Burra Motor Inn - Burra Hotels, Australia
Burra Motor Inn 3.5 Stars Hotel in Burra ,Australia Within US Travel Directory Burra Motor Inn offers spacious rooms that open out onto the picturesque Burra Creek.
Guests enjoy lovely views and bird life right outside each room.
Facilities include free on-site parking for cars, boats and trailers.
A short 350 m stroll from Burra's town centre, each air conditioned room at Burra Motor Inn includes electric blankets, a TV with cable channels and an en suite bathroom.
Tea/coffee making facilities and a refrigerator are standard in all rooms.
You can explore the area's rich history by visiting the nearby Burra Monster Mine and Redruth Gaol, or learn about Australian polar explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins.
You can also admire art at the Burra Regional Art Gallery, which is a 5-minute walk away.
Open from 18:00 Monday to Saturday, the on-site Jumbucks Restaurant features Railway memorabilia and Australian decor.
It offers locally sourced food and wine served in an intimate setting.
A cooked breakfast is available in the restaurant on request and continental breakfast can be ordered to your room.
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Opening Godinymayin Yijard Art Culture Centre
Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Culture Centre
Official Opening, 14 July 2012, Katherine NT
Proudly supported by
The Northern Territory Government
Department of Natural Resources,
Environment, The Arts and Sport
The Department of Business
and Employment
The Northern Land Council
People who made the event possible
Cath Bowdler
Director
Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts
and Culture Centre
Jayne Nankivell
Project Officer
Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts
and Culture Centre
Kieren Sanderson
Event Manager
Anne-Marie Peckham
Matt James
Production Manager
Total Event Services
Special thanks to
The Board of
Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts
and Culture Centre
MC Bill Daw
Workshop workers
Boronia Saggers
Dorcas Thompson
Mike Alvarez
Greg Dowling
Djilpin Arts and Djilpin Dancers
Mularra Dancers
Bulman Young Wagilak Group
Ngukurr
Mimi Arts
Katherine Regional Arts
Volunteers
Merrial Lawrie
Kathleen Donald
Helen Aland
Gillian Banks
Ian Banks
Sebastian Harris
Sally de Koning
Kate de Koning
Music Editor
Jyoshna La Trobe
Kaveeta Neumannova
Director and Photography
Francesco Gaviano
Camera operators
Francesco Gaviano - Cedric Issartel
Editing
Francesco Gaviano
Footage recorded entirely at
Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts
and Culture Centre
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Cairns Indigenous Art Fair 2019 - Naomi Introduction
Naomi Hobson talking about CIAF 2019
Wali Wunungmurra- Bark Petition
Wali Wunungmurra discusses the Yirrkala Bark Petition of 1963
Steamtown Heritage
HOT DEALS - FLINDERS EXPERIENCES - STEAMTOWN HERITAGE RAIL CENTRE
Once South Australia's busiest regional railway hub employing more than 1,000 people who looked after more than 100 passing trains every day, the old depot and workshop is now home to Australia's most unique and fascinating Heritage Railway museum.
You'll find Australia's only operational triple gauge turntable, a wide range of historic rolling stock including elegant steam trains, powerful diesel locomotives, unique passenger trains and freight trains, all exhibited in original settings in the heritage listed roundhouse and original work sheds.
After dark, Steamtown hosts South Australia's only Sound and Light Show, a fabulous sound and visual spectacular about railway history in Australia and Peterborough. Guests sit comfortably in a historic railway carriage, once a first class sleeper on the East West route between Sydney and Perth, and are transported visually through a 1.5 hour sound and light show that you will thoroughly enjoy. Bookings essential.
DAY TOUR
Personally guided tours take place daily between 9.00am and 5.00pm, the last tours starting at 3:30 pm. Group bookings should be arranged ahead of time. The tour takes approximately 1.5 hours and gives you an amazing insight into historic locomotives, carriages and other interesting freight vehicles.
