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22:51 Jaya va pour des heures de secousse bureaucratiques après la prise en charge: Heures après J Jayalalithaa a assumé son poste de ministre en chef, le gouvernement Tamil Nadu a effectué un brassage de hauts responsables de l'IPS en plus de transférer plusieurs officiers de l'IAS, en inversant plusieurs modifications apportées aux scrutins Sous la direction de la Commission électorale.
Le gouvernement a ramené l'ancien commissaire de la police de Chennai, T K Rajendran, les prisons de la DG et de l'IG, alors que le commissaire de police de Chennai remplaçait Ashutosh Shukla. S George, DGP et président de Tamil Nadu Uniformated Services Recruitment Board aura des frais supplémentaires en tant que prison IG. Shukla a été postée comme ADGP, Enforcement, à la place de J K Tripthy,rolex gmt 2 occasion faux, a déclaré un communiqué officiel.
Tripathy est de retour en tant que ADGP, Law and Order, le vice-C Shylendra Babu, qui a été transféré et postulé comme ADGP, groupe Coastal Security. Rajendran et Tripathy ont été transférés sur les directives de CE suite aux plaintes de DMK.
22:39 DD et le diffuseur public de la Chine pour échanger des programmes: À l'occasion de la visite du Président Pranab Mukherjee en Chine, Doordarshan et CCTV, le diffuseur public de Chine,prix rolex gmt replique, diffusera une série de programmes favorisant une meilleure compréhension entre les gens Les deux pays.
Une déclaration publiée par Doordarshan a déclaré que la visite de Mukherjee en Chine, du 24 au 27 mai, entraînerait un échange intéressant de programmes entre les deux radiodiffuseurs publics.
'Cet échange de programmes s'inscrit dans le cadre d'un protocole d'entente signé en mai 2015 lorsque le Premier ministre Narendra Modi et le Premier ministre chinois Li Keqiang ont élargi la coopération entre les deux pays, des films aux productions télévisuelles',contrefaçon montre rolex gmt, a déclaré le communiqué.
Le PDG de Prasar Bharati, Jawahar Sircar, a joué un rôle important dans la signature de l'accord avec le président de la CCTV, Nie Chen Xi, à l'époque, a ajouté.
22:06 Les attentats de l'armée islamique dans le centre-ville de Syrie tuent plus de 148: plus de 148 personnes ont été tuées lundi dans des bombardements réclamés par le groupe d'État islamique dans le nord-ouest de la Syrie, les attaques les plus meurtrières dans le centre-ville du régime, a rapporté l'AFP.
Sept explosions presque simultanées ont ciblé des stations de bus, des hôpitaux et d'autres sites civils dans les villes balnéaires de Jableh et Tartus, qui jusqu'alors étaient relativement isolés de la guerre civile quinquennale de la Syrie.
Les attaques sans précédent sur les bastions du régime du président Bashar al Assad sont venues alors qu'Il fait face à une pression croissante en Syrie et en Irak, où les forces de Bagdad ont lancé lundi une offensive majeure pour reprendre la ville jonchée de Falloujah.
Une centaine de personnes ont été tuées à Jableh et 48 autres à Tartus au sud, dont huit enfants au moins, selon le groupe de surveillance de l'Observatoire syrien pour les droits de l'homme.
Le chef de l'observatoire, Rami Abdel Rahman, a déclaré qu'ils étaient «sans aucun doute les attaques les plus meurtrières» sur les deux villes depuis le début de la guerre.
Il a réclamé les explosions via son agence de presse Amaq, affirmant que ses combattants avaient attaqué des «rassemblements alaouis» à Jableh et Tartus, en se référant à la secte minoritaire dont Assad salue.
IS n'est pas connu pour avoir une présence dans les provinces côtières de la Syrie, où son rival djihadiste et la branche locale d'Al Qaeda Al Nusra Front est beaucoup plus importante.
Mais IS est notoire pour l'utilisation de cellules dormantes mortelles pour attaquer ses ennemis.
'Je suis choqué, c'est la première fois que j'entends ça comme ça', a déclaré Mohsen Zayyoud, un étudiant universitaire de 22 ans à Jableh.
22:01 'Le chef taliban Mansour a été un obstacle à la paix': le principal commandant américain en Afghanistan a déclaré lundi que le chef taliban Mullah Mohammed Akhtar Mansour était un obstacle à la paix et que sa mort aurait un effet perturbateur sur l'insurrection. .
Le commandant de soutien résolu, le général John W Nicholson, a déclaré lors d'une visite dans la province du nord de Kunduz que Mansour a rejeté la chance offerte par le président afghan Ashraf Ghani de participer au processus de paix.
'J'espère que les dirigeants talibans se rendront compte qu'il est temps de déposer leurs armes et de se joindre aux efforts de paix, afin que le peuple afghan puisse profiter de la paix et de la prospérité à l'avenir', a déclaré Nicholson.
Le président Barack Obama a également déclaré que la mort de Mansour marque un «jalon important» dans les efforts de longue date pour apporter la paix en Afghanistan.
Nicholson était à Kunduz pour la deuxième fois depuis qu'il est devenu le commandant de la mission Resolute Support. À la fin de septembre 2015, les combattants talibans de Mansour ont dépassé la ville de Kunduz et l'ont retenu pendant quatre jours avant d'être chassés. La reprise était une grande gêne pour le gouvernement de Ghani.
Nicholson a également rencontré des victimes et des familles de personnes tuées le 3 octobre 2015 lorsque des avions de guerre américains ont bombardé à tort un hôpital de Kunduz dirigé par Médecins sans frontières pendant l'offensive pour reprendre Kunduz.
21:53 Les accusations de fan de Jaya Rs 1 ne sont que pour une conduite automatique lors de sa jachère: Pour célébrer la victime d'AIADMK Supremo Jayalalithaa en tant que ministre en chef pour la sixième fois, un automobiliste à Coimbatore a offert lundi son service en prenant des passagers Pour une roupie à n'importe quel endroit de la ville.
Mathivanan, âgé de 45 ans, gère le pousse-pousse automobile depuis 25 ans et est un fervent partisan du ministre en chef, M G Ramachandran, qui a fondé AIADMK.
Après MGR, il a continué sa fidélité à AIADMK et est devenu un fan de Jayalalithaa et l'a amenée à devenir son chef, a déclaré Mathivanan aux journalistes.
Dans le cadre des célébrations de la victoire de son parti pour la deuxième fois de suite, il a décidé de sortir une nouvelle idée de prendre les passagers pour une roupie n'importe où dans la ville, at-il dit.
Pour cela, il a collé un autocollant sur son auto indiquant que seul Re One sera chargé aujourd'hui de voyager dans ce véhicule dans le cadre de Jayalalithaa en charge de la sixième fois en tant que ministre en chef.
Plus de 80 passagers ont voyagé en voiture,contrefaçon rolex gmt master occasion, de Lakshmi Mills Junction à Railway Station à Ondipudur au stade Nehru, a déclaré Mathivanan.
21h45 Modi conclut une visite de deux jours en Iran: le Premier ministre Narendra Modi a terminé lundi sa visite de deux jours en Iran au cours de laquelle les deux pays ont signé 12 accords, y compris un pacte «étape importante» sur le développement du port stratégique de Chabahar et s'est engagé à Combattre le terrorisme et le radicalisme.
22:51 Jaya va pour des heures de secousse bureaucratiques après la prise en charge: Heures après J Jayalalithaa a assumé son poste de ministre en chef, le gouvernement Tamil Nadu a effectué un brassage de hauts responsables de l'IPS en plus de transférer plusieurs officiers de l'IAS, en inversant plusieurs modifications apportées aux scrutins Sous la direction de la Commission électorale.
Le gouvernement a ramené l'ancien commissaire de la police de Chennai, T K Rajendran, les prisons de la DG et de l'IG, alors que le commissaire de police de Chennai remplaçait Ashutosh Shukla. S George, DGP et président de Tamil Nadu Uniformated Services Recruitment Board aura des frais supplémentaires en tant que prison IG. Shukla a été postée comme ADGP, Enforcement, à la place de J K Tripthy,rolex gmt 2 occasion faux, a déclaré un communiqué officiel.
Tripathy est de retour en tant que ADGP, Law and Order, le vice-C Shylendra Babu, qui a été transféré et postulé comme ADGP, groupe Coastal Security. Rajendran et Tripathy ont été transférés sur les directives de CE suite aux plaintes de DMK.
22:39 DD et le diffuseur public de la Chine pour échanger des programmes: À l'occasion de la visite du Président Pranab Mukherjee en Chine, Doordarshan et CCTV, le diffuseur public de Chine,prix rolex gmt replique, diffusera une série de programmes favorisant une meilleure compréhension entre les gens Les deux pays.
Une déclaration publiée par Doordarshan a déclaré que la visite de Mukherjee en Chine, du 24 au 27 mai, entraînerait un échange intéressant de programmes entre les deux radiodiffuseurs publics.
'Cet échange de programmes s'inscrit dans le cadre d'un protocole d'entente signé en mai 2015 lorsque le Premier ministre Narendra Modi et le Premier ministre chinois Li Keqiang ont élargi la coopération entre les deux pays, des films aux productions télévisuelles',contrefaçon montre rolex gmt, a déclaré le communiqué.
Le PDG de Prasar Bharati, Jawahar Sircar, a joué un rôle important dans la signature de l'accord avec le président de la CCTV, Nie Chen Xi, à l'époque, a ajouté.
22:06 Les attentats de l'armée islamique dans le centre-ville de Syrie tuent plus de 148: plus de 148 personnes ont été tuées lundi dans des bombardements réclamés par le groupe d'État islamique dans le nord-ouest de la Syrie, les attaques les plus meurtrières dans le centre-ville du régime, a rapporté l'AFP.
Sept explosions presque simultanées ont ciblé des stations de bus, des hôpitaux et d'autres sites civils dans les villes balnéaires de Jableh et Tartus, qui jusqu'alors étaient relativement isolés de la guerre civile quinquennale de la Syrie.
Les attaques sans précédent sur les bastions du régime du président Bashar al Assad sont venues alors qu'Il fait face à une pression croissante en Syrie et en Irak, où les forces de Bagdad ont lancé lundi une offensive majeure pour reprendre la ville jonchée de Falloujah.
Une centaine de personnes ont été tuées à Jableh et 48 autres à Tartus au sud, dont huit enfants au moins, selon le groupe de surveillance de l'Observatoire syrien pour les droits de l'homme.
Le chef de l'observatoire, Rami Abdel Rahman, a déclaré qu'ils étaient «sans aucun doute les attaques les plus meurtrières» sur les deux villes depuis le début de la guerre.
Il a réclamé les explosions via son agence de presse Amaq, affirmant que ses combattants avaient attaqué des «rassemblements alaouis» à Jableh et Tartus, en se référant à la secte minoritaire dont Assad salue.
IS n'est pas connu pour avoir une présence dans les provinces côtières de la Syrie, où son rival djihadiste et la branche locale d'Al Qaeda Al Nusra Front est beaucoup plus importante.
Mais IS est notoire pour l'utilisation de cellules dormantes mortelles pour attaquer ses ennemis.
