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Anatomy Of A Hit Piece
Propaganda, The New York Times, And The Struggle For Narrative Control
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"But what struck me particularly at the time was the extent of the savagery of our comrades, the 'activists'. There were so many who proposed the most cruel punishments for a man whom they had deeply respected only the previous year. I had the feeling that their violent hatred of Traicho was for them a personal organic necessity. They had this need to hate, and Stalin satisfied it. When the news of his hanging was announced, there were some who started dancing. An insignificant doctor, who within a year would rise to be the head of the government hospital, walked along the corridor of the sanatorium declaring that this was the happiest day of his life. This was no fanatic madness but rather a necessity dictated by his servile instincts. For it is noteworthy that all these comrades hated Traicho Kostov publicly. They hated him when others could see and hear them. They hated him because such hatred was richly remunerated, it was rewarded like a heroic deed. Do not think that the great majority of them believed in his guilt. If any of these people who were so full of hatred says that he did believe in it — he was either infinitely stupid, or he is simply a liar. I could see that they knew Traicho to be innocent, but they seemed to be engaged in a mad competition in which everyone lied to everybody else claiming that he was guilty."
"A great many people, branded as enemies, had to pay dearly. However, if I thought then that some of the cases were the result of error, it became obvious to me later that justice and injustice had nothing whatever to do with the matter. The important thing was the process of separating people out, for it was aimed at instilling universal fear and confusion."
- Georgi Markov, The Truth That Killed
Yesterday, February 13th, 2021, the New York Times published what can really only be described as a hit piece against Scott Alexander, the formerly pseudonymous author of the popular blog, Slate Star Codex. Purporting to be a "deep dive" into the online community that formed around the blog, the article is really nothing of the sort and comes off as more of a rambling, conspiratorial pot-shot at prominent figures in Silicon Valley venture capital with whom Metz and the New York Times have beef. I will quote almost the whole article herein, but if you really must read it, here is a link that won't result in any page views or advertising revenue — one theory being that it is bad on purpose to make you click:
The "journalist" community naturally groveled over Metz's reportage, not to mention his insight and his bravery, liturgically elevating the piece to that ne plus ultra of contemporary legacy media: not merely "true" or "interesting" but important.
Responses from just about everybody else of note have been scathing, usually commenting on how poorly written the article is, that it has no clear argument or purpose, that the doxxing of Alexander was entirely unwarranted, and that almost every single claim is incompetently misleading or an outright lie. In short, it is a bad article. A very, very bad article.
I disagree. When one has imbibed enough Markov, Miłosz, Havel, and the like, one develops a kind of rose-tinted spectacles through which propaganda can be read entirely between the lines. This is not an "article", nor "journalism" of any kind, hence my repeated use of scare quotes around this almost entirely antiquated word. It is not about the information it conveys.
It is propaganda. It is about how you are expected to behave, having read it. It is effectively written, with clear focus and purpose, containing highly competent lies and deceptions, that hinges around the absolutely necessary doxxing. As such, it deserves thorough literary analysis.
Buckle up.
A Literary Analysis
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The first four paragraphs can mostly be skipped over as they merely set the scene with an air of aloof detachment befitting of activist "journalism". Slate Star Codex is introduced to readers who may not be familiar, with the notion that the comment section, "attracted an unusually wide range of voices," ominously dangled. Then it starts to get tasty:
"The voices also included white supremacists and neo-fascists. The only people who struggled to be heard, Dr. Friedman said, were "social justice warriors." They were considered a threat to one of the core beliefs driving the discussion: free speech."
Notice first of all how "social justice warriors" is in quotation marks. This is workable in the sentence because it appears as if it is a quote from David Friedman, which it probably is. But presumably the clause prior to "Dr Friedman" is part of this same quote, so why not include that in quotation marks as well? Because, by isolating "social justice warriors", Metz plants the possible alternative reading that this is a misleading expression that the reader cannot trust — just like I am doing with "journalist". Of course, it is a perfectly reasonable expression to use in the context and I guarantee you that Friedman has no such ambiguity in mind when he provided it as a quote. It is a misquote by way of punctuation. What this misrepresentation does is prime the reader to find the argument against the social justice warriors to be ill-conceived at best, prejudicial at worst.
Notice next that "free speech" is alleged to be a "core belief driving the discussion". I can also guarantee that Friedman did not say this, hence it is suddenly not explicated as a quote — which would be an actual misquote — because "free speech" is not a "belief" to be discussed, it is a principle that guides discussion. Here, Metz is setting up the article's overall argument: the New York Times' belief that this principle is illegitimate. But, of course, to make such a case, Metz must present it as a "belief."
"As the national discourse melted down in 2020, as the presidential race gathered steam, the pandemic spread and protests mounted against police violence, many in the tech industry saw the attitudes fostered on Slate Star Codex as a better way forward. They deeply distrusted the mainstream media and generally preferred discussion to take place on their own terms, without scrutiny from the outside world. The ideas they exchanged were often controversial — connected to gender, race and inherent ability, for example — and voices who might push back were kept at bay."
I will leave it to the reader's own recall or investigation how the New York Times may or may not have contributed to such a "meltdown" in 2020. But notice the structure of the first sentence: Slate Star Codex, it is suggested, is a "better way forward". Better than what? The sentence's complexity allows Metz to fall back on a comparison to "the national discourse melting down," all while planting, "protests mount[ing] against police violence," as an attitude towards which the Slate Star Codex readership might be disinclined. The reader is further primed to regard this group as prejudicial.
Next, we have the first glimpse into one of the things the article is really about: "the tech industry". I will also leave it to the reader's initiative to explore why there is literally no such thing as "the tech industry" except as a bogeyman that haunts the psyche of the legacy media, but focus on what it is Metz accuses "the tech industry" of: "prefer[ring] discussion to take place on their own terms, without scrutiny from the outside world."
What does this mean, in this specific context? We are talking about comments on a public blog, so the idea that they could be "without scrutiny" is asinine. This entire article is scrutiny that has followed from the blog being public. But it is not entirely stupid — sense is to be made of it by linking more closely to the previous clause: "their own terms" is brilliant misdirection because the whole point is that there are no terms, besides those of good manners. Metz — and the New York Times — disapproves thoroughly of this lack of terms. "Without scrutiny," we realize, does not mean without the ability to evaluate and rebut, but without the ability to control.
That the ideas were "often controversial" is amongst the clumsier prejudicial primings in the article, but it is quickly followed by a handful of cardinal sins of New York Times orthodoxy to avoid the reader wondering for themselves what might count as "controversy". "Voices who might push back were kept at bay," means that the conversation went wherever it went and attempts to control it on account of quasi-religious intolerance were frowned upon. It borders on being a lie because, of course, the discussion was entirely open, so the insinuation in "kept at bay" of some kind of force or pressure is a deliberate deception, but is probably too vague to really be a lie.
"Slate Star Codex was a window into the Silicon Valley psyche. There are good reasons to try and understand that psyche, because the decisions made by tech companies and the people who run them eventually affect millions.
And Silicon Valley, a community of iconoclasts, is struggling to decide what's off limits for all of us."
This is the meat of the argument, and there is a lot to unpack. Notice there is no justification whatsoever for the segue to "Silicon Valley". "Bay Area" was cited earlier on as Alexander's location, as if that were important for a blog, and of course Metz threw in the significand-lacking "tech industry" as well. What is made clear here is that Slate Star Codex and Scott Alexander is itself the segue. It's a McGuffin, in film lingo; it serves as a trigger for the plot to start moving but is otherwise irrelevant.
The plot is that the New York Times is losing narrative control to a handful of more-or-less open platforms and tools that have historically mostly emerged from Silicon Valley. But "Silicon Valley" is as much a metonym as a location, as the otherwise jarring locating of Slate Star Codex in "the Bay Area" makes clear. The New York Times' beef is better described as being with the Internet. One day that beef manifests with Clubhouse, a company, the next with Slate Star Codex, a blog.
That Metz describes Silicon Valley — the metonym for those innovating around the Internet's openness, don't forget — as "a community of iconoclasts," is a genuinely beautiful poetic distortion. An "iconoclast" attacks cherished beliefs and institutions. Hence online innovators are painted not as innovating — non-aggressively building superior alternatives to legacy institutions to which users can opt-in on the basis, in part, of allowing beliefs to be freely discussed, cherished or not — but as attacking. Since this "attack" is now "struggling," surely the New York Times should be treated as the cherished institution it has always been?
"At Twitter and Facebook, leaders were reluctant to remove words from their platforms — even when those words were untrue or could lead to violence. At some A.I. labs, they release products — including facial recognition systems, digital assistants and chatbots — even while knowing they can be biased against women and people of color, and sometimes spew hateful speech."
Aha! The "evidence" of this struggle, lest we wonder what on earth Metz was talking about. This is so pathetic as to deserve little commentary, as if nothing the New York Times has ever published has been "untrue" or has "led to violence," but I really can't help myself in dwelling just for a moment on the idea of "hateful speech from a chatbot." Think for a moment about the metaphysics required for this to be a coherent notion. Of course, it is perfectly coherent in the ideology of the New York Times, who just recently decided absolutely, on the record, that the intent of speech matters not a jot. Hence chatbots, incapable of intent, are perfectly capable of hate.
"Why hold anything back? That was often the answer a Rationalist would arrive at.
And perhaps the clearest and most influential place to watch that thinking unfold was on Scott Alexander's blog."
"Why hold anything back?" is a question, not an answer. But it is an answer to Metz, and to the New York Times, a core tenet of whose ideology is to prevent such questions from being asked in the first place, or, if they are asked, to shut down any attempts to answer as quickly and viciously as possible. "… a Rationalist would arrive at" ends a sentence with a preposition: something up with which I will not put. The final sentence is a pathetic loop-closing justification of the introductory McGuffin.
"It is no surprise that this has caught on among the tech industry. The tech industry loves disrupters and disruptive thought," said Elizabeth Sandifer, a scholar who closely follows and documents the Rationalists. "But this can lead to real problems. The contrarian nature of these ideas makes them appealing to people who maybe don't think enough about the consequences."
Here we get to the core of the New York Times' ideology, conveniently presented not as the command it really is but as the musing of a "scholar," with whom, surely, only an illiterate peasant would disagree. Note that "contrarian" is misused (not a particularly scholarly start). Ideas can certainly be contrarian but they cannot have a contrarian "nature" because the extent to which they are or are not contrarian is relative to what is popular at a given time. But, naturally, it is part of the New York Times' ideology that their beliefs are timeless. They know no moral fashions. They have access to absolute truth and absolute goodness.
Note also the sentence is incomplete and, strictly speaking, ungrammatical and nonsensical. "The consequences" … of what? Of thinking? The mask starts to slip here, and the propaganda actually weakens a little because it is too transparently stupid.
"The allure of the ideas within Silicon Valley is what made Scott Alexander, who had also written under his given name, Scott XXX, and his blog essential reading.
But in late June of last year, when I approached Mr. XXX to discuss the blog, it vanished."
Firstly, I have undone the doxxing here purely on principle and will continue to do so. Alexander has since started using his real name publicly anyway, but I still feel like quoting it straight from the New York Times rather than from him indirectly condones the New York Times' behavior, so I will not.
Metz wisely shifts tack from the above slip to inject an element of intrigue into the story and make it seem like actual reporting rather than activism, which it really is. The blog "vanished" because Metz and the New York Times threatened to doxx Alexander for no journalistically relevant reason whatsoever, as is now clear, threatening his livelihood and safety as detailed in his post very helpfully titled, "NYT Is Threatening My Safety By Revealing My Real Name, So I Am Deleting The Blog". There was, of course, a highly relevant activist reason to doxx him, but we will get to this further down. So no, it didn't "vanish", you slimy cretin, you bullied him entirely off the Internet for a short time.
To avoid probing this uncomfortable truth, Metz then jumps to a new section, titled "What The Rationalists Believe". It's not worth quoting and analyzing as the most interesting feature is that it doesn't explore what the Rationalists believe. Metz also characterizes Eliezer Yudkowsky and Robin Hanson in ways both have objected to immediately after publication.
But then we get to this:
"Many Rationalists embraced "effective altruism," an effort to remake charity by calculating how many people would benefit from a given donation. Some embraced the online writings of "neoreactionaries" like Curtis Yarvin, who held racist beliefs and decried American democracy. They were mostly white men, but not entirely."
This might seem like a total non sequitur — who cares what else readers of a public blog did? — but is really setting up an even more absurd non sequitur discussion of Yarvin further down. And, of course, Metz has absolutely no idea what the demographics of this group were, but a dog whistle vague enough to be irrefutable does pretty heavy lifting for the word count.
"The community was organized and close-knit. Two Bay Area organizations ran seminars and high-school summer camps on the Rationalist way of thinking.
"The curriculum covers topics from causal modeling and probability to game theory and cognitive science," read a website promising teens a summer of Rationalist learning. "How can we understand our own reasoning, behavior, and emotions? How can we think more clearly and better achieve our goals?"
They are coming for your children.
"The Rationalists held regular meet-ups around the world, from Silicon Valley to Amsterdam to Australia. Some lived in group houses. Some practiced polyamory. "They are basically just hippies who talk a lot more about Bayes' theorem than the original hippies," said Scott Aaronson, a University of Texas professor who has stayed in one of the group houses."
They are everywhere.
"For Kelsey Piper, who embraced these ideas in high school, around 2010, the movement was about learning "how to do good in a world that changes very rapidly." "
This, and the remainder of this section, is just anodyne whitewashing in a tragicomic attempt to appear plausibly "balanced".
The next section reinforces the battle between such "cherished institutions" as the New York Times, and "attacks" from "iconoclasts" in "Silicon Valley". It's also not worth quoting as it is pretty boring and amounts to little more than name-dropping important figures in venture capital and repeatedly using variations of "billion-dollar" to connote power and influence.
Throughout, Metz is ostensibly trying to make the argument that Slate Star Codex and Alexander acted as some kind of intellectual focal point for all the shady power that flows around the Bay Area venture capital scene. As with Yarvin above, its only real function is to introduce Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen as particularly shadowy figures to be returned to later on.
