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Plenty of Fish Server Down
Thousands of peole are stuck without their favorite dating site plentyoffish.com. The plenty of fish server is down for a couple of hours now.
As of now, plenty of fish website is nowhere to be found and nobody seems to be able to log in. The popular dating website went popular due a report a few years ago that its adsense income is in the hundreds of thousands of dollars every month.
Plenty of fish is about roughly 5 times the side of your usual paid dating site. And it is also free which is why a lot of people are into it.
Now that the Plenty of Fish server is down, I guess people whould have to stay put and just go into their favorite social networking sites (facebook, myspace) for the meantime.
Source : http://chikamuna.com/plenty-of-fish-server-down
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Thousands of peole are stuck without their favorite dating site plentyoffish.com. The plenty of fish server is down for a couple of hours now.
As of now, plenty of fish website is nowhere to be found and nobody seems to be able to log in. The popular dating website went popular due a report a few years ago that its adsense income is in the hundreds of thousands of dollars every month.
Plenty of fish is about roughly 5 times the side of your usual paid dating site. And it is also free which is why a lot of people are into it.
Now that the Plenty of Fish server is down, I guess people whould have to stay put and just go into their favorite social networking sites (facebook, myspace) for the meantime.
Source : http://chikamuna.com/plenty-of-fish-server-down
VIDEO! Here is YouTube video of Ricki Lake discussing giving birth in “The Business of Being Born”. Ricki Lake’s Giving Birth video was a 2007 documentary executive produced by Lake rebroadcast tonight on tv.
Video URL : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8h0SkPcs2U
The Business of Being Born is described as follows:
“Advocates of natural childbirth discuss the benefits of home birth as opposed to hospital delivery.”
Lake recorded the birth of her second child which is included in the broadcast. Lake said of the event:
“I am naked at 195 pounds giving birth in my own bathtub. It can’t get any more intimate than that!”
Source : news.lalate.com
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Video URL : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8h0SkPcs2U
The Business of Being Born is described as follows:
“Advocates of natural childbirth discuss the benefits of home birth as opposed to hospital delivery.”
Lake recorded the birth of her second child which is included in the broadcast. Lake said of the event:
“I am naked at 195 pounds giving birth in my own bathtub. It can’t get any more intimate than that!”
Source : news.lalate.com
Mandira Bedi in Chennai Photo Gallery
Thoranai
Cast: Vishal, Shriya, Prakash Raj, Kishore
Director: Saba Iyappan
None
Far too many
BO verdict : Lukewarm opening
Sarvvam
Cast: Arya, Trisha, JD Chakravarthy, Indrajeet, Rohan
Director: Vishnu Vardhan
Nirav Shah`s splendid camera and Yuvan`s music & BGM
A slow second half
BO verdict : Average
Pasanga
Cast: Kishore, Sriram, Dharani, Pandian, Murugesh
Director: Pandiraj
Good script and the climax
Lengthy first half, needs editing
BO verdict : Hit
Ayan
Cast: Surya, Prabhu, Tamannaah, Jagan, Renuka, Karnas
Director: KV Anand
Surya, racy presentation
Drags a bit in the second half
BO verdict : Blockbuster
Angels & Demons
Cast: Tom Hanks, Ayelet Zurer, Ewan McGregor, Stellan Skarsgaard, Armin Mueller-Stahl
Director: Ron Howard
Tom Hanks, a good thriller.
Story may seem confusing for those who have not read the book
BO verdict : Good opening
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Cast: Vishal, Shriya, Prakash Raj, Kishore
Director: Saba Iyappan
None
Far too many
BO verdict : Lukewarm opening
Sarvvam
Cast: Arya, Trisha, JD Chakravarthy, Indrajeet, Rohan
Director: Vishnu Vardhan
Nirav Shah`s splendid camera and Yuvan`s music & BGM
A slow second half
BO verdict : Average
Pasanga
Cast: Kishore, Sriram, Dharani, Pandian, Murugesh
Director: Pandiraj
Good script and the climax
Lengthy first half, needs editing
BO verdict : Hit
Ayan
Cast: Surya, Prabhu, Tamannaah, Jagan, Renuka, Karnas
Director: KV Anand
Surya, racy presentation
Drags a bit in the second half
BO verdict : Blockbuster
Angels & Demons
Cast: Tom Hanks, Ayelet Zurer, Ewan McGregor, Stellan Skarsgaard, Armin Mueller-Stahl
Director: Ron Howard
Tom Hanks, a good thriller.
