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Brief Introduction For Understanding Other More Detailed Links The discovery and recording of systemic corruption and a long history of tragic consequences is the product of perseverance by former federal agent Rodney Stich and his coalition of professionals: former intelligence, law enforcement, and aviation safety personnel and other insiders. Their concern about the harmful consequences, especially the horror associated with a long list of forewarned and preventable aviation disasters, the harm upon the American public, upon individuals, upon national security, and the harm done to people of other countries, motivated them to continue while being subjected to great harm. Hundreds of supporting pages are at www.defraudingamerica.com site providing more details and documentation. The central figure in this saga, who continued to persevere the longest, was Rodney Stich, who has had a most unusual background. The sequence of discoveries by federal agent Rodney Stich was generally as follows: Discovery of arrogance, corruption, incompetence, and nonfeasance that resulted in a multitude of aviation disasters during the period from 1950 to 1985, when such disasters occurred sometimes every few months. That misconduct was in certain segments of the government's agency primarily responsible for preventing aviation crashes, including terrorist attacks: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The corruption arising from cover-up of major high-level corruption, that consisted of covering up for the corruption in the FAA that allowed it to continue—along with the brutal consequences of such horrific events. The evidence available of such cover-up involved the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB); members of Congress; federal judges; Department of Justice employees; media personnel and media corporations lawyers. Under federal criminal statutes, including Title 18 U.S.C. § 4, the federal crime reporting statute, it is a criminal offense for anyone who knows of a federal crime to fail to report it to proper authorities who are not themselves involved in the crimes. Among the actions taken by Stich, starting while a federal agent, after encountering the standard cover-up in government, included acting as an independent prosecutor; appearing before a federal grand jury to circumvent cover-ups by Department of Justice officials; reporting the corruption to members of Congress; publishing the first in a series of books in 1978; appearing as guest and expert on hundreds of radio and TV shows. Encountering widespread public indifference, these unprecedented whistleblower actions resulted in the start of a continuing number of former professionals in government providing him with information on the high-level corruption that they discovered of key people in overt and covert government operations. This valuable source of information on corruption in government came from former intelligence, law enforcement personnel, and aviation safety personnel, along with former drug smugglers working for CIA assets, and former Mafia figures. Their information covered multiple areas of corruption that directly and indirectly caused or enabled to occur great harm to people, the nation, and national security. With this information, Stich then: Circumvented the systemic cover-ups that continue to keep this serious information from the American public by the following actions: Published books documenting the information that he was receiving. Filed federal actions seeking to report the serious conduct and harmful consequences to a federal judge under the mandatory requirement of the federal crime reporting statute and the citizens right—and responsibility—to do so. Under that statute, any federal judge, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, had the mandatory responsibility under their administrative duties to receive information of a federal crime from anyone who seeks to make such report. Failure to do so would be a crime under such offenses as obstruction of justice or aiding and abetting, or becoming an accessory before or after the fact. And also be complicit in any subsequent harm resulting from the underlying corruption. Worst High-Level Scandal of Any Modern Nation After exercising the right to report the corrupt activities to federal judges, a series of retaliatory and obstruction of justice tactics were taken that when viewed together showed that a powerful force was orchestrating and protected the participants that came from the most important and fundamental sections of government and the legal fraternity. IF understood, it would reveal probably the most expansive criminal conspiracy involving primary parties in any modern nation today. The following are a sampling of what was done and what is fully documented: Dozens of federal judges repeatedly blocked the reporting of the serious criminal activities associated with major national consequences. These were criminal acts and enabled to occur deadly and catastrophic consequences, of which the 9/11 hijackings were simply one-day's consequences among others. Federal district and appellate judges issues illegal and unconstitutional orders permanently barring the former federal agent and whistleblower from filing any papers in any federal district or appellate court. Those orders knowingly barred him and his coalition of other former government agents from reporting the conduct constituting crimes against the United States and also barred Stich from defending against the litany of sham lawsuits filed by a hoard of lawyers from 1982 to 2005. Several criminal contempt of court charges were filed against the former federal agent by federal judges and Department of Justice personnel for having attempted to report the corrupt activities involving people in the CIA, the Department of Justice, and the FAA. Federal judges denied Stich the constitutional right to a jury trial, and sentenced him to six months in federal prison. That sentence was carried out using every possible brutal tactic, includ8ing placing him in solitary confinement for two months, a condition that some call torture and unconstitutional. He was 69 years of age at that time and had recently undergone quadruple open heart surgery. Upon the day of his release, two federal judges in San Francisco, Marilyn Petal and Vaughn Walker, charged him again with criminal contempt of court for having sought to report the high-level corruption, and he was briefly incarcerated, after which he was confined to six months of house arrest. While in prison, federal judges and Department of Justice trustees, with the participation of cooperating lawyers, seized and liquidated the $10 million in assets that had funded his exposing whistleblower activities. That seizure and liquidation violated the legal and constitutional requirement of a notice of hearing, a hearing, and legally required cause. When Stich filed a legally provided objection, Oakland federal judge Edward Jellen charged him with criminal contempt of court and sentenced him again to prison. There Were Consequences—Many!— to This Version of Human Rights as Practiced in the United States! Sampling of Early Consequences Progression of Consequences These few examples of the horrors associated with airline disasters enabled to occur by documented corruption withheld from the American people. The standard culture of cover-ups in the United States enabled the corruption, cover-ups, to mutate into different areas. In the aviation area, although the continuing series of airline disasters eventually came to a halt for other reasons, the culture continued, and enabled to occur a number of easily preventable airline disasters. The inbred culture created the conditions that enabled four groups of terrorists to easily hijack four airliners within a few hours of each other and kill nearly 3,000 people. One of Over 200 Victims Choosing This Way to Die— Made Possible by Many Enablers in United States Victims of Less Catastrophic Events There were many other forms of victims from the systemic high-level corruption. These included for instance victims of the: Department of Justice prosecutorial misconduct, people being falsely charges with crimes in order to improve the prosecutors' career. The explosion of violent crime related to drug smuggling into the United States, in which CIA assets were major players. Series of financial frauds appearing every few years, with the latest housing and financial implosions surfacing in 2008. Seizure of assets from innocent people. These offenses are described in the books written by insiders. Harm to People Overseas From High-Level Corruption in the United States In addition to the decades of harm resulting from the systemic corruption of key people and groups in the U.S. government, affecting aviation safety, financial, human rights, in the United States, there is the harm from outside sources brought about by the actions of U.S. politicians affecting people in other countries—such as the history of invading and killing foreigners—there are the successful "terrorist" attacks made possible by high-level corruption, and then there are the foreigners who are also victims from the same high-level corruption that adversely affects the American, but in a different form. Remains of a girl—about the age of the 9-year-old Killed in Tucson in January 2011. In criminal law, people are accomplices, and guilty, if they know of a criminal act and fail to report it to proper authorities and also to take efforts within their capability to halt their continuation. And there are endless numbers of accomplices that are complicit in these crimes and enablers of the consequences. Harm to the American public in non-violent areas. Harm to people of other