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Kenya , has for a long time been a popular destination for film makers. This is because of its readily available wildlife and cultural diversity. Below is a list of popular Kenyan films that were shot in Kenya:
Strike Back Season 2
With Stonebridge out of the unit, he is training recruits at a military base while being a dutiful husband. New pressure is arising from the command. This causes Scott to embark on a standard security mission in Kenya. Unfortunately, his mission takes an expected and dangerous turn. Mission 20 must find a new and creative solution.
Tomb Raider: The cradle of life
Featuring Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft, the game based movie had a two week stint in Kenya for shooting. This was in the beautiful Hell's Gate National park. Also, the Kenyan Pokot tribesmen played a role as the mysterious tribe discovered by Lara.
Gracing the list of Netflix's most successful Sci-Fi is Sense 8. It takes place in Kenya's capital city, Nairobi. A group of people wonder how it is they are able to communicate with each other telepathically. Only then, do they realize that they are being hunted down. They therefore come together with an aim of defeating their common enemy and preserving the planet.
Featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, the 2010 Sci-Fi was shot in the Kenyan coastal city, Mombasa. Also, it employs props like the Kenya's famous Swahili daily, Taifa Leo.
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Can you see when driving at night?
Most of the contributing factors in night-time crashes are directly or indirectly involved with vision. In fact, most states have visual acuity requirements in order for licensure. In the state of Alabama, the visual acuity requirement for licensure without restrictions other than corrective lenses is 20/40. The minimum visual acuity required for licensure, better eye or both eyes together, with or without added restrictions or conditions, is 20/60. If you are involved in an accident and require corrective lenses, you could be guilty of contributory negligence if you were not wearing your corrective lenses. For your safety and the safety of others, always remember to wear your corrective lenses if you require them. If you are not sure if you need corrective lenses, you should go have your eyes examined.
As our city of Huntsville grows, so does the rush hour traffic. The number of cars traveling the parkway during rush hour has increased tremendously over the last few years. South Memorial Parkway can be a dangerous place during afternoon rush hour. This statement was proven yesterday, July 21st, when three vehicles were involved in a wreck at the intersection of Lily Flagg and South Memorial Parkway. Six people were transported to the hospital with various injuries. As the traffic flow increases so does the attention of drivers. We as drivers have to make sure we have all of our attention focused on the task at hand, driving.
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No one wakes up in the morning expecting to get seriously injured in a car wreck. Worse yet, those that get hurt in an automobile accident expect that the other driver will have adequate liability insurance. Unfortunately, this is often not the case. Protect yourself by carrying $250,000.00 in UM/UIM coverage on each of your vehicles. If you cannot do that, make sure your UM/UIM limits match or exceed the liability coverage that you carry on your car. Do not wait until it is too late!
With the recent freezing temperatures it is time to think about tire safety. Did you know that winter weather can cause your tires to lose air pressure?
According to TireRack.com the air in your tires and expand when heated and contract when cooled. As the temperature gets colder your tires' inflation pressure is going down. The rule of thumb is for every 10° Fahrenheit change in air temperature, your tire's inflation pressure will change by about 1 psi (up with higher temperatures and down with lower).
Several vehicle manufacturer's recommend operating winter tires several psi (3-5) higher in the winter to adjust for the cold temperature fluctuation. Have you checked your tire pressure since the recent drop in temperature? Now is a good time to do so. Just a 5 psi drop in pressure can affect your vehicle's handling.
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What is a Safe Stopping Distance?
Have you ever wondered how far behind the car in front of you should stop? A good rule of thumb is one car length. In visual terms when you stop behind another vehicle you should see both of their back tires on the pavement and a little bit of the pavement in front of those tires.
How many times have you heard that someone was rear-ended causing them to rear-end the car in front them? Probably quite a few. The reason for this is that most people stop approximately three to four feet behind the car in front of them. If they get rear-ended that lack of space causes them to rear-end the car in front of them.
If you leave that one car length space between you and the car in front of you that space is approximately fourteen feet. This eliminates the chance of you rear-ending the vehicle in front you. The benefit is two-fold, because having this fourteen feet between you and the car in front of you also gives you the ability to go around the car in front of you should that vehicle suddenly have a problem. This way you won't be stuck in traffic.


Every gamer has at least one story of the worst video game they've ever played. Perhaps it was an experimental release from a favourite developer; a really bad sequel to a much-loved title; a rushed tie-in with a great movie; or a mess of pixels so broken that it was almost unplayable. We've all had that moment of excitedly purchasing a game before coming to the horrific realisation that we've spent this month's gaming budget on a complete dud.


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From arthouse to funhouse
French actress Irene Jacob rose to fame guided by her mentor - the late Krzysztof Kieslowski. But the star of Three Colours: Red, tired of playing 'tragic' women, had fun with her new film, My Life So Far
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Sat 13 May 2000 20.28 EDT First published on Sat 13 May 2000 20.28 EDT
Because Irène Jacob is three-quarters of an hour late for our interview in Paris (it is not her fault but a cross-channel PR mix-up), the French-based photographer and I have plenty of time to discuss our subject. She's one of 'those types', he says. She makes the kind of French arthouse fare he's dragged to by his partner: precious little dialogue, pensive expressions and ambiguous endings. Ah, that sort.
Jacob is, after all, one of the darlings of European cinema. She has worked with three of the undisputed heavyweights - Kieslowski, Malle and Antonioni - and won the best actress award at the Cannes film festival when she was just 25. One imagines small talk and bouts of frivolity will not be on the menu today.
But Jacob arrives with a ready smile and an instant handshake. During the interview she laughs frequently and talks quickly and passionately without apparent guile. At times her voice rings with girlish glee.
She explains that her early roles were often 'unsatisfied' women. 'I was constantly offered parts that were very interiorised and things that were slightly tragic. I don't know why. I enjoyed doing those big, probing parts but that wasn't who I was at the time. I also really like comedy and recently I've got to do some different parts.'
It was her two films with the late Krzysztof Kieslowski, the Polish existentialist, that set the standard. Both films, The Double Life of Veronique (1991) and Three Colours: Red (1994) explored themes of destiny and loneliness and saw the birth of the original Jacob persona: the chic, independent young woman prone to soul searching with an innate desire to connect. They were profoundly intimate performances. According to Jacob, though, there was no Method secret to the intensity of her speech and gaze.
'The camera was really like a microscope. Krzysztof was always very close and very precise in his directions. It was not something he talked about beforehand; he would only work on the set. He liked to rehearse just before a take, if at all.'
Her latest role in My Life So Far, starring Colin Firth and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, is definitely Jacob post-Kieslowski. In this amiable yet hardly substantive family drama set in the inter-war years, Jacob plays the elegant, spirited Gallic fiancée who sets pulses racing amid a mildly eccentric Scottish gentry family.
'I thought the character was very inspiring and liked the way she interacted very honestly with all the children,' she says. 'It reminded me of Au Revoir Les Enfants when I was the piano teacher and all the boys were inspired by me as the only woman in the place.'
Her role in Louis Malle's heartfelt memoir about anti-Semitism came while she was still in drama school in 1987. Jacob had partially impressed Malle by telling him she could play the piano. On set, his direction was succinct. 'He told me to file my nails, yawn a bit and look into the distance and immediately the character was there,' she recalls.
She was born in Paris but raised in Geneva by strict parents. 'I think we are in a generation where people talk to their children a lot and explain things to them but it wasn't like that then. The most important thing was having a good education.' So was Jacob's decision to leave home for Paris and drama school at 18 an act of rebellion? 'There are many reasons why I wanted to act but perhaps it's true that was one of them.' She gets more animated. 'You have to want to be an actor in spite of everything.'
Her conversation is peppered with reference to Kieslowski. She speaks of him with great affection but denies being his confidante. He moulded her early career but he often kept her in the dark about the process. The actress initially felt little affinity with her character in Red and she found plenty of The Double Life of Veronique mystifying until she saw the finished film.
'He didn't like talking about a role,' she says. 'He felt that would impose a direction and not allow you to follow your instincts. If I asked him a question, he would say "Well, you know it's more interesting for me to know what you think about it, or how would you answer it."'
Afterwards, Hollywood came calling, but she turned down the lead role in Indecent Proposal because she didn't 'feel comfortable with the film's sensibility'. Her rare Hollywood excursions have been in small films (Incognito) or small roles in big films (US Marshals). Instead, she entered her 'English period'; an alluring performance as Desdemona in Othello (1995) and she was good in Mark Peploe's version of Conrad's Victory in the same year.
Then there was Antonioni's Beyond the Clouds. The director had suffered a severe stroke but he still coaxed a beatific performance from Jacob as a rather austere young woman pursued on foot by a handsome suitor. And his most telling direction? 'He would just ask me to do bigger steps?' Excuse me? 'It sounds quite odd but you see by doing bigger steps you have a different energy,' she explains.
She only appeared in one of the four vignettes in Antonioni's film, and it's clear Jacob still hankers for those 'big, probing parts'. At 34 she is well respected, works around the world and is undoubtedly a directors' favourite. But she is unwilling to make the choices and calculations that would lead to greater fame. Post-Kieslowski, kudos counts, but having fun is important too. She likes to play with her image and confound audiences. 'If I choose a part, it's because I'm moved by it and I like the director. It's only for that reason now. I have to be curious about the part whether it's nice, not nice, mean, jealous, generous, aggressive. Who cares? If it moves me, I'll do it.'
• My Life So Far opens on 12 May
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The upcoming foreign buyer ban on purchasing existing properties is expected to have a minimal impact on sales, according to new research from the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand.
A recent REINZ survey of its members revealed that currently only a minority of buyers are from overseas (3.8%).
REINZ chief executive Bindi Norwell says that ahead of the government's upcoming foreign buyer ban they were interested to understand exactly what percentage of sales were to international buyers.
"There is minimal data available. So, who better to ask than those who deal with this day in and day out – our members.
The survey also looked at the make- up of open home visitors and this showed that the majority of open home visitors were local (64.1%).
They were followed by 28% from out of town and only 4.5% from overseas, while the remaining 3.4% were classed as 'other'.
Norwell says that, given international buyers are such a small part of the market they are interested to understand what impact the government believes the foreign buyer ban will actually have.
The survey also looked at the make-up of buyers in the market overall.
It shows that currently most purchasers are owner occupiers (52.3%), followed by first time buyers (26.3%).
Investors amounted to just 14.2% of buyers, while the remaining 7.3% of buyers were classified as 'other'.


