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LIVE BLOG: TEAM CANADA'S RED vs. WHITE SCRIMMAGE
The Red team won the shootout, 6-2, as Fleury stoned 10 of 12 shooters while Mason gave up six goals against 12 guys, including four goals in the first six attempts he faced.
Fleury was beaten only by his Pittsburgh teammate, Crosby, who later said he was happy that he got him with a high shot because he knew Fleury wasn't expecting it. St. Louis also got the better of Fleury. However, the Penguins goalie stopped Iginla, Toews, Roy, Nash, Perry, Spezza, Smyth, Lecavalier, Sharp and Eric Staal, who hit the post.
Mason didn't fare as well. Marleau beat him on the first attempt he faced and after he stopped Thornton, Heatley, who was booed soundly until he scored, and Morrow beat Mason. Richards couldn't, but Carter could. Lucic and McDonald went out with a thud, but Cleary got the better of Mason. Jordan Staal did not, but Doan did. Burns, the only defenseman to go in the shootout, was stopped. He was the last shooter of the night.
So, the Red team won the game, 3-2, by way of the shootout.
Synopsis: So the game ends in a 2-2 tie, but it hardly looked even. Red outshot White, 42-22. Some players (Crosby, Nash, Pronger, Doughty, Carter, Richards, Morrow, Jordan Staal, Bouwmeester, Weber, Keith) stood out to me. Brodeur and Luongo definitely looked like the 1 and 1A goalies. Overall it was a spirited, competitive, up tempo scrimmage. That's exactly what Babcock and the boys wanted. Now every forward is going to compete in a shootout. I'll have the results for you in one blog form later, but now I have to get downstairs so I don't miss Babcock's press conference.
19:50: Eric Staal beat Keith down the ice for a loose puck, but Keith raced back and took the puck right away from Staal with a brilliant poke check.
18:20: St. Louis on a short-handed breakaway, stoned by Fleury with a kick save.
17:43: Penalty for holding on Lecavalier gives Red a chance to win it on the power play. The shots, by the way, are 42-21 in favor of Red.
17:05: Mason just made three saves in a row with Red buzzing his net for the go-ahead goal.
15:55: Great kick save by Mason on Carter to keep it tied at 2-2. The young goalie looks way more comfortable now than he did at the start of the period.
15:25: The more and more I watch Drew Doughty, the more and more I like his chances for this team. He seems like such a long shot, but he's playing very well tonight.
14:31: Marleau and Thornton, a pair of scorned Sharks this summer, just hooked up on what appeared to be a pretty goal, but Thornton definitely made a distinct kicking motion as he drove to the net. Really, it's not even close. The refs just waved it off.
13:20: How perceptive am I? I just noticed Babcock is now behind White's bench. I don't know when he switched, but he did. It's not surprising. He wants a feel of everybody that's going out for this team.
12:30: They just announced tonight is a SELLOUT with 19,289 in attendance. I do see some empty seats, but not many at all.
10:59: What was that I just said about Perry? Bad night? Scratch that. He just had a pretty wraparound power play GOAL FOR WHITE, getting between Weber and the left post before wrapping it into the net. Entering the final 10 minutes it's a 2-2 game. Let's see if the hitting picks up even a little as the teams now want to win the game.
10:04: It's a power play for White now as Lucic is in the box for tripping Hamhuis.
9:10: It's interesting now to see Nash and Crosby killing the penalty with Phaneuf and Doughty.
8:03: Red is going on the power play as Corey Perry is going off for goalie interference. It has not been a good night for the Ducks forward, but that doesn't mean he has played himself out of consideration. Remember, he plays with Ryan Getzlaf during the regular season and Getzlaf is considered a lock for this roster.
6:48: Mason nearly just had a huge blunder. He came out way above the circle and tried to pass the puck across the ice, but Morrow got in the way. Fortunately for Mason and Team White, the puck scurried off of Morrow's stick.
5:45: Power play for White. Jordan Staal is in the box for holding.
5:15: Some of the defensive pairs for White also changed. Seabrook and Doughty have swapped Flames' defenders. Seabrook is now with Regehr instead of Phaneuf. Doughty is playing with Phaneuf instead of Regehr. Pronger and Boyle are still together. That could be a sign of the future, perhaps. So, too, are Robidas and Hamhuis.
3:15: Ryan Smyth is with Perry and Spezza. So, Smyth, St. Louis, Iginla and Staal all changed lines for the White team. Nash and Crosby, Toews and Roy, Perry and Spezza and Lecavalier and Sharp all stayed together. Red is tougher to go by because they have only 11 forwards.
1:55: St. Louis has moved onto the line with Crosby and Nash. He practiced there yesterday. Don't worry Calgary fans, Iginla is likely secure for a roster spot on this team. They are just trying some different things out now.
1:05: Eric Staal is with Lecavalier and Sharp right now, supplanting Smyth on that line. I bet they start trying some new stuff out now. White needs a change. They are getting badly outshot and outplayed in this scrimmage.
0:00: Mason is in net for the White squad right now. Fleury will start for Red. I'm starting to wonder where Jarome Iginla has been all night. He has been very quiet, though I've liked the play of his linemates, Crosby and Nash. I also think Pronger has looked good and Green has been OK as well. Cleary has stood out at times and Doughty looks very comfortable. Carter and Richards have been very noticeable, too.
Synopsis: So, they scratched the special teams format we expected in this period and just played it out. It was worth watching as there were three goals scored on a combined 19 shots. Still, the White team is having a problem getting the offense going. Red is outshooting White, 30-14, and fittingly holds a 2-1 lead.
18:06: Seabrook either just skated into a rut or an invisible wall because he toppled like a house of cards in White's defensive zone, lost the puck and Marleau swooped in and with a wrist shot from the high slot beat Ward for a GOAL BY RED. I really have no clue what happened to Seabrook, but he will definitely be taking some shots for that in the locker room between periods. It's 2-1 Red.
16:45: Fleury has handled the puck a few times, but it's been nearly seven minutes and he hasn't faced a shot yet. It's 28-12 in favor of Red, but the score remains 1-1.
14:30: All three Staal brothers are on the ice right now. I think it's the first time they have all been out there together tonight. Somewhere in Thunder Bay, Henry and Linda Staal are proud.
12:00: Crosby goes off for hooking, and now Red is on the power play with Thornton, Marleau, Heatley, Burns and Bouwmeester, though Weber just came on for the newest Flame. Green, Carter, Richards and Morrow just joined him.
11:30: Doughty and Phaneuf are the defensemen on White's power play along with Nash, Crosby and Iginla. It's good to see Doughty get some power play time with this group of players. He's earned it.
9:58: And, that'll do it for Brodeur. He leaves with 11 saves against 12 shots and to a round of applause. He is still Canada's goalie. Marc-Andre Fleury is between the pipes for Red now, but he is greeted by a power play for White as Bouwmeester is sitting in the box interference.
9:00: Jordan Staal just tripped Pronger from behind away from the puck by accident. As he got up he made sure Pronger was OK, and he was. Just imagine if this was a real game. Staal would have fear in his eyes and Pronger would have ferocity in those elbows.
8:15: Heatley just carried the puck a little and got booed. He is from Calgary, but apparently there are some Oilers and/or Sens fans in the building.
6:17: Carter shifted to center to take the in-zone faceoff and he winds up with GOAL FOR RED. The puck was loose in front. Richards was on his right side with I think Morrow on his left. Richards was centering that line in the first period. It's 1-1 and the shots are 24-9 in favor of Red.
5:50: We're back at even strength and the Nash-Crosby-Iginla line is back out there. It's a joy to watch those guys play together.
