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by Lang Whitaker September 26, 2006
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I wrote about the NFL's return to New Orleans yesterday for SI.com, but if I was writing something today it would be about how the Falcons rolled over and played possum (to use a Southern phrase) for the Saints yesterday. Talk about ruining my night.
Still not much news out there…
• Sam Ashaolu had a bullet fragment removed from his head yesterday, but he still has three fragments embedded in his head and his recovery still has a way to go. I spoke to Sam's brother Olu on Saturday, and Olu told me the family is staying grounded but they are encouraged by his improvement thus far. The family has set up a website here to keep people updated and raise funds for Sam's medical bills.
• Converse brought in Spike Lee to direct the new Dwyane Wade commercial. According to the Miami Herald, the ad is "shot documentary style." Hopefully Spike Lee goes behind the scenes and exposes the conspiracy that led to Wade shooting billions of free throws during the NBA Finals.
• He's ba-ack. Rick Brunson has signed a one-year deal with the Sixers, for what will be his 10th NBA season. The Sixers are also bringing in Steven Smith, quite frankly.
• The MCI Center, home of the Washington Wizards, announced that fans will no longer be allowed to bring in their own food and drink into the arena. "We realized that we could rip off the fans for even more money by forcing them to eat our wildly overpriced corporate food," a spokesman didn't say.
• The Christies aren't welcome back to Seattle.


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BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - A new development centre for veterinary vaccines will accelerate the development of new animal health products says Pfizer. The facility is part of its annual US$300 million commitment to research and development.
The new centre is located on the Louvain-la-Neuve scientific plant near Brussels, and its; launch marks as historic occasion for Pfizer Animal Health
"It is our first pilot plant in Europe for developing animal vaccines. It also demonstrates the strength and value of our continuing partnership with our PGM colleagues," said Juan Ramon Alaix, president of Pfizer Animal Health.
Pfizer's new R&D centre in Belgium will increase the pace of vaccine development.
The new facility houses the development operations for products and processes in the area of formulation, filling and lyophilisation of products. The company's decision to establish its development centre on the same site at which new products will be manufactured is a strategic one. The decision makes it possible for the production site to become more involved in developing new products.
The plant is at the cutting edge of biotechnologies and aseptic operations and employs over 200 people. New on the site is an integrated line for filling vaccines in plastic vials which is dedicated to manufacturing vaccines for pigs which includes the product, Improvac. More than 400 finished products from the site are distributed throughout Europe, the US and Brazil and represents an annual volume of 125 million doses with a turnover of approximately $150 million dollars.

