An angry ex-employee bursts into the lobby of his former employer and yells at the frightened receptionist, "You tell the CEO he's a dead man. I'll make sure he never sees his family again!" A woman gets a phone call at work from her estranged husband, who tells her he knows about her new boyfriend, also employed at the same company. "I will kill you both, and I'll shoot any cop who tries to stop me!" An information technology (IT) director reviews several hundred threatening e-mails from an anonymous source who has not honored a cease-and-desist order from the organization's attorney. Speaking to his friend, a 15-year-old high school sophomore says that he hired a locksmith to make a spare key to his father's gun cabinet, just in case he needs to "take care of some people" who have bullied him.
In response to horrific situations—including shootings and mass murders in workplaces, schools, malls, churches, and government agencies—progressive and forward-thinking public- and private-sector organizations form threat assessment teams (TATs) to help prevent or manage incidents.2 Law enforcement agencies constitute an important part. They can assess the nature and reality of the threats, provide valuable information to the group, and offer a realistic view as to potential solutions. Police serve both an advisory and action-oriented role; they can help with the assessment, start or continue an investigation, or take other appropriate measures, such as making arrests or initiating mental health holds.
TATs aim to assess dangerousness, not to predict violence; only the perpetrators ultimately know their intentions. Further, the teams do not rely on profiles when managing cases. They focus on analyzing the contextual behaviors of possible perpetrators and any potential victims they intersect with. Tied to TATs' concentration on behavior, threat assessment encompasses just a window in time. The team's depiction of a subject one day could change completely upon receipt of new information the following day. For instance, an angry or depressed man could seem stable until his wife suddenly leaves him. As a result, the TAT may dramatically alter its assessment of his potential for violence.
More than focusing on warning signs or threats alone, assessment involves a unique overall view of changing, relevant, and related behaviors of concern. Experts say that the identification and resolution of threat cases involves early detection of "attack related" behaviors.3 Perpetrators of targeted acts of violence engage in covert and overt behaviors preceding and accompanying their attacks. They consider, plan, prepare, share, and, in some cases, move on to action.
Dr. Albrecht retired from the San Diego, California Police Department and currently serves as a security consultant and author.
Like-minded, concerned professionals gathered together in person or via a teleconference can use the power of synergy to find dynamic solutions in a short time. Using TATs changes the dynamics in employee- or student-related threat situations from What do I do? to What do we do? These meetings allow the participants to share ideas, experiences, fears, and concerns in a problem-solving environment. TATs serve five primary functions.
Information gathering: What does the team know about the threatener and the targets?
Interviewing: What can TAT personnel learn from anyone personally or professionally connected to the perpetrator and victims?
Evaluation: What does all of this information mean in terms of threats of violence to people and the organization?
Decision making: What should the team do now and in the immediate future? Who will take the lead role in managing the subject's behaviors or actions (e.g., human resources, law enforcement, security, campus police, EAP, mental health clinicians)?
Follow-up: If the emotional temperature has cooled around this situation, how will the TAT continue to monitor the people and behaviors involved so that it does not reescalate?
Typical TAT participants (or their designees) fall into two categories. Primary team members are the hands-on decision makers; secondary team members provide insights to the primary TAT personnel.
Law enforcement officers assist with reporting, arrest, or prosecution; patrols; criminal database research; and, further, they provide peace of mind. A security director addresses access control issues and implements guards and emergency- or security-related policies and procedures, such as lockdown drills or evacuations. Legal counsel representatives provide suggestions as to labor law concerns, due diligence, and union contracts; more important, they possibly can make TAT meetings part of the attorney-client work-product privilege, allowing for better protection of information derived by the team in case of future litigation.
A human resources (HR) director addresses issues related to discipline or termination, organizational policies and procedures, benefits, and HR-related legal issues (in conjunction with company counsel). Employee assistance program (EAP) or psychological services clinicians provide insight as to the perpetrators' and victims' states of mind and the need for fitness-for-duty evaluations, hospitalization, crisis treatment, or police response; if in a treating relationship with the involved individuals, these representatives may need advice as to when to excuse themselves from group discussions. Finally, the employee's supervisor, although not privy to the contents and length of the entire meetings, should provide specific answers or insights about the perpetrator's behaviors or any potential targets.
While they may not want to attend TAT meetings, senior managers can streamline certain processes, make strategic decisions, allocate money to hire additional experts, or approve the provision of severance or other benefits (e.g., medical or mental health). Labor-relations personnel can help the team understand the complexities of any contracts or agreements between the organization and the unions. As union representatives also do not want dangerous employees in the workplace, they can provide the TAT with information about the perpetrator-employee and likely targets, as well as feedback about the culture of the workplace. The employee's supervisor will only attend portions of the meetings to offer suggestions about how to deal with or deter the perpetrator.
The facilities manager can help with concerns about access control, safety and security, or potential problem areas in the facility, such as hiding places, lockers, or hazardous materials. A risk management/safety officer, often in conjunction with the security director, can provide insight into facility protection issues. Some TATs may include an IT representative if the threats originate from cyberspace.
The following questions can serve as a starting point for the threat assessment team members' initial discussion about the dangerousness of a current or former employee, student, or outside threatener.
Is the subject troubling or troubled?
Has the individual exhibited this behavior in the past or is it new?
In the case of an employee, does the organization wish to terminate or keep the subject?
As a first assessment, does the individual resemble an emotional threatener (less likely to act) or an unemotional one (more prone to strike)?
What does the TAT know about this person's mental health, substance abuse, weapons use, or criminal history?
What work or military history does the individual have?
Does the team have information about this person's family dynamics, friends, or social support network?
What history does the subject have of domestic violence or stalking? Is it connected to anyone currently (e.g., family, spouse, dating relationships, employees)?
Does anyone have restraining orders against this person? Does the subject have one against someone else? Does the individual have a history of being a party to any civil litigation?
Is he or she desperate or showing signs of anger, rage, depression, or despair?
Do others have concerns about this person's behavior?
How geographically or physically close is the subject to his or her targets?
What might change in the subject's life to increase or decrease the risk of violence?
Could anything happen in the potential victim's situation to alter the chance of action by the subject?
What does this person want? Can the team solve his or her problem? Is the subject making a demand or threat or disclosing a cause?
Is the person on the path from ideas to actions?
Does the subject seem homicidal or suicidal? Angry or depressed?
Is there evidence of repetition or escalation of threats or violence or boundary probing? It becomes a significant concern when a person makes multiple contacts in multiple ways.
Has there been a series of red flag events? Is the person's behavior becoming more or less erratic?
Staying the same or escalating? Is this escalation becoming rapidly apparent (over days or even hours)? Or, is it a slower process (weeks, months, or even years)?
Does he or she have the capacity to organize, plan, and prepare for violence?
If the TAT wrote the suspect's name on a piece of paper and drew concentric circles outward, whose names could it write in the circles as potential victims? Spouse, children, or other family members? Supervisor or coworkers? Security officer or investigators? An attorney who served civil papers? A police officer or detective who contacted the subject recently?
Has the team seen or heard evidence of target selection, planning, weapons acquisition, increased mental illness, hostile communications with one or more potential victims, or rationalization of motives?
Are one or more key life factors failing and, therefore, igniting the subject's rage?
Does it appear more or less likely that a violent action will be directed against the target? What specific information and reasoning led to this conclusion?
As the TAT perceives it today, is this primarly an HR, law enforcement, security, or mental health issue? Who must work in combination with each other?
TATs based on a campus or in a school district may include many of the same professionals or differ slightly. These teams gather together to discuss the troubling or threatening behavior of current or former students or parents, outside criminals (e.g., gang members or pedophiles), or school employees, such as a teacher, counselor, or administrative staff member.
As the top-ranking officials, principals and vice principals can make immediate decisions, as well as consult with district authorities (e.g., the superintendent or a designee). Master teachers may have specific information about classroom behaviors, security concerns, rumors and gossip, threats, parenting issues, or relationship problems that the subject in question may be having with another student. Additional selected teachers can help the TAT by discussing certain problematic classroom conduct issues or potentially dangerous behaviors, especially when considered in the proper context, on the part of the subject. School district attorneys can provide legal support and insight into regulations, such as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and union issues involving district employees.
