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a, Schematic of the hBN encapsulated MoS2 multi terminal device. The exploded view shows the individual components that constitute the heterostructure stack. Bottom: Zoom in cross sectional schematic of the metal graphene MoS2 contact region. b, Optical microscope image of a fabricated device. Graphene contact regions are outlined by dashed lines. c, Cross sectional STEM image of the fabricated device. The zoom in false colour image clearly shows the ultra sharp interfaces between different layers (graphene, 5L; MoS2, 3L; top hBN, 8nm; bottom hBN, 19nm).
a, Output curves (Ids Vds) of the hBN encapsulated 4L MoS2 device with graphene electrodes at different temperatures. Backgate voltage Vbg was maintained at 80V with a carrier density of 6.851012cm2 in MoS2. The linearity of the output curves confirms that the graphene MoS2 contact is ohmic at all temperatures. b, Resistivity of 4L MoS2 (log scale) as a function of Vbg at different temperatures. The resistivity decreases on cooling, showing metallic behaviour, reaching 130 at 12K. The colour legend is the same as in a (from 300K to 12K). c, Contact resistance RC of the same device (log scale) as a function of Vbg at different temperatures. The colour legend is the same as in a (but from 250K to 12K). Inset: RC as a function of temperature at different Vbg. At high Vbg the contact resistance decreases when decreasing the temperature.
a, Hall mobility of hBN encapsulated MoS2 devices (with different numbers of layers of MoS2) as a function of temperature. To maintain ohmic contact, a finite Vbg was applied. The measured carrier densities obtained from Hall measurements for each device are listed in Supplementary Table1. The solid fitting lines are drawn by the model described in the main text. All fitting parameters are listed in Supplementary Table1. As a visual guide, the dashed line shows the power law phT, and fitted values of for each device are listed in the inset table. b, Impurity limited mobility (imp) as a function of the MoS2 carrier density. For comparison, previously reported values from MoS2 on SiO2 substrates (refs8,46) are plotted. c e, The solid lines show the theoretically calculated long range (LR) impurity limited mobility (c), short range (SR) impurity limited mobility (d) and mobility including both LR and SR based on Matthiessen rule, 1/=1/LR+1/SR, as a function of carrier density for 1L to 6L MoS2 (e). Experimental data from 1L and 6L MoS2 are shown as circles (c e).
a, Longitudinal resistance Rxx (red curve) and Hall resistance Rxy (blue curve) of an hBN encapsulated CVD 1L MoS2 device as a function of magnetic field B measured at 0.3K and with a carrier density of 9.71012cm2. Inset: Oscillation amplitude (black curve) as a function of 1/B after subtraction of the magnetoresistance background. The quantum scattering time extracted from the fitted Dingle plot (red dashed line) is 176fs. b, Rxx (red curve) and Rxy (blue curve) of the hBN encapsulated 4L MoS2 device as a function of B. Hall measurements were conducted at 0.3K and at a carrier density of 4.91012cm2. c, Rxx (red curve) and Rxy (blue curve) of an hBN encapsulated 6L MoS2 device as a function of B. designed the research project and replica van cleef and arpels necklace supervised the experiment. fabricated the devices. performed optical spectroscopy and data analysis. grew and prepared the CVD MoS2 sample. performed theoretical calculations. prepared hBN samples. performed TEM analyses. analysed the data and wrote the manuscript.
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a, Schematic of the hBN encapsulated MoS2 multi terminal device. The exploded view shows the individual components that constitute the heterostructure stack. Bottom: Zoom in cross sectional schematic of the metal graphene MoS2 contact region. b, Optical microscope image of a fabricated device. Graphene contact regions are outlined by dashed lines. c, Cross sectional STEM image of the fabricated device. The zoom in false colour image clearly shows the ultra sharp interfaces between different layers (graphene, 5L; MoS2, 3L; top hBN, 8nm; bottom hBN, 19nm).
a, Output curves (Ids Vds) of the hBN encapsulated 4L MoS2 device with graphene electrodes at different temperatures. Backgate voltage Vbg was maintained at 80V with a carrier density of 6.851012cm2 in MoS2. The linearity of the output curves confirms that the graphene MoS2 contact is ohmic at all temperatures. b, Resistivity of 4L MoS2 (log scale) as a function of Vbg at different temperatures. The resistivity decreases on cooling, showing metallic behaviour, reaching 130 at 12K. The colour legend is the same as in a (from 300K to 12K). c, Contact resistance RC of the same device (log scale) as a function of Vbg at different temperatures. The colour legend is the same as in a (but from 250K to 12K). Inset: RC as a function of temperature at different Vbg. At high Vbg the contact resistance decreases when decreasing the temperature.
a, Hall mobility of hBN encapsulated MoS2 devices (with different numbers of layers of MoS2) as a function of temperature. To maintain ohmic contact, a finite Vbg was applied. The measured carrier densities obtained from Hall measurements for each device are listed in Supplementary Table1. The solid fitting lines are drawn by the model described in the main text. All fitting parameters are listed in Supplementary Table1. As a visual guide, the dashed line shows the power law phT, and fitted values of for each device are listed in the inset table. b, Impurity limited mobility (imp) as a function of the MoS2 carrier density. For comparison, previously reported values from MoS2 on SiO2 substrates (refs8,46) are plotted. c e, The solid lines show the theoretically calculated long range (LR) impurity limited mobility (c), short range (SR) impurity limited mobility (d) and mobility including both LR and SR based on Matthiessen rule, 1/=1/LR+1/SR, as a function of carrier density for 1L to 6L MoS2 (e). Experimental data from 1L and 6L MoS2 are shown as circles (c e).
a, Longitudinal resistance Rxx (red curve) and Hall resistance Rxy (blue curve) of an hBN encapsulated CVD 1L MoS2 device as a function of magnetic field B measured at 0.3K and with a carrier density of 9.71012cm2. Inset: Oscillation amplitude (black curve) as a function of 1/B after subtraction of the magnetoresistance background. The quantum scattering time extracted from the fitted Dingle plot (red dashed line) is 176fs. b, Rxx (red curve) and Rxy (blue curve) of the hBN encapsulated 4L MoS2 device as a function of B. Hall measurements were conducted at 0.3K and at a carrier density of 4.91012cm2. c, Rxx (red curve) and Rxy (blue curve) of an hBN encapsulated 6L MoS2 device as a function of B. designed the research project and replica van cleef and arpels necklace supervised the experiment. fabricated the devices. performed optical spectroscopy and data analysis. grew and prepared the CVD MoS2 sample. performed theoretical calculations. prepared hBN samples. performed TEM analyses. analysed the data and wrote the manuscript.
The History of the Invention of the Small But Significant Pencil
A pencil is a graphite stick and clay combination, sometimes with a color pigment, encased mostly in a wooden, cylindrical container. It is usually referred to as a lead pencil, because the deposit discovered that led to the making of the first one was a pile of a mysterious substance thought to be lead. The term became so widely used, that even today many refer to a pencil core as lead. Actually, the material never ever replica van cleef necklace contained lead. This new form was even named 'plumbago', a Latin word for iron ore. Some more information about the invention of the pencil is given in the paragraphs below.
The history of a pencil can be traced to 16th century England, somewhere around 1564. Locals of Seathwaite village, in the north west county of Cumbria, near Borrowdale, discovered a huge graphite deposit near their sleepy hamlet. Later on, they learned that the hard and compact material could be used to mark their cattle or sheep, in order to distinguish and keep an exact count of the same. This was the first invented form. The natives also figured out how to shape the graphite into small sticks, for ease of use. Since the new substance was soft and delicate when thinned for use, there was a need for a support wrapping or casing for the graphite stick.
Initially, sheep skin or string was used to hold the substance together. The idea of a wood case for the graphite stick was first developed by an Italian couple. They thought of using carpentered juniper wood, made hollow, inserted with the core, and finally compacted in an oval shape. copy alhambra necklace van cleef This was the first, crude form of the pencil we know today. The idea of using wood as the casing for the writing material soon began to gain ground. In an improved version, different types of wood were used to carve two halves into which the graphite stick was inserted, which were then glued together to make a strong and simple enclosure. This method continues to be used even today.