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Sniffing Out Europe's Past With A Historical Smells Project
What would the Battle of Waterloo have smelt like?
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The ODEUROPA project will look to identify, describe and recreate the aromas that wafted across the continent from the 16th to the early 20th century. Photo: istock/AFP
From stinky streets to the stench of the Battle of Waterloo, a multi-skilled team of experts is setting out to recreate the smell of Europe's past, which will be shared with museums across the continent. The ODEUROPA project will look to identify, describe and recreate the aromas that wafted across the continent from the 16th to the early 20th century.
Experts say every period in history has its own smell, from when agriculture was the mainstay of society, to the factories of industrialisation and the creep of urbanisation.
William Tullett, a smell historian from Anglia Ruskin University in eastern England and a member of the ODEUROPA team, said he hoped the archive would bring new insights and transport the public into a bygone era. "The one thing the public is interested in about the past is what it was like to be there," he told AFP. "I think it will give people a more intimate experience of the past but it will also encourage people to think about the smells around them today."
The €2.8 million (US$3.3 million) project will see the key smells from more than 400 years of European life shared at museums across the continent. Artificial intelligence will also be used to trawl through literature in seven languages and works of art across the centuries for references to odour. The archive will be available to the public on the internet through the world's first historical encyclopedia of scent.
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Some museums have already incorporated scents from the past into exhibits, such as the smells of World War I trenches at London's Imperial War Museum or the recreated aromas of a Viking settlement at the Jorvik Viking Centre in York.
For this project, ODEUROPA has brought together experts and academics from universities and institutes in the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, France and Slovenia as well as Britain to discover how scents have moulded communities and traditions.
"Smells shape our experience of the world, yet we have very little sensory information about the past," said Inger Leemans, the project lead and a professor of cultural history at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. "We want to teach the computer to see a smell," added Peter Bell, a professor of digital humanities at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany.
"Our goal is to develop a 'computer nose' able to trace scents and olfactory experiences."
So fair and foul a smell… Great to speak to @WillTullett about creating a repetoire of European smells from 100s of years ago. @odeuropa pic.twitter.com/rUF3QnO3Q7
— Isabelle Kumar (@Isabelle_kumar) November 17, 2020
Tullet said the project would take in simple smells, like rosemary, which in the 16th century people believed could protect them from plague. But it would also extend to the "smell-scape" of large-scale events like the Battle of Waterloo, which ended in defeat for Napoleon Bonaparte in 1815, and everything in between.
The project will pose the question of whether smells should be protected for posterity by organisations like UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
"One our core questions with this project is also can smells be understood as cultural heritage?" said Tullet. "And if they can, can we preserve them and should we preserve them for the future?"
Source: AFP Relax News
Tags: history, ODEUROPA, William Tullett, europe past, smell project
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Regulations Respecting Zoning at Mayo Airport
The airport reference point, shown on Mayo Airport Zoning Plan No. E.3028, dated March 28, 1994, is a point located on the centre line of runway 06-24 distant 739 m from the threshold of runway 06.
The approach surfaces, shown on Mayo Airport Zoning Plan No. E.3028, dated March 28, 1994, are planes abutting each end of the strip associated with runway 06-24 and are described as follows:
The outer surface, shown on Mayo Airport Zoning Plan No. E.3028, dated March 28, 1994, is an imaginary plane established at a constant elevation of 45 m above the elevation of the airport reference point extending to the outer boundary described in Part VI, except that, where that plane is less than 9 m above the surface of the ground, the outer surface is located at 9 m above the surface of the ground.
The strip associated with runway 06-24, shown on Mayo Airport Zoning Plan No. E.3028, dated March 28, 1994, is 150 m in width, 75 m being on each side of the centre line of the runway, and 1 598 m in length.
Each transitional surface, shown on Mayo Airport Zoning Plan No. E.3028, dated March 28, 1994, is an inclined plane rising at a ratio of 1 m measured vertically to 7 m measured horizontally at right angles to the centre line and projected centre line of the strip, extending upward and outward from the lateral limits of the strip and its approach surfaces to an intersection with the outer surface.
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Taco Bell is having what seems to be a banner year. First the Doritos Locos Tacos went public with a bang upwards of 100 million tacos in the first few months and now the Cantina Menu is set to drop on July 5th nationwide.
The likes of Chipotle, Moe's, and Qdoba have had their spot in the sun for quite some time, but Taco Bell is attempting to take on gourmet Mexican Fast Food with their new Cantina Menu, filled with freshly prepared ingredients and tastes.
A Cantina Bowl will be available which is essentially a burrito bowl. Coupled with the fresh pico de gallo, roasted corn and pepper salsa, black beans, real hass avocado laced guacamole, citrus herb marinated chicken tops a bed of cilantro rice. If these ingredients sound fancy and new, that's because they are.
The other main item to be offered is the Cantina Burrito is the same ingredients of the bowl, all wrapped up in a flour tortilla. Both items can also be ordered in Steak or Veggie options.
The best aspect of these items are they are all priced under $5. So the every man can now start enjoying these premium items without losing half of their paycheck like at the competition.
Lastly, be sure to head over to the Taco Bell Facebook page on Thursday, July 5th for an exclusive opportunity to get a BOGO offer. We'll be back with a review as soon as we can get our hands on it!
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Wind farm: Bipartisan group of Senators introduces bill to extend PTC
U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Mark Udall (D-Colo.), Scott Brown (R-Mass.), Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Dean Heller (R-Nev.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) yesterday introduced a bill that would provide a two-year extension of the wind energy production tax credit (PTC) scheduled to expire at the end of the year.
The bipartisan proposal would prevent a lapse in the credit. In a news release, the Senators said they hope to have the extension passed as quickly as possible in order to provide tax certainty for the renewable energy sector.
"Tax reform efforts might modify or address this incentive in the near future, but the jobs and opportunities provided by wind power should not be abandoned in the meantime. And limiting the bill's impact on the deficit can be addressed," Grassley said. "Tax relief has succeeded in developing this clean, renewable and innovative energy source, and it ought to be continued with the degree of certainty that encourages continued investment. Unemployment remains high at 8.3 percent and energy costs are on the rise. Congress should renew the wind energy tax credit to develop clean energy alternatives and good paying jobs."
"Extending the wind energy tax credit is a move that can give Coloradans and Americans a great return on investment – a stronger economy, more local jobs and more affordable power for our homes," Udall said. "With employers like Vestas willing to invest in Colorado, Congress needs to act well before the deadline and give these employers certainty to plan ahead – otherwise those jobs will move to other countries. Failing to extend the production tax credit for wind power will threaten the industry's growth and Colorado jobs, and I'll continue to push my colleagues for a better solution where Colorado keeps our jobs."
AWEA CEO Denise Bode said in a statement, "I want to applaud Senators Grassley, Udall, Brown, Harkin, Heller, Wyden and Bennet for introducing this important piece of legislation. The support of these Senate leaders, along side the overwhelmingly strong and bipartisan support the Production Tax Credit extension has received in the House, clearly shows that wind energy is one of the few items of consensus in an otherwise difficult political climate.
"Immediate extension of the PTC is critical in order to save 37,000 U.S. wind turbines manufacturing jobs that will otherwise be lost in the next year. Advancements in wind turbines technology have resulted in a steady decline of the cost of electricity from wind farm, and we've been clear that we don't need the PTC forever. We are just asking to finish the job. One of America's fastest growing new manufacturing sectors would be lost if the PTC is not extended."
A House bill seeking to extend the PTC has 79 cosponsors, including 18 Republicans, and has received the endorsement of a broad coalition of more than 370 members, including the National Association of Manufacturers, the American Farm Bureau Federation, the Edison Electric Institute, and the Western Governors' Association. A PTC extension also has the support of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the bipartisan Governors' Wind Energy Coalition, which includes 23 Republican and Democratic Governors from across the U.S.
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An engaging and often heart-rending tale of life in Revolutionary Iran and the years immediately after the Shah's ouster (ca. 1978-1983).
The autobiographical story follows the author (Marji) on a path through the violence and turmoil around the Iranian Revolution. Marji learns the truth of many competing realities – the real reason the Shah came to power, the real differences between members of Iranian society, the real use of torture on political prisoners, and the real acts of retribution against those prisoners following their release.
Marji's young life is, in ways, one long act of defiance of a world that refuses to allow her the space to be herself. At every juncture, she is forced to accept conditions or proscriptions that conflict with her beliefs about how people should be allowed to live in the world, and she never ceases in her efforts to live as she would.
At the heart of Marji's objections is a deep resentment of oppressive systems and institutions, particularly those based in classism or religious fundamentalism. She wants to throw off every rule that is laid upon her shoulders or those of the people around her. Marji's family has a maid, who, with Marji, learns the painful lesson that she cannot ever love above her station. The maid also must eat at a separate table, one of the first indicators to Marji that something is not right in the world.
The Story of a Childhood tells a tale that wavers from hopeful to grim and back again. Moments of lightness flare between extensive passages that reveal an enduring gloom and desperation to escape. The years and events around the Iranian Revolution, when discussed in America, are almost always reduced to a hostage situation at the US embassy in Tehran. As Satrapi demonstrates from page one, those years contained multitudes.
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Return to the Masculine: The Reemergence of Men's Pulp Fiction in the Age of eBooks
Column by Keith Rawson	October 11, 2012	9 comments
David Cranmer
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William Rabkin
A couple of years ago, Amazon was heavily advertising its Kindle eReader with this little commercial below:
With its choice of music, setting, color schemes, locale, etc., it's obvious that the advertisement is geared towards women-- and there's nothing really wrong with that per se. Sure, a few bloggers were a little steamed at the spot, feeling that the commercial was excluding too big a chunk of the population, but come on. If you work in marketing, particularly if you work in publishing, you know that women simply buy more books than men, and they always have, so why invest the time and energy trying to crack the enigma that is the reading habits of men?
Needless to say, it's been a long road in trying to figure out what exactly will make a man pick up a book. For the better part of a century, publishing has been scratching their collective heads wondering what the Average Joe likes to read. Was it action and adventure? Was it hard men and women in peril? Was it cowboys and Indians? Was it sports? Was it a weird combo of them all? And during that time, more than a few memorable series characters were created to attract men to reading: Doc Savage, Mike Shayne, Shell Scott, Remo Williams (The Destroyer), Mack Bolan (The Executioner, and its spin-off series, Phoenix Force), Richard Camelion (The Death Merchant), and Nick Carter (Killmaster), just to name a few. But by the mid-nineties (when sales statistics were being gathered and ruthlessly acted upon) the men's action adventure novel more or less faded from existence.
Now we fast-forward to the here and now, and yes, sales statistics are still being ruthlessly acted upon and the big six still aren't touching men's adventure stories with a ten foot poll. But with it being the here and now, who the fuck needs the big six when you can do it yourself, or go through a publisher who has zero problem with taking risks in the age of eBooks?
Introducing Pulp 2.0:
Yes, almost all of the characters I mentioned above were created, for the most part, to attract male readers. But let's face facts; the books of pulp 2.0 aren't exclusively geared towards men anymore. (And also, did these books really need to be?) They use the same tropes of series characters/shared universes, the same balls to the wall action, the same tightly written plots, same slim length (most Pulp 2.0 novels are in the 175-to-200-page range) and are meant to be read in one or two sittings, which, as far as I'm concerned, is the perfect length for eReaders. The biggest difference you'll notice between the new pulp and men's adventure of old is that none of the new creators even remotely adhere to a single genre.
The Dead Man Series created by Lee Goldberg and William Rabkin:
The Dead Man books are tightly drafted pieces of horror/action pulp and, much like their predecessors, most of the volumes in the series are "ghostwritten" by a virtual who's-who of modern pulp fiction-- including Bill Crider, James Reasoner, Christa Faust, Harry Shannon, Anthony Neil Smith-- and are at the forefront of the new pulp revolution.
Here's the dope on The Dead Man series:
"Matt Cahill is a widower leading a quiet, solitary life—cutting wood at a lumber mill in the Pacific Northwest, watching out for his trouble-prone friend Andy, and making his first, tentative attempt at a new romance with his co-worker, Rachel. But a getaway to a ski resort goes tragically wrong and he is killed in an avalanche. That should be the end of his story, but for Matt, it's only the beginning.."
The Fight Card Series created by Paul Bishop and Mel Odom:
The Fight Card series is one of the most brutal new pulp series, and what did you really expect when it features boxers and MMA fighters? The series has had some really hardcore stand out entries from writers such as Eric Beetner, Wayne D. Dundee, and Kevin Michaels. Here's the blood and guts of the Fight Card Series from their website:
"The books in the Fight Card series are monthly 25,000 word novelettes, designed to be read in one or two sittings, and are inspired by the fight pulps of the '30s and '40s – such as Fight Stories Magazine – and Robert E. Howard's two-fisted boxing tales featuring Sailor Steve Costigan.
By the end of 2012, the Fight Card series will have published twelve tightly plotted tales of fistic mayhem from some of the best new Pulp authors working today, each sporting a stunning cover created by artist Keith Birdsong.
2013 will also offer a full slate of monthly Fight Card titles, including the premiere of the new Fight Card MMA and Fight Card Now imprints, along with more of the successful Fight Card titles set in the noir-filled streets of the '50s.
Retro or modern, Fight Card novels will continue to provide inspiring, entertaining stories of tough guys caught in tough spots with nothing but their fists, wits, and fighting nature to battle against the odds. Fight Card novels are about characters and their individual journeys and how they can inspire our character and our journeys."
Adventures of Cash Laramie and Gideon Miles created by David Cranmer (writing as Edward A. Grainger)
I have to admit I have a bit of a warm spot for this series, and for Beat To A Pulp Press. Laramie and Miles are densely constructed, deeply flawed characters much in the same vein as most mid-century noir. Along with being featured in two short story collections, Laramie and Miles have been featured in two full length novels by Wayne D. Dundee and a novella by Heath Lowerance. (Beat To A Pulp has also released two western/horror mash-ups in Lowrance's stellar "Hawthorne" series of novelettes. One can only hope that Laramie and Miles will someday crossover into Hawthorne's dark world.)
Adventures of Cash Laramie and Gideon Miles is a western noir, stories spotlighting the thrilling tales of two deputy U.S. Marshals working in 1880s Wyoming Territory. Cash Laramie, raised by Native Americans, is known as the outlaw marshal for his unorthodox way of dealing with criminals and his cavalier approach to life. Gideon Miles is one of the first African American marshals in the service and has skills with guns, knives, and tracking that are unrivaled.
The Sam Truman Mysteries created by Ed Kurtz
Much like Goldberg and Rabkin's Dead Man series, the Sam Truman mysteries are a mash up of genres, combining elements of super-natural horror and oddball sci-fi, and contain some of the rich, dark humor of Brett Halliday's Mike Shayne novels. Here's the skinny on the first Sam Truman novel, Catch My Killer:
"Sam Truman is a disgraced and unlicensed former private investigator without a proverbial pot to piss in. During a morning mission to scrape up enough bread to pay his rent at the flophouse, Sam intervenes in an attempted robbery and ends up shooting the robber to death with a gun he isn't legally permitted to possess. In the aftermath of the shooting, Sam is visited by the bloody corpse of the dead robber, which is now being inhabited by the spirit of a murdered woman who charges Sam with the task of solving her murder.
Now Sam is up to his neck in a dark underworld of walking corpses, black magic, and Hell's own army, and all because he agreed to a dead woman's plea to "Catch my killer!"
Blood and Tacos
The brainchild of Johnny Shaw (Big Maria, Dove Season, and recently added instructor here at LitReator) Blood and Tacos is the first new pulp publisher to delve into short fiction. Each quarterly issue is 100% free on the web, or available for a measly 99 cents for your Kindle, and has featured some of the best crime writers currently working, including: Andrew Nette, Cameron Ashley, Chris La Tray (who recently had a novella accepted for The Dead Man series), Garnett Elliott, Gary Phillips, Jimmy Callaway, Ray Banks, Thomas Pluck, Todd Robinson, and Sabrina Ogden, just to name a few. The concept behind Blood & Tacos is a simple one: Each writer chooses an era and creates a new pulp hero in the same vein as The Destroyer and other men's pulp heroes and deliver a brand-new adventure.
Overall, Pulp 2.0 is ramping up to be just as vital and as creative as its predecessors from the 60's, 70's, and 80's. And while they might not be for everyone, these indie titles have turned out some pretty interesting reading over the past couple of years.
But to be blunt, I'm not as familiar with this broad genre as I'd like to be, so tell me what writers and series—past and present—I've missed. What are some of your favorites? And what do you think of publishers using sales data to try and figure out the reading habits of a gender or race? Does it work? Or is the big six missing the boat when it comes to publishing new fiction?
Column by Keith Rawson
Keith Rawson is a little-known pulp writer whose short fiction, poetry, essays, reviews, and interviews have been widely published both online and in print. He is the author of the short story collection The Chaos We Know (SnubNose Press)and Co-Editor of the anthology Crime Factory: The First Shift. He lives in Southern Arizona with his wife and daughter.
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kwestmo	October 11, 2012 - 2:18pm
Interesting article. I'm glad to see that readers have a wider choice of what they choose to read in all genres in part to independent publishing
A few years back when my then-agent was shopping my novel BARONNE STREET around to the NY houses. He repeatedly was told the book was not marketable because the protagonist, Burleigh Drummond, was too white, straight, and male. CreateSpace and Kindle have proved otherwise.
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Jeff	from Florida is reading Another Side of Bob Dylan by Victor Maymudes October 11, 2012 - 3:15pm
Sounds like a cool thing. I love the pulp-era adventure stuff.
Anyone know of a site looking for shorter submissions?
Keith	from Phoenix, AZ is reading Growing Up Dead in Texas by Stephen Graham Jones October 11, 2012 - 3:19pm
@Jeff - Blood & Tacos is always looking for quality short fiction.
EdVaughn	from Louisville, Ky is reading a whole bunch of different stuff October 11, 2012 - 4:25pm
I just finished Catch My Killer. It was a really cool book with a cool concept.
Bradley Sands	from Boston is reading Greil Marcus's The History of Rock 'N' Roll in Ten Songs October 11, 2012 - 10:55pm
Some people that I respect are totally obsessed with the Jack Reacher books. Not sure if that fits the bill. I'm going to try one of the books out.
Xyzzy	from Sonoma County, Northern California is reading Kim Harrison's "Ever After" October 12, 2012 - 1:57am
I deeply dislike gender-focused marketing as a writer and consumer because it creates artificial limitations by pandering to stereotypes of what men or women enjoy, thus leaving out or alienating potential readers in the process. In past generations, that wasn't terribly problematic, as people seen with the "wrong" book for their sex often encountered teasing or worse; today, there are a lot of adults like me that have spent their lives openly preferring things that used to be for the opposite sex and/or disliking things intended for their own, and they're the ones most likely to be offended at sexist or homophobic elements that tend to appear in gender-based fiction entertainment.
A big part of the reason that urban fantasy has thrived, in contrast, is because it can appeal to both sexes. As a crossover/mixed genre, it grabs elements freely from both sides of the aisle -- series often include at least one relationship developing at some point, often-graphic sexual activity, and graphic (sometimes gory) violence, for example -- and it's normal to see men & women cheering on a protagonist of the opposite sex. (I'm working on a pair of novels in that genre, and my biggest concern thus far has been how to strike that balance; it's not easy.) I can easily see pulp fiction similarly turning into a thriving newer form if it takes an innovative modern slant rather than mimicking what authors in past generations did.
Jumpy	October 26, 2012 - 7:55am
You can always be sure when you see "…Pulp Fiction…" in the headline the writer usually gets it wrong. He is using it like a sacred charm. Not that the term wasn't used back then, but that designation today almost never gets it right. And I'm leery of anyone who starts banding about terms like "noir-filled streets of the '50s," "balls to the wall," and "Retro or modern…" Or using a line like: "its predecessors from the 60's, 70's, and 80's." The pulps were long gone by then, replaced by paperbacks that filled the same need but in a different manner. Also, the art used is from a "men's sweat" magazine, signaling that this is yet another example of someone who doesn't understand.
In men's adventure books did not "more or less fade from existence" in the mid-nineties (I was selling them as part of my job), he seems surprised that there are blended genres (geez, see G-8!), I would have thought Tommy Hancock's magazines pre-dated BLOOD & TACOS. Or using a line like: "its predecessors from the 60's, 70's, and 80's." The pulps were long gone by then, replaced by paperbacks that filled the same need but in a different manner.
While I'm glad to see him acknowledge the existence of boxing pulps, pulps and paperbacks are not the same thing. For one thing, pulps were sort of juvenile. Later writers had a level of sophistication that the pulp writers didn't get to. To call Bill Crider or James Reasoner "pulp," is, I feel, insulting to them!
Yet, pulp writers like worked at a breakneck pace modern writers just can't; Lester Dent and Walter Gibson wrote a NOVEL A MONTH! In fact, Gibson wrote two a month and Dent wanted to get out of the pulps.
I don't see any reason to call the current resurgence of men's adventure books "pulp" when they are more like the paperback novels of the 1950s and '60s that filled that need. I think there is some major misconception about what pulp is. It is not a codeword for adventure, action or mystery –there were romance pulps, sports pulps and horror pulps—not much mystery or "balls to the wall" action in those! The presence of a private detective doesn't qualify a work as pulp (nobody ever calls Ross McDonald or Robert B. Parker pulp; rightly so).
I am in touch with a lot of pulp fans. And even though Western and romance were the longest running and most popular genres, do you know what almost all of those pulp fans like? "Mystery men" vigilantes of the hero pulps like The Shadow, The Spider, Phantom Detective, Green Ghost, the Avenger, G-8, etc. Nobody really care much for run of the mill detectives. And what are being brought back? Mystery men vigilantes: Black Centipede, the Ghost, the Lobster and Black Stiletto.Brother Bones, or my own Silver Manticore.
Sure, pulp was more than just masked mystery men vigilantes but they were a big part of it and it is what new pulp fans are most interested in.
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Andrez Bergen	from Melbourne, Australia + Tokyo, Japan is reading 'The Spirit' by Will Eisner October 27, 2012 - 1:12pm
Great piece, Keith.
A little way back I interviewed a few fellow writers (people like Heath Lowrance, Richard Godwin, Joe Clifford, Cindy Rosmus, Court Merrigan, Chris Rhatigan & Eric Beetner) about the "what is new-pulp equation", and this is what they had to say:
http://damiengwalter.com/2012/07/13/guest-post-a-new-pulp-think-tank/


