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CARACAS, Venezuela, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- A chronic newsprint shortage is causing premature demise of regional newspapers in Venezuela and forcing many news media outlets to leap toward digital publishing.
Publishers blamed bureaucratic red tape in the government of President Nicolas Maduro for preventing early release of foreign currency for newsprint imports.
Critics said at least some of the shortages might be deliberately engineered to control newspapers that have been critical of Maduro and, before him, former President Hugo Chavez, who died of cancer in March.
Shortages have in the past forced many newspapers out of business, including some that were frequently critical of Chavez's populist government style. Maduro has faced similar criticism.
Oil-rich Venezuela is in recession for a third consecutive year despite repeated government pledges economic recovery will soon begin. Central Bank data this week put the annual inflation rate at 45.4 percent, based on August figures.
The inflation is rated by Central Bank analysts as the highest in five years and the highest in the region.
A recent drop in Venezuela's consumer price index hasn't allayed popular fears about the economic and social impact of the country's inflationary spiral.
Author and Nobel Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, in an interview, denounced Venezuela's troubles as "a total disaster, a real chaos; where demagogy, corruption, and violence abound."
Vargas Llosa, a Peruvian, spoke at the international launch of his latest book, "El heroe discreto (The discreet hero)", Venezuela's El Universal newspaper reported.
The Organization of American States has served notice on Caracas that OAS, which has headquarters in Washington, will watch Maduro's performance closely, as it should, it argues, because Venezuela is an OAS member.
Vargas Llosa says he's worried Maduro is struggling to carry on Chavez's "messianic idea" -- a reference to the populist Bolivarian Revolution project -- with unimpressive results while the rest of Latin America seems to be improving.
He called Venezuela "tragic" and "a negative exception" to an optimistic outlook for Latin America.
"I'm afraid that Venezuela is rather the exception to the rule," Vargas Llosa said. "Nowadays, there are more countries in Latin America where democracy is developing, featuring modern economic policies which are leading to progress and development."
Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles said the government was carrying on with political rallies and marches while the nation faced galloping inflation and urban violence, one of the highest rates in the world.
Analysts say high government spending and little action on removing shortages is to blame for Venezuela's current problems. The Chavez administration lavished gifts on loyalist voters last year before the late president won a new term, which he could not complete. Maduro took over as interim president and in April won a hurriedly called election by a narrow margin against Capriles.
Six months on, the government has struggled to remove shortages despite maintaining a steady income from crude oil exports.
More than half the country's print media outlets may be within weeks of being silenced, news media reported. Publishers say a switch to digital and online publishing will not work as Venezuelans' access to smart phones remains limited because of the country's economic problems.


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And the battery too!
Safest thing to do is to remove what you can from the laptop Ram cover, Ram, HDD and the DVD/CD drive
Agreed Digerati and the reason why I said if tempted.
I would not use a hair dryer.
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Glad to hear that the issue appears to be resolved, can you post how it was resolved so that it may help others who are unfortunate enough to have the same or similar problem
Well, here we are, three days after she booted back up, and she reports things are back to normal with the screen brightness. If it flares up again, she's going to take it to the local tech-monitored repair-it-yourself place. Thanks for all your help with this! You can mark it as resolved.
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3-day Gaza cease-fire goes into effect after heavy Israel-Hamas fighting
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – A three-day cease-fire in the Gaza Strip has gone into effect following heavy Israel-Hamas fighting.
The cease-fire, announced hours earlier by the U.S. and the U.N., took effect at 8:00 a.m. (0500 GMT) Friday. Secretary of State John Kerry cautioned there were "no guarantees" that the lull would bring an end to the Gaza war, now in its fourth week.
Israel and Hamas both said they would respect the cease-fire but would respond to attacks.
At least four short humanitarian cease-fires have been announced since the conflict began, but each has been broken within a few hours by renewed fighting.
Hours before the cease-fire was to take effect, 17 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes. Israel's military said five soldiers were killed along the Gaza border the previous evening.


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Town of Tolland
Broadband Committee
Meeting Minutes: August 24, 2011
Meeting Called to Order: 3:10 p.m.
Present: Gloria Gery, Cathy Parzych. Excused: David Pickhardt
New Business:
Wired West is a Cooperative of rural towns in the 140-town area of Western Massachusetts where the Massachusetts Broadband Institute is providing "middle mile" fiber optic wiring to connect town libraries, schools, town hall and fire and police departments to broadband internet capability. This will be an open network that permits any "last mile" provider approved by the towns to serve residential dwellings, businesses and other town facilities.
Working under a Mass. State law on electrical coops, towns would form a board to manage broadband within the town.
Click here for an interactive map of the status of area towns vis a vis Wired West. Click on each town name to get a narrative.
Wired West is currently in its organizational phase with initial funding through private donations and a grant from Mass. Broadband Institute. It is educating communities and soliciting town memberships which require a $1000 joining fee and a 2/3rds majority vote by towns by residents at Special Town Meetings at two consecutive town meetings arranged for this purpose. Votes on Wired West warrants can be added to other scheduled town meetings. Priority to provide broadband will be based on the order in which towns enter the coalition. Long term primary funding will be solicited by Wired West through issuance of Bonds to be sold on the open bond market. If a town rejects membership in its initial vote it is not eligible to vote again for two years from the date of the last vote.
Wired West will offer advanced fiber optic cable network capabilities including much higher broadband speeds than the DSL lines or satellite internet currently available in Tolland. It will also permit dramatic residential savings through bundling voice, television and internet services to a residence (i.e. at least 50% less than current communications/television costs).
Broadband Committee will meet with Selectmen to discuss Wired West and its alternatives, requirements and consequences of Tolland's joining now to obtain priority for a network or later which results in delays. "Last mile" wiring can only occur after the "middle mile" fiber is laid along Route 57.
Broadband Committee will request an educational presentation in Tolland during the first two weeks of October 2011 to enable voters to understand the program, requirements of the town, and advantages and capabilities of the network itself.
Meeting adjourned: 4:30 p.m.
Next meeting date: TBD
Respectfully submitted:
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While ousted CIA Director David Petraeus eats dirt for his extra-marital affair, some people would like him to answer for much more serious crimes.
There is evidence that Petraeus, when he commanded US forces in Afghanistan, oversaw the intentional bombing of funerals and civilian rescuers with drones, which constitutes a war crime according to The International Criminal Court.
For years the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) has reported on the use of the double tap—a strategy used by terrorists that involves bombing a strike site multiple times in relatively quick succession to maximize devastation—and there are documented instances that Petraeus employed this tactic as CIA director.
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The story of an Italian-American's ascent from lowly putz to formidable mafioso is a well-worn cliché these days. Perhaps that's why 2K Games has surprisingly ditched its typical New York wiseguys in favour of an African-American protagonist and a New Orleans setting. Whereas previous instalments have focused on your ascent through the 'family', Mafia III hones in more closely on the inevitable conflicts that arise between rival criminal organisations. So, playing as Vietnam veteran Lincoln Clay, you'll assist the 'black mob' in its brutal battles against the local Italian mafia. More generally, a host of technical upgrades ahead of this current-gen debut distinguish Mafia III from its franchise forebears. Visual upgrades abound, while the slightly stiff combat of previous games has been refined. The result – in theory – is an altogether more convincing brand of mob justice.


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Harry Potter was a big let-down for me. I never even finished the series. The only redeeming feature it has IMO is that the author does capture something real about what it's like to grow up; I imagine that this is why so many pre-teens and teenagers identify with it so strongly. And its flashes of cheerful irreverence are likable too.
But the rest? Derivative, clumsily paced, often clumsily written, sometimes to the point of being downright irritating.


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Two sequential stories tell the downbeat tale of unhappy or unrequited love, without seeming to have any particular point in mind, and without keeping an unwavering standard of action or dialogue. In the first story, directed by newcomer María Gavala, a young woman runs away to Athens and experiences her first sexual encounter, writes home to her parents (a self-censored letter), and has a talk with a male friend who describes scenes from a porno movie he has watched. In the second story, directed by Thodoros Soumas, an aspiring novelist stakes out some territory near the house of the woman he loves, only to discover that she is not living alone there -- and is unprepared to consider competition for her favors.
