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Hitchens, Mos Def & hip hop's strange histories
July 12, 2009 at 6:41 pm | Posted in Music, Art, Etcetera, Terrorism, U.S. Politics | 13 CommentsBlame Reagan for making me into a monster
Blame Oliver north and Iran-Contra
I ran contraband that they sponsored
Before this rhyming stuff we was in concertJay-Z – 'Blue Magic'
First, I might as well endorse Ben Thompson's positive review of the new, 'implausibly impeccable', Mos Def record. It's been 10 years since Dante Smith's exceptional debut, and in the intervening years he's seemed more interested in his acting career than mouthing rhymes into a microphone. For that reason, The Ecstatic is an unexpected delight. Musically & lyrically, it's the most enthusiastic, eloquent & interesting thing he's produced since Black On Both Sides and should be regarded as one of the best hip hop records of recent years.
But as good as that album is, this post isn't really about that. Instead, I want to discuss an incident which Thompson briefly refers to in his review; an awkward, awful exchange between Smith and Christopher Hitchens on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher:
Obviously, neither of the two men covers himself in glory here. Smith's habit of repeatedly proclaiming – and then defending – his ignorance about Al Qaeda & the Taliban (to the point of mixing the two groups up) is cringe-makingly embarrassing, and Hitchens is at his sneering, condescending worst, delighting in dishing-out put-downs to someone he clearly considers an intellectual inferior. But Mos Def certainly isn't the idiot Hitchens assumes him to be; whilst wasn't lucky enough to go from private schooling to Oxford and then various journals of world renown, he is a dextrous rapper, a fine actor and a man who can speak eloquently on a number of subjects – just not the beliefs of Islamic militants. For a kid from public housing in Brooklyn, that ain't half bad.
But what I found interesting in Smith's contribution was the parallel he offered between these Islamic militants and the case Assata Shakur. Shakur was a political activist and Black Panther who was indicted of 10 crimes throughout the 1970's, including robbery, kidnapping, attempted murder and murder. She was eventually convicted of murdering a state trooper at the New Jersey turnpike, but has always denied the charge. Her defenders insist to this day that she was a political prisoner of the United States and – years after escaping from prison – she successfully claimed political asylum in Cuba. Rightly or wrongly, she is still widely celebrated as a living martyr for black emancipation, and her life story is cited as 'proof' of the federal government's mistreatment of African Americans and why the state shouldn't be trusted.
What I think Smith was trying to get across – with difficulty given the rude belligerence of Hitchens – was that the people from his community who believe Assata Shakur was a political prisoner won't automatically believe the federal government and media when they describe Islamic terrorists as a mortal enemy. With such a history of grievance about how the levers of power have been pulled against them, distrust of the state can be a reflex reaction, and that can occasionally lead you to some pretty unorthodox – and sometimes unsavoury – positions.
I think he's wrong, of course: Osama Bin Laden is no Assata Shakur, Al Qaeda are no Black Panthers and the ideology, aims and practices of bomb-throwing Islamists are infinitely more deadly, malevolent and morally debased than anything the Black Panthers did to advance their own goals. But by inviting that comparison, Mos Def does (albeit inadvertently) demonstrate that the distance between a government and a deprived, disenfranchised community allows for the growth of conspiracy theories as a way of explaining the world around them.
The conspiracy theory is something Mos Def should know plenty about, for they abound in his realm of hip hop. Listen to a few rap albums and it won't be long before you find an 'interesting' interpretation of history: the Jews' role in black oppression, the CIA flooding the 'hood' with heroin, giving black people HIV, killing Tupac & Biggie, or George W. Bush being responsible for 9/11. I don't think it's a coincidence that this wealth of crank theories happens to originate from people who've lived in some of the most isolated & impoverished communities in America.
There are many different explanations for why conspiracy theories form and how they spread, but I think the most important cultural/political aspect is how they're often reactions from peoples or communities who feel distanced from & distrustful of the establishment. If you reduced that amount of alienation, you'd probably reduce the number and the power of these strange alternate histories. In the end, if you feel so powerless, the government must seem a hell of a lot more powerful than it actually is.
Update: Lou Perez wrote about the same incident a while back and has some interesting thoughts.
Spinal Tap meets Jihad
January 6, 2009 at 9:01 pm | Posted in Media, Terrorism | Leave a commentIf the new Chris Morris satire catches just a glimpse of the farce and amateurish absurdity of wannabe terrorists, it'll be well worth watching:
Deirdre Steed, who worked with Morris to secure funding for the film, said the satirist, who fronted The Day Today and Brass Eye, has spoken to terrorism experts, imams, police, secret services and hundreds of Muslims to research the film.