'Je suis choqué, c'est la première fois que j'entends ça comme ça', a déclaré Mohsen Zayyoud, un étudiant universitaire de 22 ans à Jableh.
22:01 'Le chef taliban Mansour a été un obstacle à la paix': le principal commandant américain en Afghanistan a déclaré lundi que le chef taliban Mullah Mohammed Akhtar Mansour était un obstacle à la paix et que sa mort aurait un effet perturbateur sur l'insurrection. .
Le commandant de soutien résolu, le général John W Nicholson, a déclaré lors d'une visite dans la province du nord de Kunduz que Mansour a rejeté la chance offerte par le président afghan Ashraf Ghani de participer au processus de paix.
'J'espère que les dirigeants talibans se rendront compte qu'il est temps de déposer leurs armes et de se joindre aux efforts de paix, afin que le peuple afghan puisse profiter de la paix et de la prospérité à l'avenir', a déclaré Nicholson.
Le président Barack Obama a également déclaré que la mort de Mansour marque un «jalon important» dans les efforts de longue date pour apporter la paix en Afghanistan.
Nicholson était à Kunduz pour la deuxième fois depuis qu'il est devenu le commandant de la mission Resolute Support. À la fin de septembre 2015, les combattants talibans de Mansour ont dépassé la ville de Kunduz et l'ont retenu pendant quatre jours avant d'être chassés. La reprise était une grande gêne pour le gouvernement de Ghani.
Nicholson a également rencontré des victimes et des familles de personnes tuées le 3 octobre 2015 lorsque des avions de guerre américains ont bombardé à tort un hôpital de Kunduz dirigé par Médecins sans frontières pendant l'offensive pour reprendre Kunduz.
21:53 Les accusations de fan de Jaya Rs 1 ne sont que pour une conduite automatique lors de sa jachère: Pour célébrer la victime d'AIADMK Supremo Jayalalithaa en tant que ministre en chef pour la sixième fois, un automobiliste à Coimbatore a offert lundi son service en prenant des passagers Pour une roupie à n'importe quel endroit de la ville.
Mathivanan, âgé de 45 ans, gère le pousse-pousse automobile depuis 25 ans et est un fervent partisan du ministre en chef, M G Ramachandran, qui a fondé AIADMK.
Après MGR, il a continué sa fidélité à AIADMK et est devenu un fan de Jayalalithaa et l'a amenée à devenir son chef, a déclaré Mathivanan aux journalistes.
Dans le cadre des célébrations de la victoire de son parti pour la deuxième fois de suite, il a décidé de sortir une nouvelle idée de prendre les passagers pour une roupie n'importe où dans la ville, at-il dit.
Pour cela, il a collé un autocollant sur son auto indiquant que seul Re One sera chargé aujourd'hui de voyager dans ce véhicule dans le cadre de Jayalalithaa en charge de la sixième fois en tant que ministre en chef.
Plus de 80 passagers ont voyagé en voiture,contrefaçon rolex gmt master occasion, de Lakshmi Mills Junction à Railway Station à Ondipudur au stade Nehru, a déclaré Mathivanan.
21h45 Modi conclut une visite de deux jours en Iran: le Premier ministre Narendra Modi a terminé lundi sa visite de deux jours en Iran au cours de laquelle les deux pays ont signé 12 accords, y compris un pacte «étape importante» sur le développement du port stratégique de Chabahar et s'est engagé à Combattre le terrorisme et le radicalisme.
MARY VAN DYKE Obituary
Mary H. VanDyke HAMILTON Mary H. VanDyke, 98, of Hamilton passed away Monday, Feb. 6, 2017, replica Van bracelet yellow gold at Compassionate Care Hospice at RWJ, Hamilton. Born in Wertsville, NJ, Mary was a longtime Hamilton resident. She was formerly employed with NJ Bell Telephone Co. in Hamilton. Mary was a devout member and deacon at the former Pilgrim Presbyterian Church, Hamilton, NJ, and United Presbyterian Church, Yardville, NJ. Daughter of the late Clinton R. and Carrie Hoffman Housel, sister of the late Clinton P. Housel, Clarence E. Housel and Marjorie E. Mayer, mother of replica van cleef & arpels clover bracelet the late Nancy L. Natriello and wife of the late C. L. "Van" VanDyke, Mary is survived by her granddaughter, Denise L. Gioscio and husband Robert S.; her great grandchildren, Danielle, Leanna and Erin Gioscio; her son in law, Ronald Natriello and companion Joyce Vaughn; her niece, Marjorie Henrickson and husband Paul; her nephew, Clinton P. Housel, and her dear friend, Julie Gioscio. Funeral service will be Saturday, Feb. at Kingston Kemp Funeral Home, 260 White Horse Ave., Hamilton, NJ. Rev. Jean Pinto, Pastor of United Presbyterian Church, Yardville, NJ, will officiate. Interment will follow at Greenwood Cemetery, 1800 Hamilton Ave., Hamilton, NJ. at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Gioscio Scholarship Fund, c/o Denise L. Gioscio, 19 Finley Ave., Hamilton, Van Cleef & Arpels bracelet imitation NJ 08610. Kingston Kemp Funeral Home 260 White Horse Ave. Hamilton, NJ 08610 (609) 585 7321
Mary H. VanDyke HAMILTON Mary H. VanDyke, 98, of Hamilton passed away Monday, Feb. 6, 2017, replica Van bracelet yellow gold at Compassionate Care Hospice at RWJ, Hamilton. Born in Wertsville, NJ, Mary was a longtime Hamilton resident. She was formerly employed with NJ Bell Telephone Co. in Hamilton. Mary was a devout member and deacon at the former Pilgrim Presbyterian Church, Hamilton, NJ, and United Presbyterian Church, Yardville, NJ. Daughter of the late Clinton R. and Carrie Hoffman Housel, sister of the late Clinton P. Housel, Clarence E. Housel and Marjorie E. Mayer, mother of replica van cleef & arpels clover bracelet the late Nancy L. Natriello and wife of the late C. L. "Van" VanDyke, Mary is survived by her granddaughter, Denise L. Gioscio and husband Robert S.; her great grandchildren, Danielle, Leanna and Erin Gioscio; her son in law, Ronald Natriello and companion Joyce Vaughn; her niece, Marjorie Henrickson and husband Paul; her nephew, Clinton P. Housel, and her dear friend, Julie Gioscio. Funeral service will be Saturday, Feb. at Kingston Kemp Funeral Home, 260 White Horse Ave., Hamilton, NJ. Rev. Jean Pinto, Pastor of United Presbyterian Church, Yardville, NJ, will officiate. Interment will follow at Greenwood Cemetery, 1800 Hamilton Ave., Hamilton, NJ. at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Gioscio Scholarship Fund, c/o Denise L. Gioscio, 19 Finley Ave., Hamilton, Van Cleef & Arpels bracelet imitation NJ 08610. Kingston Kemp Funeral Home 260 White Horse Ave. Hamilton, NJ 08610 (609) 585 7321
Lovable Protective and a True Mate
Our Personal ExperienceBlue Heeler Dogs are all of the above and much more. I will explain something weird that happened to prove our dogs dedication or understanding of our needs.
Titan is such a smart dog and what he did last night goes to prove this more than ever. I have to tell you this story although you may not believe me but it is true.
My husband turned off the TV and told me he was going to bed. As usual I was typing on my computer. Suddenly the power went off and it was pitch black. No moonlight or anything just complete blackness,copy van cleef alhambra necklace. My husband asked where the torches were and I said in the cupboard. He found his way to the cupboard and found one.
The power was out in the whole street. So my husband returned inside with the help of his torch and walked towards the kitchen. Then he called to me, you gotta see this! I followed him, and standing there as pleased as punch was Titan (our blue heeler) tail wagging profusely with our other torch in his mouth.
We could not believe it. How did he know we needed the other torch? He must have gone to the cupboard and found it. These cupboards had press release catches so he opens them easy. He seems to sense when we want things, it is not the first time he has done this, although I believe this one takes the cake. And yes he got a treat for being so smart.
We just cannot understand how he does it, although he does do heaps of things for us. I took him to obedience school as a pup. I did this to have a little bit of control over him, because as a pup he was a real terror. He chewed up our whole cane lounge. Chewed the newly upholstered cushions on the lounge and dug holes everywhere. As we both worked I blamed most of this on boredom, and being left home on his own. Beware when placing pellets in your garden as they can kill your dog. There are some more improved snail pellets on the market these days that dogs will not eat. Make sure you buy those ones.
Dangers of throwing sticks for your dog
The second time our son took him to the beach and because he left his ball home he threw sticks for him. As you can imagine blue heelers don't do anything by half measures it is full pelt or nothing. We rushed him to the vet and after explaining what had happened he thought the stick may have been used to stab a poisonous fish or something. It was the only explanation any of us could come up with.
Then a few years later he developed a large lump on his neck. Luckily it was benign. They operated and after a long while they removed most of it. But they could not get it all as it was right on his jugular vein. Again he was saved, thank goodness. So he has sure had his ups and downs. This same protective true mate, gets our mail from the letterbox, helps to carry in the shopping. He is pretty gentle with it although one day he decided to shake a loaf of bread and we had to rescue it. Since then we just give him things in solid packets. But he runs in with it and then back out to the car for something else.
Blue Heelers Need Jobs to keep them Active
Dogs need to be buckled up into their own seat belt like humans, they need your help with this.
My husband tells Titan to grab his thongs. And off he runs and brings one. My husband then says get the other one and away Titan runs and brings the other one. Sometimes he gets an odd shoe, but hey we can't be too fussy.
This wonderful dog would protect either one of us with his life. We know that for sure and certain. Even when we are playing around he lets us know in no uncertain terms. He growls letting us know he is watching us.
Beware of snakes
We were camping in our caravan next to a lake. One afternoon my husband was having a nap and I was sitting outside reading a book and Titan started snapping under our van. I couldn't work out what he was doing. Then when I crawled underneath I spotted the problem. I freaked out and screamed to my husband. Tiger snake Titan is trying to get it.
I grabbed Titan,copy van cleef butterfly necklace. Luckily for him the snake was stretched out and where he was snapping was in the middle so it didn't bite him. We tried to get rid of it. Eventually the rangers came and after two hours they got it out. Oh boy I was freaking out. I hate snakes,copy van cleef clover necklace sale. We were very grateful to the rangers that is for sure they took it away and let it go somewhere else thank goodness.
When Titan wants to sit on one of our lounge chairs at night, he sits in front of it and waits. If we take no notice he will whimper,copy necklace van cleef arpels, and when we say ok, he jumps up and make himself comfortable.
I hope I am not boring you with this but honest to goodness. could give you literally hundreds of little snippets of things he does for us, and we think the world of him. Not that you can tell I suppose.
Oh, Just one more thing. When we were traveling around Australia, we met so many people that would come up to us and ask about Titan. They would share all their stories about their wonderful Blue or Red Heelers. In thirteen months we never met one of those dog owners that had a bad word to say about Heelers. They all said how wonderful Blue Heeler dogs are. And it is true.
Blue Heelers would give their lives for their owners if they could. So I think it is time to say "Drink up! And cheers to Titan, hopefully we will have this blue heeler dog for another ten years!"
