text: Latest Hellenic Insider Greece European Council President Donald Tusk suggests that China and Russia are Greece's enemies In Donald Tusk logic…with friends like the European Union who would need enemies like China and Russia? Published 4 years ago on July 8, 2015 By Alex Christoforou 0 Views Share Tweet In his closing speech to the EU Parliament, obsessed Russophobe, hater of all things Russian, a man that despises Russia with an absolute passion could not resist slipping in a reference in his final minutes to Alexis Tsipras to not go seeking help of any type from BRICS' nations. Jump all the way to the end, at 3:25:20 mark: In Tusk's racist and warped little mind this means staying away from China and even more so from Russia. According to Tusk, Tsipras and all of Greece should continue seeking help from their friendly pals in the European Union until their debt to GDP breaks the 200% mark, while avoiding the wicked evil in the East. Donald Tusks' point number 4: "Fourthly, seek help among your friends, and not among your enemies, especially when they are unable to help you". Tusk is alluding to Turk Stream/Greek Stream, Tsipras' numerous trips to Moscow, Chinese investments in the port of Piraeus (and China's desire for more investments), and recent headlines of Greece's BRICS bank membership. So…let's help Mr. Tusk express his fourth point a little more clearly so all of Greece understands… 'Don't look to make any deals (especially with regards to Turk Stream, Chinese shipping ports, or BRICS Bank membership) that may actually deliver some growth and jobs in your country…we in Europe's north enjoy having dark and tanned southern Mediterranean debt slaves.' Of course the apple does not fall far from the tree. Here is Donald Tusk pictured alongside his SS Grandfather… Via Tigr.net… What lies behind the determination of the new head of the European Union, the world has yet to learn. 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Published 3 hours ago on January 16, 2019 By Alex Christoforou Emboldened by Theresa May's lack of leadership and will to deliver the Brexit that UK citizens voted for in a democratic referendum, remain MPs are now mobilizing to do the EU's bidding in forcing Britain to nullify the Brexit process and eventually stay a part of the European Union. After yesterday's thumping of May's Brexit plan in parliament, The Times' Matthew Parris is now openly floating the idea that "it's time for parliament to wrest control from the zombies", stating that "Theresa May isn't any good" and "Jeremy Corbyn is equally useless"… There exists no leadership in either the government or the opposition capable of taking us through this mess. No hidden strengths, no unexpected qualities; no whizzbang new thinking, no magic. Forget May. Forget Corbyn. Salvation is not coming from these directions. So it's up to parliament. MPs are coming to understand that they have to act. It has been stealing on parliamentarians for months now and close contacts between leading members of both parties have been made and have been deepening. From within the Commons a shadow executive must emerge, and is beginning to. Labour's Yvette Cooper talks to the Tories' Dominic Grieve. Around them is a cluster of senior parliamentarians who are getting used to talking. A common purpose unites them: rescuing the country from a no-deal Brexit that only a small minority actually want. Whether this is to be done by seeking a better deal than May's or by a new referendum, or both, they need to find a way soon. An "indicative" vote of the House of Commons may help guide them. And however speedily the House can find its leadership and direction, it's hard to imagine this can be done without an extension to the Article 50 negotiating period. Overwhelmingly, the conclusion to be drawn from last night's vote is that parliament must wrest control from a zombie prime minister, a zombie cabinet and a zombie opposition. I heard in May's response to the result the hint of the straw at which she may now clutch: a Labour-style Brexit under a Tory nominal prime minister. I would be amazed if her party would accept it. The Duran's Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the turbulent and uncertain road ahead in the Brexit saga as a March deadline looms. Shifting sands, and betrayal at the highest level is now crystallizing, as hints of a possible parliamentary coup against May and Corbyn is being floated as a possible solution to the impasse that will ultimately steer the UK back under EU control, and cancel the Brexit referendum. Remember to Please Subscribe to The Duran's YouTube Channel. Follow The Duran Audio Podcast on Soundcloud. Via Straits Times… The words "humiliated" and "crushed" featured prominently in British newspaper headlines following Parliament's massive rejection of a divorce deal with the European Union on Tuesday (Jan 15). Dailies said Prime Minister Theresa May's grip on power was waning after the huge vote against the agreement struck between her government and Brussels, as she prepared to fight a no-confidence motion on Wednesday. "May humiliated by 230 votes," The Daily Mirror tabloid said. The Daily Telegraph wrote: "Humiliation for Prime Minister as MPs overwhelmingly reject deal and Labour tables no confidence vote." The broadsheet's parliamentary sketchwriter Michael Deacon said Mrs May had somehow defied the odds by making a historic event an anticlimax. "Her speech had all the brio of a mouldy gym sock," he wrote. "She sounded as winningly persuasive as a mother snapping at her children to eat up their cabbage or go to bed hungry." The vote itself "was as if Agatha Christie has allowed Miss Marple to solve the murder half way through and spend the rest of the novel pottering about in the garden". 'ZOMBIE PM' The Times columnist Matthew Parris said it was time for senior MPs to take over the Brexit process. "There exists no leadership in either the government or the opposition capable of taking us through this mess," he wrote following the vote. "Theresa May isn't any good; she doesn't have a fiendish, secret strategy; she's careless with the truth and will say anything to get her through another week. She doesn't know what to do. "Overwhelmingly, the conclusion to be drawn… is that Parliament must wrest control from a zombie Prime Minister, a zombie Cabinet and a zombie opposition." The Daily Mail said the defeat left Mrs May's power "hanging by a thread", calling it a "devastating result, which threatens to plunge the Brexit process into chaos". The Sun, Britain's biggest-selling newspaper, said: "Crushed PM dares MPs to vote for general election after record Brexit defeat." "The crushing defeat – which saw 118 Tories turn against the PM – is the worst since the advent of full democracy and suggests Mrs May will never win enough support for her strategy," said the tabloid. The Financial Times newspaper ran a headline reading: "May's defeat spells trouble for the EU's Brexit approach." "Huge loss leaves PM in race against time," the broadsheet said. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest Ukraine's Cult of Stepan Bandera: Not a Detail, but a Cornerstone Unlike Poroshenko with his aerial bombings of the Russian-speaking Donbass in 2014 and 2015, Bandera killed the "wrong" victims, the representatives of those nations that are valued even by the modern Western media. Published 5 hours ago on January 16, 2019 By Dmitry Babich Authored by Dmitry Babich via The Strategic Culture Foundation: During the recent years of the confrontation between Russia and Ukraine, there has been one issue where the Western mainstream press simply cannot fully ignore or reject the Russian arguments. This issue concerns the life and actions of Stepan Bandera (1909-1959) and his followers from what is known as the "Banderite" faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN, a far-right organization that took terrorist actions against Polish and Soviet officials from the 1920s to the 1950s and which is now legally protected from any criticism in Ukraine). THE "WRONG" AND "RIGHT" VICTIMS Because Bandera was born on January 1, 1909, celebrations of his birthday have become disgusting New Year's rituals in Ukraine in recent years, with thousands participating in Nazi-style torch-lit marches that include shouted protests against "Putin's Russia" and rants such as, "Jews out!" which are heard by everyone except the police. This New Year was no exception, since the current Ukrainian government under President Petro Poroshenko (who publicly identified himself as a Banderite after taking office in 2014) officially added Bandera's 110th birthday to the list of Ukraine's most important anniversaries. This time, there were several quiet voices of condemnation heard in Poland, Israel, and even the US. Why? In truth, torches, masks, political murders, and mob attacks against "pro-Russian" public figures are nothing new in post-Maidan Ukraine. And these things usually pose no problem for the mainstream press of the US and its allies. So, why is Bandera an exception? The answer is ethnic, as awful as that may sound. Unlike Poroshenko with his aerial bombings of the Russian-speaking Donbass in 2014 and 2015, Bandera killed the "wrong" victims, the representatives of those nations that are valued even by the modern Western media, with its double and triple standards. In the 1930s Bandera killed Polish officials, in the 1940s his people killed civilian Jews and Polish peasants, and these are groups whose plight even the New York Times cannot ignore today. If Bandera's infamous slogan "Death to enemies!" had been directed only against "disloyal" Russians and anti-Banderite Ukrainians (the groups currently persecuted by Poroshenko), Bandera would have been no different from his modern admirers in the Ukrainian government. But Bandera's