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You, Yourself, Argh!
16th March 2012 Reading Time: 2 minutes 6 comments
What is it about government euphemistically named helplines that has me pulling out what is left of my hair?
I had reason to get in touch with a neighbouring local authority today to pay a £25 parking fine that our son had thoughtlessly picked up on Mrs P's behalf.
I started with the online payment service, but it refused to accept my 'crime' reference number and though I found and placed my mouse pointer over the red cross for further details, as instructed, this didn't work because their website doesn't like Firefox.
So I rang the aforementioned helpline and after various recorded messages and button pressing, an operator put me through to automatic payments by phone. Again the system refused to believe my reference number.
After going back through the same 'your call may be recorded for training purposes' rigmarole, I finally got through to someone who was able to explain the reason for the problem which was me entering TMO2056835 instead of TM02056835.
You can just about tell where my error lay, but who on earth failed to realise putting a zero after two capital letters just might lead people to confuse it with the letter O?
Embarrassing though this was, the real cause of my bureaucratic alopecia was the recorded message at the start of each call inviting me to take part in a customer satisfaction survey. It would only take two minutes of my time and all I had to do was press one and they would call me back.
I was about to agree when the voice told me that the call back would be 'at no cost to yourself'. This had me muttering into the mouthpiece: 'I'm the subject of that sentence, not the bloody object!'
This misuse of the reflexive pronoun drives me nuts and I blame the call centres. Someone who uses our recordings for training purposes has decided that using 'yourself' instead of 'you' makes their salesfolk sound softer and more empathetic when in truth they come across as sycophantic, untrustworthy and just plain wrong.
And itself is spreading like some linguistic virus. Ourselves need to find a vaccine and fast before it's too late. Oh no! Me, myself, I can feel my grey matter turning to mush!
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Like curly-haired Liverpudlians say, "Calm down! Calm down!"
Yourself seems to be losing yourself's marbles old chap and if you carry on like this, US immigration will send oneself straight back. Remember – anger is a self-destructive emotion – just take deep breaths and chant repeatedly:-
oṃ muni muni mahāmuniye svāhā
Roger Green 16th March 2012
Nah, you have the right to be ticked, I say.
Jennyta 17th March 2012
Drives one mad, does it not?
rhymeswithplague 17th March 2012
This is the first of two comments from moi, er, me, or rhymeswithplague:
Not to be pedantic or anything, but for all ninnies everywhere who don't understand what you're talking about, Ian, these paragraphs from Wikipedia should prove helpful:
A reflexive pronoun is a pronoun that is preceded by the noun, adjective, adverb or pronoun to which it refers (its antecedent) within the same clause. In generative grammar, a reflexive pronoun is an anaphor that must be bound by its antecedent (see binding). In some languages, there is a difference between reflexive and non-reflexive pronouns; but the exact conditions that determine whether or not something be bound are not yet well defined and depend on the language in question. It depends on the part of the sentence that the pronoun is in.
In English, the function of a reflexive pronoun is among the meanings of the words myself, yourself, thyself (archaic), himself (in some dialects, "hisself"), herself, itself, oneself, ourselves, ourself (as majestic plural), yourselves, and themselves (in some dialects, "theirselves"). In the statements "I see him" and "She sees you", the objects are not the same persons as the subjects, and regular pronouns are used. However, when the person being seen is the same as the person who is seeing, the reflexive pronoun is used: "I see myself" or "She sees herself".
In Indo-European languages, the reflexive pronoun has its origins in Proto-Indo-European. In some languages, the distinction between the normal objective and the reflexive pronouns exists mainly in the third person: whether one says "I like me" or "I like myself", there is no question that the object is the same person as the subject; but, in "They like them(selves)", there can be uncertainty about the identity of the object unless a distinction exists between the reflexive and the nonreflexive. In some languages, this distinction includes genitive forms: see, for instance, the Danish examples below. In languages with a distinct reflexive pronoun form, it is often gender-neutral.
A reflexive pronoun is a special kind of pronoun that is usually used when the object of a sentence is the same as the subject. Each personal pronoun (such as I, you, and she) has its own reflexive form:
I-myself
you (singular)-yourself
he-himself
she-herself
it-itself
we-ourselves
you (plural)-yourselves
they-themselves
Reflexive pronouns are primarily used in three situations: when the subject and object are the same (e.g., "He watched himself on TV."), as the object of a preposition when the subject and the object are the same (e.g., "That man is talking to himself."), and to emphasize the subject through an intensive pronoun (e.g., "They ate all the food themselves.")
[edit] Non-reflexive usage in English
It is increasingly common to use reflexive pronouns without local linguistic antecedents to refer to discourse participants or people already referenced in a discourse: for example, "Please, forward the information to myself." Such formulations are usually considered non-standard. Within the linguistics literature, reflexives with discourse antecedents are often referred to as logophors. Standard English does allow the use of logophors in some contexts: for example, "John was angry. Embarrassing pictures of himself were on display." However, within Standard English, this logophoric use of reflexives is generally limited to positions where the reflexive does not have a coargument.[1] The newer non-standard usage does not respect this limitation. In some cases, reflexives without local antecedents may be better analyzed as emphatic pronouns without any true reflexive sense.
It is common in some subsets of the English-speaking population to use standard objective pronouns to express reflexive relations, especially in the first and sometimes second persons, and especially for a recipient: for example, "I want to get me some supper." This usage is non-standard.
I hope that makes everything perfectly clear.
And this is the second:
The French have their own method.
Je me lave (I wash myself)
Tu te lave (you wash yourself)
Il se lave (he washes himself, she washes herself, it washes itself)
Nous nous lavons (we wash ourselves)
Vous vous lavez (you wash yourselves)
Ils se lavaient (they wash themselves)
Mr Parrot 17th March 2012
I couldn't have put it any better myself as you, Mr Plague, have done yourself. (A contrived way of saying thank you.)
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Klaus concludes testimony in Castor triple murder trial
Tyson Fedor Reporter - CTV Red Deer Bureau
Published Wednesday, November 22, 2017 6:20PM MST
Jason Klaus, seen in a 2007 photograph (supplied photo)
Jason Klaus took to the stand Wednesday morning to finish his testimony during what has been a lengthy murder trial.
He is co-accused of killing his mother, father and sister on their family farm in December, 2013.
Joshua Frank is the other man accused of three counts of first degree murder and one count of arson in the deaths of Monica, Gordon and Sandra Klaus.
Klaus testified his recollection of being involved in a criminal organization, an undercover police operation known as Mr. Big.
"These guys were actual gangsters," he said. "I thought it was exciting, the money was good and they were treating me really good."
Klaus told court that the organization was one that collected debt from people across the province, usually in the range of $10,000.
He recalled a time when undercover officers told him a story about a missing person case that had been "taken care of." Klaus felt he could move up in the organization by admitting his involvement in the murders of his family – a reveal that was recorded by the officers in the undercover sting.
Klaus said he left the organization after he thought they were police, but eventually returned when they told him otherwise.
The operation lasted for four months before he was arrested.
During his testimony, Klaus said he lied to the undercover officers about his involvement because he thought they could offer him protection if he said he was involved.
Klaus said in court he had nothing to do with the triple murder, and that it was all Frank's fault.
Frank's lawyer, Tonii Roulston, cross-examined Klaus after his testimony. The crown is expected to do the same this week.
Frank, who has been present during the trial, could be seen shaking his head at things Klaus said during his testimony.
Frank will also be put on the stand to testify, before being cross-examined.
