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"Theydidn't change their Scottish ways whilethey were in Ireland"
ByDallas Bogan
Reprintedwith Permission from Dallas Bogan.
Asearly as 1740, the Shenandoah Valley wasthe course of The Great Valley
Roadof Virginia, which continued as a wagonroad as far as big Springs,
Virginia(now Roanoke). During the middle of the1700s, the route was often
recognizedas "The Irish Road," simply because the majority of the
travelerswere Scotch-Irish immigrants. At present, the trace of the Great Valley
Roadis practically the same line as U.S. Highway 11 (or I-81). In 1746,
travelerson the Great Valley Road at Big Springs had to abandon their wagons
anduse pack horses to carry on, either due south into central North
Carolina,or continue into the valleys of the Clinch, Powell, or Holston Rivers
advancinginto western North Carolina, now Tennessee.
Butin just a few years after the opening ofthe Pioneer's Road in 1746,
theUpper Road became a wagon road as well.The Upper Road took off from the
FallLine Road (which is the same as U.S. Hwy1 today) at Fredericksburg,
Virginia,and paralleled the Fall Line through Virginia, eventually
reachingNorth Carolina some 60-70 miles west of the Fall Line Road. A present map
ofNorth Carolina shows the chief population centers along Interstate 40
asRaleigh, Durham, Burlington, Greensboro and Winston-Salem -- all the
villagesthat were first settled as a result of the Great Valley Road or the
Upperroad. The Upper Road is the only pioneer wagon road that does not
survivetoday as a modern highway -- it crossed several streams and rivers that
arenow large man-made lakes. Very little traffic came through eastern North
Carolina into the western regions, due to thelack of wagon roads.
Practically all the entire Piedmont region of North andSouth Carolina was settled
bymeans of the Great Valley Road duringthe latter half of the 1700s.
Thefirst land grants in north central NorthCarolina were in 1746,
conjoiningwith the advent of a wagon route (the Pioneer's Road) that became
feasiblein the same year. Before that date, land sales in North Carolina were
limitedto the coastal areas and up a few rivers. North Carolina's land
grantscame as a result of Lord Granville, the reigning governor, who opened
thenorthern section of North Carolina's counties for sale in that year. The
areabecame known as the "Granville District," which attracted thousands
ofmigrants from the north, particularly people coming by way of the
Chesapeakeregion of Virginia and Maryland.
Before1746, travelers from the Chesapeake into western Virginia were
obligedto first go north to Philadelphia, thenwest to Lancaster, then
southweston the old Philadelphia Road throughYork and on to the Potomac River,
connectingwith the Shenandoah River Valley. Amajor happening which
influencedthe migration of people from theChesapeake to points west and southwest
wasthe opening of a wagon road across theBlue Ridge Mountains in 1746.
Itbecame known as the Pioneer's Road, asnoted earlier in this text, and
permittedwagon traffic from Alexandria to Winchester,the westernmost town
inVirginia at that time. Winchester waslocated on the Great Valley Road,
andby traveling from Alexandria overland toWinchester, the route to access
theGreat Valley Road had been reducedconsiderably. The trace today of
thePioneer's Road is very close to that ofthe modern U.S. Hwy 50, which
crossesthe Blue Ridge Mountains via Ashley'sGap.
TheScotch-Irish ancestor who immigrated toAmerica during the 18th
centurywithout delay headed for western NorthCarolina, now known as Tennessee.
Thefirst farming settlements in the interior of North Carolina were
createdby a group of people who came from the ocean side area of Maryland and
Virginia.They brought with them a good understanding of how to raise
tobacco,the principal crop of the tidewater region of the Chesapeake This in turn
becamea primary crop of North Carolina. Manyof these people were second
andthird generation Chesapeake residents, however, a sizeable number of
themwere newcomers to America -- a group of people who are often called
themselves Scotch-Irish.
Asa result of the opening of the Pioneer'sRoad, thousands of
Scotch-Irishimmigrants to America changed their travel plans after hearing from
relativesin America. Before 1746 the primary portof entry to the American
colonieswas Philadelphia. After 1746, Alexandria, Virginia on the Potomac
Riverbecame a vital port of entry for the newcomers from the Irish Sea.
"Scotch-Irish"was a name given to the people who cameto America from
about1717 to 1775 by way of northern Ireland,or Irish Seaports on either
sideof the border of Scotland and England.Although many had lived in Ireland
fordecades, these folks did not think ofthemselves as Irish. Beginning
around1607, thousands of border clan peoplewere encouraged to leave their
homesalong the English-Scottish border andwere transported to northern
Ireland.The enticement was a parcel of land, which the borderers could have
astheir own for a lease period of 100 years. For the next hundred years,
thesystem worked convincingly well.
Theborder clan people established thriving flax farms in Northern
Ireland,and assembled a linen trade that was the envy of Europe. They didn't
changetheir Scottish ways while they were in Ireland, and did not see
themselvesas Irish. In fact, most of the clans of the borderlands were more Scotch
thananything else, whether their traditional lands were on the English
sideor the Scottish side-- they had a history of taking whatever land they
wantedand were famous for their centuries of fighting Scottish kings,
Englishkings, or each other--it really didn't matter.
Abig change in the lives of the border clan people took place with the
mergerof Scotland and England into one kingdom in 1705. The border clans
becamean unbearable struggle to the English, and thereby, thousands were by
forcetransferred to northern Ireland. This time, the clan people were
treatedadversely which encompassed higher rents and shorter leases; as earlier
leasesran out, the tenants were replaced with new border clan people at
higherrents. At the same time, dreadful droughts, famine, and the crumbling
ofthe linen trade in Northern Ireland put the clan people into dismal
situations,and living there became virtually impossible. By 1717, ejected
Scotch-Irishbegan relocating to America.
Duringthe next 50 years or so, it is estimatedthat over 275,000 of them
wentto the American colonies. Most of them found themselves traveling into
thebackwoods of colonial America and the Appalachian region, extending
fromwestern Pennsylvania to Georgia. These regions were settled almost
exclusivelyby Scotch-Irish immigrants.
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Here you go, plowing your brain on things that were never made for absolute understanding and clarity.
So, they treat you like family. They treat you like people. You're kindred spirits. Or, they're just expressing that they'll treat you well. It's marketing, Charles.
What would you prefer?
"Treats me like part of the Tribe!"
"Treats me like we're ancestors!"
"Treats me like a stranger!"
"Treats me like a gambler!"
"Treats me like family!"
Gee, I wonder which one is an American family man going to acknowledge coherently?
honestly, I would prefer: "treats me like a tribe?" How strange it would be to see that on a bus sign.
