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U.S. DRONE OUTPOSTS ALL OVER AFRICA: Obama Says There Is Only 1! There Are More Than 50! MORE LIES, More Genocide & More Bad PR For The United States! See The African Drone Map Inside! GOPers & Dems Tell US What They Want Us To Think & What We Will Believe, Not The TRUTH! Today You Are Going To Find Out What AFRICANS Think About US DRONE OUTPOSTS (That's Plural, Prez Obama!) When You Lie To US, Tabacco Exposes The Truth! Go Ahead, Mr. Prez, Keep On Lying To US! At 73, What Else Have I Got To Do That's As Important! To Grandparents & Parents: Those War Killer Video Games, That Your Offspring Love So Much, Desensitizes The Little Ones To Brutality & Murder So That They Grow Up And Do 'The Real Thing' Once The Pentagon Gets Its Claws On Them! (ATTENTION GOP: REFUGEES ARE NOT TERRORISTS!) When Drone Operator 'Robots' Return Stateside, They Suffer A Deep Seated Guilt Complex (PTSD/Posttraumatic Stress Disorder) And/Or They Do The Same To Their Loved Ones! Why? PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT!
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NICK TURSE: Well, just this morning—you know, it's not something I reported on, just something I've been following on the news—we see that Kenyan forces that we've been backing have set up extensive smuggling networks in Somalia. They seem to have been putting down roots themselves in bases. I noticed that one of them is Kismayo, where the U.S. is supposedly flying drones out of and has a special operations base. That's now apparently a smuggling hub for the Kenyan military, in league with the terrorist group al-Shabab. They seem to be working in concert to smuggle sugar. There's also been charcoal smuggling in the region. So—and this is a force that the U.S. has been backing. And yeah, the U.S. has funded the Kenyans so that we wouldn't have large numbers of troops on the ground. Continue reading
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OBAMA'S KILLER DRONE WAR FAILURES Exposed By 4-Former Air Force Drone Operators! Drone Operators Refer To Children On Their Screens As, "Fun-Sized Terrorists" & "Cutting The Grass Before It Grows Too Long" Just Before They Murder These Kids. Whistleblowers Risk Prosecution For Outing Drone Kills Of Innocent Civilians, Not Just The Targets. Those 'Collateral Damages' FUEL GROWTH OF TERROR! Why These Air Force Vets Want Drone War To Stop! How PENTAGON Exploits Your Juveniles' Video Game Culture To WIRE YOUTH FOR DRONE WAR: America The Beautiful! See New Documentary 'DRONE'! This President Asserts His & America's Humanity While He Commits GENOCIDE Comparable To Hitler's Nazis Rather Than Real War On Terrorists – If There Is An Anti-Christ, It Must Be Barack Obama! Soldiers Commit SUICIDE Only If They Believe They Have Just Cause – Obama Gives Muslim Terrorists 'JUST CAUSE'! Terrorists Are NOT The Only Ones, Who Train Children To Commit Murder – America Does It Too – And In Your Name! Have We Forgotten My Lai? PTSD!
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TABACCO: Because his middle name is 'Hussein', Republicans used to call President Obama a 'Muslim' – they call him that no longer. Even Opportunist Republicans realize that tactic is ridiculous. You might as well call Hitler a 'Pacifist'! Together, Bush & Obama have murdered Million$ of Innocent Muslims in the name of 'National Security'! If you believe that Excuse, you are equally as Guilty of the Genocide of God's children.
JESSELYN RADACK: They're taking an enormous and very brave public risk in speaking out. I have clients in the national security and intelligence communities, who have done nothing more than tell the truth about some of America's darkest secrets, like torture and secret surveillance—and now, in this case, drones—and those clients, a number of them, have been prosecuted under the Espionage Act—and Edward Snowden, of course, another one, is living in exile—not because they've done anything wrong or even revealed classified information, which they're not here to do today, but because they have embarrassed the U.S. government. All of these men—a number of them, half of them, have complained internally, to no avail. They have gone through internal channels.
And we're hoping that today, by going public, that this will have more of an influence in the debate, because somehow there's a complete disconnect between these terrorist attacks in Paris and elsewhere and the fact that the drone program has fueled ISIS and al-Qaeda and a number of terrorist groups, and that really needs to be addressed.
MICHAEL HAAS: Yes, the term "fun-sized terrorists" was used to just sort of denote children that we'd see on screen.
AMY GOODMAN: What was it?
MICHAEL HAAS: "Fun-sized terrorists".
AMY GOODMAN: "Fun-sized terrorists"?
MICHAEL HAAS: Yes! Other terms we'd use would be "cutting the grass before it grows too long", just doing whatever you can to try to make it easier to kill whatever's on screen. And the culture is—that mentality is very much nurtured within the drone community, because these—every Hellfire shot is sort of lauded and applauded, and we don't really examine who exactly was killed, but just that it was an effective shot and the missile hit its target. Continue reading
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IRAQ VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR! The US Commanders-In-Chief (George W. Bush & Barack Obama)/Congress/Mainstream Media/Supreme Court/War Profiteer Corporatists Have Declared OPEN SEASON On Muslims In OPEC Countries & Our Own Soldiers, Who Fall Short Of Their Sole Function As KILLING MACHINES! Litany Of Fallout From Military Service At Home In USA Includes Mental Illness (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: PTSD or Combat Stress Reaction: CSR), Drug Abuse, Homelessness, Joblessness, Suicide, Murders, Wife Beating, Illegal Gun Carrying, And (God Forbid) Asking For Military Help For their Infirmities & Crimes!
