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Does Tennessee Stand a Chance Against LSU?
Posted By Deniz Kofteci On Sep 30 2010 @ 11:33 am In Tennessee | No Comments
On paper it's easy to assume the Vols have absolutely no chance at beating LSU this Saturday. They have the advantage in almost every position, they also haven't lost a game all season which is enough to make post people laugh at the idea of Tennessee being the team to end the streak. I'm pretty sure almost every analyst in the country wouldn't hesitate to say LSU could beat Tennessee with Patrick Peterson alone.
However, we can't just look at LSU on the surface. We also can't just look at a Tennessee that way either. When it comes to quarterbacks I feel a lot better with Simms on my side than I would with Jefferson. Where they surpass us in rushing, they lack in receiving. The LSU defense is good, but not great. Matt Simms is not Larry Smith (thank God) so the defense isn't going to be able to pull a few easy moves to trip him up and hold him to zero TDs.
This will mark Tennessee's first road game of the season and will be Dooley's first return to Baton Rouge as head coach since leaving LSU in 2005. Maybe a road game is exactly what this team needs to get themselves prepared to play a whole 60 minutes. Dooley has already told the media that his team won't be doing a pre-game walkthrough of the stadium on Friday because he'd rather his boys see the stadium for the first time with a crowd so they can feed off the energy. Judging from this team's previous performance they are going to need to feed on the energy like vampires in a Red Cross truck in order to come out of this game on top.
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Few people can boast the success Joan Rivers has achieved during her half-century on the stage. Since reaching stardom on The Tonight Show in the 60s, the raspy-voiced fossil has gone on to become a best-selling author, Tony-nominated actress, playwright, screenwriter, motion picture director, columnist, lecturer, and syndicated radio host. Plus shes also an Emmy Award-winning TV talk-show host, jewelry designer, and red-carpet fashion wag. Yet some people believe the comedic icon has spent her lifetime trying hard to become someone else. When she takes the stage this Wednesday at the Arsht Center, Rivers, with her self-deprecating humor, will try even harder to peel away the mask shes paid plastic surgeons a fortune to create. Catch Americas rudest woman at 8 p.m. during her one-night-only performance, where she will sling barbs while boasting more Botox than her audience. Tickets start at $34.50.
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Jon Gosselin, aspiring children's clothing designer?
The "Jon & Kate Plus 8' star was in St. Tropez this weekend with his 22-year-old gal pal, Hailey Glassman.
But it wasn't all Champagne and topless sunbathing on Ed Hardy designer Christian Audigier's yacht.
"We would like to do a line of children's clothing," Audigier told E! News exclusively on Sunday. Wonder if Kate will get part of the fashion action?
Just what the world needs: more overpriced, punked-out, tattoo-print kids' clothes.
Gosselin and Glassman spent their nights in a hotel and their days soaking up the sun and smoking cigarettes aboard the French designer's luxury yacht.
Apparently, they didn't want to rock the boat…. Sorry, couldn't resist that one.
What do you think of Gosselin's new career move? Is he still selling out his kids? Will he and Kate ever stop and make their own money?
More Jon and Kate Gosselin dish:
Kate Gosselin's unappetizing food book on the back burner!
Will Jon Gosselin's girlfriend appear on the show? Euuuw.
"Jon & Kate" on hiatus after divorce announcement
Will Jon and Kate announce their divorce tonight?
Kate Gosselin spanks her daughter Leah. Ouch!
Jon Gosselin parties with 23-year-old on Kate's 34th birthday. Ouch.
Nadya Suleman rips Kate Gosselin for having a tummy tuck. Really?
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2nd Paragraph of Abraham Lincoln's letter to Jesse Fell
My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, litterally without education– He removed from Kentucky to what is now Spencer county, Indiana, in my eighth year– We reached our new home about the time the State came into the Union– It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods– There I grew up– There were some schools, so called; but no qualification was ever required of a teacher, beyond the reading, writing, and Arithmetic "readin, writin, and cipherin" to the Rule of Three– If a straggler supposed to understand latin, happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizzard– There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course when I came of age I did not know much– Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three, but that was all– I have not been to school since– The little advance I now have upon this store of education, I have have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity—
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Nikon D700/D3 & Sigma 24/1.8
Hiya, I'm afraid I only have to 20mm, although I imagine that in terms of focussing the two are pretty similar. The 20 is likely to be slower actually due to the heavier glass.. I find it focusses pretty fast on the D700 under real world situations. Focussing from an object as close as possible and then focussing to an object 'at infinity' takes about a second, however.. I've always found it acquires focus pretty accurately (it certainly helps that it doesn't have a very narrow depth of field at all once an object's a couple of metres away).
One annoying thing that I think applies to each of Sigma's three wide 1.8s is that to change to manual focus you need to change on the camera (as usual) and then click the lens focus ring into manual position. Alternatively you can leave the ring in the MF position while setting the camera to AF, but then the (large) ring rotates as focussing takes place. I don't manual focus much, but if I did I think I'd find this system irritating. Once in manual focus, however, the ring is smooth enough and has travels a decent distance, but is a bit light for my taste.. Let me know if there's anything else you're curious about concerning this lens!
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Vile Things: Extreme Deviations of Horror is an anthology of "extreme horror" from over a dozen different authors. The stories are supposed to be disturbing, horrifying, and taboo. Impossibly high standards to live up to, as most of these tales fail to even be interesting, let alone terrifying.
The standout tale is easily "The Worm" by John Bruni. A down-on-his-luck investor moves in with his alcoholic mother until his luck turns. Against his better judgment, he brings her home a bottle of tequila with the worm in it, which seems to possess her, and a night of filthy, incestuous fucking ensues. There is little in the way of explanation, but it is not necessary. The visceral imagery is enough to leave you feeling creeped out.
Sadly, the rest of the stories are boring, unimaginative, derivative, or poorly constructed. "The Fear in the Waiting" by C.J. Henderson should be good – it is about Nazi war criminals getting their comeuppance. Most of the story is actually the narrator whining about how ghastly a thing "it" is. It is tough to live up to a buildup like that, and this story doesn't. The "it" is the Nazi in question continuing his experiments after the war by sewing his lab partner to himself. The Holocaust was one of the most atrocious events in all of history, and that was the scariest thing you could come up with?
"Going Green" by Stefan Pearson sees the narrator developing a method to resurrect the dead and use them as tireless labor to manually power the electricity in his house. Not surprisingly, it goes wrong – just not terribly wrong enough to make it interesting. "Coquettrice" by Angel Leigh McCoy is a predictable tale of a man who falls in love with a demon creature who uses him as the incubator for the devil's spawn. There is a good amount of anal rape in the story, if you are into that, as that is how the man is impregnated. But the story is so poorly paced that it is a struggle to get to the climax.
"Fungoid" by Randy Chandler is a dull little piece that relies on vile, uninspired descriptions of monstrous muck to shock and horrify. It does neither. "The Fisherman" by Brian Rosenberger is a dull little piece that is a complete knock-off of Sweeney Todd and similar tales – just replace "barber" with "fisherman," and "meat pies" with "fish bait." "Tenant's Rights" by Sean Logan is either poorly written or just so boring I couldn't pay attention – in either case, unlikeable characters make this one unpalatable.