"Treats me like Chaz"
Furthermore, what is with Chaz and his opposition to modern living? Especially in light of his love of modernist architecture.
Charles, you are becoming a parody of yourself.
I would prefer "Treats me like a schmuck who is going to get ripped off for a few hundred dollars in hopes of getting rich on a jackpot"
Seriously Charles, you are a paradoy of yourself....
Maybe "treats me like family" means "does nothing while I get the shit beat out of me at school so I can become a real man."
Hi Charles, this line about families- "they have been reduced to an empty place for empty faces" made me sad. Do you really feel like this is the contemporary family experience? Could you go into that a bit. I don't really know what you mean. Thank you.
6 gets my vote for post of the week.
Next let's overthink the deeper meaning of stop signs. Why are they red? What do the eight sides signify? What does the font say about government control over poverty and fishermen's wives getting eaten out by octopi?
The answer is.... you need to stop. That's all. Nothing deeper. Just fucking stop.
Yeah, I've wondered about that ad before. Next time you see it, look REAL hard at the expression on the man's face. The eyes in particular give him a aura of wild desperation, this man's about to lose it. Exactly how I feel when with family
They are marketing to Americans, Charles.
I'll admit, it probably would not make much of a difference, but that wasn't my point. My point was that you are the last person on the face of the planet that should be discussing marketing. Especially when the target market are Americans.
Make a banner for QCC and post it here on Slog. Your target market: The White, rich, American Family Man. And no, you may not use any of which I posted.
The wildness of the family is long gone.
Charles did not grow up in my family, or any other one I knew of in childhood.
stop freakin', call beacon
I like how whenever I'm reading a Slog post, as soon as it starts telling me what something means, what it really means, I know it's Charles. And that whatever it is really means something dumb, probably about capitalism.
Also, @ 14: Is it me, or does that tornado thing look like Mr. Glitch, from the Mathman segments of Square One?
@6, that was awesome.
I am all for looking into the deeper meaning of everyday things. But. Man. This is a bit much.
#10 he's so sad - This ad has been bugging me since they replaced the one with the lady and the slightly misshapen face declaring "I win more at QCC!" This one though...standing at the bus stop you can check it out close up - the guy's been shaving with a dull razor, little hairs sticking up in random places and his eyes betray his defeated hopeful desperation. "They treat me like family. Like a family would but I'm oh so alone, will you be my friend? Please?"
Charles is once again reminding us plebes of how smart he is. Love the slog, can't stand Charles.
Is there a reason nobody at Slog has posted a 'Comment of the Day' piece for #6?
C'mon, even if you like Charles, which we all do, you have to find that funny.
I know just how this guy in the ad feels. Tony Soprano's breakin my balls over a huge debt I ran up in the Executive Game; he and his thugs are living out of my sporting goods store, stealing my cross-trainers. So when I head up to QCC I get that same sick-to-my-stomach all-is-lost-kind of feeling. Thanks, QCC!
It means they let you smoke indoors.
Come on, the code is obvious.
And, if you use Reservation cigs, you don't pay tax if you smoke it there.
Who is Pascal?
He's Thoreau's gay lover.
Charles, aren't you always talking about how destructive the politics of tribalism are in Africa? Wouldn't "Treats me like a member of the tribe" imply to some degree that others outside the casino are enemies?
I hate that place. I hate that sign. I'm so glad I'm not the only one who sees the saddness in that man's eyes, and wonders, 'who are the ad wizards who came up with this?'
I used to go there regularly. Back when it was the only casino in Marysville -- err, "Tulalip"... But then it became "The Q", as they like to be called, and I worked there for 4 months of pure hell.
"TREATS ME LIKE FAMILY MEANS"... "Even though I am as white as a marshmallow, when I go to The Q and spend my pension sitting at the penny slots betting $9 a pull for 10 hours a day I'm still a winner because maybe they'll take pity on my sorry ass and pick me as a "Hot Seat" winner".
The Tulalips are known for discriminating. This cannot be argued. They discriminate against color, and lack of revenue... I know that I was discriminated against because I didnt sit around the bar getting wasted with my co-workers after hours, or gamble away my heard-earned tips, or run outside while on the clock to smoke every 15 minutes (employees must smoke outside)... I was discriminated against because I am wholesome, maintained a professional appearance, and happen to be very, very pale & white.
Perhaps the Indian perception of the White man's "family" is one where your people feed you minor euphoria and distraction while taking what is valuable from you.
Kinda seems historically appropriate, given what white families did to indian families, y'know?
And yeah, I noticed these bus signs too, and yes, they are messed-up.
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Although best known as a writer, Maurice Shadbolt also did time as a filmmaker. In his 20s he made a number of films at the National Film Unit, as part of a career that encompassed fiction, journalism, theatre and two volumes of autobiography. His classic Gallipoli play Once on Chunuk Bair was made into a feature film in 1992.
...between one day and the next I determined that I was competent to direct films. I dusted off forgotten projects, found cameramen willing to work, and did. No one seemed to object; or even notice. Maurice Shadbolt on working at the National Film Unit, in his book One of Ben's
This 2001 Mercury Lane episode is based around pieces on author Maurice Shadbolt, and OMC producer Alan Jansson. With Shadbolt ailing from Alzheimer's, Michelle Bracey surveys his life as an "unauthorised author" (Shadbolt would die in 2004). Next Colin Hogg reveals Jansson as the "invisible pop star" behind OMC hit 'How Bizarre' and more. The show is bookended by readings from Kiwi poets: Hone Tuwhare riffs on Miles Davis, Fleur Adcock reads the saucy Bed and Breakfast, and Alistair Te Ariki Campbell mourns a brother who fought for the Māori Battalion.
This feature dramatises an ill-fated offensive that New Zealand soldiers undertook during World War I's Gallipoli campaign. On 8 August 1915 the Wellington Battalion briefly seized Chunuk Bair, a pivotal peak overlooking the Dardanelles; they suffered huge losses. The film pitches the attack as a formative NZ nationhood moment, with Kiwi guts and resilience countered by inept, careless British generals, as much as their Turkish foes. Filmed on an Avalon set and on the Wainuiomata coast, the story was based on Maurice Shadbolt's classic play, Once On Chunuk Bair.
This documentary tells the stories of the New Zealand soldiers who were part of the identity-defining Gallipoli campaign in World War I. In the ill-fated mission to take a piece of Turkish coastline, 2721 New Zealanders died with 4752 wounded. As part of research, every one of the then-surviving Gallipoli veterans living in New Zealand was interviewed, with 26 finally filmed. Shot at a barren, rocky Gallipoli before the advent of Anzac Day tourism, this important record screened on Easter Sunday 1984, and won a Feltex Award for Best Documentary.
