The large man watches her move away with a smirk on his face. He lets out a quiet snorting sound at her attitude. He makes no motion to stop her or argue. "Yeah. This is a bar. You can dance here, stay here and I will make sure you get fed and watered." He casually moves a bit closer as she pulls out the skimpy costumes. "Yeah that'll work. Keep this place clean too. You can pick out what you wanna wear for now. When I have a special request I will let you know."
Again, she nods. Rising to her feet, she takes the tiny skirt, wrapping it about her hips and buckling it snugly. She tugs at it a bit, realizing it's damned if she does, damned if she doesn't and it just isn't going to cover any better either way. "Agreed," she says. She drapes a skimpy halter top over her breasts and adjusts it carefully. She bounces slightly on her heels, frowning at the resulting bounce beneath the gossamer fabric. She peers into the box and frowns. "No shoes," she observes, "I'm unaccustomed to them anyway. Of course, the paths I'm accustomed to tread were far smoother than what I've seen here."
The man-monster laughs softly. "Looks good on ya." He shrugs. "You don't need shoes anyway. You look good dancing on your toes. Besides this will give you more motivation to keep the floor clean." He glances back at the bar. "You can drink as much as you want but if I catch you givin away drinks to others for free, you're gonna have to pay for it, one way or another." His eyes narrow with a clear threat at the last warning.
"I am no thief," she responds hotly, "And I do not drink alcohol." She walks over to the mirrored wall and studies her reflection in the glass. "This seems more than a little...inappropriate," she says, then rises on her toes unconsciously proving the point. "Is this something I could wear outside?"
Think Tank shrugs again. "Why do you need to go outside? You got plenty to do in here. Don't worry. Soon there will be lots of people coming here. A lot are gonna wanna watch you dance. You're gonna be real popular."
Niamh turns and looks at him. She gives a soft scowl. "Why would you seek to put me in a cage knowing I will willingly return?"
The cyborg laughs. "You ain't in the cage. She is." He nods toward the woman in the small cage. "Where are you wantin to go? You ain't got no friends or anything out there. There's nothin for you there except more misery. At least here you ain't got to worry about the cold and snow. You got food, drink, warmth. You got it easy here compared to the rest of the city. You know out there, they hunt down people who ain't human like us. They hunt us down and kill us." He nods slowly. "The first time, they electrocuted me. The second time they took my head off." He lifts his chin to show the scar on his neck.
She grimaces at his words and nods understanding keeping secret the knowledge of the voices, calling without sound, communicating their need for help. For succor. For reassurance. "But why do they hunt us?" she asks.
He walks over and refills his glass with beer. "The normal humans don't like anyone who is more powerful than they are. You see they wanna try and just keep everyone down and under control. They want to rule. They fear the strong. They don't want anyone upsetting their oppressive kingdom they got set up. If you step out of line they pounce and try to exterminate anything against their plans." He takes a drink.
"And the woman in the cage?" she asks, "What is her crime?" She wanders over to the cage and studies the woman thoughtfully, sensing for any injuries she may have overlooked.
The woman begins to move slowly in her sleep, dreaming. Think Tank pours another drink. He takes his time before he answers. "Betrayal. She has powers, that's why she was wearing that colorful costume. She's got powers like us but she uses them to hunt others down. She works for the humans I was telling you about."
Niamh reaches through the bars and strokes the woman's hair. "Aren't you afraid they will look for her here?" she asks, "What have you planned for her?" The girl looks genuinely confused.
The cyborg laughs as he finishes his drink. "Nah. They won't find her here. I cover my tracks real good. This place is hidden. It is outside the city limits where most are afraid to go." The woman moves in her slumber, shifting a bit closer toward Niamah's hand. Think Tank continues as he looks through the bar supplies. "The only ones who come here are those like us. They come here cause they know it is safe. Her? I'm gonna sell her. She'll end up serving someone as a maid or something, some rich guy will pay heaps to have her do his chores and stuff."
A sadness crosses the delicate face as she strokes the woman's hair. Seeing the woman move, Niamh straightens up, tugging at the hem of her tiny skirt. She moves back to the bar and retrieves the leftover burgers. Bare feet silent on the clean swept floor, she returns to the cage and kneels beside it. "Can you hear me?" she asks, her voice soft and melodic, "I have food, if you're hungry."
Think Tank laughs as he watches the blond tending to the caged girl. He walks toward the door. "I'm gonna go get the rest of the stuff the bar needs for tonight. You both better be here when I get back." His heavy steps resound as he walks out.
The woman in the cage slowly starts to open her eyes. Her pupils go wide with fear as she wakes.
The girl holds a finger to her lips, cautioning the woman in the cage. She remains silent until she's sure the man-monster is gone. "Here," she says, pushing the bag through the bars. "It's dead flesh, but it's not too bad." She studies the woman for a long moment, opening her senses to feel and see if their captor's story is true. "He says you hunt others," she continues, "Others with powers. Is this true?"
The woman stirs a bit, rolling back against the other side of the cage. She rubs her head and then looks at the burger. She slowly starts to speak with a hoarse dry voice. "W-what?...Where am I? Who are you?"
"I am called Niamh," she replies softly, a soothing tone in her voice. "And where you are is a very dangerous for you to be. Eat," she says, gesturing at the bag, "Then we must see what we can do to get you out of here before he returns."
The woman looks out from behind her curly hair. She starts to speak but winces as she tries. She swallows a bit before her words come. "Where is here? Last thing I remember is confronting that monster...Think Tank." She rubs her temples again. "I thought he was dead. Can I have some water. I don't think I can eat now." She starts to slowly stretch her toned body to work out the stiffness.
The girl nods, silvery hair whispering on slender shoulders. "Ov course," she replies. Running lightly on her toes, Niamh retrieves a glass of water from behind the bar. "Here you go," she says, pushing the glass through the bars of the cage. Wide, blue eyes scrutinize the woman intently. "You haven't answered my question," she adds, "Do you hunt your own kind like he says you do?"
The woman quickly takes a drink. She coughs and has to pause to force herself to slow down. She smiles as she lowers the glass. Her eyes are a golden brownish color, her skin a deep tanned. Her hair hangs in golden brown curls onto her shoulders. Someone more familiar with humans would have difficulty determining her race. She appears to be a mixture of all the races of humanity. "Thank you." She wrinkles her brow. "Hunt my own kind? I don't know what you mean. I am a hero. I do hunt down criminals. My name is Pinnacle." She looks down at her tattered suit, one breast hanging out exposed, her pants torn open to reveal her most intimate areas, only one boot on her foot, the other bare. She sighs softly. "Well, it is Pinnacle when I have a costume on."
The girl's smile is radiant, a strange, inner glow residing in her eyes. "Hello, Pinnacle. I suspected he may have been telling his own truth." Niamh inspects the cage, looking to see how difficult it might be to open. She moves gracefully over to the bar, digging through the drawers in search of misplaced keys.
Pinnacle slowly stretches, doing a form of yoga, as much as she can in the small cage. There is a ring of keys behind the bar, hanging just under the counter. The caged woman calms a bit more and finally tries a small bite of the burger. "Did you say he was coming back? What are you doing here? You don't work for him do you?"
Niamh snatches the keys and scampers back over to the cage. "I will be when the bar opens for business," she replies, "I'll be dancing here. He provides shelter and food. And clothing," she adds with a slight grimace, "Such as it is." She fumbles with the keys, trying to find the right fit. "I suppose you'll need to incapacitate me," she suggests, "I don't know where we are, but outside is very...torn up. Lots of broken buildings." She shrugs one shoulder. "It looks as if there may have been a war or something."
The door opens after a few keys are tried. Pinnacle carefully crawls out and looks at Nimah. "Really? You want to stay here with him? He is a monster." She slips her other boot off and stands up on her bare feet. The heroine tilts her head at the girl. "Incapacitate...? No...no you have helped me. Please let me help you get out of here."


Everyone enjoys M&Ms. The candy-coated chocolate is a favorite of both young and old. People eat them right out the box and on top of ice cream. But, exactly why are the little candies called M&Ms? Few people know the history. Moreover, how does the manufacturer get the M&M label on each one? Now, there is a mystery that needs solving.
Following is an answer to these questions, which are on the minds of M&M fans.
There is an old saying that one can get rich during a war. Well, the two creators of M&Ms did just that. Born into candy-making families, the men forged a successful partnership.
Forrest Mars, Sr., of the Snickers bar family, went on a tour of Europe to learn the business on his own. It was in Spain, during its Civil War, that he conceived the idea that led to the birth of M&Ms. The soldiers there often had candy pellets in their knapsacks. The chocolates came with a candy shell to prevent melting in the intense heat of battle.
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Mars came back home to the United States in time for World War II. It was then that he met with another son of a candymaker, Bruce Murrie, whose Hershey family had a contract to supply rations to the Army. The men took advantage of this access to a steady customer base and introduced a version of the candy-coated chocolates Forrest Mars had seen in Spain. Subsequently, American soldiers carried the candies with them overseas, providing global advertising. M&Ms have been a mainstay on store shelves ever since.
The name M&M comes from the combination of the first letters of the two founders' last names. "Mars and Murrie" is the actual meaning of M&M. Ever since 1950, each individual candy has come emblazoned with this now-familiar logo.
Getting the M&M design on the candy is a bit difficult. The manufacturer places the candies on a conveyer belt. They then fall into an indentation, or dimple, where an M&M inscription, made of vegetable dye, gets placed via a roller. The trick is to be gentle enough not to damage the small candy while being consistent enough to inscribe almost all of them.
Americans love M&Ms. In fact, the treats are a perennial number one on most lists of favorite chocolates and candies. Yet, some believe it is time to insist on healthier eating habits. Should kids, in particular, still be given M&Ms and other candies on a regular basis?
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Kaduna high court has denied the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Ibraheem El Zakzaky and his wife bail.
The were denied bail by the Kaduna High Court.
The Court sitting on Wednesday denied the bail application filed by counsel to the 65-year-old leader of Shiite Islamic sect, Sheik Ibrahim Zakzaky and his wife as the Presiding Judge, Justice Gideon Kurada, said in his ruling that the accused persons have not shown any substantial medical evidence to grant them bail in their written application.
The judge however ordered that the two accused persons should remain in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) throughout the period of their trial.


