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I want my money back.
I recently bought The Complex, by Nick Turse. It purports to deal with the militarization of American society, its economy, education, and so on. I can think of no more important topic. The militarization is happening. Huge sums go for weapons we don't need to fight enemies we don't have. Much of this waste is hidden in plain sight: What the press ignores doesn't exist. The militarization now segues into the establishment of a full-blown national-security state, with further huge sums going to Homeland Security et al. The subject is ripe for a grown-up book.
But no. The Complex reads like a compendium of Google searches intended for a high-school newspaper. I spent thirty years covering the military and constantly saw the same appalling ignorance of weaponry, tactics, technology, history, the same missing of the important to concentrate on absurdities, the borderline dishonesty, the almost willful journalistic incompetence. Turse is par.
The $640 toilet seat. Oh god. There it was, page 83. It rose from the page like the stench from some fetid bog. Practically forever I had to hear about that seat from crusading twelve-year-olds at the Washington Post. It has probably given me PTSD.
You've heard this? The Navy was supposed to have bought a toilet seat for $640 for one of its aircraft. Cartoons by editorial idiots showed the Secretary of Defense with a toilet seat hanging around his neck. You could get one at Home Depot for $9, was the implication, yet the Navy paid $640. Bad old Navy.
The airplane in question was a PC3 Orion, a Lockheed Electra modified for long flights over the ocean in search of submarines. Such a plane needs a toiler for the substantial crew operating the avionics. You don't put a heavy porcelain toilet in an airplane, perhaps in a wooden shack with a moon on the door. Do the toilets on airliners look like the ones in your home? The "toilet seat" in question was a complex injection-molded device with the plumbing in it, constituting most of the toilet. It was not remotely what one thinks of as a toilet seat. Yet Turse, like almost all of the reporters at the time, wants you to think it was. It makes a better story.
I remember that someone went to various makers of complex plastic things and asked for bids. They came in close to what the Navy paid.
On and on goes this drivel. Turse speaks also of the $7600 "coffee maker" bought by the Air Force. One thinks of course of the glass-and-plastic thing on the kitchen counter. Seven thousand green ones for that? Bad old Air Force.
Actually it was a massive stainless-steel appliance to make coffee for people aboard a C-5, a very large transport aircraft. Short of getting the specs and hiring an aircraft engineer and an industrial cost estimator, I have no way of knowing what it should have cost—probably $7600—but the thing bore no faint resemblance to what one thinks of as a coffee maker. But then, Turse bears no faint resemblance to what one thinks of as a reporter. Conservation of symmetry.
As a reporter myself I tracked down dozens of these horror stories, and they were almost always nonsense. There was the $17 (or was it $27?) bolt the Navy bought. The implication in the press invariably was that it should have cost twelve cents in your local hardware store. The actuality:
The Navy had an attack plane, the A3, which, like probably all aircraft, used some nonstandard parts. One of these was a bolt for the nose gear. When the Navy, or an airline, buys a plane, it assumes a certain useful life. After all, aircraft don't last forever. In this case it may have been twenty years. The Navy bought sufficient bolts to last that period.
Then Congress slepped the bird. (A verb from Service Life Extension Program.) The A3 would remain in service for a few more years, three I think. The Navy had run out of bolts and needed a few more.
Now, if you need, say, 29 unusual bolts, you have two ways of buying them. You can order 10,000, in which case mass production will keep the cost to $1.20 each, but then you pay 10,000 times $1.20. (Aircraft quality bolts cost more than the ones you have in your washing machine. Probably a good idea.) Or you can have a machine shop make them more or less by hand as a special order. They then cost $17 each times 29. The latter is far cheaper, but the price per bolt is much higher. This happened. Much too difficult for reporters, and it would never occur to them to ask.
I made the foregoing numbers up, and this many years later won't swear by the details, but they illustrate the principle. This, for my thirty years in the trade, was the level of reporting. No research, no understanding, and no thought of asking the military for its side.
Why does this happen? Logically, either Turse knows his stories are phony—i.e., he's lying—or he doesn't know his subject and didn't bother to find out. I scent the latter. Never suspect mendacity, I say, when overwrought bafflement is a plausible explanation. Reporters are easily fooled, intellectually lazy, and combative. It's a dangerous combination.
The usual result is that they become wildly partisan and attack rather than cover. Turse fits the pattern. He has a whole chapter on the "lavish" life of the military, which lives "high on the hog." What? The military doesn't live high on the hog. I've been on more military bases than Turse has IQ points—this means, I'll guess, at least thirty bases. In fact I spent my high school years on a base (Dahlgren Naval Proving Ground, as it was then called.) Comfortable middle class, except when in the field.
Has this thunderstorm of righteousness ever spent a week in a tank in the Korean winter, when ice is hard as steel and frigid wind howls by like something that wants to bite? It didn't strike me as very high on the hog, but perhaps the Army has a low hog.
Maybe I'm boring the reader. Sorry. But I weary of child reporters aflame with indignant confusion. When there is so much that could be written of the Pentagon's domestic imperialism, so many good questions to be asked, and instead I get the fable of the toilet seat, it annoys me. I want my money back.


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So as I understand it, heat energy of an object is the SUM of all the kinetic energies of the molecules of the object (upto constant factor).
The temperature on the other hand is the AVERAGE of the kinetic energies of all the molecules of the object.
Now when ice is melting at 0 degrees Celsius, the temperature as measured on a thermometer does not go up.
The common explanation is that any heat being absorbed by the ice is being used to break the somewhat strong solid solid bonds between the molecules of the ice.
Here is my question. if heat of an object is what I defined above, then since all the molecules are increasing in kinetic energy, the average of the kinetic energy should also increase, meaning the temperature should increase. But at 0 degrees celsius for ice that does not seem to be the case.
Where am I going wrong in my understanding?

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LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec - As firefighters doused still burning oil tanker cars, more bodies were recovered Sunday in this devastated town in eastern Quebec, raising the death toll to five after a runaway train derailed, igniting explosions and fires that destroyed the downtown district. With dozens of people reported missing, authorities feared they could find more bodies once they reached the hardest-hit areas.
Quebec provincial police Lt. Michel Brunet said Sunday that about 40 people have been reported missing, but cautioned that the number could fluctuate up or down.
