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When news emerged Tuesday that the Russian government used Facebook to stage an anti-immigrant rally in Idaho, Jonathan Rauch picked up on it immediately.
Rauch, a fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, was in Las Vegas to present a lecture tonight titled, "Alt-Truth: Can Reality Survive the Era of Trump?" In the presentation, Rauch will examine how political forces have unlocked the power of an old war tactic — disinformation — to fuel distrust in the mainstream media and other institutions, feed animosity between rival political factions and tear at the fabric of the nation's democracy. Like Pizzagate and other fake news stories that have been circulated in the last couple of years, Rauch said, the Idaho rally was an example of disinformation being used in an assault on Americans.
"It's unclear whether many people showed up, but the Russians were able to move this activism out of the online world into actually using a fake website with fake content to get Americans to show up to a made-up protest against immigration," he said. "It's really spooky stuff."
Rauch, a former newspaper reporter who began his career at the Winston-Salem Journal in North Carolina, sat down with the Sun to outline his presentation, assess the state of the media and offer his thoughts about how to heal the damage caused by disinformation before and since President Donald Trump's election.
He opened the interview with what he described as a "bumper sticker, bullet-point explanation" of his lecture, which is scheduled for 6 p.m. in the first floor auditorium of Greenspun Hall. Edited excerpts of the conversation follow:
The problem I'm here to talk about is the rise of weaponized disinformation on an industrial scale.
Disinformation is different than propaganda. Propaganda tries to convince you of things that are untrue. Disinformation tries to persuade you that nothing in particular is true. It puts so much baloney out there that you don't know what to believe and don't know who to trust.
That has not been a big problem in America until very recently. And then some things changed. These include the collapse of the business model for conventional newsroom journalism, which is a very expensive thing; the rise of social media platforms, which are extremely effective and inexpensive distribution systems for disinformation; the weaponization of disinformation by politicians and by the Russians; and the rise of a so-called troll community — people who specialize in harassing and bullying, putting out false stuff often for fun but also for political gain.
All of these things suddenly made it very cheap to put fake news and disinformation out there, not with the goal of persuading people it was true but persuading them they can't believe anything.
Why would somebody want to do that? It turns out to be very useful in politics. It's like softening an enemy's air defenses before you go in for an invasion. You discredit traditional news sources, and they don't know what to believe. So maybe they'll believe you.
So disinformation is not new, but the industrialization of it is new and the weaponization of it is new. And it's worrisome.
What can be done about it? Part of the inoculation is the news media are covering it. They actually understand what's happening, and they're putting it in the newspaper.
Law enforcement agencies are looking into it. Some of this activity is illegal.
I think the public is becoming aware of it. There's been a flight to quality. CNN just had its best quarter ever. The New York Times is up. Not everybody is fleeing to quality, but a lot of people are saying, wait a minute, some sources are better than others, and they're willing to pay for that.
We're seeing the social media platforms becoming more cognizant of what's happening. Facebook and Google are revising their policies. I think all of those things are the beginning of a response, but only the beginning.
The trolls are in charge of the government right now. That's the most potent weapon that trolls have ever had at any time or place in the world. So I'm going to say this is a long road back.
The last thing I'm going to say is that there's one very important player that's gone AWOL, and that's the American university. There is a problem with liberal bias in the media, but I think a lot of media organizations are wrestling with that. I don't think academia is wrestling with its problem of being heavily skewed to the left, and the problem with that is it's discrediting the idea that universities are places that are really committed to the reality based community and not a political agenda. It's going to be a lot easier to fight disinformation if we can keep people convinced that academic and scientific institutions are on the level.
So I'm going to wind up with a plea to universities to take more seriously that they've got to be more hospitable to alternative views, to conservative views. They've got to stop chasing people off campus who they disagree with. This activity by a minority of universities discredits and delegitimizes the outstanding work that is being done by academics and intellectuals in places like this one.
Are you drawing a distinction between hyperpartisan journalism and disinformation?
Yes, hyperpartisanship is also a problem. It's something that traditional media has tried to avoid — not partisanship, but hyperpartisanship. Hyperpartisanship means partisanship that fundamentally distorts the accuracy of what you're talking about. It would be partisan reporting to say Republicans do a terrible job of responding to national disasters like hurricanes. It would be hyperpartisan to say, as Rush Limbaugh said, that we shouldn't even listen to reports about hurricanes because they're being ginned up by the other side.
So that's going on, too. It's all part of the same business model of getting people to distrust the idea that there's a gold standard, a standard of integrity out there — the difference between truth and fiction.
Do you think trust in the media is broken beyond repair?
No, not beyond repair. It's damaged. Trust in all institutions is damaged. Pretty much the military and the courts are just about the only things that Americans are willing to put much trust in anymore.
But people are still able to make distinctions between more and less trustworthy information sources. And my hope — it's just a hope — is that the realization that disinformation is prevalent and damaging is driving people back toward a search for quality and more product differentiation.
It doesn't mean they're going to love the media. I don't think they ever will. And frankly, when we do our jobs, we're not going to be loved. It's not our job to be loved, it's our job to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, and people don't like that.
What are the tactics being used in the disinformation campaigns in the U.S.?
The Russians have been doing disinformation for decades. They're masters at it. Vladimir Putin is deeply versed in these principles, from his days as an intelligence officer.
What is new, I think, is the level of proficiency the Russians have shown in their ability to use social media, digital platforms, algorithms, bots. On social media, you don't even know who's a human being and who's not. So you don't know whether the person telling you this stuff that might or might not be true is even a human.
The next thing that's coming, according to experts, is the weaponization of customized disinformation. So I can find out about a person and have algorithms create fake news specifically for that person. It's going to look like exactly what you want to read, and I can put that in front of you in your media feeds.
