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FACT: Like children, dogs don't get born with a "bad behaviour" gene. They learn it. From you or previous owners!
Sadly, many dogs with behavioural problems end up in the pound, as some owners believe that they have a "bad dog" – so they simply transfer the problem to someone else. Of course some dogs are calmer than others, and others are very active – it's a genetic thing – and if you look at the parents of the dog, you will get a good idea of their temperament. So as a start point, when choosing a dog that will fit with your family and lifestyle, look at the pet's parents too so you have an idea of what you are buying into.
Remember happy dog means happy owner – here's 7 top tips to help you get there.
Until about 3 months of age you have a great opportunity to teach your puppy how to form relationships with other animals and people, and to give them confidence when experiencing life around them – such as loud sounds, and even crowds. During this time puppies who live in a family home and have the opportunity to meet lots of people, other animals and have a wide range of experiences are more likely to become well behaved adult dogs. Those that don't can become fearful, jumpy and unpredictable. Unfortunately the fear can lead to aggression which means bad outcomes for the family and the dog.
Dogs do not naturally know how you want them to behave. They are dogs. Until taught otherwise, they will behave like dogs! (Surprise). Dogs do not know the difference between good and bad behaviour, and most of the time what we consider bad behaviour is the dog acting out some anxiety. They need to learn however, how you want them to behave and this take time, patience and commitment. Training should happen consistently over a sustained period of time – beginning with specific exercises, and then making it part of your daily activities.
If in doubt how to train your dog, get advice from a professional who is up to date with the most enlightened methods, but one thing's for sure, trying to dominate your dog by inflicting pain and shouting to try and get submission will only make things worse. Find out more about punishment vs correction in dogs .
Dogs have long memories – and anyone who has a rescue dog will tell you they have some strange behaviours, which we assume have come from early fearful experiences. They may cower, or even get aggressive in certain circumstances. Bad behaviours can often come from fear and anxiety, so if you can try to avoid exposing your pet to negative experiences (for example fireworks, loud bangs, hitting and shouting), then strange or bad behaviours may be curbed.
Whilst dogs are very smart they do not understand human language, and they don't have a moral code! Treating dogs like humans will never resolve an issue, and may just make you more of a slave to your dog.
If a dog does not have boundaries he will behave without restrictions, then when he can't have what he wants he may become aggressive (ie when you need to have him examined by your vet). Dogs need to know the rules of the house and they need to be consistently applied, otherwise he will just get confused.
We can't emphasise enough how important exercise is for your dog. At least half an hour, twice a day. Dogs don't "self-exercise" – so just letting them outside to wander around is not the solution either. Dogs need to be stimulated with interesting activities. If a dog is bored and doesn't get enough exercise you can be sure it will reflected in poor behaviour.
If you have a dog that's behaving badly it's likely that either yourself or a previous owner has created the situation (sorry to say!!). It can be difficult to know what is going one and so we would suggest that you consider the services of a professional behaviourist – they can observe what is going on and have an objective view, and mostly will be able to identify steps you can take to improve your dog's behaviour.
Good luck on your journey to having a long, loving and happy relationship with your fur friend. But if there are other burning questions you may have, check out the 10 Most Googled Dog Questions 2019!
Liz Walden
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This kid is dynamite (a certain Husker target from 2012.....Devin Fuller.....I suspect, as many of us knew, will not play QB at UCLA because of Hundley.... though that is what he was promised) and is going to be a real good one....glad the Huskers are facing him early before he gets going....one of the top QBs of the 2011 class....
Brett Hundley as UCLA's starting quarterback is a decision that may be in the near future.
Hundley, who was a redshirt as a freshman in 2011, took a big step toward winning the job Saturday. He ran the first team almost exclusively, getting a large chunk of reps as UCLA coaches wanted to get a look at his decision-making abilities.
Much, much more here:Mazzone and Coach Jim Mora have kept their poker faces when asked about a decision at quarterback. But the momentum is obviously with Hundley at this point.
He has strung together three consecutive quality practices, where he has impressed coaches with leadership skills as well as with the way he has handled the offense.
Asked if he had a quarterback in mind, Mora said, "Not one I'm willing to talk about. We will announce it at the appropriate time, when it becomes apparent, when we have a chance to sit down as a staff and talk about which way want to go."
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"BizX seems cool, but I'm really not really sure I understand it" We've heard this before.
A great friend once told me "BizX is as simple, or as complex, as you want to make it." I'm inclined to agree. So consider this the first in a series of BizX Education blogs that will simplify how BizX works, and why thousands of businesses of all shapes, sizes and categories rely on this network to earn new customers and increase their cash flow.
What is BizX? Let's start here.
BizX is a community of thousands of business owners who support one another and most importantly, are able to buy and sell amongst each other without spending cash. Instead, they use their very own community currency, BizX dollars. The benefits are simple: they each earn new customers that they wouldn't have had, and get to buy things they need without spending their hard-earned cash.
Is your business at 100% capacity?
Said another way, if 5 new customers came through your doors today, would you turn them away? For most of you (roughly 99.99%) the answer would be obvious: of course not! Most US businesses operate at roughly 80% of their capacity, meaning 20% of what they have available to sell goes to waste. Fun Fact: this amounts to over $2 Trillion worth amongst small businesses alone! These are empty tables at a restaurant, unsold ad-space in a magazine, unsold gym memberships, unbooked hours of a general contractor, lawyer, or CPA, etc. In the BizX community, members buy and sell their EXTRA CAPACITY amongst each other – this means new customers to each member.
How do BizX members earn new customers?
Simply because they are willing to accept BizX dollars as payment from other members of the BizX community. Think about it like this: if you had US dollars and BizX dollars, which would you choose to spend first? I would rather spend my BizX dollars, and keep my cash, and I bet you would too.
BizX members have two currencies to spend. US dollars - which are the result of all of their marketing, sales, word of mouth, and promotional efforts – and BizX dollars. Because they are motivated to spend their BizX dollars first, they will always patronize other BizX members over non-members. So when a new Italian restaurant joins BizX – agreeing to accept BizX dollars from other members – they earn new customers, who found them in the BizX network, to come and fill their empty tables. Each day this restaurant serves these new customers, other business owners in the BizX network, their new BizX account grows, and they spend it right back in the network with other members on things they need. Keeping their cash right where it belongs: in the bank.
Where do BizX members spend their BizX?
With any other member in the network! Today, there are about 5,000 of them up and down the west coast. Everything from advertising to travel, printing to graphic design, dining out to website work, legal services, tax prep, professional sporting events and everything in between.
Many of the members in the BizX network do business in person – like restaurants or auto-mechanics – which means spending with these businesses requires physically being in the local BizX community – BizX San Diego, Washington, or Bay Area, for example. But the majority of the offerings in the BizX community can be purchased from anywhere – like printing services, wine from Napa Valley, or art from a Seattle gallery. Which opens up huge opportunity to put your BizX to good use in either off-setting hard cash costs, or taking on new projects that otherwise would be hard to rationalize.
Many BizX members even use their BizX to bonus their employees with a program called Perks by BizX!
The bottom line: BizX members know that a BizX dollar spent is a US dollar saved.
What is the result of all of this?
Back to the basics – BizX is a community of businesses all buying and selling their extra capacity from one another with their community currency, BizX dollars. This represents new customers and incremental revenue that replaces otherwise un-used capacity, and supplements their existing US dollar revenue.
With this new revenue, BizX members are able to buy things they need from other members, either eliminating existing cash costs, or taking on new expenses that otherwise would be difficult to pull off with their existing cash revenue alone.
Put simply, BizX members earn new customers & better cash flow.
What if I can't spend my BizX?
BizX is a B2B network with members in almost every industry category, so if you have expenses or a wish list that even vaguely resembles that of other businesses like yours, chances are you won't have difficulty spending.
But we've put our money where our mouth is.
BizX is free to join, and there are no monthly or annual fees. We only earn revenue when your business improves in two key ways. When you earn new customers through the network, we earn a 7.5% cash commission on this new revenue that you collect. And when you save your cash, and spend your BizX on things you need and want, we earn 7.5% cash.
That's it. So if you can't spend your BizX, we don't get paid. Could your business survive on only half of your revenue? Ours either.