Our Personal ExperienceBlue Heeler Dogs are all of the above and much more. I will explain something weird that happened to prove our dogs dedication or understanding of our needs.
Titan is such a smart dog and what he did last night goes to prove this more than ever. I have to tell you this story although you may not believe me but it is true.
My husband turned off the TV and told me he was going to bed. As usual I was typing on my computer. Suddenly the power went off and it was pitch black. No moonlight or anything just complete blackness,copy van cleef alhambra necklace. My husband asked where the torches were and I said in the cupboard. He found his way to the cupboard and found one.
The power was out in the whole street. So my husband returned inside with the help of his torch and walked towards the kitchen. Then he called to me, you gotta see this! I followed him, and standing there as pleased as punch was Titan (our blue heeler) tail wagging profusely with our other torch in his mouth.
We could not believe it. How did he know we needed the other torch? He must have gone to the cupboard and found it. These cupboards had press release catches so he opens them easy. He seems to sense when we want things, it is not the first time he has done this, although I believe this one takes the cake. And yes he got a treat for being so smart.
We just cannot understand how he does it, although he does do heaps of things for us. I took him to obedience school as a pup. I did this to have a little bit of control over him, because as a pup he was a real terror. He chewed up our whole cane lounge. Chewed the newly upholstered cushions on the lounge and dug holes everywhere. As we both worked I blamed most of this on boredom, and being left home on his own. Beware when placing pellets in your garden as they can kill your dog. There are some more improved snail pellets on the market these days that dogs will not eat. Make sure you buy those ones.
Dangers of throwing sticks for your dog
The second time our son took him to the beach and because he left his ball home he threw sticks for him. As you can imagine blue heelers don't do anything by half measures it is full pelt or nothing. We rushed him to the vet and after explaining what had happened he thought the stick may have been used to stab a poisonous fish or something. It was the only explanation any of us could come up with.
Then a few years later he developed a large lump on his neck. Luckily it was benign. They operated and after a long while they removed most of it. But they could not get it all as it was right on his jugular vein. Again he was saved, thank goodness. So he has sure had his ups and downs. This same protective true mate, gets our mail from the letterbox, helps to carry in the shopping. He is pretty gentle with it although one day he decided to shake a loaf of bread and we had to rescue it. Since then we just give him things in solid packets. But he runs in with it and then back out to the car for something else.
Blue Heelers Need Jobs to keep them Active
Dogs need to be buckled up into their own seat belt like humans, they need your help with this.
My husband tells Titan to grab his thongs. And off he runs and brings one. My husband then says get the other one and away Titan runs and brings the other one. Sometimes he gets an odd shoe, but hey we can't be too fussy.
This wonderful dog would protect either one of us with his life. We know that for sure and certain. Even when we are playing around he lets us know in no uncertain terms. He growls letting us know he is watching us.
Beware of snakes
We were camping in our caravan next to a lake. One afternoon my husband was having a nap and I was sitting outside reading a book and Titan started snapping under our van. I couldn't work out what he was doing. Then when I crawled underneath I spotted the problem. I freaked out and screamed to my husband. Tiger snake Titan is trying to get it.
I grabbed Titan,copy van cleef butterfly necklace. Luckily for him the snake was stretched out and where he was snapping was in the middle so it didn't bite him. We tried to get rid of it. Eventually the rangers came and after two hours they got it out. Oh boy I was freaking out. I hate snakes,copy van cleef clover necklace sale. We were very grateful to the rangers that is for sure they took it away and let it go somewhere else thank goodness.
When Titan wants to sit on one of our lounge chairs at night, he sits in front of it and waits. If we take no notice he will whimper,copy necklace van cleef arpels, and when we say ok, he jumps up and make himself comfortable.
I hope I am not boring you with this but honest to goodness. could give you literally hundreds of little snippets of things he does for us, and we think the world of him. Not that you can tell I suppose.
Oh, Just one more thing. When we were traveling around Australia, we met so many people that would come up to us and ask about Titan. They would share all their stories about their wonderful Blue or Red Heelers. In thirteen months we never met one of those dog owners that had a bad word to say about Heelers. They all said how wonderful Blue Heeler dogs are. And it is true.
Blue Heelers would give their lives for their owners if they could. So I think it is time to say "Drink up! And cheers to Titan, hopefully we will have this blue heeler dog for another ten years!"
Justice Is Michael Morton's Weapon Of Choice
The past few years in Texas have seen a parade of DNA exonerations: more than 40 men so far. The first exonerations were big news, but the type has grown smaller as Texans have watched a dismaying march of exonerees, their wasted years haunting the public conscience.
Yet a case in Williamson County, just north of Austin, is raising the ante. Michael Morton had been sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife. He was released six months ago 25 years after being convicted when DNA testing proved he was not the killer.
Instead of merely seeking financial compensation, Morton is working to fix the system. His lawyers, including The Innocence Project, want to hold the man who put him behind bars accountable. They also want new laws to make sure Morton's story is never repeated.
The Day Of The Murder
On the morning of Aug. 13, 1986, Morton was getting ready for work as head of the pharmacy department at a nearby Safeway in Austin. He closed the door to his home, blissfully unaware that the next time he saw his wife of seven years she would be in a coffin. Morton had nine hours of his normal life left. The clock ran out after work, when he arrived to pick up his son from day care.
"First time I figured something was up was when I locked eyes with the baby sitter," he says. "She looked at me real weird, like, 'What are you doing here? Eric's not here, why are you here?' "
Morton was immediately worried and called home. The man who answered was Williamson County Sheriff Jim Boutwell. The sheriff refused to answer Morton's questions and told him to come home immediately. Morton drove there in a panic.
"There were a lot of cars in the street. There was a big yellow crime scene ribbon around our house," he says. "Neighbors were across the street, clustered on the corner . talking to each other, and of course, when my truck comes racing up, they all kind of key on me."
Boutwell met Morton van cleef bracelet imitaiton outside the front door and, in front of everyone, bluntly told him Christine Morton was dead, murdered in their bedroom. Van Cleef & Arpels bracelet fake Morton reeled.
"You really don't know how you're going to react until it happens to you, and with me, I remember it was as if I was . falling inside myself," he says.
Morton was stunned, nearly mute, which fueled the sheriff's suspicions and became a major prosecution touchstone at his trial. The fact that Morton didn't cry out or weep became evidence that he didn't love his wife and had killed her.
Boutwell took Morton into the living room, his wife's body still down the hall. For the next four hours, Morton answered every question the sheriff could think of and never once asked for a lawyer.
"In my mind, I knew that, 'OK, he's doing his job. Boutwell had already decided that Morton was his No. 1 one suspect. The previous day had been Morton's birthday, and the family had gone out for a nice dinner. After getting home and putting Eric to bed, Morton was hoping for a "happy ending" with his wife. That's not what happened, though, and Morton's feelings were hurt. He wrote her something the next morning before he left for work.
"Chris, I know you didn't mean to, but you made me feel really unwanted last night. After a good meal, we came home, you binged on the rest of the cookies, then you farted and fell asleep. I'm not mad. I just wanted you to know how I feel without us getting into a fight about sex. Just think how you'd feel if you were left hanging on your birthday. I love you."
This note, left on the couple's bathroom mirror, turned out to be Morton's doom.
Williamson County District Attorney Ken Anderson used it to weave a sensational tale of unspeakable violence. In Anderson's version of the crime, Morton used a wooden club to viciously bludgeon his wife's head because she wouldn't have sex with him. Then, in triumph over her body, he pleasured himself. The mild mannered pharmacy manager was transformed into a sexually sick, murderous psychopath.
It was all a prosecutorial fantasy; none of it was true. Yet Anderson pounded his fists into his hands and wept to the jury as he described Morton's perversity. Compared with this vivid picture of the crime, Morton's defense didn't have a lot to offer.
A Mother's Plight: 'The Most Devastating Thing'
"The defense was that [Morton] didn't do it, and we don't know who did it. But whoever did it snuck in and committed a really vicious, vicious murder," says Bill Anderson, now a criminal law professor at the University of Texas who was Morton's lawyer in 1986. "And that is very frightening. A jury, by convicting [Morton], makes themselves safe. They've solved the case and they can go on about their business."
What the jury and the defense lawyers didn't know about was the evidence that had been concealed by Williamson County law enforcement. "There were fingerprints on the sliding glass door, and there were fingerprints on the luggage that was piled on Christine Morton's body," he says. That's not all: A neighbor told police that she'd seen a man in a green van casing the Morton home. Repeatedly.
"The neighbors report that they had seen a strange van driving around the neighborhood, stopping around the Morton house. The replica Van Cleef yellow gold bracelet man in the van would drive around back to the wooded area and walk into the wooded area in back," Raley says. "The interesting thing is, it's around that area where the bandanna that contains the DNA was eventually found."
A bloody bandanna had been found by a deputy behind the Morton home. Incredibly, the sheriff's office decided to ignore it and left it lying on the ground.
Leads Not Followed
Raley says the evidence trail got even hotter.
"On Aug. 15, 1986, the Williamson County Sheriff's Office was contacted by San Antonio police regarding an attempted use of Christine's credit card at a place called the Jewel Box in San Antonio, Texas," he says. "It was used under fraudulent circumstances."
The past few years in Texas have seen a parade of DNA exonerations: more than 40 men so far. The first exonerations were big news, but the type has grown smaller as Texans have watched a dismaying march of exonerees, their wasted years haunting the public conscience.
Yet a case in Williamson County, just north of Austin, is raising the ante. Michael Morton had been sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife. He was released six months ago 25 years after being convicted when DNA testing proved he was not the killer.
Instead of merely seeking financial compensation, Morton is working to fix the system. His lawyers, including The Innocence Project, want to hold the man who put him behind bars accountable. They also want new laws to make sure Morton's story is never repeated.
The Day Of The Murder
On the morning of Aug. 13, 1986, Morton was getting ready for work as head of the pharmacy department at a nearby Safeway in Austin. He closed the door to his home, blissfully unaware that the next time he saw his wife of seven years she would be in a coffin. Morton had nine hours of his normal life left. The clock ran out after work, when he arrived to pick up his son from day care.
"First time I figured something was up was when I locked eyes with the baby sitter," he says. "She looked at me real weird, like, 'What are you doing here? Eric's not here, why are you here?' "
Morton was immediately worried and called home. The man who answered was Williamson County Sheriff Jim Boutwell. The sheriff refused to answer Morton's questions and told him to come home immediately. Morton drove there in a panic.
"There were a lot of cars in the street. There was a big yellow crime scene ribbon around our house," he says. "Neighbors were across the street, clustered on the corner . talking to each other, and of course, when my truck comes racing up, they all kind of key on me."
Boutwell met Morton van cleef bracelet imitaiton outside the front door and, in front of everyone, bluntly told him Christine Morton was dead, murdered in their bedroom. Van Cleef & Arpels bracelet fake Morton reeled.
"You really don't know how you're going to react until it happens to you, and with me, I remember it was as if I was . falling inside myself," he says.
Morton was stunned, nearly mute, which fueled the sheriff's suspicions and became a major prosecution touchstone at his trial. The fact that Morton didn't cry out or weep became evidence that he didn't love his wife and had killed her.
Boutwell took Morton into the living room, his wife's body still down the hall. For the next four hours, Morton answered every question the sheriff could think of and never once asked for a lawyer.
