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1. Land Registration
2. Boundaries
3. Boundary Walls
4. Noise Nuisance
5. Rights of Way
6. Water Usage
7. Trees and Shrubs
Property Rights in France - Water
Dispersal of Rainwater
Drainage Servitudes
Rivers and Streams
Towpath Usage
Shoreline Properties
6. Fishing Rights in France
You are entitled to fish along the bank of a public river provided you obtain a fishing permit (see below).
Unless otherwise specified by agreement, no third party has the right to fish on a private stretch of water that runs through privately owned property.
However, where the river or stream is publicly owned, property owners are required to permit fishing, to those with a fishing licence, and to leave a space of 3.5 metres wide along the river bank for right of passage and fishing stations. This space can be reduced to 1.5 metres by the local préfecture.
In order to gain access to the river it may be necessary to go across private property for which the consent of the owner must be obtained and can be refused!
Fishing licences in France are controlled by local voluntary fishing associations, acting on behalf of the government.
These local associations, called Association Agréée de pêche et de protection des Milieux Aquatiques (AAPPMA), are responsible not only for collection of the licence fee, but also limited management of the local watercourses and lakes, to ensure they are properly maintained and regulated.
The various local associations operate as part of a departmental federation, which in turn are linked to regional structures!
To obtain a carte de pêche/permis de pêche you can normally find them distributed through local tabacs, sport shops, or on-line through the website the AAPPMA at Cartedepeche.
There are different types of fishing licence, and the cost of the licences varies slightly by department.
-A Carte Annuelle for an adult costs between €70 and €100 and between €10 to €20 for a minor.
-There is also a special licence for women called Découverte Femme, which costs around €30.
-You can also buy a fishing licence for holidays, called Carte Vacances which costs around €30 and which is valid for 7 consecutive days.
-The Carte Journalière costs around €10 for a day's fishing, but with variation by region.
The cost of the licence includes a tax, called the Cotisation Pour les Milieux Aquatiques (CPMA).
The licence is issued personally, and it requires photo identification on it.
The licence grants you the right to fish in all waters managed by the association, and in all public waters (rivers and canals) anywhere in France.
For fishing in watercourses and lakes managed by other associations outside of the department, it is possible to pay a supplement to do so, on the basis of reciprocal agreements that exist between many of the departmental associations.
The licence grants no right to fish in free flowing waters (eaux libres) from privately owned land, unless the owner has otherwise granted consent for members of the local association to do so. The definition of such waters has frequently been a source of uncertainty, dispute and legal action.
Needless to say, captive water on private land (eaux closes) is completely outside of the framework of any fishing rights.
As with la chasse, there are controls on when you can fish, what and how much you can catch.
There are two types of waters containing different species of fish, which determines the fishing season for each one.
In the more oxygenated waters of the 1ère catégorie (containing primarily trout) the season runs from the second week of March to the 3rd week of September.
In the less free flowing waters of the 2nde catégorie it is generally possible to fish throughout the year, except for pike, which is only authorised between 1st May and the last Sunday in January.
There are also controls on the size of fish and the quantity that can be taken away, about which you would need to consult with your local association.
You must also respect the hours permitted for fishing during the day, which is normally half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset. Accordingly, night fishing is generally not permitted, but with exceptions.
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King Judy; David Clow
We've all heard the tale of King Arthur. How his Knights of the Round Table fought against Morgana le Fey and her army of darkness. Arthur eventually perished, becoming a legend of what chivalry was supposed to look like, how knights were to behave, and the romanticized version of Camelot was born. Now meet Judy Avery: an incredibly young—as in 19 years-old—PhD candidate who has based her dissertation on the fact that the fairy tale has some truth to it. Watch as she presents this dissertation to her own father, who is a scientist to the core, who uses—you guessed it—science to dispel things like Arthur and his Camelot. Judy faces disappointment, is told she needs to rethink her direction, and as a kind of weird joke, is sent to the place where Camelot is meant to be, but is now a cheesy tourist trap. Cue that it's anything but, and Judy is in for a big surprise. I really love Arthurian fantasy retellings, I love that this was a gender reversal for who is "king", but I had a hard time connecting to Judy.
It could be that I have several very close friends who just passed their dissertations, but I found Judy hard to believe and connect with. Which, I know, is weird when you consider that this is a book about finding Camelot again and its famous knights, who are all alive and thousands of years old, and fighting dragons and gargoyle monsters. She is incredibly young to be a PhD candidate, but that aside, she kind of abandons the research she spent years building when her father—who has made no secret of disapproving myth as fact—doesn't accept her dissertation. I get she's disappointed, but she also shouldn't be surprised. Also she walks away from her passion pretty easily saying it's all fake, and it's her adversary in the academic world that tries to bolster her faith back in the Arthur legends? Who full on leans into them well before Judy comes back around? Her enemy-to-friend, Percy, does this big flip, and while I like where he ends (well, kind of, but I won't say more for spoilers), neither felt as defined as other characters like Lancelot and Morgana. I loved the transition those characters make to becoming theme park owners in order to survive in this new world while maintaining what they can of Camelot. If the PhD thing had been dropped and replaced with a young girl told to give up her childish fantasies I don't think the core of the story would change at all, it may have even felt a bit more organic, but as it was, I just had the hardest time connecting to Judy.
That being said, I really liked the growth of King Arthur's sort-of-former knights, and I really liked the creepiness of Morgana's little beasties. While the first half of the novella was a tad slow, the second half flew by and had such a wonderful, bitter sweet ending. Clow did a great job weaving in the twists and turns, the reveals, and teasing out the secrets the knights had been harboring for such a long time. I mentioned Lancelot was my favorite, right? Good, because he was. I love the tragedy that is his life until Judy comes along, and how pissed that makes him, until he finds himself again. It's very sweet and well done, which is why it's so sad I didn't like Judy more!
This was a clever little novella, a fun ride with a unique twist on a tale nearly as old as time. If you like Arthurian Fantasy and enjoy a good gender swap story, I say give this quick, mostly-fast-paced book a try! But given my (and it is a me thing) inability to connect to Judy, and how the narrative voice could be a bit confusing at times given you have 19 year-olds talking to thousand year old men in a kind of omniscient first person narrative, this is a 4 star read for me. But thanks to the author for providing a copy for an honest review!
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package com.github.kevinsawicki.wishlist;

import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
import android.content.Context;

import java.text.DecimalFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Map.Entry;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

/**
 * 文字列 ユーティリティクラス.
 *
 * @author User
 */
@SuppressLint("DefaultLocale")
public final class StringUtils {
    /** 行頭、行末の BR タグにマッチするパターン. */
    private static final Pattern TRIMBRTAG_PATTERN = Pattern.compile("(^<br\\s*[/]*>|<br\\s*[/]*>$)", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);
    /** Solr クエリーでエスケープが必要な文字にマッチするパターン. */
    private static final Pattern SOLR_ESCAPE_PATTERN = Pattern.compile("[¥+\\-¥!¥(¥)¥{¥}\\[\\]¥^~¥*¥?:\"]|&{2}|\\|{2}|[\\\\]", Pattern.UNIX_LINES);
    /** 日時指定フォーマット */
    public static final String DATE_PATTERN = "yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss";
    public static final String DATE_PATTERN_SHORT = "yyyy/MM/dd";

    /**
     * 文字列が空文字かどうかを取得します. NULL または、空文字の場合は true を、それ以外の場合は false を返します.
     *
     * @param str
     *            判定する文字列
     * @return NULL または、空文字の場合は true
     */
    public static boolean isEmpty(CharSequence str) {
        if (str == null || str.length() <= 0) return true;
        return false;
    }

