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United Nations Secretariat
The United Nations Headquarters is is an International Territory.
Office of the Secretariat of the United Nations
(Site) The United Nations Headquarters is located on seventeen and a half acres, bounded by the East River, 42nd Street, First Avenue, and 48th Street. The Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive, an expressway, goes along the river edge, so part of the buildings is cantilevered over it. Despite its rights of extra-territoriality, New York City provides many facilities to the United Nations Headquarters such as sewer connections, access from city streets, and fire protection. There is the General Assembly building, the Conference Building, and the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, the annex, and the Secretariat building in the United Nations Headquarters.
(Exterior) The Secretariat is 544 feet high, 287 feet wide and 72 feet thick with 5,400 operable windows and 5,400 glass spandrel. The exterior materials are aluminum, glass and marble. Conventional set-backs protect the wide areas of green-tinted glass on the east and the west facade from being breaking. The windowless north and south facades of the building are faced with 2,000 tons of Vermont marble. The Secretariat has 39 stories above the ground, and three basement level which link with those of the Conference Building.
(Interior) In the mid-20th century, offices of the Secretariat were small with no wasted space while some modern conveniences were offered so that the staffs function well. The glass in the aluminum-framed windows, can bring a maximum amount of natural light to the office space (20 acres), and is designed to retain solar heat. The air-conditioning system is provided for the whole building. Steel partitions attaching to brackets of the structure, can be moved quickly and easily to provide for office spaces. Telephone, electric and signaling connections are placed in ducts beneath the floors at six-foot intervals. Electric dumb-waiters and conveyors are in an integrated system, and efficiently move documents and mail all over the building. In the basement, there are maintenance shops, a fire-fighting unit, receiving and loading platforms, a pouch dispatch unit, security offices, storage, a three-level garage, an automobile service station, and a refrigeration plant for air-conditioning.
Reinforced concrete, glass curtain wall, aluminum, and marble exterior
The slab form of the Secretariat can be understood in the context of an evolution of Le Corbusier's solid-edged slab building. His design of the Pavilion Suisse (1832) in Paris and the Ministry of Education and Health Building (1938), which he designed in collaboration with Oscar Niemeyer, in Rio de Janeiro can be considered the predecessors. Even though Mies van der Rohe did not join the the Design of the Secretariat, the design of the Secretariat seems influenced Mies van der Rohe's post World War I glass skyscraper projects. Glass which is used for the Secretariat, is less transparent but retaining reflection like a mirror. This design was first made by Mies long before. The slab was an esthetic element of the International Style, and it stimulated the emergence of glass curtain-wall buildings in New York. For Americans, Internationalism was the symbol of postwar prosperity; for Europe it meant an opportunity for reconstruction and for developing, the countries it represented as hopes for a brighter future.
The UN complex was a successfully realized, piece of interwar-era Modernist architecture and urban design. Built out over the FDR Drive, the plaza looks more like an aircraft carrier moored along the East River than part of the city's fabric. As a symbol, the UN the complex oddly glorifies its bureaucracy by making the offices of the 14,000 international civil servants its focus, rather than the General Assembly, which lurks, blind-walled and Nautilus-like, at its base.
In the mid 20th century, the buildings in the United Nations Headquarters were delicate works of construction engineering and integrated communications technology. As an early use of the curtain wall system for the high-rise building, the Secretariat's curtain walls helped set a standard for skyscrapers. The reason for the selection of blue-green-toned Thermopane windows for the east and west facades was that they lessened the heating effect of the sun. The handling of the mechanical ventilation in pipe galleries at the 6th, 16th, 28th and 39th was an impressive construction detail. The window walls were cantilevered 2'9" beyond the structural steel columns in order to attain the effect of continuous glazing. The Thermopane glass was combined with Venetian blinds and a year-round air –conditioning system to provide brightly lit, office space. The spandrels between window bands were of the same glass, but with the inner face of each panel painted black. Inside, the offices represented a high degree of integration as well, with movable modular metal partitions and a perforated metal pan ceiling that incorporated four-foot-long, three tube troffer fluorescent light fixtures combined with square air-handling diffusers. However, the interior design of the Secretariat was considered to be merely a conventional job.
The United Nations is an international organization which is aimed to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress and human rights issues. Thus the fact that it is headquartered in New York City has a great symbolic and geographical significance. As the world's capital, New York has escalated the status and its influence as an international city. Multinational corporations now had to consider whether their headquarters should be alongside this center of global influence.
The United Nations Secretariat is the bureaucratic organ which supplies studies, information, and facilities which the United Nations bodies need. It also conducts tasks which are directed by the Security Council, the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council, etc. The Secretariat is headed by the Secretary-General, and international civil servants worldwide assist with the tasks. The United Nation would not operate without the Secretariat.
The United Nations Headquarters have stimulated the regional economy and elevated the land value. A number of workers of the Secretariat have contributed to the stimulator of the regional economy of New York City. In addition, the United Nations headquarters attracts numerous tourists from all over the world, and tourism has lifted the regional economy and the value of neighboring area.
Le Corbusier's scheme of the United Nations Headquarters was to construct an entirely isolated city. The extreme monumentality has been a subject of controversy. In spite of the fact that it has the smallest footprint among the buildings in United Nations Headquarters sites, the Secretariat visually dominates the group completely with its height and exterior materials. The Secretariat building has consequently become the characteristic form of the office building in American architecture, and it is in the technique of office building that our greatest advances have been made. It is somehow fitting that the Secretariat should become the symbol of the U.N.
Even though the Secretariat Building was not the first manifestation of international architecture, it stimulated the emergence of mass-production of high-rise buildings with glass-wall international style in the New York City and the world. The Secretariat, one of the first glass curtain-wall slabs in New York became the visual symbol of postwar architecture throughout the world. It contributed to popularizing the International Style as a postwar doctrine and universal design.
Nonetheless, the erection of the Secretariat definitely stimulated the emergence of corporate style skyscrapers in New York City. There have been lots of different opinions on the status of the Secretariat Building in the modernism architecture movement. Some opinion claimed that the architectural expression of the Secretariat Building was rather base on conventional practice. In addition, the construction of the UN headquarters implies the United States' contribution to the modern building. Even though the concept of the Secretariat came from Le Corbusier, most of detail design and construction was conducted by Americans led by Harrison.
Although it has been controversial building, the Secretariat has provided a monumental symbol for the UN and shows the ideal and innovation of building technology in the mid-20th Century. It is a fine example of the free-hanging glass and metal curtain wall. It strongly demonstrated the power of technology of controlling climate in the mid-20th century; it showed that international collaboration among architects and other professional was possible. By offering a monumental symbol for the UN, the Secretariat had given modern architecture an aura of respectability, and association with world-wide prestige. The Secretariat, the first glass curtain-wall slab in New York became the visual symbol of postwar architecture throughout the world. Americans and Europeans had tendency to take internationalism as the beginning of a new era.
Stern, Robert A.M., Mellins, Thomas, and Fishman, David (1995), New York 1960: architecture and urbanism between the Second War and the Bicentennial, New York: Monacelli Press.