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Carter Estes: Effort to ban Trump officials from Harvard is a dangerous attack on free speech and education
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My first year at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government hasn't been what I expected — and I'm not just talking about all the restrictions to guard against the spread of COVID-19. I couldn't have predicted that I'd be delivering a speech to my peers urging them to uphold free speech at one of America's most prestigious centers of learning.
Unfortunately, I recently found myself on Zoom urging members of the Harvard Kennedy School Student Government to reject a student-led effort to restrict Trump administration officials from speaking at Harvard.
While I am relieved that the student government ultimately rejected the restrictions, I remain disturbed that my peers would propose this action and that it actually could have passed. An education underpinned by conditions of censorship is not a real education. And those who seek an education should never demand protection from ideas.
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I came to Harvard to learn. But institutions of higher education that allow for restrictions on information and dialogue —whether imposed by students or administrators — forfeit the title of "educational institution" in exchange for the title "indoctrination center." The latter is not what I signed up for. I want Harvard to deliver the education it claims to offer.
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I am shocked and disappointed that some of my fellow graduate students — who surely came to one of the world's top government affairs graduate programs to grow intellectually and professionally—would make these demands. The authors of the letter calling for banning Trump officials from campus said the reason for the ban was to, ironically, stop the "subversion of democratic principles" by the Trump administration. But free speech is a democratic principle.
The authors of this letter seek to cancel debate and silence political opposition. They are terrified of having their world views challenged. But that's exactly why earnest minds have traditionally come to Harvard.
The Kennedy School has hosted many controversial figures, including members of the Clinton and Nixon administrations, former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder, and the late secretary-general of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Saeb Erekat.
We students are adults and we are fully capable of hearing uncomfortable and offensive information and arguments. It will only make us better.
I am a conservative. Harvard is an overwhelmingly liberal institution. I have only benefitted by having my ideas and values challenged while studying here. But more than that, Harvard owes it to students like me to be honest about what it claims to offer — a rigorous intellectual environment and access to top leaders.
Whether you agree with Trump policies or not, those who served in Trump administration have firsthand knowledge and experience in the highest levels of domestic and foreign policy. These players have impacted the world and we students can decide if their marks were good or bad, and conclude the missteps for ourselves.
But the onus is on universities to uphold their missions. They need to teach their students that cancel culture has no place in rigorous academic circles.
Unfortunately, we have seen the opposite on campuses across the United States. Speakers including Charles Murray, Ben Shapiro, and Christina Hoff Sommers have been shouted down and violently protested in an effort to silence them.
And just this fall, Duke University Law School students penned a letter to bar Professor Helen Alvare from speaking at an on-campus event because she holds pro-traditional marriage views.
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But it's not just those with a platform that leftist students want to eradicate from campuses. A student-led effort at the University of Texas-Austin aimed to dox students who join the Young Conservatives of Texas club.
Given that universities have yielded to cancel culture, it's not surprising that one of the youngest members of Congress, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., felt comfortable supporting a blacklist of anyone who supported the Trump administration.
When the institutions charged with shaping the next generation of leaders fail to uphold democratic principles on campus, we shouldn't be surprised that our elected leaders fail to understand and protect our constitutional rights.
The Kennedy School is named after President John F. Kennedy, who was once a Harvard student himself. In advocating for a free exchange of ideas, he said shortly before the presidential election in 1960: "If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all — except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty."
I pray that not only my beloved school, but colleges and universities across the country, live up to this message. The future of our republic depends on it.
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Bruno Kramm (n. 13 de octubre de 1967, Múnich, Alemania) es un músico alemán, conocido por su programación musical y por tocar el sintetizador y el teclado, dirigiendo y realizando coros para el dúo Electro-Industrial Das Ich, junto a Stefan Ackermann. Kramm es un instrumentalista múltiple, cantautor y fundador del club de subcultura gótica alemán Generation Gothic. También es productor de grabación para muchos proyectos musicales de varias bandas.

Conocido por su "pelo de cuernos de demonio", Kramm luce un traje oscuro durante las actuaciones en Das Ich, estando a menudo significativamente más "maquillado" que Ackermann, el vocalista. Sus voces tienden a mostrar una sensación más profunda y más intensa que las de Stefan, con un ritmo rápido y contraste agudo, una voz emocionante.

Bruno Kramm es un miembro activo del Partido Pirata de Alemania, y ha sido designado por su junta directiva como comisionado federal de derechos de autor. Desde 2014 ejerce la presidencia estatal del partido en Berlín, y para las Elecciones estatales de Berlín de 2016 fue el cabeza de lista del partido.

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I snapped these pictures on Election day, today 29-11-2014 I saw the Liberal Candidates vehicle illegally parked across a footpath and in front a "NO STANDING" at any time signs.
Fred Ackerman Liberal candidate for Essendon from behind parked in front of NO STANDING at any time signs!
Fred Ackerman Liberal Candidate for Essendon parked on footpath, this is illegal in the city of Essendon!
Fred Ackerman Liberal candidate for Essendon, vehicle from the from the right hand side!


