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Previews and spoilers: CSI, Lie to Me, Burn Notice
Some minor TV updates. (If you are a spoilerphobe, you wanna skip this post entirely or just scroll down to the clips.)
First, Adam at TV Guide spoils the ending of Lie to Me, “Honey”:
What can you tell me about the new season of Lie to Me? — Christina
ADAM: It’s a good thing the show bumped Mekhi Phifer up to series regular, because come Episode 2, his character will save the day when guest star Garret Dillahunt takes Lightman & Co. hostage.
Then, a poster at TWoP attempts to reconstruct the plot of the Burn Notice season finale from the casting sides six months before the air date:
I’ve read more of the casting sides for the season 3 finale, “Devil You Know” (#316), and in the episode Michael rappels down a rope into his loft via the skylight in order to avoid being captured. While at his loft, Michael calls Management to warn him that Simon has escaped and has asked Michael to help him take out Management in order to clear Michael’s name. Michael proposes that Management show up at the arranged meeting point with a team of his own to take out Simon. Michael voices over the scene that sometimes keeping your enemies’ phone numbers comes in handy if you ever need their help in the future. At the end of the scene, Michael sees an FBI team closing in on the loft, so he creates a diversion with C-4, blowing out the windows in the loft while he escapes through the skylight.
Later, Management takes a helicopter to meet Michael, but Simon knows where the helicopter is landing, and the helicopter blows up after Management has gotten out. Michael and Management are hurled to the ground.
There’s also an explosives expert named Keith in the episode, whom Sam and Fiona surprise by driving their Hyundai through a window into his house’s Miami room.
Finally, a couple of clips from the CSI season premiere, which airs next Thursday (Sept. 24). One is a teaser, the other is a scene with Laurence Fishburne and a guest star.
From the looks of it (bullet time, Morpheus), they filmed the episode in the Matrix so make sure you tune in.
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Entrance to the University of Hawaiʻi faculty housing at Kau’iokahaloa Iki Condominiums.
There is a lock in the primary gate of his home but according to Chintabathina the lock can be opened by anybody just by thrusting it upwards.
UH faculty and Kau'iokahaloa Iki Faculty Apartments resident Sandeep Chintabathina shows one of the the spots that the robbers allegedly stole valuable items on March 11.
Chintabathina’s front door after it was burglarized on March 11, 2020.
Chintabathina suspects a person was following him one week before the robbery occurred on March 11. “This guy is watching us leave and I asked the management," he said. "I want the details of that guy, I want to send it to the police. I feel like he was watching me and he was involved in this."
The pin that Chintabathina received from Locations, LLC. to keep his sliding door locked after the burglary on March 11.
UH faculty housing resident receives no closure after his home was burglarized last month
Items stolen add up to more than $10,000 worth of losses
Esther Kim and Gabrielle Parmelee | Staff Writers
Apr 23, 2020 Updated Jun 12, 2020
On March 11, University of Hawaiʻi faculty member Sandeep Chintabathina came home to his front door wide open. Upon entering, he saw everything scattered and overturned.
“I didn’t want this feeling and now I’m stuck with this feeling,” Chintabathina said after his home at University Housing, Kauʻiokahaloa Iki Condominiums, was burglarized.
The amount of items stolen from his home added up to more than $10,000 worth of losses. According to Chintabathina jewelry, vital documents, credit cards and technological equipment including computers and cameras was stolen.
The Honolulu Police Department (HPD) and the Department of Public Safety (DPS) were then called to the scene where HPD took photos and fingerprints around the home.
According to Chintabathina, his home’s sliding glass doors were improperly installed, so there was no ability to lock from the inside allowing the burglars to use a flathead screwdriver to bend the metal near the lock on the door.
Andy Lachman, manager of University Housing and Food Services at UH Mānoa, commented on the improperly installed sliding doors stating that Faculty Housing Management (FHM) “was not otherwise aware that certain hardware for the door was either missing or broken.”
Locations, LLC., a contracted group who maintains faculty housing, sent an email to tenants after Chintabathina’s home was burglarized saying that each unit is supposed to have a pin that keeps sliding glass doors locked. They sent maintenance workers to Chintabathina’s home, who then buffed out the bent metal of his sliding glass door, but did not replace it.
This is not uncommon at these faculty residences, according to another former resident of Kau‘iokahaloa Nui Apartments, who wished to remain anonymous due to privacy concerns. They experienced something “eerily similar” from what he described; a burglary and property damage.
“Prior to this year, those [burglary] cases weren’t shared publicly in the same way that every moped theft that happened at UH are,” the former resident of Nui Apartments said.
Chintabathina said that because he is not part of UH Mānoa faculty, he was not informed of previous burglaries either. Notifications on UH Mānoa’s properties are limited to UH Mānoa associated faculty and students, unless a request is made to be added to the emergency notification list.
Locations, LLC. declined to comment on these burglary incidents.
DPS spokesperson Sarah Rice said measures to decrease these burglaries have been addressed.
“That person [Chintabathina] is in a really unique position at that point because they wouldn’t be on the Mānoa list because they are not a part of the Mānoa campus,” Rice said.
However, Rice affirmed that DPS has increased patrols on Faculty Housing and has been actively collaborating with housing management to address residents’ concerns.
“We added foot patrols and bike patrols as well and there is an officer assigned to each patrol area,” Rice said.
FHM confirmed that DPS regularly patrols the faculty housing properties.
“We had also scheduled a ‘town hall meeting’ with DPS, HPD and faculty residents to discuss any concerns, however unfortunately, the event has been deferred due to COVID-19,” Lachman added.
DPS is also playing an advisory role to Faculty Housing in regards to maximizing security for university housing.
“Even though it is not in our purview to install anything physically... What we advise them on is really depending on what they are requesting and what they are hearing from residents,” Rice said.
It is dependent on FHM and Locations, LLC. to upkeep this stream of communication in order to keep all residents of faculty housing safe.
“We have appreciated our residents’ cooperation in working with us on the unit assessments,” added Lachman on behalf of FHM.
These unit assessments include safety and maintenance checks. With the increase of burglaries in the Honolulu area as confirmed by both DPS, HPD and FHM, high alert is mandatory.
“We are certainly not immune in faculty housing [to burglaries]...it is important that if faculty residents see something, to say something. Call us even if you are not sure,” Rice said.
Regardless of the steps being taken, Chintabathina expressed his unease now that his home has been violated.
“I get the same feeling every time I come home now...I get a feeling like this person entered my home; this person took our stuff...” he said.
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What do you need to get a good workout? The right equipment, comfortable sneakers, some cold water? How about a joint? The idea of mixing pot and push-ups may sound absurd, but it’s actually the basis of a real business model from a famous athlete.
Former NFL football player Ricky Williams and partner Jim McAlpine are planning to open the world’s first cannabis-gym in San Francisco later this year. The goal of “Power Plant Fitness” will be “to incorporate full mind training along with body training.” Customers will be encouraged to bring their own marijuana products or buy the pre- and post-workout, drug-infused edibles that the company will sell on site.
In terms of core business competencies, each partner can be considered an expert in both workouts and weed. After 20+ years in the ski and snowboard industry, McAlpine founded the 420 Games, “a series of athletic events advocating responsible use of cannabis,” designed to “destigmatize the many people who use it in a positive manner.”
The 420 Games take place in a handful of western cities (San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Denver, and Boulder) and involve one main athletic event: a 4.2 mile “fun run,” the idea of which is to take the typical 5K (3.1 mile) jaunt and go an extra mile “for cannabis respect.” A 420 event also normally includes "beer tasting, great music and educational speeches.”
Ricky Williams is perhaps an even greater leader when it combining sports and stash. Not only did he win the Heisman Trophy while a Texas Longhorn running back in 1998, his 2,124 rushing yards that season set a new collegiate record. Williams kept on running into the NFL, where he amassed 10,009 yards and 66 rushing touchdowns, setting Dolphins franchise records for single-season yards and touchdowns.
Williams’ professional career was also distinguished by run-ins with NFL rules. He “violated the league's drug policy a total of four times—three times for marijuana and once for another substance.” Williams claimed that cannabis was a preferred approach for reducing pain and taking care of his body, an argument he now maintains under the mission of Power Plant Fitness.
Perhaps Williams has a point. Most of us can’t imagine the beating the body of an NFL running back takes. Maybe marijuana is a way to escape some of the post-impact pain. Also, the legal acceptance of cannabis continues to grow. Twenty U.S. states have now legalized marijuana for medical purposes, and four states (Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington) permit its recreational use. What’s more, one-in-three Americas have supposedly tried the drug.
I’ve never used drugs, played in the NFL, or suffered severe physical trauma that might merit some extreme medical treatment, so it’s hard for me to refute Williams’ point, other than to suggest that thousands of other elite athletes somehow manage without weed. A more direct debate is whether a fitness center should encourage ordinary athletes to use marijuana as part of their routine exercise regimen.
In tackling this question, it’s important to consider the effects of cannabis. Whether it’s smoked in a reefer, drunk as tea, or baked into brownies, THC, active ingredient in the hemp plant “makes you feel high.” That euphoria is, of course, the sensation that most pot users are pursuing, but they may not recognize the other effects that cannabis has on one’s body, like the ones that WebMD identifies:
“It affects almost every organ in your body, and your nervous system and immune system, too.”
“Smoking pot can increase your heart rate by as much as two times for up to 3 hours. That’s why some people have a heart attack right after they use marijuana.”
“It can increase bleeding, lower blood pressure, and affect your blood sugar, too."
Because smoking irritates your lungs “regular pot smokers are more likely to have an ongoing cough and to have lung-related health problems like chest colds and lung infections.”
While each of these potential outcomes is concerning, some other related side-effects make the combination of pot and exercise seem seriously irresponsible: Marijuana often causes dizziness, shallow breathing, and slowed reaction time. These are certainly not the kinds of symptoms one wants to experience while lifting weights, striding on an elliptical machine, or doing most other kinds of exercise.
Another very important consideration is that Power Plant Fitness is a public gym, not one’s residence, which means customers need to travel to and from the facility. It’s reasonable to expect that some people will make that commute in a drug-impaired state, which could be extremely risky, especially if those customers are driving.
Drugs.com warns, “Do not drive, operate machinery, or perform other hazardous activities while using cannabis. It may cause dizziness, drowsiness, and impaired judgment . . . making activities such as driving a car or operating machinery difficult and dangerous.” WebMD adds, “If you drive after using marijuana, your risk of being in a car accident more than doubles.”
People tend to use marijuana because of the ecstasy they experience, but there also can be a variety of negative psychological consequences including anxiety, depression, paranoia, random thinking, and short-term forgetfulness.
Perhaps the biggest risks of cannabis use, however, are addiction and potential transition to more serious drugs. “Nearly 10% of people who use [marijuana] become dependent on it.” In addition, although the evidence is still unclear, it’s possible that cannabis use could inspire one to experiment with harder drugs like heroin and cocaine.
A big variable impacting Power Plant Fitness’s potential success is the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes, which should appear on the ballot in California this November. If the referendum passes and Californians gain wide-ranging use of cannabis, it’s likely the gym will experience a flood of business—my speculation based on the apparent success of the 420 Games and America’s increasing acceptance of pot.
Still, the picture of people combining exercise and ecstasy is not a pretty one for society. Besides the many negative physical and psychological outcomes outlined above, there also seems to be real potential for other drug use to increase and for people to try to integrate those addictions into other areas of their lives, like work and home. For these reasons, encouraging weed-aided workouts represents the bad state of “Single-Minded Marketing.”
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I also see both sides of the story. I believe weed is a drug that when used responsibly and connected to the right illness's such as chrones disease is acceptable. However, I believe it should only be used in those such instances. Athletes have many other channels and ways of taking care of their bodies. This also sends a horrible message to our youth saying its ok to use weed when ever you want because it makes you feel good and helps you work out. I also think their are other methods to help you in a work out such as "pre-work out" mixes that much healthier and better for athletes. I would also say it is single minded.
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Invasion Of The Body Snatchers | 1978
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers location: the home of Elizabeth Driscoll: Steiner Street, San Francisco
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Veronica Cartwright,
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Don Siegel,
Philip Kaufman goes back to Jack Finney’s novel The Body Snatchers and, from the opening sequence of pods launching into space, follows a more overtly sci-fi path than Don Siegel’s 1956 classic of paranoia.
The modestly-budgeted production uses sound and visuals, entirely on real locations around San Francisco, to conjure up a wonderfully creepy atmosphere.
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers location: the priest on the swing: Children's Playground, Alamo Square Park, Steiner Street, San Francisco
The alien life forms start budding on the plants in Alamo Square Park on Steiner Street southwest of the city centre, where there’s a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo from Robert Duvall as a priest on a swing.
Elizabeth Driscoll (Brooke Adams) lives with partner Geoffrey (Art Hindle) opposite at 720 Steiner Street, one of the picturesque group of Victorian houses facing the park dubbed the Painted Ladies, or Postcard Row.
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers location:Bennell works in the Department of Public Health: Grove Street, Civic Center, San Francisco
Elizabeth works with Matthew Bennell, (Donald Sutherland) at the Department of Public Health, 101 Grove Street, in the Civic Center district.
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers location: the kitchen of the 'French restaurant': Bimbo's 365 Club, Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
The ‘French restaurant’ in which Bennell disputes whether a foreign object in the stock is a caper or a rat turd, is Bimbo’s 365 Club, 1025 Columbus Avenue at Chestnut Street. The club originally opened in 1931 and has occupied the premises on Columbus since 1951. By the way, if you want to see the outside of Bimbo’s, you can glimpse it in Bullitt as the famous car chase begins in earnest on Columbus.
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers location: “They’re coming! They’re already here!”: Leavenworth Street at Eddy Street, Tenderloin, San Francisco
Elizabeth worriedly confides that her partner has somehow ‘changed’ to Bennell as he’s driving north on Leavenworth Street in the rundown Tenderloin district as a crazed man hammers on the car window to warn them “They’re coming! They’re already here!”.
This is of course Kevin McCarthy briefly reprising his role as Miles Bennell in the 1956 movie. He’s mysteriously being chased by a mob and, on turning right from Leavenworth onto Eddy Street, Matthew and Elizabeth are shocked to see him lying apparently dead on the sidewalk in front of the Hamlin Hotel, 385 Eddy Street.
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers location: the hysterical man is left lying on the sidewalk: Eddy Street, Tenderloin, San Francisco
If you want to find out more about the history of the Tenderloin, ‘Ringside Liquors’, which you can see on the street corner, is now the Tenderloin Museum, 398 Eddy Street, recording the history of the district.
Oddly, when Bennell later reports this incident to the police he describes it as ‘Leavenworth and Turk’.
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers location: the launch at the book store: Clement Street, San Francisco
Elizabeth and Matthew are on their way to a book launch by writer of fashionable psychobabble Dr Kibner (Leonard Nimoy). The bookstore, at which they also meet up with grumpily cynical Jack Bellicec (Jeff Goldblum) is now restaurant Eats, 50 Clement Street at 2nd Avenue, west toward the Richmond District.
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers location: Bennell gives Bellicec a little talking-to: Clement Street at 2nd Avenue, San Francisco
When things begin to get a little fractious, Bennell takes Bellicec outside for a little talking-to outside what is now the optometrist store on the southeast corner of Clement and 2nd.
‘Bellicec’s Mud Baths’ were built in an empty store near Clement Street, and loosely based on the real Calistoga Mud Baths in the Napa Valley wine-producing region some 50 miles north of San Francisco.
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers location: the humans hide out in Bennell's house: Montgomery Street, North Beach, San Francisco
As the reality of the ‘pod people’ becomes undeniable, the remaining humans gather at Bennell’s house, 1227 Montgomery Street, at Montague Place, in North Beach. It’s just north of the apartment of Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) from Basic Instinct.
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers location: escaping down the steps from the pod people: Napier Lane, Filbert Street Steps, North Beach, San Francisco
There are no steps from the rear of the house. The fugitives’ narrow escape route is the Filbert Street Steps, running east from Montgomery a couple of blocks north. You might recognise these steps as the ones up which Parry (Humphrey Bogart) struggles after his plastic surgery in 1947 film noir Dark Passage, to the magnificent art deco home of Irene (Lauren Bacall) which stands on Montgomery at the top of the climb.
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers location: evading the mob of pod people: Pier 33, Embarcadero, San Francisco
They head to the Embarcadero on the Bay front, where Bellicec nobly sacrifices himself to distract the screaming mob at Pier 33.
By the glittering lights of Broadway, Elizabeth and Matthew hail a cab to take them to the airport. Don Siegel, director of the 1956 film, puts in an appearance as the driver who takes them through the downtown Broadway Tunnel only to deliver them to a podfolk roadblock.
Back at the Department of Health on Grove Street, the scale of the invasion becomes clear as countless pods are being loaded onto trucks and the sudden appearance of the disturbing banjo-plucker/dog hybrid disrupts their cover as emotionless poddies.
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers location: the ending: San Francisco City Hall, Civic Center, San Francisco
Bennell and Elizabeth manage to escape in a truck but only as far as the ‘pod central’ warehouse near 3rd and 22nd Streets in the waterfront Dogpatch district.
The famously shocking ending, the next morning, takes place alongside the row of leafless and weirdly pollarded (stubbily cut back) Sycamore trees of the formal gardens in front of San Francisco City Hall.
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Chris St-Cyr And Mason Cluett Interview
July 15, 2018 | by LoveSkateMag
Everybody knows a guy that could fit in the category of « Alien ». These people are always admired but often misunderstood. These guys will do some of the most astonishing, thought to be impossible type tricks, and you can`t possibly understand their process. Most of the time it’s them that will write history, because their stories are always shared and remembered. Chris St-Cyr is definitely that Alien from the Montreal skate scene. When he shows up, you always know that something is gonna happen, and make that day memorable. And just wait `til you meet Mason Cluett!
Mason, Gap to crooked, Montreal
Chris, how old are you, and where do you live?
Chris– I live in Montreal and I’m 28 years old, been skating for 21 years. But I did not really skate stuff the first 4 years, I broke all my bycicles in the pit next to my house. At one point my father did’t want to buy me more bikes. So my cousin gave me a skateboard, and I went to school skateboarding.
Did you always live in Montreal?
Chris– No, I come from Repentigny.
How was the skate scene in Repentigny?
Chris– There was fuck all man! Well, there were older guys, but from my age there was nobody who skated. It was really until my 10/11 years, they opened a skatepark right next to us, indoor. It made a boom in the area, and everyone started to skate. Even all the older guys started to skate again. That’s when I realized you could do stuff, otherwise for me it was just the Ninja Turtles and Bart Simpson.
How did skateboarding come into the picture for you, out of the Ninja Turtles?
Chris– Seeing some older high school guys, they did some tre-flips, « Oh! This guy is a magician! », I found it magical, there’s something Shaman inside, it’s magic with skateboarding.
Chris, Switch crooked, Quebec
How old are you, and where are you living Mason?
Mason– I’m 22 and I’m from the south-shore. I’m living in Delson.
Oh, you are neighbour of Phil Dulude?
Mason– Yeah!
Have you started to skate with him?
Mason– No, I had other friends from the local skatepark. I’ve never skated with him. I would see him sometimes.
Oh you’ve never had a sesh together?
Mason– No, we live right beside each other.
Have you been to his house?
Mason– I’ve been inside once, but mostly skated the ramp that his dad built. It`s amazing, they have ramps everywhere! Rails and half pipes in their court.
Mason, Kickflip noseslide, Montreal
How did you start skateboarding?
Mason– I don`t even know, I think I hit my head too many times ahaha. All I remember is having a board, not getting one. I remember I saw it on TV or something, and I was like « I wanna do that! », you know?
When did you start?
Mason– I started when I was 6 or 7, just like cruising around and then started to get into it more, popping tricks and stuff. But I never had the right board, my first board was some flat « Yu-Gi-Oh », from Canadian Tire. But I would see the other kids and older guys riding real boards with the tail and everything, and I was like « fuck, I want that ». So I broke my board on purpose, and I told my dad it snapped and that I needed a new one. So he got a new one, and when he actually saw that this is what I wanted to do, he started to put more money into it.
“a security guard chasing him for a
first-try line. He shut down the demo, in front of Jamie Thomas and everyone else.”
What was your first real board?
Mason– It was an Eric Koston Girl board, my dad bought me the full set up, like Royal Trucks, I forget the wheels and the bearings, must have been some Bones Bearings.
And you Chris?
Chris– The one my cousin gave me, it was an old oldschool board shaped like a boat, like a Powell-Peralta something like that. But my real first skate, was a Bones Brigade.
Chris, coming from left bank, Ollie over the poles to the right bank, Montreal
Who were the first local-hero skaters you’ve seen?
Chris– I never really look up to the world that are in the videos, it’s mostly locals, like among others Merlin. When I was kid, at the skatepark next to my house, Merlin came from his squat once in a while, and it was like everyone stopped skating! You were just watching him, the guy was doing Kickflip Backside Melon 7 feet higher than the coping. When I was a kid, I wanted to skate like him. He was better than any pro.
Do you have a story about Merlin?
Chris– I was too young to understand that he was on the drink, but you saw him, he was loose, he arrived in the park and it was all first try! He left for 5mins, he was probably drinking a beer or something, and then he came back, landed trick after trick.
At a Circa demo, back in the days at Hochelaga, they had done one in a parking lot, with a set up KC project. Merlin was in the audience with everyone, and it was like Jamie Thomas and these guys kept doing the same thing. At one point, he was just sick of seeing only smith grinds and lipslides, so he stole a board from someone, jumped over the fence, and had a security guard chasing him for a first-try line. He shut down the demo, in front of Jamie Thomas and everyone else.
Mason– Oh fuck, Malade!
“When I saw the Baker video, I was sold! Ahaha, I was like « Fuck yeah, party! »”
Mason, Tre-flip to fakie, Quebec
Who was your local-hero, Mason?
Mason– When I was kid, I didn’t follow all that stuff. I was skating cause I wanted to skate. I didn’t have magazines or watch videos. It was more by myself, doing my own thing. But the first video I saw was probably the Rodney Mullen VS Daewon Song and a 411VM video. I guess I saw Ryan Sheckler when he was young and going big, jumping down big stuff. I wanted to do that, but I didn’t have any influences, I didn`t even have friends to skate with. My dad brought me to the skatepark and I would skateboard by myself.
What was your first spot or skatepark?
Mason– For sure South-Park on Tachereau, the indoor park! My dad would sit and watch me skate. Be by myself, little kid, no friends, no nothing.
And then when I started to get older and talk more, I finally found some friends that I would skate with, that was cool. But being an English kid, everybody around was French and I didn’t really speak it. Once I got friends and stuff it was sick, because skating alone is hard.
Chris– The skatepark next to me, but it was $10, I went once in a while. Otherwise next to me, there was the city hall, it’s a big spot where the little scene from my hood was going. It’s like a plaza with lots of manny pad and curbs.
Who were the guys from your hood?
Chris– Jason McDonald, he skated on Temple for a while. LP Brunelle, he came from Riviere-Des-Prairies, it’s not close but he came to skate often, when we saw him we were like: “oh shit!”.
When did you come to Montreal?
Chris– At about 12 years old, the summer before high school I secretly caught the bus.
It was the beginning of the 2000s, they had just made the square Berri. There were spots in marble, full of spots everywhere. I was surprised, I saw the whole city like a skatepark. Big difference when you come from a small village where there is nothing to skate.
Mason– 4 years ago I started coming maybe. When I turned 18, I was like, « Alright, I`m gonna go drink and stuff ». It was insane, too much stuff everywhere, but don’t know where to go either, that’s the thing. It`s only like the last 2 years that I started to film and actually find spots. But when I first came and skated here, I was like « holy fuck, everything is different » and more rough, you know? More rugged and stuff.
“You have to accept the pain”
Who is the best in Canada for you?
Mason– Chris! Ahaha he killin` it!
Chris– In Montreal, at this moment I would say the 2 Ians! Ian Clelland and Ian Tremblay! The last 2 years they’ve killed it the most.
Clelland, it’s been a while that he`s killing it. People just discovered him recently, I`ve known him a long time, like when he was still living in Ontario. He he was skating with the boys from Axis, he was still a kid. I’ve always known him really well, we met at least 7 years ago.
Chris– Stephane Lalonde too, guys like Carl Labelle. There were a lot of people like that who stopped who were close to being pro.
Any skate videos you’ve been glued too?
Chris– Menikmati, the part with Penny! I watched it 1001 times on VHS when I was kid. Otherwise I’d say Flip – Sorry, this is the first time I saw a film at a “premiere” in front of Peace Park. In addition, film had fucked up, there were problems with the premiere. I would say that movies back in the days were more prominent too. The companies were waiting 4/5 years to release their films. You did not have a video every 2 weeks that came out. And the films of Eric Lebeau were great, I always found these remarkable, his manner of editing the stuff.
Lebeau is super creative, you always remember his videos!
Mason– Yeah, I’ve been on trips with that dude! He sees everything differently. Just to see him filming in a different direction,like « What is he doing? » ahaha.
He’s got a good vision!
Chris– Bootleg too, I found it more sick than Baker, it’s a company that doesn’t exist anymore. With Ryan Nix, he was fucking good!
Mason– When I saw the Baker video, I was sold! Ahaha, I was like « Fuck yeah, party! »
Chris– All the other videos when I was kid, like 411 or whatever, it was like “athletes”. It was one of the things that turned me off of it, I didn`t check the videos so much, I found that was wack a bit. In my time, it was the X-games that you saw on RDS, and I did not find that nice with their helmets and their pads. When an older dude showed me the Baker 2G at the skateshop, I was like «hoooooo! ok that’s it!!» That’s the other side of skateboarding! ULC also in time, their old movies were also cool.
Chris, Coming from right bank, Hurricane transfer to left bank, Montreal
Chris, you’re not the kind to warm up before skate a spot, you just go for it. What is your secret?
Chris– At some point, you understand that you could never do your thing as beautiful, as naturally, as when you do it first try. Even if the land isn`t first try, you must first-try it. And go naturally without thinking.
If you see something in your head, and it’s real, if you believe it for real, go for it. When you see the people on the rails that hesitate, it’s almost sure that they will hurt themselves. But if he thought “oh! I can do it”, he may not have it, but it will not hurt. I try to think less about it. That’s it, when I think about it, I hurt myself. I am someone who analyzes a lot, I will analyze all the negatives factors and that’s when I’m going to hurt myself.
But, how did you have that vision of skateboarding, did it came to you naturally? Or you learned it from someone else?
Chris– Before I was not like that, I thought too much. I just found my solution to make it as painless as possible!
Mason– If you feel it, you will do it, if not then save it for later.
Chris– That’s it, I can do it, but do I feel it today? Is it the right day? It’s all about timing. Skateboarding is Shaman, man. You have to try to control, but at the same time things are not controllable. You will try to be able to control what you can control.
Mason– You have to accept the pain, haha!
Its like a mental barrier, you have to get over it.
Chris– That’s why I do not like it to shoot so much. Because if you`re there with the photographer or filmer at the spot, but you don`t feel it that day.
Then you feel like you`re forced to do it! Plus it takes me at least 20mins to set up and everything, you have lots of time to lose your focus.
Chris– Lebeau he knows me well, he told you about it this summer. I have fun to land as many tricks as possible before he set up his camera. That’s why now he’s taking the camera right away.
It’s not to play with the people, it’s just to take the pressure off me.
Mason, C-turn to frontside lipslide, Montreal
Weed before or after the sesh?
Chris– What is that question? You know me Babas!
Yes, you are before-after and everything in the middle, and you take some advance for the next day, haha!
Chris– I realized that this year for skateboarding, smoking is not the best. I`d rather have the heal-balls.
Your special pills you mean?
Chris– Yes, but these days what I take is some weed butter.
Are you making some toast in the morning with it?
Chris– Yes, in the coffee it is not bad, it’s kind of unctuous. It’s more a body feeling. It’s different, you’re mellow but you’re good. I am someone hyperactive. I pound the nerves easily. It’s like the dudes that get nerves on their skateboard, when I was kid I was like that. And then I discovered the weed. I was like, you had to cool down man, it’s not good to get the nerves on your skateboard.
Was what in your pills?
Chris– It’s from canabidiol extract, but I had 2 kinds, one was CBD plus for the mind, and the other one was more for the sleep.
“I found it magical, there’s something Shaman inside, it’s magic with skateboarding.”
That was the one you had this summer on trip?
Chris– No it was another one, that was the magic potion ahah.
What about you Mason?
Mason– All the time, with a couple of beers haha!
Tell us about your trip to Toronto you made for the Mehrathon video?
Mason– That was fucking sick! It was my first trip with them. There is so many spots in Toronto. That Skydome spot with the big stairs and a rail. We went at night after going to a restaurant, I was drunk and felt nothing but I was like, « yeah I`m gonna do something on this, we will come back tomorrow! » and the next morning my ankle was fucked, I couldn’t walk so I couldn’t do it, I was so bummed.
Chris– That’s what I used to say, skateboarding and momemtum. Even if you were drunk, but you felt it. If you had tried, you would not feel your ankle because you were drunk, you would have had it, or not. Because your state of mind “I got it”.
Mason– Yeah, because I wanted to kickflip front board down it, so I was doing 20 kickflips up top. But the next morning I was paralyzed.
Chris, Sugarcane, Montreal
You are both on Palm Isle skateshop, how did you get in?
Mason– I was skating the contest « wednesday night » thing, and I was going to the shop and getting to know Oli, I think I sent some footage. After a while he told me « Yep, you’re on! ». Oli is doing a lot for me.
Chris– I rode for another shop before that I’m not really proud of, and the manager of this shop played in a band. In that time Palm Isle had 3 owners. It had Frank Ouellet, he played bass in that band with the manager with whom I got along well with at the shop that sponsored me. When this shop closed, he made me meet Frank. I was on the north shore, and Palm Isle was on the south shore. I went there, I dropped down on Friday, they had like an apartment in the backstore and the dude was hanging on the weekends to go skate with the older guys. At the time Palm Isle gave nothing to their riders, but it was not a question of being cheap or whatever, they started it with $5,000 or less. You wanted to ride for them, to be in that crew not to have free boards. Otherwise I would have been on Empire or that kind of crap.
Yeah Palm Isle is a real family!
Chris– At the time it was called the skate mafia. Just because they’ve had this crew and colors, you wanted to have the fucking hoodie of the Palm, you wanted to be part of the squad.
You recognize the real, those who need to pay to have people who represent them, and those who represent for real.
Chris, how would you describe Mason?
Chris– I have not known him for so long, the first time I had skated with Mason was on the roadtrip to Quebec. To be honest, I tried to a hate a little. Because we were an old family of the Palm, and made him part of the new school. Deep down I was trying to hate you a little. But dude, he is too smooth, you see he likes to have fun, and he is fucking good! It’s mostly what shook me, it’s natural. He is down for flip-in on rails, but not necessarily to get a shot. Because there are some who are like « Do you think it could go in the mag? » You see that Mason skates for himself.
Mason, how would you describe Chris?
Mason– He’s fuckin` fresh! Fuckin`fresh dude! He sees things so differently, like you said, we will walk somewhere, find some stuff, and just find something fuckin` rad! He will make you to want to skate more.
Mason, Kinked boardslide, Laval. Photo Monk Lavoie
Thanks and sponsors?
Mason– Shake Junt, Palm Isle, Mehrathon, Emerica, Timebomb, Furn, Independent, Centre Distribution. Family, all my friends, everybody who has been there and who helped me out when times were rough. Thanks a lot.
Chris– Palm Isle, and thanks to everybody who helped me through life. I can’t remember everybody.
Mason– Merci Babas!
Chris– Yes, merci Babas.
INTERVIEW & PHOTO BY BABAS LEVRAI / EXCEPT MENTIONNED
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Were you one of the many Australian children who played on old steamrollers set up in municipal parks after they were no longer required by local councils? Steamrollers, more correctly called road-rollers, were the last type of steam vehicles used on roads. Ironically, it was the growing popularity of vehicles powered by internal combustion engines that led to the proliferation of steamrollers to compact roads both before and after tar was applied, creating a smooth road surface.
By 1910 motor cars were becoming so popular that local authorities and councils had to attend to road making and surfacing. Horse-drawn or steam-powered vehicles travelled at slow speeds and so generated little dust, but cars travelled at well over twice their speed, making dust a great problem, not to mention mud in the wet. Also, the first car owners were generally people of influence and affluence who no doubt put pressure where it was needed to have roads tarred.
The first successful road-rollers were developed in France by Lemoine and later Gelleret whose machine was an adaptation of the railway engine. In 1867, the progressive Thomas Aveling of Rochester in Kent, England, supplied a massive 30-ton machine to the Liverpool Corporation. Aveling and Porter continued research and development and in 1870, the final form of the roller emerged. This was a simple horizontal type boiler with a single or compound engine behind a chimney with chain or gear drive to the rear wheels, similar to the fast-developing traction engine of the day. Steering was by worm gear and chain attached to the protruding front roll spindle. The roller itself had a kingpin that swivelled through a plate bracket in an iron saddle well forward of the smoke box door. This became the standard pattern for all three-wheeled rollers.
This 6 hp steamroller in the Museum’s collection was built by the foremost steamroller manufacturer, Aveling and Porter, and is one of about 8, 600 rollers made by them. It left the factory on 14th May 1923 and was exported to Australia for use by Bowral Municipal Council in the Southern Highlands of NSW. Rollers of this type were introduced shortly after the First World War and were amongst the first built by the company on standard jigs to give maximum standardisation of parts. The roller was used by the council until about 1955 when it was driven to the Goulburn Steam Museum for display there. It was purchased by the Powerhouse Museum in 1977 and restored to steaming condition in the mid-1980s. If you want see the Aveling and Porter steam road-roller it’s currently on display at the Powerhouse Discovery Centre at Castle Hill in NW Sydney.
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National Medal of Honor Day
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March 25, 2013, marks the 150th anniversary of the first Medal of Honor awarded.
Our nation’s greatest war heroes – Medal of Honor recipients – will personally present awards to four unsung citizen heroes who’ve saved lives in extraordinary circumstances, during a special ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. Approximately 20 Medal of Honor recipients are expected to attend the ceremony.
The recipients will first commemorate Medal of Honor Day, on the 150th anniversary of the Medal’s first presentation, with a wreath-laying at 2:00 at the Tomb of the Unknowns. The recipients will then present the Citizen Service Before Self Honors (CSBSH) awards at 2:30 to four honorees selected from a nationwide campaign for going above and beyond for their fellow man.
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Sinopharm’s COVID-19 vaccine scores approval in China
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China’s state-owned pharmaceutical company Sinopharm has scored approval from Chinese health authorities after reporting a 79% efficacy rate in phase 3 trials.
The vaccine has been granted a conditional marketing approval, after 60,000 volunteers took part in phase 3 clinical trials across China, UAE and Bahrain.
Last week, the company said that the vaccine’s ‘protective efficacy’ against COVID-19 was 79.34%, slightly less than the previously reported efficacy rate of 86% in UAE.
In a separate statement, published on 2 January, Sinopharm added that “because the standards of diagnosis of infection cases and review process of phase 3 clinical trials vary in different countries, the 86% efficacy rate announced by UAE and 79.34% by China are both real and valid”.
The efficacy rate of other COVID-19 vaccines, namely those developed by Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech, have reported particular high efficacy rates of 94.1% and 95%, respectively.
AstraZeneca/Oxford University’s jab, which was recently approved in the UK, has a rate similar to Sinopharm’s vaccine, reporting a 70.4% efficacy rate in phase 3 trials.
“After a series of strict reviews, verification, test and data analysis in accordance with the law and procedures, it is concluded that the known and potential benefits of Sinopharm's new inactivated coronavirus vaccine are bigger than the known and potential risks, and it fully meets the pre-set requirements of conditional marketing standards," said Chen Shifei, deputy commissioner of China's National Medical Products Administration.
Another vaccine, currently being developed by Chinese biotech Sinovac, produced neutralising antibodies in a mid-stage trial, according to results published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases last November.
The trial researchers found that a more robust antibody response against COVID-19 was generated and ‘longer persistence’ could be expected in the day 0 and 28 vaccination schedule compared to the day 0 and 14 schedule.
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Metal outfit Death Of An Era have released their debut album "Black Bagged", via Artery Recordings/Razor and Tie Records. Frontman vocalist Daniel Simpson discusses that album and plans these guys have in-store for themselves and us in the coming future.
1. Can you give those of us who aren't familiar with Death of an Era a brief history of the band and can you please describe your sound for those who have yet to hear your music?
Daniel: We're just a group of guys making music, doing what we love. We built our fan base over the years with smaller release and regional shows and just built from there. We signed in early 2013 with Artery Recordings and Razor & Tie. We put out an EP called "The Great Commonwealth" and have been touring off it ever since. Our first full length dropped the 23rd of June. Without getting too muddled with sub genres and whatnot, I'd say we're a heavy band with a good amount of technicality, accompanied by choruses and breakdowns.
2. Could you describe your song writing process? What comes first – the music or the lyrics?
Daniel: The music always comes first. I usually keep concepts in mind before writing, but I prefer to write lyrics to the music, rather than force them where they don't fit.
3. Why did you think and want "Big Brother" and "The Global Movement" as your two singles? Will you also be releasing videos to accompany these or will other songs be chosen?
Daniel: Both tracks had the variety of musical and lyrical content that we wanted people to hear first. We did our best to represent the album with those songs. You'll just have to wait and see about those videos!
4. What was the recording process like this time around? Was there anything different that happened or was it the same old studio thing?
Daniel: This was our first time to be able to stay in a studio and write for a month straight. Working every day really kept things moving and didn't give ideas the chance to die out.
5. Can you tell us how this album differs from the previous EPs? What can we expect and what is the message behind it?
Daniel: The full length is more or less an expansion of the last EP. It contains a lot of the same concepts, both lyrically and instrumentally. We were able to take certain parts and really run with them through the 12 tracks. This release is heavily political but also has other themes to keep things from getting monotonous.
6. What does “Black Bagged” mean to you all?
Daniel: For those of you who aren't familiar with the term, it refers to the clandestine actions of "powers that be" when throwing sacks over the heads of rebellious or outspoken citizens and throwing them in the back of a van never to be heard from again.
7. How does the album art relate to the music on the album?
Daniel: Its conceptual in nature and tied to the title. In the foreground, there's hooded figure that represents the "Black Bagged' part of things, while there are several screens displaying acts of terrorism by the American government.
8. “Black Bagged” the title portray a political appeal, can you expand on the title's representation?
Daniel: Sure just refer to the previous answer in question 7.
9. Kevin Lankford produced this album what was it about him that you saw would fit Death of an Era's style?
Daniel: He was the same producer we worked with on the last release and it just felt like a natural fit.
10. Do you think there is an element of the band’s sound that you would like to push out further on the next batch of songs? With so much going on in your sound, obviously there are elements that might get further explored?
Daniel: As we just released a full length album, a lot could change in how we want to the next album to sound before we sit down and record it. We'll just figure it out along the way.
11. What is in the future for Death of an Era? Any tours or shows on the horizon?
Daniel: Management always has things in the work, but nothing we can say just yet.
Close Your Eyes Line In The Sand News Videos
CLOSE YOUR EYES RLEASES “LINE IN THE SAND” VIDEO
Close Your Eyes have released a new video for their song "Line In The Sand" HERE.
Dog Society In The Shade Losing Her Again New Singles New Songs News Our Own Parade Videos
Dog Society Releases Two New Songs Off New Album
Dog Society have their new album coming out "In The Shade" on July 22nd and have already released two songs "Our Own Parade" HERE and "Losing Her Again" HERE.
EP Reviews Reviews The Road That We Travel The Unlikely Hero
The Unlikely Hero - The Road That We Travel
The Unlikely Hero's EP "The Road That We Travel" provides you with another pop punk rock act except this one isn't all fast and hyper like many. These guys bring down the hype to a more mellow dramatic ton of melody and rhythm. The instrumentals are toned down to having that catchy beat that isn't sped up and so fast paced it's slowed down to be enjoyable and soothing, the guitars and bass working together while the vocals and drums bounce off one another, connecting the music as a whole it sounds good keeps to the beats, having you bob your head here and there while easily singing right along to the lyrical context. The Unlikely Hero have got an EP release that takes the pop punk rock style expressing it to a more in-depth concept appeal that makes the music more at ease with its listener than previous processors.
CD Reviews Reviews Starset Transmissions
Starset - Transmissions
Literal rockstars Starset have written and recorded and signed on to Razor and Tie to unleash their debut album "Transmissions". An album that takes you on a journey to the stars and galaxies far, far, away, perhaps even further than that even. The album itself is a concept release that is built around love songs written about the fascination of astronomy and the Universe surrounding it. The songs and lyrics are crafted with poetic trance, that really captures the music as a whole. The instrumentals capturing the essence with their melodic flow, guitar riffs, drum tactics, bass lines and vocal chords working like a speed of light with crushing screams coming in between them, really makes the music that more eye opening that it pops! Starset's style and sound is impressive and unique as other bands have been described, but it's the way that Starset decrypts themselves. They have built a style of sound, that they know works well for them, that it's so mesmerizing to hear, it's hard to place them, making them that more crafty at what they do.
A Long Summer In Ohio EP Reviews Hit The Ground Running Reviews
Hit The Ground Running - A Long Summer In Ohio
Hit The Ground Running's "A Long Summer In Ohio" is the debut EP release by the pop punk act who as many others before them sounds just like the rest. These guys do provide that pop punk sound that resembles a lot like other acts like All Time Low, 5 Seconds Of Summer, and Boys Like Girls. A handful of the songs offered like "Everyone Knows Virgins Don't Go To State Colleges", "Falling Apart", and "Tattoo", give you pretty much an expectation of the style quality and sound sense with groovy guitar licks, bass structure, drum beats, and vocal chords that bring out the quality making it sound sensational. The lyrics are upbeat and rather catchy making you want to bob your head back and forth, if not wanting to jump up and down in your seat or around in place wherever you may be. All in all Hit The Ground Running 's EP is one of those releases that will keep you occupied at all times.
Black Bagged CD Reviews Death of an Era Reviews
Death Of An Era - Black Bagged
Death Of An Era's debut album "Black Bagged" brings forth their classic style except it's enhanced sounding more ground breaking, aggressive, impulsive, just all of the intensity terms that can pop into your head will fit upon this release. Death Of An Era have only released some EPs to grasped upon their name, building something for themselves, and while all of that has paid off, with songs like "We The People", "Big Brother", "The Global Movement", and "Prescription Poison", everything that was there before is again enhanced having more guitar riffs, solos, drum beats, bass lines, and of course the vocal chords, that all work together with ease. Building the music upwards sounding more intense with each captivating lyric and musical piece. These guys bring to mind a lot of Crown The Empire meets Capture the Crown both of these acts collide with one another while leaving behind those remains that sound a lot like Death Of An Era's work. "Black Bagged" has intensity written all over it and brings forth an act that will express and expose themselves for all their worth, taking their music to the next level of successful because that is what this release is it's succeeded that sucess.
Angelspit CD Reviews Reviews The Product
Angelspit - The Product
Coming across an act like Angelspit was one of those daily run ins while browsing the net. After giving their tunes and videos a listenable watch their style grew on me a tad. Since their debut EP back in 2007 "Nurse Grenade" was one of those releases that was more interesting than any other electronic/electro-industrial acts within that scene. Now years later their latest release "The Product" has Zoog Von Rock working with various other artists including, George Bikos of MeteorEYES, Adam Newman of hard dance legends Lab4 , Miss Ballistic, Helalyn Flowers, Chant and Teknocracy amongst others. While regular participant Destroy X focused on other activities. Anyway you look at it though, this time around the material is more in-depth rather intense at times, having the guitar work like jiggered chainsaws with its beats, the synths and various other sounds all blended together, into this mayhem of chaos while all the contributors wrap it altogether. In short, "The Product" is a release that rather screams at you with its bouncy excessive beats.
Hit The Ground Running Interviews
Hit The Ground Running Faces a Long Summer
Pop rockers Hit The Ground Running have their brand new EP under their belts and have made a name for themselves in the great Cleveland area. If that's not enough they've had the chance to share the stage with playing shows and touring alongside Nickelodeon's Drake Bell, Bowling For Soup, Hit The Lights, and The Dangerous Summer, among others, HTGR is known for their energetic live performance - the band aims to leave any audience asking for more. They took the time to discuss this EP and plans ahead.
1. Can I get a backstory on the band/ band biography?
Made up of Nick Nord (vocals/guitar), Anthony Lauletta (guitar), Justin Gamble (bass), and Greg Boaz (drums), Hit the Ground Running have quickly made a name for themselves in the greater Cleveland area. Having had the pleasure to share the stage with such acts as Nickelodeon's Drake Bell, Bowling For Soup, Hit The Lights, and The Dangerous Summer, among others, HTGR is known for their energetic live performance - the band aims to leave any audience asking for more. The group's unique Pop/Rock blend is clearly showcased in their brand new single "Falling Apart," which was recently debuted by Bryan Stars Interviews. Their upcoming EP "A Long Summer In Ohio" is out NOW on In-Demand Records!
2. How did you guys come up with your band name?
After going back and forth on tons of ideas, we stuck Hit the Ground Running because it fit the excitement we strive to portray in our songs.
3. Where is the band based out of and what is your music scene like there? Are there any local bands you could recommend?
Based out of Northeast Ohio, USA the band is one of a kind as far as their sound goes. We would definitely recommend local favorites, Envoi, Lakota De Kai, and We Were Kids.
4. What lyrical theme do you guys use in your music? What message do you want to send?
Our lyrics tend to represent where we are in life right now. We’re young and growing and loving life. Our lyrics spread a fun, and positive message.
5. What bands have influenced your band and its sound?
Fall Out Boy, All Time Low, Boys Like Girls, Yellowcard, Relient K, among others.
6. Is there any story or concept behind the "A Long Summer In Ohio" title?
The title comes from a line in the song “Firefly.” That song is one that sets the mood for the EP, and is a definitely a good representation of our band’s overall sound.
7. Who produced "A Long Summer In Ohio" and what was it like working with them?
We worked with producer John Burke (Modern Day Escape, Envoi) at Vibe Studios on the record. Our goal with this EP was a unique, polished, and larger than life sound, and John helped us to achieve that.
8. Why did you want a debut EP as opposed to a debut album?
This is just a taste! A full-length will definitely be in the works.
9. Will you be shooting a video for any of the songs off "A Long Summer In Ohio"?
More details on that coming soon!
10. What are your upcoming touring/show plans?
A short East Coast tour this summer, but look for us all over the East Coast in the upcoming year.
11. Where can we listen to your band and where can we buy your stuff?
You can download our EP on iTunes here: bit.ly/HTGRsummer
You can also stream our EP on Spotify: bit.ly/HTGRspotify
12. What is it you’d like a listener to remember the most when hearing your music for the first time?
We don’t want a listener to just remember our songs, we want them to be stuck in their head for days on end!
13. What can the fans expect to see from you in the future?
We all attend college, so touring full-time isn't a possibility as much as we’d love for it to be… But you can expect us to be increasing our tour schedule starting this year.
14. Any final words of wisdom?
Be sure to connect with us on Twitter/Instagram (@OfficialHTGR)! and Facebook (Facebook.com/hitthegroundrunningmusic). We will always be a band that loves to connect with their fans.
2014 Tours News The Black Belt Karate Tours
The Black Belt Karate Announces Local Tour
The Black Belt KARATE will be touring across Los Angeles in Southern California in July - August...this local run of shows will be a BBK "Poker Run", meaning everyone who comes to a show will get one poker card per attendee. Each show you attend, you get one more playing card...at the end of the run (mid-late August) folks will submit their poker hands via facebook / Twitter / Instagram...and the best hands will win some nifty BBK swag. So mark calendars now, and we'll see you at the shows!
7-23 King King (Hollywood)
7-31 The Federal (Long Beach)
8-4 Harvelle's (Santa Monica)
8-9 The Mint (LA)
8-12 Harvard & Stone (Los Feliz)
2014 Tours Judas Priest News Tours
JUDAS PRIEST ANNOUNCE "REDEEMER OF SOULS TOUR 2014"
British heavy metal legends JUDAS PRIEST will embark on a U.S. in the fall. Support on the trek will come from Los Angeles glam-metal jokesters STEEL PANTHER.
Oct-01 Rochester, NY Main Street Armory
Oct-03 Hammond, IN The Venue at Horseshoe Casino
Oct-04 Louisville, KY Louder Than Life Fest at Champions
Oct-09 Brooklyn, NY Barclays
Oct-10 Atlantic City, NJ Harrah's
Oct-11 Mashantucket, CT MGM Grand Theater at Foxwood's
Oct-14 Lowell, MA Tsongas Center at UMass
Oct-15 Allentown, PA PPL Center
Oct-17 East Rutherford, NJ Izod Center
Oct-19 Detroit, MI Fox Theatre
Oct-24 Baltimore, MD Pier Six Pavilion
Oct-28 Duluth, GA The Arena at Gwinnett Center
Oct-30 Hollywood, FL Hard Rock Live Arena
Nov-06 Allen, TX Allen Event Center
Nov-07 Austin FunFunFun Fest
Nov-10 Los Angeles, CA Nokia
Nov-12 Phoenix, AZ Jobing Arena
Nov-13 Highland, CA San Manuel Casino
Nov-14 Las Vegas, NV The Pearl
Nov-16 San Jose, CA City National Civic
Nov-18 Salt Lake City, UT Maverik Center
Dark Entity Music Knockout News Rock the Nightlife Unbreakable Videos
UNBREAKABLE UNLEASH EYE-POPPING AND ROCKING NEW VIDEO FOR "ROCK THE NIGHTLIFE"
Melodic hard rock that would provide the perfect soundtrack to a party is the style that Germany's export, Unbreakable, specialize in, as evidenced by their must-hear new album, 'Knockout,' as well as their freshly-filmed video, "Rock the Nightlife." The clip, which features the band playing the tune (and shots of a beautiful video vixen) can be viewed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQvmtAcApaM&feature=youtu.be
And the band - which is comprised of Al Crespo (vocals), Martin Ries (guitar), Pascal Alles (guitar), Lukas Mittler (bass), and Alexander Ries (drums) - are 100% pleased with the clip. "Our video shoot at Grabowsee near Berlin, Germany was fantastic. We had a lot of fun with Herman Rarebell, Oliver Sommer, and the team from AVA Studios. We filmed the whole day; it was so exciting that we don’t want to stop! So check it out, keep on rocking, and let's celebrate!"
'Knockout' (which was produced by former Scorpions drummer Rarebell) is now available for purchase as a very special "pre-release" version, which comes with a custom bottle opener key chain. While the rest of the world will have to wait to acquire the album (July 29th in the US and August 18th in Europe and the rest of the world), fans can purchase the pre-release version right now, exclusively from Dark Star Records:
www.DarkEntityMusic.com
Once the album drops, Unbreakable plan to hit the road hard, showing the world that they can rock and party with the best. "You can expect a high energy rock show and hard power chord guitar riffs with melodic solos, a high metallic voice and driving drum rock beats. We feel like home wherever the stage is!"
Fritz Montana Let You Down Lucy Out Loud News SPF14
Fritz Montana Featured On Latest Lucy Out Loud Compilation
This past weekend the San Francisco blues-rock trio, Fritz Montana, teamed up with Lucy Out Loud to provide their track “Let You Down” as a part of the site’s FREE summer compilation titled SPF14. The compilation is a summer playlist containing 12 tracks, including “Let You Down,” all for free download! Get the downloaded version for yourself HERE.
News PVRIS St Patrick Videos
PVRIS Releases Video for "St. Patrick"
PVRIS has released their new video for the song "St. Patrick" check it out HERE.
News Texas Show Tattoo and Music Festival
Texas Showdown Tattoo & Music Festival Announces 5th Annual Headliners: Deftones, Drowning Pool, & Wu-Tang Clan
Texas Showdown Festival, the country's largest tattoo & music festival, is returning to El Paso County Coliseum for 3 days of tattooing, music, sideshows, and more from July 18th-20th!
The Texas Showdown Festival music lineup includes headliners Deftones, Drowning Pool, and Wu-Tang Clan along with support from The Casualties, Lower Class Brats, Murder FM, 12 Stones, Crazytown, Bridge To Grace, Grind, Bash, Snow Tha Product, Sheek Louch, D-Block, Rare Individuals, Explicit Content, and a surprise guest!
Over 300 tattoo artists from around the globe will be tattooing including celebrity artists from popular TV tattoo shows. The festival also features a variety of sideshows as well as human body suspension shows.
You can buy tickets HERE.
Festival Location:
El Paso County Coliseum
4100 E Paisano Dr
http://texastattooshowdownfestival.com
Apple Arena News YouTube
WHAT’S AFTER APPLE-BEATS AND YOUTUBE? ARENA SAYS LISTEN TO OWN
After spending the last two years in live development, Arena is pleased to introduce its artist-friendly streaming music service Listen To Own.
The company’s Listen To Own hybrid ownership model expands upon Arena’s advertised premium artist payouts of $0.21 and $0.01 per stream -- figures well above the industry standard rates commercial web broadcasters like Pandora, Spotify, Beats Music, and YouTube are able to pay - by using a unique approach intended to regenerate consumer interest in owning music.
Once a listener plays any participating single song 5 times, Arena gives the listener the MP3 file to download and own while paying the artist $0.85, in addition to the $0.21 for the 5 streams, as if the listener had purchased the song to own directly. By combining traditional download revenue with premium stream payouts, artists are able to earn a potential $1.90 per track per listener - roughly twice what the iTunes download store could pay for the same purchase.
Essentially, Arena allows listeners to access commercial free playlists from today’s most popular touring, and up-and-coming, acts without a monthly subscription, all while providing a platform for artists to maximize their revenue options.
"Listen To Own makes it easy to picture what the transition to an economically viable and artist-friendly streaming model looks like while maintaining the historic understanding of what a sellable music 'unit' is in today's marketplace," says Damon Evans, Founder and CEO of Arena. "We can say with a high level of confidence that it no longer matters how many albums an artist has sold. All that matters now is how many listeners that artist can convert into owners."
Arena is aimed to address and satisfy both the desires of music listeners and the needs of music artists.
In order for artists to participate, they must request an invite. If accepted, the artist is required to sell merchandise through the platform and pay a one-time setup fee per project, which can be deferred depending on how well the project ranks on criteria such as originality, recording quality, professionalism, musicianship, and marketability.
Listeners are encouraged to actively participate. In addition to streaming commercial free playlists and downloading music, registered users can submit fan reports on their local music scene, post original video content, and even write music reviews for Arena sales credits, which can be used to redeem merchandise, music, and movies.
How To Be A Human News Powerman 5000 Videos Yahoo Music
POWERMAN 5000, YAHOO! MUSIC LAUNCH "HOW TO BE A HUMAN" VIDEO
Powerman 5000 and Yahoo! Music have teamed up to launch the band's new music video for "How To Be A Human," taken from the recently released, Builders Of The Future, at: https://music.yahoo.com/blogs/music-news/see-it-first--powerman-5000-premieres--how-to-be-a-human-163512146.html.
"The video for 'How To Be A Human' is a departure for us," band leader, visionary and sole remaining original member, Spider One, told Yahoo!. "In the past, our videos have been big, over the top productions. This time, it was fun for us to show the band as a band. Just kind of rocking out!
"Although, conceptually it's not that simple. I look at this video as a propaganda film from another planet. An instructional video for how to be a human. It's a visual representation of how insane we would appear to be to an alien race."
Death Punchd Surviving Five Finger Death Punchs Metal Mayhem Fiver Finger Death Punch Harper Collins Jeremy Spencer News
JEREMY SPENCER AND HARPERCOLLINS ANNOUNCE SEPTEMBER 2 RELEASE DATE FOR DEATH PUNCH'D, SURVIVING FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH'S METAL MAYHEM
Five Finger Death Punch co-founder and drummer Jeremy Spencer and publisher HarperCollins have jointly announced a September 2 release date for Spencer's autobiography DEATH PUNCH'D, Surviving Five Finger Death Punch's Metal Mayhem. Spencer's personal journey through the wild highs and terrifying lows of the rock 'n' roll lifestyle is told with candor, redemption and enlightenment. The first-time author offers a wry and rollicking tale of music, addiction and recovery, revealing the path that served as a catalyst to make him the man he is today. Revolver has premiered a video teaser Spencer produced which can be screened HERE.
Spencer offers, "The day I left treatment for alcohol and drug addiction, I decided to write my story. I was feeling raw and exposed and hoped just 'getting it all out' would be therapeutic. And, it was. Sitting on a tour bus with little to do, I found myself writing two or three thousand words a day. It didn’t occur to me until I’d written fifty or sixty thousand that my story might be helpful to others who need encouragement in pursuing their dreams and for those struggling with addiction. I sent that first draft to my dad who said, 'No parent wants to read about his son’s sex, drugs and Rock ‘n Roll exploits,' but he said there might be some benefit in sharing it with others, so he agreed to help me with revisions. What had begun as a way to help process my own 'stuff,' has resulted in the publication of Death Punch’d—Surviving Five Finger Death Punch’s Metal Mayhem. At first, I was apprehensive about the reaction I’d get from having the 'arrogance' to think anyone would want to read about my life. However, that initial apprehension has been replaced by knowing that if my story can help even one person, whatever criticism I might receive will pale in comparison. I’m not proud of many of the episodes in the book, but the person I was, under the influence, is not who I choose to be. A heartbeat away from death, I chose life. So, more than anything, I think Death Punch’d is a reflection of how far one can fall and still find a way back, a way to accomplish goals and dreams and more important...a way to live. I’d be the last person to say it’s easy. But, I’d be the first person to say there’s always hope."
Spencer has committed a percentage of his personal income from the book to support NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals, which represents the professional interests of more than 75,000 addiction counselors, educators and other addiction-focused health care professionals in the United States, Canada and abroad. NAADAC’s members are addiction counselors, educators and other addiction-focused health care professionals, who specialize in addiction prevention, treatment, recovery support and education. An important part of the healthcare continuum, NAADAC members and its 45 state affiliates work to create healthier individuals, families and communities through prevention, intervention, quality treatment and recovery support.
Rock legend Alice Cooper shares, “Every rock star struggling with addition comes to the crossroads. Where he decides whether to live or die. It all comes down to that one decision. You're either going to stop everything and change your lifestyle and go on to make more music, or you die, it's that simple. Jeremy’s book is one of the best rock n roll, addiction and redemption stories since Nikki Sixx’s The Heroin Diaries. Jeremy, you're still here, welcome to the club!” Rob Halford offers, "Jeremy is in a position to tell a unique story: FFDP are a band young enough that they had to navigate the new music industry, yet they did so with an approach and work ethic that was purely old school. That story alone would make for a good read, and Jeremy covers it. But thankfully he goes further-- he details how metal musicians are forged, and how metal bands either bond or break, and he tells us this in a matter- of- fact, unfiltered voice that is as raw and unashamed as his band's music."
Hailed by the New York Times as one of the most consistently popular bands on the rock charts, Five Finger Death Punch has become a heavyweight champ in music. But the band’s co-founder and drummer, Jeremy Spencer, did not have an easy ride to the top. Now, in DEATH PUNCH’D: Surviving Five Finger Death Punch’s Metal Mayhem (It Books; September 2, 2014; Hardcover; $26.99), Spencer opens up about how a mischievous boy rose from small-town Indiana to one of the decade’s top-selling bands globally—and how he nearly destroyed it all for a good time.
A detailed, in-depth account of the group’s origins and influences, as well as the infighting and tensions that, when channeled properly, result in the music fans love, DEATH PUNCH’D takes us onstage and behind the scenes, on tour and into the studio to tell the band’s story and his own story of remarkable perseverance and recovery. Told in Spencer’s unique, self-deprecating voice, filled with his twisted and humorous take on living the sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll dream-turned-nightmare, DEATH PUNCH’D is a lively, no-holds-barred ride and an inspiring cautionary tale that offers lessons for us all. Brimming with Spencer’s unique personality and ability to find humor in even the darkest situations, DEATH PUNCH’D is captivating throughout.
2014 Tours Crown The Empire Ice Nine Kills News Secrets The Family Ruin Tours Volumes Welcome To The Resistance Tour
Crown The Empire Announces Welcome To The Resistance Tour
Crown The Empire will headline the "Welcome To The Resistance Tour" later this summer with support from Volumes, Secrets, Ice Nine Kills, and The Family Ruin. Here are the dates:
8/30 Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction
8/31 Hollywood, CA @ The Whisky
9/2 Salt Lake City, UT @ Club Sound
9/3 Colorado, Springs, CO @ Black Sheep
9/5 Omaha, NE @ Sokol Underground
9/6 Iowa City, IA @ Blue Moose
9/7 Kokomo, IN @ Center Stage
9/9 Grand Rapids, MI @ The Stache
9/10 Toledo, OH @ Frankies
9/11 Erie, PA @ The B.T. Center
9/12 Syracuse, NY @ Lost Horizon
9/14 Danbury, CT @ Heirloom Arts Theatre
9/17 Raleigh, NC @ Southland Ballroom
9/18 Covington, KY @ CODA
9/19 Louisville, KY @ The Vernon Club
9/20 Birmingham, AL @ Zydeco
Dear Diary My Teen Angst Has A Body Count From First to Last News Note To Self Videos
From First To Last Re-Record “Note To Self” With Periphery Singer, Audio Available
From First To Last re-recorded their track “Note To Self” in honor of the coming tenth anniversary of their 2004 release, “Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has A Body Count“. Sotelo is currently fronting the band in the studio for a nearing new EP. Check out the song HERE.
In Flames Interviews
In Flame's Daniel Gives Us a Charming Discussion
Twenty five years almost added to their name sake, In Flames keeps moving forward going onto their eleventh album entitled "Sirens Charm", touring to follow suit with no plans on stopping in regards to touring and making music to further their musical careers. Drummer Daniel Svensson discusses that eleventh album, touring plans, and some back story on the fiery flames that can only be called In Flames.
1. First of all, who are you, and what do you do in the band?
Daniel: My name is Daniel Svensson and I am the drummer for In Flames.
2. What do you think has changed most about In Flames since 1990?
Daniel: Everything has changed. It the beginning we were just a small band just starting out like any other band, now it's a big machinery we play shows all over the world. I think it's still the same things that keeps us going and it's the love for the music and playing together is the same but everything else has changed. It's very different nowadays than back in 1990.
3. Can you tell me the story as to how and why the band wanted to be called In Flames?
Daniel: That I don't know and I don't think anyone else in the band knows because the guy that came up with the name is no longer in the band. It doesn't really have a particular meaning to it, it just sounded cool.
4. A lot of bands have seen the misfortune of line-up changes but you guys have foresee this, what has been the secret to longevity for the band?
Daniel: We did have a lot of line-up changes in the beginning but it wasn't until I joined in 1998 that our line-up has been a stable one. But before that a lot of members were coming in and out of the band and just all over the place. But as of 1998 only 1 member has left which was Jesper Strömblad who was replaced by Niclas Engelin who was in the band originally then he came back in it's a bit complicated to explain. But since 1998 the line-up has been stable since, because we know each other and have been doing this for so long that we know how to treat each other good or bad. We have a deep respect for one another when out on the road or in the studio, everyone has their own saying and feelings that are needed that no one is ever left out.
5. Why do you think Anders Friden made the decision to chop the locks, what was this change of pace put into place? Will we see the revival of the locks?
Daniel: He just felt like it, it's not a big deal. Some people think the music is within the hair but it's within the fingers and vocals not what's on top of the head.
6. Over the span of your music career as far as releases, you have yet to release something that has been Self-Titled, will you guys ever take this direction and do so?
Daniel: We never talked about it. I don't know it's nothing we've never thought about it either. We don't have any plans for it. Usually our albums have titles from different songs but you never know a Self-Titled release could happen we will see.
7. Do you think we will ever see an all acoustic release from you guys?
Daniel: It's not impossible we like doing different stuff and don't like repeating ourselves so it might work. But we're an aggressive band so our songs sound best the way we originally play them but acoustically but you never know. It's not something we've never talked about either, we're into different things so we'll see.
8. You've run your course of labels so why not take the DIY approach to getting your music out there? How has the relationship and transition between labels been?
Daniel: We've talked about it several times. But that means a lot of hard work and we wanted to concentrate on playing music and touring as much as possible. I don't know if we're ready to do it ourselves yet. It feels safe to do it with a label, doing it the old fashioned way. A lot of bands are doing the DIY thing nowadays and we've been discussing it back and forth several times but you never know we'll see.
9. You have eleven albums to your name, do you think it's safe to say, that you've come a long way and accomplished so much?
Daniel: Yeah if someone had told me when I had joined this band in 1998, that I would still be doing this by 2014, I wouldn't believe it. We're really grateful for what we've achieved and it's gone beyond our expectations. We can still do this and gain new fans writing songs that we enjoy, having a lot of fans being loyal while still enjoying the music even to the new fans and kids. If the band were to breakup today, I would be so happy with what the band has achieved so far.
10. It's been three years since the release of "Sounds of a Playground Fading". Why such a long time period between albums?
Daniel: First off, the touring cycle was a little bit longer than previous tours. After the tour we had felt we needed a few more months to take off. Usually right after a tour we'd jump right back into the studio, but felt we needed to recharge our batteries this time needing a little bit more time.
11. Would you say that there's a story or concept to be said about this album or its title?
Daniel: I don't know much about it lyrically. I think it's about addiction and temptations that are out there. That's what the title means at least. Otherwise I don't know much about the lyrics, Anders wrote all of the lyrics while we were recording, he didn't have any lyrics before the recording, he wrote them on sight inspired by Berlin and by watching documentaries about drug abuse and addiction.
12. How does the album art relate to the music on the album?
Daniel: I don't know. I think it relates more to the lyrics than the music. It's more of a stronger link between the artwork and the lyrics, than it is in between the music and the artwork, that's my feeling at least.
13. Can you give us a bit of a summary behind the tracks on "Siren Charms"?
Daniel: That's tough, We wanted to write an interesting album that had a lot of diverse songs. We have a few fast and heavy songs and even a song that's almost a ballad. It's hard to explain all of the songs, but we tried to make an interesting album that allowed all of our songs to work together as a setlist would. We did have more songs that were recorded but left those out because they didn't flow together with these selected. But I think this is the most interesting album, because it has more of everything, it's a more matured album in a good way.
14. Do you think there is an element of the band’s sound that you would like to push out further on the next release? With so much going on in your sound, obviously there are elements that might get further explored?
Daniel: It's hard to talk about the next release this one is still fresh to us. We haven't played the songs live yet so before we discuss any new songs we have to play these new songs a few times to see how they work and see where we should continue on the next album. By the end of the day, we write songs with how they sound live because we're a live band. I know a lot of bands write while on tour and we tried that but it's hard for us to do that, we want to start thinking of new songs while we're in the middle of the current song's finishing up that chapter before starting the new chapter. It's hard for me to talk about the next release but we'll see.
15. Are any of you currently involved with any other bands or projects outside In Flames?
Daniel: It's only Niclas Engelin whose involved in 2 other bands one is called Engel and the other one is called Drömriket. He's very creative and needs to write music to put out on different channels. He is the only one to put out music on the side that I know. Not sure if anyone else has any secret bands they're working on.
16. As you may or may not be aware several of your releases have hit certain mile stones, your debut "Lunar Strain" is at 20 years, "Colony" at 15 and "Soundtrack to Your Escape" at 10. Will any of these or any other release be considered of being played in its entirety?
Daniel: We did it once with "Soundtrack to Your Escape" where we did 2 shows one in Sweden and one in Los Angeles, California playing it from the first track to the last track, then playing another set afterwards of all the old classics. So we did do it once before, not sure if we will be doing it on a tour but perhaps a special show we will do it again.
17. What does the band have planned for the rest of the year aside from "Siren Charms"?
Daniel: We have the release then right after we'll be going on tour in Europe that will go into November then hopefully have another tour before Christmas, somewhere maybe North America if not the latest touring there early next year. But we will tour as much as possible all over the world.
18. Where hasn't In Flames been as far as touring and playing shows? Do you think there's been a band that has been to all parts of the world?
Daniel: We've played everywhere you name it. But there have been continents and countries that we have not played. But we'll grateful that we have such a large fan base that we will play everywhere eventually.
19. You guys have been together for going on almost 25 years, how do you react when hearing such a thing.
Daniel: First off, it makes me feel old. As I said before, I am just grateful that people still enjoy what we do and that the fans are still around because it's all due to them. It still works for us and we're able and allowed to write music that we enjoy writing and playing and so do the people that still enjoy it. We're really happy for that.
20. Anything else you'd like to say or want to add to the fans?
Daniel: Not really, we're looking forward to getting back on the road and touring, meeting all of the new and old fans so see you on the road!
4DE 4th Dimension Entertainment Hasbro My Little Pony News
My Little Pony 4th Dimension Plushies Coming Soon
4DE or 4th Dimension Entertainment company has taken Hasbro's My Little Pony line and created a series of plush toys of the mane 6 and other notable characters all due out sometime this fall. The price tag for these ranges between $24.95 to $60.00! Check out the current assortment from the photos below!
News Sister Slay Yourself Videos
Sister Premiere“Slay Yourself” Video Released
Sister has released their new video for the song "Slay Yourself" check it out HERE.
Deceivers Interviews
Deceivers' Greg Talks New Music and Band Input
Metal hardcore outfit the Deceivers are currently hard at work writing and recording for their new album with touring in the works. Frontman vocalist Greg discusses the new material, touring, and some in-depth details about the band.
1. Introduce yourself, tell me what you do in Deceivers, and how long the band has been together.
Greg: I’m Greg, vocalist of Deceivers. The band exists for more than 20 years, walking independent since that.
2. Tell us the brief history of your band.
Greg: The New Era of metal core is here! - As said by a reviewer about Deceivers powerful and original way to write heavy and aggressive music describes how the band is building an impressive career since DECEIVERS - emerging from Brazil's capital city - formed in 1994.
Sometime ago during a TV show interview with Hatebreed, frontman Jamey Jasta was questioned about which bands they know from Brazil. He answered: Sepultura and DECEIVERS. The band has shared the stage with many national and international touring bands, including Sepultura, Madball, Krisiun, Violator, Angra, Hirax, Rage, Ratos de Porão and many others.
DECEIVERS recorded their first demo Redrum in 1997. With the new demo in hand, the band started a tireless tour schedule along with the demos distribution superior to 4,000 copies through the whole world. The band entered the studio in August 1999 to record their debut album Third Machine. The debut was received very well by the public and reviewed positively in several websites and magazines including Metal Hammer, Aardshock and Rock Brigade.
Deceivers contributed to a number of national and international compilations as well as New Metal from Trip Magazine with distribution superior to 120,000 copies alongside well known artists Krisiun, Stuck Mojo, Iced Earth, Nevermore and Shelter.
By late 2003, the band entered the studio to record Everbreathe. Looking for the best to be done Everbreathe album was mastered in New Jersey at West West Side Studios by Alan Douches (Hatebreed, Sepultura, Sick of it All, Thrice). Unlike their past album, Everbreathe is a more concise hybrid of metal and hardcore. It definitely marks an improvement in the bands style and sound.
As soon as the new album production completed the band decided to move to Los Angeles to promote Everbreathe promo material to the utmost. Along with new album in early 2005 DECEIVERS just finished a video for Everbreathe which is already on MTV schedule among others shows and specialized websites. Everbreathe was released in Brazil by 53HC Records, and in UK and Europe by Fury76 Records (Dead by Wednesday, Runt, The Dischargers).
In January 2010 the band entered “Refinaria Studio” to record EP Paralytic. Mastering was handled by world-famous Sterling Sound, by the hands of Justin Shturtz (Slipknot, Fall Out Boy, Bjork, Evanescence, My Chemical Romance) mastering wiz, who gives this record his usual seal of excellence.
Greg: We’re based in Brazil’s capital. I believe that the finest Brazilian bands are born here, we have bands from hardcore to death metal as well. We have an indie scene with tons of great bands in Brazil, but we suffer with a small shy market with not many labels or places to play. The scene is moved by kids like us supporting concerts and other bands. I can recommend Mais que Palavras, DFC, Totem, Death Slam, Optical Faze, Raimundos, Crushed Bones among others, are band’s involved in city’s scene!
4. What type of band are you?
Greg: We an indie band which mix hardcore, from old to new, with crossover and metal.
5. Why did you want to name the band Deceivers? What does it symbolize and represent for the band?
Greg: I believe the name came from a feeling… we were teenagers when we started the band. Actually Brazil is the land of the lie, with corruption, terrible politics and government, violence with no punishment, and a kind of “make up” imposed by the media and government that makes everything seems to be normal and acceptable. The World Cup here can be considered a symbol of this deceiving!
6. Who are your musical and non-musical influences?
Greg: Everyone in the band have many different influences, we are very into art and music (metal or not) as well. I like music from Tracy Chapman to Obituary, from Thrice to Vader, from Immortal to Sick of it All, from Tim Maia to System of a Down. I’m into movies and books also… I love everything what comes from the heart.
7. What are your songs about? (What specific themes do they cover?)
Greg: We talk about feelings and impressions taken from the real life. I believe that a lyric can express this feeling in many ways, even more direct or sometimes more subtle! There’s no rule on this process, but obey mind and heart is the key.
8. Do you write your own songs? (Discuss the songwriting process in detail.)
Greg: For sure! We are often looking for a better and natural way to do it. Also we try to compose with the whole band so the ideas can flow faster and more interesting. The lyrics obey music mood and ideas taken on the moment which the new song is being created.
9. What's new in the recording of your music?
Greg: At this time we will work with Ben Schiegel and Tony Gammalo, American Metal Experts from Spider Studios (Chimaira, Walls of Jericho, Switched) to get some new material out there sooner or later.
10. What are your dreams and goals?
Greg: Bring Deceivers’ music and message to international and national levels more than ever! We are also planning a American tour to divulge and spread the new album.
11. What should labels/zines/promoters know about your band? Why should they be interested in it?
Greg: This is an awesome question. We do our work from the heart and inspiration is a mark of our music, so we believe that media may be interested in the band looking for this approach. We know about many bands looking for market and industry only as a business, and this is not our flag.
Greg: Every info and merch are at: http://www.facebook.com/deceiversband
We have an YouTube channel with latest videos and cool stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbNY1VvkKjWLXfA0BGHloZA
Listen at: https://soundcloud.com/deceiversband
13. What plans do you have for the near future as a band?
Greg: Release the new album and start tour with it. We love to play live and to stay with the crowd and scene!
14. What is it you?d like a listener to remember the most when hearing your music for the first time?
Greg: The impact of it.
Greg: Visit our Facebook and like our profile to stay tuned! And be sure that we're looking forward to meet people in North America! Thanks a lot Natalie for the support! Keep doing this great job!
Angelspit Live Score News Nosferatu
ANGELSPIT vs NOSFERATU: Angelspit to Live-Score Classic Silent Film
Electro-punk artist Angelspit has been chosen to craft and perform 90 minutes of hellish soundscape created specifically for the legendary horror masterpiece ‘Nosferatu’ - LIVE in the park in Chicago’s Comfort Station (Logan Square) on August 20!
Angelspit has recruited several musicians to assist, including Brian Graupner (The Gothsicles), Jim Cookas and Brittany Bindrim (I:Scintilla), and some of Chicago’s top experimental noise artists. A large portion of the performance will be performed by the audience....so bring your smart phone to get in on the action!
“This will be the craziest outdoor gig we’ve ever done. I have written a large amount of new music, plus I am designing many acoustic and electronic instruments to be used in the performance. I’m also using much of the gear used in the recording of our latest album ‘The Product’ - several old samplers, rare modular synths and many analog/circuit-bent DIY devices.
There is also a huge amount of the the performance that will be played by the audience....and it’s all live! no laptops, no sequencers - it’s all performed LIVE while the original version of ‘Nosferatu’ is projected.”- Zoog Von Rock, Angelspit.
Nosferatuis famous for its numerous score variations over the years--now Angelspit joins the ranks!
Wednesday August 20th (at sunset - around 8.30pm)
Comfort Station - Chicago, IL
Cnr: Milwaukee Ave and Logan Blvd (East side of Milwaukee Ave).
www.comfortstationlogansquare.org
Angelspit News Video Competition
Angelspit Announces Video Competition
Got a head full of crazy ideas and a lens focused on psychological, creepy, freak-out with a twist of horrifying? Then it’s time to SHARE YOUR NIGHTMARE WITH THE MASSES! To coincide with its live soundtrack for the silent classic Nosferatu this August, Angelspit announces the most PSYCHOTIC music video competition on the web! Using a track from Angelspit’s new album THE PRODUCT, we challenge video artists to create a music clip to thrill and corrupt the masses!
The winners will be a part of Angelspit’s new video compilation.
This compilation will be sent out to magazines, DJs, clubs, video pod casts and vlogs on Angelspit’s massive promotional network.
Winners will also receive webstore prize give-aways.
This compilation will be viewed for free to everyone on Angelspit’s Youtube and Vimeo.
All winners will be pimped and credited on Angelspit’s social media - we’ll PIMP YER ASS HARD!
There is a chance Angelspit will work with you on official releases in the future (Three finalists from our previous video competition have been hired to work on Angelspit video projects).
Create something INSANE based on the concept of Angelspit’s new album, “The Product”. Watch the infomercial for details. Use public domain stock footage. You don’t need to be bogged down in building sets - use found footage to tell your crazed story.
You can extend the track length or add intros and outro to your video to help tell your story.
EXPERIMENT! Use old video technology like VHS tape. Shoot footage off a TV or projection. Shoot through prisms....GO WILD!
The crazier and more innovative, the better. You are encouraged to use you own actors. As added incentive, Angelspit will be supplying additional lip-sync footage for some tracks (These will be provided for some of the heavier, faster tracks - more on this later).
“Angelspit was so impressed with the quality from our previous video competition that we took The Liar (the winner) on a USA tour with us. We commissioned finalists Keith Jenson to do ‘Pretty Dead Boys’ and Chris Davis to do ‘Ambassador’ from our new album ‘THE PRODUCT’. These competitions are the coolest way to bring the amazing talent in Angelspit’s fan-base to light”- Zoog Von Rock, Angelspit.
Check Angelspit’s website for details on prizes, rules and regulations:
http://www.angelspit.net/video-competition/
The contest deadline is Monday Sept 8th, 2014.
Angelspit News Remix Competition
Angelspit Announces Remix Competition to DESTROY DANCE FLOORS!
Angelspit has launched a new remix release and wants YOU involved! The hunt is on for club orientated remixes of a track from their latest album “The Product”. If your style is EDM, Glitch, Dubstep, EBM...then Angelspit want to hear from you!
The winners and top entries will be a part of the new official Angelspit remix release, sent out to magazines, DJs, clubs and podcasts on Angelspit’s massive promotional network.
Winners will also receive a USB “SPITPILL” packed with awesome, plus webstore give-aways.
This release will be available on Spotify, USB “SPITPILLS,” iTunes, Amazon and many others.
All winning tracks will be pimped and credited on Angelspit’s social media - we’ll PIMP YER ASS HARD!
Check Angelspit’s website for details on remix packs, rules and regulations:
http://www.angelspit.net/the-product-remix-competition/
Entries close Monday August 4th!
2014 Tours Anti Mortem Butcher Babies News Tours
BUTCHER BABIES Announces New Tour
BUTCHER BABIES recently wrapped the REVOLVER MAGAZINE Golden Gods Tour with Black Label Society. They are now planning a full headlining U.S. Tour starting in September with special guest Anti-Mortem! Check out the dates below!
9/12 Reno, NV @ Knitting Factory Concert House *wi/ BLS
9/13 Sacramento, CA @ Aftershock Festival
9/14 Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst *w/ BLS
9/27 Scottsdale, AZ @ Pub Rock
9/28 Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad
9/30 Merriam, KS @ Aftershock
10/01 Joilet, IL @ Mojoes
10/03 Pittsburgh, PA @ Altar Bar
10/04 Flint, MI @ The Machine Shop
10/05 Louisville, KY @ Champions Park ***Larger Than Life Festival
10/07 Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Soundstage
10/08 Worcester, MA @ The Palladium (upstairs)
10/10 New York, NY @ Santos Party House
10/11 Philadelphia, PA @ District N9ne
10/12 West Springfield, VA @ Empire
10/14 Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
10/16 Houston, TX @ Scout Bar
10/17 Corpus Christi, TX @ House of Rock
10/18 San Antonio, TX @ Backstage Live
10/19 Lubbock, TX @ Jake's Backroom
10/21 Colorado Springs, CO @ The Black Sheep
10/22 Grand Junction, CO @ Mesa Theatre
10/23 Las Vegas, NV @ Backstage Bar
Dirt Fest News Videos
Killswitch Engage to Headline Dirt Fest!
Killswitch Engage returns to Michigan to headline Dirt Fest 2014! This is the band’s first Michigan Festival date for original vocalist Jesse Leach since the 2012 Trespass America Tour.
Coming off of a Rock on the Range appearance, and most notably, a Grammy Nomination for ‘Best Rock Performance’ for “In Due Time” from their latest Roadrunner Records release ‘Disarm the Descent’, Killswitch closes their 2013-2014 World Tour at Dirt Fest 2014!
The 2014 Dirt Fest lineup includes: Killswitch Engage, Sid Wilson of Slipknot, Powerman 5000, Hed Pe, Nonpoint, Chimaira, Battlecross, Gemini Syndrome, Tantric, Smile Empty Soul, Local H, Redlight King, Like A Storm, Nothing More, Eyes Set To Kill, Gift Giver, Blue Felix, Psychostick, & A Special Mystery Co-Headliner to be announced on July 19th.
Known mostly for its quiet Outlet Mall, the town of Birch Run, MI will once again get turned on its head at Dirt Fest 2014 on Saturday, August 9th. Dirt Fest celebrates its 16th year as it presents over 50 live National and Local acts on multiple stages, proving once again that Rock & Roll is alive and kicking!
Dirt Fest is hosted by Matt and Andy Dalton of Dalton Brothers Entertainment, along with Banana 101.5 FM, and is presented by Ourtunez at the Birch Run Expo Center.
Dirt Fest is an all-day, all-ages music festival that the Daltons have developed from humble beginnings and grown a reputation for being a must attend event every year for fans of established and emerging hard rock and metal music. Dirt Fest has showcased a multitude of acts from Michigan born bands such as Pop Evil, Battlecross, Chiodos, Wilson & Critical Bill to National headlining bands like Trapt, Sevendust, In This Moment, and Clutch while continuing to make an enormous effort to feed the pot with younger developing acts.
In addition to VIP Ticket Packages, Dirt Fest will offer Meet & Greet opportunities and will have several media outlets broadcasting live coverage from the show and interviews with the bands. $35 General Admission tickets are on sale now and VIP tickets are currently on sale for $80, which includes early entry into the festival, access to the VIP tent, raised seating, access to the private bar where the bands hang out, private VIP restrooms, and an event t-shirt.
Check out the video for the festival HERE.
Kiss Life Your Life in Shame News The Gloria Story Videos
The Gloria Story Releases Tribute Video to KISS for "Live Your Life in Shame"
Swedish old school rockers The Gloria Story holds Kiss as one of their main influences. This year marks Kiss 40:th anniversary. It is also the year that Kiss finally got inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Gloria Story's song "Live your Life in Shame" is all about "life as a Kiss-fan". It's packed with Kiss-references and is nothing short of an homage to one of the greatest rock-groups of all time. The video - filled with flames, girls, action and a lot of KISSING - is released on the same day as Kiss kicks off their 40:th anniversary-tour together with Def Leppard. June 23. The "Live your Life in Shame-video" is The Gloria Story's way of saying: "Thank you Kiss for the music during 40 years of Rock and Roll, and congratulations on the RARHOF induction".
Note: The Gloria Story didn't want to use the iconic, trademark KISS-makeup in the video, because it would be a little too obvious. Instead the four different girls appearing in the video wears different colour lipstick - each of them representing the theme-colour from the the original four Kiss solo-albums, and each of them representing the classic "Kiss-song girls" aka Christine, Beth, Shandi and Domino.
"Live your life in Shame" is the third single from THE GLORIA STORY's album BORN TO LOSE (2013) - available from Sound Pollution Distribution on CD, Digital and Vinyl-LP. Check out the video HERE.
2014 Tours King Diamond News Tours
KING DIAMOND Announces New Tour
KING DIAMOND has confirmed what has been rumored for several weeks: a full North American tour this Fall! The long-awaited trek will commence on October 11th in Atlanta and wrap up with the previously announced performance at Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin. A limited edition KING DIAMOND jacket will be available through the SHOWstubs.com fan club pre-sale, which begins tomorrow, June 24th. Tickets will be on sale online and at box offices nationwide on Friday, June 27th.
KING DIAMOND will be joined on stage by longtime band members Andy LaRocque, Mike Wead, Hal Patino, and Matt Thompson. Additionally, North American fans will bear witness to the band's full European festival stage show. These will be the most ambitious and largest North American productions of the band's entire history. A special guest support act for the tour will be announced in the coming weeks.
