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Mary J. Blige Brings Order To The AMAs
November 23, 2009 | 11:00 am
Last night's American Music Awards telecast was a circus. Between J-Lo falling down during what was supposed to be her triumphant return to the stage and Lady Gaga's fiery piano and Rihanna's flashing lights shoulder pads, the ladies were running this muthafather...into the ground. One of the few females keeping the show from drowning was Mary J. Blige, who stood above the rest in her six-inch heels and sang her new single, "I Am." While the song had to grow on me, the performance sure didn't. It was simple, yet effective. Grown folks music. Those other females should take notes. You know, in between prat falls and lighting firecrackers. Take a peek below, as the Month of Mary rolls on.
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November 23, 2009 • 11:15 am
Harlem, I concur. The AMA's was an utter fiasco, but Mary was the saving grace. She looked fabulous, and her performance shined. I've liked "I Am" from the beginning, but after hearing it live, I love it, even more. Mary's moment is a great reminder that sometimes 'less is more'!
This show last night was HAM and its for the kids. I feel like I am too old to watch this show and I am only 29. I remember back in the 80s I would beg my mom to let me watch the AMAs because I thought they were better than the Grammys. 20 plus years later and I conclude that I am done with ALL awards shows. Too much drama in the acts and concentration on vocals came last. I still don't get the hype about Rihanna. I am over this HARD good girl gone demon act - she is not a good performer rather than an actress going through the motions. I would love to hear Janet Jackson sing a ballad - I stan hard for Janet Jackson since the age of 6 (in fact "The Knowledge" is playing on my iPod as I type this) but there comes a time when you should put the dances in the closet. Shakira watched "Stomp The Yard" about two years too late. I can't. This show was a mess but why I couldn't turn the channel is like everybody else - we like to sit around and critique. Adam Lambert - have a seat and do some rock opera, Simon Cowell set you up.
Why isnt anyone talking about how bad, Rihanna's performance was? Mary was the saving grace!!
I saw the last half of the awards and i wwas not impressed. The two shining stars were MJB as everyone has noted. i liked the song and she kept it classy. I also, surprisingly, like whitney's song. She sounded much better than I expected- she stayed in her current voacl range without trying to recapture the notes of yesteryear. Her voice waivered like once, but all in all, she sounded and looked good. I was happy for her.
She and Mary J. stuck to singing and avoided all the "over-the-top" theatrics everyobody else did. And it worked for them both!
Smooooth
You know, I'm actually over thirty but I swear, some of you really sound old! There's a lot to be said for theatrical live performances and I think what Janet, Lady GaGa and BEP did was actually pretty excellent. Mary isn't a great singer by any stretch of the imagination so she needed some choreography for her performance.
@ LANGSTON
Choreography? lol It's a mid-tempo track. Sounding old is not the issue. I thoroughly enjoyed Janet's, Jay's, Alicia's and Black Eye Peas performances. However, Rihanna and Lady Ga Ga were just excessive and tacky.
ill Mami
@ Langston:
"Mary isn't a great singer by any stretch of the imagination." Wow. Just waiting for the backlash...


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Dobele es una villa de la región cultural de Semigalia en Letonia, y se encuentra cerca del centro del país a la orilla del río Bērze. Obtuvo los derechos de villa en 1917 mientras formada parte del la Gobernación de Curlandia durante la ocupación alemana en la Primera Guerra Mundial.

Historia
El primer registro histórico de Dobele se remonta a 1254, sin embargo, en aquella época sólo era una fortaleza de madera que fue destruida durante la Guerra de Independencia Semigaliana (1279–1290), fase final de las Cruzadas bálticas en Letonia.
En este lugar, se erigió un nuevo castillo de piedra en 1335 alrededor del cual comenzó a crecer un pequeño asentamiento. Las ruinas de la fortaleza todavía son visibles y están siendo restauradas. Se construyó una iglesia en 1495 y finalmente la fortaleza se convirtió en el mercado local. Durante el siglo XVII, bajo el mandato del duque Jacob Kettler, aparecieron un molino de agua, un aserradero así como una productora de vinagre. En 1927 la línea de ferrocarril Jelgava-Liepāja conectaba la población con otras villas importantes lo que produjo un importante desarrollo en la zona.

Fiestas
Ielīgosim Jāņus, celebración del solsticio de verano
Jubileja o festival, cambia de fecha anualmente.

Demografía

Personajes Ilustres
 Viktors Ščerbatihs, medallista olímpico
 Lauris Reiniks, músico.
 Alexei Kudrin, Ministro de Economía de Rusia.
 Kristaps Abimeicevs, estrella de Floorball.
Bárbara D'Achille, ecologista litonio-peruana.

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Weekly Wrap-up: Jio Telecom Wars, BSNL Free Voice, Aadhaar Card Usage & More…
By Editorial Staff On Sep 26, 2016
It's yet another Monday morning, and its time to do a quick wrap-up of the posts published on trak.in last week. If you were offline for any reason this a great way to catch up with all the tech buzz.
As per reports, Flipkart wants to target fashion category, and capture massive 50% of the market share. On the other hand, Amazon is looking at a 360 degree view of the situation, and instead of focussing on one single niche, they are empowering their merchants for more sales and more revenues.
Bombay Stock Exchange has tied-up with Twitter, a social media networking site, to provide live stock updates to Twitter users. This is a first of its kind partnership in Asia between a social media company and a stock exchange.
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Reliance Jio had set a target of 100 million subscribers by this year end, however the company has already fallen behind its target by almost 50%. Although the monthly acquisitions are falling behind, the company has surprisingly increased its target from 100 million to 250 million by the end of 2016.
In one of the brutal-est domination plan every unleashed in India, Baba Ramdev is forcing Govt. of India to impose a special 'Sin Tax' on cola giants Coca Cola and Pepsi. On the other hand, talks are on sell Patanjali's products in ration shops (also called Fair Price Shops) in Madhya Pradesh
In one of the strongest worded warnings ever issues, Govt. has stopped public agencies from any unauthorized usage of Aadhaar card data, and have declared that consent of the user is must before using the data for any purpose. Violation of this rule can attract heavy penalty as well as prison term.
After Supreme Court of India scolded search engine giants Google, Microsoft and Yahoo for showing gender test advertisements, they have agreed to stop such ads with immediate effect.
Twitter India also will be closing its development centre in Bengaluru, that specifically houses engineers in India. The move is expected to impact about 50-60 engineers at Twitter Bengaluru, that have been working in ZipDial, a mobile marketing platform, that was acquired by Twitter almost 15 months back.
Andhra Pradesh Government wants to experiment Drone technology and use it to its advantage. People do say that drones can be used for wrong purposes by the wrong people, but they can also be used by the right people for the right purposes, in this case for governance.
In Opera 40, the company has integrated forever free VPN service, first amongst its rivals, that will give you the freedom to browse whatever you want. Opera says that the browser VPN creates a secure connection to one of Opera's five server locations around the world.
Xiaomi launched the much awaited Mi Band 2 in India last week on 21 September, 2016. The Mi Band 2 launch was accompanied by Mi Air Purifier's India debut as well.
Google Allo has now been officially launched worldwide, and it will slowly come to your devices. The text messaging app will be available on Android and iOS and will help you make plans, find information, and express yourself more easily in chat.