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Alex Cigale's poems have appeared in Colorado, Green Mountains, North American, Tampa, Tar River Poetry and The Literary Reviews, and onine in Asymptote, Drunken Boat, and McSweeney's. His translations from the Russian can be found in Ancora Imparo, Cimarron Review, Literary Imagination, Modern Poetry in Translation, PEN America, Plume, Two Lines, The Manhattan, St. Petersburg, and Washington Square Reviews. He edited the online feature on Contemporary Writing from Russia and the Ukraine in Mad Hatters' Review 13 and the world literature in Qarrtsiluni's translation issue.
Dana Golin was born in Riga, Latvia. Her poems in Russian and translations into English have appeared in Novy Zhurnal, Big Bridge, Ice Floe (U. of Alaska) and EM-review. She has a graduate degree in Counseling Psychology and had worked in neuro-rehabilitation in New York City for the past 15 years.
The pouring rain rustles like gravel in skies.
The sugary dunes scatter and sift their sands.
squeezing my temple more than the white scarf.
Children, they are more shrewd than Mohicans.
the cups one can hear an unearthly river's hum.
The antediluvian sea shell mouths a sigh.
stops thrashing like a fish battering the ice.
She is again her husband's, as in olden times.
as sweet as berries, scooped out of their shells.
Suddenly one of my wet-nurses breaks her heel.
All the people around me are deaf and blind.
after another, nations descend into their graves.
will, in rapture, live to see the sun again.
along its spiral way, swirling the smoke.
The conductor hangs his head on his chest.
He has become a saint.
Дети — они коварнее могикан.
дуют, согласно ранжиру, в пустой стакан.
И в стакане слышится гул неземной реки.
История, как чужая жена, на ковре лежит.
Она больше не бьётся рыбой об лёд.
И, как прежде, мужу принадлежит.
они сладки как ягоды, без скорлупы.
Вдруг одна из кормилиц ломает каблук.
Люди вокруг меня — слепы.
когда сходит в гроб один и другой народ.
взбирается по спирали, мешая дым.
Кондуктор главу свою уронил на грудь.
Vadim Mesyats (b. 1964) studied physics at Tomsk State University. In 1993 he emigrated to the USA, and worked for Stevens College in New Jersey as a coordinator of the Russian/American cultural program. Original of the poem published here first appeared in Novii Mir. Guest in the Homeland (Talisman House, 1997) is his early Selected in English. He was short-listed for the Russian Booker Prize in 2002 and is the publisher of Russian Gulliver press.


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Bulgaria: Borissov's GERB-UDF declines mandate to form government
August 20, 2021 August 22, 2021 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2021
As it had telegraphed it would, Boiko Borissov's GERB-UDF coalition formally declined on August 20 a mandate to seek to get a government elected by the National Assembly.
At a brief ceremony, GERB-UDF's Prime Minister-designate Daniel Mitov handed back the mandate offered by President Roumen Radev.
Ahead of the ceremony, the coalition held a news conference to present the cabinet it would not seek to get elected. The line-up was largely the same as that of the Borissov government that left office in May.
GERB-UDF made a similar move after the April parliamentary elections, when, as now, it was clear that all other groups in Parliament would oppose any government it proposed.
As the second-largest group in Parliament, GERB-UDF was entitled, by rules set in the constitution, to receive the second mandate. Earlier, cable television presenter Slavi Trifonov's ITN party scuppered the first mandate.
Radev now has seven days to offer a third mandate. The constitution gives the President a choice regarding to which parliamentary group to offer that mandate.
If the third mandate does not result in Parliament electing a government, the President must dissolve Parliament and decree a date for parliamentary elections, which would be Bulgaria's third in 2021.
"Bulgaria is in a difficult political situation, it is clear that the parties that have presented themselves as an alternative have failed to agree on forming a government and at the same time are trying to play a strange role of opposition," Mitov said, in an apparent reference to ITN's claim that is in opposition.
Discussions among leaders in Parliament on a date for the autumn presidential elections are expected to continue next week, after producing no result this week. There is continuing speculation that if this National Assembly does not elect a government, presidential and early parliamentary elections would be held simultaneously.
Democratic Bulgaria coalition co-leader Hristo Ivanov said that "two in one" elections were not a good option because that had never been done before. He saw the third mandate as the last chance to form a government.
Hamid Hamid, an MP for the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, claimed it was "arithmetically" possible to form a government with the support of GERB and the MRF.
Tatyana Doncheva of the "Rise Up Bulgaria! We're Coming" coalition, asked if there was a chance of a third mandate succeeding, said that the coalition would try, with the other "parties of change" to achieve this.
ITN and GERB-UDF, which together hold 128 seats in Bulgaria's 240-seat National Assembly, both have said that they would oppose a government proposed at the third-mandate stage.
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PRHUB, the independent, full-service PR and communication firms, has announced three wins in the healthcare & biosciences space – Medall Diagnostics, India's 4th largest diagnostics chain serving 9 million customers, Transasia Bio-Medicals, India's leading in-vitro diagnostic company and Singapore-based Aum Biosciences, one of a kind oncology-focused biotech venture leading the innovation of affordable oncology therapeutics out of Asia. These wins and the subsequent strengthening of its healthcare practice marks PRHUB as among the few firms in India with deep expertise across education, healthcare, manufacturing, engineering, automotive, utilities, technology, consumer and internet verticals.
The mandates include brand consulting and social media marketing alongside media relations reinforcing its credentials as a new-age, integrated communication firm. The Singapore win also marks a first, opening a new market to expand. PRHUB has a successful record in handling clients across the healthcare spectrum - Motherhood, Sankara Eyecare, Nobel Biocare, Vascular Concepts, Dr. Batra's, Dr. Health, Ayurvaid, Stemade, Perfint, Star Clinics, Cellworks, Xcode, etc. in the past. It now services clients out of 7 cities in India besides Singapore beyond India.
"We have a growing network in Singapore where we are speaking to many emerging ventures who are evaluating us for new age communication solutions beyond traditional media relations," he further added.


This is what Vrushali Telang's website has to say about her: 'From reporting for CNBC-TV18 & NDTV, to producing shows for MTV India, from freelancing as a screenwriter on films, television and events to writing columns for Marie Claire India, to now writing novels- Vrushali Telang is on one helluva joyride!' We couldn't agree more! Read on as Vrushali answers a few questions we had for her.
1. You'll be talking with 3 crime writers (Piyush Jha, Shatrujeet Nath & Somnath Batabyal) at the Pune fest. Do you enjoy reading crime thrillers? Who is your favourite author in this genre?
I enjoy reading Mafia thrillers. But these three authors are phenomenal. I have enjoyed their work. Though he writes non-fiction, I enjoy reading S.Hussain Zaidi. I have read all his works. And when I am reading his book I keep telling myself this is non fiction.
2. Does comedy come easily to you? Or is being funny hard work?
3. It's only now that we see women creating comic work, in books, movie scripts, stand-up routines, music channels…. why do you think comedy has hitherto been a masculine domain? And what has changed now?
Opportunity, Timing and Perspective . Women have greater opportunity now than earlier… thanks to the advent of satellite TV. The timing is ripe for comedy because advertisers are interested in the genre be it a TV channel or a Stand-Up Comedy on stage. And perspective because women we are conditioned to be care-givers. Humor is never on the agenda. Its family, nurturing, careers of late… I have read interviews where women say "I'd like to have a man with a sense of humour". Men on the other hand want a woman who'd bring stability to their lives. Phew…I really feel sorry for my husband sometimes.