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When and how did the idea of a "class-less" society originate in the United States? - History Stack Exchange most recent 30 from history.stackexchange.com 2019-09-22T16:27:29Z https://history.stackexchange.com/feeds/question/531 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/rdf https://history.stackexchange.com/q/531 14 When and how did the idea of a "class-less" society originate in the United States? World Engineer https://history.stackexchange.com/users/88 2011-10-25T03:09:59Z 2013-10-07T20:02:33Z
The United States is often referred to as a "class-less" society where anyone can rise to any height. Leaving aside whether this is actually the case or not, when and how did this idea originate? Was it part of the Enlightenment ideas of the founding generation, or was it something that came along later?
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The last "class" concept I can think of the U.S. having would be segregation. I believe it was the "everyone is equal" movement (The whole "sitting at the front of the bus" thing) that lead to our current class-less "everyone is equal" state.
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The United States was in the "new world." As such, it didn't START with many of the class structures common to European societies.

As such, it was regarded as a good "testing ground" for theories of a classless society stemming from the Enlightenment. The "founding generation," even though heavily tilted toward the upper class, was greatly influenced by these ideas, and wrote them into the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and other founding documents.

America has never been a fully "classless" society. What HAS been true is that many of the class barriers that stood in people's ways in Europe didn't operate particularly well in the U.S. In an achieving society, the ethos has been to promote a meritorious individual from the "wrong" background over a mediocre one from a good background.

Western European countries have largely adopted "American" ideas of a democratic meritocracy, to their benefit. Some of them now arguably have more social mobility than the U.S.

But the U.S. will probably long maintain its reputation as the site of the global "lab experiment" in equality.
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Even if somebody can rise to height, does not make a society classless. Class is not an sealed set of people: people always can move from one class to another. You possibly confuse class with a social estate or caste the two being more closed divisions of society without easy ways to change.

What distinguishes class (by Marx) is the possession of the means of production. That means if a society has those who possesses means of production and those who do not, the society is not classless.

Income also is not a distinguishing criterion: a hired manager can have higher income than a farmer, but still he belongs to a different class.
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I agree with the New World statement, classes are something inherited from kingships, Like the nobility is the highest class. In America you can lose you class status in one generation (kids run the bussiness into the ground).
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Gordon Wood's The Radicalism of the American Revolution contains a long discussion of this concept. (personal opinion, the discussion extends longer than useful, and seems focused on responding to an argument that isn't in the book).

I believe the question is founded on (one or more) false assumption; "The United States is a class-less society" is a conclusion, not a pre-existing idea. (others have discussed ad nauseum the imprecision involved in "class-less"). During the 1740's to 1780's, the institution of "class" was dysfunctional in the united states. (Here, I reject the marxist definition as lacking in utility; I refer to the more contemporary notion of gentry class vs commoner). The things that made that institution work in Britain (including the presence and active intervention of a King, a populist Tory party, and a strongly established Church of England) were absent in America.

One could argue that classlessness is an artifact of Republicanism of the period, but even Republicanism was fundamentally oligarchic. (one of the reasons for the failure of the Articles of Confederation was the "licentiousness" of the American populace. Writers of the period lamented the notion that craftsmen and tradesmen and merchants were involving themselves in politics, which was unacceptable). But Republicanism within the British constitution (such as it was at the time) was different from Republicanism in the Netherlands or in Switzerland - I think the argument very quickly drowns under the difficulty of defining Republicanism and Classlessness.
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Not sure I understand well this question: Jefferson writes in the Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

"The answer is staring you in the face."

Why is the founding document of the United States, often memorized by school children, traditionally read in public on Independence Day, not sufficient to answer this question? It is the document upon which everything rests.

By law, a Constitutional Convention can be convened and a new constitution of the USA can be drafted and ratified. But the United States as a nation remains, as per our Declaration, and therein is stated quite clearly the idea of a "classless society".

(There is much more here - but alas, I have not the time to elaborate at the moment or cite some of the original sources. Perhaps in time - see the wiki on the Declaration for a starting point.)


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BTIG Research's Walter Piecyk has "good news."
A month or so after its release, shipping time for the iPhone 5 is down to 2-3 weeks.
It's still listed on Apple's site as 3-4 weeks, according to Philip Elmer DeWitt.
When the new phone had disappointing sales over its first few days, there was real debate about whether supply or demand issues were the problem.
There's no more debate.
(By the way: Since then, the CEO company that makes iPhones for Apple, Foxconn, has come out and said that iPhone 5s are hard to make.)