10/11/2014 Center Stage - Atlanta, GA
10/13/2014 The Fillmore - Silver Spring, MD
10/14/2014 Best Buy Theatre - New York, NY
10/16/2014 The Palladium - Worcester, MA
10/17/2014 Olympia - Montreal, QC
10/18/2014 The Sound Academy - Toronto, ON
10/19/2014 Stage AE - Pittsburgh, PA
10/21/2014 The Vic Theatre - Chicago, IL
10/22/2014 The Pageant - St. Louis, MO
10/24/2014 Paramount Theatre - Denver, CO
10/26/2014 The Complex - Salt Lake City, UT
10/28/2014 The Moose Theatre - Seattle, WA
10/30/2014 The Warfield - San Francisco, CA
10/31/2014 The Wiltern - Los Angeles, CA
11/01/2014 House Of Blues - Las Vegas, NV
11/03/2014 Rialto Theatre - Tucson, AZ
11/05/2014 House Of Blues - Houston, TX
11/06/2014 House Of Blues - Dallas, TX
11/08/2014 Auditorium Shores - Austin, TX
2014 Tours Exodus News Slayer Suicide Tendencies Tours
Slayer Announces New Tour
When Slayer, Suicidal Tendencies and Exodus played a handful of dates together this past May, every date was sold out and fans experienced a night of some of the best metal on the planet. With reviews like "the best show in years that I've been blessed to witness," "a metalhead's dream come true," and "...an onslaught of heart-pounding tunes during an evening full of awesome head banging action," how could this trinity of thrash legends not join up again for a full-on road trip? So, with Scion proudly presenting, Slayer - Kerry King/guitars, Tom Araya/bass'vocals, drummer Paul Bostaph and guitarist Gary Holt - with special guests Suicidal Tendencies and Exodus, will hit the road this fall, kicking off November 12 in Oakland, CA, playing through to December. 5 in Detroit, MI. The confirmed itinerary is below.
Slayer fan club members are invited to take advantage of a ticket pre-sale that will begin this Wednesday, June 25 at 10AM (local time) and ends on Thursday, June 26 at 5:00PM (local time). Fan club members will receive an email with instructions for ticket purchasing. Tickets go on sale to the public this Friday, June 27 at 10:00AM (local time) - log onto www.slayer.net for all ticket purchasing details.
Said Slayer's Tom Araya, "We are way fucking excited about hitting the road again with Suicidal and Exodus. Fucking intense. See you in the fall."
Added Mike Muir, Suicidal Tendencies' vocalist, "Slayer, Suicidal Tendencies and Exodus, for only six shows? They were a blast, but everyone knew that wouldn't be enough. Now's your chance to see what everyone else was screaming about. ST definitely can't wait 'til November to do it all again!"
"This monumental tour is a heavy metal collision of epic proportions," added Exodus vocalist Steve 'Zetro' Souza who has just rejoined the band. "For my first tour back with Exodus, I'm beyond excited to be on the road with my brothers in true thrash metal! I'm also looking forward to meeting and hanging out with all of the fans on this heavy as hell tour."-
12 Fox Theatre, Oakland, CA
14 The Forum, Los Angeles, CA
15 Comercia Theatre, Phoenix, AZ
17 Bricktown Events Center, Oklahoma City, OK
18 ACL Live, Austin, TX
19 Verizon Theatre, Dallas, TX
21 Hard Rock Live, Orlando, FL
22 The Tabernacle, Atlanta, GA
23 The Fillmore, Charlotte, NC
25 The Armory, Albany, NY
26 Sands Events Center, Bethlehem, PA
28 The Palladium, Worcester, MA
29 Wellmont Theatre, Montclair, NJ
30 Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, PA
2 Agora Theatre, Cleveland, OH
4 Egyptian Room, Indianapolis, IN
5 The Fillmore, Detroit, MI
Mr Creosote News The Cyon Project Videos
The Cyon Project Releases New Video for "Mr. Creosote"
The Cyon Project has released their new video for the song "Mr. Creosote" check it out HERE.
Arcane Saints Interviews
Arcane Saints' Michael Discusses U.S. Debut and Plans for New Music and More
Grunge pop rockers Arcane Saints will be making their first U.S.A tour debut along with playing some festivals and other showcases along the way. They have released their latest single "Hard To Please" with a whole lot more music in-store with future plans already a work in progress with so much more. Frontman vocalist/guitarist Michael John discusses the single, touring, and future ahead!
1. Introduce yourself, tell me what you do in Arcane Saints, and how long the band has been together.
Michael: Hello I'm Michael John and I sing and play guitar, mostly rhythm guitar because no one wants to hear my solos haha. Arcane Saints formed in 2008.
Michael: I was born in the UK but grew up in Auckland, New Zealand and played in various bands. Auckland is a small city and only has 2 or 3 places rock bands can play. So after becoming way too acquainted with those 2 or 3 venues over a number of years I decided to move to Melbourne, Australia. Melbourne is the music mecca of the southern hemisphere. It also has excellent coffee, which along with music, I'm very passionate about! Melbourne's population is almost on a par with New ZealandÕs entire population so it was definitely a shock moving to a much bigger city. Once I moved I formed Arcane Saints. Like most bands there have been a few line up changes but I think at the moment the line up is just right.
Michael: Melbourne, Australia. People can see amazing bands any night of the week here so you really have to be good to stand out and draw an audience. Local bands I'd recommend are Shihad (who are true rock veterans,) Massive, Audemia and Verona Lights.
Michael: "Arcane" means mysterious and unknowable, I liked that connotation as it applies to music I like too. I like music where you have to delve in a bit deeper to the song to try and figure out what the message is. "Saints" just kind of fit well alongside it.
Michael: The most obvious influence are the so-called grunge bands- Nirvana, Alice in Chains and Soundgarden particularly, but also bands such as QOTSA, Guns n Roses, Muse, Kasabian, Arctic Monkeys, Black Sabbath. Lately I've been getting into St Vincent who probably hasn't directly influenced our sound but she inspired me to write a whole bunch of new songs. She's amazing.
6. Are you guys signed to a label? Do you hope to get signed to a label or prefer the DIY approach with your music?
Michael: No we aren't, we have had offers but are waiting for a label that will be the right fit for us. I think you can't help but feel validated as a musician when you get signed to a label so yes we would like to be at some stage.
Michael: There's a real mixture, depends on what mood I'm in I guess. As with all musicians you can feel lot of anger and frustration towards the music industry at times but also being in a rock band and travelling the world, even when you are broke is so fun and rewarding. So I draw on a lot of experiences from that.
8. What's the story behind "Hard to Please"?
Michael: People think its about a girl but its actually about being in a relationship with music. At times you question why you are doing it when you have to sacrifice so much. At present I'm working 2 day jobs, 6 days a week to save for our USA tour and I haven't had an actual holiday in 5 years. You get exhausted but you do it because you are compelled to.
9. Do you guys have any new music in the works?
Michael: Oh yeah, 2 new songs we are gonna rock on the upcoming USA tour. One is really heavy and dark. The other could be our next single and is each members favorite song to play at the moment.
10. How do you promote your band and shows?
Michael: We have a publicist in the USA who is promoting the upcoming tour with Trapt. Other than that we just tour as often as possible and try and write good music, that's the best promo a band can do.
11. Can you describe your show, visually and musically for those who have yet to see you live?
Michael: Very raw and energetic. We try and keep the music real so opt not to use backing tracks or computers. There are no gimmicks, we just get up there and give it everything we have.
Michael: Well everyone should check out our album out called TURNING THE TIDE that was produced by Toby Wright (Metallica, Alice in Chains, Kiss, Korn.) We made the record in Nashville and Peter Keys from Lynyrd Skynyrd came down and played piano on it. I used a mic custom made for Layne Staley, late singer of Alice in Chains. I invite anyone who likes hard rock to check it out.
Michael: People in the USA can check us out live very soon as we are touring there with Trapt in a few weeks. You can get our album in physical format and merch at our website www.arcanesaints.com and we are on iTunes too of course.
Michael: After our first USA tour we will play more shows in Australia. At the moment we are talking about our 3rd China tour next year or maybe another USA tour or even a European tour so we aren't sure yet. We really want to record more music at some point too, even if its only a single.
Michael: Our band name, because it takes a little while to remember, Arcane Saints Arcade Fire? No, Arcane Saints! Oh right ok got it.
Michael: For those people into rock and metal, I can't stress enough how important it is to support the bands you like in this genre. Go the shows, buy the music, buy the merch because trust me it helps us out more than you realize. A lot of good bands are breaking up because they just can't afford to do this anymore which really sucks. So support the rock bands you love people!
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Country Report: ETDs in the UK
posted Aug 3, 2016, 4:28 PM by NDLTD Admin [ updated Aug 3, 2016, 4:31 PM ]
At the July 2016 NDLTD Board of Directors meeting in Lille, Sara Gould, EThOS E-Theses Service Manager at The British Library, presented the UK country report:
Here are some UK ETD highlights for 2016:
EThOS (e-theses online service) http://ethos.bl.uk now contains 437,000 theses, around 90% of all UK theses. There are links to open access copies of the full texts for around 187,000. Most of the remaining 250,000 EThOS records can be ordered for digitisation on demand.
Proquest continues to offer thesis digitisation projects to UK research institutions, scanning theses at very good rates in return for permission to include them in Proquest subscription databases. Digitised copies are also returned to the institutions for adding to their open access repositories, and EThOS can also harvest the full works, so there are benefits to all concerned.
Open access mandates for publicly funded theses continues to be implemented gradually. EThOS data is included in the outputs reporting system Research Fish which is used by all public research funders – this makes it easy for people to report their thesis in their ResearchFish submission. An API is now being built to support this further.
Content mining, non-traditional doctoral theses, and ORCiD and DOI identifiers are other areas in which we’re making progress through various projects.
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Kohl’s shares soar after Sephora store-in-store partnership announced
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Kohl’s Corp. /zigman2/quotes/210414114/composite KSS -4.34% stock soared 13.4% in Tuesday trading after its store-in-store partnership with beauty retailer Sephora was announced.
Sephora has agreed to install at least 850 stores in Kohl’s locations by 2023. The first 200 “Sephora at Kohl’s” shops will open in fall 2021, with the Kohl’s online beauty platform transforming to the expanded Sephora merchandise assortment at that time.
The news was first reported in The Wall Street Journal.
Sephora is part of the LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE /zigman2/quotes/201256382/delayed LVMUY -2.42% /zigman2/quotes/201350549/delayed FR:MC -2.77% portfolio of brands.
Sephora has 2,600 stores around the world, 500 of them in the Americas. Kohl’s has 1,150 locations across 49 U.S. states. There’s little overlap between the retailers, according to the announcement.
The companies say that the partnership will give Kohl’s greater exposure to new, younger shoppers, while Sephora will reach millions of new customers and engage with existing Sephora shoppers who may not live near one of its stores.
The partnership will also create an “elevated beauty experience” for Kohl’s shoppers, according to a statement from Kohl’s Chief Executive Michelle Gass.
See: Ulta Beauty shares jump after ‘mutually beneficial’ partnership with Target announced
Kohl’s has an existing partnership with Amazon.com Inc. /zigman2/quotes/210331248/composite AMZN -0.74% , providing the e-commerce giant with bricks-and-mortar locations for returns.
Sephora has an existing store-in-store partnership with bankrupt department store retailer JC Penney Co. Inc.
Earlier this year, Sephora took steps to pull out of the partnership , but the two companies ultimately resolved their differences. That relationship began in 2006 and is scheduled to conclude in 2023. There are Sephora shops in 600 stores in JC Penney locations.
As part of the JC Penney’s bankruptcy process, it has agreed to sell its retail and operating assets to Brookfield Asset Management Inc. /zigman2/quotes/202495225/composite BAM +0.18% and Simon Property Group Inc. /zigman2/quotes/209746667/composite SPG -2.05% and close one-third of its stores over the next two years.
Watch: How to pick winners in the retail sector amid the pandemic
According to a statement from JC Penney, the partnership with Sephora “remains strong and will continue until the end of the agreement.”
Moreover, JC Penney has its own enhanced beauty plans in the works.
“In tandem with operating SiJCP [Sephora inside JC Penney] throughout that time period, we are developing a new, inclusive beauty concept that offers our customers a wide array of product,” the statement said.
“We look forward to unveiling this new concept – which will be enhanced by our Salon offerings to provide an improved Beauty experience.”
With department stores struggling even before the coronavirus pandemic, Kohl’s has been undergoing a transformation that includes a new lineup of brands on its racks, private-label launches , and more.
Kohl’s reported adjusted earnings of a penny per share and revenue of nearly of nearly $4 billion in the third quarter , beating the FactSet consensus.
“Overall, we think the partnership with Amazon, turnover of the women’s apparel category, and continued strength in active will help Kohl’s improve its relevance with younger shoppers,” wrote Cowen analysts in a Wednesday note.
“Further, we think this partnership signals Kohl’s is open to other higher-end partnerships, and could make it the retailer of choice for many brands as their wholesale partners close doors.”
Cowen rates Kohl’s stock market perform with a $39 price target, up from $30.
Kohl’s stock has skyrocketed more than 72% over the past three months, but has dropped 28.3% for the year to date. The benchmark S&P 500 index /zigman2/quotes/210599714/realtime SPX -0.72% has gained 13.4% for the period.
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Was the French Revolution a bourgeois revolution?
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The french revolution was unsucessfull. Do we have equality, fraternity and liberty now ? If you believe so, then why do we need Marx ?
The french revolution was sucessfull for the burgeoise class, and yes it produced results. But it did not produce the results expected by those who started it, the poor people. Or do you believe that all those poor fellas who invaded the bastille were thinking "Hey, lets remove the aristocracy from power and put the burgeoise there !". Nope, they were trully believing that fraternity, liberty and equality could be achieved.
We can say that the french revolution is one of those stagnated revolutions. It was stoped when the burgeoise took control over it and used it to achieve its own class interests. French revolution started as a people's affair and ended as a burgeoise affair. You can only think about french revolution as a sucessfull revolution if you are on the side of the burgeoise class. Actually, you can put the french revolution in the same wide basket of all burgeoise revolutions of the 18th century.
Addendum,
We might say that all progressive revolutions of the past are not lost, but in a dorment state (stagnated). Advances produced even by the russian revolution (and the consequences of this revolution in the rest of the world) can be seen and felt today. They can be seen as a basis from were we can start to think about ways to further the progress of humanity.
But by "the only sucessfull revolution is the one who attains comunism" i mean that a marxism revolution cannot be guided to any direction other than communism. URSS fall is a setback to this endeavor. So, using a strict sense of the word, it failed. But history never fails, if thats what you object to. You cannot strive to go to socialism to return to capitalism later. You can only strive to go further and further in the direction of comunism. If you stop, its because reactionary forces, against whom you cannot fight, overcame you temporarely (the proletariat class was temporarely supressed). We can very well say that the form of capitalism that URSS returned to is not the same capitalism that the Russian Empire came from.
Under that interpretation, Russian revolution becomes even more a modernization of Russia than a socialist revolution. And we cannot plan, search, look for, a socialist revolution that cannot lead us to communism right now. A revoluctionary must intent to be utterly revoluctionary, not half heartedly revolutionary.
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AldoBrasil wrote:
We can say that the french revolution is one of those stagnated revolutions. It was stoped when the burgeoise took control over it and used it to achieve its own class interests. French revolution started as a people's affair and ended as a burgeoise affair. You can only think about french revolution as a sucessfull revolution if you are on the side of the burgeoise class.
The French Revolution actually was a bourgeois revolution. And, as we did in the USSR, they exterminated, silenced, executed the previous ruling class.
Nope, you are oversimplifying it. The french revolution cannot be only burgeoise, because the burgeoise class was too small (it will ever be small) to fight alone against the aristocracy and the ancien regime. To reach its goals, the burgeoise class had to enlist the hands of the proletariat (united in the so called third state). And to achieve this they have to abide by the ideals of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, if only so by appearences.
It acquires an even more popular character when you find that the bastille was taken expontaneously by the people. At the start the french revolution was a trully popular revolution. Later, very later, it was coopted by the burgeoise class, when the revolution started to become a danger for the private property itself. So we can say that in the french revolution the masses where used by the burgeoise class. This is nothing new, something similar having been already done during roman times too (using the lower classes in the power struggle against those ruling).
PS.: Its telling when the stalinist intervention sole porpuse was to say that he killed and surpressed people. Its trully telling... But i dont have killing and supressing people as a sport.
OP-Bagration
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And regarding the french revolution, the uprising was initiated as a popular movement. You can say that the penetration of burgeoise generated ideas into the popular mindset might very well have an contribution in them uprising. But the movement was popular. Later the revolution gets an direction in the hands of the jacobins, and finally in the hands of Napoleon. But it all started expontaneously.
At the time of the French Revolution, the bourgeois revolution par excellence, the bourgeoisie was far from being separated from the "people". Opposing "popular" and "bourgeois" is unacceptable. Even the popular movement of the sans-culottes was far from being proletarian. Comrade Albert Soboul proved in his book Les sans-culottes parisiens that the overwhelming majority of the sans-culottes were petty-bourgois artisans and shopkeepers.
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I am not oposing anything. The fact was that the people (The masses) insurged against the old order expontaneously, and them LATER the jacobins took control of it. I am not saying that the burgeoise class was not party of the revolted masses, of course they are, the revolt was done by the third state, wich was composed of both burgeoise and proletariat elements.
But, you MUST be against that interpretation, because it puts Lenin vanguardism at risk. You must understand all revolutions prior to Russian Empire as some sort of vanguard operation, to find there an historical justification for Leninism. But this is hardly true, even in the Russian Empire, the revolution against the Czar started expontaneously, and so the soviets. This is so true, that Lenin had to write "Leftism infantile disease of marxism", to jutify why he needed to supress expontaneous movements of the proletariat like the soviet (Had they did not exist, and had they not been important to start with, why would he need to write about it ?).
If you are under the apparatus of an absolutism regime (one that was still not challenged openly), be it the french monarchy or the russian monarchy, and a small group of revoluctionaries all agree to start a revolution in a certain date, that information (about the date) must be carried from place to place. This gives the reactionary force an oportunity to counter-attack and arrest the leaders. You cannot make a revolution on schedule. Historically what you have is a revoluctionary period of history. Revolutions dont need a leader to start, they just need a general sentiment of discontention on the masses - that is big enough to make them lose fear of repression - to lead them into revolts. But what we can learn from history is that most revolts in history were either supressed militarely or absorbed into the already existing structure of power, by making concessions to certain groups within the revolting group. Being a trully popular revolt, one that cannot be easily supressed by the military (because usually the military is itself involved with the revolt), french or russian revolutions cannot be stoped by the force of arms alone (and both werent).
In the case of the french revolution, they had leaders, yes, but only AFTER the first strikes were those leaders recognized. Because in a revolution the leaders are freely choosen among the people revolting. Once the first assalts are done, and the objects of hate among people are hit (The bastille was a symbol for this hate), them the people must now confront itself with the task of what to do with the power so gained. Having symbolically killed their "opressive father", while engaging in all sorts of perverse behaviour (things that where repressed in previous periods), the popular masses now must look into what to do with the power they gained. They feel guilty and not up to the task of comading the revolution collectively. Its then when they elect leaders, people who have the courage to assume such responsability. The masses them become docile followers of such leaders. Thats where the leadership appears. In that sense, when Lenin supresses the soviet, and take control of the revolution, he does something similar to what the Jacobins done. I am not here discussing the class character of the Jacobins, neither of the Bolcheviques. What i am discussing are the mechanisms happening in both revolutions.
As i said ealier, russian revolution - and no revolution that i know of - is not a resolt of a conscious program by a party. It is the result of popular discontent among people who, taken to extremes by the actions of the Czar (Like the firing squads), that expontaneously exploded in a popular revolution later took under the control of Lenin and the bolcheviques.
And so, because of this and predicting that capitalism will fall into dissaray one day or another - because capitalism has a character of constant crisis, i am discussing on how to deal with a possible future revolution. And so i believe that the only rational way is to avoid the Jacobin (Or worse, fascist) turn to such crisis by already preparing the masses, by putting some specific ideas and structures in place way before the crisis develops. And as such, identifying the feeling of vanguardism that will strike at the hearts of the proletariat organizations - and that might very well commit the same mistakes as the russian revolution - i am proposing a - already know - formula of soviet education and praxis at said proletariat organizations. Its not the proletariat that need the bolcheviques to gain power in the world. Its the bolcheviques - with their superiority complex - that need the proletariat, to be used as masses of manouver, to allow them to govern by their program.
I am not discussing if the bolchevique program is just or unjust. I am not discussing the class character of the bolchevism. What i am discussing and oposing is the general naivette of bolcheviques to believe that once in power, the bolcheviques will emancipate the population. Because if the revolution starts all by itself, and later the bolcheviques assume power, they do so in a hurry of political work. They must, under some weeks or months, work to produce a "class conscienciousness" into the revolting masses. If done so, this "class conscienciousness" becomes synonimous to being convinced enought about marxism as to wave a red flag, take a rifle and die for the "cause of the proletariat". No, against this kind of "oportunism", the trully infantile idea that we can replace a "father" for other, we can become adults in the cooperative strucuture of the soviet, wich if it can preexist in the party itself, social movements, civil society structures, labour unions etc, it might assume collectively the revolution at the exact momment when the masses enter the hangover period of the revolution and start to look for ways to govern the country (or the world). Because usually, in our modernity, communist parties are a very small percentage of the total world population. And as such - a kind of defense, think narcisistically of themselves as a kind of illustrate vanguard of the proletariat (not that i am free from such sentiment, no one is). Leaving the intelectual work to be done at a hurry at the sight of the revolution, instead of doing so (in praxys) in their own structures and collectively with elements of the, already stabilished, civil society.
Its not an anarchist formula, if you ask me, because a revolution is itself anarchism. Yet, said anarchism usually makes the masses regress to a pre-revoluctionary state of obedience. Because the first momments of a revolution are a lawless momment where people respect no authority, be it incarnated in the figure of the usual instruments of mass control (police, state, church etc), be they subjective as a set of norms of behaviour. Its a soviet formula. Where direct democracy (organized as assemblies at factories, schools etc) and concentrated in the figure of the supreme soviet, govern the country as soon as the revolution enters its colder phases. You will say that the soviets are not pratical enought to govern, yet no one has tried.
When you organize a collective - because revoluctionary spirits usually gravitates towards doing so - people usually get into petty disputes, endless argumentations, hostile takeover tries, vanguardist attitudes, subservient behaviours etc, everything that could very well be explained as left-overs from culture acquired from family, church, school etc. In sight of this - as if we were like Lenin in a hurry to do something with the revolution that happened to fall into his lap - people give up of the collective rule and elect a leader. As if such a leader could trully solve differences. Differences cannot be solved. What a leader can do is force a party of the group to accept the opnions and ideas of another part. As much as we cannot go right into an peacefull communist world, we cannot either repeat the political structures of old. We must find middle ground in the assembly itself. Instead of the rule of a leader, who serves to inspire people to give-up themselves to him - so that he can pretend that the diferences were dissolved, we must learn to we, ourselves, accept the majority vote, to not be sectarian (spliting the group when you are the minority in a certain discussion), to not engage in sabotage against decisions done by such majority, to not start fights and arguments becouse of political ideas inside the soviet (and so on). We must, basically, learn to live in a collective structure. Not that we can build a single big soviet that rules everything. Thats impossible, we are not anymore in ancient Greece. But that power must not become personalized into a single man, neither perpetuated into the hands of a small group. Soviets can be organized for, lets say, a school. Later that school soviet joins other soviets (sending speakers) into a bigger soviet above it (but not replacing or supressing it), as the soviet of the province for school etc. It repeats this in the factories, etc. Without excuses for its supression. People rise from lower soviets into higher soviets, not to represent themselves, but with a set of ideas voted in the lower soviet - ideas that they must abide to. They become speakers, not rulers. You might say, but we need an executive branch to solve imediate problems. This executive branch must be composed of people voted for short term assignments (a single project or problem), that are under limits imposed by the soviet who comissioned them, and to whom (to such soviet) they must present results, costs, schedules etc, as if serving the soviet and not the other way around.
[Nothing that i said regarding the soviets is new, but upon looking my country parties, looks like they have forgotten]
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The overwhelming majority of the Tiers (in this definition those who were neither nobles nor members of the Clergy) was made of peasants. Amongst the tiny minority of revolutionaries (the sans-culottes), the majority, as Soboul showed with clear figures, was made of bourgeois and petty-bourgeois. They were oppressed, some of them, living in the slums of Paris, quite poor. But bourgeois nonetheless. The storming of the Bastille was highly symbolic, however there would have been no revolution at all without the insurrection of the 10 August, which was organized by the Commune and the sections, and led to the complete overthrow of the aristocracy. Lenin, as a member of Russian Jacobin circles, knew much about the French Revolution.
The first Soviet appeared in 1905, it was the St Petersburg Soviet, and wasn't spontaneous. A revolution can't be spontaneous anyway. A revolt can be more or less spontaneous, but if it doesn't become a revolution, it will be nothing more than a jacquerie.
We must, basically, learn to live in a collective structure.
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Well, you are using a formal distinction to stress the revolution as a pure burgeoise affair. Using that definition (owners of the means of production), then so, it was mostly burgeoise. But much more popular than the burgeoise label would allows us to see today, in the sense that it was composed mostly by the poor, else you could very well imagine the revolution as if done by people running the streets in Ferraris and Rolls Royces...
So, lets put in that way. It is a revolt that later becomes a revolution (because you cannot have a revolution without a revolt, something that would become a coup, not a popular affair).
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OP-Bagration wrote:
Yeah, Aldo keeps talking about it being "of the people." Which people? Even its most radical elements, the Enrages and (on the more wacky Pol Pot-ish end) Hebertists, had their support base in the petit-bourgeois shopkeepers and the peasantry. There really wasn't much of a proletariat in France at the time.
AldoMoro wrote:
So again we get back to your reading non-Marxist class interpretations into Marxian classes, redefining words like "bourgeois" to mean "wealthy." The French Revolution did have huge participation from the poor petit-bourgeois, but they were not proletarian no matter their income, and them not driving Rolls Royces has nothing to do with it. They weren't exploited by alienation and wage labor, so the goal wasn't to establish a socialist state, transitioning to communism. What they wanted was to establish a republic, based around an open market they could prosper in.
So your only point of contention are those, missstrangelove ?
Do you trully believe the shopkeepers and peasantry ruled the country at the end of the revoluctionary cicle ? If not, who ruled then ? The same aristocracy in cooperation with the richer burgeoise ?
At this time, could we divide the burgeoise (Onwers of their means of production) into shopkeepers and mercantilists ?
Can we say that over the shopkeeper was a structure (the guilds) who decided the prices, quality and ammount of products ?
Can we say that those artisans later become the proletariat (when the most rich artisans hapened to have so much capital as to cause a "industrial revolution" - not exactly equal to england - in france) ?
Can we say that removing the aristocracy from rule - or at least restricting their power, those most rich "shopkeepers" were able to amass such fortunes while at the same time they proletarized other artisans ?
Can we say that the guilds evolved into a sort of capitalism that removed from the artisan the knowledge of the entire chain of production and placed it into a limited part of the production - a small part of the production chain - when the production was transfered from the artisan workshop to the factory floor ?
Can we say that even during the french revolution time, artisans had already a kind of proletariat in the form of their apprentices, who where much more poor than those artisans and so much more similar to the later proletariat of the industrial era than to the peasantry ?
So, in other words, they were "burgeoise" in the sense that they owned their means of production. But its hard to say that this "burgeoise" is the same burgeoise that Marx talks about, because if they are exacly the same, where is the proletariat ? Do we have one ? (we do, but its quite small and is composed said apprentices).
No, but you used the French Revolution as an example, interpreting it without any real reference to its relevance for Marxists. And no, calling rich people bourgeois and poor people proletarians doesn't really count, sorry.
I'd point out that it was a revolution with a vanguard, a bourgeois vanguard that accomplished what the haute-bourgeoisie wanted. It didn't go further than that because the Jacobins had basically no coherent long-term plan, leading to chaos and the Revolution halting. But that shows that once the vanguard of the revolution collapsed, the revolution halted. Other revolutions throughout history have experienced the same: the Sons of Liberty for the American Revolution, the Carbonari in Italy. They weren't just random demonstrations. The popular desire for change was there, but needed to be organized and channeled for a cohesive and successful effort; plus, to raise the public's consciousness, to understand the coming change in the social order. A good example of an attempted revolution without a vanguard was in Catalonia, how did that turn out again?
The richer bourgeoisie, the people leading the Revolution from the start, were the dominant class after it. The aristocracy still existed and were still pretty powerful, but the haute-bourgeoisie didn't care. Their grip on actual power faded more and more. Just look at the events of the July Monarchy; the bourgeoisie could toss them out on their asses if need be.
Not really, those artisans were independently-associated in a petit-bourgeois guild system. They're the "small business owners" competing with the larger capitalists. The proletariat was partially drawn from a few of those who fell on such hard times that they needed to sell their craft elsewhere, but more than that, they came from peasants who moved to the city during industrialization.
The bourgeoisie are a historical class, you can trace them back to the merchants and burghers (where the word comes from) of the High Middle Ages. It was the exact same social class that dominates the world now, since they had the same class interests. All that's differed is their power.
An apprentice, by contrast, is only temporarily pseudo-proletarian. As much as a student is. And students can be radicalized on that basis, but it's fleeting and half-hearted since it's only based in short-term interests. Student revolutions haven't done so well, because of that.
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Where did i say the revolutions had no leader ? Please show me.
All that i said was that (putting in other words) revolutions start as revolts. Because its too dangereous to simply put the date of the revolution in the newpaper calling "hey people, tomorrow at 9am people are going to start a revolution, everyone is welcome". Nope, you must start somewhere, and this is usualy when people's sentiment is already set in motion for a revolt. You cannot replace people will to revolt with a simple theory of revolution. But you can have both.
But later, then, having the right connections, you can arrange to lead the revolt into a revolution. In the case of the french revolution, the revolt lead to a revolution because the burgeoise had some things to solve with the aristocracy (they had the economic power but not the political power), else it would be another simple revolt.
I must say that in that time we had not exacly a haute-burgeoise in the sense of later haute industrial burgeoise, they were mercantilists, people who made fortunes not in the production but in the ships. And those where very well protected by the king, since the times of the great navigations. All economy of the time was about mercantilism, ships and commerce. They could very well stay quiet to see how things developed. Its not like they were sans-cullote. It was the petit burgeoise that revolted, those can hardly live in a way different from today's proletariat. So, without a industrial base and a burgeoise class around the ownership of the industrial capital goods, we cannot have yet a proletariat. So i am very satisfied to see the sans-cullot as the proletariat of the time and the haute-capitalists as the true capitalists. Because this does not detract to the understanding of the problem at hand. If you keep in mind that the sans-cullote cannot be equal to the proletariat because they owned the means of production, but not the means of distribution (were most of fortune was made), this wont produce mistakes, its just an analogy. Its similar to someone who sells coca-cola at the street, he owns his "means of production" - if you want to call that way (its actually a mean of distribution) - but they live in the slums and gain a very smal percentage of the profits. In other words, the sans-cullote are analogous to todays proletariat.
But how so ? Because production at the time was not done simply to supply an internal market. There was the concept of "natural aptitude of a country", the economical thought of the time separated countries (more like landmasses, we can hardly call a colony a country yet) in classes, as if each country had a specific porpuse in world economy. Colonies were suposed to produce agricultural goods while the metropolis were suposed to produce "industrial" goods (manufacture). So france had a large manufacture bases (manufacture, by the way, comes from manus and fact - in portuguese "mão" and "fabricar" - fabrication by hand, exactly what the artisans done at the time without capital machines). So all those artisans produced for export, in a very integrated international trade market. But to do so, they depended on the haute burgeoise, owners of the means of international distribution, who decided the prices to pay for the products. In that sense the petit proletariat of the sans cullote was exploited by the haute-burgeoise of the owners of the ships and commerce companies. In that way, between the mercantilists and the shopkeepers we have a similar relationship as we have between the capitalist and the proletariat. Its not by accident that mercantilism is a step in the capitalist stairway, just as industrialism and the financial market.
Later on those mercantilists will divert from the ownership of the means of distribution to the ownership of the factories, means of production. With the proper industrial revolution and mecanized machines, production will come from the manufacture of the artisans to the large scale production of the industry. So the shopkeepers, unable to compete with the productivity of the machines will sell themselves into the factories. Mercantilists become capitalists and artisans become proletariat. The peasantry too, with the increase in urbanization, will sell themselves (their work-force) into the market. So the factory floor breaks the last stage, the last obstacle for the proper burgeoise class. It removes from the artisan the knowledge of the entire chain of production (the artisan knew how to produce, lets say a pair of shoes, right from the leather to the last nails, but by hand, not by machine, because he cant pay for the machines) into the hands of the burgeoise, because he is integrated into a chain of production. This is the last nail into the sans cullote proletarization.
So, again, the french revolution was a popular affair, not a "mercantilist" affair. Insatisfaction and action was in the hands of the sans cullote, wich we can compare to the proletariat of today, not in the hands of the haute burgeoise (who will later, organize themselves as the girondists, against the jacobins, with the plain in between).
[As a joke, most will not understand, we can call The plain party as the PMDB of my country today, they are in any government, no matter if left or right, they are currently in the government basis of Dilma Rouseff, if aliens invaded earth and created a government, they would side with the aliens.]
In other words, to have a revolution, the public needs to have the will for it. Okay, and? I mean, no offense, but that's not exactly shocking news to anyone. It's at the heart of basically everyone's understanding of popular revolution.
I must say that in that time we had not exacly a haute-burgeoise in the sense of later haute industrial burgeoise, they were mercantilists, people who made fortunes not in the production but in the ships. And those where very well protected by the king, since the times of the great navigations. All economy of the time was about mercantilism, ships and commerce. They could very well stay quiet to see how things developed.
But they didn't hold the reigns of political power, and were also at the mercy of those royals. Mercantilists can often be republican too, just look at the English Civil War. The bourgeoisie there revolted not because they weren't benefiting some from the current economic arrangement, but because they'd benefit more from a system where they actively held power, where they could determine trade agreements and economic policy (plus the course of society socially) on their own terms unrestricted by the King. They actively crushed the more radical petit-bourgeois revolutionaries, like the Levellers.
It was the petit burgeoise that revolted, those can hardly live in a way different from today's proletariat.
They were poor, but many of today's proletariat in the first-world aren't, so that's not really all that relevant. An engineer, a doctor, a lawyer, a teacher; these are all generally well-paid, and yet sell their labor and experience exploitation. The petit-bourgeois have a completely different relationship to the means of production, since they own it. Their class interest is just gaining entry into the market, not overturning the ownership of it.
And the haute-bourgeoisie merchant class dominated much of the revolution; the Girondins represented their interests more succinctly than the Jacobins, but that's because the Jacobins were the compromise party representing the bourgeoisie in broad terms. The Jacobins' failure halfway through led to most of the Girondins' demands already being met, but not going much further than that.
So, again, the french revolution was a popular affair, not a "mercantilist" affair.
This doesn't really follow from your pretty basic tangent on mercantilist economic relations, sorry.
It was a bourgeois affair, not a "popular" one, since the bourgeoisie were driving it. Some of those were haute-bourgeois, some of those were petit-bourgeois. But the group that dominated it and benefited the most from it were the haute-bourgeoisie, those who had more of an ability to assume power already. The Enrages were loosely-organized and had less influence than either the Jacobins or the Girondins. And the Jacobins, representing essentially the whole bourgeois class, would ultimately answer to those higher up if they came into conflict. Many in the Enrages could be seen as utopian proto-socialists, Robespierre wasn't. He was a pretty radical bourgeois revolutionary, as close to a socialist as was common in the 1700s, but no closer to it than someone like Thomas Jefferson.
Pls stop with the strawnman, they dont need just will (because will for revolution and destruction is present in anyone everytime), but an urgent sentiment of necessity of change.
They can very well be republican all day long. But a revolution is not a safe endeavour. Its not the sanitized version (almost like a planed revolution) that you are trying to paint. The french revolution was an ugly and erratic affair. The haute-burgeoise can very well wait and see whats going to happen. The revolution appeared for them as both a great risk and a great oportunity. It was not exactly planed by them, but a specific circunstance that they saw as something that "better run our way".
For the matter of the revolution at hand, yes their poverty matters. And regarding the comparision I stabilished between sans-cullote and 19th century proletariat, it is standing. I dont know how you see the interests of the sans-cullote as mere the interest of entering the market (wich market ? the global trade market ? how they expect to do that with a revolution ? they cannot buy ships nor estabilish trade routes, neither gain access to the colonies).
And the haute-bourgeoisie merchant class dominated much of the revolution; the Girondins represented their interests more succinctly than the Jacobins, but that's because the Jacobins were the compromise party representing the bourgeoisie in broad terms. The bourgeoisie's failure halfway led to most of the Girondins' demands already being met, but not going much further than this.
Nope, sorry. They did not dominate even in the Napoleon period. Napoleon started as a way for the haute burgeoise to dominate the events. But ended being something not so as expected (yet less risky than the jacobins or the crazy riots of the revolution start). You want to forcefully put the haute-burgeoise at the control of the jacobins. But the power base of the jacobins lies in the sans-cullote. Haute burgeoise was more influent in the Girondist party.
Of course it follows. Please tell me where it doesnt. Its hard to say that history (of that era) does not follow mercantilist economic relations, harder when you self describes as comunist... But i will reread my sources about the french revolution, i cant remember all events of the era. A long time since i've read about it.
Please stop with the baseless accusations, kthx. What you're basically describing is will for a revolution. Which is what I said. You'd have to twist my words to claim otherwise.
And I'm sorry, but nobody is shocked by a revolution needing "an urgent sentiment of necessity of change." It's basically just a way of saying "revolutions have to be based in existing dissatisfaction," which nobody would disagree with besides would-be Don Quixotes, who don't exactly exist in large numbers.
They can very well be republican all day long. But a revolution is not a safe endeavour. Its not the sanitized version (almost like a planed revolution) that you are trying to paint. The french revolution was an ugly and erratic affair.
Where did I say otherwise, and what on earth does this have to do with anything I said?
The haute-burgeoise can very well wait and see whats going to happen. The revolution appeared for them as both a great risk and a great oportunity. It was not exactly planed by them, but a specific circunstance that they saw as something that "better run our way".
Except they didn't wait and see. They fought. The Puritans were a bourgeois Protestant group. The Sons of Liberty were mostly made up of coastal New England merchants. The Carbonari were a bourgeois vanguard as well. These groups were what capitalized on the disaffection of their class, along with making promises to aid the peasantry to bring them along too, instigating revolution.
And regarding the comparision I stabilished between sans-cullote and 19th century proletariat, it is standing. I dont know how you see the interests of the sans-cullote as mere the interest of entering the market (wich market ? the global trade market ? how they expect to do that with a revolution ? they cannot buy ships nor estabilish trade routes, neither gain access to the colonies).
They're petit-bourgeois, that's their interest as a class, based on what benefits them economically. They want entry into the same market as the other bourgeoisie, and initially that means having a state which provides stable rules for facilitating capitalist commerce in the first place, over and above the old landed nobility (the point of a bourgeois revolution). After that, they want a playing field that allows them to compete evenly with the bigger bourgeoisie. That's what would let them enter into the global trade market.
The proletariat have a completely different set of interests that can only really intersect in undermining the haute-bourgeoisie, and even there the petit-bourgeois will never go as far lest they pull the rug out from under themselves.
Nope, sorry. They did not dominate even in the Napoleon period. Napoleon started as a way for the haute burgeoise to dominate the events. But ended being something not so as expected (yet less risky than the jacobins or the crazy riots of the revolution start).
Sure they did. He declared himself Emperor, but still was essentially a bourgeois revolutionary. His armies massively weakened the aristocracy of much of Europe, pursuant to the interests of the bourgeoisie. And he allowed pretty wide-ranging liberal freedoms within France, again pursuant to the interests of the bourgeoisie. In fact, he can be easily seen as solidifying the status quo that the Revolution brought about, after further petit-bourgeois pushes stagnated in the aimless post-revolutionary chaos and completely halted with Napoleon's rise. The rule of the haute-bourgeoisie stood firmly.
You want to forcefully put the haute-burgeoise at the control of the jacobins. But the power base of the jacobins lies in the sans-cullote. Haute burgeoise was more influent in the Girondist party.
Actually, the sans-culottes had much more power in the faction of the Enrages. Marat was mostly their conduit into the Jacobins. What you're doing is painting the Jacobins as some uber-radical populist group that they just weren't. It's a popular (mis)interpretation, but they were the center of revolutionary politics. They were the compromise choice between the completely haute-bourgeois Girondins and the pretty much completely petit-bourgeois Enrages and (mostly-peasant) Hebertists. If parts of the haute-bourgeoisie and petit-bourgeois coalesce in one faction, what happens when they butt heads? The ones with more power win. So, the more prominent of the bourgeoisie had more power in the Jacobins.
Of course it follows. Please tell me where it doesnt.
Because you never actually showed that the French Revolution wasn't dominated by the bourgeoisie. So, a bourgeois affair. And it'd be pretty hard from a Marxist point of view to show that, but I'm all ears if you think you can refute a century and a half of historical analysis.
Its hard to say that history (of that era) does not follow mercantilist economic relations, harder when you self describes as comunist... But i will reread my sources about the french revolution, i cant remember all events of the era. A long time since i've read about it.
I never said anywhere that the late 1700s wasn't a mercantilist era, it was. But that's one type of capitalist economic relations, and the big capitalists who later became international capitalists (so, the haute-bourgeoisie) were gaining the dominance we now know all too well.
I am sleepy, but will try to answer that. French revolution was dominated by burgueoise. But wich one, the haute or the petit ? It seems like you use the generic burgeoise one time, and them haute and petit another. When it suits your discourse.
I am not in any way trying to reinvent the wheel. I am writing from my own education about the french revolution (wich is basically marxist).
So i will reinstate.
French revolution starts due to economical problems in France and the increase in taxes collected by the state to pay debts (one of the sources of debit was the war in USA). The king tries to solve the problem by applying taxes to the first and second state. They refuse. King calls the national assembly to try to solve the matter.
The national assembly is composed of the three states, but the third state is represented (IN THAT SPECIFIC MOMMENT) by the haute-burgeoise. Jacobins at that time are way more haute-burgeoise than sans-cullote. But the sans-collote are a major parte of the popular power base of the deputies present in the national assembly.
[shortening history]
Third state in the national assembly wants a constitution (Basically, they want to turn france into a constitutional monarchy). Thats where the interests of the haute-burgeoise lies. They want to reform the ancient regime, not destroy it. The haute-burgeoise class interests where to make the king accept a constitution, remove special privileges from the nobility (like not being taxed) and political rights (that i cant remember now, sorry). Nothing out of ordinary for the burgeoise. King did not accept a constitution, and tried to dissolve the national assembly. Deputies from the national assembly - with popular suport from the streets - stays at the building where they where the national assembly meet. They promise to stay there until having a constitution for france. We can ask, are the interests of the haute and petit burgeoise united at that time ? Yes.
News that the king was amassing troops to supress manifestations reached people at the streets (who do you think people rallying at the streets are ? the haute-burgeoise ?). Now things start to get interesting. The sans cullote (the masses) took the bastille. (Do you think the haute buregeoise class planned this ? Something that both nobility and haute burgeoise dont like is people doing riots at the streets, they want to reform the building for their needs, not to rock the boat so much as to risk their own interests). The kings military was dissolved. Sans cullote organized themselves into armies (militias) with weapons taken from bastille and other military depots etc. So now you have a mob running the streets with weapons, burning and looting. At that point you lose something called normalcy and legitimity. People went too far to retreat now (thats exactly what haute burgeoise dont like). When mobs break the law as a group, they cannot simply surrender themselves to the autorities. Theres no turning back. The constitution was proclaimed, but it was one suited for the interests for the haute-burgeoise. The right to vote was distributed across census lines (IE.: Only rich can vote), but it too separated the three powers (Executive, legislative and judiciary) etc. A bunch of modernizing decisions but typically haute burgeoise that i dont care to explain. The problem here is to think that because the haute burgeoise dominates the deputies at the national assembly, this means that the revolution was under control of the haute burgeoise. Nothing more far from the truth.
King Luis XVI was still in power, but now he had his powers diminished by the constitution. So this outcome was all that the haute-burgeoise wanted. If it was an affair "of the burgeoise", it would have stoped there. But someone forgot to tell the peasantry. They started to rebel in rural areas. Setting fire at documents, confiscating food (probably raping and looting as hooligans). This was know as the great fear (portugues "grande medo", dont know if i translate it correctly). Deputies now vote for the end of the feudal rights of the nobility (i think they are called gentry in english, dont know). Some time later the national assembly promulgated the Civilian constitution of the clergy ("Constituição civil do clero", dont know if i translated correctly). Now the haute burgeoise deputies are touching problems that are not exactly in the interests of the haute burgeoise, but the political pressure is too big for them to simply sit and watch. They are now afraid of a takeover from the sans cullote and peasantry. Nobility starts to flee for other countries. Its there that the jacobins lose the haute-burgeoise character and start to turn sans cullote. Inside the jacobin group there was a group called montagne who were more radical. This group takes over the party. Haute burgeoise and nobility deputies become the girondists. King tries to flee from France. Is captured, and put to chains. Gerondists now rule the country.
(To cite the haute burgeoise character of this phase of the revolution, Le Chapeliar law, enacted during this time, prohibited strikes and other forms of popular manifetation). Well, if you consider only up to this phase as the revolution proper, then surely, is a purely haute-burgeoise affair.
But there was still discontent among peasantry and sans cullote because they simply done all the fight (as cannon fodder) and got nothing. Thats when things turn more popular and less haute-burgeoise (why would the haute-burgeoise want more agitation ?). France declares war on Austria. With france losing, and king seen as traitor, things start to become more radical in Paris. Thats where the popular phase of the revolution starts. (i might be overlaping and puting out of order some events because i want to stress).
bla bla bla, king was captured and trialed, killed.
"The republic was declared (National Convention). (i am using parts from another site to make things faster, i am almost falling asleep and i dont know by rote memory exact events but only forces and their interests). The new National Convention was dominated by the Committee of Public Safety. One man in particular, Maximilien Robespierre came to dominate the Committee and established himself as the leader of the so-called Reign of Terror. "
Thats exacly the rule of the sans cullote, who can be called burgeoise, but that part can hardly be said to be, at that stage, fighting for the interests of the haute-burgeoise. During this time most popular measures were taken.
"Most leaders of the French Revolution were now either dead or had fled the republic. Opposition to Robespierre grew both in the Committee of Public Safety and within the National Convention. The execution of popular Committee member George-Jacques Danton and Robespierre proclaiming himself as the leader of a new religion of the Supreme Being caused much resentment. On July 27, 1794, Robespierre was arrested. He was guillotined the following day."
Now things turn back into the hands of the haute-burgeoise. But Napoleon was not exactly a purely haute-burgeoise man. Bonapartism is not exactly a haute-burgeoise endeavour. If the burgeoise could get rid of him they would do. But he was needed to keep fight the reactionary forces coming from other countries still dominated by the old aristocracy. He naming himself emperor was not a good omen.
So basically, we have two revolutions one inside the other.
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We can show the popular character (in behaviour) of the French revolution when we compare it to the totally burgeoise character of the Glorious Revolution in England. In one we have popular struggle in the streets - divided in various phases where power was at the hands of the haute-burgeoise at one time, and sans collote another, just to return to the hands of the haute-burgeoise again. While the other we have a single military thrust into the head of power, without popular unrest, and without the "inconveniences" of the french revolution and its destructiveness.
What are the objectives of the Haute burgeoise in both france and england ? Estabilish a parliament and impose the will of such parliament over the king. But then what agravates the french revolution ? Why so much unrest ? Because france at the time was suffering from economic stagnation and shortages. sans cullote and peasantry situation was much direr than in England.
When you explain history, you must strive to include all forces and elements that are in strugle. Can you say that the french revolution was a burgeoise revolution ? Of course you can, and it was. But this is a oversimplification. This cannot take into account the peasantry unrest, this cannot take into account sans cullote rule. Cannot take into acount various events happening (sometimes concurrently).
French revolution is a classic example of a strategy where you use the urban masses to achieve results against a stabilished power who cannot be overcome by pure military means. You can see the same similar example in Roman period, with Ceasar. Its not by coincidence that Caesar and Napoleon have so much similarities.
We can show the popular character (in behaviour) of the French revolution when we compare it to the totally burgeoise character of the Glorious Revolution in England. In one we have popular struggle in the streets - divided in various phases where power was at the hands of the haute-burgeoise at one time, and sans collote another, just to return to the hands of the haute-burgeoise again.
This ties in with your apparent bashing my talking about the haute-bourgeoisie and petit-bourgeois as a broader "bourgeoisie" class above. But both the haute-bourgeoisie and sans-culottes are bourgeois groups, they have the same relationship to the means of production on different scales. The petit-bourgeois are just the small bourgeoisie, they're still a bourgeois grouping. A revolution combining haute-bourgeoisie and petit-bourgeois factions in the leadership is still a clear-cut bourgeois revolution; the only non-bourgeois faction were the peasants, who were driven towards the goals of the bourgeoisie with a few olive branches thrown their way. The group they were strongest in, the Hebertists (which had plenty of petit-bourgeois members too), didn't fare all that well.
While the other we have a single military thrust into the head of power, without popular unrest, and without the "inconveniences" of the french revolution and its destructiveness.
Except that came in the aftermath of the actual start of the bourgeois revolution, the English Civil War, which did have popular unrest from the bourgeoisie (haute and petit) and peasantry in various different factions. The Glorious Revolution simply expanded and solidified the gains of the Civil War.
Sure, economic problems aggravated the French Revolution more than in England, so the peasantry and petit-bourgeois made more demands. But don't forget they weren't as efficiently crushed as they were in England, with Cromwell's forces outright massacring groups like the Levellers. How does this remotely change its status as a bourgeois revolution though? None of this makes it a classless "popular" revolution.
The sans-culottes were mostly a petit-bourgeois group of shopkeepers and thus fit perfectly in a bourgeois revolution. And there was peasant and petit-bourgeois unrest after the bourgeois American Revolution too, the example is only unique in its scale and that it was concentrated in one area. The unrest in the US was enough that the entire legislative structure of government was changed after Shays' (petit-bourgeois anti-taxation) Rebellion, to give the bourgeois merchant-dominated central government more powers like a standing army. In effect, enough to change a confederation of governments into a national government, a pretty colossal shift.
Well, so do you believe that all people that happened to revolt in such revolutions where thinking "Hey, lets depose aristocracy and place the haute-burgeoise in power !" ? In other words, do you think that everybody where working from a haute-burgeoise class program point of view ? Or do you accept that most where simply fighting against what they perceived as immediate injustices of the ancien regime ?
You are making it look like the people of the era where all well versed into politics as if people could endeavour in a revolt fully knowing the outcome. Truth is far from this. Simple people with simple demands, sometimes raw demands like food or shelter.
Was that general sentiment of disconfort used by the haute-burgeoise ? Sometimes. But a revolted mob is not a machine that you can simply press buttoms to govern, and so they could not sometimes be controlled. They even sometimes controlled themselves. Its not like a "sage" predicted what would happen once the forces of the masses where set in motion. It was not a planed revolution with its outcome set in stone before it even hapened. You are, because of hindsight, painting the revolution as if working backwards (the results caused the causes).
It was a burgeoise revolution because it achieved burgeoise objectives. Haute burgeoise had a political program of its own, and in the end it was reached partially, because the petit burgeoise and the popular masses gained a little too (something not in the political program of neither haute burgeoise nor aristocracy). Haute-burgeoise program - if implemented - might very well left petit burgeoise, peansantry and city masses at the same standing they were before the revolution. If this did not happen, how can this be a pure and simple "burgeoise revolution" ? If we are going to place french revolution into an apropriate container we might very well use the "burgeoise revolution" label to select into wich container we are going to place it. But history is not labels. Labels are simplifications done to easy understanding.
No, and that's kind of a ridiculous strawman. Most people in the French Revolution were actually thinking of deposing the aristocracy since that was the ancien regime; the haute-bourgeoisie rising to power was a consequence of that. But only the former and the revolution being driven by the bourgeoisie (haute and petit) determines its character as a bourgeois revolution, the subject of this thread.
You are making it look like the people of the era where all well versed into politics as if people could endeavour in a revolt fully knowing the outcome.
No I'm not, I actually explicitly mentioned how the Revolution had different factions with conflicting demands. But they were all bourgeois factions, aside from the peasantry who didn't play a leading role. So, it's a bourgeois revolution, and one which ended in rule by the haute-bourgeoisie. Nothing you've said changes that. The rest of your post is also basically randomly lecturing at things nobody's said, sorry.
Haute-burgeoise program - if implemented - might very well left petit burgeoise, peansantry and city masses at the same standing they were before the revolution. If this did not happen, how can this be a pure and simple "burgeoise revolution" ?
Because the petit-bourgeois benefiting means the bourgeoisie benefit?
The petit-bourgeois are a bourgeois class, hence the name. You seem to view them as something other than bourgeoisie, which they are by virtue of their relationship to production. The "city masses" weren't just some vague classless group, and were generally petit-bourgeois themselves. Urban people at that point in time generally were; the word even comes from "burgher," "burg" meaning city. The peasantry benefit from a lot of Revolutions, but rarely do they drive them. Or was the Bolshevik Revolution not proletarian in your view because they fought in and stood to gain from that too?
If we are going to place french revolution into an apropriate container we might very well use the "burgeoise revolution" label to select into wich container we are going to place it. But history is not labels. Labels are simplifications done to easy understanding.
Except we're not trying to fit a square peg into a circle here, like you're assuming. It's a bourgeois revolution because the bourgeoisie drove it, and it existed to meet bourgeois demands, eradicating the enemies of the bourgeoisie as a class (the aristocracy).
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Federal agents have not contacted Menendez, one person told the newspaper.
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Torah Philosophy
The purpose of this blog is to promote Orthodox Judaism and to critique other ideologies, in particular atheism: promoting truth and real happiness; fighting lies and harmful addictions.
"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do." Edward Everett Hale
Torah Ethics - a Sample
It's hard to picture any system of ethics which demands more meticulous honesty and integrity than Orthodox Judaism. Even keeping in ones house a false weight to be used as a chamber pot is forbidden.
The Torah teaches "You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in length, in weight, or in measure. Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt." Leviticus 19:35-36
I recently studied a section of the Talmud which discusses the issue of using accurate weights and measures.
Our Rabbis taught: Whence [may it be inferred] that [the measure] must not be levelled where the practice is to heap it up, and [that] it must not be heaped up where the practice is to level it? — For it has been definitely stated, A perfect … measure. And whence [may it be inferred] that we are not to listen to one who Says, 'I will level where the practice is to heap up, and reduce the price' or 'I will heap up where they level, and raise the price'? — For it has been definitely stated, A perfect and just measure thou shalt have.
Our Rabbis taught: Whence [is it to be inferred] that the exact weight must not be given where the practice is to allow overweight, and that overweight must not be allowed where the practice is to give the exact weight? — For it has been definitely stated, A perfect weight. And whence [may it be inferred] that we are not to listen to one who says, 'I will give the exact weight where the practice is to allow overweight, and reduce the price', or 'I will allow overweight where they give the exact weight, and raise the price'? — For it has been definitely stated, A perfect and just weight. Rab Judah of Sura said: Thou shalt not have [anything] in thy house; why? — Because of [thy] diverse measures. Thou shalt not have [anything] in thy bag; why? — Because of [thy] diverse weights. But [if thou keep] a perfect and just weight, thou shalt have [possessions]; [if] a perfect and just measure, thou shalt have [wealth].
Our Rabbis taught: [It is written], You shall do no unrighteousness in judgments in meteyard, in weight. or in measure. In meteyard relates to the measuring of ground; one should not measure out for one person in the hot season and for another in the rainy season. In weight, [means] that one shall not keep his weights in salt. In measure, that one shall not cause [liquids] to froth. And by inference from minor to major, [the following may be deduced]. If the Torah cared [for proper measure in] a mesurah which is one thirty-sixth of a log. how much more [should one be careful to give proper measure in the case] of a hin half a hin, a third of a hin, a quarter of a hin, a log, half a log, a quarter [of a log], a toman, half a toman and an 'ukla!
Rab Judah said in the name of Rab: A person is forbidden to keep in his house a measure [which is either] smaller or larger [than the nominal capacity] even if [it is used as a] urine tub.
Posted by jewish philosopher at 3:55 PM
Gobbie said...
Are you bragging about 'humanistic' Torah ethics?
duet. 22:23
"If there is a girl who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man finds her in the city and lies with her, then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city and you shall stone them to death; the girl, because she did not cry out in the city, and the man, because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you."
Verse 28:
If a man finds a girl who is a virgin, who is not engaged, and seizes her and lies with her and they are discovered, then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become his wife because he has violated her; he cannot divorce her all his days.
Thursday, April 29, 2010 10:06:00 AM
jewish philosopher said...
The first law according to the Talmud applies to people who committed adultery in front of two eye witnesses. In addition to that, the death penalty can not be imposed once the Romans destroyed the Temple. It's almost purely symbolic in other words, intended to demonstrate the severity of adultery.
In the second case, the girl has to consent to marry the rapist.
Apropo scriptural ethics, and I know that this is off topic,
but allow me a suggestion: that you redirect your
formidable rhetorical skills and rather
than aiming your guns at atheism or
skepticism, set them on something far more
threatening to humanity and freedom: Islam.
The rapid spread of religious Islam to western
countries threatens to destroy the western
way of life, and Jews along with it.
some countries, such as the US or Canada,
can save themselves if they wake up soon.
For some European countries, such as England
France and Sweden, it is already too late.
In a few short decades, women in these countries
will be forced to wear burkas, and Sharia
will be the law of the land. Soft multiculturalism
has failed to confront the threat, and
nothing short of a Stalin- like purge of Islam
can save these countries.
I think you should get on board for that battle
of ideas.
You mean you have to look in more than one place in the Torah, not to mention the Talmud, to get a better picture of a certain Jewish law? Gee, why didn't I think of that?
-- Gobbie's conscience.
I do have a few anti-Muslim posts
http://jewishphilosopher.blogspot.com/2006/09/islam-form-of-satanism_10.html
However few Jews convert to Islam so that's not my focus.
Since atheists have killed more people than Moslims have, e.g. Stlain, Mao, etc., etc. then they seem to be more dangerous than Moslims.
"You mean you have to look in more than one place in the Torah, not to mention the Talmud, to get a better picture of a certain Jewish law?"
The Talmud had to reverse or limit Torah laws, for humanitarian concerns, using human reason. Jews haven't burned witches or harlots in a long time.
The point of my comment was to show that "divine" law wasn't necessarily moral.
A straw man version of divine law may be immoral.
Actually, Orthodox Jews are a lot nicer than most people
http://jewishphilosopher.blogspot.com/2008/09/orthodox-jewish-crime.html
http://jewishphilosopher.blogspot.com/2006/08/samsons-struggle-satmar-and-others.html
>>>The Talmud had to reverse or limit Torah laws, for humanitarian concerns, using human reason. Jews haven't burned witches or harlots in a long time.
The point of my comment was to show that "divine" law wasn't necessarily moral.<<<
And no better an example of reversing of a torah law that orders you to cut off a woman's hand. The traditional translation is this:
Deuteronomy 25:11 -- "If two men get into a hand-to-hand fight, and the wife of one of them gets involved to help her husband against his attacker, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals, 25:12 then you must cut off her hand – do not pity her."
Through ingenious exegesis the rabbis reduced the punishment to a monetary fine, although the text clearly otherwise. Well, perhaps not that clearly. The rabbis were probably mistranslating the torah.
There are a number of biblical scholars that assert that "you must cut off her hand" is a mistranslation of the hebrew. It actualy means “you shall shave the hair of her groin.” No where in the torah is this type of physical mutilation inflicted and it seems out of place. It makes a lot more sense from the context of the verse.
http://doctor.claudemariottini.com/
...another interpertation of the punishment in Deuteronomy 25: 12 was proposed by Jerome Walsh. Walsh contends that Deuteronomy 25:12 should be translated “you shall shave the hair of her groin.”
Walsh’s view argues that the woman’s punishment would be a public dishonoring of the woman for publicly shaming the man. Thus, in his view, the punishment would be an application of the lex talionis since she shamed the man by touching his genitals. The view that the woman’s punishment was public depilation reduces the severity of her punishment from mutilation, a punishment that is irreversible, to one of temporary shame.
In the Hebrew Bible, exposing the genitals was an act of humiliating prisoners of war. Exposing a person’s genitals appears in Isaiah 3:17; 20:4; and Ezekiel 16:37. In Isaiah 7:20 the King of Assyria will humiliate the people of Judah by shaving “the hair of the feet,” that is, the people’s pubic hair as a way of humiliating them. Although exposing the genitals was an act of humiliation, there is no evidence that the Deuteronomic legislation requires public shaving of the genitals....
In rabbinical Judaism the Talmud takes precidense over the Pentateuch. If you have problems with all the burnings, choppings, etc call a Karaite, not a rabbi.
>>>In rabbinical Judaism the Talmud takes precidense over the Pentateuch. If you have problems with all the burnings, choppings, etc call a Karaite, not a rabbi.<<<
God must be very angry for blemishing his torah with your protean transmorgifications. No wonder he's always threatening to kill you. Now that Rav Elyahsev has banned most fish, god's wrath will be swift. Prepare yourself for the worst.
http://www.vosizneias.com/53991/2010/04/25/new-york-report-israeli-gedolim-sign-kol-koreh-against-worms-in-fish/
"In rabbinical Judaism the Talmud takes precidense over the Pentateuch."
It's that easy. Claim authority and then re-make the Torah however you wish. Rabbinic Judaism re-makes the Torah into OJ, Christians re-make Torah into a pre-figuration of Jesus, Muslims re-make Torah into the precursor of the Koran. For each major religious branch, Torah is literally a pre-text: it's just there so clerics can impose the rule they want on themselves and others. Each major branch argues that it holds the one correct way to approach Torah and understand it. All branches assume that Torah cannot be understood on its own and cannot be taken literally in all cases.
But as to your assertion that "It's hard to picture any system of ethics which demands more meticulous honesty and integrity than Orthodox Judaism": This may only be true in the one case you give if the OJ is required to maintain the same level of honesty with non-Jews as with Jews. It is said that often the Talmud permits dishonesty and fraud when we Jews interact with non-Jews. Surely, we know the usual excuses for such alleged discrepancies, but if they are allowed then OJ does not generally promote honesty and integrity. Indeed, Christianity's ethics may be considered superior in this regard.
The Talmudic law is based on rock solid evidence, as I have proven.
http://jewishphilosopher.blogspot.com/2010/03/jewish-literature-seeing-effects-of.html
Actually, the Almighty is thrilled with it. I recommend that everyone begin a vigorous program of Talmud study.
About non-Jews, I think you'll find that we treat them better than they treat each other. Every heard of a Hispanic liquor store owner held up by a hassidic gunman?
Speaking of fish Abe I find the identity and motives of Jewish skeptics to be quite fishy indeed.
The posuk doesn't say "cut off her hand." It says "cut off her palm." Palm is often used in different cultures refer to money.
Friday, April 30, 2010 5:09:00 PM
gobbie, the annoying said...
"In rabbinical Judaism the Talmud takes precidense over the Pentateuch. If you have problems with all the burnings, choppings, etc call a Karaite, not a rabbi."
Ah, we agree on something! Clearly Talmudic Judaism is the basis of present day orthodox Judaism
The disagreement we have then is that I think that the rabbinic Judaism in the Talmud was invented by men, and you think it came from Sinai divinely.
Now we can argue on who rests the burden of proof!
The Talmud, like the Bible itself, contains claims of miraculous events and deeds, moral imperatives, divinely inspired knowledge, and historical narrative. Also, like the Bible, it does not claim that the book itself is divine, but rather its contents. So how are we to evaluate its claims?
One need only to look at its blatantly erroneous claims about nature, as well as its various contradictions and disputes, to understand that it was the product of human reason, and no more divinely inspired than the US Declaration of Independence.
What should then grant it authority over our lives, 1800 years later?
"One need only to look at its blatantly erroneous claims about nature"
Those are based on science of their times, not revelation. How do you think our science will sound in 2,000 years?
The Rabbi's admit that uch of what the Talmud comntains is man made. That's the definintion of a Mitzva DeRabonon.
The most common phrase in the Talmud is "Mino Hani Mili."Where is thus from? Every statement made by a Rabbi of the Talmud has to have a source in the Torah. The fallback explanation, is Halacha LeMoshe MiSinai. There must be a Mesorah.
As, I've explained, the Torah is eternal however Judaism changes.
http://jewishphilosopher.blogspot.com/2009/05/eternal-torah.html
Sunday, May 02, 2010 11:31:00 AM
>>>As, I've explained, the Torah is eternal however Judaism changes.<<<
Yes, but unfortunately, for the last 50 years it has been changing for the worse.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=922249&contrassID=2&subContrassID=16
Beit Shemesh Anglos protest rising violence by Haredim
...Tensions have been brewing in city for years, but for many of the protestors, the attack two weeks ago - when a woman and an male Israeli soldier were assaulted by ultra-Orthodox youth for sitting next to each other on a Beit Shemesh-bound Egged bus - was a watershed moment...
Well, in any community of a couple of million people you'll find a few nuts. And what would happen to a rabbi in an atheist state?
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=173638
More than just a couple of nuts. Chareidi society is being transformed into one big nuthouse. Coercive gender segregation is now being imposed in the public square, and on the general population. Talibanization of Israel is proceeding at alarming levels. It soon will be no different than Saudi Arabia.
In a modern atheist state, probably nothing, except perhaps demands that before he graduates high school, he learn to read, write, and understand the basic principles of math and science. In other words elements of a basic education that are sorly lacking in chareidi society.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Editorials/Article.aspx?id=173144
...Making these numbers more alarming yet are school-enrollment trends. Should these continue, by 2040 78% of Israel’s youngsters would be educated in haredi or Arab schools, the very ones that notoriously ill-prepare their graduates for the modern workforce....
Sunday, May 02, 2010 10:38:00 PM
Abe, I'm sorry to tell you this, however the world's least free countries are the the Islamic and atheistic ones.
http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2008
About education, many Jews consider spirituality a higher priority than money. I don't have a problem with that.
Monday, May 03, 2010 5:11:00 AM
Gobbie the annoying said...
"About education, many Jews consider spirituality a higher priority than money. I don't have a problem with that."
Spirituality can't support a modern economy, and certainly not welfare payments to the heredi and Arab sectors.
"Well, in any community of a couple of million people you'll find a few nuts."
Its the extremists like you who enable those "nuts" and give religious legitimacy to their actions.
The peaceful, sober orthodox Jewish communities put everyone else to shame, as I've demonstrated.
About modern economies, you may not be aware of this, however secular schools today are a mess and do little real teaching.
philosopher said...
>>>Abe, I'm sorry to tell you this, however the world's least free countries are the the Islamic and atheistic ones.<<<
Typical intentional obfuscation.
That website map mentions only free and non-free countries. It lists no atheist states. That is because, except for lunatic N. Korea, you are, for the most part, permitted practice of your religion as long as it does not conflict with state policy.
>>>About education, many Jews consider spirituality a higher priority than money. I don't have a problem with that.<<<
Its not about money, its about religious disdain for secular scholarship because it is a threat to their fundamentalist beliefs.
Thus chareidim would have no problem establishing an outpost in Bejing as long they modified their disdain for secular scholarship and it was not odds with Communist policy of a good secular education.
According to human rights monitoring groups, pretty much all states with abysmal human rights records are either states which officially promote atheism (China for example, maybe Russia) or Islam.
I think therefore atheists should go a little easy on rabbi bashing.
About modern education, isn't this the same education which has produced global warming and nuclear weapons, which threaten the existence of life on earth? Could be a mixed blessing in there.
Charedim have no problem with people learning a trade, even a high tech one like computer programming.
Do you just make this stuff up or is there some secret medrashic prophecy from which you derive your twisted half-truths.
The facts don't back up your assertions.
And you would find yourself right at home with your co-religionists in Islamic Saudi Arabia or Iran -- beheading homosexuals almost make you blood brothers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism
...Between 64% and 65% of Japanese describe themselves as atheists, agnostics, or non-believers,[8][9] and to 48% in Russia.[8] The percentage of such persons in European Union member states ranges as low as single digits in Italy and some other countries, and up to 85% in Sweden.[8]...
Indeed it is a blessing but is hardy mixed. The benefits of secular education entirely eclipses any disadvantage. The atomic bomb which saved many hundreds of thousands of American lives brought WWII to an end.
Even if you believe that global warming is man-made, it is the by-product of economic improvement and prosperity, a trade-off that almost all thinking persons would welcome.
OTOH orthodox religious education has delivered little except slavish obsession to irrational absurdity.
Japan and Sweden do not officially promote atheism. China, probably Russia, do. I'm not going to even mention North Korea.
"The benefits of secular education entirely eclipses any disadvantage."
So far, yes. But don't forget the immortal words of Yogi Berra: "It ain't over till it's over."
"orthodox religious education has delivered little except slavish obsession to irrational absurdity."
I would revise that: American higher education has delivered little except slavish obsession to irrational absurdity.
Most kids study fluff like political science, sociology or psychology.
I understand that the suicide rate in Sweden and Japan is very high, their allegde atheism is a mixed blessing.
And Orhtodox Relgious Education had delivered things like tzedaka, chesed, etc, etc. I guess you don't consider those things valuable.
"Charedim have no problem with people learning a trade, even a high tech one like computer programming."
I would admit that Heredi Judaism covers a wide spectrum. You JP belong to a stream that embraces secular study. They wouldn't even dare blog the way you do. But many, particular in Israel, oppose it.
Most Heredim in Israel are poor, not because they enjoy poverty, but they belong to communities that frown upon higher education and mixing with the secular world. This shunning condemns them to being uneducated and poor. This segment of society threatens to become a majority in a few decades, which will drain the economy and put an unaccepable burden on those people who do work and pay taxes. (Unless something changes!)
The long range future of Israel is irrelevant because it is not a viable state.
http://jewishphilosopher.blogspot.com/2009/10/israel-holocaust-20.html
If it does endure, I would speculate that it will only be thanks to the spiritual merit of Talmudic scholars.
"tzedaka, chesed, etc, etc."
These ideas and practices were around long before desert religions claimed to invent them.
There's not one ethical matter or practice that's original to Torah. Not one. Not monotheism (although Torah's monotheism is debateable), not the "weekend," not the day of rest, not loving one's fellow, not prohibitions on incest, adultery, and stealing. So on an so forth.
Torah's great. I'm not trying to berate it. But it's not new and not divine. It's an interesting old book on the religion of people long ago, people that today would appear ignorant, intolerant, and unjust.
"There's not one ethical matter or practice that's original to Torah. Not one. Not monotheism (although Torah's monotheism is debateable), not the "weekend," not the day of rest, not loving one's fellow,"
Cite examples please. And don't forget the invention of the alphabet.
Joebaum said...
JP.
I salute you, keep up the good work!
Sure. Zoroastrianism (1700 BCE) was the earliest monotheistic religion. Later, in Egypt, Pharaoh Akhenaten became became an uncompromising monotheist.
The seven-day week, 24-hour day, and the idea of a day of rest emerged from the Ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian cultures.
Before the Hebrew alphabet, there was Old Hebrew, and before this was Phoenician and Proto Canaanite. I'm not sure of the dates of scripts and alphabets such as Ugaritic and Proto-Ambic.
Again, not to take anything away fro Torah and later-evolving Torah culture. I'm just saying that Torah represents on stage in human cultural development. It's not really a point of origin for much of anything other than Abrahamic religion.
I don't see any reason for one to feel less pride in Judaism simply because it's not the end-all be-all of human existence. Judaism is what it is, and that should be enough.
And...having just looked at Joebaum's site, JP must be just delighted with the salute. If your friends include Joebaum and Nat, you have the wrong enemies.
>>>Cite examples please. And don't forget the invention of the alphabet.<<<
Nonsense. Eastern countries developed ethics as moraly righteous as Judaism. This developed independently from Jewish ethical principles.
http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Ethics_in_religion_-_Buddhist_ethics/id/1227085
...Buddhism's ethical foundation for laypeople is the Pancasila: no killing, stealing, lying, sexual misconduct, or intoxicants. (Some Mahayana followers add further items such as gambling.) That is, in becoming a Buddhist--or affirming one's commitment to Buddhism--a layperson is encouraged to vow to abstain from these negative actions, in order to avoid accumulating negative karma. Buddhist monks and nuns take many hundreds more such vows...
"Zoroastrianism (1700 BCE) was the earliest monotheistic religion."
A 11th/10th century BCE date is now widely accepted among Iranists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroaster#Date
"Pharaoh Akhenaten became became an uncompromising monotheist."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten#Religious_policies
"The seven-day week, 24-hour day, and the idea of a day of rest emerged from the Ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian cultures."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_calendar#Days
"Before the Hebrew alphabet, there was Old Hebrew"
The earliest legible alphabetic inscription is in Hebrew from the Sinai dating from c. 1500 BCE.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ba%60alat.jpg
Of course, the oldest existing book written with an alphabet is the Torah.
"Eastern countries developed ethics as moraly righteous as Judaism."
But not charity or love of neighbors.
jewish philosopher said
More obfuscation coupled with programmed disregard for earlier falacious assertions:
Love of neighbors? Hardly.
Jeremiah 47:4 says, "Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor."
1 Samuel 14:47,
"So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed them."
Ancient Israel was not a very loving neighbor. More like the bellicose nations who bordered their land. They had much in common when it came killing each other.
Sorry about my blog, i wrote it a long time ago when i couldn't write almost a word of english, now i edited it a little bit.
Wednesday, May 05, 2010 1:02:00 AM
"Neighbor" means "fellow Jews".
In any case, as I have shown, altruism began with Judaism.
http://jewishphilosopher.blogspot.com/2008/01/genius-of-judaism-kindness.html
<<<"Neighbor" means "fellow Jews".>>>
Really? Those ancient Hebrews weren't very neighborly as they slaughtered each other in the Judah-Israel wars. Maybe neighbor really means enemy or perhaps anything you want it to mean to make it fit your tortured notions of jewish comity.
http://wapedia.mobi/en/Kingdom_of_Judah#3.
...For the first sixty years, the kings of Judah tried to re-establish their authority over the northern kingdom, and there was perpetual war between them. Israel and Judah were in a state of war throughout Rehoboam's seventeen year reign. Rehoboam built elaborate defenses and strongholds, along with fortified cities. In the fifth year of Rehoboam's reign Pharaoh Shishaq of Egypt, brought a huge army and took many cities. When they laid siege to Jerusalem, Rehoboam gave them all of the treasures out of the temple as a tribute, and Judah became a vassal state of Egypt. Rehoboam's son and successor, Abijah continued his father's efforts to bring Israel under his control. He waged a major battle against Jeroboam of Israel, and was victorious with a heavy loss of life on the Israel side, [14] after which Jeroboam posed little threat to Judah for the rest of his reign and the border of the Tribe of Benjamin was restored to the original tribal border....
Unfortunately, in some cases throughout the ages Jews have sinned. Why don't you Abe show us how to truly repent?
You don't believe that the Bible is true, t=so there is no evidence that the Israelies engaged in any of the wars you mentioned. And the Bible does say that they were engaged in defensive wars.
Jp, how do you explain this gemara (Tractate Niddah 47a-b)
"Rav Nachman was not careful about causing embarrassment to his maids and would give them to others' workers for sex. Rav Sheshet would even give them to gentiles for sex"
First of all the Torah permits slavery, which I argue is not necessarily a bad thing.
http://jewishphilosopher.blogspot.com/2008/04/slavery-is-it-evil.html
Rav Nachman and Rav Sheshet ruled that it is permitted to embarrass a slave. Therefore they felt that it was permissible to command their female slaves to have sex with numerous different slaves or gentiles, rather than assigning them one committed partner, in spite of the embarrassment involved.
Maimonides rules that the law in practice does not follow their opinion. (Laws of Slaves 9:8)
לא יבזהו, לא ביד ולא בדברים
http://www.mechon-mamre.org/i/c509.htm
Friday, May 14, 2010 4:47:00 AM
so you are admitting that some of the sages of the talmud had no problem forcing young girls to have sex with strange men? and that the only reason some held it was morally wrong was because they held that you shouldnt embarrass a slave?
Friday, May 14, 2010 12:20:00 PM
I have no idea how old the slave women were and what type of coersion if any was involved.
if there was no coercion why would it be considered embarrasing them? it would just be letting them do somthing they want to do
Women who have sex with many men are called nasty names. Ask someone else for more details.
In any case, Maimonides decided that we may not follow this opinion.
Dan Gambiera said...
Of course "Torah ethics" are no such thing. What you have now are Tanya ethics, chumra ethics and Talmudic ethics. Simple things like dealing righteously with all - as commanded by Hashem - have been superseded. Now we are told that it's alright to cheat and steal from Gentiles, that they don't have souls the way we do, so murdering one doesn't really count. On the other hand if one of them accidentally hurts one of us he dies.
And I notice that your beloved Litvish hold with the posek that we can ignore the direct unequivocal command of Hashem. He says "Thou shalt not steal". Once the pilpullers were finished with it it turned into "Thou shalt not kidnap".
Face it. Things with too many legs that live under rocks know more about ethics than most of the "gedolim".
I've never been advised by a rabbi to do something illegal.
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An opera (?) by Tauriello: a study of grotesque
Antonio Tauriello had a long life (1931-81) divided into a brilliant period until he was about 55 years-old and a sad one in his last 25 due to a neurological disorder that limited drastically his musical activity. During the good years he was one of our best composers, conductors and pianists. He had important international presence, especially when he was in charge of opera at the New York Juilliard School and for a long period assistant conductor of the Chicago Opera. At the Colón he was both an operatic and a concert conductor. He was also a notable pianist of contemporary music. As a composer his production was small but valuable.
I had two connections with him and both show the amplitude of his musicianship. About 40 years ago my colleague Julio Palacio and I were at the helm of a short-lived midnight TV programme at Canal 7 offering contemporary music; one of those programmes was memorable: Tauriello and Gerardo Gandini, with the assistance of master percussionist Antonio Yepes and another excellent percussionist, played the seminal Bartók Sonata for two pianos and percussion; my colleague and I presented and were page-turners. Then, in 1973, I was in charge of programming at the Buenos Aires Philharmonic; Bruno Martinotti fell ill and Tauriello took over at short notice; the great cellist Leonard Rose effusively congratulated him for his support in Dvorák´s Concerto.
I wasn´t alone in deeply regretting his health problem for no other artist was so complete at the time. His personality was special: he looked like a sanguine, mustachioed Italian, but his music making was subtle and intelligent, and so were his compositions. As a composer, he never had a wide following, perhaps because he created sparsely and after an initial Symphonic Overture (tonal) he soon wrote advanced
music, showing the solidity of his studies with Alberto Ginastera. He had a deep knowledge of twelve-tone technique and also soon acquired the refinements of the new trend of sound-based composition and of electroacoustic music. I mention his orchestral Impromptus and "Culebra de nubes II" as significant works.
"Las guerras picrocholinas" is a curious score of 1974 that wasn´t premièred during his life. Although it was presented as part of the Tercer Ciclo Iberoamericano de Ópera Contemporánea, I don´t think it´s an opera; its 53 minutes are rather made up of incidental music (vocal and instrumental) and a long acted text based on François Rabelais´ "Pantagruel". It was a world première edited by Melos; the French text adapted by Jacques Nichet and Bernard Faivre was translated into Spanish; the hand programme doesn´t specify the translator, nor is it quite clear that Tauriello wrote the piece to the French text.
Rabelais lived between circa 1494 and 1553 and his combined masterpiece is the four books of "Gargantua" and "Pantagruel", based on giants proceeding from anonymous Lyon chapbooks. These fantastic narratives, completely irreverent, are Renaissance manifestations of wild creativity both in language and content, hard to read both in French and in the English translation published by Britannica Great Books. The adjective "Rabelaisian" has come to mean gusto for life of a Falstaffian dimension, where scatological expressions are liberally spread and food and drink are as much of the essence as sex and philosophical musings.
The text of Tauriello´s concoction is based on chapters 25 to 51 (skipping some) of Book I telling the story of the war between the cake-bakers of Lerné and those of Gargantua´s country. It is of course a ridiculous war, in which the principal characters are Picrochole (King of Lerné), Grangousier (King of Gargantua´s country), a tremendous priest with parallels to Friar Tuck of Robin Hood fame, and in a late appearance, Gargantua. Finally, the giant and his troops win. The story is told in nine fast tableaux.
The production was presented at the Sala Guastavino of the Centro Nacional de la Música for three performances; I saw the last one and the place was packed. On the left, the 15-member Ensamble de música contemporánea del DAMus (IUNA) led by Santiago Santero and Natalia Salinas; on the right the six-member Ensamble vocal prepared by Juan Peltzer; in the middle the nine actors and a big table; in the stairs the twelve acrobats and dancers. The General and artistic coordinator was the composer Juan Ortiz de Zárate supervised by Rubén Verna; the producer was Diego Ernesto Rodríguez; choreography by Diego Ivancic; stage design by Gabriela Piepoch; costumes by Alejandra Soto; lighting by Belén Chardón and Rodrigo Alvarado.
I don´t understand why Tauriello, eminent opera specialist, was so far from an opera in his only attempt at staging a story; his music is subtle, very avantgarde, refined: quite the opposite of the story, grossly acted and yelled by the actors who often overwhelmed the music, which includes a Janequin quote. At the end a thought struck me: could a suite with only the music be extracted from this failed experiment? For I would like to hear it again but not in this context; mind you, I¨m not attacking Rabelais but what I saw. And I´m sorry that Tauriello fell so short of a real opera and chose wrong, I think he could do it and we were left without what could have been one of the few Argentine contemporary operas of value. The music was well played and sung, however.
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"EU-Turkey Deal: “Refugee” Lie" All European deals with Turkey are predicated on the fact that Turkey is a safe place for refugees, so why the deals? The refugee flows are in fact an American scheme to damage Europe. But what possible American interest is there in damaging Europe? There isn't any. The interest in damaging Europe is Zionist. This phenomenon is an ongoing theme here - people blame things on the 'Americans' and fail to ask what possible reason the United States would have to do these things, which are obviously against American interests (like all the Wars For The Jews).
Tweet (David Sheen):
"Israel has world's LOWEST refugee acceptance rate. Now Netanyahu says he's happy to help keep refugees out of EU too"
"We Don’t Want Mark Zuckerberg’s Charity" It is not just the massive decrease in tax revenues, but the fact that all these clowns pick the absolute most socially destructive programs to implement as part of their 'charity'. We'd all be better off - much, much, much better off - if all tax deductions for charitable donations were eliminated completely. Most 'charities' are scams anyway.
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"The US, Thai Human Rights, and Saudi Head Choppers":
"At the end of the day, whether it is the petroleum one finds in their gas tank, or any given item on the shelf in one of America's many Walmarts, one would be hard pressed to find anything that has not been produced and put there through the exploitation of human labor under conditions unacceptable anywhere in the West itself. If foreign labor was toiling under favorable conditions and fairly compensated, there would be no point of using foreign labor in the first place. Large multinational corporations importing these goods from all over the developing world know this which is why they outsourced labor overseas to begin with."
"A ‘Silent Coup’ for Brazil?" By the way, I fully understand the big-business American interest in fucking up Thailand and Brazil, in stark contrast to recent American actions against Russia, Europe and the Middle East.
"How narratives killed the Syrian people – Sharmine Narwani/RT" On the construction of the color revolution mythology - a mythology still popular amongst the Wahhabist 'humanitarians' - by the Jew-controlled mainstream media.
"Why I'm for Bernie Sanders" by Oliver Stone.
"A Fukushima on the Hudson?" After the disaster the things they let slide always look amazingly stupid.
Judas Corbyn
Cowards, stooges, and fools.
She ran back in the building
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It didn't match
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WWIII Begins
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Deadly Farce: THE SAVIOUR (1980)
Scribbled by Thomas T. Sueyres
Wednesday, September 26, 2012 No comments
I usually don't review Hong Kong movies because of the fallout from the Asian Invasion of the late '90s when every goddamn fanboy on the street was an expert, every goddamn movie had to have a two-fisted shoot-out and what was once cool became serious overkill. And, to be completely honest, there are others that are much more knowledgeable and passionate on the subject out there in the Bloglands. I still watch a few here and there. Mostly revisits of classics, but occasionally a Jimmy Wang Yu film that I haven't seen before. On occasion there are a few films that have been staring me in the face for years. This is one.
Long before Ronny Yu embarrassed himself with boxing kangaroos and dueling teen killers, he made a name for himself with comic horror and fantasy films. I've never been a big fan, but for some reason his early films have been tugging at me. His second film, THE SAVIOUR is not at all what you might expect after glancing over his resume.
Hong Kong is in the grip of terror as a serial killer has sliced up two prostitutes and has just taken his third. CID Inspector Tom (Bai Ying, of the 3D classic DYNASTY) is a chain-smoking, take-no-prisoners-take-no-shit cop who has had a string of dead partners to his credit. Of course one of them is not dead, says his new partner, nicknamed "19" as he is officer No. 1919 (Kent Chang). To which Tom replies, "he is paralyzed. You can visit him if you have the time." Oh I got a baaaaad feeling about this. As does Tom's gweilo boss who yells at him while constantly blowing his nose (I'm guessing this is some sort of in-joke about white people). Apparently the boss is miffed that of the two robbers that Tom was supposed to apprehend, a grand total of two of them are now dead. As a reward, he and his new partner are now in charge of the prostitute murders. I guess that's one perp nobody will mind if the cops blow away.