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News > Events > WANdisco founder launches academy in Sheffield
WANdisco founder launches academy in Sheffield
WANdisco Data Academy, opening in September, will bid to nurture young engineers and entrepreneurs
The endeavour is the brainchild of David Richards, founder of WANdisco plc
The Sheffield College is to host a new venture dedicated to educating and nurturing the next generation of engineers and entrepreneurs.
WANdisco Data Academy will welcome an initial intake of 20 young students in September, working towards the BTEC National Extended Diploma Level 3 in Information Technology (software and data pathway).
The endeavour is the brainchild of David Richards, founder of WANdisco, a public software company with bases in both Sheffield and Silicon Valley.
From the archive: David Richards' charity works to improve computer science education
The David and Jane Richards Family Foundation aims to transform the way computer science is taught in classrooms and focuses on data science to give young people the ability to understand and solve real-world challenges. Around 50 pupils have started the course at Sheffield's Tapton School, the first institution to work with the foundation and David's alma mater.
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"We want to equip young people in Sheffield with the skills and experience to succeed in the future work environment," says Richards.
"We believe tech should be a force for good in our communities, and are very excited to meet our first group of new recruits. [They] will have the chance to work on software that helps farmers plough fields, studios make movies, and healthcare companies predict cancers."
Would-be participants are required to undertake a "rigorous selection process" in order to enter the academy, where subjects are set to encompass sales and marketing, finance, human resources, customer support, and development operations.
We want to equip young people in Sheffield with the skills and experience to succeed in the future work environment. David Richards
Methods of learning will include workplace visits, specialist speakers, special projects, and – for two high-scoring students – 45-day industry placements.
Come the end of the course, students will be guaranteed a job interview with WANdisco.
Applications are now open.
"We are providing a market-leading learning environment that will fully complement the changing way young people interact with technology, research and learn," says Angela Foulkes, chief executive and principal of The Sheffield College.
"They will be able to acquire and develop valuable skills and experience which will make them highly employable as individuals."
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A U.N. annual report on children and armed conflict said the coalition was responsible for 60 percent of child deaths and injuries in Yemen last year, killing 510 and wounding 667. The Saudi-led coalition includes United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Senegal and Sudan.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon temporarily removed the coalition from the blacklist – contained in an annex to the report – on June 6 pending a joint review after Saudi Arabia, a key U.N. donor, threatened to cut funding to the world body. Riyadh denied using threats.
Ban is to brief the U.N. Security Council on the report on Tuesday. He plans to tell the 15-member council that the United Nations will continue to work with Saudi Arabia on the issue and reinforce that only the blacklist is under review, not the substance of the report, a U.N. diplomatic source said.
In a rare move, Ban – who steps down at the end of the year after a decade in the top U.N. job – publicly slammed Saudi Arabia for exerting unacceptable pressure on the world body over the children and armed conflict report. Diplomatic sources told Reuters in June that Riyadh suggested a fatwa – an Islamic legal opinion – could be placed on the world body.
"He came out of this bruised and unhappy," said a second U.N. diplomatic source, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"We think we sent a fairly comprehensive letter that I hope has served to address all the concerns of U.N. and clarify all issues surrounding the report by the U.N.," Saudi U.N. Ambassador Abdallah Al-Mouallimi told Reuters on Monday.
U.N. sanctions monitors said in January that the Saudi-led coalition had targeted civilians in Yemen and that some of the attacks could be crimes against humanity, sparking calls by rights groups for the United States and Britain to halt sales of weapons to Saudi Arabia that could be used in such attacks.