In a more detailed explanation: Let's use that example of the Italian restaurant. Another BizX member finds that restaurant in the network, and decides to go for lunch, because it's well reviewed and he can spend his BizX. That member fills a table that otherwise would have gone empty, and the restaurant earns 100 BizX and a new customer. For this service, the restaurant owner pays BizX $7.50. And when that restaurant owner needs to get their awning repaired the following month, they find a provider in the BizX network, and are able to use that 100 BizX for the repairs instead of writing a check. The restaurant pays BizX $7.50. So on $200 worth of incremental selling and buying, BizX earns $15.
Icing on the cake - we'll let you spend FIRST.
We're so confident in the power of the BizX community and the BizX dollar that we take the question of "what if I can't spend" out of the equation entirely. BizX members are able to spend FIRST, then earn, through a cool product called the BizX Line of Credit, which is essentially an advance on future sales. Here's how it works.
You apply for a BizX dollar Line of Credit, and get approved at a certain amount (we don't run a credit check, and your credit is totally untouched). Once active, you have the ability to begin spending BizX in the network. You will fuel this spending later, with future sales from new customers that you earn through the BizX community.
At BizX, it's all about the members.
BizX is not a simply a company – it's a community. A community of people just like you. Savvy local business owners thriving in an ever-changing world, with the recognition that we're stronger together than we are individually.
This is why we exist. To improve the lives and businesses of our members by bringing them together, and enabling them through their own community currency.
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CNBC, the global business and financial news TV network, has unveiled its new Middle East headquarters in Abu Dhabi.
The state-of-the-art facility will act as CNBC's hub in the Middle East from which the network will continue to deliver business content from across the region, a statement said.
The network will broadcast Capital Connection, fronted by its Middle East Anchor Hadley Gamble from its new studios based within Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the UAE capital's financial hub, it added.
Speaking after the inaugural show, Gamble said: "We've been reporting the Middle East business story to CNBC's elite global audience for years. The launch of our new home within ADGM starts a new chapter in our reporting from the region. These new state-of-the-art studios provide us with a fantastic platform to tell the global business story through a unique Middle East lens."
Peter Baumgartner, CEO of Etihad Airways; Luka Mucic, CFO of SAP and Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris featured in the inaugural episode of Capital Connection.
She said the first week of programming from the Middle East will feature interviews with Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, chairman of Aldar Properties, H.E. Saif Saeed Ghobash, director general of Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism, Jassim Alseddiqi, CEO of Abu Dhabi Financial Group, Mohammed Al Ardhi, chairman of Investcorp and Peter Baumgartner, CEO of Etihad Airways.
John Casey, CNBC's SVP of International News and Programming said: "CNBC broadcasts daily from the network's International Headquarters in New York, London and Singapore. With the addition of our new Middle East Headquarters at ADGM, we plan to connect Abu Dhabi to the world's financial capitals."
The network said it will also use its new home in Abu Dhabi to establish a stronger editorial presence across the region, with both its feature franchise Access Middle East and its regional event coverage set to expand.


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Florida Motorcycle Accidents
Riding a motorcycle is often said to give a feeling of freedom, but it does carry a risk of accident. Crashes involving bikes can result in liability issues or serious injury; a lawyer can help you if you are involved in an accident.
Types of Bike Crashes
Motorcycle crashes may happen due to many reasons. They can occur by hitting road debris, when driving through four-way intersections or driving in slick conditions. Florida roads are flat, and drivers on occasion go too fast. Speeding often leads to crashes. Other times, auto accidents involving a motorcycle may be due to drinking. Property owners sometimes try to keep riders off their land by using a barrier. Accidents can happen if a rider drives into the rope or chain that has been pulled across an entry. In 1982, the Daytona Beach Morning Journal reported a Florida boy died after riding through this kind of barricade. In Connecticut, a similar fatal motorcycle accident case went to trial last year.
Florida Helmet Laws
Florida does have helmet laws that apply to some riders and types of bikes. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, riders in the state under 20 years old must wear a helmet. Florida had changed the helmet laws for adult riders in 2000, and the National Institutes of Health says the number of deaths have gone up since this time. Florida has 9 percent of all motorcycle rider deaths in the U.S.
What to Do if You're in a Motorcycle Accident
If you are in a bike accident, it is important to take these steps:
- Call police, if needed to get medical attention.
- Get all necessary information, including insurance.
- Talk to a lawyer before giving any statements so you do not incriminate yourself.
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A strange black ball has been discovered in a Spanish field, creating speculation about space station debris. Goat farmers first reported the presence of the ball. Civil Guard investigators immediately rushed to Calasparra, Murcia and quarantined the area.
Meanwhile, independent researchers suggest the object could be a pressurised gas container that has come down to Earth from space.
Locals agreed that the odd ball was fallen from up above. The Civil Guard also said it may have come from a satellite or rocket.
A local community manager who also did his research said that the ball possibly has full of gasses inside. He said the object was very strong and durable because it managed to enter the Earth's atmosphere and possibly survived catastrophic explosions.
The same objects are also believed to have been discovered in Brazil and Australia.
Investigators have said that the object isn't explosive or dangerously radioactive. They have taken it away for further analysis.
If someone owns the ball, he or she has been invited to claim it from the local government of Murcia.


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All of the indicators are based on data collated for concrete production.
In addition, some indicators report on the additional effects of including a contribution from the reinforcement steel sector, based on data provided by BAR. This is shown under the heading 'concrete + reinforcement'.
More details of the background and methodology for these indicators can be obtained from the publication Concrete Industry Guidance on Performance Indicators.
The concrete industry makes a significant contribution to biodiversity and nature conservation through the management and restoration of sites of mineral extraction.
The indicator for production CO2 is carbon intensity or CO2/tonne of concrete produced. Data from the energy use of concrete production and a proportional contribution from constituent materials are converted to carbon emissions using factors published by DEFRA with an adjustment for the process carbon emissions from cement.
Our indicator relating to emissions excluding CO2 reports the number of convictions for emissions to air and water within the industry per annum.
Having a skilled, competent and informed workforce is essential for the industry to remain competitive, safe and capable of meeting the objectives of the concrete industry strategy.
Reducing the carbon dioxide emissions associated with the production of concrete and its constituent materials can be achieved by improving energy efficiency and reducing consumption.
Controlling and managing the environmental impacts of procuring materials and manufacturing products is an essential requirement for sustainable development.
Health and safety of its employees is a key focus of the concrete industry strategy. Two indicators are used to report performance and are established benchmarks of health and safety.
It is often the case that concrete supply chain production sites have close links with the local communities through the employment of local people and the use of local materials.
Product consistency, performance and being fit for purpose are crucial to sustainability and ensuring that materials are not rejected or potentially wasted, which is costly both economically and environmentally.
There are significant volumes of by-product materials such as ground granulated blastfurnace slag (GGBS) and fly ash that can act as part of the cementitious binder in concrete. These materials have a lower embodied carbon than cement and can also influence the appearance and performance of concrete.
The concrete industry was the first industry to link its sustainable construction strategy to BES 6001 and has produced the publication 'Specifying Sustainable Concrete' to support the implementation of the standard.
Concrete and its constiuent materials are locally produced in the UK. In 2016 the average delivery distance for all concrete was 46 km (or 28.8 miles). The average delivery distance for all raw materials for concrete was 72 km.
The concrete industry is a net user of waste, consuming 99 times more recovered and waste materials than the waste it sent to landfill.
Water is an essential ingredient for the hydration of cement and is an important resource for concrete and its materials supply chain.
The Twelfth Concrete Industry Sustainability Performance Report
Mineral Products Association (MPA) - carbon management
MPA website - transport
MPA Cement - carbon reduction strategy
Aggregates Carbon Reduction Portal
The Concrete Centre - embodied CO2
MPA Cement - Euiropean Union Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS)


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It's almost the end of the year and the final months are always fleeting. My husband and I are going to be leaving Toronto soon, where we have been staying for the past 6 months. My time here has been so different and wonderful and I fear I will miss Toronto terribly when we leave. Before staying here, I was first and foremost a portrait artist. I love painting and drawing people. The complicated inner worlds that show through subtle expressions on our faces calls out to me to capture in my artwork. This has not left me, but it has been overshadowed lately by a strong and forceful draw to the trees and nature in Toronto. When I travel with my husband to new parts of the globe, I find myself very much alone in my daily life. As an artist, I spend the days alone drawing or painting when we are at home in Los Angeles, but knowing your friends are out there and with in reach, being able to get together with them at a given notice still fills a large part of my life. When we are gone, It's like there is the part that is customarily secluded while making art, but there is the undeniable absence of my friends as well...wrapping itself around the hours I deem for myself alone while working.
