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Forum Post: Pakistani Disapproval of U.S. Leadership Soars in 2012
Posted 4 years ago on Feb. 14, 2013, 5:27 p.m. EST by john32
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Posted 4 years ago on Feb. 14, 2013, 5:27 p.m. EST by john32
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Liberals dont care about war anymore. Death by war is the most atrocious aspect of corporate greed, and yet we tend to put it someone in the 5-10 range in order of importance. DC doesnt even put it in the top 10 anymore.
People immigrating here apparently is a bigger issue than us drowning in our own lust for power, at the expense of innocent poor people in th eMiddle East and Africa.
Ok, not that no one cares, its just not around anymore. I mean, we are invading Africa without a peep.
I JUST saw an ad on MSNBC about a doc on the Bush invasion of Iraq. Wtf. What about our current state of affairs?
Why would MSNBC report anything on Africa?
I think the definition of insanity applies here.
Throw in Libya, Sudan, Mali, Uganda, etc and we have all out takeover by military force underway. Not neoliberalism takeover, straight up neocon takeover.
I understand this. I thought you guys had that aspect covered and would post regularly on it. I focused on Egypt-except that I began to note significant changes in what was on the English sites for material. So, I am mostly reading through it. That doesn't mean that liberals are ignoring it.
"Liberals dont care about war anymore"? What about UFPJ, Code Pink, JustForeignPolicy, NPR, Chomsky, Wolff. Hedges, M. Moore. and many others.
In fact it is ONLY liberals fighting our criminal military actions.
they are more activist liberals. They are not the institutionalized liberal majority known as democrats. Democrats and republicans are pro-war. That is what OTP is talking about
and Chris Hedges talks about it in his book Death of the Liberal Class also.
politicians suck! Liberal movement/politicians died in the 70's/80's and are now being reborn.
Occupy has begun that process and many liberal/progressive groups have been empowered to once again stand up, & speak out.
I don't know what your friend was "thinking" I could only respond to the comment he made.
Maybe you agree that liberals don't care about war anymore but I disagree, I listed a fraction that do.
The real issue, true statement is:
Conservatives, care only about creating/waging war, now and for the last 40 years at least. Can you list any? Even one?
See that is an example of a true statement that does need any explanation, exception, qualifyer, or prevarication.
"The nation embraces the dangerous delusion that we are on a providential mission to save the rest of the world from itself, to impose our virtues, which we see as superior to all other virtues - on others and that we have a right to do that by force. This belief has corrupted both democrats and republicans." - Chris Hedges
The 2 party system is pro-war. Look at the voting records. Look at who lobbies them and funds their campaigns.
Politicians suck! I agree the duopoly must end!
but it is ONLY liberals who are protesting our criminal military action.!!!!
Liberals care, It's the conservatives that don't. Right??
If you want to act like the Ron Paul movement didn't exist, sure you can say that. Ron teamed up with Kucinich to try and prevent the Iraq war. Also a lot of members in Veterans Against the War vary.
But yeah the overwhelming majority of conservatives/republicans are pro-war. Acting like I'm denying that is solely based on your assumptions.
It depends on how you classify the term liberal. I wouldn't consider democrats to be liberal. Sticking inside the establishment mold is not really liberal. But the overwhelming majority of society has spoken. Democrats are considered liberals.
Democrats and Republicans vote for war.
You should check out Hedges' book Death of the Liberal Class.
Read it. Heard him speak on it.
Democrats are liberals? If you mean dem politicians, I'm gonna have to disagree. Dems politicians/movements died in the 70's-80's. Dems have moved right ever since. Maybe dem pols (with some exceptions) are moderates. Had to be to get the corp money and win elections in this country that has moved right in the last 30 years.
If you mean dem people (non pols) I suppose a bigger percent of non pol dems ARE liberal.
In any event liberalism is on the rise. Occupy and other newly empowered progressive groups have gotten new life.
In time this movement should grow and can influence the country andeven the corrupt politicians we are sick of.
You can't oppose war by voting for candidates that are pro-war.
I do not think Democrats are liberals. I said that already. But the majority of this nation views them as the liberal class. Anyone outside of that is usually brushed away as a radical. Just like when they crushed OWS and Occupy Oakland with violent force. The majority of "Dem people (non pols)" vote for the candidates, that you do not consider to be liberals, because "they have to or else." So how is that liberal?
But yes I agree, Occupy will lead to better things.
The vast majority of the anti-war Liberals lost their balls when the Dems took over, starting in 2006. Remember how the D's regained control of Congress by promising to quickly end all the wars? How'd that work out? After that failure, most people were more worried about not making the Dems look bad then with ending a war, so they kept their mouth shut.
What about UFPJ, Code Pink, JustForeignPolicy, NPR, Chomsky, Wolff. Hedges, M. Moore. and many others.
In fact it is ONLY liberals fighting our criminal military actions.
"Vast majority" means most, not all. Even you have to acknowledge the drop in volume after Pelosi took over.
And damn it VQ, stop repeating yourself over and over. Pick up, some new habits.
Classic liberals?
Huh? is that like classic coke? I was responding to you comment regarding "liberals".
Maybe you want to go back and change your comment to "classic liberals". While you're at it maybe you can add your definition.
Until then perhaps you can just respond to my comment listing just a fraction of the liberal anti war movements/people.
and respond to this if you feel for it.:
Conservatives care about creating wars now and always have. Can you name any anti war conservatives?
Do you consider the thousands of students going to RP events last year conservatives?
I dont, but I bet you do.
Ron Paul? I thought he died? So than I guess you're arguing that "Liberals don't care about war" & conservatives are anti war?
Ever read Superman comics.?
Ummm...thats not what Im saying at all... you are reverting back to Vkag land. Self correct and return when fixed.
Otherwise we are going to have to get that flaming ring and the unicycle back out :)
what do you consider them?
Normal college kids that see an out of control government run by robots that recognized someone who seemed like a normal person and had some different ideas.
Whether they would like to go all the way with all of those ideas is to be determined by time. but the reaction was fairly predictable given the 9% approval rating of congress, and the youth pretty much hating anything political at this point.
Like I really give a shit what Pakistan thinks
Obtuse racist a$$hole!!!