"Even those who have trained and fought jihad report the frequency of farce," she said. "At training camps, young jihadis argue about honey, cry for their mums, shoot each other's feet off, chase snakes and get thrown out for smoking. A minute into his martyrdom video, a would-be bomber looks puzzled and says 'what was the question again?' On Millennium eve, five jihadis set out to ram a US warship. They slipped their boat into the water and carefully stacked it with explosives. It sank."
If it comes anywhere close to Brass Eye, it could be hilariously brutal…
The grave uniqueness of 9/11
October 19, 2008 at 6:15 pm | Posted in International, Terrorism | Leave a commentThere's a great deal to admire about Stella Rimington; not only did she give the best years of her life to keep the country safe, but her practically-minded critique of the government's approach to anti-terrorism legislation fatally injured the notion that to oppose 42 days detention was to be 'soft' on protecting the public. Still, you can't be right all the time, and about halfway through this interview she makes a statement which seems as incorrect as it is inartful:
The response to 9/11 was "a huge overreaction", she says. "You know, it was another terrorist incident. It was huge, and horrible, and seemed worse because we all watched it unfold on television. So yes, 9/11 was bigger, but not … not …" Not qualitatively different? "No. That's not how it struck me. I suppose I'd lived with terrorist events for a good part of my working life, and this was, as far as I was concerned, another one."
Hmmm. I suspect this kind of dispassionate detachment is more of a virtue when you're working for the security services than it is when you're a member of the House of Lords. Now, arguing that 9/11 provoked a 'huge overreaction' isn't particularly controversial – that argument, or some variant of it, has been deployed in the context of the Iraq war and against the panicked, draconian anti-terror measures seen both here and in the United States. No, the problematic part of this interview is her assessment that 9/11 wasn't qualitatively different from other, non-televised terror attacks.
To know whether this is actually true, I think it helps to ask the following questions: In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, did MI5 undergo any kind of internal reassessment of its threats, targets and modes of operating, and did this lead to any operational changes? It's a question Dame Rimington could answer better than anyone, and if her answer is, as I suspect, affirmative, then surely that would reflect the enormity of what happened on that September morning.
Beyond that, I think it's misguided to assume that events can be separated from their consequences, particularly when some of those consequences were inevitable. Leaving aside the unanswerable question of whether a more competent administration could've stopped the attacks from happening, it's safe to assume that a President Gore would've responded by invading Afghanistan and authorising a vast expansion of anti-terror legislation. We can also be fairly confident that a Prime Minister Hague or Kennedy would've participated in said war and introduced their own anti-terror measures. It wasn't the fact that we could see the carnage unfolding on TV that gave 9/11 its grave uniqueness; it was the terror of learning what these fanatics were capable of and the deep sense of foreboding that even more carnage would follow.
Update: Norman Geras has some related thoughts here.
A tortured interpretation
July 4, 2008 at 12:10 pm | Posted in Christopher Hitchens, Terrorism | 1 CommentTags: Christopher Hitchens, Terrorism, Torture, Waterboarding
Still, Hitchens cannot escape the grip of American exceptionalism that has so permeated his work since 9/11. "Any call to indict the United States for torture is … a lame and diseased attempt to arrive at a moral equivalence between those who defend civilization and those who exploit its freedoms to hollow it out, and ultimately to bring it down," he huffs.
For Hitchens, in America's pitched battle with "tormentors and murderers", the ends justify the means. I disagree. Communist techniques hinged on the infliction of pain elicit bad intelligence and helps fan the flames of hatred against the US. In the case of the "water treatment", poor means corrupt good ends.
One gets the feeling when reading this that Otterman either stopped reading the Vanity Fair article about two thirds of the way through, doesn't understand some of the big words or is quite wilfully misinterpreting his views. True, Hitchens does offer one argument in mitigation of waterboarding and chides those who claim there is an equivalence between this and the depravities practiced by terrorists (Waterboard is pretty tame, for instance, when compared to beheading).
But then goes on he defer completely to the views of Malcolm Nance, an counter-terrorism expert, who states that the information gathered through waterboarding is unlikely to be accurate, puts captured American prisoners at risk of similar treatment (surely a national security risk?) and opens the door for far worse torture treatments to be used in the future.