"In my mind, I knew that, 'OK, he's doing his job. Boutwell had already decided that Morton was his No. 1 one suspect. The previous day had been Morton's birthday, and the family had gone out for a nice dinner. After getting home and putting Eric to bed, Morton was hoping for a "happy ending" with his wife. That's not what happened, though, and Morton's feelings were hurt. He wrote her something the next morning before he left for work.
"Chris, I know you didn't mean to, but you made me feel really unwanted last night. After a good meal, we came home, you binged on the rest of the cookies, then you farted and fell asleep. I'm not mad. I just wanted you to know how I feel without us getting into a fight about sex. Just think how you'd feel if you were left hanging on your birthday. I love you."
This note, left on the couple's bathroom mirror, turned out to be Morton's doom.
Williamson County District Attorney Ken Anderson used it to weave a sensational tale of unspeakable violence. In Anderson's version of the crime, Morton used a wooden club to viciously bludgeon his wife's head because she wouldn't have sex with him. Then, in triumph over her body, he pleasured himself. The mild mannered pharmacy manager was transformed into a sexually sick, murderous psychopath.
It was all a prosecutorial fantasy; none of it was true. Yet Anderson pounded his fists into his hands and wept to the jury as he described Morton's perversity. Compared with this vivid picture of the crime, Morton's defense didn't have a lot to offer.
A Mother's Plight: 'The Most Devastating Thing'
"The defense was that [Morton] didn't do it, and we don't know who did it. But whoever did it snuck in and committed a really vicious, vicious murder," says Bill Anderson, now a criminal law professor at the University of Texas who was Morton's lawyer in 1986. "And that is very frightening. A jury, by convicting [Morton], makes themselves safe. They've solved the case and they can go on about their business."
What the jury and the defense lawyers didn't know about was the evidence that had been concealed by Williamson County law enforcement. "There were fingerprints on the sliding glass door, and there were fingerprints on the luggage that was piled on Christine Morton's body," he says. That's not all: A neighbor told police that she'd seen a man in a green van casing the Morton home. Repeatedly.
"The neighbors report that they had seen a strange van driving around the neighborhood, stopping around the Morton house. The replica Van Cleef yellow gold bracelet man in the van would drive around back to the wooded area and walk into the wooded area in back," Raley says. "The interesting thing is, it's around that area where the bandanna that contains the DNA was eventually found."
A bloody bandanna had been found by a deputy behind the Morton home. Incredibly, the sheriff's office decided to ignore it and left it lying on the ground.
Leads Not Followed
Raley says the evidence trail got even hotter.
"On Aug. 15, 1986, the Williamson County Sheriff's Office was contacted by San Antonio police regarding an attempted use of Christine's credit card at a place called the Jewel Box in San Antonio, Texas," he says. "It was used under fraudulent circumstances."
Last reunion for war heroes who came home to fight the fascists
They returned from war hailed as heroes. But the demobbed British Jews who won medals defeating Hitler were horrified to see fascist salutes on the streets of Britain.
Oswald Mosley, whose British Union of Fascists preached anti Semitism before the war, was released from internment in 1946. His Blackshirts, dressed like Nazi stormtroopers, were revived. Jewish houses were daubed with the letters PJ Perish Judah. Jews were beaten and taunted in the streets: "Not enough Jews were burned in Belsen." Something had to be done.
In April 1946, 43 men and women war heroes including Gerry Flamberg, who won the Military Medal at Arnhem, and Tommy Gould, a submariner who won the Victoria Cross formed the 43 Group.
Morris Beckman, another founder member,van cleef long necklace fake, now 88, explained. We decided that as trained troops we would 'out fascist the fascists'."
Last week, around 40 of the surviving street fighters who fought British fascism to a standstill in a five year guerrilla war held a last reunion to consider their achievements.
At a Jewish cultural centre in west London they displayed memorabilia, including Mosley's prized personal standard and some of the graffiti that appeared on synagogues.
Mr Beckman recalled bloody battles in Ridley Road market, in what was then a Jewish area of Hackney, in east London. Mosley would stand on a van, nicknamed "the Elephant" because of its two massive ear like loudspeakers, and stir up crowds with talk of the "alien" menace. "We would salt the crowd with groups who would fight among themselves, the police would be diverted and two wedges of commandos, the tough guys ex marines, guards and paras would make for the platform and overturn it."
By 1947 the group had more than 1,000 members: mainly in London,van cleef and arpels necklace butterfly fake, but also in Manchester, Birmingham, and Newcastle.
Maurice Podrow, 81, who was still in the RAF when he joined the group, admitted that at the time he was "very violent". "At a meeting at Hyde Park Corner we couldn't get at Mosley, so we picked on this big South African, one of his right hand men,vca sweet alhambra necklace fake," he said. "I was pictured on the front of the Daily Mail punching him. My wing commander wasn't very pleased."
He wore a Polish army belt with a thick brass buckle "sharpened so it was a four sided blade". Knuckledusters, coshes, steel capped boots and knives were used on both sides. The Blackshirts threw potatoes studded with razor blades.
Prominent Jews such as the boxing promoter Jack Solomons,van cleef black necklace fake, who could not be seen to support street fighting, sent donations. Every month the comedian Bud Flanagan sent a cheque for 30. Mr Beckman added that the actor Sydney Tafler helped the cause by mimicking Mosley's hate rhetoric on a recording played to a group of Jewish businessmen. "They reached for their chequebooks, some of them donating 1,000."
The group even considered kidnapping Mosley, stripping him and dumping him in Piccadilly Circus. Some non Jewish supporters helped by infiltrating Mosley's headquarters so the group knew in advance of his next meetings. Mr Beckman estimates that hundreds of meetings were broken up as a result. With support for Mosley dwindling, the 43 Group was disbanded in 1950.
The group was not without its critics, however. Some said its tactics perpetuated fascism and suggested that by ignoring Mosley his support would have faded sooner. But Mr Beckman is insistent: "In 1946 there were only two countries in Europe that allowed fascist parties us and Franco's Spain.
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They returned from war hailed as heroes. But the demobbed British Jews who won medals defeating Hitler were horrified to see fascist salutes on the streets of Britain.
Oswald Mosley, whose British Union of Fascists preached anti Semitism before the war, was released from internment in 1946. His Blackshirts, dressed like Nazi stormtroopers, were revived. Jewish houses were daubed with the letters PJ Perish Judah. Jews were beaten and taunted in the streets: "Not enough Jews were burned in Belsen." Something had to be done.
In April 1946, 43 men and women war heroes including Gerry Flamberg, who won the Military Medal at Arnhem, and Tommy Gould, a submariner who won the Victoria Cross formed the 43 Group.
Morris Beckman, another founder member,van cleef long necklace fake, now 88, explained. We decided that as trained troops we would 'out fascist the fascists'."
Last week, around 40 of the surviving street fighters who fought British fascism to a standstill in a five year guerrilla war held a last reunion to consider their achievements.
At a Jewish cultural centre in west London they displayed memorabilia, including Mosley's prized personal standard and some of the graffiti that appeared on synagogues.
Mr Beckman recalled bloody battles in Ridley Road market, in what was then a Jewish area of Hackney, in east London. Mosley would stand on a van, nicknamed "the Elephant" because of its two massive ear like loudspeakers, and stir up crowds with talk of the "alien" menace. "We would salt the crowd with groups who would fight among themselves, the police would be diverted and two wedges of commandos, the tough guys ex marines, guards and paras would make for the platform and overturn it."
By 1947 the group had more than 1,000 members: mainly in London,van cleef and arpels necklace butterfly fake, but also in Manchester, Birmingham, and Newcastle.
Maurice Podrow, 81, who was still in the RAF when he joined the group, admitted that at the time he was "very violent". "At a meeting at Hyde Park Corner we couldn't get at Mosley, so we picked on this big South African, one of his right hand men,vca sweet alhambra necklace fake," he said. "I was pictured on the front of the Daily Mail punching him. My wing commander wasn't very pleased."
He wore a Polish army belt with a thick brass buckle "sharpened so it was a four sided blade". Knuckledusters, coshes, steel capped boots and knives were used on both sides. The Blackshirts threw potatoes studded with razor blades.
Prominent Jews such as the boxing promoter Jack Solomons,van cleef black necklace fake, who could not be seen to support street fighting, sent donations. Every month the comedian Bud Flanagan sent a cheque for 30. Mr Beckman added that the actor Sydney Tafler helped the cause by mimicking Mosley's hate rhetoric on a recording played to a group of Jewish businessmen. "They reached for their chequebooks, some of them donating 1,000."
The group even considered kidnapping Mosley, stripping him and dumping him in Piccadilly Circus. Some non Jewish supporters helped by infiltrating Mosley's headquarters so the group knew in advance of his next meetings. Mr Beckman estimates that hundreds of meetings were broken up as a result. With support for Mosley dwindling, the 43 Group was disbanded in 1950.
The group was not without its critics, however. Some said its tactics perpetuated fascism and suggested that by ignoring Mosley his support would have faded sooner. But Mr Beckman is insistent: "In 1946 there were only two countries in Europe that allowed fascist parties us and Franco's Spain.
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Dorothy Lamour
Hollywood's "sarong girl" Dorothy Lamour made no claims to be a great actress, but few stars of the screen's vintage years are regarded with greater affection. She is remembered with such warmth for three reasons: as star of a string of jungle pictures, clad in the sarong that was to become her trademark; as one of the four most popular pin ups of the Second World War (along with Betty Grable, Lana Turner and Rita Hayworth); and as co star with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope of the phenomenally successful "Road" films only the James Bond movies have been more profitable as a lengthy sequence. Taking her stepfather's surname Lambour, she moved to Chicago and worked in a department store as an elevator girl while trying to break into show business. Singing in a talent contest she was spotted by the band leader Herbie Kaye, who signed her as vocalist and changed her name to Lamour.
In 1935 they were married. Kaye's former college chum Rudy Vallee introduced Lamour to the owner of the famed New York nightspot the Stork Club and she was signed to sing there. This led to more club work, radio performances and her screen debut in a two reel short, The Stars Can't Be Wrong (1936). Moving to Hollywood for a regular spot (billed as "the sultry songstress of the airwaves") on NBC Radio, she was given a screen test by Paramount and cast in The Jungle Princess (1936). As a naive native girl, with only a tiger and a chimpanzee as friends, she rescues a stranded hunter (Ray Milland) who teaches her English and saves her from villainous natives. Lamour introduced a song hit, Frederick Hollander and Leo Robin's "Moonlight and Shadows", and clothed only in a sarong, her long black hair caressing her shoulders, scored an instant hit with the public, who made the modest film a surprising smash hit.
Lamour's next role was a supporting one in Swing High, Swing Low (1937) but her song in it, "Panamania" , was another hit. In Mamoulian's High, Wide and Handsome (1937) she again had a minor role but sang Kern and Hammerstein's "The Things I Want". The director John Ford, preparing to film The Hurricane for the producer Sam Goldwyn, suggested Lamour for the role of Samura, daughter of a native chief, and Goldwyn traded his contract star Joel McCrea with Paramount to secure her. She again scored a great personal success and had another hit song with her recording of the film's theme tune, "The Moon of Manakoora".
