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Der Kamerahersteller Adimec wurde 1992 in Eindhoven gegründet. Das Unternehmen hat 100 Mitarbeiter und verfügt über Geschäftsbüros in den Niederlanden, den USA, in Japan und in Singapur. Alexander Völkert von der Redaktion IndustrialVISION sprach mit dem Business Development ment Manager Wouter van Thor über die Unternehmensstrategie und die Entwicklungstrends in der Kameratechnologie.
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Mr. Wouter van Thor – Adimec's BDM Europe Interview of Mr. van Thor, Business Development Manager Europe of Adimec. May 2007 - by 'IndustrialVISION'The camera producer Adimec was founded in Eindhoven in 1992. The company has 100 employees and business offices in the Netherlands, USA, Japan and Singapore. Alexander Völkert of the IndustrialVISION editorial staff spoke to the Business Development Manager Wouter van Thor about the corporate strategy and development trends in camera technology.
In 2004 Adimec established a business office in Eindhoven in order to provide better support to customers from Europe and the Middle East. Was that the correct decision?
Since the establishment of the office Adimec's turnover has been growing by approximately 25 % a year, with the turnover growing particularly strongly in Europe in the past three years, while the measured level of customer satisfaction remains consistently high. To that extent I can say: yes, it was the correct decision. In 2007 – 15 years after the firm was founded – we reached a threshold where we had to work in an increasingly professional manner within the organization. Our corporate philosophy is based on a triangular strategy. For us the triad of customer proximity, state-of-the-art technology and process optimization is extremely important. It is our goal to develop long-term and trusting partnerships with OEM customers. We can achieve that by offering customer-specific solutions, giving preference to open and challenging communication and displaying a high level of commitment.
How have you been able to translate your innovations into reality?
Every feasible application that represents a challenge to us which we would like to solve brings us further innovation. That is why we have developed platforms consisting of modular technical components for every field of application. With these we are able to quickly and accurately turn the wishes of our customers into reality. We therefore automatically strive for state-of-the-art technology at all times. What are the customer segments for your products and what applications are your customers able to use Adimec cameras for?
Industrial image processing and medical technology are the two lines of business in which our most important customers are to be found. Together they make up approximately 80 % of our customers. The remaining 20 % are from the military industry and nonindustrial image processing. In the field of Machine Vision we work in the semiconductor industry. In the production of wafers the surface and then the integrated circuits (chips) are initially examined with cameras in various steps. Moreover, we also supply cameras for all production steps concerning the inspection of printed circuit boards, for example, for the Asian and German automobile supply industry, as well as for research.
Intelligent cameras with integrated memory and processor are becoming increasingly important. Is this something which will threaten the existence of "conventional" cameras?
No. Smart cameras do indeed possess an intelligence which is becoming increasingly sophisticated. However, this is standardized. It is mainly suitable for a simple production process in which it is important to take pictures, process them and then trigger a "good" or "bad" signal. But our customers are often searching for a solution for a complicated and more involved production process. As a rule they have developed their own software for this purpose and require a camera which can transmit a large amount of high-quality data within a short time. It must also be compatible with the system developed by the customer. Then we speak of a high-end solution. The data rate of the camera is therefore high and requires the CameraLink interface, for which we need a frame grabber. Furthermore, our cameras are equipped with an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array). These FPGAs are becoming larger and cheaper all the time, thereby making it easier to incorporate customer-specific intelligence into a standard camera. Our customers are increasingly expressing the wish of having free storage capacity in the FPGA so that they can integrate their own software. Intelligent cameras may well be gnawing at the frame grabber's right to exist, but in the high-end field this is still required for image acquisition. Nonetheless, as soon as 10-GB Ethernet is available and replaces CameraLink, the frame grabber will experience hard times. At the same time the "conventional" high-end camera with a 10GigE Vision interface can deliver images to the image processing system more simply and cheaply. Two years ago you said that CameraLink was the fastest interface in the high-speed field, while Gigabit Ethernet might be a candidate for medium-speed requirements. What is your opinion today?
It is still the case today that CameraLink offers the fastest interface for the high-end field. In the past two years the number of companies offering GigE has been growing, and the industry is now waiting for this interface to establish itself. By the way, Adimec was a member of the committee that developed GigE-Vision and this summer we will be introducing a range of GigE solutions.
Higher resolution – higher speeds – CMOS: Are you receiving more enquiries from your customers for these systems and can you detect a trend in the development?
We are indeed receiving requests for more details, a larger inspection surface and faster processing. But this requirement can only be finite, because although it is possible to continue developing the technology, it is not possible to overcome the laws of physics. A higher resolution with the same bit rate, for example, requires a greater bandwidth, which in most cases is not available just like that. However, our customers want a higher speed and good picture quality. It is therefore necessary to find a compromise between the financial and the physical restrictions. The highest resolution of the cameras which we offer as standard models is 4 megapixels. With that it is possible to produce a maximum of 140 images a second in good picture quality. That fully meets the requirements of our customers. As far as GigE-Vision is concerned, there are various reasons for pushing this interface: the elimination of the expensive frame grabber and an extension to the maximum possible length of the cables are important. With GigE-Vision you can lay up to 100 m of cable, while CameraLink allows only 10 m. This is of interest to many companies. We are also keeping a keen eye on the possibilities with vertical integration, as the lenses, illumination and image processing all come from one source. When do you recommend a CMOS camera, and when a CCD camera?
In general we do not recommend the one or the other. Until recently it was difficult for us to recommend a camera with a CMOS sensor because the unwanted noise signal was simply too high and the picture quality therefore too poor. That is why we initially spent a long time evaluating the development of the CMOS technology until we could be sure that the technology - and therefore the quality - was good. At the end of the day we would like to be known for reliability and high picture quality. Thanks to technical developments it is now possible to suppress the noise in the CMOS technology to such an extent that good picture quality can be provided at high speed. Since then we have been producing not only the tried and tested high-quality cameras with CCD sensors, but also cameras with CMOS sensors. CMOS cameras are faster, but we would not necessarily recommend them in all cases, because it also depends on the application. We offer both technologies with our usual high quality levels. Many people believe that the CMOS technology is simply faster and cheaper. That may well be true for the low-end field. But a good CMOS sensor is more expensive than a CCD-Sensor and is also more difficult to produce.
Industrial image processing has grown tremendously in the past 10 years. In 2005 the industry achieved a turnover of more than a billion euros in Germany. Will this trend continue?
The trend will certainly continue. Our customers have a healthy level of economic growth, so we will also have one. Moreover, we intend to increase our turnover considerably in the next few years. Image processing technology is still relatively young and to that extent I am quite confident that there will be many more potential markets which we have not yet developed. Statistics show that up to now only 10 to 15 % of the possible applications in the field of image processing are being used. So you can see the potential that is still "slumbering". Furthermore, various forecasts from market research institutes indicate that due to the size of the market and the rate of growth the trend will continue in the coming 10 years. What do you particularly enjoy about your job?
The international work involves a lot of travel. I really enjoy that because you get to know many people from various countries and different cultures. Adimec is present in three different markets. These are all different - as are the customers. The technology I deal with is very versatile. As a physicist I find it interesting to be constantly involved in various areas of physics: electronics, optics, mechanics and also software. This is all important as far as the technical know-how required to produce a good camera is concerned. It is also a nice feeling when you meet people at trade fairs who give me the opportunity to work with high-quality technology. They praise our products. We also have a professional and dynamic organization, from which our customers - and me too in my work – are able to profit. We receive so many enquiries that we are able to be selective. It's all too good to be true. I am really positive about my work.
In your dreams what would you like to see already fully developed by this industry?