But the highlight is the passing reference to one of the most well-known posts on Slate Star Codex, "I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup", which I am frankly impressed Metz had the guts to link to. He is either too dense to realize that what is meticulously analyzed in that post is a perfect rebuttal to this episode, or he is flexing the New York Times' own power. Possibly a bit of both. Regardless, the purpose of bringing it up is to flagrantly mischaracterize it as follows:
"Mr. Altman thought the essay nailed a big problem: In the face of the "internet mob" that guarded against sexism and racism, entrepreneurs had less room to explore new ideas."
I did enjoy putting "internet mob" in quotation marks — the same little trick used above with "social justice warriors" in which unusual sentence structure passes off a quote as a dubious claim, rather than the statement of fact it is. What Metz does here is immediately give the reader a reason not to take the concerns of this blog post seriously because, surely, these "new ideas" are sexist and racist. In fact, maybe the reader should take them seriously, and should be worried! After all, these are people with "billions of dollars" who "don't think enough about the consequences" …
Then it gets really delicious:
"Part of the appeal of Slate Star Codex, faithful readers said, was Mr. XXX's willingness to step outside acceptable topics. But he wrote in a wordy, often roundabout way that left many wondering what he really believed."
I can't do this final sentence justice, I'm afraid. It is impervious to satire. It is so nakedly ideological that I was at first amazed it slipped through the editorial net — but this was on first reading, before the propagandistic purpose of the article had become entirely clear to me. I will come back to it shortly. In the meantime, some plausibly deniable slander:
"As he explored science, philosophy and A.I., he also argued that the media ignored that men were often harassed by women. He described some feminists as something close to Voldemort, the embodiment of evil in the Harry Potter books. He said that affirmative action was difficult to distinguish from "discriminating against white men.""
Besides the "journalistic" marvel of linking to a refutation of slander over said slander, Alexander himself replied to the Voldemort line succinctly enough to be worth quoting and moving on:
"This is true only in the sense that in 2014, I applied this comparison to a specific group of feminists who I accused of bullying and taunting people in a way that made them traumatized and suicidal. I describe my specific concern in the linked post. Lots of other feminists are great, and I continue to support gender equality."
The New York Times openly advocates for discrimination against white men because it is a noble and righteous thing to do, so this slight falls rather flat.
"In one post, he aligned himself with Charles Murray, who proposed a link between race and I.Q. in "The Bell Curve." In another, he pointed out that Mr. Murray believes Black people "are genetically less intelligent than white people.""
Again, Alexander himself:
"This is true only insofar as I once expressed agreement with an unrelated position of Charles Murray's, where he thinks that telling poor people "learn to code" is not a compassionate or sufficient response for dealing with poverty, and that we need to act more decisively by providing poor people with a stable income … The Times points out that I agreed with Murray that poverty was bad, and that also at some other point in my life noted that Murray had offensive views on race, and heavily implies this means I agree with Murray's offensive views on race. This seems like a weirdly brazen type of falsehood for a major newspaper."
"He denounced the neoreactionaries, the anti-democratic, often racist movement popularized by Curtis Yarvin. But he also gave them a platform. His "blog roll" — the blogs he endorsed — included the work of Nick Land, a British philosopher whose writings on race, genetics and intelligence have been embraced by white nationalists."
This is the bare bones of the New York Times' ideology. It is not enough to denounce what the New York Times thinks is wrong, what with their access to universal, timeless truth and goodness. You must go out of your way to ensure that the baddies cannot speak at all. "Free speech" is a belief, and a false one. People cannot safely think for themselves. That would be dangerous because they "don't think enough about the consequences."
In 2017, Mr. XXX published an essay titled "Gender Imbalances Are Mostly Not Due to Offensive Attitudes." The main reason computer scientists, mathematicians and other groups were predominantly male was not that the industries were sexist, he argued, but that women were simply less interested in joining.
That week, a Google employee named James Damore wrote a memo arguing that the low number of women in technical positions at the company was a result of biological differences, not anything else — a memo he was later fired over. One Slate Star Codex reader on Reddit noted the similarities to the writing on the blog."
Metz doesn't make it entirely clear that the first paragraph describes a violation of the New York Times' ideology, but it is strongly implied. He then lies about James Damore who in fact said that, "the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological differences." Next, we finally get to the payoff of the otherwise torturous non-sequiturs of Yarvin and Thiel: the need to meander towards Balaji Srinivasan:
"In 2013, Mr. Thiel invested in a technology company founded by Mr. Yarvin. So did the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, led in the investment by Balaji Srinivasan, who was then a general partner.
That year, when the tech news site TechCrunch published an article exploring the links between the neoreactionaries, the Rationalists and Silicon Valley, Mr. Yarvin and Mr. Srinivasan traded emails. Mr. Srinivasan said they could not let that kind of story gain traction. It was a preview of an attitude that I would see unfold when I approached Mr. XXX in the summer of 2020. (Mr. Srinivasan could not be reached for comment.)
"If things get hot, it may be interesting to sic the Dark Enlightenment audience on a single vulnerable hostile reporter to dox them and turn them inside out with hostile reporting sent to *their* advertisers/friends/contacts," Mr. Srinivasan said in an email viewed by The New York Times, using a term, "Dark Enlightenment," that was synonymous with the neoreactionary movement."
It is painfully obvious that this alleged gotcha has been taken out of context, but even with the minimal information given we can tell that Srinivasan is suggesting doing to "journalists" what "journalists" routinely do to others — and not just randomly selected "journalists", otherwise speaking truth to power, but "hostile" journalists who started the fight in question by speaking power to truth. The asterisks around "their" emphasize this reversal; Srinivasan is proposing retaliation in kind rather than commission.
There is then a bit of a rambly recounting of the foreplay to doxxing Alexander. It's not worth quoting as it's pretty boring and only serves to set up this absolute gem:
"Mr. XXX said in a late-night post on Slate Star Codex that he was going to remove his blog from the internet because The Times threatened to reveal his full name. He said this would endanger him and his patients because he had attracted many enemies online.
I woke up the next morning to a torrent of online abuse, as did my editor, who was named in the farewell note. My address and phone number were shared by the blog's readers on Twitter. Protecting the identity of the man behind Slate Star Codex had turned into a cause among the Rationalists."
You see, dear reader, the real victim in all of this is … drum roll … Cade Metz! Whodathunkit? All he was trying to do was doxx somebody for no reason bring the truth to light and people were mean to him! They doxxed him! Doxxing is really bad! We have always been at war with Eastasia!
"More than 7,500 people signed a petition urging The Times not to publish his name, including many prominent figures in the tech industry. "Putting his full name in The Times, the petitioners said, "would meaningfully damage public discourse, by discouraging private citizens from sharing their thoughts in blog form." On the internet, many in Silicon Valley believe, everyone has the right not only to say what they want but to say it anonymously."
As with, "left many wondering what he really believed," this is so nakedly ideological as to beggar belief on first pass that they ran with it. But on deeper consideration, this really is the article's punchline. As we are more or less at the end, I feel we are in a position to explain this. What is the function of these lines?
Propaganda and Purpose
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We need to step back a little and appreciate the broader landscape. Hamilton Nolan put it nicely in an October 2020 article in the Columbia Journalism Review:
"We are living through a historic, technology-fueled shift in the balance of power between the media and its subjects. The subjects are winning. The internet in general — and social media platforms in particular — have destroyed one of the media's most important sources of power: being the only place that could offer access to an audience."
Got it? Good, because the article goes on to be wonderfully, horrifyingly frank in its assessment of the position "journalists" are in:
"As journalists, we all view this as a horrifying assault on the public's right to know, and on our own status as brave defenders of the public good. And that is all true, for what it's worth. But this is about power. We need to take some back, lest the rich and powerful run away from one of the last forces restraining them.
Because journalism, particularly at the highest level, is about raw power."
For what it is worth, I would agree with this if it were actually about journalism. But it is not, it is about activism, hence I refuse to write "journalist" without scare quotes unless actual journalism is taking place. Glenn Greenwald is a journalist. Cade Metz is a "journalist".
While he drizzles this article with allusions to money, power, and all manner of shady cabals, his target is very clearly regular people who might be tempted to think for themselves and — Heaven forfend — broadcast their thoughts, rather than toe the line of the New York Times.
The reason I call this piece propaganda — and effective propaganda, at that — is that it's function is to inform and enforce a standard of behavior while only superficially conveying information. It is not about Scott Alexander or Slate Star Codex. It's barely even pretending to be. Nor is it even about the handful of Silicon Valley figures Metz tries to smear in passing. It's a spasm of "Journalistic Anxiety", to paraphrase none other than the New York Times, "fears amongst "journalists" that they are losing status in America … A large if not majority share of "journalists", and a majority of media personalities, say this change will threaten American customs and values — a prospect that they say makes them anxious, even angry."
The function of the article is to rattle the New York Times' cultural saber. To prove, however desperately, that it is still in control of the cultural narrative, and that this control can and will be enforced. This is why Alexander was doxxed: to show that he could be, and so can you, especially if you dare to believe that, "everyone has the right not only to say what they want but to say it anonymously." The doxxing was not journalistically necessary because Metz is not a journalist. But it was propagandistically necessary. Pour encourager les autres.
And if you do not try to escape their grasp via anonymity, don't even think about writing, "in a wordy, often roundabout way that leaves many wondering what you really believe." Make it absolutely clear what you believe, please, and believe what the New York Times believes!
I'm kidding, of course — they don't say "please."
"In August, Mr. XXX restored his old blog posts to the internet. And two weeks ago, he relaunched his blog on Substack, a company with ties to both Andreessen Horowitz and Y Combinator. He gave the blog a new title: Astral Codex Ten. He hinted that Substack paid him $250,000 for a year on the platform. And he indicated the company would give him all the protection he needed.
In his first post, Mr.XXX shared his full name."
See! Doxxing him was no big deal! If anything, we helped him! Besides, the shady cabal of money and power swooped in to take care of the all-important manager of their intellectual focal point. And, if anything, Cade Metz is the real victim, because he has no such ties to shady cabals. Notice, by the way, the use of "with ties to" rather than "with investments from" to make it all sound terribly shady, like how a terrorist group would have ties to Al Qaeda. And how many writers have left the New York Times for Substack? I'm sure that's just a coincidence …
The Road Ahead
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The New York Times is not a journalistic operation. It is an operation devoted to propagandistic activism, using the cultural legacy of its formerly journalistic apparatus to attempt to enforce a fringe authoritarian ideology. This operation is under threat from a variety of technological advances allowing individuals to bypass its gatekeeping of information and its signaling of moral fashion. As such, it is lashing out — typical symptoms of Journalistic Anxiety.
It is a societal menace. You should treat everything it says or does as in bad faith until proven otherwise. You should block their staff on social media. You should cancel your subscription. You should starve it of revenue and attention so it can expire as quickly as possible and cause as little further harm.
Besides, the money and time you save you can put into Astral Codex Ten. Although, fair warning, you will have to think for yourself.
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Assam: Massive Eviction Drive Begins at Pabho Reserve Forest
The administration deployed heavy security in the area and were seen using excavators and tractors for the drive.
Massive Eviction Drive Begins at Pabho Reserve Forest
A massive eviction drive was carried out on Tuesday to clear around 500 hectares of forest land at Pabho reserve forest in Assam's Lakhimpur district.
Meanwhile, several families, who encroached on the forest lands, had destroyed their houses and left the area.
The eviction drive is being carried out based on the instructions given by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.
According to the administration, 507 families belonging to the Muslim community have been illegally living in the forest land.
An official of the Lakhimpur forest division said the families had filed a petition before the district authority, seeking land rights in the forest area under the Forest Rights Act, 2006.
"We had challenged the petition as they do not belong to any tribal community. In September, the district authority finally rejected their petition and allowed us to initiate steps to free the forest land," the officer added.
The Act recognizes the rights of the forest dwelling tribal communities and other traditional forest dwellers to forest resources, on which these communities were dependent for a variety of needs, including livelihood, habitation and other socio-cultural requirements.
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The forest official added that most of the house owners live in different places. "They have either given their houses on rent or hired caretakers for them," the officer said.
The official added that the families were served notices in September last year.
Lakhimpur, superintendent of police, Bedanta Madhab Rajkhowa said 600 personnel of state police and CRPF have been deployed for the exercise and a mock drill was conducted by the forces on Sunday, TOI reported.
"We are prepared to conduct the eviction drive in a smooth and peaceful manner as far as possible," he added.
Nearly 3,000 hectares of government and forest lands have been cleared from encroachment in the state after the chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma-led BJP government took over in May, 2021.
The first and major eviction drive was conducted at Dholpur in Darrang district, around 55 km from Guwahati, in September 2021.
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Pic-a-Pix are exciting logic puzzles that form whimsical pixel-art pictures when solved. They are sometimes known by other names, like Picross, Nonogram, Paint by Numbers, Griddlers and Hanjie. As well as classic black and white picross, Pic-a-Pix Deluxe also includes colour puzzles that must be solved using a palette of up to 5 different colours. In the colour variation, the clues not only indicate lengths, but also the colour in which blocks must be painted.
Pic-a-Pix Deluxe features intuitive touch screen controls and the option of co-operative play for up to four players. It features 300 brand new puzzles – 150 colour and 150 black and white. Pic-a-Pix Deluxe includes puzzles that range from introductory 5×5 grids up to challenging 35×25 puzzles. Users can add even more content via DLC, with a range of packs that will be added over the coming months, offering new puzzles in a choice of sizes.
Content from the game's predecessor, Pic-a-Pix Colour for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, is also available in a DLC pack. Puzzles are designed by Conceptis, the world's leading supplier of logic puzzles. Every puzzle is to be uniquely solvable – and cute. Pic-a-Pix Deluxe supports English, French, German and Spanish.