4. Your recent release has characters who are Parsi, and your book explored their endearing idiosyncrasies. If you were to write a humourous novel set in your own community (Maharashtrian, I believe?), what are the funny-yet-sweet things you would explore about it?
I'd explore what goes on in the mind of a traditional Pune shopkeeper who has no concept of customer care, who is often rude to his customers and yet runs a flourishing business. Customers flock to his store despite his lack of tact or courtesy.
5. Your first book, Can't Die For Size Zero, was funny, touching and relatable – and it got you lots of fans, especially among women who could relate to your heroine. Yet, unlike many others who stick to a winning formula, you chose a completely different setting for your second book. Was it a conscious choice to be innovative and break new ground with each novel?
6. Apart from the festival, any other Pune experiences you're looking forward to?
I have a foodie friend here. He has promised to take me to a restaurant called Nisarg for some great sea food!
7. If you were to meet the late, great Pu.La.Deshpande……..
A dream come true! I am a great fan of Pu La. He is my favorite humorist. He Loves Me Not has some characters that are inspired from Pu La's Vyakti Ani Valli.
If I were to meet I would simply shut –up and observe him while he wrote , composed and performed his stand-up act. Meeting the legend would be an honour.
Thanks for the time, Vrushali! We wish you luck for all your future projects.
You can follow Vrushali on Twitter, and listen to her talk about the storyline and setting of her book He Loves Me Not. Read about the launch of the same book here!


"21st Century. Design After Design".
The Unfamiliar is a collection of chairs we developed in the spirit of exploring new visual language of chairs using the industrial technique of pipe bending. As we try to find an identity of a simple chair in this modern global context, it became inevitable that we start to disturb the ideas of our origins, traditions, and forms.
The human's relationship with the chair has been established, almost universal. But in these chairs, the relationship becomes unfamiliar. With almost no symmetry and direction, the human is non-acquainted with the deconstructed forms and is uncertain about their apparent instability. Nonetheless, the simplicity of the lines, despite its abrupt discontinuity, carefully marks out the proportions and structure of the chairs.
Inspired by the deconstructivist attitude, albeit with pared down aesthetics, the Unfamiliar are strange artefacts constructed with structural logic in mind, where traditional functions are employed with subverted forms and displaced lines.


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The Best of SXSWi 2016: Top Ten Things We Experienced in Austin
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Five days, hundreds of sessions, dozens of unique brand activations and a lot of delicious TexMex and BBQ – this year's SXSWi has wrapped but we're still reeling from all the great things we experienced on the ground in Austin.
If you weren't on the ground (or couldn't get to everything while you were there), here's our rundown on the best SXSWi had to offer attendees this year.
"Most Inspiring Reason to Create and Innovate" – President Obama's Keynote Address: "The reason I'm here is to recruit all of you," President Obama remarked. He called on SXSW attendees to collaborate on solutions for the country's biggest problems addressing everything from updating obsolete federal networks to the debate over security versus privacy most recently ignited by the disputes between Apple and the FBI. If you were a lucky SXSW attendee to score a ticket to his address, you probably left Austin wondering how we can move innovation forward to improve our country for the better.
"Best Brand Experience" – IBM Cognitive Experience: A mix of educational, aspirational, innovation and fun content, IBM created an engaging experience (in partnership with George P. Johnson, a Project WorldWide agen cy) centered around IBM's Watson. Upon entering the space, attendees were prompted to input details about th
eir mood and taste preferences, then given a wrist band and sent on their way to experience different stations tied to IBM's latest innovations and partnerships, including The Weather Company's latest innovations and Under Armour's new offering in IoT. SXSW attendees could even play 'Rock, Paper, Scissors' against an IBM robot who got smarter with every move. Or if you wanted to burn a few BBQ calories, you could try some virtual reality cycling. At the end of the experience, attendees were invited to enjoy a "cognitive drink" based on the data in your wristband. Robot bartenders are now a thing – this is the future!
"Best Place to Run into a Trekkie" – The Eyes of Robots and Murders Session: Legendary director/producer/screenwriter J.J. Abrams and his friend Andrew Jarecki, the writer/director of HBO's "The Jinx" spoke about how technology has changed filmmaking for the better and how it has democratized the creative process. Abrams was also quick to point out that technology should be invisible so that the consumer can have an experience that's as effortless as possible. Ending with a bit of inspiration, Abrams and Jalecki asked that attendees leverage their talents and today's technology to create: "There's no excuse to not tell the story we want to tell."
"Best Off the Track Event" – Brand Innovators Austin Summit: Brand Innovators brought a great mix of speakers and content to SXSW attendees. From Mark Cuban speaking about the future of sports and sharing his candid feelings about the U.S. elections, to leading marketers from Mondelez, Walmart, Coca-Cola, Visa and much more – the venue was packed as any room in the convention center. A particular favorite panel was one featuring Deep Focus CEO Ian Schafer moderating a panel with recording artist Kevin Jonas, actor Adrian Grenier, Johnson & Johnson's Amy Pascal, and social media stars Monica Church and Shonduras. The lively discussion centered on how brands can best leverage celebrities to promote their brands on social media while still maintaining authenticity with millennials and other consumers.
"Best Place to Find a New Gig" – MEC Job Fair: Our client MEC took a new approach to attracting talent at this year's SXSW. The media agency transported its New York office culture to the event through three virtual reality films which gave prospective talent an immersive glimpse into what it's like to work there. Using Google Cardboard, the first film focused on the agency's digital teams, highlighting social media operations and some creative work they've made. Another showed off the agency's culture, and the third film highlighted the agency's creative moments.
"Coolest Executive" – a tie between Soulcycle Cofounders Elizabeth Cutler and Julie Rice, and Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank. Soulcycle's cofounders just oozed cool, but they definitely had a lot to offer to SXSW attendees. With Fast Company moderating their fireside chat, they addressed the characteristics that make up their brand DNA and how they were able to innovate in the fitness space – (surprise!) it wasn't with technology but by creating a community for their consumers. Our friends at Fast Company also interviewed Under Armour's CEO, where he provided one of festival's best soundbites: "Data is the new oil. The companies that do well are the companies that use math."
"Best Celebrity Panel" – New Rules of Social Stardom Session: Kerry Washington and InStyle Magazine hosted a discussion on the ever-evolving role that social media plays in the life of celebrities. Though she's more of a private person, Washington talked about how she interacts with social herself versus when she taps a communications team, the types of content she likes to share (mainly fashion shots and causes she's passionate about) and the value that lies in NOT reading the comment section: "It's a tricky balance. For the most part, I stay away from comments, but Twitter is a conversation, so I do occasionally engage…but I've realized that comments are not about me. When someone comments, they are revealing something about themselves."
"Best App Launch at Southby" – Kodak Moments: To launch its new visual storytelling app, Kodak Moments, Kodak Alaris (in partnership with Junior, a Project: WorldWide agency) created an activation that immersed attendees in their own memories – practically seeing, smelling and even hearing them – in a chamber it called the "Memory Observatory." How did it work? Upon entering the chambers, participants saw whatever memory-specific image they chose to share projected on a grand scale within the activation, and the colors, smells and sounds corresponded to the emotion in something the brand called an "experience guide." Robbie Whiting, co-founder of Junior, spoke with Adweek about why SXSW was the best place to launch the app: "SXSW is chaotic. We wanted to create a respite from the noise, a place for meaningful moments from the process of remembering a moment to the articulation of what makes that moment special to the communal experience of all our deconstructed memories, our own Kodak Moments."