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Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv racked up an all-important 67-75 victory against Olympiacos
Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv shook off ongoing injury problems to keep its momentum intact with a solid 67-75 road win over Olympiacos in Pireaus, Greece to open Top 16, Group F for both teams. Maccabi and Real Madrid are tied 1-0 atop the group now, while Olympiacos joins Zalgiris at 0-1. A scoring blast after halftime established Maccabi's first double-digit lead of the night, and the guests nursed that margin all the way to the victory. Maccabi won despite missing all-Euroleague center Nikola Vujcic once again and seeing another frontcourt starter, Marcus Fizer, leave the game after 8 minutes due to a knee injury. Terence Morris, who was the Euroleague's January MVP, paced Maccabi with a double-double of 16 points and 11 rebounds. Yotam Halperin matched his scoring and dished 6 assists besides. Esteban Batista added 12 points of the bench for the winners. Olympiacos relied on 26 points from Lynn Greer, who also dished 5 assists. Marc Jackson added 14 points for the Reds while Loukas Mavrokefalides pulled 11 rebounds. Olympiacos suffered from 8-for-30 three-point shooting (26.6%)
Panagiotis Giannakis was welcomed by the home crowd in his Euroleague debut on the Olympiacos bench before the tip-off. Cummings stole the ball and run the floor for the game's first basket. Good ball movement resulted to a Greer' triple, 3-2. Halperin connected for 5 straight points, but Jackson found consecutive baskets for the hosts, too, as the scoreboard stood now at 7-7. Olympiacos chose to execute from the perimeter to lose four three-pointers in the row; Maccabi, on the other side, feed the ball inside and Fizer led the guests to 7-11. It was time for Greer to step up in order to nail a layup and a triple to put Olympiacos in front at 12-11. Fizer had to leave the court in the eighth minute due to a knee injury. As a result, Maccabi had trouble defending inside and Olympiacos managed to build a 17-13 difference. However, the visitors reacted with Halperin and Alex Garcia to trim the difference to 17-16 after one quarter.
Olympiacos used some good team defense to make Maccabi struggle in the eraly second quarter, but the Reds couldn't take much advantage as they kept missing three-pointers. Halperin broke Maccabi's three-minute scoring silence with a good basket-plus-free throw and when he fed Batista for a nice basket, the guests were 20-19 ahead. Both teams were suddenly finding offensive solutions. Kostas Vassiliadis came off the bench to fire Olympiacos into the lead again on a triple at 24-23. Maccabi ran the open floor with Batista and Garcia, while Olympiacos was creating good opportunities on set offense to stay up by 28-27. Morris dunked the ball on an offensive board to offer the game's most impressive play yet and set the halftime scoreboard at 30-29.
A nice pick-and-roll by Halperin to Batista resulted in an easy layup, and then when Cummings chipped in a triple, Maccabi was ahead 30-34 shortly after the break. Vassiliadis answered back with a corner three-pointer, but Maccabi had the momentum now. Batista, Morris and David Bluthental filled a 0-7 run that put the guess ahead 33-41 and silenced the crowd. After Jackson found room in the paint, big men Morris and Ioannis Bouroussis exchanged triples at 38-44. Olympiacos was encountering huge trouble in setting up its offense as Maccabi had strengthened its defense and the Reds were obliged to execute under big pressure. Instead, Halperin drove in the traffic for a double-digit difference at 40-50. Milos Teodosic nailed a triple in response for Olympiacos, but soon Bluthenthal answered back in the same way to make it 43-53. Garcia nailed another three-pointer for Maccabi for a 43-56 advantage before Greer sank the fourth consecutive triple between the teams in just 2 minutes. Maccabi finished a magnificent third quarter having scored as many points as they had did in the previous two, 29, to hold a 46-58 lead after 30 minutes.
The Reds forced Maccabi to go scoreless for the first 3 minutes, 30 seconds of the final quarter while Mavrokefalidis and Greer built a 6-0 run to get Olympiacos within 52-58. Maccabi reacted, though, with three-pointers from Garcia and Halperin at 64-55. Lukas Mavrokefalidis cut to the rim for a basket, but Morris copied him and then nailed the most crucial triple so far, vaulting Maccabi's lead to 58-69 with 3 minutes remaining. After an Olympiacos timeout, Jackson finished assists from Woods and Greer to bring Olympiacos closer at 62-69. After Morris found a basket for Maccabi, Greer drew fouls and found 5 easy points at the free-throw line for a 67-71 score with 46 seconds still to go. Olympiacos pressed full-court, but Maccabi kept its nerve and based on good passing found an easy layup by Halperin at 67-73. Garcia made a steal then and sealed Maccabi's big road win over Olympiacos to start the Top 16.
EStelios Kyriakoglou, Athens
Referees: MITJANA, JUAN CARLOS; JOVCIC, MILIVOJE; SAHIN, TOLGA
Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv 16 13 29 17
4 BLAKNEY, RODERICK 15:55 0/2 0/2 1 1 1 2 1 2 -3
5 PAPAMAKARIOS, MANOLIS 8:05 0/1 2 1 -2
6 WOODS, QYNTEL 22:24 0/3 0/4 2 2 4 2 2 -5
8 SEIBUTIS, RENALDAS DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
9 BOUROUSIS, IOANNIS 19:42 3 0/1 1/2 8 8 1 1 1 1 13
11 GREER, LYNN 34:02 26 5/7 3/8 7/8 2 2 5 1 1 1 3 10 31
12 MAVROKEFALIDIS, LOUKAS 18:15 5 2/7 1/2 7 4 11 1 1 1 1 2 10
13 VASILOPOULOS, PANAGIOTIS 21:37 5 1/2 1/4 1 1 2 1 2 2 1 2 5
14 VASILEIADIS, KOSTAS 18:14 8 1/1 2/5 1 1 2 1 1 5
16 PRINTEZIS, GEORGIOS 2:22 1 -1
18 TEODOSIC, MILOS 13:58 6 0/1 1/3 3/3 2 4 3 4
25 JACKSON, MARC 25:26 14 6/10 0/1 2/2 1 1 1 5 1 2 7
Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv
4 BYNUM, WILL 20:20 5 0/2 1/2 2/2 1 1 1 2 2 6 6
5 FIZER, MARCUS 8:37 2 1/3 0/1 1 1 2 2 1 1 -1
6 SHARP, DERRICK 2:15 2 2/2 2
7 VUJCIC, NIKOLA DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
8 ELIYAHU, LIOR DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
9 MORRIS, TERENCE 38:42 16 5/8 2/3 3 8 11 3 2 1 4 1 22
11 CASSPI, OMRI 4:56 0/1 2 2 1
12 GARCIA, ALEX 19:36 9 1/1 2/2 1/2 2 2 2 1 1 4 4 12
13 BLU, DAVID 21:10 6 1/2 1/3 1/1 2 2 2 3 1 5
14 CUMMINGS, VONTEEGO 17:46 7 2/3 1/1 2 2 1 4 5
15 BATISTA, ESTEBAN 29:19 12 5/11 2/2 3 3 2 2 3 1 3 1 7
21 HALPERIN, YOTAM 37:19 16 5/6 2/5 0/1 4 4 6 1 2 1 3 3 21
"We didn't start the way we wanted. I think we controlled the game tempo till halftime, but Maccabi took advantage of our bad play during the third period to build an important margin after finding easy baskets. We were impatient during that time; patience will be the key in our team. We have to show patience during the whole game, no matter what the fans may want. We cannot achieve everything in a day's time; we need to work hard physically and mentally. Our goal is to create a team that wins every game under any circumstances. I am just asking for patience; patience was what I asked for when we were winning, patience I am asking now, too. Every game is important, but we shouldn't become nervous, because that results in mistakes."
SHERF, ZVI
"I am always happy to return in Greece. The change in Olympiacos' coach position made our scouting job hard, as we barely knew what to expect. Blackney and Woods hadn't played against Aris and it was really difficult for us to prepare the game. Fizer's injury came as a shock for us. We had the worst shooting percentage of the whole season during the second period and we decided by halftime to change our tactics. We chose to be quicker and run the floor and tried to hit Olympiacos in its weaknesses. When we build a margin, Olympiacos had the pressure. I am sure they will play better in Tel Aviv. I have great respect for Panagiotis Giannakis. I had coached him once, he is a good friend of mine and a great coach. This is an important win for us. We travel back to Tel Aviv with a lot of confidence, but we are waiting to find out more about our injuries."
"Unfortunately, we didn't manage to bring on court the work we have done during practices these last days. We are building something new now and we will probably need some time to perform that on the floor. We are still in the building process considering that the coach changed and we now have to adjust to the new philosophy. Tonight, we couldn't play according to the plan, but I hope that we will soon be able to do so. We let Maccabi get too many layups and lost the game at the end. We will practice hard and look forward to the next games."
MORRIS, TERENCE
"Both teams have changed coaches recently and both have changed their game orientation. We knew that Olympiacos will be focusing more on defense. We executed well from the perimeter and had good ball movement, while our defense was very good during the whole game. Olympiacos has a tough team and it's always very hard to win in Greece. We are very happy to start the second round with such a big road win."


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Abraham: A Journey To The Heart Of Three Faiths
Bruce Feiler
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by H. E. Everding
To accompany Bruce Feiler on this journey to understand the roots of the three monotheistic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) as well as his own identity, the reader travels through place (e.g., the Negev, Jerusalem, Savannah, GA) and time (four millennia), always in the midst of a never-ending war. In pursuit of Abraham and his heirs, Feiler weaves together on the spot observations, conversations, careful reading of texts, and histories of interpretation in a poetic style that both informs and seduces.
Even though there is reason to doubt that Abraham ever existed, Feiler discloses the power and resilience of Abraham as symbolic progenitor of three faith traditions. Through his non-fictional research, Feiler discovers myriads of fictional Abrahams. At various moments in history, each of the three traditions choose and reconstruct Abraham in their own image and for their own exclusive religious and political purposes.
Abraham represents readable and engaging historiography (despite its lack of documentation) and hermeneutics. For example, Feiler frames the chapter on Isaac with a personal conversation with the proprietor of B. Cohen & Sons, a small Judaic shop in Jerusalem's Old City. In between he traces how the figure of Isaac and his potential demise by father Abraham became a symbol of the suffering pious Jew (the "Akedah or binding"), the prototype of Jesus' sacrificial death for some Christians (the "crucifixion"), and was displaced by Ishmael in Islamic tradition as the one rendered (the "Dhabih or cut"). All three traditions place the story of Isaac/Ishmael "at the heart of their self-understanding," revealing both their shared origins but significant differences.
Feiler's journey starts at the Temple Mount in war-torn Jerusalem overlooking the Dome of the Rock—symbolic place of Isaac's near-sacrifice—and ends at Hebron where Abraham was buried. After an excellent analysis of Abraham's birth and call by God, Feiler explores various traditions about Ishmael and Isaac, and how Abraham was re-interpreted in the three faith traditions. The final section reflects on Abraham's "legacy" as symbol and hope for conversation among the three religious traditions. As Feiler puts it:
Abraham is like water . . . He's a vast, underground aquifer that stretches from Mesopotamia to the Nile, from Jerusalem to Mecca, from Kandahar to Kansas City. He's an ever-present, ever-flowing stream that represents the basic desire all people have to form a union with God. He's a physical manifestation of the fundamental yearning to be descended from a sacred source. He's a personification of the biological need we all share to feel protected by someone, something. Anything.