    /**
     * 文字列から、全角・半角スペースを取り除きます。
     *
     * @param str
     */
    public static String trimSpace(String str) {
        if (str == null) return null;

        return str.replaceAll(" | ", "");
    }

    /**
     * 文字列が空文字かどうかを取得します. NULL または、空文字の場合は false を、それ以外の場合は true を返します.
     *
     * @param str
     *            判定する文字列
     * @return NULL または、空文字の場合は false
     */
    public static boolean isPresent(CharSequence str) {
        return !isEmpty(str);
    }

    /**
     * 行頭・行末のBRタグを削除します.
     *
     * @param tag
     *            対象の文字列
     * @return タグ削除後の文字列
     */
    public static String trimBRTag(CharSequence tag) {
        if (tag == null) return null;
        Matcher matcher = TRIMBRTAG_PATTERN.matcher(tag);
        return matcher.replaceAll("");
    }

    /**
     * 先頭の文字を大文字に、それ以降を小文字にした文字列を返します.
     *
     * @param str
     *            文字列
     * @return 先頭大文字、先頭以外小文字の文字列
     */
    @SuppressLint("DefaultLocale")
    public static String capitalize(CharSequence str) {
        if (isEmpty(str)) return null;
        String tmp = str.toString();
        return tmp.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase() + tmp.substring(1).toLowerCase();
    }

    /**
     * 先頭の文字を小文字にした文字列を返します.
     *
     * @param str
     *            文字列
     * @return 先頭を小文字にした文字列
     */
    @SuppressLint("DefaultLocale")
    public static String uncapitalize(CharSequence str) {
        if (isEmpty(str)) return null;
        String tmp = str.toString();
        return tmp.substring(0, 1).toLowerCase() + tmp.substring(1);
    }

    /**
     * 文字列のリストを区切り文字で結合して返します.
     *
     * @param parts
     *            文字列のリスト
     * @param separator
     *            区切り文字
     * @return 結合後の文字列
     */
    public static String join(List<String> parts, String separator) {
        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
        int index = 0;
        int length = parts.size() - 1;
        for (String str : parts) {
            builder.append(str);
            if (index < length) builder.append(separator);
            index++;
        }
        return builder.toString();
    }

    /**
     * Solrの特殊文字をエスケープして返します.
     *
     * @param str
     *            クエリー文字列
     * @return エスケープ後の文字列
     */
    public static String escapeSolrQueryString(String str) {
        if (isEmpty(str)) return null;
        Matcher m = SOLR_ESCAPE_PATTERN.matcher(str);
        return m.replaceAll("\\\\$0");
    }

    /**
     * date型をString型に変換します.
     *
     * @param date
     * @return 変換後の文字列
     */
    public static String getDateStr(final Context context, Date date) {
        return getDateStr(context, date, DATE_PATTERN);
    }

    /**
     * date型をString型に変換します.フォーマットが指定できます.
     *
     * @param date
     * @param format
     * @return 変換後の文字列
     */
    public static String getDateStr(final Context context, Date date, String format) {
        final SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(format, context.getResources().getConfiguration().locale);
        String term = sdf.format(date);
        return term;
    }

    /**
     * 文字列をjointで結合します.ただし左右どちらかが空文字列の場合,jointは使いません.
     *
     * @param string1
     * @param string2
     * @param joint
     */
    public static String joinStrings(String string1, String string2, String joint) {
        if (string1 == null) string1 = "";
        if (string2 == null) string2 = "";

        if (StringUtils.isEmpty(string1) || StringUtils.isEmpty(string2)) joint = "";

        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        sb.append(string1).append(joint).append(string2);
        return sb.toString();
    }

    /**
     * 文字列を結合します.ただし片方が空文字列の場合,空文字列を返します.
     *
     * @param string1
     * @param string2
     */
    public static String concatStrings(String string1, String string2) {
        if (StringUtils.isEmpty(string1) || StringUtils.isEmpty(string2)) return "";
        return (string1 + string2);
    }

    /**
     * 文字列をjointで結合します.
     */
    public static String join(ArrayList<String> strings, String joint) {
        if (strings == null) return null;
        joint = StringUtils.nullToEmpty(joint);
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        for (String s : strings) {
            if (sb.length() > 0) sb.append(joint);
            sb.append(s);
        }
        return sb.toString();
    }

    /**
     * 与えられた文字列を,半角max文字以下に切り詰めます。切り捨て部分がある場合,"..."を末尾に追加します。
     *
     * @param detail
     * @param max
     */
    public static String ellipsize(String detail, int max) {
        return ellipsize(detail, max, false);
    }

    /**
     * 与えられた文字列を,半角max文字以下に切り詰めます。切り捨て部分がある場合,"..."を末尾に追加します。
     *
     * @param input
     * @param max
     * @param padLeft
     *            : trueの場合,末尾に空白を入れて,max文字ちょうどになるようにします.
     */
    public static String ellipsize(String input, int max, boolean padLeft) {
        if (input == null || input.length() < max) {
            return (padLeft ? padLeft(input, max) : input);
        }
        int charactersAfterEllipsis = 0;
        return input.substring(0, max - 3 - charactersAfterEllipsis) + "..." + input.substring(input.length() - charactersAfterEllipsis);
    }

    public static String ellipsizeMiddle(String input, int max, boolean padLeft) {
        if (input == null || input.length() < max) {
            return (padLeft ? padLeft(input, max) : input);
        }
        int charactersAfterEllipsis = max / 2;
        int charactersBeforeEllipsis = max - 3 - charactersAfterEllipsis;
        return input.substring(0, charactersBeforeEllipsis) + "..." + input.substring(input.length() - charactersAfterEllipsis);
    }

    public static String getCRLF() {
        return System.getProperty("line.separator");
    }

    public static boolean isHalfWidth(char c) {
        return (c <= '\u007e') || // 英数字
                (c == '\u00a5') || // \記号
                (c == '\u203e') || // ~記号
                (c >= '\uff61' && c <= '\uff9f'); // 半角カナ
    }

    public static String padRight(String s, int n) {
        return String.format("%1$-" + n + "s", s);
    }

    public static String padLeft(String s, int n) {
        return String.format("%1$" + n + "s", s);
    }

    public static String padZeros(int number, int length) {
        return String.format("%1$0" + length + "d", number);
    }

    /**
     * 与えられた引数が候補リストに含まれるかどうかを返します.
     *
     * @param str
     * @param array
     */
    public static boolean isKnownByList(String str, String[] array) {
        return Arrays.asList(array).contains(str); // containsはequalsで比較するため,別インスタンスのStringも等しいものと判定される
    }

    /**
     * 与えられた文字列が,ホワイトリスト内にある文字列で始まるかかどうかを返します. リストが["aa", "ab"]のとき,"aab"はtrue,
     * "a"はfalse
     *
     * @param str
     * @param whiteList
     */
    public static boolean isStartedByList(String str, ArrayList<String> whiteList) {
        for (String white : whiteList) {
            if (str.startsWith(white)) return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    public static boolean isSame(String targ, String comp) {
        if (targ == null) {
            return comp == null;
        } else {
            return targ.equals(comp);
        }
    }

    /**
     * 与えられた文字列が,数値としてふさわしいかどうか判定します.
     *
     * @return 桁数・最小・最大の制約を満たしたときtrue
     */
    public static boolean validateIntString(String dd, int length, int min, int max) {
        if (dd == null) return false;
        if (dd.length() != length) return false;
        int day;
        try {
            day = Integer.valueOf(dd);
        } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
            return false;
        }
        if (day < min || max < day) return false;
        return true;
    }