4:49: McDonald, Doan, Cleary, M. Staal and Beauchemin are on the PP for Red now. Lecavalier, Smyth, Robidas and Hamhuis are killing for White.
3:04: It's a power play for Team Red as Corey Perry goes off for tripping. Thornton, Marleau, Heatley, Green and Bouwmeester are on the power play. Holy cow, Green and Bouwmeester are on the same PP unit. Scary. St. Louis, Morrow, Seabrook and Phaneuf are killing right now.
2:44: Ward just came up with his first beauty of the night. Weber batted the puck out of the air with his stick and it was targeted for the goal, but Ward got his blocker out there and was able to save it. The puck somehow got into the air off of Carter's stick or skates or something. Not sure what. Weber had the presence of mind to whack it, but Ward was there.
1:35: And, we have a GOAL FOR WHITE. Ryan Smyth gets it after a bad giveaway in the other end by Marleau. Smyth had Marc Staal on a string and he fired a low shot that look as if it hit Staal's stick and then it cruised by Brodeur. It's the ninth shot for White, but they lead, 1-0.
0:00: Brodeur is still in net for Red. They have only two goalies and I bet Fleury comes in at the 10-minute mark of this period. Ward is in net for the White squad. Right now it's still 5-on-5. Go figure.
Synopsis: Good, solid start to the scrimmage. The Red team had the better of play in the 5-on-5 period, owning a 17-7 advantage in shots. Luongo stood on his head, but his neighbor from St. Leonard on the end did a fine job as well, especially right there at the very end with his dazzling save on Spezza. It appears the guys are definitely trying to push the pace, which is what Mike Babcock wants to see. There is nobody floating around the ice, and that's important. Good pace. I'm now curious to see how the special teams stack up in the second period.
20:00: Just before time expired, Brodeur made the save of the night, at least so far. Iginla got the puck in the left circle and fed it cross crease to Spezza, who tried to one-touch it into the open net. Brodeur raced across in time and got his glove out to bat it out of the air. As the buzzer sounded, it appeared as though he shared a smile and a laugh with Niedermayer. Those two have done that before.
19:17: And, we have our first big hit of the night. Nash got around Niedermayer and tried to get to the front of the net. After releasing the puck he buried Morrow. Both were right in front of Brodeur. The hit brought a nice roar from the crowd. Nash, of course, made sure both Morrow and Brodeur were alright, and they were.
18:36: We've got our first penalty of the game and it's on Jordan Staal for goalie interference. After shooting on Luongo he got a little too close to the Canucks goalie and ran him over. Richards and Carter are killing with Staal and Beauchemin for Red. Nash, Crosby and Iginla are with Pronger and Boyle on the first PP unit for White.
16:05: As is normally the case for Brodeur, the Devils goalie is not seeing much action. Still only five shots for White while the Red squad has put 14 on Luongo.
13:40: Another great scoring chance for Red, but this time Cleary, who is playing his way into the hearts and minds of Canadian fans by the way, hit the post after Carter set him up. And, yes, it was definitely Cleary. I made sure of it this time. See, I'm learning.
11:37: OK, both Cleary and Jordan Staal are wearing No. 11 for Red. This could get confusing. I think it was Cleary who Luongo stoned, but it might have been Staal. Ahhhh! Mike Richards and Marc Staal are both wearing 18 for Red as well. Wait, Doan and Thornton have on No. 19. Oh, Lucic and Carter have No. 17. Only the goalies, Mason and Luongo, are wearing similar No. 1 jerseys for White. That should be easier.
10:57: The puck bounced free and the Red squad was able to get a scoring chance, but Luongo came way out of his net to close down Cleary's shooting lane. He made the save, held on, and now we have a break in the action. The shots are 11-5 now in favor of the Red squad. Luongo talked to me yesterday about the goalies not getting a lot of work in this camp. He's getting plenty right now.
8:09: There is a real smart pace to this game right now. It's not quite like what you would see in the regular season, and we can't expect that, but it is pretty fast. Put it this way, it doesn't feel like August.
5:49: Brodeur just stoned Crosby, who raced into the left circle and fired a wrist shot targeted for the top right corner. Brodeur ripped it out of the air with his glove. It's been the goalies show so far.
5:00: Since Team Red is down a forward (Gagne), they are trying to rotate through 11. That's why Cleary is on a line right now with Heatley and Thornton.
4:10: Brodeur just answered on the other end with a great stop on Toews, who tried to feather a backhand from the slot. Brodeur got turned around on the play, but he made the save and Red broke out. The shots are 4-4 and the goalies are the stars right now. The game is crisp, but a little disjointed.
3:32: Great speed by Lucic to get a 2-on-1 with Carter. Doughty was the guy back, but he couldn't stop the break. Luongo made another great save. It's been a good start for the Canucks goalie, who has three dazzling saves, including two on Carter.
2:40: Just to let you know, Babcock and Lemaire are coaching the Red team while Ruff and Hitchcock are on the White team bench.
1:04: Luongo just made a nother crucial stop on Jeff Carter.
0:45: First big save of the night made by Luongo on Richards, who redirected a pass as he darted to the front of the net.
White's starters are Crosby with Nash and Iginla along with Pronger and Boyle. Luongo is in net. For the Red squad, it's Thornton with Marleau and Heatley. Niedermayer and Weber are on the backend and Brodeur is in net.
We're underway.
A playoff-type welcome
The atmosphere doesn't quite befit a playoff game, but it's darn close. The boys are on the ice now and we're ready to finally get this thing going.
Remember, first period will be only 5-on-5 play. The teams will each get 10 minutes of power play and 10 minutes of penalty kill in the second period. The third is broken up into halves of 5-on-5 and 4-on-4, respectively. After all that is a shootout. I believe every player is taking part in it.
Get a load of this guy
Good crowd here with some crazy guy dancing with his Team Canada jersey on. He just ripped it off and, oh man, he's got a microphone. Uh oh. The spotlight is on him. To be honest, I have no idea who he is, but he was dancing to Eye of the Tiger.
I feel like I'm in Rocky IV. Awesome.
Oh, wait, now we got a little C and C Music Factory going on. He's rockin' out.
They just turned the lights off in the press box. I do not know why, but the arena lights are still on. Need I remind you that this is a scrimmage? Unreal.
The lights in the arena are off now and four officials just skated onto the ice. There should be a good roar when the boys emerge from the dressing rooms. They are playing old Team Canada highlights on the big screen now.
Yes, it's a scrimmage in August. I can't stress enough how crazy this is. This is what makes hockey in this country so great.
Time for the Zambonis
The players are all off the ice now with Ryan Smyth, Captain Canada himself, being the last to exit. Smyth, man, the guy just can't get enough ice. It's pretty ridiculous. I would bet he would like to turn his home in L.A. into a rink so he could eat, sleep and watch TV on ice.
The countdown clock is on, in the 18th minute now, and we're getting closer to the world's most important scrimmage.
Stay tuned.
Warmups are underway
Boy that sounds odd to say in August, but it's true. Team White just hit the ice and here comes the Red group led by Martin Brodeur. The fans are scattered in the building now, but I'm told there will be 16,000 or so here and they all paid to get in.
These new Team Canada unis are quite smooth. Ilike the red jerseys better than the white ones, but they are nice.
I don't see any letters on sweaters, so there will be no reading into that tonight.
Sidney Crosby, who for some reason was wearing No. 37 during the first three days in camp, is back to wearing his customary 87.
In the building
I just got up to the press box here at the Saddledome and I am the only one up here right now. The stands are all empty, but fans will be filling the seats shortly just as many of my media cohorts will be planting their butts in the seats up here within the next hour or so.
