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You are right, my locale.conf got screwed up. I had LOCALE instead of LANG.
Hi, I'm new. I'm trying to print the icons in xterm and then to the statusbar, i get only a rectangle. The font is recognized , because I'm using it, but not the icons.
I've tried this and the output was a little rectangle.
echo -e "\x84"
And this is my .Xresource:
! Xft settings ---------------------------------------------------------------
Xft.dpi: 96
Xft.antialias: true
Xft.rgba: rgb
Xft.hinting: true
Xft.hintstyle: hintslight
*faceName: ohsnap.icons
*faceSize: 14
*dynamicColors: true
*foreground: #D7D0C7
*background: #151515
! *color0: #AF875F
! *color8: #AF875F
*color0: #101010
*color8: #404040
*color1: #E84F4F
*color9: #D23D3D
*color2: #B8D68C
*color10: #A0CF5D
*color3: #E1AA5D
*color11: #F39D21
*color4: #7DC1CF
*color12: #4E9FB1
*color5: #9B64FB
*color13: #8542FF
*color6: #6D878D
*color14: #42717B
*color7: #dddddd
*color15: #dddddd
*borderColor: #151515
*colorBD: #ffffff
*cursorColor: #ff8939
*cursorColor2: #151515
Can someone show me the error?
Last edited by etere (2012-12-30 15:07:32)
Howdy. I don't know if it will make a difference but maybe try using
xterm*font: -*-ohsnap.icons-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
xterm*boldFont: -*-ohsnap.icons-bold-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
You can try pasting the rectangle into your script and see if that works or possibly try using another terminal like rxvt-unicode (urxvt) and see if it still happens. Or maybe check your locale settings.
Last edited by stlarch (2012-12-31 16:04:24)
Howdy. I don't know if it will make a difference but maybe try using
xterm*font: -*-ohsnap.icons-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-* xterm*boldFont: -*-ohsnap.icons-bold-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
You can try pasting the rectangle into your script and see if that works or possibly try using another terminal like rxvt-unicode (urxvt) and see if it still happens. Or maybe check your locale settings.
Thanks! I didnt know that I have to set my locale to ISO88591. Now it works!
Happy new year!
While using ohsnap in urxvt and doing printf '\xXY' , none of the icons past C1 won't print in the terminal and can't be used in the lemon bar. Any reason for this behaviour?
@theGunslinger, I haven't made any changes in a while, so if they were working before, I would guess it's something on your end. A common problem seems to be with locale settings. I would check that first. Is anyone else having problems?
ohsnap is awesome! i'm wondering if you can add 15px and 16px. i want them for my i3status bar, 14px looks small in my screen.
@OBLiQUE , here's a 15 that I made a while back you can try http://ompldr.org/vaTgwZw/ohsnap15.tar.gz
you'll have to install it manually
Anybody could help ?
open the gbdfed browse the ohsnap icon from xfonts , step page 2 and i chose the icon , the belows two characters (like 80, 89, 8A, AD , B8 etc ) how to print and view correctly?
@F34R, you can do something like
echo -e '\xC9'
for example and then copy the output to a script.
I've read some of the post, even in other 3ds, but I cannot figure out the solution.
1) Encoding set to UTF-8
I can get symbols if I run from the terminal # urxvt -fn "i put here ohsnap font" --> this works, symbols are shown.
The script is not working
2) Encoding set to ISO-8859-1
I cannot get the Powerline Symbols in the terminal, but I do get the symbols in the status bar
I've set LANG and the other LC_*, also LC_ALL to "en_US.UTF-8" as in this way I can get the font for the Powerline correctly in URxvt. And this is fine. It works.
termName is set to urxvt-256-color.
Then, I wanted to use also you Ohsnap for the icons in my DWM status bar, but they are not displayed in my script.
Even if I simply do something like:
while true; do
xsetroot -name "\xB5"
sleep 2
I get no flash symbol, as in this link: http://ompldr.org/vYm5vNQ
I think I can use a different locale for a script, but saying at the start of the script
or even setting LC_ALL, which should override everything, has no effect, and maybe it's not so right to do that...I don't know.
I can see the symbol only if I set in my .zshrc LC_* and LANG to "en_US.ISO-8859-1".
How can I solve this?
If I simply run urxvt like: LANG="en_US.UTF-8" from the terminal, having set encoding to en_US.ISO-8859-1 it's fine, but how can I've tried in the .xinitrc file and it does not work.
LANG="en_US.UTF-8" urxvtd -q -o -f
What am I missing?
Last edited by mattmusc (2013-05-15 14:57:02)
Make everything as simple as possible but not simpler--A. Einstein
I have been trying to use this font for my infobar. The font itself is working with no issues, but I can't get the icons to work. My infobar is bar.
This is my config.h:
/* The height of the bar (in pixels) */
#define BAR_HEIGHT 18
/* The width of the bar. Set to -1 to fit screen */
#define BAR_WIDTH -1
/* Offset from the left. Set to 0 to have no effect */
#define BAR_OFFSET 0
/* Choose between an underline or an overline */
#define BAR_UNDERLINE 1
/* The thickness of the underline (in pixels). Set to 0 to disable. */
#define BAR_UNDERLINE_HEIGHT 1
/* Default bar position, overwritten by '-b' switch */
#define BAR_BOTTOM 0
/* The fonts used for the bar, comma separated. Only the first 2 will be used. */
#define BAR_FONT "-*-ohsnap.icons-*-*-*-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-*-*","fixed"
/* Some fonts don't set the right width for some chars, pheex it */
#define BAR_FONT_FALLBACK_WIDTH 6
/* Color palette */
#define COLOR0 0x272727 /* background */
#define COLOR1 0xd0cecb /* foreground */
#define COLOR2 0xe9f2ac /* yellow */
#define COLOR3 0xd75f5f /* light dark red*/
#define COLOR4 0x080808 /* black */
#define COLOR5 0xffaf5f /* light orange*/
#define COLOR6 0x87afd7 /* light blue*/
#define COLOR7 0x8787af /* light red */
#define COLOR8 0x5f8787 /* A la blalig gra*/
#define COLOR9 0x808080 /* grey */
The script(test.sh) I am testing this with is:
clock=$(date "+%a %b %d, %k:%m")
echo -e "\xc9 $clock"
and the icon does not show up when I pipe it into bar with the command
Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?
Last edited by aparthia (2013-06-12 09:47:25)
@aparthia, try doing
echo -e '\xc9'
and then paste the output (the symbol) into your script instead and see if that works.
@mattmusc, I don't think the urxvt in the repos will work. OK100 had one in the aur that worked but it doesn't appear that he maintains it anymore. I think he compiled it with --enable-unicode3 flag.