The British had complete monopoly in the manufacture of this stationary in its early days, courtesy, the hard deposit of graphite. This was a one of its kind deposit, because graphite deposits elsewhere in the world contained lot of impurities and had to be crushed to separate those. However, there was no way to make a pencil core from powdered graphite. It was in Germany, in the year 1662, the first attempt to make such cores from powdered graphite, bore success. Still, the technique was restricted to these two countries. Nicholas Jacques Conte, a French man succeeded in making the core in 1795, using a fired mixture of graphite and clay. The same method was used by another gentleman, Joseph Hardtmuth, from Austria, who in fact, had discovered it 5 years earlier but never popularized his effort.
The manufacturing technique eventually spread throughout the world and is still in use. There are numerous types available today, varying in size, shape, casing material from wood to plastic and of course, different cores, like graphite, carbon, colored core, charcoal, grease, and also watercolor. According to the type of use, some particular varieties are copying pencils, making indelible marks, mechanical ones such as the ones used by architects, the carpenter type with a stronger core for markings, break proof Stenographer's, and many more.
History has some of its most renowned people as ardent users of a particular brand and type of pencil. Prominent among these were Thomas Edison, who had a special liking for the ones made by a company called Eagle Pencil. Van Gogh, the much acclaimed artist, used the ones made only by the German company, Faber Castell. John Steinbeck, is in fact, believed to be using 60 pencils a day!
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A pencil is a graphite stick and clay combination, sometimes with a color pigment, encased mostly in a wooden, cylindrical container. It is usually referred to as a lead pencil, because the deposit discovered that led to the making of the first one was a pile of a mysterious substance thought to be lead. The term became so widely used, that even today many refer to a pencil core as lead. Actually, the material never ever replica van cleef necklace contained lead. This new form was even named 'plumbago', a Latin word for iron ore. Some more information about the invention of the pencil is given in the paragraphs below.
The history of a pencil can be traced to 16th century England, somewhere around 1564. Locals of Seathwaite village, in the north west county of Cumbria, near Borrowdale, discovered a huge graphite deposit near their sleepy hamlet. Later on, they learned that the hard and compact material could be used to mark their cattle or sheep, in order to distinguish and keep an exact count of the same. This was the first invented form. The natives also figured out how to shape the graphite into small sticks, for ease of use. Since the new substance was soft and delicate when thinned for use, there was a need for a support wrapping or casing for the graphite stick.
Initially, sheep skin or string was used to hold the substance together. The idea of a wood case for the graphite stick was first developed by an Italian couple. They thought of using carpentered juniper wood, made hollow, inserted with the core, and finally compacted in an oval shape. copy alhambra necklace van cleef This was the first, crude form of the pencil we know today. The idea of using wood as the casing for the writing material soon began to gain ground. In an improved version, different types of wood were used to carve two halves into which the graphite stick was inserted, which were then glued together to make a strong and simple enclosure. This method continues to be used even today.
The British had complete monopoly in the manufacture of this stationary in its early days, courtesy, the hard deposit of graphite. This was a one of its kind deposit, because graphite deposits elsewhere in the world contained lot of impurities and had to be crushed to separate those. However, there was no way to make a pencil core from powdered graphite. It was in Germany, in the year 1662, the first attempt to make such cores from powdered graphite, bore success. Still, the technique was restricted to these two countries. Nicholas Jacques Conte, a French man succeeded in making the core in 1795, using a fired mixture of graphite and clay. The same method was used by another gentleman, Joseph Hardtmuth, from Austria, who in fact, had discovered it 5 years earlier but never popularized his effort.
The manufacturing technique eventually spread throughout the world and is still in use. There are numerous types available today, varying in size, shape, casing material from wood to plastic and of course, different cores, like graphite, carbon, colored core, charcoal, grease, and also watercolor. According to the type of use, some particular varieties are copying pencils, making indelible marks, mechanical ones such as the ones used by architects, the carpenter type with a stronger core for markings, break proof Stenographer's, and many more.
History has some of its most renowned people as ardent users of a particular brand and type of pencil. Prominent among these were Thomas Edison, who had a special liking for the ones made by a company called Eagle Pencil. Van Gogh, the much acclaimed artist, used the ones made only by the German company, Faber Castell. John Steinbeck, is in fact, believed to be using 60 pencils a day!
Thus, it can be easily concluded that the invention of the pencil has had a revolutionary effect in the development of society. Today, it plays an important role in our everyday lives, with almost everyone from children to professionals using it, giving it the importance it lacked when invented.
I want to now about the cultural, economic, sociological, psychological of the pencil
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"Missing cocaine? No, I'm as shocked as you are."The Lady in the Dashboard
Of course smuggling human beings across borders is a whole different ballgame. After all, it's not like you can just stuff a whole person in the glovebox.
A few years ago, customs officials at the US Mexico border stopped a car and requested to see the registration. Being trained in the fine arts of observations, officials noticed something suspicious: a fully grown, 135lb woman jammed in the dashboard, looking out through the glove box.
Arguably more stupid, there's also photographic evidence of a man who inserted himself into a car's upholstery in an attempt to disguise himself as a captain's chair. Another passenger was sitting in the seat and the entire car was hoping today was the day customs officials were holding their annual "Bring A Retard To Work Day."
Elsewhere in the universe, some people have attempted to smuggle humans specifically a woman and her 3 year old clover bracelet knock off daughter in the gas tank of a Dodge Caravan. If you've never been in a gas tank of a Dodge Caravan you may be surprised to learn it's exactly as uncomfortable as it sounds, which is to say: still better than public transit.
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Police recently discovered a vodka pipeline connecting Russia to Estonia, indicating at least one Russian thought the Beer Baron episode of the Simpsons was a reasonable basis for a business endeavor.
Don't worry, he's on the case.
The pipe, over a mile long, ran under a reservoir and pumped somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,600 gallons, some of which was confiscated by officials in Estonia (where vodka is far more expensive than in Russia).
The booze pirates managed to avoid paying $72,000 in excise duty before they got caught, which they probably just spent on fuzzy hats and borscht.
You know how sometimes when you're freebasing vaseline and cloves and you think to yourself "Man, if only this had some kind of rotten vitriol from the insides of a corpse on it, this would be way better"?
Other people have thought that too. And so they've saved the day by jamming dead bodies full of cocaine so you can get both high and gangrene at the same time.
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In Africa, a handful of people were arrested for shipping a couple pounds of cocaine inside the stomach of a corpse they said was a body being van cleef bracelet uk copy returned home for burial.
It seems like a more clever excuse would have been to claim that the coke was part of their traditional burial ritual, in which no man is sent into the afterlife without enough blow to get him through the boredom of eternity.
You may ask yourself why, if trying to disguise a clear liquid, you would choose to specify it as sex lube, of all things. And then you may go on to the bigger question of why they would have to be specific "gay" lube on top of that. The easy reply would be, "Because it's Thailand." But cultural sensitivity tells us it's better to just leave it unanswered.
To run an efficient drug operation you really need someone with a background in chemistry on hand, just so you don't end up producing lethal pop rocks when you're trying to make crack. And since the dude is on staff anyway, you may as well put him to work on a clever way to hide the drugs once they're ready to be shipped out to lawyers and politicians across the globe.
Some smugglers have used a process to mix cocaine with silicone to . That however was not enough to fool the drug sniffing dogs, who quite frankly don't care what the drugs look like.
"I'm telling you, dude, your partner is made out of coke."
But then we have the ones who've begun processing cocaine into Plexiglas, to make clear plastic products like DVD cases and fish tanks that, if you were to chew them, would get you high before they shredded your insides.
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Hillary Clinton will soon roll out a detailed plan to tackle student loan debt, an issue that is quickly gaining steam in the emerging Democratic presidential primary, her campaign tells msnbc.
Clinton has been under pressure from liberals to address the issue in the face of rising debt loads, with many hoping she will embrace the idea of debt free college education. Her campaign says she will, but specifics will have to wait.