As I was heading out of my hotel today, waiting for a cab at the front entrance, one of the bell hops was telling me that this city has been buzzing about this game for quite some time. Folks, it's a scrimmage in August, and it's the hottest ticket in town. Amazing!
Stick with me for all the action. I will be live blogging tonight and hope to not miss a thing. Of course, since this is real time and so is the game, I will undoubtedly miss something. I don't think there will be an easily accessible instant replay either, and for those of you who read my Armchair Power Play blog during the Stanley Cup Final you know that instant replay was my best friend.
Either way, I'm going to do as the players do tonight; I will give my best and hope to make an impression.
See ya near puck-drop time, which is in about 80 or so minutes.
The Most Important Scrimmage in the World
Tonight's scrimmage has meaning to everyone in the building.
For the players, it's a chance to leave a lasting impression on Hockey Canada's executives here and the coaching staff. For the coaches, led by Mike Babcock, it's a chance to see if the players can apply what they practiced all week into a game-like setting. For Steve Yzerman and his staff it's an opportunity to see if there is chemistry among the players.
Wait, there's more.
For the fans, it's their first chance to see Team Canada's hopefuls live in living color. For the staffers here at the Pengrowth Saddledome, it's their chance to sell some merchandise and concessions in August. And, of course, for us in the media it's our chance to critique the players and coaches, something we all love doing so much.
So, yes, it's only a scrimmage but there is a playoff-type atmosphere here in Calgary tonight.
Although Mike Babcock has been telling us all week not to read into the lines and defensive pairings, Hockey Canada issued sheets of paper to the media here detailing what the lines will be tonight.
As has been the case all week, Rick Nash will play on Sidney Crosby's left side. Jarome Iginla is on the right side of that line, which could very well be the Canadians top line in Vancouver.
Mike Richards is centering Brenden Morrow and Jeff Carter. Two-hundred foot players they all are.
Milan Lucic, Andy McDonald and Dan Cleary are together. Am I alone in thinking that could be Canada's fourth line at the Olympics?
Scott Niedermayer will be paired with Shea Weber, a formidable blend of grace and power that might capture the hearts and minds of all Canadian fans in Vancouver. Duncan Keith is with Mike Green. Talk about a risk and reward pair.
Dion Phaneuf is with Brent Seabrook, but those two might have to hold back a little. The rough stuff isn't frowned upon tonight, but not exactly mandated either.
Here are the full lines and defensive pairings:
Patrick Marleau-Joe Thornton-Dany Heatley
Brenden Morrow-Mike Richards-Jeff Carter
Milan Lucic-Andy McDonald-Dan Cleary
Jordan Staal-Shane Doan
Scott Niedermayer-Shea Weber
Jay Bouwmeester-Brent Burns
Duncan Keith-Mike Green
Francois Beauchemin-Marc Staal
Martin Brodeur
Marc-Andre Fleury
Rick Nash-Sidney Crosby-Jarome Iginla
Derek Roy-Jonathan Toews-Martin St. Louis
Eric Staal-Jason Spezza-Corey Perry
Ryan Smyth-Vincent Lecavalier-Patrick Sharp
Chris Pronger-Dan Boyle
Robyn Regehr-Drew Doughty
Dion Phaneuf-Mike Green
Dan Hamhuis-Stephane Robidas
Roberto Luongo
Cam Ward
Steve Mason
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Québec solidaire
|Québec solidaire
|Pierre-Paul St-Onge (de jure)[1]; collective leadership (de facto)
|Andrés Fontecilla
|Françoise David and Andrés Fontecilla
|February 4, 2006
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Political parties
Québec solidaire (QS; pronounced: [ke.bɛk sɔ.li.dɛʁ]) is a social-democratic[4][5][6] and sovereigntist political party in Quebec, Canada.[7] The party and media outlets in Canada usually use the name "Québec solidaire" in both French and English, but the party's name is sometimes translated as "Solidarity Quebec" or "Quebec Solidarity" in foreign English-language media.[8][9][10]
Principles and aims[edit]
The aim of QS's foundation was to unify the left of the political spectrum in Quebec by merging the Union des forces progressistes (UFP) party with the Option citoyenne social movement.[11][12] In addition to advocating the independence of Quebec from Canada, the party's platform identifies with the concepts of environmentalism, feminism, social justice, proportional representation and participatory democracy, pacifism, aboriginal rights, and alter-globalism.[13] The party favours aboriginal rights, immigration, and human dignity, and opposes discrimination including racism and homophobia.[13] QS describes itself as a sovereigntist, green, alter-globalizationist, and feminist party.[14]
QS presents itself as an alternative to the main three parties in Quebec (the Parti Québécois, the Quebec Liberal Party, and the Coalition Avenir Québec), saying that the three are different faces of neoliberalism, which QS considers right-wing.[citation needed] QS also holds that its view of an independent Quebec is a completely different project than that of the Parti Québecois. Rather than working for independence for its own sake, QS works for an internationalist independence - an independence based on principles of social justice. For QS, independence is a means to an end, not an end in itself.[citation needed]
Québec solidaire was founded on 4 February 2006 in Montreal by the merger of the left-wing party Union des forces progressistes (UFP) and the alter-globalization political movement Option Citoyenne, led by Françoise David.[7] It was formed around a number of activists and politicians who had written Pour un Québec solidaire, a left-wing response to Pour un Québec lucide. Pour un Québec lucide presented a distinctly neoliberal analysis of and set of solutions to Québec's problems, particularly criticizing the sovereignty movement as distracting from Québec's real issues and the Québec social model as inefficient and out-of-date. Pour un Québec solidaire presented an alternate analysis, and later its writers formed the party Québec solidaire, taking its name from the manifesto.[15]
At the party's founding, the congress unanimously adopted a document called the Déclaration de principes (declaration of principles) which laid out the principles and values that led the two organizations to merge. The declaration of principles does not specifically endorse social democracy, socialism or communism, although it includes certain activists and tendencies that do.[16][17][18] The document declared:[13]
- "Nous sommes écologistes" ("We are environmentalists")
- "Nous sommes de gauche" ("We are on the Left")
- "Nous sommes démocrates" ("We are democrats")
- "Nous sommes féministes" ("We are feminists")
- "Nous sommes altermondialistes" ("We are alter-globalists")
- "Nous sommes d'un Québec pluriel" ("We are from a plural Quebec")
- "Nous sommes d'un Québec souverain et solidaire" ("We are from a sovereign and united [literally: solidarity-showing] Quebec")
- "Un autre parti, pour un autre Québec!" ("Another party, for another Quebec!")
The Green Party of Quebec had tried to avoid running candidates in ridings where there was a UFP candidate, although it reserved the right to run anywhere it wants to (even ridings with a UFP candidate).[citation needed] However, such an arrangement will not be renewed since the Green Party has taken a new direction.[vague][citation needed]
The party had no logo for several months after its formation, until the National Council adopted the logo at right in 2006. It adopted orange as its political colour in 2009 and adjusted its logo to match.[citation needed]
Election results[edit]
Québec solidaire's first political venture was to field a candidate, Manon Massé, in an April 10, 2006, by-election in Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques. She received 22% of the vote.
On 14 August 2006, there were two by-elections (Pointe-aux-Trembles and Taillon) in which QS received 8% and 7% of the vote.