"We met many people who had reported family members missing. Right now I can tell you about 40," Brunet said.
Brunet confirmed two more deaths early Sunday afternoon after confirming two people were found dead overnight. One death was confirmed Saturday.
All but one of the 73 cars were filled with oil, which was being transported from North Dakota's Bakken oil region to a refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick.
The eruptions early Saturday morning sent residents of Lac-Megantic scrambling through the streets under the intense heat of towering fireballs and a red glow that illuminated the night sky.
Local Fire Chief Denis Lauzon likened the charred scene to "a war zone."
"This is really terrible. Our community is grieving and it is taking its toll on us," Mayor Colette Roy-Laroche said.
On Sunday afternoon, Prime Minister Stephen Harper toured the town where a large part of the downtown area has been leveled.
"This is an unbelievable disaster," Harper said. "This is a very big disaster in human terms as the extent of this becomes increasingly obvious."
Harper said the whole country is worried about the missing and is praying for the town.
"This is an enormous area, 30 buildings just completely destroyed, for all intents and purposes incinerated," Harper said. "There isn't a family that is not affected by this."
The search for victims in the charred debris was hampered because two tanker cars were still burning Sunday morning, sparking fears of more potentially fatal blasts.
Lauzon said firefighters are staying 500 feet (150 meters) from the burning tankers, which are being doused with water and foam to keep them from overheating.
The multiple blasts came over a span of several hours in the town of 6,000, which is about 155 miles (250 kilometers) east of Montreal and about 10 miles (16 kilometers) west of the Maine border. It is a picturesque lakeside town in Quebec's Eastern Townships.
The derailment caused at least five tanker cars to explode in the downtown district, a popular area packed with bars that often bustles on summer weekend nights. Police said the first explosion tore through the town shortly after 1 a.m. local time. The fire then spread to several homes.
Brunet said he couldn't say where the bodies were found exactly because the families have not been notified. Many feared for the lives of those who were at the Musi-Cafe bar where dozens of people were enjoying themselves in the wee hours of a glorious summer night.
Residents who gathered outside a community shelter Sunday hugged and wiped tears as they braced for bad news about missing loved ones.
Henri-Paul Audette headed there with hope of reuniting with his missing brother. Audette, 69, said his brother's apartment was next to the railroad tracks, very close to the spot where the train derailed.
"I haven't heard from him since the accident," he said. "I had thought ... that I would see him."
Another man who came to the shelter said it's difficult to explain the impact this incident has had on life in Lac-Megantic. About a third of the community was forced out of their homes. David Vachon said he has one friend whose sister is missing and another who is still searching for his mother.
The cause of the accident was believed to be a runaway train, the railroads operator said.
Edward Burkhardt, the president and CEO of Rail World Inc., the parent company of Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, said the train had been parked uphill of Lac-Megantic because the engineer had finished his run. The tanker cars somehow came loose and sped downhill nearly seven miles into the town before derailing.
"We've had a very good safety record for these 10 years," Burkhardt said of the decade-old railroad. "Well, I think we've blown it here."
Joe McGonigle, Montreal, Maine & Atlantic's vice president of marketing, said the company believes the brakes were the cause. He said the rail company has been in touch with Canada's Transportation Safety Board.
"Somehow those brakes were released and that's what is going to be investigated," McGonigle said in a telephone interview Sunday. "We're pretty comfortable saying it is the brakes. The train was parked, it was tied up. The brakes were secured. Somehow it got loose."
Lauzon, the fire chief, said that firefighters in a nearby community were called to a locomotive blaze on the same train a few hours before the derailment. Lauzon said he could not provide additional details about that fire since it was in another jurisdiction. Nantes Fire Chief Patrick Lambert couldn't be immediately reached, but McGonigle confirmed the fire department showed up after the first engineer tied up and went to a local hotel and after someone reported a fire.
"We know that one of our employees from our engineering department showed up at the same time to assist the fire department. Exactly what they did is being investigated so the engineer wasn't the last man to touch that train, we know that, but we're not sure what happened," McGonigle said.
McGonigle said there was no reason to suspect any criminal or terror-related activity.
Because of limited pipeline capacity in North Dakota's Bakken region and in Canada, oil producers are increasingly using railroads to transport much of the oil to refineries on the East, Gulf and West coasts, as well as inland. Harper has called railroad transit "far more environmentally challenging" while trying to persuade the Obama administration to approve the controversial Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast.
The proliferation of oil trains has raised concerns of a major derailment like this. McGonigle said it is a safe way to transport oil.
"There's much more hazardous material that moves by rail than crude oil. We think it is safe. We think we have a safe operation. No matter what mode of transportation you are going to have incidents. That's been proven," McGonigle said. "This is an unfortunate incident."
Myrian Marotte, a spokeswoman for the Canadian Red Cross in Lac-Megantic, said there are about 2,000 evacuees and said 163 stayed at their operations center overnight.
Patrons gathered at a nearby bar were sent running for their lives after the thunderous crash and wall of fire blazed through the early morning sky early Saturday. Bernard Theberge, who was outside on the bar's patio at the time of the crash, feared for the safety of those inside the popular Musi-Cafe when the first explosion went off.
"People started running and the fire ignited almost instantaneously," he said.
"It was like a movie," said Theberge, who considered himself fortunate to escape with only second-degree burns on his right arm. "Explosions as if it were scripted - but this was live."
According to Montreal Maine & Atlantic's website, the company owns more than 500 miles (800 kilometers) of track serving Maine, Vermont, Quebec and New Brunswick.
Montreal, Maine and Atlantic carried nearly 3 million barrels of oil across Maine last year. Each tank car holds some 30,000 gallons (113,600 liters) of oil.
Maine state officials were notified regarding concerns about the smoke from the fire but staff meteorologists don't believe it will have a significant impact, Peter Blanchard of the state Department of Environmental Protection said Sunday.
The Maine environmental agency had previously begun developing protection plans for areas in the state through which the oil trains travel.
But Glen Brand, director of the environmentalist Sierra Club's Maine chapter, said the Quebec derailment is reason enough to call for an immediate moratorium on the rail transport of oil through the state.
