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The power vacuum in the Massachusetts Senate has meant a paycheck bonanza for several pols who've pocketed a combined $220,000 from their new posts after they were tapped for key leadership roles amidst an ongoing battle to replace former Senate President Stanley C. Rosenberg.
Senate President Harriette Chandler elevated former Rosenberg loyalists Sen. Jason M. Lewis (D-Winchester) to assistant whip for $35,000 and Sen. Joan Lovely (D-Salem) to vice chairwoman of Ways and Means at $30,000.
The powerful leadership and chair stipends are on top of the legislative base pay of $62,500 thanks to a Beacon Hill pay raise approved by lawmakers in 2017, which also tacked on $15,000 in travel reimbursements for legislators who live 50 miles or closer to the State House, and those who live more than 50 miles away get $20,000.
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"I look forward to this expanded role and working with all my colleagues to move the Senate agenda forward," DiDomenico said.
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Hours after the news broke that Brian Williams had misrepresented his account of a helicopter trip in Iraq, he issued an on-air apology. NBC News started an investigation, and within days had suspended Mr. Williams, calling his actions "wrong and completely inappropriate."
When the magazine Mother Jones reported that Bill O'Reilly had engaged in self-aggrandizing rhetoric about his coverage of the Falklands war, he called one of the authors of the article "an irresponsible guttersnipe" and used his nightly show to fight back against his accusers. His bosses at Fox News, including the chief executive, Roger Ailes, rallied to his defense.
Fox's handling of the controversy says a lot about the network. It also says a lot about its most visible star, a man who perhaps more than any other has defined the parameters and tenor of Fox News, in the process ushering in a new era of no-holds-barred, intentionally divisive news coverage.
Since dethroning CNN's Larry King as the king of cable news almost 14 years ago, Mr. O'Reilly has helped transform a start-up news channel into a financial juggernaut, with estimated annual profits of more than $1 billion. He and Fox News have risen not on the back of big interviews or high-impact investigations but on the pugnacious brand of conservatism personified by Mr. O'Reilly.
"Bill's credibility with his audience is not based on his record as a traditional journalist," said Jonathan Klein, a former president of CNN/U.S. "His credibility, in the view of his fans, is based on his trenchant analysis of the events of the day, his pulling no punches, his willingness to call it like it is."
There are other differences between the two controversies. The incident at the center of Mr. O'Reilly's occurred more than 30 years ago; Mr. Williams's happened in 2003. And his accusers are journalists, not military veterans as they were in Mr. Williams's case. But the most meaningful point of distinction — and the reason Mr. O'Reilly's job is almost certainly safe — is that he is not an anchorman, with all of the cultural weight that title carries. He's a professional provocateur.
The accusations against Mr. O'Reilly, which have since been substantiated by other journalists in Argentina at the time, have played neatly into the network's narrative of being the conservative outlier in an industry dominated by liberals.
"Fox News has a market; the market is people who don't trust the news media," said Jay Rosen, a journalism professor at New York University. "That strategy requires personalities like Bill O'Reilly to be under attack from the rest of the news media. When something like this flares up, it gets incorporated into a programming strategy."
David Corn, one of the authors of the Mother Jones article and a former Fox News contributor, said he received the tip about Mr. O'Reilly the day after NBC News announced its suspension of Mr. Williams for six months without pay. According to Mr. Corn's source, Mr. O'Reilly had repeatedly made false claims about his experience covering the Falklands war as a young CBS News correspondent.
Mr. Corn and Daniel Schulman, the other reporter on the article, soon discovered what Mr. Corn describes as a pattern of misrepresentation in Mr. O'Reilly's statements about his experiences in the Falklands.
Last Thursday, the two Mother Jones reporters emailed a Fox News spokeswoman a list of questions. The first one read: "In numerous instances — on his television and radio shows and in his book, 'The No Spin Zone' — Bill O'Reilly has said that he was in a 'war zone' during the Falklands war when he was a correspondent at CBS News. But it appears no American correspondents were allowed in the Falkland Islands war zone during the conflict. How does Mr. O'Reilly explain his comments?"
Fox did not respond. Mr. O'Reilly has since said that he never claimed he had reported from the Falkland Islands, where the fighting occurred. "I said I covered the Falklands war, which I did," he said last Friday. He went on to describe his coverage of protests in the aftermath of the war on the streets of Buenos Aires, more than 1,000 miles from the Falklands.
In the days after the Mother Jones article was published, Mr. O'Reilly mounted an aggressive campaign against the article and its authors on Fox, and aired a video clip and an interview with a former NBC journalist that he said supported his version of events. He also threatened a New York Times reporter that he would come after her "with everything I have" if he deemed her reporting unfair. "I don't want you to get hurt," he said. "This is as serious as it gets."
This is not the first time that Mr. O'Reilly or a member of his staff tried to intimidate a journalist. On Tuesday, the Huffington Post's Amanda Terkel wrote about being verbally accosted by one of Mr. O'Reilly's producers after she criticized Mr. O'Reilly for implying that a young woman who had been raped was partly to blame.
In an interview on Monday about his Falklands reporting, Mr. O'Reilly defended his accounts. "Every single thing I said is true," he said. Fox News did not make Mr. O'Reilly or Mr. Ailes available for this article.
Other reports have since emerged questioning some of Mr. O'Reilly's other assertions. Most notably, Media Matters has challenged Mr. O'Reilly's claims that he was outside the Palm Beach, Fla., home of an acquaintance of Lee Harvey Oswald when he killed himself with a shotgun in 1977.