"Best Place to Go If You're Craving San Fran Vibes" – Mashable House: From a Pied Piper Bar (shout out to fans of HBO's "Silicon Valley") and fun meme-inspired temporary tattoos to mingling with CEO Pete Cashmore. Upon entering this space, you were transported to the Bay City. Mashable had several parties and events at the space as well which put a spotlight on different brands and influencers – definitely making this a go-to place during the days and nights during Southby.
"Best Party at SXSWi" – GSD&M: Touted as one of SXSW's must-attend events each year, we were lucky enough to get an invite and so glad we did. From unique art and live music to delicious food trucks and specialty cocktails – our last night in Austin was well spent on our GSD&M client's compound.
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I Hope You Have The Timeline Of Your Life
Posted by Amelia Vereb
Wednesday was another big day for Facebook. In addition to hosting its first ever Marketing Conference, which viewers could watch via live stream on the Facebook site, Facebook also launched its Timeline pages for brands. New features include an updated layout with a cover photo, the ability to edit content without having to open separate pages, and opportunities to add content that spans the course of the brand's lifetime to date.
But how will consumers respond to this new brand page format?
Before Facebook launched brand Timeline pages, it launched personal Timeline profiles. Similar to the brand Timeline pages, users can upload cover photos, edit content in one place and add information to past years to create a more robust illustration of the entirety of their lives to date. Some people have jumped at the opportunity to update their profiles, while others have found the format to be confusing, overwhelming and miscommunicated.
"I'm not really using it," says DGC's Kendra Peavy. "Every now and then I take a peek, but I think more time needs to pass."
DGC's Erin Donahue feels similarly: "I still have no idea what Facebook Timeline really is. I don't think it was communicated to users properly. Now one person's page looks different from the next. I like that Facebook is evolving to meet the needs of consumers, but I wish it was easier to comprehend, and I wish there was some sort of guide for how Timeline works."
Facebook's mission is "to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected." From the beginning, it has achieved this through constant growth, innovation and adaptability. In the grand scheme of things, Timeline is just one of many changes experienced by the Facebook community over the past eight years. So will people get used to these changes as they have in the past? Share your thoughts on Facebook Timeline for brands and people in the comments section below.
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Taking Your Facebook Relationships To The Next Level
David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin may have showed the world that Facebook was created to help college students hook-up, but since then, "The Social Network" has evolved into a vehicle for interaction among its members, job recruiters, entertainment artists, academic institutions and even consumer brands.
Despite these open lines of communication, not all brands know how to effectively engage with their online audiences. Take Chapstick, for example, which late last year got itself into a "social media death spiral" after posting a weird image on Facebook and quietly removing negative comments left by viewers on its Facebook Wall. A bit passive/aggressive if you ask us.
With this in mind, the DGC team has compiled the following tips to help you and your brand avoid social media suicide:
Don't forget what you stand for. Posts on your Facebook page should be consistent with your marketing, advertising, news, etc. Make sure your Facebook strategy sets you up to achieve the same goals that you aimed to accomplish from day-one.
No time like the present. Facebook continues to evolve and offer new ways for users to represent themselves online. Make sure you're using the latest tools so you put forth a page that is relevant and creative.
The power of Facebook compels you. Provide useful and interesting information for fans to react to and share. If you need an example, The New York Public Library's Facebook page is the bee's knees.
READ. Your fans are constantly interacting with you on Facebook, so take a look at what they have to say. The easiest way to build brand loyalty is to let them know that you are listening.
Keep it coming. Fans are more likely to stick with a brand's Facebook page when the brand stays engaged—even if it's just one post a day—so push out content on a regular basis and watch your network grow.
Do you have other tips for maintaining an active Facebook brand page? Share them in the comments section below!
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On January 15, 2019 By Princess GeekIn Kingdom Hearts, Video Game Reviews, Video Games
Hey everyone! I managed to beat Kingdom Hearts II a few weeks ago, and I've got to say; that was a very good game! I really enjoyed it, and I got to collect some special memories with it too! Ok, obviously this post is going to contain some pretty major spoilers, so if you have not beat this game, read at your own risk!…
First of all, the first two hours of this game is the best part! Everything was so odd, but that's just how I like it! Roxas has definitely become a favorite of mine! The story begins with Roxas living in Twilight Town and he hangs out with his friends everyday. They're on summer vacation, so they spend a lot of time together. Long story short, it turns out "summer vacation" is actually symbolizing Roxas' existence. So what happens when summer vacation ends? Well…
If you played Chain of Memories – (I actually played the beginning of this, then switched to watching the cutscenes. I don't like playing games that aren't fun to play) – you know that Sora was put to sleep at the end so Namine could fix his memories. Here's where things got REALLY complicated. While Sora is sleeping, Roxas is off living in Twilight Town thinking he's a normal person. Well, he's not. Roxas is actually Sora's Nobody. What does that mean? Do you remember when Sora lost his heart for Kairi and became a heartless back in the first game? When he did that, Roxas came to be. Whenever someone loses their heart, a Nobody is born. They are just an empty shell of that person. Some are mindless, but there are some who came from people with stronger hearts who have minds and are aware of what they are – sometimes…
So Roxas became of aware of himself, and went back to Sora. However, Roxas' story will be for another time. Anyway, Sora wakes up after Roxas is gone, and he reunites with Donald and Goofy. Like the first game, he travels to many worlds to lock the keyholes, all while looking for Riku and King Mickey. Meanwhile, Kairi is on Destiney Islands with apparently no memory of Sora, but she feels like he's familiar. She writes a letter and puts it in a bottle before sending it off in the ocean. I'll get back to that in a minute.
In the game, we are met again by Organization IIIX. Sora battles a lot of them throughout the game. So much stuff happens and there's so many details that I'm just going to have to point out the major plot points, so here it goes. Near the end, we find Riku has been using those nifty dark powers of his and his appearance has changed to look like Ansem, but he's still good old Riku. He and Kairi, who had been captured by the Nobody, Axel, but escaped with help from Namine, who is actually her Nobody…ok, this is getting confusing! As I was saying, Riku, Kairi, Mickey, Donald, and Goofy go with Sora to help him beat Xemnas, the leader of the Organization. Well, they get separated, of course, and Riku and Sora are left to battle him. Luckily, Riku is back to normal by this point. They battle, Xemnas is defeated (and so were my fingers), and they find themselves trapped in the realm of darkness.
The end of this game has got to be one of the greatest. Here, they sit on the beach in the realm of darkness, and that's when they find a note in a bottle. It's the note Kairi wrote. After reading it, and a heartfelt conversation between Riku and Sora, the door of light appears and they are able to go home to Destiny Islands where everyone is waiting. Oh, what a reunion it was! Sora's "W-…we're back!" Gets me every. Single. Time. And of course, the moment that Sora and Kairi appear as Roxas and Namine for a few seconds. Oh, the feels!
So, all's well that ends well…until later, of course. But that's a discussion for another time. Like I said, I really enjoyed this game and the battles were really cool, my favorite being Roxas vs. Sora in The World That Never Was. It was hard, but a little grinding and a strategy change did the trick. But ugh! That Xemnas battle! If you played it, you know what I meant when I said my fingers were defeated…
I don't think I've ever encountered a plot so confusing, and as I go further in, it just gets worse and worse. Believe me, I've had a headache for days. It's like cramming the night before an exam or something. A review for Birth by Sleep will be coming soon (it literally only took me five days to beat that game, I was shocked). After all the years of waiting, Kingdom Hearts III will be here in just, JUST thirteen more days! Get it? Thirteen? Ok, I'll stop now. What did you think about Kingdom Hearts II? What was your favorite part? Let me know in the comments, as well as what you want to see happen in Kingdom Hearts III!
