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ON COURSE FOR SUCCESS - New Yorker has more than 1000 stores in 40 countries, making it one of Europe's largest fashion businesses.
Since opening its first branch in the northern German town of Flensburg in 1971, New Yorker has never looked back. By targeted investment in the future, it has not only created new jobs but has also developed into an international clothing company.
A staff of 16.000 – full-time and part-time – serves over 4 million paying customers each month. In contrast to the general trend, New Yorker has seen strong growth and continuously increased its profits in the last few years. This success can be attributed to effective market positioning and strong expansion in Europe.
The mainstay of the range is Young Fashion, jeans, sportswear and streetwear fashions for a young, trend-conscious target group – supplemented by a wide range of accessories and underwear. All in all the New Yorker collection makes a clear fashion statement and is entirely made up of the company's own labels. The collections reflect the individual seasons as well as the very latest fashion trends and all workmanship is of high quality. The company's international purchasing activities enable the stores to always have the very latest in stock.
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Its flat hierarchies enable New Yorker to be efficient and profitable in all sectors and realise the network principle in the company, providing the foundation for its stable and forward-looking development.


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Uncharted 3 – HD video from the multiplayer beta
You may not have played the Uncharted 3 multiplayer beta, but at least now you can see what it looks like.
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First Crysis 2 PS3 video appears, multiplayer beta coming soon
Crytek's just released the first footage of Crysis 2 running on PS3.
Killzone 3 gets multiplayer beta on October 25, new trailer
Sony's just announced Killzone 3 will get a multiplayer beta, beginning on October 25.
Black Ops multiplay beta rumour is "completely false," says Acti
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As you can see from this Steam page, the Dawn of War II multiplayer beta is now open to everyone. Up to this point, you needed to be in possession of a copy of Dawn of War add-on Soustorm to get past the guards. You should be waiting for nothing. Get involved. The game's out […]
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By John Malhotra
North east India has a high concentration of Christians, but there are fears that this fact is being exploited by criminals disguising themselves as missionaries and evangelists in order to traffic children.
Last month, over 70 such malnourished children from Manipur, Nagaland, and other north eastern states were rescued from a home at Kuzhithurai in Kanyakumari district.
Families, particularly in Manipur, are reportedly sending their children off into the hands of traffickers who promise to give them an education or employment, as highlighted recently by the Times of India.
It is believed that the children, aged from around six to 15, are being taken to unregistered children's homes where they are kept in poor conditions and made to do menial work such as cooking and laundry.
There have been reports of children dying in suspicious circumstances and of others being molested and abused.
"These institutions exploit religion to make money. With many of them not registered with the government, the homes escape scrutiny,"said Vidya Reddy of the Centre for Prevention and Healing of Child Sexual Abuse in Tulir, according to the Times of India.
In light of the reports, the Church has become concerned for the welfare of children.
"This trend is shocking and deplorable," said Dr. Hrangthan Chhungi, theologian and Secretary of Commission on Adivasis/Tribals in the National Council of Churches in India.
"It is indeed very ruinous and gross that religion is used for the trafficking business," she said. "Taking the name of Christianity, they lure gullible Christians, specially the parents of poor families or guardians of homeless children and make it a thriving business."
In explaining why Manipur is an easy target, Chhungi noted how the Kuki people in that state are one of the most victimized tribes in inter-tribe conflicts. These conflicts and killings have rendered children without parents in recent years.
"This sorry situation is taken advantage and made a business by vested interests," she stated.
Knowing this, the National Council of Churches in India plans to hold a symposium to raise awareness of child trafficking among churches and NGOs.
The ecumenical organization of Protestant and Orthodox churches in India presently represents 13 million Christian people through out the country and includes groups such as National Council of YMCAs, YWCA of India, Churches Auxiliary for Social Action (CASA), and Bible Society of India (BSI).
In total, NCCI is made up of twenty-nine member churches , fourteen regional councils, fourteen all-India organizations and seven related agencies.


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The good Dr. Dre may drive Ferraris, but when it comes to keeping those heads ringing he's sticking with his partner Eminem and tuning sound systems for Chrysler. Ding ding dong.
Chrysler announced today that anyone who purchases a Chrysler 300S is getting the "Beats by Dr. Dre" experience. What does that actually mean? See if you can parse this bit of press release speak:
Instead of the traditional approach to automotive sound entrusting lab coat-adorned engineers as the arbiters of musical taste, Beats By Dr. Dre founders Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine worked side-by-side with the engineering team at Chrysler to design and tune the 10-speaker audio system. The resulting audio experience offers a polished and refined professional-grade studio sound that only long-time music experts like Dr. Dre, a legendary producer and artist and Iovine, an acclaimed producer and chairman of Interscope Geffen-A&M Records could achieve.
It sounds like Dre isn't sitting in his garage making speakers for Chryslers, instead he's helping fine-tune the algorithms for the equalizer and aiding with the setup of the speakers the car comes with already.
Some of the 300's buyers will enjoy this feature while the rest of the demographic will just assume Dr. Dre is an audiologist. Happy 4/20 everyone!


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Will 3D Printing Transform The World -- Or Just Fill It With Non-Biodegradable Personalized Junk?
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It's clear that 3D printing has moved well beyond the breathless novelty stage, and is entering the breathless hype phase, with everyone declaring that it's the next big thing, and that it will transform the world etc. etc. etc. There's no denying it's a powerful technology with great possibilities. But against a background of uncritical boosterism, it's good to come across an article in the Architectural Review that points out some of the problems we will need to address to realize its full potential. Here's one:
We could start by properly critiquing the impacts of this technology beginning with a much deeper analysis of the materials used, the energy and resource requirements, and the supply chains that result in printed objects. Fully characterising the current production systems may help us to understand how they could be developed into ecosystems of exchange where the coveted objects can be meaningfully recycled by our biosphere.
It's all very well being able to print objects on demand, but unless the ecological implications -- both in terms of the raw materials used and the energy required -- are considered, it may well be that 3D printing is actually a step backwards when it comes to environmental impact. The ability to re-cycle 3D-printed objects needs to be built in from the start.
Another problem is more subtle:
If 3-D printing does not fully take on this responsibility then the sustainability of our current highly 'customised' objects is likely to be under scrutiny, as the unit cost of printers falls and hobbyists make legions of white elephants out of toxic plastics and when our landfills are chock-a-block with yesterday's badly made fashionable shapes. And while some -- such as ultrasound embryo portraits -- may have enduring sentimental value, it is likely that most will simply clutter up our rubbish dumps and precipitate our plastic marine continents as indestructible rubbish icebergs.
As this points out, if we are not careful, the personal manufacturing revolution may become the 3D equivalent of Geocities: a huge flood of badly-designed, useless pieces of junk that are soon abandoned by their embarrassed creators.