Now, compare that with what the media have to do to go out and report real news, at the Statehouse or the county commission, wherever it is — the time and expense that that takes, the level of editing, fact-checking, thinking it through and being aware that at every stage if you get it wrong you're going to hurt real people in Las Vegas. You're not dealing with bots. You think about your cost structure versus their cost structure. They don't have to get it right — ever. You have to get it right every single time.
You've written several times that it's nothing new for American voters not to understand what's going on. But did we reach a new level of that last year?
American voters have always been, on average, remarkably ignorant about basic facts of government — how it works, who does what. They've also always been remarkably ignorant about news.
There's nothing new about that; it has been studied for generations. There's a whole theory about it, called the theory of rational ignorance. The chances that one person's vote will swing an election are infinitesimal. You're much better off gambling a million dollars at a roulette table down the block here. So it doesn't actually make a lot of sense for you to become a master of public policy and read every newspaper.
It makes sense for you to basically get some general impressions of the candidates, some true and some false, and go vote. That's perfectly rational. That's common bandwidth limitations.
So the way we handled that traditionally was branding. You had the Republican brand and the Democratic brand, and people basically knew what both parties stood for. And that's how they voted.
And that actually turned out to be pretty good. If you vote for a Republican, you're pretty likely to get a conservative. If you vote for a Democrat, you're pretty likely to get a liberal, or someone more moderate.
And that's what happened in 2016. People like me who thought that Donald Trump was unsuited for the presidency for a lot of reasons kind of thought that a lot of Republicans wouldn't vote for him. Surprise, it turns out that a lot of Republicans voted the way they always voted, because they're Republicans. A lot of them tune in about four days before the election, look at the ballot and say, it's our guy over theirs, and I'll choose mine.
The really important thing to do about the problem of voter ignorance is not to make unfair expectations of voters.
We have two generations of political reformers whose idea was to put more decision-making in the hands of ordinary people, for various reasons. They thought insiders were corrupt, or they were populists who thought people would make better decisions.
That's the wrong way to go. What the founders intended was a system of mediators and institutions and professionals. I don't necessarily mean elite, but professionals who were in the business of mastering policy, building political coalitions, trying to bring people into those coalitions, then making compromises and bargains to bring about policies. That's what works, it has for generations, that's what the founders set up.
That's what a lot of modern reformers don't understand and have tried to take apart. So where I wind up with all of this is that ironically, the solution has got to be more professionals in politics, not less. And by the way, that's not because voters are stupid, it's because they're smart. They're smart enough not to over-invest in politics.
Is it a lonely time right now to be advocating for more professionals and less populism in politics?
Two answers to that one: Hell and yes. But there are a few people saying it, and others are coming around. There's a school of thought that I'm kind of a member of, we call ourselves political realists or neo-realists. A bunch of people in academia now, some people inside politics, are saying it's time to put some of these idealistic ideals and reforms aside and start fixing what's really broken about this system.
Ironically, we're at a moment of very strong partisanship but very weak parties. And these things are actually two sides of the same coin. The tribalism is getting more fierce while the traditional party structures — which were about bringing together all these forces and mediating them — get weak. The Republican Party is barely a party at all. It's a victim of a hostile takeover. It's at war with itself. It can't pass its No. 1 priority; it looks like it might not be able to pass its No. 2 priority.
These are very serious problems for our democracy. And you're going to have to strengthen these institutions and not weaken them.
How should political operatives be dealing with the parties' problems?
I don't think you can do it if you're a party operative.
More of it is incumbent on the media and people like me at a think-tank to begin to do two kinds of things. The first is reconsider a whole series of reforms that misfired or backfired. A lot of those things in principle aren't difficult to change. We tied the hands of the parties with campaign finance laws that put them at a severe disadvantage to candidates and outside groups that can raise and spend unlimited amounts. Parties can't compete with that; it's very difficult for them.
We can untie the hands of the parties, which involves regulatory changes. We can introduce more of a role for professionals and insiders in influencing who the candidate choices are. That's very important. It turns out that primaries are a deeply flawed way of choosing candidates, because they're dominated by small numbers of extremists. It turns out that smoke-filled rooms are a much better way of choosing candidates, because they were thinking about how do we find a candidate who will unite the party and bring in lots of different voices. It's not the way primary voters think.
The parties could change their rules tomorrow in ways that would give insiders more of a role.
We've got rules that make it hard to do pork-barrel spending, which is a very important tool that legislators use to trade votes and build coalitions.
There are rules on transparency, which made it harder than it should be to negotiate, to talk frankly about stuff. A deal requires going in a back room and saying, what's your bottom line, really? What do you really need? You can't do that in public.
There are all kinds of things at this micro level which in principle are not hard to change, but would help. There's no silver bullet, but these things would help things move in a better direction.
At the macro level, the big thing you need to do is begin creating a climate of opinion that is more receptive to the idea that politicians need to be able to do politics.
The big story over the last 50 years is politics is a dirty game, it should be limited, it's corrupt, it's untrustworthy. All of these rules have been trying to limit the ability of politicians to do politics. And here you have to function at the level of ideas. You have to go to the public and say, wait a minute, if you hire a plumber and you don't let him use his tools, he's not going to fix your sink. And if you bring in a politician and you take away all the things he needs to do to keep the government open, to pass a debt-limit bill, to pass a budget, they're not going to be able to operate, either.
So hey, Mr. John Q. Public, how about rethinking this. I think Americans are receptive to that, actually. I think a lot of people sense things are on a bad track, that it's not working. I wrote about this a year ago in The Atlantic, and it got a huge reaction.
