DOCSLIB.ORG

Kadhim Shubber NEWS [email protected]

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Kadhim Shubber NEWS News.Felix@Imperial.Ac.Uk 12 The award-winning student newspaper of Imperial College . 02 “Keep The Cat Free” . Issue 1,453 10 ffelixelix felixonline.co.uk Charging onwards This week.... Five years behind bars: Imperial’s University Challenge team speak Gary Tanaka sentenced ahead of their next match, see page 6 and 7 News, Page 3 Causing a stir: The Pope misunderstood? Politics, Page 15 Ilustrating every lyric: The Hard Rain Project Arts, Page 17 Boxing at Imperial: Preying on false hopes The historical Rector’s Cup felix investigates the ‘model casting’ scam that is targeting students on High Street Kensington, see page 4 Features, Page 37 2 felix FRIDAY 12 FEBRUARY 2010 News Editor Kadhim Shubber NEWS [email protected] New Guilds President found The world beyond AAlexanderlexander KKarapetianarapetian College walls Following the departure of Kirsty Pat- terson, former CGCU President, the City and Guilds College Union held elections to appoint a new President and Guildsheet Editor. The elections attracted respective candidates Dan Lundy and Richard Bennett, who at- tained their positions unopposed. Guildsheet is the monthly student Sri Lanka magazine of the Faculty of Engineer- ing, rival to the Royal College Of Sci- New CGCU President Dan Lundy being unfairly engulfed by the CGCU logo eneral Sarath Fonseka, the loser of Sri Lanka’s presidential ence Union’s Broadsheet magazine. election last month and the commander of the Sri Lankan The results of the elections were an- G army during the conclusion of the Sri Lankan civil war, was nounced at noon on Monday. The the Presidential position. team will focus on attaining sponsor- arrested Monday in a raid on his offices. turnout to the elections was minimal, Lundy commented on his victory ships for next year whilst improving In July, Fonseka was appointed to a largely ceremonial post, Chief of De- with Lundy’s victory attributable to that he is ‘’very glad to be appointed their financial circumstances for the fence Staff, which set off the beginnings of a rivalry with President Mahinda the forty-one votes collected. Bennett President’’ and is ‘’looking forward to future. Bennett’s position as Guild- Rajapaksa, his former ally. Fonseka announced his retirement in November was elected by forty-seven votes, and working with the rest of the commit- sheet editor will involve managing the and was asked to resign soon after, allowing his entry into politics and his eighteen further votes lobbying to reo- tee to provide some great social events monthly magazine. He commented unsuccessful presidential bid. He is accused of improperly discussing poli- pen nominations. Taking into account and represent the Faculty on student that he ‘’would like to thank everyone tics prior to his retirement from the military, and will be court-martialed, the turnout, this is a fair proportion of welfare issues.’’ who voted’’ for him and hopes that the according to the government. On Tuesday, President Rajapaksa exercised the total votes, especially since twenty- Lundy will lead the CGCU until the ‘’next edition of Guildsheet lives up to three voted to reopen nominations for end of July, during which the entire everyone’s expectations.’’ his right to dissolve Parliament, and called new elections in the hope of capturing a two-thirds majority, despite growing clashes in Colombo over Fonseka’s arrest. Medics naked in Amsterdam Palestine Whilst the rest of us were busy, he Israeli military on Wednesday launched a bombing mission the Medics took part in the RAG on Yasser Arafat Airport, which is currently disused. DASH to Amsterdam. T The strike on Rafah, a town in southern Gaza Strip, was target- ted at tunnels used to smuggle goods into the Gaza Strip. No 200 students gallivanted from London casualties were reported. The attacks were reportedly in retaliation for to Canterbury to Amsterdam, raising rocket attacks on Israel, which the Israeli Defence Forces claim have been money along the way. Sex shows, up to twenty in number this year. Hamas, which has control over Gaza, coffee shops, pub crawls and booze says that it ceased rocket fire last year and blamed the attacks on other buses were all involved. militant groups. The strike shows a continuing desire for Israel to maintain its blockade on Gaza. All in the name of Children’s Hope Foundation, a charity for kids with special needs. North Korea 12 im Jong-il, dictator of North Korea, seemed willing to return to Felix, Beit Quad, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BB. Tel: 020 7594 8072. diplomacy over the past week. Last Friday, North Korea released an American missionary Fax: 020 7594 8065. Printed by The Harmsworth Printing Ltd, 17 Brest Road, 02 K Derriford, Plymouth. Registered newspaper ISSN 1040-0711. from custody. Robert Park, of Arizona, was arrested after cross- 1,453 Jigsaw font by typotheque.com. ࣤయഛ৸ Gung hei fat choy! ing the North Korean-Chinese border on Christmas Day. Park was car- felix . Copyright © Felix 2010. rying pamphlets calling on Kim to close the country’s prison camps and 10 to step down. Park’s release and flight to Beijing was seen as a measure of goodwill on the part of North Korea. On Tuesday, during a meeting This issue of felix was brought to you by: between North Korean and Chinese officials in Pyongyang, Kim Jong-il stated that he wished to “realise the denuclearisation of the Korean Penin- Editor-in-Chief Deputy Editor Deputy Editor Copy Chief sula”, according to Xinhua. Meanwhile, Lynn Pascoe, the most important Dan Wan Kadhim Shubber Gilead Amit Sasha Nicoletti UN envoy to visit North Korea since 2004, visited Pyongyang to discuss the resumption of six-party talks regarding the end of North Korea’s nu- News Editor Film Editor Nightlife Editor Sports Editors clear programme. Kadhim Shubber Ed Knock Charlotte Morris Mustapher Botchway Politics Editors: David Wilson James Goldsack News Reporters Technology Editor What’s On Editors Indy Leclercq Katya-yani Vyas Dina Ismail Samuel Gibbs Rachel D’oliviero James Lees Joanna Cai Lily Topham Arts Editors Phillip Murray Japan Alex Karapetian Fashion Editor Caz Knight Alice Rowlands Kawai Wong Coffee Break Editor Rosie Milton Features Editor utomakers Toyota and Honda have both been plagued by re- Charles Murdoch Lucy Harrold Afonso Campos calls of automobiles. Faulty accelerator pedals in a variety of Assistant Editor Music Editors Toyota cars have caused accidents whereby the pedal sticks to Jovan Nedić Kadhim Shubber Clubs and Socs Editor Photography Louis Constant the floor and cannot be depressed. This week, Toyota recalled Ben Smith Tom Greany A Alex Ashford Alex Kendall 436,000 hybrid cars with faulty brakes. On Wednesday, Honda recalled Layout Editor Luke Turner Alex Karapetian Holly Farrer an additional 437,700 cars with faulty airbags, with the recall now totalling Carlos Karingal Puzzles Commodores Rox Middleton nearly one million cars. This airbag defect causes metal shards to explode Travel Editor Sean Farres Catnip Editor Matt Colvin throughout the affected automobiles’ interiors upon airbag deployment. Business Editor Dylan Lowe Milli Begum Rhys Davies Lizzy Griffiths Sina Ataherian Ayyub Kamaludin Science Editors Comment Editors Online Editors Jamie Beal International Editor Brigette Atkins Charlotte Morris Ravi Pall Richard Howard By Tom Greany Raphael Houdmont Nathan Ley Ravi Pall Chris Birkett Stefan Zeeman felix FRIDAY 12 FEBRUARY 2010 3 [email protected] NEWS Business School’s Tanaka imprisoned Sina Ataherian reports on the 5-year sentence that Imperial College benefactor Gary Tanaka faces this week f you are in second year or above, rested in 2005, after a private detective try business that enabled Tanaka