Last edited by stlarch (2013-06-14 03:54:22)
How would I go about finding out which special character represents which icon?
ie. "Ñ" = cpu icon, "Î" = memory icon, etc.
Love the font btw
EDIT: Solution: You can open up another terminal with the ohsnap font
urxvt -fn -*-ohsnap.icon-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
and run a shell script which prints out all the glyphs
for i in {50..255}; do printf "\\$(printf '%03o' $i)\n" ; done
Then you can copy paste them, or run the same script inside another terminal with the normal fonts and map the glyphs
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 1#p1292871
Last edited by Winston-Wolfe (2013-06-27 13:38:16)
Can anyone help me with this?
static const char font[] = "-*-ohsnap.icons-medium-r-normal-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-*-*";
static const char *tags[] = { "chat", "dev", "media", "www \xc9" };
No icon will show up, but the font is infact being used :
It's like only the icons wont load. I have tried to implement them into conky also, didnt work.
When I set urxvt's font to use it and I :
echo -e "\xc9"
it will print the icon.
The font shows up in xfontsel. why arent the icons loading??
Also, why isnt the font an option for me to use on my other terminals, like lxterminal, or tilda?
I have the font folder added to my xorg.conf, and my xinitrc loads it aswell.
Last edited by invisiblemannnn (2013-06-27 13:17:59)
Did you not read the post before yours?
dwm won't interpret the codes for the glyph you have to print it out in a terminal and copy it to config.h .
You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me.
When I try to print the glyph in my terminal, it only shows a ? inside a diamond.
It will only display if I run urxvt -fn -*-ohsnap.icons-*-* blah blah and then print it.
Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
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Last edited by invisibleman__ (2013-08-19 18:16:34)
When I try to print the glyph in my terminal, it only shows a ? inside a diamond.
It will only display if I run urxvt -fn -*-ohsnap.icons-*-* blah blah and then print it.
Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
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Technically you aren't doing anything wrong, it's just that you don't quite have an understanding of what's going on. There's a section available to font makers that doesn't always get used and Grandpa Dave used that free space to add some icons to a font(an excellent idea and well done too). The font you use regularly in urxvt has nothing in that space to show you when you make a call there so urxvt has a ? in a diamond as a default for that. Copying that ? in a diamond to a config that will use ohsnap-icons should have the correct glyph shown. It's a matter of trust and having a go. The worst that can happen is you'll need to re-edit a config file and have a quick rebuild.
This is where using a second DISPLAY or Xephyr to check your edits can help when you are configuring a lightweight wm.
You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me.
I have to be, cause look at my config :
And this is what happens :
No icon for ethernet connection? I can only seen a lot wifi icons.
Can someone give me the symbols for muted sound please?
Edit: NM, I've found it. It's 'ë' or echo -e '\xEB'
Last edited by 0wl (2013-10-16 01:35:28)
Can anybody help me figure out what I am doing wrong?
I can seem to get these glyphs working in my DWM or conky.
I am using conky-cli, and here is my config :
background no
out_to_console yes
total_run_times 0
update_interval 5
use_spacer none
use_xft yes
xftfont ohsnap.cions:pixelsize=11
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The entire conky doesnt even show up in my dwm bar. I have :
sleep 3 && conky | while read -r; do xsetroot -name "$REPLY"; done &
in my .xinitrc
I am using dwm, here i my config.h
/* See LICENSE file for copyright and license details. */
/* appearance */
static const char font[] = "-*-ohsnap.icons-medium-r-*-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-*-*";
static const char normbordercolor[] = "#000000";
static const char normbgcolor[] = "#000000";
static const char normfgcolor[] = "#FFFFFF";
static const char selbordercolor[] = "#000000";
static const char selbgcolor[] = "#000000";
static const char selfgcolor[] = "#206167";
static const unsigned int borderpx = 3;
static const unsigned int snap = 32;
static const Bool showbar = True;
static const Bool topbar = True;
static const unsigned int systrayspacing = 2; /* systray spacing */
static const Bool showsystray = True; /* False means no systray */
/* tagging */
static const char *tags[] = { "©", "¹", "¨", "Ï" };
/* rules */
static const Rule rules[] = {
/* class instance title tags mask isfloating monitor */
{ "Firefox", NULL, NULL, 1 << 2, False, -1 },
{ "Pidgin", NULL, NULL, 1 << 0, False, -1 },
{ "Skype", NULL, NULL, 1 << 0, False, -1 },
/* layout(s) */
static const float mfact = 0.55; /* factor of master area size [0.05..0.95] */
static const int nmaster = 1; /* number of clients in master area */
static const Bool resizehints = False; /* True means respect size hints in tiled resizals */
static const Layout layouts[] = {
/* symbol arrange function */
{ "þ", tile }, /* first entry is default */
{ "ý", NULL }, /* no layout function means floating behavior */
{ "ÿ", monocle },
/* key definitions */
#define MODKEY Mod4Mask
#define TAGKEYS(KEY,TAG) \
{ MODKEY, KEY, view, {.ui = 1 << TAG} }, \
{ MODKEY|ControlMask, KEY, toggleview, {.ui = 1 << TAG} }, \
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, KEY, tag, {.ui = 1 << TAG} }, \
{ MODKEY|ControlMask|ShiftMask, KEY, toggletag, {.ui = 1 << TAG} },
/* helper for spawning shell commands in the pre dwm-5.0 fashion */
#define SHCMD(cmd) { .v = (const char*[]){ "/bin/sh", "-c", cmd, NULL } }
/* commands */
static const char *dmenucmd[] = { "dmenu_run", "-fn", font, "-nb", normbgcolor, "-nf", normfgcolor, "-sb", selbgcolor, "-sf", selfgcolor, NULL };
static const char *gyazocmd[] = { "gyazo", NULL };
static const char *mocpnext[] = { "mocp", "--next", NULL };
static const char *mocpprev[] = { "mocp", "--previous", NULL };
static const char *mocppause[] = { "mocp", "--toggle-pause", NULL };
static const char *mutecmd[] = { "amixer", "sset", "Master", "toggle", NULL };
static const char *termcmd[] = { "xterm", NULL };
static const char *volup[] = { "amixer", "set", "Master", "5%+", NULL };
static const char *voldown[] = { "amixer", "set", "Master", "5%-", NULL };
static Key keys[] = {
/* modifier key function argument */
{ MODKEY, XK_r, spawn, {.v = dmenucmd } },
{ MODKEY, XK_Return, spawn, {.v = termcmd } },
{ MODKEY, XK_Up, spawn, {.v = volup } },
{ MODKEY, XK_Down, spawn, {.v = voldown } },
{ MODKEY, XK_Left, spawn, {.v = mocpprev } },
{ MODKEY, XK_Right, spawn, {.v = mocpnext } },
{ MODKEY, XK_p, spawn, {.v = mocppause } },
{ MODKEY, XK_m, spawn, {.v = mutecmd } },
{ MODKEY, XK_s, spawn, {.v = gyazocmd } },
{ MODKEY, XK_h, togglebar, {0} },
{ MODKEY|ControlMask, XK_Up, incnmaster, {.i = +1 } },
{ MODKEY|ControlMask, XK_Down, incnmaster, {.i = -1 } },
{ MODKEY|ControlMask, XK_Left, setmfact, {.f = -0.05} },
{ MODKEY|ControlMask, XK_Right, setmfact, {.f = +0.05} },
{ MODKEY, XK_k, killclient, {0} },
{ MODKEY, XK_space, setlayout, {0} },
{ MODKEY, XK_q, quit, {0} },
/* button definitions */
/* click can be ClkLtSymbol, ClkStatusText, ClkWinTitle, ClkClientWin, or ClkRootWin */
static Button buttons[] = {
/* click event mask button function argument */
{ ClkLtSymbol, 0, Button1, setlayout, {0} },
{ ClkClientWin, MODKEY, Button1, movemouse, {0} },
{ ClkClientWin, MODKEY, Button3, resizemouse, {0} },
{ ClkTagBar, 0, Button1, view, {0} },
{ ClkTagBar, 0, Button3, toggleview, {0} },
I have created 20-fonts.conf inside of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory and i put the fontpath /usr/share/fonts/local
The problem is, regular text works find but if i set the config to use a glyph charcter it doesnt show up. The font itself is working, just no glyphs.