Wow. Now that I think about it, maybe I was a bit off color on that statement. Let me think - harboring bin Laden, hotbed of terrorism, getting in the way of our war in Afganistan. Nah, I think I will stick with that statement.
Where's the love highlander? Our government is killing our fellow human beings?!
The sentiments stated in the article are of the Pakistani People, not the Pakistani government (items listed in your post, by the way, are debatable).
I'm sure if Pakistan or any other country were blowing up Americans from the sky, and you were scared out of your mind to go to work every day, terrified of sending your kids to school or the market, for fear of being incinerated in midstep...its reasonable to think that the approval rating from Americans towards Pakistan's government would plummet.
The thing is 'low-roader'...that the murderous foreign policy of the arrogant U.S., whose image of blatant nation building...is now as fused to the word 'American', as an ugly, conjoined, stupid twin, in the global psyche. Pakistanians are not the only ones who think badly of the U.S. The sentiment of the U.S. as the global bully, is the consensus that is spreading quickly to most reasonable people throughout the world. 1+1=2...this is not rocket science. Oops! Well, I suppose it is...for all the good its done us :-(
I understand your point of view. I am seriously torn. One part of me wishes for the world love and peace that is sought. I, unfortunately, am a cynical reader of history. The people that move ahead, win the game, make the rules, are the strong and powerful. The biggest gun, the sharpest stick. Even in the 21st century, the military and economically powerful are the movers and winners. The cold war? the game of global domination? It is still being played. And I want the USA to win all the marbles.
That thirst for power is what destroys every empire too. There is a balance. Bombing countries all over the place and attempting to take over the globe will eventually ruin us.
The US is increasingly ruled by a global oligarchy, that is, very rich people who live in other countries, who are allied with the super rich of the US. These are the people who "win", when they use the US as their weapon against other countries.
Unfortunately, it is your loss as well as mine when these people win against the poor of the world, this is because they are trying to reduce us to the level of poverty, and will eventually use their tools of war against us as well, if we let them.
You can still have the sharpest stick and biggest guns without slaughtering and invading people and countries around the world.
I hear you if we're attacked we should attack back in full force. But I also think it's important to understand the motivations behind an attack on us....a detective looks for motives - not because he sympathizes with the killer - but to understand why it was done.
Would you not take up arms and attack a country that was actively stealing our resources and setting up military bases across the US? I sure as hell would.
You should...because the number of countries that have a favorable view of the US is shrinking.
I may have worried about that at one time. I grew up under Reagan, whose motto was force and unrelenting force to make the Soviet Union back down. Then came Clinton and the apparent appeasement through the Oslo Accords, peaceful negotiations, foreign aid, etc. After all of that, we still get attacked. If 9/11 had any effect on me, it is my loss of concern for what the world thinks of the US. The world respects force; the world respects power. I sometimes think, when my mood is right, that I would prefer the US to be feared then loved. Funny, here in the 21st century, so much has changed, yet nothing has changed, force and the threat of war set policy. I would rather be on top of the heap.
If you want the US to be feared, you may be the one who is in fear of it some day, that is, if it goes Nazi or Soviet, and starts throwing US citizens in concentration camps.
I would read Robert Papes "Dying to Win"....you can get it used for a quarter on amazon. I think it would open your eyes. The book deals specifically with facts and data on suicide terrorism and how/why it occurs. The author has done the most comprehensive study of it ever. Studying and obtaining individual data on each one...motivations...educations...religious beliefs...and on and on. The data will floor you.
This sums it up pretty well though..the difference is Pape gives the data to back up the argument:
Clinton wasn't the angel everyone thinks he was. He was actively engaged in the middle east and many other countries...without congressional approval.


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But Han may be part of a minority. A woman pushing a baby stroller with two other kids in tow crossed Lake Avenue Wednesday afternoon with a cellphone tucked between her shoulder and ear.
Anywhere people go, they inevitably see pedestrians who are clueless about their surroundings because of a mobile device, Cortes said.
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In parallel I would recommend James Kynge's book: China Shakes the World, which has some interesting anecdotes on how China stumbled upon the its road to success "by accident" in the past 25 years, in which Kynge understated Deng's role in the reform. Deng's wisdom is precisely what Kynge did not see, that the success is not by plan, but by a carefully crafted incentive system. The fact that all the local officials were so much incentived to get rich is because of one simple KPI (key performance metric) set by Deng, GDP growth. like TSR (total shareholders' return) in the corporate world, China used its own KPI (mainly GDP growth) to promote its bureaucrats. And it worked, so far.
America's fear of China
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IF THE guest list determined a meeting's value, the Strategic Economic Dialogue between China and America on May 22nd would be a roaring success. Almost half the Chinese cabinet is trooping to Washington, DC, for the second of the twice-yearly discussions, conceived by Hank Paulson, America's treasury secretary, between the world's largest economy and its fastest-growing one. The process was designed, in large part, as an antidote to the latest case of Asiaphobia among America's politicians. It is not working.
The itch to get tough with Beijing is urgent in Congress. Brandishing China's growing bilateral trade surplus as proof, congressmen from both parties have denounced the country as a currency manipulator, an illegal export-subsidiser, a violator of rights to intellectual property and all-round trade scoff-law. China-bashers have introduced a dozen bills in the new Congress. Some are bound to languish, but others may be passed—though there would then be further hurdles to jump, not least the president's power of veto (George Bush has other conflicts on his mind). The most threatening include proposals that would declare China's cheap currency an illegal subsidy and allow American firms to seek compensatory tariffs.
Politics in Beijing is less open, but the circumstances are similarly unhelpful. Because they have no electoral legitimacy, China's Communist leaders need to deliver the economic goods even more than most congressmen do. Worried about unemployment, the Chinese are loth to let their currency, the yuan, appreciate much faster than at today's snail's pace. And as with all dictatorships, there is the need to seem tough. With the five-yearly Communist Party congress only months away, China's president, Hu Jintao, cannot be seen to be bowing to American pressure on the yuan or anything else.
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Thankfully, an all-out trade war remains unlikely. Congressional leaders seem inclined to act within the rules of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), which limit the scope and scale of any barriers that America can unilaterally impose. And some friction is to be expected in a trading relationship worth well over $300 billion a year. But although today's tensions are not cause for panic, they are a costly and unnecessary distraction—and potentially worse than that.