We've had political machines in this country. We practically invented them. Americans are very historically comfortable with that model of politics, so it's not a huge stretch to think we may be able to reassemble some of these institutions.
Is that how to break through politophobia, which you've written about? (In other words, Americans being completely averse to politics?)
You won't break through it completely, but at least you can create an alternative story. Right now, when people talk about reforming politics, it's all about weakening parties and strengthening small donors. Well, that makes it worse, actually. Because the people small donors fund tend to be extremists, and when they get elected they don't owe anything to anyone, and it's difficult to get them to vote. That's why it's so hard to keep the government open.
So you start to change this story. You say, wait a minute, maybe we shouldn't be thinking so much about making everyone more independent. Maybe we should be thinking more about rebuilding some of the bonds between politicians.


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PERTH AMBOY — Together North Jersey and the Jewish Renaissance Foundation invite members of the public to share their ideas about "Where are we now?" and "Where are we headed?" at an upcoming workshop on Thursday, Aug. 8, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Al Jankowski Community Center, 1 Olive Street, Perth Amboy. This input will be used to develop the long-range plans to shape the future of northern and central New Jersey.
Also on the agenda is an interactive presentation of the Smith Street Central Business District Study. This TNJ-sponsored project is part of the Gateway Neighborhood Collaborative (GNC), a neighborhood revitalization planning process that aims to identify the issues and concerns affecting the residents of the Gateway Neighborhood (commonly known as Inner Dublin). This input will be used to develop a written plan to revitalize the Gateway Neighborhood in Perth Amboy.
The workshop is part of a series being held throughout the region by Together North Jersey, a consortium of local, state, and regional partners working together on a Regional Plan for Sustainable Development. These workshops are an opportunity for the public to share ideas about planning for the future to build stronger communities and local and regional economies with better access to transportation, housing, jobs, educational, cultural, and recreational opportunities. Perth Amboy residents will also have the opportunity to contribute opinions about the Gateway Neighborhood's commercial corridor, as part of the CBD Study presentation.
Together North Jersey membership is open to any public jurisdiction, agency or authority; nongovernmental organization; neighborhood association; community and faith-based organization; private business or company; or educational institution located in the region or serving the region. Funding support for Together North Jersey is provided through a Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development received by Rutgers University in
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Just like Olympic sports, which most people pay attention to only every four years, when they suddenly wrap themselves in the flag and become ardent fans for a couple of weeks before forgetting about things like bobsledding, biathlon, badminton and, yes, even ballroom dancing until the next Olympic Games roll around.
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Team USA won just one game, after all.
It�s not very often that sports fans in this country get as excited as they did about a team that went 1-2-1.
A team that didn�t score a goal in regulation time against either Germany or Belgium.
Don�t we see enough of that sort of offensive futility watching the Red Sox?
If not for an absolutely spectacular performance in goal by Tim Howard, the United States might have lost to tiny Belgium by three, four, even five goals.
Sports fans around the globe love teams that win. And, if those teams score a lot while winning, then fans � at least in this country � love them even more.
Which is why the outpouring of affection for a team that won just one of four games while struggling to score against top-caliber teams was refreshing, as well as surprising.
But it�s over now, for us.
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I was seated quickly and met my Senior Beauty Expert, Marvin. He had emailed me a few days before and asked me if I wanted to focus on anything. My main goals for the appointment were to look amazing and not wear so much makeup I look like a cadaver. Easy enough!
We started with skin prep and I tried a lot of products that I wouldn't venture to apply.
I definitely need the skincare stuff, especially since I need whatever it takes to treat my skin gently and not scrub it for dear life because Catholicism has taught me that I should feel pain first. I do love a good scrub, though.
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There were a few women who came up and asked what was going on and examined me like I was an exhibit at an art museum. Behold, Desperate Mo, 2017. And they were not ashamed at all, to set near the space and ask about it all. I would never go up to someone with a face that looks like this and say, what is that? I would stare from afar and maybe ask myself, Look at that woman with all that gunk on her face! How can I have that much confidence?!
The fun part was definitely the makeup. I snapped this to my niece and she asked if that was really a sketch of my face. I said yes, I committed a crime. My beauty advisor went through all the different steps and added product names, where they would be placed on my face and what brushes would be used.
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Hays said financial planners are also in demand for the Big 4, as planners are attracted to independent firms with more support and less key performance indicators (KPIs) than large firms.
The continued growth of the Asian market in Australia has also had an impact, with employers looking for multilingual financial planners – particularly in Mandarin, Cantonese and Indonesian.
"Whilst these skills are in hot demand, employers remain cautious about hiring candidates that appear to have moved around too often and they are also being very specific with their requirements, being more demanding about core and soft skills," says director of Hays Banking Jane McNeill.
"Employers want candidates with a proven and stable background, and some are willing to wait to find the exact match. In terms of long-term solutions some employers are interested in candidates that can take a step up to fill a role rather than have someone more senior take a step back."
According to the Hays Quarterly Report for January to March 2013, demand is highest for the following skilled professionals:
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Anvil! Wins Something, Thankfully
It's not an Oscar, but it'll do.
Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Sacha Gervasi's little doc that could (and then suddenly, unexpectedly couldn't — the Academy left it off their short list), took top honors Friday night at the International Documentary Association Awards in Los Angeles. Anvil's Steve "Lips" Kudlow and Robb Reiner were on hand to accept with Gervasi (see a post-awards interview with Anne Thompson here). It's not an Oscar, but those things are bad for underdog cred anyway. [IndieWire, Thompson on Hollywood via In Contention]


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This Halloween, Chicagoans won't be the only ones sporting costumes. Two local restaurants are slipping into costumes as well.
