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UN Women's 'Orange the World': Activism to fight gender-based violence
[yt_dropcap type="square" font="" size="14″ color="#000″ background="#fff" ] T [/yt_dropcap] he extent to which violence is embedded in society means that uprooting it is everyone's job, senior United Nations official said, lamenting that violence against women and girls continue to be a low priority on the international development agenda and urging more action – and more funding – to end the pandemic of such violence now, once and for all.
"The statistics almost defy belief. What is even harder to understand is why: why men prey on women and girls; why societies shame the victims, why governments fail to punish deadly crimes, why the world denies itself the fruits of women's full participation," Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told a UN Women-hosted Orange the World event at UN Headquarters in New York to raise money to end violence against women and girls, and kick off 16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence.
The campaign http://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/ending-violence-against-women/take-action/16-days-of-activism begins on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and ends on 10 December, Human Rights Day.
The event began with remarks from Mr. Ban, UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Karel van Oosterom of the Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN, and UN Trust Fund programme participant Aiturgan Djoldoshbekova.
It also included a musical performance from The Color Purple, Tony Award winner for Best Musical Revival, and a panel discussion on sustainable financing to end violence against women and girls.
"The extent to which violence is embedded in society means that uprooting it is also a job for all of society. That includes men and women, the media and the religious community. We can work together to address the inequality and prejudice that enable and enflame violence against women and girls," Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka told an audience that wore orange in support of ending violence against women. Mr. Ban, observing the Day for the last time as Secretary-General, thanked the audience for being a part of a decade of global activism to end violence against women and girls. "You have defended the vulnerable and fought impunity," he said. "The United Nations and I, personally, have stood with you."
"This is truly a matter of life and death," he added. "In some countries, as many as 70 per cent of women report having experienced physical or sexual violence from an intimate partner. In some countries, intimate partner violence accounts for between 40 and 70 per cent of female murder victims."
Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka thanked the Secretary-General for his advocacy and leadership, emphasizing that violence against women was not always discussed in the public domain. She called for improvements to laws and implementation, and said that while there are costs to such changes, "the price of no change is much higher, and unacceptable." She highlighted examples of recent improvements from Timor-Leste and Uganda and encouraged society to work together to address inequality and prejudice by scaling up prevention and services as well as working with allies throughout different sectors and civil society.
"Together, we can begin to bend the curve down and bring the scourge of violence against women and girls to an end," the Executive Director said. In his concluding remarks, Mr. Ban reminisced about his conversations with girls and women at the HEAL Africa hospital in Goma and meeting with "one of the world's great advocates," Malala Yusafzai."Some of the most impactful and inspiring moments of my entire term as Secretary-General occurred in the context of our struggle for women's empowerment," he declared.
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Multicultural Mecca
Strength lies in differences, not in similarities. Stephen Covey
I remember him sitting after work in his olive-green Air Force flight suit at a high-top stool at our kitchen counter in Beavercreek, Ohio. My dadlooked down at me as I sobbed, trying to find ways to console me. You know, he said, Burma has tigers.
After coming home to tell us that he was taking the Air Force Attaché position in Rangoon, I thought my comfortable little world was crumbling. But hold up, tigers? Perhaps Burma wouldn't be that bad after all.
As it turns out, it was the watershed event in my life.
In a country ruled by a military junta, what we were allowed to do and see was highly curated. At the time, I thought the constant presence of military guards meant we were special. VIPs. In a country that strictly limited tourism in the 1980s, we were special, but in hindsight, I know they were there, in part, to dictate our experience.
And even so, what we saw and experienced, was mind-blowing. But it wasn't just the men who walked on coals or hung suspended with hooks in their flesh at the Hindu festivals – although those memories will forever be seared in my brain – literally and figuratively, it was the people. The day-to-day lives.
We had a Buddhist, Muslim, Christian and Hindu that intermingled in our house daily. The education I received in their presence was richer than any in the hallowed halls of academia.
In Burma (now called Myanmar), you quickly learn the squat. Even when stools and chairs were available most people would choose to squat. Gathered for an informal meal, you squat. Waiting for a bus, you squat. Taking a break to have a little conversation, you squat. I never really mastered the squat. Onebalmy day as our Hindu friendsquatted in the doorway trying to catch the elusive cool breeze, I went and playfully sat on his back. Given my awkwardness with the squat, I thought this arrangement preferable; I was just being a goofy kid.
That was the day I learned that in the East, and especially in Hinduism, body parts have a hierarchy. I cried all through the stern lecture on how I thoroughly disgraced my friend. Although I don't remember the exact words, it pretty much came down to this – in what universe did you think it was ok to put your dirty bum anywhere near my heavenly head?
Ummm… I'm pretty sure that same fanny was dangerously close to my dad'snogginwhen he'd carry me on his shoulders. The idea of possible desecration was truly foreign.
These and many other similar lessons were my first real introduction to culture. It involved more tears (yes, I'm a big crier), but through all of these experiences, I became fascinated. Similar to Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, I quickly realized I wasn't in Kansas (or Ohio) any more.
I returned to the United States with a new love of culture and diversity. And, a new respect for America, which I had previously taken for granted.
In comparison to many other countries we are a Multicultural Mecca. From my perspective, this is what makes us exceptional.
Unlike other countries that are struggling with immigration and diversity, we have a unique advantage. We are, after all, a "settler nation". As Peter Zeihan explained in a recent conversation, almost every other country in the world was a government created by a specific ethnicity. The United States, as a settler state, didn't have a dominant clan. This is unique. Our identity is not rooted in a singular ethnicity.
However, between WWI and WWII our state became more centralized. It had to be. These wars shaped a national identity. National institutions proliferated and mediating institutions – family, religious organizations and labor unions – created cohesion, and homogeneity, despite our diverse histories. Solidarity became a national virtue.
The statism that existed during this time, while it provided more cohesion, dampened diversity and individuality. All of this began to unwind mid-century and really started to pick up steam in the 1970s, as the pendulum swung the opposite direction. In many ways the Cold War, and the fight against the communist collective, helped to progress the mantra of individualism.
Individualism also shaped our economy.There were waves of deregulation, labor unions declined, and big state corporations gave way to more flexible, smaller private companies.The mid-century labor unions and large state corporations lead to the growth of the middle class. Once these disappeared, income inequality emerged more predominately, even as basic social equalities and civil rights were energized.
Meanwhile, mediating institutions responsible for, in large part, social cohesion – family, community and religious organizations – were also on the decline as individualism gathered momentum. The internet age was introduced in this new environment, and ironically, with social connections and a national identity already in decay, it divided us into smaller more homogenous groups – what we today call echo chambers.
This increasing polarization has a grave impact on policy-making. As Yuval Levin notes,
administrative centralization often accompanies cultural and economic individualism. As the national government grows more centralized, and takes over the work preformed by mediating institutions – from families and communities to local governments and charities – individuals become increasingly atomized; and as individuals grow apart from one another, the need for centralized government provision seems to grow.
As all of this is happening, our immigration rates have been on the rise. Although illegal immigration has been in decline recently, despite the uptick in the past few months, we witnessed a new wave of immigration started in the 1970s, that mirrored pre-war immigration levels.
However, without the same national solidarity that defined mid-century America, these immigrants weren't enveloped into a national identity. Individualism diminishedthe national identity of solidarity. Further, low-skilled immigrant labor has fallen into the growing income gap in a divide that has already affected American workers as income inequality becomes more pronounced.
While our current employment rate is strong, what is masked in these impressive numbers is the number of American men and women who are dropping out of the labor force at a surprising rate, most acutely among those without a college education.
If you've ever traveled to the beaches on the East Coast in the summer, you may have noted retail employees have a strange accent. Last year, I bought an ice-cream cone from a Russian student in Cape May, NJ. And,I'm currently working with Vietnamese students who want to come to the United States for hospitality internships. Foreign students are coming in on J-1 visas to provide relief to retailers and the hospitality industry that is often painfully understaffed, especially during peak times.
If you talk to anyone in the agriculture business, you know they are hurting. As I traveled around Texas and Colorado looking for a meat packing plant to export beef to China, the options were limited. Outside of the big players, many smaller packers have shut their doors. For the ones still in operation, the primary language is Spanish.
Add to all of this, our demographics are in decline.Americans aren't having more babies, and the only reason that we aren't suffering the same fate as the "graying" population in Japan, and even Russia and China, is immigration.
Economic growth needs a workforce. Both high and low skilled labor is in demand, but I'm only going to touch on low-skilled labor as this is what is fueling the current immigration debate in America.
Despite the need for immigration, there are several problems that our embattled Congress has yet to address.
First, it has been shown nationally that unauthorized immigration has had a small net positive impact on our economy, but this doesn't always play out at the state and local levels.
