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why Putin won't fire sports minister over doping scandal
MOSCOW (Reuters) President Vladimir Putin risks personal humiliation if all Russian competitors are banned from the Rio Olympics over doping, as now seems possible; yet the man on whose watch this may happen, Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko, is not being fired.
The reason: Mutko has delivered victories on the sports field for the past decade and a half to match Putin's ambition of restoring national pride, and the Russian leader stands by the people who give him loyal service.
"Putin trusts him. Putin knows you can work with Mutko," said Mikhail Amosov, who had dealings with both men when they worked in the mayor's office in St Petersburg in the 1990s.
Putin's patience with his subordinate is undergoing its hermes black belt knockoff severest test this week after an independent report alleged that Mutko's own deputy was a lynchpin in a programme to facilitate doping by covering up athletes' positive test results.
The International Olympic Committee, reacting to the report, said on Tuesday it would consider barring Russia from taking part fake hermes mens belt in the Rio games in any disciplines; a step that would be unprecedented in international sport.
The fake hermes black belt Court of Arbitration in Sport cleared the path for a blanket ban on Russian competitors going to Rio when it rejected an appeal on Thursday against the earlier exclusion of Russian track and field athletes from the games.
Nevertheless, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Mutko was not among sports officials set to lose their jobs because he was "not mentioned in the . report as a direct perpetrator".
Putin's decision to stand by his minister suggests he values trust and loyalty above narrow definitions of managerial competence.
In the early 1990s Putin worked as a deputy mayor in his native St Petersburg, Russia's second city. Mutko was another deputy mayor, responsible for social spending.
Another colleague from the mayor's office said that at the time Mutko did little to distinguish himself from other mid level bureaucrats.
"He was a hard worker, but did not particularly take initiative," said the former colleague, who did not want to be identified discussing people who are now in positions of power.
While in the mayor's office, Mutko started a project that would define his career. He took under his wing St Petersburg TMs Zenit football club. It had fallen on hard times; it had little money and results on the pitch were poor.
Mutko was club president from 1997 until 2003, and in that period he found money, attracted star players and returned Zenit to the top flight of Russian football.
Alexei Igonin, Zenit's captain in the early 2000s, said Mutko was a hands on president. Players did not use agents because they would negotiate their deals directly with Mutko.
"He has charisma and speaks well, while he mixes in the right circles and gets the contacts he needs," said Igonin.
Mutko's success at Zenit caught the eye of Putin, who had become Russian president in 1999.
"To make Zenit a good soccer club was Mutko's project," said Amosov, who was a member of the St Petersburg legislature in the 1990s and has since became an outspoken Putin critic. "Putin appreciated his performance and took him to Moscow, a move Mutko never desired. It seems to me Putin decided that Mutko can do a lot for Russian sport in general, after doing a lot for Zenit."
In 2005, Mutko became head of the Russian Football Union, and fake hermes belt price set about making changes in the same energetic way he had in St Petersburg.
Vyacheslav Koloskov, the man he replaced, recalled how Mutko took away the company car, the office and pension that he was still enjoying at the union's expense.
Afterwards, said Koloskov, "I met him at different committees and conferences, but he never needed my help and advice, as he always believed he knew everything".
Government auditors queried how he was able to spend 4,800 Canadian dollars (2,786.3) on breakfasts at his hotel during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. He said he was assigned the hotel by organisers, so had no control over the costs.
In the same year, Mutko was mocked by many Russians on social media for a speech to FIFA, world football's governing body, in thickly accented and halting English.
For Mutko's 57th birthday last year, Putin ribbed him about his language skills by publicly presenting him with an English phrase book.
MOSCOW (Reuters) President Vladimir Putin risks personal humiliation if all Russian competitors are banned from the Rio Olympics over doping, as now seems possible; yet the man on whose watch this may happen, Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko, is not being fired.
The reason: Mutko has delivered victories on the sports field for the past decade and a half to match Putin's ambition of restoring national pride, and the Russian leader stands by the people who give him loyal service.
"Putin trusts him. Putin knows you can work with Mutko," said Mikhail Amosov, who had dealings with both men when they worked in the mayor's office in St Petersburg in the 1990s.
Putin's patience with his subordinate is undergoing its hermes black belt knockoff severest test this week after an independent report alleged that Mutko's own deputy was a lynchpin in a programme to facilitate doping by covering up athletes' positive test results.
The International Olympic Committee, reacting to the report, said on Tuesday it would consider barring Russia from taking part fake hermes mens belt in the Rio games in any disciplines; a step that would be unprecedented in international sport.
The fake hermes black belt Court of Arbitration in Sport cleared the path for a blanket ban on Russian competitors going to Rio when it rejected an appeal on Thursday against the earlier exclusion of Russian track and field athletes from the games.
Nevertheless, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Mutko was not among sports officials set to lose their jobs because he was "not mentioned in the . report as a direct perpetrator".
Putin's decision to stand by his minister suggests he values trust and loyalty above narrow definitions of managerial competence.
In the early 1990s Putin worked as a deputy mayor in his native St Petersburg, Russia's second city. Mutko was another deputy mayor, responsible for social spending.
Another colleague from the mayor's office said that at the time Mutko did little to distinguish himself from other mid level bureaucrats.
"He was a hard worker, but did not particularly take initiative," said the former colleague, who did not want to be identified discussing people who are now in positions of power.
While in the mayor's office, Mutko started a project that would define his career. He took under his wing St Petersburg TMs Zenit football club. It had fallen on hard times; it had little money and results on the pitch were poor.
Mutko was club president from 1997 until 2003, and in that period he found money, attracted star players and returned Zenit to the top flight of Russian football.
Alexei Igonin, Zenit's captain in the early 2000s, said Mutko was a hands on president. Players did not use agents because they would negotiate their deals directly with Mutko.
"He has charisma and speaks well, while he mixes in the right circles and gets the contacts he needs," said Igonin.
Mutko's success at Zenit caught the eye of Putin, who had become Russian president in 1999.
"To make Zenit a good soccer club was Mutko's project," said Amosov, who was a member of the St Petersburg legislature in the 1990s and has since became an outspoken Putin critic. "Putin appreciated his performance and took him to Moscow, a move Mutko never desired. It seems to me Putin decided that Mutko can do a lot for Russian sport in general, after doing a lot for Zenit."
In 2005, Mutko became head of the Russian Football Union, and fake hermes belt price set about making changes in the same energetic way he had in St Petersburg.
Vyacheslav Koloskov, the man he replaced, recalled how Mutko took away the company car, the office and pension that he was still enjoying at the union's expense.
Afterwards, said Koloskov, "I met him at different committees and conferences, but he never needed my help and advice, as he always believed he knew everything".
Government auditors queried how he was able to spend 4,800 Canadian dollars (2,786.3) on breakfasts at his hotel during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. He said he was assigned the hotel by organisers, so had no control over the costs.
In the same year, Mutko was mocked by many Russians on social media for a speech to FIFA, world football's governing body, in thickly accented and halting English.
For Mutko's 57th birthday last year, Putin ribbed him about his language skills by publicly presenting him with an English phrase book.
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What happened to Judith Yorke
When Deb Webber spoke with Judith Yorke about her disappearance 14 years ago, her sister Tira Yorke, son Joseph Yorke and senior reporter Katherine Hoby sat in on the reading.
Judith Yorke was constantly looking over her shoulder. She had been warned by a man from her past that someone was going to come and get her.
Immediately, Judith was scared and did not like the look of the pair, one of whom was from Te Puke, while the other was from outside the town. The men had a lot of associates and may have had gang connections.
One, a big, dark man, she did not know. The other was known to her and her family.
Judith was told there was an emergency and that she must go with them.
She resisted, repeatedly saying no. But she was bundled into the van and the vehicle was hermes brown belt imitation seen by a witness.
The van driver took roads leading out of the town, with Judith falling side to side as the vehicle swerved along windy roads at some speed. It eventually went off the bitumen road on to dirt, with bush brushing by either side of the vehicle.
It passed an area which featured many lakes _ large and small _ up to seven.
By the time it reached its intended destination _ Lake Rerewhakaaitu, near Rotorua _ Judith was dead.
She was alive in the van for 30 or 45 minutes. She was then replica Hermes belts france told to be quiet, her mouth covered with a cloth and everything went black.
Smothered most likely, or strangled. She did not suffer, she simply went to sleep and could not wake up.
Her grave is close to the lake's edge, just six or seven metres from the water.
