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All of which raises questions about whether Mr. Rukun, his family and the films’ dozens of anonymous crew members, all Indonesians still living in their homeland, remain safe.
The crew member was speaking through Skype, the video disabled, from the home he shares with his family, Indonesia’s most populous island. He still takes precautions to shield his identity. He never ventures to North Sumatra, 1,000 miles away, where both documentaries were filmed, and steers clear of screenings and in-person interviews as well as any place where the paramilitary might surface.
Protecting Mr. Rukun — who could not be reached for an interview — and his family from potential harm was another matter. Six months before “The Look of Silence” was released, Mr. Oppenheimer and his crew met the Rukun family in Thailand to discuss how to keep them safe. There was talk of moving them to Europe for a few years, but the Rukuns did not want to leave Indonesia. Mr. Oppenheimer suggested delaying the film’s release until the perpetrators had died.
“The family said, ‘This needs to come out now,’ ” Mr. Oppenheimer recalled.
So far, Mr. Oppenheimer said, no threats have come.
Part of the reason might be the rapturous reception that met the “The Look of Silence” in a country where up until a year and a half ago, official denial about the massacres seemed unshakable. “The Act of Killing” had had an underground release in the country, via closed screenings. Publicly mentioning the film carried risk; a newspaper editor was physically attacked for writing about it and naming the Pancasila Youth, the paramilitary group that led the killings.
The Oscar nomination, however, gave “The Act of Killing” validation and moral heft, paving the way for the very public Indonesian premiere in November of “The Look of Silence,” which was advertised on Jakarta billboards and drew thousands. When Mr. Rukun showed up unannounced afterward, the crowds gave him a 10-minute standing ovation.
In a way, Mr. Rukun’s family tragedy was the catalyst for both films. Mr. Oppenheimer, an American then living in London (and now in Denmark), first visited Indonesia 14 years ago to help plantation workers dying of a chemical herbicide film their efforts to unionize. After the company hired the Pancasila Youth to menace the workers, Mr. Oppenheimer said, they swiftly dropped their demands. But haltingly, they began telling him of the grisly murders and disappearances that the paramilitary group had carried out decades before. “I realized what was killing my friends was not just poison, but fear,” Mr. Oppenheimer said.
The workers also spoke of a man named Ramli, who was among the few victims in the region whose bodies had been found. Shortly after Mr. Oppenheimer met Ramli’s family, the Rukuns, the army silenced the other survivors, whereupon Adi Rukun, he said, urged him to try to film the perpetrators.
Mr. Oppenheimer began doing so and was dumbfounded by their braggadocio. In 2004, two older former regional paramilitary leaders led him to a river to show, in enthusiastic detail, how they carved up their victims and even drank their blood — an act they believed would stave off insanity. Mr. Oppenheimer said the episode, which appears in “The Look of Silence,” was the inspiration for both films.
After watching the raw footage, Mr. Rukun wanted to meet his brother’s killers. Mr. Oppenheimer said that he initially refused, citing the obvious dangers, but that Mr. Rukun pressed him. The crew accurately predicted that filming the paramilitary’s highest-echelon leaders in the first documentary would provide cover for the second one: The lower-ranking regional members interviewed in “The Look of Silence” believed that Mr. Oppenheimer was friends with their powerful higher-ups.
The aftermath of both films is still unfolding. Aware of their populist appeal, the politician Joko Widodo vowed in his presidential campaign to improve the country’s human rights record. He went on to win, although Amnesty International said rampant abuses continued. Major news publications have called for the government to face the past. In March, the film was screened at a military headquarters.
A man's appeared in court on a hoax bomb charge after a road in Bitterne Park was sealed off because of a suspicious device.
41-year-old Pascal Knorr-Gulde from Bond Road, Southampton, was charged with one count of bomb hoax, placing an article with intent.
He was appeared at Southampton Magistrates Court this morning (Friday, May 16) and denied the charge.
He was told he will face trial in June and was remanded in custody.
A 62-year-old woman from Southampton arrested in connection with this investigation has been bailed until June 10, pending further enquiries.
Specialist officers and the Royal Navy bomb squad were called to Manor Farm Road just before 9.40am on Wednesday 14 May.
A 100 metre cordon was put in place to allow officers to investigate and neighbouring properties were evacuated.
Microsoft wants you to know that even as you read this article, "people around the world are hunting for vulnerabilities in software applications."
To help thwart such efforts, Microsoft this week announced a new mitigation security utility for application developers and IT professionals. The Enhanced Mitigation Evaluation Toolkit (EMET), currently at Version 1.0.2, is conceived as an "extensible framework" that will include future mitigation technologies as they are released, according to a Microsoft blog.