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A purist's view of the countryside
The pool at Spicers Hidden Vale also has a magnificent view of the surrounding countryside. Ash Martin, the Head Chef at Spicers Hidden Vale, tucked into the hillsto the west of the historic Brisbane satellite city of Ipswich, is a purist.
You only have to wander for a few minutes around the extensive garden he and his staff maintain on the classy resort's 12,000 acres — and chat with him — to realise just how passionate he is about using local, seasonal produce.
Ash Martin … passionate about using local, seasonal produce.
He doesn't much like doing weddings, and strictly limits the number that he caters for, simply because they tend to impose restrictions on his otherwise free hand in the kitchen.
Instead, he relies on that garden, which now has nearly 90 beds, and a veritable tribe of chickens, geese, dorper lambs and Wessex saddleback pigs that have a pretty free reign of the paddock and sheds between his home and the old homestead which houses the restaurant.
The bounty includes a bevy of fresh vegetables and herbs. Some are pickled and otherwise preserved for the seasons when fresh output is limited.
The market garden at Spicers Hidden Vale … its bounty includes a bevy of fresh vegetables and herbs.
The larder is supplemented by the produce of local farmers, gardeners and other providores, who are delivering outstanding culinary treats to the kitchen at Spicers Hidden Vale.
This includes delicious local freshwater cray raised at nearby Tarome Fresh Crayfish, Murray cod and selected beef and lamb cuts.
It's difficult to describe the feeling of staying at Spicers Hidden Vale, though the term "laid-back rural elegance" comes very close to the mark.
Lockyer Valley magnificence … the outlook from the veranda of one of the cottages.
You're certainly unlikely to stay or dine there as a walk-in off the street. The property's location on an isolated country road virtually guarantees that there'll be no customers passing by chance.
You have to know about the place, book in, and set out to go there.
Comfortable elegance … one of Spicers Hidden Vale's sumptuous bedrooms.
Accommodation is mainly in a series of cottages scattered around the main homestead, which contains reception and the restaurant.
Many of the suites have a spa bath, fireplace and wide veranda with outdoor seating that offers simply stunning views of the countryside.
Spicers is a small group featuring luxury accommodation in south-east Queensland (Spicers Tamarind Retreat at Maleny on the Sunshine Coast, Spicers Clovelly Estate at Montville on the Sunshine Coast, Spicers Peak Lodge on Queensland's Scenic Rim, Spicers Hidden Vale at Grandchester in the Lockyer Valley, and Spicers Balfour Lodge in Brisbane), Sydney (Spicers Potts Point in the Eastern Suburbs), the Hunter Valley (Spicers Vineyards Estate at Pokolbin) and the Blue Mountains (Spicers Sangoma Retreat at Bowen Mountain).
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Here are ten things that I like or I don't like or are just of interest at the moment.
01. There's a really good film on Netflix called Gimme the Loot. It's a nice little indie film set in New York City. And, of course, it is a coming of age film.
02. As you know Malaysia Airlines flight 370 is missing. It's been missing for almost a week. No wreckage has been found as of Thursday night. Everybody seems to be guessing what happened, so here is my guess.
I think the plane suffered a slow loss of pressurization. Which would result in a slow loss of oxygen in the cabin. A very rapid loss of pressure in an airline cabin happens very quickly as the name implies. And since it happens very fast it's very easy for people on board as well as the aircraft itself to sense that pressure was suddenly lost.
But, with a very slow loss of pressure, many times it is very hard to detect for both passengers and the aircraft. Which can lead to a situation where the passengers and crew are overcome by hypoxia and are unable to react by using oxygen masks.
In a situation like this if the plane was flying via the auto-pilot at cruise altitude it can continue flying itself until it runs out of fuel or collides with terrain such as a mountain.
Do you have any theories?
03. Here's a really nice song from a group called The Internet. It's called "Dontcha". Let me know if you like it.
04. This winter I was really jealous of all the snow most of the country got. Some people think the weather in Northern California is almost perfect. It never gets too hot or too cold. It doesn't snow and it rarely rains. We get a bit of fog but most people think it adds to the beauty of the area.
For me, however, the weather here is torturous monotony. There's no real summer nor a real winter. The weather here is a cross between spring and fall all year long except without the rain.
I crave contrast. How can you really appreciate winter without a summer? Or truly appreciate spring without winter?
I miss the coziness of winter and the brutality of summer. And the in-betweeness of spring and fall.
Does that make sense?
05. The WNBA season is right around the corner. And I can't wait! This off-season while most WNBA players were in Europe making some extra bucks WNBA rookie Skylar Diggins was home in the States living the life of a movie starlet.
Sky made the rounds during the Awards season in L.A. and appeared in the infamous Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition.
Some people have been very critical of Skylar's star status on and off the court. She had a very average rookie season and the naysayers have pounced. They've been calling her over-rated and that she is only a star because of her unquestionable beauty.
I think the naysayers are being unfairly harsh with her because of that beauty. The vast majority of rookie athletes don't come into the league and take it by storm. Most take 2 to 3 years to develop into the players they are expected to be. So, I look for Sky to be a bit better this season and really come into her own the following season.
Hopefully between now and then she won't let the naysayers get her down. Go Sky!
07. I'm hooked on Plantain chips now. They are so good and you really can't eat just one. Have you had them?
08. If you haven't checked it out, Dara has a great blog called Truly tafakari. You will find Lots of really relevant posts about all sorts of things there. Enjoy!
09. If you remember I talked recently about trying tai chi. Well, I'm still at it. My mornings are much better because of it. Now I'm thinking of adding meditation to my day. I've been hearing a lot about it lately and how it can enhance your life in all sorts of ways.
Do any of you practice meditation? If so have you noticed any changes because of it such as better moods, etc.?
10. Lastly, I've had a crazy wanderlusty thought recently. That's to buy one of those passes from Greyhound, pack a backpack and hit the road for a month.
You can buy a pass for unlimited travel for a month for about $400. At least that was the price last time I checked. And if I remember correctly you can travel between as many cities as you like for that month.
I'd love to pack a backpack and head to New Mexico and explore a few cities there. Then for some reason I've been wanting to go to Montana and maybe the Dakotas. After that I'd love to spend a few days in Chicago and then check out all of the urban farming in Detroit I've been hearing about.
What do you think? Sound like a fun idea or pure craziness? Would you ever do something like that?
Welp, those are a few things on my mind at the moment.
What do you think of my little musings?
What's on your mind?