School nurses, although restricted by what they can reveal about a student in their care, possibly can speak in general terms about the climate, culture, or underlying health or behavioral issues on campus. District and on-campus counselors may have specific insights into problem students or employees, although they cannot release certain information because they face the same ethical boundary issues as any other treating professional.
School police and resource officers can provide armed protection, intelligence information, and knowledge of previous problems with the same perpetrator; conduct arrests, prosecutions, and locker searches; implement physical security improvements, such as metal detectors, panic or burglar alarms, and cameras; and help with crisis response plans, including liaison with such mutual aid groups as fire departments, paramedics, other police agencies, or the county sheriff's department. Campus security personnel can support the efforts of the police and provide intelligence gathering; rumor control; and information about groups or individuals and previous problems, situations, or incidents. Often younger, they may have better rapport with students than campus police officers.
Facilities or maintenance directors can help with access control improvements, security, and evacuation plans and provide support to any responding police or fire agencies. Although limitations exist, selected parents and students can provide knowledge and insight into the subject and problematic behaviors, but they should not attend an entire TAT meeting.
As a starting point, TAT members can ask a series of questions to evaluate the dangerousness of a threatening current or former employee, student, or other individual. Also, the presence of certain high-risk indicators can give TAT personnel reason for concern.
Does the use of threat assessment tools, strategies, and responses lower the possibility of violence by working so well that they deter a potentially violent perpetrator without anyone ever knowing? This begs the question, How can a negative be proven? In other words, silence often rewards successful vigilance in countering potential violence. The bad guy returns home, goes away, or decides that the evil plan is not worth the risk. The truth is, no one really knows why someone chooses to use violence or why that person is deterred.
In August 1999, neo-Nazi Buford Furrow shot and killed a Filipino letter carrier simply because he was not white and then entered a Los Angeles-area Jewish Community Center where he fired over 70 shots with a submachine gun. He wounded three adults and three children during his rampage. After his arrest, he revealed that he had planned to shoot people at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles but was deterred because he felt it had too much security in place. So, what proof exists that these ideas, suggestions, discussions, plans, actions, and implementations have worked? Success equals peace.
Unfortunately, as the news media highlights, disturbing incidents can happen at organizations and campuses anywhere. Such violent events result in unspeakable fear, injury, or death.
The wave of the future for violence prevention is a group of stakeholders with the appropriate expertise meeting on a regular or as-needed basis to address internal or external threats to a workplace or school. Threat assessment teams serve this purpose and, more important, help keep employees and students safe.
1 For additional information, see Anthony J. Pinizzotto, Edward F. Davis, and Charles E. Miller III, "Suicide by Cop: Defining a Devastating Dilemma," FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, February 2005, 8-20.
2 For additional information, see Mario Scalora, Andre Simons, and Shawn VanSlyke, "Campus Safety: Assessing and Managing Threats," FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, February 2010, 1-10.
3 U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, Workplace Violence: Issues in Response, available at http://www.fbi.gov/publications/violence.pdf; Frederick Calhoun, Hunters and Howlers: Threats and Assaults Against Judicial Officials in the United States, 1789-1993 (Darby, PA: Diane Publishing Co., 2000); and http://www.secretservice.gov/ntac.shtml.
Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, Workplace Violence: Issues in Response, available at http://www.fbi.gov/publications/violence.pdf.
National Threat Assessment Center website: http://www.secretservice.gov/ntac.shtml.


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This used to be a Navy blog. I don't know what it is now.
About The Birddog
A SALUTE TO INDEPENDENCE
On July 4, 2009 July 15, 2009 By MikeIn conference talk, football
That's right, independence. Liberty. Self-determination. The animating contest of freedom. Founding principles of our nation? Or prescription for Navy football success?
Army, Navy, and Notre Dame are anomalies in the framework of college football, and for some reason it bugs the hell out of people. You can't go to a blog, message board, or news site without some joker proposing his grand conference realignment plan. None of these brilliant arrangements include independent teams. No, people don't want exceptions to conference rule. Everyone must be put in their place!
Screw that. Conferences are for schools that don't kick enough ass to be able to make it on their own. Everyone would be independent if they could handle it, but they aren't bathed in awesome like Navy is.
Why is being independent better for Navy?
Money. Navy is able to generate enough operating revenue from playing Notre Dame, the Army-Navy game, television contracts, bowl games, and one-off events like Maryland and Ohio State. They don't have to split this income eight ways, either, like they do in communes conferences. Maybe they don't get any money from the rest of the communal pot either, but they don't need it. NAAA makes enough money to fund football and 29 other varsity sports.
Scheduling control. Football scheduling is hard; a lot harder than people realize. It's basically football diplomacy. You have multiple parties looking to use other parties in order to achieve their own ends. The object of this diplomacy is to either convince teams to come play in your stadium, or convince them to pay you a lot of money to go play in theirs… All while making sure you win enough games to meet your postseason goals. Conferences are the peace treaties of the scheduling diplomacy world, with similar (in theory) schools coming together to guarantee a number of home games for each other every year. Navy, as an independent, has no such guarantee. There's no doubt that the schedule-makers in Annapolis have to work a bit harder to fill 12 games every year, but Navy fans see the fruits of their efforts.
First, we get a manageable schedule. There are only two other programs in I-A that face the kind of constraints that Navy does; any alignment with any other group of schools puts Navy at a competitive disadvantage right off the bat. Being independent means that Navy has more control in crafting a schedule that has the right balance of competition to challenge the Mids, but not make their hopes of a bowl game unrealistic.
The other scheduling benefit that comes from being independent is variety. Who wants to play the same basic schedule every year? Since 2000, Navy has played at least one team from every conference, including independents. By the end of 2009, the Mids will have played in this decade:
Big 10: Northwestern, Ohio State
Pac-10: Stanford
Big 12: Texas Tech
ACC: Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, N.C. State, Duke, Maryland, Boston College
Big East: Rutgers, Pitt, UConn, Temple, Boston College
SEC: Vanderbilt
Conference USA: Tulane, Army, Rice, TCU, Tulsa, ECU, SMU
Sun Belt: Western Kentucky, North Texas
WAC: TCU, Rice, SMU, Louisiana Tech, Hawaii
Mountain West: Air Force, New Mexico, Colorado State, Utah
MAC: Northern Illinois, Eastern Michigan, Central Michigan, Toledo, Ball State, Temple, Kent State
Independents: Army, Notre Dame, UConn, Temple
I'm not going to go through ten years' worth of 120 I-A schedules to verify this, but I doubt there are many other teams in the country, if any, that can make that claim. With the next decade including games with Syracuse, UNLV, San Jose State, Baylor, Troy, Ole Miss, and others, it's a trend that is going to continue. Getting around the country like that is good for recruiting, good for the mission of the school, and good for entertainment. It's also a lot harder to do without the schedule flexibility of independence.
Television. Next to Notre Dame, Navy might have the best television package in the country. All home games are on CBS College Sports for the next 10 years. CBS is also going to broadcast Army-Navy through at least 2018. CBS picks up the Notre Dame game every year it's a Navy home game. Navy is a popular draw when they hit the road, too; every game was televised in 2008, with ESPN networks picking up three games (not including the EagleBank Bowl). How would conference membership make this any better? It would just make it worse.
Bowl Games. Most bowl games have some sort of conference affiliation. Once upon a time, that was a problem. Not anymore. After incredible fan turnout at the 2003 Houston Bowl and 2004 Emerald Bowl, bowl games have been looking for ways to take Navy. The Meineke Car Care Bowl in Charlotte took advantage of a hiatus in their contract with the Big East to grab Navy in 2006. The Poinsettia and EagleBank Bowls were both created with Navy in mind, and both have invited Navy back in future years. The Texas Bowl will invite a bowl-eligible Navy team in 2009, and the Armed Forces Bowl is lined up for 2013. By understanding what bowl games want– fans and their money– Chet Gladchuck has carved out bowl security for years to come without any need for conference backing.
