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Geo's Pakistan Idol grand finale today
KARACHI: After mesmerising an incredible 460 million viewers in over 150 countries worldwide for more than a decade, television's biggest Starmaker reality show Pakistan Idol now comes to its final stage and its grand finale is being telecast today (Sunday) at 8:00pm on Geo TV.
The stage is all set for the Pakistan Idol finale, where the two finalists – Peshawar's Shoaib Muhammad and Zamad Baig from Mandi Bahauddin – will battle it out for the coveted title as well as the prize. Their journey started in 2013 when the boys were selected, amongst thousands of aspirants, to take part in the competition. Today is the last chance for the audience to vote for their favourite contestant. On Sunday (April 27, 2014) at 12 noon, the viewers will discover the first ever Pakistan Idol.
The winner of 'Pakistan Idol' will not only get fame, fortune and a title to represent Pakistan through his vocal chords, but he will also get a Rs2.5 million cash price, a brand new Honda City Aspire and a recording contract worth millions of rupees.
So let's have a look at the two remaining contestants. From the two, one will outshine the other and become the first 'Pakistan Idol'. However, it is not going to be a simple case of who has better vocals but of who gets more votes. And votes can depend on the contestants' personality, stage presence, likeability factor and of course, the ability to sing and perform.
Muhammad Shoaib resides in Peshawar. Zamad Baig who flew all the way from Lahore, belongs to Mandi Bahauddin and was one of the few lucky contestants who was chosen from a large number of contestants who came to audition for 'Pakistan Idol'. Pakistan Idol's judges are Ali Azmat, Bushra Ansari and Hadiqa Kiani.
Zamad has a zeal to follow his dream of becoming a singer and his focus of achieving his dreams has taken him far into the competition. Baig has a raw element to his voice, which often led the judges to compare him to the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. He believes Sufi rock is his genre and he seems to excel in the show by choosing appropriate songs for his genre.
Shoaib is also a Pakhtun, adding to the diversity of the show representing all sections of the people in the competition. Shoaib does not have formal training in singing, but has managed to mesmerise the audience and the judges with his soft and soothing voice with a tinge of huskiness. With his humble nature and beatific grin, he aspires to go really far with his singing career.
Vying for the most coveted title of Pakistan Idol, thousands of voices from all over the country auditioned over a period of several months to become part of the largest singing platform not only in Pakistan but also the world.
Naturally not all of them could become part of the show, and so Pakistan Idol's judges — Ali Azmat, Bushra Ansari and Hadiqa Kiani — spent months selecting just the right contestants who could bring 'the complete package' to the table. And eventually they selected 24 contestants. Only two are now left in the contest.


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Singer Meg Mac's Perth date sold out so quickly that within days she'd added an extra four dates. Scoop caught up with her to chat about making her new album sound real, spending time in Brooklyn and exploring Fremantle.
You say you were aiming for a 'live sound' and felt it was important to leave 'mistakes' in the record, why did you want to create this atmosphere?
Yeah, it's the reason I made the album with Niles City Sound. I wanted it to feel real – I think music can be more powerful when it is unedited. I chose my takes based on my performance, not how perfectly they were sung – so you can hear mistakes throughout the album but to me that's all part of it.
What's your favourite song on the record and why?
One of my favourites is 'Ride It'. Recording this song is what inspired me to pick up the guitar, so when I was finishing off the album in New York I went out and got my first electric guitar.
How was recording this album different to the processes you've used in the past? Was there anything that you found particularly challenging about using this method?
When I started I was just recording songs, I didn't have a plan at all to make an EP, it just happened. But I went to Fort Worth with all the songs for the album and with a plan to make the album. It was different and it was hard but it's meant to be.
You say the record is meant to be like an 'internal pep talk', can you expand on that? Where did that idea come from? Why did you feel you needed a pep talk?
For me, writing songs has always been like that, I do it by myself – it's very personal. So a lot of the songs on the album came from me figuring things out, wanting to be stronger, wanting to stand up for myself and not knowing how to. There's a song called 'Brooklyn Apartment' which is probably the first time I've started to tell someone else's story. It was written about the time I spent living in an apartment in Brooklyn.
The song 'Low Blows' is about standing up for yourself and about feeling uncomfortable but not saying anything, is there any moment or situation you had in mind when you were writing this?
I find myself in these situations more than I'd like, but I'm working on it.
Writing and recording an album must be an emotionally exhausting process, how do you relax while you're working on a project like this?
It was my first time making an album and I was overseas by myself for most of it, so it was nice to Skype home and just find out what was going on with everyone.
Your tour date in Perth sold out so quickly, we're glad you've added extra dates. Are you looking forward to coming to WA?
Yes, I'm now doing five shows in Perth!
Is there any one thing you like to do in a city while you're on tour? Do you get much time to go out and explore?
When I was in Fremantle on a tour, in between soundcheck and the show I went exploring and found a hat and wore it that night and for the rest of the tour. I like doing stuff like that.
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Knife criminals almost three times as likely to face jail than in 2010
PUBLISHED: 17:34 20 December 2018 | UPDATED: 17:34 20 December 2018
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More people were sent straight to jail for knife crime in Suffolk during the 12 months ending September than in any other year of this decade.
In June, new guidelines came into force to ensure a stricter and more consistent approach to sentencing.
Those convicted of knife and offensive weapon offences in the last year were almost three times as likely to go to jail – with 33% handed immediate custody, compared to 13% at the turn of the decade. They were also more likely to have previous convictions – 36% compared to 20% in 2010.
Just 9% were cautioned, compared to a quarter of those convicted in 2010, but 15% still escaped with an absolute or conditional discharge, fine or other disposal.
Convictions had fallen from 272 in 2008/09 to 146 in 2014/15 – but then increased over three years.
Despite convictions reaching 199 in the year ending September – the most dealt with by the criminal justice system since 2009 – the rate per 100,000 remains lower than in Norfolk, Essex and on average across England and Wales, according to Ministry of Justice (MoJ) figures.
The MoJ said offenders were now more likely to get immediate custodial sentences, while the proportion of offences resulting in caution is lower than ever.
Suffolk Constabulary said it carried out regular proactive operations, involving officers, special constables, drugs teams and response officers, to disrupt gangs and take weapons off the streets, using intelligence-led deployments, weapons sweeps and high-visibility patrols.
Since the Bin a Blade campaign was launched in 2011, more than 19,000 bladed items have been deposited in knife amnesty bins across the county.
A spokesman said: "We take positive action to try and prevent offences by removing knives and offensive weapons before any harm is caused.
"We will continue to highlight the dangers of carrying knives, and other weapons, and the devastating consequences this can have on the lives of young people.
"If you are found illegally in possession of a knife you will be arrested, put before the court and brought to justice.
"Carrying knives or other weapons do not keep you safe. By carrying a knife you are putting yourself in much greater danger, and are more likely to become involved in a violent situation and get injured yourself."
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Pop singer Jessica Mauboy has won her first ARIA Award.
The seven-time nominated singer won highest selling single for Burn.
The former Australian Idol finalist is attending tonight's ceremony in Sydney with her mum and dad, who travelled from Darwin for the Australian music industry's night of nights.
Mauboy thanked God, her family and fans as she accepted the award.
"Wow. Oh my God. My first ARIA - yeah," she said.