Yeah, I think you got him
Tom and 19 stalk the criminal underbelly trying to get clues on who is doing the killings, their styles clashing. 19 is of the old-school, yelling, threatening and beating everyone into telling him what he wants to hear. Tom is of the new-school. Shoot first, as questions later. Why aren't they making any progress? Meanwhile the killer, twisted by the memory of his mother's razorblade suicide, keeps finding new bodies to drop under their noses. Appently Ronny was just as impressed with the casting of one of the victims as much as I was, as he has her take her top off, not once, not twice, but four times in under a minute. Makes me want to forgive him for that whole FREDDY VS. JASON (2003) mess. Well, almost.
While the rich and influential father of the killer tries to do everything to sabotage the investigation, such as sending a hitman after Tom, Tom manages to talk a casino girl who's best friend was a victim into serving as bait for the killer. Befriending him to try and catch him red handed, as it were. Granted the plot itself is nothing really new and even feels a bit like it was ripped straight out of the Martin Beck novel "Roseanna" (published in 1965), but the whole sleazy grindhouse atmosphere really push the movie beyond the plot.
I love how Yu sets up the film with quick cuts of Tom getting up to go to work, grabbing his gear, and hopping in his Datsun (that looks like some sort of HK version of the 280ZX). It sets up the realism of his character going to work, but does it with a '70s style. That's pretty much the entire movie. It says "hey, this is hard, cold and real" but does it while blasting the audience in the face with stylized exploitation. Also, in between blowing away perps, Inspector Tom is given a softer edge by being a foster father to the "fat" kid in the local orphanage. However instead of taking the kid to the movies, or whatever passes for an amusement park in Hong Kong (a casino?), he takes the kid to the beach, tells him if someone punches him to punch back and about his life as a cop. Damn, that kid's going to need some rich folks to adopt him, I can see those psychiatry bills stacking up fast. The next time Tom sees the kid he has two black eyes. Can you hear the muted horns?
I have to hand it to him, Yu really goes for some dark and bloody grindhouse style exploitation here, which really doesn't seem like it would be in his wheelhouse, and he does it well. There really isn't much in the way of humor and what social and political commentary it makes is buried under gobs of crime violence, taking it's cue from post-DIRTY HARRY American cop films, yet pre-dating the Psycho vs. Stripper cycle of the '80s. Great sleazy stuff that's well worth breaking your HK celibacy for.
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MCD proudly presents
Saturday 30th March
NEALO
^ Upstairs ^
Nealo began his journey into hip hop music in 2018. Having fronted the hardcore punk band, Frustration, for 8 years and touring both the United States and Europe multiple times, Irish MC Nealo began to look into other avenues for writing lyrics. After a tragic start to the year, the Blanchardstown native channelled his negativity and sadness through lyricism, and has truly found a comfortable home in hip hop.
His debut release October Year dropped in October 2018 to a huge reception and gained praise from fans and critics alike. One such was Nialler 9 writing, “An Irish MC with a difference, remember the name”. October Year garnered radio play from 2FM, SPIN, and 98FM, and the record was also featured in District Magazine and on ‘The New Eire’ Spotify playlist. This was followed with a record release headliner which sold out in under a week. Now with a high profile Olympia support for California based rapper YG under the belt, the Dublin MC will begin the 2019 festival season with a triumphant headliner upstairs in Whelans.
On Saturday March 30th, Nealo will take to the stage with his DJ and producer Arbu, incredible Irish singer Molly Sterling, groove master instrumentalist and producer Rafino Murphy (Uly), keyboard maestro Adam Byrne (Native Ensemble) and all round drum legend Fiachra Kinder.
With a documentary dropping in January, and a new record being released in early March, this gig will be the culmination of a full years worth of work. Irish hip hop is finally finding its voice at the forefront of Irish music and Nealo is set to be right there at the cusp. This gig is truly not to be missed.
Tickets from €15 incl booking fee on sale Friday December 14th at 11am from Ticketmaster.
TICKETS – SOLD OUT
€15 available online from WAV Tickets or Lo-Call 1890 200 078 (1-7pm M-F)
Whelan’s Indie Club w/ Late Bar from 10:30pm or check out the bands playing The Midnight Hour in the upstairs venue – Free Entry via front door until 10:30pm | Drinks Promos
https://www.facebook.com/nealomusic/
Upstairs in Whelan's, 25 Wexford St.
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Quinn XCII Dives Into His Influences From Every Genre, Maroon 5 to the Jackson 5
Hear from the singer on new album ‘From Michigan With Love’
Tiana Timmerberg
Quinn XCII is at the top of our list people who we just can’t figure out why they aren’t massive stars yet.
With a vibey sound reminiscent of crooners like Jon Bellion and ZAYN, Quinn creates low key music that works for everything from an easy listen to a party soundtrack. The Detroit singer is hot off the release of From Michigan With Love, a 12-track work that comes as his second full album.
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With single and EP releases spanning back to 2015, Quinn has been quietly building a name for himself through his unique and palatable sound. Combining elements of electronic music, R&B, and pop, it’d be a discredit to his innovation to try and stick him in a box.
From Michigan With Love feels like a polished work produced by an artist that’s on the cusp of blowing up. Opening with the Elohim-asssited “Holding Hands,” the vulnerable album would be the perfect soundtrack to a small town that’s filled with vintage vibes, and huge aspirations.
In our exclusive interview about his brand new album, Quinn XCII gives a look into where those vintage vibes are coming from. The artist points to his Motown listening habits, crediting legendary hometown heroes with his current style.
Hear about his brand new release in the video above!
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From Michigan With Love
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Home Ferrari Ferrari 458 Spider Best Buy
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Ferrari 458 Spider is CAR Magazine’s Best Buy
Johannesburg, 5 March 2014. The Ferrari 458 Spider has been named as the winner of the Performance Car category in the 2014 CAR Magazine Best Buys Awards in association with Tracker. A hotly-contested competition as always, the 2014 CAR Best Buys Awards have seen a host of worthy vehicles win their respective categories, the 458 Spider out-performing formidable rivals to take the honours in its category.
“Our category win in this trusted and respected vehicle survey is an honour,” says Viglietti Motors CEO, Mervyn Eagles. “Being named as the Best Performance Car is an important accolade where, in the South African market, our 458 Spider competes against significant rivals in a region where supercars find favour with a relatively large customer base. This accolade reinforces what the Ferrari 458 Spider represents – the very best of open-top, mid-engined supercar motoring.”
Having launched in South Africa in 2012 the Ferrari 458 Spider is coined as the world’s first mid-rear-engined Berlinetta with a retractable hard top. Joining the formidable Ferrari 458 Italia, the Spider offers the same uncompromising technological solutions, handling and performance, with the added bonus of open-top motoring.
The 458 Spider is powered by Ferrari’s naturally-aspirated, direct injection 4.5-litre V8 (425 kW and 540 Nm) which was nominated as the 2011 Engine of the Year for its engineering excellence in terms of driveability, performance, economy and refinement. The 458 Spider dispatches the 0-100 km/h sprint in less than 3.4 seconds and tops out at 320 km/h.
Power is transferred to the road via Ferrari’s class-leading 7-speed dual-clutch F1 paddle-shift transmission through the sophisticated E-Diff, itself integrated with the F1-Trac traction control system and high-performance ABS for maximum handling dynamics.
Certain characteristics like throttle mapping and the multi-link suspension’s damping have been calibrated for maximum sportiness and absolute driving pleasure with the top down, in line with Maranello’s exclusive spider tradition. Even the engine sound track has been honed to ensure the car’s occupants are completely captivated by the drop-top motoring experience at all times.
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Home Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG SPEEDSHIFT MCT sports transmission increases efficiency
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The successful Mercedes-Benz C 63 AMG is now more attractive than ever:
the modified design of the top-of-the-range C-Class model is complemented by numerous enhancements to its technology which deliver even more driving enjoyment while reducing fuel consumption significantly.
The introduction of the AMG SPEEDSHIFT MCT 7-speed sports transmission with the “Controlled Efficiency” mode as standard along with a new power steering pump helps to reduce the combined NEDC fuel consumption by about ten percent to 12.0 l/100 km (Estate: 12.2 l/100 km).
The output of the AMG 6.3-litre V8 engine is unchanged at 336 kW and can be increased to a maximum of 358 kW with the optional AMG Performance package. Agility, grip and ride comfort have been enhanced as a result of numerous measures to optimise the AMG sports suspension. New assistance systems and a new generation of telematics with internet access increase both safety and comfort.
The latest 2011 generation of the C 63 AMG is now more dynamic and athletic than ever. Thanks to its new radiator grille with a large Mercedes star and a wing-type transverse louvre, as well as a new AMG front apron with a lower cross member painted in high-gloss black, special AMG daytime running lights and side air outlets, the front section recalls the look of the SL 63 AMG high-performance roadster.
The new bonnet with its modified powerdomes is now made of aluminium. New clear-lens headlamps emphasise the car’s distinctive, self-confident presence, with the standard Intelligent Light System (ILS).
The wide front wings with the “6.3 AMG” legend and the new 5 twin-spoke AMG light-alloy wheels which are painted in titanium grey and have a high-sheen finish dominate the side view. Good contact with the road is provided by the wide 235/40 R 18 and 255/35 R 18 tyres at front and rear respectively.
The rear view of the C 63 AMG also evokes the SL 63 AMG: the new AMG rear apron has a distinctive, black diffuser insert with three pronounced diffuser fins. The two chromed twin tailpipes of the AMG sports exhaust system are as pleasing to the ear as they are to the eye.
AMG SPEEDSHIFT MCT 7-speed sports transmission from the SL 63 AMG
Under the skin, the top C-Class model boasts a wealth of new technology including the AMG SPEEDSHIFT MCT 7-speed sports transmission. Rather than using a torque converter, this innovative transmission has a wet start-off clutch which allows it to deliver a much more efficient, agile and direct response.
Fuel consumption and emissions have been reduced significantly thanks to the “Controlled Efficiency” mode and a new power steering pump: at 12.0 litres per 100 km (Estate: 12.2 l/100 km) the combined NEDC fuel consumption of the C 63 AMG is 1.4 litres (Estate: 1.4 litres) lower than that of the predecessor model; this represents a reduction in fuel consumption of some ten percent. The CO2 emissions figure is now 280 (Estate: 285) grams per kilometre. Both power variants have identical fuel consumption and emission figures.
The AMG SPEEDSHIFT MCT 7-speed sports transmission impresses with its exceptional flexibility: with four driving modes as well as double-declutching and RACE START functions it is as compatible with a relaxed, fuel-saving driving style as it is with high-speed laps on a closed racing circuit and extremely dynamic overtaking manoeuvres.
The Controlled Efficiency “C” mode is programmed to provide early, comfortable upshifts while maintaining the lowest possible engine speed to help the driver keep fuel consumption down. The “S”, “S+” and “M” modes deliver increased agility through fast, responsive gear changes and higher revs. Gear changes in the “S+” and “M” modes take just 100 milliseconds.
The naturally aspirated eight-cylinder engine with its large displacement of 6208 cc develops 336 kW at 6 800 r/min and attains a peak torque of 600 Nm at 5000 r/min. A look at the performance figures confirms that the new C 63 AMG retains its predecessor’s position as the top performing model in its segment: acceleration from standstill to 100 km/h takes just 4.4 seconds (Estate: 4.5 s) while the top speed is 250 km/h (electronically limited).
Performance package: technology transfer from the SLS AMG
Even more dynamic performance is available with the optional AMG Performance package: this offers 358 kW and allows a 0-100 km/h acceleration time of 4.3 seconds (Estate: 4.4 s).
The Mercedes-AMG engine experts have achieved this increase in output thanks to a technology transfer from the SLS AMG: the forged pistons, connecting rods and the lightweight crankshaft all come from the gullwing model’s engine.
The reduced mass inertia of the components – which are three kilograms lighter than those of the standard version – allows the naturally aspirated eight-cylinder engine to rev up with even greater ease and agility. Models equipped with the performance package can be identified by the variable intake manifold painted in titanium grey under the bonnet, the AMG high-performance braking system with composite front discs and red painted brake calipers all round, the carbon-fibre spoiler lip on the boot lid (sedan) and the AMG performance
steering wheel in nappa leather with an Alcantara® grip area.
Key data at a glance:
C 63 AMG C 63 AMG Estate
Displacement 6 208 cc 6 208 cc
Bore x stroke 102.2 x 94.6 mm 102.2 x 94.6 mm
Compression ratio 11.3 : 1 11.3 : 1
Output 336 kWat 6 800 r-min358 kW
at 6 800 r/min* 336 kWat 6 800 r/min358 kW at 6 800 r/min*
Max. torque 600 Nm at 5 000 r/min 600 Nm at 5 000 r/min
Engine weight (dry) 196 kg 196 kg
Fuel consumption NEDC combined 12.0 l/100 km 12.2 l/100 km
CO2 emissions 280 g/km 285 g/km
Acceleration 0 – 100 km/h 4.4 sec4.3 sec* 4.5 sec4.4 sec*
Top speed** 250 km/h** 250 km/h**
* with AMG Performance package; ** electronically limited
Optimised suspension, new steering system reduces fuel consumption
The AMG sports suspension with a special front axle, reinforced rear axle and wider track all round has undergone thorough modification; the driver benefits from this in two ways as the C 63 AMG now offers greater driving enjoyment and ride comfort at all times. The new, stiffer elastokinematics, the revised axle kinematics with more negative camber all round and the new rear-axle anti-roll bar with a larger cross-section result in higher agility and greater lateral acceleration. But driving dynamics is not the only area in which progress has been made: new spring and damper rates have optimised both the responsiveness of the suspension as well as the road roar and tyre vibration characteristics.
The AMG speed-sensitive sports steering with a direct ratio (13.5 : 1) has a newly developed power-steering pump which plays a decisive role in reducing the fuel consumption. This is because the power assistance for the steering only requires energy when the driver is actually making steering movements. Reliable deceleration at all times is ensured by the AMG high-performance braking system with internally ventilated and perforated discs all round.
Interior: high quality and perceived value
Even a quick glance at the interior of the C 63 AMG reveals the considerable progress which has been made: the completely new dashboard design with an integrated screen impresses with its particularly attractive appearance and the superior quality of the details which immediately bring the new CLS 63 AMG to mind. The quality look and feel meet the highest standards. The new, all-colour, three-dimensional TFT display in the middle of the redesigned speedometer welcomes the driver by showing the AMG logo. The new three-spoke AMG performance steering wheel – another feature adopted from the CLS 63 AMG – which is trimmed in nappa leather and features a metallic trim element has
flattened top and bottom sections as well as grip areas which are specially shaped and trimmed in perforated leather for perfect steering control. Aluminium shift paddles allow manual gear selection.
Fine trim elements in brushed dark aluminium are to be found on the dashboard and doors. Situated in the centre console, which is enhanced with high-gloss black piano lacquer trim elements, is the new rotary control for selecting the transmission modes C, S, S+, M and RACE START.
Designo leather appointments, a standard feature, gives the interior of the C 63 AMG a particularly exclusive character: four single colours and three two-tone combinations are available. As a further option, these can be complemented with “extended black designo leather appointments” for the top section of the dashboard and the upper section of the door linings.
Other attractive optional appointments are also exclusively available for the C 63 AMG from the AMG Performance Studio:
AMG multi-spoke light-alloy wheels, painted in titanium grey with a
high-gloss finish, with 235/35 R 19 (front) and 255/30 R 19 (rear) tyres
AMG multi-spoke light-alloy wheels, painted in matt black with a high-gloss
finish on the rim flange, with 235/35 R 19 (front) and 255/30 R 19 (rear) tyres
AMG Exterior Carbon-Fibre package
AMG rear axle differential lock
AMG trim elements in carbon fibre/high-gloss black piano lacquer
Illuminated AMG door sill panels
AMG velour floor mats
Ten new driving assistance systems already established in the S-Class and CLS
The C 63 AMG features ten new driving assistance systems which are already established in the S-Class flagship range and the trend-setting CLS. These assistance systems use the latest radar, camera and sensor technology and are designed to combat common causes of accidents, such as insufficient distance to the vehicle ahead, drowsiness and darkness. They raise the safety standard of the C-Class to a new level by warning the driver of a hazard, or, if necessary, taking active corrective measures.
DISTRONIC PLUS
PARKTRONIC including parking guidance
PRE-SAFE® Brake
New generation of telematics is the first to feature internet access
The C-Class sees the debut of a new telematics generation which will also be gradually introduced in other model series. Major new features include greater operating convenience, larger displays, telephone directory transfer via Bluetooth®, wireless music reproduction and a USB interface in the centre console.
The top-of-the-range COMAND Online system now provides internet access for the first time. When the car is stationary the customer can browse freely or surf to a Mercedes-Benz Online service whose pages load particularly rapidly. The integrated services include weather information and a local search function as well as the option of downloading a route that has been previously configured on a PC using Google maps and sent to the car.
The navigation system of COMAND Online also has added functions. New features include a 3D display with virtual city views. Also new: routes covered can be recorded and repeated later, specific personal destinations can be entered and stored and three alternative routes can be displayed on the screen – one of them a particularly economical variant.
C 63 AMG – fast-track to best-seller status
Launched in the summer of 2007, the Mercedes-Benz C 63 AMG rapidly established itself as a real best-seller in the AMG model range. Customers all over the world appreciated this unique combination of a powerful and torquey naturally aspirated eight-cylinder engine, a distinctive sound, an agile sports suspension and expressive design. Over the past three and a half years more than 17, 000 AMG enthusiasts have chosen the C 63 AMG, 88 percent of them opting for the sedan (estate: 12 percent). The AMG Performance package, is proving particularly popular: over 30 percent of all the C 63 AMG models delivered in 2010 were specified with this attractive option.
The new C 63 AMG is available as a sedan and as an estate; as with all Mercedes-Benz passenger cars, comes with the standard MobiloDrive 120, six years/120 000 km maintenance plan and a full vehicle warranty of two years/unlimited km. All prices at a glance (incl. 14% VAT):
C 63 AMG Saloon: R862 300
C 63 AMG Estate: R871 700
AMG Performance package: PLUS R (sedan / estate) Plus R71 800
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Take in the top sights in Saint John’s during this 3-hour sightseeing visit to the city’s top attractions. Stop by the most popular spots in the capital, including Heritage Quay, the vegetable market, the town center and more as you soak up the unique architecture and Caribbean vibes of this charming urban area. Your Saint John’s excursion also includes round-trip transportation from your hotel.
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St Johns Cruise Port, Thames St, St John's, Antigua and Barbuda
Get a sense for the daily rhythms and urban charm of the city the Saint John’s on this 3-hour excursion conducted by air-conditioned minivan.
Start with a 9am pickup from your hotel, heading on to the Saint John’s vegetable market, where you’ll absorb the sights, sounds and smells of this commercial center and its colorful local produce. Then move on to Heritage Quay, a popular two-story shopping complex where you can browse a wide variety of duty-free items, including both locally-made and designer items.
Finish your excursion with a stop at the town center, where a collection of vendors offers everything from t-shirts to jewelry to woven goods, and then make the return trip to your hotel.
Fort James, named after King James II of England was built in the 18th Century because the British feared an invasion by the French. This fort was strategically built to guard the entrance of the St. John's Harbor. It was armed with 36 guns and had barracks which accommodated 75 men. A few of the guns can still be seen at the ruins of this fort.
The first cathedral was built in 1681, a simple wooden structure. This was replaced in 1745 after it was severely damaged by earthquake. The present structure as built in 1845.
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My husband and I decided to book this tour to visit Antigua’s capitol with a guide who could tell us about the city’s history. We got the chance to spend the morning with Gregory who was an absolute delight to tour with. We got the chance to visit the market, as well as some of the other sights. Gregory was funny and very descriptive (which was perfect for my husband who is blind). It was definitely time well spent. Thanks again, Gregory, for a great outing.
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I was the only person on this trip , I felt like royalty. Winston my driver was very knowledgeable. He even got me into the Cricket ground to look round. Well worth it.
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16 Highest Rated Players On Madden NFL 21
Scott Prather
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The EA Sports Madden video game series is one of the most successful video game franchises ever.
Due in part to their exclusive partnership with the NFL, Madden offers games a chance to play as their favorite team and players.
Player ratings are a great promotional vehicle for the game, as fans and players alike debate what the game got right or wrong.
The Saints are the highest-rated overall team in the game with an 85, and one of 3 teams who have a pair of players rated in the top 16. (See entire Saints team roster ratings here)
Each player's overall ratings are a result of the cumulative ratings across various player attributes such as speed, awareness, etc.
Madden NFL 21 comes out on August 25th.
Here's a look at the 16 highest-rated players on the latest edition of the game, counting down to #1.
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Song For A Future Generation - The B-52s - Whammy! (CD, Album)
Posted on 25.07.2019 by Shaktir — 8 Comments ↓
Label: Island Records - 255 649,Island Masters - 255 649 • Format: CD Album • Country: Germany • Genre: Electronic, Rock • Style: Surf, New Wave, Synth-pop
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Mezizil on 31.07.2019 at 16:22 said:
Their 5th album, and one of their good albums, The first side rocks with Legal Tender, Whammy Kiss, Song For A Future Generation. Even though the album, when first released had the song "Don't Worry" on side two after "Queen Of Las Vegas" but later on it was replaced by "Moon 83", because "Don't Worry" had issues because it was a Yoko Ono cover/5(45).
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Fauran on 26.07.2019 at 13:02 said:
Lyrics and video for the song Song For a Future Generation by The Bs - Songfacts. and did it with a great song. Whammy is a very good album, and the only thing missing is more songs like 'Whammy' which have a incredible and unforgettable bass. It should be here. Rick really rocked.
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Song For A Future Generation Lyrics: Wanna be the ruler of the galaxy / Wanna be the king of the universe / Let's meet and have a baby now! / Wanna be the empress of fashion / Wanna be the.
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Funplex is the seventh and final studio album by The Bs, recorded during and The album was released on March 25, , by Astralwerks Records It was the first album of new material that the group had released since Good Stuff in , although the band did record two new songs for their compilation album Time Capsule: Songs for a Future Generation/5(21).
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Foundation Leadership Forum 2020
January 26-28, 2020 ❘ Manchester Grand Hyatt ❘ San Diego, California
Key Speakers –
Forum 2020 spans two and half days: January 26-28. Plan to take in the full program beginning with a half day on Sunday and wrapping up a strong morning program just after noon on Tuesday.
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8:00 am – 7:00 pm | Registration
Arriving early? Our registration desk will be open and AGB representatives ready to greet you as you take your first step towards experiencing everything Forum 2020 offers. Welcome to San Diego!
9:00 am – 7:00 pm | AGB Experience
New this year, the AGB Experience, with a meetup/recharge connection spot, live demos, consultants in the house, a book store, and membership representatives on hand to answer questions and make your Forum experience memorable.
11:30 am – 12:30 pm | Meet the President
AGB President and Chief Executive Henry Stoever joined AGB in July, bringing his vision for growth, engagement, and impact to members, staff, and the broader higher education community. This session offers an up-close and personal view into that vision. Bring your questions and thoughts to this information gathering during which open dialogue and a lively exchange of ideas are encouraged.
Please Note: Pre-registration is required and space is limited.
11:30 am – 12:45 pm | Forum Jump-start: Program Overview and Networking for Newcomers
For Forum newcomers and newly joined members of AGB, this orientation and networking session is a great way to jump-start your first day. Get advice on how to make the most of your Forum experience including an app demonstration, overview of the program, and a Q&A. Connect with other first-timers as well as seasoned Forum “mentors” who will make you feel welcome from your first “hello” to the Forum’s finale. You’ll also learn about what’s new at AGB and how to get the most out of your membership! We’ll be keeping it relaxed and social with lunch provided.
Patti Kunkle, vice president of membership, Association of Governing Boards
Matt Stevens, director of membership outreach, Association of Governing Boards
George Watt, senior consultant and senior fellow, Association of Governing Boards; former executive vice president of institutional advancement, College of Charleston; former executive director, College of Charleston Foundation
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm | Successfully Leading Foundation Boards and Committees
Chairing a board or committee comes with its own set of expectations, challenges – and sometimes, the need for new skills and attributes. Whether you are in a leadership role now, or are an aspiring Chair, join this comprehensive, interactive workshop to learn about the leadership challenges, responsibilities, and good practices of foundation board leaders. Board Chairs, committee Chairs, Chairs-elect – and board members who aspire to leadership roles – will engage with peers and experts through roundtable discussions and presentations about effective work at the full board and committee level. We will open with a plenary session followed by breakout sessions for a deep-dive into specific challenges faced by committees based on the following six groupings: 1) executive (Board Chairs and Chairs-elect only); 2) governance/nominating; 3) investment; 4) finance/audit; 5) development/campaigns and 6) real estate, property, and P3s.
With thanks to Ellucian:
James Lanier, senior consultant and senior fellow, Association of Governing Boards; former vice chancellor for institutional advancement and president, East Carolina University Foundation
Susan Brewer, board member, West Virginia University Foundation
Carol Cartwright, president emerita, Kent State University
Peter Hayashida, president, University of California Riverside Foundation and vice chancellor for university advancement
James Keller, board chair, University of Vermont Foundation
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm | Accelerate Your Effectiveness as a New Foundation Executive
New job, new board to report to, a host of stakeholder interests to satisfy, and a relationship to build with the institution your foundation supports. There’s a lot to learn and plan for as you set out as a new foundation executive. No matter how seasoned you were in your previous role, the first 12 to 18 months following your move are key-critical to accelerating your effectiveness, building teams and relationships, and meeting your immediate goals. In this closed-door session, foundation executives at various stages in their tenures will share their experiences and hard-earned wisdom in a safe space where you can ask your most pressing questions among peers. Learn from experts who have been there: what are the key questions you should ask about your organization; what conversations should you be having with your board and institutional leadership; what are the common hurdles and opportunities you should be prepared to overcome and embrace; and how can you build a personal roadmap for success?
(This session is an excellent precursor to the afternoon Peer Group Roundtables and is designed for executives who have been in their role for one year or less and those who are attending the Leadership Forum for the first time. In addition to the session learning outcomes, participants will be introduced to a cohort of participants with whom they can continue to connect with over the course of the event.)
Facilitator:
Jane Parker, president, Auburn University Foundation
Shane Jacobson, president and chief executive officer, University of Vermont Foundation
Rickey McCurry, vice president of development and alumni engagement, Northern Arizona University Foundation
Danita Nias, vice president for institutional advancement and chief executive officer, Florida Atlantic University Foundation
2:45 pm – 4:30 pm | Peer Group Roundtables for CEOs and Executive or C-Suite Staff
Back by popular demand! Member feedback resoundingly confirms that Foundation CEOs and Executive Directors value shared time with counterparts from similarly sized foundations. If you’ve ever wondered if yours is the only foundation that’s faced a particular challenge, chances are – it isn’t! Time and again, it’s been proven that knowledge exchange among peers is where some of the biggest magic happens at Forum. Bring your issues and challenges to this session along with your willingness to share experiences and learn from each other. A peer facilitator will guide the discussion, but the agenda will emerge from you – the participants. Select one of the five the peer group roundtable most appropriate for you and your foundation, and get ready to share, learn, and make valuable connections that will last long after this session concludes.
5:00 pm – 5:15 pm | Welcome
Shauna Diggs, regent, University of Michigan; chair, Association of Governing Boards Board of Directors
Henry Stoever, president, Association of Governing Boards
5:15 pm – 6:30 pm | Inside the Amazon HQ2 Decision: A Foundation Story
You’d be a rare exception if you hadn’t heard about Amazon’s decision to build its second headquarters in Arlington, VA, but did you know it was the Foundation at Virginia Tech that helped seal the deal? This wasn’t the headline but it could have been: VA Tech Foundation Board Plays Pivotal Role in Landing Amazon HQ2. What were the hallmarks of this board’s approach? Progressive, entrepreneurial, creative – and aligned with the priorities of the institution. A panel of key players whose collaboration resulted in this catalytic partnership will share scalable lessons and shed light on the promise these partnerships hold not only for economic development but in higher education’s ability to deliver talent to market. In addition to getting the inside scoop on a story that grabbed a nation’s attention, you’ll learn about the spin-off benefits to foundations, communities, and the students they serve.
Horacio Valeiras, member, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Board of Visitors; member, Association of Governing Boards Board of Directors
John Dooley, chief executive officer, Virginia Tech Foundation
Stephen Moret, president and chief executive officer, Virginia Economic Development Partnership
Brandy Salmon, associate vice president for innovation and partnerships, Virginia Tech University
Timothy Sands, president, Virginia Tech University
6:45 pm – 8:00 pm | Welcome Reception
For first-time attendees, this event will have you saying: “Wow, I had no idea governance folks could be so much fun!” For Forum loyalists, this once-a-year gathering is your chance to reconnect and catch up with friends and colleagues. Great food, awesome beverages, and – unlike a lot of social gatherings – so much in common! A much-anticipated reunion for many and a kickoff to the myriad opportunities to connect with colleagues from across the country, this widely attended event offers great conversation, generous bites, and San Diego hospitality.
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Day 2. If you’re just arriving, welcome! We’ll be up at the crack of dawn, ready to greet you with a registration package and that all-important name badge. The registration desk stays open throughout the day as an information hub and friendly way station on your journey through Forum 2020.
7:00 am – 8:00 am | Breakfast
Kick-off Day 2 and fuel up for a chock-full day of learning with breakfast in the company of fellow IRF leaders while revisiting the previous night’s festivities thanks to a slide show featuring highlights of Sunday’s activities.
With thanks to AGB Search:
8:15 am – 9:30 am | Master Classes I
Incorporating Institutional Values into the Endowment Portfolio
Key university stakeholders, including donors, faculty, and students, are increasingly focused on aligning endowment investment programs with their core values. Trustees seeking to collaborate often don’t know where to start, citing concerns about fiduciary duty, lack of transparency, implementation, and customization. Hear the story of a university seeking enhanced reporting and engagement ones investing practices and the challenges and opportunities they faced in working with boards of trustees, investment committees, university faculty and staff, and their investment office to incorporate values into portfolio management.
Katherine Cahill, trustee, Willamette University
Meredith Heimburger, director of impact, Global Endowment Management
Robert Johnson, chancellor, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Stephanie Lynch, partner, Global Endowment Management
Harnessing Board Member Engagement for Greatest Impact
Like all university volunteers, the members of institutionally related foundation boards want to be engaged in ways that are meaningful, impactful, and gratifying. Often, however, much of their time is spent simply attending meetings and receiving staff reports. Active involvement of board members requires careful planning and a systematic process of clarifying the board’s mission, delineating the members’ responsibilities, assessing their experience, and tracking “key engagement indicators.” With all this in mind, the advancement leadership team at the University of Florida has undertaken a “Principal Partner Engagement” initiative. The team has developed an extensive “toolkit” for maximizing the impact and experience of volunteer leaders and tested the tools in three pilot programs – one with the alumni board, one with a dean’s council, and one with the University of Florida Foundation Executive Board. The Vice President for Advancement and the incoming chair of the Foundation Executive board will describe in detail the goals, the process, and the findings from the first two years of the Principal Partner Engagement initiative.
Tom Mitchell, vice president for development and alumni affairs, University of Florida
Anita Zucker, trustee, University of Florida; chair and chief executive officer, The InterTech Group
Do We Take Bitcoin? Crypto Currency & Philanthropy – A Case Study
The Crypto Currency industry is young and evolving and in a short span of time it has produced many millionaires, a handful of billionaires, and it is anticipated the first trillionaires. So, what does this new wealth mean to philanthropy and are affiliated university foundations prepared to capitalize on this new philanthropy. This master-class will present a case study of the largest cryptocurrency gift received by a public comprehensive university in the United States. In 2018, San Francisco State University Foundation received a blended gift comprised of cash and crypto-currency of $25,000,000 to name the university’s College of Business. This session will highlight the vetting process and due diligence that the University Foundation through to prepare for accepting this historic and transformative gift.
Erik Dryburgh, principal, Adler & Colvin
Bert Feuss, senior vice president of investments, Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Robert J. Nava, vice president of university advancement and executive director, CUSN Philanthropic Foundation
Venesia Thompson-Ramsay, interim vice president of university advancement, San Francisco State University
The Foundation Board’s Role in Supporting Ethical Admissions Practices
In light of the “Varsity Blues” scandal and extensive interest by the Department of Justice in college admission policy and practice, university governance, foundations, faculty, and admission officers face increasing risk in the conduct of university procedures that intersect with undergraduate admission. This session will provide an overview of current legal actions and their potential impact on university admission; encourage institutions and foundations to mitigate risk by clearly articulating bright line policies for activities that intersect with the admission process; and highlight current institutional practice to ensure that the interactions of foundations and admission offices are on firm legal ground.
David Hawkins, executive director for educational content and policy, National Association for College Admission Counseling
Tom Hyatt, senior fellow and general counsel, AGB; partner, Dentons
Partners in One Mission: Foundation and Alumni Association Mergers & Integrations
Whether for efficiencies, greater efficacy or financial survival, Alumni Associations and Foundations are evaluating opportunities varying from sharing operations, all the way to full integration and merger of the boards. In this session Foundation and advancement leaders of combined Foundation-Alumni Association organizations will speak to the cultural and governance challenges; the opportunities for greater success; the planning process and the way forward; and the results of fully integrated Alumni Association-Foundation models. If your institution is considering or embarking on such a path – or simply looking for a stronger alignment with your Alumni Association/Alumni Relations counterparts – this is a must visit session for you!
Erin Thomas Lewis, vice president of alumni and donor engagement, The University of Iowa Center for Advancement
Kristen DeVries, vice president for development and alumni relations, Western Michigan University; executive director, Western Michigan University Foundation
Kathleen Dore, board chair, University of Iowa Center for Advancement
Patricia Kenney, senior director of talent management, Oregon State University Foundation
The Six P’s of Endowment Stewardship
Six key words – Purpose, Policy, Process, Portfolio, People, and Perspective – form a framework for effective endowment stewardship. This session will provide trustees, investment committee members, and senior leadership with a proven, best practice guide for building and maintaining an effective governance and investment model for “now and next”. In a facilitated and interactive conversation, panelists will share experiences and offer advice for implementing a governance model that maintains effectiveness moving forward.
Cathleen Rittereiser, executive director, Commonfund Institute
Panelist:
Mary Jane Bobyock, managing director of the nonprofit advisory team, SEI’s Institutional Group
William Trapp, board of trustees vice president pro tempore, University of North Alabama
9:45 am – 10:45 am | Spotlight on Issues
Advancing Inclusive Excellence: Aspirations and Strategies for Foundations
Our foundations can play critical roles in our institutions’ efforts to become more inclusive and equitable. As stewards of philanthropic resources, a foundation board’s attention to diversity, equity, and inclusion has the capacity to narrow achievement gaps and respond to today’s students’ needs. How can our boards and advancement teams prioritize equity and inclusion? Are our board cultures and ways of working inclusive and welcoming to all members? By sharing experiences and strategies, this session generates dialogue about the role of equity and inclusion in foundations and encourages participants to identify actions they will take to prioritize inclusive excellence.
Abby Kelso, associate vice president for advancement operations, The Evergreen State College
Amanda Walker, vice president for advancement, The Evergreen State College; executive director; The Evergreen State College Foundation
Greg Mullins, faculty representative on the board, The Evergreen State College Foundation; dean of library and media services, The Evergreen State College
Korbett Mosesly, board member, The Evergreen State College Foundation
Engaging the Next Generation Leader and Donor
Want to engage more millennials? See what the Arizona State University (ASU) Foundation is doing differently to embrace the “differences” this new generation brings. Learn how we have launched an innovative approach to activating our alumni who are industry-leading disrupters and influencers and tap into their desire to have an impact. Join us and hear directly from our newly activated Next Generation Council members on why the re-engaged, and how they are helping us change the way we think about advancement at ASU.
Mark Antonucci, assistant vice president and chief of staff, Arizona State University Foundation
Justin Graham, chair, ASU Next Generation Council
Amber Martinez, member, ASU Next Generation Council
ERM View on Investment Pools
While Foundations are distinct entities apart from their particular university, knowledge of the university as the overarching enterprise, and considering enterprise level risks in the management of the Foundations assets, leads to improved insight and alignment. Approaching risk management from an Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) perspective helps universities better assess and quantify risk with a more complete view. As investment programs increasingly play a greater role to support operations, an ERM-approach to managing assets is critical to ensure alignment and enterprise goals.
In this panel session, a foundation executive and Aon experts will use a current case study as an example of how institutions are evaluating and addressing these risks from an investment focused ERM perspective.
Heather Myers, partner and non-profit practice leader, Aon Investment Consulting
Mike Rask, national practice leader for higher education and commercial risk and health solutions, Aon
Christine Devocelle, senior vice president for financial, administrative operations chief financial officer, and treasurer, University of Illinois Foundation
Fundraising in the Subscription Economy Era: How Advancement Can (and Must!) Adapt
With the explosive growth of Netflix, Spotify, HelloFresh, and Dollar Shave Club, we’ve entered the era of the subscription economy. It’s changed the way customers interact with businesses and escalated donor expectations. This industry has grown 200% annually, yet at the same time, giving rates have dropped 33% and total giving declined in FY18. Advancement needs to adapt to reverse those trends and hit ever-escalating campaign goals. In this session, we’ll cover how to incorporate the structure and strategies of these for-profits and help advancement teams improve donor reactivation, mid-level prospect discovery, and front line fundraising productivity.
Brent Grinna, founder and chief executive officer, EverTrue
Mark Koenig, assistant vice president for advancement services, analytics and digital strategy, Oregon State University Foundation
Risk Committee or Not? Why A Foundation Should Have A Risk Oversight Function
Proactive risk management in today’s scrutinized higher education foundation world is non-negotiable. Learn about how a Board Risk Committee can work in conjunction with institution and Foundation leadership to understand potential risks and opportunities and put into place effective mitigation strategies to reduce unwanted liabilities, and anticipate likely impact of decisions and actions. Gain insights into specific tools and approaches that can be effective to analyze and communicate key steps for proactive risk management. Also take away key lessons learned during the evolution a risk management strategy and the establishment of a foundation risk committee.
James Schmidt, chancellor, University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire
Christine Smith, risk committee chair and executive committee member, University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire Foundation
What Board Members Need to Know About Higher Education in America and How to Talk About It
To lead well, foundation boards need their members to understand the environment in which their institutions operate. In this session, participants will gain essential insights about the complex ecosystem in which their institutions compete, collaborate, and coexist. What are the big issues affecting various elements of American higher education? What are the sector-wide issues whose effects vary by type of institution? Discover new information, develop new insights, and become conversant on a practical level about the issues driving value for U.S. colleges and universities.
Andy Lounder, director of programs, AGB
11:00 am – 12:15 pm | Aspiring to Perpetual Value: Managing, Growing, and Defending the Endowment
Whether from the market, Congress, or student/faculty/donor stakeholders, perpetually endowed funds are being challenged. Beyond performance expectations, these challenges also include spend rates, administrative fees, asset allocation, demands for divestment, long term vs short term institutional needs, and an overall lack of understanding of the purpose and value of the billions of dollars being held in permanently restricted funds. The question may be asked: “Do endowments still matter at all?”
A provocative question, to be sure, especially when it comes from the beneficiaries of the funds. Hear from a panel of industry experts and institutional foundation leaders who are prepared to engage in debate, provide context and offer their perspectives on how best to position the endowment as a source of perpetual value to the institution.
William Jarvis, managing director, Bank of America
Kate Murtagh, managing director of sustainable investing and the chief compliance officer, Harvard Management Company
Ellen Ellison, chief investment officer, University of Illinois Foundation
Lori Redfearn, vice president, California State University Foundation
Nathan Shetty, head portfolio manager, multi-asset investments, Nuveen
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | Lunch
1:30 pm – 2:15 pm | Dessert Social
After the midday plenary and lunch, keep the ideas flowing and the conversations bubbling over dessert and some casual networking. Make your way to the AGB Experience and explore all that AGB, our partners, and our speakers have to offer. Sharing stories and solutions—that’s the power of peer exchange.
2:30 pm – 3:45 pm | Master Classes II
Advancement: The Five Defining Challenges of the Next Decade
The pace of change in advancement is accelerating as we enter the 2020s. Returns at the top of the giving pyramid continue to grow, but so too have the opportunity costs of inefficiencies within our major and principal gift teams. At the same time, participation rates keep free-falling, and donor pipelines have started to dry up. Amid all this, institutional leaders are pushing advancement to achieve higher and higher fundraising goals, perhaps at the expense of sustainability and mission-impact. This session will explore these how these challenges are playing out in higher education and how the boldest, most innovative advancement teams today are getting in front of the growing threats they face by placing big bets on different-in-kind strategies.
Jeff Martin, practice manager for advancement forum, EAB
Stephen Rosfeld, vice president for development, University of Cincinnati Foundation
Liz Rothenberg, managing director for strategic research, EAB
DeAnna Zink, CEO, University of North Dakota Foundation
Flipping Our Boardrooms: An Interactive Journey
Restructuring board meetings and creating new practices to encourage deeper engagement is hard. Tim Huebsch, past president of the Minnesota State University Mankato Foundation Board and Kent Stanley, Executive Director, VP University Advancement will share their board’s transformation story that began after reading “Flipping the Boardroom” in a 2015 edition of Trusteeship Magazine. We will share tips to get directors to invest in advanced preparation, ideas to spark dynamic discussions, outline what worked & didn’t work and what we wish we would have known when the journey started. Attendees will join this interactive journey to discuss different options and approaches.
Tim Huebsch, past board president, Minnesota State University Mankato Foundation
Kent Stanley, executive director and vice president of university advancement, Minnesota State University Mankato Foundation
From Competition to Alliances – Collaborating for the Win-Win
Join us for a panel discussion exploring the proposition that the future is about partnerships, alliances, and efficiencies with natural partners AND unnatural partners.
What possibilities exist for: working with peer institutions to outsource gift receipting to reduce costs, streamline processes, and improve operational efficiencies; consolidating multiple public university endowments into one large pool for reduced fees; aligning with similar institutions to contract with consulting firms for reduced rates as preferred vendors; orchestrating private support through IRFs to encourage coordination of academic program expansions with similar institutions; and collaborating between IRFs towards shared fundraising objectives?
Lance Burchett, chief executive officer, Kennesaw State University Foundation
Steve Blair, chief executive officer, University of South Florida Foundation
Tom Mitchell, vice president for development and alumni affairs, University of Florida; executive vice president, University of Florida Foundation
Mike Morseberger, chief executive officer, University of Central Florida Foundation
Cutting Through the Noise: Ways to Benchmark and Improve Endowment Performance
What is the best way to benchmark the performance of an endowment? How should an endowment’s performance be evaluated against its peers given differing goals and risk appetites? What are some ways to improve performance if returns don’t look strong compared to NACUBO averages?
This expert panel will answer these questions and more as participants recommend concrete methods for Foundations to get a clear view of how their portfolio is performing relative to market benchmarks and peers. The panel will also explore investment and risk management best practices that can improve performance, if it is lagging.
Amita Schultes, managing director, Agility / PWP
Chris Bittman, partner, CIO & CEO, Agility / PWP
Carrie Callahan, investment committee chair and executive committee vice chair, University of Central Florida Foundation
Today’s Enrollment Candidates = Tomorrow’s Donors
Foundations are playing a growing role in fueling enrollment. Whether it’s explaining the impact that endowments have on tuition discounting, fueling donor support for underrepresented student populations, or growing the group of alumni advocates who recommend and encourage applicants, your advancement shop can have a huge impact. The increased pressure from institutional leadership to grow enrollment and increase donations goes hand in hand.
Attend this session to learn: new and innovative strategies for strategically linking enrollment, student success outcomes, and alumni relations; how to integrate and leverage the admissions data mine to impact advancement; and why new and next technologies will help maximize student, family, and donor engagement to impact institutional sustainability.
Chris Bingley, senior vice president, RNL
Real Estate Investing Trends
Which cities around the world have the most favorable economic and demographic outlook? How should foundation leaders leverage real estate investment trends to capitalize on the latest outlook for city specific trends? Learn about direct investment options leveraging these trends as well as impacts to other asset class trends that could be influenced by regional and geographic real estate trends.
Dimitri Stathopoulous, senior managing director and head of institutional sales, Nuveen
Jeff Mindlin, chief investment officer, ASU Enterprise Partners
Melissa Reagen, head of research, Americas at Nuveen
4:00 pm – 5:15 pm | A Story of Hope, the Promise of Higher Education, and Why Foundations Matter
University foundation trustee, businessman, philanthropist, and self-proclaimed ambassador of hope, Lameck Humble Lukanga has come a long way since he arrived in America as a child refugee, his family having escaped famine and genocide in Uganda. But at least as remarkable as his journey from the slums of Masaka to the mansions of his Beverly Hills clientele is Humble’s commitment to lifting up others. Join University of Illinois Foundation President Jim Moore for an intimate and revealing conversation during which you’ll be inspired by Humble’s story and informed by his unique experiential insights about the value of education and the important work of foundations.
Jim Moore, president and CEO, University of Illinois Foundation
Lameck Humble Lukanga, founder, Life Line Financial Group; trustee, The University of New Mexico Foundation
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm | Reception
Wrap up a day of learning in a relaxed social setting in the second of two end-of-day networking receptions.
With thanks to Agility /PWP:
Day 3. If you haven’t registered yet, you’ll have missed a few things, but our AGB representatives will be on hand to welcome any last-minute arrivals and, in true AGB fashion, provide helpful assistance and information right up to when you say your good-byes.
Kick-off Day 3 and fuel up for a chock-full day of learning with breakfast in the company of fellow IRF leaders.
8:15 am – 9:30 am | Master Classes III
Board Assessment: Discover Hidden Opportunities While Improving Performance
You may be surprised to learn about leadership aspirations of board members and new ideas to advance the mission of the foundation, through a board assessment that unlocks hidden gems. Assessment should have real return on investment and bolster board performance, not just check the box for board obligations. Learn about tools for board and board member assessment that can provide actionable information and lead to enhanced board member engagement, better meetings, and a better board.
Lynnette Heard, former executive director of foundation board relations and secretary of the board, University of Cincinnati Foundation; consultant, Association of Governing Boards
Merrill Schwartz, senior vice president for content strategy and development, Association of Governing Boards
Financial Regimes and Institutional Governance
The investment regime—the economic, political and social environment that in many ways determines what is possible for investors to achieve—can be a powerful influence on endowment results. How can your board or investment committee use internal and external resources to discern the current regime and optimize your investment performance over time?
Michael Strauss, managing director and senior institutional portfolio strategist, Bank of America
Keith Sauls, former investment committee chair, College of Charleston Foundation
Institutional Presidential Search: The Foundation’s Role
Today’s university and college presidents have ever-increasing responsibility for fundraising, resource development, and asset stewardship, making the institution-foundation partnership even more important. This raises important questions: What is the role a foundation could and should play when its related institution undertakes a leadership search for a new president? How does the foundation ensure it has input in the search? What can the foundation do to help evaluate the candidates’ experience and facilitate the transition? This session will generate dialogue about the role of the foundation in an institutional leadership search, the importance of the relationship between the foundation board chair and the institution board chair, and other key considerations to ensure that the presidential search outcome is the best outcome for both the institution and the foundation.
Rod McDavis, managing principal, AGB Search
Kimberly Templeton, principal, AGB Search
Shifting Trends in Business Models: How IRFs are Adapting and Excelling at Funding Their Foundations
It’s an age-old question that has become more critical as state resources for education are being cut: How do we fund the important work of our institutionally related foundations? In this session we’ll look at how foundations across the country fund their operations and how the funding mix is changing to reflect the current reality. We’ll also hear from some foundation leaders who have recently shaken up their business models.
David Bass, senior director of research, Council for the Advancement and Support of Education
Lisa Eslinger, chief financial and administrative officer, Iowa State University Foundation
The IRF/Institution Relationship: Foundations as Drivers of Innovation
In this era of every greater and ever more divergent expectations, foundations must not only respond to the increasing needs of universities and colleges, but lead. How? The answer lies in the all-important relationship between the foundation and the institution it serves.
A stand-out approach that has garnered national attention at The University of Iowa Center for Advancement is grounded in its culture. Ubiquitous in the mindset of leadership is the understanding that the Center doesn’t simply work with the university. Rather, it is intentional in working for the university and outside of traditional fundraising. When a foundation consistently proves to be an essential partner to the institution, something significant emerges: trust, collaboration, and most profoundly, room to lead.
This session provides examples of foundation-driven initiatives that deliver measurable results through a servant-leader dynamic that harnesses entrepreneurism and the power of data.
And, you will get answers to these questions:
What does it mean to help advance your institution; how can you measurably contribute to fulfilling its aspirations?
How do you inspire teams to be innovative and “think like a Fortune 500 company”?
How can you position your foundation as a valued thought leader and strategic partner?
How can you leverage trust to achieve your institution’s greatest aspirations?
Tiffani Shaw, executive vice president and chief operating officer, The University of Iowa Center for Advancement
Federal Policy Update: What Is and Isn’t In Store for 2020
Given the likelihood of a tumultuous year in national politics—a deep partisan divide that can only intensify with the impeachment inquiry and with what will surely be a contentious presidential campaign and election—the panel will candidly discuss federal policy affecting public colleges and universities and their institutionally related foundations. Despite the likelihood of continued political gridlock, session participants will learn about the outlook for several issues, including: federal higher education funding, reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), immigration and foreign student issues, and new tax incentives that could benefit students, institutions, and foundations. Participants will also gain a fuller understanding of the still-evolving implications of the 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act on charitable giving and private institution endowments.
Rich Novak, senior fellow, Association of Governing Boards
Steven Bloom, director of government relations, American Council on Education
Brian Flahaven, senior director for advocacy, Council for Advancement and Support of Education
9:45 am – 10:45 am | Sharing Forums
Can Your Foundation Use More (Artificial) Intelligence?
With the growing demand for increasing resources, Foundations of all shapes and sizes are now being asked to do more than ever. Gone are the “good old days” of only worrying about governance and fiduciary duties. Instead, we must now play a larger and more strategic role with the same resources. Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents an opportunity to re-imagine and position everything we do to support our Institutions. From the impact of AI-enabled software to help raise more money, to the way these tools challenge the status quo, find out why one Foundation embraced this new technology, the outcomes achieved, and ways AI can impact your Foundation and Institution.
Jeff Kinard, board chair, College of Charleston Foundation
Adam Martel, cofounder and chief executive officer, Gravyty
Chris Tobin, executive vice president of institutional advancement, College of Charleston; executive director, College of Charleston Foundation
The Transformative Power of #DisrUPtion
Hear how the WVU Foundation transformed from a silo based, reactive “old world” view, not achieving its holistic potential, to an organization that is nimble, forward-thinking, outcomes oriented, laser-focused and donor-centric. Participants will hear about the methodical, bold series of disruptive projects that brought about incredible success in three main areas: technology advancement, fundraising transformation and culture change. You will be empowered to not just change your organization incrementally but be transformative. Watch out… your successful outcomes may be disruptive! The WVU Foundation has a story that will help you use disruption to your advantage!
Mark Cottrill, vice president of infrastructure and advancement solutions, West Virginia University Foundation
B.J. Davisson, executive vice president and chief development officer, West Virginia University Foundation
Cynthia Roth, president and CEO, West Virginia University Foundation
A Framework for Successful Strategic Planning: Developing a Strategic Plan That Sticks!
Working with a board of 45 members and 8 committees, the Medical College of Virginia Foundation (MCV Foundation) created a three-year strategic plan in 2016. In this session presenters will cover how to focus on the foundation’s vision for the future and build a plan based not only on stakeholder input but that’s also grounded in data. Presenters will explain the processes for establishing plan goals and strategies, creating committee workplans, benchmarking progress, and determining how to implement a continuous process after adoption to keep the board and staff engaged in goal achievement.
Margaret Ann Bollmeier, president, Medical College of Virginia Foundation
Wyatt Beazley, board chair, Medical College of Virginia Foundation
Ellen Spong, chair elect, Medical College of Virginia Foundation
AGB President and Chief Executive Officer Henry Stoever joined AGB in July, bringing his vision for growth, engagement, and impact to members, staff, and the broader higher education community. This session offers an up-close and personal view into that vision. Bring your questions and thoughts to this information gathering during which open dialogue and a lively exchange of ideas are encouraged.
OCIO: Optimizing Alignment Toward Achieving Desired Outcomes
Insuring that the Investment Committee and the OCIO are in alignment is critical to advancing an institution’s mission and strengthening its financial health. This means a mutual understanding of risk/return expectations, outcome benchmarking and all points in-between. Whether you have recently entered into an OCIO relationship or are in a long-tenured one, we will provide ideas for maximizing success in this important partnership. An investment committee chair and two OCIO industry veterans will provide tangible, straightforward recommendations that you can implement with your committee.
Mike Condon, head of portfolio management, FEG Investment Advisors
Nicole Krauss, managing director and global head of client development, Strategic Investment Group
Howard Lipman, senior vice president of university advancement, Florida International University; and chief executive officer, FIU Foundation
Beneficial Investing for Higher Education and Society
Leaders in higher education and stakeholders, including donors, faculty and students, are increasingly focused on aligning endowment investments with the mission and core values of the institutions. In response, investment committees are being challenged to consider a broad array of factors, e.g., environmental, social and governance issues, that are material to reducing investment risks, providing opportunities for strong financial returns and helping create a more just, inclusive and sustainable economy. This session is designed to help foundation leaders understand the importance of mission-aligned investing, the advantages and the short-term challenges, the trends in higher education and how endowment managers are evaluating and implementing innovative investment solutions.
Tony Cortese, co-founder and senior fellow, Intentional Endowment Network
Jodie Gunzberg, managing director and chief investment strategist, Graystone Consulting
Emily Lawrence, director of sustainable investing for the institutional client group, Northern Trust Asset Management
Jeremy Tennenbaum, senior nonprofit strategist, Vanguard
Cybersecurity in a Brave New World
Although 21st century technology, web-based transactions and artificial intelligence offer incredible new opportunities in higher education advancement, these opportunities are countered by new areas of risk. Foundation Boards now include data/cyber risk as a critical area of risk assessment and evaluation. Imagine the reputational risk involved in a breach of donor and/or financial data. Or, the operational risk associated with the hijacking of files and programs. It’s a scary new world where cybersecurity takes on greater importance. Join an expert panel of practitioners as they discuss threats, risks and strategies to ensure your Foundation’s cybersecurity plans are up to the challenges of today and in the future.
Tom Hyatt, AGB senior fellow and general counsel; partner, Dentons
Greg Lohrentz, chief operating officer and chief financial officer, Kansas State University Foundation
Carolyn Krass, senior vice president and general counsel, general insurance & deputy general counsel, AIG
11:00 am – 12:15 pm | Choosing College, Choosing Students: Innovating Our Way Towards Serving Students Better
As public colleges and universities face greater financial and demographic challenges in the years ahead, the need to innovate and find other sources of revenue will increase. Michael Horn will explain where the demand for innovation comes from, the importance of creating student-centric experiences that motivate learners, and how that motivation informs their choices around attending and completing college. There is no overlooking the fact that innovation requires funding, and financial support will be needed to invest in innovative strategies and revenue generation initiatives. Michael will discuss research from his groundbreaking book, Choosing College, on why students enroll in higher education and its implications for innovating and designing programs, as well as related thoughts on how foundations are essential to the effort.
Michael Horn, cofounder and distinguished fellow, Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation; head of strategy and senior partner, Entangled Group; and executive editor of Education Next
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Miley Cyrus Climbed the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel Sign and More Insanely Epic Celebrity Party Stories
Feel a little down about spending the majority of your weekends stuffed in blanket burritos with a side of cat? No worries, you can live the party life vicariously through these celebs' wild tales of their most unforgettable fêtes — it'll basically be like you were there, too!
While celebrating musician pal Wayne Coyne's 60th birthday on Jan. 13, 2021, the singer posted a collection of snapshots to her Instagram Story. In one final image, Cyrus stood with her hand over her face while leaning on the Flaming Lips frontman. "Standing on Hollywood Blvd morning after a rager," she wrote, admitting, "(I climbed the Roosevelt [hotel] sign naked.)"
Tom Cruise & Kate Hudson
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Cue the Mission: Impossible theme song! While making an appearance with her brother, Oliver, on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Hudson told the talk show host that they used to throw some pretty wild parties when mom Goldie Hawn and partner Kurt Russell were out of town. At one party in particular, Hudson recalled a very famous party-crasher.
"I'm standing at the door making sure that people who aren't supposed to be at the party aren't coming in — there's like 400 people at my parents' house," Hudson recalled. "I'm kind of freaking out a little and I see someone scaling, literally scaling, an eight-foot gate at my parents' house. They come off and they do a back handspring and pose and I'm about to yell at this guy, and it's Tom Cruise."
Kate said she went over to greet the actor, who wasn't invited but decided to come by because he "heard there was a party."
"So that's how he gets everywhere — he just scales things," host Ellen DeGeneres joked.
"Yes! He is Mission: Impossible! It's wild," Kate added.
Gemma Chan & Celine Dion
Putting the "crazy" in Crazy Rich Asians, actress Gemma Chan admitted things got a little wild on the bus that ferried guests between the Met Gala and the afterparty – but the responsibility lies with diva Céline Dion. "She was an absolute f—ing legend … It was the best half an hour of my life," Chan told The Guardian, before swearing the video of the moment will never be seen. "I can't believe it happened. Nothing will top that. I pole-danced on a bus with Celine Dion."
Ed Sheeran & Princess Beatrice
Want to guarantee a memorable time at your party? Invite Ed Sheeran – as you'll see, he tends to make any gathering much more eventful. And that includes royal soirees with princesses in attendance; in 2017, Sheeran appeared to confirm a report that Princess Beatrice had accidentally slashed his face with a sword while pretending to knight fellow musician James Blunt. There were no hard feelings towards the Windsors, though: Sheeran was happy to accept his MBE (member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) from Prince Charles later that year.
The A-list actress recounted her first true Oscars party experience on Late Night, telling host Seth Meyers that her best friend, Laura, had encouraged her to enjoy the awards a little more her third time around.
After enjoying drinks during the ceremony, Lawrence decided to hit up the glitzy awards show after-parties. "I've never gone out after Golden Globes or Oscars or anything — I'm just so sick of people by that point," she explained. "But this time I was like 'I'm going out.' And I puked."
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"There's this big fancy party, this Guy Oseary and Madonna party — if you get invited, you're like, you know, super-important. And I puked, on his porch," she went on.
And there was a high-profile witness to the actress's party fail. "I was in such bad condition. And I look behind me while I'm puking and Miley Cyrus is there like, 'Get it together,'" Lawrence admitted.
Taylor Swift & Ed Sheeran
During a joint interview on BBC Radio 1, the longtime besties spilled on that time they ended up hiding from police in a hotel bathroom after the 2015 Grammys.
"We were at a party in Mark Ronson's [hotel] room and then the police shut it down," Sheeran said.
"That made us feel so cool," Swift chimed in. "We had to hide in a bathroom … I grabbed Ed and I was like, 'Cops are here. Come with me.' Who would have thought I'd be the one who, like, knows how to get you away from the police?'"
After escaping from the bathroom, the duo headed to another post-Grammys party, where, as Swift put it "a lot of weird things" continued to happen.
"Ed was in a special place," Swift recalled. "We spent 10 minutes hugging koala bears."
The next morning, Swift was reminded of a run-in with a fellow musical star: "I woke up with an email from The Weeknd and he was like, 'You told me how beautiful I was for about 15 minutes straight and started to pet my hair.' It looked really cool that night and I apparently went on and on about it … I was like 'you're so magnificent.' "
The reality star shared a story of a 21st birthday done right on behalf of her little sister Kendall Jenner, who enjoyed so many milestone libations at her party that she forgot about receiving a multi-thousand dollar gift from a stranger.
"We had crazy celebrations," Kardashian said on Jimmy Kimmel Live! about Jenner's bash. At one point, said the star, "My mom [Kris Jenner] was like: Come on, Kourt and Khlo' — she was like, riling us up and we were like: 'What's going on?' And then we go outside and there's a Rolls Royce and this man standing there."
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"I was like: 'What's the gift? The guy or the car?' I was so confused. And then this guy just hands Kendall a pair of keys to this car and I was like, 'Do we even know who this guy is?!' He's some prince."
The next morning, Kardashian's supermodel sister had completely forgotten about the lavish present. "She was like, 'Oh, my God. I forgot I got a car last night!'" Kardashian remembered. "That's how drunk she was. She was so drunk on her 21st birthday."
Stone was lucky enough to be a part of the Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special festivities, and walked away with a pretty crazy story about the after-party. "It got insane," she told Jimmy Fallon during a Tonight Show appearance. "I was dancing, and I stepped on a piece of glass and I didn't know it. So I kinda was like 'Oh!' and I looked and my foot was bleeding everywhere," she revealed.
"I sat down and was like 'What do we do?' And then someone went, 'you want to come onstage with Prince?' and I was like, 'Yup!' And they just took me a minute later!"
The La La Land star ended up onstage with the musical legend, playing the tambourine with a bleeding foot.
In a 2011 interview with Allure, Meester reminisced about her former days as a party girl, and one particular anecdote about a literally too-hot-too-handle soirée stood out.
"We had craaaazy parties, we had DJs, bands, an ice luge, a fire twirler," she told the magazine. "One of my roommates burned off her bangs on the stove trying to light a cigarette."
During his Reddit Ask Me Anything, Jonas dished on a very special night he spent with frontman Bono after a Toronto U2 concert.
"Somebody came up from Bono's PR, and they were like we would like to invite you to Bono's after party, and we were like that's not real, there's no way he wants us to come to an afterparty," he wrote. Despite his initial reservations, Jonas decided to stop by the party in case the rockstar had legitimately requested his presence.
The DNCE singer had been hanging out at the party for about 30 minutes when, "the doors open, it was as if it was a smoke machine, and Bono walks in, he was wearing jeans and a jean shirt buttoned down to his belly button. He struts his way in and is doing the pointing at people and just being a total badass."
Jonas ended up having an intimate chat with the veteran performer. "[He] sits down with us for probably the next four hours and we have the most amazing conversation," he wrote. "We talk about him, I asked him for advice for writing songs and he's like. 'Don't be afraid to offend people, I have countries I'm not allowed back into for things I said, you have to really say it from your heart because it's what's important.'"
Another Irish party-goer made for even more special memories. "Colin Farrell was there as well," Jonas revealed. "[Farrell] sent [Bono] one of the jerseys of a rival team, and he wrote something on the jersey [like 'screw your team'], and Bono was so mad and was like 'Where is that bastard?!' And was looking for him around the party to fight him."
The Saturday Night Live cast member confessed to Seth Meyers that she may have slightly overindulged at the season 42 writers' party.
"You take all the anxiety and stress and power from the season and you pour it into one night of drinking alcohol," she explained. "This most recent one that we had at the end of last season — I would say it almost destroyed me as a human woman."
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"I drank so much that I blacked out," Bryant admitted. "I don't even know how I got home. I had to like drunk detective piece everything together the next morning … I woke up in the hallway of my building on the floor — which is very humbling."
"The only reason I woke up was because I was hit by a newspaper that was being delivered to my neighbor's door," the sketch star continued.
The Starboy told GQ about yet another night he spent celebrating alongside Ed Sheeran, who showed off his hidden freestyle rapping skills during the bash.
"I wrote a song with Ed Sheeran that was kind of spontaneous," he shared with the outlet. "He was hosting the Much Music Awards in Toronto and I invited him, and pretty much the entire awards show, to my condo to party."
"It went on until about five in the morning but we didn't write the song until that next day, so you can imagine how that night went. Ed also did a freestyle battle with Waka Flocka in my kitchen. That was pretty dope. Good times."
The "Thinking Out Loud" singer also discussed the now-legendary party on Zane Lowe's Beats 1 radio show. "I was in Toronto, I ended up at The Weeknd's house — had never met him before," he said. "He was like, 'Come to my house, I'm having a party.' He has good parties."
"When we were at the party, we were really drunk, and he was like, 'You should come to my house tomorrow! We should write a song!' And then the next day, he hit me up again, so I went, and we wrote this song, which is really, really f—ing good."
The Dora and the Lost City of Gold star was sitting on the hot seat during a rapid-fire round of "Shady Questions," on an episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, when she revealed who got the most drunk at her wedding.
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Once Shady Boots asked her the question, Longoria responded by saying, "It was a toss between Ricky Martin and Victoria."
"Victoria Beckham," host Cohen said to clarify that she was talking about her fashion designer friend, to which Longoria started to laugh and said, "Yea."
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Sports betting winners and losers: Did your NFL season props hit? Aaron Rodgers pays off big
If you believed in an Aaron Rodgers revenge season after the Green Bay Packers drafted a quarterback in the first round, you cashed some big tickets.
Rodgers was +2500 to win MVP before the season, and now he’s -3000. That’s about 97 percent implied odds that Rodgers will win his third MVP. When we look back at the season-long props offered by BetMGM, Rodgers cashed there too.
Rodgers was +2000 to lead the NFL in passing touchdowns, and that prop cashed. Rodgers also helped Davante Adams bettors. Adams was +900 to lead the NFL in receiving touchdowns, and that was a winner.
Most positive Packers props cashed. They hit the over on their win total, which was 9, weeks ago. Green Bay finished 13-3. The Packers won the division at +175 odds. Green Bay opened at +1800 to win the Super Bowl, and they’re alive for that too.
Here are the yardage leaders and their preseason odds:
Rushing champion, Derrick Henry: Henry was an easy pick, and 37 percent of bettors who bet on the rushing title at BetMGM took Henry. It wasn’t even a sweat.
Henry blew away the field, becoming the eighth back in NFL history to rush for 2,000 yards. He had +600 odds to win a second straight rushing title, and while running back is a volatile position, it’s easy to look back and wonder why those odds weren’t much lower. Henry will likely be a heavy favorite to lead the NFL in rushing yards next season, too.
Passing champion, Deshaun Watson: Watson was +2000 to lead the NFL in passing yards after the Texans traded his No. 1 receiver, DeAndre Hopkins. But Watson won this prop with 4,823 yards. It was a tough beat for Patrick Mahomes bettors in this market. Mahomes had 4,740 yards but sat in Week 17 with the Chiefs having the No. 1 seed locked up.
Receiving champion, Stefon Diggs: Diggs opened at +1000 to lead the league in receiving yards, and those odds were higher after a trade to the Buffalo Bills. There were plenty of great receivers who looked like better bets to lead the NFL in receiving yards (go back to your fantasy football draft and you’ll see that). Josh Allen’s massive improvement was a huge boon for Diggs, who led the NFL with 1,535 yards. It was another bummer for Chiefs fans, because Travis Kelce had a shot to lead the league but was stuck on 1,416 yards as he sat in Week 17.
If you missed out on any of those bets, it’s OK. We’ll spend the offseason figuring out who could be the 2021 version of Rodgers, Adams, Watson and Diggs, hitting on pretty good odds for those player props.
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) had a big year for bettors. (Photo by Robin Alam/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Here are the winners and losers from the past week in the sports betting world:
Washington Football Team division bettors: WFT opened as 10-to-1 underdogs to win the NFC East. Even in the second half of the season you could find odds of +500 and greater on Washington, which started 2-7.
Washington went just 7-9 but there’s no shame in cashing a ticket. The NFC East was bad and Washington won it, with a little help from Eagles coach Doug Pederson’s lineup decisions in the finale. They were the biggest long shot, by far, among the eight division champs. Here are the opening odds for the division champs in the preseason, and what percentage of bets came in on them at BetMGM:
AFC East: Bills opened +325, 16% of bets were on Buffalo to win division
AFC North: Steelers opened +320, 29% of bets were on Pittsburgh to win division
AFC South: Titans opened +160, 45% of bets were on Tennessee to win division
AFC West: Chiefs opened -450, 18% of bets were on Kansas City to win division
NFC East: Washington opened +1000, 19% of bets were on Washington to win division
NFC North: Packers opened +175, 40% of bets were on Green Bay to win division
NFC South: Saints opened +100, 14% of bets were on New Orleans to win division
NFC West: Seahawks opened +200, 31% of bets were on Seattle to win division
Drake Bulldogs: The college basketball season started in late November. Drake has yet to lose against the spread.
Among all teams with more than six games played this season, Drake is the only team left that is undefeated against the spread. They are 11-0 ATS and 13-0 straight up (games against St. Ambrose and McKendree College didn’t have a spread). It’s a remarkable run. No other team with more than eight games played has fewer than two losses against the spread.
Drake hasn’t exactly played the toughest schedule. It hasn’t won a game over a team ranked in the top 150 at KenPom. But bettors who have been riding the Drake train don’t care. And on Monday, BetMGM mobile sports betting launched in Iowa, where Drake is located. Iowans can decide if Drake can keep its undefeated streak going.
Toronto Raptors: Only one team in the NBA has just one win against the spread early this season. The Raptors have been awful.
The Raptors were 5.5-point favorites against the Boston Celtics on Monday and lost by 12. That drops them to 1-5 against the spread and straight up. It’s a Raptors team that was very good last season, a year after winning a championship, and it has been a rough start to this season. They lost Marc Gasol and Serge Ibaka in the offseason and that is affecting them.
Perhaps the biggest issue is Toronto is on the road all season. The Raptors were relocated to Tampa Bay due to COVID-19 restrictions in Canada. As long as that continues, it’s tough to see the Raptors bouncing back much this season. Sportsbooks will adjust odds until the Raptors show some improvement.
Las Vegas Raiders under 7.5 wins: The last game to finish in the late afternoon window of Week 17 was a meaningless Raiders-Broncos game.
Meaningless to some anyway.
Three of 32 team win totals came down to the final week of the season. The Carolina Panthers and Chicago Bears fell short. The Raiders’ win total of 7.5 was still up in the air in the final seconds.
The Raiders started the season 6-3 but struggled to get to eight wins. Their horrible Week 16 loss to the Miami Dolphins further agitated over bettors. And then again when the Broncos led 31-24 in the final minutes of the finale. With 1:47 left, the Raiders took over at their own 23. Derek Carr led a long drive, capped by a 1-yard touchdown run by Josh Jacobs on fourth-and-goal. And inexplicable timeout by Broncos coach Vic Fangio allowed Las Vegas to get the 2-point conversion for the win, an 8-8 record and a win for all those over 7.5 wins tickets. And, of course, a loss on the under tickets.
You don’t see too many sweats like that on season-long props.
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NSA has bugged UN, EU, 80 embassies
8/27/13 10:02am by Gaius Publius 12
According to Der Spiegel, one of Germany’s pre-eminent weekly magazines, the NSA (the Pentagon) has an extensive spy apparatus inside United Nations headquarters in New York, as well as in 80 embassies worldwide.
Because … “terrorism,” right? Because … “keeping frightened Americans safe,” right?
Or because “out-of-control national spook state”?
Reuters, reporting on the Der Spiegel revelations (my emphasis and some reparagraphing):
The U.S. National Security Agency has bugged the United Nations’ New York headquarters, Germany’s Der Spiegel weekly said on Sunday in a report on U.S. spying that could further strain relations between Washington and its allies.
Citing secret U.S. documents obtained by fugitive former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, Der Spiegel said the files showed how the United States systematically spied on other states and institutions. Der Spiegel said the European Union and the U.N.’s Vienna-based nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), were among those targeted by U.S. intelligence agents.
In the summer of 2012, NSA experts succeeded in getting into the U.N. video conferencing system and cracking its coding system, according one of the documents cited by Der Spiegel. “The data traffic gives us internal video teleconferences of the United Nations (yay!),” Der Spiegel quoted one document as saying, adding that within three weeks the number of decoded communications rose to 458 from 12.
Internal files also show the NSA spied on the EU legation in New York after it moved to new rooms in autumn 2012. Among the documents copied by Snowden from NSA computers are plans of the EU mission, its IT infrastructure and servers.
And if that weren’t bad enough:
NSA runs a bugging programme in more than 80 embassies and consulates worldwide[.]
They really do want it all, don’t they, and they have no shame — or legal constraint — in making the attempt.
“Collect it all”
This is what it means when the Pentagon uses the NSA to “collect it all.” From a fawning profile of Gen. Keith Alexander, NSA chief, in the Washington Post:
NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander
(Image from Flickr photostream of Georgia Tech)
[T]he NSA director, Gen. Keith B. Alexander, wanted more than mere snippets. He wanted everything: Every Iraqi text message, phone call and e-mail that could be vacuumed up by the agency’s powerful computers.
“Rather than look for a single needle in the haystack, his approach was, ‘Let’s collect the whole haystack,’ ” said one former senior U.S. intelligence official who tracked the plan’s implementation. “Collect it all, tag it, store it. . . . And whatever it is you want, you go searching for it.” …
In his eight years at the helm of the country’s electronic surveillance agency, Alexander, 61, has quietly presided over a revolution in the government’s ability to scoop up information in the name of national security. And, as he did in Iraq, Alexander has pushed hard for everything he can get: tools, resources and the legal authority to collect and store vast quantities of raw information on American and foreign communications.
I’m calling that simply All Data. The Pentagon (the military) wants All Data — all foreign data (for example, from embassies around the world; from international organizations like the U.N.), all domestic data (and please don’t be fooled by their denials).
What will “they” do with All Data?
There are many ways All Data can be used, including corrupt ways. And many “theys” with access to it. All that data and all that access creates a world of possibilities. Here are just a few:
▪ Individuals with direct NSA access could spy on lovers and get revenge on ex-lovers and other enemies. (This one is now proved.)
▪ NSA contractor Booz Allen and companies like them could keep tabs on business competitors — on its own behalf and on behalf of their corporate clients — intercepting contracts, contacts, plans, proprietary IP, anything they want.
▪ Anyone with direct access, including government agencies, could set up massive, and potentially lucrative, industrial espionage operations.
▪ Since All Data includes all government data, individuals could sell U.S. secrets to foreign governments (at the link, replace “Snowden” with any name you want).
▪ Government and party officials could blackmail other politicians, other government officials — including those from their own party — to achieve any number of political goals.
▪ The blackmail idea is filled with opportunities. Prosecutors could blackmail innocent people into testifying against other innocent people. Government and party officials could blackmail writers and editors, even media owners. NSA whistle-blower Russell Tice says he had intercepts from Samuel Alito’s in his hand at one time.
▪ Anyone with access, including corrupt prosecutors and cops with mob ties, could sell the access to “friends” or rent it out.
It’s literally all possible, and given that the NSA is a very leaky ship with obviously terrible internal security — one that still, by the way, has no idea what went out the door with Snowden — it’s likely we’ll find out that everything on my list is true, and more. LOVINT, the first link in the list above, is certainly just the first of these shoes to fall.
Waiting for all the shoes to fall
As you can see from the list above, there are a lot of shoes that could fall, over quite a number of months. The Reuters article speculates, lower down, that Angela Merkel could lose her reelection bid if it’s discovered she knew and approved of all this spying. I can’t imagine other governments are pleased with the U.N. and embassy spying either.
Diplomatic repercussions, or worse? We’re about to find out just how strong a grip the U.S. has on the throat of the rest of the world.
And don’t forget the “fair is fair” effect. There are many ways to formulate the Golden Rule. One of them is this — What you do to others, count on it being done back to you, with your own justifications thrown into your face as cause.
The Snowden revelations will also play out into the campaign season, I think, which isn’t that far away. At what point will NSA whistle-blower Russell Tice’s information about political spying come to the 2014 foreground? Tice on that:
Collins: Now Russ, the targeting of the people that you just mentioned, top military leaders, members of Congress, intelligence [committee] leaders and … then executive branch appointees. This creates the basis, and the potential for massive blackmail.
Tice: Absolutely! And remember we talked about that before, that I was worried that the intelligence community now has sway over what is going on.
Now here’s the big one. … This was is summer of 2004. One of the papers that I held in my hand was to wiretap a bunch of numbers associated with, with a 40-something-year-old wannabe senator from Illinois. You wouldn’t happen to know where that guy lives right now, would you? It’s a big white house in Washington, DC. That’s who they went after. And that’s the president of the United States now.
And from another interview with Tice, “blackmail” is discussed starting at 5:38 and continuing through the rest of it. I’ll have more on that interview shortly.
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Tags: corruption, Edward Snowden, Keith Alexander, NSA, United Nations
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Gaius Publius is a professional writer living on the West Coast of the United States.
12 Responses to “NSA has bugged UN, EU, 80 embassies”
Is this a surprise to anyone? The US has been listening to phone calls, bugging embassies, tapping under water communication lines with special submarines, etc. for decades. Other nations do the same thing: enemies and allies alike. Diplomats expect that. That’s why there are isolated rooms in embassies for secure communications. Nothing about that is illegal or unconstitutional as far as I know. That’s the job of all branches of our espionage agencies. It’s when U.S. citizens are the targets when constitutional issues start to come into play. The part in the Patriot Act that authorizes targeting U. S. citizens has not been tested by the Supreme Court yet.
Bill_Perdue says:
Too bad they won’t bug the Oval Office and congressional offices so we can hear what they say after lobbyists for LGBT groups come begging.
How long before the smiles become smirks and ‘fa**ot’, ‘b*****ke’ and ‘t***ny’ replace ‘our esteemed LGBT friends’?
caphillprof says:
J Edgar Hoover. Richard Nixon, Dick Cheney, . . .
Indigo says:
We’re living the story Phillip K. Dick never wrote. He saw it coming though.
Thanks Gaius. It’s been an honor and privilege to join you guys.
Hue-Man says:
Here’s the next logical step for “Big Dada” (from last month): “Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s office asked Conservative political staffers to develop lists of “enemy” lobby groups, as well as troublesome bureaucrats and reporters to avoid as part of preparations for incoming ministers named in Monday’s cabinet shuffle, according to leaked emails sent to Postmedia News by an unidentified source.” http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/07/16/harper-asked-tory-staffers-for-list-of-enemy-lobbyists-bureaucrats-and-reporters-documents/
Once you’ve identified your enemies, they will never get a government contract, a job, an interview for a newspaper, their applications to government will always be denied, banks will be told not to lend to them, all family members added to “no-fly” lists, and on and on.
GaiusPublius says:
I just want to say, Becca, congrats on joining us as a writer. I’m enjoying your work.
Unchecked, unaccountable power corrupts — it always has and always will.
cole3244 says:
sadly america the beautiful has a dark side if we ever where actually beauitiful, environment excluded of course.
JayRandal says:
NSA Director Alexander is like another Hoover the Director of FBI who had files on everybody in politics. Blackmail of politicians in Congress to keep NSA in operation to collect more dirt on politicians
for more funding of NSA. Call it a circle-jerk and be done with it.
Drew2u says:
How many legislators will sing the NSA’s tune to keep their “LOVEINT”s a secret?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2401294/NSA-officers-spy-love-interests.html
Aha! This is much less of a surprise that it should be. Invasive and sweeping gestures have been the stuff of American public policy since the days of the attempted genocide of the American Indian peoples and the repression of the Whiskey Rebellion before then. General Sherman’s march through Georgia in 1864 gave testimony to those same vindictive policies. More recent times have been late afternoon television fare but the clearest policy statement ever uttered came from General Patton’s lips: “Kill them all! Let God sort them out.”
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Review: Normal People
A wondrous and wise coming-of-age love story from the celebrated author of Conversations with Friends
At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at Marianne’s house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers—one they are determined to conceal.
A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. And as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other.
Sally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.
I can’t say exactly why this novel had me so riveted. I think it is the way the author zeroes in on the character’s flaws and reveals motivation that the reader goes, “Ahhhhh. Of course!” Even readers who have psychology backgrounds and years of workplace experience will find the story and the historyilluminating.
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Review: Wilder Girls
Wilder Girls by Rory Power
I don’t like writing bad reviews. I will say that the plot has a lot of potential. An isolated all girls school where things have gone really, really wonky. I think the author should have stuck with that and really developed it rather than taking detours about sexuality and partly written dialogue addressing sexuality. There was also something to do with estrogen and how the teachers didn’t get the mutation or whatever as heavily yet the male groundskeeper did. The logic never quite made it to conclusion.
So much potential and so many detours leaving me, the reader, irritated that I spent the time reading the book to the nonconclusion.
I received this ARC from Netgalley.
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The death penalty – on request?
Published at May 31, 2007 in (in)justice system, death penalty and prison abolition. 3 Comments
For years, I’ve been a staunch opponent of the death penalty. To me it seems both barbaric and unjust. In a fallible and inequitable criminal justice system, one can never be sure that the death penalty is applied evenly and without bias. And with the spate of false convictions that have been uncovered in the past few decades, it’s clear that even completely innocent people are sentenced to death.
So, I was more than a bit surprised when I read this article from the BBC News: hundreds of Italian prisoners who are serving life sentences are actually requesting that the death penalty be reinstated (it’s been banned since after World War II.)
The letter they sent to President Napolitano came from a convicted mobster, Carmelo Musumeci, a 52-year-old who has been in prison for 17 years.
It was co-signed by 310 of his fellow lifers.
Musumeci said he was tired of dying a little bit every day.
We want to die just once, he said, and “we are asking for our life sentence to be changed to a death sentence”.
I’ve always thought about death penalty as the most cruel and unjust form of punishment, but how much less cruel is life imprisonment, really? Unlike a death sentence, it’s reversible; if someone is found to have been wrongly convicted, they can be released; if they appeal and evidence is unearthed that proves them guilty of only a lesser crime, their sentence can be shortened. But the prospect of living the rest of one’s life behind bars is a horrifying one indeed, as evidenced by these prisoners’ plea for death.
Being a prison abolitionist, I’m looking forward to a time when prisons fade into obsolescence and are no longer how society deals with its problems. However, that’s probably a long way off. So in the meantime, the questions I’m pondering are these – should prisoners be allowed to request the death penalty instead of a life sentence? Should that be allowed even if the death penalty is abolished as an involuntarily imposed sentence? Does this amount to something akin to voluntary euthanasia (physician-assisted suicide), which I do not oppose? Is this a devaluation of the lives of prisoners? That last question sounds eerily like something a “sanctity of life” anti-choicer might say, but I’m coming from a different angle. People in prison are already so undervalued, even when they’re released; does something like this only reinforce that devaluation – saying that life in prison is worse than no life at all? And finally, does anyone but prisoners actually serving life sentences have the right or even the ability to answer any of these questions?
3 Responses to “The death penalty – on request?”
1 Dylan
I think if a person wants to die, either because of illness (including depression) or because of a life sentence in jail, after all options have been exhausted (reasonable treatments and appeals respectively), they should be allowed to die.
2 Melissa
Jun 22nd, 2007 at 9:23 pm
I think they should ignore his request. This is the purpose of prison and if he has a life senstence then tough. He was a mobster! they do terrible things! Its sad that he didn’t make the right life choices in life and this is the result a very slow death.
3 Toni
Jul 8th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
I disagree, if someone is deserving of a life sentence in jail, then they should be forced to suffer that sentence. I don’t agree with the death penalty but I also don’t agree with the arbitary death sentence handed out by religous fanatics under so-called “Sharia law”. If you protest against the death sentence in the USA, then you must feel inclined to demand moderation from muslim clerics, even if islam is not your faith.
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(1) The owner or operator of a proposed new major stationary source or a major modification of an existing major stationary source, as determined according to WAC 173-400-820, is authorized to construct and operate the proposed project provided the following requirements are met:
(a) The proposed new major stationary source or a major modification of an existing major stationary source will not cause any ambient air quality standard to be exceeded, will not violate the requirements for reasonable further progress established by the SIP and will comply with WAC 173-400-113 (3) and (4) for all air contaminants for which the area has not been designated nonattainment.
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(d) The proposed new major stationary source or a major modification of an existing major stationary source will employ BACT for all air contaminants and designated precursors to those air contaminants, except that it will achieve LAER for the air contaminants and designated precursors to those air contaminants for which the area has been designated nonattainment and for which the proposed new major stationary source is major or for which the existing source is major and the proposed modification is a major modification.
(e) Allowable emissions from the proposed new major stationary source or major modification of an existing major stationary source of that air contaminant and designated precursors to those air contaminants are offset by reductions in actual emissions from existing sources in the nonattainment area. All offsetting emission reductions must satisfy the requirements in WAC 173-400-840.
(f) The owner or operator of the proposed new major stationary source or major modification of an existing major stationary source has demonstrated that all major stationary sources owned or operated by such person (or by any entity controlling, controlled by, or under common control with such person) in Washington are subject to emission limitations and are in compliance, or on a schedule for compliance, with all applicable emission limitations and standards under the Federal Clean Air Act, including all rules in the SIP.
(g) If the proposed new source is also a major stationary source within the meaning of WAC 173-400-720, or the proposed modification is also a major modification within the meaning of WAC 173-400-720, it meets the requirements of the PSD program under 40 C.F.R. 52.21 delegated to ecology by EPA Region 10, while such delegated program remains in effect. The proposed new major stationary source or major modification will comply with the PSD program in WAC 173-400-700 through 173-400-750 for all air contaminants for which the area has not been designated nonattainment when that PSD program has been approved into the Washington SIP.
(h) The proposed new major stationary source or the proposed major modification meets the special protection requirements for federal Class I areas in WAC 173-400-117.
(i) All requirements of this section applicable to major stationary sources and major modifications of volatile organic compounds shall apply to nitrogen oxides emissions from major stationary sources and major modifications of nitrogen oxides in an ozone transport region or in any ozone nonattainment area, except in an ozone nonattainment area or in portions of an ozone transport region where EPA has granted a NOX waiver applying the standards set forth under section 182(f) of the Federal Clean Air Act and the waiver continues to apply.
(j) The requirements of this section applicable to major stationary sources and major modifications of PM-10 and PM-2.5 shall also apply to major stationary sources and major modifications of PM-10 and PM-2.5 precursors, except where EPA determines that such sources do not contribute significantly to PM-10 levels that exceed the PM-10 ambient standards in the area.
