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EARLVILLE – Ron Magnoni Jr. doesn't want to switch the Route 34 Drive-In to digital, but he has to adapt or close the Earlville landmark as movie makers eliminate the use of 35mm film.
"I've survived through a lot out here," said Magnoni, owner of the Route 34 Drive-In. "I won't let them beat me."
By them, Magnoni means the movie companies that announced last year they were going to stop making the film drive-in movie theaters like his use. This year, those companies have made limited amounts of the films, although Magnoni expects he has a little more than a year before he's forced to convert.
Until the film stops rolling from the moviemakers, Magnoni will keep projecting it at the Route 34 Drive-In every weekend from April to October. But in the meantime, he needs to raise about $50,000 to make the inevitable switch.
Drive-in decline
The Route 34 Drive-In is among a group facing extinction across the country. According to the website, drive-ins.com, in their heyday more than 4,000 drive-ins dotted the United States.
Today, only 338 remain, including 10 in Illinois.
For Sycamore or DeKalb residents, the Route 34 Drive-In is about a 45-minute jaunt down Route 23 and west on Route 34. The next nearest drive-in is the Cascade Drive-In in West Chicago.
In Earlville, Magnoni is about a third of the way to having enough money for a machine that will run the movies off a thumb drive. He plans to hold fundraisers to gather the rest of the needed $80,000, but also accepts donations through the theater's website and in person.
With the money he's already collected, Magnoni prepared his projection booth for the new machine, which will replace two projectors that have been displaying movies for eager patrons for decades.
Magnoni's projectors are made of a combination of parts from the 1940s, '50s and '70s. The new machine will have a 5-year warranty. Not only is the life expectancy of the new machine shorter, but Magnoni will only have one, meaning he won't be able to quickly shift from one machine to another if the machine falters.
"If something happens now, in one and a half minutes I can change from one machine to the other," Magnoni said. "If something happens and I don't have another machine, I'm done."
Cars keep coming
The Route 34 Drive-In is a piece of nostalgia from the 1950s, when the first films played across the screen that seemingly sits in the midst of surrounding cornfields. Magnoni's father was a union projectionist, inspiring him to own a theater of his own. When the option came to buy the Route 34 Drive-In in 1994, Magnoni knew it was his chance.
Cars didn't always pack the drive-in, he said. For the first three years the drive-in struggled because of the theater's reputation for attracting trouble-making teens. But after changing the rules and deciding not to show R-rated movies, Magnoni said families started migrating to the theater.
Now, a good night means 400 cars lined up to watch a film on the 60-by-40-foot screen. Many of them, Magnoni said, come from Chicago or Rockford.
Dawn Denison brought her grandson, 18-year-old Tyler Owens from Davenport, Iowa, recently for his first drive-in experience. Owens wasn't exactly excited about trading his indoor video games for an outdoor movie, but "Godzilla" and "Transformers 2" changed his mind.
James and Teresa Raske, both of Sandwich, decided on a whim to make the trip to Earlville. Neither of them had been to the drive-in since they were children. They were instantly transported to those childhood memories when they parked their car, smelled the scent of popcorn wafting from the concession stand and looked at the old-time speakers lined up.
"It's a really good nostalgic feeling," James Raske said. "Thinking about a world without drive-ins, it makes me sad. I mean, we'll survive, but there's something about it. If we want this type of stuff we have to support it."
Joe Wagner, who has worked at the drive-in for years, keeps a tally of all the cars rolling in using a click counter. While Magnoni takes people's money, figuring their totals either by looking at pre-made spreadsheets or using a paper and pencil, Wagner tears off admit-one tickets and clicks away.
He also doesn't like to think about the disappearing field of drive-ins.
"Once it's gone the next generation will never know what they missed," Wagner said. "There's nothing to compare it to."
How to help
Donate through www.rt34drivein.com or make a donation before seeing a movie at the drive-in, 4468 E. 12th Road, Earlville.
What's playing this weekend
Movies: "Planes: Fire and Rescue," then "Maleficent"
Times: Gates open at 7 p.m., show starts at dusk
Admission: Adults, ages 13 and older, $8; Seniors age 62 and older, $7; and children ages 12 and younger, $5.


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INGLEWOOD, Calif. (September 25, 2010)—Zenyatta completed her serious preparation for the $250,000 Lady's Secret Stakes, Presented by TVG, on Oct. 2 at Hollywood Park with a six furlong work Saturday morning.
Working with stablemate El Vino, the 6-year-old Street Cry mare, who is undefeated in 18 starts, was timed for the move over Cushion Track in 1:13 4/5, according to Hollywood Park clocker Russ Hudak.
Owned by Jerry and Ann Moss and trained by John Shirreffs, Zenyatta, who has won the Lady's Secret the last two years, ran the first three furlongs in 37 3/5 seconds and completed the final three-eighths of a mile in 36 1/5. A win would be the eighth over the Hollywood Park main track for Zenyatta, who has been stabled here throughout her career.
The Lady's Secret is one of four Grade 1's that will be run on Oct. 2 as part of the opening weekend of the first Oak Tree at Hollywood Park meet. The card will also include the $250,000 Goodwood Stakes, the $250,000 Norfolk Stakes and the $250,000 Yellow Ribbon Stakes.
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Location: 3rd Planet
Magister Negi Magi: Anime Final
Premiere Date: August 27, 2011
Website: http://negima.kc.kodansha.co.jp/
Production Company: Shaft
As it was formerly announced back in May 2011 that Mahou Sensei Negima will have a film "Double-Billed" with Hayate the Combat Butler. I'm guessing the Double-Billed here means the audience will get to watch both movies featured in one by paying for one ticket. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Also, as far as I know the film concludes Mahou Sensei Negima by putting out a second ending to the original one by Akamatsu, the creator of Mahou Sensei Negima. Here is a tease-trailer that features both movies.
|2011-08-16, 04:39
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Emerald City
movie merchandise, Negima cookies, T shirt, cards, etc.
|2011-08-19, 09:02
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Emerald City
with the movie showing coming near, first day showtime for the theatre at Shinjuku were posted, which includes 2 shows of common seiyu from both movies share stages in between showing.
Shinjuk Wald9 Cinema
16:00 movies start showing
18:20 stage interview show 1 started
19:40 stage interview show 2 started
20:35 movies start showing
each stage show is approximately 50 minutes.
25 will show up for the biggest (!?) seiyu stage gathering in anime history.
(I did noy write that, the promo did.)
21 from Negima, 4 from Hayate.