Chuck From My 600-lb Life: Find out What the Former Reality Star Looks Like Today!
When fans were first introduced to former My 600-lb Life star, Chuck Turner, he weighed a whopping 693 pounds. The murder of his first wife in 2006 caused him to overeat, and before he knew it, he was nearly immobile. The Texas native became so large, in fact, that a 40-pound lymphedema — a lump caused by a build-up of fluid — had appeared on his leg.
At nearly 700 pounds, it was difficult for Chuck to do even the simplest of tasks, which ultimately put a strain on his second marriage. His now ex-wife, Nissa — who appeared on the TLC hit show with him — married Chuck because she felt ashamed of her own obesity. But at 500 pounds overweight, she got more than she bargained for with Chuck. She previously explained that his massive size and immobility made their marriage akin to a carer-patient relationship.
On a special one-off episode of My 600-lb Life in 2015, Chuck said, "Back when I was heavy, I couldn't move around. I couldn't function the way I needed to because of the weight. I was too heavy to do my job, so I used to rely on my [tow truck] competitors to help me." After having gastric bypass surgery in 2013, however, Chuck got down to 260 pounds and the huge lump on his leg went away. Although his marriage couldn't be saved, he's once again able to meet the physical demands of his job and climb on his truck's flatbed — something he could never do when he was massively obese. He added, "I know Nissa felt like I was too big to take care of my family and do what I needed to do," he said, "so it means a lot to me to be able to do my job like I should."
During the episode, Chuck shared his story with members of the congregation. "The people in my church never condemn me," he said. "All they did was support me and pray for me." He added that they're "another inspiration" — aside from his job — and a "source of strength."
After dropping 433 pounds, the former reality star is ready to find love again. "There is a lot to look forward to," he said. "A friend of mine wants to set me up on a blind date. I am looking forward to getting out there and meeting someone, but right now I am going to focus on making more progress."
Chuck, who will be meeting with his doctor soon, noted that he wants "to keep moving in the right direction." He added, "It's been hard recently, but I know there has to be something good waiting for me after all this hard work. I got to have faith in that and keep moving."