As income inequality is already an existing phenomenon in the United States, with the disparity seen most clearly between those with an education and those without, low-skilled immigration causes concern.While the United States is in need of low-skilled labor, our current economic situation has bifurcated, with the lower echelons in more need of some sort of state or federal support just to hover at the poverty level.
Second, while we're trying to figure out solutions to growing inequality and immigration, we also need to keep in mind that our economyis, yet again, rapidly changing. With the introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a lot of jobs may soon become obsolete especially in low-skilled sectors such as retail. While we are not quite there yet, the trend is inevitable and will exacerbate income inequality as low-skilled labor is slowly pushed out of the market. This could have two related outcomes –the current demand for low-skilled labor diminishes, while those in these sectors are in increasing need for a social safety net.
Sadly, in this era of extreme polarization, hate and racism has taken the place of sane debate and policy-making. As David Brooks recently lamented in a New York Times piece, our administration is not populated with conservatives, but "anti-liberal trolls".Similarly, the #resistance movement has become so entrenched as to make compromise or dialogue impossible. Just resist. It's no longer about the people, it's about winning at all costs.Too often, the pawns are innocent children – children inhumanely separated from their parents on the border, and children in the inner cities, on the brink of homelessness.
The Left is right to be concerned that part of the anti-immigration trend is a push-back from white America, as white America is soon to become a minority. A recent National Geographic issue on race illustrates, in less that two years, white children under 18 will no longer be the majority.
While it is right to resist racisttrends, we must not do so at the expense of understanding complex economic issues. The news cycle is constantly in search of the next topic we can use to beat each other over the heads. Meanwhile, as the mid-terms loom, our politicians are consumed with the next policy issue they can use to ensure re-election, at the expense of making a real difference.
The United States has the ability to harness its immigrant history and multiculturalism to a great global advantage, more so than perhaps any other country. However, in our individualistic society, we remain tigers locked in cages of our own construction, separated from competing realities that promote understanding and compromise.
While we need to address immediate emergency issues on the border, the discussion doesn't stop there. We must agree on a flexible immigration policy that is constantly reviewed against our changing economic dynamics.A more robust guest-worker visa is perhaps a start – the number of visas evaluated each year depending on the economic climate, with adequate enforcement.Better education for both new immigrants and citizens in poverty-stricken areas that allows economic mobility and a growing middle-class. A new national identity that embraces diversity, but finds novel ways to generate social connection and cohesion amidst the reality of individualism.
Without these discussions, we fail to Make America Great (Again). While I think we should lock politicians in cages to fight it out until sanity and rationality is regained, it is incumbent on us ordinary citizens to join together in (diverse) community to model these necessary discussions in every day life. To #resist the insanity, and break the cages that have imprisoned our country and our lives.
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The Unreal, the Real and the Vaccine Scare
In a few weeks time, school will resume in many countries, and quite a few parents now worry about the dangers of vaccination. Are they real or false? What are the facts?
First, a word on what we can believe to be real. Some might remember Ripley's Believe It or Not? We are all fascinated by the odd, the unusual, even more so when science with its mundane explanations takes away the mysteries of life. So it is that reasonable people begin to believe in the incredible. We want to.
Take the case of chemtrails — a theory that trails left by jet airplanes high in the sky are chemical sprays. Why would anyone do that? The reasons vary. They want to change the climate, control our minds, lower life expectancy, reduce fertility or cause sterilization for population control, spread aluminum that causes Alzheimer's but Monsanto profits from a GMO seed designed to grow with it, and so on.
The physics experts tell us it is relatively simple: Jet engines exhaust water vapor which condenses in the cold of higher altitudes. Called contrails (a contraction of condensation and trail), an acute observer will note they correspond to the number of engines on the airplane. Numerous scientists, scientific bodies, the Environmental Protection Agency and independent journalists have investigated and debunked chemtrails without eradicating the idea.
The results of a nationally representative 1000-person poll published last October finds that only 32 percent believe chemtrails are 'false'. A good 25% percent are 'unsure' and 15 percent, think they are 'somewhat false'. The rest consider them somewhat true' (19 percent) or 'true' (9 percent). Note that just a one-third minority categorically rejects a complete hoax despite the efforts of scientists and government agencies. Perhaps a natural skepticism of officialdom doesn't help. Of course, the blame rests squarely on some internet sites and social media (with its echo chambers) where chemtrail discussion, instead of debunking the idea, favors it and propagates conspiracy theory.
But there is another belief worse than chemtrails germinated by fake science. It has led to actual harm. For one reason or another, people known as anti-vaxxers (Trump among them) are refusing vaccinations for their children; thus an alarming global increase in measles — an illness that can cause hearing loss and, in rare cases, even death.
Developing countries have their own unique problems with vaccination. Pakistan trying to eliminate polio has experienced deadly violence against vaccinators because Taliban leaders have proclaimed it a means of sterilizing Muslims.
But there are problems in developed countries also: A survey in Australia showed one in three parents having concerns with vaccination. In response, some health facilities are refusing to treat unvaccinated children. Australia is not alone; the U.S. too has a vaccine dilemma and Europe is not exempt.
As preparation for the school year often requires vaccination shots, here is a brief review of what we know about vaccines, the origins of the anti-vaxxer movement and the available facts.
The prophet of anti-vaxers is Andrew Wakefield, whose origins are in the U.K. He is a doctor, who was barred from practicing medicine there following his fake study connecting autism to the MMR vaccine, which protects against measles, mumps and rubella. Several later studies have proven Wakefield dead wrong.
A refusal to vaccinate has been a key driver of recent measles cases in the US. A disease once considered eliminated here has now returned, and in 2014, 667 cases were recorded, though numbers have declined since then. Often the cause is a holiday trip contact and transmission to someone who has not been vaccinated; appalling to think about when the two-dose vaccination regimen renders 97 percent immunity.
For anti-vaxxers, there are two other troubling reasons: Some believe the injection of attenuated, that is weakened, viruses can cause harm. Then also there is anxiety about thimerosal in some vaccines as it carries traces of mercury. But thimerosal has not been used in child vaccines for nearly two decades. And while the MMR vaccine uses a combination of attenuated viruses, it has been in use without causing harm since 1971. It has prevented an estimated 52 million cases of measles and over 5000 fatalities.
Belief and miracles have been a natural companion for humans. About 2000 years ago, there was a miraculous virgin birth. Now, some scholars contend it was all a translation error misinterpreting the word for 'maiden' as 'virgin'. Others argue that 'maiden' in the culture of the time automatically implied virginity because unmarried young women were expected to be chaste. Who is correct? Heaven knows!
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Analysis of Alon Confino's "A World Without Jews: Interpreting The Holocaust"
Following the period of moderate engagement with the Holocaust between 1945 and 1975, Holocaust perception from the mid-1970s to the present has been characterized by two simultaneous trends. The first trend is prominent in miscellaneous fields such as history, philosophy, the arts, and the literature has involved a strenuous attempt to acknowledge as well as realize the Holocaust and to cope with the difficulty of representing it. The second tendency might appear to stand in opposition to the intense discussion of the limits of Holocaust representation, is manifest in the massive cultural production of the Holocaust in history books, novels, comics, plays, films and other artistic vehicles. In general, taking into consideration of Nazi policy towards Jewish, there are three overriding notions:
The Holocaust, according to Saul Friedlander, was determined by the centrality of ideological-cultural factors as the prime movers of Nazi policies in tandem with the Jewish issue, depending mainly on circumstances, institutional dynamics, and essentially… on the evolution of the war… The anti-Jewish drive became ever more extreme along with the radicalization of the regime's goals and then with the extension of the war… The context of the war has been viewed as the breeding ground for the extermination and annihilation of Jews. Germans in occupied Eastern Europe… were living in a context in which the expulsion, even the extermination, of entire peoples was publicly discussed, a readiness to indulge in brutality and fanaticism was ubiquitously demanded, and the actions of individuals were legitimized by history and politics.
The war in general but especially the war on the Eastern Front, following the German invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, was fought as a racial ideological struggle for life or death, whose prime enemies were the Bolsheviks and Jews. The barbarization of war on the Eastern Front, a cumulative result of the scale of the fighting, geographical conditions, and ideological indoctrination, led to killing and extermination. The notion of the radicalization of racial ideology has been important for capturing the contingency that ran through the making of the Holocaust. The radicalization is no longer understood as a realization of long-term plans or as inherent in the system, but rather as the outcome of plans for the deportation of the Jews that were always being revised and extended. Holocaust is squarely placed within the context of the regime's overall racial ideology. The 'current scholarly consensus, writes Herbert, is that those who organized and carried out the extermination were committed ideologies who wanted to build a better world through genocide. Was there a master plan on the part of Adolf Hitler to launch the Holocaust? Intentionalists argue there was such a plan, while functionalists argue there was not.