"This tragic accident is part of the larger problem of moving oil through Maine and northern New England," Brand said. "It reinforces the importance of moving away from dirty fossil fuels that expose the people of northern New England, Maine and Quebec to a host of dangerous risks."
French President Francois Hollande's office issued a statement offering condolences to the victims in the predominantly French-speaking Canadian province.
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Civil Rights Movement
The civil rights movement was a movement towards racial equality and an end to segregation of African Americans that occurred in the United States from about 1953 to 1968, as courts and Congress made segregation illegal and imposed strict laws attempting to ensure that blacks could be able to vote.
GOP Role in Civil Rights
The GOP always voted in higher percentages for civil rights bills from the 1860s when Republican Abraham Lincoln overturned slavery to the 1960s when the Civil Rights Act was passed.[1]
- 1865: 13th Amendment banning slavery passed by Republican president Abraham Lincoln with unanimous Republican support and most Democrats opposed.
- 1866: 14th Amendment giving due process and equal protection to all races passes with 100% of Democrats voting no in House and Senate.
- 1870: 15th Amendment giving all the right to vote regardless of race passes house with 98% Republican support and 97% Democrat opposition.
- 1875: Civil Rights Act of 1875 passed by Republican president U.S. Grant with 92% Republican support and 100% Democrat opposition.
- 1919: Republican House passes the amendment giving women the right to vote, 85% of Republicans vote yes to 54% of Democrats and 80% of Republicans in Senate vote yes but nearly half of Democrats vote no.
- 1924: Republican president Calvin Coolidge signs the law passed by Republican Congress giving Native Americans the right to vote.
- 1957: Republican president Dwight Eisenhower signs the Republican Party sponsored 1957 Civil Rights Act.
- 1964: Civil Rights Act ending segregation and voter restrictions is passed with 80% of Republicans in the House and 82% in the Senate voting yes, but only 63% of Democrats voting yes in the House and 69% in the Senate.[2] After passing the Civil Rights Act, Democratic president Lyndon B. Johnson brags "I'll have those n****** voting Democratic for the next 200 years."[3]
- 1965: Voting Rights Act passed to remove racial voter discriminations against blacks and hispanics with 82% of Republicans voting yes to 78% of Democrats in the House, and 94% of Republicans in the Senate to 73% of Democrats in the Senate.[4]
- 1973: Only 2 of the 112 racist Democrats who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 actually switched to the Republican Party, John Jarman and Strom Thurmond. All the racist Democrats who had opposed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s were the same ones who in the 1970s supported Roe v. Wade. They went straight from supporting segregation to supporting abortion.
Reconstruction and Jim Crow
During Reconstruction, Radical Republicans tried to guarantee equal rights for emancipated slaves after the American Civil War. They succeeded in passing the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, which in theory required equal protection of the laws and an equal right to vote. President Ulysses Grant successfully suppressed the Ku Klux Klan when it used violence to turn back black gains. The Republican coalition in the South fell apart in the 1870s, and conservative white Redeemers took control. The Redeemers were paternalistic toward blacks but they confronted a Populist element in the 1890s that demanded strict segregation, called Jim Crow.
The Supreme Court allowed segregation in 1896, and black leaders such as Booker T. Washington worked to build an alliance of black businessmen and farmers with benevolent whites, using education as the tool to eventually achieve equality. Militant blacks led by W.E.B. DuBois and the NAACP demanded immediate redress. For a brief while around 1920 militant black separatists gained strength. While blacks slowly improved their economic status in the South in the 20th century, despite lynchings, they remained second class citizens with very little political power. Blacks began moving in large numbers to the North to meet the labor shortages during World War I and World War II. By the 1950s they had a political base in Harlem (New York City) and Chicago, but still very little power. Jim Crow remained as strong as ever in the South, where white Democrats had near-total control.
Modern Movement
The Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren, a liberal Republican, issued Brown vs. Board of education in 1954, declaring legal segregation to be unconstitutional. It marked the culmination of a judicial movement that had been underway for a decade. It had the short-term effect of ending segregated schools in border states, and the long-term effect of ending legalized segregation in schools.
Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy to a lesser degree, and Lyndon Johnson to a major degree became proactive in the Civil Rights movement. Johnson in particular built a coalition that included white churches, Jews, and labor unions, as well as many Republicans such as Everett Dirksen, to build a majority of the northern leadership in favor of action. The white South filibustered but failed stop passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended Jim Crow, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which guaranteed federal oversight of voting rights.
In 1957, Governor Orville Faubus of Arkansas mobilized the state National Guard to prevent a court ordered desegregation of Little Rock public schools. When the federal court issued an injunction Eisenhower intervened decisively, taking control of the National Guard and send in Army combat troops. He enforced the desegregation of schools. In the late 1960s several southern states expressed forceful opposition to what was considered Federal tyranny; some redesigned their state flags to include the old Confederate banner. In 1962, the prospect of a black student being admitted to the University of Mississippi resulted in campus riots suppressed by Federal troops and a national guard now brought under Federal control.
Black leaders
Black leaders claimed that their own efforts were more important in causing change, emphasizing activities like bus boycotts, lunch-counter sit-ins. A black Baptist minister from Atlanta Martin Luther King led the new movement. Painstaking work by labor unions, civil rights groups, and mainstream churches, aided by popular outrage at the violent techniques used by police in some southern cities fueled a national consensus that segregated and second class status had to end. Some of the organizations that spearheaded the movement were the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, or 'Snick'), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and the older National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). All were committed to non-violence and Gandhian Civil Disobedience in the early years, a tactic that was politically essential in order to win public support and to avoid alienating northern voters.
Black Power
Meanwhile a growing black radical movement, led by Muslims like Malcolm X, and inner city gangs, pulled the black community toward separatism. By 1966 the tensions inside the black community were ripping apart the civil rights coalition, as the radicals called for the ousting of all whites in leadership positions. King lost much of his influence, and was unable to stop the wave of rioting that broke out in every major American city with a black population. The riots soured white America on the civil rights movement because it brought violence and turmoil, and led to calls for Law and order.
Other groups
Other groups started to mobilize on behalf of their rights, especially feminists and Latinos, and later the homosexuals made a bid.
