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All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals, by David Scheffer, Princeton University Press, RRP£24.95, 570 pages
Seventy years ago this week, on January 12 1942, the representatives of nine countries occupied by Nazi Germany met at St James's Palace in London to discuss German war crimes perpetrated against civilian populations. Led by France's Charles de Gaulle and Poland's General Sikorski, they resolved to place "amongst their principal war aims [the] punishment through the channel of organised justice of those guilty and responsible for these crimes, whether they have ordered them, perpetrated them or in any way participated in them". This fleshed out a commitment made a few weeks earlier by Roosevelt and Churchill to establish a United Nations War Crimes Commission to investigate the facts, and to ensure that the perpetrators of these crimes "shall answer for them before courts of law".
While it may be standard today, back then a commitment to subject international crimes to "organised justice" before courts of law was highly unusual. It led directly to the world's first international military tribunal, created in London in the summer of 1945, sitting in Nuremburg, that tried major Nazi war criminals. Nineteen were convicted for crimes against peace, war crimes and, well ahead of its time, crimes against humanity, a term coined by the Cambridge law professor Hersch Lauterpacht. The Tokyo military tribunal followed. Then in 1948 states adopted the Genocide Convention, which enshrined the idea of a permanent international penal tribunal to try those charged with the new crime, working alongside competent national courts under a principle of universal jurisdiction. This, the first modern human rights instrument, also broke ground in criminalising such acts in times of peace as well as war, including within national boundaries against a state's own citizens.
For nearly five decades nothing much happened to make the idea of international criminal courts a reality. And for years legal experts toiled at the UN's International Law Commission over the minutiae of a possible international criminal court (which they eventually agreed upon in 1994). Then, against the background of the bloodshed and international inaction that attended the dissolution of Yugoslavia, something finally did change.
David Scheffer, the author of this meticulous account, was present at the top tables in those important years, marking a second stage in the delivery of international justice. From 1993 to 1997 he served as senior adviser to Madeleine Albright, the US ambassador to the UN, and then until 2001, on President Bill Clinton's nomination, he became the first US ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues.
Scheffer is therefore particularly well placed to describe the changes that occurred over that eight-year period. He was directly involved in efforts to establish two ad hoc bodies – the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in 1993, and the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda in 1994. In both cases the tribunals were established by the Security Council in response to atrocities that had already occurred, and in the face of political failings and inaction. Four years later, in Rome, he headed the US team negotiating the Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), adopted in the summer of 1998. And in the years that he remained in office, he was involved in the establishment of internationalised courts to deal with crimes committed in Sierra Leone.
By the time Scheffer left office, the international legal landscape was very different from the one he first looked out on. International courts are now an established part of the emerging, fragile world order, such as it is, with independent judges and prosecutors vying with government and national courts to prevent impunity by the punishment of crimes. The challenges are visible today in Libya, as the north African country's new government and the ICC struggle to decide on the fate of Saif Gaddafi, indicted for crimes against humanity.
All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals is first and foremost an insider's account, and one written from a US perspective. That is not a criticism: we get a clear description of the efforts of the US defence department to avoid the possibility that any of its military personnel might be subjected to international jurisdiction, and the ploys of various Republican politicians to stymie international developments limiting future US action and sovereignty. The wrangling over detail will fascinate the boffins, perhaps less so outsiders. No country has done more to create an international justice system than the US, or to keep itself outside the reach of that system. If nothing else, Scheffer's account establishes that for the US, even for the Clinton administration, this was about making international law for others.
Nowhere was the challenge more acute than when it came to the creation of the International Criminal Court. Happily, Scheffer doesn't mince words. He is now able to confirm that some of the instructions he was sent from Washington for the Rome ICC negotiations were "self-destructive", largely motivated by the "fear of prosecution of American soldiers and officials". He was told to promote a key role for the Security Council, thereby allowing the US to veto anything that was troublesome. The approach was doomed to failure: on some matters, the world has moved on since 1945. Even the UK went its own way, with a Labour government treating the court "as a plank for a new international order". Scheffer was left holding hands with Russia and China and "practically no one else". In the end the US was cast adrift by a powerful but unlikely coalition of non-governmental organisations and states in the non-aligned movement. Japan, France and Britain abandoned the US position of opposing an independent prosecutor who could initiate investigations.
The effect of this approach was disastrous for the US, as Scheffer's day-by-day account of the four weeks of negotiations makes clear. On July 6 1998 the situation is "increasingly grim". On July 15, Scheffer awakes to a "scathing New York Times editorial" that calls on the rest of the world to forget the US and proceed to agreement. The next day, Washington instructs him to maintain proposals Scheffer now calls "futile" and put them to a vote. He gets almost no support. Following that "debacle", he is then told to go for a written recorded vote on the adoption of the ICC Statute, knowing that an embarrassing defeat is a dead certainty. It duly follows. Out of 148 states voting, the US opposition is supported by just six other states: China, Israel, Iraq, Cuba, Syria and Yemen.
Eighteen months after this "debacle" – reflecting a new world order that Washington is having difficulty getting used to – Clinton nevertheless signed the Rome Statute, shortly before leaving office. A few months later President George W Bush "unsigned" the Statute. Yet the Bush administration's outright objection to the ICC melted away, and in 2005 the US abstained in a Security Council vote referring the situation in Sudan, which was not a party to the Statute, to the ICC prosecutor. Six years later, the US voted in favour of referring the situation in Libya, also not a party, to the ICC prosecutor. The ICC has come of age, a permanent part of the landscape. This is a development in which Scheffer can and should take comfort. Even if he was sometimes handed a difficult brief, Scheffer's instincts were right and his achievements significant, and he has offered a balanced and fair account that touches on many big issues.
He is right to focus on the importance of choosing decent judges and prosecutors and on the need to define with great care the crimes that will be subject to international proceedings. He is also right to consider the possibility of amnesty to avoid criminal proceedings if that might bring the killings to an earlier end.
On other issues, however, he remains quixotic. Why should the US be able to prevent its nationals from being subject to ICC proceedings if they torture or kill in violation of ICC standards in a country that is a party to the ICC Statute, such as Afghanistan? Why should the ICTY not hold Nato nationals to account for the bombing of a television station in Belgrade? A real danger that Scheffer does not fully address is that the system that has been constructed will deliver a lopsided justice, for the powerful and the victorious, only against losers and the weak. And, despite his support for the principle of complementarity – the need to give national courts the primary role in prosecuting international crimes – he has nothing to say about the extraordinary arrest of Senator Augusto Pinochet, in London in November 1998.
One big question floats around these pages: what are international criminal courts really for? Sudan's Omar al-Bashir remains active in office years after being indicted for genocide by the ICC. Scheffer touches on the possible deterrent effect of these new bodies, but surely that is expecting too much. The evidence suggests that those who stand accused of having committed an international crime might change their travel plans. In truth, international courts are still more about the punishment of a few than about prevention, establishing the facts, and the longer-term goal of clarifying the rules that apply to the future atrocities that will surely occur. They may also serve to delegitimise certain leaders, a precursor to military options, as happened with Muammar Gaddafi in Libya.
A former academic colleague and distinguished professor of English legal history once reminded me just how long it took for the system of English courts to develop. "These things take time", he would say, "centuries even". He was right. These are early days, as the international system of justice emerges from its medieval phase. It's a long haul.
Philippe Sands QC is professor of law at University College London and author of 'Lawless World' (Penguin)


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The 2012 race has been compared to a reality show, and a debate announced today will show just how true that is.