Lula Café has been doing it for years, and this year the Logan Square eatery will transform into "The Violent Hour"--guess which cocktail lounge inspired that name.
Owner Jason Hammel said the idea to dress the restaurant as another place entirely was just a "wild suggestion" seven years ago. Since then, he's transformed Lula Café into a mix of national chains and Chicago originals including Olive Garden and Heaven on Seven. Last year, Lula Café became Taco Bell for the night. Hammel said that's been his favorite event so far.


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Subscribe to The Virtual Assistant Podcast iTunes | Stitcher | RSS Welcome to this week's episode of the Virtual Assistant Podcast! Watch for new episodes every other Monday, highlighting how eaHELP clients are using virtual assistants to take their businesses further, faster. We're pleased to welcome Ben Goetz as our guest this week. Ben Goetz is a business execution coach focused on helping owners and entrepreneurs build teams that gain traction and get results. In this interview Ben talks about he works with his virtual assistant (VA) to deliver high-quality service to his clients and help them take their goals to the next level. This interview gives you insight into how Ben manages his company and how his VA helps him go further, faster with his clients. Episode Highlights 00:59 // Rich introduces Ben to the show. 01:15 // Ben talks through what he does. 01:37 // Ben gives us an indication of what his ideal client is like. 02:14 // Ben tells us his reasons for hiring a VA. 03:41 // Ben gives examples of the tasks he has been able to delegate to his VA. 04:10 // Ben talks through the process of handing over his email management to his VA. 04:49 // Ben talks about the impact of having a VA has had on his business. 05:46 // Ben highlights the benefits of having a VA to his personal life. Lightning Round Top Productivity Apps // Google Work, Asana Planning Process // Yearly, quarterly and sets priorities. Meets weekly with his VA. Protects Time // Blocks time for each day during the week. Fun Story with his VA? // Confusion over payment details resulting in half of what was expected, but easily fixed. Contact // benjamingoetz.com Episode Transcript Rich – Well hey, everybody, welcome to the Virtual Assistant Podcast. This is the podcast for busy leaders who are looking to delegate more so they can focus on what's most important. Today it's our privilege, our honor to have Ben Goetz with us. Ben, welcome to the show. Ben – Thanks, I appreciate it Rich. Rich – Well Ben, I'd love for us to start by telling us a little bit about your business. I was doing some research on it this morning and I find it fascinating. Give us a sense of what it is that you do. Ben – Sure. So in simple terms, I help business owners get more of what they want from their business. I really help them clarify where they want to take their business. I help them simplify the things they really need to be focused on and find ways to beginRead more »


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This month marks the one-year anniversary of the undersea earthquake and resulting tsunami that struck Northern Japan. In observance of the tragedy, the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center (PPAC) is exhibiting "Silent Existence" by the fine-art photographer Tetsugo Hyakutake. Through his images, Hyakutake has said that he wishes to explore "contemporary issues in relation to their historical contexts." For "Silent Existence," the contemporary and historical meld into one, as the images show the destruction caused by the tsunami soon after it occurred. The resulting photos have a quiet sadness to them, featuring the things the wave left behind.
Tonight, March 29, PPAC is hosting an artist talk with Hyakutake and reception at its gallery, located at 1400 N. American Street #103 in Philadelphia. Proceeds from the reception will be shared with the Japan Society for their Japan Earthquake Relief Fund. Hyakutake has also donated two prints to be auctioned off during the course of the exhibit with proceeds going to the Japan Society. The exhibit will be open through June 11, 2012.
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From the perspective of a 21st Century ... The Wasp Woman is a downright revolutionary act of scathing commentary.
It's poorly written, cheesily acted, low-budget, and completely camp, but because it's Corman it's a touch ahead of its ilk thanks to some clever lines and flavorful directing. Utterly ridiculous but lovable.
Definitely a 1950's style horror flick, yet released in 1960. Surely the last of its hive.
A cheesy 1950s Black & White horror movie, which is prime MST3K fodder. However, it needn't have been this way since actress Susan Cabot sure is one classy dame . . .
Silly, campy, entertaining.
One of Corman's better films, aided by Susan Cabot's sharp presence.
Audience Reviews for The Wasp Woman
Taking a break from the Christmas Movies as I await Blockbuster and Netflix to get off there butts and keep the movies coming via the mail. (Economy must be doing well as Netflix is raising there prices). Here we have the 1959 movie by Roger Corman. Its about a women who is head of a cosmetic company and she wants a new product which produces young looking skin, this part is played by Susan Cabot (This was her last movie until 1970 a 11 year gap.), what she finds is a crazy professor who takes the royal jelly from a wasp and thinks he has the product, but oh no something goes wrong as the royal jelly turns Susan into a wasp, Go figure, who would have know. A Black and White drive in Special still worth the watch and 3 1/2 stars.
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This low budget sci-fi horror movie has an interesting story, but that's all that I like about this movie. It's pretty good, but it could have been a lot better.
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A female cosmetics mogul injects herself with wasp jelly in an attempt to stay eternally young, with predictable results. It's a parable about... aw, who am I kidding, it's another talky Roger Corman cheapie with a few seconds of Susan Cabot wearing pipe-cleaner antennae.
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IN L.A.: 6th Annual Sea No Evil Benefit Art ExhibitionJuly 05, 2012
This past weekend we stopped by the 6th annual "Sea No Evil" art benefit show at the Riverside Municipal Auditorium featuring artwork donated by over 100 artists from around the world including Gary Baseman, Tara McPherson, Tim Biskup, Shepard Fairey, Lola, Travis Louie, Hydro74, Amy Sol and many, many more. All proceed will benefit the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and its mission to defend ocean wildlife and habitats around the world.