Mr. O'Reilly has been ensnared in controversy before. In 2004, he was sued by a former "O'Reilly Factor" producer for sexual harassment. The suit was settled about two weeks after it was filed.
He has long fashioned himself as a kind of embattled underdog, a product of working-class Long Island who felt out of place at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government — where he earned a graduate degree — and at Washington dinner parties.
For years he was a low-profile TV news journeyman doing stints in Denver, Dallas, Hartford and Scranton, Pa., before joining CBS News in New York. Mr. O'Reilly invariably chafed against the constraints of traditional TV news and often quarreled with management.
In 1986, Roone Arledge, the president of ABC News, hired Mr. O'Reilly after hearing him deliver a eulogy at the funeral of a mutual friend. Five years later, with his career at ABC News seemingly stalled, Mr. O'Reilly left the network to join "Inside Edition" as a correspondent and anchor. He brought an edge and point of view to the syndicated tabloid show.
Then, in 1996, Mr. Ailes, impressed by the Mr. O'Reilly's brash assertiveness, gave him his own show on his new, 24-hour cable news network, Fox News Channel. "And, by the way, everyone advised me not to," Mr. Ailes later reflected. "Because he had been in the business 25 years, and he was never a star."
That changed quickly at Fox. Liberated from the shackles of network propriety and given a Democratic president embroiled in scandal, Mr. O'Reilly channeled his combative, partisan nature into a hit show. Soon he had moved from 6 p.m. to prime time, and was toppling a variety of better-known hosts on competing networks, including Mr. King.
"Larry King loved everybody and Bill O'Reilly doesn't love anybody," said the journalist Michael Kinsley, a former co-host of CNN's "Crossfire." "The truth is I sort of prefer the second. It makes for better television." (Mr. O'Reilly once said Mr. Kinsley would not understand an argument he was making about detainees' rights on Guantánamo Bay until terrorists "cut off his head.")
"The O'Reilly Factor" is a big moneymaker for Fox, bringing in more than $100 million in advertising revenue in 2014, according to the marketing research company Kantar Media. The show drew an average of nearly three million viewers a night over the last month.
And its popularity among conservatives has made Mr. O'Reilly an influential force in Republican politics. Last month, he met privately with the former Florida governor and likely presidential candidate Jeb Bush. (Mr. O'Reilly's guest list is by no means limited to members of the right. President Obama sat down for two pre-Super Bowl interviews with him.)
Mr. O'Reilly is also one of the country's best-selling authors. His memoir, "A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity," has sold more than a million copies, according to his Amazon profile. His "Killing" franchise — a series of narrative nonfiction books about the assassinations of historical figures like Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, with 12 million copies in print worldwide — is also enormously popular, despite drawing criticism for factual inaccuracies.
His first book, in 1998, was a crime novel, "Those Who Trespass," a violent and sexually explicit revenge fantasy about an unhinged broadcast journalist who covered the Falklands war. After experiencing a career setback while covering the conflict, the journalist murders the network executives and correspondents who have slighted him.
Mr. O'Reilly knows perfectly well what his audience wants: a justice-seeking vigilante, whether he's the protagonist of a fictional thriller or sitting behind a news desk.
His popularity may not be built on his credibility as a news anchor, but Mr. O'Reilly's audience is loyal, and the current flap seems unlikely to damage his reputation among his fans.
It could have the opposite effect. "The viewers of Fox are more apt to dismiss this as an unfair attack on their beloved anchor," said Mark Feldstein, a professor of journalism at the University of Maryland.
On Monday night, when Mr. O'Reilly addressed the controversy on the air, his audience was more than 10 percent larger than the previous week.


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Chesney Brown is set to be left in a panic when his son Joseph's life is in peril in Coronation Street after he wanders in front of the bistro van – and into the path of deadly danger.
Since a grieving Joseph returned, hurting from the loss of his late mum Katy, Chesney has been trying desperately to ensure that his son feels loved and safe.
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The two major national level examinations NEET & JEE are likely to be conducted twice a year in the online format by the National Testing Agency (NTA) to give an opportunity to the students to bring out their best performance; HRD minister of state told the Lok Sabha.
The two national level examinations are currently being conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), after the implementation of the NTA, the agency is expected to take over the responsibility from the board for conducting these examinations with some fundamental changes in its formats. The NTA will receive a one-time grant of Rs 25 crore from the Centre to start its operation. Thereafter, it will function as a self-sustaining model.
According to reports, this change is likely to take place from 2019. The move to conduct the engineering entrance exam JEE and national medical entrance exam, NEET was informed in the Lok Sabha during the session.
Upendra Kushwaha, the Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development (HRD) in response to a written question in the Lower House of Parliament had said, "The NTA will initially conduct those entrance exams which are held by the CBSE. The exams will be conducted online at least twice a year, thereby giving an adequate opportunity to the candidates to bring out their best."
Kushwaha further added that the Centre has set up a National Testing Agency (NTA), an autonomous and self- sustained premier testing organization, to conduct the entrance exams for the higher educational institutions.The proposal for the National Testing Agency (NTA) has already been approved and it is expected to start functioning from next year. Only time will tell whether the decision to conduct JEE Main and NEET by NTA will lakhs of students or not.
The CBSE board had earlier conveyed its inhibitions to the HRD ministry about conducting the exams in future, saying they are overburdened with the massive exercise. Clearing the JEE mains and advanced papers will give candidates access for admission to Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Bachelor of Engineering (BE) and Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) courses at Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) across India.