One worrying parallel is the Japanophobia of the 1980s and early 1990s. Back then, Japan's rising bilateral trade surplus and its mounting foreign-exchange reserves were seen as "proof" of its manipulated currency and mercantilist attitude. America's paranoia deepened as its jobless rate climbed—especially when the Japanese started buying landmarks like the Rockefeller Centre. In fact, Japan's bubble economy ended up bursting; but not before an outbreak of foolish protectionism. The economic tension even undermined support in both countries for America's security alliance with Japan.
The case against China is even weaker than the one against Japan was. Its economy is far more open. Though much poorer than Japan was then, China is already America's fastest-growing export market. And in contrast to the 1980s, the WTO now exists as an umpire for trade disputes. But logic, alas, may count for less than political grievance. America's low unemployment rate looks set to rise in the wake of the housing bust. To American voters, the Chinese are likely to become more prominent rivals, whether it be displacing America at the top of some economic league tables, winning Olympic medals or buying big American firms (the Chinese are rightly keen to diversify from treasury bonds). Most worrying, though, are the strategic risks. Japan was an ally in Asia: China is potentially a military competitor. Trade tensions could make it easier to see China as a rival and harder to enlist it as a partner.
Running such geopolitical risks would be understandable if China's policies posed a true threat to America's economic health. But they do not. China's intellectual-property violations cost American firms far less than many would have you believe: pirated DVDs may sell for peanuts in the markets of Shanghai, but if Hollywood tried to sell the genuine articles at full price, it would quickly discover that most Chinese could not afford them. Similarly, a stronger yuan would do little to dent America's trade deficit (see article).
So much to lose, so little to gain
The bilateral trade imbalance, the target of so many American politicians' anger, is an economic red herring. Its rise reflects changing supply patterns in Asia: America now imports more stuff that has passed through China—and correspondingly fewer goods from South Korea and Taiwan. China's overall surplus and America's overall deficit have less to do with the value of the yuan than with Chinese saving and American profligacy. True, a stronger, more flexible yuan makes sense for China, because it would help shift spending towards imports and would give Beijing's policymakers greater control over interest rates, making it easier to prevent the economy from overheating. But the effect on America would be small.
Rather than picking fights over the currency, Congress should step back and ask why Americans are so upset with China in the first place. The answer is that China is a scapegoat for broader economic anxieties to do with stagnant wages, rising income-inequality and dwindling health and pension benefits. These insecurities, which also lie behind the bad idea of introducing labour standards in trade agreements (see article), are much better tackled head on—at home.
Comprehensive health-care reform to create a system where all Americans have access to portable health insurance would do a lot to reduce workers' anxiety and equip them for an economy that these days demands frequent job shifts. Reform of the payroll tax, a regressive levy that hits the less affluent hardest, would be a good way to shift resources to needier Americans. By contrast, raising barriers to cheap Chinese imports would disproportionately hit the wallets of poor and middle-income American consumers—the very people the Democrats in particular claim to be protecting.
By scaling back its China-bashing, Congress could avoid such blunders. It would also leave more room to engage Chinese officials on subjects that actually matter. Top of the trade agenda ought to be the successful conclusion of the Doha round of global talks. No country has more at stake in a vibrant WTO than China, yet Beijing has been scandalously unwilling to help push for a Doha deal.
But the greatest prizes of Sino-American diplomacy are nothing to do with trade. Avoiding war and conflict, naturally, comes top of the list, whether by co-operation over North Korean and Iranian nukes or by building the trust that minimises the odds of a clash in the Taiwan Strait. Then there is China's expansion into Africa, particularly its cosy relations with genocidal Sudan. Global warming, too, ought to be centre-stage. China is building a new coal-fired power plant every week and is set to surpass America as the biggest source of greenhouse gases within a year. If the world is to contain its carbon emissions, America must not only clean up its own act but also help China to green its economic growth.
Mr Paulson wants the strategic dialogue to address some of these broader issues. Congress should stop distracting him.
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Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come, according to Victor Hugo.
In Western eyes, especially American, China is that idea: Napoleon's sleeping dragon when, at full stretch, will challenge them at every level.
In reality, China is too big and has too many problems of its own to fix, than go around threatening anyone, by design.
Perhaps America just needs a bogey - from Soviet Russia to japan to China?
In reality, the China threat to America is just an idea.
If it did not exist, they will invent it. - 31/5/07 20:25
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Nizar Qabbani
Nizar Qabbani | |
Native name | نزار قباني |
Born | Damascus, State of Damascus, French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon |
21 March 1923
Died | 30 April 1998 London, England |
(aged 75)
Occupation | Diplomat, poet, writer, publisher |
Nationality | Syrian |
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Nizar Tawfiq Qabbani (Arabic: نزار توفيق قباني, Nizār Tawfīq Qabbānī) (21 March 1923 – 30 April 1998) was a Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher. His poetic style combines simplicity and elegance in exploring themes of love, eroticism, feminism, religion, and Arab nationalism. Qabbani is one of the most revered contemporary poets in the Arab world.[1][2]
Early life[edit]
Nizar Qabbani was born in the Syrian capital of Damascus to a middle class merchant family.[3] Qabbani was raised in Mi'thnah Al-Shahm, one of the neighborhoods of Old Damascus. Qabbani studied at the national Scientific College School in Damascus between 1930 and 1941.[4] The school was owned and run by his father's friend, Ahmad Munif al-Aidi. He later studied law at the Damascus University, which was called Syrian University until 1958. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in law in 1945.[4]
While a student in college he wrote his first collection of poems entitled The Brunette Told Me. It was a collection of romantic verses that made several startling references to a woman's body, sending shock waves throughout the conservative society in Damascus.[4] To make it more acceptable, Qabbani showed it to Munir al-Ajlani, the minister of education who was also a friend of his father and a leading nationalist leader in Syria. Ajlani liked the poems and endorsed them by writing the preface for Nizar's first book.
Diplomatic career[edit]
After graduating from law school, Qabbani worked for the Syrian Foreign Ministry, serving as Consul or cultural attaché in several capital cities, including Beirut, Cairo, Istanbul, Madrid, and London. In 1959, when the United Arab Republic was formed, Qabbani was appointed Vice-Secretary of the UAR for its embassies in China. He wrote extensively during these years and his poems from China were some of his finest. He continued to work in the diplomatic field until he tendered his resignation in 1966. By that time, he had established a publishing house in Beirut, which carried his name ().