to af- you may remember the halcyon hired by a concerned client discovered ford to attend MIT. When he moved to days when Imperial College that they had attempted to clear mil- London for his PhD, he claimed to have A man called Tanaka and his business school Business School was called the lions of pounds of debts with their “fallen in love with swinging Beatles- I Gary A. Tanaka was born June 23, 1943 to Japanese parents in Hunt, Tanaka Business School. The clients’ investments. The prosecution era London.” He met Vilar in 1980 af- name came from Gary Tanaka, a Jap- alleged that the pair had stolen £3.4m ter a career that took him around the Idaho, within the compounds of the Minidoka concentration camp; it anese-American fund manager who from Lily Cates, a 70-year-old Ameri- world, from San Francisco to the Mid- was set up to detain Japanese-Americans across the US during World did a PhD in Mathematics at Imperial. can heiress who had been a client for dle East. Together they launched Am- War II. He pledged £27 million to the College, 18 years. erindo Investment Advisors. The firm who thanked him by naming the new Edward Adams, the private detec- invested in some of the most successful Business School in his honour. In 2004, tive, claimed that Vilar and Tanaka had firms of the dotcom boom, including He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, then the Queen thanked him for his gen- used two-thirds of Ms Cates’ fund to Microsoft, Cisco, Amazon and eBay. studied for a PhD in Mathematics at Imperial College. He has two erosity during the ceremony in which pay off another investor and £440,000 At one point, they had more than £5 sons who have followed in their father’s footsteps and are successful she opened the new Business School of the firm’s bills. Another £670,000 of billion in client assets. But, after the businessmen. building. her money was used by Vilar to fulfil dotcom bust, their firm’s stock price But most of the money has yet to a charitable pledge to Washington and dropped by 90 per cent.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Celebrities, Terrorists and the 2008 Olympic Torch Relay
    View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by CLoK The ‘caged torch procession’: celebrities, protesters and the 2008 Olympic torch relay in London, Paris and San Francisco1 John Horne Professor of Sport and Sociology University of Central Lancashire Preston, PR1 2HE, UK. [email protected] Garry Whannel Professor of Professor of Media Cultures University of Bedfordshire Luton, UK. [email protected] For ‘Documenting the Beijing Olympics’, a Sport in Society Special Issue to be edited by D. Martinez & K Latham 5928 words inclusive The ‘caged torch procession’: celebrities, protesters and the 2008 Olympic torch relay in London, Paris and San Francisco Abstract Along with the opening and closing ceremonies one of the major non-sports events associated with the modern Olympic Games is the torch relay. Although initiated in 1936, the relay has been subject to relatively little academic scrutiny. The events of April 2008 however will have cast a long shadow on the practice. This paper focuses primarily on one week (6-13 April) in the press coverage of the 2008 torch relay as the flame made its way from London to Paris in Europe and then to San Francisco in the USA. It discusses the interpretations offered in the mediated coverage about the relay, the Olympic movement, the host city and the locations where the relay was taking place, and critically analyses the role of agencies, both for and against the Olympics, that framed the ensuing debate. 2 The ‘caged torch procession’: celebrities, protesters and the 2008 Olympic torch relay in London, Paris and San Francisco Introduction Any discussion of how a sports mega-event has been represented – visually, aurally or in print – raises questions of selection, representation and meaning.