(2) Approval to construct shall not relieve any owner or operator of the responsibility to comply fully with applicable provisions of the state implementation plan and any other requirements under local, state or federal law.
(3) At such time that a particular source or modification becomes a major stationary source or major modification solely by virtue of a relaxation in any enforceable limitation which was established after August 7, 1980, on the capacity of the source or modification otherwise to emit a pollutant, such as a restriction on hours of operation, then the requirements of regulations approved pursuant to 40 C.F.R. 51.165, or the requirements of 40 C.F.R. Part 51, Appendix S, as applicable, shall apply to the source or modification as though construction had not yet commenced on the source or modification. 40 C.F.R. Part 51, Appendix S shall not apply to a new or modified source for which enforceable limitations are established after WAC 173-400-800 through 173-400-850 have been approved into Washington's SIP.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 70.94.152, 70.94.331, 70.94.860. WSR 16-12-099 (Order 16-01), § 173-400-830, filed 5/31/16, effective 7/1/16. Statutory Authority: Chapter 70.94 RCW. WSR 12-24-027 (Order 11-10), § 173-400-830, filed 11/28/12, effective 12/29/12; WSR 11-06-060 (Order 09-01), § 173-400-830, filed 3/1/11, effective 4/1/11.]
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By Roma PajenkaPosted on January 8, 2021
A Russian court sentenced on Monday American businessman Paul Whelan to 16 years in prison on spying charges, the AP reports. The state of play: Whelan, a 50-year-old corporate security executive and Marine Corps veteran, was arrested in Moscow in December 2018. He and his brother, David, argue the charge is political and that he was set up. The US and Russia are old buddies in this, blaming each other so it’s nothing new. But the necessity of spying and the success of spying in the warfare are surely not ignorable.
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Old person app russia spying. Experts warn that the free FaceApp old age filter, created in 2017 by developers at Wireless Lab in St. Petersburg, poses security concerns that may give them access to your personal information. As the tech said my email is being monitored by someone in Russia. I have tried: Just tried the app described on here. It says no spyware on my phone, but the tech said someone is monitoring it. I think it was caused by: I have no clue. I have added one app in the last few months. It is an app extractor to move certain apps to another phone FaceApp uses Amazon servers based in the U.S. Thomas Brewster. Of course, given the developer company is based in St. Petersburg, the faces will be viewed and processed in Russia.
Moscow — Of the many questions around Paul Whelan, the former United States Marine arrested in Russia on spying charges, one puzzling aspect is his use of Russian social media.. Whelan had a long. N ew details have emerged about Paul Whelan, the 48-year-old Novi, Michigan, resident who is facing 10 to 20 years in Russian prison on charges of espionage.. While U.S. court records and the. Russia denies spying on G20 leaders at St Petersburg summit This article is more than 6 years old.. the first person to raise the alarm over the Russian devices was Herman Van Rompuy,.
Spy Phone App lets you see every picture, text, call, and message an Android phone sends. It has a handy online interface for the controller and impressively hides from any and all prying eyes. FACEAPP is based an "innovation centre" described as Russia's Silicon Valley – and the FBI has warned it could be a giant plot to spy on the west. The hugely popular photo-editing app has gone. Whelan, a 50-year-old corporate security executive and Marine Corps veteran from Novi, Michigan, was arrested outside a Moscow hotel. He was in Russia to attend a friend’s wedding at the time.
One of the most popular apps in the world, Russian-developed 'FaceApp,' is taking your edited photos and potentially using them for nefarious purposes with your permission. FaceApp, a photo filter created in 2017, has quickly become one of the most downloaded apps in the world due to its sensational ability to use artificial intelligence to digitally alters faces to look older, but the app is. An American has been sentenced to 16 years in prison by a Russian court on spying charges. The Moscow City Court on Monday convicted Paul Whelan on charges of espionage and sentenced him to 16. Russia’s strategy was to paint Bellingcat as stooges and spies working for MI6. This was an old Soviet trope, deployed by the modern Kremlin against opposition critics at home. The geeks of.
Apparently The Old Person Filter App Is Russia Spying On Us And Using Facial Recognition Software. Feitelberg 7/17/2019 2:02 PM. 10. Dead look at me… If you have the internet, you may have caught a glimpse of one of your friends or someone you follow looking old in the last 24 hours.. Security fears over Russian aging app 'FaceApp' as experts warn it can access ALL of your pictures even if you say not to. FaceApp puts a filter over your face to augment it to look like an old person FaceApp, the Russia-based photo filter app that turns your selfies 'old,' might be a tool of a Russian spy operation. Sen. Chuck Schumer has called a federal investigation into the Russia-based.
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George Orwell Would Dislike You, Me, and Our Opinions
Ben Sixsmith
There is no historical figure — with the exception, perhaps, of Jesus Christ — whose legacy ideologues are keener to appropriate than that of Eric Blair, better known as George Orwell. The author of Animal Farm and 1984 is claimed by propagandists of the left and right as an ideological predecessor.
“Orwell’s legacy,” writes Lee Wengraf of the Socialist Worker, “Is our legacy.” On the other hand, Norman Podhoretz claimed back in 1986 that Orwell would have become neoconservative. Jeff Riggenbach of the Mises Institute suggests that while Orwell was “not… a libertarian as we understand the term today” he was the kind of leftist “few modern-day libertarians would have any trouble getting along with.” Quite a combination.
These disputes involve far more specific events. Last month, an argument on social media concerned the question of whether Orwell would have supported Antifa, with half the disputants insisting that he would have donned a black mask and punched Richard Spencer and half proclaiming that he would have stood up for the right of Americans to wear MAGA hats and post Pepe memes.
Why care? Well, people want to claim such a respected figure for their “side.” It gives their opinions the stamp of authority.
I have bad news. If by some miracle Orwell rose from his grave he would hate all our leading schools of thought. He would, indeed, dislike the modern world and disapprove of all of us.
He would be shocked — to be alive, of course, but also to be renowned. For most of his life he was neither rich nor famous; scribbling away for little magazines and publishers; living in small flats or windswept rural villages. He earned fame in the last months of his life, dying a tragic death because, in the words of Malcolm Muggeridge, “he passionately wanted to go on living.”
It might gladden Orwell to be alive, then, but I do not think he would be glad to make our acquaintance. Fascism and communism he abhorred, of course, denouncing Nazis, Soviets and all their fellow travellers. He fought against the Hitler-backed Francoists in Spain but loathed the thuggish Stalinist aspects of the Republicans. He was so ardently committed to the war against Nazism that he defended the bombing of German civilians, but so distrusted communists that he compiled a list of public figures that he thought might cherish Soviet loyalties.
Anti-communists have claimed Orwell as their own, along with Arthur Koestler and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, but conservatives and libertarians should not forget that when he wrote in “Why I Write” that all his work was directed against totalitarianism he added that it was directed towards socialism. The Orwell who immersed himself in working class life in Down and Out in Paris and London, scorned industrialization in Coming Up For Air and, reviewing Hayek’s classic Road to Serfdom, said “capitalism leads to dole queues, the scramble for markets, and war” would hate the inequality and commercialization of our age, and the people who would seem to him to be its propagandists.
Yet Orwell would not be impressed by the modern left. Their tolerance of Islamic authoritarianism would appall the man who said “freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” Their universalism would amuse him, as he thought “patriotism… stronger than any kind of internationalism.” Their cultural progressivism would embarrass an old-fashioned man who disliked “nancies,” “gutless” men, feminists, birth-control and vegetarians.
I suspect Orwell would feel unhappy in the modern world. It would please him that we have made economic and scientific progress (the tuberculosis that killed him, for example, is far rarer today) yet as someone who loved nature, solitude, and manual work he would hate our cities, motorways, and office-bound routines. Our garish cocktail-crammed bars are nothing like his idealized pub, the Moon Under Water. Our journalism is about as far from the rules he set down in “Politics and the English Language” as text could be.
My guess is that Orwell would have left for the countryside; finding some faraway cottage in Cumbria or Glencoe, writing books about the classics of English literature and detailing the wildlife in his diary.
This could be wrong. Who can know?
One thing I dislike about these arguments is that authors can be reduced to caricatures of their opinions. Orwell is anti-authority. Mill is pro-freedom. Burke is anti-revolution. How many of the people who have referenced these men have read “The Lion and the Unicorn,” On Liberty and Reflections on the Revolution in France? When our authors have the status of secular saints it devalues their work. They became mere totem poles dotted about our rhetoric.
Even people who know their Orwell, their Mill and their Burke should be wary. It is fun to speculate about what figures of the past would have made of our politics. It is also futile. What is more important than their personalities is their ideas, preserved in their literature.
It is our task to reinterpret those ideas for the present: appreciating the context in which they were formed yet acknowledging the different challenges of our conditions; explaining the importance of what is valuable and justifying our rejection of aspects we set aside.
As for what Orwell would think of Antifa? Well, I think he would look at Trump, and #TheResistance, and the alt-right, and the black bloc, and go for a drink. Considering these political peculiarities, perhaps even a cocktail.
Ben Sixsmith is an English writer living in Poland. He has written stories for Flash Fiction Magazine, The London Journal of Fiction and Every Day Fiction, and essays for Quillette and Bombs and Dollars.
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Chaz Brennan says:
Hitchens has a book about this. It’s better than this article or anything I could interject.
Sam Rush says:
A good article and a fair representation of Orwell’s thought and his unbending stance against totalitarianism in any form, but I disagree with the claim that a 21st century Orwell would be reduced to surly quietism. In ‘Why I Write’ Orwell states that ‘My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice. […] I write [books] because there is some lie I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.’ I think such principled attitudes are deeply innate to some people (for better or worse) and can’t easily be erased by circumstance. The real Orwell didn’t become a socialist thinker simply by oozing into some fashionable academic or literary milieu (indeed he made many enemies in those circles and it’s not hard to find major left academics of today who despise him); in fact he had to crawl there from the furthest possible place (that is, being an upper middle class boy, public school boy and then an imperial police officer in colonial Asia, which is about as un-proletarian a background as you can come up with). If he had the slightest desire to turn his back on the world then he could have wormed his way up the colonial hierarchy and lived off the sweat of the Burmese for all his days; certainly he had the option and ability.
J Cohen says:
If Orwell looked at his Britain, and all Western Europe today, he’d see the process of Islamification and he’d despair, and all of it openly aided by the Modern Left who certainly do tolerate and enable Islamofacism, and have become so ridiculous they think Muslims are a minority despite numbering over a billion, and growing thanks to massive birth rates, and with over 50 nations under Islamic dominance.
My own Israel has its own set of problems, but who would have thought that Britain, France, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Belgium, The Netherlands, Australia, and increasingly Canada and America, in 2017, would have Muslim “grooming gangs”, operating on an industrial scale according to the police, social services, whistleblowers within and outside the Muslim community, journalists, and of course the victims and their families (“Oh it’s just a right wing fantasy, tolerance and diversity are more important!” cry the utterly insane Left). I’ve even witnessed feminists, absurdly popular and prominent on social media, telling child victims of these gangs that “white men rape too, stop talking about your experience, you’re Islamophobic”. I’m sickened by it all. The same nations also have halal slaughterhouses proven to be places of deliberate cruelty and with the halal industry under suspicion of funding terrorism and Islamic subversion of non Islamic nations, there are also tens of thousands of cases of FGM, forced marriage, racism and bigotry against non Muslims, cultural subversion on a grand scale, political fraud, and of course, terrorism – all from a culture that supposedly makes up no more than 10% of any of our nations, and allowing for the percent of Muslims who don’t participate in the worst of their culture and are mostly Westernized. That’s what the modern Left represent now, that’s the side they’ve chosen, that’s why the alt right is growing, that’s why nationalism is back on the menu, why Trump won, why people voted for Brexit, all to strike a blow at the globalists operating it all, and their Leftist converts, regardless of the outcome. Islam is not the only problem, the Left have given us a whole banquet of problems, despite my focus on Islam here.
So I think Orwell would side with the people, not with the elite or the emasculated, Dhimmi Left. He’d probably understand the alt right more than any other group. He’d reject Nazism, sure, but the Nazis are not back, the Left dominated media are portraying people wearing MAGA hats, seeking moderate border control, or gathering in despair at the state of their nations, as the Nazi party reborn. It’s laughable from a Jewish viewpoint, despite being a natural liberal I can’t stomach the Left any more. I don’t think Orwell would see all this and retreat to a pub, not a man with his intelligence, I think he’d feel a fire rising inside at the madness forced on us all and he’d fight back.
Crispin Robinson says:
You are probably right. He clearly would have detested Trump. But he would absolutely have detested Antifa too, likely seeing them for the authoritarian ideologues they are. Like all the most interesting thinkers he could not be easily pigeonholed. He liked people and freedom, and neither left nor right have a monopoly on either.
Michael Mulln says:
Who exactly are the”modern left”? Who is tolerant of Islamic authoritarianism? Apart from the USA government in the Middle East?
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Empress Josephine, Wife of Napoleon I
Description This miniature is likely a copy after Isabey's miniature of the Empress Josephine of ca. 1808. She is show wearing a white standing "Medici" collar, one of her favorite garments. Her costume, which is white with gold frogging, generally recalls Renaissance styles. Gauzy veils flow around her head and over her bodice as if blown by the wind. A version of this miniature can be found in the Wallace Collection, London.
Provenance Collection of the Marquis de Biron [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; probably Philippe Sichel, Paris [date and mode of acqisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, probably 1892, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, 1931, by bequest.
Inscriptions [Signature] At right: Isabey
Credit Acquired via George Lucas from Philippe Sichel, Paris, 1892
Copy after Jean-Baptiste Isabey (French, 1767-1855) (Artist)
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H: 5 1/4 x W: 3 11/16 in. (13.3 x 9.3 cm)
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LOST DOMINION is a newly released space western comic book series written by Adam Mullen, illustrated by Mike Lombardo, and published by Lumo Station LLC. In the distant future where a devastating forty year long war brought humanity to its knees, an uneasy peace between two spacefaring empires, the Skran Imperium and the Naams Protectorate, hangs in the balance. On the brink of Interstellar War, a group of unlikely allies must join together to reclaim their LOST DOMINION.
ANNOUNCING a new space Western comic book series created by Adam Mullen and illustrated by Mike Lombardo: Welcome to LOST DOMINION, a space Western comic book series set in the distant future where a devastating forty year long war brought humanity to its knees. An uneasy peace between two spacefaring empires, the Skran Imperium and the Naams Protectorate, hangs in the balance as a new threat looms in the shadows. On the brink of interstellar war, a group of unlikely allies must join together to reclaim their LOST DOMINION. Be on the lookout for issue #1 coming soon! Creator/Writer: Adam Mullen Lead Illustrator: Mike Lombardo Lead Colorist: Valentina Viesti Colorist: James Strecker Editor/Letterer: Ted Kendrick Publisher: Lumo Station LLC https://www.facebook.com/lostdominioncomic https://www.instagram.com/lostdominioncomic https://www.lumostation.com/lost-dominion-comic #lostdominioncomic #comic #western #scifi #newcomic #lostdominion
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Single-Parent Households with Children as a Percentage of Households with Children (5-year estimate) in Lafayette County, MO
Single-parent Households with Children as a Percentage of Households with Children in Lafayette County, MO 2017-01-27 2020-07-12
Single-Parent Households with Children as a Percentage of Households with Children (5-year estimate) in Lafayette County, MO 2020-07-13 2020-07-13
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Single Parent Households with Children 2017-01-27 2020-07-13
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These data represent single-parent households with their own children who are younger than 18-years of age as percentage of total households with their own children who are younger than 18-years of age.
Multiyear estimates from the American Community Survey (ACS) are "period" estimates derived from a data sample collected over a period of time, as opposed to "point-in-time" estimates such as those from past decennial censuses. ACS 5-year estimate includes data collected over a 60-month period. The date of the data is the end of the 5-year period. For example, a value dated 2014 represents data from 2010 to 2014. However, they do not describe any specific day, month, or year within that time period.
Multiyear estimates require some considerations that single-year estimates do not. For example, multiyear estimates released in consecutive years consist mostly of overlapping years and shared data. The 2010–2014 ACS 5-year estimates share sample data from 2011 through 2014 with the 2011–2015 ACS 5-year estimates. Because of this overlap, users should use extreme caution in making comparisons with consecutive years of multiyear estimates.
Please see "Section 3: Understanding and Using ACS Single-Year and Multiyear Estimates" on publication page 13 (file page 19) of the 2018 ACS General Handbook for a more thorough clarification. https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2018/acs/acs_general_handbook_2018.pdf
American Community Survey Table S1101.
The single-parent household rate is calculated as the sum of male and female single-parent households with their own children who are younger than 18-years of age divided by total households with their own children who are younger than 18-years of age (ACS 5-year variables S1101_C03_005E, S1101_C04_005E, and S1101_C01_005E respectively from table S1101).
Multiyear estimates require some considerations that single-year estimates do not. For example, multiyear estimates released in consecutive years consist mostly of overlapping years and shared data. The 2010-2014 ACS 5-year estimates share sample data from 2011 through 2014 with the 2011-2015 ACS 5-year estimates. Because of this overlap, users should use extreme caution in making comparisons with consecutive years of multiyear estimates.
Please see "Section 3: Understanding and Using ACS Single-Year and Multiyear Estimates" on publication page 13 (file page 19) of the 2018 ACS General Handbook (https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2018/acs/acs_general_handbook_2018.pdf) for a more thorough clarification.
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Anna Brownsted works across a wide range of media including sound, installation, performance and participation. She holds an MA in Performance Practice as Research from Central School of Speech and Drama and her process is often collaborative, involving interdisciplinary exchanges that directly inform the development of her work. In the UK, Anna's work has been supported by the Arts Council and has been shown at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge Junction, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, the British Museum, UCL, the Roundhouse and Battersea Art Centre.
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Anna’s site-responsive sound intervention Tourist situates participants on the No 29 double-decker bus and immerses them into a dreamy, cinematic drive around the island.
“Anna Brownsted constructs encounters that are simultaneously familiar yet unexpected. Her work interrupts our sense of the everyday by offering an invitation: to sit, to listen, to notice. During her meticulously realised experiences anything feels possible. It is here that her work can be found – between what’s real and what’s imaginary – and the extent to which these boundaries can actively be blurred, pushed or tested.”
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Gateshead Council has this week broken ground on a 50,000 sq ft Grade-A office development in Gateshead. Riga, a new £13m workspace, is part of the Baltic Quarter site located next to the iconic Gateshead Quays. It will be the first Grade-A office building delivered to the Gateshead Quays area for around 10 years. Conceived…
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Work has started on the construction of a 50,000 sq ft office building which will form part of a new “innovation district” in Gateshead’s Baltic Quarter. The £13m Riga development will offer grade A office space close to the Gateshead Quays area and could bring up to 600 new jobs. The six-storey building contributes to…
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Question: What Date Is Considered Mid Month?
Why is the month of June special?
What day is the middle of June?
Is mid morning hyphenated?
What is a mid month?
Is Mid Year One word?
What does MID mean?
What date is mid May?
Is it mid July or mid July?
Is mid to late hyphenated?
Is mid sentence hyphenated?
What does mid June mean?
What is considered mid July?
What is considered early April?
How do you write mid month?
What does June symbolize?
What late May?
What is mid May considered?
Is there ever 31 days in June?
The month of June is one of the four months that contain only 30 days.
The month of June, like all the best superheroes, has several origin stories.
One theory states that June was named after the Roman goddess Juno, wife to Jupiter and goddess of marriage..
June 15thSince June has 30 days, the exact middle of June is June 15th, so then the question devolves to the hour.
Hyphenation of mid-morning This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.
Occurring in the middle of a month, neither at the beginning nor the end.
noun. the middle of the year. Often midyears. Informal.
(Entry 1 of 2) 1 : being the part in the middle or midst in mid ocean —often used in combinationmid-August. 2 : occupying a middle position.
Holonyms (“mid-May” is a part of… May (the month following April and preceding June)
The status of prefix means that mid- forms one word in combination, unless it is joined to a capital letter or a numeral, in which case a hyphen is employed: midsentence, midcentury; but mid-July, mid-1985.
No. Since hyphens are not needed to prevent misreading, we recommend that they be omitted. Read more about how the MLA treats mid compounds.
I’d say mid- to late 50s because mid is a prefix that requires a hyphen. Hence, we put a space after the hyphen.
mid-June – the middle part of June. period, period of time, time period – an amount of time; “a time period of 30 years”; “hastened the period of time of his recovery”; “Picasso’s blue period” June – the month following May and preceding July.
1. mid-July – the middle part of July. period, period of time, time period – an amount of time; “a time period of 30 years”; “hastened the period of time of his recovery”; “Picasso’s blue period” July – the month following June and preceding August. Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection.
Because “early April” is not specific, different people may have different interpretations, but I suppose most people would consider “before April 10” to be “early April.” Just as a side note, in your opening post, you said “an unspecific period… like the first couple of days.” “Couple” specifically means “two.”
“Mid” is a prefix delineating the middle part of the month. It has to be hyphenated to avoid a capitalization problem if you write “midJanuary.”
According to one etymology, June is named after the Roman goddess Juno who is the goddess of marriage and a married couple’s household. It is considered good luck to get married in this month. … June ends on the same day of the week as March every year.
The spring bank holiday, also known as the late May bank holiday, is a time for people in the United Kingdom to have a day off work or school. It falls on the last Monday of May but it used to be on the Monday after Pentecost.
Any time in the middle of May. Etymology: From mid, and May.
June is the sixth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, the second of four months to have a length of 30 days, and the third of five months to have a length of less than 31 days. … June in the Northern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent to December in the Southern Hemisphere and vice versa.
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SHAMEFUL: Apple is Lobbying to Undercut Law Condemning Chinese Slave Labor
Big Tech is addicted to Chinese slave labor.
Richard Moorhead
The Washington Post reported over the weekend that tech company Apple is lobbying to undermine a law condemning China’s use of slave labor.
WaPo claimed that two congressional staffers are saying that Apple lobbyists are trying to undermine the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. The Act, which passed the House of Representatives by 403-6 in September, audits importers and tech companies for potential use of Uyghur slave labor in China.
China’s persecution of its Turkic Muslim Uyghur minority is well known, with some observers speculating that the mercantile-Communist nation has moved up to a million Uyghurs to detainment camps in the Xinjang province.
Many have questioned whether Apple itself is benefiting from the use of forced Uyghur labor. Lobbying company Fierce Government relations has accepted $90,000 from the company to lobby against anti-China legislation, the Daily Caller reported on Saturday.
Apple has utilized Chinese government-run enterprises to manufacture its products for years. Global criticism of China and damage to its reputation has led the $2 trillion company to consider moving some of its manufacturing to India, a country globalist oligarchs are increasingly looking towards as a reservoir of cheap labor for outsourcing purposes.
Globalist monopolies such as Apple don’t compete within a “free market.” They secure access to governmental power in American and abroad and ruthlessly use it to their advantage.
Google Hits Alternative Social Media Platform Minds with Deplatforming Threat
Minds is under attack.
The alternative social media platform Minds is reporting that Google is threatening to remove their app from their Play Store feature if they do not tailor their app to Google’s restrictive specifications.
Minds founder Bill Ottman made the announcement in a post on his pro-free speech platform.
“Google Play sent Minds a 24 hour warning,” Ottman said. “Our response app was accepted into the store based on our interim solution and ninja developers, but we had to remove major functionality from that version of the app.”
Big Tech is trying to force Minds to play by their rules or choke them out of the marketplace. This is how Silicon Valley uses their government-granted monopoly power to enforce Big Brother.
“What is happening on the internet with major providers is fueling the cultural divide as much as anything,” Ottman stated.
“We had to remove search, discovery and comments. I know. We aren’t happy and we will be working towards something better,” he continued.
“We will be releasing a full report on our plan for fully censorship-resistant infrastructure. For those asking about Amazon, don’t worry, we have multiple escape pods ready to go,” Ottman added.
The full letter can be seen here:
Looks like Google Play is coming for Minds next: pic.twitter.com/ckLwElTPwh
— Gab.com (@getongab) January 15, 2021
Big League Politics has reported on how Big Tech is ruthlessly putting down all competition as they proudly manifest the Orwellian nightmare:
The conservative social media platform, Parler, is already on its last legs, as the platform’s developers relied upon Big Tech to provide their infrastructure.
Parler CEO John Matze had claimed that there were a bunch of competitors vying to host the social media site. However, the notion of a free market is laughable with a handful of far-left tech monopolies dominating the world, and he was forced to admit the awful truth in a Fox News interview.
“They all work together to make sure at the same time we would lose access to not only our apps, but they are actually shutting all of our servers off tonight, off the internet,” Matze explained.
“They made an attempt to not only kill the apps, but also destroy the entire company… Every vendor from text message services to email providers to lawyers all ditched us too on the same day,” he added.
Matze said that Parler is pretty much doomed because of the Orwellian super-structure that has been put into place to destroy all potential competition.
“We’re going to try our best, ya know, to get back online as quickly as possible but we’re having a lot of trouble because every vendor we talk to won’t work with us because if Apple doesn’t approve and Google doesn’t approve, they won’t,” he said.
“Amazon is the largest cloud storage vendor in the world, and we use them to host our servers. Hundreds of them. Hundreds of servers. And they gave us basically, they said, you have 24 hours to get all of your data and find new servers. So, where are you going to find 300 to 500 servers in a 24-hour window, and how can you send all of the data from everybody out to them in a 24-hour period? It’s an impossible feat,” Matze explained.
The fix is in. Every aspect of society is rigged against the American people to destroy their rights. Now, what are they going to do about it?
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April 11, 2018 By JASON PRAMAS
TOWNIE: AIRLINES SUING, UMASS SCREWING
Corporate attack on workers rights and a corporate-style attack on UMB by UMA
BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS
If there’s one thing I think people should do every day, it’s read the business press. Because that’s where you see how the world runs. A world that naturally includes Massachusetts.
Airlines sue Mass over sick time law
Case in point, Airlines for America—a coalition that includes JetBlue Airways, United Airlines, American Airlines, and several other carriers, according to the Boston Globe business section—sued Mass Attorney General Maura Healey last week over a 2015 law that guarantees sick leave to many Bay State workers. Including airline employees. “Now surely,” you’re all doubtless thinking, “an industry that wouldn’t exist were it not for decades of massive government subsidies couldn’t possibly consider doing anything that might hurt its workers by attacking a government program that helps them.” But no, the airlines are totally doing that. It’s what big corporations always do to their workers. Along with endless union busting.
According to the Mass.gov Earned Sick Time page, the law states that most workers “in Massachusetts have the right to earn and use up to 40 hours of job-protected sick time per year to take care of themselves and certain family members. Workers must earn at least one hour of earned sick leave for every 30 hours worked.” It further states that employers “with 11 or more employees must provide paid sick time. Employers with fewer than 11 employees must provide earned sick time, but it does not need to be paid.” Employers can “ask for a doctor’s note or other documentation only in limited circumstances.”
The airlines are basically trying to argue—in the fashion of sadly deceased comic Phil Hartman in the role of Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer—that the Mass sick time law “frightens and confuses” them. And that with all the billions of dollars they either gouge out of travelers or simply have the federal government hand them whenever they cry poverty, they can’t possibly figure out how to sync up all their various state, national, and international sick time laws they’ve already handled for decades with the Commonwealth’s more decent law. Despite, you know, computers.
Bottom line, they want an exemption from the law to make slightly bigger profits and escape regulation, and they’re suing Healey to get their way. Claiming it’s unconstitutional and shouldn’t apply to airlines. The same thing they did in Washington State in February, according to the Seattle Times.
The AG should have fun with this one. But readers can give her a hand by calling up the airlines and their front group and telling them to stop attacking the Commonwealth’s sick leave program.
UMass Boston suffers more cuts while UMass Amherst buys Mount Ida College
A couple of related developments in the UMass system over the last several days. First, UMass Amherst is buying the private Mount Ida College in Newton for $37 million, according to WBUR. It plans to use the campus as a base for Boston-area internships and co-ops for its students. The school will also assume Mount Ida’s debt of up to $70 million.
The situation is widely viewed as an unfortunate attack on UMass Boston turf by the more “elite,” better-funded, and melanin-challenged UMass Amherst. With UMB faculty, staff, and students; higher ed experts; and the editorial boards of publications from the Boston Globe to the Lowell Sun asking why it’s necessary for UMA to spend big money on a separate suburban campus to connect its students to Boston. Especially given that there’s already the perfectly good but woefully underfunded UMass Boston campus in the city itself. Which could certainly use an injection of tens of millions of dollars from any source of late.
Speaking of which, second, UMass Boston is slashing the budget of 17 of its research centers by $1.5 million, including the famed veteran-focused William Joiner Institute for the Study of War and Social Consequences, as part of its attempt to get out from under the $30 million in mostly new construction-related deficit it’s been saddled with by a state government that insists on running its colleges like individual businesses. Rather than branches of a single statewide public service.
It’s worth mentioning, as I do on a regular basis, that we need to move the state and nation to the kind of fully public higher education system that many other countries have. Which spends sufficient tax money to guarantee every US resident a K-20 education. And tells private schools like Harvard that they can only remain private if they stop taking public money.
That’s the only way we’re going to stop this kind of spectacle. Where two parts of the same state public university system—one, Amherst, that primarily serves middle-class white suburban students, and one, Boston, that primarily serves working-class urban students of color—work at cross-purposes to one another. Amherst with a larger budget, and Boston with a smaller one. Separate and unequal.
For the moment, readers can help out by joining me in signing the petition to save the William Joiner Institute at change.org. And those so inclined can protest the Mount Ida College sale to UMass Amherst at the Board of Higher Education meeting on April 24. But I think critical calls and emails to UMass President Marty Meehan will likely be most effective. You can find his contact page on the massachusetts.edu website.
Check out TOWNIE EXTRA: YASER MURTAJA, PRESENTE! here.
Townie (a worm’s eye view of the Mass power structure) is syndicated by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism. Jason Pramas is BINJ’s network director, and executive editor and associate publisher of DigBoston. Copyright 2018 Jason Pramas. Licensed for use by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism and media outlets in its network.
JASON PRAMAS
Jason is executive director of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism and writes the columns Apparent Horizon and Townie. He is also executive editor and associate publisher of DigBoston. Before that, he founded the nonprofit Open Media Boston and other grassroots publications. Jason is a longtime labor-community organizer with an MFA in visual arts and is the institutional memory of our gang. His column Apparent Horizon is a 2018 and 2019 winner of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Political Column Award.
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Things Fall Apart
Fahrenheit 451 Close Study
By seopro
In Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 Close Research Study
Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451, places his readers to see the future world in a negative light. He sees the essence of mankind as individuality, the capability to form intimate relationships and to reflect on our lives. Numerous crucial characters are vital to the book’s plot and thematic issues. The awakening of mankind portrayed in Montag’s characterisation, recorded through Bradbury’s use of narrative voice and diction becomes, in my mind, inspirational. We are asked to question the worths that underpin this dystopia and this is necessary in forming our understanding of the values we need to all share.
Montag’s characterisation is inextricably linked to our understanding of other characters and forms our view of the book. When Clarisse faces Montag and the values of society, where people, “head for a Fun Park to bully people around.” since it is the norm. Clarisse’s character, like Montag’s, is crucial to the unique as she is, in a sense, a representation of the reader’s world. She, like us, worths independent thought, something dissuaded by the government. In an essential scene she asks Montag, “Are you happy?” This forces him to consider his life and his actions.
His thoughts in Bradbury’s stream of consciousness narrative: “Clarisse, Mildred, uncle, fire, sleeping tablet.” He shows difficulty in articulating his action which provides us an insight into how he “thinks little at all about nothing in specific”, from day to day. Clarisse, powered by a pressing interest, whom Beatty identifies a “time bomb”, works as the driver that urges Montag towards a necessary self-examination. Through their discussions she provokes his self awareness and reveals to him the lacks of love, enjoyment and contentment in his life.
Hence through characterisation Bradbury’s attack on meaningless conformity becomes clear to us as readers. Clarisse’s “odd” practices, asking concerns and having fun with flowers, introduces Montag to the world’s potential for appeal and significance. In characterising Clarisse’s gentle innocence and “unusual” interest Bradbury juxtaposes the artificial with the natural. In explaining the light in Clarisse’s face as, “not the hysterical light of electricity. but the uncommon and mild lovely light of the candle light.” he forms our views of the writer’s own hostility towards the artificiality of technology through the ejorative adjective, “hysterical” contrasted with the values he places on an easier life. The essence of mankind is lost to innovation and the shift far from nature is hence captured through Bradbury’s narrative voice and language functions. Bradbury likewise develops conflict in the novel through his characterisation of Beatty for whom books are considered “loaded weapons”. However this is simply a tool of power as the intentional dumbing down of the population; to keep them happy and oblivious. Captain Beatty factors that a book “breaches a male’s mind” and conflicts with society’s function; “we need to all be alike. This suggests the turning point of the conversation and why the inspiration for keeping people ignorant ends up being apparent. It has a sinister overtone suggesting injustice. Through Captain Beatty’s voice, readers notice the paradox and the issues that burning books raises; the loss of uniqueness and the ability to concern. This allows the authority to bend the society to its will without resistance and promotes the thinking: without books which “breach a male’s mind”, we are equivalent therefore, “delighted”. Captain Beatty goes on to state: “Don’t we provide fun? That’s all we live for, isn’t it? He thinks the meaning of our lives is “pleasure” and “titillation” and defends the “culture” of the society since it “provides lots of these”. Life is not simply minimal intellectual lives and hedonistic satisfaction. My view of the novel has actually been shaped by the characterisation of crucial characters. My main reaction to the book has been to fear the possibilities represented in this text. The loss of specific freedoms that I consider granted didn’t offer me anguish, however characters such as Montag and Clarisse reminds us of what we need to value; the nerve to speak out and act rather than just accept. Such actions motivate us.
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Distilleries Seek Financial Relief from Federal Government
Kyle Swartz
The alcohol industry has joined the growing list of industries seeking financial relief from Washington D.C. during the Coronavirus crisis.
In a letter sent yesterday to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, U.S. spirits supplier trade associations urged Congress to move quickly to provide economic aid for distilleries facing monetary hardships due to the impact of COVID-19.
The letter was signed by the presidents of the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, American Craft Spirits Association, the New York State Distillers Guild and the Kentucky Distillers’ Association.
“Across the United States, our member distilleries are doing their part to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 and ensure the health and safety of their workers and the public,” the association presidents write. “However, because of the necessary measures being undertaken, including the closures of restaurants, bars, and tasting rooms, many distillers will soon need to lay off employees and delay or reduce production. Many may even be forced to close their doors permanently.”
The presidents argue that these developments have a ripple effect through the entire supply chain, impacting farmers, glass bottle makers, truck drivers, warehouse workers and others connected to the spirits industry.
The association heads urge Congress to include four components to aid distillers as part of any economic relief package:
Provide federal excise tax relief
Ensure robust no- and low-interest loan assistance
Seek the suspension of tariffs on distilled spirits
Create an Industry Stabilization Fund
“As Congress moves swiftly to provide economic relief to affected businesses, we urge you to remember the important role of distilleries in your home states and across the country and their inextricable link to the hospitality, restaurant, tourism, and retail industries,” the letter adds.
Distilleries across the country have also weighed in, asking for help.
“As the birthplace of Bourbon, Kentucky has more than 20,000 people who owe their jobs to our signature industry and we are all feeling the impact of this unprecedented economic crisis,” says Jessica Pendergrass, general council of Heaven Hill and chairwoman of the Kentucky Distillers’ Association. “Our tourism centers and hospitality areas are shut down, leaving many of our smaller craft distillers without key revenue to keep their doors open. The unknown extent of these existing closures, and possible future closures, is creating tremendous anxiety in the distilling community.”
Adds Chris Montana, owner and head distiller of DuNord Craft Spirits in Minneapolis: “As a small, independent distillery owner in Minnesota, the devastating impact of COVID-19 on my business is very, very real, and without federal support, our survival is in jeopardy. We have already closed our cocktail room to the public, and laid off more than half of our staff. With no end in sight we will almost certainly be forced to further reduce our workforce and potentially halt our production.”
“These actions have been painful, but the long term looks far more ominous,” Montana adds. “On behalf of our community of more than 2,000 independent craft distilleries across the country, I am certain that without significant, immediate intervention, and a long-term commitment to assistance, we will face a devastating future.”
The Distilled Spirits Council is also working to reopen the liquor stores currently closed in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania, a control state, remains the only state to shut down all of its beverage alcohol retail stores in response to the Coronavirus. Consumers can still purchase beer and wine in Pennsylvania grocery stores, however.
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Community Education & Training
Improving the knowledge base of a community can make a lasting impact in their participation and engagement. This collection of solutions and blocks provides a quick summary of resources on this topic.
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Community-based adaptation
Communities that are self-organised in day to day life are inherently better prepared to respond to, and recover from, unexpected events in their neighbourhoods. Community based adaptation (CBA) has been pioneered in developing countries to build capacity in vulnerable and marginalised communities to become more resilient to climate change impacts. An important lesson from CBA practices is that a multi- level, cross-sectoral approach involving a range of different stakeholders - including the residents themselves - is necessary to develop adaptive capacity and build long term resilience. This action builds on the principles of CBA and experience from a number of existing projects and initiatives in Bristol, the south west and other cities around the world. It aims to develop a more integrated and inclusive approach to working with communities to empower them with the knowledge, confidence and resources to take action when affected by local shocks.
Identify additional targeted air quality improvements through data analysis and community engagement
Since December 2008, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) has monitored criteria for air pollutants at street-level sites around the city through the New York City Community Air Survey. This survey has provided essential data to design sound policy and inform research. Pursuant to available funding, DOHMH will seek to build on this success by developing a community air quality “citizen-science” toolkit that will include how-to guides for accessing available data on emission sources, designing neighborhood air pollution surveys using new, low-cost technologies, and sharing data online. DOHMH also plans to expand its Environment and Health Data Portal to incorporate neighborhood-level sustainability indicators, create a neighborhood- level “Sustainability and Health” report, and develop an educational module on sustainability and health for outreach in public schools and CBOs. These efforts can provide valuable data on air pollution hot-spots and local emissions sources that may be used to inform future control measures beyond those proposed in this plan.
Mobile Resilience Lab
In partnership with BoCo Strong, the collaborative countywide resilience building organization, the City of Boulder will bring resilience and preparedness activities directly into neighborhoods and communities through a “Mobile Resilience Lab.” The lab will be a highly interactive space that accommodates programming as varied as developing your own bee-safe garden to creating personalized blueprints for individual resilience to building disaster “go kits.” Deploying a mobile lab recognizes that true resilience building occurs first and foremost at home and in your own neighborhood, with the people and places you know best. The lab will provide a fun and dynamic platform for building relationships around preparedness and will, literally, be a vehicle for the community to share challenges and solutions. By meeting people where they are, the city will deepen public ownership of resiliency and seek to address community concerns about the responsiveness and transparency of government.
Volunteer community preparedness program
A key to effective and successful disaster response is community and individual preparedness. Boulder’s formal emergency response capabilities are well-resourced and effective; however, local neighborhoods and communities need to be better prepared and possess a deeper capacity to be first responders while formal systems gear up for relief operations. The city will develop a community-centered course to enhance emergency preparedness, emphasizing social connections and risk awareness as core personal resilience attributes. Developing a more robust and flexible capacity to respond to crisis when it occurs is a direct outcome of lessons learned from recent disasters.
“Citizen science” program to foster knowledge co-creation
Citizen science can take many forms, but as technologies have advanced over the last decade, each member of the community can now serve as independent, mobile data-collecting participants. To harness this potential, the city will develop the information architecture necessary to support community-driven mobile science applications and translate that data into information and metrics to inform city decision-making. The aggregation of information from so many data points can create new insights into changes in the community, collective behavior or climate, as examples. By relying on community members to play a role in the creation of data and shared knowledge, Boulder will foster co-ownership in understanding the factors of change affecting us all. The underlying architecture will be openly available to the public to creatively develop applications to support data collection from sources as diverse as the Boulder Valley School District to Boulder’s active and enthusiastic outdoor community.
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Booth’s Commitment to Racial Justice and Equity in Publishing
Booth and the rest of the publishing industry must work to dismantle institutionalized white bias and intersecting global oppressions. We are listening to our readership, our staff, and the many non-white writers calling out and calling in literary magazines and journals around the world. We understand that common deterrents to writers of color submitting work to journals like Booth include but are not limited to the following:
1. Submission and Reading Fees
Booth has never charged and will never charge reading fees for publication in our journal. We are unable to pay our writers, but all contributors receive two copies of Booth.
We are privileged to read and house the work of writers of color, and we are committed to publishing more of this work. We acknowledge that contest entry fees are often an obstacle that writers of color must overcome just to be seen. In an effort to widen the scope of Booth’s commitment to equity and to acknowledge the intersectionality of global oppression upheld by the publishing industry, all Booth writing contests for the next five years (through 2025) will be free to all writers of color. This policy may be extended beyond 2025 if Booth is financially able to do so.
2. A Lack of Black Writers and Writers of Color on Staff
We are committed to being transparent. Booth’s staff consists of Butler MFA students, faculty, and alumni. Thus our staff is primarily white, particularly our editorial board. While we fight for racial justice in publishing, we are also fighting for racial justice in academic institutions. We are hopeful that as we dismantle institutional racial bias, our staff will reflect those changes. Until that time, we are committed to reading work that challenges our internalized bias and to championing work that is not only devoid of explicit racism but also actively anti-racist.
3. Publication of Diverse Work by Writers of Color
We are committed to excellent, weird, wonderful work. We accept poetry, fiction, nonfiction, comics, and lists. We do not consider blind submissions to be “slush.” We commit to housing work from both emerging and seasoned writers, as well as work that avoids archetypes and tokenism. We will not publish work that does not meet those standards, and we hope that potential contributors feel welcome and encouraged to submit work that reflects the diversity of their own experience and aesthetics. This is absolutely true for work submitted by Black writers and writers of color. We are interested in publishing work about all facets of Black life and the lives of writers of color.
4. Publication of Diverse Work by Trans/Non-Binary Writers of Color
Booth has championed women and femmes for a long time. (See our editor’s statement on the curation of our Women’s Issue here.) We are interested in publishing work that reflects the experiences of trans/nb femmes of color and trans/nb Black writers. In the past we have not been as explicit about our commitment to intersectionality and trans-inclusivity. We acknowledge this, and we are committed to strengthening this core tenet into a tangible intersectionality.
In pursuit of this goal, we pledge to publish annual data regarding the gender breakdown of our accepted work. While we are not included in the VIDA count, our commitment to intersectional gender inclusivity is a pillar of what makes Booth, Booth.
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Social Media Marketing: Using Facebook Live
Ready, set, action! If your small business uses social media, you’ve probably heard about one of Facebook’s newest and most popular features: Facebook Live Video. Facebook Live allows individuals and pages with a Facebook account to livestream video, meaning it occurs in real time on followers’ newsfeeds.
Video has become increasingly prevalent online as the most shareable posts on Facebook and the fastest route to gaining a new follower. How can your small business get involved? Check out this step-by-step guide for setting up Facebook Live Video and some ideas to get started.
1. Set up a plan.
Before beginning Facebook Live Video, remember: Once you start broadcasting, you’re broadcasting. Keep in mind viewers expect live videos to have mistakes, so be light-hearted and show a more realistic side of the business. However, you should still have a purpose and plan for what content you cover in the video.
Pick a topic you think people will be interested in and build a storyline around it. Write compelling points for the video, though not necessarily an entire script. Establish objectives, who will be involved in the process and what to accomplish. Keep the livestream flexible and in-the-moment, but don’t go into it blind.
2. Generate ideas.
There are plenty of ways a small business can utilize Facebook Live Video to its advantage. Consider these simple ideas when developing your strategy for Facebook Live Video.
Question & answer session. Facebook viewers can comment on livestreamed videos in real time, so use this opportunity for a real-life question and answer session. They submit their questions in the comments; you answer as they come.
Staff interviews. Offer a Facebook Live series for viewers to meet the staff and upper management. Let them see the faces behind the business and they’ll be more likely to trust your product or service.
Office tour. Give customers an insider’s glimpse of the company by offering an office tour of your location. Make it fun and interactive with staff, interns and management so consumers feel engaged.
Crowdsourcing. Have an idea for a new logo? What about a new product or service? Feel out how consumers will respond by using Facebook Live as a crowdsourcing option for feedback and easy survey information.
Celebrate announcements. Your small business can really have some fun with Facebook Live and use it to broadcast recent announcements. Do you have a big holiday sale coming up? Branch out to a new location? Let consumers know and celebrate with them.
3. Start broadcasting.
Once you have a plan in place and an idea for what to shoot, it’s time to start broadcasting! Computers do not offer Facebook Live, but mobile devices do. The feature works through the Facebook app, so no worries about downloading and learning a new social media platform. Here are a couple tips to consider for streaming your first broadcast:
Tell people when you’re going live. Let consumers know beforehand when you’re livestreaming so they’ll make time to watch!
Write a compelling video description. When uploading a live video to Facebook, you’ll need to supply a description, similar to a title. Keep this short, simple and catchy, but compelling for viewers to click on and watch.
Take your time. Unlike regularly pre-recorded videos, Facebook recommends live broadcasts last anywhere from 5-20 minutes. Longer videos give followers a chance to log in and see what’s happening while the broadcast remains live.
Have a strong CTA. Don’t forget to include a compelling call to action at the end of a livestream video. Ask for followers, shares and comments to encourage engagement from customers. Plus, take time to direct them to your website to learn more about your products or services.
Once the livestream closes, Facebook will automatically save the video to your business page for future viewings. You also have the option to save the video to the phone’s camera roll for other sharing options.
When it comes to storytelling on social media, Facebook Live takes marketing to a whole new level. Facebook Live Video offers fast, dynamic and real-life visual engagement for your company to appear transparent and trustworthy. By utilizing this key tool Facebook provides, your small business can gain followers and customers. So get out there, and get streaming!
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← “Last year’s over,” Bobo screamed to his players. “You’ve got to work.”
“We really don’t have any fat boys.” →
Pace is the new spread, continued.
I enjoy Gary Danielson’s CBS color work greatly, but, man, when it comes to bigger picture stuff, the guy can be a colossal muttonhead. Mainly, it’s because he’s so bloody stubborn about recent offensive wrinkles. His feelings about the spread offense are well documented – and for some time now – but he’s also got a thing about hurry-up offenses, especially when it comes to how they impact Nick Saban. That, too, is nothing new.
His latest observations about the Alabama-TAMU game are particularly incoherent.
“I’m just not all in on this, OK,” Danielson told The Tim Brando Show. “I have to admit I am more old-school on this than probably everybody else. Speeding up play and tempo has gotten too much credit for why teams are doing well.”
The analyst cited Texas A&M’s win over Alabama last season as an example. He says it wasn’t the pace, but the inability for the Crimson Tide, who lost 29-24, to substitute personnel groupings.
“Tempo had nothing to do with that game,” Danielson said of the Aggies’ win. “There was no hurry up in that game. The reason, I think, Nick Saban doesn’t really love the up-tempo game is because he feels he has an advantage because he’s good with substituted defenses. …
“What that offense does when you go to the line of scrimmage is keeps Nick from using all of his weapons in his mind.”
So tempo had nothing to do with that game, except limit Saban’s use of his resources. Got it.
This is even better.
Danielson has concluded the better team will win if there are more plays in a game, despite the fact that it is the underdog running the faster pace. He cites basketball as an example. An inferior team, he says, in basketball slows the pace, it doesn’t speed it up.
“I think when you play 100 plays, Alabama is going to win way more often than the underdog,” Danielson said. “I just don’t see where it is that much of an advantage.”
Gary, I’ve got news for you: Alabama’s gonna win way more often than the underdog, regardless of the number of plays run in a game. The real issue is whether running more plays gives the not-Alabamas of the college football world a better chance to win games. And given that of the 23 teams that ran over 1000 plays last season (and, yes, I know that’s not the most precise metric to use, but I’m too lazy to dig deeper right now) only one posted a losing record, I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that it does.
Coaches want to win. If you’ve got fewer resources available than Nick Saban, you get creative and try to get the most out of what you’ve got. This approach is growing because it works. If that offends Danielson and his old-school sensibilities, that’s how it goes.
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24 responses to “Pace is the new spread, continued.”
Actually, if you wanted to refute Danielson you’d need to analyze whether or not running more plays led to more upsets or closer games between underdogs and favorites. I suspect there is a small advantage to the up-tempo style, but I’d be surprised if it’s hugely significant.
Not necessarily. One of those 23 schools I mentioned was Oregon. Not exactly an underdog these days.
Right, but Danielson’s point is that the better team will win regardless of the number of plays run. Oregon being an elite program (for now) and winning with an up-tempo offense doesn’t really refute that claim.
True, but doesn’t 22 out of 23 teams running at a faster pace sporting non-losing records suggest that there’s at least some linkage?
It indicates that at comparable levels of talent it is an advantage up to a point, all other things being equal (namely, the ability to execute and your coaches being competent in general). I suspect it’s a bell curve. If your talent level is terrible, the left side of the curve, all the tempo in the world won’t keep you from going 2-10 or worse. In the middle, a 3 to 9-win team will likely improve by at least one win. At the elite end, the right side of the curve, you will win no matter what your style is.
But you’ve got to acknowledge that, from a purely anecdotal perspective, it stands to reason that talent disparities would be minimized when the more talented side is tired and cannot substitute, or tired/cannot substitute/has several plays run against them they would prefer to have different formation or personnel/cannot read the offensive formation and make a proper defensive call.
Honestly, you’d have to abstract the evidence pretty far to not recognize the inherent obvious advantages to an offense that does not allow a defense to react (and how that would minimize talent gaps to at least some degree).
I am not arguing with the fact that increasing tempo gives an offense an advantage over a defense. I am arguing that it is possible that it doesn’t improve the chances for an upset and that the Senator didn’t use the best statistic to disprove Danielson’s contention that the better team will win regardless of tempo.
Biggus Dickus
On the other hand, why would they do it in the first place if it didn’t give them an advantage of some sort?
Wow, incoherent barely describes that paragraph.
Senator was being gracious toward a fellow he typically likes, methinks. GD has just illustrated for all why he’s in the booth rather than in the game.
If he said he thinks hurry up spread offenses leave the defense on the field too long, that’d be fine. There is pretty good evidence to show that defense wins championships. His comments don’t make a lot of sense.
As Dan Aykroyd would say, “Jane you ignorant slut.”
rabe76
I don’t think he was saying the spread is ineffective, I think he was just trying to make the point – which he did imprecisely at best – that the spread may be effective, but for different reasons than we may think. Specifically, that the advantage gained from the spread wasn’t as much from the additional plays, or the players conditioning and lack thereof – which are often cited as reasons for why the spread has flourished – but rather, that they limited a defense’s ability to make adjustments, something Saban (and Grantham, for that matter) is quite good at. I’m giving GD the benefit of the doubt here.
I was going to say this as well. I think Danielson’s point was TAMU had success against Bama because they didn’t substitute much and lined up quickly after each snap to not get off another play quickly but to limit Bama’s personnel changes. It is the same thinking the Dogs used when not spiking the ball at the end of the SECCG. I guess what he was trying to say but didn’t do very clearly is can basically use that strategy with any scheme. You don’t have to run the spread to not huddle and signal in plays from the sideline preventing the D from substituting.
I think Danielson’s point was TAMU had success against Bama because they didn’t substitute much and lined up quickly after each snap to not get off another play quickly but to limit Bama’s personnel changes.
Which means that tempo had something to do with the outcome of the game.
Yeah I agree he does kind of seems to blur the line between saying he’s old school – which I read to mean he really doesn’t like the spread for aesthetic, fuddy-duddy reasons – and saying that it’s not effective.
He sounds like a lot of other commentators I’ve heard that look down their nose at the spread because it’s “not real football.”
It’s been noted that Oregon essentially has been running a power running offense the last 6-8 years, full of sweeps and inside counters, right? Y’all are aware of that? There is nothing–NOTHING–new in Oregon’s play package. It’s all in pace.
If Alabama has to defend 70 plays with a fresh lineup each play, they will win most the majority of those battles. There are few teams that can line up and compete with Alabama on a play-by-play basis talent-wise.
If Alabama has to defend 100 plays with limited substitutions, you limit what Saban can do schematically (play more base defense instead of exotic blitz-coverage schemes), and you keep tired players on the field… hopefully in a personnel grouping that is favorable to you. Pace particularly affects the defensive front. If you can keep those big guys out there running around, it slows down the pass rush and the penetration in the backfield. That gives the quarterback more time, opens up more possibilities for the offense, and helps a disadvantaged offensive line.
If you are outmatched, pace can compensate for your talent disadvantage. If you are equal or better, pace can be a big advantage because you’ll run more plays than the opposition, and theoretically you will win more of those battles than you lose. If he thinks A&M just lined up and whipped Alabama… he is misremembering.
Using basketball analysis as the basis for your football theory seems… really stupid, Danielson.
I guess Gary didn’t watch a lot of Loyola-maramount back in the day.
I don’t mind debating this issue from a “taste” standpoint because I’m more than happy to share the fact that it makes me want to puke to see a team in shotgun formation on the 1 yard line, but the reality is that the slread and up tempo offenses give less talented teams a chance AND that the reason satan doesn’t like it is that it neutralizes his advantage (talent and depth). He couldn’t give a rats ass about injuries.
Take a gander at the injury feedback vs # of plays (“fast” teams vs “slow” teams) at Mr SEC. He reviews Steele’s workup along with the stats website.
What I find interesting having watched the replay of the SECCG is that Alabama went to a hurry-up pace on offense…and Danielson marveled about this. It very likely had a lot to do with why our front 7 wore down on those running plays in the 2nd half.
So score 1 for Saban being a hypocrite too I guess.
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“Muttonhead” and “Bloody Stubborn”…are you blogging from across the pond?
Over there he’s known as the White Mamba of the House of Lords
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Evaluation of cytokines as a biomarker to distinguish active tuberculosis from latent tuberculosis infection: a diagnostic meta-analysis
Beibei Qiu Department of Epidemiology, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
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The Arts of the Beautiful
Etienne Gilson
Greenwood Press, 1976 - 189 pagine
-- First paperback edition.-- A lucid and deft argument for art as "the making of beauty for beauty's own sake", The Arts of the Beautiful brilliantly addresses the dominant notion of art as an act of expression or communication. Gilson maintains that art is not a matter of knowing, but that it belongs to an order other than that of knowledge, the order of making.-- A world-renowned philosopher and historian, Etienne Gilson held the position of Professor of Medieval Philosophy at the Sorbonne and subsequently at the College de France. He helped to found the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of many works, including Forms and Substance in the Arts, The Philosopher and Theology, and The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy.-- First published by Charles Scribner's Sons ('65). Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
This can be observed , for instance , in the commonly recognized distinction
between talent and genius . Because there exist works which , by the degree and
still more by the nature of their excellence , seem to belong to a restricted and ...
Therefore , the distinction here is not between knowing and producing , for all
things must be known , even productions , and all things must be produced , even
cognitions . It is not at this level that the distinction for which we are looking must
Referring to the well - known distinction between the existence of beings and
their essence , we might say that the artist does not cause the absolute existence
of his works , but their essence . Using materials already given in reality , and this
COROLLARIES IN ESTHETICS
activity actual already answer applies Aristotle artist beauty become belongs called cause Christian Church cognition common complete conceived condition considered create creative critic define definition desire determined distinction divine effect emotions essence essentially esthetic existence experience express fact feel function genius give given human idea ideal images imitation important includes intelligible judgments kind knowledge language least less live look material matter means metaphysics mind nature never notion object observed once operations painting perfect philistinism philosophers Plato pleasure poem poet poetic poetry possible practical precisely presence principle problem produce proper pure qualities question reality reason religion religious remains remark represent respect sake sense sensible sort speak symbol teach thing thought tion true truth turn unity universe Valéry verse whole worship write
Informazioni sull'autore (1976)
Born in Paris, Etienne Gilson was educated at the University of Paris. He became professor of medieval philosophy at the Sorbonne in 1921, and in 1932 was appointed to the chair in medieval philosophy at the College de France. In 1929 he cooperated with the members of the Congregation of Priests of St. Basil, in Toronto, Canada, to found the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies in association with St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto. Gilson served as professor and director of studies at the institute. Like his fellow countryman Jacques Maritain, Etienne Gilson was a neo-Thomist for whom Christian revelation is an indispensable auxiliary to reason, and on faith he accepted Christian doctrine as advocated by the Roman Catholic church. At the same time, like St. Thomas Aquinas, he accorded reason a wide compass of operation, maintaining that it could demonstrate the existence of God and the necessity of revelation, with which he considered it compatible. Why anything exists is a question that science cannot answer and may even deem senseless. Gilson found the answer to be that "each and every particular existing thing depends for its existence on a pure Act of existence." God is the supreme Act of existing. An authority on the Christian philosophy of the Middle Ages, Gilson lectured widely on theology, art, the history of ideas, and the medieval world.
Titolo The Arts of the Beautiful
Autore Etienne Gilson
Editore Greenwood Press, 1976
Provenienza dell'originale la University of Michigan
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NFL draft top-5 snapshot: Cowboys in a tricky spot at No. 4 with Bengals leapfrogging them
Eric Edholm
Every week until the final 2021 NFL draft order is set, we’ll take a look at how the top five picks are shaping up — and provide a mini-mock draft. Think of it as a snapshot of how the top of the draft is looking.
The top two spots in the draft remain the same from last week's order, but there are noticeable changes thereafter. The Cincinnati Bengals make the biggest jump, from No. 7 in the draft order last week to No. 3 overall this week in what has been a tough week for the franchise.
Joe Burrow’s season-ending knee injury will be an offseason story because of the extensive structural damage that was done, leaving his timetable up in the air. If they don’t make significant upgrades to the offensive line, it will be an unforgivable offense.
The Washington Football Team drops from No. 3 to 5, and the Los Angeles Chargers dropped a spot, from five to six, followed by the New York Giants at 7. The Miami Dolphins own the Houston Texans’ first-rounder, and that pick temporarily lowered in value, sliding down three spots to No. 9 overall.
Filling out the top 10 as it stands now are the 3-7 Atlanta Falcons at No. 8 and the 4-7 Carolina Panthers at 10. A slew of 4-6 franchises — the Detroit Lions, Minnesota Vikings, New England Patriots, San Francisco 49ers and Denver Broncos — remain in the top-10 picture.
A quick look at how the top five picks of the 2021 NFL draft are shaping up entering Week 12. (Amber Matsumoto/Yahoo Sports)
1. New York Jets (0-10)
Clemson QB Trevor Lawrence
Lawrence hasn’t played in more than a month but should suit up Saturday against Pitt. Sam Darnold is closing in on a month since his last game, and there’s now a question of whether Joe Flacco’s respectable play the past few games hurt Darnold’s potential trade value.
2. Jacksonville Jaguars (1-9)
Ohio State QB Justin Fields
The Jags are on their third starting quarterback of the season with Mike Glennon expected to take over this weekend. They haven’t won since the opener, and COVID-19 has done a number on their roster. Not much can derail a top-two draft spot at this point.
3. Cincinnati Bengals (2-7-1)
Oregon OT Penei Sewell
Ah, Cincy, we missed you in the top five. Burrow’s injury was a massive blow, but at least the Bengals are in range to nab the best left tackle in the draft. (Even though they’ll need more after that.)
4. Dallas Cowboys (3-7)
Penn State LB Micah Parsons
More disappointing 2020 season: Dallas or Penn State? Maybe Parsons can help solve some of the Cowboys’ problems? This is a tough call with how the board lays out. He’s also a gifted pass rusher who would give a layer of insurance alongside Leighton Vander Esch, who has battled injuries, and Jaylon Smith, who has been inconsistent.
Penn State linebacker Micah Parsons could be in play for Dallas if it picks fourth in the 2021 NFL draft. (AP Photo/Steve Luciano)
The Cowboys have invested serious assets into their linebackers (but with mixed returns), though we don’t believe they’d have pause drafting Parsons — who opted out this season — after using a high second-round pick on Smith knowing he wouldn’t play a snap as a rookie in 2016.
Taking a cornerback here is an option, and a trade down also can’t be ruled out.
5. Washington Football Team (3-7)
BYU QB Zach Wilson
We’re still putting Wilson here ahead of North Dakota State’s Trey Lance. You could argue that bringing back Alex Smith could give the franchise a similar setup with Lance to how the Chiefs handled Patrick Mahomes.
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Supporting Mental Health: Breaking the Stigma, Lifting Up Students and Families.
This piece was featured in our Spring 2020 Newark edition of TEAM and Family magazine.
Social worker Keneisha Newland knew the student—a fourth grader at KIPP SPARK Academy—was struggling. Teachers had reported three back-to-back conflicts involving disagreements with other girls in her grade that left her upset and frustrated.
Newland, a consistent observer in the school’s classrooms, sensed the student could use additional support and reached out to her family to kickstart the process of having her join counseling sessions. “Sometimes, families are hesitant to have their child receive services,” said Newland. “They fear their child being labeled a certain way and they don’t want them to be removed from the classroom frequently. But I tell them that counseling services aren’t what they used to be when we were in school. Our goal is to provide targeted support that allows the child to develop and practice skills they can use independently in the future,” she explained.
With the parents engaged in the process, Newland began working with the student on concrete strategies she could apply inside and outside of school. Over the course of six weeks, she helped her arrive at the root of some of the problems she was experiencing and taught her ways she could stand up for herself, recognize the signs of a healthy versus unhealthy friendship, and understand right from wrong. “I still touch base with her informally if she wants to talk. She doesn’t need to come see me as regularly—but we have a relationship,” said Newland.
Newland’s story highlights KIPP New Jersey’s whole-team, strategic approach to supporting social emotional health in our schools. Newland trains teachers to identify students who may need additional counseling support—and reach out to her and the schools’ social work team when appropriate. Counseling is provided based on clinical assessments of students–and can be provided to students with or without an Individualized Education Plan.
KIPP Newark’s Director of Social Work Sheyla Riaz states that while programming varies by school, all students have access to individual or group counseling, which can be prompted through a teacher or parent referral. “We work with families,” said Riaz. “We always reach out to families to get a history and that informs the goals of the services,” she added. At the middle school and high school level, Riaz explained, services are often initiated by the students themselves.
In Newark, there are also programs designed to support students and families. For example, the Good Grief program—which launched last spring—helps families who have experienced a loss. The program brings together parents and children (from KIPP Newark and also other schools in the community) who are grieving. It offers them a chance to learn skills that can help them cope with loss while also providing time to socialize over dinner and engage in activities together.
Director of Clinical Services Liz Callahan spearheaded the program, housed at KIPP Rise Academy and KIPP Upper Roseville Academy. “We saw huge progress for our participants at the end of last session. Families developed relationships, implemented coping strategies, and were sad to leave each other—they concluded the program planning neighborhood barbecues together to stay in touch!” said Callahan.
Many schools also offer drop in office hours with social workers, in addition to wellness clubs or gender-specific groups where students can come together and talk about what’s going on in their lives.
KIPP Newark Collegiate Academy social worker Courtney Mick runs lunch workshops for about 20 high schoolers who gather weekly to discuss a wide range of topics in a safe space. “It’s a different space that’s not the same as counseling. They’re thirsty for information. We started in September with Suicide Prevention Week, and we’ve gone on to explore topics like self-awareness and sexual health and education,” said Mick, who added that students often lead the sessions and bring their own topics of discussion.
Mick knows not every student is comfortable opening up, but she’s seen incredible growth in the students who attend her lunch workshops. “As a black mental health professional, I’m aware that there’s a stigma in our community against seeking help—part of my job is to help normalize the awareness of mental health in our communities to increase access and usage of supports,” said Mick.
At KIPP TEAM Academy, school social worker Christina Broderick leads a Wellness Group that meets two days a week and helps students with physical, emotional (and even environmental) wellness. The group organizes events and school wide initiatives like celebrating self-love on Valentine’s Day and facilitating morning mindfulness sessions.
Wellness Club students reported that the group helps them develop a more positive self-image, while giving back to the school community. “We have to make sure everyone feels needed in life because they are. Everyone is special in a way no one understands,” said seventh grader Najae Baxter.
Broderick says the skills students gain in the club are not just to help them in middle school. “We welcome and embrace the challenges of developing and maintaining student’s physical, mental, and social needs in life. This is a space for them to grow, learn and develop their wellness practices that will last them into their adult lives,” said Broderick.
Never has the support our social workers provide for students been more crucial than during the outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19). While students are not in the classroom, social work teams provide social-emotional coaching to staff on how to navigate check-in calls and texts, scheduling and facilitating individual counseling sessions via phone and video calls, as well as connecting families to necessary community resources.
Social workers are assisting teachers in providing some guidelines for the check-ins that will elicit responses relative to students’ social-emotional status. According to Mick, “Our schools are working really hard to ensure that our team and family is covered during this unprecedented time.”
Type of Support We Offer
Group/individual counseling: Students who join group or individual counseling do so with parent consent or as part of their Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) which can include a behavioral intervention plan. These counseling sessions offer students opportunities for reflection and the chance to acquire skills and strategies that will help them develop socially and academically.
Crisis Intervention support: When families or students report experiencing a crisis, our social workers partner with families to find solutions that support student well-being and kickstart the services they need to succeed through school-based services and community linkages.
Referrals to community services: To ensure all needs are being met, KIPP Newark includes wrap-around services and will connect families to community supports when needed.
Programs that promote positive school culture: Many schools offer programming that includes wellness days, social emotional learning curriculum, and clubs or groups that provide students with a safe space to speak with their peers about their challenges and celebrate successes.
Parent engagement and staff development: KIPP Newark teachers receive training from school social workers on incorporating social and emotional learning, identifying worrisome behaviors and implementing strategies to support student learning in the classroom.
20% of youth ages 13-18 live with a mental health condition
8% of youth have an anxiety disorder
50% of all lifetime cases of mental illness begin by age 14 and 75% by age 24
The average delay between onset of symptoms and intervention is 8-10 years
If you recognize any of these behaviors in your child, you may want to have a conversation with your schools’ social worker.
Excessive worrying or fear
Feeling excessively sad or low
Extreme mood changes, including uncontrollable “highs” or feelings of euphoria
Avoiding friends and social activities
Changes in sleeping habits or feeling tired and low energy
Changes in eating habits such as increased hunger or lack of appetite
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Argentine Bubbles: Keys to understanding a growing consumer phenomenon
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Posted by By Joaquín Hidalgo 9 March, 2015
In 2014, Argentine wine exports showed atypical numbers. Among them, one was even more curious: sparkling wines had an annual variation in dollars of 10% compared to a decade ago, resulting in a tripling in foreign currency. Some $21.3m; cold and calculating.
To an observer of Argentine wine this should not come as a surprise. In principle, because in the last decade there was a significant leap forward in terms of development and sparkling wine styles. A leap which also had an internal correlation to consumption that would sooner or later be verified in exports, and this happened in 2014.
Argentina is a rarity when it comes to bubbles. In production since the nineteenth century when pioneers laid the cornerstone, it was not until the mid-twentieth century when history changed forever with the first crops of Pinot Noir – initially in Rio Negro, then in Mendoza – and the knowledge for making sparkling wine grew harvest after harvest. In the late 1990s came the development of the Valle de Uco, with Chardonnay and Pinot Noir grown in high altitude, colder areas. What is unique, however, are these dry and sunny terroirs, the antipode of the rest of the globe; something that has stamped its mark on the profile of this sparkling wine.
With the turn of the century, conditions were ready for sparkling wines with their own styles. With wineries such as Chandon Argentina, Navarro Correas, Mumm, Bianchi, Dante Robino, Norton and Nieto Senetiner, the race began to reinvent the market; a race which would changed what appeared on the shelves, forever, and which today sets a new stage, which many other wineries now participate on.
In the words of Hervé Birnie Scott, Director of operations at Bodegas Chandon, “in Argentina we are seeing a rapid growth in sparkling wines, both externally and internally, and we can offer various styles.” This is an advantage in a polarised world among the highly evolved sparkling wines of France and the young, aromatic ones of Italy. So, what distinguishes Argentine sparkling wines from rest of the world? And above all, what do we need to know to enjoy them?
Intensity and youth
As the Canadian sommelier Sandra D’Amato said during during the Argentina Wine Awards: “Argentine sparkling wines have great potential due to their young and fruity style.” Her words aimed in particular, at the phenomenon that currently exists around Italian Prosecco, which is breaking records in markets like the US. Compared with Champagne or Cava, traditional and evolved, Argentine sparkling could be closer to Prosecco. But that is only one side of the coin.
The bulk of the best Argentine sparkling wines have their origin in Tupungato, in the Alto Valle de Uco. At more than a thousand meters above sea level, both Pinot Noir and Chardonnay acquire freshness and a fruity expression. Harvested early, they retain high acidity, good intensity and flavour. In this context, young styles have good sustenance, and they contain the primary aromas of fresh fruit.
However, in Argentina there is considerable expertise in the development of more evolved, French style sparkling wines. In fact, a large percentage of the sparkling wines produced using the traditional method have a second fermentation which averages 24 months. And there are even examples that reach 70 months, like the limited edition Rosell Boher launched in late 2014.
Pedro Rosell is one of the most knowledgeable winemakers when it comes to Argentine sparking wines. He has spent decades developing the traditional method and, in his opinion, “sparkling wines reach peak flavour at around 24 – 36 months. You can go further, but the market does not justify it “he says. At Bodega Cruzat, he prepares all styles that are available in the market today, using the traditional method: fruity and young, on one hand, with evolved aromas and memories of brioche on the other.
“While the world seems divided between young and evolved, it is interesting that Argentina occupies the middle ground, and consequently, today it is growing in the international markets, in a position of quality,” says Hervé Birnie Scott. Young or aged, when it comes time to drink them, how do we know what to choose just by looking at the label?
For starters, 7 out of 10 examples belong to the category Extra Brut, which in the rest of the world is known as Brut to dry. That is to say, dry wines with a subtle sweetness that is not always perceived on the palate. Genuine examples include Chandon Extra Brut, Cruzat Extra Brut and Bianchi Extra Brut. While only 1 in 10 corresponds to Nature and Brut Nature, completely dry, like Cadus Brut Nature, Gran Dante Nature and Baron B Millésime Nature. And the rest, distributed in bottles of varying sweetness, although always marked as Deseado, Vivace or Dulcet.
The so-called Brut Nature and Nature are on the side of the dry and evolved; especially if we also see on the label “produced by traditional method”. Extra Brut, on the whole, are difficult to systematise, but they generally correspond to fresh and fruity wines. While Demi-Sec and Sweet form the young sparkling wines group.
A global trend is growing in the case of the latter group, with a correlation to cocktails. Whether mixed with ice, fruit or herbs, sweet sparkling wines are being enjoyed by young consumers and a new consumer culture focused on drinks at parties and gatherings.
Despite their new place in bars, the bulk of Argentine sparkling wines are consumed in celebrations, whether they be anniversaries, weddings, birthdays or romantic dinners. And this is how it is presented to the world, as a perfect drink to uncork for a toast. Always cold, never iced, numerically speaking, it seems to give taste to reason.
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Joaquín Hidalgo
Mendocino de nacimiento (1978), se recibió en el Liceo Agrícola como enólogo en la promoción 1996. Al año siguiente, se inscribió en periodismo en la Universidad Nacional de La Plata, de donde egresó en 2002. Desde entonces vive en Buenos Aires donde construyó una lar- ga carrera combinando sus dos pasiones: la escritura y los vinos. Ha trabajado en casi todos los medios que le dieron co- bertura al tema. Desde el Country Herald a la Revista del Club del Vino, en los que escribió sus primeras notas firmadas, a Playboy, Revista JOY y La Mañana de Neu- quén, diario del que sigue siendo columnista dominical desde 2007. Colaboró como catador y cronista para Aus- tral Spectator relevando Chile y Perú en la edición 2005 y luego coeditando la guía entre 2011 y 2012. A contar de 2014 escribe semanalmente para el diario La Nación, donde actualmente tiene una columna llamada Sin Filtrar los días viernes en el puntocom. A principios de septiembre de 2019 fue contratado por la plataforma Vinous para reportar Argentina y Chile. Joaquín Hidalgo Born in Mendoza in 1978, Joaquin received his Certificate in Winemaking from the Liceo Agrícola in 1996. The following year, he took Journalism at the Universidad Nacional de la Plata, graduating in 2002. Since then he has lived in Buenos Aires, where he has built up an extensive career combining his two passions: writing and wine. He has worked for almost every media outlet that covers the area from the Country Herald to the Revista del Club de Vino, where he published his first signed articles, Playboy, Revista JOY, and La Mañana de Neuquen, for whom he has been a columnist since 2007. He has been a taster and correspondent for the Austral Spectator, covering Chile and Peru in 2005 and then co-editing the guide in 2011 and 2012. Since 2014, he has written a weekly column for the La Nación newspaper for whom he also writes a weekly blog called Sin Filtrar on their website. In September 2019, he was hired by the Vinous platform to cover Argentina and Chile.
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Models Stories November 17, 2014
Samsung to sell 30% fewer smartphone models next year to cut costs as profits decline
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The Wall Street Journal reports this evening that Samsung will sell fewer smartphone models next year as part of a cost-cutting measure to fight declining profits. Samsung head of investor relations Robert Yi confirmed during a presentation in New York that the South Korean electronics maker will cut the number of smartphone models it sells by between 25% to 30% in 2015. expand full story
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Leaked photo of pink HTC One (M8) – perhaps destined for T-Mobile?
Ben Lovejoy - May. 6th 2014 5:23 am PT
Generally reliable source @evleaks has posted a photo of the pink model HTC One (M8) he previously said was on the way, along with blue and red models. He previously leaked a photo of the red version.
No further details are given beyond the fact that it will be released at some point this year. After images of the red model were shown with Verizon branding, it made us wonder whether blue may be for AT&T and pink for T-Mobile? However, the pink model shown in the photo has no carrier branding.
As for the phone itself, we love the hardware, though have mixed views on Sense 6.
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Benchmarks reveal ‘strong storage performance’ for 16GB Nexus 7
Élyse Betters - Aug. 1st 2012 8:29 am PT
AnandTech ran the 16 GB Nexus 7 through the Android version of its standard SSD tests using Androbench, and the in-depth results indicate the Google-branded tablet boasts “strong storage performance.”
The performance highlights:
— Sequential read speed at 19.8 MB/s (slower than 8 GB model, 32 GB Motorola Xyboard 10.1, and 16 GB Samsung Galaxy Nexus).
— Sequential write speed at 10. 47 MB/s (faster than 8 GB model, 16 GB Samsung Galaxy Nexus, and 16 GB Asus Transformer Pad 300).
— Random read performance at 7. 79 MB/s (faster than 8 GB model, 16 GB Samsung Galaxy Nexus, and 16 GB Asus Transformer Pad 300).
— Random read performance at 0.46 MB/s (faster than 8 GB model, 16 GB Samsung Galaxy Nexus, and 16 GB Asus Transformer Pad 300).
AnandTech’s Anand Lal Shimpi said the difference in IO performance “isn’t significant enough to push you towards the $250 Nexus 7 if you don’t need the extra space,” but he told folks to consider the 16 GB model an “added benefit.”
Get the full report at AnandTech.
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The Arab trader argument is my name for an argument white Americans often use to defend the evil they do in the world. It goes like this: if white Americans do something evil and terrible it is all right – or at least not all that bad – so long as they can find at least one example from world history of someone else doing the same thing. Thus the Atlantic slave trade was not so bad because Arabs traders sold slaves too!
See how it works? Pretty cool trick.
The thing is utterly morally bankrupt. It is the everyone-does-it argument that we tried when we were eight . Our mothers did not buy it then and it does not work now – except maybe for the morally blind.
But that is just what many white Americans seem to be: morally blind. They know the evil that is done in their name, not just in the past but even now, but they do not want to see it. And when they are faced with it, they try to excuse it with stuff like this.
Maybe moral blindness leads to morally broken thinking – or is it the other way round?
It would be like if I robbed a bank and then said, “People rob banks all the time, what is the big deal?” Or if I slept with someone’s wife and I said, “Your wife had an affair two years ago. See! I am not that bad. Why are you angry at me?”
Do you see how shameless this kind of argument is?
It amazes me that anyone even tries it, for two reasons:
That anyone would waste more than two seconds trying to excuse something so clearly evil, like the slave trade, the Japanese American prison camps, racism, etc.
That they would try to use such a bad argument with a straight face and not see just how bad it is.
But they do it.
It seems to bring comfort to them, but that comfort is completely one-sided. It brings no comfort to those who have to suffer their evil. Like when the Jews were being sent to the death camps, did it bring any comfort to them to know that the Turks killed over a million Armenians?
Forms of this argument:
This is the way we have always done it
Blacks do it too
Blacks are racist too
There will always be racists
Right and wrong are not determined or proved by what everyone does, much less by what some people do, like Arab traders. That would just excuse everyone to sink to the lowest, meanest, most evil levels of behaviour.
A simple and far better way to determine right and wrong, without getting deep into religion or philosophy, is the Golden Rule, which is not “Do unto others as some others have done”, as the Arab trader argument would have it, but “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.” Acts of racism fail this test by their very nature.
How to tell if a commenter is white
blame-shifting
white innocence
Apple-pie America – more on American moral blindness
The slave trade was immoral – also brings up the Arab trader argument
Pam Peters: The Cambridge Guide to English Usage – come to think of it, this everyone-does-it approach is applied even to English usage. Maybe it is not just a disingenous argument but a way of thinking!
Posted in 2000s, America, arguments, moral fallacies, racism, racist arguments, stuff white people say | 176 Comments
on Mon Oct 5th 2009 at 01:36:05 macon d
This is a great post, very clarifying. I hear this kind of thing all. the. time.
on Mon Oct 5th 2009 at 01:59:10 Herneith
This is a good catchall phrase for for these ‘arguements’!
on Mon Oct 5th 2009 at 10:35:34 Aiyo
Good post on a statement that has been heard too much
on Mon Oct 5th 2009 at 10:47:08 Vindicator
Good post! Abagond!
Why people use this argument is beyond me.
The adultery example is excellent for proving your point. A lot of people do think that it’s “alright” because “other people are doing it”.
on Tue Oct 6th 2009 at 02:35:04 temple
This is my favorite (this tactic was very often used by a white woman who had a feminist blog where she consistently silenced black women while trumpeting her personal sacrifice of giving birth to biracial kids): “Slavery happened centuries ago. It’s time to get over it. On the other hand, white women have been oppressed going back thousands of years. We must never forget this.”
Privileged much.
on Tue Oct 6th 2009 at 11:55:12 Black&German
Slavery happened centuries ago. It’s time to get over it. On the other hand, white women have been oppressed going back thousands of years. We must never forget this.
Nearly spit out my coffee reading that. Good grief.
I do have to admit I’m a sucker for diversionary statements and ridiculous questions. I’m easy to distract that way because I enjoy going off on a tangent. So if you ever catch me feeding the trolls, as I am wont to do, please redirect me to the topic at hand. Trust that I won’t be offended. 🙂
on Tue Oct 6th 2009 at 21:16:54 Rose
“It brings no comfort to those who have to suffer their evil.” That’s hilarious. If whites didn’t exist stopped their “evil” as you put it, your standards of living would fall right back to where they were 200-300 years ago.
Personally, I would not be opposed to this. If blacks want their independence, that’s fine, just don’t expect whites to continue feeding your populations. Abagond, look at yourself. You’re a racist. Let me know when you, as a black man, are ready to apologize and pay reparations to the Khoisan for your ancestors having nearly exterminated them. If you take a long, objective look at history, you’ll realize that history is all about superior groups conquering (and sometimes, exterminating) inferior ones. This tendency is common to all of humanity (and indeed, to all living things) and is not exclusive to the white race. If you’re still alive today, you can be sure it’s because your ancestors at some point mercilessly crushed a competing group (either that, or they got lucky).
on Tue Oct 6th 2009 at 22:53:20 abagond
This is just the kind of thinking my post is talking about – excusing the evil that whites do by pointing out the evil done by others. Like that makes it right or something. It is morally bankrupt thinking.
Your comment shows a comfort with evil that is sickening.
on Wed Oct 7th 2009 at 01:12:33 La Reyna
May I ask which feminist website because there are several feminist who think like her just because she gives birth to Black children, she thinks that absolves her of being racist. That’s the type of thinking I get from White feminists who dismiss the unique histories of Women of Color in order to point their brand of being oppressed by their White men for centuries.
on Wed Oct 7th 2009 at 10:29:24 Vindicator
temple Says:
This is why you should never buy into feminist propoganda.
Not once do feminists ever explain how women have been oppressed.
on Wed Oct 7th 2009 at 16:15:14 dani
@ La Rena
co-sign 😉
on Thu Oct 8th 2009 at 01:18:10 temple
La Reyna,
This blogger recently went private & I prefer not to give the blog name. Being silenced is a very common experience among black women & other women of color in feminism. It’s happened to me IRL & in the blog world quite often–often enough that I’ve faced the reality that not all women are my allies.
on Thu Oct 8th 2009 at 18:53:32 Herneith
Of course having black children has made her an authority on black issues. As for the white women being oppressed for thousands of years, what about racialized women? Did she address this?
‘That they would try to use such a bad argument with a straight face and not see just how bad it is.’
Why would they? When maintaining their power,it is not in their best interest to do so. They may be oblivious to these facts.
* This is the way we have always done it
* Blacks do it too
* Blacks are racist too
* There will always be racists
Many whites possess a different moral compass than do racialized people. Many do-not have an inkling as to this lack either consciously or sub-consciously. The ones who do and are aware will try to debunk your arguments through condescending diversionary tactics which only serves to berate and humiliate the racialized person. This is particularly effective as it lets the racialized person know just exactly what you think of them and their group without resorting to racist name calling or your inherent superiority. Best of all, It makes them feel better as they have(in their mind) reinforced their self-perception that they are not racist. They are Just resorting to a logical explanations of how things really are. In effect, they are infantalizing the racialized person.
It works. I know this. Why? If one responds to their arguement and gets progressively angry, it reinforces the stereotypes they may already have of your racialized group, puffing them up further. This is why they throw in facts unrelated to the topic at hand. This throws you off kilter. Unless you have a photographic memory and can pull facts out the air at random, you may be at a loss as to how to respond effectively. This enforces their notion of your group as having sub-intelligence. If you try to deflect the impact of the arguement via comic relief, then you are a buffoon who doesn’t understand anyway. This is also a reflection of your groups mindset. If you respond with dumbness, then you are too stupid to in the first place, also reflective of your groups’ intelligence and inability to debate such things; at this point they may become paternalistic as if teaching a child. This has happened to me throughout the years. If you learn to argue and counteract these arguments you’re dismissed as an exception or as uppity. You can’t win for loosing! My reaction now is to tell them that I have no wish to engage them. This angers them as they can not dazzle you with their brilliance and emphasize your, and by extension your groups, lack thereof. You know what? I don’t care anymore, go dazzle someone else with your b********! The ones who are open to changing their white supremset mindset are relatively rarer.
on Fri Oct 16th 2009 at 04:10:57 Rycher
Yes but your ideological kin do the same thing all the time Abagond. For example, the Crusades are quite often used in EXACTLY the same manner to justify Islamic violence that occurs quite plentifully today.
(This despite the fact the the Crusades were largely a response to Islamic aggression and militancy in the first place).
Ultimately, your article here is null and void because your comrades do it all the time; they are guilty of the very thing you so righteously mock.
on Fri Oct 16th 2009 at 04:16:14 Herneith
@Rycher:
You’ve just proved his arguement which is other people do it!
Sorry, I meant; You’ve have just proved his argument whereby white Americans will say, “Everyone else does it to!”,when excusing any culpability in evil acts or criticism levelled at them for such.
on Fri Oct 23rd 2009 at 19:42:05 Rycher
First off: I abhor slavery and I view it as a point of shame for whites. With this in mind:
The arab slave trade is highly relevant when it comes to grievances concerning the white slave trade.
It is incredibly important to point out that the arab slave trade lasted well over ONE THOUSAND years, and that the white slave trade is given a maximum timeline of 2 to 3 centuries.
It is also important to note that the arabs were far more inhuman, cruel and brutal to their slaves than were the whites.
Moreover, despite the immorality and atrocities of the slave trades, the whites at least left a few benefits where they practiced colonialism: roads, electricity, water treatment, literacy, etc etc were often left behind in many communities that were under white colonial rule.
So why I am saying this? Again, I do not point to the arabs to try and EXCUSE white slavery. Slavery is inexcusable. I point to the arab slave trade because so much focus and attention is given to the white slave trade which was far shorter, far less brutal and at least had some benefits.
Since the arab slave trade was far worse by ALL MEASURES, why aren’t people getting after the arabs about it? This is what I find so absurd about this entire article- you point out all the terrible things about slavery but you are ready to dismiss a brutal slave trade that lasted over a MILLENIUM in order to attack whites.
Given that slavery is such an important part of your history and a continued point of contention between blacks and other races, why aren’t you pursuing the arabs who’ve committed this crime on a much much much greater scale? Why do you readily dismiss their crimes?
I’m quite sure I know why: you will find no sympathy from the arabs. But you will from whites.
Some important reading:
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Classroom/9912/easterntrade.html
http://www.youtube.com/user/AhmadsQuran3#p/u/213/AHSP9TGLs4E
on Fri Oct 23rd 2009 at 20:17:51 sanabituranima
I’m no expert on the subject, but I know enough to know that that’s an over-simplification.
