The UN has founded a new body which should finish the remaining tasks of the International Crime Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. The move comes in order to finalize the work of the two courts by the end of 2014.
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The Doors Respond To Florida’s Pardon Of Jim Morrison
December 22nd, 2010 |
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40 YEARS AFTER MEDIA AND COURT CIRCUS, THE DOORS SPEAK OUT
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In the wake of Florida’s decision to issue a pardon to Jim Morrison of The Doors more than 40 years after
his alleged obscene acts on a Miami stage, his bandmates Ray Manzarek, John Densmore and Robby
Krieger issued this statement:
“In 1969 the Doors played an infamous concert in Miami, Florida. Accounts vary as to what actually happened on
stage that night.
Whatever took place that night ended with The Doors sharing beers and laughter in the dressing room with the Miami
police, who acted as security at the venue that evening. No arrests were made. The next day we flew off to Jamaica
for a few days’ vacation before our planned 20-city tour of America.
That tour never materialized. Four days later, warrants were issued in Miami for the arrest of Morrison on trumped-
up charges of indecency, public obscenity, and general rock-and-roll revelry. Every city The Doors were booked into
canceled their engagement.
A circus of fire-and-brimstone “decency” rallies, grand jury investigations and apocalyptic editorials followed – not
to mention allegations ranging from the unsubstantiated (he exposed himself) to the fantastic (the Doors were
“inciting a riot” but also “hypnotizing” the crowd).
In August, Jim Morrison went on trial in Miami. He was acquitted on all but two misdemeanor charges and sentenced
to six months’ hard labor in Raiford Penitentiary. He was appealing this conviction when he died in Paris on July 3,
1971. Four decades after the fact, with Jim an icon for multiple generations – and those who railed against him now
a laughingstock – Florida has seen fit to issue a pardon.
We don’t feel Jim needs to be pardoned for anything.
His performance in Miami that night was certainly provocative, and entirely in the insurrectionary spirit of The Doors’
music and message. The charges against him were largely an opportunity for grandstanding by ambitious politicians
- not to mention an affront to free speech and a massive waste of time and taxpayer dollars. As Ann Woolner of the
Albany Times-Union wrote recently, “Morrison’s case bore all the signs of a political prosecution, a rebuke from the
cultural right to punish a symbol of Dionysian rebellion.”
If the State of Florida and the City of Miami want to make amends for the travesty of Jim Morrison’s arrest and
prosecution forty years after the fact, an apology would be more appropriate – and expunging the whole sorry
matter from the record. And how about a promise to stop letting culture-war hysteria trump our First Amendment
rights? Freedom of Speech must be held sacred, especially in these reactionary times.
Love,
The Doors
The Morrison Family
Agency’s Kosovo report behind closed doors
November 16th, 2010 |
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The Security-Information Agency (BIA) has submitted its report on the security and political situation in Kosovo. The report was requested by the Parliamentary Committee on Kosovo and Metohija.
CRM Solutions to Retain More Customers Posted By : Adeline Hale
November 13th, 2010 |
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Not every business enjoys the benefits of having a lot of customers walking into their doors every day.
Windows and Doors Posted By : Elite Roofing & Home Improvements, LLC
November 11th, 2010 |
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Replacing Your Windows and Doors: 3 Things You Should Know
Replacing windows and doors can seem overwhelming, but here are three good reasons why it should be on your to-do list!
KLW wins $4.2m contract to supply doors to Abu Dhabi
August 26th, 2010 |
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Door manufacturer KLW Holdings says it has secured an order worth US$3.1 million ($4.2 million) from one of UK’s leading construction companies to supply doors to the Al Muneera development in Abu Dhabi. This mixed-used development comprises eight multi-storey residential buildings; 11 villas; 142 town houses; and two retail areas with sub-basements.
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Save Money by Installing UPVC Windows and Doors to your Home. Posted By : Ghorsefall
August 17th, 2010 |
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Due to the current economic climate some home owners are opting for diy UPVC replacement windows and doors. Realising that by cutting out the tradesmen and installing the windows and doors themselves they could potentially save quite a lot of money.
The controversies in climate science : Science behind closed doors
July 8th, 2010 |
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Two new reports say the science of climate change is fine, but that some scientists and the institutions they work in need to change their attitudes
THE winter of 2009 was a rough time for climate science. In November, in the run-up to the Copenhagen climate conference, over 1,000 private e-mails from and to researchers at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU), a part of the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Britain, appeared on the internet, presumably after being stolen. At the same time a controversy was bubbling up in India over a claim in the 2007 assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that the Himalayas could lose all their glaciers in 25 years, which was wrong. These events seemed to provide evidence of embarrassing incompetence, at the very least.
