The 1950 Japanese film Rashomon owes its enduring appeal to director Akira Kurosawa's superb treatment of an ancient and universal theme: What is the truth? A samurai and his bride come upon a bandit in a forest grove, where the traveler dies and his wife is ravished. The only witness is a woodcutter. The story turns on the magistrate's efforts to extract the facts from completely different yet equally plausible perceptions of what occurred.
A similar conundrum awaits anyone who wants to unravel the meaning of the events that occurred on the night of June 3-4, 1989, in China's capital. Most Americans think they already know the truth about Tiananmen. The communist rulers of China, determined to crush a pro-democracy movement, sent the soldiers and tanks of the People's Liberation Army, guns blazing, into Beijing's massive central square, mowing students down by the hundreds.
Yet for years many publications in Asia have shown an extreme reluctance to put the words "Tiananmen" and "massacre" together. My own magazine pussyfooted around the subject by calling it a "crackdown." Even today, the South China Morning Post uses the term "Tiananmen crackdown" in its headline reporting on the crowds that attend the candlelight vigil honoring the dead that takes place every year in Victoria Park, Hong Kong's smaller version of Tiananmen Square.
In part this reflects an uncertainty as to how many people were actually killed on that fateful night and whether anyone was killed within the boundaries of Tiananmen Square, literally and narrowly defined. The Chinese government has always maintained that the death toll was "around 200," including many soldiers, and that no student was actually slain on the square itself. Tiananmen is like our mall in Washington, so it is more than academic to the Chinese whether blood was actually spilled inside those sacred boundaries.
In a way it is irrelevant whether anyone was actually killed in Tiananmen Square itself. There is no question that a bloodletting took place in Beijing on the night of June 3-4, 1989. There was no question that Tiananmen Square was the objective of the Chinese army. Beijing was a city on the edge of insurrection. The PLA converged on the city center from all sides smashing and shooting its way through improvised street barriers. But by the time they reached the Square, the students were already filing out.
Similar questions still surround precisely what the students were demonstrating about. It is an axiom that the students were agitating for democracy in China, and the enduring symbol of their protest is the statue of the Goddess of Democracy, they erected in the Square. Yet it is a curious democracy movement that began with the death of Hu Yaoban, who as Secretary-General of the Chinese Communist Party was certainly no democrat but reputed to be a man of rectitude, and ended with the students singing the anthem of international communism as they exited the Square.
For many years my Chinese colleagues argued strenuously that it was wrong to say the demonstrators were agitating for democracy. The students were really against growing corruption that was becoming increasingly evident ten years after China introduced market reforms. Of course, insisting that the issue was corruption puts a more tolerable light on the student motivations from the government's point of view. Being against corruption is very politically correct. The Chinese Communist Party conducts periodic crackdowns -- that word again – on corruption. High-ranking officials are caught, tried and sometimes executed. Oh yes, being against corruption is fine.
But it is much harder for China's rulers to admit that Chinese people might actually want greater democracy. Perhaps it is a lingering Marxist worldview, but Beijing explains all such disturbances in purely economic terms. People are upset? It must be about the economy. The solution is to find ways to give them more prosperity. If people are busy getting on with their lives they will be happy and not agitate for political reforms. This was essentially how Beijing responded to Tiananmen, and it was how it read the mood of Hong Kong after half a million people demonstrated for democracy last year.
It can work for a while, but inevitably it will lead to further blowups. It may be true that the demonstrators sixteen years ago did not debate the finer points of Westminster-style parliamentary democracy for China. Yet, the Tiananmen was fundamentally and profoundly democratic. Yes, they may have been angry about their leaders' growing corruption. But the people who say the revolt was against corruption are only half right. The underlying message was this: Our leaders are corrupt and we can't do anything to get rid of them. And that is the truth of Tiananman.
Todd Crowell served as the Asiaweek's chief of correspondents during Tiananmen.
Iron Rice Bowl – In China a system of guaranteed lifetime employment and care in state-owned enterprises.
Pick up a newspaper or turn on the television news, and the evidence is all around. One day it is United Airlines dumping its employee pension plans. The next day executives at General Motors are complaining that burgeoning health care costs will sink the company.
America's state-owned enterprises – oops, I mean blue chip corporations – are teetering, we are told, under the strain of pension costs, medical costs and the effects of an aging population – not to mention foreign competition. They may have to shed social services for millions of Americans or go under.
It may seem strange to use a Chinese term to describe America's old-line corporations, like General Motors, as being state-owned enterprises (SOE). After all, they are joint-stock companies, publicly listed companies answerable to shareholders and operating in a capitalist country. This isn't Red China. Or is it?
We have more in common with China than you might think. After the revolution China's industrial economy was organized into huge enterprises, owned by the state. More than factories, they were virtually self-contained communities. They provided what elementary social services were then available to Chinese workers such as housing, health clinics, old-age pensions and life-time employment.
Similarly, America's blue chips are, or have been, massive welfare machines. General Motors says it will spend more than $5 billion this year to provide health coverage for its more than one million employees, retirees and their dependents. That does not include costs of old-age pensions.
Beginning in the 1980s, under reforms initiated by Deng Xiaoping, China began to shrink the state sector, closing down huge industrial combines or selling off pieces to the emerging private sector. In the course of this restructuring millions of Chinese workers were let loose with no real social net to protect them.
In China's case it was the result of a deliberate policy and thus in some ways amenable to control. Money-losing SOEs can be and are nursed along by the central government for fear that their closures would put too much of a strain on the social fabric. In the U.S. change is coming in an unplanned, helter-skelter way, blindly responding to the inchoate forces of globalization.
Many mistakenly assume that since China is a communist country it provides everyone with the basic necessities of life, even if they are meager. It may be a dictatorship, people say, but at least they provide free health care. No so. Chinese parents even have to pay to have their children immunized.
In Mao Zedong's time, nine out of ten rural residents had access to subsidized health clinics run by "barefoot doctors." In the two decades since the beginning of market reforms and the move towards "market socialism" this arrangement collapsed. Now the vast majority in the countryside and many in the cities have no real health care unless they can pay for it out of their pockets.