(judging from the showtime, if Negima and Hayate are about the same length, then the movie should be around 65 minutes is my guess.)
|2011-08-21, 07:39
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Emerald City
on this week's Magazine, there were 4 color pages talking about the movie, and it confirms the story line from the movie website.
Spoiler for movie:
my own guess? the clue so far is Asuna is the only one shown in her MW clothes in the movie preview, all the others are in their school uniforms...
|2011-08-21, 11:09
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Clinton, Maryland
Seeing the description of the film's summary, I think I can now see another reason why Akamatsu-sensei decided not to do this ending in the manga:
Spoiler for movie:
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|2011-08-21, 14:26
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Whittier, Southern CA
Age: 29
Do we have any word of if the movie will, even in flasbacks, cover any of the Magical World arc, so we can see an animated version of Negi's Daemon Form and Raiten forms, and maybe actually hear the voices of Kurt Godel, of Dynamis, and of Fate's girls? (I've always imagined Godel with English-dub Perfect Cell's voice, and I'm thinking of 'Homura' being voiced by Asami Sanada doing her "Vita" voice)
|2011-08-21, 23:24
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Maniacal laughter ensues.
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: My own delusions of grandeur.
Age: 30
I'm pulling for Chachamaru. She's kind of the underdog here, there's probably no way in hell she'll win. After all, Negi has to have kids in the future. But it's just too sad, eh? She cried laser fluid. She's the perfect combination of gentle and sad that I always fall for.
That being said, I'm willing to settle for Nodoka or Yue, who both have a pretty solid claim on Negi at this point. Asuna and Eva I could never really get behind, and Chisame seems kinda rushed, considering she only recently showed any interest in Negi at all.
What, this is totally on topic, what are you talking about!
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|2011-08-22, 09:19
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Emerald City
-- Ken said this movie is independent enough that you do not need to watch any of the previous Negima TV, OAV, and OAD in order to enjoy it.
-- 4 days before movie showing, the movie website is still only listing the seiyu for the 31 students (Chao included!) + Negi, of course we knew there will be others such as Konoemon...
|2011-08-22, 09:23
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Age: 31
Considering every character has at least a few shippers here and there, unless Akamatsu pulls out a new character there's always going to be someone who can say they saw it coming.
Back on the subject of the movie though, I hope they're going to put more effort in the animation here than they did with the OAD's. The OAD animation was often downright terrible.
|2011-08-24, 08:36
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Emerald City
they change the first stage show schedule, now it would be on 6PM right after the movie first showing at 4PM,. this means Negima the movie is probably just an hour long.
reading the very unclear blurb of the color pages on the movie from Magazine.
-- Chacha Maru's satellite cannon was shown firing in the movie, that is the only confirmed bits of MW arc in the movie, so far.
-- Chao's name was add on the special interview after missing initially, looks like she might make an appearance after all.
|2011-08-25, 19:27
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Emerald City
a few more things on the movie right before the first showing.
-- the story was changed from the beginning, (which is continuation and ending of MW arc.) the official site admits as much, why? did not say. but we do know the animation work did not start until the beginning of July.
-- the new story is after they came back to Mahora, Konoemon wants Negi to pick a permanent partner and erase the memory of others about magic, while Negi trying to make the difficult choice, Mars suddenly appear quite close on top of Mahora, a crisis for both the real world and the magic world...
-- for the live stage seiyu show after the first showing, 800 tickets were sold out in 10 minutes, so they are going to make it available on nico TV, Friday, 6PM Tokyo time.
-- because of that they change the schedule a bit, and LOOP OFF 20 MINUTES so they can start the live cast on the hour, people quickly assuming the worst, that Negima now instead of 60 minutes is only a 40 minutes show. I tend to think there is still a possibility that they just cut off the 10 minutes rest time between films, in any case, we will know for sure soon.
|2011-08-25, 19:49
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Pekanbaru (UTC+07:00)
Age: 32
...well I guess it's good(?!) to know that it won't be a remotely faithful adaptation before actually watching the movie - it keeps my expectations low (though now I wonder whether I should even bother at all. I bet Arika won't even get mentioned )
|2011-08-25, 22:27
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With the 2010 health care reform law a lingering cause of political skirmishing, a top Internal Revenue Service official Tuesday defended the agency's staged rollout of the legislation's tax components against Republican critics' charges that the IRS is ill-equipped to handle the task without overburdening taxpayers and threatening privacy.
Steven T. Miller, the IRS deputy commissioner for services and enforcement, told a hearing of the House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee that the agency "would absolutely be ready" by the law's deadline of 2014, "based on level of effort and the plan in place."
The law's 47 tax provisions include a requirement that the IRS report family incomes in a format that will allow the coming state exchanges to determine the size of a health premium tax credit available to taxpayers and businesses enrolling in the exchanges.
"The IRS has a successful history" in such endeavors, Miller added. He cited a "robust dialogue" with people the changes affect, such as tax preparers, software makers and businesses and pointed to dozens of new rules and notices intended to establish "simplified safe harbors." Miller also noted 1,400 meetings with small business people that took place in the early months of implementation and talks to 10,000 return preparers at nationwide forums.
Republican critics of the law voiced skepticism. "More than creating new burdens on the Internal Revenue Service, the president's health care law has led to new tax rules and regulations that will pose significant challenges to both individuals and job creators," said House subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany Jr., R-La. He displayed two binders he said contained 17 new regulations and mentioned a figure of 80 million hours for "job creators and families" to comply with, based, he said, on IRS estimates approved by the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and the Office of Management and Budget.
"This is . . . not a hearing to beat up on the IRS -- an agency run by good men and women, dedicated public servants who have an incredibly difficult job," Boustany added. "The agency did not write the health care law -- the previous Congress did."
Miller replied that the focus is on administering the law and not on the agency's economics. He also pushed back on the long-standing assertion by some that the IRS dramatically ramped up hiring -- taking on 16,000 more agents, according to one Republican report from 2009. "I don't know where that number came from," Miller said, clarifying that 670 IRS employees are assigned to the health care law in fiscal 2012, a figure set to rise to 859 in fiscal 2013.
Rep. Tom Reed, R-N.Y., expressed concern that the IRS has not projected staff numbers for fiscal 2014 and beyond. "You don't have a fair indicator of employment burdens put on by this law," he said.
Noting that the fiscal 2014 projection is being discussed "as we speak" by the Treasury Department and OMB, Miller replied, "we operate on an annual basis. If you give me a budget for multiple years, I might have some idea."