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Won awards totalling €331 million for Taiwan and helped Ecuador settle a long-running feud with ConocoPhillips
|People in Who's Who Legal
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|Pending cases as counsel
|Value of pending counsel work
|US$94 billion
|Treaty cases
|Current arbitrator appointments
39 (of which 26 are
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Dechert's international arbitration practice was born from the ashes of Coudert Brothers, the New York firm whose Paris office served as a training ground for many of today's luminaries in the international arbitration community (Jan Paulsson, Rusty Park, Julian Lew QC and Laurie Craig, to name but a few).
When Coudert Brothers collapsed in 2005 (after the aforementioned names had long since left), six of its Paris team – including partners Eduardo Silva Romero, Philip Dunham and Xavier Nyssen – decamped to Dechert, joined a year later by another old Coudert colleague, Pierre Mayer. Their arrival was followed by a steady rise up the rankings in Paris and more broadly. Several of the team are well regarded as academics and sit as arbitrators.
Away from Paris, the practice has been expanding steadily in the past few years, making impressive lateral hires in London, Hong Kong, Beijing, Moscow and Washington, DC.
The Moscow office opened in 2009, with a four-strong arbitration team from Salans. In 2011, it bolstered its Asia profile by hiring another Coudert alumnus, Jingzhou Tao, who joined in Beijing as head of Asia arbitration. In the same year, the DC office recruited Alvaro Galindo, the former director of international arbitration matters at Ecuador's attorney general's office.
For a long time, the practice was co-headed by Mayer and Silva Romero. Mayer left the firm in 2015 to set up as an independent arbitrator, but the group filled the gap swiftly with the lateral hire of a team from Weil Gotshal & Manges, including Arif Hyder Ali, who became the new group co-head and brought substantial investment arbitration experience.
Silva Romero is a French-Colombian national and former deputy secretary general of the ICC Court, as well as a co-chair of the International Bar Association's arbitration committee. He has spearheaded Dechert's busy Latin American casework – the Paris office is home to one of the larger contingents of Spanish-speaking disputes lawyers in the city.
The arbitration practice is mostly concentrated in Paris, London, Singapore, Moscow, Hong Kong, Beijing and Washington, DC, with more recent additions including Dubai, Almaty and Tbilisi. The firm's New York office also has a strong reputation for litigation and enforcement work.
Who uses it?
Governments and government-backed entities are frequent clients. Taiwan and its navy retained it for a high-profile ICC case against French defence contractor Thales over allegations of kickbacks, while Spanish shipbuilder Navantia used it in a submarine dispute. Other clients include Hungary's MOL and China National Offshore Oil Corporation.
The team has a good reputation among Latin American governments. Ecuador has used it on some weighty investment treaty cases and has engaged it to deal with disputes arising from the appropriation of the country's cultural heritage. Bolivia has instructed it on various treaty cases, and it's more recently been defending Colombia. State entities in the Dominican Republic and Paraguay have used it too.
Away from that region, Georgia, Hungary, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and the emirate of Ras al-Khaimah are clients.
Dechert also advises ExxonMobil, France Télécom, GE, Microsoft, NML Capital, Orange, Amazon, Honeywell, Total, London-listed Green Dragon Gas and Brazilian sugar cane investor Adriano Ometto.
Track record
One of the firm's biggest recent triumphs was helping Hungarian oil and gas company MOL defeat a billion-dollar UNCITRAL claim by Croatia that involved allegations of corruption against the Balkan state's former prime minister. The tribunal rejected the claims entirely in 2016; a parallel ICSID claim continues. Arif Ali's old firm Weil Gotshal is co-counselling on the case.
Dechert achieved a spectacular result for Ecuador in 2015 when it persuaded an ICSID annulment committee to shave some US$700 million off an award in favour of Occidental Petroleum – the largest amount ever annulled at ICSID. Ecuador reached a final settlement with the US oil company in 2016, agreeing to pay US$980 million.
The Thales case made the headlines in 2010 when Dechert's client won €630 million in damages for unauthorised commissions relating to the sale of six frigates to Taiwan in 1991 (Thales was advised by Shearman & Sterling).
Dechert helped Bolivia settle an expropriation claim by a Dutch unit of Telecom Italia for US$100 million – about 10% of what the investor had asked for. Around the same time, the firm helped the state settle a treaty claim at The Hague brought by a German-Peruvian oil consortium for US$16 million – around half of what the claimants wanted.
Recent events
The firm had wins for Taiwan in two further ICC cases. In the first, it secured a €227 million award against Thales and two other French aerospace companies, Dassault and Safran, in a dispute over alleged improper commissions on the sale of Mirage fighter jets 25 years before. In the second case, Taiwan won a €104 million award against an Airbus subsidiary over a 1990s deal for the sale of missiles.
Dechert helped Ecuador settle a nine-year dispute with ConocoPhillips over the expropriation of two oil blocks. The state agreed to pay US$337 million to satisfy an ICSID award Conoco had initially claimed as much as US$1.5 billion in the arbitration, in which Ecuador partly prevailed on a rare counterclaim relating to environmental pollution in the Amazon.
The firm continues to act for Ecuador in a related ICSID claim brought by Conoco's partner in the oil blocks, Bahamian entity Perenco – where the state has also lodged an environmental counterclaim.
For Bolivia, it won an unconditional stay of enforcement of a US$48.6 million ICSID award against the state pending the outcome of annulment proceedings. Bolivia is also using it to defend a treaty claim by Glencore over the nationalisation of a tin and zinc mine.