Some years ago I was involved in a church project to help fund education in a poor part of rural Guangdong province. In this case the local authorities took the unusual step of returning a school, originally founded by a church and confiscated by the Communists, back to the church. We rebuilt the school and aided students who couldn't afford the fees.
At the moment, Beijing is seeking to rebuild a social safety net almost from scratch. It wants to encourage private health insurance schemes and probably will work towards some kind of retirement accounts funded with employee/employer contributions, perhaps modeled on Singapore's system. Development will be slow given that China's capital markets are still weak and distrusted by investors.
For the time being there is nothing like 9.5 per cent annual GDP growth to cover up the cracks in the social safety net. The stupendous economic revival that China has undergone has permitted Beijing to provide employment for the younger population and, for the most part, keep a lid on social discontent.
The imperative to create something like 20 million new jobs every year to accommodate layoffs and a growing population powers the country's relentless export machine and is partly responsible for America's gaping trade deficit with China. But many of the middle-aged, raised in the state system, have had to fall back on families for support or eke out a living as street hawkers.
China's millions have to provide for themselves the old-fashion way, either by saving or falling back on families for support-- call it the family responsibility system. The uncertainties of daily life plus the need to pay for their children's education are one reason why Chinese are such prodigious savers.
In an abstract way there is something admirable about this, and many might applaud it as an example of thrift and family values. Yet if the Chinese could divert more of the money they put under the mattress towards greater consumption it would help create a bigger internal market, thus lessening the need to export. It would also create a bigger market for goods from America and other countries.
Sometimes when I'm feeling cranky or mischievous, I hand over my Hong Kong ID card when I need to produce some kind of identification. Why not? It is a perfectly valid document. It has my photograph on it. I know of no law that specifies that my driver's license has become a national ID card. At least not yet.
The United States is groping towards a national ID card system, compelled both by worries about security in an age of terrorism and the need to control immigration. But Congress is going about it in the wrong way by trying to elevate driver's licenses into some kind of identity card.
Call me too literal-minded, but a driver's license is for driving. Identity verification is something else. Why should citizenship be confused with a demonstrated ability to parallel park?
This seems to be a typical half-way measure. We've clearly developed a need for some kind of identification card to cash checks, to board airplanes, even to enter a federal building to pick up tax forms. But since nobody actually has to have a driver's license, we kid ourselves that it is still voluntary.
The identity card system long predated the recent concerns over terrorism. In Hong Kong it is used primarily to control illegal immigration into the territory, something that is of concern, since, being a rich territory, it is a magnate for migrants from all over the region, especially from across the border in mainland China.
The Hong Kong police can and do stop people at random and ask them to produce their ID cards. It is not uncommon on the streets to see a couple policemen huddled around a young Chinese man inspecting his ID.
That this involves racial profiling is undeniable. In the sixteen years, I never once was asked by a policeman to produce my card. It was assumed that being a Westerner I had entered on a valid work permit.
Of course, I had to produce my ID, or at least provide the number on it, numerous times during the week in the ordinary course of living, from opening a bank account to applying for a job to voting (yes, foreigners do vote in Hong Kong elections, if they've been there long enough).
Creating a national card, probably issued through the Department of Homeland Security, would lift a burden from state motor vehicle authorities that they were never intended or equipped to shoulder. It would end the debilitating arguments over whether illegal aliens should have driver's license.
With a proper ID system, legal resident aliens could apply for driver's licenses like everybody else. Why shouldn't your Guatemalan nanny have a driver's license to drive the kids to school so long as she is in this country on a valid work permit?
In Hong Kong, ID cards are issued to everyone, whether or not they are born there, have become permanent residents (analogous to citizenship) or are on short-term work contracts such as the tens of thousands of domestic helpers from Indonesia and the Philippines. In the same way, a national identity card is also a requisite if this country is to have any kind of orderly guest-worker program.
It seems like everybody who follows events in Asia is waiting for the next shoe to fall, or to be more accurate, the next two shoes to fall. The first shoe is the much-anticipated revaluation of the Chinese currency, the renminbi. The second is North Korea testing an atomic bomb. Let's take them one at a time.
Speculation over revaluation of the renminbi reached a fever pitch at the beginning of the month. It was rumored that Beijing would begin its much-anticipated move during the series of holidays following May 1 known as "Golden Week." Speculators piled on, renminbi forwards went to the moon, but the week passed with no announcement.
About ten days ago The New York Times reported that the renminbi had actually been allowed to float against the dollar 20 minutes in late April. The writer did not know if this was a deliberate testing of the waters or just a technical glitch. Lo, the yuan did rise from 8.29 to 8.20 during those 20 minutes.
The story started on the front page of the business section and then jumped inside, running on and on. It's extraordinary that this newspaper would devote so much ink to a 20-minute revaluation. One wonders how the Times will play the story when the Beijing finally acts – banner headlines on the front page? Tell me this isn't going to be the Chinese Century.
It seems as if the entire financial community is paralyzed, waiting for Beijing to make its move. Some analysts say it is one reason why the dollar seems to have stalled as opposed to continuing its downward path like it is supposed to do. China should get the thing out of the way for no other reason than to put the market out of its collective misery.
Manipulation is a strange word to apply in this case . We are after all talking about a currency peg. The renminibi doesn't budge from a benchmark that was set years ago. If it is undervalued, it is because it is hitched to a currency, the dollar, that has been steadily weakening for reasons that have little to do with China.
The other shoe yet to fall may come in the form of a big thump in the northeast corner of North Korea, where, it is widely reported, Pyongyang is thought to be planning to conduct a nuclear test. North Korea claims to have such weapons. The only thing left is for them to prove it.
All the parties have different, sometimes conflicting aims. Washington, basically, wants to see Kim Jong Il and his regime disappear. South Korea's long-term goal is reconciliation, and it doesn't want to do anything that might make North Korea into more of a basket case than it already is. Japan wants an honest accounting of its citizens kidnapped in the 1970s.
And China, supposedly the linchpin? Beijing wants to be seen as being helpful, cooperative and a good world citizen by hosting the talks. But I doubt that its leaders worry very much about North Korea getting a couple pop-gun atomic bombs, and they certainly don't want to have to be put in a position of vetoing a sanctions bill in the U.N.