Boustany repeated a Republican complaint that the IRS was interpreting the Affordable Care Act to allow federal subsidies of state insurance exchanges, when the language on that question is open to dispute. Miller said the position -- which involves reading the entire law rather than only one relevant section -- was arrived at following a "tripartite discussion" between the IRS administrators, the IRS Office of General Counsel and Treasury's Office of Tax Policy. He agreed to Boustany's request that he provide notes and meeting dates from those discussions.
Ranking member Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., said he "is confident" the implementation will be carried out on schedule, but expressed concern about recent IRS budget cuts of $300 million. Lewis noted that $270 million of the IRS' request of $360 million in health care law funding for fiscal 2013 is for information technology.
"The process for verifying individual insurance coverage is very similar" to verifications done in the past, Miller said, noting the law does not permit use of levies or criminal penalties or revenue agents for enforcement.
As for fears that privacy could be violated by sharing of financial information, Miller said, "we have a long history of sharing taxpayer information using fairly stringent restrictions with states and agencies. We have hundreds of agreements with various agencies. It doesn't require a new effort to be sure safeguards are in place."
Fred Goldberg Jr., a former IRS commissioner now in private law practice, warned that the health care law's enlistment of the tax service to share taxpayer information with state exchanges would bring about a "costly burden and an administrative quagmire" that would increase incentives for noncompliance with tax law.
He said income verification and protection of privacy are "not the core competency of the exchanges" and urged Congress to move the entire function to the IRS, which "is efficient at administering the tax code," he said, not altering human behavior.
Kathy Pickering, vice president for government relations at H&R Block, commended the IRS for the "undertaking," but warned of "conflicting demands" between the agency's emphasis on administering tax law and the Health and Human Services Department's focus on "making sure that all have health insurance." The result may be a surprise need for adjustments at tax time, she said.
Given the delays in some tax refunds this spring and the many other demands on the attention of the IRS, she said, the agency should make a special effort to give the tax preparer community and small businesses notice on new procedures by April 30, 2013, to provide sufficient time to mull decisions on whether to participate in the exchanges.
Scott Hodge, president of the nonpartisan research group Tax Foundation, was tougher on what he called a "superagency that has become an extension of the welfare state." The IRS has "a dismal record in managing the plethora of tax credit programs it is already responsible for, so we should expect the ACA to lead to billions of dollars in fraud, abuse and erroneous payments," he said. "The IRS "stumbled out of the gate in implementing some of the earliest -- and, perhaps simplest -- provisions of the ACA: the Small Business Health Care Tax Credit; the Indoor Tanning ExciseTax; and the expansion of the Adoption Credit." Rather than giving the agency more money or staff, Hodge added, reform the U.S. Tax Code.
Seth Perreta, a law partner with Crowell and Moring LLP representing Fortune 500 corporations in the American Benefits Council, said the IRS for the most part had been responsive to his members during rule-making. "The IRS gave business a much needed reprieve and accommodated a variety of plans," he said. But he urged it to continue to be receptive.


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Characterization of Glassy and Partially Crystalline Cu-Zr-Al-Sm Metallic Glasses
Fatih Sikan, Ilkay Kalay,
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The Cu-Zr-Al BMGs show relatively high strength but they tend to deform along thin shear bands which do not allow macroscopic plasticity. Introducing crystalline constituents embedded within the glassy matrix is a promising technique to improve the ductility. In this respect, we have investigated the glass forming ability and consecutive crystallization behavior of Sm micro-alloyed Cu-Zr-Al based bulk metallic glasses. Ingots of (Zr50Cu40Al10)100-xSmx (0 ≤ x ≤ 5,at. %) were produced by arc-melting and subsequently suction-casted to synthesis metallic glasses with diameters up to 4 mm. The glassy specimens were partially crystallized through isothermal annealing. The as-solidified and partially crystalline structures were characterized by a combined study of SEM, TEM, XRD and DSC. Mechanical properties of glassy and partially crystalline (Zr50Cu40Al10)100-xSmx (x:0-5) alloys were determined using compression and microhardness tests with respect to percent crystallinity. The effect of introducing crystals within the amorphous matrix will be discussed in details.
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A Unified Dictionary Approach for the Indexing of Electron Diffraction Modalities
An Empirical Equation to Predict the Porosity of Titanium Foams
Analysis of Methanol Sensitivity on SnO2-ZnO Nanocomposite
Characterization and Stoichiometry of the Cyanidation Reaction in NaOH, of Argentian Waste Tailings of Hidalgo, México
Characterization of Copper-Manganese-Aluminum-Magnesium Mixed Oxyhydroxide and Oxide Catalysts for Redox Reactions
Characterization of Glassy and Partially Crystalline Cu-Zr-Al-Sm Metallic Glasses
Characterization of Humic Acid Modified Bentonite Binder for Iron Ore Pelletization
Characterization of Iron Oxide Scale Formed in Naphthenic Acid Corrosion
Characterization of Magnesite from Tsakasimptah Nigeria for Glass Making
Characterization of Thermal Behavior of Epoxy Composites Reinforced with Curaua Fibers by Differential Scanning Calorimetry
Charpy Impact Tests of Polyester Composites Reinforced with PALF Fibers
Comparative Study of the Effects of Cellulose Nanowhiskers and Microcrystalline Cellulose Addition as Reinforcement in Flexible Films Based on Biopolymer Blends
Crystal Structures and Conductivity of Lanthanum Gallate Doped with Strontium and Magnesium Synthesized by Different Methods
Determination of the Stability Constants for Mixed-ligand Coordination Compounds in the Zn(II)-nitrilotriacetic Acid-ammonia System
Dielectric Properties and Microwave Heating Characteristics of Nickel-copper Ore
Discussion on Coking Wastewater Treatment and Control Measures in Iron and Steel Enterprises
Dynamic-Mechanical Characterization of Polyester Matrix Composites Reinforced With Eucalyptus Fibers
Dynamic Deep Etching and Particle Extraction for High-strength Aluminium Alloys
Effect of Cold Work on the Corrosion Resistance of an Austenitic Stainless Steel
Effect of Ferric Ions on Bioleaching of Pentlandite Concentrate
Effect of Interlayer Material on the Mechanical Properties of Diffusion Bonded Aluminum Joints
Effect of MgO and Basicity on Microstructure and Metallurgical Properties of Iron Ore Sinter