countries. Harm to the few people in the United States fighting the high-level corruption in a meaningful manner. Harm in general. Suggestion to people outside the United States. Become familiar with the documented systemic corruption in the United States and show the outrage lacking of people in the United States, and: Help expose the endemic corruption that seem to be acceptable to the American people, and maybe wake them up. Help to protect yourselves against the decades of ham inflicted upon people of other countries by the actions of U.S. politicians—supported by much of the American public. Examples: Serial lying by U.S. politicians to use as a pretense to invade Iraq and Afghanistan, killing tens of thousands of innocent people. U.S. politicians shifting enabling blame from their own corrupt actions that encouraged and enabled four groups of terrorists to simultaneously hijack four airliners, and shift the blame to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan—with the help of a dumbed-down American public that is mostly too lazy to learn the truth. Details of the Corruption As Discovered by Former Federal Agent The information about many areas of corruption described at this site and in the related books was obtained in the following order: As a key hands-on federal airline safety inspector-investigator in the 1960s, following many years as an airline captain in international operations and earlier as a Navy Patrol Plane Commander, Rodney Stich was asked to volunteer to correct the conditions that at that time were responsible for the worst series of airline disasters in the nation's history. In this position he discovered areas of arrogance and corruption at a certain major airline, and within the higher levels of the government's two aviation safety offices: the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and in the political segment of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Despite the continuing series of airline disasters, many seemingly occurring every few months, attempts to report and correct these matters were blocked. Members of Congress, Department of Justice officials, all became complicit in covering up for the deadly misconduct. Recognizing that it would probably be the end of his career, but concerned over the enormous harm resulting from the continuing airline crashes, Stich started to fight the corruption. Due to the cover-ups, retaliation, and continued discovery of other corruption inflicting great harm upon the American people, those efforts will continue until Stich is in his grave. Within the FAA, Stich used the law in such a manner that he acted similar to an independent prosecutor. Hearings before an administrator law judge lasted for several months, similar to the procedures used in criminal trials. During these proceedings Stich subpoenaed and elicited testimony from FAA management, introduced into the trial transcript official documents to support his charges that specific corruption caused or enabled to occur a series of specific airline disasters. Several of these crashes occurred in his immediate area of federal airline safety responsibilities. Further, during the hearings, three more major airline disasters occurred, each crash due to the very same safety problems and criminal violations that Stich had repeatedly reported, for which he suffered retaliation. In his closing brief, Stich warned of the consequences of a cover-up. The standard cover-up did occur, as is standard in government offices. The same corrupt culture that Stich sought to expose continued, and the resulting airline crashes continued to occur, with an even greater loss of life due to the larger size of subsequent aircraft. Since Stich had the evidence to show why the crashes and even greater number of people killed were occurring, he then started a seemingly endless series of tactics to bring an end to the never-ending tragedies. Since Stich encountered the standard cover-up by his many letters to Congress, his letters to the Department of Justice, to media people, he exercised rights and responsibilities under federal law, and filed lawsuits, first in the federal courts at San Francisco. Two of these initial lawsuits were against the Federal Aviation Administration and one was against the National Transportation safety board. Federal Statute for Reporting Corruption in Government The federal statutes providing a mandatory responsibility for federal judges included the following: Federal crime reporting statute, Title 18 U.S.C. § 4. That statute requires that anyone who knows of a federal crime must promptly report it to a federal judge or other federal officer. Members of Congress, Department of Justice officials, and other agencies that Stich contacted, fell under that responsibility. But they all blocked the reports. Stich felt that by reporting the federal crimes related to a series of specific airline disasters would force attention to be focused on the serious matters. A federal judge must receive the information of a federal crime as part of the judge's mandatory administrative duties. To block such reports would be a criminal act under various obstruction of justice statutes. Federal statute, Title 28 U.S.C. § 1361 provides that anyone can file a federal action seeking an order to force a federal official to carry out his mandatory duties and to halt unlawful conduct. A federal judge is required to provide an honest hearing and to issue such an order if the evidence warrants it. Obstruction of Justice by Political U.S. Department of Justice Employees In every instance, U.S. attorneys promptly filed motions to block the reports, which carried out their earlier actions to block the information from being made public while Stich was a federal agent in the FAA. Their earlier obstruction of justice made possible the continuation of the criminal and corrupt activities, and enabled to occur many airline crashes and many deaths. Department of Justice officials had a self-interest in preventing Stich's exposure of the criminal activities. In every case, federal judges−most of whom were former federal prosecutors−reacted by blocking the reporting of the criminal activities, thereby violating the federal crime reporting statute, and blocked presentation of evidence seeking to obtain a court order−thereby violating numerous procedural due process rights. These judicial obstruction of justice acts insured that the corrupt and criminal acts would continue−which they did−along with a continuing series of major airline disasters. (The frequent occurrence of preventable airline disasters continued for approximately 20 years, after which other factors eventually greatly reduced the frequency of airline disasters. However, preventable airline disasters did occasionally occur, the most publicized being the easily preventable hijackings of four airliners on 9/11−though the resulting ripple effects were not publicized nor recognized.) By this time, Stich remained active in aviation safety (Society of Air Safety Investigators, Lawyer Pilots Bar Association, and active pilot of his own twin-engine aircraft). The continuing crashes motivated Stich to try another tactic: publishing a book on the politics of airline safety. Circumventing Repeated Cover-Ups By Going to the People (Dreamer) The first book was published in 1978, just as the world's worst air disaster occurred, a PSA Boeing 727 that crashed into San Diego, taking the world record from the United Airlines DC-8 crash into New York City in 1960. (Ironically, the misconduct of key people at United Airlines that resulted in that great tragedy assisted in the continuation of the misconduct in the FAA that would enable to occur the hijacking of two United Airlines aircraft on September 11, 2001. That relationship would be clear after a thorough reading and understanding of the contents of the book, Unfriendly Skies: 20th & 21st Centuries, which is the fourth edition of the original Unfriendly Skies.) Concurrent with the publication of the first edition of Unfriendly Skies, Stich started appearing on hundreds of radio and television shows throughout the United States. His appearances resulted in several conditions: Other government agents and insiders started contacting Stich with information of corruption of people in key overt and covert government operations. These areas went far beyond the aviation arena, and provided the material for a series of other books on what Stich euphemistically called government intrigue. More accurately, major corrupt and criminal acts inflicting great harm upon important national issues, including national security. These areas are detailed in the books that Stich subsequently wrote. Another reaction to the book and the radio-TV shows was that powerful people were now exposed as involved in either the initial criminal acts or the cover-up of them. These included federal judges and Justice Department officials, both of whom had vast raw power to inflict great harm upon any targeted individual. And as Stich would discover over the years, the power to control state prosecutors, state judges, and lawyers. Having left the FAA, Stich worked for a period of time for Flying Tigers Airline, having sole responsibility for preparing the pilot operating procedure for the stretched DC-8 aircraft that the airline had on order. During this time, Stich became a real estate investor, building or upgrading a 60-unit motel in Yuba City, California; a truck stop; a golf course, and over 100 apartment units in Northern California. It was these assets that funded Stich's exposure activities, which involved publishing non-profit books, using his twin-engine aircraft to fly to distant radio and television appearances. During several of these appearances, talk show hosts asked Stich if he weren't worried