Mauboy is also a contender tonight for best female artist, as well as best pop release.
Earlier today in sweltering Sydney sunshine the stars walked the red carpet - some looking glamourous, some scantily clad and others plain weird.
Empire Of The Sun frontman Luke Steele accessorised with flowing white horse hair, sporting matching white sunglasses and a spray tan.
It is a winning combination, but time will tell if it is enough to bag Empire Of The Sun an award.
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The immeasurable morning was back again;
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An Unsettling Settlement: The 1922 Middle East Peace Agreement Seen Today
HAROLD M. EVANS: Good evening, and very much welcome to this evening's session. I have to tell you something just as a warning. Reading Professor Fromkin takes you into the past but speeds up the present. So every time I read him, which I do with great joy, he's written eight books, time vanishes, and you'll find that's so with this new edition of "A Peace to End All Peace" which is coming out in June, originally published 20 years ago. And we're going to go into some detail about it.
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Professor Fromkin, it was 20 years ago since "A Peace to End All Peace" came out. At the end of the Ottoman Empire, seven new countries were created. You've written a new afterwork which is coming out in June, a marvelously, beautifully written book. What's changed in the 20 years? Have you had any second thoughts? Do you want to take anything back?
DAVID FROMKIN: (Laughs.) No, I don't want to take anything back, but the world has changed in that time in extraordinary ways. By great coincidence, the publication date of the book more or less coincided with the collapse of the Soviet Union. There you had a major, a major change in the world scene that, of course, strongly affected the Middle East. We could never -- (inaudible) -- the Gulf War, for example.
EVANS: You say in a very interesting afterward that in fact this was not such an absolutely totally wonderful event because the Soviet Union, in a sense, exerted a kind of discipline on what the superpower did, the United States.
FROMKIN: Yes. I mean, that is what I say and what I believe, that it was in that curious way unfortunate that we should have been given so much freedom when we weren't ready for it.
EVANS: Let's go back then to what should the -- first of all, let's elaborate the themes which are in the original book. Here we are again, "A Peace to End All Peace." If you could just set up for anybody unfortunate enough not to have read it so that we'll know where we are.
FROMKIN: Yes. Well, "A Peace to End All Peace," if you were to go back 100 years, go back a century, and look at a political map of the Middle East, you would see the Ottoman Empire, a Turkish-speaking empire, and you'd see Persia, today we call it Iran. And now shifting to today, what an enormous difference when you see Syria and Lebanon and Saudi Arabia and Israel and Jordan and Iraq. I mean, this is a very different map. And what "A Peace to End All Peace is about is how we got from there to here. The book came about because I was taking a walk with a friend who said, you know, there are problems in so many different parts of the Middle East, why is it? Is it just coincidence that bad things happen to happen there in the Middle East? Or is there some unifying thread that explains it all. And he said, for example, is it one particular year that things happened?
And thinking quickly, I said, it seems to me that the major big decisions centered around the year 1922, roughly. And having said that, I started to think about it and decided that that would make a good title for a book. Why not call the book "1922," give it 12 chapters, January, February, March, April, May, thin book, fast moving. And I sat down at my typewriter and tried to do that. It didn't work. The explanations of how you got to January 1, 1923, the explanations would absolutely overwhelm the text.
And so I kept on going, kept on going until I came to the point where the story could start, and that was in the summer of 1914 when the First World War broke out.
EVANS: Let me stop you there. Another book I'm recommending, if you haven't read it, is, who started the great war, the First World War? The last time I was on this platform, it was actually five years ago when Professor Fromkin's book came out, which is a devastating analysis of how World War I started. So he's not kind of starting without having done the foundations. You describe how World War I started. Now in this book, you've dealt with the consequences of it. And you might touch, I think, on some of the nation-building or, I know it's a dirty word these days, but the nation-building that took place or attempted to take place.
FROMKIN: Yeah. Just trying to think of whether to, in effect, start at the end.
EVANS: We've got armies going through here, occupying these seats, so just a moment.
FROMKIN: Okay.
EVANS: Right.
FROMKIN: There was a lot both to criticize and to praise in what Britain did and what France did at that time. Two things. First, the results of the various decisions that were made, wars that were won and lost, all the many things that went into creating the new Middle East, nowadays, looking, which is what we all need to do, can we classify really in terms of three groups of states that emerged in our Middle East?
On the one hand, you had the eternal empires. You had Egypt and Persia, who have always been there and always will be there -- Egypt, the second-oldest civilization. So nobody, even today, questions the legitimacy of their existence as states. They've always been and they continued. That was a third.
Another third -- again, nobody questioned their legitimacy -- were the countries created by a local strong man. Kemal Ataturk in Turkey and Ibn Saud in Saudi Arabia, these people created nations. But they were local people doing it, and that worked. Those countries still exist. Nobody suggests that we have to break them up. It's the countries that -- I'm sorry.
EVANS: No.
FROMKIN: Sorry, I have to say it, but it was --
EVANS: Here we go, created by the British Empire -- (inaudible) -- (laughter) -- with scheming Lord George and other British villains. Okay, go on. (Laughter.) I'm going to give you absolution for about 25 minutes, okay. (Laughs.)
FROMKIN: Yeah. Well, so you've got Israel, you have Jordan. Gosh, probably Iraq, too. And these are British creations or attempted creations. And here we have one of the parallels we've talked about before. The reason that Britain could think in terms of -- (inaudible) -- these creations was because there was that one shining moment along about the end of 1918 when Britain had 1 million troops in the Middle East, and there wasn't any other country, any other anything to stand in Britain's way.
EVANS: Just mention the United States' role at that point with Woodrow Wilson coming as the savior, drawing his own self-determination maps. How did the British manage to do this when America was on the verge of becoming the greatest power?
FROMKIN: Well, to me, the parallel -- let me just say this. We were talking before about my view that it was, in a sense, bad for America to have a monopoly on power after the collapse of the Soviet Union. I think the same thing, in a way, happened to Great Britain. What Lord George, looking out at those million men of his, and -- (inaudible) -- I think that he could do anything. (Inaudible) -- in trouble.
EVANS: So the United States wasn't frightened of an army of 1 million men of Britain, but they weren't quite as involved in the Middle East as Britain was.
FROMKIN: Not at all. For one thing, the Ottoman Empire had not declared war on us, and we had not declared war on them. So the kind of peace treaty that was drawn up was a peace treaty between Britain and France on the one side and of the Ottoman Empire on the other. But we really had no legitimate seat at that table, nor did we have much interest. Remember, when just a short time before when the American Secretary of State Robert Lansing was called before the Committee on Foreign Relations in the Senate and asked, what is America's interest in the Middle East? And Secretary Lansing, correctly for that time, said, we have only two items of interest to the United States. They are the two protestant missionary colleges. And he was right, that was it. And the president was an enthusiastic missionary and was closely associated, his family had been, with the protestant missionary efforts in Syria and elsewhere.
EVANS: And just -- I'm not trying to defend the British Empire, here particularly, but what was the justification? It's easy to look back and say, these people were all idiots. What were the justifications for the policies of imposing new nations which were basically mixed-up places of religious differences and so on and so on? So what were the British and in fact almost what were the American justifications today for imposing the (practice of Americana ?) in the Middle East? What justifications did the policymakers have then? And how far are they legitimate today?