Indeed, ignoring repeated appeals from Washington, Beijing served notice Monday [May 9] that it has no intention of imposing any serious economic sanctions on its neighbor. "Normal trade should not be linked with the nuclear issue," said a foreign ministry spokesman. So much for China. Back to you, Mr. Bush.
Not very many people pay much attention to Cambodia these days. Not even the 30th anniversary of the capture of Phnom Penh by the Khmer Rouge on April 17, 1975, ushering in a four-year reign of terror, elicited more than a few anniversary pieces on the op-ed pages of American newspapers.
However, there is one highly influential group in Washington that does pay very close attention to Cambodian affairs. The International Republican Institute (IRI) is one of several interest groups formally "dedicated to advancing democracy, freedom, self-government and the rule of law worldwide" created during the Reagan years.
Aside from being well connected with conservative think tanks, foundations and policy institutes, the IRI also occupies strategic positions in Congress. Its operatives are well placed in the Senate Subcommittee on Foreign Appropriations, chaired by the Republican Majority Whip Mitch McConnell, that controls aid money to foreign countries.
We have already seen in Part 1 how this committee has blocked any American financial assistance to the International War Crimes Tribunal that is expected to convene later this year in Phnom Penh to bring the perpetrators of the last century's second-worst genocide to justice before they die comfortably of old age.
To hear them tell, Cambodia is a second-tier member of the Axis of Evil and its longtime premier, Hun Sen, is a kind of junior grade Kim Jong Il without nukes. Cambodia, they argue, is in the same class as such dictatorships as Zimbabwe or Myanmar. It is an absurd comparison that nobody in Asia shares.
Myanmar is run by a junta of army officers, who ignored the results of the only election held in Myanmar in 1991. Cambodians have held three general elections since the first one was organized under the auspices of the U.N. in 1993. Hun Sen does not win elections with 99.9% majorities. His party received about 47% of the last vote, which translated into 73 seats in parliament. The opposition secured 50 seats.
Cambodia has three major political parties. The largest one is the Cambodian People's Party led by Hun Sen; the second goes by the French acronym FUNCINPEC and the third is the Sam Rainsy Party, headed by one Sam Rainsy. But as far as IRI is concerned there is only one legitimate party in Cambodia, the one led by Mr. Sam.
Forming a government in Cambodia is not easy. The people who drafted its constitution made the same mistake Americans made in Iraq. They required a two-thirds majority in parliament to form a government. It is complicated by the number of posts to be distributed: seven deputy premiers, 15 senior ministers, 28 ministers and 135 secretaries of state – the largest cabinet in the world.
It took one full year following the 2003 election before Hun Sen was formally installed (he headed a caretaker government in the interim). During that time IRI operatives in Cambodia and Washington constantly counseled the two opposition parties not to cooperate with Hun Sen in forming a government even though his party clearly and fairly won.
Rainsy was born into the French-speaking elite of Cambodia. He spent more than 25 years abroad, living in France and running an accounting service before returning to Cambodia in 1991 after the U.N. brokered an end to the Civil War. He is urbane, well connected and sophisticated. He fits in well in the drawing rooms of the Heritage Foundation.
Hun Sen is the son of a peasant and an ex-guerilla fighter. Who joined the Khmer Rouge army and rose to be a regimental commander. He defected to Vietnam and was installed as a minister during the occupation. He has cultivated Cambodia's farmers, who make up the bulk of the population -- and electorate -- who return the favor by voting for his party.
It is a slippery slope from advocating freedom and democracy around the world, as President George W. Bush did in his second inaugural address this year, to trying to influence, some might say meddle, directly in the politics of other countries. The IRI and its allies long ago crossed that line in Cambodia.
Craig Etcheson waited a long time for this moment. Ever since the American first came to Cambodia in the early 1980s, shortly after it was liberated from the Khmer Rouge reign of terror, he has been honing his forensic science skills to prove beyond legal doubt that surviving leaders committed one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century.
He is the keeper of many lists, locations of yet unexcavated mass graves (defined as one with more than four bodies) should the prosecutors need more skulls to clinch their case against a number of aging Khmer Rouge leaders accused of having tortured and murdered some 1.7 million people between 1975-1979.
It was thirty years ago that the Khmer Rouge, under Pol Pot, occupied the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, its population swollen by war, and proceeded to virtually empty the city of its inhabitants, setting out four years of unspeakable horrors that ended only after Vietnam invaded and occupied the country.
For the first time since those events, and barring some new obstacle, the surviving leaders of the genocide (Pol Pot died in 1998) will be held to account. They number from six to a dozen – actual indictments await the convening of the tribunal – who would be tried for crimes against humanity.
It has taken a long time. But the trials are ready to begin. All the parties, including the U.N., reached an agreement on the modalities at the end of 2004. The Cambodian National Assembly ratified the agreement last October. It was agreed that the tribunal would be held in Cambodia with a complement of Cambodian and international judges.
But as of the end of March the organizers were still short of their goal raising the $43 million needed to fund the tribunal for the three years it is expected to run. Of that, about $38 million has been pledged, most of the money coming from Japan, the rest from France, Britain and Australia. That leaves it about $4 million short.
The Senate Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee is headed by Sen. Mitch McConnell ® of Kentucky, the powerful Majority Whip of the U.S. Senate. It is fair to say that he and his friends in the International Republican Institute (IRI) have had it in for Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen for a long time. McConnell makes no bones that he favors regime change.
Their animosity towards Hun Sen dates back to 1997, and possibly beyond. In March of that year some grenades were tossed into an opposition party rally. They killed more than a dozen members of the Khmer Nation Party (now the Sam Rainsy Party). Also wounded was an American, Rod Abney, who was working in Cambodia for the IRI.
Cambodia may not be a model of good government. The bureaucracy is bloated and the judiciary is often corrupt, which is one reason why the agreements provide for the inclusion of foreign judges. One could wait until Cambodia's body politic reaches perfection or until Hun Sen leaves office, but by then most of the perpetrators of the genocide, now in their 70s, will be dead and there won't be any point in holding a tribunal.
The tribunal may or may not go ahead without America's participation. Some other benefactor may come up with the additional funds. But it would be a shame if trial of the greatest mass murder since the Nazi death camps were held up because of a vendetta by one powerful senator and a fistful of dollars.
Meanwhile Etcheson waits with his lists.