    /**
     * StringBuilderにnullを読ませると"null"という文字列になってしまうので,フィルタします.
     *
     * @param text
     * @return String
     * @see com.google.common.base.Strings#nullToEmpty
     */
    public static String nullToEmpty(String text) {
        return (text == null ? "" : text);
    }

    public static String nullToEmpty(Double text) {
        return (text == null ? "" : String.valueOf(text));
    }

    /**
     * {@link String#valueOf(Object)}はnullを"null"に変えてしまうので,<br>
     * nullの場合はnullのまま返すメソッドを提供します.
     *
     * @param object
     * @return String or null
     */
    public static String valueOf(Object object) {
        if (object == null) return null;
        return String.valueOf(object);
    }

    public static String map2String(Map<String, String> map) {
        if (map == null) return null;
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        Iterator<Entry<String, String>> itr = map.entrySet().iterator();
        while (itr.hasNext()) {
            Entry<String, String> entry = itr.next();
            if (sb.length() > 0) sb.append("&");
            sb.append(entry.getKey()).append("=").append(entry.getValue());
        }
        return sb.toString();
    }

    public static String build(CharSequence... strings) {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        for (CharSequence s : strings) {
            sb.append(s);
        }
        return sb.toString();
    }

    public static boolean isSame(CharSequence targ, CharSequence comp) {
        if (targ == null) {
            return comp == null;
        } else {
            return targ.equals(comp);
        }
    }

    /**
     * 金額を3桁区切りにして表示します.
     *
     * @param amount
     * @return 3桁区切りの文字列
     */
    public static String toMoneyString(Integer amount) {
        if (amount == null) return "";
        DecimalFormat formatter = new DecimalFormat("#,###");
        return formatter.format(amount);
    }

    public static String toMoneyString(String amount) {
        if (amount == null) return "";
        return toMoneyString(Integer.valueOf(amount));
    }

    public static boolean areNotEmpty(String... strings) {
        if (strings == null) return false;
        for (String obj : strings) {
            if (obj == null) return false;
            if (obj.length() == 0) return false;
        }
        return true;
    }
}


Rumours swirled this christmas with miley cyrus and liam hemsworth going completely silent from social media.
Liam Hemsworth and Miley Cyrus have been dating for 10 years, briefly splitting up in 2014. When they got back together, they picked up exactly where they left off and resumed their engagement.
This Christmas, Miley and Liam both gave social media a break and fans had a feeling they were getting secretly hitched.
Turns out the hunch was right.
Nothing was truly 'confirmed' until Nicholas Sparks, author and producer of many romantic tragedies including The Notebook, tweeted his congratulations to Liam and Miley.
Nicholas Sparks also wrote the best seller, 'The Last Song', which was turned into a movie. Liam Hemsworth and Miley Cyrus met for the first time on the set of 'The Last Song' and shared their first kiss on-screen.
With the marriage confirmed and out in public, we were stinging for updates on the celebrations.
Congratulations to the happy couple! It's been 10 years in the making and a pleasure to watch them grow up.
We Have A Wedding VENUE For Liam And Miley!


A stunning furniture piece with a deep-buttoned handcrafted finish that cries out 'indulgent luxury'. Perfect for display in waiting areas and studies. Made using thin and very supple lamb leather known for its durability, this type of fabric has earned the name – "La perle" Leather Coffee Table – "The Ideal Leather". Sleek with a pearly metallic finish, elegant yet subtle for an imposing presence; this furniture can either be used as a coffee table or as an ottoman.