Is this a locale issue maybe?
Last edited by djangorango (2014-01-20 00:09:42)
djangorango it looks like you misspelled ohsnap.icons
xftfont ohsnap.cions:pixelsize=11
You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me.
djangorango it looks like you misspelled ohsnap.icons
xftfont ohsnap.cions:pixelsize=11
yeah i fixed that, that didnt do anything. its not a conky issue, or even dwm.
I think it is because I dont use an xorg conf file maybe, not sure. maybe a locale issue too.
this has just been a persistsing issue and not one can help me with it
@djangorango, try this
use_xft no
font -*-ohsnap.icons-medium-r-normal-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-*-*


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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Thursday, February 07, 2013
Franklin McMahon: "The artist must get out of the studio and look around."
In 1968, CA Magazine featured a cover by Franklin McMahon and included a major article on the artist and his work.
"There have been dramatic developments in hand held cameras and fast film," says McMahon in that article. "There have also been dramatic photographers to go with them," he continues. "These photographers approach their subject with high artistry. However, when you get to a place, you discover there's a photographic approach..."
(Below, photo of Franklin McMahon, 1968)
"... and there's an artist's approach."
(Below, Franklin McMahon illustration from a 1963 LOOK magazine series on "The New Japan.")
Whereas McMahon worked directly in ink at the time of the mid-1950s American Artist article I posted earlier this week, a decade later he seems to have switched to pencil.
(Below, a 1961 McMahon illustration for Fortune magazine)
"315 very black, and I often come back in with a charcoal pencil," he tells the author of the CA article. "When the pencil dulls I sharpen it with a razor blade."
(Above, a McMahon drawing for Sports Illustrated, year unknown)
McMahon often made notes on his drawings, as seen below in this picture of author Frank Yerby, done for Tuesday Magazine.
McMahon usually sat on a low, collapsible stool while he worked. "It's not too comfortable," said McMahon, "but the position of the artist has never been too comfortable in American society."
"I'm not so sure we should be comfortable."
Ultimately, McMahon believed that "how a drawing is made isn't so important as what it has to say."
For McMahon, that often meant bringing together drawings done with or without an assignment - and from different locations. He took his pencil and drawing pad everywhere. "Getting out of the studio and looking around" was not just something he said, it was a personal philosophy he was entirely committed to.
The drawing above, for instance, done when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at a suburban rally in Winnetka, Illinois, jibes perfectly with McMahon's drawings for a story the artist and his wife wrote about the parish of Our Lady of Sorrows, below.
In the tumultuous days of 1960s civil liberties and human rights struggles, the McMahons documented the challenges faced by this once influential church and parochial school. Below, one of the few remaining white property owners in that Chicago neighbourhood sat for McMahon...
"We get along fine with our new neighbors," she told the artist, "but our old friends won't visit us any more."
(Below, a freedom marcher McMahon documented on a trip to Selma, Alabama)
Explaining how he would bring together drawings from various locations, McMahon said, "A guy that works like I do gets ideas in one place that feed back into ideas that occurred in another place, though at the time they weren't considered as part of the same story."
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Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me
A Graphic Memoir
Ellen Forney
Gotham: 248 pp., $20 paper
There's a glorious manic edge to Ellen Forney's "Marbles," a graphic memoir about the artist's battle with depression, which was diagnosed in the late 1990s and remains ongoing, if now essentially controlled.
To some extent, this has to do with the material; Forney is bipolar, which means she suffers manic episodes, as the book recounts. Yet even more, it's a function of how she puts "Marbles" together, by turns methodical and frenzied, as if channeling her emotions on the page.
In that sense, the book reads less like a comic than a scrapbook, in which traditional strip-style layouts alternate with lists, sketchbook pages, re-created photos — all to reproduce the swirling chaos of her inner life.


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DirecTV, Viacom Cross Swords, Customers Get Hurt
Jul 12, 2012 11:34 AM PT
A months-long disagreement over the fees DirecTV should pay to Viacom for some of its most popular programming has turned into steely-eyed brinkmanship between the two companies -- and DirecTV's customers caught in the middle.
Viacom proposed increasing the fees DirecTV pays for programming offered on Nickelodeon, MTV, and Comedy Central by 30 percent. DirecTV refused -- at which point Viacom promptly pulled the plug.
The result is that DirecTV customers have been cut off from TV favorites such as "The Colbert Report" and "SpongeBob Square Pants."
This is just the opening move in what is expected to be a multi-phase, high-stakes PR game, however -- for not only these two companies, but also for their respective industries.
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DirecTV has gone all-out in explaining what is happening, with a pointed site, directvpromise.com, which greets the viewer with the headline "Viacom Wants You to Pay Over 30% More "
CEO Mike White explains the standoff in a video clip, calling Viacom's decision to have its programming go dark a "temporary and regretful tactic."
He positions DirecTV as standing up for its customers, citing its advocacy of allowing customers to pay for stations a la carte and not pay for programming they don't want.
