Timur PANKOV
ALMATY, 28 Jan
(THE GLOBE)
The musical story of Phil Collins begins when auditioned for a small school band named Genesis. Phil arrived early for his audition and heard several others try their hand at the drums before it was his turn. When Phil took the seat, he played the selections like he had always known them. The decision was made on August 8, 1970 and Phil Collins entered into Genesis.
A few years later, in 1975, Peter Gabriel decided to leave the band to pursue his own personal career. Genesis was once again searching for members. Since Phil was the best singer of the group he contributed his voice to the demos. Unfortunately, (or should I say fortunately) a singer wasn�t found in time to complete the album, so it was decided that Phil should finish singing the rest of the songs. It made things more difficult, because now that Phil was singing, someone else would have to play drums during the live shows.
As time went on, Phil found himself constrained by the Genesis sound and started the band Brand X. In Brand X Phil was able to be more spontaneous and work with a more jazz oriented sound. Phil continued to play with Genesis and tour with them. It was actually Brand X he abandoned after it too steered toward more defined songs.
In the late 70s, Phil�s first wife left him in part because so much of his time was being consumed by his music. In his despair, Phil wrote a number of songs about his situation. When it was suggested that he attempt a solo career, these songs along with some others he had written previously became Face Value.
By the mid 80s, both the success of Phil Collins and Genesis had risen to enormous heights. Phil already had a great strain doing both solo and Genesis tours and working on albums as well. His popularity added more pressure.
Phil�s unhappy second marriage went to divorce and another dark album entitled Both Sides. While working on this album in 1993, Phil made the decision to leave Genesis. He was ready for something different, and the demands of a solo and Genesis career were too much to support while trying to have a family life.
Phil has a new love now. He moved to Switzerland to be with her where he is happier. He is currently working on the sound track to the next Disney movie: Tarzan, which will come out this year. Phil has received numerous Billboard Music Awards, Grammy Awards, and platinum records throughout his life, and is considered one of the best drummers in the world.
FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.
PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else�s cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you as much milk as you need.
BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else�s cows. They are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and as many eggs as the regulations say you should need.
FASCISM: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk.
PURE COMMUNISM: You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.
RUSSIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk.
DICTATORSHIP: You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you.
SINGAPOREAN DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. The government fines you for keeping two unlicensed farm animals in an apartment.
MILITARIANISM: You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.
PURE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.
REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.
AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: The government promises to give you two cows if you vote for it. After the election, the president is impeached for speculating in cow futures. The press dubs the affair �Cowgate�.
BRITISH DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. You feed them sheeps� brains and they go mad. The government doesn�t do anything.
BUREAUCRACY: You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. After that it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows..
ANARCHY: You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to kill you and take the cows.
CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
HONG KONG CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly - listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother - in - law at the bank, then execute a debt / equity swap with associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax deduction for keeping five cows. The milk rights of six cows are transferred via a Panamanian intermediary to a Cayman Islands company secretly owned by the majority shareholder, who sells the rights to all seven cows� milk back to the listed company. The annual report says that the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. Meanwhile, you kill the two cows because the fung shiu is bad.
ENVIRONMENTALISM: You have two cows. The government bans you from milking or killing them.
FEMINISM: You have two cows. They get married and adopt a veal calf.
TOTALITARIANISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and denies they ever existed. Milk is banned.
COUNTER CULTURE: Wow, dude, there�s like... these two cows, man. You got to have some of this milk.
SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.
LIBERTARIANISM: You have two cows. One has actually read the constitution, believes in it, and has some really good ideas about government. The cow runs for office, and while most people agree that the cow is the best candidate, nobody except the other cow votes for her because they think it would be �throwing their vote away.�
25/01/1858 - Mendelssohn�s �Wedding March� was presented for the first time, as the daughter of Queen Victoria married the Crown Prince of Prussia. Some say they would have opted for something by Prince (or The Artist Formerly Known As Prince), Toad the Wet Sprocket or even Barry White, but the Queen Mum had other ideas. And after all, daddy was paying for the shindig...
26/01/1950 - The American Associated Insurance Companies of St. Louis, Missouri, issued the first baby sitter�s insurance policy.
26/01/1987 - �Things go better with �Coke�...� Coca-Cola was named the #1 soft drink in America... pushing �Pepsi� or Pepsi-Cola, to #2. A huge advertising war erupted that cost each company many millions.