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text: Level 3 Veterinary Nursing Practical Revision - Part Two The College of Animal WelfareDate: Friday 13 November 2020Time: 09:30 - 16:00 (6 CPD Hours)Venue: CAW Leeds →Course fee: £125Lecturer: Jennifer Scrimshaw → 1212 spaces available. Book now Practical revision for the OSCE tasks for Veterinary Nursing students studying the City and Guilds Level 3 Veterinary Nursing Diploma.This course is one of two parts of the 'Level 3 Veterinary Nursing Practical Task Revision' course and is designed to assist students who are preparing for the Veterinary Nursing Practical (OSCE) Examinations. You will have a selection of OSCE tasks demonstrated by experienced, trained lecturers followed by the opportunity to perform these tasks. We will provide feedback and support during these 'hands-on' sessions.Delegates will cover the Practical (OSCE) tasks from: LaboratoryTheatre PracticeRadiographyYou do not need to wear uniform but should be wearing comfortable and sensible attire for a clinical area. We recommend at least a scrub top and non-opened toed shoes.We also advise bringing the surgical gloves you prefer, if you have a latex allergy please advise us when you book the course.Please note, if you are currently a student with the College of Animal Welfare, you may be entitled to a discount. Please call 01480 422 060 to book.


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Look at Africa from space, and you'll notice a belt of dark green across the continent's midsection. A friend studying a poster of Earth once asked me what caused that "shadow." It's vegetation, of course, and what makes it stand out is the contrast with the continent's arid regions, most notably the Sahara Desert. Scientists at the University of Kiel, Germany, however, have shown that three times within the past 120,000 years, the Sahara region was covered in grassland, lakes, and ponds (see The Green Sahara, A Desert in Bloom. Those wetter episodes correspond to the changing orientation of the Earth's rotational axis, which periodically increases the solar radiation falling on the tropical Atlantic, boosting the moisture in the air while also pushing the African monsoon farther north into the Sahara.
The Sahara's past is one of the keys to understanding how our climate can change rapidly. As a geologist, I love timelines; for me they are the only way I can visualize the order of historical events. The record of the region's "green" periods is well illustrated at Dienekes' Anthropology Blog, where a simple chart based on the new research gives you 120,000 years of the Sahara's rainfall history at a glance. But how did these green periods look on a map, the geologist's other visualization aid? For that I stumbled across a site on Lake Megachad, a paleolake that reached its maximum extent some 7,000 years ago. Today's Lake Chad (Africa's second largest wetland) is all that remains of the body that once exceeded the size of the Caspian Sea, the largest lake (by area or volume) in the world today (note: the Caspian is not a freshwater lake). Some of the ancient rivers and lakes are often easy to pick out in satellite images. An excellent example of how archaeologists are using these long-gone waterways to guide their search for prehistoric settlements can be found at The Geoarchaeology of Western Sahara. Subtitled "Preliminary results of the first Anglo-Italian expedition in the liberated zone," it reports on a 2002 exploration of Western Sahara, a sparsely populated, contested territory south of Morocco.
To see how changes in Earth's orbit could add enough heat to the tropical Atlantic to produce the Sahara's green periods, go to Orbital Fluctuations, a page at the Department of Meteorology at Lyndon State College in Vermont. The Flash animation shows how the three cycles—eccentricity, precession, and obliquity—combine to alter the amount of sunlight falling on any given region. After quite a bit of searching, I found this Graph of Insolation at a site on the ice ages at the Illinois State Museum. It shows the irregular curve produced by adding and subtracting the effects of the three cycles. In this case, it shows the amount of sunlight falling in June at latitude 65 degrees north. For more on this subject, look at Peter Huyber's page at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. Scroll down to "Downloads" and click on "Insolation plots, movies, and tables."
The National Climatic Data Center's End of the African Humid Period explains how the Sahara expanded rapidly 5,500 years ago, when the African monsoons weakened. This page is part of a section on abrupt climate changes that have occurred in distant past. Other examples (which you can access by clicking on "The Data" in the menu on the left) include the collapse of the Classic Maya civilization and the demise of the world's first empire, the Akkadian, in what is now Iraq and Syria.
Archaeological discoveries in the Sahara (in addition to those mentioned above from Western Sahara) are revealing the lives of the people who thrived during the wetter climate. Paul Sereno and collaborators recently published their work on a Neolithic graveyard in the Sahara. Anthropology.net has a good summary of the find entitled, "The Kiffian & Tenerean Occupation of Gobero, Niger: Perhaps the Largest Collection of Early-Mid Holocene People in Africa". In 2000, Mike Hettwer, a photographer for National Geographic, stumbled upon the graveyard during an expedition in search of dinosaur and giant crocodile remains. The burial site has some 182 individuals, but the most remarkable discovery is that they represent two different cultures, one inhabiting the area between 7700 and 6200 b.c. and the other between 5200 and 2500 b.c. Paul Sereno and his team, famous for uncovering new dinosaur species, did a superb job of preserving and documenting this important prehistoric burial site. Their detailed report is linked in the article above, or you can access it directly at "Lakeside Cemeteries in the Sahara: 5000 Years of Holocene Population and Environmental Change". Related finds, made in the late 1990s in Niger, are the beautiful stone engravings of giraffes, some of the largest prehistoric artworks discovered. At the 153 Club (a club for Sahara Desert travelers named for the old Michelin 153 map of northwestern Africa), I found this entry with photos: "New" Giraffe Engravings Found.
Dust: You cannot talk about the Sahara's influence on global climate without talking about it. Each year, 60 million to 200 million tons of Africa's mineral dust are carried high into the atmosphere by hot, rising air currents. Propelled westward by powerful trade winds, some of it reaches the Amazon, fertilizing the rainforest with much-needed nutrients. Go to the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme and read "The Sahara Desert and Amazon Basin—'Achilles heels' in Earth's Armour." Courtesy of EUMETSAT, a European consortium charged with monitoring the weather and climate from space, you can see an animation of "Dust Wind Tracers over the Central Sahara (5 January 2005)" blowing across northern Chad from the vantage point of a satellite. At the SeaWiFS site there is a NASA animation of a Sandstorm the Size of Spain blowing across the Atlantic A NASA image of a Dust Cloud over the Western Sahara Desert shows a massive dust storm blowing from Algeria to Western Sahara.
But what happens if the desert greens again, perhaps owing to warmer oceans, and the dust diminishes? In 2002, NewScientist magazine ran an article by Fred Pearce, "Africa's Deserts Are in 'Spectacular' Retreat," which suggests a greening of sorts may be underway. Of further concern is a NASA finding that African dust reflects sunlight into space, which cools the planet; see the article "Sahara Dust Storms & Sea Surface Temperatures: Dust Is Responsible for Lower Atlantic Temperatures." This implies that less dust from a greener Sahara would lead to further warming.
To end on a positive note: I found that some Europeans are angling to generate much of their electric power from the Sahara winds, some of the most consistent gales on the planet. For a look at the ambitious plans for wind farms and transmission lines to bring green power to Europe go to North Atlantic Trade Winds. Someday, nearly half the Europe's electricity could be generated along the western edge of the Sahara, cutting greenhouse emissions drastically to help "green" the whole planet.


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A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
By: Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent
Publication Date: 2011-04-11
Number of pages: 240
Abby Sutherland grew up sailing. Her father, Laurence, a shipwright, and her mother, Marianne, wanted their kids to develop responsibility, to see other cultures, to experience the world instead of watching it on TV. So they took them sailing down the coast of Mexico... for three years.
When Abby was thirteen, she began helping her father deliver boats and soon was sailing solo. She loved being on the open ocean, the spray in her face, the wind in her hair. She began to dream of sailing the world.
But fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have traveled into space. It is a challenge so immense that many have died trying, and all have been pushed beyond every physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual limit.