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'Tags Not Labels', a major new exhibition of street art organised by the V&A opens in Belfast today, headlined by Banksy, Miss Tic, James Hewlett, and Shepard Fairey
A major new exhibition of street art organised by the Victoria & Albert Museum has opened today at the Belfast's Ulster Museum. It showcases over 30 street artists including some of the biggest names in street at, from Banksy, and Miss Tic, to Gorrilaz animator Jamie Hewlett and Shepard Fairey, the artist whose work became synonymous with the 2008 Obama presidential campaign. Alongside these streetart superstars, four local street artists have also been selected. to take part in the exhibition.
'Tags Not Labels' show hopes to unpick the various prejudices associated with street art, and to demonstrate the diversity and talent that can in fact be found in the field. 'A lot of people have a preconceived idea about street art, which they may see as vandalism, but the art is extremely significant in the way it can be seen as social commentary, as well as influencing printmaking, mainstream graphics and advertising,' Kim Mawhinney, head of art at National Museums Northern Ireland, explained. 'We have selected work from artists we believe the public will be excited to see in our galleries for the first time. It's unlike anything we have offered our visitors before and we hope it will attract lots of interest – especially from our younger audiences', she added.
As to the selection of the four local artists, Mawhinney described how she and the jury 'were amazed at the quality of the submissions for the exhibition and had a difficult time making our selection'. But the struggle was worth it, with Adam Turkington, one of the judges, overjoyed that 'the museum has chosen to give our best young artists a platform alongside the international show' – 'it's brilliant!' And, pre-empting the inevitable criticism, Turkington stated the case for such recognition of street art: 'Street art takes very specific local issues, social tensions and architecture and places them within the context of a global movement': in other words, it is a political act that 'has its roots in marking territory, ideological, geographic or artistic'.
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I was invited to Cabana Leeds to try out their new Road To Rio Summer Menu. I did a opening event of the restaurant a long while ago and if you haven't checked that out then I shall leave that here for you to check out!
Cabana is a Brasilian restaurant that was founded by two people Jamie and David. One Brazilian, one English. (Brazilian/Brasilian... Everyone has a different way of spelling it...) They both visited Brazil once and decided to visit Brazil and decided that there was nothing within England that represented Brazils food in an amazing way so they decided to set something up in the UK. They wanted to bring three main things back as these make Brazil amazing. Food as Brazilian food is amazing. The eccentricity of the cities of Brazil as everyone just comes together to make Brazil an amazing place and the outlook that Brazil has which is that everything is good. They have many branches within the UK including living within The O2 Arena and being in major shopping centres such as Trinity Leeds.
We entered the restaurant after browsing several stores within the shopping centre such as Topman, Gobstoppers and many others. We were introduced to the people behind the PR that had sorted the event as I had tweeted about the event beforehand. Myself and Luke were then told about what would be happening throughout the event which included many things such as live entertainment and churros.
We then made our way to the bar because well every good event starts off with a good drink... The new cocktail on the block at Cabana was a Raspberry Caipirihna (a twist on the classic Caipirihna which Cabana are well known for.) I then sat Luke down on a table whilst I went to go take a few photos. We then moved nearer to where the action was as I felt that we would be out of the way which may mean missing out on a few things. We finally sat down in somewhere where the action was and were given some Malagueta Hummus With Cucumber and Carrots. This dish is a part of the new set lunch. The hummus was nice, the malagueta sauce gave it a kick to give it that Brasilian vibe and the Cucumber contrasted well with the kick. We chatted for a while until the next dish arrived.
The next dish that was arrived. This one was Spicy Malagueta Chicken Lettuce Wraps. This consists of well Spicy Malagueta Chicken wrapped up within Lettuce. I think that these are great to have with drinks. I think it sums up the whole Summer vibe of the menu up very well. It also means that you can have some and then feel smug because well they're wrapped in Lettuce therefore they are very healthy! The sweetness of the Chicken went really well with the slight bitterness of the Lettuce! I think that some Malagueta Mayo might be best on the side in case you want to dip the wraps into anything.
We were then topped up with more Raspberry Caipirihna's/ They are sweet but slightly sour at the same time making them a great cocktail to enjoy outside! We then sipped a bit of the drink as the bartender had been a bit overexcited when making it which isn't a bad thing in my opinion! We were then given a bowl of Bahian Coconut Curry each. This dish is under the same set menu as the Hummus which I will go a bit more detail at the end of the post. The coconut curry is mild. It's served with biro biro rice and a choice of mini skewers in the form of Spicy Malagueta Chicken, Steak or Halloumi so there's a choice for everyone there! I loved this curry as I'm not a massive fan of hot curries. This had a more sweet flavour to it with a hint of spice. The coconut gave it that sweet flavour but I think that it worked really well within the curry. I loved it that much that I said yes when offered another bowl of it!
This next delicious piece was created for all those people who are slightly sick of the same old stale sandwich when it comes to lunchtime at the office! You have the choice of two which means that you can try two and then come back again and again at lunch for the one that you love! There's Salchipapa which consists of Pork & Papaya Sausage tossed with Sweet Potato Fries and Malagueta Mayo and there's Lulapapa which is the same but instead of juicy sausages, it's Crispy Lula Squid which sounds amazing! I tried both and I still can't decide which I love more. The Papaya in the Sausages give it a nice Summery Kick as you wonder what it is within the meat that makes it taste so nice but at the same time the Squid one was amazing. It wasn't rubbery at all but it was Crispy which I love. The main star of this would have to be the amazing Sweet Potato Fries. They were just delicious.
The last dish was Churros. Oh my god, I loved these! They were sorting all of the churros out on the table next to me and I kept resisting the urge to shuffle over the next table and just take all of the churros. They were crispy yet fluffy which I love as you have the contrast of the crispiness and the fluffiness of the inside. They were then covered with Cinnamon Sugar. I love anything with Cinnamon on which makes these Churros even more delicious! The chocolate sauce that was served with it was dark and delicious.
Cabana are also now offering a set menu on Monday all the way through to Friday until 5pm. It comes at a cost of £9.95 for two courses. There is now also an Early Bird Menu which is on every day from 5 until half six. This consists of a main course, two sides and a drink for £9.95.
Have you been to Cabana before? Have you tried the new Road To Rio menu/anything mentioned in this post before? Let me know in the comments section below!
Thanks to Cabana and their amazing staff for putting on such an amazing event! Thanks to MCG PR for sorting out, putting on and inviting myself to such a great event! I hope that you have enjoyed this blog post and I hope to see you next time for another post!


