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Pong is a video game released originally as a coin-operated arcade game by Atari Inc. on November 29, 1972. Pong made a distinctive bleeping noise through an internal loudspeaker each time the ball was hit, the player gained a point in Pong when the opposing player failed to return the ball.

Kasou Taishou (欽ちゃん＆香取慎吾の全日本仮装大賞; Kinchan and Katori Shingo’s All Japan Costume Grand Prix) is a semi-annual show on NTV in which various amateurs perform short skits, which are rated by a panel of judges. One of the most successful at faking “special effects” was a skit, widely known as the “Matrix ping pong”.

Kurdistan, the homeland to more than 20 million Kurds, is a nation that exists only in the dreams of the Kurds, and in the long forgotten Treaty of Sevres, which divided up the Ottoman Empire, following World War I. The Kurds, inhabiting parts of Turkey, Iraq and Iran are the largest national group without a country.

During the 1991 Gulf War, Turkey reluctantly supported the anti-Iraq coalition, including Operation Provide Comfort, to shield Iraqi Kurds from Saddam Hussein’s revenge, while the PKK intensified its guerrilla war, operating from bases in Iraq and Syria.

In 1993, with the Gulf War over, Turkey sent 50,000 troops into Iraq, in a massive assault against Kurdish rebels, no longer protected.

In 1994, dissenting political parties were banned, elected Kurdish representatives were accused of treason and imprisoned, while others fled into exile. Turkish forces have launched air and ground attacks, ravaging as many as 3000 Kurdish villages, forcibly relocating over 3 million villagers and defoliating forests in its scorched earth campaigns to destroy the PKK. The death toll is approaching 40,000.

Turkey has moved again more troops to the mountainous Iraqi border, to monitor on an estimated 3,000 rebels of Turkey’s outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) who use northern Iraq as a base.

Yesterday Turkey sent warplanes to bomb Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) targets along the Iraqi border in southeast Turkey, the country’s semi-official Anatolia news agency has said.

Intergovernmental Agreement on the Turkey-Greece-Italy Pipeline

Press Statement
Sean McCormack, Spokesman
Washington, DC
July 26, 2007

The United States congratulates the Prime Ministers of Turkey, Greece, and Italy on their signing of the Intergovernmental Agreement for the Turkey-Greece-Italy Pipeline (TGI) today in Rome. This Agreement defines the commercial and legal framework for the transit of Caspian gas into the Pipeline, clearing the way for accelerated construction. This Agreement is a cornerstone of joint efforts by all three countries, with strong U.S. and EU support, to help Europe diversify its sources of natural gas supplies from the Caspian Sea, and to promote economic development in the Caspian region. These efforts build on strong cooperation over the past decade among the United States, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey to develop the South Caucasus gas pipeline and the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, and expand our collaboration to include key EU partners.

2007/639 – Released on July 26, 2007

“Karmacoma” is the promotional video made for the single of the same name by British trip-hop collective Massive Attack. The experimental musician Tricky collaborated and sang on the track. It premiered in May 1995 and was directed by Jonathan Glazer. The bass line sample featured is the same bass line used by Serge Gainsbourg in the song Melody from his 1971 album Historie de Melody Nelson. During the first Gulf War, several British media channels became anxious to avoid using words suggestive of war and violence, and Massive Attack (then struggling to become established) were forced to temporarily change their name to Massive.

“Sexual Healing” is a 1982 song recorded by American soul singer Marvin Gaye on the Columbia Records label.The song gave Gaye his first two Grammy Awards (Best R&B Male Vocal Performance, Best R&B Instrumental) in February 1983.

Kate Bush (born 30 July 1958) is an English singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and idiosyncratic lyrics have made her one of England’s most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years. Bush was signed by EMI at the age of 16 after being recommended by Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour. In 1978, at age 19, her début song Wuthering Heights topped the UK charts for four weeks and made her the first woman to have a UK number one with a self-written song.

Control, the debutfeature from former music press photographer Anton Corbijn , is the biopic of late Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, and is set firmly in the tradition of black & white Northern realism. The main setting is Curtis’s hometown of Macclesfield in the early 1970s, when the punk revolution happens and Curtis joins local band Warsaw.

Corbijn Interview + Control footage

Inspired by a legendary 1976 Sex Pistols gig in Manchester, the Warsaw play their first gig in May 1977. Drummer Stephen Morris is recruited and they change their name to Joy Division and releases first album Unknown Pleasures and the single Transmission. But on the eve of their first US tour Curtis, his health increasingly erratic and tortured over his love life, hangs himself at his Macclesfield home in May 1980. The single Love Will Tear Us Apart and the album Closer are posthumously released.

LONDON – British punk rock band The Sex Pistols will reform in November for one concert at Brixton Academy to mark the 30th anniversary of their album “Never Mind the Bollocks”. Tickets for the concert go on sale this Friday.

The four surviving original band members — John Lydon, Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Glen Matlock spearheaded the British Punk rock movement in the 1970s, who railed against the establishment.
The band split in 1978 shortly before the death of bassist Sid Vicious in New York from a drugs overdose.

Anarchy in the U.K. is the title track of the first single by Sex Pistols, released on November 26, 1976 (B-side “I Wanna Be Me”).