Paramount, now convinced that Lamour and a sarong were a winning combination, starred her in Her Jungle Love (1938), as a native girl who rescues a stranded aviator (Milland again). He teaches her English ("What is this word Kiss'?" she asks him) and rescues her from crocodiles, an earthquake and a power crazy villain. Though Lamour's jungle films were fantastic and formulaic they were colourful, amusing pieces of pure escapism which the public loved.
Now a top star, Lamour was borrowed by Fox to star with Tyrone Power in the gangster melodrama Johnny Apollo (1940), singing two fine songs with lyrics by Frank Loesser, "This is the Beginning of the End" and "Dancing for Nickels and Dimes", the latter perform ed in a fetching urchin outfit that Lamour hated. Paramount next put her back in the jungle for Typhoon (1940) with Robert Preston, another enormous hit.
Then came one of the most fortuitous pieces of casting in screen history. George Burns and Gracie Allen also rejected it before the producer William LeBaron thought of Hope and Crosby, who already had a well publicised comic feud going on their respective radio shows. The tropical setting made Lamour the perfect choice for heroine. Retitled Road to Singapore (1940), the first of a legendary series went into production. "I was trying to follow the script but just couldn't get my lines out," she said later. "Finally, I realised that I should just get the general idea of a scene rather than learn the words by heart, then go along with the boys." Said Hope, "Dottie is one of the bravest gals in pictures. She stands there before the camera and ad libs with Crosby and me knowing that the way the script is written she'll come second or third best, but she fears nothing."
The mixture of ad libs, asides to the audience and irreverent in jokes plus the songs of Crosby and Lamour and wisecracks of Hope made the films irresistible. Though not initially planned as the first of a series, the film was swiftly followed by Road to Zanzibar (1941), which was even funnier and had the New York Post commenting: "Dorothy Lamour, ceasing her feverish efforts to become An Actress, begins to shine in a new light."
Lamour next partnererd Hope in Caught in the Draft (1941), proving again what an admirable foil she was becoming as she adopted a bemused,copy alhambra style necklace, somewhat acerbic reaction to Hope's frantic shenanigans. She was reunited with her Hurricane co star Jon Hall in the vividly coloured Aloma of the South Seas (1941), singing "White Blossoms of Rah ni" and dealing with the wicked high priests and an erupting volcano in another box office hit.
She followed this with one of the finest wartime musicals, The Fleet's In (1942), playing an aloof night club singer whose heart is melted by William Holden, and introducing the Victor Schertzinger Johnny Mercer standard "I Remember You".
Road to Morocco (1942) is considered by many the best of the "Road" films, its surreal pleasures incuding a talking camel and a version of the hit tune "Moonlight Becomes You" in which the three stars sing with each other's voices.
Lamour's role opposite Crosby in Dixie (1943), a loose biography of the minstrel star and composer Dan Emmett, was a disappointing one in which she had no song solos, but in And The Angels Sing (1944), she introduced the Johnny Burke Jimmy Van Heusen standard, "It Should Happen to You".
During the war, besides being a favourite pin up of the forces, Lamour made many tours to promote the sale of war bonds. Road to Utopia (made in 1944 but released two years later) was another gem, this time set in the Yukon during gold rush days. Lamour had a further hit song with the Burke Van Heusen "Personality" though she stormed off the set one day after waiting hours in costume for her leading men then finding they had gone to play golf. "They always joked about my temperament after that," she stated, "but they never did that to me again!"
Two demanding roles in an adaptation of John Steinbeck's scathing portrait of wartime hypocrisy A Medal for Benny (1945) and in Claudette Colbert's former role in an ineffectual remake of Midnight entitled Masquerade in Mexico (1945) exposed Lamour's thespian limitations, but in My Favourite Brunette (1947) she again proved a splendid foil for Hope, while in the all star Variety Girl (1947) she engagingly partnered tough guy Alan Ladd as he made his singing debut duetting "Telahassee".
When Paramount had announced that Road to Utopia would be the last of the series they received over 75,000 letters of protest, so in 1947 Road to Rio was released, another hit though it would mark the end of Lamour's golden period. Paramount were shedding many of its stars including Lamour, and as a freelance her films and performances met with mild response, though Slightly French (1949) was an amusing farce in which Lamour got laughs as a carnival dancer masquerading as a French cabaret star.
In 1950 and again in 1958 she triumphed at the London Palladium (the audience roaring its approval when she donned her sarong) and in 1952 played in two major films. She was a circus performer in De Mille's The Greatest Show on Earth a small part but it included a brief Hawaiian song and dance and Road to Bali, the sixth film in the series. Night clubs and television were now her main professional outlets,alhambra pendant necklace fake, but she was once more international news in 1961 when Hope and Crosby announced that they would be making Road to Hong Kong but (at Crosby's insistence) with a younger leading lady.
The public outcry that ensued led to Lamour being offered a cameo role which, with the encouragement of Hope, she accepted. In a generally dire film, Lamour was to have the brightest moment when, asked by the two stars to help them hide from gangsters, she listen to their summary of the plot so far then replies, "OK, boys, I'll hide you." "From the gangsters?" they ask. "No," she says, "From the critics."
Her feeling for Crosby was cool after this,copy alhambra van cleef necklace, particularly when he failed to use her in publicising the film. John Ford gave her a small role in Donovan's Reef (1963) and in 1967 she had a great success with a lengthy tour of Hello, Dolly on stage. She published an autobiography, My Side of the Road, in 1980 and continued to appear in clubs and nostalgic stage shows (including a charity show in London a few years ago) until ill health forced her retirement.
Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton (Dorothy Lamour), actress: born New Orleans 10 December 1914; married 1935 Herbie Kaye (marriage dissolved 1939), 1943 William Ross Howard (died 1978; two sons); died Los Angeles 22 September 1996.
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Hollywood's "sarong girl" Dorothy Lamour made no claims to be a great actress, but few stars of the screen's vintage years are regarded with greater affection. She is remembered with such warmth for three reasons: as star of a string of jungle pictures, clad in the sarong that was to become her trademark; as one of the four most popular pin ups of the Second World War (along with Betty Grable, Lana Turner and Rita Hayworth); and as co star with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope of the phenomenally successful "Road" films only the James Bond movies have been more profitable as a lengthy sequence. Taking her stepfather's surname Lambour, she moved to Chicago and worked in a department store as an elevator girl while trying to break into show business. Singing in a talent contest she was spotted by the band leader Herbie Kaye, who signed her as vocalist and changed her name to Lamour.
In 1935 they were married. Kaye's former college chum Rudy Vallee introduced Lamour to the owner of the famed New York nightspot the Stork Club and she was signed to sing there. This led to more club work, radio performances and her screen debut in a two reel short, The Stars Can't Be Wrong (1936). Moving to Hollywood for a regular spot (billed as "the sultry songstress of the airwaves") on NBC Radio, she was given a screen test by Paramount and cast in The Jungle Princess (1936). As a naive native girl, with only a tiger and a chimpanzee as friends, she rescues a stranded hunter (Ray Milland) who teaches her English and saves her from villainous natives. Lamour introduced a song hit, Frederick Hollander and Leo Robin's "Moonlight and Shadows", and clothed only in a sarong, her long black hair caressing her shoulders, scored an instant hit with the public, who made the modest film a surprising smash hit.
Lamour's next role was a supporting one in Swing High, Swing Low (1937) but her song in it, "Panamania" , was another hit. In Mamoulian's High, Wide and Handsome (1937) she again had a minor role but sang Kern and Hammerstein's "The Things I Want". The director John Ford, preparing to film The Hurricane for the producer Sam Goldwyn, suggested Lamour for the role of Samura, daughter of a native chief, and Goldwyn traded his contract star Joel McCrea with Paramount to secure her. She again scored a great personal success and had another hit song with her recording of the film's theme tune, "The Moon of Manakoora".
Paramount, now convinced that Lamour and a sarong were a winning combination, starred her in Her Jungle Love (1938), as a native girl who rescues a stranded aviator (Milland again). He teaches her English ("What is this word Kiss'?" she asks him) and rescues her from crocodiles, an earthquake and a power crazy villain. Though Lamour's jungle films were fantastic and formulaic they were colourful, amusing pieces of pure escapism which the public loved.
Now a top star, Lamour was borrowed by Fox to star with Tyrone Power in the gangster melodrama Johnny Apollo (1940), singing two fine songs with lyrics by Frank Loesser, "This is the Beginning of the End" and "Dancing for Nickels and Dimes", the latter perform ed in a fetching urchin outfit that Lamour hated. Paramount next put her back in the jungle for Typhoon (1940) with Robert Preston, another enormous hit.
Then came one of the most fortuitous pieces of casting in screen history. George Burns and Gracie Allen also rejected it before the producer William LeBaron thought of Hope and Crosby, who already had a well publicised comic feud going on their respective radio shows. The tropical setting made Lamour the perfect choice for heroine. Retitled Road to Singapore (1940), the first of a legendary series went into production. "I was trying to follow the script but just couldn't get my lines out," she said later. "Finally, I realised that I should just get the general idea of a scene rather than learn the words by heart, then go along with the boys." Said Hope, "Dottie is one of the bravest gals in pictures. She stands there before the camera and ad libs with Crosby and me knowing that the way the script is written she'll come second or third best, but she fears nothing."
The mixture of ad libs, asides to the audience and irreverent in jokes plus the songs of Crosby and Lamour and wisecracks of Hope made the films irresistible. Though not initially planned as the first of a series, the film was swiftly followed by Road to Zanzibar (1941), which was even funnier and had the New York Post commenting: "Dorothy Lamour, ceasing her feverish efforts to become An Actress, begins to shine in a new light."
Lamour next partnererd Hope in Caught in the Draft (1941), proving again what an admirable foil she was becoming as she adopted a bemused,copy alhambra style necklace, somewhat acerbic reaction to Hope's frantic shenanigans. She was reunited with her Hurricane co star Jon Hall in the vividly coloured Aloma of the South Seas (1941), singing "White Blossoms of Rah ni" and dealing with the wicked high priests and an erupting volcano in another box office hit.
She followed this with one of the finest wartime musicals, The Fleet's In (1942), playing an aloof night club singer whose heart is melted by William Holden, and introducing the Victor Schertzinger Johnny Mercer standard "I Remember You".
Road to Morocco (1942) is considered by many the best of the "Road" films, its surreal pleasures incuding a talking camel and a version of the hit tune "Moonlight Becomes You" in which the three stars sing with each other's voices.
Lamour's role opposite Crosby in Dixie (1943), a loose biography of the minstrel star and composer Dan Emmett, was a disappointing one in which she had no song solos, but in And The Angels Sing (1944), she introduced the Johnny Burke Jimmy Van Heusen standard, "It Should Happen to You".
During the war, besides being a favourite pin up of the forces, Lamour made many tours to promote the sale of war bonds. Road to Utopia (made in 1944 but released two years later) was another gem, this time set in the Yukon during gold rush days. Lamour had a further hit song with the Burke Van Heusen "Personality" though she stormed off the set one day after waiting hours in costume for her leading men then finding they had gone to play golf. "They always joked about my temperament after that," she stated, "but they never did that to me again!"