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Nigeria and India become the fastest growing export markets for UK goods
Analysis of ONS export data shows that the fastest-growing export markets for UK goods in 2018 were Nigeria (up 27%) and India (up 24%)
The largest export destination country for UK goods remains the US – worth £55 billion to the UK in 2018
Overall UK export growth slows to just 2% in 2018 following 11% growth in 2017
Nigeria and India were the top two fastest-growing export destinations for UK goods in 2018, according to analysis1 by Santander Corporate & Commercial of the latest ONS export data. UK exports to Nigeria grew by 27% last year to £1.63 billion, while those to India were up 24% to £5.52 billion.
The analysis, which looks at the top 50 goods export markets, shows that the top 10 fastest growing markets in 2018 were predominantly made up of non-European Union countries. Alongside Nigeria and India, Thailand (up 19% to £1.55 billion), Taiwan (up 18% to £1.37 billion), and Canada (up 13% to £6.09 billion) were all in the top 10.
John Carroll, Head of International, Santander Corporate & Commercial, said: "It's exciting to see British companies embracing new international trade opportunities, not just with established trading superpowers like the US, Germany and Japan but also in evolving markets such as India and Nigeria. Taking the leap into a new and less traditional market can seem daunting at first, but we know that companies who trade internationally often have stronger growth prospects and are more resilient against economic uncertainty at home."
The UK exported £350 billion in goods in 2018, up 3% versus 2017, and £279 billion in services, up 0.2%. Overall, the UK's total exports (goods and services) for 2018 were up 2% from the previous year to an all-time high of £629 billion. However, year-on-year growth has slowed when compared to the previous year's growth from 2016 to 2017 at 11%.2
Regionally, exports of UK goods to the whole of Europe (including EU countries) were up by 3% compared to 8% in North America and 5% in Asia-Pacific. Asia-Pacific is now bigger than North America (£63 billion vs. £61 billion) in terms of export values for UK goods.
Santander UK has bolstered its engagement with India in recent years, signing a memorandum of understanding with Yes Bank, India's fourth largest private sector bank, in 2017 and leading a delegation of food and drink businesses to India last year.
Gautam Sehgal, India Alliances Director, Santander UK said: "India is a thriving market with a strong rate of economic growth. Its drive towards infrastructure expansion is well reflected in a 65% rise in exports of electrical energy infrastructure from the UK in 2018 alone. The data also shows a significant increase in automotive, advanced engineering and medical sector exports – industries which are considered major contributors to UK job creation and GDP. As the world's fastest growing economy, India is a key international trading partner as the UK looks to expand its global connections."
Recent Trailblazers research by Santander Corporate & Commercial3 found that high growth businesses still see the European Union as presenting the greatest opportunity for international growth. Nearly a third (31%) plan to increase sales in the EU over the coming year, with North America the second most popular region for international expansion (27%).
Helping businesses to export is a core priority for Santander, drawing on Banco Santander's presence in 10 core markets such as the US, Brazil and Mexico as well as alliance partnerships with other banks in countries like France, China, Singapore and India.
Santander supports companies throughout their exporting journey, helping them to identify potential opportunities, running trade missions to connect businesses with new customers and suppliers, and introducing business to the services they need when setting up internationally.
Largest region by export value (within the top 50), for UK goods, in 2018
Región Value, £million Percentage growth from 2017
Europe 189,213 3%
of which European Union 167,883 4%
Asia & Pacific 63,037 5%
North America 61,082 8%
Arab States 16,038 -13%
South/Latin America 4,289 2%
Africa 3,746 3%
Top 10 export destinations for UK goods in 2018, by value
Country Value £million Percentage change from 2017
United States 54,991 7%
Germany 36,053 -3%
Netherlands 25,760 17%
France 24,412 1%
Ireland 22,188 9%
China 18,579 3%
Belgium 14,534 4%
Italy 10,732 4%
Spain 10,413 1%
Hong Kong 8,318 5%
Top 10 fastest-growing export destinations (within the top 50) for UK goods, over one year
Nigeria 1,634 27%
India 5,524 24%
Greece 1,066 21%
Thailand 1,545 19%
Taiwan 1,370 18%
Norway 3,639 13%
Canada 6,091 13%
Japan 7,032 10%
Source: Santander UK analysis of ONS Top 50 UK export data, 2018
Santander analysis of the ONS UK Trade Publication tables, published 11/02/2019, showing top 50 goods export country data between 1998 and 2018.
Santander analysis of the ONS UK Trade publication tables, published 11/02/2019, showing overall export value including goods and services over time.
Research is based on a survey of over 1,000 businesses conducted by YouGov during November and December 2018. From this sample, we identified a group representing 12% of the total cohort: these are high-growth companies that have grown their revenues by at least 20% over the past 12 months and/or which expect to do so over the coming year.


