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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
How to Write About Israel
At a time when international desks are being cut to the bone, this is the one bone that the newshounds won't give up. Wars can be covered from thousands of miles away, genocide can go to the back page, but, when a rock flies in the West Bank, there had better be a correspondent with a fake continental accent and a khaki shirt to cover it.
Writing about Israel isn't hard. Anyone who has consumed a steady diet of media over the years already knows all the bullet points. The trick is arranging them artistically, like so many wilted flowers, in the story of this week's outrage.
Israel is hot, even in the winter, with the suggestion of violence brimming under the surface. It should be described as a "troubled land." Throw in occasional ironic biblical references and end every article or broadcast by emphasizing that peace is still far away.
It has two types of people; the Israelis who live in posh houses stocked with all the latest appliances and the Arabs who live in crumbling shacks that are always in danger of being bulldozed. The Israelis are fanatical, the Arabs are passionate. The Israelis are hate-filled, while the Arabs are embittered. The Israelis have everything while the Arabs have nothing.
Avoid mentioning all the mansions that you pass on the way to interviewing some Palestinian Authority or Hamas bigwig. When visiting a terrorist prisoner in an Israeli jail, be sure to call him a militant, somewhere in the fifth paragraph, but do not mention the sheer amount of food in the prison, especially if he is on a hunger strike. If you happen to notice that the prisoners live better than most Israelis, that is something you will not refer to. Instead describe them as passionate and embittered. Never ask them how many children they killed or how much they make a month. Ask them what they think the prospects for peace are. Nod knowingly when they say that it's up to Israel.
Weigh every story one way. Depersonalize Israelis, personalize Muslims. One is a statistic, the other a precious snowflake. A Muslim terrorist attack is always in retaliation for something, but an Israeli attack is rarely a retaliation for anything. When Israeli planes bomb a terrorist hideout, suggest that this latest action only feeds the "Cycle of Violence" and quote some official who urges Israel to return to peace negotiations-- whether or not there actually are any negotiations to return to.
Center everything around peace negotiations. If Israel has any domestic politics that don't involve checkpoints and air strikes, do your best to avoid learning about them. Frame all Israeli politics by asking whether a politician is finally willing to make the compromises that you think are necessary for peace. Always sigh regretfully and find them wanting. Assume that all Israelis think the same way. Every vote is a referendum on the peace process. A vote for a conservative party means that Israelis hate peace.
The Israelis can also be divided into two categories. There are the good Israelis, who wear glasses, own iPads and live in trendy neighborhoods. They are very concerned that the country is losing its soul by oppressing another people. They strum out-of-date American peace songs on guitars that they play badly, but which you will describe them as playing "soulfully", and they show up at rallies demanding that the government make peace with the Palestinians.
Your good Israelis invariably volunteer or work for some NGO, a fact that you may or may not mention in your article, but you are not to discuss who funds their NGO, particularly if it's a foreign government. Write about them as if they are the hope of an otherwise brutish and unreasonable Israel too obsessed with killing and destroying to listen to the hopeful voices of its children.
When writing about them, act as if they are representative of the country's youth and its best and brightest, which for all you know they might be, because you rarely meet anyone who isn't like them, because you rarely meet anyone who isn't like you. When you do it's either a taxi driver, repairman or some working-class fellow whom you have nothing in common with, and who turns out to be a raving militant when it comes to the terrorism question.
These are the other Israelis. The big swarthy men who have no interest in alternative art exhibits. If you have to deal with them at all, get a quote from them about their hopes for peace and how much they dislike the government. Pretend that the two things are connected, and that everything that your friends, who are aspiring artists and playwrights, as well as volunteer humanitarians, told you about the country being ready to rise up against right-wingers like Barak and Netanyahu, to demand peace, is absolutely true. Don't ask yourself why the country keeps electing right-wingers; if you do, turn it into an essay that touches on Holocaust trauma and biblical hatred.
At some point, you will have to write about the thin bearded men in black hats rushing through the streets on their inscrutable errands. Describe them as "Ultra-Orthodox", even if the word does not seem to mean anything, and pretend that they're all the same. If anyone tries to explain the distinctions to you, ignore them. When writing about them, be sure to imply that they are ignorant and fanatical. Mention their growing numbers as a danger to the survival of the state, associate them wrongly with the right wing and throw in some of the complaints from your friends about the "Schorim", the blacks, moving in and destroying secular neighborhoods.
Israeli soldiers should be depicted looming menacingly over children. Your stringers are already experienced at urging a child into camera range, then getting down on one knee and tilting the camera up just as an Israeli soldier walks into the frame. If there isn't time to set up the shot, get what you can. The photo can be cropped afterward to show just the Israeli soldier and the Palestinian child, even if the two are not actually interacting in any way.
In print, contrast the bored detachment of the soldiers with the prolonged miserable suffering of the Arab Muslims. Checkpoint lines should consist entirely of old and pregnant women waiting to visit their families. If you are Jewish then mention that the soldiers have given you special treatment on account of your race, even if the actual reason is because you are a journalist and your kind doesn't set off bombs, your kind acts as the propaganda corps for those who set off bombs.
When visiting "settlers," a term that currently covers a sizable portion of the country, describe them as "dogged" and "fanatical." Dwell on their beards and on their assault rifles. Find some American ones and disarm them with hometown mentions of Brooklyn or Baltimore and then dig for a hateful comment. If you can't get a properly damning quote from one of them, get it from one of their children. If you have no luck there, hit up one of your NGO friends, preferably with a degree, to give you a quote on the danger that they pose to peace.
Convey to the reader that there is something disturbing about the tenacity with which they cling to the land, while making it clear that they will have to be ethnically cleansed from the land for there to be peace. Do not use the word "ethnic cleansing," use "evacuation," it sounds cleaner. Be sure to mention that they believe G-d gave them the land. Mention something about the Caananites and the Amalekites. Talk to the girls and contrast their fresh youthful faces with their unwillingness to make peace with their neighbors.
Pay a visit to Jerusalem. Mention a place or two that you like to eat, make sure that it is owned by Arabs, accept their tale of being here for thousands of years with complete credulity. If they mention that they are worried about East Jerusalem being taken over by the Palestinian Authority, don't report that. Do report any complaints that they have about the Judaization of Jerusalem. Draw a picture of the neighborhood as a wonderfully multicultural place dating back to when the Jordanians expelled all the Jews—that is now under assault by the returning Jews. Mourn all the tourists and the Jewish families who are getting in the way of your orientalism. Be sure to remind readers that the Muslim name of the city, or as you will write, the Arab name, is Al-Quds, and that it is holy to three great religions.
Visit with politicians. Israeli Prime Ministers will invariably be unpleasant obstructionist types, if they make jokes, describe it as a transparent effort to curry favor with you. Generals are even worse. Press them about the separation wall, checkpoints, misery and deprivation in the territories. Then get your NGO friends to introduce you to friendly left-wing pols who will commiserate with you about the state of the peace process and the leap of faith that needs to be taken to make peace. Get a quote from them about the next generation and describe them as saddened by their government's unwilling to make peace.