I have found a great deal of solace and love while spending time in a near by park compensating for the feelings of isolation that come from being a stranger in a strange land. The emotions and realizations that fill my heart and mind while exploring the small but rich landscape have buoyed my feelings of loneliness and a strong fondness and spiritual connection to the area has taken place. Since being here I have taken hundreds of photographs and begun making landscape type drawings no doubt as a natural result of these feelings. I never thought I would have felt this kind of energy making drawings of nature. It is like I am making art in the genre I never thought I could find interesting in a complex way. I never thought it would hold my interest long enough to make art like this other than for commission.
So here I am. Posting another drawing I made from a tree I shot pictures of in Riverdale Park. It is 40" X 32" ball point pen on Arches beautiful and soft drawing paper. The emotion is deep there because of the gratitude I have for the undeniable love that radiates freely in nature to anyone who sets foot on the leafy pathways or sits beneath one of the grand trees. The trees are quiet and strong teaching me to feel the same way as I make my way through a mostly silent day. The beauty and grace I see floods my heart in a way that has lifted me from feeling alone.


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Dear Cyber-Friends,
Taking a quick break from DIY makeup, let's turn now to something even more important: deodorant. We can all agree that looking awesome is fun, but if you're smelly no one is going to care how great your makeup is, right?
There's lots of ideas out there for healthy, easy, DIY deodorants. It was one of the very first projects I got into, actually. I require two things from my deodorants: neutralize body odor, and keep the sweating to levels that won't stain clothes. A little bit of sweat is normal and healthy — not to mention, pretty expected when living in the tropics — but I hate getting sweat stains on nice clothes, and too much sweat (except when exercising, of course!) just feels icky.
Commercial deodorants are usually expensive, and full of nasty ingredients that can cause health issues in the future — not to mention it can be very difficult to find a scent you feel like smelling all the time. Health food stores and similar places usually have a selection of deodorants without the scary chemicals, but they also usually cost even more, and (for me, at least) aren't as effective or long-lasting when it comes to the important things.
Obviously, this was problem for DIY experimentation to solve!
I tried a lot of different things, and I recommend (if you're interested) that you do a little research and experimenting on your own to find just the right solution for yourself. In the meantime, to get you started, here's what I have settled on:
(From Right to Left, Back to Front:)
- Baking Soda
- Arrowroot Powder
- Any type of facial clay (optional)
- Any essential oils, especially antiseptics like Rosemary or Tea Tree (optional).
Basically, you get 50-50 of arrowroot powder (look for it in the bulk, health food, or baking sections of your preferred store) and baking soda (make sure it's aluminum-free), and blend them together. Put the resulting powder mix in a jar, get a large makeup brush for powder, and you're all set!
The baking soda works to neutralize odor, and the arrowroot adds smoothness and absorption. One application after a shower, and it lasts me all day! I started using this a year ago, and I've had zero problems with it. I don't even sweat as much!
I started adding clay and rosemary, just to try it out. I haven't noticed a difference with the clay, which means I'll probably keep adding it (a little less than the two main ingredients). In theory, it should help with absorption and perhaps even help draw out impurities. The rosemary (just a few drops, mixed in thoroughly) adds a very light, refreshing scent, and possibly a little of that bacteria-killing goodness.
I keep it in a cleaned-out glass spice jar, and use a cheap foundation brush to apply.
It's easy to use: just tap the brush in the powder, tap off excess powder, and gently sweep it onto your underarms. It works with or without pit hair; either way, it does the job. Brush off any extra powder, and you're good to go!
Make sure you aren't wearing your top when you do this, though, or you WILL have Mysterious White Powder problems. If you're going to have an under-layer that won't be seen, such as a bra, a binder, or a tank top, then it can awesome to put it on BEFORE applying, and letting a little of the extra powder get brushed into the cloth — it'll help keep your shirt smelling just as fresh as you, even if it gets sweaty!
I hope I've given you some ideas to try out yourself. Good personal hygiene is always worth having, especially when it can be so cheap, easy, healthy, and effective!
That's it for today; remember to keep an eye out for my newest makeup look tomorrow…


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Fellowships List | Internships List
Deadline: 05/01/2012
Second Deadline: --/--/----
Fellowship type: Year-long
Location: Glenmoore, PA
Fellowship website: Link to Program Website
School specific?: Not school-specific
|Program Overview (from the program website):
Camphill Soltane is a life-sharing community of 80 people, including young adults ages 18-25, and adults age 25 and up, with developmental disabilities.
Our 5-year Learning for Life program for young adults encompasses academic study, arts and music, pre-vocational exploration, and life skills training within the context of a Waldorf-inspired curriculum.
Our Soltane Works program serves the needs of our older community residents with disabilities, and encompasses a number of on-campus work areas, including a textile design studio, a combined store/cafe/bakery, a land and estate crew, and a community services crew. Soltane also has strong connections with the surrounding community through off-campus job placements and expanding social and economic partnerships.
For the '12-'13 program year, we are looking for people who are interested in helping to create a safe, healthy, beautiful, and supportive household environment. We are also looking for people who would like to have an emphasis on teaching, while participating in community life.
At Camphill Soltane, we work out of the framework of advocacy, recognizing that people with disabilities can speak for themselves and can make choices about their lives. Coworkers support people in achieving their goals through person-centered processes.
Camphill Soltane is located on 50 acres of beautiful Pennsylvania countryside, 1 hour west of Philadelphia, 2.5 hours from New York City, and close to restaurants, shopping, and numerous cultural attractions.
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This is Nice simple introduction to lighting principles. I like the way they don't try and narrow it down to using flashes and get too bogged down in the equipment right out of the gate. That is often off-putting to a beginner like me, when you pick up a book about lighting & flash. However here, they acknowledge that the same principles apply whether you are using the sun & clouds, desk lamps & DIY diffusers or high-end studio lighting. They are teaching the physics behind it (but in a practical and useful manner whatever your equipment).
For me personally I found this book very useful because I have only used flashes underwater (where the physics is a little different due to the water column, depth away from the sun, particles in the water catching the light (backscatter) and a host of other factors). On those flashes (two Inon z240 strobes), they come with two types of diffusers (but I have only ever used one set) and I have DIY red gel filters so that I get nice blue backgrounds. Colour drop off due to depth & distance is not an issue on land of course. When I shoot on land I use desk lamps for macro with official diffusers (just a little DIY tracing paper). Quite often I use shiny surfaces as backdrops so the explanations in this book will help me to master the glare and reflections to achieve the photos that I want rather than my previous trial and error approach. I'd recommending reading this straight away if you are doing this course and not waiting for section 4 (the lighting section).
They go through examples of photographing things and what sort of set ups would work and why. Such as photographing artwork & other flat surfaces (great for OCA students)! Also, shiny surfaces such as metal, transparent objects like glasses (the subject I found most useful considering my first assignment ideas) and photos that would need a mixture of surfaces catered for. Also, chapters on lighting people with one or more lights. Also, lighting for difficult extremes such as black on black or white on white.
I'd recommend this as a must read to anyone new to lighting or someone who'd only read lighting books that explained the who & what but didn't get around to the why. This is a nice companion to the course and I'd say the most practically useful book so far. It's also nicely laid out for reference, I shall be dipping back into this as a reference for years to come I expect.


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16 September, 2013
My MMO poison of choice these days is Dungeons & Dragons Online (DDO). It's a great game and I love it a lot. These days, I mostly play with a few fixed, or "static", groups; however, I have played some solo characters on other servers when the fancy strikes me. But, for the most part, if I play the game I'm playing a character that plays with others.
Sometimes, however, the strain one has to go through to play with friends makes you wonder if other MMO developers actually play. Let's take a look at a recent frustration.
I love DDO, I really do….