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The last few weeks have been very busy for the Dream Yacht Charter team in the UK, with the arrival and fit out of our brand new Dufour 460 GL, culminating in a special naming ceremony on Thursday 7th February at Haslar Marina in Gosport.
Followers of the company may be aware that during the 2018 Southampton Boat Show, we named local not-for-profit organisation, Oarsome Chance, as our official charity partner. This amazing company help local young people who are disengaged from mainstream education in achieving a positive future through vocational work experience and support in the form of marine engineering and water sport activities, building their confidence and assisting them in gaining the skills and qualifications as an alternative route to employment.
Following the arrival of our new yacht to our UK base at Port Hamble Marina, we were lucky to receive assistance in the preparation and fit out by apprentices from the charity, including 17-year old Joe Swindale, who along with his colleagues, worked tirelessly in ensuring that the yacht was ready for her official naming ceremony. In honour of the dedication and support that the charity show to these local youngsters and further cementing our relationship with them, we felt it only fitting to name our new flagship for the Solent, 'Oarsome Dream'.
In addition to the team from Alex Thomson Racing, we welcomed fellow members of the Dream Yacht Charter team, Principal of Oarsome Chance, John Gillard and apprentice Joe Swindale to Hasler Marina, who was thrilled to officiate the ceremony by pouring champagne over the bow as Alex named her.
"This is a fabulous day for everyone at Oarsome Chance with our Patron Alex Thomson naming this stunning new yacht Oarsome Dream. By involving our young apprentices in the commissioning process for the latest addition to their fleet, Andy and his team at Dream Yacht Charter have created a project that sums up what Oarsome Chance is all about. We are all united in our commitment to create meaningful opportunities for young people to widen their horizons and boost their employment prospects," John Gillard, Principal of Oarsome Chance, said.
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Stop Bullying Coalition To enable healthy community for elderly & disabled
Little Red Hen COVID SURVEY
How to Stop Bullying & Mobbing
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Alert: A Public Health Crisis Threatens Lives of Elderly & Disabled
Jerry Halberstadt Fri, 11/20/2020 - 20:40
Alert: A Public Health Crisis
COVID-19 Threatens Lives of Elderly and Disabled
Together we must prevent the looming disaster that threatens the elderly and disabled. The explosive rise in COVID-19 (positive tests, new cases, hospitalizations, and deaths) is sweeping the Commonwealth and can decimate a housing community just as we have seen happen in nursing homes. Elderly and disabled persons—92,000 tenants of public and subsidized housing in 1,400 developments—are highly vulnerable to COVID-19; the average age of death from COVID is 80.
You, the leaders of the Commonwealth—our legislators, the Governor, and the Department of Public Health—are responsible for acting to enable, empower, and enforce public health protocols for landlords and tenants. We tenants have already begun.
To save our lives, this is what you—Governor Baker and legislators—must do:
1) Amend Acts 2020 Chapter 93, to require the collection and daily publication and distribution of the locations of COVID cases, to include elderly and disabled residences; using all sources of that data available to the Department of Public Health and local health departments.
2) Enable and require local health departments to apply, investigate, and enforce with sanctions all COVID-related public health mandates and best practices; covering landlords, their agents, and tenants; in all multi-unit public and subsidized housing for elderly and disabled; and in multi-unit housing where elderly and disabled have a voucher subsidy.
COVID-19 and related hospitalizations and deaths are rapidly increasing, and pose heightened risks in elderly/disabled residential communities where age and chronic health issues increase the risk of severe health impacts and death.
Professor of community public health, Michael Siegel, said "...multiple-unit housing, especially for the elderly and disabled, have not received the attention they deserve. In public health, our approach would be to require the landlord to mitigate the hazard so that everyone can live safely in the apartment building."
Public health has established clear guidelines and protocols for controlling infectious disease, including COVID-19. There are barriers to implementing such protections in multi-unit housing. We propose specific solutions to those barriers.
Failure to distribute site-specific case information
Landlords and tenants fail to follow protocols
Lack of a comprehensive community approach
Testing for COVID and flu inoculation clinics not available on-site.
Barriers and solutions
Barrier: lack of localized case information
We need reliable information based on testing and collection of data on COVID-related illness and death. Surveillance is a keystone of public health. The lack of timely, site-specific information coupled with resistance and barriers to gathering and distributing this information, demonstrates a callous disregard for the health and well-being of staff and tenants alike in subsidized housing for elderly and disabled, as well as market rate and affordable housing.
Public health requires identifying and locating cases. At present, site-specific case information is known by the Department of Public Health and/or local health departments, but the information is not available for use by the community. Privacy is not an issue, we only need to know without delay when COVID is present in a housing facility to guide ongoing mitigation efforts.
Solution: legal and/or administrative changes
Amend Acts 2020 Chapter 93. The Governor and Department of Public Health must implement the legislative intent as it may be amended; or take other effective administrative action to provide timely information. Require the collection and daily publication and distribution of the locations of COVID cases, to include elderly and disabled residences.
Barrier: Landlords and tenants fail to follow protocols
Public health experts advocate masking, distancing, hand hygiene, and a few other measures as the best way to mitigate the spread of COVID and save lives. With the rapidly expanding number of COVID cases, there is no time for delay. Many individuals resist or don't have the ability to follow the best practices, but failure of any person or landlord to neglect the protocols and to enforce them endangers all tenants and staff. No one has a right to endanger others.
Solution: Education, support, enforcement
Changing habits is hard! We need consistent, clear messaging based on the best available science. Clear statement of actions that individuals must do; community encouragement and support, including services for persons in isolation, and attention to the mental health of all in the community.
Single most effective step: Enforceable mandate to have universal masking (effective type, properly worn) in all parts, indoors and out, of the housing facility (save in own apartment with family members). The landlord has the authority and duty to implement and enforce the rules. Eviction is the only real sanction, but some hesitate to use it even while complaining of non-compliance. What new methods are needed? Good managers are able to achieve compliance and they act to protect their residents from COVID-19. One leader of a senior facility described their efforts to create a culture of accountability among residents, to encourage safe practices, and to work with residents. Other examples include Georgetown Public Housing, subsidized housing in Greenfield; Chelsea Public Housing. Developing a community response requires trust, transparency, communication, collaboration; a set of expectations and rules; and enforcement. https://stopbullyingcoalition.org/norms
The Commonwealth must enable and require ongoing oversight by the Department of Public Health and/or local health departments; or create a new agency, to assure that landlords and their agents as well as tenants follow the best practice protocols to prevent COVID, and that landlords enforce the rules and protocols on their staff and tenants.
We began in March, 2020 to publish information specific to multi-unit residential situations. https://stopbullyingcoalition.org/fight-virus We have published the latest science on COVID and reported on the emerging best practice protocols for landlords and tenants through our newsletter and at https://StopBullyingCoalition.org Our continuing research in public and subsidized housing has revealed that there are ways for landlord, management, and tenants to effectively mitigate the risks of COVID-19. https://stopbullyingcoalition.org/norms
Our public health advisor, Professor Michael Siegel, an expert in community public health at Boston University, is working with his students to develop effective messaging targeted at populations such as elderly and disabled persons, and we will help to distribute those messages.
Our tenant leaders and advocates are working to improve the response of their communities to the challenges of COVID-19. In Somerville public housing, Bonny Zeh helped to engage her state senator, local health department, and the housing authority to initiate action. In Peabody subsidized housing, tenants have formed a team and distributed masks donated by senior center volunteers to all tenants to encourage masking and have reached out to landlord, management, the local health department, and state legislators as well as tenants to seek collaboration and enforcement. A new management team has distributed masks and installed a hand sanitizer station at the entrance, and is now open to working with tenants. https://stopbullyingcoalition.org/danger
We can be assured of success only if we work together with trust and collaboration. We need to sanction any landlord or person who will not follow the protocols, because they pose a danger to everyone else.
The Commonwealth—Governor, legislators, public health—must act on an emergency basis to provide the legal and administrative framework for a lawful and effective public health effort to succeed.
Petitioners/Co-signers
Jerry Halberstadt, tenant in Peabody subsidized housing; Coordinator, Stop Bullying Coalition
Michael Siegel, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health. Professor Siegel is the public health advisor to the Stop Bullying Coalition.
Colin Killick, Executive Director, Disability Policy Consortium
Bonny Zeh, co-founder, Stop Bullying Coalition; tenant in Somerville Public Housing
Pamela Goodwin, tenant in subsidized housing & former tenant in public housing, leader in Stop Bullying Coalition
Lori Bermani, tenant in Salem Public Housing; advocate
Judy Maker, tenant in Peabody subsidized housing
Cheryl Karakoudas, tenant in Peabody subsidized housing
Irene O'Donnell, tenant in Peabody subsidized housing
Steve Kelley, tenant in Peabody subsidized housing
Karen Tellin,LBSW, Service Coordinator, Senior Housing in Iowa
To add your name in support, send Name, location, role, housing type to https://stopbullyingcoalition.org/contact
Tray with assortment of colorful cloth masks
Salem Public Housing challenged to act
Lori Bermani, a tenant in Salem Public Housing, has challenged the housing authority to take action to reinforce protective behaviors by posting visual reminders. Stickers on the floor can guide people to distancing. Pictorial posters can serve to remind everyone of the need for masking and distancing. Lori has challenged action by offering to pay for the materials. She hopes that the Salem Housing Authority and the Salem Health Department will take a more active part in protecting tenants and staff from COVID-19.
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Halberstadt, Jerry, Stop Bullying: We Can Create Healthy Communities for the Elderly and Disabled. (Peabody MA: Togethering Press, 2018 )
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(Newser) – An American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Honolulu was escorted by two F-22 fighter jets Friday after a passenger tried to get into the cockpit, ABC News reports. American Airlines characterizes it as a "disturbance." A source at the TSA says a passenger with a laptop was waiting for the bathroom near the cockpit when a flight attendant told him to sit down. According to Bloomberg, the passenger set the laptop down next to the cockpit door. And Hawaii News Now reports he tried to open the cockpit door. The passenger was restrained by fellow fliers, including an off-duty Honolulu police officer.
After his first attempt to get through a security door at the airport, he should have been barred from flying. After a stunt like that, the Israelis would never have let him board an aircraft. Good to hear that a Honolulu police officer was on board. Every flight ought to have at least one armed security officer on board. El Al flights do.
Can you say "test run"?