    [Show full text]
  • Gary Stadden AMPS MIBS
    Mobile: 07970 667937 / Films@59: 0117 9064334 [email protected] / [email protected] www.garystadden.com / www.filmsat59.com/people/gary-stadden Various Production Credits: Programme Client Broadcaster Format Entertainment: Turn Back Time: The High Street Wall To Wall BBC1 XDCam The Restaurant (1, 2 & 3) BBC BBC2 Hi Def 60 Minute Makeover (1 to 11) ITV Productions ITV1 Digi Beta Rosemary Shrager`s School For Cooks (1 & 2) RDF Media West ITV1 DVCam Dickinson’s Real Deal (3 to 10) RDF Media West ITV1 DVCam Live n Deadly BBC Bristol CBBC / BBC2 DVCam Sorcerer’s Apprentice Twenty Twenty BBC2 / CBBC DVCam James May’s Toy Stories Plum Pictures BBC2 Digi Beta Red or Black Syco ITV1 XDCam Come Dine With Me Granada London Channel 4 DVCam The X Factor / Xtra Factor Talkback Thames / Syco ITV1 / ITV2 Digi Beta Deal Or No Deal: Live Endemol West Channel 4 DVCam The Biggest Loser Shine TV ITV1 XDCam Grand Designs Talkback Thames Channel 4 XDCam Great Welsh Adventure With Griff Rhys Jones Modern Television ITV1 F5 / SD664 Homes Under The Hammer Lion Television BBC1 Digi Beta Dogs: Their Secret Lives (1 & 2) Arrow Media Channel 4 C300/SD664 Time Team Videotext Communications Channel 4 Digi Beta Ade In Britain Shiver ITV1 XDCam Dancing On Ice ITV Productions ITV1 Digi Beta Naomi’s Nightmares Of Nature BBC Bristol CBBC XDCam Escape To The Country Talkback Thames BBC2 DVCam The Apprentice (1 & 2) Talkback Thames BBC2 Digi Beta Britain’s Got Talent Talkback Thames / Syco ITV1 Digi Beta Celebrity Wedding Planner Renegade Picture Channel 5 XDCam Homes
    [Show full text]
  • W E N E E D N E W S T O R I
    10 — 26 AUGUST 2019 BAILLIEWE GIFFORD NEED CHILDREN’SNEW STORIES PROGRAMME Investment managers 01 THE ATMOSPHERE AT THE BOOK “ FESTIVAL IS BRILLIANT. WE WERE ” OVERWHELMED BY THE CHOICE IN THE KIDS' PROGRAMME – A GREAT DAY OUT. VERY INSPIRING FOR YOUNG 'WANT TO BE' WRITERS. AUDIENCE MEMBER FREE ENTRY TO THE BOOK FESTIVAL VILLAGE Relax with a picnic, browse the bookshops or take part in exciting free activities every day 92 SOAR WITH DRAGONS VANQUISH VICIOUS VIKINGS CUDDLE UP WITH A PATCHWORK ELEPHANT SNACK WITH A VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR Step into a place filled with imagination and magic. GET INVOLVED IN OVER 200 When Edinburgh is packed with August crowds, INTERACTIVE EVENTS the Book Festival Village becomes another world; Dive into the following pages for the full range of events for all it’s your space to explore, relax, create and spot as ages from tiny tots to teens. There are crafty activities for little many of your favourite book characters as you can. ones to bring storytime alive, sensational stories from David Almond, Philip Ardagh and Cressida Cowell for older kids, and high-powered events for teens covering everything from tough ALL EVENTS FREE OR £5.00 topics to side-splitting comedy. There are plenty of opportunities to get creative with daily free drop-in activities in the Baillie Gifford Story Box (open every day from 11:00-16:30). MEET YOUR HEROES From asking your burning questions, to getting your most-loved book signed, to joining them for engaging activities, now is your chance to spend some quality time with your favourite authors and illustrators, learn all about the magic of crafting stories and have fun with them too.
    [Show full text]
  • New Titles July-December
    New Titles July - December 2020 New Titles July-December 2020 BIG PICTURE PRESS TEMPLAR BOOKS BONNIER P I C C A D I L LY PRESS HOT KEY BOOKS BOOKS UK CHILDREN ’ S Cover illustration copyright © 2020 by Ximo Abadía from The Extraordinary Elements CONTENTS Big Picture Press 3 Templar Books 17 Piccadilly Press 37 Hot Key Books 43 Contacts 50 Fungarium Ester Gaya & Katie Scott Welcome to the Fungarium! A BIG HELLO Step into the world of fungi and JULY learn all about these strange and fascinating life forms. Illustrator Katie Scott returns to the Welcome to the Museum series with exquisite, detailed images of some of the most fascinating living organisms on this planet - fungi. From the Big Picture Press books are objects to be Piccadilly Press books are fun, family- fungi we see on supermarket shelves pored over and then returned to again and orientated stories in any genre, that possess to fungi like penicillium that have again, created by and made for the incurably the ability to capture readers’ imagination shaped human history, this is the curious. Having made an indelible mark on and inspire them to develop a life-long love definitive introduction to what fungi the children’s non-fiction market with their of reading. Our titles can be standalone are and just how vital they are to boutique range of illustrated gift books, they stories or part of a series, using design and the world's ecosystem. Created in create visually inspiring books for readers of illustration that is integral to the content collaboration with the Royal Botanic all ages around the world.