Donald Trump, host of NBC's "The Apprentice" who teased the idea of running for president himself, will moderate a GOP presidential debate from Des Moines, Iowa on Dec. 27. The event, billed as the final matchup of GOP candidates before the Jan. 3 caucus, is sponsored by Newsmax and ION Television Networks.
The debate will be held at the Hoyt Sherman Theater in Des Moines. All of the candidates have been invited to participate, but the organizers have yet to release a list of who will be there. One candidate, Jon Huntsman, already has declined to participate. The campaign said in a statement that they "have declined to participate in the 'Presidential Apprentice' Debate with The Donald. The Republican Party deserves a serious discussion of the issues so voters can choose a leader they trust to defeat President Obama and turn our economy around."
Huntsman will be participating in what is being described as a "Lincoln-Douglas" style debate with Newt Gingrich in New Hampshire later this month.
The Trump-moderated debate will be streamed on Newsmax and shown on ION, which is a successor to the Pax Network that was launched in the late 1990s.
"The Newsmax ION Television 2012 Presidential Debate will offer all the major Republican candidates a forum to reach likely primary voters in all key states," said Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy. "There have been numerous debates so far, but we believe that the Newsmax ION Television 2012 Presidential Debate will provide a unique opportunity for the concerns of likely primary voters to be voiced on a national stage."
"All voters will keep an eye on this final debate before the first presidential primary of the 2012 election," ION CEO Brandon Burgess. "ION's and Newsmax's powerful combined audience reach, coupled with the prominence of Donald Trump as moderator, makes this one of the most influential meetings of the candidates to date."
Update: Even more biting was Huntsman campaign spokesman, who told Business Insider, "Lol. We look forward to watching Mitt and Newt suck-up to The Donald with a big bowl of popcorn."
Former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer tweeted, "Trump's idea 2 moderate a debate is absurd. I hope all GOP candidates turn him down. It's a campaign; not a TV show."

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Στίχοι DO YOU WANT TO BE MY FRİEND?
You shouldn't have done this to me
You shouldn't have stabbed me from the back like that
your going should have been honest like your coming
and your ending is very arrogant
come and see that you played this game in a bad way
your mask fell down earlier from your face
so it means that you weren't a giant that I made bigger inside me
you were nothing
and now you see
you're gone
and you're over
You shouldn't have done this to me
you shouldn't have destroyed me like this with a khanjar
your footsteps shouldn't have been an address of a treachery
how could you dirty our very pure(clean) love?
or did I know you wrong?
or were your seas always dirty like this?
now here is in my hands
An accomplice cinema ticket
a corner of pastry shop
A theater box office
you shouldn't have gone very cheaply
you shouldn't have spent this love in the smokes of cigarette
you shouldn't have made me appetizer for the executioner of love
Now if I found an empty grave
because of it loved you so much
I would bury my heart there
you shouldn't have done this to me
you shouldn't have offended me by my poems
you shouldn't have rained the red of blood on my nights
you shouldn't have broken the wings of my memories
you shouldn't have made me crazy
now your name sounds like betrayal for me
and your taste is like the most killer poison of a snake
I don't know
now which heart do you stick
your cruel handjar
don't forget that now you are like my forbidden books
after this
it's forbidden to get close for me
It's forbidden to touch
It's forbidden to hug you
1. | Love is Why |
2. | Poem |
4. | He Cared That Much For Me |
5. | Billionaire |
6. | i am sitting in the rain |
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Who do you guys feel will be the later round talents, and small school standouts that can be studs/decent nfl players? Small School Cooper Taylor 6'4 228lb SS Richmond He started out at Georgie Tech and shined his freshman year, got diagnose with a heart defect (which is fix now) and sat out a season. When he came back he was sidelined due to play of other secondary players. Big, fast, and aggressive player. Plays in a the box, good tackler, and can blitz. Biggest down sides is his size and not being fluid in coverage. Quanterus Smith DE 6'5 250 DE Western Kentucky He is tied for sacks right now at 12.5. Has the ability to get to the QB but lacks consistency. Started the season on fire recording 3 sacks against Alabama. When he gets sacks they come in bunches against Florida International he recorded 5 sacks. Sleeper Prospect Aaron Hester 6'1 207lb CB Ucla Has great size for a corner. Very physical with receivers and excels in press coverage, but lacks the ability to play zone. He is a good tackler, but doesn't have the best ball skills. However he will lock down top receivers and make plays in the running game.
David Baas (not the Giants OL): 6'5 275, should go 4th-5th Rd http://www.draftcountdown.com/ScoutingReports/DE/David-Bass.php Look at them stats, paired with his size. Boinkers. Matt Brown, QB, Illinois St (my alma mater!) 6'4 220, should go 6th-7th Rd http://www.goredbirds.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/brown_matt00.html Hold every passing ISU record known to man. He's got the size and decent speed. Great arm (I went to every game, and he's got a cannon). He's set for a practice squad year 1, and then be carried as a backup and grow. Washaun Ealey, RB, Jacksonville St 5'11 215, should go 5th ish Was on the Georgia Bulldogs, but got kicked off the team for a hit-n-run and other issues. He's got all the tools to be a successful runningback... besides a brain. Norman White, WR, Villanova 6'4 215, should go 6th-7th Rd http://www.villanova.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/white_norman00.html You can't teach size. That simple. Redzone threat. Montez Miles, S, California (PA) (Tommie Campbells school) 6'0 210, 5th(ish) http://www.calvulcans.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=2334 Tackling machine, built like LaRon Landry. Will be interested to see his 40. Plays mean, reminds me of Al Afalava.
Two of the most interesting ones you posted are Washaun Eale and Matt Brown. Eale if I recall did pretty well at Georgie Tech before getting the boot. Wouldn't be a bad pick up in the late rounds or undrafted free agent. I wonder how we are going to approach MH retirement will we just ride it with Rusty and Locker or try to draft a late round guy or a journeyman backup QB. It would be nice to get a guy like Matt Brown in where we wouldn't have to change the offense if Locker goes down.
Matt Brown 4 year starter at ISU.. his career #s: 9897 passing yards, 71 TDs, 34 INT, 64 C%, 136.6 QB Rating (NFL Style) 820 rushing yards, 8 TDs Last three years we've been in the TOP 15 in the FCS. He doesn't have RG3 speed, but i'm guessing he runs around a 4.6.
He doesn't need to have blazing speed. However, it would be nice to see a guy come in here with similar traits to Jake Locker. Someone who can bail out of trouble with his legs.
Brandon Williams is a small school guy that I've got my eye on. Played at Missouori Southern State. Plays DT and is 6'3" 325lbs His last 3 years he has had over 16 TFL each year and over 8 sacks each year. This year he forced 5 fumbles as well. He was the leagues top defensive player the past 2 yrs. Obviuosly playing against lessor talent, but he sure has been active/productive from the DT spot. Keep an eye on him.


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See also: tale-bearer and tale bearer
Alternative formsEdit
talebearer (plural talebearers)
- An indiscreet person who spreads gossip.
- 1820, Sir Walter Scott, The Abbot, ch. 4:
- "To speak the truth when my lady commands me," answered the prudential major-domo, "is in some measure my duty, Mistress Lilias; always providing for and excepting those cases in which it cannot be spoken without breeding mischief and inconvenience to myself or my fellow-servants; for the tongue of a tale-bearer breaketh bones as well as Jeddart-staff."
- 1902, Annie Fellows Johnston, Flip's 'Islands of Providence', ch. 5:
- There is always some thoughtless talebearer ready to gather up the arrows of gossip and thrust them into the quivering heart of the victim.