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Хрестовий провулок — провулок у Печерському районі міста Києва, місцевість Печерськ. Пролягає від вулиці Князів Острозьких до Левандовської вулиці.

Прилучається Іподромний провулок.

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Провулок виник до початку XIX століття, тривалий час мав назву Хрестовий, від історичної місцевості Хрести, крізь яку він проходив.

З 1940 року — Гіподромний завулок, з  1944 року — Іподромний провулок), від розташованого на вулиці Михайла Омеляновича-Павленка іподрому (функціонував з кінця XIX століття до 1969 року).

З 1964 року — вулиця Миколи Гайцана, на честь Миколи Гайцана, комуніста-підпільника часів Другої світової війни, працівника заводу «Арсенал».

Сучасну історичну назву відновлено 2015 року.

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The Coroner's Lunch is an intelligently fun and readable murder mystery set in Laos. This is the first book we've read by prolific author Colin Cotterill, and it won't be the last.
In 1976, the Lao monarchy has just been deposed by the Communists. Dr Siri Paiboun, a 72-year-old, Paris-trained doctor has been appointed state coroner by the new government, despite having no experience or interest in the job. While the sassy doctor has settled into the job, using old text books and occasionally calling on a chemistry teacher friend to help with some cases, it's on the whole a quiet life.
Lunchtimes are spent munching on baguettes by the Mekong river in the company of a Politburo friend, and in a seemingly not-that-unusual-for-Laos twist, occasional nocturnal visits are made by those on whom Dr Siri has carried out autopsies. But things take an ominous turn when the wife of a party leader turns up dead along with a trio of apparently tortured Vietnamese men. The doctor has no choice but to turn his attention to solving the crimes.
And so on. We found ourselves highlighting far more than we expected to and laughing out loud. Read this book while swinging in a hammock on the 4,000 Islands. If you're a first-time visitor, you'll learn more perhaps than you're expecting and be pleasantly entertained as well.