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Big Improvements on Two Central Valley Dams Move Forward
SJV Water
$635 million in improvements to Lake Isabella's two dams in Kern County are nearing completion. (SJV Water/Lois Henry)
It's no simple feat to raise a dam.
In fact, it's taken the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 34 years to get from the first feasibility study to expand the dam at Lake Success in Tulare County to finally getting construction underway.
Jesse Vad
The improvements to Lake Success' Schafer Dam, named after longtime Tule River watermaster Richard L. Schafer, are needed to protect downstream communities in case of a flood, said Calvin Foster, southern operations branch chief for the Corps' Sacramento District.
The $135 million project will widen the dam's spillway by about 150 feet and build a 10-foot tall ogee weir, a structure that helps to control water flow. That will increase the amount of water Lake Success can hold from 80,000 acre-feet to nearly 110,000 acre-feet. That extra water will be available to downstream water users.
The first phase of construction started in 2020 and was completed in February of 2022. That part of the project included drilling and blasting about 400,000 cubic yards of material out of the dam's spillway and building a new road, said Foster.
Related Story: Why Is So Much Water Flowing in San Joaquin River If We're in a Drought?
2028 Completion for Lake Success Expansion
The second phase is slated to begin in August.
"Phase two is actually quite involved," said Foster.
Another 40,000 cubic yards of material will be blasted out. And the 10-foot tall ogee weir will be built, one of the major parts of the project. The second phase will also include armoring bridge abutments where Highway 190 crosses the lake and armoring part of an embankment to accommodate the increased amount of water the lake will hold.
Construction could finish in 2024 but there will still need to be multiple years of monitoring and oversight before the project is officially completed in 2028, said Foster.
One silver lining of the ongoing drought is that phase two construction will be easier since workers won't have to worry about water in the spillway as they work, added Foster.
"I don't see that we've got any real major hurdles with the project," said Foster. "The locals will be very happy when it's done."
Schafer Dam at Lake Success in Tulare County is being expanded from 80,000 acre-feet to nearly 110,000 acre-feet in a $135 million project. The extra water will be available to downstream water users. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers/Michael Nevins)
Improvements for Lake Isabella Dams
On the second dam project, the Corps is also nearly finished with improvements to the two dams on Lake Isabella in Kern County.
The lake's dams were at risk of overtopping, internal erosion caused by water seepage and seismic damage because of a fault line that runs beneath one of the dams, said Victor Ozuna, the former resident engineer on the Isabella Dam Safety Modification Project.
The $635 million project includes raising the dams by 16 feet, building a buttress embankment that helps with seismic stability, and filling a nonfunctioning canal. It also involves building a new spillway and a 28-foot tall labyrinth weir, to help control flood flows. The labyrinth weir gets its name from its accordion-like zig-zag shape.
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Most of the construction was completed between 2018 and 2021. The spillway and weir are 99% complete, said Ozuna. One of the dams still needs to be raised. Other than that, the major construction is complete.
All that remains is "touch-up work," said Ozuna. That includes some vegetation restoration, building access roads, and installing instrumentation at the dam. All the construction should be completed by the beginning of 2023, he added.
The last phase of the project will be smaller construction pieces that are not part of the dam such as a new Corps operations facility, dam campground renovations, and a Forest Service visitor's center. Those pieces will start in 2023 and be completed by 2025, said Ozuna.
"By us fixing the dam, we make sure that future generations get to enjoy the benefits of Lake Isabella whether it's for irrigation, whether it is for flood control or whether it is for recreation," said Ozuna.
However, the improvements won't increase the amount of water that can be held in Lake Isabella, which stores a maximum of 568,000 acre-feet.
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Q: Only unit test observable behavior, not system requirements? I'm reading a book on unit testing, below is the code example:
public class User {
   private string _name;
   public string Name {
      get => _name;
      set => _name = NormalizeName(value);
   }

   private string NormalizeName(string name) {
      /* Trim name down to 50 characters */
   }
}

public class UserController {
   public void RenameUser(int userId, string newName) {
      User user = GetUserFromDatabase(userId);
      user.Name = newName;
      SaveUserToDatabase(user);
   }
}

The author says

UserController in this example is an application service. Assuming that the external client doesn't have a specific goal of normalizing user names, and all names are normalized solely due to restrictions from the application itself, the NormalizeName method in the User class can't be traced to the client's needs. Therefore, it's an implementation detail and should be made private. Moreover, tests shouldn't check this method directly. They should verify it only as part of the class's observable behavior-the Name property's setter in this example.

So the author means we shouldn't write a test to test NormalizeName method, instead, we should write a test to test Name property. But image if the developer didn't write NormalizeName method properly and names more than 50 characters are allowed to be input, which will cause an exception thrown later, shouldn't we write a NormalizeName method test to guard this?

A: The author is saying that you should test for this scenario by designing an appropriate test , indirectly, through the public User.name property, not with a test that directly calls NormalizeName.

A: Of course, it is important to test NormalizeName. But you can test it indirectly by testing the property. See this test:
[TestMethod]
public void NameProperty_TrimsLongNames()
{
   // arrange
   User user = new User();
   string name = "very very very long name... and even longer... and still longer";
   string expectedName = "very very very long name... and even longer... an";

   // act
   user.Name = name;

   // assert
   Assert.AreEqual(user.Name, expectedName);
}

By calling the setter, you also call NormalizeName. If this method doesn't work correctly, this test will fail. The fact that the functionality to trim the name is in this method, is an implementation detail. It might also be directly in the setter of the property. Hence you only call the setter in the test, because that is your observable behaviour: If I set the Name property to a new value, long names should be truncated. It is not important, if this is done via a private method, an extension method for the string class or somehow else.

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NFT – who owns the copyright?
by Adam Spencer
The ownership of the copyright of an NFT can vary depending on the specific terms and conditions of the NFT and the platform or marketplace where it is being sold. Generally, the creator of the NFT retains the copyright to the underlying work, but the NFT holder owns the unique digital token that represents the NFT.
When an artist creates an NFT, they typically retain the copyright to the underlying work, but they may choose to license certain rights to the NFT holder, such as the right to display the work or the right to resell the NFT. The terms of this license will be specified in the NFT's smart contract, and can vary from NFT to NFT.
It's important to note that copyright laws and regulations can differ from country to country, so it's important to be aware of the specific laws and regulations that apply to the NFT you are considering purchasing or creating.
It's important for the creators to be aware of their rights and the terms of the contract when creating an NFT and for buyers to understand the rights they are buying when purchasing an NFT. Additionally, it's important to note that the copyright of the underlying work does not affect the ownership of the NFT, that is a separate legal concept.
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With new hires, JCPenney's new CEO outlines turnaround strategy
Six months into the job, JCPenney's new CEO Jill Soltau is filling out her executive team with alumni from Macy's, Walmart, and Target, and signaling that improving pricing and merchandising strategies will be her top priorities.
With declining sales and a high debt to pay off, the hires also give some indication of how Soltau plans to turn the company around.
On Wednesday, JCPenney announced that it had hired a new principal accounting officer, and a new senior vice president for home product design and development. It is also bringing on Trish Adams, formerly Target's executive vice president of its merchandising group, as a strategic advisor. In a press release, JCPenney said that Adams will "evaluate and create plans to simplify and improve the effectiveness and profitability of the Company's pricing and promotional strategies." (JCPenney declined to provide additional comment for this article).
JCPenney's sales declined by 7.1% last year to $11.6 billion, and the company has about $4 billion in debt to pay off. Soltau took over in October for Marvin Ellison, who left to take over the CEO job at Lowe's. Soltau has said that her main priority at JC Penney is to "re-establish the fundamentals of retail."
In bringing on Adams in particular to oversee JCPenney's pricing overhaul, it signals that the company may be trying to take some cues from Target in order to do so. In 2017, the Minneapolis-based retailer decided to streamline its promotional strategy, by getting rid of "two-thirds of its price and call-out offers," that advertised limited-time deals in favor of more consistent promotions.
Tiffany Hogan, an analyst with Kantar Consulting, said that JCPenney would be wise to take a cue from Target's strategy, and simplify its couponing while at the same time making customers confident that they can find could deals every day. On the home page of its website, JCPenney currently advertises up to 50% off for some of its private label brands, an Easter sale, up to 25% off on Nike products, and a buy one get one deal on women's sandals, all of which end at different times.
JCPenney's struggled to establish a consistent pricing strategy over the last five years, thanks in part to churn at the CEO level. Ellison's predecessor Ron Johnson, who left the company in 2013, was criticized for trying too many things at once. He tried, for example, to rid of sales and coupons altogether, and instead emphasizing that JCPenney offered low prices every day — but by getting rid of all of sales and coupons, shoppers felt he moved too drastically.
In her second earnings call in February, Soltau told analysts that she had five other main priorities, in addition to simplifying the promotion strategy: reducing excess inventory, strengthening the company's omnichannel capabilities, redesigning store processes and investing in more tech tools to help associates better serve customers, improving inventory shrink, and "rethinking our merchandise assortments and strategies."
In merchandising, one of Soltau's first steps was to stop selling appliances at JCPenney — something that her predecessor Ellison added — while signaling her intention to invest more in women's apparel. To that end, the February hire of Michelle Wlazlo — formerly Target's senior vice president of merchandise, apparel, and accessories, who also oversaw Target's private label strategy, signals that JCPenney might invest more in private label brands.
"This is someone who looks like they know the apparel business, and has seen it from the old ways of doing business through the new way," Jessica Ramirez, a retail analyst at Hali & Associates said, citing her experience at Gap and Saks Fifth Avenue in addition to Target.
But the biggest challenge Soltau will face is not if she can turn around the company, but if she can do it before JCPenney has to start paying off its mountain of debt.
"They needed to act yesterday rather than tomorrow," Ramirez said.