"Hillary Clinton has fought to make college affordable and accessible throughout her career from expanding student loans, to lowering college costs. As she talked about in Iowa, the crisis of student loan debt is even slowing small business creation and innovation. During our ramp up period, she is discussing ideas like this and, in the months ahead, she will roll out her detailed plan to tackle big issues like this one," said Clinton spokesperson Jesse Ferguson, when asked about debt free college.
RELATED:Where Clinton will and won deviate from Obama
The issue of college affordability is increasingly joining traditional Democratic issues as a priority for current and aspiring party leaders. President Obama in January proposed making community college free to many, while some Democrats in Congress want to make a four year degree available to more students without debt.
"When it comes to making college affordable, I'm hopeful that debt free college is the next big idea," Sen. Chuck Schumer, the presumptive future leader of the party in the Senate, said recently when he signed onto one proposal.
Former Maryland Gov. van cleef & arpels necklace alhambra copy Martin O'Malley has of late put the issue at the center of his potential presidential campaign. On Friday, he sent a fundraising email to supporters touting his plan for debt free college. "It outrageous that we can figure out a way to bail out big banks, but we can figure out a way to make college affordable," he wrote.
And he published an op ed in the Washington Post last week touting his work in Maryland on student loan debt. "In Maryland, we saw these trends and refused to give up. We froze tuition at public four year institutions while making investments in universities, community colleges and financial aid," he wrote.
On the federal level, O'Malley called on Congress to allow students to refinance their debt and to cap monthly payments, along with several other proposals.
Sen.
Meanwhile in Congress, members of the House and Senate introduce two resolutions calling on "all students [to] have access to debt free higher education."
Eight senators have signed on to the effort, sponsored by Sen. Brian Schatz, including Schumer, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and Sen. Corey Booker.
On Tuesday, two more senators joined Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse and Sherrod Brown.
"Student loan debt is hurting our economy by pinching household budgets and limiting the ability of graduates to start a business, buy a home, or even start a family. It's time to make debt free college a reality again," Whitehouse said.
In the House, an identical resolution has 33 co sponsors. They include Rep. Bobby Scott, the ranking Democrat on the House Education Committee, and Reps. Steve Israel and Chris Van Hollen, who are close to House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi.
College debt is on the rise, according to the Princeton Review. Nearly 60% of students who graduated with a four year bachelor's degree in 2012 2013 took out loans, and they left $27,300 in debt, on average. That's a 20% jump from the 2002 2003 average.
So far, advocates have vca alhambra necklace imitation yet to coalesce around a detailed policy for debt free college. The congressional resolutions are general statements of principle rather than detailed legislation. The paper proposes boosting aid to states and students, as well as making the underlying cost of college more affordable. That last goal is the thorniest, but the paper proposes a combination of accountability measures and innovation that it says could lower costs.
RELATED:Corinthian Colleges shuts down, ending classes for 16,000 overnight
On the campaign trail, Clinton has said she supports Obama's free community college plan. And she conducted two of her four formal campaign events thus far at community colleges in Iowa and New Hampshire.
"We create vicious circles of debt for our youngest citizens who should be at the forefront of shaping the economy for tomorrow," Clinton said at the New Hampshire Technical Institute in Concord last week.
In Iowa, she heard from a man starting a bowling center who said his student loan debt made it difficult for him to secure financing for his business. It was a connection Clinton said she had never thought of before.
It's not a new issue for Clinton, who on the campaign trail of her first presidential run was known to ask clover necklace van cleef inspired copy people to shout out their interest rates on student loans. She called for the creation of a "student borrower's bill of rights," and said loan companies were "ripping off" students.
Hillary Clinton will soon roll out a detailed plan to tackle student loan debt, an issue that is quickly gaining steam in the emerging Democratic presidential primary, her campaign tells msnbc.
Clinton has been under pressure from liberals to address the issue in the face of rising debt loads, with many hoping she will embrace the idea of debt free college education. Her campaign says she will, but specifics will have to wait.
"Hillary Clinton has fought to make college affordable and accessible throughout her career from expanding student loans, to lowering college costs. As she talked about in Iowa, the crisis of student loan debt is even slowing small business creation and innovation. During our ramp up period, she is discussing ideas like this and, in the months ahead, she will roll out her detailed plan to tackle big issues like this one," said Clinton spokesperson Jesse Ferguson, when asked about debt free college.
RELATED:Where Clinton will and won deviate from Obama
The issue of college affordability is increasingly joining traditional Democratic issues as a priority for current and aspiring party leaders. President Obama in January proposed making community college free to many, while some Democrats in Congress want to make a four year degree available to more students without debt.
"When it comes to making college affordable, I'm hopeful that debt free college is the next big idea," Sen. Chuck Schumer, the presumptive future leader of the party in the Senate, said recently when he signed onto one proposal.
Former Maryland Gov. van cleef & arpels necklace alhambra copy Martin O'Malley has of late put the issue at the center of his potential presidential campaign. On Friday, he sent a fundraising email to supporters touting his plan for debt free college. "It outrageous that we can figure out a way to bail out big banks, but we can figure out a way to make college affordable," he wrote.
And he published an op ed in the Washington Post last week touting his work in Maryland on student loan debt. "In Maryland, we saw these trends and refused to give up. We froze tuition at public four year institutions while making investments in universities, community colleges and financial aid," he wrote.
On the federal level, O'Malley called on Congress to allow students to refinance their debt and to cap monthly payments, along with several other proposals.
Sen.
Meanwhile in Congress, members of the House and Senate introduce two resolutions calling on "all students [to] have access to debt free higher education."
Eight senators have signed on to the effort, sponsored by Sen. Brian Schatz, including Schumer, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and Sen. Corey Booker.
On Tuesday, two more senators joined Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse and Sherrod Brown.
"Student loan debt is hurting our economy by pinching household budgets and limiting the ability of graduates to start a business, buy a home, or even start a family. It's time to make debt free college a reality again," Whitehouse said.
In the House, an identical resolution has 33 co sponsors. They include Rep. Bobby Scott, the ranking Democrat on the House Education Committee, and Reps. Steve Israel and Chris Van Hollen, who are close to House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi.
College debt is on the rise, according to the Princeton Review. Nearly 60% of students who graduated with a four year bachelor's degree in 2012 2013 took out loans, and they left $27,300 in debt, on average. That's a 20% jump from the 2002 2003 average.
So far, advocates have vca alhambra necklace imitation yet to coalesce around a detailed policy for debt free college. The congressional resolutions are general statements of principle rather than detailed legislation. The paper proposes boosting aid to states and students, as well as making the underlying cost of college more affordable. That last goal is the thorniest, but the paper proposes a combination of accountability measures and innovation that it says could lower costs.
RELATED:Corinthian Colleges shuts down, ending classes for 16,000 overnight
On the campaign trail, Clinton has said she supports Obama's free community college plan. And she conducted two of her four formal campaign events thus far at community colleges in Iowa and New Hampshire.
"We create vicious circles of debt for our youngest citizens who should be at the forefront of shaping the economy for tomorrow," Clinton said at the New Hampshire Technical Institute in Concord last week.
In Iowa, she heard from a man starting a bowling center who said his student loan debt made it difficult for him to secure financing for his business. It was a connection Clinton said she had never thought of before.
It's not a new issue for Clinton, who on the campaign trail of her first presidential run was known to ask clover necklace van cleef inspired copy people to shout out their interest rates on student loans. She called for the creation of a "student borrower's bill of rights," and said loan companies were "ripping off" students.
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The Band and their classic movie speak beyond boomer nostalgia
The consummate musical clich of the baby boomer era is the big, guitar wielding encore where a bunch of white men in long hair and casual clothes take turns singing one verse after another of a really long, usually blues based, song. Sometimes it is followed by a boomer iffic group hug among presumably straight men.
In its crudest form, this describes the enormous, multi band, marathon concert that came to be known as "The Last Waltz": a rock till dawn gathering assembled by The Band, a quintet of roots musicians who had once backed up Bob Dylan, to play a farewell show alongside their old boss. Old friends and inspirations like Neil Young, Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Dr. John and Muddy Waters joined in as well (and, for some reason, Neil Diamond showed up).
