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Inauguration of International Association of Parliamentarians for Peace Republic of Kiribati
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On Thursday 7th December 2017, Dr Chung Sik Yong, Asia-Pacific Regional Group Chairman, Rev Shang Seon Park, UPF Oceania Regional Chairman and Greg Stone, Secretary-General of UPF Oceania arrived in Kiribati for the IAPP Kiribati Inauguration. They joined Dr Venus Agustin, President of the International Peace Leadership College (IPLC) in the Philippines and Santosh Neupane President UPF Fiji. This international team were welcomed warmly by former President Anote Tong and his wife madam Tong as they shared lunch together.
The next day the UPF delegation met with the Minister of Education, Hon David Collie. The focus of that luncheon meeting was the introduction of the project called "From Zero to Hero Project" run by the IPLC and the prospect of having youth from Kiribati to participate. Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) or Memorandum of Agreement was discussed and well received by the Minister of Education and we are looking forward for the signing of the agreement between the Ministry of Education of Kiribati and IPLC.
After this, the UPF delegation was officially welcomed and introduced to the Members of Parliament in the House of Parliament by the Speaker of the Kiribati Parliament. He met with the delegation afterwards in his office and conveyed his support for the IAPP Inauguration.
The following day, on Saturday 9th December, the Inauguration of IAPP took place in the conference room of the Parliament. 22 MPs out of a total of 45, and 5 religious and civil society leaders came to the launch. Among them were the First President of Kiribati, the leader of the Government Party, and the leader of the Opposition.
Presentations included the "Family as the School of Love" and the "Zero to Hero Project", a model program of Tong Il Moo Do in the Asia Pacific Region, run by the IPLC. Dr Yong gave the keynote speech outlining the vision of Father and Mother Moon and how it can be applied in Kiribati. Rev Park gave some stirring closing remarks.
10th of December 2017, Dr. Yong and the team was invited by his excellency Tong to go out fishing with him and on the last day, before flying back to Fiji, Dr. Yong officially recognized the former Minister of Trade and Commerce and currently a member of parliament Hon. Pinto Katia and his wife as the President of UPF Kiribati.
Dr. Chung Sik Yong and Rev. Park with his excellency Tong's couple
Dr. Yong and the delegates welcome by the Speaker of the Parliament in his chamber.
The leader of the government party addressing the IAPP Kiribati


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Charli XCX Back in Studio After Canceling Co-Headlining Tour with Bleachers Last Month
September 16, 2015 0 Comments Charli XCX, Firefly, Governors Ball, Music, Bleachers
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(UPDATE 9/16/15) Canceling her joint "Charli and Jack Do America" Tour with Bleachers late last month hasn't affected Charli XCX's plans for jumping into the studio. The 23-year-old U.K. native cited fatigue for her abrupt cancellation and claimed that the extended run was affecting her creative process. However, nearly a month removed from the road has given Charli some head space, and the singer is finding influence in the materialistic things in life.
""I've been really inspired by Paris Hilton, small dogs and a glitter, luxe lifestyle," Charli said in a recent interview with The Mirror. "I've never met Paris before, but we were both at the amFAR Gala during the Cannes Film Festival this year. I was performing and I saw her singing along to my song and I freaked out. I'm such a fan and one of my favorite songs ever is 'Stars Are Blind' – it's pop genius."
Charli goes on to exclaim that her forthcoming record will be "the most electronic pop sound" she's had in her solo career. The album will be her fourth studio effort since beginning her solo career in 2008.
Boston Most Expensive, Kansas City Least Expensive On Charli XCX & Bleachers Tour
(UPDATE 7/15/15) Charli XCX and Bleachers are doing it big on the road this summer. The duo is currently in the midst of their joint "Charli and Jack Do America" Tour, which continues in the U.S. and Canada through October 10. With 31 dates remaining, the average price for Charli XCX tickets is $89.11 on the secondary market.
The tour makes its most expensive stop on September 14 at Boston's House of Blues. Charli XCX Boston tickets currently own a secondary average of $133.94 and the get-in price starts at $38. Two other shows average above $200 – September 19 at Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey ($116.03 avg./$73 get-in) and October 8 at Arizona's Marquee Theatre ($104.58 avg./$60 get-in).
Starlight Theatre in Kansas City welcomes the cheapest remaining tour stop on August 8. That show has a secondary ticket average of $52.63 and the get-in price is $23. Additional stops at Colorado's Fillmore Auditorium and Lifestyle Communities Pavilion follow as cheapest-priced shows, owning respective ticket averages of $57.23 and $60.71.
The "Charli and Jack Do America" Tour officially wraps on October 10 at The Complex in Utah.
Charli XCX and Bleachers Extend Upcoming Tour Through October
(UPDATE 6/5/15) Charli XCX and band friends Bleachers will be out on tour a little longer this summer. The duo has added more dates to their upcoming joint "Charli and Jack Do America" tour, which now extends through the month of October. The tour will exclusively play U.S. dates and is slated to kick off in July.
28 dates in total are scheduled over the three-month road stint. The tour kicks off on July 21 at The Observatory North Park in San Diego and winds around the country throughOctober 10 when it wraps at Complex in Salt Lake City. Notable stops along the way include shows at Starlight Theatre in Kansas City, Festival Pier in Philadelphia, Central Park in New York and Marquee in Phoenix.
Check out the full list of dates, including the newly announced dates in bold, below.
Charli and Jack Do America Tour Dates:
July 21st – San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park
July 22nd – Costa Mesa, CA @ Pacific Amphitheatre
July 23rd – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater
July 25th – Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo
July 26th – Troutdale, OR @ Edgefield
July 28th – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex
July 29th – Denver, CO @ The Fillmore Auditorium
August 4th – Minneapolis, MN @ Cabooze Plaza
August 5th – Milwaukee, WI @ Eagles Ballroom
August 7th – Tulsa, OK @ Cain's Ballroom
August 8th – Kansas City, MO @ Starlight Theatre
August 9th – St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
August 11th – Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore Detroit
August 12th – Columbus, OH @ LC Pavilion
September 14th – Boston, MA @ House of Blues
September 16th – Wallingford, CT @ The Dome
September 18th – Philadelphia, PA @ Festival Pier
September 19th – Shadow Of The City
September 21th – New York, NY @ Central Park Summerstage
September 23rd – Washington, DC @ Echo Stage
September 25th – Tampa, FL @ Jannus Landing
September 27th – Orlando, FL @ House Blues
October 1st – Dallas, TX @ House of Blues
October 3st – Houston, TX @ House of Blues
October 6st – Phoenix, AZ @ Marquee
October 7st – Los Angeles, CA @ Palladium
October 9th – Las Vegas, NV @ Boulevard Pool at The Cosmopolitan
October 10th – Salt Lake City, UT @ Complex
Charli XCX and Bleachers Announce Joint Tour Dates
(UPDATE 4/22/2015) Charli XCX and Bleachers will be out on the road together this summer. The tour, titled Charli and Jack Do America, will run across the U.S. in July and August.
The joint slew of dates begins on July 21 at The Observatory North Park in San Diego. It will roam around the country through August 12, when it concludes at the LC Pavilion in Columbus, Ohio. 14 total dates are currently scheduled over the month-long stint.
More shows will likely be announced soon, but for now, Borns will support at all shows. Tickets go on sale this Friday, April 24 at 10am on each artist's main website. Secondary market tickets are already available below.
View the complete list of tour dates below and check back here for all upcoming Charli XCX and Bleachers tour news and updates.
Charli and Jack Do America Tour Dates
July 21 – San Diego, Calif. @ The Observatory North Park
July 22 – Costa Mesa, Calif. @ Pacific Amphitheatre
July 23 – Oakland, Calif. @ Fox Theater
July 25 – Seattle, Wash. @ Showbox SoDo
July 26 – Troutdale, Ore. @ Edgefield
July 28 – Salt Lake City, Utah @ The Complex
July 29 – Denver, Colo. @ The Fillmore Auditorium
Aug. 4 – Minneapolis, Minn. @ Cabooze Plaza
Aug. 5 – Milwaukee, Wis. @ Eagles Ballroom
Aug. 7 – Tulsa, Okla. @ Cain's Ballroom
Aug. 8 – Kansas City, Mo. @ Starlight Theatre
Aug. 9 – St. Louis, Mo. @ The Pageant
Aug. 11 – Detroit, Mich. @ The Fillmore Detroit
Aug. 12 – Columbus, Ohio @ LC Pavilion
Charli XCX To Play Solo Headline Shows Between Festival Stops This May
(4/15) Pop superstar Charli XCX will break off for a slew of headlining dates between her festival stops this June. Following performances at Rock in Rio Las Vegas, Governors Ball and Summer Jam, the "Boom Clap" singer will play three shows in Louisiana and Florida.
She'll make her way to the House of Blues in New Orleans on June 8 and will then head to the Beacham in Orlando on June 12 and Revolution Live in Fort Lauderdale on June 15.
According to TicketIQ, the average secondary price for Charli XCX tickets over her three-show headlining stretch is $53.35. Her cheapest gig will be at Revolution Live, where tickets currently average at $48 and the get-in price starts at $35 on the secondary market.
She returns to her festival route after Fort Lauderdale when she plays at Delaware's Firefly Music Festival on June 18 and Indianapolis' WZPL Birthday Bash on June 19. Her final stop of tour will be on July 22, playing a show at the Pacific Amphitheatre in Costa Mesa with Bleachers.
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ALTOONA, Pa. — Sheetz Inc. has announced plans to hire 2,500 employees companywide and will hold open interviews for full-time and part-time positions March 27 at all 589 of its convenience stores.
The hiring initiative aims to increase Sheetz's total employee count and number of full-time positions by creating and filling jobs at stores in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, West Virginia and North Carolina.
Sheetz said it offers competitive pay and benefits packages to all employees, including medical and dental insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, college tuition reimbursement, an employee stock ownership plan, flexible schedules, opportunities for advancement, quarterly bonuses, vacation time and more.
Earlier this week, rival convenience retailer Wawa Inc. announced its annual hiring campaign. Over the next three months, the convenience-store chain plans to hire about 4,000 associate- and management-level positions. All 840 Wawa locations will have positions available, and some will host hiring events March 27 and April 10, the Wawa, Pa.-based company said. In January, Wawa held a hiring event in Florida, planning to hire 1,000 workers in all 160 stores in the state.
Altoona, Pa.-based Sheetz operates 589 c-stores in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, West Virginia and North Carolina. Sheetz is No. 14 in the Top 40 update to CSP's2018 Top 202 ranking of c-store chains by number of retail outlets.