I think DDO is the most fun MMO for my playstyle that is currently available. I love flexible characters, and once you understand the system you can make some amazing characters. For example, I really enjoyed my monk/rogue character, which I really enjoyed. The latest expansion revamped how the enhancement system works, making more like old-style WoW talent trees. While there are a few less-than-desirable changes, overall the trees allow for a lot more flexibility for characters, which has pleased me greatly.
But, sometimes the game makes it hard to love.
The importance of playing together
Now, I think group play is incredibly important for MMOs. Not that soloing should be abolished, but games should make sure that playing with others is a fun process without unnecessary hassle. Having things like quests where you have to fight for updates, or any situation where you are forced to "compete" with a friend when you don't want to really hurts a game, in my personal and professional opinion.
As I said, I do most of my playing in two static groups. One group plays with just one main group of characters, and the other plays about 3 different groups on rotation, depending on our mood. This is how I enjoy DDO the most these days.
One thing to understand about DDO is that they use D&D levels; originally the level limit was 20, meaning that a 1 level difference was actually pretty huge. Even with the level cap being raised to 25 and more recently to 28, the levels are still very tightly packed together. Being off by one level has huge ramifications in a party.
The wonderful world of DDO experience
In order to get to my point, I have to explain how DDO experience points and levels work. First, every quest is rated based on its level which corresponds to character level. But, quests also have difficulty levels which affect the actual quest level: Normal (+0), Hard (+1), and Elite (+2). Now, if you play a harder difficulty your first time, you get a bonus to experience. In addition, if you play the harder difficulty first on multiple quests in a row, you get a not-insignificant "bravery bonus" to experience points. The trick is that everyone in the group has to be at the right level; everyone can only be at most 2 levels over the base experience level, otherwise you lose the bravery bonus.
Let me give an example. Let's say there is a group of level 10 characters, and they can play level 8 quests on elite difficulty (+2) and and they will get the bravery bonus. But, what happens if someone gets to level 11 ahead of everyone else? Well, level 8 quests no longer give the bravery. So, the group loses the potential bravery bonus from running level 8 quests. If you're running with a static group, advancing levels is not something you should do.
Now, you have to actually go "train" a level, so in practice it's pretty easy to avoid getting too far ahead. Usually. Plus, you usually stop earning experience points at the point where you could gain two levels; so a level 10 character will hit the xp cap at one point shy of earning level 12. However, when the level cap was raised, the rules changed slightly for characters over level 20; given that you could earn experience for Epic Destinies (a form of alternate advancement over level 20), they removed the cap on experience for your normal levels. But, this has turn around to bite me on the rump.
Enter the reincarnation
Last post I talked about DDO's reincarnation system. Although I mostly talked about true reincarnation (TR), you can also reincarnate your character as a way to respec the character. With the most recent expansion, the developers decided to give everyone a free reincarnation. Since there were a lot of massive changes to how characters work with the new enhancement trees, they wanted to allow everyone to respec to take advantage of the changes and to fix some potential bugs. Hooray! But, in order to reincarnate, you must train up any levels you can beforehand.
So, our group of level 21 characters were to take level 22 in order to be able to respec. Except….
600 experience points too far
Guess how much experience my level 22 character has? 1.350,599/1,350,000. That's right, I'm 600 experience points into the next level! I did a lot of extra questing with this character, so I have a few hundred thousand more experience than other members of my party. But, unless I take that level I cannot reincarnate and adjust my character. But, if I take that level, I will be far out ahead of everyone else in my static group, and it will affect their ability to earn experience.
Of course, I did try to put in a support ticket to see if I could get my experience adjusted; after all, what harm is there in losing a bit of experience? But, sadly, I got the time honored "I cannot help thee with that," of MMO customer service disappointment.
So, in the meantime, I shrug hope there's no bug affecting my character from the recent expansion. I'll wait for the rest of the group to earn up enough experience, then I'll reincarnate when we finally take our next level. And, I lament the straightjacket of levels that put me in this odd situation in a game I otherwise love.
What about you? What group mechanics drive you crazy? Or, what strange situations have had you frustrated with a game?
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My biggest pet peeve of group dynamics in MMO's is pretty much as you've noted: Experience limits. There's just no way in a level based MMO to have a static group if any player/players spend any time in game when the others do not.
For example, my wife and I. Back in the Vanilla WoW days, we tried to play together. But the problem was this: She's very "casual"; and spends most of her time when not with me off doing oddball random things – generally, not progressing whatsoever.
I, on the other hand, tend to progress fairly quickly. Not that I burn through content, but I'm very good at games in general and optimize everything even when I'm not paying attention to it. So, if I play *at all* without her, I very, very quickly outpace her. Even a one level difference in a game like WoW is very significant. This trivializes her, and reduces the fun for both of us. But I dislike playing multiple characters at the same time, it's just not fun for me. And if I DO make an alternate character, because I can progress a LOT faster on my own, I end up experiencing all the content on my own first, then with her after, so we don't get to experience everything for the first time together.
Even if a group does play exclusively together, they'll still tend to progress at slightly different rates and as you said, even a single level breaks things.
This, incidentally, is where I feel the "love of endgame" thing comes into play. It's not so much that so many players are interested in raiding or PVP, but rather once you hit level cap the difference between characters shrinks dramatically. Sure, one person may have gear a tier above another's, or some such, but it's a much more gradual scale and everyone is able to enjoy the same content, more or less.
I feel this is irreparable. Level scaling in games like GW2 helps, but my experience there was that it definitely just wasn't ideal.
It's far, far better in my opinion to have granular progression systems in MMO's, where even new players are still fully capable after a small investment of time – generally speaking, extra progress opens more options for characters instead of directly more power. Eve and Darkfall are good examples of this, to some extent. It seems dev's see the advantage of that in a PvP game (it's extremely important there) but it has a lot to offer to a PvE-centric game too.
Grouping is so often "encouraged" by content that requires groups, or effectively penalties while solo, but this is an ass-backwards approach that inherently locks players out of content while not making it any easier to group.
MMO's need to focus on making it easier for players to play together. Not easier to manage UI's or formal/impromptu groups, but for players to actually play together without trivializing less progressed players.
Comment by Derrick Whittet — 16 September, 2013 @ 8:16 PM
My pet peeve is size limits. Quests/dungeons/raids/whatever are tailored to a specific size. Two+ doing normal quests annihilate everything, because they're tuned for solo play. Quests asking for a group tend to ask for maximum group size or good luck.
If you have a friend or two and want to work together you either mow through content or are forced to work with the dreaded PuG to reach a set size. Too easy content encourages boredom, while forced grouping tends to engender rage (you occasionally meet new, nice people, but all too frequently meet people you'd rather never see again). In automatic zone grouping or shared tagging I tend to see little communication – other players are effectively NPCs.
Even more frustrating are limits. I'm in a WoW guild. I consider more than 5 of the players as my friends. I would love to level with many of these people at once, but if more than 5 join a group, we're barred from quests and cannot participate in the exactly-5-warm-bodies-required dungeons.
At max level you need more players than raid slots to accommodate sickness/vacation/social obligations/work/etc. On days when everyone shows up, you've got "too many" for the objective. 95% of all guild drama I've ever witnessed has been due to someone being player number 6, or 11, 26, etc.
Oddly, I'm aware of one MMO (and I'm sure there have been others) that did this mostly right. City of Heroes scaled everything. One person and things are difficulty X. Two people and they're somewhere above 2X (to account for synergies, split targets, focused fire, etc). 3 and somewhere above 3X. It did have (rather small) upper limits, so by no means was perfection.
WoW has lately introduced something somewhat similar in Flex raiding, but it still takes 7 to 25 (and 7 are treated as 10). Also it's a separate thing from "real" raids (10 or 25 in size). Personal opinion is that this should have replaced the old static size system. One raid fits all, bring as few or as many friends as you want.
Comment by Sutekh — 17 September, 2013 @ 6:35 AM
Wow…if you can't get a support ticket filled, what possible hope is there for the rest of us lol.
The biggest frustration to group play in all but a handful of MMO's is not having quests update for the group. Having to wait for a mob to respawn multiple times, not having escort quests trigger for everyone in group, forcing us to kill ten rats – each. Things like that.