So tonight, when you pull out the Do-It-Yourself Revolution Kit you picked up at the fireworks stand next to the freeway, light a roman candle or two to celebrate Navy's independence too. Hopefully nobody does anything to screw it up.
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30 thoughts on "A SALUTE TO INDEPENDENCE"
Navy86
Of course, the point left unsaid in this really good article is that much of our ability to remain independent relies on continuing to be good. I shudder to think what might happen if we had a couple losing seasons in a row.
I don't know… Even Army got a TV contract in their doldrums. Times are better when the team is good, obviously, but I don't think being in a conference helps us in the down years. I sure as hell don't want to find out either way.
I wouldn't necessarily call what Army had a "TV contract." Most of their games seemed to be on ESPN360.
The biggest thing a conference can provide when things are down is revenue due to the sharing. But I'm with you – I don't want to find out either.
DotBone89
I guess your next problem to solve is Middle East Peace!
BZ!
Bird Dog '12
Most of them are on ESPN Classic. It isn't a GOOD contract, but it's a whole lot better than nothing. Army and Navy have an advantage over generic State U. in that even if we're bad, we're enough of a novelty that *someone* will want to watch. Army games might've been pretty bad the last few years, but I bet they still get better ratings on fall Saturdays than ESPN Classic's usual fare.
GoalieLax
I would guess that the Army and Navy regular season games would have a higher rating than the dregs of conference play…certainly above the majority of non-BCS teams and probably a fre BCS schools
usmc53
Chet is the man. Unbelievable what he's been able to do with hiring, scheduling, facilities, TV contracts, bowls, etc., etc., etc…
I hope we are taking VERY good care of that guy. He's surely taking great care of us.
rob_a
i didnt know they are scheduled to play ole miss. when does this happen? in oxford? being an hour away in memphis, i'd kill to see this.
The date hasn't been revealed. It was sort of an afterthought at the end of the press release announcing the extension with CBS CS.
http://www.navysports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/091808aab.html
"During the length of the agreement, CBS College Sports Network will broadcast notable match-ups including games against Wake Forest; Air Force; East Carolina; Ohio State; Pittsburgh; Rutgers; Texas Christian University; Northwestern; Duke; Ole Miss and Syracuse."
having grown up a rebel fan and being a navy fan since 2002, i'm really looking forward to this game if in fact it does happen. this has to be navy's number 1 reason for staying independent. i've grown up in SEC country. it's great to watch florida-georgia, alabama-auburn, alabama-lsu, ole miss-lsu, ole miss-miss st, alabama-tenn, florida-tenn, but these games happen once a year. it's nice to watch navy play ohio state, notre dame, hawaii, army, air force, and pitt among others during a 12 game season. then you throw in the bowl opponent. it makes for more excitement in my opinion.
i also love the national exposure
Point well taken. If, in addition to being a Navy fan, you are a generic college football fan, and one of those people that love watching games from all over the nation, you get to indulge both of your addictions at the same time each season, by virtue of Navy scheduling and independence. Looking forward to the HI game!
Next up, Canadian schools?
http://www.rauzulusstreet.com/football/college/vaniercup.htm
BilltheGoat
The "Ole Miss" game has gone away.
Well, so much for that.
Bummer.
chbags
In as much as any game that far out is really ever "real" what was the source for the possible Ole Miss game being removed?
A comment left by a credible person.
I need a roster.
that sucks. but, its ok.
We still have Troy and South Alabama, bags.
troy is always pretty good
EightyFiver
Why do I get the feeling that those who voted in the poll that they want to see Navy in the ACC or the Big East are ACC/Big East fans, rather than Navy fans.
Re: ACC votes — when I voted 2 days ago it was 100% for independent
'85, that feeling is you having an astute intellect.
i have to admit, if i had answered this question a year or 2 ago i was leaning towards a conference affiliation. i thought it could help with recruiting. but, i have since changed my mind. being in a conference would limit the exposure since they would have to play a number of set games in one area of the country. this could possibly limikt the exposure. so, i have changed my mind completely.
Capt. Bill Read USN(ret) '49
Being Independent is GREAT overall.
Chet Gladchuck is GREAT.
Our coaches & programs are GREAT
Our Navy athletes are GREAT.
For an old bird-dog Navy athletics have been GREAT.
jackgaffigan
I have been a keen Navy fan since plebe summer in 1944. At 83 I still have season tickets to all home games and the thrill is the same as when we marched on for the Army/Navy game December '44 at the Memorial Stadium in Baltimore.
I have spent 18 years as a Blue and Gold officer and I am glade to have been a Navy recruiter with Gar Bacon and Leo Latonic that only ended when both died within a week of each other. Go Navy1
It's always an honor when the original Birddogs pay a visit to the site.
gary ballard
This was a well written observation and I agree completely. Being in a conference is too restrictive as well as requiring that the money be shared. We can thank our excellent AD, Chet Gladchuk for his expert negotiation of future schedules and lining up bowls into the forseeable future as long as we win a sufficient number of games. Even though the schedule is somewhat tougher, Coach Ken is keeping the well oiled machine put in place by Coach Johnson intact. No small part of our success is the cohesiveness of the coaching staff and Coach Ken and the AD get credit for that. Your point is well taken that showing our flag around the country helps with recruiting. We went to Texas and got creamed by Houston and TCU, but have made great inroads into the Texas football factory as the backbone of our team. We are looking forward to good things,
Gary Ballard Class of 1960
While the need to remain Independent has never been questioned, with the success of the back-to-back-to-back winning seasons the AD has been able to do some real magic. Being able to watch nearly every NAVY Football Game (in HD, no less!) has been priceless. For those of us here in the Northwest, it makes it possible to gather our Alumni buddies together on a weekly basis to cheer on our Mid's, Not being able to get back to Annapolis on a regular basis means if we want to attend a game in person, we have to settle for the once in a decade game against a Pac-10 team, or, in this year's case a game in Hawaii. Oh, darn…
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Władysław Taczanowski (; 17 March 1819, in Jabłonna, Lublin Voivodeship – 17 January 1890, in Warsaw) was a Polish zoologist and collector of natural history who explored the Russian Far East and northern Africa. He specialized mainly in ornithology but also described numerous other taxa including reptiles and arachnids.

Life
A member of an old noble (szlachta) magnate family, Taczanowski, from the Poznań region Władysław studied in Lublin and managed the family farm after the death of his father. He then joined government service and served on special missions of the governor of Radom. He joined the Warsaw University Museum in 1855 and began to travel and train at other museums. In 1865 he joined Benedict Dybowski and Victor Godlewski on expeditions to Eastern Russia. In 1862 he succeeded Feliks Paweł Jarocki as curator. Taczanowski took part in an expedition to Algeria with Antoni S. Waga (1866–67) and wrote several significant studies including Birds of Poland (1882) and Ornithology of Peru (1884-86). He received collections from Cayenne through Constantin Jelski, from the Upper Nile from Counts Alexander and Constantine Branicki. From 1875 he continued to receive specimens from South America after Jean Stolzmann replaced Jelski. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Krakow in 1887.

Species named after him include Taczanowski's tinamou (Nothoprocta taczanowskii), the Junin flightless grebe (Podiceps taczanowskii), the mountain paca (Agouti taczanowskii), Taczanowski's gudgeon (Ladislavia taczanowskii), and Taczanowski's dwarf boa (Tropidophis taczanowskyi).

Other works
"Les Aranéides de la Guyane française," Horae Societatis entomologicae Rossicae (1871)
"Les Aranéides de la Guyane française," Horae Societatis entomologicae Rossicae (1873)
"Les Aranéides du Pérou. Famille des Attidés" (1879)
 Ornithologie du Pérou (1884)

Tribute
The fish Ladislavia taczanowskii Dybowski, 1869 was named for him.