Symbol, a private fashion label, has been launched by Amazon to capture the high-margin e-fashion niche in India, and the timing of this launch is just perfect to make a major dent in the niche.
It has been a while since Jio has been complaining about the insufficient PoIs released by incumbents for its 4G VoLTE network. A few days back we also covered a news story about Airtel and Idea promising sufficient PoIs to Jio. However Jio claims that the incumbents have not done anything on the ground.
At a time when Internet users is all set to expand to 730 million and the ecommerce market is about to touch $34 billion mark, thereby giving offline retail some serious competition; Indian Govt. is still clueless about the niche.
India's 2nd largest telecom operator, Vodafone has now launched a new range of recharge packs called FLEX for offering true flexibility to its prepaid subscribers.
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A car is the second biggest investment in an average Indian's lifetime (house being the first), and, being a depreciating asset, it requires more frequent and costly maintenance. Traditionally, a car owner has three options – an OEM authorized service centre, a Multi-brand service centre or a local unbranded workshop.
One of the most requested facilities at these CCD outlets has been the internet. Till now, CCD patrons needed to pay for the internet, and that discouraged many – but not any more. Café Coffee Day will now be offering free Wi-Fi internet access to customers at its cafes in select cities across the country.
As a gesture, Uber India will be featuring driver partners that have helped the brand grow in India. A campaign called 'Move Forward' has been launched by the company exclusively for India to appreciate the zeal of the partners.
Non cash or digital payments have been growing exceptionally since the last decade and the report points to the fact that non cash payment volume stands at a record of 426.3 billion transactions in 2015 from 387.3 billion transactions recorded in 2014 ie a 10.1% growth.
To make bookings more flexible and allow customers to check-in early, depending on the travel itinerary, Oyo Rooms has introduced an early check-in feature that will allow you to check-in as early as 6AM in the morning.
State run BSNL has decided to take on the tsunami unleashed by Reliance Jio in a massive way. Igniting a new level of telecom war, BSNL has decided to offer free lifetime voice calls for all their customers.
HDFC Bank has been declared as India's top brand with value of $14.4 billion. This is for the 3rd consecutive time that HDFC has been held the title of India's top brand.
Razorpay, a leading payment gateway company has now announced support for UPI on its platform. With UPI's integration, Razorpay has become the first payment gateway in India to have UPI enabled on their platform.
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Huawei has been looking for an opportunity in India to set up its manufacturing facility and the day has finally come. Honouring the 'Make in India' initiative, Huawei will be starting production of smartphones in India from the first week of October.
Snapchat has been renamed to Snap Inc. to align with its existing and future projects. With the rebranding comes the first hardware product from the company, called Spectacles. These are like any other usual pair of trendy sunglasses, but come with a tiny Google Glass-like camera on the sides to record anything in front of you.
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PRIMAL SCREAM live at UNIVERSITY OF LONDON UNION (1987)
A treat for fans of early Primal Scream, a complete live show from ULU around the time of their debut album, the marvellous Sonic Flower Groove. Showcasing most of that record, plus a Shadows of Knight cover, Bobby Gillespie and co flippity-flop behind their fringes in full-on Byrdsian mode complete with John Martin employed to bash a tambourine large enough for a warbling young Boaby to use as a hula-hoop, if he'd the strength.
The footage has been posted by Primal Scream Preservation Project who've also added some later Scream gigs.
With a nod of the bowlcut to Carl Anton Leopold Wessely whose Facebook post alerted me to this treasure.
Labels: primal scream
AUGUST PLAYLIST
Standing In The Shadows: Little Ann
1. Big Jay McNeely and his Band – 'Psycho Serenade' (1959)
On the appropriately named Swingin' label, Little Sonny Warner takes the lead vocal and battles against creaking doors, laughing gibbons, general nuttiness and jittery rhythms on this madcap 45.
2. Little Ann – 'Deep Shadows' (1967)
Sounds like in was recorded in a Detroit tin shack but Little Ann's truly stunning vocal will stop you in your tracks and tear straight to your heart. Phenomenal and rightly something of a belated classic.
3. Art Butler – 'Soul Brother' (1968)
The name might not be familiar but Artie Butler had a hand in a humongous number of hits from 'Leader Of The Pack', 'Chapel Of Love', 'Solitary Man' to 'What A Wonderful Life' and beyond. Here he lets loose on the Hammond for surely the funkiest, grooviest go-go few minutes of his career.
4. Slim Harpo – 'The Hippy Song' (1969)
"Let me tell you something, long hair don't make you bad". Check out old Slim here rooting for the hippies and sticking it to the high society moneymen shortly before he died. "It's wasn't those long-haired hippies who killed the president". Go Slim!
5. Kim Fowley – 'Animal Man' (1968)
A white-knuckle magic carpet ride over a zoo of lunatics. From Fowley's Outrageous LP.
6. Lee Hazlewood – 'Wait and See' (1968)
The way Hazlewood sings "It's gonna be all right, wait and see" must rank as one of the most soothing examples of the recorded voice ever made.
7. Alice Clark – 'Charms of the Arms of Love' (1972)
"The pulse of time makes a terrible noise", unlike the noise Ms Clark makes on this marvellous, strident slab of jazzy soul. (Note: if searching on Spotify it's marked up incorrectly, so you'll need the one tagged as 'Hard Hard Promises').
8. Julius Brockington – 'Forty-Nine Reasons' (1973)
Brockington was the hip organist but it's Steve Turner's funky flute that steals the show on the spacey closing track on The United Chair.
9. Felt – 'Ballad of the Band' (1986)
Lawrence goes full-on 'Positively 4th Street' Dylan/Al Kooper on this smash miss single from 1986.
10. The Greek Theatre – 'Stray Dog Blues' (2016)
From a new three-track 7-inch EP by Swedish combo who caused gentle ripples of delight from sensitive souls with Lost Out At Sea a couple of years ago. 'Paper Moon' is the lead track but it's this one which does it for me. Not so much stray dog blues but sleeping cat curled under the shade of the tree with a butterfly circling its head. Delicate, warm and beautiful. Available as part of Sunstone Records super-limited 150 Series. Get in quick.
Labels: alice clark, art butler, big jay mcneely, felt, Julius Brockington, kim fowly, lee hazlewood, little ann, slim harpo, the greek theatre
PAUL ORWELL PRESENTS ORGANIZED BLUES (2016)
The organ bursting into flames depicted on Paul Orwell Presents Organized Blues won't win any award for design but amply illustrates what's inside the sleeve of Orwell's latest album; the dozen tracks baked to the heavy vinyl of his second LP will singe the ears and limbs of unprepared listeners.
Last year's spectacular debut Blowing Your Mind Away covered much ground – from Spectoresque pop to freakbeat phantoms – but here Orwell, mindful of his claim to be an artist rather than genre, takes a different approach and serves up a whole LP of fiery instrumentals.
When creating an album of instrumentals there can be a temptation to make it like an imaginary film soundtrack with different moods conjuring open-top sports cars coasting around the alps, a love scene, a chase, a fight and the obligatory club scene. Not so here as Orwell goes straight to the club scene and keeps the dancefloor packed for the duration. It's breathless stuff, played at a frenetic pace, causing old studio engineers in white lab coats to pull out what remains of their hair as Orwell records everything into the red. More organ! Louder! More!