followers from the OUN decimated the Jewish population of Lvov and Kiev in 1941, trying to curry favor with the advancing Germans. And between 1943 and 1944, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), taking its orders from Bandera's OUN officers, ethnically cleansed his native Western Ukraine of ethnic Poles, killing from 70,000-100,000 of them (the infamous "slaughter of Volhynia"). The aim was to create an "ethnically pure" Ukraine before the arrival of the Red Army in late 1944. Documents published by the Polish historian Grzegorz Motyka indicate that Bandera and the OUN hoped that the Red Army would soon be replaced by Anglo-American domination. "His strategy was to clean up the house before the arrival of the real master," Motyka concludes in his book. THE LADY OF THE RADA VS. ISRAEL'S PRESIDENT The American domination took another 70 years, but it did come. And now the Banderites' (and Poroshenko's) only historic disagreement with the West is over the infamous "ethnic cleansing," to which Bandera's "glorious heroes" subjected Ukraine in 1941-1944. When Israeli President Reuven Rivlin dared to raise the issue during his visit to Ukraine in 2016, he got a scolding from the vice speaker of the Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada), Irina Gerashchenko: "The Israeli president allowed himself some incorrect and undiplomatic words about the OUN's tragic history," Gerashchenko said at the time. "It was highly inappropriate, especially now, when Ukraine is fighting for its independence." Gerashchenko forgot to mention the fact that Babi Yar, the burial site of some 30,000 Jews killed by German and Ukrainian Nazis in Kiev in 1941, was vandalized nine times between 2015 and 2016, according to data provided by the Ukrainian Jewish Committee. WHY THE WEST WANTS TO FORGET, BUT CANNOT In the immediate aftermath of the Maidan coup in 2014, the mainstream press was ready to forget even that, since an honest account of Bandera's activities between 1939 and 1959 could rekindle memories of the undesirable parallels to the "resistance to Russian occupation" by Poroshenko's army in the Donbass in 2014 and 2015. Between the summer of 2014 and the winter of 2015, about 10,000 people died there, victims of the aircraft and tanks sent by Poroshenko (just months earlier, the US and the EU had been unable to abide the use of truncheons by the police of the ousted president, Viktor Yanukovych). At the time, the NYT called Bandera the "Ukrainian nationalists' hero." Obviously, the NYT's authors were taking their cues from the Washington Post's Anne Applebaum, with her Banderite headline, "Nationalism is exactly what Ukraine Needs" in the once-glorious New Republic. But here the mainstream press tried to kill off a memory that will never die — the memory of how Hitler's East European Nazi allies participated in the destruction of the region's Jewish population in the early 1940s. This was something not even Anne Applebaum could make people forget. In his articles in the American press, the director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, Eduard Dolinsky, tried to explain to the American public that Bandera's cult is not an isolated, unpleasant phenomenon: Stepan Bandera never acted alone, he represented a crudely nationalist ideology. Unfortunately, this ideology reigns triumphant in modern Ukraine behind the "liberal" façade displayed for the West. For example, Dolinsky notes that Poroshenko's hypocritical speeches memorializing Jewish victims can be heard next to, say, a memorial to OUN activist Ivan Rogach, whose newspaper called Jews "the greatest enemy of the people" in 1941. "The Ukrainian leadership set itself on the course of rehabilitating anti-Semitism and introducing censorship of history," concludes the official statement of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, an international Jewish human-rights group, famous for its work to bring Nazi criminals to justice. THE RUSSIAN QUESTION BEHIND THE JEWISH ONE If the West cannot afford to be completely silent about Bandera's participation in the Holocaust, it is willingly ignoring another huge injustice that is inseparable from Bandera's cult in modern Ukraine — the erasure of the Russian and anti-Banderite component of Ukraine's historic memory. In 2017, Kiev's Vatutin Avenue was renamed Bandera Avenue, resulting in an outcry in Russia and complete silence in the West. This avenue, a major thoroughfare in the Ukrainian capital, had originally been named in honor of General Nikolai Vatutin, who liberated Kiev from Nazi occupation in 1943 and died in a shootout with the OUN's guerillas in 1944. At the time, there was no question about where America's sympathies lay: the fight against Hitler was not yet over, and Vatutin, born in 1901 to a peasant family living immediately adjacent to the future Russian-Ukrainian border, was a useful ally for the United States. Will Bandera and his modern followers be a good replacement? Only someone with Poroshenko's plans for Ukraine or with Anne Applebaum's views on history could agree. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest Entering a Major Regional Re-set – The Syria Outcome Will Haunt Those Who Started This War It should be obvious now that we are entering a major regional re-set. Published 5 hours ago on January 16, 2019 By Alastair Crooke Authored by Alastair Crooke via The Strategic Culture Foundation: The Middle East is metamorphosing. New fault-lines are emerging, yet Trump's foreign policy 'hawks' still try to stage 'old movies' in a new 'theatre'. The 'old movie' is for the US to 'stand up' Sunni, Arab states, and lead them towards confronting 'bad actor' Iran. 'Team Bolton' is reverting back to the old 1996 Clean Break script – as if nothing has changed. State Department officials have been briefing that Secretary Pompeo's address in Cairo on Thursday was " slated to tell his audience (although he may not name the former president), that Obama misled the people of the Middle East about the true source of terrorism, including what contributed to the rise of the Islamic State. Pompeo will insist that Iran, a country Obama tried to engage, is the real terrorist culprit. The speech's drafts also have Pompeo suggesting that Iran could learn from the Saudis about human rights, and the rule of law." Well, at least that speech should raise a chuckle around the region. In practice however, the regional fault-line has moved on: It is no longer so much Iran. GCC States have a new agenda, and are now far more concerned to contain Turkey, and to put a halt to Turkish influence spreading throughout the Levant. GCC states fear that President Erdogan, given the emotional and psychological wave of antipathy unleashed by the Khashoggi murder, may be mobilising newly re-energised Muslim Brotherhood, Gulf networks. The aim being to leverage present Gulf economic woes, and the general hollowing out of any broader GCC 'vision', in order to undercut the rigid Gulf 'Arab system' (tribal monarchy). The Brotherhood favours a soft Islamist reform of the Gulf monarchies – along lines, such as that once advocated by Jamal Khashoggi . Turkey's leadership in any case is convinced that it was the UAE (MbZ specifically) that was the author behind the Kurdish buffer being constructed, and mini-state 'plot' against Turkey – in conjunction with Israel and the US. Understandably, Gulf states now fear possible Turkish retribution for their weaponising of Kurdish aspirations in this way. And Turkey is seen (by GCC States) as already working in close co-ordination with fellow Muslim Brotherhood patron and GCC member, Qatar, to divide the collapsing Council. This prefigures a new round to the MB versus Saudi Wahhabism spat for the soul of Sunni Islam. GGC states therefore, are hoping to stand-up a 'front' to balance Turkey in the Levant. And to this end, they are trying to recruit President Assad back into the Arab fold (which is to say, into the Arab League), and to have him act, jointly with them, as an Arab counter to Turkey. The point here is obvious: President Assad is closely allied to Iran – and so is Moscow and Turkey. To be fashionably Iranophobic – as Pompeo might wish the GCC to be – simply would spoil the GCC's anti-Turkey 'play'. Syria indeed may be (justly) skeptical of Turkey's actions and intent in Syria, but from President Assad's perspective, Iran and Russia are absolutely crucial to the managing of an erratic Turkey. Turkey does represent an existential Syrian concern. And trying to lever President Assad – or Lebanon or Turkey – away from Iran, would be absurd. It won't happen. And the GCC states have enough nous to understand this now (after their stinging defeat in Syria). The Gulf anti-Iranian stance has had 'the burner' turned sharply down, (except when their need is to stroke US feathers). They can see clearly that the Master of Ceremonies in the Levant – putting together the new regional 'order' – is not Mr Bolton, but Moscow, with Tehran (and occasionally Ankara), playing their equal part 'from behind the curtain'. Presumably, America's intelligence services know, (and Gulf states certainly are aware), that in any case, Iranian forces are almost all gone from Syria (though of course Syria's 'Iranian connection' remains as firm, as ever) – even as Pompeo and Israel say the precisely the opposite: that they are pushing-back hard at the 'threatening' Iranian military 'footprint' in Syria. Few in the region will believe it. The second notable emerging regional fault line then, evidently is the one that is opening between Turkey and the US and Israel. Turkey 'gets it': Erdogan 'gets it' very clearly: that Washington now deeply distrusts him, suspects that Turkey is accelerating into Moscow and Beijing's orbit, and that DC would be happy to see him gone – and a more NATO-friendly leader installed in