Story may seem confusing for those who have not read the book
BO verdict : Good opening
More and more people are using professional social networking websites to upgrade their job profiles and climb the ladder of success.Nineteen-year old Chandani Nasir, a second-year science student and winner of iFreshface contest on social networking site www.Ibibo.com, has taken on the fashion world practically sitting at home. She had logged on to ibibo.com to check out her friend’s profile but ended up uploading her pictures on the website as a part of an ongoing ‘Model Hunt’ contest. Nasir went on to win the contest and bagged a free portfolio shot by one of leading fashion photographers, Daboo Ratnani. The student-cum-model also got picked by Elite Model Management, which now handles all her modelling contracts. As Nasir starts her new profession, she recounts her aha moment and how it made her a believer in professional networking and the importance of building profile pages on social sites. “Had I not logged on to the social networking portal, my student to model transition would have cost me Rs 2-3 lakh,” she smiles.
Welcome to the world of professional social networking, where graduates log on to find summer internships, out-of-work executives fish for prospective employers, and young entrepreneurs claim to bag business deals over casual ‘notes’.
Admittedly, professional social networking phenomenon is still in its infancy at least when compared to job portals like Naukri.com. The site has over 2 lakh listed jobs at any point of time and serves over 34,000 corporate clients. No wonder , Yogesh Bansal, founder & CEO , ApnaCircle is focused on drawing a critical mass to his site, which at present has just about half a million subscribers. He also admits that when ApnaCircle was launched, majority of the users wanted to use it as just another social networking portal, although he adds, “Users are beginning to realise what professional networking is and now about 70 per cent of our users use the site for professional reasons.”
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Welcome to the world of professional social networking, where graduates log on to find summer internships, out-of-work executives fish for prospective employers, and young entrepreneurs claim to bag business deals over casual ‘notes’.
Admittedly, professional social networking phenomenon is still in its infancy at least when compared to job portals like Naukri.com. The site has over 2 lakh listed jobs at any point of time and serves over 34,000 corporate clients. No wonder , Yogesh Bansal, founder & CEO , ApnaCircle is focused on drawing a critical mass to his site, which at present has just about half a million subscribers. He also admits that when ApnaCircle was launched, majority of the users wanted to use it as just another social networking portal, although he adds, “Users are beginning to realise what professional networking is and now about 70 per cent of our users use the site for professional reasons.”
Directorate of Distance Education, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra has invited applications from eligible teachers for admission to two-year B.Ed. programme for the academic session 2009-10.
While giving this information, an official spokesman said that the teachers having two years teaching experience in Government Schools and Colleges, Aided and private institutions in the state would be eligible for admission. He said that the last date for receipt of application would be June 30, 2009. He said that the admission would be made through entrance test which would be held on August 8, 2009 at Kurukshetra or any other centre decided by the competent authority later on.
He said that the two year B.Ed. programme recognized by National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), would be offered through five study centers in NCTE approved B.Ed. colleges located at Kurukshetra University, Ambala, Karnal and Yamunanagar. The prospectus containing eligibility conditions, fee structure, programme schedule etc. could be obtained from Manager (P & P), Kurukshetra. The prospectus could also be viewed on website http://kukinfo.com, he added.
source : www.punjabnewsline.com
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While giving this information, an official spokesman said that the teachers having two years teaching experience in Government Schools and Colleges, Aided and private institutions in the state would be eligible for admission. He said that the last date for receipt of application would be June 30, 2009. He said that the admission would be made through entrance test which would be held on August 8, 2009 at Kurukshetra or any other centre decided by the competent authority later on.