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El Templo #12 (octubre 2009) por Uyulala y R. A. Calle Morales
In Cherub's books, you affirm that the above mentioned organization is real (or a very similar one), but that its existence is secret. Is it true? In that case, what can you tell us about the Cherub organization?
CHERUB isn't real. If it was I would have been locked up for writing about a top secret organisation!
In Henderson's Boys you relate the birth of Cherub. It's that a story you had to write (or want to) or something the fans demand you?
I wrote a breif piece about the beginning of CHERUB at the start of my first book The Recruit, and didn't think about it for several years.Then I reread it and thought it would make an interesting spin off.
Would you like to be a Cherub?
It might be fun, but I would have been useless. I was always the kid who got picked last for sports teams, so I wouldn't have made a very good cherub.
Why not adults but kids? Is it easier to write about and for young readers? Do you read teen books?
I think young readers like to read about characters who are their own age. I read quite a few teen books, just to keep up with what my rivals are doing (and to steal the good bits!).
The teenager spies from Cherub are so realists, just not like other young spy from nowadays. We are talking about Alex Ryder saga, character who is very similar to a classical icon from the genere, James Bond. What do you think about this kind of novels - for adult and young readers - with glamourous cars, old fashioned gentlemen and unbelievable gadgets?
There's nothing wrong with them, but they have become a bit of a cliche. That's why I wanted to make CHERUB gritty and realistic. The world didn't need another spy in a bow-tie driving around in a Ferrari!
Your characters are teenagers who do inapropiate things for their ages. Sometimes they seem to be older than they are. Did you take the base from real people? Do you think that nowadays literature is showing teens who look like kids, teens that don't seem at all like the young boys and girls?
I think kids vary widely. For example, James is interested in girls in the early books when he is only 12. I've heard some people who say that is too young, but I had a cousin who spent all his spare time with a girlfriend when he was only 11, while I never got my first girlfriend until I was almost 16.


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You might have noticed that our posts for the last week or so have been coming to you from the beautiful tropical island of Roatan. Roatan is in the Caribbean, just off the coast of Honduras. We love it here. It's one of our favorite places to enjoy #childfreeadventures.
We've been coming here since 2007 and aim to make the trip A) annual, B) longer each time we come, and C) awesome. C is a no-brainer and easily achieved. Because we are neither rock stars nor royalty, A and B are possible only because we don't have kids.
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Now, just because we're on one of our #childfreeadventures doesn't mean we're here alone. We've got a full house; just not the kind that comes to mind when you hear the phrase Full House (for those who grew up in the 80's and 90's at least).
On this, our 5 week island hiatus, we've built in 3 weeks worth of visits from different groups of friends sandwiched between a week on our own on each end. And we don't exclude our parent friends – though they generally don't stay longer than a week (they've got to get back home to the kids, after all).
So what do we do with all this free time? A bit of scuba, a tad more snorkeling, some hard core beach lounging, our share of rum appreciation, and a whole lot of staring at the view from the deck of our temporary home. For us, it's heaven.
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In a world where it's presumed that we will have – or should at least aspire to have – a brood of baby Blackstones, we're happy to be bucking the norm. One consequence of said bucking is having the freedom to run off to the tropics for large chunks of time each year.
We love having the freedom to experience these kinds of adventures. And we know many of you do too. In response an earlier post, Meredith talked about how she and her husband spent 10 years following the Grateful Dead and how the fun continues even today as they follow Dead tribute bands. And Emily, who was about to embark on a trip to NOLA with her husband, shared her love of travel. How awesome do these #childfreeadventures sound?!
This is what we're referring to in our blog's tagline, childfree adventures in a child-centric world. We aim to carve out a space where we can celebrate not aspiring to a Duggar-like existence.
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This is arguably Shaw's biggest moment, for lack of a better term. In one of the best series in last year's Stanley Cup playoffs, Shaw turned things up a notch when he ran over the Phoenix goalie behind the net. Not only that, but Shaw caught him with an elbow up around the head.
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Intel Corporation is proceeding with its quarterly price cutting plans by slashing prices in August while introducing new versions of its low-end Celeron CPU. The Celeron, which is basically a 266 MHz Pentium II processor without any L2 cache, will be bumped to 300 and 333 MHz and will feature 128 K of L2 cache, further speeding them up. Intel also announced plans for a 366 MHz Celeron that will debut in early 1999.
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Garth Howard Drabinsky
October 27, 1949
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|Film and theatrical producer and entrepreneur
Garth Howard Drabinsky is a Canadian film and theatrical producer and entrepreneur. In 2009, he was convicted and sentenced to prison for fraud and forgery. The sentence was reduced from 7 to 5 years in prison, on appeal to the Ontario Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear a subsequent appeal.
Film and theatrical career[edit]
Born to a Jewish family[1] in Toronto, Ontario, Drabinsky graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1973, and was called to the bar in Ontario in 1975.[2] Entering into the entertainment business in 1978 as an independent commercial film producer (through Tiberius Entertainment Limited, formed with Joel Michaels)[3] and film distributor (through Pan-Canadian Film Distributors Inc., formed with Nat Taylor),[4] he was credited as the producer for:
- The Disappearance (1977)
- The Silent Partner (1978)
- The Changeling (1980)
- Tribute (1980)
- The Amateur (1981)
- Losin' It (1983)
- The Gospel of John[5] (2003)
- Half Light (2004)
- Barrymore (2011)
In April 1979, he and Nat Taylor co-founded Cineplex Theatres, which created a chain of multiplex theatres for the Canadian market. By May 1984, it had acquired the Canadian Odeon Theatre chain, thus becoming Cineplex Odeon and a major player in the industry.[4] It expanded further through the acquisition of several US theatre chains, but he left the company in December 1989.