Palestinian politicians are always willing to make peace, even when they aren't. Work at it and you will get a hypothetical quote about their willingness to one day live in peace with the Jews. Turn that quote into the centerpiece of your article. Contrast it with Israeli leaders who still refuse to come to the table. Never ask them any tough questions about the budget, their support for terrorists or why they refuse to negotiate. Instead feed them softball questions, take their talking points and plug them into the template for the same article that your predecessors have been writing since the seventies.
If an Israeli tells you that there is no such thing as Palestinians, that they're gangs of Muslim militias who have no interest in running their own country, or that Jordan is the actual Palestinian State, ignore him. Details like that don't matter and you're not here to litigate history, you're here to tell a story. The same story that has been told for generations about villainous Israelis and the heroic resistance fighters battling against them.
Don't dig into the relationships between Arab clans, the depth of nepotism within the Palestinian Authority or the lack of elections. Don't discuss Israeli poverty except when your NGO friends ask you to write about their work. Don't mention the epidemic of car thefts or land seizures. Don't try to understand what all the different religious subgroups are really all about. You were sent here to tell a simple story and your job is to tell that story.
Write about the hills and the blood-red sunsets, mention all the armies that probably passed over them in a history you never bothered to learn. Talk about your mixed feelings as a Jew or part-Jew or someone who has Jewish friends, at the sight of Jews oppressing another people. Describe the black soulful eyes of a Palestinian leader or terrorist or terrorist leader. Write up the settler children who are taught to hate. Write about how all the guns make you uncomfortable. Close with an old man who expresses hope that one day peace will come to this troubled land.
Then go home.
24 comments:
- Devorah said...
Thank you for the time and effort you put into wrting this article. I hope people will take the time and effort to read it and recognize the truth.
- 17/5/12
- Lemon said...
Yes, you said it nicely.
- 17/5/12
- Anonymous said...
So insightful. Too bad pieces like this one don't get distribution in the MSM, which has become less than worthless, and has become an impediment to people learning how the world really is.
- 17/5/12
- Edgar Davidson said...
Indeed - and a full set of guidelines for the Western media can be found here:
http://edgar1981.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/rules-and-guidelines-for-westerners.html - 17/5/12
- Anonymous said...
Every time that I think you have written your best piece, you trump it!
This article should be required reading for anyone who is an " official" in any American Jewish organization, together with rabbinic groups.
At some point there needs to be a real push back. - 17/5/12
- Anonymous said...
The worst of the bunch in my opinion are the members of the American media that are at least nominal Jews and act, again in my opinion, as useful idiots for the anti-semites, by calling for divestments or boycotts, or refer to the power of the "Jewish lobby", while using their alleged judaism as some kind of moral authority/ backup for their "progressive" at any cost politics and limited intellectual analysis.
Certainly eating pastrami and attending a jewish summer camp once gives you the weighty authority to pontificate and preach to a country under siege how they should commit national suicide in order to please your progressive friends and not embarass you as you try to assimilate even more?
Personally I can only shake my head and wonder what the pathology is. - 17/5/12
- Rita said...
Daniel, Daniel, Daniel !! What have you done now!!!
This will probably become the bible for teaching "creative reporting" in Arab...errr....sorry...Palesteeeeeeenian and assorted leftist journalist schools.
They are literalists,you know, and probably wouldn't recognise irony if it hit them. - 17/5/12
- Anonymous said...
Excellent once again Daniel.
I have often thought: "What does it say about the attitude of the entire Western media towards their readers when they outright lie to them over and over again?"
The word "contempt" seems most fitting.
As for their attitude towards Israel, we we know what that is and we don't have to go back that far in history to identify it.
Proud Brit. - 17/5/12
- Anonymous said...
That's true Proud Brit. But the public is more than willing to swollow the media's tripe hook, line and sinker. The most obvious examples being the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Gush Katif.
Anyone with half a brain would have stopped and wondered why an entire people are being forced out of their small village. Jews being forced out of anywhere should have sent off alarm bells.
This sort of thing isn't limited to the news media either. I've waiting for Globe Trekker on PBS to do a show from Israel. They finally did a few weeks ago. It was all about the Palestinians.
The trekker visited a Palestinian community and focused on local foods. No problem. The host thought the food was delicious and kissed a Palestinian woman's hand.
The others explained that she was married. Okay. Innocent enough until I plane flew overhead and the trekker joked, "There go the Israelis" as if the IDF were monitoring every mundane activity in Gaza.
Keliata - 17/5/12
- Anonymous said...
"Ask them what they think the prospects for peace are. Nod knowingly when they say that it's up to Israel."
Unilateral peace is also known as surrender. - 17/5/12
- but pygmies said...
- 17/5/12
- Anonymous said...
Daniel, I have been reading your blog for about a year (never commenting). Your articles are always well written, timely, and obviously the product of much contemplation. They are so good I feel unworthy of offering my praise of them. Please continue your banquet for thought.
- 17/5/12
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
I appreciate the comment. It always helps to know that more people are reading
- 17/5/12
- Yigal said...
As always,great article.
Thank you for all you do.
Yishar Coach. - 17/5/12
- Anonymous said...
Very good, as usual. I understand why a lot ofMuslims propagate this rhetoric: the reason is the Medinan suras replaced the Meccan ones; making the former (nicer ones) void. These included the covenant land of greater Israel and Jewish ownership of that land. I cannot understand why the majority of Muslims who don't know about the Mansook suras are not vocal on behalf of Jews especially when they know of Jewish return in the end of days, sura 17:104iish.
Also their little ditties call for the ummah to make Jerusalem (al quds) the capital of the Jew-free, global ummah. WHY??? You won't find al quds, or even Jerusalem or "Palestine" in the Qur'an. As Mohamet changed the qibla so worship faces Mecca, surely Mecca is now the centre of veneration for Muslims.
I really don't get christians who are Pro-pal in the first place, but also have their pro-pal conferences in places like Bethlehem and have their pics taken on the Temple Mount with the WAQF and not speaking out when they are told there is no evidence of any Jewish Temple ever being there! kate b - 17/5/12
- Anonymous said...
Here is one of those little ditties I mentioned
Kate b - 17/5/12
- Anonymous said...
I often meet Ethan Bronner of the NYT at the neighborhood grocery. He lives and transcribes his NGO press releases from an occupied Arab villa in Jerusalem's old Katamon neighborhood. (16 or 18 Mishmar HaAm St to be exact)
- 17/5/12
- Anonymous said...
Excellent writing. You are truly gifted when it comes to describing complex situations in a few simple sentences. Unfortunately, for every reader you have, the despicable Tom Friedman's and Amos Oz's have 20. If these numbers were reversed, people would start to get a more objective view of what really goes on in the Middle East.
- 17/5/12
- Anonymous said...