Since the arab slave trade was far worse by ALL MEASURES, why aren’t people getting after the arabs about it?
1. People do often mention the Arab slave trade. That’s what the post is about.
2. Consequences.
People are still suffering from the after-effects of Arab clonialism (Darfur is a tragic, potent example.) HOWEVER, I would argue that mre peole are suffering because of the after-effects of white colonialism. This makes discussion of white colonialism and slave-ownership more pertinent.
Some of my ancestors were probably enslaved by ancient Romans. And that was an immoral thing. HOWEVER, it does not directly affect my life now. I will not be treated any worse because some of my ancestors were slaves. I will not be denied a job or a promotion because of it. I am not ging to be shot by the police because of it. I am needn’t worry that in in emergency, paramedics will try less hard to save my life beause of it. The Roman idea of Britain being full of barbarian hordes has stopped being believed.
However, many people still believe that PoC, especially blacks, aren’t completely human. The transatlantic slave-trade was abolished, but the idea of black sub-humanity is still left over and still having negative consequences. That is why the transatlantic slave-trade is directly relevant to modern-day politics.
Also, abagond is an America, writing in the English language. The majority of his readers are Amercan. White slave-ownership has more immediate personal relevance to an American readership than other examples of slave-owning societies.
3. He is not saying that the Arab slave trade was remotely ok. He is just saying that 2 wrongs cannot ever make a right.
on Fri Oct 23rd 2009 at 21:28:05 abagond
Rycher:
Your moral reasoning is broken.
If you disagree, then when your wife catches you with another woman all you have to do is say this: “I know what I did was wrong, but my friend Joe has been cheating on his wife WAY LONGER than me. And he beats her too. Please keep that in mind!”
And if she continues to be angry at you, say this: “Why are you so angry at me but not at my friend? I mean, he is way worse than me! You are being unfair.”
And then do not forget to pat yourself on the back and say: “The only reason you are angry at me is because you will find no sympathy from him but you will from me.”
To pick up on what Sanabitur Anima said, I know no one who has been affected by the Arab slave trade nor do I live in a country that has been shaped and continues to be shaped by that trade. That is quite untrue about the Atlantic slave trade.
The degree of dehumanization of blacks and moral blindness of whites required by that trade still live on. That is why I had to write this post in the first place.
Her example about the Roman slave trade is a good one.
on Fri Oct 23rd 2009 at 23:22:23 nicia
There was also a difference in the Arab/African slave trade vs the European one. They had a unique brand of cruelty which dictated that even a drop of Black blood made one a slave. So European slavery led slaves and their descendants into neverending perpetual slavery.
In contrast, the descendants of Arab and African slaves were born free,were given same rights and were free to intermarry.
If you ask any African living in Africa if they descended from a conquered slave class, they prob wouldn’t know. They’ve prob been treated as an equal their whole life. They can go out and get a job,not get followed in stores or stopped by police.
Ask a Black living in a White country where slavery was practiced hundreds of years ago what their life is like…..jobs,respect, etc,,, and you’ll see that European slavery mentality still exists…It hasn’t ended…on paper only
on Sat Oct 24th 2009 at 01:15:27 Rycher
Abagond I can see how you’d interpret my reasoning the way you did, but I can assure you that’s not at all what I meant. (I’d be embarrassed to ever resort to that cheap kind of pseudo-reasoning.)
In short,this is what I meant to convey:
Whenever I see people talking about the slave trade and its horrors, it boggles my mind how the best example of slavery that human history has to offer, the ARAB SLAVE TRADE, is never mentioned and is seldom taught in school. You’d be surprised how few people actually know about the arab slave trade, despite its sheer length and magnitude.
(I realize that this article has the arab slave trade as its headline but the topic was just used to segue into the white slave trade) But I understand that you blog about the atlantic slave trade since you live in the USA. I understand that.
However I’m curious, what do people here think about pursuing reparations from arabs and their slave trade?
Would it be worth pursuing?
What kind of response would you expect?
on Sat Oct 24th 2009 at 15:00:13 abagond
It seems pretty clear that I will have to do a post on the Arab slave trade itself since it keeps coming up and some commenters act as if I am not seeing the light that they see. But that is not the subject of this particular post.
I did not bring up the Arab slave trade to segue into the Atlantic one. I brought it up because it is used to make a bad moral argument to defend white racism, an argument that comes up in different forms. A form of pseudo-reasoning, as you put it.
on Tue Dec 29th 2009 at 18:16:20 Big Rome
This is a great article that does a great job of throwing light upon this argument which is used in many forms and many places (not least the emphasis by those in NeoConfederate movements to highlight Lincoln’s racism and thereby absolve the sins of the South)- I’m glad you’ve started a great discussion here.
Being a student and scholar of Race in the US, I would also point out that while Slavery has (and unfortunately still does) exist(ed) across the world and across the centuries, racialized slavery was novel to the New World in general and the US in particular. In no other place and at no other time had an institution of heritable and permanent chattel slavery existed, nor has it existed since, on the scale and to the degree practiced by peoples of European descent on peoples of African descent. That set of facts is undeniable.
on Tue Dec 29th 2009 at 18:26:45 Mira
Hmmm… I think that Arab trader argument actually means: “people of all races did horrible things; whites are not evil by nature!”
Nobody’s evil by nature. That’s not the point. The point is: just because another group of people did some horrible things, it doesn’t mean crimes made by your own gorup any less horrible.
I never said it that’s the way I see it. In fact, I don’t see it that way. I see it as a very, very poor excuse for doing horrible things.
But I think white people see it like I described. I might be wrong, though.
on Fri Mar 5th 2010 at 19:33:24 Honky
But how can whites constantly be singled out and berated and be condescended to if everyone did it? It’s like if 100 people robbed 100 banks but we’re only going to punish the one who made the most money off of it.
on Sun May 30th 2010 at 17:56:09 Robin
While I do agree that whites do use this and I’m not trying to excuse their actions. I think that it’s a human reaction not to wanting your group or culture being look at as horrible amd unhuman. Everybody wants to believe that their group that they represent is good. While whites have the arab trade agruement, Blacks have the well, at least, they didn’t go through slavery agruement towards gays and other non-black ethnic groups. They’ll use the same book to dehumanize gays that was used to take away their idenity and justify slavery. Maybe I feel this way because I’m experience racism both sides.
on Sun May 30th 2010 at 19:37:49 abagond
You are using the Arab Trader argument to defend the Arab Trader argument.
The Arab Trader argument says that it is not so bad to do x because other people do it too. But that is a very poor way to determine whether something is moral or not. Whatever x is, you will almost always find other people doing it.
My own rule of thumb: an argument that could defend cannibalism probably has something wrong with it.
on Tue Dec 14th 2010 at 11:04:10 chroniclinghate
If someone attempts to justify the transatlantic slave trade by mentioning the Arab slave trade then yes that is a reprehensible argument. However bringing up the Arab slave trade is a legitimate response to racist nonsense attempting to paint slavery as being something unique to “White people” or something that “White people” should guilty about, just as it’s legitimate to mention non-Islamic terrorism in order to counter bigoted filth attempting to portray terrorism as something unique to Muslims. If it’s wrong to respond to racist arguments that portray slavery strictly as a white evil then Tim Wise is also just as wrong for citing statistics about White crime in order to demolish White supremaicst propaganda that claims that African-Americans are a uniquely criminal racial group. There is a clear difference between a rational discussion of the transatlantic slave trade and a racist screed portraying Whites as collectively guilt of slavery while ignoring non-Western forms of slavery or White victims of slavery (over three million Eastern Europeans were enslaved by the Crimean Khanate).
http://historyanarchy.blogspot.com/2010/03/white-people-know-their-slavery.html
“he story of 50,000 Irish who were transported as slaves to Barbados and Virginia in the 17th century is chronicled for the first time.”
http://www.amazon.com/Hell-Barbados-Ethnic-Cleansing-Ireland/dp/0863222870
on Sat Feb 5th 2011 at 23:39:24 Dawn
Unfortunately as much as you have a point? Some people especially PoC try to derail any discussion of the multifacted nature of racism and history by using this argument as if the mere discussion of historical issues and how it has affected the world today is somehow making excuses for another dark and inhuman part of history.
So even if you’re just talking about the Trans-sahara slave trade, you’re likely to get someone breaking in to the conversation to harass you about how you’re supposedly using it to negate the evil that the western world has done. Even if the trans-atlantic slave trade hasn’t been mentioned.
At the end of the day, what Hitler did to the Jews does not eclipse, remove or erase any other genocide that has happened in history. It is wrong to point at another genocide and use that to try and say that Hitler wasn’t such a bad guy, it is not wrong to simply talk about historical genocides including the holocaust in general and what was behind them.
Besides most people do not deny that the trans-atlantic slave trade was inhuman, cruel and downright evil, but some of us do get tired of it being treated as the only slave trade in the history of the world evah cos PoC just “don’t do that sort of thing” in some people’s minds backed up by people attempting to shut down any discussion that might dispell the illusion that white people are the only people capable of true evil.
on Sun Feb 6th 2011 at 00:50:18 Kwamla
The difficulty with using this Arab Trader argument to account for something like the African Transatlantic slave trade is one of degree and magnitude. It also shows a lack of awareness of the scope and dimensions involved.
One way to recognize or begin to appreciate this is to use another analogy:
Imagine a small grocery store. Like Groceries ‘R’ Us. They rapidly expand to include other items like clothing, then maybe electrical goods. Other groups watch this and begin to get in on the act. Soon there are lots of small and large Groceries, Clothes and Electrical goods ‘ R ‘ Us all over the country.
Suddenly, there emerges a big, gigantic Groceries ‘R’ Us. Its bigger than anything that has gone before its called Walmart it expands all over the country but then it gets even bigger. It expands to other countries as well. It takes over and swallows up existing Groceries ‘R’ Us. stores all over the planet. It becomes a monster. But because its grown so big and has a branch in every country on the planet it starts to be the main grocery store most people recognize and go to.
Its now hard to remember a time when going to a grocery store didn’t mean going to a Walmart.
The African Transatlantic slave trade became that Walmart Before this there only used to be Groceries ‘R’ Us and every country had their own one. In fact some still do.
“Some people especially PoC try to derail any discussion of the multifacted nature of racism and history by using this argument as if the mere discussion of historical issues and how it has affected the world today is somehow making excuses for another dark and inhuman part of history.”
@ Dawn
Hey Dawn, it’s difficult to say whether you are making a valid point or not. So let me ask you this.
Please simply link to 2 or more examples of what you’re talking about. I think that’s fair. You have an entire internet to draw from. I’m not even saying that what you describe doesn’t exist… after all, everything happens, at least once or twice, somewhere on the internet. Just post a few examples of it.
@Dawn:
Tell us culluds what it is we need to know!
on Fri Feb 18th 2011 at 09:19:58 chroniclinghate
Islamic slavery was just as vast and it lasted much longer than Western slavery; the Saudis ‘abolished’ in the late 20th century and there has never been an Islamic abolition movement. The trade has deeply scarred Africa as evidenced by the massacres of Arabs by Blacks during the Zanzibar revolution. The idea that the transatlantic slave trade was the first major form of slavery is absurd; the Mongols for example practiced mass murder and slavery on an industrial scale.
However anyone brining up non-Western forms of slavery to counter legitimate discussion of American slavery is defending slavery. However if someone was to bring up slavery in order to demonize ‘Whites’ then yes I would bring up such things as Islamic slavery or the type of slavery practiced by the Imperial Japanese army that would be a legitimate argument much like an African-American citing ‘White’ crime groups and gangs to respond to racists attempting to demonize Blacks as a uniquely criminal people
on Fri Feb 18th 2011 at 18:36:38 Kwamla
@chroniclinghate.
You do seem to have problems when it comes to trying to make connections or comparisons. Particularly when scales of degree, magnitude and depth are involved.
Surprisingly enough though you don’t seem to have this as a problem when it comes to making comparisons between the plight of the Palestinians and Jews. And in particular the roles of Nazi Germeny and Israel.
I extracted these comments from your own blog:
“Does a Holocaust survivor have the right to speak his mind and say ‘what happened to me during the Holocaust, I see it happening again to Palestinians, Never Again for Anyone.’ Should he be labeled an anti-Semite for such statements?”
This is nothing more than a crude attempt to equate Israel with nazi Germany and the Palestinians with the Jews; a hateful and ignorant comparison. Does anyone recall Jewish suicide bombings? Has Israel killed over four million people? Any honest individual with a fifth grader’s command of history can see that Emperor’s garbage is a thinly veiled anti-Semitic attack.
What is it that you see that is so unique to Jewish, genocidal, holocaust experience that you are unable to see in the African, genocidal, holocaust experience?
Which incidentally lasted over 500 years as an institution but left a legacy that Africa and its diasporic peoples are still left traumatically dealing with. On top of which is a continent that has and continues to be plundered and exploitered for its natural resources to the obvious detriment of its own people?
And you believe Islamic slavery had a greater impact? Or are you just unable to equate the sufferings of anyone non-Jewish with horrors of the Jewish holocaust?
Incidentally. If you really wish to understand why anyone would even attempt to equate what Israel is doing to the Palestinians with Nazi Germany – they may not be quite there yet. But they are heading down that direction – you should have a look at this documentary. Its very graphic in detail:
And then listen to Auschwitz Survivor on Palestine here:
on Sat Jul 30th 2011 at 20:43:32 mindweapon
OK, ok, you don’t like the Arab trader theory that contemporary whites owe less than zero to blacks.
“I don’t care, and I refuse to be held liable, and I will fight to the death against any black-slavery-reparations-debt-collectors.
Come on and try to take my house and my family. Come get your repamarations. In the end, I don’t give a fig about your arguments, I think they are bullshit, I am not swayed in the least by any theory of “white guilt” or, to use the modern Tim Wise euphemism, “white responsibiltity.” I repudiate it all.
I think you owe us, and you can make the debt good by returning to Africa.
on Sat Jul 30th 2011 at 21:53:20 Herneith
That’s not what the argument entails. The argument has nothing to do with ‘reparmations’, it is a evasive tactic to draw attention from themselves. However, if you wish to ‘contribute to my own ‘repamarations, my email address is: herneith@blowitoutyourhole.com. I take banker’s cheques, money orders, wire transfers if you are sending money internationally, crdit cards and PayPal.
Hey now! Think of the tax write-off!
Come on and try to take my house and my family. Come get your repamarations.
I’m not interested in trailor homes. Do you live in a mansion? I’ll take that! Your family? Sorry, I am not interested in inbred people, too many potential problems.
In the end, I don’t give a fig about your arguments,
How about a figleaf?:
I am not swayed in the least by any theory of “white guilt” or, to use the modern Tim Wise euphemism, “white responsibiltity.” I repudiate it all.
“Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.” Mark Twain.
If your mind is a weapon, then the trigger is jammed and the barrel is rusted.
You’re asking what we collectively think about an argument that is basically, “I don’t care if your arguments are valid or not! Just you try and make me pay?”
The main argument here is for acknowledgement of privilege, not “reparation.” BTW, what do you owe the Native Americans and when are you planning to pay therm back by returning to Ireland?
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/ireland/090113/irish-economy-nears-collapse
on Sun Jul 31st 2011 at 04:43:52 Herneith
@King;
He suffers from chronic brain flatulence!
on Sun Jul 31st 2011 at 06:37:29 Columnist
True, but why punish only whites, and not other slave traders?
By the way, instead of petty squabbling, both whites and Black people should learn Hebrew, Arabic and Chinese.
on Sun Jul 31st 2011 at 07:40:35 King
Lol! And how!
When whites enslaved Black people, white people were Christians. Now, most Black people are Christians. Oh the irony!
I think if you check the worldwide numbers, most Blacks are probably Muslim. Most American Blacks are Christian.
Well, Kenya is 80% christian,…
on Sat Mar 17th 2012 at 06:16:53 Deb
@King…“Most American Blacks are Christian”Yep, and irony had nothing to do with it!
on Fri Jun 15th 2012 at 08:08:42 Unbeweavable | Slouching Towards Kingston
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on Fri Oct 26th 2012 at 01:21:47 Jack
I think you will find that most people bring up the Arab slave trade, not to make the European slave trade look better by comparison, but more to try and dispell the popular notion that only white people were responsible for the slave trade. What both the whites and the Arabs did was terrible, though to be fair i don’t think people should blame the slave trade on entire races of people. I was carried out solely by and for a small minority of rich elites. The average European or Arab peasant would not have had any involvement, most were probably weren’t even aware of the atrocities that were being commited in Africa and the other parts of the world, heck they were probably treated like slaves themselves, by the rich lords and land owners. They were bad times to be poor anywhere in the world.
on Fri Oct 26th 2012 at 11:35:22 abagond
on Sun Oct 28th 2012 at 07:58:15 oogenhand
Although you have objective morality on your side, is it prudent to attack the only ones that set their own slaves free?
on Thu Nov 1st 2012 at 09:15:45 oogenhand
@Deb
Some strictly monotheistic religions would consider forced conversion to Christianity from “idolatry” a step up. BTW, Christianisation of Europe was largely non-consensual, too.
on Wed Nov 7th 2012 at 10:54:32 barchan
The transatlantic slave trade was a disgusting and horrible crime against humanity with repercussions even today. Now that I have said this so no one think im some kind of apologist or something I will get to my point. Because to be honest the main diffrence between the Arab slave trade and the Transatlantic slave trade of black Africans, is that the arab slave trade has actually NEVER stopped. Still happening in Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen Mauretania… it has kept happening (on a smaller scale today of course) and this has been going on for AT LEAST a millenia. (Though most likely around 1400 years) but when you discuss this with an average muslim(black or arab)they completly shut down, you can show them pictures from the FIFTIES with Saudiarabian families with their black slaves and they still go “Allah! everyone is equal in Islam Muhammed is great!!!!!! What about the crusades 800 years ago!!! Christians are just as bad” just the typical deflections And this just shows that in this sad part of history the slavery apologists have succesfully shaped our view of slavery as an only white on black occurance. And even bringing the up the arab slavery in a discussion about slavery can seen as derailong and racist (??) (English is not my native language so my text is perhaps a little badly written but I hope you get my argument)
on Wed Nov 7th 2012 at 15:41:49 oogenhand
On a practical level, Saudi-Arabia is a very tempting target for reparations. It has a lot of stuff, and a Iranian knife to its throat. Hell is eternal.
on Mon Dec 3rd 2012 at 14:42:41 Winslie Gomez
Reblogged this on HAPLOGROUP – bit that makes us human. and commented:
on Mon Dec 3rd 2012 at 15:28:44 The Mind of RD Revilo
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on Mon Dec 3rd 2012 at 23:48:57 And now some non-writing stuff | Fraser Sherman's Blog
[…] may sound weird now, but it was commonly expressed back in the day. On a related topic, one blogger rips into the “Well, X may have been bad but he wasn’t as bad as an Arab slave […]
on Thu Dec 6th 2012 at 21:53:30 Ghost
So a white guy, a black guy, and an arab guy assault a black guy. What guys like Macon don’t understand is that if we’re going to be shoveling cultural guilt onto people for crimes like slavery, we have to punish all the involved guilty parties, not just the white ones. Which is why the “arab slave trade” arguement exists: It’s a justified desire to see all parties involved in the crime punished, instead of singling out one group of people because of skin-color.
on Sat Dec 8th 2012 at 09:49:42 oogenhand
Abagond correctly applies Judeo-Christian morality. But Dutch tort law would allow whites to demand reparations from arabs for the reparations paid to blacks (“onrechtmatige daad”, “hoofdelijke aansprakelijkheid”).
on Sat Dec 8th 2012 at 18:16:16 GB
Sorry you white-hating racist, but the issue is how the non-white/leftist coalition applies the standards only to whites. The argument isn’t “others do it to” the proper and true argument is “others do it to but only whites get the blame and holding whites to a standard you don’t hold anybody else to is pure hate, pure racism.” You see? Anti-racism is a racist code word for anti-white.
P.S – If we’re so racist just get the hell away from us. You keep whining about how bad you’re treated but you never leave. You’re a parasite who lives off his betters, your income is at least 5 times what it would be if you lived on your own. If you were really our equals in ability you wouldn’t hesitate to go, to set up your own society, even within the U.S., where “white racism” wouldn’t hold you down. I mean, if the things you say are true why would anyone in their right mind would stay and pay to suffer them. They’re not true, they’re the opposite of truth, and that’s why you cling to our legs like a two year old child. “Civil Rights” and “White privilege” and all that other BS are just the plausibly deniable excuses to keep your fingers in white wallets because you know you couldn’t do nearly as well on your own.
on Sat Dec 8th 2012 at 19:17:23 Herneith
@GB:
Hardy har hoo, schnooka schnaw. Put it to music and compose yourself a concerto.
on Sun Dec 30th 2012 at 22:00:35 Barchan
Man your stupid. I never tried to condone or sugarcoat the Transatlantic slave trade. I only said that the Arab slavetrade of Black Africans is still happening extensivly to this date in Saudi arabia, Yemen Sudan Mauretania and no one really cares…. it seems partly because it doesnt really fit the whole ” only the evil white man can be racist” thingy you guys jerk of to…. You have no idea how many times you get the ” its white propaganda” answer when you call someone out people denying arab racism/slavery black Africans….
on Mon Dec 31st 2012 at 19:43:33 Herneith
@Barchan:
It’s ‘off’ not of. Carry on.
on Mon Dec 31st 2012 at 20:32:03 King
@ Ghost
What guys like Macon don’t understand is that if we’re going to be shoveling cultural guilt onto people for crimes like slavery, we have to punish all the involved guilty parties, not just the white ones.
I think that you misunderstand the objections to the use of the Arab Slave trader Argument.
Let’s take you example: So a white guy, a black guy, and an arab guy assault a black guy. OK So let’s say that the Black assaulter runs really fast and evades arrest. And let’s also say that the Arab assaulter is well connected and manages to get released with just a warning. Does the fact that the other two guys beat the rap make the white guy any less guilty of assault?
The problem is that sometimes, when Black people are talking to White people about their own part in the assault, instead of admitting to the injustice of it, will often instead point out that the real injustice is that the other two guys got away and that’s what we should really be talking about!!!!
That is what Abagond is saying here.
on Mon Dec 31st 2012 at 21:24:06 abagond
^^ Amen
on Tue Jan 1st 2013 at 13:06:21 Barchan
Thank you for your constructive criticism! I guess that was the only argument you could find against my text 😛 english is not my native language so unfortunatly I will make some spelling errors now and then, try not to get an ulcer 😛 Yup but the point is that the transatlantic at worst sugarcoated while the transsaharan one is denied sickenly to the point that so few even know that it is still happening and has kept on happening 1600 years at least.
on Tue Jan 1st 2013 at 17:52:15 Linda
Yup but the point is that the transatlantic at worst sugarcoated while the transsaharan one is denied sickenly to the point that so few even know that it is still happening and has kept on happening 1600 years at least.”
I don’t think anyone is denying that a slavery is currently happening in different countries in Africa and Middle East.
What the main point of the post is: the denial and how white society downplays (marginalizes) the transatlantic slave trade and the prosperity and benefits they gained from it and the lengths and evil done in order to maintain it.
There is a VAST difference in the effects and outcome of “intra-slavery” in Africa/middle east from the “trans-Atlantic” slavery and to compare the 2 does an injustice to both!
This is not a case of “everyone did it, still does it” — this is a case of how a dominant white society marginalizes/ likes to diminish their ancestors Part in the tragedy and attempts to not want to take ownership of this lovely part of history — but they (like the rest of us in the so-called 1st world countries) are enjoying the rewards created by the trans-atlantic slave trade.
The world was forever Changed due to the trans-atlantic slave trade and the biggest beneficiaries and Rewards went to white Europeans — not the Arabs and the Africans.
By the time they (arabs/africans) realized their mistake, their partners in crime (the Europeans) double-crossed them and was able to outgun them and started invading / occupying their lands (and Africa is still dealing today with the effects of this “partnership gone wrong”)
Slave labour built US of America into the rich country that is/was — it “shaped” the views of the country and it’s society –just like every other country that had African slave labour….this is the legacy that we all have to deal with until today (unfortunately)
The America’s (north and south) were not the only beneficiaries.
the trans-atlantic slave trade actually changed the world. Colonialism and Imperialism were born and maintained due to the financial prosperity gained from trans-atlantic slavery … without it, Britian would not have gotten rich and would not have been able to dominate the rest of the world for as long as it did.
The trans-atlantic slave trade should Always stand by itself because of the Vastness and abject Evil that surrounded and maintained it — It changed Human history (not just the lives of the enslaved Africans)
Reply to Linda. The arab enslavement of black africans was “Intra slavery” ??? You cannot be serious? All the fucking slave-grabbing JIHAD INCURSIONS into Africa were just some nice calm cultural exchange between so called “People of color” then ??? The fact that slavery started again in Sudan after the brits left(in 1980) because no one was there to hold back the islamist arabs that continued doing what they always did with the “kaffirs/Abds”?…Slaves died at the same extent when being forced to march across the whole fucking Sahara desert towards the slave markets in North Africa or the middle eas, as when they faced horrible conditions abord the european slave ships… “By the time the Arabs realized their mistake” it is hard to take you seriously when you have an idelized view of the arab slavery like that. Yemen made slavery illigal in 1963 for christ sake!! You want to see some nice Saudi Arabian family pictures fro FIFTIES with their Black slaves in the cornors??Mauretania made it formally illegal in 1973. The genocide of black Sudan by arabs?. The list goes on and on. There is nearly zero regrets in the arab world for their enslavement of Black Africans, zero regrets partly because it is never talked about and the few research on the economic effects it has had on North Africa and the middle east. The word Abd(slave) is commonly used for Black Africans and people just look completly indiffrent when you object to them using that term. Slave labour builds Saudi Arabia, Dubai Lebanon Syria to this today but it really isnt that bad when the slaveowners are “people of color” right? And no the world did not “change” when the transatlantic slavetrade began, it was “just” a second horrible step in the exploitation of Africa by non africans, made particulary easy thanks to the extreamly destabilizing effects the countless Jihad incursions against the ” dirty kaffir kingdoms” the arabs were doing in Africa.
I am not in anyway trying to sugarcoat the long lasting effects the transatlantic slave trade has had! I just want to make people realize that just because the Middle East arent as rich in this time from their exploitation of Africa didnt make it any less worse which you seem to think.
Ok im sorry for being a bit fiery with this topic but this denial/sugarcoating of how arabs view black africans is something I have grown up near and how it is all perfect harmony in the “people of color world” crap, and I have several bad expiriences with this here in Sweden from arabs and their views on literally anyone non arab.. And I meant to write that there is “idyllic”family pictures with arabs families in mostly saudiarabian households from s late as the fifties/sixties with their black slaves suffering in the background.
Reply to Linda. The arab enslavement of black africans was “Intra slavery” ??? You cannot be serious? All the fucking slave-grabbing JIHAD INCURSIONS into Africa were just some nice calm cultural exchange between so called “People of color” then ???”
Yes –the word is “Intra” because it’s happening on the African continent by African people. The Arabs in Sudan are still African but since Saudi Arabia is technically not connected to Africa — we can call it international or regional if it makes you feel better.
Like I said to you and I repeat — each deserves to be spoken about and remembered on it’s own merit without being intertwined.
You shouldn’t have to speak about African slavery without diminishing the TransAtltantic slave trade — both Evils stand by themselves and it’s neither should be compared.
on Wed Jan 2nd 2013 at 02:37:05 Linda
By the time the Arabs realized their mistake” it is hard to take you seriously when you have an idelized view of the arab slavery like that. Yemen made slavery illigal in 1963 for christ sake!! ”
Do me a favor and don’t interpret for me — my English is pretty clear and no where in my post do I “Idolize” the Arabs….history is what it is and yeah, I’m sure the Africans/Arabs realized they made a bad “business” deal with the Europeans…they did indeed suffer for it.
It’s nice that you feel “fired” up but let’s not get things twisted — most of us black/brown people of the diaspora on this blog aren’t excusing the Africans or Arabs …what we are discussing is how “white” society likes to excuse their European ancestors and try to play the blame game and downplay the effects and implications of the TransAtlantic slave trade
Slavery is not new — the Europeans enslaved other Europeans, just like how slavery was not new to Africa—but the transAtlantic slave trade took on a significance and life all on its own because of the International Impact it had.
You talking about and trying to compare the the African slave trade to the TransAtlantic slave trade is like apples to oranges, even though the TransAtlantic slave trade originated because of slavery in Africa.
you seem to have a good handle on the modern day African slavery that most of us of the diaspora don’t get a chance to hear about or see…
I would be most interested in hearing more about it, would you consider doing a guest post about it if Abagond is interested?
on Wed Jan 2nd 2013 at 08:21:15 Barchan
“The word intra, because it was happening on the African continent by african peoples” No this is not correct. This is what i meant about Jihad Incursions into Africa FROM the middle east. Simply put, an invading force from another continent (The middle east which is counted into Asia). The first and second Jihads were concentraded from the middle east and was aimed at Africa and Europe. In Europe it managed to concquer the Balkans and large parts of Spain. In Africa it spread across North Africa and later on the western and northern coasts. The things thats similar with the transatlantic slavery is that it was on a whole very race based with an similar hazardous transportation(cramped inhumane cargospaces on the slave ships from western Africa towards America- long hazardus march in chains over the Sahara desert towards the huge slavemarkets in Kairo or even further into the middle east).and yeah, to this date theese brutal pieces of history have shaped white westernes and arabs view of Black Africans. Huh black/brown people? Weird term I say. What i have learned is that there seems to be so few who is aware of the racism in the arab world. The main reason for this is when the north african arab majority countries has now later on tried to build relations with the southern Black African majority countries, they have managed to point exclusivly towards europe and its 400 years of african exploitation and slyly hidden their even longer history of exploitation of Africa (not at all saying what is worse or so but simply that theyve managed to hide such a long history of racism) huh write here :)? Dont think my english is good enough for them to bear with me x) I notice all my errors later on now when I read my old comments . Well Since I know a bit arabic it has been a shocking realization of what a lot of arabs people say. For instance you can check ANY syrian pro Assad page and find Extreamly racist comments about Obama. When they want to a.ttack the “whore americans” they have the wordgame joke “Al abed al-aswad fi al-beit al-abiyad” which I can roughly translate to “The black slave in the white house”. Racist rhymes and jokes like that is common among palistinians(and most arabsk) aswell when they get into their hate america rants like how pathetic they are (white americans) “they now let their slaves rule them” shittalk that really makes me sick. Or that they(white americans) tries to trick them(arabs) by letting “slaves” (black americans) unto high positions of power in USA ( Obama, Colin Powell Condolezza Rice) to make them underestimate them (I really wish I was making this shit up).
I forgot the whole deal with Kofi Annan and his UN pleads that people needs to strife towardss peace in syria. The rebels and military needs to stop killing and so on and he was dismissed in extreamly racist ways on arabic news channels and on facebook groups. … Im really tired of the way to mny black americans have the whole people of color-white people view on arab racism(not accusing anyone on abagond anymore now though!). There was for instance a youtube video on an Ethiopian maid being abused and beaten and driven to suiccide by arab men in lebanon and so many tumblr black american blogs were like ” oh how pity we people of color do that to each other” ” oh white people have damaged us we are fighting each oher now” very annying world view to me…..and btw Linda I dont think we really disagree on much at all, we both just despise racism in any form and im sorry for my angrier tone before! 🙂
on Wed Jan 2nd 2013 at 09:29:41 abagond
@ Barchan
This thread is not about Arab racism or the Arab slave trade. It is about how the Arab slave trade is used to play down or excuse the Western slave trade. White Americans use the Arab slave trade as squid ink to cover their own evil with an “Everyone does it” argument.
To separate the two issues I will do a post on the Arab slave trade, just as I did one on the Transatlantic trade. If you want to point me to any good books or online sources that would be appreciated.
Yup I got that! , Murray Gordon written a really good book called “Slavery in the Arab world” that covers the whole slavery era to date and todays view. Wiji Bohme Shomary has a lot of great texts about her life growing up as dark-skinned in the middle east and she has researched the arab slavery aswell but her articles are mostly in arabic or swedish though…
Thank you! Do you have any thoughts about this book:
Bernard Lewis: “Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry” (1990)
http://www.amazon.com/Race-Slavery-Middle-East-Historical/dp/0195053265
I havent read it but reading the description does make me want to order it xD. It seems the whole complexity with islams relation with slavery is discussed in it. Which I find very interresting, the whole “no muslim can enslave another muslim”ideas and the very good and humanistic message Islam has and that “everyone is worth as much before God”. …. AS LONG as your a muslim and not a unfaithful”kaffir” of any other religion, then its not that bad to enslave someone right?… Sigh
Well considering the fact that around 200 000 black sudanese has gotten enslaved by their arab countrymen in the the last 30 years I would understand some resentment between north and south Sudan.
Thanks for the recommendations!
btw Linda I dont think we really disagree on much at all, we both just despise racism in any form and im sorry for my angrier tone before!”
No problem, Barchan, I like your passion…
you have brought some interesting information to the table and I look forward to reading Abagonds post about this topic.
I don’t know much about the subject but I’ve also lived in Europe. I went to university in Germany and I got to meet many different kinds of people.
I can honestly tell you I came away with a love/hate relationship with Spaniards and Italiens, and I did get a small glimpse into the muslim world via my Turkish friends.
As for how Arabs feel about Africans/black people — I can honestly say, I walked away not knowing how to feel. I had different experiences that I would say gave me a small insight but not enough to say “I understand these people”
Because there were so few of us coloured/non-white students living in the town I was in, we all sort of stuck together, so Syrians, Saudi’s, hung with Egyptian, Tunisia, Ivory Coast, Togo, Sudan, etc. even Eritrea hung with Ethiopians (this was the 80’s mind you) — what I learned:
–some of northern Africans called themselves ‘white” even though they were darker than me,
–the Africans did not consider black Americans or any other black from the diaspora to be “Africans”,
–I was called a “unpure” by a few of the central & Southwest Africans because I am mixed-race and they questioned my right to call myself “black”
–Most of the Arabs/Africans spoke at least 3-4 languages minimum (their own, Arabic, and English), majority spoke French and was learning German like I was.
–even if there were disagreements along nationality/ethnic lines–everyone came together if one person was being insulted or threatened by the Europeans (we had a few frisky Italien, Danish and Finnish students who liked to start trouble when drunk)
–as a woman, I would never voluntarily marry or live in an Arabic/muslim country — I like my freedom. ( I had heard stories of Jamaican women who went to work in Saudi Arabia, had their passports taken, and were treated like slaves and beaten. They had to escape to Jamaican embassy and beg for safety)
from this group was the first time I did see the Arab arrogance towards darker-skinned people and I realized there was dislike for some of the Arabs from the African students but I’ll be honest, I never associated it with any historical past or Arab slavery….so you bringing this subject up actually shines a light on this topic.
on Thu Jan 3rd 2013 at 09:15:12 oogenhand
What to think of Salafi plans to blow up Kemetic pyramids? Slavery cannot explain the Arab dislike of dark skin, as they had pale-skinned slaves as well.
on Fri Jan 4th 2013 at 01:08:06 Barchan
Well to be honest when are arabs ever seen as whites (by white people) in any other way than the racial classification in the US? Still otherd into the non-european category by most I would believe. Whites and Arabs have had historical similarities in race relations with other people (mainly Black Africans) though
Yep. Very good examples and as ive said before the most powerful man in the world Barack Obama has been called “Al abed al-aswad fi al-beit al-abiyad”. Or in english “The black slave in the white house” by Syrians and Lebanese (but this racist joke is common throughout the middle east. similar to the contempt racists can have of him in the US. The arab nationalism you write about is very interesting. One similarity ive noticed is the growing fear of each other between white europeans and arabs. The white europeans is starting to fear the growing Islamic faith in Europe and that it brings older gender roles (separate swimming hours in water parks , that has started in immigrant heavy areas is one example, growing numbers of mosques) and the whole war on terror thing Bush stirred up which points suspision towards arabs( in racist ways). While many Arabs feel that European influence is undermining their traditional values (no matter how oppressive they can be towards women and non heteros people) and that they are the victims of aggressive cultural imperialism from the West. Both sides has points but we are heading in a dangerous direction that can escalate REALLY badly if things get out of hand
on Sat Jan 5th 2013 at 02:53:52 Linda
Bulanik@ Linda
I shared a few of your experiences in Germany.
Omg, just harsh and straight out like that. I didn’t like it. It was a learning curve. You know, there was no ‘explaining’ that they’d accept. Just rigid.
Learning curve is the word! Reality check in an inverse way and a little shocking to hear certain things because I was hearing it for the 1st time.
I was also called a “mutt” and so were the few black American students who were there. They were more perplexed than I was because to them, I “was” a mutt for true but they (black Americans) represented what “real” black people looked like –
well, not according to our fellow African students, who also placed them in the same category as me and told us blacks of the diaspora were a “lost” people who were not African.
Mind you, these things were not said in order to hurt us or put us down – these statements came about in discussions that we would have about religion, race, and other current events of the time in Africa and the Middle east….as you said, Rigid –their ethnicity and ancestral name meant a lot to them and was not a fluid thing — it defined who they were.
Seeing the world through their eyes was an eye-opener. The whole “one drop” rule and “Say it loud, I’m black and I’m proud” did not resonate with them – they thought it was a joke
As much as I think Kola Boof is “touched”, many of the African students I met thought along the same lines as she does. Her view on Soledad O’Brien and her “who is Black in America” show:
“A White Woman (Soledad O’Brien) is given the power to DICTATE to Blacks what “blackness” is….she of an Irish name, white skin & everything but the burden.
She is to define an entire race of people from AFRICA based on the 1 drop rule invented by the KKK and we’re supposed to listen to her and not our own continent. It’s so typically arrogant and AMERICAN RACIST.
I have a few drops of TURKISH blood–why can’t I do a “White In America’ tv. special. Explain that
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Barack Obama just as his Kenyan family taught him is “Half-Caste African Luo” …..he is African, but he is not Black. The other Africans on this thread have told you the same thing. Black is a Color that symbolizes African people—it’s not off white or cream yellow. We don’t accept “kinda black” or “black at certain times of the year” as Black.”
I will post her entire Rant in on the open thread, it’s long and I don’t want to derail this post too much.
Bulanik, I am going to post Kola’s rant on Abagonds “Kola Boof” post instead…better fit rather than clogging up the open thread — it’s long and has profanity — she was very passionate :-), so it will go into moderation
I’ve always thought of the northern Africans, like the Egyptians, as a confused set of people– to me, they represent colourism at it’s finest — they despise dark skin and praise light skin. I am not saying they are black — they are not, they fall into that “brown/other” category just like Hispanics/Latinos in America.
They (Egyptians) are a mixed-race people (and just like most Hispanics/Latinos)refuse to acknowledge their African ancestry even though a good portion of the population have black African mDNA — the Egyptians I knew were the main ones calling themselves “white” —
(is this African denial taught in their schools?) Is it really the Arab influence that made them this way or was it the European/British influence or the many invasions by their southern black African neighbors that made the Egyptians feel this way?
I stumbled across an Egyptian-American writer who touched on this subject concerning how the Egyptians treat the Sudanese refugees (one commenter mentioned how Indonesion and Asian “guest” workers are treated):
The Arab World’s Dirty Secret: Racism
http://www.monaeltahawy.com/blog/?p=93
Living in America or Europe must be a rude awakening for most of them (Arabs/Muslims) — they are in the same boat as “black” people and other minorities and the “white” colour designation they enjoy at home has no real currency outside of African/Middle East.
Their treatment in Europe is not new — it’s just seems like it’s getting worse because the Europeans are being more loud and vocal than ever before.
on Sat Jan 5th 2013 at 07:55:02 oogenhand
“black African mtDNA”
There should be marriage rules (reversed kafa’a) that allow black African men to have Arab wives, but not the other way around.
on Mon Jan 7th 2013 at 21:07:44 sam
When thinking about USA and arabs and how they are seen or were seen before, he is a tip: Paul Anka. Yeap. Lebanese roots. The guy who sang Diana, Put your head on my shoulder, My Hometown, Crazy Love and You are my destiny. So at least in the 50’s being an arab was no obstacle.
on Tue Jan 8th 2013 at 08:04:07 sam
I think we have to remember that muslim arabs propably are seen more alien in USA than christian arabs. When ever we talk about arabs, usually we assume they are muslims, but that is not the case, not even when discussing about the palestinians. There is a quite significant christian minority of palestinians too. And in USA, being a christian (what ever that might be) is traditionally seen as a positive sign.
So if you are an arab, whos complexion is light, and you are an christian, I would imagine that people around you do not recognize your ethnicity, specially if you have changed your name, like it was a custom in the early part of 1900’s up untill 1960’s. So, if you are Jack Arafat instead of Jasser Arafat and go to church every sunday and live a life just like everyone elese around you, most people would not even notice your ancestory.
As for the arab racism, I can not guess what are its origins. I do know that many of them are pretty racist towards blacks, unless in the context of Umma, supposed islamic unity etc. I have no idea how sincere the non-racism is even in islam. If we look at the conflict in Sudan, it was supposedly about the religion and resources, islamic north vs animistic and christian south, but for some reason the north was represented by arab volunteer shock troops etc. and the southern rebels were almost to a man black. So the supposedly religious lines in that conflict followed pretty much the racial and ethnical division too. Yes, there are and were very dark sudanese muslims, but their idea of the southern sudanese people (who were even darker) was pretty much that those were un educated african savages etc.
on Tue Jan 8th 2013 at 08:29:35 oogenhand
But why internalize ideas from the West? They see the West as their cultural opposite.
I do relate to that. Without beard, I am seen as white Dutch. But if I wear a beard, people start talking Arabic to me.
on Wed Jan 9th 2013 at 01:03:47 B. R.
“The American is primitive in his artistic taste, both in what he enjoys as art and in his own artistic works. “Jazz” music is his music of choice. This is that music that the Negroes invented to satisfy their primitive inclinations, as well as their desire to be noisy on the one hand and to excite bestial tendencies on the other. The American’s intoxication in “jazz” music does not reach its full completion until the music is accompanied by singing that is just as coarse and obnoxious as the music itself. Meanwhile, the noise of the instruments and the voices mounts, and it rings in the ears to an unbearable degree… The agitation of the multitude[2] increases, and the voices of approval mount, and their palms ring out in vehement, continuous applause that all but deafens the ears” Sayyid Qutb
No, its near perverse to try to tie in some ideological link with Sayyid “In the Shadow of the Koran” Qutb and the fight against white racism.
“It was as if his own experience of racism as a black man (which was what he appeared to be to ‘proper’, non-Arab whites under the One Drop Rule of that era) was the spark and the explanation behind anti-American elements in parts of the Middle East”
What a pseudo intellectual manipulation of what this guy, and his followers really are about. And a total misrepresentation of their real fundamentalist positions. The visceral truth about what he has said and is , is directly in the racist statement I brought in , taylor made for exactly all I need to know about this sob to know why I despise him and his followers…who really are much more interested in if you are “faithful” or an “infidel” than if you are a white racist.
It also really hits home with a huge authority, exactly the principle Ive been talking about , how, this persons ideology in his fundamental religion, as well as fundamental Christianity or Orthadox Judeism does not accept the real genius and contribution of the Afro Diasporic expresion and its great value.He might as well be Henry Ford, with his referances to bestial tendancies and primitive inclinations . Ha, personaly I dont care if someone on here intellectualy wants to identify with this person’s views and find some kind of connection for themselves with this person and his followers , but, for me, his total disrespect for one of black America’s greatest contributions to the world, and his uptightness with “lavicious behaviour” of women and dancing and music, is all I need to know that these people are my ideological enemies. I love Wesern decadance, my organisation is mixing a monster CD now with plenty of bestial tendancies and primitive inclinations and everyday its got warmth and sun where I live, and I can see women in the most naturaly provocative nudity, or dancing incredible Afro Diasporic dances, with aggresive pelvic thrusts , I am a tremendously greatful individual , for the profound insight and well being it brings to my life.
“The Arab Trader” argument? Yes, as a person here, who has made it clear that I think the slave trade in the Americas was worse than the Arab slave trade,I totaly also feel I can talk with quite frankness about how I feel about the Arab slave trade and how it affected the black Africans who suffered from it…
Yes, I have been a strong supporter of how the legacy of slavery to the Americas affects us all into theh present, and, yes, I have tried with all my might to bring attention on how Brazil is even affected as much as anywhere because of the legacy of the slave trade to the Americas…
so, Im amazed that now , I have been carded on this blog with the Arab Slave trade argument, as well as , no matter if its a discusion about Fake Indians and my son’s right to express himself, or, about Africa 13,000 years, or pointing out Arab racism on an Arab thread, I get pointed out as the “white” “racist” “American” “male” “oppresor”?
Does this mean that in the Arab Trader argument, if I am white, American, male, then that automticly disqualifies me?
on Wed Jan 9th 2013 at 17:04:11 oogenhand
Sound logic. In the end, morality is supranatural in origin.
on Wed Jan 9th 2013 at 17:44:51 Linda
BR, everyone here has butted heads on one subject or another, that’s what makes these discussions lively because there is always a “ying” to someone elses “yang” …try not to take it personally…just shake it off.
The information you brought in on Sayyid Qutb brings balance — which is necessary in these discussions because humans are not one-dimensional creatures —
you just showed that it’s possible to be prejudiced/racist against one group of people while at the same time experiencing prejudiced/racist yourself at the same time from another group (there is always a hierarchy).
You’ve brought into focus another aspect of this topic — which is religion. Was Sayyid Qutb dislike of black Americans religious driven or was it culturally driven because he was Egyptian and they were/are prejudiced against black Africans?
Regardless, he still felt the sting of being marginalized by white Americans for not being what they call “white”…it would be nice to think that he would have learned from this experience and felt compelled to empathize with black Americans
but as you just pointed out, he just internalized his feelings and expressed it as “hatred” of the westerners/infidels while keeping his cultural/racial prejudices intact.
I believe it’s good to show inverse relationships/patterns of behavior in these types of discussions because it shows how the world doesn’t roll on just one set of rules and that people do grow–whether in a good way or bad way — look at Malcolm X – he wasn’t the same man in the end — but what he achieved was profound — it would have been interesting to see where his new found enlightenment would have taken him.
on Thu Jan 10th 2013 at 05:30:02 B. R.
So sorry the truth hurts, Bulanik. Its you who try to casualy bring in Qubt and imply his experiances with racism in America could be some link with some philisophical context in the groups that followed him…bs…you can casualy try to slip his name past readers here who dont know what he stands for , but I do, and people deserve to know that aspect…not your hidden agenda…who do you think you are fooling? The people inspired by his beleifs assasinated one of Egypts great polititions, Anwar Sadat..did you hear what i said? “followed his beleifs”…its his fundamentalist crud that inspires these scum bags to interpret Islam in their way and they kill more people of Islam than the West ever could.
Oh yeah, try your psyche and “its not about you, how did this get to frivilous drumming…” keep showing you dont get it, Bulanik, you never did, Im not surprised you cant tie in how Qubt’s racist remarks about jazz also reflect the more insidious aspects of his fundamentalism. You dont really perceive what jazz is in relationship to its value and its Afro diasporic roots, and how those roots are dismissed, buried, and destroyed BY ALL FUNDIMENTAL RELIGIONS LIKE iSLAM CHRISTIANITY AND JUDISM…
Interesting how you really try to put on me like I am racist against Arabs or Islam when I specificly state its the fundamentalism in all these religions…I SPECIFICLY STATED THAT , LADY…so dont run bs. And hades yes , Im going to point out how you have tried to put me in a trick bag because you cant handle being challenged.About me? Ive been pulling back commentary, based on your bs…yet you think you can slip by some manipulative statement about Qubt , someone I do know about, and Im not going to bring in the truth about his sob fundalmentalism?
Its exactly because I do say the Atlantic slave trade is worse than the Arab slave trade and because I have supported and added to the discusion of how the legacy of slavery still affects society today, that I know I can come in and point out the racism of Qubt , in the face of your diceptive statement about him…and as usual, you try to make me out to be racist or anti Arab.
Linda, just look at Qubt’s remark. Its not even that he doesnt like jazz. “Bestial”? “primitive inclinations”? You may have to think in your head if it is religious or what, I dont, its plain as day exactly where he is coming from…its the same as Henry Ford, and all the other fundamentalist racists that when it gets down to the truth, its that they dont want to recognise some incredible gifts and contributions and what is really the humanity of the exact people who were ripped out of their lives in Africa for slavery in both the Atlantic and Arab slave trade
All I did was bring in some truth…the readers on here can make up their own minds
on Fri Jan 11th 2013 at 11:44:27 B. R.
Bulanik, you have to be kidding me , right? You cant be serious, like I have to step into some kind of grilling by you, on your terms..a person who has slandered me, painting me as a stalker, said I have belittled her as a black woman, called me racist white american oppressor in arguments that have nothing to do with that.
I tell you what, you tell me where i have belittled you as a black woman and Ill answer every point up there…I mean you have incredible recall on posts on this blog, you must have this incident deeply entrenched in your mind exactly where it is , since you claim it traumatised you so much…
As it is, Ill certainly point out some of the most ridiculous questions. Nazi Germany and how they treated jazz? I mean you cant be for real about this, are you? The anwer is so obvious and I included it all ready as I have answered all ready all your questions. I implicated everyone who is fundamentalist and who would make racist statements that would relagate high leval Afro diasporic culture to “bestial sexual promisuous inclinations”….EVERYONE… I said that, do you get it now!! I included Islam, Chritianity, Judism, you think I would give the Nazi’s a pass? You are weird…are all Arabs fundimentalist? Do these fundamentalists represent all Islam? Ask all the people who practice Islam who are slaughtered by these fundamentalists, inspired by Qutb and his ramblings…do you care about them? A bunch were slaughtered this week in Pakistan…by the Taliban, followers of Sayyid’s fundamental philosophies
Al Queeda out to kill black musicians? Really , these questions are extremly foolish. You are the one who actualy begged the question if these groups who were inspired by Sayyid could have some philosophical hook up with anti racism in the USA that Quibt spoke about…in certainly much less detail than American mores…do I think you are a beleiver in Al Queeda’s principles? No, I think you will hide the truth of the whole story for your own agenda that you are on, seething in your own resentments
Do you actualy think his racist remarks against black American culture, only aply to American culture? Do you think his fundamentalist beleifs would give Brazil, and all its unbeleivable sensual culture and Afro Brazilian dances and bestial beats a pass? or the Mambo in Cuba? Or is his fundalmentalism cutting much deeper and seriusly implicating all Afro diasporic cultures that have these beats and dances as the foundation of their cultures…and , do you think Al Queada, or the Taliban, with their restrictions on music , are , in their fundamentalist translation of Islam, giving these cultures a pass? Actualy, you dont have to answer, the answer is already obvious…
I mean seriously, all you have to do is look at the truth in his statements I brought in…I dont have to say anything, its all there. And that is the basis of a strict fundamentalist Islamic aproach to black Afro ( emphasize black African) diasporic culture that relates to beats with dances that are a part of that culture….if you are classifying him “black” and Arabs as “black”, then this group of people who took slaves and the religion that came with the Arabs ( yes, Islam is not representative of all Arabs, but it is the religion that came with the Arabs), then its just an example that a group of “black people” who arent Afro diasporic with Afro diasporic culture, can also enslave and bury other “black peoples ” culture….
Who gets lost in this whole debate, agian, and Ive said it over and over, is the cultural humanity , expresion and the value of the gifts and concepts of the ancient Africans, before Arab or Western enslavement and religious domination
I can only let my black American colleagues read his words and make up their own minds….I never have had an atitude on this blog that “black Americans ought to blah blah…” I can only tell you this, as a jazz musican and a person who works intimitly with Afro diasporic dances and beats, I know only too well what he means, and I have heard it before in great amounts by white racists, white fundamentalists Christians, Nazi’s, bans on sax playing inituaily by Fidel, who gave it up realising how stupid it was, racist Brazilians about Afro Brazilian culture,and all these people are my ideological enemies, and I fight them everyday just living my lifestyle to the fullest
oh just to be more correct , when I say Afro diasporic, Im talking about pre ismlamic or christian sub Sahara black Afro diasporic…Qutb is African
This is absolutly hilarious !!!!!
You think because I used “my black American colleagues”, that it is some kind of “you arnt with them , I am”…blahhhhhhaaaaa
I say black American colleagues in the sence that since we are American citizens , that makes us colleagues…colleagues means I can site this that we have in common and not make Truthbetold obligated to think she has to speak with me….its exactly saying the opisite of what you are implying…Im not asking to be accepted because “I am down”.
And you think because I mention jazz, that is going to be some kind of badge of acceptance in the black American community?
hahahahahahahahahahah this is killing me!!!!!!!!!
Black Americans dont automaticly love and accept and know about jazz…..you think black Americans are saying “he digs jazz , he must be cool…” Jazz is black American culture, it doesnt represent black Americans, it doesnt oblligate black Americans to embrace and play jazz on their sound systems…in fact most dont….but it is one of the highest expresions of black American culture and is part of black American history and Afro diasporic culture…its is there for any black American to discover if they want to and receive the treasures it represents , and the enormous pride they deserve to feel as it is one of black Americas highest expresions and gifts to the world
Oh, because I dated many many black woman and married two, Im thinking I get a pass on here? I thought you were reading this blog?
Havent you seen how integrated couples have been raked over the coals here? Havent you been paying attention? There is no badge of acceptance to come in here and say “im a white guy dating and married to black women….arnt I cool and accepted?”
The truth is , I am who I am, with my experiances, that nobody can take away from me, and, I am proud to stand up for my experiances and be exactly who I am…If I anounce on here I am from an integrated mairadge raising a bi racial son, its to stand up to anyone who would say that there is something funny about it.If I stand up for Afro diasporic culture and can bring insights to the table, especialy to show its great value and genius, its because it is a fact I have been a involved with these cultures ( I always was into jazz, African, Brazilian and Cuban drum/dance cultures) since before 8 years old, and, my passion , that is and always was my life and porfesion , has given me incredible insights into the value of the Afro diasporic culture..
Fankly, I find your acuasations extremly weak…even the semantical mixup of “islamist” . my gosh,you are using that as your basis to incriminate me?
Im calling you out for dropping a turd on this thread , by bringing in Sayyid and implying that his followers were somehow tied into a philisophical bond against white racism in America, Im telling you that , in light of his blatent racist statement, your assumtion stinks
on Sat Jan 12th 2013 at 21:46:01 Linda
“BR@
Linda, just look at Qubt’s remark. Its not even that he doesnt like jazz. “Bestial”? “primitive inclinations”? You may have to think in your head if it is religious or what, I dont, its plain as day exactly where he is coming from”
BR, in my own way, I was attempting to forestall the upcoming falling out between you and Bulanik…but Oh well, I knew it wouldn’t really work 🙂
So, I will carry on.
I already stated that I believe the north Africans are prejudiced/racist against the black Africans or darker skin. They seem to share the same colourism (reverse “US one drop rule”) as/was in the Caribbean/ Mexico/ Central/ South America. Living in Brazil, you know the score:
There seems to be this common thread where light-skin is preferred, where “white daddy” was beloved and “black mama” was kept in the closet and the “brown” children were tolerated by white society– educated to be “psuedo white people” loving everything European, given certain privileges and power, and taught to hate/despise/forget/deny their black African heritage. (whereas, in the US, these brown children were completely locked out of white society by the “one drop rule”)
But in the Caribbean / Latin America — these prejudices/racism was introduced courtesy of the Europeans; whereas, the North Africans seemed to already marginalize their black/ dark skin neighbors.
— my question is — was this racial attitude introduced by the first Islamic Arab Jihad wave into Africa as Barchan mentioned or was it introduced by the Europeans during occupation/ colonization?
Because no doubt, in western countries, Arabs and North Africans (like the Egyptians) are not considered “black” nor or they considered “white” — they are “other” and face similar racial marginalization just like black people do in Europe and America.
That being said, the existing racial prejudice the north Africans have, coupled with extreme Islamic beliefs, does seem to be a combination that belittles and seeks to destroy/dismantle whatever black African country/ culture they occupy…look at what’s happening in Mali –it breaks my heart.
The Tuaregs (north African berbers) sought to take back their ancestral lands from the “black African” oppressors and thanks to US interference in Libya, the Tuaregs got the opportunity and the firepower.
Quaddafi was a bad man indeed but he managed to stand between old adversaries, keep a certain order and sought alliances with his black African neighbors. The Tuaregs brought in their Arab / Islamic jihadist partners to enter into a fight they had no business being a part of and as usual — the Tuaregs got double-crossed because the Islamists promptly turned around and stabbed them in the back and kicked out the Tuaregs.
The Islamic jihadist took over Timbuktu and proceeded to destroy ancient African temples and artifacts out of contempt and intolerance (and big time Ignorance).
I understand the racial undertone that possibly drove the Tuaregs but the new Islamic jihadi fighters are Arabs from Middle East and Muslims from Pakistan/Afganistan so, would you say their contempt for African tombs/ history/ culture is racial or religious? because they seem to have no tolerance for any culture/ country they are in — look at what is happening in Nigeria and Pakistan.
Here’s a link if you are not familiar with what is happening in Mali?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/24/mali-africa
on Sun Jan 13th 2013 at 01:02:16 sam
Seems to me that everybody takes their shot at the tuaregs, from colonial times up today, from the french foreign legion to the foreign legion of islamists.
on Sun Jan 13th 2013 at 05:25:28 Linda
The Tuareg seem to have been marginalized by different groups over the years. Do you think they could be construed as oppressed as a result of this?
What do you think their entitlement should be in West African countries? I wonder whether we should even call it an entitlement since they are neither Arab or “black Africans”
As far as entitlements go, the Tuaregs are indigineous (originate) from west/ north Africa, so I feel they are entitled to fight and try to win back their ancestral lands and form a bordered country (something their forefathers fighting the French didn’t want to do)
Other ethnic groups in Africa have been fighting to re-establish their ancestral borders since the Europeans screwed them up — so the Tuaregs should try as well. My understanding is that they got screwed over by their Arab and black African neighbors during the fight for Independence from European colonialism
The Tuaregs are definitely marginalized as a group…it was done deliberately to weaken them — first by the French, then by the North and West Africa post-colonial countries (ex. Algeria, Niger).
I don’t really know the history very well but from what I’ve read, the Tuaregs seem to have the same problem as the indigineous natives of North/South America and Australia — they are treated as second-class citizens in their own ancestral lands ….as a people, they were not taken into consideration when these new “republics” were being formed.
Now, on the flipside, should I, feel sorry for them? (u know I like to play devils advocate 🙂
From what I’ve read, the Tuaregs controlled the Saharan Trade Routes pre-European invasion (colonialism) – they were responsible for bringing black African slaves north — so they had a huge hand in controlling the flow of slaves in Africa.
In a way, it could be said that “payback is a b’tch” because they’ve been fighting to regain their indepenance since 1962 in Mali and Niger.
Do the Tuaregs have a rightful claim?
My understanding is that the Tuaregs claim to be the descendents of the Songhay and have ancestral rights to re-establish the borders of the Songhai empire (I believe this is the “Azawad” they keep referring to) which the Songhai ruled after the Mali empire declined.
but PLEASE, Bulanik — anyone familiar with the history — correct my information or fill in the holes because I don’t know enough about this history — I shouldn’t even be commenting on it but I find this part of African history to be interesting — and to me, the Tuaregs are an interesting, complex people
But isn’t the vandalism targeting Muslim saints’ tombs? Aren’t they pulverizing valuable parts of the history of Islam in Africa?
(Also, if Islam was brought to Mali through aggression, then why would such mausoleums, etc., even exist?)”
I guess my point was that the Islamic jihadist have no respect for any culture – muslim or non-muslim…
As far as Timbuktu goes, from what I’ve read, it was the Tuaregs around 1000 AD (Tin Abutut, Maghsharan Tuaregs) who established it — pre-Arab invasion (please correct me if I’m wrong) — so this city is firmly African. I was incorrect by saying the Tuaregs are descendents of the Songhai — the Songhai are a seperate group that ruled Timbuktu after the Tuaregs.
It seems it was the Tuaregs, then Mali empire, then Songhai empire, then Dende empire, various groups, then the French, to present day Mali, with the Mande being the majority population.
But as for Timubktu being ransacked, they are destroying both black African and Arab/muslim history.
In the 11th century:
“The first constructions in Timbuktu were designed by African architects from Djenne (Soninké) and later on by Muslim architects from North Africa. Trade and knowledge were at their height. It was at this time that the King of Sosso invaded the empire of Ghana, thus causing the exodus of the scholars of Walata to Timbuktu.”
http://www.timbuktufoundation.org/history.html
So, if I understand, the Temples/ artifacts are a mixture of black African and Arab/Muslim architecture. I don’t think all the credit should go to the Arab muslims — I would be very interested to know who taught/copied who —
what I find to also be a travesty is that many old manuscipts are still being held in French museums.
on Sun Jan 13th 2013 at 07:11:24 Ghost
@ King.
“Does the fact that the other two guys beat the rap make the white guy any less guilty of assault?”
Course not. But that also means that the other 2 shouldn’t be let off, we shouldn’t call off the hunt, or we shouldn’t be pissed that the arab used his connections to get away with a crime.
But, Linda, since you mention it, and you also mention Mali, I would appreciate if you’d outline the origins of Islam in west Africa and please specify the methods used.”
Now you know this is your specialty here…I’ve already exhausted myself just learning about the Tuaregs 🙂
but based on my readings, I believed it spread further west during the Mali empire (founded by ruling families of the declined Ghanian empire) and also during Songhai dynasty.
The Soninke (black Africans), the founders of the ancient Ghanian Empire (750-1240 CE) embraced Islam in the 1000’s after coming into contact with the Almoravids (Moroccan Berbers). The Moroccan Berbers converted to Islam in the 9th century (after contact with the Arabs) and became known as the Almoravids who invaded/converted the Sudanese in 10th century and also invaded Spain — known as the Moors.
After the decline of the Ghanian empire, some of it’s former rulers (keep in mind they were mostly black Africans) formed the Mali empire (most famous ruler was Mansa Musa, who built the University of Sankore in Timbuktu and famous temples). I believe the religion was spread even more west & east during the rule of the Songhai empire (by Askya Muhhamd I aka “Askia the Great” (from Solinke/Songhai ruling families)
http://www.whenweruled.com/articles.php?lng=en&pg=22
Side note: There was alot of intermixing during this time – many of the Almoravids married into prominent Ghanian ruling families — this is primarily how the religion was spread during the Ghanian empires occupation by the Almoravids, as well as people converting becausing they were being over-taxed because they were non-muslims.
and vice-a-versa–many of the Ghanian people assimilated into the Almoravids – so “slavery” is not the only reason why north Africans carry black African genes.
Here is an interesting map I found that compares empires
http://empires.findthedata.org/compare/140-147-165-188/Ghana-Empire-vs-Kingdom-of-Kush-Mero-vs-Mali-Empire-vs-Songhai-Empire
I find this stuff so fascinatings — Africans have all the rights in the world to hold their heads up high and give the middle finger to the white Europeans whose ancestors were still primitive barbarians when these black African people were building empires.
you mentioned “methods” of contact – I forgot to really address this…
The Almoravids got into Ghana by mostly invasion/ war but they also married into the ruling classes — my readings indicates that this is how the religion was primarily spread. The Almoravids invaded the Ghana Empire because it was one the richest empires at the time and the wanted a piece.
on Tue Jan 15th 2013 at 17:16:18 Linda
You mention above that in Ghana the religion was spread by war and invasion mainly.”
No, that’s not what I meant. From my readings, in Ghana Empire, the religion was spread mainly through Marriage.
“Linda@ The Almoravids got into Ghana by mostly invasion/ war but they also married into the ruling classes — my readings indicates that this is how the religion was primarily spread.”
The Almoravids spent almost 10 years fighting to get in/take over Ghana empire through invasions because it was one of the richest regions at the time. If anything, they were more successful destabilizing Ghana from the inside — marrying into the rulng families, converting the ruling families to Islam, gaining power, having new laws enacted in accordance with Islam.
Once they were able to get in successfully with their army, their main goal was to rule the Empire — this goal was financially motivated. Spreading their religion was secondary.
I also read that many of the regular people –trademen, merchants, etc.. converted to Islam because the were being over-taxed because they were not muslims. The Soninke ruling class had already converted to Islam (and so did their servents) but the religion didn’t “spread” because of this…it seemed when they moved on to form Mali dynasty that the religion took on more traction.
on Thu Jan 31st 2013 at 22:23:36 sam
I think just like in christianity there has been several different stages in islam. In its heyday during the islamic renessance muslim world was the most advanced. They had 1000 doctors working in a hospital in Bagdad which was free for all. They had post offices as far as in China, knew the basics of photography, were top class in mathematics, biology, geography etc. BUT the religion moved in to the center and that was that.
Same happened in the Ottoman empire. As soon as the religion began to difine and direct the development of society, unavoidable stagnation arrived. Same happened in the west with christianity, first during late 300’s and then during the middle ages etc.
If anyone has any illusions or missguided ideas about the nature of islam, just read the Koran. It is very clear on certain issues, such as how women are always under the will of men, without any exception, and how the infidel must be eliminated one way or the other. Just like christianity islam is a religion which has a basic consept of submission, surrender of ones own will to the God will, which is naturally explained by those who “know better”. Both are very political and also systems of power and control. That is the key for islam and christianity.
Islam was very militant and was spread into Africa by missionaires and military, just like christianity was spread into Europe before. The conversion was sometimes peaceful but usually forced. This meant destruction of local belief systems, killing off the local holy men and women as witches, destroying the native temples or holy places, images etc. Just like in the case of christianity. Similar tales of massacres, conquest etc.
I know it is fashionable today to see islam in a politically correct light and explain its history in a cleaned up way but the conquest of north Africa was just that: a conquest. It was not a huge wave of spontanic conversion or native movement, it was a conquest of the eastern arabic origin and the guide line was the command of Koran: the holy war to make the world muslim. The same kind of idea and ethos was behind the european crusades bit later: holy war and conquest, “saving” the world.
I think this is a neat package of the arab conquest and it has source references too.
http://patachu.com/maghrib-arab-conquest-of-650-715/
Naturally I assumed that people know how the christianity was brought to Europe, by conquest and holy war. Charlemagne for example killed tens of thousands of western slavs and germans with his crusades and those wars continued all to way up to the surrender of Lithuania in late 1300’s to the church. So it took some 400 years and hundreds of thousands of dead europeans before Europe was even nominally christian.
So perhaps I should clarify my stand on these religions. I see them pretty much the same. From my perspective there is no difference between them and also, they have the same God, so…
What I meant with the political correctness is that when we now live the time when islamophobia is running rampant in the west, and is used by many opportunistic politicians and extremist right wing nutters, there is a tendency on the other end of the spectrum try to see islam in more postive light than what it is. This is what I meant. And like this conversation here shows, it is very hard to discuss about islam without misunderstandings.
As for the conquest of Spain by the moors, it would be good to remember that the situation was never as clear cut as we today often think it was. El Cid, that great spanish national hero, for example, was on the pay roll of some muslim lords at one time or another, and he fought against the muslims and sometimes against the christians. So muslim conquest and the reconquista later were not black and white events, they were very confused, mixed, and very complex series of events spanning for centuries.
on Sat Feb 2nd 2013 at 04:28:37 oogenhand
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2271921/Victorias-Secret-worker-scarred-life-niqab-wearing-attacker-threw-acid-face-walked-home-shop.html
on Sat Feb 2nd 2013 at 09:43:55 Linda
Bulanik, I will try to clarify my points (I don’t have much time now but I want to continue this discussion)
I have nothing against Islam in itself– only how it is practiced or rather manipulated in certain countries or groups with Agendas — this could be said of almost any religion. I also have a beef with different Christian groups and their version and interpretation of the “word”…but I digress
It’s not yet clear to me what your PoV is on the subject under discussion.
The impression I have so far is that you believe Islam, over the centuries, was enforced and imposed by violence on unwilling Africans by paler invaders.
If I have got you wrong, excuse me in advance, and put me right”
Your impression is Not at all my POV– to be clear:
the Africans themselves helped to spread Islam and the spreading and teaching of the religion was done non-violently. it was the Berbers that kicked it off and spread it south and groups like the Sudanese helped to spread Islam west and South.
The religion first hit African shores in the northeast, brought by the Arabs/Eurasians, who initially came peacefully and established relationships with the local people — but then, as you know, a military invasion came after the death of the prophet Mohammed — this is the violence that most people speak of when talking about Arab invasion into north Africa (I’ve never heard of armies taking territory without bloodshed.)
I was trying to say that in the north West, the conversion to Islam on a larger scale began with the Almoravids, and gained more traction by spreading into the Ghanian empire.
This conversion was done peacefully because the majority of Ghanians themselves learned about Islam, accepted and converted willing — and when the Ghanian empire declined, the Ghanian people themselves spread Islam even further west, south, and east (Malian Empire, Songhay Empire)
But the conquest of the Ghanian region (geography-wise) was done through force- the Almoravids took control using violence — The Ghanian rulers were not willing partners in giving up their trade-routes and wealth.
Keep in mind that the Almoravids were Berbers, who were called “Warrior Monks” — they were well known and respected as tough military fighters and for being very religious, very pious and devout — their primary goal was to spread the teaching of Islam and they ruled/ took control of different regions/ countries by any means necessary– this is what they were known for — their military and fighting skills. (That’s why the Arabs in Spain reached out to them for help against the Christians)
Also, the Almoravid army (and Empire) had to maintain itelf, so their secondary objectives was financial — they had to have funding.
“Before the advent of the Almoravids in the first half of the eleventh century, the Sanhaja (Almoravids) had only played an ancillary role in the trade links between southern Morocco and Ghana and the western Sudan. They had been passive witnesses of the intense commercial exchanges taking place through their territory without gaining any profit from them. Control of the trade routes was in the hands of the Soninke state in Ghana, in the south, and of Zanata Berbers—a rival tribal group—in the north. The first Almoravid campaigns were aimed, therefore, at occupying the main commercial centers.”
http://patachu.com/abd-allah-ibn-yasin-almoravid-sahara/
So yes, the Almoravids wanted to rule the commercial routes that the Ghanians controlled — that’s why they invaded the Ghanian Empire–dinars were made from Gold that was brought from the south by the Ghanian traders.
Even though the Almoravids were considered to be “religious zealots” — they were also known for being tolerant of other religions (unlike the Almohads) and for not forcing the local populations to convert to Islam but the local populations had to follow their rules, which were based on islamic doctrine.
on Sun Mar 24th 2013 at 21:12:59 Neeva
This blog is nonsense.There are no arab trader arguments or white invention arguments.This is pure fabrication by abagond.But,i suppose it serves the interests of anti-racists(the most intolerant and biggoted people alive)Regarding this thread.It certainly is important to mention the arabs,and more importantly,the jews involvement in the african slave trade.This does not mean whites are refusing to take responsibility,they are just pointing out that other ethnic groups share the responsibility.Everyone also seems to forget that blacks themselves enslaved their own people and sold them to traders.This is not shifting blame,it is a fact! Another fact which is also conveniently omitted is that whites worked to end the slave trade,despite jewish opposition.Again,this is not,as this blog would have us believe,because whites were trying to redeem themselves by doing something “good”,they did it because they truly believed it was wrong.In other words,whites are the not singular cause of all the “evil”(an exaggeration)or “oppression” of the world,although there are obviously many who want to believe this for whatever reason.
on Mon Mar 25th 2013 at 00:55:42 Sharina
@ neeva
But it also seems to serve the interest of you because you post here alot.
on Mon Mar 25th 2013 at 01:16:27 jefe
Everyone also seems to forget that blacks themselves enslaved their own people and sold them to traders.This is not shifting blame,it is a fact!
Abagond had a term for the practice of how a counter-argument actually validates the original premise. What was it called? The Roisey effect (or something like that)?
on Mon Mar 25th 2013 at 15:54:06 oogenhand
Again, we should pressurize Arabs and Jews to pay their share of reparations. Next to morality, there is common sense. It would be very stupid to only attack the people who more or less voluntariliy gave up slavery. Nobody would be so stupid to ever free his own slaves, if no good deed goes unpunished.
Also, Sandew Hira has interesting comparisons with the Jewish Holocaust.
This blog is nonsense.
Why are you here? to provide some comic relief?
Neeva is just filled with broken record arguments, among other things.
on Tue Mar 26th 2013 at 04:44:41 oogenhand
I WILL make sure Arabs will pay Allen West, I WILL make sure Jews will pay Tony Martin. Arabs and Jews are threatened by Iranians in the Middle-East, and they are busy destroying each other.
As well, both cultures are more tolerant of abortion than of euthanasia, which will make their demography lopsided towards old. Israel has the additional problem of Ultra-Orthodox people who only study Talmud, and have large families.
on Wed Apr 3rd 2013 at 16:29:41 waltika
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on Wed Jul 10th 2013 at 11:00:02 EuroGAL
According to the race research done in the early 1900s, Arabs are Caucasian. Doesn’t that make them white in a sense?
on Thu Aug 1st 2013 at 12:05:10 White Supremacist
I’ve been reading your posts and have come to the conclusion that you’re probably in the 60-75 IQ range (not uncommon among your kind).
You do understand that you can’t condemn Europeans as uniquely evil if they did what anyone else did/would do in that age? Lunatic.
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on Wed Apr 23rd 2014 at 14:17:47 Herneith
When fools try that argument on me, I just tell them I am not from the country they are alluding to so why bring that up? I also tell them to stay on topic. The anger and frustration they exhibit is hilarious.
on Wed Apr 23rd 2014 at 19:13:17 Sharina
I gather that seems to be more your iq level if not lower. Seeing as your ability to comprehend seems to be shot all to hell.
on Fri Apr 25th 2014 at 18:45:06 KungPao
Mentioning Arab slave traders is not meant to excuse morally wrong actions, it’s meant to keep people intellectually honest who focus exclusively on white sins and act as if non-whites have a moral high ground, completely peaceful peoples who just happened to have their happy times interrupted by evil white racists.
If equality is your bag, then dole out the judgements equally.
on Fri Apr 25th 2014 at 19:34:09 Herneith
@Kung Pao:
Hilarious, another colour-blind racist!
on Fri Apr 25th 2014 at 19:36:45 Sharina
KungPao
If you call intellectual honesty deflecting from the subject at hand. If a person wants to truly show some level of intellectual honesty then they will simply acknowledge the wrongs of said individuals and move on. Not try to push the focus elsewhere. It is simply an argument among 2 year olds. “But he did it first…blah…”
on Sat Apr 26th 2014 at 03:15:31 KungPao
Intellectual dishonesty is when you keep on harping on slavery when any reasonable white person will say “Yes it’s bad and was horrible, what more do you want?” And then keep on harping them and NEVER confront other peoples with legacies of slavery nor mind the modern slavery that happens today in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The reason the Arab slave trade is even brought up is because this happens so often in debate. Those who bring it up are not looking to excuse white slavery of blacks, they’re seeing if you’re just as principled against other slave trades as you are against white slavery.
And you never are.
You need a bib or something?
on Sat Apr 26th 2014 at 03:26:36 King
,blockquote>Intellectual dishonesty is when you keep on harping on slavery when any reasonable white person will say “Yes it’s bad and was horrible, what more do you want?” And then keep on harping them and NEVER confront other peoples with legacies of slavery nor mind the modern slavery that happens today in Sub-Saharan Africa.”
Or in other words, you haven’t ever taken the time to look at all the past posts on this blog that address just that.
on Sat Apr 26th 2014 at 05:30:14 Sharina
“Intellectual dishonesty is when you keep on harping on slavery when any reasonable white person will say “Yes it’s bad and was horrible, what more do you want?”—On the contrary, intellectual dishonest is the advocacy of a position known to be false, but that is not the case here (though other definitions may apply). The whole point of the post is for people who do not say “Yes it’s bad and was horrible, what more do you want?” but choose to use this to deflect from the point at hand. They never make it to “Yes it’s bad and was horrible, what more do you want?”
“And then keep on harping them and NEVER confront other peoples with legacies of slavery nor mind the modern slavery that happens today in Sub-Saharan Africa.”—Who says they don’t?
“The reason the Arab slave trade is even brought up is because this happens so often in debate. Those who bring it up are not looking to excuse white slavery of blacks, they’re seeing if you’re just as principled against other slave trades as you are against white slavery.”—And what proof do you have that this is the reason? You are now taking on the position of assuming you know what every person that uses that argument means. Reasonably you don’t, but for argument sake lets say you do. So they use this argument, but it is still deflection. They still are trying to point fingers at another instead of owning up to said wrong.
This does not mean that the others involved should be overlooked, but it does mean that it is a weak argument to try and make it acceptable by saying such and such did it first. Like I said…it is a child’s argument regardless of what party uses it.
“And you never are”—I never am what? If you are assuming something about me then you are aware that you have thus far engaged in intellectual dishonesty? I am confused on how you hope to lecture people on something you can not manage to not engage in yourself?
on Sat Apr 26th 2014 at 06:43:43 jefe
Seems like we have another white male Asiaphile loose in the house. Soon we will be hearing the Asia atrocity arguments again to be “balanced”. That is the corollary to the Arab Trader argument.
Don’t tell me it is a reincarnation of DJ or Asplund or XPrae.
“I never am what?”- People like you are never as sanctimonious with other forms of slavery as you are with white slavery. I don’t know that for a fact with you, but I’d wager from the general tenor here that is the case given all the ‘white male this’ and ‘racism that’ going on.
“Who says they don’t?”- I say they don’t. Most slavery discussions are centered around white-black slavery, other forms are derided as ‘making excuses’.
“And what proof do you have that this is the reason?”- Some I’m sure really are making excuses for slavery, but for the people who make it past that, who say “Black slavery is bad and gone.”, the Arab Trader has its appeal to make those observing the debate aware that slavery has gone on long before and after the white man elected to stop it in his own countries, as these debates are often framed in terms of “LOOK WHAT WHITES DID!”.
After one debater has ceded that black slavery is bad, there’s no point in beating the horse further unless there’s some other motive at play other than the spirit of debate.
For me, the “Arab trader “argument has lost its value on here…
The cut and dried truth is, it is suposed to be used on whites who will try to diminish the Atlantic slave trade by stating that it happened from the Arabs
To be sure, in the light of this dim wit cowboy and Fox news ridiculous followers, it is a valid point
but, i went out of my way to say the Atlantic slave trade was worse for the slave taken to the Americas, and more brutal for the individual…but, what happened to black non Christian and non Islamic Africa , was equaly as brutal…the amount of slaves dying on the jornies to the slave ships was equaly brutal, the ripping apart of families was equaly as brutal, those slaves didnt go home for family visits
Huge amount of comments on here refer to the absolute humiliation and cruelty of white rapes of black slaves in America, it is one of the leading themes, yet , black African women in the Arab slave trade , in many cases, or the majority of cases , were actualy brought over to be exactly sex slaves…and in some cases, the mens genitals cut off to guard these women
People talk about the Arab slave could be freed in twenty years…what was the life span of people back then? How many people could survive twenty years of slavery? Were those words just wishful thinkingn from the Koran, but not played out on the ground like the Declaration of Independance?
I totaly get the point white people should be shut down if they try to diminish the Atlantic slave trade, but, it is really wrong to try to not address the reality of the Arab slave trade in black Africa, that lasted a thousand years and had its peak in the late 17 hundreds and mid 18 hundreds
and how both the Arab slave trade and Atlantic slave trade have been equaly guilty of destroying Afro diasporic culture…
bottom line, if people can say the Atlantic slave trade was worse, the true ramifications and huge scope of the Arab slave trade and what it did to black non Islamic Africa should be fully on the table
if people can say the Atlantic slave trade was worse,
Hi Asplund, or is it Da Jokah? Another racist moniker I see. Kung Pao, is there some underlying meaning to this or do you just like the chicken. Carry on Aspy!
Why do people always confuse the Arab Slave Trading Argument:
“You cannot reduce culpability by pointing at another group of people who have things that are just as bad as you have.”
with the ‘Black Slavery Was Worse’ argument?
Do they need a bib?
on Sat Apr 26th 2014 at 15:57:55 abagond
@ KungPao
1. In my experience the Arab Trader argument is brought up as a deflection, not as a serious point in the spirit of debate. MOST people who bring it up are not serious students of history. Nor are they the sort who can admit that whites are a mix of good and evil like everyone else.
2. This blog mainly concerns racism in the US. That is where I and most commenters live. It is not a world history of Man’s Inhumanity to Man. So the slavery practised by White Americans is what matters most.
on Sat Apr 26th 2014 at 16:10:09 Matari
Abagond – or anyone else,
Please share your awareness with us, if you know…
Are you aware of any slaves that were involuntarily brought to the American mainland, yet were freed, or manage to escape and return to the EXACT same people, group, village or place that they were taken from on the African continent??
I will respond to you thoroughly, but first I wanted to ask; why harp about intellectual dishonesty and then turn around and engage in it? If you are unaware of what it means and signs of it then I ask you to research it but I think it was just a waste of time to lecture someone on it and then use it. In the mean time I will point out where you have engaged in it and perhaps in your response to me you can answer with intellectual honesty.
“People like you are never as sanctimonious with other forms of slavery as you are with white slavery.”—And who or what are people like me? I never divulged any information about who I am so it really is odd that any reasonable individual of adult stature would rely on assumptions in an argument/debate. You lose credibility here, but you also engage in that intellectual dishonesty you kept talking about as you are relying on an assumption to make your case.
“I don’t know that for a fact with you, but I’d wager from the general tenor here that is the case given all the ‘white male this’ and ‘racism that’ going on.”—You don’t know that at all wager or no. You can not pin point what a person thinks or believe based on what others in here say. This is another form of intellectual dishonesty. You are basically attempting to dismiss my credibility based on what you have determined I might believe based on others.
“I say they don’t. Most slavery discussions are centered around white-black slavery, other forms are derided as ‘making excuses’.”—-And what authority do you have? Do you read minds or are you some psychic in your spare time? I say most don’t, so why is it that you view me as less credible when you endorse a “say so” as credibility? This is also a form of intellectual dishonesty in that you are making yourself the authority of something. Most discussions on slavery would be about white-black if that was the topic to begin with (transatlantic). Bringing in what other people did is deflection and it does not address the issues being made. If a person lived in another country then of course the issue would not be white-black as they were likely not affected by transatlantic in the sense of white-black. For example if the actual topic was arab slavery, then it would be ridiculous for my only retort to be whites in the Americas did it or everyone does it.
“Some I’m sure really are making excuses for slavery, but for the people who make it past that, who say “Black slavery is bad and gone.”—I would say very few make it to “Black slavery is bad and gone.” So few that this is the reason this post was created.
“the Arab Trader has its appeal to make those observing the debate aware that slavery has gone on long before and after the white man elected to stop it in his own countries, as these debates are often framed in terms of “LOOK WHAT WHITES DID!”.”— I am confused because you have listed a few different reasons why it is used so which one is it? Everyone knows that the transatlantic was not the beginning, so it would not make sense to use the Arab trader argument in a debate for that reason.
Man 1: Slavery in the Americas was terrible etc.
Man 2: Quit complaining because Arabs sold slaves too and it was worse.
If said individual was tracing back the history to show where it began then by all means I would accept that as valid when discussion the issues of slavery in the Americas, but just to bring it up because they don’t like people talking about white-black slavery is a bit ridiculous and is nothing more than deflection.
No one is claiming that Arab slavery was somehow better or a day in the park. This blog does not hide the fact that Arabs had black female sex slaves or that they castrated black boys or that slavery by Arabs probably still goes on:
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/arab-slavery/
“it is really wrong to try to not address the reality of the Arab slave trade in black Africa, that lasted a thousand years and had its peak in the late 17 hundreds and mid 18 hundreds”—I have absolutely no problem with addressing any type of slavery a person wishes, but I do have a problem about when people choose to bring it up and on Q it is always when American slavery or transatlantic slavery is mentioned.
Those same people do not care to or wish to discuss or address it any other time, so that leads me to believe that they are looking to deflect. Truth of the matter is that they each need to be discussed on their own merit because there is so much information to both, IMO.
“After one debater has ceded that black slavery is bad, there’s no point in beating the horse further unless there’s some other motive at play other than the spirit of debate”—Just because one person/debater admits to it being wrong does not mean every person agrees or believes that. What kind of faulty logic is this? Actually that is the debate stopper unless said individuals goes on to try to minimize or deflect. At which point he is opening the door for the debate to continue.
If I said drugs in the US are bad and should be made illegal, but Europe does drugs too and they are worse.
That statement then opens the door for someone to debate me on the matter of who has a worse drug problem. It is still the spirit of the debate, but one I opened to be further examined.
Yes, Abagond, and Sharina , what you are saying is what I had in mind…I would never diminish the Atlantic slave trade using the Arab slave trade , or want to change the subject to the Arab slave trade , when talking of the horrors of the Atlantic slave trade
But, I did get carded about that by you, Abagond…when I thought I mentioned up front I thought the Atlantic slave trade was worse (meaning you seemed to agree with someone about it used on me)
I could be wrong in my judgement, but I sure dont have a problem directly facing the history of slavery in the USA and also saying I know the legacy of slavery exists into today…like a festering wound
I would think white people would want to address that just to make society a better place without those kinds of festering wounds…we all would be better off if we did…but, you got so many examples of Fox nuts and guys like that cowboy..when i see that, I surly understand the need to shut that down
Fair enough. Thanks for the civil response.
