Everyday on the CitizenTube channel (and @CitizenTube on Twitter), along with our curation partners @storyful , we look at how the top news stories are covered on YouTube. Each week we post a weekly recap of the top news stories of the week, as seen through the lens of both citizen-reported footage and professional news coverage. We witnessed devastating scenes from Afghanistan, as 16 civilians were… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Broadcasting Ourselves Discovery Date : 16/03/2012 17:08 Number of articles : 2
Everyday on the CitizenTube channel (and @CitizenTube on Twitter), along with our curation partners @storyful , we look at how the top news stories are covered on YouTube. Each week we post a weekly recap of the top news stories of the week, as seen through the lens of both citizen-reported footage and professional news coverage. We saw record flooding in New South Wales and Northern Victoria force… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Broadcasting Ourselves Discovery Date : 08/03/2012 19:15 Number of articles : 2
Congrats to the Taviani Bros. ( who? ), the inveterate sibling filmmakers whose Shakespeare-in-prison semi-doc Caesar Must Die has claimed the top prize at this year’s Berlinale. Stephanie Zacharek has more about the Golden Bear winner in her review from Berlin — along with more about Barbara , whose own helmer, Christian Petzold, won the festival’s Best Director award. ( Tabu and Sister nabbed hardware as well.) As Stephanie predicted, Caesar Must Die secured U.S. distribution in this week in Berlin and will be Stateside later this year; stay tuned to Movieline for details about how and when you can see it, and read on for the complete list of winners. Congrats to all! GOLDEN BEAR FOR THE BEST FILM Cesare deve morire (Caesar Must Die) by Paolo & Vittorio Taviani JURY GRAND PRIX-SILVER BEAR Csak a szél (Just The Wind) by Bence Fliegauf SILVER BEAR FOR BEST DIRECTOR Christian Petzold for Barbara (Barbara) SILVER BEAR FOR BEST ACTRESS Rachel Mwanza in Rebelle (War Witch) by Kim Nguyen SILVER BEAR FOR BEST ACTOR Mikkel Boe Følsgaard in En Kongelig Affære (A Royal Affair) by Nikolaj Arcel SILVER BEAR FOR AN OUTSTANDING ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTION Lutz Reitemeier for the photography in Bai lu yuan (White Deer Plain) by Wang Quan’an SILVER BEAR FOR THE BEST SCRIPT Nikolaj Arcel, Rasmus Heisterberg for En Kongelig Affære (A Royal Affair) by Nikolaj Arcel ALFRED BAUER PRIZE, awarded in memory of the Festival founder, for a work of particular innovation: Tabu by Miguel Gomes SPECIAL PRIZE-SILVER BEAR L’enfant d’en haut (Sister) by Ursula Meier BEST FIRST FEATURE AWARD, endowed with 50,000 Euros, funded by GWFF Kauwboy Kauwboy by Boudewijn Koole (Generation Kplus) SPECIAL MENTION Tepenin Ardı Beyond the Hill by Emin Alper (Forum) PRIZES OF THE INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM JURY GOLDEN BEAR Rafa by João Salaviza THE JURY PRIZE – SILVER BEAR Gurehto Rabitto The Great Rabbit by Atsushi Wada SPECIAL MENTION Licuri Surf Licuri Surf by Guile Martins EFA SHORT FILM NOMINEE BERLIN Vilaine Fille Mauvais Garçon Two Ships by Justine Triet DAAD SHORT FILM PRIZE: The Man that Got Away The Man that Got Away by Trevor Anderson PRIZES OF THE JURIES GENERATION Children’s Jury Generation Kplus CRYSTAL BEAR FOR THE BEST FILM: Arcadia by Olivia Silver SPECIAL MENTION: Just Pretended To Hear by Kaori Imaizumi CRYSTAL BEAR FOR THE BEST SHORT FILM: Julian by Matthew Moore SPECIAL MENTION: BINO by Billie Pleffer Youth Jury Generation 14 plus, CRYSTAL BEAR FOR THE BEST FILM: Night of Silence by Reis Çelik SPECIAL MENTION Kronjuvelerna The Crown Jewels by Ella Lemhagen CRYSTAL BEAR FOR THE BEST SHORT FILM: Meathead Meathead by Sam Holst SPECIAL MENTION 663114 by Isamu Hirabayashi International Jury Generation Kplus THE GRAND PRIX OF THE DEUTSCHES KINDERHILFSWERK FOR THE BEST FILM: Kauwboy Kauwboy by Boudewijn Koole SPECIAL MENTION: GATTU by Rajan Khosa THE SPECIAL PRIZE OF THE DEUTSCHES KINDERHILFSWERK FOR THE BEST SHORT FILM: BINO by Billie Pleffer SPECIAL MENTION: L by Thais Fujinaga Competition Panorama Forum Cesare deve morire (Caesar Must Die), by Paolo & Vittorio Taviani Rebelle (War Witch), by Kim Nguyen Die Wand (The Wall), by Julian Roman Pölsler Parada (The Parade), by Srdjan