The availability of a fast CMOS sensor as a catalogue product – designed in various megapixel resolutions – with a global shutter would be good, because the number of possible applications would increase. This is physically feasible but not yet fully developed technically. So far there is no such sensor available as standard on the free market, but it is only a question of time. I would also like to see a fully developed 10 GigE Vision interface because this would also simplify the high-performance applications and make them cheaper.
Thank you Mr. van Thor for the interesting conversation


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Written statement by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, to representatives of the European Union on receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for 2012.
Paris, Monday 15 October
My warmest congratulations to the European Union for receiving the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize. European integration is a peace project at heart. In the complex world which arose from the Cold War, the European Union has faced many formidable challenges to cohesion and peaceful co-operation among Europe's countries. Overcoming those challenges has earned it the distinction of contributing "to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights."
The concept and the values of the European Union have universal relevance. It is now essential to put the achievements of the European project in historical perspective. The Nobel Prize is a reminder of the continued need for the consolidation of a common endeavour in Europe for the benefit of the global community.
I am convinced that the solution to the current crisis lies in greater European integration. I look forward to continuing our excellent co-operation with the European Union governments and institutions in striving for economic and social stability, peace and prosperity.
Angel Gurría
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An author's intent, an actor's fragile ego, a genial shambles and cruelty to testicles
Commentary by Adam-Troy Castro
Casino Royale (1967). Directed by Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish, and Richard Talmadge. Screenplay by Wolf Mankowitz, John Law, and Michael Sayers, from the novel by Ian Fleming. Additional screenplay contributions by (take a deep breath), Woody Allen, Val Guest, Ben Hecht, Joseph Heller, Terry Southern, Billy Wilder, and Peter Sellers. Starring David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, and Orson Welles. 131 minutes. ** 1/2
Casino Royale (2006). Directed by Martin Campbell. Screenplay by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, with Paul Haggis, from the novel by Ian Fleming. Starring Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Madi Mikkelson, Judi Dench, and Giancarlo Giannini. 144 minutes. *** 1/2.
Other Known Versions: Seen by us but not reviewed for this essay, "Casino Royale," episode of TV-anthology series Climax! (1954), starring Barry Nelson as "Jimmy" Bond and Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre.
The James Bond films have become so cemented in their formula for success that their various inevitable ingredients sometimes make them seem less like individual stories than the same story, told and retold with only a few particulars changed. Such elements as the enemy stronghold that blows up in the action climax, the empty badinage with poor pining Miss Moneypenny, the give-and-take with his weapons master Q, the ordering of a martini (shaken not stirred), the final scene where Bond ignores a congratulatory message from his superiors in order to pursue celebratory sex with the rescued lady of the day, the McGuffin that often involves hijacked nuclear weaponry, and (most relevant to today's examples), the gambling match with the villain where Bond beats the bad guy at the game he is enough of a cad to cheat at, are such series mainstays that they all appear, with only minimal variation, in most of the franchise's outings. It's more surprising, overall, when a Bond film chooses to omit one, let alone several.
Sometimes, the newest Bond film seemed less a separate entity than a de facto remake of the Bond film before it (as with The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker).
Under the circumstances, any talk of remakes seems so superfluous that it's almost startling to note that the series has already known two complete sets.
One involved a twisted saga of the disputed rights to Bond and his supporting cast, some of whom were concocted by a screenwriter who wrote a spec script for Ian Fleming. A couple of rancorous major court cases led to a settlement that ultimately deprived the main movie series of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the recurring villain who had dominated the Sean Connery era and who became the model for the Austin Powers villain, Dr. Evil. It was this very situation that led to Thunderball being remade, also with Connery, as Never Say Never Again.
The same consortium responsible for that one, hoarding its one treasure like a certain ex-hobbit mutated into Gollum by years of exposure to the ring of power, later tried to make the same basic story a third time, with yet another Bond reprising his role. They didn't get backing again, but you really can't blame them for trying.
And then there's this, relic born of the one Bond novel adapted for television before the movie series, the same one that Howard Hawks once considered filming with Cary Grant. ('Twas not to be, but seriously, consider Cary Grant as James Bond, and sigh.)
Casino Royale, which was not included in the package deal procured by the Broccoli family, was first filmed in 1954 as a not especially-distinguished episode of a TV anthology series, featuring an American "Jimmy" Bond who needed to win a card game against a Le Chiffre affiliated with french socialists. Copies of that production were lost for decades, but were eventually located and released on VHS (where this reviewer saw it, though it was also included as a DVD extra with the 1967 version). I can report that it features Barry Nelson as a not-especially charismatic Bond and Peter Lorre as a Le Chiffre who doesn't lend the play much more than his bored presence. It does, however, hew to the premise of Ian Fleming's first Bond story, which has the super secret agent obliged to prevent the bad guy from winning a game of Baccarat that will replenish the funds he has embezzled from the Soviets.
(Thus leading to the pithy observation that while other Bond villains had grandiose ambitions, like extorting billions with nuclear terrorism, cornering the world heroin market, starting World War III, or wiping out most of humanity in order to establish a despotic rule over the survivors, this guy is motivated by nothing more than getting his hands caught in the till. In all filmed versions of Casino Royale, Le Chiffre's poor money management has gotten him into debt with the wrong people and he wants only to cover his own ass. It's almost possible to feel sorry for him. In essence, he's a somewhat more competent version of William H. Macy's put-upon car dealer from Fargo.)
As in Ian Fleming's novel, Bond wins the game, only to find himself captured, tied to a chair, and tortured at length by Le Chiffre: a scene that figures prominently in both the movie versions to follow, and which features something relatively rare in the Bond films: 007 completely helpless, and almost broken. It is one of the few scenes that make it into both the 1967 and 2006 versions, a key point of congruence in two productions that are otherwise as different from one another as two motion pictures can be.
The 1967 Version: A Genial Shambles
When the sixties spy craze was at its absolute peak and Bond in particular was a genuine pop culture phenomenon, possessing the rights to a Bond novel not procured by the Brocollis represented a grand opportunity that the makers of the spoof wished to exploit in grand style. They made all the smart opening moves, first by distinguishing their version from the series starring Sean Connery by deciding in advance by planning a farce with only limited fidelity to the Fleming novel. They also cast David Niven, Fleming's own original choice as the best possible actor to play his character, and in one of the lead female roles Ursula Andress, who had made a splash (ha-ha) as the hot girl in the swimsuit emerging from Bahamian waters in Dr. No, and who is here given dialogue directly referencing her fate in that original film.
They had an explanation for the differences in their Bond written into the screenplay. Their Bond is an aging gentleman, retired from spying, dedicated to a vow of celibacy, and utterly resentful of his namesake replacement, who he calls "that sexual acrobat who leaves a trail of dead beautiful women like so many blown roses behind him." It turns out that Niven's Bond was such a force for good that the Brits and their various allies thought that the absence of a James Bond, any James Bond, so destabilizing to the world order that somebody named Bond had to remain active at all times.
This happens to be the exact same theory that some fans still embrace to explain the periodic replacement of the leading men in the regular series. That's right. James Bond as Job Title was invented here, and it certainly beats the somewhat geekier theory, also popular, that James Bond is a Time Lord who stays young by "regenerating" like the protagonist of Doctor Who.
Circumstances compel him to take over the job previously held by M (here played by John Huston, who isn't around for long), and support a training program that installs other Bond surrogates in trouble spots throughout the world. Beyond that, the plot defies description, largely because there isn't one. This Casino Royale wanders all over the map, with plotlines initiated and then dropped, important characters introduced and then dropped, and the many scenes of sixties sexual innuendo (with entire mobs of sixties beautiful women) interposed with scenes that not only fail to make sense but were apparently never intended to make sense. Any attempt to describe the story will inevitably arrive at the phrase, "for no reason whatsoever." Much of it is very funny, though it needs to be said that a lot of it is just as irritatingly tiresome.