Two demanding roles in an adaptation of John Steinbeck's scathing portrait of wartime hypocrisy A Medal for Benny (1945) and in Claudette Colbert's former role in an ineffectual remake of Midnight entitled Masquerade in Mexico (1945) exposed Lamour's thespian limitations, but in My Favourite Brunette (1947) she again proved a splendid foil for Hope, while in the all star Variety Girl (1947) she engagingly partnered tough guy Alan Ladd as he made his singing debut duetting "Telahassee".
When Paramount had announced that Road to Utopia would be the last of the series they received over 75,000 letters of protest, so in 1947 Road to Rio was released, another hit though it would mark the end of Lamour's golden period. Paramount were shedding many of its stars including Lamour, and as a freelance her films and performances met with mild response, though Slightly French (1949) was an amusing farce in which Lamour got laughs as a carnival dancer masquerading as a French cabaret star.
In 1950 and again in 1958 she triumphed at the London Palladium (the audience roaring its approval when she donned her sarong) and in 1952 played in two major films. She was a circus performer in De Mille's The Greatest Show on Earth a small part but it included a brief Hawaiian song and dance and Road to Bali, the sixth film in the series. Night clubs and television were now her main professional outlets,alhambra pendant necklace fake, but she was once more international news in 1961 when Hope and Crosby announced that they would be making Road to Hong Kong but (at Crosby's insistence) with a younger leading lady.
The public outcry that ensued led to Lamour being offered a cameo role which, with the encouragement of Hope, she accepted. In a generally dire film, Lamour was to have the brightest moment when, asked by the two stars to help them hide from gangsters, she listen to their summary of the plot so far then replies, "OK, boys, I'll hide you." "From the gangsters?" they ask. "No," she says, "From the critics."
Her feeling for Crosby was cool after this,copy alhambra van cleef necklace, particularly when he failed to use her in publicising the film. John Ford gave her a small role in Donovan's Reef (1963) and in 1967 she had a great success with a lengthy tour of Hello, Dolly on stage. She published an autobiography, My Side of the Road, in 1980 and continued to appear in clubs and nostalgic stage shows (including a charity show in London a few years ago) until ill health forced her retirement.
Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton (Dorothy Lamour), actress: born New Orleans 10 December 1914; married 1935 Herbie Kaye (marriage dissolved 1939), 1943 William Ross Howard (died 1978; two sons); died Los Angeles 22 September 1996.
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A judge Cartier love fake bracelet ordered Jordi Barros Antunes, 18, to remain in custody and to meet with a mental health specialist before his bail hearing on Tuesday.
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Barros Antunes faces four charges, three of which relate to possession of an explosive substance a powder, in this case with an intention to endanger others or to cause serious damage. The fourth charge is a weapons possession charge.
He has no criminal record, Rivest said.
Barros Antunes's parents and sister attended the arraignment, but refused to speak to any media after granting an interview to the TVA television network earlier in the day.
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The SWAT team neutralized the explosive devices following a 15 hour police operation that ended early Sunday.
A police source told The Gazette on Saturday they found what appeared to be several pressure cooker bombs similar to the ones used in the Boston Marathon bombing, as well as Molotov cocktails and three firearms.
Family members told TVA on Monday that they contacted police once they discovered the explosives because they feared for the man's life. He had attempted suicide in July, they said, and was distraught that he had not received sufficient medical follow up. His homemade arsenal, they told TVA, was an ultimate plea for help. Despite its size, they said they believe he only intended to hurt himself.
Before the explosives were discovered, the family members, who had their faces concealed, told the television network they had no idea their son was constructing things.
Neighbours said the suspect lived with his parents and that his sister had recently moved back home. No one had remarked anything out of the ordinary prior to the police operation, they said.
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The meeting will be held "to see if there is maybe a mental health issue in his file," Barros Antunes's lawyer, Valrie Rivest, told reporters following her client's brief court appearance.
Barros Antunes faces four charges, three of which relate to possession of an explosive substance a powder, in this case with an intention to endanger others or to cause serious damage. The fourth charge is a weapons possession charge.
He has no criminal record, Rivest said.
Barros Antunes's parents and sister attended the arraignment, but refused to speak to any media after granting an interview to the TVA television network earlier in the day.
"They were upset," Rivest said of the family, adding that she had not yet been able to speak to her client. She said she would speak with him before his bail hearing.
Police replica cartier love braclet discovered 19 improvised explosive devices in the triplex on Robertine Barry St. in Ahuntsic Cartierville borough on Saturday.
The building was evacuated and residents of 50 homes were taken in for the night by the Red Cross or stayed at nearby motels.
The SWAT team neutralized the explosive devices following a 15 hour police operation that ended early Sunday.
A police source told The Gazette on Saturday they found what appeared to be several pressure cooker bombs similar to the ones used in the Boston Marathon bombing, as well as Molotov cocktails and three firearms.
Family members told TVA on Monday that they contacted police once they discovered the explosives because they feared for the man's life. He had attempted suicide in July, they said, and was distraught that he had not received sufficient medical follow up. His homemade arsenal, they told TVA, was an ultimate plea for help. Despite its size, they said they believe he only intended to hurt himself.
Before the explosives were discovered, the family members, who had their faces concealed, told the television network they had no idea their son was constructing things.
Neighbours said the suspect lived with his parents and that his sister had recently moved back home. No one had remarked anything out of the ordinary prior to the police operation, they said.
"They are good people," said Palmina Petruzzillo, who lives in the triplex next door. "I feel sorry as a mother. It's not a nice thing. It's tough. They're good parents."
She said they'd have dinners in the backyard, laughing Cartier love bangle copy and joking, and that the son would usually prepare the table and then clean up afterward. But she said last year the mother told her the son had had trouble at work because of health issues.
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The closure is likely only temporary but it underscores what's been a tough year for museums. Dalnavert Museum, the restored 1895 home of Hugh John Macdonald, closed last fall. The pioneer museum in La Broquerie, 65 kilometres south of Winnipeg, also closed and has had its artifacts reclaimed by donating families and other museums.
In the case of the Red River Flood Interpretive Centre, it has never been open to drop in traffic. Since its inception, it could only afford to receive scheduled visits, mainly from school groups.
Even school groups were denied this year because the centre is contingent on volunteers. Those volunteers, Jacques Courcelles and his wife, Nadine, had sudden deaths in their families and weren't able to run the centre. Jacques is the volunteer president of the Ste. Agathe Community Development Corporation that oversees the centre.
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It would be more accessible if the centre was eligible for the $3,000 annual grant the province gives most museums. Just $3,000 would keep the centre open to the public during summer months, Courcelles said. The problem is the centre is not officially a museum because it does not have an inventory of artifacts that gives it museum status.
The centre is a symbol of Ste. Agathe's recovery after the devastation of 1997 flood.
It fake Cartier bracelets was built with $400,000 of mostly government funding, and almost 100 per cent volunteer labour. It's located in Ste. Agathe's new Cartier Park, relocated from the east side of the Red River after the 1997 flood.
The interpretive centre and park are symbolic of Ste. Agathe's determination to recover from the devastation of the 1997 flood, said Courcelles. "This was a flax field. We planted 6,000 trees, all by volunteers," Courcelles said of the new park.
The community has also built volleyball courts, baseball diamonds, a Frisbee golf course, children's playground, fire pits and camp sites. Groups can rent the site for reunions or wedding receptions, or school groups can make a day of their visit. The near term goal is to add soccer pitches; the long term goal to build a water park.
"There was always a bigger plan than the interpretive centre," Courcelles said.
Cartier Park is adjacent to the industrial park and shares infrastructure such as sewer and water. Riel Park is named after you know who. The riding of Provencher, that encompasses Ste. Agathe, elected Louis Riel as its member of Parliament three times, and three times Ottawa denied him his seat, Courcelles explained. In his place, Ottawa appointed its own representative. The name of the appointee? George Etienne Cartier, a Father of Confederation. Hence, Cartier Park.
For school groups, the interpretive centre has miniature sandbags to teach dike building. Children fill them with sand and then stack them so water won't seep through. Their dikes are then tested by water hoses. They also run sandbag relay races to prep kids for those snaking replica cartier braclet sandbag lines when flood waters threaten.
Among memorabilia in the museum is the flood gauge basically a vertical measuring stick from the former James Avenue Pumping Station. The centre isn't stuffed with flood memorabilia, but it has seven large panels with photos and stories on each side. The seven panels are on a platform that winds through the room, representing the meandering Red River. It seems the images of 1997 become more poignant with the passing years.
"The community was devastated in 1997 and most of that was due to complacency," he said. That is, Ste. Agathe had never flooded before. "The flood interpretive centre serves as a reminder what could happen."
If the centre were to close, that would also spell complacency but the community is determined that won't happen.
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In the case of the Red River Flood Interpretive Centre, it has never been open to drop in traffic. Since its inception, it could only afford to receive scheduled visits, mainly from school groups.
Even school groups were denied this year because the centre is contingent on volunteers. Those volunteers, Jacques Courcelles and his wife, Nadine, had sudden deaths in their families and weren't able to run the centre. Jacques is the volunteer president of the Ste. Agathe Community Development Corporation that oversees the centre.
This year's closure is a one off, replica cartier love jewelry insists Courcelles, and it will be open to schools again next year. Even so, he knows it needs to be more accessible to the general replica cartier love braclet public. An average of 11,000 passenger vehicles travel Highway 75 past the interpretive centre every day, he said.
It would be more accessible if the centre was eligible for the $3,000 annual grant the province gives most museums. Just $3,000 would keep the centre open to the public during summer months, Courcelles said. The problem is the centre is not officially a museum because it does not have an inventory of artifacts that gives it museum status.
The centre is a symbol of Ste. Agathe's recovery after the devastation of 1997 flood.
It fake Cartier bracelets was built with $400,000 of mostly government funding, and almost 100 per cent volunteer labour. It's located in Ste. Agathe's new Cartier Park, relocated from the east side of the Red River after the 1997 flood.
The interpretive centre and park are symbolic of Ste. Agathe's determination to recover from the devastation of the 1997 flood, said Courcelles. "This was a flax field. We planted 6,000 trees, all by volunteers," Courcelles said of the new park.
The community has also built volleyball courts, baseball diamonds, a Frisbee golf course, children's playground, fire pits and camp sites. Groups can rent the site for reunions or wedding receptions, or school groups can make a day of their visit. The near term goal is to add soccer pitches; the long term goal to build a water park.
"There was always a bigger plan than the interpretive centre," Courcelles said.
Cartier Park is adjacent to the industrial park and shares infrastructure such as sewer and water. Riel Park is named after you know who. The riding of Provencher, that encompasses Ste. Agathe, elected Louis Riel as its member of Parliament three times, and three times Ottawa denied him his seat, Courcelles explained. In his place, Ottawa appointed its own representative. The name of the appointee? George Etienne Cartier, a Father of Confederation. Hence, Cartier Park.
For school groups, the interpretive centre has miniature sandbags to teach dike building. Children fill them with sand and then stack them so water won't seep through. Their dikes are then tested by water hoses. They also run sandbag relay races to prep kids for those snaking replica cartier braclet sandbag lines when flood waters threaten.