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Democracy Now! "On the 11th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, we take a look at the invisible wounds of war here at home. Since the war began on Oct. 7, 2001, less than a month after the Sept. 11th attacks, at least 2,000 U.S. soldiers have died. Some 2.4 million U.S. soldiers have served in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the psychological toll of the wars is mounting. Last year, the Veterans Administration treated almost 100,000 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and soldier suicides reached an all-time high this year. In Colorado Springs, the commanders at Fort Carson have come under scrutiny for its handling of mental health concerns, with a 2010 joint NPR-ProPublica investigation finding that as many as 40 percent of Fort Carson soldiers had mild brain injuries missed by Army health screenings. Meanwhile in 2009, the Colorado Springs Gazette published a startling series called "Casualties of War", written by our guest, investigative reporter Dave Philipps. His book, "Lethal Warriors: When the New Band of Brothers Came Home", shows how a wave of violence swept across Colorado Springs when the 506th Infantry Regiment, known as "the Band of Brothers" returned home from their first tour in Iraq. We are also joined by Georg-Andreas Pogány, a retired Army sergeant who is now an independent veterans' advocate and investigator, and Graham Clumpner, an Afghanistan War veteran and Colorado regional organizer for Iraq Veterans Against the War. Democracy Now! is on the road, broadcasting from Colorado Springs, the home of five major military installations — Fort Carson, Peterson Air Force Base, the U.S. Air Force Academy, Schriever Air Force Base and the Cheyenne Mountain Air Station." Continue reading
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Stefanie Bingham's Reviews > Green Eggs and Ham
Green Eggs and Ham
by Dr. Seuss
by Dr. Seuss
Stefanie Bingham's review
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Jan 19, 2009
bookshelves: picture-books
You can use this book to help students to be willing to try new things. But it is also a fun book with lots of rhyming words and fun pictures. Dr. Seuss is a great author!
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Immigration, energy, politics, and education affect every American almost everyday. Our speakers will help to clarify key concerns on each of these domestic pressure points and provide insights into what the future may hold.
February 22: Judith Gans, "Immigration: A Complex Balancing Act"
Immigration has become one of the most contentious and complicated issues for the United States, particularly in states along the U.S.–Mexico border. Judith Gans will look at immigration in the context of current law and global political and economic realities. What tradeoffs are involved in formulating an enforceable immigration policy? How can we promote a reasoned dialogue that avoids simplistic formulations?
Judith Gans is program manager for immigration policy at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at the University of Arizona. Her areas of expertise include U.S. immigration policy, economics, and Latin American development policy. She holds an M.A. in Public Administration from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and an M.B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles.
March 8: Tyler Priest, "Peak Oil Prophesies: Cassandras, Cornucopians, and the Struggle to Define Our Energy Future"
The United States faces increasing competition for energy resources in today's global economy. What policies should be considered to guarantee our supply? Where are our greatest vulnerabilities? Tyler Priest will discuss the impending peak in world oil production and its policy implications for the United States.
Tyler Priest is director of global studies in the Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston. He is a specialist in modern business, globalization, and the history of U.S. foreign relations. His current research focuses on the history of offshore petroleum. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
March 15: Sean Theriault, "Political Polarization"
In the 2006 elections, voters sent a sharp message to Congress: end the political polarization that was undercutting hopes for progress on major issues. Has voter retribution changed the way Congress behaves? Are we seeing a more centrist and cooperative approach to legislation? Or is the majority party continuing to use patronage and procedural techniques as weapons against its political opponents?
Sean Theriault is an assistant professor in the department of government at the University of Texas, Austin, where he holds a fellowship appointment to the J. J. "Jake" Pickle Regents Chair in Congressional Studies. His current research focuses on party polarization in the modern Congress. He received the President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award in spring 2006. Dr.Theriault is the author of The Power of the People: Congressional Competition, Public Attention, and Voter Retribution and numerous journal articles and book chapters.
March 22: Linda McNeil, "From 'Savage Inequalities' to Unimagined Possibilities: Educating Our Children for a Global Age"
Without an educated populace, no nation can thrive. But all too often, we are failing to educate our children adequately. We have never had more that we could teach our children, and we know more now about how they learn than ever before. The time is right to re-imagine the education that our children need. What should be done?
Linda McSpadden McNeil is professor of education and co-director of the Rice University Center for Education, an organization for research and teacher enhancement in urban schools. She has written extensively on educational equity, policy, and the growing dropout crisis and is the author of Contradictions of School Reform: Educational Costs of Standardized Testing (Routledge, 2000).
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Today, though, the challenge is to write about your snow day reading list. I feel like there's a few different ways this could be interoperated in a few different ways. My way is going to be what I'd recommend someone spend a snow day, or two, reading.
First off: KJ Charles. I haven't read all of their work yet, and some of it is problematic, but it's also just snuggle down and read some slightly ridiculous historical romances, as it should be.
And, as always, I feel like a classic of a winter day is Harry Potter. I think if you follow me anywhere online, you know my love of HP, so I'm not going to continue more. (If you don't: I regularly go to HP conventions and have two tattoos, I'm holding myself back for your benefit).
However, another really good idea for a snow day reading list, I feel like, would be long as hell books. So you can just sit down, with one book, and try to knock it out, or at least a large chunk of it. The first one that comes to mind for this one, for me, is IT by Stephen King, a favorite of mine, and while a good chunk of it takes place in summer, there's one scene in particular that takes place in the winter that'll stick with you.
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Fiction, 100 min. Panama 2019.