'Don't Do As I Do (Just Do As I Say)' sets the pace, teetering on the very edge of distortion until a guitar solo sears through the track; 'The Wild Walk' is the sound of go-go dancers jiggling down the street; 'Grave Robber' is 'C.C. Rider' rode on the fastest horse out of town; 'Ten Pieces of Ice' could be the Prisoners playing 'In The Midnight Hour' after mainlining amphetamines; 'Stiletto' might've been how Booker T. & the MGs would've played with pointy heels stamping on their toes; and 'Action' is Memphis Soul Stew brought to the boil. And that's simply half of it.
Like a budding Alan Hawkshaw, Paul Orwell has created the soundtrack to the hottest, most swingin' party imaginable. Warning: please ensure all combustible material is stored in a safe place for the duration of this record. Paul Orwell's on fire.
Paul Orwell Presents Organized Blues is out now on Heavy Soul Records. Vinyl only. Very few copies left so be quick!
Labels: heavy soul, organized blues, paul orwell
ANDREW MATHESON (HOLLYWOOD BRATS) at the WALTHAMSTOW ROCK & ROLL BOOK CLUB
In the introduction to Sick On You, Andrew Matheson's account of the trials and tribulations of The Hollywood Brats, his early 70s band who in poverty and cocktail dresses flirted with success only for success to ungraciously slam the door on their lipstick smeared faces, he outlines, on the very first page, the unbreakable rules for a rock 'n' roll band.
In summary, (1) The band should have four or five members; (2) The singer sings. "That's it. If the singer can't think what to do with himself during a bandmate's solo he should consider a career as a bank teller"; (3) This is an important one. "Great hair, straight hair, is a must and is non-negotiable. If a member starts going thin on top put an ad in Melody Maker immediately"; (4) No facial hair. "Jerry Garcia is no sane, recently showered girl's idea of a pin-up"; and (5) No girlfriends. "Two words: Yoko and Ono".
This was 1971 but those rules should still be adhered to. I bristle with discomfort every time Shindig! magazine feature a beard on their front cover, which is all too frequently. So, naturally, I felt a huge sense of kinship with the Brats and Matheson's ideals which increased throughout the book when he envisaged the band thus: "The sound we hear in our joint 45rpm cerebral cortex is a guitar with six Vietnamese razor-wire strings played by a great-looking madman whipped on by a rhythm section playing at blitzkrieg speed behind a mouthy vocal screeching the gospel." Sign these boys up!
Only no one did sign them up. Well, that's not entirely true, they were signed but not to a record company headed by their hero Andrew Loog Oldham's mate as they thought - contracts? Pah! Who reads those? – but to a production company who although got the band recording an album at Olympic Studios, following in the Stones' snakeskin boot-steps with photographs by Gered Mankowitz to match, were in fact a business run on behalf the Krays whose incarceration was a mere inconvenience. A fact which scared any and every prospective record label in the land to say no quicker than if they'd been asked if they'd called Ronnie a fat poofter.
Not that the total lack of success (if you discount the 563 copies of their LP which belatedly limped out in Norway after the band had disintegrated) makes Matheson's book any less engaging. Far from it: the disasters and mishaps; the eels and the rats; the broken teeth and broken locks; the Detol and the dogs; and the shoulder rubbing with a motley crew of friends and foes only adds to the frankly ludicrous story. Oh, I nearly forgot, The Hollywood Brats' music did, on occasion, like their anthem-that-never-was 'Sick On You', deliver everything they dreamed about. Seething, searing, rock 'n' roll that grabs ya by the balls and gives them an almighty squeeze.
The Walthamstow Rock & Roll Book Club is a marvellous thing. It's not a traditional book club in the sense people read a nominated work and then sit around in a knitting circle dissecting it, rather it's run by Mark Hart, a Fall fanatic and local music nut, who takes it upon himself to lure authors to travel to the end of the tube network to talk about their creation. Recent guests have included Stuart Cosgrove, Luke Haines, David Hepworth, Bob Stanley and Kevin Cummins. It's held upstairs in Waterstone's bookshop but bafflingly they do very little, if anything, to promote it. There's not even a chalkboard mention outside or felt-tip scrawled poster Sellotaped to the window. By the time the events begin the shop is shut and those who haven't been previously are put through an initiation test whereby they have to peer through the locked glass-door and give the last remaining member of staff, Simon, a discreet raised eyebrow and slight nod of the head before he unlocks the castle and escorts them up the stairs where chairs are set up, plastic cups of wine issued, and badges freely distributed.
As well as being master of ceremonies and gregarious interviewer Mark always asks for suggestions for who he should invite into the fold. My brilliant idea, a few months back, was Andrew Matheson and despite Mark, like the vast majority of the population, having heard of neither the author or his band, read the book and was similarly convinced Andrew would make an entertaining visitor. A spot of skulduggery and jiggery-pokery later and with a deluxe two-CD edition of the Hollywood Brats recordings issued by Cherry Red and a new edition of the paperback out on Ebury (both entitled Sick On You) needlessly cluttering shop shelves, Andrew was back in the 'Stow for the first time since the Brats rehearsed here in '73 and watched the New York Dolls ("philosophical allies aligned against all the dinosaurs of this world") on the Old Grey Whistle Test in a nearby tower block.
For over an hour Andrew chatted to Mark, who made a grand job of keeping him more or less under control, and then answered audience questions. Andrew was every bit as funny, opinionated, stylish, roguishly charming and spotlight-hungry as readers of his book would expect. You can watch for yourself below as the story of unfolds of working in the Canadian mines, coming back to Britain, boshing Freddie Mercury in his knashers, and linking the Andrew Loog Oldham Immediate Records period to the Malcolm McLaren and Sex Pistols/Clash one. "Malcolm said 'Sick On You' and t-shirts were the future. I underestimated him." Andrew had little praise for any band other than the Kinks and remains true to his original template. When asked what he thought of the MC5 he shouted for security to remove the questioner. "The hair! The perm! Remember the rules: straight hair!"
Afterwards Andrew signed some books, had photographs taken - "let me put my sunglasses back on first" - and even joined most of the audience over the pub (the pub the Krays firm hot-footed it to, eager to get off their own manor, straight after the murder of George Cornell in Whitechapel, there's no escape Andrew...) for a beer and natter about Shadows of Knight LPs and Vox teardrop guitars before his driver, circling the mean streets of E17 in a two-year old Merc, collected him and whisked him home. Quite what Matheson has been doing for most of the in-between years, apart from carpentry, building a house and writing the soundtrack for a trucking movie circa 1980, he kept close to his chest.
A natural raconteur and utter gentleman throughout, it was noticeable how Andrew made a point of personally introducing himself and saying goodbye to everyone individually, and one obviously enjoying every second of this fresh, unexpected wind of discovery. Rock and roll missed out on a great character in the 70s but with a BBC documentary and major film to come ("It'll be shit," stated Mark Hart to the general agreement of everybody present) the Hollywood Brats' time is perhaps still to come. During discussion in the pub about a reformation he was fairly non-committal, saying they'd turned down lucrative offers. It would have to be good I suggested. "No, it'd have to be better than good. My standards are up here…" said Andrew, raising an extravagantly lacy and over-sized shirt cuff to the ceiling.
For details of the Walthamstow Rock & Roll Book Club follow them on Twitter or find them on Facebook.
See also this Andrew Matheson interview by my good mate Long John McNally for Eye Plug.