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1819 births
1890 deaths
19th-century Polish nobility
Polish ornithologists
19th-century Polish zoologists
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Q: How to Open file without download using phonegap I am working in cross platform using phonegap. When i tried Download Phonegap API in IOS, file is getting downloaded in phone rather in SD Card So its not safe to save it phone,so Please Suggest me solution So that it support both Android and ios to open file to view without downloading.....
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Gerald Seymour, The Collaborator
I spent one of the most wonderful fortnights of my life in Naples; I've also read Roberto Saviano's Gomorrah and thought the film made of it was brilliant, particularly the fact that they filmed at the "Vele", the gigantic apartment complex that dominates Scampia, one of the wretchedly poor and indelibly criminal banlieus of Naples. The film "Gomorrah" seemed to me like an Italian version of "The Wire", the inhabitants of the Vele as trapped in their customary roles – drug addicts, drug dealers, criminals – as any of the denizens of Baltimore's West Side.
Why am I mentioning all of this? Because in The Collaborator, the story of a Mafia princess who is driven to turn against her family by a great wrong done to someone she loves, Gerald Seymour managed to bring back in Technicolor both my good (personal) and terrible (literary/cinematic) memories of Naples. Immacolata Borelli is a great character – she's hard, cold, cruel, and sometimes self-righteous, but she also ends up being as immaculately brave as her name suggests. The Collaborator isn't only her story, though; it's also the story of Eddie, the young Englishman who fell in love with her and the thug Salvatore who's never known another life and of Lukas, a hostage negotiator who's "the best of the best." And I think therein lies the reason why I didn't completely love this novel (although I liked it very, very much!) Lukas's thoughts just weren't as Immacolata's, even though on paper he was probably the most interesting of them all. I also wish Seymour had given us a little more to chew on, about why exactly, Immacolata felt so strongly about this particular friend that the friend's tragic fate moved her to her great act of betrayal (from the perspective of her family) or renunciation of evil (from the perspective of everyone else.) We never got enough background on this, I think – was it the normality of the girl's life that appealed to her, as tainted as she was by her own family's criminality? Or was it just that the girl treated her as a person, rather than as the principessa of the Borelli clan. Given that Immacolata does all she does because of this friend, I felt that there should have been more information provided to us about her. Also, honestly, Eddie was kind of a dumbass, even though I did come to admire his courage under duress; if a girl won't tell you her last name, give you her mobile number, or let you come to her place, chances are she's just not that into you, Eddie! And if only he'd just recognized that fact, maybe a couple of people wouldn't have been killed.
Still, The Collaborator was leagues above the quick suspense read I was expecting when I picked the book up at a charity booksale because it was about Naples; Seymour created an atmospheric, well-written, and almost unbearably tense portrait of a city and a woman in conflict between their best and worst selves, and I found a new-to-me author whose work I look forward to exploring!
(Read from January 12-January 14, 2013)
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Tagged as au: seymour gerald, fiction, italy, mystery/suspense
Gillian Bradshaw, Hawk of May
T. H. White's The Once and Future King was one of the trio of formative reading experiences at about age ten for me (along with the Narnia books and the Lord of the Rings trilogy) and ever since I read it, I've been an avid reader of anything Arthurian. Gillian Bradshaw's Arthurian trilogy, in which the primary character is Gwalchmai (Bradshaw's version of Gawaine), begins with Hawk of May, in which the young Gwalchmai grows up a semi-outcast at the court of his father Lot, in Orkney. Bradshaw eliminates two of the Orkney brothers of most legend (bye, Gareth and Gaheris) and has Gwalchmai as the middle child between the somewhat loutish warrior Agravaine, and the child Medraut (Mordred). Lot favors Agravaine, and despises Gwalchmai for his love of music and his different style of fighting, which makes Gwalchmai susceptible to his mother Morgause's desire to teach him dark magic. The first half of the book details Gwalchmai's struggles with his darker self while the second half focuses on his desire to join Arthur's band of warriors and fight beside them.
The first time I read this novel, I was focused on the poetry of Bradshaw's language (which is lovely) and I think that clouded my memory of some of the things I don't love about the novel – I don't think Bradshaw does a great job of incorporating the supernatural into her determinedly historical take on Arthur (there's a voyage to the court of Lugh that I just found a bit much to take this time around) and Gwalchmai goes from being kind of a klutz to being a brilliant warrior a little too quickly. Still, it's a wonderful version of the legend, Gwalchmai is extremely appealing as a hero, and Morgause is genuinely terrifying. This one's a keeper, and I'm planning to re-read the other two books of the trilogy whenever I can steel myself to the inevitable tragedy that attends all versions of Arthur's legend.
(Read from January 13-14, 2013)
Tagged as 2013, au: bradshaw gillian, britain, fiction, king arthur, mythology, speculative fiction
Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies
If I had one quibble with the spectacular Wolf Hall, it was that Thomas Cromwell seemed a little too good to be true: tolerant (as opposed to Thomas More's fanaticism), erudite, loyal, completely sympathetic. Well, Bring Up the Bodies, which is, if possible, even better written and more gripping than Wolf Hall, also addresses my quibble about whether Cromwell was too good be true by showing his far darker side via his role in the downfall of Anne Boleyn.
Cromwell is still the urbane and clever man we met in Wolf Hall (and he's still loyal to the long-dead Wolsey, as he shows with spectacular effect) but if one part of him destroys Anne and her "lovers" as revenge for Wolsey, another much greater part of him does what he thinks he must to appease the monster he serves. (A colleague tells him "it is not so much, who is guilty, as whose guilt is of service to you" and that is, indeed, the case.)
Because Henry really is a monster – a giant overgrown toddler, whose destructive whims are backed by the power of his absolutism, and because Cromwell knows that he owes all that he is – his wealth and power – to Henry, a large part of his job consists of discerning what Henry wants before Henry even knows he wants it, and in absolving Henry of all the nasty parts of the exercise of power, such as the deaths of innocents and the betrayals of friends. And for all Cromwell's love of individualism against the massed power of the Church, he also introduces the idea of criminal thoughts, which we, or I, at any rate, associate so strongly with 20th century dictators; under Cromwell, it's now a crime in England to even think of the King's death, because thought is father to the deed (but then one has to ask what all the people who so anxiously fret over the King's lack of an heir doing BUT thinking of the aftermath of the King's death?)
The chapter on Anne Boleyn's arrest, culminating in her rigged trial and execution, is chilling and extraordinarily powerful – her trial (and that of her purported lovers) is a Stalinist show-trial centuries before Stalin; you may have read countless accounts of what transpired, but Mantel does it better. It's even more chilling (and tragically ironic) to think that we know, though Cromwell does not, that Henry will turn on him as he turned on Anne.
(Read from January 4-January 12, 2013)
Tagged as 2013, au: mantel hilary, england, fiction, historical fiction, tudors
Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
It took me about a hundred pages or so to get used to the novelty of present-tense in a work of historical fiction (as well as the constant references to Thomas Cromwell as "he") but Wolf Hall is so absorbing, Mantel's Cromwell so charming, and her evocation of Tudor London so powerful that I have to say her stylistic choice was absolutely perfect. You probably already know the outlines of the story (Henry VIII's infatuation with Anne Boleyn leading to his contested divorce with Catherine of Aragon and the end of England's ties to Rome) so it's the telling of this tale that is so outstanding; Mantel goes well beyond the facts of the matter and she's one of the few novelists of Tudor England whom I've read (and yes, I've read lots because I'm fascinated by the period!) who realizes England wasn't in a vacuum – Cromwell knows German scholars and Italian merchants and even the minor characters like Eustace Chapuys, the Spanish ambassador, just leap off the page. I know I will be re-reading this, though first I will, of course, read the sequel, Bring Up the Bodies, which sounds just as good!