FROMKIN: I'm not a great enthusiast for going around and creating countries and governments in other places. So that's just a matter of disposition. But Britain had legitimate influences in that part of the Middle East. What the British empirialists in their prime were looking for was a road that would lead their empire from cave to India, all the way around. These were important places en route.
We tend to forget, but there was a separate government of India in those days, British-run, of course; there was a British government of India. And they neighbored on what is now Iraq and Mesopotamia and had visions of great agricultural wealth. That was the part of the world, after all, in which civilization began largely from control of waterworks by the ancient Samarians. So it seemed, at that point, a legitimate goal to have --
EVANS: National interest.
FROMKIN: Yes. And Palestine, evident reasons why they were interested in that. So it was -- and besides, something I think we always have to remember when reading and talking about history, people thought differently then. It wasn't really until 1917 that people began to think of the word imperialism as pejorative. Until then, it had been quite a respectable political movement. And there was just a few people who picked up on it -- (inaudible) -- who you had asked me about earlier today was one of the few who said the world is changing. And what changed in 1917 was the two great new forces had entered into the world, America with Wilson's idealism and his unrealizable but marvelous goals and Lenin. And these were two guys who were really competing to see who could be the leader of progressive opinion.
EVANS: Now, just looking back, the states of Israel, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the main repositories and legacies of the Ottoman Empire that we think of today, looking back on it, should we try and unscramble them, or should we accept their legitimacy with all the religious and other problems?
FROMKIN: I say you have to start from now, from where you are.
EVANS: What's the Latin term?
FROMKIN: Uti possidetis.
EVANS: Uti possidetis, don't look back like Lot's wife.
FROMKIN: And you have good examples of countries and regions of the world who have done it successfully. It was initially applied in Latin America which had been cut up to suit the administrative convenience of the Spanish occupiers. There was no reason to keep the boundaries they had except that that meant it was the only way to keep the peace is for everybody to say, we start from now.
And then, in turn, when Africa -- (inaudible) -- Saharan Africa gained its independence from Great Britain after 1960, there, too. And that was written into the organization of African states, that this Latin legal principle applies, and nobody questions frontiers and borders, you just stick with what you've got. And that works.
When -- (inaudible) -- got to ask, is the Middle East so different in temperament and sentiment, is it so different that they can't do what Africans can do and Latin Americans can do?
EVANS: Before we turn to particular instances, would you comment on the myth created by various people about Lawrence of Arabia? The British have the idea that the whole of the Middle East was --
(Off mike commentary.)
Oh, could you speak up? Sorry, yeah. Can you hear at the back? Am I clear? I'm too clear and Professor Fromkin may not be quite clear, right.
FROMKIN: Am I clear?
EVANS: Okay, raise the volume. Can you raise the volume in the control tower?
(Off mike commentary.)
I do? Okay. Okay.
Lawrence of Arabia --
FROMKIN: (Inaudible) -- diaphragm?
EVANS: Okay, thank you, Richard.
Right. Well, the question -- I was asking you a question about Lawrence of Arabia. In all those British actions that you describe in great detail actually, what was the role of the mythical or myth-making Lawrence of Arabia and his friendship with Winston Churchill for that matter?
FROMKIN: Churchill was so innocent about that one thing. He said, for some reason, he had just never heard of these war-time exploits, not realizing that the reason he hadn't heard of them was because they hadn't taken place. (Laughter.)
EVANS: By the way, it was an American who created the myth.
FROMKIN: Yes.
EVANS: Yes, thank you. (Laughter.)
FROMKIN: Yeah. He was a showman in his 20s. He is said to have raised some money in Chicago from various people who were interested in America being in the world war on the allied side. So they sent this man to go. Remind me of the name.
EVANS: Lowell Thomas.
FROMKIN: Yeah, Lowell Thomas went to London, talked to the Ministry of Information and asked where was he going to get a really good story that would inspire Americans. And he was told, you can't do it on the western front which is horrible and -- (inaudible) -- go to the Middle East, that's the place where you'll find (color ?). So he came around. And Lawrence had just pulled off his real feat. He actually did (two things ?). He was there, and Lowell Thomas came and saw this young Oxford-graduated archaeologist in glamorous white robes, and he had golden daggers -- (inaudible) -- just super.
And so Lowell Thomas decided to make a thing of this young man and took down his notes. And after Lawrence had gone so far finally, at one point, Lowell Thomas said, you know, are you sure we're not going to get in trouble? I mean, is any of this true? And Lawrence said, no, but history is just a matter of lies anyway. (Laughter.)
EVANS: Just a bit louder, I think. Just answer me, what was -- many people believed that Lawrence of Arabia with -- (inaudible) -- and so on was very anxious to help the creation of the state of Israel, the Balfour Declaration, 1917, Versailles, all the meetings that took place. Wasn't Lawrence really a kind of secret Zionist? (Laughter.)
FROMKIN: Well, he was certainly very sympathetic. In an argument -- I'm trying to remember details. But anyway, they don't matter. He, in a quarrel between some bishop or archbishop who had said something antisemitic --
EVANS: Oh, any archbishop will do. (Laughter.)
FROMKIN: -- and Lawrence said, you're not fit to shine Chaim Weizmann's shoes. He was certainly a man with no antisemitism. And he was instrumental in getting Faisal the Arab leader he had promoted to give a qualified acceptance.
EVANS: Did we miss an opportunity there at that time of creating a state of Israel which would be recognized by the Arabs? Or was it always a futile hope?
FROMKIN: Well, you see, here was the thing. There was a condition, and it was a legitimate one. Faisal wanted the throne, wanted to be the king of Syria. And in that atmosphere, there was no reason why he shouldn't have been. And the British did promise it to him, he thought. In any event, had been allowed to believe that he could have it. And his condition was, if Britain gives me what they have said, in other words, the kingdom of Syria, then I will be, in a sense, I will accept the state of Israel.
EVANS: As a separate state or as a mixed state?
FROMKIN: Not as a mixed state.
EVANS: As a separate state.
FROMKIN: Yeah. But of course, the British tried to give him Syria. They did in fact (almost all of it ?). But then the French army came and drove him out.
EVANS: So the French are to blame.
FROMKIN: There's the French to blame. (Laughter.)
EVANS: Glad to hear it.
FROMKIN: Yes, yes, yes. But of course, then they made it up to him. They made it up to him because they made him king of Iraq, which was just as good.
EVANS: Now, take me to Iraq. Let's go back because Iraq is rather present with us today. The creation of the state of Iraq -- and everybody who has read Gertrude Bell sees her as a the heroine like they saw Lawrence of Arabia as the hero. So in the light of later events, was Iraq one of the biggest mistakes the British made?
FROMKIN: No, I'm not sure that it necessarily was a mistake. Do you think it was a mistake?
EVANS: I'm not the professor. (Laughter.)
FROMKIN: Well, think of the other things they could have done. One thing they could have done was taken these three provinces and not put them together.
EVANS: (Inaudible.)
FROMKIN: So each of the -- I mean, the Kurds would have theirs, everybody. And you could see advantages to that. But let's say that Britain actually did that. Would not progressive opinion everywhere denounce Britain for pursuing a policy of divide and conquer? Because if you split them up into three little provinces, no one of them -- (inaudible).