Many thanks to Mark Hart and, of course, Andrew Matheson.
ROBERT FUEST: JUST LIKE A WOMAN (1966)
Just Like A Woman was Robert Fuest's debut as a film director, sandwiched between his work on The Avengers where, as an employee of ABC, he worked as a production designer from 1961 before returning after his film to direct eight episodes starring Linda Thorson as Steed's latest partner to arrival seconds too late to prevent a string of bizarre murders.
Just Like A Woman - starring future Butterfly, Wendy Craig, and soon-to-be voice of Captain Scarlett, Francis Matthews, as a sparring television industry couple whose marriage has broken down - with its art deco and pop art design, cutting edge architecture, cusp of mod-into-swirly fashions, loopy characters and directorial quirks it couldn't be more height of '66 if it tried; like the world didn't exist before and wouldn't after. Fuest wrote the screenplay, directed it and even wrote song lyrics for the film, released to minimum acclaim in early '67.
This recognisable style of Fuest's was later apparent in The Abominable Dr Phibes (1971), with a suitably over-the-top Vincent Price out for revenge on a string of doctors who failed to save his wife's life (very-Avengers storyline), but a better film and one with even more Avengers-related credits (screenplay by Brian Clemens and Terry Nation, produced by Albert Fennell and Terry Nation, music by Laurie Johnson, directed by Fuest) is And Soon The Darkness (1970). Stripped of garish sets and light-hearted fun, this straight, minimalist thriller is set in rural France where two holidaying girls on bicycles are followed by a mysterious French mod bloke on a Lambretta SX150, when one girl (Frank Spencer's Betty, Michelle Dotrice) disappears…
Back to Just Like A Woman, it's not the greatest film you'll ever watch but visually it's a treat and packed with fab little scenes and details. See full film below.
Many thanks to Melissa from In With The In Crowd shop for tipping me the wink.
Labels: just like a woman, Robert fuest, the avengers, wendy craig
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(c) It is further provided that a nonelective State officer may hold other nonelective offices under the State or the United States, if the other office is of benefit to the State of Texas or is required by the State or Federal law, and there is no conflict with the original office for which he receives salary or compensation.
(d) No member of the Legislature of this State may hold any other office or position of profit under this State, or the United States, except as a notary public if qualified by law.
As adopted in 1876, it read: "No person shall hold or exercise, at the same time, more than one civil office of emolument, except that of justice of the peace, county commissioner, notary public, and postmaster unless otherwise specially provided herein."
It has been amended six times. The most recent amendment allowed members of a military force organized under Texas law to hold another office.
Irwin v. State, 177 S.W.2d 970, 973 (Tex.Crim.App. 1944) (citations omitted) ("The term 'emolument', as used therein, means a pecuniary profit, gain or advantage. The offices of policeman of an incorporated city and a deputy sheriff are not included within the exceptions mentioned in the constitutional provision. A policeman of an incorporated city is . . . so also is a deputy sheriff an officer. Compensation being authorized by law to be paid for services rendered by policemen and deputies sheriff renders such offices those of emolument, under the provisions of the Constitution mentioned. Hence the named officers could not at the same time be both policemen and deputies sheriff de jure or de facto.")
Cramer v. Sheppard, 167 S.W.2d 147, 156 (Tex. 1942) ("Furthermore, we may safely assume that a person who holds a civil office, and who is patriotic enough to temporarily leave such office and serve his country in time of war, will be patriotic enough to surrender such civil office if his absence therefrom stops the functioning of such office. It clearly appears that Judge Dixon was not appointed a member of the Regular Army. It logically follows that he was commissioned a reserve officer . . . and hence is in the Officers' Reserve Corps of the United States. By virtue of Sections 33 and 40, supra, he did not vacate his office of district judge when he accepted the commission as above indicated.")
Pruitt v. Glen Rose I.S.D., 84 S.W.2d 1004, 1006 (Tex. 1935) (citations omitted) ("The Court of Civil Appeals correctly held that the tax collector of this particular district and the tax collector of the county are therefore two separate and distinct offices, each of emolument, and when Kugle qualified as county tax collector, he automatically forfeited his right to the office of collector for the school district, because the holding of both said offices . . . . If a person holding an office is elected or appointed to another (where the two offices cannot be legally held by the same person) and he accepts and qualifies as to the second, such acceptance and qualification operate, ipso facto, as a resignation of the former office.")
Gaal v. Townsend, 14 S.W. 365, 366 (Tex. 1890) ("Whether appellant vacated his office or not by accepting the office of mayor . . . depends upon the proper construction of section 40 of article 16 of the present constitution. That section is as follows: 'No person shall hold or exercise at the same time more than one civil office of emolument, except the justice of the peace, county commissioner, notary public, and postmaster, unless otherwise specially provided.' Does this mean that an incumbent can hold either of the offices named, and at the same time any other office, or that he can only hold two offices when both are among those specially designated? We think the former is the proper construction.")


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Holy Family Master Plan : Faith in Our Future, a Vision for the 21st Century
A Vision for the 21st Century
As we head closer to the holidays, we are reminded of the infinite blessings we have been given, and in turn, how we can share those blessings with those in need. Holy Family is extremely grateful to the many parishioners and friends who have spent time sharing and collaborating with us on our Master Plan. Thank you sincerely for your time and willingness to listen to each other as we discern the future for our parish as well as our wider Church. At this time, we are taking all of the information gathered and compiling the first draft of our Master Plan, based on what we have heard from the parish and the extensive research that the Cuningham Group has done. Master plans take time and don't usually get put into motion for many, many years. Once started, the project happens in several phases. We hope to share with you our findings before Christmas and we thank you for taking this journey with us! For further information, please contact Mary Hatton, Director of Parish Stewardship, at 626.403.6138 or mhatton@holyfamily.org.
HOLY FAMILY CHURCH MASTER PLAN LISTENING SESSION NOTES
The notes below reflect discussion at various 'listening sessions' conducted by Cuningham Group at Holy Family Parish and School during June, 2019. The following outline summarizes Listening Session topics and our observations based on other primary education projects. A typical meeting agenda started with members of the Cuningham Group explaining the purpose of the meeting, followed by each invited person around the table briefly talking about their role in the parish and/or school. Most people then went on to offer opinions about how the facilities at the campus supported their activities and ministries – or not. The interchange between those attending the meetings was informal, open and respectful, if not strictly organized. The Topical Index for each session attempts to summarize the discussion. You will note many repeated topics, which are finally summarized at the end of this report.
West Campus Site
Greening the Campus: Many people talked about creating a welcoming pedestrian experience when entering and circulating around the west campus. They also related anecdotes about existing on-site parking issues vs. school playground use at the west campus, east campus parking use related to west campus activities, issues around the school drop-off and pick-up loop, and the current perimeter fencing system. We learned about the history of neighborhood traffic pattern control as it relates to activities on the west campus.
Fremont Street: Everyone acknowledged the difficulties presented by Fremont Street splitting the campus – a fact of life that forces early decisions regarding future development of programs and space. Based on existing patterns, we began to think in terms of adult and young adult compatible with uses on the east campus, and student use consolidated on the west campus. The remaining question that therefore arose has been 'what would an east campus middle school look like'. Based on our listening sessions it sounds like most of the participants did not prefer a separate middle school campus at the east side of the street
Parish Hall and Pastoral Center Programs and Facilities
Parish Hall: Most appreciated the programs presented in the existing Parish Hall and adjacent kitchen facility, with the exception of complaints about disruption of pastoral center uses during theatrical productions. We did not hear any strong opinions supporting the addition of an athletic program to this room.