In defense of some journalists...even when they do include truth about the threats facing Israel there's almost always someone in the newsroom ready to hit the spike key to kill the story.
Keliata - 18/5/12
- Anonymous said...
All part of the expected results when the system demands equal outcomes as opposed to equal opportunities.
- 18/5/12
- Anonymous said...
Whatever you do never use Thomas Friedman as a frame of reference.
- 18/5/12
- Anonymous said...
A typical example: http://www.guydelisle.com/jerusalem/jeru-index.html
It was published entirely on the italian newspaper not long ago.
Fed. - 18/5/12
- Anonymous said...
It really is up to Americans to demand accountability and honesty from their media. While I normally just toss out the New York Times subscription solicitations, this time I am going to send them a nice letter explaining why (Friedman and Israel coverage) they will never get my money. Maybe CC to Carlos Slim. Say, when are they going to "cover" Mexico the way they do Israel? Say never, and you would probably be right.
- 18/5/12
- Jackie said...
Thank you for that wonderful piece of journalism that quite literally reeks with something not found in the media (for the most part) these days, "truth." It is such a refreshing change to actually see the truth about the Israelis printed somewhere and with such an intelligent and genious slant/angle. Isn't that what the mainstream media would call this?
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It was billed as the "Guitar Hero Metallica Madness Competition" – a 10pm slot on the big stage. But in what turned out to be the worst-kept secret of Austin's annual South by Southwest festival, the gig masquerading as a platform to launch a new computer game turned out to be Metallica themselves.
"Surprise, surprise," singer James Hetfield growls. "Thanks for letting us come to your party." Then, the band launched into a greatest-hits package.
The truth is, this annual music-industry shindig is not just about young, unsigned bands looking for a record deal any more. Not when bands such as Razorlight, Blur or New York Dolls play – as they all have over the past few years. Or Kanye West, who played an unofficial "surprise" show on the final night of this year's festival. But each year, at the end of March, SXSW is still recognised as the best place to find new talent, and some bands go to amazing lengths to get that recognition – one, Avitia, set up a website called employmyband.com.
Others simply play as many shows as they can. New York shoegazers The Pains of Being Pure at Heart played 10 shows this week and all that tireless hawking around of their catchy tunes looks like it may pay off.
Martin Mills, head honcho at Beggars Banquet records, is here to see The Golden Filter, a New York electro-pop three-piece. It's a weird time of day to catch a 1980s-influenced band more suited to a sweaty New York City nightclub. The keyboard player is captivating as he hunches over his Moog, bashing the keys and then turning to thump two drums next to him in time with band's drummer proper.
At Emo's, King Khan and the Shrines are tuning up on the outdoor stage. This is a stripped-down daytime show but even without his regular horn section, Khan doesn't disappoint. Drummer Johnny Boy Adonis is like a one-man band, playing a kick and snare with his feet, leaving his hands free to wield his guitar while Khan prances about the stage, bare-chested. It may all sound a bit silly (it is), but the music is brilliant: dirty, garagey 1950s pop. In his press blurb, Khan describes his shtick thus: "I began seriously practising voodoo to fulfil my infinite sexual fantasies and when the mojo started working I figured, 'Hey, why not put this to music?'"
In keeping with the theme of interesting drummers, Box Elders' sticksman plays the skins with his right hand while holding chords down on a vintage synthesiser with the other. The Nebraska three-piece are playing a New York Noise party east of I35, the freeway that slices Austin in two. There are a lot of people packed into the beer garden of the tiny venue, and they're spilling into the car park next door. It's not surprising – Box Elders make a beautiful noise.
Quite why Here We Go Magic are playing the same party, though, is a mystery. Two female backing singers complement Luke Temple's haunting Jeff Buckley-esque vocals perfectly. It's experimental, almost psychedelic in places, and while this is passionate, gentle music, Here We Go Magic deserve to be huge.
While waiting for British folkstress Laura Marling to come on, we're treated to a set from Sheffield's Stoney. Singer Mark Stoney is all a-fluster due to "technical problems". But it doesn't matter. Roping in local keyboard and accordion players, and with very little rehearsal, it's all wonderful folky harmonies and shanties.
Just down the road, the Carrera Café is the de facto feeding and watering tent for musicians this year. It's rammed throughout the festival with bands sipping Bloody Marys and playing Connect 4. On Thursday morning, The Proclaimers are sitting in the corner, sunburnt from the Texas sun and laughing and joking with their small entourage.
The music pumping from outdoor speakers at the café next to the Hilton is terrible. Considering this is the first choice for delegates at SXSW due to its close proximity to the Convention Center, Don Henley and Phil Collins are a bad choice. It's lucky that just over the road, 3OH!3 are playing at Stubbs' BBQ. Like New Kids on the Block meets the Beastie Boys (just imagine), they're two boys from Boulder, Colorado, but today they're joined by a drummer and guitarist. It's a great venue for their exuberant, tongue-in-cheek shenanigans. One half of 3OH!3 has long hair and is sporting a John McEnroe-style headband, egging on the crowd. The sun is disappearing and 3OH!3's antics are a perfect segue into the busy night ahead. It's fair to say there's madness in the air: outside the venue there's a group of people chanting and clapping while a couple perform capoeira to the crowd. Two police officers, standing next to their mountain bikes, look bemused at the sheer number of people now flooding the streets around 6th. Austin is usually busy on a Thursday night with students from the University of Texas, but nowhere near the sheer volume that South by Southwest brings. Despite the downturn in the economy, this place is packed.
Round the corner, Stars Like Fleas are just getting started on the small stage at the Habana Bar. Shannon Fields, who also plays in ethereal Brooklyn alt-pop outfit The Silent League, is frustrated with the sound guy, who can't seem to get his act together, but after about 10 minutes, the 11-piece band are ready to go. There's a violin, harp, banjo, horn section, a big-bearded drummer and Fields – who holds the whole thing together, singing and playing guitar and keys. It begins with what sounds like a shambolic, drunken chorus, followed by a cacophony of sound. But Stars Like Fleas make a wonderful noise. It's not a concert – it's an event.
Music blogs had been tipping Obits as a buzz band of the festival. Although they formed only last year, front man Rick Froberg has been on the scene since the mid 1980s, in the bands Pitchfork, Drive Like Jehu, Hot Snakes and Last of the Juanitas. The place is packed, and although half the band look like accountants, they create a great blend of psychedelic rock.
An early slot in the Convention Center café on Friday didn't deter badgeholders who turned up to see Sweden's The Tallest Man on Earth – alter ego of singer-songwriter Kristian Matsson. Wielding an acoustic guitar, his songs are sensitive and eccentric. The online magazine Pitchfork said that Matsson managed to "embody Bob Dylan's effortlessness so well, infusing his songs with a detachment that is neither cold nor alienating."