Teaming up with Weil Gotshal & Manges, Dechert helped the Czech Republic defeat a US$90 million claim by a British investor in an energy equipment supplier. It continues to represent the state in two other matters.
It helped a fund owned by the Dominican Republic obtain a US$30 million damages award in an ICC dispute with its private partner in an electricity generation company.
A group of Italian and Spanish investors retained it for the first-ever ICSID claim against Kuwait, relating to a major road construction project in Kuwait City.
It is acting for two Colombian transport investors in a new ICSID claim against Chile.
The firm defended Italian arbitrator Marco Lacchini in US and UK litigation relating to allegations that he was bribed to determine the outcome of a €3 billion insurance dispute he was arbitrating. The US action against him was thrown out while the English lawsuit was withdrawn.
The Beijing office welcomed partner Nicholas Song and four others from Vinson & Elkins. Partner Michelle Bradfield joined from Dentons. In Brussels, Erica Stein was promoted to national partner. Dubai partner Thomas Geuther left for Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle.
DC-based international counsel Alvaro Galindo became an alternate member of the ICC court for Ecuador. A senior associate in Paris, Hafez Virjee, took the lead in setting up Delos, a new arbitral institution aimed at resolving disputes for start-up companies.
Client comment
Pal Kara from MOL says Ali's team is "outstanding, very focused, very client-oriented and client-friendly". Besides praising the dedication of the team, he says Ali has "impressive strategic thinking and consideration for all the details".
Dot Registry, which used the firm for a top-level domain name dispute with a Californian internet regulator, says Ali's team did "an outstanding job", calling them "brilliant lawyers ... [who] have left no stone unturned in our case".
Adriana Vargas Saldarriaga from the Colombian ministry of trade said the government has been extremely pleased with the "quality and quickness" of the firm's work. Silva Romero is a "problem-solver" who has mastery of his subject, she says.
A representative from Ecuador's attorney general's office says the state has worked with Dechert on multiple cases and has an "excellent relationship" with the firm. She says the group has "young and talented lawyers" with foreign-language skills, and important knowledge of international law, commercial arbitration and cross-examination techniques.


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Conventional form of advertising such as full size cover page ads on popular print magazines, TV prime time ads, front page newspaper ads and buying radio airtime obviously remain as expensive conventional advertising methods. Does it means that social media advertising is thriving now? Let's find out.
As it is, most business owners are faced with the conundrum of finding the right advertising medium which is good for their business and which will have most return for their investment. The top news for marketing heads is that there has been a soft shift from traditional advertising methods towards digital marketing and social media marketing in recent years. Digital marketing is huge in 2016 and has become the most sort after way to reach out potential and present customers.
Facebook Advertising
Facebook is the number one social media marketing platform with its 1.59 billion active monthly user base. Facebook paid advertising has become the most budget friendly medium to engage in paid social media promotion activity. This is because you can start paid advertising on Facebook with less than $20 to $30 daily and get traction from the paid promotions.
Connect Online
Social Media and Digital Media Marketing is not a choice in 2016 rather has become more of a norm to reach serious buyers as more and more people are searching for products and services online. They want to know everything about your services before they can buy from you and they want to know what other people are talking about your brand or reviews of your services and products. Users love information that is transparent and getting real connections online is essential for businesses today.
Consumers today are using their mobile for looking up almost everything online from a location, about searching products and finding about company's information. There are fraction of moments when users are seeing your brand name and display ads online which further compels them to make a purchase or create a memory about your brand often called as social recall.
Organic vs. Paid Reach
Organic search based reach is limited and with paid advertising one can reach out to people who are not yet looking up for your brand name or service. It opens up new buyers for you and once a person on Facebook likes your page or post by clicking on the Facebook page ad, also their friends in their network can see details about your services and offers. It leads to more impressions and most important is that you only get to pay when someone actually performs some action (likes/shares/clicks) on your paid ad on these social media websites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest and many more.
Social Media Users
Referring to statistics around mobile users, according to Pew Research Center, 65% of adults are using social media in 2015, other stats state that Facebook has 989 million mobile daily users, Instagram largest community of young users has got 400 million monthly active users, Twitter powerful micro blogging site among the big and famous has got 310 million monthly active user. So it seems that everyone is using social media advertising (and that is true!) to get consumers attention and what differentiates you from others is how well your social media marketing efforts are planned.
So first a quick recap for you to remember that there are enough users are online on social media websites waiting to become your customers. They are bombarded with ads, visuals and offers and in these micro moments only the most attractive, planned and useful offer gets noticed by consumers.
Hire Professionals
For this above critical job, it is best to hire a professional social media partner for your Facebook advertising efforts. These people have professionals with years of industry knowledge who create powerful ads using their team of graphic designers, conversion content editors who help create unavoidable offers and they make use of data, insights and purchase flow to ensure that your leads convert to actual sales. Without a professional digital marketing company, a lot of business owners don't get to see the fruits of the digital marketing efforts.
Use Google AdWords
Social media marketing, Google AdWords, search based Google ads (PPC text based ads), Google display network ads (images based) and remarketing (ads on Google partner sites) remains as effective ways to reach hundreds of consumers. With Google AdWords, business owners can display their search based ads on the first and second page of Google search pages and with remarketing they can follow up with their consumers who have looked up for the services in the past.
Final Words
It is essential that while using paid social media channels, you don't run your paid campaigns on auto, because there are a lot of customization that is possible to optimize your ad campaigns. A professional social media marketing company after creating your campaign they would set the target audience for the promoted ads and then optimize the campaigns after looking at actual insights and data to improve the campaign's CTR (Click through Rate), CPC (Cost per Click and finally the ROI (Return on investment).