Explanations were demanded and committees were formed to deliver them. This week two of those committees reported. For the CRU and what became known as “climategate”, an independent panel was created by UEA and chaired by Muir Russell, a former vice-chancellor of the University of Glasgow. The Dutch environmental-assessment agency was asked to look for other errors in the regional analyses of the IPCC’s report. Both the reports conclude that the science of climate is sound and that the professional characters of the scientists involved are unimpeached. But they raise important issues about how to do science in such an argumentative area and under new levels of scrutiny, especially from a largely hostile and sometimes expert blogosphere. …
Earning Tax Credits Through Energy Efficient Windows and Doors Posted By : David Ostendarp
June 16th, 2010 |
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This is a quick and easy guide to earning a tax credit just from having energy efficient windows and doors due to the New Energy Tax Credit that was established in 2009. Goes step by step into how to get the tax credit and what things around the house qualify. Saving money on your taxes will allow you to put it toward a much more enjoyable and beneficial endeavor.
Doors Documentary Opens April 9
March 17th, 2010 |
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Doors Documentary When You’re Strange Begins In Select Markets April 9
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When You’re Strange first played at Sundance in 2009. Producers include Dick Wolf, Rhino’s John Beug and Jeff Jampol, the band’s manager. Wolf Films’ Peter Jankowski, also a producer, guided the project for Wolf’s company. It was made with
support of band members Ray Manzarek, John Densmore and Robby Krieger,
as well as the estate of Jim Morrison. Manzarek has said in interviews that the doc is the antidote to Oliver Stone’s film The Doors.
After its Sundance bow, filmmakers brought Johnny Depp aboard to voice a new narration. It continued to be fine-tuned as it made fest appearances at Berlin, Deauville and San Sebastian. More recently, the completed version played at
the Santa Barbara Film Fest.
“Watching the hypnotic, hitherto unreleased footage of Jim, John, Ray and Robby, I felt like I experienced it all through their eyes. As a rock ‘n’ roll documentary, or any kind of documentary for that matter, it simply doesn’t get any better than this,” Depp said.
Wolf said he remembers buying The Doors’ first album and listening to it a dozen times in a row.
“Both sides. Every song. I’ve been a fan every since. This movie is a story of the band, but it is also an insight into a moment that will never be repeated,” Wolf said.
The 90-minute doc uses footage shot between the band’s formation in 1965 and Morrison’s death in 1971, including footage from Morrison and Manzarek’s time together at UCLA’s film school.
The film’s soundtrack will be available March 30.
Beug said film will open in select markets including New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Seattle and San Francisco. The DVD will be released three months after that. Film also will air on PBS’ American Masters series.
Meydan opens its doors today
January 28th, 2010 |
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The much-awaited racing season kicks off today at the new Meydan Grandstand and Racecourse. It also marks the opening meeting of the seventh Dubai International Racing Carnival. This inaugural race meeting at Dubai’s new flagship racecourse kicks off two months of high quality international
A Shift to Web Apps and ‘Windows as a Runtime’ Opens New OS Doors
November 18th, 2009 |
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However, a powerful pair of trends–driven almost as aggressively by Microsoft as by the rest of the industry–are working to expand the viability not only of Linux but of Mac OS X, Solaris and other platforms yet unknown or uninvented: a shift to Web-based applications and WaaR, or Windows as a Runtime.
– My review
of OpenSUSE 11.2 rounds off another semiannual check-in with what I regard
as the most important trio of desktop-oriented Linux operating systems: the
aforementioned OpenSUSE, Ubuntu and Red Hat.
If you’re given to a philosophical mindset, you may have paused while
flipping through th…
Lisbon treaty opens doors, says Jeremić
October 3rd, 2009 |
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Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić believes that the success of the Irish EU referendum marks a “new episode in the development of the EU”. He thinks that the expected positive result of the referendum opens the door to all European peoples including those in the Western Balkans.
Lisbon treaty opens doors, says Jeremić
October 3rd, 2009 |
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Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić believes that the success of the Irish EU referendum marks a “new episode in the development of the EU”. He thinks that the expected positive result of the referendum opens the door to all European peoples including those in the Western Balkans.
The Doors: Live In New York
September 8th, 2009 |
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Live In New York Documents The Doors’ Final Four New York Concerts with Jim Morrison
In Their Entirety with Six-Disc Collection
Boxed Set Due November 10, 180-Gram Vinyl Pressings of All the Band’s Studio Albums Available September 15
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Rhino and Bright Midnight Archives unleash four inspired performances from The Doors‘ final tour with Live In New York. The latest addition to the band’s acclaimed series of archival concert releases, this six-disc collection contains all four of The Doors’ performances – in their entirety – recorded in 1970 at the Felt Forum in New York City. The collection will be available November 10 at all retail outlets, for suggested list price of $89.98 for the physical boxed set. A digital version featuring select highlights from all four Felt Forum shows will also be available at all digital retail outlets for $9.99.