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International Training Course on Heritage Impact Assessment
15-24 October 2012, Shanghai , China
Application Deadline: 1 June 2012
In recent years the UNESCO World Heritage Committee has examined a considerable number of State of Conservation Reports related to threats from various types of large-scale development activities to the World Heritage properties. These activities include infrastructure development, new buildings, urban renewal and changes to the land use some of which are insensitive or inappropriate. The Committee has also examined threats from excessive or inappropriate tourism. Many of these activities have had the potential to impact adversely on the Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) including integrity and authenticity of the properties inscribed on the World Heritage List. In order to evaluate satisfactorily the potential impacts, the World Heritage Committee has suggested the State Parties concerned to conduct Heritage Impact Assessments. Impact assessment has been a tool used in evaluating impacts by other sectors widely and the time has come to adapt it to suit heritage sector. Meeting the demand of the Committee in particular and more generally considering the growing need for the professionals in the Heritage sector to equip with knowledge and skills on Heritage Impact Assessments, WHITRAP together with ICCROM propose to organize a training workshop in China.
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Roast duck is one of my favorite meats, and it's one of the easiest dishes to find in Guangdong province. Delicious, sweet Cantonese roast duck is sold by every other neighborhood restaurant, for cheap. Up north, the story is a little different.
In Beijing, unless you have the appetite for a full Peking duck meal, good roast duck is a little harder to find. One option is to go to a restaurant that offers Peking duck and order some crispy roast duck spring rolls. (Along with other dishes, of course.) The meat is the same high quality as the whole ducks, and the amount is just enough to satisfy the taste buds. Of course, these can also be ordered as part of a Peking duck dinner.
The formula for a good crispy duck spring roll is one part crispy skin and one part flavorful filling. Fillings vary by restaurant, but usually consist of fatty duck meat, cooked egg, carrots, and lettuce. The duck meat should be sufficiently seasoned (salted) to lend flavor to the rest of the ingredients, so no need for a dipping sauce.
Bianyifang Roast Duck Restaurant
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My wife got a subscription to Magnificat about a year ago and it has been a great blessing to our family. We've developed a routine whereby we read the readings for the day and then I give a little reflection. Sometimes I've got something smart to say and sometimes I come up blank, and then we just read from Magnificat about the Saint of the day or read Magnificat's reflection of the day.
My 10 year old son is hyper-competitive and he's now gotten to the point that before I give my brilliant reflection on the readings, he has to tell the family what he thinks the readings are about. He's hit and miss, but yesterday he was hit. The first reading was from the First Letter of John:
I am writing to you, children,
because your sins have been forgiven for his name's sake.
I am writing to you, fathers,
because you know him who is from the beginning.
I am writing to you, young men,
because you have conquered the Evil One.
I write to you, children,
because you know the Father.
I write to you, fathers,
because you know him who is from the beginning.
I write to you, young men,
because you are strong and the word of God remains in you,
and you have conquered the Evil One.
Do not love the world or the things of the world.
If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
For all that is in the world,
sensual lust, enticement for the eyes, and a pretentious life,
is not from the Father but is from the world.
Yet the world and its enticement are passing away.
But whoever does the will of God remains forever.
I was about to tell him that it's interesting that John is addressing this letter to males – fathers and young men. But before I do, my ten year old says that John is saying to men that you cannot be like Adam who was weak and blamed his sin on others. Pretty good, kinda relevant.
Then I tell my son that John tells fathers twice, in the very same language, that he is writing to them because "you know him who is from the beginning" and therefore fathers should not fall for "sensual lust" and the enticements of the world which are "passing away," but should rather look to the Father who remains forever.
I was a little worried that the sensual aspect of the reference would be too specific for a 10 year old to get a general lesson from the reading, but no. My son says to me, "Dad, I know what it means. It's like if you get me a computer and then all I do is play with the computer and I don't pay any attention to you. That's wrong."
Good lesson for sons and fathers.
I'm making this a New Year's post. Subscribe to Magnificat and resolve to use it in the new year! It is a fantastic tool for keeping faith at the center of your family.
Happy New Year!


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Even as he declared that "the United States has no illusions about the regime in Pyongyang," President Bush on Thursday announced his intention to remove North Korea from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism.
That action, along with US plans to remove sanctions that date to the Korean War, follow North Korea's submission of a partial declaration of its past nuclear activities Thursday. And on Friday, the North is scheduled to destroy part of the Yongbyon nuclear reactor that produced plutonium for the country's nuclear weapons.
The administration's moves on North Korea signal a remarkable turnaround for a pariah nation that always figured at the top of Mr. Bush's list of threats. But they also hint at efforts by a presidency in its twilight to fashion a positive historical record – especially on Bush's hallmark theme of national and global security.
After having declared in 2002 an "axis of evil" made up of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea, Bush is said to be keen to demonstrate that his presidency is leaving behind a safer world. Adding North Korea to the list of global security threats defanged by Bush policies – a list that administration officials top with Iraq – would enhance the president's legacy, some experts say.
Yet before being able to finally remove North Korea from its dark pantheon, the administration faces a number of high hurdles. These include unresolved questions about evidence of a uranium enrichment program and suspicions that Pyongyang at some point secretly provided Syria with a nuclear installation.
"This is a significant step toward fulfilling part of North Korea's requirements for declaring all of its nuclear activities," says Bruce Klingner, a North Korea expert at the Heritage Foundation in Washington. "But we still need to see considerably more transparency on its uranium-based program and its proliferation activities."
Bush acknowledged as much in a Rose Garden statement Thursday, citing these two outstanding issues before concluding, "This isn't the end of the process. This is the beginning of the process."
What is likely to be the final quid pro quo – the dismantling of Pyongyang's plutonium bombs in exchange for full normalization of relations and integration into the global economy – will have to wait for the next US president. But administration officials speak in terms of having created the "glide path" for that goal to be reached.
Administration officials "are talking about this in legacy terms," says Jim Walsh, a North Korea expert in the security studies program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. "Their view is that leaving with the North Korea nuclear program capped and then shut down will be a lasting achievement of the Bush presidency."
The administration must first face skepticism among foreign-policy hard-liners at home. And some allies, in particular Japan, are concerned that the US may be going too far too fast with a regime that still possesses nuclear weapons and has not answered questions about its proliferation activities.
Japan sounded a cautious note Thursday when its foreign minister, Masahiko Komura, said the declaration North Korea delivered to the Chinese government would have been more meaningful if it had included information on the North's existing nuclear arsenal.
"It would have been better if the declaration had included nuclear weapons," Mr. Komura said, adding that the question remained "whether the declaration will contribute to the complete abandonment of North Korea's nuclear weapons."
That statement followed earlier acknowledgement by US officials Tuesday that the plutonium weapons Pyongyang possesses would not be part of the current declaration. Christopher Hill, assistant secretary of State for East Asian affairs, said in Beijing that the plutonium bombs would be part of a "subsequent phase" in the denuclearization process.
US hawks on North Korea see that "concession" as part of a pattern of the Bush administration going soft on the North as it pushes to cement a deal before year's end. Last year John Bolton, a former undersecretary of State for arms control, said many Republicans were "brokenhearted" over the administration's approach to North Korea.
Mr. Bolton and some congressional foreign-policy hawks have questioned the administration for continuing the six-party process even after intelligence surfaced last year suggesting that North Korea was helping Syria acquire a nuclear reactor. The suspected reactor site was taken out by Israeli airstrikes last September.
This week, inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency were in Syria to try to determine exactly what Syria was doing at the now-destroyed site.
But that is not the only issue ruffling the feathers of hard-liners like Bolton. They also object that the US is allowing Pyongyang to leave out disclosure of its suspected uranium enrichment activity from this week's declaration.
Omission of uranium enrichment also figured in the cautious reception that North Korea's declaration received in South Korea, where officials and experts emphasized the hard road ahead before a denuclearized Korean Peninsula is achieved.
South Korea's chief nuclear envoy, Kim Sook, said Thursday that the North's declaration "provides an important momentum to the process." But he also emphasized how long it had taken to get this far, and time would remain "the common enemy" of the six-party process since the next steps could be so difficult and take so long.
"It is still many, many miles to go, and the path is getting steeper," says former South Korean foreign minister Song Min Soon, noting that what lies ahead is the dismantling of the North's nuclear weapons, estimated at six to a dozen.
North Korea is known to have imported centrifuges for uranium enrichment, though it is not suspected of ever having gotten far enough with the technology to use it for weapons development. Still, experts like Mr. Klingner of the Heritage Foundation say full disclosure of details of even a partial program is important for determining the extent of international proliferation networks, as well as for verifying all Pyongyang's activities.
Allaying allies' concerns is one reason Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will be in Asia through the beginning of next week.
In Japan Thursday and Friday for a G-8 foreign ministers meeting, Secretary Rice will meet with her Japanese counterpart and will be reminded of Japanese concerns that the issue of its citizens abducted by the North in the 1970s and '80s could be lost in Washington's press to conclude a deal with Pyongyang. Beyond that issue are Japan's broader concerns about security in northeast Asia and what a North Korea deal – especially one hammered out in a process led by a rising China – will mean for the region.
Rice is set to be in Seoul Saturday before traveling to China, where the participants in the six-party talks are expected to meet Monday.
The Bush administration, Klingner says, will have to settle for at best a full declaration of North Korea's activities and a dismantlement of Yongbyon by the time it leaves office. But, he says, the US has "lowered the bar" in its quest to get that much.
• Donald Kirk in Seoul, South Korea, contributed to this report.