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SOME BANDS PLAY VIDEO GAMES ON THE ROAD, others party, some sleep. Inventive rockers Incubus recorded an EP, When Incubus Attacks, Vol. I. "This is not a real record for Incubus," singer Brandon Boyd said of the limited-edition CD. Only 100,000 copies were made. "We wanted to give our fans something just for being so cool and supportive and patient with us."
September 25, 2000
California's Incubus still has plenty of touring to do behind its latest album, Make Yourself (it will join Deftones in mid-October), so fans likely won't see another proper studio album on the market until next summer or fall.
The EP wasn't planned as an interim offering. Boyd and guitarist Michael Einziger were simply trying to pass the time on long road trips when "Pardon Me" first hit the airwaves.
"We started messing around with the song acoustically, just him and I, just having fun, in the back lounge of the bus," recounted Boyd. "It started sounding kind of cool, so we went into a studio one day before our Primus show and we laid down six or seven songs."
The tracks were recorded so quickly that Boyd is barely certain of the city he was in, let alone the name of the studio.
"It was in Chicago, I think," he said. "Before our soundcheck, we just went in for an hour or two and recorded them. There was an engineer. We went in and met him for the first time and told him to ambient mic the room and put a microphone in front of me and push play. It turned out really well.
"A lot of recording is like trying to catch lightning in a bottle," he added, "and there were a couple of little pieces where we actually accomplished that, in my opinion."
Incubus has been trying to catch its lightning in a bottle since a decade ago, when three bored 15-year-olds tried to get through the summer after 10th grade by jamming together. Einziger, drummer Jos' Pasillas and bassist Dirk Lance played their first live gig at a friend's party. The set comprised instrumental renditions of Metallica and Megadeth songs. They had no singer. "It was hilarious," Pasillas remembered.
Boyd would join Incubus at Calabasas High in January 1991. The band played parties at first, then small clubs like Mancini's in the San Fernando Valley. Soon, it graduated to slots at L.A.'s showcase clubs the Troubadour and the Roxy. Promoters, at first, gave the guys a hard time because they were underage, but easily overlooked the technicality when they discovered their drawing power. "We always had a huge draw because we were in high school and we had tons of friends," Pasillas recounted.
Incubus which had not yet added a DJ to the lineup started making demos with a tape recorder in the middle of a room until Mark Shoffner, a tour manager, approached the band with an offer to record in his friend's studio, no strings or contracts attached. "That's when that relationship began," said Pasillas of the man who became Incubus' manager.
The band, which released its first indie album, Fungus-Amongus, continued to gig, pooling resources with bands like Hoobustank and Frontside for "pay to play" gigs until it was big enough to draw without the pressure of selling advance tickets to friends.
JosPasillasDJ Chris KilmoreBrandon BoydDirk LanceMike Einziger September 25, 2000
By then, a turntablist approached Incubus to DJ in the band (he was replaced in 1997 by DJ Chris Kilmore). "It just seemed like another cool instrument," Pasillas said. At the time, "the only band that had a DJ was (hed)p.e. from Orange County."
Two years after high school, Immortal/Epic signed Incubus and released the six-song demo, Enjoy Incubus, then put the band on the road for its first tour, supporting labelmates Korn in Europe. In 1997, its first full-length album, S.C.I.E.N.C.E., came out and Incubus didn't stop for the next two years, playing with Sugar Ray, Limp Bizkit, Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath, Korn, 311, and more. In 1999, Incubus slipped into a studio for nine weeks with producer Scott Litt and recorded Make Yourself. More touring ensued with Primus, 311, and Ozzfest.
During that brief acoustic studio session at Chicago's CRC Centre, Boyd and Einziger cut "I Miss You" and "Drive" "and maybe one more; I can't remember," admitted Boyd but only "Pardon Me," "Stellar" and the title track from the gold-selling Make Yourself were selected for When Incubus Attacks, Vol. I.
The entire band is featured on the EP's other three tracks: live versions of "Favorite Things" and "Pardon Me" recorded at The Fillmore Auditorium in Denver last January, plus a studio track called "Crowded Elevator" from the Make Yourself sessions (previously available on the "Scream 3" soundtrack).
"It's very punk," said Boyd of the EP. "You can definitely hear the mistakes. And you definitely hear how vivid it can be. But that's what's cool about it, I think. That's what's maybe missing from a lot of the newer albums that are coming out."
No acoustic tour is planned to support the album. The band, as a whole, has been performing "an Incubus version of 'Unplugged'" for special occasions such as this past summer's MuchMusic appearance in Canada and an MTV beach party in the Hamptons.
"Mike and I performed 'Pardon Me' for about 300 radio stations across the country on the last few tours. So we've been doing it," Boyd said. "We're trying to give it a little break right now. I think we're wearing it out a little bit."
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Treasuries ended the day higher Thursday after a good 10-year TIPS auction. Economic data released in the morning did little to impact Treasuries, according to Informa. Jobless claims came in at 330,000 and business inventories came in TK than expected at 0.5%. Treasuries started off strong, aided by a Greg IP article talking of a "soft patch" and falling equities. There were large buyers of 3-years and 5-years, vs. 10-years and bonds and as the dollar rallied, bund/Treasury unwinds were talked and there were reports of euro/dollar unwinds, with the dollars going into the front end. Some hedge unwinds were also seen vs. the pricing of some corporate deals. The reopened $9 billion 10-year TIPS auction came in at 1.75% with good (42.4%) indirect buying. But then stocks hit lows and the curve saw some seriuous steepeners taking place en masse.


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MOSCOW — Allyson Felix flew out of the blocks, same as usual. She tried to settle into her rhythm around the turn, as she always has.
Then everything went horribly wrong for the American sprinter. She suddenly screamed and began hopping before falling to the track with a torn hamstring. There went her world championships. There possibly went her season, too.
As Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce won the 200-meter race Friday night, Felix, the Olympic champion in the event, was at the far end of the stadium being tended to by medical personnel. Felix had big plans, possibly winning three medals — one in her signature event, the 200, along with maybe two more in the 4 x 100 and 4 x 400 relays.


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A South Philly man was shot late Sunday in Southwest Philadelphia and driven to Rhawnhurst, where he was dumped and shot again.
Police said Monday the victim was alive and in critical condition in Aria Health's Torresdale campus.
Early media reports said the victim was followed from SugarHouse casino, but police on Monday said the shooting and kidnapping had no connection to the gambling hall.
Police said the man was shot at 10:03 p.m. on the 4900 block of Springfield Avenue in Southwest Philly. He was put into a silver and white van with a cleaning company insignia and driven to the 7400 block of Summerdale in Rhawnhurst, where he was taken out of the van and shot again. Offers responding to a report of gunfire found the man on the street at about 11:30 p.m., police said.
The motive for the shooting was not known. Two to three men with dark complexions are believed to be involved, police said. ••
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Four Starbucks Beauties
I took this snapshot of four beautiful women in different kinds of traditional Japanese patterned kimono, enjoying a break while chatting and drinking Starbucks coffee. I really think Starbucks could use an image like this for their advertising in Japan, don't you? I love the smile on her face! Taken with my lovely 135mm DC Nikon lens at the Nihonbashi festival in October.
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How colorful! (Japanese can't live without a mobile. ^^) Indeed Starbucks should buy this photo from you for their advert.
Haha… they sure love their mobiles! Thanks! It was so random that I saw them, i don't even know why I was in that "backstage" area of the festival. It helps wandering around with a huge camera! (^-^)
You just reminded me to leave some feedback for Starbucks! I love this photo they should buy it from you! Man I'd like to do a project on people drinking Starbucks too bad I don't live in a big city. I guess I could just haunt my local Starbucks. But my camera might stand out…
Love, love, love your work!