his stead. And it must be clear to Washington too 'why' Turkey would be heading 'East'. Erdogan precisely needs Russia and Iran to act as MCs to moderate his difficult relations with Damascus for the future. Erdogan needs Russia and Iran even more, to broker a suitable political solution to the Kurds in Syria. He needs China too, to support his economy. And Erdogan is fully aware that Israel (more than Gulf States) still hankers after the old Ben Gurion ideal of an ethnic Kurdish state – allied with Israel, and sitting atop major oil resources – to be inserted at the very pivot to south-west and central Asia: And at Turkey's vulnerable underbelly. The Israeli's articulated their support for a Kurdish state quite plainly at the time of Barzani's failed independence initiative in Iraq. But Erdogan simply, unmistakably, has said to this 'never' (to Bolton, this week). Nonetheless, Ankara still needs Russian and Iranian collaboration to allow Bolton to 'climb down his tree' of a Kurdish mini-state in Syria. He needs Russia to broker a Syrian-led buffer, vice an American-Kurdish tourniquet, strapped around his southern border. It is unlikely however, that despite the real threat that America's arming of the Kurds poses to Turkey, that Erdogan really wants to invade Syria – though he threatens it – and though John Bolton's 'conditions' may end by leaving Turkey no option, but to do it. Since, for sure, Erdogan understands that a messy Turkish invasion of Syria would send the delicately balanced Turkish Lire into free-fall. Still … Turkey, Syria, Iran and Russia now all want America gone from Syria. And for a moment, it seemed it might proceed smoothly after Trump had acquiesced to Erdogan's arguments, during their celebrated telephone call. But then – Senator Lindsay Graham demurred (against the backdrop of massed howls of anguish issuing from the Beltway foreign policy think-tanks). Bolton did the walk-back, by making US withdrawal from Syria contingent on conditions (ones seemingly designed not to be met) and not tied any specific timeline. President Erdogan was not amused. It should be obvious now that we are entering a major regional re-set: The US is leaving Syria. Bolton's attempted withdrawal-reversal has been rebuffed. And the US, in any event, forfeited the confidence of the Kurds in consequence to the original Trump statement. The Kurds now are orientated toward Damascus and Russia is mediating a settlement. It may take a while, but the US is going. Kurdish forces (other than those linked with the PKK) are likely to be assimilated into the Syrian army, and the 'buffer' will not be directed against Turkey, but will be a mix of Syrian army and Kurdish elements – under Syrian command – but whose overall conduct towards Turkey will be invigilated by Russia. And the Syrian army will, in due time, clear Idlib from a resurgent al-Qaida (HTS). The Arab states are returning to their embassies in Damascus – partly out of fear that the whipsaw of American policy, its radical polarisation, and its proclivity to be wholly or partially 'walked-back' by the Deep State – might leave the Gulf unexpectedly 'orphaned' at any time. In effect, the GCC states are 'hedging' against this risk by trying to reconnect a bifurcated Arab sphere, and to give it a new 'purpose' and credibility – as a balance against Turkey, Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood (Syria's old nemesis). And yet – there remains still another layer to this calculus, as described by veteran Middle East journalist, Elijah Magnier: "Indeed the Levant is returning to the centre of Middle East and world attention in a stronger position than in 2011. Syria has advanced precision missiles that can hit any building in Israel. Assad also has an air defence system he would have never dreamed of before 2011 – thanks to Israel's continuous violation of its airspace, and its defiance of Russian authority. Hezbollah has constructed bases for its long and medium range precision missiles in the mountains and has created a bond with Syria that it could never have established – if not for the war. Iran has established a strategic brotherhood with Syria, thanks to its role in defeating the regime change plan. NATO's support for the growth of ISIS has created a bond between Syria and Iraq that no Muslim or Baathist link could ever have created: Iraq has a "carte blanche" to bomb ISIS locations in Syria without the consent of the Syrian leadership, and the Iraqi security forces can walk into Syria anytime they see fit to fight ISIS. The anti-Israel axis has never been stronger than it is today. That is the result of 2011-2018 war imposed on Syria". Yes. This is the third of the newly emergent fault-lines: that of Israel on the one hand, and the emerging reality in the Syrian north, on the other – a shadow that has returned to haunt the original instigators of the 'war' to undermine Syria. PM Netanyahu since has put all the Israeli eggs into the Trump family 'basket'. It was Netanyahu's relationship with Trump which was presented in Israel as being the true 'Deal of the Century' (and not the Palestinian one). Yet when Bibi complained forcefully about US withdrawal from Syria (leaving Syria vulnerable, Netanyahu asserts, to an Iranian insertion of smart missiles), Trump nonchalantly replied that the US gives Israel $ 4.5 billion per year – "You'll be all right", Trump riposted. It was seen in Israel as an extraordinary slap to the PM's face. But Israelis cannot avoid, but to acknowledge, some responsibility for creating precisely the circumstances of which they now loudly complain. Bottom line: Things have not gone according to plan: America is not shaping the new Levantine 'order' – Moscow is. And Israel's continual, blatant disregard of Russia's own interests in the Levant, firstly infuriated, and finally has provoked the Russian high command into declaring the northern Middle East a putative no-fly zone for Israel. This represents a major strategic reversal for Netanyahu (and the US). And finally, it is this repeating pattern of statements being made by the US President on foreign policy that are then almost casually contradicted, or 'conditioned', by some or other part of the US bureaucracy, that poses to the region (and beyond) the sixty-four-thousand-dollar question. The pattern clearly is one of an isolated President, with officials emptying his statements of executive authority (until subsequently endorsed, or denied, by the US bureaucracy). It is making Trump almost irrelevant (in terms of the setting of foreign policy). Is this then a stealth process – knowingly contrived – incrementally to remove Trump from power? A hollowing out of his Presidential prerogatives (leaving him only as a disruptive Twitterer) – achieved, without all the disruption and mess, of formally removing him from office? We shall see. And what next? Well, as Simon Henderson observes, no one is sure – everyone is left wondering: "What's up with Secretary Pompeo's extended tour of the Middle East? The short answer is that he is trying to sell/explain President Trump's "we are leaving Syria" policy to America's friends … Amman, Jordan; Cairo, Egypt; Manama, Bahrain; Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE); Doha, Qatar; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Muscat, Oman; Kuwait City, Kuwait. Wow, even with his own jet and no immigration hassles, that's an exhausting itinerary … The fact that there now are eight stops in eight days, probably reflects the amount of explaining that needs to be done." Liked it? 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Few brands can hope to even come close to the iconic iMac in brand recognition. The ubiquitous glass-and-aluminum slab has become a fixture in dorm rooms, offices and living rooms, and with its 2010 refresh, Apple manages to keep the same familiar face, but inject even more power into the tiny chassis by adopting Intel's Core series processors and full-power desktop graphics cards from AMD. While it may not qualify as a "must upgrade" for existing iMac owners, gamers and other users should be pleasantly surprised by the very real performance boost the new hardware delivers.
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Don't pore over the chassis on the 2010 iMac too carefully looking for a little extra love from designer Jon Ive; Apple has left well enough alone and changed absolutely nothing on the outside this year. When you already own the design, other companies scramble to emulate, it's a luxury you have. And we're not complaining. The edge-to-edge glass, black-rimmed bezel, uninterrupted aluminum shell and single white cable trailing out the back look as magnificent this year as they did last year, and we would hate to see Apple can a winning design for a new flavor of the week.
Speaking of which, Apple's included mouse and keyboard remain as abysmal and overdesigned as ever, looking chic and minimal on an uncluttered desk, but driving function off a cliff to get there. The mouse fits the hand about as comfortably as a stepped-on tuna can, and the limp Chiclet keyboard has been shortened so drastically (it lacks a number pad, which Apple advertises as a feature) that it looks downright comical in front of the towering 27-inch display.
Our iMac came configured from the factory with an Intel Core i5 processor running at 2.8GHz, 4GB of DDR3 memory, an ATI Radeon HD 5750 GPU with 1GB of DDR5 memory, and a 256GB SSD. As equipped, it runs for $2,599 through Apple's configure-to-order program.
Although our model didn't come equipped with both an SSD and conventional drive, this year is actually the first that Apple will put both in the same computer. While it's no feat of engineering, it does offer customers the chance to take advantage of both the speed of an SSD and the raw storage capacity of a magnetic drive.