Dragojevic La demora (The Delay), by Rodrigo Plá Tabu (Tabu), by Miguel Gomes L’âge atomique (Atomic Age), by Héléna Klotz Hemel (Hemel), by Sacha Polak PRIZE OF THE GUILD OF GERMAN ART HOUSE CINEMAS: À moi seule (Coming Home), by Frédéric Videau C.I.C.A.E. PRIZE: Death For Sale (Death for Sale), by Faouzi Bensaïdi Forum Kazoku no kuni (Our Homeland), by Yang Yonghi LABEL EUROPA CINEMAS: My Brother The Devil (My Brother The Devil), by Sally El Hosaini Special Mention: Dollhouse (Dollhouse), by Kirsten Sheridan TEDDY AWARDS Keep The Lights On (Keep The Lights On), by Ira Sachs Call Me Kuchu (Call Me Kuchu), by Malika Zouhali-Worrall, Katherine Fairfax Wright Loxoro (Loxoro), by Claudia Llosa Jaurés (Jaurés), by Vincent Dieutre INDEPENDENT JURIES PRIZES OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY MADE IN GERMANY – PERSPEKTIVE FELLOWSHIP, endowed with 15,000 Euros, funded by Glashütte Original Annekatrin Hendel for Disko (Disco) DIALOGUE EN PERSPECTIVE, funded by the German-French Youth Office This Ain’t California (This Ain’t California), by Marten Persiel CALIGARI FILM PRIZE Tepenin Ardı (Beyond the Hill), by Emin Alper Special Mentions Bagrut Lochamim (Soldier / Citizen), by Silvina Landsmann Escuela normal (Normal School), by Celina Murga Jaurès (Jaurès), by Vincent Dieutre NETPAC PRIZE Paziraie Sadeh (Modest Reception), by Mani Haghighi PEACE FILM AWARD Csak a szél (Just The Wind), by Bence Fliegauf AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL FILM PRIZE Csak a szél (Just The Wind), by Bence Fliegauf CINEMA FAIRBINDET PRIZE Call Me Kuchu (Call Me Kuchu), by Malika Zouhali-Worrall, Katherine Fairfax Wright READERS’ JURIES AND AUDIENCE AWARDS Panorama Audience Award PPP – fiction film: Parada (The Parade), by Srdjan Dragojevic Panorama Audience Award PPP – documentary film: Marina Abramovic The Artist is Present (Marina Abramovic The Artist is Present), by Matthew Akers BERLINER MORGENPOST READERS’ PRIZE Barbara (Barbara), by Christian Petzold TAGESSPIEGEL READERS’ PRIZE La demora (The Delay), by Rodrigo Plá SIEGESSÄULE READERS’ AWARD Parada (The Parade), by Srdjan Dragojevic Special Mention Call Me Kuchu (Call Me Kuchu), by Malika Zouhali-Worrall, Katherine Fairfax Wright PRIZE OF THE BERLINALE TALENT CAMPUS SCORE COMPETITION Christoph Fleischmann (Germany) BERLIN TODAY AWARD Rafael Balulu (Israel) for Batman At The Checkpoint (Batman At The Checkpoint) Special Mention David Lalé (United Kingdom) for White Lobster (White Lobster) [via Deadline ]
So we’ve already established that The Artist is going to pretty much dominate next month’s Academy Awards — a certainty that we’ve seen reflected in the behavior of certain awards-season foes who’ve taken aim at the silent film’s ubiquitous wonder dog Uggie. Christopher Plummer led the offensive last week on behalf of his Beginners co-star (and Uggie’s fellow Jack Russell terrier) Cosmo, joined over the weekend by an unlikely ally hoping to raise another dog’s profile as we sleepwalk toward Oscar. Martin Scorsese — yes, the Martin Scorsese, master filmmaker and current Best Director nominee for Hugo — put his name on a cheeky L.A. Times op-ed asking viewers, voters and especially the organizers of the inaugural Golden Collar Awards to consider his film’s fierce Doberman, Blackie. It’s all kind of priceless: OK, let’s lay all our cards on the table. Jack Russell terriers are small and cute. Dobermans are enormous and — handsome. More tellingly, Uggie plays a nice little mascot who does tricks and saves his master’s life in one of the films, while Blackie gives an uncompromising performance as a ferocious guard dog who terrorizes children. I’m sure you can see what I’m driving at. I’m proud of Blackie, who laid it on the line and dared to risk the sympathy of her audience. Let’s just say that on the set, she had a fitting nickname: Citizen Canine. The bath scene alone is a masterpiece of underplaying, with Blackie’s wonderfully aquiline face accentuated by the 3-D. Ohhhh, boy. You really need to read the whole thing, for both a refreshing glimpse at Scorsese’s sense of humor and a bracing example of how dogs — dogs! — have politicized this year’s awards race. Dog News Daily has agreed to add Blackie to its Golden Collar nominees if she receives 500 write-in endorsements today on Facebook. I mean, come