With proper planning, business owners can decide their yearly budget for social media marketing / Google ad words and line up their current efforts with a well placed conversion strategy. With clear results furnished by your digital marketing partner, you will know the results achieved from your social media marketing, Google Pay-Per-Click (PPC) ads and online retargeting efforts.
Social media advertising is really attractive for marketers now with Mobile ads, video ads and digital media advertising as top game changers in 2016 and beyond.


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On a Virtual Existence
What is becoming of us as we spend more of our lives in the virtual world?
The conversations which we may have shared between a few of us, the photographs which we may have shown to a few of us, are now shown to numbers that rise well over an hundred. Hundreds of people are seeing fragments of our otherwise more personal lives and they are making comment upon it, comparing it to their own lives, and, likewise, we find ourselves doing the same.
Why do we do this? Even those who are aware that something here isn't quite right, and fear an alteration of perception, still end up explaining their lives away.
One gets reactionary thoughts in their heads at moments during the day which translates as "hey, that's quite clever/funny; I should put it up on Facebook" or "that really speaks of who I am; I'll post it on Facebook as it'll give people a better understanding of the bits of me I want to be seen!"
For those who find theirselves caught between this urge and a concern about living our lives out on the internet, this thought is usually followed by "Is this all that my life is to become? Just an attempt to write something clever/of novelty value, to grab the attention of my fellow networker's, whilst meanwhile my output into the real world diminishes?" It is a feeling of total negativity that, by getting caught in the mental environment of trying to prove oneself a valuable person on the internet, they are actually doing very little in the real world.
The life of a visual-artist, like me, fares no better on the social networking sites than any other individual vying for attention. The importance of being noticed online, and getting artwork online, suddenly seems to become one the prime motivations to make work in the first place. I become my page; just like others, except I am using my artwork instead of images of myself, to project what I believe is the best version of me, but by doing so I am placing my hopes onto the virtual world, loosing incentive for action in the physical world.
The paragraph below was something I wrote when this particular concern seemed highly probable.
I hide behind the veneer of the works I have made, which I am most proud of, but the veneer begins to crack from the day that the production of work deceases as I become ever-more dependent on online interaction as my real life becomes more solitary. My works of art, which I hide behind, become an empty shell; a creature once lived inside the shell but is now long gone.
However, a sense of urgency to act more-so in the real world can be massively demoralised by empty feelings encountered when stepping out into physical human environment, luring one back to the 'dreamscape' of the virtual world. The physical version of world is never adequate after an immersion into the virtual; the virtual produces a much better vision of the world; continuity between events, with no empty spaces; an edited version of the world, all glitzy and free of discomfort. One looks up at the tops of a city's tallest and most flashy buildings, from the train station as they head home feeling unfulfilled by the physical human interactions within the city, and one imagines that the people who reside in the top of these towers are having a better, more wholesome, more meaningful existence; an experience that we can only believe we can reach when in expectation of what we will find when we next log on to the world-wide-web.
However, it can never provide that human need for something more wholesome, no matter how much its promise continue to delude. The odd elations one may receive in their virtual lifetime, as one shares an online 'intimate moment' with another, are but grains of sand in a vast desert of disappointments and demoralisations caused by the futility of trying to express one's self, showing one's individuality, via novelty groups, novelty quotes and novelty applications -even the artist finds himself to be nothing but a budding novelty amidst this desert, which could never quench our thirst for satisfaction.
This is the triumph of absolute pointless pap over the human soul!!
A pointless pap which has also triumphed over important current affairs.
One finds 'Networkers' joining novelty Facebook groups en masse, stupid groups like 'I once lost my phone up my arse!' Groups which they'll never ever go back on to, because they've joined so many of these it would be impossible to do so!; all this virtual novelty whilst the physical world carries on out there, getting more troublesome by the day, as it slowly veers into the abyss that the 21st century threatens to be.
Ok, distraction, novelty, stuff that serves no purpose but to give us a brief 2-second smirk, has always been around and has always been needed, but never before the internet has it been so omnipresent, so triumphant over all other information.
Fact: post a link on Facebook about something serious – i.e. a link to Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine, or a George Monbiot blog on the issue of climate change– then post a feed about eating a big wedge of cheese before bedtime; the cheese will be triumphant, with many more replies and 'likes'.
I read an interview recently in the magazine Adbusters with one of the main architects of the 1968 Paris uprisings Raoul Vaneigem; one sentence really stuck with me; "never in Europe have the forces of repressions been so weakened, yet never before have the exploited masses been so passive"
This is the result of a Europe indoctrinated by consumerism, but for me it spoke clinically of our collective mindset from the moment it was propelled into the virtual sphere (a moment which probably collectively happened after 2005 rather than before); one where an immersion in 'quirky' titillation seems to bubble-wrap our minds as if they are still on-course to be posted to the 'better-world' Millennium that was anticipated in the 20th century, before the sobering possibility of a millennia bleaker than the last one made itself known. But by ignoring this reality, we also ignore the opportunities to overthrow the ruling ideology that is directing us to this bleak place. But "the forces of repression" will not be "so weakened" in a future as bleak as our current 'millennium-route' seems headed.
Our desire to retain this passiveness, so not to notice the 'grim expectations' may be indirectly due to the bleak entrance into this new century, and the internet social networking site is providing our passivity, constantly, so we may waste time which may otherwise have been used to show us something we did not wish to be shown: a world outside that isn't doing that well by any measure.