The 27-inch LCD on the iMac will drop jaws, and not just because it's utterly massive. Unlike most displays in this size class, which offer 1080p resolution, Apple proceeds past the bounds of high-def content to a full 2560 x 1440. While that means 1080p content will need to be scaled to fit it, the increased pixel density also makes text and graphics on the desktop look significantly smoother, translating to a more refined desktop experience. LED backlighting improves efficiency, eliminates the dim warmup period of CCFL tubes, and looks extraordinarily bright. Although the primitive cast-metal stand won't telescope up and down the way a pro monitor mount will, it does easily pivot up and down to get the best viewing angle. Not that you'll need to play with it much – the IPS LCD screen Apple has selected has just about the best viewing angle in the biz – you can look at it from pretty much any angle without much distortion.
Ports and Connections
Per the usual Apple formula, the iMac doesn't come loaded with ports to spare, but you won't find many missing, either. Around back, you get four USB 2.0 ports, one FireWire 800 port, an Ethernet jack, and a mini DisplayPort, which can be used to output VGA, HDMI or DVI video with the appropriate adapter ($29) from Apple. While it cleans up the look of back a bit, we would prefer if Apple skipped the obvious cash grab on the cables and just gave us the standard VGA and DVI outputs right on the box. Along the same lines, Apple provides both analog and optical digital inputs and outputs in stereo, but audio buffs hoping to tie the iMac into a more powerful home theater system might feel left out by the lack of 5.1-channel analog outputs — pretty much a standard feature on PCs. The missing Blu-ray option also stands out as a downright waste, when coupled with a display with as much cinematic potential as this one.
On the right, you'll find a slot-loading DVD drive and an SDXC expansion port. While SDXC cards only come in capacities up to 64GB at the moment, eventually, the iMac will support capacities all the way up to 2TB, potentially making it as much a storage expansion slot as a media loading slot, if you have the cash.
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Paula Deen finally got her hood pass re-instated ... so declares one African American photog -- a self-appointed ambassador for his race.
Deen strolled through LAX Friday evening and was real chatty ... bragging about her new digital network and the best way to cook fried chicken.
But Paula got real serious when one photog told her, "black people still love you."
Check out her response ... interesting.
Paula Deen Restaurant Sorry We Screwed You Over ... But Here's Our Card!
The employees at Uncle Bubba's Seafood & Oyster House weren't sent packing empty-handed ... TMZ has learned they were given a business card and a list of restaurants in the area that are hiring. Better than nothing, right?
As TMZ previously reported, Bubba's -- the restaurant at the center of the Paula Deen racist controversy -- closed down Thursday morning out of the blue ... with some employees finding out on Facebook and others hearing the news from the restaurant once they arrived at work.
One employee told us they were paid through Wednesday and got vacation pay along with two weeks severance.
The employee said the whole ordeal was particularly hurtful, since so many staffers stuck up for the Deen family during the controversy -- some patrons threw food at them and they still defended Paula.
Oysters and employees -- they all get shucked.
Paula Deen Restaurant at Center of Racism Scandal Shuts Down
Breaking News
Uncle Bubba's Seafood & Oyster House -- the place where Paula Deen's empire crumbled -- just closed for good, and the way employees found out is just shocking.
The company did NOT tell its employees in an open meeting or face-to-face. The workers showed up this morning only to find the sign down and appliances being removed from the joint.
The only explanation was posted on the restaurant's Facebook page this morning -- "Thank you for 10 great years. Uncle Bubba's is now closed."
People were pissed off, including one woman who says, "My mother worked there for over 8 years and no one called her!!! My fiance also worked there no one called him, in fact a UB manager called him LAST NIGHT to get his availability for next week!"
Another wrote, "My mother put in some hard work for years with you & she finds out when she shows up for work this morning to be escorted by a police officer to get her belongings."
You may recall ... the GM of Bubba's sued Paula ... and during her depo Paula recounted the story where she once used the N word to describe an African American man who held her up.
We reached out to Deen's rep ... so far, no word back.
DJ Paul I'm Cool with Paula Deen ... And I'd Give Rachael Ray My Sweet Meat
Paula Deen can drop all the n-bombs she wants ... DJ Paul is still down with the celebrity chef, and says he'd love to get in the kitchen with her today.
The Three 6 Mafia rapper -- slash chef and celeb caterer -- told us yesterday in NYC ... he's unfazed by the whole controversy surrounding Paula using the n-word.
Paul says he was hanging out with Deen at a food festival in NYC minutes before he got arrested in 2012, and added ... "I look at Paula Deen as a mom" ... and she can holla at him anytime.
But the Academy Award winner revealed the chef he wants more than a phone call from is Rachael Ray. You gotta hear his metaphor about his weenie and RR's pot ... classic.
Talk about danger dogs.
Paula Deen Riding Dolly Parton's Coattails to Cook Up New Restaurant
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Paula Deen's hitching her wagon to Dolly Parton to try to bury her n-word scandal ... forging ahead with a new restaurant right next to Dolly's amusement park.
Paula Deen's Family Kitchen will open later this summer next to Dollywood in Tennessee -- her first new business venture since last month ... when a businessman pumped $75 mil into Paula's comeback.
Sources connected to the restaurant tell us besides the usual family-style portions of Southern food staples ... Paula's new joint will also feature a retail store to hawk her wares and books.
We're told Paula's spent the last 4 months focusing on all aspects of her business ... and this restaurant is a top priority.
Paula Deen $75 MIllion For Huge Comeback
Breaking News
Paula Deen -- like the Phoenix -- is rising again ... thanks to a $75 MILLION infusion of cash from a Phoenix-based investment company that could put Paula's wares in the back pocket of airplane seats.
Jahm Najafi clearly thinks the Paula Deen brand is still a marketable commodity, because his company is fronting the cash.
As for Najafi's plan ... we found it extremely interesting that in 2012 he bought SkyMall magazine ... which you've probably leafed through and then failed to buy anything from inside. So the question -- will Paula's pots and pans end up in the mag?
As you know ... Paula was unceremoniously dumped by virtually all of her sponsors after confessing she used the N word to describe a person who robbed the bank she was a teller at in the 80s.
By the way ... in addition to SkyMall, Najafi owns the Book of the Month Club and Columbia House.
Paula Deen Extortionist Sentenced 2 Years in Prison
The man who allegedly attempted to extort $250,000 from Paula Deen has just been sentenced to 2 years in prison, TMZ has learned.
As we reported, a man named Thomas Paculis contacted Deen's attorney claiming he would release "true and damning" information about the celebrity chef's n-word usage if he didn't receive a huge check. The FBI tracked Paculis down and he was subsequently arrested and charged with two counts of extortion.
Paculis struck a plea bargain with prosecutors last month, agreeing to plead guilty to one count of extortion. In exchange, prosecutors dropped the remaining count.
Paculis was sentenced today to 2 years in a Georgia prison, plus one year of supervised release and 40 hours community service. He has already been remanded into custody.
Interestingly, the court also ordered Paculis to attend substance abuse counseling. We called Paculis' attorney to find out why -- so far, no word back.
Paula Deen I Don't Need a Comeback 'I Never Went Anywhere'
Paula Deen is choosing to ignore her epic fall from grace -- telling TMZ, she doesn't need to make a comeback after her n-word scandal ... because she "never went anywhere."
Fact is ... Paula's reputation has been destroyed -- but the celebrity chef is refusing to wave the white flag.
We talked to Paula as she was flying to Houston ... where yesterday she got a standing ovation at a cooking convention, then broke down in tears -- a full 180 from the stiff upper lip routine she gave us.
Interestingly, the person by Paula's side at the airport ... none other than Hollis, her dutiful bodyguard. You may remember the New York Times interview, when she mentioned Hollis was "as black as that board," referring to the black background.
She does have some kind words for 2 Chainz' new cookbook. Mayonnaise and butter, yum!
Paula Deen SOBS at First Public Appearance After Racist Scandal
Breaking News
Paula Deen was a big butterball of emotion today during her first public appearance since settling the racial discrimination lawsuit that destroyed her career ... and we've got the pics.
Paula appeared in Houston, Texas today for the Metro Cooking and Entertainment Show to mark her return ... and got choked up after receiving a standing ovation when she hit the stage.
The 66-year old chef told the crowd she had been wanting her return to take place in Texas all along ... and was just shedding tears of joy.
The crowd in Texas seems to have forgiven Paula -- so we gotta ask ...
Stars and Scars You Be the Judge
Lots happened this week ... most notably Lamar Odom slipping deeper into trouble over his addiction. So we gotta ask ...