I bump into Crispin Parry and Danny Ford of British Underground, the organisation that has promoted and hosted British acts at SXSW since 2002. They're raving about a few bands they've seen over the past couple of days: Denmark's Efterklang, whom they describe as "uplifting, experimental, electronic, melodic music not dissimilar to Arcade Fire"; New Hampshire's Wild Light, who, they say, have a sound that's "a bit Eighties"; Austin's Monahans, who play "blue-collar bar music really well"; Paper Route from Nashville ("Green Day meets Postal Service"); and LA heavy-metal band Steel Panther, who are "disgusting and awesome at the same time".
On Friday night, Brooklyn three-piece School of Seven Bells play. Flanked by keyboardist and guitarist twin sisters Alejandra and Claudia Deheza, guitarist Ben Curtis flails around, often hunched over, stabbing at his guitar through a fantastic set. Faultless harmonies and ethereal, dreamy soundscapes take everyone to another place – if only for half an hour.
White Denim, on a little later on the same stage, are an Austin band and also have a considerable buzz about them. It is justified. They're a powerful force live, and singer/guitarist James Petralli looks a little like Jack White as his body moves spasmodically around the stage.
Other noticeable mentions include Bear Hands, a Brooklyn quartet who play their danceable indie tunes (in the vein of Modest Mouse) to a packed Mohawk Patio. And Australian rockers The Grates, who, although they don't have too many memorable songs, have a wonderful front-woman in currently blonde, perennially grinning Patience Hodgson.
My pick of the festival is slightly unconventional: Silverghost, a boyfriend/girlfriend Detroit act featuring Marcie Bolen (ex-Von Bondies) and Deleano Acevedo, aren't actually playing an official SXSW event at all. They were too late applying this year, but they came down to Austin regardless. With her flame-red hair and killer platforms, Bolen rocks out on her guitar while Acevedo produces a meaty sound on his Moog.
These tunes are brilliant and deserve to be heard by a lot more people. What's more, like a lot of people here this week, they look like they're having the time of their lives.
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It's Ding Day!
The photo is from inside the Whitechapel Bell Foundry - see the DG for an excellent piece about this establishment. But the story is, today is Ding Day! Transport for London, the LCC and even Time Out have all listed it as an event, the idea is create a friendlier vibe during rush hour by encouraging riders to greet each other with a 'ding' of their bells. So if you hear the streets of London ringing a little more than usual, you know what's going on.
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I esp. like the expression on his face. Good shot!
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Seeing as how there's no synopsis or anything,
the stroy starts with a salaryman who seems to have just found his lucky streak, but soon finds the good luck to take a turn for the worse when he finds himself shouldered with a huge debt of 80.000.000 Yen. The company that had got him into the debt though has a strange suggestion for him to freeze his debt on the condition he befriends a certain person.
That's where it starts to get more and more complicated because this person turns out to be a whimsical girl who can just order him around at any time she pleases, while he still has his own job to hang... See full review
Where to start....
It's kind of hard to come up with the right things to say, because I did enjoy reading most of it, but there are also quite a lot of things lacking in the story and the characters.
Also, I should warn you about chapter 6. I thought that was the most disturbing one for several reasons that I cannot express without spoilers, so I shall refrain to do so, but I must warn you that even for adult content mixed with drama, this one really gets the gears in your head cracking.
I thought that it was also rather amusing how, despite it being pretty explicit they still kept on going... See full review
A little ecchi nonsense story you can use to kill some time. (like 30 minutes.)
Boobies, funnies and complete randomness.
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I had quite few laughs even litteraly to the point of worrying about my neighbors because of my LOL (insomnia makes me continue way past midnight, so got to keep it down...).
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Reading this manga, it should be pretty hard... See full review
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Well, it's Leonard's show, so, some would suggest you draw your own conclusions from that. I was planning on going until certain mitigating factors came to light.
The Midwest Haunters Convention is of good repute. I can't make MHC this year, but I'm planning on both TW and MHC for next year.
If you only have enough funds for one Con, make it MHC. And be sure to attend Allen's seminars.


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Prada's A/W 2012 Video Campaign: Watch Now!
Posted Thursday August 2, 2012 2:59 PM GMT
Delivery another highly-anticipated ad campaign, Prada has release a video clip to promote its Autumn/Winter 2012 collection.
The just-released clip was shot by Steven Meisel and stars the leggy catwalk regulars Magdalena Frackowiak and Anne Vyalitsina
Adding to the ad's multitude of model mayhem are Anessa Exente, Madison Headrick, Elza Luijendijk and Iselin Steiro - who all engage in a video game like round of chess.
Be sure to peek Prada's latest promo creation below. And for even more from the designer, be sure to brown though the entire A/W collection after the clip.
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33 Thought-Provoking B2B Social Media and Marketing Stats
Webbiquity SMM
As noted in the 2016 B2B Marketing Trends report , B2B marketing strategies and practices are in the midst of significant change, driven by new technologies and evolving buyer expectations for more "consumer-like" experiences. B2B marketing budgets are shifting to digital and social. B2B messaging gets personal. Direct Marketing ).
3 Tips for Using Social Media for B2B Marketing
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Social media can be a great business tool to use for marketing, sales, PR, customer service, and HR. However, most of what's written about social media functionality on a professional level tends to be focused on businesses that work directly with consumers (B2C) rather than B2B enterprises. Here are three tips for using social media more effectively in your B2B marketing.
The Basics of B2B Social Media Marketing Strategy
Webbiquity SMM
Although more than three-quarters of B2B technology marketers use social media to market their products, less than half say they can tie social channels to revenue generation for their businesses. But it may also be a problem with basic B2B social media marketing strategy. Hashtags are very important on Twitter but can't contain spaces.
Social Media is Key to B2B Content Marketing [Report]
91% of B2B marketers now use social media as a content marketing tool. B2B marketers are distributing their content on social networks more than ever before. Content marketing is the art of communicating with your customers and prospects without selling. This is the first in a series of posts about how to use content to market online and via social media.
The 32 Best Twitter Marketing Tools
Webbiquity SMM
While Facebook is far and away the largest social network, when it comes to driving B2B website traffic and brand visibility, Twitter and LinkedIn are tops. Twitter's key strength is in driving traffic to informative online content including news and blogs. (It's This is my favorite tool for building our audience on Twitter." 11) Twitter Analytics.
Social Networking Stats: LinkedIn Is Most Important Social Network for B2B Marketers, #RLTM Scoreboard
The Realtime Report
Twitter: over 500 million users. LinkedIn Is Most Important Social Network for B2B Marketers. When asked which social media method is most important for their social outreach, LinkedIn was the clear winner among B2B marketers (chosen by 30%) according to new research by BtoB. Facebook followed with 19%, Twitter with 16%. via CNET. via Twopcharts.
