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Press: Intl. community proposes autonomy for N. Kosovo
Source: Beta
PRIŠTINA -- International representatives have suggested Kosovo institutions to provide a special status for north Kosovo, Priština press writes.
An administrative crossing in Kosovo (Tanjug, file)
Priština-based Albanian language daily Zeri has reported that Belgrade is familiar with the proposal.
Zeri's sources say that the EU member states in coordination with other factors "have opened up the issue with Kosovo officials".
"We still have nothing for public even though talks about the issue between the international and Kosovo officials are underway. The proposal would preserve Kosovo's borders and it would at the same time satisfy Belgrade by giving a special status, some sort of autonomy to the northern municipalities," the daily's source was quoted as saying.
The special status would allow the municipalities in north Kosovo to have higher authorities and some sort of self-government.
The daily's source added that Belgrade was informed and that "reactions from both sides are expected"..............................
http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2011&mm=08&dd=13&nav_id=75901
Ex-communist Europe
Eastern approaches
Macedonia's prime minister
A profile of Gruevski
Aug 12th 2011, 16:53 by T.J.
On July 28th "European Voice", the Economist's sister EU-affairs newspaper, published my profile of Nikola Gruevski, Macedonia's prime minister. With the odd adjustment for style, here it is.
MACEDONIANS either love him or loathe him. To his detractors, Nikola Gruevski, who was confirmed as prime minister for a third term on July 28th, is corrupt, a populist, a ruthless Machiavellian and an enemy of a free media. "No, no, no," say his supporters. He is as clean as a whistle, modest, the scourge of tax-dodging tycoons and a family-values man to his core.
The divisiveness of the dominant figure in Macedonian politics is not simply a matter of domestic concern. Macedonia has been a candidate for membership of the European Union since 2005, was close to civil war a decade ago, and has been embroiled in a bitter conflict with Greece over its name for almost 20 years.
Born in 1970, Mr Gruevski was brought up in a family that was neither privileged nor poor. His father worked in furniture and design; his mother was a nurse and, after his parents' divorce, it was she who brought him up. When he was four, she went to work in Libya, like thousands of other Macedonians, and took him with her.
That was a brief episode in a childhood in which the young Gruevski dreamt of being a doctor, a footballer or a cosmonaut. One thing he says he did not think about much was politics—or, for that matter, the story of his paternal family.
His father was born in northern Greece; his grandfather, mobilised by the Greek army, was killed fighting the Italians in Albania after Italy's invasion in 1941. Then, in the wake of Greece's civil war, like thousands of other Slavs in Greek Macedonia the family fled north to what was then Yugoslav Macedonia. Maybe this is an emotional component of the story of the struggle with Greece? No, says Mr Gruevski; until recently he was never that interested in the story. Nor, he says, did he feel especially moved when he visited the ancestral village in 2001.
The young Gruevski's family did not talk much about politics, with one exception. Jordan Miljakov, his uncle, "talked about politics all the time". Mr Mijalkov was the representative of a Macedonian textile firm in the then Czechoslovakia. When Yugoslavia began collapsing, Mr Gruevski thought of joining his uncle and going to film school there.
He opted, instead, for economics at home. And Mr Mijalkov became the first interior minister in the government that led Macedonia to independence in 1991.
Mr Mijalkov's memory is cherished by many. It was he who ordered the seizure of Yugoslav army documents, which meant that the army could not mobilise Macedonians to fight in Croatia. Soon afterwards, he was killed in a suspicious car accident in Serbia.
The incident did not force Mr Gruevski into political activism, but he did hang out with members of the nationalist party that he now leads, whose name is so long that even its initials are laborious: VMRO-DPMNE.
After university, where he dabbled in amateur dramatics and boxing, Mr Gruevski entered the nascent finance sector and was the first person to trade on Skopje's stock exchange. In 1996, he entered politics, becoming a local councillor in the capital. The next year he began writing on economics. This was how he first made a name as an economist. In 1998, he was minister of trade, and in 1999 became minister of finance.
Today, say the name "Gruevski" and one might think of the giant bronze statue of Alexander the Great that has just been unveiled in Skopje, or all the other statues of saints and politicians that are being erected every week as part of a policy of boosting national identity. But a few years ago it was different. This was the man who began deregulating the economy, introduced VAT, a flat tax and restituted property taken by the communists.
In many respects, Mr Gruevski was, for his party, the right man in the right place at the right time. With communism gone and Macedonia independent, the technocratic, English-speaking Mr Gruevski was just the type the party needed to refresh itself. But few would have expected the economics-focused whizz-kid to outsmart his opponents, come to lead his party, and win three elections in a row.
The first years after he became prime minister in 2006 were characterised by growth and a focus on the economy. Then came the 2008 Bucharest NATO summit at which Greece effectively vetoed Macedonia's accession, because of the name issue. "I was shocked," says Mr Gruevski. From then on, the focus changed, a shift perhaps also encouraged by the world economic crisis. Unemployment now stands at 31.7%. Mr Gruevski played the national card and won.
Many Macedonians have literally wept with joy to see the statue of Alexander, but for Macedonia's socialist opposition Mr Gruevski is the devil incarnate.
Take the case of A1 television. A1 was a beacon of the free media, they say, and now it has been virtually killed off for its criticism of Mr Gruevski. Three newspapers from the same group have just closed their doors. Nonsense, says Mr Gruevski's camp: Velija Ramkovski, the owner, never paid his taxes and then used A1 and its journalists as a human shield when raided by the police.
Some non-partisans are unconvinced. "When it comes to power he is a boxer," says one source, "and he won't stand in the way of people taking out opposition media. He is vindictive and when it comes to the media he is totally selective when it comes to implementing the law." For such delicate issues, the prime minister needs someone he can really trust, they say—and they point out that the country's security chief is Mr Gruevski's cousin, Saso Mijalkov, the son of Jordan Mijalkov.
And Greece? After the Bucharest summit, Mr Gruevski launched a case against it at the International Court of Justice. But, he says, the chances of a deal in this complex issue are "much better than before". He gets on with George Papandreou, Greece's prime minister; he and Papandreou's predecessor, Kostas Karamanlis, detested each other.
He has had more success with Macedonia's ethnic-Albanian population, which makes up about a quarter of the country's 2m people. Ten years ago, Macedonia teetered on the brink of an all-out civil war pitting ethnic Albanian guerrillas against the security forces. Now Mr Gruevski is in coalition with Ali Ahmeti, the former leader of those guerrillas. The new government has an Albanian minister of defence and deputy prime minister in charge of European integration.
Both Albanians and Macedonians grumble, but as one EU official remarks: "We'd kill for a government like that in Bosnia." The price for this second coalition, though, was somewhat distasteful: four war-crimes cases against Albanians have been set aside.
"Nikola is just Nikola", chortles a friend. Ordinary people can identify with him, he is like the bloke next door—and he is literally that, because he disdains his official residence, preferring to live in his small flat, with his wife and two small children. And, notes the friend, to win so many elections he must be doing something right, after all.
"Albanian Jokes ......."
Apollonia Park, discovered a skeleton of Turkish soldiers
In the ancient city of Apollonia found a skeleton believed to be the time of the First World War. According to Arjan Dimo archaeologist, who discovered the tomb, some bones have been identified in north-eastern area of the temple. Since 2000 this area has excavated an Albanian-French expedition of archaeologists.
Following information received, but based on objects found within the tomb, found that the skeleton belongs to a soldier. In this country are also found two other graves, skeletons found believed to be Turkish soldiers who are buried in this area.
Dimo, an archaeologist shows to find a coin, which belongs to the year 1918 and some buttons that may be of military clothing. According to him remains to verify the nationality of the skeletons discovered.