Writted and Directed by: Abner Benaim.
An Apertura Films (Panama) and Barracuda Films (Mexico) production.
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Funds: DICINE, IBERMEDIA, Berlinale Coproduction Meetings. VFF Highlight Pitch
Award. Developed in EAVE and Jerusalem Film Lab.
Ruben Blades Is Not My Name
Documentary, 88 min. Panama 2018.
Witten and Directed by Abner Benaim.
An Apertura Films (Panamá), Gema Films (Argentina) and Ciudad Lunar (Colombia) production.
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With the support of: TVN (Panama), Caracol TV (Colombia) and COPA Airlines
Funds: IBERMEDIA, INCAA, DICINE
RUBEN BLADES IS NOT MY NAME is a portrait of one of Latin America's most important singer/ songwriters. For more than half a century, his songs have seeped into the collective consciousness, and soul, of Latin America. This film explores Ruben's story, his legacy, and how he deals with being the man and legend he is.
Documentary, 27 min. Madrid, Spain 2016
Written, Directed and Produced by Abner Benaim.
A *Micasitafilms* (Panama) production.
Premiered in IFF Panama 2016.
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Julio Zachrisson, an aging Panamanian artist, has lost his sight and his career has come to an end, but his vivid memories and passion for life prevail. Zachrisson is a documentary portrait about finding comfort in a life well lived.
Documentary, 94 min. Panama, 2014.
Written and Directed by Abner Benaim.
An Apertura Films (Panama) and Ajimolido Films (Argentina).
World Premiere: IFF Panama. International Premiere: IDFA (Holland).
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Awards: Best Documentary IFF (Panama), People's Choice IFF (Panama), Best Director IFF (Miami), Best Caribbean Film FICBAQ (Barranquilla), Best Documentary (Malaga) Best Documentary (Biarritz), Best Documentary (San Jose de Costa Rica's Festival), Best Documentary CINEMA TROPICAL (New York).
Festivals: SXSW, True-False, Miami IFF, Cartagena IFF, It's All True, Huelva IFF.
Commercial release in Panama with more than 55,000 spectators in theaters.
Represented Panama for the Oscars Awards for the category of Foreign Movies.
With the support of: IBERMEDIA, DICINE, INCAA, Doha Film Institute.
"Everyone has their own version of the invasion." That is film director Abner Benaim's point of departure, because ultimately everyone has their own subjective memory of the events that took place in Panama between Christmas and New Year of 1989 – when American troops deposed dictator Manuel Noriega, killing an unknown number of civilians in the process. Invasion is Benaim's attempt at a collective reconstruction. Instead of hashing out historical facts, he gives credence to Panama's vox populi. Although the exact death toll remains unknown, witnesses describe streets strewn with the bodies of civilians. Benaim reenacts these memories on location, knowing full well that even if the accuracy of what he's filming is questionable, the pain it expresses is quite true. Panamanians from all walks of life hammer out their doubts and certitudes of what happened: did the "gringos" bring democracy or destruction? Was Noriega a victim or a villain? Was he an anti-Imperialist or a CIA accomplice gone rogue? Was it about drug trafficking or arms dealing, or perhaps neither? Or does it really just boil down to the fact that the U.S. wasn't ready to relinquish control of the Panama Canal? These questions, many of which go intentionally unanswered, constitute the first Panamanian attempt to reconcile with a national trauma that many Panamanians have been all too eager to forget.
Documentary, 64 min. Panama 2010.
Written, Directed and Produced by Abner Benaim.
An Apertura Films (Panama) and Barakacine (Argentina) production.
World Premiere: IDFA, Mid Length Competition 2010.
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Festivals: HOTDOCS, London IDF, EIDF (Korea), Open City London, Afi Silver, et al.
With the support of: IBERMEDIA, INCAA, Jan Vrijman Fund.
The front doors of the expensive houses and apartments in Panama, where families and their domestic staff sometimes live together for many years, hide a world of ignorance and prejudice. Maids and Bosses uses smoothly edited atmospheric shots and interviews accompanied by music to create a picture of the complex relationships between employers and their staff. A variety of women and girls explain how as young girls they said farewell to their rural lives (and sometimes their own children) to work far away from their native region as a nanny or domestic. They talk of the long hours, difficult work, low or unpaid salaries, unjustified accusations, and even abuse. In turn, the employers complain about their employees' unreliability or lack of skill. Nevertheless, the women sometimes live with a single family in their home for many years. This inevitably leads to close personal ties, and there is sometimes a sense of fondness, but they seldom bridge the chasm between the social classes.
Fiction, 90 min. Panama 2009.
Written, Directed and Produced by Abner Benaim.
An Apertura Films (Panamá) y Río Negro (México) production.
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Festivals: Huelva, La Habana, Guadalajara, Chicago, Moscow, Montreal, Lima, Sao Paulo and Cairo. Best Script Award Best Skip City (Japan).
Commercial release in theaters with more than 500,000 spectators in the region.
With the support of: IBERMEDIA.
Scheduled on HBO USA and Ibermedia TV
This hilarious comedy tells the story of Toña and Paquita, the housekeepers for the aristocratic González-Dubois family. These domestic employees have been mistreated for quite some time and they are tired of their situation. So when the family plans a shopping trip to Miami, the maids have a plan of their own; to take control of the mansion. Unexpectedly, they will also discover a family secret.


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Completed Objectives
Disaster Looms
Aug 30th
Posted by Brett in California
Hey Team,
After a long hiatus from crossing stuff off the list thanks to one scheduling failure after another spanning most of the country I finally feel back on track after today.