If you are looking for good horror, look anywhere but this collection.
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National research shows that freshmen who live in the residence halls tend to experience greater academic and personal success during their college career. Our experience at Valdosta State University has been consistent with these findings. For this reason, VSU requires incoming freshmen (first time, first year students) to live in the residence halls, but housing is not guaranteed. Assignments are made on a first come, first served basis.
We have set aside a majority of residence halls for freshmen. These halls include: Brown, Georgia, Langdale, Patterson, and Reade (Honors students). We find that freshmen have different priorities and concerns than upperclassmen. Therefore, by grouping freshmen together, we can better serve the freshmen population with activities, living communities, and much more!
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Addie Kay Boswell at Wordstock
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009What is Wordstock?
Wordstock is Portland's Book & Literary Festival
Wordstock is an annual festival of books, writers, and storytelling in Portland, Oregon. To date it has hosted over 550 writers, who have read and performed for nearly 55,000 people at past festivals. Wordstock features ten author stages, a book fair with over 150 exhibitors, a special children's area and children's literature stage, a series of workshops for writers and for K-12 teachers, a special broadcast of Live Wire!, the popular public radio variety show, featuring writers from the festival, and more.
Wordstock events take place October 3rd, 6th, 10th and 11th. Visit Wordstock for a schedule of the events.
DIY Lounge teacher Addie Kay Boswell will be reading at the Oregon Convention Center's "Target Children's Stage"
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Rihanna does it it for the Pop charts, R&B charts and of course for the streets, so it's only right her street banger "Pour It Up" get remixed by some of the hottest in the game.
What I'm trying to figure out is how they got Jeezy and Ross on the same track.
T.I. killed it.
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Surrounded by bad b*****s like Ri Ri
Got dem booty shots look like Nicki
face and toe pretty, I'm picky
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Vitra Design Museum
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Building names(s): Vitra Design Museum
Architect/Designer: Frank Gehry
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Completion date: 1989
function(s): gallery, museum
Guided Architecture Tours: daily at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.
Museum website: www.design-museum.de
Monday – Sunday: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Wednesday: 10 a.m. – 8 p.m
Closed: December 24 – 25, December 31, January 1
The cafè has the same opening hours as the museum.
Museum EUR 8,00
Guided architectural tour: EUR 9,50 (Duration: 2 hours)
Combination ticket (museum + guided architectural tour); EUR 13,50
getting there:
Public transportation (ÖPNV): From Basel (Claraplatz or Badischer Bahnhof) take bus number 55 until the bus stop Vitra. From the train station in Weil am Rhein it is about a 15-minute walk to the museum.
By car: The Vitra Design Museum can be reached from Freiburg (north) or Basel (south) via the Autobahn A5 (exit Weil am Rhein), from France/St. Louis take the boarder crossing Palmrain. From Lörrach/Riehen turn west at the marked junction "Weil am Rhein" just north of the Fondation Beyeler. A big car park free of charge exists.


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Respecting Mother Earth should never be as dull as watching "Sacred Planet," a repetitive, globe-hopping Imax project that dresses up well-known ecological truisms with pretty nature photography. The idea is to listen to the words of indigenous people stressing the wisdom of their pre-agricultural lives, but once the thesis is stated in the first five minutes, the insights are over.
Respecting Mother Earth should never be as dull as watching "Sacred Planet," a repetitive, globe-hopping Imax project that dresses up well-known ecological truisms with pretty nature photography. The idea is to listen to the words of indigenous people stressing the wisdom of their pre-agricultural lives, but once the thesis is stated in the first five minutes, the insights are over. Giant-screen lensing impressively ventures off into the wildest of hinterlands; once there, alas, it's all about simplistic pictorials. Tyke viewers may enjoy the exotic mammals and insects, but pic should garner only average Imax circuit numbers.
Producers and filmmakers Karen Fernandez Long and Jon Long seem to have traveled a mile wide and an inch deep in this eco-tour, though one good choice was selection of Robert Redford as narrator for the type of project he might well have commissioned himself. Essential themes of fragility of ecosystems and ancient native peoples, as well as interconnectedness of human and natural realms, are among Redford's long-held concerns, and he easily delivers pic's narrative text with conviction. A generic montage of helicopter, tracking and static shots of the wild sets a mood of distinct but familiar beauty, accompanied by (English-only) voiceover comments spoken by unidentified indigenous folk. A sudden cut from sylvan peace to fast-motion shots of congested Bangkok is meant to send a shock, and this basic structure informs the remaining 40 minutes. Any vet viewer of Godfrey Reggio's oeuvre on technology vs. nature will feel they've already been here before. Pic's travels, per graphic titles, begin in the U.S. Southwest, proceed to Namibia, Thailand, British Columbia and Southern Alaska and finish in the dense Borneo rainforest. There's an appreciable variety to the geography and climes in each region that lends a basic visual range — from northwest Arizona's red-soiled Canyon de Chelly, for example, to the Thai jungle highlands. A crucial thematic point is that pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer groups surviving to the present all embrace the same notion: The Earth must be treated with a light hand so it can be a sustainable source of life. While it is remarkable that the same idea is commonly held, repetition of this thinking by a parade of nameless native people is uninteresting, while pic's ethnographic fuzziness — no details of specific tribes, either practices, social customs or or beliefs — has the unintended effect of making these real people into exotic objects set up for picture-perfect poses. The only real excitement here is the occasional on-the-spot shot of nature in action — a bear gamely hunting for fish or a group of monkeys plunging from treetops into a river. William Reeve's lensing is expert, but seldom creates more than postcard views.Sacred Planet
A Buena Vista release of a Walt Disney Pictures presentation of a New Street/Allied Films production. Produced by Karen Fernandez Long, Jon Long. Executive producer, Jake Eberts. Directed by Jon Long. Screenplay, Karen Fernandez Long, Jon Long.
Camera (CFI color, Imax 70mm process), William Reeve; editor, Jon Long; music supervisor, Androo Mitchell; sound, David Benade, supervising sound editor, Mark Wright; assistant directors, Jason Isley, Robin Mounsey, Eric Thein, Bob Coakley; casting, P.J. Connolly, Phyllis Decker. Reviewed at Loews Cineplex Universal Citywalk Imax Theater, Universal City, April 17, 2004. MPAA Rating: G. Running time: 46 MIN.
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By Emily Le Coz | NEMS Daily Journal
TUPELO – After years of waiting, the city soon will get the old Milam Manufacturing building that was seized in May 2009 by the federal government in a contraband cigarette bust.
Tupelo leaders want to convert the site into the city's new police headquarters.
"It's an exciting day," said Mayor Jack Reed Jr. on Monday, announcing a Memorandum of Understanding from the federal government that would release the building at 120 Franklin Street to the city.
The City Council is set to accept the MOU at its meeting today. Afterward, it goes back to the federal government for final approval, said city attorney John Hill.
As for how long that will take, "if it's in a week, it's in a week. If it's in a month, it's in a month," Hill said. "We hope to get this property within a month."