What's Nihonbashi?
Thanks Dararmer! Don't fret over the photos you can not take, take the ones you can! I would love to live in your area. I'd be out in the desert with my camera everyday I think. I have no idea how you guys find the energy to go to work with all that beauty around you! Oh, and one thing I have learned from Japanese photographers is to keep a mental list of what you want to work on in the future, and shoot it every chance you get. After a couple of decades you'll have enough photos of people in yellow Stetson hats with goatees to have your own people in yellow Stetson hats with goatees exhibition! Just keep at it! I shoot all the pictures I can of fathers and their children for example. A couple of photos a week and in a couple of years I'll have enough to make a book maybe! (^-^) Nihonbashi is an area of Tokyo named after the bridge that marks Point Zero of the Japanese road and distance network. In Japan all roads lead to Nihonbashi, it is said. The bridge itself is about 10-15 yards behind the girl to the left.
I notice they all have red bibs hanging under the obi. Though not an expert on these things (that would be Mrs Coal), my guess is that they're wearing some kind of staff outfit. The hairpieces also seem to be from a different era, so probably some kind of period novelty stand perhaps? Lovely shot anyhow—don't think Starbucks would run with this unfortunately, as they're aiming at a more westernised demograph. Ever notice how they say "konnichiwa" rather than "irasshaimase" when you enter? Same thing. Starbucks in the US on the other hand…
They are all taking a break from the festival in an area behind the food stalls! I hadn't noticed the greeting, but I only go there a couple of times a year (I can't drink coffee after 1800 or I can't sleep properly at night).
Bright colors and edo-era hair styles, I'm loving it! (talking about major American food chains…)
This is one of my all-time favourite photos on your blog. And I say that despite the fact that I love horses (which you frequently showcase) and obscure temples (ditto). Grin. Lovely photograph.
How nice of you to say so! I see from your blog that you have been getting quite a lot of exposure to old obscure temples lately, I'm almost tampted to hike out to Gotokuji myself! (^-^)
They are so effortlessly beautiful, it's such a natural moment. Women just being women, primping a bit and chatting a bit, drinking coffee and enjoying themselves.
My father was stationed in Japan (Korean Conflict). He always said he never met a Japanese woman who wasn't beautiful. He was in Japan when I was born, actually, and apparently baby me was slow to warm up to the strange man who suddenly showed up one day!
For some reason, these lovely ladies (and that radiant smile) made me think of him. He would have enjoyed this photo, too. (He would have been 80 on December 10.)
Your father must have been a very happy man! Wish he was around to see what it's like over here today. I sometimes envy those who could enjoy the world's far away places before globalization and TV hit us and so many things became more or less the same all over the place. At least the beautiful Japanese people are still here.
He should have been able to relax more. He was driven to do his best at whatever he turned his hand to. I think if he had lived to be a grandfather it would have mellowed him. Neither my mother or father had whole, happy families as children, but they worked hard to make sure that the family they made together would be different.
I think he would have returned to Japan with my mother at some point, after he had retired…but didn't have the chance.
Awesome photo. My first impression was: Hey, this is "Sex and the City " Tokyo way. I hope you don't hate "Sex and the City". 🙂
"I really think Starbucks could use an image like this for their advertising in Japan, don't you? "
Yes I agree!
I just love this photo. 1st: I love coffee, 2nd: The mixture of modern and traditional culture is just perfect. 🙂
lovely ladies in kimono nicely captured. I like your photographs, every angle turned out well ^-^
Hi – I almost forgot… This picture made me think of a famous Finnish painting by Albert Edelfelt in 1887, http://cultured.com/images/image_files/2250_m.jpg . In fact, a couple of years ago there was a coffee ad based on this painting.
Ah yes! Thank you for reminding me! Edelfelt is one of my favorite Scandinavian painters! He's almost pre-raphaelitic! (^-^)
Excellent photo!
I would re-blog this on my site but I can't see a simple re-blog button on your posts(?)


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Did you know that you can tell from the skin whether a person is sexually active or not?
NOW, you can take these at face-value. In my personal experience numbers 4-10 are true. Being a male, I could not tell you whether number 1 is true, but I think that my girlfriend would say that it is so. I think that that's wy girls who get around alot have got larger breasts and.... Anyway... Try it as you see fit, and take it with a grain of salt. My girlfriend told me this,or at least I think that it was something like this....
Note: If you want me to delete this, and re-submit it as a w/u instead of a daylog, then /msg me. When I get 10-15, I will do so, dem_bones so allowing.
At dem_bones's request, I have gotten some "more solid" information on the topic, via a reference from a friend of mine, and some consultance of a medical dictionary. Summary below:
I am by no means an unattractive person; I have had a girlfriend, I occasionally catch girls checking me out, and i'm not a social recluse at all. I have a job, I go to post-secondary school, and at the core, I am about as average as one can get. However, I am in a bit of a rut, albeit a seemingly large one.
In the most fundamental sense, I am about as harmless and as sensitive a guy as one could get. Altruistic, loyal, honest, open-minded, and humourous are probably the most accurate words to describe me as a person. Thus ends the shameless self-promotion, but it was just for a little background, that's all. Henceforth, I present my puzzle.
I have probably the most terrible luck with women for a person in my situation (male, age 18 - 25). I've had one girlfriend so far, while my peers apparently have an assortment of rabbit's feet, horseshoes, hearts, stars, clovers, and blue moons shoved up their respective asses. Sure, it could be worse - I could be a virgin, but that's not the point. The point is, 9.99999 times out of 10, rejection is my middle name. Even the most "surefire" route for a date is more like a surefire way to lose face; the last five girls i've expressed interest in were purely platonic friends at first, and then I slowly and smoothy eased in the flirtation. Each and every time the same response ensued. "SuperApe, you're a nice guy and I like spending time with you, but i'd like to keep us as just friends."
"FUCK, I knew it all along." SuperApe thinks to himself.
And that is pretty much where any contact between myself and said girl ended. Sure, it might be a perceivably assholish thing to do, but in order to salvage a bit of pride and effort, one must just not bother again and move onward, right?
How else can one pique the interest of the "fairer" sex than by being the exact opposite of the ideal "asshole" man? Why can an a person like myself be completely civil and respectful, make her laugh, show her a good time and fail while the girl goes on to invariably enjoy a complete jerk's company? The only thing that am definitely left with is a re-examination of myself as a determining factor in the faliure. People say that getting rejected is nothing but a "learning experience", that one has nothing to lose, and that it says nothing about the character of the rejected.
I say BS.
Such blind optimism in response to rejection is as a sugar coating; you can sugar coat a piece of shit as much as you like, but in the end, it is still a piece of shit.
I'm starting to think rejection only publicizes one's undesirability to the female half of the human race; the proverbial kick in the gut while down; the pointed finger accompanied by jeers and mocking laughter.
I don't ask women out anymore.
Now when a cute girl looks at me, I sneer and think of my own voice telling her to fuck off. I laugh at myself for thinking maybe she was interested. I deny that I am a desirable person.
So, back to the reason why this node was created in the first place; what do women want? I suppose i've answered my own question already;
Not me.
I'm supposed to be the first one in to "open the bank." This means that I'm supposed to be here extra early, at least an hour before normal and to make sure that nothing has happened to the bank, no broken windows, no robbers hiding under a desk, etc, etc. The only problem is that both times people were here before me, meaning I did not have to get up so early. The only good news is I get to leave an hour early which is nice.