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text: Hey all, I am new here and my name is Jay. I recently had some discussion in another thread which enlightened me to a few aspects of these forums in general. Unfortunately, this section seems to be cluttered and a few stickies seem to be outdated. Is there anyone that can point me in the direction of some good tutorials or guides that will help me learn/master self YouTube promotion and making money on YouTube? I am an up and coming artist who actually feels that my music and videos are top notch. Nevertheless, I am totally lost as to how artists like "Mac Miller" went viral. I not only want to do this myself, but I want to UNDERSTAND how just one video can get such a buzz and what a YouTube artist such as himself must have done to take that first leap. I do not want to link my video as I am sure it is against some TOS for these forums, but I would love to share my material if anyone thinks it may help them point me in the right direction (ie maybe my stuff sucks for viral). Thank you all for the anticipated assistance and I hope I can build a good relationship with you all to make some money! Current tools I am using: Tube Toolbox Vagex Enhanceviews (for self created comments and subs)


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This is a fairly simple process. Just make sure to avoid cutting or ripping the stock seat cover as you remove the staples that secure it to the seat pan. In most cases you can save a lot of time and money by reusing the seat cover. This will be more difficult if you accidentally put a bunch of holes or tears in it.
Remove the seat and check out how much seat cover you'll have to work with in the areas that you'll be modifying. Most modifications will focus on the drivers seat platform. Remember, the stock seat covers can be stretched, so you'll have a bit more to work with than may initially appear.
As you can see, the seat cover is attached using 1/2" or 3/8" crown, 1/4" long staples. Using your tack/staple remover, remove all the staples in the area you'll be modifying, if it's a one-piece seat as shown in the picture. If your working on the driver's seat of a two-piece seat, you'll have to remove all the staples so that you can completely remove the cover.
Be careful not to rip the seat cover under the staples with the tack puller as you pry them loose. Just get the tip of the tack puller under the staple a bit, and then pry it up by twisting it a bit. Don't try to jam the tack puller completely under the staple and then pry; you'll likely rip the cover sometimes doing this. Tip: If you need to sharpen the claws to slide under the staples more easily, just use a grinder to narrow them down a tad.
Do yourself, along with the people and pets you live with... and gather up the staples and throw them in the trash. Getting staples stuck in your feet (or paws) is a pain. If you have a wife, definitely make sure you do this.
After you remove the staples, take off the cover or pull it back far enough to give you plenty of room to work on the area that you want to modify. If you don't give yourself enough room, you can accidentally nick the cover with the grinder when shaping the foam. Then there is a hole in the cover, which sucks.
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Berlusconi protests innocence in naked photos scandal
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Red-faced Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi insisted on Friday he had nothing to fear after the publication of photos showing topless women and a naked man sunbathing at his island villa.
AFP - Italy's scandal-plagued Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi angrily insisted Friday he had nothing to fear after the publication of photos showing topless women and a naked man sunbathing at his island villa.
Berlusconi's lawyer vowed to sue Spain's El Pais after the daily published the pictures, which were among hundreds of photos that had been seized by Italian authorities after the premier filed a complaint to block their release.
The pictures were released on the eve of European Parliament elections in Italy, which could now serve as a test on the scandal's impact on his popularity.
But Berlusconi, already engulfed in scandal over his wife's decision to divorce him and his links to an aspiring teenage model, insisted that the photos were "innocent".
"I am not frightened. These are innocent photos, there is no scandal, but there has been an aggressive intrusion into my private life," he said on Italian public radio.
"The photos show people bathing in a jacuzzi inside a private property, something party guests were invited to do," he added.
One of the five photos published by El Pais shows the 72-year-old media mogul surrounded by several unidentified women -- in their clothes -- in the garden of his majestic villa in Sardinia.
Another shot features two women in string bikinis sunbathing topless, while another photo shows a naked man standing next to a woman laying next to a swimming pool. All the faces except Berlusconi's were blurred out.
"It's just not right for someone a kilometer away to interfere and start taking photos ... The right to a private life must have greater protection when important guests are present," Berlusconi said.
Berlusconi's lawyer, Niccolo Ghedini, said recently that the seized pictures included an image of a naked former Czech prime minister Mirek Topolanek, who denied the claim.
The publication of the pictures came two days after Berlusconi was placed under investigation for allegedly misusing his official plane to fly personal guests, including a flamenco dancer and a well-known singer, to his villa.
Public prosecutors in Rome had ordered the seizure of the photos after the Italian premier complained his right to privacy had been violated.
Ghedini told AFP on Friday he was filing a suit against El Pais.
"Prosecutors in Rome ruled that these photos were taken illegally, they are the result of an offence and cannot be sold. Anyone who buys them is also guilty of a misdemeanour," he said.
Juan Cruz, an assistant director at El Pais, said the newspaper was not aware of any legal action. When asked about the legality of the photographs, he said: "We consider (their publication) is in the public interest."
Berlusconi, who is hosting the Group of Eight summit next month, has lashed out at the foreign media's coverage of him in recent days.
He has taken his anger out on Rupert Murdoch after the rival media mogul's London newspaper The Times wrote an editorial titled "The Clown's Mask Slips," which said Berlusconi "must answer allegations of womanising."
A Berlusconi family newspaper, Il Giornale, denounced the foreign media on Friday in an article titled "Starlettes and lies: how they insult Italy."
Berlusconi is under pressure to explain his relationship with the 18-year-old, which also features in the row with his second wife, Veronica Lario, who has filed for divorce.
Marco Belpoliti, author of a book on Berlusconi, said the prime minister was "in great difficulty" as he was losing his grip on a political strategy founded on a tightly controlled image.
"Once immortal, he has become a mortal like other celebrities whose pictures are published in the people press," Belpoliti told AFP.
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A really small act is able to cheer you up and increase your productivity: changing your desktop wallpaper at least once a month. And that's simply because no one likes to fall into a daily routine (even with such a small thing), and if you keep the same wallpaper for too long, you'll just get bored.
Thinking about that, I've selected 35 gorgeous black wallpapers from my favorite websites. Some are photographs, some a illustrations, some are renders. But all of them will most definetely inscrease your satisfaction during work hours. So here's my selection, I hope you enjoy these. Cheers! ;)


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Michelle Obama visits Pakistan Embassy in DC
This was revealed when Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States Jalil Abbas Jilani happily shared pictures of her visit on Twitter with the rest of the world.
"It was an absolute delight hosting FLOTUS at Pakistan House today," Ambassador Jilani wrote in a Twitter post.
It was an absolute delight hosting FLOTUS at Pakistan House today pic.twitter.com/EHpfwRiiZP
— Jalil Abbas Jilani (@JalilJilani) May 28, 2016
Although, the reasons behind Michelle Obama's visit to the embassy are still not known, it is being speculated that it could have links with her 'Let Girls Learn' campaign.
As part of the campaign, the US First Lady last year had announced a contribution of $70 million for educating adolescent girls in Pakistan.
Read More: Pakistan confirms Mullah Mansour's death in drone strike
Her recent visit to Pakistan's Embassy has been happening at a time when ties between Pakistan and the US are going through a stressed phase after the US drone strike which killed the Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour in the Balochistan province of Pakistan.
Pakistan has already protested with the Obama administration over the drone strike which the US had termed a pure case of self-defence.


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Buffy Sainte-Marie, Tanya Tagaq collaborate on new song
Sainte-Marie wrote You Got To Run (Spirit Of The Wind), about an Alaskan dog sled racer
Two powerhouses of Canada's Indigenous music scene have lifted the curtain on a new collaboration.
Buffy Sainte-Marie and Tanya Tagaq paired for the track You Got To Run (Spirit Of The Wind), which has debuted online.
Sainte-Marie wrote the song about Alaskan dog sled racer George Attla who finished fourth in the inaugural Iditarod in 1973, and won the Anchorage Fur Rendezvous 10 times. His story was retold in the 1979 film Spirit of the Wind.
The singers joined together as part of a series of collaborations organized by the brain trust behind the Polaris Music Prize.
Both Sainte-Marie and Tagaq are former Polaris winners. Sainte-Marie grabbed the 2015 award for Power in the Blood,
while throat singer Tagaq's album Animism won a year earlier.
Tagaq says the song's theme suggests "you can't let things bring you down," which she says could also be interpreted as an anti-suicide message.
Canada's Indigenous communities have been wracked by youth suicides amid calls for action to address the crisis.