Often, the Albanian media, enthusiast, from ancient Hellenistic culture, feelings are ridiculed by the population which has inherited these monuments, in Southern Albania. We hope that this discovery with Turkish soldier in the ancient city of Apollonia Hellen, be the last joke.
http://www.shekulli.com.al/shekulli/2011/08/12/apoloni-gjenden-eshtrat-e-ushtarit-turk/
Big Protest of Himara NGO in Drymades for property registration process
"The properties belong to our generations of Himara Region"
Under the initiative of non-governmental organizations and especially the Coastal Association and the "Himara Community", today in Potam, in Drymades, the protest rally was organized for the owners of Himara Region "The Properties belonge to Himara legal generations." The meeting, which is held annually in Drymades (Dhermi), force was asked to respect the Constitution of Albania for the legal inheritance of property and non-law 7501, lecture held by the President of the Coastal Association Niko Nesturi and many other representatives.
In protest were also invited representatives of the OSCE, Mayor George Goro, the company representatives, "Lorenzo & Compani" who perform registration, U.S. citizen originally from Himara and many immigrants who live and work in Europe especially in Greece. With unanimous voices by protesters, decided by a resolution to urge the Albanian Government and International Institutions, to observe the Constitution of Albania as a legitimate claim on the property total return to Himara legal inhabitantes and non-registration of property placed in service by the albanian Mafia.
Among the speakers, there were complaints of the seized property and lands in the permit to the Orthodox Church, and one anonymous names convictions surfaces, the major charges against government officials, politicians and people who have no ownership title in by their generations of Himara Region.
Finally drafted a resolution to the Albanian government and international institutions urging "Our Property belong to Himara legitimacy generations."
"Dialogue should continue as soon as possible"
Source: Tanjug
PRIŠTINA -- German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle met in Thursday in Priština with Kosovo Albanian PM Hashim Thaci.
Guido Westerwelle
Westerwelle said that the agreement on resolution of the crisis in the north of Kosovo should be implemented by all sides and that the dialogue between Belgrade and Priština ought to be continued as soon as possible.
"The dialogue ought to be continued as soon as possible. It is vital that all disagreements be resolved through dialogue," Westerwelle said at a press conference.
According to him, the EU is committed to the principle of cooperation, and not confrontation, and unilateral solutions are unacceptable.
The German foreign minister reiterated his country's stand that the issue of Kosovo's "sovereignty and integrity" was a closed chapter and that the map of the Balkans was final.
Westerwelle also urged other EU member states which have not recognized the Kosovo independence to do that as soon as possible.
Five out of EU's 27 members have not recognized the ethnic Albanian unilateral declaration of independence made over three years ago.
Himara Region, at the height of tourist season without light
Although Prime Minister Berisha is on vacation in Drymades, Himara Municipality, nationalist elements within the Corporate Power, tend to undermine tourism in the beautiful region of Albania
Southern Region of Albania, Saranda and especially Himara Region, have been attacked by major interruption of electricity, the very height of tourist season in which according to Prime Minister Berisha, Albania, "has exploded in terms of tourism this year."
But the resources SManalysis, say elements of the Albanian nationalist opposition, have sabotaged tourism in Southern Albania, especially after the declaration of premier in the government meeting, "there is an explosion of tourism to Albania."
As a result, the most region with full taxpayer in Albania, the Himara Region, has been without lights and thousands of tourists have experienced moments without unwanted light.
Albanian Secret Service SHISH in crisis, two years without benefit diets
Officers and agents say that the debt to them ranges from 500 to 1500 Euros
The economic crisis in Albania and the lack of funds for necessary services, not aside the National Intelligence Service.The crisis in them seems to have started long ago, because according to information in these structures, since two years they do not take money diet. Although many cases have identified the movement for work at home and abroad, it seems that the government has forgotten to give money for secret service agents. Indeed, in some cases reach values back to 1500 euros per person.
State Information Service secrets seem to work but has kept secret for two consecutive years, its problems, with the hope that it will be resolved"Sources at the National Intelligence Service show that, during these two years are as different services performed within the territory of Albania and abroad. Most services have been working, but does not exclude the case of joint training. However, all these services have been planned with the diets of expenses.But, in fact, so far not been given any funds to benefit the officers and agents denied money.........
more see: http://www.gazeta-shqip.com/#/politike/2391e785abf87d89cb308eefcf51697c.html
Dule: Changes in registration law does not guarantee standards
HURP's head, Vangjel Dule, expressed the conviction of the necessity of the census provided for in September, but has expressed his reservations regarding the achievement of European standards in this process.
"We notice with regret that the recent amendments to the law on census abolished the essential right of self-declaration, it penalized at the same time violated the principle of confidentiality of census data. Consequently, such a record can not be standards, but a hybrid recording where one side wants the government to throw ashes in the eyes of the international community will in fact have a record similar to those developed in the totalitarian system, "Dule said.
Dule said that by law, information campaigns for the population should have begun already.
"Functional commissions should be responsible for keeping the census on top of their heads of regions. We have yet to determine regional councils and elected mayors are not the counties, "said Dule.
NATO increased the surveillance for Albania
NATO restricted to Albania the access to classified information about nuclear issues. In the last parliamentary session, approved an initiative in which ratified the "Protocol amending the annex security agreement between the parties to the North Atlantic Treaty on cooperation for nuclear information."
Change of this protocol provides more supervision for Albania regarding the way of preserving the documents.
Also, in this agreement are changed the rules about receiving classified information. According to experts of the Ministry of Defense and the Department of Security of Classified Information, all data and confidential information on atomic matters must first be filtered by the headquarters of NATO.
Moreover, the inspection of NATO in Albania which would be conducted once a year, as was previously determined, now it left open the possibility to be realized at any time, writes the daily newspaper "Shqip".
NATO Commander Erhard Bühler, ready for "marriage" in Kosovo
Commander of KFOR, Erhard Bühler these days would leave Kosovo after the mission ends.
Although called a year commitment in place to complete the work initiated mediation on the situation in the north, NATO heads of his contract does not continue.
However Germany is emotionally attached to the Albanians. Klan Kosovo reported that he will not leave Kosovo alone but with an Albanian bride, which was announced in Prizren in 2004 while serving in the German troops.
http://www.gazetatema.net/web/?p=34859
Erhard Bühler, ready for marriage in Kosovo
Bust Unveiled in Memory of Aris Goumas
The annual memorial service for the 37-year-old Northern Epirot Aristotle Goumas was held in a highly charged atmosphere, on Sunday morning in Chimara.
Goumas was assassinated on August 12, 2010 by a group of seven Albanian nationalists. Then, in an electrifying atmosphere amid controversy in the classes of the Greek minority, a bust was unveiled of the man, who was featured as a national martyr by the Association of Chimara people and the Annex of Omonia which had the organizational initiative of the event.
The Church of Albania did not attend this event and had expressed before its disagreement about the political nature of the event and participated only in the memorial ceremony, celebrated by the Metropolitan of Argirokastro, Dimitrios. The event was also attended by Kozani MP and Head of Sector for Rural Development of New Democracy Party, George Kasapidis, and LAOS Member, Babis Karathanos, as well as Northern Epirot organizations. The Greek government was not represented in the event.
Mitropolit leader, accuses "Omonia": You sold our properties"
Metropolitan of the Orthodox Church in southern Albania Demetrios, has accused "Omonia" that has sold the church property and on them were built hotels
According to Albanian press during the ceremony in the Church on the occasion of anniversary of the death of Aristotle Guma, Metropolitan of the Orthodox church in southern Albania Demetrios, has accused leaders of "Omonia" for the properties that have been abused by the Community of Orthodox Church in Himara Region.
Meanwhile, a series of permits for construction in the way of abuse, are issued by the Municipality of Himara, just in the properties of the Orthodox Church. The first denunciation of Mayor George Goro, who has declared for the Albanian press, they are investigating in connection with the grant of construction permits, persons who have not had the title and the result is included in the Albanian Mafia.
Interesting is the fact that Himara Municipality has also abused in relation to local taxes, adding them four times over, on those established by the Parliament of Albania
http://www.panorama.com.al/aktualitet/guma-shpallet-hero-grek-bust-ne-kishen-e-himares
Tourism in Albania 2011: Record Numbers Crossing the Border
Lonely Planet's Top Recommendation for 2011 continues to post impressive tourism statistics, with high numbers crossing Greek and Kosovar borders.