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I wouldnt know why. They didnt swap to Honda because they know Honda will make a better PU. They changed because their working relationship with Renault wasnt working out and working together with Honda gives them the chance at a better partnership with a better PU integration in what is an 'engine' formula. They had a year to test waters with their sister team Torro Rosso and the data is promising. We've all seen how 'bad' Renault have been this year. If you ask me, i'd think chances are good that Honda will be at least on par with Renault next year.
The only concern i'd have at this point is if Honda can build a competitive engine not only on the power front, but reliability wise too.
Personally, i think McLaren will be hitting themselves at seeing RedBull reap the rewards they helped to build up.
I think new aero regulations will benefit more Mercedes than Ferrari so I expect Mercedes to be stronger. I hope I am wrong though. McLaren will improve significantly with all they have learned this year and two Young and fast drivers ready to push in the same direction.
Why do you think that? Just curious, if you have any technical thoughts on why.
No specific technical aspects but I have the idea(maybe I am wrong) that this Ferrari and (obviously) RB feel more confortable with the complex aero we have had the last two years. Taking into account that, among other things, the front wing will be more simple in 2019 I think that Mercedes could feel more confortable as they were between 2014 and 2016.
Ups!, totally right mate. I think they will be strong, maybe the 5th-6th team. I hope to see Kimi doing some good races.
Someone once said that the Honda PU was a piece of Jewellery.
The size zero version WAS beautifully made, don't you agree? Just compare to the bulky unit from Renault for instance.
McLaren obviously hindered Honda a lot with the size zero requirement which ultimately wasted the 2015 and 2016 seasons (due to the token system), plus an annual $100m is far better spent on the power unit than thanklessly donated to the McLaren chassis, so it is for the best they are apart.
Being with Red Bull who have arguably the finest chassis in F1, gives Honda the best chance to take podium results -- even if their PU is still quite inferior to Mercedes and Ferrari.
Sorry guys, but I think you underestimate Renault too much. It's about time that French team joins the front. They invested to much to be just 4th. I believe that Renault will be max 0.5 sec behind. And their driving pairing is probably the best in F1.
It's possible! I will believe it when I see it. It would be great if Renault could join the top teams and regularly finish races in the top 5 (driver) positions.
The Merc was, and still is, more size zero than all the Honda PU: overally shorter/smaller/less wide/with a smaller foot print and 'lower' , atleast as "beautifully made" and clean as the Honda... and obviously way stronger.
The real "size zero" was and still is the Merc.
Not very impressed with Honda's progress this year. Thir progress appears logical and normal to me; nothing groundbraking. And to say they're better than Renault now is a joke... Maybe their PU has produced more peak power than the Renault in two or three qualy sessions, but what about reliability, fuel consumption, race power etc? how many Honda engines did and are capable of doing 7 gps? how many gps did their spec 3 run without breaking? Will Honda keep that peak power or increase it and sort out the reliabilty and the efficiency at the same time?
I'm not writing off honda, they can succeed, catch Renault (without having to bring a new pu every 3 gp) and really catch the others, but in 2018 did none of that, contrary to what many medias say.
Hoping that we wont see whole field being lapped by TOP 3 teams, and whole team giving at least small resistance in fights on track compared to previous years. Hoping to see new winner except Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes since Melbourne 2013.
I am hoping the aero changes allow for cars to follow each other - all PU craziness aside!
Compressor as well as turbine of 2015 unit was centrifugal, not axial.
Smaller turbo was not forced upon by McLaren, it's works partnership so overall packaging is collaboration but Honda lacked comprehensive understanding of the PU esp ERS-H and ICE at first hence wrong route. That's what very Honda project leaders and engineers said, plus even after the split with McLaren, Honda side dont say anything about it. Development is done by making demand/request each other to seek the best possible compromising point so of course there were areas where McLaren asked Honda and vice versa, you can notice every bit of traces of Brackley demanding Brixworth and vice versa as well (ditto for Ferrari and Renault), but saying size zero hindered Honda is as pointless as saying Honda forcing shorter and bigger inlet pipe (i mean just for example) hindered car design. btw so many people are obsessed way too much with the term size zero, it's just Ronspeak and making things as small/light as possible while maintaining/increasing performance is the most basic principle of engineering, V10 of mid 1990s weighed like 130kg but Yamaha's engine was below 100kg and it was said that they were ridiculous or too ambitious, but within less than 10 years V10/8 weighing comfortably less than 100kg became norm, so V10/8 of 2000's was "size zero V10/8", current gearboxes are "size zero gearbox" compared to gearboxes of 1990s,portable CD player was "size zero CD player", SD cards are "size zero memory media", and so on and on. Forget about size zero already, that's the main reason that's distorting perception of everything.
Also there is no evidence for this 100m cash giveaway stuff, it looks like Honda were paying for drivers salary, plus quite a bit as some sort of consultant fee (Honda relied on McLaren for various things from manufacturing PU parts like inlet plenum and intake, ES development, arrangement of components in Europe (battery and all those miscellaneous parts) to whatever industry info and methodology), but 100m cash unattached? quite doubtful.
Seems you are not really aware of actual contents of issues encountered and strategy they are taking but only seeing superficial things. Spec 1 ICE did 5 races, MGU-K, ES and CE did 6 races. New TC and MGU-H introduce at 2nd race for both cars after suffering from issue in 1st race, meanwhile Hartley's first ICE plus all the other components were wiped out at 5th race by crash. Spec 2 suffered some initial hiccups but they made 5 races. Both specs didnt go through 7 GPs but new specs have arrived before 7th race and in terms of development it is disadvantageous to postpone the introduction, there is no reason to prioritize reliability evaluation over pushing performance, so. Plus once exceeding 3rd components, it's just better to introduce whole new set of PU rather than just exchange 1 or 2 components, because 1.more specimen that has been actually used on track the better for accelerating development, 2.by swapping everything you can make calibration on dyno before coming to races so you can concentrate on more important stuffs at circuit, 3.you can have more stocks in pool.
Regarding spec 3 it seems they were not supposed to introduce it this year initially but changed strategy to go aggressive and trial and evaluate it on real environment right away by using the rest of the season more as a test session (but doesnt mean they threw away race result).
I'm curious what media you are reading, because as far as I know even all those tabloids like autosport etc do not write/say such things as "they can succeed, catch others" next year let alone 2018.
I don't think Newey will get anything wrong, but I expect he will try and over shrink wrap the car as he has since his McLaren days. This will most likely lead to cooling and thus reliability issues for the Honda PU.
The difference being this time, Honda will work with them to overcome cooling issues through all means, rather than tell them, this is the engine you get, do what you like.