"Viacom, though, continues to insist on an all-or-nothing approach," White said.
The site also directs customers to URLs where some of Viacom's shows can be downloaded or streamed. In response, Viacom reportedly took those episodes down.
Viacom did not respond to our request to comment for this story.
'Still Negotiating'
The two companies are still negotiating, DirecTV spokesperson Robert Mercer told the E-Commerce Times.
"DirecTV has been meeting with Viacom executives, and we continue to talk and make progress to a resolution," he said.
However, no deal had been reached as of Thursday morning, he added.
While DirecTV may have had some fun tweaking Viacom with its guide to the programmer's content on the Internet, it is DirecTV that is likely feeling the most pressure from its customers.
"We are working with customers on an individual, case-by-case basis when they call in, making sure they leave satisfied," Mercer said.
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This clash has been a long time brewing in the industry, independent telecom analyst Jeff Kagan told the E-Commerce Times.
For years, cable companies would pass on rate hikes to consumers with little thought because consumers did not have viable alternatives, he said.
"Now they do, and they are abandoning cable companies in droves. Cable companies have come to the realization that they can't keep on raising fees. Right now the average cable bill is twice as much as what is was 10 years ago, and people are fed up."
TV programming providers such as Viacom are not directly answerable to consumers, Kagan noted. "Their customers are the cable providers. They don't have to deal with viewer discontent over rising prices."
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Becoming KingMartin Luther King Jr. and the Making of a National LeaderBy Troy Jackson
Without question, Dr. Martin Luther King is the face of the civil rights revolution that reshaped the social and political landscape of the United States. Although many biographers and historians have examined Dr. King's activism, few have recognized the pivotal role that the people of Montgomery, Alabama, played in preparing him for leadership.
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Religions worldwide celebrate Earth's abundance and sustenance, and call on humankind to give thanks, practice compassion, seek justice, and be mindful of future generations.
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In Martin Luther King's day the movement of God was a revolution in civil rights and human dignity. Now Sojourners former Director of Policy and Outreach, Adam Taylor, draws from that movement for the present, where the burden of the world is different but the need is the same.
More Than Serving TeaAsian American Women on Expectations, Relationships, Leadership and FaithBy Kathy Khang, Christie Heller de Leon and Asifa Dean
God has so much more in store for Asian-American women than old stereotypes of geisha girls or dutiful daughters.
The Hip-Hop ChurchConnecting with the Movement Shaping our CultureBy Efrem Smith and Phil Jackson
Like the culture it rises from, the hip-hop church is relevant and bold -- and it speaks to the heart.
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BERNE - Napoli recovered from three goals down to draw 3-3 at Steaua Bucharest in the Europa League on Thursday as holders Atletico Madrid were held 1-1 by Bayer Leverkusen.
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Porto maintained their 100 percent record, sealing a 10th successive win by beating CSKA Sofia 1-0 away and Liverpool were held to a goalless draw at Utrecht.
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Napoli made a disastrous start in Romania, falling 3-0 behind in only 16 minutes as Cristian Tanase, with a free-kick, and Pantelis Kapetanos added to a second-minute own goal by Emilson Cribani, who deflected a shot into the net.
But former European champions Steaua, in their first match under new coach Marius Lacatus, collapsed after Kapetanos was sent off in the 31st minute following a clash with Fabiano Santacroce.
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Napoli's Uruguay forward Edinson Cavani completed the fightback by snatching the equaliser in the eighth minute of stoppage-time to give the Italian side their second draw in two Group K games.
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Uzbekistan, officially Republic of Uzbekistan, Uzbek Ŭzbekiston or Ŭzbekistan Respublikasi, country in Central Asia. It lies mainly between two major rivers, the Syr Darya (ancient Jaxartes River) to the northeast and the Amu Darya (ancient Oxus River) to the southwest, though they only partly form its boundaries. Uzbekistan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest and north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east and southeast, Afghanistan to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southwest. The autonomous republic of Qoraqalpoghiston (Karakalpakstan) is located in the western third of the country. The Soviet government established the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic as a constituent (union) republic of the U.S.S.R. in 1924. Uzbekistan declared its independence from the Soviet Union on August 31, 1991. The capital is Tashkent (Toshkent).
Nearly four-fifths of Uzbekistan's territory, the sun-dried western area, has the appearance of a wasteland. In the northwest the Turan Plain rises 200 to 300 feet (60 to 90 metres) above sea level around the Aral Sea in Qoraqalpoghiston. This terrain merges on the south with the Kyzylkum (Uzbek: Qizilqum) Desert and farther west becomes the Ustyurt Plateau, a region of low ridges, salt marshes, sinkholes, and caverns.
Southeast of the Aral Sea, small hills break the flatness of the low-lying Kyzylkum Desert, and, much farther east, a series of mountain ridges partition Uzbekistan's territory. The western Tien Shan includes the Karzhantau, Ugam, and Pskem ranges, the latter featuring the 14,104-foot (4,299-metre) Beshtor Peak, the country's highest point. Also part of the western Tien Shan are the Chatkal and Kurama ranges. The Gissar (Hissar) and Alay ranges stand across the Fergana (Farghona) Valley, which lies south of the western Tien Shan. The Mirzachol desert, southwest of Tashkent, lies between the Tien Shan spurs to the north and the Turkestan, Malguzar, and Nuratau ranges to the south. In south-central Uzbekistan the Zeravshan valley opens westward; the cities of Samarkand (Samarqand) and Bukhara (Bukhoro) grace this ancient cultural centre.
Disastrous depletion of the flow of the two historic rivers—the Syr Darya and Amu Darya—has brought rapid change in the Aral Sea and greatly altered the delta of the Amu Darya. Most streams of the delta have dried up, and the Aral Sea, once the fourth largest inland body of water in the world, has lost more than three-fifths of its water (volume) and some two-fifths of its area since 1961. In some places the sea's shoreline has receded more than 75 miles (120 kilometres). On the north as well as on the east, huge shallow and dead ponds have become separated from the main Aral, cut off by sandbars that emerged as the water level dropped some 45 feet between 1961 and 1992. Overuse of water from the Syr Darya and Amu Darya in both agriculture and industry brought about this dangerous decline. The Syr Darya ceased to deliver any appreciable amount of water to the Aral Sea by about 1978, and the Amu Darya gives the sea a paltry 0.24 to 1.2 cubic miles (1 to 5 cubic kilometres) of water annually, compared with 9.6 cubic miles in 1959. The southern rivers tributary to the Amu Darya—the Surkhan and Sherabad, followed by the Zeravshan and Kashka—contribute little flow, for the last two trickle into nothing in the desert. The Syr Darya, the second largest river in Uzbekistan, forms there by the confluence of the Naryn and Qoradaryo rivers.