Québec solidaire contested the 2007 Quebec election. It won 3.65% of the popular vote and received 144,418 votes, 0.21% behind the Green Party of Quebec. They were also endorsed by the Montreal Central Council of the Confédération des syndicats nationaux which represents 125,000 members in Quebec. According to an analysis on Canadian Dimension, this is the first time a trade union in Quebec has endorsed a party more left-wing than the Parti Québécois.[19]
On 8 December 2008, the first Quebec Solidaire candidate was elected in the provincial election. Amir Khadir was elected in the Montreal riding of Mercier.[20] He won his seat for the second term on 2012 election along with another QS candidate Françoise David in Montreal riding of Gouin. Manon Massé was elected in Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques in the 2014 election to become the party's third MNA, joining David and Khadir who were both re-elected.
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|Community organizer
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|Amir Khadir
Bloc Québécois candidate in 2000
UFP activist and 2003 candidate
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|Manon Massé
|Community centre worker
LGBT and women's rights activist
The party's statutes call for it to be represented by a male and female co-spokesperson, one of whom serves in the dual role of party president. If one of the spokespeople is a member of the National Assembly, the other spokesperson remains outside of the legislature and holds the party presidency.[21] They are sometimes referred to in the media as the de facto co-leaders of the party.[22] The party's secretary-general, currently Pierre-Paul St-Onge, is the de jure party leader recognized by the Chief Electoral Officer of Quebec.[1] Françoise David and Amir Khadir were the two spokespersons at the party's founding. After the 2012 election where Françoise David won a seat for the first time and Amir Khadir was re-elected, Khadir stepped down as co-spokesperson so a new one could be chosen from outside the legislature.[21] André Frappier served as interim co-spokesperson[23] until Andrés Fontecilla was chosen on May 5, 2013 to permanently fill the role.[24] Alexa Conradi was president from the foundation of the party until June 2009 after which Françoise David was named president-spokeswoman.[citation needed] As with its predecessors, Option Citoyenne and the Union des forces progressistes, the party has no "party leader". Instead, the duties generally entrusted to the leader are instead divided among the president, secretary general and male and female spokespeople. The party leadership is assumed by the National Coordinating Committee, composed of 16 persons elected by the founding congress. A person from the team of volunteers will always have a seat.
The national spokespersons of Québec solidaire have greater visibility than the secretary general and are best known. David has been named Personality of the Year by Le Point and Amir is known for becoming the first elected member of the party, winning the provincial riding of Mercier in 2008.
The basic unit of the party is the local association. There is a local association for each of the 125 ridings in Quebec. These local associations are grouped into 19 regional associations, whose primary mandate to support the establishment of local associations.[citation needed] In March 2007, Québec solidaire has 61 local associations organized. Students and staff at institutions of higher education are grouped in campus associations that also participate in the democratic life of the party.[citation needed] Two national commissions are also part of the structure of Québec solidaire: the Political Committee and the National Commission for Women. The first is composed of 14 thematic committees and is responsible for proposing a program to members. It was responsible for drafting the electoral platform of the party in general elections of 2007. The National Commission for Women is composed of delegates from each region and is responsible for ensuring that feminism is a value which transverses the party.[citation needed]
Québec solidaire also includes a number of collectives, made up of members in good standing who may, in compliance with requirements, promote their respective political views within Québec solidaire. Unlike the UFP, these groups do not have formal representation in the Congress, the National Council or other bodies of the party.[25] Current collectives include:
- Socialist Alternative, the Quebec section of the Committee for a Workers' International.[26]
- Décroissance conviviale, a collective which promotes degrowth.
- Gauche Socialiste, the Quebec section of the reunified Fourth International.[27]
- Laïcité, a collective which promotes the separation of church and state.
- Mass critique, an anti-capitalist collective.
- The Parti Communiste du Québec - Parti Communiste du Canada (PCQ-PCC), the Quebec membership of the Communist Party of Canada.
- Socialisme Internationale, the Quebec membership of the International Socialists.[28]
- Tendance Marxiste Internationale, the Quebec section of the International Marxist Tendency.[29]
See also[edit]
- Parti de la démocratie socialiste
- Parti communiste du Québec
- Politics of Quebec
- National Assembly of Quebec
- Political parties in Quebec
- Gauche Socialiste
- International Socialists
- Communist Party of Canada
- ^ a b "Québec solidaire". Directeur général des élections du Québec. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
- ^ Dr Marc Guinjoan (28 September 2014). Parties, Elections and Electoral Contests: Competition and Contamination Effects. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 68. ISBN 978-1-4724-3910-9.
- ^ Tom Lansford (7 April 2015). Political Handbook of the World 2015. SAGE Publications. p. 1061. ISBN 978-1-4833-7155-9.
- ^ John A. Dickinson; Brian Young (19 September 2008). A Short History of Quebec. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. p. 367. ISBN 978-0-7735-3439-1.
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- New Party fills gap on the left
- Québec solidaire: A Left-of-the-Left Formation? by Roger Rashi, The Bullet #286, December 11, 2009.
- After A Highly Successful Year Québec Solidaire Starts Debate On Program by Roger Rashi, The Bullet #406, August 24, 2010.
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- Pro-independence parties
- Quebec sovereignty movement
- Quebec nationalism
- Feminism in Canada
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- Socialist parties in Canada
- Republicanism in Canada
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Bebo, Blogger, Blogs, Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Flickr, FriendFeed, Friendster, Hi5, LinkedIn, LiveJournal, Multiply, MySpace, Ning, Plaxo, Plurk, Posterous, Present.ly, StreetMavens, Twitter, Tumblr, TypePad, Utterli, Vox, WordPress, Xanga, Yammer, YouAre, YouTube … and others ?
That's a nice even 30 social networks and there are plenty more. Yes, I consider blogging to be social networking, don't argue with me.
Here's my list of social networks that I've personally chosen to participate in:
Digg, Facebook, Flickr, FriendFeed, LinkedIn, Plaxo, Twitter, WordPress and YouTube.
I chose the ones above because they are all supported by Ping.fm … the #1, super-side-kick, best, free, tool in my workflow arsenal.
By trial and error, I have finally hit upon what I think is a perfect social networking workflow (at least it is for me).
Hopefully you read my article on Why you should Blog and Social Network, since it gives you an idea of why I would even need to create this workflow.
I'm going to assume you've read that article and you're already signed up for a blog and now you're ready to start socializing.
One of the best tips I can give you when you have multiple social networking profiles is to do yourself a favor and turn cookies on in a couple of different browsers and then access your profiles via individual browsers. This keeps you more organized and allows for easier tracking. For example, I use Firefox for AimItMedia along with it's own Bit.ly, Facebook, Flickr, Ping, and Twitter profiles. I use Safari for MyCoffeePro along with it's own Bit.ly, Facebook, Flickr, Ping, and Twitter profiles. Then I just have both browsers open and I can post and track each one separately. The most main profiles I've had at once is 3 and that's really tough to keep on top of.
My list of tools and workflow is below. Just adapt the workflow and substitute the tools to fit your own particular needs.
1. Pen and small moleskin notebook. Keep these handy to jot down ideas and random musings (worth the small cost, portable and no gadget or batteries required). No matter where I am or what I'm doing, I have these items physically with me. If I'm reading a magazine or book, at the movies, out to dinner, or just watching TV … whatever idea that I have that I want to write about or share with others … I make a note. Sometimes this turns into a little brainstorming session and I end up making a lot of little notes … that's a good thing. Go with the flow and meander with your inspiration.
2. Evernote. Use this free desktop and mobile app to also jot down ideas that come to you. It's also a perfect tool for web-clipping and copying/pasting links to articles and resources. You can create multiple notebooks* which you can choose to share online. Evernote's main organization is it's tagging and search features. This is VERY useful software! Evernote does offer a paid upgrade to premium service without ads and more storage. (Yes I upgraded to premium, it's value is well beyond it's cost). It gets better … you can synch all your versions! I have the desktop version, iPod Touch app and Android Phone app. LOVE IT!