He said that the two year B.Ed. programme recognized by National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), would be offered through five study centers in NCTE approved B.Ed. colleges located at Kurukshetra University, Ambala, Karnal and Yamunanagar. The prospectus containing eligibility conditions, fee structure, programme schedule etc. could be obtained from Manager (P & P), Kurukshetra. The prospectus could also be viewed on website http://kukinfo.com, he added.
source : www.punjabnewsline.com
A North Korean general who is a confidant of the country’s leader, Kim Jong-il, has been identified by U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies as a key figure in the covert production and distribution of high-quality counterfeit $100 bills called supernotes, according to documents and interviews with intelligence officials.
North Korean Gen. O Kuk-ryol, who was recently promoted to the country’s powerful National Defense Commission, and several of his family members are said to be in charge of producing the fake $100 bills, which are so carefully crafted that they are difficult to tell apart from real U.S. banknotes.
…The report narrowed the source of supernote printing to a plant called the Pyongsong Trademark Printing Factory. The plant is said to be under the control of the operations department of the Korean Workers Party, which is headed by Gen. O.
…Gen. O’s son, O Se-won, works with his father as one of two key overseas officials involved in North Korean counterfeiting, the report said. In addition to O Se-won, another relative of Gen. O, identified as Lee Il-nam, was a councilor at the North Korean Embassy in Ethiopia and operated as a supernotes courier, making visits from Pyongyang, to Beijing to Ethiopia and back from May 2003 to September 2004, according to the report.
The report says North Korea uses front companies and shell companies overseas to facilitate the illicit trafficking in supernotes. The use of fake companies increased after the Treasury Department barred U.S. companies from working with Banco Delta Asia. To further hide the transactions from international financial authorities, the North Korean party office used a financial front company, set up in China in 2006, to make payments as part of the purchases, the report says. North Korea also set up a front company in the British Virgin Islands in the mid-2000s to take advantage of lax banking regulations and tax laws there, it says, and other branches of the front company were established for financial support activities in China, Russia and Southeast Asia. One front company bought luxury yachts, Mercedes-Benz cars and personal helicopters for Mr. Kim and his family, the report said.
…The first North Korean counterfeit supernote was found by a cashier in Manila in 1989, said U.S. Secret Service officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject. In 1994, North Korean trading company officials carrying diplomatic passports of North Korea were arrested after depositing $250,000 in supernotes in Banco Delta Asia in Macao, the officials added.
In the United States, North Korean supernotes have been traced to Las Vegas. In the case of Chen Chiang Liu, a Los Angeles resident who was convicted in federal court in September of conspiracy to sell and pass counterfeit currency, the supernotes he used looked authentic enough to trick bill validators in casino slot machines.
The most recent evidence of North Korean trafficking in supernotes surfaced in Pusan, South Korea, in November when police seized about $1 million in supernotes. According to the report, the case “shows that Pyongyang is using South Korea to circulate or launder supernotes.” Supernote circulation has increased in recent months, the report said, in part to offset revenue shortfalls created by international sanctions against North Korea.
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North Korean Gen. O Kuk-ryol, who was recently promoted to the country’s powerful National Defense Commission, and several of his family members are said to be in charge of producing the fake $100 bills, which are so carefully crafted that they are difficult to tell apart from real U.S. banknotes.
…The report narrowed the source of supernote printing to a plant called the Pyongsong Trademark Printing Factory. The plant is said to be under the control of the operations department of the Korean Workers Party, which is headed by Gen. O.
…Gen. O’s son, O Se-won, works with his father as one of two key overseas officials involved in North Korean counterfeiting, the report said. In addition to O Se-won, another relative of Gen. O, identified as Lee Il-nam, was a councilor at the North Korean Embassy in Ethiopia and operated as a supernotes courier, making visits from Pyongyang, to Beijing to Ethiopia and back from May 2003 to September 2004, according to the report.
The report says North Korea uses front companies and shell companies overseas to facilitate the illicit trafficking in supernotes. The use of fake companies increased after the Treasury Department barred U.S. companies from working with Banco Delta Asia. To further hide the transactions from international financial authorities, the North Korean party office used a financial front company, set up in China in 2006, to make payments as part of the purchases, the report says. North Korea also set up a front company in the British Virgin Islands in the mid-2000s to take advantage of lax banking regulations and tax laws there, it says, and other branches of the front company were established for financial support activities in China, Russia and Southeast Asia. One front company bought luxury yachts, Mercedes-Benz cars and personal helicopters for Mr. Kim and his family, the report said.