The city originally had plans to demolish the aging structure and build a new, energy-efficient police headquarters on the site. It already has about $3.5 million set aside for the project through a previous bond issue.
It's unclear if that's still the plan. Reed said the city will review a preliminary sketch by an architect prepared several years ago and go from there.
The roughly 100,000 square-foot building is valued at about $1.6 million by the Lee County tax assessor. But the property will be reappraised after its acquired by the city, and the federal government will get 20 percent of its appraisal price in what's called an "equity share."
According to the MOU, the city must begin using the property within one year of its transfer, and it can be used only for law-enforcement purposes.
Currently, the police department operates out of two cramped buildings downtown. The city has wanted to build a new headquarters for at least the past six years.


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by Karen Schroeder Kassel, MS, RD, MEd
Magnesium is an essential mineral that has a hand in many vital body functions, for example releasing energy, building protein, and stabilizing bone. It is also one of several nutrients that helps keep blood pressure within a healthy range. And since magnesium is plentiful in vegetables, legumes, and whole grains, it is easy to consume enough if you are eating healthy food.
Magnesium's functions include:
Magnesium deficiency is rare because most people have large stores of this mineral in their body. However, it can be caused by diseases or medications that interfere with the body's ability to absorb magnesium. Symptoms of a magnesium deficiency include: irregular heartbeat, nausea, confusion, depression, tingling, weakness, loss of appetite, and muscle contractions and cramps.
Conditions and medications that may lead to a magnesium deficiency include:
It's also possible to get too much magnesium. The Office of Dietary Supplements publishes tolerable upper intake levels for magnesium.
Magnesium toxicity through food intake is not a concern for most healthy people. However, people with kidney disease may develop toxicity because the kidneys are responsible for regulating the level of magnesium in the blood. Also it is possible to take too much magnesium in supplements. Symptoms of magnesium toxicity include:
Magnesium is found in a variety of foods. The best sources are legumes, nuts, whole grains, and certain vegetables. "Hard" water (which is high in dissolved minerals, specifically calcium and magnesium) is also a source of magnesium.
Foods that provide high levels of magnesium include:
Greater magnesium intake is associated with a lower incidence of high blood pressure. This is the finding of a few large clinical studies. One of these, the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) study found that a diet high in magnesium, potassium, and calcium and low in sodium and fat can significantly lower blood pressure. You can get these nutrients by eating a diet rich in fresh fruits and vegetables, legumes, whole grains, and low-fat dairy foods.
Based on the growing number of studies showing a positive role for magnesium in managing blood pressure, the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure recommends maintaining an adequate magnesium intake to prevent and manage high blood pressure.
Several studies have found links between magnesium status and heart health. Many of these suggest that an adequate intake of magnesium is protective of the heart. However, further study needs to be done to clarify magnesium's role.
Since a significant amount of magnesium is stored in the bones and one of magnesium's roles is to help keep bones healthy, it would make sense that magnesium would help protect bones from the thinning of osteoporosis. Several studies have suggested just that—magnesium supplementation may improve bone mineral density. However it is still not clear, and more study needs to be done.
It is easy to meet your magnesium needs through foods. To increase your intake, try some of the following:
Eat Right—Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
International Food Information Council Foundation
Dietitians of Canada
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Punto's BACK! Ok, so that was just something I had to say because I like him, I don't necessarily need to see him start a game or be out there every day but I also don't dread when he shows up. Our offense can support what he's not able to rise to and our defense is ALWAYS solid when he's in the field. (of course, I don't mind seeing JJ Hardy either so I miss him.)
That being said, this is the last game of this particular series. It will be interesting to see how we fair up against Beuhrle but at least I feel like we are even or exceed that matchup with Pavano out there. I'm looking forward to this game and I hope that the tensions stay minimal – I'm really not looking for any brawls.
And just for news of former Twins that hits especially close to the heart here on this blog, here's a great write-up on RA Dickey!
Chi White Sox | @ | Minnesota |
Pierre, LF | Span, CF | |
Vizquel, 3B | Hudson, O, 2B | |
Rios, CF | Mauer, DH | |
Konerko, 1B | Cuddyer, 1B | |
Teahen, RF | Young, D, LF | |
Ramirez, A, SS | Kubel, RF | |
Kotsay, DH | Valencia, 3B | |
Pierzynski, C | Punto, SS | |
Beckham, 2B | Butera, C | |
Buehrle, P | Pavano, P |
Chi White Sox | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 21 | 1 |
Minnesota | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
Well that game sucked. Pavano did not have his usual stuff and Beuhrle most definitely did. I always try to find something positive to say about even the worst of games but this one is a bit tough.
I will say this: Casilla had a phenomenal play up the middle tonight that is destined for web gem-ness. Even if not, it will definitely be on the Twins site video clips tomorrow.
Sadly, in his first game back, Nick Punto strained the left hamstring again during a slide into second base and left the game. I'm going to go WAY out on a limb and suggest that if Punto goes back on the DL, I think they will be bringing up another relief pitcher given the schedule they have for the next 2 weeks. In my mind, that means either Slama or Neshek – Slama hasn't been doing as well in AAA as he'd like. So – this is a legitimate opportunity for Sideshow to rejoin the team this season.
Of course, that all assumes that they don't bring Plouffe back up and assumes that they don't just decide to let Nicky wait it out a few days. I'm just saying it's POSSIBLE and this is a good chance to see what they do. (and I think we need a pitcher.)
Other than that, let's just remember that we already had the series against the White Sox, we already have the SEASON series won and we only have 3 more games to play them.
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Gigwalk, The Casual Mobile Job App Fully Launched
We took a quick look at Gigwalk back in February when it was still in beta. But the app and the service are now out of beta and accepting both gigs and workers.
As a quick reminder, Gigwalk can be described as a casual mobile workforce. As a Gigwalker, you log into your account and see what open short jobs are available around you. These jobs typically pay $3-$7 for a quick walk into a business, snapping a couple pictures, and filling out a quick survey. For business, it's a great way to crowd source the small data gathering jobs that need to be done. Things like documenting restaurant menus, hours of operation, locations of red light cameras, and product display details. These are the kind of jobs that businesses need done, but traditionally it's rather expensive to send out a person to gather this data. For the Gigwalkers, it's a quick and easy way to make a few extra bucks. Do the jobs, they get approved, and you get money via Paypal.
What makes Gigwalk special is that it is perfectly tailored for the mobile user and these short jobs. From the need of these quick data collection jobs, to the integration with the mobile device. It's one of the best examples of what a mobile platform is really capable of doing to change the way business is done that I've seen. The potential here is gigantic.
I had the chance to sit down with Matt Crampton and Ariel Seidman two of the three co-founders of Gigwalk to talk about the platform, and where they hope it will go. Right now, Gigwalk is available in a few major US cities such as San Francisco, New York City, and Philadelphia, but they hope to expand to other cities, and eventually internationally as demand grows.
I asked Matt & Ariel about the typical Gigwalker. Are they doing one job per day or 20? Turns out Gigwalkers run the full gamut. They have one user with over 600 jobs done already. While they have other users that will do the odd job when it's close to them at lunch or right after work.