The passivity helps us imagine that "all is good". "That I hate Jeremy Clarkson page really speaks for me, and it has lots of other followers too! All is good!"
The takeover of the social mind
As there ever been another moment in history where the private lives of individuals have been so non-private; transparent, as if we are looking down on each other, sat in roofless buildings, like looking down on a Lego toy-land or a computer game simulation of a town?
There has never been a moment like this. The dystopian fantasies, such as George Orwell's 1984, depicted the terrifying scenario where the individual cannot escape the all-seeing eye; and this fear persists, and we recite it whenever there is in an increase in surveillance cameras in the area in which we live. However, perhaps such novels have encouraged us to look in the wrong places. Do we not all now feel actively encouraged to tell everyone about what's on our minds/what we are doing by the means of social networking sites? The 'big-brother' eye, which we fear, is not the main concern, and this fear has distracted us; the biggest concern is how we are actively explaining our private lives out to a large community of people on social networking sites on the world-wide web; we are walking towards the all-seeing-eye, and we are beginning to live inside of it. We are all following like zombies, transfixed by a dream of a virtual utopia, being drawn-in by the buzzing sound of our computers; a scenario which seems to draw similarities with that of the fate of the Eloi at the hands of Morlocks in H.G.Wells' The Time Machine.
Recently, sat next to a friend on a train, we were talking about cinema; a conversation subject I struggle to contribute anything to because I hardly ever go to the cinema. She was telling me about 3D film, where "you feel like you're inside of the film" and how she believes it will become the norm in future cinema.
I'm hardly a technology know-all, I don't know much about new gadgets and product names, but I am aware that there has been a massive shift in the past 10 years, especially through the way we communicate with each other, which as altered our perceptions of what is around us and altering what we take for granted.
At some point during the last ten years, I became somewhat more of a techno-sceptic than I had been (I think this moment came at the same point at which I started to become cynical of modern popular music and youth culture trends – this might just be when I became a miserable bastard, but I think it's more likely to be an element of both aspects). More accurately, it was at a moment when my dependence on the social networking site 'grandad' Myspace grew. Since this moment, I have been alarmed by any further advancement which allowed further immersion into these sites in particular. My 'environmental woes' were alive and kicking by this point and I was probably feeling that further immersion could only have negative consequences for a species which is constantly loosing its connection with the terra-firm upon which it depends.
Whilst musing the idea of 3D cinema on the train, and before I could get on my usual 'ranting box, I noticed that a man sat opposite us had flicked open his lap-top computer. The familiar crackling noise and the Windows load-up screen reminded me of my contradictory feelings towards technology. In the most explicit sense, I have a love-hate relationship with the computer world. The loading-up of the windows screen, and the crackling remind me of warm memories of my very early teens, when my dad brought the college lap-top home for the weekend; it evokes a feeling which is similar to the noise of running an hot bath on a cold winters day; and, of more recent times, comfy visions of socialising without the uncomfortable situations involved in the real world.
The song 'Computer Love' by Kraftwerk remerged in my head again, at this moment. The ambiguous yet prophetic voices, calling from way-back in 1981; a song which, towards it's ending, evokes a feeling of submersion – the inevitable of a possibly doomed-species (like the Reptilian calls in the depths of the brains of the humans in J.G. Ballard's Drowned-world voices, calling us ,mammalians, to go back into non-existence and let the reptiles rule once more). The lyrics of computer love could not have better described this era of virtually transfixed individuals.
Another lonely night
Stare at the TV screen
I don't know what to do
I need a rendezvous
Computer love
At this moment, on the train, we started talking about whether 3D immersion computer interaction will be the inevitable next step after 3D cinema. In a capitalist society, if such a progression is possible then it is inevitable. 3D immersion would create the possibility for us to be sold to from all angles, without leaving our homes; imagine shopping mall, white walls, logos, a simulation of a real friend behind each doors, regularity, cleanliness, no uncomfortable moments. (Then imagine the outdoor world as this point, taking into the account the likelihood of a increasingly volatile world, due to arrive at some point in this century. Will capitalism go full-on virtual in order to survive the diminishing real world in which nobody wants to spend anymore?)
One only has to look at how closer technology has advanced towards this vision in just 10 years, to see the huge possibility of this happening; the web becoming permanently attached to people, just as it has attached itself to mobile phones – another relatively recent phenomena which the majority of humans cannot function without, although they have only been widely available for just over 10 years.
A 3D internet immersion would disconnect us from the ever-encroaching noisy urban environment. We would 'switch-off' from the noisy buses and trains, not by just putting our headphones in, but by talking to simulations of our buddies (a process which couldn't really look much less schizoid than those who already use mobile phones with headphones) on a 'walk-in' Facebook-of-the-future.
This disconnection from the real world is exactly the kind of future which exists in the novel Feed by M.T. Anderson. This novel, which is categorised as 'teen-fiction' but is so much more than this, may actually be a prophecy. As well as the social and environmental consequences described in it, it also describes a future people fully disconnected from reality to a virtual land of distractions, created by internet corporations, who know how to tend to everybody's personas. (Amazon and Facebook are already serving out adverts aimed at our personality descriptions, and Google is already attempting to transfer the entirety of the real world onto a virtual plane.) The real world is falling apart in Feed, but the consumers couldn't give a shit. They are constantly satiated by a personalised virtual fun-land.