EVANS: That was quite a recent idea by the previous leader of the Council on Foreign Relations was to split them up. Right? Am I not right?
FROMKIN: Yes.
EVANS: It doesn't mean it was a bad idea -- (inaudible). (Laughter.)
FROMKIN: Yes.
EVANS: So I'll give you a pass on that. What about Afghanistan?
FROMKIN: No because I have a larger objection. I don't think they should have split up the Ottoman Empire at all.
EVANS: My heavens! We should all be speaking Turkish.
FROMKIN: That's a nice language. You know -- (inaudible). Yes. But if we're -- are we sort of done with Lawrence of Arabia? Because if we are, I should tell a story about him.
EVANS: Yes, we are finished with him.
FROMKIN: I should tell a story about him.
EVANS: (I think Turkey ?) is more interesting in a way, more important. So in a way, the Turks are now trying to enter Europe and are being given a kind of closed door, and yet they were so important and so powerful. Do you think it would be -- I'm going back to some of the problems of today -- would it be helpful now for Turkey to be admitted to the European Union?
FROMKIN: Yes. (Laughter.)
EVANS: One or two people may disagree. Now, just before we turn -- I'm going to ask for questions from the audience in a moment. I'd hate to let him go because he's so fascinating. Trace if you can for me the relationship between the events you've written about here and the rise of Islamic fundamentalism leading to 9/11. As the way I've read the afterward of your book, there's almost a very faint justification, not for what al Qaeda did but for the irritation of the fundamentalists with what happened to the Muslim world.
FROMKIN: And probably a justifiable -- none of the things they have done are justifiable, but certainly an irritation that in the West we don't know that that's what happened. We don't know. When he -- (inaudible) -- after 9/11 gave his TV --
EVANS: About the crusades.
FROMKIN: Yeah, and saying it was because of what the West had done 80 years ago. And had people on my TV set, couldn't seem to figure out what happened 80 years ago. That makes people very angry. And by the way, let me -- there's a flip-side of that. For reasons I couldn't understand at first but now I do, I'm a big hero in Turkey. I haven't done anything to make myself a hero. But twice under two different presidents of Turkey when I was taking a yachting cruise there, I got letters from the president of Turkey saying, I understand you're going to be in Turkey, would you be my guest and come and see me? And the thing is, I was trying very hard in the book to be as impartial as I could. I have no recollection of saying anything that was especially Turkish, but it does continue all the time.
EVANS: And I think I can justify that. It is not a partial book at all, but I can see why he was sympathetic because the perspective you give of what happened and the history actually must give satisfaction to a lot of Muslims because it shows what was there and how the imposition by the British actually took very little regard of their religious ideology.
I'm going to, at this point, I have to turn it over, unfortunately -- but I mean, not unfortunately -- questions. (Laughter.) Please identify yourself.
Any of you got any questions? Come on, there must be 100 questions. Where are we?
Sir -- oh, my friend here. Yeah. Identify.
QUESTIONER: I'm Paul Gallob (ph) from Times Books. David, I just would like to hear more of something that you mentioned in passing where you said they shouldn't have broken up the Ottoman Empire. How do you feel the last 80 years, to pick a number, would have transpired if the Western powers had kept the Ottoman Empire together? And how do you see everything playing out in terms of the Arab world and what would be happening and so on with relations with the West and so on and the other countries in the region?
FROMKIN: Well, I think that by recreating the political linchpins and structure pre-World War I, you would go a long way towards perpetuating that kind of world. I mean, to put it sort of more almost in a nutshell, it would be like getting a lease on life for the 19th century. The Ottoman Empire would go back to being a buffer. The great powers would be doing their own thing, whatever they wanted to do.
It seems to me that the passage from the 20th century to the 19th would not be as bloody and -- (inaudible) -- as it was. Does that answer it?
QUESTIONER: (Off mike.)
EVANS: Wait for the microphone.
QUESTIONER: You have the whole rise of Arab nationalism in the 20th century and, you know, I mean, what would have happened? I mean, would the state of Israel been created or not? I realize this is hypothetical question and so on, but when you say, oh, things would have been better if in 1920 the great powers had said, you know, we're not going to carve up the Ottoman Empire, we're going to keep it with its capital in Istanbul and so on, and we'll keep the sultan, or we'll keep some sort of constitutional monarchy or something, what do you see as what would have transpired or problems that we have today that would not have happened because of it?
EVANS: Yeah, coming to you, sir. Take the microphone to this gentleman over here. While you're dealing with this question from Mr. Gallob (ph) -- just hold on a second, I want to hear the answer to this. The question is, it's all very well to say the Ottoman Empire should have been preserved. What do you see different if it hadn't been preserved? They would have been ruling those people. Would they have been ruling them to Western, quote, "civilized standards?"
FROMKIN: Well, what you ask about is the rise of Arab nationalism as a specific thing. And that seems to me not as authentic a movement as is portrayed. At the beginning of "A Peace to End All Peace," when Kitchener is quoted on his attitude about what moves the Muslim world. He says, religion is everything there.
Now, what the British tried to do -- and again, that's in the book -- what the British tried to do, seeing that they couldn't match the Turks and their sultan on the religious turf, so they were led to create another force. Not because they wanted to but because that was the only one left. They wanted to create Arab nationalism. And they haven't very much succeeded, even in the course of these past 100 years.
EVANS: Sir.
QUESTIONER: Thank you. I'm Alan Heimert from Columbia Presbyterian. Thank you for reminding us about the First World War. I think everyone would agree that everything that's happened in the last 100 years is because of the unresolved issues from the First World War.
EVANS: Taking Versailles and the Balkans and so on.
QUESTIONER: You didn't mention oil. Some time after the First World War, the emergence of the importance of oil occurred. And by the end of the war, because it was recognized to be very important, especially to the military, and the Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, I think, recognized it, how important was the discovery of oil in that region to this history?
FROMKIN: Well, that allows me a great privilege that historians have. I mean, it's quite right. It isn't in my period, you know. (Laughter.)
EVANS: Speak up, David.
FROMKIN: Okay, yes. Churchill, yes, was early in recognizing the importance of oil and changed the Royal Navy from coal to oil in 1911. But the world, as a whole, was just starting to, in the 1920s when my book comes to an end, so that by the end of the 1930s, oil is not merely an important factor but there are several countries that cannot, for example, go to war unless they can somehow get a source of oil. So yes, it was very, very important a bit later in the -- (inaudible).
EVANS: Another question over here.
QUESTIONER: Carl Myer (sp). David, a question. I'm struck by the fact that the three most volcanic eruptions against the European dominion of the Middle East were in countries that were not formally part of the British Empire -- Egypt under Nasser, Iraq with the Ba'athists and Iran with the ayatollahs. Was not part of the problem that Woodrow Wilson promised self-determination but in fact none of these countries, the three I've mentioned, really became authentic states, that they were, in effect, indirectly ruled by their former masters and that that bred the hostilities and the tensions that later exploded in our time?
FROMKIN: Well, I think I differ with you about Iraq. Starting in 1932, Iraq was fully independent. The mandate was canceled. The relationship with Great Britain was set forth in a treaty, that is to say between equal countries. As promised, Britain sponsored the Iraq application to the League of Nations for membership and was accepted. So in every formal respect, Iraq was an independent country. Nor did they accept British counsel and advice because that's, of course, a form under which independence is sometimes compromised. It wasn't, in that respect, like Egypt where the British did in fact assert a presence.