Author Maurice Shadbolt went before the cameras to play father to the main character, in this adaptation of his acclaimed coming of age novel. Teen Nick (Paul O'Shea) is estranged from his family, and blaming himself for his Māori mate's climbing death. He runs away to his straight talking grandfather (Derek Hardwick) — who takes him bush — and loses his virginity to Sally (a first film role for Rebecca Gibney). Produced by Pacific Films legend John O'Shea, the NZ-German co-production was directed by Rolf Hädrich (Stop Train 349). The film debuted in NZ on television.
In this 1973 current affairs interview, Albert Wendt discusses his first novel Sons For the Return Home on the occasion of its publication. The Pacific Island Romeo and Juliet tale was a seminal exploration of Samoan migrant life in NZ. Wendt muses on the inspiration for his work; facing discrimination at school and from girlfriends' parents; the differences between NZ Samoans and Samoan Samoans; returning 'home', and the difficulty of finding the solitude to write in Samoa. Maurice Shadbolt praises the book at its launch; it was adapted into a film in 1979.
In this 1972 documentary writer James McNeish visits Opononi to examine the life and controversial death of Opo the dolphin. Working from a McNeish idea, director Barry Barclay uses Opo's mid 50s visit to the Hokianga as the basis for a probing film essay on people, and other animals. Witnesses recall Opo "oomping away"; they include local Piwai Toi, filmmakers Rudall and Ramai Hayward, and author Maurice Shadbolt. Opo is provokingly not shown on screen. Michael King praised Miracle as "without a doubt the most interesting and evocative" slot in the Survey series to date.
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This edition of the long-running National Film Unit magazine series goes from south to north, then loops the loop. In Christchurch the cathedral and its history are toured and a service for Queen Elizabeth II is shown. Then there's international get-togethers: a "Jaycees" congress in Rotorua; then Massey, for a Grasslands Conference. At Milson Aerodrome legless British war-hero Douglas Bader is amongst the attendees at the world's first International Agricultural Aviation Show, and top-dressers demonstrate their "need for speed" skills above a hill country farm.
Pictorial Parade was a newsreel series produced by the National Film Unit. This trio features 'Salute to Salote,' in which the Queen of Tonga admires the territorial army recruits at Papakura military camp; 'What is Dutch for Easter?' about Dutch settlers who hide painted Easter eggs for the children of Roseneath school; and 'The Life of Opo', which shows priceless footage of Opononi's world-famous dolphin Opo, and her Marlborough Sounds' cousin, Pelorus Jack. Shots of 'gay' Opo tossing bottles and frolicking with swimmers, are set to a jaunty ditty.
This edition of the NFU magazine series first travels to Waiouru to observe the NZ Army's elite Special Air Service, in the year it was established. The soldiers undergo bush exercises, an obstacle course and a mock ambush, training for deployment to Malaya. Then it's up to Auckland Zoo to meet husky litters destined for an Antarctic Adventure with Hillary and the Trans-Antarctic Expedition (the dogs are related to Captain Scott's huskies). And finally, it's further north to go shark fishing for "a day on the Kaipara" in a segment directed by Maurice Shadbolt.


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On February 15, 2009, Venezuelan voters will go to the polls in order to vote on a constitutional referendum, which would allow for the indefinite re-election of the President.
On February 15, 2009, Venezuelan voters will go to the polls in order to vote on a constitutional referendum, which would allow for the indefinite re-election of the President. The vote on the constitutional amendment has raised fundamental questions about the relation between electoral politics and democracy. The proposed constitutional change, and specifically the constitutional amendment allowing for the indefinite re-election of the President requires an examination of two basic concepts: electoral systems and democracy. The distinction between these two concepts dominates the political conflict between the supporters (pro-Chavez) and opponents (anti-Chavez) of the amendment.
Electoral Systems and Democracy: Substance and Structure
A democratic political system involves at a minimum: (1) Free and equal competition for political office and (2) access to the means of communication and (3) competing ideas and freedom to act without physical or psychological coercion. Procedures and conditions leading up to elections, which violate these norms, are incompatible with the notion of democracy. The most obvious case is Colombia whose state terror against opposition groups is practiced in every recent election. Electoral processes are necessary but not sufficient conditions to define a democratic system. In other words there are numerous examples where electoral processes are embedded in institutional structures (oligarchy-controlled mass media) and preceded by political conditions (threats, patronage and corruption), which violate the basic norms of democracy. In other words, we can have non-democratic (authoritarian) as well as democratic electoral systems.
The most common authoritarian features of electoral systems, which deny its democratic character include:
1.Restricted access to the mass media because of monopoly ownership denying freedom of expression and undermining equality of competition.
2.Unlimited spending on electoral campaigns favoring the moneyed classes capacity to monopolize electoral campaign spending and biasing the competition to favor candidates who amass the greatest funds.
3.State violence and repression of opposition parties, candidates and electoral constituencies during the electoral campaign. This nullifies any claims to a legitimate outcome based on 'an honest vote count' on election day.
4.Large scale financing by external foreign powers of the internal electoral process, drastically undermining internal competition and distorting free and equal competition. Important organizational and financial links between foreign multinational corporations, intelligence agencies and foundations to domestic parties, personalities and NGOs introduce non-democratic, non-elected actors.
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Taking account of these possible structural constraints, we see that there are numerous non-democratic variants of electoral systems. These include:
1.Death-squad electoral systems in which long-term, large-scale state violence against dissident civil society organizations (trade unions, peasant movements and human rights groups) is practiced prior to election day. Colombia is the prime example in which, over the past decade, the military and paramilitary groups murdered over 2500 trade unionists and 4 million, mostly peasants, were driven from their homes and communities.Electoral Systems in Flux
2.Imperial-collaborator electoral regimes in which there is a mass infusion of political financing by European/US state entities to incumbent regimes and parties to counter growing mass popular opposition. Nicaragua, El Salvador and Dominican Republic are prime examples of electoral regimes, which have experienced 'externally controlled political processes'.
3.Oligarchic electoral systems are the most common type of authoritarian systems, many emerging from the crisis of military dictatorship of the 1970-80's. They resulted from a political pact between economic oligarchs, political party elites and the military. The usual pattern is a two-party or modified three-party political system or coalition where the parties compete for the vote in order to represent competing ruling class interests. Mexico, Chile, Uruguay and Brazil represent this type of oligarchic electoral system.
Authoritarian electoral systems are not static: Old oligarchic parties collapse and new ones emerge. Some oligarchic parties begin by adopting populist postures to gain office and then pursue and deepen oligarchic ties, co-opting and corrupting the emerging insurgent social leaders and aborting the democratic process. Authoritarian electoral systems are subject to the pressure of non-electoral parties and movements to modify or reform repressive practices and the privileging of economic inequalities.