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Elicited Imitation as a Measure of L2 Implicit Knowledge: An Empirical Validation Study
Erlam, Rosemary
Reference: Applied Linguistics 27(3):464-491 2006
Rights: Copyright: Oxford University Press
A key issue in the field of second language acquisition has been the difficulty of specifying accurate measures of implicit language knowledge. This paper describes the development of an elicited imitation test. Its design differs from that of most other elicited imitation tests in that it (a) requires test takers to focus attention first on the meaning of the utterance before repeating it and (b) some of the sentences that test takers are presented with are grammatical and others are ungrammatical. Test takers are asked to repeat sentences in correct English. It is hypothesized that (a) requiring test takers to respond to the meaning of an utterance reduces the likelihood that they will explicitly focus on linguistic form and thus access explicit language knowledge and that (b) spontaneous correction of incorrect sentences is a powerful indication of participants' constraints on internal grammar (Munnich et al. 1994). The test is trialled on a baseline group of 20 native speakers and a sample of 95 second language learners. Evidence which would suggest that this test is a likely measure of implicit language knowledge is presented.
DOI: 10.1093/applin/aml001


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The 70,285-ton, 2,000-seater Crown Princess-class cruise ship is presently undergoing comprehensive refurbishment at Sembcorp Marine Admiralty Yard in Singapore prior to entering service from Mumbai, India in mid-April 2019. MS Karnika will operate cruises from India and Dubai for the duration of 2019.