Infographic: B2B content marketing trends
Sherrilynne Starkie
Despite continued economic uncertainty, nearly half of B2B marketers plan to increase their marketing spend this year. Twitter for companies. Why Visual Content and Marketing Go Hand in Hand [Infographic]. Content Marketing Tips: 10 Tips and Tricks for Creating Content. Featured Headline Marketing Content marketing infographic Information graphics
B2B Marketing Trends 2016-2020: Social Media Breakfast Wrap
Webbiquity SMM
What trends will drive B2B marketing over the next three to four years? Where should savvy B2B marketers invest their resources to optimize results over the next few years? Paul ( #SMBMSP90 on Twitter). The initial product of that research was the eBook, B2B Marketing Trends for 2016: 25 Thought Leaders Weigh In , previously summarized here.
12 Tweetable Statistics Prove B2B Social Media ROCKS
PWB Marketing Blog
Know B2B social media fact from fiction. Fiction: Social media offers limited value to B2B marketers. Fact: 86% of B2B companies are using social media. B2B companies are absolutely using social media to generate leads , connect with customers, and reach business goals. Dispel the myth that social media isn't for B2B and tweet the truth.
How to Grow Your B2B Facebook Community
Waxing UnLyrical
Despite its uncertainty in the stock market, Facebook continues to be an excellent way to connect with your client base and potential customers. This struggle is even more difficult for business-to-business (B2B) marketers, who feel so lost trying effectively target business professionals on Facebook that they only put in half the effort or abandon the platform completely.
11 B2B Marketing Predictions for 2011
Buzz Marketing for Technology
Around this time last year I wrote about the 10 B2B Marketing Predictions for 2010 and while I would say 7 out of 10 have already materialized and the others are on their way. So that begs the question – what's on the horizon specifically for B2B Marketers next year? Here are 11 concrete ways I think the environment in which B2B Marketers operate will evolve in 2011.
The Two Core Elements of B2B Social Media Marketing Success
Webbiquity SMM
There have been numerous models proposed for social media and content marketing (including the Four C's of Social Media Marketing model previously published here), but when all of the complexity is stripped away, social media marketing success comes down to two core elements: content and amplification. Of course, in the B2B realm, your content should be targeted at addressing a specific question or concern of a specific type of buyer at a specific stage of the buying cycle (e.g. Follow them on Twitter. Content is like singing a song. On American Idol. Video.
The B2B End Around
Waxing UnLyrical
Whether it's marketing or public relations, I often have people tell me: "It's different for me. I'm in B2B, not B2C. Individuals who very well may be on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. But there's another way, which can work for many B2B's and it's what I call the "B2B end-around." The B2B End Around. Guest post by Ken Mueller. To that I say, "Poppycock!
B2B Blogging Trends for 2011
Webbiquity SMM
Blogging is often viewed as the core component of a B2B social media marketing strategy, and other than discussion forums, it's the most mature component of social media. Facebook, Twitter and even newer tools like Quora may be sexier and get more attention, but blogs are the workhorses essential to making social media marketing work. There's much more.
Driving Long-Term B2B Growth with an Omni-Channel Presence
Webbiquity SMM
68% of B2B buyers now purchase goods online via their phone or tablet (and soon maybe their Apple watch). With many areas of B2B procurement beginning to look more like consumer transactions, 83% of B2B sellers understand long-term success is dependent upon implementing an omnichannel strategy; however, most have yet to create one. Guest post by Robert C. Johnson. Robert C.
Creating Engagement in B2B Marketing
Buzz Marketing for Technology
You can call it Inbound Marketing (like the folks at HubSpot do) or you could call it Content Marketing (like the folks at Junta42 do) but whatever you call it this is the basis for all your online activity. Years ago on this blog I remember saying "measuring engagement is hard since there is no one button you can push as a marketer to measure it. A recent Cone Inc.'s
Changes in B2B Marketing — Mad Marketing TV Ep 13
Buzz Marketing for Technology
Join guest host Jeff Ogden and special guest Paul Dunay, CMO of Networked Insights and author of Facebook Marketing for Dummies, as they discuss: Recent changes in B2B marketing. Facebook's IPO and what it means for marketers. New social media tools for B2B marketers. Social data and what it means to B2B marketers. Visit [link] to learn more.
How to REALLY Increase B2B Blog Traffic
PWB Marketing Blog
Explode Your B2B Blog Traffic. We write a lot about ways B2B organizations can use social media to generate demand and acquire leads. We submitted our blog to Social Media Today which has 44,191 Facebook fans and 70,500 Twitter followers. B2B Blogging Communities. Here are a few B2B blogging communities to consider: B2B Marketing Zone launched in 2009.
10+ Ways To Use B2B Social Media In Your Business
PWB Marketing Blog
Social media should be an integral component of everything your B2B organization does including marketing, customer service, sales, and product development. It's surprising how many B2B companies still overlook this key task. Eleven Different Ways to Integrate B2B Social Media. Have branded wall paper for your Twitter profile. Skin your YouTube page.
4 Fresh Trends in B2B Social Campaigns
Convince & Convert
Meanwhile, B2B marketers sat on the sidelines waiting for social campaign technology to deliver against their more sophisticated needs. In the B2B space, having people follow you is not enough. For B2B marketers, the promise of social is user data, and first generation social campaign technologies just weren't delivering. That's changing rapidly. Let us know!
What Does B2B Social Media Success Look Like?
Webbiquity SMM
It's not that B2B companies aren't finding success in social media marketing, but more (in my experience at least) that they are less willing to publicly reveal their strategies for competitive reasons. Recently, that's begun to change a bit as blogs like TopRank and Marketo have highlighted b2b social media success stories. Twitter followers. Results.
Seven Habits of Highly Effective B2B Websites
PWB Marketing Blog
Are you thinking about building new B2B website or maybe making a small tune-up? Redesigning a B2B website can seem like a daunting task. We've built B2B websites since 1998. Covey, the following are seven habits of highly effective B2B websites. Follow these 22 tips to optimize your B2B website , including using anchor text, alt text, meta data, and header tags.
52% of B2C Marketers Plan To Increase Social Marketing Budgets in 2013
The Realtime Report
The vast majority – 70% – of B2C marketers are moderately to highly engaged in social media, followed closely by 63% of B2B marketers, according to Webmarketing123′s new " State of Digital Marketing 2012 Report." The report examines lead generation, marketing budgets, and measurement of ROI for both B2B and B2C marketers using social media in the US.
101 Vital Social Media and Digital Marketing Statistics for (the Rest of) 2013
Webbiquity SMM
As marketing becomes more data-driven, it's vital to use data to keep up with trends, competitor strategies, and developments in your market. of all marketers love blog posts about marketing statistics. For example, 93% of marketers use social media for business. But how do marketers and consumers view social media differently? B2b vendors?
What Are Your First Impressions Of Google+ As A B2B Marketer?
PWB Marketing Blog
Google+ is outpacing Facebook and Twitter by leaps and bounds. To put that number in perspective, it took Twitter and Facebook nearly three years to reach 20 million users. From a B2B marketing perspective, it is still too early to use Google+ as a communications tool. Only time will tell whether Google+ will complement or compete with Linkedin, Facebook, and Twitter.