on . Blackie is fantastic and all, but Uggie’s 10,000 fans on Facebook say all anyone needs to know about the year’s most formidable four-legged awards contender. Oh, right: Did I mention that Movieline’s Consider Uggie campaign has eclipsed 10,000 supporters worldwide since its launch two months ago? It’s true! With a little less than 30 days remaining before the Academy Awards, we’re on pace for around 15,000 Uggieheads by the big night. I’d hoped for something a little closer to 20,000, so if you haven’t yet joined up, please consider heading over to Consider Uggie HQ and giving our boy a little boost. Tell your friends on Twitter to #ConsiderUggie as well, and continue keeping track of everything he’s up to via Facebook and/or Uggie’s own Twitter page ( @Uggie_TheArtist ). Or as always, keep on eye on Movieline for all your Consider Uggie news and to learn about the next great director to fire across Uggie’s bow. Go ahead, Terrence Malick, I dare you.
Filmography Drama Year Title Role Network 2002 Let#39;s Go SBS 2003 Screen Kim So-hyun SBS A Problem At My Younger Brother#39;s House Park Su-jin SBS Stairway to Heaven Han Yoo-ri SBS 2004 Forbidden Love Yoon Shi-yeon KBS Love Story in Harvard Lee Soo-in SBS 2009 Iris Choi Seung-hee KBS2 2011 My Princess Lee Seol MBC Film Year Title Role 2001 Last Present (short appearance) Young Jung-yeon 2002 New Citizen (short film) 2006 The Restless So-hwa/Yon-hwa 2007 Ve
Taxes Are For the Little People. (KC Citizen) Yesterday, we learned that Claire McCaskill failed to pay over $280,000 on her private plane. Today we found out more… Claire McCaskill registered her plane in Delaware, where no taxes are imposed. … Continue reading → Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Gateway Pundit Discovery Date : 23/03/2011 04:33 Number of articles : 2
The so-called DREAM Act would create an official path to Democratic voter registration for an estimated two million college-age illegal aliens. Look past the public relations-savvy stories of “undocumented” valedictorians left out in the cold. This is not about protecting “children.” It's about preserving electoral power through cap-and-gown amnesty. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced this week that he's attaching the DREAM Act to the defense authorization bill. With ethnic activists breathing down his neck and President Obama pushing to fulfill his campaign promise to Hispanics, Reid wants his queasy colleagues to vote on the legislation next week. Open-borders lawmakers have tried and failed to pass the DREAM Act through regular channels for the past decade. That's because informed voters know giving green cards to illegal alien students undermines the rule of law, creates more illegal immigration incentives and grants preferential treatment to illegal alien students over law-abiding native and naturalized American students struggling to get an education in tough economic times. This bad idea is compounded by a companion proposal to recruit more illegal aliens into the military with the lure of citizenship (a fraud-ridden and reckless practice countenanced under the Bush administration). DREAM Act lobbyists are spotlighting heart-wrenching stories of high-achieving teens brought to this country when they were toddlers. But instead of arguing for case-by-case dispensations, the protesters want blanket pardons. The broadly drafted Senate bill would confer benefits on applicants up to age 35, and the House bill contains no age ceiling at all. The academic achievement requirements are minimal. Moreover, illegal aliens who didn't arrive in the country until they turned 15 — after they laid down significant roots in their home country — would be eligible for DREAM Act benefits and eventual U.S. citizenship. And like past amnesty packages, the Democratic plan is devoid of any concrete eligibility and enforcement mechanisms to deter already-rampant immigration benefit fraud. The DREAM Act sponsors have long fought to sabotage a clearly worded provision in the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) that states: “Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an alien who is not lawfully present in the United States shall not be eligible on the basis of residence within a State (or a political subdivision) for any postsecondary education