BILL MOYERS: I lost a great friend last week, and the world lost a great character. When Charlie Houston died at 96, newspapers took note as far and wide as the INDEPENDENT and the GUARDIAN in Britain, the NEW YORK TIMES and WASHINGTON POST, and the FREE PRESS in Burlington, Vermont, where he lived for more than half his life.
All of them hailed him for his exploits climbing towering mountains, and as a foremost authority on high altitude medicine. They noted his early work on the artificial heart, his game-changing role in World War II, his devotion to teaching medical students.
I remember him for saving my life in India a long time ago when both of us were in the Peace Corps. I remember him for his love of books and phone calls and long conversations, and for his wrestling to make sense of the world's beauty and cruelty - those painful paradoxes he couldn't explain or forget, but which he never let defeat him. Five years ago, as he turned 91, I called on him at his place overlooking Lake Champlain. Here is part of our conversation: What drew you to climbing?
CHARLIE HOUSTON: It's a beautiful thing to do. You're surrounded by beauty. No matter whether it's a storm, or a sunny day, or clouds, or not, the mountains are simply beautiful. I've never been a great climber. I'm just a competent climber and I know my limits. But I love getting out and doing it.
BILL MOYERS: And he's been doing it since he was twelve years old. On a trip to the Alps with his adventuresome parents, he begged to climb a small peak.
CHARLIE HOUSTON: I was sick the whole time. I was scared to death. Came back and I said, "Oh, I've got to do this."
CHARLIE HOUSTON: But that's when I started climbing.
BILL MOYERS: Although you were scared to death, you wanted to climb?
CHARLIE HOUSTON: I was very scared.
BILL MOYERS: While an undergraduate at Harvard he was exploring the Alaska range, including, in 1934, the knife-edge ridges and steep steps of Mount Foraker. Why did you want to go higher and higher?
CHARLIE HOUSTON: Oh, that's a hard question. I suppose it wasn't so much the matter of going higher and higher as it was going where nobody had gone before.
BILL MOYERS: In 1936, after one year in Columbia Medical School, he and three friends mounted an expedition to Nanda Devi in northern India. At 26,660 feet, it was the highest summit ever climbed at the time. You didn't make it to the summit. What happened?
CHARLIE HOUSTON: We went up and we came probably within 300 feet. Got late in the day. It was rather difficult climbing. We knew we could do it the next day, easily. We went back to our tent, opened up a tin of corned beef hash to celebrate. I gave the top of the tin to Odell. I took the bottom. It was a punctured tin. The food was poisoned. And about two hours or an hour later, I was so sick I hoped I would die. I crawled out of the tent, apologizing to Odell every half hour, standing on those tiny platforms vomiting, having diarrhea. Just thinking, "This is the absolute end. It couldn't be any worse." No. I was glad to get off the mountain.
BILL MOYERS: You call that a holiday?
CHARLIE HOUSTON: It was a holiday. Absolute holiday. You have to have a sense of humor. Almost the most important thing is sense of humor. You have to be able to laugh. Especially at yourself. And I always when I found somebody who couldn't laugh at himself, didn't have a sense of humor, didn't take them. I think that's very important. We did not look for stars. We never took superstars. Superstars are temperamental. They want to be the winner. And we wanted a team.
BILL MOYERS: Just two years later in 1938, Charlie would put together a team for one of the biggest challenges in mountaineering. He and his friend Bob Bates were asked by the American Alpine Club to see if they could find a way up the world's second highest mountain, K2 - the "great mountain," as the Chinese called it - five miles high, and more perilous to climb than Mount Everest. Again, just getting to the jumping-off place required endless grit and gumption, this time during a trek of 350 miles.
CHARLIE HOUSTON: We came to the first rope bridges, so-called rope bridges, a euphemism for twisted vines and twigs and branches.
CHARLIE HOUSTON: You're dead. You're dead. It's ice water. Fast water. You're gone. Rope bridges make Christians out of mountaineers.
BILL MOYERS: They set new records, going higher on K2 than anyone before them and finding a ridge from which an assault on the summit seemed feasible.
CHARLIE HOUSTON: And we kept climbing, and climbing, and climbing. We got higher and higher. When we got up to a little over 25 thousand feet, we were in good shape, well-acclimatized. But, believe it or not, we ran out of matches.
CHARLIE HOUSTON: Can't believe it. We ran out of matches. And without matches, you can't make a stove. And without a stove, you can't make water. And without water, you don't live very long. And in those days, you didn't push the envelope the way they do now. The weather was turning bad. We had a ring around the sun. And a storm was coming. So, having found the way up, and getting within a few thousand feet of the summit, we said, "Mission successful." And turned around and went home.
And we celebrated with a little bit of the Hudson Bay Demerara rum and as we started back on the 350-mile walk to Kashmir, we looked at those glorious mountains and I think most of us knew in our hearts that we would be coming back there again.
BILL MOYERS: Reaching those heights as both a climber and doctor, Charlie learned a lot about how the body reacts in thin air. It couldn't have been more timely, because America soon found itself at war. In 1941 he volunteered for the Navy and became a flight surgeon. Aircraft cabins weren't pressurized in those days, but Charlie had a hunch that with special training, pilots could be acclimatized to fly higher than was thought possible. His landmark Operation Everest research climaxed the training of over 50 thousand pilots and air crew in high altitude flying.
CHARLIE HOUSTON: We proved that acclimatization would add 5 thousand feet to the altitude ceiling of a pilot breathing oxygen. That was a great project. Great project.
BILL MOYERS: When the war was over, Charlie returned to his private practice but his mind was still on the mountains, and in 1953 Charlie and Bob Bates returned to K2 with a new team. Little did they know at the time, but they would be recording one of the most gripping sagas in the annals of mountaineering, a story of survival on what became the Savage Mountain.
BILL MOYERS: I looked at the footage you took of that 1953 expedition. The avalanches that kept thundering down around you. The knife edge of ice and snow along which you made your way. The bits of stone that came tumbling down. The ice blowing down the mountain all the time. The wind lifting the fragile little tents you have. I cannot imagine what goes through a man's mind under those elements and against those circumstances.
CHARLIE HOUSTON: I can't say it's fun. We struggled. It's cold. And you're uncomfortable. And, you're always hungry and you're always thirsty. And there are all kinds of problems. But there is that overwhelming sense of being engaged in a great adventure with some good people.
BILL MOYERS: No obstacle was more forbidding than House's Chimney.
CHARLIE HOUSTON: House's Chimney is a narrow crack about two feet wide at the top. And about eight, ten feet wide at the bottom. It goes up this black wall. And it tapers up like that. And you have to get into that chimney. And first, you put your back on one side, and your feet on the other where it's wide. And then you push up and get to where it's more narrow. Then you can do it with your arms and then, finally, you just climb on the rocks. It's a very difficult piece of work at 22 thousand feet. Very distinguished climbers has said it's the hardest climbing at altitude in the Himalayas.
BILL MOYERS: You were making good progress, though, until you came to what you called the black pyramid.
CHARLIE HOUSTON: Yes. Black pyramid is a pyramidal shaped area, where the stone and ice have largely peeled away, and it's just rock. Very smoothly polished rock. And it's very steep, and it's very difficult to find holds and it's a very dangerous place.
BILL MOYERS: You were within striking distance of the summit.
CHARLIE HOUSTON: We were getting close.
CHARLIE HOUSTON: Art Gilkey got out of his tent, in a lull in the storm and fainted. And I examined him and he had blood clots in his leg. And he couldn't walk. And we were now-- we'd come over this horrendous climb up the black pyramid, House's Chimney. How were we going to get him down?
BILL MOYERS: Art Gilkey was 27, from Iowa, a geologist, one of the country's most promising scholars. Everyone knew that if they didn't get him down, Art would die. Bob Bates later wrote that all of them knew that they were beginning the most dangerous day's work of their lifetime.
CHARLIE HOUSTON: I thought our chances were one in ten of surviving. But there was no choice. I mean, looking back on it, we've been very roundly criticized, by risking the lives of five people to save one. But we, as far as we were concerned, there was no choice. We were going to try to get him down or else. We were going to do it.
BILL MOYERS: It was a nightmare descent. Inch by inch they crept down. Until-- disaster.
CHARLIE HOUSTON: One of the party slipped and fell, and pulled each of us off in turn. Pete Schoening is up here. Art is hanging by a rope from underneath Pete. And we're down here, and we've fallen in such a way that the ropes got tangled. So here's Pete up there, holding all six of us on a rope. Nylon rope. Which he said stretched and then stopped.
BILL MOYERS: They were all injured. Charlie was knocked unconscious, with a concussion. Somehow miraculously, as they would remember it, they managed to regroup. But bundled in his sleeping bag, and anchored by two ice axes, Art Gilkey was separated from the group. They had to bring him over.
CHARLIE HOUSTON: Three people went back to try to bring Art across this ice slope to us. And he was gone. There was no trace. And at the time, we assumed-- we believed that an avalanche had taken him. And we hadn't heard it, we hadn't seen it. We were only 150 feet away. But we hadn't heard it or seen it.
But we believe that an avalanche had taken him away. But whatever it was, we were then free. And as I look back on it, and I haven't said this before, as I look back on it, I think it's more than likely that Art Gilkey, knowing that we were hurt, knowing that we would never leave him, and knowing that we probably couldn't get him down-- I believe that he wiggled himself loose, and gave up his life to save ours.
BILL MOYERS: It would be five agonizing days before they reached base camp.
CHARLIE HOUSTON: What got us down that mountain was that we were a team bonded together.
BILL MOYERS: In your film you use an expression I've never heard before. You talk about the "fellowship of the rope." What is that?
CHARLIE HOUSTON: You knew that your life was in the hands of somebody else, and his was in your hands. And it made you climb perhaps more carefully. You didn't push the envelope quite so hard. But it also gave you a feeling of-- I don't think people spoke about this. Maybe even didn't think about it. But we did realize that there was an emotional or a psychological bond between us. That was at least as important as the physical bond. And that's why climbing with rope is-- To some extent, it's more dangerous, because if one man pulls, slips and pulls you off, you're both gone. But on the other hand, as happened in our case, the fact that we were roped together saved all our lives.
This is base camp. August 16th, and our badly battered expedition is down here again, and we're going to talk over the events of the last three weeks.
BILL MOYERS: At base camp they treated their injuries, held a service in memory of Art, and started the long trip home across those 350 miles of rugged terrain.
CHARLIE HOUSTON: I just sat down and thought, "I don't want to do that again. I've got a wife and three kids I love. I've got my practice of medicine, which I love. I'm done with that. Off with it."
BILL MOYERS: Just like that?
CHARLIE HOUSTON: I went cold turkey, gave it up. And I just came to the point where I really didn't want to take that risk again. Turned to other things.
BILL MOYERS: He would take all he had learned on those mountains and put it to the service of medicine, founding a new clinic in the Rockies, teaching community medicine at the University of Vermont, writing scores of articles and books, including the bible of high altitude medicine.
BILL MOYERS: Why was it the best?
CHARLIE HOUSTON: This was a great adventure for all of us. We all went there, not that we were going to get rich or fat or famous or anything like that. We went there because this was an exciting challenge.
This was reaching beyond your grasp. This is basically-- it's the-- even pygmies standing on the shoulders of giants can reach, can see further than the giants can. And it's part of the-- whatever you can do or think you can begin it, boldness has power and magic and genius in it. So, we were doing something beyond our reach, and trying to do something bigger than ourselves.
BILL MOYERS: A final word about Charlie Houston. He could be ornery, blunt, and sometimes insufferable, but to the end he was a deeply moral man, and a real patriot. Virtually blind in his later years, he would go down to the city park in Burlington, stand on a soap box, and speak out against the shameful absence of universal medical care in America. Then he would go home and sit quietly while his neighbor, Anne-Marie Littenberg, read to him -- one hour, five days a week -- everything from Churchill's HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES and TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD to Paul Scott's RAJ QUARTET. My friend who had conquered the thin air of the heights, found in the slender pages of a book his highest delight.
There's more about Charlie on our website, including my full interview with him, some other footage of his expeditions, and links to his written work. Log onto PBS.org and click on "Bill Moyers Journal."
That's it for this week. I'm Bill Moyers. See you next time.