Pastoral Center Access: There were several complaints about easy way-finding to the pastoral center for those not already familiar with the west campus.
Pastoral Center Use: Most users of the pastoral center space agreed that many of the office spaces remained unused during many of the weekly hours. They also expressed the need for more small meeting spaces for pastoral ministry use. Many talked about favorite places in this building, including the bookstore and chapel areas, and recommended upgrades to these spaces.
Church Building
Church Building Use: We heard of changes in use of the church consistent with global trends in the local catholic church such as: an aging and smaller church-going population, fewer weddings and more funerals. We did not hear of any planning for interior liturgical updates for the space beyond lighting and access.
Church Building Maintenance: As one of the oldest buildings on the site, we were not surprised to hear of consideration of building seismic improvements, lighting upgrades, access improvements, and sacristy upgrades.
Pastoral Outreach Programs and East Campus
Ministry Programs: A truly outstanding component of our listening sessions included hearing of the very active outreach programs happening at Holy Family Parish. These leaders passionately expressed their need to at least maintain the current programs and even consider expanding them. We took away a feeling that in most cases, the existing facilities simply need to be improved to better support these existing programs.
Parking: There was minimal discussion about increasing parking at the east campus, perhaps by adding a subterranean or overhead level – or even incorporating additional parking in a new multi-use building to replace Eden Center. We heard these ideas in the context of a 'future' development.
St. Joseph Center
Interior Improvements: Because it is considered 'historical' in local registers, no one recommended exterior changes to the St. Joseph Center building. However, several obvious interior improvements were discussed, depending on the program in question.
Repurposing: There was some talk of repurposing the assembly space in the building as a performance venue for the young people.
Eden Center
Homeless Programs: In one case, we heard that some relatively simply permanent added space improvements adjacent to the Eden Center would support the homeless outreach into the future, while at the same time resolve potential problems between this ministry and other campus uses.
Interior Improvements: Due to the large number of group ministries working out of this building, there was discuss about a flexible divider at the large center space to increase spaces for small group use, while at the same time maintain the ability for occasional using the entire room.
Individual Learning: Based on the overall listening session input and Cuningham's office-wide experience, we believe that evolving learning theory and resulting education trends will continue to move toward personalizing teaching methods with the development of spaces that support small group activities, physical making spaces, sports activities, art, language, and respond to a constant call for smaller class size. This will translate to a long term commitment to program leadership as well as creation and adjustment of physical spaces.
Teacher/Student Ratio: Consistent with Cuningham's national experience, budget considerations will likely limit simply increasing the teacher count and space count to reduce the teacher/student ratio. A more likely outcome will support the continuation of your current practice to pair an aide with each teacher.
Early Childhood Programs: Based on benefits to a portion of the student population most in need of early enrichment, early childhood programs will remain very important parts of services to young families with children. This program growth, however, is balanced by erosion of institutional loyalty due to greater family mobility, pervasive social communication, and competing available programs.
Groups within Groups: The teaching environment at the Education Center should support the school teaching team as well as peer group formation among Middle school age students.
Embedded Technology: Technology will continue to shape a large portion of student's lives inside the classroom and beyond. Middle School students need to learn how to access, select, and use the technology embedding in twenty-first century classrooms. School libraries, as we heard, will continue to act as information distribution centers, expanding beyond managing hard copy books to teaching how to acquire knowledge through new media resources and provide a variety of small spaces to pursue gathering and using this information.
Split Campus: We heard strong parish and school support for the continued use of the west campus for the entire school (early, elementary, and middle) population together with the religious education programs – if this is at all possible.
Divide Existing Interior Classroom Space: In lieu of physically splitting spaces to achieve more individual teaching environment, acoustic control measures and soft partitions might allow formation of learning suites, and the use of the same room space by multiple smaller learning groups.
Builder Space: Repurposing selected areas as maker spaces can add an attractive teaching opportunity to a portion of the student population.
Theater and Art: We heard many stories relating to how the ongoing theater programs at Holy family presented the best learning time for many students. Theater proponents advocate for a more permanent space for storage of costumes and props as well as a possible theatre space all its own.
Athletics: Providing a space for indoor athletics seems to have broad support across many of the listening session participants. However, we clearly heard that to successfully accomplish this task at Holy Family, a new building project would necessarily include additional spaces that attract a range of users, including adults and outside community members.
Dear Holy Family Parishioners,
It is with great excitement that we announce the official launching of the Holy Family Master Plan. Throughout the last four years, a group of parishioners and community leaders have met to discern the future needs and desires of Holy Family with the objective of sustaining our growth and vitality as a parish for future generations. After many meetings and discussions, the Master Plan Committee and Church leadership are ready to move forward with a Master Plan that will identify critical needs for the parish to address.
Holy Family has always been at the forefront of change. We embrace change boldly, with the energy and support of parishioners like you, and friends within the greater community. Likewise, Holy Family has consistently recognized the needs for the future, in order to provide its parishioners, staff, students, parents, and school faculty and staff with a fully operative and serviceable parish and school, where its goals and objectives are well-planned and facilities are kept up-to-date with today's technology and demands.
Our aspirations are high. We aim to empower our community with the tools and confidence to go out into the world and make it better. We have worked hard to make our campus an attractive, safe, and spiritual space. Our campus must reflect our longstanding heritage of being a beacon of hope and light to those who come here to worship, work, volunteer, study, celebrate and receive the sacraments. Additionally, we are committed to growing our community and reaching out to those in need while sustaining the faith of our existing members, especially during this challenging time in the life of the Roman Catholic Church locally, nationally and universally. Our school is an important resource to the community and it is imperative to us that it stays academically, athletically, spiritually and mentally healthy and competitive. In order to maintain our standards, we need to ensure that our educational strategies and technology are current, and most importantly, that we continue to provide a loving, respectful and faith-filled context for learning and growth. Thus, we invite you to join us as we finalize our Master Plan and we encourage you to engage with us on this journey of reflection and growth.
After an extensive search process, we have secured the architectural services of the Cuningham Group, led by Project Architect Dan Young, to assist us with the "Pre-Design Phase" of the Master Plan Process. Throughout the last two months, Dan and his team conducted over 15 "Listening Sessions" with parish staff, ministry leaders, school faculty and staff, and other leadership groups within the parish, to assess the goals, needs and desires of our many constituencies. Now that their initial research is complete, Cuningham will put together an assessment of their findings, which they will share with the parish in September. Additionally, they will share some options of what our Master Plan could look like, including building renovations, new buildings, and proposed site elements such as parking and outdoor gathering spaces. The Cuningham Group would like to hear your feedback before refining the options further. All are welcome to attend either of these "Community Feedback Sessions" to learn more and share your thoughts:
Community Feedback Sessions
Tuesday, September 3rd at 7:00 p.m. in Connolly Hall
Saturday, September 7th at 9:00 a.m. in Connolly Hall
We are excited by the overwhelming interest in this project thus far! Once the information and sharing is complete, we will present our Master Plan to the Archdiocese in November for their approval. If approved, we will conduct a "feasibility study" of parishioner interviews and surveys to assess the support of the Master Plan within the parish. If the feasibility study proves positive, we will launch a capital campaign for support of the proposed project.