This EMET release contains just four mitigations: dynamic data execution prevention, heap spray allocation, NULL page allocation and structured exception handing. EMET users can opt into these mitigations for their applications by using the command line in the utility. Users don't have to have to recompile their applications after using the tool, according to the blog.
EMET is the latest component in Microsoft's overall Security Development Lifecycle strategy. It allows developers to write security into applications at a more granular or "command-line" level. Thus, instead of securing an entire application, programmers can code security parameters into a single process.
Security mavens like the idea of going deep into the anatomy of an application rather than just relying on anti-virus software or operating system security functions. For instance, Phil Lieberman, president of Lieberman Software, called EMET "a good value-add for Microsoft ISVs [independent software vendors]."
EMET allows Windows enterprise pros to "harden their applications for free," which is "always a good price," Lieberman said.
"This adds an extra post-production step that allows ISVs to make it much harder for hackers to exploit their applications," he added. "The extra post-production step hardens the rules for memory usage (finer grained protection) and also strengthens the exception mechanisms."
As hackers begin to focus more on specific applications, developers have begun to pay more attention to embedded security. EMET is worth a try in the face of server attacks, automated bugs, browser attacks and stack-buffer overflow exploits, according to Andrew Storms.
"Every third-party partner, application developer or part time coder should at least consider checking out the new EMET from Microsoft," said Storms, director of security at nCircle. "The toolkit makes it even easier to utilize the newest security enhancement mitigations built into the newer Microsoft operating systems."
EMET Version 1.0.2 can be accessed at the Microsoft Download Center here.
Former Cabletron exec tees off on digital golf course.
Maybe the hermits in Wyoming cabins are right. Technology is antisocial.
Arjun Tendulkar instigated a middle-order collapse for Delhi as they pursued a first innings total of 453 posted by Mumbai.
Arjun Tendulkar is again back in the spotlight for a fine bowling performance. This time around, he picked a five-wicket haul for Mumbai U-19 against Delhi in a Cooch Behar Trophy fixture at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium, New Delhi. Arjun, 19, son of cricketing icon Sachin Tendulkar, didn't quite perform well with the new ball but ensured a middle-order collapse for Delhi, who went from 274/2 to 346/9. At the end of day's play, Delhi had reached 394/9 in 130 overs. Arjun's final figures were 5/98 in 29 overs.
For Delhi, Gagan Vats scored a century and Priyansh Arya made 152, as the hosts tried to narrow the gap between them and Mumbai's first-innings total of 453. Tendulkar's wickets comprised Vaibhav Kandpal (5), after which he was on a hat-trick after picking two successive wickets of Gulzar Sandhu and Hrithik Shokeen.
Arjun's fifth wicket was that of tail-ender Prashant Bhati.
Last month, it was Arjun's fiery five-wicket spell (5/30) that helped Mumbai thrash Gujarat by nine wickets in the Round 2, Elite Group A and B clash between Gujarat and Mumbai in the Vinoo Mankad Trophy U-19 One-Day tournament.
Arjun ripped apart the Gujarat top order batsmen with his brilliant bowling. He sent back Gujarat's Vardhman Dattesh Shah (0), Priyesh (1), LM Kocher (8), Jaymeet Patel (26) and Dhruvang Patel (6). He bowled 8.2 overs with a maiden and gave away only 30 runs.
Earlier in September, Arjun was selected in the India U-19 squad for the Youth Test-series against Sri Lanka and ended up claiming a wicket in his first over of that match.
The match was held at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium, New Delhi.
Arjun's final figures were 5/98 in 29 overs.
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Italian navy divers blew open access points in the wreck of the Costa Concordia on Monday as rescuers debated whether to call off their search for at least 19 people still missing.
Italian media meanwhile reported that the luxury liner’s captain, Francesco Schettino, who faces charges of multiple manslaughter, had tested negative for drugs, while his lawyer said there could be other suspects in the tragedy.
“The investigations are in full flow also to determine possible other responsibilities of third parties who could at least have had a role” in causing the shipwreck, Bruno Leporatti was quoted as saying.
Schettino has claimed that the risky route he took close to the Tuscan island of Giglio in a showboating manoeuvre was agreed beforehand with his superiors at Costa Crociere—a subsidiary of US-based giant Carnival Corp.
He has also said that he kept the company’s crisis officer fully informed about the scale of the disaster within minutes of hitting rocks, while the order to abandon ship was only given more than an hour later.
The shipping line declined to comment when contacted by Agence France-Presse.
Navy divers set off small quantities of explosives at depths of up to 18 metres to allow access to decks four and five of the half-submerged luxury 114 500-tonnes cruise ship, which crashed 10 days ago.