Her body is buried in sandy soil not far from the bank in a patch of sand.
It is near where rivers or streams flow into the lake and there Hermes replica belt paris may be warm water nearby.
The body might have shifted in the sandy soil over the years.
Judith, described by her family as a petite woman, tried to fight her abductors. The slender 25 year old solo mum barely had a chance when she met her end in the back of the white van, Deb says.
She hermes mens belt replica feels physically sick when she talks about the man in Judith's past who was indirectly involved in her disappearance.
Several times during the reading she emphasised she felt "sick, really sick" over him and his involvement.
Deb also identified specific detail about who was responsible for Judith's disappearance, that confirmed what her family have always thought.
For legal reasons, we cannot reveal that detail. Deb also mentioned a "shivery sort of feeling" in relation to the two men on the driveway.
She is almost certain of the method of Judith's death. When Tira Yorke asks what actually happened to her elder sister, Deb pauses then says baldly "she was smothered". Later she elaborates, apologising if the detail is upsetting.
"Yeah, there's something over my mouth . they're putting something on my mouth . she was smothered and everything went dark . to make her be quiet."
She says Judith couldn't breathe or wake up and "it's all to do with her mouth or throat", mentioning strangulation as another possibility.
Once Judith has been murdered, Deb has trouble talking to her and repeatedly has to wake her.
Her black leather handbag, never located despite extensive searches, is either buried with her or was thrown into nearby shrubs, Deb says. The contents _ including a red wallet, her PostBank savings book, birth certificate and that of her daughter _ was burnt or trashed.
Interestingly, Deb cannot connect Judith to a party, or sees her there only very briefly. The police have always maintained she disappeared from a Matapihi orchard party and was seen by partygoers there singing and talking.
When Deb Webber spoke with Judith Yorke about her disappearance 14 years ago, her sister Tira Yorke, son Joseph Yorke and senior reporter Katherine Hoby sat in on the reading.
Judith Yorke was constantly looking over her shoulder. She had been warned by a man from her past that someone was going to come and get her.
Immediately, Judith was scared and did not like the look of the pair, one of whom was from Te Puke, while the other was from outside the town. The men had a lot of associates and may have had gang connections.
One, a big, dark man, she did not know. The other was known to her and her family.
Judith was told there was an emergency and that she must go with them.
She resisted, repeatedly saying no. But she was bundled into the van and the vehicle was hermes brown belt imitation seen by a witness.
The van driver took roads leading out of the town, with Judith falling side to side as the vehicle swerved along windy roads at some speed. It eventually went off the bitumen road on to dirt, with bush brushing by either side of the vehicle.
It passed an area which featured many lakes _ large and small _ up to seven.
By the time it reached its intended destination _ Lake Rerewhakaaitu, near Rotorua _ Judith was dead.
She was alive in the van for 30 or 45 minutes. She was then replica Hermes belts france told to be quiet, her mouth covered with a cloth and everything went black.
Smothered most likely, or strangled. She did not suffer, she simply went to sleep and could not wake up.
Her grave is close to the lake's edge, just six or seven metres from the water.
Her body is buried in sandy soil not far from the bank in a patch of sand.
It is near where rivers or streams flow into the lake and there Hermes replica belt paris may be warm water nearby.
The body might have shifted in the sandy soil over the years.
Judith, described by her family as a petite woman, tried to fight her abductors. The slender 25 year old solo mum barely had a chance when she met her end in the back of the white van, Deb says.
She hermes mens belt replica feels physically sick when she talks about the man in Judith's past who was indirectly involved in her disappearance.
Several times during the reading she emphasised she felt "sick, really sick" over him and his involvement.
Deb also identified specific detail about who was responsible for Judith's disappearance, that confirmed what her family have always thought.
For legal reasons, we cannot reveal that detail. Deb also mentioned a "shivery sort of feeling" in relation to the two men on the driveway.
She is almost certain of the method of Judith's death. When Tira Yorke asks what actually happened to her elder sister, Deb pauses then says baldly "she was smothered". Later she elaborates, apologising if the detail is upsetting.
"Yeah, there's something over my mouth . they're putting something on my mouth . she was smothered and everything went dark . to make her be quiet."
She says Judith couldn't breathe or wake up and "it's all to do with her mouth or throat", mentioning strangulation as another possibility.
Once Judith has been murdered, Deb has trouble talking to her and repeatedly has to wake her.
Her black leather handbag, never located despite extensive searches, is either buried with her or was thrown into nearby shrubs, Deb says. The contents _ including a red wallet, her PostBank savings book, birth certificate and that of her daughter _ was burnt or trashed.
Interestingly, Deb cannot connect Judith to a party, or sees her there only very briefly. The police have always maintained she disappeared from a Matapihi orchard party and was seen by partygoers there singing and talking.
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The Case of 'Little Girl Lost'
Mike Connors acknowledges that it's been "kind of strange" to step back into private investigator Joe Mannix's well worn shoes after 22 years for Thursday's episode of CBS' "Diagnosis Murder."
"I'm really enjoying it," says the very fit 71 year old actor. "Once they start calling you Mannix and Joe, of course, it becomes a little easier."
This unique episode of "Diagnosis Murder" cleverly teams Mannix with his old friend Dr. Mark Sloan (Dick Van Dyke) to solve a murder case that the detective was unable to crack on his own series 24 years ago.
Scenes from the 1973 "Mannix" episode "Little Girl Lost" are used in flashback sequences. Pernell Roberts, Beverly Garland and Julie Adams, who were guest stars on the original episode, also appear.
"It's such a good idea," the jovial Van Dyke says between takes on the "Diagnosis Murder" hospital alhambra bracelet van cleef fake set in Van Nuys. "We weave the old show in so well with the flashbacks."
The program marks the first time these two TV icons have worked together. "I have known Mike for a long time," Van Dyke says. "We are really having a good time."
"We first met when we had the same tailor, Harry Cherry," adds the charming Connors. "He did all the clothes for 'Mannix.' "
This morning, Van Dyke, Connors and Barry Van Dyke, who plays Lt. Steve Sloan, are filming a scene in which Mannix has been brought into the emergency room after he was shot during his investigation of the murder case.
Watching the filming with great delight are supervising producers Lee Goldberg and William Rabkin, who came up with the idea of weaving the two series together over lunch one day.
"We talked about one of our favorite shows, which was 'Mannix,' and we couldn't believe no one had brought back the show," says Goldberg. "When we were kids we used to pretend we were Mannix. He drove the coolest car. He never got his hair mussed. I wanted to be as self assured and as confident as he was."
After coming up with the idea of combining an old "Mannix" show with "Diagnosis Murder," Goldberg and Rabkin, who describe themselves as "TV geeks," began their search for the perfect "Mannix" episode.
"I had a book called 'Television Detective Shows of the 1970s,' which lists every episode of every single detective show of the 1970s," Goldberg says. "So we started looking through eight seasons of 'Mannix' and making a list of episodes where the guest stars were alive, affordable and the story sounded interesting. We must have pulled 30 of them and watched them."
"Little imitation vca bracelet Girl Lost," Goldberg says, "had enough emotional resonance that it would carry over 20 years. What is great about this episode is that Mannix promised this little girl he would find her father's killer. In the episode, he actually discovers this whole mob plot, but he never actually nails the killer."
Goldberg then had to get up enough nerve to call his idol. "We couldn't write the episode until we got him on board. So essentially I spent an hour on the phone assuring him this wouldn't be a 'Naked Gun' spoof. We wouldn't be making fun of him and this van cleef bracelet alhambra fake would be a genuine continuation and it would be a real meaty part."
Though his hair is still perfect, time has caught up with Mannix after too many years of hard living. While in the emergency room, Dr. Sloan discovers Mannix has a potentially deadly heart condition. Being the ultimate tough guy, the private eye refuses to listen to his old friend's warnings.
"We knew we couldn't have him be the man he was 20 years ago," Goldberg says. "But we also had to be true to that man and we got a kick pairing him up with Dr. Sloan, who is soft spoken and tries to get answers out of people being roundabout and clever, and Mannix is in your face."
Beverly Garland, who is reprising her role as a tough cookie named Stella, quips that doing this show was like "coming back from the grave!"
"It was the best," says Garland, who first worked with Connors in the low budget 1955 Roger Corman flick "Swamp Women." "It's going to be fun to see all of us the way we were. It's going to be an interesting show. It works."
And the timing is right, too. There's been a major resurgence in the popularity of "Mannix" since it joined the Nick at Nite TV Land lineup last fall.