If its contempt for coherent narrative reminds modern-day viewers of Monty Python And The Holy Grail, another film that (somewhat more successfully) feels like it was being made up on the fly, be apprised that one of the 1967 Casino Royale's early sequences, involving the determinedly chaste Bond's unnerving night at a castle populated entirely by aggressive young women in heat, was cited by the Pythons a s a direct inspiration for their use of pretty much the identical situation in their film, where the sweaty celibate was played by Michael Palin and the name of the edifice became Castle Anthrax.
It is difficult to tell how much of the chaotic plotting was originally intended, but one of the factors that contributed to it was a very troubled production, caused in no small part by conflict between Peter Sellers (here playing one of the replacement Bonds, a card player whose real name is Evelyn Tremble) and Orson Welles (here playing Le Chiffre). Sellers, who was never the easiest man to work with, took an instant dislike to Welles, exacerbated when Princess Margaret visited the set and fawned over Welles while ignoring Sellers. (It didn't help that Sellers had just been trying to impress one and all with detailed stories of his friendship with the woman.) Welles responded in kind, deriding Sellers as an amateur.
Sellers was also desperately upset that Casino Royale was a silly comedy, as he'd wanted to play Bond straight – as is evident during the baccarat scene, where much of Tremble's baiting of Le Chiffre could almost be transposed to a serious Bond film without alteration. As for Welles, it appears to have been his idea to have Le Chiffre regularly stop the game to perform elaborate stage magic at the table – again, for no reason whatsoever — behavior that would less than kindly looked upon at pretty much every casino I've ever known. It fits here only because nothing else in sight makes sense.
The two men ultimately refused to act in any scenes together, a snit that the film covered by pretty much never showing Sellers and Welles in the same shot at the same time, even during the card game. Their direct conversations at the gaming table are conveyed by close-ups and the backs of heads. Later, the "torture" of the faux-Bond by Le Chiffre is conducted with Le Chiffre an absent figure mocking the Sellers character by remote control, and torturing by methods that include (what seems to be) a wood-chipper in his chair and an orchestrated hallucination that includes marching men in kilts and a cameo appearance by Peter O'Toole, for (all together now) no reason whatsoever.
Eventually Sellers was either fired or allowed to storm off the set for good, with most of his scenes unfilmed. This included a great deal of necessary connecting material, which is a key reason why he rushes off to rescue Vesper Lynd and is next seen unconscious as Le Chiffre's prisoner, with no actual scene where he is caught; he refused to film one. A number of his other scenes, including the one where he treats Ursula Andress's leg as a piano keyboard, and the one where he hops into a race car, were not scripted parts of the film, but joking around on the set, reshaped as narrative.
One early cut of the film actually resorted to using a cardboard cutout of him during the climax, to cover his absence; it was replaced with other junk footage.
So the shamblicious nature of the narrative, ultimately filmed by six different directors and written by a small army of astoundingly distinguished film writers who seem to have been working during production to shape a film that had already spiraled out of control, was in large part a desperate improvisation, to cover for a star who was originally supposed to be a much more substantial player, and was unavailable for much of his intended screen time. What remains is, to an unclear extent, a film stitched together out of spare parts and desperate improvisation as the folks behind the production gave up on any pretense that any of this could ever make sense, even within the context of a silly comedy.
Some of the pieces are insanely brilliant, among them an extended sequence which has Mata Bond (the daughter of Bond and Mata Hari, played with substantial comic chops and what seems to be deep personal enjoyment by Joanna Pettet), on assignment in Berlin running around gloomy German Expressionist sets while still (for no reason whatsoever) wearing the same jewel-encrusted indian dancing costume she was introduced as wearing in an ashram (or whatever) several scenes earlier. Some are messed up, like Mata subsequently changing her accent and personality for no reason whatsoever. Some are just strange, like Sellers dressing up as Adolf Hitler for no reason whatsoever. And some are just insane, as in the big action climax where old-west cowboys and indians invade the casino for no reason whatsoever, George Raft (who got star billing for less than sixty seconds on screen) shows up and dies for no reason whatsoever, a murdered character played by William Holden is revealed to have faked his death for no reason whatsoever, the Frankenstein monster shows up for no reason whatsoever, a chimp grins at the camera for no reason whatsoever, and main bad guy Woody Allen – who has been fed a nuclear potion – hiccups his way to the massive explosion that kills everybody for no reason whatsoever.
The movie is a mess, but a genial one, dull at times but hilarious at others. It was popular enough to emerge as the third biggest hit of its year.
And its fidelity to the source material amounts to this: A guy using the name of James Bond plays a game of baccarat with a guy named Le Chiffre to prevent him from replacing embezzled funds. Le Chiffre retaliates by kidnapping the girl, Vesper Lynd. Bond is captured trying to rescue Lynd and endures a brief interval of testicle torture (here presented in the most cartoonish manner imaginable). Then Le Chiffre is killed, which only seems to resolve everything, leading to a false ending before the other shoe drops and the action resumes.
The 2006 Version: Bond Bleeds
The makers of the mainstream James Bond movies finally acquired the rights to Casino Royale in 1999, midway through Pierce Brosnan's tenure in the title role.
Of Brosnan, who is not material to today's discussion, let's be content to say that he's proven himself a terrific actor, better than the material he was given as 007 usually merited. The World Is Not Enough was likely his best Bondian outing, although, as usual, your mileage may vary.
The problem was not his, really. The problem was that the cartoonish heroics of the sixties Bond had ceased to impress in an era when other film franchises could compete with and wildly surpass the Bond movies in terms of wild action, sexual intrigue, and over-the-top violence. Worse, the Bond films had become so formulaic that other filmmakers had realized that they could do just as well with characters of their own creation, in films that were otherwise note-by-note recreations; and not in the manner that the imitators of the 1960s managed to present their own raft of respectable but second-tier Bonds, but with outings that easily matched the Bond films in extravagance of action. When James Cameron has made True Lies and Vin Diesel has been in XXX and Tom Cruise has a thriving Mission: Impossible franchise and Matt Damon has the same with his Jason Bourne movies and Bruce Willis can boast the multiple variations of Die Hard, a James Bond movie no longer qualifies as an event just by showing up; it has to excel, to make us care about it, or it's just redundant.
The people behind the franchise have been accused of "Bourning Up" the Bond films – this being an actual understood reference now – but the truth is more simple than that. With the 2006 Casino Royale, they stripped the character to his essence, removed the gadgetry, tortured quips and descents into campiness that now render some of the earlier incarnations all but unwatchable, and devoted serious thought as to what makes this guy tick and why anybody would give a damn about anything that happens to him. It re-started the series with a pre-credit sequence detailing Bond's first kills for the 00 branch, which were not made to look jokey and lighthearted but instead ugly, brutal and sordid. One of them is a thug beaten to a bloody pulp in a bathroom, the other is a traitor shot dead while sitting in a desk chair; there is nothing at all glamorous about either of these kills, nothing to match the comfortable distance of that moment in Moonraker where an ambulance employed in a chase scene speeds past three separate billboards hawking commercial products that helped to underwrite the film.
It is only after the usual title song that we get the over-the-top action sequence that usually begins a Bond film. This one's a parkour chase in Madagascar, set in and around a construction site where Bond pursues a terrorist-for-hire. This tour-de-force, the reviewer's personal favorite action sequence in any of the Bond films, is to put it mildly not at all free of silliness; it employs, for instance, Roger Ebert's famous fallacy of the climbing killer, the guy whose attempts to get away amount to scaling an edifice from which he will eventually have to climb down. It is, much of the time, silly of the heroes to even bother to chase them. What redeems the sequence is its sheer bravura, the terrorist's mad ricocheting off walls and girders, and Bond's success at equaling him with blunt force and superior cleverness. If Buster Keaton had choreographed a Bond chase, it would be this one.