Paula Deen Dropped from Cooking Expo Ads Even Though She's Headlining
Paula Deen is headlining a giant food expo in Houston next month, but you wouldn't know it ... because two huge ticket sellers are REFUSING to put her name or her picture in the advertising, TMZ has learned.
The event is the Metro Cooking and Entertainment Show ... and Paula was supposed to be the main attraction, but sources connected with the expo tell us, Groupon and Livingsocial are actively trying to distance themselves from anything Deen-related.
Instead, the companies are featuring much lesser known chefs on their ads -- like Terry French and Martie Duncan -- and ticket sales are taking a huge hit.
A rep for the expo tells us, "It's more difficult -- I'm not going to kid -- not having those tools [Paula and her sons] to help sell tickets, but we are fighting for Paula."
Paula has been with the expo for 8 years, and the rep says tickets sold much more quickly when the chef was featured on the advertisements ... but not this year ... and there's nothing Metro can do about it (except on its own website).
FYI, the expo will be Paula's first public appearance since she settled the racial discrimination lawsuit filed against her in Georgia.
Reps for Livingsocial and Groupon had no comment.
Paula Deen Racial/Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Dismissed
Breaking News
Paula Deen has SETTLED the lawsuit that sent her empire crashing to the ground.
Lisa Jackson -- who worked as General Manager at Uncle Bubba's Seafood and Oyster House -- filed the suit, claiming racial and sexual harassment. The racial claim was dismissed recently because Lisa didn't have a dog in the fight -- because she's white.
Now Jackson's lawsuit has been dismissed, and all signs point to a settlement. The terms appear to be confidential.
Paula Deen's Husband WE'RE NOT BIGOTS Now Gimme Chick-fil-A
Less than two months after Paula Deen went on TV and proclaimed that "everyone should be treated equal" ... her husband Michael Groover was seen walking out of a Chick-fil-A restaurant.
While they do have great food (really great food), is Chick-fil-A REALLY the best place for Paula's hubby to grab a meal ... in the wake of the chef's "I'm not a bigot, please take me back America" campaign?
FYI -- it wasn't too long ago Paula appeared on TV and said, "I believe that every creature on this earth — every one of God's creatures — was created equal, no matter who you choose to go to bed at night with, no matter what church you go to pray. I believe that everyone should be treated equal and that's the way I was raised, and that's the way I live my life."
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No. 8 Duke holds on to beat Maryland 69-67
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) The shot that would have beaten No. 8 Duke hung on the rim, bouncing once, then twice.
"It felt like an eternity," freshman Jabari Parker said.
Once it fell harmlessly off the rim, the Blue Devils finally exhaled.
Parker scored 23 points and blocked one of Maryland's two shots in the final 10 seconds of the Blue Devils' 69-67 victory Saturday night.
"That was vintage Cameron, man," Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said. "That was one for the ages."
Rodney Hood and Rasheed Sulaimon added 11 points each for the Blue Devils (20-5, 9-3 Atlantic Coast Conference), who won their eighth in nine games and started a run of four games in eight nights by giving the Terrapins a hard-to-swallow loss in their last scheduled visit to Cameron Indoor Stadium.
The ACC's top 3-point shooting team was just 5 of 24 from long range and shot 23 percent in the second half. Duke led by double figures for all of about 15 seconds before scratching its way to the 20-win mark for the 18th straight year.
"Sometimes the basketball gods fool around with you when you're not shooting, and they say, `You've got to figure out another way to win this thing,"' Krzyzewski said. "Our effort those last 20 seconds was spectacular."
Jake Layman scored 18 points for Maryland (14-12, 6-7) and Dez Wells – who just about single-handedly beat the Blue Devils by scoring 30 in last year's ACC quarterfinals – had all 17 of his points in the second half.
Charles Mitchell finished with 12 for the Terrapins, but missed two hook shots in the final 10 seconds that would have given them the lead.
"I don't know how Charles' shot didn't go in," Maryland coach Mark Turgeon said. "Call the Duke gods."
Parker gave Duke the lead for good when his authoritative, one-handed dunk over Jonathan Graham made it 68-67 with about 1:15 remaining.
Wells missed a jumper over Hood with about 50 seconds left. Duke milked the shot clock before Amile Jefferson missed a jumper that failed to draw iron, giving the Terrapins the ball.
The teams traded timeouts with 18.8 seconds left before Maryland worked the ball inside to Mitchell. He had one hook shot blocked by Parker with about 7 seconds left, and another bounced twice on the rim but would not fall through.
"The guys kind of willed their way to the basket," Turgeon said. "It just didn't drop."
Said Jefferson: "You just hold your breath."
The rebound made its way to Jefferson, who was fouled with 1.1 seconds left and hit a free throw to end the scoring.
Wells couldn't get off an 80-foot heave before the buzzer, sealing Duke's 30th straight victory at Cameron. That tied Stephen F. Austin for the longest active home streak in the country.
Duke missed 17 of its first 19 shots in the second half before Jefferson banked one in to tie it at 54 with 6 1/2 minutes left.
About 2 minutes earlier, Wells capped a 12-1 run with a layup that gave the Terrapins their first lead at 54-52, and it was a one-possession game the rest of the way.
The Big Ten-bound Terps got quite an early earful from the Cameron Crazies, who taunted Turgeon with their classic "Sweat, Gary, Sweat" chant that had been mothballed since Gary Williams retired three years ago.
But once Maryland started chipping into – and eventually completely erasing – the Duke lead, those jeers stopped.
"I'm going to miss (the Duke rivalry) like crazy," Turgeon said. "We played tonight for Maryland. … We played for all our former coaches, former players … because we knew we weren't getting them at our place. This was our one chance."
Jefferson finished with 12 rebounds for the Blue Devils, who have a busy week coming up because their rivalry game with North Carolina was postponed due to a nasty winter storm.
That game was rescheduled for Feb. 20 – two nights after they visit Georgia Tech, and two nights before they host No. 1 Syracuse.
"This is a fun time for us and this should really be a good time to see where our team is at, to evaluate it and to get better," Jefferson said.
That the Blue Devils missed 11 of their first 13 attempts from 3-point range could have been attributed to rust for a team that entered hitting 3s at a league-best 42 percent clip.
But they also were outrebounded 43-36 by the Terps and certainly looked ripe for an upset.
They were unable to take advantage of Maryland's drought early in the half, instead matching the Terps missed shot for missed shot. Maryland went 5 minutes between buckets early in the second half.
Duke finished at 33 percent from the field while Maryland shot 41.9 percent.
"We beat a real gutty team today," Krzyzewski said, "and we were a gutty team."
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July 21, 2009
There's nothing like hearing the results of studies directly from those who actually conducted the research. In this summary, you'll hear Wafaa El-Sadr, M.D., M.P.H., discuss her plenary paper. It is followed by questions from reporters and comments by Julio Montaner, M.D., president of the International AIDS Society. To see her presentation, click here. To review her slides, click here.
|Wafaa El-Sadr, M.D., M.P.H.
Wafaa El-Sadr: I spoke this morning on HIV inflammation, and the subtitle of my talk was, "A Paradigm Shift."1 Largely I was talking about a couple of things. What should be our goal in managing people with HIV? And ultimately, our goal is that people with HIV would have similar survival to people without HIV. They would live just as long, and they would live just as well as people without HIV.
How can we achieve this? I think we've made tremendous progress by using antiretroviral therapy in dramatically decreasing morbidity and mortality. However, we may have also missed the boat in some areas. We have assumed that after somebody's infected that they have many, many years of what's called clinical latency -- many, many years when they're infected but they're actually doing well, or they appear to be doing well. It's only when they become sick, or they've advanced a bit with HIV, or advanced HIV, that then we start thinking of what other treatments we should provide them.
I think the goal is to try to think about how can we use the interventions we have. Can we use antiretroviral therapy, for example, to try to dampen some of this damage that's ongoing? We don't know if that's going to be effective or not. We need to study it. We need to invest in more studies that can answer that question definitively. Because getting it right is very important: really figuring out when to use antiretroviral therapy. How early should we use it in HIV disease has major implications. We need to know the benefits. We need to know the risks. Because we can't take a chance on that answer, because it has implications for millions and millions of people who will start therapy based on our guidance.
The second issue is that -- so there's one gap, largely in developed countries, which is the gap between people with HIV in survival, and those without HIV. Then there's another gap, obviously, between people with HIV in rich countries and in poor countries. Clearly, there's the gap of providing access to treatment and other interventions for people with HIV -- not just antiretroviral therapy.