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St. Raphael School students embrace the scientific method
Jun 13, 2014 • < 1 Min Read
Regional-OLA
St. Raphael School students in grades K-4 worked hard during Memorial Day weekend to put the final touches on their respective science projects, which they proudly displayed at their Science Fair on May 27.
Through their science projects, students sought to answer questions such as What impact does your carbon footprint have on climate change? What are the effects of drinks on your teeth? Can a lemon be used to power a light bulb?
Each student asked a scientific question and proceeded to answer the question by using the scientific method: formulating a hypothesis, attempting to prove their hypothesis through experimentation, analyzing results, and forming a conclusion.
At the helm of the Science Fair is junior high science teacher, Dr. Questa Medrano, who is also a forensic anthropologist for the Los Angeles County Coroner. She organized a school-wide science fair to engage all students in learning about science through experiments selected and conducted by the students themselves. The excitement generated through these projects was evident.
"Student participation and parent involvement exceeded our expectations," said Barbara D. Curtis, principal at St. Raphael School.
St. Raphael School plans to implement a new science/technology program as an introduction to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). This new program will augment the current junior high science curriculum to include technology, along with interactive science software, biology specimen for dissections, and chemistry sets.
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A super-stellar lineup, including Oprah Winfrey, Robert De Niro, Nicole Kidman, and Reese Witherspoon—plus, one special cameo—took advantage of their downtime during the shoot of a historic V.F. cover.
Cover photographed by Annie Leibovitz.
Jessica Diehl styles Jessica Chastain.
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54 films, including Blade Runner 2049 (2017).
12 films, including Black Panther (2018).
Top: V.F. features editor Jane Sarkin and Annie Leibovitz review wardrobe options with Jessica Diehl; Bottom: Annie with the photo team and Michael Shannon (seated).
Top: V.F. executive West Coast editor Krista Smith interviews Annie about the Hollywood Portfolio for VF.com; Center: detail of Annie's on-set office, with photo research and blocking plan.
Photographs by Matthias Gaggl (Office, Zendaya), Kathryn Macleod (all others).
Top: The photo team adjusts lighting. Center: Gal Gadot arrives on set. Bottom: Michael Shannon sitting on set.
2 films, including The Greatest Showman (2017).
70 films, including The Shape of Water (2017).
15 films, including A Wrinkle in Time (2018); one Academy Award.
69 films, including The Post (2017); two Academy Awards.
13 films, including Wonder Woman (2017).
Tom entertains Oprah and Reese.
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Business : Casey's recognized with 2022 Renewable Fuels Marketing Award
By State Of Iowa · January 11, 2022, 4:27 pm
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig today announced that the winners of the 2022 Renewable Fuels Marketing Awards are DANLEE Corp and Casey's General Stores. The awards were created to recognize fuel marketers that have gone above and beyond in their efforts to promote and sell renewable fuels.
"Renewable fuels create additional markets for agricultural products and jobs in rural communities. Consumers benefit from cleaner burning fuels and more choices at the pump," said Secretary Naig. "I'm pleased to present the renewable fuels marketing awards to DANLEE Corp and Casey's General Stores for their efforts to increase access to and demand for ethanol and biodiesel."
The winners were recognized during the FUELIowa annual meeting on Jan. 11.
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Casey's General Stores was founded in 1959 and has taken significant steps to add increasingly more biodiesel to its stations in Iowa. Currently, there are over 1,000 Casey's stores offering homegrown biodiesel blends.
Casey's General Stores is now offering B11 at all of its Iowa locations that offer diesel, with plans to pursue higher blends of biodiesel. They have also incorporated on-site blending facilities into their store portfolio and transitioned their fleet vehicles in Iowa to run on at least B5 year-round.
Casey's was nominated by FUELIowa, the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association and the Iowa Biodiesel Board.
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Iowa leads the nation in biofuels production with 3.7 billion gallons of ethanol produced in 2020 and 351 million gallons of biodiesel produced in 2020.
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The New Face Of Cheating
by Michael M. Martino, Jr. on August 20, 2009
Something wasn't right. After 20 years together, Nassau County native Amanda* knew her husband, Stan*, and now, her radar was picking up something strange. He was different. His clothes were different. A new hairstyle. A tattoo. At first, she chalked it up to him being a man in his early 40s and going through a midlife crisis. That was nothing extraordinary, right?
Things had been OK. Maybe a little strained, but no more than any couple she knew with two kids and a mortgage. Their sex life was good, as it had always been. But maybe he was a little distant.
Stan had also taken to using the computer a lot more, spending time on Facebook. Amanda didn't really get it at first. Stan had started an account about six months before she did, and he was thrilled at the connections he was making with people he had not seen or spoken to in two decades. And when she did sign up, she was amazed at the reach the social networking site had. She was finding old friends two at a time. So was Stan.
Stan started staying out later. His job took him on the road quite a bit, and there was always some extra time attached. Soon, Amanda began to investigate.
"I became obsessed," she says. "I spent all day and night on the Internet, looking up everything. Seeing if he used his debit card for anything. Seeing where he might have been. The credit cards and cell phone, though, are in his name. I couldn't check them."
She could read his e-mails, though. Especially if he left his BlackBerry on the kitchen table. And when he did, she read an e-mail—more like a poem—from a woman whose name rang no bells with her. Back to the Internet she went, and the answers came fast. One of the people Stan had found on Facebook was his ex-girlfriend, Autumn*, with whom he had not spoken in 25 years. But their chemistry was still alive, at least through private messages and e-mails and Facebook wall posts. It seemed like they were enjoying a clandestine relationship, with nobody watching.
But on the Internet, everyone is watching.
Amanda was able to find out about her husband's ex, where she worked, where she lived; she had children, Amanda learned, and was also married. Amanda's husband denied an affair, but said he wanted out of their 20-year relationship. Amanda did not let go, but dug her heels in and continued to investigate. She was not the only one who was suspicious. Stan had been contacted by his ex-girlfriend's husband and warned to stay away. Although Stan still denied the affair, he said he would stop contacting his ex. Amanda went a step further and called the woman herself and asked that she disappear from her life. She said she would. As Amanda and Stan fought to keep their marriage alive, one of the caveats was they both immediately delete their Facebook profiles.
Eventually, Stan did confess to a physical relationship with his ex-girlfriend, and also promised that it was over for good.
"If it wasn't for Facebook, he would not have reconnected with her," says Amanda. "It just made it too easy."
Connecting (and Disconnecting)
With the explosion of social networking, attorneys, private investigators and married couples around the globe have found a new cause of divorce. The reason is simple, too. Hooking up with an ex just doesn't seem like a big deal for most people. It is comfortable and familiar. Old feelings can quickly rise to the surface, and a connection that is decades-old seems new and exciting. Marriage can seem routine and dull. That is no secret, and no sin to admit, according to the experts.
So many take to Facebook or other sites and begin to build a cadre of "friends," constituted of old chums, current ones, work friends, or organizations.
Anthony Capetola knows all about it. As one of Long Island's most prolific divorce attorneys, Capetola has seen the damndest things in divorce trials. He has also seen an incredible rise in cases that involve cheating through social networking. Before the latest trend, he says things seemed to level off when it came to Internet cheating, but every day there are more cases.
"The number of these situations has expanded exponentially, especially in the last two or three years," says Capetola. "It looks like it will continue to expand."
Indeed, with millions of people signing on and hooking up every day, Facebook has become nearly ubiquitous in many circles. The culture of connecting online with people, new and old—especially old—is alluring and exciting. Many Facebook users cannot resist the temptation to look up their exes, find out where they are, what they are doing, what they look like…and maybe see if the sparks will still fly.
"Many people who are enjoying Facebook are at the age where they have been married for a while, have years since high school or college and they go on looking for old flames," says Randi Milgrim, a divorce attorney and partner of Glen Cove-based Mejias, Milgrim and Alvarado. "Facebook gives people the ability to have an affair right from their couch."
And it's all right out in the open. Indeed, what you do on Facebook—or any other website, or chat room, or text message—is not legally deemed privileged or private; instead, it is very public and, in almost all cases, able to be subpoenaed and brought into divorce court.
In one situation, Milgrim's client, Leann*, was suing her husband for divorce; Leann showed Milgrim her husband's Facebook page as evidence of his cheating. Since Leann was her husband's Facebook friend, and therefore had access to his page, she was able to see comments left on his page by another woman. Taking it a step further, Leann was able to go to that woman's page, and see her photos. In one photo was—you guessed it—Leann's husband.
Milgrim has been involved in cases where she has provided as evidence printouts of Facebook pages to demonstrate there was an affair going on.
"People will actually write 'I had a good time last night' on someone else's page," says Milgrim. That is an innocent thing to say, of course…unless one of the people was supposedly working late.
What people don't understand, says Capetola, is the long footprint the digital age brings to the arena of litigation. In one of his cases, he had a client whose husband had set up a Match.com account with a different name, age, career…everything. In other words, he was pretending to be someone else.
"He was very boastful about his sexual prowess, [purporting] himself to be a playboy," says Capetola.
In the end, the guy got beat up in court. As he proclaimed to not have enough money for child support, Capetola was able to produce evidence of spendthrift ways on the husband's part, mostly by pictures he posted on the Internet.
"In their minds, no one will find out, and it could never become evidence," says Capetola.
It's Not Just About Sex
So maybe you find a long-lost love through Facebook, and you begin to e-mail and instant message each other. You know enough about one another that there is no awkward getting-to-know-you phase. You know each other's bodies and quirks, what makes the other mad, sad or turned on. Very often conversation quickly escalates from "Hey, how are you?" to "What are you wearing?" Eventually, maybe, "I love you" slips out. But you never, ever go near the person or consecrate the rekindled love affair. That's not cheating, so no harm no foul, right?
In fact, the toll an emotional affair can have on a marriage is devastating. "Many of my clients tell me, 'If it were just sex, I could live with it,'" says Milgrim.
"Many of my clients tell me, 'If it were just sex, I could live with it,'" says Divorce Attorney Randi Milgrim.
In New York State, there is no grounds of irreconcilable differences for divorce, like in California. Instead, there are six grounds: Cruel and inhuman treatment; abandonment; if one person is in jail for more than three consecutive years; adultery; and if the couple is either legally separated for one year before a divorce, or are seperated for more than one year on their own.
An online-only affair, one that never even reaches the backseat of the car, is reason enough to be served with your walking papers. Milgrim has successfully tried these cases on the basis of cruel and inhuman treatment. And those who are sued are surprised, because it just doesn't seem like cheating at all.
"They are not going to meet someone at a bar; it's only e-mails," says Milgrim. "But they are terribly damaging to a marriage—and a defense if they are brought to trial."
Many times, the popcorn trail left by Internet activity serves as the reason spouses go to the next step of investigation. That's when they really find the evidence.
North Shore resident Beth* has been married for more than 20 years, locked into a marriage she now says was unhappy from day one. But she bore on, had two kids and did her best to keep the family together. Last year, though, she was near her wit's end. She says her husband had become verbally abusive. No matter what she did, he did not respond.
Like Amanda, Beth began to sense something else was at play. Her husband spent an awful lot of time on the Internet, in chat rooms. When she walked into the home office, he was quick to change screens and defend his activity. He began to go to the gym at odd hours.
"Even weirder was, he showered before he went to the gym," laughs Beth, who says she hopes she is nearing an end to the divorce process.
Her husband also made sure to bring his BlackBerry and laptop with him everywhere he went. Beth was curious enough, and also ready to take the plunge and investigate further. She found some text messages, and then brought in the big guns. One weekend, when he was supposedly away for business, she had a private investigator follow him. On the very first try, she got the evidence she needed. When her husband was served, he found out about the evidence she had compiled.
Darrin Giglio is the president of North American Investigations, which has offices in Mineola and New York City. While his business has always specialized in matrimonial cases, these days Giglio is very busy. He attributes much of that work to the proliferation of the Internet and its impact on marriages across the United States.