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Darejan Omirbaev: Shuga (2007)
reviewed by Alyssa DeBlasio© 2008
Shuga is the most recent attempt in a long line of cinematic adaptations of Lev Tolstoi's Anna Karenina (1873-1877), including silent films such as André Maître's (Russia, 1911), Vladimir Gardin's (Russia, 1914), and Edmund Goulding's (USA, 1927) versions of the novel, feature-length adaptations by Clarence Brown (USA, 1935), Aleksandr Zarkhi (USSR, 1967), and Sandro Bolchi (Italy, 1974), and the recent television series by David Blair (USA, 2001) and Sergei Solov'ev (Russia, 2007). With Shuga, director Darejan Omirbaev undertakes a modern, and decidedly Kazakh, remake of the novel. The film is set in a wealthy, cosmopolitan Kazakhstan—an image that must have been important to the Kazakh government in the post- Borat era, the same government that hired two Western public relations firms and took out a four-page advertisement in the New York Times in September 2006 (shortly before the release of Borat) to tout Kazakhstan's strong democratic record, advanced educational system, and the equality enjoyed by Kazakh women. This government-sponsored model of a forward-looking, contemporary Kazakhstan is particularly relevant to Shuga, given that a reported seventy percent of the film's budget was supplied by the Kazakh government, with the remaining costs and post-production financed by the French company Paris-Barcelone Films. Shooting took place in Almaty, Astana, and in Paris, and this "experimental Anna Karenina," as the director has called it (qtd. Aleksandrova), must have been considered a success by many upon its release, as it was one of two films awarded the Special Jury Prize at the 2007 Eurasia Film Festival.
Shuga opens with a shot of the Kazakh landscape as a young boy rides his bike down a dirt road (Fig. 1). This initial scene is reminiscent of episodes in other films directed by Omirbaev: in the opening sequence of Cardiogram (Kardiogramma, 1995), for instance, a wide-angle shot shows a young boy watching as a man approaches on horseback over the expanse of the steppe; Kairat (1991) begins with a similar wide-angel shot as a young child and his dog traverse the landscape. In the opening scene of Shuga a young boy rides toward a fishing hole, where shots of him fishing are interwoven with snapshots of the deep azure water and a small red float bobbing up and down on its surface (Fig. 2). This aesthetic introduction is only a framing device, however, and is quickly replaced with the main narrative of the film—Omirbaev's adaptation of Anna Karenina. These seemingly discordant scenes of the young boy appear again only in the penultimate sequence of the film, which, by that time, have gained an entirely new meaning.
Although the names of the characters have been changed, giving Shuga a more Kazakh feel, structurally the plot remains faithful to Tolstoi's original, without, however, most of the character development, psychological insight, and subplots offered by the novel. In fact, the majority of the adaptation's scenes have been stripped of all passion and underlying motivation, rendering the characters lifeless, or "icy," as the name of the heroine, Shuga (Tolstoi's Anna Karenina), implies. Played by Ainur Turgambaeva, Shuga meets the mysterious and well-to-do Ablai (Tolstoi's Aleksei Vronskii) on a train as she travels from Astana to Almaty in an attempt to reconcile her brother and his estranged wife (Tolstoi's Stepan and Dolly Oblonskii) (Fig. 3). [1] For the character of Ablai, Omirbaev chose Kazakh folk-rock musician Aidos Sagatov, frontman of the Almaty group Urker [2] —he is the type of man "that an intelligent woman could find interesting," Omirbaev remarked. "And Anna Karenina was that type of woman" (qtd. Aleksandrova). After sharing a glance on the train to Almaty, Shuga discovers that Albai is courting her brother's daughter, Altynai, and that the family is hoping the two will soon marry. Having fallen in love with Shuga, however, Albai abandons his pursuit of Altynai almost immediately. Shuga soon leaves her husband and young son to engage in an affair with Ablai, traveling to Almaty regularly and for progressively longer periods of time to visit him. But the relationship between Ablai and Shuga quickly begins to deteriorate, and the culmination of this estrangement is imaged in a scene in which Ablai is shown gambling and losing handfuls of money while Shuga watches in disapproval.
It is after this episode that Shuga leaves Ablai, and by this point in the narrative the viewer has already anticipated the film's ending—if not from Tolstoi's novel, then from Omirbaev's foreshadowing in an extended scene in which Shuga is shown standing in a toy store, staring at a plastic train as it runs around its circular track. The actual event of her death, however, is left entirely to the imagination. Her suicide is initially only suggested, first by a conversation on the topic that she overhears while riding in a marshrutka to the station, and then at the station itself, as an ambulance rushes down the platform with medics running behind it. The viewer learns definitively of Shuga's death (though no details are given) only in the film's final scene, by means of a phone call that Telegon receives as he is out celebrating the birth of his son. This sterile final sequence highlights the emotional deficiency of the film in comparison with the psychological depth of the novel: while during Kitty's labor Levin fluctuates between agony, guilt, and empathy, even finding himself (a proclaimed unbeliever) in a sincere moment of prayer for the safety of his suffering wife, Omirbaev's mother-to-be sits silent and stoic in her hospital bed while her husband waits quietly outside; while Tolstoi's realism explores Levin's psychological state—his abandonment of all wishes for his child, and his eventual disappointment when he sees his newborn son and feels only compassion and disgust, and not the fatherly love he expected the birth of his child to stir in him—in Shuga the viewer is only provided a quick image of Altynai, shots of a silent Telegon, and no details as to the inner thoughts or conditions of either. The very last scene of the film is equally as numb: in a sequence interspliced with Kazakh dialogue, Telegon's modest celebration is interrupted by the brief phone call reporting Shuga's death, after which the two men go on about their business.
Lacking all of the narrative motivation and passion of Tolstoi's tale, what Shuga does accomplish is a presentation of a new, modern Kazakhstan with Western-style apartments, luxury automobiles, and expensive clothing. The heroes communicate for the most part in Russian, except for a few important (and unsubtitled) moments in Kazakh, making Almaty and Astana reminiscent of Moscow in many of the film's scenes. In one unexpected shot, Shuga and Ablai are seen walking down a street in Paris with the Eiffel tower behind them. From a narrative point of view, this brief scene is superfluous; it adds nothing to the film, as does the equally unnecessary scene that follows, where the couple pauses to watch the filming of a movie on a Paris avenue. Despite the possibility that Omirbaev meant this scene as a replacement for Anna and Vronskii's time in Italy, it seems more likely that these scenes were filmed in Paris simply because it was financially possible (PB Films funded all shooting in France), just as it seems equally plausible that Shuga and Albai travel to Paris simply because they can. Their trip is a badge of their wealth, another testament to the film's preoccupation not with narrative teleology, but with visual indicators of affluence—Western-style apartments, plasma-screen televisions, and BMWs.
Yet, while the Kazakhstan of Shuga is a land of elaborate bouquets and satellite television, not everyone is representative of the new upper class. Just as a juxtaposition of the old and the new is present in a scene in which Omirbaev's Dolly Oblonskaia watches from her window as a pristine, white limousine waits for a bridal party outside the crumbling façade of a Soviet-style apartment block, Shuga offers characters that act as misfits against the background of the country's new wealth (Fig. 4). The most apparent example of such a character is Telegon, Altynai's "second choice" suitor and eventual husband after her rejection by Ablai (Fig. 5). After the opening scene of the young boy fishing, the film jumps immediately to shots of Telegon as he wakes up in his modest, old-style apartment. Shots of Telegon also frame the film's penultimate scene, where images of the young boy and the steppe return. It is in this way that Omirbaev links Telegon to nature, endowing him with aesthetic sensibilities (and, thus, a goodness) that the other characters lack. Telegon is also a cameraman and a photographer, recalling the character Amir Kobessov from Omirbaev's The Road (Jol, 2001)—a fictional filmmaker played by real-life director Dzhamshet Usmonov. However, while Telegon frequently travels to the countryside to film nature and photographs his food before eating it, his character is a dramatically more watered down version of Konstantin Levin—the character on which he is clearly supposed to be modeled. Thus, while Anna Karenina has spawned volumes of criticism—in his 2007 book on the novel, Gary Saul Morson comes up with one hundred sixty-three "Tolstoian conclusions" that he supposes the reader is left with after completion of the novel—Shuga leaves the viewer above all with a single impression of a modern 21st -century Kazakhstan, littered with progressive electronics, self-help books (Is There Sex in Marriage?), and elite strip clubs.
Strip the film of its modern lacquer, however, and it seems that little remains. Not a single relationship in the film conveys any believable passion, and even the individual performances of the film's actors and actresses are devoid of all emotion. Silence and indifference prevail, leaving the viewer to suspect that the on-screen expression of coldness was perhaps included among the goals of the director. The first five minutes of Shuga are devoid of all conversation and the remainder of the film follows this precedent, preferring background noise—muffled voices, the chatter of the train station, the sound of traffic passing—to interpersonal communication. This silence is augmented with scenes of pure cruelty, such as at the close of the film, when Ablai invites Shuga to sit with him and watch a home video of several men being beat up: "Come see the present that my friends made for me. They found the guys that beat me up last winter," he announces. Omirbaev's "experimental Anna Karenina " is, thus, not experimental at all (despite the handful of brief scenes that feature flickering light fixtures), but simply empty—of emotion, motivation, and allure. To view this emptiness as intentional, however, could be to view it as a statement by an experienced and influential director on the void of contemporary Kazakh society—on the privileging of surface over content. Evidence warranting such a reading is offered in the final scene of the film, where Omirbaev returns to the vivid frames of the young boy fishing, the only sequence absent of any signs of affluence or modernity. By this point, the viewer now recognizes the boy as Shuga's orphaned son (Fig. 6). Although the young child is as stoic and silent as every other character in the film, the scene has gained new meaning in juxtaposition with the modern aesthetics of the rest of Shuga: the boy continues fishing, but a fish now thrashes on his rod, demonstrating that perhaps only in the steppe does true content and life exist.
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1] The name Shuga also recalls the song "Shuga" (2003) by the Russian pop singer Gliukoza (Natasha Ionova).
2] See Urker for the group's official website.
Aleksandrova, Irina. "Karenina zagovorila po-kazakhski." AiF Kazakhstan (24 January 2007).
Gliukoza official website.
Morson, Gary Saul. Anna Karenina in Our Time. Seeing More Wisely. New Haven: Yale UP, 2007.
Urker.
Shuga, Kazakhstan and France, 2007
Color, 85 minutes
Director: Darejan Omirbaev
Screenplay: Darejan Omirbaev
Cinematography: Boris Troshev
Art Directors: Aigul' Diusembaeva and Nuriia Kaspakova
Sound: Olivier Dandre
Editing: Dominique Viellard
Cast: Ainur Turgambaeva, Aidos Sagatov, Ainur Sapargali, Zhasulan Asauov
Producers: Limara Zheksembaeva, Joël Farges, Elisabeth Mergui-Rampazzo, and José-Luis Aguirre
Production: Kazakhfil'm, with Kadam Film Studio and Paris-Barcelone Films
Updated: 11 Aug 08