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I have been fortunate at many formal diplomatic events to experience such a welcome. Although Welcome to Country addresses are given by indigenous elders, anyone (indigenous or non-indigenous) can give an Acknowledgment of Country. It is a wonderful opportunity to pay respects to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and acknowledge that, in the case of Canberra, you are in Ngunnawal Nation.
Photo Credit: Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
Over the last year and eight months that I have been in Australia, the heartfelt intention behind the Acknowledgment of Country ritual first surprised, then delighted, then deeply touched me. I do not remember it from the first time I lived here (2005-2006), but understand that it started happening around the early to mid-1990s, years before even Reconciliation Australia began its important work in 2001. Federal parliament opened its 2010 session with an Acknowledgment of Country, and apparently observing the practice became common.
The Acknowledgment of Country can have several variations, including customization for different areas and the traditional owners as applicable. But it usually sounds something like this:
We wish to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land we are meeting on, the Ngunnawal people, and honor their leaders, past, present, and emerging. We wish to acknowledge and respect their continuing culture and the contribution they make to the life of this city and this region. We would also like to acknowledge and welcome other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who may be attending today's event.
The University of Canberra explains the significance in this way:
In the spirit of Reconciliation as a key underpinning value, the University of Canberra (UC) supports and encourages staff and students in promoting Reconciliation. The University acknowledges and implements cultural protocols as ethical principles that guide our conduct, including performing a Welcome to Country or Acknowledgement of Country at the commencement of events prior to all other matters.
Australian Capital Territory Police (like many other national, state, and territory branches of government, along with universities and numerous other organizations) have on their website their own customized Acknowledgement of Country, which says:
ACT Policing acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as First Australians and recognises their culture, history, diversity and their deep connection to the land. We acknowledge that ACT Policing is on the land of the traditional owners and pay respects to Elders past and present.
In order to really understand what Reconciliation means to Australia, you have to know something about the Stolen Generations. My first exposure to the Stolen Generations was in 2005, before I moved to Australia for the first time.
On my mom's recommendation, I watched a 2002 film called Rabbit-Proof Fence. It is based on a true story about the journey of three little Aboriginal girls (two sisters and their cousin) the Australian government removed from their families in Jigalong and placed in the Moore River Native Resettlement Camp in 1931. To escape the camp and return home, they walked for more than nine weeks along 1,500 miles (2,400 km) of fencing. The fencing, built 25 years earlier to keep out non-native rabbit pests (introduced to Australia in the 1780s) was the girls' guide as they made their way towards home.
But their story does not end there: I highly, highly recommend this film if you have not seen it. Between the early 1900s and as late as 1970, the Australian government removed mixed-race Aboriginals they termed as "half-castes" (now an archaic, offensive term) from their homes to state institutions.
The Assimilation and child removal policies sought to integrate those deemed "suitable" into white society, where their names were changed and cultures of origin discouraged. They were forced to assimilate, and encouraged to marry whites until after four generations, they were themselves considered white. In a cruel twist, much of white society did not accept these mixed-race Australians, no matter how white they appeared or "acted."
No definitive numbers exist for how many people were part of the Stolen Generations. Many Aboriginal parents whose children were removed never saw them again. I met one in Melbourne in 2018 who I will never forget. She is a poet and an opera singer, and spoke publicly of being removed from her family as a child in the late 1960s. The shame at being forced to deny her culture, the abuse she suffered in state institutions, the trauma she experienced when reunited with her elderly mother and aunt as an adult – was all simply heartbreaking. Tears flowed freely in the audience, including my own, believe me.
This is not the familiar Australia that I know and love, in a similar way that the America I know and love should have never allowed the barbary of slavery. And yet it did, among many other injustices, and to deny it would be wrong and smacks of privilege.
Part of being truly remorseful for a wrong done is saying it, openly, publicly, and out loud. This is a big part of Reconciliation and building a more fair and cohesive society. An Australian government inquiry commenced in 1995 and completed in 1997 estimated that up to 33% of Aboriginal children had been subject to child removal policies over more than six decades. The report made recommendations, including a formal apology.
In February 2008, then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered a speech entitled National Apology to the Stolen Generations in federal parliament. The purpose was for parliament to "officially acknowledge the responsibility of their predecessors for the laws, policies, and practices of forcible removal." (Source: Museum of Western Australia) You can read the transcript of PM Rudd's statement here.
I make these difficult observations about the past of Australia, a country I love and respect deeply, as an outsider looking in, in order to understand why the Welcome to and Acknowledgment of Country are so special. I know that there is hurt, regret, and pain, and that true reconciliation will be a long road.
The United States certainly has its own complicated history with race relations, issues of social cohesion, and mistreatment of native peoples (or what the Australians would call First Nation peoples). And these issues are still very much present today and we continue to grapple with them.
I find it hard to imagine Congress opening a session with an Acknowledgment of Country, paying heartfelt respects to the traditional owners of present-day Washington, DC. I could be wrong. I hope I am wrong. I would like to see our national discourse include an awareness of Native Americans being traditional owners of our land, not just buried in some piece of legislation or government subsidy, but with some actual humanity and empathy. And perhaps the concept that asking for forgiveness is appropriate?
But I think the Australians' awareness of what it takes to truly reconcile the people who all love their homeland is still ahead of ours. The Australians have my deepest respect and admiration for admitting past wrongs, and taking something like Acknowledgment of Country – which could easily come across as an insincere 'tokenism', and yet at least to me somehow never does – and normalizing it across society. If we have some distance to go, let us take a step. And another.
While my mom was visiting last month, we traveled to Australia's island state of Tasmania. One evening, while watching the local news, we saw a heartwarming story about a local couple who decided to return half of their 220 hectare (544 acre) land back to the Aboriginal Land Council of Australia, in Tasmania's first-ever private land return. "This land will relink us all," the woman said. "It's already relinking us."
This phrase was projected onto the Sydney Harbour Bridge on NYE 2018: "Always was, always will be."
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3 comments for "Always Was, Always Will Be"
fan-cy
Another great post. I'm like a sponge soaking up everything you write, as if to compensate for lack of interest in my youth. Thanks for sharing your life as a diplomat! Soon you'll be talking about the myriad of check-offs you and V must do in preparation for your 2020 move.
You are too kind! I am happy and humbled that you enjoy the blog.
Paula Zhang
I love this post! Such an important issue, and one I wasn't really aware of in Australia. Thanks for educating us 🙂