Interesting in joining Gigwalk? Start by opening the Gigwalk app and registering or logging in. From there look at the map and see what gigs are available around you. Click one for instructions on getting started. An easy, casual, second job. Work when you want to. Who can't use a little extra beer money these days? Get walking.
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New York's Ellis Island opened as an immigrant processing center on January 1, 1892. The first immigrant to be processed at Ellis Island was a 15-year-old Irish girl named Annie Moore. Her ship, the SS Nevada, arrived in New York from Liverpool, England and Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland on December 31, 1891. Annie and her two siblings went to Ellis Island by ferry the next day.
You can see a scan of Annie Moore's passenger list (ship manifest) at the Ellis Island Website - you may have to log in or register (free) to view the manifest. Annie is passenger #2 on the list. Her siblings, Anthony and Phillip are passengers 3 and 4.
Annie Moore's Story in the New York Times
The New York Times ran a story about the opening of Ellis Island and Annie Moore on January 2, 1892. You can read an excerpt from this article at: Annie Moore, First Ellis Island Immigrant - in the New York Times
Ellis Island? Castle Garden? Which One? And When?
Here's an article about New York's three immigration centers: New York's Immigration Centers - Ellis Island, Castle Garden and the Barge Office
For more information on Annie Moore see: Found: the Real Ellis Island Annie Moore
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Asiana catches up with Saif Ali Khan in London as he promotes his long-awaited Race 2.
Shahrukh and Deepika speak exclusively about their latest Bolly blockbuster.
Asiana interviews handsome Ranbir Kapoor for the promotion of film Ye Jawaani Hair Deewani
Asiana interview with the cast and crew of Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. Actors Farhaan Akhtar and Sonam Kapoor, Director Rakesh Omprakash Mehra and Lyricist / Writer Prasoon Joshi
Our exclusive interview with the stars of Barfi.
We speak exclusively with Riz Ahmed about his new movie Trishna.
Bollywood superhero John Abrahams talks candidly about his craziest role ever!
Asiana interviews the director and cast of the smash hit comedy West Is West.
Asiana.tv catches up with handsome Ranbir Kapoor and the demure Pallavi Sharda on the eve of their forthcoming Bollywood release Besharam. Will this be the third 100 crore film for rockstar Ranbir?
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Meet Sonakshi Sinha at the Bollywood showstoppers 2014 concert at the O2 on 3rd Aug 2014!
Interview: Manish Dayal The star of The Hundred-Foot Journey talks food and cookery.
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The Rajasthan residents return in this sequel to the smash hit first film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. With new characters, more colour and a Big Fat Indian wedding to look forward to; 'The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' is a movie must watch! Find out more about the film in our interview with the stars and director.
Celebs turned out in all their finery for the premiere of the much-anticipated British independent comedy – Amar Akbar & Tony at The Cineworld Cinema in Haymarket, London. Watch our exclusive interviews with guests including Rishi Rich and Manrina, Meera Syal, Michelle Collins, Adil Ray and the film's cast.
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Watch our star-studded interviews from the glamorous Red Carpet launch of the London Indian Film Festival 2015 (LIFF), held at The Cineworld, Haymarket in London. Presented by: Momtaz Begum-Hossain Videography: Polar Bear Media (www.facebook.com/polarbearmedia)
The stars of Dilwale were in town, so we caught up with heartthrobs Varun Dhawan and Kriti Sanon, where they talk romance and all about the movie.
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The Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival 2016 opened with a red carpet gala screening of Parched. In attendance were Film Directors, filmstars and guests including Shekhar Kapur and Nysa Devgan, daughter of Ajay and Kajol, making her red carpet debut.
Find out what they all had to say about the festival.
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Asiana's Fariha Sabir interviews Hrithik Roshan and director Ashutosh Gowariker about their new historical epic, Mohenjo Daro releasing in cinemas on 12th August.
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Entertainment One's new culinary drama starring Helen Mirren and Om Puri, The Hundred-Foot Journey, releases in cinemas on 5th September. An uplifting and feel-good cultural feast full of Indian spices, French sophistication and British wit. Directed by Lasse Hallströmand produced by Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg and Juliet Blake, the film stars Academy Award winning actress Helen Mirren as the icy proprietress of a Michelin starred classical French eatery in Southern France, veteran Indian film actor Om Puri (East is East, The Reluctant Fundamentalist), Manish Dayal (Law & Order, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Bollywood film Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna) and Canadian-French actress and television personality, Charlotte Le Bon. The screenplay is written by Steven Knight.
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Enjoy the first song, Indiawaale of the much awaited Shahrukh Khan film, Happy New Year. The song has been composed by Vishal-Shekhar, written by Irshad Kamil and sung by Vishal Dadlani, KK, Shankar Mahadevan and Neeti Mohan. IndiaWaale, featuring Deepika Padukone, Shah Rukh Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Boman Irani, Sonu Sood and Vivaan Shah, is the first song of the film where the cast was captured together.
"IndiaWaale is the first of its kind song. A Dance Anthem for sure! It gives you goose bumps and also forces you to get up and dance. It was truly the most difficult song to crack as not only I but Vishal-Shekhar and Irshad Bhai (Kamil) had to think of today's patriotism and make a song around that. Today what we feel for our country is so different from the sentiments of the 70s and 80s. It's really a song that encapsulates all that makes us uniquely INDIAWAALE," said Director Farah Khan.
Catch the behind the scenes of 'Indiawaale', song from upcoming Shah Rukh Khan starrer 'Happy New Year'
The hilarious movie has gone back to its roots and is back on the stage. Starring the play's original writer Ayub Khan Din in the lead role of chip shop owner George Khan the show is currently showing at The Trafalgar Studios in London until January 3rd. www.trafalgar-studios.co.uk
To commemorate an epic 1000 weeks of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge at the box office, Yash Raj Films have launched a brand new trailer of the timeless classic
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Set in the shadows of the US–Mexico border gang wars, Broken Horses is an epic thriller about the bonds of brotherhood, the laws of loyalty, and the futility of violence
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Supernatural thriller set in an historic British boarding school six students from two prestigious single sex private schools, spend a night patrolling the eerie grounds of Dhoultham School as part of their training. As each hour passes and the teenagers complete their mundane tasks, they witness a series of increasingly disturbing occurrences...
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Chinese New Year represents luck, prosperity and new beginnings.
Debts are cleared, and houses are cleaned to sweep away bad fortune and welcome good. Round fruits like oranges and apples are displayed to symbolize rounding off the year. Lucky money is given to young people. Families share foods that represent long life. And red, which represents happiness, wealth and longevity, abounds.
Today is the beginning of Chinese New Year, a 15-day celebration rich with tradition and festivities.
2014 is the year of the wooden horse. Children born this year are said to be energetic, intelligent, physically strong and good at communicating.
In Asian cultures, the new year is based on a lunar calendar, which is why the holiday is never held on the same dates. It follows a 12-year cycle, and each of the cycles are represented by animals.
The holiday is one of Las Vegas' top three annual celebrations, with New Year's Eve and the Super Bowl, said Brenda Reichert, director of international special events at MGM Resorts.
The company's high roller banquet at Aria will host nearly 3,000.