…The first North Korean counterfeit supernote was found by a cashier in Manila in 1989, said U.S. Secret Service officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject. In 1994, North Korean trading company officials carrying diplomatic passports of North Korea were arrested after depositing $250,000 in supernotes in Banco Delta Asia in Macao, the officials added.
In the United States, North Korean supernotes have been traced to Las Vegas. In the case of Chen Chiang Liu, a Los Angeles resident who was convicted in federal court in September of conspiracy to sell and pass counterfeit currency, the supernotes he used looked authentic enough to trick bill validators in casino slot machines.
The most recent evidence of North Korean trafficking in supernotes surfaced in Pusan, South Korea, in November when police seized about $1 million in supernotes. According to the report, the case “shows that Pyongyang is using South Korea to circulate or launder supernotes.” Supernote circulation has increased in recent months, the report said, in part to offset revenue shortfalls created by international sanctions against North Korea.
The Thanjvaur based SASTRA University and The Hindu is jointly organising a career fair in Nuclear Engineering on June 7.
This day-long event will present the M.Tech Nuclear Engineering programme to be offered by SASTRA University jointly with the Canadian based University of Windsor , the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam, and the Mumbai based Larsen & Toubro Heavy Engineering. Experts from the renowned research organisations, nuclear establishments and the industry will address the students on the growing opportunities that await Nuclear Engineering professionals.
“The Indo-U.S. nuclear deal presents a prospective growth in nuclear trade in India and we should not fall short of qualified nuclear engineering professionals. This move by SASTRA University is in the right direction,” observed V.S. Ramamurthy, former Secretary, Union Department of Science & Technology, and currently Chairman, Board of Governors, IIT, Delhi. Prof. Ramamurthy also played a key role in formulating the curriculum for this unique M.Tech. programme along with professionals from IGCAR, BARC and IUAC.
The course has an inter-disciplinary approach with inputs from Mechanical, Chemical Engineering & Physics Departments of SASTRA University besides support from IGCAR and L&T Heavy Engineering. The students will also have the opportunity to visit the University of Windsor in Canada for two terms to complete a part of their course work and return to India for their internship at L&T / IGCAR. Such a diverse exposure not only provides good employment opportunities but also an opportunity to join a stream of highly qualified professionals in this niche area. Graduates of this programme have a promising career.
This career fair will be conducted at the PSBB School, KK Nagar, Chennai and is open to all UG Engineering and PG Science graduates from related streams. More information is available at www.sastra.edu.
source : www.hindu.com
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This day-long event will present the M.Tech Nuclear Engineering programme to be offered by SASTRA University jointly with the Canadian based University of Windsor , the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam, and the Mumbai based Larsen & Toubro Heavy Engineering. Experts from the renowned research organisations, nuclear establishments and the industry will address the students on the growing opportunities that await Nuclear Engineering professionals.
“The Indo-U.S. nuclear deal presents a prospective growth in nuclear trade in India and we should not fall short of qualified nuclear engineering professionals. This move by SASTRA University is in the right direction,” observed V.S. Ramamurthy, former Secretary, Union Department of Science & Technology, and currently Chairman, Board of Governors, IIT, Delhi. Prof. Ramamurthy also played a key role in formulating the curriculum for this unique M.Tech. programme along with professionals from IGCAR, BARC and IUAC.
The course has an inter-disciplinary approach with inputs from Mechanical, Chemical Engineering & Physics Departments of SASTRA University besides support from IGCAR and L&T Heavy Engineering. The students will also have the opportunity to visit the University of Windsor in Canada for two terms to complete a part of their course work and return to India for their internship at L&T / IGCAR. Such a diverse exposure not only provides good employment opportunities but also an opportunity to join a stream of highly qualified professionals in this niche area. Graduates of this programme have a promising career.
This career fair will be conducted at the PSBB School, KK Nagar, Chennai and is open to all UG Engineering and PG Science graduates from related streams. More information is available at www.sastra.edu.
source : www.hindu.com
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Angela Lansbury won her fifth career Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for Blithe Spirit.