"Typically, while conducting preliminary investigations by means of an extensive search through Internet databases, including Facebook, 123people.com, PeekYou.com and MySpace.com, [we] discover more clues used to solve cases than one would think," says Giglio. "Frequently, inappropriate communications and searches for long-lost loves online are observed, and while sometimes the information may only be tiny bits and pieces, in some cases it may be enough to solve the case and prove the suspect guilty."
One client approached North American about his wife's possible cheating. Her behavior and normal routines had changed. The man was unaware his wife was even on Facebook, and North American found her profile during their investigation, which was set to "private." Once they were able to gain access, they found pictures of her with another man, including photos of them kissing. They never had to go any further with their investigation.
His company has on many occasions posed as a fictitious person and gone on Match.com and other dating sites, catching people in their trap with little difficulty. Before you go wondering about entrapment or invasion of privacy when it comes to e-mail addresses, online profiles and the like, realize that this information is easily, and legally, obtained.
Capetola points out that those e-mails are not privileged information, assuming the person trying to find that information has the necessary passwords that would enable them to gain access to e-mail accounts or online profiles.
When the divorce case starts rolling, all of that information is viable and damaging. Milgrim had one case that settled before the trial started because she informed her adversary of the treasure trove of printouts she had gathered from a Facebook profile.
At the end of the day, Facebook is pretty cool. It has also provided a glimpse of the incredible reach and alarming transparency of the Internet. Nothing is sacred at all. Marriages are lost everyday in the avalanche of social networking and dating sites.
Colleen Piazza, a New York State licensed psychotherapist who provides individual marriage and family counseling, knows the story well. Cheating is just a mask for other problems, she says, which gives way to a willingness to live another life.
"What underlies cheating in the first place is someone is dissatisfied with their life, and they look for relief by choosing someone else," says Piazza.
J Date
When it comes to Internet cheating, even if it is with a long-lost love, the relationship is based in fantasy, not reality.
"It's the grass is always greener, pining for unrequited love," says Piazza.
Too often, people do not remember the bad things that happened, especially after many years have passed. They look to those days through rose-colored glasses, forgetting what ended a relationship in the first place.
"[Online], you can say anything you want. Anything is possible," says Piazza.
What makes an extramarital affair exciting is the absence of reality, like bills, kids, in-laws and a slew of other aspects of everyday life that make up the mundane nature of marriage in the first place.
Take Hollywood's depiction of a married couple. They stumble through life, seemingly numb to anything exciting or passionate. At night, our movie couple sits up reading, clad in pajamas, awash in boring conversation about the kids or how the rugs need to be shampooed. Now think of Hollywood's image of an unmarried couple, having sex in stairwells, elevators, taxi cabs—anywhere they can. In the 2002 movie Unfaithful, the gorgeous Diane Lane is overcome with passion when she meets, by accident, a young hipster in the city. She is a suburban housewife, married to Richard Gere. When she gets home, it's Boringtown. Get her in the city, and she is a cowgirl breaking a steer.
In other words, Hollywood thinks marriage sucks.
Noel Biderman won't go that far. In 2001, after the Internet bubble burst, the former sports agent was looking for a new business venture. In the wake of the Bill Clinton scandal and the downtick of Internet stocks, Biderman says that the only part of the Internet that did not suffer was dating. His research revealed that many people who took part in Internet dating were married or otherwise spoken for. A market was identified. His business creation is perhaps the most controversial on the Internet.
He then launched AshleyMadison.com, combing that year's most popular names for baby girls in the hope of attracting women members as well as men. The site's now infamous tagline is "Life is short. Have an affair." The site caters to the married and committed and helps them find like-minded people who want nothing more than a fling with someone who is in a relationship.
He has been vilified in the media. The ladies of The View almost burned him at the stake. Biderman takes it all in stride.
"Cheating is part of the human condition," he says. "Physiologically, we are not programmed for monogamy."
Oh, Biderman himself does not necessarily practice what he preaches, or at least facilitates. He's been married for seven years and has two children. He believes that the right environment for children to be raised in is comprised of two parents. Monogamy is alive and well in the Biderman household.
The site's 4.6 million members don't agree with his personal philosophy. They do like his business, though. They pay a minimum of $49.99 each to accumulate credits, which can be used any time. There is no monthly charge like on conventional dating sites.
Biderman's site, he says, is not meant to wreck marriages, but rather strengthen them. He points out that the infidelity rate in countries like Britain or France are higher than the U.S., but their divorce rates are lower.
Biderman says he has research to back up his theories. He also says that women are just as apt to cheat, or take up with a married man even if the lady is single. His site is comprised overwhelmingly of males, which is about 70 percent of the membership. But of the women who are members, about 40 percent are single. That means they know they are poaching another woman's man.
"The truth is, women say they can't find a good man, and if they do and he is not being taken care of by his girlfriend or wife, they are very happy to do it," he says.
Of course, that may not always be the case. Amanda feels like she has always taken pretty good care of her man. She knows she is not perfect, but who is? Things are better in her house, but her eyes remain wide open. That was never the case before Facebook.
"I trusted him unconditionally. If someone said they saw him in bed naked with someone, I would have thought there was a logical explanation," she says as she exhales a drag from a cigarette. She is feeling better, gaining back the 20-plus pounds she lost after Stan had called it quits.
"But now, it's always in the back of my mind. I could not do it again. I can forgive you once, but not twice. Our life will never be that innocent again. We still love each other, but thanks to Facebook, it will never be the same."
*All names with an asterisk have been changed.
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Addressing Russian Propaganda
We want to share with you a text about the strategies and plots of Russian propaganda. It was published on the site praleski.org in early March, before the crimes of the Russian army were given wide publicity, but we paid attention to it only now. Much of what was described in the text and seemed to be part of propaganda became an ideology and even a strategy of the war.
In the original publication, the text is available in several languages.
Propaganda is only powerful because we are weak and lack connection to each other. We still haven't learned how to analyze sources. Profit oriented social media networks are increasingly our main communication channels and are not well-situated for horizontal information sharing, as they create almost isolated bubbles alienating us from each other. Old media is centralized and biased, eliminating our voices, and we've lost control over the new media platforms. However, if we understand this reality, there may be a path forward.
We shouldn't give too much credit to ideologists or useful idiots; they're not smart enough to turn people into media-zombies. People make zombies out of themselves. Russian state actors are practically unable to create new ideas. Fortunately for them, the old ideas are sufficient enough to meet their aims.
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"I don't really get what's going on, so I'm not going to involve myself"
Since at least since 2014, Russian propaganda has not necessarily aimed to convince the consumer to support Russia directly: it's not an easy task and it's complicated to create a universal narrative for such a purpose.
It's much easier to neutralize those who are unaware or are undecided — in this kind of haze, it's easier to push narratives suitable for the Russian Government. This is why the field is so overwhelmed with fake news: the crazier and more emotional the better, creating a destabilizing sense of chaos. This lack of clarity intentionally dissolves the boundaries between real facts and total fiction. In this context, actors with the ability to spam all accessible space quickly from the most bots are the most successful.
All of us know this feeling, as it somewhat reflects our realities. We are alienated from decision-making processes that influence our own destinies. If we accept this as the full truth, we may not take action. To address this devastating feeling, many turn to conspiracy theories in order to gain some (even if imaginary) confidence and agency. This process may be even worse than inactivity because these theories primarily push right wing values, narrowing windows of opportunities for us and those around us. The only way to actually address this feeling is to take destiny into your own hands, test the boundaries of possibility, make errors, take responsibility for them, and move forward. It's definitely more fun and offers more hope than going crazy out of powerlessness.
Russia as a pole against Global Hegemony and a uni-polar world
The concept of the polar world springs from Eurocentrism, broadly. Historically, the Cold War and the bipolar system were simple and convenient western cultural narratives connected to countering the threat from the East. Because of this, the concept persists. However, modern Russia isn't a significant global player in economics. You don't need bombs to destroy Russia: economic sanctions would suffice. Russia is also no longer a cultural touchstone. Still, some who are nostalgic or stuck in the past imagine it to be the one of the biggest global players — with positive or negative connotations varying depending on with whom you're speaking. Leftists see Lenin, rockets spaceships and Gagarin, and the hegemony of the proletariat; conservatives see LeninStalin, spaceships nuclear rockets, and hegemony of the proletariatCommunists.
Russia itself doesn't have any future projects. It relies on its imaginary bright past rather than a positive vision of the future, reaping content from different epochs with varied success. This situation also attracts some conservatives, who see Russia as the last stronghold of tradition just as their predecessors saw the east through an orientalist lens more than a hundred years ago. On the other hand, Russia is also attractive for some who authentically oppose conservatives, from the lense of anticolonial and anti-racist movements.
These movements' theoretical bases were formed parallel to the establishment of academic post-colonial studies and burgeoning national liberation movements in the periphery. Both derived critical components of their foundations from Marxism. Anti-colonial approaches within the Marxist tradition are directly connected to the work of Soviet theorists from the 1920s, when Soviet Russia needed international support. The Soviet Union was developing the idea of the world internationalist revolution, and was directly supporting anti-racist and anti-colonial movements across the world. It's true that if you only read the texts of that era, especially in comparison with Western academic texts of the time, you would have a hard time believing that modern Russia could be the same "prison of nations" as Lenin described Tsarist Russia.
The colonial history of the Soviet and Russian empires is a blind spot for most. This blindness makes it easier to believe that anti-colonial movements on the periphery of the USSR and Russia are solely made up of nationalist reactionaries supported by the West. While Russia is unable to define and control discourse about itself, it can take advantage of narratives established in the West. Effective pro-Russian narratives are not intentionally crafted, but emerge through trial and error. Ironically, the West created and used frameworks against Russia that Russia is now using to restore and stabilize its own colonial power. People who actively oppose the West's colonialism may end up supporting Russia's because of their lack of awareness of the history of the defeated.
The Western Russophobia
First of all, the term Russophobia was invented by Russian antisemites to legitimize repression against Jewish populations in the Russian Empire. Without going to deep into historical conversations, we should admit that empires which held significant colonized Slavic populations, like the Austro-Hungarian and German empires, formed an ideological complex which could be called anti-Slavic. This concept hit its climax under German National Socialism.
For the Nazis, Russians represented the essence of everything Slavic. After the fall of the Third Reich, these anti-Russian ideas were partially integrated into the broader anti-communist ideology of Western conservatives. They used "Russian" as a synonym for "communist" and the whole multi-ethnic population of the Soviet Empire was reduced to an image of "Russian." This dehumanized figure of the "Communist from Russia", which you can see in the anti-communist imagery of the 1950-80s, is easy to mix up with orientalized visuals from the 19th century. For Leftists too, the image of the Russian was strictly connected with their own idealized communism. They were accustomed to standing up for Russian communists practically as a reflex, allowing them to support Soviet imperialism by way of default. Russian propaganda doesn't invent anything new, but uses old narratives of the West for its own purposes. Any struggle against Russian hegemony they would also call Russophobia.
Russian Anti-fascism: Why Putin Continues to Discuss his "anti-fascist" mission