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So this week, the National Catholic Reporter runs an editorial reflecting on the challenges U.S. women religious face in light of the Apostolic Visitation and a doctrinal assessment of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. Opines the NCR:
The social sciences have a term for the situation of women who feel compelled to be compliant with the men who are bent on demeaning and humiliating them: They call it battered wife syndrome.
If there are battered wives, there have to be wife beaters, and in this instance, the wife beaters would have to be His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI who appointed the Apostolic Visitation, Cardinal Franc Rode whose office is undertaking it and Cardinal William Levada who ordered the doctrinal assessment.
Levada's investigation is further called a "shameful betrayal of trust," the Apostolic Visitation described as "a setup" and "The Vatican" is accused of "hypocrisy" and "duplicity".
In another NCR article this week viciously attacking the entire Vatican and the very Apostolic structure of the Church, Eugene Cullen Kennedy compares the Holy Father to Philippe Petain, Head of State in Vichy France.
Those two articles are only just a taste of a whole smorgasbord of attacks and snide accusations against the whole leadership and traditions of the Catholic Church that can be found this week – or any other week – at NCR.
Enter USCCB Director of Media Relations Sister Mary Ann Walsh. She is asked a question at NCR by Michael Sean Winters:
What does the Shirley Sherrod episode tell us about race and politics and the media in the age of Obama?
And Sister Mary Ann rightly thinks that Sherrod was subjected to "reckless accusations and shoot-from-the-hip responses from leaders you'd think would know better."
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In recent days, new journalistic hit squads have emerged on the U.S. scene, even in the church. Where once only a few church newspapers engaged in character assassination, today these attacks seem ubiquitous.
And when she says "where passionate self-righteousness, minus basic journalistic fairness, runs amok," I'm loving it, cause I can see she's getting ready to hit NCR right between the eyes. Here it comes:
Many such groups claim the word "orthodox" for themselves. They dismiss those who do not agree with them or their approach as "unorthodox." People of a different opinion or approach are accused of setting up a "parallel magesterium." These are serious condemnations in a church which holds fidelity to its teachings as paramount. Despite the fact that theology and canon law are matters of careful analyses, these groups bring the subtlety of a meat cleaver to church discussions.
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As I continue to rest in the words of others this Lent, I am pleased to offer this short Q&A with Traci Smith, fellow Chalice Press author, whose book Seamless Faith: Simple Practices for Daily Family Life just came out recently. Take it away, Traci! 1. What led you to write this book? As a Director of Youth Ministries, first, and then a Pastor, I have met many parents and caregivers who want their children to grow up with an understanding of faith and spirituality, but didn't feel equipped. They worry that they don't have enough time, or that they're "doing it wrong" or that they don't have enough knowledge of the Bible or Theology. I wanted to write a very practical resource to empower and encourage parents. It also helped that my boys, Clayton and Samuel were both under two years old as I was writing this book. It inspired me to imagine the things we could do together as a family. In a very real sense, this book is for my family as much as any family.
2. What will people gain from this book that they won't get anywhere else? I think of this book as a type of "recipe book" for a faith-filled home. The book carefully lays out practices that any family can incorporate into daily life. Just like a recipe, each practice lists the ages that its suited for, along with materials, step-by-step instructions and variations. There are many wonderful books about children and family spirituality out there, but none is laid out in quite this same "pick it up and run with it" way of Seamless Faith. It's incredibly user-friendly.
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4. How have you changed your own parenting as a result of your work on this book? One of the things I've felt as a mother in the few short years I've been one (my oldest isn't yet three) is that there's a whole lot of pressure. There are endless blogs and books and resources with advice and tips, and it can be dizzying to keep track of it all. Writing down my ideas about how to incorporate faith into family life reminded me that each parent and caregiver puts his or her own stamp on parenting. It's not "Dr. So and So's" way or "Expert Fancypants's" way, it's "my way." This is one of the things that most excites me about the book -- each practice offers many ways for parents and caregivers to make it their own, no matter how old their children are, no matter what their family's style is.
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Aww, thanks Traci!
All right folks, let's give Traci the Blue Room bump! Seamless Faith is available at Chalice Press, Amazon, etc. What a good resource for churches to share with families. What a perfect gift for a friend who's a new parent. What a great thing to have on your own bookshelf. Thank you for the fine book, Traci.