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Many youngsters get this experience thanks to the Summer Camp Fund, which sends underprivileged children to camp each summer.
The Summer Camp Fund is an effort by the nonprofit POST (Partners in Out-of-School-Time) and The Charlotte Observer. Readers are asked to make monetary donations so young people can attend camps in a safe, supervised atmosphere.
This year the fund will provide 173 scholarships to 13 camps. Sixty-eight percent of funding will go to camps in Mecklenburg County, and 32 percent to camps in other parts of the state.
"We're so grateful for the scholarship help that the Summer Camp Fund and others have provided because it really does two important things. It provides a great experience for the kids who are participants and provides a great diversity in our camp community which benefits all the children," Barrus said.
One particular scholarship recipient stands out in Barrus' mind.
Ahkeem, now 17, first arrived at Camp Celo several years ago. He slept in a tent, interacted with nature and went on backpacking trips through the mountains. The activities had a strong impact on him.
The camp only serves children through age 12, but Ahkeem returned at age 15 when he was old enough to be a volunteer. This will be his third summer as a junior counselor.
"The camp has helped Ahkeem to be a conscientious and positive leader," Barrus said. "He's really become a mentor to other children."
According to Barrus, there are many long-standing relationships with campers at Camp Celo.
Once a scholarship child has been identified, the camp will invite them back year after year if the need still exists.
Camp Celo also is one of the few camps that emphasizes longer sessions. It offers a one-week and a two-week session for younger kids, but encourages campers to attend one of the multiple three-week sessions.
"We feel like three weeks is a great opportunity for kids to really develop independence and become comfortable in this environment," Barrus said.


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What caused the clergy sex abuse crisis? Catholic universities are pushing for debate on the answer.
Then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick speaks during a memorial service in South Bend, Ind, in March 2015. (Robert Franklin/AP) (Robert Franklin/South Bend Tribune/Pool/AP)
Michelle Boorstein
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March 27, 2019 at 12:38 PM EDT
The Catholic clergy sex abuse crisis is caused by a too-fawning deference to clerics called "clericalism." Or a failure to guard against the sleazy culture outside the church. Or a moral relativism that denies one "truth." Or gay priests. Or a warped bureaucratic structure that's kind of like the Mafia.
U.S. Catholics know they are in the thick of a clergy sexual abuse crisis, but that's where agreement ends. When the abuse topic exploded in the church in the early 2000s, everyone knew the focus was stopping the shuffling around and coverup of priests abusing children.
In 2019, there's a void. With that lack of consensus, many parish priests are saying little about the crisis.
Some Catholic universities are plunging into that space with new abuse-related academic credentialing programs, million-dollar research grants and conferences — all related to exploring the reasons for clergy abuse. Among the conferences was one this week at Catholic University, which is run by U.S. bishops, about the "root causes" of the crisis. It featured something Catholics don't see often: experts with totally different points of view on the topic sharing a stage at a prominent Catholic institution.
Georgetown University has had four public dialogues — organized by an abuse survivor — on the crisis, with names such as "Confronting a Moral Catastrophe." The University of Notre Dame in Indiana will offer up to $1 million for research related to abuse. Santa Clara University in California is asking about perspectives on abuse of Latino Catholics and Catholics from other countries. Ave Maria University in Florida is publishing a book of papers on spiritual responses to the crisis and giving copies to bishops. Fordham University also held an event this week with longtime researchers on abuse data and a priest who is part of Pope Francis's child protection commission.
"This is unlike in 2002, when it was clear what the crisis was. It was clear what needed to be done," said Susan Timoney, an associate dean at Catholic University who gave the introduction for Healing the Breach of Trust, the day-long conference held on Tuesday. This crisis, which began in the summer, "brought more complex issues related to cultures inside the church. A crisis of clericalism, lack of transparency, misuse of power, rumor, innuendo. These are questions that raise issues that don't have such clear-cut fixes."
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The event brought experts with different perspectives to panels looking at the roles of power, organizational behavior, sexuality and media narratives.
Pope Francis has singled out clericalism as a key cause of the crisis, saying there is a toxic and un-Christian culture of ministerial superiority in Catholicism that allowed and allows clerics to be unaccountable. Francis's critics, on the other hand, bemoan what they see as him doing: things that shrink the status of the papacy, and with it the idea that the church represents God and what's right and true in a world becoming ever more subjective.
Richard Gaillardetz, chairman of the Boston College theology department and former president of the Catholic Theological Society of America, argued that the early church saw bishops who were picked in consultation with local parishioners and who were committed to their geographic area, rather than moving around, as bishops often do now — usually to more prestigious gigs as they go. Gaillardetz cited a pact made in the 1960s, near the end of the Second Vatican Council, a major meeting that liberalized parts of the Catholic Church. Dozens of bishops signed the deal, in which they pledged to live simply in all areas, such as housing, food, transport, and not to use titles that emphasize power, such as those still used for bishops and cardinals, including "Your Eminence."
As Tuesday's conference was unfolding, Catholics around the world were hotly debating a video that showed Francis pulling his hand away slightly as a long line of visitors bowed to kiss his papal ring. Critics said Francis was insulting people who weren't trying to kiss him, but rather the office of their church's head. Catholicism teaches that the pope is the successor to Peter, a leader of Jesus' Apostles.
"Francis wants us to think of bishops as pastors, not as a quasi-monarchical figure," Gaillardetz told The Washington Post at the meeting. "To the extent you think of yourself not in service to people but as a member of a special club, you are immune from criticism. All of that is a recipe for abuse because it makes membership in the club the most important thing. ... [Bishops] think, 'I deserve to be cut some slack.' "
Catholic University theologian Chad Pecknold said the crisis among priests was rooted in liberalizing sexual, gender and theological norms, playing out in what he called a "fatherhood crisis" and "father wounds" that led to abuse. He said the Church must not veer from offering one clear truth — particularly on issues of sex, gender and family — and that it stumbles, and becomes corrupt, when it instead tries to be more like a democracy with different answer for different constituencies.
"The priest or bishop who knows best how to handle a situation to bring about the greatest good for the greatest number is not a father; he is a bureaucrat," he said. "This is clericalism, too."
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John Garvey, Catholic University's president, said he has raised nearly $400,000 in recent months to start an effort called the Catholic Project, which aims to tackle the abuse issue in different ways.
In addition to conferences like the one Tuesday, the school has started running management programs for bishops (on topics including crisis management) and this fall will begin an interdisciplinary training for people who work in child protection. The training will include facets of social work, civil law and church law.
"This is a Vatican II-like project," Garvey told The Post on Tuesday. "A big part of this is helping ourselves and others understand what's going on, to help people have a conversation."
The University of Notre Dame will feature two campus-wide events on the topic. The effort, according to a March 4 letter by the university president, the Rev. John Jenkins, will focus not just on abuse but "also on the broader questions the current crisis raises, such as structures of accountability, clericalism, the role of women, creating and sustaining ethical cultures and the continued accompaniment of survivors."
In the letter, Jenkins also announced the school will provide up to $1 million in the coming three years to fund research projects "that address issues emerging from the crisis." Details of how to apply haven't yet been announced.