SILVER LAKE, Calif. LaBonge is holding an emergency meeting on Wednesday night in response to a recent series of burglaries in the area.
LaBonge says his home in Silver Lake was burglarized last month. No one was at home at the time.
The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. at /*Ivanhoe Elementary School*/ located at 2828 Herkimer Street in Silver Lake.


In 2010 and again in 2014, I had the honor and privilege of being elected Judge of Harris County Probate Court No. 1, one of the busiest probate courts in the country. As I near the end of my second term, it continues to be the most rewarding experience of my career.
As an attorney with over 27 years experience in probate, trust guardianship, estate planning, and elder law, I developed a reputation for handling the matters entrusted to me with diligence and integrity. I often represented executors, administrators, trustees, guardians, and beneficiaries in complex probate proceedings, and recovered millions of dollars in assets lost through fraud and breach of fiduciary duty. Over the years, I was also appointed by the probate judges to handle both contested and uncontested estate and guardianship matters. The experience I garnered over the last thirty-five years has served me well on the bench.
Prior to coming to the bench, I was licensed to practice in all Courts in the State of Texas, the United States District Court (Southern District), the United States Court of Appeals (5th Circuit), and the United States Tax Court.
I also served two terms as a member of the District 4A grievance committee (which disciplines attorneys) and served as Chair in 1994. I am a member of the State Bar of Texas Real Estate, Probate and Trust Section, Taxation Section and Litigation Section and the Houston Bar Association Probate, Trusts and Estate Section, Taxation Section and Litigation Section. I also belong to the Houston Business and Estate Planning Council and the Houston Estate and Financial Forum. I am also a member of the Disability and Elder Law Attorneys Association and Attorneys in Tax and Probate.
I received my JD from the University of Houston in 1981, and a BBA (1977 - accounting) and MBA (1980 - accounting/taxation) from the University of Texas.
I am grateful for the opportunity to continue to earn your trust and support as Judge of Harris County Probate Court No. 1.