Lansbury’s total now ties that of previous record-holder for an actor, Julie Harris, according to reports.
source : http://coverawards.com/2009/06/07/news_angela_lansbury_37197/
"Next to Normal" Bumps Elton, Dolly
For those who thought it was going to be a face-off between Elton John and Dolly Parton, surprise! It was the other guys who wrote the score for "Next to Normal" who pulled off an upset.
Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey beat the odds and the superstars to deservedly win for a creative edgy score.
Dolly put her happy backstage face on. No shots of Sir Elton.
Source : http://blogs.courant.com/curtain/2009/06/next-to-normal-bumps-elton-dol.html
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For those who thought it was going to be a face-off between Elton John and Dolly Parton, surprise! It was the other guys who wrote the score for "Next to Normal" who pulled off an upset.
Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey beat the odds and the superstars to deservedly win for a creative edgy score.
Dolly put her happy backstage face on. No shots of Sir Elton.
Source : http://blogs.courant.com/curtain/2009/06/next-to-normal-bumps-elton-dol.html
The God of Carnage
by
Yasmina Reza
| Title: | The God of Carnage |
| Author: | Drama |
| Genre: | Novel |
| Written: | 2006 (Eng. 2008) |
| Length: | 67 pages |
| Original in: | French |
| Availability: | The God of Carnage - US |
| The God of Carnage - UK | |
| The God of Carnage - Canada | |
| Le dieu du carnage - Canada | |
| Le dieu du carnage - France | |
| Der Gott des Gemetzels - Deutschland |
- French title: Le dieu du carnage
- Translated by Christopher Hampton
source : http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/rezay/godofc.htm
Karen Olivo Wins Tony Award, karen olivo west side story, karen olivo wiki, next to normal, jennifer damiano, devil s rejects
Karen Olivo Wins Tony Award
PETER KRAMER | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Karen Olivo
Published: Sunday, June 7, 2009 at 9:48 p.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, June 7, 2009 at 9:48 p.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, June 7, 2009 at 9:48 p.m.
Former Polk County resident Karen Olivo won a Tony Award for her role as Anita in the revival of ‘West Side Story’ on Broadway.
She won her award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical.
Olivo, a 1994 graduate of Lakeland’s Harrison Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, also starred in last year’s Tony Award-winning musical “In the Heights.’
The Tony Award winners were announced at Radio City Music Hall in New York. The awards are televised on CBS.
Source : http://www.theledger.com/article/20090607/NEWS/906079964/1410?Title=Karen-Olivo-Wins-Tony-Award
In Memoriam - Ron Silver
Some people have more courage than others.
And still other people have dead on guts that make the rest of us seem like terrified guppies in a sea of cowards.
That was Ron Silver.
Ron had been fighting terminal stomach cancer for well over two years now as if it were some minor skirmish interrupting his otherwise important dedication to the future of this country. And what a dedication that was – twenty-four hours of every day, when they didn’t drag him into Sloan Kettering for treatment… the place Ron would call to his friends with characteristic gallows humor – Sloan Spa.
We all knew Ron had cancer and most of us, I suspect, had some idea how bad it was. The summer before last (I think it was then) I remember him telling me about his recent operation. He was out for about six hours, he told me, and when he woke up he looked at the doctor and asked her how it went. She told him she couldn’t take out the cancer. It had metastasized. The six hours were for nothing. She had to sew him back up. They gave him about three to four months to live at that point.
My heart went into my toes, but Ron told me that matter-of-factly and then he went on to apologize for not writing some article or other for Pajamas Media and then asked me how I was doing. That was Ron.
We had a close relationship that came from a strange confluence of events. Perhaps the best movie that either of us worked on was the same one. – Enemies, A Love Story. But that wasn’t the real reason – it was politics. We had stayed friends after Enemies, as movie folks sometimes do when they have worked on something together that was successful, critically or commercially. We discussed other projects, but our relationship was fairly superficial then and gradually we drifted apart during the nineties.
Then 9/11 came and Ron and I were thrown together once again. We were 9/11 Democrats. We talked on the phone about our journey and the alienation we were feeling from some our friends, but we didn’t come face-to-face until the Republican Convention of 2004. I was a blogger there and feeling rather weird – an old leftie gone right – but there was Ron, far more out than I was, speaking to the entire convention. And he was brilliant. The man could speak in public as well as almost any politician and he had more intellectual background than almost all of them too. He swept the convention audience off their feet.