*Since I have multiple websites (targeting different niches), I've created an Evernote notebook for each one which keeps my notes organized by website.
3. Google & Google Alerts. Next, I research my topics on Google to fully flesh out my ideas. If I have a topic that I know I'll write about frequently (like business, design, and marketing) then I create a Google Alert (here's a How To guide) and have the topics automatically emailed to my Gmail inbox.
4. Bit.ly. After I've done my research, I take the links I want to use and I put them through my bit.ly account so I can track click-through statistics. Then I create the headline I want in a "To Ping" note in Evernote and paste in the bit.ly link. I keep a running list of pings I want to send. Bit.ly keeps your statistical data for future analysis, lets you see how many clicks your link got versus bit.ly links aggregated for that topic, and tells you where your clicks came from (referrers).
5. GizaPage. GizaPage is a fabulous online tool that allows you to assign tabs to your various social profiles and have them conveniently organized and accessible in one browser window. It also has great statistical tools that show you which profiles are being viewed by the most visitors … as long as you use the GizaPage provided links to those profiles and not those profiles own direct links. I have tabs for all my social networking files set up in GizaPage so all I have to do is click between them. I mainly use the tab for Ping's dashboard.
6. Ping.fm. About once an hour, I open up Ping, copy and paste a single "To Ping" into it and ping it to my various social profiles. I also cut the pinged note from the "To Ping" note and move it into my "Pinged" note in Evernote. I used to let Ping shorten my URLs, but they clear your history after 30 days.
**Update! 02-05-10** I now use HootSuite to load up a week's worth of Pings at once, greatly enhancing my workflow and time savings (See Below @ #10) and after reading this http://aimit.me/dia0083 article, I only post every couple of hours instead of hourly.
7. Windows Live Writer for the actual composition, writing, and publishing of my articles. I was lucky enough to learn of this tool through a fellow blogger … whom I didn't write down and now can't remember to credit! {D'oh! Should've used my Evernote notebook!!!}. I gather all my research notes, then start writing my article and if I get stuck or want to take a break, I just click the "Save As Draft" button and return to the article when I'm ready. Once my article is complete and Ive put in my appropriate links, then I go ahead and use the "Publish to Blog" button. Windows Live Writer publishes to most blogging networks and allows you to setup multiple accounts to post to multiple blogs. When I want to re-use the same article on another blog, it's as simple as switching the destination blog in the upper right corner and then posting it.
8. Zemanta plugin for Windows Live Writer. This is basically a media, research and inspiration tool that I find handy. As you're writing your article in Live Writer, Zemanta sits in a sidebar and will suggest links and media based on what you're typing. Pretty darn cool! I also have the Zemanta add-on for Firefox for when I'm writing live online in my WordPress blogs. There's even a Zemanta WordPress plugin if you don't use Firefox.
9. FireFTP for Firefox. This sweet little plugin for Firefox allows you to add it's button to the browser's toolbars. You can set it up to access multiple FTP accounts in various locations (I have hosting at GoDaddy and HostGator so it's nice to be able to access them both from one button in Firefox). I then upload any necessary files to my blogs (any files Ive attached to my article … like down-loadable pdfs).
10. TweetDeck. Finally, I linked my TweetDeck app and account to Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter and I keep it open to see what kind of activity I'm getting from my pinged status updates to those profiles. This helps you to know what topics your followers are most interested in.
**Update! 02-05-10**
10. HootSuite. HootSuite allows me to schedule my posts so I can setup an entire week of posts in advance. HootSuite also integrates with Ping.fm so all I have to do is schedule my posts to post to Ping.fm which then sends them to my multiple social profiles. HootSuite allows for multiple Twitter accounts so I can use it for tracking my AimItMedia and MyCoffeePro tweets activity. Finally, HootSuite allows you to connect your Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter accounts and you can set them up with their own tabs and multiple columns so you can view all of the activity for those multiple profiles from within one HootSuite window.
So that's my tools and workflow for social networking in a nutshell. Here are all the links:
Evernote Google Alerts Bit.ly GizaPage Ping.fm Windows Live Writer Zemanta FireFTP HootSuite
What's your workflow? Leave comments below


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>> Tonight, it's an all-new GTTVfrom Austin, Texas, and
South by Southwest.
We've got tons of new video gamestuff for you guys,
including a sit-down withNintendo legend
Shigeru Miyamoto.
We're going to head over toTwisted Pixel and look
at their new downloadble Xboxgame Lococycle.
And, we've got new details onThe Phantom Pain.
Plus, GT reviews God ofWar Ascension.
The Science of Games makesits return to the show,
discussing memory manipulation.
We test laser sights in a newCombat Facts.
And an exclusive character isrevealed from
Injustice: Gods Among Us.
From The Phantom Pain to theScience of Games,
GTTV has it all - and it startsright now!
>> Are you ready?
>> I'm not the only one with alittle bit of s--- in their
pants right now, am I?
>> Last year at the VGA's weworld-premiered the game
The Phantom Pain, andafterwards,
there was tons of speculation;
was this game actually MetalGear Solid V?
Was it from Hideo Kojima?
Well people have been wonderingand there haven't been
a lot of answers.
But tonight, I got invited to amysterious hotel room
to interview the Head CEO of thesupposed game developer
Moby Dick Studios.
Alright, I'm here with Moby DickStudios Head CEO, Joakim Mogren.
>> Hello Geoff.
>> Joakim, thank you for joiningus.
>> Thanks for having me, it'svery good to see you.
>> First of all, I should askwhat happened to your face?
Are you okay?
>> Yes, I had a little accident,but I should be good
by GDC coming up.
>> You know, a lot of people arewondering who you really are,
what Moby Dick Studios isworking on...
When are you going to tell usmore about The Phantom Pain?
Are you going to be able toshare more tonight?
>> Yes, I plan on attending theshow coming up in San Francisco,
but I don't have anything toshow today, unfortunately.
>> Okay, let me ask you a fewthings though about
Phantom Pain, because as youknow,
when we announced it atthe VGA's
there was a lot of speculation
about what this game actually is.
Is it a next generation game?
That's something that a lot ofpeople asked me on Twitter,
saying, you know,
"Oh, you know, Keighley, is thisa current gen game,
is it a next gen... is this aPlayStation 4 game?"
>> Unfortunately, I cannotconfirm that.
>> Okay, can you maybe confirmthat you guys have
development kits, at least, fornext generation systems?
>> I'm so sorry Geoff,
I can unfortunately not confirmthat either.
>> Alright, this is going well.What can you tell us then?
At GDC, what are you going toshow from the game?
>> This year's GDC show Iwill have
a new Phantom Pain trailer,
and I can confirm that it willanswer all of your questions.
>> Answer all the questions?
>> Yup.
>> So we're not getting a lot ofanswers tonight, but at the
Game Developer's Conferencelater this month,
there'll be no more secretsabout this game?
>> Yes.
>> I guess one thing I will sayhere is that, you know,
we're sitting here in a hotelroom, we were asked to come
interview you to find outsomething about the game-
how do I not know this is
some elaborate ruse?
>> Well unfortunately I cannotshow too much,
but for you Geoff, I can showyou some new images and
some new stuff here on my iPad
that hopefully you'll enjoy.
>> Okay, so you're going toprove that this is real;
so what are we seeing here-
this is some concept art fromthe game?
>> Yeah.
>> Concept art. There's thewhale, it looks like.
Wow, those look like somenew screens.
The main character.
So these are screenshots.
I know this is a Fox Engine logoin the corner -
so this game is running on theFox Engine?