28/01/1934 - Robert Royce�s famous invention was used for the first time in Woodstock, VT. Previously, snow skiers had no way to get to the top of the mountain conveniently. Remember the �ski rope� the next time you schuss the slopes and have to make it back to the top.
28/01/1985 - This is the night that 45 of the world�s top recording artists were invited to an all-night recording session at the A&M studios in Los Angeles. As each of the artists walked through the studio door, they were greeted by a hand-lettered sign � put there by Lionel Richie. It simply said, �Check your ego at the door.� The session started at 10 p.m. with producer Quincy Jones conducting. At 8 o�clock the following morning, the project, �USA for Africa�, spearheaded by promoter, Ken Kragen, was recorded and mixed. The resulting song, �We Are the World�, featuring Michael Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, Sting, Harry Belafonte, Diana Ross, Paul Simon and many others became the top song in the U.S. � and one of the top selling songs in the history of recorded music.
28/01/1986 - The Shuttle Challenger exploded today, 73 seconds after lift-off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. All seven crew members were killed.
29/01/1924 - R. Taylor of Cleveland, OH � too shy, maybe, to tell us his first name � patented the ice cream cone rolling machine this day. Ice cream cones in Cleveland in January? Silly idea... but it took off anyway. Don�t you just love those rolled sugar cones!
29/01/1987 - For artists everywhere, this note from the So Now We Know Department: The famous smile of Mona Lisa, according to �Physician�s Weekly�, was caused by a �...facial paralysis resulting from a swollen nerve behind the ear.� How about that! Bet Leonardo da Vinci would have been impressed. Modern medicine at it�s finest. That will be $54 for the visit. Next, please...
30/01/1911 - The first airplane rescue at sea was made by the destroyer, Terry, when downed pilot, James McCurdy, was forced to land in the ocean about 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.
31/01/1958 - The first U.S. earth satellite, Explorer I, was launched from Cape Canaveral, FL on this day.
31/01/1951 - Was born Phil Collins (drummer, singer: group: Genesis: In the Air Tonight, I Missed Again, You Can�t Hurry Love, Sussudio, Two Hearts; actor: Oliver, A Hard Day�s Night, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
January 29
The National Philharmonic Society The Evening of Ballet. The State Ensemble of Classic Dance headed by Ayukhanov B. National artist of the USSR. Beginning at 6. p.m.
The Kazakh Drama Theater. M. Gaparov �Salt Desert�. Beginning at 6. 30 p.m.
The Russian Drama Theater: Sukhov-Kobylin �The Wedding of Krechinskiy�. Beginning at 6 p.m. The Novaya Stsena: A. Volodin �My Elder Sister�. Beginning at 5 p.m.
January 30
The Kazakh Concert Hall: R. Leonkvallo �Buffon�. Beginning at 6 p.m.
The National Philharmonic Society: The concert of the State Academic Symphonic Orchestra of the Republic of Kazakstan. Mukhitdinov A. is a conductor and Tebenikhin A. is a soloist.
The Kazakh Drama Theater: A. Kekilbayev, �Abylay Khan�. Beginning at 6.30 p.m.
The Russian Drama Theater: E. de Philippo �I shall not Pay�. Beginning at 6 p.m.
The Palace of Culture AKBK: The city competition in ball-room dancing. Beginning at 5 p.m.
The Palace of the Republic: The Concert of Larisa Dolina. Beginning at 6 p.m.
February 2
The Kazakh Drama Theater: S. Balgabayev, �A Century without Love�. Beginning at 6.30 p.m.
The Russian Drama Theater: M. Zadornov, �The Last Attempt�. Beginning at 6 p.m.
The Novaya Stsena: B. Pasternak, �Doctor Zhivago�. Beginning at 6 p.m.
January 21 - February 21
The Kasteyev Museum: �Works of German Masters�, collection of the National Kasteyev Museum
Working hours 10.00 a.m. � 16.30 p.m., except Monday.
January 14 � February 16.
TRIBUNA Gallery: Exhibition of Kazakstan�s artists. Painting. Graphics. Sculpture.
Working hours 11 a.m. � 7p. m without days off
January 19 - March 8
The Museum of Wax Figures, St. Petersburg, located in the building of archeological museum. The exhibition of wax figures of well-known historic people, artists and people listed in the book of Guinness records.
Exhibits from the cabinet of curiosities.
Working hours 10 a.m. � 6 p.m. without days off and breaks.