Equally significant in challenging oligarchic electoral systems, major economic crises and political uprisings can displace oligarchic regimes and lead to the emergence of plebian-based democratic movements. Regimes can emerge, which attempt to 'mediate' or 'balance' between the mass democratic movements and oligarchic ruling classes. In recent years, mass popular movements and uprisings have led to the overthrow of oligarchic electoral regimes. Such events have taken place in Bolivia, Argentina and Ecuador. In addition, established oligarchic electoral regimes have been defeated because of mass mobilizations in Venezuela, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay. As a result, some of the authoritarian political constraints have been temporarily reformed, while the economic ruling classes remain intact. The inequalities in economic resources and access to the mass media remain in place or are, at best, merely modified.
In other words, in recent years a process of democratizing the electoral system has been underway. However this process is not linear, homogenous or irreversible. Promising democratic beginnings via mass mobilizations have been cut short or even reversed once the democratic 'reformers' take office. Democratic reformers frequently retain the repressive state apparatus, limiting changes in authoritarian structures and repressive practices. In summary, electoral politics, and not democracy, resulted from the transition between military to civilian rule. Over the past eight years the democratization of electoral politics advanced with the breakdown of the neo-liberal political-economic system, the rise of popular mass movements and the defeat of abortive oligarchic uprisings designed to restore strict authorization rule.
Venezuela represents the most exemplary case of a sustained effort to democratize electoral politics. Venezuela, during the Chavez Presidency (1999-2008), represents a unique case of an effort to combine the democratization of electoral politics with the socialization of the economy, deepening and extending democratic politics into the sphere of the economy.
Venezuela: The Transition to Democracy
Venezuela is the one country in Latin America that best exemplifies the transition from oligarchic electoral politics to democracy. During the preceding 40 years (1959-1998) the country was ruled by a two-party elite (Democratic Action and Social Christian – COPEI), which competed to represent the petrol-rentier oligarchy, powerful importers, and the real estate-financial speculative elite. The two parties were dominated by a predator political class, which pillaged the public treasury. The economic collapse during the infamous decade of 1989-1998 resulted in a 10-fold increase in poverty, which led to the mass uprising and state massacre of 1989 known as the 'Caracazo'. This, in turn, paved the way for the election of President Chavez in 1999. President Chavez took the first steps toward reforming the authoritarian electoral system through a referendum and subsequent new constitution. Chavez's opposition to Washington's imperial 'War on Terror' was part of a foreign policy designed to end US tutelage and affirm Venezuela's national sovereignty. The colonial oligarchy sought to regain power and return the country to its authoritarian past via a US-backed civil-military coup in April 2002. The coup was defeated. Chavez was restored to power by a popular uprising backed by loyalist military officials. The President dismissed the coup participants within the government and arrested their civilian collaborators. As a result, authoritarian organizations in civil society and the state were weakened. A subsequent lockout was led by an elite group of petroleum executives who sought to sabotage the economy and overthrow the elected president. They were defeated by a joint effort of the Government and the petrol workers. This victory further weakened the colonial oligarchs in the strategic oil industry. The defeat of the strategic pillars of authoritarian electoral power led to the effective nationalization of the petroleum industry. Through these victories President Chavez strengthened the process of democratization of the state and civil society.
Under the leadership of President Chavez the petroleum industry became more responsive to the social needs of the majority of its citizens. Under democratic leadership the PDVSA (the national oil company) financed a vast number of citizen educational programs enhancing democracy. With a powerful electoral mandate after his re-election and vast increases in public revenues through public ownership and high world oil prices, President Chavez pursued policies, which encouraged citizen participation through elected community councils providing a new dimension to the process of democratization. Democratizing the electoral process and dismantling the oligarchic electoral system took several directions:
1.The encouragement, promotion and financing of a vast array of neighborhood cooperatives, peasant organizations and trade unions, which increased the power and political influence of the working class and informal workers. Freed from upper class patronage and control, the new social organizations equalized the effective role of the poor in the political process. Greater freedom and equality provided essential ingredients in the strengthening of democratic politics.Continuing Obstacles to Democratization
2.The weakening of the linkages between the oligarchic political and economic elites and the military/Pentagon diminished the power of the authoritarian state over civil society. Electoral outcomes were less subject to the intervention by undemocratic imperial agencies. Conversely the new mass organizations increased the importance of internal democratic processes. While the US and EU continued to channel funds into opposition oligarchic NGOs this is countered by domestic mass social movements and social programs funded by these democratically elected public institutions.
3. Publicly financed television stations and the proliferation of popularly controlled community radio stations have broken the oligarchy's media monopoly. The result is more pluralistic, balanced and diverse sources of information. Better-informed citizens can make more rational political decisions.
4.Freedom of speech has been greatly enhanced by the proliferation of political forums not controlled by the oligarchy. More diverse opinion leaders have greater access to more organized groups and media outlets than ever before.
5.Civil society has been enriched by the growth of multiple trade unions and community-based groups. Competing voter lists in social movements have greatly increased internal democracy in civil society organizations. Electoral competition within civil society has been greatly enhanced. Civil society has been strengthened in relation to the state. The democratization of civil society movements has strengthened public debate and the electoral processes.
In contrast to past oligarchic electoral regimes, Venezuela has moved decisively toward the consolidation of its democratic transition.
Nevertheless, numerous and serious authoritarian impediments to the full consolidation of democracy still exist. Principally, they are found in the continuation of vast concentrations of oligarchic wealth and ownership of strategic banking, mass media, real estate, agricultural lands, distribution networks and the manufacturing sectors. Concentrated private economic ownership and wealth results in vast social inequalities, which translate into the continuation of political inequalities in the form of unequal competition for political influence, despite the government's and civil society's countervailing power.
To consummate and complete the process of democratization requires the equalization of socio-economic conditions in society and the introduction of democratic reforms in the state and within publicly owned enterprises.
The full realization of democracy requires the implementation of a socialist transformation in which elections take place in the work place and through a program of re-distribution of wealth, land and financial resources.
Democratic Socialism and the Re-Election Amendment
On February 15, 2009 Venezuelans will vote on a constitutional amendment, which will permit the electorate to re-elect an incumbent President without term limits. In the past, many democratic analysts were opposed to 'presidential re-election' for several reasons. According to their critique: 1. Re-election was a method used by dictators to provide pseudo-legitimacy to regimes, which repressed democratic freedoms of speech, assembly, and access to mass media. 2. Re-election allowed incumbent regimes to utilize the state apparatus to engage in fraud and violence, perpetuating authoritarian oligarchic rule and undermining free and equal competition. 3. Re-election allowed the incumbent president to monopolize the mass media and deny the opposition equal access to campaign resources. 4. Repeatedly re-elected presidents concentrated and accumulated state power while weakening popular social organizations in civil society and strengthening the links between the state and the oligarchic civic and economic organizations.