We didn't think much of it when linebacker Kevin Alexander hit the waiver wire earlier today, losing his roster spot on the Broncos in favor of cornerback Chevis Jackson. Alexander appeared in nine games for Denver, recording just four tackles. He went undrafted out of Clemson this April.
The move became a story when it was revealed that, just hours before he was cut, Alexander was arrested on investigation of assault and battery by Aurora police in Colorado.
Alexander's girlfriend told officers that the two argued Sunday night after the woman accused Alexander of cheating on her with one of her friends. Alexander allegedly "became mad and eventually grabbed her several times," before throwing her to the ground.
Alexander was released from jail at 2 p.m. Monday on $2,000 bond.
He has a court date set for Tuesday.
You gotta be a real tough guy to hit a woman.
Enjoy your life outside the NFL, loser.
My Grandmother always said "Aint no need in being dumb unless your REAL dumb!" You sir are REAL DUMB!
Young man deserves a second chance.
Wait… he's not a starter? Screw 'im.
Another wonderful Broncos success story in a season full of them.
Knowing the way these kinds of things go, he'll get handled with kid gloves instead of being thrown in the slammer where he belongs.
Now, had the Broncos simply waived Josh McDaniels at the beginning of the season, maybe their 2010 season wouldn't have been such a washout.
Oh no, there goes Denver's season!
When it comes to criminals, it looks like the Broncos are taking over for the Ravens and Bengals.
Do the Broncos have film of the incident? Wouldn't surprise me.
'Roid rage and intoxication don't mix.
Not so incredibly, the Broncos cannot right the ship. This organization needs a total face lift, from Joe Ellis, to the coaching staff, to the General Manager, and probably several other front office types.
They have failed at putting a quality football team on the field for two years. They have failed at having a minimum of good character/bad players, rather they have bad characters who also play badly. The front office has failed at treating season ticket holders like valued patrons, and the visibility in the community has gone off the radar.
The Broncos have lost the city and for the first time since the laughable AFL years, they are endangered of becoming second banana in town, with the Rockies on the rise.
Pat, you need to pull the plug and start over.
Assuming you don't mean he'll get handled with kid glove because he's a football player. It would be unusual for any man to receive a serious sentence on a first offense in a situation like this. One problem is that the women often drop it long before it goes that far. Since her complaint probably played a role in him being waived, he's going to be doubly angry now. She should get as far from away him as she can. Hate to say it, but knowing the way these kinds of things go, she'll probably feel bad that he lost his job and take him back.
Memo; You dont have talent. McDaniels ran it all away. It wouldnt have mattered. Just watched Cutler and Bears clinch NFC North. Now who got the best of that deal? Denver is transitioning, and they still have no QB, but Tebow is a winner. Will be interesting to see if they can add some pieces on defense. Champ Bailey is gone after this season.
I'm a Chargers fan, and I hate the Broncos, but I firmly believe that it's totally unfair to assume that this guy is guilty before he's convicted, especially when all we have to go on are the accusations made by a jealous lover.
I understand that PFT needs to report the facts of this case, and they seem to have done fine in that regard… It's the idiots forming conclusions in the comments section which need to grow a brain.
You're right. He's entitled to the presumption of innocence. I was reacting generically to the comment about him probably being treated with kid gloves when, if he's guilty, he'll be treated like any other person in this circumstance. It's not the kind of charge that would result in a man being locked away for a long period. If she were telling the truth, she should give him a wide berth. But she in all likelihood, she wouldn't.
I hate the broncos too, but since you brought up the fact- your chargers (if they make the post season) will be one and done!
Yea, the court system goes really light on football players.
Uhmmm, if they arrested him chances are they had probably cause. Like I don't know, a bruise or something.
But maybe she slapped herself before boiling his bunny in the pot.
Wow…This never happens. Those prison football teams must sport some amazing talent.
nokoolaidcowboy says:Dec 21, 2010 7:28 AM Uhmmm, if they arrested him chances are they had probably cause. Like I don't know, a bruise or something.
I'm not a lawyer and I don't live in Colorado, but my understanding is that most (if not all) states require one or both parties of a domestic disturbance to be arrested, no probable cause is necessary. Just a simple accusation is usually good enough to get someone (usually the male half) locked up for the night.
I'm not saying he's innocent, but saying he's guilty would be equally irresponsible at this stage. Unless he has prior arrests for assault and/or unless there are photos or witness accounts, he is entitled to his presumption of innocence.
borisbulldog says:Dec 21, 2010 1:25 AM nataly?
A) What is your point? Do you have A.D.H.D.? Take your medication and try to stay on point.
B) I happen to agree with you that my Chargers will likely NOT make the playoffs, and if they do, they likely won't get far. Teams like the Patriots, Ravens and Steelers are too good for us.
C) Rivers has been a starter for fewer than 4 full seasons (he's in his 6th year, but backed-up a starting Drew Brees for his first 2) so claiming that he will never win a championship is a bit obtuse and nearsighted. Besides, comparing him to a championship-less Dan Fours might be more apropos. Either way, I'm sure he wouldn't mind mirroring either man's career. It's earned him 100 million so far.


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While multi-arm bandit algorithms go beyond classic A/B/n testing, conveying a large number of algorithms to tackle different problems, all for the sake of achieving the best results possible, they can also become contextual. With the help of a relevant user data stream, contextual bandits for website optimization rely on an incoming stream of user context data, either historical or fresh, which can be used to make better algorithmic decisions in real time.
While the classic approach requires manual intervention once a statistically significant winner is found, bandit algorithms learn as you test, ensuring dynamic allocation of traffic for each variation. Contextual bandit algorithms change the population exposed to each variation to maximize variation performance, so there isn't a single winning variation. Similarly, there isn't even a single losing variation. At the core of it all is the notion that each person may react differently to different content. For example, a classic A/B test for promotional content from a fashion retail site that consists of 80% female customers would come up with the false conclusion that the best performing content would be promotions only targeted for females, although 20% of customers expect to have promotions targeted to males.


On the west side of downtown Indianapolis, just before the sprawl of IUPUI, sits a $50 million temple to amateurism. That's the headquarters of the NCAA, the national organization that tries to keep the "college" in college sports.
Last year proved to be a particularly tough one for that mission. Much of the news surrounding college sports tilted toward scandal—like when Yahoo! Sports revealed how the University of Miami's football team was running around with prostitutes and involved with a Ponzi scheme. When it wasn't a scandal, it was a high-minded attack on the NCAA itself. In The Atlantic, Taylor Branch, a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, called the organization "a classic cartel." America remains the only country to yoke higher education and big-time sports, and Branch documented how far some had gone to make this lucrative marriage work and to "exploit" young athletes.
And that would mean a future with no NCAA. What does Emmert see for the organization 10 years down the line? "My full expectation is that we'll be more vibrant than ever," he says, promising less emphasis on arcane regulations. That's good news for Indy, which benefits from NCAA jobs, its tourist-friendly Hall of Champions, and its stream of local events. But it's bad news for student-athletes. You don't have to buy everything Branch is selling to see that the reason students can't hold a job is because being an athlete is a job—just not one they get paid for.
The money is going somewhere, though. Later this spring, the NCAA will open a $35 million expansion to its downtown headquarters.


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Dissimilar friction stir welding (DFSW) is the application of friction stir welding (FSW), invented in The Welding Institute (TWI) in 1991, to join different base metals including aluminum, copper, steel, titanium, magnesium and other materials. It is based on solid state welding that means there is no melting. DFSW is based on a frictional heat generated by a simple tool in order to soften the materials and stir them together using both tool rotational and tool traverse movements. In the beginning, it is mainly used for joining of aluminum base metals due to existence of solidification defects in joining them by fusion welding methods such as porosity along with thick Intermetallic compounds. DFSW is taken into account as an efficient method to join dissimilar materials in the last decade. There are many advantages for DFSW in compare with other welding methods including low-cost, user-friendly, and easy operation procedure resulting in enormous usages of friction stir welding for dissimilar joints. Welding tool, base materials, backing plate (fixture), and a milling machine are required materials and equipment for DFSW. On the other hand, other welding methods, such as Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) typically need highly professional operator as well as quite expensive equipment.