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Another year, another San Diego love-in of Hollywood's brightest stars and all things comic-book and fandom-y, but what were the cinematic highlights of Comic-Con 2015? Here's a teaser of my round-up for HeadStuff.org.
Fury writer/director David Ayer took to the stage to talk trash about Marvel, claiming DC had the better villains; and then backed it up with the first look at Suicide Squad. It's kind of staggering that a film not scheduled for release until August 2016 could have such a polished trailer, down to the spine-tingling version of 'I Started a Joke'. While the sheer size of the cast still worries, it looks like Ayer's promise to deliver The Dirty Dozen with DC characters holds good. And for all Will Smith's prominence as a perceptive but depressed Deadshot in the trailer, there are really only two characters that matter: Harley Quinn and her Puddin'. Margot Robbie appears an inspired choice for the first cinematic incarnation of Dr Quinzell, hitting notes of naivety, menace, playfulness, and sheer insanity. Jared Leto, who has received endless inane stick over the appearance of his Joker, also seems a perfect fit as the Harlequin of Hate. In full make-up his wiry frame makes him seem similar to the Joker as drawn by Dustin Nguyen, in close-up the much-debated steel teeth rock, and his sinister lines could actually be Batman dialogue; which is quite intriguing.
Click here for the full piece on HeadStuff.org, with X-Men: Age of Apocalypse, The Man from UNCLE, Star Wars Episode VII The Force Awakens, and Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice in the mix.
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Filed under: Talking Movies — Fergal Casey @ 11:20 pm
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The Wachowskis return, oh joy, in 3-D, more joy, with a tale of a young woman (Mila Kunis) who discovers that she shares the same DNA as the Queen of the Universe, and goes on the run with a genetically engineered former soldier (Channing Tatum), oh, and he's part wolf… The unloveable Eddie Redmayne is the villain, but the extremely loveable Tuppence Middleton is also in the cast, and, oddly, there's a cameo from Terry Gilliam, whose work is said to be an influence on the movie. Alongside Star Wars, Greek mythology, and the comic-book Saga it seems…
Jamie Dornan is Christian Grey, Dakota Johnson is Bella Swan Anastasia Steele, Universal are terrible gamblers. Take one novel: which is 100pp of hilariously obvious Twilight homage leading to pornography for hundreds more and an unsatisfactory ending; a sensation because of the ability to secretly read it. Now hire art-house director Sam Taylor-Johnson to make an R-rated film focused on the romance, after 5 Twilight movies of said romance shtick; and force people to say out loud what film they're seeing, or at least be seen going to it. Sit back, and watch this gamble fail.
Michael Mann returns with his first film since 2009's uninspired Public Enemies. Chris Hemsworth, now officially a god in Iceland again, plays a hacker who gets a free pass from jail to help Viola Davis' FBI agent liaise with her Chinese counterpart (pop star Wang Leehom) following a devastating cyber-attack in China which led to a nuclear incident. Hemsworth is distracted in his mission by Lust, Caution's Chen Lien, and, if you've read the vituperative reviews, an appalling script. Mann's been on a losing streak for a while, and his hi-def video camera infatuation only doubles down on that.
March sees director Ron Howard take on Moby Dick. Or rather, tell the true story that inspired Moby Dick, rather than try and out-do John Huston. Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Ben Whishaw, and Brendan Gleeson are among the hapless crew of the whaling ship Essex out of New England that runs afoul of a curiously vindictive sperm whale in 1820. Martin Sheen starred in a rather good BBC version of this disaster its grisly aftermath at Christmas 2013. Who knows if Howard will match that, but he'll definitely throw more CGI at the screen.
Joss Whedon takes off the Zak Penn training wheels and scripts this sequel to 2012's hit solo. James Spader voices the titular evil AI, unleashed by Robert Downey Jr's Iron Man when fiddling about in Samuel L Jackson's Pandora's Box of Shield secrets. The great Elizabeth Olsen is Scarlet Witch, and Aaron Johnson is Quicksilver, but I find it hard to work up any enthusiasm for another ticked box on the Marvel business plan. Why? CGI and Marvel empire-building fatigue, a lack of interest in most of the characters, and great weariness with Whedon's predictable subversion.
Lost River
What is the difference between a homage and le rip-off? The French should know and they loudly booed Ryan Gosling's directorial debut as little more than Nicolas Winding Refn and David Lynch meeting up for a whimsical night out. Gosling also wrote this tale of a boy who finds a town under the sea down a river, and has to be rescued by his mother. Matt Smith, Christina Hendricks, Saoirse Ronan, Eva Mendes, and Ben Mendelsohn are the actors roped in by Gosling to flesh out his magical realist vision of a hidden beauty lurking underneath decrepit Detroit.
Bathsheba (Carey Mulligan), a wilful, flirtatious young woman unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely divergent men: rich landowner William Boldwood (Michael Sheen), dashing Sgt. Troy (Tom Sturridge), and poor farmer Gabriel Oak (Matthias Schoenaerts). John Schlesinger's 1967 film of Hardy's classic novel is a formidable predecessor for this May release. This version from director Thomas Vinterberg (Festen, The Hunt), was co-scripted with David Nicholls of One Day fame; another man whose tendencies are not exactly of a sunny disposition. Can the promising young cast overcome Vinterberg's most miserabilist tendencies?
Well this is a curio… Brad Bird directs George Clooney and Secret Circle star Britt Robertson in a script he co-wrote with Damon LOST Lindelof about a genius inventor and a parallel universe, or something. Nobody really seems to know what it's about. But then given Lindelof's resume even after we've watched it we probably won't know what it's about. Bird proved extremely capable with live-action in Mission: Impossible 4, but explicitly viewed the talky scenes as mere connective tissue between well-executed set-pieces; pairing him with 'all questions, no answers' man seems like a recipe for more puzzled head-scratching.
Ant-Man was in 2015: Hopes until director and co-writer Edgar Wright walked because Marvel shafted him after years of development. I was highly interested in seeing Paul Rudd's burglar become a miniature super-hero who's simpatico with ants after encountering mad scientist Michael Douglas and his hot daughter Evangeline Lilly; when it was from the madman who made Scott Pilgrim Vs the World. When this deservedly nonsensical take on a preposterous property is being helmed by Peyton Reed; whose only four features are Bring It On, Down With Love, The Break-Up, and Yes Man; my interest levels drop to zero.
Quietly brushing 2009's Terminator: Salvation into the dustbin of history in July is this script by Laeta Kalogridis (Pathfinder, Night Watch) and Patrick Lussier (Drive Angry). Game of Thrones' Alan Taylor directs, which presumably explains Emilia Clarke's baffling casting as Jason Clarke's mother. That's going to take some quality Sarah Connor/John Connor timeline shuffling. And this is all about timelines. Arnie returns! Byung-Hun Lee is a T-1000! Courtney B Vance is Miles Dyson! YAY!!!!! Jai Courtney is Kyle Reese … BOOOOOO!!!!!!! Did we learn nothing from McG's fiasco? We do not need another muscle-bound actor with zip charisma.
August sees Josh Trank shoulder the unenviable task of rebooting the Fantastic Four after two amiable but forgettable movies. Trank impressed mightily with the disturbing found-footage super-yarn Chronicle, and scripted this effort with X-scribe Simon Kinberg and Jeremy Slater (The Lazarus Effect). The cast is interesting; Miles Teller as Reed Richards, Kate Mara as Sue Storm, Michael B Jordan as Johnny Storm, Jamie Bell as Ben Grimm, and Toby Kebbel as Dr Doom; but this has had a troubled production, and carries an albatross around its neck as it must bore us senseless with another bloody origin story.
The Man from UNCLE
August sees CIA agent Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill) and KGB man Illya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer) on a mission to infiltrate a mysterious criminal organization during the height of the cold war. Steven Soderbergh nearly made this with George Clooney from a Scott Z Burns script. Instead we get Guy Ritchie and Sherlock Holmes scribe Lionel Wigram. Sigh. Hugh Grant plays Waverley, while the very talented female leads Alicia (Omnipresent) Vikander and Elizabeth Debicki will highlight the lack of suavity and comic timing of the male leads; particularly troublesome given the show was dry tongue-in-cheek super-spy nonsense.
Poor old Johnny Depp is having something of an existential crisis at the moment. People moan and complain when he does his quirky thing (Mortdecai). But when he doesn't do his quirky thing people moan and complain that he's dull (Transcendence). September sees him team up with Benedict Cumberbatch and Joel Edgerton for Scott Cooper's 1980s period thriller about the FBI's real-life alliance with Boston crime boss Whitey Bulger, exploring how the bureau's original good intention of running an informant was derailed by Bulger's clever connivance, ending up as a sort of state-sanctioned take-over of the criminal underworld.