The diversion of the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya has resulted in intense salinization of the sea, which also has suffered tremendous pollution from insecticides and chemical fertilizers during the past several decades. This chemical pollution and the decline in water level have killed the once-flourishing fishing industry, grounded most ships that formerly worked within the Aral's shores, and contaminated wide areas around the sea with salty, lethal dust. This, in turn, has poisoned vegetables and drinking water, most harmfully affecting the health and livelihood of the human population around the Aral Sea littoral.
Marked aridity and much sunshine characterize the region, with rainfall averaging only 8 inches (200 millimetres) annually. Most rain falls in winter and spring, with higher levels in the mountains and minimal amounts over deserts. The average July temperature is 90° F (32° C), but daytime air temperatures in Tashkent and elsewhere frequently surpass 104° F (40° C). Bukhara's high summer heat contrasts with the cooler temperatures in the mountains. In order to accommodate to these patterns, Uzbeks favour houses with windows facing away from the sun but open to porches and tree-filled courtyards shut off from the streets.
Although more than 600 streams crisscross Uzbekistan, the climate strongly affects drainage, because river water rapidly escapes through evaporation and filtration or runs off into irrigation systems.
Plant and animal life
Vegetation patterns in Uzbekistan vary largely according to altitude. The lowlands in the west have a thin natural cover of desert sedge and grass. The high foothills in the east support grass, and forests and brushwood appear on the hills. Forests cover less than 12 percent of Uzbekistan's area. Animal life in the deserts and plains includes rodents, foxes, wolves, and occasional gazelles and antelopes. Boars, roe deer, bears, wolves, Siberian goats, and some lynx live in the high mountains.
Settlement patterns
Most of the population lives in the eastern half of the country. Heavily populated oases and foothill basins are covered with an extensive network of canals intersecting fields, orchards, and vineyards. The fertile Fergana Valley in the extreme east, the most populous area in Central Asia, supports both old and new cities and towns and traditional rural settlements. Much of Qoraqalpoghiston, in the west, is under threat of depopulation caused by the environmental poisoning of the Aral Sea area.
Good public housing continued to be in short supply well into the late 20th century, despite large outlays by the government in this sector. As late as the 1990s, private ownership of urban housing had not become common in Uzbekistan, though suburban plots around Tashkent and other cities became available in large numbers for citizens able to erect their own houses—usually simple, low structures, like those in the past, built around courtyards planted with fruit trees and gardens open to the skies but closed off from the streets.
Uzbeks make up some four-fifths of the population, followed by Tajiks, Kazakhs, Tatars, Russians, and Karakalpaks. The Uzbeks speak a language belonging to the southeastern, or Chagatai (Turki), branch of the Turkic language group.
The Uzbeks are Sunni Muslims, and they are considered to be among the most devout Muslims in all of Central Asia. They are also the least Russified of the Turkic peoples formerly under Soviet rule, and virtually all of them still claim Uzbek as their primary language.
The majority of Uzbeks live in rural areas. More than one-third of the population of Uzbekistan lives in urban areas; the urban population has a disproportionately high number of non-Uzbeks. Slavic peoples—Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians—held a large proportion of administrative positions. In the late 1980s and early '90s, many Russians and smaller numbers of Jews emigrated from Uzbekistan and other Central Asian states, changing the ethnic balance and employment patterns in the region.
Uzbekistan's population is quite youthful in comparison with those of the western parts of the former Soviet Union. This age structure results from the high birth rate: of all the former Soviet republics, Uzbekistan has the greatest number of mothers with 10 or more living children under the age of 20.
The cities of Samarkand, Bukhara, and Tashkent have histories that extend back to ancient times. Andijon (Andizhan), Khiva, and Qŭqon (Kokand) also have served the region as cultural, political, and trade centres for centuries. Soviet-era architects purposely laid out some newer towns, including Chirchiq, Angren, Bekobod, and Nawoiy (Navoi), close to rich mineral and energy resources. Soviet planners also sited Yangiyul, Guliston, and Yangiyer in areas that produce and process cotton and fruit.
Uzbekistan is among the world's leading cotton producers. It is known for its orchards and vineyards and is also important for raising Karakul sheep and silkworms. Uzbekistan's mineral and oil and gas reserves are substantial. The country produces and exports a large volume of natural gas. The central bank issues the national currency, the sum.
The country's resources include metallic ores; in the Olmaliq (Almalyk) mining belt in the Kurama Range, copper, zinc, lead, tungsten, and molybdenum are extracted. Uzbekistan possesses substantial reserves of natural gas, oil, and coal. The country consumes large amounts of its natural gas, and gas pipelines link its cities and stretch from Bukhara to the Ural region in Russia as well. Surveys show petroleum resources in the Fergana Valley (including major reserves in the Namangan area), in the vicinity of Bukhara, and in Qoraqalpoghiston. The modern extraction of coal began to gain importance, especially in the Angren fields, only during World War II. Hydroelectric dams on the Syr Darya, the Naryn, and the Chirchiq rivers help augment the country's nuclear-, coal-, and petroleum-powered generation of electricity.
Centuries-old rumours of extensive gold deposits in Uzbekistan evidently arose from a basis in fact. Rich polymetallic ores have been found in the Ohangaron (Akhangaran) field southeast of Tashkent. Miners there extract copper, some gold, lead, molybdenum, tungsten, and zinc. In the Muruntau field in the Kyzylkum Desert of north-central Uzbekistan, the Newmont Mining Corporation in the mid-1990s began construction of a huge plant for heat-leaching gold from low-grade ore; revenue from this project is to be shared with the government.
Uzbekistan requires greater water resources. By the early 1980s the government considered the shortage of water desperate. Officials in Moscow and Tashkent developed a plan to divert substantial amounts of water out of the Irtysh River far to the north into a pumped system that would aid in watering parts of lower Russia, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan. The project was killed, however, before it began, leaving Uzbekistan with chronic water shortages.
Ample sunlight, mild winters of short duration, fertile irrigated soil, and good pastures make Uzbekistan suitable for cattle raising and the cultivation of cotton. Irrigation has fallen into disfavour owing to the depletion of the great rivers, and the construction of new irrigation systems has been prohibited or curtailed. Already existing grand canals include the Great Fergana, Northern Fergana, Southern Fergana, and Tashkent. Several large artificial lakes and reservoirs have been created on the Zeravshan and other rivers.