    [Show full text]
  • 9 February 2018 Page 1 of 12 SATURDAY 03 FEBRUARY 2018 Duck, and Baking a Camembert Without Ruining It
    Radio 4 Listings for 3 – 9 February 2018 Page 1 of 12 SATURDAY 03 FEBRUARY 2018 duck, and baking a camembert without ruining it. on to write as an adult. SAT 00:00 Midnight News (b09ppzvr) They also investigate Bath's rich culinary history, passing "An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life. The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. judgement on everything from Bath Chaps to Bath Olivers. It is usually full of all sorts of boring details. This is not an Followed by Weather. autobiography." Produced by Hannah Newton Assistant Producer: Laurence Bassett The story of Roald Dahl's childhood is filled with excitement SAT 00:30 Book of the Week (b09ppwdv) and wonder but also terror and great sadness. We learn of his No Place to Lay One's Head, Episode 5 Food Consultant: Anne Colquhoun experiences at cruel boarding schools, his daring Great Mouse Francoise Frenkel's real life story of flight from Berlin on the Plot, the dangers of Boazers, the pleasure/pain of the local 'night of broken glass'. A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. sweetshop and his time as a chocolate taster. Just some of the marvellous, extraordinary events that no doubt went on to An escape attempt with the 'smuggler' goes wrong. The author inspire his best-selling books. is apprehended and will face a trial in Saint-Julien. Things look SAT 11:00 The Week in Westminster (b09q9yx0) bleak for the future, but again the kindness of strangers will Kate McCann of The Daily Telegraph looks behind the scenes Patrick Malahide provides the voice of Dahl in a colourful prevail.
    [Show full text]
  • Diverse on Screen Talent Directory
    BBC Diverse Presenters The BBC is committed to finding and growing diverse onscreen talent across all channels and platforms. We realise that in order to continue making the BBC feel truly diverse, and improve on where we are at the moment, we need to let you know who’s out there. In this document you will find biographies for just some of the hugely talented people the BBC has already been working with and others who have made their mark elsewhere. It’s the responsibility of every person involved in BBC programme making to ask themselves whether what, and who, they are putting on screen reflects the world around them or just one section of society. If you are in production or development and would like other ideas for diverse presenters across all genres please feel free to get in touch with Mary Fitzpatrick Editorial Executive, Diversity via email: [email protected] Diverse On Screen Talent Directory Presenter Biographies Biographies Ace and Invisible Presenters, 1Xtra Category: 1Xtra Agent: Insanity Artists Agency Limited T: 020 7927 6222 W: www.insanityartists.co.uk 1Xtra's lunchtime DJs Ace and Invisible are on a high - the two 22-year-olds scooped the gold award for Daily Music Show of the Year at the 2004 Sony Radio Academy Awards. It's a just reward for Ace and Invisible, two young south Londoners with high hopes who met whilst studying media at the Brits Performing Arts School in 1996. The 'Lunchtime Trouble Makers' is what they are commonly known as, but for Ace and Invisible it's a story of friendship and determination.
    [Show full text]
  • The Beijing Olympics Political Impact and Implications for Soft Power Politics
    Calhoun: The NPS Institutional Archive DSpace Repository Theses and Dissertations 1. Thesis and Dissertation Collection, all items 2008-12 The Beijing Olympics political impact and implications for soft power politics Granger, Megan M. Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School http://hdl.handle.net/10945/3845 Downloaded from NPS Archive: Calhoun NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA THESIS THE BEIJING OLYMPICS: POLITICAL IMPACT AND IMPLICATIONS FOR SOFT POWER POLITICS by Megan M. Granger December 2008 Thesis Advisor: Alice Miller Second Reader: Robert Weiner Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK REPORT DOCUMENTATION PAGE Form Approved OMB No. 0704-0188 Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instruction, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden, to Washington headquarters Services, Directorate for Information Operations and Reports, 1215 Jefferson Davis Highway, Suite 1204, Arlington, VA 22202-4302, and to the Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project (0704-0188) Washington DC 20503. 1. AGENCY USE ONLY (Leave blank) 2. REPORT DATE 3. REPORT TYPE AND DATES COVERED December 2008 Master’s Thesis 4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE: The Beijing Olympics: Political Impact and 5. FUNDING NUMBERS Implications for Soft Power Politics 6. AUTHOR Megan M. Granger 7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) 8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION Naval Postgraduate School REPORT NUMBER Monterey, CA 93943-5000 9.