As humble as The Band's identity was this was a group without a lead singer, after all, and which saw itself as channeling the spirit of the American past even though most of them came from Canada the concert itself was like the final stand of rock's royalty. It was a celebration of a legendary group, of the fellowship of the road, of the passing of an era.
But what's funny about "The Last Waltz," which was filmed on Thanksgiving 1976 in San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom and released as a Martin Scorsese film two years later, is that it didn't just engage nostalgic boomers. It spoke to music and film fans some of whom would go on to become van cleef small necklace imitation important players in a country derived tradition The Band had helped inaugurate. Forty years later, it still a milestone.
"Oh, man, it really blew my mind!" said the normally dry Gillian Welch, the pioneering new acoustic musician, born in 1967, who didn't hear the original three LP album or see the film until she was in college. "So much of the music I loved all in one show. I was unprepared for what it looked like when you played music that sounded like that. They were moving more than I thought. Oh man! They just looked like gods to me. I think it honestly went into me at a cellular level."
The musician James Felice says he and his fellow Felice Brothers an upstate New York roots band mostly in their early 30s saw the film only about a decade ago. "I just remember feeling a palpable sense of awe at The Band musicianship," he said by email. "Each guy was so damn good, and had such unique style and personality, but they made it work perfectly together. They were basically rock and roll superheroes, like 'The Avengers' or something."
What's surprising about this boomer milestone, made and released before most Xers were out of elementary school some, because the birth range typically goes from 1964 to 1981, were not born yet is how the movie connects across generations.
Part of it is just that this concert saw a collection of some of the greatest and deepest musicians if any generation. Some of it is Mojo magazine style nostalgia for a more authentic age. "We all romanticize that period so much," says Taylor Goldsmith, the 31 year old lead singer of the band Dawes, whose first few albums grew right out of the ground The Band plowed. Some members of Wilco, including bassist John Stirratt, are also major fans of the film and the group.
But part of it may be that "The Last Waltz" and the story of The Band especially for those who know the whole tale signified both boomer utopia and Gen X disillusionment at the same time. Nobody was killed, and no one OD'ed on the brown acid. But with one movie, Scorsese and The Band produced Woodstock and Altamont simultaneously. On its 40th anniversary, which sees Rhino reissuing the recording and film in various versions, it as ambiguous as ever.
Around the time of The Band's Thanksgiving concert (which involved a turkey dinner served to thousands of audience members), the course of rock history was changing in a profound way. The group was retiring partly because its members were worn out from the road, but they also recognized that they were the final gasp of something of a rock 'n' roll tradition that was grounded in the Chicago blues, gospel and the rockabilly of the South. (The movie's inclusion of Muddy Waters, the Staples Singers and their old boss Ronnie Hawkins was in some ways a nod to this.)
So it was not just vainglory to dub the concert "The Last Waltz": This really was the end of something. Some of these musicians would have late career renaissances years later Neil Young and Dylan most notably but most of them had already peaked artistically by 1976, and even their best work would seem out of place in the new world.
Glam musicians like David Bowie and Roxy Music had electrified young music fans, and made the denim and fringed vest crowd look like backwoods day laborers. The year before the concert, a New York City poet named Patti Smith had released a volcanic debut album called "Horses" that went so deep into feminism and contemporary politics that even Joni Mitchell seemed positively medieval.
By Thanksgiving, history was bending. CBGBs was now more important than the van cleef & arpels necklace alhambra fake Fillmore West: Its denizens, the band Television, had recorded punk rock's most poetic LP "Marquee Moon" a few months before, and the gawky geniuses of Talking Heads had just signed to Sire. Britain was burning: The Clash and The Sex Pistols had just played a show van cleef black necklace imitation together in Sheffield. If this new generation had its way, this would be a last waltz indeed. By the time the concert film was released, two years later, punk bands were moving into mid career (the Clash was dreaming up "London Calling"), and "New Wave" showed a second, more pop savvy vanguard led by a lanky, bespectacled Liverpudlian who had cheekily named himself for the king of rock 'n roll. The Sugarhill Gang would score hip hop's first hit with "Rapper's Delight" just a year later.
This kind of irreverence, aggression and sonic experimentation was most decidedly not what The Band or "Last Waltz" fellow travelers like Eric Clapton or Emmylou Harris or Ringo Starr were about.
Gen Xers and their younger compatriots, though, grew up in a world shaped by punk and hip hop, and the moussed out glitz of MTV. And somehow, this earnest, often blues necountryne folk based music, so different from what this younger crowd heard on the radio and saw on television, would make profound sense to some of them.
As celebratory as the concert was, as sincere its treatment of the music's old guard, there was a darkness to "The Last Waltz" that was different from what the group may have intended. Some of the band members were wasted from drugs.
Most seriously, perhaps, the members of The Band after 16 yearson the road hated each other. At least some of the time. Robertson was the only one dedicated to a retirement from touring; the others weren't as sure. And it didn't get better when the movie came out. Levon Helm, the band's drummer and sometime singer, was particularly upset. "For two hours we watched as the camera focused almost exclusively on Robbie Robertson, long and loving close ups of his heavily made up face and expensive haircut," he wrote in his memoir, "This Wheel's on Fire." "The film was edited so it looked like Robbie was conducting the band with expansive waves of his guitar neck."
Robertson was most outgoing member of the group, and an engaging and charismatic storyteller, but at times it seemed like pianist Richard Manuel and organist Garth Hudson, who both sang as well, were barely part of the group. (Helm and bassist Rick Danko fared a bit better.)
The reality cut against the image of the band, memorialized in part by a bravura chapter in Greil Marcus' "Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock Roll Music," as a group of ego less, passionate friends, singing vocal harmonies that could help the nation heal after the divisions of the Vietnam war.
When Goldsmith saw the movie in 2008, around the time Dawes was recording its debut album, "North Hills," he saw, mostly, the dream. "You heard that there's a whole philosophy to the group's name: The guy who wrote the songs didn't sing them, and there was no lead singer. It was so democratic. That's what created the romance. You think of partnerships like Keith and Mick, or Lennon and McCartney. This was like a five way relationship that rock 'n' roll band romance epitomized in American rock."
Perhaps appropriately for younger generations that inherited a less innocent nation after the reveries of the boomers, some Gen X and millennial fans responded to the film not in spite of, but because of the pain and tension.
"It made you want to see more of it, because it sounded like so much had been left out," says Michael Trent of the Americana duo Shovels Rope. "As much as I hated to take sides," says his wife and bandmate Cary Ann Hearst, who was won over by Helm's description of being an Arkansas country boy visiting New York City, "it's hard not to. But it didn't change my mind about the movie, or its sweetness." Shovels Rope sing a song about Hudson, "The Last Hawk," on theirnew album.
As a first viewing of the movie became an obsession foryoung musicians, their point of view grew more complex. Some learned, for instance, that they were not really hearing what was played that night: Much of the parts were later overdubbed in the studio because the playing was so sloppy. "The more you get to know about 'The Last Waltz,' or get to know about Richard Manuel in the film he's pretty tweaked out It was a pretty tragic story," says Goldsmith. "They seem upset with each other. But it doesn make you love them any less."
The hard tales from the road, the stories of personal tension, and the rigors of the touring life only excited Gillian Welch and her partner David Rawlings even more. "It means there was all this life behind this one concert," she said. "You'd drive around for 20 years yeah, that's what you'd do. I honestly think it's altered decisions Dave and I have made. We drive around in a Cadillac, and have been doing that for 20 years. You don't take a shuttle to the airport."
The Band most of whom played with Dylan on his tumultuous 1966 world tour (as "The Hawks), on his epochal "Blonde on Blonde" album, and on the rough home recordings later released as "The Basement Tapes" certainly had some great years before things all went bad.
But the albums after their first two "Music from Big Pink" and "The Band" only occasionally approachedthe old magic. And post "Last Waltz," their solo careers mostly faltered.
Things went from bad to worse. In 1986, Manuel hanged himself after ingesting liquor and cocaine. A heart attack after decades of drink and drugs killed Danko in 1999. Helm ran a series of "midnight rambles" at his farmhouse in Woodstock and made several celebrated albums in his 60s. But cancer took him in 2012. Hudson and Robertson are still alive.