Otterman misrepresents Hitchens by bizarrely claiming he is so in thrall to American exceptionalism that he can excuse waterboarding. In fact, he argues the opposite; that waterboarding not only damages America's world standing, but compromises its ability to fight terrorism. To believe in American exceptionalism, you need to be opposed to torture:
One used to be told—and surely with truth—that the lethal fanatics of al-Qaeda were schooled to lie, and instructed to claim that they had been tortured and maltreated whether they had been tortured and maltreated or not. Did we notice what a frontier we had crossed when we admitted and even proclaimed that their stories might in fact be true? I had only a very slight encounter on that frontier, but I still wish that my experience were the only way in which the words "waterboard" and "American" could be mentioned in the same (gasping and sobbing) breath.
I don't know whether Otterman was just being sloppy or disengenuous, but either way he is madly, badly wrong
Hitchens on waterboarding
July 2, 2008 at 10:53 am | Posted in Christopher Hitchens, Terrorism | Leave a commentTags: Christopher Hitchens, Vanity Fair, Waterboarding
Perhaps I should have more faith in the man, but you know it's a strange, inverted world when your first reaction to the news that Hitchens opposes waterboarding is… relief. Every once in a while, the frustrating, belligerent old Trot writes something so good that it makes you want to hug all his old essays. This is one of 'em:
You may have read by now the official lie about this treatment, which is that it "simulates" the feeling of drowning. This is not the case. You feel that you are drowning because you are drowning—or, rather, being drowned, albeit slowly and under controlled conditions and at the mercy (or otherwise) of those who are applying the pressure. The "board" is the instrument, not the method. You are not being boarded. You are being watered. This was very rapidly brought home to me when, on top of the hood, which still admitted a few flashes of random and worrying strobe light to my vision, three layers of enveloping towel were added. In this pregnant darkness, head downward, I waited for a while until I abruptly felt a slow cascade of water going up my nose. Determined to resist if only for the honor of my navy ancestors who had so often been in peril on the sea, I held my breath for a while and then had to exhale and—as you might expect—inhale in turn. The inhalation brought the damp cloths tight against my nostrils, as if a huge, wet paw had been suddenly and annihilatingly clamped over my face. Unable to determine whether I was breathing in or out, and flooded more with sheer panic than with mere water, I triggered the pre-arranged signal and felt the unbelievable relief of being pulled upright and having the soaking and stifling layers pulled off me. I find I don't want to tell you how little time I lasted.
Read the rest here. If you have the stomach for it, the video's here.
Supporting David Davis
June 16, 2008 at 1:00 pm | Posted in Big Brother Britain, British Politics, Conservative Party, Terrorism | Leave a commentTags: 42 Day Detention, By-election, Conservatives, David Davis, Haltemprice & Howden
I really hadn't intended to write anything more on David Davis' resignation. For a start, the whole job-hunting thing is still an unresolved faff and I'm spending more time wondering whether to abandon Sheffield for the land of rats and rogueish Mayors than I am wondering what Sir Lancelot's up to. There's also the fact that BritBlogLand is already engulfed with opinions and I doubt there's much insight or profundity I can add to the wealth of well-argued posts that are far more worthy of your time. The other reason is that in the past 72 hours I've found myself swinging between two extremes and I don't suppose anyone wants to survey the carnage that occurs when I have an argument with myself. But since someone's had the impudence to challenge me to put forward a semi-coherent position, I suppose it'd be a good idea if I actually had one. So without further ado, here's another tract of interminable twittering about the Courageous One and why we should/shouldn't vote for him.
A question: if you were a Labour voter/party member in Haltemprice & Howden rather than Barnsley West and Penistone, would you vote for Davis? Would you campaign for him, even? Would your answers to these depend on whether MacKenzie stands, or whether Labour fields a candidate? This Labour party member would vote for him if he could, and I'm waiting for the Internets to provide a means to donate to the otherwise unsympathetic Tory's self-destructive crusade.
I suppose one reason Davis' decision is so significant is that it gives a great jolt to people like me who've managed to trudge through 24 years of life with the stubborn vow that I would never, ever vote for a Tory. Whilst the by-election renders this vow as pretty self-defeating (Kelvin MacKenzie's intervention reminds us there are far more noxious options than voting for a Conservative), it refuses to go away because an election that's ostensibly about a single issue will result in electing someone who will then vote on every other issue. Since Davis is militantly right-wing, I'd be in the position of helping elect someone who will vote against my beliefs 99% of the time. This is where the gag reflex comes in, and makes me have a great deal of sympathy for Unity's suggestion that voters back a fringe candidate or spoil their ballots.