- This story previously stated that George Attla won the inaugural Iditarod in 1973. In fact, he finished fourth.Feb 22, 2017 9:40 AM CT


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Thursday, February 17, 2011
(NaturalNews) Some members of the 112th U.S. Congress are seething with anticipation over a new billed they have crafted that would give the government the power to shut down the internet in the event of a "cyberterrorist" event. Created by Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), and Tom Carper (D-Del.), the "Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset" bill threatens not only free speech and the free flow of information and communication, but also access to independent health news sources like NaturalNews.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) banded several others in Congress to introduce a bill last month to pave the way for what many say will be the imminent reintroduction of the Kill Switch bill into Congress. And many advocates of free speech and privacy are decrying the efforts as a massive attempted takeover of humanity by the federal government.
"This (bill) is all about control, an attempt to control every aspect of our existence," said Christopher Feudo, a cybersecurity expert and chairman of SecurityFusion Solutions, an internet security consulting firm. "I consider it an attack on our personal right of free speech. Look what recently occurred in Egypt."
The new bill is reminiscent of the attempted FCC takeover of the internet several months ago (http://www.naturalnews.com/030647_W…). That initiative failed, but those in positions of power seem to have their eyes dead set on restricting the internet in any way they can, because it is the last remaining bastion of free speech not yet completely taken over by the Feds.
Proponents insist the bill is not a "Kill Switch" and that it will have specific checks in place to preserve "freedom," but opponents are not buying it. Even without the bill, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has already begun randomly seizing the domains of websites for which it disapproves (http://www.naturalnews.com/030542_c…).
If you value free access to the internet, and to websites like NaturalNews, be sure to contact your Congressmen and urge them never to support the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset legislation, should it be reintroduced in the near future.
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A clash between Saracens and Northampton Saints leads BT Sport's Aviva Premiership coverage this weekend.
The league leaders Northampton travel to Allianz Park in north London to take on Saracens, who they beat 24-20 in last year's Twickenham final.
These games are always hotly contested, and with crucial points up for grabs, this encounter promises to be no different.
Northampton - who suffered a surprise 24-18 defeat at home to Exeter Chiefs last week - are now just two points clear at the top.
They have 26 points from seven games, having won five and lost two league matches so far.
Just behind the leaders, a trio of teams - Exeter, Bath and Saracens - are locked together on 24 points.
This means a win for Saracens - who drew 21-21 with Leicester Tigers last weekend - could see them leapfrog Northampton at the top of the table.
BT Sport viewers can watch Saracens v Northampton Saints on BT Sport 1 at 1pm on Sunday November 23rd.
Straight afterwards, at 3:15pm, viewers can watch Leicester Tigers take on struggling London Welsh at the Kassam Stadium in Oxford.
Leicester will take encouragement from their draw with Saracens, having experienced a difficult start to the season - by their own high standards at least.
The Tigers will be aiming for a comfortable victory against promoted Welsh, who have found it difficult to adapt to the rigours of Premiership rugby.
The Exiles have just one point from their first seven games, and lost heavily again last time out against Wasps (71-7).
Before Sunday's double-header, BT Sport viewers can enjoy a Friday night contest between Harlequins and Sale Sharks.
Both sides won last time out, with Quins beating Gloucester 22-15 and Sale Sharks seeing off London Irish 36-8.
The game, which will be played at Twickenham Stoop, kicks off at 7:45pm and will be shown live on BT Sport 1.


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Customer outrage as fave pub chain Wetherspoons announces big change
PUB giant Wetherspoons revealed it is making a major change – and customers are not happy about it.
The budget boozer is set to axe its popular £29.99 three-course Christmas dinner this year, just months after it said it would discontinue its traditional Sunday roast.
Rather than tucking into a turkey with trimmings meal, people can instead order a yuletide beef burger, turkey pie or a vegetarian Wellington at one of its 956 pubs.
There will also be stuff like turkey salad wraps and turkey and bacon panini available on buffets for Christmas work parties.
"Wetherspoons will not be serving a 'traditional dinner' in its pubs this year"Spokesman Eddie Gershon
According to reports, a source said: "It was bad enough the aggro we got from our customers when we took roast dinners off the menu.
"Now we are expecting a full scale mutiny when they find out about this.
"It has been a traditional part of Wetherspoons life since we founded in 1979 for all our loyal customers to come and have their office parties or family groups enjoy a turkey roast dinner with us each year.
"But this will put a damp squib on it for many when they find out that there will be no traditional roast on offer this year."
The chain's spokesman Eddie Gershon told The Sun: "Wetherspoons will not be serving a 'traditional dinner' in its pubs this year.
"However our pubs will still be serving a range of Christmas meals, all day, every day from November 15 to December 22 inclusive.
"A number of high street restaurant operators don't offer a Christmas roast but do offer meals that are Christmas-based and Wetherspoons is taking a similar approach."


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Eva Green interviewed her famous mom for Paris Match. Eva says that Joy was the one who insisted that Marlène wrote her biography and that she didn't know that her mom had such a difficult childhood. Ms Green was also surprised to read about her mom's former boyfriends, the ones that she dated before she met Walter Green in 1976, and to know about Jobert's career in details. She says that she'd like to be lighter and funnier like her mom and Marlène says that her daughter is funnier than she gives herself credit for and that she should be able to use that side of hers in Tim Burton's next film.
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Eva Green
Her magnetic allure is the key to her inscrutable sensuality. She's gorgeous, fragile, and utterly irresistible
You needed a really special woman to irremediably break James Bond's heart: an inscrutable woman able to convey contrasting sentiments such as fragility, determination, fear, sensuality, desperation and mystery with just a glance. That would be Eva Green, the actress who played Vesper Lynd, the great love of Daniel Craig's 007. Hers is not a stage name, but she followed in the footsteps of her mother, the French actress Marlène Jobert. "In the beginning, my mother kept telling me not to choose this career because it is a cruel world and I'm very fragile. Perhaps I was also afraid of being compared to her, not only in terms of a mother-daughter relationship, but also on a professional level." When you meet Eva for the first time, you are struck by her beauty and by her magnetic allure, those slightly guarded smoky eyes, dusky voice, and disarming shyness. "I know I'm vulnerable, extremely shy and insecure. I feel I can only truly express myself when I'm acting."
Discovered by Bernardo Bertolucci, who launched her in the film The Dreamers in 2003, Eva became internationally famous with Casino Royale. It was, in a certain sense, an opportunity that turned out to be a mixed blessing. It made her one of the most famous and unforgettable Bond girls, but it also transformed her, despite herself, into the femme fatale archetype that every director wants. That is why she is twice as happy today to be the heroine of the action fantasy flick 300 – Rise of an Empire. In it, she is Artemisia, the warrior queen thirsting for revenge. It is a very virile and physical role. "I like having to handle a sword and fight like a man. What girl wouldn't be happy to be a man for at least one day?" But that was just an interlude because Eva has gone back to being the dark, sensual, and enigmatic actress that we were accustomed to seeing on the screen. Whether it is on TV, with the series Penny Dreadful where she is Vanessa Ives, an unsettling girl from a good family possessed by evil spirits in Victorian London, or in the movies as Ava Lord, "the dame to kill for" in the next Sin City, Eva is quite the irresistible femme fatale.
Source: Vogue ItaliaBy Maria Grazia Meda, excerpt from Vogue Italia, September 2014, n. 769, p.348 Published: 09/15/2014 – 07:00
By Dennis Dermody
White Bird In A Blizzard
Gregg Araki's latest is a moody, melancholic, spellbinding movie based on the novel by Laura Kasischke. Set in 1988, teenage Kat (Shailene Woodley) is dealing with her mother's (Eva Green) mysterious disappearance one day. Time passes with no word from her and she gets by living with her sadsack dad (Chris Meloni), hanging with her friends (Gabourey Sidibe & Mark Indelicato), seeing a shrink (Angela Bassett), sometimes screwing her dim but criminally cute neighbor (Shiloh Fernandez) and hooking up with the hot investigating detective (Thomas Jane). But she is haunted by dreams of her mother. Eva Green (seen in flashbacks straining furiously to break the bonds of her oppressive married live) is frighteningly good. Araki's spot-on use of period music and dreamy cinematography give the film a haunting Mysterious Skin-like vibe, which serves it wonderfully.
Read the rest of the list HERE.