Effect of Microstructural Anisotropy on the Dynamic Mechanical Behaviour of Rolled Ti-6Al-4V
Effect of Poisson's Ratio on Stress/Strain Concentration at Circular Holes in Elastic Plates Subjected to Biaxial Loading- Three Dimensional Finite Element Analysis
Electrical Effect and Influence Factors of Tourmaline
Evaluation of White Bentonite Modified by Acid Attack
Experimental Analysis of Interlocking Pavement of Concrete with Addition of Waste Glass Applied in Construction
Experimental Study on Quality Evaluation of Calcium-based Agents for Desulfurization of Sinter Gas on SDA
Facile Measurements of Single-crystal Elastic Constant Tensor Properties from Polycrystalline Samples
Ferronickel Preparation from Nickeliferous Laterite by Rotary Kiln-electric Furnace Process
Flexural Mechanical Characterization of Polyester Composites Reinforced with Continuous Ramie Fibers Stalk
Flexural Test in Epoxy Matrix Composites Reinforced with Hemp Fiber
Formulation of Ceramic Body to Produce Roofing Tiles Using Winkler Diagram
FTIR Spectroscopy of Some Brazilian Clays
Grain Boundary Plane Dependence of Sensitization in Austenitic Stainless Steel
High Accuracy Technique to Measure the Electrical Conductivity of Highly Conductive Molten Salts
High Temperature Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry Applied to the Characterization and Thermodynamic Studies of Feldspars and Feldspathoids
Highly Electrically Conductive Polyolefin Nanocomposites Reinforced with a Low Concentration of Carbon Nanotubes
HRTEM Analysis of Crystallographic Defects in Cd-Zn-Te Single Crystals
Humectation Kinetics of a Quasi-ceramic Matrix Destined to Fluxes for Submerged Arc Welding
In-situ High Temperature X-ray Computed Micro-tomography of Ceramic Matrix Composite Processing
Incorporation of Waste Ceramic Blocks in Structural Ceramics
Influence of Al and C Content on Mechanical Properties of Sub-rapidly Solidified Fe–20Mn–xAl–yC Low-density Steels
Interface Analysis of Solid State Welded AA7075 to Ti64 Joints
Large Volume 3D Reconstruction of Metal and Ceramic Microstructures by Xe-ion Plasma FIB
Ligand Selection Model for Leaching of Low Grade Zinc Oxide Ores
LL-10: Preparation of Polymeric Phosphate Ferric Sulfate Flocculant and Application on Coking Wastewater Treatment
LL-11: Effect of Phase Transformations on Hardness in Zn–Al–Cu Alloys
LL-12: Effects of Heat Treatment on the Mechanical Properties of CrMo Steel Contained Nb
LL-13: Effect of the Paper Industry Residue on Properties in the Fresh Mortar
LL-14: Mechanical Properties and Microstructure of K418 Using Master Alloy Technique and Mechanical Alloying
LL-16: Analysis of Absorption in Cardboard Tubes
LL-17: Analysis of the Importance of Heat Treatment Surface of Steel Gear SAE 1045 Transmission Motorcycle to Increase Hardness and Resistance to Wear
LL-18: Angle Dependence of Optical Plasmonic Response of Concave Bow-tie Sliver Nanoparticle
LL-19: Assessment of Concrete Degradation Submitted to the Attack of Magnesium Sulfate through Non-destructive Testing
LL-20: Brillouin Scattering Spectroscopy on Mg-Nd Alloy in Different Aging Time
LL-21: Characterization Mechanics and Copper in Application Cooling Industry
LL-22: Characterization Mortar Mechanics Using in their Waste Composition of Stone Extraction Italva -RJ City
LL-23: Characterization of Boron in Boron Containing Steels
LL-24: Characterization of Irradiated and Non-irradiated Rubber from Automotive Scrap Tires
LL-25: Characterization of Mesoscale Materials with Secondary Signal Imaging Electron Tomography (SSI-ET) in a Transmission Electron Microscope
LL-26: Characterization of Waste Molding Sands, for Their Possible Use as Building Material
LL-27: Construction Waste of Civil Use in Concrete Structural
LL-28: Development of Bio-based Foams Prepared from PBAT/PLA Reinforced with Bio-calcium Carbonate Compatibilized by Electron-beam Radiation
LL-29: Direct Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes at Low Temperature by the Reaction of CCl4 and Ferrocene
LL-2: Assimilation Reaction Characteristic Number for Evaluating the Assimilation of Iron Ore in Sintering
LL-30: Properties of Ceramic Pigment Zn0.5Cu0.5Cr2O4 Synthesized by Solution Combustion Method
LL-32: Fabrication and Mechanical Behavior of Carbon Nanofiber Foam Core -Polymeric Shell Structures
LL-33: Green Synthesis, Characterization and Stabilization of AgNPs with Thuja Orientalis Extract
LL-34: Incorporation of Glass Waste Into Mortar
LL-35: Incorporation of Ornamental Rock Waste into Mortar
LL-36: Influence of Inoculation on Structure of Chromium Cast Iron
LL-38: Investigation of Medium-Range Correlations in Marginal Glass Forming Alloys
LL-39: Magnetic and Structural Properties of Sodium Substituted La1-xNaxMnO3 Hole Doped Lanthanum Manganites
LL-3: Study on Oxide Inclusions at Each Process of Steel Production
LL-40: Microstructural Characterization of a Ni2HfAl-Precipitate-Strengthened Ferritic Alloy
LL-41: Miracema Clay Characterization, in Northwest Fluminense for Making Structural Masonry Blocks Ceramic
LL-42: Monitoring Dislocation Characteristics of Steels during Deformation by TOF Neutron Diffraction
LL-43: Clinker Production from Wastes of Cellulose and Granite Industries
LL-44: Properties of Clay for Ceramics with Rock Waste for Production Structural Block by Pressing and Firing
LL-45: Properties of Mortars with Partial and Total Replacement of Conventional Aggregate by Waste Construction
LL-46: Research of the Extraction of Valuable Metals from Nickel Laterite by the Ammonium Sulfate Roasting-Water Leaching Process
LL-48: The Characterization of the Desulfurization Powder in the Semi-dry De-SO2 Process of the Sintering Machine Exhaust Gas and the Interaction with the Soil Particles
LL-49: Effects of Carbon Black Incorporation on Morphological, Mechanical and Thermal Properties of Biodegradable Films
LL-4: Characterization of Duplex Stainless Steel Casting with Gadolinium as Neutron Absorbers for Spent Fuel Storage Applications
LL-50: Evaluation of Physico-Chemical Properties when Adding Boiler Ashes to Mortar
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LL-51: Influence of the Brazilian Nanoclay "Branca de Cubati" Incorporation on Properties of Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene(ABS)
LL-52: Mechanical Characterization of Mortar Using in its Composition of Waste Wood Processing
LL-53: Microstructure Analysis of Buildups Embedded in Carbon Sleeve in Continuous Annealing Furnace for Non-oriented Silicon Steel
LL-54: Significance of Graphitic Surfaces in Aurodicyanide Adsorption by Activated Carbon: Experimental & Computational Approach
LL-55: Optimization of Vector Field Electron Tomography Using Model Based Iterative Reconstructions
LL-56: Effects of Graphene Oxide Addition on Mechanical and Morphological Properties of EVOH Films
LL-57: Examining the Stability and Electron Emission Properties of Vacuum Plasma Sprayed Lanthanum Hexaboride Coatings
LL-58: Improvement of Mechanical Properties in Natural Rubber with Fillers Organics
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It's going to be a brutal battle to the finish this Oscar season.