Yesterday, it felt odd to be home before 5:30pm. I had a lot of extra free time as well. Monday nights are usually guys night out, where a group of my friends take some time out from our significant others. This works great until one of them has a birthday on a Monday. So besides being home early from work, I was home all evening. It was odd, but I got a lot done.
In class, Insert probe into warm water. Looking at what's-her-name, I don't know but I'd like to, through veils of tinted glass. Lovely exposed gooseflesh between shirt and hip. She moves, pure perfect virginy valley between groin and right hip where jeans are lax shows. She shifts, and shadows play on the rift. Observe the soft skin behind ear where hair just stops, down to the less-tender but just as tempting stuff underneath the lower right jaw.
Done. Walk home. The river's crevace is covered by snow.
Psych 112 M-W 7:45-9:15am
She doesn't know it, but six years ago, Professor Jane Dunn was a therapist of mine. This is the only topic of discussion to the students in her class. It makes me want to write an obese novel to beat her in the face with...
Cognitive Dissonance and You: The Subversive Power of Antidepressants, (Washington: Rank House Press, 1992)
Or better yet...
Dick and Jane Treat Their Cyclothymic Disorders, (New York: University of New York Press, 2003)
Edited and Illustrated by yours truly and six months of court ordered therapy. The titles, naturally, would have nothing to do with the content, much like her lectures so frequently abandon their chapter. Instead of Gustav Fechner, the unwanted poster-child of psychology, we talk about Joey Meth Freak who beats his dog, then we discuss Mr.Adamson's sexual frustration and how his wife contracted Gonorrhea. We hear all, even some names.
This makes me wonder, when she talks about that DCF case in '97, the pot-head who got emancipated after his Dad tried to shoot him with his Colt Anaconda hunting pistol, does she realize that she's talking about me?
"Mrs. Dunn?" I ask.
"That last patient you were just talking about, do you remember their name?"
A puzzling stare and Jane asked, "No?"
"Do you think they could sue you if you talked about their case publicly, say, in a classroom or amongst co-workers?"
Her brow furrowed. "Why do you ask?"
"Oh... no reason. Nevermind. Sorry!"
Getting off work wasn't as easy as I thought. An instructor is coming in today to teach our students how to use Final Cut Pro. Of course, the Assistant Director tried to talk me into staying.
"I have got to be home," I explained.
She then tried to guilt me into staying, saying that the instructor may need my assistance, such as if there's a computer problem. The message, of course, was that I am some kind of computer-fixing magician whose prescence is direly required for all-things electronic to work properly.
"What kind of computer problem could she have?" I asked.
An hour later, I received a call at my home from the instructor. Apparently, she couldn't get the Mac's audio to work. I walked her through checking to see if the speakers were connected to the Mac or plugged into an electrical outlet. It was – both checked out. So angrily, I threw down the phone, screamed "Shit shit shit!" and headed back to work. I blasted into the office, pushed past the instructor, and checked the Mac. Sure enough, the audio worked just fine.
"Huh," she said. "It wasn't working a few minutes ago."
I'm telling you, I'm cursed. Seriously, I must be. Either that or the Assistant Director conspired with the instructor to pull me out of my house and possibly miss the technician (no, I am not paranoid).
I headed back home and checked with the property manager to see if a cable technician had come in yet. Nope, of course not. He assured me that he would call the cable company manager and make sure someone came out to take a look at my problem.
"If they're not there by four, then come back here, and I'll make sure they come," he said.
It's now 2:30 – I have an hour and a half to go.
Heading to McDonalds for lunch, I was accosted by a homeless man: "Hey can you help me out with a quarter?" he demanded.
It's never just a quarter. Give them a quarter, and they demand a dollar. Give them a dollar, and they demand whatever else you have. I'm a liberal, I believe in the welfare state. Some days I feel generous, other days I feel like I pay enough taxes as it is.
"Sorry," I said, "I can't help you."
"I bet you're sorry," he sneered at me.
"Acutally, I'm very sorry," I said as fake-sincere as I could. To which he referred to me as a "motherfucker."
It wasn't me that initiated the conversation. Why is it that if you turn these guys down, they feel the need to insult you? I gave a handful of quarters to a guy in a wheelchair parked in front of a liquor store yesterday. He swore that he needed the money to take the Metro home to Greenbelt. I just smiled and gave him the money, to which he assured me he was grateful. If I hadn't given him the money, would he have also called me a "motherfucker?"
In any event, I can just feel the "fuck up" field billowing around me, just waiting to screw my day up even more. Computer works? Not for long. Inflammatory bowel disease in remission? Nope. Have a job for 20 more months? Not bloody likely.
I just want to find the asshole that put this curse on and strike them with a counter curse.
(Or, I might just bribe the cable technician – if he even bothers to show up – and maybe get my cable fixed)
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XTitus, whom you may remember from his Fox series "Titus," his comedy specials or his role on the short-lived "Big Shots," is bringing his latest monologue, "Neverlution" to Hilarities in Cleveland on Friday and Saturday.
With him comes controversy because of a recent comment he made about Sarah Palin -- one he now admits was a bad joke. I've written a short story about that for Friday's Beacon Journal. After the jump I have posted a much-expanded version of that story, with far more material than the print version, including Titus talking about other projects, his writing life and his adventures in series television. Take a look.
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When comedian Christopher Titus appears at Hilarities for two shows in Cleveland Friday and two more on Saturday, a Sarah Palin controversy will come along.
In the wake of Palin's recent mangling of American history when talking about Paul Revere, Titus said on a podcast that if Palin was elected president he would be ''hang out on the grassy knoll ... loaded and ready'' -- a reference to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Like some of Palin's own firearms-related rhetoric, Titus's remark lit up the blogosphere, including in a Fox News blog post headlined ''Sick! Comedian Jokes About Killing Palin.'' That post generated hundreds of comments, and Titus said he got hate mail on Twitter.
He apologized for what he called a ''bad joke'' on Facebook -- to both the Kennedys and Palin -- although he maintained his disdain for Palin; his remark ''was based on the fact that America has set the bar so low with what we accept as a possible leader.'' At the same time, in admitting the bad joke, he said in a recent telephone interview that he was taking responsibility for his action -- something he wishes more people, including politicians would do.
"Nobody's taking responsibility in this country," he said. "John Edwards gets out there, and instead of saying 'I'm a horrible guy, I did it, it was a mistake, and let me take my sentence,' he has already started to fill in this gap of 'I didn't do anything illegal. And if I did do something illegal, I didn't know it was illegal."
(Titus asked what I thought; I said I there is a special circle in hell for Edwards, especially because of what he did to his wife. "Yeah, I agree," Titus said. "Satan is definitely fluffing the pillows for Edwards.")
Scandal-plagued congressman Anthony Weiner was another no-responsibility guy at first. "I guess he was a decent legislator, and a decent politician," Titus said. "But not decent enough to just come out and go, 'Guys I did this. ... It's my personal stuff and that's all it is.' Instead, by lying about it, he turns it into an integrity issue. And now ... I hope to God he's out of there.
"When are we going to find some people who actually have integrity? ... There seems to be a 'scumbaggeriness' in this last group [of politicians]
. ... Everyone talks about doing something for the country, but when have you seen somebody [do it]?"
He said that the Palin controversy represents how ''we find the smallest thing to bitch about and no one looks at the big problems'.' That's the theme of his Hilarities show, Neverlution, which in shorter form will be a Comedy Central special on July 3.
"My whole point in Neverlution is, it's up to us. If we had like 300 meetings across the country one day, where the people that are Democrats in a neighborhood and the people that are Republicans in a neighborhood got together and just had a barbecue. And just realized that we're all the same ... and started to work on our own communities. You know what would happen? Our government would freak out, for one."