about what may be done to him. Stich replied, "As long as they can't take my assets, I'm OK." That statement may have given people at risk for what Stich was doing an idea. Sham Lawsuits: 1982 to 2005, By Hoard of Lawyers Knowingly Hindering Exposure of High-Level Corruption Starting in 1982, the vast powers of lawyers and law firms affiliated with the CIA and FBI, and state and federal judges, was directed against Stich. The action started with a sham lawsuit filed by the San Francisco law firm of Friedman, Sloan and Ross, and their lawyers, and over a dozen California judges. That law firm and its lawyers were fronts for the CIA and FBI, as Stich would later learn. Dozens of state and federal laws were repeatedly violated by the California judges assisting the CIA-FBI-front law firms. During this time, as Stich discovered, both personally and from his large number of inside sources, corrupt and criminal activities of people in other areas of overt and covert activities. Again and again, Stich exercised the same federal statutes to report the federal offenses to federal judges, and several times went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. If the crimes were not inflicting the major harm subverting major national interests, and adversely affecting so many people,. Stich might have given up. But the gravity of the offenses and the harm resulting from them caused him to continue. Maybe, tilting at windmills in light of the extent of the corruption. By this time, it became necessary for every subsequent federal judge confronted with the serious charges to continue both the obstruction of justice tactics and the massive violations of due process. Federal judges, in unison with Department of Justice personnel, from 1984 to 2003, continued the same obstruction of justice that they had done when Stich sought to report the federal offenses related to a series of airline disasters, and worse. For instance: To block Stich from reporting the federal crimes, over half a dozen federal judges issued unlawful and unconstitutional orders barring Stich for the remainder of his life from filing any papers in any federal district or appellate court. These orders still exist, making Stich a literal man without a country as it relates to the protections of the laws and Constitution of the United States. The orders also prevented Stich from exercising the federal protections against the ongoing massive civil and constitutional violations in the California courts that involved the CIA-FBI-front law firms and cooperating California judges. Contempt of Court Charges for Reporting Corruption Related to Major National Tragedies When Stich did attempt to report corrupt and criminal activities related to the corruption that he had discovered, initially as a federal aviation safety inspector-investigator, federal prosecutor David Levi in Sacramento, California, in unison with several federal judges (Milton Schwartz, Raul Ramirez, John Moulds) charged Stich with criminal contempt of court. Stich was being charged with criminal contempt of court for attempting to report−as required by the federal crime reporting statute−such criminal activities as: The ongoing corruption in the government's aviation safety offices (and at United Airlines) that had already resulted in many specific airline disasters and would later enable to occur such other aviation disasters as the hijackings of four airliners on September 11, 2001, that killed nearly 3,000 people. The criminal activities that he later detailed and documented in the books, Defrauding America and Drugging America (among others). Kangaroo Court Trial Conducted by Parties Implicated in the Corruption And Repeated National Tragedies The combination of Justice Department and judicial corruption denied him a jury trial, and then sentenced him to six months in federal prison. He entered prison shortly after recovering from multiple-bypass open heart surgery, at the age of 64. Sacramento lawyer Joel Pegg, who was paid over $30,000 to represent Stich, sabotaged his contempt-of-court defenses. It is important to remember that the contempt of court tactics, and the seizure of the assets that funded his exposure activities, were important links in continuing the corruption that enabled to occur the hijacking of four airliners on 9/11, killing 3,000 people, with multiple financial, personal, and national security consequences thereafter. These ripple effects might be of some interest to the American public obsessed with trivia! While in prison, federal judges, assisted by Department of Justice trustee Charles Duck (later sent to prison) issued unlawful and unconstitutional orders, without a hearing, that seized and eventually stripped Stich of the $10 million in assets that funded his exposure activities. Las Vegas lawyer Joshua Landish, who was paid over $15,000 to defend Stich against the seizure of his assets, encouraged Las Vegas Judge Robert Jones to seize and liquidate the assets without Stich's knowledge. In every case, including the initial block to reporting the crash-related corruption, Stich filed appeals and petitions for writ of certiorari to the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court throughout this 20-year period. The Justices were fully aware of the gravity of the acts perpetrated by federal judges over whom they had supervisory responsibilities. This implicated Supreme Court justices in the criminal activities since they also had a responsibility under the federal crime reporting statute and also under their supervisory responsibilities over the federal judges perpetrating the repeated obstructions of justice. The only Justice that even acknowledged the problems was U.S. Supreme Court Justice Bryan White in a letter that he sent to Stich. (Adobe PDF) The gravity of these documented matters cannot be underestimated: major crimes were committed by people in key government positions, literally Trojan horse subversive activities! Eventually, 11 years after seizing Stich's assets (which are now worth about $17 million), Stich was converted from a multi-millionaire to a pauper stage, at the age of 74, done with the help of dozens of lawyers, law firms, California judges, and federal judges. And done while members of Congress and Department of Justice personnel looked on! Those legal actions inflicted a continuing series of financial and personal harms on a daily basis, from 1982 to 1999. These actions then started again with sham actions by lawyers, law firms, and state judges in South Carolina, and then by lawyers and law firms in the Los Angeles area, and by a continuation of California judges. To this date, various actions using lawyers and judges are attempting to halt Stich's attempts to make the vast amount of information known to the American people. (What they fail to realize is that virtually nothing will motivate the American people unless it affects some trivial pacifiers with which they are obsessed!) The Documented Corruption by Enablers To Some of the Nation's Worst Tragedies The main issues here are not what was done to someone seeking to protect the United States and its people from a hoard of corrupt people in and out of government. The main issues are these: Corruption involving employees in the government's aviation safety offices. Corruption involving employees in the political U.S. Department of Justice. Corruption involving federal judges. Hoard of lawyers sophisticated to where they recognized the consequences of their corrupt conduct. Another related link. 9/11 enablers. Comparison of blame for the conditions making it easy for 19 terrorists to hijack four airliners on September 11, 2001. History of cover-ups (i.e., obstruction of justice) by members of Congress. History of cover-ups by media people and media corporations. Most of the American people who remain blissfully indifference to this information, despite being repeatedly victimized. Federal Judges' Repeated Obstruction Of Justice Acts Were Criminal The years of cover-ups and retaliation by federal judges were felonies under numerous federal statutes. The retaliation by federal judges and Justice Department lawyers were felonies under Title 18 U.S.C. §§ 35, 111, 241, 242, 245(b)(1)(B), 246, 371, 1341, 1343, 1503, 1505, 1512, 1513(b), and 1515(a). Other criminal offenses arose from the many forms of obstruction of justice tactics: Title 18 U.S.C. §§ 2, 3, and 4, 34, 1621, 2001. Additional statutes involved: Title 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331, 1343, 1361. Capital Crimes When Felonies Result in Deaths When people are killed as a result of corrupt actions, the statute of limitations never expires. That means that all of the people involved in seeking to halt Stich's exposure of criminal activities that remained uncorrected as a result of their acts, would be guilty of contributing to the deaths of people that were enabled to occur by their conduct. They can therefore be charged with murder in the deaths that occurred. Think what the ramifications would be of that! If the same standards that are used to charge people with murder who didn't actually perpetrate the act but whose misconduct enabled the murders to occur, many hundreds of people identified at this site and in the related books could be charged with hundreds of murders. A Secret World Unknown To the American People The heavily documented information at this site, including the hundreds of years of experience by a coalition of former government agents and insiders reveals a world that is virtually unknown to the American people. This site, the work of a former federal agent, seeks to present factual information about a very complex series of corrupt activities that continue to threaten everyone, and for some, inflict great and irreparable harm, even death. The