These were legitimate criticisms of presidential re-election in past historical contexts, but are not applicable to the case of Venezuela today.
The historical record of the past decade and the present realities in Venezuela today demonstrate that democratic principles and practices have deepened and extended following each election and re-election of Hugo Chavez. For example: 1. The mass media are much more diverse; access is more equal and there is a greater variety of competing socio-economic paradigms under debate. 2. Civil society contains a greater number of free and independent competing and organized social classes than ever in the history of Venezuela. Between 1999-2009 competing neighborhood groups with diverse social perspectives have flourished. 3. Electoral campaigns and procedures are less subject state corruption, intervention and violent manipulation than ever before. 4. Citizen participation and defense of democratic freedoms was never more widespread and intense as was witnessed by the massive popular mobilization defeating the US-oligarchy-military coup of April 2002, and the restoration of the elected President (Chavez), the Congress and the Venezuelan constitution. 5. The nationalization of foreign and oligarchy controlled strategic enterprises has made key economic enterprises subject to legislative and executive oversight by elected public representatives. 6. The re-election of President Chavez has resulted in politics which lower socio-economic inequalities, increased social expenditures for the poor, the working class and peasantry thus increasing their stake in democratic institutions, their interest in electoral campaigns and provided them with greater time and resources to participate in social and political organizations.
Contrary to previous historical experiences, in Venezuela under President Chavez, there is a positive correlation between his re-election and the extension and deepening of democratic institutions and practices as well as a richer civic culture. In the 40 years prior to the Chavez presidency (1959-1998) during which re-election was prohibited, the alternating Presidents perpetuated a profoundly authoritarian oligarchic electoral system which effectively disenfranchised the mass of low-income voters, offering few choices and subjecting them to a corrupt party patronage system.
The key is to view re-election versus single-term presidencies in their historical context and in terms of the political practices and pragmatic consequences of each. For example, the 're-election' of Alvaro Uribe means the perpetuation of death squads and forced dispossession of millions of peasants. The limits on re-election of presidents in Mexico has not altered highly authoritarian rule, vast inequalities, foreign control of all strategic sectors of the economy and the power of the capitalist class to replace one oligarch for another.
Approval of the constitutional amendment allowing for the re-election of President Chavez is essential for the continuation of the democratic process and social welfare of Venezuelans. Because of President Chavez' audacious and courageous defense of world peace and humanitarian justice, his re-election is especially important in the face of imperial wars and genocidal colonial wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and elsewhere.
Approval of the amendment will result in the continuation of vital socio-economic reforms, which provide free education, health and subsidized food for the vast majority of Venezuelans.
Particularly in a time of worldwide capitalist recession/depression, only a democratic-socialist government will give highest priority to protecting social welfare programs over and against bailing out bankers, industrialists and export elites. All alternative capitalist candidates in Venezuela would follow the practice of the North American, European and Asian rulers of cutting social programs to save the ruling class.
The re-election of President Chavez would facilitate the democratization of the economy through nationalization and socialization. The defeat of the re-election amendment would abort and reverse the process leading to the privatization of strategic economic sectors, which would lead to foreign capitalists arbitrarily making all key economic decisions. The privatization of the mass media would lead to oligarchic monopolies, eliminating the diversity of political views.
With the onset of the world recession/depression, the collapse of the neo-liberal model and the incapacity of capitalist economists to offer any viable alternative, there is all the more reason to re-elect President Chavez who backs a socialist, publicly directed and controlled economy, which protects and promotes the domestic market and productive system.
At a time of Israel's genocidal war, backed by the US and at a time when newly-elected Obama doubles military spending and troops for wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and possibly Iran, the world looks to President Chavez as the world's foremost humanitarian leader, the outstanding defender of freedom, peace and self-determination. The approval of the re-election amendment is not only a vote for Venezuelan democracy but equally a vote in defense of the billions of oppressed Third World people who regard President Chavez as their principled leader: The only President who refuses to support Bush-Obama's imperial 'war on terror'. The only President who ousted Israel's ambassador in righteous repudiation of Israel's genocidal assault on the people of Gaza.
Much more is at stake on February 15, 2009 than a constitutional amendment and the re-election of a president. With the outcome rides the future of democracy and socialism in Venezuela and the hopes and aspirations of hundreds of millions who look to President Chavez as an example in their revolutionary struggle to overthrow militarists and depression-racked capitalist states. January 8, 2009
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I'm a US citizen and have been living and working here in Venezuela for the past four years. I strongly disagree with the author of this article. To use his criteria: The most common authoritarian features of electoral systems, which deny its democratic character include:
1) Restricted access to mass media... Well, Chavez shut down the independent RCTV television station, took control of their property and installed TVES (the socialist TV station). Also, newspapers have to apply to CADIVI for access to US dollars to buy newsprint. News organizations that are critical of the Chavez government are denied access to dollars, and therefore cannot buy newsprint to publish their papers. Chavez definitely uses the government to restrict access to mass media.
2) Unlimited spending... Again, Chavez has used the revenues from high oil prices to outspend opposition campaigns. Red tents are set up everywhere right now handing out propaganda for the upcoming reform vote.
3) State violence and oppression of opposition parties... Earlier last year in Maracaibo a student leader who was vocally opposed to Chavez was assassinated and just last week a student leader at the Central University was tear gassed while trying to give a speech in support of the opposition and his car was set on fire. Also, the house of the owner of a TV station was tear gassed since the station was critical of Chavez. There are many examples of state sponsored violence against the opposition.
4) Large scale financing by external foreign powers... I'm not sure about this criterion, but Chavez certainly tried to illegally influence results in Argentina as evidenced by his government sending the suitcase full of cash to Cristina Kirchner.
These are just a few examples of how the electoral system under Chavez is not democratic.
Previous governments may have been corrupt as well, but Chavez and his cronies are certainly lining their pockets with the oil revenue of the country. Since the government took over the electric company we have had several widespread power outages. Investment in infrastructure is too low, and government handouts via PDVSA have simply reduced investment in PDVSA's core business (oil production) and as oil prices drop these populist handouts are drying up and the people are left off worse than before.
The upcoming reform vote on the 15th is important. It will determine whether or not Chavez will be allowed to continue to drive the Venezuelan economy into the ground.