Comment by HarbingerZero — 17 September, 2013 @ 10:07 AM
I think it should also be pointed out the "bravery bonus" seems to be that mechanic dreaded by developers – the buff that becomes mandatory. You're jumping through hoops to maintain the "bravery bonus" for your party because, painful as it may be, the hoop jumping is considered less painful than being without the buff.
Comment by Sutekh — 17 September, 2013 @ 12:59 PM
Derrick Whittet wrote:
There's just no way in a level based MMO to have a static group if any player/players spend any time in game when the others do not.
Well, you can. A few games have the concept of side-kicking (raising lower level characters up) or mentoring (lowering higher level characters down) to match levels. Of course, the scaling isn't always smooth so someone often gets the short end of the stick.
I'd prefer to see a flattening of power curves, myself; as you say, advancement means more options rather than more raw power. I'd rather see a level 14 character able to adventure with a level 4 character just fine. In tabletop D&D, I've heard of groups that required all players to start at level 1; the exponential experience curve meant that by the time that level 14 character got to level 15, the level 4 character had probably advanced to level 12 or 13.
But, MMO players seem to love their outsized power curves.
Sutekh wrote:
My pet peeve is size limits. Quests/dungeons/raids/whatever are tailored to a specific size.
DDO in theory does have scaling. It's a bit wonky, where in some quests it's not meaningful, and in others people actually prefer to go in with a small group. But, I agree that limits cause a lot of aggravation when someone feels like the "odd person out". I've been really lamenting the move toward 5 person groups down from even 6.
HarbingerZero wrote:
Wow…if you can't get a support ticket filled, what possible hope is there for the rest of us lol.
I tend not to throw my weight (such as it is) around. I could probably chase down a few contacts in Turbine and beat some heads, but leaning on some poor CS person clearing out the petition queue is just mean.
Plus, once you start "cheating" a game starts to lose it's interest for me. I'd rather approach the game as a player to retain the fun.
Sutekh also wrote:
I think it should also be pointed out the "bravery bonus" seems to be that mechanic dreaded by developers – the buff that becomes mandatory.
Well, to be fair, the bravery bonus is less of an issue than other xp penalties. If I took level 23 while everyone else was 22, that means we'd either have to do quests that were a level harder, or take a small but constant xp penalty (-10%). The bravery bonus was a better way to illustrate the problem, I thought. The real issue is that, especially at the higher level and when you need a lot of experience to advance through your epic destinies, losing out on xp because you advanced when you didn't want to kinda sucks.
As I said, a lot of the time it's not a problem since you can choose when to advance. It's just this one case with the new expansion and the special rules for characters over level 20 that lead to my problem here.
Comment by Psychochild — 17 September, 2013 @ 4:27 PM
At the end of the day, current MMO design has made grouping more trouble than it's worth. A few fun things of being in a group remain, but the value of a group is way past the point of diminishing returns. The constant pressure to eliminate the negative aspects of grouping has resulted in diminishing their value.
I like to role play, and I don't mean I pretend to actually be my character, I like to play a tactical role. But the trend is to homogenize character builds so that there is little or no dependencies between classes. When I hear a design lead promise that no one will ever have to wait find a player of a particular class, what I hear is that he's building game mechanics for solo play. A group in that design only creates an aggregate of hit points and DPS and any one player is pretty much exchangeable for any other player.
Reduce the value of groups, the value of the socialization between players required to build a group is diminished. The socialization element of an MMO drives a player's personal investment in a virtual world. Time, attention, and affection are real in any world and, to me, provide much more of a reward that the item du jour could possibly deliver. The only real thing you can take from a game is a friend, Its sad to think that game designers have lost touch with that.
Comment by Kern — 17 September, 2013 @ 9:14 PM
Diablo 3 example. The system somewhat works to adjust quite large level differences if you are still leveling, but I experienced how it breaks down when someone just has way better gear. While you just die, your buddy barely takes any damage.
The problem is that some games like D3 are all about progressing in gear/power. Most people like that, but I think this power creep is rather detrimental.
Guild Wars 1 also had some "skill powercreep" (skills added later and more skill selection at your disposal made you more powerful) but weapons stayed the same for all three "chapters" and the Eye of the North expansion for several years. Guild Wars 2 also has a fairly stat- and level-even playing field with the exception of the special ascended gear. This way you can always play with friends and be useful.
I think this is rather way to go than the endless +1 progression. I often think GW2 could have done away with levels entirely the way it nonstop levels players up and down depending on area.
It will be interesting to see how future MMOs will deal with all kinds of progression and being able to play with "lower" level or worse equipped friends.
Comment by Longasc — 20 September, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
This is what hurts mmo's in expansions. People who were at end game able to play with thier friends get seperated by playstyles. This is why I don't play MMO's much anymore. My friends and family all level at different paces and we just can't ever seem to get on and play together without forcing someone to redo lower level content that is too easy and make everyone else feel totally useless as the overleveled party member blows through the content for them.
I'd love to see some equalizing mechanic, that downranked the higher leveled characters when they grouped with those at lower levels, become standard in MMO's
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Over the past 50 years, Haiti has suffered under the rule of strongmen: Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier followed by his son Jean Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, Jean Bertrand Aristide, and, most recently, Rene Preval. This procession of corrupt, self-serving and violent leaders has left Haiti, a country with a proud history of being the first black republic in history, as one of the world's tragedies – a true failed state. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, one of the most corrupt countries in the world, and ranks at the bottom for every health and social metric. After the January 12 earthquake and a devastating cholera epidemic, Haiti is literally in shambles.
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Aristide says he is going back because he is afraid that a newly elected President would revoke his passport.
Aristide was the buddy of the Clinton Administration when he requested military intervention from the United States to reinstate him to power in 1994, see: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/60373-1 For those who know Aristide -- the Haitian people, the Haitian Diaspora and some actors in the international community -- they have learned over the years that Aristide never keep his word. Before returning to Haiti in 1994 he promised the Haitian people and the Clinton Administration that he would organize free and fair elections, respect human rights, professionalize the police and the army, create jobs, invest in education and ensure good governance. After his return, he did just the opposite. His campaign of violence started right before the visit of President Clinton to Haiti in March 1995 with the execution of Me. Mireille Durocher Bertin. The FBI linked the murder to then Minister of Interior Beaubrun who executed Aristide's order and contracted the murder. Aristide politicized the police, rigged elections, stole state resources and systematically violated the rights of women, peasants, youth, press, and religious groups. No one was safe. The Haitian people never tolerate such ruthless corruption. In 2004 on the eve of the celebration of Haiti's 200 years of independence, they rose up against him and called for his resignation. In an effort to stop and repress the Haitian democratic activists around the country, Aristide requested from South African President M'Beki a military force to violently crackdown on the Haitian protests, see: http://metropolehaiti.com/
metropole/archive.php?action= full&keyword=mbeki+aux+ gonaives&sid=0&critere=0&id= 7742&p=1 . As a reminder of those who stood up against the dictator see the following links:
Both candidates have said that Aristide is welcome to return. Haiti observers speculate that he is returning in order to disrupt and undermine the elections to create chaos in-country and prevent a newly elected government from auditing and exposing all the corruption and collusion with foreign profiteers that took place under Aristide's reign.