The consummate musical clich of the baby boomer era is the big, guitar wielding encore where a bunch of white men in long hair and casual clothes take turns singing one verse after another of a really long, usually blues based, song. Sometimes it is followed by a boomer iffic group hug among presumably straight men.
In its crudest form, this describes the enormous, multi band, marathon concert that came to be known as "The Last Waltz": a rock till dawn gathering assembled by The Band, a quintet of roots musicians who had once backed up Bob Dylan, to play a farewell show alongside their old boss. Old friends and inspirations like Neil Young, Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Dr. John and Muddy Waters joined in as well (and, for some reason, Neil Diamond showed up).
As humble as The Band's identity was this was a group without a lead singer, after all, and which saw itself as channeling the spirit of the American past even though most of them came from Canada the concert itself was like the final stand of rock's royalty. It was a celebration of a legendary group, of the fellowship of the road, of the passing of an era.
But what's funny about "The Last Waltz," which was filmed on Thanksgiving 1976 in San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom and released as a Martin Scorsese film two years later, is that it didn't just engage nostalgic boomers. It spoke to music and film fans some of whom would go on to become van cleef small necklace imitation important players in a country derived tradition The Band had helped inaugurate. Forty years later, it still a milestone.
"Oh, man, it really blew my mind!" said the normally dry Gillian Welch, the pioneering new acoustic musician, born in 1967, who didn't hear the original three LP album or see the film until she was in college. "So much of the music I loved all in one show. I was unprepared for what it looked like when you played music that sounded like that. They were moving more than I thought. Oh man! They just looked like gods to me. I think it honestly went into me at a cellular level."
The musician James Felice says he and his fellow Felice Brothers an upstate New York roots band mostly in their early 30s saw the film only about a decade ago. "I just remember feeling a palpable sense of awe at The Band musicianship," he said by email. "Each guy was so damn good, and had such unique style and personality, but they made it work perfectly together. They were basically rock and roll superheroes, like 'The Avengers' or something."
What's surprising about this boomer milestone, made and released before most Xers were out of elementary school some, because the birth range typically goes from 1964 to 1981, were not born yet is how the movie connects across generations.
Part of it is just that this concert saw a collection of some of the greatest and deepest musicians if any generation. Some of it is Mojo magazine style nostalgia for a more authentic age. "We all romanticize that period so much," says Taylor Goldsmith, the 31 year old lead singer of the band Dawes, whose first few albums grew right out of the ground The Band plowed. Some members of Wilco, including bassist John Stirratt, are also major fans of the film and the group.
But part of it may be that "The Last Waltz" and the story of The Band especially for those who know the whole tale signified both boomer utopia and Gen X disillusionment at the same time. Nobody was killed, and no one OD'ed on the brown acid. But with one movie, Scorsese and The Band produced Woodstock and Altamont simultaneously. On its 40th anniversary, which sees Rhino reissuing the recording and film in various versions, it as ambiguous as ever.
Around the time of The Band's Thanksgiving concert (which involved a turkey dinner served to thousands of audience members), the course of rock history was changing in a profound way. The group was retiring partly because its members were worn out from the road, but they also recognized that they were the final gasp of something of a rock 'n' roll tradition that was grounded in the Chicago blues, gospel and the rockabilly of the South. (The movie's inclusion of Muddy Waters, the Staples Singers and their old boss Ronnie Hawkins was in some ways a nod to this.)
So it was not just vainglory to dub the concert "The Last Waltz": This really was the end of something. Some of these musicians would have late career renaissances years later Neil Young and Dylan most notably but most of them had already peaked artistically by 1976, and even their best work would seem out of place in the new world.
Glam musicians like David Bowie and Roxy Music had electrified young music fans, and made the denim and fringed vest crowd look like backwoods day laborers. The year before the concert, a New York City poet named Patti Smith had released a volcanic debut album called "Horses" that went so deep into feminism and contemporary politics that even Joni Mitchell seemed positively medieval.
By Thanksgiving, history was bending. CBGBs was now more important than the van cleef & arpels necklace alhambra fake Fillmore West: Its denizens, the band Television, had recorded punk rock's most poetic LP "Marquee Moon" a few months before, and the gawky geniuses of Talking Heads had just signed to Sire. Britain was burning: The Clash and The Sex Pistols had just played a show van cleef black necklace imitation together in Sheffield. If this new generation had its way, this would be a last waltz indeed. By the time the concert film was released, two years later, punk bands were moving into mid career (the Clash was dreaming up "London Calling"), and "New Wave" showed a second, more pop savvy vanguard led by a lanky, bespectacled Liverpudlian who had cheekily named himself for the king of rock 'n roll. The Sugarhill Gang would score hip hop's first hit with "Rapper's Delight" just a year later.
This kind of irreverence, aggression and sonic experimentation was most decidedly not what The Band or "Last Waltz" fellow travelers like Eric Clapton or Emmylou Harris or Ringo Starr were about.
Gen Xers and their younger compatriots, though, grew up in a world shaped by punk and hip hop, and the moussed out glitz of MTV. And somehow, this earnest, often blues necountryne folk based music, so different from what this younger crowd heard on the radio and saw on television, would make profound sense to some of them.
As celebratory as the concert was, as sincere its treatment of the music's old guard, there was a darkness to "The Last Waltz" that was different from what the group may have intended. Some of the band members were wasted from drugs.
Most seriously, perhaps, the members of The Band after 16 yearson the road hated each other. At least some of the time. Robertson was the only one dedicated to a retirement from touring; the others weren't as sure. And it didn't get better when the movie came out. Levon Helm, the band's drummer and sometime singer, was particularly upset. "For two hours we watched as the camera focused almost exclusively on Robbie Robertson, long and loving close ups of his heavily made up face and expensive haircut," he wrote in his memoir, "This Wheel's on Fire." "The film was edited so it looked like Robbie was conducting the band with expansive waves of his guitar neck."
Robertson was most outgoing member of the group, and an engaging and charismatic storyteller, but at times it seemed like pianist Richard Manuel and organist Garth Hudson, who both sang as well, were barely part of the group. (Helm and bassist Rick Danko fared a bit better.)
The reality cut against the image of the band, memorialized in part by a bravura chapter in Greil Marcus' "Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock Roll Music," as a group of ego less, passionate friends, singing vocal harmonies that could help the nation heal after the divisions of the Vietnam war.
When Goldsmith saw the movie in 2008, around the time Dawes was recording its debut album, "North Hills," he saw, mostly, the dream. "You heard that there's a whole philosophy to the group's name: The guy who wrote the songs didn't sing them, and there was no lead singer. It was so democratic. That's what created the romance. You think of partnerships like Keith and Mick, or Lennon and McCartney. This was like a five way relationship that rock 'n' roll band romance epitomized in American rock."
Perhaps appropriately for younger generations that inherited a less innocent nation after the reveries of the boomers, some Gen X and millennial fans responded to the film not in spite of, but because of the pain and tension.
"It made you want to see more of it, because it sounded like so much had been left out," says Michael Trent of the Americana duo Shovels Rope. "As much as I hated to take sides," says his wife and bandmate Cary Ann Hearst, who was won over by Helm's description of being an Arkansas country boy visiting New York City, "it's hard not to. But it didn't change my mind about the movie, or its sweetness." Shovels Rope sing a song about Hudson, "The Last Hawk," on theirnew album.
As a first viewing of the movie became an obsession foryoung musicians, their point of view grew more complex. Some learned, for instance, that they were not really hearing what was played that night: Much of the parts were later overdubbed in the studio because the playing was so sloppy. "The more you get to know about 'The Last Waltz,' or get to know about Richard Manuel in the film he's pretty tweaked out It was a pretty tragic story," says Goldsmith. "They seem upset with each other. But it doesn make you love them any less."
The hard tales from the road, the stories of personal tension, and the rigors of the touring life only excited Gillian Welch and her partner David Rawlings even more. "It means there was all this life behind this one concert," she said. "You'd drive around for 20 years yeah, that's what you'd do. I honestly think it's altered decisions Dave and I have made. We drive around in a Cadillac, and have been doing that for 20 years. You don't take a shuttle to the airport."