Santa Clara University, a Jesuit school near San Jose, hosted a panel about how the abuse issue looks from the West Coast, said Julie Rubio, a theologian who spoke at Catholic University's conference. It included significant voices from Latino congregations and the large, diverse populations of immigrants in the area.
On the panel were two women from Uganda and India. "To them, the issue of clergy abuse is about women and girls," Rubio said.
A commission of the Catholic Theological Society of America is considering what theological debates are most central, said Rubio, who is on that board. At the conference, some speakers and attendees said the world in recent centuries has changed regarding many issues that touch the crisis but interpretations of Catholic theology have not.
Rubio was on a panel at the conference about the role of human sexuality and sexual teaching. The two presenters couldn't have offered more different perspectives.
The Rev. Paul Sullins, a Catholic University sociologist, presented his analysis of existing data to argue that the disproportionately high percentage of gay priests cannot be ignored as a root of the crisis.
Rubio said the crisis can't be separated from the bigger societal picture. Sexual violence is overwhelmingly male and is about power, she said. Rubio teaches ethics to students who are seminarians mixed in with those who are not. She is part of a movement in the church that says the crisis is caused in part by a lack of frank talk about sexuality to people studying to become priests, including celibacy as a legitimate form of expression and living involving people who seek intimacy and sometimes slip up in their promises of fidelity.
"I'm not sure we can separate sex from power," she told the audience. "This abuse of power was sexual: power exacted through sexual acts."
An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported that panelists at a Santa Clara University event, from Uganda and India, were part of a school working group. This post has been updated.


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An average temperature at a certain depth that is significantly lower than the average temperatures at other depths potentially indicates a concrete deficiency or defect. If records at certain depth shows regions with cooler temperatures (when compared to the average temperature at that depth), a local concrete deficiency or local defect may be present.
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It's not every day that you see a new attachment system that could possibly replace the traditional MOLLE and that's why the new HEXGRID attachment system from 5.11 Tactical caught my eye at SHOT Show 2018! As the name suggests, HEXGRID is a load bearing system that works on the same principle as traditional MOLLE but instead has laser-cut hexagonal holes/attachment points in a grid pattern which resembles honeycomb. With the HEXGRID attachment system, you can configure pouches etc in 6 different configurations, whereas the traditional MOLLE system will only allow users to mount pouches vertically. What's really cool is that you could even go as far as mounting your pouches upside down, which would then give you 12 possible configurations. This new system gives users the ability to configure their bags and plate carriers in a whole new host of ways that we aren't currently able too.


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Eric Holder Wants to Lower the Bar for Civil Rights Prosecutions. That's Trickier Than It Sounds.
By Cristian Farias
As his successor's confirmation nears, Attorney General Eric Holder has been on a farewell tour—giving exit interviews, penning editorials, and preparing for his last day at the Department of Justice, which is unveiling a commemorative portrait of him on Friday. In one interview, Politico's Mike Allen pressed him about the ongoing Ferguson investigation. Holder dodged, but did say he wants to give "serious consideration" to adjusting the legal bar for investigating cases of police brutality—specifically, the level of intent required to prosecute civil-rights crimes.
"I think that if we adjust those standards, we can make the federal government a better backstop—make us more a part of the process in an appropriate way to reassure the American people that decisions are made by people who are really disinterested," Holder said. "I think that if we make those adjustments, we will have that capacity."
Holder didn't specify the nature of the adjustments, but there's a lot to unpack in that statement. The "better backstop" is a reference to the seeming failure of DOJ to prosecute notable incidents of police violence against minorities, particularly cases where state prosecutions have been called into question. On Tuesday, the department announced it found "insufficient evidence" to federally prosecute George Zimmerman, the Florida man acquitted in state court for the killing of Trayvon Martin. And with an announcement on Ferguson looming—Holder told Politico he plans to make it before he leaves office—there's no guarantee DOJ will be prosecuting officer Darren Wilson, either.
So how can DOJ be better at these cases? The only way is with a legislative fix, and that's where Holder is bound to run into issues. For one, it's no secret that Congress is not fond of him. As of October, he and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee were still engaged in a court battle over the non-disclosure of documents in connection with DOJ's handling of the Operation Fast and Furious. That case stemmed from a separate standoff where Congress voted to hold Holder in contempt—the first time the measure was deployed against a sitting Cabinet member.
But even if Congress ignored this political baggage, Holder would still have to convince lawmakers that lowering the bar for civil-rights offenses is a good idea. And here the arguments turn on both policy and politics. The policy argument is constitutional: Every defendant has a right to due process under the law—even those accused of the most heinous, racially motivated killings. Currently, federal civil-rights laws require those defendants to act "willfully" before they can be found guilty. It's an extremely high bar that yields mixed results: It was famously met when a federal grand jury indicted four officers for the 1991 beating of Rodney King; the case even made a trip to the Supreme Court. But it has proven ineffective in more recent incidents, including the Zimmerman case.
Here lawmakers would face a tough choice. A high bar for civil-rights prosecutions ensures that only the most egregious cases of official misconduct and civilian intolerance receive federal scrutiny. The government punishes truly racist forms of violence—as well as offenses predicated on a bias against the victim's religion, disability, or sexual orientation. Lowering the bar would not only break with that tradition, but changing the "willful" requirement to include, say, merely "knowing" or "reckless" behavior runs the risk of sweeping too broadly. It could open up more mundane forms of assault to federal prosecution—cases that may appear racially motivated, but that in reality turned out to be someone doing something stupid or acting in self-defense. A drunken brawl that leads to death could be viewed as reckless. If you throw race in the mix, does the killing automatically become racially motivated?
To be sure, all physical violence should be proscribed, but some kinds, like the drunken brawl, are best reserved for state and local authorities to investigate. As it is, the federal government already has far too many laws on the books at its disposal with lax or no intent requirement, and federal prosecutions can be overzealous. Just this week, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan complained of "overcriminalization and excessive punishment" in federal law.
Holder's quote raises a sensitive political issue, too. At present, DOJ relies on separate statutes to investigate civil-rights crimes—one that covers private persons (the Martin-Zimmerman case), and one that covers public servants (Michael Brown-Darren Wilson). Will Holder propose to lower the bar for all these laws across the board, or only for one group and not the other? Law enforcement's staunchest supporters would oppose legislation making it easier for violent police officers to go to prison, and law enforcement's staunchest critics wouldn't accept lower the bar for private citizens only. If the Ferguson aftermath has taught us anything, it's that Americans are divided on whether cops deserve the benefit of the doubt or should be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.
Whatever Holder decides, he's confident he's done his part. "I don't think anybody would be able to look at this Justice Department over the last six years," he told Politico, "and say that we've been anything other than aggressive in trying to root out inappropriate police conduct while, at the same time, trying to establish—or reestablish—bonds of trust between communities of color and people in law enforcement."
Cristian Farias is a writer-in-residence at the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund's Thurgood Marshall Institute.
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Major Poll Shows Liz Cheney Going Down
We've been saying for months now that Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) is not likely to retain her seat when facing Harriet Hageman, a primary challenger backed by former President Donald Trump. What polls there have been indicate as much, as does CNN's Harry Enten. On Friday, what looks to be the most comprehensive poll yet was released, and it shows Cheney going down.
The poll comes from the Casper-Star Tribune and was conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy. Hageman has 52 percent support, while Rep. Cheney has 30 percent. No other candidate has more than 5 percent. Just 11 percent are undecided.
There were 1,100 Wyoming voters surveyed who are likely to participate in next month's primary, and a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percent. It took place July 7-July 11, which a write-up from the Casper-Star Tribune noted was right after early voting began.