activities detailed here, obtained from dozens of former government agents and other insiders, show decades of great harm perpetrated either directly, or by ripple effects, not only upon people in the United States, but throughout the world. Any, and all, of the books show how the American public is similar to a feeding trough, for those in control of certain segments of government and non-government entities feed in one form or another on an uninformed, gullible, or apathetic people. The tragedy-related events described here and detailed in the books continue to spread like cancer throughout the United States. And tragically, completely off the public's radar screen, knowledge, or awareness. Among the reasons why most Americans are uninformed of these matters is due to such matters as: Culture of cover-up by bribe-taking members of Congress. Culture of cover-up by employees in control of the political U.S. Department of Justice. Culture of cover-up by media people and media corporations in the United States. Americans, who are either (a) mentally unable to comprehend these matters; (b) those who are too lazy to read anything except mundane trivia matters; (c) those who lack the courage and integrity to show outrage, especially when it takes effort. American Public As A Feeding Trough Possibly a good way to look at the decades of lying to the American people and the repeated infliction of great harm affecting them is to think of the public as a "feeding trough" for special interests to feed upon. U.S. Public's Gullibility Compared To Germans During Adolf Hitler's Reign Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892-1984), of Germany, first supported the rise of Adolf Hitler, and then upon learning the truth, and objecting, he was imprisoned. He later wrote a poem about the state of denial of Germans about what Hitler was doing. Probably no better example could be shown than what has been done to the American people, in their name, while they lazily ignored the outrages, some of which are detailed in this book, and many more in related books The people didn't protest when they came for the Jews; nor when they came for the Catholics; nor when they came for the Protestants. And when they came for those who didn't protest, there wasn't anyone left to protest. Hundreds of letters from government insiders, including this writer, had been sent to members of Congress over the years, that required action instead of cover-ups that made possible many of America's great tragedies. History of great American aviation disasters caused by corruption, enabled by cover-ups and attacks upon "whistleblowers," and further assisted by public ignorance and apathy. Sampling of Books Written by Insiders On Endemic Corruption in the United States All of the books are available at amazon.com, in print and on the Kindle, and at many other Internet sites. They bring together the various pieces of the puzzle to better understand the overall picture, and why the same conditions continue year after year. Information on the books by former government agent Rodney Stich Sampling of early books reviews Sampling of complimentary letters/faxes to author/activist Rodney Stich. More information about these books by clicking here. Request Help From Foreign Citizens and Sources This is a request for help from people outside the United States. For years, much of this information has been provided to the American public, with no reaction. What is needed, and apparently not available in the United States, are people capable of becoming outraged, that are not obsessed with trivia as in the United States. Maybe the United States could use some of the protesters in Tunisia or Egypt to provide the courageous outrage that is shown in other countries. If foreign media would help publicize what U.S. media has for years kept from the American people, possibly foreign sources can provide the relief for the easily duped American and address the combination of systemic corruption, systemic cover-ups, and an endless series of harm to people in and out of the United States Return to: www.defraudingamerica.com www.unfriendlyskies.com www.druggingamerica.com www.defraudingamericablog.com www.transoceanairlines.com
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Schoolchildren gathered at FEZ-Berlin, a youth and family leisure and learning centre in Berlin, Germany, were recently treated to a TV show unlike any other they will have seen before. For the hour-long show, 3-D TV images were broadcast to Berlin live from ESA's Erasmus Centre, in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
Gathered in the space learning department at FEZ-Berlin, the children wore special glasses to convert the TV images into a full 3-D TV experience. During the live link-up between Noordwijk and Berlin, they heard all about the peculiarities of living and working on the International Space Station (ISS).
Against the backdrop of a full-scale model of the European Columbus laboratory, the two presenters used a variety of models and props to help explain how German ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter will travel to the Station onboard a Space Shuttle later this year and complete a six to seven-month stay on the Station.
Third dimension
"Since we cannot all travel into Space, we try to bring the Space Station down to Earth. The 3-D broadcast is a way to get as close as possible to life onboard," explained Dieter Isakeit, Head of the Erasmus Centre, and one of the presenters of the broadcast. "The third dimension helps us to explain how the Station works – the viewer can see all the details and gets a more complete impression of what it is like on board."
To describe how the astronauts work, eat and drink in space, the show's setting moved to a life-sized replica of the Russian Zvezda laboratory, which is also the Station's main module. Seated behind the module's dining table, the presenters told the audience in Berlin what type of food the astronauts eat on the Station and that they rarely have any fresh fruit and vegetables.
Making a link to the upcoming World Cup football, for which Berlin will host several matches, a falling football was used to graphically illustrate that microgravity is created by nothing other than free-fall. The International Space Station falls around the Earth, and that is why everything on board is floating in mid-air.
The pupils also learnt about some of ESA's other human spaceflight activities through specially prepared 3-D film clips - one actually shot in weightlessness during an ESA parabolic flight campaign on board the Airbus A300 'Zero-G' aircraft, and another of Jules Vernes, the first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), during testing at ESA's test facility.
Unlike a regular TV-show watched from the comfort of their living room, there was also an opportunity for the children to put their questions to the presenters. What are ESA's plans for the future? Has ESA found life on other planets? Can we send robots into space instead of humans?
At the close of the live broadcast Monica Brandis, project manager for the "Orbital" space centre at FEZ-Berlin, thanked ESA on behalf of the children for being able to take part. "We could see everything in great detail," she said. "We have all learnt a lot. It was a perfect mixture of information and entertainment." The 3-D television transmission also marked the official opening of the exhibition on the Astrolab mission of ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter at FEZ-Berlin. The exhibition will last until September.
The history of live 3-D broadcasting at ESA dates back to 2001 when the Erasmus Centre produced its first live transmission. During that broadcast from Noordwijk ESA astronaut Ulf Merbold explained the features of the Columbus laboratory to the participants of the ISS Forum 2001 in Berlin. This was a European premiere for 3-D television live transmission.
3-D material
Since then, the Erasmus Centre has flown a 3-D photo camera to the ISS. With the help of ESA astronauts who have flown to the Station, the Centre now has an extensive archive of spectacular 3-D still images illustrating life onboard. A 3-D video camera is currently under qualification for flight to the Station. Thomas Reiter will use the camera during his upcoming mission. These 3-D videos will later be available for presentation to the public.
For more information contact:
Dieter Isakeit
Erasmus Centre
Directorate of Human Spaceflight, Microgravity and Exploration Programmes
Noordwijk (The Netherlands)
Tel: +31 71 565 5451
Fax: +31 71 565 8008
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Since relocating from the United Kingdom, Peter Roberts has made his mark in New Zealand as an editor. Roberts found his editing niche at TVNZ, before a prolific freelance career saw him cutting a string of documentaries, shorts, and features — including award-winning drama The Dark Horse. In 2013 he became the first editor to be elected President of the Directors and Editors Guild of New Zealand.
...I hated getting up early for set, and I suddenly realised that editors work gentleman's hours. Peter Roberts on how he first found his vocation, in his ScreenTalk interview with NZ On Screen
Movie Vermilion follows composer Darcy (Jennifer Ward-Lealand) over a summer month, as her daughter prepares to marry. Darcy sees colours when she plays musical notes, but after seeing the colour vermilion she is prompted to secretly make her own plans. The exploration of motherhood, family and female friendship marks the feature debut of director Dorthe Scheffmann (Cannes-selected 1995 short film The Beach). The ensemble cast includes Theresa Healey, Goretti Chadwick (Game of Bros), and newcomer Emily Campbell. The production team were 85 per cent female.