Civil Rights Leaders
Non-black supporters
See also
Further reading
- Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 (1988)
- Graham, Hugh Davis. Civil Rights in the United States (1994)
- Graham, Hugh Davis. The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy, 1960-1972 (1990)
- Horton, James Oliver and Horton, Lois E. Hard Road to Freedom: The Story of African America. (2001). 405 pp. by leading black historians
- Patterson, James T. Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and its Troubled Legacy. (2001). 285 pp.
- Riches, William T. Martin. The Civil Rights Movement: Struggle and Resistance. (1997). 196 pp.
- Thernstrom, Stephan and Thernstrom, Abigail. America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible. (1997). 704 pp. by leading conservative scholars
- Verney, Kevern. Black Civil Rights in America. (2000). 135 pp.
Primary sources
- Birnbaum, Jonathan and Taylor, Clarence, eds. Civil Rights since 1787: A Reader on the Black Struggle. (2000). 935 pp.
- D'Angelo, Raymond, ed. The American Civil Rights Movement: Readings and Interpretations. (2001). 592 pp.
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The Telegraph reports that the folk who stood bail for alleged sex pest Julian Assange have been ordered to stump up £93,500. It seems the judge has treated them rather leniently by reducing the amount they each have to pay and by giving them a month to come up with the money.
The bit that really caught my eye was this:
Howard Riddle, Chief Magistrate, told Westminster Magistrates' Court on Monday: "I say immediately that I have real respect for the way that the sureties have conducted themselves in difficult circumstances.So a judicial officer thinks that it's "admirable" to back someone who has broken his bail conditions? I wonder if Howard Riddle would have been so lenient if it had been a common drunk or petty thief who had skipped bail. Somehow I doubt it.
"In declining to publicly (or as far as I know privately) urge Mr Assange to surrender himself they have acted against self-interest.
"They have acted on their beliefs and principles throughout. In what is sometimes considered to be a selfish age, that is admirable."


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For almost 100-years, SF Studios has been the leading film company in the Nordics with its head office in Stockholm, Sweden and subsidiaries in Norway, Denmark and Finland. We produce filmed entertainment for the cinema, television and home entertainment and are in addition the leading distributor of local and foreign films in this market.
Our business areas include; local production as well as Nordic and international co-productions, Theatrical and Home Entertainment distribution, International Sales and Digital online services.
We have a history of working with some of the most esteemed directors from early Nordic cinema as well as the great contemporary creative talents including Mauritz Stiller, Victor Sjöström, Ingmar Bergman, Bo Widerberg, Lasse Hallström, Bille August, Colin Nutley, Daniel Espinosa, Kasper Barfoed, Babak Najafi, Mads Mathiessen, Greta Garbo, Ingrid Bergman, Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Stellan Skarsgård, Joel Kinnaman, Alicia Vikander – and many, many more.
Today, we build on that legacy by finding and promoting films and giving ideal production opportunities to new, talented and emerging film makers. Our expertise lies in finding, marketing and distributing popular and well-crafted film and television productions with great potential of success in the Nordic countries. We create worlds that people want to return to.
AB Svensk Filmindustri (SF) was founded on December 27, 1919 with the merger of AB Svenska Biografteatern and Filmindustri AB Skandia. The new company had to register and it became urgent to have a new company logo.
There are two legends of how this was solved. One is that it was the head of the advertising department (department of artistic advertising as it was called), Nils Hårde, who rapidly created the famous logo. Nils Hårde was not only head of the department for more than three decades (1920 – 1953), he was also one of the most acknowledged poster creators of his time with quite a few posters that have become classics.
Nils Hårde (1888-1962) was a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen in 1908-1911. He then moved to Gothenburg and worked as an artist at the newspaper Göteborgs Morgonpost before he joined SF in 1920. On the poster for Gösta Berlings Saga, 1924, and the only SF picture Greta Garbo actually starred in, Nils Hårde's signature is on the top right hand corner and the SF logo on the top left hand corner.
The other legend states that it was an unknown lady who created the texts for the silent films, but there is no proof of this theory.
The Nils Hårde theory is the most likely and the one that SF is using as its official version.
The first film poster that used the SF logo was director Mauritz Stiller's Johan, in 1921. In those early days the logo was very simple with a white S and F against a black background. It was not until the late 30's that the company changed it to the two thin circle lines with the two beautifully shaped capital letters (still in black/white).
The logo was mainly used for print media and in the news reels (SF Journal). For the films it was rarely used, sometimes at the end and almost never as a vignette at the beginning.
During the 60's a somewhat thicker logo was produced and the SF mark was placed on a square-shaped plate. From then on a number of variations were produced but in the mid-80's it was decided that the original shape and form (the one from the early 30's) was the ultimate version but now in a red colour.
The SF vignette tune was composed in 1943, but in order to see the big picture it is necessary to go back to the early days of 1910 to understand how the music is connected to the SF logo.
The exhibitor AB Svenska Biografteatern (the company was merged with Filmindustri AB Skandia in 1919 and re-named Svensk Filmindustri) decided to screen a weekly review in their theatres prior to the main film event. The review reflected the events and happenings of the time, both small and bigger ones, and of course had reports from the world of film. It was the only channel for live news in those days and the only way for people to actually see what was going on in the world.
When SF took over the weekly review in 1919 it was re-named the SF Journal.In the early 30's the talkies had its breakthrough and a new SF Journal was released every fortnight and accompanied with neutral music.
During the Second World War there were a lot of competing journals screened in cinemas, such as the UFA Journal and the Paramount Journal, and in order to profile themselves the journals had to have its own signature tune.
At the time, SF had a Musical Director named Jules Sylvain employed. He was born in Stockholm in 1900 as Axel Stig Hansson and died in 1968 in Castiglione, Italy. Sylvain composed some 800 melodies during his career and is regarded the number one composer of Swedish popular melodies. Sylvain headed the SF musical department between 1937 and 1945.
According to the legend, Sylvain was in 1943, at a particular time, broke, had a slight hangover and in desperate need of money, asked to compose an "on and off signature" tune for the SF Journal.
Being a very talented musician it only took him a few minutes to come up with a melody that was to become the classic SF tune and he was paid 500 Swedish crowns for the trouble. The music was arranged by the skilful music arranger Julius Jacobsen and from then on and into the early 60's the signature was heard at every screening of the SF Journal at SF's theatres. Because of the breakthrough of TV during that period, the SF Journal no longer served its purpose and the production of the SF Journal was terminated and the music vanished into oblivion.