The set piece leads to a bad end for the terrorist and Bond in trouble with M for disgracing British Intelligence, from there to another action sequence in Miami that is almost as spectacular, and from there to the murder of a woman Bond had just callously seduced and abandoned in order to follow a lead. M (Judi Dench, who joined the series during Brosnan's tenure and is another fine addition) back-handedly praises Bond for not caring, and he actually doesn't seem to: but the moment is sufficiently well-written and performed to make it clear that Bond is not unaware of the human cost.
That brings him to Casino Royale, the introduction of Vesper Lynd, and the poker game played against Le Chiffre (who, here, is a banker for terrorists, who has invested heavily in the fallout from the act of terrorism Bond foils in Miami). At which point the film does something remarkable for the series, which is to say slow down; it spends almost an hour in the deepening of the relationship between Bond and Lynd and in intrigue at or surrounding the game.
The sexual tension between Bond and Lynd is remarkably adult, for the series, which at its worst saw Roger Moore seducing women half his age with no more than a raised eyebrow and a moron double intendre. By contrast, Lynd and Bond are presented as a pair of intensely guarded people, who acknowledge their mutual attraction right up front but also see through one another with a depth that keeps either from wanting personal involvement. His moment of compassion for her, during a moment of post-traumatic personal vulnerability, feels more real than anything that happened in some prior decades of the series.
The film's Le Chiffre is not entirely devoid of Bondian silliness either; he has a "malformation of the tear duct" that occasionally causes him to weep blood, a physical condition with absolutely no referent in medical science, given that the integral nature of human anatomy is that any wound that bleeds will eventually scab. It's there to make him look less than human. In truth, though, his nastiness does not exempt him from human vulnerability, brilliantly revealed during one scene where he and his lover are confronted in their hotel room by assassins sent by one of the terrorist leaders whose funds he misspent. Le Chiffre is reduced to a weeping, terrified mess, helpless as a knife is brandished against a woman he may or may not love, but at least likes enough to sleep with. This does not stop him from reverting to murderous type after he returns to the poker table, or has Bond strapped to that chair, but it gives him a depth no James Bond villain has had, before or since. The man may deserve to die, by the logic of the series, but it's impossible not to understand that he knows he's drowning.
His subsequent torture of the captured Bond is also more graphic, more genuinely painful, than anything ever seen in the series before. There is no gimmicky threatened castration of the impeccably dressed hero by laser, as in Goldfinger; no civilized gourmet meal before fight to the death, as in The Man With the Golden Gun. (Brosnan's Bond was captured by, and tortured by, the North Koreans for a full year, but his ordeal is shown during the usual a jazzy credits sequence, and has all the emotional impact of a music video.) Le Chiffre just tells the shivering, naked, helpless, and terrified Bond – brilliantly played by Craig — that there's simply no point in sophisticated torture techniques when it's downright easy to cause a man more pain than he can possibly stand. And then he whips Bond's bare testicles with a knot tied in a heavy rope. There are no saucy quips, no insouciant gestures of defiance; like Le Chiffre only a few scenes earlier, Bond is quickly reduced to a despairing shell.
Following Bond's subsequent deliverance from that predicament, his long recovery and his decision to abandon his secret agent ways for a life spent with Vesper – who in this context represents more than just a woman he loves, but an actual route back to humanity – makes perfect sense.
This is not the only time the movie Bond ever genuinely loved a woman for what promised to be longer than the interval between one mission and the next; the Bond played by George Lazenby loved, married, and tragically lost Tracy, the leading lady of On Her Majesty's Secret Service. The difference, in retrospect, is that it's a little hard now to see why that Bond fell for Tracy when he'd easily abandoned so many who were just as formidable. It's easy to see why Craig's Bond makes the decision he makes in Casino Royale. He's been hurt, this time, more than he's ever been hurt before. He already cared for the lady. His heart is open.
That it goes badly, indeed tragically, is just as inevitable. The series does need to continue, after all. But in this context it feels even worse when he angrily sums up his loss by telling M, "The bitch is dead." At that point, something has clearly died in him too. It's an emotional origin story, so much beyond the usual Bond material that it almost feels like a different genre. That it was immediately followed by Quantum Of Solace, which sought to continue the story but was because of many failings (not least among them an incompetent approach to its action scenes), one of the worst films of the entire series…a heady statement for anybody who's seen Moonraker…is not its fault.
As for Craig, this much needs to be said. He is clearly not the most distinguished actor to have played Bond. That would still be David Niven. Nor is he the most iconic. That would still be Sean Connery. But, aided by a screenplay that demands it of him, he gives the all-time finest performance as Bond, ever: but for the few flashes the other actors have been allowed, it is pretty much the only time that the character on screen was ever recognizably and consistently a human being affected and scarred by his violent world. Contrasted with some of the campier outings in the past, it's understating the case to say that it's barely recognizable as being about the same character, and more accurate to say that it barely seems to belong to the same genre.
Intelligence Analysis
The 1967 film: an insane, out-of-control farce that, at its best moments, lampoons the silliness of the Bond universe about as well as any film possibly could. It's more talent than usually appears on screen at the same time, all the more fascinating for the misfire. The 2006 version: a serious take on the same material that contains the best action sequence in the franchise's fifty-year history, and as close a look into the soul of Bond as we're ever likely to see. The two movies together: an object lesson on the best way to take a character seriously, and the best way not to.
And now, the wife chooses to accept her mission…
Commentary by Judi B. Castro
Casino Royale (1967). Directed by Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish, and Richard Talmadge. Screenplay by Wolf Mankowitz, John Law, and Michael Sayers, from the novel by Ian Fleming. Additional screenplay contributions by (take a deep breath), Woody Allen, Val Guest, Ben Hecht, Joseph Heller, Terry Southern, Billy Wilder, and Peter Sellers. Starring David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles. 131 minutes. **1/2
Casino Royale (2006). Directed by Martin Campbell. Screenplay by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, with Paul Haggis, from the novel by Ian Fleming. Starring Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Madi Mikkelson, Judi Dench, Giancarlo Giannini. 144 minutes. ***
Other Known Versions: "Casino Royale," episode of TV-anthology series Climax! (1954), starring Barry Nelson as "Jimmy" Bond and Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre.
Let me get this out of the way first thing. The 2006 film is a better movie in every way possible, but I still love the 1967 Casino Royale oh so much more.
Now, I have the hard part, answering the why of the above statement.
The earlier CR is not prettier, grittier, or even close to good story telling. There are plots and characters left spinning in all directions, and a nonsensical ending that just is. But for all these flaws, it makes me laugh. Not rolling on the floor holding my belly and crying, just giggles and chuckles that last over the next few hours and days as I remember the silliness. Yes, even in my middle years, I still crack up over the insanity of the kitchen sink melee and the game of toss.
I could debate over the David Niven vs Daniel Craig, but both are great Bonds. Craig reinvigorates 007 as a man of action and decisiveness with little humanity or warmth. Niven plays Bond as a man hurt by his choices, yet emboldened by those same events. Could Niven have been a good JBond playing it straight? I believe so, but that market was never tapped since a certain Mr. Connery was busy playing the horn dog version.
Both films attempt to tell a pretty thin tale and both succeed in very different ways.
Villainwise, well come on guys, its Orson Welles playing cards, magic and drugs. The torture of the mind, so much more elegant than multiple slams to the nads. Neither is actually much of a baddie. Both versions are just Ponzi schemers trying to make up losses before they are lost too. Should I care what happens to these guys? Not like the old world domination tactics of say Dr. No. So I say who cares that they get offed before the final scenes?