20 Social Media Marketing Blogs You Should Read in 2013
Looking for the best social media marketing blogs? I'm always trying to keep pace with the evolving social media marketing landscape, and reading many of the fantastic blogs out there helps me stay on top of best practices. You've come to the right place! Social media is now mandatory for businesses. Here are some that [.].
Four Ways to Optimize Content for B2B Search
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Because Google is still the top search engine used, B2B marketers need to, now, more than ever, create quality, engaging content and include meta data to have it display in search engine results. The focus of B2B content is to educate potential buyers and inspire them to action. B2B organizations invest in content production primarily for lead generation.
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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpessimistpes‧si‧mist /ˈpesəmɪst/ noun [countable] EXPECTsomeone who always expects that bad things will happen opp optimist Don't be such a pessimist!
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pessimist• With beta software, it pays to be a pessimist and not harbor unrealistic expectations.• Don't be such a pessimist - I'm sure things will work out.• Don't be such a pessimist - I'm sure you'll pass your driving test!• Let puritans and pessimists damn, disapprove or dismiss these appetites; that is their loss.• Most accountants tend to be pessimists.• After all, their brokers and investment bankers win business by being optimists, not pessimists.• Burke is remembered as a poetic pessimist.• Some estimates put the close of year figure at 2,050 - 150 points lower than the worst of last week's pessimists.• But still, he stayed out there shovelling, confounding the pessimists even though his task was clearly hopeless.• The pessimists feared the Conservatives' nine seats could even be wiped out north of the border.From Longman Business Dictionarypessimistpes‧si‧mist /ˈpesəmɪst/ noun [countable] someone who always expects that things will get worse or that bad things will happen in the futurePessimists are predicting a downturn in the economy. → opposite optimist —pessimistic adjective —pessimism noun [uncountable]
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All three of them are sitting around the table ....Dani and Dan are playing rummy and drinking bud lite lime.
All three of them are sitting around the table ....Dani and Dan are playing rummy and drinking bud lite lime.
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When the Power of Love overcomes the Love of Power, the World will know Peace
Well much as I'd love to stay up and watch this last night in the house I got to be up early tomorrow (got a table @ the local farmer's market). Thank you everyone again for posting and going to miss all of you nite all.
Goodnight all, feeds will be cut by the time I get off work tomorrow. It's been a GREAT season.....Dan what a BB player=awesome! Love hanging out at the FORT with all the BB fanatics like me. Go Dan!
I can't. Ian is just a socially-awkward cute boy that was moved around in this game like a chess piece by Dan. Attaching himself to Dan was Ian's biggest move in the game IMHO. Founding the QP means nothing since the other members were already aligned. They just played along with Ian. A real "big move" for Ian would have been defying Dan by trying to backdoor Frank during the first quick elimination and then getting Dan to trust him again. If Ian had done that I'd definitely be okay with him winning over Dan.
Anybody else noticed that Dan was hesitant to backdoor anyone in the game up until he felt he had no other choice with Shane?
I wish they were doing something more interesting then playing cards for our last night together
When the Power of Love overcomes the Love of Power, the World will know Peace
I'd be more interested in seeing them finish packing -- at least while doing that, we'd get some genuine reminiscing about the season from them, as opposed to the fake, forced, scripted reminiscing they did at the staged dinner for the clip show.
"Whatever you are, be a good one." Abraham Lincoln
What is an "MFWalkoff?"
The only reason I want Danielle to win is so her and Shane can go somewhere nice together with the money <3
Other than that, I'm leaning towards Ian. I'm not sure if I want Dan to win again.
Okay..since he spent all evening with Danielle..do you think he is going to take her..or do you think he spent all evening with her..because he is not taking her....or am I looking for clues that aren't there?
I don't think there was ever any doubt that Dan will take Dani if he wins Part 3. He knows Ian could beat him in a F2, but he knows he would win big against Dani.
Ian is there because Dan knows Ian would take him to F2 out of loyatly, which is why Dan engineered Shane's eviction. Dan knew that Shane would take Dani over him.
Soda break's over, Ian's back in the hammock.
"Whatever you are, be a good one." Abraham Lincoln
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Killer first line of the moment:
(My Favorite Apocalypse, Graywolf Press, 2001)
In View of the Fact
The people of my time are passing away: my
wife is baking for a funeral, A 60-year-old who
died suddenly, when the phone rings, and it's
Ruth we care so much about in intensive care:
it was once weddings that came so thick and
fast, and then, babies, such a hullabaloo:
now, it's this that and the other and somebody
else gone or on the brink: well, we never
thought we would live forever (although we did)
and now it looks like we won't: some of us
are losing a leg to diabetes, some don't know
what they went downstairs for, some know that
a hired watchful person is around, some like
to touch the cane tip into something steady,
so nice: we have already lost so many,
brushed the loss of ourselves ourselves: our
address books for so long a slow scramble now
are palimpests, scribbble and scratches: our
index cards for Christmases, birthdays,
halloweens drop clean away into sympathies:
at the same time we are getting used to so
many leaving, we are hanging on with a grip
to the ones left: we are not giving up on the
congestive heart failures or brain tumors, on
the nice old men left in empty houses or on
the widows who decide to travel a lot: we
think the sun may shine someday when we'll
drink wine together and think of what used to
be: until we die we will remember every
single thing, recall every word, love every
loss: then we will, as we must, leave it to
others to love, love that can grow brighter
and deeper till the very end, gaining strength
and getting more precious all the way ....
-A.R. Ammons
found in Till I End My Song; A Gathering Of Last Poems, Ed. Harold Bloom (Harper, 2010)
This apartment full of books could crack open
to the thick jaws, the bulging eyes
of monsters, easily: Once open the books, you have to face
the underside of everything you've loved—
the rack and pincers held in readiness, the gag
even the best voices have to mumble through,
the silence burying unwanted children—
women, deviants, witnesses—in desert sand.
Kenneth tells me he's been arranging his books
so he can look at Blake and Kafka while he types;
yes; and we still have to reckon with Swift
loathing the woman's flesh while praising her mind,
Goethe's dread of the Mothers, Claudel vilifying Gide,
and the ghosts—their hands, clasped for centuries—
of artists dying in childbirth, wise-women charred at the stake,
centuries of books unwritten piled behind these shelves;
and we still have to stare into the absence
of men who would not, women who could not, speak
to our life—this still unexcavated hole
called civilization, this act of translation, this half-world.
-from The Dream of a Common Language by Adrienne Rich (W.W. Norton, 1978)
That Saturday Without a Car
for Ellen Dunn (1910-1969)
Five miles to my mother's house,
a distance I'd never run.
"I think she's dead"
my brother said, and hung up
as if with death
language should be mercifully approximate,
should keep the fact
that would forever be fact
at bay. I understood,
and as I ran wondered what words
I might say, and to whom.