"I go into a town and all of a sudden, these young people say, 'We love the show!,' " Connors says. "I'm kind of shocked, and I have asked a few of them, 'Do you feel it's dated?' And they say, 'No. We love it.' "
Though "Mannix" was criticized for being excessively violent when it originally aired, Connors says the series is tame by today's standards. "We did have car chases and fights, but when you compare them to shows that are on now, we were very, very low keyed."
Mike Connors acknowledges that it's been "kind of strange" to step back into private investigator Joe Mannix's well worn shoes after 22 years for Thursday's episode of CBS' "Diagnosis Murder."
"I'm really enjoying it," says the very fit 71 year old actor. "Once they start calling you Mannix and Joe, of course, it becomes a little easier."
This unique episode of "Diagnosis Murder" cleverly teams Mannix with his old friend Dr. Mark Sloan (Dick Van Dyke) to solve a murder case that the detective was unable to crack on his own series 24 years ago.
Scenes from the 1973 "Mannix" episode "Little Girl Lost" are used in flashback sequences. Pernell Roberts, Beverly Garland and Julie Adams, who were guest stars on the original episode, also appear.
"It's such a good idea," the jovial Van Dyke says between takes on the "Diagnosis Murder" hospital alhambra bracelet van cleef fake set in Van Nuys. "We weave the old show in so well with the flashbacks."
The program marks the first time these two TV icons have worked together. "I have known Mike for a long time," Van Dyke says. "We are really having a good time."
"We first met when we had the same tailor, Harry Cherry," adds the charming Connors. "He did all the clothes for 'Mannix.' "
This morning, Van Dyke, Connors and Barry Van Dyke, who plays Lt. Steve Sloan, are filming a scene in which Mannix has been brought into the emergency room after he was shot during his investigation of the murder case.
Watching the filming with great delight are supervising producers Lee Goldberg and William Rabkin, who came up with the idea of weaving the two series together over lunch one day.
"We talked about one of our favorite shows, which was 'Mannix,' and we couldn't believe no one had brought back the show," says Goldberg. "When we were kids we used to pretend we were Mannix. He drove the coolest car. He never got his hair mussed. I wanted to be as self assured and as confident as he was."
After coming up with the idea of combining an old "Mannix" show with "Diagnosis Murder," Goldberg and Rabkin, who describe themselves as "TV geeks," began their search for the perfect "Mannix" episode.
"I had a book called 'Television Detective Shows of the 1970s,' which lists every episode of every single detective show of the 1970s," Goldberg says. "So we started looking through eight seasons of 'Mannix' and making a list of episodes where the guest stars were alive, affordable and the story sounded interesting. We must have pulled 30 of them and watched them."
"Little imitation vca bracelet Girl Lost," Goldberg says, "had enough emotional resonance that it would carry over 20 years. What is great about this episode is that Mannix promised this little girl he would find her father's killer. In the episode, he actually discovers this whole mob plot, but he never actually nails the killer."
Goldberg then had to get up enough nerve to call his idol. "We couldn't write the episode until we got him on board. So essentially I spent an hour on the phone assuring him this wouldn't be a 'Naked Gun' spoof. We wouldn't be making fun of him and this van cleef bracelet alhambra fake would be a genuine continuation and it would be a real meaty part."
Though his hair is still perfect, time has caught up with Mannix after too many years of hard living. While in the emergency room, Dr. Sloan discovers Mannix has a potentially deadly heart condition. Being the ultimate tough guy, the private eye refuses to listen to his old friend's warnings.
"We knew we couldn't have him be the man he was 20 years ago," Goldberg says. "But we also had to be true to that man and we got a kick pairing him up with Dr. Sloan, who is soft spoken and tries to get answers out of people being roundabout and clever, and Mannix is in your face."
Beverly Garland, who is reprising her role as a tough cookie named Stella, quips that doing this show was like "coming back from the grave!"
"It was the best," says Garland, who first worked with Connors in the low budget 1955 Roger Corman flick "Swamp Women." "It's going to be fun to see all of us the way we were. It's going to be an interesting show. It works."
And the timing is right, too. There's been a major resurgence in the popularity of "Mannix" since it joined the Nick at Nite TV Land lineup last fall.
"I go into a town and all of a sudden, these young people say, 'We love the show!,' " Connors says. "I'm kind of shocked, and I have asked a few of them, 'Do you feel it's dated?' And they say, 'No. We love it.' "
Though "Mannix" was criticized for being excessively violent when it originally aired, Connors says the series is tame by today's standards. "We did have car chases and fights, but when you compare them to shows that are on now, we were very, very low keyed."
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'SOTY is not the new Kuch Kuch Hota Hai'
Young, confident and uber cool Siddharth Malhotra has almost made it in Bollywood.
He is one of the main lead actors in Karan Johar's upcoming film Student Of The Year, a debut that a lot of young actors would die for! modelling in New Delhi, to assisting Karan on the Shah Rukh Khan starrer My Name is Khan to leading the cast in his next directorial venture, the journey has not been too long.
Siddharth talks to Rohit Khilnani about the roller coaster ride he's been on how he joined KJo's Is becoming an assistant director now a back door to become an actor?
(Laughs) So it seems! That's true, now people only want to become assistant directors because they want to become actors. But trust me, that's not how it works. I came from Delhi to Mumbai to audition for another film which never worked out and now I'm glad that it didn't at that time.
Then somehow I managed to get into assisting but I didn't know that immediately after assisting Karan on one film, I would become an actor. I thought it would take years but destiny had other plans.
How was it on the sets of My Name is Khan, your first film as an assistant director, and you had Shah Rukh Khan in it?
It was awesome! He knew I wanted to be an actor one day so he gave me a lot of tips. After giving the clap for the shot, I used to hide under the camera because that was my job!
One day I was just standing at my position and I hear Shah Rukh Khan saying, 'You know you should observe your props very carefully when you come on the sets. It helps!'
Only when I looked up, I realised he was talking to me. He used to walk up and give good tips. He is so perfect. He used to come out of the van, give the shot and go back within minutes and van cleef bracelet alhambra fake I used to think how perfect is that! So you learn even if you just see him work!
So how did it work out? Soon after My Name is Khan got over, Karan Johar called you and offered a role?
That sounds so smooth and easy but it was not like that.
When we assisted Karan on My Name is Khan, we used to act scenes for the actors to see while Karan used to explain the exact shot to them, with the scene and dialogues.
(Laughs) I was Kajol! But I did a very bad job.
Coming back to how you landed this role.
When I did the acting part, Karan would look at me on the monitor. Since the lighting was perfect and the frames were set, he clearly observed me at that time.
I think he had it in his mind since then that if there was a film with newcomers, he would consider me. He asked me to attend auditions for some upcoming films, he didn't tell me anything at that time. I also did a photoshoot and he saw how my pictures came out.
Then one day he told me I was selected for a film that he was producing. I was very happy. Then he asked, 'Do you know who is directing it?'
I had no idea.
He told me he was directing it. My first reaction was like 'Why?'
I mean, it was great for us vca knock off bracelet but when all the stars want to work with him, why would he work with newcomers? He was sure about it and that confidence passed on to me.
When Karan Johar offered you a lead role in his upcoming film, how was it the next day? That must have been such a high point.
It was the highest point! The next day was very tough because I was not allowed to tell anyone. I was restless. filming started one and a half years after I was offered the role so to keep it inside was so difficult!
I was waiting for this period and now it's almost there.
Now that the wait is over and you can go knock off alhambra bracelet van cleef out and talk about your role, how do you see things change? How is your family reacting?
Yes finally, the wait is over. The family is obviously happy but they read a lot about me in the newspaper and call to check if it's true. I have to tell them that everything that's written about me is not entirely true.
So they are getting used to it.
Image: Varun Dhawan and Siddharth Malhotra in Student Of The Year
For the generation before yours, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai was a good college film. So is this KKHH for the new generation?
No. is not KKHH because this is not a love story. There is not much rona dhona in this. This is about a competition, which is the biggest event of the college. And for the students of that college, it's the most important thing to win this competition.
Young, confident and uber cool Siddharth Malhotra has almost made it in Bollywood.
He is one of the main lead actors in Karan Johar's upcoming film Student Of The Year, a debut that a lot of young actors would die for! modelling in New Delhi, to assisting Karan on the Shah Rukh Khan starrer My Name is Khan to leading the cast in his next directorial venture, the journey has not been too long.
