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[Independent Weekly: Progressive news, culture & commentary for Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill & Cary] 2010 capsule film reviews | Full Frame Documentary Film Festival ...: The Darkness of Day The Darkness of Day—(U.S., 26 min.) This unsettling meditation on suicide begins with a brief bit of text about Director Jay Rosenblatt's last session with his deceptively upbeat massage therapist: "The next day she drove to the Marin Headlands, pulled her car over to side of the road, and jumped off a cliff." The seemingly flip tone of the intro and the found footage from old, often cheesy educational footage of which the film is constructed, contrast jarringly with the agonized journal entries, read in voice-over, of a man who killed himself. The film strikes a tricky balance between seriousness and silliness, not always successfully, but it's working with powerful material, and the words and images linger.

[For Style & Elegance] India Art For Style & Elegance: Forster's mysterious tale of British racism in colonial India turned out to be master director David Lean's final film. Subtle and grand at the same time, Lean's adaptation is faithful to the book, rendering its blend of the mystical and the all-too human with exquisite precision.

[Japan Veg Guide - Tokyo Restaurants] Japan Veg Guide - Tokyo Restaurants - Zakuro: Food: Iranian, Persian, Turkish and Uzbekistan style food (in other words, Parsi, so very similar to Indian food). They do speak English and understand the idea of vegetarian.

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news] Israel's Bellicose Threats Against Iran | Mostly Water: The simple truth is that there is no way to prevent the Iranians from acquiring a nuclear bomb. Better to think seriously about the situation that would be created: a balance of terror like the one between India and Pakistan, the elevation of Iran to the rank of a regional power, the need to start a sober dialogue with it.

[Mondoweiss] A 'constellation of Jewish groups' (J Street to David Project ...: For the former consists of making a personal choice of boycotting Israeli products and opposing its policies, which is, at most a symbolic resistance to its blatant violations of law, while the latter is the collective imprisonment and subjection of an entire population to the rule of a military regime, which intrudes upon and directs each and every aspect of Gazan life.

[Wall Decor, Paintings, Prints & Framing] Chinese Oriental | Wall Decor, Paintings, Prints & Framing: and added to the section that offers over 50 recipes for making delicious salads (Chinese Hot Salad), salad dressings (Lemon and Green Onion Dressing), soups (Basic Western Style Greens Soup), pickles (Pickled Mushroom Stems), and other dishes using the vegetables featured in the first section (Azuki Bean Risotto with Watercress and Grilled Tofu, Creamy Artichoke Soup, Duck with Mustard Leaves and Pasta, etc.). The helpful appendices include a glossary of gardening terms, a season/month conversion chart, a growing information chart, plant names, gardening organizations and seed suppliers in the U.S.

[The Race for Iran] IS ANOTHER ISRAEL-IRAN “PROXY WAR” LOOMING? « The Race for Iran: But all-out war in the Levant during the next several months is a high-risk and potentially high-cost option for Israel.  Consequently, Israel may have adopted a more aggressive posture toward Lebanon and Gaza with the aim of bolstering what Israeli military commanders like to describe as their country’s deterrent edge.  Current and former senior Israeli military officers tell us that, in the view of the Israeli security establishment, Israel’s military initiatives in Lebanon in 2006 and Gaza in 2008-09””along with its 2007 air attack on an alleged nuclear facility in Syria””actually “worked”.  As Nasrallah himself acknowledges, the Israeli-Lebanese border has been quiet since 2006.  Furthermore, since the 2008-09 Gaza war, HAMAS has been substantially observing a ceasefire with Israel.  Against this backdrop, the Israeli security establishment””now with the backing of the decidedly right-leaning Netanyahu government””may well calculate that a more aggressive day-to-day posture toward Hizballah, HAMAS, and Syria could extend the deterrent benefits of the Israeli military’s most recent engagements. 

[AZ Palmtree .com] Oriental Design Rug: Ford is to be congratulated on having produced a work that should stand the test of time.”—Carpet Review WeeklyIn this comprehensive survey, P. Ford shows readers how to recognize the different structural and design features of oriental rugs and carpets.

[khanfactor.com] khanfactor.com » “Hold Me Back!” - Israel's Bellicose Threats ...: The simple truth is that there is no way to prevent the Iranians from acquiring a nuclear bomb. Better to think seriously about the situation that would be created: a balance of terror like the one between India and Pakistan, the elevation of Iran to the rank of a regional power, the need to start a sober dialogue with it.

[Best Travel Writing - Blog] Best Travel Writing - Blog » Blog Archive » Travel Memoir Gold ...: There was no electricity and the first thing you saw getting off the bus was the rosy glow of kerosene lanterns showing off the fruit of the local vendors in the brown, one-story buildings they occupied down the main dried-mud thoroughfare - you wouldn’t call it a street.  Small piles of oranges carefully arranged like a pyramid of precious gems sat in the shops.  The lanterns put out the thinnest beams of shaky light so if you were walking down the street into the darkness and you would hear a clip clopping sound coming closer to you - and a small flickering pin prick of light approached - you knew that you would have to jump out of its way: it was a donkey cart headed right at you, and the driver sitting on top of its small bucket with its kerosene lamp certainly couldn’t see you in the thick, pitch-black air. You might be able to smell them, donkey and driver, if the breeze was right, dung laced wind blowing up your nose, but that was about all.

[The Oriental Rug Blog] Chinese Oriental Rugs: When Teddy Sumner of Michaelian and Kohlberg took control of his family’s business as a young man in 1982, he was too naive to be intimidated by the prospect of manufacturing Oriental rugs. After watching European-style needlepoint carpets, which his grandfather Frank Michaelian had produced in China beginning in 1917, sell at auction for giant prices, Teddy Sumner began a new production of needlepoint rugs in China.

[Rug Rag] How Can I Tell if my Rug is an Oriental Rug or Other? Oriental Rug ...: IN GENERAL: Although newer hand knotted rugs have incorporated highlights of synthetic materials such as artificial silk, and machine made rugs can also be made of wool, if the seller states the PILE of the rug is made of: rayon, viscose, nylon, polypropylene, mercerized cotton or any other material, it probably is a machine made rug with exception to certain genres of carpets such as coarser quality Turkish pieces, and various Chinese carpets. For additional information, read on. 

[OnStartups] 5 Startup Sales Tips From Turkish Rug Dealers: I was very impressed with the amount of time various dealers spent with Kirsten educating her on the various types of rugs, their histories and the regions from which they came. Of course, it shouldn't be surprising that these dealers would try to sell their wares, and it would be easy to dismiss their efforts as not much more than a form of selling. 

[Enduring America] “Iran at a Crossroads”: Scott Lucas Speaks in Washington ...: I believe the focus must be on those Iranians who are in solitary confinement right now, those who are being wasted away in jail or in hiding, and those who live in fear, those who have lost their loved ones, those who have no jobs and no hope, those cannot feed their families, or those university students who have been expelled from school, etc, etc. I follow their queues.

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