So, where is the big difference that tilts me back to childhood? Ahhh…the music. Burt Bacharach combining with Herb Alpert. This is what a band parent's nightmares are made of. I played this stuff day and night for years and claimed I was practicing. 5 years of trumpet solos , guitar riffs, piano banging, and various other attempts usually drifting into some part of this film's music. Well, my folks could only blame themselves for letting me see CR so many times. The theme song is eminently hummable, and the big hit "The Look Of Love" was heard for years on AM radio (and many weddings I'm sure). I still love that terrible little mindworm of a theme.
OK, I've said it, this film is a childhood fave and as a high school brass playing geek, I adored the soundtrack (and still do!). Is it a better film deserving of all the praise I can heap upon it. Hell no! Its just sheer fun and I will adore it evermore. (But, don't forget how good the 2006 film is either).


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Farming Among Mennonites in the Netherlands
The first Anabaptists in the Netherlands were found both in the country and in the cities (Groningen, Leeuwarden, Hoorn, Alkmaar, Amsterdam, Leiden, Middelburg, etc.). Later on we find Mennonites in the cities and small towns engaged in business, as well as in the country. Mennonite farmers were found particularly in the provinces of Groningen, Friesland, and North Holland, and many of them have been promoters both of new methods in agriculture and of cattle-raising. The Mennonite farmers of the Netherlands never founded special Mennonite agricultural associations as they did in other countries, because the Dutch villages do not consist of Mennonites only (as, e.g., in Russia) and because most farmers do not live together in villages, but often have their farm buildings (boerderijen) on their own land. Special mention should be made of the flower-growers of Aalsmeer near Amsterdam. Here the world-renowned nurseries that export roses and other flowers all over the world have for many generations been to a great extent owned or run by Mennonites; e.g., Eveleens, Hilverda, and Keessen.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. "Farming Among Mennonites in the Netherlands." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Web. 7 Aug 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Farming_Among_Mennonites_in_the_Netherlands&oldid=118179.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. (1956). Farming Among Mennonites in the Netherlands. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 7 August 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Farming_Among_Mennonites_in_the_Netherlands&oldid=118179.
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By Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) - 02/08/12 04:50 PM ET
Whether we care to admit it or not, 2.8 million more people were still out of work in January 2012 than the 12.8 million officially counted as unemployed.
Our labor force should not be shrinking because people stop actively seeking jobs. It should be increasing because, like 243,000 other Americans this month, there are new payroll jobs for them.
On Friday, February 3rd, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced that the unemployment rate for January 2012 had dropped to 8.3%, down 0.2% from December 2011. While commentators jumped at the opportunity to post the good news that 243,000 new payroll jobs had been created, there seemed to be a missing link. How could just 243,000 new jobs cut the unemployment rate by 0.2%? Creating jobs is a step in the right direction. When we include a few more numbers, the story is not as bright.
According to the BLS, a person must either be employed or unemployed to be counted in the labor force. To be employed, a person must have a job or be self-employed in his or her business or farm. To be unemployed, a person must be jobless, actively seeking a job, and available for work. In January, there were 2.8 million people that had dropped out of what the BLS identifies as the labor force. Of those 2.8 million, 1.1 million are categorized as discouraged workers that did not actively seek a job in the past four weeks because they believe there are no jobs to be had. The remaining 1.7 million decided not to search for job opportunities in the past four weeks so they could further their education or stay home with the family until the job market strengthens.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said recently, "The 8.3% no doubt understates the weakness of the labor market in some broad sense." The labor force participation rate, that is to say the number of total people in the labor force out of the total population ages 16 and older, in December 2011 was 64%. That percentage fell to 63.7% in January, down to a percentage not seen since 1982. 0.3% does not seem to be a drastic shift until we include the historical data. In December 2007 when the recession began, the labor force participation rate was at 66.0%. If we were still at this percentage of labor force participation then, hypothetically, the unemployment rate would be 11.4%.


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Peavy may have to set sail out of Boston
Club exploring options with spirited starter as paint dries on duck boat
Jake Peavy pitched for almost 2,000 innings over 12 big league seasons to get the chance to start a game in the World Series. Few pitchers who have walked in his spikes ever relished the moment more.
Before Peavy's four roller-coaster innings against Carlos Beltran and the Cardinals, he admitted he was heading into "the biggest game up until this point in time I've ever pitched.'' Anybody who knew him knew he would be practically foaming at the mouth when game time arrived, and it did not come as much of a surprise that after the Red Sox finished off the Cards, Peavy bought himself an unusual souvenir -- the duck boat he and his family rode during the World Series parade through Boston.
So @JakePeavy_44 is fired up because he bought this boat. Yup, the whole thing. This is our Ducking City! http://t.co/EQqhwpiDcE- Boston Red Sox (@RedSox) November 2, 2013
Peavy told a columnist that he plans to paint the boat in Red Sox colors, including the saying, "Boston Strong.'' He says it will be put to use around his ranch in Alabama, which sits along the Alabama River, but mostly he envisions it as a family treasure, saying that his grandchildren will pass it along to their grandchildren.
This is called being all in, and that's how Peavy rolls.
But for how much longer in Boston?
Charlie River is officially en route to the Alabama River. See you soon @JakePeavy_44! http://t.co/bQxrC1AE3g- Boston Red Sox (@RedSox) November 14, 2013
According to sources with other teams, Peavy's stay with the Red Sox could be limited to the three eventful months in 2013, after the White Sox sent him there in a three-team trade that cost Boston shortstop Jose Iglesias and landed Chicago 22-year-old right fielder Avisail Garcia from Detroit.
Multiple reports from the General Managers Meetings in Orlando, Fla., said that Red Sox GM Ben Cherington and his staff were gauging interest in their supply of veteran starters. This followed a buzz spreading through the baseball community after the World Series that suggested Boston planned to deal at least one of its starting pitchers with an eight-figure salary to help a lineup that could be decimated by free agency.
Center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury, shortstop Stephen Drew, first baseman Mike Napoli and catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia are all on the market, and the team already has about $135 million on its books for 2014. That's only $20 million less than the Opening Day payroll from last season, but the upcoming budget is unknown. It could grow with revenues from the new national broadcast contracts as well as the usual spike from a long postseason run.
But here are some things to keep in mind about Peavy: The Red Sox probably would not have felt the need to add him had Clay Buchholz been healthy, and with Buchholz back, Boston is six deep in experienced starters, with prospects Rubby De La Rosa, Allen Webster, Anthony Ranaudo and Drake Britton lined up in the waiting room.
It's an enviable position for any team, especially one that is in danger of losing four-ninths of the lineup that produced a Majors-high 853 runs last season. Executives with other teams say the Red Sox have to exploit the pitching surplus they find themselves with for 2014, after which Jon Lester, Ryan Dempster and Peavy can be free agents.
Signing Lester to an extension will be costly after his heroics in 2013, when he cut his ERA from 4.82 to 3.75 and logged a career-high 213 1/3 innings. It's hard to imagine how Lester could be traded or allowed to leave as a free agent given his contribution to the titles in 2007 and '13, and that leaves Peavy, Dempster and John Lackey as the guys most likely to be dealt.
At 32, Peavy is the kid in this trio. He has worked 200 innings only once in the last six years but makes up for his lack of durability with his machismo. Peavy could be a nice addition for a team looking to add some fire to its rotation, and it would help Cherington's flexibility to save some of the $14.5 million the veteran righty is set to earn.
The Angels are one obvious match. They're seeking starting pitching behind C.J. Wilson and Jered Weaver and have an interesting selection of possibly available position players. The Halos have told teams they're not going to move Mark Trumbo, who fits nicely at first base with Albert Pujols likely to become a full-time DH, but center fielder Peter Bourjos or switch-hitting catcher Hank Conger could fit Boston's needs.