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Gregg Araki talks about White Bird in a Blizzard and working with Eva Green (at 6:30 mark).
By Fred Topel
Director Greg Araki discusses the psychology of his female characters and looks back on 'The Doom Generation' and Sundance in the 1990s.
Would a woman like Eve be diagnosed today as depressed?
I do think that she's definitely depressed.
Maybe even bipolar.
Yes, possibly bipolar. I just saw her character as being a very tragic figure in the sense that if you think about when she grew up, she grew up in the '50s and '60s. Her role models were Jackie O, etc. Eva Green and I talked about these old school Hitchcock movie star heroines that were always these glamorous, like the perfect wife, the perfect mother. Shai's character talks about it a little bit in the film. That was her only option. She didn't have an option of become a doctor, travel the world or do this. It was just you're going to get married and have kids. He character itself to me was very tragic in the sense that she had no choices in life and so found herself in this existence that was for her, soul crushing.
How did you approach photographing Eva Green as the '80s homemaker?
She's just the most amazing actress in the world. Eva was only 32 when we made this movie. In the film, there's young Eve and there's older Eve, so when we were casting, it was like we could cast an older actress and try to make her look younger for her younger scenes. Or we could cast a younger actress and try to make her look older. When you see Eva, when she's young, the scene in the restaurant where she's like this glamorous kind of movie star character, when she's getting married and she's like this radiant bride, that's what Eva Green looks like. When she would show up on set, we did minimal makeup on her. No prosthetics, nothing. It was literally just all of her acting. She just showed up and she was this withered, sad, kind of tragic figure. She's just amazing.
Read the rest of Gregg Araki's interview HERE.
Source: CraveOnline
Here are some more reviews on Eva's performance in White Bird in a Blizzard. Click on the Source links for the full film review.
Green most certainly enjoys playing the more over-the-top roles, and this is another one to add to the collection. She's absolutely engrossing on screen, as we just can't keep our eyes off of her crazy antics throughout the course of the flashbacks.
– Jeff Nelson for DVDTalk, White Bird in a Blizzard
Also stellar here is, unsurprisingly, Eva Green, Hollywood's boldest actress and White Bird in a Blizzard's enigmatic conflict-catalyst, a troubled woman lashing out against domestication while losing her mind.
– Matt Barone for Complex, Permanent Midnight: Shailene Woodley, Eva Green, and More 'Week Two' Fantasia Film Festival Highlights
Green plays up the hysteria in Eve's voice and performs in a scene-chewing manner that leads up perfectly to a character meltdown.
– Allyson Johnson for The Young Folks, Ally's Movie Review: White Bird in a Blizzard
The flashbacks are explosive bouts of emotion, with Eva Green snarling and spitting venom as only Eva Green can….and the melodramatic showcase for Eva Green as a housewife spiraling out of her mind in a loveless marriage and joyless life is filled with fireworks you cannot take your eyes off of.
– Mike Shutt for Rope of Silicon, 'White Bird in a Blizzard' (2014) Movie Review
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By Hillary Weston
"I'm very shy and awkward, so playing all these characters and taking on these different roles from myself makes me feel alive and gives me blood," Eva Green tells me when I ask about the mysterious and darkly seductive roles she's known for in contrast to the person she is off-screen. "I'm breathing and alive when I'm acting, and I'm confident when I'm acting—I'm not always in real life." But for the alluring French actress, her intense sensuality and cunning intellect have made her one of Hollywood's most sought after women, from her breakout role in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers and her turn as a bond girl in Casino Royale to starring on Showtime's Penny Dreadful and her latest role in Gregg Araki's White Bird in a Blizzard.
Starring Green alongside Shailene Woodley, Araki's film (King of Teenage Doom) takes us back to the late 1980's to tell his dark suburban dream, based on Laura Kasischke's novel of the same title. In White Bird, we follow Kat (Woodley), a 17-year-old girl whose emotionally unstable mother, Eve (Green), vanishes mysteriously one afternoon. Caught up in her newfound sexuality and exploration of desire and emotion, Kat represses the confusion and anger of her mother's haunting disappearance, as her father (played by Christopher Meloni) continues on with his life in the shadow of Eve's absence.But as the story unravels, we're given insight into Eve's life, with surreal flashbacks and snow-covered dreams, revealing the natural of Kat's uneasy relationship with her mother and how deeply miserable Eve was in her caged-in life as a homemaker.
And although she is but a mere decade older than Woodley in real life, Green manages to elevate her Mommie Dearest-esque character to someone untethered by time, a ghost haunting their lives. Wonderfully theatrical while not going entirely over the top, Green plays up the ugliness of Eve's alcoholism and anger to age herself, adding a sense of hyper-melodrama akin to one of Fassbinder's women on the verge. So with White Bird in a Blizzard now out on VOD and in theaters next week, I stole some time with Green to chat about her fears about playing Shailene's mother, her ability to make herself invisible, and acting inside a dream.
As a new actor to the world of Gregg Araki, how did you become involved in the film?
I remember I was in Bulgaria doing the 300film and my agent was like, "My god, you need to look at this I'm sure you're going to love this." And then I just really loved the story, and it was so unusual and frustrated and it had such a great conflict with the daughter. I was very moved by it, so I said yes straight away!
Had you been a fan of his past films?
Yeah, I remember I saw Mysterious Skin in the cinema when it came it. It was dreamlike and very tormented. There's something in his films that are a bit David Lynch in a way. Seeing the film in the cinema I remember it was like a dream and fucked up and I loved that very much. His other films are all teenage trashy bonkers funny and this one, White Bird, I find more grown up. It's in another category of its own.
How was the experience of turning in this character and playing a woman who was written significantly older than you? Did you read the book to get of the feeling of who she was?
When I found out my daughter would be played by Shailene, I was like, oh my god! It's a bit unbelievable; we look more like sisters. But Gregg was like, don't worry, it's a bit surreal and you'll have another hairdo. I was worried that it would not be believable, so I loved her journey. You see her young in her 20s and then it ages me. But I tried to portray that aging more in her character. She's an alcoholic and her body changes and her voice changes, so it was a challenge.
She only exists in these surreal memories and in flashbacks, so in a way she felt ageless.
Yes, yes.
There's something about your character that also felt out of time and very rooted in melodrama, like she belonged to films of the past, in opposition the natural cool of the teens.
It's true. She's kind of a mixture of a lot of women. She could have been a movie star but she didn't fulfill her dreams and got trapped like a bird in a cage. Sometimes it felt like, am I going completely over the top, a complete alcoholic kind of thing, but Gregg allowed me to go there because it was a dream. You have all these teenagers and they're cool and I had the excuse of being in a dream.
You've worked with a lot of great directors, but what was the experience like working with Gregg Araki?
In the beginning it was a struggle to find the money for the film and then the actors. But it's nice that this film was made all with heart, and Gregg is very open and he's so passionate. He's like a child on set, with this passion and he's so loving. He's really all about who these characters are and the story. It's all fun. There's no judgement or games or bullshit. It's pure joy and we all loved it.
How was Shailene as a co-star and daughter?
I was intimidated at first. I thought, oh god am I going to measure up? Is this going to believable? But Shailene was so great and she calmed me down and made me feel confident. She was very supportive. She's very wise and very mature, an old soul. And she's also very aware of the world and extremely bright and amazing.
Looking back on the roles you've played, there's been a lot of characters that fall into the darker, more dramatic realm. Do you tend to gravitate towards these roles or do you find that people approach you for them because that's how they perceive you as an actor?
You take what you find, but I am always looking for something that's complex and something that's interesting. I also don't want people to put me in a box of one character also. So I always hope people have enough imagination. But I am always drawn to something complicated. It's jubilating in a strange way, but you also have to be careful.
Do you find that you're a much different person off-screen and not the mysterious woman we often see you play?
Oh, yeah. No one ever really recognizes me really. I take the tube all the time and it's fine. I can make myself invisible, I have that power. I'm also very shy and feel so awkward that playing all these characters and taking on these different roles from myself makes me feel alive and gives me blood. I'm breathing and alive when I'm acting and I'm confident when I'm acting. I'm not always in real life, but I would like to be. So I think I'm very different for sure.
What are you working on now?
I'm going to Ireland to shoot the second season of Penny Dreadful. I get to play a very gifted and fabulous character. It's an interesting character and one of the most interesting I've gotten to play. She's in the dark but she's fighting to get to the light and she goes through such an amazing, rich journey.