The Band most of whom played with Dylan on his tumultuous 1966 world tour (as "The Hawks), on his epochal "Blonde on Blonde" album, and on the rough home recordings later released as "The Basement Tapes" certainly had some great years before things all went bad.
But the albums after their first two "Music from Big Pink" and "The Band" only occasionally approachedthe old magic. And post "Last Waltz," their solo careers mostly faltered.
Things went from bad to worse. In 1986, Manuel hanged himself after ingesting liquor and cocaine. A heart attack after decades of drink and drugs killed Danko in 1999. Helm ran a series of "midnight rambles" at his farmhouse in Woodstock and made several celebrated albums in his 60s. But cancer took him in 2012. Hudson and Robertson are still alive.
Security Council Voices Alarm at Growing Threats to Journalists
Strongly condemning impunity for attacks on journalists, which had greatly increased globally, the Security Council, during an all day open debate today, called on parties to conflict and all Member States to create a safe environment "in law and practice" for media professionals to do their important work.
The Council put out that call through the unanimous adoption of resolution 2222 (2015) early in a meeting that heard from nearly 70speakers under the agenda item "Protection of civilians in armed conflict" and was chaired by Lithuania's Foreign Minister, with briefings by the Deputy Secretary General, as well as by the Director General of Reporters Without Borders and Mariane Pearl, the widow of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was abducted and beheaded in Pakistan in early 2002.
Through the resolution, the Council expressed deep concern at the growing threat to journalists and associated media personnel, including killings, kidnapping and hostage taking by terrorist groups. According to a concept note prepared by the Lithuanian presidency for the meeting (document S/2015/307), 61journalists were killed in 2014 and 221were imprisoned. The growing flagrancy of abuses was exemplified by the beheadings by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant/Sham (ISIL/ISIS). The note said that little progress has been made in van cleef inspired clover necklace fake addressing those crimes. Today's resolution urged Member States to take active steps to ensure accountability.
Through the text, the Council affirmed that journalists and associated professionals were civilians providing they took no actions adversely affecting that status and emphasized that all international human rights law protecting civilians during conflict applied to them, as well as did the more focused Additional Protocol of the Geneva Conventions. It also affirmed the importance of a free and impartial media for the protection of civilians.
The Council reiterated its demand, in that light, that all parties in situations of armed conflict comply fully with international law on protection of non combatants and do their utmost to prevent violations against them. Reiterating the primary responsibility of States in that endeavour and in safeguarding the right of free expression "online as well as offline" it condemned, however, the use of the media to incite violence.
Encouraging the United Nations and regional organizations to strengthen coordination on the protection of journalists, the Council affirmed that United Nations peacekeeping and special political missions, where appropriate, should include reporting on abuses against media workers. The Council requested the Secretary General to include a sub item on the topic in his reports on protection of civilians.
"It is our shared responsibility to protect the voices that alert, warn and inform on situations threatening international peace and security," Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson said as he opened the meeting, just prior to the adoption of the resolution. He described the United Nations Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity that aimed to tackle the challenges and was being piloted in Iraq, Nepal, Pakistan and South Sudan.
Security Council members, he said, could support the Plan by endorsing it and unequivocally and consistently condemning all killings of journalists in conflict situations, including locally based journalists, and remain closely focused on protection of media workers.
Christophe Deloire, Director General of Reporters Without Borders, welcomed the new resolution, but called on the Secretary General to appoint a special representative on the protection of journalists to ensure that Member States abided by their commitments under the text and under previous resolution 1738 (2006).
"The future depends on the depth and intensity of the vow embraced by people today," Mariane Pearl said, stressing the importance of real journalism to modern society and emphasizing that it was not only terrorists that threatened journalists; it was also States who repressed them for counter terrorism, for hiding corruption and other purposes. In that context, she welcomed the Action Plan and today's resolution, but she called for further warnings to States not to use national security to intimidate journalists.
After those presentations, subsequent speakers further elaborated upon the dangers faced by journalists and other media workers, welcoming the adoption of the resolution and calling for its implementation on the ground. Many related the cases of individual journalists who had been killed or persecuted either by extremists or Governments. Some warned that violence against journalists was often a precursor to widespread human rights violations.
Most speakers did not attempt to define journalism, though many urged journalists to retain an impartial stance in their reporting. The representative of the Russian Federation, however, said including all Internet users as journalists would not help the cause of media freedom, and Venezuela's representative urged a distinction between journalism and corporate media.
JAN ELIASSON, Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, said: "This issue is fundamentally about the right to information, about protection of civilians, about respect for human rights and about not giving in to threats and intimidation from those who advocate and practice violence and intolerance." Noting the spike in crimes against journalists, he said that some 95per cent of those killed were locally based and received less media coverage. He cited findings that illustrate the extent of the problem "from South Sudan to Libya, from Syria to Somalia and beyond".
It was precisely in conflict situations where the voices of the voiceless and reports from the front lines must be heard loud and clear, he said. Ensuring the safety of journalists required a multifaceted approach that took account of the conditions in each conflict area and the different threats to a variety of journalists, including foreign correspondents, locally based reporters and women journalists. Corruption, intimidation, reprisals and weak judicial systems must be tackled, and a culture of respect for human rights and the rule of law must be built. In that light, the safety of journalists in non conflict zones was of concern as well. Threats and attacks were committed by both State and non State actors, often to silence information on human rights violations or other off limits subjects.
The United Nations Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity aimed to tackle those challenges, he said. The Plan was being piloted in Iraq, Nepal, Pakistan and South Sudan among other countries. Security Council members could support the Plan by endorsing it and unequivocally and consistently condemning all killings of journalists in conflict situations, including locally based ones. He pledged that the United Nations system would continue to assist the Council in all such efforts. "It is our shared responsibility to protect the voices that alert, warn and inform on situations threatening international peace and security," he concluded.
CHRISTOPHE DELOIRE, Director General of Reporters Without Borders, said 66journalists had been killed around the world last year while doing their job, with 25such deaths reported so far this year. That showed that resolution 1738, adopted in 2006, was insufficient in addressing the problem of lack of safety of journalists. The draft text linked the right of freedom of expression to article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a link that did not put one category of people above others but committed to defending the freedom of all.
A new Council resolution would not in and of itself be enough, he conceded, stressing that it provided the basis for further action. The Secretary General needed to appoint a special representative on the protection of journalists to ensure that Member States abided by their commitments. The envoy's mandate could be modelled after that of the Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict and provide an early warning system for the Secretary General. The special representative should maintain contacts with other organizations and institutions, undertake inquiries where States refused to do so, and be empowered to initiate legal action.
More than 90per cent of crimes against journalists went unpunished and unprosecuted, which, he said, served almost as an incentive for attacks. Welcoming the new resolution's mention of the International Criminal Court, he cited Iraq and Syria as "black holes", where lack of free reporting led to wider tragedies. Since those two countries were not State parties to the Rome Statute, the Council should refer them to the Court, demonstrating unity of purpose.
Welcoming the resolution's language calling for protection of both online and offline journalists, he said the profession should not be defined by a contractual obligation, but should be done so within its social functions. The globalization of threats had manifested itself in the world of the media, he said, stressing that most journalists were killed under supposedly peaceful regimes. Stating that 150journalists and 170non professionals were languishing in prison simply for doing their job, he stressed the need butterfly van cleef necklace copy for a mix between common aspirations and divergent interests for the sake of peace.
MARIANE PEARL, wife of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl, said that "The Future depends on the depth and intensity of the vow embraced by people today," adding that "journalists everywhere are those single, determined individuals who increasingly are bearing the weight of our democracies on their own". Calling the present "a troubled time for our profession", she stressed that intellectual and moral courage was needed to inspire others and to defeat oppression. "Somewhere along the wars we, journalists, have lost the old, unspoken agreement that we were a neutral and fair profession." As a result, danger has increased and all were forced to wonder what kind of journalism is exactly worth dying for.
True courage was needed to go beyond the obvious, to fight preconceived ideas, to battle corruption and greed, she said. Unfortunately the confusion in journalism was great, including a search for economic models to compete with the Internet. Some ran after breaking news just to break the news; others were walking on the shaky ground between proper journalism and entertainment news. She was focused, however, on those journalists who had the courage to embrace the complexity of the world, the courage to honour the truth no matter how unpleasant or contrary to what the majority thought and to make the world aware of atrocities.