Principle of operation

The mechanism of DFSW is very simple. A rotating tool plunges into the interface of parent metals, and heat input generated by the friction between the tool shoulder surface and top surface of the base metals lead to softening of the base materials. In other words, the rotational movement of the tool mixes and stirs the parent metals and create a softened pasty mixture. Afterwards, the tool's traverse movement along the interface creates a joint. This results in a final bond that combines both mechanical and metallurgical bonding at the interface. These two bondings are critical in order to achieve proper mechanical properties. Butt and lap designs are the most common joint types in dissimilar friction stir welding (DFSW). Likewise, one material is generally harder than the other. In general, hard and soft materials are placed in advancing and retreating sides respectively during welding.

Tool Geometry

Tool configuration is an important factor to achieve a sound joint. The tool consists of two parts including tool shoulder and tool pin, as shown in below figure. The tool shoulder generates frictional heat, while the tool pin stirs the softened materials. Various pin and shoulder configurations may be used for DFSW. "Cylindrical", "rectangular", "triangular" and "threaded-cylindrical" are the most common tool pin profiles, while "featureless" and "scrolled" are the most common tool shoulder configurations. Tool material selection is dependent on the base materials to be joined. For example, for aluminum/copper joints, hot working alloy steel is generally used, while for harder metals such as titanium/aluminum joints, tungsten carbide is common.

Welding Parameters

In DFSW, mechanical properties mainly include tensile strength, hardness, yield strength, elongation. Selecting optimum welding parameters results in achieving proper mechanical properties of the joint. Tool rotational speed (rpm), tool traverse speed (mm/min), tool tilt angle (degree), tool offset (mm), tool penetration (mm), and tool geometry are most important welding parameters in DFSW. The tool center is typically placed in the centerline of the joint for similar joints such as aluminum/aluminium or copper/copper joints; in contrast, it is shifted towards the softer materials in DFSW called tool offset. It is a significant factor to achieve a joint possessing smaller welding defect and higher mechanical properties. Generally, harder and softer materials are placed in Advancing Side (AS) and Retreating Side (RT) respectively. Regardless of the tool geometry, which plays a critical role on final mechanical and metallurgical properties of the weldment, the effect of the tool rotational speed and tool offset are taken into account as the most important welding parameters during DFSW.

Heat Generation

A non-consumable rotating tool is plunged into the interface of parent materials. Frictional heat arisen from the tool shoulder throughout welding plasticizes the parent materials leading to local plastic deformation of the parent materials. Localized heat generated by the tool results from following process. At the initial stage, it is primarily arisen from frictional heat between the plunged pin and parent materials. Afterwards, it is mainly produced by the frictional heat between the shoulder surface and the top-surface of base metals once the shoulder touched the top-surface. Subsequently, the softened materials are stirred together by the rotating pin resulting in a solid-state bond. Frigaard et al. showed that tool rotational speed and tool shoulder diameters are the main contributing factors in heat generation.

Material Flow

The mechanism of bonding in DFSW is based on two simple concepts. First, stirred materials, a mixture flow of soft and hard metals, is forged into the interface of harder material leading to strong mechanical bond at the interface. Furthermore, a complementary metallurgical bond is formed at the interface enhancing and improving mechanical properties of the joint. Materials flow throughout DFSW depends on various parameters including welding process parameters, tool geometry, and base materials. Tool geometry is the most important factor in achieving appropriate material flow.

Defects

Occurrence of welding defects in DFSW are quite common. Welding defects in DFSW include tunneling defect, fragment defect, crack, void, surface cavity or grooves and excessive flash formation. Amongst these, tunneling defect is the most common defect in DFSW resulting from improper material flows throughout welding. It is mainly attributed to inappropriate selection of welding parameters particularly welding speed, rotational speed, tool design and tool penetration leading to either abnormal stirring or insufficient heat input. Formation of coarse fragments of harder materials within the matrix of softer materials is another typical defect observed only in DFSW. Generally, during DFSW, the paste materials behave like a metal matrix composite such that harder and softer materials act as the matrix and the reinforcement respectively. In fact, it is quite important to keep the harder material in relatively small size in order to achieve the best flow of materials. Therefore, any factors that cause formation of large piece of harder material lead to appearance of fragment defects. Tool offset and tool pin design were taken into account as the most significant contributing factors in formation of fragment defect in DFSW. They were accounted for disturbing the flow of material resulting from the formation of large pieces of harder material within the matrix of softer material due to the fact that it is quite difficult to stir and mix paste materials when one of them is not relatively fine. In addition, fragment defects usually accompany with other defects such as voids and cracks.

Typical Characteristics

DFSW shows various characteristics in terms of hardness distribution, tensile strength, microstructure, formation of intermetallic compounds as well as formation of a composite structure within the stir zone. The majority of the dissimilar joints fabricated by FSW demonstrate similar results.

Hardness

Since the base materials have different mechanical properties, the hardness distribution is not homogeneous which can be attributed to two different reasons. First, different mechanical properties of base materials including the hardness causes inhomogeneity in the weldments. Second, different microstructure and grain size of the welding zones including stir zone, TMAZ, and HAZ result in various hardness. Moreover, the hardness in the nugget zone or stir zone is very inhomogenous because of the formation of onion ring (composite structure ) and IMCs. As a result, dissimilar joints shows inhomogenous distribution in the nugget zone or stir zone.

Microstructure

Four different welding zones including Stir Zone (SZ) or nugget zone, Thermo-Mechanical Affected Zone (TMAZ), Heat affected zone (HAZ) and Base Metals (BM) are typically observed in dissimilar joints made by FSW. Microstructure of the weldment demonstrates a remarkable grain refinement in the stir zone along with elongation of the grains in the TMAZ. Intensive plastic deformation risen up by tool action, rotational and traverse movements, account for the notable grain refinement in the stir zone. Moreover, HAZ presents relatively coarser grain that can be attributed to lower cooling rate in comparison with other welding areas. Some phenomena are typical in dissimilar friction stir welding including formation of Intermetallic Compounds (IMCs) and appearance of a Composite-like Structure (CS) appeared in various patterns specifically onion rings shown in below figure. IMCs and CS enhance mechanical behavior of the joints depending their conditions such as the thickness of IMCs as well as distribution pattern of composite-like structure. Proper selection of welding parameters optimizes formation of IMCs and CS resulting in the highest mechanical properties. As pointed out before, rotational speed, welding speed, and tool offset along with tool pin are the most important factors affecting on mechanical and metallurgical properties during DFSW. Unlike conventional fusion welding methods that are accompanied with substantially thick interfacial IMCs, forming an interfacial metallurgical bond during DFSW is essential to achieve a sound joint. However, it should be kept at optimum condition to enhance and improve mechanical properties i.e. it should be thin, uniform and contentious.

IMCs

IMCs are another typical phenomenon in DFSW. There existed some criteria for IMCs in order to achieve a sound joint including thickness, uniformity and continuity. The most common type of IMCs appeared in aluminum/copper joint are Al4Cu9, Al2Cu3, Al2Cu. Interface and surrounding edge of the particles dispersed in the nugget zone are two main places IMCs formed. Likewise, depending the size of the particles of harder material which dispersed in the matrix of softer material, coarse particles partially transform to IMCs mostly around the outer edge of the particles, while fine particles completely transform to IMCs. It is worth noting that the average thickness of IMCs are less than 2 micrometer. Therefore, those particles that are below than 2 micrometer are completely transform to IMCs resulting in enhancing mechanical properties of the nugget zone.

Tensile Strength

Another important characteristic in DFSW is the final tensile strength. The majority of dissimilar weldments presented similar trend in tensile strength. There are two different materials in DFSW. One is softer than the other. For example, in aluminum to copper joint, aluminum is softer than copper. What would be the tensile strength of the joint? Is it more than both? Is it less than both? What is the requirement for the sound joint? The answer is that tensile strength of the joints in DFSW are a fraction of the tensile strength of the softer material. Therefore, the final tensile strength of the weldments are usually less than tensile strength of both materials, however, in order to be acceptable in the industry, it is usually more than 70 percent of the tensile strength of the softer material. Fracture behavior of the tensile specimens shows that majority of the joints failed at the interface along with a brittle fracture. It can be attributed to IMCs developed at the interface. Although, it could successfully improve tensile strength, but the specimens showed brittle fracture which is one of the existing challenge in dissimilar joints fabricated by FSW.

Formation of composite structure

Due to the fact that there are two different materials in DFSW; formation of a composite structure within the nugget zone is inevitable. Typically, it appears in the forming of onion ring in the nugget zone or stir zone of the softer matrix as shown in below figure. That is, fine particle of the material in the advancing side (harder material) disperse throughout the stir zone of the retreating material (Softer material). That is the main reason regarding the inhomogeneous hardness distribution in the stir zone.

