Luke Dormehl is a journalist, author and filmmaker.
Career
Dormehl graduated with a BA (Hons) in theatre from Dartington College of Arts in Devon. His writing has appeared in publications including The Chap, SFX, Fighting Spirit, Blues & Rhythm, Crikey!, Art South Africa, Inventor's Digest, HYPE, and The End Is Nigh. He has conducted numerous interviews with people for both print and television, including the likes of Simon Callow, Sir Ian McKellen, Alain de Botton, Lord Bath, John Carpenter and Hardeep Singh Kohli.
Dormehl has directed several documentary films, most recently The Pantomime (2009): a look at behind-the-scenes turmoil in a small village panto. The film, narrated by actor Simon Callow, was described by director Terence Davies as 'touching and compassionate', while Film4 awarded it 4.5/5.
Dormehl also directed The Wrestling (2008), a film about British professional wrestling featuring Kendo Nagasaki, Robbie Brookside, Mal Sanders and Sir Jimmy Savile. The documentary has been praised by Beyond The Mat director Barry Blaustein, Ken Loach and Louis Theroux. In the same year Dormehl directed Roy (2008), a short film about comic football hero Roy of the Rovers which won 'best documentary' at the End of the Pier International Film Festival and screened at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. It also played in conjunction with The Damned United in selected cinemas. Roy was nominated for 'best documentary' at the Soho Rushes film festival.
In 2009 Dormehl directed a series of documentaries for Channel 4, filmed across four different countries. His book A Journey through Documentary Film is due to be published in 2012 by Kamera Books. He is currently writing a book about the personal computer revolution for Virgin Books.
Dormehl's work was profiled in the December 2008 issue of Bizarre Magazine. His name appeared in the credits of the BBC documentary, Orson Welles Over Europe (2009), on which he was employed as an advisor on Orson Welles. He was the subject of an anecdote in the book, The Art of Self-Publicity.
Luke Dormehl is the great grandson of Bishop Mandell Creighton.
Career
Dormehl graduated with a BA (Hons) in theatre from Dartington College of Arts in Devon. His writing has appeared in publications including The Chap, SFX, Fighting Spirit, Blues & Rhythm, Crikey!, Art South Africa, Inventor's Digest, HYPE, and The End Is Nigh. He has conducted numerous interviews with people for both print and television, including the likes of Simon Callow, Sir Ian McKellen, Alain de Botton, Lord Bath, John Carpenter and Hardeep Singh Kohli.
Dormehl has directed several documentary films, most recently The Pantomime (2009): a look at behind-the-scenes turmoil in a small village panto. The film, narrated by actor Simon Callow, was described by director Terence Davies as 'touching and compassionate', while Film4 awarded it 4.5/5.
Dormehl also directed The Wrestling (2008), a film about British professional wrestling featuring Kendo Nagasaki, Robbie Brookside, Mal Sanders and Sir Jimmy Savile. The documentary has been praised by Beyond The Mat director Barry Blaustein, Ken Loach and Louis Theroux. In the same year Dormehl directed Roy (2008), a short film about comic football hero Roy of the Rovers which won 'best documentary' at the End of the Pier International Film Festival and screened at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. It also played in conjunction with The Damned United in selected cinemas. Roy was nominated for 'best documentary' at the Soho Rushes film festival.
In 2009 Dormehl directed a series of documentaries for Channel 4, filmed across four different countries. His book A Journey through Documentary Film is due to be published in 2012 by Kamera Books. He is currently writing a book about the personal computer revolution for Virgin Books.
Dormehl's work was profiled in the December 2008 issue of Bizarre Magazine. His name appeared in the credits of the BBC documentary, Orson Welles Over Europe (2009), on which he was employed as an advisor on Orson Welles. He was the subject of an anecdote in the book, The Art of Self-Publicity.
Luke Dormehl is the great grandson of Bishop Mandell Creighton.
Donald P. Scott was killed during a police raid on October 2, 1992 as they attempted to serve a warrant to search for marijuana.
The raid
Early on the morning of October 2, 1992, 31 officers from the Los Angeles , Drug Enforcement Administration, Border Patrol, National Guard and Park Service entered the Scott's ranch.