In the 1930s Kiwi-born pilot Jean Batten set off on a series of legendary solo flights. Jean is the tale of a charismatic, determined woman, the mother who stayed close, and the man curious to unravel the person behind the legend. At the 2017 NZ Television Awards, the ambitious telemovie made a clean sweep, including awards for Donna Malane and Paula Boock's script, director Rob Sarkies, lead actor Kate Elliott, and the design team. In the excerpt — which hints at the story's globetrotting sweep — Jean fights heat and storms while attempting to fly from England to Australia.
The Dark Horse is the story of a Māori ex-speed chess champ who must "overcome prejudice and violence in the battle to save his struggling chess club, his family and ultimately, himself". Genesis Potini has a bi-polar disorder; his nephew Mana (Boy's James Rolleston) faces being pressed into a gang. A near unrecognisable Cliff Curtis won international acclaim as Potini. James Napier Robertson's acclaimed second feature was picked to opened the 2014 Auckland and Wellington Film Festival, and scored six Moa awards, including Best Picture, Director, Actor and Supporting Actor.
Hip Hop-eration chronicles a mission to bust some moves, and demonstrate that ageing need not be a barrier to joy. The stars of this documentary are a group of self-deprecating, young at heart Waiheke Islanders — some in their 90s — who head to Las Vegas to compete in the World Hip Hop Championships. Hip Hop-eration won Moa awards for Best Documentary and Documentary Director, plus rave reviews from Metro, The Dominion Post and the Herald's Francesca Rudkin; Rudkin called the film heartwarming:"full of laughs, colourful characters and Kiwi attitude".
This TV3 drama series follows a troubled Auckland cop (Oscar Kightley). Solo parent to a teenage daughter following his wife's suicide, Detective Sergeant Harry Anglesea is thrown into a murder investigation and an underworld of P and gang violence. Harry, not a stickler for the rules, marked a rare dramatic turn for Kightley. Sam Neill played his boss. Herald reviewer Paul Casserly called it a "great, gritty crime show". Written by Kightley, director Chris Dudman and veteran South Auckland detective Neil Grimstone, Harry was notable for using unsubtitled Samoan in prime time.
This first episode of this 2013 crime drama begins with a meth-fuelled bank heist gone very wrong. Harry is a troubled Samoan-Kiwi detective (played by Oscar Kightley, a million miles away from bro' Town) pursuing justice in South Auckland. Sam Neill, in his first role on a Kiwi TV series, plays Harry's detective buddy. Off the case, Harry struggles with his teen daughter in the wake of his wife's suicide. The Chris Dudman-directed series screened for a season on TV3. Broadcaster John Campbell tweeted: "Not remotely suitable for kids. But nor are many excellent things."
Young, confident and good-looking, Michael (Matt Whelan from Go Girls) discovers he has only a short time to live. Rather than undergo pricey experimental cancer treatment, he steals the cash and absconds to Hong Kong and Europe, determined to enjoy the life that remains. But heedless OE hedonism is complicated when he meets Sylvie (Roxane Mesquida, star of A Ma Soeur) and goes cross-continental with her. Based on Steven Gannaway novel Seraphim Blues, Kirstin Marcon's first feature combines down under filming with a guerilla-style winter shoot across Europe.
This six-part Māori Television series documents the experiences of six Māori language students from around the country, on a three-week cultural field trip to Beijing, China. The teenagers take their own cameras to record their experiences. They attend a local high school, live with Chinese families, and take in the local sites and sounds. The series is in Te Reo Māori, with English sub-titles. In this episode, the students learn how to get around Beijing using the local transport, they visit schools and find out about calligraphy, and they tour Beijing's legendary Forbidden City.
This six-part Māori Television series documents the experiences of six Māori language students from around the country, on a three-week cultural field trip to Beijing, China. The teenagers take their own cameras to record their experiences. They attend a local high school, live with Chinese families, and take in the local sites and sounds. The series is in Te Reo Māori, with English sub-titles. In this episode, the students check out the food markets, learn about Chinese sports, and visit the Great Wall of China.
This six-part Māori Television series documents the experiences of six Māori language students from around the country, on a three-week cultural field trip to Beijing, China. The teenagers take their own cameras to record their experiences. They attend a local high school, live with Chinese families, and take in the local sites and sounds. The series is in Te Reo Māori, with English sub-titles.
Qantas-nominated 'dramedy' Rude Awakenings revolved around the conflict between two neighbouring families, living in the Auckland suburb of Ponsonby. Rush family matriarch Dimity (Danielle Cormack) has her eyes on climbing the property ladder, by acquiring the house next door (occupied by solo Dad Arthur and his teenage daughters). Created by Garth Maxwell (movie Jack Be Nimble), the 2007 series was produced by Michele Fantl for TV One. The Listener's Diana Wichtel welcomed it as a rare contemporary satire on New Zealand television, but it only ran for a single season.
This Kiwi neighbours at war 'dramedy' pitted the Rush family — newly arrived in Ponsonby —against the Shorts, who are long-time renters next door. Arthur Short (Patrick Wilson) is a Kiwi battler solo Dad, with two teenage daughters; Dimity Rush (Danielle Cormack) the right wing HR manager whose partner is an anaesthetist, with two teen sons. In this first episode, Dimity aspires to climb the property ladder by scheming to get the Shorts' house as an investment doer-upper. The satire of gentrification screened on TV One on Friday nights. The cast includes Rose McIvor (iZombie).
Created by superhero fan Stephen J Campbell, this light-hearted adventure series follows teen Ben Wilson (Carl Dixon) who discovers his father and grandad have done time as superheroes. Still getting to grips with the basics of being one himself, Ben enlists family and friends to help fight assorted villians. The show ran for three seasons, and spawned web series The Wired Chronicles and Origins. Nominated for awards in Rome and New Zealand, it picked up one in Korea. The eclectic cast included the tried (David McPhail) and the new (Hannah Marshall from Packed to the Rafters).
Set in Central Otago in the drought-parched summer of 1975, gay-themed feature film 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous follows a chubby 12-year-old named Billy (Andrew Paterson) as he embarks on a challenging journey of sexual discovery. Adapting Graeme Aitken's novel, writer/director Stewart Main (Desperate Remedies) depicts a boy escaping into fantasy from the drudgery of farming duties — and learning about himself, his sexuality, and dealing with change. 50 Ways won a Special Jury Award at Italy's Turin International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in 2005.
Secondary school Auckland Grammar is a local landmark, with a reputation for academic and sporting excellence. This documentary surveys the state school's traditions; the "ways of Grammar" include academic streaming, the prefect system, and sport (rowing trials and the traditional 1st XV match against King's are featured). It also touches on the lengths parents will go to enable their children to attend the prestigious boys' school. Old boys interviewed include cricketer Dion Nash, All Blacks Doug Howlett and Grant Fox, and broadcaster John Hawkesby.