Source: BlackBook
Here are some more reviews on Eva's performance in White Bird in a Blizzard. Click on the Source links for the full film review.
……She's matched in intensity by Eva Green, who is such a delicious mess as Kat's mentally unwinding mother that I missed having her on screen.
– Scott Feinberg for scottfeinberg.com, Sundance Review: White Bird in a Blizzard
As I've already harped on, the casting in this movie is brilliant. Just imagine Eva Green as a misanthropic housewife, someone who would be jealous of her daughter's looks, because she's getting old. This is a woman whose chest was too hot for a Sin City 2 poster, and that's precisely why it works so well. Eva Green embodies Eve Connor, the miracle homemaker turned miserable, listless drunk, with a husky voice and a sliver of the possessed version of her Vanessa Ives character in Penny Dreadful, and it's arguably more terrifying to find her in 1980's suburbia. Eva Green is as magnetic an actor as there is working today (is there a more interesting one? Envision a movie that costars Green and Adam Driver…), and her absence is felt as much as her overwhelming presence in this one.
– Andy Greene for Popinsomniacs, Film Review: 'White Bird in a Blizzard' and Shailene Woodley Subvert Expectations
……current vamp-for-hire Eva Green, meanwhile, is all stylized hauteur, as if playing Joan Crawford under Todd Solondz's instruction. (She's pretty great, in other words.)…….Her mother Eve (Green) has no such reticence, posing at every given opportunity in slinky, ridge-shouldered femme fatale dresses and flirting lasciviously with local boys. (She extends a dinner invitation to one, cooing that she makes a mean "crab thermidor" — Green says the words as if offering sex on a popsicle stick. It's the most delicious moment in the entire film.)
– Guy Lodge for HitFix, Review: Shailene Woodley and Eva Green spark in disappointing 'White Bird in a Blizzard'
Christopher Meloni and Eva Green do just as strong work as Woodley. Eva Green continues her streak of manic strong women here in the role of Woodley's mother Eve. Green's over the top delivery works well here as a protrait of a mother who's looks are fading as fast as her atrophy for the life she lives is growing inside of her. To see something as deranged as 300: Rise of an Empire and White Bird in a Blizzard and how she is able to gel into both perfectly is a testament to her prowess as a performer. Both films show that Green appears to be just beginning a very interesting and arresting career……The final moments between Meloni and Green are as heartbreaking as one will see this year.
– Adam Kautzer for FilmDispenser, White Bird in a Blizzard – Film Review (2014)
Eva Green took on the role of the disappearing mother, Eve. As always, Green was amazing and managed to make herself feel present on screen even though she was not the lead. Ever since I saw her in The Dreamers I can't get enough of her!
– Nina Chabel for Montreal Rampage, Review: White Bird ina Blizzard at Fantasia
Here are some more reviews on Eva's performance in White Bird in a Blizzard. Click on the Source links for the full film review.
French actress Green, an underused talent, has always had something crazed behind her large, popped eyes, a ferocious energy that serves her well here as a woman disappointed by life and content to rage against it until everyone in her wake is as miserable as she is.
– Beth Hanna for Indiewire: Thompson on Hollywood, Sundance Review: 'White Bird in a Blizzard'
Eva Green goes deliciously unhinged in Gregg Araki's latest!
– Peter Debruge for Variety, Sundance Film Review: 'White Bird in a Blizzard'
Because it must be said—Eva Green isn't exactly the star of 'White Bird,' but she gives one hell of a performance. With the small running time she's in, she doesn't just chew up the scenery, she devours it whole (including every actor that shares space with her). Her vicious maw is as staggering as her talent threatens to overshadow everyone who dares to come across her path……All in all, "White Bird in a Blizzard" is worth seeing for Eva Green's performance alone, and to experience the dreamlike quality of Gregg Araki's individual, highly unique vision of cinema.
– Chase Whale for Indiewire: The Playlist, Sundace Review: Gregg Araki's 'White Bird in a Blizzard'
Eva Green's performance is unbelievable. She's intense, beautiful and creepy at the same time. Her face, her voice and attitude transpires so much, how come this woman does not have an Oscar? Or is not a goddess in a Marvel movie?
Green walks a fine line between composure and lunacy, although the director pushes her to one or two over-the-top moments.
– Todd McCarthy for The Hollywood Reporter, 'White Bird in a Blizzard' : Sundance Review
|11 September 2014
|Deauville Film Festival
|25 September 2014
|Video on Demand / Limited Release
|26 September 2014
|Vancouver International Film Festival
|15 October 2014
|16 October 2014
|London Film Festival
|24 October 2014
|7 November 2014
|12 November 2014
|20 November 2014
White Bird in a Blizzard will be shown during BFI's London Film Festival next month which runs between October 8-19.
- Director Gregg Araki
- Producers Pascal Caucheteux, Sebastien K. Lemercier, Alix Madigan-Yorkin, Pavlina Hatoupis
- Screenwriter Gregg Araki
- With Shailene Woodley, Eva Green, Christopher Meloni, Gabourey Sidibe
- 90 mins
- UK distribution Altitude Film Distribution
As soon as the Cocteau Twins' shoegazing 'Sea Swallow Me' kicks in over the luminous haze of the opening credits, it's clear we're in Gregg Araki territory, and with his latest creation the New Queer Cinema alumna continues to explore his favourite obsessions; sex, mortality and adolescence. An impressionistic adaptation of Laura Kasischke's novel, the film follows Kat, a sexually adventurous teen dealing with the fallout from her mother's unexplained disappearance. Battling her own teenage crises, Kat must make sense of her broken family, and face the dark realities that exist at its core. Styled with a dreamy sense of hyper-reality, and featuring a deliciously unhinged performance from Eva Green, White Bird in a Blizzard is every bit as formally exciting as we would expect from Araki, and every bit as rebellious in its examination of the agonies and ecstasies of young adulthood.
– Michael Blyth
Here's the screening schedule during the festival:
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8:18 a.m. A 1990 Chevy truck was reported stolen in Snow Bowl Plaza. The truck has not been found, according to the Steamboat Springs Police Department.
10:46 a.m. A man was reported walking with a chainsaw and yelling at people in the 2900 block of Whistler Road. Police said he wanted to have a yard sale, which is not allowed in his townhome complex.
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Beverage giant PepsiCo (NASDAQ:PEP) has been struggling under the weight of its underperforming beverage unit. The division has anecdotally been hurt by a consumer shift away from carbonated beverages, a trend that has had a similar impact on competitor Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO). The challenge of finding top-line growth in the current environment has led to a difficult period for PepsiCo's stock price, evidenced by a below-market 5% gain over the past 12 months.
Nevertheless, at least one investor sees gold in the company's mix of brands, activist investor Nelson Peltz and his Trian Fund Management. He has been trying to force a split of PepsiCo's snacks and beverage units for some time now. Management, though, has been fighting a split, believing that the two halves of its business provide synergies and cross-selling opportunities. So, should investors bet on some upside for PepsiCo?
What's the value?
Along with Coca-Cola, PepsiCo is a dominant player in the global beverage business, primarily through its trademark Pepsi carbonated-beverage brand. In response to changing consumer behavior, the company has also wisely broadened its beverage offerings over the years, adding major positions in the energy and fruit juice segments, including its Gatorade and Tropicana brands, respectively. In addition, PepsiCo has diversified its revenue mix by building a complementary snacks business, a segment that currently accounts for roughly half of its total sales.
Not surprisingly, PepsiCo's financial results were pretty tepid in its latest fiscal year, highlighted by a 1.4% revenue increase that was negatively affected by a sales volume decline in its key North American beverage business.
On the upside, though, the company generated a sales volume increase in its higher-margin snacks business, which enabled it to engineer a slight pickup in its overall adjusted operating profitability. The net result for PepsiCo was continued strength in its operating cash flow, helping to fund new product development across its brands, notably Tostitos Cantina chips and Mountain Dew Kickstart soda.
Another data point
Of course, things aren't much better over at Coca-Cola, a competitor that is wholly dependent on the beverage business. It generates roughly three-fourths of its revenue from carbonated beverages, including nearly half from its trademark Coca-Cola brand. While Coca-Cola eked out an overall sales volume gain in its latest fiscal year, it posted a sales volume decline in its key North American carbonated-beverage business, which capped its top-line revenue growth.