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Learning to Beat A Fear of Flying
By DEBBIE SEAMAN
Published: November 24, 1996
OUR flight was halfway between New York and Washington, D.C., when we felt the plane drop out of the sky. That is, the aircraft lost altitude so suddenly and dramatically that the passengers gave a collective gasp. Gripped with gut-wrenching terror, my knuckles white and my face contorted in a mask of horror, I was convinced not only that I was about to die violently but also that I would have several more minutes to be conscious of this inevitability, as our plane plummeted to the earth in a ball of fire.
Of course, the plane leveled off. The pilot, in the same cozy drawl he had used to give us the weather report, came on the P.A. system to inform us that he had had to avoid a small aircraft.
The incident, 12 years ago, has most likely been forgotten by the other passengers, but, for me, it was the moment when flying began to inspire dread instead of excitement. With each consecutive flight -- and I've always been an inveterate traveler -- the fear fed upon itself until, a couple of years later, it blossomed into a bona fide phobia.
Boarding an aircraft, all I had to do was look at the nose of the plane, imagining it thousands of feet above the earth, and I felt the first ripple of panic. The takeoffs were the worst. As the jet gathered speed and lumbered heavily skyward, I was sure that the plane would simply lose momentum and crash. So, as the plane ascended, I went in a downward spiral. I broke out in a sweat, my chest felt tight, and even planting my feet firmly on the floor failed to ground me. Worst of all, I felt emotionally flayed. I had control neither over the feelings I was host to -- terror, discomfort, vulnerability and downright dislike and distaste -- nor over their snowballing. Coupled with this fear was a longing not to be in my own skin.
The discomfort was exacerbated by the slightest change in engine sound. ''What's that?'' I would gasp to my husband, my fingers digging into his arm, as I heard a high, whining sound in the bowels of the jet. ''Why is the plane doing that?'' I would demand of a bemused steward, who explained that those minor fits and starts I felt during takeoff were caused by the wind. Even the sound that summoned the attendants was enough to make me nearly jump out of my seat, convinced every time that it was an alarm to signal impending loss of cabin air pressure.
Once the aircraft had reached its cruising altitude, my emotions seemed manageable as long as we didn't hit any major turbulence. Landings were almost tolerable because I figured that we were close enough to the ground that the plane ought to be able to get down safely. But on night flights, as I tried to sleep, the roar of the engines reminded me that I was in a mere capsule blasting through a black, vast void -- an unnatural state for Man if ever there was one -- and I would capsize emotionally.
After a while I couldn't even turn to my husband any more. He adores flying, especially the takeoff.
Once, when we were en route to the States from Sydney and I whimpered that I couldn't abide this terror any longer, he snapped, ''Well, do something about it!''
That was when I contacted Fearless Fliers Inc., run by members of the Australian Women Pilots Association and sponsored by Qantas at that airline's base at Sydney Airport. They offered a fear of flying clinic, three-hour sessions every Tuesday night for eight weeks -- no minor commitment. The other catch was that the $351 fee, calculated at 78 United States cents to the Australian dollar, included a round-trip Sydney-to-Melbourne flight at the end of the course.
But flying is a fact of life for me, as I am an American married to an Australian and have to endure long hauls if I want to see my family in New York. I resolved that I wanted to stop huddling in my seat, quivering during takeoffs, thinking, ''I can never again in my life go through this terror.'' I wanted to get well.
What I hadn't expected was to have fun doing it. But, taken under the wings of Glenda Philpott and other female pilots from the Sydney area, we were given an enthusiastic eight-week immersion into the world of aviation that was usually reassuring and often exciting.
AS 18 of us sat in a training room, we learned we were in good company: We were told that one in five people suffers from fear of flying. A couple of my classmates were worse off than I -- two had never seen the interior of a plane -- but I could identify with everyone's story. And, eerily, we all shared the utter conviction when boarding a plane that our flight wouldn't make it.
We soon took the first steps in overcoming those fears. Bryan Burke, a doctor of psychology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, took us through our relaxation exercises, a combination of deep, slow breathing and the tensing and releasing of different muscle groups. Later we were told to picture ourselves in a room where we felt the safest. ''Don't watch the horror movies,'' Mr. Burke admonished, referring to the tendency of fearful fliers to obsess about negative thoughts and worst-case scenarios. ''Change the channel.''


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|Anime, Transformers, and Japanese culture.[1]
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MechaCon is an annual three-day anime convention held during the summer at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside in New Orleans, Louisiana.
MechaCon's inaugural weekend in 2005 is unique because Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the coast of Louisiana hours after MechaCon closed its doors.[3] The dealers room closed early and all but one guest made their flight.
In 2006, as a special part of MechaCon's 2006 programming, Harmony Gold USA provided fans of the Robotech franchise with the first-ever public screening of the film Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles. 100% of the funds raised from the screening was donated to The Salvation Army's ongoing Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita recovery efforts.[4]
Event history[edit]
|August 26–28, 2005
|Hilton Lafayette
Lafayette, Louisiana
|750 paid attendees
|Tiffany Grant, Limit Break Cosplay, Joshua Seth, Doug Smith, and Alec Willows.[5]
|August 11–13, 2006
|Hilton Lafayette
Lafayette, Louisiana
|1,100 paid attendees
|Garry Chalk, Lisa Furukawa, Brittney Karbowski, Limit Break Cosplay, Kevin McKeever, Scott McNeil, Richard Newman, Doug Smith, Kira Vincent-Davis, Brett Weaver, and Alec Willows.[6]
|August 3–5, 2007
|Hilton Lafayette
Lafayette, Louisiana
|1,480 paid attendees
|Michael Dobson, Richard Epcar, Lisa Furukawa, Tiffany Grant, Matt Greenfield, Limit Break Cosplay, Mike McFarland, Kevin McKeever, Scott McNeil, Ellyn Stern, and Jonathan M. Thompson.[7]
|August 1–3, 2008
|Hilton Lafayette
Lafayette, Louisiana
|2,065 paid attendees