Albania's tourism industry continues to impress, with a record number of visitors crossing the border this weekend, according to a report in regional news portal Balkans.com on August 8 2011.
Record Numbers Entering Albania
According to the report, some 57,255 people entered the country over the weekend, with the main activity recorded at the Morine crossing bordering Kosovo, where some 22,000 people entered on Saturday. There was also strong activity on the southern Kakavija crossing with Greece, with 9,500 entrees on Saturday, as well as a high number of arrivals in the country's main port of Durres.
The record numbers come on the back of impressive statistics released by Tirana International Airport last month, which reported a 23% increase in passenger numbers in the first half of 2011, with 793,984 flying into the Albanian capital between January and June.
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Spahiu discusses Albania's census, legal system
Concern is high as a wave of Albanians file forms changing their ethnicity to Greek ahead of the October census.
By Linda Karadaku for Southeast European Times in Tirana
Deputy Chairman of the Albanian High Council of Justice Kreshnik Spahiu. [Albert Myftaraj/SETimes]
"Going Greek" in Albania reportedly is worth a monthly pension of 400 euros. As thousands of Albanians flock to change their ethnicity, Deputy Chairman of the Albanian High Council of Justice Kreshnik Spahiu says the trend could be detrimental to the upcoming census in Albania.
Spahiu discusses his views on the situation in an exclusive interview with SETimes correspondent Linda Karadaku.
SETimes: You have strongly opposed the change of ethnicity of Albanian citizens in domestic courts for the sake of Greek financial benefits. Do you have accurate figures on the number of Albanians who have changed nationality?
Kreshnik Spahiu: In an inspection done by the High Council of Justice on the decisions related to the change of nationality by the courts, preliminary figures show about 4,000 citizens who have changed nationality based on judicial decisions since 2003. However, a much higher number, some hundreds and thousands of others, have changed nationality based on administrative proceedings in the civil registry offices.
What I want to emphasise at this point is the fact that most of changes of nationality have not taken place based on judicial decisions or in a judicial way, because this has been the hardest way. The changes initially occurred in an administrative way, intervening in an illegal way in the civil registry.
SETimes: Which areas of Albania have been the most problematic?
Spahiu: Most cases are in courts in southern Albania, bordering Greece, such as Saranda, Gjirokastra, Tepelena, and Korca. In about 99% of cases, even those in courts that are not on the southern border, nationality has been changed from Albanian to Greek.
SETimes: Is the justice system part of the problem? Are Albanian laws part of the problem?
Spahiu: The judicial system certainly has its share of guilt, but legislation in this regard has been problematic and difficult to interpret, especially with the inclusion of ethnicity as a component of the civil registry in 2002. Until then it was not so.
SETimes: You have also objected to the census on ethnic and religious basis. What are your arguments against this kind of census and what might be the consequences for Albania?
Spahiu: There is no reason to have a census based on religion in a state which is neutral in religious matters, such as the Albanian state. We seek to protect registration on objective criteria, legal order and national security, [to protect] the truth from purchase, forgery and abuse, and the dignity of the Albanian citizens forced by circumstances to change nationality.
What is endangered is not only truth, but also national identity and peaceful coexistence between religious communities and minorities and ethnic minorities...................
Maintaining Reforms Is In Greece's Interest
Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS
Athenians drive their cars in front of the Central Bank of Greece building in central Athens on Monday, July 25, 2011.
The challenge for Greece now will be to keep moving forward with the same commitment.
Greece is facing great economic challenges. The United States, said U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, stands with the Greek people as a friend and ally and strongly supports the government's efforts to make the necessary reforms to put Greece back on sound financial footing. Committing to bring down the deficit and passing the medium-term fiscal strategy, said Secretary Clinton, were vital first steps. Those acts of leadership will help build a better economic future for Greece.
The challenge for Greece now will be to keep moving forward with the same commitment to make good on the fiscal targets and continue to deliver reform that drives future growth. In many cases, these changes will require immediate and sustained implementation. The price of inaction would have been far higher in the future. The steps ahead will not be pain-free, Secretary Clinton acknowledged, but there is a path forward to restore Greece's economic stability and to restore Greece's economic strength. And so what the United States believes Greece must do now is bring its economy back to health. In that effort, Secretary Clinton stressed, Greece will have the full support of the United States.
In addition to economic issues, Secretary Clinton discussed the longstanding strategic partnership between the United States and Greece. She thanked Greece for its commitment to that relationship, and the support it has provided through NATO in Libya, as well as to its contributions in Kosovo and Afghanistan.
During the visit, the U.S. and Greece also signed an important cultural preservation agreement that will protect Greece's cultural heritage by strengthening collaboration to reduce looting and trafficking of antiquities. Under the agreement, it will become illegal to import protected items into the United States.
During her stay in Athens, Secretary Clinton emphasized that the United States and Greece are bound together not just by shared challenges, but by shared values. That's why the United States stands by the people and government of Greece as they put their country back on a path to economic stability and prosperity.
Thaci: Kosovo's borders change varies the boundaries of six countries in the region
Prishtina, August 8, 2011, NOA - Two weeks from the action of the special police in Kosovo to seize control of two border crossings in the north, Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci said in an interview with Voice of America that blocked roads in northern Kosovo will end and the implementation of the agreement with NATO to overcome the situation in parts of the country it means establishing law and order throughout Kosovo.
Kosovo's chief executive ruled out any possibility of partitioning Kosovo, underlining that any claim to change the borders of Kosovo, would mean changing the boundaries of at least six Balkan states. Speaking to the action of taking control of border crossings in northern Kosovo, Thaci reiterated that the goal was first fully respect the decision of the Government of the Republic of Kosovo for reciprocity.
According to the Prime Minister to control point 1 and 31 where now for the first time after 12 years no person may pass without being identified.
Speaking for talks to resolve the situation, Thaci said that Kosovo's north would not be at the negotiating table in any circumstance.
He said the best solution is full respect for the Constitution and laws of Kosovo is essential.
According to the prime choice of tension in the north will come to unlocking the road with a restricted military area and the presence of international institutions and the Republic of Kosovo there.
The Pan Epiriotean Federation of USA and the Northern Epirus Society of Boston held a memorial service for Aristotelis Goumas in Peobody MA.
Serbs in Kosovo urged to "always side with their state"
RUDARE -- Representatives of Serbs from northern Kosovo met with the citizens at the barricades in Rudare, near the town of Zvečan.
Radenko Nedeljković (Tanjug)
They were told that Serbia stands firmly behind them, and called on to support the top state officials.
That would serve "mutual interests", the Serbs who have been keeping the barricades for two weeks were told today, according to a Tanjug news agency report.
Together with Kosovska Mitrovica District chief Radenko Nedeljković and President of the Zvečan Municipal Assembly Dobrosav Dobrić, Kosovska Mitrovica Mayor Krstimir Pantić informed Serbs in Rudare about the meeting with Serbian President Boris Tadić, which took place in Belgrade late on Sunday.
"The state of Serbia is standing firmly behind us and supports what we are doing, and it i s our obligation to stand by our country and support it even when we are not completely in favor of certain ideas, because this serves our mutual interests," the Kosovska Mitrovica mayor said.
Serbs in north "to work to implement agreement"
Source: B92, Tanjug
BELGRADE -- Representatives of Serbs from northern Kosovo met with Boris Tadić in Belgrade late on Sunday and agreed to work to implement the agreement reached with KFOR.
A statement from the president's cabinet said that the meeting concluded that the northern part of the province needed peace and unity above all else, and that international institutions there - KFOR and EULEX - "must remain status-neutral".
Kosovska Mitrovica District chief Radenko Nedeljković told reporters after the meeting with Tadić that northern Serbs informed him about the security in the north of the province and "communicated to him that they insisted on a strict adherence to UN Security Council Resolution 1244".
Nedeljković said it was agreed to continue cooperation with the international community, that the Serb representatives were told they had full cooperation and support of the institutions of Serbia, and that local representatives will work with top state officials to solve problems in the north.