More importantly, the company's increasingly apparent inability to attract higher volumes of customers to its sugary carbonated beverages has management thinking outside of the box. This led to its recent partnership with Keurig Green Mountain to develop a cold-beverage machine, a deal that is designed to give Coca-Cola a prime position in the at-home market.
A better way to go
With a share position estimated at less than 1% of PepsiCo's shares, Trian seems to have an uphill battle in its fight to split up the company. Thus, investors need to evaluate PepsiCo as an integrated enterprise, an exercise that should reveal a highly profitable company that is weighed down by weak growth for its beverage business, especially in the carbonated-beverage area.
Given the preceding discussion, investors looking for growth in the beverage business should probably follow Coca-Cola's example and target opportunities in the fast charging at-home space, like SodaStream (NASDAQ:SODA). With annual sales of roughly 4.4 million machines, the company is the king of the at-home carbonated-beverage segment, primarily selling its products through 60,000 retail partners in 45 countries around the world.
In its latest fiscal year, SodaStream continued to follow its top-line growth trajectory of the past few years. It reported a 29% increase that was aided by double-digit growth in sales of both its machines and related accessories, mostly refill cartridges and flavor packs. The company's operating margin was negatively affected by the costs of expanding its support network in key markets, notably the U.S. But SodaStream remained net cash flow positive during the period, which allowed it to continue building a solid global infrastructure without taking on debt.
That infrastructure will be increasingly critical, given SodaStream's obvious size disadvantage in marketing spending relative to the beverage giants, and will hopefully help the company to maintain its momentum and leading position in the global at-home market.
The bottom line
PepsiCo likely has a conglomerate discount, as Trian has alleged. But unlocking that potential value will be a neat trick given management's unwavering opposition. As such, investors are left with the prospect of going upstream with the whole enterprise, a trek that is probably fraught with more risk than reward.
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Blow on A Dead Man's Embers – Mari StrachanPosted in Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction on May 14th, 2012 by admin – 8 Comments
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My Rating – 4.5 stars
I thoroughly enjoyed Mari Strachan's first novel, The Earth Hums in B Flat, set in rural Wales in the 1950s with its unforgettable 12 and a bit narrator, Gwenni. Blow on a Dead Man's Embers is set in an earlier era, it is 1921 and Non (Rhiannon) knows she should be relieved to have her husband Davey safely returned from the Great War where so many perished. Davey might be physically present but Non worries about his emotional and mental state and she is determined to "fix" him and make him whole again even if it means subterfuge on her part.
This is such a beautifully written story peopled with vibrant, interesting characters. I felt like I really got to know Non and her step-children including the quiet, reticent Osian and the wilful, teenage Meg. I felt immersed in the intensity of the interminable heatwave assailing the small Welsh village and its inhabitants and the fact I was also brought up in a tiny, remote village made the characters resonate with me even more. Life is hard, the laundry is never-ending but there is little for it but to just get by the best one can. However it's not all doom and gloom and comic interludes are provided by Maggie Ellis, the village gossip (my village still has one like her!) and Non's dour mother-in-law, Catherine Davies.
As well as the stifling ambiance of village life we have the global issues of love and loss, post-traumatic stress disorder, dementia, autism, the struggle for Irish independence, medical advances, women's rights, the growth of the Labour party. Change is coming whether the villagers like it or not.
Mari Strachan has a knack of engaging the reader almost immediately, drawing you into this other world, immersing you in another era - highly recommended particularly if you enjoy excellent storytelling in a rural setting. I'm really looking forward to seeing what Mari comes up with next.


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Imogen Pearce - Teaching, General Teaching Projects in Costa Rica
After travelling for 28 hours with two stop-overs in America, I was relieved to have arrived at Liberia airport in Costa Rica. Here I was met by a member of the Projects Abroad team and driven to my home for the next four weeks. The journey from the airport to my host family was fascinating. Although it was rainy season in Costa Rica, it was a very hot and sunny day, horses were at the side of the roads and it was completely different to any place I had been to before. I instantly loved it.
My host family
When I arrived at my accommodation I got to pick my room as the other volunteer staying in the house hadn't yet arrived. It was comforting to know that another English speaking person would be staying with me as I soon came to realise that my host family didn't speak any English and I only knew a few words in Spanish. Although the language barrier was a bit challenging to begin with, I soon felt comfortable- it was as if they were my own family. I lived with 2 host parents, their son, their dog and another volunteer from America.
My host family were lovely people and so warm and welcoming. They really tried to communicate as much as they could and when we didn't understand each other, we laughed!
My Teaching project
Once I had settled in, I started my two week teaching placement at a nearby school. The children at the school were very happy and caring and really keen to know about my own culture. They all had different levels of English and learning abilities, which proved to be very challenging at the beginning. However, I soon found that by using a variety of big expressions, written work and games, I could cater to their different needs. Flash cards were particularly useful when testing how well the children remembered things.
When the two weeks had finished, I started a two week summer project. In the mornings all the volunteers did painting work. The boys painted a volleyball pitch and the girls painted a wall of a nursery. This was really fun and rewarding. In the afternoon I taught English at a summer school to children aged 6-10 years old. Again, their English abilities varied and, as they were younger, they needed more engaging activities to stay focused. I really enjoyed my time at both projects and loved the fun that I had with the children.
Travelling in Costa Rica at the weekend
When not working at my placement, there were plenty of opportunities to plan weekend trips with the other volunteers. It was a chance to relax for the weekend and have fun with new friends from all over the world.
On the first weekend around 15 of us crossed the border in to Nicaragua. The beaches there were beautiful and we learnt how to surf. Other weekend trips included Samara (a relaxed beach town), Montezuma (a hippy town with gorgeous beaches, lots of monkeys and waterfalls), Tamarindo (a party town), Monteverde (for the Cloud forest and zip lines) and La Fortuna (for Volcan Arenal and hot springs).
All of the places I visited I loved, but the company of the volunteers made the trips even more enjoyable! I would definitely recommend allowing travel time at the weekends and following your placement to travel. I was with Projects Abroad for four weeks and then had ten days travel time afterwards. If I did the project again I would plan to do the project for an extra month. I felt my adventure ended too soon. I really loved my time in Costa Rica. Pura Vida!
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Kotaku - You play both Dead Space games at a time when the world has already gone to shit. Just about everyone's dead, and the place is a mess.
But in designing the world of Dead Space, it was handy to see what things were like before the bad stuff went down, when people were breathing and working and smiling and not crawling out of air vents trying to eat you.
I love getting to see cool behind-the-scenes stuff like that; it's pretty amazing what can go into a game's development that you never consider.
The art is based on events surrounding the first dead space.
We can see the USS-Ishumura being built in one of the shots. Also that planet being mined is Aegis 7 and the guys in armor are colony miners.
If you have seen DeadSpace Downfall, then you would know that one of those miners wive was the reason the virus spread out on Ishumura.
There are also pictures of later events from Ishumura such as the people with masks on their faces, they were Unitoligists who sacrificed themselves to evolve into necromorphs. Then some shots from inside the Ishumura after the incident occurred.
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Well, Hello Fall. Welcome To Vancouver!0
My boy is in bed and I am sitting here with the table lamp and the dining room light on and I realize that this is a sure sign that….fall has come to Vancouver. There is no longer any evening sunlight pouring through our (many) condo windows and a change is here. The thing is, I don't actually hate it. I really love living somewhere where the seasons truly change and you have to rotate your wardrobe accordingly; time to fish out the sweaters and put away the flip flops. I get a little excited thinking about upcoming seasons but usually by the end of them I am ready for the next one.
Fall means it is time to burn scented candles in the evening, take warm baths and maybe make a pot roast. Fall also means it is time to haul out the umbrella (just in case!) because you never know when you will need it. A true Vancouverite will not mind being caught in a slight downpour here and there. Getting wet is part of living on the west coast. Vancouver dwellers will have an umbrella stashed somewhere nearby at all times. In their purse, in the trunk, in their pocket (?)!
All this umbrella talk leads me to the real reason behind this blog post. People of Vancouver: please, please remember your umbrella etiquette. This also goes for visitors to the city of Vancouver and I mean this in the nicest way. Like a public service announcement of sorts.