Did the initiative for the Holocaust come from above with orders from Adolf Hitler or from below within the ranks of the German bureaucracy? Although neither side disputes the reality of the Holocaust, nor is there a serious dispute over the premise that Hitler (as Führer) was personally responsible for encouraging the anti-Semitism that allowed the Holocaust to take place, intentionalists argue the initiative came from above, while functionalists contend it came from lower ranks within the bureaucracy. Christopher Browning coined the term 'moderate functionalism', in which the centrality of Hitler's belief and the role was recognized, but without an original grand design to kill the Jews. Philippe Burrin's notion of 'conditional intentionalism' recognized the centrality of evolving circumstance during the war but continued to emphasize Hitler's intention to exterminate the Jews.
"Heimat" idea as a Nazi formula
The Nazis took the Heimat idea, radicalizing and using it for their ideological purposes. It can be argued that here is another example of the hegemony of race. It was perceived as essential to Germanness. The main point rather is that the Nazis identified their sentiment of nationhood, localness, and political legitimacy with the Heimat idea: the revolutionary idea of race was thus built on tradition, and the racialized Heimat idea fitted within the boundaries of the Heimat genre that existed before and after the Third Reich, as the Nazis articulated their Heimat in familiar, traditional rhetoric and images. It is not so much race that made sense of Heimat in the Third Reich, as the Heimat idea that gave meaning to racial sentiments, making them amenable, legitimate, and familiar. There are two main directions towards the Holocaust perception: local and central approach.
The local history of the Holocaust in the hamlets of Eastern Europe is possible once we rethink the interpretative framework of racial ideology, the radicalization of Nazi policy, and the context of war. The former one rearranges these categories in significant ways: it shifts the focus from the war conditions of the Wehrmacht soldiers to the communal relationships between Jews and eastern Europeans; from Nazi racial ideology to In Bartov's words, 'the obvious though long-underestimated fact that the Holocaust cannot be understood without tracing its imagery, fantasies, passions, and phobias, as well as practices and legislation, to medieval Europe and centuries of Christian anti-Jewish theology, incitement, and demagogy, from the radicalization of Nazi policies to the dynamic of social, political, economic, and cultural relationship on the local level.
According to the central approach, Germans, in the years following 1933, constructed a moral community based on anti-Semitic fantasies that made the persecution and extermination of the Jews possible by making them conceivable. At this historiographical juncture, we view the Holocaust as a problem of culture: the making of and believing in a moral community of fantasies. Third Reich was revolutionary but not as revolutionary as was argued by contemporaries and current historiography: it was a revolution based on continuities. It was a world made by a fusion of German and Nazi identities in a way that linked Germans in the Third Reich to pre-1933 traditions and forms of belief, and where the extermination of 1941 to 1945 was part of the symbolic universe of Germany between 1933 and 1941.
To sum up, ideology, in particular, racial ideology was a crucial point for Hitler's Germany. In the case of radicalization of racial ideology, the main step was led to extermination and annihilation of Jews community within the context of war and the Nazi policy in order to reconstruct European society without Jews. Of course, the Holocaust is still a contemporary history. Survivors are still alive and their nightmare will never be over as long as they live. The attempt to exterminate the Jews is and will remain a moral signifier of Judeo-Christian civilization. In this way, we try to consider views of the Holocaust as a European occurrence, as part of a larger Nazi attempt to reorder European civilization, as linked to other Nazi persecutions and genocides, to colonial imagination and dreams of empire. Moreover, 'cultural history, memories, methods, in particular ideologies in its contemporary sense' has been a highly important component of Holocaust research from its earliest beginnings.
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The landscape around the QMJHL always looks quite different after the mid-season trade period.
Some teams load up for a run and others trade off to speed up their rebuild. Here's how I see the league now that everyone is done wheeling and dealing.
The biggest mover and shaker was Bathurst Titan general manager Sylvain Couturier, who went all in to try to win the organization's first league title since 1999. Couturier added high-profile players Evan Fitzpatrick, German Rubtsov, Olivier Galipeau, Mitchell Balmas and Samuel Asselin to bolster an already strong team.
On paper, the Titan are as stacked as anyone but that is a lot of change during a short time. The coaching staff will be under tremendous pressure now to pull all those pieces together in time to find consistency and chemistry during the playoffs.
The Victoriaville Tigers also did well to bulk up, adding stars Vitali Abramov and Etienne Montpetit. It was a little unusual to see them dump veteran centre Pascal Laberge just as they were gearing up to take a run at a championship but they must have had their reasons.
The Drummondville Voltigeurs and Blainville-Boisbriand Armada were more surgical with their strategy, sacrificing a package of futures to land one big fish. The Voltigeurs gave up three first-round picks and two second-rounders to get Joe Veleno from the Saint John Sea Dogs, and the Voltigeurs sent three young players and a first-rounder to the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles for Drake Batherson.
Both deals were perfect for those teams. Veleno is an experienced winner who has excellent leadership qualities, and it's probable everyone in Canada knows what Batherson can contribute after watching him star at the world juniors. Those two will really help their new teams.
It was also sensible for the Screaming Eagles to get what they could for Batherson because he won't be back next year and they are not positioned to challenge for a league title this season. General manager Marc-Andre Dumont also addressed his surplus of goaltending talent, sending top prospect Tommy DaSilva to the Sea Dogs in a trade that landed him winger Isiah Campbell.
The Halifax Mooseheads benefited in that same way by turning their excess of quality defencemen into assets elsewhere. Shortly after making good on a calculated risk to acquire Jake Ryczek's rights from Bathurst, Halifax general manager Cam Russell did well to get a first-round pick from the Rimouski Oceanic for Jordan Lepage. Lepage is a rock-solid player who never would've been traded had it not been for the arrival of Ryczek, but someone had to go and there is never a bad time to add a first-rounder.
Another GM who had a shrewd trade period was Charlottetown's Jim Hulton. He jumped at the opportunity to add skilled forward Derek Gentile, who had asked the Quebec Remparts to trade him. Hulton had to sacrifice quality players Matthew Grouchy and Gregor MacLeod to get him but the Islanders were in need of an injection of offence and he provides that.
Hulton also plucked scoring wingers Cameron Askew and Daniel Hardie for draft picks and convinced top draft pick Brett Budgell to report. All of those tweaks were perfect for the Islanders, who have already been the most pleasant surprise in the league this year.
There were other teams that made a variety of moves that took them in the right direction but I'm most curious to see which contenders find their form down the stretch. The Titan could really be a juggernaut if they gel, while the Armada, Voltigeurs, Mooseheads and Tigres seemed to make just the right kind of changes. And the Remparts, Islanders, Oceanic, Moncton Wildcats and Rouyn-Noranda Huskies are interesting sleepers.


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Media Technology MUSE Awards 2018
Silver: Interactive Kiosks, Gaze Tracker
Museums and the Web Awards 2018
Winner: Groundbreaking, ARTLENS Gallery
Winner: Gaze Tracker, Exhibition Media or Experience
The Best of Heritage Awards 2018: Awarded to 42 state-of-art projects from across the world
ArtLens Studio
APEX Awards 2018: Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation
Silver: ArtLens Exhibition
Communication Arts Awards 2018: Interactive/Environmental/Art/Design
Award of Excellence: ArtLens Exhibition
Ohio Technology Awards: Best of Tech Awards 2018
Finalist: Best Use of Technology for Social Good, ARTLENS Gallery
Business First Cleveland Technology Awards 2018
Honoree: Digital Innovation and Technology Services Department at the Cleveland Museum of Art
Museums and the Web Awards 2017
Winner: Groundbreaking; ArtLens Studio
Finalist: Mobile; ArtLens App
Edison Awards Cleveland Museum of Art 2015
Gold: Content Delivery, Collection Wall and ArtLens App
Bronze: Living Working Living; Gallery One
NEOSA Technology Business Awards 2014
Winner: Tech Team of the Year
Museums and the Web Awards 2014
Winner: Digital Exhibition; Collection Wall
Winner: Mobile; ArtLens
Honorable Mention: Education; Studio Play
Honorable Mention: Innovative/Experimental: Gallery One
Digital Design Award 2013
Yellow Pencil Award Winner: Gallery One
Media Technology MUSE Awards Cleveland Museum of Art 2013
Gold: Interactive Kiosks; Collection Wall
Gold: Interpretive Interactive Installations; Gallery One
Bronze: Mobile Applications; ArtLens App
Honorable Mention: Education and Outreach, Studio Play
The original Gallery One opened on December 12, 2012. The components of ARTLENS Gallery are continuously updated, with the most recent launch in June 2017. Staff and vendor-partner contributors to the project include:
ARTLENS EXHIBITION LAUNCH, June 2017
From the Cleveland Museum of Art:
Digital Innovation and Technology Services: Jane Alexander (Chief Information Officer/Project Lead), Emily Hirsch (Project Manager), Tom Hood (Director of Technology Operations), Niki Krause (Director of Application Services), Andrea Bour (Collections Information Data Analyst), Allison Kennedy (Assistant Director of Support Services), David Shaw (Event Technology Manager), Michael St. Clair
Collections: Mary Suzor (Director of Collections Management), Howard Agriesti (Chief Photographer), Jennifer Cicero (Art Movement Supervisor)
Curatorial: Mark Cole (Curator of American Painting and Sculpture/Content Adviser), Heather Lemonedes (Chief Curator/Content Adviser), Barbara Tannenbaum (Curator of Photography/Content Adviser)
Design: Rusty Culp (Associate Director of Design and Architecture), Jim Engelmann (Exhibition Designer), Jeffrey Strean (Director of Design and Architecture), Tom Barnard (Senior Graphic Designer), Mary Thomas (Graphic Designer)
Interpretation: Lori Wienke (Associate Director of Interpretation/Curator/Interpretation Lead), Bethany Corriveau, Stephanie Foster, Cyra Levenson (Director of Education and Academic Affairs)
Research and Evaluation: Elizabeth Bolander (Lead), Hannah Ridenour
Development: Michael Ferry (Lead), Cynthia McGrae
The cross-collaborative museum team at CMA partnered deeply with award-winning outside consultants to realize the project. Potion Design is responsible for all media design and collaborated with the CMA team on concept design development. The other outside consultants involved in the project were Zenith Systems (AV Integration), Piction (CMS/DAM development), Dome Collective (Beacon), and Local Projects (ArtLens App).