Ron and I renewed our friendship in the corridors of Madison Square Garden that year and that friendship became faster than it ever was. I think I knew better than most what he was going through in the political sphere, had some sense of his feelings when confronting his peers in the entertainment industry. He gave me tremendous strength. I hope I give him back even a hundredth of what he gave me.
I am writing this in a hurry because of the recent announcement of his death at the age of 62 – and I will undoubtedly write more about Ron – but I would like to share one other moment in recent years.
Somewhere around a year ago we were having breakfast in New York. He wasn’t looking good, hair thin from chemo, sallow complexion, etc. His energy, however, as always, was spectacularly high and he was filled with plans for his new Sirius radio show. But something was wrong. It wasn’t just the cancer, but it was related to the cancer. Ron was, above all things, an actor, a fantastic actor. And the cancer made him unable to do that work. He told me he had just been offered the title role in Coriolanus at the Long Wharf, but didn’t think he could do it. He would be too tired with his illness to play a Shakespeare lead. His artistic work was all over for him. It was the one time in all the recent years I saw him on the edge of tears.
I’m starting to cry myself as I type this, so I’m going to shut up. What a great man.
Source : http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2009/03/15/in-memorium-ron-silver
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Some people have more courage than others.
And still other people have dead on guts that make the rest of us seem like terrified guppies in a sea of cowards.
That was Ron Silver.
Ron had been fighting terminal stomach cancer for well over two years now as if it were some minor skirmish interrupting his otherwise important dedication to the future of this country. And what a dedication that was – twenty-four hours of every day, when they didn’t drag him into Sloan Kettering for treatment… the place Ron would call to his friends with characteristic gallows humor – Sloan Spa.
We all knew Ron had cancer and most of us, I suspect, had some idea how bad it was. The summer before last (I think it was then) I remember him telling me about his recent operation. He was out for about six hours, he told me, and when he woke up he looked at the doctor and asked her how it went. She told him she couldn’t take out the cancer. It had metastasized. The six hours were for nothing. She had to sew him back up. They gave him about three to four months to live at that point.
My heart went into my toes, but Ron told me that matter-of-factly and then he went on to apologize for not writing some article or other for Pajamas Media and then asked me how I was doing. That was Ron.
We had a close relationship that came from a strange confluence of events. Perhaps the best movie that either of us worked on was the same one. – Enemies, A Love Story. But that wasn’t the real reason – it was politics. We had stayed friends after Enemies, as movie folks sometimes do when they have worked on something together that was successful, critically or commercially. We discussed other projects, but our relationship was fairly superficial then and gradually we drifted apart during the nineties.
Then 9/11 came and Ron and I were thrown together once again. We were 9/11 Democrats. We talked on the phone about our journey and the alienation we were feeling from some our friends, but we didn’t come face-to-face until the Republican Convention of 2004. I was a blogger there and feeling rather weird – an old leftie gone right – but there was Ron, far more out than I was, speaking to the entire convention. And he was brilliant. The man could speak in public as well as almost any politician and he had more intellectual background than almost all of them too. He swept the convention audience off their feet.
Ron and I renewed our friendship in the corridors of Madison Square Garden that year and that friendship became faster than it ever was. I think I knew better than most what he was going through in the political sphere, had some sense of his feelings when confronting his peers in the entertainment industry. He gave me tremendous strength. I hope I give him back even a hundredth of what he gave me.
I am writing this in a hurry because of the recent announcement of his death at the age of 62 – and I will undoubtedly write more about Ron – but I would like to share one other moment in recent years.
Somewhere around a year ago we were having breakfast in New York. He wasn’t looking good, hair thin from chemo, sallow complexion, etc. His energy, however, as always, was spectacularly high and he was filled with plans for his new Sirius radio show. But something was wrong. It wasn’t just the cancer, but it was related to the cancer. Ron was, above all things, an actor, a fantastic actor. And the cancer made him unable to do that work. He told me he had just been offered the title role in Coriolanus at the Long Wharf, but didn’t think he could do it. He would be too tired with his illness to play a Shakespeare lead. His artistic work was all over for him. It was the one time in all the recent years I saw him on the edge of tears.