Siddharth talks to Rohit Khilnani about the roller coaster ride he's been on how he joined KJo's Is becoming an assistant director now a back door to become an actor?
(Laughs) So it seems! That's true, now people only want to become assistant directors because they want to become actors. But trust me, that's not how it works. I came from Delhi to Mumbai to audition for another film which never worked out and now I'm glad that it didn't at that time.
Then somehow I managed to get into assisting but I didn't know that immediately after assisting Karan on one film, I would become an actor. I thought it would take years but destiny had other plans.
How was it on the sets of My Name is Khan, your first film as an assistant director, and you had Shah Rukh Khan in it?
It was awesome! He knew I wanted to be an actor one day so he gave me a lot of tips. After giving the clap for the shot, I used to hide under the camera because that was my job!
One day I was just standing at my position and I hear Shah Rukh Khan saying, 'You know you should observe your props very carefully when you come on the sets. It helps!'
Only when I looked up, I realised he was talking to me. He used to walk up and give good tips. He is so perfect. He used to come out of the van, give the shot and go back within minutes and van cleef bracelet alhambra fake I used to think how perfect is that! So you learn even if you just see him work!
So how did it work out? Soon after My Name is Khan got over, Karan Johar called you and offered a role?
That sounds so smooth and easy but it was not like that.
When we assisted Karan on My Name is Khan, we used to act scenes for the actors to see while Karan used to explain the exact shot to them, with the scene and dialogues.
(Laughs) I was Kajol! But I did a very bad job.
Coming back to how you landed this role.
When I did the acting part, Karan would look at me on the monitor. Since the lighting was perfect and the frames were set, he clearly observed me at that time.
I think he had it in his mind since then that if there was a film with newcomers, he would consider me. He asked me to attend auditions for some upcoming films, he didn't tell me anything at that time. I also did a photoshoot and he saw how my pictures came out.
Then one day he told me I was selected for a film that he was producing. I was very happy. Then he asked, 'Do you know who is directing it?'
I had no idea.
He told me he was directing it. My first reaction was like 'Why?'
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Why did 'saint' Roger Moore break so many hearts
In the bedroom, television's new Simon Templar in The Saint the hero with a halo lay asleep in bed with the Italian mistress for whom he had recently left his wife.
Suddenly the silence, and their slumber, was shattered by the sound of breaking glass, as a brick smashed through the bay window in the living room.
Scroll down for more.
As a saintly hand reached for the telephone to call the police, a steel stiletto heel stamped its way violently through the glass front door.
It belonged to a glamorous 47 year old blonde, only 5ft 2in tall, who had driven straight from a West End nightclub where she was starring in cabaret.
By the time the police arrived, she was back at the broken window and trying to climb through, her elegant beige cocktail dress, pink suede shoes and expensive mink stole liberally flecked with blood.
"You're just in time, Sarge," she told one of the three officers.
"Give me a leg up. I'm going to kill an Italian!"
As the police dragged her away, the smashed front door was thrown open, and the estranged husband of the feisty Welsh singing star Dorothy Squires stood there surveying her in silence.
Tearing herself free of the police, Squires hurled herself at the man she had loved and lost, pulled up his sweater, and wiped her fake hermes bag blood on his chest.
"Here's my blood!" she screamed. "Take it! You've taken everything replica hermes handbags outlet else".
Glaring at the woman of whom a celebrated columnist once wrote: "When stirred, she is a fiend from the pit, spitting hot lava", her husband yelled back: "Take her to the nearest nut house and put her in a straitjacket!" And with that, he slammed the door.
This is just one of many episodes in his haunting and traumatic second marriage that Sir Roger Moore, knight of the realm, UNICEF goodwill ambassador, and the screen's erstwhile 007 in seven James Bond movies, has tried to expunge from his memory.
Tomorrow he celebrates his 80th birthday in Los Angeles where, this week, he has been honoured with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame appropriately enough, outside 7007 Hollywood Boulevard.
Standing beside him was his Swedish born fourth consort, Christina Tholstrup, who, to those with observant eyes, bears an uncanny resemblance to his second wife, Dorothy Squires, the passionate, temperamental and explosive woman who was arguably the love of his life, even though at times that love turned into a nightmare of hatred and acrimony.
For Moore, known to his friends as a gentle, easy going, peace loving man, had an extraordinary capacity for bringing out the virago in his three former wives.
Scroll down for more.
Each one of them resented his infidelity, and the fact that he left them without a word of warning or explanation. Moore was the classic male "bolter".
Roger George Moore, the son of a London policeman, was born in Stockwell, South London, and went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art at the age of 17.
There were those who, on account of his baby faced looks, and the fact that his RADA fees were funded by the notorious homosexual film director Brian Desmond Hurst, suspected that young Roger might be gay.
He was anything but. He had a healthy interest in the opposite sex, and the first object of his affection was a fellow RADA student, the actress and ice skater Doorn Van Steyn, whose real name was Lucy Woodard, the daughter of a Streatham taxi driver.
She was six years his senior, and already once divorced, but they married on December 9, 1946, when Moore was a 19 year old 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Army Service Corps. The marriage was a short lived disaster, largely due to lack of money.
After he was demobbed, Moore earned a mere pittance as a film extra and knitwear model, Hermes birkin bags fake and their home was one room in the Streatham house that Doorn shared with her parents, brother, two sisters and brother in law.
Moore was later to describe Doorn as "a stunningly beautiful girl", and he even learned to ice skate in order to be fashion cheap hermes handbags near her.
But she told him: "You'll never be an actor. Your face is too weak. Your jaw's too big, and your mouth's too small".
"All we did was row about it," he recalled later. On one occasion, she emptied a pot of tea over his head.
In the bedroom, television's new Simon Templar in The Saint the hero with a halo lay asleep in bed with the Italian mistress for whom he had recently left his wife.
Suddenly the silence, and their slumber, was shattered by the sound of breaking glass, as a brick smashed through the bay window in the living room.
Scroll down for more.
As a saintly hand reached for the telephone to call the police, a steel stiletto heel stamped its way violently through the glass front door.
It belonged to a glamorous 47 year old blonde, only 5ft 2in tall, who had driven straight from a West End nightclub where she was starring in cabaret.
By the time the police arrived, she was back at the broken window and trying to climb through, her elegant beige cocktail dress, pink suede shoes and expensive mink stole liberally flecked with blood.
"You're just in time, Sarge," she told one of the three officers.
"Give me a leg up. I'm going to kill an Italian!"
As the police dragged her away, the smashed front door was thrown open, and the estranged husband of the feisty Welsh singing star Dorothy Squires stood there surveying her in silence.
Tearing herself free of the police, Squires hurled herself at the man she had loved and lost, pulled up his sweater, and wiped her fake hermes bag blood on his chest.
"Here's my blood!" she screamed. "Take it! You've taken everything replica hermes handbags outlet else".
Glaring at the woman of whom a celebrated columnist once wrote: "When stirred, she is a fiend from the pit, spitting hot lava", her husband yelled back: "Take her to the nearest nut house and put her in a straitjacket!" And with that, he slammed the door.
This is just one of many episodes in his haunting and traumatic second marriage that Sir Roger Moore, knight of the realm, UNICEF goodwill ambassador, and the screen's erstwhile 007 in seven James Bond movies, has tried to expunge from his memory.
Tomorrow he celebrates his 80th birthday in Los Angeles where, this week, he has been honoured with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame appropriately enough, outside 7007 Hollywood Boulevard.
Standing beside him was his Swedish born fourth consort, Christina Tholstrup, who, to those with observant eyes, bears an uncanny resemblance to his second wife, Dorothy Squires, the passionate, temperamental and explosive woman who was arguably the love of his life, even though at times that love turned into a nightmare of hatred and acrimony.
For Moore, known to his friends as a gentle, easy going, peace loving man, had an extraordinary capacity for bringing out the virago in his three former wives.
Scroll down for more.
Each one of them resented his infidelity, and the fact that he left them without a word of warning or explanation. Moore was the classic male "bolter".
Roger George Moore, the son of a London policeman, was born in Stockwell, South London, and went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art at the age of 17.
There were those who, on account of his baby faced looks, and the fact that his RADA fees were funded by the notorious homosexual film director Brian Desmond Hurst, suspected that young Roger might be gay.
He was anything but. He had a healthy interest in the opposite sex, and the first object of his affection was a fellow RADA student, the actress and ice skater Doorn Van Steyn, whose real name was Lucy Woodard, the daughter of a Streatham taxi driver.