Poetic influences[edit]
When Qabbani was 15, his sister, who was 25 at the time, committed suicide because she refused to marry a man she did not love.[5] During her funeral he decided to fight the social conditions he saw as causing her death. When asked whether he was a revolutionary, the poet answered: "Love in the Arab world is like a prisoner, and I want to set (it) free. I want to free the Arab soul, sense and body with my poetry. The relationships between men and women in our society are not healthy." He is known as one of the most feminist and progressive intellectuals of his time.[5]
The city of Damascus remained a powerful muse in his poetry, most notably in the Jasmine Scent of Damascus.[5] The 1967 Six-Day War also influenced his poetry and his lament for the Arab cause.[5][6] The defeat marked a qualitative shift in Qabbani's work – from erotic love poems to poems with overt political themes of rejectionism and resistance.[5] For instance, his poem Marginal Notes on the Book of Defeat, a stinging self-criticism of Arab inferiority, drew anger from both the right and left sides of the Arab political dialogue.
Personal life[edit]
The Qabbani family was of Turkish origin and came from Konya, Turkey; their original family name was Ak Bıyık, meaning "white moustache" in the Turkish language.[7] Qabbani had two sisters, Wisal and Haifa; he also had three brothers: Mu'taz, Rashid, and Sabah. The latter, Sabah Qabbani, was the most famous after Nizar, becoming director of Syrian radio and TV in 1960 and Syria's ambassador to the United States in the 1980s.
Nizar Qabbani's father, Tawfiq Qabbani, was Syrian while his mother was of Turkish descent. His father had a chocolate factory; he also helped support fighters resisting the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon and was imprisoned many times for his views, greatly affecting the upbringing of Nizar into a revolutionary in his own right. Qabbani's great uncle, Abu Khalil Qabbani, was one of the leading innovators in Arab dramatic literature.
Nizar Qabbani was married twice in his life. His first wife was his cousin Zahra Aqbiq; together they had a daughter, Hadba, and a son, Tawfiq. Tawfiq died due to a heart attack when he was 22 years old when he was in London. Qabbani eulogized his son in the famous poem To the Legendary Damascene, Prince Tawfiq Qabbani. Zahra Aqbiq died in 2007. His daughter [Hadba][3], born in 1947, was married twice, and lived in London until her death in April 2009.[8]
His second marriage was to an Iraqi woman named Balqis al-Rawi, a schoolteacher he met at a poetry recital in Baghdad; she was killed in the 1981 Iraqi embassy bombing in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War on 15 December 1981.[4][5] Her death had a severe psychological effect on Qabbani; he expressed his grief in his famous poem Balqis, blaming the entire Arab world for her death. Together they had a son, Omar, and a daughter, Zainab. After the death of Balqis, Qabbani did not marry again.
Late life and death[edit]
After the death of Balqis, Qabbani left Beirut. He was moving between Geneva and Paris, eventually settling in London, where he spent the last 15 years of his life.[5] Qabbani continued to write poems and raise controversies and arguments. Notable controversial poems from this period in his life include When Will They Announce the Death of Arabs? and Runners.
In 1997, Nizar Qabbani suffered from poor health and briefly recovered from his sickness in late 1997.[9] A few months later, at the age of 75, Nizar Qabbani died in London on 30 April 1998 of a heart attack.[3][6] In his will, which he wrote in his hospital bed in London, Nizar Qabbani wrote that he wished to be buried in Damascus, which he described in his will as "the womb that taught me poetry, taught me creativity and granted me the alphabet of Jasmine."[10] Nizar Qabbani was buried in Damascus four days later in Bab al-Saghir.[10] Qabbani was mourned by Arabs all over the world, with news broadcasts highlighting his illustrious literary career.[10]
Qabbani began writing poetry when he was 16 years old; at his own expense, Qabbani published his first book of poems, entitled The Brunette Told Me (قالت لي السمراء), while he was a law student at the University of Damascus in 1944.
Over the course of a half-century, Qabbani wrote 34 other books of poetry, including:
- Childhood of a Breast (1948) طفولة نهد
- Samba (1949) سامبا
- You Are Mine (1950) أنت لي
- Poems (1956) قصائد
- My Beloved (1961) حبيبتي
- Drawing with Words (1966) الرسم بالكلمات
- Diary of an Indifferent Woman (1968) يوميات امرأة لا مبالية
- Savage Poems (1970) قصائد متوحشة
- Book of Love (1970) كتاب الحب
- 100 Love Letters (1970) مئة رسالة حب
- Poems Against The Law (1972) أشعار خارجة على القانون
- I Love You, and the Rest is to Come (1978) أحبك أحبك و البقية تأتي
- To Beirut the Feminine, With My Love (1978) إلى بيروت الأنثى مع حبي
- May You Be My Love For Another Year (1978) كل عام وأنت حبيبتي
- I Testify That There Is No Woman But you (1979) أشهد أن لا امرأة إلا أنت
- Secret Diaries of Baheyya the Egyptian (1979) اليوميات السرية لبهية المصرية
- I Write the History of Woman Like So (1981) هكذا أكتب تاريخ النساء
- The Lover's Dictionary (1981) قاموس العاشقين
- A Poem For Balqis (1982) قصيدة بلقيس
- Love Does Not Stop at Red Lights (1985) الحب لا يقف على الضوء الأحمر
- Insane Poems (1985)أشعار مجنونة
- Poems Inciting Anger (1986) قصائد مغضوب عليها
- Love Shall Remain My Lord (1987) سيبقى الحب سيدي
- The Trilogy of the Children of the Stones (1988) ثلاثية أطفال الحجارة
- Secret Papers of a Karmathian Lover (1988) الأوراق السرية لعاشق قرمطي
- Biography of an Arab Executioner (1988) السيرة الذاتية لسياف عربي