In poor countries, we still have a long ways to go. Only about a third are getting access. We have a ways to go. And even people who get access to treatment are not doing as well as we want them to do. They're starting treatment very late. Also, even when they start antiretroviral therapy, they seem to be at very high risk of what we call early mortality. So we have a lot of questions we need to answer. We don't have all the answers yet.
I think the message is that some people are under a mistaken impression that we've solved AIDS, that we've solved HIV, that now we know how to treat it, we can get it out there, and all the answers are there. I believe there are lots of answers at the genetic level, at the research level, as well as the implementation level. And we have to continue to push the science and push the implementation and push the practice, based on evidence.
Reporter #1: I'm Natasha Bolognesi, and I'm reporting for the Canadian Network - Education. My question is: How does your concept of starting ARV treatment earlier during the clinical latency period compare with studies which suggest that some ARV drugs actually may contribute to comorbities, such as cardiovascular disease, for example?
Wafaa El-Sadr: I think we don't know the answer to the question. I am advocating -- based on what we know from the studies available to us --that it appears that there may be definite benefits to earlier initiation of ART. But there also are likely, as well, definite risks. Clearly, there will need to be studies to be done that further our understanding of how do we balance the metaphysic risks. And especially in the health care group of individuals; in such a population you want to really make sure that the benefits way outweigh the risks. Because if you're going to treat huge populations early, you want to know that most people will gain the benefits, rather than the risks.
In a more advanced population with HIV, you clearly are then willing to bear more of the risks to get the benefits. So I think it's weighing the risks and benefits that's a very complex balance.
I do believe that there are very intriguing, interesting data that suggest that earlier treatment could be advantageous. By earlier, I'm talking about above 350. I'm not talking about that people who should be getting treatment today are not getting it. In those populations I believe that the question should be studied, needs to be studied, and studied quickly. And investment should be made to make sure that these studies are done and done appropriately, and all the measurements are done within those studies.
I have to, though, caution that the vast majority people in the world are not getting access to treatment, even at the current thresholds. And that should be our focus -- to get people on treatment at the current threshold.
So I think that pathogenesis, these mechanisms, guide us to pushing harder to try to answer the questions and also to think about how are we going to answer the questions? What are we going to look for, exactly, in those studies?
I do think that the momentum is there, and the rationale is there, and we have to keep pushing to get them, to get these studies done.
Reporter #2: Hi. I'm Adam Graham-Silverman, also from the U.S.A. Dr. El-Sadr, you talked about this chronic inflammation idea as a paradigm shift. But given what you and others have just said about how far things need to go just to get treatment to those who need it at the current paradigm, I'm wondering what else, what other kind of shift might this model entail, particularly for the health systems more broadly, other options for treatment. You know, if this does become the model, what other avenues will get opened up for new ways to look at treatment prevention, care and so forth?
Wafaa El-Sadr: If I understand your question correctly, I think that there is recognition of the importance of these kinds of coagulation and inflammatory markers. And the question is: what can we do about it? Is it antiretroviral therapy that's the answer? The only answer? Or is it antiretroviral therapy and something else? Can we use agents, drugs, that have effect against inflammation, for example? That may have a benefit. We don't know that, in people with HIV.
I mentioned the very large study that was done in people without HIV, that did show that using the statins -- those are drugs that are anti-cholesterol drugs that appear to have remarkable impact in the general population. We don't know what impact that might have in HIV-infected individuals.
I think it opens new avenues for trying to think about not only antiretroviral therapy, but also other potential possibilities, and other interventions, as well. I think people should really be creative and look at what's on the shelf, and what's been used before and discarded and maybe really try to go outside the box of thinking of other drugs that we haven't thought of as anti-HIV drugs. I'm not sure that they work by themselves, but they might work as adjunctive -- if they demonstrate a benefit - and can adjunctively be used with antiretroviral therapy, potentially.
Reporter #3: Are there drugs and their broader public health interventions that may also be worth looking to?
Wafaa El-Sadr: Again, same issue. The whole issue of inflammation has also possibly potentially, aiding HIV transmission, HIV acquisition. We know that, for example, having herpes infection or genital ulcers appears to make you more vulnerable to getting HIV. And treating another infection and suppressing inflammation potentially could help in that way. Although more studies have not demonstrated a benefit from such treatment, in large clinical trials.
I guess, going back to the issue of early treatment: there are two ways of thinking about early treatment. You have to think about the benefits to the individual with HIV who is getting treated. And then you have to think about the prevention benefits and that's the balance.
If, for example, we discovered that it's not really of benefit to treat people very early on for their own health, but it does help in prevention; would that be the way to go? It's an interesting question.
Or, if there's a little bit of harm in the person who is treated early, when they get side effects, or something happens to them individually, but, on the other hand, it works for prevention from them to someone else; how do we weigh those two things?
It's a really huge ethical dilemma of weighing the benefits and risks, individual risks, getting the therapy, versus the benefits and risks to others. I don't have the answer. But those are really tough questions. Maybe Julio has the answers.
Julio Montaner: I consider that my invitation to the microphone. I'm Julio Montaner, and I've been working on these things for a little bit. [Dr. Montaner is president of the International AIDS Society and Clinical Director, British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS.] This panel has been wonderful in outlining some of the major issues. I want to give credit to Wafaa. Wafaa is extremely humble. She's been very, very careful in how she's describing the results of her studies. The SMART study2 was a wonderful piece of work that really taught us tremendous new information that has dramatically changed the way we approach -- I approach -- HIV treatment in the clinic.
This is the problem. The problem is that it has moved the goalpost so far out there for antiretroviral therapy that when we come here to Cape Town, and Paula is reminding us that all of this is irrelevant to her and 90% of the people in the world because there is no money, she's totally right.
So we're here to highlight the fact that the goals that were stated for the universal access in 2001 are baby goals. Because the goals today are massively greater, based on the information that is here. And the information that is here actually contains with it the solution to Paula's problem, and to the problem of the world. Because, thanks to Wafaa's interpretation of the inflammatory nature of HIV infection which, her own data shows, gets shut down and cooled off with antiretroviral therapy, the International AIDS Society-USA needed no more data to incorporate a whole host of other conditions in people with normal CD4s as individuals who are candidates for treatment.
Now, that's by no means a total consensus out there. But I think the IAS-USA guidelines3 are fairly well respected, and are trying to push the envelope, and telling us that if you have a CD4 count over 300, with no upper limit, but you've had chronic active hepatitis of any kind, if you have cardiovascular risk, if you have so on and so forth, nephropathy from HIV, and the like, you are a candidate for antiretroviral therapy.
So, if you put the story together, and look at it from the very wholistic, comprehensive way, what I'm telling you is that the most aggressive guidelines today open the door for almost universal treatment with antiretroviral therapy. Almost. People come to the clinic today. You don't say, "Do you qualify for antiretroviral therapy?" No. What you say is, "Is there any reason why I shouldn't be giving you antiretroviral therapy?"
Because you brought up the issue of toxicity of treatment. The toxicity of no treatment is so much greater. And if not, ask Wafaa. Wafaa showed in the SMART study. The SMART study, a priori, had the preconceived hypothesis that less treatment was going to be better, because you were going to save the toxicities. And guess what? Actually it was the other way around. It was worse. Because it gave you the toxicity of the HIV for interrupting therapy. So all of those things that we blamed the drugs for; actually, a lot of that was the virus.
And so if you put the story together, we should be moving forward to embrace the new state of the art and recommendations. We will get the collateral benefit in prevention, controlled epidemic, decreased inflammation, but we need to be sure that we scale up from the bottom up. We cannot start giving people treatment because they have an inflammatory this and that, when we haven't really covered 100% of those with 250 CD4s. And only then, we'll move to the 300, and to the 350. This has to be hierarchically progressed. Otherwise, it's unethical. It would be wrong. And we would not accept the authority.
Craig McClure: [Craig McClure is the executive director of the International AIDS Society.] I think it's important to add that the messaging from this conference needs to be clear that, of course, people who are sick and dying with low CD4s need to be prioritized for treatment. The problem is, those people, when they get on treatment, are dying, anyway.
They're dying of tuberculosis. They're dying of other AIDS-related conditions and non-AIDS related conditions. And the other problem is that the donor community and governments themselves in low- and middle-income countries are afraid that the money for treatment will be a bottomless pit that goes on and on and on.
So, unless we treat people that are healthier, with higher CD4 counts, we will never see an end to the expenditures that will increasingly go up, up, and up. But if we make an all-out effort to treat people earlier, treat people in a sustainable way, the epidemic will come to an end.