Does this sound like a far-fetch fictional novel? Does it sound like an unlikely scenario for our world? I am not so sure; I fear the worse under the current procession. The deterioration of the planet's eco-systems is increasing at, what seems to be, a pretty much consistent level to the increasing technological advancements: as the world is getting more and more volatile and the waters rise, we are climbing into monitor screens, hoping to sale away into a virtual utopia. However, we are still made of skin and bones.
An increasing isolation
The major alterations, during the last decade, to the way we communicate – cell phones, internet communication – have, by their nature of requiring the user to contact the rest of humanity via their devices, perpetuated isolation. We are increasingly required to communicate with people without coming into physical contact with them. This creates an inevitable lonesome outcome, which prompts the individual to search harder, speaker louder, within the only places he/she can find an audience – which are in realms of cyberspace; thus further escalating the usage of these places to communicate, thus further escalating isolation.
When I've over-tired myself to the extent that I cannot join in, in the disconnection, and switch off to "that space cadet glow" on my MP3 player, I find myself 'people-watching' whilst on the train back. The people are not looking at other people they are tuning in to little boxes, with their gazed fixed on little screens of options. There is noise – babies crying etc – but most noise is from isolated sources; sounds from I pods, mobile ring tones, conversations through cyberspace with people miles away that we (the passengers on the train) can't see.
There is a link between the reasons why I seem to spend my 'days off' solitary travelling up and down the rail-line, and the increasing amount of time I, amongst most others, spend contacting the rest of the world from behind a screen. I could spend an whole day behind a screen; not an happy day, certainly not a morally uplifting day, but certainly a day eternally finding 'tasks' to be done.
It is easy to feel captive to the computer room when more and more of one's life appears to be channelled through the computer. Whilst in this captive-like state of finding endless cyber-space requests made of you, one is also a captive audience to the impression of the world that the world-wide-web conveys: it creates an impression of the world whizzing past you, succeeding, accumulating, producing, and leaving you, who is sat gathering moss on the computer seat, behind in the process.
The internet is a forest of people, all vying to be heard. The social anxiety, the pressure to be noticed, revered as someone of worth, is massively claustrophobic. It is a pressure that forces one to think "I need to be more productive, I need to show that I am a hard working and individual". But equally present, no matter how much one 'networks' their perceived talents, are the feelings of malaise and uselessness whilst sitting, captive, in the computer room, urging one to go out and do something un-lazy and productive in the real world.
The urge to go out is fired by an urge to make the trip a productive outing, because of the feeling that all those 'tasks completed' in cyber-space accumulate to nothing, whilst the feeling that one still needs to prove themselves of worth in a forest of people, seemingly all doing likewise, persists. So, outings become a race to make a day productive; a productiveness which can hardly be guaranteed by a stroll in the countryside or meet-up with friends. Hence, one finds themselves 'tasking it up' in the physical world; organising their life around a train route (I don't drive a car) to fit enough in, so "today can feel like a success and a day well done!" This is why as soon as something productive is achieved (in my case, a new piece of art made, or a thought written down) one feels an urge to "get it up on Facebook!"
After a morning, on a day off from work, of fruitless task-completing on the computer, I have a list of things I 'need' to do in order to feel that I have been productive. They are all solitary, because the 'fast and productive' world I see before me on the internet, and the feelings of idleness created whilst 'task-laden and 'captive' to this impression of the world, pressure me into believing that I have no spare time for 'chit chat' and fun, as I need to be breaking my back, physically. this creates the social void, from which there seems to be no way out of but to venture back onto the world-wide-web, in search of a dream-like collage of long-lost friends, all waiting for me to restart the 'good times' – those times which have only ever appeared to exist on other peoples online photo albums. The realisation that I have isolated myself only becomes apparent when I'm knackered on the train home; when the opportunities for the day (except the opportunities to get 'pissed' in my home town) are all but gone, and I look to my surrounding environment for an answer, only to see that its answer is to talk to people I can't see, listen to things I can't hear, via the gadgets which I suspect prompted my own isolation. And who is there to speak with about my despairing isolation but to voyeuristically tell the entirety of my online community, as there's nobody here in the physical world to speak to!
Perhaps the 'need to be productive' and the 'watching of people drifting-off into cyber-space after their days work, on the train' are tendencies/habits which are more peculiar to me. However, what I am trying to explain through my own experience is that the environment created by the increasing presence of cyber-space (computer/internet, cell phones) in our lives doesn't just create isolation within our domestic environments, in which we dissolve into at the end of the day, but it also creates it within the life we seek to lead in the outer-environment. It does this by both constantly interrupting an escape from it, reminding us of 'what we are missing' when someone on the train/bus seems to be getting more attention through it than we are, as their phones 'bleep bleep' all the way home; and it also does it by coaxing out a feeling that we have no time to do anything else but task completing, because "you've wasted way too much time sat in front of the screen this morning, and you're not doing nearly half as much with your life as all the others on the networking sites are"
The increasing amount of evening isolation is perhaps more apparent to spot, but cyber-space is certainly helping to create the social void within the day-time, which is wrongly catered-for by cyber-space in the evening-time, as one finds they have no alternative for a cure to the isolation but to scour the web more so, and, in the process, be subjected to the appearance that everything is happening everywhere but where they are, and everybody is pushing forwards and progressing but them. This creates the setting for another day of isolation tomorrow and so forth.
The unwritten destiny of humanity?
The invention of the Net is not a bad thing; the danger is that we will begin to live our lives entirely through the net, and this would further separate us from the outside world, a world which threatens to be ever more turbulent in the 21st century. If we ignore the world outside our doors it may evolve into an intensely hostile environment which no longer permits our species' stay on the planet.