Ridley Scott just can't stop making movies lately, but he's having a considerably harder time making good movies. November sees the release of The Martian starring Matt Damon as an astronaut stranded on Mars after being presumed dead in a ferocious storm. The supporting cast includes Jeff Daniels, Kristen Wiig, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sean Bean, Michael Pena, Sebastian Shaw, Kate Mara, and the regrettably inevitable Jessica Chastain. Damon must try to send an SOS forcing NASA to figure out how on earth to go back and rescue him. Drew Goddard wrote the script. There's the reason this might work.
November sees the return of Quentin Tarantino. The writer/director who never grew up follows his rambling gore-fest Django Unchained with another Western. But this one is shot in Ultra Panavision 70, despite being set indoors, and has more existential aspirations. Yeah… Samuel L Jackson, Kurt Russell, Tim Roth, Walton Goggins, and Zoe Bell return to the fold for this tale of bounty hunters holed up during a blizzard, while newcomers to Quentinland include Bruce Dern, Demian Bichir, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Nobody's told Tarantino to stop indulging himself in years so expect endless speechifying and outrageous violence.
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Arriving in March is Darren Aronofsky's soggy biblical epic starring Russell Crowe as Noah, and Anthony Hopkins as Noah's dad, the oldest man imaginable Methuselah. Jennifer Connelly, Emma Watson, and Logan Lerman round out the family, and Ray Winstone is the beastly villain of the piece. Aronofsky doesn't lack chutzpah, he passed off horror flick Black Swan as a psychological drama in which Natalie Portman did all her own dancing after all, but this will undoubtedly sink without trace in its own CGI flood because it apparently tackles head-on the troublesome references to the Sons of God while somehow making Noah an ecological warrior – which neatly alienates its target audience.
The 'sequel' to 300 finally trundles into cinemas 7 years and about three name changes later. Queen Gorgo (Lena Headey) urges the Greeks to unite in action against the invading army of Persian ruler Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro), while Athenian Themistocles (Sullivan Stapleton) leads the Hellenic fleet against the Persian fleet (which we're supposed to accept is) led by the Greek Artemisia (Eva Green). 300 is a fine film, if you regard it, following PG Wodehouse's dictum, as a sort of musical comedy without the music. Zack Snyder took it deadly seriously… and has co-written this farrago of CGI, macho nonsense, Bush-era patriotic bombast, and deplorable history.
The Raid 2: Berandal
March sees the return of super-cop Rama (Iko Uwais), as, picking up immediately after the events of the first film, he goes undercover in prison to befriend the convict son of a fearsome mob boss, in the hope of uncovering corruption in Jakarta's police force. 2012's The Raid was bafflingly over-praised (Gareth Evans' script could've been for a film set in Detroit, and in the machete scene a villain clearly pulled a stroke to avoid disarming Rama), so this bloated sequel, running at nearly an hour longer than its predecessor, is a considerable worry. At least there'll be some variety with subway fights, and car chases promised.
Nolan's abrasive DP Wally Pfister makes the leap to the big chair in April with this sci-fi suspense thriller. Dr. Caster (Johnny Depp), a leading pioneer in the field of A.I., uploads himself into a computer upon an assassination attempt, soon gaining a thirst for omnipotence. Pfister has enlisted Nolan regulars Morgan Freeman and Cillian Murphy, as well as Paul Bettany, Rebecca Hall, Kate Mara, and the inimitable Clifton Collins Jr, and Jack Paglen's script was on the Black List; so why is this a fear? Well, remember when Spielberg's DP tried to be a director? And when was the last time Depp's acting was bearable and not a quirkfest?
May 2nd sees the return of the franchise we didn't need rebooted… Aggravatingly Andrew Garfield as Spidey and Emma Stone as Gwen Stacey are far better actors than Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst, but the material they were given felt inevitably over-familiar. Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci wrote the sequel, and, after Star Trek '2', their Sleepy Hollow riffs so much on Supernatural it casts doubt on their confidence in their own original ideas, which is a double whammy as far as over-familiarity goes. And there's too many villains… Electro (Jamie Foxx), Rhino (Paul Giamatti), Harry Osborn/Green Goblin (Dane DeHaan), and Norman Osborn(/Green Goblin too?) (Chris Cooper).
Richard Linklater and Michael Winterbottom as transatlantic parallels gains ground as it transpires they've both been pulling the same trick over the last decade. Linklater in Boyhood tells the life of a child (Ellar Salmon) from age six to age 18, following his relationship with his parents (Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette) before and after they divorce. Linklater has spent a few weeks every year since 2002 shooting portions of this film, so Salmon grows up and his parents lose their looks. Hawke has described it as "time-lapse photography of a human being", but is it as good as Michael Chabon's similar set of New Yorker stories following a boy's adolescence?
Tastefully released on the 70th anniversary of D-Day, Tom Cruise plays a soldier, fighting in a world war against invading aliens, who finds himself caught in a time loop of his last day in the battle, though he becomes better skilled along the way. So far, so Groundhog Day meets Source Code. On the plus side it's directed by Doug Liman (Swingers, Mr & Mrs Smith), who needs to redeem himself for 2008's Jumper, and it co-stars Emily Blunt and Bill Paxton. On the minus side three different screenwriters are credited (including Christopher McQuarrie and Jez Butterworth), and, given how 'development' works, there's probably as many more uncredited.
The Wachowskis return in July, oh joy, in 3-D, more joy, with a tale of a young woman (Mila Kunis) who discovers that she shares the same DNA as the Queen of the Universe, and goes on the run with a genetically engineered former soldier (Channing Tatum), oh, and he's part wolf… The cast includes the unloveable Eddie Redmayne, but also the extremely loveable Tuppence Middleton and the always watchable Sean Bean, and, oddly, a cameo from Terry Gilliam, whose work is said to be an influence on the movie. Although with bits of Star Wars, Greek mythology, and apparently the comic-book Saga floating about, what isn't an influence?
An unnecessary prequel to 2005's horrid Sin City follows the story of Dwight McCarthy (Josh Brolin) and his dangerous relationship with the seductive Ava Lord (Eva Green). Shot in 2012 but trapped in post-production hell the CGI-fest will finally be ready for August, we're promised. Apparently this Frank Miller comic is bloodier than those utilised in the original, which seems barely possible, and original cast Jessica Alba, Bruce Willis and Jaime King return alongside newcomers Juno Temple and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. But who cares? The original's awesome trailer promised cartoon Chandler fun, and delivered gruesome, witless, sadistic, and misogynistic attempts at noir from Miller's pen.
Also in August, Marvel aim to prove that slapping their logo on anything really will sell tickets as many galaxies away Chris Pratt's cocky pilot (in no way modelled on Han Solo) falls in with alien assassin Gamora (Zoe Saldana), warrior Drax The Destroyer (wrestler Dave Bautista), tree-creature Groot (Vin Diesel's voice uttering one line), and badass rodent Rocket Raccoon (Bradley Cooper's voice), going on the run with a powerful object with half the universe on their tail. Writer/director James Gunn (Slither, Super) has form, and reunites with Michael Rooker as well casting Karen Gillan as a villain, but this silly CGI madness sounds beyond even him.
Bathsheba Everdene (Carey Mulligan), a wilful, flirtatious young woman unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely divergent men: the rich landowner William Boldwood (Michael Sheen), the exciting Sgt. Troy (Tom Sturridge), and the poor farmer Gabriel Oak (Matthias Schoenaerts). John Schlesinger's 1967 film of Thomas Hardy's classic novel is a formidable predecessor. This version is from slightly morbid director Thomas Vinterberg (Festen, The Hunt), in his first period outing, and, worryingly, he co-scripted this with David Nicholls of One Day fame; whose own tendencies are not exactly of a sunny disposition. Can the promising young cast overcome Vinterberg's most miserabilist tendencies?
Probably a Christmas blockbuster this reboot of the 1960s show teams CIA agent Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill) and KGB man Illya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer) on a mission to infiltrate a mysterious criminal organization during the height of the cold war. Steven Soderbergh nearly made this with George Clooney from a Scott Z Burns script. Instead we get Guy Ritchie and his Sherlock Holmes scribe Lionel Wigram. Sigh. Hugh Grant plays Waverley, while the very talented female leads Alicia Vikander and Elizabeth Debicki will highlight the lack of suavity and comic timing of the male leads; particularly troublesome given the show was very dryly done tongue-in-cheek super-spy nonsense.
Another year, another Ridley Scott flick among my greatest cinematic fears… Thankfully Fassbender is not implicated in this disaster in waiting. Instead it is Christian Bale who steps into Charlton Heston's sandals as the leader of the Israelites Moses in this Christmas blockbuster – don't ask… Joel Edgerton is the Pharoah Rameses who will not let Moses' people go, Aaron Paul is Joshua, and the ensemble includes Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley, Emun Elliott and John Turturro. But Tower Heist scribes Adam Cooper & Bill Collage are the chief writers, with Steve Zaillian rewriting for awards prestige, and Scott's on an epic losing streak, so this looks well primed for CGI catastrophe…