This 2003 documentary follows seven weeks of a theatre-for-change course for troubled teens. As part of acclaimed programme Te Rākau Hua O Te Wao Tapu, 30 teens from South Auckland's Northern Residential Centre are guided by director Jim Moriarty to create songs and plays based on their own stories. The process, from performing haka to confronting their demons and each other, proves challenging. Some don't make it to the opening night, performing in front of family and the public. Stewart Main's documentary screened as part of TV3's Inside New Zealand.
Director Murray Keane was inspired to make this documentary after his wife Fiona Samuel focussed exclusively on women for her earlier doco about the loss of virginity and its effect on lives. The companion film features seven men aged from 20 to 80 talking candidly about their different experiences of 'the first time'. Keane illustrates these very personal stories with quirky, colourful visuals as his participants muse on an event that few were really prepared for and which was transcendent for some, confusing for others and a nightmare of abuse for one of them.
In this 2001 documentary, popular columnist Joe Bennett goes behind the scenes of the "sausage factory" of Kiwi politics in Wellington – from The Beehive to The Green Parrot Cafe. Exploring the machinations of power in New Zealand, Bennett meets press secretaries, lobbyists, and spin doctors, from Helen Clark's Chief of Staff Heather Simpson to press gallery reporter Barry Soper. The documentary marked a further collaboration between director Richard Riddiford and Bennett, after Jafas, where Bennett compared Auckland and Aotearoa's views of each other.
Jim Hopkins presents this documentary — based on his bestselling book — about backyard inventors and their inventions. Some of these "sheddies" are seeking their fortunes, but others seem to simply derive a quiet satisfaction from their ingenuity. They might come from a tradition of number eight wire, string and chewing gum, but amphibious planes and hovercraft feature prominently (with one basement boasting a wind tunnel). A rural bent extends to fence brackets, gate openers, shearing tables, possum pluckers and a serious rat trap (designed by a poet).
Filmmaker Stewart Main traverses India seeking enlightenment. There he meets ex-pat Kiwis who seem to have found it, which only leaves him feeling trapped in a life of the senses. Especially when he falls for his Indian sound recordist, Sreenu. Or so he would have us think. Made for TVNZ's Work of Art documentary slot, Main's startling, provocative film explores the cracks between the divine and the sensual, documentary and fiction. Director Andrew Bancroft writes about the result in this backgrounder.
In June 1886 Mt Tarawera spectacularly erupted, and this documentary tells the story of the people who were caught in the catastrophic events. Around 120 people lost their lives, and the internationally famous Pink and White Terraces were destroyed. The documentary features an animated re-creation of the eruption, archival images, interviews with descendants of those involved, and readings from written eyewitness accounts. The author of the book Tarawera, Ron Keam, is also interviewed.
Bill Ralston examines more family business empires in part two of Old Money. With varying mixes of vision, hard work and eccentricity, the Hudsons (biscuits), Sargoods (merchants), Hallensteins (clothing), Hannahs (shoes) and Shacklocks (ironmongers) made fortunes that gave their families grand houses and gracious lifestyles. Some of the brands have survived and their legacies include 65,000 items gifted to Otago museum by the Hallensteins and Downstage's theatre endowed by Hannah money. (Robert Hannah was the maternal great-grandfather of director Jane Campion.)
This Bill Ralston-fronted two part documentary looks at Auckland's great family business empires: the Nathans (merchants and brewers), Myers (brewers), Wilsons and Hortons (newspapers) and Winstones (construction). With fortunes made in the pioneering days of the 19th Century, they created products that became household names and dynasties that dominated local commerce. Most failed to evolve and were picked off by the corporate raiders of the 1980s, but they left behind a legacy of fine homes, major buildings and community bequests.
Christmas time can mix joy and stress in equal measure. Both feature in this documentary, which follows four New Zealand families in the lead up to Christmas Day celebrations. Jenny Johnson is preparing for an "old-fashioned" Christmas with her two adult daughters back in town, while the Hinds children adjust to Christmas post divorce. The Thayer family remind us that no one loves Christmas more than kids, but for Piripi and his grandparents the focus is spiritual, not material. As the day arrives, presents are ripped open and new memories are formed.
Presented by future National Party MP Melissa Lee, this Asia Dynamic episode tells the story (discovered by reporter Bharat Jamnadas) of Nalini Chhima, an Auckland-born Indian woman and accomplished classical dancer, who travels to Navsari, India, to prepare for a traditional marriage. Like her parents, Chhima thinks an arranged marriage has a better chance of surviving than a love marriage. This documentary tracks Chhima's emotional journey, and her desire to please her parents and be true to her culture. Asia Dynamic was later re-named Asia Downunder.
Predating hit show Survivor, this early TV3 reality TV documentary saw Kiwi teens fending for themselves over eight days on Rakitu Island. Among the three females and three males facing off Lord of the Flies-style were future National MP Nikki Kaye, who later argued she was meant to represent the "private school girl who couldn't survive without a hairdryer". Instead Kaye took the leader's role and clubbed an eel, while many of her companions showed little inclination to help with the fishing. Kaye later opposed her party's proposal to mine on nearby Great Barrier Island.
This full-length documentary gives warm-spirited context to the song that has been the soundtrack to countless back lawn crate parties and freezing works chains (watch the credits). It was released as the B-side of singer Engelbert Humperdinck's Please Release Me, and became an unlikely hit in Aotearoa with fans who have done the "dance, dance, dance ...": including Dalvanius (who discusses its "pop-schlock" charms), Bunny Walters, The Topp Twins, and a special group of ten guitarists. The documentary also explores why "the national anthem of Patea" is so appealing to Māori.
This thoughtful but humorous documentary offers a wry tribute to sheep in New Zealand. Interviews with Chris Knox, Dog's Show presenter John Gordon, Dick Frizzell and Michael Parekowhai (among others) pull the wool away from our collective eyes, and examine Aotearoa's much ridiculed relationship with sheep. Artists' images, souvenirs, pets, and shows for tourists all feature, as do songs and plays. The documentary also examines the foundational role of sheep in the country's economy. This was one of the first productions from company Greenstone Pictures.
This 1992 TV One documentary follows the All Blacks on their first post-apartheid visit to South Africa. The footy tour tomfoolery of producer Ric Salizzo's earlier All Blacks docos is subbed off for reflections on politics and sport from players — including ex-All Black Ken Gray, who refused to tour the republic in 1970 and joined protesters in 1981. Not all goes to script for a "new South Africa": the Afrikaans anthem is played before the Ellis Park test, and the All Blacks win. Future South Africa cricket star Herschelle Gibbs is a young coloured player mentored by the ABs.
This TVNZ 'home show' explores 90s grand designs and their architects, renovation dilemmas and Kiwi personalities in their houses. This debut episode is presented by actor Jennifer Ward-Lealand and builder (and future Dunedin mayor) Dave Cull. Ward-Lealand visits architect Roger Walker in his pastel pink and green Tinakori Road home, intros a "70s Cinderella" bathroom do-up, and drops in on DJ Kevin Black's arts and crafts-style mariner's cottage. Cull tests a non-stick frying pan and a barn house. Date stamps include denim shirts and a saxophone theme tune.
The third of Pasta Productions' popular All Blacks documentaries sees winger John Kirwan provide running commentary on the team's path to the 1991 World Cup in England: from Argentina to Sydney and Auckland to contest the Bledisloe; from facing bottle and orange missiles in Tucumán to touch on Bondi Beach. JK muses on why coach Alex Wyllie is nicknamed 'Grizz', Neil and Tim Finn provide musical accompaniment ("I see black"), and Canterbury Uglies are the training uniform du jour. Meanwhile on-field signs are ominous for the reigning world champs.