You'll be transported back to the glamorous 1920's when train travel was the most elegant way to get around - passengers settling themselves into a First Class Lounge car, sipping a long, cool drink while entertained by the on board pianist. As you sink into the warmth of the red leather armchairs, you'll understand why First Class train travel is still highly regarded as a superior way to travel.
Then you could sit in the cabin of one of the powerhouse steam locomotives, where men would shovel coal and sweat in the intense heat to keep the fires burning and the wheels turning.
Somewhere further along, you'll visit the baby health car, a child health centre on train tracks that visited rural South Australia to help mothers and children in remote farms and settlements.
Trains and railways are part of Australia's rich heritage and your day tour will help you relive the full heritage rail experience.
NIGHT TOUR
When the sun goes down over Peterborough, the Sound and Light Show gets going at the Steamtown Heritage Rail Centre!
You will sit comfortably in a restored 1916 historic rail carriage which is placed on an 85 food long, 3 gauge turntable. Over 1 hour, you will move through the tunnels of time, to learn about Peterborough, about railways in South Australia and about the many fascinating personal stories associated with it.
This awesome sound and light experience will have you becoming part of the last two centuries and will appeal to everyone in the family. Pre-bookings essential and starting times depend upon time of year.
Food can be provided on request at a small additional cost for groups.
DESTINATIONS readers booking a Guided Day Tour and the Sound and Light Show receive a 10% discount.
For full booking details -- Enquiry form
Steamtown Heritage Rail Centre, 1 Telford Ave Peterborough South Australia 5422
Telephone: 08 8651 3355, Fax: 08 8651 2173, steamtown.com.au
Preparing For The Ganyu Gallery
Preparing for The Ganyu Gallery at Darwin Festival. We are sending these trees to Darwin to make a gallery to hang our prints on in Festival Park.
Cultural heritage
Cultural heritage is the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations. Cultural heritage includes tangible culture (such as buildings, monuments, landscapes, books, works of art, and artifacts), intangible culture (such as folklore, traditions, language, and knowledge), and natural heritage (including culturally significant landscapes, and biodiversity).
The deliberate act of keeping cultural heritage from the present for the future is known as preservation (American English) or conservation (British English), though these terms may have more specific or technical meaning in the same contexts in the other dialect.
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Collage Making Competition | Youth Festival Ahmedabad University | Youth Fest 2017
Youth Festival 2017 by Ahmedabad University has been organized from 18 Jan to 21 Jan 2017. They have a collage making competition in which students of different institutions are participating and they are doing excellent to show their talents and skills. They have been given a theme called Fashion on which they are trying their best to make a collage.
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Yirrkala To be strong Australian Aboriginal Community-produced by Glen Heald
Yirrkala aboriginal community. Audio arranged produced played by Glen Heald the song is called To be Strong many thanks to all involved and all the help from the community. Shellie Morris on vocals.
Home to the members of Yothu Yindi, there's some great talent in this Northern Territory community which is the traditional home of the Yidaki (didgeridoo)!
This song is clalled Nhina strong sung by the local children in Yirrkala CEC school with many thanks to all who helped
Glen Heald Audio
Yirrkala is a well-known Aboriginal community in East Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia, 18 km south-east of the large mining town of Nhulunbuy. It has a population of about 850 people, of whom nearly all are Yolngu, and also acts as a regional centre for a further 1200 people living in surrounding indigenous homelands. There has been an indigenous community at Yirrkala throughout recorded history, Gumatj and Rirratjingu clans are the Traditional Owners of the land. It is home to a number of leading indigenous artists, whose traditional art, particularly bark painting, can be found in art galleries around the world. Their work is available to the public from the YBE art centre and the renowned Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Art Centre and Museum home of the famous Yirrkala Church Panels.