I packed up the goods (mostly corn meal, sugar and a bucket) and met up with Dr. Tiki at an undisclosed location (well into international waters where it is completely legal to make moonshine) and spent about an hour setting the stage for our undoing.
I purposely chose the simplest moonshine recipe I could find that still seemed to follow all the basic rules, reasoning that there would be less opportunities to screw it up. There's no way of knowing whether or not we managed to do just that anyway for another few days but suffice it to say, despite there really only being three steps involved in this little procedure the most common phrase to pass through the lips of both the good doctor and I was:
"Wait…hold on…what do the instructions say?!"
It's almost guaranteed to be a disaster. And I'm not just saying that because basically we're trying to make a poison that the human body wants to reject anyway nor because it will practically by definition taste horrible; I'm talking More >
Is Horse Feed Really a Good Idea Anyway?
Aug 29th
Posted by Brett in California
Hey Team,
I've been reading quite a bit about moonshine lately since I've recently decided I don't want to poison myself like so many ill-advised hillbillies before me. As a result I felt pretty confident when I set out this afternoon to hunt down some grain for the "mash" to start the fermentation process. A quick half hour to and from the Tack and Feed store and I'd be set. Easy. Amazon.com Widgets
Here's the thing. Nothing is ever easy in my world. (Of course I wouldn't have it any other way. Where would the fun be in that? And where would I get all these ridiculous stories from?!)
When it comes right down to it, even after HOURS of researching moonshine making techniques and recipes, all I really knew was that the recipe I had decided to use (because it looked simple) recommended a five gallon bucket of "MannaPro Hi Grain sweet feed."
I have no idea what that means.
"Hi. Do you guys sell, MannaPro Hi Grain sweet feed?"
"What's that?"
"I thought you were suppose to take it from there. I don't even know what the words I just said mean…I'm just on an errand for my aunt." Ha! That'll throw them off the More >
#3 Sleep in a Lighthouse! [podcast]
Aug 25th
Posted by Brett in Completed Objectives
Hey Team,
The much delayed/ballyhooed podcast featuring your's truly's adventure in a lighthouse is here! Check it out.
"Amtrekker travels to Frankfort, MI to sleep in the 150 year old Point Betsie lighthouse (one of the most photographed lighthouses in America). Watch as he offers up a Cribs style tour of his overnight digs!
Hip-Hop ensues."
And here's the YouTube link.
I'm done.
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Aug 16th
Posted by Brett in Geocache in all 48 contiguous states
Hey Team,
Lots of news…how to make it all interesting…? Oh well, I guess I'll just use the same approach I use in life. Jump in headfirst and hope for the best. 🙂
This week was the week I finally killed Oregon's status as one of the few remaining states on the list I need to geocache in thanks to a little help from Superfriend Katy and a spontaneous roadtrip to Crater Lake National Park. What a beautiful place, the water is SO crystal clear and pure. I don't care how many amazing Caribbean beaches or out of the way lagoons you've been to, you've never seen anything like this. (My camera is out of commission for the duration of the trip but Katy took plenty of pictures that I'll be able to share in the near future.)
Making it down to the water isn't the nature walk I expected it to be though. It was actually very similar to the first 1.5 miles from the top of the Grand Canyon. It was steep, dry, dusty and hot…and MUCH more crowded. In fact it's probably a pretty good barometer for hiking the GC. If you manage Crater Lake and think you can do More >
#50 Hike to the Bottom of the Grand Canyon! [podcast]
Aug 1st
Hey Team,
Obviously my self imposed deadlines have been a joke since I bought the Greyhound bus pass. BUT, never fear…the videos are still coming. I just get fewer opportunities to team up with Charley and get them done lately.
Oh, look! Here's one right here! Handy.
"Team Amtrekker travels to the Grand Canyon National Park on a three day journey to the world's most famous hole in the ground!
Immense beauty and heavy breathing ensues."
AND, as usual…here's the youtube link.
I'm done.
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#3 Sleep in a Lighthouse!
Jul 27th
Posted by Brett in Completed Objectives
Hey Team,
Charley is having some charging issues this week and it's making life very difficult when it comes to updating the site so I hope you guys don't mind the delays in new content. (Because I freaking HATE it!) I'm taking him to the hospital (a.k.a. Apple Store) this afternoon but before I do that I wanted to get an exciting post up.
It seems one of the countries best kept secrets (right up until you read this) is North Western Michigan. I don't know what the area is like during the wintertime and that always scares me (you all know #4 on the list of things I hate is "cold weather") but while I was hanging around the Frankfort, Crystal Lake, Pt. Betsie area I was greeted by nothing short of an extra large helping of beautiful.
But to skip to the point (Get it? Oh man…that's a good one…), my second night in the area brought me to the Point Betsie Lighthouse, where thanks to Jen and Amy, I was given the grand tour of this 150 year old piece of Michigan history (by Jay) before being left to my own devices.
My "devices" in this case seemed to consist mostly of my More >
Frank's Fort
Jul 24th
Hey Team,
I made it to Frankfort, MI, no joke, named after a guy named Frank that used to own a Fort here on the bay. Apparently everyone used to say, "Hey let's go meet at Frank's Fort." (I was assured I wasn't being screwed with on this point.)
Regardless, I've made it to the next destination, I've seen the lighthouse I'm sleeping in tonight and I've already met some incredible people. It's such a great cap to an otherwise crappy week. Right now I'm even less excited about the lighthouse than I am to continue to spend time around people that are eager to share their lives and their town with me.