But the state of Iraq was largely run by ex-Ottoman officials and ex-Ottoman generals. The dividing line there was not between West and them. The dividing line was between the (Nouri Sayed ?) and a few other generals who had fought on the allied side. And the great mass of the military that ran Iraq were people who had fought on the Ottoman side. That was it. And they certainly made use of their independence to try to do England in at the beginning of the Second World War and a brief war then ensued.
EVANS: The lady at the back. Yeah.
QUESTIONER: Peggy Kerry, U.S. Mission to the U.N. You said you had a story about Lawrence of Arabia, and I wondered if you would tell it to us.
EVANS: Did you hear that?
FROMKIN: Yes, okay. You'll enjoy it only if you occasionally indulge in a really wicked wit.
EVANS: Which she does.
FROMKIN: You do? Good. Okay. Well, it was just at the end of the First World War. Things were over, and England, 1919, thereabouts, there was much rejoicing. Now, everybody had just heard about Lawrence of Arabia. One million people went to see Lowell Thomas' Lawrence show in London -- 1 million -- and he then took it around the world. So here was this glamorous figure, and everybody wanted him for their cocktail party. And it was very difficult indeed. But it seems that one famous hostess managed somehow or another to get to come to her salon. And she was gathered with a group of her admirers, and she was expounding on her ideas about a Middle Eastern settlement. And suddenly, she looked down, and she saw that in the group around her there was Lawrence of Arabia. Realizing how foolish she must look telling him about the Middle East, she stopped immediately and said, but, Colonel Lawrence, you must excuse me, you must think me very silly indeed, talking to you about the Middle East. After all, she said, I know very little about it. And he said, you are wrong, Madame, you know nothing about it. (Laughter.)
EVANS: You, there, identify, please. Stand, stand, stand.
QUESTIONER: Yes, hello. Sharene Brysock (ph). My question concerns the Sunnis and Shi'a in Iraq. In 1921 when they were creating a state of Iraq, a nation of Iraq, the Shi'a, I believe, were about 50 percent, the rest of them were Sunnis, Assyrian Christians, Jews, whatever. Now, the British really favored the Sunnis. And we lived to regret that. Do you see any parallels in the current situation? Paul Wolfowitz famously declared that there were no Shi'a shrines in Iraq when we went in. Was there a real fallout from this preferential treatment of the Sunnis in 1921 over the Shi'as who were the majority even then?
FROMKIN: I'm not really sure. And this is going to be like -- I'm so glad I just told the Lawrence joke because you've just written, and I understand quite marvelously, answering the questions that you were put. But I think that what the British did was to consult administrative convenience in many ways. Much of the relative infighting was between, as you know, between the government of India and the people in (the home office ?). So I'm really not sure that --
EVANS: Would you say something about Gertrude Bell in that context?
FROMKIN: Oh, yes. I mean, Gertrude Bell -- yes. Gertrude Bell was in fact the founder, you know, of Iraq in its present constitutional shape.
EVANS: Yes, this young man here.
QUESTIONER: I'm Aristide Zolberg at the New School. Why was there no Kurdistan created in that settlement?
FROMKIN: That's an interesting question because it was in large part a mistake, so far as I can tell. What happened was that, as usual, in British government, opinions differed. And the question of Kurdistan came up at the Cairo conference of 1921, which is where Winston Churchill had simply assembled all of the experts on the Middle East from all over the globe.
Parenthetic note -- there was not one Middle Easterner amongst all those gathered who were such experts.
But as Churchill remembered it and one of his chief aides, Young, they had decided to create a Kurdistan despite all the problems with the infighting amongst different Kurdish groups. But they decided they were going to do that. The man on the spot, Cox, who was taking over as high commissioner, understood differently, or maybe he just claimed to. But he went ahead, and in creating the mandate documents for Iraq didn't give them a state. Churchill actually said, I thought we had decided to give it to them. But it was apparently too late to do anything about it.
EVANS: Here we are. Let's let the young man at the front here. Could you please identify yourself?
QUESTIONER: May I sit?
EVANS: You can stay seated.
QUESTIONER: Phil Talbot. You haven't brought Woodrow Wilson into the picture very much this afternoon. How could you say the 14 points influenced the shaping of events in the Middle East.
FROMKIN: I'm not sure that they really did very much influence things in the Middle East because the point that was devoted to the future of the Ottoman Empire was quite vague and didn't actually refer to independence but rather autonomous development. The United States, it was hoped by Lord George and others that the United States and Wilson would play a role. The proposed that the United States take the mandate for Constantinople and Armenia and the Straits, which would have put America in the world's hot spot while claiming to be doing something good. And the Senate just wouldn't go for that.
So the other countries were awaiting America's word before proceeding. That, according to many allied leaders, meant that they had to wait for about a year. And the loss of time between when they actually met and when they made a decision about the Middle East, was in itself possibly the determining factor in making it such a flawed --
EVANS: Because of Woodrow Wilson's sickness.
FROMKIN: Yeah.
EVANS: Professor Roger Lewis, where is he? He must have a question. (Laughter.) Since you're one of the -- no, you're one of the creators of the series, so do not hesitate out of this modesty.
QUESTIONER: (Off mike.) Could I just add to what Professor Fromkin --
EVANS: Could you stand, please?
QUESTIONER: Roger Lewis, National History Center. The creation of the mandate system was a real break from the past. So it was at that -- (inaudible) --
EVANS: Could you hold the microphone closer? I'm sorry to be a bore. You can't be heard at the back. Like this -- speak straight into it. We want to hear you but they can't at the back.
QUESTIONER: All right. I just wanted to reemphasize the point that he has made, that is the creation of the mandate system in 1919.
EVANS: Is the mike -- it's not working. I'm sorry. It's not -- okay.
QUESTIONER: Third time! (Laughs.) Woodrow Wilson's policies did have a radicalizing effect in the Middle East, leading to the very reluctant embracing of the mandate system by the French as well as the British. And this was a fundamental change at the end of the First World War period.
EVANS: Thank you. Nobody's asked about Afghanistan. Have we lost interest in Afghanistan?
FROMKIN: If you're doing Afghanistan, then I get one more story, please?
EVANS: You want to say something about that?
FROMKIN: Yes.
EVANS: Please do.
FROMKIN: Okay. I had a friend, alas now dead, Walter Fairservice (ph), who was an archaeologist, an anthropologist and a very colorful figure. He was said to be one of the models for Indiana Jones. And Walter tried to get me to go on expeditions with him to Afghanistan, which I prudently declined. But he was telling me about one of his latest trips. Now, this goes back quite a number of years. He and a retired Marine colonel were up there in the mountains of Afghanistan, and they got lost. So they stopped and got down to kneel down and look at something on a map to see where they were. And they became aware of a presence. And they looked around, and there on a neighboring ridge was a whole line of Afghan warriors with their weapons and looking extremely sinister.
And the Marine got up and walked very slowly so everybody could see his hands. And he walked to his camel and very slowly took out a rifle so everyone could see. And then went -- (sound effect). And one of the Afghan warriors went over to look at the coin, dead center. So the Afghans just rode away. (Laughter.) And as they were walking away, the colonel said to my friend, Walter, you know, he said, with traveling these mountains as I have for so long, one of the things I always do now is I take a saddlebag filled with coins that have holes in the center. (Laughter.)