In Unsinkable, you will follow Abby into the depths through a gripping and evocative firsthand account that starts prior to her departure, travels through her daring (and sometimes near-death) encounters on the open sea, to her dramatic rescue in the remotest part of the Indian Ocean. Today, when the most productive thing a teenager may do is play videogames, Abby's courage and tenacity shows us all what can happen when we choose to challenge our own limits, embrace faith, and aim for what our critics say is impossible.
It was pitch-black out and whitewater was crashing over the boat. The wintry wind screamed across the deck, and I could tell it was now holding up near fifty knots. Imagine standing on the roof of a car that's driving down the freeway. That's how hard it was blowing.
At that moment, a huge gust hit the mainsail like a train. The boat heeled over to port as if a giant hand had smacked her down, and I tumbled over the top of the mainsail toward the water...
On January 23, 2010, sixteen-year-old Abby Sunderland set sail from Marina del Rey, California, in an attempt to become the youngest person to sail solo, nonstop, and unassisted around the world. Immediately, her trip sparked controversy. What was a girl her age doing undertaking such a voyage? What were her parents thinking?
Abby's critics predicted she'd make it a few weeks at most. But sailing south, she proved them wrong and became the youngest person to solo around Cape Horn, the "Mt. Everest of sailing." Crossing the Southern and Atlantic oceans, she battled vicious storms and equipment breakdowns?making one critical repair literally with a nail file and some line. Abby bested the wicked waters at the southern tip of Africa and then entered the Indian Ocean?all twenty-seven million square miles of it.
Even less than a hundred years ago, having your boat become disabled in the middle of the Indian's immense rolling reaches was as good as a death sentence. The odds are better now, but not much. It was here that Abby Sutherland encountered the violent storms that would test her mettle and her will to survive?and change her life forever.
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There's been a lot of buzz lately about the new and innovative RootsTech conference in Salt Lake City. (Check out my blog about it here.) The wide range of family history and technology developer classes was something we really haven't seen in mainstream genealogy conferences. And the exhibit hall was hands-down the most exciting high-tech genealogy space (and most expensive!) that family historians have ever seen.
It was quite amazing considering it was a first time event for FamilySearch. As Jay Verkler commented in my interview with him, they fully expected to make a few mistakes here and there, and strive for continuous improvements. The commitment has been made: RootsTech will be an annual event, and it will just get better and better.
While FamilySearch's RootsTech roared onto the genealogy scene, it was the Who Do You Think You Are? Live event in London (Check out my blog about it here.) that featured a simple and yet very effective technological component: hands-on computer access.
As I scoured the vast aisles of the Olympia Conference Centre, everywhere I looked attendees were not just browsing exhibits, but they were also interacting with them. While there were banks of computers provided by FamilySearch in both the Internet Café area and the Family History Library area of the exhibit hall at RootsTech, a hands on experience was not the norm at most vendor booths. Of course, the challenge for vendors is that power hookup at events like these can be quite costly, and yet exhibit stalls from the largest to the smallest seem to be able to pull it off at Who Do You Think You Are? Live.
Having the ability to put their hands on keyboards, test drive software, search for ancestors kept attendees fully engaged and prolonged their stay at each stall. The level of engagement achieved at WDYTYA? Live is a great role model for future RootsTech conferences. Perhaps FamilySearch can work to negotiate lower fees in exchange for a larger number of power and Internet hookups. As so often happens with technology, it's the access and hardware that tend to be the biggest hurdles, as there is no lack of interest or innovation!
And speaking of innovation, check out my newest video interview with Mike Dowdle of GenerationStation. Mike is the perfect example of someone who saw a need, had an idea, and succeeded in converging technology and family history into a cool new website tool.
You can view many more videos recorded at the RootsTech 2011 conference at the the Genealogy Gems Podcast Channel at YouTube.


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July 25, 2013
Brian Spencer, '13, finished his collegiate football career as Albion College's all-time receptions leader because he was able to the slow the activity around him.
The East Lansing native is drawing upon those experiences this summer as he and his girlfriend, Jane Finkel, a rising senior at Albion, launch what they hope will be successful careers in the music industry. Spencer and Finkel, who is majoring in music with minors in art and French, form the duo Less Is More, which has booked regular performances at Goodfellow's and the Pink Pony on Mackinac Island.
Life on the island is a definite change for Spencer. Instead of lifting weights in preparation for the football season, the communication studies graduate who minored in management can be seen biking with a guitar slung on his back and pulling a cart carrying speakers and other equipment.
Finkel and Spencer, who have been performing together for three years, got another break this summer when they were accepted into the Traverse City Film Festival. The festival, scheduled for July 30-Aug. 4, will coincide with the release of original songs including "Seesaws and Skyscrapers."
The duo will pursue their music careers separately in the fall. Finkel will go off campus to work at Art on Air, a nonprofit organization based in New York City that strives to be a leading source for music, audio art, cultural dialogue and new media innovation. She also will record her first solo album, while Spencer will complete a 14-week program in recording arts at the Dark Horse Institute in Franklin, Tenn.
"I am very excited to start this new chapter of my life," Spencer said. "Music is at the forefront of every idea that I am having. I am going to work hard to use my bachelor's [degree] that I got from Albion and combine that with the sound/audio engineering degree I'll receive from the Dark Horse Institute.
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I've fast RAID-10 disk subsystem with multiple SCSI disks. Apps running under modern Linux kernel don't write directly to the disk. They write it to the file system cache which is managed by Linux kernel virtual memory manager. Since I've high performance RAID controller I need to decrease the number of flushes. How do I tune virtual memory subsystem under Linux operating systems for better performance?


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|Mary and Catherine "Kay" Quirk
I posted Aunt Kay's Funeral Card this past Friday and realized that I had never posted her obituary. Strange, but true. I seem to get sidetracked by so many other lines and neat things I find that far too often I find that I've neglected those members of my family tree that should have been blogged about earlier on. So today, I'm going to share her passing.
|Standard Sentinel 24JAN1961, pg 6
Miss Catherine Quirk, 572 West Green street, this city, died yesterday morning at 10 o'clock at her home following an illness of two months.
Born in Jeanesville, she was a daughter of the late William and Mary Ann (Lee) Quirk. She had resided in this city for the past 19 years.
She was a member of St. Gabriel's Church and the Altar and Rosary Society of the parish.
Surviving are a sister, Mary Quirk, and a niece, Mrs. Edward Brown, both of this city.
The funeral will be held from the Boyle Funeral Home at a time to be announced. Friends may call Wednesday from 7 to 10 p.m. and Thursday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 10 p.m."
|Standard Sentinel 26JAN1961, pg10
"QUIRK - At Hazleton, January 23rd Miss Catherine Quirk, of 572 W. Green street. Funeral from the Boyle Funeral Home, 100 S. Wyoming street, Friday at 9 a.m. Solemn high mass of requiem in St. Gabriel's Church at 9:30. Interment in St. Gabriel's Cemetery. Friends may call today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 10. John J. Boyle Sons, funeral directors."
|Standard Sentinel 28JAN1961, pg12
"Miss Catherine Quirk, 572 West Green street, who died Monday, was buried yesterday from the Boyle Funeral Home.