The festivity is so prominent, planning for the coming year typically starts soon after a celebration ends, or sometimes even during.
At MGM, Reichert has started taking calls about next year's custom crystal gifts.
At The Venetian and Palazzo, Floral and Horticulture Director Dana Beatty is beginning to plan next year's atrium displays while the current ones are still up.
Beatty said she often orders flowers a year ahead so growers across the nation can rope off a section specifically for the hotel-casinos.
Many resorts hire feng shui masters to advise on design. MGM Resorts brings in monks to bless the properties.
The feng shui masters advise on cultural sensitivities and what items will bring the best luck.
White, for example, is a color only used in funerals, Reichert said. Envelopes must never be white.
"We make everything end in eight," Beatty said.
The Waterfall Atrium of the Palazzo features eight horses that are 18 feet tall.
The display includes a treasure chest filled with decorative coins and jewels. Fifty-eight coins decorate the base of a seat.
Fruits in the garden represent wealth. The chrysanthemum and bamboo are traditional, and others are added for color and richness.
There are 12,000 plants in all of the gardens. Bats, another lucky animal, are displayed with sheep, the horse's "secret friend" in the Chinese zodiac.
Aria's banquet is at the MGM Resorts Events Center and orchestrated by an in-house production company that plans and designs events for the resort and private clients. Its off-Strip warehouse holds oversized and reusable props of every theme imaginable.
For the annual banquet, Reichert said she relies on gold and red and always blends styles of the East and West.
This year, the table centerpieces will display 22-inch sugar horse-head sculptures. The menus were created by executive chefs of Blossom at Aria, Jasmine at Bellagio and Pearl at MGM Grand.
Entertainers from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau and China present song, dance, music and theater.
But the planning extends beyond the Strip.
Some of the largest, most popular Las Vegas celebrations take place in Chinatown Plaza and beneath the Fremont Street Experience.
On Sunday, Feb. 9, Chinatown Plaza expects 5,000 visitors to join for a Lion Dance, which traditionally kicks off Chinese New Year ceremonies, as well as Japanese Taiko drums, martial arts, acrobatics and food and dances from several cultures.
The Las Vegas branch of Cathay Bank at 6110 Spring Mountain Road will gift lucky money to its customers for the first time. Cathay Bank is the oldest operating financial institution founded by Chinese-Americans.
Each year, the U.S. Department of the Treasury prints dollar bills with serial numbers that start with four numeral eights. Eight is considered to be the luckiest number.
"It's a nice gesture from the Treasury that most banks aren't aware of," said Gorden Phong, general manager of Cathay's Las Vegas branch.
Cathay also supplies its customers with free red envelopes, so they don't have to buy them. In Los Angeles, some branches get permits to set off red fireworks, which are accompanied by dances.
People are celebrating Chinese New Year more than ever in the United States, Phong said.
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today is before & after day so i thought i'd start us out nice and easy with some fun and simple paint + fabric makeovers. first up is ana's bookcase makeover. orange is probably my favorite accent color for almost anything, so i loved seeing this simple makeover on a piece of furniture that just needed a little love. for another great orange bookcase look, check out this gorgeous piece in bonnee of studio bon's home. thanks to ana for sharing!
[have a before & after you'd like to share on d*s? just shoot me an email right here with your images (low res, please).]
CLICK HERE for briana's telephone table makeover after the jump!
briana in vancouver turned this fun polka-dotted telephone table (a $20 craigslist find) makeover. lord knows i love a good dot, so i couldn't resist this piece for a little bit of morning eye candy. great work, briana!
Oh! really great b&a!
I just don't like much the second! The wood tile is so wonderfull and looks well, don't need a painting, only a modern fabric could transform this furniture in a modern retro piece :)i'm from brazil and i love d*s! <3
Both of these makeovers are great! Love the orange, white and turquoise color combination. And the telephone table is so cute.
I, personally, LOVE Hermes orange painting the interior of bookcases and have done this very thing myself…bravo! it's perfect with the turquoise!
i love ana and rearranged design! she did an amazing job. great post! xoxo
Love both of them, especially the bookcase! That interior paint really makes it stand out. I'm going to have to try something like that with my bookcases. Y'know, someday…
I love the bookcase so much! Even more because of the Jonathan Adler pieces placed on it!
I love these before and afters – they are so inspiring.
I LOVE that telephone table! I wish I could find stuff like that and make it new!
I love how crisp the bookcase is with the orange/white colorscheme. (Love the ceramics display, too!)
Both look great! You did a wonderful job!!
i just bought a telephone table/chair on craigslist and have been really stumped as to whether to paint it or stain it. thanks for the inspiration!
Wow, I love the book case! Brilliant work!
Luckily for her, she got a hold of that bird bowl by Jonathan Adler before it went poof! I've been trying to buy it for 2 months now! :( Looks lovely in that bookcase though!
Love the first makeover. The second one makes me sad. The wood (veneer or not) was lovely and looked in good condition. I think the fabric would have been lovely with the wood.
These are both great but I especially love that gossip bench!
Both these makeovers are gorgeous! The results look clean and bright, love the splash of colors.
Love the fabric on the telephone table – where is it from?
That bookcase is beautiful! Makes the colors of the pieces inside really pop. Great job!
so impressed by both of these!
briana – i'm also wondering where you found your polka-dot fabric? i'm on the hunt for upholstery fabric myself.
great work both of you!!!
Love the after of the bookcase, especially the interesting aquamarine pieces! :)
I'm loving Ana's ceramics! They look beautiful in her newly painted bookcase.
It continues to amaze me how white paint, featured in several before & afters today, can so powerfully update and modernize older pieces. It's really incredible. Love the B & As!
love how the inside of the white shelf is painted a bright orange! displaying the turquoise and white pieces on the shelf ties the entire look together so nicely.
the telephone table is so unique. its great!
Both pieces are nice, but…it's hard to say why the book case gives me that little tingle and the telephone table makes me shrug.
Both are wood (I assume) painted white with splashes of color, but while I wouldn't give the table a second look, I'd snatch that book case up with extreme prejudice!
Anybody got any ideas what the subtle difference is? Maybe it's that the splash of color seems to be the meat of the dish where the book case is concerned, where as the color seems an afterthought with the tele-table. Whatchya think?
Yep…Eye candy.!!!..Stepping out of the box again!! Love it! Peeps just be brave and you will be glad you did…just think all the compliments you will receive…… You just made my day!!
I love the peeled banana ceramic. How cute and fun!
This inspired me! I found a telephone table on Craigslist not two hours after reading this post, and picked it up today! I won't be painting it, though… I'm grateful that Briana did, so I could see that I would want to keep the solid wood of mine exposed and clean!
I love that telephone table like crazy! Such a fun little piece of furniture, now I want one. :)
bookcase = love. love. LOVE.
ooh gorgeous bright orange inside the clean white… ! just bookmarked this for future project…yay!
I wish I had my own house to buy old furniture and to make them as nice as these … one day it'll happen
Thank you for all the kind words! The bookcase was a fun project and I am so pleased and proud of the outcome.
yeahyeahgirl- I did this project in my basement, I just moved and it is the first time I've ever had a space to do projects in, in the past I've used, stoops, fire escapes, bathtubs and friend's backyards. So I feel your pain.