EVANS: Now, I hope you'll tell Richard Holbrooke story. One last question. This lady here, please.
QUESTIONER: As a specialist on the Balkans, one of the things that plagues us all now in terms is not Wilson's 14 points but the Mallette (ph) system which was adaptable to a system where private property didn't take a hold. But now we have this all over the region that you study. Were there debates about how to transform the Mallette (ph) system into something that was compatible with the concepts of sovereignty and private property? Or are there ways that you think about this that we could now solve some of these problems, whether it's Bosnia or Iraq?
FROMKIN: No, I don't know of any plan to convert it. It's always been referred to as an example of how they could flexibly deal with a multinational country. But no, I don't. It sounds like a very interesting thing.
EVANS: Is there any hope -- just following up on that question -- of getting the treatment of women better in the Muslim countries? I mean, it's so appalling. Yes?
FROMKIN: No. What I'm thinking of is -- as a matter of fact, if I told you another story then it would take a while.
EVANS: We're all right for time.
FROMKIN: Okay. A story that was told by what was then the oldest man in the U.S. Senate, Senator Carl Hayden of Arizona. And he used to tell about his days as a sergeant in the Arizona frontier. And Arizona wanted to become a state. That meant they had to clean things up. That meant that they couldn't let the Indians go on having many wives. So Hayden was called in since he was the relevant officer, and he was told to go out to the reservation and tell the Indian chief there that he could only have one wife. And the federal guy came along with Senator Hayden to see the Indian chief. And they explained it to him that he had to decide which woman he really loved, and that one he could marry. All the other ones he had to tell them that he didn't love them enough so he wasn't going to take them.
And the federal man -- and Hayden said to the federal man, you want me to tell them that? (Laughter.) Yes, said the federal man. Hayden said, you do it.
So are you going to get the Muslim world to do the right thing as far women are concerned? I don't the hope of that.
EVANS: Last question from me. You've looked -- 1989, you wrote this absolutely wonderful, (enchanting ?) book. And now you've looked back in the afterward to the 20 years since -- (inaudible) -- after 1989 with the convulsions of al Qaeda, the end of the Soviet Empire. Now, that's a historian's point of view. Now, the futurologist in you is aching to predict the next 20 years. (Laughter.)
FROMKIN: (Laughs.) Yes.
EVANS: Do you see the present pattern of those nation states surviving, including Israel, by the way? Very important.
FROMKIN: It's interesting that there have been no questions on Israel.
EVANS: I know, but I was expecting a lot, but you can never tell. Maybe this is it.
FROMKIN: But let me, if I may, refer to what is, in a sense, for me, the conclusion of "A Peace to End All Peace." And what it is is that at the very end while Winston Churchill and others who have been involved in settling the First World War, including the Middle Eastern part, were satisfied with their work and felt that it was sort of done, you know, the decisions had been made. And they did not notice, but we, the reader, can at the end of the book, that especially at the lower level of the British government, the officials no longer really believed in the policy that they themselves were imposing.
EVANS: The Balfour Declaration you've described as --
FROMKIN: Absolutely. And the Balfour Declaration was already in, shall I say, bad repute in the British government by, say, 1923, thereabouts. So you had -- and the seeds of that are what came of course in the later time. But the notion of being put in a position where you have to enforce a policy that you don't believe in turns out to be a kind of theme.
EVANS: That's one of the mistakes then when the mandate ended and we tried to stop the immigration of Jewish people.
FROMKIN: Well, and the mandate didn't just end, it was repealed. Yeah.
EVANS: Listen, I think we could go on very much longer, but I must bring it to a conclusion. I want to particularly Roger Lewis and the National History Center for helping to arrange this and, most of all, thank Professor Fromkin for having written an absolutely stunning book, now updated with an afterward in June. Here it is. Don't miss it.
Professor Fromkin, thank you so much. (Applause.)


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Swim with Dolphins in Kona, Hi
Hop on board the Orca, for a fast ride down to Kealakekua Bay, home of the Captain Cook Monument.
Along the way keep your eyes peeled for the Hawaiian Spinner Dolphins as they head into protected coves and bays to rest after a long night of hunting. We will cruise out into the deep blue in search of other pelagic animals like Bottlenose dolphins, Pilot Whales, Spotted dolphins – you just never know what the ocean will deliver – maybe even a Whale Shark!
Finally, we will continue down the coast to the marine sanctuary of Kealakekua Bay. Snorkel one of the top rated places in the world where you can expect to see numerous types of fish, beautiful coral, and many other underwater creatures.
On the way home, we will explore sea caves made by lava flows.
- Snorkel equipment
- Floatation belts
- Snacks & drinks
What to Bring:
- Swimsuit (please arrive in it)
- Sunglasses
- Hat and sun protective cover-up
- Reef-safe sunscreen
- Camera (A dry bag is recommended)
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Christmas Gift Guide: For The Person In Your Life Who Has Everything…
This ain't no run-of-the-mill Christmas gift guide featuring blatant advertising cues; items you've already thought of. This is the gift guide that is going to change your life! I've featured something for everyone; gifts that are the answer to your 'what the hell do I get them' prayers. I've thought of it all! I mean, it's difficult enough trying to find the 'perfect gift' for loved ones at Christmas time, let alone trying to find something special for someone who appears to have everything right? Well you've come to the right place then, because this is the gift guide for exactly that someone – the someone who has everything.
Now, It would appear that I in fact fall into this category myself, because of the line of work I'm in e.g. a fashion and beauty editor, apparently I'm that 'hard to buy for' person according to those closest to me. Whilst to some degree there is truth in their frustration – I do tend accumulate a bit more than the average person (I like to think of this as collecting, like a hobbie, only most of my collection is wearable). I also rebuke their claims by simply stating "there are a million things that I don't have and would love, it's really not that difficult as I love anything pretty that catches my eye and have an extremely wide range of interests", however, I generally leave it at that. Yes, not overly helpful that I don't follow with "and here are the items that you potentially didn't know I would love…".
So, given I have had this brought to my attention each and every time Christmas rolls around, who better to curate a gift guide such as this, than me!
Before you go thinking this is just my own personal wish list of Christmas gifts, of which I am cleverly disguising as a helpful gift guide for you, I assure you it's not (I do in fact either already own most of these items, or I've been a little more helpful this year and have shared some thought-starters with those closest to me). Think of it more as a list of all the things that perhaps you just hadn't thought that that certain 'someone who has everything' would want; maybe it will contain something that you yourself will add to your own Christmas wish list. It could be that some items are a little out of your price range, but rest assured others most certainly will be within your budget. More importantly, think of this guide as a peek into the mind of someone who has a lot, but like everyone, always has their eye on more…
For the foodie in your life that just wants to eat like they give a f*ck…
Thug Kitchen – Eat Like You Give A F*ck! RRP $35.99 (for NZ readers – you can purchase TK from Mighty Ape)
Thug Kitchen started their wildly popular website to inspire people to eat some goddamn vegetables and adopt a healthier lifestyle. With half a million Facebook fans and counting—Thug Kitchen wants to show everyone how to take charge of their plates and cook up some real f*cking food.