If you are the person who walks down the city sidewalks with your gigantic golf umbrella you need to read on. You see, I understand all the advantages to having the most gigantic umbrella but there is no place for these in the city. The sidewalks are crammed and huge umbrellas are more than awkward. Go and read what Gumdrops had to say about umbrella etiquette. Click HERE. It is like they read my mind! My only additional tip is this: if you happen to be out and about on a rainy afternoon with your girlfriends, do not walk next to each other across the sidewalk while individually using your umbrellas. This will cause much fury and pedestrian anger and battle of the umbrellas will naturally commence.


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East Kent Light Railway
Born in great optimism this railway was the only outcome of numerous plans for railways and collieries in the newly discovered Kent Coalfield. Conceived to carry coal it soon reverted to a truly rural railway with a heavy coal flow for a few miles at one end. Holman Stephens was engineer from inception, subsequently becoming director and manager. Running from Shepherdswell to Wingham with an intermittently operating branch to Richborough Port it opened in 1911 with a passenger service from 1916.
Services ebbed away with the final passenger trains in 1948 and progressive closures back to Tilmanstone Colliery over the next 3 years. The line shut with the colliery in the 1980's. Enthusiasts have reopened the remaining line.
A Short History
The East Kent Light Railways (official title) were unusual even by Stephens' standards. The plural title is appropriate for it involved no less than 40 separate statutory railways designed to serve an extensive coalfield, and associated facilities, even though they largely failed to materialise. The amount of work involved for Stephens in surveying, planning and obtaining Light Railway Orders was huge for which he was underpaid, indeed in large part unpaid. Largely through Stephens personal efforts in building, or partly building, a few of the railways, a very lightly built line emerged. This usefully served one working colliery and did a great deal to encourage horticultural business in the area until that traffic was stolen by the road. It must however be concluded that the line was, for Stephens at least, a lost effort.
Coal had been found deep under Kent during trial borings in 1882 for an abortive channel tunnel pilot heading. Numerous collieries were planned over an area roughly bounded by the Channel, the Great Stour river and a line from Canterbury to Folkestone. Trial borings encouraged investors, often of French origin, to speculate vast sums of money. Several companies were formed in Edwardian times to exploit this resource, but the dominant proponent and proposer was one Arthur Burr, who was eventually exposed as a crooked charlatan. Shaft sinking for the planned collieries took many years, as worthwhile deposits were only found around 1500 ft. below the surface and geological conditions were far from easy.
The EKLR was promoted by a Burr company, Kent Coal Concessions Ltd, in 1910, who contracted to build the line. The primary line was intended to directly connect the coalfield to a new coal port at Richborough (sometimes called Sandwich Haven). However difficulties of finance and construction and the need for materials to build two of the first collieries at Tilmanstone and Guilford caused the line to commence from Shepherdswell on the L&CDR Dover-London line. Shaft sinking had been retarded until the arrival of the railway, due to the extremely detrimental effect of the transport of machinery and lining bricks on the local, un-metalled, lanes. Such was the urgency that a temporary line was thrown into use by October 1911.
A financial crisis in late 1913 brought further work to a halt, with only the lines to the collieries in full commission following the completion of Golgotha tunnel in October 1913. The Burr empire of companies finally collapsed in near scandal during 1914 and with the coming of the Great War in August further work was impossible.
In 1916 the railway company assumed direct control of its construction from the Burr enterprises. Hard work by Stephens, by now Managing Director and Engineer, permitted the public opening of the first part of the line from Shepherdswell to Wingham colliery to passengers and goods on 16th October, together perhaps with sections of the line towards Sandwich for goods. The Wingham line was extended, unofficially, half a mile to Wingham Town in 1920. By 1922 however both Wingham and Guilford colliery works had been
abandoned together with their connections.
A further extension followed to Wingham, Canterbury Road, which, together with the section from Eastry to Sandwich Road, was officially opened in 13th April 1925, although the extremely sparse service to Sandwich was abandoned by 1928. The line to Richborough was a low priority given that the port had been effectively sealed off by the military for the duration of the Great War and by ensuing difficulties with the subsequent owners. The full story of Richborough Port can be found here . No further extensions, including that to Canterbury, proved possible.
The EKLR was originally conceived by Burr as a network of lines in East Kent linking in most of the proposed collieries to Richborough and proved a failed enterprise. The failure of the Burr empire, the Great War and the rivalry between the few successful collieries and their owning companies, ensured that the EKLR was never fully realised. At least nine proposed collieries were planned and only four came to fruition. Of these four, Betteshanger built its own line rather than use the adjacent and authorised EKLR line, and Snowdown and Chislet were already served by main lines. In the event the EKLR only served one productive mine, Tilmanstone. Richborough Port was a failure. The line finally opened was solely due to Stephens efforts in using very limited resources to part finish, and usefully extend the line. It must be said however that the standards he was forced to use made for the simplest, perhaps too simple, forms of construction, notable for crude platforms and minimal facilities. It also acquired a varied collection of locomotives and carriages. The EKLR had become a truly rural light railway with a heavy coal flow for a few miles at one end between the Tilmanstone colliery and the SECR main line at Shepherdswell.
One of the minor mysteries of all this activity was the perceived need to seek Light Railway Orders and hence Board of Trade approval for use as public lines. An early decision to construct the lines as purely industrial enterprises would surely have been cheaper. However public policy was to press all lines built at that time to offer a public service to provide the widest possible benefits to the community.
When Colonel Stephens died in 1931, he was succeeded as General Manager by his long-time assistant W.H. Austen, who served until nationalisation. His period in office initially saw a tidying-up and some rationalisation of activities, together with a badly needed rebuilding of the engine shed, finished in 1938.
British Railways took control on 3rd May 1948.To reduce losses all passenger services, which had carried virtually no passengers after the withdrawal of colliery workers trains in1930, were withdrawn without ceremony on Saturday 30th October 1948. With the once extensive horticultural traffic having been lost to road, total line closures soon followed. The Richborough branch closed officially on 1st January 1950 but seems to have continued till the Wingham- Eastry line closed on 25th July 1950. This was followed a few months later by Eastry-Eythorne on 28th February 1951. From then only colliery traffic to and from Tilmanstone continued until 1st March 1984 when Tilmanstone colliery ceased production, that line being officially closed on 24th October 1986.
Website: www.eastkentrailway.com
Further reading:
The East Kent Light Railway. V Mitchell and K Smith. Middleton Press. 1987.
The East Kent Railway, Two Volumes, M. Lawson Finch & Stephen Garrett, Oakwood Press, 2003.
See Also Topics articles
Change at Shepherdswell: How Golgotha Tunnel Came About
East Kent Railway Carriages
Locomotives of The East Kent Railway
Dismantling The East Kent


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Hello all, Earlier this year i was diagnosed with anxiety, and up until I had never realized it existed. All of a sudden I started having trouble making decisions when it came to literally everything. Everything made me completely overwhelmed to the point that I just would get frustrated and not do it. I couldn't go pick up items from the grocery store without the confusion of which kind, brand, count etc to get. Everything in life I'm indecisive about. I always feel like I'm going to be late to work, or appointments , meetings with friends..so I arrive about an hour or more earlier to everything. I hate being alone, to the point that I circle my apartment checking behind doors, re checking my locks, jumping at every noise and sleeping with lights on. I've never been robbed, no recent deaths in the family or anything that I can think of that could've brought this on. I feel like I'm constantly worrying my mother, friends and my girlfriend to babysit me..because I need someone around all of the time. My Dr. put me on Citolapram and trazodone which made me have severe suicidal thoughts..so he prescribed me cymbalta. I started on 30mg, then 60mg..but still there's days that I'm just terrible. I spend my entire day re checking locks, listening for any sounds, thinking something bad is going to happen all day every day. It's very tiring , and it really sucks not knowing what brought this on. Any recommendations? Please keep rude comments to yourself, I deal with enough frustration as it is.
Anxiety taking over your life too???
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- 27 November 2016
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Hi, Peace! Ask your doctor about adding a medication specifically for anxiety, like Buspar.
More than two thirds of people taking medications for anxiety/depression have to try a number of drugs and drug combinations before finding what works best for the individual. This is not like aspirin ~ one size fits all. The only medication that will work for you is the medication that works for YOU.
Please be forewarned and cautious if the subject comes up of using benzodiazepines (Valium, Klonopin, etc.). While very effective, they are highly addictive if used without discretion.