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10 Ways Reading The Silmarillion Makes The Lord of the Rings Better, Part 1
January 26, 2017 · by Ed Grabianowski · in Blog
I am a huge Tolkien fan. I read The Lord of the Rings every other year or so. I love the books and enjoy the movies. But in all these years I'd never read The Silmarillion.
I was about to embark on another LotR reread when I thought, maybe I should finally get through The Silmarillion first, and see how it changes my experience when I finally get to my next LotR reread (note: since I wrote this article, I have begun said reread, and it is indeed very cool to do so having read The Silmarillion. Hypothesis confirmed!). It turns out I really enjoyed The Silmarillion! I decided to write this article to either convince you that you should also read it, or give you a shorthand version of the important stuff that relates to the primary trilogy (whether you're a fan of the books or the movies). Given the length, I've split this article into two parts.
Here, then, are ten things in The Silmarillion that will influence how you see The Lord of the Rings (and The Hobbit).
1). Tolkien's blended mythology
Professor Tolkien's creation is, without any doubt, wonderfully original. But like all great works, it borrows and remixes its creator's influences. At the heart of Middle-Earth is a complex blend of Christian monotheism with Norse/Germanic paganism. This becomes clear in The Silmarillion because it is effectively like the Bible of Middle-Earth, the origin story of an entire world and the beings who live there. And like the Bible, it describes events as a sort of overview, but rarely gets into the details and dialog you'd find in a typical novel. For instance, the Battle of the Pelennor Fields takes up several chapters in The Return of the King, but in The Silmarillion it is simply described as a major battle that occurred during the events leading to Sauron's downfall and the ascension of Aragorn to the throne of the Reunited Kingdom. It takes about half a paragraph.
The book starts, like the Bible, with the creation of all existence at the hands of Eru Ilúvatar, the one god above all others in Tolkien's mythology. Ilúvatar is the source of everything, a very monotheistic Judeo-Christian idea. But the first thing he creates is a group of beings called the Valar, who are basically like pagan deities — they each have their own "portfolio" of concepts which they specialize in. There's a sea god, a nature goddess, an air god, even a goddess of grief and mercy (Nienna, whom I find quite interesting — she was known to stare out her window and gaze at the void beyond existence). Ilúvatar also created the Maiar, who were sort of like demigods, deities of lesser power than the Valar, but also sort of like angels and heralds of the Valar. They interacted with the peoples of Middle-Earth much more frequently and directly than the Valar — indeed, Gandalf and Sauron were Maiar, and one of the Maiar married an elf, creating a lineage of elves which have divine Maiar blood in their ancestry (including Elrond).
So you can see both what you'll find if you choose to read The Silmarillion — a sweeping overview of the most important events in the history of Middle-Earth — and a glimpse of the core ideas that were swirling in Tolkien's mind and led to the vast mythology he eventually wrote.
2). Elves screwed up everything
Reading The Lord of the Rings, you might assume Tolkien had kind of a thing for the elves. A central theme of the story is the sadness of the elves' inevitable passing over the sea, into "The West," leaving Middle-Earth forever. Basically everything elven is pure and gorgeous and amazing, and everything not elven is a pale shadow of true elven beauty (an idea I've alluded to before). Here's the thing, though — the elves were basically handed a great deal by Ilúvatar. They're immortal, they can go back and forth between heaven (Valinor) and Middle-Earth, they're very powerful, they never get diseases, and even if they get killed in battle they can come back. They get to hang out with the Valar and all the lands of Middle-Earth are theirs to settle and build beautiful stuff in.
But there's one thing the elves in the Third Age don't talk about — that almost everything bad that happens in Middle-Earth happens because of elves. One elf in particular: Fëanor. Fëanor was one of the sons of Finwë, one of the three original elf kings. Fëanor had it all, looks, skill, strength. He created the Silmarils (as well as the Palantiri, more on those later), three gems that contained the last remnant of the light of the two lamps the Valar used to light Valinor. They were incredibly powerful and beautiful gems, and Fëanor grew proud and jealous, hiding them and getting paranoid that the Valar would steal them. There's a lot more to the story, but basically Fëanor convinced his followers to leave Valinor for Middle-Earth, and in doing so they murdered another group of elves to steal their ships. And Fëanor made his sons swear an oath that they would never allow anyone else to have the Silmarils. This oath led to countless betrayals and tragedies, as the Sons of Fëanor turned against their fellow elves, all to get their hands on those gems. All this served to aid Melkor (later known as Morgoth), the dark and evil Valar that spent his entire existence working to destroy anything beautiful the Valar made.
(This is, of course, a simplification, since Melkor/Morgoth, a figure with an origin quite similar to Lucifer, is really the source of all evil in Middle-Earth, and he was the one who stoked Fëanor's paranoia. To be sure, Morgoth did an enormous amount of evil on his own. But the crushing betrayals and loss of faith and innocence that stemmed from Fëanor all seem worse because they came from a fellow elf, a form of internal corruption and greed more insidious and horrible than the depredations of an external bad guy. And all this paints the superior attitudes of the elves in the Third Age in a very different light).
3). Middle-Earth used to be twice as big as it is in the Third Age
The Middle-Earth you're familiar with extends from The Shire and areas nearby in the northeast to Minas Tirith and Mordor in the southwest (this is a simplification, again — there's quite a bit to the north and west of the Shire, for instance). There are vast areas to the east and south, but these are "off the map," wild, untamed lands that play almost no part in the story. This is a little odd, given that Ilúvatar created this entire world and none of the Valar seem to give a crap about any part of it except the slice of map we know of.
But anyway, that's not the point. The point is, a lot of what happens in Middle-Earth during the First Age takes place in the western half of Middle-Earth, a huge area called Beleriand that simply isn't there anymore. If you look on a map of Middle-Earth, not far west of the Shire you reach a huge ocean. It used to be an entire second half of Middle-Earth, as big as what you know from LotR. Morgoth, who had moved to a fortress in northern Middle-Earth called Angband, was causing so much grief that the other Valar were eventually roused to cross the sea and go to war against him. It was known as the War of Wrath, and the Valar won, exiling Morgoth into the void until the end of time. But the war was so brutal, its participants so powerful, that Beleriand was simply destroyed, shattered and sunken beneath the sea. So if you're wondering why the Valar didn't just come deal with Sauron in the Third Age, they had vowed never to interfere directly with Middle-Earth again after they literally demolished half of it. It's why they sent Maiar in the form of the Wizards to help instead.
4). There's something Galadriel isn't telling you
Galadriel is one of the most powerful elves in Middle-Earth during the Third Age — possibly the single most powerful. She is Fëanor's niece, so her origin is quite close to the very first elves who ever existed. She was born prior to the start of the First Age, in fact. But remember when Fëanor rebelled and took a bunch of elves from Valinor to Middle-Earth? Well, Galadriel was among them, joining and advocating for the rebellion because she wanted her own kingdom in Middle-Earth rather than hang out with the Valar in Valinor. She did not directly participate in the kinslaying and the really, really bad stuff Fëanor did, but she was part of that insurrection all the same, and she wasn't terribly proud of it.
At one point, Galadriel becomes friends with Melian (the Maiar who married an elf that I mentioned earlier), and Melian is like, "Hey so it was really cool when a bunch of elves just happened to arrive here in Middle-Earth from Valinor to help us fight Morgoth, but I kind of having a feeling there's more to the story here." And Galadriel, who hasn't mentioned the rebellion or the kinslaying or any of that, well…here's a direct quote from The Silmarillion:
'That woe is past,' said Galadriel; 'and I would take what joy is here left, untroubled by memory' …
Then Melian looked in her eyes, and said: 'I believe not that the Noldor [the elves who rebelled] came forth as messengers of the Valar, as was said at first: not though they came in the very hour of our need…For what cause, Galadriel, were the high people of the Noldor driven forth as exiles from Aman [the continent where Valinor was]? Or what evil lies on the sons of Fëanor that they are so haughty and so fell? Do I not strike near the truth? … A darkness you would cast over the long road from Tirion, but I see evil there, which Thingol [Melian's husband] should learn for his guidance.'
'Maybe,' said Galadriel; 'but not of me.'
It's…actually pretty humorous. "Yeah, some bad shit went down. But I'd rather not talk about it, you dig?"
It also makes Galadriel and her sadness at the passing of elves from Middle-Earth even more interesting. Keep her long life, the fact that she left Valinor against the wishes of the Valar, her apparent shame at the circumstances surrounding that, all in mind when Frodo offers her the Ring.
5). Aman isn't actually on Earth any more.
The "planet" that all this happens on is called Arda, and Aman is the holy continent where Valinor lies, far to the west. But at first, Arda was flat, and Aman was literally a continent. To get from Middle-Earth to Aman, you just sailed across the sea. At one point there was even a northern land bridge connecting them! And Ulmo, the god of the sea, once let a group of elves who were living on an island near Middle-Earth go to Aman by simply moving their island across the sea.
Eventually, magical storms and winds made it very difficult to reach Aman (partly because the Valar were annoyed at the Noldor for leaving). An elf named Eärendil only managed it because he had a Silmaril. And even in the Second Age the Númenoreans could sometimes see part of Aman (actually the island Tol Eressëa, but close enough) from the coast of Númenor. But when the Númenoreans were seduced by Sauron and tried to invade Aman, the Valinor got mad. They made the planet, Arda, round, but they left Aman where it was. Meaning, the world was "bent" into a round shape, leaving Aman somewhere in the sky, or in space. It became impossible to reach except by the Straight Road, a magical path following the old route from Middle-Earth to Aman, heading straight into space instead of following the curvature of the planet. So when Frodo and Gandalf and the elves head "into the west" at the end of the LotR, they're actually taking a magical space journey, or possibly a trip into another dimension. Weird, yeah?
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Kazys Grinius (Selema, Lituania, 17 de diciembre de 1866 - Chicago, Estados Unidos, 4 de junio de 1950) fue el tercer presidente de Lituania, gobernando entre el 7 de junio y el 17 de diciembre de 1926.