Outrageously hilarious – Thug Kitchen has some amazing, yet easy-to-follow food and cocktail recipes, with narrative that will have you in stitches!
Thug Kitchen lives in the real world – in their first cookbook, they're throwing down more than 100 recipes for their best-loved meals, snacks, and sides for beginner cooks to home chefs. Roasted Beer and Lime Cauliflower Tacos? Pumpkin Chili? Grilled Peach Salsa? Believe that sh*t. Plus they're going to arm you with all the info and techniques you need to shop on a budget and go and kick a bunch of ass in the kitchen.
This recipe book is an invitation to everyone who wants to do better in elevating their kitchen game. No more ketchup and pizza counting as vegetables. No more drive-thru lines. No more avoiding the produce corner of the supermarket. Sh*t is about to get real.
For the serious foodie in your life, with a refined palette and a genuine passion for culinary couture…
SAISON: A Year at The French Cafe by Simon Wright RRP $95
The famous Auckland restaurant The French Cafe has long been the epitome of excellence. The service is exemplary, the atmosphere cossetted and refined yet convivial, and the food… well, the food is nothing short of heavenly. This gorgeous book transports you into the world of The French Cafe. Whether you want to recreate your favourite recipes or just sit back and admire, Simon Wright walks readers through the experience of diners at the restaurant.
Lavishly produced and beautifully illustrated with photographs by Charlie Smith and watercolours by Kirsten Roberts, this handsome book is the next best thing to dinner at the French Cafe!
For the cake decorator who lives by the philosophy that a party without a cake is just a meeting…
The Painted Cake by Natasha Collins RRP $49.99
In her practical and pretty book, Natasha Collins, the leading exponent of this extremely popular form of cake decorating, shows the reader how to turn cakes into literal works of art using fondant painted with edible colours.
The painted cake provides detailed step-by-step instructions for 30 projects – from cupcakes to cookies, multi-tiered cakes and more. This book progresses from the simplest projects through to more advanced, and includes detailed information on basic techniques and essential materials and equipment.
For the interior designer, the treasure hunter, the lover of 'things' – a one stop shop for everyone…
Collected.co.nz by LeeAnn Yare
Guy, girl, young, youth-challenged, if you can't find something at Collected.co.nz you should probably just quit Christmas right now!
Collected by LeeAnn Yare is an inspiration of everything 'interiors' that you should know about. Magazine writer and stylist, and interiors TV presenter LeeAnn has curated some of her favourite things to help you create your own style.
From LeeAnn's book Rooms to Love (ok, you know how I said this wasn't my wish list disguised as a gift guide – this book blurs the lines, actually everything at the Collected blurs the lines. I want this book! I want it all!) sorry, I digress… to blackboard shields & cutlery, art, jewellery, candles and more, your only obstacle at Collected.co.nz will be getting through check-out without having only shopped for yourself!
To view this beautiful online store head to Collected.co.nz
For the tech savvy with a penchant for only the best in advanced technology (like-minded Apple snobs if you will)…
The Flower Power Plan Sensor / Apple iPad Air 2 / iPad mini 3 / Beats by Dr. Dre Studio Over-Ear Headphones
Flower Power Plan Sensor
The Flower Power plant sensor is a great gift for Grandparents who love to garden – or just anyone that loves to garden (I'm being ageist). It reads your plant's environment and communicates its needs straight to your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch using the free Flower Power app. The app analyses the data sent by the Flower Power plant sensor and sends real-time alerts to your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch when one of your plants has special water, fertiliser, light or temperature needs. Yup – nana just officially gave you ' gold star grandchild' status. You're welcome!
Available in green, blue, and brown from RRP NZ$99.95 inc. GST at Apple Online Store.
iPad Air 2
The iPad Air 2 features a stunning 9.7-inch Retina display in a new thinner and lighter design. Precision-engineered to weigh less than half a kilogram, the new iPad Air 2 is 20 per cent thinner and 28 per cent lighter than the fourth-generation iPad, and with a narrower bezel, the borders of iPad Air are dramatically thinner — making content even more immersive. There's so much this bad boy can do that is better, faster, stronger than it's predecessor (it's ok iPad Air – I still love you, just not as much as I do your shiny new sibling) plus it comes in my favourite metallic hue – hello rose-gold!
Seriously, this is my favourite new family member! Um, I mean Apple accessory – meh who am I kidding, I love it as if it were a family member (but not as much as the family member that's reading this super neato gift guide).
Available in silver, gold and space grey from RRP NZ$749.00 inc. GST at Apple Online Store and selected Apple resellers.
iPad mini 3
Perfect for keeping in touch with the whole family, even on the go. The iPad mini 3 comes with great built-in apps such as FaceTime that lets you make video calls to anywhere in the world – for free. Plus, there are over 500,000 iPad apps to choose from for crafts, to gardening and cooking. Did I mention it comes in THE most beautiful gold hue?
Also available in silver and space grey from RRP NZ$599.00 inc. GST at Apple Online Store and selected Apple resellers.
iTunes Gift Cards
Ok, so I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel here, iTunes Gift Cards – just get some! Let them choose whatever they want from the iTunes Store, App Store or iBooks Store this Christmas. I've become somewhat obsessed with audio books and am getting through at least a book a week, so personally I want a truck load of these gift cards. I can't think of anyone that wouldn't find a use for an iTune Gift Card – I mean, no one ever said "no thanks, I hate choosing whatever the hell I want for free"! A favourite song, album, book or movie is as simple as an iTunes Gift Card from NZ$20 to NZ$100 and are available at selected resellers.
Oh, and as an aside – here are some of my favourite (free) apps, which if you suggest downloading on said Apple recipient's new iPad Air or iPad mini, will make you a next-level-hero…
Home Styler https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/homestyler-interior-design
Replay https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/replay-video-editor
Paper by FiftyThree https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/paper-by-fiftythree
Canva https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/canva-graphic-design-photo
Adobe Photoshop Mix https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/adobe-photoshop-mix
For the girl keeping up appearances – and using the best hair tools to do so…
ghd – the innovators in heat styling, launched their first ever range of curling tools – the ghd curve, earlier this year (you can read more about the range here in an article I prepared earlier: Gurlinterrupted/ghdcurve).
Sure, the girl in your life may already have a pair of ghd straighteners, but does she have a 'ghd curve' housed in a limited edition rose gold roll bag? I didn't think so. Seriously impressive and without doubt, the gift that keeps on giving!
For anyone that throws shade (the right kinda shade of course)…
Leather Wayfarer from OPSM RRP $349
Remastered in genuine calf leather, Ray-Ban's Wayfarer Leather Polarised sunglasses are a posh edition of the iconic Ray-Ban Wayfarers. Emanate an air of sophistication with this cool polarised pair.
For the girl who walks to the beat of her own drum…
MIMCO x Frends Monogramania Rose Gold Headphones RRP$299 (available online & at selected boutiques throughout NZ)
Frends' rose gold headphones have been on my wish list for as long as I can remember (they're still on there by the way! Sh*t, this is turning into my own wish list) but now they've partnered with MIMCO – I want them even more!
FRENDS is pioneering a new category – women's headphones – where the entire collection has been designed specifically for women from the ground up. The collection features a slimmer silhouette for a more comfortable fit, angled ear cushions so they may be worn with earrings, and a collapsible design to allow them to fit in any evening clutch.