Among memorabilia in the museum is the flood gauge basically a vertical measuring stick from the former James Avenue Pumping Station. The centre isn't stuffed with flood memorabilia, but it has seven large panels with photos and stories on each side. The seven panels are on a platform that winds through the room, representing the meandering Red River. It seems the images of 1997 become more poignant with the passing years.
"The community was devastated in 1997 and most of that was due to complacency," he said. That is, Ste. Agathe had never flooded before. "The flood interpretive centre serves as a reminder what could happen."
If the centre were to close, that would also spell complacency but the community is determined that won't happen.
The interpretive centre and park "shows we are a resilient bunch. After 1997, we could have just accepted people moving out," said Courcelles.
In fact, the reverse has happened. With the construction of a ring dike, Ste. Agathe's population has ballooned to about 800 from 400 before the flood, he said.
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The phenomenon that is Anderson Cooper stared soulfully with his limpid blue eyes from the June cover of Vanity Fair, thus creating two journalistic disjunctions the fact that he is staring soulfully when any other news anchor would have a cool, imperturbable gaze, and the fact that he is a phenomenon who makes the cover of Vanity Fair.
It is easy to make fun of Anderson Cooper, CNN sleek, prematurely gray haired poster boy and the star of its nightly two hour program, Cooper 360. machine the way the old Hollywood studios once created stars through media campaigns an assertion that is hard to challenge since Cooper face seems to be everywhere these days: not only on Vanity Fair and on billboards but on Daily Show, Night With David Letterman, Tonight Show and soon on Minutes where Cooper will be a correspondent. People magazine has named him one of its sexiest men, there is an for President poster for sale on the Internet, countless fan sites are devoted to him, and gossip sites record his every move. Walter Cronkite never did a fashion spread as Cooper has done in Details. Added to all this attention is the frisson of his sexuality and the hanging question hanging because Cooper refuses to address it of whether he is gay or not, which raises the possibility of his being America first gay anchor. CNN obviously has invested a great deal in its new wonder boy, and the network has been marketing him aggressively, though no more so than CBS is marketing its new anchor, Katie Couric. In doing so, however, CNN is not just boosting an anchor. It is changing the very paradigm of television news.
Network anchors traditionally have been fellows who have earned their spurs. The Murrow generation, out of which came Cronkite, the old anchor paradigm, was annealed by World War II, but even its successors Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings were newsmen with experience. Rather burst on the national scene covering the Kennedy assassination, and he did duty in Vietnam and as CBS White House correspondent during Watergate, leading to his famous confrontations with President Nixon, before he assumed the anchor chair. Brokaw toiled in local news in Iowa and Nebraska before becoming a local anchor in Atlanta and Los Angeles and then an NBC correspondent, pulling White House duty during Watergate just as Rather did. Jennings worked at the CBC and then CTV in his native Canada as parliamentary correspondent before joining ABC as an anchor (briefly at age 27), and then, when ABC realized that he was too green, he left to become a foreign correspondent, opening the network Middle East bureau and serving as its chief for seven years. These men were not just pretty faces or good teleprompter readers. (Rather, in fact, was execrable at reading the prompter, and Brokaw famously swallowed his The implicit idea behind them was that the news was a public trust, both in the sense that a network produced the news for the public good and in the sense that it needed individuals who had enough credibility they could be trusted.
And so it was, right up through Brian Williams and Charlie Gibson. Despite his relative youth at 39, Anderson Cooper is not exactly a novice, as his recent bestseller, From the Edge, is designed to demonstrate, nor is he just a pretty face. He has been in the field. After graduating from Yale, he landed a job as a researcher at Channel One, the teen oriented network that is beamed directly into middle schools and high schools, then, after six months, he decided he would rather see the world and became a one man television crew, visiting war zones like Rwanda and Myanmar and sending back video dispatches to his old company on an on again, off again basis for roughly five years, including a year he spent in Vietnam learning the language a far cry from on deadline reports of most broadcast journalists. He eventually landed a job as a newsreader at ABC, then as host of the reality show Mole, and then migrated to CNN, where he has acquitted himself as something more than an airhead. But even so, this is not exactly the r of an anchorman, hoisting his way rung by rung and assignment by assignment up the ladder, which is precisely the point. Cooper was a free agent the journalistic equivalent of a soldier of fortune. He was a lone operator and a swashbuckler with boyish who worked on his own schedule and on his own terms. The news wasn a trust for Anderson Cooper. It was an adventure.
This is the idea that CNN is trying to sell because the network has obviously concluded, along with everyone else, that the function of the news has changed and so must the presentation. The news is no longer regarded as a trust. It is just another competitor for viewers time, another distraction in a world of entertainment, though what it is distracting the audience from is essentially itself. No one but old people watch the news today; the median age of the network news Van Cleef & Arpels necklace gold replica broadcasts on ABC and NBC is just under 60 and on CBS just over 60, and the cable network audiences aren any different. The young people that advertisers covet apparently feel they have better things to do than watch news, which means, in effect, that the news providers are in the awkward position of finding a way to attract people who really don want their product.
CNN innovation (unless you count MSNBC halfhearted attempt a few years back with bespectacled Ashley Banfield) has been to turn the news into a backdrop for its handsome young star, Anderson Cooper. London, Haifa, Sri Lanka, Baghdad these are locations for the movies in which Cooper plays, effectively foregrounding the anchor while backgrounding the news. Yes, young people may hate news, but they love celebrities, and Cooper is a celebrity or at least he is rapidly being made into one. Or put another way, CNN is trying to discover Van Cleef & Arpels necklace imitation how to make the news not event driven, which forces the network to rely on things it has no control over, so much as star driven, which is something that can remain constant night after night. You tune in not because something happened. You tune in because Anderson Cooper is reporting it.
And how does he report it? With feeling but without gravitas. Most famously, when Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana thanked Congress for an emergency $10 billion appropriation during an interview with Cooper after Hurricane Katrina, he interrupted her in high dudgeon saying that there was a body being eaten by rats. you get the anger that is out here? he demanded, and then stammered for someone to take responsibility. It was great drama, but not exactly a distinguished moment. And then there was the fawning interview with Angelina Jolie where Cooper and Jolie traded sensitivities on Africa like two old friends at a kaffeeklatsch and where Cooper preempted Jolie to talk about his own feelings. Or there was the Mother Day segment in which Cooper interviewed his own mother, saying afterward, many anchors would have their mother on the program? Exactly.
This is a defining change in news because, among other things, stars do not behave as anchors have traditionally behaved. Indeed, when Geraldo Rivera tried the same gambit, making himself into a personality larger than the news, he was laughed off the stage and into syndication purgatory. An anchor intones impersonally, solemnly and objectively. While he may be a performer Cronkite was avuncular, David Brinkley wry, Jennings dashing, Rather alternately folksy and intense woman wear van cleef necklace woman wear van cleef necklace no anchor has exactly been movie star material because none has done what movie stars are paid to do: create identification between themselves and the audience by tapping their audience emotions. The news was an oasis from emotion, and the great anchors were stoics. When Cronkite eyes began to mist ever so slightly as he announced President Kennedy death, it became a signature moment in our culture. One felt the magnitude of the event by the fact that Cronkite had to fight to keep his composure. Not so, Anderson Cooper, the new model of anchor. He is a professional emoter the of the nation, Vanity Fair called him. His job is to feel.
This isn some waggish criticism. This is how Cooper sees himself. On a recent he told the host, had been searching for feeling for years, and said he found it in journalism. In a way, he was born to emote. Wyatt Cooper died when Anderson was 10, leaving Anderson, his mother and his 12 year old brother, Carter, bereft and numb. In 1988, when young Carter was 23, he inexplicably dove off a terrace of his mother apartment and died in the 14 story fall. His last words were, I ever feel again? So Anderson Cooper knew hurt. He lived with hurt.
But if he was the putative Brando of news (or maybe the more sensitive Montgomery Clift), he needed his Named Desire, and New Orleans in the wake of Katrina provided it. Drawing, as he himself says in his book, on his personal tragedy, Cooper channeled the tragedy of New Orleans for the audience. Brian Williams and Shepard Smith at Fox emoted too, but Williams and Smith quickly returned to anchorman implacability when they returned to the studio. Cooper didn He personalized the anguish, and CNN turned his anguish into the story. feel connected to what around me, Cooper has written, showing how literally he deployed the Method, longer just observing. I feel I am living it, breathing it. CNN head Jon Klein is effusive: brings such a passion to the storytelling that it is infectious.
That attitude has been infectious among news executives too, and CBS is certainly relying on it with its new anchor, Katie Couric. Peter Jennings had his romantic peccadilloes, but they seldom made the tabloids. Couric romances are reported as avidly as any movie star which is certainly different from anything you would have read about Dan Rather or Bob Scheiffer, her CBS predecessors. And her approach is different too Anderson like. She recently said, job isn telling people what happened. It getting them to understand why they should care. She an emoter.
The only seeming problem with the Method approach to news is that no one much is watching Cooper 360. campaign in June, his ratings were well off those of his predecessor, Aaron Brown, the personification of the middle aged, saturnine anti Cooper anchor who provided reassurance and comfort rather than heat 36 percent off in the young demo that Cooper seemed to target like a missile. As one cable news executive told the New York Observer, just don get it. I watch the show and there nothing there for me. Still, citing the Minutes gig, the executive said, keeps rolling along, this media sensation thing.
The dearth of ratings certainly isn lost on CNN, but it may not matter much either, because the promotion of Anderson Cooper, the thing, may not be about ratings, and neither is cable news generally now, which is another paradigm shift. When measured against the larger universe, cable news draws minuscule numbers; two weeks ago, on the day of the announcement of the foiling of the British terrorist plot, roughly 1.5 million people watched Cooper 360, while roughly 2.5 million watched O Factor, typically the highest rated program on cable news. Last week, Cooper had 1.37 million total viewers during his first hour and 859,000 in his second, losing the first to Van Susteren and the second to an O repeat. Those numbers are up over the nearly 700,000 Aaron Brown averaged during his last week but, then, Brown never got anything close to Cooper publicity push. And lest one be surprised by how few people are watching cable news, the numbers on Chris Matthews are worse. The show is lucky to break 200,000 in the demo, and 500,000 among the general audience at each of its two airings. In short, cable news is a very small niche even when big news is breaking.
But in the same way that companies now exist to drive up stock value rather than stock value existing to drive up companies, it is entirely possible that CNN sees Cooper stardom as its own reward a way to brand the network as hot even if no one is watching and to try to get advertisers aboard on the assumption that CNN as the of Anderson Cooper is an easier sell than CNN as the trusted name in news. No one watches either, and yet Matthews, albeit a pundit rather than an anchor, is a big, ubiquitous commodity in the media the smiling face of MSNBC. Though, according to a Gallup Poll released last week, 40 percent of Americans had never even heard of Anderson Cooper, thanks to the media campaign he now has an aura, if not exactly a recognizability, that he can bequeath to CNN. And because cable executives (and advertisers) live not only in the world of ratings but also in the world of buzz, this is important. Of course CNN is hoping that people will eventually watch Cooper now that he has been anointed a star, but the fact that he has been anointed a star, even if they did it themselves, makes the CNN executives seem hot too and puts the network on the cutting edge of trendiness. In all this, Cooper rumored homosexuality doesn hurt; it gives him East Coast/West Coast media cachet as the hot young vaguely mysterious guy, just as it gives him more license to emote.