With your participation we hope to create an improved campus that will be an example to the community of ongoing stewardship to our parishioners, neighbors and those whom we provide important services to, as well as representing our welcoming community of faith. For more information about the Master Plan, the Cuningham Group and pertinent dates, please visit the Holy Family website at www.holyfamily.org/masterplan and click on CuninghamGroup_Holy Family_Church
Cambria Tortorelli
Parish Life Director
HOLY FAMILY MASTER PLAN COMMITTEE
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Christina Altmayer
Hayden Claisse
Jaime Garza
Bill Griggs
Connie Harding
Karl Holtsnider
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Bob O'Leary
Ed Panconi
Tina Tran
Melissa Udell
James Griesgraber
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Darcie Girmus, Principal, Holy Family School
Mary Hatton, Director of Parish Stewardship
Jane Lee, Business Manager
Patricia Plescia, Director of Operations
Shannon Porter, Director of School Advancement
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through command line....ok without wasting time lets start..
Step 2: Install it. Probably you will find it in C:\Program Files. Navigate here.
Step 4: Go inside it and you could find a folder called bin there. Navigate inside that folder. Now copy the path.
Step 5: Minimize all the windows. Go to Run(Press Ctrl +R). Type sysdm.cpl and hit enter.
Step 6: Go to Advanced Tab in the dialog box opened and you find a button called Environment variable. Click it.
step 6.1:Navigate to System variable and press p, you will find variable name called Path.
Step 8: Press right arrow key in your keyboard and press semicolon(;) button and paste the path you have copied in step 7.
Thats is you have setup a java environment.
Let us write a simple java program and test the working.
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While cooking, peel and cut potatoes. Then take chicken breast out (set aside) and potato to the chicken water. Boil for 10 minutes or until potatoes are tender.
Meanwhile, shred chicken and add to pot.
Add butter beans and parsley to the soup and cook for an additional two minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste. Serve hot.
Soup is meant to be thick. For a thinner soup, add chicken broth.


This is a fun food craft where you can turn oranges into baskets that hold your fruit. It's fun and easy and you can really get creative with your designs! I've added two styles in this how-to.
For the first style, cut the top and bottom off an orange. Save one of the end cuts.
Cut a cylinder of the fruit out of its peel.
Cut little triangles out from around one side/end of the skin.
Take one of the cut ends of the orange from earlier and press it into the orange bowl until it's tight.
Chop up the cylindrical orange flesh into bits.
Place orange bits into the bowl and serve.
For the second style with a handle, cut a bit off the bottom of an orange so it can sit on its own.
Cut a wedge out of the orange on either side of the stem right at the orange's hemisphere.
Gently cut the fruit away from the peel around the top.
Then cut the fruit at the hemisphere and pop it out.
Cut out the orange flesh from the bottom half, then cut all the orange bits into pieces and fill the basket you just made.


PB's were falling left, right and centre at an amazing swim meet at Millfield pool in Street over the weekend of 6-7 April.
With more than 50 children, 30 events, 6 sessions and two full days of competition, it was non-stop for everyone involved. But the team-spirit was exemplary and from Mama Totolici stepping in last moment to coach the girls in the early morning 400 free session to a "mystery" dad sending over much-appreciated ice pops, it felt like the swim section really pulled together to make this a meet to remember.
For some little ones, it was their first time at an Open Meet and at times eyes were as wide as saucers as they waited to go to marshalling. But every single child there found something inside them during the meet – whether it was diving in for their first every proper race, coming back after an injury, going up to race again after a disappointing result or DQ, taking part while really feeling under the weather or just deciding to go for it and pulling out that huge PB when they most needed it.
It was also noticable how supportive the children were of each other. I hope all parents get the chance to volunteer at some point to see how their sons and daughters cheer each other on, wait poolside to congratulate swimmers in the race after them, look after each other between races, or just give their team mates a hug when they most needed it. The older swimmers, including Freya Hartley, Sean Whitten-Brown, Ewan Smith, and Emily Durham also pitched in and helped out the younger children with their stretches and warm ups. I noticed a motivational speech or two going on there too…..
A special thank you to volunteer coaches Richard Marsden on Saturday and Ivan Rodriguez who really stepped up to the mark to help out over both days; to our parent officials and all the people behind the scenes who make these events happen; and to my fellow team managers Vic and Laura who really do keep the whole show on the road.
The biggest thank you of all though to coach Josh who was there on day 2. His guidance, encourgement and calm direction really lifted the children and helped them get the results they did. I don't think I have ever seen someone so calmly pivot between giving individual feedback after a race to a dripping, exhausted child to briefing five eager boys on their way to marshalling to noting the time of another swimmer as they come in. How his head hadn't exploded by the end of the day, I don't know!
In all it was an excellent two days of swiming at a great venue and for any parents wondering whether to go next year I would definitely recommend it, although I would also recommend finding a cheap place to stay close by. But for now though, for some it's warm up to the Regionals, for others it's PGL and Cotswold Leagues to look forward to – and for all of us it's a few days off, with a few chocolate eggs to consume. Happy Easter swimmers!


When Jennifer Lawrence jokingly said she didn't know what haute couture meant at the Golden Globes, far too much of the population probably shook their heads in agreement. Oh, how I wish I could show each one of them Giambattista Valli's Couture Spring 2013 line to differentiate between haute couture and ready-to-wear.
Let's look at the peplum first. RTW adds a tiny peplum to a skirt or a shirt. It's cute and very wearable and fairly understated. When Valli does his take on the peplum, he actually builds it into the skirt or a dress—a mini hoop skirt and corset combo done in a way that doesn't scream Gone with the Wind.
This exaggeration in design is probably the most visually noticeable, but look more closely and you'll see the detail. And oh the detail Valli does. His tailoring is splendid, lines gorgeous, and vision exceptional. Melding Elizabethan shapes with a 1960s feel, the corset work and design begs to be worn. The collection started with a very neutral palate of blacks and whites with some patterned fabrics but finished with chartreuses, lilacs, and divine details. Flowers that popped away from the fabric and glittery shapes that remained in the utmost of taste.
The variety of the line too is worthy of a mention. Tea length dresses to full-on gowns roamed the runway all cinching in the waists like woah and highlighting ones femininity with exaggerated hips. Wanted a shorter length? Oh, try the high-low hemlines and mini dresses. Or if you're really daring, try the jumpsuit with corseted top and a train. The intricate design of the jumpsuit makes it pure magic rather than catastrophe. There's a reason why Valli is called haute couture without having to wait the typical five years for the appellation, and this collection showcases that reason to a tee.


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Article about a town called Asbestos in Quebec, Canada
When we hear the word asbestos, we tend to think about a substance that is deadly and something that is thankfully a thing of the past. However, Asbestos was so widely used during the 20th century and up until the 1970s, when public recognition of the health hazards of asbestos dust led to its prohibition in mainstream construction and fireproofing in most countries around the world. Despite the widespread ban, and in part because the consequences of exposure can take many decades to become evident, at least 100,000 people are thought to die each year from diseases related to asbestos exposure.
Asbestos was such an effective and sought after mined product, with so many uses, at least a couple of places were given names to celebrate the fact, one is Canada and one in Russia.