>> I have come to see theoracle.
>> Kratos rages on in God ofWar: Ascension,
a prequel that sets the Ghost ofSparta against the furies.
>> I will not indulge you as mysisters do!
>> Virtues of violence are stillin full effect with titanic
battles and crushing quick-timefinishers.
Combat prowess is more augmentedthan ever before by how
you play, with elementalabilities and
an extended move set.
>> You'll need this skill forthe path ahead.
>> The adventure still has aveneer of epicness, but it's not
quite as bountiful as pastgames.
>> Gods give me strength.
>> Multiplayer - the first forthe series - feels a bit clunky
and can take a while to get usedto, but there's nothing else
really like it, with interactivearenas
and lots of things to unlock.
>> Meet your end!
>> Ascension is a transitorygame,
filled with both promise andrepetition.
Earning an 8.3, for itsHerculean effort.
>> Coming up after the break,Remember Me?
The Science of Games makes itsreturn to the show talking about
memory manipulation.
Also, Twisted Pixel is locoto show off their new game.
And Miyamoto's in the house, inour exclusive interview.
>> I feel worse for your bikethan I do for you.
>> We're back here on GTTV inAustin, Texas, and right now I'm
over here at Twisted Pixel, youknow these guys for their
amazing Xbox Live Arcade games.
The next game coming out of hereis LocoCycle.
Tell us a bit about this gamewhich is completely unexpected.
>> Yeah, trying to do somethingweird, man.
You control a bike named Iriswho is on a mission.
When she goes on her mission she
accidentally gets her mechanicPablo stuck to her back wheel,
and she thinks that he is thereto help her when really he just
wants to get off.
>> [Shouting in Spanish]
>> And he speaks Spanish; Irisdoesn't understand
Spanish but thinks she does.
And that's really the kind ofweird premise of the game.
>> I mean, when people see thisthey may think,
"Oh, it's a motorcycle racinggame."
But it's a lot more than that,right?
>> Yeah, it's primarily afighting-action-combat game -
super fast-paced - you're alwayson the move on highways and
crazy stuff's going on all thetime.
This level's going to show off Ithink more of the crazy
cinematic kind of stuff that canhappen in the game.
So it kind of->> You're having an aerial fightagainst these agents and somehow
you're still going a hundredmiles an hour.
>> Helicopters and peoplejumping out of helicopters and
missiles flying everywhere,just...
there's a lot of crazy stuffgoing on.
>> There's racing, there's alsocombat,
there's quick-time events.
>> And I assume the gameplaywill change in each level?
>> Yeah, so it's a good level tokind of show off the mixed use
of that stuff, where you'rehaving to boost up to catch up
to guys that are shooting crazylaser things at you, and then,
you know, get close enough soyou can leap up and start doing
>> Game: No Touching!>> crazy karate with yourtires and stuff.
>> Alright, well should we worldpremiere the new trailer?
>> I think we should, Geoff.
>> Alright let's do it,
here is the world premieretrailer for LocoCycle.
>> [Shouting in Spanish]
I'm really excited to be a partof this because,
you know, Call ofDuty was just such a big game
and my kids loved it.
>> [Shouting in Spanish]
>> I don't understand thequestion - why do you keep
asking me about doing a game inSpanish?
>> [Shouting in Spanish]
>> You just kind of assume thatmy last name is Rodriguez and so
I'm supposed to do a game... Imean, what's this character in
Call of Duty that I'm playing?
>> No, this is Call of Duty -right? This isn't Call of Duty?
>> Can you hear me?
>> Yes! Who are you?
>> I'm the voice you have tolisten to, if you want to live.
>> Hey what's up everyone,Daniel Kayser here in Montreal
talking the Science of Games andI've got Maral from the Thwacke!
consulting group talking aboutRemember Me, a game that is all
about infiltrating people'sminds and manipulating memory.
So let's talk about howrealistic that is.
Can you actually do that?
>> It's a fascinating concept, Imean, we tend to think about
memory as something that'sclearly, you know,
the information is, you know, filed and now
it's somewhere in my brain.
When I want to access it, I justgo and I open the file and I
get the memory. That'snot how it works...
Every time you remembersomething you are changing it.
So, with time, that's whymemories,
you know, change and fade.
And sometimes they're completelydifferent
from the initial memory.
>> I'm here to get my memoryback.
>> What is known as "EpisodicMemory."
So remembering someone's phonenumber, remembering somethingthat you
did - which is the type ofmemory that's heavily showcased
in Remember Me.
>> What about the concept that'salso presented in the game,
of implanting memories?
We've talked about forgettingthings, but what
about making somebody remembersomething
that didn't actually happen?
>> In order for that to happen - that's a bit farfetched.
Because as I said, we have alot of neurons in the brain,
so if you go and destroy thatone neuron, chances are,
first of all, you're not goingto destroy the memory
because the brain is prettyredundant in its network.
There's a lot of failsafe ways.
But in theory, if you reallywant to you can go and find the
whole pathway and all theneurons and -
pharmacologically, for example -make them not fire.
There's no guarantee thatthe memory
that you changed reallydisappeared.
Memory isn't just in the brain,memory is all over your body.
So that's the kind of geneticmemory that your body has.
That's not just hippocampal
memory, that's not just brainmemory;
your blood remembers, yourmuscles remember.
This is serious stuff.
>> For the latest on Science ofGames,
you can head online toGameTrailers.com.
>> This time, you'll rememberme.
>> Don't go away! When we comeback Miyamoto is here and you
won't want to miss what he hasto say.
Also, Combat Facts getslaser-focused.
And legendary designer Ed Boonintroduces
never-before-seen fight footagefrom Injustice: Gods Among Us.
>> You're a fool.
>> Hey everyone, we're back hereon GTTV, I've made my way to
New York to hang out with a goodfriend of ours,
Mr. Shigeru Miyamoto and ofcourse his good friend who he
whistled onto stage last year,Bill Trennan.
You know him well from NintendoDirect.
Mr. Miyamoto, it's greatto be with you on the show,
and we're wearing our hatsbecause it is the Year of Luigi.
You've got your Luigi green, I'm wearing Mr. Iwata's hathere.
There's a lot of Luigi comingout from Nintendo this year, so
is it finally time
to give Luigi the attentionhe deserves?
>> Well yes, it's been 30 yearssince Luigi first appeared in
the original Mario Bros., and weactually have a large number
of Luigi fans internally atNintendo
who have been wantingto work on Luigi games.
So we have of course Luigi'sMansion: Dark Moon and a number
of other titles that are allcoming out this year,
so we decided to make it theYear of Luigi.
>> The Year of Luigi. Now,you're also doing a Luigi kind
of downloadable content for
The New Super Mario Bros. U aswell, right?
>> That's right, so you can playa number of new levels through
this new downloadable content.
>> So Luigi, has he always had aspecial place in your heart?
>> Well I guess you could saythat, you know,
he's sort of, almost the
same character as Mario, so hehasn't had as many opportunities
to stand out on his own.
>> And then we find out aboutMario's other long-lost brother,
or are there just two of them?
>> There's no other, it's justthe two of them.
You know, I don't know whattypes of games I'll make
in the future, perhaps therewill come a day when Mario
needs a third brother.
So at that point, maybe we'llcreate him.
>> It's exciting that youobviously have a brand new
Luigi's coming out for 3DS -it's not a Wii U game -
it's coming out for 3DS laterthis month.
Why did you want to comeback to Luigi's Mansion,
which, I think you know, all ofus loved
when it came out manyyears ago.
And this game has been indevelopment for a long time,
why did you want to do it
on 3DS and not on the Wii U?