Right now, at least four films have an even chance of claiming the Academy Award for best picture — Ben Affleck's Argo, Ang Lee's Life of Pi, Steven Spielberg's Lincoln and David O. Russell's Silver Linings Playbook — with a handful of challengers such as Les Miserables, Zero Dark Thirty, and Django Unchained coming soon.
Today we're launching EW.com's Prize Fighter, a new fixture that aims to be the movie-lover's front-row ticket to the showdown. Since this is the inaugural post, let's do a little introduction and then dive into the state-of-the Best Picture race so far.
Prize Fighter's mission statement is simple: We're still going to track who's up and who's down in the Oscar race, but the goal is to use Hollywood's award season as a way to explore why these films are the best of 2012, and tell the stories of their storytellers.
To me, the question "What's going to win Best Picture?" is more interesting than the eventual answer. Truth be told, I've never cared very much about who goes home with a trophy, but I love the Oscars and award season because it's a fiesty winter-long conversation about the films that get under our skin, into our heads, and make our hearts pump a little faster.
A lot of writers at EW will be contributing to Prize Fighter (and we're also going to highlight some of the best award-season reporting done by outsiders), but as the chief Oscar correspondent you'll be hearing from me the most. That's me, smile-squinting at you from the banner above. (Hi, Grandma!)
After the impeccable Dave Karger departed EW for Fandango, I've taken over the Oscar beat. Dave leaves big shoes to fill, and all I can do is try not to scuff them up. I've been covering movies for 12 years, and my tastes are as broad as they come: Sundance is my favorite movie marathon of the year, and my personal Top 10 is more likely to follow the Independent Spirit Awards than the Oscars, since I've got a thing for underdogs. But I've also got a serious cinematic sweet-tooth for big, crazy blockbusters. I can't resist Marvel superheroes, Star Wars, James Bond movies, and anything with giant, killer robots or aliens. I don't know if Transformers of the Southern Wild would be a good film, but I would pay money to find out.
My goal with EW's Prize Fighter is not just to predict winners, though I am out there talking to voters at every opportunity, trying to get an accurate read on where the race stands. I'm eager to expand the awards season conversation at this point to include smaller movies that you should put on your must-see list before making your best-of list.
I also intend to look beyond just the celebrity categories to highlight the work of brilliant "below-the-line" artists – the costume designers, cinematographers, editors, and visual effects and sound supervisors who bring these stories to life. We'll also be taking you behind the scenes of the Feb. 24 Academy Awards telecast, with Ted and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane hosting for the first time.
If all that interests you, please bookmark EW.com/PrizeFighter and check back with us for all our Oscar coverage.
Right now, here's some intel on where the Best Picture race stands right now.
In past years, it seems like one movie has run away with the prize early. But this time, it's shaping up to be a knock-down, drag-out.


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Oh boy! We knew it was only a matter of time until the trend of man-training books and movies like Men Are Like Dogs and Bring Your Husband to Heel would spread to online games, but we didn't think it'd happen with this much gusto.
The Boyfriend Trainer, with the tagline "No boyfriend is perfect! It's time you trained him to become one," is somehow even more ridiculous than it sounds.
In this game, rated appropriate for tweens, "training" means more than withholding sex - it means subjecting your eye-wandering, newspaper-dropping, sports-watching partner to slapping, tasing, choking and whacking with tennis rackets.
But before we crap ourselves with righteous indignation, let's gather our wits about us, get some perspective, and consider what's more harmful to young men: the barrage of misogyny and sexualised violence in mass-produced, "adult"-marketed, heavily distributed games such as Grand Theft Auto, or this laughable cartoon schlock, a stream of piss in an ocean of dime-store Web content designed for people with the most rudimentary understanding of gender relations.
Blogger Garland Grey comments on the lack of media outrage:
"Look at this thing you've never heard of! Why haven't you come out against it yet?"
How many people are really going to play this "boyfriend trainer" game? How many people are going to be playing Duke Nukem Forever when it comes out? If [you]said, "What do you think about this game?" I would say, that's abusive. Of course. But I'm not going to pretend that the two games are equally horrible or that we don't live in a culture that sanctions sexualized violence against women.
Now produce an example of sexualized violence toward men that is being sold in Windows, Xbox 360, and Playstation 3 formats, all across America, and you'll look like less of a dipshit.
If there were ever a choose-your-battles moment in the male blogosphere, it'd be now. Let's have an adult conversation about the effects of hyper-realistic violence on boys, the racism and misogyny in the gaming community, and especially, as David Futrelle has asked, what women really want from games - and why those repelled by the morass of incivility on WoW or Xbox Live might be drawn elsewhere, be it Farmville or, you know, a game where you get to whack some tchotch with a tennis racket.
When we can address the deep-seated issues that plague and polarise the mainstream gaming community, then we can talk about the threat of AddictingGames.com - and why, suddenly, there are opportunities for anti-male baubles to make a profit.
This post originally appeared on The Good Men Project. Republished with permission.
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If you don't do work with the federal government, should you care about what's going on with PIV (Personal Identity Verification) credentials? Isn't it just a credential that government agencies are required to use for access control?
PIV may not be moving into the private sector as rapidly as some proponents predicted years ago, but there is movement in that direction. Rob Zivney of Identive Group, David Belchick of Citibank, and Don Erickson, CEO of SIA, did a great educational session at TechSec this year about how PIV, the PIV-I (PIV-Interoperable) and CIV (Commercial Identity Verification) are moving into the private sector and how integrators can and should take advantage of this opportunity. (I'm working on a story for next week about that discussion). But there was more information released today by the Smart Card Alliance Identity Council and Access Control Council, which I'll be taking a look at and maybe you'd like to check out as well.