2012: Hopes
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Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen's second film as director sees him again collaborating with his Hunger leading man Michael Fassbender. If Hunger was an installation about bodies in decay this is a study of bodies in motion, as this stark drama sees Fassbender play a successful businessman in NYC who has carefully constructed his life around his secret sex addiction. His routine falls apart and his life disintegrates under the pressure of his compulsions when his wayward sister (played by Carey Mulligan) arrives to stay in his apartment. It may just be that one of the first releases of 2012 sets a high-water mark for excellence that no other will reach.
The War Horse
JG Ballard dubbed Steven Spielberg's works 'Cathedrals of Emotion' and even the trailer for this is upsetting, so God knows how tear-jerking the whole movie will be. Spielberg's adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's beloved children's book, which is currently wowing the West End in a puppet-heavy interpretation, follows a teenage boy's journey into the hell of World War I in an attempt to rescue his beloved horse. Tom Hiddleston and Benedict Cumberbatch are the upper-class officers while Jeremy Irvine plays the young farmer who swaps rural England for the hell of a traumatically recreated Battle of the Somme after his prized horse is summarily requisitioned for the front.
Clint Eastwood, who by virtue of his physical and artistic longevity is old enough to both actually remember Hoover in his prime and to still creatively interpret it, directs Leonardo DiCaprio in a biopic of the once feared and now derided founder of the FBI. Ordinarily this is the kind of Oscar-bait that I despise more than anything else, however, all evidence is that this is not the usual inane drama with a platitudinous message and showy Act-ing. Instead Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black employs constant flashbacks, with undercutting switches of perspective between DiCaprio and Armie Hammer as Hoover's FBI Agent lover, to explain the neuroses that drove Hoover.
David Cronenberg directs Christopher Hampton's adaptation of his own play about a pivotal 20th century clash. Michael Fassbender is Carl Jung, Viggo Mortensen is Sigmund Freud, and Keira Knightley is their patient (and alleged muse) Sabina Spielrein in a riveting drama about the conflict between two great founding fathers of psychoanalysis that split the medical movement at its founding. The S&M is what will get talked about most, as the obvious starting point for locating this in the Cronenberg canon, but attention should focus on Fassbender's assured turn as Jung and Knightley's startlingly alien performance as the hysterical Russian who slowly transforms herself into an equal to Jung.
Jennifer Lawrence headlines as heroine Katniss Everdeen in what's being touted as the new Twilight, and is, according to Google, the most anticipated movie of 2012. Adapted from the wildly popular trilogy of books by Suzanne Collins, an apocalypse has left a new country called Panem ruling North America, and every year as punishment for a quelled rebellion against its authority the new government in the Capitol chooses one teenage boy or girl from each of its 12 districts to fight to the death against each other in the televised Hunger Games – in the end only one survives. As an unusually vicious YA media satire this sounds promising.
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Joe Wright and Keira Knightley reunite for an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's classic 1870s tale of infidelity in snowiest Russia which William Faulkner once described as the perfect novel. Knightley is never better as an actress than when under Wright's confident direction, and this is a welcome return to his period-setting comfort zone after the misfiring disaster that was his existential action movie Hanna. Other returning Wright regulars Saoirse Ronan and Matthew Macfadyen form part of a strong ensemble led by Aaron Johnson as Anna's lover Count Vronsky and Jude Law as her cuckolded husband.
I mocked this last year, but once I saw the trailer in a cinema I started to reconsider my stance. The colour-scheme alone indicates a move away from the day-glo japery of Raimi to the moodiness of Nolan. Prince of Hurt Andrew Garfield is an emotionally raw Peter Parker opposite Martin Sheen's ill-fated Uncle Ben and Emma Stone's scientist Gwen Stacey. Raimi's gleefulness was increasingly sabotaged by his crippling affinity for angst. Director Marc Webb, who helmed the glorious (500) Days of Summer, can hopefully replace pre-packaged moping with genuine vulnerability, while stunt guru Vic Armstrong's practical magic makes this Spidey's heroics viscerally real rather than wall-to-wall CGI.
HAHA! Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance sees the lunatics behind the Crank films finally properly get their hands on a blockbuster after their script for Jonah Hex was rewritten to make it vaguely 'normal'. The plot is, well, immaterial really when it comes to these guys. The prospect of Nicolas Cage, whose brush with Werner Herzog proved he's still got some game, being encouraged to again find his inner madman while the two writer/directors shoot action sequences from roller-skates besides his flaming bike is indeed an awesome one. We must all pray that some stuffed-shirt empty-suit in the studio doesn't freak out and bowdlerise this insanity.
The impossibility of making a decent live-action Dr Seuss adaptation finally hit Hollywood on the head with an anvil after The Cat in the Hat and so we got former live-action Grinch Jim Carrey lending his voice to the sublime Horton Hears a Who. Its screenwriters have now tackled The Lorax and, it appears from the trailer, again succeeded in taking the canny route of expanding Seuss' slight tales to feature length with delightful visual comedy while retaining the hilarious rhyming dialogue and narration that make Seuss' work so unique and loveable. Danny DeVito is the voice of the slightly irritating guardian of the woods the Lorax.
Ridley Scott's long-awaited Alien prequel has finally been written by LOST show-runner Damon Lindelof, and original Xenomorph conceptual artist HR Giger has even returned to the fold to whip up some creepy designs. It seems safe to say this will therefore probably be very entertaining, genuinely scary, and then completely disintegrate in the third act when the audience realises that Lindelof really has no idea where he's going with this. Michael Fassbender and Noomi Rapace star, which is itself a promising start for a blockbuster that Scott could badly do with being a hit; just to remind him what it feels like after his unwisely extended co-dependency with Russell Crowe.
Seven Psychopaths
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Martin McDonagh, the celebrated playwright and writer/director of In Bruges, returns to cinema screens with another unpredictable dark comedy starring Colin Farrell. Farrell this time is a struggling Hollywood screenwriter bedevilled by writer's block who has the misfortune to fall in with the real devils of the titular seven hoodlums in the course of some ill-advised research for his gangster script. Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell, who starred in McDonagh's between-film-projects play A Behanding in Spokane on Broadway, are also in the cast; something which speaks volumes about how much actors relish the chance to deliver McDonagh's caustic, profane and theatrical dialogue.
I have high hopes for this absurdist comedy starring Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt, not least because Blunt is always a superb comedienne and McGregor did a very good baffled straight man in similar territory with The Men Who Stare at Goats. This is of course an adaptation of Paul Torday's acclaimed (indeed Wodehouse Prize-winning) 2007 comic novel about a Sheikh's improbable dream of introducing salmon fishing to, well, the Yemen, and the poor sap of a British expert hired to pull off this ludicrous proposition. The only problem is that the reliably dreadful Lasse Hallstrom is directing it; can script and actors overcome his dullness?
The studio has finally sorted out nightmarish legalistic-financial difficulties and so the awesome Daniel Craig returns for his third mission as 007. But Paul Haggis' delightful rewrites are no more! Frost/Nixon scribe Peter Morgan now has the job of making Purvis & Wade's gibberish action script legible to thinking humans before Sam Mendes directs it. Mendes has a flair for comedy, oft forgotten because his films have been so consistently and inexplicably miserabilist in subject matter, and he'll draw top-notch performances from his stellar cast which includes Javier Bardem as the villain, Ben Whishaw as Q, Judi Dench as M, and Naoime Harris as Moneypenny. This might just be wonderful…
Peter Jackson, having been kicked like a dog with mange for The Lovely Bones, returns to Tolkien. Martin Freeman brings his trademark assets of comic timing and understated decency to the titular role of Bilbo Baggins. Returning from LOTR are Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett, Elijah Wood, and a presumably very grateful Orlando Bloom; he didn't make any blockbusters between Pirates of the Caribbean 3 and The Three Musketeers. You should worry about Del Toro's nonsense infecting the screenplay, and the opportunistic decision to make two films, but then hope that returning to his meisterwerk will rekindle the combination of flair and heart that Jackson's lacked since.