(Read from January 2-January 4, 2013)
Tagged as 2013, au: mantel hilary, booker longlist 2009, britain, fiction, historical fiction, tudors
Emma Bull, War for the Oaks
I first read Emma Bull's War for the Oaks in 2001, and I really liked it at the time, perhaps because this novel was my first experience of urban fantasy and it seemed terribly original, fresh and new (as it probably was when it was first published in 1987.) The intervening dozen years, and many other excellent "urban fantasy" novels I've read in the interim haven't been so kind to my first impressions of War for the Oaks, however; on this re-read I noticed not only that the cultural references were weirdly dated, and that the question of why, exactly, only Celtic mythological figures were present in modern-day Minneapolis was never addressed at all (where were the native American gods/spirits/myths whose names were evoked all over the place names mentioned in the novel?) but also that the characterization was incredibly thin. There was precisely one character whom I found interesting (and who was never explored) and even the phouka, whom I'd enjoyed the first time around, was a fairly standard romance novel character except for occasionally turning into a dog. Also, I don't think Emma Bull did herself any favors with the overly-detailed descriptions of the frankly goofy-looking clothing everyone was wearing and of the music that Eddi and her band played (I think the only writer I've ever read who managed to make the process of composition interesting in and of itself was Thomas Mann!).
I still give this novel some kudos for introducing the idea of urban fantasy (and for introducing me to the genre!) but I'd have to say that if someone wanted to read a far more thoughtful look at what might happen when the gods of the Old Worlds came to the new, I'd recommend Neil Gaiman's American Gods. And the next time I want to read a novel about the intersection of mythology and music, I'll go back to the perennially fascinating Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones.
(Read on January 1, 2013)
Tagged as 2013, au: bull emma, fiction, speculative fiction
Jo Graham, Black Ships
Reading (and translating) the Aeneid was one of the highlights of my high-school Latin classes, but somehow I was never able to warm up to Aeneas, perhaps because of how he treated Dido. Even at that early (and for me, somewhat unenlightened!) age, I was completely sympathetic to Dido's side of things; she showered love and affection on Aeneas, and he said that he loved her too, and then it was all "nope, have to go found this mystical city off in the wilds of Latium, sorry!" Thanks to that episode, I must confess that I was always secretly cheering for Turnus in the end, even though he was doomed to lose his life and his fiancée, Lavinia, since Aeneas was the mystical great-great-great-something-or-other-granddaddy of Augustus Caesar for whom Virgil was providing this mythopoetic rival to the Iliad and the Odyssey in order to provide Caesar with divine descent.
Jo Graham's Black Ships is a re-imagining of the Aeneid from the POV of Gull, who apparently is destined to become the Cumaean Sibyl after having many adventures with Aeneas and his gang along the way. Graham actually makes me really like Aeneas, and by substituting a kind of nutty Egyptian princess named Basetamon who wants to keep Aeneas's corpse around to join her in the afterlife for Dido, this Aeneas is a bit less of a cad to me! I love the simple, yet powerful language that Graham uses, and she won me over right from the beginning by stating that one of her main inspirations was Michael Wood's marvellous TV series (and accompanying book), In Search of the Trojan War (though given that this was written in 2007-2008, I think she might have used a bit more recent scholarship too!) Gull herself is a fascinating (and not too anachronistic-sounding) character, and I like the glimpses of others whom we meet along the way, as well as Graham's explanation of the "Sea Peoples" and the Sack of Troy Redux.
I only have two relatively minor quibbles with the book: The first is that, unlike Homer, Virgil was inventing a mythology from whole cloth in many ways, and that's why, anachronistic or not, the princess whom Aeneas loves and leaves HAD to be Carthaginian, because that's Virgil's explanation for the sworn enmity between Rome and Carthage (and it was victory over Carthage in the end that made Rome a great power, not victory of Egypt.) So I find the Egyptian interlude a bit unsettling, though fascinating. Secondly, and this point is REALLY minor, but I wish that she hadn't decided to make Aeneas tromp around under the rather silly-sounding nickname of "Neas." No one else (except Xandros, but that one actually sort of makes sense!) has a nickname, and it keeps making me think the character is a little boy. (I know he's meant to be young, not the patriarch of Virgil's imaginings, but still …)
(Read from May 5 to May 6, 2010)
Tagged as 2010, ancient world, au: graham jo, fiction, historical fiction
Marjane Satrapi, The Complete Persepolis
It took me a while to get used to the graphic format of Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical Persepolis in which she tells the story of her childhood in revolutionary Iran and her adolescence in staid Vienna and eventual return to Iran. I'm still not sure I LOVE the format, but I did really like the book, and I appreciated that Satrapi was always fairly unsparing of herself and her own behavior (which, sometimes, was a bit reprehensible!)
I did wonder, at the end, though, how young people who don't come from the privileged background of Satrapi's family felt about the religious regime and its draconian rules. Were poorer families – who could not afford to send their sons abroad to escape obligatory military service – more or less bitter about the Iran-Iraq war? Did they accept the regime's version (that their sons were martyrs) or did they yearn to speak the truth as well? All interesting questions that I hope further reading will help me to parse.
(Read from May 4-May 5, 2010)
Tagged as 2010, au: satrapi marjane, graphic books, memoirs, middle east and central asia
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WOODLAND PARK, NJ - Charles Olbon Elementary School recently created a sensory hallway to provide students with movement breaks throughout the day when needed. Sensory hallways provide students with a positive outlet for addressing fidgeting, ADHD, sensory processing issues, stress and anxiety.
The staff anticipates that the sensory hallway will benefit all students as it will be both physically and mentally stimulating, as students jump, hop, high and low step, and cross feet around the sensory obstacle course.
Pre-school teacher Mrs. Cieslak and gym teacher Mr. Scholtz designed the "Under the Sea" themed sensory hallway in collaboration with Mrs. Coffey, who was instrumental in creating the sea themed shapes. They worked with custodian Mr. Grimes to place the vinyl sea shapes on the hallway floor.
There is also a movement break wall, where students can choose various ways to move such as yoga poses, stretches and mood exercises. Students follow the movements on the path they choose, while incorporating breathing techniques to calm their bodies and minds. Physical therapist Mrs. Rodrigues was instrumental in creating the movement break wall.


Gunther Stimpfls rise to the art elite began in Vienna. He was from 1964 to 1972 as master student of Fritz Wotruba and Joannis Avramidis at the Academy of Arts. From 1972 to 1984 he paid attention to himself by designs for mobile wind and water objects. Since 1985 Stimpfl works as a freelance sculptor.
His static-figurative large and small sculptures that find much attention in exhibitions in the art centres of Europe today are showpieces of significant public and private collections.
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Unemployment rate rose by 10.2% on the year in December, compared to a 8.9% rate recorded in December of 2008. In November 2009, the rate stood at 10.6%. The number of people out of work was 505,110 in December.
Women and the job-seekers at the age of 15-24 were worst hit, with the rate averaging 14.8% and 28.9% respectively.
Greece's Gross Domestic Product contracted by 2.5% in the fourth quarter on the year, revised from preliminary data of 2.6%, the National Statistics Service said.
In the third quarter, GDP's shrinkage was also 2.5%. On a monthly basis, GDP rate fell by 0.8% compared to the previous quarter.Lower investments were mainly behind the contraction. Consumer spending rose slightly by 0.3% compared to the respective period of 2008, with private consumption falling by 1.6%, though. Public consumption was 8.4% higher.
The government admitted on Wednesday, that sees a deeper contraction of 0.3% in 2010, as it was initially stated and even deeper than the alternative scenario projected of 0.8%.
Also, budget revenues in February missed the government's annual target of 9% growth, increasing by 4.5% on the year.
"Overall, revenues increased during the first two months of the year by 7.9%, somewhat lower than the target," the government said in the report. Still, it said that the data are preliminary and the VAT receipts are underestimated and the payment is in three installments.
A glimmer of hope comes from the external sector, as the government reckons that the rebound in economic activity and the increase in world trade are likely to have a beneficial effect on Greece's exports of services in general, and in tourism and shipping in particular. It sees an increase in tourism arrivals of up to 4% in 2010.