I love orange and white! Thanks for the design tips. Both are so creative.
Wouldn't you know it….I bought the EXACT phone table this past summer in a charity flea market for $3. Same ugly green fabric and everything!! I haven't gotten around to painting it yet but I've reupholstered it in a beautiful black and white fabric from Better Home and Garden. It turned out lovely but I'm stuck on the choice of paint color. I love the fabric you chose! :)


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The dominant theme present throughout this collection is about black women who long to escape and be free but who are denied that freedom by the society they live in and by their husbands. Black men are portrayed in a negative light and are made to be the oppressors of black women.
In Roselily, the story foreshadows two ways in which the bride, Roselily, will be oppressed by her new husband: the marriage itself, which leads her to think of chains, ropes, and religion; and in her role as a wife, where her groom has already made clear that he is going to remake her into the wife that he wants. In Really, Doesn't Crime Pay, Alice Walker continues to explore this theme of black men as the oppressors of black women. Not only does Myrna have to deal with racism she faces living in the South...
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There is something dignified in the quiet, determined manner of Ayaan Hirsi Ali as she rises from the audience and walks towards the podium to deliver her lecture. Ayaan Hirsi Ali's intricate history starts in Somalia, where she was born to a Muslim family. At the age of five she underwent female genital mutilation. By her teens she was a devout Muslim. In her early 20s, upon learning of plans for an undesirable arranged marriage, she made her way to Holland, where she applied for asylum. Hirsi Ali studied at Leiden University and began publishing critical articles about Islam, the condition of the Muslim woman, and so forth.
She wrote the script for the Dutch movie "Submission" for director Theo van Gogh, who was subsequently murdered by a Muslim assassin. Hirsi Ali joined the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy and in 2003 was elected to the Dutch parliament. A few years later she moved to the United States, where she became a researcher at the American Enterprise Institute. She published some books; notably, an autobiography titled "Infidel" that became an international bestseller. Already in 2005, Time magazine named Hirsi Ali among the 100 most influential people in the world. The internet abounds with information about her, with articles and videos of her lectures…
Ayaan Hirsi Ali was visiting Israel for the recent Presidential Conference in Jerusalem. Following are excerpts of an interview published in Israel Hayom.
Q: In your lectures you made numerous references to the situation in the Middle East. You claim that people in the West do not understand that what is taking place in the Middle East is not a dialogue.
Hirsi Ali: More than one issue is at stake here. Regarding the Israeli-Palestinian context, the main problem is that you may speak of a peace process, but what you get is a process, not peace. And why is this process so prolonged? Because for the Israelis this issue is a territorial problem. For the Palestinian negotiators, on the other hand, it is not a territorial problem but a religious and ethnic one, It is not only about Palestinians but about all Arabs. Most of all, it is a religious problem.
From the perspective of the Arab leaders, reaching a two-state solution is to betray God, the Koran, the hadith and the tradition of Islam.
Q: Even though they are portrayed as secular?
Hirsi Ali: The presumption that the Palestinian negotiators are secular is not supported by facts. Were they secular, there would already be a settled territorial agreement of some kind. But there is no agreement as of today, because on one side it has become religious jihad of all or nothing, while on the other side it is still a territorial issue. Of course I know that there are Israelis who also perceive this as a religious problem; but their numbers pale in comparison to the Muslim side. Reaching a settlement that brings about two states is a religious betrayal – not only for the leadership but for most Muslims today. The West does not understand this.
Q: Why? After the many years you have lived in the West, how can you explain this?
Hirsi Ali: The conception of religion in the West in the 20th and 21st century differs from that of Middle Eastern Muslims. The West successfully separated religion and politics, but even in places in the West where there is no distinct separation, still the concept of God and religion, even in the 13th or 15th century, differs to the current reality in the Middle East.
Islam is an Orthopraxy, Islam has a goal. So if you are a true Muslim, you must fight for that goal. You can achieve a temporary peace or truce, but it is not ultimate, not everlasting. It is not just about the territory. Because the territory does not belong to the people; it belongs to God. So for a Palestinian leader – even if he is secular, even an atheist – to leave the negotiating room with the announcement of a two-state solution would mean that he would be killed the minute he walks out.
Q: Many wise people come here advising us Israelis to act rationally. Do you think this dispute has anything to do with rationalism?
Hirsi Ali: Europeans and Americans – and I do not refer merely to the leadership, but to people in general – when they have a problem, they think there must be some kind of compromise on the table. What they cannot accept is that one party would say "the only rational outcome is our complete victory." If you put aside the Israeli-Palestinian situation, you see components of this culture in the events in Syria, in Lebanon. You've seen it with Mubarak. There is a winner and there is a loser. But there cannot be two winners.
Q: So the proposal of compromise stems from naivety?
Hirsi Ali: You can give it any label you like. I have listened to someone like Tony Blair, I was in two or three conferences where he spoke, and he is not naïve anymore, he is not the same man he was ten years ago in regards to this conflict. More and more leaders see that this conflict is not going to be resolved Western-style, namely that all conflicts are resolvable and no-one leaves the table empty-handed.
In a culture dictated by honor and shame – in addition to the religious issue – defeat of any kind, accepting a compromise, is to leave the room empty-handed. Compromise is loss in this culture. It is very hard to explain this to contemporary Westerners.
Q: Many liberals around the world, who support the compromise solution, also tend to blame Israel.
Hirsi Ali: Many perceive Israel to be one of their kind; another liberal, white, rational state, etc. Therefore they expect you to approach matters the way they would. But then they approach the subject in the context of the U.S. or Europe, or some other Western system, where there is rule of law, arbiters, an ability to go to court in case of disagreement. There is a district court, a court of appeals, a supreme court, and once the judges have spoken their decision is final. You lose face, but you have to accept defeat…
With the Arab Spring. Many are in favor of change. They just don't know how to go about it.
We are speaking of a fundamentally different context, where such a judicial infrastructure does not exist, and those who aspire for it are a persecuted minority.
And yet I am optimistic, after the Arab Spring. I see people, albeit few in number and very disorganized, but who do want that infrastructure where religion is put aside and where compromise becomes central. They just don't know how to go about it. They lack the resources and the institutions to make that happen. But it is possible…
Q: There is also a certain measure of idealism...
Hirsi Ali: Idealism is a good thing. But when idealism encounters reality, you must not try to manipulate it to fit your utopia. You have to take in the reality. 93,000 people have died in Syria because the fighting forces could not, cannot, and will not compromise. This toll is higher than all the fatalities on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict!
So, to go on and on about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in my view is to take a tranquilizer or smoke pot. You do it just to feel better. You cannot face reality, so you just keep on harping about something that can make you feel better. One can also mention the number of people who died in Libya because Kaddafi and the opposition would not find the way to the negotiating table. This phenomenon is repeated throughout the region, not only today but throughout history. Reaching compromise is to lose face.