Then in the early 80's SF decided that they wanted to profile their cinema screenings and the tune was once again put into use. The score was re-arranged by Peter Wiberg and kept in its new arrangement for almost twenty years. In 2002 the score once again was re-arranged in order to give it a little more fateful and classic touch. This time the arrangement was conducted by Adam Nordén, a well known film score composer. We have since then also added a more "childish" version used for the brand "Children's SF Favourites".
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—After leading by as much as 15 in the first half, the Birmingham-Southern women's basketball team lost a heartbreaker to Centre College at home, Sunday afternoon, 67-66 in Bill Battle Coliseum.
The Panthers fall to 5-8 overall and 1-2 in the Southern Athletic Association, while the Colonels move to 4-9 overall and 2-1 in the SAA.
BSC opened the game with a 7-0 lead in the first two minutes and led for the entire first half, going up by as much as 15, 29-14, at the 7:40 mark. The Panthers led 34-20 with 5:12 left in the half, but Centre used a 10-2 run to close out the period and BSC led 36-30 at halftime.
The Colonels opened the second half with a 9-2 run to take their first lead of the game, 39-38 at the 15:43 mark. The game was back and forth after that, with neither team leading by more than three for the remainder of the game. The teams tied it up 42-42 at the 14:23 mark and would play to 11 more ties, with 13 total lead changes. The Panthers led by three, 62-59, with 4:56 left to play, and led by two, 66-64, with 51 seconds left, but a layup by Maggie Hartlage tied it up 66-66 with 33 seconds left. BSC turned it over after that and fouled the Colonels with three seconds on the clock. Mary Winstead made one-of-two at the line to put Centre up by one, and the Panthers were unable to score in the final three seconds.
Seniors Caroline King and Alex Adams led BSC with 17 points apiece, and senior Erin Moore led with nine rebounds. Junior Elizabeth Bromirski and freshman Kelsey Brown also had 11 points each, and King led with three assists.
Paige Baechle led all players with 26 points and 13 rebounds for Centre, followed by Bridget Winstead with 11 points and Chelsea Benham with 10. Mary Winstead led with four assists.
The Colonels out-shot the Panthers from the field and from three-point range. Centre was 23-53 (.434) overall and 6-14 (.429) from beyond the arc, and BSC hit 22-59 (.373) overall and 8-22 (.364) from long range. The Panthers hit 14-17 (.824) from the free throw line, while the Colonels were 15-20 (.750).
Centre also out-rebounded BSC, 38-33, but committed 15 turnovers to the Panthers' 12.
The Panthers are at home again this Wednesday, Jan. 9, stepping out of conference play to face Rust College at 6 p.m. in Bill Battle Coliseum. BSC is also at home this Saturday, Jan. 12, to take on SAA foe Millsaps College at 3 p.m.


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USC quarterback Cody Kessler did not practice Tuesday because he underwent a procedure on his toe for a staph infection. Kessler spent at least one night in a hospital and received an injection before the Fresno State game.
The pain returned after the game, however, and Kessler was limping. It is not known if Kessler contracted the staph infection at USC, because he is currently the only player suffering from it. Last year, safety Gerald Bowman underwent surgery on his arm for a staph infection.
"He had a deal with his toe that had been bothering him throughout the ballgame," Sarkisian said of Kessler. "We felt like we wanted to take care of it sooner rather than later.
"This morning was the first chance we could have a procedure done to get it, in our opinion, cleaned up. It obviously didn't affect his play Saturday."
Kessler said he will return to practice today. If the pain persists, he might need another injection before the Stanford game.
"I'm fine," Kessler said. "It's just my toe."
Without Kessler, freshman Max Browne took most of the snaps during practice Tuesday. Browne said he believed he was ready to run the offense despite being clearly behind Kessler.
"I feel like I know the game plan," Browne said. "I've been preparing since the day I got here."
Williams sprains ankle
All-American defensive tackle Leonard Williams suffered a high-ankle sprain and left practice. He will likely be less than 100 percent for the game. Offensive guard Damien Mama dislocated his knee cap, but it was quickly reset back in place.
"He scared himself more than anything else," Sarkisian said.
Fullback Jahleel Pineer aggravated his shoulder. Tight end Chris Willson is expected to be out at least six weeks with a broken foot.
Agholor not happy
Wide receiver Nelson Agholor was named in some preseason All-American teams but was inconsistent against Fresno State despite catching two touchdown passes.
"I definitely could have done a better job," Agholor said.
Agholor made a circus catch on one play when the ball bounced off his shoulder pad and he caught it in the air.
"I should have caught it the first time," Agholor said.
Agholor's now lined up on the inside at the slotback position, which he claimed is good for him.
"It helps me more to become a full football player," he said.
By moving Agholor inside, it also allows USC to start freshman sensation Juju Smith at the conventional wide receiver position.
Is coaches feud over?
Last year, Sarkisian accused Stanford of faking injuries during the Cardinal's 31-28 victory over Washington. Stanford coach David Shaw responded by saying Sarkisian was "unprofessional."
But both downplayed the incident Tuesday.
"We never talked about it again," Shaw said. "No animosity whatsoever."
Sarkisian said both coaches and their wives were in Hawaii last spring, and the subject never came up during the trip.
"David and I are highly competitive," Sarkisian said. "We both want to win. There may be a disagreement or two Saturday."