Challenge

FSW can be efficient method to be used in order to join dissimilar materials and the outcome in terms of tensile strength, shear strength, and hardness distribution are promising. However, most of the joints fractured at interface. Moreover, even those that have been ruptured in the base metals showed brittle behavior i.e. low elongation which can be attributed to formation of IMCs. There must a balance between tensile strength and ductility of the weldments in order to safely use dissimilar weldments in industrial applications.  In other words, proper ductility and toughness are required for some industrial applications since they should possess proper resistivity against impact and shock loading. The majority of the fabricated weldments are not sufficiently strong to be used for such applications.  Therefore, it is worthwhile to focus current and future works on improving toughness of the weldments along with keeping tensile strength in a proper value.

References

Welding
Friction
Friction stir welding

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A rift in the space-time continuum freezes the Enterprise and a Romulan warbird in battle... or so it looks to Picard, Data, Troi and LaForge from the outside. When they dig a little deeper, they find all that timey-wimey stuff may not be exactly as it seems. Plus, the Enterprise blows up real good. Timescape goes into the Mission Log.
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He's been gone for 15 centuries, but Kahless, the spiritual leader of the Klingons is back! He's ready to lead his people back to peace and glory, and he wants Worf's help to do it. Only he might not be Kahless, and Worf might be seriously questioning his own faith along the way. Rightful Heir is up next in the Mission Log.
Dr. Reyga, a Ferengi scientist, has invented a type of shielding which could allow a spacecraft to safely enter a star's corona. Testing it on board one of the Enterprise's shuttles leaves a fellow scientist dead followed shortly by Reyga himself. It's up to Dr. Crusher to solve the mysterious deaths and possibly save herself from a court martial. This week, we put Suspicions in the Mission Log.
On this supplemental edition of Mission Log, John and Ken formally introduce you to Women at Warp and Priority One - founding members of the Roddenberry Podcast Network. Plus everybody goes to the Disco, which Ken INSISTS is short for Discovery. Members of all three podcasts discuss the trailer for Star Trek Discovery. All of that and listener feedback, too!


To the country home of the designer Ashley Hicks we turn. For who else but the son of the great decorator David Hicks could we possibly ask for advice on navigating the modern home with stylish aplomb? Also starring his equally chic wife Kata, their two Italian greyhounds and LG's beautiful, intuitive new Signature range of products. Sit back and enjoy The Englishman's Guide to Modern Living.


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In tonight's Grand Finale the three finalists will battle it out in the ultimate Ludus style course to be crowned winner of School of Training. (FINAL)
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Tonight, the remaining four contestants will take their first class with a few special personas thrown in and the results are surprising.
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In tonight's Grand Finale, the remaining contestants have a chance to punish Joe and the boys, but to be crowned the champion they must first get through the infamous Ludus 300 set.