Nedeljković said that the three-hour meeting with Tadić also touched on other obligations stemming from the temporary agreement the government reached with KFOR last week, in a bid to defuse the crisis which broke out when Kosovo Albanian authorities on July 15 tried to take over two administrative line checkpoints in the Serb north.
However, Nedeljković was did not say whether all three barricades that Serbs put up since, blocking roads in the north, will be removed, saying that undisturbed traffic and freedom of movement will "certainly be secured", and mentioned the Rudare barricade as "the only problem".
Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanović who was also present at the meeting held at the presidency building in Belgrade said he believed that Serbs from northern Kosovo would remove the barricades because their representatives said they supported the deal reached between the government and KFOR, and called on the local authorities to decide on this issue "with cool heads and without emotions".
Himara, August 7, 2011
The Anniversary of the death of Aristotel Gouma
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Red & Black Alliance: The establishment of the bust of Guma, a provocation of the remembrance of the dead
Albanian nationalists represented by the Black Red Alliance has reacted to the establishment of the bust of Aristotle Guma, in Himara, calling the move a provocation that made the memory of the dead.
"Bust is set arbitrarily OMONIA," said the Alliance's response for the Albanian media, according to which plaque and bust of A. Guma writes that he was killed in defense of the mother tongue.
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Celtic Park or Parkhead as it is also known is the home of Celtic FC and the ground opened on 20th August 1892 and by 1897 had a cinder 440y running track inside a 3.5 laps to the mile cement cycle track. The 1897 World Cycling Championships were held here and there were regular athletics meetings around this time but none are believed to have been taken place since at least the 2nd World War. In 1928 the ground staged the first speedway meeting in Scotland. The running track was removed when the ground started to be redeveloped in 1994. It is not known when the cycle one was removed.


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A great team in engineering
From humble beginnings as mechanical apprentices in Wales and Ireland, Sir David McMurtry and John Deer met in the library at Rolls-Royce in Bristol. Together they founded Renishaw, a company with physics, engineering and innovation at its heart. The Gloucestershire-based company has become one of the world's foremost manufacturers of precision measurement equipment with a valuation of over £1billion.
"David's strength is that he's a great innovator as well as designer," says John.
"John's strength is always commercial nouse. He has a great skill of organising things so they can get made," says Sir David.
Sir David and John are joint winners of the 2012 Swan Medal awarded by the Institute of Physics celebrating physics in business.
"This reward is for the company and that's what makes me really proud," says John. "I think people love working here."
John Deer (left) and Sir David McMurtry founded Renishaw together and have turned it into a £billion business based on physics, engineering and innovation.
John: I came from a small town in the Swansea valley. I did an engineering apprenticeship.
Sir David: I was determined I was going to go into a career in the aircraft industry so I applied for a job in what is now Rolls-Royce. So I was about 33 when I was deputy chief designer and that was the time that we started Renishaw.
John: David and I met in the library of Rolls-Royce and he described a product that he'd invented.
Sir David: I thought 'well, here's a person who is obviously bright, obviously got the energy and wants to do something' so I thought 'this is the man I have to try and convince.'
John: He showed it to me, on the shop floor, and both of us decided that this is a product that we can sell.
John: David's strength is that he's a great innovator as well as designer.
Sir David: Well, John's strength is always commercial nouse. He has a great skill of organising things so they can get made.
Sir David McMurtry (left) and John Deer inside one of the Renishaw production areas.
John: Renishaw started in March 1973 and was based in my home. The garage was the machine shop, dining room the office and my fourth bedroom was assembly. So we carried on for 3 years and then subsequently moved to Wotton-Under-Edge in 1976.
Sir David: The areas of science which we are active in is metrology which is the science of measurement.
Sir David: The first product came about purely by accident I think. In my role at Rolls-Royce as deputy chief designer I was asked to solve a problem that occurred on the shop floor. They had a coordinate measuring machine trying to measure a instrumentation pipe of a concord engine. The machine they had, had a solid probe on the end, so when you actually pushed it against it to contact it, to see where to measure it, it pushed it out of the way and of course they couldn't get sensible readings.
Sir David: The way to get accuracy out of the probe was to design a probe that when it touches the object, at the instance of touch, it would freezes the coordinate measurements. And that was achieved by using electrical contacts through a series of contact points within it, so that when you touched it, one of them was removed and you processed the signal.
John: We were going to be selling to big companies who had absolutely failed to solve the problem of manufacturing a sensor capable of being used on their machines. So we had no problem whatsoever in introducing the product to the major companies in America, Japan and indeed Italy and the UK.
John: Research and development is absolutely crucial to Renishaw. If you have strong patents you can charge what the product is worth, rather than competing with another company which drives the price down.
John: This reward is for the company and that's what makes me really proud.
Sir David: It puts the company in the spotlight.
John: I think people love working here. They come in, in the morning. They pass the lake, see the ducks and swans and I think it gives them a good feeling.
John Deer and Sir David McMurtry discuss production with employees at the Renishaw New Mills site.
Filmed on location at:
Renishaw, New Mills, Wooton-Under-Edge, Goucestershire, UK.
Renishaw, Woodchester, Gloucestershire, UK. September 2012.
Director: Martyn Bull
Producer: Thomas Delfs
Camera: Mark Whatmore
Editors: Liam Angell, Mike Willbourne
Cast: Sir David McMurtry, John Deer
Production company: insitu
Client: Institute of Physics
Camera: RED Epic, Canon 550D
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Q: Spring integration delayer- Jdbc Message Store: message is not getting deleted Below  is the delayer code which I am using in my application. The output channel checkMessageInProgress is a database stored procedure call which will check if the message  needs to be processed or delayed.
If the message needs to be delayed again, the retry count is incremented. After 3 delays,  custom Application Exception is raised. I am using a jdbc Message Store for the delayer messages. In scenario where the message is delayed for 3 times and when exception is raised, messages are not getting deleted from the databases tables and the server is picking those messages on restart. How do I make sure that the message is deleted from table in cases where the delay happens for 3 times
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    output-channel="checkMessageInProgress">
    <int:header-enricher>
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        <int:header name="errorChannel" value="exceptionChannel"
            overwrite="true" />
        <int:header name="retryCount" overwrite="true" type="int"
            expression="headers['retryCount'] == null ? 0 : headers['retryCount'] + 1" />
    </int:header-enricher>
    <!-- If retryCount maxed out -discard message and log it in error table -->
    <int:filter expression="(headers['retryCount'] lt 3)"
        discard-channel="raiseExceptionChannel">
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        message-store="mymessageStore">
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A: That is not surprise. Since you use transactional resource (database) any exception downstream causes transaction rollback, therefore no deletion for the data.
Consider shift message to the separate thread before throwing exception. That way the transaction will be committed.

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Home / Resources / The Plight of the Furloughed Director
Written by Paul Wallis
It is safe to say that we are in unchartered waters, and the tide changes almost daily. I wrote this article on the 3rd April and there were changes issued by the Government on the 4th April. This is, therefore, the updated version.
Like Roald Amundsen in December 1911 and Neil Armstrong in July 1969, we are treading the first steps on previously untrodden ground. Which means that, there are many things happening in the UK, like furlough working, that are new to us and therefore, there are no experts!
Having researched dozens of articles written by leading employment lawyers and HR specialists over the past week, it is clear that some advice, whilst not wrong, is conflicting.
The reality is that we will not know exactly what is right-from-wrong until the first case is brought before the courts in the future, and be sure, there will be cases brought by disgruntled (ex)employees of:
unfair furloughing
unlawful reductions in salaries
cases against directors who were working whilst on furlough
cases where the employee claims that consent was not given or even asked for before being furloughed
These will all happen at some point.
The ambulance-chasers who have bombarded us with their annoying PPI adverts on the radio and TV now have very little to do, so this will be their opportunity.
And to balance the argument, some employers will flaunt the rules, take advantage of the situation and will deserve to be prosecuted.