It is a traditional home of the Yidaki (didgeridoo) and some of the world's finest didgeridoos are still made at Yirrkala. The traditional Yirrkala art form of String Figures was given prominence by Frederick D. McCarthy who documented and collected many such figures (Australian Museum collection) Yirrkala played a pivotal role in the development of the relationship between indigenous and non indigenous Australians when a bark petition was created at Yirrkala in 1963 and sent to the Federal Government to protest at the Prime Minister's announcement that a parcel of their land was to be sold to a bauxite mining company. Although the petition itself was unsuccessful in the sense that the bauxite mining at Nhulunbuy went ahead as planned, it alerted non-indigenous Australians to the need for indigenous representation in such decisions and prompted a government report recommending payment of compensation, protection of sacred sites, creation of a permanent parliamentary standing committee to scrutinise developments at Yirrkala and also acknowledged the indigenous people's moral right to their lands. The Bark Petition is on display in the Parliament House in Canberr
Burrngupurrngu Bruce Wunungmurra
Gofundme crowd funding video in support of Burrngupurrngu (Bruce) Wunungmurra and his struggle with leukaemia. See the details here:
Big Talk One Fire Festival- Mau Power performance 'Sing Strong'
Mau Power live at the UMI Arts Big Talk One Fire Indigenous Cultural Festival on 1 August, 2015 at Fogarty Park, Cairns.
This song is an original called 'Sing Strong' which features King Kadu.
UMI Arts Big Talk One Fire Indigenous Cultural Festival is UMI Arts' annual signature event that showcases Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples with connection to Far North Queensland.
For more info visit umiarts.com.au
Cultural heritage | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:55 1 The ethics and rationale of cultural preservation
00:03:39 2 Types of heritage
00:03:49 2.1 Cultural property
00:05:20 2.2 Intangible culture
00:06:39 2.3 Natural heritage
00:07:45 3 World heritage movement
00:10:15 4 National and regional heritage movements
00:13:03 5 Issues in cultural heritage
00:13:36 6 Management of cultural heritage
00:14:00 7 See also
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- Socrates
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Cultural heritage is the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that is inherited from past generations.
Cultural heritage includes tangible culture (such as buildings, monuments, landscapes, books, works of art, and artifacts), intangible culture (such as folklore, traditions, language, and knowledge), and natural heritage (including culturally significant landscapes, and biodiversity).The deliberate act of keeping cultural heritage from the present for the future is known as preservation (American English) or conservation (British English), which cultural and historical ethnic museums and cultural centers promote, though these terms may have more specific or technical meaning in the same contexts in the other dialect.
Words at War: Lifeline / Lend Lease Weapon for Victory / The Navy Hunts the CGR 3070
The United States Merchant Marine is the fleet of U.S. civilian-owned merchant vessels, operated by either the government or the private sector, that engage in commerce or transportation of goods and services in and out of the navigable waters of the United States. The Merchant Marine is responsible for transporting cargo and passengers during peace time. In time of war, the Merchant Marine is an auxiliary to the Navy, and can be called upon to deliver troops and supplies for the military.
Merchant mariners move cargo and passengers between nations and within the United States, operate and maintain deep-sea merchant ships, tugboats, towboats, ferries, dredges, excursion vessels, and other waterborne craft on the oceans, the Great Lakes, rivers, canals, harbors, and other waterways.
As of 2006, the United States merchant fleet numbered 465 ships[2] and approximately 100,000 members. Seven hundred ships owned by American interests but registered, or flagged, in other countries are not included in this number.
The federal government maintains fleets of merchant ships via organizations such as Military Sealift Command and the National Defense Reserve Fleet. In 2004, the federal government employed approximately 5% of all American water transportation workers.[3]
In the 19th and 20th centuries, various laws fundamentally changed the course of American merchant shipping. These laws put an end to common practices such as flogging and shanghaiing, and increased shipboard safety and living standards. The United States Merchant Marine is also governed by several international conventions to promote safety and prevent pollution.
The merchant marine is a civilian auxiliary of the U.S. Navy, but not a uniformed service, except in times of war when, in accordance with the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, mariners are considered military personnel. In a time of national emergency, the President can permanently seize any merchant marine vessel in return for fair compensation, or commandeer it for temporary use with no compensation if returned in reasonable condition.