Let your doctor know exactly what's going on with you, especially since you're pretty much maxed out on Cymbalta. There are plenty of other depression/anxiolytic medications available.
I send best wishes and good luck! Wildcat
P.S., You'll find very few rude people on this site! :-)
Hey, thanks a lot ... I will re visit my doctor next week to discuss some of your ideas. My doctor recommended seeing a psychiatrist because he thinks the me re checking locks is a sign of OCD. I'm just unsure where this came from. Thanks for your feedback , I wish you the best
@WcV: What is your dosage of buspar, if you don't mind me asking?
That's okay. I take 50mg daily ~ 25/25. That's a pretty strong dose because I'm very drug resistant, but the divided dose keeps me calm during the day and allows me to sleep normally through the night.
Buspar has been effective for me also. I take my last dose in the afternoon. If I take it too close to bedtime, it keeps me awake at night.
HI Peace-
I am sorry you are having to go through this :( Maybe going to a therapist to find out where all this is coming from may help you. A complete physical by a doctor to check thyroid/glucose levels or anything else that may be triggering it would be a good idea. If you do not go to a psychiatrist that maybe something to check into.
Unfounded fears can stem from many things and left untreated may compound your symptoms. I am not going to tell you to use or not use benzodiazepines. There is pros and cons with the benzos.I had many of the same symptoms you are having. I have PTSD and a short term dose of a benzo helped me a lot. Just know that they are prescribed to not take more than what your doctor ordered and hopefully short term use. They have helped many to get past the side effects of their antidepressant meds and or helped them clear their head long enough to seek other modalities that may help.
Try to be an informed patient, read up on your meds that are prescribed.
Be kind to your self during this trying time. There are many other meds that may help. I know it sucks to keep having to try different meds, but hopefully you will find one that works. Be patient and know that others have walked the path you are walking.
May you find what works for you soon :)
Hey Janie , when I go see my physician hopefully he will prescribe me some benzos. I'm prescribed Ambien bc my anxiety keeps me up at night . I take them during the day sometimes . ..to just fall asleep bc I need some peace of mind at times and the only way I get it is when Im asleep. I will definitely consider your advice. Thanks for your reply , and may peace be with you
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Connie Penner writes under the name, C.P. Hoff.Connie grew up as a gypsy. Well, she could have been a gypsy if her family could have afforded the damned wagon. Her parents were pragmatic and raised her not to believe in aliens, but Connie is not convinced that aliens don't believe in her.She now lives in southern Alberta with her husband, children, and dog, Mrs. Beasley (who has a dubious reputation). She has written for the local paper, which might be impressive if she lived in New York, and if anyone read the local paper.Now that Five Rivers has taken on her first novel, she is thinking of purchasing a pipe and a smoking jacket.


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If you're coming late the party then you might not know that it is "Holy Week." We're celebrating and reenacting and remembering all of the events that happened the week before Jesus died and came back to life.
Today (Thursday) has lots of names. Some of us call it Maundy Thursday. Often it is referred to simply as Holy Thursday. I have even heard it referred to as Sheer Thursday.
Whatever you decide to call it, today is the day we remember the events that happened the night before Jesus died on the cross. The account of Holy Thursday is very familiar to most of us. Even for those of us who aren't super religious or may not go church very much, we have a pretty good idea what happened on "this day" in the Holy week.
Jesus celebrated the Passover meal with his disciples. He washed their feet and told them to wash each other's feet as well. He enacted the Lord's supper by breaking bread from the table and offering up a cup of wine calling them His body and blood. He told his disciples to remember Him each time they broke the bread together and shared in the wine. He called out Judas and predicted his betrayal. He gave them the commandment to "love one another as I have loved you."
So each year we remember and celebrate that day and the events that took place.
But each week we take time to celebrate and remember The Lord's Supper, The Last Supper, The Breaking of Bread, Communion. (We really are not satisfied in the Church unless we name and rename and have more names for each event in the Bible.....)
We listen to Scripture read, we maybe hear a short devotional thought on what Communion is, we bow our heads solemnly and very reverently take a tiny bite of a wafer or a piece of bread and we drink a tiny sip of grape juice and we remember that Jesus gave his body and shed his blood on the cross so that we could have forgiveness and eternal life and salvation through Him.
And I am glad we do that. Trust me, I'm glad. It's by far my "favorite" part of the service. I need that weekly reminder to draw my heart back to the Cross. That's the central focus of my faith and without that short time set aside for The Lord's Supper each week I would not so easily remember what Jesus did.
But Communion in our church, in most church buildings and among most church families, looks like a ritualistic time of sacrament more than it does a meal.
When Jesus first gave the example to his disciples, they were gathered around a table. They were already enjoying the Passover meal together. There were cups of wine on the table just as there would have been for almost every meal and certainly for every Passover meal. There was bread on the table just like there would have been for every supper together. And Jesus took what was there, used a common food and a common drink and gave his disciples a new way to remember Him once He was gone.
He knew He was about to leave them. He knew they would forget his sacrifice, and they would need to be reminded all the time. So he made sure they would have a simple way to reflect back on His death on the cross and remember His new covenant.
In Acts we know that the disciples were continually meeting together and breaking bread together. They were continually (daily? more than daily??) meeting together with the Church, sharing in meals together, sharing bread, sharing wine, and remembering Jesus....continually.
Jesus was the topic of conversation around the supper table. I imagine when the women were baking the bread they were thinking about Jesus and how his body broke on the cross. When someone started pouring the wine, they were telling and retelling the story of Jesus' blood being poured out and how terrible his death was and how grateful they were for his sacrifice.
Picture it. This is what communion was. That is what communion is.
It's important we remember that Jesus was using common elements that were easy for his followers to understand, common elements like bread and wine.
I don't mean to say communion isn't holy and that it isn't sacred and that it isn't special. It is. Paul said in 1 Corinthians 11:27 that whoever eats and drinks it in a unworthy manner will be guilty of the blood and body of Christ. It is holy. It is sacred. It is special.
But I don't think it was ever intended to be *just* a mere moment of silence during our worship services where we have a pinch of bread and a sip of wine. It has to be more. We have to guard our hearts that it not become a mere religious act.
My husband and I were talking recently about how some churches and some people don't let their children partake in communion until they are baptized or until their children fully understand the weight and meaning of communion. I would encourage you, if you have children that you begin to share the Lord's supper with them. Baptized or not baptized, old or young, whether they understand its meaning or not. As parents we make sure our children partake in lots of acts before they fully understand their meaning. We make them start brushing their teeth long before they understand the concept of a cavity, we tell them we love them before they are old enough or mature enough to grasp the abstract concept of love, and we prompt them to say please and thank you years before we begin to teach them what those manners and expressions of gratitude really mean.
Our 1 and 3 year old sons take communion with us and we simply tell them to say "Thank you, Jesus, for your body." and "Thank you, Jesus, for your blood."
Jesus said to let the little children come to Him and do not hinder them for His Kingdom belongs to such as these. (Matthew 19:14)
This was a meal that Jesus used to encourage and build up and strengthen his followers. I truly believe He meant for all of his followers then and all of His followers to come to remember His death and His sacrifice. To be continually reminded so that we wouldn't forget. I don't think, judging from what we read in the gospels and in 1 Corinthians and in Acts that what is BEST for us to is limit The Lord's Supper to a few brief moments, to a pinch and a sip, and to ban and bar our children from partaking in it, even if that's the way we are used to doing it. Even if that's the way we've always done it. Because that isn't the way it's always been done.
Maybe this Thursday we could decide that we want to partake in the Lord's supper together with our family. Maybe we could decide to start baking bread or buying bread and juice to have at our meals at home on Sundays or Saturdays or Tuesdays. Maybe we could think about forming the habit of taking bread and juice or wine to the next church potluck in lieu of our cake and casserole so that when we meet together to have that meal, we as a church family could break the bread and drink the cup and remember Jesus. Maybe we could start searching our hearts and start asking ourselves if we would like to begin including our children in the Lord's Supper on Sundays, even if they might not fully grasp its meaning. (Maybe we don't fully grasp its meaning either....)
Let's not waste this "Holy" Thursday by just reading our familiar Bible text and have a feel-good moment about Jesus washing our feet.
Instead, let's change and grow in at least one tiny way, let's remember Him, actually REMEMBER HIM and find a way to remember Him more often.