She was six years his senior, and already once divorced, but they married on December 9, 1946, when Moore was a 19 year old 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Army Service Corps. The marriage was a short lived disaster, largely due to lack of money.
After he was demobbed, Moore earned a mere pittance as a film extra and knitwear model, Hermes birkin bags fake and their home was one room in the Streatham house that Doorn shared with her parents, brother, two sisters and brother in law.
Moore was later to describe Doorn as "a stunningly beautiful girl", and he even learned to ice skate in order to be fashion cheap hermes handbags near her.
But she told him: "You'll never be an actor. Your face is too weak. Your jaw's too big, and your mouth's too small".
"All we did was row about it," he recalled later. On one occasion, she emptied a pot of tea over his head.
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Wald helped write Van Ronk's posthumous memoir, The Mayor of MacDougal Street, which was titled after the Greenwich Village street that was home to The Gaslight Cafe and other folk clubs in the early 1960s.
"Dave was the king of that world. He really knew New York, he really van cleef engagement ring replica knew history, he really knew music," Wald says.
Van Ronk also knew how to tell a story, a talent he displayed on stage between songs. That talent was front and center on 2004's And the tin pan bended and the story ended., a live recording of his last concert.
"I have often thought back and wondered just what my reaction would have been at age 17 if someone had told me I would go through most of my life being called a folk singer," Van Ronk said during the show. "I probably would've slashed my wrists."
The performance was recorded in October of 2001, just months before he died of colon cancer. Despite what his legacy leaves behind, Van Ronk never thought of himself as a folk singer.
"What I really wanted I wanted to play jazz in the worst way," he said. "And I did."
Van Ronk grew up in Brooklyn and Queens. He moved to Greenwich Village as a teenager in the early '50s and tried to make it playing in old time jazz bands. But he found more success singing blues and folk songs in the clubs that were springing up in the village.
He recorded a handful of well received albums in the early 1960s. Wald says he became a mentor to younger musicians, including Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton and Bob Dylan. In fact, Dylan borrowed one of Van Ronk's arrangements for his first album.
"He asked me if I would mind if he recorded my version of 'House of the Rising Sun,'" Van Ronk said years later in the Dylan documentary No Direction Home. "So I said, 'Well gee, Bob, I'd rather you didn't because I'm gonna record it myself soon.' And Bobby said, 'Uh oh.'"
Van Ronk said he had to stop playing the song because people thought he'd stolen it from Dylan. He laughed in the documentary as he remembered things eventually coming full circle.
"Later on, when Eric Burdon and The Animals picked the song up from Bobby and recorded it, Bobby told me that he had to drop it, because everyone accused him of ripping it off from Eric Burdon," Van Ronk said.
Over time, Dylan and most other fixtures of the folk scene moved out of Greenwich Village. But Van Ronk stayed put, taking on students between gigs to pay the bills.
Andrea Vuocolo married Van Ronk in 1988. She still lives in the small apartment they shared, which is packed with her late husband's books, guitars and collections of African and Native American art. Vuocolo says her husband read voraciously, and was also a keen observer of the neighborhood.
"He used to tell stories about the village in the '50s and '60s," Vuocolo says. "And there were a lot of people hanging around the clubs who were not musicians. You know, locals, a lot of petty thieves and odd van cleef wedding ring price replica characters. . He wanted to write more about the whole neighborhood."
But Van Ronk died before he could write more than a few chapters of his memoir. Elijah Wald was able to finish the book using a combination of interviews and stories Van Ronk had told from the stage; the memoir went on to inspire Inside Llewyn Davis.
The last time the Coens built a movie around music, the soundtrack of O Brother, Where Art Thou? sold millions of copies and spurred an old time music revival. Van Ronk's widow hopes this movie will do the same for her husband's legacy.
"It's very nice to just see people finally paying attention to his work more," Vuocolo says. "And I think that would have been great for him. Just to be noticed more, and have more people listen and understand what he was about."
At his final concert, Van Ronk joked that there were lines around the block to see the Beat generation poets in Greenwich Village coffee houses.
"This presented a logistical problem for the owners of coffee houses van cleef & arpels ring price replica how to get people out of there, and get new people in. So they hired folk singers," he said. "They'd get up and sing three songs. If, at the end of three songs, anybody was still seated, we could get fired. We turned the house over just like that."
Inside Llewyn Davis is set in the Greenwich Village folk music scene of the early 1960s. In a scene from the Coen brothers movie, the fictional Llewyn Davis sits on stage and sings a tune that Dave Van Ronk performed and recorded. Like Van Ronk, the fictional Davis has dark hair and a beard, and spent some time in the merchant marine. And the album cover for the fictional LP that gives the movie its title looks just like the real 1963 LP Inside Dave Van Ronk.
Wald helped write Van Ronk's posthumous memoir, The Mayor of MacDougal Street, which was titled after the Greenwich Village street that was home to The Gaslight Cafe and other folk clubs in the early 1960s.
"Dave was the king of that world. He really knew New York, he really van cleef engagement ring replica knew history, he really knew music," Wald says.
Van Ronk also knew how to tell a story, a talent he displayed on stage between songs. That talent was front and center on 2004's And the tin pan bended and the story ended., a live recording of his last concert.
"I have often thought back and wondered just what my reaction would have been at age 17 if someone had told me I would go through most of my life being called a folk singer," Van Ronk said during the show. "I probably would've slashed my wrists."
The performance was recorded in October of 2001, just months before he died of colon cancer. Despite what his legacy leaves behind, Van Ronk never thought of himself as a folk singer.
"What I really wanted I wanted to play jazz in the worst way," he said. "And I did."
Van Ronk grew up in Brooklyn and Queens. He moved to Greenwich Village as a teenager in the early '50s and tried to make it playing in old time jazz bands. But he found more success singing blues and folk songs in the clubs that were springing up in the village.
He recorded a handful of well received albums in the early 1960s. Wald says he became a mentor to younger musicians, including Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton and Bob Dylan. In fact, Dylan borrowed one of Van Ronk's arrangements for his first album.
"He asked me if I would mind if he recorded my version of 'House of the Rising Sun,'" Van Ronk said years later in the Dylan documentary No Direction Home. "So I said, 'Well gee, Bob, I'd rather you didn't because I'm gonna record it myself soon.' And Bobby said, 'Uh oh.'"
Van Ronk said he had to stop playing the song because people thought he'd stolen it from Dylan. He laughed in the documentary as he remembered things eventually coming full circle.
"Later on, when Eric Burdon and The Animals picked the song up from Bobby and recorded it, Bobby told me that he had to drop it, because everyone accused him of ripping it off from Eric Burdon," Van Ronk said.
Over time, Dylan and most other fixtures of the folk scene moved out of Greenwich Village. But Van Ronk stayed put, taking on students between gigs to pay the bills.
Andrea Vuocolo married Van Ronk in 1988. She still lives in the small apartment they shared, which is packed with her late husband's books, guitars and collections of African and Native American art. Vuocolo says her husband read voraciously, and was also a keen observer of the neighborhood.
"He used to tell stories about the village in the '50s and '60s," Vuocolo says. "And there were a lot of people hanging around the clubs who were not musicians. You know, locals, a lot of petty thieves and odd van cleef wedding ring price replica characters. . He wanted to write more about the whole neighborhood."
But Van Ronk died before he could write more than a few chapters of his memoir. Elijah Wald was able to finish the book using a combination of interviews and stories Van Ronk had told from the stage; the memoir went on to inspire Inside Llewyn Davis.
The last time the Coens built a movie around music, the soundtrack of O Brother, Where Art Thou? sold millions of copies and spurred an old time music revival. Van Ronk's widow hopes this movie will do the same for her husband's legacy.
"It's very nice to just see people finally paying attention to his work more," Vuocolo says. "And I think that would have been great for him. Just to be noticed more, and have more people listen and understand what he was about."
At his final concert, Van Ronk joked that there were lines around the block to see the Beat generation poets in Greenwich Village coffee houses.
"This presented a logistical problem for the owners of coffee houses van cleef & arpels ring price replica how to get people out of there, and get new people in. So they hired folk singers," he said. "They'd get up and sing three songs. If, at the end of three songs, anybody was still seated, we could get fired. We turned the house over just like that."
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If you have some experience with carpentry, or are generally good with your hands, you just might make this a successful do it yourself project. Not only do you save a lot on installation costs, you also get the satisfaction of doing the job yourself.