Q: So do you think that talk about negotiations brought up by the Arab counterparts is a game, with no real intentions behind it? We know that right after the Oslo accords, Arafat spoke in a mosque in South Africa, comparing the Oslo accords to the hudaiba treaty by Muhammad with his enemies. In Israel, there were those who accepted this, as they said that Arafat had to resort to speaking two different languages, one for his people and one for us.
Hirsi Ali: I hear this argument constantly, also in relation to the Turkey's Erdogan and in regards to the Saudis. Do you know what is wrong with this argument? If you want peace and not merely a process, you must make peace with the people. The negotiators themselves are of no importance. They are a few individuals who may tomorrow be out of power or dead. You have to have peace with the people you are in conflict with, and as long as they do not want to hear a different tune, you will not have peace. Until the people at large are ready for that compromise, there is no compromise.
This is true of the domestic politics of any nation or the external politics with foreign nations, for whom the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is seen symbolically as the biggest icon of all foreign affairs relations with the Arab Islamic world.
There has to be a change of attitude and a change in attitude within the culture and of culture, and I hope that we can see this.
True emancipation cannot exist without the freedom of the individual's voice.
I believe that true emancipation cannot exist without the freedom of the individual, without the individual's space and voice. The fact that individualism is not given a chance in the Arab Muslim world is related to belonging and the collective. If you want to belong and be part of the collective you have to be a winner. If you are not, then you are a source of shame.
So you have to ask yourself why the Syrian regime and its likes are incapable of putting an end to the bloodshed after killing ten, or 1,000, or 10,000 people. Why not? It is not caused by Israel, the Americans or any outsiders; it is part of the culture. And for the culture to grow out of such phenomena, change has to come from within.
Q: If so, do negotiations have any meaning when we talk about peace while the Palestinian Authority use anti-Israeli school books, which do not even mention Israel by name in their geographical maps?
Hirsi Ali: Not now. Not as long as a majority of the people do not want peace. An Arab leader who genuinely wants peace has to convince the Arab people first, must get their endorsement and then go and get peace. That is why the first thing that needs to be worked out is not so much the relationship with Israel but changing the culture, Islamic and Arab. This process does not depend on you, though you can help it, facilitate it, be a catalyst; but it does not depend on you, on America or the rest of the world.
Q: In reference to Samuel Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations" theory, is there any sense that Europe is awakening to the threat it faces? We have a feeling that Israel is a scapegoat of sorts for the rest of the world. Do you not think that Europe is overcome by a quiet conquest of the Muslims there?
Hirsi Ali: Yes, but it is no longer quiet, ever since 9/11 and the terrorist plots. Because the countries of Europe and the U.S. are democracies, their citizens enjoy freedom of speech. The more we listen, the more discernible is the extreme cultural divergence between the civilizations, as Huntington claims. One must first face it before blaming Israel or scapegoating others, otherwise things will not change. And the Europeans are waking up to this.
Europeans are waking up to the cultural divergence between the civilizations.
I visited Israel for the first time in 1998 or 1999, and saw people in uniform with guns in buses, in the market, on the streets. My European friend who came with me found this so strange. You would never find this in Holland. Now all airports in Europe and the U.S. have security men, all wielding machine guns, just like I saw in Israel at the time. After the Boston marathon bombings, I think that on the Fourth of July this year there will be more security than spectators.
So, as these liberal Western democracies are beginning to face the same challenges as Israel, or at least a tiny fraction of them – you see attitudes changing.
Q: Do you perceive attitudes changing towards Israel? An understanding of Israel?
Hirsi Ali: Well, some people get hardened. I do not understand Stephen Hawking's refusal to come to Israel. There is a boycott on Israel by the intellectuals. Yet, the people in Boston are the most liberal in the United States, maybe short of San Francisco, and they were really quite happy with people in uniform patrolling the streets, which compromises their civil liberties. But people would rather face reality than lose limbs…
Q: And you think that it will be a huge mistake to give away territory before a cultural change occurs?
Hirsi Ali: I will just say that Israel is not the problem nor is it the solution. Even if you give up all the land, it will not solve any of the problems in the Middle East. It will not obliterate despotism, it will not liberate women, it will not help religious minorities. It won't bring peace to anyone. Even if Israel does not give up an inch of land – the result will be the same.
If you want a process, continue the way you are. If you want real, lasting peace, then things have to change first within the Arab Muslim individual, family, school, streets, education, and politics. It is not an Israeli problem.
You must learn to take advantage of opportunities. Due to technology, things can develop quickly. Look at the Iranians; what took the Iranians thirty years could take the Egyptians five or ten.
Q: To become secular?
Hirsi Ali: No, just for the majority of the people to stand up to Shariah. This is what I want to say about Muslims in general: Muslims want Shariah until they have it... For cultural change to transpire we need one hundred years and more to pass. You can pick any number you want. I am speaking of a lengthy, bloody period. But it is going to change.
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You Are Less Industrious Than You Think
Catherine Rampell reports today that we work less than we think we do and sleep more than we think we do. She has a few guesses about why this might be, along with the possibility that it's merely a statistical aberration. But my guess is that she's right when she suggests that "people just systematically exaggerate their industriousness." For some reason, we all like the idea that we are uniquely besieged with too much work and too little sleep and yet somehow manage to perform our jobs awesomely anyway. It's just one of the little fairy tales we tell to keep ourselves plugging along.


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fortune not just because the 350 people he employs in Belgravia have brains; they also have speed, building their own high-frequency computers that have raced them in and out of successful trades microseconds before their rivals get there. Like many other hedge funders, he's relocating to Geneva next month.
Platt does not talk to the press, partly because he's secretive, mainly because it's a waste of time, but he took two hours off from money to talk to me about art. And he knows his stuff. He calls himself 'passionate' about art and denies that he's a shrivelled financial soul, a money machine who's given up on real life.
The reason he is so well informed is that he has started an ingenious new art business, All Visual Arts (AVA), with Joe La Placa, a 50-year-old whose picaresque past merits being made into a film. Born in New York to a physicist father and opera-singer mother, La Placa is, as he says, 'a union of art and science, which is key to my business'. As a young man, he shared an art scholarship with Keith Haring, worked at Studio 54 ferrying Bianca Jagger, Liza Minnelli and Andy Warhol around the VIP area, was an assistant to artists including Lichtenstein and de Kooning, and co-wrote the screenplay of the 1996 Jean-Michel Basquiat biopic, Basquiat, about the graffiti artist who died of a heroin overdose aged 27, starring David Bowie as Andy Warhol.
Key to his current role is that in the 1980s he owned a Tribeca gallery that sold 19th- and 20th-century masterworks by futurists such as Boccioni and artists from the Hudson River School of art. He used the profits to fund huge projects by contemporary artists, including Basquiat and Haring, which the artists would never have been able to afford themselves. He and his partner in the gallery were the youngest dealers in the history of the influential Art Basel fair. However, when he brought works by 40 graffiti artists to London in 1985, despite the approval of the Prince and Princess of Wales who attended his show, he was branded a 'vulgar American' – he still keeps the clipping.