Rev. Joseph Akulonis was celebrant of the solemn high mass of requiem in St. Gabriel's Church. Rev. Edward Haggerty was deason, and Rev. Paul Purcell, sub-deacon. Interment was in the parish cemetery, where Rev. Haggerty gave the blessing at the grave.
Pallbearers were Edward Brown Jr., James Moran, Thomas Sacco, John Boyle; James Flynn and Edward O'Donnell."


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The TUD:OS (TU Dresden Operating Systems) group's objective is to reduce complexity for critical systems by orders of magnitude. To this end, we research, develop and use our own micro-kernel and virtualization technology. We use micro-kernels to componentise critical parts of systems and virtualisation to enable reuse of legacy software for uncritical parts.
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I have now, like every other fantasy fan with tits on the planet, read Ginia Bellafonte's risible review of HBO's adaptation of A Game of Thrones.
I've spent most of the week now trying to determine which planet she's from. I'm still not sure. It hasn't got the same color sky as mine, and the fact that she seems to think rape, incest and other varieties of less-than-romantic sex are thrown in to Martin's harrowingly gritty books just to give the ladies something to love frankly concerns me. I have to question the psychological health of a woman who thinks that's the sort of erotica women go for en masse. But never mind that. What's even more ridiculous than her bass-ackwards ideas of why GOT will have sex scenes is her insistence that Martin's epic is somehow about global warming.
Yes. Really. Here, for those who don't want to give her the satisfaction of another page view, is her take on the whole thing:
Here the term green carries double meaning as both visual descriptive and allegory. Embedded in the narrative is a vague global-warming horror story. Rival dynasties vie for control over the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros — a territory where summers are measured in years, not months, and where winters can extend for decades.How did this come to pass? We are in the universe of dwarfs, armor, wenches, braids, loincloth. The strange temperatures clearly are not the fault of a reliance on inefficient HVAC systems. Given the bizarre climate of the landmass at the center of the bloody disputes — and the series rejects no opportunity to showcase a beheading or to offer a slashed throat close-up — you have to wonder what all the fuss is about. We are not talking about Palm Beach.
I have to wonder why Blogger doesn't offer Comic Sans as an option, because any passages quoted from Ms. Bellafonte's review deserve to be in said font. Who here has read Martin's series and thought it was about global fucking warming? She obviously hasn't. Read the series, I mean. And after that bizarre last sentence, which upon fourth reading still makes no sense, she drops the global warming question all together and instead asks why the show's even on HBO.
Because, Ms. Bellafonte. It is an epic series conducive to adaptation, popular with huge swathes of male, female and otherwise-gendered people. It's such a gripping story that even those of us who hated it – literally hated reading it – had to keep reading, and are ready to beat George R.R. Martin bloody (sparing his hands and skull) if he once again delays the release of the next book. Some people at HBO, David Benioff chief among them, believed in its potential and saw the project through. And HBO stands to rake in the cold hard cash, because, and this is important, not everyone is a sneering, fantasy-hating, too-avante-gard-to-live genius-in-her-own-mind lackwit with culturally piss-poor female friends such as yourself, Ms. Bellafonte.
I mean, seriously. Not one of your female friends could clue you in? You have never met one single, solitary woman who would prefer The Hobbit over the latest navel-gazing based-on-the-author's-pathetic-excuse-for-a-life schlock offered up by book clubs that only seem to exist in order to make people who like good books cry? Not even one? Do you even leave your house? Do you even talk to other women? I have to wonder.
You apparently belong to that pathetic subset of the human population who think it makes them unbearably hip to bash fantasy at every possible opportunity. You see armor and dwarves, and you're in instant sneer mode, too busy looking down your nose to look beneath, at questions of what it means to be human and what morality is and how twisted society can be that would make your hair curl. Fantasy can be brutal. Fantasy can be uncompromising. And it can make us think in ways we never would have been able to think if the issues had been presented through any other medium. Unfortunately, it can't get through to the likes of you, Ms. Bellafonte, because you seem to be operating under the assumption that this isn't something good girls should like. Your fucking loss. And believe me, it is a loss.
Upon rumination, I can only come to the conclusion that your review is the result of a pathological hatred of fantasy combined with a serious lack of insight into the vast majority of your fellow females. It seems to me to be a cry for help. You should meet some new people. People like me and my lady friends, who think nothing of spending an evening geeking out over shows like Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica, and (oh, yes) Game of Thrones. Speak to women who would move to Middle Earth in one second flat if given half the chance. Listen to women whose bookshelves groan under the weight of more fantasy tomes than can be listed in one small blog post. Your sample size has been skewed by the fact your head has been firmly lodged up your posterior. There are legions of female fans of fantasy and science fiction. And two things you should have realized before penning something so incredibly stupid from start-to-finish:
1. We don't appreciate being told we don't exist. And
2. Trying to review a genre you're clueless about leads only to humiliation.
Keep this in mind the next time you plan to heap scorn upon a show you're reviewing. Especially if HBO decides to do a Thursday Next series. Because, while Martin's fans can be brutal, Fford ffans are just downright terrifying.
P.S. I get the impression from your article that you must have obtained a college education of some description. Were I you, I'd be asking for my money back.
For further entertaining dissections of one of the dumbest reviews in the history of television reviews, see:
George R.R. Martin's brilliant response (and delightful shout-out to his fangirls).
Annalee Newitz explains why the show's actually targeted at women only.
Geek With Curves demonstrates why you should not piss off someone whose next tattoo is inspired by Joss Whedon.
Margaret Hartmann demonstrates the art of the short, sharp smackdown.
And our own Stephanie Szvan digs in, plus bonus story!
I'm sure I've missed about five gajillion. Pop your faves into the comments, and/or any ranting you feel moved to. Epic length comments welcome. We are talking about fantasy here.


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There are 10 teams, give or take, who have a legitimate chance to compete for the NBA championship in 2014. Everybody else will suck. Some will suck more than others, and that will be a good thing for them.
Because that will improve their chances of landing the No. 1 pick in the 2014 NBA draft and selecting Andrew Wiggins of Kansas, who will be the next LeBron James.
Unfortunately, Wiggins is not expected to suit up in Venezuela for Team Canada in the Tournament of the Americas, which will help set the field for the 2014 World Cup in Spain. But the No. 1 pick in the 2013 draft, Anthony Bennett, is expected to be in uniform, as will Tristan Thompson, Cory Joseph, Kelly Olynyk, Andrew Nicholson and Robert Sacre.
Team USA will not be competing, having already qualified by winning the 2012 Olympics in London.
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Today, it is still July, and there still is quite a bit of unfinished business on the NBA free agent market — and a ton of speculation about the 2014 free agent market.
Guess what, folks … looking ahead to each summer's free agent market is the new new. This is because the new collective bargaining agreement limits ach NBA team to a single player having a five-year contract, which is what Chris Paul got from the Los Angeles Clippers and John Wall is getting from the Washington Wizards.
Four years is the max for everyone else, and many of those four-year deals have opt-outs after the second or third year. So we are going to have free agency speculation beginning in late November or early December every year, and this year's poster child for the new phenomenon will be the Los Angeles Lakers, as colleague Mark Heisler explains here.
Paul George is the latest to be asked questions about potentially signing an offer sheet with the Los Angeles Lakers while some New York Knicks fans are quietly wondering whether or not Carmelo Anthony is worth the maximum five-year, $135 million contract he will be eligible to sign next summer to remain in Gotham.