Mariners are well represented in the visual arts. Merchant seaman Johnny Craig was already a working comic book artist before he joined up, but Ernie Schroeder would not start drawing comics until after returning home from World War II. Seaman Haskell Wexler won two Academy Awards, the latter for a biography of his shipmate Woody Guthrie.
Merchant sailors have also made a splash in the world of sport. Drew Bundini Brown was Muhammad Ali's assistant trainer and cornerman, and Joe Gold went made his fortune as the bodybuilding and fitness guru of Gold's Gym. In football, Dan Devine and Heisman Trophy winner Frank Sinkwich excelled. Seamen Jim Bagby, Jr. and Charlie Keller played in Major League Baseball. In track and field, seamen Cornelius Johnson and Jim Thorpe both won Olympic medals, though Thorpe did not get his until thirty years after his death.
Writers Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Ralph Ellison, Herman Melville, and Jack Vance and were merchant mariners, as were prominent members of the Beat movement: Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Huncke, Bob Kaufman, Jack Kerouac, and Dave Van Ronk. Peter Baynham, the coauthor of the film Borat, and Donn Pearce, who wrote the movie Cool Hand Luke, were formerly merchant mariners. Filmmaker Oliver Stone won multiple Academy Awards.
WWII-era merchant mariners played well-known television characters. The list includes Raymond Bailey (who played Milburn Drysdale on The Beverly Hillbillies); Peter Falk (who played the title character on Columbo); James Garner (who played Jim Rockford on The Rockford Files); Jack Lord (who played Steve McGarrett on the original Hawaii Five-0); Carroll O'Connor (who played Archie Bunker on All in the Family); Denver Pyle (who played Uncle Jesse Duke on The Dukes of Hazzard); and Clint Walker (who played Cheyenne Bodie on Cheyenne).
Songwriter and lyricist Jack Lawrence was a mariner during World War II and wrote the official United States Merchant Marine song, Heave Ho! My Lads, Heave Ho! while a young lieutenant stationed at Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, in 1943.
Writer/businessman Robert Kiyosaki claimed to have been a mariner.
Paul Teutul, Sr., the founder of Orange County Choppers and Orange County Ironworks, was a merchant mariner during the Vietnam War.
Episode 1 -- Sit Down Shutup and Watch! Film and New Media Festival committee
Sit Down, Shutup & Watch is Australia's first international film and new media festival featuring work made by people with a learning disability.
Our festival is inspired by the Oska Bright Film Festival in Brighton, U.K. It is led by a committee of learning disabled artists from Adelaide, Clare and the Barossa Valley in South Australia. Our goal is to establish a disability-led film making culture in Australia.
Our film festival will be held every 2 years.
The Sit Down Shutup & Watch team is available to run film and new media workshops in your town or school.
Adelaide | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:03:05 1 History
00:03:14 1.1 Before European settlement
00:04:56 1.2 19th century
00:12:17 1.3 20th century
00:16:35 1.4 21st century
00:18:40 2 Geography
00:22:04 2.1 Urban layout
00:26:44 2.1.1 Housing
00:29:23 2.2 Climate
00:31:33 2.3 Liveability
00:32:17 3 Governance
00:33:41 3.1 Local governments
00:34:30 4 Demography
00:36:50 4.1 Ancestry and immigration
00:39:14 4.2 Language
00:39:51 4.3 Religion
00:42:54 5 Economy
00:46:08 5.1 Defence industry
00:47:27 5.2 Employment statistics
00:48:57 5.3 House prices
00:50:51 6 Education and research
00:52:12 6.1 Primary and secondary education
00:52:58 6.2 Tertiary education
00:55:51 6.3 Research
00:58:23 7 Cultural
00:59:01 7.1 Arts and entertainment
01:04:04 7.1.1 Concert venues
01:04:39 7.2 Media
01:04:48 7.2.1 Newspapers
01:06:02 7.2.2 Television
01:07:54 7.2.3 Radio
01:08:46 7.3 Icons
01:08:55 8 Crime
01:09:04 9 Sport
01:19:44 10 Infrastructure
01:19:54 10.1 Health
01:23:17 10.2 Transport
01:27:30 10.2.1 Airports
01:28:26 10.3 Utilities
01:33:06 11 See also
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Adelaide ( (listen) AD-ə-layd) is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia. Adelaide is home to 77 percent of the South Australian population, making it the most centralised population of any state in Australia.