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Check out the Cleveland Cinematheque May/June 2015 schedule
[Press release from the Cleveland Cinematheque.]
An eclectic mix of film classics, exclusive first-run movies, and thematic series will fill the screen in May and June at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. Three filmmakers are the focus of series during the two months: Taiwan's Hou Hsiao-hsien, Argentina's Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, and Hollywood's Fritz Lang. Forty-nine different feature films will be presented between April 30 and June 27, and all of them will show in CIA's Aitken Auditorium at 11141 East Boulevard in University Circle. (The Cinematheque has only three more months in this 616-seat theater that has been its home since 1986. On August 1, the program moves to a brand new facility at 11610 Euclid Avenue.) The complete May-June schedule is below.
Unless noted, admission to Cinematheque films is $9; members, CIA I.D. holders, and those age 25 & under $7. A second film on the same day costs an additional $7-$8. Free parking for filmgoers is available in the CIA lot. For further information, visit www.cia.edu/cinematheque, email cinema@cia.edu, or call John Ewing or Tim Harry at (216) 421-7450. Cinematheque programs are supported by Cuyahoga Arts and Culture and the Ohio Arts Council.
APRIL 30 – MAY 3
Thursday, April 30, at 6:45 pm &
Friday, May 1, at 9:35 pm
THE HUNTING GROUND
USA, 2015, Kirby Dick
The provocative new documentary from the director of This Film Is Not Yet Rated and The Invisible War is an exposé of the epidemic of sexual assaults and rape on U.S. college campuses. It also delves into the institutional cover-up of many of these crimes. "Heartbreaking, infuriating, and unmissable." –Entertainment Weekly. Cleveland theatrical premiere. Blu-ray. 90 min. www.thehuntinggroundfilm.com/
ABOUT ELLY
DARBAREYE ELLY
Iran/France, 2009, Asghar Farhadi
The multiple prize winner that Iranian master Asghar Farhadi made just before his Oscar-winning A Separation (2011) was never released in the U.S. Golshifteh Farahani stars in this taut tale of a fateful seaside holiday that is spoiled when one of the vacationers, a young woman, mysteriously disappears. Best Narrative Feature, 2009 Tribeca Film Festival. "A milestone in Iranian cinema." –Int'l Film Guild 2010. Subtitles. Blu-ray. 119 min. www.cinemaguild.com
See 4/30 at 6:45 for description
Saturday, May 2, at 5:00 pm
The Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien
A SUMMER AT GRANDPA'S
DONG DONG DE JIA QI
Taiwan, 1984, Hou Hsiao-hsien
In this lovely, lyrical idyll, two children from Taipei—a 12-year-old boy and his younger sister—spend the summer at their grandfather's house in the country when their mother is hospitalized. "[Hou's] sunniest picture…His most Ozu-like film." –Alan Stanbrook. Subtitles. 35mm. 93 min. Preceded at showtime by Hou's two most recent movies, both shorts: The Electric Princess Picture House (Dian Ji Guan, France, 2007), a tribute to Robert Bresson from the anthology film Chacun son cinema (shown in two versions, 3 min. & 4 min.) and La Belle Epoque (Taiwan, 2011, 5 min.), Hou's contribution to the omnibus film 10+10. Special admission $12; members, CIA I.D. holders, and those age 25 & under $9; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.
THE IRISH PUB
Ireland, 2013, Alex Fegan
This new documentary celebrates what its makers call "the greatest institution in Irish society"—the pub. The movie profiles not only the venerable watering holes renowned for the warmth, wit, and wisdom of their habitués but also for the barkeeps and families who own and operate them, often for generations. Some subtitles. Blu-ray. 76 min. irishpubfilm.com
Saturday, May 2, at 8:45 pm &
Sunday, May 3, at 6:30 pm
BECOMING BULLETPROOF
USA, 2014, Michael Barnett
Winner of the Roxanne T. Mueller Award for best film at this year's Cleveland Int'l Film Festival, this exhilarating and touching new documentary focuses on a group of people with disabilities who take major acting roles in an independently produced Western being filmed on vintage Hollywood locations. Blu-ray. 80 min. www.becomingbulletproofmovie.com
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PAY 2 PLAY: DEMOCRACY'S HIGH STAKES
USA, 2014, John Wellington Ennis
Ohio's 2005 "Coingate" scandal is one of the cases explored in this new film about the corrosive effects of money in politics. (Also covered: the Citizens United and Hobby Lobby cases, the Koch brothers, etc.) California filmmaker John Wellington Ellis, who will answer audience questions after the screening, shows us how to take back our democracy. With Lawrence Lessig, Noam Chomsky, Jack Abramoff, Robert Reich, et al. Cleveland theatrical premiere. Blu-ray. 87 min. Thanks to David Olajos. www.pay2play.tv
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MARFA GIRL
USA, 2012, Larry Clark
The lyrical new film from the director of Kids and Bully is a snapshot of life in the desolate West Texas town of Marfa, where a 16-year-old boy enamored of drugs, sex, and skateboarding interacts with a gallery of colorful locals—from his mom and girlfriend to a racist Border Patrol officer and the uninhibited artist of the film's title. "Weirdly memorable." –The L.A. Times. Adults only! Cleveland theatrical premiere. Blu-ray. 105 min. bgpics.com
MAY 7-11
Thursday, May 7, at 6:45 pm &
UK, 2014, Peter Strickland
Peter Strickland, who paid tribute to Italian horror films of the 1960s and 1970s in his 2012 thriller Berberian Sound Studio, now evokes the 60s-70s Eurotic costume dramas of Tinto Brass, Jean Rollin, and Jess Franco with his kinky and stylish new movie. The Duke of Burgundy chronicles the sadomasochistic relationship between two lesbian entomologists during what seems to be the Victorian era. Has a 93% "fresh" rating on RottenTomatoes and a Metascore of 87 on metacrtic.com. No one under 18 admitted! Blu-ray. 106 min. www.ifcfilms.com/films/the-duke-of-burgundy
USA/Germany, 2014, Marjane Satrapi
French-Iranian director Marjane Satrapi follows up her imaginative Chicken with Plums (2011) and animated hit Persepolis (2007)—both based on her graphic novels—with this outrageous, live-action horror comedy. Ryan Reynolds plays a lonely, sweetly goofy, small town factory worker who lives with his talking cat and dog and moonlights as a schizophrenic serial killer. With Gemma Arterton, Anna Kendrick, and Jacki Weaver. "A perfect film." –Village Voice. Adults only! Cleveland theatrical premiere. Blu-ray. 103 min.
THE BOYS FROM FENGKUEI
FENG GUI LAI DE REN
Hou Hsiao-hsien regards his fourth feature as his personal favorite and the true beginning of his directorial career. It follows a group of bored young Taiwanese men, fresh out of school, who leave their sleepy fishing village for a series of adventures in a southern port city. Subtitles. 35mm. 99 min. Special admission $12; members, CIA I.D. holders, and those age 25 & under $9; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.
Sunday, May 10, at 8:40 pm
HROSS Í OSS
Iceland/Germany/Norway, 2013, Benedikt Erlingsson
One of the most pleasant surprises at last year's Cleveland Int'l Film Festival was this handsomely shot, mordantly funny, and sometimes unflinching portrait of horses and humans living in a scenic, provincial Icelandic village. It consists of six quirky vignettes of love, death, and survival—some which you'll never forget. "Spellbinding...Extraordinary scenes of equestrians and high-strung animals interacting in the stunningly beautiful Icelandic countryside." –The NY Times. Adults only! Subtitles. 81 min. www.musicboxfilms.com
Israel/France, 2013, Eytan Fox
The latest film from the director of Yossi & Jagger and The Bubble is an effervescent musical comedy about a group of Tel Aviv friends who find themselves representing Israel in an international singing competition after they impulsively perform and record a song on a cell phone. "[A] candy-coated confection…Irresistible." –The NY Times. Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. Blu-ray. 92 min. www.strandreleasing.com
FUTURO BEACH
Brazil/Germany, 2014, Karim Ainouz
In this sensuous gay drama, a Brazilian lifeguard forsakes his ailing mother and dependent kid brother to follow a German tourist back to Berlin and move in with him there. "Stunning…Exhilarating…Part tactile gay romance, part inquisitive journey into self." –Variety. No one under 18 admitted! Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. Blu-ray. 106 min. www.strandreleasing.com
Monday, May 11, at 6:45 pm
A Special Event!
Dalai Lama Double Feature!
DALAI LAMA AWAKENING
USA, 2014, Khashyar Darvich
Two films about the Dalai Lama directed by Baldwin Wallace alum Khashyar Darvich, who will answer audience questions at the screening. The first is a newly expanded version of Darvich's 2007 documentary Dalai Lama Renaissance, in which Western innovators travel to India to meet with the Dalai Lama about solving the world's problems and undergo an inner transformation. Harrison Ford narrates. In Compassion in Action these revolutionary thinkers and the Dalai Lama explore the sources of happiness and unhappiness in our world. Cleveland premiere. Blu-ray. Total approx. 210 min. Special admission $20; members, CIA I.D. holders, and those age 25 & under $15; no passes, twofers, or radio winners. Advance tickets available at www.brownpapertickets.com. Dalailamafilm.com
Thursday, May 14, at 6:45 pm
Manoel de Oliveira, 1908-2015
BELLE TOUJOURS
Portugal/France, 2006, Manoel de Oliveira
Tonight we pay tribute to the uncanny Portuguese master Manoel de Oliveira, who died in April at the age of 106, after a stellar directorial career that began in earnest when he was in his mid-sixties. We will show two of his best movies: one made when he was 97, the other when he was 101. The first is a follow-up to Luis Buñuel's 1967 classic Belle de Jour. 38 years after the events of the first movie, Séverine, the daytime prostitute originally played by Catherine Deneuve and embodied here by Bulle Ogier, and Husson (Michel Piccoli in both movies), the sadistic libertine who knew of her secret life, meet by chance in Paris. They go to dinner and the repentant Séverine tries to learn whether the cruel Husson ever told her paralytic husband about her scandalous day job. This elegant, autumnal work is at once a wry tribute to Buñuel, a moving evocation of the passage of time, and a knowing acknowledgement of the eternal mysteries of the human psyche. Subtitles. 35mm. 68 min.
THE STRANGE CASE OF ANGELICA
O ESTRANHO CASA DE ANGÉLICA
Portugal/Spain/France/Brazil, 2010, Manoel de Oliveira
Called the best film of 2010 by J. Hoberman in The Village Voice, this delightful movie by Portugal's late centenarian master tells of a loner photographer who is summoned one rainy night to take a picture of the recently-deceased daughter of a wealthy couple. But when he looks at this beautiful young woman, laid out in her wedding dress, through his viewfinder, she comes alive and smiles for him. Immediately smitten, he retreats from the land of the living to try to join her in the netherworld beyond. Subtitles. 35mm. 97 min.
Friday, May 15, at 7:30 pm &
LA SAPIENZA
France/Italy, 2014, Eugène Green
A prominent French architect undergoing a personal and professional crisis travels with his equally disenchanted wife to Italy, where they find solace and spiritual renewal thanks to two siblings there and a rejuvenating dose of great Italian architecture. This stylish drama from the American-born French director of The Portuguese Nun is "easily the most astonishing and important movie to emerge from France in quite some time," according to critic Godfrey Cheshire of RogerEbert.com. "While its style deserves to be called stunningly original and rapturously beautiful, the film is boldest in its artistic and philosophical implications…[It's] an impassioned and genuinely innovative argument for the coherence and value of life and the redemptive powers of art…Like Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty of two years ago and Pawel Pawlikowski's Ida last year, La Sapienza evokes masterpieces of decades past while confidently charting new territory of its own." Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. Blu-ray. 101 min. www.kinolorber.com
Friday, May 15, at 9:35 pm
TAXI ZUM KLO
W. Germany, 1980, Frank Ripploh
Hailed by The Village Voice as "the first masterpiece of modern gay life" when released 35 years ago, this landmark gay drama is now largely forgotten. Writer-director Frank Ripploh also stars in the semiautobiographical film, playing a Berlin man leading a double life. By day he's an ordinary elementary school teacher; at night he cruises for anonymous sex in public toilets. (The title translates as "Taxi to the John.") No one under 18 admitted! Subtitles. Blu-ray. 98 min.
Saturday, May 16, at 5:00 pm
A TIME TO LIVE AND A TIME TO DIE
TONGNIAN WANGSHI
Hou's sixth feature was his U.S. breakthrough—an exquisite, semiautobiographical coming-of-age saga depicting the daily life of a Chinese family living in Taiwan during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Cut off from their cultural heritage after emigrating from the Chinese mainland in the late forties, this displaced family struggles to find new footing in a new land while also dealing with a widening generation gap within the household. "Hou's first genuine masterpiece." –Phillip Lopate. Subtitles. 35mm. 136 min. Special admission $12; members, CIA I.D. holders, and those age 25 & under $9; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.
Saturday, May 16, at 7:40 pm &
DELI MAN
USA, 2014, Erik Greenberg Anjou
This mouthwatering history of Jewish delicatessens in America is also a chronicle of Eastern European Jews who emigrated to North America and assimilated into U.S. society, bringing food traditions with them. With Ziggy Gruber, Larry King, and Jerry Stiller. "Good food and good cheer are the order of the day." –San Francisco Chronicle. Cleveland premiere. Blu-ray. 90 min. www.delimanmovie.com
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THE NIGHT PORTER
IL PORTIERE DI NOTTE
Italy, 1974, Liliana Cavani
Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling star in one of the most controversial films of the 1970s. Set 13 years after the end of WWII, the movie tells of an ex-Nazi SS officer and a beautiful former concentration camp prisoner who meet again by chance at the posh Vienna hotel where he now works. The two of them resume an ambiguous and disturbing sadomasochistic relationship that began in the camp. No one under 18 admitted! Cleveland revival premiere. In English. Blu-ray. 118 min. See 5/23 for a newly released WWII-era film directed by Liliana Cavani.
MAEDCHEN IN UNIFORM (GIRLS IN UNIFORM)
MÄDCHEN IN UNIFORM
Germany, 1931, Leontine Sagan, Carl Froelich
Banned in Germany when first released (and censored in many countries since then), this all-female lesbian classic, an early talkie, tells of a sensitive orphan girl sent to a harsh Prussian boarding school where discipline and blind obedience, exemplified by the school's authoritarian principal, are the norm. She finds relief in a relationship with a loving, tender teacher whose affections aren't merely maternal. Subtitles. 16mm. 89 min.
Australia, 2013, Sophie Hyde
Though a far cry from Boyhood's 12 years, this debut feature was filmed every Tuesday for one year. A multiple award winner at festivals around the world, the film chronicles the challenging, strained relationship between a 16-year-old girl and her lesbian mother who is undergoing a sex change. The teen, who lives with her dad, is discovering her own sexuality at the same time that mom is altering hers, and the two of them see each other only on Tuesday afternoons. "[A] near-masterpiece…Grippingly plotted and exquisitely thoughtful." –Village Voice. Blu-ray. 109 min. www.kinolorber.com
USA, 2014, Michael Almereyda
Ethan Hawke, Ed Harris, and Milla Jovovich star in this new film that reimagines Shakespeare's drama of power and thwarted love as a contemporary urban crime thriller (and sometimes comedy) involving bikers and corrupt cops. Director Michael Almereyda previously updated Hamlet with Ethan Hawke. "Brash and inventive and more than a little wild." –Village Voice. Cleveland premiere. Blu-ray. 98 min.
Italy/France, 1981, Liliana Cavani
Marcello Mastroianni, Burt Lancaster, and Claudia Cardinale star in this lavish, sensationalist WWII drama from the director of The Night Porter (see 5/16). Never before released in America and based on a controversial memoir by oft-imprisoned Italian writer and war correspondent Curzio Malaparte, the film details the American "liberation" of Naples in 1943, emphasizing that freedom came with a heavy price, especially for women who continued to be sexually degraded and exploited by a new set of occupiers. The film pits the innocence of the Americans against the more jaded outlook of beleaguered Italians struggling to survive. Co-written by Catherine Breillat. "Caustic in dramatizing the dance of the victors and vanquished…Evokes a circle of hell." –J. Hoberman, The NY Times. Adults only! Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. Blu-ray. 131 min. www.cohenmedia.net/films/the-skin
Special Free Screening!
Richard Suchenski discusses
THE PUPPETMASTER
HSIMENG RENSHENG
Richard Suchenski, director of the Center for Moving Image Arts at Bard College and organizer of the international touring retrospective "Also Like Life: The Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien," introduces and discusses one of Hou's most celebrated works. Inspired by the life of Taiwanese puppeteer Li Tien-lu, an official "national treasure" who appeared in Hou's previous films City of Sadness and Dust in the Wind and was 84 when this movie was made (he died in 1998), The Puppetmaster intercuts Li's first-person recollections with dramatic reenactments of episodes from his turbulent life. This seamless, multi-layered narrative transports us back to Li's childhood during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, to his days on the road with a troupe of traveling puppeteers, to his censorship battles with political authorities, and to his ongoing struggles with poverty and traditional family life. There are also memorable puppet performances. Subtitles. 35mm. 142 min. Admission free.