At the same time, people's attitudes in response to the situation will evolve and develop over time, from initially accepting the logic and impact of isolation and lockdown, e.g. Day 1 - I'm fine with being furloughed ("Great still get paid, no work, at home with the family") all agreed verbally, to beginning to realise the reality, to full awareness of the personal impact, e.g. Day 90 - I've not been paid/been made redundant ("I'm angry/scared and after all I can get"). Therefore, it is risky to assume that a team member who is happy to be furloughed today will behave in the same way in 6 months' time, especially if their role is permanently impacted.
On Friday 20th March, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced the introduction of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme in an effort to help employers avoid the need to make mass redundancies as a result of the impact of COVID-19.
These guidelines are well documented, so I am not going to repeat them, but we must ensure that we follow the correct process.
Furloughing is similar to Redundancy
Furloughing staff has been likened to the redundancy process: the business does not have sufficient work for all staff and must therefore, cut costs. The director(s) must make sound judgement based on many certain criteria on who to make redundant, ensuring that there is no possible case for discrimination. Consultation with employees is a must-do and accurate records should be maintained. Furloughing should follow a similar process.
Employers may be able to justify giving preference to employees in vulnerable groups because, whilst potentially discriminatory, given the circumstances, this is likely to be objectively justifiable.
Seek Consent
The business should seek consent to furlough. Now, some employment lawyers and HR specialists will say that, if there is a lay-off clause in the contracts of employment, then this is sufficient. Others will say that this is not. So, what should you do? Seek consent is the obvious answer here. If the experts cannot agree, what chance have you? Seeking consent takes a small amount of your time now and could save you considerable time and money, not to mention damage to brand reputation, later.
If you ask for consent and do not need it, what have you lost? If you do not ask for consent and you did need it, what could you lose?
And let's face it, we all seem to have an abundance of time presently. In fact, if we could float time on the stock market, we would all be very rich!
Communication is key and you must retain records for 5 years.
Furloughing a director
One big question is, can a director be a furloughed worker? At the time of writing this article, you will not find an absolute definitive answer. Unless the government are presently making a speech as I am typing! Well, as it turned out, they were, and guidance has now been issued.
For small businesses, especially owner-operating limited companies, the problem is what is work and what is my legal duty as a director? It is hard for a director to justify being furloughed, especially if they are the sole director.
"I cannot afford to pay myself as there is no money coming in, but I am not permitted to ensuring that I have a business left when this is all over!!"
Or are you? Again, the experts cannot agree!
What is clear is that for a director to be furloughed, they must be an employee. Although, non-executive directors can now be furloughed if paid via the PAYE system, as they should be.
Where a company has a number of directors, it may be more straightforward; furlough the majority of the directors, leaving one or two to continue to plan for the future and spend time on improving the business. For example, by taking customer calls, preparing quotations, updating websites and improving IT systems. That way you will still have at least one continuing director, and this must be formally recorded in board minutes
Carrying out the legal duties of a director, i.e. filing accounts, filing the confirmation statement, etc., can now be completed whilst on furlough.
Whether the definition of "promoting the success of the company", one of the seven legal duties, can be extended to marketing and quoting for jobs is presently unclear.
It would be wrong to just assume that a director is an employee of their own company, as there are a number of cases which defined the subject. Two cases in particular:
Secretary of State for Trade and Industry v. Bottrill [1999]. It held that Mr Bottrill was an employee of the limited company on the facts. Mr Bottrill was the sole shareholder but, the court held that any control he had over the company was merely theoretical, apart from the main fact being that Mr Bottrill had signed a contract of employment with the company.
Farleigh v. Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [2000]. It was held by the Employment Appeal Tribunal that a sole shareholder could not be an employee of his own limited company for the purposes of a redundancy payment from the National Insurance Fund.
So, questions to ask include:
Is there a genuine contract of employment between the director and the limited company?
Was a 'statement of written particulars' issued?
What did each party do in pursuance of the contract?
Does the contract actually give rise to an employment relationship?
How was remuneration accounted for as fees or wages?
How and for what reasons did the contract come into existence (for example, was the contract made at a time when insolvency was foreseeable)?
The government could decide to neatly skip over these issues and make it absolutely clear that a sole director owner would qualify as a furlough worker, we await!
Insolvency Rules
The next things on every director's, and business owner's, mind presently is insolvency!
It is understandable that, as a director of a business, one might be very concerned about whether the business is trading insolvently, as it has little or no income as a direct result of Covid-19. With this, the possibility of a case against the director for wrongful trading.
Fortunately, the government will temporarily suspend the wrongful trading provisions in the Insolvency Act 1986 for 3 months retrospectively from 1st March 2020, to give company directors time and confidence to continue trading without the threat of personal liability should the company ultimately fall into insolvency.
Viable Business
It is important to remember that, if the business was viable before Covid-19, then why would it not be a viable business after?
Key considerations and practical points for directors to consider as part of the effective management of their duties include:
deliverability of the plan, and
most importantly to create a paper trail
Accurate and up to date cashflow forecasts are key to a company's ability to navigate financial difficulties successfully and are also important to directors personally in discharging their duties.
It is essential to keep key stakeholders informed. It may also be the case that certain stakeholders will ultimately be asked to provide additional financial support to the company.
If directors have any doubt about the financial viability of their company, they should seek independent professional advice as soon as practicable.
Taking all of the above into account, the director(s) will no doubt need to put together a plan to navigate the coming months and any financial issues which may arise during that period. The key question which the director(s) should continually ask themselves is whether they reasonably consider that the current restructuring/reorganisation plan is deliverable. As soon as that plan is no longer deliverable, the director(s) must reformulate the plan accordingly, which might include filing for formal insolvency proceedings.
Given the current uncertainty, it is important that the director(s) regularly document their actions and decision processes and enter these into their formal board meetings which set out the company's current financial position, the proposed plan, its deliverability, and the rationale for the decisions that are being made by the board at any given time.
With all the conflicting advice and ambiguous government guidance we have today, during these unprecedented times, it is unlikely that you would be criticised for making your best endeavours to keep your staff employed and your business running, but you must still comply with relevant laws and regulations, including The Coronavirus Act 2020.
Maintain accurate records now, as relying on your memory in months or even years to come if questioned by the HMRC or an employment tribunal, is very unwise.
And remember, no one is an expert.
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While some of us are still coming to terms with Manu Ginobili announcing his retirement on Monday, Mayor Ron Nirenberg knows that San Antonio needs to collectively appreciate the longtime Spur.
Jersey retirement and Hall of Fame status will come in due time, but Nirenberg is inviting San Antonians to take part in celebrating Manu Ginobili Day, set for this Thursday.
Ginobili's GOAT status makes him worth of an entire month of recognition, but paying tribute to his 16 seasons as a Spur is appropriate in any form.
A few hours after Ginobili's announcement, Nirenberg shared this "thank you" tweet to our favorite Argentinean.


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the most furstrating thing about my school is parking. in the mornings it is really hard to find a parking spot near your building which means that most of the time you will end up parking farther away then needed. it requires you to leave your home earlier in order to not be late for your classes.
Tarleton is always growing. The class ahead of me was the largest freshman class, then my class was, and now they're predicting even more for next fall's class. Housing and parking are the only two frustrating things about Tarleton, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
Chelcie
the most frustrating thing about my school is how far apart the new part of the campus is from the old part there is a lot of walking to my classes in the morining
Not ever knowing if you're going to have enough money to pull through and being scared that you will be ripped away from what you most strongly dream about.
The most frustrating thing about Tarleton State University is that there is a limited number of housing opportunities on and off campus that fit my budget.
The parking is not the best. The financial aid office could use some help. Lack of teachers in upper level classes.
It is small, but big enough for things to clog up if everyone's intersts converge on one thing
I wish the sorority dues weren't so high. But that really has nothing to do with Tarleton.
Aadrien
There is nothing really frustrating with this college.
Most of my school voted for John McCain.


A train on a path, with the storm coming!
Is it the Valet or the Russian or the Swede?
Who has stabbed that man, who has done this horrible deed?
Into viable theory as to who killed Rachett.
