Inner City Elegance loves life on the road

If there is one thing that pop-punk trio Inner City Elegance knows well, it is life on the road. The Toronto-based trio, comprised of band members Bruno Rodrigues on guitar and vocals, bassist Justin Parsons and drummer Spencer Kathrens, estimates that they have been away from home for end to 3 months when we spoke with them before this week from a tour stop in Newfoundland.

At UN, Kohona Tells Rajapaksa Ban "Has Seen Video We Sent Him .

When Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his Permanent Representative to the UN Palitha Kohona left their encounter with Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday night, they paused at the elevator speaking to and about Mr. Ban.

As caught on television by Inner City Campaign and put online here, Kohona told Rajapaksa, about Ban, "He has already seen the picture we sent him.

Video: Ban sees “Lies Agreed To” but not “Killing Fields .

President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his Permanent Representative to the UN Palitha Kohona left their encounter with Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday night, they paused at the elevator speaking to and about Mr. Ban.

As caught on television by Inner City Campaign and put online here, Kohona told Rajapaksa, about Ban, "He has already seen the picture we sent him."

This would look to relate to the pro-Rajapaksa government video "Lies Agreed To," itself a purported rebuttal of the Channel 4 documentary "Killing Fields of Sri Lanka."

Along with depicting Rajapaksa government war crimes, including a word of the White Flag murders involving Palitha Kohona and Ban`s chief of staff Vijay Nambiar, "Killing Fields" criticizes the UN`s and Ban`s performance.

But Ban`s spokesman Martin Nesirky had repeatedly told Inner City Press that Ban has yet not watch Killing Fields, despite long ago being granted a DVD of the documentary.

On September 22, Nesirky`s office told Inner City Press, that the "Secretary-General has yet to see the documentary "Killing Fields of Sri Lanka", but has been thoroughly briefed on the film`s contents." Now Kohona says Ban "has already seen the picture we sent him" - the rebuttal.

Similarly, as reported by Inner City Press, decisions to not show Killing Fields within the UN but to screen "Lies Agreed To" along with Kohona and his Deputy Shavendra Silva, were taken unilaterally by Giampaolo Pioli who accepting money from Kohona, for property.

The UN briefing room, and apparently Ban Ki-moon himself, saw the government`s rebuttal without seeing the underlying documentary movie about Rajapaksa - and perhaps Nambiar`s - war crimes. Watch this YouTube video, and this site.

Footnotes on footage:How was this video filmed, and what will the UN say about it? After the initial photo op, cameramen are usually shepherded off the North Lawn building`s third floor.

But this time, the Sri Lankan national UN Security officer seen directly behind Rajapaksa in the footage arranged for the 3 other photographers, all Sri Lankan, to rest up at the entrance to Ban`s office. Inner City Press stayed as well.

When ten minutes later the meeting ended, Ban escorted Rajapaksa, Kohona, Peiris et al. to the elevator, and Inner City Press filmed. There Kohona said the above to Rajapaksa, about Ban, well out of the hearing of Ban`s spokesman, Martin Nesirky, who stopped Ban on his way back in to the waiting Montenegro delegation and asked him questions. But what did Ban tell him? And what if anything will Nesirky say? more updates on innercitypress via twitter

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Initiative for a Competitive Inner City

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The Atlantic - a longtime favorite author of news, politics and cultural commentary - last week embarked on a new journey that we are truly mad about. With Sommer Mathis and Richard Florida at the helm, The Atlantic Cities

EA FIFA Attracts Inner-City Youth, Accelerates Soccer's March .

Every day, there is a cause to think soccer is acquiring a bit nearer to being called a 'Mainstream Sport' in the U.S. Indicators pop up in allcornersof the country. It feels like a movement. Fans are displaying passion for soccer and MLS in powerful, indescribable ways.

Soccer has passed being a phenomenon in the U.S. it is beyond anyone's imagination, the point in which it has become portion of the culture.

EA FIFA Attracts Inner-City Youth, Accelerates Soccer's March .

Every day, there is a cause to think soccer is acquiring a bit nearer to being called a 'Mainstream Sport' in the U.S. Indicators pop up in allcornersof the country. It feels like a movement. Fans are displaying passion for soccer and MLS in powerful, indescribable ways.

Soccer has passed being a phenomenon in the U.S. it is beyond anyone's imagination, the point in which it has become portion of the culture.

Melbourne Futsal League Round Nine Review (VIC)

Round nine of the Melbourne Futsal League kicked off last night after Inner City & St Albans Strikers returned from F-League commitments in Sydney. It was the latter that took to the courtyard first, against the youthful Cobras Futsal Club. In their fiery red kits, St Albans peppered the Cobras goal early with shots from Avdic & Grgic going just full of the Cobras goal.