Adelaide is north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, on the Adelaide Plains between the Gulf St Vincent in the west and the low-lying Mount Lofty Ranges in the east. Adelaide stretches 20 km (12 mi) from the coast to the foothills, and 94 to 104 km (58 to 65 mi) from Gawler at its northern extent to Sellicks Beach in the south.
Named in honour of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to King William IV, the city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital for a freely-settled British province in Australia. Colonel William Light, one of Adelaide's founding fathers, designed the city centre and chose its location close to the River Torrens, in the area originally inhabited by the Kaurna people and known as Tarntanya or Tarndanyangga (place of the red kangaroo). Light's design set out the city centre in a grid layout, interspaced by wide boulevards and large public squares, and entirely surrounded by parklands.
Early colonial Adelaide was shaped by prosperity and wealth, and was one of the few Australian cities without a convict history. Until the post-war era, it was Australia's third-largest city. It has been noted for early examples of religious freedom, a commitment to political progressivism and civil liberties. It has been known as the City of Churches since the mid-19th century, referring to its diversity of faiths. As South Australia's government and commercial centre, Adelaide is the site of many governmental and financial institutions. Most of these are concentrated in the city centre along the cultural boulevard of North Terrace, King William Street and in various districts of the metropolitan area.
Adelaide is noted for its many festivals and sporting events, its food and wine, its long beachfronts, and its large defence and manufacturing sectors. Its quality of life has ranked highly in various measures through the 2010s. The demonym Adelaidean is used in reference to the city and its residents.
Gaia capital da arte!
I Bienal de Arte de Gaia já começou
12-07-2015
Já abriu a I Bienal de Arte de Gaia. Os Claustros do Mosteiro da Serra do Pilar receberam o início de um evento que reúne 433 artistas e 18 exposições. Para Eduardo Vítor Rodrigues, Presidente da Câmara Municipal de Gaia, trata-se de um grande momento de afirmação da marca Porto.
Fazemos parte da marca Porto sem complexos e com vontade de participar no seu engrandecimento. Mas, ao mesmo tempo que queremos ser cosmopolitas, não o queremos ser de forma bacoca. Prezamos as nossas raízes e as nossas identidades, destacou Eduardo Vítor Rodrigues, Presidente da Câmara Municipal de Gaia, que intervinha na cerimónia de abertura.
Para Agostinho Santos, Diretor da I Bienal de Arte de Gaia, é um ato de bom senso e um gesto oportuno que irá contribuir para colocar Gaia no mapa das artes plásticas.
A Bienal conta com duas exposições antológicas de José Rodrigues e de Jaime Isidoro. O evento consagrou José Maia como vencedor do concurso. Uma pintura a óleo sobre Nelson Mandela valeu-lhe a distinção.
Há, na obra, uma alusão à prisão a que Mandela foi sujeito. Podemos, através do trabalho, falar de outras temas como a democracia, a política, a situação da Grécia ou a civilização ocidental, afirmou José Maia, na ocasião.
A Bienal realiza-se em diversos espaços de Gaia e alarga-se também ao Porto, com três exposições: duas na Fábrica Social/Fundação José Rodrigues e uma na Casa das Artes. Os jovens artistas, a ilustração, os livros de arte, o design e o fotojornalismo fazem também parte do cartaz de um evento organizado pela Cooperativa Cultural Artistas de Gaia.