I’m starting to cry myself as I type this, so I’m going to shut up. What a great man.
Source : http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2009/03/15/in-memorium-ron-silver
Laura Ling, the sister of former The View co-host Lisa Ling, and fellow Current TV journalist Euna Lee have been sentenced to twelve years in a labor camp by a North Korean court for crossing that country's border.
Calling it a "grave crime they committed against the Korean nation and their illegal border crossing," the Central Court of North Korea convicted and sentenced the two reporters in a trial that began last Thursday. The U.S. State Department said that outside observers were not allowed to witness the trial's proceedings.
Friends and family of Ling and Lee insist that their border crossing was accidental and have been publicly pleading with the North Koreans for mercy in recent days. Reports CNN:
"When the girls left the United States, they never intended to cross into North Korean soil. And if they did at any point, we apologize," Lisa Ling, Laura Ling's sister, said on "Anderson Cooper 360" on Wednesday.
"And we know that they are very, very sorry. And we ask that you show mercy today," added Lisa Ling, a special correspondent for CNN.
Despite the limited communication, the families say they've heard enough to know the women are "terrified" and "extremely scared."
Current TV employees, including company Chairman Al Gore, had been ordered by their legal team to remain quiet about the situation with Ling and Lee, a stance that they held fast to both individually and and a company, despite some public outcry.
Obviously, this whole thing is a situation fraught with horrendous peril, not only for Ling and Lee, but for the United States in general. One can't escape the feeling that the convictions of Ling and Lee are less about North Korean law and more just another example of provocation by a renegade country led by a mad man. What Kim Jong Il and North Korea hope to gain by this situation is anyone's guess, but one can only imagine what sort of horrors take place inside a North Korean labor camp, and we certainly feel that it's time for the former two-term vice president of the United States to break his silence and start throwing his weight around to crack some serious skulls if he has to in order to get Ling and Lee freed. The Current TV strategy of silence has not worked up to this point and will only continue to reflect poorly on them and Gore going forward.
In the meantime, our thoughts are with Laura Ling and Euna Lee and their traumatized families.
Source : http://gawker.com/5282606/laura-ling-and-euna-lee-convicted-sentenced-to-hard-labor-by-north-korean-court
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Calling it a "grave crime they committed against the Korean nation and their illegal border crossing," the Central Court of North Korea convicted and sentenced the two reporters in a trial that began last Thursday. The U.S. State Department said that outside observers were not allowed to witness the trial's proceedings.
Friends and family of Ling and Lee insist that their border crossing was accidental and have been publicly pleading with the North Koreans for mercy in recent days. Reports CNN:
"When the girls left the United States, they never intended to cross into North Korean soil. And if they did at any point, we apologize," Lisa Ling, Laura Ling's sister, said on "Anderson Cooper 360" on Wednesday.
"And we know that they are very, very sorry. And we ask that you show mercy today," added Lisa Ling, a special correspondent for CNN.
Despite the limited communication, the families say they've heard enough to know the women are "terrified" and "extremely scared."
Current TV employees, including company Chairman Al Gore, had been ordered by their legal team to remain quiet about the situation with Ling and Lee, a stance that they held fast to both individually and and a company, despite some public outcry.
Obviously, this whole thing is a situation fraught with horrendous peril, not only for Ling and Lee, but for the United States in general. One can't escape the feeling that the convictions of Ling and Lee are less about North Korean law and more just another example of provocation by a renegade country led by a mad man. What Kim Jong Il and North Korea hope to gain by this situation is anyone's guess, but one can only imagine what sort of horrors take place inside a North Korean labor camp, and we certainly feel that it's time for the former two-term vice president of the United States to break his silence and start throwing his weight around to crack some serious skulls if he has to in order to get Ling and Lee freed. The Current TV strategy of silence has not worked up to this point and will only continue to reflect poorly on them and Gore going forward.
In the meantime, our thoughts are with Laura Ling and Euna Lee and their traumatized families.
Source : http://gawker.com/5282606/laura-ling-and-euna-lee-convicted-sentenced-to-hard-labor-by-north-korean-court
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