...a study for 'The White House at Chelsea"
Pencil on a leaf from a sketch book.
See note on backboard re size of studies.
The intricate sketching style certainly accords with Girtin.See detailed image.
The skectch 'Valle Crucis Abbey, near Llangollen' is the same size.


Midgard Management Inc., in conjunction with ARC Broward, is very proud to announce our most successful sustainable recycling "drive" to date.
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WE ARE GOING FOR IT! At One Flagler, we have decided to pursue a LEED EB&OM status. We are saving an estimated $7,500 monthly on our electric bills while increasing our occupancy.
This is a result of implementing our sustainability measures and translates into a net savings of $90,000 annually to the net operating income.
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BOMA Fort Lauderdale/Palm Beaches presents Energy - The Reality of What You Need to Know.
Guest Speaker, George Cavros, Esquire, has worked with the Natural Resources Defense Council and Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, as a clean energy consultant. He is also involved with the EPA in Washington, the Governor's Climate Action Team, the Department of Environmental Protection, the Florida Public Service Commision as well as Florida's Energy Commission.
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The incredible CouchCoaster is the perfect solution to avoiding spilled drinks on your furniture. The weighted silicone drink holder can hold a wide variety of drinks and is designed to fit any sofa.
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Do you know Zalando? You visit their website and you see the products that you really like. Isn't that cool? You don't waste your time, searching through categories to find something of your interest. In addition, the articles are individually tailored to each user - in the era of global messaging, a personal approach to the customer is a great asset for e-commerces!
1. What is Marketing Machine?
2. How does Marketing Machine work?
3. Why should you choose edrone's Marketing Machine?
Marketing Machine - What is it?
It is an interactive onsite recommendation frame. Edrone' system analyzes the behavior of each customer entering the store's website, it gets to know his/her interest, compares it to the interests of other customers with similar interests, and, thanks to that, it displays personally tailored offers to each client.
How does Marketing Machine work?
The customer enters your website - he builds his profile with every click. Based on his/her behavior, we create recommendations for the best-fitting products. Thanks to the principle of Segment-of-One Marketing, your site will have as many versions as customers and visitors. We treat each client individually and create a tailored offer for each person. With each visit, and even overloading the site, the offer will be better suited to the visitor.
Marketing Machine's options in edrone.
The recommendation frame in edrone has two versions, divided into categories or without it.
It is used when the store has only one group of products, unabling edrone to create a division into specific categories.
After getting to know the customer's interest, in both versions, the system will present individually matched products.
What distinguishes the recommendation frame in edrone?
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Modern British female artists: the auction scene
Women artists – historically overlooked in scholarship and undervalued on the market – have emerged more and more at auction over the last few years.
'Figures outside a church' by Gill Watkiss – £3800 at Sworders.
In the Modern British market, blue-chip names such as Barbara Hepworth and Elisabeth Frink have long been coveted, but more recently, the secondary market has produced some exceptional prices in UK regional salerooms for women artists further down the price scale.
At Lawrences of Crewkerne in January, a 'tinsel' painting by Bloomsbury Group associate Dora Carrington sold for £48,000 against an estimate of £5000-7000, less than two years after a still-life by the same artist made a multi-estimate £72,000 at Mallams in Oxford.
Perhaps most dramatic of all was a painting by the little-known Evelyn Dunbar, which had been estimated at a few hundred pounds and sailed to £60,000 at Cheffins of Cambridge in 2017.
Fuelling demand are seasoned collectors addressing the gender imbalance in their collections rather than the emergence of a new breed of buyers, says Amy Scanlon, head of the picture department at Essex saleroom Sworders.
"Most buyers of Modern British art are men – it is still an incredibly male-dominated market. They are just buying more works by women painters," she adds.
Sworders (23% buyer's premium) was among the first regional salerooms to tap into the Modern British market, holding its inaugural specialist sale in April 2016. Its proximity to Great Bardfield – the Essex village where many talented Modern British artists descended during the mid 20th century, including Edward Bawden and Eric Rivillous – has helped to secure the auction house as a leading player in the regions.
In January, it offered its biggest Modern British consignment yet, a £540,000 single-owner sale assembled by Cumbrian collector Barbara Holliday. Bullish results for good examples by women artists stood out, such as a £19,500 work by the Cumbrian artist Sheila Fell and a new auction record for Olwyn Bowey at £7400.
Most buyers of Modern British art are men – it is still an incredibly male-dominated market. They are just buying more works by women painters Amy Scanlon Sworders
Wider range of names
More pictures by female names were on offer on February 26 at Sworders' Modern British and 20th century sale of prints, watercolours, paintings and sculpture.
A top entry was Figures outside a church, an evocative 18 x 22in (46 x 58cm) oil on board by Gill Watkiss (b.1938), whose prices for the artist's early works have been rising.
It sold to a UK private buyer for £3800, over six times its top guide and among the higher prices fetched at auction. In 2011, Penzance saleroom David Lay sold a similar-sized work of a street scene in St Just-in-Penwith (1970) for £5000.
Watkiss took inspiration from the so-called 'Kitchen Sink' school of realist painters, who she encountered via her tutor Edward Middleditch in the 1950s. Her subjects are the everyday lives of ordinary people in the villages of Cornwall where she has lived since the late 1950s.
Art by women who made Cornwall their home was dotted throughout the sale. A signed 2ft x 2ft 6in (63 x 76cm) oil on canvas titled A Cornish Landscape by Mary Duncan (1885-1964) – who moved from Dublin in 1927 and remained in Cornwall for the rest of her life – sold on top estimate for £600.
Meanwhile, a typical flower still-life by well-known St Ives painter Dorothea Sharp (1874-1955) was knocked down above the attractive £2000-3000 estimate for £4600. The 20 x 16in (51 x 41cm) signed oil on board was similar to another still-life of summer flowers that sold for £5000 last May at West Sussex saleroom Bellmans.
Two late landscapes by Nina Hamnett (1890-1956), the so-called 'Queen of Bohemia', sold for £1600 and £780 against identical £400-600 guides. Regent's Canal, a 10 x 14in (24 x 35cm) gouache of a bridge over the London canal, and a smaller watercolour, Cottage at Clonmerle, Ireland, both dated to c.1947.
'Regent's Canal' by Nina Hamnett – £1600 at Sworders.
Pembrokeshire-born Hamnett rose to prominence in artistic circles for her flamboyant and unconventional lifestyle. She modelled for the French avant-garde sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and knew Modigliani, Picasso and Cocteau when she lived in Paris during the First World War.
Influenced in style by these great avant-garde artists, Hamnett produced landscapes and figure compositions, but it is her portraits – especially of her famous friends – that top the price list at around £10,000 at auction.
Elsewhere, Red Rings (2000), a late watercolour by Sandra Blow (1925-2006), more than doubled its estimate to sell for £1300, while Cheek to Cheek, a typically romantic and poetic work by Karolina Larusdottir (b.1944), harking back to her childhood origins in Iceland, sold for £1400 against a £200-300 estimate.
Three out of four oils depicting the Suffolk home of post-war painter Margaret Green (1925-2003) got away, led by the largest of the trio Gardening on a cold day, which took a mid-estimate £700. The quartet were offered alongside 17 pictures and textile works by Green's lifelong partner Lionel Bulmer.
Sworders
Burmese scene by royal artist Gerald Kelly draws interest at Sworders
Bawden works with personal touch consigned to Sworders
Printing money: wall power and connoisseurship on a budget
Second slice from Country Life gardens editor's collection includes many works on a plants theme
Early Cedric Morris works draw interest at Sworders


