A few updates for
your delectation this month. Our process of
digitising the vaults of Lazarus and turning
this site into an online TheThe encyclopaedia
continues this issue with more additions to
our Cinema, Library and Jukebox sections.
First of all though please try out the Front Page News Bureau. Now there’s
no need to leave the site for up to the minute news around the world as we’ve
provided live headline feeds from BBC News & Sport, The New York Times,
Le Monde Diplomatique and Reuters.
Also this issue we’re pleased to draw your attention to ‘TheThe Nite’.
An evening of drinking and conversation organised by our moderators Steph and
DrSebastian for Forum members to meet and finally put faces to names. Please
put your name down in the Forum for details of where to go and how to win one
of the various prizes on offer. From t-shirts to signed albums.
BEST
WISHES, BERNHARD
Directed by Johanna St Michaels
For her award winning documentary
film “Best Wishes, Bernhard’ Johanna
St Michaels worked with an older man
diagnosed with cancer. A man who expresses
a disturbingly unsentimental viewpoint
to the ending of his own life. He expresses
loathing for caring and sorrow preferring
instead to dwell upon food, sex and various
other sensual pleasures. The resulting
film is at times funny, poignant and
macabre and not recommended for those
of weak stomach.
“Best Wishes, Bernhard” won the
Swedish film institute's “Dokumentärfilms
Premien” 2003 and was nominated for “the
kodak prize” in the Shadow filmfestival,
Amsterdam 2004 and has been screened at Nordisk
Panorma (Iceland
2004) Uppsala filmfestival (Sweden 2004) Tempo
film festival (Sweden 2004) Vera filmfestival
(Finland 2005)
 MUG
Directed
by Gerard Johnson
For his award winning short film
director Gerard Johnson’s powerful and thought
provoking drama follows a violent criminal
who leaves the concrete jungle of the council
estate to stalk London’s East End
looking for bags to steal, but soon discovers
some bags hold dark secrets. Emerging
from Whitechapel tube station he hones-in
on a young man carrying a rucksack and
turning into a small alleyway. Grabbing
the man from behind he attacks him leaving
him dazed and bloodied, and makes off
with the bag. Back in the station he
rifles through the bag looking for anything
of value. Disappointed and angered the
man sets off again in search of a worthwhile
hit. He sees a young woman waiting for
the tube with a bag on her knee. He follows
her onto the train and waits for his
opportunity to pounce. But all is not
as it seems. This will be no ordinary
snatch.
Big Issue Film Festival Audience Winner November 2004.
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 SNAP
SHOTS FROM REALITY
Directed by Johanna St Michaels
This short powerful film is about one
woman’s battle with cancer. Jackie
had been diagnosed with uterine cancer
and wanted her body documented before she
had any treatment. Jackie made this project
possible by giving film maker Johanna St
Michaels total access to both her emotional
and physical life. Jackie has written her
point of view (here spoken by actress Victoria
Scarborough) as an accompaniment to the
photos.
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www.climateprediction.net
What is climateprediction.net?
Climateprediction.net is the largest experiment to try and produce a forecast
of the climate in the 21st century. To do this, we need people around the world
to give us time on their computers - time when they have their computers switched
on, but are not using them to their full capacity.
Why?
Climate change, and our response to it, are issues of global importance, affecting
food production, water resources, ecosystems, energy demand, insurance costs
and much else. There is a broad scientific consensus that the Earth will probably
warm over the coming century; climateprediction.net should, for the first
time, tell us what is most likely to happen.
What do we want you to do?
You can download a climate model from this website. It will run automatically
as a background process on your computer whenever you switch your computer on.
It should not affect any other tasks you use your computer for. As the model
runs, you can watch the weather patterns on your, unique, version of the world
evolve. The results are sent back to us via the internet, and you will be able
to see a summary of your results on this web site.
www.iraqbodycount.net
“We don’t
do body
counts”
General Tommy Franks, US Central Command
The worldwide update of reported civilian deaths in the Iraq war and occupation.
We put accuracy above speed and do not update the data base until we have located
and cross-checked two or more independent approved news sources for the same
incident. We are not a news organization ourselves and like everyone else can
only base our information on what has been reported so far. What we are attempting
to provide is a credible
compilation of civilian deaths that have been reported by recognized
sources. Our maximum therefore refers to reported deaths - which
can only be a sample of true deaths unless one assumes that every civilian death
has been reported. It is likely that many if not most civilian casualties will
go unreported by the media. That is the sad nature of war.