Who would have thought in their wildest dream?
That the crime was perpetrated by whom?
But where to point the blame?
For what that man did killing head after head.
But did he deserve death?
In our discussion of The Aeneid, we talked of the distinct way law appears, Fate, Aeneas' character, a history of the text, women's role, Roman rule, and an array of other things. A swerve was discussed in reference to creation of the powerful Roman Empire. While I found many parts of our discussion moving and interesting, the real "swerve" or turning point I find is the way women are depicted in this text compared to all others we have encountered, particularly in The Iliad. In stark constant to the Iliad, women in The Aeneid have a voice, affect change, rule a city, and dare I say have agency. Perhaps it is the hundreds of years between these two texts that cause this incredible change to be possible. I would argue that Virgil sees women's value in a way Homer never considered. Virgil gives woman not quite the credit due to them, but a generous, commendable effort was made to give some much needed balance. His language being more romantic as pointed out in class, I believe gives the necessary condition for a huge shift in the treatment and portrayal of women. The language of the other text was fitting for the amount of male influence, while this style of writing may be what allowed for women to be involved in a way we haven't encountered very much in the scope of the class. In the Iliad, Helen was blamed for so much while the "wonderful, handsome" men were constantly sidetracked with avenging someone or being petty and angry. It seemed that within certain codes, men could do no wrong, and the massive slaughters committed were for the good of the people. It was almost like a running joke to me (the condemnation of Helen), as Helen did not actively choose to leave but was stolen, and while the men carry on in a bloodbath whose purpose I question as well. It then becomes so easy to blame a woman's "terrible beauty" for an entire war. Furthermore, the few times she spoke added only to the hopelessness of her situation. It was as if by giving her a voice, she negated her own value even more, and her voice only empathized her lack of agency. In the Aeneid, it is flat out said that Helen shouldn't be blamed for the war and that the true blame for that situation lies with the gods. The implications of such a concept being brought forth are immense. All through the Iliad, the gods dashed around impulsively like teenagers, and there was no real consequence for them. Here we have a truth that many students have pointed out and questioned countless times. The gods' role in Fate and in the action of the texts is huge, but is just now being acknowledged as a point of concern by Virgil.


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David Whitley prays for the silence about the lambs, but begins to understand where the Kiwi sheep obsession comes from
For some years now, New Zealanders have tried to dispel the notion that they have a penchant for sheep that extends beyond a nice roast lamb dinner. Unfortunately, it seems as though they forgot to tell the tour guides. Put a Kiwi behind the wheel of a bus and the obsession takes over. Throughout my two weeks in New Zealand, I'd barely be able to sit down and buckle up the seatbelt before the tales of New Zealand's glorious wool industry would begin. The hardy merinos bred in the high country farms produce the finest wool in the world, they say. Low prices are making farmers convert to cattle and dairy, they continue. Special breeds of sheep have been created in New Zealand to suit the conditions, they harp on.
The pinnacle of this ewe-phoria came on the trip up from Queenstown to Mount Cook. On passing the little farming settlement of Bendigo, we are told the story of Shrek, "New Zealand's most famous sheep".
Whilst this might sound like a line from Flight of the Conchords, it's true: New Zealand does have a most famous sheep. Shrek managed to avoid being captured and shorn for six years, and by the time he was, he was a big woolly monster. He looked so silly that he became a celebrity. He was taken to parliament to meet New Zealand's Prime Minister, and was eventually taken to the top of an iceberg floating off the South Island's coast to be sheared on live television.
Frankly, with tales such as this, any lame gags about sheep-shagging slip into redundancy. And once you've realised that it isn't going to go away, you may as well run with it. There are a few places across the country where you can watch shearers in action. One is the Agrodome in Rotorua, which hosts an absurdly popular Sheep Show three times a day. It takes place in an unnervingly large auditorium, and the 19 types of sheep bred in New Zealand are trotted up onto a podium. From there, it descends into a slapstick frenzy of dogs chasing ducks across the stage, rams being told to strut their stuff and wool being thrown into the audience.
It's entertaining in an utterly shameless way, and there's more of the same in a slightly less slick manner down in Queenstown. The Walter Peak High Country Farm is still a working station, although it exists primarily to entertain people getting off cruise boats. Here, a true Southern Bloke – Lindsay Westaway – goes through the whole sheep rigmarole, peppered with the odd tall story. It's all very cheesy (that'd be a Roquefort or feta for any dairy pun fans out there) but you begin to understand why the humble sheep is so highly regarded in New Zealand. Wool and lamb exports are an integral part of the country's history – a key factor in the change from being a backward pioneer colony into a wealthy first world nation.
And the boys that handle the woolly wonders are certainly skilled. Lindsay demonstrates how to herd the sheep with his trusty dog, Storm, and then proceeds to set about shearing one without the faintest hint of a shaving nick. He takes a few minutes, but that's not a patch on the rock stars of the shearing world. Believe it or not, there are actually international shearing competitions and the world record holder managed to get through a mammoth 721 ewes in nine hours. And when you start considering the practicalities of that, then realise that it's actually jolly impressive, you're well on your way to becoming a qualified Kiwi tour bus driver...
David Whitley survives where Steve Irwin perished, feeding stingrays from the beach on New Zealand's East Cape.
There's something of an aquatic scrum going on in front of us. The plucky cormorant is on his own, but is diving between the increasingly aggressive kingfish with impressive bravado. It's rather like a hyperactive child running between the legs of annoyed adults at the drunken stage of a wedding reception. In the midst of all this mayhem, the real big boys of the bay are attempting to glide serenely around the trouble, and enjoy their meal in peace. It's these stingrays that we're supposed to be feeding, but the ongoing feast has attracted interlopers. And they're far more aggressive about going for the bait than the placid rays.
The chaps at Dive Tatapouri on New Zealand's East Cape are keen to restore the formerly good reputation of the short-tailed stingray. Since the tragic death of Steve Irwin as a result of a toxic barb through the heart, these largely harmless beasts have developed an unwarranted reputation as killers. "They're incredibly good-natured," says Dean Savage. "It's extremely rare for them to be aggressive, and they're absolutely fine around us."
Dean started out by offering dive trips and fishing charters from his scenic little pad on the Pacific Coast Highway, but the stingrays have quickly become the most popular draw card. The human-ray interaction at Tatapouri started by accident. At one stage, a crayfish depot sat just off the beach, and the used bait and scraps were left at the water's edge. For the stringrays, this meant easy pickings. From there, says Dean, it was relatively easy to move them on to hand-feeding.
And that's what a line of 15 visitors kitted out with deeply unflattering waders and bamboo staffs has signed up for. The waders are to stop us from getting wet as we stand in the shallows, while the staffs are partly to help us walk out there. Mainly, though, they're to stop the stingrays from sneaking round behind us.
Dean asks the group to stand close together with the staffs evenly space in front of us. This theoretically stops the rays from having contact with the waders, but all it takes is a small deviation from the military formation for them to start nuzzling at your shins like an over-affectionate Labrador. The rays are probably more interested in what's in Dean's bucket than what's in our waders, however. Big chunks of barracuda are on today's menu, and Dean hands me a piece.
"Hold it out flat, as low as you can in the water," he says. "And then just let the ray swim over it." Despite a couple of smaller eagle rays being rather keen, the 200 kilo short tail wins out. I rest my hand on the rock, just below the water's surface, and it glides over my fingers. Soon afterwards, my hand is engulfed, and the chunk of barracuda is sucked up. It's somewhere between a vacuum cleaner taking in a ball of fluff and a UFO beaming up an unsuspecting earthling.
The ray stays long enough for me to give it a stroke. The skin is unbelievably soft – the texture feels like velvet. "Pretty loveable, aren't they?" says Dean as he hands over another chunk of barracuda. He also attaches a piece to the end of his bamboo staff, and the ray follows it around as the lure is slowly dragged through the water. Whilst leading the ray on a wild goose chase, he asks us to look at the tail. "The barb is about one third of the way up," he explains. "It's razor sharp and full of toxins, but unless it gets you through the heart, it won't kill you." He explains that pouring hot water on the site of impact is the best way to draw out the sting, but that this should never be necessary. "As long as you don't try jumping on top of the ray, it'll see no need to defend itself."