''We've lost our way, I think,'' said Titus, who also starred in the Fox comedy Titus a decade ago. ''We keep waiting for a wizard to fix it. You know, the Democrats and Republicans -- they're not going to fix it. That's just Coke and Pepsi -- same crap, different can.''
And things like Twitter and Facebook add to the problem because people are not in the same room talking to each other.
"We are a nation of punks right now," he said. "It's faceless anger. I don't know how they feel -- powerful or what -- but it's the worst thing we've ever done. If civility is gone, it's because there's no face-to-face anymore. When was the last time you actually talked to somebody in public?" Titus is on Facebook and Twitter but "the difference is I have to go out live and talk to everybody. These people who are threatening me on Twitter aren't doing that. They're just punks."
Titus said his show ''is not left or right. I walk this razor's edge. I go after Obama. You know, Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize, and he gave an acceptance speech on why we need to stay at war.'' Titus laughed. ''It's just absurd to me. ...
''Here's the thing: If you're so far left you actually believe that somebody owes you a job, citizenship and a heart transplant, you're mentally ill. If you're so far right that you actually believe that somebody who doesn't have a job and is not a citizen deserves to have their heart cut out and sold on eBay, and you get to keep 80 percent of the profit ` you're mentally ill.
''I find that Americans are all in the middle somewhere, except for the extreme nuts, and extreme nuts on both sides are the loudest. And that's why it feels like we are polarized.''
The Hilarities show will be a longer version of the Comedy Central special; Titus says the special runs about 42 minutes without commercials, while the stage version is almost an hour longer. He expects to perform something closer to the long version in Cleveland. The show has also changed since the Comedy Central telecast was shot, as Titus keeps refining it on the road.
"I go out last week and holy crap, man, like I found like four other jokes that were better," he said. "I turned to my girlfriend and go, 'Dammit, why couldn't we wait another three months to film this?' " The only reason it was recorded so soon, he said, was so Comedy Central could air in on Fourth of July Weekend.
But he is also looking at another stage show for 2012, "my election campaign. I'm going to a 90-minute, intentionally funny campaign speech, as opposed to everyone else, who seems to be very unintentionally funny."
He has also written "Special Unit," a movie he calls " 'The Shield' with handicapped people," which he hopes to get made.
"That one's my favorite thing," he said. "It seems so harsh and so edgy, but I have a lot of friends who are disabled and they don't get a shot, actors and comics, because they're disabled. So I wrote them a show, where I play this horrible cop that basically gets stuck with these four people who, because of the fairness and disabilities act, they have to turn them into cops. ... They step up every time and at one point as a team they're better than I am as a cop. It's harshly funny, but I try to write from a point of view."
He has some other writing projects, too. "I never stop," he said. "People get mad about show business because they stop, they give up, they think they can rest on their laurels. I don't believe I have any laurels to rest on. .. Don't you always want to put your best out? I subscribe to the James Brown school of performing. When I walk off that stage, I'd better have left everything I have on it."
I asked if he wanted to get back into weekly series TV, where he did "Titus" and "Big Shots."
"The only thing about weekly series TV that is weird is you're working with all these creative people that are phenomental ... that are trying to make it right. And then some executive -- and I don't hate the executives because there are some really good ones, Doug Herzog, Bob Greenblatt ... Then there are some other people, usually mid-level people, who have law degrees, [but] who have never written a show or written a script or performed live or made an audience laugh -- and they'll come in and give you a note that you're just shocked. ...
"I think this happens in every industry, that management people who don't know what they're doing come in and tell you to fix something that you know is not going to work. And that's where I have my problem. hat was my problem with 'Titus.' I got into an argument with the network president [apparently Gail Berman -- Rich] over something she wanted to change that was basically a tenet of the show. I said I wouldn't do it, and the next thing I know we're not even getting promo'ed. If you tell your boss he's stupid long enough, he will fire you, it turns out."
As for "Big Shots," the 2007-08 ABC drama with Titus, Joshua Malina and Michael Vartan, Titus said, "The writers strike killed it. It was just coming up in the ratings, and the writers strike hit."
But how was it for Titus, being a hired actor on "Big Shots" versus having a hand in everything on "Titus," which was based on his life?
"They both have their ups and downs," he said. An admitted control freak, he said, "I did too much on 'Titus.' I would show up at 9 o'clock, I would write. We'd do run-throughs on Monday and Tuesday for the network and studio. Wednesday we'd film. And at night, I would go up in the writers room and stay 'til midnight. By the end of three years, dude, I was a vampire. I was just like I had had maybe four or five hours of sleep a night for three years. ... I think the next time, if I'm blessed enough to get it again, I would actually get some other people -- and trust them to handle what needed to be handled. ...
" 'Big Shots' was incredibly frustrating because I would get stuff from writers and being a writer myself, I know my voice really well and knew how to make it funnier. I had to go in and 'Can I fix this?' It was just offensive to them. ... And I was like, 'I can't make this funny. I'm not saying it's not funny, I just can't make it funny. Can I try something else?' And it took about four episodes and they started letting me do it, because what I was brought was funny."


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Unfortunately, his vocalisations put me in mind of Mr Blobby :(
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@Eclipse-girl: Granny Weatherwax does have a cat, called "You" - see Wintersmith/I Shall Wear Midnight.I hope the cat's broom lasts longer than Hallow's End, unlike the mount. I think it's great having a pet that flies without wings :D Nice one Blizz!
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Houston general manager Ed Wade told MLB.com that he tried to work out a trade to keep Rule 5 pick Lance Pendleton, but the Astros and Yankees couldn't come up a deal.
Instead, Pendleton was sent back to the Yankees this afternoon. He was assigned to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, a pitching staff that's overflowing as it is.
"I was thinking they might be able to work out a trade for me and be able to send me to Oklahoma City," Pendleton told Brian McTaggart. "But you just never know. I figured that's what they were waiting for to see if something like that was going to happen. I wasn't surprised."
In the next week, the Yankees will have to make some tough decisions about the Triple-A pitching staff. The addition of Kevin Millwood at least temporarily confuses a rotation that seemed more or less set with Andrew Brackman, Hector Noesi, David Phelps, D.J. Mitchell and Adam Warren.
That's a minor, short-term issue, though. It's the bullpen that's especially tough to predict.
Luis Ayala, Mark Prior and Andy Sisco showed some things in big league camp suggest they could pitch their way to New York this season. I'd peg Ayala for the Triple-A closer role — just a guess on my part — while Prior and Sisco would give the Yankees experienced depth from the right and left side.
The Yankees must like new lefty Jose Ortegano or they wouldn't have claimed him off waivers, and returned Rule 5 picks Pendleton and George Kontos also deserve Triple-A spots.
That leaves one open bullpen job for someone from this group: Ryan Pope, Brian Anderson, Buddy Carlyle, Eric Wordekemper, Kei Igawa, Amaury Sanit, Kevin Whelan, Grant Duff, Josh Schmidt and Wilkins Arias. That's 10 names, and I might very well be leaving someone off the list. Being released wouldn't be the worst thing for some of these guys. It's too crowded in this organization.
• Jerry Crasnick reports that former Yankees prospect Jeff Marquez has been placed on waivers. Just yesterday, Marquez seemed to be in line for the White Sox long relief job.
• By the way, that Nick Swisher trade just keeps looking better and better for the Yankees. I'm sure Marquez can still play a role in the big leagues, but that's still an absolute steal for the Yankees.