Well that's it from me for this years Christmas Gift Guide. I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and New Years!
A Girl Interrupted By Fashion, Beauty & Anything Pretty That Catches My Eye


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Discover the tips utilized by Expert Roofing Contractors near Akron Alabama
The telephone sounded at 2:00 in the early morning. When the telephone rings at this time, it generally indicates problem, this time, it was exception. The frantic voice at the other end was declaring that his house ceiling was falling – literally. All the rain that had actually succumbed to the last 2 days had turned a small roof leakage into a water fall. The client was asking for emergency situation roof services, at 02:00 AM, to drop in the middle of a rainy early morning. He was not happy when I explained that it would not be safe to take on the roof in the darkness. The lesson in here is "do not wait on rain to fix your roof leak!"
Typical Places Leaks Occur in Roofing
This short article will give the required understanding to locate a roof leakage It will also tell you the very best method to get your roof repaired. Portions of the roof vulnerable to leak are the joints between the roof and the roof mounted structures, such as the chimney. The joint between the roof and a vertical wall; and the joint in between 2 slopping areas – valleys.
While roof leakages prevail in many houses, the standard places are the skylights, ice dams, wall action flashings, missing out on shingles, plumbing vent flashing, chimneys, fields of shingles, and furnace or B-vent flashings. As common areas, lots of homeowners struggle to find the exact area when it concerns roof repairs.
Leakages can happen anywhere on the roof and for any number of reasons. Extreme weather condition which brings rain, snow, wind and hail are difficult on the roofings. Some roofs leak because they appear worn.
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Tips to find the source of the roof leakage.
People typically notice the roof leakage after the water begins to leak through the ceiling. Nevertheless, the source of the leakage is hardly ever directly above the water stain. These tips will help you locate the sources of a roof leak:
In the attic, begin above the ceiling leak and follow the water stains on the deck to the possible source. Expect a ray of sunlight to suggest a nail hole.
Have a friend hose pipe down the roof while you enjoy the leak from the inside of the attic.
If you find a hole, mark the place using a wire hanger through the hole. Make sure your good friend has the ability to find the wire wall mount on the top of the roof.
When you look for leak on asphalt shingles, start by searching for broken shingles with dark spots in them. This suggests loss of surface area granules. Look likewise for curled and harmed shingles.
Look also for broken or missing shingles.
For those in Akron, on a roof with a valley, clear out all debris accumulated in the valley. Search for damaged or missing flashing material.
The best ways to identify leakage discolorations and Their Areas
An identifiable stain is the mold or moisture around the vents, chimneys, and skylights. These are the intersections where water links. After discovering the dripping locations, it's important to move disposable items such as electronics, furniture, and other house devices along with capturing the leak in a container. We have seen the films where buckets lie every other foot in the home; do not let this take place to your roof. Determining the discolorations and places are the first steps to conserving your house from damaged items by easy leakages. Your roofing contractor will discuss the needed requirements to guarantee your belongings are safe while inspecting the condition of the ceiling before repair.
Easy Emergency situation Repairs to Minimize Leak for homes in Akron AL
Taking preventive procedures will conserve you money in costly roofing repairs. Consider checking and repairing easy problems if your roofer notices leak from your shingles, fractures in your chimney, or degraded flashings. Fix roof leaks right now. It is not recommended that you do the roof repair yourself due to its complexity and the required understanding of its repairs – besides, it threatens. Call a qualified and insured roofer who will offer the very best insight of taking care of your roof in addition to explain the treatments that are utilized to remove leaks and secure your financial investment.
Implementing Temporary Defense:
If you are not afraid of heights and come in handy with tools, you can do some temporary roof repairs. A little bit of tar, few roofing nails, and some flashing can get rid of little bothersome leaks. Some cases such as the one pointed out below is a basic, easy-to-do repair you can complete to get rid of persistent leakages.
Water streaming inside the flat surface area of the deck – Simple Roof Repairs:
Take a small pry bar to get rid of the shingle in concern then layer a thick tip of tar across the area. Nail the shingle pull back then cover the whole shingle in tar. If you can not utilize the very same nail holes, place tar within and on top of the holes to prevent leak through the deck. Before you are done, place another thin layer of tar on the underside of the shingles just for safe-keeping. You should see a change in the location and the leakage need to end after the tar is applied properly.
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CVE-2017-2896 - CVE Vulnerability
Vulnerability Details :
An exploitable out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in the xls_mergedCells function of libxls 1.4. . A specially crafted XLS file can cause a memory corruption resulting in remote code execution. An attacker can send malicious XLS file to trigger this vulnerability.
Publish Date : 2017-11-20 Last Update Date : 2017-11-20
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Stuart Hughes has been playing with gold, platinum, diamonds, crystals to roll out most exclusive and the most expensive gadgets for all – those who can afford to buy them and others who can simply ogle at them. However he is struggling hard to elevate the bar of exclusivity by using a material which is not only rare but also comes with a past dated back to a 65 million years. After stunning the world with the world's most expensive aquarium befitted with a real T-Rex bone, he is out with his latest masterpiece. Conceived by his wife, Katherine Hughes, Stuart has designed the iPhone 4 History Edition which is touted to be the world's first Dinosaur mobile phone. A tooth of a 65 million year old T-REX and meteoric stone are shaped together to dress up the rear of this iPhone. Resourced from Arizona, US, Stuart worked on blending both these historic remnants perfectly for this phone. The bling factor comes from the rim that is caked with 8.5ct 'IF' flawless diamonds and a diamond studded Apple logo set in platinum on the tooth-n-stone rear.
This piece of history is priced at £39,995 ($63,000) and will be crafted in a limited edition of ten only. Grab it before it becomes a history on the shelf of www.stuarthughes.com
CBS news reporter Lauren Lipton has aptly dubbed Stuart as the Damien Hirst of the gadget industry and I nod my head in agreement to it.
Cheers Stuart!
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Here are two tasty ideas from KTVI Fox 2 – KPLR News 11 News Director Audrey Prywitch. She says these are two ridiculously easy recipes that everyone RAVES about when she make them. Enjoy!
Bundt Pan Bread
3 packages crescent dinner rolls
1 stick butter
Melt butter in bundt pan in warm oven. Half each package of crescent rolls. Line bundt pan seam-side down with rolls. Smooth the edges together. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 40 minutes. Flip into serving dish.
Simple and Delicious Rice
1 can French onion soup
1 can chicken broth
1 stick margarine
1 cup uncooked rice
Melt margarine in baking dish. Add other ingredients and bake covered at 350 degrees for 1 hour.


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Found something in my email box I usually delete – it's from Pampers. These guys have definitely improved their marketing techniques:
"Dear Deathstar:
Whether he's planned or not. Whether she's through IVF or adoption… whether she has special needs or a lot of needs. Pampers believes every baby is a miracle to be celebrated, supported and protected….." and goes on to prompt you to go to their Facebook page and tell your story.
Well, I've already shared my story, so there's no need to Facebook it to every Tom, Dick and Harriet who have ever heard of me and can't be bothered to talk to me in person. I just wanted to share that with you because of the way they worded their announcement.
Makes you want to go out and buy Pampers, eh?