January 19 � 31
TENGRY-UMAY Gallery: Exhibition-sale of Kazakstan�s young popular artists
Working hours 10 a.m. � 6 p.m.
January 11 � 31
MOST Gallery: Photo Exhibition �Drawings on the Berlin Wall�
Working hours 11 a.m. � 4 p.m.
The Kazakh Drama Theater - The Kazakh State Academic Theater of Drama named after Auezov: 103, Abay Avenue Mukanov street corner, Tel: 67 33 07
The Russian Drama Theater � The Russian State Academic Theater of Drama named after Lermontov: 43, Abay Avenue, Abylay Khan Street corner, Tel: 628273
The Palace of the Republic: Dostyk Avenue, abay Street corner, Tel: 62 03 20.
The Palace of Culture of AKBK: 22 Shalyapin Street, Altynsarin Street corner, Tel: 28 19 11;
The National Philharmonic Society - The Kazakh national Philharmonic Society named after Dzhambul: Kaldayakov Street, Tole bi street corner, Tel: 61 75 41
The Kazakh Concert Hall - The Kazakh National Society of Concerts and Tours: 83, Abylay Khan Avenue, Tel: 62 01 26
The National Kasteyev Nuseum: 30-a Satpayev Street, Tel: 478356
The Archeological Museum: 44, Dostyk Avenue, Dzhambul Street corner, Tel: 61 85 85
TENGRI-UMAY Gallery located in the building of the Russian Drama Theater, Tel: 62 03 09
TRIBUNA Gallery: 14a, the Square of the Republic, Tel: 69 46 28
MOST Gallery: The gallery of Modern arts: 85-a Dostyk Avenue, Kurmangazy street corner, Tel: 62 21 36
Translation � INSEL
A.B.
by Jo Strich
TEL AVIV, Jan 11 (AFP)
Israel has become a centre of the white slave trade, with some 2,000 women from the former Soviet Union brought there in recent years and forced to work as prostitutes.
A high-ranking Tel Aviv police official, who asked not to be named, put the number of prostitutes in Israel at 10,000, including 2,000 from the former USSR, sold for the purpose and passed from hand to hand.
Pimps entice them with promises of well-paid work in Israel, for example as models. They arrive on a tourist visa, sometimes with false papers, but once in the country the pimp takes their papers and locks them up.
A girl gets a monthly �salary� of 1,000 dollars on average, but brings her pimp between 50,000 and 100,000 dollars annually, according to Uri Davidovitch, head of a new special police unit to combat the trade.
�A slave is sold at between five and 10,000 dollars, according to her condition and her papers,� he told AFP.
In general they do not work in the streets but in call-girl agencies and massage parlours, he said.
The �importers� are mainly mafiosi from the former USSR, in particular Georgia and Chechnya. The police find themselves powerless to deal with them, so they arrest the girls instead, usually for �overstaying their visas.� As a result several dozen are currently languishing without trial in the Neve Tirtsa women�s jail near Ramleh in central Israel. The authorities would like to expel them but cannot pay their air fares � or recover the papers held by their �employers.�
Yaacov Kidmi, who heads the government office responsible for immigrants from the former Soviet Union, said the police share a large part of the blame for the growth of the trade.
�It would be possible to wipe out the phenomenon in three months, because our services pass on information about the networks, the suppliers of the girls and the false passports to the police,� he said.
�The police lack professionalism. The girls are ready to testify on condition that they get police protection and a quick ticket out.
But instead of putting them straight on a plane, the police prefer to keep them in Neve Tirtsa, where after a few months even the most courageous begin to feel frightened,� he said.
MP Naomi Hazan from the left-wing Meretz party agreed that the police are complacent.
They know what to do �but the fate of these poor girls is not one of their priorities,� she told a recent meeting of the parliamentary commission on the status of women.
Commission chairwoman Marina Solodkin, a member of the Russian speaking Israel B�Aliya party, condemned the lack of an Israeli law against enslaving women.
The courts have to use other charges such as blackmail, kidnapping, illegal detention and rape, she said.
One suggestion � to house the sex-slaves in a hostel for battered women � came to nothing.
�You can�t put prostitutes in the same house as women with children escaping violent husbands,� said Irit Omanit, who runs a shelter in Haifa.
But there is one glimmer of hope on the horizon: a first step in changing the law. Israel recently signed an agreement with Brazil � another source of sex-slaves � on cooperation to fight the trade. It comes into force in February.