And yet I'm conscious of how significant a large, cross-party vote for Davis on the issue of 42 days could be, and how it might have the effect of stunning some of those Labour MPs who voted for sensible terror-averting tactics internment to think twice before they reach for the battering ram of the Parliament Act. Since stopping this heinous bill from becoming law should be the primary aim, we should welcome any opportunity to demonstrate our opposition. If that means helping Davis win a landslide majority in a symbolic stunt of a by-election, then we may just have to swallow it – acts of symbolism don't get much more potent than those delivered at the ballot box.
I don't like him, I don't trust him, I disagree with him on almost every issue ever to have faced mankind and most of the time I just wish he would bugger off. But when it comes to 42 days detention, David Davis is indisputably right. On this issue alone and for one night only, I would break the habit of a lifetime and vote Conservative, and I urge all those who actually live in Haltemprice and Howden, whether Tory, Labour or Lib Dem, to do the same.
Update: If that's not enough to convince you, fans of schadenfreude would surely have some fun watching Murdoch's sneering little sock-puppet – a liar, a devout enemy of working people and an All-Round Bad Guy – being dealt an embarrassing punch in the jaw by the people of Haltemprice and Howden.
On poverty and terror
June 11, 2008 at 7:27 pm | Posted in British Politics, Conservative Party, Gordon Brown, New Labour, Terrorism, Working Class Britain | 1 CommentTags: 42 Day Detention, Conservative Party, Gordon Brown, Labour Party, New Labour, Politics
So you know this plan to threaten a school with closure if it fails to meet its targets? I was wondering; any chance we can apply it to governments, too?
For those who still care about that nebulous concept called social justice, it's been a pretty wretched week: health inequalities are becoming sharper, the number of children in poverty has increased by 100,000 and the number of poor pensioners by three times that amount.
Since the poverty rate also increased last year, we can no longer view it as an aberration, but as the beginnings of worrying trend. Given the increases in food and fuel prices and the unlikelihood that Darling's 10p tax 'compensation package' will reimburse everyone who lost out, it's likely to rise next year as well. Thanks to the financial straightjacket Brown has imposed on his government, we face the very real prospect that by 2010 – the target Blair set to halve child poverty – the figure will continue to creep back towards pre-Labour levels.
At this point, it's difficult to know to respond without reaching for clichés: sure, we can say Labour's been subservient to big business & the super-rich, too obsessed with their middle class marginals to bother with sane social policy and so petrified of tongue-lashings from the Tory press that they're happy to adopt any authoritarian measure that'll keep them quiet. We can say all of this, but it won't really get us anywhere.
Instead, we need to look at Brown's actions since becoming PM and try to deduce whether his government has either the ability or the resolve to correct its mistakes and pursue the new ideas needed to close the gap between rich and poor. The evidence is… well, what do you expect?!
Where to start? We've seen him brutishly declare British Jobs For British Workers, shamelessly announce troop withdrawals during the Tory conference, sign the Lisbon treaty when he thought no one would be watching, give inheritance tax away, abolish the 10p tax band to pay for a middle class tax cut and reclassify cannabis despite there being no evidence it's required.
But perhaps most reflective of Brown's approach to politics can be seen in the awful, unnecessary, and ghastly authoritarianism displayed in passing 42 days detention. As has been noted elsewhere, there have been no coherent arguments about why the bill is required now, nor why 28 days was so dangerously insufficient; there have been a paltry number of cases that've even gone close to original limit and a Home Office Minister suggested the new power might never even be used – arguing, laughably, that it will just be a benign safeguard in case counter-terrorism officers encounter a villain who could evade even Jack Bauer.
No, the prime motivation behind this bill, just like so many other actions he's taken as Prime Minister, is a craven brand of politics. Faced with worse polls ratings than Michael Foot, Brown's spent weeks scrabbling around for an issue with which to begin his 'comeback', and since the opinion polls are in favour and both the Tories and Liberals are opposed, he gets to 'fight courageously' for Britain's security against the 'hug-a-terrorist' brigade who bleat about human rights.