“A team of divers is searching inside the vessel now,” said Alessandro Busonero, a spokesperson for the navy, explaining that the series of small blasts had smashed through window panes of three-centimetre thick glass.
Busonero also said an oceanographic ship, the Galatea, had arrived on Giglio to help search for objects or bodies on the sea bed with the help of high-resolution imaging equipment and calculations of currents.
Thirteen people have been confirmed dead in the tragedy so far, including five bodies recovered that have not yet been identified. Officials have said there may also have been a Hungarian woman and others aboard as stowaways.
Some experts believe the operation to pump out 2 380 tonnes of heavy fuel oil from the ship’s tanks cannot start until search operations are suspended because it could destabilise the vessel and cause it to sink entirely.
“Today will be a decisive day. We’re holding our breath to see whether it will be possible to start pumping out the oil while continuing the search for missing people,” the mayor of Giglio, Sergio Ortelli, told AFP.
“Obviously everybody would rather carry on the search, but it’s hard to believe that by some miracle there is someone still alive now,” he said.
Dutch firm Smit, one of the world’s largest marine salvage companies, has been ready to pump the fuel out of the wreck for a week, but a representative on the island said it was “unlikely” it would begin on Monday.
Environmentalists have warned of a potential ecological disaster if there is a leak of fuel from the ship—which was at the beginning of a seven-day cruise when it hit rocks close to the shoreline and half-capsized.
The environment ministry has said toxic products from the ship—including detergents and solvents—have already started seeping into the sea.
The island, part of Europe’s biggest marine sanctuary, is a popular holiday spot with pristine sandy beaches and spectacular rocky shores.
The Costa Concordia had 4 229 people on board from more than 60 countries.
Confusing reports also emerged over Schettino’s actions in the hours after the crash as the owner of a hotel on the island said he saw him hand over what looked like a personal computer to an unknown blonde woman.
Paolo Fanciulli (45), who owns the Hotel Bahamas, said the woman swept into the lobby, took the bag and ushered Schettino away from journalists at around 11:30am on Saturday, the morning after the shipwreck.
SKELLIG MICHAEL’S settlement history may be “far more complex” than previously thought, according to a Connemara archaeologist who has discovered several additional stairways on the Kerry rock.
The previously unidentified sets of steps were discovered recently by archaeologist Michael Gibbons on the northern and southern flanks of Skellig Michael, a Unesco world heritage site.
Gibbons believes the networks of stairways indicate several phases to Skellig Michael’s occupation, believed to date from the sixth to eighth centuries when monks settled there – with the last permanent residents being lightkeepers from the 1820s until the lighthouse automation there in April 1987.
Remains of a fort above the existing monastery indicate the monks could have moved into a “pre-existing citadel”, Gibbons says. This structure may have been one of a number of “high forts” that are known to have existed on the Dingle peninsula and on the Blasket islands.
The set of more than two dozen steps found by Gibbons on the southeast approach, or “Monk’s landing”, is to the east of a smaller set identified some years ago by Valentia Island historian Des Lavelle.
The newly discovered northern stairway is below “Christ’s saddle”, the small valley 130m above sea level between the rock’s two distinctive peaks.
Both flights can be seen from sea, but are beyond the general visitor’s route and are only accessible with mountaineering equipment. He has also found an earlier variant of the eastern steps.
Skellig Michael already has three recognised stairways, linking three landing places to “Christ’s saddle”.
From there, one flight leads up to the monastery, comprising walled enclosures with dry-stone cells and oratories looking out from a ledge on to Little Skellig and the Kerry coastline.
There is also a set of steps up the precipitous 218m south peak to a hermitage, which has been controversially restored by the Office of Public Works and Department of the Environment.
Visitors to the rock are not permitted up this stairway, which has been fenced off by the OPW.
Last year Gibbons discovered a previously hidden staircase above the lighthouse, along with a rock-hewn cross and several additional clocháns or huts.
While dozens of crosses of various sizes have been found on Skellig Michael, only a handful have been carved directly from a rock foundation.
The cross, close to a clochán, may have marked a prayer station on the route to the monastery – or may predate the monastery, says Gibbons.
The independent archaeologist, who has been critical of the OPW’s style of conservation or restoration, has appealed to the State body to take a sensitive approach to new discoveries.
Three years ago Unesco criticised the State for the absence of a management plan, and found that conservation work on the south peak had “dramatically” transformed the appearance of monastic remains.
The report found that such work was “justifiable” and the “outstanding universal values” of the monument remained intact once such conservation work was documented in an academic publication.
The OPW was unable to confirm yesterday if such documentation has been published.
Gibbons also believes the network of staircases deserves considerably more research. “Staircases are the key to Skellig Michael’s historical chronology, since the sixth century or further back, and up until the period when the Commissioners of Irish Lights would also have created access routes,” he explains.