Construction activity, one of the key engines of the local economy, fell by 14% in 2009. The number of new building permits reached 56,205, while the drop measures by volume was more pronounced, to 26%. In December, the number of new building permits fell by 3%, while the drop measured by volume was 23%.
Consumer price index rose by 2.8% on the year in February, picking from January's levels of 2.4%, largely due to the higher fuel cost. Analysts see a gradual escalation of inflation figures due to announced increase of VAT and special taxes, effective March 15.
The EU-harmonized index stood at 2.9% versus 2.3% in January. On a monthly basis, the national headline index fell by 0.5%.
On a 12-month basis to February, cpi ran by 1.4% versus 3.7% in the respective period a year-ago.
Greece received reassurances from European leaders that it's enjoying their full support, but so far there are no details or any specific commitment for a more palpable help in the form of a bailout.
"The euro is our currency. It implies solidarity. There can be no doubt on the expression of solidarity," Nicolas Sarkozy said at a joint press conference in Paris.
Last week, the government announced a 4.8 billion euro austerity plans which aims at bring the country's deficit from 12.75% last year to 8.75% by the end of 2010.
However, Greece has left the door to IMF open, in case the EU won't provide any aid to the country, if it is needed.
A 24-hour strike called by Greece's largest unions brought the country to a standstill on Friday, as a reaction to the government's new austerity measures which will save 4.8 billion euros and ease fiscal crisis.
There is no public transport, while a four-hour work stoppage by air-traffic controllers lead to a chaos in the country's airports.
Most civil servants walked off the job, as the announced reduction of their salaries has sparked severe resentment.
Observers see the implementation of the government's measures a crash test, as the majority of workers see their real income getting shrunk considerably this year. Fears of a generated social unrest have emerged, following statements by ADEDY, the main civil servants' union that their action will be escalated.
Greece's10-year syndicated bond issue attracted strong demand with orders exceeding 16 billion euros. The government raised 5 billion euros, at a yield spread of 300 bps over mid-swaps . The issue carries a coupon of 6.25% and it was priced at 98.942. The bond matures June, 2010, while settlement will take place March 11.
Barclays, HSBC, Nomura, Naitonal Bank and Piraeus Bank managed the issue. Selling commission was 0.20%.
Greek consumers appear the most pessimistic citizens in Europe, following the uncertainty that prevails after the announcement of the new austerity measues. Economic sentiment in Greece worsened in February, falling by three percentage points compared to the previous month, while it's expected to deteriorate further, the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research or IOBE said.
Economic climate index fell to 72.4 points versus 76.1 points in January. Consumer confidence seen severely hurt as households feel that unemployment will rise sharply in the near future. The household expectations subindex stood at -34 versus -27 in the previous month.
Greeks turn to savings, IOBE noted, to cope with the foreseen recession.
"The measures will help the country to cope with the worst fiscal crisis in its history," government spokesman George Petalotis said.
The measures include a 30% reduction of the special bonuses in the public sector workers which are incorporated in the annual salary, and the hike of V.A.T by up to 2 percentage points. Also subsidies to public sector workers are cut by 12% from previously announced 10%. Special tax on fuel, alcohol and tobacco will also be increased. Public and private sector pension rises will freeze this year. Additionally, high-salary earners will be taxed further by 1% for their 2009 income while offshore-property tax will be increased to 15% from 3% previously. The government will also reduce public investments by 5%. Property holders of over 5 million euros will be taxed by an extra 2% for the next three years, while the Church property will be taxed for first time. The Church will be taxed for its revenues as well. Public Power Corp special treatment on taxation over fuel and electricity consumption will be abolished.
European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Olli Rehn visited Athens on Monday "to encourage the government to proceed with extra measures," as he said.
Earlier Prime Minister George Papandreou speaking at the cabinet, said that Greece may turn to IMF for help if the European Union won't not be responsive and support the country's efforts.
On the other hand, the risk of social unrest is getting closer, with new round of strikes being already on the cards. The main civil servants' union ADEDY called a 24-hour strike for March 16.


MANCHESTER UNITED have poached talent spotter Javier Ribalta from Juventus.
Ribalta spent five years with Juventus as scouting manager and played a crucial role off the pitch in helping the Turin club dominate Italian football.
He played a major role in the signings of Paul Pogba, Paulo Dybala, Alex Sandro and Alvaro Morata.
"It has been a wonderful few years here," Ribalta said.
"My thanks go to all involved with the club, particularly Giuseppe Marotta and Fabio Paratici for the faith they have shown in me since day one.
"I will look back on my time at Juventus with great pleasure."
The Serie A champions added: "Juventus wishes Javier all the very best for his next step in the game wherever it may take him."
According to Gianluca Di Marzio, Ribalta will now take up a key role in the scouting and recruitment departments at Old Trafford.
United are currently attempting to sign Morata from Real Madrid.
The Spain international returned to the Bernabeu last summer following a successful spell at Juventus.


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Exclusive: La Mexicaine Le Interview
While the discovery of an underground cinema in the center of Paris has been widely covered, little or no attention has been paid to what the films actually played there. Les Arenes de Chaillot (The Chaillot Arenas) was created by La Mexicaine de Perforation, a group of self-labeled urban explorers who, for the last five or so years, have used the invisible and forgotten infrastructure of Paris as their own curatorial venue, putting on exhibitions, concerts, and, beginning last year, film screenings.
Early Sunday morning I spoke with Lazar Kunstmann, a filmmaker, editor, and the public spokesman of LMDP about the group's objectives, ideas, and inspirations. Turns out there were at least two weekly film series, including Urbex Movie, the one that someone narc'ed out this past summer. Here's what they showed and why:
g.o: What is LMDP and why build a cinema in Chaillot? I think a lot of people were very excited to find out about this cinema; it's kind of romantic, in a way.
LK: [LMDP] is a group of urban explorers whose members have more than 20 years experience. Transforming places is what they do every day, so making a cinema was an easy thing to do.
In Paris, urban explorer groups share common ideas between members, so people may belong to different groups at a given time. LMDP is a 5-year old group of people who like cinema, concerts, photography, and who use their urban exploration abilities to perform, exhibit, and create film festivals, etc.
There have been lots of underground festivals, maybe microfestivals, lasting only 4-5 days on a particular theme. Last summer was Sesion Comoda, which was more about the underground. This summer's festival, Urbex Movie, was the only one discovered by the media.
[Les Arenes de] Chaillot was only 14 40m from the Cinematheque.
g.o: That's what I thought, but I wasn't sure; it wasn't ever mentioned in the press.
LK: In fact, the Cinematheque–the temple of French cinema–is built on the foundations of le Palais de Chaillot; it's even underground itself. Les Arenes was also built on the unused part of this foundation at the same level, separated by only 14 40 meters.
g.o: So this connection was intentional.
LK: Of course. They are both below ground, at the same altitude. But Les Arenes had better sound.
The Cinematheque had programmed classics during the summer, while LMDP wanted to show films urbains, films with a specific point of view of the city itself. LMDP would show two movies each week which approached the same urban theme in different or complementary ways. People would come after the Cinematheque.
For example, LMDP showed the inversion of personality going into the underground can provoke. In the Korean film, Joint Security Area, two border guards–North and South–face each other with guns in the day, but meet as friends at night. Then in Blind Shaft, a Chinese film, it's the opposite: people act like family above ground, but when they go into a mine, they kill each other. Both of these films aren't even set in urban scenes, they're in the country, but they show one of the underground points of view.
Every group of urban explorers by necessity is careful to be diverse with their members. They oblige themselves to be diverse because they need to be more creative than the authorities. It's for survival, so we call it 'biodiversity.'
We showed Ghost in the Shell and the b-film, Dark City together because they also deal with survival and biodiversity. Another common point is the dark settings where they take place. When they're shown together, this darkness is heightened.
g.o: I read that you are a filmmaker yourself, and that your films were shown at Les Arenes. How would you describe them?