The rays aren't allowed to get reliant on the handouts. The feeding doesn't happen every day, and sometimes won't happen for a few days at a time due to weather conditions. It's thought that 40-odd live in the immediate vicinity, and regularly come in for their free meal. But most of the time they have to fend for themselves, and compete with the kingfish.
And hand-feeding the latter is an altogether less elegant experience. Instead of the hover and hoover approach, the kingfish opt for pouncing like a shark on fish, fingers, the works. It's a ferocious gummy nip from a fish not known for its placidity.
Despite their unfortunate killer image, the rays are absolute pussy cats in comparison...
David was a guest of Tourism Eastland (Gisbornenz.com), Dive Tatapouri (Divetatapouri.com) and the Teal Motor Lodge (Teal.co.nz).


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L'Emprise (The Hunted ) est un film noir américain réalisé par Jack Bernhard, sorti en 1948.

Synopsis
L'inspecteur Johnny Saxon mène une enquête sur un vol. Certains indices portent à croire que l'auteur est une certaine Laura Mead. Saxon est amoureux de Laura, qui elle, clame son innocence. Laura est pourtant arrêtée et conduite en prison. Le jour où Laura est remise en liberté, elle veut se venger et retrouver le coupable. Mais l'assassinat de son avocat éloigne ses chances de faire entendre son innocence.

Fiche technique
 Titre français : L'Emprise
 Titre original : The Hunted
 Réalisation : Jack Bernhard
 Scénario : Steve Fisher
 Producteur : Scott R. Dunlap
 Société de production : Scott R. Dunlap Productions
 Musique : Edward J. Kay
 Photographie : Harry Neumann
 Montage : Richard Heermance
 Direction artistique : F. Paul Sylos
 Décors : Raymond Boltz Jr.
 Ingénieur du son : Tom Lambert
 Pays d'origine : États-Unis
 Langue : anglais
 Format : Noir et blanc - 1,37:1 - Mono - 35 mm
 Genre : Drame
 Durée : 88 minutes
 Dates de sortie :

Distribution
 Preston Foster : Johnny Saxon
 Belita : Laura Mead
 Pierre Watkin : Simon Rand, avoué
 Edna Holland : Miss Turner
 Russell Hicks : Dan Meredith, chef des détectives
 Frank Ferguson : Paul Harrison
 Joseph Crehan : Capitaine de Police
 Larry Blake : Hollis Smith
 Cathy Carter : Sally Winters
 Charles McGraw : Détective
 Tristram Coffin : Détective
Acteurs non crédités
 Ernie Adams : Employé de la station service
 George Chandler : Joe, le barman
 Tom Fadden : Un passager du bus
 Rory Mallinson : Policier patrouilleur sur l'autoroute en Arizona

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Film américain sorti en 1948
Film dramatique américain
Film américain en noir et blanc
Film réalisé par Jack Bernhard

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Kaloki replied
Sat April 16, 2016, 23:49
I have no idea what happened to Alicia, she used to be real top quality!
Hope her new stuff is good, but tbh I'm expecting more "let's all be friends and save the world one sunflower at a time while eradicating poverty and racism" songs with lots of repetitive shouting over rehashed piano tune :-?
Never knew she was joining the voice, but I don't think it's for her
Nippian93 replied
Can't wait for the new songs.
Beyonce, Drake, and Alicia in the same week... Urban music domination baby!!!
And people say there isn't a God...
New music coming in a couple of weeks. Confirmed on her IG /snapchat
Sat April 9, 2016, 19:23
this is such a bop, love it. should've been performed live on the Freedom TOur. :(
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Sun March 27, 2016, 20:05
Originally posted by DOSSOME
Originally posted by tyguy723
Not sure how to feel here but lf I may ask,Has anyone really benefited from this show careerwise,be it contestants or the judges besides Adam Levine?
Nope Maybe Gwen, but I don't think it did much for her
Then it's a bad idea
Pretty much, I'll always appreciate her early work, but other than that I think I'm just kinda done with her... :-?
Unless of course she wows with a great body of work by the end of the year, it's just kinda sad to see someone with so much potential left in them to throw it all away at this commercialized non music outlets :(
DOSSOME replied
Gravity replied
She's going to be on the Voice? I think she needs to repair her own voice first. She used to be a decent singer, but now she's just awful.
But not to be completely negative, I was listening to The Diary this morning, and my God how good Feeling U, Feeling Me is. It has to be on of the best interludes ever.
Wtf!!!! The voice. Alicia, bitch, what about your voice. This hoe is trying to ruin her career. First she give us these "we are the world" songs, then she decides ti play politics, and now she is headed towards the voice.
Brunosbabe replied
Sat March 26, 2016, 15:20
Originally posted by WakeUpMusic
What about Xtina?
Hopefully, she will be touring because I need to see her finally!
croatiaxtina replied
Originally posted by Nippian93
As it stands, Keys will serve as a coach alongside Cyrus and returning stars Adam Levine and Blake Shelton.
She'll probavly comeback with Pharrell on season 12.
WakeUpMusic replied
http://www.billboard.com/articles/colum ... eakingnews
Alicia Keys will be taking a seat as one of The Voice's new judges.
Quickly following news Miley Cyrus will join NBC's The Voice next season as a new judge, Keys announced on Friday (March 25) she too will be joining the show in its 11th season.
Miley Cyrus Joining 'The Voice' as a Coach
As Cyrus will replace Gwen Stefani, Pharrell will be exiting the show too -- for the season at least -- and Keys will be filling his seat. In 2014 Keys joined the show as Pharrell's guest advisor.
While other singing competition shows such as American Idol have been known to keep the same judges over several seasons, The Voice regularly mixes up the talent sitting in its big red chairs, changing the on-air dynamic in the process. Other previous coaches include Cee Lo Green and Usher.
This formula could be key to The Voice's continued success. As the show rises in age, it continues to be an important part of NBC's primetime lineup during both its fall and spring cycles. The network has used the singing competition to launch original series like The Blacklist and, most recently, Blindspot. The 2016-17 TV season will be the first without The Voice's main rival, American Idol, which will leave the air in April.
She's set to join The Voice as a judge. Not really sure how to feel about it.
Sun March 6, 2016, 11:47
she confirmed a new album to be released in 2016 and is now under new management
"Erika has played an instrumental role in my artistry since day one. She is a strategic manager who makes smart decisions and understands the balance between business and creative endeavors. I feel a great sense of trust and clarity knowing she will be holding the reins of my career as my business partner. This is the best music I've made yet and the best time of my life is yet to come."
Billboard also reveals Keys plans to release a new album this year. It will be her first in four years following 2012's Girl On Fire.
Merci replied
Sat March 5, 2016, 07:58
Originally posted by jpguy
what a weird video. ew
Lucasperry replied
It's kinda sad that Tidal just isn't happening :( :( :(
I just really hope she does not release her album through Tidal :-? :-? I will be so disappointed and this Tidal shit is just failure all over it. C'mon Alicia you are better than this.
jpguy replied
Sun February 7, 2016, 15:41
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Why is she playing politics and not making music
Originally posted by ThaInfo1
Originally posted by TIfan
These last couple of years, she has been corny as ****. She needs to hop her bright ass in the studio and deliver.stop foing all of this other shit.
And stop making these wack ass "We Are The World" songs. I'm over them.
So much of this!! I came to write it again, because she's driving me nuts with this phase. She just won't let it die already. I'm surprised how someone didn't tell her that at first it was cute and all Unicef, but after at least 4 songs, people either want to hear her new stuff or will wait for it, but NO MORE CHARITY SONGS! It's like every time I see news about her, I get excited and then I read about that same old Save the world release. Over. And. Over. AGAIN. I'm really annoyed.
Let it go. Live your life.