• Robert Fish has finally made his way back to the Angels. The Yankees took him in the Rule 5, the Royals claimed him off waivers, and now he's been returned to Anaheim. Given the Pedro Feliciano injury, Fish might actually have made the Yankees bullpen with a strong spring. Nice guy, just didn't show much this spring.
• Another former Yankees reliever has been released. The Braves let Scott Proctor go today.
• Good friend Donnie Collins reports that Jorge Vazquez is still hitting big home runs down at the minor league complex.
• Meant to link to this a couple of days ago: The Wall Street Journal's new Yankees beat writer Dan Barbarisi did a cool story on the media training that takes place in Yankees camp.
• Finally, Jack Curry reports that the Yankees have no interest in released Cubs pitcher Carlos Silva. This is all Joe Girardi had to say about Silva this morning: "I don't really have any thoughts on him because I have not seen a lot of him."
That's an AP photo of Pendleton doing sliding drills in Astros camp. That training will not come in handy this season.


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Transmitting Waves of Hope on World Radio Day
Though they may be separated by nearly 20 years and 9,000 miles, Gina Reiss-Wilchins and Sreypich Loch have dedicated their lives to the empowerment of other women and girls. Gina is the Executive Director of the Somaly Mam Foundation (SMF), a nonprofit organization that works to eradicate trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and girls in Cambodia. Sreypich Loch is one of those brave women. Trafficked as a young girl and forced to endure years of abuse and exploitation, Sreypich managed to survive, and today, she is a advocate and leader with SMF's Voices For Change (VFC) program, an initiative of the Somaly Mam Foundation that helps to empower survivors of trafficking with the opportunity to help themselves by helping others—to have their voices heard in courts of law, in their communities, and worldwide, in order to create lasting change.
In her role as a survivor-advocate, Sreypich lends her voice and experience to the recovery, support, and reintegration of other survivors. With space donated from the Women's Media Center in Cambodia, she also runs an hour-long radio talk show that seeks to educate the broader Cambodian community on issues of human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Aptly named Somaly's Family, the purpose of the show is to educate listeners on how to recognize, address, and stop trafficking in their communities. Radio may seem like an antiquated form of communication, but it remains the medium that reaches the widest audience worldwide—especially in developing countries where electricity and Internet access is sparse battery-powered radio are common. That said, radio can be a useful tool in promoting gender equality and women's empowerment.
In honor of today being World Radio Day, Gina and Sreypich sat down to discuss the radio show, what it means to Sreypich, and its impact on both on local and global communities.
GRW: What is "Somaly's Family Radio show" and why is it important to you?
SL: Somaly's Family is a daily radio talk show program broadcast in Cambodia that talks about issues of human trafficking, rape, sexual abuse, immigration, and violence against women and children. Somaly's Family is the first program of its kind, started in order to represent survivor voices from around Cambodia. It is currently broadcast in 10 provinces within Cambodia.
On Mondays we invite survivors and members of our anti-trafficking activism networks to join the program and share first hand examples of trafficking and abuse in the community.
On Wednesdays we invite lawyers to talk about the legal side of the issue, and on Fridays we discuss the news from the week in relation to the issue, including cases that have been reported in the media. On Tuesdays and Thursdays the station replays the program from the day before.
GRW: With so many ways that you can contribute to helping others, why did you want to get involved in the radio show?
SL: I wanted to get involved because I am a survivor and now I am standing up for other survivors. I want to bring the voices of survivors to the general public to show how difficult it is for those who have been victims of trafficking and sexual abuse. It is important because as survivors, through SMF's Voices for Change program, we share our real stories to the audience and help them to understand the message that there are real victims of trafficking out there in their community – we are the victims and we are the survivors. They need to know. When you know the reality, it's hard to look away. It's hard to pretend you cannot hear.
GRW: Talk to me more about storytelling. Do you think it is important for survivors to share their stories? If so, why?
Before, I never shared my true story to others. Even when I was in a shelter for trafficking victims, I rarely told the truth, because it's so hard to trust. Even though the other girls in the shelter were maybe like me, I did not want people to know my past. And I know other survivors did the same. It was too hard, to hard to re-live. You don't feel safe always to share.
But overtime, I began to feel that I must speak the truth. It releases my pain. It helps me let go of the difficulty. And when I go share my story on the radio and in the community, I see the power of giving first hand examples - when I share my story people believe me and they understand clearly about the issue of trafficking and sexual abuse. If I just tell them a story about someone else or use a case study, it is not as powerful.
GRW: Having grown up in Cambodia, how do you think radio help to combat trafficking in Cambodia? Trafficking is a huge problem, run by an underground network. Can something as simple as radio really make an impact?
I think radio can help because it is the form of communication that reaches the most people in Cambodia. Many people in Cambodia, particularly in the countryside, do not have easy access to mass media like television and internet. However, radio is there. We can make a larger impact with radio.
For example, if we raise awareness about these issues face-to-face in the community, only one community will get the message at one time. But if we provide information via radio it will cover a lot of the country, and people can then share this information with their community, especially about issues like unsafe migration. That is a very serious problem in the countryside.
GRW: In many ways, radio can be used to help educate and empower listeners to make more informed decisions. Would you agree?
My hope is that the show can send the message to the people that before they send their children to work in another location, they must think about the safety of the children and think about protecting them.
People need to ask for information before migrating to another country or province or sending a child to work. They need to remember that criminals and perpetrators don't just exist far away; they might be in your own community. I know this all to well. So yes, I think it can help listeners to make better choices.
We also have a network of activists and informants working at the community level and we promote this on the radio talk show, and we provide a hotline number for people to call if they need help. You can also call in and ask your questions by SMS text message.
One recent case, for example, one of our network members was listening to our program and she called in to ask us about migrating safely to Malaysia and asked for the phone number and address of the Cambodian embassy in Malaysia.
The girl didn't know the address of the immigration company she intended to go with, so I suggested that she should find out all the details of the company – if they are a legal company they should have an address and all information available to the public. She should find this before immigrating, as it might not be a safe situation.
GRW: What types of people call in or send SMS messages? Is it men or women? Around what age are the listeners?
SL: Most are under 25 years old but we don't know exact ages. As you may know, the Cambodian society is very young. Because of the Khmer Rouge genocide, I think about 65% of the population is under 30.
Both men and women call in. Some people are from Phnom Penh and other cities but most of the callers are from the rural areas. It really feels so good to be able to provide information to people and to share my expertise. We can really help people through this program, and because the callers are young, we can engage this audience and make lasting change.
GRW: I heard that you recently received some accolades for your work. Can you tell us more about the recognition that you have recently received?
Oh yes, I was selected for a couple of different opportunities lately. I was offered a part time internship as a presenter on Wonderful FM radio, which is the station that broadcasts our show. The management of the radio station where I work is familiar with my show Somaly's Family and thought I was good enough to present on other programs too. I am very excited about that.
I was also invited to participate in a Cambodian Young Women's Empowerment Network workshop at Build Bright University on the topic of ending rape and other forms of violence against women. I shared information about my work and the radio show, and spread the message about ending trafficking.
GRW: Do you think you foresee yourself working in radio in the future?
SL: Yes, I do. If possible, I want to work in TV as well. On radio, the people cannot see us, but on TV they can see and hear, so it will be more powerful.
GRW: What is your dream for your life and for your career?
SL: My only dream for myself and the other survivors I work with, our dream is to help other victims by speaking out. We can also help others to obtain legal help, and be part of the solution to eradicate slavery.
GRW: What does it mean to you to be part of SMF's Voice For Change program?