LK: I make short films. It's a form which are not that appreciated in France.
g.o: Really? I always thought that Europe and France especially understood court metrage as its own medium; and there are lots of festivals to show in, etc.
LK: I don't know about the rest of Europe but in official France, there are two kinds of short films: fiction, by students who have a budget, and the plot is always "they meet, they love, they quit." They're technically very good, but they're boring and have no emotions at all.
And there are experimental films, which means "not showable." Or "unfinished."
Now, though, there are actually many good short films in Paris, whether on 16 or DV, that are being shown clandestinely. People organize nights to screen shorts, all on a theme.
For example there is a series called "House Movies," which is screened in a squat. It's clandestine, well, people know about it; it's accessible, but kind of clandestine.
But even with squats you have some kinds of constraints. If you wanted to show this short with that classic feature of the same theme, for example, you might need permission, or if you don't get some authorization, you know. We'll see if it works or not, but you lose some of the instantaneity [a word neither of us could pronounce completely early in the morning, in either language. -g.o]
But underground, you have absolutely no constraints; you can show whatever you like without authorization.
In my job, I am a video editor, so I see a lot of documentaries that compose a fiction. I try to create a fiction that uses documentary in a new way.
One film I made last year, Electric, was talking about two ghosts in a power station. One, at the end of the day, was turning on the power, but he sees the city sleep during the day: no people on the street, no cars, etc. At night, the lights come on, and time starts. The other ghost is trying to turn off the power in the morning.
It was maybe five years ago when urban explorers learned how to connect all the different networks, to bring power, telephone, etc. underground as well. This was the first time ever that urban explorers' activities were discovered by the police, and many people feared at first, "It's all changed. Everybody knows."
But at the same time, the society now sees that someone is doing this. You said 'romantic' before, but it's more like a relief, you know? That this is happening somewhere.
g.o: That not everything is either official, or authorized, or corporate or whatever?
LK: Exactly. It's biodiversity.
Read on: See the programmes for La Mexicaine's 2003 series, Sesion Comoda, and the 2004 series, Urbex Movie, only at greg.org.
Author gregPosted on October 10, 2004 Categories film festivals, interviews, making movies, movies
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Before starting treatment, it is reasonable to purposely contemplate the headings, and also to guide your specialist. So you can know absolutely which treatment design will be best for you.
The rules say that to achieve a therapeutic effect, you need to take 1 tablet every day, in the midst of suppers. Do this reliably, meanwhile – to persistently keep up the essential obsession in the body. If one day of treatment was missed – everything considered the next day you essentially need to continue with treatment, you don't need to take twofold estimations – it can cause an overdose.
In like manner, the levels of the disease accept a far-reaching part – the cases that are dismissed are extensively more difficult to cure. People who are on treatment suddenly when in doubt get a course of treatment for 12 weeks. In case the patient has effectively taken prescriptions for treating hepatitis C, yet they had no effect, they in like manner prescribe a course continuing 12 weeks. If a man has recently been managed and has cirrhosis of the liver, by then he needs to take the pharmaceutical for 24 weeks step by step.
Buy Cimivir-l tablet Online (Ledipasvir and Sofosbuvir) Price India by Manufactured BIOCON is an antiviral solution expected to treat hepatitis C. One tablet contains 90 mg of ledipasvir and 400 mg of sofosbuvir, which are inhibitors of NS5A and NS5B proteins.
Headings for the use of Ledipasvir and Sofosbuvir in India additionally exhibit that you can take this medicine essentially in the wake of directing an expert, according to the made treatment regimen.
The availability is as oval tablets of yellow or dim hued shading.
Ledipasvir, as a dynamic substance, goes about as an inhibitor of the NS5A protein. In the wake of getting the drug inside the body, it is used and frustrates the probability of the contamination mimicking, on account of which the body's resistant system has the adequate vitality to murder the ailment.
It is vital that, as demonstrated by the rules for use, it is insufficient as a single substance and isn't prepared for giving full recovery. Hence, it is a bit of a blended treatment with sofosbuvir, which an inhibitor of an NS5B protein, and is beside squares liver impetuses that propel the spread and age of hepatitis. Along these lines, the disease stops recreating and is obliterated over the traverse of medical treatment, the suitability of which is avowed by different positive responses about the treatment.
"Ledipasvir and Sofosbuvir" are a standout amongst the most cutting-edge sedate made by Gilead Sciences to fight hepatitis C. This medicine is presented in a couple of meds: the principal Harvoni, its dull hepcinat-LP, and Ledifos.
The course of 90mg Ledipasvir and 400mg Sofosbuvir states that this arrangement is used to treat hepatitis of the first and fourth genotypes, and is moreover endorsed for patients who interrupted interferon treatment because of its incapability or responses. For this circumstance, it holds its effect even inside seeing encroachment in created by the kidneys and liver, and moreover sufficiently at any age from 18 to 65 years. Comments on the treatment can be seen both on the producer's destinations and in online medication stores that give the pharmaceutical's arrangement.
It is completely unthinkable to take the drug yourself – this can both reduce the sufficiency of the course of treatment, and cause overdose and certifiable naughtiness to prosperity. Thusly, it is first critical to advise with your treating hepatologist, who will draw up a treatment regimen. It depends upon various factors, for instance, the general change of the ailment and the level of mischief to the body, taking diverse medications, and also the individual qualities of the patient, for example, sensitivities to particular sections of the remedy. To change the dosage self-governing is furthermore blocked remembering the true objective to keep up a key separation from overdose and anaphylactic shock.
As showed by the primary bearings of Ledipasvir and Sofosbuvir, the medication must be taken inside at a particular time, washed down with a ton of water. The most impetus is the social affair of the complex with sustenance since this does not impact its sufficiency and licenses the progression of a correct schedule of get-together. Smash or chomp tablets is denied.
The dosage of the medicine is one tablet for consistently. Dosage encroachment undermines to diminish the practicality of the solution, and furthermore, bona fide comes about – anaphylactic stagger, the intoxication of the body and bothers of prosperity. Drinking no less than two tablets without a moment's delay is by no means, incomprehensible, paying little heed to whether you missed the step by step assembling the day going before.
The course of treatment with Ledipasvir and Sofosbuvir is 12 to 24 weeks and depends upon the earnestness of the contamination, the significance of the damage and diverse snares, for instance, cirrhosis or HIV. The length of the course and the treatment regimen are figured by the going to specialize in view of the explores and the above parts.
Out and out, there are two designs that assurance the ampleness of treatment of hepatitis C from 97% to 99%.


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Evolution Impossible: 12 Reasons Why Evolution Cannot Explain the Origin of Life on Earth - Alex McFarland
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There is scientific evidence proving evolution cannot be responsible for life on Earth. It is time to question what biology text books and nature documentaries claim about our origins. Even Darwin admitted, "I threw out queries, suggestions, wonderin... +
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There is scientific evidence proving evolution cannot be responsible for life on Earth.
It is time to question what biology text books and nature documentaries claim about our origins. Even Darwin admitted, "I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them."
Dr. John Ashton has dedicated 40+ years to teaching and researching science, and exposing the lack of proven evidence for Darwin's theories. In Evolution Impossible, he uses discoveries in genetics, biochemistry, geology, radiometric dating, and other scientific disciplines to explain why the theory of evolution is a myth.
Discover for yourself: Why the fossil record is evidence of extinction, not evolution. How erosion and sedimentation dates conflict with radiometric dating. How the lack of transitional fossils undermines evolutionary notions. Why living cells and new organisms do not rise by chance or random mutations.
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MOSCOW, November 4. /TASS/. FC Lokomotiv Moscow played to a 1-1 draw against Turkey's Galatasaray in a UEFA Europa League group match played in Istanbul on Thursday.
Sofiane Feghouli (43rd minute) scored a goal for Galatasaray, while Francois Camano netted for Lokomotiv (73rd minute).
On October 22, FC Lokomotiv Moscow lost to Galatasaray 0-1 in a home group match of the UEFA Europa League.