From Potion Design:
Phillip Tiongson, Principal
Design: Matthew McNerney, Edyta Lewicka, Rhea Laroya, Ruth Chung, Cathy Sun
Technology: Steve Varga, Filippo Vanucci, Cameron Browning, Ritesh Lala, Luobin Wang
Production: Abby Palmer, Holly Houghton, Claire Bradley, Drew Radtke
From Zenith Systems:
Doug Fortney, Principal
From Dome Collective:
Katie Lee and Lynn Kiang
From Local Projects:
Ethan Holda, Keeli Shaw, Karen Vanderbilt, Michael Dreiling
From Piction:
Erick Kendrick, Marcelle Kaye, Amy Hawkes, Martin Channon
ARTLENS is funded by The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation.
ARTLENS APP REDESIGN, September 2016
From the Cleveland Museum of Art:
Digital Innovation and Technology Services: Jane Alexander (Chief Information Officer/Project Lead), Adam Gall (Technical Project Manager), Emily Hirsch (Project Manager), Tom Hood (Director of Technology Operations), Niki Krause (Director of Application Services)
Design: Tom Barnard (Senior Designer), Jeffrey Strean (Director of Design and Architecture), Mary Thomas (Graphic Designer)
Interpretation: Lori Wienke (Associate Director of Interpretation), Bethany Corriveau (Audience Engagement Specialist), Stephanie Foster (Interpretation), Kevin Kelly (Interpretation)
CMA collaborated with Local Projects on the ArtLens App. Local Projects is the firm that took the app to the next and highest possible level of technical fidelity, ensuring a rapid initial download, optimizing the interactive, real-time wayfinding maps and streamlining the design.
From Local Projects:
Ethan Holda (Director of Technology), Keeli Shaw (Project Director), Karen Vanderbilt (Senior Graphic Designer), Danny Well (Visual Experience Designer), Edward Blake (User Experience Designer)
From Enharmonic:
Dillan Laughlin and Jonathan Saggau
ARTLENS STUDIO (formerly Studio Play) REDESIGN, June 2016
From the Cleveland Museum of Art:
Digital Innovation and Technology Services: Jane Alexander (Chief Information Officer/Project Lead), Adam Gall (Technical Project Manager)
Collections: Mary Suzor (Director of Collections Management)
Curatorial: Stephen Harrison (Curator of Decorative Art and Design), Sooa McCormick (Assistant Curator of Asian Art)
Design: Rusty Culp (Associate Director of Design and Architecture), Jeffrey Strean (Director of Design and Architecture), Mary Thomas (Graphic Designer)
Education: Seema Rao (Director of Intergenerational Learning)
In order to create this innovative space, the Cleveland Museum of Art partnered with Design I/O, a creative design studio in Cambridge, MA.
From Design I/O:
Theodore Watson (Partner/Creative Director), Emily Gobeille (Partner/Creative Director), Nick Hardeman (Minister of Interactive Art)
GALLERY ONE, December 12, 2012:
The development of Gallery One represented a true and equal collaboration among the curatorial, digital innovation and technology services, education and academic affairs, and design departments at the Cleveland Museum of Art. An atypical and noteworthy approach among museums in the design of interactive technology spaces, the development process was guided by the CMA's former chief curator and deputy director C. Griffith Mann. Museum educators were instrumental in curating the space and its related experiences, and digital/technology staff worked closely with internal and external partners on both concept and interactive design. This collaborative organizational structure as groundbreaking, not just within the museum community, but within user-interface design in general. It elevated each department's contribution, resulting in an unparalleled interactive experience, with technology and software that have never been used before in any venue, content interpreted in fun and approachable ways, and unprecedented design of an interactive gallery space that integrateed technology into an art gallery setting.
The project team for Gallery One was led by the following at Cleveland Museum of Art: Jane Alexander, Chief Information/Digital Officer (Technology/Project Lead); Caroline Goeser, Director of Education and Interpretation (Curator/Interpretation); and Jeffrey Strean, Director of Design and Architecture (Design Oversight). Members of the Department of Digital Innovation and Technology Services who were instrumental to the development of the first iteration of ARTLENS Gallery and ArtLens include Andrea Bour, Jeanne DeBonis, Will Hannah, Tom Hood, Niki Krause, Scott Pollack, Dave Shaw, Michael St. Clair, and Linda Wetzel. In the Department of Education and Academic Affairs, content was developed by Seema Rao, Patty Edmonson, and Hajnal Eppley. ArtLens content was developed by Jennifer Foley, Lori Wienke, and Bethany Corriveau. Design Services staff who worked on the project include Thomas Barnard III and Andrew Gutierrez. Collection staff included Howard Agriesti, David Brichford, Elizabeth Saluk, Bruce Shewitz, Tracy Sisson, and Mary Suzor.
Designing through Collaboration
The museum partnered deeply with award-winning outside consultants to realize the project. Local Projects was responsible for all media design and collaborated with the CMA team on concept design development.
Local Projects Team:
Jake Barton (Principal), Katie Lee (Creative Director), Keeli Shaw (Project Manager), Tiya Gordon (Project Manager), Angela Chen (Interaction Designer), Ian Curry (Director of Interaction Design), Erika Tarte (Graphic Designer), Lynn Kiang (Graphic Designer), Miriam Lakes (Content Coordinator and Developer), Jen Choi (Motion Graphics Artist), Eric Mika (Creative Technologist), Philipp Rockel (Creative Technologist), Matt Wright (Creative Technologist), Caitlin Morris (Creative Technologist), Josh Silverman (Creative Technologist), David Scharf (Creative Technologist), Ethan Holda (Director of Technology), Sundar Raman (Director of Creative Engineering).
The other outside consultants involved in the project were Gallagher and Associates (exhibit design), Zenith Systems (AV Integration), Piction (CMS/DAM development), Earprint Productions (app content development), and Navizon (way-finding). Through this new collaborative development methodology, the Cleveland Museum of Art lead the way not only in the robust blend of art and technology thoughout the gallery experience but in museum practice itself.
Gallery One was generously supported by the Maltz Family Foundation, which donated $10 million to support the project. Additional support for the project came from grants and other donations.


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Italy's unemployment rate rose to a new record of 11.1 percent in October, initial data published by the national statistics office ISTAT showed on Friday, as recession grips the economy.
The rate was 0.3 percentage points higher than in September, ISTAT said, and the highest level recorded since it began publishing monthly data in January 2004, as well as being 2.3 percentage points higher than in October 2011.
The figure was worse than expected, with analysts from Intesa Sanpaolo bank saying they had been expecting the unemployment rate to rise to 10.9 percent.
Seasonally adjusted data showed that the number of people looking for a job rose to 2.9 million in October — a 3.3 percentage point increase from September and a massive 28.9 percentage point rise from October 2011.
Among young people aged between 15 and 24, the unemployment rate rose to 36.5 percent in October — a 0.6-point increase from September and 5.8 points higher than in October 2011.
Unemployment has risen sharply in Italy since the summer of last year when the economy began contracting under pressure from a series of austerity measures aimed at reassuring the financial markets.
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He is a jerk, like most of men in this world.