>> Well actually, when we firstdeveloped the GameCube game,
one of the things that we reallywanted to do in developing that
game was to see those visuals ona 3D screen.
And at the time we experimentedwith a 3D monitor
and looking at the game in 3D,
and that actually ties to how weeventually
got to release the Nintendo 3DS.
So we felt the connectionbetween the two was
pretty important.
And we want to bring Luigi'sMansion in a new
version to Nintendo 3DS wherethose 3D visuals
can really come to life.
>> You're also - we can take ourhats off now since we're also
talking about Pikmin, whichyou're working on.
So how do you split your timenow -
you're producing this, I knowyou're working on Pikmin -
are those your two main sort offocuses right now?
>> Well, so you know, withLuigi's Mansion I've been
working on that prettyconsistently over time,
but typically when I'm workingon a project I will come in at
the end and work very closelywith the team
on the project at the end of it.
So that's what we're moving to in the Pikmin phase right now.
Of course the Pikmin 3 team is -they're very
close to my desk, so I'm able towork very closely
with them on a constant basis.
>> We're excited to play,obviously, Luigi's Mansion,
Pikmin 3, and it's alreadybeen announced you're going to
have a lot of new games at E3 toshow the fans,
which is unexpected that youguys would tell us in advance
that we're going to see a lot ofnew games.
You're very busy right now,
working on things for E3?
>> So yeah, I mean, obviously,you know, you'll get to see
at E3 the games that Mr. Iwatahas already mentioned,
perhaps you'll get to see somethat he hasn't mentioned yet,
I can't make any promises, butat least you can look forward
to getting your hands on allthese products at the show.
>> Excellent, alright, well I'msure you've got a lot of new
surprises in store for us,right?
>> Yes, please look forward tothem.
>> Excellent, alright, wellthank you very much Mr.Miyamoto.
Great seeing you, thanks.
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>> Stick around, because when wecome back our military experts
from Saber Ops hit the range totest laser sights!
And it's one catfight you don'twant to miss,
in a never-before-seen brawlfrom Injustice: Gods Among Us.
>> This kitty has claws.
>> Hey, we're back here onGTTV, I'm still at Twisted Pixel
with Spike from LocoCycle, butright now we're going to head
into the field with DanielKayser for an all-new
Combat Facts! which looks at howrealistic laser sights are
in today's military actiongames.
>> In today's combat games,whipping a laser sight onto your
weapon gives you an edge in afirefight
in either day or nightoperations.
In this test we ask thequestion:
Sabre Ops is back with theCombat Facts!
>> Hey everyone, Daniel Kayserhere at the
Combat Facts Gun Range north ofLos Angeles,
with Mike Gilmore from Sabre Ops.
Tell us all about our testtoday.
>> Our test today was we weretrying to see if using a
red dot laser on this submachine gun would
increase your hip-fire accuracy.
And then we compared that tousing the fixed sights.
It did improve it, but afterI pulled the first round
off, I lost the laser,
just cause we were shootingduring the daylight.
>> And so at night it might be atotally
different story though,right?
>> Absolutely. At night you'regoing to use a night vision
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I spent most of this week in Oslo, Norway, preparing for, and speaking at, re:think. The conference, imagined and led by Arnt Eriksen, is the only of its kind in Norway and to say they were extremely grateful and accommodating to have speakers from North America is an understatement. Arnt is an advertising professional. He's worked in the business for the past 20 years and has ... Read More
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I'm having a really hard time understanding some employers today. As I travel the country and spend time with business leaders, it's very disturbing to me how many have firewalls installed that prevent their employees from using the social networks during business hours. As if they aren't just using their phones to get online during the day. Some business leaders go so far as to take ... Read More
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Jim Sterne | March 27, 2014 | Comments
While we want our preferences and habits to be remembered by brands and marketers, the growing possibilities of Big Data bring on feelings of fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
In his book Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell used the word "doublethink" to express our ability "...to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them..."
I've done old George one better; I am of three minds about online privacy.
Do You Have Any Idea Who I Am?
The World Wide Web is made up of computers. Why on Earth can you not remember who I am, what I like, and that I have never - not once - "Para español, oprima dos." I do not want to donate to the lost iguana fund. I do not want to register for your email newsletter. I do not want overnight delivery - ever.
I have nothing against overnighted email newsletters about Spanish iguanas; they are simply not my area of interest. So please, use a cookie; use a Flash stored object; use a box of 3-by-5 index cards if you must, but if the woman at the laundry can remember I like my shirts with light starch and on hangers, if my barber can remember I like my neck cut straight across instead of tapered, and if everybody at my favorite Italian restaurant can remember I prefer pinot noir over cabernet and cabernet over chianti, then why, oh why, can you not remember that I use my business credit card for books and my personal credit card when I buy clothes?
I've previously written about personalization and privacy, including articles about allowing the customer to control the relationship...
...the pain and suffering that can be avoided if you remember me...
...and even offered up a new way to measure if you're doing it right:
I would willingly tattoo a bar code on my forehead if it got me through the security line at the airport faster and allow me to always have a room near - but not right next to the elevator.
But Isn't It Just Too Hard?
I recently wrote an article about the practical conundrum dispensed by the European Parliament and the European Commission's data protection reform: "EU Legislators Decree the Impossible." In it, I lamented about the difficulty of living up to the four basic tenets of this legislation:
Modern data processing just isn't up to the task. A quick read of Mark Gibbs' compelling series of blogs for Pneuron called "Dark Data: The Mysterious Force that Holds the Corporate Universe Together" is all it takes to realize we will never, truly, have control over data again.
I want to be remembered and I realize it's tough to do. Those who do it well (Amazon's 1-Click button, anybody?) will earn my business. But there is a dark side as well.
Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt
Given my predilection to be remembered, I used to argue that fear about personal data was a bit overblown - real tin-foil-hat stuff. But then, Aurélie Pols of Mind Your Privacy told me the story of the Netherlands in the 1930s.
The government decided to survey their citizens regarding their religious preferences. Should one die destitute, the government would be able to select the proper burial according the individual's faith. That seemed like a very good and compassionate idea until May 10, 1940 when Nazi Germany invaded and used that database in unforeseen ways.
In a world of Big Data, where it is economically acceptable to store more and more and more, there will soon be enough information about each individual to create a compelling case against anybody about anything.
Do I have ties to splinter Ukrainian extremist factions? Well, there is that picture of me entering the USA from Europe on the same plane as a guy whose dentist used to go to school with...etc.
And so, along with Edward Snowden's revelations, I was compelled to express my fear, uncertainty, and doubt...in song:
Yes, I am of three minds...and one of them is pleased to discover that tin-foil hats might actually offer some protection: Do Tinfoil Hats Really Block Your Brain Waves?
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PHOENIX — Authorities say a man's pet emu is dead after it escaped from
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Tempe police and workers from the Phoenix Zoo tried to corral the bird as it
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(Thanks to Sean)
LyricWiki is a free, editable lyrics database that has over 1,772,169 pages of lyrics, albums and artists. Included in that database can be songs from any genre, country, or language imaginable. Whatever you are into musically, there is likely something here for you.
A good place to start is by checking out our FAQ and Help pages. The Formatting Artists, Formatting Albums and Formatting Songs are particularly useful sections. Another way to familiarise yourself with the way we do things here at LyricWiki is to look at some of the Artist, Album and Song pages with a Gold star in the top right corner.
If you need further assistance, you can leave a note on the LyricWiki Help Desk. The Help Desk is on the watchlists of the site administrators, so you are likely to get an answer fairly quickly. LyricWiki also has its own chat room, so you might also be able to obtain answers to some of your questions by asking the helpful LyricWikians that frequent there.