|Greg Ayres, Beau Billingslea, Steve Blum, John Chambers, Francesco Forni, Lisa Furukawa, Ilaria Graziano, Carl Macek, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, and Tommy Yune.[8]
|July 24–26, 2009
|Hilton Lafayette
Lafayette, Louisiana
|2,590 paid attendees
|Christopher Ayres, Greg Ayres, Garry Chalk, Samantha Inoue-Harte, David Kaye, Kevin McKeever, Vic Mignogna, and Wendy Powell.[9]
|July 16–18, 2010
|New Orleans Marriott
New Orleans, Louisiana
|3,480 paid attendees
|Chris Cason, Richard Epcar, Todd Haberkorn, Mari Iijima,[10] Mike McFarland, Kevin McKeever, Vic Mignogna, Tony Oliver, Wendy Powell, Ellyn Stern, J. Michael Tatum, Dan Woren, Tommy Yune,[11] and Robotech Convention Tour.[2]
|August 26–28, 2011
|Hilton New Orleans Riverside
New Orleans, Louisiana
|4,240 paid attendees
|Steve Blum, Johnny Yong Bosch, Clover, Eyeshine, Lisa Furukawa, Kyle Hebert, Samantha Inoue-Harte, Jonathan Klein, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Kevin McKeever, Scott McNeil, and J. Michael Tatum.[12]
|September 7–9, 2012
|Hilton New Orleans Riverside
New Orleans, Louisiana
|4,780 paid attendees
|Eien Strife, Richard Epcar, Jason David Frank, Todd Haberkorn, Samantha Inoue-Harte, Jonathan Klein, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Vic Mignogna, Daran Norris, Wendy Powell, Ellyn Stern, Jonathan M. Thompson, and Steve Yun.[13]
|August 23–25, 2013
|Hilton New Orleans Riverside
New Orleans, Louisiana
|5,800 paid attendees[14][non-primary source needed]
|Karan Ashley, Johnny Yong Bosch, Steve Cardenas, Daniel Coglan, Jillian Coglan, Eyeshine, Walter E. Jones, Jonathan Klein, Cyril Lumboy, Jason Narvy, Paul Schrier, Hynden Walch, Greg Weisman, David Yost, and Tommy Yune.[15]
|August 1–3, 2014
|Hilton New Orleans Riverside
New Orleans, Louisiana
|6,850 paid attendees[14][non-primary source needed]
|Amelie Belcher, Greg Cipes, Eien Strife, Tiffany Grant, Jonathan Klein, Kuragiman, Scott Menville, Brian "Kuragiman" Navy, Jessica Nova, Khary Payton, Jessie Pridemore, Andrea Romano, Kelli Sarré, Spike Spencer, Tara Strong, Twinfools, Hynden Walch, and Greg Weisman.[16]
|July 17–19, 2015
|Hilton New Orleans Riverside
New Orleans, Louisiana
|7,555 paid attendees[14][non-primary source needed]
|Steven Blum, Steve Kenson, Jonathan Klein, Kyle "Ex-Shadow" Mathis, Malinda "Malindachan" Mathis, Mike McFarland, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Courtney "Courtoon" Morelock, Nylon Pink, Brina Palencia, Austin Tindle, Greg Weisman, and Tommy Yun.[17]
|July 29-31, 2016
|Hilton New Orleans Riverside
New Orleans, Louisiana
- ^ "MechaCon returns to Lafayette, LA in August" (Press release). Animecons.com. 2006-01-17. Retrieved 2007-01-08.
- ^ a b "MechaCon Celebrates a Quarter Century of Robotech!" (Press release). Robotech. 2010-07-07. Retrieved 2012-06-05.
- ^ Katrina's effects on the anime community, Animecons.com, 2005-09-05, retrieved 2008-08-19
- ^ Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles Charity Screening at MechaCon!!!, Harmony Gold USA, 2006-06-02, retrieved 2008-08-19
- ^ "MechaCon 2005 Information". AnimeCons.com. Retrieved 2007-12-22.
- ^ "MechaCon 2006 Information". AnimeCons.com. Retrieved 2007-12-22.
- ^ "MechaCon 2007 Information". AnimeCons.com. Retrieved 2007-12-22.
- ^ "MechaCon 2008 Information". AnimeCons.com. Retrieved 2008-08-22.
- ^ "MechaCon 2009 Information". AnimeCons.com. Retrieved 2013-01-17.
- ^ "Louisiana's MechaCon Hosts Singer/Actress Mari Iijima". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2012-06-05.
- ^ "MechaCon 2010 Information". AnimeCons.com. Retrieved 2013-01-17.
- ^ "MechaCon 2011 Information". AnimeCons.com. Retrieved 2013-01-17.
- ^ "MechaCon 2012 Information". AnimeCons.com. Retrieved 2013-01-17.
- ^ a b c "MechaCon About Us". MechaCon.com. Retrieved 2014-12-23.
- ^ "MechaCon 2013 Information". AnimeCons.com. Retrieved 2013-08-26.
- ^ "MechaCon 2014 Information". AnimeCons.com. Retrieved 2014-08-16.
- ^ "MechaCon 2015 Information". AnimeCons.com. Retrieved 2015-07-28.
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Just made this tonight and it was a huge hit, even with DH and ALL my boys! (No small trick) Appropriate for people on gluten free diets, no carb diets, and also for Passover. You can substitute other mild fish, and experiment with different types of nuts.
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In bookbinding, section (sometimes gathering) refers to a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half. The term is sometimes used interchangeably with signature, though the latter technically refers only to the signature mark at the bottom of the first page of a printed section.[citation needed]
The section is the basic building block of codex bindings. In Western bookbinding, sections are sewn through their folds, with the sewing thread linking each section to its neighboring sections.
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Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] Heads up on new feature to 1.3.4
From: Eugene Loh (Eugene.Loh_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-18 01:02:02
Chris Samuel wrote:
>OK, grabbed that (1.4a1r21825). Configured with:
>./configure --prefix=$FOO --with-openib --with-tm=/usr/
>local/torque/latest --enable-static --enable-shared
>It built & installed OK, but when running a trivial example
>with it I don't see evidence for that code getting called.
>Perhaps I'm not passing the correct options ?
>$ mpiexec -bysocket -bind-to-socket -mca odls_base_report_bindings 99 -mca odls_base_verbose 7 ./cpi-1.4
Ah, you're missing the third secret safety switch that prevents hapless
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I must be a raving lunatic to photograph cows so much, because more than 40 years ago a cow took exception to an operation Dad and I were performing on her boy calf, especially after her darling bawled several times. The irate momma not only knocked me down, she trampled me with hooves that appeared bucket-sized. All 1600 pounds of her! I could not breathe; worse, I thought I'd never breathe again, that something essential had been broken. Breath returned a few moments later.
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Dated 1963 and sold by the Gimpel Fils Gallery in London the following year, it was purchased by Joy Barnes from the New Art Centre in Salisbury. The buyer, who had to go well above the £50,000-80,000 estimate on September 20, was an anonymous bidder on the telephone.
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This happened by accident...
Yup, this little guy happened by accident. I found myself with a sharpie and some thick copper sheet from a jobsite. A late night and some pneumatic shears and I was holding the pieces that would later form the head. Once soldered together, it sat on the top of my monitor for days, just staring at me asking for a face. I really don't know what happened from there --All the pieces seemed to "just make sense" when they were being made, and went together just as easy. I guess it was just meant to be...