É uma instituição que, na realidade, representa todos os artistas de Gaia e que é parceira da autarquia no exercício da cidadania ativa, disse Albino Almeida, Presidente da Assembleia Municipal. Já para António Ponte, que é Diretor Regional de Cultura do Norte, a capacidade artística da Bienal pode ser determinante para o desenvolvimento da região e do país.
Para além das artes plásticas, a Bienal é uma forma de se dinamizar o património do concelho, sobretudo o religioso. Há também exposições localizadas em espaços não convencionais, como a Douro Marina, o Mercado Municipal da Beira Rio e a Urbanização Social D. Manuel Clemente. A exposição patente no Mosteiro de Grijó - intitulada Evangelium Profethia Spes - encerrou o programa de inaugurações que se realizou no passado fim-de-semana. Trata-se da única exposição que já estava no terreno antes do início da Bienal.
É uma exposição com uma grande heterogeneidade de autores. Temos autores de diferentes estilos que se uniram em torno de um tema, referiu Bruno Marques, Comissário da Exposição. Na ocasião marcou presença D. António Francisco dos Santos. Para o Bispo do Porto a diocese do Porto é uma das dioceses com mais património e com mais capacidade criativa e de arte.
A Bienal de Arte de Gaia decorre até dia 08 de agosto. Tem como padrinhos Pedro Abrunhosa e Valter Hugo Mãe. A Bienal serve também de tónico a outras iniciativas culturais de freguesia.
Estamos a sair do Perosinho Cultural e a preparar o Serzedo Cultural, destacou João Morais, Presidente da União de Freguesias de Serzedo/Perosinho. As iniciativas seguem também na Madalena onde, segundo o Presidente de Junta Francisco Leite, está a ser preparado um evento ligado à pintura e à escultura. Já César Rodrigues, Presidente da União de Freguesias de Grijó/Sermonde, a exposição do Mosteiro demonstra bem o papel do Padre António na dinamização da cultura de Gaia.
O prémio revelação António Joaquim da I Bienal de Arte de Gaia foi atribuído a Diana Pereira, com o trabalho Coisas do Caminho. Houve menções honrosas para Augusto Canedo, Joana Pedro, Jorge Abade e Rita Castro Neves. Entretanto, já se pensa na segunda edição da Bienal que será internacionalizada como revelou Agostinho Santos.
A organização do evento está a cargo da Cooperativa Cultural Artistas de Gaia. Para além das exposições, a Bienal oferece workshops, conversas com artistas, seminários, visitas guiadas e também vários momentos musicais.
Calling All Cars: Ice House Murder / John Doe Number 71 / The Turk Burglars
The radio show Calling All Cars hired LAPD radio dispacher Jesse Rosenquist to be the voice of the dispatcher. Rosenquist was already famous because home radios could tune into early police radio frequencies. As the first police radio dispatcher presented to the public ear, his was the voice that actors went to when called upon for a radio dispatcher role.
The iconic television series Dragnet, with LAPD Detective Joe Friday as the primary character, was the first major media representation of the department. Real LAPD operations inspired Jack Webb to create the series and close cooperation with department officers let him make it as realistic as possible, including authentic police equipment and sound recording on-site at the police station.
Due to Dragnet's popularity, LAPD Chief Parker became, after J. Edgar Hoover, the most well known and respected law enforcement official in the nation. In the 1960s, when the LAPD under Chief Thomas Reddin expanded its community relations division and began efforts to reach out to the African-American community, Dragnet followed suit with more emphasis on internal affairs and community policing than solving crimes, the show's previous mainstay.
Several prominent representations of the LAPD and its officers in television and film include Adam-12, Blue Streak, Blue Thunder, Boomtown, The Closer, Colors, Crash, Columbo, Dark Blue, Die Hard, End of Watch, Heat, Hollywood Homicide, Hunter, Internal Affairs, Jackie Brown, L.A. Confidential, Lakeview Terrace, Law & Order: Los Angeles, Life, Numb3rs, The Shield, Southland, Speed, Street Kings, SWAT, Training Day and the Lethal Weapon, Rush Hour and Terminator film series. The LAPD is also featured in the video games Midnight Club II, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, L.A. Noire and Call of Juarez: The Cartel.