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LAST BLOG OF THE TRIP !!!
Hola everyone it's Abby and I was the leader of the day. This was my very first time taking in control towards my fellow peers. Usually, at home I show leadership since I have two younger sisters and an older sister with a disability that I of course, love and care for. I may say I have a little bit of a "homemade" experience. Anyways… today was super upsetting but chill. We had breakfast at the Imabite Comedor (as always). After our delicious pancakes that Angel kindly served us, we came back to our hostel and finished packing. After packing we had free time. During free time we had the opportunity to go out in Leon with a group of four or more people. My group — Jenny, Sam, Leslie, Daisy, Carlos, and I reunited with our fellow "child" friend, Emmanuel. We spent our free day with him again. He also showed us a different museum and was our own private, free, tour guide. After our free day we head out to Imabite and ate our last dinner with Angel :(. After dinner we head out to our last nightly meeting. It was an emotional night for all of us. So far this trip created a huge impact for me. Not only did this trip benefited the Nicaraguan community but also benefited us. It's an honor to be the last person to post. We're all on our way to a new journey. Good Luck to all & #BUENAHONDA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted: August 31, 2012 | Author: Donald | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg, Juliette Binoche, Paul Giamatti, Robert Pattinson, Samantha Morton | Leave a comment »
Cosmopolis is a "where to begin" film…where to begin…yes, where to begin. Well, I suppose that in the end all one can do is be as honest as possible and say, as much as it saddens me since it was written and directed by idiosyncratic and ambitious filmmaker David Cronenberg, that Cosmopolis is…terrible, just terrible, a misfire from beginning to end, with almost no redeeming value whatsoever. At the same time, I could never take my eyes off the screen. Was it because I was hoping that it would all turn into something, anything? Was it because I was watching a train wreck in slow motion? Was it because I was in shock over the idea that so much talent had been put to use for a movie that was so obviously not working and no one seems to know it? I don't know. But I just couldn't look away.
The story revolves around twenty-eight year old billionaire Eric Packer who decides to take his state of the art limo (if state of the art means a vehicle normally used in futuristic sci-fi films) to get a haircut, an Odyssey like journey made more difficult by the city being confronted by Occupy Wall Street demonstrations and a visit from the president. The movie probably gets off to a weak start by leaving out a key event, an opening scene where the audience is informed that Packer is hemorrhaging all his money, a scene which would give context to almost all of his actions, especially his primary one of wanting to get a short back and sides (rather, we have to read between the lines to get this, rarely the best choice in a screenplay). Instead, we are told there may be a threat on Packer's life, something that gives the story no context at all.
At the same time, it's doubtful that such a scene would have ultimately helped much since the movie is mostly a series of pax de deuxs in which people have intellectual conversations in highly stylized language that makes anything anyone says sounds like they're speaking Klingon. The rest of it revolves around Packer having sex (with an art dealer fuck buddy; one of his body guards; and his doctor who gives him a prostrate exam that nearly gives him an orgasm). Oh, yes, he also occasionally runs into his wife where he spends time asking her when they are going to have sex again. And the majority of it happens in the back of his four wheeled penteconter which crawls at such a snail's pace, it looks like it's going backwards at times (Ulysses got home in less time than it takes Packer to get to his barbershop).
My hats are off to all of the actors—well, most of them. Filled with such stellar performers as Juliette Binoche, Samantha Morton and Paul Giamatti, they're so devoted to their characters, they actually had me convinced at times they new what their lines meant, though I still question whether they did.
But then there's Robert Pattinson, who plays the callow Packer. Where to begin. Yes, where to begin. First, in full disclosure, I have never been able to get through a Twilight film. I even consider it one of those movies whose damage is far greater than anyone suspects. Because of the franchise's success, we are going to be burdened with film after film in which the leads are given to Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, who just don't have the heft or ability to carry them off (I call it the Love Story curse). Pattinson mumbles through most of his lines (it worked for Marlon Brando, but not so much here), never once convincing in his role. Though it's easy to understand why he was cast as a vampire in those other films (every time you look at his mouth, you swear he has fangs for teeth), his casting here may be a bit more puzzling.
In the end, the best performance is given by the limo Packer rides in. It's a sleek black number (at least on the inside—so slimming, you know), with a leather throne, couch, computers, television, fully stocked and fully lit bars, and a urinal. It slowly gets covered by graffiti and dented up along the way, which means it also has the most fully developed character arc as well.


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but using "node" with "midway", "left", "below" ... to add labels at certain areas of the rectangle to name them seem not to work properly so I would like to ask which one the correct way is?
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Spouses Melo v. Court of Appeals, 376 Phil. 204, 213-214 (1999) is the case in which the Supreme Court ruled that compliance with the certification against forum shopping is separate from, and independent of, the avoidance of forum shopping itself. Thus, there is a difference in the treatment—in terms of imposable sanctions—between failure to comply with the certification requirement and violation of the prohibition against forum shopping. The former is merely a cause for the dismissal, without prejudice, of the complaint or initiatory pleading, while the latter is a ground for summary dismissal thereof and constitutes direct contempt. Read also Philippine Radiant Products, Inc. v. Metropolitan Bank & Trust Company, Inc., G.R. No. 163569, December 9, 2005, 477 SCRA 299, 314, in which the Court ruled that the dismissal due to failure to append to the petition the board resolution authorizing a corporate officer to file the same for and in behalf of the corporation is without prejudice. So is the dismissal of the petition for failure of the petitioner to append thereto the requisite copies of the assailed order/s.
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After a recent bout of problems with 'exploding' halogen bulbs I finally bit the bullet and did an HID conversion on the Civic. I am really not a fan of HID conversions. I am more into performance then looks, specially when it comes to the Civic but after 2 failures, possibly due to vibration, I had enough with conventional bulbs and wanted to try something new. After looking at several kits I finally settled on one that had good reviews and seemed to be built well and of course was inexpensive. The kit came from Wholesale-HID based in Maryland, USA which is AWESOME because they are only like an hour from my location. I went ahead and ordered the 4300k kit which is the closest to white light and was pleased to have it in two business days. Other kits available for my application (H4 conversion) were available in the 6000k, 8000k and 10000k spectrum. If you are ordering lights from eBay make sure you find a distributor based in the US, do not be fooled by low prices and inflated shipping costs. I can say now that I am quite pleased with how the conversion turned out.
I was a little worried about the beam pattern and high/low switch since the lenses are designed for H4 bulbs. As you probably know, H4 bulbs use two separate filaments to switch between high and low beams. The low beam (forward filament) has a shield to block light from being projected upward into drivers eyes and the high beam (filament closer to the base) has no shield allowing light to be projected at a higher angle. HID bulbs do not use filaments, and in turn only have a single light source per bulb. The way HIDs replicate the dual filaments of standard H4 bulbs is to physically move either the light source or shield back and forth by use of a actuator or solenoid. The best of these two is to actually move the bulb its self at a slight angle as the HID kit I chose does. This more closely replicates the position of the two filaments in the H4 bulb as they are on slightly different axis.
Notice the slot cut in the shield that allows a near 360 degree output into the headlight housing during high beam operation. One thing to take note of is the difference in the beam patterns between H4 and HID. The HID lights shine MUCH father ahead yet suffer when it comes to angular light as demonstrated in the images below.
It may be possible to get a little more side lighting by slightly modifying the shield on the HID light. This of course would probably void any kind of warranty that they come with.
When first installed the bulbs must be broken in. This may take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours of burning to replicated the color advertised. This does not have to be done all at once. Simply install the bulbs.. burn them for about 5 minutes and then use the headlights as you normally would. Don't be surprised if one bulb is a slightly different color temp at start, this will go away with time.
You may also notice a slight pop and buzzing when the bulbs are first turned on. This will go away after the initial starting faze and will become quieter the more the bulbs are used.
As a follow up I am pleased with how this kit is performing and would recommend this HID kit to anyone looking to upgrade.