    [Show full text]
  • Human Rights in China Homework Booklet
    Human Rights in China Homework Booklet Homework Task One At home try to find 10 items in your house which were made in China. Make a list of these items in your class work jotter. Homework Task Two Imagine you are a prisoner in a Chinese Labour camp. Write a diary entry of what life is like in the camp on a typical day. You can use the information from the booklet to help form your diary entry. You could also use the experiences of Harry Wu to help you. This piece of work should be about a jotter page in length. Homework Task Three Internet Research Task! 1. Find three reasons why the Chinese government implemented the One Child Policy in the 1970’s. 2. Find three problems that the One Child Policy has caused. Complete this task in your jotter. Homework Task Four Read the following article taken from the BBC news website and answer the following questions. You will be expected to discuss your answers in class. Answer questions in full sentences. Arrests at Olympic torch relay Police arrested 35 people when clashes broke out as the Olympic torch was carried on a relay through London on its way to the 2008 games in China. Protesters are upset about the way China rules Tibet, and the way the Chinese Government treats Tibetan people. Some campaigned quietly while others tried to disrupt the torch's journey. Protests continued all day, with someone trying to snatch the torch from former Blue Peter host Konnie Huq. Police changed the route the torch was taking incase of further trouble and at some points it was carried on a bus, instead of by a runner.
    [Show full text]
  • Notes on Torch Relay Coverage
    Esporte e Sociedade ano 4, n 12, Jul.2009/Out.2009 Caught in the Spotlight Whannel CAUGHT IN THE SPOTLIGHT: MEDIA THEMES IN THE BUILD- UP TO THE BEIJING OLYMPIC GAMES Professor Garry Whannel University of Bedfordshire, UK Abstract As the global mega event par excellence, the Olympic Games commands attention around the world not just in the two weeks of the Games themselves but for several months beforehand. This period of months before the Games begin is often a challenging one for the press office of the Organising Committee. In the case of the Beijing Olympic Games, the torch relay and associated protests made headlines around the world. The formation of the news agenda, the processes of gatekeeping, agenda setting, framing and constructing the news a complex process in which power and influence is unevenly distributed. Clearly though news is the site of a continuing struggle over meaning, perspective and interpretation. Through an analysis of media representation of the events surrounding the torch relay, this paper explores the ways in which key social actors compete in the media to try and ensure that their interpretive frames become the dominant ones. 1 Esporte e Sociedade ano 4, n 12, Jul.2009/Out.2009 Caught in the Spotlight Whannel “The Modern Olympic Games symbolize the struggle between man’s ideals and the reality within which he must live”. Richard Espy1 The torch took about a year to design to the specifications that would keep it burning on its varied journey around the world, said David Hill, vice president of corporate identity and design for Lenovo, the computer manufacturing firm that designed the torch and a main sponsor of the torch relay.