This is an amazingly diverse town but not in the usual sense of the word. The area may even rival Pigeon Forge, TN and Branson, MO for high levels of weird. Not that same kind of "quirky show and tourist trap" weird that they have in those towns but there does seem to be an awful lot of tourism here.
In this case I keep getting driven around the lake while Andy, the guy who was generous enough to pick me up at the bus station an hour from here and More >
Geocaching Attack!
Jul 22nd
Posted by Brett in Geocache in all 48 contiguous states
Hey Team,
It's been a pretty exhausting week. I can't imagine a worse way to clean up all these geocaches that I've missed in my multiple trips across the country than via a series of long bus rides where no one wants to talk unless they're already talking to themselves followed but stints of wandering through strange cities long enough to get tired but not long enough to make new friends.
But in the positive column it's nice to see the map fill in with states I don't have to continue to worry about. The geocaches are definitely coming along and more importantly I'm on my way to Michigan and Indiana now not just to geocache but to head up to the second most photographed lighthouse in America which ALSO happens to be coming up on its 150th anniversary. You can imagine how excited I am just to sleep somewhere where I'm not sitting upright in a disturbingly undersized and uncomfortable seat so it's doubly awesome that I get to cross another one off the list at the same time in such an epic place!
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Silent Hill
Reviewed by Andrew Kozma and Laura Eldred, © 2006
Andrew: Okay, stop what you're doing, 'cause I'm about to ruin the image and the style that you're used to.
Laura: 'Drew looks funny, but yo he's making money, see? Or, um . . . Yeah.
Andrew: Double yeah. Um . . . Hello there! Laura here's gonna fill you in on a little number we like to call: Silent Hill.
Laura: Now gather round. Rose's daughter Sharon (creepy but pretty Jodelle Ferland) is a sleepwalker, and her nighttime perambulations are becoming dangerous. After Sharon's latest stroll almost leads her off a steep cliff, Rose (pretty uncreepy Radha Mitchell) decides to get to the bottom of her problem by taking her to Silent Hill, a ghost town in West Virginia whose name the young girl tends to scream out during her sleepwalking escapades.
The trip, however, doesn't end up as planned; Rose and Sharon get in a car accident on their way to Silent Hill, and soon discover themselves trapped in a surreal, industrial nightmare as the demons of what once happened in Silent Hill prepare for their revenge. Rose and Sharon end up with some buddies in this caper: local policewoman Cybil (pretty, uncreepy, mostly kickassy Laurie Holden), resident crazy-cat-lady Dahlia (creepily unpretty Deborah Kara Unger), and some miscellaneous religious nutjobs hiding out in Silent Hill's church. When Sharon disappears, Rose and Cybil must unravel Silent Hill's history in order to save the young girl. But who the bad guys are, and how to defeat them, are questions not easily answered.
Andrew: Silent Hill had my eye and ear for a good while. Director (and co-writer) Christopher Gans oversaturates the scenes outside of Silent Hill, the town, flooding them with color, making reality seem magical. Of course it is the nightmare town of Silent Hill that is magical, or at least supernatural, but that landscape is portrayed only muted, shades of gray every so often burned through with bright points of fiery red, echoing the coal fire that ghosted the town and still burns underground.
The people inhabiting Silent Hill are ghosts, as well (which implies that Rose, Cybil, and Sharon are, too, when translated there bodily from the real world). Most people wouldn't consider the everyday world magical, something to be desired, but then most people aren't stuck in some Bizarro version of it, either.
Laura: Yes, my favorite part of this film was the images. And I think most of why I liked the images -- and was disturbed by them -- is that there's an aesthetic behind them. If they're hideous -- and they are -- there's a certain economy of symbolism and gore in their composition; they're not overdone. Instead, they are, for the most part, images you could almost imagine coming out of a horrible fire -- terrible disfigurement, but not beyond the realm of the possible.
Blackened, childlike figures; figures without faces, without arms, stumbling on in some parody of walking. And then there're guys like Big-Man-With-Knife-and-Pyramid-Head, who looks like some archetypal nightmare King, with his immense stature, his huge sword (which looks something like a ten foot kitchen knife, but that's okay, it's still big and sharp), his veiny blue skin, and his face that's been replaced instead with this large metal pyramid-shaped mask. I'm not sure how much of this was fully realized in the game, but it's some twisted, disturbing stuff.
And that's not to mention that the Pyramid guy at one point grabs a victim's chest flesh in one hand, and rips all of the person's skin off her (well, I guess all the people in the film are really female, so saying "her" doesn't give anything away) body in one fell rip. No band aid is going to cover that puppy!
Andrew: Ah, but all of the people in the film aren't female, which somewhat begins my gripefest. Not that I have a preference for all-female films (and maybe I do) but I felt, while watching the movie, that it seemed as though the movie should only contain women, and how much more interesting it would be if that were the case. Lo and behold I find on the internet (that bastion of truth and upstanding values) that the original script only contained female characters, but that the studio said Gans had to add some men.
So Sean Bean's character Christopher, Rose's husband, was added (and maybe his entire arc? The section of the film that takes place outside the world of Silent Hill contains a disproportionate number of men). His role is entirely superfluous, as is the switching back and forth from the nightmare of Silent Hill to the real world.
And I guess I was spoiled by Brotherhood of the Wolf, which Gans directed and also had a hand in writing. The humor and style of that movie were so amazing, while Silent Hill is distinctive. I mean, in terms of horror films, or films in general, if the best that can be said about how it distinguishes itself from the pack is that it is distinctive, what gives? That's like saying, "It's different."