In terms of function, it is simply an Arduino-based Start Here Robot --with a fancy body and nifty screen. It can drive around and avoid stuff, and not much more than that. This is just a simple one. The LCD is a 1.44" LCD from 4D Systems and would be worth every penny at twice the price. I have not only this 1.44" screen but also the 3.2" touch-screen version. Both have SD cards onboard, a full-on microcontroller with it's own language, I/O pins and all the bells and whistles any other robot brain would have. Each can display photos and graphics as well as video --The bigger version even has WAV player built in. --I can't say enough about these screens, again, worth every penny.
After I had completed the construction and code, I stared at this little guy wondering what would be on his little screen face. I tried to commission some art friends to draw different faces to display (each with a different expression) and I gotta be honest --it looked terrible! Instead, I decided to think of where this robot might live or have lived. If you look at him, he might be the one that had survived The Nuke or survived the Great War. Staying with that mode of thought, I suppose he might display images of all the things he saw as the world was destroyed. Yup, this might just be the "Apocalypse Bot"...
Video to come soon --for some reason, my sonar decided today to not play nice when the motors start running. I know, know, gotta get in there with some caps... I will, and well, video to come soon. For now, nice pictures.
And a few of his "images"...
very cool
nice. very cool. looks like an antique haha. very snazy.
I love the way it looks with the black and white pictures and the look of the body. Now you have me looking at that screen. Is the screen's programming that different from basic?
I love it !
So steampunk, great job ! :)
Very Creative
Likes the 19th century design. Looks like something from Jules Vernes.
I'm going to order some parts for my next project and I think I might just have to get one of these too. I don't no what I will use it for but it looks like it would be fun to use.
That is some fine work.
frits and ignoblegnome will be doubly impressed. :)
I saw your vid clip plea for arty faces. I figured it was a bit more dated than it was. Not sayin I have enough of an art streak in me.
Two thumbs up CtC!
My God - It's ...... Beautiful
I was thinking steampunkbot too - but my implementation pales in comparison to your most awesome design !
Is that brass paint on the servo or did you make a brass cover? Love the little piston extensions off the servo, now you just need a mini-gramophone on the ultra sonic sensor.
Dude, get some RF or bluetooth to the little guy and I can set you up with voice commands !
Wicked bot ... totally wicked !
very steampunk with great
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Three North Texas golfers finished the tournament's first round among the top 20 individual leaders. Zach Atkinson is currently tied for sixth place and shot a team-best 73 on day one of the three-day event. Also among the top 20 leaders is Freddy Espericueta
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New Mexico State leads the 10-team field with a score of 295, while Denver is in second with a 296 and South Alabama rounds out the top three leaders with a 298.
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Opened 6 years ago
Closed 6 years ago
Last modified 6 years ago
#13092 closed (fixed)
ContextList objects do not support "in" operator
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When running tests, if a single template is used to product a response to an HTTP request, then the test client's response context object is a regular Context (django.template.Context) object. When multiple templates are used, however, then the test client's response context object will be a django.test.utils.ContextList object instead.
The ContextList class tries to emulate a Context object for dictionary-style lookups, so that tests which reference response.contextkey? will still work. However, ContextList does not implement _contains_, so expressions of the form "'key' in request.context", which would be true when only a single template is used, become false as soon as a second template is introduced.
For example, with this template:

No Content here

And this view:
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response def view(request): return render_to_response("test_template.html", { "foo": "bar" })
Then a test which says:
class SimpleTest(TestCase): def test_context(self): response = self.client.get("/test_url/") self.assertTrue("foo" in response.context)
will succeed, but if the template is changed to this:
{% extends "base.html" %}
No content here

then the same test will fail. I'm attaching a patch which fixes this, as well as a two line patch for the Context/ContextList tests.
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Changed 6 years ago by clelland
Patch to allow tests like 'key in contextlist'
comment:1 Changed 6 years ago by russellm
- Needs documentation unset
- Needs tests unset
- Patch needs improvement unset
- Triage Stage changed from Unreviewed to Accepted
comment:2 Changed 6 years ago by oinopion
I second on this. Quite annoying.
comment:3 Changed 6 years ago by bryanchow
Thanks, clelland for the patch. Works great.
comment:4 Changed 6 years ago by gabrielhurley
Agreed. Good patch with tests.
comment:5 Changed 6 years ago by SmileyChris
- Triage Stage changed from Accepted to Ready for checkin
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Amy 15 ANS YEARS OLD by SpikinetteWatch
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Amy quand elle a 15 ans
Amy when she is 15 years
Amy when she is 15 years
Very Lovely.
tanks ^^
No problem. Say, I think I'm gonna make a Sonic parody of Around the World in 80 days someday.
Elle est chooooooooooooooooooou
Pretty dress, Amy. And I like what you've done with your hair.
Amy : do you think sonic gonna like?
I think you have a chance of getting Sonic's attention, Amy. But...in addition to changing your outfit, you also have to change your approach. You cannot just throw yourself into Sonic's arms like you used to do. I suggest that you slowly walk up to Sonic, say hello, and make some small talk before you ask him what he thinks of your dress.
Amy: Yes I do not know do not worry my friend I'm not a child anymore so I no longer acts as ^ ^ I love sonic but I understood that it is not throwing at me that it love me
Amy looks very nice in her red dress in this picture you've done.
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Ya Ya Anderson scored 18 points leading Radford to a 78-73 victory over Presbyterian at HTC Center on Wednesday.
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Radford got 16 points from Javonte Green and another 15 points from R.J. Price. Ya Ya Anderson contributed 3 assists, while Javonte Green cleaned the glass with 9 rebounds.
Presbyterian got 32 points from Jordan Downing in a losing cause and another 13 points from Reggie Dillard. Austin Anderson contributed 6 assists for them, while William Truss had 6 rebounds.
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- (Clothing)Example sentences
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- He wears a grey t-shirt underneath a plaid flannel shirt and short grey cape, jeans, runners, and a plain black mask.
- His short cape blew along with the night wind, dancing to its melody as it sang through the desert.
- Nutty knitwear - woollen boots, sparkly, spartan leg warmers, bizarre capes and frocks combined to create a blindingly colourful but incomprehensible collection.
- Cover clothing with the shoulder capes or take a cotton sheet and drape it over the clothing for the season to avoid dust and fading.
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cape 2
- (Geography) the Cape(Cape Province) la provincia de El Cabo(Cape of Good Hope) el Cabo de Buena EsperanzaExample sentences
- 'And this,' he said, with a sweep of his arm that took in the stark capes and headlands, the fleets of islands and the sea around us, 'this was my school room.'
- For the same reasons sanctuaries were sited at the tip of capes or peninsulas or on an island close to the mainland.
- Without wasting a moment we head for the last cape of the Peninsula de Paria, with the help of a GPS that they inexplicably left behind.
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