Aristide was the buddy of the Clinton Administration when he requested military intervention from the United States to reinstate him to power in 1994, see: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/60373-1 For those who know Aristide -- the Haitian people, the Haitian Diaspora and some actors in the international community -- they have learned over the years that Aristide never keep his word. Before returning to Haiti in 1994 he promised the Haitian people and the Clinton Administration that he would organize free and fair elections, respect human rights, professionalize the police and the army, create jobs, invest in education and ensure good governance. After his return, he did just the opposite. His campaign of violence started right before the visit of President Clinton to Haiti in March 1995 with the execution of Me. Mireille Durocher Bertin. The FBI linked the murder to then Minister of Interior Beaubrun who executed Aristide's order and contracted the murder. Aristide politicized the police, rigged elections, stole state resources and systematically violated the rights of women, peasants, youth, press, and religious groups. No one was safe. The Haitian people never tolerate such ruthless corruption. In 2004 on the eve of the celebration of Haiti's 200 years of independence, they rose up against him and called for his resignation. In an effort to stop and repress the Haitian democratic activists around the country, Aristide requested from South African President M'Beki a military force to violently crackdown on the Haitian protests, see: http://metropolehaiti.com/
· Grassroots organizations: http://www.potomitan.info/ayiti/ayiti6.html
· Antineoliberal Groups: http://www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?article1091
· Peasants: http://metropolehaiti.com/metropole/archive.php?action=full&keyword=chavannes+Jean+Baptiste&sid=0&critere=0&id=6254&p=2
· Civil Society: http://metropolehaiti.com/metropole/archive.php?action=full&keyword=chavannes+Jean+Baptiste&sid=0&critere=0&id=5917&p=3
· Human Rights: http://metropolehaiti.com/metropole/archive.php?action=full&keyword=Bajeux&sid=0&critere=0&id=6322&p=4
· Youth: http://metropolehaiti.com/metropole/archive.php?action=full&keyword=Etudiants+contre+jean+bertrand+aristide&sid=0&critere=0&id=7764&p=6
· Political parties: http://metropolehaiti.com/metropole/archive.php?action=full&keyword=attaque+17+decembre&sid=0&critere=0&id=14509&p=1
· Private Sector: http://metropolehaiti.com/metropole/archive.php?action=full&keyword=Secteur+prive&sid=0&critere=0&id=7617&p=47
· Farmers: http://metropolehaiti.com/metropole/archive.php?action=full&keyword=chavannes+Jean+Baptiste&sid=0&critere=0&id=7756&p=2
After the popular revolt, Aristide was rescued by the United States and was transported to South Africa – one of the only countries willing to take him. Prior to his departure, he submitted his resignation. After the dust had settled, he began a media campaign alleging that he was kidnapped by the United States and was forced into exile. His own Prime Minister, Yvon Neptune, refutes that claim and has publicly stated that his claim of kidnapping were bogus, and he personally accepted Aristide's resignation, see: http://radiokiskeya.com/spip.php?article7105
Both candidates have said that Aristide is welcome to return. Haiti observers speculate that he is returning in order to disrupt and undermine the elections to create chaos in-country and prevent a newly elected government from auditing and exposing all the corruption and collusion with foreign profiteers that took place under Aristide's reign.
The UN recently announced they would work with the Haitian Government to support their efforts to try Duvalier for his crimes. Given Aristide's public efforts to return, Haitians were surprised that they singled out Duvalier rather than offering to put together a framework to try any corrupt officials. Haitians wondered whether the high profile support for Aristide by senior UN officials, namely Deputy UN Special Envoy Paul Farmer, was going to translate into a partisan approach to addressing corruption and human rights abuses in Haiti, see: http://solutionshaiti.blogspot.com/2011/02/united-nations-partisanship-in-haiti-by.html
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Aristide has almost completely evaded international scrutiny for the atrocities and corruption he committed while in office. He has been wrapped in a powerful cocoon of international support that he has managed to cobble together. His network includes idealists who view Aristide as a humble priest fighting against American imperialism and racial subjugation and foreign "profiteers" who have made money with Aristide through corrupt business dealings or lucrative lobbying retainers. This alliance has risen to Aristide's defense time and time again painting him as a champion of the poor, and a persecuted victim of the imperialist United States and western powers. By extension, they paint his political party and support base in Haiti, Fanmi Lavalas, as Haiti's most popular political party that has been unfairly excluded from participating in the electoral process. Their efforts have resulted in scant press coverage detailing Aristide's crimes, and extensive coverage outlining his unfair persecution. They eschew the facts and evidence against Aristide in favor of invective, vicious accusations and conspiracy theories. Anyone who critiques Aristide ends up the subject of personal attacks and baseless character assassination campaigns. These foreign operators in particular single out Haitians in the Diaspora and in-country fighting for a better and more democratic future for their own country.
All evidence during Aristide's, however, inconveniently points to the contrary. Aristide has a well-documented track record as being a brutal power monger willing to leverage any ideology -- and Haitian resources -- to maintain his grip on power to enrich himself and his allies. The economic and political crimes he committed while in office have set Haiti's growth back decades. His "popular" Lavalas party is anything but popular with the Haitian people. The Party had an abysmal showing in the 2006 legislative elections (the last elections they participated in) winning only six of the 99 Deputy seats and three of the 30 Senate seats up for election. Led by Aristide, Lavalas operates like a crime syndicate or a mob family trafficking in drugs, taking out political hits, and pilfering state resources. Lavalas is Tonton Macoutes 2.0.
Aristide's Lavalas Crime Syndicate
The Lavalas Party finances its political activity largely through criminal activity including kidnapping and drug trafficking. Almost all increases in Lavalas political or electoral campaign activity is linked directly with a surge in criminal acts and violence in Haiti. More than 99% of all corruption cases, kidnapping cases and drug trafficking arrests involve people with links to Lavalas. The following is a summary of the nettlesome facts about Aristide and Lavalas operations.
Drug Trafficking
Lavalas has long used drug trafficking to finance its political activity and electoral campaigns. Almost 99% of the arrests by Haiti's National Police and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) for drug trafficking are linked to Lavalas and Aristide. The most famous case was against "Jacques" Beaudouin Ketant who was arrested on June 17, 2003 in Haiti, extradited to Miami and sentenced to 27 years in a U.S. federal prison on February 25, 2004. In his testimony, he stated that Aristide was a "drug lord who controlled 85% the international drug traffic to Haiti". He told DEA agents that he paid Aristide directly $500,000 a month to have air traffic control clear in his plane used for drug transshipments. He also made a $500,000 a year contribution to Lavalas. Aristide, who previously declared Mr. Ketant "untouchable", captured him and delivered him to U.S. authorities. One diplomat noted that shortly thereafter, Aristide's loans from the Inter American Development Bank were reinstated.
Aristide's right hand man, the former Lavalas president of the Haitian Senate – and uncle of Preval's favored Presidential candidate in 2010, Jean-Marie Fourel Celestin, was wanted by the Haitian police and the DEA on drug trafficking charges and went into hiding. The U.S. Embassy released the details, and he was forced to turn himself in. He was also extradited to the U.S. and served a reduced prison sentence in exchange for the information he shared with DEA agents.
Aristide with drug kingpin Fourrel Celestin
Oriel Jean, Chief of Security for Aristide while he was president was arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking at Pearson airport in Toronto on March 12, 2004 debarking from a flight from the Dominican Republic. He waived his extradition proceedings and was sent to Miami. On March 19, 2004, he faced charges of conspiring to smuggle cocaine into the U.S. He pled guilty to money laundering and was sentenced on August 11, 2005 to a three-year prison term on November 18, 2005.
Yvon Feuille, a close ally of Aristide and President of the Senate during the time of Aristide's departure in 2004, was arrested on May 19, 2004 during an anti-drug operation in the Dominican Republic and placed under police surveillance in the coastal town of Les Cayes, south west of Port-au-Prince as part of a drug investigation case.
The former head of the Anti-Corruption Office (BLTS) under Aristide, Evens Brilliant, was deported on May 26, 2004 in Miami after being detained by the Multinational Interim Task Force for alleged involvement in cocaine trafficking to Colombia from Haiti via the United States. He was indicted on June 18, 2004, but was later acquitted on October 8, 2005.
Several members of the Haitian National Police were also implicated in drug smuggling cases. In fact, a former head of the Haitian police in exile in the U.S. testified that people he had arrested on drug charges in Haiti were actually being promoted within the Haitian police. During his term in office, Aristide politicized the police and put members of Lavalas in key positions to protect drug trafficking and either carry out political violence and kidnappings against its opponents – or look the other way.
Jean-Antony Nazaire was responsible for managing the President's automobile fleet, which was used to move drugs throughout the country. His US visa was revoked in January 2002 for his alleged involvement in drug trafficking and alleged human rights violations. He was arrested on March 12, 2004 in Port-au-Prince.
The former commander of the Haitian National Police Brigade, Rudy Therassan, was incarcerated on May 14, 2004 in Miami for cocaine trafficking and money laundering. He pled guilty on April 20, 2005, and was sentenced to a 15-year term on July 13, 2005.
Former Director General of the Haitian police and member of the Aristide security team, Jean Nesly Lucien, was arrested on May 26, 2004 in Miami. He was indicted for drug trafficking and pled guilty to money laundering on April 12, 2005. He received a five-year sentence on July 13, 2005 after agreeing to cooperate with the US authorities' investigation on other cases.