“Why harp about intellectual dishonesty and then turn around and engage in it?”- When I first jumped in, I was talking about the dishonest people who are most vociferous in their condemnation of white slave trade and give at most a slap on the wrist for everyone else. Kind of like how many atheists lump in Taoism and Wicca into their anti-religion rants even though they don’t give a shit about them, they just don’t want to be seen as partial and biased when they kick in Christianity’s teeth.
“And who or what are people like me?”- Don’t play coy. Birds of feather flock together. The people who go HYUCK HYUCK WHITE COWBOY! FAUX NEWS! Will be the same ones who overlook non-white atrocities in favor of emotionally appealing white ones.
“You can not pin point what a person thinks or believe based on what others in here say.”- It’s generally a good bet, see above response with people of generally the same mindsets congregating.
“And what authority do you have? Do you read minds or are you some psychic in your spare time?”- No but I do have eyes and I’ve observed most slavery talk centers around one kind that happened in the past. Your experiences may be different.
“I am confused because you have listed a few different reasons why it is used so which one is it?”- Why not both? The purpose of bringing it up in one context (online thread) is to see if one’s opponent is true to the principles of their anti-slavery rhetoric or will rationalize other trades away due to their white biases, the purpose of bringing it up in another context (real life) is for the benefit of any observers present.
“Everyone knows that the transatlantic was not the beginning, so it would not make sense to use the Arab trader argument in a debate for that reason.” – Not everyone knows that. I’d be surprised if the American school system even mentioned slavery in Egypt. For those that don’t know, the Arab Trader is useful for dispelling the mythical quality of the white tyrant, and while not excusing his crimes, it shows others not like him were just as fallible and prone to cruelty
“Just because one person/debater admits to it being wrong does not mean every person agrees or believes that.” – I never said as much, only that once that one person says “I agree, black slavery was bad.” then there’s no point in going “Well! Don’t you feel baaad about it!? Guilty?” to that one person. This holier-than-thou moral posturing is disingenuous when other legacies of cruelty are passed over. White people do this the most and it becomes a competition on who can feel the most bad about something, who has experienced the most privilege, like a post-modern confession, such as the We Are Not Trayvon Martin tumblr where a bunch of narcissists ego stroke each other over how not racist they are.
“Actually that is the debate stopper unless said individuals goes on to try to minimize or deflect.”- If the debate was “Was black slavery bad?” then yes it would. Most debates tend to have broader topics however.
Agreed @ B.R.
on Sat Apr 26th 2014 at 21:06:55 Bic Bickel
How long? How long are we going to keep the slavery guilt thing going? Who does it help? Was my father a slave holder? ( N0 ) Was my grandfather a slave holder? ( No ) Were my great grand fathers slave holders? ( No ). Did I personally benefit from slavery ( No ) Have I been punished because of slavery? ( Yes ) Is that justice? ( No ) Does every person of color have the same opportunity or more that I, a white man? ( Yes ) Do Black’s disproportionately choose to have children out of wedlock, use drugs, drink alcohol in excess, commit violent crimes, engage in risky sexual behavior, and drop out of school? What causes their behavior? ( You tell me, but its a choice I choose not to make ) Blacks who don’t make those choices do quite well, and are often hated on by their own people. Are you going to call me a racist for my honest observations and opinions? ( Yes ). That is your problem not mine. Michael Jackson wrote a song about the Man in Mirror, and I’m not standing behind him when he wrote it. He in fact was a victim of his own sad choices.
I thought that Joseph Cinqué and his fellow Amistad mutineers were returned to their native Sierra Leone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cinqué
@ Bic Bickel
How long did American Slavery last? And when slavery was finally outlawed, was there justice and equality for Black Americans following slaver… or was there something else?
Please be brave enough answer honesty.
“When I first jumped in, I was talking about the dishonest people who are most vociferous in their condemnation of white slave trade and give at most a slap on the wrist for everyone else……”—I get that, but does it really change anything I said? You called it intellectual dishonesty and that really is more what you are engaging in.
“Don’t play coy. Birds of feather flock together. The people who go HYUCK HYUCK WHITE COWBOY! FAUX NEWS! Will be the same ones who overlook non-white atrocities in favor of emotionally appealing white ones.”—I am not being coy and those are your words not mine. Unless I decided to tell you what I think or believe it is just noice and foolishness on your part to continue to assume.
“It’s generally a good bet, see above response with people of generally the same mindsets congregating.”— A bet is nothing more than a good bit of guess work, but based on your logic then you being here means you believe the same thing as those above…right?
“No but I do have eyes and I’ve observed most slavery talk centers around one kind that happened in the past. Your experiences may be different.”— Of course we have different experiences but because you say so does not make your experience any more credible than the homeless man on the street. It also does not change that you engaged in intellectual dishonesty no matter how you explain it.
“Why not both? The purpose of bringing it up in one context (online thread) is to see if one’s opponent is true to the principles of their anti-slavery rhetoric or will rationalize other trades away due to their white biases, the purpose of bringing it up in another context (real life) is for the benefit of any observers present.”—I have no problem with it being both but I have a problem when people fail to be consistent. If it is for both reasons then simply state that. As to the reasons both can be a reason for online and offline settings, but none of which you would know if it is or is not the reason unless you can read the minds of the individuals that chose to use it in an argument. This may simply be your reasoning alone.
“the Arab Trader is useful for dispelling the mythical quality of the white tyrant, and while not excusing his crimes, it shows others not like him were just as fallible and prone to cruelty”—I disagree because this solely depends on if you are talking to someone who already knows about slavery vs someone who has no clue. In most cases that I have witnessed the person brings this up even when they are talking to people who clearly know about other forms of slavery thus your reasoning is lost when dealing with those type of people. In this blog most if not all people in here know about other forms of slavery, so when the arab slave trader argument is brought up it simply becomes a deflection and not a means to let other know that others did it too. Even if it was a matter of the individual not knowing about it then it still becomes others did it too as the individual is seeking to place blame rather than acknowledge a wrong (this excludes those that actual do acknowledge).
“I never said as much, only that once that one person says “I agree, black slavery was bad.” then there’s no point in going “Well! Don’t you feel baaad about it!? Guilty?” to that one person.” — Then based on what you said is a bit confusing. What one person are you referring to? One out of the two people debating or one person in a group full of people discussing the issue? Based on your example the debate is then over and the other half is a last minute retort, but we are not talking about someone who simply makes the statement “I agree, black slavery was bad” and is then done. We are talking about someone who uses a deflection tactic such as the arab slave trader argument to point the finger elsewhere.
correction noise
“while not excusing his crimes, it shows others not like him were just as fallible and prone to cruelty”—based on the definition of excusing then I would have to say you are incorrect. If said wrong was done and a person says “but such and such did it” then that is excusing on the bases that others did it. Sure it points out others who did it, but it is still a good old pass the blame game and nothing more.
on Sun Apr 27th 2014 at 00:33:23 B. R.
Kungpow and Bic Bickel, see, its interesting that guys like you can be in denial of just how things have gone down in America…how at every step, obstacles and opresions are thrown into black Americans path…if slavery wasnt enough, after slaves were freed, they didnt get any benifits or help to really get going..carpet baggers came in and raked over everything and just when black Americans actualy got positions in the South after the war, Jim Crow came along, enforced by the absolutly violent racism of the Klan,and huge amounts of lynching. In the north, the draft riots demonstrated the northern kind of hate and racism towards black Americans…
As each decade went down, the face of white racism , with the legacy of slavery, kept rising its ugly head, from white flight and realaters in colusion with government created ghettos…the heavy huge southern migration in the fifities absolutly exasperated already strained forced black neighborhoods
i mean when i was born, maybe a year before, they just integrated baseball…i mean really , its just not that long ago that the most incredible , low leval, unbeleivable opressive racist discriminations went down ..and still raises its ugly head with the question we all should ask, how is racism going down today that we just dont perceive…like back in Jim Crow days where everyone takes it for granted its suposed to be that way
yes, the legacy of slavery still exists in Ameria, it exists in all the Americas that brought slaves from Africa to the Americas, Brazil has the same problems because of these festering wounds..
and Kungpao, (is that you duck?) ,Fox news and their followers are in denial about this legacy of slavery and how it is like a festering wound…when as Americans are we really going to take responsibility for this? Its just the right thing to do…take responsibility for these wounds we have left in various groups of people…but, black African slavery brought to America is absolutly a very deep wound that requires a special attention to the size it took on and the depth of what the reality is , and for the absolutly enormous contributions to our cultures made by desendants of slaves from Africa …ripping huge amounts of people from their homes and bringing them a long way and destroying their identity and culture is something that really is in denial by a lot of white people in America
this is a festering wound…you can see it in Brazil too…it could be dealt with if we all just took responsibility for what went down…whether we had slaves or not, or are racist or are not..its our society…do we want to just let a festering wound just keep going and get infected…its just plain as the nose on our faces that these are the reasons and origins for the problems we see plauging our societies that had large slave populations brought over from Africa in the Americas
I just looked at Bic’s comment as an example of deflection on a post that is not even about slavery but a weak argument used against it. I have found that white people end up bringing up slavery just as much if not more so than blacks in an effort to try to defend against just about any argument or accusation.
Cinque:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cinqu%C3%A9
Are you going to call me a racist for my honest observations and opinions? ( Yes ).
Yes. Observations are like anuses everyone has one, yours happen to be racist that’s all.
Thank you much, Herneith, That wiki account was certainly an interesting (??) read.
I’m somewhat wary of the agenda of those who formed the references that wiki cited, especially the suggestion/suspicion that Cinque and others in his captured parties actually becoming slave traders themselves after returning to Africa.
“The latter charge derived from oral accounts from Africa cited by the twentieth-century author William A. Owens, who claimed that he had seen letters from AMA missionaries suggesting Cinqué was a slave trader. Although some of the Africans associated with the Amistad *probably* did engage in the slave trade upon their return, most historians agree that the allegations of Cinqué’s involvement are not substantiated.”
“probably…” ??????????
If this allegation were factually true, one stills wonders why what would’ve caused those who were captured and targeted for slavery desiring to send others that looked like them into that external hell.
{{Does anyone have a Time Travel apparatus I could borrow?}}
Thanks again, Herneith!
“How long? How long are we going to keep the slavery guilt thing going?”
You are looking at slavery in an extremely self-centred way – making it about your feelings. It seems you would have me shut up about an important part of the country’s history just to spare your feelings. Is that what you are saying?
Thank you, King.
I agree that Bic Bickel made it about his feelings. I don’t see anyone advocating that we should feel *GUILTY* about slavery and slavery’s aftermaths.
Facing up to the effect that slavery and genocide had on today’s society is simply looking at it squarely in the face, not sweeping it under the carpet and trying to delete it from our history books. And it is not about feeling guilty.
I beseech all Americans who are inclined to feel guilty about the slavery and genocide that white people perpetrated on its fellow residents to STOP FEELING GUILTY and start acknowledging the effect it has on its current day residents. Do not erase or whitewash the history. Acknowledge what needs to be done besides affirmative action and reparations to survivors.
on Sun Apr 27th 2014 at 16:16:53 Mary Burrell
@jefe: Well said.
I agree with Jefe. White guilt probably does more harm than good. It leads to whitewashed history, to deflections like the Arab Trader argument, to the vicious circle of racist thought and action.
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on Wed Sep 23rd 2015 at 21:16:38 Victor Lee
Hello! I’m Victor, and this blog is awesome. I think you debunked that argument 100%. It’s basically a straw man in my view.
on Wed Jun 22nd 2016 at 03:10:57 mike4ty4
Another thing that racists don’t get about the Arab Trader argument:
It proves that Whites are no better than anyone else.
on Tue Jul 5th 2016 at 16:00:53 kungfurandablog
new commentator here and I agree completely with the previous posters above me. Moral deflection is something that I see white Americans engaging in a lot when they’re caught with their pants down (figuratively speaking of course). It’s like saying that since everyone else is lying then it’s okay to lie too.
And Kiwi, you’re totally right about that tactic that whites use to shut Asian-Americans up when they point out racism. Just recently, I was on a website and someone in a thread that I started about digital yellowface also used that same tactic to try to get me to shut up. I rightly called him out on it. I think it was a he. Both white American men and women that I encountered online use this tactic so I don’t know but often it’s the white American men (or should I say boys since men know how to take responsibility for their words) that resort to this kind of thing when they can’t handle the truth from a POC.
on Wed Oct 5th 2016 at 03:22:02 Benjamin
I would never mention the Arab Slave Trade to justify any White evils. However, I would mention it to counter somebody if they stated that Whites were the only ones to have committed slavery. And yes, while they might not be on this blog, there are people who do believe that only Whites have committed things like slavery and ethnic cleansing. And if confronted by such people, I see nothing wrong with providing examples proving such a belief is incorrect.
on Thu Oct 6th 2016 at 20:12:08 taotesan
I would be interested in you mentioning the Arab Slave Trade.
Before you do, could you please clarify what you mean or understand by the ‘whites’ who have committed slavery and what does ‘Arab’ mean in the ‘ Arab Slave Trade’?
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The Transatlantic slave trade
Fri May 21st 2010 by abagond
The Transatlantic slave trade (1501-1867), known by some in Texas as the Atlantic triangular trade, sold at least 12.5 million black Africans as slaves to work for white landowners on the other side of the ocean. Of these 1.8 million died at sea. Most of the rest were worked to death within seven years in the sugar cane fields of Brazil and the Caribbean.
The slave trade reached its height in the 1780s. A third of those sold were women. Towards the end a fourth were children!
Because the big money was in sugar only 4% came to the cotton and tobacco fields of North America. Three-fourths of those came from West Africa, the rest from what is now Congo, Angola and Mozambique.
While Europeans did catch some of their own slaves, they generally bought them from Africans. At first the Africans sold them prisoners of war but later as the market grew wars were fought to get slaves to sell.
A common white belief is that Africans “sold their own” as slaves. That is based on yet another common white belief: that Africa is a country. Africans did not sell their own: they sold their enemies. This became much easier to do once Europeans brought the gun to Africa and supplied a ready market for slaves.
Africans practised slavery long before the Europeans showed up, but the European kind was a different beast:
It was on a much vaster scale – millions, not thousands.
It was based on skin colour.
It was lifelong and fell upon one’s children too.
If you were caught you were put in chains and marched to a slave fort on the coast. Because you were on foot that could take months. About one in five – 3 million in all – died in these death marches.
Once at the fort you were put behind bars and there you waited for a slave ship and a good wind. That might take yet more months. And if the ship was not full it would spend weeks or months visiting yet other slave forts along the coast to fill up.
The Middle Passage:
It took as little as a month to get to Brazil, two months or more to get to North America.
Ships were packed so full that you had just enough room to lay down. Sometimes you did not even have enough room to roll over and lay on your side. It was dark and hot and airless and you lived in shit, piss, vomit and menstrual blood. The ship’s crew raped the women and girls. You had little to eat but even worse you had little to drink: fresh water was extremely limited on the high seas.
Disease was common. In the 1500s as many as half died on board. In the 1800s that dropped to 5%. Some who lived went mad.
So many slaves came that it was not until the 1840s and the Irish Potato Famine that more whites than blacks crossed the Atlantic.
How White America got rich
Guinea Coast
Some numbers on Black Americans
moral arguments:
“Go back to Africa”
The slave trade was immoral
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 15:04:12 Thaddeus
It took a month to get to Brazil, two months or more to get to North America.
It could take far longer, depending on what port the ship sailed from and where it went to. The two big slave trading ports in Brazil were Rio and Salvador. Slaves going from southern Africa to Rio could take months to get there, given prevailing winds and currents.
Recall that back in those days, unlike what that map would indicate, nobody sailed in straight lines: you had to follow the prevailing winds. In the South Atlantic, they run counter-clockwise. So a ship from Angola would probably sail north from the Tropic of Cancer, cross the Atlantic, and then have to sail back down to Rio in a big circle.
A long trip, any road.
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 15:33:29 Mel
I guarantee there will be whites here saying: “that was so long ago. Why bring up the past?”
Y’know, that slave ship loading diagram is one of the most iconic images of the middle passage every produced in the west.
Does anyone know anything about its history or social conditions of production? I mean, what was it produced FOR? A court case? A “how to” manual for the slave trade? As an illustration of an ex-slave’s narrative…?
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 15:58:10 J
12 million is usually the conservative estimate, depending on what sources you utilise.
Whatever the figure?? It does not usually take into account the amounts killed in wars and the long march to the coasts.
And a very good point you make about ‘Africans selling their own’, which unfortunately based on ‘self-hate’ and a lack of knowledge of history.
There is also another side to this point. None of us should be surprised if a country would sell their own.
I think there was one other group that were sold and that was those at the bottom of the society.
There is nothing extraordinary about this except in this instance a person would be sold because of ‘status’ and not tribal identity, or a ‘prisoner of war’ – back then there was no such thing as a collective African identity.
And again African slavery of which I guess you can identify two influences:
1. Islamic slavery
2. indigeneous slavery.
Many commentators suggest that even though aspects of Islamic slavery was brutal. On the macro level, it was completely different to the process of ‘chattel slavery’ in the West.
If I may suggest that at some point, you could do a counterpart to this post and discuss the ‘East African Slave Trade’, on the East Coast of Africa, that took Africans to places in the Middle East, islands in the Indian oceans (??) etc.
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 15:59:49 FG
Excellent summary, Abagond!
The map suggests that New World Afrodescendents searching for their roots should look more to West Africa than Egypt or the Swahili-speaking peoples.
That is if you do not believe people migrate FG.
And Swahili is for the East African Slave Trade
Perhaps you can create another post Abagond, because directly after the slave trade you see ‘New Imperialism’. This would all tie in nicely and be the logical sequence of event regarding the continent
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 16:44:56 Patricia Kayden
Very educational. Shows how strong Blacks are that 12.5 million slaves have become well over 100 million strong throughout the New World.
Also, while we know that “Africans sold their own” is a popular refrain, it must also be pointed out that there were Africans who openly opposed and fought against the enslavement of other Africans. That is often missed in the discussion — as it is made out that it was kind Europeans who put an end to the slave trade.
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 16:45:04 realist
“The Transatlantic slave trade…known by some in Texas as the Atlantic triangular trade”
It’s like 1984. Sadly, the term will be used in textbooks around the country (not just Texas) unless people protest and/or write their congressperson demanding such nonsense not be taught to their children in standardized textbooks. Countless other garbage (including implicit evolution denial in sceince textbooks) will be forced upon the education of American children if we do not act.
“Africans did not sell their own: they sold their enemies.”
I agree with that statement completely. Moreover, transatlantic slavery is a disgusting legacy of western European civilization. It is remarkable, however, that during the period in discussion (1501-1867) western Europeans would not “sell their enemies” if the enemies in question were white. Black Subsaharan Africans, on the other hand, continue to sell other black people into slavery to this day. In Haiti, such a domestic slave trade exists and was recently documented in a New York Times blog piece. (http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/haitian-tradition-is-criticized-as-child-slavery/) The preceding link includes a gritty video documenting the lives of some child domestic slaves around Port-au-Prince.
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 17:35:40 Y
Excellent, Abagond. It seems a lot of people focus so much on the slaves that made it to the New World that they forget about the millions that died along the way, and the horrendous conditions they lived in.
I know I would have died on board, or I would have killed myself…Definitely wouldnt have made it.
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 17:53:36 Natasha W
But I wanted to point out that the map in the post is inaccurate. For instance, a substantial portion of slaves taken to the Southeastern areas of Georgia up through the South Carolina/North Carolina border were from Sierra Leone and Senegambia. And peoples captured from the Bight of Biafra were sent to the Virginia/Maryland area in large numbers. This is backed up by historical documents and genetic testing.
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 19:27:28 Dahoman X
Abagond wrote:
“While Europeans did catch some of their own slaves, they generally bought them from Africans.”
This was true only in the latter phase of the slave trade. During the first centuries of this “trade”, the slaves were caught through razzias by the european crews, as evidenced by numerous reports by white captains and traders.
The second phase saw the creation of forts and trading post along the coast, as well as the rise of african auxiliaries of the slave trade and the intervention of europeans in the politics of the african kingdoms.
One can’t understand the 3rd and last phase (the emergence of coastal african slaver kingdoms such as Danxome (Dahomey)) if one is not aware of this process.
Abagond, would you happen to read french? If so I might find you some links from an african forum I know where all the process is discussed.
“so much on the slaves that made it to the New World that they forget about the millions that died along the way, and the horrendous conditions they lived in”.
This is partly because of the lack of written documents. This is one of the major problems with history as a social science.
However, by the time the slaves were on land, I believe there were more historical accounts.
Here is one such account of the Middle Passage
Fifty Days on Board a Slave-Vessel: In the Mozambique Channel April and May, 1843
http://www.amazon.com/Fifty-Days-Board-Slave-Vessel-Mozambique/dp/0933121466#reader_0933121466
From my memory most of those in the Caribbean are from what would be Ghana and Nigeria (Benin).
Brazil – Congo
Slave Trade & African-American Ancestry
http://wysinger.homestead.com/mapofafricadiaspora.html
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 23:54:55 peanut
Yes, i hate that lie used to excuse european enslavement of africans. Europeans enslaved/ mistreated their own too. Look at how the slovak slaves were tortured and mistreated by their hungarian overlords…research Erzebet bathory to get a good picture of that. Furthermore, there were plenty of africans who tried to stop the sale of african slaves to europeans, such as Queen Nzinga.
I read a book about slavery in Antigua…its a sad thing and a brutal history.
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 00:17:22 Jess
“The Transatlantic slave trade (1501-1867), known by some in Texas as the Atlantic triangular trade”
How is that bad? I learned it that way too. We were taught that both mean the same thing, not just in one way. If anything it gives you the whole picture of the trade.
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 00:56:44 leigh204
It really saddens me that people could do such horrible things to each other. I cannot fathom what these slaves had to endure. The slave trade was evil and disgusting.
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 03:08:05 Thaddeus
Europeans enslaved/ mistreated their own too.
Some people on this board will be surprised to learn that.
Of course, Peanut could just be reiterating the old “The Irish were slaves, too” myth, right…?
It really saddens me that people could do such horrible things to each other.
Ironically enough, just saw a trailer today which deals with immigration into the U.S. from a Brazilian point of view. We’ve just had a big debate on immigration here. Obviously enough to me, things haven’t changed much. Self-claimed anti-racist activists on this blog would happily see families torn apart and people shipped from one side of the planet to another in chains, kept for months in a time in dungeons awaiting transhipment, etc.
If people who claim to be anti-racist activists on this blog can look that sort of thing in the eye today and say “Fair go. It’s only right”, why would anyone presume that we’ve learned much of anything since 1750?
The targets of inhuman behavior shift around a bit, but it’s always there.
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 03:50:18 AB
i would recomend an independent documentary called 500 years later. it tells the whole story. we watched most of it in my africa in cinema class. http://www.hulu.com/watch/93209/500-years-later
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 10:31:01 Hathor
After the importation of slaves became illegal, they were smuggled in through Louisiana for Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia cotton growing. Most of these slaves were from other parts of Africa. The slaves from parts of West Africa were chosen because they had the rice growing skills and a resistance to malaria which was pertinent to the rice growing colonies.
There were only certain African groups that captured slaves and considering the amount of that population, I don’t agree that Africans including Arabs did most of the slave catching.
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 10:35:13 Mira
This is a good post. I knew about the numbers and the time needed to sail, but I didn’t know about the regions of Africa where the slaves came from. I used to think it was more of central Africa; I had no idea about slaves coming from Mozambique.
Now, speaking of slavery, I think people should once and for all understand how horrible slavery was, and just because “Africans” and Arabs and people in the antiquity did it, it’s not an excuse. First of all, it’s wrong. If it’s wrong to kill and enslave a man, you don’t get a pass if someone else did before you. Plus- and I don’t try to minimize suffering of slaves in antiquity or those enslaved by non-whites – but whites often see western civilization as the best, completely fair, respecting human rights, etc, etc- and they were the ones who did this. And last, but not the least, in most of the other forms of slavery, you were able to buy your freedom, and/or you were enslaved for a given period of time (3, 7 years). Also, if you were an educated individual, or a craftsman, or you had any special skills, you were able to continue practising your craft or become a tutor in someone’s family (so I guess your live was a little bit less horrible). Not here.
Now, I disagree about skin colour as an important difference: enslaving humans based on skin colour isn’t any better or worse than enslaving them based on religion, or ethnic group, or any other criteria.
But even if they were, Hathor, so what? It doesn’t change the fact whites were ones enslaving those people. They didn’t take them to America and free them.
But it is important to note that, in any case, “Africans” didn’t capture “their own”- they captured their enemies. Africa is not uniform. Hey, white Americans and Russians are whites, and yet, they were (are?) enemies. And you can even say most of the Arabs are whites (they are Caucasians) so someone could say whites are attacking “their own”.
I am old enough to remember how Black folks looked different depending upon where they were from. Even the accents were different.
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 12:02:38 J
Cheers Hathor,
Do you know where the other slaves were from, and would you like to say anything more on the matter??
Its funny, just as I was typing I remember a similar thing also happened in Jamaica, but I cannot remember any of the details where these Africans came from.
Anyhow suffice to say these ‘Africans’ also merged in with ‘other Jamaicans’ to become ‘Jamaicans’.
This is the book:
http://www.amazon.com/Alas-Kongo-Indentured-Immigration-1841-1865/dp/0801823080
“So what? It doesn’t change the fact whites were ones enslaving those people. They didn’t take them to America and free them
Indeed a very valid point.
There is another point to this but this time from the ‘slavers side’
Unfortunately leaving aside other political issues like prisoner of wars from other tribes, ‘pariahs of society’ who were to become slaves. This was a very lucrative business that any unscrupulous character could profit immensely from.
Well, I know there are some people who think whites have cruelty and a need to enslave others in their blood. But these things are not born with someone’s white skin; they are products of society, politics and other things that give them power. Indeed, there were whites who were enslaved/suffered by the hands or other whites and non-whites. And yes, there a non-whites who captured their enemies, and Arabs who enslaved people, etc etc.
But to use this argument to derail any discussion about this specific slavery is not a good thing, and it shows basic misunderstanding. So what if Egyptians, Greeks and Romans had slaves? In what way, exactly, does this make transatlantic slavery less horrible? Especially given the fact you were often able to free yourself in ancient slavery and you were often enslaved on a given period of time (3 years for example).
“But to use this argument to derail any discussion about this specific slavery is not a good thing, and it shows basic misunderstanding”
However, it is needed though, because if you look at ‘Western civilisation’ from a historical point of view. There is no remorse nor has there been regard to slavery, and in this sense the derailment (ie ‘red herring’) becomes all the more vital as a tool.
I best stop here because I can see myself heading towards reparation ha ha ha…
No but seriously, I stand by the above.
And with regard to my own comments:
“This was a very lucrative business that any unscrupulous character could profit immensely from”.
Even today – these are the only ones I can remember but there are many more – companies who were formed because of slavery
Tate & Lyle (sugar company)
And even today , such companies still continue to earn millions which otherwise would not have been possible without slavery
I said what I said, because I am so tired of the commentary being, but Black people did it too. These comments not only are made during a post about slavery, they are made even in the context of explaining the legacy slavery left or how it has psychologically effected Black people to this day. I am sure there will some comment here that will blame all slavery on Black people, as if it is only in Black’s DNA.
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 15:19:14 Natasha W
Generally true, although I wouldn’t lump all of the Caribbean together because they don’t all have the same origins. For example, many that were brought to Jamaica were the Kongo, who reside in present-day Zaire, Congo, and Angola.
Not necessarily. There were plenty of those from present-day Ghana and Nigeria (mainly Yoruba and Ewe) that were sent to Brazil, as well as others.
No one knew exactly where they came from, but comparing pictures of people in my geography books, people that were from the cotton states looked more like thy came from what we would call the Congo. Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Virginia looked more like people from West Africa. Every now and then I would see people with features that looked as if they were from Kenya, like Thomas Mboya’s people. I had met several Kenyans when I was in high school. I know that there are several different groups in Kenya, that why I made a reference. My paternal grandfather looked much like he came from Ghana. He was only one generation out of slavery. But more than likely his ancestors came from Sierra Leone, because he might be called a Geechee.
I understand you. I didn’t reply to your comment to argue with you, but to agree with you.
Since this post is the one discussing the slave sources, I wanted to dismiss the whole “africans/arabs/whoever did it too!” argument before it started.
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 17:25:51 Kwamla
Another great post by Abagond. which I commend.
Any time the full comprehension and realization of the transatlantic slave trade is made bare, then discussed.
It never fails to amaze me how justifiable it can be made to be seen if it can be argued or proved that Africans were also complicit in this too.
Lets “suppose” this was true. SO WHAT!!!!????
What does it say about the so called humanity of the Europeans? Where was the so called moral superiority?
The fact that they deemed this was OK for 500 years must surely say something about the mind of Europeans?
And perhaps someone can tell me where is the historical evidence of Africans or any other peoples of colour systematically brutalizing, dehumanizing and lawfully disregarding the lives of human beings in this way for 100’s of years?
There isn’t any!!! The closest being perhaps the Jews during the 2nd world war but guess what? Thats was Europeans again!!!!
Has anybody noticed a pattern here?
There’s pretty good information that
most of the primitive capital accumulation in Brazil came from slave-trading rather than mining or sugar-making.
With regards to the trans-atlantic slave trade, here’s some basic facts that people often forget about it that are really necessary:
1) It occurred roughly over a 400 year period and the locus of slaving moved several times during that period. Speaking very generally, it tended to move south and east as time went on.
2) Different European and African peoples were highly active in it at different periods.
3) Technologies of slave trading changed radically during the period.
4) Relatively speaking, what’s today the U.S. was a late-comer to the game. It thus got few slaves from the northern parts of Africa and those that it did get tended to be concentrated in places of early colonization such as the North Carolina seaboard.
So to say “such-and-such a region got slaves from such-and-so a point in Africa” is generally a simplification.
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 18:29:39 MerriMay
Agreed Kwamla,
The slave trade was truly tragic, I can’t begin to imagine what kind of depraved minds would pack their fellow human beings in such conditions, words fail me.
Blacks can commit a thousand crimes, it won’t in any way match the horror of what Europeans have done to them. Never!
Enslaving West Africa, colonizing the rest, the supine attitude of Europeans towards Africa makes me sick!
Really interesting
There is one aspect of the trade journey that is not mentioned here and was so horrific that Malcolm X suggested it had to be written out from nearly all the history books.
I had posted what he had to say on this matters on here – can’t quite remember where though)??
Seasoning Camps
“Meltzer also states that 33% of Africans would have died in the first year at seasoning camps found throughout the Caribbean.[54] Many slaves shipped directly to North America bypassed this process; however most slaves (destined for island or South American plantations) were likely to be put through this ordeal.
The enslaved people were tortured for the purpose of “breaking” them (like the practice of breaking horses) and conditioning them to their new lot in life.
Jamaica held one of the most notorious of these camps. All in all, 5 million Africans died in these camps reducing the final number of Africans to about 10 million.[54]”
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade
on Fri May 28th 2010 at 00:05:27 J
Took a long while to find the excerpt from Malcolm X:
“Our people weren’t brought right to this country. They were dropped off in the West Indian islands in the Caribbean…
Why?… This was the breaking-in grounds. They would break them in down there.
When they broke them in, they would bring the ones whose spirit had been broken on to America. They had all kinds of tactics for breaking them in. They bred fear into them, for one thing…
And this is why they took the role of the ‘slave maker’ out of history. It was so criminal that they don’t even dare to write about it…
I read in one book how the slave maker used to take a pregnant woman…and make her watch as her man would be tortured and put to death.
[Another] had trees that he planted in positions where he would bend them and tie them, and then tie the hand of a Black man to one, a hand to the other, and his legs to two more, and he’d cut the rope. And when he cut the rope, the tree would snap up and pull the arm of the [slave] right out of his socket, pull him up into four different parts.
I’ll show you books where you can read it, they write about it.
They used to take a Black woman who would be pregnant and tie her up by her toes, let her be hanging head down, and they would take the knife and cut her stomach open, let that Black unborn child fall out, and then stomp its head, in the ground.
I’ll show you books where they write about this… ‘Slave Trade by Spears; From Slavery to Freedom by John Hope Franklin; Negro Family in U.S by Frazier touches upon it…
‘Anti-slavery’ by Dwight Lowell Dummond…”
Malcolm X on Afro-American History, Pathfinder Press…
on Fri May 28th 2010 at 01:13:52 Menelik Charles
Malcolm X’ on Afro-American History is one of the greatest, most accessible, books I’ve ever read. It would make a fine introductory reader for any African-American (especially male) wishing uplift themselves out of mental slavery. Indeed, it should be required reading in all US prisons.
on Fri May 28th 2010 at 02:57:23 Thaddeus
Don’t you mean “lupine”?
Re: seasoning camps. The Wiki sez that South American slaves were put through this:
Meltzer also states that 33% of Africans would have died in the first year at seasoning camps found throughout the Caribbean. Many slaves shipped directly to North America bypassed this process; however most slaves (destined for island or South American plantations) were likely to be put through this ordeal.
Sorry, I call bulls$t on that. South American slaves were not shipped to Carribean before being sent to Brazil – and let’s face it, 95% of South American slaves came through Brazil. Either Meltzer got it wrong or (more likely) the Wikidiot quoting him got it wrong.
My favorite source for this topic is Hugh Thomas’ The Slave Trade.
on Fri May 28th 2010 at 03:50:26 Paisley
MerriMay: “Blacks can commit a thousand crimes, it won’t in any way match the horror of what Europeans have done to them. Never!”
I totally agree. And let’s not forget European/white atrocities against the Australian Aboriginals, the Maoris, the Tasmanians, the indigenous Americans, etcetera, etc., on and on, ad infinitum….
on Fri May 28th 2010 at 08:49:40 MerriMay
@ Thad
Supine still stands, don’t play professor with me, you’ll only fail.
I used the metaphorical ‘supine’ hand as in a ‘gimme gimme’ attitude to Africa.
Secondly, I meant it as an indifference, careless, lazy, negligent(insert other meanings of the word) attitude to Africa.
Here we go again,
Thad in his role as RR and No_Slappz…
The thought that Whites could be incredibly evil to Blacks pains him so much that he has to reject the contention.
What he attempts to do is clever – well not really -. He rejects the contention of ‘seasoning camps’ but remains strangely silence on the brutality devised by the slaveowners. Almost as if that part is at least true, but he does not have an argument, or anything by which he can knockk that idea down, otherwise he would.
As a lecturer one would expect him to draw on his expertise to critique it.
However, because he has probably have not heard this thing before (here read too arrogant or a ‘troll’ to admit it). He has to suggests that Meltzer has it wrong.
However, this creates its own problems. Since if Meltzer is wrong. Then Malcolm X is also wrong and the references that he cited would also be incorrect.
This is one of the problems that can occur when you are schooled (or here read fooled) in ‘eurocentricism’ and over-rely on authors who are steeped in that tradition.
I am not surprised taht a person like you would therefore use Hugh Thomas as your reference. As the Americans might say a Johnny-come-lately to the scene.
And here we go further, one more reference to add to the list, in addition to the ones quoted by Malcolm X:
“Seasoning was a process conducted during the Atlantic slave trade for the purpose of “breaking” slaves. The practice conditioned the African captives for their new lot in life, newly arrive black African captive would have to be trained into the daily rigors that await them in the Americas. This training was carried out on Plantations in the Caribbean such as Jamaica. Then the conditioned captives were taken to the American south to be worked as a slave.
Estimated mortality rates for this process vary from 7% to 50% with duration between one and four years.[1]
Most slaves destined for island or South American plantations were likely to be put through this ordeal, though slaves shipped directly to North America bypassed this process. Jamaica held one of the most notorious of these camps. [2]
The process of seasoning had a strong profit motive for example, as economists state the average price of adult male slaves in Jamaica in the 1770’s was 52% higher than “New Negroes” (Africans who came to a New World).[3]
1. Kiple, K.F. The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History, p. 65.
2. Meltzer, Milton. Slavery: A World History. Da Capo Press, 1993.
3. Trevor, B. and Morgan, K. The Dynamics of the Slave Market and Slave Purchasing Patterns in Jamaica, 1655-1788. The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 58, No. 1, New Perspectives on the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Jan., 2001), pp. 205-228
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasoning_(slave)
So what does this all mean??
In a nutshell, Thad is the ‘White liberal’ that Steve Biko warned about, and even Malcolm X also.
He is that ‘Great White Man’, do not worry about the other one (with that tag) who has taken up the ‘White Man’s Burden’ to teach the docile natives, their history and how best they should obtain their freedom also as part of the process, but yet at the same time maintaining the same White world order.
An ‘academic’ troll
on Fri May 28th 2010 at 10:45:37 Kwamla
Interesting to see how the trail of this discussion goes…
While comments from myself , MerriMay, Paisley, J, etc.. attempt to reflect on the culpability or responsibility of Europeans for behaving in this way…TIME AND TIME AGAIN!!!
Others seem preoccupied with establishing the precise statistics of which slaves came from or were sent where..??
Why is this so important ???
This is the level of reflection. As if it were some “tragic”, unintentional vast migration of peoples which took place so many years ago, and where the true facts or statistics have become obscured over time. But it happened… As did say the Roman civilization or the industrial revolution which took place over many years both of which had their ups and downs!!!
Again these tired old reflections refuse to examine or challenge the mind or motives of a people who would allow and STILL CONTINUE to allow such abhorrent behavior and practices to continue today.
It may not be so OVERT as in the case of industrialized fellow human slavery 200 years ago but that uncaring mentality still lingers on in the form of cruelty and disregard for peoples of colour, animals, the Earths environment etc…
This is not simply a question of apportioning blame, guilt or extracting apologies from any one race of people; or mounting an argument for reparations (another discussion) its about recognizing, acknowledging and owning up to collective PAST actions and behaviors.
Such honest, personal, DEEP opening up reflections become the guiding determinants for the way we wish FUTURE collective actions and behaviors to be seen and implemented.
What are the signs that such a global humanitarianism or Earth centered holistic approach is taking place today ???
I live in optimism …
I still like “lupine” better.
No, I don’t reject the notion of seasoning camps. I reject the statement of the Wiki you linked us to, which claims that South American slaves were sent through seasoning camps in the CARRIBEAN.
As for the brutality of the situation, that is evident.
Its not clear to me what you are saying here, or whether this is one of your mis-understandings??
It is being staed that some slaves taken from Africa went to the Caribbean so as to be ‘broken in like horses’ before they were then transported on to their final destination, so that they could become ‘good slaves’.
on Fri May 28th 2010 at 12:36:04 Hathor
The discussion about where slaves come from actually dispels the myth that all Africans participated in the slave trade.
on Fri May 28th 2010 at 12:57:57 abagond
According to the Wikipedia article only about one in six African city states and kingdoms that knew about the slave trade took part in it.
I remember reading be that some of the African rulers were oblivious to the extent of the horrors of the slave trade, in its early period. Since once the slaves were sold that was it and this may make some sort of sense in the context of what slavery as an institution in Africa being ‘different’ to ‘chattel slavery’.
However, much later the rulers became fully cognizant of what was taking place, and in some instance rulers were held to ransom by the Colonial powers to provide slaves.
This is also another feature rarely discussed on why/how the slaves were provided.
Thad you really are a character, even though my ancestors in South Africa, were not subject to slavery, but of a colonial sort- a separate thread I’ll concede, it still pains me greatly to read about what fellow blacks went through.
Interesting observation that J has made about you, your complete indifference to it, the complete absence of outrage on your part speaks volumes. The hell with your geographical trail of slaves because as usual you bulldoze over others’ very valid points.
I’m not saying tear you hair out but for goodness sake where is the respect for these people???
I suppose this qualifies as commiseration on your part:
Why do you constantly undermine the integrity of a subject as historically atrocious with your crap?? If you have nothing meaningful to add, just gag it.
Which leads to my second point.
You like ‘lupine’ better?? Cobblers!!! You take it upon yourself to correct things that don’t even warrant it??
Your arrogance is as usual insulting!! I don’t care what you like!
Regarding those specific sources in the Wiki, J, let’s go directly to them, shall we?
Kiple (The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History) does not mention the majority of South American bound slaves heading through Carribean seasoning camps. In fact, he barely mentions South America AT ALL in his book and when he does, it’s as a comparative pole for his main focus: the Carribean. When he mentions slaves bound for South America via Jamaica, he’s talking about the Guyanas and some northern spanish colonies. This trade was a drop in the bucket compared to that of the rest of South America.
So no, Kiple does not sustain the hypothesis that most slaves bound for South America were put through Carribean seasoning camps.
Let’s turn to Meltzer. Like most English-language historians of slavery, he barely mentions South America or Brazil. This, in fact, is one of the reasons one needs to temper these early authors with “Johnny-come-latelies” like Thomas, who understand that most slavery took place under the Portuguese and Spanish flags. Early English-language authors were far too willing to take the experience of British colonies as some sort of pan-Atlantic norm.
Meltzer does not mention most South American slaves IN GENERAL being shipped through Carribean seasoning camps, certainly not on page 65 and, as far as I can see, nowhere else in the book.
On to Trevor and Morgan. They do indeed mention slaves being transhipped to South America from Jamaica, but again, only to the northern tier of colonies, particularly British Guyana (which makes some sense).
None of these sources thus sustain the hypothesis that most South American bound slaves went through Carribean seasoning camps before being resold to South America. As I said, that appears to be a wiki error created by injudicious copy-pasting from other internet articles.
Metzler is not wrong, he’s just been poorly quoted: most of the ENGLISH trade did indeed go through Jamaica. The English, however, weren’t selling slaves to Brazil, the America’s largest consumer of slaves.
With regards to Thomas, why J thinks an author should be dismissed just because he’s written more recently on a topic is beyond me. In general, more recent books have BETTER data than older books.
Here’s what Thomas has to say on the subject of “seasoning” in a South American context:
The main ports for receiving slaves in South America were Rio (for the Portuguese) and Caratenga (for the Spanish – far less than Rio, however: 3000 slaves a year at its peak). In both ports, slaves were dumped into holding baracks on the outskirts of town, where they were left until a buyer came along. In Rio, slaves at this point were more often “fattened up” than sadistically beaten. This wasn’t because slave dealers were nice guys and humanitarians: the horrors of the middle passage left many Africans on death’s door and every dead slave was that much less profit.
Nevertheless, deaths in these barracks continued at an astounding rate. So bad that mass cemeteries needed to be dug near the Valongo, Rio’s slave trading street (and these were rediscovered during urban improvement projects in the 20th century). Thomas remarks that slave traders SHOULD have taken much better care of their “wares”, if the logic was simple capitalism. However, even more modern research by Brazilian scholars, shows that the care given to slaves in barracks depended quite a lot on the general economy of the time.
A booming economy would mean huge demand and quick turnover. Under these conditions, slaves would spend little time in the Valongo barracks and even the sickest would be picked up by desperate planters and miners. Traders didn’t care much about slave health in boom conditions: turnover was far more important.
When the economy slowed down, however, quality became more important and care could increase in order to increase the “shelf-life” of the slave. In a really bad economic downturn, however, the trader could simply decide that costs for maintaining the slaves alive could outweigh their possible sale value and simply let them die.
There was nothing approximating an organized “seasoning camp” on the Valongo, however, where slaves were systematically tortured to ensure obedience. Again, not because the Portuguese slave dealers were nice guys but because it was too much effort and cost. Why bother? The trader wasn’t a conscientous employee of the Great White Conspiracy to Subdue the Negro: he was an independent businessman, looking to make as much money as he could, as quick as he could by selling human flesh and souls. In Brazil, that meant “get ’em in and get ’em out” as quick as possible. Teaching the slaves obedience was not the Brazilian slave trader’s problem: it was the slave master’s problem.
Thomas has this to say about Jamaica as a transshipment point:
English ports were more brutal and less hygenic, but slaves brought to Jamaica for sale in Spanish America tended to be treated better than those sold elsewhere.
“Seasoning” was more often than not a general process which supposedly lasted a year or two and began with the slave barracks in African ports. Slaves would pass through two or three hands before getting to their final owners and, as they passed along, they’d be brutually treated as a matter of course. This was generally not because of some specific, thought-out plan to break the slaves’ will: it was the inevitable by-product of treating human beings as merchandise. Of course, ANY rebellion under these sorts of conditions was met with immediate and brutal violence, but again, not because this was some well-oiled, death-camp like machine, but precisely because it wasn’t. It was very often a poorly organized venture in which huges sums of money were being floated and could be won or lost on a throw of destiny’s dice. A plague sweeping through a cargo of slaves could bankrupt a dealer in one fell swoop. As Abolition inched closer and it became ever more clear that the trade from Africa would one day be stopped, traders began cramming their boats to the decks with slaves. The conditions for rebellion were, as one can well imagine, ripe and rebellion was the thing slave traders feared most, precisely because they didn’t have full control over their human cargo. It was a constant promise.
Now, I’m not as well acquainted with late-18th century British slavery as I am with the Brazilian varieties, but if there were a people who could have seriously contemplated the organization necessary for “seasoning camps”, it definitely would have been the British. That Enlightenment ethic could very well have produced some rationalist attempt to set up a camp where slaves’ wills were systematically broken. I’m willing to accept that as a hypothesis, given more proof than a Wikipedia article which misquotes an author.
What is definitely a fact, given the state of our knowledge on this issue, is that the vast majority of South American slaves did not pass through Jamaica or any other Carribean camp: they came through Rio and Salvador. And there is no indication that I’ve seen that anything like these camps operated here.
Note that this doesn’t mean that Brazilian slavery was not brutal.
Now, Kwamla asks “Why is this so important?”
Because this is the history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the black presence in the Americas, the very history that black people have been deprived of. If you want history, you have to accept that it doesn’t always play out in accordance with your prejudices. If yopu want to know what happened back then, you have to really look at it.
As I mentioned in Abagond’s post on the Cherokee Trail of Tears, glossing one or another act of inhumanity as The Holocaust does not help us understand what happened. Slavery, like Indian reservations, had a complex history and had its OWN PARTICULAR coordinates of oppressions and brutalities. Imagining Dantesque slave seasoning camps where all slaves are systematically tortured to incur obedience leads us away from the REAL brutalities which occurred. As metaphor, the “death camp” has some explicatory power: as history, it confounds explanation and ends up creating myth.
And isn’t it one of black america’s complaints that too much of black history has been shrouded in myth?
Here’s one side effect mythologization produces:
Here in Rio (and in Salvador) we had an institution that was as bad or worse than the “seasoning camp”: the public slave prison, where masters could send unruly slaves to be tortured. Of course, if we’re going to get hung up on the myth of Brazilian slaves in Jamaican seasoning camps, we’ll never be able to discuss the REAL institutions which were used to break rebellious slaves, are we?
This returns to my wife’s article on the Black American Imperial Eye (https://abagond.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/black-brazil-in-the-black-gringo-gaze/) : concentrating on the English-speaking transatlantic slavery and black experience as the norm creates a virtuality where (in this case) Jamaica becomes far more important than the Valongo, even though far many more black Americans’ ancestors (and J, please note that “America” does not mean the U.S. in this instance) came through the Valongo than through Kingston.
Brazilian black history is considered to be so secondary, so in fact inconcievable, that even to bring up the simple FACT that Brazilian slaves weren’t transhipped through Jamaica is enough to get one castigized as a violence-denying racist.
Again…you miss the point Hathor. It doesn’t really matter!!!
So what if they did? The point is what does it say about a specific group of people – Europeans – who unequivocally endorsed this mass trade of human beings??
So lets say most African nations actively played a part in capturing and selling slaves to Europeans does that make this any less of a de-humanizing act on the part of Europeans? Could it then be seen as just a bit of fair trade that got out of hand?
But of course then you would have to agree that if it had been the other way round. That is if African’s had discovered Europe they would have similarly entered in to deals with various European countries and started shipping white slaves back to Africa?
And if we could establish that the majority of European countries actively colluded with the African traders then this would have made things Ok. It would have been fair trade again? Both sides just as equally to blame as the other
One more historically example: Japan attacks the US in the battle of Pearl Harbour so the US drops the Atomic bomb on one of Japans major cites killing and injuring 100,000s of people. This was justified YES?. Because we can prove historically accurately here that Japan did attack the US destroying much equipment and many 100’s of US lives.
Or are you still not getting the point here?
Here’s where I think the misunderstanding is.
The wiki article J linked us to says this:
Most slaves destined for island or South American plantations were likely to be put through this ordeal…
Note: most slaves.
J interprets that to mean:
It is being staed that some slaves taken from Africa went to the Caribbean so as to be ‘broken in like horses’ before they were then transported on to their final destination…
Note: some slaves.
I have no objection to the idea that some slaves went through “seasoning camps” in Jamaica, beyond the fact that it would be interesting to see a primary source on this, rather than what appears to be a Wiki misquote of a secondary source cut and pasted from another internet source.
I DO object to what the Wiki quite clearly says, that most south-american bound slaves went through these Jamaican camps. That would only make sense in terms of the ENGLISH slave trade to South America, which was a small drop in a very large bucket.
MerriMay, “lupine” means “wolf-like”. It was not intended as a correction but as a bitter commentary. A commentary on the situation, not your grammar.
The hell with your geographical trail of slaves because as usual you bulldoze over others’ very valid points.
First of all, my making I point hardly prevents anyone else here from doing so.
Secondly, the only point I’m criticizing is the idea that the majority of South American slaves passed through Carribean seasoning camps. That is simply wrong. All points, of course, are valid but “valid” does not mean “correct”.
So no, I’m not preventing anyone’s opinion from being heard and no, I’m not “invalidating”.
Interesting observation that J has made about you, your complete indifference to it, the complete absence of outrage on your part speaks volumes.
So outrage is the measure of correct history, is it. MerryMay?
Look, right above me, right now as I type, a Military Police helicopter is flying towards Santo Amaro favela. It’s been buzzing the favela for an hour now and has twice exchanged automatic weapons fire with residents.
I have things right in front of me to get outraged over.
When I look at history, I look at it to try to see how we got to this situation HERE. I find that outrage doesn’t help much in that task. It doesn’t help the dead of two centuries ago and – more often than not – it blinds me to very important clues.
“Outrage” comes from a base feeling that one believes one already knows the truth. I know very few truths and most of the ones I thought I knew have not withstood the light of reason.
I believe that slavery was evil: that is a basic truth I hold to. I DO NOT believe – as most Americans seem to do – that having classified something as evil, I can now be on my merry and make believe whatever the hell I want about it. To me, if something is evil, it requires even GREATER attention and less presumption. And presumption is precisely what outrage generates.
Your mileage obviously varies. I respect that. Please respect my view as well.
It matters to me, when I see it being used to deflect the discussions.
What you say is not in dispute as far as I am concerned and I understand what you are saying.
I am not the kind of person who wants history rewritten in the pursuit of a racist agenda. When you have Black folks saying “Africans did it too” and Black folks have benefited from slavery, being an apologist for white privileged conservatives, I consider this to be a serious problem for Black folk.
Abagond started this post with a reference to the changes that the Texas board of education made for the criteria of their textbooks. Slavery is now a euphemism. Arizona has passed bill to forbid the schools from teaching any ethnic studies. Do you think that history now taught in Arizona will now be inclusive?
If this trend continues, it wont matter as you say, because there will nothing of slavery taught. Not even in the context of the constitution. The Texas BOE also is minimizing Thomas Jefferson and some other founders, base on their religious beliefs. So I can’t see the topic of 3/5ths ever coming up.
Do you think preteens are going to take upon themselves to become scholars?
You have a curious deposition towards taking most comments by others here on a personal level. This has resulted in you having to write copious responses to defend your apparent “sleights” at the hands of MerriMay, J and possible others.
If you could leave this aside for one moment as, again, I would say to you its not really that important in the context of what we are discussing here: The Transatlantic slave trade
Your major contribution appears to be:
“…the only point I’m criticizing is the idea that the majority of South American slaves passed through Carribean seasoning camps. That is simply wrong…”
Now maybe you have made others but lets just agree this is your main concern.
You have also commented: “I believe that slavery was evil”
Well that might be so but on the basis of what you’ve contributed to this discussion (without the divergence into defending personal attacks or insults) it s doesn’t really convey, to me, any real “FEELING” sense of this.
Its all too easy to get caught up in personal side issues we deem to be more important because the real issues we fear may be too debilitating or uncomfortable to bear.
You make some valid comments here in response.
The experience you describe in Texas is along similar lines to how The Transatlantic slave trade is taught in many other countries. I know this is true in the UK where I am based.
The basic assumption here is that the actual trade or traffic is played down, deemphasized or even as you report omitted altogether.
This were the Internet and blogs like this come in. At least if preteens want to find this sort of information they can. Years ago before the age of the Internet it all too easy to claim ignorance (unless of course you were scholarly enough to read books!!) This need no longer be the case.
Until of course Black/African peoples start re-writing their own histories in all areas of media. But isn’t this very blog evidence of that very same thing already happening?
I still do not understand your convoluted argument.
Since it appears you seem to support the contention in essence when you say:
“I DO object to what the Wiki quite clearly says, that MOST south-american bound slaves went through these Jamaican camps. =That would only make sense in terms of the ENGLISH slave trade to South America, which was a small drop in a very large bucket”.
Can you just clarify that the word MOST in capitals in the aforesaid is what this discussion is all about??
And if this is the case, can you this time provide any evidence?? Please note that if you cannot find any I will not use it either as an opportunity ‘to score points’ either, something which you are won’t to do
Just to say do not worry about the providing of evidence. I think I can sum up the problem of the discussion.
1. Wikipedia quote
“Meltzer also states that 33% of Africans would have died in the first year at seasoning camps FOUND THROUGHOUT THE CARIBBEAN. Many slaves shipped directly to North America bypassed this process; however most slaves (destined for island or South American plantations [including Guyana which is in South America my emphasis]) were likely to be put through this ordea”l.
2. Thad
I DO object to what the Wiki quite clearly says, that most south-american bound slaves went through these Jamaican camps
3. Please observe what the wiki quote states ‘FOUND THROUGHOUT MOST OF THE CaRIBBEAN’
Usually I would close with ‘I hope this clarifies’, but I doubt if this will be the case for you.
And finally with regard to your comment here Thad:
“Of course, if we’re going to get hung up on the myth of Brazilian slaves in Jamaican seasoning camps, we’ll never be able to discuss the REAL institutions which were used to break rebellious slaves, are we?”
You are the only one whohas reached this conclusion through your own faulty reasoning skills.
I think your faulty reasoning skills reveals your true guise as the ‘academic troll’ that you are.
And I stand by what I said previously : RR, No_Slappz and your good self serve the same purpose and function on a site like this.
on Fri May 28th 2010 at 17:33:53 EnSayn
It’s a shame we believe this story without thought. If we really think about it, this story makes no sense. We are talking about a story of people walking up to 500 miles, being placed on board ships and living in these conditions for a month or more and everyone commenting says nothing about this passage. Its as if this is taken for granted. People living in this condition would not need to be seasoned, they would already be broken. People living in these conditions for a month or more would soon die upon reaching the Americas from various ailments. People living in these conditions would be very hard to sell on the auction blocks, that is what they were being transported for. To be sold. Just think about this! We need to look at the amount of Black people already living in the Americas that were enslaved. We need to look at how long we were living in the Americas long before the birth of a Christopher Columbus. We need examine the truth and begin to dispel this yarn accepted as truth. To think that we came from Africa under such conditions is not a testament to our strength, its a testament of our acceptance of another fairytale and never thinking logic of this deeply rooted lie.
Well, let’s see. After I made an innocent play on words (“lupine” instead of “supine”) which, in fact, supported her point, MerriMay…
1) Told me to go to hell;
2) Said I could care less about slavery;
3) Said what I write is crap;
4) Told me to shut up;
5) And then (cherry on the top) called me arrogant.
I wouldn’t call that an “apparent slight”, Kwamla: I’d call that a serious of directed slights that were obviously intended to be taken on a personal level.
I’m not sure how you could read that differently.
That’s because I disagree with the general American opinion that feeling gives one extra validity, Kwamla. I’d rather go for precision in my history, thanks. I’ll leave the “feeling” to the likes of the Texas Board of Education.
Very simple, J: the Wiki article you cite says most South African-bound slaves headed through seasoning camps in the Carribean.
It is not a convoluted argument J. Not even close.
Here’s the quote:
Meltzer also states that 33% of Africans would have died in the first year at seasoning camps found throughout the Carribean. Many slaves shipped directly to North America bypassed this process; however most slaves destined for island or South American plantations were likely to be put through this ordea”l.
It seems very clear to me that, following basic rules of English grammar, the phrase “found throughout the Carribean” refers to the seasoning camps, not the slaves. The immediately following sentance then specifically says that slaves shipped to North American bypassed the camps while those shipped to south america didn’t.
The clear intent of the phrase is that most slaves bound for South America passed through the camps. Can’t get any clearer than that.
The problem is that this is only true in the context of English slave trading, which is of course Meltzer’s focus. The wiki article does not say that. It says “most slaves bound for South America” passed through the camps.
Not true. Most slaves bound for South America disn’t go through the Carribean and weren’t sold by the English.
EnSayn says:
People living in this condition would not need to be seasoned, they would already be broken.
Spot on. Slave suicide was one of the major worries of Brazilian planters, right up there with rebellion.
People living in these conditions for a month or more would soon die upon reaching the Americas from various ailments. People living in these conditions would be very hard to sell on the auction blocks, that is what they were being transported for. To be sold. Just think about this!
Mostly correct.
At least with regards to Brazilian slavery, if any thought at all was given to recently arrived slaves, it wasn’t to tie them up and whip them to break their spirits: it was to feed them, clean them and fatten them up a bit for the auction block.
That said, very little thought AT ALL was given to the slaves, especially in times of high market demand. So many of them DID die in the barracks upon reaching the Americas and were simply written off as a net loss.
but where is your evidence?? A question you like to ask of me so often (sic).
Either way, personally I do not have a problem with the quote.
In one of your responses earlier, the way you responded, it seemed to me that you had the book in front of you. Can you quote what Meltzer says on this very issue??
I would add also that I only introduced this point to enhance what Abagond had said here regarding the middle passage, especially as this part of history is not that well known.
What you have said here thus far has not changed or minimised this fact.
Whoa Whoa Thad
What is it with you and your inherent inability to understand the contextual sequence of what is written:
Let me clear this up. YOU imposed yourself on what I was saying, by seeming to agree with me at the same time being patronising by substitung a perfectly valid /applicable word(supine) and inserting your own as the better of the two(lupine). If that is not arrogant, show me what is!
Mind you, that wouldn’t make sense in the way that I intended, if you carry on that way, why don’t YOU compose your own narrative wherein you can do as you please with your text.
Do me a favor though. With the remaining 4 on your list I want you to quote me on where I told YOU specifically to shut up, go to hell, your writing is crap, and you don’t care about slavery.
When/if you’ve done so I will go on to illustrate to you, your continued lack of comprehension towards what I write.
*substituting*
on Sat May 29th 2010 at 01:21:45 Thaddeus
but where is your evidence?? A question you like to ask of me so often
Evidence for what? That Brazil was the world’s largest slave importer? Or that Brazil didn’t import slaves through Jamaica?
If the second, how am I supposed to logically prove a negative?
Can you quote what Meltzer says on this very issue??
Nope. Back at home now and not at the Museum.
Yeah, and what I have said here thus far has also not proven that the Holocaust is a fake.
Because what I’ve said was not meant to prove that the holocaust is a fake, nor minimize the horrors of the middle passage. It was also not meant to prove that you are still beating your wife.
What I said was only meant to prove that the idea that most South American slaves were transhipped through Jamaican seasoning camps was bulls@#&. The wiki article you cite was dead wrong on that point.
I was AGREEING with your basic point by substituting an even more predatory adjective. Kindly take your tortured presumptions elsewhere.
I want you to quote me on where I told YOU specifically to shut up, go to hell, your writing is crap, and you don’t care about slavery.
1) “…just gag it”
2) “The hell with your geographical trail of slaves …”
3) [refering to my written opinons] “…your crap.”
4) “…the complete absence of outrage on your part speaks volumes.”
Now, considering that you have taken my innocent comment about “lupine” rather than “supine” Europeans to be a deadly arrogant insult, I can’t help but woner what you’d say if ANYONE said ANY of the above things to you.
For a woman who is oh-so-sensitive to perceived slights, you certainly have no problem at all insulting people.
If you’ve got something germaine to say about my points, go ahead, even if it’s rough. If it’s simply going to be more venting because you feel the need to virtually go off at someone, spare me.
on Sat May 29th 2010 at 08:30:45 Kwamla
Ok. Thaddeus. I am going to put it to you that you make some valid points about:
.”..the idea that the majority of South American slaves passed through Carribean seasoning camps. That is simply wrong…”
And that perhaps in the process of making this point you’ve encountered some slight abuse. Examples of which you have “precisely” documented. But then perhaps this may also be valid for you to consider here. The attention to precision you so rigorously strive for, lets say virtuously and admirably, as a worthwhile scholarly pursuit leaves no room for the immense “human” or “emotional” consequences of the very subject we are discussing.
You yourself have commented:
This is a fair point and you of course are entitled to your own opinion. But you also conceded:
“…I believe that slavery was evil: that is a basic truth I hold to…”
Now for me there appears to be a “disconnection” between your explorations of this aspect of the trade and your rigorous assessment of the origins of Brazilian slavery
Its actual precisely this “disconnection” which I was attempting to convey in my own postings about the mentality (historically) of the European mind which in seeking to engage with cultures – not just peoples, but animals and the environment as well – reduces them to little more than components or numbers which can be “precisely” stacked or arranged according to the prevailing beliefs.
Maybe this is where perhaps categorizations of “arrogance” “uncaring” or even “racism” may appear.
For this reason the actual horrors and practices of the slave trade very rarely surface (except in discussions like these of course!!) but then these are exactly the issues that need to be discussed and come to terms with in dealings and interactions with all cultures.
on Sat May 29th 2010 at 11:34:06 MerriMay
You know Thad you have a tendency to start a fire and cry foul when you get burned!
Most people just affirm ‘I agree’ etc, but you had to play the one-upmanship, and note the arrogance here.
”don’t you mean ‘lupine’ ”
which totally discredits what I’m trying to say. Are you a mind reader now? Why don’t you save that patronising for your classes. Even after I clarify and point out your wrongdoing you continue unperturbed
‘I still like lupine better’
It’s that bullheaded attitude that sticks in my craw, and why you continue to be at loggerheads with people…and hence derail.
Don’t piggyback off an idea and declare it your own as superior.
Now wrt:
1. That meant if nothing of substance is forthcoming except
diversionary tactics from the horror of what happened, then um yeah..gag the thought, not telling YOU to shut up!
2. that hardly means the hell with YOU Thad..was merely disagreeing with the point
3. Ah again, but you see YOUR crap is hardly YOU’RE(you are) crap Thad, so I reject that out of hand, there’s a difference between the two. Ad hominen it’s not.
4. Where did I say you don’t care, I said ‘speaks volumes’, now as to what those actually are, and you can decipher that and pin it down to ‘you don’t care’ well wake me up when you do!
Merri, I know you want a flamewar so you can baaaaaaw to Abagond about me and hopefully have me removed.
I’m not going to engage beyond restating my very simple position.
My “lupine” comment was meant to me an ironic and SUPPORTIVE commentary to your “supine” remark. In response, you fired back several very openly nasty comments at me.
Just imagine is someone – me for example – were to say to you “The hell with your crap regarding a ‘supine’ Europe. If you can’t contribute something relevant to the discussion, just gag it.”
I can imagine the MerriMay reaction to such a comment: immediate baaaaaaaw to the moderator that someone has launched a personal attack.
As I said to Kwamla above, it’s not your insults that bother me: it’s the hypocrisy.
on Sat May 29th 2010 at 17:17:39 The Great White Man
I see the blame YT crew is out in full swing(The ocean must be in low tide…smh)
Look it was a horrible thing, but you must also accept the fact that Europeans are the ones who STOPPED IT!!!
You people only cry afoul when YT does it. The double standard here is downright pathetic….Arabs and Africans are doing it to this day!! but not a peep, YT does it and the victim mentality surfaces most tick…smh
We all know that non-white people hold us to a higher standard, because they all know the great things we’ve done for poor tribals, orphans, disaster relief, ect…..But please stop whining about the slave trade and only on YTs end of it…ok?
I’m sorry there will never be ANY REPERATIONS for AA, so please stop with the victim mentality, thank you.
You people only cry afoul when YT does it.
No one has even mentioned Yolanda Truman, TGWM. Please stay on topic.
on Sat May 29th 2010 at 18:17:00 J
SW6,
Is this the item concerned??
Las Casas, Bartolomé de (1999), Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, London: Penguin, ISBN 978-0140445626 . Trans. Nigel Griffin.
on Sat May 29th 2010 at 18:29:25 FG
Here’s a pretty interesting documentary on the slave trade to Brazil.
So when you at the musuem next time can you quote us what is said in Meltzer’s book verbatim??
So we can all come to our own respective conclusion
I’m sorry there will never be ANY REPERATIONS for AA,
There seems to be an echo here (with it being unworkable)
Gulp!!
http://books.google.com/books?id=KnWJCk8gIfwC&dq=A+Short+Account+of+the+Destruction+of+the+Indies&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=yWEBTMj1MtaH4gbCgfXLDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCkQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false
on Sat May 29th 2010 at 20:32:41 zekjevets
Are you sure that’s it? I recently read the same book (albeit in Spanish), and it was mostly a repetitive look at the atrocities of the Europeans toward the indigenous peoples. Every chapter goes on about native people being killed, raped, burned, etc. Casas posited himself as being “charitable” towards the native peoples, though he was really just anti-Spanish government on behalf of the church, and didn’t really do anything concrete to stop the maltreatment of the indigenous, save a debate or two. I’ve only read the original though, so I don’t know what differences edited and translated versions have.
Abagond if I may, last I’ll say on this.
I’ve never asked Abagond to censor anyone, the same cannot be said for you.
Your mockery won’t work with me, you’d think your numerous feuds with people on this board would tell you something about your conduct, you remain clueless.
If you read back to how this started you’ll see a pattern with you.
You’re courting the moderator yourself by insinuating that I attacked you, yet Abagond hasn’t obliged, so I have not broken any rules. A commenter bit the dust recently for exactly this slick tactic. Nice try though. And you call me a hypocrite…smdh
And I suspect at some point in the distant future. A similar argument will be used, especially as it is already being discussed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/10175907.stm
This is vis-a-vis against the pretext of Africans selling each other
“A commenter bit the dust recently for exactly this slick tactic”
A t(h)ad true methinks
Except for No_Slappz, no censor requests here.
on Sun May 30th 2010 at 14:56:14 Thaddeus
Kwamla, I wrote a long reply to you, but it didn’t show up after three tries, probably because the system thought a percentage symbol was a coding order or aomething.
It seems to be permanently stuck in moderation.
Abagond, can you see the comment? Or should I post it again?
Yeah, well, J, like I said on another post, I remain skeptical until someone can show me HOW it’s going to work. International law, which you’ve refered to on this topic, does not cover reparations by nations and, even if it did, would be ignored by the U.S.
So even if reparations would get its day in court in The Hague, and would by some miracle be adjuged favorably, all the U.S. has to do is thumb its nose at International Law, as it has repeatedly done in the past.
The only way to get the U.S. to give reparations would be to force it to do so. If the assorted black movements trying for reparations have THAT much power, why not just take the coutry’s government over instead?
So yeah, unless you or someone out there can show a pragmatic and logical road to reparations, I will continue to qualify reparations as a pipe dream and a waste of time.
@MerriMay,
you’d think your numerous feuds with people on this board would tell you something about your conduct
What it tells me, Merri, is that thinking outside the box isn’t popular among people who are used to thinking in terms of dogmas.
You’re courting the moderator yourself by insinuating that I attacked you…
Merri, what I said was very clear, it wasn’t an insinuation. What I said was this: you yourself would consider the comments you directed at me to be a personal attack, were they directed at you.
Nice try at starting a flame war, but this is really my last word on the topic.
on Sun May 30th 2010 at 17:16:35 J
Since this topic is slavery, and reparations can be tied somewhat therein.
I am afraid I do not understand your logic here.
If groups of people are entitled to make a claim under something which is in the law. If these people believe they can appeal to the conscience of the Government, and the Government will acquiese. Then why should they not do so??
The only possible way to find out if it is a ‘pipe dream’ or not is for these groups to make such a claim, and see what the outcome is.
No??????????????
on Sun May 30th 2010 at 18:08:52 Mira
I believe blacks should receive reparations, but I don’t think it would solve any problems. But then again, the point of reparations is not “solving problems”.
I agree with Thad that reparations might lead to bad attitudes among whites, because they would think they don’t own blacks anything anymore, or they would use reparations for more racism.
Still, that should not be the obstacle for reparations.
But the bigger question is: how to determine who’s going to get reparations, and who’s going to give reparations.
Correct. But reparations are a claim made under international law and (in spite of what right-wing conspiracy loonies think) THERE IS NO WORLD GOVERNMENT!
International law covers basically two things: issues all nations have more-or-less agreed upon (and even then, it covers them poorly) and post-war retributions.
So, yeah, reparations would be a good idea IF…
A) You could get the presumed criminal in this case (i.e. the U.S. government) to go along with the idea that it should pay out billions or trillions to the descendents of slavery, or…
B) You could beat the U.S. government into submission.
I think we can agree that if your strategy for change boils down to not only convincing your oppressors to empathize with you BUT ALSO get them to freely hand over billions, it’s not a very practical strategy.
And if you’ve got the power to BEAT the U.S., why not just take it over and screw reparations? No need to ask for a paycheck if you own the bank, is there?
My point has nothing to do with whether people have a right to appeal. They have a right to waste their time however they please.
My argument is that I’m not going along with this strategy until someone can show me how it has a chance in hell of working. I’d rather waste my time posting here or looking at The Huffington Post.
By that same logic, the only way you can find out that you can’t fly is to jump off a building while flapping your arms.
If the anti-racist movement was blessed with a surfeit of cash, time, energy and talented activists, I’d say “Whatever. Might as well go for it and it can’t hurt”.
The fact of the matter, J, is that we are facing a huge wave of racist reaction – the worst in decades – and time, money and energy is short on the ground.
That is why I think “reparations” is a useless game being played by people who should know better.
Or stoners.
With regard to
“I agree with Thad that reparations might lead to bad attitudes among whites, because they would think they don’t own blacks anything anymore, or they would use reparations for more racism”
This is a red herring and bears no relevance to international law – even if it is to have this impact.
I wasn’t talking about the law, or how to make reparations, I know nothing about the law. I just said, I believe blacks should receive reparations.
on Sun May 30th 2010 at 20:20:59 Jasmin
(I posted as zek earlier by accident–this is his computer.)
I wouldn’t know for sure–I read the book for a class in the spring semester and I’m pretty sure I sold it on Amazon, but I’m pretty sure the one I read didn’t say anything about slave labor at all–at that point the Spaniards were interested in taking the land and resources from the indigenous peoples, then returning to Spain (as “Indianos, meaning people who made their fortune in the New World). It was a while before people actually decided to stay and create colonies.
Per this link, Casas supported the importation of Africans, then later recanted and became an advocate for them, and it lists two books by him, but it’s Wikipedia (which I don’t count as a credible source) so who knows? 🙂
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolom%C3%A9_de_las_Casas
I still am having problems understanding your reasoning in all of this.
1. Its not quite clear why you made reference to U.S being ‘criminals’. The issue of reparations would essentially be monetary – Its not a war trial of the US??
2. As for anti-racists and those fighting reparations there is a big gulf between the two, and that is why I made the connection between reparations and international law.
3. Its not also clear to me how you can reconcile reparations as an issue across the world and Blacks acting within the remit of the law to obtain it?? Surely you are not advocating that Blacks pick up guns and obtain the monetary that way??
4. As for people wasting their time, to use your own words. I am sure there were many who said that about Martin Luther King. In the real world of ‘politics liberation’ the only way to know if something politically is going to succeed or fail is to endeavour. There is absolutely no other way of knowing. Furthermore any fight for liberation is a piecemal journey, with many loses but also many victories. Thus ‘victories’ can be gained in other areas, even if the ultimate goal of repartion may not be completed.
5. Finally there appears an attempt here inadvertently or otherwise to deny Black people a fundamental right that all other oppressed nations have the right to ie make reparation claim. We always see this type of thing in the White Supremacy World. In the West they create ‘War trials’, to deal with those not followingthe status quo, whilst in South Africa they have a ‘Reconciliation Commission’.
I saw your comments Mira,
Thad’s comments were given as reason to why repartions should not be given and he made mention of White’s people reactions etc.
This is the red herring, which you quoted when citing Thad:
“I AGREE WITH THAD THAT REPARATIONS MIGHT LEAD TO BAD ATTITUDES AMONG WHITES, because they would think they don’t own blacks anything anymore”.
Furthermore this is not how racism, genocide etc or what I would call White Supremacy works. Its not a case of what or as the case Blacks may do, but rather what those endorsing White Supremacy have as their agenda.
I wanted to say that the question of reparations is not about “solving problems”; I do see them as war reparations.
I guess I was answering/posting my opinion on Thad’s comments on reparations. Unlike him, I think blacks should receive reparations, so that is the part of his post that I don’t agree with. But I do agree that reparations would not solve any racial issues/racism; but that is ok, because the point of reparations is not to solve problems, end racism or anything like that.
And yes, I am aware we’re going off topic… Sorry.
So you were partying with the family that long??
Glad to see that it all went very good!!
“Per this link, Casas supported the importation of Africans, then later recanted and became an advocate for them, and it lists two books..”
I did not open the link. From what I remember Le Casa could be viewed as a ‘liberal’.
He saw and felt the oppression of the indigenes. However, instead of calling an end to the system, he advocated to use replace the indigenes with African labour instead.
This is a Priest remember…
When he saw the brutality that slavery brought upon the Africans which he suggested – he became ambivelent again.
Just for clarification purposes.
No-one has suggested that reparations would solve any racial issues/racism.
It is only Thad, who brought forth this explanation as a reason in his argument as to why reparation should NOT be given.
Technically I’m still on vacation, but not with the family anymore, and yes it went very well. 🙂
Las Casas pretty much followed the path of most of the clergy in the New World (though for some reason he gets more recognition as a champion of human rights)–some felt pulled to defend the humanity of indigenous peoples, but inevitably the Church ended up on the side of the government because they got money out of the deal.
On a related note, I’d recommend the move “The Last Supper” (“La ultima cena”, with an accent on the “u”) to anyone interested in slavery outside of the US. It’s set on a sugar plantation in Cuba in the late 1700s and came out either a year after or a year before “Roots”–it fits with that (mini) trend of films exploring the atrocities/hypocrisy of slavery. I’m pretty sure you can find it (with English subtitles) online.
on Mon May 31st 2010 at 02:00:21 Thaddeus
Mira, please have the courtesy to correctly state my position.
I have said several times I think there should be reparations. My only question is how is this going to come about?
Why does “criminal” mean “war” to you in this context? The only mention of war is that, AFAIK, the only time international law has dealt with reparations against a nation is after one has LOST a war and the international legal process is in the hands of the victors. To wit, Germany after WWII. Reparations are also occasionally judged in trade and fishing disputes because both sides have an interest in keeping within a general international system which may someday rule in their favor.
But never, to my knowledge, has any international court rules that a country pay reparations for evil-doing and said country paid them without a war occurring.
Personally, I’d think blacks would have a much better chance that way – though still not a very good one. As for “acting within the remit of the law”, seeing as how international law does not deal with this issue, how is that going to occur? There IS no international law on this issue, J, so you can’t be acting in the remit of it.
Here’s an example: Durban conference calls for reparations. Pretty much every major power pulls out of Durban. How is this going to come in front of international courts, given that the countries who run that system are the same ones who won’t listen to the argument for reparations?
4. As for people wasting their time, to use your own words. I am sure there were many who said that about Martin Luther King.
Perhaps. But King had the U.S. Constitution to work with as well as the consciences of a good portion of white folks.
Segregation could actually be fought in the U.S. because there was a higher law: FEDERAL law. If there was an INTERNATIONAL law system actually backed up by force, then the reparations struggle might have a point. But you’ll recall that desegregation happened in many places in the U.S. south at bayonet point.
Law is useless without some police force to back it up. King played to the Federal government because he knew that was the only force that could slap the southern states in line. With the federal government on the side of desegregation, the racists would have to fold and this is indeed what happened.
Who are the reparations folks playing to? Who’s going to send bayonets to collect reparations?
Martians?
In the real world of ‘politics liberation’ the only way to know if something politically is going to succeed or fail is to endeavour.
Simply not true. There’s not a liberationist in the world who’ll say “Hey, waste your efforts on something that has absolutely zero chance of succeeding.” To use your King metaphor, it’s as if King decided to only work with, say, the Alabama and Mississippi state governments because, what the hell, anything could happen, right? Might as well start somewhere…
Any liberation strategist would agree: one needs to know how to pick one’s fights and attack where one can PLAUSIBLY achieve something. Great hopeless, romantic gestures are fine for movies, but they rarely get sh1$ done in real life.
Finally there appears an attempt here inadvertently or otherwise to deny Black people a fundamental right that all other oppressed nations have the right to ie make reparation claim.
J, no nation has that “right”. There is no “right” in international law besides might and that is a stone cold fact. Maybe 50 years from now, that will be different. But until you get a global police force of some kind, it’s utopian in the extreme to talk about “rights to reparations”.
Vietnam, for example, has a stone solid right to reparations for the damage it suffered at the hands of the U.S. As part of the 1973 peace treaty, the U.S. AGREED to pay reparations. It has broken that agreement for 37 years now and there’s not a damned thing Vietnam can do about it. Hell, they can’t even strip Henry Kissinger of his Nobel Peace Prize, let alone get their just reparations cash.
So how, exactly, do you propose “rights” in an international legal system that can’t safeguard them?
There ain’t no such animal.
We always see this type of thing in the White Supremacy World. In the West they create ‘War trials’, to deal with those not followingthe status quo, whilst in South Africa they have a ‘Reconciliation Commission’.
And that should tell you something basic: power, as Mao said, ultimately comes out of the barrel of a gun. If you don’t have a gun on your side, you can chant “reparations” until you’re blue in the face, but it ain’t gonna do you sh1$.
Now, the “gun” can be metaphorical, as it often was in the case of the U.S. Civil Rights movement, but it has to be there.
Where’s the gun that’s going to get you reparations from the U.S.?
Hey, maybe Serbia can do it! What do you say, Mira?
IIRC, in the late unpleasantness over Kosovo, Serbia managed to shoot down, like, three NATO planes, inflicting zero NATO aircrew casualties.
So that makes the loss ratio for that war something like 1,000 Serbian dead for every NATO bomb-armer who smashed his pinky with a torque wrench.
I wouldn’t place high hopes in recruiting Serbia as an effective ally against the U.S. in the international struggle for reparations, J – bastion of international human rights though the Serbs may be. [roll eyes]
on Mon May 31st 2010 at 02:52:37 J
Not sure whether much of what you say here is caught up in the world of language (semantics) or whether it applies correctly to the world.
I will stick with the former
“International law makes clear that victim groups have the right to remedies for harms done to them…In the past decade those engaged in these various struggles have begun to recognize their common cause and a global reparations movement has emerged”
http://asbarez.com/80547/the-global-reparations-movement-and-meaningful-resolution-of-the-armenian-genocide/
So we have come back full circle again:
For those who believe in the integrity of international law across the world. They have every right to follow that law that gives them redress.
A point I have already made.
Whether, they will get any redress??
This is a different matter – for them
However, the only way for these groups to know whether they can succeed or not with reparation is to engage in the struggle.
A point I also made previously.
J, I don’t know what apalls me the most: the fact that you link us to an Armenian genocide site as “proof” that reparations exist and work (even though the Armenians haven’t seen a penny), or the fact that you didn’t even read the post.
Said group’s pet legal PhD has this to say about reparations under international law (and remember, this is theory because no one has gained any yet):
International law makes clear that victim groups have the right to remedies for harms done to them. This applies to the Armenian Genocide for two reasons. First, the acts against Armenians were illegal under international law at the time of the genocide. Second, the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide applies retroactively. While the term “genocide” had not yet been coined when the 1915 Armenian Genocide was committed, the Convention subsumes relevant preexisting international laws and agreements, such as the 1899 and 1907 Hague Conventions. Since the genocide was illegal under those conventions, it remains illegal under the 1948 Convention. What is more, the current Turkish Republic, as successor state to the Ottoman Empire and as beneficiary of the wealth and land expropriations made through the 1915 genocide, is responsible for reparations.
Oh, OK. So reparations can only be charged for acts that were illegal at the time… That rules out slavery.
Guess we’ll go for a charge of genocide then, right?
Under this “law” (which is really just an international agreement), “genocide” means “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”?
Well, good luck proving “intent to destroy”. Vietnam’s got a better case AND an agreement for reparations and is still standing, hand held out.
EEEEEEEEEEEP!
Next contestant.
And the only way you can know whether you can survive a shot to the head from a .38 special is to go ahead and have someone shoot you, J.
Empiricism is no defense for stupid ideas which deductive reasoning should tell us are hopeless.
Here’s the deductive process again:
1) Ex-slaving nations control the legal system.
2) There is no higher authority to compel anyone to follow this system’s rulings.
3) If there were such an authority and it were on the side of reparations, much more could be done with such power than simple reparations.
4) Finally, international law, such as it exists, is written to SPECIFICALLY block out slavery as genocide.
Oh, and don’t forget that even if we can prove that slavery was genocide, it STILL wouldn’t qualify anyone for reparations, because genocide was only made illegal under this system in 1899.
So Armenians, Vietnamese, Bosnians, Sudanese… A whole slew of other peoples, up to and including the Jews, have been clear-cut victims of planned genocide according to the UN: not a dime have any of these people seen, as far as I am aware, in spite of the legality of their cases.
And yet you still think it’s a great and practical tactic to sue the U.S. under international law for a crime which was committed outside said law’s own understanding of the legitimate timeframe?
Riiiiiiiight….
And you have the balls to say “Well we can’t know ’til we try,” even though many other groups with much more “open and shut” cases have tried and got jack?
J, The Hague couldn’t even successfully convict Milosevic, but you SERIOUSLY think international law is the solution?
Riiiiiiiiiiiight…
You do this all the time Thad, you stae a position, and when it becomes untenable. You then shift your argument to a new position.
This is how the debate unfolded:
A commentator said:
“Let me get this straight. The American government apologized to the Japanese AND gave them 20,000 but reparations for 400 years of slavery and Jim Crow is off the table. WTF?
Not saying the Japanese American brothers and sisters did not deserve that and more, but what about AA? Why is it considered so unreasonable to do the same for us?”
And here are your replies thereafter:
1. But hell, let’s say that the U.S. goes nuts and decides to offer repatriations for all the descendants of the slaves. How’s that going to be done, first of all? By blood quantum? Because there are a lot of white people out there who are also slave descedents and you’d better believe they’ll come out of the woodwork if a handout is in the offering.
And here is the important quote from the same post
2. You SERIOUSLY want the U.S. to hand out 6 billion dollars and then say “That’s it, black people! We no longer are bound to think about racism because you’ve received your ‘I’m sorry’ cash”? You should present this idea to the far Republican right. They’d love it. A 6 billion dollar one-time settlement to never have to think about racial justice or affirmative action again would probably be considered a good buy.
3. Under international law, it would be very hard to argue reparations, period. In both the Italian/Libyan and U.S./ethnic Japanese cases, you have survivors alive today and some sort of clear-cut lineage regarding the crimes
4. Reparations is simply something that isn’t going to happen, outside the realm of science fiction
and in the same post
Reparations are a pipe dream. Literally. The kind of idea that gets into someone’s head after smoking too much and listening to a lot of Bob Marley.
When asked why did you use the above racist stereotype you go on to say:
5. Because “reparate” and “repatriate” often get mixed up in this sort of discussion.
With regard to reparartions being a global issue you wrote:
6. Good on them! You be sure to tell me when it gets beyond the radicals espousing to other radicals stage, when any non-black radical group starts seriously considering it, OK? Because I don’t see how you’re going to convince the U.S. to voluntarily hand over this sort of cash unless,
This time it not being a matter related to international law
7. Where’s that corpus regarding reparations for slavery or any other, similar, question?
In another post on the same point.
8. You’re going to have an impossible time proving either of those two points [ie genocide & slavery] under international law and leading them to reparations,
9. Summing up, I think reparations, while a wonderful idea in theory, is a complete stoner’s pipe dream in practice. To hold it out as any possible effective strategy for the improvement of black peoples’ lives in the real world is to believe that a dogmatic fantasy of a small group of militants is somehow going to convince the very people they are trying to punish to punish themselves
10. How would such an entity pay reparations and do you really think that any notional future superpower forcing such a situation would really care about the plight of black Americans? Even if said superpower were, say, Nigeria? Again, history indicates that they would not. They’d have their own agendas to worry about.
Back to reparations and smoking weed again:
11. Reparations is the kind of stupid idea that gets into a kid’s head after listening to Garveyist rhetoric while under the influence. Whether the kid in question is white or black, the idea that it is some sort of basis for real political activity is puerile
12. Now all we got to do is figure out how to collect it.
I know! We’ll get the white kids to listen to even MORE Bob Marley while stoned than usual. Then, once Garvey’s wise words have penetrated to the depths of their subconsciousness, they’ll be ready to vote black people all the money in the world.
Yeah, that’s the ticket!
Folks, here’s the bottom line, truly. All my thoughts on this matter can be boiled down to this one thing. All my thoughts on this matter can be boiled down to this one thing: HOW ARE REPARATIONS GOING TO BE ENFORCED?