But if viewers don matter much to cable news and if the pretense of media stardom is the new strategy to create heat, one might very well ask: Who needs the news at all when you got the cover of Vanity Fair? The answer may turn out to be, one, which would be the biggest paradigm shift of all.
The phenomenon that is Anderson Cooper stared soulfully with his limpid blue eyes from the June cover of Vanity Fair, thus creating two journalistic disjunctions the fact that he is staring soulfully when any other news anchor would have a cool, imperturbable gaze, and the fact that he is a phenomenon who makes the cover of Vanity Fair.
It is easy to make fun of Anderson Cooper, CNN sleek, prematurely gray haired poster boy and the star of its nightly two hour program, Cooper 360. machine the way the old Hollywood studios once created stars through media campaigns an assertion that is hard to challenge since Cooper face seems to be everywhere these days: not only on Vanity Fair and on billboards but on Daily Show, Night With David Letterman, Tonight Show and soon on Minutes where Cooper will be a correspondent. People magazine has named him one of its sexiest men, there is an for President poster for sale on the Internet, countless fan sites are devoted to him, and gossip sites record his every move. Walter Cronkite never did a fashion spread as Cooper has done in Details. Added to all this attention is the frisson of his sexuality and the hanging question hanging because Cooper refuses to address it of whether he is gay or not, which raises the possibility of his being America first gay anchor. CNN obviously has invested a great deal in its new wonder boy, and the network has been marketing him aggressively, though no more so than CBS is marketing its new anchor, Katie Couric. In doing so, however, CNN is not just boosting an anchor. It is changing the very paradigm of television news.
Network anchors traditionally have been fellows who have earned their spurs. The Murrow generation, out of which came Cronkite, the old anchor paradigm, was annealed by World War II, but even its successors Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings were newsmen with experience. Rather burst on the national scene covering the Kennedy assassination, and he did duty in Vietnam and as CBS White House correspondent during Watergate, leading to his famous confrontations with President Nixon, before he assumed the anchor chair. Brokaw toiled in local news in Iowa and Nebraska before becoming a local anchor in Atlanta and Los Angeles and then an NBC correspondent, pulling White House duty during Watergate just as Rather did. Jennings worked at the CBC and then CTV in his native Canada as parliamentary correspondent before joining ABC as an anchor (briefly at age 27), and then, when ABC realized that he was too green, he left to become a foreign correspondent, opening the network Middle East bureau and serving as its chief for seven years. These men were not just pretty faces or good teleprompter readers. (Rather, in fact, was execrable at reading the prompter, and Brokaw famously swallowed his The implicit idea behind them was that the news was a public trust, both in the sense that a network produced the news for the public good and in the sense that it needed individuals who had enough credibility they could be trusted.
And so it was, right up through Brian Williams and Charlie Gibson. Despite his relative youth at 39, Anderson Cooper is not exactly a novice, as his recent bestseller, From the Edge, is designed to demonstrate, nor is he just a pretty face. He has been in the field. After graduating from Yale, he landed a job as a researcher at Channel One, the teen oriented network that is beamed directly into middle schools and high schools, then, after six months, he decided he would rather see the world and became a one man television crew, visiting war zones like Rwanda and Myanmar and sending back video dispatches to his old company on an on again, off again basis for roughly five years, including a year he spent in Vietnam learning the language a far cry from on deadline reports of most broadcast journalists. He eventually landed a job as a newsreader at ABC, then as host of the reality show Mole, and then migrated to CNN, where he has acquitted himself as something more than an airhead. But even so, this is not exactly the r of an anchorman, hoisting his way rung by rung and assignment by assignment up the ladder, which is precisely the point. Cooper was a free agent the journalistic equivalent of a soldier of fortune. He was a lone operator and a swashbuckler with boyish who worked on his own schedule and on his own terms. The news wasn a trust for Anderson Cooper. It was an adventure.
This is the idea that CNN is trying to sell because the network has obviously concluded, along with everyone else, that the function of the news has changed and so must the presentation. The news is no longer regarded as a trust. It is just another competitor for viewers time, another distraction in a world of entertainment, though what it is distracting the audience from is essentially itself. No one but old people watch the news today; the median age of the network news Van Cleef & Arpels necklace gold replica broadcasts on ABC and NBC is just under 60 and on CBS just over 60, and the cable network audiences aren any different. The young people that advertisers covet apparently feel they have better things to do than watch news, which means, in effect, that the news providers are in the awkward position of finding a way to attract people who really don want their product.
CNN innovation (unless you count MSNBC halfhearted attempt a few years back with bespectacled Ashley Banfield) has been to turn the news into a backdrop for its handsome young star, Anderson Cooper. London, Haifa, Sri Lanka, Baghdad these are locations for the movies in which Cooper plays, effectively foregrounding the anchor while backgrounding the news. Yes, young people may hate news, but they love celebrities, and Cooper is a celebrity or at least he is rapidly being made into one. Or put another way, CNN is trying to discover Van Cleef & Arpels necklace imitation how to make the news not event driven, which forces the network to rely on things it has no control over, so much as star driven, which is something that can remain constant night after night. You tune in not because something happened. You tune in because Anderson Cooper is reporting it.
And how does he report it? With feeling but without gravitas. Most famously, when Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana thanked Congress for an emergency $10 billion appropriation during an interview with Cooper after Hurricane Katrina, he interrupted her in high dudgeon saying that there was a body being eaten by rats. you get the anger that is out here? he demanded, and then stammered for someone to take responsibility. It was great drama, but not exactly a distinguished moment. And then there was the fawning interview with Angelina Jolie where Cooper and Jolie traded sensitivities on Africa like two old friends at a kaffeeklatsch and where Cooper preempted Jolie to talk about his own feelings. Or there was the Mother Day segment in which Cooper interviewed his own mother, saying afterward, many anchors would have their mother on the program? Exactly.
This is a defining change in news because, among other things, stars do not behave as anchors have traditionally behaved. Indeed, when Geraldo Rivera tried the same gambit, making himself into a personality larger than the news, he was laughed off the stage and into syndication purgatory. An anchor intones impersonally, solemnly and objectively. While he may be a performer Cronkite was avuncular, David Brinkley wry, Jennings dashing, Rather alternately folksy and intense woman wear van cleef necklace woman wear van cleef necklace no anchor has exactly been movie star material because none has done what movie stars are paid to do: create identification between themselves and the audience by tapping their audience emotions. The news was an oasis from emotion, and the great anchors were stoics. When Cronkite eyes began to mist ever so slightly as he announced President Kennedy death, it became a signature moment in our culture. One felt the magnitude of the event by the fact that Cronkite had to fight to keep his composure. Not so, Anderson Cooper, the new model of anchor. He is a professional emoter the of the nation, Vanity Fair called him. His job is to feel.
This isn some waggish criticism. This is how Cooper sees himself. On a recent he told the host, had been searching for feeling for years, and said he found it in journalism. In a way, he was born to emote. Wyatt Cooper died when Anderson was 10, leaving Anderson, his mother and his 12 year old brother, Carter, bereft and numb. In 1988, when young Carter was 23, he inexplicably dove off a terrace of his mother apartment and died in the 14 story fall. His last words were, I ever feel again? So Anderson Cooper knew hurt. He lived with hurt.
But if he was the putative Brando of news (or maybe the more sensitive Montgomery Clift), he needed his Named Desire, and New Orleans in the wake of Katrina provided it. Drawing, as he himself says in his book, on his personal tragedy, Cooper channeled the tragedy of New Orleans for the audience. Brian Williams and Shepard Smith at Fox emoted too, but Williams and Smith quickly returned to anchorman implacability when they returned to the studio. Cooper didn He personalized the anguish, and CNN turned his anguish into the story. feel connected to what around me, Cooper has written, showing how literally he deployed the Method, longer just observing. I feel I am living it, breathing it. CNN head Jon Klein is effusive: brings such a passion to the storytelling that it is infectious.
That attitude has been infectious among news executives too, and CBS is certainly relying on it with its new anchor, Katie Couric. Peter Jennings had his romantic peccadilloes, but they seldom made the tabloids. Couric romances are reported as avidly as any movie star which is certainly different from anything you would have read about Dan Rather or Bob Scheiffer, her CBS predecessors. And her approach is different too Anderson like. She recently said, job isn telling people what happened. It getting them to understand why they should care. She an emoter.
The only seeming problem with the Method approach to news is that no one much is watching Cooper 360. campaign in June, his ratings were well off those of his predecessor, Aaron Brown, the personification of the middle aged, saturnine anti Cooper anchor who provided reassurance and comfort rather than heat 36 percent off in the young demo that Cooper seemed to target like a missile. As one cable news executive told the New York Observer, just don get it. I watch the show and there nothing there for me. Still, citing the Minutes gig, the executive said, keeps rolling along, this media sensation thing.
The dearth of ratings certainly isn lost on CNN, but it may not matter much either, because the promotion of Anderson Cooper, the thing, may not be about ratings, and neither is cable news generally now, which is another paradigm shift. When measured against the larger universe, cable news draws minuscule numbers; two weeks ago, on the day of the announcement of the foiling of the British terrorist plot, roughly 1.5 million people watched Cooper 360, while roughly 2.5 million watched O Factor, typically the highest rated program on cable news. Last week, Cooper had 1.37 million total viewers during his first hour and 859,000 in his second, losing the first to Van Susteren and the second to an O repeat. Those numbers are up over the nearly 700,000 Aaron Brown averaged during his last week but, then, Brown never got anything close to Cooper publicity push. And lest one be surprised by how few people are watching cable news, the numbers on Chris Matthews are worse. The show is lucky to break 200,000 in the demo, and 500,000 among the general audience at each of its two airings. In short, cable news is a very small niche even when big news is breaking.
But in the same way that companies now exist to drive up stock value rather than stock value existing to drive up companies, it is entirely possible that CNN sees Cooper stardom as its own reward a way to brand the network as hot even if no one is watching and to try to get advertisers aboard on the assumption that CNN as the of Anderson Cooper is an easier sell than CNN as the trusted name in news. No one watches either, and yet Matthews, albeit a pundit rather than an anchor, is a big, ubiquitous commodity in the media the smiling face of MSNBC. Though, according to a Gallup Poll released last week, 40 percent of Americans had never even heard of Anderson Cooper, thanks to the media campaign he now has an aura, if not exactly a recognizability, that he can bequeath to CNN. And because cable executives (and advertisers) live not only in the world of ratings but also in the world of buzz, this is important. Of course CNN is hoping that people will eventually watch Cooper now that he has been anointed a star, but the fact that he has been anointed a star, even if they did it themselves, makes the CNN executives seem hot too and puts the network on the cutting edge of trendiness. In all this, Cooper rumored homosexuality doesn hurt; it gives him East Coast/West Coast media cachet as the hot young vaguely mysterious guy, just as it gives him more license to emote.
But if viewers don matter much to cable news and if the pretense of media stardom is the new strategy to create heat, one might very well ask: Who needs the news at all when you got the cover of Vanity Fair? The answer may turn out to be, one, which would be the biggest paradigm shift of all.