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16 | With Golden Tickets for "comedy" contestants Papa Peachez and Zoanette Johnson, is American Idol trying to pollute Hollywood Week — and perhaps even the live shows — with train wrecks? Did we learn nothing from Season 8's Nick "Normund Gentle" Mitchell and Tatiana del Toro?
17 | Is it now clear how Arrow himself "created" his first supervillain, by ODing the Count on his own drug? Given how the Vertigo-pusher last looked, are you almost afraid for his eventual encore? And is it too late to send Thea to boarding school? It did wonders for Kaitlin Cooper!
18 | Did Gil McKinney's terrific Supernatural turn as Dean and Sam's grandpa officially wash away the bad taste of his arc as Julie's T.A./lover on Friday Night Lights? And were you surprised to see Smallville alum Alaina Huffman pop up as Abbadon with little fanfare? Perhaps The CW didn't want to "confuse" people by promoting two Black Canarys on one night?
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19 | What was scarier about the 1980s, as depicted on The Americans: the threat of nuclear war or high-waisted Guess jeans? And which was your favorite musical moment: Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk" (during the opening chase) or Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight" (for Philip and Elizabeth's car romp)?
20 | Is the Port Charles/vampire angle growing a bit tired on General Hospital? One wink to the audience was fun, but trying to integrate the two shows after nearly 10 (!) years by introducing old PC characters isn't quite working. On the flip side, how gratifying (and hilarious!) was it to see Patrick standing behind a bitchy Brit in the middle of her latest Emma rant?
21 | After a season full of amputations, who else get really worried for Jeremy's arms on The Vampire Diaries?
22 | Considering that Glee doesn't get Santana, Quinn and Rachel in a room together much anymore, wouldn't it have been nice if the show's writers spent a bit more time with the three in New York, at the expense of, oh, yet another scene of Ryder blessing Jake's pursuit of Marley?
23 | Who's already 'shipping Cristina/Dr. Bob on Grey's Anatomy? Dare we hope for a steamy triangle with Rhoda's doorman?
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24 | Thanks for the near-perfect finale, 30 Rock, but where in the world was a tearful/emotional/absurd goodbye scene between Jenna and Liz? And who knew that Tracy Morgan could pull off a tender, dramatic scene, as he did in (of all places) the strip club with Tina Fey?
25 | We've oft thought it impossible to find fault with The Office's Jim… but is his self-centered behavior in Philly making you have second thoughts? And we're all for exploring the docu crew, but doesn't it seem a bit forced (and wholly unnecessary) to add a romantic twist to their reveal? Does anyone actually think Pam would ever stray from Jim with the boom guy, let alone in the show's final episodes? All that said, how much fun are installments where Dwight and Pam team up — and realize they really do like each other? And if NBC is still looking to continue the show in some way, how about a spin-off centered around Dwight's hilariously oddball friend Trevor (played by comedian Chris Gethard)?
Hit the comments with your answers — and any other questions you care to throw out there!


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Rand Paul | C-J's characterization of senators' votes was shameful
As an organ for propaganda and party doublethink, Pravda had nothing on The Courier-Journal. As an organ for the dissemination of partisan rancor and mistruth, the Courier has no equal. One would think that the days of Democrats and their newspapers calling Republicans names would have become passé — particularly when the bogeymen that Republicans are now being compared to were unashamed Democrats, part of an unabashedly racist Democratic Party.
The Courier-Journal's comparison of my vote and Sen. Mitch McConnell's against the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) to Southern segregation of the 1960s is absolutely shameful. There were many problems with this legislation and those concerns are what led me to not support the bill, none of which has a thing to do with somehow supporting employer discrimination, as the Courier-Journal so ridiculously and cartoonishly implies.
Part of that concern was potential discrimination against religious groups. With Sen. McConnell, I voted for Sen. Pat Toomey's (R-Pa.) amendment that would exempt religious groups from ENDA. The values of people of faith are important, too, and Sen. Toomey's amendment attempted to strike a balance between ENDA and religious tolerance. Toomey's amendment was defeated, making it nearly impossible to support ENDA as it stood. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and other religious groups also opposed ENDA as a threat to religious liberty.
ENDA could have potentially gutted court rulings on marriage in Kentucky and in other states. I actually agree with President Obama that the definition of marriage should be decided by the states, not federal law. Surely, The Courier-Journal does not also compare some of the nation's leading religious organizations, or perhaps even the president, to segregationists.
I find it offensive to compare the civil rights struggle of the 1960s to the issues associated with ENDA. It is an affront to the civil rights activists who actually had to face the viciousness of a Bull Connor. It is an insult to compare something like the vote on ENDA to the adversity African Americans once faced during a particularly tragic time in our history.
One wonders why incivility has taken over politics. The Courier-Journal's name-calling contributes to a dumbing down of the debate. When you begin referring Kentucky's Republican senators as representing racist Democrats from the '60s, intelligent debate becomes almost impossible.
Sen. McConnell and I believe in absolute equality before the law, without exception. Equal protection before the law is what motivates every aspect of our philosophy, a belief system grounded in each person being seen as an individual.
In Washington, there have been plenty of bad laws with good intentions. There were too many problems with ENDA for it to deserve our support. To portray our vote as malicious or worse — to segregation — is a disservice to your readers and respectable journalism.
Rand Paul, R-Bowling Green, represents Kentucky in the U.S. Senate.


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Posted by Bob on November 16, 2006
In Reply to: Very low food security posted by Jonathan on November 16, 2006
: Here's a brand new phrase for you - "very low food security" - straight from the USDA.
: Okay Folks,
: Correct me if I'm wrong, but this one takes the cake. Or, maybe I should quote whatever her name was, "Let them eat cake."
: On the front page of the Washington Post today, there is an article titled Some Americans Lack Food, but USDA Won't Call Them Hungry. According to this article:
: Quote:
: The U.S. government has vowed that Americans will never be hungry again. But they may experience "very low food security."
: Every year, the Agriculture Department issues a report that measures Americans' access to food, and it has consistently used "hunger" to describe those who can least afford to put food on the table. But not this year.
: Mark Nord, the lead author of the report, said "hungry" is "not a scientifically accurate term for the specific phenomena being measured in the food security survey." Nord, a USDA sociologist, said, "We don't have have a measure of that condition." . . . Beginning this year, the USDA has determined "very low food security" to be a more scientifically palatable description for that group. (Emphasis added.)
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: Nord, you beauraspeaking idiot, just walk down the street to 17th and K and you will personally witness the homeless and the hungry. And I have some anecdotal evidence that there is such a group as the hungry.
: In front of our building on K Street and in the park across the street for many years, there are certain homeless people we call "the regulars." Over the years, when I've been asked for money by the regulars, I say "no, because you're probably going to spend it on booze, meth or crack, but I'll buy you something to eat. We can go to the Subway, Wendy's or Burger King, and I'll buy you whatever you want to eat." Until around two years ago, my offer was almost consistently refused. Over the past two years, I estimate I've spent around $500-$750 on fast food for these people and, damn it, you beauracrats can go to hell. Don't tell me that there are no longer hungry people in this country shamelessly in the name of science to sugar coat a national disgrace. Simply take a step out of your office and you will see hungry people in the parks and on the street.
: If anyone here can top this idiotic beauracrat speak, please let me know.
: P.S. Eat cake, you Nordy fool, I bet you are obese.
You have to give him points for not using "calorically challenged."