He leveraged his ownership of the Pantages Theatre in Toronto to form the publicly traded theatre production company, Live Entertainment Corporation of Canada, Inc., also known as Livent.[4] The company expanded, building or refurbishing several theatres, including the Oriental Theatre in Chicago, and entered into management deals with others in Toronto, Vancouver, and New York. It became noted for its productions (which earned a total of 19 Tony Awards out of a total of 61 nominations) of:
- Phantom of the Opera (1989 Canadian production)
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1992 Canadian production)
- Kiss of the Spider Woman (1992 Canadian production)*
- Show Boat (1993 Canadian production)**
- Ragtime, (1996 original production)
- Sunset Boulevard (1995 Canadian production)
- Fosse (1999 Broadway production)*
- Tony Award for Best Musical, ** Tony Award for Best Musical Revival
After Livent[edit]
Drabinsky is still active in the Canadian entertainment industry, through Tiberius Entertainment[6] (now known as Garth H. Drabinsky Productions).[7] In 2011, it promoted the film Barrymore at the Toronto International Film Festival, based on the play with Christopher Plummer.[8] Drabinsky is now partnering with former CBC executive Richard Stursberg to raise funds for two musicals.[9] Drabinsky closed Sousztaka after receiving bad reviews.
After selling his life insurance policies for nearly $3 million, Drabinsky is in development on a new musical called Hard Times.
Livent insolvency and subsequent proceedings[edit]
In November 1998, Livent sought bankruptcy protection in the US and Canada, claiming a debt of $334 million,[10] and securities regulators in both Canada and the US began investigating Livent's books.
Canadian proceedings[edit]
On March 25, 2009, Drabinsky and Livent co-founder Myron Gottlieb were found guilty of fraud and forgery in Ontario Superior Court for misstating the company's financial statements between 1993 and 1998.[11] Drabinsky was sentenced to seven years in jail on August 5, 2009 for his role in the case.[12]
Drabinsky filed an appeal in the Ontario Court of Appeal with respect to his sentence on September 3, 2009.[13] During that appeal, he remained free on bail. On September 13, 2011, the Court of Appeal, while upholding the convictions, reduced Drabinsky's sentence to 5 years.[14] Drabinsky applied for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, and the application was dismissed without costs on March 29, 2012.[15][16] Drabinsky was originally held at Millhaven Institution, for assessment. In December 2011, he was transferred to serve out his sentence at Beaver Creek Institution, a minimum security prison, located in Gravenhurst, Ontario,[17] and was released on day parole in February 2013.[6] Drabinsky was granted full parole on January 20, 2014.[18]
Administrative proceedings were initiated against Livent, Drabinsky and others by the Ontario Securities Commission in 2001,[19] and they were suspended in 2002 until all outstanding criminal proceedings had been completed.[20] In February 2013, the OSC announced that hearings would take place on March 19, 2013, in the matter.[21] Myron Gottlieb and Gordon Eckstein, who were the other parties in the proceedings, subsequently entered into settlement agreements with the OSC in September 2014 and May 2015 respectively.[22][23]
In 2017, the Ontario Securities Commission permanently banned Drabinsky from becoming a director or officer of any public company in Ontario. The OSC also prohibited him from acting as an investment promoter, and banned him from trading securities (other than as a retail investor, for trades within his RRSP or through a registered dealer for accounts in his name only).[24][25][26]
US proceedings[edit]
In January 1999, Livent reached an administrative settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission,[27] while civil and criminal proceedings were simultaneously pursued against Drabinsky, Gottlieb and certain other former Livent employees.[28]
In 2005, former investors in Livent corporate bonds won a $23.3 million settlement against Drabinsky and Gottlieb in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York,[29] for which enforcement of the judgment was upheld by the Ontario Court of Appeal in 2008.[30]
Arrest warrants are outstanding with respect to the US criminal proceedings,[31][32][33] but double jeopardy rules prevent US extradition proceedings from taking place, because of the conviction in Canadian courts.[34]
On July 17, 2014 Drabinsky was disbarred by the Tribunal of the Law Society of Upper Canada[35] for unbecoming conduct, having been found guilty of defrauding the public and forging certain financial statements. The Tribunal's order, effective immediately, revoked his license to practice law in the province of Ontario.[36]
Order of Canada[edit]
On November 29, 2012, Governor General David Johnston signed an Ordinance of Termination revoking Drabinsky's membership in the Order of Canada, originally conferred in 1995 in the Officer grade.[37] Drabinsky subsequently filed an application in the Federal Court of Canada to block his removal,[38] which was dismissed on January 9, 2014.[39] He subsequently appealed the decision to the Federal Court of Appeal. The appeal was heard in December 2014,[40] and rejected the following month,[41] when the court held that there was "no basis" for it to intervene in the matter.[42]
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- Books
- Garth Drabinsky (1976). Motion Pictures and the Arts in Canada: the business and the law. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson. ISBN 0-07082298-0.
- Garth Drabinsky (1992). Closer to the Sun (An Autobiography). with Marq de Villiers. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. ISBN 0-77105650-8.
- Documentary
- Show Stopper: The Theatrical Life of Garth Drabinsky on IMDb : premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2012, directed by Barry Avrich [43][44]
- ^ Singer, David (July 1995). American Jewish Year Book 1995 (Vol 95. Issn 0065-8987). p. 214.
- ^ "Garth H. Drabinsky". Canadian Law List. Retrieved 11 March 2013.
- ^ "Film firm formed in Toronto". Ottawa Citizen. 31 August 1978. Retrieved 11 March 2013.
- ^ a b c Peter Rist (2001). Guide to the Cinema of Canada. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 59. ISBN 0-313-29931-5.