- I Married You, Liberty! (1988) تزوجتك أيتها الحرية
- A Match in My Hand , And Your Petty Paper Nations (1989) الكبريت في يدي ودويلاتكم من ورق
- No Victor Other Than Love (1989) لا غالب إلا الحب
- Do You Hear the Cry of My Sadness? (1991) هل تسمعين صهيل أحزاني ؟
- Marginal Notes on the Book of Defeat (1991) هوامش على الهوامش
- I'm One Man and You are a Tribe of Women (1992) أنا رجل واحد وأنت قبيلة من النساء
- Fifty Years of Praising Women (1994) خمسون عاما في مديح النساء
- Nizarian Variations of Arabic Maqam of Love (1995) تنويعات نزارية على مقام العشق
- Alphabet of Jasmine (1998) أبجدية الياسمين
Other works[edit]
He also composed many works of prose, such as My Story with Poetry قصتي مع الشعر, What Poetry Is ما هو الشعر, and Words Know Anger الكلمات تعرف الغضب, On Poetry, Sex, and Revolution عن الشعر والجنس والثورة, Poetry is a Green Lantern الشعر قنديل أخضر, Birds Don't Require a Visa العصافير لا تطلب تأشيرة دخول, I Played Perfectly and Here are my Keys لعبت بإتقان وها هي مفاتيحي and The Woman in My Poetry and My Life المرأة في شعري وفي حياتي, as well as one play named Republic of Madness Previously Lebanon جمهورية جنونستان لبنان سابقا and lyrics of many famous songs of celebrated Arab singers, including:
- Mohammed Abdel Wahab
- Abdel Halim Hafez
- Fairuz
- Kadhim Al-Sahir
- Umm Kulthum
- Latifa
- Majida El Roumi
- Asalah
- Najat Al Saghira[11]
And his verses would remain popular after his death, and put to song by Arab pop-music stars such as Kazem al-Saher and Latifa.[10] However, such songs were introduced after filtering the original poems. In a corpus-based study, Qabbani was reintroduced as a pornographic poet.[12]
Other languages[edit]
Many of Qabbani's poems have also been translated into English and other languages, both individually and as collections of selected works.[4] Some of these collections include:
- English
- On Entering the Sea (1998)
- Arabian Love Poems (1998) translated by Bassam Frangieh and Clementina R. Brown
- Republic of Love (2002) translated by Nayef al-Kalali
- Journal of An Indifferent Woman (2015) translated by George Nicolas El-Hage, Ph.D
- Italian
- Poesie, a cura di G. Canova, M.A. De Luca, P. Minganti, A. Pellitteri, Istituto per l'Oriente, Roma 1976.
- Il fiammifero è in mano mia e le vostre piccole nazioni sono di carta e altri versi, a cura di V. Colombo, San Marco dei Giustiniani, Genova 2001.
- Il libro dell'amore, traduzione di M. Avino, in Antologia della letteratura araba contemporanea. Dalla nahda a oggi, a cura di M. Avino, I. Camera d'Afflitto, Alma Salem, Carocci, Roma 2015, pp. 116–117.
- Le mie poesie più belle, traduzione dall'arabo a cura di N. Salameh e S. Moresi, postfazione di P. Caridi, Jouvence, Milano 2016.
- Nepali
Qabbani's poems has been translated into Nepali by Suman Pokhrel, that include Epic of Sadness, Oh, My Love, A Lesson In Drawing, Every Time I Kiss You and Dialogue, translated as Dukhhako Mahakavya, Ea Meri Priyaa, Chitrakalako Euta Paath,[13] Timilai Chumban Garda and Sambad respectively.[14]
- Hindi
Many of Qabbani's poems are translated into Hindi by Siddheshwar Singh, Arpana Manoj, Manoj Patel, Rinu Talwar and other translators.[15]
- ^ [1], The Independent, British newspaper, 1998/05/05. "Obituary: Nizar Qabbani" by Adel Darwish.
- ^ "Nizar Qabbani: From Romance to Exile", Muhamed Al Khalil, 2005, A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Department of Near Eastern Studies in partial ulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate College of the University of Arizona, USA.
- ^ a b "Qabbani, Nizar". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 23 June 2007.
- ^ a b c d e "Biographical notes on Nizar Qabbani". American University of Beirut. Retrieved 23 June 2007.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Nizar Qabbani". PoemHunter.com. Retrieved 23 June 2007.
- ^ a b "Nizar Qabbani, Major Arab Literary Figure, Dies". CNN.com. 30 April 1998. Archived from the original on 25 May 2005. Retrieved 23 June 2007.
- ^ Sadgrove, Philip (2010), "Ahmad Abu Khalil al-Qabbani (1833–1902)", in Allen, Roger M. A.; Lowry, Joseph Edmund; Stewart, Devin J. (eds.), Essays in Arabic Literary Biography: 1850–1950, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, p. 267, ISBN 3447061413
- ^ http://fenshop.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/testing/
- ^ "Qabbani Recovered from Sickness, Gratitude Message to Syrians". Arabic News. 15 December 1997. Retrieved 23 June 2007.
- ^ a b c d "Nizar Qabbani: Pioneer of Modern Arab Poetry". Arabic News. 4 May 1998. Retrieved 23 June 2007.
- ^ [2], English Article titled "Who is Najat Al Saghira? ", 2015, Accessed 2015/08/28.
- ^ Essam, BA. (2016-06-27). "Nizarre Qabbani's Original Versus Translated Pornographic Ideology: A Corpus-Based Study". Sexuality & Culture: 1–22. doi:10.1007/s12119-016-9369-7. ISSN 1095-5143.
- ^ http://ekabita.com/%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B-%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%BE-%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A0/
- ^ Prof. Abhi Subedi : Sahitya ra Aam Britta p 189, 2014, ISBN 978 9937 852531
- ^ http://kavitakosh.org/kk/निज़ार_क़ब्बानी
External links[edit]
- Home page
- Nizar Qabbani's books (Arabic)
- Qabbani in English at Poems Found in Translation
- English translations of selected Qabbani works
- Thoughts Inspired by PBS's Two-Sentence Report on The Death of Syrian Poet Nizar Qabbani By Salman M. Hilmy, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, October/November 1998, pages 74–76
- Nizar Qabbani Poems on ArabAdab.net
- Nizar Qabbani Poems in The Other Voices International Project
- English translations of Qabbani's poems I Decided, At Zero and I wrote on the wind.