In years past, by the time August rolled around, the top free agents were off of the market. Yet, for complicated reasons, our top two—Nikola Pekovic and Brandon Jennings—are still unsigned. All the while, many of the smaller dominoes around them have continued to fall.
One of our personal favorites, Gary Neal of the San Antonio Spurs, became an unrestricted free agent after the Spurs brass decided to revoke his $1.1 million qualifying offer. After seeing Nate Robinson agree to take his talents to Denver to play for the new-look Nuggets, we believed that Neal's market value is somewhere in the same stratosphere as what Robinson signed for in Denver: two-years, $4 million. Neal ended up coming up a little bit short of that — $6.5 million for two seasons with the Bucks.
And while Kyrie Irving has begun fielding questions and concerns about whether or not he plans to remain a Cleveland Cavalier for the long haul, reader beware: the Cavaliers are amongst this offseason's biggest winners—having hauled in a catch featuring Jarrett Jack, Andrew Bynum, first overall draft pick Anthony Bennett and Earl Clark.
Clark, it should be remembered, signed with the Cavaliers for two years and $9 million.
Brandan Wright, on the other hand, has agreed to re-sign with the Dallas Mavericks—a team that also made some wholesale changes.
Mark Cuban agreed to pay Wright a guaranteed $10 million over two years, while Wright has the ability to earn an additional $1.1 million in incentives.
Wright is actually coming off of a career-best season in which he scored 8.1 points and grabbed 4.1 rebounds per game. He will rejoin the new-look Mavs, who also signed Jose Calderon, Monta Ellis, Samuel Dalembert, Gal Mekel, and Wayne Ellington.
In hindsight, was it a good idea for Mark Cuban to break up his 2011 championship team?
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á la mode lingerie wins in European Flair
More pressurized than a mammogram. More daunting than a marathon. Able to break women shoppers in a single trip. That's my definition of buying a bra.
So when my first assignment sent me to cover an award-winning brassiere shop, I felt like the new kid in first grade.
Worse, this was a lingerie shop. I imagined the lewd should-be-unmentionables sold in Boardwalk sex shops in Ocean City. If lingerie translates from the French in other ways, I hadn't learned them yet.
Until I slipped into á la mode, one of America's top five lingerie boutiques in the category European Flair.
Tucked away as hidden as the garments it sells downtown in our own capital city, Annapolis, the clean and cozy boudoir is painted in safe, soft colors. Fitters — all women — are so friendly that you feel like you're seeking advice from a friend. Advice you never knew you needed, from a friend with overflowing knowledge about lace, color and embroidery, the three elements of European Flair.
These elements offer "attention to the things that make something special and make something a treat," says co-owner Rebecca Ulrich-Dodson who delights in making bra shopping a pampering experience.
I was jolted out of my perceived nightmare — being scrutinized by a fitter mad with the power of a tape measure — when asked what I wanted from a bra — instead of being told.
Better still, this lingerie was tasteful — if a bit more creative than utilitarian. Half-naked before a full-length mirror — and protected by a closed plum curtain — I told Ulrich-Dodson that, yes, I was ready.
But I was not alone. Like "80 percent of women," Ulrich-Dodson reported, I was wearing "the wrong size bra."
Ulrich-Dodson furnished the hooks on the wall with an array of styles, brands and all around well-fitting bras in my preferred style, simple and comfortable. A good fit comes in three parts, I learned: "The band in back is low level and secure; the underwire needs to be under — not on — the breast, and the cup should be fitted but not overflowing."
My pitiful excuse for a bra, meeting none of the criteria and even scratching me with an escaped wire, caused me to consider buying one of the many I tried on for my story. Prices are on the higher side, with the ones I sampled between $25 and $65. Co-owner Patricia Platt convinced me the extra money was worth it because a bra "is one article of clothing you wear more than any other and that you ask to do more than any other."
European Flair is fun, but, Platt told me, comfort and fit are more important to customers from cup sizes AA to KK, band sizes 30 to 44 and life-style needs from everyday to elegant, maternity or nursing to mastectomy.
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As a long time customer of a la mode on West St. in good ol downtown Annapolis, I felt I needed to add a few comments to this article. First and foremost, I am proud of our local shop getting recognition for the outstanding style and service a la mode delivers every day! I feel this article may have been confusing to readers with descriptions consisting of "brassiere shop" and "prices on the higher side". A la mode offers some of the leading brands of intimates from all over the world. Chantelle, Simon Perele, and Fantasie are just a few of my favorites! The lingerie is tasteful and beautiful. This truly is a woman's shop and has much to offer for all shapes, sizes, and budgets.


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'American Idol' results: And the summer tour will include ...
Holy "American Idol" bleep sign! E to the Z and the tweedlydees or whatever insane thing Steven Tyler might say in this situation. "American Idol" really ripped itself a new beauty mark on its top 11 results show Thursday night.
Ryan Seacrest warned us right at the start that, after more than 30 million votes poured in to determine who would stay and who might be denied a spot on the "Idol" tour this summer, the outcome of that vote "may shock you."
But we've heard hyperbole from Ryan before, and plenty of it, so perhaps we can be forgiven for not getting too worried about our favorites as we contentedly watched Jennifer Lopez's husband, singer Marc Anthony, give the "Idol" contestants a lesson in using the in-ear doohickies that kept the judges from having to use the word pitchy even once on Wednesday night's show. Then we were treated to a group number that culminated in Stevie Wonder singing "Happy Birthday" to Steven Tyler (who turns 63 on March 26) as a bunch of the female contestants presented Steven with a colorful cake and an even more colorful Warholesque Tyler portrait. (What was that painting? Did Naima paint it?)
Steven was surprised but, I'll tell you what, he wasn't the only one who was shocked by the goings-on on the "Idol" stage Thursday night. (If you haven't watched the show and you like surprises, you might want to hold off clicking through to the rest of this post until you do. Don't say you weren't warned.)
"We're looking for the bottom three," he reminds us, gathering Lauren, Pia and Scotty on stage.
"The judges all had positive things to say about you," he tells them, "but because of the vote, I'm afraid you'll all be packing your bags …" [cruel pause] "… in a few months" -- they're all going on the "American Idol" tour.
A shot of the stools, empty, awaiting the bottoms of bottom three; a commercial break; Sugarland performing "Stuck Like Glue" (Does Jennifer Nettles need a new stylist, or what?); and a long video about how much James Durbin – and to a lesser extent, Paul McDonald – loves pro wrestling and idolizes Hulk Hogan.
We finally get a couple more contestants -- James and Paul -- called to the center of the stage for their results. Ryan positions them carefully, a few feet apart.
"The nation has spoken and both of you guys are not safe," Ryan says. Then adds, "I mean, you're really not safe tonight."
Enter … Hulk Hogan. Paul is excited, but James appears to be having a heart attack.
Then Hulk growls, "I've got some really, really good news and some really, really bad news – the good news is that both of you guys are safe and both of these guys are going on tour. And the bad news is you, Mr. Ryan Seacrest, you're not safe."
Hogan chucks Ryan into the audience and rips off his shirt, the scraps of which are later given to James as a special keepsake as we get more results.
Jacob, Thia and Stefano are called to the stage. Jacob is quickly sent back to the "safe" zone, while Thia and Stefano are both sent to perch on the stools of doom.