This would be a waste not merely for our own progress as a species, but also for the progress of the entirety of life. The evolution of a conscious creature is an incredibly important step for life. Despite our fragile existence as a species, and despite the fact that the rest of life would carry on, probably more triumphantly, without us, what we contribute to life on earth is unique. We (humans) are the earth's brain, in every sense but that of a religious destiny.
The internet has the ability to connect citizens of the world providing a combined empowerment to stand up to the undemocratic system of capitalism, and eventually overthrow it. Yet, under Capitalism it has become the system's most powerful tool – the most efficient of consumer distractions – distracting the bulk of its users with a barrage of novelties, badges of nonsense, which speak to ones claims for individuality, to mark out their sense of social status amongst the forest of others all doing the same (one may even actually join a group page for a democratic activist organisation for entirely this purpose!).
The net has just become the virtual equivalent of advanced consumerism in the physical world. The virtual form may not directly drain the planet of its resources, but it lights up the pathway towards doing so, like Blackpool illuminations. And It is equal if not more successful in draining individuals of their vigilance, awareness, making a nation a consumers who are indifferent to acts of global injustice and national injustice by the corporate state. So much hope was held for the internet to be a bringer of true democracy, providing information to all and eventually becoming a force to bring global Capitalism to justice Capitalism, however, had other ideas: It wasn't going to give up so easily. It can consume anything and turn it into tool for its own benefit. These hopes were 'so 20th century'. If an image could sum the first decade of the 21st century it would show a snidey grin on the face of capitalism, self satisfied with having taken democracy's 'bright new hope' and turned it into its own 'bright new star'
It seems apparent that Capitalism, left to its own devices, will seek to turn every aspect of our lives into a profit making venture: dependent on doing most of our communication via the internet and mobile phones means that we are always paying chunks of our wages to internet and mobile phone companies, to ensure that our connection to the world isn't cut off; we are now basically having to pay to communicate, which makes the early mobile phone slogan 'pay as you talk' seem much more sinister. If they could they'd charge us for oxygen, in fact they probably will do if we end up having to breathe it via tanks.
Communication through cyber space, although a creation made under Capitalism, would be put to better under a more democratic, and less socially anxious society – a bringer of doorways rather than the walls of an lonely room. All technology has the ability to be a benefit, and if it is actually doing us harm then something isn't right with the way it is being encouraged to be used. It is yet another indication that although Capitalism may have propelled us this level of advancement, we need to abandon its voyage and head for another, as Capitalism is mesmerised by the siren "singing it to shipwreck" (more lyrics taken from Radiohead – THANK YOU). Capitalism is dynamic, and the world now needs stability not dynamism, we now possess the tools to create a much more harmonious and equal order, if only it could abandon the capitalist ship. It is a tragedy that we are still aboard this ship, looking for treasures that will forever elude us.


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During this period of hydrocephalus my thinking was sluggish, my memory poor, my emotions and their display (affect) confined within a rather limited range, rarely very happy or sad, but mellow, instead. It was not as enjoyable as feeling sharp, but it was not so bad, either. Unfortunately, it could lead to permanent brain injury or even death.
After the surgery, I had an invasive examination of the urinary tract at the office of a urologist in a nearby city, and that cystoscopy gave me a bacterial infection that was curable and a viral infection that was not. Next time, doc, make sure your assistant has sterilized the 'scope. The bacteria were of the type usually associated with nosocomial (hospital derived) infections. The virus was common to urban areas especially.
The urinary tract infection caused by the post-op cystoscopy (they had put a flexible endoscope, a light pipe, where men are not designed to have one be put) gave me powerful delusions: I was not sure where I was, and –although mellow–I was sure that one of my favorite nurses was killing people and putting their bodies in the big boxes that I had along the wall of my room. I never opened the boxes, but I did leave an obstacle in her path on the stairs to warn me if she were coming. Amazing!
The nurses got me to the hospital, where I stayed several days, recovering rapidly. The final delusion led me to believe that on the day I was scheduled to be discharged, September 28, 2008, there was going to be a general change of hospital personnel. You see, they were really all members of the Polish Secret Service, watchful allies of ours, and they were scheduled to rotate to different hospitals that day. It never made the newspapers, and I came to doubt it a day or two later.
Tina's staff performed as desired; they did not need my constant vigilance. I was very appreciative. During the latter part of this mental incapacitation, I asked one of my staff to take possession of my handgun, a 9mm revolver I had obtained (with proper paperwork) shortly after the O.J. Simpson jury returned its "not guilty" verdict in his obvious killing of two people. One really could not rely on the cops, who come after the crime, or on the jury, too easily swayed by prejudices and ignorance, to be reliable deterrents. The expression among some gun owners is that they would rather be tried by twelve jurors, in the case of shooting someone, than be carried by six pall-bearers, if killed for the lack of a weapon.
There have been occasions out here in the country, especially in the winter, when the Lake Osiris population is down, when I have come downstairs with my weapon (and its muzzle-mounted laser pointer) to investigate possible trouble. My mother fears I am going to gun down some Girl Scout cookie-monger. Don't come at night, dears.
Having been heavily dependent on my intellect, I regretted the dimming of it during this period but found a certain tranquility that offset the loss. Perhaps that is how one feels with Alzheimer's. Having mental quickness and emotional responsiveness restored was better, still, more fun. My past delusions have made me more sympathetic to those who cope with them regularly. They were scary, with no offsetting benefits.