- English translation of Marginal Notes on the Book of Defeat
- NYT article about Dec 1981 bomb attack on Iraqi Embassy in Beirut: http://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/16/world/bomb-wrecks-iraqi-embassy-in-beirut.html


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Outside the Eldridge Street Synagogue, it was a regular Sunday on New York's Lower East Side, as residents and tourists picked their way past stands piled high with Chinese greens and five-and-dime stores bearing signs written in Mandarin.
Inside the historic sanctuary, visitors were transported back 125 years to the days when the signs were all in Yiddish and a group of neighbors came together to found the first great American house of worship built by Eastern European Jews.
The cornerstone-laying ceremony of 1886 was a festive affair with live music and a host of community leaders included in the program.
So on its anniversary, organizers from the synagogue — now also a not-for-profit organization known as the Museum at Eldridge Street — held a re-enactment, complete with klezmer music, speeches and fun. There was even an actor in period costume re-creating the speech given by the synagogue's founding president, Sender Jarmulowsky.
"I can't think of a greater symbol of our faith or our commitment to our community," said New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, a surprise guest. "This is the cradle of American Jewry."
Rabbi Joseph Telushkin paid tribute to a group of dedicated people who obsessively pursued the extensive renovation of the synagogue, which was completed in 2007.
"What can I say?" Telushkin said. "Thank God for meshuggeners."
The day's celebration, which was co-sponsored by the National Yiddish Theatre — Folksbiene, kicked off with a performance by Frank London's Klezmer Brass All-Stars. The five musicians walked slowly through the striking main floor of the sanctuary, with its 50-foot vaulted ceiling, handsome wood fixtures and stained-glass windows. Once they passed the synagogue benches crowded with people, the band members made their way to the bimah and performed to the rhythmic claps of the enthusiastic audience.
Michael Weinstein, chairman of the Museum at Eldridge Street, gave the first of several speeches, thanking those who had given their time and money to the museum over the years. He recalled how far the synagogue had come since he first visited it, 22 years ago. "The building was in great disrepair, but had this power about it that emanated through the walls," he said.
In a short documentary about the building, historian Roberta Brandes Gratz, who spearheaded the efforts to save the synagogue, also recalled her first time inside the then dilapidated synagogue sanctuary. "As we walked in, the pigeons just flew out from everywhere," she said.
The synagogue had declined over several decades, due to a combination of the immigration quota laws in the 1920s, the Great Depression and a shrinking Jewish population on the Lower East Side. The renovation of the synagogue took 20 years and cost $18.5 million.
The building, a National Historic Landmark, was scrupulously preserved and garnered numerous awards for its restoration. Since then, more than 100,000 people have visited.
In keeping with the original cornerstone ceremony, Folksbiene actor Stuart Marshall, dressed in 1880s-inspired garb, played the part of Jarmulowsky.
Other treats would follow, including a tongue-twisting, comedic operetta performed in both English and Yiddish by Folksbiene member Stephen Mo Hanan, which produced hearty laughs from the mostly elderly, Yiddish-speaking audience members.
Telushkin praised the synagogue's restoration for representing hiddur mitzvah, or, the beautification of a mitzvah. Restoring the Eldridge Street Synagogue would itself be a mitzvah, but to do so in such a beautiful manner was in the tradition of hiddur mitzvah, he said.
The ceremony concluded with cantorial music by Jeremiah Lockwood, remarks from Bonnie Dimun, executive director of the Museum at Eldridge Street, and the offering of many wishes to be included in a 125th-anniversary time capsule.
Max Fuchs, 89, had come to the day's event with his wife, Naomi, and their children. A cantor for many decades, he recalled leading services at the Eldridge Street Synagogue in the 1940s, after returning from service in World War II. "I was the last cantor to conduct High Holiday services," he said.
He gave his family members much credit for their part in keeping the Eldridge Street Synagogue alive even during its declining years. "My in-laws were big machers here," he said, referring mostly to Morris Groob, a longtime congregant and leader at the synagogue.
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As the autumn light faded, people filed out of the museum and back into the sights and smells of today's Lower East Side. But inside the historic synagogue, a new group of visitors sat on the sanctuary's carved wooden benches and listened intently to their guide.
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I am thinking on the possibility that affection and happiness is 2 different system which might explain why some pokemon refuse to evolve despite having max affection...hmmm.... Well this will drive me nuts...
It makes sense that a pokemon's affection is related to its happiness; and from the word here, that has proven true on a couple of occasions. One question I have is the same as another trainer on page 4. If my pokemon has max stats in its Amie and I put it in the PC; will it lose those stats over time? How about when walking around and not continuing to play?
Can one, potentially, get their team up to 100, EV train, Do Amie, and be ready to battle? Or will they need to continue to use Amie to keep their pokemon sharp?
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You can't pet a Slugma. I tried. :C
3DS Friend Code: 5069-4585-1055
Flying-type (Tropius, Farfetch'd and Swanna)
Malcolm-M's question is also mine. We'd both like to know.
My starter has remained at five hearts of affection despite me not interacting with it hardly at all since I maxed it out extremely early in the game, so I don't think it decreases.
I can't help but wonder if this applies to petting it in battle (Rub the touchscreen after you KO an opponent), as well.
So I was playing around with my Golbat the other day on pokemon amie. I haven't really looked anything up yet regarding the feature so I didn't know if it increased happiness or not. My golbat finally evolved around level 38 but i still don't know about the happiness, does anyone know if pokemon amie directly effects happiness or not? if so it would be rather useful in combination with the soothe bell for evolving my azurill and budew xD
"Strong Pokémon. Weak Pokémon. That is only the selfish perception of people. Truly skilled trainers should try to win with their favorites." -Karen
Spoiler:- CG Stuff:
...How exactly do I check my Pokemon's Mon-Amie Affection, anyway? Like, is there a button I press on the touch screen while in Mon-Amie Mode to see how many points I have in Affection, or is there something that pops up when you're on the main screen (i.e. top screen shows your character and the overworld) and have Mon-Amie on the bottom screen, or can you see it when you're looking at your Pokemon's stats/moves/etc. from the main menu, or do I have to find and ask an NPC like how there's a Friendship Checker? How can I know if/when it's maxed out?