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Where Is Guantanamo Bay Located?
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Guantanamo Bay is a bay on the southeastern end of the island of Cuba. It is surrounded by Cuba on the three sides and is at Cayman Trench in the Caribbean Sea. Guantanamo Bay commonly referred to as "Gitmo" or "G-Bay", is a US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay.
The United States of America operates a detainment and interrogation facility at the base and this detention camp has been the center of a raging human rights controversy for over a decade and a half.
The United States established a Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay in the year 1898 when it took over Cuba from Spain. In 1903, Cuba and the US Government signed a lease allowing the US to operate this facility.
Later in 1934, the US and Cuba again signed a treaty wherein it was agreed that despite Cuba maintaining its sovereignty, the US would exercise full control and governance of the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.
Following the September 11 attacks on the US, the government embarked on a "Global War on Terrorism". President Bush then ordered the Secretary of State to set up a detention camp in a location (not on American soil) which would allow the US to detain non-US nationals, who were considered major threats and suspected of indulging in terrorist activities.
The detainees of Guantanamo Bay are held at the facility without any charges. The US Department of Justice also ruled that Habeas Corpus petitions (seeking relief from illegal imprisonment without charges) may not be considered in case of Guantanamo Bay detainees.
Subsequently, hundreds of people captured during the war in Afghanistan, and detainees from other parts of the world were sent to the various camps – Camp Delta, Camp Echo, Camp Iguana, and Camp X-Ray at Guantanamo Bay.
From time to time reports of alarming human rights violations, inhuman living conditions, and news of torture (of the detainees) have surfaced. The US has faced much flak due to the maintenance of this detention and interrogation facility, but it is yet to shut down.
Over hundreds of detainees were released and transferred to other countries during the Bush administration; and several others during the Obama administration. Despite President Obama's commitment to shut down the infamous Guantanamo Bay facility, Congress opposition has not made way for such a closure.
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Remember that chimney the TOH crew was repairing off of our study? You know, the leaky one with the rotten sill? Well it is a broken chimney no more—thanks to some amazing repair work by Tom Silva and his team, who sealed it up—at least from the outside. (I'm including a photo of what it used to look like, makeshift grill and all). More exploration will need to happen on the inside to see if the damage is reparable and if we'll be able to have a working fireplace in the study, but for now, it's just nice to know we won't have water dripping into the room during every rainstorm!
When Joe has a chance we could use some pruning at the front camera. Thank You!!
What happened to the webcam? It defaults to the Rhode Island project.
Chimney is important for the house ventilation. Fixing a broken chimney is a hard work but, it can be done on your own with the basic tools.
A job well done on the quick fix for the chimney. It is possible to spend less on this project.
That's turning out well! I hope I see something similar in the houses for rent in Cincinnati Ohio I'll look at today.