Assuming the Red Sox won't deal Peavy within their division, the Rangers and Royals (if they can't re-sign Ervin Santana ) are other possible AL fits. The best thing for Peavy might be to get back to the National League, however, and he seemingly could help teams like the Nationals, Giants, Pirates (in the A.J. Burnett role), Braves, D-backs and Dodgers.
You can't blame Peavy if he wishes his honeymoon in Boston could last longer. But he knows as well as anyone how baseball works, and the guess here is he's going to enjoy himself tremendously in 2014, whether he stays with the Red Sox or moves on.


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Stocks fall, pulling Dow average below 14,000
Stocks are falling in early trading on Wall Street, pulling the Dow Jones industrial average back below the 14,000 mark.
The Dow was off 94 points at 13,915 shortly after the opening bell Monday. Energy and health care stocks led the declines.
The stock market has been rallying for five weeks, and the Dow is still up more than 6 percent for the year. On Friday, the Dow closed above 14,000 for the first time in more than five years.
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"Ronald Strean
Ronald Strean, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Strean of Campbellsport was instantly killed at 6:15 p.m. June 3, when he was struck by a car driven by Earl Manthei of Kewaskum. The youth was riding a bicycle on County trunk Y about a mile east of Campbellsport when the mishap occurred.
Ronald was born in the town of Auburn on September 29, 1938. He attended St. Matthew's parochial school in Campbellsport and received his eighth grade diploma from the school the past week.
He is survived by his parents, three brothers, Robert of Lomira, Royal and Reuben of Barton, his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Amanda Strean of this city, and his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Coenen of Little Chute, Wisconsin.
The remains were in state at the Twohig Funeral home, Campbellsport, and funeral services were conducted at St. Matthew's catholic church there at 8:30 Monday morning, June 16. The Rev. Peter Schwamb officiated and burial was in the parish cemetery."
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Whether it's Doom or Super Mario Bros., video game movies have a bad rep. It's a mostly deserved rep. But Hollywood super producer Jerry Bruckheimer (The Rock, Pirates of the Carribean) doesn't think it's so cut and dried.
"It depends on who's involved with it and the approach they took," Bruckheimer told website website Gamasutra. Bruckheimer, one of Hollywood's most successful producers ever, has had a knack for churning out blockbusters. With the Pirates of the Carribean films, he was able to turn a Disney ride into a feature film franchise.
"We used the same skill, as far as storytellers, [for Prince of Persia] that we used on Pirates of the Caribbean on Prince of Persia," says Bruckheimer. The producer had never played Prince of Persia until the game was pitched to him. Six years passed, and voila! There's a movie.
"It always depends on story and character," says Bruckheimer. "With that, if you can create that, then you've got it. That's what it's about. We're storytellers. That's all we do. The more interesting the story and the characters, and the better the themes, chances are you're going to have a better movie, if you surround yourself with talented people."
Don't blame the movie or video game mediums themselves for failed adaptations. Blame the people who made the films.
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American Files Suit Against Germany for Nazi-Era Art Trove
The case of Nazi-era art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt just got some new players: American lawyers.
David Toren has become the first American to file a lawsuit against Germany for the return of artwork in the case surrounding Mr. Gurlitt, Mr. Toren's Washington-based lawyer said Wednesday. Mr. Toren, an 88-year-old retired lawyer from New York, is seeking the return of the Max Liebermann painting, "Two Riders on the Beach," plus any other works belonging to his family that the Gurlitt trove might hold.
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The new bank building at Eisenhower and Taft seems very close to the intersection. This appears like it will prevent a right turn lane from ever being constructed from North Taft onto East Eisenhower. That stretch of Taft Avenue wasn't included in the Taft widening project from six years ago, but I remember it was to be a future project.
With it so close, I'd hate to be working in the corner office and have a car jump the curb and come right in my window.
How did this get approved? Aren't there some setback rules within all the city codes and planning rules?
Signed, Just Wondering
Dear Wondering: The southeast corner of Taft Avenue and Eisenhower Boulevard is, in the parlance of developers, builders and planners, a "tight site." There's enough room for the redesigned 1st Bank branch and its expanded drive-through lanes — but just barely.
During the review process, the city's Current Planning staff and transportation engineering staff collaborated on making sure the building's footprint didn't nudge into the Taft Avenue setback.
The intersection years ago was redesigned to accommodate the future widening of Taft north and south of Eisenhower. All the eyes that have been cast on the project, including during two passes by the Planning Commission, have found all in order.
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The Fairfield Police Department received a call Thursday at 8:04 a.m. from a frantic female who said that her child was bleeding from his nose.
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Developing countries often lack the official government structure needed to collect taxes efficiently. This lack of systematic tax collection limits the ability of those countries to provide public services that aid growth, such as roads, sanitation and access to water.
But a new study co-authored by MIT economist Benjamin Olken reveals that developing countries actually have extensive informal systems in which citizens contribute money and labor to public-works projects. In effect, local governments in the developing world collect more taxes and produce more public goods than many outsiders have realized, a finding with implications for aid groups and governments trying to decide how to fund anti-poverty projects worldwide.
"It's really surprising just how many people are doing this, and how prevalent this is," says Olken, an associate professor in MIT's Department of Economics. "This is a very common facet of how people experience life in a lot of developing countries. It's supporting a large share of what's going on at the village level."
These informal taxes are generally regressive: While better-off citizens contribute more than the poor do in absolute terms, the percentage of income they pay is lower than the percentage of income that the poor pay. Because organizations such as World Bank sometimes recommend that governments use local co-financing of public-works projects, that means some programs intended to help curb poverty may actually place a larger relative tax burden on the poor.
"For aid groups, it's useful to know what the distributional implications will be, and compare that to other financing mechanisms," Olken says. "I hope that people will start thinking about these implications."
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The research is presented in a new paper, "Informal Taxation," by Olken and co-author Monica Singhal, an associate professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. They examined 10 countries in the developing world and found that in many cases, more than 50 percent of citizens participate in these informal, local taxation schemes. In only one of the 10 nations did fewer than 20 percent of citizens pay additional informal taxes.
That changes our picture of taxation in the developing world. Previous studies have shown that formal, official taxation of households only accounts for 18 percent of taxes collected in the developing world, as opposed to 45 percent of taxes collected in the developed world. Given this fact, informal taxes provide a significant boost to local authorities: In Indonesia, for instance, informal taxes increase the amount of revenue under local control by more than 50 percent.
To conduct the study, Olken, Singhal and assistants from MIT's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program examined more than 100 existing field-research surveys, including the World Bank Living Standards Measurement Survey. Those surveys each have sample sizes ranging from about 1,500 to 30,000 people. The countries included in the paper are Albania, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Indonesia, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Panama, the Philippines, Vietnam and Zambia.
The paper is scheduled for publication in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics later in 2011.
One impetus for the research came from Olken's own experiences in Indonesia, where he has conducted field research for about a decade. In a village where he was once staying, Olken recalls, "the district government dropped off 29 drums of asphalt, and that was it. So the village had to decide what to do. They had a meeting, figured out how much they needed to pave a road in terms of money and labor, and basically went around the room and assigned contributions to people."
Researchers have been aware that such practices existed; in Indonesia, these informal systems are called gotong royang, and in Kenya they are called harambee. But while the existing data Olken and Singhal used, such as the World Bank surveys, contain information about local life, that information had not previously been pieced together to create a picture of local taxation practices.
"We're not the first people to have noticed this phenomenon, but I think this is the first paper to treat it like a tax issue," Olken says.