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Written by Dicken Schrader Published on March 20, 2019 Updated on March 20, 2019 in Music
So I'm a huge Depeche Mode fan. That's been no secret to anyone who has known me throughout my life. It's one of the first things that come out when someone meets me.
During high school, when I found their music, I was obsessed by it and couldn't stop playing their cassette tapes on my Sony Walkman. I remember this one time I was on the school bus on my way home, I must've been in 8th grade, and one of the older kids who used to bully me ripped my Catching Up With Depeche Mode tape off my hands and started shouting, "Look, everybody! This is what he listens to! Gay music! Check out the guys on the picture! Do you think they're cute, Dicken? Do you want to make out with them? Muack muack muack!"
I honestly don't remember what my response was, but knowing myself, it was probably something like "Well, I really like their music and I don't judge people by the way they dress," or something lame like that — honest but utterly ineffective in stopping someone from picking on you. In any case, this incident wasn't the first time, nor would it be the last, in which I would be singled out for the music that I love.
At this point, I must clarify that during the '80s in Colombia, the only two radio stations that played music in English were focused on commercial music, either pop acts like Madonna and Michael Jackson or glam/heavy rock bands like Guns N' Roses and Metallica. That's what "real men," like my bully, listened to. These stations would sometimes play what they called "alternative" music, usually the same three songs from Depeche Mode, The Cure, Erasure. And we, the people who listened to that music, were considered "freaks" and "weirdos."
At first, I felt this discrimination kind of annoying. But then, I realized that it brought me together with other freaks like me, and it became an advantage because it helped me establish connections with some great people. And that's when I started to grasp the concept that we, Depeche Mode fans, are a special breed. We are turned on by a witty line of poetry and a beautiful melody to go with it. We are sensitive individuals who understand the suffering of this world — often having experienced it firsthand — and want to do something about it. We understand that people are people, and we get pissed off at those who don't get it. We are aware of our primal human impulses and channel them on a dance floor. And we commune at their live shows as if they were part of our religion, because for most of us, it's the only religion that makes any sense. And to it, we are faithfully devoted.
But I didn't fully understand the extent of this connection among DM fans until recently. It was exactly two years ago today that my kids and I were asked to take over Depeche Mode's Facebook page for a day. Reading all the positive comments from people around the world was such a truly inspiring experience that it gave us — it gave me, for sure — a sense of belonging. And the Takeover was just the beginning. It became the reason and the catalyzer for us meeting some wonderful human beings during this past year: Jenna, Daniel, Cristian, Liz, Carine, Indra, Avital, Joana… so many people with whom we felt such a strong connection and lived such amazing experiences, we now consider our family. All thanks to this band and what it attracts and creates with its music.
Like Jenna said it very eloquently on her blog post, it's amazing how something that seems so trivial, like your favorite band, can give you a sense of community and family. But that's exactly what DM has done, like no other band in history. That's why we are special and we wear their t-shirts with honor. I am proud to be a devotee, and to have made devotees out of my kids. Because the memories and the friends that we've made thanks to Depeche Mode will last forever, just like their legacy.
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Dicken Schrader is a Colombian-American video artist, creative director, and musician. He is most noted for his YouTube viral videos featuring himself and his two children, Milah and Korben, performing cover versions of Depeche Mode songs as the band DMK. Their remake of "Everything Counts" was selected by Electronic Beats magazine as one of the ten best Depeche Mode covers ever made.
Depeche Mode Takeover: Two Years Later
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As a love letter to fellow music lovers, the memoir of Robbins' time following Depeche Mode on the 1993 Devotional tour brings readers face to face with the artists she idolized, while speaking directly to the heart of every music fan.
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ISBN: UCAL:B4171003
Category: American literature
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Publishers Weekly Book Publishing Almanac 2022
Author: Publishers Weekly
Category: Reference
Announcing the first edition of Publishers Weekly Book Publishing Almanac 2022. Designed to help authors, editors, agents, publicists, and anyone else working in book publishing understand the changing landscape of book publishing, it is an essential reference for anyone who works in the industry. Written by industry veterans and co-published with Publishers Weekly magazine, here is the first-ever book to offer a comprehensive view of how modern book publishing works. It offers history and context, as well as up-to-the-minute information for anyone interested in working in the field and for authors looking to succeed with a publisher or by self-publishing. You'll find here information on: Finding an agent Self-publishing Amazon Barnes & Noble and other book chains Independent bookstores Special sales (non-traditional book markets) Distribution Foreign markets Publicity, Marketing, Advertising Subsidiary rights Book production E-books and audiobooks Diversity, equity, and inclusion across the industry And more! Whether you're a seasoned publishing professional, just starting out in the business, or simply interested in how book publishing works, the Publishers Weekly Book Publishing Almanac will be an annual go-to reference guide and an essential, authoritative resource that will make that knowledge accessible to a broad audience. Featuring original essays from and interviews with some of the industry's most insightful and innovative voices along with highlights of PW's news coverage over the last year, the Publishers Weekly Book Publishing Almanac is an indispensable guide for publishers, editors, agents, publicists, authors and anyone who wants better to understand this business, its history, and its mysteries.
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Minders of Make-believe
Author: Leonard C. Marcus
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Examines the dramatic changes that occurred in children's literature during the twentieth century, the growth and impact of major publishing houses, the influence of key publishing figures, and the contributions of pioneering editors, educators, and librarians.
Cather Studies, Volume 12
Author: Cather Cather Studies
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Category: Literary Criticism
Over the five decades of her writing career Willa Cather responded to, and entered into dialogue with, shifts in the terrain of American life. These cultural encounters informed her work as much as the historical past in which much of her writing is based. Cather was a multifaceted cultural critic, immersing herself in the arts, broadly defined: theater and opera, art, narrative, craft production. Willa Cather and the Arts shows that Cather repeatedly engaged with multiple forms of art, and that even when writing about the past she was often addressing contemporary questions. The essays in this volume are informed by new modes of contextualization, including the increasingly popular view of Cather as a pivotal or transitional figure working between and across very different cultural periods and by the recent publication of Cather's correspondence. The collection begins by exploring the ways Cather encountered and represented high and low cultures, including Cather's use of "racialized vernacular" in Sapphira and the Slave Girl. The next set of essays demonstrates how historical research, often focusing on local features in Cather's fiction, contributes to our understanding of American culture, from musicological sources to the cultural development of Pittsburgh. The final trio of essays highlights current Cather scholarship, including a food studies approach to O Pioneers! and an examination of Cather's use of ancient philosophy in The Professor's House. Together the essays reassess Cather's lifelong encounter with, and interpretation and reimagining of, the arts.
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Category: Social Science
This thorough update to Benjamin Compaine's original 1979 benchmark and 1982 revisit of media ownership tackles the question of media ownership, providing a detailed examination of the current state of the media industry. Retaining the wealth of data of the earlier volumes, Compaine and his co-author Douglas Gomery chronicle the myriad changes in the media industry and the factors contributing to these changes. They also examine how the media industry is being reshaped by technological forces in all segments, as well as by social and cultural reactions to these forces. This third edition of Who Owns the Media? has been reorganized and expanded, reflecting the evolution of the media industry structure. Looking beyond conventional wisdom and expectations, Compaine and Gomery examine the characteristics of competition in the media marketplace, present alternative positions on the meanings of concentration, and ultimately urge readers to draw their own conclusions on an issue that is neither black nor white. Appropriate for media practitioners and sociologists, historians, and economists studying mass media, this volume can also be used for advanced courses in broadcasting, journalism, mass communication, telecommunications, and media education. As a new benchmark for the current state of media ownership, it is invaluable to anyone needing to understand who controls the media and thus the information and entertainment messages received by media consumers.
The Transnational in Literary Studies
Author: Kai Wiegandt
This volume clarifies the meanings and applications of the concept of the transnational and identifies areas in which the concept can be particularly useful. The division of the volume into three parts reflects areas which seem particularly amenable to analysis through a transnational lens. The chapters in Part 1 present case studies in which the concept replaces or complements traditionally dominant concepts in literary studies. These chapters demonstrate, for example, why some dramatic texts and performances can better be described as transnational than as postcolonial, and how the transnational underlies and complements concepts such as world literature. Part 2 assesses the advantages and limitations of writing literary history with a transnational focus. These chapters illustrate how such a perspective loosens the epistemic stranglehold of national historiographies, but they also argue that the transnational and national agendas of literary historiography are frequently entangled. The chapters in Part 3 identify transnational genres such as the transnational historical novel, transnational migrant fiction and translinguistic theatre, and analyse the specific poetics and politics of these genres.
A Novel Marketplace
Author: Evan Brier
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
As television transformed American culture in the 1950s, critics feared the influence of this newly pervasive mass medium on the nation's literature. While many studies have addressed the rhetorical response of artists and intellectuals to mid-twentieth-century mass culture, the relationship between the emergence of this culture and the production of novels has gone largely unexamined. In A Novel Marketplace, Evan Brier illuminates the complex ties between postwar mass culture and the making, marketing, and reception of American fiction. Between 1948, when television began its ascendancy, and 1959, when Random House became a publicly owned corporation, the way American novels were produced and distributed changed considerably. Analyzing a range of mid-century novels—including Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Sloan Wilson's The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, and Grace Metalious's Peyton Place—Brier reveals the specific strategies used to carve out cultural and economic space for the American novel just as it seemed most under threat. During this anxious historical moment, the book business underwent an improbable expansion, by capitalizing on an economic boom and a rising population of educated consumers and by forming institutional alliances with educators and cold warriors to promote reading as both a cultural and political good. A Novel Marketplace tells how the book trade and the novelists themselves successfully positioned their works as embattled holdouts against an oppressive mass culture, even as publishers formed partnerships with mass-culture institutions that foreshadowed the multimedia mergers to come in the 1960s. As a foil for and a partner to literary institutions, mass media corporations assisted in fostering the novel's development as both culture and commodity.
Concentration Processes on the U.S. Book Market
Author: Björn Kohlhepp
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Book Science, grade: 1,7, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, course: Bookmarkets in Germany and in English-speaking countries, 30 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This paper will treat the theme of consolidation processes on the U.S. book mar-ket. Concentration within the book industry of course is an international phenomenon but the U.S. are of certain interest as they boast the by far largest book market in the world . Moreover, the concentration on this book market has reached a very high level and is certainly one of the highest in comparison with international book markets. And developments on U.S. markets in general often tend to influence or to anticipate those of other countries.
Demanding Respect
Author: Paul Lopes
Publisher: Temple University Press
Category: COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
From pulp comics to Maus, the story of the growth of comics in American culture.