    [Show full text]
  • Konnie & Dr Rupa
    I Wish I Was An Only Child – Konnie & Dr Rupa Huq [Guitar and flute music] RACHEL MASON: Welcome to I Wish I Was An Only Child, with me, Rachel Mason – CATHY MASON: And me, Cathy Mason. RACHEL: Where we speak to other siblings about the dynamic of their relationship to see where we’re going wrong. CATHY: This week, we spoke to presenter, screenwriter, and children’s author Konnie Huq. RACHEL: And her sister, Labour MP, columnist, and academic Dr Rupa Huq. [Flute sounds] RACHEL: Welcome! Hello! CATHY: Welcome! RACHEL: Thank you for doing this. Thank you for chatting to us. CATHY: Thank you, thank you, thank you. The question we ask everybody at the beginning: who’s the funniest? KONNIE HUQ: Oh, definitely her. DR RUPA HUQ: I would say actually her. Her? Which is – 1 KONNIE: This is the thing – you know what? RUPA: This is exactly what it is. KONNIE: We’re a different type of funny. I’d say you’re sort of more dry and acerbic, and I’m just warm and funny. [laughs] No, I don’t know. RUPA: Funny peculiar, I win that one. KONNIE: You can judge throughout this podcast. RUPA: Yeah, yeah. KONNIE: By the end of it, you’ll go, ‘my gosh, Konnie is so unfunny! It’s definitely Rupa that wins.’ RUPA: No, you’ll be in hoots of laughter. RACHEL: So – so – we should give it some context that there’s three years between you. Three years’ age difference, right? And you’ve got – there’s a third sibling, Newton, yes? Who’s the oldest.
    [Show full text]
  • British Film Institute
    British Telephone Film Institute +44 (0)20 7255 1444 Annual Review 21 Stephen Street Facsimile British 2000/2001 London +44 (0)20 7436 0439 W1T 1LN Email Film Institute UK [email protected] Website www.bfi.org.uk April 2000 May 2000 June 2000 July 2000 August 2000 September 2000 October 2000 November 2000 December 2000 January 2001 February 2001 March 2001 14th London Lesbian and Silent Shakespeare International Federation bfi DVD release: Man with NFT seasons on Marcello bfi TV 100, list of favourite bfi Theatrical Release: Some The 44th bfi Regus London December bfi website Successful launch of the Joseph Losey’s M (1951) John Cassavetes season Gay Film Festival (LLGFF) compilation released of Film Archives (FIAF) a Movie Camera the first Mastroianni, the Olympics British television Like It Hot (sponsored by Film Festival (RLFF) formally accepted as part bfi Avant Garde video series restored and now available at the NFT on DVD in US Congress at NFT and the picture disk DVD released and films linked to Citizen programmes announced Accenture) and Salò of the National Grid for Sergio Leone season at NFT J Paul Getty Conservation in the UK Kane First screening of the silent Learning Robert Altman receives the Re-release of Breakfast The Tongues on Fire Online purchase of Sight Centre Overseas bookings were Restoration of Paul Czinner’s film Lady Windermere’s Fan 52nd bfi fellowship at Tiffany’s (sponsored by Asian Women’s Film Festival John Hurt Guardian Interview and Sound magazine set up Acquired the ground-breaking Lambeth Education
    [Show full text]
  • Thanks for Life – End Polio
    ROTARY IN LONDON COMMUNICATIONS NEWSLETTER THANKS FOR LIFE EDITION - FEBRUARY 2010 EVE CONWAY, COMMUNICATIONS CHAIRMAN Thanks for Life – Rotary Day on 23rd February Thanks for Life week is nearly upon us and hopefully clubs have all of their preparations in place by now including a Window of Opportunity and arrangements for collection and membership initiatives at the 13 designated Tesco stores and the local branch of Sainsbury’s. Please make sure that your local media have been informed in advance of everything that you are planning to do so that PR coverage can be maximized. If you haven’t seen the excellent video of the November sub national immunization days involving 86 Rotarians and fronted by TV Presenter Konnie Huq, it has now been put onto YouTube. You can access both parts of it via the Thanks for Life website by ctrl+clicking here and following the links or you can go to:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZp1VNr44Bw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qFQiIdhgmE&feature=related It really is well worth watching especially to put you in the right mindset for Thanks for Life week. Thanks for Life – End Polio Now ROTARY DAY - Thanks for Life Day is on Rotary’s 105th birthday on 23rd February, 2010 and it really is crucial for clubs to finalize their plans for this vitally important initiative. It is, of course, a tremendous opportunity to combine fundraising for polio eradication and membership recruitment. For those clubs who have been given the opportunity to collect outside 13 Tesco’s stores in the London district on 27th February, please try to ensure that these arrangements include having the facility of an information point manned by a separate Membership Awareness team who are additional to your collectors.
    [Show full text]