All I know is that he hurt me very very much. I met him 8months ago when I was visiting my cousins in another state, right next to mine. I saw him in a bar and he wanted to meet me and he met me with his friends. Than we went out and we kissed for the first time. The other days I was feeling wonderful, I was just happy and he was asking me if I wanted this relationship to last for a longer time and I said yes. When I got back home he was calling me on my cellphone 3 times a day but that lasted for a month. After 7 months I went to see him again. We had the same romance but the difference was that he wasn't so in love with me and he was...strange. There was his ex gf and he hated her. He was telling me only bad things about her and all his friends hated her. When I left, he prommesed to call me, but he didn't. I've waited for 20days and-nothing. Then mu cousin and his friend told me that he reconciled with his ex-that bitch that he hated? I couldn't belive in that. I was crying all night and I burned his picture, I wanted to forget him. But I was glad about one thing-he don't have any friends now because no one is talking with him. He lied to them, he lied and cheated me. I still love him, but I must forget him. I'll write him a letter couse a want to feel better when I'll say everything that I have to say to him. He is a jerk, like most of men in this world.
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Time for Muslims to Reclaim Islam
Dictators are calling the masses rising up against them Islamic fanatics. How convenient.
The assertion that Islam is incompatible with democratic norms, economic growth, technical innovation and modernization has achieved the status of an urban myth around the world. In support of this claim, some "experts" point to supposed defects in Islamic laws of inheritance and incorporation while others point to the dire straits of most Muslim countries. It is an undeniable fact that most Muslims have little hope for a better future and cannot express dissatisfaction with the regimes that oppress them. If they do, they may find themselves facing the barrel of a gun. Is it at all surprising that they seek refuge in Islam, a religion based on social and economic justice and on the interconnectivity of humankind?
Today's Muslim countries bear little or no resemblance to an Islamic society as envisaged in the Quran and implemented by the Prophet Mohammad in the first Muslim community in Medina. Most of today's Muslim countries are best characterized by traits that are if anything the antithesis of the Quranic vision: dictatorship, pervasive social and economic injustice, poverty, corruption and backwardness. These autocrats, who are invariably supported by global powers and corrupt clerics, rule over most Muslim countries. Many in the West might well profess support for democracy and human rights for all, but they have consistently preferred their own favored dictator, or, as FDR supposedly referred to them, their own "son of a bitch," to true representative governance. This has allowed the United States to pursue short-term strategic interests, while corrupt clerics, be they mullahs or imams, have 'interpreted' Islam for the masses in support their own selfish interests—and those of the dictators.
In such a setting, those who seek freedom are labeled enemies of Islam by dictators and clerics, and as Islamic terrorists or jihadists by non-Muslims. When dictators and corrupt clerics wish to solicit the support of Western states, they have only to refer to their oppressed and outraged masses as Islamic fanatics. Is it any wonder that the non-Muslim world has become wary of anything labeled Islamic?
Events in Tunisia, Egypt and potentially in all countries from Morocco to Afghanistan could change all that. A peaceful transition to representative governance could transform the image of Muslims and enhance relations between Muslims and non-Muslims around the world. A peaceful transition will, however, not happen in a vacuum. It would need to be supported by a concerted effort on the part of the global media, bloggers and NGOs, Muslims who have emigrated from their countries of birth and reside in non-Muslim countries, global powers and especially by brave Muslims who live in oppressed countries.
Up until now, the global media has largely echoed the party line of their governments and of the multinationals profiting from doing business with these dictators. While the international media appropriately covered the oppressive regime in Tehran, it said little about the abusive Tunisian and Egyptian regimes. But true to form, after demonstrators kicked Ben Ali out of Tunisia and occupied Freedom Square in Cairo, the coverage of these two regimes changed almost 180 degrees. Such duplicitous news coverage should end. The transgressions of dictatorial regimes must be reported as they occur regardless of the regimes' relations with multinationals and powerful governments.
In Islam those that do nothing in the face of oppression are as guilty as those who oppress. Now is the time for Muslims to reclaim their religion from mullahs and imams. Where a ruler or his family have governed for more than ten or so years, where the lifestyle of the ruler is very different from the lifestyle of those he rules, where the level of poverty exceeds 25% while a few wallow in luxury, here there is likely to be divergence from Islamic teachings. Where all of these conditions exist it is more than likely that there is also massive abuse of the citizenry. Where this is the case, exposure is needed; and the media should expose all such rulers.
The number of Muslims who have immigrated to the West—North America, Europe and Australia—has mushroomed over the last forty or so years, in large part because of revolutions, wars and regional conflicts in the Middle East and Africa. These immigrants have succeeded in most areas of life in their adopted countries. Instead of using their new powers to improve conditions in their countries of birth, a number have chosen to use their country of origin for financial gains, and have ended up supporting oppressive regimes in the process. These expatriates should cease all financial and economic transactions back home. If they persist in these activities, they should be exposed. Instead of pursuing personal gains, expatriate Muslims should lobby the government of their new homes to pressure dictators to reform. They should urge multinationals not to invest in countries that ignore the wishes of their people.


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MDMA, or Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, is commonly known as Ecstasy. It belongs to the amphetamine and the phenethylamine group and has been widely used by young adults. There are many common ecstasy side effects.
The drug induces euphoria with a diminished sense of depression and anxiety. Ecstasy pills were often used to aid cognitive therapy sessions, and had therapeutic benefits in certain individuals suffering from cognitive behavior disorders. MDMA is also used to treat posttraumatic stress disorder, and the anxiety and depression associated with terminal cancer.
Ecstasy Side Effects in Teens
Due to the ability of the drug to induce euphoria, Ecstasy has been widely abused by the young adults and the teens as a stimulant and recreational drug. It is commonly used in dance parties with electronic music. The Schedule I drug induces a high effect in the user which lead the user to be in a kind of trance as if the soul was withdrawn from the body. Ecstasy has often been abbreviated as X, E, EXT and is widely available in powder, capsule, pure and crystalline forms. Recently the drugs are referred to as Thizzles or Thizz.
Ecstasy side effects are somewhat similar to ephedrine and have psychotropic effects on humans. They experienced an altered state of consciousness with sensual and emotional overtones. In this respect, the drug can be compared to the hallucinating effects of marijuana. Sometime in the late 1980, Ecstasy was widely used in USA, Europe and UK by young adults in colleges and universities as part of the rave culture, and the psychedelic-influenced music prevalent at the time. MDMA was soon associated with other illegal drugs like cannabis, cocaine, heroin, marijuana and most recently Molly, which is considered a modern-day variation of Ecstasy.
The therapeutic use of Ecstasy however could not be ignored.-It is used in psychotherapy and in mild psychiatric disorders and to relieve severe pain in terminal cancer patients. Studies have revealed that these drugs have their maximum effect in the humans 2 to 3 hours after consumption. The neurological effect of the drug on the brain is very damaging. Once consumed it mixes in the blood and act as stimulants to the neurotransmitters in the brain colloquially referred to as an Ecstasy trip.
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Hey all. Long time, no speak. Have I been busy? Well, it depends on how you define "busy." Let's just say that word means a lot of things to a lot of people. But, hey, I recently finished working on a screenplay with two other super-talented writers – Chris Mueller and Jamie Nash. The title of this post and word written in scary-font above? That's the title of the script!! In case you don't want to scroll up, here it is again:
Wondering what the hell (Ha. See what I did there?) that means? Read on:
A mercenary team of fallen angels jailbreaks souls from Hell – for a price. But when they realize they're pawns in a scheme to free Lucifer, their new mission becomes stopping Armageddon.
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Getting into Hell is easy. Breaking out is the hard part.
Even if you've got a mercenary team of fallen angels sent to save your sorry soul.
Meet Ezekiel and his gang of Hellbreakers. They lost house privileges when they gave up their wings, but still have access to the basement. Now their business is being bad.
But when their latest mission reveals the seals binding Lucifer are being destroyed — and they are to blame — business becomes personal.
Someone has been using them. Playing the ultimate end game… Armageddon.
Only Zeke and his team can stop it. And in the process, rediscover their true calling as the protectors of humanity.
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With a stunning set featuring walls carpeted with a million flowers, you might say Raf Simons had the audience for his debut Christian Dior couture show at "hello."
"It's unbelievable, I've never seen anything like it," marveled "The Hunger Games" star Jennifer Lawrence, saying her favorite of the five rooms, all decked out in different colors, was the all-white orchid room.
Donatella Versace revealed she has a penchant for freesias, but was nonetheless bowled over by the pink roses and peonies in the Salon Dior. "I'm speechless, it's so beautiful — very Dior," said the designer, looking perky despite dancing into the wee hours after her show at the Ritz Paris the previous night.
A galaxy of fellow designers turned out for the most eagerly awaited event of the season: Marc Jacobs, Alber Elbaz, Riccardo Tisci, Azzedine Alaïa, Kris Van Assche, Jean-Louis Scherrer, Pierre Cardin, Olivier Theyskens and Diane von Furstenberg. They were joined by Princess Charlene of Monaco, Sharon Stone, Mélanie Laurent, Isabelle Huppert and Marisa Berenson.