So there's one chair left as Ryan calls up Naima, Haley and Casey. Naima and Haley have both been in the bottom three – Haley twice – but Casey, an early favorite, never has.
Naima is sent to safety, while Haley and Casey are left to sweat it out. By now, you've probably figured out what's coming, and you're right. It's Casey who's in the bottom three.
"Idol" alum Jennifer Hudson sings a grammatically incorrect but impressively performed song and Thia is sent back to safety.
Leaving Casey and Stefano.
Surely it can't be Casey, right? He's so talented. But we've increasingly got a bad feeling. He's pushed "Idol" boundaries by singing Nirvana and his "Heard It Through the Grapevine" really wasn't terribly good on Wednesday night. Plus a commenter on my recap Thursday totally predicted that he was in danger.
And yes, Ryan breaks the news: "The person with the lowest number of votes and in danger of leaving us tonight is Casey. Stefano, you are safe."
Stefano gets Casey in a clinch, and when he finally lets him go, Casey looks completely shocked. He sings (oh, the irony) "I Don't Need No Doctor," returning to form. Then Randy stops him short. They know what Casey can do, Randy says. He doesn't need to sing.
Steven says, "This is crazy wrong. We made a decision here to keep you on."
The judges have used their one save of the season (of course they did) but Casey starts to hyperventilate and I suddenly become deeply concerned about his health. Maybe he really does need a doctor. "Are you OK, buddy?" Ryan asks.
But Casey recovers enough to chant "I can't believe it. Oh my god. I can't believe it." He thanks the judges, later explaining that he'd never imagined they would use their save for him, especially so early in the season. He hugs his mom and tells Ryan that when Randy stopped him from singing it "scared the stuff out of" him.
Jennifer tells Casey to knock off the growling and "just let people feel your soul" and he'll be OK. "You deserve to be here," she says.
And as the credits roll, Ryan explains that Casey's save means two contestants will be sent home next week, but that Casey will go out on tour this summer with the top 10 finalists, making it a top 11.
For me, the biggest surprise was how badly Casey actually seems to want this "American Idol" thing. I think the voters were punishing him for what has come off in recent weeks as overconfidence and a refusal to kowtow to mainstream tastes. If that's true, his (hospital-related) absence during a results night and Steven's comment about his ego this week probably didn't help.
What about you? Where you surprised by "Idol" tonight? Or did you see it coming?
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Photo: AMERICAN IDOL: Final 11. Clockwise from top left: Pia Toscano, Stefano Langone, Lauren Alaina, Paul McDonald, James Durbin, Scotty McCreery, Naima Adedapo, Jacob Lusk, Casey Abrams, Haley Reinhart and Thia Megia. Credit: Michael Becker / FOX.


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Only use placeholders to let your Santa know you received your package but are waiting to open it. When you actually open the package, please update the entry with the game(s) you received and express your reaction for your Santa. Please let me know if you experience any problems with this via GeekMail. Sorry for any confusion...now on to the list:
Since we just got our Secret Santa Targets assigned --
Last year's episode of "Look what my Secret Santa sent me..." was well received, so I am creating the same list again for 2007.
I originally posted this as a way to let my Santa know when I receive my gift without him/her worrying about letting me know who (s)he is. Use this as a central area to record what our Secret Santas sent us. If you plan on using this list, you may want to make a note on your profile so your Secret Santa knows to look on the list for your receipt and reaction.
That way your Secret Santa can look to see if you received your gift and you can post any comments you may have about the gift here and you can reply without the identity of your Secret Santa ever having to be divulged!
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I don't know about anyone else, but I generally obsess about whether a package has arrived at it's intended destination. I drive my wife crazy with checking tracking numbers constantly! So it will be nice to see when those gifts are actually received by the giftee (or are they just sitting unclaimed on the neighbor's porch?)
(I am just using a generic Christmas first item as a placeholder for mine until my gift arrives, at which time I will update it with the real gift). In case you were wondering - yes, I do have a probably unfounded fondness for this holiday.
Now for the big question - do you open the gift or allow it to taunt you from under the tree until your local Christmas/Holiday gift opening?
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With the search to find a permanent storage site for nuclear waste stalled due to strong opposition, Taiwan Power Co (Taipower) officials yesterday said that waste produced by the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in Gongliao (貢寮), New Taipei City (新北市), could be stored at the plant for up to 60 years, but said the company has no idea what to do with the radioactive waste after that time.
"It was taken into consideration in the design for the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant that it may be unclear where a permanent nuclear waste disposal site would be constructed for some time, so the plant is capable of storing all its nuclear waste during its 40 years of operation," Taipower acting vice president Hsu Yung-hua (徐永華) told reporters who visited the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant. "If necessary, the storage within the plant could be extended for another 20 years with no problem."
As for where to store the nuclear waste after 60 years, Hsu said: "We have found several locations, which I would prefer not to disclose at the moment, that are geologically suitable to securely store nuclear waste, but making the decision on a permanent storage site isn't really something that we [Taipower] can do on our own … during the 60 years, we would await new technology to solve the problem or the selection of a permanent disposal site."
Taipower officials said they were highly confident about safety at the plant.
"A nuclear disaster on the scale of what happened at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Japan could not occur at the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant," said Ko Chih-ming (柯志明), a manager at the power plant. "Because we have protective measures that the Fukushima power plant didn't have."
He said that if a major natural disaster, whether a massive earthquake or tsunami, hits or is expected to hit the power plant, the reactor would be immediately shut down "even if that means we may lose the reactor."
After shutting down the reactor, Ko said Taipower would do its best to make sure there was sufficient water to cool the reactor.
Ko said that the pumps for water cooling at Fukushima were not covered, so when the tsunami hit the plant, the pumps broke down, leading to overheating at the reactor, with meltdown triggering hydrogen-air explosions.
"The pumps [at the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant] are protected by a concrete building, so they would not be damaged by a tsunami," Ko said. "We also have emergency backup electricity generators that could take over power supply in case transmission towers collapse during a massive earthquake."
Ko said that if all these measures failed, there are two water tanks that hold up to 48,000 tonnes of water on the hill behind the power plant, and "the water could be released through underground pipes, or above-ground water channels we are currently working on, into reactors."
Plant general manager Wang Po-hui (王伯輝) was emotional when speaking about criticism and doubt from the public.
"I work here, I live here, of course I would make sure that the plant is safe," he said.
Although Taipower employees are confident about the power plant, some members of the press remained unconvinced.
"It's really worrisome to me that the employees are overconfident about the power plant and describing it as too perfect a place," a reporter surnamed Chen (陳) said. "I would rather that they were more cautious and were more honest about telling us which areas they still need to work on."


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Ashley Paramore reveals an absolutely horrible event that happened to her at a con, dealing with it with aplomb.
TAM handled it well, and the youtube commentariat seem mostly stunned — they don't seem to be able to marshal their usual denials and whines, although there are a few hyperskeptics lurking there. But the person dealing with it best is Ashley herself, making the effort to speak out for everyone who has been put in these ugly situations.
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Papelbon putting rocky start to season in past
PHILADELPHIA -- Jonathan Papelbon had seven blown save opportunities last season. So when he couldn't nail down the lead at Texas on April 2, retiring only one of the seven batters he faced, it caused some understandable concern.