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India vs West Indies: T20 cricket set to unfold new chapter in USA
Rohan Raj | Updated on: 10 February 2017, 1:48 IST
It was not long ago when India and West Indies locked horns at the Wankhede stadium for a place in the final of the coveted 2016 World T20 tournament. A scintillating encounter was on cards with home favourites India looking to edge past the resilient Windies.
But despite Virat Kohli's heroics in the semifinals, the title contenders India were handed a crushing defeat following the batting masterclass of Lendl Simmons and Marlon Samuels. The summit clash proved no different as the Caribbean boys, riding on the quickfire innings of Carlos Brathwaite, steamrolled England to win the World T20 title.
If the final game saw the emotions soaring, the presentation ceremony that followed was equally controversial. While Samuels attacked his infamous critic Shane Warne with bold words, Darren Sammy voiced his criticism against the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB).
Almost five months later, the two teams are set to renew their rivalry in the shortest version of the game. The sub-continent giants will take on the reigning World T20 champions in the two-match series slated to begin on 27 August in Florida, USA.
While India will be looking to avenge their seven-wicket loss in the semifinals, the Windies will be eager to bounce back from the 0-2 hammering in the recently-concluded Test series.
What is at stake?
After India lost their world number 1 rank in the Tests to Pakistan, the Men in Blue will now have to defend their second position in the T20 rankings.
India are currently placed on 128 points, four points behind table leader New Zealand, while third-ranked West Indies is on 122 points.
A 2-0 win for India will help them join number-one ranked New Zealand on 132 points but the Asian side will be ranked second when the ratings are calculated beyond the decimal point. In this scenario, the West Indies will slip to the fourth position with 118 points, one point behind South Africa.
A 1-1 series draw will keep India ahead on 128 points with West Indies on 123 points.
Dhoni's return
The two-match T20 series will witness the return of India's limited-overs captain MS Dhoni to international cricket.
The last time Dhoni marshaled his troops on the cricket field dates back to June when he led the young Indian team to 3-0 win in ODI series and 2-1 triumphs in T20Is.
Dhoni, India's most-trusted leader, boasts an impeccable record in the shortest version of the game. Arguably the most-successful captain in T20Is, Dhoni boasts of 42 wins in 70 matches with a winning percentage of 60.
Apart from Dhoni, the 14-member Indian team will see the return of as many as 11 regular players who were rested from the tour to Zimbabwe in May earlier this year.
Virat or Gayle, who will prevail?
The power-packed series also brings two of the most destructive batsmen in T20 cricket - Virat Kohli and Chris Gayle - on show. While Gayle will lead the batting charge for the Windies early on, India will be counting on the sublime form of Kohli to overcome the Windies challenge.
In the 43 T20Is he has played, Kohli has amassed 1,641 runs at an average of just under 59. His Royal Challengers Bangalore teammate Gayle, on the other hand, has scored 1,519 runs with an average of 35.32 in 50 T20Is so far.
As far as recent form is concerned, Kohli - currently the top-ranked T20I batsman - has scored 273 runs including three fifties in his last five T20Is innings. When compared with Kohli's form, the Jamaican marauder falls short yet again with just 113 runs in his last five T20Is innings.
Barring the stats, both the batsmen are equally dangerous and more than capable of taking the game away from the opposition on a given day.
The two-match series is going to be the first of what will develop into an annual event in the USA as part of efforts to reach out to new markets and audiences. The series is of immense significance and historic relevance because it will be the Indian team's first official cricket engagement in the USA.
"This initiative is path-breaking in terms of expansion of our great sport. It is our endeavour to make every possible effort to connect with fans in different parts of the world," BCCI secretary Ajay Shirke had said of the decision.
West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) President, Whycliffe 'Dave' Cameron also welcomed the decision, saying: "This will be a great initiative in our continued efforts to develop cricket in the Americas (North and South America) a very important market.
T20I squads
India: Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (c/wk), Stuart Binny, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Umesh Yadav, Amit Mishra, Ajinkya Rahane
West Indies: Chris Gayle, Johnson Charles, Andre Fletcher, Marlon Samuels, Dwayne Bravo, Kieron Pollard, Andre Russell, Carlos Brathwaite (c), Samuel Badree, Sunil Narine, Evin Lewis, Jason Holder, Lendl Simmons
First published: 27 August 2016, 6:00 IST
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After a poor stint in gully-cricket quashed his hopes of turning pro, Rohan moved away from the playing field and began criticising those who were still on it. Football eases his mind and watching City paint Manchester blue is his elusive dream. When not talking, thinking or dreaming about sports, Rohan can be found listening to EDM or watching movies. A sports correspondent at Catch News, he has previously worked with Hindustan Times, Daily Bhaskar and India Today.
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Iran kicks off production at Azar's first phase
MEOG - Middle East Oil & Gas
bne IntelliNews: Editorial desk 1 February 2021
Iran's Oil Industries Engineering and Construction Co. (OIEC) this week announced that it has achieved full production capacity at the Azar oilfield following delays in its completion.
Following several updates in recent months from OIEC, phase one appears to have been stuck at 97% completion. In the announcement, the company's managing director, Gholamreza Manouchehri, said that production had reached the first phase's target level of 65,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil despite the project remaining 97% complete, noting that it would be inaugurated 'soon'.
He said that issues with the asset's geology "had made the development of this field very difficult, and international companies that had previously done the exploration work in this field believed that only they would be able to develop this field."
However, Manouchehri added: "domestic companies took over the development of the field, and both financing and implementation were successfully done by capable Iranian companies."
In early January, he said that to date, total investment in Azar had reached $1.72bn from the National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC) and a consortium of OIEC and Ahdaf Finance Co. since they took control of the asset in September 2011.
Meanwhile, in October 2020, Petroleum Engineering and Development Co.'s (PEDEC) manager for Azar, Keyvan Yarahmadi, said that cumulative output from Azar had reached more than 30mn barrels, adding that completion would follow shortly, at which point the asset will be fully operational. PEDEC oversees the development of the field on behalf of the project partners.
With all the talk of completing phase one, it is worth noting that production began at Azar in February 2017 at 15,000 bpd. In 2019, output averaged 31,000 bpd. This early production phase has included the drilling of nine wells and the laying of 129 km of pipelines. Output is transported by pipeline to processing facilities at Dehloran oilfield.
Azar is located in the onshore Anaran block, which covers 3,500 square km. It was discovered in April 2000 following the block's award to Norsk Hydro in the 1998 licensing round. It holds an estimated 2.5bn barrels of oil in place (OIP), with combined recoverable oil and gas reserves estimated at 425-475mn barrels.
Azar's crude has an API gravity of 33, but its high sulphur content necessitates the use of specialised technology and machinery made from advanced alloys.
Following the discovery of oil at Azar and the nearby Changuleh field, Norsk Hydro was joined by Russia's Lukoil in developing the site. Lukoil pulled out of its 25% stake in the entire Anaran block in 2008/9 after various sanctions by the US and EU countries were imposed, followed by the Norwegian company's withdrawal from its 75% stake in 2011, after the sanctions were intensified.
Following the announcement of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2015, various IOCs signed memoranda of understanding (MoUs) for fields in the Anaran block, either for single or multiple fields, including Norway's DNO, Thailand's PTTEP and Russia's Gazprom Neft and Lukoil. However, these were all scrapped when the US backed out of the deal.