Yeats once wrote "the best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are full of passionate intensity." This isn't always true. In fact, when looking at Brown I'd argue the worst all lack conviction. Since becoming Prime Minister, Brown's modus operandi has been calculation and triangulation, surrendering key policies for short-term gain & scoring cheap points on trivial issues. Above all, his Premiership has been defined not by a desire to govern well but by a desire to win. He has been successful in neither.
You don't go into government to beat the Conservatives; you go into government to help those who most need it. And when your desire to beat the Tories and save your own skin prevents you from helping those your party represents, then you really must question whether you're fit to lead Labour into next week, let alone the next election.
Change quickly, Gordon, or resign – there are millions still living in poverty and they just can't afford you.
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Words are crimes
March 10, 2008 at 8:56 pm | Posted in Big Brother Britain, Terrorism | Leave a commentTags: 7/7 bombings, Khalid Khaliq, Terrorism
Intrepid policework: In May of last year, police raided addresses in Birmingham and Leeds. Hasina Patel, the widow of Mohammad Sidique Khan, her brother Arshad Patel, Imran Motala and Khalid Khaliq were all arrested and questioned on suspicion of terrorism. A week later, only Khaliq was charged with any wrongdoing; accused of possessing an Al-Qaeda training manual for which he has today pleaded guilty.
Now, it may be that Mr Khaliq is a dangerous little hate-mongering runt who wastes what little brain power he has daydreaming about bringing mass death to our nation's streets. If so, a long and miserable prison sentence is richly-deserved. But…
Am I the only one who feels slightly queasy about arresting someone for what they may have read? There are many documents on the internet claiming to be Al Qaeda training manuals; I even downloaded one this evening (warning: they're atrociously-written and there's a bizarre line about how the Rotary Club is evil). Does that mean I should be considered a terror suspect?
The other apparently damning piece of evidence released to the media was that Khaliq was pictured light-water rafting with two of the 7/7 London bombers. So on top of being guilty of possessing words, you'd have to make him guilty of free association, too. What country was this trial held in again?
Let's be clear: the CPS has provided no evidence that Mr Khaliq was masterminding a terror plot or even volunteering for one, nor has it been suggested that he was a member of a terror cell or had been pimping bilious bigotry on the street. At the end of high-profile raids that saw three other suspects released without charge, all they managed to charge him with was possessing something that's easy to obtain over the internet.
Yes, cases like these are often more complicated than the media coverage suggests; there are often details that can't be revealed and if this belch of self-righteous bluster is later revealed as wince-inducing naivety, I hope I'll have the decency to admit it.
I just wish he'd done something more dastardly to deserve his sentence, that's all.
Update: There's another book that's been adopted as a chilling training manual. A superb bit of snark by Gavin Whenman:
Seemingly unknown to the rest of us, it is now an offence to own and read certain words, arranged in a certain way. The Government and Parliament are worried that public exposure to "extremist" or "terrorist" literature will turn us into jihad-declaring murderers, regardless of our previous moral or political beliefs, and so have decreed that we may now read from only an authorised list of documents, be they books, essays, articles, blog posts or some other form of written communication.
Naturally enough, during this time of heightened security, we are not to be told what documents are out of bounds to our easily manipulated minds, instead, after these documents have fallen into our hands, we shall be judged as to whether they are "likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism". The sheer lunacy of this situation should be apparent to anyone. Convicting a person merely for possession of a document is one step removed from a thought crime – the offence of holding certain beliefs which the State finds abhorrent – and in a liberal Western democracy such an offence should simply not exist.
Alas, this is further proof, it would unfortunately seem, that the Government do not treat Nineteen Eighty Four as a work of fiction, but as a government training manual.