Asbestos: A Canadian town
Asbestos is a town in the eastern region of Quebec, Canada, situated on the Nicolet River. Asbestos is now the seat of Les Sources Regional County Municipality, but was formerly known as the Asbestos Regional County Municipality. The town covers an area of eleven and a half square miles, including land acquired due to the merger of the City of Asbestos with the Municipality of Trois-Lacs in 1999.
A 2011 census determined that 7,096 people lived in the town of Asbestos. It is the site of the Jeffrey mine, which used to be the worlds largest asbestos mine, which has long been the towns biggest employer, and of the since defunct Magnola magnesium refinery. It was the site of the famous Asbestos strike. The Asbestos strike of 1949, based in and around Asbestos, Quebec, was a four month labour dispute by asbestos miners. This strike was one of the most violent and bitter labour disputes in Quebec and Canadian history, the strike led to massive upheaval in Quebec society. The strike was led by Jean Marchand, a labour unionist. Journalist Gerard Pelletier and future Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, then a journalist, also played significant roles. Popular opinion for most of the strike was broadly supportive of the striking workers. This support, beyond its moral value, manifested itself through monetary support and the supply of provisions. It is likely that the strike would have quickly failed had it not been for the establishment of this kind of support.
Owing to the negative reputation afforded to the asbestos mineral, lengthy discussions have taken place over recent years as to whether the town should change its name to something without the negative connotations. A municipal referendum held in October 2020 selected the new name Val-des-Sources, with over half the voters keen to see a change,. Any new name will still require the approval of the provincial government.
In the latter half of 2011, the towns two remaining asbestos mines, Lac d'Amiante du Canada and the Jeffrey mine, ceased all operations. In June 2012, a fifty eight million dollar loan was promised by the Quebec government to restart and operate the Jeffrey mine for the next twenty years. However, in September 2012, before the loan funds were made available, a new political party defeated the incumbent party in the Quebec provincial election. The new party followed through with an election promise to halt asbestos mining and to cancel the loan, and put funding toward economic diversification in the area instead.
Asbestos: What's in a name?
The often heated debate surrounding the name of the town of Asbestos has raged on for several years, particularly since the marked decline in asbestos mining. Many local residents and politicians in the area have proposed changing the towns name because of its negative connotations; however, many of the proposals failed, with people involved in the debate noting that because the town is predominantly fFrench speaking and the mineral asbestos is referred to as amiante rather than asbestos in French, people generally do not associate the towns name with the negativity associated with the mineral itself.
A name change plan was approved by the municipal council in 2019, with the new name chosen by a public poll. In 2020, the mayor of the town announced that residents would be able to vote to rename the town to either Apalone, Jeffrey, Phenix or Trois-Lacs. The choices were not at all popular with many residents, and more names were added to the list as a result of the many objections. The referendum was held later in the year to allow the townspeople to choose between six names, such as L'Azur-des-Cantons, Jeffrey-sur-le-Lac, Larochelle, Trois-Lacs, Val-des-Sources, or Phenix. The referendum results were announced late in 2020. Over half the voters chose the name Val-des-Sources in the third round of a preferential ballot. Some residents who remain opposed to the name change have organised a petition drive calling on the powers governing to deny its approval, on the grounds that not enough of the towns residents participated in the referendum, and that the referendum did not include any option to express a preference for maintaining the existing name of Asbestos.
Asbest: The Russian town
Asbest is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Bolshoy Reft River on the eastern slopes of the Ural Mountains. The town was was previously known as Kudelka, but changed to Asbest in 1928.
The economy of Asbest
The modern day Asbest is a large industrial center. Joint stock company Uralasbest is the main industrial business interest. The chrysotile asbestos mine adjacent to the town is the subject of published scientific investigations about its detrimental health impact on the local population and is said to be the worlds largest. The adjacent open pit Uralasbest mine is believed to be seven miles long, up to one and a half miles wide and more than one thousand feet deep, this would make it nearly half the size of Manhattan in New York.
Asbestos, bricks, porcelain, furniture, metal constructions, and other products are produced in the town of Asbest.
History of Asbest
Interestingly an engineer with extensive experience with asbestos in Quebec, where the town of Asbestos is situated in Canada, worked in Asbest in 1929, and again in 1930. His memoir of his times there, Working for the Soviets; an American engineer in Russia, was published in 1932.
Following World War II, the Soviet Union operated prisoner of war camps near Asbest. In addition, from May 1950 until April 1953, up to 7,700 inmates were imprisoned in the Bazhenovsky ITL gulag. Inmates had to work for the local asbestos industry, more than 15,000 died due to the conditions, including asbestos related diseases such as Mesothelioma.
So although much of the world has moved away from asbestos, recognising the naturally occuring mineral as a deadly material, its legacy lives on in some parts of the world.
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Home Politics Canadian Politics But is it news?
But is it news?
© June 1, 2013 © June 1, 2013 Canadian Politics / Media Issues / Municipal Politics / Social Order & Disorder
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford seems to get more than his fair share of headlines these days, most of them negative. The stories that follow are full of allegation, innuendo and "unnamed sources." Gripping tabloid stuff. Real time soap opera. But is it news?
Most of these stories seem based on a simplistic media prejudgment of the man. Ford: bad. Stories that belittle, humiliate, denigrate and ultimately crucify Ford: good.
And in this heated, increasingly toxic environment, allegations, gossip and rumour get given the same status as fact and build on themselves. Everything is sensationalized to such an extreme that it becomes impossible for the audience to pry even shreds of truth from the media frenzy. It's like trying to apple bob in a piranha pool.
This, of course, one expects of Fox News, QMI and Sun News. The latter two Canadian media groups waffle between defending Ford (usually for no other reason than he is a Conservative) and wallowing in the mud with the likes of The Star, Globe and the NatPost. After all, tabloid-style headlines sell papers, and they don't want to miss out on the public appetite for scandal, real or imagined. Dollars are at stake.
And, of course, some of these media outlets have political agendas and allegiances with other political parties. Reporters may also have personal or social allegiances they try to shove below the radar while they write their latest exposé, based on anonymous sources.
Even the once-credible CBC has gotten into the act, barely able to contain its delight while it roasts Ford over yet another allegation, all the while justifying its lack of actual fact by uttering stock phrases about not having seen the video, or the allegations being unproven. As if that makes a difference to the listener. It's just the old nudge-nudge-wink-wink and no one is fooled.
All of which is depressing to me as a former newspaper reporter and editor. It grates on my sense of integrity and fairness that we get this sort of dreck promoted on the same level as news. It's like putting such TV drivel as Survivor, American Pickers or Jersey Shore on the same channel as Masterpiece Theatre.
It's almost as if the media has forgotten what its role is and instead just does what it sees others doing. Monkey see, monkey do. But that's not what we want from, or expect from, the media.
In part, this is the path the internet and social media have taken us down: where immediate gratification, unrestricted opinion and unqualified commentary lead the way in popular culture. No time to check the facts, no time to confirm details or sources. No time to question what damage we do to the human lives, careers, reputations and families of those we are so busy – and gleefully – destroying.
In many ways, it's not all that different from a medieval witch burning or a public hanging: the guilt or innocence isn't as crucial as the entertainment value of the event.
Even if we don't feel guilt for the damage we do to people by constantly exposing them to such unrelentingly harsh media exposure without evidence to support the claims, shouldn't we at least feel sorry for them? Have some pity or compassion for their weaknesses?