These cases scratch the surface of the extent of the Lavalas drug trafficking cases, but they illustrate their high level of involvement in trafficking. There were not a few isolated cases; rather, this was an institutionalized campaign. For further information on the drug trafficking-Lavalas link, see:
Kidnapping & Political Violence
More than 99% of the kidnapping cases under his reign through today involve Lavalas members. Prominent members linked to kidnapping include: Samba Boukman, Amaral Duclona, General Bibi, Mercius Fenel (alias Ti Wilson), Riccardo Pyram (alias Kiki), Wilkens Pierre (alias Chien Chaud) Herold Gerard, Jean Daniel Francois (alias Bibi), Dread E.T., Spander Joseph (alias Bouboule). All of these men are Aristide's operatives and members of Fanmi Lavalas. One of the most well known, Amaral Duclona, was arrested in the Dominican Republic a few years ago by French authorities for killing two French diplomats. He was the head of Operation Pakatan'n, a violent campaign to return Aristide to Haiti, and murdered dozens of Haitians opposed to Aristide.
From 1991, when Aristide took power, through 2004 when Aristide resigned, kidnapping was a small part of the Lavalas operation. Kidnapping victims were primarily political opponents, including opposition political party members, journalists and representatives of civil society who were critical of Aristide's regime. After 2004, kidnapping sharply increased and became a favorite tool to intimidate opponents and deteriorate the security situation in Haiti in order to force Aristide's return. Members of Lavalas broadened the kidnapping targets to include children, students, businessmen, Diaspora, teachers, and other innocent victims chosen solely for the purpose of terrorizing the public in a campaign of retribution for demanding Aristide leave in 2004. Many victims were murdered even after ransoms were paid.
We saw the same dynamic with political violence. The Aristide machine used violent tactics to kill their opponents pre-2004; people were "necklaced" with burning tires, killed with machine guns and hacked to death with machetes. The violence was targeted. After the 2004 ouster, the violence broadened and a wide scale intimidation campaign, known as Operation Baghdad I and II, was launched. More than 2,000 people were killed, including 109 police offers. Women were raped, priests were beaten and journalists attacked. The Operation got its name because the Aristide operatives beheaded their victims imitating Iraqi tactics. Obviously they have not considered how things turned out for the Iraqis.
Political observers have noted a direct correlation between increased Lavalas political activity and increased violence. Lavalas funds much of its political activity through money raised from kidnapping and drug trafficking; therefore, when there is an uptick in Lavalas demonstrations or political campaigns, there is a corresponding uptick in violence. For further information on this link and on political kidnappings and violence, see:
After Aristide's 2004 resignation, the Haitian General Accounting Office issued a report finding that he had embezzled almost $350 million during his nine years in office, see: http://www.haitipolicy.org/content/3284.htm They even found more than $300,000 in cash rotting under the front porch of his home. Where did he get that kind of money? How do his champions explain that away? He was framed?
Aristide made a lot of money trafficking drugs, but he and his network in the Groupe de Bourdon, a powerful business cartel that also supports current President Preval, also conspired to pilfer and raid state corporations. This cartel with the support of Aristide and now Preval control 95% of Haiti's economic activities, including banking, oil importation, telecommunications, customs, food, and insurance. They control the ministries of finances and commerce, the central bank, the tax office, customs and even part of the Haiti Interim Reconstruction Commission with their profiteering partners in the international community.
Specifically, Aristide sold profitable state owned companies for pennies on the dollar to foreign and domestic buyers. For example, the state cement factory was valued at about $500 million, but was sold for only $50 million. Aristide and his Lavalas cronies received huge cash kickbacks from the buyers for the "special pricing". This happened with several other state businesses that actually generated much needed revenue for Haiti. These companies were built with an investment by the Haitian taxpayers, but taxpayers were robbed of the revenue from the undervalued sale of the company and, more importantly, were robbed of the ongoing revenue of the companies, which was previously invested in education, road and healthcare. Instead of creating viable institutions by partly privatizing these institutions, Lavalas operatives were made rich, and they were able to secure new international allies through these sweetheart deals. This is hardly "championing the poor" of Haiti.
Teleco is another infamous example of raiding state companies. Teleco was the state telecom company controlling all phone traffic to and from Haiti, one of the most lucrative phone connections in the Caribbean. When Aristide was in Washington, DC from 1992 through 1994 during his first ouster, he raided the Teleco bank accounts in the U.S. to the tune of $80 million for "living expenses". President George H.W. Bush allowed Aristide access to these funds as the head of the Haitian state.
When President Clinton restored Aristide to power in 1994, Aristide broke up Teleco into five companies: Fusion, Uniplex Telecom Technologies, Mount Salem Communications Group, Global, Terra Communication Group/Wecom, and Digitec. Lavalas operatives were all given a stake in the companies. He then awarded deals to wireless companies, like COMCEL, Digicel and Voila, through no bid contracts, which included substantive kickbacks for he and his friends. The head of Digicel lamented in a public interview how much money he was making in poor countries like Haiti, and how he was struggling to reconcile that moral dilemma. He touched on some weak efforts to rebuild the markets in Haiti to "give back" to the community. These contracts were lucrative for everyone but the Haitian people. In 2009, using the governor of the central bank, Preval finished the job of raiding Teleco by selling it to friends for a fraction of its value in a no bid contract. For more on the raiding of state companies, see:
Aristide's International Network
It was widely known in the U.S. and internationally that Aristide was directly involved in drug trafficking and human rights abuses, but unlike his colleague Panamanian President Manuel Noriega, Aristide was never tried on any charges. Likewise, there has been no effort to pursue the money he stole from the Haitian state. Many analysts speculate that this may be because of the international ramifications of such a trial, particularly in the United States, and who might be exposed as co-conspirators. In fact, after the return of former dictator Jean Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, the UN announced that they would help the Haitian judicial system try Duvalier for his crimes carefully omitting any reference to Aristide even though he had been agitating about returning to Haiti. The Haitian people overwhelming called for a framework to try former strongmen and secure rule of law in the country rather than focusing on one case. Only after outrage in the Haitian community and in the Diaspora did the UN announce they would also work to try Aristide if he returned, see: http://solutionshaiti.blogspot.com/2011/02/united-nations-partisanship-in-haiti-by.html . Again, in a country that consistently ranks as one of the most corrupt in the world, what is needed is an overall framework to try corrupt leaders.
So why has Aristide been left alone? He has been especially adept at putting together a coalition of international support that faithfully comes to his defense. The network of Aristide supporters is two-pronged. One the one hand, there are the ideologists who are motivated by a righteous and distorted view of Aristide as a crusader against racial oppression and U.S. imperialism. On the other hand, there are the foreign profiteers motivated by preferential access to business deals or lucrative monthly lobbying retainers. Like a chameleon, Aristide blends into each group.
These two groups come together to argue that: 1. Aristide is a humble priest who threatened "business as usual" in Haiti by "championing the poor"; 2. his political party, Lavalas, is the "most popular" in Haiti and has been excluded from participating in the political process; and, 3. he was "kidnapped" by the U.S. Government in 2004 and sent into exile in South Africa against his will. Again, the facts support none of these conclusions and few facts are used to support these allegations.
Most of them do not really know who Aristide is. They were coopted and influenced by two or three corrupt ideologists that are making money with Aristide. Aristide leverages their idealism. This group buys into Aristide's arguments that he has been the victim of the international community and U.S. imperialism because they align with their particular ideology. The interesting piece here is that he cobbled together a mélange of ideologies to advance his cause: anti-imperialists, civil rights advocates, and religion, including liberation theologists, voodoo practitioners, and Catholics. In the end, he has betrayed and undermined all these ideologies in his quest for his one true belief: absolute power.