Reporter #4: I've heard Julio make this argument about three times. It's very compelling and it's very rational. And so what I'm ... And I've heard all these moral statements. Stephen Lewis last night, and so forth. And it just seems like it's falling on deaf ears, up there in the international community. I don't know if Julio yelling at the G-8, if it's really going to make much difference. And so I guess I'm wondering -- maybe it's an impossible question -- but what's going to make this real outside of this meeting, this argument that we really need to increase funding, not just flatten it? Not just keep it the same?
Craig McClure: You have the first answer.
Julio Montaner: You will.
Craig McClure: Exactly.
Julio Montaner: You will. That's the reason why I'm here, and that's the reason why you're here. We want you to put it on the front page today, tomorrow, the day after; and call them by their names.
The reason why we're here is because -- and you hear this every press conference -- if we were here to just talk about the science, we would be doing exactly what Paula doesn't want us to do: celebrate the science and forget about the fact that the implementation gap is growing and growing and growing. And science that is not implemented is useless. So we're here to ask you for your help to make this happen. And I can give you words. You know, it's criminal negligence. I'll give you words, if you want. But you know, we need your help to make this happen. Because the prime minister of Canada came out of the G-8 meeting saying, "Oh, by the way, you know, it's really bad that we're misleading the public, and that we make promises and we don't fulfill them. We should be changing this attitude because it lowers our credibility."
I mean, how can a leader of a country have the nerve to go to a global summit, eat and dance, and have a great time, and come out and say, "You know, it's all lies, anyways. Who cares?" And the press is not picking up on it. So we need your help to tell these people we're watching; we don't like it; and through the press, you're going to lose your votes.
Craig McClure: You'll make the difference. Communities of people living with and affected by HIV that are activists will make a difference. Researchers will make a difference. Individuals in the sclerotic international organizations that exist today, individuals who care in those organizations, will make a difference, individuals in governments will make a difference. The same people who made a difference to get us where we are today, in 2000, 2001, 2000 in Durban, that led to the resources we've had up to now, today; it's the same people that will make the difference. So please, help.
Paula Akugizibwe: [To read a summary of her presentation, click here.] I think, additionally, you've pointed out all the major role players. But we also need to start bridging the gap between the people in need and the people who make these decisions. I mean, the representation of people living with HIV at this conference, as in all conferences, is pretty low, compared to the other representation of different groups. Just like donors who give money to countries rarely engage directly with the people who are ultimately the beneficiaries of the money that they're giving. Or UNAIDS conducts national AIDS pending assessments, and it specifically states that the assessment doesn't take into consideration that these are the service users.
So it's this massive gap between the high level, where decisions are made and funding is granted, and the ground, where that money is meant to be used. And that gaps needs to start being bridged. And I think that can be done by everyone in this room.
Wafaa El-Sadr: I think another issue that's coming up that many of you are aware of is kind of the concept that Stephen Lewis was talking about yesterday -- that HIV is sucking away resources from other key health threats. [To view Stephen Lewis's presentation, click here.]
For example, people who are saying, "Well, let's invest in health systems." Or, "Why should we be spending money on HIV? We should be spending it on child health? On child health, or other health risks."
I think, first of all, it's an erroneous assumption. We don't know. Nobody has demonstrated evidence to suggest to me that investment in HIV has negatively impacted on any other issue. I haven't seen any data to that -- or data that looks real -- that supports that claim.
But also, I think we need to think about how transformative HIV has been, in terms of the health system. I mean, having people at the table, people with HIV at the table, people in advocacy at the table, discussing health systems, is very important in shaping the health systems. There have been spillover effects influencing HIV, influencing the quality of antiviral care that we see. There has been evidence of enhanced procurement systems, enhanced laboratory systems in many countries. Keeping people alive, mothers alive, keeps children in school. Keeping people alive makes them more productive. There are data to support that from studies in Kenya, and elsewhere.
So I do think we have evidence. And we haven't used that evidence well enough that demonstrates the benefit -- the benefit of people with HIV, which is clear. But also the benefits on the societies in which they exist, in their communities and their families. And I think that's very important to help, again, demonstrate that HIV, by itself, is well deserving, this pandemic, of the investment; but also, that there are lots of benefits that are gained, as well, that have their own measurement.
Reporter #5: I'm Sylvia Mollet from Switzerland. I'm living in Mali since a few years. I have a question for a post-exposure treatment, which wasn't directly addressed here. But we speak about money and treatment. Post-exposure treatment is available in Mali since quite a while. It is given to embassies and their staff. So mainly the Europeans and Americans can be treated. All Malians can be treated, also, but they are not aware of that. It is available in hospitals, but people don't know it.
So I would like to know about financial resources. Is this the problem? Which is the large check behind this? This medication is available, but people are not informed.It's available, but there's no information about it. It's not like ARV or other medication. There is no marketing.
Wafaa El-Sadr: I think it's ... I think you're right. I mean, I think it's not been highlighted enough. I'm aware of some countries where. ... We support programs in some countries. I know that in Kenya, it's available for rape victims, for example. And people utilize it. People know that they go to a facility and they get a packet with antiretrovirals for post-exposure prophylaxis, after sexual violence. But it's not uniformly available in many countries. And I think you're right. It should be. And I think there should be more advocacy about it's availability, and the importance of having such treatment available for those instances.
Craig McClure: Amalio, would you like the final word?
Amalio Telenti: [Dr. Telenti was another plenary presenter at IAS 2009.] I just want to make a comment that is important from my side, as a laboratory person. It's that we should not forget also that science is what brought, also, treatment, and that in this very difficult fight for resources, we should make sure that we don't damage science budgets. I mean, we can do as much operation on improvement, and that's critical. But behind a new generation of treatments, or simplified treatments, or, eventually, eradication or vaccine; that needs resources. And actually it's a fraction of the resources that we're spending on treating people. So we have to be attentive with also enough money in science to avoid having to give money to people, and in the future of new effective treatments in science.
Craig McClure: Thank you for that. That's a critical comment. Two years ago in Sydney at this conference, the IAS issued the Sydney Declaration, calling for 10% of all resources for HIV to be devoted for research. Because, as good as what we've got now -- what we have is very good -- but science holds out the hope for better, better, more effective treatments, a vaccine, a cure for the future. Louise? Final comments?
Louise Kuhn: [Dr. Kuhn was another plenary presenter at IAS 2009. Click here to review a summary of her presentation.] I just wanted to say, when we talk about advocating for people to get access to treatment, that's really an important thing to be advocating for. But people don't just start at 18 years of age. And really, I think, when we talk about people who are invisible in this epidemic: children are really, fundamentally invisible -- both those that are infected with HIV, and those that are affected, because their mother is HIV infected.
The children with HIV really have special needs, and really need advocates, because their needs are different to adults. And as adults, it's our responsibility to look after them. And so I just hope that in the advocacy for adult treatment, we don't forget about the children, both those that are infected and affected; and think about programs that really incorporate child health, not as a competition, but as something that's fundamental to HIV care and treatment programs.
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How to change contact information shown within aiContactSafe forms
Where is the contact information shown?
When your visitors reach your contact form, along with the actual contact form they will see your contact information. By default, the contact information is as follows:
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The default contact info includes a name, address, and website url. In this aiContactSafe tutorial, we'll show you how to edit this contact information that is shown to the right of your contact form.
Editing a profiles Contact Information in aiContactSafe:
Log into your Joomla Dashboard
Start off by logging into your Joomla 2.5 administrative area
Navigate to aiContactSafe Profile Settings
Then, in the top menu hover over Components. From here, hover over aiContactSafe and then click Profiles.
Check the Profile and click Edit Contact
Put a check next to the profile you want to edit the contact information for, and then click the Edit CSS button in the top right of the page.
Use the WYSIWYG editor to change the contact information
The contact information doesn't have to be your name, address, and website - it can be whatever you would like it to be. This is because the information shown is written within a WYSIWYG editor. Using the editor, make any changes you would like.
Save the contact information and test
When you're done making changes, click save in the top right menu. Finally, test your aiContactSafe contact form and you should see the new contact information!
Changing where the contact information is shown
By default, your contact information is shown to the right of the contact form. aiContactSafe however includes an option to move where this information is shown.
- First, follow the steps above and get to step 4, using the WYSIWYG editor to change your contact information
- Under the Contact information, find the setting labeled Display format. Adjust the setting based upon where you want the contact information to show (top,right,bottom,left), and then click the Apply button towards the top of the page.