Viking raids, a shifting climate and more numerous storms, and a change in the management of the Irish church from a monastic to a diocesan structure were factors that contributed to the eventual abandonment of Skellig Michael’s monastery, some 11.6km west of Kerry’s Bolus Head.
At 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 31, Dr. Cassie B. Barlow will present a program at the Champaign County Historical Museum, 809 East Lawn Ave., Urbana, highlighting women’s service during WWII. Her presentation will include a short history of women in the military and will specifically discuss one woman’s service as a WAVE. She will also detail her own experiences in the Navy, as well as her Honor Flight experience.
Barlow is the Chief Operating Officer of the Southwestern Ohio Council on Higher Education. While in the Air Force, then Col. Barlow served as the 88th Air Base Wing and Installation Commander at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, overseeing more than 5,000 Air Force military, civilian and contractor employees.
Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson is already putting his week off to good use, appearing Tuesday on ESPN’s “SportsNation” daytime TV show.
Now, we at the seattlepi.com sports desk didn’t watch the show live, because we were working. But ESPN posted a couple of video excerpts from Wilson’s appearance.
In the first video below, Wilson acted as judge while two Seahawks fans were asked how many touchdown passes Wilson has thrown so far in his career. The winner of the quiz got a new Xbox One video-game console — but it’s not like the winner actually guessed anywhere close to the correct number.
The second video below gives us a backstage look at Wilson’s ESPN appearance, albeit a brief one.
Planned to open in the autumn, the competition is part of a government drive to boost public involvement in the design and build of new homes.
The programme aims to challenge scepticism about the quality of new build housing. Designs submitted to the contest will be judged by Terence and industry leaders.
My guilty pleasure is one which culture keeps telling me I can drop the guilt about: comics. Specifically, the comics of Brian K. Vaughan. More specifically, BKV's -- his fan name -- brilliant graphic novel (OK, all right: his comic book) Runaways. It's going to be a movie soon, at which point I will feel slightly less guilty. But still a little guilty. I love a damn comic book.
An example: In issue 29 (OK -- Volume 2, No. 11, Page 11) of Runaways, a male hero and villain realize they're a lot alike and can stop trying to pound each other. A female villain turns to a female hero with irritation: "That's why we're not running the world, huh? 'Cause when women see a younger version of us, it just makes us angry."
Runaways is full of real-life moments like that -- stuff I turn to non-word-balloon genres for. OK, the art in Volume 1 (by Adrian Alphona, who can make a corner mailbox look nostalgic and deeply cool) is also pretty great. And the plot -- six kids discover their parents are a Legion of Doom-type supervillain squad controlling Los Angeles, and so take off -- is brilliant, if you like comics or have any anxieties about Southern California. (Some of the best modern comics do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern sideways, glossing stories we already know: It is a thrillingly wised-up medium now.) What would you do if you learned your dad was Lex Luthor or Dr. Doom?
But I bear the books a grudge. Marvel collected them -- because their biggest fans were female teenagers -- in tiny digests with girlish covers that were intensely embarrassing to read on the subway. I kept locking eyes with people I could swear had just shaken their heads. And, alright, I fell a little in love with one of the female leads: the great flying beauty Karolina Dean. Who turned out to be gay. A hardship I'd steered clear of in real life, and there I was stumbling into it in a damned graphic novel (OK, comic book). Runaways -- while a consistently brilliant reading experience -- has been an embarrassment festival. Way beyond a guilty pleasure. It has been a fount of guilt, awkwardness and grave personal doubts. Which is to say, it turned me teenaged again.
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And yet -- Volume 1 is the best superhero comic I've read since I was a kid. And Runaways won a Top Library Award, a Harvey Award and was the lone comic to make the Library Association's top-10 YA list. It won an Eisner award, which is the comic industry's Oscar. I tell myself these things to feel better. It sort of works. And then I open the damn thing -- sweatily, guiltily -- and it's just so good. And I remember how great reading anything can be. I forget the guilt, and it's just pleasure. The superhero lesson Runaways teaches us is not "with great power comes great responsibility." It is: Enthusiasm is the world's rarest quantity. Love generously and without guilt. Be grateful for loving anything.
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Four years ago, theater artist Ari Laura Kreith founded a theater company to present plays reflecting the multicultural, multilingual lives in her New York City neighborhood of Jackson Heights. It’s called Theatre 167, after the number of languages that are spoken in a few square blocks in the Queens neighborhood. VOA’s Carolyn Weaver reports on its current play.
This tour takes you to Langjökull glacier for a once in a lifetime adventure deep inside the glacier in some of the world’s largest man made ice caverns.