"It smells very nice and it's very beautiful," whispered Marion Cotillard as she made her way to her seat, perched on cork wedge heels. Berenson expressed relief that there were no white lilies in the mix, as she is allergic to them. "God, we'd be fainting," she laughed.
Cardin, who was a key figure at Dior when the house's founder launched the New Look in 1947, said the decor was a first. "It has never been done. This is a great premiere and it's a tribute to beauty," he said. "The florists must be happy. They could not have a better customer!"
Charlotte Rampling took the liberty of plucking some delphinium flowers from the wall of the Salon Bleu. "I think it's right to do that, because the poor things aren't going to last long," she said.
The good mood prevailed after the show, as guests praised the collection. "I thought it was amazing," said Elbaz. "It was perfection — the music, the flowers, the clothes, the girls, the people, the ambience. There is a lot of very positive ambience here, and I think that everybody wanted Raf to succeed, and he did."
LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton chairman and chief executive officer Bernard Arnault said he gave Simons a straightforward brief. "I simply told him: 'It's Dior, so give us your version, your vision of what Dior is today.' You have the result. I think it's fantastic," he said.
Natalia Vodianova, who is dating Arnault's son Antoine, described the clothes as young and modern. "I was a little stressed before, because it's been a very difficult time for the house, and everyone was just really eager to see what Raf would do and very excited about him," she said. The Russian model added that Simons was wise to send out what she termed a "safe" debut collection. "It's a very good step, because he can then develop further in the next seasons," she noted.


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Archaeologists May Have Located the Biblical City of Sodom
Dr. Stephen Collins, professor of Biblical studies and apologetics at Trinity Southwest University, claims that he and his team have unearthed a city that is the famed wicked city of Sodom mentioned in the Bible.
The group has been studying an archaeological dig in Jordan Valley known as Tall-el Hammam for the past 10 years. The team's findings in terms of structures, evidence of trade, and residuals of destruction have led Collins to believe that the site is the one and very same Sodom.
Dr. Collins expressed his beliefs to Popular Archaeology.
"Tall el-Hammam seemed to match every Sodom criterion demanded by the [Bible]. When we explored the area, the choice of Tall el-Hammam as the site of Sodom was virtually a no-brainer since it was at least five to ten times larger than all the other Bronze Age sites in the entire region, even beyond the Kikkar of the Jordan."
Although the team's findings support the fact that the city met its end along the same timeline as mentioned in the scriptures, the method of its destruction still remains unclear. They do acknowledge, however, that it is possible that it was destroyed by fire. The area apparently remained barren for 700 years after it was destroyed.
Hershel Shanks, editor of Biblical Archaeology Review magazine, supports Collins' claims. He agrees that Tall el-Hammam seems to meet the criteria of being identified as Sodom.
According to Biblical legend, Sodom and its sister city Gomorrah were destroyed by God because the people of the cities had become so wicked. He rained down fire upon them, destroying every living thing. The only residents who were saved were Lot and his family. God sent angels to warn them to flee before the destruction ensued. Lot's wife was also killed because she disobeyed the angels' instructions and looked back as they were running away. It was written that she was turned into a pillar of salt.
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November 15, 2013 09:44 ET
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Nov. 15, 2013) - Greenock Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:GKR) ("Greenock") announces that subject to execution of final agreements, it has completed a settlement arrangement for the US $250,000 Promissory Note held by its wholly owned subsidiary PTM Minerals (Cayman) Ltd. ("PTM") to Precious Metal Investments Limited ("PMI") of NSW, Australia. The settlement includes payment to PMI (or nominee) of: i) 1,000,000 shares of Greenock; ii) assignment to PMI of a direct 40% interest in the Needles gold / silver property in Nye County Nevada; and iii) an Option Agreement whereby PMI can earn an additional 40% in Needles by spending US $250,000 on a Needles project exploration program.
Once a final agreement has been executed and i) 1,000,000 shares of Greenock; and ii) the initial 40% interest in Needles has been assigned to PMI (or its nominee), then the Promissory Note will be deemed to have been repaid.
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5 days till Christmas!!!
It's that time of the year folks! Who's going to buy, and who's going to sell? Some believe that there won't be much movement this year. And that's what we said last year, and there wasn't. But there was that one deal that came directly out of the blue(Nieuwendyk and Lagenbruner for Arnott and McKay). And you know it's going to happen again this year, it's just like christmas, you know something good's going to happen, but you don't know what it will be.
I think one thing has been established over the last two weeks, and that is that Jerome Iginla isn't going anywhere. You know one thing really makes me mad about this guy, who is one of my favorite players in the league. He knows now that he can turn it on whenever he wants. He didn't want to leave Calgary, so he turned his game up a notch or twenty when he was rumored to be gone. Now that it's all but dead, he's gone cooled again. I still wouldn't be surprised to see him go on Tuesday, but it's just that the deal would have to be two good young players, a top line prospect, and a 1st round pick for this year. The teams that could pull it off: Colorado(Tanguay, Vrbata, Nedorost), Detroit(Datsyuk, Zetterberg, Kronwall), Nashville(Hartnell, Upshall, Hamhuis), Philadelphia(Gagne, Williams, Woywitka), New Jersey(Gomez, Danton, White), NY Islanders(Isbister, Martinek, Torres), Ottawa Senators(Havlat, Phillips, Spezza, probably too much there), and the NY Rangers(Lundmark, Dvorak, Murray). So there are a lot of teams that would have enough to land him, but nobody wants to blow up there system too bad. Team most likely to land him: Ottawa, it would be a shocker, but I believe that they'll go for it at the deadline. This team will have a good owner with deep pockets by next season, plus the players that defered money, will give them enough to afford him for the rest of the season. However, I'm not saying this will happen. I predict Iginla will stay. No GM wants to give up that much for one player(even though Iginla is worth it). Boughner and Conroy will both be moved though.
The next guy I want to address is the Kings Zigmund Palffy. Will this team make the playoffs? We'll find out later tonight(Oilers vs Kings, 8:30 MT, 10:30 Est). Should the Kings lose this game, they will all but be out of the playoff race. This could lead to Ziggy Palffy, Aarron Miller, Bryan Smolinski, and Mathieu Schneider all being on the move. Palffy is obviously the most attractive of all these players, and you know Philly would love to get him if they can't land Iginla. Again Gagne or Williams would probably be involved, as well as Woywitka, or Pitkanen, and maybe a first round pick(there's, not the Coyotes). I can't see Palffy going anywhere though. The Kings are a lot different from the Sharks. The Sharks simply played bad this year. The Kings had so many injuries, and if they keep the team there, and add a player or two, they will contend next year. You all know the players that the contending teams could move, so I'm not going to repeat them. So I think that of those teams, if they don't land Iginla, I think they will take a run at Palffy, except for Ottawa, Colorado, and Detroit. Again, I don't see Ziggy moving, but I hope so because it makes the day better!
The team that I predict will do the most unloading is Phoenix. Amonte was a mistake, but if he's playing with the right guys, he's more then worth his 6 million a year. Daymond Langkow is a guy who I would love to see the Oilers pick up, a hometown boy who should be somewhat cheap, but has 50-60 point ability. Teppo Numinum(Mr. Jet/Coyote)is drawing a lot of interest from the Wings and Flyers(so I hear). I expect one of these two teams to land him, but if the Leafs are serious about a Cup, he would look terrific in the Blue and White. And of course, Sean Burke WILL go to the St.Louis Blues. They are too desperate(the Blues)to do something. It will go down to the last second, with Pleau trying to hang on to Jackman(as he should), but in the end, will end up overpaying for Burke, just like he did for Tkachuck. I think Kelly Buchburger will be dealt as well, of course it won't make much noise. But this being his last season, he will either end it as an Oiler(as he should)or with a contender. Either way is very possible. Expect all these players to be on the move for Phoenix, as they know Burke is only a year or two away from being done, and the rest of them aren't part of there future(Amonte was, but what a bust!)
Finally there is the San Jose Sharks, who are already beating the rest of these teams 1-0-0-0. But if Vincent is telling us the truth, he will wave his no trade clause in the next few days. He said if Nolan's gone, I'm next(to put it simply). So look for him to demand one. Look for Marchment to go either to Toronto, Edmonton, NY Rangers(a Slats favorite), or Ottawa(even though they're stacked on d). Adam Graves will be on the move as well, unfortunatly his best days are behind him. But none the less, still a good third line player. Selanne will stay, but could be gone in the off season, but more of a player for player trade, rather then prospects. I don't think they want to completly blow up this team.
Anyways, whatever happens, whatever you disagree with, one thing is for sure…it will be one very exciting day! Let me know what you think, or how dumb my comments were.
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I love trade deadline time…….My only argument to you would be that there were 17 trades made last year….quite a bit, if you ask me!