"They mentioned the elephant in the room," says Erzo Luttmer, an associate professor of economics at Dartmouth College. "Asking people to contribute labor to road projects, or to contribute money to replacing the roof on a school building, is a real tax, but it doesn't show up in most statistics. Nobody had inquired as thoroughly into it until now."
Give me your money or your labor
Among the quirks of informal taxation in the developing world, Olken notes, is that "it's not formally enforced through the legal system." And yet, the size of people's contributions is not quite voluntary. About 84 percent of households in the survey data report that their levels of taxation are assigned by village or neighborhood leaders.
In many places, those payments can be made either by cash, or by contributing labor to the public-works projects. "The poorer people tend to contribute more in kind, and the richer people tend to do more in cash," Olken says.
As Olken notes, that option — paying by labor or cash — constitutes what economists call an "optimal screening mechanism," which adds to the knowledge local leaders have about their neighbors. "This kind of device, letting people do either in cash or in kind, can be a way of getting people … to reveal some information about themselves that you might otherwise not know."
Luttmer hopes future research will help scholars further understand how citizens make these kinds of decisions. "Are people taxed when they have time to contribute labor?" he asks. "If it's harvest time, do they have their children or wives attend to their own fields while they contribute labor to the common pool? Which systems lead to the most regressive forms of taxation, and which lead to more progressive tax burdens?"


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Does viewing bullying violence affect the allocation of attention in young adults?
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Season 3, Part 6 of 6
Enjoy the third season of this award-winning series that celebrates life and love. Celia (Anne Reid) and Alan (Derek Jacobi) plan to make the most of their time together, Caroline (Sarah Lancashire) and Kate (Nina Sosanya) settle into married life and old habits come back to haunt Gillian (Nicola Walker).
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Nicole Scherzinger is used to compliments as the lead in the Pussycat Dolls burlesque troupe -- she's beautiful, she dances, she sings.
But on Tuesday night she showed some serious acting skills as well as she pretended to be surprised that she won "Dancing With the Stars." Scherzinger, arguably a professional dancer, won what is supposed to be an amateur celebrity dance competition!
As soon as Scherzinger hit the dance floor at the beginning of its 10th season it was pretty obvious she was going to win it. She was doing splits on the dance floor as octogenarian former astronaut Buzz Aldrin was stumbling around like he was still in space and Pamela Anderson was trying to find a new part of her body to reveal in her skimpy outfit. It wasn't even fair.
The show is supposed to be about watching growth -- watching unpolished dancers gain skills and maybe even inspire folks at home. Say what you want about Kate Gosselin, but at least she was out there hoofin' it every week in a new and alien world. That's what makes watching the show fun.
With Scherzinger, there was no growth. It was like watching Kobe Bryant at a YMCA. Scherzinger is as much a dancer as she is a singer, and the skills are what earn her a living. It's how she started and how she ended. That's why the judges like Carrie Ann Inaba were tripping over themselves to tell her "you're the best dancer we've ever had." Yeah, well.
In most years, Olympic star Evan Lysacek would have been the ringer. As a figure skater, he has had a lifetime of experience at graceful movement and a training ethic to match. But even he usually wears figure skates, so putting him in the competition is reasonably fair.
Scherzinger had no talent gap that I could see. This is why the finals had all the suspense of a professional wrestling match.
Despite the tears, the dried-ice smoke and the drummed-up drama, it was over long before she clutched the coveted dancing-ball trophy. Though it took weeks and maybe a few blisters, Scherzinger won when she entered the field.


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Analysis and synthesis are the two final stages of the experimental Solfège programme.
Analysis brings morphological criteria into the dimensions of the perceptual field, in order to estimate their capacities to emerge as musical values, and possibly to be used in échelles. To do this, it studies the sites and calibres of the criteria in relation to these three dimensions: this leads to the determination of different species for each criterion, which define the different positions it occupies in the perceptual fields.
As for synthesis, it aims to create musical objects, made of "bundles of criteria" which "placed together may display (. . .) a structure of easily perceptible values". To do this, it has to conceive of a new lutherie, or "tablature", adapted to a new theory of musical structures.
In the T.O.M. the stage of analysis is only just sketched out; this is even more true for synthesis which is very briefly set out as a working hypothesis. Moreover, whereas some hypotheses for analysis are summed up in the TARSOM (columns 4-9) where they occupy an important place, the results of synthesis do not appear, and for good reason: there is only a practical stage, merely postulated. The author doe not hide that he will perhaps need years to complete the whole enterprise, and wants to suggest a method rather than results.
Whereas typology, morphology and characterology aim to identify and describe sound, analysis and synthesis seek to effect the transition from sound to the musical.
Analysis uses the pair Criterion/Dimension, to try to describe structures of criteria in the musical perceptual field, and to see if these positions in the field can give rise to échelles; it occupies sector 4 of the 4 listening modes.
Synthesis uses the two pairs: Value/Characteristic and Variation/Texture, according to whether it is considered from the point of view of a discontinuous or a continuous relationship; it occupies sector 1 (of the 4 listening modes).
(Source –Michel Chion (1983). Guide des Objets Sonores. Eds. Buchet/Chastel, Paris. 1995 translation by John Dack/Christine North.)


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Mayor Barrett to spend second night in hospital
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett will spend a second night in the hospital after being treated for exhaustion following a 20-kilometer birthday run Sunday.
Barrett underwent a series of tests Monday at Wheaton Franciscan Heart Hospital of Wisconsin. The mayor's office said nothing alarming was found.
Officials said Barrett was taken to Froedtert Hospital on Sunday, where a series of tests was conducted, and it was concluded the mayor was dehydrated and showing other signs of overexertion.
The mayor's office said Barrett has spoken to staff at City Hall and is monitoring city business from the hospital.
Barrett, 60, is expected to be released from Wheaton Franciscan Heart Hospital on Tuesday.
"Well, at first, it's always alarming but after having talked to his chief of staff, just found out it was more of a checkup, and as a matter of fact, he's doing very, very well. (I am) very happy about that as well," Milwaukee Common Council President Willie Hines said.


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Tuvaluan 'Prince' Ordered To Repay Victims
Media release
9 November 2012
Tuvaluan 'Prince' Ordered To Repay Victims
An unlicensed immigration adviser has been ordered to provide refunds after collecting more than $5,000 running an unlawful immigration business.
Kauapi Lutelu, also known as Prince Pastor Kauapi Lutelu Salanoa of Mangere, pleaded guilty to six charges at Auckland District Court on 27 September 2012.
These included:
• two charges of providing
immigration advice without a
• two charges of holding out as a licensed immigration adviser
• one representative charge of holding out as an immigration adviser
• one representative charge of asking for a fee for the provision of immigration advice.
His Honour Judge Field determined a term of imprisonment would ordinarily be the appropriate starting point for offending of this type. However, in view of personal circumstances and severe mental illness, a sentence of 14 days community detention was imposed in addition to orders giving refunds to four victims.
In January 2010 a Radio 531PI announcement said Mr Lutelu had been given a 'quota' from the Minister of Immigration for 250 Fiji nationals who required work permits or permanent residency.
The announcement said an application for the quota would only be considered if accompanied by a $50 cover charge.
The following month, Mr Lutelu wrote to those who registered for the 'quota' stating he would be charging $1,000 for a work permit and $2,000 for permanent residence.
In May 2010, a visa application filed by Mr Lutelu was returned as Immigration New Zealand (INZ) will not accept applications from unlicensed advisers.
Mr Lutelu applied for a licence six times but was declined by the Immigration Advisers Authority and repeatedly warned not to provide immigration advice.
Barry Smedts, Registrar of Immigration Advisers reminded people that they can avoid falling foul of people like Lutelu.