benefit unless a citizen or national of the United States is eligible for such a benefit (in no less an amount, duration, and scope) without regard to whether the citizen or national is such a resident.” Ten states defied that federal law and offered DREAM Act-style tuition preference to illegal aliens: California, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and Washington. The last time DREAM Act champions tried to tack their scheme onto a larger immigration proposal, they snuck in language that would absolve those 10 states of their law-breaking by repealing the 1996 law retroactively — and also offering the special path to green cards and citizenship for illegal alien students. Despite the obvious electoral advantage this plan would give Democrats, several pro-illegal alien amnesty Republicans crossed the aisle to support the DREAM Act, including double-talking Sens. John McCain, Richard Lugar, Bob Bennett, Sam Brownback, Norm Coleman, Susan Collins, Larry Craig, Chuck Hagel, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Mel Martinez and Olympia Snowe, as well as presidential candidate Mike Huckabee (who champions even greater illegal alien student benefits than those proposed by Democrats). After paying lip service to securing the borders, McCain promised DREAM Act demonstrators this week that he supported the bill and would work to “resolve their issues.” Out-of-touch polls might want to pay attention to the world outside their bubble. A recent Quinnipiac University poll shows that Americans across the political spectrum favor tougher enforcement of existing immigration laws over rolling out the amnesty welcome wagon. When asked, “Do you think immigration reform should primarily move in the direction of integrating illegal immigrants into American society or in the direction of stricter enforcement of laws against illegal immigration?” solid majorities of registered Republicans, Democrats and independents chose stricter enforcement over greater integration of the illegal alien population. Democrats outside the Beltway have grown increasingly averse to signing on to illegal alien incentives — especially as the Obama jobs death toll mounts and economic confidence plummets. Here in Colorado, a handful of Democrats joined Republican lawyers to kill a state-level DREAM Act amid massive higher education budget cuts and a bipartisan voter backlash. Asked why she opposed the illegal alien student bailout, one Democratic lawmaker said quite simply: “I listened to my constituents.” An alien concept in Washington, to be sure. http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=1170564 added by: ReverandG
Today marks the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr's, “I Have A Dream Speech.” But that isn't really what concerns those gathering in Washington Dc today. What concerns them is that they are for the most part angry white people looking to even the score for what they see as being stuck with a black president. That is my view based on my observations and their own words as the crux of this so called rally put together by Fox and their poster child for dramatics, Glenn Beck. If you have any sort of knowledge of him, you will know that he is clearly an entertainer out to make money from his antics. And yet, Conservatives (and I use that word loosely because today's Conservatives are nothing like the real Conservatives of old) in droves flock to hear him toting their rifles and tea bag laden straw hats in an attempt to regain something they never had in the first place: honor. A group of people who supported stolen elections, illegal wars, wiretapping, torture, and the slow and steady degradation of the very constitution they claim to hold so very dear to their hearts… all while secretly fuming at those who they think have gotten all the breaks over them since the Civil Rights Act was passed. So they will show up in DC today to use our military (you know, the military they support so much as they watch them being sent to a war for oil while yelling Drill Baby Drill) with the secret corporate backing they got to spread their subtle message at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial where MLK jr. stood all those years ago to truly speak of justice, peace, and equality. Imagine that then we got him, now we get Sarah