100th Anniversary!
Dr. Rob Shelton introduces
THE BIRTH OF A NATION
USA, 1915, D. W. Griffith
"History writ with lightning" is what President Woodrow Wilson allegedly called D.W. Griffith's galvanizing Civil War epic, which follows the members of two families—one pro-Union, the other pro-Confederacy—during the war and Reconstruction. "Lightning" is an apt description because the film consolidated all the artistic advances of the young movie medium into one sweeping, electrifying showcase. But its claims as "history" are dubious at best. Based on Thomas Dixon's novel The Clansman, the movie, hugely controversial even when first released, is undeniably racist in its depiction of African Americans and portrays the Ku Klux Klan as a defender of law and order. Dr. Robert S. Shelton, Associate Professor of History at Cleveland State University and an expert on slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction, will introduce the movie and put it into its proper context. With Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, and Henry B. Walthall. Color-tinted b&w. Silent with recorded music. Blu-ray. 192 min. Special admission $11; members, CIA I.D. holders, and those age 25 & under $9; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.
World War I + 100
USA, 1932, Frank Borzage
Neglected master Frank Borzage, whose 1933 romance Man's Castle proved an audience favorite when we showed it in February, directed this Pre-Code version of Hemingway's famous novel, about the love between an ambulance driver (Gary Cooper) and an English nurse (Helen Hayes) in Italy during WWI. This Oscar-winning classic saw its original ending changed for the U.S. release. Then in 1938 it was reissued shorn of 11 minutes. However, we will show an HD version of the original movie that Borzage intended. Blu-ray. 89 min.
New 35mm Color Print!
FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI
HAI SHANG HUA
Acclaimed by numerous critics as the best movie of 1998, Hou's celebrated film focuses on the denizens of an upper-class brothel in turn-of-the-century Shanghai. Bathed in golden light and fluidly shot in the brothel's interiors, this serene, haunting portrait perfectly captures the lonely, obsessive, enclosed lives of five elegant "flower girls" and their regular patrons. With Tony Leung. "(A) visually ravishing masterpiece…Flowers of Shanghai is perfect, and one of the most beautiful films ever made." –Phillip Lopate. Subtitles. 113 min. Special admission $12; members and CIA I.D. holders $9; no passes, twofers, or radio winners and no second film discount.
THAT GUY DICK MILLER
USA, 2014, Elijah Drenner
You may not know the name, but Dick Miller's face will be instantly recognizable to most movie buffs. Miller's handsome-goofy presence enlivened numerous Roger Corman cheapies during the 1950s and 1960s (most notably The Little Shop of Horrors and A Bucket of Blood) and he has also been a fixture in most of the films by Corman alum Joe Dante. (He's also worked with Scorsese, Spielberg, and James Cameron during his 50-year career.) Now this veteran character actor who has played over 170 roles (five of them were Walter Paisley) gets his own movie full of interviews and fun film clips. "Wildly entertaining." –RogerEbert.com. Cleveland premiere. Blu-ray. 92 min. www.thatguydickmiller.com
Friday, June 5, at 7:00 pm
USA, 2014, Julia Marchese
The New Beverly Cinema, a Los Angeles revival movie theatre that has been showing daily double features of old 35mm films since 1978, is profiled in this new documentary by former employee Julia Marchese. The New Bev advocates that classic films should be seen theatrically and also projected from 35mm film. Owned, operated, and programmed by Sherman Torgan from 1978 until his sudden death (at age 63) in 2007, the cinema is now owned and programmed by Quentin Tarantino, who actively embraces its all-35 policy. Marchese's film pays tribute to the loyal patrons of the New Bev (which include directors and actors like John Landis, Joe Dante, Kevin Smith, and Patton Oswalt) while also describing the digital-age realities that threaten the existence of all 35mm repertory cinemas. Cleveland premiere. 35mm. 86 min. outofprintfilm.com
LA ÚLTIMA PELÍCULA
Mexico/Denmark/Canada/Philippines, 2013, Raya Martin, Mark Peranson
A snarky, satirical riff on Dennis Hopper's indulgent, shot-in-Peru 1971 fiasco The Last Movie (though this movie's title more accurately translates as "The Last Film"), this mock-doc by a Filipino filmmaker and the editor of Canada's film magazine CinemaScope takes place in the year of the predicted Mayan apocalypse. Indie filmmaker Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up Philip) plays an insufferable American director scouting locations around Mexico's Mayan ruins. Sensing that the death of cinema is as imminent as the end of the world, he plans to make a visionary, mystical, and spiritual cinematic masterpiece using the world's last existing 35mm film stock. Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. 35mm. 88 min.
Saturday, June 6, at 5:00 pm
The Films of Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
END OF INNOCENCE
aka THE HOUSE OF THE ANGEL
LA CASA DEL ÁNGEL
Argentina, 1957, Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
In this haunting and visually stunning drama, a sheltered young Argentine girl (Elsa Daniel), growing up in a repressive upper middle-class Catholic household during the 1920s, suffers a disastrous first love affair. Screenplay by Beatriz Guido. "This claustrophobic Gothic drama put [Torre Nilsson]—and Argentina—on the cinematic map." –Holt Foreign Film Guide. Subtitles. 16mm. 73 min. Three other forgotten classics by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, all written by Beatriz Guido, will show over the next three Saturdays.
Technicolor Centenary, 1915-2015
Restored 35mm Archive Print!
USA, 1935, Rouben Mamoulian
Incorporated in 1915, the Technicolor company marks its centennial this year. We commemorate the occasion with a special screening of the first feature film shot in three-strip Technicolor (full color), Becky Sharp, based on William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair. Miriam Hopkins stars as the title character, a cunning, amoral, lower-class young woman who engineers a rapid rise through 19th-century European society. "Marvellous…Sophisticated, witty, and beautifully economical…The colour is supremely important." –Time Out Film Guide. 35mm restored print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Restoration funding provided by The Film Foundation. 84 min. Special admission $11; members and CIA I.D. holders $9; age 25 & under $7; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.
QIAN XI MAN BO
Taiwan/France, 2001, Hou Hsiao-hsien
Chinese pop star Shu Qi plays a bar hostess torn between two men—her possessive live-in boyfriend and a small-time gangster who offers her refuge and the promise of love—in Hou's portrait of life in contemporary Taipei. If the urban milieu and techno soundtrack are new for Hou, the deliberate pacing, formal rigor, gorgeous cinematography (by Ping Bin Lee, who also shot In the Mood for Love), and trance-like mood recall his previous masterpiece, Flowers of Shanghai. Subtitles. 35mm. 119 min. Special admission $12; members, CIA I.D. holders, and those age 25 & under $9; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.
Friday, June 12, at 7:00 pm
INTIMATE LIGHTING
INTIMNÍ OSVĔTLENÍ
Czechoslovakia, 1965, Ivan Passer
This masterpiece of the Czech New Wave was the only Czech feature of Ivan Passer, who co-wrote Milos Forman's Loves of a Blonde and The Firemen's Ball before emigrating with him to the U.S. and becoming a Hollywood director. The movie is a funny, rueful account of a professional cellist from Prague who agrees to be the soloist in a provincial orchestra conducted by an old Conservatory friend he hasn't seen for years. Their reunion finds big city ambitions clashing with small town ways. "A moving, sympathetically directed study of belonging, place, and the pleasures of friendship…Wistful, gently comic, and affecting." –Time Out Film Guide. Subtitles. 35mm. 72 min.
ZUI HAO DE SHI GUANG
Hou tells three love stories set in three different eras of Taiwanese/Chinese history, and Chang Chen and Shu Qi play the lovers in all three episodes. The first, "A Time for Love," is set in pop-music-filled 1966 and overflows with youthful yearning. It tells of a young army recruit who becomes smitten with a young woman working in a billiard parlor. "A Time for Freedom" is an artistically daring period romance set in 1911 at an upscale brothel reminiscent of the one in Hou's Flowers of Shanghai. The third story, "A Time for Youth," is set in present-day Taipei, where a singer abandons her female lover for a young male photographer. "[A] masterpiece…The first section is one of the most perfect pieces of cinema I've ever seen." –Jim Jarmusch. "A masterpiece…This is why cinema exists." –A.O. Scott, The NY Times. Subtitles. 35mm. 130 min. Special admission $12; members, CIA I.D. holders, and those age 25 & under $9; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.
Saturday, June 13, at 5:00 pm
LA CAIDA
A repressed, virginal, Catholic university student from the provinces (Elsa Daniel) takes a room at a creepy Buenos Aires boarding house, where she helps a bed-ridden mother care for her four independent, amoral children. The experience proves mind-expanding, but not in a good way. "The director evokes with great force and conviction the film's enclosed world with its strongly Cocteauesque overtones." –Peter Cowie. Subtitles. 35mm. 86 min.
Special Benefit Screening!
Germany/France/UK, 2011, Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire, The Buena Vista Social Club) celebrates the groundbreaking work of his friend and fellow German Pina Bausch (1940-2009), a modern dancer and choreographer. This magnificent, Oscar-nominated movie captures Bausch and members of her company performing some of their most celebrated works both on stage and around the German city of Wuppertal, home of Bausch's dance theatre since 1972. Shown in 2D. Subtitles. 35mm. 103 min. Screening courtesy of IFC Films; proceeds from this show will help pay for the costs of installing digital cinema in our new theatre.
THE WHITE REINDEER
VALKOINEN PEURA
Finland, 1952, Erik Blomberg
This hauntingly photographed Finnish fantasy is a vampire movie like no other. (It won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film over 50 years ago.) Set in Finnish Lapland and based on an ancient legend, the movie follows a herdsman's lonely wife who is transformed by a shaman into a shape-shifting, vampiric white reindeer. This cursed creature wanders the snowfields of the Midnight Sun, luring hunters to their deaths. Subtitles. 35mm. 75 min.
FLIGHT OF THE RED BALLOON
LE VOYAGE DU BALLON ROUGE
France/Taiwan, 2007, Hou Hsiao-hsien
Juliette Binoche stars in the first Hou Hsiao-hsien film made outside of Asia. Produced by the Musée d'Orsay, it's one of the director's most rapturous works. Inspired by Albert Lamorisse's 1956 kids' classic The Red Balloon, Hou's movie tells of a Taiwanese film student in Paris who is hired by a frazzled single mom (Binoche) to be nanny to her seven-year-old son. "A meditation on art, life, loneliness and the links between friends and strangers." –Philadelphia Inquirer. "A movie of genius." –J. Hoberman, Village Voice. Subtitles. 35mm. 115 min. Special admission $12; members, CIA I.D. holders, and those age 25 & under $9; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.
NOTHING LASTS FOREVER
USA, 1984, Tom Schiller
So strange and unclassifiable that it was never released theatrically, this 1980s sci-fi comedy written and directed by longtime Saturday Night Live writer and filmmaker Tom Schiller (and produced by Lorne Michaels) stars Zach Galligan, Lauren Tom, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Mort Sahl, among others. Set in a surreal future where the iron-fisted Port Authority controls NYC, the film follows an aspiring artist who goes to work in the Holland Tunnel, discovers a society of powerful bums and tramps living underground, and takes a bus to the moon. Old newsreels, classic film clips, and assorted celebrity cameos add to the comic craziness. Cleveland theatrical premiere. 35mm. 82 min. Special admission $10; members, CIA I.D. holders, and those age 25 & under $8; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.
THE HAND IN THE TRAP
LA MANO EN LA TRAMPA
Argentina/Spain, 1961, Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
In what may be Leopoldo Torre Nilsson's greatest film, a convent schoolgirl (Elsa Daniel), home for the summer, decides that she wants to meet the mysterious recluse who has been living in solitary confinement on the third floor of her spooky, seen-better-days house for more than 20 years. The shocking truth ensnares her as well. With Francisco Rabal. Subtitles. 16mm. 90 min.
New 35mm Scope Print!
MARKETA LAZAROVÁ
Czechoslovakia, 1967, František Vláčil
Voted the best Czech movie of all time in a 1998 poll of Czech film critics, this stirring medieval epic, set at the time that Christianity replaced paganism, chronicles a kidnapping that ignites a feud between two rival clans. "Pure cinema…Stark, daring and often astoundingly dynamic…Near hallucinatory…Not so much a drama as an ancient litany—mystical and feral rather than spiritual or religious." –Time Out Film Guide. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. 162 min. Special admission $11; members, CIA I.D. holders, and those age 25 & under $9; no passes, twofers, or radio winners. Support for this film comes from the Cinematheque's George Gund III endowment.
Lang Noir
USA, 1944, Fritz Lang
In "one of the best of Fritz Lang's American movies" (Pauline Kael), a criminology professor (Edward G. Robinson) falls hard for a woman (Joan Bennett) pictured in a painting, and soon he's involved in murder and blackmail. This clever, nightmarish thriller is "not merely a dazzling piece of suspense, but also a characteristically stark demonstration of Lang's belief in the inevitability of fate" (Time Out Film Guide). With Dan Duryea. 35mm. 99 min. Special admission $10; members, CIA I.D. holders, and those age 25 & under $8; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.
SCARLET STREET
Fritz Lang's follow-up to The Woman in the Window (see previous blurb) also starred Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, and Dan Duryea. It's a remake of Jean Renoir's 1931 La Chienne in which a meek, put-upon husband and Sunday painter becomes criminally involved with a tart who models for him and with her lowlife boyfriend. This movie was originally banned in New York State for being "immoral, indecent, corrupt, and tending to incite crime." Whoa! 35mm print preserved by the Library of Congress. 103 min. Special admission $10; members, CIA I.D. holders, and those age 25 & under $8; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.
SUMMERSKIN
PIEL DE VERANO
This Torre Nilsson tale of moral corruption forsakes the creepy confines of dilapidated mansions for the sun, sea, and sand of the summertime beach. There a young girl pretends to love a sick boy in order to help his recovery. "Visually shows Torre Nilsson at his brilliant best." –Int'l Film Guide 1967. Subtitles. 16mm. 96 min.
New 35mm Print!
Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, and Lee Marvin star in Fritz Lang's brutal, shocking police drama, about a clean cop who turns unrelenting avenger in his attempt to bring down a corrupt crime syndicate. "A definitive film noir." –Pauline Kael. 90 min. Special admission $10; members, CIA I.D. holders, and those age 25 & under $8; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.
WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS
Fritz Lang believed that this rarely shown thriller was as good as his earlier masterpieces M and Fury. It follows three greedy, ambitious newspaper men who each try to catch a serial sex murderer before the police do, thus winning the position of executive editor at their paper. With Dana Andrews, Ida Lupino, George Sanders, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, et al. 35mm scope print! 100 min. Special admission $10; members, CIA I.D. holders, and those age 25 & under $8; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.
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Spent last night at SOAS in London for a green careers evening organised by Positive Change and People Unlimited. Quite entertaining if a little long. There was a wide range of speakers including Blanche Cameron of Reset Development who included a picture of me at the green roofs event we organised earlier in the summer as part of her presentation. Always a little disturbing to see yourself unexpectedly on the screen but at least I wasn't yawning in the picture. Most of the speakers agreed that volunteering was the best way to get yourself a green career, good advice to those starting out not sure I want to carry on volunteering until I have a bigger income coming in though. One thing all the speakers had in common was a tremendous enthusiasm for their jobs. Caroline Scott of Islington Council was particularly keen and started by picking up on other presenters negativity to Local Councils generating much laughter and applause. The final speaker from Worldview Impact, Bremley was particularly inspiring with his rubber tree plantations and pursuit of his dream.