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Cuando Grinius nació en Selema, Lituania era parte del Imperio ruso. Estudió medicina en la Universidad de Moscú y se graduó como médico. Durante su juventud estuvo involucrado en actividades políticas y fue perseguido por la policía del zar.

El 1896 se casó con Joana Pavalkytė. Durante algunos años vivieron en Virbalis. Tuvieron un hijo en 1899, Kazys, y una hija en 1902, Gražina. Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, vivieron en Kislovodsk. Su esposa y sus hijos fueron muertos en 1918 en un ataque del Ejército Rojo. Ellos están sepultados en un cementerio de Kislovodsk.

Cuando Lituania obtuvo su independencia en 1918, Grinius formó parte de la Asamblea Nacional como miembro del Partido Popular Campesino. Ejerció de primer ministro entre 1920 y 1922 y firmó un pacto con la Unión Soviética. Elegido presidente por el Tercer Seimas, sirvió apenas 6 meses, siendo depuesto por el golpe de Estado del 1926, liderado por Antanas Smetona.

Cuando la Alemania Nazi invadió Lituania, Grinius rehusó colaborar debido a su oposición a cualquier ocupación extranjera. Huyó a Occidente cuando Lituania fue ocupada por los soviéticos en 1944 y emigró a los Estados Unidos en 1947.

Murió en Chicago, Illinois en 1950. Tras recobrar Lituania su independencia en 1990, sus restos mortales fueron repatriados.

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Presidentes de Lituania
Fallecidos en Chicago
Políticos de Lituania del siglo XX

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Privacy-preserving detection of anomalous phenomena in crowdsourced environmental sensing
Mihai Maruseac, Gabriel Ghinita*, Besim Avci, Goce Trajcevski, Peter Scheuermann
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Crowdsourced environmental sensing is made possible by the wide-spread availability of powerful mobile devices with a broad array of features, such as temperature, location, velocity, and acceleration sensors. Mobile users can contribute measured data for a variety of purposes, such as environmental monitoring, traffic analysis, or emergency response. One important application scenario is that of detecting anomalous phenomena, where sensed data is crucial to quickly acquire data about forest fires, environmental accidents or dangerous weather events. Such cases typically require the construction of a heatmap that captures the distribution of a certain parameter over a geospatial domain (e.g., temperature, CO2 concentration, water polluting agents, etc.). However, contributing data can leak sensitive private details about an individual, as an adversary may be able to infer the presence of a person in a certain location at a given time. In turn, such information may reveal information about an individual's health, lifestyle choices, and may even impact the physical safety of a person. In this paper, we propose a technique for privacy-preserving detection of anomalous phenomena, where the privacy of the individuals participating in collaborative environmental sensing is protected according to the powerful semantic model of differential privacy. Our techniques allow accurate detection of phenomena, without an adversary being able to infer whether an individual provided input data in the sensing process or not. We build a differentially-private index structure that is carefully customized to address the specific needs of anomalous phenomenon detection, and we derive privacy-preserving query strategies that judiciously allocate the privacy budget to maintain high data accuracy. Extensive experimental results show that the proposed approach achieves high precision of identifying anomalies, and incurs low computational overhead.
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Maruseac, M., Ghinita, G., Avci, B., Trajcevski, G., & Scheuermann, P. (2015). Privacy-preserving detection of anomalous phenomena in crowdsourced environmental sensing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 9239, 313-332. [A17]. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22363-6_17
Maruseac, Mihai ; Ghinita, Gabriel ; Avci, Besim ; Trajcevski, Goce ; Scheuermann, Peter. / Privacy-preserving detection of anomalous phenomena in crowdsourced environmental sensing. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). 2015 ; Vol. 9239. pp. 313-332.
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Linear Park, next to the People Place, will shortly have two porta potties installed for the summer months. (Morning Star - file photo)
Vernon's homeless-populated park to get porta potties, despite concerns
Vernon city council votes to install 2 portable units for the summer months
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A delay in ordering the kits to build two public washrooms in the downtown core resulted in Vernon council unanimously approving two porta potties be placed for the summer, which went against a staff recommendation.
The portable bathrooms will be installed at Linear Park off 25th Avenue.
The monthly cost of the temporary toilet is approximately $750 per unit (including regular once daily cleaning), and staff recommended against the units because of anticipated issues of vandalism and the related cleaning requirements, drug use and public safety.
"They will be placed in a closed cell located in the downtown area that anything can happen and we won't have access to that cell," said Shirley Koenig, the city's operations director. "There will be no sharps containers there because they can't be affixed to the unit, and there can be issues we are anticipating based on what's happening with the washroom facility (at Cenotaph Park) and maintenance and issues that we have there."
Said Coun. Scott Anderson: "If we're just putting a target out there, it's rather pointless."
At its regular meeting June 10, questions were asked about the status of the new and replacement washrooms proposed for the downtown core, as recommended in the Activate Safety Task Force recommendations. Council approved $200,000 for the replacement washroom and $165,000 for the new washroom.
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The new facilities were referred to as 'Portland Loos,' the type of washroom recommended by staff for its resilient design and reduced maintenance requirements.
The Portland Loos are designed and built in the United States and costs have increased, said Koenig in a report to council, due to the U.S. dollar and the Loos' popularity, and delivery time has been identified as a minimum of nine months.
The city put out a notice of intent to purchase to determine if there were other companies that could provide a similar product and meet the city's requirements.
"Two companies responded, saying they could provide a product similar to the Portland Loo, but we reviewed their products and determined they were not appropriate for the type of facility the city is requiring," said Koenig.
A third, unnamed company came forward, saying they could supply a washroom that meets the city's requirements at a much reduced cost ($75,000 to $100,000, not including installation) and has a delivery time of six-to-eight weeks.
"We are in the process of finalizing the details to proceed with construction of one new (single stall) washroom to be located near the bus stop on 30th Avenue adjacent to Nature's Fare, or other appropriate location," said Koenig.
The existing public washroom near Cenotaph Park will stay in operation until the new washroom is in place, then the existing washroom will be removed and replaced.
Koenig said security patrols and cleaning frequency have been increased near the facility.
Mayor Victor Cumming motioned to place the porta potties near Linear Park as a short-term solution.
"I think we need to have temporary toilets to go in right away," said Cumming. "We fully expected these other ones to be in place this summer, and they're not. I think we need them."
The cost for installing the two porta potties will come from surplus saved on the ordering of the new and replacement washrooms, as motioned by Coun. Kari Gares which was unanimously supported.
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A Whangarei band that has far more experience than the age of its members would indicate has been crowned the top high school band in Northland.
Alien Weaponry, made up of members from Bream Bay College and Otamatea High School, placed second last year at the national finals of both Smokefree Rockquest and Pacifica Beats. On Friday night they took out the Northland regional title for 2016, earning them another shot at the grand prize.
The three-piece metal band - brothers Lewis de Jong (guitar/vocals, 16), Henry de Jong (drums, 14) and Ethan Trembath (bass, 14) - won in front of a crowd of 250 at Forum North.
The brothers formed the band in 2010, and were joined by Ethan two years later. Spokesman Henry de Jong said playing in front of their peers was "pretty awesome".
"Our mates from school don't get to see us play because we're usually playing in bars and they're not allowed in," he said. "We got an awesome crowd response."
Alien Weaponry have already toured nationally and supported some of the biggest names in New Zealand heavy metal.
Ethan thought the stand-out factor for the judges was the Maori element in their performance.
"Incorporating haka and te reo into metal is not common but it works really well," he said. "It's a high-energy stage show - Lewis was leaping around and it all must have helped to wow the judges."
Alien Weaponry also won the Smokefree Pacifica Beats Award on Friday.
The Monkey Assassins - Shane Richards on rhythm guitar and vocals and Buster Clark on drums - from Rodney College placed second.
The two bands win musical gear from the Rockshop and their suppliers, and now have to submit 15 minutes of their best material for selection as national finalists.
The top two solo-duos from Northland from the regional heats last week - Izaia Tilialo from Kamo High School and Huia Shortland from Te Kapehu Whetu, and Guy Yarrall from Kerikeri High School - have made it to the national finals.
Founder and director Glenn Common said the Northland finalists would have to work hard to make the most of the opportunity offered by Smokefree Rockquest.
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Australia deploying firefighter experts to Israel
By Dan Goldberg December 5, 2010 6:19 pm
SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) — Australia is deploying a team of firefighting experts to help Israel contain its worst ever forest fire.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Sunday that the team would leave Australia within 24 hours to help battle the inferno that has claimed 42 lives.
The team, which is expected to direct firefighting aircraft, will be led by Victoria's chief fire officer, Ewan Waller, who in 2009 fought in Black Saturday, Australia's worst bushfire in which more than 170 lives were lost.
The prime minister spoke directly to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to "confirm Australia's assistance and convey her condolences, and those of the people of Australia, to the people of Israel at this difficult time," according to a statement.
Arrangements are also under way to transport chemical fire retardant if needed, Gillard's office said.
"Australia stands ready to offer assistance to Israel," Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd, who is due to visit Israel later this month, said in a statement last Friday. "Australians know directly the devastating impact inflicted by bushfires. I will travel to Israel later this month for an official visit, and will convey my sincere condolences in person to Israeli leaders and people."
The Israeli Embassy in Canberra thanked the Australian government.
"These actions highlight the deep friendship between our two nations and shows Australia's willingness to stand with us during in this trying moment," Israeli Ambassador Yuval Rotem said in a statement.
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Germany returns 16th-century sculpture to heirs of Jewish owner
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MIAMI HERALD: Can cars and pedestrians safely share a Miami street? Wynwood will soon find out.
The recently remade restaurant row in Coral Gables, Giralda Plaza, was designed as a shared street but is functioning as a car-free pedestrian plaza in a two-year experiment.


