e Samantha () é um filme norte-americano de 1972, do gênero aventura, dirigido por Bernard McEveety e estrelado por Michael Douglas e Will Geer.

A produção marca a estreia de Jodie Foster no cinema, com 10 anos incompletos na época.

Sinopse
Napoleão, garoto órfão, vai viver na fazenda do avô, nos confins do Oregon. Logo, torna-se amigo de Danny, estudante que trabalha como pastor de ovelhas durante o Verão. Um circo chega à cidade e, antes de partir, o treinador de leões dá para o Avô um velho felino, chamado Major. Napoleão fica feliz, até que o Avô morre. Por não querer ir para um orfanato, ele pede ajuda a Danny para enterrar o velho. Quando Danny vai embora, Napoleão e Major tentam sobreviver sozinhos, mas as autoridades começam a investigar o desaparecimento do Avô. Napoleão entra em pânico e sai à procura de Danny, acompanhado pelo leão. Uma garotinha, Samantha, junta-se aos dois e eles vivem grandes aventuras.

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