They planned to arrest Scott for allegedly running a 4,000-plant marijuana plantation. That brought Scott staggering out of the bedroom, bleary-eyed from a cataract operation -- holding a .38 caliber Colt snub-nosed revolver over his head. When he emerged at the top of the stairs (note: this was a one-story residence), holding his gun over his head, the officers told him to lower the gun. As he did, they shot him to death. According to the official report, the gun was pointed at the officers when they shot him.
The fallout
Scott's widow, the former Frances Plante, along with four of Scott's children from prior marriages, subsequently filed a $100 million wrongful death suit against the county and federal government. For eight years the case dragged on, requiring the services of 15 attorneys and some 30 volume binders to hold all the court documents. In January 2000, attorneys for Los Angeles County and the federal government agreed to settle with Scott's heirs and estate for $5 million, even though the sheriff's department still maintained its deputies had done nothing wrong.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department issued their own report in response, clearing everyone involved of wrong doing while California Attorney General Dan Lungren criticized District Attorney Bradbury. Sheriff Spencer sued D.A. Bradbury for defamation in response to the report.
The raid
Early on the morning of October 2, 1992, 31 officers from the Los Angeles , Drug Enforcement Administration, Border Patrol, National Guard and Park Service entered the Scott's ranch.
They planned to arrest Scott for allegedly running a 4,000-plant marijuana plantation. That brought Scott staggering out of the bedroom, bleary-eyed from a cataract operation -- holding a .38 caliber Colt snub-nosed revolver over his head. When he emerged at the top of the stairs (note: this was a one-story residence), holding his gun over his head, the officers told him to lower the gun. As he did, they shot him to death. According to the official report, the gun was pointed at the officers when they shot him.
The fallout
Scott's widow, the former Frances Plante, along with four of Scott's children from prior marriages, subsequently filed a $100 million wrongful death suit against the county and federal government. For eight years the case dragged on, requiring the services of 15 attorneys and some 30 volume binders to hold all the court documents. In January 2000, attorneys for Los Angeles County and the federal government agreed to settle with Scott's heirs and estate for $5 million, even though the sheriff's department still maintained its deputies had done nothing wrong.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department issued their own report in response, clearing everyone involved of wrong doing while California Attorney General Dan Lungren criticized District Attorney Bradbury. Sheriff Spencer sued D.A. Bradbury for defamation in response to the report.
Caucasus International (CI) is a Baku and Ankara-based academic journal, published quarterly since July 2011, that covers politics, society and the economy of Caucasus. CI is the first journal that offers a place for the debates among the scholars from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia and Turkey.
Overview
The goal of the journal is to contribute and encourage the scholarly debates that cover wide range of economic, political and social issues regarding the Caucasus region, as a whole, and the countries it comprises. While focused largely on the region and its neighborhood, it does so not without a global outlook. It aims, in the context of the rapid globalization process, to take into account the developments in the global arena, as well.
Caucasus International has provided an intellectual platform for the debate of several challenges that confront the region and beyond. It strives to serve as a platform that gives all sides space to express their viewpoints.
CI includes articles ranging from 3000 to 6000 words. The journal publishes papers on the Caucasus region and other countries and regions including especially Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, Russia, Europe, and the United States, as well as on all aspects of international affairs, from all political viewpoints.
The already published issues include:
* The Caucasus in the International Arena: Regional and Global Perspectives (Vol.1, No.1)
* Social Media in Politics and Foreign Policy: Can it Transform Eurasia?(Vol.1, No.2)
Partners
Caucasus International has reached partnerships and advertisement agreements with Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review, Today's Zaman, and Turkish Policy Quarterly.
Media outlets
Caucasus International is included in EBSCO's online research databases. Hard copy distribution includes university libraries, international think-tanks, decision makers, practitioners, parliamentarians, and journalists in Europe, U.S, Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan. Several media agencies have published articles about Caucasus International.
Overview
The goal of the journal is to contribute and encourage the scholarly debates that cover wide range of economic, political and social issues regarding the Caucasus region, as a whole, and the countries it comprises. While focused largely on the region and its neighborhood, it does so not without a global outlook. It aims, in the context of the rapid globalization process, to take into account the developments in the global arena, as well.
Caucasus International has provided an intellectual platform for the debate of several challenges that confront the region and beyond. It strives to serve as a platform that gives all sides space to express their viewpoints.
CI includes articles ranging from 3000 to 6000 words. The journal publishes papers on the Caucasus region and other countries and regions including especially Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, Russia, Europe, and the United States, as well as on all aspects of international affairs, from all political viewpoints.