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Q: CheckBoxes in GridVIew does not remain selected when paginating through the GridView I'm trying to work through some examples to understand how to make CheckBoxes remain selected when paginating through GridView.
I'm trying to replicate an example of paging through the GridView. I'm using the following example:
http://aspalliance.com/774_Maintaining_State_of_CheckBoxes_While_Paging_in_a_GridView_Control.all
The only difference is that I use my own GridView as following:
<%@ Page Title="Home Page" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Site.master" AutoEventWireup="true"
    CodeBehind="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="GridViewExample._Default" %>

<asp:Content ID="HeaderContent" runat="server" ContentPlaceHolderID="HeadContent">
</asp:Content>
<asp:Content ID="BodyContent" runat="server" ContentPlaceHolderID="MainContent">
<asp:GridView ID="gvCustomers" DataKeyNames="Key" PageSize="4" AllowPaging="true" OnPageIndexChanging="gvCustomersPageChanging" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="false">

    <Columns>

    <asp:TemplateField>
        <ItemTemplate>
        <asp:CheckBox ID="chkSelect" runat="server" Checked="false" Value='<%#Eval("Key") %>' />
        </ItemTemplate>
    </asp:TemplateField>

    <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Key">
        <ItemTemplate>
        <%# Eval("Key") %>
        </ItemTemplate>
    </asp:TemplateField>

    <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="First Name">
        <ItemTemplate>
        <%# Eval("FirstName") %>
        </ItemTemplate>
    </asp:TemplateField>

     <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Last Name">
        <ItemTemplate>
        <%# Eval("LastName") %>
        </ItemTemplate>
    </asp:TemplateField>

    </Columns>

    </asp:GridView>
</asp:Content>

This is the data loading logic:
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    BindData();
}

private void BindData()
{
    var customers = new List<Customer>{
        new Customer { FirstName = "Mohammad",  LastName = "Azam", Key = 1},
        new Customer { FirstName = "John",  LastName = "Doe",  Key = 2},
        new Customer { FirstName = "Mary",  LastName = "Kate",  Key = 3},
        new Customer { FirstName = "Jerry",  LastName = "Seinfeld",  Key = 4},
        new Customer { FirstName = "Alex",  LastName = "Rowe",  Key = 5},
        new Customer { FirstName = "James",  LastName = "Smith",  Key = 9},
        new Customer { FirstName = "Jerry",  LastName = "Grand",  Key = 10},
        new Customer { FirstName = "Thomas",  LastName = "Anders",  Key = 11},
        new Customer { FirstName = "Diter",  LastName = "Bolen",  Key = 12},
        new Customer { FirstName = "Ryan",  LastName = "McDonag",  Key = 13},
        new Customer { FirstName = "Stewart",  LastName = "Black",  Key = 14},
        new Customer { FirstName = "James",  LastName = "Soth",  Key = 15},
        new Customer { FirstName = "Alex",  LastName = "Bowldwin",  Key = 18},
        new Customer { FirstName = "Arnold",  LastName = "Strong",  Key = 19},
    };

    gvCustomers.DataSource = (from c in customers select c).ToList();

    gvCustomers.DataBind();
}

This is the code from the example:
   private void RememberOldValues()
    {
        ArrayList categoryIDList = new ArrayList();
        int index = -1;
        foreach (GridViewRow row in gvCustomers.Rows)
        {
            index = (int)gvCustomers.DataKeys[row.RowIndex].Value;
            bool result = ((CheckBox)row.FindControl("chkSelect")).Checked;
            string id = ((CheckBox)row.FindControl("chkSelect")).ClientID;

            // Check in the Session
            if (Session["CHECKED_ITEMS"] != null)
                categoryIDList = (ArrayList)Session["CHECKED_ITEMS"];
            if (result)
            {
                if (!categoryIDList.Contains(index))
                    categoryIDList.Add(index);
            }
            else
                categoryIDList.Remove(index);
        }
        if (categoryIDList != null && categoryIDList.Count > 0)
            Session["CHECKED_ITEMS"] = categoryIDList;
    }

    private void RePopulateValues()
    {
        ArrayList categoryIDList = (ArrayList)Session["CHECKED_ITEMS"];
        if (categoryIDList != null && categoryIDList.Count > 0)
        {
            foreach (GridViewRow row in gvCustomers.Rows)
            {
                int index = (int)gvCustomers.DataKeys[row.RowIndex].Value;
                if (categoryIDList.Contains(index))
                {
                    CheckBox myCheckBox = (CheckBox)row.FindControl("chkSelect");
                    myCheckBox.Checked = true;
                }
            }
        }
    }

protected void gvCustomersPageChanging(object sender, GridViewPageEventArgs e)
{
  RememberOldValues();
  gvCustomers.PageIndex = e.NewPageIndex;
  BindData();
  RePopulateValues();
}

The problem is even though I select the checkbox, when debugging the following line:
bool result = ((CheckBox)row.FindControl("chkSelect")).Checked;

in RememberOldValues() method, result is always false
Why is that? Any ideas?

A: In your Page_Load event, please replace the code with the one below.
Every time you page through the gridview, the page posts back and you rebind it before the PageIndexChanging event is reached because you always bind the gridview in Page_Load event, which resets the checkboxes to their default false value. With code below, it will never re-bind before the event of PageIndexChanging is reached and your checkbox values will be preserved.
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
     if (!Page.IsPostBack)
     {
       BindData();
     }
}

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package org.sakaiproject.portlet.util;

import java.net.URLEncoder;

/**
 * a simple SakaiSite POJO
 */
public class SakaiSite {

	public String id = null;

	public String title = null;

	public String host = null;

	public String session = null; // Session is optional

	public String toolId  = null;

	public String toolTitle  = null;

	public String toString() {
		return title;
	}

	public String toStringFull() {
		return "title=" + title + " url=" + getUrl() + " toolTitle=" + toolTitle + " toolUrl=" + getToolUrl();
	}

	// TODO: UrlEncode
	public String getUrl() {
		if ( id == null ) return "null";
		String retval = host + "/portal/worksite/" + URLEncoder.encode(id);
		if (session != null)
			retval = retval + "?sakai.session="
				+ URLEncoder.encode(session);
		return retval;
	}

	// TODO: UrlEncode
	public String getToolUrl() {
		if ( toolId == null ) return "null";
		String retval = host + "/portal/page/" + URLEncoder.encode(toolId);
		if (session != null)
			retval = retval + "?sakai.session="
				+ URLEncoder.encode(session);
		return retval;
	}
}

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