Before you roll up your sleeves and start working though, it is best to consult with a contractor on how to go about with the whole thing. One of the disadvantages of installing your own fence is that you still need some basic knowledge of fence building.
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Navy is on hand to protect us. No, not that Gulf! I'm talking about the Gulf of Alaska and it's actually mock war if, that is, you don't happen to be a fin whale or a wild salmon.
This May, the Navy will again sail its warships into the Gulf of Alaska. There, they will engage in military maneuvers and possibly drop bombs, launch torpedoes and missiles, and engage in activities that stand a significant chance of poisoning those once pristine waters, while it prepares for future battles elsewhere on the planet. Think of it as a war against wildlife, an assault on the environment and local coastal communities. military Alaska Command has branded Emily Stolarcyk troublemaker for insistently pointing this out. In a state where such a phrase is the equivalent of an obscenity, some have bluntly called her The office of Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski has termed her a while a Kodiak Assembly member labeled some of what she's been saying about the Navy silly. a resident of the tiny fishing town of Cordova, Alaska, the most radical rabble rousing thing about Stolarcyk may be the passion with which she loves this region of the planet in all its majesty. It's why she's taken a fierce and unwavering stand for years now against the ongoing training exercises the Navy carries out in the Gulf of Alaska during one of the largest migrations of birds and marine life on Earth. These exercises, which inject tons of toxic materials into the Gulf and use significant explosive ordnance, are once again scheduled to take place just as Alaska commercial fishing season opens.
Located in the state's massive Chugach National Forest, coastal Cordova is nestled between the glacial clad Chugach Mountains, Prince William Sound, and the Copper River. Fishing is the heart and soul of the town, as well as the foundation of its economy. A rough and tumble place, it regularly lands on lists of the top 10 American fishing ports, whether measured in pounds of fish caught annually or their value. A fish tax pays for its schools and the upkeep of most of its infrastructure. At least a quarter of its jobs are connected to the commercial fishing industry. fishing, the town wouldn't even be here, says Stolarcyk, who knows the intricacies of the Navy plans better than most people in the Navy do, as we tour Cordova's harbor.
It is impossible to overstate how iconic salmon are here. "What we have in Cordova is one of the last wild places left in the world, and one of the last places on Earth where we still have healthy salmon runs, she tells me. She's the program director for theEyak Preservation Council, an environmental and social justice oriented nonprofit based in Cordova, whose primary mission is to protect wild salmon habitat.
Her partner is about to start his seventh season as a commercial fisherman. Their apartment building even has a fish smoker. bring this town to life, you can feel the energy once the fish start returning, it palpable, she explains, excitement in her voice. can hear the boats coming in and people go to stand on the shore to welcome them back. this year, as in 2015, the Navy plans to conduct its part ofNorthern Edge 2017(NE 17), a training exercise, right in her neighborhood. These war games, which occur every Hermes belt replica paris other year, include ships, aircraft, ordnance, and the widespread use of sonar across more than 42,000 square nautical miles of the marine environment of the Gulf of Alaska. And it iswell knownthat sonar causes injury and death to whales, dolphin, and other marine life. It has been shown that whales will even beach themselves to escape the noise, which is more than 100 decibels louder underwater than even the loudest rock concert. Thanks to a major lawsuit against them, the Navyagreedto limit the use of certain kinds of sonar in Southern California and Hawaii, due to its impact on the endangered Blue Whale along with other species. But not in the Gulf of Alaska.
Fishing for an answer
Asin 2015, the Navy plans threaten an area of the Gulf that couldn't be more biologically sensitive or rich in wildlife. Their training area includes a State of Alaska Marine Protected Area, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Protected Area, and both the Gulf of Alaska Seamount Protected and Slope Habitat Conservation areas.
Nevertheless, the Navy is requesting permits to use live ordnance including bombs, missiles, and torpedoes, along with active and passive sonar in war training exercises that could release as much as 352,000 pounds of materials into those waters including, according to the Navy's ownEnvironmental Impact Statement(EIS), missiles, bombs, and torpedoes.
These waters support some of the most valuable fisheries left in the United States and the commercial fishing industry is thesingle largestprivate sector employer in the state of Alaska, providing over 63,000 jobs. Nevertheless, the Navy ownEISclaims that fish in the area are at risk of chemical exposures of various sorts because the war games will introduce chromium, lead, tungsten, nickel, cadmium, cyanide, and ammonium perchlorate, along with numerous other heavy metals and toxic substances, into Alaskan waters. According to theEIS, is known about the very important issues of non mortality damage in the short and long term, and nothing is known about the effects on behavior of fish. It adds that "potential effects" include "death or damage" and that not killed or driven from a location by an explosion might change their behavior, feeding pattern, or distribution. the Navy itself is aware of some of the damaging impacts of its exercises, others remain unknown and that service is making no effort to learn what they might be. The precautionary principle of do no harm is clearly not operative here.
A partial list of affected species includes blue, fin, gray, humpback, minke, sei, sperm, and killer whales, the highly endangered North Pacific right whale (of which there are only about 30 left), as well as dolphins and sea lions. No fewer than a dozen native tribes including the Eskimo, Eyak, Athabascan, Tlingit, Sun and Aleut rely on the area for subsistence living, not to speak of their cultural and spiritual identities.
As the May 1st launching day for NE 17 looms, we already have at least some inkling of just what kinds of damage might result. Immediately following Northern Edge 15, Alaska witnessed the single largestwhale mortality eventever to occur in its waters. Eighteen carcasses of endangered whales were found floating near Kodiak Island within the area in which the Navy had conducted its exercises, attractingnational media attention.
Statewide, in the year that followed, Alaska had its worst pink salmon fishing season in four decades. A federal disasterdeclarationwas even issued to give salmon fishermensome relief, deferring the repayment of loans. That year also saw thebiggest die offof Murres, a small seabird, ever recorded in the state.
Human caused climate disruption impacts had long been noted across the North Pacific, whose climate change affected waters were warming to record temperatures that year. While this obviously played a role in such events, what impact the naval exercises had across the Gulf of Alaska remains largely unknown, in part because imitation hermes belt on sale the Navy refused in 2015 as it will again this year to allow independent observers on its ships or to conduct follow up studies focused on how their war games impacted the environment and marine life.
Local opposition is strong, as10Alaskan communities havepassed resolutionsrequesting that the Navy move the timing and location of Northern Edge 2017 and all future training events to the fall or winter months and further offshore to minimize their impact on fisheries and migrations. Furthermore, the mayors ofCordova,Girdwood,Tenakee Springs, andValdezsent letters to Senator Murkowski, requesting that she ask the Navy to relocate NE 17. The senator, hardly a critic of the military, nonethelesswrotethe secretary of the Navy last September to concern over the manner in which the Navy is approaching its participation in Northern Edge 2017, andcalleda lack of naval public affairs guidance troubling. Secretary of the Navy Dennis McGinnreplied, readily admit we could have done a better job reaching out to potentially affected stakeholders leading up to NE 15. is truly a David going up against the naval Goliath. Her dedication to this region of the planet has been and continues to be unwavering.
could you live in this place and experience all this beauty and not get how precious this is, she asks with typical intensity as we walk near her town's harbor and bald eagles soar above us. love this place so much, and I can even let myself feel all my emotions when I working on this issue, because I wouldn be able to function. late afternoon sun is just beginning to hint at the evening to come as she stares out into the waters of the Gulf, takes several deep breaths, and says, "We have to defend our lifestyle here, because if we don do it, who else is going to do it? If the Navy destroys the Gulf of Alaska, they can just leave, while we're the ones who have to live with whatever is left. Navy is getting away with murder
My trip to Alaska to report on the upcoming war games began in the small ski town of Girdwood, a 40 minute drive east of Anchorage. There, Stolarcyk and I met up with her colleague, Christina Hendrickson, as they continued their efforts to push the Navy's schedule for the war games out of prime wildlife season. Hendrickson, who specializes in environmental law, is a former defense contractor. Like two high octane lawyers before a big trial, she and Stolarcyk instantly begin talking a mile a minute about what their next moves should be.
They bring me up to speed on the latest Navy maneuvers in what is now a publicity war over Northern Edge Hermes belt replica france 17 and the way its officials have officially opted to with the stakeholders. On the other hand, as Hendrickson points out to me, "they have refused to meet with Emily and myself and, as it happened at that point, me, too. I recently contacted Captain Anastasia Schmidt, director of public affairs for Alaska Command in Anchorage, to arrange a meeting and my request had been denied.