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Karen M. Wilson, M.D., M.P.H., and colleagues from the University of Rochester conducted the first national survey of CAM use among adolescents in the United States. They analyzed responses from 1,280 adolescents aged 14 to 19 and found that 79 percent had used at least one form of CAM during their lifetime. Females used CAM more than males. The forms of CAM most commonly used were home remedies (such as honey and lemon, or special teas), faith healing or prayer specifically for health, herbal remedies (such as echinacea or St. John's wort), and massage therapy. Among all participants, almost 30 percent had used one or more dietary supplements, and almost 10 percent had used supplements along with prescription medications in the preceding month. Many of the supplements the teens reported using were related to attempts to change body shape (e.g., creatine and weight-loss products).
The authors urged that health care providers be aware of CAM and dietary supplement use by their adolescent patients, because of the lack of standardization in supplements, as well as their potential for safety risks and interactions with prescription medications.
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Apple has removed the photography app 500px from the App Store over concerns that images of nudity are too easy to find. And... wow, unless there's some huge part of this story we still don't know, the jokes, ridicule, frustration, face-palming, condemnations, complaints, and triple entendres pretty much all write themselves. What makes this even more asinine is that the update that got 500px pulled was the one designed to make nude images even harder to find. Sarah Perez reports for TechCrunch:
The Apple reviewer told the company that the update couldn't be approved because it allowed users to search for nude photos in the app. This is correct to some extent, but 500px had actually made it tough to do so, explains Tchebotarev. New users couldn't just launch the app and locate the nude images, he says, the way you can today on other social photo-sharing services like Instagram or Tumblr, for instance. Instead, the app defaulted to a "safe search" mode where these types of photos were hidden. To shut off safe search, 500px actually required its users to visit their desktop website and make an explicit change.
It's important to remember we're not talking with porn here. 500px doesn't allow porn. We're talking about nudity in artistic photography. Apple's always made it clear they had two developer platforms, the App Store for curated apps, and web apps for anything goes. Porn has gone the web app route. There's no reason 500px shouldn't be in the App Store with every other app that allows access to nude photos, including, as Phil Nickinson of Android Central pointed out, Instagram, Twitter, and Google+, and of course, every web browser app, including APPLE'S OWN SAFARI.
That's why any app with full web access has to display a warning for the kinds of content that can be found on the full web. If 500px didn't include the proper age rating and warning, however, it seems like that could have been easily corrected before things got so public.
I won't mention the tethering apps, knock off platform games, scam apps, and other nonsense that actually does get approved, because when you're dealing with humans, human mistakes happen. This feels like one of those mistakes, and hopefully it gets corrected quickly.
It's also important to point out that this isn't "censorship". Apple has the right to decide what's in, and what's not in their store. No government or other power forced Apple to remove any apps. They exercised their own discretion, just like Walmart does with its shelves, and NBC and the New York Times do their content. That doesn't mean it sucks any less, just that it's not censorship.
Update: The Verge received a comment from Apple PR saying 500px contained "pornographic" images and customers had complained about "possible child porn" in the app. The developer claimed it was the first 500px heard of that.
Source: TechCrunch, The Verge


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The goal is in sight—will your choices help you make it?
In the classic book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice comes to a crossroads. When the Cheshire cat appears, she asks him, "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" The cat answers, "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." Alice replies, "I don't much care where—" To which the cat says, "Then it doesn't matter which way you go" (Lewis Carroll [1992], 76).
Fortunately, we don't have to rely on fictitious felines to figure out what life's all about. We know that we want to live with our Father in Heaven again one day, and we have something that tells us how to get there—the scriptures! For example, as you take a look at Moroni 10:32 (this year's Mutual theme), we're told to "come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness."
Becoming "perfected in [Christ]" may seem a little daunting, but it's really the result of small, daily choices rather than one big action you take. And there's a simple activity to help you and your family see just how that happens on your pathway to perfection—a perfect object lesson for family home evening.
1. Get Ready…
Start your lesson by reading Moroni 10:32 and talking about what it means to "deny yourselves of all ungodliness." Ungodly decisions are ones that make us less like Christ. And we deny ungodliness by resisting the temptation to do evil and by avoiding things that keep us from feeling the Spirit.
So how should we act instead? The next part of the scripture has an answer: "Love God with all your might, mind and strength." We show love to God by serving others, keeping the commandments, and honoring our covenants with Him.
Now look at the rest of the verse. Notice how the word "perfect" is repeated. It's our goal to become perfect, but that can only happen with the help of Jesus Christ. As we come to Christ by replacing ungodly actions with obedience and love, we can become perfected in Him.
2. Get Set…
Now it's time for the activity, which works best in a large room. At one end of the room, display a picture of Jesus Christ. Several feet away, mark a line where all of your family members can line up side-by-side.
Next, you'll need a bowl and lots of slips of paper. Hand out the slips of paper, and on each one have family members write either a decision that would bring a person closer to Christ or away from Him. Remember to think about the needs of your family members as you create the slips. Have your family members include more papers representing good choices than bad ones.
3. Go!
Once the papers are filled out, put them all in the bowl. Each player will then take turns drawing a slip of paper from the bowl and then moving toward or away from the picture of Christ based on what's on the paper—good choices lead you one step closer, and poor choices take you one step back.
Make sure there are plenty of slips of paper for everyone in your family to make it to the Savior! Here are a few examples to get you started:
- I invited a classmate to church to hear me teach a Sunday lesson.
- I told Mom thank you for driving me to soccer practice.
- I prayed this morning, even though I was really grumpy when I woke up.
- I played video games instead of reading my scriptures before bed.
4. Wrap Up
To make this activity as meaningful as possible, make sure to tie the activity back to Moroni 10:32, along with other scriptures you find on the topic. Ask your family members to share their thoughts. You could also ask questions like these to start a conversation:
- What helps you resist temptation?
- What have you done recently to show God that you love Him?
- How can you help one another move closer to Christ each day?
You may also want to discuss any topics from the paper slips that family members may have questions about.
Once everyone's had a chance to share their thoughts, consider closing the lesson by bearing your testimony about how making good choices has helped you. It's one way to take a great step forward together.
Other Ideas
- It's always a good idea to pray to know how best to help those you're teaching.
- Look for relevant quotes from recent general conference talks, such as this one by Elder Ulisses Soares of the Presidency of the Seventy: "We will avoid detours and sadness in our lives as long as we walk hand in hand with the Lord" ("Be Meek and Lowly of Heart," Ensign, Nov. 2013, 10).
- To start the lesson, consider singing "Lord, I Would Follow Thee" (Hymns, no. 220).
- Consider talking about the role that the Spirit plays in helping us recognize good choices verses poor ones (see Moroni 7:16–17).