Terrorists were seeking to destroy dialogue and bonds between people, she said, and worked to create their own narrative that labelled people. They killed journalists, humanitarian workers, Americans, Jews, those they called infidels and so on in the hope of dispiriting those who identify with their victims. To create a counter narrative, journalists must destroy the base on which terrorists operate: hatred. In her case, that translated into 13years of a daily struggle to oppose hatred with empathy, violence with compassion and ignorance with education. However, it was not easy as terrorists were making news out of the killing of journalists, and many reporters in conflict zones were vulnerable freelancers and women.
In addition, terrorist groups were only a small part of the problem, she said. Nearly 60 per cent of journalists jailed around the world were imprisoned on anti State charges. Impunity for killing journalists was endemic. Mass surveillance by some Council members put journalists and their sources at risk and an increasing number of countries were now using anti terrorism laws to muzzle the press even further. Journalists continued to do valuable work, despite the threats, because they felt it was necessary. "I don't want to go back to Chechnya, but if I don't who will?", she quoted Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya as saying sometime before she was murdered in front of her home in 2006.
The neutral space in which journalists could operate as independent witnesses was shrinking, she said, partly because Governments and terrorist groups alike could bypass those reporters and put their own controlled messages directly on line. That furthered skewed the information available for decision making. She noted that, with more than 25journalists already murdered this year, Member States had agreed on an Action Plan, but concerted efforts were butterfly van cleef necklace imitation needed on the ground to implement it. The Council must warn States that they should not use national security as an excuse to jail, harass or censor journalists. A statement or resolution addressing the threats journalists faced in that context would be an important sign of commitment to fight the scourge. She expressed hope that the moral courage exemplified by ordinary people such as journalists would inspire further action.
Strongly condemning impunity for attacks on journalists, which had greatly increased globally, the Security Council, during an all day open debate today, called on parties to conflict and all Member States to create a safe environment "in law and practice" for media professionals to do their important work.
The Council put out that call through the unanimous adoption of resolution 2222 (2015) early in a meeting that heard from nearly 70speakers under the agenda item "Protection of civilians in armed conflict" and was chaired by Lithuania's Foreign Minister, with briefings by the Deputy Secretary General, as well as by the Director General of Reporters Without Borders and Mariane Pearl, the widow of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was abducted and beheaded in Pakistan in early 2002.
Through the resolution, the Council expressed deep concern at the growing threat to journalists and associated media personnel, including killings, kidnapping and hostage taking by terrorist groups. According to a concept note prepared by the Lithuanian presidency for the meeting (document S/2015/307), 61journalists were killed in 2014 and 221were imprisoned. The growing flagrancy of abuses was exemplified by the beheadings by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant/Sham (ISIL/ISIS). The note said that little progress has been made in van cleef inspired clover necklace fake addressing those crimes. Today's resolution urged Member States to take active steps to ensure accountability.
Through the text, the Council affirmed that journalists and associated professionals were civilians providing they took no actions adversely affecting that status and emphasized that all international human rights law protecting civilians during conflict applied to them, as well as did the more focused Additional Protocol of the Geneva Conventions. It also affirmed the importance of a free and impartial media for the protection of civilians.
The Council reiterated its demand, in that light, that all parties in situations of armed conflict comply fully with international law on protection of non combatants and do their utmost to prevent violations against them. Reiterating the primary responsibility of States in that endeavour and in safeguarding the right of free expression "online as well as offline" it condemned, however, the use of the media to incite violence.
Encouraging the United Nations and regional organizations to strengthen coordination on the protection of journalists, the Council affirmed that United Nations peacekeeping and special political missions, where appropriate, should include reporting on abuses against media workers. The Council requested the Secretary General to include a sub item on the topic in his reports on protection of civilians.
"It is our shared responsibility to protect the voices that alert, warn and inform on situations threatening international peace and security," Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson said as he opened the meeting, just prior to the adoption of the resolution. He described the United Nations Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity that aimed to tackle the challenges and was being piloted in Iraq, Nepal, Pakistan and South Sudan.
Security Council members, he said, could support the Plan by endorsing it and unequivocally and consistently condemning all killings of journalists in conflict situations, including locally based journalists, and remain closely focused on protection of media workers.
Christophe Deloire, Director General of Reporters Without Borders, welcomed the new resolution, but called on the Secretary General to appoint a special representative on the protection of journalists to ensure that Member States abided by their commitments under the text and under previous resolution 1738 (2006).
"The future depends on the depth and intensity of the vow embraced by people today," Mariane Pearl said, stressing the importance of real journalism to modern society and emphasizing that it was not only terrorists that threatened journalists; it was also States who repressed them for counter terrorism, for hiding corruption and other purposes. In that context, she welcomed the Action Plan and today's resolution, but she called for further warnings to States not to use national security to intimidate journalists.
After those presentations, subsequent speakers further elaborated upon the dangers faced by journalists and other media workers, welcoming the adoption of the resolution and calling for its implementation on the ground. Many related the cases of individual journalists who had been killed or persecuted either by extremists or Governments. Some warned that violence against journalists was often a precursor to widespread human rights violations.
Most speakers did not attempt to define journalism, though many urged journalists to retain an impartial stance in their reporting. The representative of the Russian Federation, however, said including all Internet users as journalists would not help the cause of media freedom, and Venezuela's representative urged a distinction between journalism and corporate media.
JAN ELIASSON, Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, said: "This issue is fundamentally about the right to information, about protection of civilians, about respect for human rights and about not giving in to threats and intimidation from those who advocate and practice violence and intolerance." Noting the spike in crimes against journalists, he said that some 95per cent of those killed were locally based and received less media coverage. He cited findings that illustrate the extent of the problem "from South Sudan to Libya, from Syria to Somalia and beyond".
It was precisely in conflict situations where the voices of the voiceless and reports from the front lines must be heard loud and clear, he said. Ensuring the safety of journalists required a multifaceted approach that took account of the conditions in each conflict area and the different threats to a variety of journalists, including foreign correspondents, locally based reporters and women journalists. Corruption, intimidation, reprisals and weak judicial systems must be tackled, and a culture of respect for human rights and the rule of law must be built. In that light, the safety of journalists in non conflict zones was of concern as well. Threats and attacks were committed by both State and non State actors, often to silence information on human rights violations or other off limits subjects.
The United Nations Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity aimed to tackle those challenges, he said. The Plan was being piloted in Iraq, Nepal, Pakistan and South Sudan among other countries. Security Council members could support the Plan by endorsing it and unequivocally and consistently condemning all killings of journalists in conflict situations, including locally based ones. He pledged that the United Nations system would continue to assist the Council in all such efforts. "It is our shared responsibility to protect the voices that alert, warn and inform on situations threatening international peace and security," he concluded.
CHRISTOPHE DELOIRE, Director General of Reporters Without Borders, said 66journalists had been killed around the world last year while doing their job, with 25such deaths reported so far this year. That showed that resolution 1738, adopted in 2006, was insufficient in addressing the problem of lack of safety of journalists. The draft text linked the right of freedom of expression to article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a link that did not put one category of people above others but committed to defending the freedom of all.
A new Council resolution would not in and of itself be enough, he conceded, stressing that it provided the basis for further action. The Secretary General needed to appoint a special representative on the protection of journalists to ensure that Member States abided by their commitments. The envoy's mandate could be modelled after that of the Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict and provide an early warning system for the Secretary General. The special representative should maintain contacts with other organizations and institutions, undertake inquiries where States refused to do so, and be empowered to initiate legal action.
More than 90per cent of crimes against journalists went unpunished and unprosecuted, which, he said, served almost as an incentive for attacks. Welcoming the new resolution's mention of the International Criminal Court, he cited Iraq and Syria as "black holes", where lack of free reporting led to wider tragedies. Since those two countries were not State parties to the Rome Statute, the Council should refer them to the Court, demonstrating unity of purpose.