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Brunch at Mistral
Among the cities most celebrated fine dining restaurants, and one of my personal favorites for french cuisine that achieves the eloquent balance of being sophisticated and comforting is Mistral. For 15 years Mistral has been catering to crowds of longtime regulars and newcomers a like, welcoming Bostonians into a contemporary space tastefully decorated with Provencal inspired accents. On Sunday morning the restaurant is bright and airy as opposed to the dramatic low lighting that envelops during dinnertime. A handsome slate floor underfoot, rows of potted cypress trees climb towards soaring ceilings which meet sweeping yellow curtains and pale green upholstered booths. The rustic-chic bar and lounge area is empty at this hour, but the dining room is bustling. It was my first time here for brunch (you can read my dinner review here. Also - I didn't formally review it on the blog but they do a great job during restaurant week!) To start we were served moist crumb cakes wrapped up in a neat and tidy package. Alongside came a duo of soft, creamy butters, the apple was definitely a nice touch. They offer an array of fancy breakfast cocktails and although I was still a little fuzzy headed from the night before, I knew one would do me some good. The Strawberry Bellini ($10) was equal parts sweet and fizzy, laced with a juicy house made strawberry puree. It presents a fresh alternative to the same old mimosa (though you still have the option to keep it traditional.) My friend ordered the Graham Cracker Crusted Challah French Toast ($15) which came with vanilla poached seckel pear and mascarpone chantilly. This brunch staple can usually benefit from an inventive twist, the graham cracker crust added an extra layer of both a mildly sweet flavor and slightly crunchy texture. Additionally, the syrup presentation was rather charming in a vintage looking glass bottle. A skillet of hearty Lyonnaise Potatoes come with the french toast, they are tender and well seasoned laced with slightly charred red onions. I wish I could have enjoyed more of these Provencal style home fries, but I had my work cut out for me with a large skillet containing Confit of Duck and Root Vegetable Hash ($19) with three sunny side up farm fresh eggs. I though the confit was exquisite, the range of textures beautifully done with flavorful meaty bites mingling with crispy seared pieces and the root vegetables, particularly the carrots added genuine brightness necessary to offset the rich and succulent duck. The eggs were not especially runny but still gooey enough to add their ideal compliments. The roasted cherry tomatoes were a perfect finishing touch. Not unlike dinner, brunch at Mistral is certainly a worthy splurge, where a fanfare of Southern French inspired cuisine celebrates the region with consistently excellent food and cocktails.
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I'm trying to install programs from source. GCC won't do it for some reason.
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It is sad to me that six men from our county have nothing more to do than to try to make trouble for our county, and Judge Thomas. Any sensible person who voted in this election in question, knew who they were voting for, and also what they were voting for. To want something changed about this is to say, your man did not win and you want it done over. I say RIDICULOUS!!! Why don't the six of you get together and do something positive? There are many needs in our county, and lots of people hurting, it seems like you could try to do good instead of EVIL.
Now we all can rest. The Judge ruled in the county's favor. I just hope the county will go after the cost it incurred in this suit for it was taxpayers money that was spent and we don't have any money to spend on stuff like this
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Members of the University of Nairobi's Council on November 12, 2016, were at the Kisumu Campus on an inspection mission of the progress of the construction of the Complex.
The construction works of the library, computer lab and the lecture theatres is on course. While giving the progress report, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Peter Mbithi, assured the members of council that the Kisumu Campus Complex will be ready for inspection in two weeks time. In his remarks, Prof. Mbithi lauded the all those who have participated in making sure that the construction of complex progress is realized as per the Commission for University Education (CUE) requirements. Further, he gave a vivid explanation of the upcoming complex and the intentions to expand the Campus.


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Jewish World Review March 6, 2008 / 29 Adar I 5768 Hillary: Stand by some other man By Ann Coulter
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The mainstream media said she was finished, but our brave Hillary soldiered on to wallop B. Hussein Obama in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island Tuesday night. I don't know what the MSM is so upset about we let them pick the Republican nominee. Did they want to pick the Democratic nominee, too?
"Elvis is here, Clinton version. Having Bill Clinton campaign for you, as Mr. Ford learns, is a mixed blessing. You are bolstered standing next to this outsized Democrat, but still seem puny by comparison."
"Mr. Clinton is one Oscar-worthy supporting actor who can sometimes upstage his leading lady simply by breathing."
"Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has been trying to capture Bill Clinton's old political magic and lay claim to his legacy and popularity."
Tony Blair's charisma "ranks second only to Bill Clinton's."
Not to be a stickler, but Bill Clinton is the guy who could never get as much as 50 percent of the country to vote for him. And that was in two presidential elections that the Republicans basically sat out (as they are doing this year).
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Someone's been watching a tad too much Sex and the City. A 30-year-old Taipei office worker named Chen Wei-yih has tired of all the social pressure to get married and the lack of anyone decent to get married to, so she's going it solo, with a wedding planner and photos and a white dress and everything, including 30 friends to witness the momentous occasion. And why not?
"Age 30 is a prime period for me. My work and experience are in good shape, but I haven't found a partner, so what can I do?" Chen said.
"It's not that I'm anti-marriage. I just hope that I can express a different idea within the bounds of a tradition."