I saw myself opening the door—
my brother, both of us, embarrassed
by the sudden intimacy we'd feel.
We had expected it
but we'd expected it every year
for ten: her heart was the best
and worst of her—every kindness
fought its way through damage,
her breasts disappeared
as if the heart itself, for comfort,
had sucked them in.
And I was running better
than I ever had. How different it was
from driving, the way I'd gone
to other deaths—
my body fighting it all off, my heart,
this adequate heart, getting me there.
-from New and Selected Poems 1974-1994 by Stephen Dunn (W.W. Norton, 1994)
"There are of course additional reasons to read poems, and reasons to learn to read them well even if they may seem at times to be written in a baffling or unnecessary code. One is, you will feel less lonely. In the company of the world's poems a reader discovers that the terrain of a life, its core griefs and core exhilarations, are not traversed entirely alone. Others have cut paths through the same thickets, found passes through the same mountains. This evidence of companionship may sometimes bring practical assistance along the way, at other times it may only help the walking feel less hard. At still other times, though, a poem can become the single point of light in a vast darkness—a small, infinitely distant, and yet still-sufficient star to steer by."
-Jane Hirshfield, from "Telescope, Well Bucket, Furnace: Poetry Beyond the Classroom"
"We will discover that God made not only the parts of Creation that we humans understand and approve but all of it: "All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made." And so we must credit God with the making of biting and stinging insects, poisonous serpents, weeds, poisonous weeds, dangerous beasts, and disease-causing microorganisms. That we may disapprove of these things does not mean that God is in error or that He ceded some of the work of Creation to Satan; it means that we are deficient in wholeness, harmony, and understanding—that is, we are "fallen.""
-Wendell Berry, from "Christianity and the Survival of Creation"
"As if to say that all boundaries are necessary evils and that the truly desirable condition is the feeling of being unbounded, of being king of infinite space. And it is that double capacity that we possess as human beings—the capacity to be attracted at one and the same time to the security of what is intimately known and to the challenges and entrancements of what is beyond us—it is this double capacity that poetry springs from and addresses. A good poem allows you to have your feet on the ground and your head in the air simultaneously."
-Seamus Heaney, from "Something to Write Home About"
"But writing itself is one of the great, free human activities. There is scope for individuality, and elation, and discovery, in writing. For the person who follows with trust and forgiveness what occurs to him, the world remains always ready and deep, an inexhaustible environment, with the combined vividness of an actuality and flexibility of a dream. Working back and forth between experience and thought, writers have more than space and time can offer. They have the whole unexplored realm of human vision."
-William Stafford, from "A Way of Writing"
"People do want to, and I include myself in this, hide behind some kind of comforting illusion and it's not because they're stupid, it's not because they're less fully alive, it's just that they're terrified and need reassurance that they have some control over what's happening to them, or that there's some kind of, oh I don't know, some kind of purpose to things that often feel as if they have no purpose. That all suffering can be redeemed. And so I have respect for people's resistances to the truth [laughs]. Because I feel it in myself, but the job of poetry is partly to resist that resistance, and look at the world, the best and worst it has to offer, as unflinchingly as possible. And if poetry transforms experience into beauty, it has to be the kind of beauty that doesn't falsify the reality that it's pretending to represent."
-Alan Shapiro, in an interview with RATTLE
No one's despair is like my despair—
You have no place in this garden
thinking such things, producing
the tiresome outward signs; the man
pointedly weeding an entire forest,
the woman limping, refusing to change clothes
or wash her hair.
Do you suppose I care
if you speak to one another?
But I mean you to know
I expected better of two creatures
who were given minds: if not
that you would actually care for each other
at least that you would understand
grief is distributed
between you, among all of your kind, for me
to know you, as deep blue
marks the wild scilla, white
the wood violet.
-from The Wild Iris by Louise Glück (Ecco Press, 1992)
Ars Poetica
I like it back here
Under the green swatch of the pepper tree and the aloe vera.
I like it because the wind strips down the leaves without a word.
I like it because the wind repeats itself, and the leaves do.
I like it because I'm better here than I am there,
Surrounded by fetishes and figures of speech:
Dog's tooth and Whale's tooth, my father's shoe, the dead weight
Of winter, the inarticulation of joy…
The spirits are everywhere.
And once I have them called down from the sky, and spinning and
dancing in the palm of my hand,
What will it satisfy?
I'll still have
The voices rising out of the ground,
The fallen star my blood feeds, this business I waste my heart on.
And nothing stops that.
-from The Southern Cross by Charles Wright (Random House, 1977)
"One of the reasons I write poems is that they make revelation possible. I sometimes think I ought to spend the rest of my life writing a single poem whose action reaches an epiphany only at the point of exhaustion, in the combustion of the whole life, and continues and renews, until it blows away like a puff of milkweed. "
-Stanley Kunitz, an interview with Paris Review
"It is the gap between what one wants to say (or what one perceives there is to say) and what one can say (what is sayable), words provide for a collaboration and a desertion. We delight in our sensuous involvement with the materials of language, we long to join words to the world—to close the gap between ourselves and things, and we suffer from doubt and anxiety as to our capacity to do so because of the limits of language itself."
-Lyn Hejinian in "The Rejection of Closure"
"The thing that obsesses me is always beyond language. Language is almost an inconvenience. I have a feeling that no matter what kind of art we're practicing, at some point we become hyper-aware of our medium. If we're painting it's paint and if writing it's the language. But if we don't at some point move beyond our hyper-consciousness of language, we're stuck in the land of the medium. On that plane, only the relationships of words to other words is available, while the relationships of words to their ground, mother-silence, on the one hand, and to the concepts they name, on the other hand, gets abandoned…The beautiful Mexican poet, Octavio Paz, said something like—the difference between prose and poetry is that in prose you use language and in poetry, you yield to language. It feels like there's this weird dialectic between us and the language. I can't tell whether we just yield to it or we bend it. Maybe both. Sometimes it feels like we're bending the language. Maybe it's a process of self-making. I can't tell."
-Li-Young Lee, an interview with The Writer's Chronicle
"What is this enigmatic impulse that does not allow one to settle down in the achieved, the finished? I think it is a quest for reality. I give to this word its naïve and solemn meaning, a meaning having nothing to do with philosophical debates of the last few centuries. It is the Earth as seen by Nils from the back of the gander and by the author of the Latin ode from the back of Pegasus. Undoubtedly, that Earth is and her riches cannot be exhausted by any description. To make such an assertion means to reject in advance a question we often hear today: "What is reality?", for it is the same as the question of Pontius Pilate: "What is truth?" If among pairs of opposites which we use every day, the opposition of life and death has such an importance, no less importance should be ascribed to the oppositions of truth and falsehood, of reality and illusion."
-Czeslaw Milosz, Nobel Prize Lecture (1980)
"In short, whatever the work is supposed to be,
Let it be true to itself, essentially simple."