In addition to the high and stable cotton yield in this most northerly of the great cotton regions of the world, growers have raised silkworms systematically since the 4th century ad. The silkworms are fed mulberry leaves from the many trees planted along streets and ditches. The Fergana Valley is especially noted for silk production.
Varieties of melons, apricots, pomegranates, berries, apples, pears, cherries, and figs grow abundantly, as do vegetables such as carrots, cucumbers, onions, tomatoes, and greens. Uzbekistan's grapes are made into wine or raisins or are eaten fresh. Fruits and vegetables are sold both in the bazaars of Tashkent, Samarkand, Fergana, and other localities and in trade with neighbouring states. Korean agriculturalists cultivate rice along the middle Syr Darya. Sheep are the principal livestock.
Uzbekistan is the main producer of machinery and heavy equipment in Central Asia. The republic manufactures machines and equipment for cotton cultivation, harvesting, and processing and for use in the textile industry, irrigation, and road construction. This emphasis on making machinery also makes ferrous and nonferrous metallurgy important. The first metallurgical plant began operation at Bekobod in 1946.
Light industry includes tea-packing plants and factories for garment making.
The leading exports from Uzbekistan consist largely of extracted natural resources or raw materials—cotton, natural gas, oil, coal, silk, fruit, and Karakul pelts. Some fresh produce reaches Moscow and other northern markets. Manufactured goods such as machines, cement, textiles, and fertilizer are also exported.
The great obstacle to further development of markets for Uzbekistan's copious truck gardening and fruit growing remains the antiquated means of distribution. Neither the surface nor air transport now available can efficiently or with adequate refrigeration handle the volume produced in Uzbekistan and needed by the Baltic states, Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine.
Old railways connect the republic's major urban centres with other Central Asian republics and extend to Moscow and Siberia. Uzbekistan never had a domestic airline of its own, but, after independence in 1991, former Soviet Aeroflot airplanes and their pilots were chartered to fly rather infrequently from such cities as Samarkand and Tashkent to nearby cities. Air service now connects Tashkent with London, New York, and other international cities.
Trucks transport most of the freight carried, and the roadways, like other facilities, require much repair—virtual reconstruction—and widening before they can support the modernizing economies that their builders once hoped to link with each other. The Great Uzbek Tashkent-Termiz Highway runs south almost to the border with Afghanistan. Termiz remains virtually a dead end in terms of trade, however, especially since the Soviet intervention (1979–89) in the Afghan War. A second road, the Zeravshan Highway, connects Samarkand with Chärjew, Turkmenistan, in the west. The Fergana Ring links the main settlements within the populous Fergana Valley.
Administration and social conditions
In 1992 Uzbekistan adopted a new constitution to replace the Soviet-era constitution that had been in effect since 1978. The new constitution establishes the country as a republic and provides for legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government, dominated by a strong executive. Personal liberties generally are protected, but the government is given the right to restrict some of these liberties in certain circumstances. Nationalist or religious political parties are prohibited.
The country's bicameral legislature (the Oliy Majlis, or Supreme Assembly) consists of a Legislative Chamber and a Senate. Legislative Chamber members are elected to five-year terms; most of the members of the Senate are indirectly elected, but some are appointed by the president. The legislature has the authority to amend the constitution, enact legislation, approve the budget, and confirm presidential appointees.
The president is the head of state and government (with the assistance of the prime minister) and is elected for a maximum of two consecutive seven-year terms, though the term can be extended by referendum. The president appoints the cabinet and the high court justices, subject to parliamentary approval, and has the authority to issue binding decrees and repeal legislation passed by local administrative bodies.
The highest courts are the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court, and the Higher Economic Court (for commercial cases), in addition to two high courts for the autonomous republic of Qoraqalpoghiston. Judges are appointed by the president, subject to approval by the legislature.
Health and welfare
Hospital care for Uzbeks improved after 1924. Death rates at first fell markedly, but new problems later arose in public health because of environmental contamination, especially around the Aral Sea (see above Drainage), and maternal and infant morbidity and mortality rates now rank among the highest in the former Soviet states. The longevity of adult males also continues to lag behind rates elsewhere in the former Soviet republics. The poor quality of health care in Uzbekistan is attributable to discriminatory allocations for health care during the Soviet period and to a lack of sufficient attention to environmental problems by public health officials.
The famed medieval seminaries (madrasahs) of Bukhara, Khiva, Samarkand, and the Fergana Valley, long in decline, underwent a revival in the late 18th and again in the late 19th century that prepared new generations for carrying on Muslim education throughout Central Asia. Thousands of seminarians had flocked to those great institutions from inside and outside the region. Owing to both the renewed concern for education in the 1890s and the models offered by sudden activism among modernizers in Egypt, India, Turkey, and Tatarstan, Central Asia instituted its own educational reform movement known as the New Method (usul-i jadid) during the first two decades of the 20th century. The leaders of the Jadids, as they called themselves, included Munawwar Qari in Tashkent, Mahmud Khoja Behbudiy in Samarkand, Sadriddin Ayniy in Bukhara, and ʿAshur ʿAli Zahiriy in Kokand (Qŭqon). They exerted a strong influence on education during the initial decades of the Soviet period, and their methods and aims have reemerged since independence.
After the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev instituted policies of glasnost ("openness") and perestroika ("restructuring") in the mid-1980s, Uzbekistan's school administrators and teachers acknowledged openly the inadequacies of public education and began intensive efforts to modernize primary and secondary education; among other measures, Uzbek replaced Russian as the primary language of instruction. These efforts rendered most schoolbooks, which were written in Russian, unusable. The new language emphasis and the change in ideology created a need for hundreds of thousands of copies of entirely new instructional materials in Uzbekistan's elementary and secondary school system. In response to that need, several histories of Uzbekistan—somewhat liberated from communist ideological strictures but still showing Marxist influence—appeared soon after independence, written by scholars experienced in Soviet historiography. Higher education, too, began the massive switch from Russian-language instruction and teaching materials to a curriculum and classroom procedure based entirely on Uzbek.
After the destruction of the informal Jadid system by communist authorities in the early 1920s, higher research shifted to such newer educational institutions as Tashkent State University and, after 1942, to the Uzbek S.S.R. branch of Moscow's Academy of Sciences. At its zenith, the latter academic complex supported some 200 scholarly institutes and centres. After independence, and to some extent starting even earlier, the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan declined in prestige and suffered large losses in subsidies. By 1992 many institutes had closed or combined with others, and competing institutions with funding from various state agencies arose to operate in the same field.
Most educational institutions, except for the emerging Islāmic centres with their maktabs (primary schools) and madrasahs organized and supported by Muslim religious educators and their followers, continued to depend on the state for their budgets and therefore must follow the dictates of Uzbekistan's authoritarian leaders. In contrast, the network of Islāmic institutions—centred in the Fergana Valley—has attracted to religious instruction thousands of young people, of whom about half remain outside the public schools.