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Photos Of The Week #33
Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 33rd week of 2018. For more photo galleries, see our Picture This archive.
1 A woman walks with a cow in a field during a foggy morning near the village of Loshany, Belarus. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)
2 People ride a motorcycle past damaged buildings in the old town of Homs, Syria. (AP/Sergei Grits)
3 A humpback whale breaches the surface of the Pacific Ocean at the Uramba Bahia Malaga national park in Colombia. (AFP/Miguel Medina)
4 A girl poses for a photo on a giant waterlily leaf in Taipei, Taiwan. (Reuters/Tyrone Siu)
5 Afghan men look out of a window near the site of a suicide bomb blast in Kabul on August 15. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)
6 Muslim hajj pilgrims visit Hiraa cave at Jabal al-Nour during the annual pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on August 15. (epa-EFE/Mohammed Saber)
7 Zhao Deli waves as he pilots his self-made "flying scooter" in Guangdong Province, China. (epa-EFE)
8 People are showered with confetti during a traditional holy procession in the Spanish village of Betera on August 15. (epa-EFE/Biel Alino)
9 A Pakistani man holds a sacrificial animal on sale at a market ahead of Eid al-Adha celebrations in Peshawar on August 15. (epa-EFE/Bilawal Arbab)
10 A Pakistani man on a tuk-tuk motorcycle leads a camel he bought for the upcoming Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday in Peshawar on August 15. (AP/Muhammad Sajjad)
11 The Morandi Bridge in the Italian port city of Genoa, part of which collapsed on August 14, killing scores of people. (Reuters/Stefano Rellandini)
12 Pakistani children pose for a photograph while celebrating the country's 71st Independence Day in Karachi on August 14. (Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)
13 U.S. President Donald Trump on a visit to a U.S. Army facility in Fort Drum, New York, on August 13. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)
14 A man jumps into a lake near the town of Gjakova, Kosovo. (AFP/Armend Nimani)
15 A lone protester holds his plastic trumpet while resting on the pavement during the fourth day of anticorruption protests in Bucharest, Romania, on August 13. (epa-EFE/Robert Ghement)
16 Police officers use pepper spray to disperse counterdemonstrators during a white nationalist-led rally in Charlottesville, Washington, on August 12. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson)
17 A Belarusian wedding in Minsk. (RFE/RL/Uladz Hrydzin)
18 KOSOVO -- Anarita Mihilli, is being held by her mother as she kisses the gold plated cross in the church of the Black Madonna, during the feast of Assumption in the village of Letnica, Kosovo, Saturday, Aug. 15, 2018.