The follow up to 1989 tour doco The Good, the Bad and the Rugby sees winger John Kirwan narrate an insider's guide to the All Blacks' 1990 tour to France: from Michael Jones negotiating a haircut ("how do you say 'square top' in French?") to 19-year-old Simon Mannix leading a 'Ten Guitars' singalong. Footy relics of the era include afternoon test matches, four point tries, placed kick-offs, sneaky ciggies and Steinlager. Producer Ric Salizzo later repeated the Pasta Productions' recipe — sports fandom mixed with schoolboy pratfalls — in the successful Sports Cafe series.
In this documentary from 1991, two-time Olympic gold medalist Mark Todd searches for his second win at the 1989 Badminton Horse Trials. Adding to the challenge, he's riding a horse — The Irishman — that he's only just met. Elsewhere in Chris Wright's documentary Todd rides horses on his grandfather's Cambridge farm, and has early unlikely success at Badminton riding Southern Comfort and legendary horse Charisma. Todd would go on to win several Olympic medals, before triumphing at Badminton for the fourth time in 2011 — nearly 30 years after his first success.
Gloss was a popular Kiwi television drama series made by TVNZ that screened in the late 80s; it combined a wealthy family, the Redferns, with a lucrative high-fashion magazine business. Yuppies, shoulder-pads and méthode champenoise abound in this cult "glamour soap". New Zealanders wanted to see themselves as less bottom of the world and more "here we come and we are sailing" (as the infamous Cup campaign song warbled), and Gloss was just what the era demanded.
"An ironic comedy about a disconnected New Zealand family" is the tagline to this early Alison Maclean short. Recently widowed Nan (Yvonne Lawley) assesses her life and the roles prescribed by her family as she readies a Sunday roast. Her new plans — "I won't be able to make the Christmas Cake this year" — rattle the shackles of her Old Testament-bashing husband and her ex-All Black son. Nan was a comeback leading role for Lawley after time away raising a family. Written with playwright Norelle Scott, Maclean's short screened with the About Face TV series.


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I'm going to state before I start the review that I'm a lifelong Onslaught fan - their second album "The Force" was the first thrash metal album I ever heard at the very tender age of eight years old, and has remained my favourite album of all time since then. Saying that, this review may be slightly bias to a degree but do you know what? I wouldn't matter whether I had previous experience with the band or not. Read on.
We'll skip the long history lesson and get the important information out of the way first; Back in the eighties, Bristol's Onslaught were the biggest thrash metal band in the United Kingdom... possibly with the expection of Nottingham's Sabbat. That alone should give you an indication of what they're more than capable of, and after a 14 year hiatus their 2005 reunion spawned what was argueably the greatest thrash album of the decade - 2007's brutal "Killing Peace". While it was far from original, it was a blistering all-guns-blazing return for the band and set the bar high for all the newer bands doing the rounds, and now we're four years down the line with "Sounds of Violence". Does it live up to the previous album, or have the band lost steam?
No, no they haven't - I could end the review right there and be done with it, but that'd make for rather dire reading and a bollocking from the editor. It's difficult to know where to start with "Sounds of Violence" because all aspects of the record are so overwhelming and full of energy, from the production and the performance to the song writing itself so I'll just state that if you have a heart condition, avoid this album. The band's drummer Steve Grice may not be as young as he once was - the same could be said for everbody present - but jesus christ, he can pound those drums HARD! I'm certain that the production has helped give those vicious kicks some more 'oomph', but even with that in mind it's difficult to breathe with the album on at loud volumes. Jeff Williams' bass work here is nice and audible too, which is fantastic considering that many albums with such a thick, full-on production sound tend to lose the bass amongst the distortion and whatnot - being Jeff's first studio effort with Onslaught, I'd say he's done a mighty fine job with a shining moment of his manifesting after the bridge in 'Code Black'.
Speaking of new members, lead guitarist Andy-Rosser Davies makes his studio debt with Onslaught here too - from what I've been informed, he actually co-wrote most of the album with guitarist Nige Rockett which really shows in the songwriting. The biggest problem "Killing Peace" faced was that Nige wrote a large majority of the album himself, and though that wasn't a bad thing in one way - the songs were immense and Nige did a fantastic job - it all felt a little too similar at times. That's not to say "Killing Peace" was a bad album (far from it) or that Nige can't write or play, but one person writing a whole album will become apparent since it's their primary writing style being put forward - with Andy sharing the writing duties, all the songs present here feel more enjoyable back-to-back and don't have that ever-so-slight deja vu feeling you you got once in awhile on the latter half of "Killing Peace". Andy is a player whose abilities are nothing short of jaw dropping too, with a lot of the solos here being far more than just the standard collection of tasteless wank licks that've become increasingly more common in metal these days - it's apparent that every single riff and solo has been fine-tuned repeatedly until it was absolutely perfect. The songs are brutal, in your face and wild as all hell, yet they're still catchy and for the most part rather simplistic in their composition - the music is restrained but still kind of... not. The songs are more varied in terms of tuning, tempos and time changes as well, with the colossal C-tuned 'Code Black' being a relatively slow number in comparison to say, 'Rest In Pieces' which is possibly the speediest track on offer though this says little considering that this is a thrash record. Nige and Andy work together very well here with both their composition and their playing, and I'm already looking forward to hearing what else they may be able to bring to the table in the future. The closer of the album, a cover of Motörhead's 'Bomber', is a fantastic way to finish the listening experience and I really feel that the band have made the song their own - yeah, they only really sped it up a bit but all the same, it's a marvelous rendition. The fact that Sodom's Tom Angelripper and Motörhead's own Phil Campbell feature as guests on this track just adds to the fun factor of what was already a fantastic song.
Vocalist Sy Keeler deserves to get almost an entire paragraph to himself, for the simple fact that his performance on "Sounds of Violence" surprised me. Sy is, more often than not, remembered for his raspy thrash snarl and his epic, ear shattering high notes - the latter of which are completely absent. I was initially disappointed by this, as Sy's high-hitters were one of the key defining factors that made him so unique and in turn, so fucking brilliant, but he tries to go for the opposite extreme here by performing what are essenitally death growls... for lack of a better word. He never goes quite as gutteral as most of the well known death metal singers but he holds his own without a problem - listen to 'Godhead', 'Hatebox', 'Antiheist' and once again, 'Code Black' for prime examples. His trademark raspy, snarly thrash shout is better than ever, and he annunciates better than nearly every other singer in the genre - if that wasn't enough, on top of this he still retains a sense of melody with what he's singing, even if at times it's only slight. Even though Sy didn't write any of the lyrics - lyrics are usually Nige's thing - Sy really makes the songs work with what he's given lyrically, applying some spectacular arrangements for some truely epic choruses. The lyrics themselves deal in rather typical, maybe even somewhat cliched metal topics such as war, tyranny, hatred and of course, the infamous anti-religious statements that the band are known for, but they still pull out some classic lines here - whilst "Killing Peace" had 'Spitting blood in the face of God' in the title track, "Sounds of Violence" gets a just-as-cool line in 'Godhead' with 'Children of God, you're fucking evil'. Most certainly not one to play for your parents or at church. Nige has always managed to pull out some spectacular lyrics and this is no different, he most certainly deserves more recognition for his lyrical contributions! And on that note, I've always thought that Sy Keeler was the greatest vocalist in metal and his work present here pretty much solidifies that opinion.