Cultural life
During the 1980s religious practice surged, transforming many aspects of Uzbek life, especially in the towns of the Fergana Valley and other concentrations of Muslim believers. This resurgence affected the republic's cultural life through the increased activities of religious schools, neighbourhood mosques, religious orders, and religious publishing ventures and through the Islāmic Renaissance Party.
Over the centuries, the territory of what is now Uzbekistan has produced great scholars, poets, and writers whose heritage has enriched the general culture of humanity. The scholar and encyclopaedist al-Bīrūnī, who lived in the 11th century, produced a series of geographic works about India and a wide range of writings in the natural sciences and humanities. In the 15th century the astronomer and mathematician Ulūgh Beg founded a famous observatory in Samarkand. The late 15th-century scholar, poet, and writer ʿAlī Shīr Navāʾī greatly advanced Turkic-language literature and was also a talented artist and composer.
The major writers of the early 20th century broke from the Navāʾī tradition in their style but continued to revere it in their literary history. In the Jadid era (1900–20) the foremost modern poets and prose writers included Abdalrauf Fitrat, Sadriddin Ayni, and Abdullah Qadiri, each of whom was bilingual in Uzbek and Tajik. These writers all began as poets and subsequently branched out to produce many of the first modern indigenous plays, stories, and novels of Central Asia. The younger poets Batu, Cholpán (Abdulhamid Sulayman Yunús), and Elbek (Mashriq Yunus Oghli) offered metres and rhyme schemes quite different from the verse composed in the traditions long employed by the poets of the region. Fitrat gained fame and popularity for such prose and poetic dialogues as Munazara (1909; The Dispute), and Mahmud Khoja Behbudiy became known for a stage tragedy, Padarkush (1913; The Patricide). Abdullah Qadiri became known for a first Uzbek historical novel, Otgän kunlär (1922–26; Days Gone By), and Cholpan introduced a new lyricism in his short poems. Hamza Hakim-Zada Niyaziy was also an early 20th-century playwright and poet later much favoured by Soviet authorities for his simplified, class-oriented plots and subjects.
Most of these writers died violently either during the Russian Civil War or, more commonly, in Joseph Stalin's purges of the 1930s. As a result, Uzbekistan's intellectual and cultural life suffered trauma for decades to come. Only since independence have its finest modern authors regained posthumous recognition.
During the second half of the 20th century there was a great increase in the number of writers but not in the quality of the writing. Until the 1980s most Soviet Uzbek authors produced tendentious novels, plays, and verse in line with official Communist Party themes. Among the older generation of contemporary authors is Asqad Mukhtar (b. 1921), whose Socialist Realist novel Apä singillär (Sisters; original and translation published during the 1950s), has been translated into English and other languages. Mukhtar, along with others of his generation, effectively encouraged the creative efforts of younger Uzbek poets and authors, a group far less burdened than their elders by the sloganeering characteristic of Soviet "Socialist Realism." Among these newer voices, Razzaq Abdurashid, Abduqahhar Ibrahim, Jamal Kamal, and Erkin Wahid, all born in the 1930s, and Rauf Parfi, Halima Khudayberdiy, Muhammad Ali, Sharaf Bashbek, Mamadali Mahmud, all born in the 1940s or later, stand out. Several of these new writers have contributed striking dramas and comedies to the theatre of Uzbekistan. Privately organized drama and theatre were very active in Samarkand, Margilan, Tashkent, and other cities before 1917. In the difficult economic situation of the 1990s, however, the loss of government subsidies led to a drastic decline in theatrical activity, and the cinema and television have further emptied the seats in legitimate theatres.
Musical tradition throughout southern Central Asia provides a distinctive classical form of composition in the great cycles of maqoms handed down from master performers to apprentices. Television and radio as well as concert halls offer maqom cycles in live performances.
Uzbekistan's cultural heritage includes magnificent monuments in the national architectural tradition: the mausoleum of the Sāmānid ruler Ismāʿīl I (9th and 10th centuries) in Bukhara, the great mosques and mausoleums of Samarkand, constructed in the 14th and 15th centuries, and many other fine tombs, mosques, palaces, and madrasahs. An interesting recent development is the reclamation, renovation, and reconsecration of many smaller old mosques, some very elegant though badly damaged; these had been relegated by communist authorities to serve as garages, storehouses, shops, slaughterhouses, or museums. Muslim rebuilders now accurately reconstruct these damaged buildings as part of a comprehensive drive to re-create the Islāmic life suppressed by the communists between 1920 and 1990.Edward Allworth


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Why We Conservatives Should Watch Al Jazeera
I am a classic Reagan/Goldwater Conservative. I am careful to keep myself informed on every important socio-political issue, because I'm responsible that way. I find that almost has to include watching/reading Al Jazeera, and I challenge you to do the same…and this article will let you know why you want to.
Let's start with this:
I'm about as strong an advocate of the free market as you can get. So why do I watch CCTV, Communist China's truly evil state news network? It's more chock-full of tyrannical socialist propaganda than two Obama press secretaries times NPR cubed.
But I want to be certain I understand it and am opposing it from an informed position. Know Your Enemy, as they say.
If some gullibly loyal Chinese prole criticized American freedom, you'd demand that they at least take the time to understand it, or else they're really a hypocrite and a fraud.
- Hypocrite because they are (presumably) wanting to tell you why their system is better, but aren't bothering to understand ours.
- Fraud, because if they don't bother to learn the internal arguments and claims, they can't really know for certain what they're talking about.
In case it's not obvious, this applies to us, as well. I know far more about exactly how evil and wrong the Communist Chinese government is, exactly what kind of lies it tells, et cetera, from watching CCTV. I even know of things that I assumed were one way, but after seeing (and distrusting) CCTV, I've done research on my own and found out they really are another way. Without watching their network, I wouldn't have even known what to find out.
I did the same thing with AllAfrica.com, and learned that sub-Saharan Africa is far different, and worse, than I actually thought. I can now see the sparse information I get, now, from the mainstream media on that region in an entirely different light. Almost every government in that area is a joke. They usually don't even have market economies in the sense socialist Europe does, but something even closer to Marxism. Almost all of the poverty of the region comes from the intrusiveness and corruption of their governments, in ways more ridiculous than you're imagining. "Banana Republic" doesn't convey it to you adequately.
I'll take some time to write about it, another day.
Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya
So, naturally, I started reading Al Arabiya and watching Al Jazeera, with the intention of learning about the spin that Doha and Dubai put on news, to see exactly how people were being fooled with lies about American mass murder and plots to destroy Muslims, find out if they were teaching potentially good people that Jews are red-eyed, baby-eating demons, learn whether they were cheering terrorists, explaining the values of Al Qaeda screeds, et cetera.
And that's sufficient reason to watch it. In fact, it's a region whose attitudes and perspective is even more important to understand in America than China and Africa.
What I found, though, astonished me to the almost to the point of confusion:
Unlike CCTV's lies, or AllAfrica's unintentional revelation of government's destruction of sub-Saharan Africa, Al Jazeera was packed with actual, solid information and reporting, presented with slightly more objectivity than American mainstream news (though that isn't saying much).
I'm not exaggerating.
For example, Al Jazeera frequently covers Israel-Palestinian incidents from the Israeli perspective, as well as other ways. They show commentary by Israeli government officials I barely knew existed, Israeli and Jewish people you'll not otherwise hear from, Israeli issues you never hear about, et cetera. Not only does the American Liberal media drop the ball on this, but so does the Neocon media like Fox News, and radio talk show hosts.
I actually have a better, and more sympathetic, understanding of Israeli perspective on events, thanks to Al Jazeera.
In fact, does a better job of revealing the flaws of every one of the Arab/Islamic states (that I expected it to sell to me as virtuous) than American or other foreign media.
The same is true of Al Jazeera's coverage of other regions. I watched NHK (Japanese News) for a while, but Al Jazeera's coverage of Japan is actually better, more objective.
No other network — and I watch news from all over the world — covered the Egyptian and Libyan revolutions from both perspectives, government and protester, as objectively and calmly as Al Jazeera. The second best was the BBC, but it paled by comparison.
More importantly, Al Jazeera cover the protests in Bahrain and Yemen, and the brutal crackdowns by the Saudi government that rules over them, with the same clarity and detail as Syria (and covers Syria better than anyone else)…and yet you, probably, had no idea that the "Arab League" member states were ignoring vicious crackdowns in their membership just as bad as there.
And, of course, they also cover Arab perspectives. If you depend on Mainstream Media, including Fox and neocon talk shows, you have no idea what the actual Arab or Muslim perspectives are. They simply don't present such things, at all. They don't even really pretend to.
You, especially if you're a Conservative or another ideology that values self-responsibility, need to have a source of perspective outside of the two party-Establishment media cliques here in the US.
Of the options, Al Jazeera is the time-saver; more objective, detailed, and wide-ranging than even the BBC. Watch them for the information, or if you're determined to believe they're evil, the way I still think of CCTV, then at least watch them to Know Your Enemy.
But DO NOT trust them…because you should not trust any external source. Always verify things for yourself. But if you don't have a source like Al Jazeera, you don't even know much of what you could be checking out.
Where do you find Al Jazeera? PBS has it, but if you have a distaste for networks coercively funded by your tax dollars, a far better alternative is the cable network Link TV. They not only broadcast the full Al Jazeera half hour in English, but better still; they have a show they put together themselves, called Mosaic, that includes news broadcast from many foreign sources, including Al Jazeera, and Israel's own nationalized television news (never forget that Israel's government, including Likud, is socialist), IBA.
23 minutes a day, watching (or listening to, while doing other things) Al Jazeera or Mosaic, will double your ability to defend and advocate your own foreign policy beliefs, as well as making them better informed…because none of us has perfect knowledge, already.


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If you're thinking about doing some renovations or redecorating in your home, you may be feeling overwhelmed by the prospect of having to decide which changes to make, and then find a reputable contractor to do the work. Have no fear, as there is a new branch of home improvement specialists whose job it is to assist you with your renovation project.
Known as remodeling coaches or house therapists, these professionals are often former contractors who have decided to utilize their skills in a whole new way. They guide homeowners through the renovation process from beginning to end, and act as a liaison between homeowners and laborers who are working on the project.
Acting as an intermediary between homeowners and contractors is a very beneficial role that remodeling coaches play because they're intimately acquainted with the construction process. They're better able to translate the homeowners' goals to the contractors, and in turn, better communicate to the homeowners what their expectations should be regarding the time, cost, and finished look of the project. Having someone who is able to 'speak both languages' can help immensely in clearing up any misunderstandings or conflict that comes up during the renovations.
In addition to making the communication process smoother between owner and contractor, house therapists are also available to help couples work out their own conflicts about a remodeling project.
Renovations are difficult, and can put a lot of strain on the people living in the home. It's important that couples are in agreement about the direction that their renovation projects should take. If one party feels like their views aren't being heard or respected, conflict can result, which only makes the process of remodeling more challenging. This is why having a third-party on hand can help.
House therapists are not only well-versed in the art of construction, but they can also lend an impartial ear to couples who are in disagreement over changes in the home. A house therapist can help feuding couples set remodeling priorities based on cost vs. benefit, rather than on personal preference.
This is an important function of a coach because in a buyers' market, homeowners need to make smart decisions about how much to invest in renovations and decide which projects take precedence over others. It can be overwhelming for homeowners to know what to dowhether it's to fix up the kitchen, or expand the master bedroom. This is where a house therapist can help. They can quickly turn a mountain into a molehill, and make the homeowners' decisions that much easier.
In addition to helping homeowners prioritize their home improvement projects, remodeling coaches can also help people create realistic budgets and project timelines. They can also screen potential contractors for the job, watch that the project progresses in a timely fashion, and make sure that the workmanship is up to par.
A house therapist can make all the difference between a home improvement nightmare and a successful renovation.
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I've had an encounter with them too. We had a black dog with red eyes jump out of a tombstone, look at us, and fly back down into the ground. At which point I got my team out of there for safety, and I never ever like to leave but I was responsible for others and would not risk their well being. My theory is they have to do with necromancy. The watcher race can be used as a protective force against people. They do whatever they were taught to do, and will only harm if instructed to do so. The watcher race can manifest as black dogs, but getting more into than that will get very long winded pretty quick, it's better to research it yourself. We had someone who was physic confirm there were rituals done in the cemetery, so all the clues add up in our case.
That's very interesting... I've had others make very similar comments about it. 1) A Shaman from Norther Mexico who was told in a dream who sent the attack 2) An Elder and Chief of four tribes who said it had to have been a witch or a shaman 3) A Chinese researcher who said it had to be "Black Magic".
You call them watchers but these seem to be very different from the "Watchers" I have seen who seem to appear in human form and behave in a very passive manner but simply seem to be observing you. One shaman once told me they aren't there to participate but just to document. I also know shadow people are sometimes referred to as watchers. What do you think are they related or independent phenomena?