The groups released a white paper about PIV-I deployments at Booz Allen Hamilton; SAIC; XTec Incorporated; and the Commonwealth of Virginia. They also released a brief with general information and comparisons of the credentials. Both can be downloaded at the Smart Card Alliance website.
If you're attending ISC West, you can learn more at a workshop "Standards-Based Secure Identity Credentials: Leveraging the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Specifications for Commercial Credentialing Programs," on March 27th from 8:00 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. in Sands Room 104. Registration is available on the workshop webpage at http://www.smartcardalliance.org/secureid.
TechSec organizers have released details on several new educational sessions that will cover trends pushing strong authentication into the private sector, new and emerging video surveillance technology, and innovations in sport stadium security.
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Trance (US - BD RA)
Gabe is mesmerized enough by Boyle's latest to ignore some of its problems...
After a blow to the head during his attempted robbery of a $27 million Goya painting, Simon (James McAvoy), a fine-art auctioneer, awakens to find that the painting – and his memory – are missing. Forced by his ruthless partner in crime Franck (Vincent Cassel) to undergo hypnosis, Simon enters into a deadly love triangle with his seductive hypnotist (Rosario Dawson). (From Fox Searchlight's official synopsis)
Danny Boyle has won his Oscar when he made Slumdog Millionaire and followed up that win with another nominee in 127 Hours. He's also already made himself a sci-fi adventure ( Sunshine), a kiddie flick ( Millions), and had huge success with his first and only horror film ( 28 Days Later). It seems he has little left to achieve and he only really has room to fail. Trance does not mark a failure on the level of Boyle's one definitively bad movie, The Beach, but it does feel like the kind of movie that a filmmaker with little left to prove would make on sabbatical from two massively ambitious, non-film directing projects (the Olympic opening ceremonies and a stage version of Frankenstein). Trance and The Beach are mirror opposites on most production levels ( Trance was made on a smaller budget and had generally low-behind-the-scenes drama the whole way round, unlike The Beach, which was a mess from the word 'go'), yet they represent the same spirit of filmmaking experimentation (one was Boyle's first 'blockbuster,' the other was his first attempt at directing on-the-fly between other projects) and are similarly admirable in their ambition, despite the fact that they don't quite work.
Like that other UK-based director of incredibly eclectic output, Ridley Scott, Boyle's films have often succeeded in spite of the weakness in their screenplays. Trainspotting aside (and it's a big exception, since Irvine Welsh's book was considered un-adaptable), none of his work has been particularly impressive in terms of storytelling prowess. Usually Boyle's films at least make narrative sense, but, like many of Scott's films, are light on narrative heft, exchanging it (usually quite successfully) for thematic and character depth. Trance was co-written by Joe Ahearne, who also wrote and directed a made-for-TV version of Trance in 2001, and regular Boyle collaborator John Hodge. Reportedly, Ahearne and Boyle had discussed Trance as far back as 1994 and Hodge was brought on for the sake of rewrites. The problem here is less that the movie doesn't make sense and more that the concept is kind of silly. There are nuggets of brilliance in the story's ideas, including a satisfyingly dark and unexpected punch-line (that doesn't quite add up), but the threads really begin to fray as the story is muddied with convoluted 'did that just happen' and 'who's playing who' questions.
Once again, though, the story's issues are often overridden by Boyle's outstanding sense of style. The visuals are routinely beautiful and the images impeccably constructed through some very sharp and efficient editing. As an experiment in pure visual storytelling, Trance actually works really well. Slumdog Millionaire did interesting things with its flashback structure, but was generally nailed down to a basic sense of reality. With Trance, Ahearne gives the director a chance to experiment with dream logic. He and cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle achieve a lot of surrealistic imagery without many digital effects. The mindscape chaos appears to have been captured largely in-camera and is composited via editing and dissolves. I'm sure there are digital effects invisibly melded into the fabric of these images, but nothing as pricy and in-your-face as what was seen in Christopher Nolan's similarly-themed and similarly–convoluted Inception. Boyle's limited cast makes out quite well despite the script's shortcomings. McAvoy is his usual charmingly sympathetic self and Vincent Cassel presents a delightfully complex anti-villain, but Trance is really Rosario Dawson's movie. She brings natural power and grace to a role that should crumble under the weight of too many motivational twists.
Boyle was an early adopter of digital technology when he shot 28 Days Later using non-HD Canon DV cameras. Following Millions and Sunshine (both of which were shot on 35mm film), he hooked up with Mantle. Boyle and Mantle starting mixing several different digital HD formats for Slumdog Millionaire (which won the Oscar for cinematography) and 127 Hours, creating a new visual trademark that carries over into Trance. This 1080p, 2.40:1 transfer does a good job exploiting the subtle and no so subtle differences between the various cameras, including Arri Alexa, Canon EOS, and Phantom HD rigs. The image switches up between styles with relative regularity, including black & white and extra grainy shots, but the base-level image style is definitively digital-looking. It's unreal in its punchy colour qualities and super-smooth blends, but also very sharp in terms of overall detail and texture. Again, there's really no such thing as a consistent image type, so some scenes are over-exposed and washed out in terms of overall detail, but even these scenes are quite clean. Sometimes, the palette is broken down to purely orange & teal moments and these moments are kind of ugly, but there's rarely a case where the artificial hues bleed into each other. The daylight scenes tend to be more warm, lush, and naturally lit, while the most extremely noir-ish sequences are baked in searing reds that cut very sharply against super-deep blacks without blocking them. Contrast levels vary throughout based on the chosen photographic style.
Trance comes fitted with a DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 soundtrack. The film was apparently mixed with the new Dolby Atmos theatrical sound system in mind, which accounts for this track's aggressive use of the stereo and surround channels. It's not a consistently action-packed type of mix – it's a mix that finds directional enhancement in hyper-dynamic versions of more natural sound effects and a mix that depends very much on music. The score was composed by regular Boyle collaborators Rick Smith and his techno group Underworld. The bouncy, energetic music is given an incredibly wide range throughout the channels and is among the busiest musical tracks I've ever heard, at least in terms of directional movement. The score swirls around the audience, floats in and out of phase, and even sounds as if it is coming from directly overhead at times, which is especially impressive, given the limits of my 5.1 set-up. And, of course, the LFE gets heavy support from the deep throb of the incessant bass beat. Every once and a while, I found the softer dialogue a little difficult to discern, but I imagine this is an indication that I'm supposed to have cranked the system up until Underworld's music is blowing out my eardrums.