This time a question to me
13. My question to you is simple and unitary: HOW is it going to happen under any conceivable circumstance, no matter how remote?
A first time admission
I know people are fighting for this (across the world my emphasis).
What I would like you to show me is any coherent vision of how reparations could possibly be enacted.
You recognize that saying “people are fighting for this” is not the same thing as showing how ANY of said people expect to achieve it?
Another response directed at me
14. so nice try at wiggling your way out of this one, J, but no go: you have no pragmatic plan for reparations. It’s simply a rhetorical and dogmatic position with you.
About what I’d expect from a Garvyite. Garvey was always big on crowd-pleasing smoke-and-mirrors rhetoric.
15. J, this is simply wrong. I know of NO case of reparations for inhuman conduct that were mandated in a court of international law.
This in response to what I said:
“the issue of reparations is something that is enshrined in international law. It is given to countries who have a legal basis for a claim of injustice etc, or when such a claim is made. Usually that case will have to be argued out in a court”.
Thad describing himself and expertise
16. I am not an expert in international law, but I HAVE read quite a lot about the Nuremburg trials, Eichmann’s trial, Native American treaty law, and several very famous reparations cases. Because of my work on the human trafficking issue, I also have a pretty good workman-like notion of how modern anti-slavery law works on an international level and how the international court in The Hague is set up.
Moreover, I have researched the reparations issue with the people here in Brazil who push it and several of the organizations who push it internationally.
So while I’m not an expert, my knowledge on this point goes far beyond a Wiki education.
So I’m not simply spouting racist nonsense when I tell you that international law, such as it exists, is not geared to take entire nations and races to court and ESPECIALLY isn’t geared to do that for crimes against humanity.
So this in essence is your position regarding the subject, and it shows the shifting of positions etc.
I think you have said it all here eloquently, and Mira did quote you accurately
Thad I used this link because it says what you have been denying for so long that charges of reparations cannot be brought because of misdeed/conduct committed by a country.
So on this point you are wrong. On a more fundamental level it aso reveals your lack of knowledge in international law, something which even you admit to yourself. Please see point 16.
Secondly, with regard to the issue of slavery, the law can be used ‘retroactively’, just as the link says. However, that will take us into the issue of when and how can the law be used ‘retrospectively?’ Again this is something you missed in the link and not being conversant with international law, by your own admission.
And still while we are on your role here on this blogas to be the disruptor/liberal/racist etc
There is one important thing which you said:
I had asked:
“Surely you are not advocating that Blacks pick up guns and obtain the monetary that way”??
“Personally, I’d think blacks would have a much better chance that way – though still not a very good one”
In the real world, this is exactly what happened with the Black Panthers. The state placed ‘agent provacauters’
within the group, to get the organisation to commits acts of violence that led to their ultimate demise – and people within the organisation’s death. In other words its a form of suicide but instigated by the powers that be
This is so common a strategy that it is used also in Britain, not so that people will die per se but to lead to the demise of radical groups – even to this day.
Very worrying that Thad should be willing to consider such a ‘strategy’ for Black people with regard to the issue of seeking reparations.
Sorry, J, that’s not true. In this case from the very beginning, I have made a point to say that I do not feel reparations bad, per se, but that they are a pipe-dream in terms of practicalities for SEVERAL different reasons.
I mean, which part of “Hey, if you can convince the U.S. government to seriously contemplate giving 6.000.000.000 dollars to black people as reparations for slavery, I’ll vote for it. Just don’t blame me for the likely results…”
It’s very easy to claim that someone is aying something that they are not by selectively cutting and pasting, J. That comment of mine came very erarly in the debate and it was repeated:
Summing up, I think reparations, while a wonderful idea in theory, is a complete stoner’s pipe dream in practice.
Liking the idea or not has nothing to do with it [my resistence to it], J: I’d just like you to show me where this is international law.
Folks, here’s the bottom line, truly. All my thoughts on this matter can be boiled down to this one thing: HOW ARE REPARATIONS GOING TO BE ENFORCED?
Hell, I’d like to see blacks get 6 trillion in reputations, if only because it’ll put another nail in the coffin of U.S. imperialist ambition.
I mean, just how often fo I have to repeat that the IDEA of reparations is not the problem, J, it’s the practical implementation? I’ve done this a half a dozen times now, and yet here you are, bald-facedly lying that I’ve somehow changed my position on this?
J, are you really that poor a reader or are you simply that manipulative a person? Because there’s no way in hell that this point could’ve somehow gotten by you unoticed if you were actually reading what I wrote.
Even your partial and very tendacious “summing up” of my points shows me sticking to one point and coming back to it again and again. Here it is, once again, repeated for the 100th time (or thereabouts):
Reparations are a pipe dream because here is no international legal or practical basis for them that could possibly be made to work.
And yes, J, I believe that your rhetoric about reparations is typical Garveyite boolshite. It is long on rhetoric and completely lacking anything that could be called a pragmatic plan. It SOUNDS good and for Garveyites like yourself, that’s all you need, isn’t it?
If that’s not the case, then show us a pragamatic outline of how reparations can be achieved. You have not done this, nor has any site you’ve linked us to done this. Nor does any site I have investigated on my own do this.
As far as I recall, I never said that charges couldn’t be brought. You enjoy paging through my old posts in search of contradictions, so knock yourself out.
Here’s my original comment on that:
Under international law, it would be very hard to argue reparations, period. In both the Italian/Libyan and U.S./ethnic Japanese cases, you have survivors alive today and some sort of clear-cut lineage regarding the crimes.
But note that NEITHER the U.S. nor Italian cases have anything to do with international law. Both countries voluntarily paid out those sums and asked for appologies from people who had been hurt by their acts in living memory.
I’m not aware of any area of international law (which is pretty vague) which can cover the U.S.-slavery case.
…and I stand by that original assessment. Nothing you’ve brought up has contradicted it. The Armenians aren’t getting cash: they’re having a HELL of a time arguing their point in court and in their case, they have a very clear lineage of the crime. Furthermore, the crime was conducted when genocide had already been outlawed.
To prove that black Americans are elligible for reparations because of genocide, you’d need to…
A) Prove that slavery was genocide in a legal and simply in a rhetorical sense (i.e. a conscious attempt to eliminate a people from the face of the earth);…
B) Prove that the genocide occurred under an operative form of international law which prohibitted it.
International law is clear on this point: a country can’t be guilty of a crime which occurred prior to the founding of the law. Seeing as how the earliest thing which could be understood as an international law or agreement against genocide was founded in 1899, then we’re pretty much SOL, aren’t we?
I suppose you could also try for reparations on the issue of slavery, but your going to run into the same problem again, I bet: international law won’t allow you to ask for reparations for something which wasn’t illegal under international law at the time.
So once again, J, the question isn’t and never has been “Can one bring charges for reparations in international court?”
The question is “Can said charges be made to work, in any way, shape or form?”
In other words, the question is “Do you have a case?”
The answer, as far as I can see, is no.
But people sue for sh17 all the time without having a case. You can bring charges up on anything you like. That was never at question. Whether or not those charges can be made to stick: THAT’S the question.
And J, no “we won’t know until we try” isn’t an answer unless the question is “How can we make money for lawyers?” Any ethical lawyer will tell you not to pursue a case unless you have some solid legal basis to do it. Sure, you can ignore the fact that you have a solid legal base, and charge away, but that’s not going to do you any good at all.
Its clear to see what was your original points. No amount of moving the ‘goalpost is going to change this fact:
I have quoted you at great lengths:
These were you initial comments.
As I said this is the ‘tactics’ you continue to use. When you are proved wrong on a point. You then go on to say, ‘I never said that’, ‘I never meant that’ etc. Or in this instance points 1 & 2 was not your starting point, but rather you begun your position at point 3 .
Let’s be honest here you are against reparations per se for Black people in America but you are attempting to utilse a ‘honest’ pretext to justify your position. And the one you are attempting to use is that you cannot see ‘how its going to work??’.
This in essence is what this dialogue is about.
on Tue Jun 1st 2010 at 00:16:33 Thaddeus
Nice try, J.
I’ll stand by what I originally said and note two things:
I’m not against reparations in theory, I think it’s never going to work in practice and that it’s thus a waste of time or a stoner’s pipedream.
I’ve been hammering out variations on this since we began our argument and I’ve not moved one jot from that position.
You can do all the creative cutting and pasting you like, but it doesn’t change that simple fact.
Nor does it change the fact thatm since we began the discussion, I’ve repeatedly challenged you to show us a pragmatic way in which reparations could be achieved, something you have yet to do.
Your entire argument regarding reparations to date can be summed up as follows:
“Friends, if we had some ham, we could have a ham sandwich, if we had some bread.”
on Tue Jun 1st 2010 at 00:22:00 FG
All this talk about reparations (i.e. cash handouts) is just a distraction from pursuing real solutions to the negative consequences of European colonialism. The focus should be on resolving the social problems experienced disproportionately by slave descendants and Native Americans so that they can catch up with whites. Why do so many minority families break up? Why do gaps in cognitive ability show up in minority kids at young ages? Why do so many minority kids get into crime and substance abuse? Determining the answers to these questions and formulating realistic policies based on them are key extricating ourselves from the racial quagmire.
on Tue Jun 1st 2010 at 00:59:14 MerriMay
Seriously, it’s like flogging a dead horse!! You’re spot on about those tactics though, it’s painfully obvious.
Merri, I seriously have better things to do than think up arcane strategies for trolling you and J.
Get over yourself.
on Tue Jun 1st 2010 at 10:34:57 J
Indeed Merrimay!!
What is even more ‘painful’ though is the influence that he and his partner (who is Black) has outside cyberspace iin the real world. With their anti-Black politics, and also – what must be assumed as the poor the level of education, if what has been shown on this blog, with the lack ability to reason, critical thinking etc. I dare to think how this all plays it out for the students but particularly the Black ones??
This is what is also painfully obvious!!
What you wrote her is a little confusing, can you kindly clarify??
When you say reparations is a ‘distraction’. Are you suggesting that those who are fighting reparations do not also want ‘social justice’ and parity within the US??
Nice ad hominems, J. I love you, too!
But here’s another question regarding reparations for slavery: do ALL descendents of slaves get them? What about white descendents of slaves? What about the white descendents of WHITE slaves?
It is no ad hminems – I just told it as I saw it.
If anyone is the master of ad hominems here then I am afraid not all the posters put together (since I have been here) would be able the amount you have spewed out.
I am not sure about your question on reparations either, unless it is another attempt to move the ‘proverbial goalpost’.
I think it is, be that as it may…
The law is clear, and it is usually ‘inclusive’ to all members.
Thus if Whites can formulate a claim, whether it be local or under international law, then they are within their right to make a reparation claim.
Its as simple as that…
The law is also clear that you can’t claim for crimes that weren’t crimes at the time they were committed.
How do you propose to get around that particular part of international law, J?
Again,
If ‘they’ can argue and give reason as to why the law should be used retrospectively – since it can be applied thus.
For instance with regard to Black people. Western nations and individuals are benefitting from the ramifications of slavery even today. Africa as a continent find itself in its current position directly as a result of this event.
So it depends if those who are advocating reparation can show that the argment of people NOT being alive is ‘superfluous’ to the effects of the crime, especially as it is still impacting today.
And again whether this argument will be accepted or rejected and/or before a court, does not preclude groups attempting to make such a claim, if they believe they have a ‘good’ argument.
on Thu Jun 3rd 2010 at 17:11:00 Thaddeus
The law is quite clear: you can’t hold people culpable for things that are illegal by today’s standards but weren’t illegal then. Retroactivity has nothing to do with it.
And once again, the argument here was never about whether people CAN take a case to court: it’s about whether or not said activity is a waste of time and resources.
I say it is. I challenge you to show us how reparations could conceivably IN ANY WAY come about. You have studiously avoided doing so.
Given that, I think it’s quite safe to assume that reparations, for you, is a convenient dogma and not a practical strategy.
on Fri Jun 4th 2010 at 00:25:59 J
Someone somewhere else had made reference to Roots.
Now this film is not for the fainthearted. I have just found my own personal copy a second ago, by chance.
“American distributors felt that such scenes were too incendiary, and forced Jacopetti and Prosperi to remove more than thirteen minutes of footage explicitly concerned with racial politics for American and other Anglophone audiences”.
Goodbye Uncle Tom
xxx xxx xxx cert 30.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3766149445318503265#
on Fri Jun 4th 2010 at 03:16:58 leigh204
^ @J:
I finished watching this just now and it was stomach turning. The rape/torture scenes…omigosh. Everything was disturbing and sickening.
on Thu Jul 15th 2010 at 14:35:50 Kwamla
Curious. I just decided to what this film. I was indeed shocked!!!
I had expected a semi- disturbing watered down version of what slavery was about. But I have to say I was truly surprised…
The background info you provided is also quite useful. And I can imagine why they might want to do this. I wonder what those omitted scenes would have looked like?
This film should be compulsory viewing in all educational establishments. Simply for the purpose of allowing ALL peoples – Black, white POC, Jews etc.. to re-connect with the horrors of the past most inhumane treatment of a people.
I say this because I believe most of the present traumas and conflicts today between Blacks and whites can be traced directly to this 500 year period of shielded history.
One of the beautiful touches is how the narrator, towards the end, plays out scenes from the past and contrasts these in the present (Not sure when this is).
It clearly shows how much of this conflict is still trapped in the psyches of all of this. So for me films like this are about releasing guilt and shame NOT about holding on or increasing them
Sadly, this view is obviously not shared by the American distributors.
Now I wonder if Thaddeous has watched the film and commented on it? Some how I doubt if it would make any difference to his presentation of views.
One last observation: I noticed at the end when the film attempted to show white people on the receiving end of the same brutal violence they inflicted on Black people.
Lets suppose all those people running around naked, brutalized and de-humanized had been white and the people carrying out these inhumane treatments as well as documenting the process had been Black. In other words Black people (Or any other peoples of colour) exchanged places with white people.
What would have been the affect on the white psyche?
And would the American distributors still have wanted to censor or make those cuts?
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on Thu Feb 9th 2012 at 05:28:56 Maurice L
Damn this was a good post. The comments are good as well.
on Sun Jul 8th 2012 at 15:58:23 rb
I think that this is abit racist
on Mon Aug 27th 2012 at 18:59:59 admin
Why have you not mentions ANYTHING at all about the Arab slave trade and the 150 million Africans enslaved by the Arabs, and the 50 million whites, asians and orientals enslaved and sold by Muslims? Why have you forgotten that Muslim sharia law and the mass conversion of Africans, is what brought and invented the slave trade and export of human beings to Africa over 1000 years before any Hispanic, Oriental, South American, European or American were even involved in slave trading?
And you have also omitted that African kings REFUSED to end the slave trade and blame the British for interfering into their god given right to sell slaves. You also mention nothing of blacks in America who were freed – yet kept their own black slaves, purchased and sold them like other slave owners. You also mention nothing that after Africans were converted to Islam, they felt they had the right to enslave people and willingly marketed, captured and sold their own people – making millions in profit from this trade with Muslims.
At present in 2012 there are only two continents that still sell and purchase slaves: Africa and the Middle East. The trade continues, although no one in the west purchase slaves anymore since the past 200 years or so.
Why are you not writing about African slavery of their own people – which solely happened due to Islamic sharia law, which supports slavery? Most of Africa is Muslim, due to mass conversion of Africans during the 14 centuries of Arab slave trade.
on Mon Aug 27th 2012 at 20:58:21 abagond
@ Admin
When I write a post I write the title first. Then I write 500 words about it. The title of this post is “The Transatlantic slave trade”, not “People other than Europeans who traded and owned black slaves”.
I have written about Africans and Arabs and slavery, not as history but as an argument white racists use to preserve their moral blindness, which seems to be what you are doing:
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/the-arab-trader-argument/
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2010/09/22/africans-sold-their-own-people-as-slaves/
on Mon Aug 27th 2012 at 21:53:08 SomeGuy
At present in 2012 there are only two continents that still sell and purchase slaves: Africa and the Middle East.
I have news for you; when Ukrainian, Russian and other Eastern European pimps kidnap women and have them locked up in a house selling azz and not giving those women compensation of freedom….guess what…THAT’S SLAVERY.
on Mon Aug 27th 2012 at 22:36:58 B. R.
Trans Atlantic reminents of slavery exists in Brazil, where they exploit workers to go long distances, stay in barricks situation, get room and board and work like dogs, but, there horrible salarie cant even pay the room and board, so , they cant even get out of the debt, they have to stay on as slave labor…this is more than once and they talk about it as slavery in the news , so that isnt my depiction…and these people are mostly brown and black people
We have all heard of that version with women and sex traficing, and, that is how it works with men, in labor camps…they cant pay off their room and board and transport debt
on Tue Aug 28th 2012 at 15:04:07 admin
We need to end the slave trade COMPLETELY no matter where in the world it is. Unfortunately when it comes to Islam, slavery is endorsed by the religion. This means they converted millions of Africans to Islam to become their co-partner in the export slavery business.
SomeGuy: everyone know’s that the sex slave trade, is slavery. Again 80% of the entire slave trade is managed by Muslims due to their religious laws, that see no crime in killing or enslaving other people. The rest is by Russian mafia gangs and other criminal organizations.
Today there are an estimated 27 million people living in slavery.
on Tue Aug 28th 2012 at 15:20:14 SomeGuy
Backpedaling.
Backpedaling? WHAT Backpedaling? There is no backpedaling about anything. You trivialize the origin of exported slave industry simple because you don’t bother to research it. Asia and the Middle East will not permit their history to be openly examined. 200 million slaves captured by Arabs and you spend pages and pages on hispanic, portugese, american and other slave history that were a drop in the ocean in comparison.
Blacks are the ones backpedaling right back into slavery, by converting to Islam! How dumb can people be? American prisons are full of blacks converting to Islam.
Go to youtube and listen to Simon Deng and other slaves who recently escaped slavery under Muslim law, after their countries were converted into Islamic societies. They imagined Islam would bring them good things to their countries. Instead after gaining political control, they quickly started enslaving people. You can buy black slaves for $10 in Sudan, Niger and other places that are MUSLIM societies.
on Tue Aug 28th 2012 at 18:29:39 abagond
This post is about the Transatlantic slave trade. You are not going to derail it with your rants about Muslims. If you want to talk about Arab or African slave owners and traders, then do so at the links I gave you (repeated below). That is the proper place to talk about that stuff – that is, if you are serious and not just about derailing this thread.
on Mon Oct 1st 2012 at 17:58:31 rj
A lot of people like to bring up free negro slave owners but none of them mention how those free negroes became free nor how they came to own slaves. If you’re going to talk about something, talk about the whole story,don’t talk about it half way
on Sun Jun 30th 2013 at 13:18:06 j2000scott
i wonder why the Holy Bible. recognized and did not condemn slavery.
here is my take: in Old Testament days 2000 b.c. to 400 b.c. slavery was
accepted. A practice of tribes capturing slaves included Egyptians owning Hebrews, Africans
owning Africans of different tribes, Apaches owning members of other tribes, etc.
No shame involved. A little similar to women of America in the 1850’s -1920 having few rights,
no voting rights. Normal in its time. Perhaps the law to love your fellow man as yourself
quickened, informed man of God’s Will, and put into motion an energy that will discredit
slavery as a moral practice. The issue of shame began with the Golden Rule tho it took years
to fully develop in man’s collective consciousness.
on Tue Aug 27th 2013 at 19:37:47 Anton
Thank you for this post. Yet it is horrifying. And yes, whites often think that Africa is a country.
on Thu Oct 3rd 2013 at 22:25:26 Queen Ciara-Adira
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Ending the Slavery Blame-Game
By HENRY LOUIS GATES Jr.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/opinion/23gates.html?hp&_r=0
on Wed Dec 11th 2013 at 16:12:18 bethe37
Mel, I’m white and I have tears pouring down my face. Did I know all this stuff already? Yeah, but it sickens the heart to read it. How is it possible we live in a world so dark? Thank God change has come thru good men and women who sacrificed so much to bring change, but then… it’s still out there, that darkness. Human trafficing. We must abolish the ownership and abuse of other humans… it must be wiped off the face of the earth. I pray, before one more child is taken, change will come.
Love your fellow man, stop hating. We need each other.
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on Fri Oct 10th 2014 at 02:39:09 Sherilyn
I don’t believe that Africans started slavery long before the Europeans showed up . I believe that they did sold their own for commodities yes because of greed but this information is totally bias
on Fri Jun 12th 2015 at 20:05:02 Nancy Griffin
“A common white belief is that Africans “sold their own” as slaves. That is based on yet another common white belief: that Africa is a country. ”
Did you just make this up, or did you assume this? The truth is that some folks believe that slavery was strictly a white-vs-non-white issue, and the point being made by some is that it was not just whites buying-and-selling non-whites, that some of the non-whites participated as well, whatever their motives.
Some historians claim that Africans also mistaken assumed they were selling other Africans into servitude, not slavery, which was a common practice in Africa in the 1700s. I am not convinced of this, but some leading historians believe it is true.
Either way, I think your statement is your opinion, not fact.
on Thu Sep 3rd 2015 at 09:27:57 talibmensah
Walter Rodney had some interesting thoughts on the slave trade as part of the process of Europe underdeveloping Africa…interesting book but not sure how seriously scholars of the slave trade take it
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on Sun Oct 4th 2015 at 19:22:00 EPGAH
Remember, savages–especially MOSLEMS–NEUTERED most their slaves, which is why it didn’t “fall upon the children”–what children?
For everyone else, if you could put two really expensive items together and have a third really expensive item free, you’d be a fool not to.
Savages (Before they were counted as human)
I’m sure if people found a way to make cars or money reproduce, they surely would.
BUT there are still two-legged puppy mills long after slavery, so what’s the excuse there?
Or are they continuing because slavery wasn’t ended in other countries?
on Sat Mar 26th 2016 at 16:06:36 Nicole cox
What was the aim of seasoning
on Sat Mar 26th 2016 at 18:51:31 Afrofem
@Nicole cox
The aim of seasoning was to break the will of formerly free people and replace it with the acceptance of servitude.
on Wed Mar 30th 2016 at 00:42:57 Mighty matty
stop Thaddeus.
on Wed Mar 30th 2016 at 00:52:42 Willy Wrangler
Thaddeus you need to stop with your novel jesus h christ
on Wed May 18th 2016 at 23:00:35 Foh
If there was limited food and water how did any of the slaves live forget half. No air how did they breathe? No space to even roll over which most were laying on their backs and were vomiting no reports of numerous deaths from choking. I can go on and on most importantly where are the North American slave ships? I’ll wait, not once in site and it doesn’t matter that they were wood this was just hundreds of years ago they would of survived. Basically my point is so far this sounds like a bunch of bullshit you know why? Because most black people were already here long before them stinking 13 colonies words of advice the only thing that matters is physical proof not documents because anyone can Doctor up fake paper work, don’t believe everything that’s told to you no matter who it comes from.
on Sat Oct 28th 2017 at 18:51:53 Tomism
“Many Jews look white but in essence are not white because they have Jewish blood…like people believe whites were behind the African Slave Trade, when it was actually jews. There were also white slaves, working next to black slaves… and black plantation owners, who owned white and black slaves. To afford the cargo, ships or pay the captains, set up the ports, took money, something most whites did not have back then….it took European Christian whites to end slavery, after fighting against the powerful jewish lobby to keep it going.” -Harold Wallace Rosenthal
Jews have successfully managed to shift the blame for enslaving Blacks away from the themselves to Whites instead and they’ve used this lie to guilt trip compassionate White people and to agitate Blacks against Whites.
Whites did not have the money to afford a slave, let alone a ship full…the ports, ships, cargo…the entire African Slave Trade was a jewish operation, from beginning to end.
Jews and the transatlantic slave trade forms part of the wider history involving Jews and slavery which involved not only Africans, but also Europeans (especially Slavs), Middle Easterners, Central Asians and others. Specifically in relation to the transatlantic slave trade, it deals with the transportation of Black Africans to the Americas. Jews owned many of the slave-ships and had a very prominent, even leading role in the whole scheme.
Jews also sold white people as slaves to the Americas. Where tribes in Africa would kidnap other tribes to sell them to slavery to Jews, the Jews would kidnap whites. The hundreds of thousands of whites who were kidnapped, chained, whipped and worked to death in the American colonies and during the Industrial Revolution is kept secret by the Zionist-controlled media.[1]
http://immigration-globalization.blogspot.com
it was European Whites that ended the African Slave Trade, not jews or the King of Nigeria, who both fought against the ending slavery in European courts to keep it alive. The Jews were expelled from Spain on August 2, 1492, and from Portugal in 1497. Many of these Jews emigrated to Holland, where they set up the Dutch West Indies Company to exploit the new world.
White slaves were what this country was founded upon, especially in the Tobacco regions. They were worked to death and very few made to the conclusion of the in-denturedom. It was only when they needed a new slave class, that they started using the blacks. “White Cargo”
Slavery was NOT abolished by Lincoln…
just the name was changed to sharecropper with over 5 million Southern whites and 3 million Southern blacks working on land stolen by Wall Street bankers.
White, black, Indian, Hispanic, Protestant, Catholic and Jewish Confederates valiantly stood as one in thousands of battles on land and sea. Afterwards, they attended Confederate Veterans’ reunions together and received pensions from Southern States.
Photos of black Confederate veterans may be seen in Alabama’s Archives in Scrapbook – 41st Reunion of United Confederate Veterans, Montgomery, June 2,3,4 and 5, 1931.” Lincoln did not claim slavery was a reason even in his Emancipation Proclamations on Sept. 22, 1862, and Jan. 1, 1863.
Moreover, Lincoln’s proclamations exempted a million slaves under his control from being freed (including General U.S. Grant’s four slaves) and offered the South three months to return to the Union (pay 40 percent sales tax) and keep their slaves. None did. Lincoln affirmed his only reason for issuing was: “as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said (tax) rebellion.”
By 1699, the number of free blacks prompted fears of a “Negro insurrection.” Virginia Colonial ordered the repatriation of freed blacks back to Africa. Many blacks sold themselves to white masters so they would not have to go to Africa. This was the first effort to gently repatriate free blacks back to Africa. The modern nations of Sierra Leone and Liberia both originated as colonies of repatriated former black slaves.
However, black slave owners continued to thrive in the United States.
By 1830 there were 3,775 black families living in the South who owned black slaves. By 1860 there were about 3,000 slaves owned by black households in the city of New Orleans alone.http://conservative-headlines.com/2012/03/americas-first-slave-owner-was-a-black-man/
Black Slave Owners and the Civil War
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooSTTxfriC8)
Dr. Tony Martin –
The Jewish Role in the African Slave Trade
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut7I75Q_-zA)
White Slaves of Black Masters
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfi1xHjFdgM)
on Sat Oct 28th 2017 at 19:26:51 satanforce
Let me guess. White Supremacist pretending to be Nation of Islam?
on Sun Oct 29th 2017 at 01:38:15 Afrofem
Everyone is responsible for the Trans-Atlantic slave trade except the people actually responsible for the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
European Christians and their descendants blaming everyone but themselves.
on Sun Dec 3rd 2017 at 09:54:38 tecneek
..even before that the moors, and the biblical Exodus..
Satan force, the JewISH are Khazar converts, and they in their own books documented how they orchestrated the slave trade, and owned slaves… They are the synagouge of satan, per King James Bible. Also, they believe in their Talmud, not the Torah. The Classic Talmud hates black people, and believe they were cursed to be ugly, and believe in sex with young kids.. It is all in their Talmud. THEY are JewISH alright, but not Hebrew Israelites.
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on Fri May 31st 2019 at 16:41:19 jefe
They claim that the ship that transported the last shipment of African slaves to the USA was identified in Mobile Bay. The article says that the last survivor died in 1937.
Remains of the Clotilda are discovered in southern Alabama
The remains of the last slave ship to arrive in America are found, near Africatown
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2019/05/30/remains-of-the-clotilda-are-discovered-in-southern-alabama
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The Province is expanding provincial COVID-19 ticket enforcement and workplace safety measures to keep British Columbians safe, as well as mitigate the effects on health-care systems, communities and the economy in the ongoing government response to COVID-19.
Mike Farnworth, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General, has asked gaming investigators, conservation officers, community safety unit inspectors, and liquor and cannabis inspectors to actively support police and increase COVID-19 enforcement during their normal course of duties or when in public places.
To better hold offenders accountable for paying their provincial COVID-19 violation ticket fines, Farnworth is also directing ICBC, which collects ticket fines on behalf of government, to send deemed-guilty offenders immediately to collections. Currently, payment reminders may be sent to guilty offenders for up to a year before the overdue account is sent to collections. ICBC will now eliminate this reminder period and instead send unpaid files directly to collections as soon as the initial 30-day payment or dispute period ends, or an offender is found guilty in court.
Additionally, the Province has asked WorkSafeBC to enhance its inspection presence in workplaces by reducing reliance on virtual checks and move to more in-person inspections, particularly in sectors where COVID-19 transmission is occurring. Read more.
Effective December 15, 2020, the BC Government has rolled out a new requirement for all British Columbian employers looking to hire temporary foreign workers.
The new requirement covers three federal programs:
The Temporary Foreign Worker Program
The Home Child Care Provider Pilot, and
The Home Support Worker Pilot
As you know, in BC, temporary foreign workers are protected by law from unfair employer practices and this registry ensures fair working conditions for all workers in the province.
By registering for a certificate, you will be able to continue to hire temporary foreign workers to round out your workforce, or to address seasonal requirements.
Online registration is now open and will only take approximately 20 minutes to register. There is no fee to obtain a registration certificate, which is valid for up to three years.
This summer, a ‘COVID-19 Emergency Layoff’ period was in place to extend the temporary layoff period under the Employment Standards Act to 24 weeks, expiring August 30, 2020.
Many employers requested four-month variances, which will expire near the end of December.
All variances have an expiry date. When you are within 30 days of that expiry, you will get an email from the Employment Standards Branch of BC notifying that you that, if you wish to seek a renewal to a later date, you must take action before your variance expires.
It is a simple, online process so employers and workers in non-unionized workplaces can jointly apply to the Employment Standards Branch to extend a temporary layoff period and renew a variance.
The online form, employee informed consent tool, and additional resources can be found here.
BC’s Ministry of Labour recommends that employers submit their variance applications early to avoid the potential of permanent staff layoffs and compensation for length of service to eligible workers upon the expiry of the employer’s Temporary Layoff Variance.
The Employment Standards Branch reviews the application. Employer will be notified once the variance is decided. Employers are encouraged to submit their variance application at least 5 days before expiry of their current variance and earlier if possible, for processing.
On December 10, 2020, ABLE BC hosted a webinar with go2HR on what to do if you have a COVID-19 outbreak.
Watch the recording and download the presentation slides. Download our COVID-19 Outbreak FAQ handbook here.
The webinar covers the following:
What to do if an employee tests positive for or comes into contact with someone who has COVID-19
What to do if a customer tests positive for COVID-19
Steps to follow in the event of a COVID-19 outbreak, including WorkSafeBC, public health guidelines, and general cleaning guidelines
Reviewing your COVID-19 safety plan
Helping employees feel safe in the workplace post-outbreak
Sample communications and messaging to share with customers and staff
Resources referenced during the webinar:
Province-wide restrictions, including mask requirements in public indoor settings
ABLE BC guidance on what to do if someone says they are medically exempt from wearing a mask
WorkSafeBC worker health checks
go2HR resource on maintaining your COVID-19 safety plan
Join ABLE BC as a member today and learn more about our member benefits
If you have any other questions or concerns, please contact Danielle Leroux (Director of Membership and Communications): danielle@ablebc.ca.
The next measures that will further restrict single-use items within the City of Vancouver will go into effect on January 1, 2022.
Vancouver City Council approved on Wednesday a revised start date for the previously approved ban on plastic shopping bags and the new fees that will be in place for disposable beverage cups.
These measures were originally scheduled to begin at the start of 2021, but they have been pushed back one year to provide struggling businesses with more time to prepare for the costly changes to their operations.
The ban on plastic shopping bangs is also compounded by a minimum fee of $0.15 for paper shopping bags, with the rate increasing to $0.25 in 2023. Paper shopping bags must be labelled “recyclable” and “made of 40% recycled content.”
There will also be a minimum fee of $1.00 for reusable shopping bags, with this fee growing to $2.00 in 2023.
For each single-use beverage cup distributed, a minimum fee of $0.25 must be charged.
As part of the city’s business license changes, businesses within Vancouver will be required to keep track of the number of paper shopping bags, reusable shopping bags, and single-use beverage cups distributed over every 12-month period.
This adds to the municipal government’s other already-enacted policies on single-use items, including the ban on foam cups and foam takeout containers that began on January 1, 2020, and the ban on plastic beverage straws that began on April 22, 2020
BC Tourism Task Force Presents Final Report
Last week, BC’s Tourism Task Force presented its final report to the Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture, and Sport, Hon. Melanie Mark, with a series of recommendations to support businesses and the workforce, and maintain confidence in travellers and communities.
Over a period of three months, members of the Tourism Task Force gathered information on best practices from other jurisdictions and analyzed the impact of existing provincial and federal relief programs.
The committee also held targeted consultations through a series of regional and topic-specific stakeholder roundtables and received presentations from 12 tourism experts.
In September, the Province appointed 11 business and industry leaders to a Tourism Task Force focused on identifying actions to help BC’s tourism industry recover from the impacts of the pandemic and put the industry on a path toward long-term growth.
Read the final report.
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Rising Tide Consultants is uniquely positioned to help you during times like these because we are your neighbours and friends, in the communities we share.
2021 is right around the corner, and with it, the promise of a return to normal and a brighter future. As a phoenix emerges from the ashes, we’ll all rise up stronger and more resilient than ever.
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ABLE BC Associate Member Integral Surfaces Group is helping keep your customers and guests safe during these challenging times.
Cleaning and disinfecting surfaces can remove and kill pathogens on surfaces, but studies have shown that more than half of the time surfaces are not adequately cleaned or are re-contaminated within minutes.
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May 10, 2015 by Steven R. Gerbsman
Inside the Johns Hopkins finance class that’s ‘guaranteed’ to get you a job on Wall Street
Portia Crowe
Portia Crowe/Business InsiderProfessor Steve Hanke designed the course to produce “the top people in the country.”
Kelly Chu stands at the front of the room and explains a complex spreadsheet displayed on a projector.
With precision she describes the discounted free cash-flow model she built of a food-services and construction company, and walks through its revenue-growth assumptions before making a recommendation on whether or not to invest.
Chu is not a wealth manager or an investment banker. Wearing flip-flops and jeans, the 21-year-old is a junior at Johns Hopkins University, and she’s presenting to her applied economics and finance class, a course at a non-Wall Street target school that guarantees its alumni top jobs on the Street, according to the professor.
Chu’s classmates are other undergraduates (during a discussion of the Russian-ruble crisis of 1998, a student points out she was 4 years old). They look like other 20-somethings in a Friday-afternoon seminar, with their heads in hand and droopy-eyed faces buried in laptops. You wouldn’t know they’re even paying attention, but when the professor tosses out an unexpected question — about an intricate math equation or the name of a Nobel laureate — they snap back answers in seconds.
Professor Steve Hanke, who’s been at Hopkins for 45 years, created the course two decades ago. It’s evolved but has always focused on “producing the top people in the country.”
Portia Crowe/Business InsiderThese students are heading to jobs and internships on Wall Street.
Most graduates become analysts, though a minority go into trading. (Hanke has been a currencies and commodities trader for over 50 years.) They all come away with job offers from their first-choice banks or hedge funds, despite Hopkins not having a business school.Of the 20 students of Hanke’s who are graduating this year, eight are going to JPMorgan. The rest took jobs at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, UBS, Deutsche Bank, Jefferies, Stifel, T. Rowe Price, Campbell and Co., and Millennium Management. Most of the sophomores and juniors took summer internships on Wall Street too.
Danny Elkins, who’s graduating in May, said he feels indebted to Hanke for the experience.
“We don’t have the kind of resources or the kind of connections of Princeton or Harvard or Duke,” he said. “But if you’re in this class, then I think you have something great to talk about during interviews. It can give you good ideas for stock pitches in interviews.
“I don’t think my situation would have ended up like it did if I hadn’t had the opportunity,” he said.
Elkins’ situation turned out well: He got five job offers from top firms and will be heading to JPMorgan’s asset-management department.
Portia Crowe/Business InsiderStudents build their own models every two weeks.
Students are allowed to take the course for credit up to three or four times, but the challenge is getting into it.Students have to submit résumés and transcripts and a have one-on-one interview with Hanke. (The bar is high: Most students have at least 3.7 GPAs.)
Every two weeks students build a model on a company assigned by Hanke or his informal assistant, Ryan Guttridge, a fellow at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics.
On off weeks, students write papers about their models, and then spend class time analyzing their findings together. Most MBA programs, Hanke notes, require students to build only one or two models throughout their entire program.
That they’re building these models so frequently helps give them a leg up, but the real reason for their success could be the unusual type of models they’re building.
Portia Crowe/Business InsiderThe models are based on a unique discount free cash-flow system developed by Professor Hanke and Ryan Guttridge, an informal participant in the class.
Hanke and Guttridge developed their own modeling system to teach to the students. They build free cash-flow statements from scratch — meaning from SEC filings, not from data providers or other unverifiable sources.Then they measure drivers of cash flow, like revenue and margins, via Monte Carlo simulations, a technique that uses random sampling and runs multiple trials to home in on the probability of outcomes.
They end up with a distribution of share prices, instead of a single point value or price estimate, and look to buy stocks that are priced on the cheaper side of the distribution and have a higher probability of the price increases.
“Ultimately, when you’re buying a stock, you’re buying a series of cash flows — a series of expected cash,” Guttridge said.
For him, modern finance faces a big problem because most analysts’ forecasts ignore that distribution. “What isn’t in the analysis is that the risk has totally changed,” as share prices increase, he said.
The students follow a nearly 50-step process to build these models:
And while it may not be as sexy as rattling off a price estimate on the spot in a job interview, in a way this training gives the students some control in interviews.
“They’re interested but they don’t know a lot about it, so instead of them grilling you and putting you on your toes, you’re kind of explaining to them what you did,” says Elkins.
Portia Crowe/Business InsiderMost of the students are undergrads, but they’re beating out MBA grads for Wall Street positions.
Plus, he said, “When you start out the interview and you start talking about the nuances of the model … you can skip the basic accounting questions, and it allows you to differentiate yourself.”Guttridge said their model is not unique; it closely resembles billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s thinking, he said. Especially the part of Buffett’s 2013 letter where he talks about buying a farm.
“He says, ‘I’m going to buy the farm and on average I know what the farm’s going to produce,'” Guttridge said. “That’s exactly what we do. We just have a very formal, fairly rigorous framework around it.”
Guttridge said their model is akin, philosophically, to private equity firms. That’s because the distributions they come up with are most accurate when they’re not faced with time constraints, and private equity firms don’t have the kinds of calendar-year deadlines that investment banks do.
So it makes sense that many of their students wind up in private equity.
Portia Crowe/Business InsiderHanke and Guttridge said they’d hire their own students if they could beat Wall Street to it.
Some recent grads have even been recruited to private equity right out of college, according to Hanke, which is extremely rare. Usually, those firms recruit the cream of the crop from analysts at major investment banks.”I think the students are higher quality and more skilled than the first-year analysts that are on the Street right now,” said Hanke.
They’re high enough quality that he and Guttridge regularly use their classwork to make investment decisions for their wealth-management firm, Hanke-Guttridge Capital Management, which they founded in 2013.
They’d hire their own graduates, they said, if they only could beat Wall Street to it.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/johns-hopkins-wall-street-guarantee-finance-course-2015-5#ixzz3ZlydnCzM
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Schools at the K-12 level serve as development platforms for the next generation of people. While the chief factors in that developmental work are the dissemination of information, discussion of ideas, instruction on skills, and teacher-student interaction, so much happens behind the scenes to create and maintain the platform where this can happen—namely, activities that happen in the Main Office or Business Office. This is where student records are kept, HR activity happens, and interaction occurs between the school and the outside world, including parents, the community, vendors, and state officials—the business of running a school. And just like any other business, the Main Office has business processes.
Now, we here at Imaging Office Systems are quite aware of what we are and what we are not. And one thing we’re not is an expert in e-learning platforms and all the various software ecosystems that comprise that world. However, for all the supporting business activities happening in the main office? You know...those business processes that may have been caught in a technology time-warp (trust me, you’re not alone) and now require more time than they should to handle? We are experts at helping schools leverage technology to streamline those business processes.
Here’s a look at a few projects we’ve worked on that have helped streamline the work of school office workers.
Goddard Public Schools: Eliminating Paper from HR Workflows
Goddard Public Schools (USD 265) in Kansas employs about 1,000 people district-wide and wanted to eliminate paper from HR workflows.
Previously, the district had been handling requests for personnel files by retrieving the paper files from storage and making photocopies, which required a significant amount of time to complete.
School officials wanted to be able to simply click a button and pull up the information, whether in the office or working from home, provide a digital method for entering information into employee records and responding to information requests, and eliminate paper-based personnel records and box storage.
Imaging Office Systems worked to gain a full understanding of the district’s needs and develop the most appropriate technical solution, which turned out to be a cloud-hosted Filebound database along with integrated online HR forms to facilitate data entry.
Imaging Office Systems collaborated with the solution provider of the district’s student information system in order to integrate the two databases in ways that would bring additional efficiency benefits to the school system.
In the end, Goddard Public Schools got exactly what they requested—a much more efficient information management solution for storing HR data and responding to information requests from outside parties. Following the successful digitization of current employee records, Goddard Public Schools re-engaged Imaging Office Systems to digitize their records of past employees.
“The ability to go into this system, instead of having to walk out of my office or ask my secretary to pull individual files—especially in the last 10 weeks as she’s been working from home (during the coronavirus pandemic)—has been really beneficial. Being able to make this switch has really paid off in time for us.”
“We don’t have funds to add staff, so how do you utilize and maximize the time of the staff that you have? Now, it’s so easy to go into our system and pull up a personnel file. It’s all at our fingertips. It’s very user-friendly.”
“The knowledge that Imaging Office Systems brought to the table...I didn’t have to worry about the technology side of it at all. All I had to do was tell them what I wanted to do, and they figured out how to make it happen. And that’s all I really care about—I don’t need to know how it works, I just want it to work. And that’s what has happened. We’ve had no problems.”
-Jeff Hersh, Asst. Superintendent of Human Resources and Student Services, Goddard Public Schools, USD 265
Pendleton Heights High School: Digitizing and Indexing Graduate and Withdrawal Records
Pendleton Heights High School had been storing all its student graduate and withdrawal records—dating back to when the school opened in 1969—as paper files in an onsite vault. In order to respond to requests for student information by colleges and employers, school officials were manually searching and pulling these records almost daily. With nearly 4,400 graduate records (representing about 132,000 pages) and 1,400 withdrawal records (about 42,000 pages), this proved to be a very inefficient, time-consuming workload.
Consequently, the school was running out of storage space in its onsite vault. In addition, every time a class graduated, school officials had to manually incorporate all their new graduate files alphabetically into the massive collection of more than 4,000 graduates—a cumbersome and time-consuming process.
Imaging Office Systems scanned and converted approximately 175,000 pages information into a pair of cloud-based Filebound databases. We also indexed data to be searchable by name and date-of-birth. Throughout the digital conversion process, we enabled the school to maintain 100% access to paper records—a very important requirement.
The solution leveraged FileBound’s robust workflow capabilities to declare records and send notifications of record destruction. In addition, it delivered reports on legal holds, record destruction, record declaration and disposition approval, as well as standard FileBound reports that track actions involving records, presents system-wide information about content, users, projects and activities in a convenient dashboard view.
By replacing a vault full of nearly 175,000 pieces of paper with cloud-based databases, Pendleton Heights High School gained the ability to respond to daily records requests in just a few minutes, compared to hours with the old system.
“Now, I don’t have to run into the office to fulfill records requests over the summer. It’s very useful. I can just do everything from home. FileBound software is very user-friendly. They would alert me on what files had been scanned, then I’d look through them and give them the final approval to go ahead and discard the paper record. It all went very smoothly. If I ever had a question, someone was just a phone call away.”
-Teresa Frakes
Counseling Secretary, Pendleton Heights High School
Wichita Public Schools: Capitalizing on Extended Data Management Capabilities
USD 259 had an existing ImageNow document management system that was no longer meeting their needs, and they needed a partner with the products, capabilities, services and support to meet all of their requirements, which included:
Integrating PeopleSoft, Oracle E-Business Suite, and Synergy student information systems
Converting approximately 800 – 100’ rolls of 16MM Microfilm (estimated 1,915,200 images) to digital file format and importing into the DMS
Converting approximately 1,000 sheets of jacketed fiche with 60 images per sheet (estimated 60,000 images) to digital file format and importing into the DMS
Importing approximately 199,000 electronic PDF files of student transcripts into the DMS – estimated at 570,000 pages to parse and upload
Converting approximately 748,000 existing files currently stored in Image Now
Imaging Office Systems delivered the comprehensive data management solution USD 259 envisioned. More importantly, IOS provided USD 259 with flexibility and potential for growth by pairing powerful software with expert professional services. USD 259 also expanded use of the system to handle the growth. From an end-user resource perspective, while it used to take an entire day to process a stack of files that needed to be imaged and archived, USD 259 could now process the same batch in 30 minutes. End users could also use the built-in email capability and the print/upload function, which saves a lot of time and eliminated the need to print and scan hard copies.
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Trends in IT-Security and IAM in 2021, the “New Normal” and beyond
Article by Dennis Okpara, Chief Security Architect & DPO at IDEE GmbH
Yes, there is hope for 2021, but the challenges of the “New Normal” are here to stay. CISOs have to prepare and start acting now, because cybersecurity and the IT-infrastructure will have to face threats that have only just started.
The year 2020 was the year working from home lost its oddity status and became normality. Big names like Google and Twitter are planning long-term and hold out the prospect of working from home on a permanent basis. More than 60 percent of companies are trying the same and have implemented home office policies in 2020. But with great flexibility comes great responsibility: Everyone responsible for Cybersecurity and a secure IT infrastructure is now dealing with new challenges closing the last gaps and weak points when it comes to allowing access to company resources. Dennis Okpara, Chief Security Architect & DPO at IDEE GmbH, the specialist for secure identity access management (IAM), authentication and authorization, shows the top 3 issues CISOs have to look out for:
1. The Problem with Insider Threats will only get Worse
With more and more people working from home, the use of personal devices and working on private networks only increases and further fuels the risk of insider threats. This does not come as a surprise. As early as in 2018, Verizon's Data Breach Investigation Report already recorded an increase in threats from "internal actors," meaning employees who knowingly or unknowingly illegally disseminated data and other company information. According to the 2020 report, insiders were responsible for a data breach in a flabbergasting 30% of cases.
The case of Twitter in the summer of 2020 illustrates the damage vividly an insider threat can create. Hackers used social engineering to exploit the insecurity of IT employees and thus gain access to internal systems. Of course, it is quite unlikely that any of Twitter’s employees acted with malicious intent, still, they became the tool for an attack. The result: although the ATOs (Account Take Over) was used for fairly obvious scam posts, the attackers captured well over $100,000.
No company is immune to such attacks, and even strict cybersecurity policies have little effect because they are very difficult to enforce or monitor when people are working from home. Therefore, it can be assumed that the number of insider threats will increase by more than 20% in 2021.
2. Ransomware and Shadow-IT are bound to become the CISOs nightmare
Working from home came suddenly for most companies and pretty much overnight, and even still, most corporations are not sufficiently prepared for the challenges that lie ahead. Unlike in the office, where the IT department can reasonably reliably control the distribution of software on employee PCs, the use of home networks and private devices opens up new attack vectors for hackers.
Employees often use third-party services, download free software, or use private cloud services as a workaround when corporate services are not available. The storage of documents, access to data or other sensitive information on private devices will also continue to increase without CISOs being able to control this. Since private devices and networks are usually inadequately protected, they serve as a gateway for ransomware, which then attacks corporate networks, encrypts data and extorts high ransoms. Gartner analysts have already predicted a 700% increase in 2017 - the growth from the New Normal will dwarf those numbers and give CISOs many sleepless nights. Due to system and network vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, phishing, and the increase in credential attacks, we will likely see an exponential increase in ransomware attacks in 2021.
3. Mobile Devices Become a Favourite Target for Hackers
Developments such as multi-factor authentication (MFA) is improving the security of access to corporate services. On the flip side, it has put mobile devices in the crosshair of hackers. As smartphones are now practical for almost all online activities, the number of attack vectors has grown steadily along with them. In addition to malware, which can be easily installed via third-party apps, especially on Android, and data manipulation or the exploitation of recovery vulnerabilities (such as the interception of magic links or PIN text messages), social engineering is a particularly popular field here.
In addition to the widespread phishing e-mail, vishing (manipulation of employees by fictitious calls from IT staff) and smishing (which works similarly to phishing but uses SMS instead of e-mail) will increase sharply. Hackers will come up with new tricks to compromise mobile devices, and that can only make digital fraud worse.
2021: The Year We Abolish Trust
In a year in which we will have to learn a lot of things anew, CISOs are well-advised to not build anything on trust – neither their network infrastructure nor their IAM. Zero-trust architectures that question all access to corporate resources must become the standard in the age of the New Normal. Restricting resource access to a physical address or IP address, or to VPN access, is counterproductive and difficult to manage if employees are to work from remote locations. Digital identity will shift from user identity to the combined identity of the device and the user. Only this will enable modern and secure identity & access management.
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Fact vs. Fiction: Film Industry's Portrayal of Cybersecurity
Article by Beau Peters
The movie industry is infamous for its loose depictions of hacking and cybersecurity. Hollywood often gets a lot wrong about hacking and digital protections, but what does it get right?
The power of film in influencing the future of technology and the experts that create it is immense. Because of this, it is important to assess what the facts are versus movie fiction. Here, we’ll explore the film industry’s portrayal of cybersecurity.
Cybersecurity in Movies
From WarGames to Blackhat, hacking and cybersecurity movies have glamorized the world of digital safety and the compromising of said safety. However, each Hollywood outing does so with varying levels of realism, typically embracing excitement over reality.
In the 1983 WarGames movie, a young hacker almost triggers World War 3
These portrayals have led to common tropes and views of the cybersecurity industry in their attempts to prevent and combat hacking attempts. Among these tropes are some of the following portrayals, each occurring with varying degrees of absurdity.
1 Hacking is exciting, fast, and often ethical
The trope of a computer-savvy individual slamming on a keyboard for a few seconds and saying “I’m in” is common enough to be a defining joke about cybersecurity in film. Hacking is shown to be a process that takes minutes with has instant results. This is often far from reality, where hacking attempts can take weeks or even months to produce results.
And the results of actual digital break-ins are often far from ethical. Movies tend to show hacking as a victimless crime, but real-life hacking tends to mean data theft that can have severe implications on people’s lives.
2. There is a visually distinct or compelling element of hacking
Hollywood has to keep an audience engaged. Because of this, hacking and cybersecurity are often paired with some visually striking element that would simply be ridiculous in reality.
Jurassic Park has a great scene exemplifying this trope. Under attack from a velociraptor, a child logs on to a computer and proceeds to navigate through a 3D maze representing the computer system’s files. In reality, typing in a few commands would have achieved a result faster. However, this wouldn’t have been as exciting.
3. Hacking and cybersecurity are defined by excessively fast typing
You always know a hacker or a computer systems expert by their excessively fast keyboard smashing. In movies and TV, computer experts are always clicking away at a keyboard at speeds few of us could match, speeds that would unlikely result in very productive work due to mistakes and time needed to assess the situation.
However, fast typing is a staple of hacking movies. The faster you type, the faster you can get in or defend a system.
When compared to the reality of cybersecurity systems, these Hollywood portrayals often come up short. Though some movies are getting better at portraying hacking and security, they rarely capture the grittier, less exciting truth.
Cybersecurity in Reality
In reality, hacking is a much more time consuming and boring process, with results that have real impacts on the lives of everyday people. Hollywood neglects some of these finer points in favour of spectacle, as can be expected. Cybersecurity comes with its own set of tedious practices as well as the glamorous aspects of navigating computer systems.
Here are just a few ways that hacking and cybersecurity operate in the real world that movies tend to obscure or fail to depict:
1. Hacking is about information more than profit.
While cybercriminals can sometimes come away with a profit, doing so is incredibly difficult and not very common. Ransomware is sometimes used to extort profits from corporations, a process that occurs when a cybercriminal uses malware to hold a system hostage until a payment is made. However, break-ins usually result in little more than data theft or blockages with costly implications for businesses and individuals.
For example, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are used to slow or stop the computer processes of a business. This doesn’t necessarily result in any money for the hackers, but the downtime can cost companies thousands to millions of dollars.
2. Hackers rely heavily on phishing and social engineering.
Breaking into a system often requires access to valid user IDs and account passwords. This means hackers tend to use phishing and social engineering methods to mine information. They use all kinds of bots and scams to try and trick average individuals into clicking a link or divulging personal information.
However, this means that a lot of good can be done in the cybersecurity world without even needing to code. Simply teaching teams what to look for in avoiding scams and fraud can be a great way to approach cybersecurity incident management and keep private data safe.
3. White-hat hackers are real, and they make good money.
One thing movies get right sometimes is that hackers can be the good guys. There is a whole category of ethical hackers who often work as bounty hunters to find flaws in a company's cybersecurity systems. These so-called “white hat” hackers attempt to break in and are paid a bounty if they can reveal security deficiencies.
Sometimes, white-hat hacking comes with a significant paycheck. The bounty platform HackerOne has paid out $40 million across 2020 alone, making seven different hackers millionaires in a single year.
With the desperate need for individuals in the cybersecurity field, the truth around hacking is important to note. While Hollywood can make hacking seem glamorous and exciting, the truth is that many hacking processes come with dangerous implications. However, hacking can also be used to benefit the safety of information in ethical bounty situations.
With the emergence of cloud computing as a standard for remote workspaces, security professionals are needed now more than ever. Secure public and private cloud solutions are required for a functioning application marketplace, and cybersecurity professionals play a key role in maintaining that safety.
While cybersecurity isn’t always exciting, the results of keeping systems safe are much more rewarding than the black-hat alternatives.
The movie industry propagates a view of the cybersecurity field that is often far from reality. However, by acknowledging the departures from the truth, we get a better idea of the need and value of cybersecurity solutions as a whole, especially in the modern world of accelerated digital innovation.
While hacking and cybersecurity might not be anywhere near as exciting as they are in movies, working in cybersecurity—whether as a systems expert or a white-hat hacker—can mean a big paycheck and a safer world for the people you know and love. And that reality is better than any movie.
Labels: cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, Cyberwar, films, hackers, Hacking, movies
Article by Adam Strange, Data Classification Specialist, HelpSystems
In the digitally accelerated COVID-19 environment of 2021 what are the top data security trends that organisations are facing? Here is HelpSystems Data Classification Specialist, Adam Strange’s take on the outlook and trends for 2021.
Ongoing Growth in Remote Working will Create Data Security Threats
The far-reaching impact of COVID-19 includes the intensified threat of malicious cyber attacks as well as an escalating number of damaging data breaches across almost every sector of business. The rapid shift to remote working during the pandemic left many employers exposed to hackers and highlighted multiple examples of serious network and data vulnerabilities.
For example, in a recent article, Infosecurity Magazine quotes research finding that attacks on the biotech and pharmaceutical industry alone rose by 50% in 2020 compared to 2019. And in the defence sector, The Pentagon is seeing a huge rise in cyber attacks through the pandemic, where unprecedented numbers of employees are forced to communicate through their own devices.
As more companies move to facilitate a semi-permanent remote workforce, data security ecosystems will evolve to become more complex and advanced data management and classification solutions will be a critical technology investment.
‘Insider threat’ will be categorised as the most prominent tier 1 data security risk in 2021, necessitating stricter corporate guidelines and protocols in data classification, as well as comprehensive employee education programmes around data security.
HelpSystems’ recent research interviewed 250 CISOs and CIOs in financial institutions about the cybersecurity challenges they face and found that insider threat - whether intentional or accidental - was cited by more than a third (35%) of survey respondents as one of the threats with the potential to cause the most damage in the next 12 months.
Further, the latest Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) report confirmed that misdirected email remains one of the UK’s most prominent causes of security incidents, demonstrating the need for all organisations to control the dissemination of their classified data.
HelpSystems’ technologies in data security and classification are enabling businesses to regain control of sensitive data, identify sensitive data by scanning and analysing data at rest and classify and protect personal data by detecting PII at creation.
A Security Culture needs to be Embedded into Organisations, especially as Insider Breach Risk continues to Grow
In 2021 data governance will take centre stage in data security and privacy strategies. Companies will create Centres of Excellence (COE) to embed a solid data security culture across teams and corporate divisions and to formalise in-house data management processes, rolling out divisional best practice and placing data classification at the foundation of their data security strategy.
Employees play a vital role in ensuring the organisation maintains a strong data privacy posture. For this to be effective, organisations need to ensure that they provide regular security awareness training to protect sensitive information. In terms of how they go about doing this, they must invest in user training and education programmes.
The security culture of the firm must be inclusive towards all employees, making sure they are continually trained so that their approach to security becomes part of their everyday working practice, irrespective of their location, and security becomes embedded into all their actions and the ethos of the business.
Data classification solutions will allow businesses to protect data by putting appropriate security labels in place. HelpSystems data classification uses both visual and metadata labels to classify both emails and documents according to their sensitivity. Once labelled, data is controlled to ensure that emails, documents and files are only sent to those that should be receiving them, protecting sensitive information from accidental loss, through misdirected emails and the inadvertent sharing of restricted documents and files.
Supply Chain Ecosystem Risk will get Bigger
Accenture quote that 94% of Fortune 100 companies experienced supply chain disruptions from COVID-19, and that as much as 40% of cyber threats are now occurring indirectly through the supply chain.
2020 has been the year where businesses realised more than ever that data security across the supply chain was only as strong as its weakest link, where exposing a business’s network and sensitive data to its suppliers had the potential to carry significant additional risk.
HelpSystems’ recent report interviewed 250 CISOs and CIOs from financial institutions about the cybersecurity challenges they face and nearly half (46%) said that cybersecurity weaknesses in the supply chain had the biggest potential to cause the most damage in the next 12 months.
But sharing information with suppliers is essential for the supply chain to function. Most organisations go to great lengths to secure intellectual property (IP), personally identifiable information (PII) and other sensitive data internally, yet when this information is shared across the supply chain, it doesn’t get the same robust attention.
The demand for greater resilience across supply chain operations in 2021 will require businesses to move quickly to overhaul existing tech investments and prioritise data governance. Organisations must ensure basic controls are implemented around their suppliers’ IT infrastructure and that they have robust security measures in place.
Advanced data classification capabilities will deliver assurance and control to numerous industries including finance, defence and government. HelpSystems advises organisations to ensure their suppliers have a robust approach to security and information risk with security frameworks such as ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials in place.
Organisations should implement a data classification scheme and embed data risk management into the procurement lifecycle processes from start to finish. By effectively embedding data risk management, categorisation and classification into procurement and vendor management processes, businesses will prevent their suppliers’ vulnerabilities becoming their own and more effectively secure data in the supply chain.
Data Privacy Regulations set to Increase
An increased focus on data privacy and protection of personal data and the continuing shift in privacy law, as reflected in the EU’s landmark GDPR in 2018 and, this year, the US’s CCPA, and the CPRA set to take effect in 2023, has changed the data regulatory landscape. We can expect to see similar US compliance rulings come into force beyond California through 2021.
In addition to individual state privacy rulings, we can expect to see federal US-wide regulation come into force.
This new phase in privacy regulation will be complex and enforcement will demand changes in people, process and technology - proper corporate data governance programmes, employee training and solid data management systems in every organisation to counter reputational risk and hefty fines.
Data automation will also be a priority as companies struggle to deliver relevant data protection strategies for every level of business and its users, across all platforms and infrastructures to conform with individual state and international laws.
HelpSystems’ unified security, compliance and data classification solutions simplify compliancy reporting enabling business to easily generate the documentation necessary to identify security issues, give auditors the information that they need and prove compliance.
Labels: CCPA, Coronavirus, COVID-19, data classification, DPA, GDPR, privacy, Security Awareness, supply-chain
On 13th December 2020, it came to light SolarWinds IT systems were compromised by hackers between March 2020 and June 2020. SolarWinds provides software to help organisations manage their IT networking infrastructure. The attackers exploited their SolarWinds IT access to covertly insert a vulnerability, coined 'Sunburst', within the SolarWinds Orion platform software builds.
The following SolarWinds Orion versions are considered to be compromised.
Orion Platform 2019.4 HF5, version 2019.4.5200.9083
Orion Platform 2020.2 RC1, version 2020.2.100.12219
Orion Platform 2020.2 RC2, version 2020.2.5200.12394
Orion Platform 2020.2, 2020.2 HF1, version 2020.2.5300.12432
The vulnerability within these 'tainted' SolarWinds Orion versions permits an attacker to compromise the server on which the SolarWinds Orion product is installed and runs. Given SolarWinds is a popular network traffic monitoring product, thousands of organisations are said to be impacted by a potential hidden 'backdoor' into their internal networks, which is open to be exploited by malicious hackers, granting them remote access to their internal IT systems and confidential data. Organisations with the compromised versions of SolarWinds Orion present should immediately disconnect the software's host server from their network, and conduct a digital forensic investigation to determine if their IT systems were remotely compromised.
How to Update SolarWinds Orion to a Safe Version
Upgrading to Orion Platform version 2020.2.1 HF 2 ensures the platform is not vulnerable to the SUNBURST vulnerability. The update is currently available at customerportal.solarwinds.com. Hotfix installation instructions are available in the 2020.2.1 HF 2 Release notes here.
In the order of 18,000 organisations from 19 different countries, including the UK, are known to have downloaded the tainted SolarWinds Orion software. Around 50 organisations are known to have been compromised by hackers via the vulnerability, so far. The United States news media reported the Pentagon, US intelligence agencies, nuclear labs, the Commerce, Justice, Treasury and Homeland Security departments and several utilities were compromised.
As for the UK, Paul Chichester, NCSC Director of Operations, said “This is a complex, global cyber incident, and we are working with international partners to fully understand its scale and any UK impact. That work is ongoing and will take some time, but simply having SolarWinds does not automatically make an organisation vulnerable to real world impact.' Given that NCSC statement and what has been publically disclosed to date, it is clear the United States governing apparatus are the primary targets of the cyber-attack.
Russia Accused of Orchestrating this Cyber Attack
Given the sophistication of the attack and the reported compromises (aka targets) of United States government departments and utilities, it has all the hallmarks of a significant nation-station orchestrated cyber-attack. The fingers of suspicion are pointing directly at Russia, with the Russian backed hacking group APT29 'Fancy Bear' cited as the culprits by many security researchers and intelligence analysts. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Attorney General Bill Barr both publically stated they believe Moscow are behind the attack, as did the chairs of the Senate and House of Representatives' intelligence committees. Russia Denies 'Baseless' SolarWinds claims, while outgoing President Donald Trump seemed to be blaming China for the attack in a Tweet on 19th December.
SolarWinds Security Statement
SolarWinds Security Advisory
CISA Emergency Directive to Mitigate the Compromise of SolarWindows Orion
UK NCSC: Statement on the SolarWinds Compromise
UK NCSC: Dealing with the SolarWinds Orion Compromise
Microsoft: Advice for incident responders on recovery from systemic identity compromises
Microsoft: Important Steps for Customers to Protect Themselves from recent Nation-State Cyber-Attacks
FireEye Blog: Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain to Compromise with SUNBURST Backdoor
BBC News: Hacking the heart of the US government
Wired: Russia's SolarWinds Hack is a Historic Mess
https://github.com/fireeye/sunburst_countermeasures/tree/main/rules
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Network indicators
avsvmcloud[.]com
deftsecurity[.]com
freescanonline[.]com
thedoccloud[.]com
websitetheme[.]com
highdatabase[.]com
incomeupdate[.]com
databasegalore[.]com
panhardware[.]com
zupertech[.]com
54.193.127[.]66
139.99.115[.]204
5.252.177[.]25
204.188.205[.]176
Labels: APT29, CISA, Cyberwar, fireeye, Microsoft, nation-state, NCSC, solarwinds, sunburst
The Dangers of Security Vulnerability Scoring Dependency
Article by Nathan King, Director, Cyberis
Vulnerability scoring has an important role in most enterprise threat and vulnerability management programmes because it provides multiple benefits to internal security teams when identifying any weaknesses. Additionally, it can also help verify control performance.
The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) is a free and open industry standard for assessing the severity of computer system insecurities and attempts to assign scores to them, allowing responders to prioritise their feedback and resources according to the threat.
CVSS is an open industry standard for assessing the severity of computer system insecurities
This system, among similar others, has gained widespread industry adoption because it is simple to understand and usually produces repeatable results. However, adopting such systems can also result in failures to detect, manage and respond to security defects. The main reason for this is that vulnerability scoring systems are pretty good at measuring vulnerabilities, yet are unsuited to handling weaknesses.
The Difference between Vulnerabilities and Weaknesses
The MITRE Corporation (an American not-for-profit organisation which manages federally-funded research and development centres) simply defines a weakness as “a type of mistake in software that, in proper conditions, could contribute to the introduction of vulnerabilities within that software”. This definition can be expanded to a general notion that “weaknesses are errors that can lead to vulnerabilities”, making it applicable to other assets, not just software and including systems, networks and controls.
CVSS v3, for example, cannot really be used to measure the characteristics and severity of a weakness that has no currently defined vulnerability. We encounter this problem routinely when customers request CVSS ratings for application penetration tests where weaknesses are usually more evident.
Manage the Weaknesses
How weaknesses are managed alongside vulnerabilities is critical to the success of technical risk management programmes. It is common to see weaknesses inadequately assessed, measured and remediated and they are often overlooked, or fall off the radar completely. This is because remediation of critical and high severity vulnerabilities with verified scores are prioritised by overstretched security teams.
Let’s consider BlueKeep, a security vulnerability discovered in Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) implementation, which allows for the possibility of remote code execution. It is a remotely-exploitable, wormable vulnerability present in older versions of the RDP implementation.
If we ran a perimeter vulnerability scan today, which identified a notably unpatched RDP service, it would be scored by CVSS as 9.8 or in other words, ‘critical’. But how would the vulnerability scanner report the exposure of the same RDP service prior to BlueKeep’s public disclosure? Potentially in several different ways, but more than likely it would misclassify the exposure, despite it requiring immediate treatment as an obvious weakness, given its poor security reputation alone.
Another example where problems arise is in unsupported systems where vulnerabilities have not yet surfaced. The weakness here is obvious, but unsupported systems alone cannot be systematically scored. We often find that vulnerability scanners fudge high CVSS values to compensate, so perhaps this is a pragmatic, qualitative approach to handling weaknesses which cannot be measured. But if this qualitative approach is not applied to all weaknesses, unidentified gaps and inconsistencies, will be inevitable in the assurance activity.
Both examples consider vulnerability scanners, which are intrinsically affected by vulnerability scoring, but any service or security process that uses vulnerability scoring at its core is at risk of mishandling the weaknesses.
It is important to review any tools and internal processes which assess security defects by vulnerability scoring at their core. Understand how they identify and interpret the severity of weaknesses alongside vulnerabilities. And remember that CVSS assumes that a vulnerability has already been discovered and verified; anything outside of this scope may be misrepresented or missed entirely.
Also, do not dismiss qualitative approaches in your threat and vulnerability management programme because they can be invaluable in gaining a comprehensive view of technical security issues and assurance. Although qualitative assessments are also subject to bad press, they can be pragmatic, particularly when conducted by someone who is an authority in a particular subject area.
A varied programme of technical assessments should provide a broader view of priorities, both short and long term. Make sure your assurance programme delivers across all your particular objectives, by reviewing your vendor’s way of working carefully. For example, high-quality penetration tests should provide context and visibility of application and system weaknesses over a longer-term, not just a snapshot of the verified vulnerabilities.
Pandemic Working and Remote Access Vulnerability Trends
The continued working from home protocol has meant organisations’ IT systems are still being stretched to the limit, with many new challenges coming to the fore and without the traditional visibility into their infrastructures. Solutions that were rolled out in an emergency when the COVID-19 pandemic hit are still in use nearly a year on. Perimeters have become more porous, and in many cases, rarely-used remote access systems became critical business infrastructure overnight. These business trends provide opportunities for adversaries, who will be looking for vulnerabilities in remote access software and remote access components.
Considering weaknesses pragmatically, and the possible exposure if a vulnerability is identified, is crucial to maintaining information security and managing the commensurate risks in the current environment. A simple score from a vulnerability scan of the perimeter simply does not capture the risk.
Additional sources:
https://risksense.com/blog/blast-from-the-past-working-from-home-leads-to-uptick-in-remote-access-vulnerability-trends/
https://securityboulevard.com/2020/05/understanding-vulnerability-scoring-cvss-explained/
Labels: COVID-19, CVSS, cyberis, enterprise security, Mitre, Patching, Vulnerability Management
A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, November 2020.
Manchester United FC remains impacted by a seemly major cyber-attack, which I covered in a blog post titled The Multi-Million Pound Manchester United Hack. At this point, United have provided few details about their cyber-attack which has been impacting club's IT systems for well over a week. However, the UK media are widely reporting United's leaky IT defences was unable to prevent a ransomware attack and data theft. London's Hackney Borough Council have also been tight-lipped about what they describe as "a serious cyber-attack" which has impacted its service delivery to Londoners. Like United, this attack has all the hallmarks of a mass ransomware outbreak. Both Manchester United and Hacknet Council said they are working UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).
Man.Utd hit by ransomware, who's next?
Street Fighter games maker Capcom also reported to be compromised by a ransomware attack, with up to 350,000 people said to be affected, along some of Capcom's financial information stolen. The Ragnar locker hacker group were said to be behind the attack, although indications are that Capcom hasn't given in to their ransom demands after an ominous message appeared on the Ragnar group's website, which said Capcom didn't "make a right decision and save data from leakage".
The ransomware attacks will be going from bad to worse in 2021 according to Sophos. In its annual threat report, Sophos anticipates ransomware tactics, techniques and procedures are to become more evasive, with criminal threat actor operating more like nation-state attackers. Sophos also expects an increase in the number of entry-level, apprentice-type attackers looking for menu-driven, ransomware-for-rent, meaning the technical barrier preventing general nefarious folk orchestrating ransomware attacks is getting lower.
Its likely COVID-19 has saved Ticketmaster from a more substantial DPA/GDPR fine after the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) announced it had fined the gig ticket selling company a mere £1.25 million for failing to keep 9 million of its customer's personal data and payment cards secure. The ICO investigation concluded a vulnerability in a third-party chatbot installed on Ticketmaster's online payments page was exploited and used to access its customer card payment details. Following the breach, 60,000 Barclays bank customers were victims of fraud, while online bank Monzo had to replace 6,000 payment cards due to fraud. Ticketmaster said it would appeal against the ICO ruling.
An interesting new UK law is in the offing which proposes fines of 10% of turnover or more than £100,000 a day for telecoms operators that use of Huawei network equipment within their 5G networks. The bill provides the UK government new powers to force out Huawei usage with the UK telecoms giants, the threatened sum of £100,000 a day would only be used in the case of "continuing contravention" according to number 10.
Consumer group Which warned security flaws in popular smart doorbells are placing UK consumers at risk. The watchdog tested 11 smart doorbell (IoT) devices purchased from popular online marketplaces like Amazon, the dodgy products were said to have been made by Qihoo, Ctronics and Victure. The most common security flaws found by Which were weak password policies and a lack of data encryption. Two of the devices could be manipulated to steal network WiFi passwords, providing the opportunity for an attacker to then hack other smart devices within the home.
The NCSC released its annual review, confirming what we already know about the commonality of ransomware attacks on UK organisations. The NCSC also accused Russia of trying to steal vaccine-related information through cyber-espionage, advising an "ongoing threat" of nation-states targeting the UK vaccine research-and-delivery programmes. The NCSC were not alone in pointing the finger at nation-state threat actors going after COVID-19 vaccines, Microsoft also reported state-backed hackers from Russian and North Korea were targeting organisations working on a coronavirus vaccine. The Russian group "Fancy Bear" and North Korean groups "Zinc" and "Cerium" were fingered by Microsoft as the culprits behind a spate recent cyber-attacks. Microsoft said Fancy Bear were brute-forcing accounts with millions of different passwords combinations, while North Korean groups sent spear-phishing emails posing as World Health Organisation officials, in an attempt to trick researchers into handing over their login credentials and research data.
Stay safe and secure.
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Manchester United Impacted by a Ransomware Attack
Huawei Ban: UK Networks Facing £100,000 a Day Fines
Capcom Hit by Ransomware with 350,000 Personal Records Taken from the Game-maker
Ticketmaster fined £1.25m over Payment Data Breach
Smart Doorbells ‘Easy Target for Hackers’ study finds
Cyber Space will become 'most contested domain', warns UK Security Chief
Microsoft Patches 112 Vulnerabilities, 17 Critical Rated
Adobe issues 14 Emergency Security Fixes
Apple Patches Three Zero-Day Vulnerabilities found by Google’s Project Zero Team
Google Patches Two Zero days in Chrome
Mozilla Patches Critical Security issues in Firefox and Thunderbird
Third-Party Remote Access Is Your Network's Weakest Link
Ransomware Gangs Targeting Tax Software
Bitcoin: $1bn Address with Silk Road links 'being transferred'
North Korea and Russia hackers 'targeting vaccine'
NCSC Annual Review 2020
Sophos 2021 Threat Report
Labels: Coronavirus, COVID-19, ICO, iot, Manchester City, Microsoft, nation-state, NCSC, Patching, phishing, ransomware, ryuk, Sophos, ticketmaster
Earlier this year I wrote a blog post about the Manchester City Billion Pound Hack, which explored cyberattacks within elite football. Now it is the turn of City big rivals Manchester United, after they reported their IT systems had been impacted by a cyber-attack, widely reported in the UK media as a cyber-extortion attack.
In the last couple of years, cybercriminals have significantly ramped up efforts in targeting UK businesses with cyber extortion attacks, using ransomware malware and confidential data theft to leverage their victims into paying large ransom payments anonymously in Bitcoin. Many businesses have been quick to pay out ransoms after their operations ground to halt due to their IT systems being rendered unusable due to ransomware, and also to avoid dumping their confidential data on the internet by the cybercriminals.
In July 2020 the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) specially warned that cybercriminals were targeting UK sports teams with ransomware attacks in a report. This NCSC report cited a ransomware attack against an unnamed English Football League club, which crippled their IT systems to the extent it stopped their turnstiles from working and almost led to the cancellation of the league fixture, which would have cost the club hundreds of thousands of pounds in lost income. NCSC reported it suspected cyber attackers gained access to the football club's network either by a phishing email or by remote access system connected to the club's CCTV system. That access was used to spread ransomware across the entire football club IT network. It is understood the cybercriminals behind the attack demanded 400 bitcoin (over £300,000), which was not paid. It seems Manchester United have been targeted similarly
In a statement on 20th November 2020, Manchester United stated,
'Manchester United can confirm that the club has experienced a cyber attack on its systems. The club has taken swift actions to contain the attack and is currently working with expert advisers to investigate the incident and minimize the ongoing IT disruption.
Although this is a sophisticated operation by organized cyber criminals, the club has extensive protocols and procedures in place for such an event and had rehearsed for this risk. Our cyber defenses identified the attack and shut down affected systems to contain the damage and protect data.'
Despite the assurances in the statement the cyber-attack does appear to be contained and recovered from as yet, as both the Daily Mirror and the Daily Mail reported on 28th and 29th November 2020 respectively, that hackers had accessed the clubs scouting system's 'confidential information on targets and scouting missions'. Several UK newspapers also reported the club's email system remains disabled.
As yet, no details have been released about the cyberattack ingress method, the malware used or the suspected perpetrators behind the attack, when asked for details Man Utd stated 'The club will not be commenting on speculation regarding who may have been responsible for this attack or the motives behind it.' Without any details of the cyberattack released by the club or leaked, at this stage it's difficult to draw any conclusions, but we can speculate.
The likely suspect is a variant of the Ryuk ransomware, possibly orchestrated by Ryuk criminal group, together with the recently reported resurgence of the Emote trojan last month, Emote is a common dropper of ransomware. It was a new variant of the Ryuk ransomware that was behind a cyberattack on digital services firm Sopra Steria in October 2020. Another common ransomware culprit is Trickbot, however, Microsoft and their partners took action last month to disrupt Trickbot botnet.
No details have been released on how much this incident is costing Manchester United nor the ransom fee being demanded. The media have speculated the ransom fee to be in the millions, likely based on that recent NCSC report, which stated an EFL club faced a £5 million ransom from cyber attackers.
If this attack is found to have breached Manchester United fans data protection rights under the UK Data Protection Act (GDPR), the club could face a fine of up to £18m or 2% of their total annual worldwide turnover by the UK Information Commissioner's Office. Further, given Manchester United are listed on New York Stock Exchange, the club could face additional US legislation if they decide to pay the ransomware fee, that fine could be up to £15m ($20m).
The US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) warned that paying the ransom demand would only boost the criminals’ finances and encourage them to strike again elsewhere, stating,
‘Facilitating a ransomware payment that is demanded as a result of malicious cyber activities may enable criminals and adversaries with a sanctions nexus to profit and advance their illicit aims.
Ransomware payments may also embolden cyber actors to engage in future attacks'
The last sentence of the OFAC statement is an essential point, given many organisations are giving in to cyber-extortion demands and paying up, it is fuelling further attacks.
If it was made illegal in the UK to pay a cyber extortion payment, that law would both remove the temptation of giving up on recovery and paying ransoms, but also push UK organisations into investing and deploying the appropriate level of cybersecurity controls to counter the risk, as there are simple security controls which can adequately thwart the risk of successful ransomware and data theft attacks. The simple truth is most ransomware and data theft attacks aren't really 'sophisticated', successful attacks can be prevented applying security control basics, such as continually patching IT systems (esp. internet-facing remote access VPN appliances), deploying and keeping anti-virus up-to-date, blocking external suspicious emails, and ensuring staff have a good level of security awareness, particularly in their ability to spotting phishing emails.
Without pushing down global criminal threat actors 'Reward Vs Effort' reasoning, we can expect to see further high-profile businesses like Manchester United targeted with cyber extortion attacks, which ultimately causes significant reputational and financial damage on their organisation.
Labels: bitcoin, DPA, football, GDPR, ICO, Manchester City, NCSC, ransomware, ryuk, Trickbot
Article by Kristin Herman, a writer and editor at Ukwritings.com and Academized.com
The term 'cybersecurity' has been tossed around lately. But although cybersecurity has been viewed as a saving grace for mobile devices, computers, etc. the topic is still cloaked in misconception. Things that might pop up, when it comes to cybersecurity, are:
The idea of security
Who cybersecurity threats target and affect
If insurance will cover damages
How effective an IT team actually is
Cybersecurity “costs”
What devices are most vulnerable to malware?
However, as one side says one thing, while the other side contests it, it’s easy to get caught up in believing the wrong things. In fact, a lot of people get it all wrong. So, to understand the truth about cybersecurity, then check out this quick guide, which will cover seven of the most debunked myths about the subject matter:
1. “Physical Security and Cybersecurity are Two Different Things”
“The truth is, physical security is not separate from cybersecurity,” says Angela Macquarie, a business writer at Academized and Oxessays. “Both can help safeguard machines and paper documents. And, while both can function online and offline, the things they protect will hold sensitive data, which can be at risk of being exposed if the owner or holder is not careful.”
2. “Having a Good Password Protects You”
When it comes to passwords, you can leave anything to chance. And even as weak passwords are still commonplace, it’s hard to imagine many people using passwords like “123456” or “qwerty,” especially after being warned not to do so. Therefore, it’s imperative to complicate your passwords – make it difficult for other people to figure out. And, always update your passwords, so that you can be one step ahead of cybercriminals every time.
3. “Cybercriminals only Attack Large Businesses”
Wrong. Cybercriminals will go after any type of business – big or small. Since cyber thieves don’t discriminate, it’s important to keep your devices and data safe with an effective cybersecurity framework, regardless of the size of a business.
4. “Insurance will cover Cybersecurity Breaches”
Wrong again. In actuality, most insurance policies won’t cover businesses in the event of a data breach. While some policies might cover financial losses that have transpired from it, most policies won’t.
So, when shopping around for business-related insurance, make sure that policies will be able to compensate you whenever the dreaded breach springs up at any time. Or, you can buy insurance and cybersecurity separately. Purchasing cyber and data insurance will be worth the investment if you’re looking to protect customer and or sensitive data from infiltration.
5. “The IT Team has you Covered”
Think that IT teams can save your business, whenever data breaches happen? Think again!
While IT staff will most likely know about potential vulnerabilities and hacker techniques, they still can’t control all the elements involved. Your IT staff, instead, will only act as a human firewall to prevent breaches that stem from human error. Therefore, make it your job to add more layers of protection, besides your IT team.
6. “Cybersecurity is Costly”
“When people think about cybersecurity, they assume that investing in it will cost hundreds, or thousands, of dollars,” says Sheila Flynn, a marketing blogger at Boom Essays and Paper Fellows. “However, having a strong human firewall to defend you against cybercrime is entirely free – apart from creating an IT security policy and training staff. Investment can go a long way, as cybersecurity will greatly benefit your business.”
As such, consider consulting a cybersecurity expert, or look into comprehensive training and advice from cybersecurity experts, to help you put together an effective system that will protect all of your devices and data.
7. “Viruses only affect Desktops”
As technology continues to evolve – especially with more advanced smartphones and tablets working in almost the same capacity as computers – viruses aren’t just a computer thing. In fact, smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices can fall victim to malware, if the user doesn’t have enough protection for them. And although it only took Internet access for malware to get to computers, other devices that connect to the Internet are still just as vulnerable to viruses.
As you read through these seven debunked myths, we hope that you have a better understanding of cybersecurity. The ultimate goal of this guide is to keep you – the device user – informed. By learning how cybercriminals work, and learning the truth about today’s debunked myths, you’ll learn from the mistakes that you might be making now with your devices, and fix them right away.
About the Author: Kristin Herman is a writer and editor at Ukwritings.com and Stateofwriting.com. She is also a contributing writer for online publications, such as Essayroo.com. As a marketing writer, she blogs about the latest trends in online advertising and social media influencing.
Labels: anti-virus, cyber insurance, data breach, password security
Guest article by Andrea Babbs, UK General Manager at VIPRE
Reliance on email as a fundamental function of business communication has been in place for some time. But as remote working has become a key factor for the majority of business during 2020, it’s arguably more important than ever as a communication tool. The fact that roughly 206.4 billion emails are sent and received each day means we’re all very familiar with that dreaded feeling of sending an email with typos, with the wrong attachment, or to the wrong contact. But this can be more than just an embarrassing mistake – the ramifications could, in fact, be catastrophic.
Check Please! Within the financial services, layered cybersecurity strategy is essential to keep sensitive information secure
In particular, for the financial services industry that deals with highly sensitive information including monetary transactions and financial data, the consequences of this information falling into the wrong hands could mean the loss of significant sums of money. Emails of this nature are the Holy Grail for cybercriminals. So how can financial services organisations keep their confidential information secure to safeguard their data and reputation?
According to research from Ponemon Institute in its Cost of a Data Breach Report 2020, organisations spend an average of $3.85 million recovering from security incidents, with the usual time to identify and contain a breach being 280 days. Accenture’s 2019 Ninth Annual Cost of Cybercrime found that financial services incurred the highest cybercrime costs of all industries. And while examples of external threats seem to make the headlines, such the Capital One cyber incident, unintentional or insider breaches don’t always garner as much attention. Yet they are both as dangerous as each other. In fact, human errors (including misdeliveries via email) are almost twice as likely to result in confirmed data disclosure.
Costs will be wide-ranging depending on the scale of each breach, but at a minimum, there will be financial penalties, costs for audits to understand why the incident happened and what additional protocols and solutions need to be implemented to prevent it from happening in the future. There could also be huge costs involved for reimbursing customers who may have been affected by the breach in turn.
Priceless damage
The fallout from data breaches goes far beyond that of financial penalties and costs. Financial services businesses have reputations to uphold in order to maintain a loyal customer base. Those that fail to protect their customers’ sensitive information will have to manage the negative press and mistrust from existing and potential customers that could seriously impede the organisation as a whole. Within such a highly competitive market, it doesn’t take much for customers to take their money elsewhere – customer service and reputation is everything.
Check, please!
Within the financial services sector, the stakes are high, so an effective, layered cybersecurity strategy is essential to mitigate risk and keep sensitive information secure. With this, there are three critical components that must be considered:
Authentication and encryption: Hackers may try to attack systems directly or intercept emails via an insecure transport link. Security protocols are designed to prevent most instances of unauthorised interception, content modification and email spoofing. Adding a dedicated email to email encryption service to your email security arsenal increases your protection in this area. Encryption and authentication, however, do not safeguard you against human errors and misdeliveries.
Policies and training: Security guidelines and rules regarding the circulation and storage of sensitive financial information are essential, as well as clear steps to follow when a security incident happens. Employees must undergo cybersecurity awareness training when they join the organisation and then be enrolled in an ongoing programme with quarterly or monthly short, informative sessions. This training should also incorporate ongoing phishing simulations, as well as simulated phishing attacks to demonstrate to users how these incidents can appear, and educate them on how to spot and flag them accordingly. Moreover, automated phishing simulations can also provide key metrics and reports on how users are improving in their training. This reinforcement of the secure messaging, working in tandem with simulated phishing attacks ensures that everyone is capable of spotting a phishing scam or knows how to handle sensitive information as they are aware and reminded regularly of the risks involved.