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Having a loved one that cannot do the things they once did can be heartbreaking. You know they want to be able to do all of these things and simply can't. Oftentimes, these individuals end up worrying about the mere thought of going into a residential treatment center. They don't even want to think about anything like this. That's what a home healthcare agency can come into play and help. However, many have formed misconceptions about what these agencies are or what they can do. To help you better understand what you are dealing with, don't let one of the misconceptions below fool you.
Only severely ill individuals can use home healthcare.
Many individuals are under the impression that home healthcare is only for senior citizens who are severely ill. However, that isn't necessarily the case. Home healthcare covers an assortment of therapeutic and medical services, such as wound care, pain management, rehabilitation, mobility training or IV therapy. Beyond medical care, home healthcare professionals also assist with personal care services such as dressing, eating, housework, shopping and bathing.
You don't get to choose the person who comes out to your home.
When dealing with a reputable healthcare agency, the company will work hard to match the client with the caregiver. Many of the caregivers are individuals with the same types of interests and histories as that of their client, making it a perfect match. Agencies will screen, train, insure and bond their employees to make sure the client is kept safe and secure at all times. If the assigned caregiver isn't available, there will always be a backup available to come out and assist. Ultimately, all of the caregivers that come out to the home are going to be those who best meet the needs of the client.
Having a healthcare aide means independence is gone.
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Paalen, Wolfgang, editor & publisher
Dyn number 1
Mexico City: April-May 1942. The first of five issues (6 numbers). 8 mounted plates (5 color), 2 original woodcuts by Paalen (1 mounted, and 1 hors-texte), plus 12 text illustrations. 52 pp.Original paper covers. 28.3 x 22.5 cm. Texts variously in English or French by Wolfgang and Alice Paalen, Edward Renouf, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Charles Givors, and César Moro; artwork by both Paalens, John Dawson, Jean Caroux, and Eva Sulzer (photographs of British Columbia). Paalen was a member of the Surrealist Group until 1942, when he broke with André Breton and began publishing Dyn as a way to reconcile Surrealism with the larger world. He later rejoined the Surrealists. "Dyn," from "dynaton," Greek for "the possible," also was the title of a 1951 exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Art that featured Paalen and his friends Gordon Onslow-Ford and Lee Mullican. This bright copy has minor defects for this title: a little dampstaining along the top edge and corner; some dampstaining at the bottom edge and corner; and a shallow bump at the bottom corner. The red spine is intact. One other copy of this rare periodical available at a lower price. Please see my listing for Dyn 6. **Free domestic or international shipping with direct order. Item #71902
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Music to the ears: Sonu Nigam has sung for SRK in Raees!
The trailer of the Shah Rukh Khan starrer Raees has crossed 4 million views. However, there is more good news for Raees fans. News has it that Sonu Nigam has sung for a special number for Shah Rukh Khan, in the movie.
Raees is a crime film directed by Rahul Dholakia and produced by Farhan Akhtar, Ritesh Sidhwani and Gauri Khan. The film stars Shah Rukh Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, and Mahira Khan in the lead roles. It is also the debut Bollywood film for Mahira who has featured in Pakistani film "Bol" which had gathered critical acclaim in India. Recently, the Pakistani actress refused to do intimate scenes with co-star Nawazuddin Siddiqui. However, in a media interaction, Nawaz mentioned that he was unaware of this issue.
Well, we can't wait to watch SRK 'croon' in Sonu's voice. Hopefully, we can get a glimpse of this number soon.
Raees is scheduled for release on Eid 2016 along with a Salman Khan starrer Sultan.
Tags newsSHAH RUKH KHANSONU NIGAM