Well, that's sweet and all, but how about the "different idea" that you don't, actually, have to get married at all? The idea that you can be successful and happy and single? And that marrying yourself is...well...weird, as well as kind of a waste of money. Why buy the cow when the milk's for free?
Jezebel calls this woman "awesome" and says her story speaks "to a desire to celebrate a certain level of self-actualization and maturity" -- which is fine, if we assume marriage has anything to do with either of those things (dubious), or that being unable to just let go of the tradition altogether and get on with your bad, single self is not preferable to the whole hoopla and ridiculousness of marrying yourself. Chen's question "What can I do?" speaks volumes as to her presumed "empowerment" with regard to this pursuit.
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Voices were heard in El Salvador this week looking for alternative ways to end the cycle of gang violence in the country.
On Monday, the government released its draft proposal of a law for rehabilitation and "re-insertion" of gang members into society. In announcing the proposal, the Minister of Justice and Public Security, Benito Lara, stated that the law was aimed at youth who had come under the influence of the gangs, to give them a reason to make the decision to exit. The law would seek to slow the growth of gangs through programs of formal and informal education, job creation, and productive projects leading to a culture of peace.
Lara emphasized that this law did not provide for amnesty for gang members, nor was it directed at those who had committed serious crimes. The law now goes to the National Assembly for debate, where a central question will be how to finance the programs.
On Tuesday, marchers converged on Plaza Salvador del Mundo clamoring for an end to violence. The march was convened by member churches of IPAZ, the pastoral initiative for life and peace, including the Anglican and Lutheran churches of El Salvador. Among the marchers were family members of gang members who joined their voices to those seeking to stop the violence.
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With notice that families of gang members would be in the march, the police were stopping buses on the way to the march, making people get out, and searching for those wanted for crimes. Media coverage was summarized by this headline in La Prensa Grafica: Family Members of Terrorist Groups Will March for Peace.
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Tucked away in the rusty, designer by-lanes of picturesque Hauz Khas Village in Delhi sits Kunzum Cafe, a cosy cafe with tasteful interiors. Far removed from the scores of cafes thronging the capital city, with a similar look, ambience, and menu, Kunzum Cafe has been able to hold its own, with its one-of-a-kind proposition, which is an unconventional pay-as-you-wish pricing route for its customers.
Positioned as a pay-as-you-like travel cafe, Kunzum Cafe was started by travel writer, photographer, and former journalist, Ajay Jain in 2010 and remains perhaps the only such hub for travel enthusiasts.
Even before the cafe was launched, brand Kunzum has been around since 2007, when Jain started a travel blog with the same name, derived from Kunzum Pass in the Lahaul-Spiti valley in Himachal Pradesh. It has also been extended into a publishing label with books on travel and an online travel magazine. Being an avid photographer, Jain wanted a place where he could showcase his work as well as build a brand that would bring together people with such like-mind creative pursuits.
This is how Kunzum cafe was born. In Jain's words, it is a 'face to face book of travel' where people can swap travel stories, plan travel trips, and meet fellow enthusiasts over cups of coffee.
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Apart from serving as a brand which caters to all aspects to travelling, the pay as you wish concept has got people talking. The brew and cookies (the only items on the menu) are on the house, and visitors are free to pay what they desire.
Explaining the rationale behind this novelty, Jain says, "We wanted it to be a place where the ownership rests with the company and did not want any entry barriers for anyone coming in."
While such a move certainly arouses customers' interest and drives more curious visitors to the cafe, how is this business model sustained? Surprisingly, according to Jain, this idea has actually paid off for him, and whatever amount people pay willingly is enough to sustain the running costs of the place. It also helps that the cafe requires very basic finances owing to the limited menu and the team from Kunzum's other operations double up as cafe managers.
In fact, as a marketing principle, this strategy is similar to the concept of participative pricing, wherein the consumer plays a crucial role in the pricing decisions. This not only avoids disadvantages associated with conventional pricing but also creates a friendly exchange between the buyer and the seller. This mostly happens in a competitive market place.
This probably explains why Jain wants to continue with this winning formula and has plans of neither making it a paid menu nor expanding its menu offerings, despite the temptations coming his way. "We are not in the F&B business. We want people to focus on travel, talks, and the creative stuff that we do around photography, films, and music. They can go for food anywhere, but they can't go anywhere else for all of this," he explains.
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The cafe houses Jain's photographs, the books he has authored along with a huge library of travel books, magazines, and pictorial catalogues for visitors to browse through. The cosy ambience gets an added personalised touch with a pin-up board on which guests leave scraps of memories from their travel sojourns.