We've all been there, and it's okay. Is it SO-vig-non blanc or Saw-vig-non blanc? (Don't worry, you'll find the answer in #10.) We're here to give you guidance on some of the common wine mispronunciations so you can decide what pronunciations feel most comfortable for your palette. Just remember, as most wines are not created equally, most wines are not pronounced the same. It's a matter of regional preference and opinion.So after reading this, we encourage you to form your own pronunciations, and more importantly to get tasting! We all drink in the same language after all.
Take a guess: Is it pronounced Shee-rahz or Shee-razz Both, actually. Depending on where you decide to sip this dark purply and slightly spicy wine, the pronunciation will vary. Domestically we say Shee-rahz, which rhymes with the land of Oz, but in Shiraz's home of Australia, it's pronounced Shee-razz, which rhymes with pizazz.
This is the same grape as the Shiraz, but the French call it Syrah.While most people pronounce Syrah like the name Sarah/Sara, how do you pronounce it? If you said, " See-rah ," then you would be correct. Even if you didn't get it, now you know--and we're not judging you.
Pouilly-Fuissé comes from France, and is the area responsible for producing some fine white wines in southern Burgundy. This one also might be the most fun to pronounce: pwee fwee say.
This one might top the list of being most commonly mispronounced. For the record, I've had my friend, who speaks fluent German, correct me a million times on this German and Austrian favorite. Don't let the umlaut intimidate you, it's pronounced: geh VAIRTZ trahmee ner.
This one might seem simple, but let's do a group check and make sure we're all saying Rioja correctly: It's ree OH hah.
Perhaps France's most famous sweet wine is also a little tricky to pronounce. If you've been saying the "million" part like, well, the currency, then correct yourself ASAP. If you've been saying Sem-ee-yon,which is the most recognized French pronunciation, then pour yourself another drink.
Notice the accent is not over the "e" in this one. That's because there is a different pronunciation for the Australian version of this same grape, which produces a dry wine down under. The pronunciation is not drastically different, but you'll be seen as a wine guru if you can pronounce the two correctly. The Aussies pronounce it as SEM-eh-lon.
You order this wine so much that you might not need any assistance. But if your French is less than stellar, here's a quick lesson for you: It's cab-er-nay-saw-vee-nyon. Say it again. You're getting the hang of it already.
You might be surprised to hear that almost everyone in the United States is mispronouncing this wine by emphasizing the "c" at the end, like saw-vee-nyon-blohnk. However, the correct way to pronounce this wine is So-veen-yawn BlahN with no "c" at the end. So if you want to sound like a somm and give people something to think about, go ahead and pronounce it the less popular, yet correct way: So-veen-yawn BlahN. Then secretly pat yourself on the back for nailing this one.
Originally from Missouri, Katie has lived in Switzerland, Chicago, San Francisco. Brooklyn and Arizona-and prefers to live in close proximity to old vines. Her first job in college was pouring wines and pruning wines at a winery in Augusta, Missouri which was the first designated AVA in American. Since then, Katie has spend several years working in corporate America as a copywriter and content marketer. She now works for herself because "her boss" adheres to a strict unlimited winery vacation policy. Follow her tasting and travel notes: @eieigel.


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Kakha Bendukidze. Photo: novayagazeta.ru
By 2004, Kakha Bendukidze had satisfied his business ambitions and could credit himself with some success in his lobbying activities. But Bendukidze was also very aware of the changing climate in Russia, with the government increasing its control over big business. In October 2003 Russia's most influential oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky was arrested on a runway in a Siberian airport on charges of fraud and tax evasion. In 2004, Forbes still named him the richest man in Russia, with an estimated net worth of USD 15 billion.[122] Khodorkovsky himself stated in a 2005 interview with Ekho Moskvy radio station:
"I am convinced that I was put in prison not because of politics but because they wanted to take Yukos away. Politics was just a pretext. If I had not helped oppositional parties in 2003, they would have found a different pretext."[123]
Unlike Khodorkovsky, who had turned into an outspoken advocate of political liberalism and civil liberties, Bendukidze concentrated on promoting economic liberalisation. Nevertheless, the state's growing influence, accompanied by the strengthening of the role of such state-controlled enterprises as Gazprom, went against Bendukidze's libertarian beliefs. The progressive nationalisation of strategic industries also signalled to Bendukidze that the government was taking a more assertive, even hostile, position towards big business, and that his own business interests were at risk.
Imprisoned: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a Russian oligarch
and former owner of Yukos. Photo: unknown
Already in 2003, Bendukidze felt the impact as his company made inroads into the jealously guarded nuclear energy sector. In 2003, OMZ purchased a controlling stake (53.8 percent) in Atomstroiexport (ASE), the Russian monopolist in construction of nuclear plants abroad.[124] This turned the government into a minority shareholder in a deal strongly opposed by the Russian Nuclear Ministry.[125] In February 2004, Bendukidze resigned from the position of the President of the JSC Atomstroieksport.[126] In the following year, he would sell his share in OMZ to Gazprombank, which would then hand OMZ's nuclear assets back to the state.
Kakha Bendukidze as a new designate Economy Minister,
June 2004. Photo: newsru.com
In late May 2004, Kakha Bendukidze arrived in Tbilisi as a member of the Russian delegation to the Russian-Georgian Economic Forum,[127] which took place during a positive period in the relations between the two countries. It was during this event that he was invited to a private meeting with President Saakashvili and the late Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania. That Bendukidze attracted the government's attention was not surprising
In "What Does Russia Think," a collection of essays by influential Russian intellectuals published by the European Council on Foreign Relations in September 2009, Olga Kryshtanovskaya provides her account of Russia's resurgent authoritarianism:
"After the Yukos case, the business community was forced either to accept the new reality in Russia or to leave the country. It was now in effect forbidden for business people, or for that matter any other significant social group, to directly intervene in politics. The Kremlin even believed, for example, that those who, like Khodorkovsky, who worked for charity, did so simply to improve their image and could therefore constitute a potential danger at the next election. The function of the grand bourgeoisie was to remain silent and only to sponsor projects initiated by the Kremlin." (pp. 27-28)
On the changing power balance between the Russian state and the oligarchs during Putin's presidency, see the 2003 essay by Marshall Goldman "Render Unto Caesar: Putin and the Oligarchs":
"In 1991, a small group of Russians emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union to claim ownership of some of the world's most valuable oil, natural gas, and metal deposits. This resulted in one of the greatest transfers of wealth ever seen. By 1997, five of these individuals, who in the 1980s had only negligible net worth, were listed by Forbes as among the world's richest billionaires."
Articles by Lilia Shevtsova on how Russia has changed can be found on the website of the Moscow Carnegie Center. Also useful is her book Russia
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Q: link config files Problem
I'm trying to move my config files from a .dotfiles folder, and link those files to the corresponding config path.
Example
In this example I'm trying
$ ln -s ~/.dotfiles/nvim/init.vim ~/.config/nvim/init.vim

And the program (nvim in this case), the config file doesn't take effect.
But when I copy the file instead of linking
$ cp ~/.dotfiles/nvim/init.vim ~/.config/nvim/init.vim

It does take effect.
Other example
When I do the same thing but with my .zshrc file
ln -s .dotfiles/zsh/.zshrc ~/.zshrc

It takes effect...
Question
How could I link my .dotfiles config files to the according path for config?