There are also ideologists who well know who Aristide is and are still helping. They believe that the U.S. is an imperialist force around the world. Robert Maguire is considered to be the intellectual father of the campaign of political violence that erupted after Aristide's departure. What was supposed to be an ideological armed rebellion modeled after the FMLN in Salvador and Sandinistas in Nicaragua morphed into an organized campaign through Operation Baghdad 1 and II. Maguire organized the Bois Caiman Conference at Trinity College modeled after the 1789 slave ceremony that led to Haiti's revolution. EPICA, an organization that provided political training to leftist insurgents in Latin America in the 1980s, cosponsored the event. During the conference, according to Haitian participants, it was made clear that violent revolt was the only solution. At the close of the conference, they drank wine symbolizing blood to seal the deal. When the participants returned to Haiti, they were supposed to setup an ideological arm insurgency for the return of Aristide, instead they setup a petty thug crime spree. Haitians were indignant that a foreign supporter of Aristide corrupted part of their proud history to promote thuggery. Ironically Robert Maguire is serving at the Peace Institute in Washington. Kim Ives a longtime Aristide aide and chief propagandist is also an Aristide ideologist.
Journalists such as Max Blumental and Walt Bogdanich, along with liberal think tank leaders such as Amy Goodman at Democracy Now, have worked to undermine Haiti's democratic opposition through a series of character assassination pieces. For them, Aristide is a persecuted champion of the poor, and the Haitian people are wrong. They too never address the preponderance of evidence against Aristide.
Aristide has also leveraged race to advance his cause. He has engaged high profile race advocates such as Randall and Hazel Robinson making them millionaires with Haitian tax payer's dollars. Additionally, for personal gain he has also tapped into reparation advocacy efforts to get France to repay with interest the money that Haiti paid to secure its freedom from slavery.
Aristide has also aligned with controversial figures such as Louis Farrakhan and Reverend Jeremiah Wright to advance an argument that race plays into international policy in Haiti. But Haiti's problems are the result of bad leadership and corruption rather than race. Race has been experienced very differently in the U.S. and Haiti. It is disappointing to hear those people characterize everything in terms of race. Haiti is 99% black and proud to be the world's first black republic; however, the independence was not just about race. Haiti's founding fathers saw beyond race to the universal values of freedom and equality. Haitians fought alongside Simon Bolivar in his quest to liberate Latin America. They fought alongside Americans in Savannah, Georgia during the Revolutionary War to secure freedom from the British. It was not about Latinos or Americans. For Haitians, it was about freedom and liberation. Haitians worry that people using race as a political tool could taint the collective memory of the Haitian independence movement.
Dr. Paul Farmer, the Deputy UN Special Envoy for Haiti and head of Partners in Health, has been vocal and high profile in his support for Aristide even signing on to the full page ad that appeared in the Miami Herald demanding Aristide's return, see:
For many Haitians, this blatant partisanship on behalf of one of the UN's most senior Haiti officials has been a hot button issue contributing to the overall decline in the UN's reputation in country. Dr. Farmer received more than $80 million in earthquake recovery money for his Partners in Health foundation and is getting most the USAID $55 million aids funds. He has advanced Aristide's arguments about being unfairly persecuted by the international community and certain sectors of the Haitian elite. Such high profile support from such a well-respected UN official has lent some undeserved credibility to Aristide's arguments
The bottom line is that Aristide has manipulated myriad ideologies to advance his cause, but has consistently proven that these ideologies are nothing more than tools in his political arsenal. Aristide's only real goal is securing absolute power and money.
Foreign Profiteers
On the other end, there are people in the international community that simply profit from Aristide being in power either through preferential treatment or kickbacks.
Aristide has made a number of Washington, DC lobbyists and political operatives millionaire with Haitian taxpayers money and telecommunications deals. Some of his top lobbyists include: Ron Daniel, Ira Kurzban, Burton Wides, Brian Concannon, and others. For their lucrative retainers, they turned a blind eye to Aristide's well-documented corruption, human rights violations, political killings, drug trafficking, kidnappings, and election rigging. During Aristide's reign from 1995 to 2004, these effective and well financed lobbyists tried to mute the voice of the Haitian people and criminalize reformers and democratic activists that stood up for their rights.
For a public account of how much money these operatives were making as Aristide lobbyists from a country where the average citizen makes $1 a day. These fees were only the tip of the iceberg. According to one of Haiti's former Prime Ministers, they made tens of millions more in other business deals under the table, see:
Aristide's Return
Some of these lobbyists seeking to reinstate their fat retainers and secure a piece of the lucrative reconstruction funds are trying to bring chaos again to Haiti for their boss, Jean Bertrand Aristide. Their objective is to undermine the elections, weaken institutions and create chaos in order to create conditions for Aristide's return to power. In this chaos – the reasoning goes – there will be no one to arrest Aristide upon his return or organize an investigation. The second goal is to get rid of all the paperwork within Haiti's central bank and Ministry of Finances that will implicate them when a new President takes over. They have lobbied the Congressional Black Caucus on Aristide direction making the argument that the CBC owes him for things that he did for them. Some Lavalas members have confirmed that the CBC will pressure Secretary Hilary Clinton and her chief of Staff Cheryl Mills to get Aristide back to Port-au-Prince before the election. At the UN, they are counting on Aristide's informal advisor Paul Farmer, who is Bill Clinton's deputy UN Special Envoy to Haiti, to remove any roadblocks that organization might raise.
While Aristide is putting pressure on the Clintons, members of his network are making arrangements for him to fly to Haiti this week. In Aristide's mind the elections must be aborted and retribution must be sought. Aristide tried the retribution policy through Operation Baghdad I and II, which were two bloody campaigns of political violence against his opponents resulting in the murder of more than 2,000 people, but failed.
On a parallel and separate track from his lobbying efforts (i.e. his lobbyists would be unaware of this initiative), Aristide has instructed Lavalas thugs to prepare a hit list with names of Haitian political leaders, union representatives and civil society activists. Names on that list include:
Historians Michel Hector and M. Michel Soukar
Union leaders Jean Lavaud Frédéric Jean-Claude Lebrun, André Lafontant Joseph, Charles Faustin, Fritz Charles, and Patrick Numa
Professor Anthony Barbier
President of the Haitian Chamber of Commerce (CCIH), Dr. Reginald Boulos
Human rights activists Jean-Claude Bajeux
Writer M. Jean-Claude Fignolé
Coordinator of Collectif de Cité Soleil, Charles Dunais
Secretary General of Nouvelle Haïti Foundation (FNH), Mrs Yanick Lahens
Director General of Radio Vision 2000, Léopold Berlanger
Engineer Pascale Oriol
Businessman M. André Apaid
Filmaker M. Raoul Peck
M. Gesner Armand
Sociologist and researcher M. Laënnec Hurbon
M. Claude Pierre
M. Luc Smarth
Mme Geneviève L. Esper
Representative of Village de Dieu
Mrs Florence Maître
Civil engineer Pierrot Exama
Peterson C. Orélus, the head of Civil Society Initiative (ISC)
Rony Desroches, the representative of the National Association of Haitian Doctors (AMH)
Georges Beauvoir, Engineer
Women activists Jessie Benoît and Mrs Evelyne Trouillot
Writer and poet M. Gary Victor
Charles Faustin
Professor Michel Hector
Writer and poet M. Lionel Trouillot
Professor Pierre Buteau
M. Pascale Oriol
Mrs. Paulette Poujol-Oriol
Mrs Florence Maître
Writer and poet M. Franck Etienne
Peterson C. Orélus, M. Michel Acacia, Charles Baker
Aristide has the right to go home. No Haitians should be living in exile, but hundreds are right now as a result of his brutality. Given his vast political and economic crimes, his return should be managed by a newly elected government in the interest of stability and democracy in a country that is facing tremendous challenges. Like Jean Claude Duvalier, Aristide will need to face justice for his political assassinations, see: http://www.haitipolicy.org/archives/Archives/Dec2000-Feb01/chery5.htm
and the $350 million he stole during nine years from Haitian coffers, according to Haiti's General Accounting Office, for more see: http://www.haitipolicy.org/content/3284.htm . In the name of democracy and stability, and in the interest of the Haitian people who have yet to begin to dig out from the earthquake a year later, these lobbyists should put aside their personal ambitions and ideological zealotry and let our country breath.
and the $350 million he stole during nine years from Haitian coffers, according to Haiti's General Accounting Office, for more see: http://www.haitipolicy.org/content/3284.htm . In the name of democracy and stability, and in the interest of the Haitian people who have yet to begin to dig out from the earthquake a year later, these lobbyists should put aside their personal ambitions and ideological zealotry and let our country breath.


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