- ^ Thompson, Damian (13 November 2003). "At last, a Jesus for all faiths". London: The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
- ^ a b Knelman, Martin (2013-02-20). "Garth Drabinsky on day parole after 17 months in jail". Toronto Star.
- ^ "Tiberius Entertainment/Garth H. Drabinsky Productions". Telefilm Canada. Retrieved 11 March 2013.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Barrymore (2011) on IMDb
- ^ Knelman, Martin (December 21, 2014). "Garth Drabinsky prepares for Act 3". The Toronto Star.
- ^ Christopher Besant and Lydia Salvi. "The Livent CCAA/Chapter 11 Proceedings". Archived from the original on 2014-04-13. Retrieved 2012-03-30.
- ^ Janet MacFarlane and Paul Waldie (2009-03-25). "Livent founders guilty in fraud trial". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. Archived from the original on 2009-03-26. Retrieved 2009-03-25., discussing R v Drabinsky 2009 CanLII 12802 (25 March 2009), Superior Court of Justice (Ontario, Canada)
- ^ French, Cameron (August 5, 2009). "Ex-Broadway mogul Drabinsky gets 7 years for fraud". Reuters., discussing R v Drabinsky 2009 CanLII 41220 (5 August 2009), Superior Court of Justice (Ontario, Canada)
- ^ McFarland, Janet (September 4, 2009). "Drabinsky files appeal of jail sentence". The Globe and Mail. Toronto.
- ^ R v Drabinsky 2011 ONCA 582 (13 September 2011)
- ^ Garth Howard Drabinsky v. Her Majesty the Queen 2012 CanLII 16927 (29 March 2012), Supreme Court (Canada)
- ^ McFarland, Janet (2012-03-29). "Drabinsky loses appeal bid". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. Archived from the original on 2012-04-02.
- ^ Knelman, Martin (2011-12-29). "Garth Drabinsky transferred to Beaver Creek minimum security prison". Toronto Star.
- ^ Martin Knelman (January 20, 2014). "Garth Drabinsky wins full parole for 2009 fraud convictions". The Toronto Star.
- ^ "STATEMENT OF ALLEGATIONS OF STAFF OF THE ONTARIO SECURITIES COMMISSION". Ontario Securities Commission. 2001-07-03. Retrieved 2012-03-30.
- ^ "ORDER" (PDF). Ontario Securities Commission. 2002-11-15. Retrieved 2012-03-30.
- ^ Schecter, Barbara (2013-02-21). "Curtain to rise again for Livent at OSC". Financial Post.
- ^ Schecter, Barbara (2014-09-05). "Livent co-founder Myron Gottlieb reaches proposed settlement with OSC". Financial Post.
- ^ "Gordon Eckstein reaches OSC settlement in Livent fraud case". CTV News. May 22, 2015.
- ^ "In the matter of Garth H. Drabinsky, Myron I. Gottlieb and Gordon Eckstein". Ontario Securities Commission. June 15, 2017.
- ^ McFarland, Janet (June 16, 2017). "OSC bans Garth Drabinsky from becoming director or officer of public company". The Globe and Mail.
- ^ Alexandra, Pozadski (June 16, 2017). "Former theatre mogul Garth Drabinsky banned from becoming director or officer of public company". The Toronto Star.
- ^ "ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDING - File No. 3-9806". Securities and Exchange Commission. 1999-01-13. Retrieved 2012-03-30.
- ^ "Litigation Release No. 16022". Securities and Exchange Commission. 1999-01-13. Retrieved 2012-03-30.
- ^ McKinley, Jesse (2005-02-09). "Executives Must Pay $23.3 Million to Broadway Investors, Judge Says". New York Times.
- ^ King v Drabinsky 2008 ONCA 566, 91 OR (3d) 616 (28 July 2008); leave to appeal dismissed, Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb v. Dorian King and Diane King 2009 CanLII 6003 (12 February 2009), Supreme Court (Canada)
- ^ Furman, Phyllis (1999-01-29). "Show Con't Go On On Lam, Livent Duo Warrant An Appearance". New York Daily News.
- ^ "Warrants Issued for Ex-Livent Partners". New York Times. 1999-01-29.
- ^ Austen, Ian (2006-10-23). "Fugitive Producer to Offer TV Show". New York Times.
- ^ Tedesco, Theresa (2011-03-24). "Livent duo not ready to take bow". Financial Post.
- ^ Gray, Jeff and Janet McFarland, "Ontario's law Society disbars Garth Drabinsky", Globe and Mail (Toronto).
- ^ Law Society of Upper Canada v. Drabinsky, 2014 ONLSTH 139 (17 July 2014)
- ^ "Garth Drabinsky stripped of Order of Canada". Toronto Star. February 27, 2013. Retrieved February 27, 2013.
- ^ McGregor, Glen (February 27, 2013). "Theatre fraudster Garth Drabinsky fights Order of Canada removal". National Post. Retrieved March 10, 2013.
- ^ Graham Slaughter (January 9, 2014). "Garth Drabinsky loses fight to reclaim Order of Canada". The Toronto Star.
- ^ "Garth Drabinsky makes bid to reclaim Order of Canada". The Canadian Press. December 10, 2014.
- ^ Drabinsky v. Canada (Advisory Council of the Order) 2015 FCA 5 (9 January 2015), affirming Drabinsky v. Advisory Council of the Order of Canada 2015 FC 21 (8 January 2014)
- ^ "Garth Drabinsky loses bid to get Order of Canada back". Toronto Star. January 13, 2015. Retrieved January 14, 2015.
- ^ Knelman, Martin (2012-07-31). "TIFF will showcase doc on Garth Drabinsky". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on 2013-02-04.