The already published issues include:
* The Caucasus in the International Arena: Regional and Global Perspectives (Vol.1, No.1)
* Social Media in Politics and Foreign Policy: Can it Transform Eurasia?(Vol.1, No.2)
Partners
Caucasus International has reached partnerships and advertisement agreements with Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review, Today's Zaman, and Turkish Policy Quarterly.
Media outlets
Caucasus International is included in EBSCO's online research databases. Hard copy distribution includes university libraries, international think-tanks, decision makers, practitioners, parliamentarians, and journalists in Europe, U.S, Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan. Several media agencies have published articles about Caucasus International.
Ezophagotomia is a death metal band from Kyiv, Ukraine. The band was formed in 2002, but disbanded the same year. The band re-borned in the summer of 2008, and 2 years latter played their first full-length album.
History
The band was formed in May 2002 by Lev Kurgansky (drums), Alexander Mayevsky (bass), Ivan Kyptiliy (guitars) and Nikolay Golyk (vocals), but not had the expected success and disbanded in September, after only 4 months of limited activity. In the summer of 2008, Kurgansky resurrected Ezophagotomia and reformed them with a new line-up, which consisted in Maxim Gopkalo (bass), Yura Kowalchuk (guitars), Vitaliy Drozhdov (vocals) and Stas Cherkas (guitars) and immediatley the band commenced the rehearsals.
In January 2009, Cherkas left the band, but this not was a major problem because the band continued their work with only one guitarist; however, in March the band members retreated temporaly for made individual rehearsals. Ezophagotomia reunited in April 28, and after 1 month of rehearsal, the band launched their first demo, called Ezophagotomical Invasion; in october, the band founded a new guitarist called -Vladislav Shekmar- and after more than one year of new rehearsals and more intensive works, in January 2011 launched their debut album, called Instinct Of Inhuman Devourment.
Members
Current line-up
* Lev Kurgansky - drums, backing voice (2002, 2008-today)
* Vladislav Shekmar - guitars (2009-today)
* Vitaliy Drozhdov - vocals (2008-today)
* Maxim Gopkalo - bass, backing voice (2008-today)
* Yura Kowalchuk - guitars (2008-today)
Former members
* Ivan Kyptiliy - guitars (2002)
* Nikolay Golyk - vocals (2002, died by a unknown cause)
* Alexander Mayevsky - bass (2002)
* Stas Cherkas - guitars (2008-2009)
Discography
* Ezophagotomical Invasion (Demo, 2009)
* Instinct Of Inhuman Devourment (Album, 2011)
History
The band was formed in May 2002 by Lev Kurgansky (drums), Alexander Mayevsky (bass), Ivan Kyptiliy (guitars) and Nikolay Golyk (vocals), but not had the expected success and disbanded in September, after only 4 months of limited activity. In the summer of 2008, Kurgansky resurrected Ezophagotomia and reformed them with a new line-up, which consisted in Maxim Gopkalo (bass), Yura Kowalchuk (guitars), Vitaliy Drozhdov (vocals) and Stas Cherkas (guitars) and immediatley the band commenced the rehearsals.
In January 2009, Cherkas left the band, but this not was a major problem because the band continued their work with only one guitarist; however, in March the band members retreated temporaly for made individual rehearsals. Ezophagotomia reunited in April 28, and after 1 month of rehearsal, the band launched their first demo, called Ezophagotomical Invasion; in october, the band founded a new guitarist called -Vladislav Shekmar- and after more than one year of new rehearsals and more intensive works, in January 2011 launched their debut album, called Instinct Of Inhuman Devourment.
Members
Current line-up
* Lev Kurgansky - drums, backing voice (2002, 2008-today)
* Vladislav Shekmar - guitars (2009-today)
* Vitaliy Drozhdov - vocals (2008-today)
* Maxim Gopkalo - bass, backing voice (2008-today)
* Yura Kowalchuk - guitars (2008-today)
Former members
* Ivan Kyptiliy - guitars (2002)
* Nikolay Golyk - vocals (2002, died by a unknown cause)
* Alexander Mayevsky - bass (2002)
* Stas Cherkas - guitars (2008-2009)
Discography
* Ezophagotomical Invasion (Demo, 2009)
* Instinct Of Inhuman Devourment (Album, 2011)