Since then, though, he's had five straight scoreless appearances, including a 1-2-3 ninth with two strikeouts to nail down Thursday afternoon's 1-0 win over the Braves at Citizens Bank Park. In those games, he has four saves and has held opposing hitters to an .063 batting average.
"He's key. He's our closer," said manager Ryne Sandberg. "I like the way he's throwing, and that he continues to improve. In some regards, the fact that he needed to work on his command and pitch, I think that's improved his secondary pitches. In this game he featured his fastball in perfect spots, so it's a good combination. As I say, I see him making good strides.
"He seems to be picking it up a little bit and throwing his fastball. Sat around 93. He's getting into a groove. His velocity is going upwards so that's all good."
Said Papelbon: "I've been able to make adjustments, and that's what this game is about. Hopefully I'll be able to keep doing that. Texas was one of those innings that happens when you're a closer, and you have to put that behind you."
On Thursday he got the save by setting down the middle of the Braves' order: Freddie Freeman, Justin Upton and Chris Johnson.
He became exasperated, however, when asked about his increased velocity. "Why do you guys [media] care about velo so much, man?" he asked. "Does it matter? Do you think it matters? I don't understand that. I mean, if the ball has life at the plate ... it doesn't make one bit of difference. End of story."
Actually, Papelbon's loss of velocity had been an issue going back to last season, and he seemed to admit it earlier this year. When he got a save at Wrigley Field in his first appearance after the implosion in Texas, here's what he said: "You know, as the season goes on, hopefully my velocity will be able to increase. I think everybody usually hits their peak around June. But right now I'm going to focus on just pitching. ... I have a lot to prove."


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Charlotte Beers. [Source: New York Times]Former advertising executive Charlotte Beers officially assumes her duties as undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs. Beers, the former head of ad agencies Ogilvy & Mather and J. Walter Thompson, and who is best known for "branding" products like American Express credit cards and Head and Shoulders shampoo, was named to the position days after the 9/11 attacks, in part to help refurbish America's image overseas. Secretary of State Colin Powell, who met Beers in 1995 when they both worked on the board of Gulf Airstream and who proposed her for the position, defended her selection in the Senate by explaining: "Well, guess what? She got me to buy Uncle Ben's rice and so there is nothing wrong with getting somebody who knows how to sell something." Powell says Beers's job is to focus on what he calls "the branding of US foreign policy." Time reporter Margaret Carlson will write that Beers's new job is much different from selling rice or shampoo to American consumers: "Now Beers has to rebrand Osama bin Laden as a mass murderer to millions of Muslims who have never seen a 767 or a skyscraper, much less one flying into the other. She has to do it in languages, like Pashto and Dari, that don't even have a word for terrorist. And all this without having control over Voice of America or Radio Free Europe." Congress grants Beers over $500 million for her Brand America campaign. She says: "Public diplomacy is a vital new arm in what will combat terrorism over time. All of a sudden we are in this position of redefining who America is, not only for ourselves, but for the outside world." Beers has no diplomatic experience. Her first efforts as undersecretary will be to provide a 24-page booklet in 14 languages accusing bin Laden of masterminding the 9/11 attacks, and, with the help of the Ad Council, to create and disseminate a poster throughout Arab countries offering up to $25 million for information leading to the arrest of highly placed terror suspects. Beers says that "sell might not be the operative word" to describe her job, she uses marketing vocabulary to describe her efforts: the US is an "elegant brand," Powell and President Bush are "symbols of the brand," and she wants to use athletes such as the NBA's Hakeem Olajuwon to help market the American "brand." [Time, 11/14/2001; New York Times, 3/3/2003; CounterPunch, 8/13/2003; Rich, 2006, pp. 31-32] Columnist Jeffrey St. Clair will observe: "Note the rapt attention Beers pays to the manipulation of perception, as opposed, say, to alterations of US policy. Old-fashioned diplomacy involves direct communication between representatives of nations, a conversational give and take, often fraught with deception… but an exchange nonetheless. Public diplomacy, as defined by Beers, is something else entirely. It's a one-way street, a unilateral broadcast of American propaganda directly to the public, domestic and international—a kind of informational carpet bombing." [CounterPunch, 8/13/2003]
Entity Tags: Jeffrey St. Clair, Charlotte Beers, Colin Powell, Ad Council, Hakeem Olajuwon, Margaret Carlson
Timeline Tags: Domestic Propaganda
Senior administration officials say the White House intends to create a permanent office of global diplomacy in order to spread a positive image of the United States around the world and combat anti-Americanism, which the administration believes has been caused by the world's failure to understand America. "A lot of the world does not like America, and it's going to take years to change their hearts and minds," an unnamed senior official tells the New York Times. The office will coordinate the public statements of the State, Defense, and the other departments to ensure that foreign governments, media organizations, and opinion-makers understand US policies. The Times reports that according to one official, "global diplomacy as envisioned in the new office will inject patriotism into the punishing 24-hour, seven-day news cycle." Reports broadcast by the office would include information about both US foreign and domestic policies and would utilize the State Department's huge communications network of American embassies and media offices. The earlier White House effort to create a more positive image of the United States was handled by the Coalition Information Center, a joint effort between the US and Britain that was led by the president's senior advisor, Karen P. Hughes. [New York Times, 2/2/2002] The office will be formally created in July and given the name "The Office of Global Communications"
(see July 30, 2002).
Entity Tags: Bush administration (43), Office of Global Communications
Timeline Tags: Events Leading to Iraq Invasion, US International Relations, Domestic Propaganda
The White House formally announces plans to create a public diplomacy agency, to be called the Office of Global Communications, that will be charged with projecting a more positive image of the US abroad. [Washington Post, 7/30/2002; CBS News, 7/30/2002; Guardian, 7/31/2002; Los Angeles Times, 1/5/2003] It will help the world understand "what America is all about and why America does what it does," says White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer. The task formerly belonged to the State Department, but Bush's advisers didn't think it was "doing a good enough job, so they're going to take it on," a former Coalition Information Center (CIC) official tells the Guardian. "Nobody [was] that impressed with [State Department public diplomacy head] Charlotte Beers (see October 2, 2001) and what she's done. She listens to people. She's done a lot of listening, but you need to go further than that." [Guardian, 7/31/2002] This new public diplomacy office, said to be the brainchild of President Bush's senior adviser, Karen Hughes, has actually "existed for months, quietly working with foreign news media outlets to get the American message out about the war on terrorism," according to CBS News. [CBS News, 7/30/2002]
Entity Tags: Karen Hughes, Hill and Knowlton, Charlotte Beers, Ari Fleischer, George W. Bush, US Department of State
Timeline Tags: Events Leading to Iraq Invasion, Domestic Propaganda
A State Department program designed to "market" America as a "brand" to Arabs is greeted with skepticism and, sometimes, derision. The advertising campaign, called "Shared Values," was conceived by Charlotte Beers, the undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and a former advertising executive (see October 2, 2001). The concept is to "sell" America in the Arab world by emphasizing the "shared values" held by both Americans and Arabs. [Rich, 2006, pp. 31-32] The program is based on four videos, centering on the lives of four "average" American Muslims—a schoolteacher, a doctor, a baker, and the director of the National Institutes of Health. [New York Times, 10/30/2002] Beers said in a June Senate hearing that the US must pay closer attention to expanding communication with "the mainstream of young adults" so as "to give them, ultimately, a new world view.… The young will lead us." The "Shared Values" program is the central thrust of that effort. [Office of International Information Programs, US Department of State, 6/11/2002] The videos show American Muslims in their homes, at softball games, and at their jobs. They tell Arab viewers that they have experienced no prejudice against them after the 9/11 attacks, and describe how they live and work well with Christians, Jews, and Hindus. "I don't think there is any other country in the world where different people from different countries are as accepted and welcomed as members of a society," says one. But many Arabs do not believe the rosy depiction of life as an American Muslims, and call the videos patronizing and simplistic. (Some State Department officials privately agree with that characterization, but were powerless to influence their creation and dissemination.) Other Arabs call the videos nothing but American propaganda. [New York Times, 10/30/2002] In 2006, author Frank Rich will call the videos akin to "testimonial commercials for new household products." Many Arab countries, particularly in the Middle East, refuse to run the videos, saying that they do not adequately address the US's policies in that region. [Rich, 2006, pp. 31-32] In September 2003, the "Shared Values" program and other such public relations initiatives will be judged to be failures by the General Accounting Office (see September 15, 2003).