And, gah, this is the last thing I'm going to say, and then I'm through sniping, I mean snarking, I mean griping. Snark, snark. The movie contains plot events that are gratuitous, uncalled for by character, and purely there to set up a later plot point. These moves are where the movie lost my respect.
EXAMPLE 1: Cybil takes on four guys wielding large pipes only using a nightstick so that Rose can enter an elevator, and she soundly beats the fark out of them. Without even breathing hard. She decides NOT to enter the elevator with Rose. And, then she pulls her gun on the group, after Rose is safe, to allow time for the elevator to start its descent. She pulls the trigger, but the gun is empty (since she's smiling, she knows this), and then lets herself get beaten to death instead of continuing to kick ass. Eh?
EXAMPLE 2: Cybil returns -- after being repeatedly struck with gigantic metal pipes, around the chest and head -- conscious, though bloody, only to be gruesomely killed.
EXAMPLE 3: What's with the ending? Not that I expect coherent answers, but I do expect Rose to realize the difference between Silent Hill and, well, everywhere else. And, by the way, the end would work even better if Sean Bean's character wasn't there. Though even better than lame is still pretty (creepily) lame.
Laura: Yes, the film has plenty of failings. It's far from perfect. There are holes. The acting is perfunctory. And all those things stop this film from being great. I still think though, that as horror films go, it's pretty good.
This is mainly because it managed to disturb me.
I'd like to point out that as a long-time horror fan, I'm extremely difficult to scare.
Andrew: Did you see The Grudge?
Laura: Didn't you say you were going to stop speaking?
Andrew: Snark, snark.
Laura: Well, I saw the version with Sarah Michelle Gellar in it. I don't think that counts. But the last film that scared me? Films can do many things to me -- make me laugh (Evil Dead II), make me cry (Titanic, that manipulative piece of crap), make me want to play Su Doku (Path of Evil), and even make me look at the trees in my yard with budding suspicion (the not-yet-produced classic of horror comedy Arbor Day) -- but scare me, that's near impossible. This film did not scare me, but it did disturb me, which is the next best thing.
As to how it managed to disturb me, I've been thinking about it. I don't find just plain images of death disturbing, or even of living death. A zombie shuffling along, parts falling off, goo dripping from its empty eye sockets -- I'm likely to analyze the image, to consider whether its doing anything a million zombie films haven't done before, and if it is doing something new, to appreciate it on a sort of artistic level as an achievement. And if I do appreciate the film on this level, the way I'm likely to respond is with laughter -- I find nothing funnier than a film that decapitates someone in a new and interesting way.
If the film falls flat on the creativity meter, I'm likely to turn my nose up at the visual effects' inadequacies and to consider the film a waste of fake blood. I appreciate creativity in horror -- but even highly creative effects are highly unlikely to produce anything like fear. There're a couple films -- films that I wouldn't necessarily recommend on any basis other than their visual ingenuity -- that have managed to disturb me.
Andrew: And how did they do that, pray tell?
Laura: Well, though I'm almost ashamed to admit it, one common thread is shaky-vision ™. I.e. A ghost or maniac is moving towards you, but its movements are jerky -- not really too fast, but like your brain isn't processing all the small movements between position A and position B. I imagine that filmmakers do this by removing some of the frames; it doesn't sound so impressive in description, but its effect, to me, is impressive.
Films like the recent House on Haunted Hill and 13 Ghosts did this, and so did that J. Lo classic The Cell. Not otherwise terribly great films, but once you add in shaky-vision, for me, you get the inevitability of a zombie combined with the mystery and the malevolence of some Powerful Force Beyond Man. Very Thomas Hardy.
Anyway, this may be a lot to get out of a way of some jerky movement. . .
Andrew: May be?
Laura: Jerk. But that's the effect it has on me. This film has some shaky-vision with the Evil Nurses, a bunch of hot, dead women in killer heels who unfortunately have had their faces burned off. These women offer both shaky-vision and that bluish-green veiny skin that you get in some zombie films -- that skin color is often reserved for dead people who are still somehow hot (I think maybe because we sometimes associate being superpale, even a little bluish, with being "blue-blooded" and upper class), and that's the case here too. Anyway, end of diatribe. For now.
One thing I was curious about, Andrew, is how the film compares with the video game. I've never played Silent Hill -- or any survival horror video game. The film made me wonder though if I may be missing out on a whole new dimension of time-wastage.
Andrew: Silent Hill is the perfect video game movie. It's not so much a reimagination of the game as it is a pretty faithful representation of what it is like to play a survival horror game. Unlike the Doom movie which fitfully attempted to recreate (I really like those re words today. No, ally) a first-person shooter feel (though the scene was badly done, it was still the most engrossing section of the movie), the creative team behind Silent Hill captures the immersiveness that makes even watching someone else play Silent Hill a terrifying experience (though the first Resident Evil game remains the masterpiece).
Largely that's because in survival horror games you are controlling your character from a third-person perspective. In survival horror games the camera angles that allow you access to the world are determined by the game. In survival horror games you don't create your character, but are controlling one that has a history in living world. So far this sounds more than superficially similar to a movie. This video game/movie correlation also allows for some otherwise unexplainable events such as the sudden deus ex machinas that continually pull Rose from danger. Ah, if only God was here.