- ^ Kirshner, Sheldon, The rise and fall of Garth Drabinsky, The Canadian Jewish News, 21 September 2012. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
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Anyways, I've got myself the HTC Cha Cha 2 weeks ago.. the day before I went to Hongkong. It's quite an awesome phone I'd say.
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Snarky Puppy, a large revolving-and-evolving collective of musicians from Dallas and New York, describe themselves as, "Music to move the brain and booty." Perhaps a different conjunction would have been necessary: When the band is most musically intriguing, their dance fever generally breaks, as they focus more on melody and texture than simple ass-shake. But when they jump back into the frenetic jam, they often lose their heads for simple, fetid funk. It's possible to have it both ways, but Snarky Puppy doesn't. —Grayson CurrinFriday, April 19, at The Pour House Music Hall. $15–$18/10 p.m.
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Prominent criminal defense attorney Terence P. Gillespie may join former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's legal team, a move that would guarantee Blagojevich at least one solid, battle-hardened veteran defender.The idea is being explored but no decision has been made, people informed about the discussions told The Associated Press Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity because the talks are confidential.
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We are Sunnis and we live in a Shi'ah state. We want to perform the duty of Hajj but we cannot travel with the people of this country because they are Shi'ah, and we want to avoid having trouble on the way.
You have to do Hajj even if you go with the Shi'ah, if you are able to do Hajj. At the same time you have to beware of the specious arguments of the Shi'ah and their false way. If you can advise them and call them to embrace the way of Ahl al-Sunnah, then you have to do that, because Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
"Invite (mankind, O Muhammad) to the way of your Lord (i.e. Islam) with wisdom (i.e. with the Divine Revelation and the Qur'aan) and fair preaching, and argue with them in a way that is better"
[al-Nahl 16:125]
And there are other verses which indicate that it is obligatory to call people to Allaah, and to enjoin what is good and forbid what is evil. May Allaah set all our affairs straight.
See al-Lajnah al-Daa'imah li'l-Buhooth al-'Ilmiyyah wa'l-Ifta', 11/18.


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RALEIGH – North Carolina's State Board of Education approved a plan to distribute about $800,000 to 19 rural public school districts to help teach children to abstain from sex. The federal money will focus on students in grades 4 through 6 who are at increased risk for bearing children out of wedlock.
The federal health overhaul aka "Obamacare" extends the current program that allows for states to distribute funds for the purpose of teaching abstinence education.
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April 11, 2012
NYK is pleased to announce the upgrade of our ALEX (Asia Latin America Express) service linking Asia with Mexico and the west coast of South America.
The new ALEX service will consolidate our current ALEX-1 and ALEX-2 loops into one single loop as follows:
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Port Rotation: Keelung �C Hong Kong �C Da Chan Bay �C Xiamen �C Shanghai �C Ningbo �C Pusan �C Manzanillo �C Callao �C Iquique �C Valparaiso �C Lirquen �C Callao �C Manzanillo �C Tokyo �C Keelung
The first sailing will depart from Keelung on April 26, 2012.
The ports of Honolulu, Buenaventura, and Guayaquil, which were part of ALEX-2, will now be served through new services of ours.
Buenaventura and Guayaquil will be a part of our new MSX (Mexico South America Express) service with transshipment in Manzanillo (Mexico) and Callao. The details of this shuttle service are as follows:
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Port Rotation: Manzanillo �C Buenaventura �C Callao �C Guayaquil �C Manzanillo
The first sailing will depart from Manzanillo on May 26, 2012.
Honolulu will be served by our new AHX (Asia Hawaii Express) service. A separate press release (http://www.nyk.com/english/release/1964/NE_120411_2.html) contains information about service details.
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Mercure Sao Luis Mont Blanc is located 4 km from the town centre, 16 km from the airport and close to the Tropical Shopping Centre. Mercure Sao Luis Mont Blanc offers 120 apartments, featuring modern architecture, the hotel guests facilities include a restaurant, a bar and a business centre as well as aswimming pool and sauna.
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The only seafront Hotel in stunning Sao Luis. Also the only hotel who offers various services as coiffure, exercises facilities, LAN house, steam house, gift shops, etc. Best Western Praia Mar is your choice for an unforgettable stay. We want to welcome you to the Best Western Praia Mar Hotel, a property that is actually on the beach. We have been in business for 18 years, always improving our services to make your stay as comfortable as we can. The Best Western Praia Mar Hotel is a great structure with a variety of services such as swimming pool, convention center for up to 1, 000 guests, restaurant, business room, gym, playground, diaper changing area, beauty salon and convenience store. All of which was created to better serve you.
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A good-sized swarm of bees has just a few minutes ago moved into one of our bee-boxes.
They totally ignored the freshly-prepared and lovingly-tended catch boxes we've had out since our last, unsuccessful attempt to catch a swarm, and moved into the tatty, unprepared full-sized brood-box! In the space of just 5 or 10 minutes, they moved in and are contentedly getting the furniture arranged. The only trouble is that the box in question is a bit too close to the house and the veggie-garden gate for comfort. Bear in mind that these are not your meek and mild European Bees, but a race of the dread and fearsome African Honey Bee -- Apis mellifera capensis -- and not to be messed with lightly. We'll give them a few days to get settled, and then see to moving the hive somewhere a bit more convenient to ourselves. The bad thing is that the hive is totally vulnerable to any Honey Badgers that might wander by -- we'll just have to keep our fingers crossed for a few days until we can get them settled somewhere safer.
Hooray! Finally, after years of trying to catch a swarm...
(In the picture you can probably not make out the Bees themselves moving into the white, full-sized box. Atop the hive is one of the catch boxes, freshly prepared, and not yet placed in a strategic location.)