In "the country that defeated fascism," no serious theory of fascism ever emerged. For the common Soviet citizen, fascism meant simply the quintessence of evil without any clear substance. Though the term was definitely connected to the Second World War, which in Russia is called the Great Fatherland War, the concept of the "Great Fatherland War" does not exactly have the same meaning as "World War Two." The First Fatherland War was the war with Napoleon in the 19th century. The Great Fatherland War started in 1941 with the German invasion of the Soviet Union and ended officially with the German capitulation on the 9th of May 1945, Moscow time. The difference from the Western conceptualization of this war is that in the Russian context it is seen as a continuation of Western invasions from the Teutons in the 13th century, to Polish troops in the 17th century, to Napoleon, and Hitler. The Soviet Union would continue taking part in the Second World War beyond May, 1945, fighting Japan, but this is not included in the idea of the Great Fatherland War.
This concept developed with time and wasn't concrete during the events themselves. The more time that passed after the end of the war, the more important it became for the national myth. The main iconography of the Second World War was stabilized in the 70s. During the late '90s, and particularly with Putin, May 9th became the main patriotic event in Russia. There are really only two holidays in Russia that create some kind of unity for the nation: the New Year and Victory Day.
Victory is connected with the idea of an eschatological fight between good and evil. In this fight, the Chosen Russian Nation sacrifices itself, saving the world, defeating evil, asserting itself in the very process of sacrifice. The bigger the sacrifice, the bigger the role in victory — this is why the Soviet Union always tried to claim the largest number of victims and devastation in WWII. Russia continues to use this rhetoric of sacrifice to legitimize its claim as the main defeater of Nazi Germany. This is quite absurd, considering the fact that the majority of victims and devastation belonged to today's independent states of Belarus and Ukraine.
According to dominant ideology, the main condition to achieve victory in the Fatherland War was the unity of the Russian nation. For Leo Tolstoy in War and Peace, this unity crystallized around the ideas of fatherland and ethics. In (post-)Stalin times, this unity was granted by the idea of a leader and a loyalty to Moscow.
This means that everyone who wasn't loyal to the leader personally, or at least the collective leadership of the Soviet Union, was a fascist. In Soviet times, there was an understanding that the USSR defeated fascism as a family of nations (this text primarily uses the word "nation" to refer to the Russian concept of nation in ethnic and racial terms) led by a big Russian brother. During the past decade, this concept has shifted towards the idea that only ethnic Russians defeated fascism while all other ethnicities were insignificant or disruptive. This shift was connected to the writings of the Russian Cultural Minister Vladamir Medinsky.
The united Russians were seen as anti-fascist by their very nature. Practically, this meant that the leader would be able to define what fascism is and isn't.
This is why today Putin doesn't need any proof to claim there are "fascists in power" in Ukraine (He often uses the word nationalism for a synonym of fascism and nazism). The idea of being Ukrainian itself means being a fascist traitor against Russians. "De-Nazification of Ukraine" for Putin means bringing Ukrainians to obedience. It isn't a fight with particular politicians or ideas, it is a fight against widely understood independence. This logic means that every kind of independence of "canonically Russian territories" is fascism and will have to be dealt with sooner or later. Such an anti-fascism is completely disconnected from any values or content and can be used to justify any action taken by the central Russian government.
Liberation of Ukraine, Defeating Fascists, and Ukrainians Welcoming Russian Armed Forces
The Russian idea of "nation" uses not only ethnic othering to define its own boundaries (which is common to many nationalisms), but also the idea of the "corrupted Russian". "Othering" in this sense generally refers to people who are not considered white, including populations from the Caucasus, Central Asia, or elsewhere within the Russian borders. However, the role of corrupted Russians is played by other Slavic ethnicities, such as Ukrainians or people of Belarus. A particular exampe is the use of a story of Ukrainian General Mazepa, which was one of the primary cultural references in Russia during its nation-building.
During the repression of the 1930's, ethnic deportations were massive. As they continued during the war, they began being justified through accusations of whole nations collaboration with Nazis. Soviet and later Russian ideologists love to mention collaborator units formed by Nazis during the war, composed of different ethnic groups in the USSR. By creating this figure of Traitor-Nations, they can leave out the fact that most of the collaborators were Russians — to legitimate colonial politics and ethnic repression.
Russia sees Ukrainian territory as historically Russian. In this view, Ukrainians are part of the Russian nation, co-opted and polluted by the West, much like Tolkien's orcs and elves. This view also posits that the "healthy" part of Ukrainian society is suffering under the yoke of Ukraine (meaning the West and fascists) and is hungry to reunite with the Russian nation, to speak the Russian language, and to kiss the boots of Russian power. Only fascists and Western agents can be against these essential needs. Many Russian soldiers and the general public truly believe that they will be met as liberators [1]. The annexation of Crimea and the propaganda successes of 2014 were so overwhelming that they might even believe as much in the Kremlin.
At this moment, most Ukrainians are desperately defending themselves, volunteering to join their territorial defense forces. Russia is seen as an occupier and a threat to the very existence of Ukrainians, not only in abstract terms (such as their existence as a nation) but in concrete terms, as a threat to individuals who will not submit to Russian power. Russia has denied the very existence of "Ukrainians" in its own propaganda for so long that they have started to believe that they mean it. This also means that average Ukrainians have reason to expect from Russia actions on par with those committed by Nazis during the Second World War. Hopefully it will not reach the scale of Nazi deeds, but the rhetoric of Putin becomes more radical every day. Ria Novosti, Russian official state media agency already referred to "Ukrainian question" with a statement "Putin took historical responsibility and decided not to leave the solution of Ukrainian question to the future generations". That statement implies at least completely subjugating the population. Ukrainian President Zelenskyy mentioned in a recent speech that all the events are reminiscent of the summer of 1941. The Russian side is filling social networks with statements and videos that only support these expectations.
Russian Speakers are at Risk in Ukraine
The issue of so-called oppression of Russian-speaking populations in Ukraine is directly linked to the discussion of language. Even now, after all these years of conflict, a majority of the population is bilingual rather than monolingual. Russian and Ukrainian are very similar and it's not a big challenge to learn Ukrainian in several months as a Russian speaker. As a person living in the country, watching TV and consuming media in general, you can barely avoid learning it. If you don't understand Ukrainian, it's basically a political statement.
On the other hand, for economic reasons, most cultural production (books, music, and cinema) in Ukraine has been largely produced in the Russian language in order to have an entrance to the bigger Russian market. That is to say that there are no reasons to see the Russian language as endangered in Ukraine. There have been several pieces of legislation "for the Ukrainian language". Official media, state bureaucracy and education, are mostly in Ukrainian. But no aspects of everyday life were ever regulated in terms of restricting the use of the Russian language.
This language issue is more or less all there is to discuss if we were to talk about ethnic discrimination in Ukraine. The distinction between ethnic Russians and Ukrainians is hard to tell without self-identification. Politicians have been trying to play up regional differences, connecting them to language, constantly. This entire distinction was mostly coming from above, rather than from the people. Even actual Nazis from the Azov regiment have used Russian as their language of communication. Over time, this question has become more and more of an identity issue. Lots of people have started to use Ukrainian as a political statement. Many politicians (Ukrainian and Russian) use this identity issue to distract people from social issues, corruption, and so on. From a closer look, it seems that the issue of oppression of Russian-speakers is mostly a manipulation and is not connected to reality on the ground.
Ukraine as a Fascist State
Following what is discussed above, a fascist state for Putin is any disloyal state on the territory which Russia perceives as its own.
In fact, Ukraine is a much more pluralist society than Russia. Political representation in parliament shifts with time following electoral logic. In his recent speeches, Putin has literally cited this as a sign of a failed fascist state. Political parties associated with the Radical Right are not very successful. Although the the Right Wing should not be underestimated, the general situation is far from under their control. Control of Ukraine is dispersed amongst many actors in contrast to Russia.
It seems that Ukrainian state institutions rarely use ethno-nationalist rhetoric, even during war. Zelenskyy is making statements appealing to Russians in the Russian language, trying (at least rhetorically) to distinguish between the Russian state and Russian people, and hopefully ignite their disobedience to the war effort.
Russia is Acting Preventatively, Ukraine is a Threat
The rhetoric of the Russian state is very similar to that which they used during their invasion of Georgia in 2008, which they called "Enforcing the Peace." Ukraine has invested significantly in defenses since 2014, but even if they wanted, they could never reach a capacity to attack Russia. The so-called Peoples' Republics of Donbas was backed by the Russian army from the very beginning. Attacking them would mean attacking Russia. It doesn't seem logical to assume that Ukraine would have risked taking on such an attack. Western military support was hardly substantial. The lethal weapon contributions only increased in the few weeks before this recent invasion as a reaction to Russian preparations for invasion and even then, the weapons delivered to Ukraine are only useful for defense. This purported attack on Donbas was merely an image, rather than an impending reality.
Russian rhetoric isn't grounded in fact-checking or research, but is rather invented and tends to follow a typical victim-blaming storyline. It wouldn't have mattered what Ukraine chose to do, even an ounce of will to resist or assertion of sovereignty would be interpreted as a threat to Russia. Having the means to resist increases the severity of this perceived threat. Even talking to Russia as equals is perceived as aggression. Putin quoted the old aphorism, clearly referencing rape, in describing his decisions regarding Ukraine: "Whether you like it or not, you should bear it."
Conflict as a Clash between Russia and NATO
As stated before, NATO has no significant presence in Ukraine. It has hardly any soldiers or weapons and no military bases. Even now in a situation of full-scale invasion, they are only sending weapons and are clearly avoiding any direct confrontation with Russia. The very idea that Russia has any claim on the territory of Ukraine endangers all countries that Russia sees now (or will see in the future) as their canonical territories. This feeling of danger is pushing locals more into the arms of NATO than any actions from NATO itself. Looking at Georgia and even Finland, you can see the impact that this threat has on internal discussions about joining NATO. The war in 2014 was a Christmas present for NATO, which until then had quite a hard time in Europe, and afterwards faced an unending revival.
This argument is usually linked to the conception that any politics is a subset of geopolitics. This assumption doesn't consider the agency of individuals, societies, or states that are too small for the global stage. This thinking is also a type of conspiracy theory in which all actions are fueled by this or that superpower. This is also usually an expression of the spectator's Big Brother complex, a lens through which nothing can happen without the actions of "us," the global actors, good or evil. It implies the usage of familiar explanatory models in place of actual analysis from the ground. Local perspectives might be used, but only filtered through expert institutions of the Metropols.
This analysis becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Ignoring locals and their actions or perspectives makes them disappear from the media, cuts them off from support, and in a crisis situation like right now, could literally mean extinction.
Two Imperialisms are the Same
The default anti-military position is that when two imperial powers fight each other, you don't take a side. This position is convenient but it's not the situation that's happening. It's absolutely clear that Russia, with its overwhelming military and economic power, is trying to take full control of its ex-colony. Russia might not be a global player but it is absolutely a regional hegemon. Ideologically, these countries are totally different now. Russia is a political black hole, everything falling into its gravitational field disappears. From the total shutdown of political life in the already occupied regions of Ukraine, to the support of all sorts of Right-Wing tendencies everywhere they reach, Russia is the most powerful right-wing force in the region. In Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia they are financing local Nazis, lobbying for homophobic laws, militarizing countries, deepening ethnic conflicts, supporting dictators, and simply extinguishing peoples' uprisings with blood.
There aren't two imperialisms here, there's just one imperialism against the people.
You should choose your side. It might be too late, even the very moment you are reading it.
1. At the very moment of creating this text more and more news are coming which reflecting the shock of Russian soldiers realizing this is not so.