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BRUCE PATTERSON
Robert "Bruce" Patterson, 79, of Harrodsburg, husband of Ann McNees Patterson, died Sunday, June 27, 2021, at his home.
Born Nov. 4, 1941, in Mercer County, he was the son of the late Horace Patterson and Nannie (Hurst) and Raymond Darnell.
He was an auto auction ring man, served in the National Guard and coached school golf and Junior Pro basketball.
Survivors, in addition to his wife, include: four daughters: Nora Ann James, Letha (Tim) Blair, Bobby (Chris) Bruner and Carol Stephens; one son, Nick Patterson; one step son, Eddie (Jamie) Carrier Jr.; two brothers, J.C. (Kathleen) Patterson and Tommy Hurst; 11 grand children and 14 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by four grandchildren; Steven Bruce Patterson, Nichole Patterson, Joshua Patterson and Tabitha Stephens, one brother, Larry Patterson and one sister; June Sutton.
Funeral services are today, Thursday, July 1, at 2 p.m. at the Ransdell Funeral Chapel with Mick Conover and Phil Yates officiating. Burial is in Spring Hill Cemetery.
Visitation 10 a.m. until the hour of service.
Pallbearers are Nick Patterson, Quinton Bruner, Isaiah Bruner, Shane Blair, Eddie Carrier Jr., Shane Cocanougher, Lance McNees, Jonathan Sexton, Michael Butler and Brian Sexton.
Memorial contributions are suggested to the American Cancer Society or the charity of your choice.
Expressions of sympathy may be sent to the family at www.ransdellfuneralchapel.com.


A new episode, entitled The Excelsior Acquisition, airs tonight at 9:30/8:30c on CBS. Sheldon misses an opportunity to meet comics mogul Stan Lee when he has to go to traffic court after getting a ticket because of Penny. Guest starring Stan Lee as himself! Nuff' said.
Stan Lee, great! It's gonna be hilarious.