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Produced by Bob Rock, who also handled production duties on Veruca Salt's Eight Arms to Hold You, Nina Gordon's debut solo effort Tonight and the Rest of My Life arrived in 2000. (Although finished one year prior, the album's release had been delayed due to the folding of Gordon's original label, Outpost Records.) The title track nevertheless became a moderate hit on the pop and adult contemporary charts, two areas in which Veruca Salt had never ventured. After a five-year waiting period (during which time she recorded an entire album with producer Ethan Johns, only to scrap the finished product), Gordon reprised her partnership with Rock for her second solo effort, Bleeding Heart Graffiti. A concept album about the beginning, middle, and end of a relationship, Bleeding Heart Graffiti arrived in summer 2006. ~ Amanda Nusbaum & Andrew Leahey
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Peggy Noonan: Obama Needs a Better Syria Strategy
Wall Street Journal Declarations columnist Peggy Noonan on what's at stake in Syria, and how the U.S. should proceed. Photos: Associated Press
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... it didn't rely on Dan Henninger Mary Kissel was on vacation ... well the whole world is watching out to see whether the United States carries out some action against Syria as has been reported the news all week long ... here talk about that with me is the Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan ... welcome Peggy ... and well being here good to have you here let's try to make it simple should the United States in some way ... back in Syria ... I'd I have to send you all all of my instincts and impulses ... Ari against so far the idea ... of going in there ... militarily ... I think the key here's the problem for me in it and I suspect for a lot of people ... when in government like Syria's is in public in the U two aircraft ... guessing its own people ... we are walking through a door ... into when dangerous place in a dark place ... so that I fully concede and as I've been surrounded the past week with people saying what some iconic go one man ... quite understand what they're saying and I agree with them while at the same time I ever real reservation about this moment we can ... look at the aam ... I ... I ... I see nothing can be gained from what we are hearing bandied about as potential us ... of the responses including this ... foolishly put shot across the bow kind of stuff ... I think the president himself is ambivalent I think great nations cannot be laid into war is ambivalent Lee ... I think obviously a military action of the sort being talked about his and I do for ... so all of my impulses are ... are ... no sure way from that while at the same time conceding soccer's governing about the weapons of mass destruction Apollo in old Peggy I think ... what you deserve speaks for a lot of people the sense of ambivalence a sense of discomfort which has come out of Iraq Afghanistan people wanna step back a little bit ... but that China raises the issue of leadership Syria is a big event ... awful things are happening there ... in all of us are absorbing this in the new isn't just trying to make what sense of that ... that we can ... it's kind of a moment when you look to your national leadership for some direction ... this is why they are in those positions what are we supposed to think about this ... and yet they really haven't been doing that they themselves seem to been almost bystanders to the it that ... we get to this ... point ... we're seeing the so the nation has to ask ... it ... almost seems there is a little bit late in the game for leadership and stepping forward ... I thank so many in the present and I'm it's odd were talking about going to war with the nation not the President Omar seems to avoid talking about men and making his own ... any avoid so I think making his own case for action or inaction ... I'm not impressed but I have the Republicans or the Democrats on Capitol Hill ... to continue with their five week vacation which other Americans would really like to have ... and you are ... it is clear to me ... members of Congress are just waiting for something to happen and then it will work quote unquote or not work for non quote and then they will respond are you know with what they think ... the Brits are ahead of us here ... at least in Parliament the reading about it than even the French but I've but I'm very impressed by the Brits is just ... our inescapable the British in their debates on the ad on the floor did they and their arguments on I am I think that's a good thing ... American politicians should be that irresponsible ... it is shameful them there ... well you know you mentioned you to Brady and that suggests that ... the vents in Syria are no watched by everybody in the world in an unprecedented sort of way ... everyone absorbs these events ... and the dynamic behind them the expectation that maybe the United States is going to do something about the fact that Assad is using chemical weapons ... against its own people ... that raises the question of the implications of that was not acting in other words it isn't just normal people watching ... it's all of the bad actors and bad guys around the world North Korea say ... China Russia ... who are waiting to see whether the United States is going to step in and a situation like this because if they're not ... it allows them and other parts of the world to start stepping forward and causing trouble elsewhere ... oh I think that guys will be bad guys in any case my thought the past week as the end ... why he is they are not any international community that stands up and says whoa this is terrible ... why are we not ... D handing the United Nations for not having enough people when the net ... to shake their hands and say he meant and he is going down the impact here we shouldn't be doing and ... I don't think America is the only answer ... to these questions ... but I am ... not happy to see the civilized world not come for it and couldn't say and in concern and ... protest their own ... coalition of the willing


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NEW DELHI (AP) — A court in India's capital has dropped a weapons charge against a New York City police officer and is allowing him to leave the country, his lawyer said Saturday.
Officer Manny Encarnacion was arrested in March while visiting his wife in New Delhi after Indian airport authorities discovered three bullets he had accidentally packed in his luggage. He had been out on bail since his arrest, but was barred from leaving India until the case was resolved.
Before leaving for India, Encarnacion went to a police firing range and put the bullets in a coat pocket, according to New York City police. He packed the coat for the trip, forgetting that the ammunition was there, the police said.
Encarnacion, 49, joined the NYPD in 2004 and is assigned to a precinct in Harlem.
His lawyer, Samarjit Pattnaik, said the court heard the case Friday. "All charges against the officer were quashed," he said.
Encarnacion's arrest took place months after a diplomatic spat between the United States and India over the arrest and strip search of an Indian consular official for alleged visa fraud in New York. But Indian authorities say Encarnacion's arrest had nothing to do with the diplomatic spat.
Pattnaik said he would approach the court early next week to get Encarnacion's passport released, and that the officer should be set to leave the country by the end of next week.


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OSHKOSH, Wis. (csssaints.com) – The St. Scholastica football team scored the first 10 points of Saturday's NCAA Division III playoff game at Titan Stadium, but the fifth-ranked University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh scored the final 55 points as the Titans advanced with the 55-10 victory.
The Saints were the team getting off to a fast start. After both teams exchanged punts, CSS's Tyler Zurn intercepted a tipped ball at the Oshkosh 28-yard-line. The Saints would have to settle for a field goal and it would be a long one as the UMAC Special Teams Player of the Year, Mike Theismann connected on a program-best 44-yard field goal. For the second straight year, the Saints scored the first points in a playoff game taking a 3-0 lead five minutes in.
Then on the Titans' ensuing possession, Chas Lemon would force a fumble on the first play and Jordan Rasmussen would recover at the Oshkosh 43-yard-line. CSS took advantage, scoring its first NCAA postseason touchdown with Tyler Harper hitting Nick Thiry for a 25-yard touchdown reception to make the score 10-0 St. Scholastica with under eight minutes to play in the first quarter.
However, the Oshkosh offense woke up on its next possession, converting a fourth-and-one around midfield and three, third-down conversion, including on its scoring play when Nate Wara hit Cole Myhra for a 12-yard screen pass to make the score 10-7 at the end of the first quarter.