Palin daring to stand on those steps after just supporting the N word being shouted on Dr. Laura's radio rant trying to make us believe she has a connection at all to the Civil Rights Movement. We truly have gone through the looking glass. Now, I find their rally to be stomach turning and a clear slap in the face to the many Americans who suffered the inhumanities that come with standing up for what you believe in. And yet, this is America, a country where even one who makes your blood boil and your stomach turn has the right to spout their hatred and false concern, which is what makes it such a great country. So I got to thinking; if Glenn Beck and his brigade of Grisly Mamas with a Grudge can invade Washington DC with their foolery, why can't I as a citizen get a permit and march up the stairs of the Lincoln Memorial to talk about something that truly is urgent: the continued sustainability of our planet and our species. That is truly the stuff of what a moral movement is about. And actually, he is no more important than I or any other citizen. This is America, right? So it's all settled. I am going to apply for a permit for a climate march up Pennsylvania Avenue to the stairs of the Lincoln Memorial to announce the start of the Climate Changers Movement. And the time will be spent actually disseminating information to inform and educate people about the dangers of climate change noting the real science that backs it up and not what you hear from weathermen on Sean Hannity's decrepid TV show, and what we and our Congress must do to provide a future for our children and ourselves. And I'm sure these same Conservatives would show up to that one, right? I mean after all, it is about social equality, peace, and supporting our military, because clean energy gets us off the oil that kills them in the Middle Eastern sands. Right?… uh huh. Al Gore mentioned just a couple of weeks ago that this is the movement we need, and I agree wholeheartedly. However, it seems that people are either afraid to really move on this or aren't being heard, and we don't have time to lose. So then we will have to fight fire with fire. We then need to get permit after permit after permit and continue to march, and speak, and show, and warn, and repeat, repeat, repeat the message just like they do. And I”m serious about this and am ready to take it on. So Mr. Gore if you read this, I'm here! I will write more after I know more about the planning for this, because as a citizen of this country and of the world and seeing where it is heading I can no longer abide the airwaves being taken over by inconsiderate, hypocritical, apathetic, selfish people whose only concern is their own lives over the whole. And that is all we have been getting 24/7 on our airwaves and on the Internet. It is time to change the station and for the serious people to be heard. We must move this country forward to seeing what every other country sees: that the climate crisis is a clear and present danger and threat to our health, our safety, our democracy, and our very lives and has no political, social, economic, or sexual preference. The environment is what makes our lives liveable and without it, those who stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial today who have also trashed the fact that humans actually have an impact on their planet will see their words come back to them in ways they couldn't have imagined. So they need to be educated and what better way to do so than by exercising my right as well to freedom of speech, assembly, and expression, and for a cause that I would be willing to sacrifice for. It sure will beat the caricature dramatics we have seen of late that have distracted from these very important issues we must discuss to secure a clean safe future for our children. added by: JanforGore
Buckminster Fuller made his Dymaxion houses round because they were aerodynamic and because a circular house encloses more floor area for a given amount of perimeter material. According to the Ottawa Citizen , people are still doing it, for much the same reasons. But instead of aluminum, Laurie Murray and George Kerr built theirs out of cordwood, a very old fashioned form of construction where one takes foot thick slabs of wood laid on their sides…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