Welcoming the resolution's language calling for protection of both online and offline journalists, he said the profession should not be defined by a contractual obligation, but should be done so within its social functions. The globalization of threats had manifested itself in the world of the media, he said, stressing that most journalists were killed under supposedly peaceful regimes. Stating that 150journalists and 170non professionals were languishing in prison simply for doing their job, he stressed the need butterfly van cleef necklace copy for a mix between common aspirations and divergent interests for the sake of peace.
MARIANE PEARL, wife of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl, said that "The Future depends on the depth and intensity of the vow embraced by people today," adding that "journalists everywhere are those single, determined individuals who increasingly are bearing the weight of our democracies on their own". Calling the present "a troubled time for our profession", she stressed that intellectual and moral courage was needed to inspire others and to defeat oppression. "Somewhere along the wars we, journalists, have lost the old, unspoken agreement that we were a neutral and fair profession." As a result, danger has increased and all were forced to wonder what kind of journalism is exactly worth dying for.
True courage was needed to go beyond the obvious, to fight preconceived ideas, to battle corruption and greed, she said. Unfortunately the confusion in journalism was great, including a search for economic models to compete with the Internet. Some ran after breaking news just to break the news; others were walking on the shaky ground between proper journalism and entertainment news. She was focused, however, on those journalists who had the courage to embrace the complexity of the world, the courage to honour the truth no matter how unpleasant or contrary to what the majority thought and to make the world aware of atrocities.
Terrorists were seeking to destroy dialogue and bonds between people, she said, and worked to create their own narrative that labelled people. They killed journalists, humanitarian workers, Americans, Jews, those they called infidels and so on in the hope of dispiriting those who identify with their victims. To create a counter narrative, journalists must destroy the base on which terrorists operate: hatred. In her case, that translated into 13years of a daily struggle to oppose hatred with empathy, violence with compassion and ignorance with education. However, it was not easy as terrorists were making news out of the killing of journalists, and many reporters in conflict zones were vulnerable freelancers and women.
In addition, terrorist groups were only a small part of the problem, she said. Nearly 60 per cent of journalists jailed around the world were imprisoned on anti State charges. Impunity for killing journalists was endemic. Mass surveillance by some Council members put journalists and their sources at risk and an increasing number of countries were now using anti terrorism laws to muzzle the press even further. Journalists continued to do valuable work, despite the threats, because they felt it was necessary. "I don't want to go back to Chechnya, but if I don't who will?", she quoted Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya as saying sometime before she was murdered in front of her home in 2006.
The neutral space in which journalists could operate as independent witnesses was shrinking, she said, partly because Governments and terrorist groups alike could bypass those reporters and put their own controlled messages directly on line. That furthered skewed the information available for decision making. She noted that, with more than 25journalists already murdered this year, Member States had agreed on an Action Plan, but concerted efforts were butterfly van cleef necklace imitation needed on the ground to implement it. The Council must warn States that they should not use national security as an excuse to jail, harass or censor journalists. A statement or resolution addressing the threats journalists faced in that context would be an important sign of commitment to fight the scourge. She expressed hope that the moral courage exemplified by ordinary people such as journalists would inspire further action.
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In his seven years with the Lions, the 6 foot 6, 325 pound Olafioye, 29, was named a CFL All Star six times and selected the CFL's Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman in 2012.
"It's not every day that you have the opportunity to acquire a player of Jovan's calibre, one who has performed at such a high level day in and day out, without ever missing a start," Alouettes general manager Kavis Reed said in a statement. "With this transaction we are addressing a pressing need that we had on the offensive line. Lions and Olafioye were van cleef inspired clover necklace fake unable to agree on a new contract.
In return, Lions get a former top prospect in Foucault and a virtual unknown in Brown.
Foucault, who checks in at 6 foot 8 and 315 pounds, was Montreal's first round selection (fifth overall) in the 2014 CFL Draft. A standout at the University of Montreal, he signed as a free agent with the NFL's Carolina Panthers in 2014. The 28 year old then spent the following two seasons with the Panthers, playing five games with the team in 2014, including one start.
He was waived by Carolina during training camp last year after spending all but one week of the 2015 season on the Panthers' practice roster.
The native of La Prairie., Quebec has yet to play a down in the CFL.
"Acquiring David allows us to possibly develop a plan to play four Canadians along the offensive line and perhaps more importantly, it ensures there is a depth of talent backing up each position," said Buono. "He's a former first round draft choice with two years of NFL development, so we expect him to come in and compete at a very high level."
The Lions will now try to signFoucault to a contract in time for their mini camp slated for April 26 28.
The 25 year old Brown, listed at 6 6 and 350 pounds, was originally signed by Montreal in 2015 during the CFL's annual practice roster expansion period.
Hewas a member of the Alouettes' practice squad in 2015 and saw some action in the season finale. He attended training camp with the Als in 2016 but didn appear in any games last season.
"As we close in on training camp, we are determined to create the highest level of competition at every position on the field," added Buono. epaper, Digital Access, Subscriber Rewards), please input your Print Newspaper subscription phone number and postal code.
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Six time CFL butterfly van cleef necklace copy all star offensive tackleJovan Olafioye has been shipped to the Montreal Alouettes in exchange for the rights to offensivelinemen David Foucault andVincent Brown.
"Jovan was a big part of our team," said GM and head coach Wally Buono in a statement. "He has been a true professional throughout his time with us and during this entire process. We wish him the very best as a van cleef mini alhambra necklace copy member of the Alouettes."
In his seven years with the Lions, the 6 foot 6, 325 pound Olafioye, 29, was named a CFL All Star six times and selected the CFL's Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman in 2012.
"It's not every day that you have the opportunity to acquire a player of Jovan's calibre, one who has performed at such a high level day in and day out, without ever missing a start," Alouettes general manager Kavis Reed said in a statement. "With this transaction we are addressing a pressing need that we had on the offensive line. Lions and Olafioye were van cleef inspired clover necklace fake unable to agree on a new contract.
In return, Lions get a former top prospect in Foucault and a virtual unknown in Brown.
Foucault, who checks in at 6 foot 8 and 315 pounds, was Montreal's first round selection (fifth overall) in the 2014 CFL Draft. A standout at the University of Montreal, he signed as a free agent with the NFL's Carolina Panthers in 2014. The 28 year old then spent the following two seasons with the Panthers, playing five games with the team in 2014, including one start.
He was waived by Carolina during training camp last year after spending all but one week of the 2015 season on the Panthers' practice roster.
The native of La Prairie., Quebec has yet to play a down in the CFL.
"Acquiring David allows us to possibly develop a plan to play four Canadians along the offensive line and perhaps more importantly, it ensures there is a depth of talent backing up each position," said Buono. "He's a former first round draft choice with two years of NFL development, so we expect him to come in and compete at a very high level."
The Lions will now try to signFoucault to a contract in time for their mini camp slated for April 26 28.
The 25 year old Brown, listed at 6 6 and 350 pounds, was originally signed by Montreal in 2015 during the CFL's annual practice roster expansion period.
Hewas a member of the Alouettes' practice squad in 2015 and saw some action in the season finale. He attended training camp with the Als in 2016 but didn appear in any games last season.
"As we close in on training camp, we are determined to create the highest level of competition at every position on the field," added Buono. epaper, Digital Access, Subscriber Rewards), please input your Print Newspaper subscription phone number and postal code.
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Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler is one of the great portraits of a soul in crisis, and Ruth Wilson brings a thrilling volatility to its title role. She captures the boredom and reckless verve of a passionate woman who rebels against the numbness of a stifling marriage, spots vulgarity unerringly yet dreads the prospect of scandal.
Director Ivo van Hove, who uses a crisp yet somewhat colourless new text by Patrick Marber, sets out to make this frequently performed play seem unfamiliar. Instead of locating it in a readily van cleef and arpels butterfly ring copy recognisable setting, the arrestingly lit design conjures an impression of institutional coldness.
Hedda and her newish husband Tesman live in an apartment that resembles a vast box its most striking features a distressed piano and an oddly inefficient intercom system. The only way characters can get in and out of the couple's home is by traipsing through the auditorium. This heightens our awareness of Hedda's confinement, as if she's a strange object put on display for connoisseurs to come and examine.
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