The special features begin with The Power of Suggestion: Making Trance (35:00, HD), a four-part behind-the-scenes featurette. The parts are broken down into Danny's Film Noir, on the film's pre-production, shooting the film on sabbatical between the Olympic opening ceremony and Frankenstein stage play, centering a film around a female character, restructuring the script, finding locations, production and costume design, and casting; Hypnotherapy, on the reality of hypnosis and its relation to the film; The Look, on the cinematography and film's general style; and The Final Rewrite, which wraps up the production process with a look at editing and music. Interviews throughout the featurettes include Boyle (who is super-gracious in the way he keeps saying 'we,' instead of 'I'), producer Christian Colson, co-writer John Hodge, production designer Mark Tildesley, costume designer Suttirat Anne Larlarb, clinical psychologist Professor David Oakely, sound recordist Simon Hayes, cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle, editor John Harris, and cast members Rosario Dawson, James McAvoy, and Vincent Cassel.
The extras continue with seven deleted/extended scenes (16:30, HD), a retrospective look at Boyle's Fox Searchlight-released films (15:00, HD), and trailers. Things are wrapped up with a short film by Spencer Susser called Eugene (13:10, HD) about an awkward, lovesick man on vacation in Washington who plays a videogame on a laptop that mysteriously appears at hotel room door.
Trance doesn't quite work as the twisty neo-noir it wants to be, but is still an entertaining and stylish movie that reaches some dizzying heights. Viewers that go into the film knowing that Boyle doesn't succeed in covering all of the script's more convoluted bits and resulting holes should find plenty to enjoy, especially Anthony Dod Mantle's digital photography and three strong central performances. It's a pretty emotionally satisfying experience for people willing to suspend their disbelief, which is an admittedly high order as the film progresses. Fox's Blu-ray looks great, sounds fantastic, thanks to a complexly mixed musical soundtrack, and features a fair share of brief, but informative extras.
* Note: The images on this page do not represent the Blu-ray image quality.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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I liked TRANCE even though I was more of a fan of McAvoy in WELCOME TO THE PUNCH which was released to DVD and Blu-ray on the same day as TRANCE.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 23rd July 2013
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 English, Dolby Digital 2.0 DVS English, Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish and French
Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish
Extras: The Power of Suggestion: Making Trance, Danny Boyle's Retrospective, Eugene Shot Film, Deleted/Extended Scenes, Trailers, UltraViolet Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, Vincent Cassel
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery and Thriller
Length: 101 minutes
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Immunity for Core Crimes? The case of Tibetan Genocide
[Monday, October 08, 2012 13:31]
By Tseten Thompson
When someone kills a man, he is put in prison. When someone kills twenty people, he is declared mentally insane. But when someone kills 200,000 people, he is invited to Geneva for peace negotiation- Sarajevo joke, circa 1994
The commencement of proceedings against Jiang Zemin in 2003 for an indictment of crime against humanity was a potentially significant moment in the sense that it was presented to the Spain National court amidst intense media attention, and this case continues to provoke intense debate. Most of the people would have questioned why it was filed in Spain in particular. It was partly because the complaint is being filed under the Code of Crimes against International Law (CCIL) enacted by Spain in compliance with the Rome Statue creating the International Criminal Court in 2002, which Spain ratified. The CCIL provides for "universal jurisdiction" for war crimes, crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity. It enables the Spanish prosecutor to investigate and prosecute crimes irrespective of the location of the defendant or plaintiff, the place where the crime was carried out, or the nationality of the persons involved.
However, the case was quashed by the Spanish national court, Pursuant to s 268 121 (1) of the Criminal Code. For the purpose of s 268, it was held that any proceedings concerning genocide, crimes against humanity and crimes against the administration of justice of the ICC 'must not be commenced without the Attorney's written consent.' In this case Attorney Judge Santiago Pedraz refused to grant consent because he said the Spanish national court could no longer handle the case after a new law restricted its powers to investigate human rights cases abroad.
In the past, Spanish courts have issued indictments against a number of former South American heads of state for genocide, torture and related crimes, although so far only a relatively junior official has been convicted of crimes against humanity. Thus, it has raised two important issues. The first was whether Judge Santiago should have broad discretion to determine whether cases concerning international crimes can proceed. Secondly, it sets out the epistemological challenges the doctrine of head-of-state immunities and, of official immunities in general. Therefore, this article will focus on the legal literature and jurisprudence on the subject of official immunities.
In Pre World War II, the redress of Human Rights violation was left to Individual states and their domestic legal regimes. In fact, International law simply did not offer any alternative. As Peter Malanczuk describes, 'the above era as a period where relationship between state and their own national was considered as (purely) an internal matter'. Yet many leaders knew from their pre World War II experiences that it would be completely illogical if it were left in the hands of few individual states. Such states, in the words of Lord Brownie- Wilkinson in Pinochet's case, "were never prepared to adjudicate over the shortcomings of their own regime."[i]
Thus, the Charter of Nuremberg of 1946 arose, to claim in the name of 'upholding international law' and international military adjudicating role in the trials of individual perpetrators of the atrocities of World War II. Article 6 (c) of the Nuremberg Charter, which defines crimes against humanity as "as murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhuman acts committed against any civilian population, before or during the war, or persecutions on political, racial, or religious grounds in execution of or in connection with any crime within the jurisdiction of the Tribunal, whether or not in violation of domestic law of the country where perpetrated"[ii]. According to Nuremberg's Chief Prosecutor Robert Jackson, "it is only by punishing individuals who commit such crimes can the provisions of international law be enforced"[iii]. Since then, questions about redressing human rights violations at the international level started to emerge. Further more, over the last decades several leader and former leaders have been charged and in some cases, prosecuted and convicted by international courts for international crimes.
The Culture of Immunity
It is almost certain that in this immunity battle, there are many political challenges than legal ones in the process of taking custody of incumbent's heads of state[iv]. The prospects of prosecuting heads of state for grave human rights abuse remain severely stifled by doctrinal rules of international law immunities. In relations to the head of states, international law recognizes two types of immunities- the personal (immunity by reason of the person) and functional immunity (immunity by reason of the subject). Therefore, the first category of immunity comes with the duty of personifying or representing the state on the international platform but the second one is a general immunity accruing to all state officials irrespective of ranks.