The cafe, which on an average, sees a daily footfall of 100 people also organises various events like film screenings, music gigs, book launches, travel talks, poetry sessions and photography workshops to increase visitors as well as ensure a regular stream of revenue. Such activities attract a certain kind of a consumer profile which is in line with the cafe's intended target audience. According to Jain, the visitor profile broadly includes creative, independent professionals, expats, foreigners as well as students, though the latter contributes only 15 per cent of the cafe's footfall.
One of its prime marketing mediums has been the digital platform. Kunzum has a vibrant community on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, which helps to connect with consumers as well as spread word about the various events.
However, more than anything else, what has worked the most for the cafe is word of mouth advertising. "A majority of people who walk in, say that they have heard about it from a friend," says Jain.
Recently, Club Kunzum has also been launched, which is a paid membership club that organises activities like heritage walks, food walks, and travel tours. Jain targets a member base of 1,000 people by the year-end from the 100 members at present.
Launched almost two years back, Kunzum, rather than fading away into relative obscurity, still manages to arouse the curiosity of people. Jain has plans of replicating the successful venture in other places and is looking at opening Kunzum cafes in Gurgaon, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, Pune, Chennai,and Kolkata, with his first priority being Gurgaon and Bangalore. However, he candidly admits that a new cafe would require an overhead of at least Rs 2-3 lakh a month, and will have higher running costs than those of the existing cafe. To raise money for this expansion, Jain is looking at revenues through workshops, advertising, and sponsorships as well as renting out the cafe space to select travel partners to offer some travel services.
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The researchers, led by Ali Javey of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, employed CNF forests 50–100 nm across and 10–12 µm long vertically grown on silicon substrates. They successfully managed to transfer the CNFs onto flexible plastic substrates without destroying the original morphology of the nanostructures.
The CNF connectors do not easily attach to perfectly flat surfaces because of low Van der Waals interactions and binding forces. However, when placed on structures similar to themselves – for example, nanofibrillar surfaces with similar aspect ratios and dimensions – the contact area increases by more than 1000 times, resulting in strong shear binding. The connectors do not bind in the normal direction.
"These anisotropic adhesion properties can be controlled by the stiffness of the CNF arrays and how they are positioned," Javey told nanotechweb.org. "For instance, we showed that we could control adhesion within the shear regime by uniformly tilting the arrays."
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Sirat, Waris and Harun, Zulkefli (2006) Aircraft Maintenance Management - Role of Licence Aircraft Maintenance Engineer by Complying to Aviation Regulations to ensure a High Standard of Maintenance. In: 1st Regional Conference on Vehicle Engineering & Technology, 3-5 July 2006, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Civil Aviation is a highly regulated industry. Complying to aviation regulations starts from the aircraft manufacturing process, aircraft maintenance and also the training and licensing of aircraft maintenance personal. The United Nations (UN) recognizes the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as a specialized agency for international civil aviation standards and Malaysia is one of the contracting states. Malaysia being a sovereign country has formulated its own air legislation and regulations in line with the ICAO requirements through an Act of Parliament with the introduction of The Malaysian Civil Aviation Regulations (MCAR). The MCAR through the medium of Airworthiness Notices (AN) make provision for the adoption of the code of airworthiness certification and procedural requirements published as FAR's, JAR's and BCAR's as standards acceptable to DCA Malaysia. As a contracting States of ICAO, DCA Malaysia is subject to oversight (Audit) activities by ICAO to ensure compliance to ICAO Annexes, Standards, recommended practices, procedures and guidance materials. This paper will discuss the role of Licence Aircraft Maintenance Engineers (LAME) on aircraft maintenance management, the ICAO Annex 1 and DCA Malaysia Airworthiness Notices (AN) which provide information and regulation on licensing of aircraft maintenance personal including their privileges and also the establishment of UniKL MIAT to train the aircraft maintenance workforce. The stringent adherence to regulations has in fact produced a safe and airworthy aircraft for passenger comfort.
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The French Open 2010 started in Roland Garros, until June 6th. Roger Federer is the top player of the tournament, while female is Serena Williams. She will face Stefanie Voegele from Switzerland in the first round, while Federer will face Peter Luczak of Austria.
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We are living today in the cusp of the Mayan end times, the end of a galactic day or time period spanning thousands of years. One galactic day of 25,625 years is divided into five cycles of 5,125 years.
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