Brad Coker, the Mason-Dixon managing director, is quoted as saying, "The big story is Liz Cheney is going to get beat. That's a foregone conclusion." Again, we've been saying that for months.
The poll also showed that 27 percent approved of Cheney's job performance, while 66 percent disapproved and 7 percent were unsure.
Respondents were also asked other questions about Cheney's role as a congresswoman and how that affected her doing her job or if that made them more likely to vote for her.
For instance, 64 percent disapprove of "Liz Cheney's decision to serve on the Jan. 6 committee," and 54 percent said it made them less likely to vote for her. When asked if "Liz Cheney's opposition to Trump affected her ability to deal with the important Wyoming issues," 61 percent said it did.
The write-up from Victoria Eavis also includes comments from Wyoming voters who were polled:
Cheney critics complain that she rarely visits, with many of them calling her a "RINO" (Republican in name only) as they air their grievances. Voters also called her a "carpetbagger," an insult she's been hit with since she moved to the state in 2012, a year before her unsuccessful bid for U.S. Senate.
"Liz Cheney betrayed President Trump," said Mark Hladik, who's lived in Wyoming for 42 years. "Ninety-nine point nine percent pure RINO."
Hladik is a Trump backer, but said the former president's endorsement of Hageman didn't influence his choice.
Travis Van Hecke, a Casper City Council candidate, thinks "it's time for someone different," adding that he would've voted for almost anyone who ran against Cheney.
"This race is more about Liz Cheney than it is about Donald Trump," Coker said. "Anybody who's credible, who ran to the right of Liz Cheney would probably win this race — with or without Donald Trump."
Many of those interviewed, including Hladik and Van Hecke, voted for the congresswoman in the past, including as recently as 2020. But that past support no longer matters.
"Once a politician gets to a certain point, there's a point of no return," Coker said.
There's also mention of Democrats crossing over to switch their party identification in order to support Cheney in the GOP primary:
This time around, it's not just Republicans who are participating in the GOP primary. Many Democrats and independents plan to take advantage of Wyoming's same-day voter registration and party-affiliation changes to vote for Cheney.
According to figures from the Wyoming Secretary of State, the number of registered Democrats and independents in Wyoming has dropped considerably more from January through July of this year than in previous midterm elections.
Cheney has a 53% job approval rating with Democrats who planned to vote in the Republican primary, the poll shows. Her approval rating among independents who plan to vote Republican in August is 29%.
Many crossover voters who intend to support Cheney cite her resolve in fighting back against Trump's attempts to undermine the results of the 2020 presidential election.
It's worth emphasizing, as Eavis fails to do, that Wyoming is a heavily Republican state. Cheney is clearly relying on such a tactic, though. Matt last month pointed out how Cheney's move of sending mailers to Democrats and independents in the state explaining to them how to change their voter registration "reeks of desperation."
Data from the Wyoming Secretary of State for March showed about 70 percent of registered voters are Republicans.
In his write-up about how Cheney is doomed to fail, Enten pointed out that because the number of Democrats is so few, Cheney can't exactly depend on them to survive her primary. Geoffrey Skelley made the same point last month for FiveThirtyEight.
Prior to releasing their own poll, the Casper Star-Tribune had taken issue with other polls showing similar results, with Eavis last month claiming it was too early. It's worth pointing out that those polls did have smaller sample sizes, though nevertheless showed Hageman ahead of Cheney by similarly large margins.
The primary is August 16, four weeks from this upcoming Tuesday.
Tony Urbizu says:
She always look like a beat up puppy. She is RINO, and she hates Trump. She should admit that is more a democrat than a republican and has no allegiance to the party. I hope she goes away, cross over to the other party, and reveal what she believes. This woman needs to move on to the democrats. Go away Liz!
Another traitor bits the dust but I fear Obama/Soros will save the day by millions of $ and illegals voting. Lets hope she goes down as another Judas.
James Daniel says:
Her numbers are behind to the time of double digits. Her opponent would have to be caught in bed with a corpse he personally murdered to lose unless Republicans choose to pout out the election like they did the Georgia run-off that put Ossoff and Warnock in.
Eric Skopec says:
I doubt that anyone other than Nancy P will miss her.
It couldn't happen to a more deserving person.


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U of Oklahoma students' racist video, departure prompt First Amendment questions
Submitted by Jeremy Bauer-Wolf on January 28, 2019 - 3:00am
Legal experts ponder whether public universities can ask students who are racist or who misbehave to leave. Has this become the new strategy to avoid kicking them out and facing First Amendment backlash?
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UMass Amherst student asked to remove anti-Nazi poster for not being inclusive
Submitted by Jeremy Bauer-Wolf on January 2, 2019 - 3:00am
University of Massachusetts at Amherst has come under fire for asking a student to take down a poster from her dorm room that condemned Nazis using profanity, saying it was not "inclusive."
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The Chicago principles are a gold standard for freedom of expression on campuses (opinion)
Submitted by Michael Poliakoff on December 21, 2018 - 3:00am
Sigal Ben-Porath's Inside Higher Ed article, "Against Endorsing the Chicago Principles," puts the urgent need for uncompromised freedom of expression on a slippery slope. While properly observing that espousing even a clear statement of commitment is insufficient, Ben-Porath rejects the idea of its absolute necessity and thereby risks entirely derailing mainstream efforts to protect free speech on college campuses.
The "Report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression," now widely known as the Chicago principles, has become a gold standard among institutions that wish to show their commitment to this core principle of American higher education. There has recently been a significant uptick in the number of institutions joining in support -- which is not surprising, given that the 931-word statement is balanced and nuanced, protecting both those articulating unpopular viewpoints and the rights of protesters. Let us underscore that point at the beginning: the Chicago principles envision and protect both controversial viewpoints and protests against those viewpoints, with the proviso that protesters "may not obstruct or otherwise interfere with the freedom of others to express views they reject or even loathe."
Ben-Porath expresses two major concerns with the Chicago principles: 1) that they are not a one-size-fits-all solution to the free speech debate and 2) that the Chicago principles, and free speech more widely, can come at the cost of silencing minorities -- whether religious, ethnic, racial or sexual.
Ben-Porath is correct that endorsing the Chicago principles is not a silver bullet that ensures freedom of expression, a point that the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education recently concurred with. But that is not what endorsing the principles is meant to accomplish. The Chicago principles constitute a statement of intent that a university can use to guide it in fostering the free exchange of ideas. If a university is so committed, it will align its bylaws, student code of conduct, faculty handbook and programming to reflect that commitment.
For example, after Purdue University endorsed the Chicago principles, it instituted a freshman orientation that focused on the importance of free speech. Other institutions translate the Chicago principles into action in other ways. Just as the Declaration of Independence has no legal power and cannot ensure that all men are treated with the respect due to being created equal, it articulates a sacred American value with profound effect.
Ben-Porath's second point is that the demand for free speech is itself problematic, arguably even destructive of academic values. That assertion bears the marks of ideological prejudice in its portrayal of the concern to protect free speech not as a categorical value of higher education but as a means of protecting conservatism. It is true that, in many instances, conservatives have rallied for academic freedom, as they often feel marginalized on college campuses, but they are hardly the only beneficiaries of a culture of free and open discussion. C. Vann Woodward, for example, led the committee at Yale University that drafted the classic 1975 Woodward Report on freedom of expression, but before one concludes that its intent was to protect speakers such as General William Westmoreland or the racist William Shockley, it is important to recall that decades earlier he had defended Angelo Herndon, an African American communist charged in Georgia with insurrection.