In the case of Jiang Zemin, it is very evident that the Spanish court would have found, under both domestic legislation and international law, that he was immune from its jurisdiction for the duration of his term in office. As such, the question of whether immunities under Spain law extend to individuals accused of committing international crimes "is a matter that has yet to be fully tested in Spanish court." It is important to note that the doctrine of immunity for heads of state is not codified in any international treaty; it is solely a rule of customary international law. The Vienna Convention only applies to 'diplomatic agents' which does not include heads of state. Although states are free to extend the provision of the Vienna Convention to heads of state but the convention itself is not a source of law for head of state immunity. Therefore, if the Spanish court wanted to consider the scope of immunity for heads of state in international law, it would need to look beyond the Vienna convention to customary international law. For example, the decision by the ICJ in the Yerodia Arrest Warrant case held that serving heads of state, heads of government and foreign ministries enjoy a broad personal immunity from the jurisdiction of foreign domestic courts, including immunity from prosecution for international crimes[v] .
Following this judgment a number of national courts have dismissed cases alleging the commission of international crimes by incumbent heads of state and heads of government on the ground that immunity ratione persone bars proceedings. Problems can arise, however, where there is uncertainty as to the existence of the state concerned or in a situation where a leader has seized power and removed from office a previous head of state who may still lay claim to that title[vi].
On the other hand Immunity ratione materiae attaches to all officials acts attributable to the state and it is the state that bears responsibility for them rather than the individual who performed the acts in his or her official capacity[vii]. The main effect of such immunity is to prevent litigants from seeking to circumvent the rules on state immunity by taking action against the individual carrying out the business of the state. In other words, this type of immunity is based on the nature of conduct rather than the status of the individual who carried out the act. Thus, it raises the question whether is there any exception to functional immunity of officials with regards to international crimes?
Is there an exception in respect of international crimes to head of state?
The judgment of the UK House of Lords in Pinochet was hailed by many as a new dawn in the struggle by victims, non-governmental organizations, and others to bring former leaders to account for international crimes committed while in office, and was seen as signaling an end to the impunity they formerly enjoyed[vii]. While the purpose of head of state immunity is to safeguard stable international relations. This raises the question: whether the emergence of coherent and generally accepted exceptions can be reconciled with the competing imperative to ensure accountability for genocide, and crime against humanity?
The answer to that question can be found in the balance struck between head of state immunity and its exemptions otherwise there is a political reluctance on the part of states to prosecute former officials. Although Spain has continued to lead the way by issuing arrest warrants against several former heads of state, including two former presidents of Guatemala, Rios Montt and Oscar Mejia Victores, for genocide, torture and other related crimes[ix], unfortunately, only a relatively junior official has been convicted of crimes against humanity.
However, the Spanish courts rejected the claim on the basis that there was evidence of state practice to support a customary exemption to head of state immunity. The position taken by the Spanish courts has been 'widely criticized' and subject to varied interpretation. For example, Antonio Cassese states that the Court did not intend to deny the existence of an exemption in customary law to immunity ratione materiae for state officials who are accused of international crimes[x].
Applying the ICJ's reasoning to the case of Jiang Zemin, even after Zemin left office (an immunity ratione persone no longer applied) it would not be possible to prosecute him for international crime committed during his tenure as head of state, unless it could be proven that those crimes were committed in his private capacity. This does not mean, however, that a Spanish court should not have had the opportunity to exploring legal issues such as the ambit of immunity laws under both Spain and International law. The Spanish court appears to have overlooked the customary exemption to immunity ratione materiae for international crimes, and further confused the scope of immunity ratione materiae[xi]. Had a Spanish court been able to consider the Tibetan case; it might have been able to contribute to the clarification of some of these issues.
A Way Forward
Following the Pinochet case, it was hoped by many that the last combat ground for the struggle against impunity for gross human rights violations and crimes of international law inclusive of genocide, torture, war crimes and crime against humanity would fully work out in subsequent cases so that precise rules on the exception would emerge. In practice, this has not happened and the picture has been patchy, often confused and obscured by other jurisdictional factors that have barred or deterred prosecution in individual cases[xii]. The fallacy of Jiang Zemin's case highlights some of the inadequacies in Spain's efforts to prosecute him. Thus, the Spanish court must change its legislative framework on international crimes in order to balance its diplomatic and political considerations along with its obligation to prosecute and punish individuals accused of genocide and crime against humanity. As for Jiang Zemin, although the attorney general quashed the indictment, this should not end Spain's involvement in the matter.
I believe that Jiang Zemin's arrest and surrender to ICC remains a challenge, yet Spain must refer it to the ICC prosecutor otherwise the upholding of the notion of jurisdictional immunity is nothing more than an empty hope.
[1] Lord Brownie- Wilkinson Opinion of the Lords of Appeal for Judgment in the cause Regina v. Bartle and the Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis and ors ( Appellants) Ex Parte Pinochet of 24 March 1999 pg 6.
[ii] See Maurizio Ragazzi " The Concept of International Obligations Erga Omnes", Oxford monograph of International, ( 1997) pg 97 Oxford University Press
[iii] Noting that the attempt to try the German Emperor after WWI aborted because the Emperor took refuge in Netherlands and was never handed over for trail
[iv] Thor Shipping A/S v The Al Duhail ( 2008) 173 FER 524 ( ' Thor Shipping')
[v Arrest Warrant of 11 April 2000 (Democratic Republic of the Congo v Belgium), Judgment, ICJ Reports 2002, p.3; 128 ILR 1. The ICJ made it clear that such immunity subsist even where it is alleged that an international crime has been committed ( Djibouti v France)
[vi] See Lafontant v Aristide 844 F Supp.128,132-3 ( EDNY 1994);103 ILR 581
[vii] Dapo Akande and Sangeeta Shah, ' Immunities of State Official, International Crimes and Foreign Domestic Courts' ( 2010) 21 European Journal of International Law 815, 825-6
[viii] Rv Bow Street Magistrates' Court ex parte Pinochet (No.3) ( 2000) AC 147.
[ix] A Spanish court has also convicted a former Argentinian naval officer, Adolfo Sclingo, for torture and crimes against humanity committed abroad; a second Argentinean naval officer, Ricard Cavallo, was also prosecuted, following his extradition from Mexico, although he was ultimately extradited to Argentian to face trial there.
[x] Cassese, ' When May Senior State Officials Be Tried for International Crimes ?
[xi] Cassese, above n 77, 870-1; Summers, ' Diplomatic Immunity Ratione Personae n 89, 470-2
[xii] See Kolodkin, Second Report, p.56; ' The judgement in the Pinochet case having given an impetus to discussion on this issue, has not led to the establishment of homogeneous court practice'
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The author is a Postgraduate Student in the Department of International Law at Central European University, Budapest. He received his Bachelor in Law from London Metropolitan University (United Kingdom) and Roosevelt University (United States of America). In addition, he holds Juris Doctor/ LLB from University of London, United Kingdom. Article submitted by the author.
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