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Hi everyone! And happy Monday! Guess what guys? I'm back from the beach. And although I really, really hated to leave, I have to say that I'm definitely happy to be back. I missed you guys! But I hope you stopped in while I was gone! A big thanks goes out to all my sweet blogger friends who were lovely enough to share some of their color palette favorites while I was away. Chandra, Kate, Emma, Sara and Chris, you girls are the best! I really love the color palettes you all came up with and I'm definitely feeling inspired!
That's the thing about taking vacations. I don't know about you, but I always come back feeling newly inspired, and re-energized. Speaking of inspiration, today's color palette is all about capturing a light and airy feel with subtle pops of punchy color. I find peach and green to be romantic and fresh and just bursting with feel good vibes. What do you think? Are you liking the way these colors work together?
18 Comments " Color Story | Peach Loves Green "
Welcome back–and what a gorgeous board to kick off this week!
I love these colors for a spring/summer wedding.. amazing!
Welcome back! Such a fabulous palette to kick off your return!!
Yes! One of my favorite-est color combos ever!
Always a perfect palette, but never better than in the spring.
I don't know if I can say enough good things about this palette. So fresh, soft, and romantic -- PERFECTION! Absolutely love it!
You ALWAYS make me see color combos in a new way... not only that but combos I never thought of before. I love how light and soft these shades of peach are and they look absolutely perfect with green!
Utterly in love with these pallets.
Such a great color combination! Love the centerpiece!
Beautiful colors :) Really love this.
Peach And Green are just perfect together. Loved the combination.