Also, another bump for somebody to please find an answer for me & Malcom-M's question.
Nevermind, found out how to check Mon-Amie stats. Still want a definitive answer on whether or not boxing my Pokemon for a while, or even just walking around and not Mon-Amie-ing for a while, will make my Affection stat decrease.
I just went to play with my two pokemon on pokemon amie, and it said that I needed three pokemon in good condition. Does anyone know why that is?
I've discovered that I'm actually pretty good at the Berry-Picking minigame; on Unlimited mode, my current High Score is 135.
Also, the music for "Head It" is UNBELIEVABLY catchy.
X & Y FRIEND SAFARI POKEMON: Paras, Masquerain, Venomoth
X Version Shinies:
Y Version Shinies:
Moon Version Shinies: (Pikipek/Trumbeak/Toucannon)
Not sure if anybody cares/knows this but the High Score on Head It Unlimited is 999. You get really awesome Poke Puffs from doing it too. It has the treat on top and a bunch of icing all around the Puff.
So, I tried out Amie on my Absol after I found out that affection helps increase crit rate. My Absol has Psycho Cut, Night Slash, Slash and Sword Dance. Ability: Super Luck. With max affection (been testing this since yesterday) my Absol has crit. Every. Hit. I stopped counting after it surpassed 100, which was yesterday. Since then it has continued to crit non-stop. I have probably passed 200 crits in a row at this point. If these Amie bonuses effect wifi battles then competitive play is done; it'll literally turn into who can crit who first and for enough damage to 1 shot.
It's been confirmed that Amie doesn't apply to multiplayer or the Battle Maison.
On a related note, I always get a kick out of seeing all the different facial expressions each Pokemon can exhibit when you interact with them. They really did a lot more in that regard then I was expecting.
Manectric's extremely unamused look it gives you if you touch its muzzle makes me snicker, as does Goomy's tendency to hold its mouth agape awkwardly while you circle the cursor around its head.
I was playing with my Eevee today (recently evolved it into Jolteon, but more on that later): if you hold the cursor down on the screen beyond Eevee's body, it will open its mouth and watch. Hold it there long enough and it will raise its right paw. I've found that you can then swipe the cursor across its raised paw and give it a "high five" of sorts. It helps raise enjoyment or whatever it is two notes at a time. Jolteon also does this.
I can't seem to get a reaction similar out of any other pokemon on my team currently (Delphox, Vivillon, Dunsparce, Blastoise, Pigeot).
So I've got my Main Team all up to 5 Hearts (MAX). However, as I said, I tend to rotate my team to fit various situations, and would like to put some of them into the PC so I can Mon-Amie the rest of my fighters*. But, as we still haven't got a definitive answer, I'm worried that their Affection score will steadily decrease with time as they're in the PC while I work on my others. Do we know for sure whether or not that'll happen?
* Except Kadabra, because I'm assuming that Affection, like Friendship/Happiness, resets to zero when traded, and I'm looking for someone to perform with me a "back-and-forth trade", where I send them my Kadabra to evolve it, and then they send it right back, while I do the same with whatever they sent to me.
X & Y FRIEND SAFARI POKEMON: Paras, Masquerain, Venomoth
X Version Shinies:
Y Version Shinies:
Moon Version Shinies: (Pikipek/Trumbeak/Toucannon)
I'm thinking they probably just limited it to the popular Pokemon. I'll try it with my Manectric just in case, though...
On a related note, I'm glad you can actually touch the heads of tall Pokemon like Yveltal. You just have to take out a Pokepuff briefly to get the camera to shift.
EDIT: Manectric just stares at the cursor, too. Guess it is just limited to popular Pokemon.
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New berry-picking high score: 160
Also, I will soon find out the hard way whether or not Mon-Amie 'Affection' stats (i.e. Hearts) decrease with time. I just put three Pokemon with max-out Affection (5 Hearts) into the PC so I can work on three other Pokemon. Once I've got the new three maxed out, it'll be the moment of truth when I check my boxed Pokemon's Affection scores. Fingers crossed, knock on wood, and all that sh*t.
X & Y FRIEND SAFARI POKEMON: Paras, Masquerain, Venomoth
X Version Shinies:
Y Version Shinies:
Moon Version Shinies: (Pikipek/Trumbeak/Toucannon)
My Eevee just evolved into Sylveon at level 11 knowing Baby-Doll Eyes and having only two Affection.
Why does this evolution seem so inconsistent?
God... I'm currently trying to maximize the affection of my 6 Pokémon in the Pokémon-Amie, and wow, it's very long indeed!
I sepnt like 15 minutes on my Slurpuff, petting him like no tomorrow (on the soft spot!), giving him the best-looking Poképuffs with love and played games with it... only to gain one heart in Affection, putting it to two hearts in Affection! I did manage to get my Chesnaught to a full affection and my Talonflame is only missing one heart.
Am I doing something wrong, or do anyone has advices to help me ? Thanks!
Also... the smiley always appears on the bottom left of my screen. I don't know how to make funny faces with my Pokémon... Does anyone know how ?
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I was thinking imagine if you could combine one skaters raw talent with another skaters resources, work ethic and stable home life? I immediately thought of Tonya Harding's jumping talent combined with Tonia Kwiatkowski's work ethic and her loving family whom supported her? Or Kristi Yamaguchi's competitve instinct with a Josee Chouinard's beauty and programs since she couldn't land a jump in competition? What other could've beens has anyone though up of if you could combine any characteristics??
Sasha Cohen with Midori Ito's jumps. Mirai Nagasu's charm and talent with Evan Lysacek's work ethic and consistency. Takahashi's everything with Oda's knees.
Kostner's unmatched skating skills and phenomenal footwork sequences, sophisticated musical interpretation and great ability to emote the moods of her music, charismatic choreography, and strong jump technique + Kwan's dependable consistency, fierce mentality, and strong jump technique + Czisny's incredible spinning ability. Lambiel's unmatched spinning ability, amazing and versatile musical interpretation, and stunning choreography + Plushenko's natural jumping ability and steely consistency and determination + Chan's superior skating skills + Abbott's beautiful transitions, innovative choreography, and ability to evoke the true emotions of music. SUPER SKATERS!