The year prior to these shows, The Doors became one of the first rock bands to play New York City’s Madison Square Garden. When they returned in 1970, Densmore says they chose to play the Felt Forum, a smaller venue at the Garden. “It was more intimate, and you could feel the audience more,” he says. “There was more interaction, and the acoustics were much better, because it was designed for music.”
Fans will be blown away by the crisp sound found on Live In New York. All four shows were mixed and mastered by the band’s longtime engineer, Bruce Botnick, who recorded a number of shows from The Doors’ 1970 tour on multi-track tape for the Absolutely Live album. While most of the music contained on Live In New York is unreleased, a few songs (and portions of songs) surfaced in 1970 on Absolutely Live and in 1997 on The Doors Box Set.
Prior to the release of Live In New York, Rhino will release 180-gram vinyl versions of all six Doors studio albums on September 15. Previously available only in 2007′s The Doors Vinyl Box, original stereo mixes of The Doors’ six albums will now be available individually at all vinyl retail outlets for a suggested list price of $24.98 each.
The Doors Live In New York Track Listing
Disc 1
January 17, 1970 (First Show)
1. Start Of Show
2. Roadhouse Blues
3. Ship Of Fools*
4. Break On Through (To The Other Side)
5. Tuning
6. Peace Frog
7. Blue Sunday
8. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
9. Back Door Man*
10. Love Hides*
11. Five To One*
12. Tuning/Breather
13. Who Do You Love
14. Little Red Rooster
15. Money
16. Tuning
17. Light My Fire*
18. More, More, More
19. Soul Kitchen*
20. End Of Show
Disc 2
January 17, 1970 (Second Show)
1. Start Show 2
2. Jim “How Ya Doing?”
3. Roadhouse Blues
4. Break On Through (To The Other Side)*
5. Ship Of Fools
6. Crawling King Snake
7. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
8. Back Door Man*
9. Five To One
10. Pretty Neat, Pretty Good
11. Build Me A Woman
12. Tuning/Breather
13. Who Do You Love*
14. Tuning/Breather
15. Wild Child*
16. Cheering/Tuning
17. When The Music’s Over
Disc 3
January 17, 1970 (Second Show) continued
1. Tuning/Breather
2. Light My Fire*
3. Hey, Mr. Light Man!
4. Soul Kitchen*
5. Jim’s Fish Joke
6. The End
7. End Of Show
Disc 4
January 18, 1970 (Third Show)
1. Start Show 3
2. Roadhouse Blues*
3. Ship Of Fools*
4. Break On Through (To The Other Side)*
5. Tuning/Breather
6. Universal Mind*
7. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) – False Start*
8. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)*
9. Back Door Man*
10. Five To One
11. Tuning/Breather
12. Moonlight Drive
13. Who Do You Love*
14. Calling Out For Songs
15. Money*
16. Tuning/Breather
17. Light My Fire
18. More, More More
19. When The Music’s Over*
20. Good Night – End Show
Disc 5
January 18, 1970 (Fourth Show)
1. Start Show 4
2. Roadhouse Blues*
3. Peace Frog*
4. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)*
5. Back Door Man
6. Five To One
7. We Have A Special Treat
8. Celebration Of The Lizard
9. Alright Let’s Boogie
10. Build Me A Woman
11. When The Music’s Over*
12. More, More, More
Disc 6
January 18, 1970 (Fourth Show) continued
1. Soul Kitchen*
2. For Fear Of Getting Too Patriotic
3. Petition The Lord With Prayer
4. Light My Fire
5. Only When The Moon Comes Out
6. Close To You
7. The Encore Begins
8. Rock Me*
9. What To Do Next?
10. Going To N.Y. Blues*
11. Tuning/Breather
12. Maggie M’Gill*
13. Tuning/Breather
14. Gloria*/End Of Show
*Previously unreleased
Intuit Launches Open Source Developer Community
July 28th, 2009 |
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Intuit has cracked open its developer doors with the launch of a new open source community for developers interested in creating online applications for small businesses.
– Intuit has cracked open its developer doors with the launch of a new open source community for developers interested in creating online applications for small businesses.
The community, at code.intuit.com, lets developers work with Intuit and each other to build Software-as-a-Service (SAAS) appl…
Cash-Strapped Boston Zoo May Be Forced To Close Doors, Euthanize Animals
July 11th, 2009 |
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The Franklin Park Zoo, an inner-city Boston institution that has drawn generations of city and suburban families, may be forced to close its doors and possibly euthanize some of its animals as a result of the deep budget cuts imposed by Govern…