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Green Bay Packaging (GBP) was highlighted in the Green Masters Company Spotlights as one of two companies that achieved success in their ongoing sustainability mission.
"In preparation for Earth Month, we decided to reach out to a couple Green Masters level companies as a way to highlight the success that they have had with regards to sustainability. The Green Masters program prides itself on the fact that it can be successfully utilized by any company, big or small, experienced or inexperienced. That is why we decided to seek out two companies that have successfully transformed their businesses to become more sustainable, while taking very different paths," wrote the Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council (WSBC).
The Green Master Program reached out to GBP to ask them a few questions related to their recent sustainability success, to provide some high-quality knowledge from an industry leader.
Green Bay Packaging (GBP) strives for achievements and continuous improvement in sustainability programs to advance sustainability stewardship within our operations and external stakeholders targets. Since inception and as a pilot company of the Green Master Program, GBP has initiated and implemented advancing systems of core sustainability areas to accomplish awareness, key performance indicator (KPI) transparency and improvements across our company.
In 2018, GBP started a significant investment in our business and community with a $500 million new state-of-the-art paper mill complex that incorporates reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, estimated reductions of 90%, with retirement of coal and cleaner natural gas fuel for the mill. The project is a first of this size in Wisconsin to reclaim-recycle waters with adjoining sewerage district. The benefits to this project on environment energy impacts and optimized resources, which align with EPA's water sustainability considerations that embrace water recycling stewardship practices.
Green Bay Packaging (GBP) was recognized from the Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council for the ninth consecutive year, in 2018. This award emphasizes our dedication to sustainability initiatives and achievements throughout our operations while pursuing business excellence.
What role has the GMP played with regards to these sustainability achievements?
The Green Masters Program has prompted us to capture more detailed data, key performance emphasis on cause and effect assessments and an increased collaboration with sites on achievements and projects that produced beneficial sustainable results. Beneficially such projects model a best practice that other sites can consider for innovation and opportunity. The GMP survey and questions incited an assessment of opportunities that has guided our business on where we could focus efforts for optimal improvements including rank based on our score placement in the various topics. It also helps us generate ideas through networking and sharing so we are always improving and aspiring to become better. In addition, the recognition for being a Green Master is an acknowledgment that sites find rewarding too and serves of a continued incentive of site champion staff efforts to improve.
Do you have any advice that you would give to a company that is interested in sustainability, however, may not have much experience with it?
A wealth of sustainability information is available on the internet! Looking at like businesses and seeing what others are doing through their website and sustainability report communications is a great start. Self-education on sustainability programs, like ISO, GRI, SMETA and science-based programs, provides awareness, demonstration, and expectations in business sustainability environments. To start, a baseline survey helps show you where your strengths are and where you need to start strategizing to improve. Utilize the networking aspect of the GMP program and other sustainability network groups. GMP has a great mentoring program for companies that want help with their questionnaires. Focus on what makes sense for your business and what is going to make you a better company.
Have your sustainability achievements impacted any other aspects of the company? (profits, community feedback, employee engagement…etc)?
GBP sustainability KPI metric data and assessments on opportunities resulted in projects and innovations that reduced impacts, less water or energy, and beneficial project outcomes that reduced environmental impacts and costs. GBP site-specific sustainability programs increase employee awareness and influence site champions. Our commitment on sustainability has given a competitive edge when it comes to our customer base. It has also allowed us to maintain an ongoing and positive relationship with our communities and fostered great collaborative initiatives to increase sustainable achievements for GBP and the neighborhood.
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"E-Commerce sales are growing at an expediential rate and GBP is focused on helping our customers with end to end E-commerce solutions. Joining the APASS network provides us with another service to help our customers increase sales within the E-Commerce space," said Rick Luftman, Vice President of National Sales & Marketing at Green Bay Packaging.
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Many issues affect rural areas and villages on a on-going basis: local services, planning, traffic, transport, care of the elderly, provision for children, supporting schools, voluntary groups and, of course, parish councils.
On the East Riding of Yorkshire Council, as with all local authorities, one of its biggest challenges is how it can handle the reduction in public expenditure. The Council is better placed than most because of its planned approach. In the next financial year despite having to save £12m all services will be protected, some new initiatives will come forward and there will be no increase in council tax.
The Council has also been able to respond to the worst winter weather in 100 years and now faces the task of repairing damage to the highway network. All of this work will be completed and is an example, because of sound financial management, of how we can respond.
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My commitment is to carry on promoting sound financial management, which results in delivering sound services.


Over the course of his long business career, which is closing in on three decades now, Robert F. Bernstock has played leadership roles with several companies and he has been endorsed for his skill in several business areas, such as leadership, negotiation, team building, strategic planning, organizational development and change management. All of those are important for any company in the current business environment. He knows all of this because he has done it all and he continues to work hard for whichever company he helps. His experience is impressive and he knows a lot.
It is clear that Robert F. Bernstock believes that embracing change is a critical trait that every business should have. It is a key to success because that is how businesses become more efficient, effective and profitable. The only constant in any business environment is change. That may be why Bob Bernstock has been chosen to serve on several public and private company boards, where he often helps guide those companies to make the changes they need to lead them to greater success.