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I was just checking the Coldplay page, I inverted so much time on it and the format cause I'm a big fan and I want it to be one of the best around this web, and I was gonna add information on the new album and I just checked out that you already put the information and in the same format. I just wanted to say thank you, cause I really liked how I finally manage to organize it, and your support is really well appreciated. thanks again and I hope to see more of your Collaborations.— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Grifit (talk • contribs). 20:11, 5 May 2008
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Thanks for reverting the edit. I've protected the page now. I don't think users really need to edit such pages, instead there is a talk page to discuss any useful modifications. cheers & happy editing ∃cho⚡ierr∀ ( ☏ • ⎋ • ⌫) 11:47, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for taking care of the vandalism. Much appreciated! — 6×9 (Talk) 12:20, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
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You can go back and forth with people all day over the capit. of the last parameter. I generally use all caps, it is more consistent site-wide, rather than just on one page. If you'd like I could explain further on how, but I'm not going to battle with you over it. On The Killers:Hot Fuss (2004) for some reason I saw the lower half of the page having caps and the upper not, so I just made all of it caps. The main reason I came here though is to point out LW:AGF, assuming someones grammar is bad because they don't abide by grammar rules (on a site that doesn't generally follow the rules of grammar, I might add) is rather insulting, and we are urged to refrain from such activity. I see you are an honest editor, and I mean no offense by pointing this out (I have to remind myself on this policy sometimes ;) ).ҚιļļεяСļоωη 01:53, December 12, 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, I saw that you reverted the changes to Coldplay about Mylo Xyloto probably because you thought the tracklist was still speculative. As it turns out, these tracks are now confirmed ([1]). Thanks for the help working on Coldplay, though!
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- No, they're not. There's no mention of a tracklisting here. It's specifically stated here that the tracklist is still being worked on. The Wikipedia article rightfully doesn't mention a tracklist, because there isn't one. Taking the already existing tracklist for Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall and then slapping another song that you heard of onto the end of it isn't a valid tracklist for the album, it's pure speculation. -- I need a name (Complain here) 22:04, August 15, 2011 (UTC)


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AT FIRST GLANCE, Charles Murray and Christopher Lasch have very little in common. Murray, the libertarian provocateur, is an avowed partisan of progress, and a devout believer in the constructive power of the market economy. Lasch, who died shortly before the publication of Murray and Richard Herrnstein's celebrated and reviled The Bell Curve, would have bristled at any comparison. After all, Lasch sought to redeem an inchoate intellectual tradition that stood against progress. Libertarianism struck Lasch as an infantile, if not pernicious, ideology of the smug and successful. A self-described populist, Lasch believed that the chief evil facing the modern United States was corporate control of the government and untrammeled free markets, which, in his view, undermined public trust.
So it's more than a little strange that Murray, in his latest incarnation, is reviving the Laschian notion of "democratic competence"--the idea that self-government ultimately rests on self-reliance and self-help, for individuals and for communities.
This is, of course, old hat for believers in small government. And yet Murray's latest book is more than standard-issue libertarian boilerplate, a useful if drearily familiar genre. Like the best of Murray's earlier work, it rests on a deeply moralistic, deeply conservative understanding of human nature. In a book that is, in truth, more of a pamphlet, he sketches out the broad outlines of an uncompassionate conservatism, or rather a conservatism of mutual respect.
But why "uncompassionate"? In his later writings, Lasch warned against the dangers of "compassion," a sentiment that degrades its supposed beneficiaries by making them objects of pity and not respect. "Compassion" entails the rejection of impersonal standards, and indeed the rejection of a common standard for citizenship. Once this common standard of citizenship is lost, democracy is reduced to mere procedure, a process by which one set of bums are, on rare occasion, thrown out and replaced by another. Individuals become objects of compassion or concern. They are no longer citizens in any meaningful sense.
To restore citizenship rightly understood, Murray has devised an ingenious plan that will strike most readers as impracticable, if not simply unwise. Rather than reform the welfare state, he suggests that we do away with it root and branch. Whether it's poverty relief or middle-class entitlements or corporate subsidies, all existing transfer payments would be eliminated and replaced by a $10,000 annual cash grant to every individual over the age of 21, subject to progressive taxation.
Because the temptation to resurrect the panoply of popular programs will be strong, Murray also calls for a constitutional amendment enshrining the grant as the only permissible form of redistribution. The one thing government does efficiently and well is write checks; under "the Plan," as he calls it, that is essentially all that government would be allowed to do.
Murray acknowledges early on that the Plan would, in the short term, cost considerably more than the existing system, to the tune of $355 billion. But over time, it would cost considerably less. Still, it's fair to say that the size of government is not Murray's primary concern. Were the Plan to prove consistently more expensive than the status quo into the distant future, I suspect that Murray would barely bat an eyelash. His concern is not so much the expense of one approach versus the other, but rather the implications for self-government.
The real question behind In Our Hands is whether or not self-government is possible under modern conditions. Not self-government in the trivial, procedural sense--can we hold periodic elections, sparsely attended, in which one set of bums is occasionally thrown out in favor of another?--but in the sense of giving individuals and communities meaningful control over the shape of their lives.
Assuming Murray is more concerned about the prospects for self-government than the size of government, objections to the Plan will take on a different character. Far from a heartless proposal that will leave the poor defenseless, the Plan treats "the less fortunate" as citizens worthy of respect. To a "compassionate" conservative, and to most modern progressives, merely handing over a cash grant, without strings attached, will invite disaster. Surely the very poor lack the capacity to make decisions about education and health care and saving.


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The perfect pre-Pride toast: Bayview vino at El Rio
It's best (they say) to treat Pride as the proverbial marathon in place of sprint -- despite the fact that there is about one thousand openings-parties-dog walks happening this year that you'll no doubt be careening between. May we recommend a darling divey wine happy hour as your own personal kick-off for this year of queer festivities? El Rio's semi-weekly Mugsy Wine Bar on Fri/15 would fit the bill nicely -- and will give you the chance to try local pours made by local queers, people of color, and families that will be perfect for your larder as you traipse ever-closer to Gay Christmas.
"El Rio is a lot more gay-friendly than cabernet-friendly," Granate Sosnoff, Mugsy's organizer, told me over the phone yesterday. Sosnoff, whose girlfriend works behind the bar at the Outer Mission dive, was sick of El Rio's wine selection being somewhat of an afterthought (let's be real, order the margarita.) But the space had potential -- you'd be hard-pressed to find a better spot for a casual glass. Picture the scene: El Rio's standard Friday afternoon batch of free oysters (deployed on the tranquil patio at 5:30pm, swoop them while they last), La Piada Randagia serving Italian piadina, or flatbread sandwiches, and of course, the well-curated wines.
This Friday, Mugsy will feature pours from Gratta Wines, Barbara Gratta's mini-winery that the queer vintner started in her Bayview basement. Gratta's 2010 Dry Creek cabernet -- of which only a barrel was made -- will be on offer, as will the entrepreneur herself, for queries and comments on the fruits of her fermentation.
Looking for something from farther afield? Mugsy will also be offering a pinot noir from Stomping Girl Wines, a multi-generational endeavor out of Russian River and Sonoma that first started pressing in a Berkeley basement. Not to mention wine from African American family-owned Brown Estate.
"High and low is the best, right?" said Sosnoff. "Especially in these troubling times." D'accord. Cheers!
Mugsy Wine Bar pop-up happy hour
Fri/15 5-8pm, $5-$10 per glass of wine
El Rio
3158 Mission, SF
(415) 282-3325
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