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Expensive Oklahoma City Council elections to come to an end Tuesday
BY MICHAEL BAKER mbaker@opubco.com
Published: Mon, April 4, 2011 12:00 AM
Tuesday's election contest for a seat on the Oklahoma City Council between physician Ed Shadid and Charlie Swinton, a senior bank officer, will be the culmination of a hard-fought round of campaigning.
The Ward 2 contest between Shadid and Swinton will be the end of an expensive election season for four city council seats. Candidates and special interest groups had raised about $1.2 million and spent more than $1 million as of March 20, according to campaign finance reports.
Shadid had raised $78,725 and spent $66,541. Shadid was his own biggest contributor, writing checks to himself for $65,000.
Swinton had raised $104,356 and spent $63,808. At least $13,000 raised can be attributed to political action committees or other special interest groups.
Article: Oklahoma City Council Ward 2 candidates discuss views
During the campaign, Shadid touted his independence from special interests while Swinton pointed to his broad base of support.
Swinton's fundraising totals do not include money spent by the Committee for Oklahoma City Momentum, which is making independent expenditures in running its own campaign in support of the candidate. So far, Oklahoma City Momentum has spent more than $400,000 running campaigns supporting Swinton and three other candidates.
Results and turnout
The other three candidates Oklahoma City Momentum supported all won March 1 primary elections — incumbents Meg Salyer in Ward 6 and Patrick Ryan in Ward 8 both easily defeated tea party backed opposition, and newcomer David Greenwell upset Ward 5 incumbent Brian Walters by about 450 votes. Voter turnout in those races was 11 to 12 percent of registered voters.
In the Ward 2 election, Swinton received 43 percent of the vote, and Shadid received 35 percent in a race that had six candidates. Turnout in Ward 2 was about 11 percent of registered voters.
The turnout could be higher for Tuesday's runoff given the publicity surrounding the election, Oklahoma County Election Board Secretary Doug Sanderson said.
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Hitman 3 Deluxe Edition Unboxing Video
Created by: Shawn Zipay
Published: 01-13-2021, 01:18 PM
Get a look at everything coming in the Deluxe Edition.
With the upcoming release of Hitman 3 mere days away now, it seems a good as time as any to get a detailed look on what is coming in the Deluxe Edition of the game. This unboxing comes courtesy of IO Interactive directly and not from any whacky YouTube personality. I apologize for your taste if you'd rather have the whacky YouTube personality.
The Deluxe Edition of the game includes the following items:
New Features for Hitman 3
Some hot new features and returning favorites coming in Hitman 3.
The latest Hitman 3 trailer from IO Interactive focuses on some of the new features coming to the game along with the return of some old favorites. We get a look at these new features featuring gameplay from Dubai, Dartmoor, and the Chongqing locations.
Hitman 3 will also reportedly support 4K resolutions at 60fps, HDR, and the always present fast loading times on next-gen platforms. Thanks to improvements...
Valkyria Chronicles 4 Coming to Stadia
The RPG is coming this week to Stadia.
SEGA announced today that the action-strategy RPG known as Valkyria Chronicles 4 Complete Edition is coming to Google Stadia as early as December 8. That is just under a week away from release at the time of this news going live. What's more is that it will only run you a mere $49.99 (USD).
This release is a standalone adventure in the Valkyria Chronicles series. However, it will be joining the others in the series that are already...
Everspace Arrives on Stadia
Roguelike space shooter to hit Stadia.
Rockfish Games just announced that their "roguelike space shooter" Everspace will be coming out on Stadia come December 1. To those keeping track at home, today is December 1 at the time of this writing. This Stadia release joins the two million lifetime sales of the game on the PC, Xbox, and PlayStation.
Everspace will be free to claim for those with Stadia Pro subscriptions. Otherwise, the price will be $29.99 (USD) at...
New Location Revealed for Hitman 3
Agent 47 gets a little wet in this new level reveal.
IO Interactive just released a fresh look at a fresh map coming to Hitman 3. Welcome to the rainy, neon-lit streets of a Chinese transportation hub called Chongqing. It's an area that is packed with shops and food stands, all crammed tightly together in cramped, narrow streets. It is here that we get to see the "improvements and refinements" that have been made to the engine powering Hitman 3.
IO Interactive's...
Kate Bishop Joins Marvel's Avengers on December 8
Mark your calendars now.
For those few of you still playing Marvel's Avengers, you may be happy to hear that on December 8th, Kate Bishop will be added to the game. Specifically, she will join alongside "Operation: Kate Bishop - Taking AIM." Bishop will be a new playable Super Hero and she will fight in the new chapter of the ongoing Avenger's Initiative storyline.
In addition to the new hero, there will also be a new villain: Super Adaptoid. This foe will "challenge...
New Cyberpunk 2077 Gameplay Footage
Features over 5 minutes of new footage.
You may have already gotten about ten minutes of Cyberpunk 2077 Xbox Series X gameplay this week, but you could always use a little bit more, right? That seems to be the same thing that CD Projekt Red was thinking when they decided to put together another five minute long gameplay video for everyone today.
We get a look at "never before seen interactions and action scenes." You get a look at some of the game's story plus...
Watch Rambo Take on the Terminator in New Mortal Kombat 11 Trailer
It's the dream fight you never knew you wanted.
Warner Bros. Games and NetherRealm Studios just dropped a couple of new trailers today for Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate. These aren't your typical trailers, however. Instead, these are two rounds where the Terminator is going up against Rambo in a fight to the death.
Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate is slated to be released starting November 17 on the PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC, and...
Outriders Reveals Endgame Expeditions
Find out what you will do after beating the campaign.
Once you have beaten the campaign in Square Enix's upcoming Outriders, what will there be left to do? Well, as it turns out the answer to that question was revealed today. Square Enix revealed "Expeditions" today, the challenging post-game content for Outriders.
Expeditions are said to challenge "even the most accomplished Outrider and push them to their limits." These will be a series of "tough-as-nails"...
DOOM Eternal: The Ancient Gods - Part One Available Now
Better keep ripping and tearing because it's still not done.
DOOM Eternal: The Ancient Gods - Part One is now available on the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC, and Stadia. This release is available for those that own the Deluxe Edition of DOOM Eternal or the Year One Pass for the game. It is also available as a separate standalone release that also includes access to Battlemode. That is to say, you do not need to own the base game of DOOM Eternal in order to play The Ancient Gods - Part...
New Cyberpunk 2077 Footage is Full of Vehicles and High Fashion
Straight from Night City Wire's fourth episode.
CD Projekt Red took fans behind the scenes of Cyberpunk 2077 once more today in their latest Night City Wire broadcast. This most recent installment of the show showcased a variety of different videos. The first one, Rides of the Dark Future, gives us a look at the variety of cars, bikes, and other modes of transportation in Night City.
Two behind the scenes videos then followed. These videos were "Revving up Night City"...
Cyberpunk 2077 Releasing on Stadia on November 19
Stadia release is happening day and date with the other platforms.
To those Stadia users out there that were concerned about when you might be able to play Cyberpunk 2077, today brings you some great news. CD Projekt Red announced today that Cyberpunk 2077 on Stadia will release on November 19, which is the same date as every other platform (PC, Xbox, PlayStation).
In addition to this, pre-orders through Stadia are now live through the Stadia Store.
Those...
Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate Announced
Round 2... FIGHT!
WB Games and NetherRealm announced Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate earlier today. This release is a new and expanded version of Mortal Kombat 11 that will include the base game along with the Aftermath expansion, the two Kombat Packs, and more.
Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate is slated to be released starting November 17. Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate is going to be released on the PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Stadia, and...
Baldur's Gate 3 Released to Early Access Today
The long-awaited RPG is out today.
A new grand RPG based on fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons, has entered into Early Access today. That's right, Baldur's Gate 3 is now available through Early Access on PC and Mac via Steam, GOG.com, and Stadia. This is just the start of the journey towards the game's full launch.
The team at Larian Studios say that they will be working directly with the community on iterating and improving the game. This includes adding new content...
Let Keanu Reeves Make You Forget About the Cyberpunk 2077 Crunch
Crunch? What crunch? There's no crunch here. Look, it's Keanu Reeves!
CD Projekt Red has released a new trailer today for Cyberpunk 2077. This is no ordinary trailer though, this is a new commercial for the game. Not only is it a new commercial, but it's one that stars Keanu Reeves. Yes, the Keanu Reeves! He's so dreamy.
This commercial first aired during the first game of the NBA Finals between the Lakers and the Heat. This commercial has Keanu Reeves inviting players...
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Григорий Федосеевич Степанюк (09.02.1919, Черниговская область — 18.01.1945, Польша) — командир отделения артиллерийской разведки 771-го артиллерийского полка 248-й стрелковой дивизии 5-й ударной армии 1-го Белорусского фронта, младший сержант. Герой Советского Союза.

Биография
Родился 9 февраля 1919 года в селе Каневщина ныне Прилукского района Черниговской области. Украинец. Член ВКП(б)/КПСС с 1944 года. Окончил неполную среднюю школу. С 1935 года работал на бетонном заводе в Ленинграде. В 1936—1939 годах — юнга на пароходе «Видлица» на Ладожском озере.

В 1939 году призван в ряды Красной Армии. В боях Великой Отечественной войны с июня 1941 года. Воевал на Южном, Сталинградском, 1-м и 3-м Украинских, 1-м Белорусском фронтах.

18 января 1945 года командир отделения артиллерийской разведки 771-го артиллерийского полка младший сержант Г. Ф. Степанюк, выполняя задачу по разведке, обнаружил значительные силы противника в районе железнодорожной станции Руда около города Скерневице в Польше и вызвал огонь батарей на себя. Контратака противника была сорвана.

В этом бою младший сержант Григорий Федосеевич Степанюк погиб. Похоронен на станции Руда в Польше.

Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 24 марта 1945 года за образцовое выполнение боевых заданий командования и проявленные при этом мужество и героизм младшему сержанту Григорию Федосеевичу Степанюку посмертно присвоено звание Героя Советского Союза.

Награждён орденом Ленина, медалью.

Литература

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The 3rd and 4th grade classes will be presenting the musical, Herbie and the Good News Garden, on Thursday, June 7th at 7:00 p.m. in the school gym.
On June 8th we will once again be offering a delicious sub sandwich lunch for students to enjoy for $5.50 each. Everyone gets the same veggie sandwich. There are no special orders.
There will be NO HOT LUNCH served in the cafeteria that day. Please place your child's order by June 6th by sending us an email (monicar@tvja.org). All sub orders will be billed to your account.
Swimming lessons for grades 1st to 6th grade are happening from Tuesday, May 29th to June 7th.