Laura: Yes, that was annoying. But the film, as a sort of conceptual artistic vision, I think is quite successful. It also succeeds in creating a consistently mysterious, ominous mood: most of the music is based on beat-driven industrial sounds, which never lets the viewer forget the passage of precious time, and the movement toward some terrible catastrophe. This music is interspersed with periods of silence, in which footfalls echo impossibly loudly, and you know that the bad guy in the hall is going to hear you! The lighting throughout is filtered and grey, and altogether the film's world emerges as a hellish, industrialized inferno constantly coated in the ashes of the dead.
Andrew: And that climax: certainly industrial. To the max, man. When the darker side of the town arrives (heralded by an air raid siren -- one of the most chilling effects) the world turns all abandoned factory. The climax of the movie is grand guignol all the way. Though, strangely, none of the violence seems gratuitous, though it clearly is, I suppose because everything is inexorably demanded by the plot. Just like Oedipus Rex.
Laura: As a gorehound, I really loved it. Without giving too much away, those who most deserve a solid whoopin' get what's coming to 'em, and they get it good, in an orgy of gratuitous, vicious violence that should have any fan of Hellraiser quite pleased. (There's something in the deployment of inanimate objects made malevolently animate to me that seemed Hellraiser-ish -- not to mention the audience's pleasure in the torture of those who deserve it, which is present in most horror films, but seems more explicit here).
There's even a scene of rape-with-barbed-wire that I've added to my list of memorable horror rape scenes alongside Evil Dead's rape-by-evil-tree. Not to mention people being cut in half, or just exploding in a shower of blood thanks to appropriately placed barbed wire, in scenes that seem, to me, reminiscent of Cube. As you can see, the barbed wire put in overtime on this film.
And where's the barbed wire's credit!??? Soon, the barbed wire will unionize, and then you'll see -- you'll see!
Andrew: But until then, watch this movie. Dawg.
Laura: Peace out.
Laura's Rating: 7/10
Andrew's Rating: 7/10
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Amid the ongoing standoff between Indian and Chinese troops in Doklam area in Sikkim sector, Nepal's Deputy Prime Minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara made it clear that his country will not take any sides in the border standoff between India and China. Mahara, who is also the Foreign Minister, said Nepal wants India and China to use 'peaceful diplomatic means' to resolve the issue. "Nepal will not get dragged into this or that side in the border dispute," he said on Monday.
Mahara quoted media reports to indicate that they might be dragging Nepal to favour one or the other side. "Some media reports are attempting to drag us in favour of one or the other side, but I want to make it clear that we have not taken any side in this matter," he said. Mahara also added that Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba will pay an official visit to India from August 23 to 27 and necessary preparations are going on for the same. However, detailed itinerary of the visit is yet to be finalised, Mahara added. He also told the media that Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang will arrive in Nepal on August 14 on an official visit. The Chinese leader's visit will be development-centric, and it cannot be linked with the prime minister's visit to India in any way, he added. Also Read: Sikkim standoff: Beijing will counter India if it ignores Doklam warning, says Chinese media
India and China have been locked in over a month-long standoff in Sikkim sector's Doklam area since June 16 after Chinese troops began constructing a road near the Bhutan trijunction. Bhutan has protested to China, saying the area belonged to it and accused Beijing of violating agreements that aim to maintain the status quo until the boundary dispute is resolved. India says the Chinese action to lay the road was unilateral and changes the status quo. It fears the road would allow China to cut off India's access to its northeastern states. Doka La is the Indian name for the region which Bhutan recognises as Doklam, while China claims it as part of its Donglang region.
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- Aug 8, 2017 at 8:41 pmThis India is land grabber...se kashmir, khalistan, manipur, nagaland, tamil nadu etc
- Aug 8, 2017 at 6:44 pmIt is a slap on the face of China given by Nepal and selfish China wanted to play divide and rule policy between India and Nepal which cleverly understood and decided accordingly and as well independently that it will NOT take sides in the stand-off shows the true colours of China and its diplomatic failure at the International level to get necessary support for their coward action. If good sense prevails it is better to silently withdraw as if nothing has happened and save the face or else China will get exposed again and again apart from losing their credibility !!!Reply
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Les Arcs is a ski resort located in Savoie, France, in the Tarentaise Valley town of Bourg-Saint-Maurice. Initially created by Robert Blanc and Roger Godino. It is a part of the huge Paradiski system which is under ownership by Compagnie des Alpes, a French-listed company owning several other ski resorts as well as theme parks.
The five areas—Bourg-Saint-Maurice, Arc 1600, Arc 1800, Arc 1950 and Arc 2000—are situated at an altitude spanning from 810 to 3225 metres, although skiing is mostly possible above 1200 metres. The ski area consists of 106 runs, 54 lifts and 200 kilometres of descent. The highest peak in the resort is the Aiguille Rouge from where is a 7 km long piste with 2026 metres in vertical drop down to the Village Villaroger. Since the opening of the Vanoise Express cable car in December 2003, Les Arcs has become part of the Paradiski group of ski-connected resorts, which also includes the La Plagne area. Paradiski in total has 425 km of pistes.
Les Arcs has the reputation of being one of the original French "mega-resorts". All of them have a convenient, large and varied network of pistes. Les Arcs has the specificity of a unique "avant-garde" modernist architecture labelled as "heritage of the 20th century". Most of its resorts are built following this modernist architecture, with the exception of latest—Arc 1950—which is built following the traditional architecture in the Alps and also with a more defined village ambience.
The ski domain provides a mixture of open runs and wooded runs. Its terrain park has a good reputation, with green, red and black jumps and rails. It is also good for snowboarders, with few drag lifts. The ski lifts have been gradually updated so virtually all critical lifts are modern, fast and comfortable.