He said: "Before handing over any money, check the online public Register of Licensed Immigration Advisers and read our Immigration Advice Consumer Guide. If you don't have internet access, call us and we will check the register for you and post you a copy of the Guide. This will tell you where to go for advice and how to report illegal activity.
"There is no real way of knowing how many people paid money to Mr Lutelu because people in New Zealand unlawfully may be afraid to contact us. However, I believe the majority have already come forward as they know the Immigration Advisers Authority has no power to deport them."
Under the Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007, anyone providing immigration advice must be licensed or exempt from the requirement to be licensed.
Licensed immigration advisers are provided with a certificate and wallet card and listed on the Authority's online register. The only people who can give immigration advice without a licence are those who are exempt under the Act, including lawyers, and those working at Community Law Centres or Citizens Advice Bureaux.
You can call the Immigration
Advisers Authority, on freephone 0508 422 422 from New
Zealand or +64 9 925 3838 from overseas to find out
Notes to editor
The Immigration Advisers Authority was set up in May 2008 to regulate immigration advisers both nationally and internationally.
The Authority:
• administers the licensing regime for immigration advisers.
• receives complaints about licensed and previously licensed immigration advisers.
• investigates and takes enforcement action against those breaching the Act.
• maintains a register of licensed immigration advisers.
Under the Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007 a person commits an offence if they provide immigration advice relating to New Zealand without being licensed or exempt.


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Arc'teryx challenges what exists, manufacturing new ideas is their culture. Passion and curiosity fuel a continual drive to explore, to push the boundaries of what is known, regardless of assumptions. Founded by Vancouver climbers in 1989, Arc'teryx has but one single goal; to create equipment that enables a person to be immersed in the moment of doing, regardless of external conditions.
Their Design Centre is a hive of likeminded individuals, a hands-on think tank of active designers, materials experts, pattern makers and product developers who know what they want, how it will be used and why it has to work. Arc'teryx's dedication to craftsmanship is expressed through their manufacturing processes, quality and integrity can only be achieved through effective partnership with their factories and suppliers.
Arc'teryx strive to deliver products that are as good as they can possibly be, so that they perform over time and beyond expectation, this is the heart of what Arc'teryx does and the roots of the company — to create what does not yet exist.


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A record 39 northern right whales were born this winter off the coast of Georgia and northern Florida. The whales migrate to Cape Cod Bay in spring.
Call it a big baby boom of very big (3,000-pound) babies.
According to Amy Knowlton, research scientist at the New England Aquarium, a record 39 northern right whales were born this winter off the coast of Georgia and northern Florida. Considering there were only about 400 in the world, that's a nice little population boost.
"As I recall, that's triple the average rate of births in the past," said Charles "Stormy" Mayo, director of Right Whale Habitat Studies at Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies.
But right whales, which are now feeding in big (from 50 to 60) numbers in Cape Cod Bay, remain deeply imperiled.
"The struggle for right whales to survive in the future is not dependent on one year up or one year down," Mayo said. "What whales need are long-term stable conditions. So we take the positive numbers we had this year and celebrate them but the situation with the right whale is bad. If we'd had a bad year, we might have said it's grave but this year has been a good one."
New England Aquarium maintains the whale photo database and keeps track of population demographics. The individuals are identifiable by calluses on the head.The previous high for births was 31 in 2001.
Life is hazardous for right whales in general, especially when they're young, even when they're 15 feet long and weigh a ton and a half.
"They do get struck by ships disproportionately," said Mayo. "The success of the calves will be measured by how many make it into the reproductive pool many years hence. So everything is slow motion, both success and collapse."
Right whales were hunted from the 11th to 19th centuries and have been protected since 1937. They can live a long time. Knowlton said one whale first seen in 1935 was spotted in 1995; unfortunately with fatal injuries, but that gives it a lifespan of at least 70 years.
But the number of reproductive-age females is only around 80, which limits genetic diversity and if they get too old to breed – could limit it to zero. That's why the recruitment of young whales is critical.
"With only 400 whales, there's a long way to go before the population is healthy. It'll take generations to see the population recover," Knowlton said.
On average, right whales need to be 9 years old before they can reproduce. "A lot of females give birth and go into a resting phase. The interval between calves can be as low as three years. And they give birth to only one calf," Mayo pointed out. "My guess is there won't be anything like that reproduction next year."Earlier arrival
They don't eat when they're down off Georgia. The moms and calves should be on their way north to feed on delicious copepods.
"The food of the Gulf of Maine is what supports the mothers having calves," Mayo noted. "I expect we'll see calves in the very near future. I used to say the first week of April we'd see the first calves. In the past there were several occasions when the bay in late season looked like a nursery ground."
The right whales arrived earlier than usual this year; the first one spotted in January. Now the bay is hopping with them.
"Over the last few weeks an intense aggregation of whales has been feeding in the bay. We've had as many as 50 or 60 animals in the bay," Mayo marveled.
The center counts them from the air, with flights twice a week from January to mid-May. They fly out of Chatham before 10 a.m.
"That gives us more daylight hours," explained Ruth Leeney, director of the aerial survey. "We have days when we end up flying for eight hours. When you have 60 whales and you're taking photos of every individual, you can end up doing a lot of circles. If we don't see any whales, it takes four hours."
They circle over the whale to take photos. The pilot and co-pilot spot the whales and two center team members photograph and record GPS, behavior and other data.
"Cape Cod Bay is an ideal research lab," said Leeney. "It's a place where a large percentage of the population hangs around for a significant portion of time."You don't have to be in an airplane to see the whales.
"Off Race Point they come close to shore. At Provincetown last year at Herring Cove in April you could watch right whales 40 feet away [while you were] standing on the beach," Leeney said. "We see them often from the beach in Truro. You see the blow and the tails when they do a dive."The young calves should arrive in a week or two.
"Boats go out once a week to survey food resources," said Mayo.
Linking whales to available food resources could help predict movements and help avoid ship strikes, a large cause of mortality, or entanglements with fishing gear.
"Cape Cod Bay is one of the real active areas for right whale conservation and one of the most active inshore areas where one of the world's rarest on earth comes. It has supplied them for millennia," Mayo said.
It is supplying them with two food sources; species of Pseudocalanus drift in early in the season. Later there is a second wave of Calanus finmarchicus. The two copepods are only about 1 to 2 millimeters in size but are abundant enough that one patch last April covered 111.2 square kilometers of the bay.
The calanus hasn't arrived yet andwhen it does, Mayo hopes it keeps the whales around another month.
The whales are benefiting from new ship strike rules that slow traffic or reroute it when whales are in the area.
"They are very important advances but they are not the ultimate complete solution for sure. It will be extremely difficult to measure how much impact these rules have had," Mayo said. "Ship strikes are rare events. The actual number that happens is quite low. So if this year it's two and next year it's none, is it a trend or is it just chance?"
But the number does seem to be down. The flights have also rescued entangled whales.
"When we have an entangled right whale in the bay, we can spot them easier than someone on the surface," Leeney said. "Last year, 14 percent of all our flight hours were assisting with entanglements."North Atlantic right whale
Adult weight: Up to 80 tons
Adult length: Up to 55 feet
Lifespan: 70 to 100 years or more
Range: North Atlantic, usually Nova Scotia to southeastern Florida; occasional sightings in Iceland and Norway
Diet: Zooplankton, copepods
Where to view: From Race Point Beach, Herring Cove Beach, Provincetown
Conservation status: Critically endangered; about 400 worldwide— Source: New England Aquarium


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A master ticket has been opened at Bell Mobility for this issue. The Ticket numbers are 1939366 and 1938550. Well, such a great device, but no real use of it. What should we say? Hope, this issue gets fixed asap!


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