After forays into the world of IT, working for IBM, and music, working for super-producer Nellee Hooper, La Placa had a craving to get back into the art world. He did this via the influential magazine Art Review. From there he graduated to become a director of Artnet, the world's largest online auction and gallery database. It was while he was there that his partner, Fiamma Montagu, a British sculptor, insisted that he should meet her ex-boyfriend, Mike Platt. 'I'm a Sicilian,' he protested. 'A) He's your ex, so I have no interest in meeting him and b) He's a hedge fund guy and they're the ones ruining the art world with their "buy today, sell tomorrow" philosophy.' But she insisted and the pair met in 2006 at Frieze in Regent's Park. 'And I sit down with him and he's immediately engaging and fascinating. He's informing me about money and I'm informing him about art.'
The pair launched AVA in 2008 with one aim: to build a contemporary art collection not by shopping for pictures, but by commissioning them from the artists. They have a two-year contract with each artist and guarantee that they will keep some of the work for five years. Platt puts up the capital, which runs into millions, and La Placa chooses the artists.
They have a private showroom in the crypt of a deconsecrated church at One Marylebone, which displays a selection of art by, among others, taxidermist Polly Morgan, the Turner Prize-winning sculptor and installation artist Keith Tyson and Reece Jones, an artist who works mainly in charcoal. What's on view in the darkened crypt is not for children. Skulls, crucified monkeys, stag heads, five-billion- year-old meteorites, a black Christ in an electric chair, a whirlwind in a glass box, a Japanese girl riding a polycarbonate walrus, stuffed baby sparrows in a coffin and the levitation of St John the Baptist gleam at you in the dim light. Balls of crushed mouse skulls and piles of mouse fur on the floor, together with Don Quixote about to die on the wall, add more visual shocks. The artists are headed by Paul Fryer, whose one-man show thrilled and chilled at Frieze week last September, but
significant shudders come from large paintings by Wolfe von Lenkiewicz, feather sculptures by Kate MccGwire and insects in resin by Alastair Mackie.
Nothing quite like this can be seen elsewhere in London – AVA has the space until 1 June and you need a stiff G&T at the pub over the road to take you through it – but art with a fright is not the most distinguishing thing about AVA. Reece Jones, whose drawings are collected by AVA, says of the business: 'If you're someone who needs backing culturally or financially to produce your art, Joe will stick his neck out for you; he's very generous from an artist's perspective – but it doesn't feel like charity because he's so passionate about it.' Charity it is not. Platt and La Placa's main interest is funding monumental works of art. You're an artist in Hoxton or Bethnal Green and you dream of building something ambitious that costs £10,000 or £50,000 or £1 million but you haven't got the readies? Joe will lend you their expertise and financing and help you build it. AVA will take a work for its collection in lieu of the production costs, and sell others, hopefully to major collectors or institutions. AVA gets an artwork and the profits from sales are divided.
Everyone's a winner. Polly Morgan's flying machine sculpture from their Age of the
Marvellous exhibition last summer sold for £95,000, a record for the artist, to Thomas Olbricht, a German biochemist who is one of the world's foremost contemporary art collectors. 'They gave me the con-fidence and the means to complete a work I'd been struggling with for several years,' says Morgan.
'We sell to the world's biggest private collectors,' confirms La Placa. 'It's important we place our things in the right collections so that the works will accrue in value.' Merely having an open cheque book doesn't mean you can buy from AVA. The company has already introduced some spectacular pieces, notably two Wolfe von Lenkiewicz paintings, into Home House (the Robert Adam-designed private members' club on Portman Square) at the behest of the Candy brothers who, says La Placa, are 'eager to continue the relationship'.
While La Placa picks the artists, 'my skill
is trading,' says Platt in his cheerful, crisp, reductive way: this is a mind that was educated at Imperial College and LSE and does not waste words. 'I've never lost money since I was born. In 2008-09 [when Lehman Brothers went bust and most banks and hedge funds piled up losses] I made a mid- to high-20s return. BlueCrest returned 60 per cent in 2009. Trading is 99 per cent inspiration and one per cent perspiration.'
If anyone knows how to make money out of the art world, it is Platt. 'Looking over the horizon; that's what we [hedge funds] do every day,' he says. So should wise people put their money into art and real assets, or invest in the mainstream UK and US economies? 'Our view at BlueCrest is that any recovery will be muted and every time the economy exhibits any growth in its own right, the government will be very happy to reduce spending into it and it will need to do so.' This matters to the art market. A common guess among Bond Street art dealers and the bosses at Sotheby's, Christie's and Bonhams is that inflation will rise to eight per cent by the end of 2011, stimulating further flights out of money and equities into art, not to mention into prime London property and a range of real assets.
'Eight per cent? I wouldn't rule it out. I'm positioned for it,' Platt replies. 'But in 2010, I foresee no significant inflation.' La Placa intervenes: 'But if you go only for investment in art, you miss the point.' He's right. Art is for art's sake and this is what 90 per cent of sales on the art market are about; the reward on the wall and not the profits. But it remains true that if you back the right horse on the contemporary art market, the win is beyond all comparison with success on the FTSE or the Dow Jones. This is not least because the art market is small enough to be manipulated in price. Four or five people only have sent the price of
Richard Prince's erotic paperback book cover pictures from $10,000 to $5 million in a decade. Even with artists with outputs far bigger than Prince's, prices can be controlled.
Andy Warhol put out more than 8,000 art works across 30 years. But New York dealers Jose Mugrabi and his sons Alberto and David are credited in 2010 with owning over 1,000 of them and they thus operate a retail market in Warhol at any prices they choose. Their operations, though they are not the only market force pushing values up, have helped the mean average price of Warhols rise from $66,000 in 1988, the year the artist died, to over $700,000 now. The Mugrabis now own 150 Damien Hirsts as well. 'We want to keep the prices up,' David Mugrabi said candidly at the Hirst blockbuster auction at Sotheby's in 2008.
This market is manipulated, isn't it? I ask. Yes, Mike Platt and Joe La Placa allow, but less than you might think, given that the price of any artwork can be anything you want. Picasso's top known price in 1960 was $55,000. Now it's $139 million. 'Every market on this planet trends,' by which Platt means that everyone starts buying the same thing and there are huge waves of popularity. 'All markets do. It's the way human beings are programmed. These artists we're talking about are trending higher. Personally, I would never bet against anything that's trending. The biggest business that I run is computerised mathematically to identify trends and position for them. That is something that works. When a market is trending strongly, it's a very brave bet to call the end of it.'
And how will this affect art's future? People will be constantly concerned about inflation and the trend into art and real assets will continue to grow over time, predicts Platt. Cash will continue to pay poorly because interest rates will stay low in the US for at least two years and in the UK they need to stay low indefinitely. But there's a risk of a rapid UK sterling crisis, he adds, if Labour win. If it's the Conservatives, the City will give them longer to sort it out.
'Art's a store of value and a status symbol. Art and houses are inflation-proof assets you can enjoy on a daily basis. The client base for art is building worldwide, not least thanks to the internet which tells you immediately what's going on. Thirty years ago it took weeks or months of research to find out. Art's a lot more exciting than having your money in a bank or a company where you wonder if it will still be around in a month's time.'
So you're positive about art prices and art trends? 'Highly positive,' reply Mike and Joe
in unison. And with people like them in this business, so they should be.