What happened to Canada that it exchanged its sense of compassion for such self-indulgent thrill seeking? Does no one want to help the man, rather than just hurt him?
Don't get me wrong: I have no affection for Ford. I think he's a buffoon, I don't care for his politics, or style, and I think he has mismanaged pretty much everything to do with the media. As far as public relations goes, he's a walking train wreck.That doesn't mean I have no empathy for his alleged substance abuse.
In all these lascivious and salacious stories about the man, the media comes out as petty, bitter, and vindictive. Ford is made to seem guilty because headlines that announce his guilt sell more papers. That judgment is made by people the mayor has slighted, insulted or ignored. Can we trust it to be fair, objective and disinterested?
If the stories prove true, he will get his punishment through the legal process. It is not up to me – or the media – to judge his guilt without proof of wrongdoing, let alone the benefit of a trial. That's for the courts to decide.
The media, failing to fully crucify Ford, turned on his brother. As journalist Adrian MacNair wrote:
Christie Blatchford made some good points about journalists moving the goal posts on the Rob Ford story. There's no corroborating evidence to support printing allegations of Rob Ford's crack cocaine use, and those that exist are conjecture and hearsay. Indeed, much like the allegations of Ford's alcohol abuse, one is left wondering whether the "informants may have many and diverse motives other than a pristine dedication to the truth."…
I have significant discomfort with the fact all of the people in the story making allegations are protected of revealing their identity. It makes sense that they wouldn't want retribution for "snitching" on a powerful family, but in that case why snitch at all? It's not like Doug Ford is being arraigned on 25-year-old drug charges.
The question here is its relevance. Does it matter? I'm no lawyer, but a court of law would likely throw it out. If Rob Ford is on trial in the court of public opinion for smoking crack, then whether his brother dealt hashish prior to 1986 really stretches the tenuous limits of what we're supposed to imagine this means.
This is not the sort of objective, responsible and investigative reporting I associate with media integrity. This is paparazzi crap, not journalism.
Here's another thing: it's not a scandal simply because a reporter labels it one. Scandal means public outrage or upset. That can't happen before a story is released. The media imagined the "outrage" even before the public had time to react.
But then, media integrity seems an antiquated concept. Who needs integrity when you can say pretty much anything you like on your blog or Facebook? (And don't even ask about civil debate because any opposing opinion will be belittled and the writer castigated by the bloggers and FB posters…)
Almost anyone who wants to comment on Ford, any individual or group with a hate-on for him, gets some easy media coverage in print or on radio or TV. Doesn't matter that what these people offer is mere opinion, and it belongs in a letter to the editor; they get the coverage that suits the media's agenda. Or the reporter's.
Whether anyone agrees with some councillor or ex-staffer whining that Ford should resign is not news. It is opinion. A special interest group whining about how he hasn't lived up to their expectations is not news. It's opinion.
Opinion belongs on the editorial and op-ed pages. You want to comment on his ability to lead, his size, or whether he should resign? Then write a letter. Write a blog post. Put it on Facebook or Twitter. The real media should not dignify it by trying to dress it up as news. It only discredits the media itself and continues the inexorable dumbing down.
For the last decade, the media has been flagellating itself in the eat-your-own-tail race to get the most likes, or clicks or page views by increasing the amount of sensational claptrap. We have made celebrities of do-nothings like the Kardashians (to the media's everlasting shame). The loser in all this is media credibility.
It's not just the national media or mega-corps. The trend to raise fluff over content, opinion over facts, and allegation over proof is horizontal: it infects all media from the local level on up. And it's accelerating.
To keep viewers and readers coming back, or staying onsite rather than flitting about, the media turn up the editorial heat by sensationalist but otherwise un-newsworthy, content. When that fails to titillate sufficiently, they stuff their online pages with entertainment irrelevancies and celebrity trivia, hoping you'll stay long enough to read about Kim Kardashian's cat or Paris Hilton's latest excursion into immorality.
It's a downward spiral: people who want news turn away from popular media because it provides ever-increasing volumes of angry bombast, trivia and fluff. In turn, trying to regain its audience, the popular media ramps up the sensationalism another notch hoping to lure the audience back. The Canadian media has now raised Gawker on par with the Toronto Star in terms of credibility. Or lowered the Star to Gawker's level (which will happily pay drug dealers $200,000 for an video no one has authenticated).
When someone else's opinion matches the media's own views – usually just bitching about Ford thinly wrapped in a "press release" to make it seem legitimate – the media packages it as "news," and places it in a prominent place, top of the fold.
This mistakes visibility for credibility. It's like deciding the best place to eat is the restaurant with the biggest sign. Or the loudest commercial on the TV signifies the best product.
What is newsworthy? That may be harder to define, but it's like art: you'll know it when you see it. And you will know what isn't news, too. Russia sending arms to Syria: news. Senators using public funds for their personal and improper expenses, paper trail well documented: news. Tornado in Oklahoma: news. Gas plant closure costs taxpayers half-a-billion dollars: news. What someone thinks of Ford's personal problems: gossip.
How the media is succumbing to crass chequebook journalism instead of maintaining some standards? News, but not likely the media will publish it, because it implicates themselves. On the Bissett-Matheson site it notes:
The mayor's established pattern of distain for the media meant that he was less likely to get the benefit of the doubt. That's just human nature.
But have the media been fair and ethical? And by media I mean the Toronto Star and the Globe & Mail. There are, or should be, serious questions about the ethics of both newsrooms. The Star's reporting is based on a video a couple of their reporters saw but were not allowed to keep, and that apparently now is nowhere to be found.
I don't know very much about video technology, but I saw Forest Gump in a video with John F. Kennedy and that looked real. So what if it was doctored, and then doesn't show up so that determination cannot be made. Where's that leave Rob Ford?
And now we have the Globe and Mail with a front-page story, based on anonymous sources, that Rob Ford's brother sold dope 30 years ago.
Reporters and the media have a responsibility to keep the public informed about their elected representatives, and to help keep them accountable. But they don't have a responsibility to share gossip, opinion and innuendo. That's just muckraking. Get the facts first.
In the radio interview linked above, Jeffrey Dvorkin said it all when he commented, "It's not so much pandering as it is self-preservation. You have to go along to get along."
I suppose I'm old-fashioned enough to believe the media has a greater responsibility than just to feed the frenzy and make us all look stupid. Has "journalistic ethics" become an oxymoron since I worked in the media?
As a final note, the media will still have to deal with city hall even after Rob Ford is no longer mayor, but the levels of trust simply will have been eroded. The way the media is treating this and other stories (Joe Fontana in London comes to mind) has collateral effects: a widening a distance between all politicians and municipal or governmental staff, and the media, now and in future. Everyone becomes afraid of the media, learns to dislike and distrust it. No one will want to share with the media, because it could be turned on them later.
And all this could be avoided if the media showed more integrity, civility, and stopped trying to race to the bottom simply because there's a bigger audience down there.
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© June 2, 2013 at 8:55 AM 10 years ago
A comment on the NatPost about this issue here:
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/05/31/chris-selley-why-gawkers-gonzo-reporting-of-rob-ford-video-may-point-to-the-future-of-profitable-news/
And Andrew Coyne chimes in:
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/05/31/andrew-coyne-the-private-behaviour-of-public-figures-is-fair-game-if-the-story-is-reliable-and-relevant/