After the Saints came up short on a fourth-and-one at the Oshkosh 17-yard-line, the Titans got a big play when Wara hit Caleb Voss for a 46-yard touchdown on a third-and-long to put Oshkosh ahead 13-10.
After a CSS three-and-out, Wara connected with Zach Kasuboski for a 23-yard reception, even though the ball was tipped by a CSS defender, making it 20-10. After another CSS punt, the Titans scored again on a Cole Myhra 5-yard touchdown plunge and just like that the score was 27-10 UW-Oshkosh with seven minutes left in the first half.
The Titans got one more score before the half and it came on the defensive side of the football as Taylor Goodman scooped up a fumble and then would lateral it to Nick Jolin, who scampered in from 12 yards out to make the halftime score 34-10 Titans.
The Titans ran for 254 yards in the first half and accumulated 361 yards of total offense. CSS threw for 111 yards and totaled 150 yards of offense.
The Saints opened with the ball in the second half and drove it into Oshkosh territory, but the drive would stall at the 34-yard-line. After another Saints punt, the Titans proceeded to move the ball 91 yards and punch it into the end zone on a Jake Dostalek 4-yard run to make it 41-10.
The Titans got in the end zone one more time before the end of the third quarter and it took just three plays to do it as Cole Myhra scored from a yard out to make it 48-10. Myhra added another TD with over four minutes left in the game to make the final score 55-10.
The Titans finished with 600 yards of total offense with 413 yards coming on the ground. The Saints finished with 243 yards of total offense on 174 passing yards and 69 rushing yards.
Titan quarterback Nate Wara was 11-for-23 through the air for 187 yards three touchdowns and an interception. Wara also ran for 128 yards. Cole Myhra ran for 198 yards and three scores. Caleb Voss had four receptions for 106 yards and touchdown.
Tyler Harper was 14-of-32 passing for 174 yards and one touchdown. Jake Jensen ran for 56 yards on 17 carries. Cory Gebhard had four receptions for 73 yards. Nick Thiry, in his final game as a Saint, had three receptions for 64 yards and one touchdown. Alec French led the defense with 10 tackles, including two for a loss.
The Titans (11-0) move on to face Bethel University, who defeated Concordia University-Chicago 24-23.
The Saints' season will end with an 8-3 record. CSS will say goodbye to 19 seniors from a class that went to two consecutive NCAA Division III playoffs.
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Fair foods. Do you hit the stands for deep-fried Twinkies? bacon-wrapped-beer-battered hot dogs on a stick? fried Coca-Cola? deep-fried bacon? fried Kool-aid? fried butter? chocolate-covered bacon on a stick? or is it some of the tamer selections that you crave, like corn dogs, cotton candy, and candied apples?
I haven't been to a fair in ages, but Hubs hit the agriculture-centered DakotaFest this week. He didn't come home with tales of wild fair foods, just a bag of Kettle Corn.
*sigh* Not fair.
Don't get me wrong. I love the salty and sweet combo of Kettle Corn, but I also get a hankering for all those things that are just so bad for me. Fried things sometimes call my name. I was hoping to live vicariously through Hubs' gastric fair adventures.
Oh well. I will just have to make some Deep-Fried Green Beans with a Zesty Dipping Sauce. They aren't as wild and crazy as some fair food, but they are a fairly tasty treat.
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vegetable or peanut oil (for frying)
1 cup flour
1 cup yellow cornmeal
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1/2 tablespoon black pepper
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In a large dutch oven, add oil to a 2-inch depth.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration may institute a "rolling" furlough to keep meat plants open during automatic budget cuts rather than idle all 8,400 U.S. meat inspectors at the same time, a House subcommittee chairman said on Tuesday.
Meat packing and processing plants would have to close if all inspectors were furloughed at the same time to comply with the cuts. By law, plants cannot ship meat without the Agriculture Department inspection seal.
The administration estimates some $10 billion in production would be lost if inspectors were laid off en masse for two weeks, or their agency's share of cuts. Stores and restaurants could run short of meat temporarily.
"It appears now it's a rolling furlough," Texas Republican Michael Conaway, chairman of a House Agriculture subcommittee, told reporters. "No one plant would be shut down."
The timing and assignment of furloughs would be spread across the country to minimize the impact on processors, said Conaway, who asked the USDA last week to explain in detail how it would apply the budget cuts. A USDA spokesman was not immediately available for comment.
The USDA also did not respond to questions about how the agency would approach possible furloughs at its Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), which among other things generates prices used as benchmarks for livestock futures at CME Group Inc. The USDA has not mentioned AMS in its comments about the sequester.
Conaway said the administration has not replied in writing to his request for information about meat inspections and the White House budget office "owes us an explanation." The budget office was the first to raise the prospect of a furlough of all 8,400 inspectors and a resultant meat industry shutdown.
Although the spending cuts are due to take effect on Friday, it could be weeks or months before the meat industry is directly affected. Meat inspectors are guaranteed at least 30 days' notice of a furlough.
The USDA has not specified a date when furloughs would begin, but has insisted they are unavoidable.
"This is a direct prescription from Congress to reduce every line item," Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said last week.
Up to one-third of the USDA's 100,000 employees may be affected by furloughs. The USDA says the cuts would deny food aid to 600,000 pregnant women, new mothers and infants and also force closure of hundreds of Forest Service campgrounds, picnic areas and visitors centers during the spring and summer.
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Novelist Ron Hansen named 2013 Evil Companions Literary Award winner
Novelist Ron Hansen is the 2013 winner of the Evil Companions Literary Award, a long-running Denver honor that will see the acclaimed author feted April 11 at the Oxford Hotel in LoDo. The event, which benefits the Denver Public Library, is open to the public. (See below for ticket information.)
Hansen is probably best known for his 1983 novel, "The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford." It was adapted for the film starring Brad Pitt. Hansen's output includes eight novels, two short-story collections, an essay collection and a children's book. He also authored the novel "Atticus," which was a finalist for the National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner Award.
His most recent release, "She Loves Me Not: New and Selected Stores," was released in November.
A Nebraska native, Hansen is a professor of writing and literature at Santa Clara University in California.