Thanks

A: Probably you want to put .dotfiles to git repo and instead of files you end up with symlinks inside git.
There are multiple ways to handle this:

*

*You probably might want to move actual files to .dotfiles and create a symlink to those in original place. Should work in most cases, but you might run into issues if there are some strange checks implemented in software which uses this configuration files (but shouldn't really happen). I'd try this one.

*Use hardlinks instead of softlinks. ln ~/.dotfiles/nvim/init.vim ~/.config/nvim/init.vim instead of ln -s. However that might be a bit harder to track and manage. Note that hardlinks do not work for directories.

*You might wanna try to play with bind mounts, however it works for directories only and isn't that obvious. Plus requires system changes to make this option survive reboot.

A: Solved by itself...
I specified the absolute path from ~. Like:
$ ln -s ~/.dotfiles/nvim/init.vim ~/.config/nvim/init.vim

I think I was creating the symlink with a relative path before

Thanks everyone who answered

A: Instead of ln -s ~/.dotfiles/nvim/init.vim ~/.config/nvim/init.vim
you can also do:
cd ~/.config/nvim
and then
ln -s ../../.dotfiles/nvim/init.vim (relative)
or
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/nvim/init.vim (expanded to absolute)
Like this you have more control. Both rel. and abs. should work. Difference is when you copy or move.

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The design including layouts of screens, description of attributes, #functions, #pseudocode, #processdiagrams and #documentation is carried out in this phase.
All the codes are brought together into a specific #testing environment where testing of the pieces is done to find out issues.
At the phase of SDLC the created system is frequently checked and maintained to make sure that its performance continues at the same pace.


This may be a surprise, but Belgium has some of the best restaurants in the world and falls just behind London and Paris for its count of Michelin stars. The Belgians know how to eat well, and as the country is divided into two parts, Flemish and French, the healthy rivalry between the two different cuisines is all good for the consumer in terms of choice and quality.
You will find many of these dishes in northern France which has much in common with Belgium and Flanders.
Anguilles au vert or Paling in 't groen might be a bit of a turn-off at first. More a Belgian than a French invention, the eels originally came from the river Scheldt in Antwerp. The firm flesh was cut up and then cooked in fish stock or water. Then, herbs that the fishermen found growing along the river bank were added: most commonly sorrel and chervil, but also parsley, mint, and watercress, all of which give the dish its distinctive bright green color. The dish is cooked everywhere, but especially in restaurants in cities like Antwerp and Bruges. Or, take a trip out of Bruges into the flat Polder country and try the Siphon Restaurant in Damme which specializes in the delicacy.
In Brussels try the Belle Epoque brasserie, La Roue d'Or, just off the Grand Place for a satisfying and classic eel dish.
The well-known and hearty winter dish of carbonade Flamande or Vlaamse stoverij/stoofvlees was, according to the Belgians, invented by them. The French of course claim that the French equivalent of boeuf Bourguignon was the original. Originally a farmer's dish from north Europe, ideal for keeping the cold at bay, it's a rich deeply satisfying plate of caramelized onions and slow-cooked beef. The French use red wine, but in Belgium, the dish is cooked using Belgian beer, particularly Oud Bruin (Old Brown, or Flanders Brown). The beer's secondary fermentation adds a slightly sour flavor and perfectly counteracts the sweetness of the onions. Bread covered in mustard is added and the dish is served with mashed potatoes or frites.
Nearly every Belgian restaurant will have this on their menu, and it's particularly popular in traditional brasseries. In Brussels go for Le Fin de Siècle at 9 rue des Chartreux where the old wooden floors, tables, and chairs take you back to 19th-century living.
Waterzooï sometimes appears on menus as Gentse Waterzooï, reflecting its origins—it was apparently the favorite dish of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V who came from Ghent and was partial to the dish. So it stands to reason that Waterzooi was originally made using fish caught in the rivers around Ghent but when pollution killed off that supply, saltwater fish were used instead. Today, it's as likely to be made with chicken as with fish, cooked with vegetables, herbs, and cream. Not surprisingly, Ghent is a good place for restaurants serving the dish.
In Brussels book at the charming In 't Spinnekopke which is about as traditional as you can get.
You can buy potjesvlees in most food shops so you might try doing that before ordering from a menu. The terrine is traditionally made of three different types of meat: chicken, veal, and rabbit. But the thing that most foreigners find difficult is the texture; the terrine sits in a bed of gelatin and is both sweet and sour, a combination that is not to everybody's taste. But the Belgians love it; potjesvlees has been made since the 14th century, originating in the Westhoek district of West Flanders, so the area around Ypres and Poperinge is the place to make for—it's recognized by the EU as a product worthy of special protection there.
Most countries have their own version of stoemp, a universally popular and hearty dish of mashed potatoes blended with whatever vegetable there is to hand: onions, carrots, brussels sprouts or cabbage. It's usually served as a side dish and goes very well with sausages or boudin blanc. In England it's called bubble and squeak; in Ireland colcannon and champ; hash in the US; pyttipanna in Sweden (available at all good IKEA stores), and in Scotland it goes by the delightful name of rumbledethumps.
Belgium claims to be the inventor of moules frites/mosselen-friet, not France. Wherever this wonderful dish originated, you must try it in Belgium where the fries (see below) really are the best in the world. Steaming mussels come in a huge pot, so take an empty shell and use it to get at the delicious meat, then chuck the shell into the second pot — always conveniently provided — and keep going. Take the spoon for the remaining juice at the bottom of the pot.
Chez Leon might be right in the heart of Brussels, surrounded by restaurants that mainly cater to tourists, but this cheerful, top-value restaurant is the place to visit for mussels and chips served by unfailingly cheerful waiters.
Yes, the Belgians invented frites as well… you will get the best fries in the world in Belgium. They choose the right variety of potatoes and fry them twice to get that crisp outside and soft interior. They're served in almost every single restaurant, but you'll find the best in friteries (frietkot/frituur), small cafe-size places that offer takeaway and often the odd table or two for a perfect pit stop. In Brussels, make for Maison Antoine at 1 Place Jourdan.
In Antwerp, you'll get fries inspired by Michelin-starred Dutch chef, Sergio Herman, at Frites Atelier at 32 Korte Gasthuisstraat. They come with beef stew, curries and more, or just sauces dispensed from earthenware jars.
These tiny, juicy crevettes grises, affectionately if not quite accurately called the 'caviar of the North Sea', are particularly popular throughout Belgium. In the past, they were found along the coast by fishermen on horseback. You'll get them in many restaurants, particularly at the seafood specialists in Sainte-Catherine, once the harbor of Brussels where the quays echoed to the sounds of the fishing boats being unloaded and the daily catch was sold.
Try Le Vismet, a chic restaurant where the chef turns the grey shrimps into deep-fried croquettes. The bars and restaurants in the port towns along the North Sea will all serve them, sometimes as a starter, or just to accompany an aperitif in much the same way that olives appear in Provence.
You might think that a waffle is a waffle, but there is a difference between the gauffres produced in Belgium and those from, say, the U.S.A. Belgian waffles have large, deep square pockets and are thicker than regular waffles. They first appeared in 1958 at the Brussels World Fair Expo and rapidly spread in popularity across the world. In Belgium, there are two kinds. The Brussels waffle is rectangular, light and flaky; you can take it sweet or savory topping combinations, but most people top their waffles up with whipped cream, chocolate or ice cream (waffle purists insist on just one topping). The Liège waffle contains crystallized sugar and is sweeter—you may find this variety served at breakfast at your hotel.
If you want to savor the best in Brussels, go to the Maison Dandoy Tearoom at 31 rue du Beurre.
Speculoos, or spiced, shortcrust biscuits, are found everywhere in Belgium. While your first encounter is probably when you order a coffee, you'll find that these little extras, though delicious, are nothing like the specialized ones that you will find at places like Maison Dandoy. Here they are made in traditional fashion with genuine butter and brown sugar and baked in special wooden molds with pretty designs.


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