The LAPD has also been the subject of numerous novels. Elizabeth Linington used the department as her backdrop in three different series written under three different names, perhaps the most popular being those novel featuring Det. Lt. Luis Mendoza, who was introduced in the Edgar-nominated Case Pending. Joseph Wambaugh, the son of a Pittsburgh policeman, spent fourteen years in the department, using his background to write novels with authentic fictional depictions of life in the LAPD. Wambaugh also created the Emmy-winning TV anthology series Police Story. Wambaugh was also a major influence on James Ellroy, who wrote several novels about the Department set during the 1940s and 1950s, the most famous of which are probably The Black Dahlia, fictionalizing the LAPD's most famous cold case, and L.A. Confidential, which was made into a film of the same name. Both the novel and the film chronicled mass-murder and corruption inside and outside the force during the Parker era. Critic Roger Ebert indicates that the film's characters (from the 1950s) represent the choices ahead for the LAPD: assisting Hollywood limelight, aggressive policing with relaxed ethics, and a straight arrow approach.
Will the Afghanistan War Ever End? U.S. Withdrawal: Obama-Karzai Press Conference
The War in Afghanistan began on 7 October 2001,[17] as the armed forces of the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, France, and the Afghan United Front (Northern Alliance) launched Operation Enduring Freedom. The primary driver of the invasion was the September 11 attacks on the U.S., with the stated goal of dismantling the al-Qaeda terrorist organization and ending its use of Afghanistan as a base. The U.S. also said that it would remove the Taliban regime from power and create a viable democratic state. More than a decade into the war, NATO forces continue to battle a widespread Taliban insurgency, and the war has expanded into the tribal area of neighboring Pakistan.[18] The War in Afghanistan is also the United States' second longest running war.
The preludes to the war were the assassination of the Northern Alliance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud on 9 September 2001, and the September 11 attacks in the U.S., in which nearly 3,000 civilians were killed in New York City, Arlington, Virginia, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The U.S. identified members of al-Qaeda, an organization based in, operating out of, and allied with the Taliban's Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, as the perpetrators of the attacks.
In the first phase of Operation Enduring Freedom, ground forces of the Afghan United Front working with teams of U.S. and British Special Forces and with U.S. air support, ousted the Taliban regime from power in Kabul and most of Afghanistan in a matter of weeks. Most of the senior Taliban leadership fled to neighboring Pakistan, some being flown out in the Kunduz airlift. The democratic Islamic Republic of Afghanistan was established and an interim government under Hamid Karzai was created which was also democratically elected by the Afghan people in the 2004 general elections. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was established by the U.N. Security Council at the end of December 2001 to secure Kabul and the surrounding areas. This was after the U.S. sought to make sure that it would not interfere with its ongoing counterterrorism initiatives in the country, changing the originally titled International Security Force to ISAF.[19] NATO assumed control of ISAF in 2003. ISAF includes troops from 42 countries, with NATO members providing the core of the force.[20] The stated aim of the invasion was to find Osama bin Laden and other high-ranking al-Qaeda members to be put on trial, to destroy the organization of al-Qaeda, and to remove the Taliban regime which supported and gave safe harbor to it.
In 2003, Taliban forces started an insurgency campaign against the democratic Islamic Republic and the presence of ISAF-troops in Afghanistan.[21][22] Their headquarters are alleged to be in or near Quetta, Pakistan.[23] Since 2006, Afghanistan has experienced a dramatic increase in Taliban-led insurgent activity.[24][25] Since the coalition intervention in 2001, more than 5.7 million refugees have returned to Afghanistan.[1]
On 21 May 2012 the leaders of the NATO-member countries endorsed an exit strategy during the 2012 NATO Summit in Chicago.