Previous recipients of the award include Jim Harrison, Annie Proulx, Tom McGuane, Richard Ford and Kent Haruf.
The partners behind the event are the Oxford Hotel, Tattered Cover Bookstore, and Jean and David Milofsky. The award was inspired by the Evil Companions group, a Mile High collection of folks with literary interests who met in the 1950s and 1960s to share food, drink and book talk.
Tickets to the event are $70 for general admission, $60 for students and educators, $150 for patrons and a $600 Book Club package of 10 tickets. Tickets and information can be obtained at dplfriends.org or by calling 720-865-2050.


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Acapulco gang rape: One woman "saved by the fact that she is Mexican," authorities say
ACAPULCO, Mexico Armed, masked men who raped six Spanish tourists in the Mexican resort of Acapulco spared the lone Mexican woman in the group because of her nationality, adding yet another macabre twist to the case that has further hurt the resort's already battered reputation.
It was unclear whether the group of 12 Spaniards who fell prey to the attack had been targeted because of their nationality in the three-hour ordeal at a rented house on a tranquil beach dotted with restaurants, small hotels and rental homes. Most of the six men and six women live in Mexico City and were vacationing in Acapulco.
The five attackers burst into the house and held the group at gunpoint, said Acapulco Mayor Luis Walton. They tied up the six men with phone cords and bathing suit straps and then raped the six Spanish women.
Walton said the Spaniards had been "escorted," apparently under police protection, out of Acapulco on Tuesday.
Guerrero state Attorney General Martha Garzon told local media that the attackers' motive was "robbery, and to have fun," and they drank mescal they found at the house after committing the rapes. The lone Mexican woman, who's married to one of the Spaniards, "was saved by the fact that she is Mexican."
"She says she identified herself to the (attackers) and asked not to be raped, and they told her that she had passed the test by being Mexican and they didn't touch her," Garzon told Radio Formula. While some Mexicans harbor resentment against Spaniards dating to colonial times, the Spaniards may have been targeted for other reasons, like their appearance or possessions.
Authorities and residents of Acapulco struggled to come to terms with the attack and its near-certain effect on the area's tourism industry, amid concerns that such violence could affect the draw of other, safer Mexican resorts.
Walton rushed to apologize Wednesday for his comment from Monday that "this happens everywhere in the world, not just in Acapulco or in Mexico."
"I apologize for having said that," he said Wednesday. "Of course this worries us and we don't want anything like this to happen in Acapulco or anywhere else in the world."
He added, "We know this is going to affect our tourism."
It's not clear how much interest there was in Acapulco among international tourists even before the Monday attacks, despite a major effort announced last year by business magnate Carlos Slim, the world's richest man, to rescue Acapulco by building parks and recreational centers.
Oceania and Regent Seven Seas Cruises, some of the last lines making port calls at Acapulco, cancelled them in December, the company confirmed.
The violence has included drug gang shootouts along the resort's main coastal boulevard and the dumping of severed heads on city streets.
But the early Monday attack exposed a security situation so bad that horrific violence was possible even in areas that appear relatively safe, like the laid-back stretch of beach southeast of the city's center where the Spaniards rented the house.
The manager of a small hotel near the house said he heard shouting during the attack just after midnight Monday, but did nothing because he felt it would be too dangerous. The man did want to give his name for safety reasons.
Other Mexican resorts continue to welcome tens of millions of international visitors every year, even as foreign tourism has largely vanished in Acapulco. Some feared the chilling effect of Monday's attack will be felt elsewhere.
"We are definitely not as contaminated with the crime issue as other states in Mexico," said Juan Carlos Gonzalez, tourism secretary of Quintana Roo, the Caribbean coast state where Cancun is located and which hosted about 17 million tourists last year. "We are really sorry about what happened with the Spanish tourists ... because in one way or another, it is something that affects Mexico's image."
"Apart from the illegal activities that occur between drug gangs, the idea that they would attack some tourist, that would hurt all the efforts we are making."
He said his state "certainly could have some cancellations, but given the number of Spanish tourists, it would not be significant."
Rafael Gallego Nadal, president of the Spanish Confederation of Travel Agencies, said the vast majority of the 50,000 Spaniards who head to Mexico every year travel to the Caribbean coast and not to the Acapulco area that has been beset by drug violence for decades.
"This was a terrible attack but it's not the first time that something bad has happened in that part of Mexico. We Spaniards go to the Mexican Riviera" in and around Cancun, he said. "For us, this is an incredibly safe zone."
Gallego noted that most members of the group attacked are believed to be Spaniards living in Mexico City, and that Acapulco is a much bigger draw for domestic Mexican tourism than it is for international visitors.
Many Spaniards will go to Mexico during the long Easter Week vacation, and Gallego said he's heard no talk from travel agencies or groups about reducing package tour prices because of the rapes.
Kathy Gerhardt, a spokeswoman for Travel Leaders, a network of independently owned and operated travel agencies in the U.S., said events in Acapulco barely registers on U.S. tourists' radar anymore. "Those individuals trying to lump Acapulco into the list of top Mexico destinations U.S. travelers visit are misinformed. It has been decades since it was a hot tourist destination; today it is more of a destination for Mexican nationals rather than U.S. tourists."
In the group's recent survey of over 1,000 travel agency owner, managers and agents, "not a single individual chose Acapulco as a top international destination they are booking for their clients," Gerhardt wrote in an email, adding "we do not see any `spillover effect"' for areas like Cancun, which Travel Leaders lists as the number-two foreign destination for U.S. travelers, after Caribbean island cruises.
Gallego said it's important for Mexican authorities to make arrests soon to prove that they can punish those responsible. Garzon, the state prosecutor, said "we have strong evidence to lead us to those responsible for this reprehensible act."
Acapulco is the granddaddy of Mexican resorts. Elizabeth Taylor was married there, John F. and Jackie Kennedy came on their honeymoon, and Howard Hughes spent his later years hiding out in a suite at the Princess Hotel, a pyramid-shaped icon in the exclusive Punta Diamante, or Diamond Point, zone.
Beheadings and drug gang shootouts, some on the city's main seaside boulevard, became more frequent after 2006, as gangs fought for control of the city's drug and extortion business.