Unfortunately, as Hendrickson points out, the permits the Navy requested from both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Marine Fisheries Service allow them to war game their hearts out in the Gulf for the next five years without taking the slightest responsibility for analyzingthe potential impact of their actions or dealing with the myriad species migrating through the area during the training period. While those who fish here must adhere to environmental standards, the Navy doesn't have to.
that you have a friend who is a subsistence fisherman," Hendrickson says, "who is looking at his nets each season, and on the seasons the Navy trains, there seems to be less fish in them, and there are less whales returning, and then there's a huge Murre die off. There are sick sea otters or sea otters not returning at all. It obvious to me that the Navy is not connecting these dots. ask her what exactly drives her on this issue and she stares out the window at the still snow covered trees, then looks me dead in the eyes and says, Navy is getting away with murder and that upsets me. it walks, swims, or crawls, I've fished it
Stolarcyk and I fly on to Kodiak Island where we meet up with Tom Lance, the natural resources director for the Sun tribe. We're there so that the two of them can make a presentation to the island's Borough Assembly in hopes of inspiring another Alaskan community to pass a resolution against the timing of the exercises. The Navy told the tribal council representatives, basically, you.' essentially being blown off, the tribes requested another meeting, which only happened after the exercises were over. At that time, they insisted that the Navy change the season for the next set of exercises to late fall or winter and the location as well. condition was for them to account for fish take [that is, the disturbance or destruction of fish populations], as if it were a commercial fishing operation where they are given a total allowable catch. To this they responded that they don harvest fish, so why should they have to track that? my observation," Lance says, "I see an undercurrent of frustration within the tribes and the community of fishermen that the Navy is going to do what they are going to do no matter what we say. He takes a last sip of fake hermes mens belt coffee and concludes, is so focused on the short run right now, they're forgetting about the long run. If we don save the ocean as a potential place to farm, we not going to be able to feed ourselves in the future. I visit with Alexus Kwachka, a Kodiak commercial fisherman for the last 30 years. A bear of a man, he shakes my hand vigorously while welcoming me into his home, which overlooks Kodiak massive harbor. When I ask him what he's fished for, he responds, it walks, swims, or crawls, I fished it. wastes no time going after the Navy. "I question their timing. They say they don want to train in the winter and instead they plan it for during the largest migratory period of marine life and birds here. Fishermen on the island, he assures me, are increasingly apprehensive about the Navy plans and its impact on their livelihoods, even though here are patriotic and support the military."
Prior to Northern Edge 15, Kwachka lined his boat up with dozens of others in the harbor in protest. Now, he's concerned again and feels slighted that the military doesn't consider his voice worth listening to. He says emphatically, worried about the fact that they are allowed to bring in a load of boats and blow shit up all over the place. If they do that, he tells me, the ill effects out with the little guys then go up through the whole food web, which is another reason not to do it in the Spring when the forage fish are both reproducing and traveling. It's just not a good time to be introducing toxins and blowing things up on top of them. The chemical fallout from those explosions goes down through the food web and is eaten or absorbed by the fish. security is national security
That evening, Stolarcyk, Lance, and I head over to theKodiak Island boroughbuilding for their meeting. In a small, cramped basement room, several members of the assembly are around a table, while the rest of us are seated on chairs along the walls.
The two of them give their brief talks with a slide show. As soon as they're done, Councilman Matt Van Deale indicates that he'll sponsor the resolution they want, adding, security is national security and we are a fishing town. A second councilperson responds favorably to the resolution as others nod.
Suddenly, Councilman Kyle Crow speaks up, questioning the threat of toxic wastes. know about how hazardous waste is defined and I seen folks declare a block of concrete with a chip of paint on it as hazardous waste. Stolarcyk promptly projects a slide she's already shown that displays a chart taken from the Navy'senvironmental impact statementindicating that more than five tons of toxic materials could be introduced into the fertile fishing areas of the Gulf each time the Navy conducts a training event.
Crow also questions the dangers of the Navy use of sonar, comparing theirs to what he uses on his own fishing boat. Again, Stolarcyk pulls up a slide showing that the Navy sonar generates audible blasts up to 235 decibels humans begin to suffer hearing damage at 85 decibels that travel for thousands of miles across the ocean. Crow nods in response to the new information, given that it is straight out of theNavy own documents.
Navy is on hand to protect us. No, not that Gulf! I'm talking about the Gulf of Alaska and it's actually mock war if, that is, you don't happen to be a fin whale or a wild salmon.
This May, the Navy will again sail its warships into the Gulf of Alaska. There, they will engage in military maneuvers and possibly drop bombs, launch torpedoes and missiles, and engage in activities that stand a significant chance of poisoning those once pristine waters, while it prepares for future battles elsewhere on the planet. Think of it as a war against wildlife, an assault on the environment and local coastal communities. military Alaska Command has branded Emily Stolarcyk troublemaker for insistently pointing this out. In a state where such a phrase is the equivalent of an obscenity, some have bluntly called her The office of Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski has termed her a while a Kodiak Assembly member labeled some of what she's been saying about the Navy silly. a resident of the tiny fishing town of Cordova, Alaska, the most radical rabble rousing thing about Stolarcyk may be the passion with which she loves this region of the planet in all its majesty. It's why she's taken a fierce and unwavering stand for years now against the ongoing training exercises the Navy carries out in the Gulf of Alaska during one of the largest migrations of birds and marine life on Earth. These exercises, which inject tons of toxic materials into the Gulf and use significant explosive ordnance, are once again scheduled to take place just as Alaska commercial fishing season opens.
Located in the state's massive Chugach National Forest, coastal Cordova is nestled between the glacial clad Chugach Mountains, Prince William Sound, and the Copper River. Fishing is the heart and soul of the town, as well as the foundation of its economy. A rough and tumble place, it regularly lands on lists of the top 10 American fishing ports, whether measured in pounds of fish caught annually or their value. A fish tax pays for its schools and the upkeep of most of its infrastructure. At least a quarter of its jobs are connected to the commercial fishing industry. fishing, the town wouldn't even be here, says Stolarcyk, who knows the intricacies of the Navy plans better than most people in the Navy do, as we tour Cordova's harbor.
It is impossible to overstate how iconic salmon are here. "What we have in Cordova is one of the last wild places left in the world, and one of the last places on Earth where we still have healthy salmon runs, she tells me. She's the program director for theEyak Preservation Council, an environmental and social justice oriented nonprofit based in Cordova, whose primary mission is to protect wild salmon habitat.
Her partner is about to start his seventh season as a commercial fisherman. Their apartment building even has a fish smoker. bring this town to life, you can feel the energy once the fish start returning, it palpable, she explains, excitement in her voice. can hear the boats coming in and people go to stand on the shore to welcome them back. this year, as in 2015, the Navy plans to conduct its part ofNorthern Edge 2017(NE 17), a training exercise, right in her neighborhood. These war games, which occur every Hermes belt replica paris other year, include ships, aircraft, ordnance, and the widespread use of sonar across more than 42,000 square nautical miles of the marine environment of the Gulf of Alaska. And it iswell knownthat sonar causes injury and death to whales, dolphin, and other marine life. It has been shown that whales will even beach themselves to escape the noise, which is more than 100 decibels louder underwater than even the loudest rock concert. Thanks to a major lawsuit against them, the Navyagreedto limit the use of certain kinds of sonar in Southern California and Hawaii, due to its impact on the endangered Blue Whale along with other species. But not in the Gulf of Alaska.
Fishing for an answer
Asin 2015, the Navy plans threaten an area of the Gulf that couldn't be more biologically sensitive or rich in wildlife. Their training area includes a State of Alaska Marine Protected Area, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Protected Area, and both the Gulf of Alaska Seamount Protected and Slope Habitat Conservation areas.
Nevertheless, the Navy is requesting permits to use live ordnance including bombs, missiles, and torpedoes, along with active and passive sonar in war training exercises that could release as much as 352,000 pounds of materials into those waters including, according to the Navy's ownEnvironmental Impact Statement(EIS), missiles, bombs, and torpedoes.