SL: I am very proud and very happy to be a part of the Voices for Change program and to be leading the radio talk show. I enjoy my work. Our survivor voices can change the world. Survivors can be like regular people. Before, we had nothing but now we can learn, we can work.
This program should continue into the future – it is very good for survivors and not just in Cambodia – survivors all around the world could benefit from a program like this. The women in my team are very happy to work together with other NGOs that support victims too. We can stand up together for all victims, empowering survivors to find a job and create their own careers.
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Jim Cramer, host of CNBC's "Mad Money" and dedicated yelling enthusiast is apparently no longer content to behave strangely on his own television program, so he's taking the crazy to the Today Show.
In our latest episode, Cramer tearfully informs Ann Curry that the time has come for some of you who are dabbling in the stock market to make a hasty retreat. If you're going to need access to your money in less than 5 years… sell! No matter what.
What Jim is trying to say, through the tears, is that if you're planning on needing your money within 5 years — you shouldn't be investing in individual stocks.
"I don't care where stocks have been, I care where they're going, and I don't want people to get hurt in the market," Cramer told Curry. "I'm worried about unemployment, I'm worried about purchases that you may need. I can't have you at risk in the stock market."


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It was an emotional moment for Sarobjit Singh, son of NCSC Chairman Buta Singh, when a lady lawyer walked upto him in the court and tied a 'rakhi' on behalf of his sister.
Singh, who has been arrested by CBI on charges of bribery, was produced before the special CBI judge as his custodial remand was to expire on Wednesday.
As soon as he entered the court, a lady lawyer, who refused to be named, tied a green colour rakhi on Singh alias Sweety on behalf of his sister Harwinder Kaur.
Sarobjit Singh was arrested by the CBI on July 31 for allegedly demanding a bribe of Rs one crore from Nashik-based contractor Ramarao Patil against whom cases are pending before the Commission.


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DisplayExtensions.Display Method (HtmlHelper, String)
Returns HTML markup for each property in the object that is represented by a string expression.
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The HTML helper instance that this method extends.
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An expression that identifies the object that contains the properties to display.
Return Value
Type: System.Web.Mvc.MvcHtmlStringThe HTML markup for each property in the object that is represented by the expression.
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This method generates different HTML markup depending on the data type of the property that is being rendered, and according to whether the property is marked with certain attributes. The method renders markup according to the following rules:
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who has expericence with geneza (GP) from napsgear.
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i want make an order but need some info on this stuff
I have heard good and bad but here is my experience.I am on prescription test from my doc (pfizer) to be specific.My script calls for me to take 100 mg a week.That amount keeps me at about 800 on my bloodwork.I wanted to save up my good pfizer test till I had several bottles so I got some Geneza and ran it at 100 mg a week for my trt and when I took my yearly bloodwork my levels were at the same 800 or there abouts.So whatever that is worth that is my experience.That was 3 years ago.
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Nancy Rushen is a guard's daughter who lived near the Skarloey Railway and occasionally polished the engines.
On one occasion she was polishing Skarloey for Rheneas' return and Duncan became extremely jealous after she had no time to clean him, as she was scheduled to help the Refreshment Lady. She later appeared in Very Old Engines polishing Skarloey for his centenary. After he became cross and she called him a "crosspatch", Skarloey told her the story of his first days on the railway and the time he really was a crosspatch.
In the Railway Series, she has grown up and lives with her husband on the Isle of Man.
Nancy's attire is a yellow sweater, blue jeans, and a red and white hat with a pom pom on top.
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Monte Paschi Posts Loss That's Double Estimates on Bad Loans
Sonia SirlettiBanca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA, Italy's third-biggest bank, reported a third straight quarterly loss, missing analysts estimates, on soaring bad-loan provisions and lower income from lending.
The fourth-quarter net loss of 1.59 billion euros ($2 billion) compares with a 5 billion-euro loss a year before, when it wrote down goodwill related to acquisitions, the Siena-based lender said in a statement today. That missed the 686.3 million-euro loss estimated by 11 analysts in a Bloomberg survey.
Monte Paschi, engulfed by investigations of its former managers, is selling assets, cutting costs and reducing risks to return to profit. Chief Executive Officer Fabrizio Viola and Chairman Alessandro Profumo, appointed last year to turn around the 541-year-old bank, are trying to regain the confidence of investors after the lender was forced to seek a second state rescue in four years and to take a 730 million-euro hit linked to derivative contracts.
"It's a balance sheet that's a turning point and reflects all the new measures that make Monte Paschi a different bank than in its recent past," Viola said during a conference call. "It's a new bank."
'More Help'
Loan-loss provisions increased to 1.37 billion euros in the fourth quarter from 464.3 million euros a year earlier. Revenue declined 37 percent to 778.3 million euros, hurt by a net interest income drop of 52 percent to 434.5 million euros.
"The bank will likely need more help going forward, as its bad loans continue to rise, and its operating profits struggle," said Alberto Gallo, head of European credit research at Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc in London. Bad loans as a proportion of total lending may rise 1 percentage point to 2 percentage points a quarter, for "at least" another four quarters, he said.
Fourth-quarter revenue was hurt by a 171 million-euro interest payment on the first state aid received in 2009.
Profumo, 56, and Viola, 55, are reviewing the business plan they presented in June, after losses linked to derivative contracts hidden by former executives forced the bank to seek additional aid, bringing the total to 4.07 billion euros, to comply with regulators' capital requirements.
The bank's core tier 1 ratio, a key measure of financial health, decreased to 8.9 percent on Dec. 31 from 11.4 percent at the end of September. Taking into account the additional state aid received this year, the pro-forma core tier 1 ratio was 11.3 percent at the end of 2012.
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Monte Paschi was unchanged at 18.5 cents in Milan trading today. Shares declined by 49 percent in the last 12 months, giving the bank a market value of 2.16 billion euros.
The new management said in June it would strengthen finances by selling its leasing and consumer credit units, closing 400 branches and eliminating 4,600 jobs by 2015. A revised plan has to be submitted to the European Banking Authority by June.
Viola said today that the bank will cut more than 3,000 jobs by the end of the year, or 70 percent of the targeted reductions by 2015. The lender will also reach the target for branch closings this year.
Regulators and prosecutors are scrutinizing derivative deals dubbed Alexandria, Santorini and Nota Italia that obscured losses under former management. Bloomberg News first reported on Santorini on Jan. 17.
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Alexandria, Santorini are accounted as long-term repurchase agreements in the company's liabilities, Chief Financial Officer Bernardo Mingrone said during the conference call, rejecting questioning about a possible misrepresentation.
Prosecutors are also probing former executives for alleged market manipulation, false accounting and obstruction of regulatory activity during the 2007 takeover of Banca Antonveneta SpA, people with knowledge of the matter have said.
Monte Paschi's deposits declined in February following the announcement of possible losses linked to derivatives, Mingrone said. "We were somewhat impacted in February but we were quick in recovering ground in March," he said, declining to provide the level of deposits in the first quarter.
Monte Paschi held 25.8 billion euros of Italian sovereign bonds at the end of the fourth quarter, increasing the amount by 3.8 billion euros from the previous three months.
The duration of the holdings was 6.7 years, which "isn't a short duration and this is one of our problems," Viola said. He reiterated that the bank would like to reduce those government bond holdings "depending on market conditions."


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Upon A Dying Lady
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The Macdonald Alveston Manor Hotel and Spa, with its beautiful gardens, is just a short walk from the centre of Stratford and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Many public areas of the hotel are located in the Manor House, parts of which date back to the 16th century. The attraction of the Alveston Manor hotel is enhanced by its extensive Tudor panelling, leaded lights and Elizabethan staircase.
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