Entity Tags: Charlotte Beers, Frank Rich, General Accounting Office, US Department of State
President Bush signs an executive order creating the Office of Global Communications (OGC—see July 30, 2002), whose mission is to "ensure consistency in messages that will promote the interests of the United States abroad, prevent misunderstanding, build support for and among coalition partners of the United States, and inform international audiences." The OGC soon sends out a daily "Global Messenger" e-mail of talking points to administration officials, US embassies, Congress, and outside recipients. It organizes daily telephone conference calls to coordinate foreign policy messages among US government agencies and representatives of British Prime Minister Tony Blair. PR expert Sheldon Rampton later writes, "These activities may sound innocuous. The idea of 'ensuring consistency' is a cardinal rule of PR crisis communications, whose practitioners try whenever possible to make sure that all messages flow through a single, controlling channel. In practice, however, ensuring consistency leads to a concerted effort to enforce a 'party line' on all messages emanating from the US government, effectively silencing officials whose point of view contradicts the official institutional message." [PRWatch, 4/2003; US State Department, 9/28/2004]
Entity Tags: George W. Bush, Sheldon Rampton, Tony Blair, Office of Global Communications
Timeline Tags: US Military, Events Leading to Iraq Invasion, Domestic Propaganda
President George Bush signs an executive order formally creating the Office of Global Communications (see July 30, 2002) to coordinate efforts among various federal agencies to "disseminate truthful, accurate, and effective messages about the American people and their government" to audiences around the world. [White House, 1/21/2003; New York Times, 1/22/2003] The office has actually been in existence since before July 2002 (see July 30, 2002). Its first publication is also released on this day. Titled, "Apparatus of Lies," the 32-page white paper argues that Iraq is using a carefully calibrated system of propaganda and disinformation to gain international support for the regime and to hide development of its weapons of mass destruction programs. In its executive summary, it states that Iraq's foreign relations consist primarily of "a highly developed, well disciplined, and expertly organized program designed to win support for the Iraqi regime through outright deceit." It goes on to say that the "elaborate program is one of the regime's most potent weapons for advancing its political, military, and diplomatic objectives. In their disinformation and propaganda campaigns, the Iraqis use elaborate ruses and obvious falsehoods, covert actions and false on-the-record statements, and sophisticated preparation and spontaneous exploitation of opportunities. Many of the techniques are not new, but this regime exploits them more aggressively and effectively—and to more harmful effect—than any other regime in power today." [Office of Global Communications, 1/21/2003 ]
Entity Tags: Office of Global Communications, George W. Bush
Print ad for the 'Shared Values' videotapes. The videos are distributed by the Council of American Muslims for Understanding (CAMU), an organization created by the US State Department. [Source: Council of American Muslims for Understanding / Sheldon Rampton] (click image to enlarge)The General Accounting Office (GAO) releases a report showing that the $1 billion spent annually by the Bush administration to polish America's image among Arab populations has largely gone to waste. Polls in predominantly Arab and Muslim nations show anti-American sentiments are steadily rising despite the US's advertising efforts. (In many of these nations, Osama bin Laden has higher favorability ratings than President Bush.) The GAO report finds numerous reasons for this widespread failure. Among them are: The State Department's scattershot, uncoordinated efforts; Foreign service officers charged with promoting America's image spend too much time on paperwork, and 20 percent of those officers do not fluently speak the language of the country in which they are stationed; The US government's failure to not scientifically measure the effects of its public relations programs, instead relying on anecdotal evidence. [USA Today, 9/15/2003] Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is at a loss to explain the problem. "Americans are brilliant at communication," he says. "Why in the world we are all thumbs in this particular area just strikes me as one of the anomalies of history. But it's an important one to solve pretty fast." The State Department's first Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy, Charlotte Beers (see October 2, 2001), resigned in March for what the administration called "health reasons," and has not yet been replaced. Beers is responsible for the failed "Shared Values" program, which relied on commercially slick video reports to sway Muslim and Arab public opinion (see Late October, 2002). [New York Times, 3/3/2003; USA Today, 9/15/2003; Center for Media and Democracy, 10/17/2007] Beers's biggest success may have been Radio Sawa, an American radio station broadcasting throughout much of the Middle East that broadcasts US-based pop music, with 10-minute news broadcasts every hour from American government sources. [USA Today, 9/15/2003]
Entity Tags: US Department of State, Radio Sawa, Charlotte Beers, Bush administration (43), General Accounting Office, Richard Lugar
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Volkswagen has agreed to deactivate e-mails benefit of its German organization members' associates BlackBerrys when they are slow duty.
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Making its premiere on HBO last weekend was last year's animated feature from DreamWorks Studios, "Puss in Boots".
"Puss in Boots" is a spin-off prequel featuring Antonio Banderas' feline character from the "Shrek" series of movies. It focuses on Puss as a young swashbuckler, as he attempts to pilfer the legendary magic beans from the notorious Jack and Jill, intending to scale the giant beanstalk in order to steal the goose that lays the golden eggs from the giant. Along the way, he has to deal with the treacherous Humpty Dumpty, and the seductive Kitty Softpaws.
Puss was a great addition to the "Shrek" series.
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The Makino Collection has now been fully arranged.
This archive started with one book by Charlie Chaplin, discovered at a secondhand bookstore. This provoked a passion for cinema in the young man who found it, inspiring him to become a filmmaker. Over the course of fifty years, the archive grew and his passion was realized, as he was established as a filmmaker and scholar, wishing to form a center for film studies. During this time, a number of students of film studies from Japan, as well as internationally, visited his house, which became a maze of archives – many of these students have since become accomplished film scholars.
Now all materials in the collection are open to the public at Columbia, finding a new place to welcome scholars. The broad range of materials in this collection will offer new scholarly perspectives on film studies of the pre- and post-war years for researchers.
The finding aid, a consolidated information list of the collection, is now accessible online, through Columbia University Libraries' Archival Collections Portal. Please browse through the finding aid, and enjoy the collection that has taken over seven years of processing.
The Makino Mamoru Collection on the History of East Asian Film, 1863-2015 [Bulk Dates: 1920s-1990s]
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