Also, there is a rumor floating around the Wings are trying to land Selanne.
amonte would look good in the red, black, and white in new jersey. he would look good on a line with elias and gomez
Good stuff TC. First off lets get to the Oilers, they did a good job beating SanJose and now they really need to beat the Kings tonight. Go OIl. So glad to See Smytie back.
And please don't ever mention Pitkanen's name in any trade rumors again, LOL. He is gonna be one special player and if Clarke deals Gagne, Williams and Pitkanen away. I am seriously dropping my love for the Flyers. I don't care so much for Woywitka, trade him all they want, and I could live with either Gagne or Williams going, but not both.
I've heard lots of stuff about the Oilers some good and some bad. I know that their are a lot of Laraque fans out there(goodness knows my Cuz is the biggest) but I really think the OIlers should trade him. In this day and age, fighters are getting obsolete. They only hurt you in the playoffs. Sure he's great in the offensive zone on the boards, but with the playoff trap, you gotta get the puck there first. I would be the first to admit the Flyers have got to trade Brashear or Fedoruk away, or sit them a lot in the playoffs. Look at what philly did two years ago when they had Williams and McAmmond, they sat for fighters, and we got booted. I heard Isbister's name, and even though I hate Tucker, he could be good for the OIl. They both skate well and are gritty. Instead of trading Grier they should of got rid of Cleary, or Horcoff. They need a team that can skate and finnish their checks, something that got them past Dallas eons ago. Anyways, I think I'm rambling, great title TC.
That's all from the LLB.
I hear you man deadline day is one of my favorite days of the year. But the blues aren't trying to hold on to jackman he is off limits, the yotes however want salvador whom the blues don't want to lose but will if they want burke. pheonix will probably get papineau and salvador in the end.
If the isles trade Isbister than Torres should take over that job that izzy was supposed to do. Martineck and isbister and a first round draft pick to buffalo for satan or to the kings for palffy? And comments?
And for the record trade deadline time is just like a penalty shot in overtime in the seventh game of the finals, it just takes longer to find out the results.
Torres will be one heck of a player.
Exactly the one player that team needs!!!!!!!!!!!! Get Amonte, a bonified scorer for the powerplay and look out east.
Look for Montreal to unload McKay, Gilmour or Kilger for a pick. Perrault and Brisebois are available for the taking, but are low on the list for any playoff teams.
As a senators fan,maybe Guilmour for a low pick.Perreault`s one of Montreal`s most underated players.We happen to need grit, thats all.
Great post TC. So many teams that close, but not wanting to hurt the chemisty. Devils for one, right now i think they have the ability to win the east w/ the team they have, however, other teams arent going to stay the same. And being a big devils fan, w/ the team they have i don't think they could beat whoever comes out of the west. Detroit moves the puck so very well, Colorado a definate force; the top five there could go all the way. I turned my computer on this morning hoping to see Drury and Boughner leave w/ Jersey, and low and behold theres the Leafs making an outstanding move picking up Nolan, and there not done either. Tucker will be on the move soon, think he would have been included as well to possibly put Marchment in the deal if not for his suspension.
Philly will be the big dealers come d-day, Clarke is going to improve that team and make a strong contender out of them this year, thats were i see Palffy going. Satan will end up on the isle, Burke in St. Louis. Who will the devils get? Not if, but who. Lou will make the right deal, he always does. Personally I like Brad May, or from S.J Damphousse and Marchment, this one I could see, I don't think Amonte, although he would be the answer to a team having problems scoring.
I think Drury will stay in Calgary, they can afford him, and stated they have another 3 mil to play w/ next year. And there record may not show it, but they have great work ethic, and some talent to go along w/ it, alot if the same as Nashville. If St. Louis doesnt pick up Burke, then i can see Hedburg heading thast way.
The next question: How are the playoffs going to be reffed? Playoff hockey is alot more tighter played style of game. As the season has progressed they seem to let alot more go, but this is the second season, and teams like Ottawa and Detroit thrive w/ there speed can manipulate any defense. I hope the Canucks go to the western final, whoever comes out of there will be as banged up as whoever comes out of the east. Anyways happy hunting.
Go Devils Go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do you know why they haven't kept him up. Maybe they should put him in isbisters face to show him how to put an effort in game in and game out.
Not sure, i guess he isn't really NHL ready as far as offense goes. I compare him to Garth Murray of the Rangers, except Raffi will have more offensive upside.
Once Izzy is gone, Torres will be, or shluld be, called up. He is exactly what the Isle's need for crying out loud. Can't wait to see him in an Isle's jersey for years against the Rangers!
That's what i'm talking about!
Come on people…it's just the NHL trade deadline. So stop planning your deadline parties or whatever it is you people do. It's fun yea, but lets not get carried away.
Dude, you spend the most time of anyone on a site called http://www.hockeytraderumors.com and you are telling people HERE not to get carried away. These people share a love man.
Hey Question for you guys!!
Why wouldn't Calgary want to trade Iginla??
Are they gonna make the playoffs this year. Did they make it last year with the wonderful season he had. The only time they made it into the playoffs was his first year with the flames. If Calgary keeps Iginla and his 7 Million dollar contract, then they will definately not be able to sign another big name or trade for one(to help Iginla) to make them a playoff team.
I wish that the flames could keep him but truth is, he's hurting them in the long run. Also, If he was really a team player he shouldn't have taken the Flames to the bank. The flames should keep Drury and put some players around him that can play and not take up a lot of payroll.
I don't think the Wings will make any moves this year. They have alot of good young players for their future that they don't want to get rid of. Plus they just got Yzerman back and soon they will be getting Fisher back, so its almost like they are getting a forward and defensemen for the playoffs anyways. The forwards are the same as last year except you add Zetterberg into the mix (possible rookie of the year), and the defense lost only Olausson who was replaced by Woolley. Cujo is playing great and Detroit is 10-0-0-1 in their last 11. No point in giving up future palyers unless you get a really good trade.
I agree implicitly with Pock, send Amonte east. Flyers or New Jersey would love to have him.
Phoenix didnt work on so many levels for Tony.
This is the first insightful article I've read that doesnt just dismiss Amonte as finished, but rather details him as a man in the wrong situation in Phoenix. In truth both NJ and Philly would be much more desirable locations for him (remember he aint finished yet, he scored only one point less than Guerin last year and hasnt exactly been playing with Mike Modano all this year).
If not them, that th Isles, Colorado and St Louis (blockbuster with Burke) could all happen.
He won't stay in Phoenix.
I was on the ESPN website and Al Morgani reported that Fedorov may be on the move this summer, especially since with the emergence of Zetterberg and that other young guy they have, lol. So I back up your claims that Detroit will not make any moves. Why get rid of these guys when they need them to replace Sergei "why would he divorce Anna" Fedorov.
if the san-man keeps standing on his head, it alleviates the need to trade for a goalie, thus diminshing phoenix's return all the more……
I just want to thank everyone for the nice words. Everyone except titans, but I think the guy is drunk most of the time anyways. I'm just kidding, I'm not going to get on anyone who is "down with the brown" of course, the brown being brown bottle!
FYI, this is just my speculation, but here are a few names that were "Healthy" scratches tonight. There may be a reason behind these scratches, but they look strange to me.
1. Roman Hamrlik – Solid puck moving dman, doubt there's any chance of him being moved with the way the Isles have been playing. But who knows?
2. Mike Ricci – Nobody has said anything about Ricci. He's a player that excels in the playoffs, much like Claude Lemieux. His play in front of the net could turn around a teams Power Play just in time for the playoffs. Good passer also. If traded, he could be the biggest acquisition at the deadline
3. Jan Hrdina – One of those "expendable" Pens. Not sure if anyone is willing to pick up his salary. Plus he may fall off the face of the earth without Super Mario feeding him.
4. Jan Hlavac – Great skill, but holds onto the puck for days at a time. Might be reunited with a Cech linemat in Dvorak, who knows or cares??
Oh, titans, you make me laugh. If you only knew…
There is so much anger from you over so little. You must be a very scared and unhappy person.