Data loss prevention (DLP): DLP solutions enable the firm to implement security measures for the detection, control and prevention of risky email sending behaviours. Fully technical solutions such as machine learning can go so far to prevent breaches, but it is only the human element that can truly decipher between what is safe to send, and what is not. In practice, machine learning will either stop everything from being sent – becoming more of a nuisance than support to users – or it will stop nothing. Rather than disabling time-saving features such as autocomplete to prevent employees from becoming complacent when it comes to selecting the right email recipient, DLP solutions do not impede the working practices of users but instead give them a critical second chance to double-check.
It is this double-check that can be the critical factor in an organisation’s cybersecurity efforts. Users can be prompted based on several parameters that can be specified. For example, colleagues in different departments exchanging confidential documents with each other and external suppliers means that the TO and CC fields are likely to have multiple recipients in them. A simple incorrect email address or a cleverly disguised spoofed email cropping up with emails going back and forth is likely to be missed without a tool in place to highlight this to the user, to give them a chance to double-check the accuracy of email recipients and the contents of attachments.
Email remains a risky, yet essential tool for every business. But with a layered security strategy in place consisting of training, authentication tools and DLP solutions, organisations can minimise the risks involved and take a proactive approach to their cyber defences.
Given the nature of the industry, financial services organisations are a prime target for cybercriminals. The temptation of personal information and financial transactions for hackers is never going to dwindle, so financial institutions must prioritise cybersecurity, regularly assessing risks, deploying innovative, human-led solutions and educating workforces to provide the best defence possible.
Labels: Cyber Crime, data breach, DLP, email security, Encryption, FCA, Policies, Security Awareness, training, VIPRE
Article by Paul German, CEO, Certes Networks
A cyber threat could be lurking in any corner of an organisation’s infrastructure. The complex networks encompassing numerous smart and interconnected technologies make it easy for cybercriminals to hide, but much harder for them to be found.
Yet, waiting for a cyber threat to make an appearance is far too dangerous; if left undetected, a cybercriminal could stay in an organisation’s network for years - and just think of the damage that could be caused. To combat this, threat hunting is now an essential component of any cybersecurity strategy. Rather than waiting for a hacker to make themselves known, threat hunting involves constantly and proactively searching for the threats hiding within a system, working on the assumption that a cyber hacker is ever-present and looking for signs of unusual activity before it even occurs.
But how does threat hunting work in practice, and how can the approach ensure an organisation’s data is kept safe? Why a proactive approach to cybersecurity is essential at a time when the threat has never been more severe.
Anticipating the unknown is the only way to stay ahead of hackers
The Need for Observability
Today’s networks are complex, presenting numerous places for a cyber hacker to hide. And unfortunately, it’s not uncommon for infiltrations to go undetected in networks for days, weeks or months. In fact, a recent report shows that it takes organisations an average of 280 days to identify and contain a data breach, but organisations can’t afford to wait this long. In this time, a cyber hacker can be travelling through the network, infiltrating systems and stealing information, making an organisation’s data increasingly vulnerable.
And the length of time can even be longer than this; in the 2018 Marriott International data breach, hackers were accessing the network for over four years before they were discovered, which resulted in the records of 339 million guests being exposed. The hotel chain then suffered a second data breach this year after cybercriminals had been in the network for over one month, impacting approximately 5.2 million guests.
So, what needs to change? It is now more important than ever for organisations to be able to analyse contextual data in order to make informed decisions regarding their network security policy. This is not possible without 24/7/365 managed detection and response (MDR) tools for proactive threat hunting that uses event monitoring logs, automated use case data, contextual analysis, incident alerting and response and applying tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) to identify issues that improve an organisation’s security posture.
Anticipating the Unknown
When anticipating the unknown, cybersecurity analytics tools can capture data and detect evasive and malicious activity, wherever they are in the network in real-time. Generating fine-grained policies and enforcing these is one step security teams can take to proactively detect and remediate malicious activity immediately. With policy enforcement, attackers will have a hard time attempting to make lateral ‘east-west’ movements or remaining hidden in any part of the network, as the security team will be able to see inside the network and protect against threats across all attack surfaces across all manged endpoints with a unified multi-layer approach. This includes policy generation and enforcement MDR tools that can provide greater insight into the overall reliability, impact and success of network systems, their workload and their behaviour to identify threats and proactively respond and protect assets.
In reality, this means that security teams can take measurable steps towards controlling system access of the network environment; knowing who is in the network, who should be able to access what data and which applications, and being the first to detect indicators of compromise (IOC).
Threat hunting is a way to stay one step ahead of cybercriminals. Organisations no longer have to wait to be alerted of a data breach before taking action; today it is essential to have a complete picture of the entire network in real-time, including extending these capabilities to teleworkers, so that unusual activity can be identified and halted immediately before any damage occurs. With strong MDR tools at the core, organisations can ensure a strong and effective security posture based on anticipating the unknown, clear visibility into vulnerabilities that pose the biggest threat and identifying barriers that prevent successful tracking and remediation.
Labels: hackers, IOC, marriott, threat hunting
A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, October 2020.
London's Hackney Borough Council has been tight-lipped about "a serious cyber-attack" which took down its IT systems, impacting its service delivery to citizens. Providing scant information about the attack, but it does have all the hallmarks of a ransomware outbreak. The council says it is working with the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the Ministry of Housing to investigate and understand the impact of the incident. Ransomware attacks continue to be a major blight for UK public services, with councils to hospitals struggling to defend their IT systems against ransomware. Earlier this year Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council said it had been hit by a ransomware attack, which cost it more than £10m.
It looks like the ransomware will continue to pose a major threat to the UK for some time to come, with separate reports advising a resurgence in the Emotet trojan, a common dropper of ransomware, while the hacking group behind the notorious Ryuk ransomware has been reported as being active again. A new variant of the Ryuk ransomware was behind a cyberattack on Sopra Steria’s operations in October 2020, the digital services company confirmed.
British Airways had it credit card breach DPA fine cut by a massive £163m to £20m by the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), which imposed the original fine after the now pandemic financially beleaguered airline lost 430,000 payment card details to hackers after an e-commence skimming attack in 2018.
BA lost 430,000 payment card details to hackers after Magecart e-commence skimming attack in 2018
This data breach was a lesson in failing at PCI DSS compliance, with customer credit card details stolen due to ‘Magecart’ payment card skimming script being injected onto the BA payment page. The attackers initially compromised the BA network through a third-party worker’s remote access (not MFA protected), gaining access to BA's Citrix environment. Once inside the BA network, the attackers were gifted privilege level access after finding a domain admin account username and password in plaintext on a server folder. I understand investigators found the storage of payment cards in plaintext, including CVV numbers post-payment authorisation which is never permitted under PCI DSS rules. Aside from the ICO fine and reputational damage, this breach cost is likely to have cost BA a small fortune in specialised PCI PFI digital investigation forensic work, a complete solution rebuild, and with card brand penalties. The Visa Chief Enterprise Risk Officer once said ‘no compromised entity has yet been found to be in compliance with PCI DSS at the time of a breach’, I understand that statement still rings true today.
The ICO didn't hold back in dishing a massive DPA (GDPR) fine to the Marriott Hotels chain to the tune of £18.4m after a major data breach which affected up to 7 million UK guests. The ICO reported UK citizen names, contact information, and passport details were compromised in the cyber-attack. The ICO also said the company failed to put appropriate safeguards in place but acknowledged it had improved.
Meanwhile, the UK NCSC released an advisory which repeated an earlier United States warning that Chinese Threat Actors are exploiting well-known software vulnerabilities. The advisory details 25 top vulnerabilities that are being exploited whilst offering mitigation advice. Many of the vulnerabilities allow attackers to gain access to a victim’s network by exploiting products directly connected to the internet. The NSA has also produced a nice infographic breaking the 25 vulnerabilities down by threat.
UK MPs said there was "clear evidence of collusion" between Huawei and the "Chinese Communist Party apparatus" following a parliamentary inquiry has concluded. While the US authorities charged six Russian hackers over cyber-attacks that targeted the UK Novichok probe and the Olympics.
Securing an Agile and Hybrid Workforce
London's Hackney Borough Council hit by Cyber Attack
British Airways fine dropped by £163m due to economic impact of Pandemic
Blackbaud: Bank details and Passwords at Risk in giant Charities Hack
Sopra Steria confirms new Ryuk version behind Cyberattack on its Operations
The United States charges six Russian Hackers over Global Attacks that hit Novichok probe and Olympics
Therapy Patients Blackmailed for Cash after Clinic Data Breach
NSA releases a list of 25 Vulnerabilities targeted by China
New Chrome 0-day Under Active Attacks Addressed by Google Patch
ESXi Vulnerability VMSA-2020-0023
NCSC issued TLP white alert on a new SharePoint Vulnerability
Microsoft and Partners unite to target Trickbot Infrastructure in Legal Takedown
Sophisticated New Android Malware marks the latest Evolution of Mobile Ransomware
NCSC Advisory: The US warns of Chinese Actors Exploiting Public Vulnerabilities
‘Zombie’ Ryuk Ransomware Group Returns
Resurgence of Emotet Ransomware
Labels: British Airways, Emotet, GDPR, Huawei, ICO, Magecart, marriott, NCSC, Patching, PCI DSS, ransomware, ryuk, Trickbot
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Lake Shore Drive Closures Expected To End By Tuesday’s Evening Rush As Crews Repair Cracked Beams
Filed Under:Chicago, Lake Shore Drive, LSD
CHICAGO (CBS)–The northbound lanes of Lake Shore Drive over the Chicago River will remain closed Tuesday, a day after the discovery of a huge crack in a support beam.
The crack caused two parts of the bridge to separate, causing one part to drop about nine inches. Crews immediately closed the bridge after the crack was discovered Monday, and another support beam was later found to be faulty.
The bridge closure is a huge inconvenience for the more than 100,000 drivers who use Lake Shore Drive.
As of Tuesday morning, the city said closures that snarled Monday evening traffic on Lake Shore Drive would likely end by the Tuesday evening rush.
“We made good progress through the night,” said city spokesperson Michael Claffey in an email. “The goal is to re-open by the evening rush, but it’s still going to be a major challenge.”
After crews worked on the bridge repairs most of the day Monday, the Wacker Drive ramp to southbound Lake Shore had reopened overnight, Claffey said.
“The shoring towers under northbound Lake Shore Drive are in place and we are starting to jack them up around now,” he said.
Chicago Department of transportation crews work to shore up Lake Shore Drive after a support beam cracks. Northbound lanes remain closed near the loop. @cbschicago #LakeShoreDrive #Cdot pic.twitter.com/PLHBZ0MpHh
— Mike Puccinelli (@MPuccinelliCBS2) February 12, 2019
What caused the beams to crack is still unclear. No injuries or damage were reported as a result.
The cracks were first discovered by a crew repairing street lights in the area on Monday.
“It’s very dangerous,” said Dr. Gongkang Fu, department chair of civil engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
“This issue may exist in other spaces, in other beams as well,” he said.
One in five of Illinois bridges are deemed structurally deficient.
“Illinois’ situation is, I believe, below average,” Fu said.
And while this bridge passed its latest inspection in 2017, a state document shows problems including cracks and minor deterioration were reported even then. That damage is almost two years old now. And the recent extreme cold wasn’t doing it any favors.
“A small crack can be so small our eyes won’t even be able to tell,” Fu said.
He said it only takes a few days “for it to fracture to this big.”
Ed Maher, the communications director for the International Union of Operating Engineers says the close call should serve as notice to all lawmakers that infrastructure problems must be addressed.
“This is a warning sign and I would say that we got off lucky,” Maher said. “Think of how much worse this could have been.”
Maher said it was fortunate that no one was seriously injured or killed. He said injuries could have happened if the break had happened in the middle of Lake Shore Drive instead of to the side.
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Restructuring the UN Secretariat to Strengthen Preventative Diplomacy and Peace Operations
Since 1945, the United Nations has helped support many successful peace processes and protected millions of civilians around the world. Peace operations deliver results: research estimates suggest that the presence of a UN peace keeping mission can reduce the risk of relapse into conflict by 75 – 85 percent; and that larger deployments diminish the scale of violence and protect civilians in the midst of fighting. Peace operations can be highly cost effective, with one General Audit Office assessment finding the cost to be roughly half of what a bilateral stabilization operation would cost. Different types of peace operations - from mediation and special envoys through to multidimensional peace-keeping and specialized justice and emergency health missions - have helped end long running conflicts and prevented violence from escalating or recurring in situations as diverse as Burkina Faso, Cambodia, the Central African Republic, Gabon, Guatemala, Guinea, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Liberia, Namibia, Sierra Leone and Timor-Leste.
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Sarah Cliffe, Alexandra Novosseloff
Program(s): Multilateral Reform, Prevention and Peacebuilding
© Global Peace Operations Review
This is the second edition of the Global Peace Operations Review (GPOR) annual compilation. It is the first to collect a full year’s worth of content from the website in a single publication. Using an online platform allows us to constantly innovate, and we plan to continue to evolve between these annual releases. Producing the annual compilation allows GPOR to curate this material thematically in a fully searchable and citable electronic book. If you’re reading this in PDF format, any text highlighted in blue is hyperlinked back to the website.
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Sarah Cliffe, Alexandra Novosseloff, Hanny Megally , Richard Gowan, Jason Stearns, Ryan Rappa, Gizem Sucuoglu
Region/Country: Europe, Middle East, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa
Topic(s): Global Governance, Humanitarian Crises, International Security, Peace Operations, United Nations
What could the US election results mean for the UN?
© UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
The election of Donald Trump as US president was a seismic event for Americans – those who celebrated and those who wept – and for the rest of the world. The currents that underpinned the result are neither new nor confined to the US: discontent with politics and economics as usual, lack of trust in elites and populist nationalism have been on the rise in many parts of the world. These were clearly expressed through the Brexit vote but also in social protests and electoral upsets worldwide, from the Philippines to South Africa to the Colombia referendum. For the United Nations, an organization that is in some ways both the elite club to end all elite clubs and the global voice of “we the peoples”, the new administration is likely to bring significant change.
Region/Country: United States
UN70: A New Agenda
Demystifying Intelligence in UN Peace Operations: Toward an Organizational Doctrine
The Next Secretary-General, Secretariat Reform, And the Vexed Question of Senior Appointments
Morocco’s Najat Rochdi Among 20 UN Women Leaders Appointed In 2020
A more representative UN?
World Leaders Draw A Grim Picture Of Women’s Rights, 25 Years In
The 75th anniversary of the United Nations, China and the US contine to clash due to epidemic
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1. Is there a ban on the use of chokeholds and strangleholds?
It is not the policy of the Cocoa Police Department to use this technique. We do not train in these techniques and they are not authorized. Neck restraints and/or similar weaponless control techniques with a potential for serious injury are not authorized techniques and shall be considered Deadly Force.
2. Are there several steps in the de-escalation process?
CPD Policy General Order (GO 0600).
Escalation, de-escalation, and disengagement are important concepts in making legally and tactically sound, reasonable responses to resistance. Officers are legally permitted to escalate their use of force as the subject escalates his or her level of resistance. The officer’s choices are determined by the subject’s actions and the risk of physical harm posed to the officer or others. Once the officer achieves control or compliance, he or she must de-escalate the use of force. Under certain circumstances, disengagement may be the best tactical option, for example, when the officer is waiting for backup, when the officer is injured or outnumbered, or when the suspect has superior firepower. Officers will use the Force Guidelines when considering response to resistance options.
3. Do you require your officers to warn before shooting?
CPD Policy GO 0600.
If practical, prior to utilizing deadly force, the officer shall identify him/her self and provide a verbal warning of their intentions.
4. Do you require that your officers exhaust all other means before resorting to shooting?
CPD Policy GO 0600 VII. B.
Officers should always try to resolve a situation with the least amount of force necessary. Command presence and verbal communication often will defuse many volatile situations. Sometimes, however, these are not enough, or officers may not have an opportunity to use them. Officers need not apply force in gradually increasing steps in order to justify physical control or even deadly force. Instead, officers need to respond with all the force reasonably necessary for the circumstances in each specific situation. Options include the following:
a. Physical control
b. Non-lethal weapons
c. Deadly force
5. Do your officers have a duty to intervene when they see another officer mishandling a situation?
CPD Policy GO2010
It is the policy of the Cocoa Police Department to investigate all complaints against the Department and/or its personnel; to equitably determine whether the allegations are valid or invalid; and to initiate appropriate closure, with corrective action as deemed necessary.
It shall be the responsibility of all department personnel to report any violation of laws, ordinances, rules, regulations, policies, procedures, or orders by any other department member.
It shall be the policy of the Cocoa Police Department to require that all members, prior to being sworn, take an oath of office. Sworn officers shall also be required to abide by the Law Enforcement code of ethics, which the agency has adopted.
Law Enforcement Oath of Honor: Sworn Officers shall become familiar with and incorporate into their personal philosophies the Law Enforcement Oath of Honor, to wit: On my honor, I will never betray my badge, my integrity, my character or the public trust. I will always have the courage to hold myself and others accountable for our actions. I will always uphold the constitution, my community and the agency I serve.
6. What are you actively doing and what policies do you have in place to stop collusion?
We have policies in place to address issues of misconduct that go beyond use of force and “collusion” or other internal misconduct. These issues are referenced in CPD Policy GO 2010. It is the policy of the Cocoa Police Department to investigate all complaints against the Department and/or its personnel; to equitably determine whether the allegations are valid or invalid; and to initiate appropriate closure, with corrective action as deemed necessary.
7. Are officers banned from shooting at moving vehicles?
CPD Policy GO 0600
Officers will not discharge their firearms at or from a moving vehicle, except as an ultimate measure of self-defense or defense of another.
8. Do your officers employ the use of Force Continuum?
CPD Policy GO 0600 Response to resistance guidelines provide a framework for making decisions involving the reasonable use of force. The structure of the force guidelines is based on constitutional considerations and case law and describes appropriate decision making in a fluid and dynamic situation. The guidelines consider the relationship between subject resistance and various situational factors in determining the officer’s response options. The force Guidelines recognizes that officers make use of force decisions based on the totality of circumstances at the time of the incident. Circumstances are fluid and dynamic. Formulating a valid response requires continual assessment as the situation changes.
9. Do you require comprehensive reporting?
CPD Policy GO 0600 (Section 11)
Any time a member discharges a firearm, for other than training purposes; applies force through the use of lethal or less-lethal weapons; or applies weaponless force as described herein shall include in the official incident and Response to Resistance reports a statement detailing the circumstances which compelled such use of weapon, devices, or weaponless physical force and the extent to which the weapon, device, or weaponless physical force was used.
10. Does your department participate in the use of no knock warrants?
It shall be the policy of the Cocoa Police Department that the standard search warrant service shall be the preferred tactic in the execution of search warrants. The primary exception to this rule is when there are specific and articulable facts known to law enforcement personnel existing at the time of service, which establishes that the safety of officers or citizens is at risk or that the seizure of essential evidence may be compromised.
STANDARD SEARCH WARRANT SERVICE – execution/service of a search warrant which requires adherence to officers “Knocking” and “announcing” there presence and purpose.
11. Do you carry less-lethal weapons as a proven method to curb violent behavior by officers of the law?
CPD Policy GO 0620:
It is the policy of the Cocoa Police Department to ensure that officers shall use only that degree of force which is reasonably necessary to protect citizens and law enforcement officers from physical attack or to overcome actual physical resistance to arrest. [CFA 4.01]
Less-lethal options:
At least one authorized non-lethal implement (Advance Taser, chemical agent, or expandable baton/flashlight).
12. Do you restrict SWAT teams use for emergency situations?
It shall be the policy of the Cocoa Police Department to ensure the safety of departmental members and the general public by utilizing a group of specially trained members in order to bring about the successful resolution to potentially dangerous high-risk situations.
The Cocoa Police Department has established a specially trained unit to provide appropriate responses to high-risk incidents. High-risk incidents shall be coordinated by a command staff member who has the authority and responsibility to direct the incident.
GO 1490 C. S.W.A.T. response situations include, but are not limited to, the following:
Barricaded Subjects
Hostage Situations
Special Security Situations
Search and Arrest Warrants v. Other situations of a high-risk nature in which a specialized response would be beneficial.
13. Do you require body worn cameras for police officers?
In 2014, the Cocoa Police Department was the first agency in Brevard County to equip all its officers and sergeants with body worn cameras. CPD Policy GO 0915 governs use.
14. Do you require officers to undergo training - including scenario-based training on at least a quarterly basis and involve the community - including youth of color – in its design and implementation?
The Cocoa Police Department and its officers received hundreds of hours of training each year. The subject matter includes, but is not limited to:
Racial Intelligence/Bias-free environment
State mandated racial bias and profiling education
Emotional de-escalation/autism awareness
Use of force and de-escalation scenario based training
Professional development (legal updates, public records, background investigations, report writing and more).
There are also strict requirements in place throughout the hiring process including, but not limited to, successful completion of the basic recruit academy, and FDLE state standardized law enforcement officer certification test. Candidate must also pass a psychological exam, polygraph exam, extensive personal and professional background check including prior employment records. If hired, the candidate must complete extensive training involving more than 250 professional standards governing everything from the handling of property and evidence to internal affairs, training and recruitment, use of force, special operations and other critical areas.
15. Do you ensure accountability through civilian oversight boards?
Resolution 2018-097 Established the Police Community Relations Advisory Committee in October, 2018. The scope of the COMMITTEE’s advisory responsibilities shall be limited to advising and making recommendations to the City’s Police Chief, City Council or City Manager, as appropriate, related to the City’s Police Department. Specifically, the COMMITTEE’s advisory responsibilities shall be limited to the City of Cocoa and the following objectives:
1. Providing a vibrant community discussion forum to foster understanding, communication and collaboration between law enforcement (including and especially the Police City of Cocoa Resolution No. chief and Police Department leadership team) and concerned individuals and citizens about a variety of law enforcement issues or topics of concern;
2. Identifying and addressing community policing needs and police-community relations in a positive and constructive manner;
3. Promoting successful programs, initiatives and strategies to reduce crime and improve community safety;
4. Promoting and increasing community involvement in successful community policing programs, initiatives and strategies to build trust and confidence between the community and the City’s Police Department;
5. Informing and educating the community regarding crime awareness and prevention techniques, programs and strategies to generate community interest and involvement in crime prevention and to deter crime;
6. To review and advise the Police Chief on community related matters which have been expressly referred to the COMMITTEE by the Police Chief, City Manager or City Council;
7. Work to strengthen and ensure, throughout the community, the application of equal protection under law in the context of law enforcement; and
8. Promoting transparency and accountability regarding alleged police misconduct by publicly discussing with the Police Chief written findings of completed and closed internal investigation reports involving the conduct of law enforcement officers employed by the City pertaining to the use of force or police conduct toward a citizen so appropriate processes and strategies may be considered by the Police Chief in preventing the occurrence of future activities of misconduct, provided such public discussion occurs at an appropriate time taking into account any applicable lawsuits and legal claims that may be pending against the City and applicable law enforcement officers.
16. Do you have funds and resources allocated for community-based programs?
The Cocoa Police Department began its community policing philosophy in 1998. The Community Resource Unit is currently dedicated to this philosophy. There is currently one community resource officer and K9 handler using a public relations/therapy k9, 2 school resource officers and 1 lieutenant assigned to this unit. Its mission is to execute and support community outreach programs including the Cocoa Police Athletic League, youth leadership training, employment training, after school programs and mentoring, Cops and Kids Summer Camp program, school partnerships in education, safety programs, crime prevention programs, community watch meetings, public education and information, and proactive outreach to connect the police department with the community. The “Lemonade Stand”, is used at many of these outreach events and programs to create goodwill and an approachable way to connect with police officers and personnel. The mission has made a significant impact in creating and fostering positive relationships with the public of all ages and backgrounds. The department also created a non-profit entity to help fund many of the programs that are not currently covered with the city’s operational budget. The financial support from the community has enabled outreach programs to impact hundreds of local families in and around Cocoa. The Cocoa Police Department also has two victim advocates on staff to serve the community with victim assistance and social services. This is funded through the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) federal grant.
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(a) Any governing body or member thereof subject to the provisions of this article may seek advice and information from the executive director of the West Virginia Ethics Commission or request in writing an advisory opinion from the West Virginia Ethics Commission Committee on Open Governmental Meetings as to whether an action or proposed action violates the provisions of this article. The executive director may render oral advice and information upon request. The committee shall respond in writing and in an expeditious manner to a request for an advisory opinion. The opinion is binding on the parties requesting the opinion.
(b) Any governing body or member thereof that seeks an advisory opinion and acts in good faith reliance on the opinion has an absolute defense to any civil suit or criminal prosecution for any action taken in good faith reliance on the opinion unless the committee was willfully and intentionally misinformed as to the facts by the body or its representative.
(c) A governing body or member thereof that acts in good faith reliance on a written advisory opinion sought by another person or governing body has an absolute defense to any civil suit or criminal prosecution for any action taken based upon a written opinion of the West Virginia Ethics Commission committee, as long as underlying facts and circumstances surrounding the action were the same or substantially the same as those being addressed by the written opinion.
(d) The committee and commission may take appropriate action to protect from disclosure information which is properly shielded by an exception provided in section four of this article.
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In bitter chill volume 1.
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"The deepest secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves in this richly atmospheric, compellingly written, and expertly constructed crime debut from an emerging talent. Derbyshire, 1978: a small town in the idyllic English countryside is traumatized by the kidnapping of two young schoolgirls, Rachel Jones and Sophie Jenkins. Within hours, Rachel is found wandering alone near the roadside, unharmed yet unable to remember anything, except that her abductor was a woman. No trace of Sophie is ever discovered. Present day: over thirty years later, Sophie's mother commits suicide. Detective inspector Francis Sadler and detective constable Connie Childs are assigned to look at the kidnapping again to see if modern police methods can discover something that the original team missed. Rachel, with the help of her formidable mother and grandmother, recovered from the kidnapping and has become a family genealogist. She wants nothing more than to continue living quietly beneath the radar, but the discovery of the strangled body of one of her former teachers days after the suicide brings the national media back to her doorstep. Desperate to stop a modern killer from striking again, Rachel and the police must unpick the clues to uncover what really happened all those years ago as the past threatens to engulf the present. "--
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Sebastián Alanya Sotocuro, 82
More than 70 varieties
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“In the past, we used to plant potatoes all year long. But in the last few years, we have seen how our sacred earth is suffering: by using chemical fertilizers and insecticides we have contaminated all the microorganisms in the soil. The land is contaminated, and so it no longer produces as it should on the farms where we used to plant our potatoes. But on our laymes (communal lands) where we let the earth rest, there we produce as usual. But we’re producing less and less, because the air itself is contaminated. It’s not like before. Our production has changed a lot. I’m worried because in the past, without even having to apply any product, I used to harvest healthy and hearty potatoes. But now I can’t even plant on the same land where I once harvested.
My recommendation for the next generation is that if they want to have a good (potato) production, they should make compost. You have to gather everything that’s organic; you can even use excrement and urine and have it ferment along with the compost. We need to teach the children and future grandchildren so that they’ll be able to follow our customs too, and not rely on chemicals.
Making compost, and having lots of varieties of native potatoes: that’s how we defend ourselves against hunger. Potatoes do better in chaqru (a traditional way of cultivating different native potatoes in random mixtures in a single plot, rather than solely concentrating on planting a single variety).
In the old days, we used to put crosses in the laymes. We rested our land every five years. We would set up crosses in the laymes, and in our rituals, we would go down with our crosses making a pagapu (a traditional offering), a payment to the Apus (holy mountains), which protected our native potato production well. For our festivities we would joyfully bring the cross down with us and then take it back to the Sierra at planting time.”
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Linn recording artist Claire Martin has to worldwide critical acclaim established herself as a tour de force on the UK jazz scene gaining many awards, including winning the British Jazz Awards eight times during her career which spans over three decades. In 2018 she was the proud recipient of the BASCA Gold Badge Award for her contribution to jazz.
Claire became a professional singer at 19 and two years later realised her dream of singing at Ronnie Scott’s legendary jazz club in London Soho. Signed to the prestigious Glasgow based Linn Records in 1990, Claire has since released 18 CDs with the label, collaborating with musical luminaries including Martin Taylor, John Martyn, Stephane Grappelli, Kenny Barron, Richard Rodney Bennett and Jim Mullen on many of these recordings.
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An Angry Mob Gets Swifty
Republicans don’t have a sense of irony, which is why they and Donald Trump, a guy whose businesses were supported by Russian money laundering, has connections to the mafia and makes each day of his administration a third-rate episode of The Sopranos, is accusing Democrats and liberals of being a mob. It’s also hypocritical that they accused the Democratic Party of running on hate while they’re telling their supporters to be afraid of Muslims, Mexicans, black athletes, teenagers, and women who speak their minds.
Sure, Trump and the GOP aren’t talking about the type of mob that is the mafia. They envision more of a pitchforks, torches, and converging on the castle to destroy Frankenstein’s monster type of mob when they say “mob.” Now that Trump has used the term, “angry left-wing mob” to describe Democrats, it has become a new talking point for Conservatives. Prepare yourself to hear it echoed repeatedly, like “fake news,” “no collusion,” and “snowflake.” To make matters worse for them, America’s most popular pop star has joined the “angry left-wing mob.”
Yesterday, Taylor Swift posted on Instagram an endorsement for Tennessee’s Democratic candidates for the U.S. Senate and governor, Jim Cooper and Phil Bredesen. Republicans lost their minds.
Swift has been mostly silent on political issues so it came as a shock to conservatives, though she’s made plenty of hints in the past. After Obama was elected in 2008, she said, “I’ve never seen this country so happy about a political decision in my entire time of being alive.” She came out for gun control earlier this year, and in 2017, she was on Time Magazine’s Person of the Year cover as one of the “silence breakers” fighting back against sexual harassment. The warning signs were there, conjobs.
But, some have taken Taylor’s leftist and rational views with a broken heart, especially the 4chan crowd (a message forum that’s really racist and pro-Trump). You see, for a long time white supremacists have built a myth that Taylor Swift was one of them. She’s very white and blonde, so…duh. It must have really destroyed them to read her comment, “I believe that the systemic racism we still see in this country towards people of color is terrifying, sickening and prevalent.” One 4chan user posted a meme of Pepe the Frog crying. Not only is it a dangerous time in America for horny, young, white men, but also hazardous to racist cartoon frogs.
In the past, conservatives doctored photos of her wearing a MAGA hat and her with Hitler quotes, as though she was reciting them. One headline at the Daily Stormer (a Nazi site popular with Republicans) read, “Aryan Goddess Taylor Swift: Nazi Avatar of the White European People.” If you know anything about conservatives and memes, well, that’s where they get most of their information. For Republicans, racist, lying memes are scripture. It’s why they were and still are such easy cattle targets for Russian troll farms.
Believing Taylor was one of them based on memes of Nazi quotes and MAGA hats may sound ridiculous, but the kitty rational is outright absurd. The kitty what? Yeah, check this out: Many 4chan users believe they named Taylor Swift’s cat. Yes. Her cat. Meow.
How did they arrive at such delusions of grandeur? They had a cat-naming contest (I don’t know why and I’m afraid to look it up. I like dogs) and one of the winning names was “Meredeth,” which is a much better name for a kitten than Eva Braun. Later, they discovered that was the name Swift chose for her new kitty. So, there you have it. Taylor Swift has a Nazi Kitty, and she let the hater rubes over at the 4chan name it for her. It’s just too bad she named the cat before the contest, but this is 4chan. Details. Schmetails. Heil, Kitty.
While Republicans say Swift’s endorsement won’t have any impact (as though Kanye’s will), Vote.org has reported a huge spike in voter registration since yesterday. Normally, they get about 6,000 a day. Yesterday, they received 65,000. Sure, there could be a natural uptick because we’re within 30 days of the election and the registration deadline is fast approaching, but the website is giving most of the credit to Swift.
Swift has influence. When Apple made the decision not to pay artists during an initial three-month free trial period of their new streaming service, which would have mostly affected up-and-coming artists, Swift wrote a nice letter to Apple at 4:00 AM and they changed their policy. They didn’t want to fight with Tswifty.
She came out about being sexually assaulted after the guy who assaulted her, get this, sued her (he lost because he didn’t have a jury made of old, white, U.S. Republican senators). That inspired millions of other women to come forward.
Swift has over 83 million followers on Twitter. Donald Trump has 55 million with a huge chunk of them being bots. She has 112 million followers on Instagram. It’s safe to say she has some sway.
Yesterday, Trump said he likes Taylor Swift about 25% less now. What a coincidence, because now I like her about 25% more.
Note: I didn’t go to 4chan or the Daily Stormer for any of this research. I physically can’t as I already get nauseous when Trump comes in TV. It’s also why I won’t post links to them on my site. Ew. I did my research through other sites.
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Posted in Uncategorized and tagged Angry left wing mob, Angry Mob, Cartoons, Clay Jones, claytoonz, Editorial cartoons, Me Too, Midterm Elections, Mob, Political Cartoons, Taylor Swift on October 9, 2018 by clayjonz. 7 Comments
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Andréa says:
A celebrity endorsing a candidate has about as much relevance as one endorsing . . . shoes, aspirin, other meds (remember, at one time, doctors endorsed certain brands of cigarettes as ‘better’ than others!). Learn to do your OWN critical thinking, folks . . .
booktrout says:
Huh…..I get a little puke in my throat when trump comes on the air also. Just because I don’t want our country represented by a pathologically lying underworld figure.
randumbthoughts2017 says:
Is Taylor Swift’s cat a “kitler”?
http://www.konbini.com/en/entertainment-2/scientists-why-cats-look-like-hitler/
Funny thing, while googling around for kitler I ran across this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=cats+that+look+like+trump&tbm=isch&hl=en-US&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjV3eqn8fndAhUuneAKHY0FBQ8QtI8BKAJ6BAgBECk&biw=375&bih=627
Let me revise my post, as I’ve revised my mind: I don’t think one should vote for someone simply because a ‘celebrity’ says to do so, BUT I’m glad she is bringing people to register TO vote . . .
Michael Grabowski says:
Pepe the Frog isn’t a racist cartoon frog. It’s a stoner cartoon frog created by cartoonist Matt Furie that the racist right has attempted to coopt with its lying memes. Furie has been attempting to fight back in the courts, but it’s tough to stop abusive or stupid internet users.
rhea3 says:
A few words from some other musical women who got the business from the right wing after expressing an opinion that the right wing didn’t like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-ounk0FNdY
“I’m not ready to make nice, I’m not ready to back down, I’m still mad as hell….”
On the subject of critical thinking . . . https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2018/10/11
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Clever Journeys
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Posted July 9, 2020 5 Comments by Texans Jack & Dodie
We drove through downtown St. Louis, Missouri yesterday to check out the Gateway Arch. We didn’t feel welcome for the first time on this trip. Trash, urine, tents, and people who looked drugged out and not too bright were welcomed though. The local city government is doing a horrible job. I wonder which political party controls St. Louis?
For the last 20 days I’ve been doing a great deal of listening…and I mean a lot!
We elected to drive to a southwestern suburb location and stayed at the clean and beautiful Wildwood Hotel about 1/2 hour away. Many homes in this well maintained and manicured area proudly display American flags.
Tired and weary from fake and propagandized news, we’ve elected to stay away from it. On our 2020 roadtrip, we’ve learned far more by listening to ordinary folks than predictably biased political pundits.
Corky’s BBQ in Memphis.
America is even more beautiful than I imagined. Remember how many of us came together, waving our flags and bowing our heads, after the terrorism of September 11, 2001?
Being on the road has not only been an encouraging respite, but it’s turned out to be an eye opening reality check of the strength and character of our citizens.
Accustomed to flying to and from cities during my career days, there wasn’t much time for many road trips except in Texas.
I’ve given speeches and presentations in NY, LA, Chicago, Orlando, Vegas, Philadelphia, Nashville, San Diego, Dallas, Vegas, Monterey and Monterrey. But there was little time to explore.
Lucky for me, Dodie shares a love of roadtripping, so we took off as soon as we could. Last week we celebrated our 7 month anniversary in D.C. and West Virginia.
If there is one solid thing I can take from this trip, it’s that belief in traditional values of Americans is strong.
By Dodie’s count we’ve seen 77 Trump vs. 0 (ZERO) Biden flags and signs since we left Texas on June 19th. Even in D.C. we expected there would be some for Biden. But there were none.
Near the Lincoln Memorial, by the Arts of World Sculptures, entering the Arlington Memorial Bridge, I talked briefly with three university students while Dodie was finding a restroom.
One male was from Georgetown University and the two coeds attended Howard University nearby. It was Friday, July 3rd and the area was filled with joggers, skaters, bicyclists and walkers. I asked several questions: why traffic was so light? Do they have concerns about protests? What’s the mood of students right now? Why no Biden signs anywhere?
The succinct answers:
1. bureaucrats left for July 4th holiday.
2. protests are contained in their normal location north of the White House near La Salle Park. It’s not the big deal mainstream media make it out to be.
3. many students are as fed up with the pandemic, distorted news, and false reasons for protests as most Americans are.
The male, African-American, with courtesy, answered my last question with a question.
“Does it appear as if the Democratic National Committee does not wish to spend money on him?”
I almost fell over stunned and stumbled to reply.
“Well, I just don’t know,” is all I could reply, then explained we had only seen Trump signs and flags from Texas to here.
The front desk manager at the Hyatt Place in Chantilly, Virginia, just outside of Washington D.C., said they don’t play anything but FOX News on their lobby TV because “we were getting too many complaints about CNN.”
At the Civil Rights Museum and Lorraine Motel, we stood next to friendly, decent people–Black, Indian and Hispanic–to pay our respects to Martin Luther King, Jr. in the rain. We smiled and wiped our tears together. It was solemn, but we were with each other.
In a Shoney’s Restaurant in Sevierville, Tennessee, our server Ruth, went on a friendly tirade about how bad the media is.
“Watching them, you’d think everyone in the world hates President Trump,” she said. “But everyone I talk to here loves him. And I’m talking about people coming in from all over the United States. People are sick of this nonsense and it’s going to backfire on them. What they (media) say and what I see are far different.”
A couple in their 40s, sitting near us at a Texas Roadhouse restaurant in Chantilly, Virginia were practically repeating what Ruth said in Tennessee. The wife asked her husband if she knew anyone voting for Biden.
“No one who will admit it,” he laughed. Then, with all seriousness said, “The only way Democrats can win is by cheating and fraud. That’s why they’re pushing for mail in voting.”
Dining in Emzara’s Restaurant at the Ark Encounter in Williamstown, Kentucky, a Georgia man, perhaps 35, proudly wore a “TRUMP 2020” T-shirt in the dining room. I had to ask.
“Oh I’m thinking I’m around God loving people here,” he grinned as we bumped fists.
Another man, about 50, walked up to say “Hi” and pointed to his very own MAGA (Make America Great Again) red ball cap.
“Looks like we’re on the same team,” he said and tipped his cap.
Over our plates of Dodie’s chicken and dumplings and my meatloaf at a Vicksburg, Mississippi Cracker Barrel, the topic of conversation of two couples sitting at tables across from us was similar.
“I don’t believe the news anymore.”
“Oh me too. We just turn them off.”
“Their dishonesty is so obvious, only an imbecile would still believe them.”
We’ve tried to analyze this phenomenon along the way. We travel rural and urban roads and highways.
We stay near universities, tourist attractions or remote locations (ever heard of Corinth, Kentucky?).
When feasible, we favor mom and pop restaurants over chains: North Star Cafe, Mellow Mushroom Pizza, Marlowe’s, Johnnie’s Drive In, and D’Cracked Egg for instance.
Our server, Brian (but nicknamed “Flash” according to the badge his regular local customers made for him) at a Bob Evans restaurant in Charleston, West Virginia, had plenty to say about politics. It was as if he had been conversing with server Ruth in Sevierville.
“Biden can’t even talk right, much less run a country,” he was riled. “Ever’ body ’round here is voting for Trump.”
In D’Cracked Egg in Tupelo we overheard a group of locals expressing the same sentiments as so many others.
Mt. Airy, North Carolina–AKA Mayberry–had the largest number of Trump and American flags of any city.
Yesterday morning, I walked in a small gas station-store combination and sat down for about 20 minutes listening to the breakfast and coffee regulars near Corinth, Kentucky. It was the same: Trump all the way.
Moments ago at a rest stop on IH-64 West in Illinois, I saw a young man, perhaps 25, wearing a MAGA cap. He was polite and opened the door to the Visitors Center for me.
“Thank you kind Sir,” I responded. “I like your cap.”
“Well thank you too,” he smiled. “I’m proud to wear it.”
What we’ve seen and heard is not what we’ve expected. Having a moratorium on mainstream news has opened our eyes. We can think better, have very little anxiety about politics, and have greater faith in America…even more so than ever in our lives.
With our own eyes, traveling through 10 states (and D.C.), we see, hear, and sense that the vast majority of Americans are good and decent people. Red and Yellow, Black and White, they are fed up and willing to protect their freedoms, traditions, history.
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Raised in San Antonio, Jack Dennis’ early experiences were as a newspaper reporter and private investigator. With a Texas State University bachelor’s degree, Jack studied journalism, education and psychology. He was the founding vice-president of Sigma Delta Chi, the Association of Professional Journalists at the University. Jack has received numerous awards, including Investigative Reporter of the Year from Rocky Mountain Press Association, David Ashworth Community Award, and Leadership in Management.
Some of the people and groups Jack has interviewed include:
Elvis Presley, Merle Haggard, George Jones, Willie Nelson, B.B. King, George Strait, Roy Orbison, Justin Timberlake, Steven Tyler, Freddie Mercury, Kenny Rogers, Kenny Loggins, Jackson Browne, Steve Wariner, Tanya Tucker, Scotty Moore, Fats Domino, Patty Page, Tommy Roe, Emmy Lou Harris, Johnny Rivers, Charly McClain, Kinky Friedman, John McFee, Guy Allison & Patrick Simmons (Doobie Brothers) , Randy Bachman (BTO), Jim Messina, Todd Rundgren, Alvin Lee, Gary Puckett, The Ventures, Freddy Cannon, Augie Meyer, Christopher Cross, Whiskey Myers, Sha Na Na (John “Bowzer” Baumann), Flash Cadillac, Jerry Scheff, John Wilkinson, Darrell McCall, and more.
Politicians & News
George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Lady Bird Johnson, Greg Abbott, Rudolph Giuliani, Larry King, Jack Anderson, Tom Bradley, Connie Mack, and more.
Clint Eastwood, Mike Myers, Taylor Lautner, Cameron Diaz, Jerry Lewis, Eddie Murphy, Antonio Banderas, Julie Andrews, Selena Gomez, Tippi Hedren, James Earl Jones, James Woods, Jim Nabors, Martha Raye, Rosalind Russell, June Lockhart, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Howie Mandel, Meg Ryan, Cheri Oteri, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, James Drury, Melanie Griffith, Nathan Lane, Alan Thicke, Lou Diamond Phillips, Clint Howard, Tony Sirico, Cesar Romero, Michael Berryman, Tracy Scoggins, William Windom, Warren Stevens and more.
Buzz Aldrin, Alan Bean, Wally Schirra, Dave Scott, Gene Cernan, Walt Cunningham, Scott Carpenter, Gene Kranz (NASA Flight Director), Ed Mitchell, Richard Gordon, Bruce McCandless, Vanentina Treshkova (first woman in space, Russia), Alex Leonov (first man to walk in space, Russian), Al Worden, Dee O’Hara (nurse to astronauts) and more.
Sports: Joe Torre, Roger Staubach, Bob Hayes, Billie Jean King, Manuela Maleeva, Drew Pearson, Bob Lilly, Tim Duncan, David Robinson, George Gervin, Tony Parker, Shannon Miller, Cathy Rigby, Bruce Bowen, Wade Boggs, Fernando Valenzuela, Bernie Kosar, Dale Murphy, Jim Abbott, Dick Bartell, Mike Schmidt, Dan Pastorini and more.
May Pang, Bob Eubanks, Vernon Presley, Vester Presley, Charlie Hodge, Joe Esposito, Rick Stanley (Elvis’ step-brother, Harold Lloyd (Elvis’ first cousin), Doyle Brunson, Kara Peller, Hank Meijer, Norman Brinkler, Stanley Marcus, Jerry King, Mac King, Nathan Burton, Zach Anner, Louie Anderson, Owen Benjamin, Steve Byrne and more.
As head of Facilities for a major retailer (H-E-B Food/Drugs) for 20 years, Jack co-founded Professional Retail Store Maintenance Association (PRSM) and was elected President to establish PRSM magazine. Jack is a writer, speaker, golf-concierge and happiness coach. He has researched and studied happiness for over 40 years.
Jack was a prolific writer for Examiner.com, with over 1,900 articles written in six years. His articles and stories have appeared in AXS Entertainment, The ROWDY Country Music, Memphis Flash, and numerous magazines.
He is author of “Miracles of Justice,” a true courtroom drama novel about social injustice and miracles.
Robbie Medlin
It was a breath of fresh air to read something so positive and encouraging. Thank you for sharing your experiences. 😊
Texans Jack & Dodie
Thank you so very much for your kinds words, Robbie. We appreciate your readership.
Liz Hajek
Jack, your comments and your diary events on your trip with Dodie has been fun to watch and to read about. I especially love all the comments you made about the people you reached out to and talked to during your travel stops regarding the current world affairs and how people really feel about Trump! Refreshing and inspiring, stellar reporting capturing these moments and unique people and businesses!! Your journalistic abilities remarkable!! Thanks for sharing you and Dodie’s adventure together!
Awww! Thank you so much. Your kind words mean the world to me. We love you so much and so dearly.
We had to get out and find out for ourselves how things are. The media continues to make people scared when the reality is Americans are people of valor, who fight to maintain freedom, decency and love of God.
Ray Hammonds
Great story Jack! And yes I have heard of Corinth Kentucky. One has to believe most Americans are on the same page about all that’s going on. As you mentioned cities like St Louis and other Democratic controlled cities that are imploding don’t represent America. They represent decades of failed Democratic policies.
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Rise of Red Skulls - Official Content creator spoiler season
By FearLord, August 8, 2020 in Marvel Champions: The Card Game
Duciris 1,353
3 hours ago, FearLord said:
There actually haven’t been that many character’s called ‘Spider-Girl’ (although plenty of ‘Spider-Woman’ variants). The other one is an alternate dimension version of Peter Parker and Mary-Jane Watson’s daughter, May-Day Parker who is kind of a what if future character (although one that has appeared in cross overs).
This version was originally introduced as the Hero Arana. Her back story is a slightly confusing war between 2 secret societies (The Spider Society and The Sisterhood of the Wasp), and her powers are originally magical in nature.
She later loses them and becomes Spider Girl after a Kraven the Hunter storyline for Spider-Man. Kraven’s family hunts various spider powered characters and in the aftermath of this event Julian Carpenter (the second Spider-Woman, later known as Arachne) becomes the new Madam Web, and gives her costume to Anya.
She basically loses her original powers and then gains new more Spider-Man like powers later (which is what is represented by her at this point).
Is she actually bonded to Venom, or is she just wearing a black Spider-Man themed costume?
FearLord 546
41 minutes ago, Duciris said:
Just a Black costume. It’s based on Julia Carpenter, the second Spider-Woman’s costume.
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https://mcm-podcast.com/2020/08/19/rise-of-red-skull-spoiler-gonna-need-something-giant/
Goliath! Really interesting ally, and one you probably want to avoid blocking with. With some ready effects and healing you could get some big value out of him on the turn you use his ability.
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Daft Blazer 291
I don’t think Goliath works with Rapid Response - as discard isn’t the same as defeated. It looks like his damage will be capped to 5 as it’s a once per phase ability, and he’s immediately discarded after triggering the ability. I could be wrong though! 🤪
1 minute ago, Daft Blazer said:
It doesn’t work with Rapid response (well, at least not in the conventional way, as discarding isn’t the same as being defeated). However, you can get more than one use out of it.
The ability is once per phase, so you can’t keep pumping it up, but it lasts the whole hero phase and doesn’t discard him until the end of the hero phase.
So, you could play him, use his action, attack for 5 (take 2 consequential damage), play Inspiring Presence to ready him and heal him one, attack for another 5 (and 2 more consequential damage - down to 1) then play get ready on him and attack for another 5. At that point, he’s defeated by his consequential damage, and could be brought back with Rapid Response. The new version would not be bound by the old ability use, so could either use it again, or could choose not to (Thwarting for 2 say) and not getting discarded at the end of the hero phase.
Pretty crazy combo potentials!
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Assussanni 537
I believe the new version would be bound by the old ability use because it is a maximum rather than a limit, so if Goliath was discarded then re-entered play via Rapid Response (or another player bringing him into play with Make the Call) you couldn’t use his action again until the following round. So probably no 20+ damage turns but 15 damage, 2 thwart and still being in play with 2 health certainly isn’t bad!
A bit embarrassing that they used a different version of the character in the art than is listed in the subtitle, although I’m not familiar with the latest incarnation of the character so I wouldn’t have noticed if the article hadn’t pointed it out.
12 minutes ago, Assussanni said:
Yes, you’re right about Max limiting it across all copies of the card.
Still, that’s nothing to sneeze since you could do all that and then first aid him back to full or use him to block as well in the villain phase - he can potentially do a lot of work!
Might well be possible to start building a Leadership deck around expensive buff allies rather than expendable cheap ones - Goliath, Vision, Iron Man etc - the goal being to push these allies to peak efficiency.
They probably used Bill Foster, because he appears in Ant Man and the Wasp, but struggled to find much recent art of him, as he was killed during Civil War, having not appeared for years before that...
Venompuppy 83
I appreciate all the spoilers and all, but is anyone else tired of seeing all of these allies? 60% of these spoilers have been allies, and I was kind of hoping for more variety. Not a single encounter card yet, and most of the aspect cards have been allies. I don't know, that's just my personal opinion though.
Although, I really shouldn't be complaining. It's not like I have a right to these spoilers. These spoiler weeks are always a huge blessing.
thanks for the clarification- I’d misconstrued the once per phase limitation.
So card effects are persistent, even when discarded?
Max is, because only one instance can be used across all turns. So he can’t use it again, but as the card that comes back into play is a ‘new’ version I don’t think he’s discarded by the ability.
38 minutes ago, Venompuppy said:
Allies are some of the most exciting hero cards, so I’m fine with it. I don’t expect we’ll see much in the way of Encounter spoilers because some people like to approach encounters without too much prior knowledge. I expect the only one of these spoilers that will be an encounter card will be the Critical Encounters one next week, which I expect will be a nemesis card from Spider Woman’s set...
So keep him around until you can make sure using him will discard him before the end of the phase. I mean, 2 swings will do it, then use rapid response to get him back on the table and repeat next round. This is going to be a hoot!
BCumming 232
13 hours ago, Venompuppy said:
One of the two hero decks in the set is Leadership and Ally cards have much more name recognition or excitement than 'generic/thematic card name,' though I'd like to see what else Hawkeye's Leadership cards have to offer too. Quite happy with the preview cycle as a whole and very much want to see FFG continue this sort of thing!
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manoftomorrow010 1,119
A little S.H.I.E.L.D. intel
1 hour ago, manoftomorrow010 said:
Is there a way for me to see what's inside? I'm really curious.
Edited August 20, 2020 by Venompuppy
t4leswapper 36
Hall of Cards is scheduled for the spoiler today, so you'll probably only have to wait a few more hours to find out which arrow card from Hawkeye's signature cards they're spoiling.
Abyss 376
Green Arrow is going to be Hawkeye's (other) signature ally? Sign me up!
Hyperjayman 139
27 minutes ago, Abyss said:
See i know your joking but i still feel the need to 🤦🏻♂️.
Broken Arrow, Action - flip the table
https://tcgcoop.design.blog/2020/08/20/surveillance-team-episode-2-rise-of-the-red-skull/
Hawkeye’s Nemesis scheme - likely for Crossfire
Unique design - might actually help you get to Mockingbird easier though!
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DarthofZA 45
Considering that with Hawkeye your Mockingbird will probably never not be in your hand or in play once you have her, and is a great protection for you, this could actually really screw with Hawkeye's flow. I like it.
Reminder of Mockingbird:
I like the "old school" Hawkeye art!
9 hours ago, t4leswapper said:
tomorrow lol the 21st
I forgot to ask this when she first came out, but when you use her interrupt, it's considered an undefended attack, right?
Also, another random thought I just had, what would happen if you stunned Kang at stage 1 and then killed him? He splits up into different Kangs, so would he lose it? If not, which one would it go to? Or would you give the stun card to Kang stage 3? I'm so confused!
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Network News July 2017
Network News | 11 August 2017
Election Briefing from ComVoices
As you may be aware, C.N.A is very involved with ComVoices. A Wellington based group of national NGOs who network, share information and talk with politicians and others about the issues of the time as regards the Community and Voluntary sector.
We have monthly meetings and sometimes hold events. A ComVoices sub-group worked very hard, and with quite a lot of profile on the vexed issue of identifiable client level data.
At the moment, ComVoices is very happy to have a shift in focus regarding the data to the Social Investment Agency under the intelligent eye of Minister Amy Adams where it is hoped that working together with Statistics and the Privacy Commissioner, the NGO sector can have meaningful dialogue about the collection of sensitive information.
However.. an election looms and there are many more issues of importance to consider. As in years before, ComVoices sent out a survey called State of the Sector Survey to test the state of play for community services.
The results of this survey have led to our Communities Count document which we have sent to representatives of all parties and ComVoices members are now personally visiting MPs to discuss the document further.
This document is an Election Briefing from ComVoices where we ask political parties to focus on three issues and the practical ways government and community services could work together more effectively to make a difference.
We ask that parties consider our input when developing policy.
If you wish to see this paper (Communities Count) and use it for your own discussions with your local MPs please feel free to link to this site and download it.
Also please feel free to share it with your newsletters and those in your distribution groups.
http://communitynetworksaotearoa.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2017-06-ComVoices-election-briefing-.pdf
If you want us to send it directly via an email for printing off, just contact us at info@communitynetworksaotearoa.org.nz
Empowerment & Success: A Positive Path for the NGO Sector
In his latest blog on Community Scoop, Trevor McGlinchey sets the scene for the upcoming joint conference from NZCCSS and Community Networks Aotearoa.
The conference, which will be held on 26/27 October at the Quality Hotel Lincoln Green in Auckland, promises to be a thought provoking two-day event with a range of interesting and inspirational speakers from NZ and across the Tasman. The conference is open to all people interested in our sector – our member organisations, their member organisations and networks, our colleagues and stake holders.
For further info and to register please visit http://empowerment.nz (Please don’t forget to like our Facebook page as well for ongoing updates).
From Ros Rice, Executive Officer, Community Networks Aotearoa…
Did you meet me on the CNA/Child Matters tour during the last 3 months?
It all started about two years ago when Scott Miller from Volunteering New Zealand and I were talking about the horrendous statistics of child abuse in New Zealand. We are just a small country with the population of a small city, yet on average one child is killed every 5 weeks.
One of the ways we can change this, is plug all the places where abusers can get access to children. Scott and I realised that although those working with vulnerable children were aware of policies and checking procedures with staff and volunteers, many other organisations who didn’t work in that field were unaware that they needed to ‘’up their game’’.
Scott and I had the access to organisations who work with volunteers and other NGOs around the country, but we were not the experts, so we invited Child Matters from Hamilton to join us to help spread the message about the Vulnerable Children’s Act and other important child safety issues.
Scott had to withdraw from the project, but C.N.A and Child Matters persevered. Then this February MSD provided us with funding to run the tour. We visited 13 centres around the country and spoke to literally hundreds of people. It was a 90 minute seminar, but hopefully we left people with more understanding about how to write policies, how to safety check your workers and where to go to find resources and information.
If you wish to see the slides from the presentation please click below. You can also access two videos, and some definitions that explain how we describe different forms of child abuse.
http://communitynetworksaotearoa.org.nz/roadshow-for-volunteers-and-volunteering-organisations-your-responsibility-in-safeguarding-children/
The statistics in our country (2015-2016 –142,249 Reports of Concern to Child Youth and Family) are our national shame. Everyone needs to step up, step out and speak out against this horror being inflicted on so many of our children.
PS: sorry to all those who were annoyed with my interrupting interpretive habit. 🙂
PPS: Big thanks to the Ministry of Social Development for supporting this tour with some funding.
Download and listen to Ros interview Moyna Fletcher, Child Protection Consultant with Child Matters, about the Vulnerable Children Act (2014).
Queen’s Birthday Honour
We were pleased and proud to learn that Deirdre Jolly of Alexandra COSS was recently named a Companion of the Queen’s Service Order for services to the community. Deirdre is a long time member of Community Networks Aotearoa and has worked tirelessly for her community for a great many years. A well deserved accolade.
Need some professional skills pro-bono?
HelpTank is a digital marketplace connecting skilled professionals able to donate their time and skills pro-bono, and not for profit organisations that can benefit from their expertise right now.
The Who Did You Help Today Trust developed HelpTank following research showing that community groups can struggle to find and engage the skills they need. Meanwhile individuals with specific skills also report it challenging to find a volunteer role that suits them.
Head to https://helptank.nz/ to see how HelpTank can support you and your organisation.
Community Law Manual 2017-2018 now available.
The Community Law Manual is an easy-to-read, practical guide to everyday New Zealand law. Aimed at everyone who works with high-needs people in vulnerable communities, this edition has had a lot of legal work – to keep pace with rapid law change and to continue to refocus on law that’s most useful for our most vulnerable. It has a brand new chapter on Immigration and several other chapters have been rewritten to make them even more practical and accessible.
The standard rate for the Community Law Manual is $150 + GST.
NGO bulk orders of 10 or are eligible for discounts. Depending on how many you order, copies can drop by more than 25%.
For more information on bulk purchase rates, email info@wclc.org.nz
Place an order for the Community Law Manual by:
Emailing info@wclc.org.nz
Downloading, completing & returning this form to
Here are the links to the latest ComVoices blogs on Community Scoop. Interesting reading as always…
“Don’t Panic!” – Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Dianne Armstrong, CFRE, Arthritis New Zealand
Not rocket science at all… by Anaru Fraser, General Manager, Hui E!
How do we know we’re making a difference? by Josie Pagani, Director, Council for International Development
A Royal Salute? by Phil McCarthy, Director, Prison Fellowship of New Zealand
Celebrate Our Uniqueness – Plan the Way Forward by Trevor McGlinchey, CEO, NZCCSS
Budget 2017 – where’s the Justice? by Katie Bruce, Director, Just Speak
Having a choice – “some people have all the luck!” by Gabrielle O’Brien, Chief Executive, Birthright New Zealand
On the darker side of volunteer work by Scott Miller, Chief Executive, Volunteering New Zealand
Budget 2017 and the voices of young people by Anya Satyanand, Executive Officer, Ara Taiohi
Beyond Boundaries: Collaboration in Action – Social Service Providers Aotearoa (SSPA) – 4-5 September, Wellington
This year’s SSPA conference is for all those working in social services whether as practitioners, administrators, researchers or policy makers. For further info please visit https://www.sspa.org.nz/
PIVOT Linking Vision to Action – Volunteering New Zealand – 30 October, Auckland
National conference featuring Rob Jackson, volunteer management expert and world-class speaker. For further info please visit http://www.volunteeringnz.org.nz/
Our Planet.Our Struggle.Our future. – CIVICUS and Pacific Island Association of NGOs (PIANGO) – 4-8 December, Suva, Fiji
International Civil Society Week (ICSW) is a key global gathering for civil society and other stakeholders to engage constructively in finding common solutions to global challenges. For the first time in more than 20 years of global convening, CIVICUS will hold its flagship event in the Pacific region. For further info please visit http://www.civicus.org/index.php/icsw-2017
And don’t forget, we’re here to help. If you have any problems or issues, or just need some information, please don’t hesitate to contact Ros at the CNA office on Wellington (04) 472 3364 or eo@communitynetworksaotearoa.org.nz Both Ros and Fionn are here to provide support to our membership and always welcome your contact.
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"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials."
— George Mason, in Debates in Virginia Convention on
Ratification of the Constitution, Elliot, Vol. 3, June 16, 1788
"The militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves, ... all men capable of bearing arms;..."
— "Letters from the Federal Farmer to the Republic", 1788 (either Richard Henry Lee or Melancton Smith).
"Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom? Congress shall have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American ... The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the People."
— Tench Coxe, 1788.
"How we burned in the prison camps later thinking: What would things have been like if every police operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive? If during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever was at hand? The organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt."
— Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Prize winner and author of The Gulag Archipelago, who spent 11 years in Soviet concentration camps.
If we are ready to violate the Constitution, will the people submit to our unauthorized acts? Sir, they ought not to submit; they would deserve the chains that our measures are forging for them, if they did not resist.
— Edward Livingston
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
— Mao Zedong, Nov. 6, 1938, Selected Works, Vol. 2
The meaning of "militia"
The word "militia" is a Latin abstract noun, meaning "military service", not an "armed group" (with the connotation of plurality), and that is the way the Latin-literate Founders used it. The collective term, meaning "army" or "soldiery" was "volgus militum". Since for the Romans "military service" included law enforcement and disaster response, it might be more meaningfully translated today as "defense service", associated with a "defense duty", which attaches to individuals as much as to groups of them, organized or otherwise.
When we are alone, we are all militia units of one. When together with others in a situation requiring a defensive response, we have the duty to act together in concert to meet the challenge. Those two component duties, of individuals to defend the community, and to act together in concert with others present, when combined with a third component duty to prepare to do one's duty and not just wait until the danger is clear and present, comprises the militia duty.
Real courage is found, not in the willingness to risk death, but in the willingness to stand, alone if necessary, against the ignorant and disapproving herd. — Jon Roland, 1976
Militia Duty: Defend. Co-operate. Prepare.
To understand the above motto is to understand the foundation of society and legitimate government and law.
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Militia Links — Our collection of sites.
U.S. National Militia Directory
Texas Militia Papers — These are the documents that helped launch the modern militia movement.
Militia Treatises, James B. Whisker — Standard references on the subject. Includes The Militia (1992) and The American Colonial Militia (1997).
Militia Reading List — Books and articles on the theory and history of militias.
Constitutional Militia Movement (CMM) — The movement associated with militia.
Setting up a Committee of Safety — The governing system for militia units.
Committees of Protection, Correspondence and Safety — Collection of historical documents.
Manual of Courts-Martial, 2008 edition. Includes the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).
Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) — Edition as of 1997 June 15, for comparison.
How to Start & Train a Militia Unit: PM 8--94, by Maj. George Westmoreland, USMC, Ret. — Essential training materials.
U.S. Army Field Manuals — Essential training materials.
U.S. Citizen Crime Prevention & Law Enforcement Directory— The first comprehensive guide to neighborhood watch, cellular on patrol, citizen police academy, and related programs.
Justification for sharing email lists and directories
First Congress Debate On Arms And Militia 1789 — Including debate on wording of Second Amendment.
Militia Act of 1792 — Indicates intent of the Founders for the Militia.
Militia Deficiencies — Indicates importance of keeping the Militia well-trained.
The Role of the Militia in the Development of the Englishman's Right to be Armed — Clarifying the Legacy, by Joyce Lee Malcolm.
The Right of the People or the Power of the State, by Stephen Halbrook.
The Right to Keep and Bear Arms under the Second and Fourteenth Amendments, by Stephen Halbrook.
The Citizen-Soldier under Federal and State Law , by James Biser Whisker, West Virginia Law Review 94 (1992): 947.— Discusses "dual-enlistment" system by which someone enlisting in the National Guard joins both the state body and the U.S. Army.
Call to Arms: Historical Background — Virginia Militia in the War for Independence, from PBS.
Militia Women — Women have also served in militia.
Alert Network — How to set up an alert system for emergency communications.
Militias Criticized for Upholding Honor — Revealing email exchange.
2006 Table of Selected Militia Laws, Don Hamrick — Guide to state statutes available online.
The Militia Reporter; Containing the Trials of Capt. Jos. Loring, Jun. on the Charges of Gen. Winslow... (Boston: T. Kennard, 1810) — Report on trials of several militia personnel, provides useful insights into social deference issues of the time.
Ancient Hebrew Militia Law, David B. Kopel, Denver University Law Review — Judaic foundations of the militia tradition.
U.S. Army Manuals and Regs — Good resource on a variety of tools and methods.
Federal Preemption: The Militia Clauses in American Jurisprudence. — Collection of cases and commentaries on the boundaries between federal and state militia powers.
Committees of Protection, Correspondence and Safety — The political arms of the militia.
What is the Militia? — Gentle introduction.
Restore the Militia for Homeland Security, by John R. Brinkerhoff, Journal of Homeland Defense, November 2001 — Other than the mischaracterization in an endnote of "unauthorized" militia as "illegal", has some good points reflecting some of the thought in government circles.
"Can we tape?" — A Practical Guide to Taping Phone Calls and In-Person Conversations in the 50 States and D.C. From The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. The federal statutes are, of course, unconstitutional for acts committed on state territory, but we need to be cognizant of the potential legal problems as we conduct private criminal investigations.
The Rise of Militias Worldwide — Examines worldwide spread of the movement.
Viking Phoenix — Special Forces Underground & The Resister.
The Militia Watchdog — Mark Pitcavage's anti-militia site, no longer actively maintained, and transferred to the ADL.
The Dogpound — Anti-Militia Watchdog site. Has some good links and graphics.
Newsgroups: misc.activism.militia, talk.politics.guns, alt.politics.usa.constitution, alt.politics.reform, misc.legal.
Project Megiddo — Report of FBI analysis and recommendations for response to possible disorders reveals anti-constitutional official attitudes.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. — John F. Kennedy
It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government. — Thomas Paine
What distinguishes those engaged in militia from an army
The authority for militia is any threat to public safety.
Those active in militia are usually not bound for a fixed term of service, or paid for it.
Those active in militia cannot expect arms, supplies, or officers to be provided to them.
No one has the authority to order militia to surrender, disarm, or disband.
Μολὼν λαβέ (Molon labe), “Come and get them!” — Reply of the Spartan General-King Leonidas to Xerxes, the Persian Emperor, who came with hundreds of thousands of troops to conquer Greece, and demanded that Leonidas and his 300 men lay down their arms. Thermopylae, 480 BC.
Today, there lies a plaque dedicated to these heroes, composed by the poet Simonides of Ceos (c. 556-468 BC), at the site that reads:
Ὦ ξεῖν', ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδε
κείμεθα, τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι.
(Original is in all caps, no diacritical marks.)
Ō ksein', angellein Lakedaimoniois hoti tēide
keimetha tois keinōn rhēmasi peithomenoi.
"Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by,
that here, obedient to their laws, we lie."
“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded sense of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse... A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.” — John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), “The Contest In America,” Fraser's Magazine, February 1862
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Changing the Rhythm of Design Capitalism and the Total Aestheticization of the World
Márton Szentpéteri
In his article “Changing the Rhythm of Design Capitalism and the Total Aestheticization of the World” Márton Szentpéteri intends to highlight the most important stages of the accelerating total aestheticization of the world resulting at the contemporary period of neoliberal design culture. In the age of design capitalism, the hegemony of consumption culture is being constantly maintained by a culture industry substantially expressed by and embodied in design. The paper claims that the eminent reason of the crisis of democracy today is rooted in the global society of the designed spectacle with its one-dimensional citizens loosing almost all abilities to recognize and consequently defend their rights and to decrease their alienation from real needs, responsibilities and sensibilities. Democracy is fading due to neoliberal globalization – especially in the case of the commercialization of the public sector. However, the particular role of design in this process has hitherto been neglected or underestimated. Against the trend of fading democracy, different sorts of design activism experimenting with disobedient objects and strategies of critical design point towards a much-awaited rebirth of art in terms of its compensatory power against damages of our lifeworld generated by the modernization process with globalisation in the lead. These endeavours are in harmony with the return of art in terms of emergency aesthetics. This rebirth can also be reinforced by the defence of the values of liberal learning being so much threatened amid a global higher education crisis, and especially by understanding design education in the frameworks of liberal learning rather than vocational training.
in Hungarian Studies Yearbook
A Distant View of Close Reading: On Irony and Terrorism around 1977
György Fogarasi
In his article “A Distant View of Close Reading: On Irony and Terrorism around 1977,” György Fogarasi investigates the contemporary critical potentials of close reading in the light of recent developments in computation assisted analysis. While rhetorical reading has come to appear outdated in a “digital” era equipped with widgets for massive archival analysis (an era, namely, more keen on “distant,” rather than “close,” reading), Paul de Man’s insights concerning irony might prove useful in trying to account for the difficulties we must face in a world increasingly permeated with dissimulative forms of threat and violence. The article draws on three major texts from 1977: de Man’s draft on “Literature Z,” his lecture on “The Concept of Irony,” and the first and second Geneva Protocols. The reading of these texts purports to demonstrate the relevance of de Man’s theory of irony with respect to the epistemology of “terrorism,” but it also serves as an occasion to reflect upon questions of distance, speed, range, scale, or frequency, and the chances of “rhythmanalysis.”
Drums of Doubt: On the Rhythmical Origins of Poetic and Scientific Exploration
Caius Dobrescu
In his article “Drums of Doubt: On the Rhythmical Origins of Poetic and Scientific Exploration” Caius Dobrescu argues that even though the sciences and arts of doubt have never been connected to the notion of rhythm, doubt is a form of energy, and more specifically, a form of vibration. It implies an exploratory movement that constantly expands and recoils in a space essentially experienced as uncharted territory. Poetry acquires cognitive attributes through oscillatory rhythmic patterns that are explorative and adaptive. In order to test this hypothesis, the essay focuses on the nature and functioning of free verse. This modern prosodic mutation brings about a dovetailing of the rhythmic spectrum, but also, and more significantly, a change in the very manner of understanding and experiencing rhythm. Oscillatory rhythms are broadly associable with entrainment indexes that point to the adaptation of inner physiological and behavioral rhythms to oscillatory environment stimuli. Free verse emerges from the experience of regaining an original explorative, adaptive, and orientation-oriented condition of consciousness.
Embracing Noise and Error
Bálint L. Bálint
In his article “Embracing Noise and Error”, Bálint L. Bálint argues that human society is going through a profound change as mathematical models are used to predict human behavior both on a personal level and on the level of the entire society. An inherent component of mathematical models is the concept of error or noise, which describes the level of unpredictability of a system by the specific mathematical model. The author reveals the educational origin of the abstract world that can be described by pure mathematics and can be considered an ideal world without errors. While the human perception of the world is different from the abstractions we were taught, the mathematical models need to integrate the error factor to deal with the unpredictability of reality. While scientific thinking developed the statistic-probabilistic model to define the limits of predictability, here we present that in a flow of time driven by entropy, stochastic variability is an in-built characteristic of the material world and represents ultimately the singularity of each individual moment in time and the chance for our freedom of choice.
Genetics and Ethics: “Do not Go Alone”!
András Falus
In his article “Genetics and ethics: ‘Do not go alone’”! András Falus presents genomics as a network science triggering an entirely new trend in contemporary biology. Based on the advent of molecular biology the complete sequence of human and other genomes has been determined and since all information is available on internet-based databanks, the huge mass of data is being analysed by advanced methods of informatics. The author is focusing on the upcoming ethical aspect of genetics and genomics, then, in the second part of the article he answers the questions of the editor concerning the genetic approach to ethics and ethical approach to genetics.
Hand-Written Road Maps to Multi-Dimensional Space
István Berszán and Philip Gross
In their article “Hand-Written Road Maps to Multi-Dimensional Space” István Berszán and Philip Gross investigate the heightened alertness of literary reading and writing in an interview with Gross, the prize-winning British poet and professor of creative writing. After the presentation of the interviewee Berszán ask him questions concerning the kinetic spaces of his literary practices. The itinerary follows issues like place, temporality of occurrences, attention, system and ecology, metaphor, time projection, gesture-resonance and collaboration. Gross seems to be as good a creative playmate during the discussion as he was for children, students, artists or readers who met him in a „collaborative space between”: his answers turn the questions both into hunter and quarry.
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‘IF’: Planning, Research and Co-creation of an Existential Installation-performance
Rita Sebestyén
In her article “‘IF’: Planning, Research and Co-creation of an Existential Installation-performance” Rita Sebestyén offers an account of the research period and performances of the experimental, action-research based and interdisciplinary performance ‘IF’. The installation-performance was co-created by a group of Norwegian, Danish, Swedish and Hungarian artists, and conceived and produced for an international audience. ‘IF’ poses a series of existential questions throughout four interactive installations that allow the audience to interact and become co-creators of the performance, together with the performer-facilitator. Using biology, anthropology, mathematics, elements of gamification, sociology and futurology, this performance is a cross-disciplinary and cross-genre experience, and its research cycles are of both scientific and artistic interest, as the author points it out.
Levente T. Szabó and István Berszán
In the first part of the Introduction Levente T. Szabó introduces Hungarian Studies Yearbook revealing its purpose to serve as a new scholarly hub and focal point for Hungarian studies oriented both towards methodologically challenging experiences and an evidence-based, resource-oriented Hungarian studies. In the second part of the introduction István Berszán presents the thematic issue “Kinetic Spaces – the Challenge of Complexity by Practical Rhythms”, which initiates interdisciplinary research into the rhythm of practices and occurrences in order to open fields of orientation that are larger than recent paradigmatic spaces.
Practical Rhythm and Time Projection
István Berszán
In his article “Practical Rhythm and Time Projection”, István Berszán presents first a poetic experiment of Wordsworth in order to answer the question how to enter the rhythm of a happening. The argumentation is based on the assumption that Plato’s “allegory” of the cave is an experiment rather than a rhetorical construction and invokes contemporary string theory to show that everything that happens has its kinetic space as a special complementary rhythmic dimension. A second example reveals how Alain Badiou projects Saint Paul’s teaching and practice to the kinetic space of militant leftist struggle. The article concludes that instead of understanding allegory as a replacement based on similarity in the same rhetoric space, we have to take into consideration – or learn how to take into consideration – the multiple rhythmic dimensions of compared happenings.
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The station of the hoptree (Ptelea trifoliata L. ssp. trifoliata) in the forests of the Wyszków Forest District
Marek Ciosek, Janusz Krechowski, Katarzyna Piórek, and Sikorski Roman
This paper presents the results of studies carried out on Ptelea trifoliata populations in the Wyszków Forest District in 1998 and 2013. P. trifoliata is a native species of North America (United States of America, northern part of Canada) and has a wide ecological range. However, it prefers fertile, wet soils and moderate light. In Europe, it is planted for its decorative value and is mainly found in synanthropic habitats (parks, graveyards, roadsides, fortifications) in Poland. The station of P. trifoliata is situated in the oak-hornbeam forest, Tilio-Carpinetum typicum, with a significant fraction of the stand consisting of Pinus sylvestris. Hop trees occur mainly along forest section lines and are rarely found inside the sections. In the last 15 years, an increase in the number and size of P. trifoliata clusters has been observed. The species spreads along forest section lines, which form a convenient migration route by creating favourable conditions for the germination and growth of seedlings (good access to light, fragments of bare soil). The presence of new individuals far from the pre-existing clusters indicates that the generative way of propagation dominates. Biometric measures indicate significant differences in length and width of whole leaves as well as leaflets, with leaves and leaflets of vegetative specimens significantly larger than generative ones.
As a consequence of the high rate of P. trifoliata expansion along forest section lines and occurrence of single specimens inside the forest sections, we assume this species to be potentially invasive.
in Forest Research Papers
The Twinflower (Linnaea borealis L.) in the northern part of the Południowopodlaska Lowland
Marek Tadeusz Ciosek, Janusz Krechowski, Roman Sikorski, Agata Trębicka, and Katarzyna Piórek
Linnaea borealis, the twinflower, is considered a critically endangered species in the Południowopodlaska Lowland. The disappearance of the twinflower is mainly caused by habitat changes resulting from forest management, but also light deficiency due to the increase in canopy cover and growth of the shrub layer (processes of succession).
The aim of the paper is to present the actual distribution and phytosociological characteristics of L. borealis in the northern part of the Południowopodlaska Lowland. In this region, only three out of ten known areas of occurrence (Werchliś, Serpelice, Grala-Dąbrowizna) have endured to the present day. The twinflower occurs in pine forest, Peucedano-Pinetum, and mixed forest, Querco roboris-Pinetum, communities.
A decrease in the ground cover of twinflower populations was observed in all existing twinflower locations. Although the area covered by the Linnaea borealis population in Werchliś increased tenfold during the last 20 years (from about 200 m2 in 1993 to 1970 m2 in 2013), its cover-abundance according to the Braun-Blanquet scale decreased from 5 to 3. The increase in the area covered by the twinflower population together with the accompanying decrease in cover-abundance is probably not a manifestation of species dynamics but rather a response to disadvantageous environmental changes (growth of canopy cover and shrub layer). Progressive light reduction can initiate the process of fragmentation of a population.
A decrease in the cover-abundance of the L. borealis population (from 4 to 2) was also observed in Serpelice. Its area was reduced to half of its original size due to anthropogenic destruction of this location. In the third region, Grala-Dąbrowizna, also the negative effects of competitive species (e.g. Vaccinium myrtillus, V. vitis-idaea) are considered.
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Club drugs tend to be used by teenagers and young adults at bars, nightclubs, concerts, and parties. Club drugs include GHB, Rohypnol®, ketamine, and others. MDMA (Ecstasy), Methamphetamine, and LSD (Acid), are considered club drugs and are covered in their individual drug summaries.
Special K, vitamin K, jet (ketamine); G, liquid ecstasy, soap (GHB); roofies (Rohypnol®).
Club drugs have varying effects. Ketamine distorts perception and produces feelings of detachment from the environment and self, while GHB and rohypnol are sedating. GHB abuse can cause coma and seizures. High doses of ketamine can cause delirium and amnesia. Rohypnol® can incapacitate users and cause amnesia, and especially when mixed with alcohol, can be lethal.
Statistics and Trends
The NIDA-funded 2010 Monitoring the Future Study showed that 0.5% of 8th graders, 0.6% of 10th graders, and 1.5% of 12th graders had abused Rohypnol®; 0.6% of 8th graders, 0.6% of 10th graders, and 1.4% of 12th graders had abused GHB; and 1.0% of 8th graders, 1.1% of 10th graders, and 1.6% of 12th graders had abused ketamine at least once in the year prior to their being surveyed. Source: Monitoring the Future (University of Michigan Web Site).
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Rocacorba Daily: Tuesday March 12
In today’s Rocacorba we bring you up to speed on a handful of race results from the weekend (and last night) and share a couple other pieces of cycling news that might interest you. As always, if you’ve got something you think we should include in the Rocacorba, let us know: editor@cyclingtips.com.au
Sagan wins brutal penultimate stage at Tirreno-Adriatico
You know a stage is difficult when riders are walking their bikes uphill and when there are more than 50 DNFs. Such was the case in last night’s wet sixth stage of Tirreno-Adriatico which featured three passes of a climb with a maximum gradient of 27%.
The stage was won by Peter Sagan (Cannondale) who outsprinted his breakaway companions Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) and Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha) on the flat finish to a very challenging stage. The victory was Sagan’s second of the race.
Peter Sagan: the man to beat at Milan-Sanremo next weekend?
Nibali’s second place on stage 6 was enough for the defending champion to claim the leader’s jersey from Chris Froome (Sky), who now sits in second, 34 seconds behind. Rodriguez is in third, a further 3 seconds behind.
Tirreno-Adriatico ends tonight with a 9.2km time trial in San Benedetto del Tronto.
Click here for the standings after stage six.
Porte wins Paris-Nice
Richie Porte (Sky) has become the first Australian to win Paris-Nice, sealing his victory with a win on the race’s final stage: an individual time trial up the Col d’Eze.
Porte covered the 9.6km course in 19:16, just four seconds slower than his teammate Bradley Wiggins did last year when he broke the record for the climb (and this year’s stage was slightly longer than last year).
Porte won the stage 23 seconds ahead of Andrew Talansky (Garmin-Sharp) and 27 seconds ahead of Nairo Quintana (Movistar), extending the lead he’d gained on stage 5 when he out-climbed then-leader Talansky on La Montagne de Lure to take the leader’s yellow jersey.
Click here to read more about Porte’s win and click here for a report from stage 7 including full details of the overall classification.
Vos wins third consecutive Ronde van Drenthe
Marianne Vos (Rabobank Liv/Giant) has taken out her second victory in as many weeks, winning the Ronde van Drenthe, the opening round of the 2013 UCI Women’s Road World Cup.
Vos attacked when the peloton went up the VAM-berg climb for the third and final time. A handful of riders chased the reigning world champion but only Vos’ compatriot Ellen van Dijk (Specialized-lululemon) was able to bridge the gap.
Vos sprinted for the line with a few hundred metres to go leaving van Dijk with second and Swedish champion Emma Johannson (Orica-AIS) to claim third, 15 seconds behind.
Vos’ victory makes it three years running that she has won Ronde van Drenthe and gives the Dutch rider the perfect start to her World Cup defence.
Click here for a full report from the race and click here for full results.
Tirreno-Adriatico director admits course was too hard
Tirreno-Adriatico director Michele Acquarone has said he regrets including the steep, 27% Sant’Elpidio a Mare climb in the penultimate stage of this year’s race. Some riders had to walk the climb and many chose to abandon instead of facing it three times.
“It was too much, we made a mistake,” Acquarone said.
“When you design a course you never know what will happen. We saw this route in the summer, it’s completely different now. A shorter stage would’ve been better with only doing the circuit. Half of the riders abandoning is too much.”
@petosagan and @vincenzonibali shone in a legendary stage. Many of you enjoyed it, but it was too much. We lost the right balance. #Tirreno
— Michele Acquarone (@micacquarone) March 11, 2013
Schleck abandons again
Andy Schleck (RadioShack-Leopard) abandoned the Tirreno-Adriatico stage race yesterday in Porto Sant’Elpidio, Italy. The Tour de France star is trying to find form after suffering from a crash and fractured coccyx in the Critérium du Dauphiné last June.
This year, the Luxembourger also abandoned the Tour Down Under and Tour Méditerranéen. He nixed his plans to race the Tour du Haut Var and the Tour of Oman. In Tirreno, he was dropped on the key mountain stages.
“He had bronchitis after Australia, he was a bit sick from jet lag, the temperature change, and so on. He cancelled [Tour of] Oman,” RadioShack manager Luca Guercilena said. “At the moment, you need to ride. Even Paris-Nice or Dwars door Drenthe is cancelled for snow. Tirreno has been a good choice because they can do long distances and work on performances, fixing daily goals.”
Click here to read more on VeloNews.
Froome will learn from losing race lead
Despite losing the Tirreno-Adriatico lead on the penultimate stage, Chris Froome (Sky) says he has learnt valuable lessons he will take to his next races and to the Tour de France.
“Personally I felt that I was a little over-geared. I don’t think I was dressed warmly enough for the weather,” Froome said.
“The lessons? Well, one, I think we can look at the gearing; two, I know I need to prepare better when it’s this cold, probably feed more when it’s cold like this.”
Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) took almost a minute from Froome yesterday and looks set to win the race overall today.
Laurent Jalabert in hospital after being hit by car
Former French pro, and current coach of the French cycling team, Laurent Jalabert, is in hospital after being struck by a car while riding in Montauban, France.
Laurent Jalabert will require surgery after being hit by a car over the weekend.
The former winner of Milano-Sanremo, Vuelta a España and the world time-trial championships in 1997 is believed to have been struck by a car travelling in the opposite direction. He is currently in hospital with a broken leg and an injured shoulder and will require surgery.
Click here to read more on VeloNation.
Vanmarcke’s classics season blown
Sep Vanmarcke (Blanco), winner of last year’s Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, may miss the classics this year due to a crash in the neutral zone of Sunday’s fifth stage of Tirreno-Adriatico.
Vanmarcke wrote on Twitter, “First news is that the bursa of my knee is torn. First days will decide if operation is needed. Tomorrow new research in Antwerp.
“The only thing I’m hoping is that the classics aren’t over. Last 5 months were all focus and dedication, and then this shit happens.”
Rabobank, now Blanco, hired the Belgian to help Lars Boom in the cobbled classics this year.
Click here to read more on Cycling News.
Talansky takes aim at Romandie
Richie Porte (Sky) took Paris-Nice out of Andrew Talansky’s hands, but the American rider on the Garmin-Sharp team promises to be back in the Tour de Romandie in May.
“I want to go to try to win. That’s the next big goal,” Talansky explained. “Romandie holds a special place in my heart due to the last two years there.”
In Romandie, Talansky placed ninth overall as a neo-pro in 2011 and second behind Brad Wiggins last year.
Armstrong scandal film in the making
Lance Armstrong’s doping downfall will be made into a film, according to movie industry website Deadline.com. Warner Bros is working on the film with Tyler Hamilton and Paramount has purchased the rights to an upcoming book by Juliet Macur of the New York Times: Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong.
The announcement comes just days after former UCI president Hein Verbruggen admitted that taking donations from Lance Armstrong, apparently to fund anti-doping testing, might not have been the best idea.
Click here to read more about the Armstrong film on Deadline.com.
Hotel de Borken tour with Gracie Elvin
And finally, here’s a video from Orica-AIS rider Gracie Elvin who shows us what happens when a hotel gets taken over by several cycling teams. Enjoy!
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