-Horace (trans. David Ferry) in "The Art of Poetry: Notes for Aspiring Poets and Playwrights"
"And reject the angel, and give the muse a kick in the seat of the pants, and conquer our fear of the violet smile exhaled by the eighteenth-century poetry, and of the great telescope in whose lens the muse, sickened by its limits, is sleeping."
—Federico Garcia Lorca (trans. Christopher Mauer), in "Play and Theory of the Duende"
"Poets, if they're genuine, must also keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon as the final period hits the page, the poet begins to hesitate, starts to realize that this particular answer was pure makeshift, absolutely inadequate to boot. So the poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their "oeuvre"…"
—Wislawa Szymborska (trans. Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh), Nobel Lecture (1996): "The Poet and the World"
"From all this, my friends, there arises an insight which the poet must learn through other people. There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence in order to reach forth to the enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song—but in this dance or in this song there are fulfilled the most ancient rites of our conscience in the awareness of being human and of believing in a common destiny."
—Pablo Neruda, Nobel Lecture (1971): "Towards the Splendid City"
"Aristotle, I have been told, has said that poetry is the most philosophic of all writing: it is so: its object is truth, not individual and local, but general, and operative; not standing upon external testimony, but carried alive into the heart by passion; truth which is its own testimony, which gives competence and confidence to the tribunal to which it appeals, and receives them from the same tribunal. Poetry is the image of man and nature…"
—William Wordsworth, "Preface to Lyrical Ballads"
Triphammer Bridge
I wonder what to mean by sanctuary, if a real or
apprehended place, as of a bell rung in a gold
surround, or as of silver roads along the beaches
of clouds seas don't break or black mountains
overspill; jail: ice here's shapelier than anything,
on the eaves massive, jawed along gorge ledges, solid
in the plastic blue boat fall left water in: if I
think the bitterest thing I can think of that seems like
reality, slickened back, hard, shocked by rip-high wind:
sanctuary, sanctuary, I say it over and over and the
word's sound is the one place to dwell: that's it, just
the sound, and the imagination of the sound—a place.
-from The Selected Poems by A.R. Ammons (W.W. Norton, 1986)


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Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
Animalia | Chordata | Chondrichthyes | Carcharhiniformes | Scyliorhinidae |
Scientific Name: | Galeus piperatus | |||||||||
Species Authority: | Springer & Wagner, 1966 | |||||||||
Common Name(s):
Taxonomic Notes: | Distinct, but not easily separable from the Galeus arae complex of the Western Atlantic (Springer 1979, Compagno 1984). |
Red List Category & Criteria: | Least Concern ver 3.1 |
Year Published: | 2006 |
Date Assessed: | 2006-01-31 |
Assessor(s): | Heupel, M.R. |
Reviewer(s): | Kyne, P.M., Stevens, J., Pollard, D., Dudley, S. & Cavanagh, R.D. (Shark Red List Authority) |
Justification: Galeus piperatus is a common catshark with a restricted distribution in the northern Gulf of California in depths of 130 to 1,326 m. This is a small oviparous shark reaching a maximum size of 36 cm total length. This shark is not targeted nor generally caught as bycatch in fisheries, (although it has been found to be part of the bycatch in the hake surveys currently taking place in the Gulf of California). Despite its limited geographic range, in the absence of any identifiable threats to its population, Galeus piperatus is assessed as Least Concern. Future expansion of deepwater demersal trawling in the Gulf of California will require monitoring. |
Range Description: | Restricted geographical range in the northern Gulf of California. North of the city of Guaymas, Sonora (Mathews 1975, Compagno 1984) and deeper waters of the vicinity of Isla Tiburon (F. Marquez, unpublished data). |
Countries occurrence: | Native: Mexico (Sonora) |
FAO Marine Fishing Areas: | Native: Pacific – eastern central |
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Population: | Unknown, but reported to be abundant within the Gulf of California. Appears to be more abundant in summer months (June to August) compared to sampling in winter months (February to March) (Mathews 1975). |
Current Population Trend: | Unknown |
Additional data: |
Habitat and Ecology: | Galeus piperatus is a deepwater species recorded from depths of 130 to 1,326m, with specimens most commonly caught at 170 to 420 m (Mathews 1975). It is primarily a demersal species but has been taken up to 100 m off the bottom at night (Mathews 1975).
Little is known about the biology of this species. Development is reported to be oviparous with females producing eggcases of ~35 mm in length. Sexual maturity in females is reached at ~18 cm TL with a maximum size of 37 cm TL. Pups hatch at a size of ~7 to 8 cm TL (Mathews 1975). Data on its size/sex structure and maturity is currently being processed (F. Marquez, unpublished data). It is thought to undergo seasonal migrations related to breeding and although details are not known these may involve movements into deeper waters during winter, which would also involve geographical movement out of the extreme northern Gulf of California (Mathews 1975). Life history parameters Age at maturity (years): Unknown. Size at maturity (total length): Female: 18 cm TL (Mathews 1975); Male: unknown. Longevity (years): Unknown. Maximum size (total length): 37 cm TL (O. Sosa, unpublished data). Size at birth: ~7 to 8 cm TL (Hubbs and Taylor 1969, Compagno 1984). Average reproductive age (years): Unknown. Gestation time (months): Unknown. Reproductive periodicity: Unknown. Average annual fecundity or litter size: Unknown. Annual rate of population increase: Unknown. Natural mortality: Unknown. |
Systems: | Marine |
Major Threat(s): |
Its deepwater habitat generally precludes it from capture in fisheries operating in the Gulf of California. Future expansion of deepwater demersal trawling in the northern Gulf of California would require monitoring.
Utilisation Not utilised. |
Conservation Actions: | None. |
Citation: | Heupel, M.R. 2006. Galeus piperatus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2006: e.T60228A12329390. . Downloaded on 27 March 2017. |
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Another fascinating place to visit is the Maumere in Flores Island. It's already a very famous tourist destination, so there are now plenty of tours that you can choose from. You can also select a yacht charter from Bali and then sail through the Maumere. You can also reach the area by flying from Central Flores Island. Formerly a volcanic island, Flores has beautiful places to offer to foreigners. You can try shopping at their local market, dine in Wuring (a small fishing village), or experience traditional Indonesian culture at Sikka. Of course, your stay will not be complete without diving or swimming, especially in Pemana.
Sailing in Indonesia could also mean exploring Irian Jaya. This is the largest Indonesian province, with a span of more than 450,000 square kilometers. Besides the beach, you can make a stop and follow several hiking trails leading to Puncak Jayawijaya, a very large mountain range that is 5,800 meters above sea level. You can also camp at other mountains such as Gunung Yamin and Gunung Trikora. There are also plenty of lakes where you can go fishing or canoeing, the largest of which is Panai.
People go to Indonesia for food, clothing, and a sense of culture. They may have forgotten that it's also blessed with an impressive ecosystem, made up of seas, lakes, mountains, and animal creatures. Sailing in Indonesia will allow you to enjoy its natural resources.