Les Arcs ESF ski school teaches the ski evolutif method, where students are taught parallel turns from the beginning, but on very short skis. Les Arcs is regarded as having excellent beginner ski areas in each resort, although absolute beginners have little to progress to; away from the nursery slopes things get trickier. Les Arcs is also regarded by many as the home of snowboarding in Europe. Local instructor Régis Rolland popularized the snowboard in France with the Apocalypse Snow series of films made in the resort in the early 1980s.
The ski area of Arc 2000 and 1950 consists of a broad valley, with these two resorts at the bottom of its broader part. One of the sides of the valley is the ridge with the area's highest point, the Aiguille Rouge. The other side is a ridge to Arc 1600, 1800 and Peisey-Vallandry, which hold a wide range of runs. There are also a lot of relatively safe off-piste possibilities available in addition to those where you would require a mountain guide.
In Arc 2000 you also find the famous speed skiing course used in the 1992 Olympics. It is 2000 metres long with an additional 700 metres for stopping. The current world records in speed skiing was set in Les Arcs with Italian Simone Origone at 251.4 km/h and Swedish Sanna Tidstrand at 242.59 km/h, both in April 2006. The course is sometimes open for the public but with restrictions in altitude, snow preparations, equipment, etc., to limit the speed.
The most convenient way is to get private transfers from Grenoble to Les Arcs, transfers from Lyon to Les Arcs, transfers from Chambery to Les Arcs, or transfers from Geneva to Les Arcs.
We offer transfers from Geneva, Lyon, Chambery and Grenoble to Les Arcs.


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How to protect against the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities
Meltdown and Spectre are two different (but related) vulnerabilities found in almost all modern processors, affecting mobile devices, desktop and laptops, and servers. They are the result of hardware architectures that allow user-space programs to read in-memory data that they wouldn't normally be allowed to read. For instance, one user's application could potentially access passwords or encryption keys from another running process. The vulnerabilities affect desktops and laptops, tablets, mobile phones, servers, and cloud server instances — pretty much everything. Of particular concern are multi-tenant or shared environments such as public/private clouds where sensitive user/company/state data could potentially be accessed by bad actors.
Initially, researchers believed the only solution would be to physically replace all affected processors – an impractical solution in the short term. Instead, researchers, processor manufacturers, and leading industry software vendors agreed that operating system and application code would be patched to provide near term protection against exploits.
For more technical detail, please refer to the published security research papers on Meltdown and Spectre.
The not so bad news:
- There are no known exploits in the wild at the time of this writing. While the vulnerabilities are based on an old set of design decisions, it doesn't appear any bad actors have been exploiting the issue.
- The attacks are read-only and do not allow exploits to directly modify the contents of memory.
- The whole industry has been working on this for a while, with patches either on their way or already out.
- Both attacks are highly complex and difficult to make work in a real-world environment. They are reading from a rapidly changing portion of memory, so for most data center systems, there will be an enormous amount of noise in the data.
The really bad news:
- Everything is going to have to be patched, and there are different patches for Meltdown and Spectre with differing levels of complexity.
- The plan was to announce the issues publicly on 1/9/2018 with coordinated patch releases across the major industry players, but news of the vulnerabilities leaked early, leading to confusion and a perceived delay in patch releases.
- Given the nature of the patches, there is potential for degradation of application performance after applying the patches. The severity of this degradation is dependent upon the make/model of processor (especially in regards to PCID availability), the specifics of the OS or application patches, and the type of workload in question. Performance degradation could range from 5 to 40 percent.
As mentioned above, Meltdown and Spectre are related side-channel vulnerabilities but differ greatly in their scope and impact. It is important to understand their operational similarities and differences.
- Affects most Intel processors released since 1995. Some ARM processors are affected. AMD processors do not appear to be affected at this time.
- Meltdown can be patched by vendor-provided operating system patches.
- Leaks kernel and user memory.
- Affects almost all modern processors, including GPUs, are affected.
- There is no simple patch for Spectre as it results from a core computational architecture design issue. Patching Spectre in the long term may require a core redesign of existing computational architectures. In the short term, it will require the combined patching of the following: CPU microcode, OS kernels, drivers, libraries, compilers, and applications.
- Leaks only user memory (not kernel memory).
There are two areas of risk most organizations have regarding Meltdown and Spectre: the security risk itself, and the operational risks of patching and post-patch affects.
WWT is focusing on both and is here to help enterprise organizations make the best of a bad situation.
- Our security team is actively researching the vulnerabilities to better understand scope and scale. Some of our engineers/architects/analysts have deep knowledge of similar side-channel attacks, so we have the right people in place to assist. We plan to share any additional insight/updates via WWT Blog posts.
- Our Advanced Technology Center (ATC) and global engineering teams are building out test environments in the WWT ATC to perform before and after performance testing for common scenarios and workloads. From this we hope to be able to provide real-world baseline performance guidance that organizations can leverage to make better decisions about which systems to patch, performance expectations after patching, and how to quickly and efficiently resolve compute capacity shortages post-patch.
- For vendors and enterprise organizations that have specific applications or system builds they need to test, WWT's ATC is an ideal place to get this done quickly and safely. Vulnerability testing, patch testing, patch procedure testing, and performance testing can all be achieved in the ATC.
For more information or help, please reach out to your WWT Account Team or contact WWT directly via email, phone, or social media.
Authors Note: Special thanks to Gene Geddes, cybersecurity chief scientist, and Ian Evans, compute principal solutions architect, for their contributions to this post.