Isn't this what this site is about? Have fun and just pass time
by the way, her best album to me was "The Element of Freedom", it is simply classic... I have no idea what happened to her, she's taking too long :-? :-? :-? :-? I want to see her on top once again, she's too talented to be lost
I expect something from her album wise this year, all the big names from Tidal's elite status seem to be releasing this year...


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Posted by Aleks Sierz | 29th Jan 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
The cast of "Unreturning." Photo: Tristram Kenton
Nadia Fall is a good thing. Her appointment as the artistic director of this venue, with her first season having begun in September last year, has been widely seen as part of a new wave of cultural leaders who are expected to shake up the country's theatre. Already, her building has enjoyed a hipster-inspired cool facelift. And this visiting show, The Unreturning, produced by Frantic Assembly and Theatre Royal Plymouth, takes up one of her favorite themes: youth. The play takes a broad view of war, men, and home. But does it have anything new to say about the rather familiar theme of agonized masculinity?
The play, which was first seen in Plymouth in September last year, is written by Anna Jordan and is a triptych about three men who return from a variety of conflicts to their homes in Scarborough. One strand is set in 1918, another in 2013 and the third in the near future. As the first world war ends, George goes home to his wife Rose, but the experience of the trenches has scarred him. Almost 100 years later, Frankie returns from Afghanistan, but he is no hero: he has been dishonorably discharged for viciously injuring an innocent Afghan child. The final strand, set in 2026, turns today's migrant crisis on its head: Britain is fractured by civil war and Nat has fled to a refugee camp in Norway. Now, he wants to come back to find his little brother Finn, from whom he was separated when he ran away.
The stories of the three men, which are told in a skein of coiled and knotted incidents, are similar, but nuanced. Each of them has experienced the trauma of war: each is suffering. George has shell-shock; Frankie is experiencing flashbacks due to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Nat has been impoverished and made homeless. Each of them is survivors, and all are tormented by guilt: about fallen comrades, about survival itself and about abandoning family during a conflict. They are broken men, and Jordan paints a complex picture of masculinity, its crises, its toxicity, and its deepest feelings. Each of the men realizes that while soldiers have power, civilians are victims. So although the main theme is quite familiar, the writing is sensitive and occasionally offers an original slant on the subject.
In the 2026 story, Nat returns home to find that the place has been devastated—Syria has come to Scarborough. As a refugee pacifist, he experiences what so many people have lived through in the Middle East. And his thoughts about the Scandinavian welfare system are a wry comment not only about our current views on Scandi life but also a rebuttal to some rightwing views about greedy migrants. When he sees how badly his hometown has been devastated, we get a strong impression of what the result of civil war must mean. The fate of other distant peoples suddenly comes back to us. And this physical destruction highlights another key theme of The Unreturning: home.
In these stories, the North-East of England is a place that is not only characterized by its specific physical characteristics—bricks, rocks, and sands—but also its people. But if it is people that give soul to physical surroundings, they can also prove to be difficult, more changeable in their attitudes than the surrounding environment. When a soldier returns in disgrace, how would their family react to him? And when the landscape and cityscapes are blown up, are they still home? Or is smashing the physical environment a way of destroying the emotional meaning of a place? So although the theme of masculinity is a familiar preoccupation for Frantic Assembly, Jordan's writing—with, in this case, its recurrent and vivid bird imagery—lifts this show, being exceptionally meditative and occasionally very moving.
Jordan explores her themes by using a very agile theatre form, and the three interlocking stories do talk to one another. In the writing, there are some acute insights into masculinity and its discontents. In one scene, when George and Rose are having sex in bed, he feels a terrible sense of suffocation: this is an original insight into how PTSD can manifest itself in the most intimate of situations. And Jordan shows how it can destroy the closest relationships. For George, not being able to have sex is also a verdict on his masculinity. In the story about Frankie, playwright shows how a typical scene—such as a boys' drunken night out—can quickly turn from celebration to aggression. And all because of social media. On the other hand, there are also some more banal sections, such as the scene set during the Christmas truce on the Western Front, but even this has a twist.
The play is directed by Neil Bettles, who uses a cast of four men—all of whom are graduates of Frantic's Ignition theatre programme for young men—to portray the many characters of these three stories. Andrzej Goulding's set is a heavy metal shipping container, which rotates and has sliding panels to create a sense of physical malleability, and also of existential fragility. It also feels hard and dangerous. His video imagery is enhanced by Pete Malkin's soundtrack music. And the company's trademark physical movement is used sparsely but effectively and the cast—Hollyoaks's Jared Garfield (George), Joe Layton (Frankie), Jonnie Riordan (Nat) and, making his stage debut, Kieton Saunders-Brown (Finn)—deftly play not only their main characters but also all the others: Rose, a mother, a doctor, a people smuggler and various young men. The effect is full of both energy and grace.
The Unreturning suggests that although a man can return from war and conflict in one piece, this physical survival means little when their minds are haunted by the experience of violence, and when their consciences are ripped apart by feelings of guilt. They've come back, but they have not really returned. In the metaphorically rich sense of the piece's title, they are the unreturned. The deep emotions dredged up by this show feel very elemental, and there's even a sense of mercy, expressed in each of the several tender moments that contrast with the fire and fury of the representations of violence. While Jordan's text makes wryly satirical references to the idea that Brits could, like Nazi soldiers, be "only following orders" or that young Englishmen might, like jihadis, be "brainwashed," there's a definite pulse of pleasure in the sheer theatricality of the storytelling here. Despite the occasional banal moment, this is a brilliant show.
The Unreturning is at Theatre Royal Stratford East until February 2.
This article appeared in Aleks Sierz on January 17, 2019, and has been reposted with permission.
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Man killed in fatal shark attack in Australia
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A man died after being attacked by a shark off Australia's southwest coast on Sunday, officials said, adding that patrols of the area would be increased.
The West Australian state government said the attack occurred near Cull Island, which lies about 6 kilometers (3.73 miles) off the mainland's Esperance coast.
Australia is known for a large number of unprovoked shark encounters with humans.
The attack on Sunday was the first fatality in Esperance since 2017, although there have been fatal attacks elsewhere in the country since then.
Last October, a British man had his foot bitten off and another was injured when they were attacked by a shark off Australia's northeast coast.
Australian Broadcasting Corp reported that the man killed on Sunday was a diver and marine police were still searching for his body while a woman on a dive boat had been taken to hospital suffering from shock. It was not known if the man was a local or a tourist.
The Western Australia state government did not immediately reply to requests for comment while the state police force declined to comment when contacted by phone.
Reporting by Paulina Duran in Sydney; Editing by Jane Wardell


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An-kardid is the Kundedjnjenghmi term for 'Braid Fern' - (Platyzoma microphyllum). The fern grows on sand sheets and often next to permanent freshwater streams. It can regenerate after fire.
An-kardid is a plant that is regurally seen through the stone country. This artwork represents a particular area in the Ankung Djang estate near the Liverpool River.


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Raid on St Nazaire: 75 years ago today
On March 28, 1942 more than 600 men left Falmouth in Cornwall in a flotilla of three destroyers and 16 smaller boats.
The special fleet included HMS Campbeltown which was packed with explosives and was to be used to ram into the gates of the docks of the French port of St Nazaire.
St Nazaire was targeted because the loss of its dry dock would force any large German warship in need of repairs, such as the Tirpitz, to return to home waters rather than having a safe haven available on the Atlantic coast.
The raid put the dry dock out of commission until the end of the war – but success came at a cost. Of the 622 men of the Royal Navy and Commandos who took part in the raid, only 228 men returned to England.
One hundred and sixty-nine men were killed and another 215 became prisoners of war. The fallen British raiders were buried at the Escoublac-la-Baule cemetery, near St Nazaire, with military honours.
Five of the raiders escaped overland via Spain.
Eighty-nine awards and medals were bestowed for the raid, including five Victoria Crosses.
*A version of this article was first published on jonkilkade.com
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Commandos, HMS Campbelltown, Nazis, raid, Royal Navy, special forces, St Nazaire, Tirpitz, Victoria Cross
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