Plushenko's jumps + Takahashi's artistic ability + Lambiel's spins + Chan's skating skills + Abbott's footwork + Czisny's emotion + Yu-na's consistency
Meh maybe Kim would take Czisny's spins and spirals (although her own are excellent and score very high as well) but she wouldnt take a single other thing about her skating even on Czisny's best day. Why would she take way weaker jumps, weaker footwork, sometimes empty choreography, very slow skating, and a far more cautious approach.
Patrick Chan. No additional skaters need to be combined, they would only detract from his superiority
In the judges eyes this is definitely true. He doesnt even have to skate, just come on the ice wave, and leave, and they would post 180 points for his long program.
A good combination (I understand that you prefer Takahashi's kind of artistry, not Lambiel's kind of artistry), but, in my opinion, it could do without the two females. Plushenko has consistency (the last Euros don't count, because the problem there was not luck of consistency, but rather his health problems that have finally caught up with him), and Takahashi and Lambiel have enough emotion on their own, while Alissa just smiles most of the time (which is nice, but not a wide range of emotions).
I'm very perplexed that some rave about Lysacek's or Kim's consistency when you can count on 1 hand the number of clean competitions they've skated. Lysacek can only count 2010 Olympics, 2009 Worlds, and 2007 Nationals. There was a long period of time when Lysacek was once known as a skater who couldn't skate a clean SP to save his life. Kim can only count 2013 Worlds and 2010 Olympics. Kim has only skated 4 LPs cleanly in her senior career: 2013 Worlds, 2013 Nationals, 2010 Olympics, and 2007 Cup of Russia. Both skated far more flawed programs than they did clean ones. No one's consistency can really match Plushenko or Kwan.
Midori Ito's jumps + Lucinda Ruh/Stephane Lambiel's spins + Daisuke Takahashi's footwork + Sasha Cohen/Michelle Kwan's spirals + Patrick Chan's transitions + John Curry's artistry + Michelle Kwan's emotive abilities, presence/charisma and consistency + Carolina Kostner's overall skating skills and speed (optional) Kiira Korpi/Brian Joubert's beauty
Robin Cousin's style and flair + Javier's quads. Yu-Na toe jumps + Lucinda spins + MK artistry + Sato edge jumps + Sasha flexibility.
What is your definition of a "clean competition"? If your definition of a clean competition is a competition with no falls, the Lysacek has had many clean competitions. Just counting Lysacek's competitions from January 2009 until 2010 Olympics: 2009 US Nationals: did not have a clean competition, (3rd) 2009 4CC: both SP and FS skated clean with no falls; landed 4T in FS, (2nd) 2009 WC: both SP and FS skated clean (1st) 2009 World Team Trophy: both SP and FS skated clean (2nd SP, 1st FS, team 1st) 2009 Cup of China:both SP and FS skated clean (2nd) 2009 Skate America: both SP and FS skated clean (1st) 2009 Grand Prix Final: both SP and FS skated clean (1st) 2010 US Nationals: no fall SP, fall in FS (2nd) 2010 Olympics: clean SP and FS (1st) Thus, Lysacek skated seven of his last nine competitions with no falls.
Under-rotating, singling, or stepping/falling out of a 3Axel is not skating clean. Review his protocols and the videos from 4CC, from those GP events, from the GP Final, and from Nationals. The protocols reflect the -GOE and the under-rotations and the lacking jump rotation. Just because he didn't fall, doesn't mean he was clean in my book. No one in eligible competition plans a single Axel or plans to step/fall out of a 3Axel.
I have reviewed the protocols and the videos from each of those competitions. Was Lysacek perfect in each competition? No. However, I don't consider negative GOE on an element in a program as a criteria for not skating a clean program. During those events, Lysacek performed at a high level; rarely fell; and placed on the podium. Since 2006, Lysacek failed to medal in only TWO competitions that he competed in (4th at the 2006 Olympics, and 5th at the 2007 World Championships). Thus, Lysacek had at least a top 5 finish at ALL competitions that he competed in from 2006 to 2010. Not sure about how that rates in "your book." However, in my book, that rates Lysacek as a very consistent competitor.
That is pretty much nobodys definition of a clean program. If it were one could say that Lambiel was clean at the 2010 Olympics for instance. Kwan would even be clean at the 2002 Olympics as her bum didnt hit the ice on her triple flip. To some a clean program would be: -No doubled jumps besides the double axel -No hand down -No two foots -No step outs -Obviously no falls To others it would be all those things plus: -No turn outs -No big wobbles or fights to save landings -No dropped content Any program with a single of any sort or a stumble out of a jump is already not clean.
Always placing top 5 is not proof of consistency. Butyrskaya finished top 5 in all but one competition she was in from the 1996 Worlds until finishing 6th at the 2002 Olympics, and she was anything but consistent (and she wasnt even that great aside from her inconsistency to boot). Savchenko & Szolkowy have not missed a Senior podium since the 2006 Worlds, have won 4 Worlds, and their consistency is horrible, with almost no clean competitions, and many epic meltdowns. It is just proof you are a top skater, you get scored as a top skater, you might happen to compete at the time of a weak or inconsistent field in your given discipline, and that others make mistakes as bad or worse than you the times you dont skate well. That said I was the one who named Lysacek for consistency but the previous poster was probably right and I was probably exagerrating, and thinking too much of just his career peak from the 2009 Worlds to 2010 Olympics.
That still wouldn't fix the fact that Alissas jumps suck. They are small and ugly with no flow or height. IMO the worst technique of all time!
About consistency, I wonder how many skaters had perfect performances in their career. And how many perfect performances each of them had. LOL Well Caroline Zhang's is even worse.
Yeah other than some of the spins and the spirals, I cant believe anyone would think Kim would want anything of Czisny's, LOL! Czisny's spins and spirals and Kim's everything else (including consistency) would be another story. That would be a great combination.
It is the timing. Nobody can be consistent all the time, but Evan's timing proved impeccable. I only wish my favorite skaters could come close to that. Same with Kim, although it's less glaring in her case as when she is on, she has a clear jump advantage; Evan did not. Love him or hate him ( or anything in- between, where I happen to sit), his mind was a mind of a champion. Same with Kim, Plushenko, Yagudin, Kwan ( despite her Olympics) etc.


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