Ben-Porath claims that free speech "comes at the expense of the reasonable demands" from those burdened by the free speech that protects biased views. But what is bias to one person may reasonably be seen as truth by another: that is precisely why the free exchange of ideas alone can further understanding. Perhaps Ben-Porath is right that proving biased views to be incorrect is a burden, but it is a responsibility that comes with leading an examined life and a valuable educational exercise in and of itself. To protect students from this activity would weaken the academic experience.
It is, moreover, all too short a step from that to Herbert Marcuse's theory that tolerance of viewpoints that diverge from liberalism is itself repressive, and from there to the contemporary meme that speech that departs from the perceived interests of the oppressed is a form of violence that justifies physical violence to counter it. At institutions including the University of California, Berkeley, and Middlebury College, the fruit of that ideology has stained the reputation of higher education. The clarity of the Chicago principles is urgently needed.
But even more troubling is Ben-Porath's suggestion that free speech is of particular value to conservative students and is "too often used as a political tool by the right." It is Ben-Porath, however, who thereby politicizes the discussion. The opening of the Chicago principles references how the University of Chicago's president Robert Maynard Hutchins defended the absolute right of William Z. Foster, the chairman of the Communist Party USA in the 1950s, to visit and address the university despite public outrage. Hutchins said that "our students … should have freedom to discuss any problem that presents itself," despite his personal anticommunist beliefs. The Chicago principles are a seamless extension of the university's proud legacy of protecting unpopular viewpoints.
Ben-Porath seems to imply that a college that accepts freedom of expression may become a toxic environment in which minority students cannot express themselves. That does not appear to have happened at the University of Chicago, Purdue University, Princeton University or Johns Hopkins University -- top-tier, diverse institutions that have all adopted the Chicago principles. And that raises the question, is the anti-Chicago principles hysteria at Williams College and elsewhere factually based, or is it simply fantastical? Just as Americans during the red scare feared that allowing Marxists any type of platform would lead to revolution, chaos and despotism, overly zealous campus communities seem to dread that permitting controversial thought will undermine all sense of intellectual decency.
There is a sad irony that Ben-Porath's own institution, the University of Pennsylvania, most desperately needs a recommitment to the free exchange of ideas. Last summer, the University of Pennsylvania Law School began its own campaign of harassment against Amy Wax for co-authoring an op-ed identifying the positive impact of bourgeois values and questioning the effectiveness of affirmative action. Penn's posture and official sanctions of Wax are chilling evidence of why Ben-Porath's institution itself needs a cultural reset that would engage challenging ideas rather than put them to silence.
The worst irony of all is that the world of higher education, which should be eager for vigorous debate and challenge, often lags behind the diverse leaders who embrace free speech as the engine of progress. U.S. congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis asserted, "Without freedom of speech and the right to dissent, the civil rights movement would have been a bird without wings." And, in a more recent struggle, Jonathan Rauch, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and LGBTQ advocate, observed, "Not long ago, gays were pariahs. We had no real political power, only the force of our arguments. In a society where free exchange is the rule, that was enough. We had the coercive power of truth."
The integrity of higher education, too, rests on the uncompromising protection of the powerful truth that those who struggle for minority rights know so well.
Michael Poliakoff is president of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni.
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LA Community College District Settles Free Speech Case
Submitted by Emma Whitford on December 17, 2018 - 3:00am
The Los Angeles Community College District settled a free speech lawsuit with Pierce College student Kevin Shaw, the Los Angeles Daily News reported. Shaw sued the district after he was reprimanded for passing out Spanish-language copies of the U.S. Constitution to recruit new members to Young Americans for Liberty, a libertarian student organization. Shaw had been distributing the pocket Constitutions outside Pierce College's "free speech zone" and without university permission. As part of the settlement, the district agreed to enlarge the free speech zone at Pierce College -- which at the time was the size of about three parking spaces -- and ensure that the other eight colleges in the district have similar free speech protections.
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LIU students want apology after 'berating' of editor
Submitted by Greg Toppo on December 11, 2018 - 3:00am
LIU Post student government association demands that President Kimberly Cline and the other officials publicly apologize for berating a co-editor of the student newspaper for its coverage of anonymous pamphlets targeting Cline and others.
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Columbia students boot comedian off stage, citing offensive jokes
Submitted by Jeremy Bauer-Wolf on December 6, 2018 - 3:00am
Students at Columbia University interrupted routine of former Saturday Night Live writer they invited to perform at a cultural event after deeming his jokes too offensive.
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New policies, student groups change the culture of free speech at Berkeley
Submitted by Jeremy Bauer-Wolf on November 28, 2018 - 3:00am
More than a year after Milo Yiannopoulos's talk at the university attracted violent protest, the university sees a different style of political engagements on campus -- actual discussions across ideological divides.
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Students Refuse to Cease and Desist Using Bear Image
Submitted by Emma Whitford on November 8, 2018 - 3:00am
The University of California, Los Angeles, asked a student Palestinian-rights group to remove UCLA's name and references to the university's Bruin Bear mascot from its promotional materials. The students are pushing back.
A logo for Students for Justice in Palestine's upcoming conference depicts a bear with a Palestinian kite, which, the university claimed in its cease-and-desist letter, "some may interpret as an intention to endorse violence." The university also requested that the group remove any mention of UCLA except to state where the conference will be held.
"Taken as a whole, these uses claim, suggest, or imply an affiliation with or an endorsement by UCLA of [National Students for Justice in Palestine] and/or its annual conference which is simply incorrect," the letter read.
The students, in conjunction with the ACLU of Southern California and Palestine Legal, issued a statement in response.
"We condemn attempts by UCLA administration to taint imagery that is grounded in freedom and liberation. Moreover, we reject UCLA's attempt to infringe on our right to associate a bear (which is not trademarked) and a kite -- a children's toy -- with justice for the Palestinian people," the statement read in part. "The stated demands are ridiculous, and we will continue to use both design elements."
The ACLU of Southern California and Palestine Legal sent an additional letter to university officials and requested a response from them by Nov. 9 that confirms they will not take legal action against the students.
Tod Tamberg, a university spokesman, said that the students had complied with the university's request to remove "UCLA" from the conference logo.
"Some members of the Jewish community have been sharply critical of upcoming conference, demanding that UCLA move to cancel it. As a public university, UCLA is legally bound to comply with the First Amendment, which protects everyone's right to express their views, even those that are offensive and hateful or that the university opposes," Tamberg wrote in an email. "Use of campus facilities by a registered student organization to host an event neither constitutes nor implies UCLA's endorsement of the event, the speakers or the views expressed."
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UW-La Crosse Invites Former Porn Performer
The University of Wisconsin at La Crosse invited Nina Hartley, a former pornographic actress, to speak on campus last week about sexuality and adult media, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported.
About 70 students attended Hartley's talk, which Joe Gow, university chancellor, described as "essential, and gets to the heart of free expression." Hartley spoke on campus the week following Free Speech Week, a series of events dedicated to highlighting a new UW System policy that protects free expression.
The university paid Hartley $5,000 from the chancellor's discretionary funds, made up of interest earned on revenue from auxiliary services including dining services, parking fees and residence halls. Taxpayer dollars did not contribute to Hartley's speaker fee.
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Seton Hall students occupied administration building in quest for institutional change
Protests lead to meetings, a scuffle between a student and professor, and a relocation of the president's office.
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