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A car has crashed into a wall in Ilkeston.
The incident happened at about 10.40am in Little Hallam Lane.
Police were warning drivers to avoid Little Hallam Lane and Quarry Lane but traffic in the area had cleared by noon.
Google Traffic suggested there was also slow traffic in Nottingham Road, Stanton Road, Little Hallam Hill and Thurman Street.
You can see how we covered the incident live below.
Derbyshire police have now revealed that the incident in Little Hallam Lane was a car crashing into a wall.
There's no news yet on how the driver is.
Traffic in the area has largely cleared as you can see from this Google Traffic map.
The latest news from Google Traffic is that traffic is now clearing following the earlier Little Hallam Lane collision.
Still no word from police about what happened.
Derbyshire police have said Little Hallam Lane is not closed but traffic remains heavy in the area.
This map from Google Traffic shows how Ilkeston has been affected by the crash.
The red and orange lines show where there is stationary or slow traffic.


LAURA GIBSON Beguiling indie-folk singer-songwriter and Oregon native. See Calendar Pick on p. 12.
MLK DAY MUSIC FEST Featuring performances from Fifth Third, Dave Marr, Chaniece, Sarah Zuniga, DJ Kelly Romo, Emily Olson, Kaileb Webb and Drivin' 75.
DIXIE DUNCAN Rock singer-songwriter from Dacula.
MLK DAY CELEBRATION Featuring music from Stella Groove, Kxng Blanco, Cassie Chantel and We're Weird. See Record Review on p. 9.
MLK DAY MUSIC FEST Featuring a lineup of local hip-hop performers, including Motorhead 2x, Semi Ice, LLK, Squalle, Stella Groove, Foreign and Kolo G.
"A Day On and Not a Day Off" starts with a morning celebration. Volunteers will do service projects at various locations around town for the rest of the day. See Story on p. 10.
(Hull and Washington Streets) United Group of Artists presents a parade through the streets followed by a block party with guest speakers, live performances, food vendors and more. A portion of proceeds will benefit the Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement. See Story on p. 10.
The Athens Land Trust hosts a community gathering to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Following MLK Day of Service volunteer activities, swing by for food, community speakers and special guests. See Story on p. 10.
Krish Mohan is a socially conscious, nationally touring comedian. He will be recording his newest special, "Empathy On Sale," which uses comedy to address the current state of political divide and the idea of progress.


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Screening of three musical feature-length documentaries
Time : 7:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Location : 1st Circle, 5 Omar Bin Al Khattab street, Jebel Amman, the Royal Film Commission.
Organizer : The Royal Film Commission
Enrique S?nchez Lansch and Thomas Grube, 104 minutes, Documentary, Germany, 2004.
Berlin, January 2003. In a former bus depot something amazing is happening. 250 pupils from 25 nations are dancing to Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps which they have rehearsed for nearly three months, trained by the British choreographer Royston Maldoom and accompanied by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under its chief conductor, Sir Simon Rattle. 'Rhythm Is It!' is a moving record of the fascination of music and the training, of passion, diligence, love, esteem and the joy found in effort.
The film won several awards In 2005, among which: the Best Documentary Award at the Bavarian Film Awards, the Critics Award at the German Critics Association Awards, the Best Editing and Best Documentary Awards at the German Film Awards.
"Kinshasha Symphony"
Claus Wischmann, Martin Baer, 95 Minutes, Documentary, Germany, 2010.
Kinshasa, the capital of the Republic of the Congo and the third-largest city in Africa. Almost ten million people live here and they number among the poorest inhabitants on this planet. Kinshasa is the home of Central Africa's one and only symphony orchestra – L'Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste. Amidst poverty, crimes and the difficulties of everyday life, over 200 people meet to practice Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. It's a film about Congo, about the people of Kinshasa and not least about music.
In 2011, the film was nominated for the Best Documentary Award at the German Film Awards and won the Audience Award at the Riverun International Film Festival.
"Who Is HighLife?"
Wilma Kiener, Dieter Matzka and Alpha Yahaya Suberu, 106 minutes, Documentary, Germany, 2010.
Highlife Music is the rock-'n'-roll of Africa, and it all started in Ghana, West Africa. There is hardly a musical style which has not been fused with Highlife rhythms. This led to the genesis of Burger Highlife, a fusion of traditional music with disco and funk that was created in the recording studios of Düsseldorf and Berlin by Ghanaian musicians. Accompanied by music and interviews, the film tells the story of how this specific brand of fusion music came about. Top Burger Highlife stars present their hits. Since there is always more to music than the music itself, the documentary has also turned into a film about Ghana.
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Email: info@film.jo
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Title : Screening of three musical feature-length documentaries
Date : Tuesday April 24, 2012


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Conquistadors of the Useless: From the Alps to Annapurna
Lionel Terray
Nigel Patterson
Frenchman Lionel Terray is one of mountaineering history's greatest alpinists, and his autobiography, Conquistadors of the Useless, stands among the '100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time', according to National Geographic Adventure magazine. Following World War II, when France desperately needed successes to heal its wounds, Terray emerged as a national hero, conquering summits atop the planet's highest mountains.
This biography of Lionel Terry is filled with first-time feats and acts of bravery in the face of unspeakable odds. He climbed with legends such as Maurice Herzog, Gaston Rebuffat, and Louis Lachenal. He made first ascents in the Alps, Alaska, the Andes, and the Himalaya. Terray's gripping story captures the energy of an optimistic world shaking off the restraints of war and austerity. It's a mountaineering classic.
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The first is that Mint doesn't recognise that there is a battery attached and offers no option in the settings. I have removed the power cable while the laptop is on and it doesn't change at all, (still saying AC power is attached).
Subsequently, the power button won't even operate if the power cable isn't plugged in while the laptop is off. Pressing it, holding it down, no response. I plug the power cable in and it boots as normal.
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