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This odd Japanese film is technically a crime picture but comes off as more of an eccentric, insightful women's film. A dowdy recluse becomes a fugitive from the law, an experience that ironically opens up her life to experiences she'd never have known otherwise. The key to the picture is its leading lady Naomi Fujiyama's entirely self-effacing performance. Known as one of Japan's top stage actors, Fujiyama holds our attention with her clumsy attempts to fit into the world while on the run from a murder charge.
On the surface Face is a rather benign version of old films noir about desperate and guilty fugitives, such as Fritz Lang's fate-obsessed Scarlet Street. For Masako, being a wanted murderess has its torments, as she tries to kill herself at least once and is frequently miserable. But she was always miserable before, and being forced out on her own puts her into the flow of life.
Isamu Uno's original story becomes a curiously humane script in the hands of Junji Sakamoto. A desperate Masako tries to turn herself in but is instead raped by an unemployed trucker. Ironically, that's just what Masako's dead sister cruelly prescribed for her bad attitude, and Masako finds herself stimulated by the experience. She finds employment (or, more accurately, jobs find her) in the depressed corners of cities. She's a maid in a 'joy hotel' until police attention puts her back in flight mode. Her prospects bloom when she takes a position helping out in a neighborhood bar owned by a lonely woman and her discouraged ex-Yakuza brother. After behaving like a slug for so many years, Masako becomes a cheerful barmaid, banging a tambourine completely out of rhythm during Karaoke sessions. "So what?" she chirps happily, "No one cares."
Masako essentially gets a life, learning to ride a bicycle like a normal person and in some ways taking the place of her murdered sister -- who returns occasionally in guilty memories. Nothing's perfect, as Masako briefly finds herself sold to a lovesick married bar patron. Sordid realities don't deter her essential spirit, however, and at one point she states that she likes people with problems. She even falls in love with a young man (recently downsized, as are most of the men she meets) and enjoys the experience of feeling radiant and beautiful.
Alas, even though she has a good instinct for when to move on, the Television publicity around her case finally closes in. Always moving southward away from her crime, she eventually takes a ferry to a tiny island and gets a start on another life caring for an old woman. When Masako's face shows up on the news, the friendly police that have been so grateful for her mending skills start a dragnet, and on such a small island there's really no place to hide.
Director Junji Sakamoto gives us a vivid portrait of the edges of modern Japan without imposing a fatalistic tone or a cynical viewpoint; with a few exceptions Masako finds that a plain girl wandering in lonely streets will not be without friends. But her twisted predicament is rich in irony. Once she was an embittered malcontent refusing human contact, but in her flight she forms more than a few meaningful relationships. The lady who runs the bar truly considers her a sister, and the jobless man she loves is sufficiently moved by Masako to forget his vendetta against the company that fired him. In the place of show-off stylistics, the picture is packed with interesting little details that only later take on meaning, like the fun-fair "duck race" attraction that seems a metaphor for the mainstream rat-race that Sakamoto's unemployeds have avoided.
Image Entertainment distributes Home Vision Entertainment discs now, but the company's commitment to quality has not changed. Face (sometimes known as Kao) is presented in a flawless enhanced transfer with excellent color. The rich audio track is in Dolby 5.1. The one extra is a trailer, and critic Chuck Stephens' factually informed liner notes offer a number of analytical insights, especially regarding Masako's stubbornly affirmative approach to life.
On a scale of Excellent, Good, Fair, and Poor,
Face (Kao) rates:
Movie: Excellent
Video: Excellent
Sound: Excellent
Supplements: Trailer, Liner notes by Chuck Stephens
Packaging: Keep case
Reviewed: November 29, 2005
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A Bayou Blue woman is hoping for a Christmas miracle — the return of a lost cell phone that contains the last images of her late husband.
A Bayou Blue woman is hoping for a Christmas miracle — the return of a lost cell phone that contains the last images of her late husband.
Lisa Foret, 46, says she last saw the phone on Saturday, when her daughter, Odile Lapeyrouse, 27, son-in-law, Jason, 34, and son, Kenneth Foret Jr., 18, took her to lunch.
Saturday would have been the 28th anniversary of her marriage to Kenneth Sr., who died Aug. 12 at the age of 49.
Kenneth Sr. always took his family out to celebrate the day.
This was Lisa's first anniversary without Kenneth Sr., and Odile said she was trying to keep the family tradition going and cheer up her mom.
"We were eating at Chili's, and after we were done, we went to Wal-Mart on Martin Luther King," Odile said. "It was there my mother realized she didn't have her phone, and we immediately went back to Chili's."
But the table had been cleared and the black iPhone 3GS and its black OtterBox case was no where to be found.
"I spoke with the manager, and he said the waitresses checked the table and they didn't see the phone at all," Lisa said.
Lisa wondered if the phone was inadvertently thrown out when the table was cleared, but that possibility was ruled out by having the manager standing near the garbage can and listen for the ringing phone.
Hoping their mom was mistaken about when she'd last seen it, Lisa's children told her to check at home. They thought she might have left it there.
"I'm doing like 60 going home," Lisa said. "We searched my daughter's house. We searched my house up and down. I was crying, and I told my son it was not there ... I knew I left the phone on the table."
Family members and close friends took to Facebook, posting pleas asking for the phone's return. One such plea was posted on The Courier's Facebook page.
"I posted on there I would give them cash for it," Lapeyrouse said. "It's not about the phone. It's about the pictures on it."
Lisa said the device contains about 280 photos and 40 videos, including about a half dozen videos of her late husband.
"There are even two videos on there of him teaching my grandson how to shuck oysters when he was 2," she said of the now-6-year-old.
"There was a video of him holding our granddaughter in the palm of his hand making her laugh when she was 8 months," Lisa said. The girl is now 1-year-old.
"Those videos cannot be replaced. She will never remember him playing with her," Lisa said of the girl.
Another video of Kenneth Sr. was taken days prior to his still unexplained death, which followed a week-long illness.
"He was crawling on his hands and knees because he was so sick. The only reason why I took that video was to show the doctor," Foret said.
Kenneth Sr. sustained a spider bite two weeks before his death, a bite that Foret is sure led to his illness and death. Medical workers say that couldn't have been the cause, she said.
"Even when he was fighting for his life, he would still say 'I want to go home,' " Foret said. "He was telling my grandson they were going to go home and play with the Hulk," Lisa said. The boy "wanted his Paw Paw home for Christmas."
Foret said whoever has the phone can keep it, she just wants to retrieve the videos and photos.
"They can send it to my house, they can stick it in the mailbox, they can leave it on the door step, or they can put it in my hand. It doesn't matter. I will not press charges," Foret said.
The service on the phone has been suspended and the device has been tagged, meaning an alert will pop up if an activation attempt is made.
Foret's phone can be returned to 1253 Roberts Road in Bayou Blue.
Staff Writer Sable LeFrere can be reached at 857-2204 or at email@example.com.


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The parish of Wood-Dalling (anciently spelt Wode Dallinges) in Norfolk was a family seat since early times. "The Hall, now a respectable farmhouse, was built in 1582 by a member of the Dalling family, which during a long period held the estate." [3]CITATION[CLOSE]
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print.
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