These waters support some of the most valuable fisheries left in the United States and the commercial fishing industry is thesingle largestprivate sector employer in the state of Alaska, providing over 63,000 jobs. Nevertheless, the Navy ownEISclaims that fish in the area are at risk of chemical exposures of various sorts because the war games will introduce chromium, lead, tungsten, nickel, cadmium, cyanide, and ammonium perchlorate, along with numerous other heavy metals and toxic substances, into Alaskan waters. According to theEIS, is known about the very important issues of non mortality damage in the short and long term, and nothing is known about the effects on behavior of fish. It adds that "potential effects" include "death or damage" and that not killed or driven from a location by an explosion might change their behavior, feeding pattern, or distribution. the Navy itself is aware of some of the damaging impacts of its exercises, others remain unknown and that service is making no effort to learn what they might be. The precautionary principle of do no harm is clearly not operative here.
A partial list of affected species includes blue, fin, gray, humpback, minke, sei, sperm, and killer whales, the highly endangered North Pacific right whale (of which there are only about 30 left), as well as dolphins and sea lions. No fewer than a dozen native tribes including the Eskimo, Eyak, Athabascan, Tlingit, Sun and Aleut rely on the area for subsistence living, not to speak of their cultural and spiritual identities.
As the May 1st launching day for NE 17 looms, we already have at least some inkling of just what kinds of damage might result. Immediately following Northern Edge 15, Alaska witnessed the single largestwhale mortality eventever to occur in its waters. Eighteen carcasses of endangered whales were found floating near Kodiak Island within the area in which the Navy had conducted its exercises, attractingnational media attention.
Statewide, in the year that followed, Alaska had its worst pink salmon fishing season in four decades. A federal disasterdeclarationwas even issued to give salmon fishermensome relief, deferring the repayment of loans. That year also saw thebiggest die offof Murres, a small seabird, ever recorded in the state.
Human caused climate disruption impacts had long been noted across the North Pacific, whose climate change affected waters were warming to record temperatures that year. While this obviously played a role in such events, what impact the naval exercises had across the Gulf of Alaska remains largely unknown, in part because imitation hermes belt on sale the Navy refused in 2015 as it will again this year to allow independent observers on its ships or to conduct follow up studies focused on how their war games impacted the environment and marine life.
Local opposition is strong, as10Alaskan communities havepassed resolutionsrequesting that the Navy move the timing and location of Northern Edge 2017 and all future training events to the fall or winter months and further offshore to minimize their impact on fisheries and migrations. Furthermore, the mayors ofCordova,Girdwood,Tenakee Springs, andValdezsent letters to Senator Murkowski, requesting that she ask the Navy to relocate NE 17. The senator, hardly a critic of the military, nonethelesswrotethe secretary of the Navy last September to concern over the manner in which the Navy is approaching its participation in Northern Edge 2017, andcalleda lack of naval public affairs guidance troubling. Secretary of the Navy Dennis McGinnreplied, readily admit we could have done a better job reaching out to potentially affected stakeholders leading up to NE 15. is truly a David going up against the naval Goliath. Her dedication to this region of the planet has been and continues to be unwavering.
could you live in this place and experience all this beauty and not get how precious this is, she asks with typical intensity as we walk near her town's harbor and bald eagles soar above us. love this place so much, and I can even let myself feel all my emotions when I working on this issue, because I wouldn be able to function. late afternoon sun is just beginning to hint at the evening to come as she stares out into the waters of the Gulf, takes several deep breaths, and says, "We have to defend our lifestyle here, because if we don do it, who else is going to do it? If the Navy destroys the Gulf of Alaska, they can just leave, while we're the ones who have to live with whatever is left. Navy is getting away with murder
My trip to Alaska to report on the upcoming war games began in the small ski town of Girdwood, a 40 minute drive east of Anchorage. There, Stolarcyk and I met up with her colleague, Christina Hendrickson, as they continued their efforts to push the Navy's schedule for the war games out of prime wildlife season. Hendrickson, who specializes in environmental law, is a former defense contractor. Like two high octane lawyers before a big trial, she and Stolarcyk instantly begin talking a mile a minute about what their next moves should be.
They bring me up to speed on the latest Navy maneuvers in what is now a publicity war over Northern Edge Hermes belt replica france 17 and the way its officials have officially opted to with the stakeholders. On the other hand, as Hendrickson points out to me, "they have refused to meet with Emily and myself and, as it happened at that point, me, too. I recently contacted Captain Anastasia Schmidt, director of public affairs for Alaska Command in Anchorage, to arrange a meeting and my request had been denied.
Unfortunately, as Hendrickson points out, the permits the Navy requested from both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Marine Fisheries Service allow them to war game their hearts out in the Gulf for the next five years without taking the slightest responsibility for analyzingthe potential impact of their actions or dealing with the myriad species migrating through the area during the training period. While those who fish here must adhere to environmental standards, the Navy doesn't have to.
that you have a friend who is a subsistence fisherman," Hendrickson says, "who is looking at his nets each season, and on the seasons the Navy trains, there seems to be less fish in them, and there are less whales returning, and then there's a huge Murre die off. There are sick sea otters or sea otters not returning at all. It obvious to me that the Navy is not connecting these dots. ask her what exactly drives her on this issue and she stares out the window at the still snow covered trees, then looks me dead in the eyes and says, Navy is getting away with murder and that upsets me. it walks, swims, or crawls, I've fished it
Stolarcyk and I fly on to Kodiak Island where we meet up with Tom Lance, the natural resources director for the Sun tribe. We're there so that the two of them can make a presentation to the island's Borough Assembly in hopes of inspiring another Alaskan community to pass a resolution against the timing of the exercises. The Navy told the tribal council representatives, basically, you.' essentially being blown off, the tribes requested another meeting, which only happened after the exercises were over. At that time, they insisted that the Navy change the season for the next set of exercises to late fall or winter and the location as well. condition was for them to account for fish take [that is, the disturbance or destruction of fish populations], as if it were a commercial fishing operation where they are given a total allowable catch. To this they responded that they don harvest fish, so why should they have to track that? my observation," Lance says, "I see an undercurrent of frustration within the tribes and the community of fishermen that the Navy is going to do what they are going to do no matter what we say. He takes a last sip of fake hermes mens belt coffee and concludes, is so focused on the short run right now, they're forgetting about the long run. If we don save the ocean as a potential place to farm, we not going to be able to feed ourselves in the future. I visit with Alexus Kwachka, a Kodiak commercial fisherman for the last 30 years. A bear of a man, he shakes my hand vigorously while welcoming me into his home, which overlooks Kodiak massive harbor. When I ask him what he's fished for, he responds, it walks, swims, or crawls, I fished it. wastes no time going after the Navy. "I question their timing. They say they don want to train in the winter and instead they plan it for during the largest migratory period of marine life and birds here. Fishermen on the island, he assures me, are increasingly apprehensive about the Navy plans and its impact on their livelihoods, even though here are patriotic and support the military."
Prior to Northern Edge 15, Kwachka lined his boat up with dozens of others in the harbor in protest. Now, he's concerned again and feels slighted that the military doesn't consider his voice worth listening to. He says emphatically, worried about the fact that they are allowed to bring in a load of boats and blow shit up all over the place. If they do that, he tells me, the ill effects out with the little guys then go up through the whole food web, which is another reason not to do it in the Spring when the forage fish are both reproducing and traveling. It's just not a good time to be introducing toxins and blowing things up on top of them. The chemical fallout from those explosions goes down through the food web and is eaten or absorbed by the fish. security is national security
That evening, Stolarcyk, Lance, and I head over to theKodiak Island boroughbuilding for their meeting. In a small, cramped basement room, several members of the assembly are around a table, while the rest of us are seated on chairs along the walls.
The two of them give their brief talks with a slide show. As soon as they're done, Councilman Matt Van Deale indicates that he'll sponsor the resolution they want, adding, security is national security and we are a fishing town. A second councilperson responds favorably to the resolution as others nod.
Suddenly, Councilman Kyle Crow speaks up, questioning the threat of toxic wastes. know about how hazardous waste is defined and I seen folks declare a block of concrete with a chip of paint on it as hazardous waste. Stolarcyk promptly projects a slide she's already shown that displays a chart taken from the Navy'senvironmental impact statementindicating that more than five tons of toxic materials could be introduced into the fertile fishing areas of the Gulf each time the Navy conducts a training event.
Crow also questions the dangers of the Navy use of sonar, comparing theirs to what he uses on his own fishing boat. Again, Stolarcyk pulls up a slide showing that the Navy sonar generates audible blasts up to 235 decibels humans begin to suffer hearing damage at 85 decibels that travel for thousands of miles across the ocean. Crow nods in response to the new information, given that it is straight out of theNavy own documents.
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