There are potential complaints to be made here, though they're so slight that they only really need a brief mention - First of all, every song (with the exception of the intro/outro and the cover of 'Bomber') is over four minutes long. Overall this is fine because the album is only composed of 9 full tracks, but the length of the songs sometimes makes you lose track of where you are. Second, Tom Angelripper does guest vocals on the cover song only and I'd have liked to have heard him on one of the other tracks, and third is the lack of Sy Keeler's high screams. These are rather pitiful complaints admittedly, and overall they do very little to diminish the quality of the album so it could just be me nit-picking. Why Sy decided to nix the high screams is beyond me, but thinking about it, they would potentially sound out of place on an album so heavy.
There's nothing else to say. Onslaught have once again released an album that stands as a landmark for heavy music - this isn't a matter of opinion, a matter of taste or a matter of fanboyism or whatnot. This album is absolutely mandatory for anybody who claims to enjoy metal - despite being dubbed as a thrash band, Onslaught have become more than just some thrash outfit by introducing elements of death metal, black metal and fuck knows what else into their sound and pulling it off effortlessly. Strangely, this record eerily reflects 1986's "The Force" - they're the second albums released by the old and new incarnations of Onslaught, the pentagram is the centrepiece of the artwork, they're both leaps and bounds ahead of the respective album/s released before them in terms of composition and execution... just a very peculiar observation of mine there. Onslaught's "Sounds of Violence" is almost certainly going to be the best release of 2011, and even though we're expecting new releases from the likes of Evile and Destruction, I doubt that anybody will be able to achieve the sheer colossal intensity that these Bristolian bruisers have managed to craft. This is an album that lives up to it's name and then some, and if this doesn't help propel Onslaught to the top then there is absolutely no justice to be found in this world - if I could give this six stars out of five I would. And not even out of my previous love of the band, but purely and simply because this is as good as metal gets so buy this as soon as humanly possible - I promise you, you won't regret it!
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It's been an unusually good week of reading so far at my end, having thumbed through two books, being three-quarters through a third and just starting off with a fourth. And I still have been busy with stuff, so it's nice to know that I have been reading a lot too. Now that it's close to the end of the year, we all know what that means. The challenge-and-list-making season! Although, mind you, I had perfectly good intentions this time. Yeah, you did notice the "had"?
Couple of mornings ago, I had typed up a post, scheduled for one of those days in December when no one's around reading blogs, and hence one can make any lofty promise and rest assured that no one's going to remind us about those posts. In that post I was making a promise not to join too many challenges for 2012, barring the one Helen has up on her blog (What? You haven't checked it out yet? You better go look it up. I'll be here, waiting till you get back), and the many reading projects I do on my own (which don't have any better success rate than the challenges I sign up for, but then at least I can quietly retire them). And what do you know, the very same day someone comes up with a challenge that I really cannot refuse.
Man of la book is hosting a perpetual (thank goodness for that) challenge to read all the books whose protagonists make up the main cast in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Many of those titles are on my PIE list too, and I had been meaning to read Alan Moore's comic book for many bookish eras, so when you combine an impressive collection of classics with a comic book based on famous literary characters, underline these books with science fiction and add a touch of perpetuality to the mix, you get a reader who cannot say No.
So these are the books that make up the challenge:
1. Dracula by Bram Stoker: I listened to this one two years back, expecting to not like it but instead loving it. I believe it's time for a reread to catch all those details I missed while I was gasping or OMGing or dreaming as I listened.
2. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne: I have only read Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne which is still one of my favorite classics ever, but I never had the
3. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson: This is probably the first classic I ever read, when I was 12 or 13. I still remember a good chunk of this book, because I actually read it twice or thrice back-to-back. To think about all the time for reading I had then!
4. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells: I read this shortly after Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and remember not being too impressed by it. We'll see if a reread changes my opinion.
5. The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells
6. Any Fu Manchu novel
7. Any Sherlock Holmes novel: All the Sherlock Holmes books I've read have been huge disappointments for me, because that guy solves mysteries before I've even started piecing the clues together, and sometimes apparently from nothing.
8. Any Allan Quatermain novel
9. Any James Bond novel
10. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen graphic novel
So that's some fabulous list of books to read, and am pretty much tempted to start right away, which I may. My main pull to this challenge is the science fiction kick that I have been on ever since I read the cyberpunk novel by Ernest Cline, Ready Player One. Since then, I've been meaning to read more such works and been on the lookout for books of that genre. Since I'm still more of a literary fiction reader, and a capricious reader of most other genres, I decided to move all my science fiction ramblings to my Tumblr account - SCIdora. If you're on Tumblr too, feel free to add me or leave your tumblelog in the comments below.


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NBC climbs ratings mountain with live 'Sound of Music' special
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – U.S. network NBC's live telecast of the musical "The Sound of Music" played to the tune of 18.5 million viewers, the Comcast Corp-owned broadcaster said on Friday, helping NBC inject some momentum into its entertainment division.
The three-hour production on Thursday starring country singer Carrie Underwood as Maria, the would-be nun who falls in love with an anti-Nazi Austrian captain, was NBC's best non-sports draw in the 18 to 49 age group most coveted by advertisers since the finale of hospital drama "ER" in 2009.
"The Sound of Music" telecast, which was based on the 1959 stage version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein show rather than the Oscar-winning 1965 film starring Julie Andrews, was the top overall draw on U.S. prime-time TV on Thursday, according to Nielsen figures.
NBC has languished at the bottom or near it in overall viewers in recent years, dragged down by poorly rated entertainment offerings compared with rivals CBS, Fox and ABC.
But for the TV season that started in September, NBC ranks second among overall viewers and first among 18-to-49-year olds, according to Nielsen data through December 1. Its ratings hits include "Sunday Night Football" and singing competition "The Voice."
Although critics commended NBC for taking a risk on an expensive production, which reportedly cost $9 million and required several sets and lavish costumes, they sounded a sour tone on the performances, particularly Underwood.
"As her multiple Grammys and her legion of country music fans will attest, the quality of Underwood's singing voice is not the problem," USA Today's Robert Bianco wrote. "It's that she doesn't know how to use that voice to sing in character, or what to do with her face when she's trying."
The 30-year-old singer, who has become one of biggest country stars since winning the singing contest "American Idol" in 2005, has little experience acting compared to her co-star, "True Blood" actor Stephen Moyer as Captain von Trapp.
Veteran Broadway stars Audra McDonald (Mother Abbess), Laura Benanti (Elsa Schrader) and Christian Borle (Max Detweiler) rounded out the cast of the musical famous for hit songs "My Favorite Things" and "Edelweiss."
"Underwood nails the look of a virginal almost-nun, but goes no deeper than that. Blank stares and placid smiles," wrote Marc Bernardin of trade magazine the Hollywood Reporter.
Critics' opinions also echoed the live reaction on Twitter from viewers, who were mixed on Underwood's performance.
NBC's "The Sound of Music" harked back to the early days of U.S. television when live musicals were often shown.
(Reporting by Eric Kelsey; Editing by Patricia Reaney)


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