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Rise early to enjoy a delicious breakfast at your hotel, pick up at 0800hr for your 6 Days Amboseli Nakuru Masai Mara Safari. Depart by road to Amboseli National Park. There you will experience your first game drive en-route to your lodge. The Park shelters more than 420 species of birds and has enormous Elephant population and other big game attracted to the area by underground springs fed from the melting snows of Mount Kilimanjaro. Lunch is served at the lodge, before departing for an afternoon game drive. Return to the lodge and enjoy a scrumptious dinner.
This morning we rise early for good views of Mount Kilimanjaro before clouds build up over the summit, we set off for a game drive. Amboseli is an excellent place to view a multitude of wildlife, including everything from Wildebeest to Giraffes to Baboons. A visit to a Masai village is planned after breakfast. Midday finds us at our lodge for lunch and afternoon rest, followed by another game drive. Amboseli is home to the legendary Masai tribesmen. Masai warriors are famous and are proud nomadic tribe whose legendary prowess in battle and single-handed acts of bravery in fights with the wild animals are known across the world.
Depart Amboseli after breakfast .Our destination today is Lake Nakuru National Park. We stop for lunch at an upscale restaurant in Nairobi and reach the Park in time for an afternoon game drive, on which we can expect to see buffalo, rhino, giraffe, zebra, antelope and the lions that prey on them as well as vast flocks of flamingos clustered near the lake shore. Lake Nakuru is famous for having the highest concentration of flamingos in the world and is home to over three hundred bird species. It is a sanctuary for both the Black and White Rhinos. Also found in plenty are zebras, waterbucks, buffaloes and warthogs. Leopards are sometimes seen sleeping on the horizontal branches of the "Fever trees". Supper is at our lodge overlooking the lake.
After breakfast, depart for Masai Mara Game Reserve. Travel through the Masai country occasionally coming across Masai herdsmen with their livestock living harmoniously with the wildlife. After lunch at your residence lodge another game run is planned in these vast rolling grasslands. Here we find the Old Africa of the movies, with rolling grasslands dotted by acacia trees and sweeping plains teeming with Wildlife. No matter how much you have thought about Africa, this is more than you expected—and the ideal backdrop for a hot air balloon expedition. During our stay we also visit a village of the Masai people to witness the singing and dancing that are part of their daily lives and sacred rituals. A glimpse into their homes and social structure is a poignant experience.
Morning and afternoon game drives in this magnificent Park. Masai Mara is famous for the Annual Wildebeest Migration that takes place between the months of July and October. During this time over a million wildebeests accompanied by thousands of other herbivores, migrate from Serengeti National Park to the Mara in search for greener pastures. Hundreds of lions and hyenas follow them picking on the old and weaker ones. The legendary black mane lion is only found in Masai Mara. The cheetah hunts best in these open grasslands.


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Zodiac and the Ends of Cinema
William "Bill" Blick
More than a Wink: The Nature of Reality in Blow-Up and Las Babas del Diablo
Will Hair
Daydreaming Through Boundaries: A Conversation with Queena Li
Hu, King
The 6th CPH PIX
From London to Xanadu: Dickens and the Dream of Cinema by Grahame Smith
Rebel Without a Cause
The Connection (1961 USA 110 mins)
Prod: Lewis Allen, Shirley Clarke Dir, Ed: Shirley Clarke Scr: Jack Gelber, from his play Phot: Arthur J. Ornitz Art Dir: Albert Brenner Mus: Freddie Redd
Cast: Warren Finnerty, Jerome Raphael, Garry Goodrow, James Anderson, Carl Lee, Barbara Winchester, Henry Proach
It began in the 1950s. Angel-headed hipsters were making some noise in coffee houses and on the page. The Beats made some cracks in the stifling façade of 1950s America, and soon dynamic, independent filmmakers got the vibe. A new type of cinema was born. Shirley Clarke was one such filmmaker who got the vibe and became a leader of the American avant-garde cinema.
In 1953 Clarke made her film debut with Dance in the Sun and was nominated for an Academy Award for her short film, Skyscraper, in 1960. In 1961 she produced her first feature, the highly controversial The Connection, which won the critic's prize at Cannes. The Connection is a hybrid of cinema verité, nouvelle vague sensibilities and the pulse of American bohemia. The film was banned because of its obscenity and the way its frank depiction of drug culture made some critics uncomfortable. It brilliantly captures the be-bop infused counter-culture of the early 1960s with as high a level of verisimilitude as one can get.
The Connection depicts the same type of angel-headed hipsters that Kerouac coloured his books with, and is set in a one-room tenement where junkies, musicians, and other dudes await the arrival of the Cowboy. The Cowboy is their "Connection" who will provide them with their heroin fix. All the while, Clarke shows us a documentary filmmaker who wants to capture the hip scene encouraging his subjects to just "act naturally" in front of the camera. Like many other filmmakers and artists of the period, "acting naturally" is the key to Clarke's work. In letting it all hang out, a new aesthetic seemed to sprout.
Clarke based The Connection on a Jack Gelber play of the same name, which was performed at the historic Living Theater in New York. Full of jump-cuts, sloppy camera-handling, and improvised dialogue, The Connection serves as a reminder that filmmaking can maintain an intoxicating chaos in spite of the very rigid technical limitations of the medium. The film may be short on plot and character development, but is technically innovative and reminds the viewer of the unlimited potential of cinema.
While Clarke was a highly innovative filmmaker on the level of experimental, cinematic virtuosos such as John Cassavettes and influential cinema verité practitioners such as the Maysles Brothers and D. A. Pennebaker, she undeservedly received less notoriety. Clarke shows an adept hand at jazz-like constructions of image and sound and the film's recreation of a junkie haze is as intense as anything you're likely to encounter from that era.
Clarke was a dancer and choreographer before she delved into cinema, and she has often been quoted as saying that her films were "a choreography of images". The Connection is often a rambling, chaotic display of debauchery and suffers from over-hip pretensions. However, the wrangling of wild, spontaneous footage into a semi-cohesive form while still maintaining its authenticity and molding a narrative is what Clarke's film pulls off.
Among some of the most memorable characters in the film are the sarcastic Leach, played convincingly by Warren Finnerty, and the super-cool Carl Lee as Cowboy. However, Clarke manages to elicit solid performances from all of the ensemble. The film quietly jangles the nerves as the characters descend into withdrawal.
Clarke's film depicts a generation who seeks drugs and alcohol to assuage feelings of disillusionment. While certainly more objective than most social commentary, The Connection does have a social heartbeat. The dramatic situation it offers can be applied to a larger social context and lends itself to any number of interpretations about the hypocritical society that these characters inhabit.
For all its pretensions and sometimes frustrating lack of coherency, The Connection maintains an appeal that has held over the years. It is also a testament to an important pioneer of experimental film. Shirley Clarke's work should continue to be screened, studied, and discussed, as she remains an iconoclastic artist who is vital to the development of the medium.
Carlo Di Palma: An Appreciation and a Remembrance
Welcome to Issue 33 of our journal!
Bill Blick is an Assistant Professor and Librarian at Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York. He has published work and presented on film, popular culture, librarianship, and literature in many different venues, and has previously published CTEQ Annotations and Key Moments in Australian Cinema for Senses of Cinema.
"The Far Side of Paradise": Douglas Sirk's There's Always Tomorrow
Adrian Danks
Dan Harper