I agree with the oilers comment. What burdens me about this team is there hasnt been any progression since they requalified for the playoffs in the late nineties..They have literaly had to fight tooth and nail to stay in the last spot and lucky if they do so.. Unlike past years they dont even cycle the puck in the playoffs.. Thier mode is high school floor hockey..you know take it to one part of the boards slam ,hit..thro it on the boards..hit there. no idea of where the ball will end up. push it further down the boards..hoping to dear god for some reason it will bounce off the boards and head into the oppositions net or some wierd bounce.. Most of the times , all the opposition needs to do is to have someone wait to see the puck flying on the boards and take it out to centre ice for a good scoring chance,,think someone needs to tell the oilers to try controlling the puck and putting it to open ice once and a while.. or have thier defensemen move in and just shoot it on net rather then dump it on the boards again. Usually results in no shot on goal and losing sight of the puck . Hecht should of stayed.. 16 goals fine but now they need 5 players put together to make up that difference.. horcoff, cleary, staios, swanson, fergueson all need to go or be in the ahl for a while , cleary is ahl player not nhl… im not sold on chimera being nhl level yet ..Lack a shot from a point.. a playmaker away from the boards and decent role players aware of the pucks movements.. Hire someone away from ottawa's scouting department for new player evaluation. Granted , hamilton is good.however can any of these players come in and be just as sucessful nhl level… no. Look at the sens farm team.. they come in and know thier role and can show dependability at the nhl level. Pretty much whait it comes down to.. its not a money concerm, look at ottawa.. more or less judging someones ability, good idea of sence of a player..and putting them to where they will be the most sucessful playing in a system. Draft and up…
No the devs don't need a overpaid underachiver… The devil will primery try to land Miro Satan, if that don't work out they will go after Chris Drury, Christian Huselius, Radek Bonk or some one like this… I know that ther are talks betwean Luo and Lombardo that will try to land Selene, the devs have offred Gomez and Olie, but Lombardi whants Berglund (or maybe Gionta), Danton and a pick for selene.
ou may be right.. What i disagree on is the perrault situation.. They have him playing as a winger now.. HE isnt a winger, problem solved… move gilmour , put perrault back at centre ice…
Too much complaining can give you gas
Hlavac wasn't a healthy scratch, the guy broke his finger. And I said a week or two ago that the Leafs should try to land Ricci in a Nolan package. Obviously the Sharks are aware that they will get more for him and Nolan if they are shipped in seperate deals. But yeah, there was a lot of teams I didn't mention that will be selling. Carolina, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Montreal(maybe), Buffalo, and Florida will have some pieces to give away too. I just felt that those teams I mentioned were the richest in players to trade away.
I hear you man, it's pathetic how people just dismiss a guy and his abilities just because he had one or two bad years. I thought when Phoenix got him, it was a steal at 6 million per. Your absolutly right about NYI, Colorado, St.Louis, Philly, or New Jersey. If one of these teams is smart enough to trade for him, then he will flourish.
You can't just dismiss amonte because he's had the first sub-par season of his career on a sub-par phoenix team.
He scored one less point than guerin last year buddy, and if amonte was playing with modano this year, he'd have guerin-or-better numbers again.
He ain't no underachiever
On any given one of those teams he would be on lines such as:
COL: Amonte – Sakic – Hejduk
STL: Tkachuk – Weight – Amonte
PHI: LeClair – Roenick – Amonte
NJ: Elias – Gomez – Amonte
DAL: Amonte – Modano – Guerin
All quite a bit better than what he's got now don't you detractors agree?
If the Isles could get Satan for Isbister and Martinek and a pick, I would do it in a heartbeat. But Torres has virtually no offensive skills. I would rather promote Hunter. He is one of the top players in the AHL. Secondly, half of the Isles defense is out. They can't afford to trade a defenseman unless they make another move and get one back.
The Isles won't go after Amonte. If they won't pay Palffy, they won't pay Amonte.
Hamrlik isn't healthy. He has been scratched the last 2 games with a hip pointer.
They are good enough without him. I still see them looking for a D-man instead.
I would love to see Amonte coming "home" to the Bruins. It's not very likely though. 6M is a lot, especially when you already have a guy like Lapointe making that kind of money. I don't think that the Bruins will go after any of the big players considering the Bruins' history with $. It would be great if they spent a little bit more though. The good thing is that they don't have to worry about ending up like the Senators, Penguins or Sabres. The Bruins will continue to be one of the richest teams that doesn't spend money
I thought the Nolan trade should have included Graves as part of the deal, would be smart of Quinn to add him as a part of the deal.
2 players that I think will be a leaf is Graves, and Zhitnik….well atleast I hope.
The leafs need a #1 defense. Like having McCabe or Svehla as a #1 defense just won't get you to the stanley cup. If the Wings last year had Svehla, Kaberle as their top defense, you think they would have won the cup. Dun think so bucko.
I think we should land either Numminem, Zhitnik or Miller.
Than Graves just a mini trade for a pick or prospect. He'll be good cause he's a true play-off performer.
P.S. I already miss McCauley :(:( me sad
Mikster, I almost fell off my! You complimented an Islander! BRAVO!
I wouldn't mind to see Hunter traded actually, he's got skill but no consistent desire. Considering he got so hyped up after the playoffs last year he should have been flying with confidence in training camp and he was basically a no show. Torres either won or was runner up for best stickhandeler in his entire junior league as voted by the leagues coaches so even though he might not have the confidence with the puck yet at this level at least you know that when he finally does he's gonna compete night in and out and will be pretty darn good. I would like to see the isles get Aaron Miller from LA. He's probably the best fit for the isles on D. I really wish we could dump Yashin on some poor Schmuck and then this off season go after Fedorov like wild rabid banshees. Maybe the wings would take Yashin? He probably would return to form playing with guys like Hull and Shanahan on his wing. That would be the Sweeeetest out-of-left-field deal in the history of the league (for isles fans anyway) Yashin for Fedorov straight up. Woooo-hooooo! Prayin' to G*D!!!!
True, I think they will land at least one d-man, but they could make a move for Teemu as well(to replace Robitaille).
To Detroit: D Teppo Numminen
To Phoenix: D Mathieu Dandenault, W Sean Avery.
To San Jose: C Boyd Devereaux, RW Jason Williams, 1st Round Pick.
To Detroit: RW Teemu Selanne.
Sounds good to me.
Hey Glen..
Hrdina was scratched for the game last night because he has strained hip flexor muscles in his hip. He has been in and out of the lineup for the past 2-3 weeks. He definately is expendable, especially because he is having a horrible year and needs some really good wingers to be productive.
The Leafs don't need Graves. They have too much grit as it is (Tucker, Corson, Domi). They probably won't get Zhitnik, as Buffalo has been told not to trade him or Satan. A possibility is Boughner (or even Regheyr) which I personally think would be best
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Nothing like a hungry yawing hippo to ruin everyone's circus experience. I wonder how long it took everyone to realize that when a full grown hippo eats a dwarf there is no coming back. It's not a dam clown car people.
maybe you'll see a picture with the dwarf semi digested in the hippo's shit
hahaha atleast she swallows hard to find women to o that these days
Id carry on applauding lol
New form of midget tossing?
Golfers clap from me.
i hope the fucking midget was a chink.
WHy didn't they cut up the Hippo in front of everybody to save the little man..geez.
the midget was an appetizer now she is after the bearded lady
I am skeptical on this damn clipping/ripping!.........B.FUCKIN.S!
Here's a headline you'll never see: "Nigger gets Job"!!!
here's a headline you always see: Nigger shoots Nigger
HAHAHAHA....."FREAK" accident, because midgets are a bunch of FREAKS! hahaha
Hippopotamus was the name of the Dwarfs Girlfriend!
i like the game hungry hippos but i normally play it with marbles not fucking dwarves????
Nothing I can say is funnier than the story itself!
bull shit.
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Mumbai/New Delhi: Anna Hazare on Friday appeared to have fallen out with his official blogger Raju Parulekar who accused prominent Team Anna members of leading the Gandhian into a "blackhole" for their vested interest after Hazare took exception to his views on disbanding the Core Committee.
It all started with Hazare telling reporters in New Delhi that how can Parulekar, a journalist who is the activist`s official blogger, talk about disbanding Team Anna`s Core Committee and that he will question him.
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NEW YORK – The Latest on a private service held for Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, who died at 87 (all times local):
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Mourners attending a private service for Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel say his death is also a great loss because there's one less Holocaust survivor in the world.
Rabbi Perry Berkowitz called Wiesel's death a "double tragedy," since the world lost someone so "rare and unusual" and that Holocaust survivors are dying out.
Berkowitz, the president of the American Jewish Heritage Organization, had known Wiesel for more than 40 years and worked with him very closely in the 1970s as his assistant.
Friends and family were attending a private service for the "Night" author at Fifth Avenue Synagogue in New York City on Sunday morning.
Wiesel's death was announced Saturday. He was 87.
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Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel is being remembered at a private service in New York City.
Family and friends were gathering Sunday morning at Fifth Avenue Synagogue in the Upper East Side neighborhood of New York City.
A hearse was seen outside the Orthodox Jewish synagogue and mourners were arriving around 10 a.m. Among them was former national director of the Anti-Defamation League Abraham Foxman. Wiesel and his wife Marion were honored by the League with the Jabotinsky Award Courageous Jewish Leadership in 2013.
Wiesel shared the harrowing story of his internment at Auschwitz as a teenager through his classic memoir "Night," one of the most widely read and discussed books of the 20th century.
Wiesel's death was announced Saturday. He was 87.