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Presentations and Publications
From UA Libraries Digital Services Planning and Documentation
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- DeRidder, Jody L. and Presnell, Amanda Axley. "Digital Access in Context: Mass Digitization of Manuscript Collections," presented at the Technology Forum at the University of Alabama Libraries, 5 January 2012.
- DeRidder, Jody L.; Presnell, Amanda Axley; and Walker, Kevin W. "Leveraging Encoded Archival Descriptions for Access to Digital Content: A Cost and Usability Analysis," in American Archivist (Spring/Summer 2012), Vol. 75, Iss. 1.
- DeRidder, Jody L. "I² and ISNI: Improving the Information Supply Chain with Standard Institutional Identifiers," in Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ) (Summer 2011), Vol. 23, Iss. 3.
- DeRidder, Jody L. "Providing Access to Digitized Content Via the Finding Aid: A Usability Study" [Powerpoint], at the SAA Research Forum of Archives 360°: 75th Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists, in Chicago, IL, 23 August, 2011.
- DeRidder, Jody L. "Just Enough Light to See: Minimal Metadata for Access" [Powerpoint], at the Metadata and Digital Objects Round Table Meeting during the SAA Research Forum of Archives 360°: 75th Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists, in Chicago, IL, 22-27 August, 2011.
- DeRidder, Jody L. "Cheap, Quick, and Pretty: Mass Digitization of Large Manuscript Collections" [Powerpoint], part of a panel presentation on "More Access to More Content: The EAD Finding Aid and Other Effective Tools for Large-Scale Digitization" at Archives 360°: 75th Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists, held in Chicago, IL, 22-27 August, 2011. Other panel presenters include Laura Clark Brown, Jody Allison-Bunnell, James Roth, and Karen Weiss (chair).
- DeRidder, Jody L. 2011. "Benign Neglect: Developing Life Rafts for Digital Content," in Information Technology and Libraries Vol. 30, Issue 2, June 2011. Preprint is temporarily available.
- DeRidder, Jody L. "Leveraging EADs for Low-Cost Access to Digitized Content at the University of Alabama Libraries", in Journal of Library Innovation, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2011).
- DeRidder, Jody L. 2011. "Overhead Scanners: Reports from the Field" in Library Hi Tech Vol 29, Issue 1, pp. 9-33, 11 March 2011.
- DeRidder, Jody L. 2010. "Institutional Identifiers: NISO I2 Working Group", part of a panel presentation on Linked Data -- Enabling Standards and Other Approaches at the ASIS&T Annual Conference, held in Pittsburgh, PA, 22-27 October, 2010. Presentation coauthored with Mark Needleman; other panel presenters include Marcia Zeng, Sam Oh, Jon Phipps, Ed Summers, and Gail Hodge. Available from [1].
- Arora, Nitin. 2010. "AudioRegent: Exploiting SimpleADL and SoX for Digital Audio Delivery," Code4Lib Journal, Issue 10, 2010-06-22. Available from http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/2882.
- DeRidder, Jody L. 2010. "Metadata In, Library Out. A Simple, Robust Digital Library System," coauthored with Tonio Loewald. Code4Lib Journal, Issue 10, 2010-06-22. Available from http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/3107.
- Presnell, Amanda A. 2010. "Leading the Way Toward Low-Cost Digital Collections: The S.D. Cabaniss Digitization Project," poster presentation at the Alabama Library Association 2010 Convention in Huntsville, AL, April 15, 2010.
- DeRidder, Jody L. 2010. "Digital Library Development from the Bottom Up, or: Organization, Clarity, and Sanity: Digitization for the Future On a Shoestring" presented at the Computers in Libraries 2010 Conference in Arlington, VA, April 14, 2010.
- DeRidder, Jody L. 2010. "Digital Libraries and Long-term Access for the Rest of Us: The University of Alabama Acumen Experience", a joint presentation by Tom Wilson, Jody DeRidder and Tonio Loewald, at the Coalition for Networked Information Spring 2010 Membership Meeting in Baltimore, MD, April 13, 2010.
- DeRidder, Jody L. 2010. "From Confusion and Chaos to Clarity and Hope," [2] a chapter in Digitization in the Real World: Lessons Learned from Small to Medium-Sized Digitization Projects, Kwong Bor Ng and Jason Kucsma, ed. To be published by the Metropolitan New York Library Council, 2010.
- DeRidder, Jody L. 2009. "Bringing Order to Chaos: Preparation and Organization for Long-Term Access" [3]. Delivered at the Southeast CONTENTdm Users Group 2nd Annual Meeting [4] Charleston, SC, October 13, 2009.
- DeRidder, Jody L. 2009. "Preparing For The Future As We Build Collections" [5] presented at the Society of Imaging Science & Technology Archiving 2009 Conference [6] in Arlington VA, May 2009. Article by the same name published in the Proceedings. Poster developed by Jeremiah Colonna-Romano: .
- DeRidder, Jody L. 2008. "Googlizing a Digital Library" An exploration of effectively and efficiently providing full-text web search capabilities to a dynamically-generated set of digitized materials, in order to leverage the power of web search to enhance access. Code4Lib Journal, Issue 2, 2008-03-24. Available from http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/43.
- DeRidder, Jody L. 2007. "Choosing Delivery Software for a Digital Library". Library Hi Tech News, 24:9/10, 2007, pp. 19-21.
- DeRidder, Jody L. 2007. "The Immediate Prospects for the Application of Ontologies in Digital Libraries." Knowledge Organization, Vol. 34, No. 4, December 2007.
- DeRidder, Jody L. 2007."Embracing More of the Information Life Cycle: Opportunities for Academic Librarians".
- DeRidder, Jody L. 2007. A short report [7] and PowerPoint presentation [8] on Dublin Core metadata [9] terms and uses.
- DeRidder, Jody L. 2006. "Metadata in Digital Libraries" [10]. A 2006 overview of various forms of metadata currently in use in digital libraries in the US, and the purposes of each.


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The Olog-hai were a fierce race of Trolls that appeared at the end of the Third Age in southern Mirkwood and in the mountainous borders of Mordor.[1]
The Olog-hai had none of the old Troll vulnerabilities: they were very intelligent and able to endure the Sun. For this reason they were seen by some to be giant Orcs (though surpassing even the Uruk-hai in size and power), but they were definitely of Troll stock.[1]
They only spoke Sauron's Black Speech, and it is possible they only existed because Sauron's evil will empowered them.[1] After the War of the Ring, all Olog-hai were killed.[source?]
Olog-hai are described as being taller than a man, and covered in horny scales, carrying hammers and bucklers in their claws, though there is no way of knowing whether this description applies to all of the Olog-hai, or just to those in the battle.[source?]
Olog-hai is a term out of the Black Speech. Olog means "troll" and hai (as in Uruk-hai) means "folk".[2]
Portrayal in Adaptations
1982-97: Middle-earth Role Playing:
- Olog-hai, also called Black Trolls, were bred by Sauron from lesser Troll stock. They are nine to eleven feet in height, and have black, scaly hides.[3][4][5] Individual Olog-hai include Rogrog[6], Umagaur[7] and Lugronk[7].
2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King:
- Olog-hai were shown as the shock troops in the Siege of Minas Tirith, sporting armor and the famed war hammers alluded to in the appendices. These Olog-hai were not shown talking in any speech other than grunts. They differ from the other Trolls depicted in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings in that they have more forward-facing eyes as well as hair on their bodies, suggesting that they are a more advanced form of Troll. They are usually gray to black in color. They have twenty-four teeth. Their eyes are also bright orange, showing their evil connection with Sauron.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix F, "The Languages and Peoples of the Third Age", "Of Other Races"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings", in Parma Eldalamberon XVII (edited by Christopher Gilson), p. 136
- ↑ R. Mark Colburn, Peter C. Fenlon, John D. Ruemmler, Terry K. Amthor, Jessica M. Ney (1989), Lords of Middle-earth Vol III: Hobbits, Dwarves, Ents, Orcs & Trolls (#8004)
- ↑ S. Coleman Charlton (1993), Middle-earth Role Playing (2nd edition, hardcover) (#2000)
- ↑ Ruth Sochard Pitt, Jeff O'Hare, Peter C. Fenlon, Jr. (1994), Creatures of Middle-earth (2nd edition) (#2012)
- ↑ Graham Staplehurst, Heike Kubasch (1995), Angmar (2nd edition) (#2018)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Peter C. Fenlon, Jr. (1994), Moria (2nd edition) (#2011)