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With the Nevada County Fairgrounds taking major hits over the last couple of years from the pandemic's impacts, the new CEO says he expects a much stronger 2022. Dale Chasse says a lot more events and activities are in the works, with more people feeling confident to rent their facilities, as impacts should ease more, as the year progresses…
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That also includes the Fair, which returned last year, although attendance was down. But Chasse says he's expecting huge crowds in August…
Chasse started his new job last week, replacing Patrick Eidman. He says his extensive background working in the entertainment industry, including with Bill Graham Productions, prepares him well for booking and promoting events. But just prior to joining the Fairgrounds, he was a Bureau Chief for the Department of Consumer Affairs in Sacramento. In this role, he also brings enforcement and budget administration experience, as well as strong public relations, having also worked with the Governor's Office of Emergency Services.
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TOKYO, OKYO	- 12 Dec 2005: IBM Japan, Ltd. has announced a five-year contract for IBM to transform and manage Omron Corporation's accounts receivable process through its Business Transformation Outsourcing (BTO) Delivery Center in Dalian, northern China. Omron Corporation is a leading manufacturer of automated control equipment.
The contract is part of Omron's "Grand Design 2010" corporate transformation strategy to focus on core competencies and is expected to deliver operational improvements and cost efficiencies through the application of IBM's finance and administration process methodologies, standardized technology and global delivery capabilities to Omron's accounts receivable process.
This agreement is an example of the new type of partnerships and delivery of on demand business value IBM is targeting in the Business Performance Transformation Services marketplace.
IBM's Dalian BTO Center will manage Omron's sales proceeds appropriation, accounts receivable and payment processing, receivable cancellations and customer information functions. High-speed network links will connect the Dalian Center and Omron's Japan operations enabling data to be efficiently entered, referenced and transferred in a compatible timezone by the Center's Japanese speaking staff.
A part of IBM's global BTO delivery network, the Dalian BTO Center transforms and delivers key business functions such as customer relationship management, finance and administration, human resources and procurement for IBM clients. The Center recently moved into new premises, expanding its existing operations to meet the growing market demand for BTO services.


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Kudratillo Abdukakhorov takes on Cody Crowley while he waits for Errol Spence Jr.
It's closing in on three-years since Kudratillo Abdukakhorov earned himself a seat at the welterweight table.
However, despite being the IBF mandatory to Errol Spence Jr. for the same amount of time, he has been unable to secure his title opportunity.
Abdukakhorov, who is rated No. 7 by The Ring at 147-pounds, is keen to get what he long ago earned, but he understands that he is stuck in a holding pattern due to Errol Spence Jr. having two lengthy injury lay-offs and the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the meantime, Abdukakhorov will face unbeaten Cody Crowley at Dignity Health Sports Park, Carson, California on Saturday.
"It has been frustrating but I am grateful my team are able to keep me active," Abdukakhorov (18-0, 10 knockouts) told The Ring through his manager Vikram Sivapragasam. "I want to face the best in the division but it has been difficult over the last couple of years.
"I have to give Crowley my full attention because if I do not beat him, I won't be able to face Spence. I am focused on this fight."
The 28-year-old Uzbekistan-born fighter snapped a 17-month hiatus when he stopped fringe contender Javier Flores (RTD 8) in March.
"It was difficult not fighting for such a long time," admitted Abdukakhorov. "I stayed positive and then won my fight. It was great to fight in America again. This time there will be fans which will help."
"The Punisher" has spent five weeks training under the watchful eye of Manny Robles and strength and fitness guru Matias Erbin in southern California.
"It has been good training with Manny, I have learned new things," he said. "Matias has got me in great shape and I want to show the boxing fans in California that I am someone to watch."
He hopes this will be his final fight before facing one of the big names at welterweight.
"I don't chase fights, I leave that to Vikram and Sampson," he said. "They know the best way and I will follow what they say but I want to fight the big names in America next year."
Sivapragasam hopes Abdukakhorov can be a part of the changing of the guard in the star-studded division.
"The division has changed a lot this year," said Sivapragasam. "We have seen [Manny] Pacquiao and Shawn Porter retire this year and the emergence of young fighters like Vergil Ortiz and Jaron Ennis. I believe Kudratillo can be a big part of the division."
His promoter Lewkowicz, a veteran famed for his work with former middleweight champion Sergio Martinez, among others, believes bigger fights are just around the corner.
"I am convinced that after this fight it will be time for a great opportunity," said Lewkowicz. "We want a big name or a championship fight."
Crowley turned professional in 2014. The 28-year-old Canadian has beaten Stuart McLellan (UD 12), Mian Hussain (UD 10) and, in his most recent fight, Josh Torres (UD 10). Crowley, who fights out of a southpaw stance, is (19-0, 9 KOs).
The Showtime event will be headlined by WBC bantamweight titleholder Nonito Donaire vs. Reymart Gaballo and also feature Brandun Lee vs. Juan Heraldez and Abdukakhorov vs. Crowley. The broadcast will begin at 10 p.m. ET/ 7 p.m. PT.

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system of mere private judgment is, indeed, a "mere theory." The system of infallibility is not even that; for it seems impossible even to set it down on paper at all.
Now, in attempting to shew that the " Via Media" is the doctrine of a party in the English church, and not of the church itself, the reviewer proposes to test the church's opinion by the " universality of consent," on the one hand, or " diversity of teaching," on the other, concerning any given point. And yet, at p. 58, when it appeared that the great body of the English church thought the Prayer Book to be necessary as a safeguard, or interpreter, of the Bible, then we are reminded that the " smaller portion" who might think differently is as much a part of the church as the larger. It seems to me that a test is instituted, and almost exulted in, for its logical accuracy, at p. 54, and then ridiculed, as practically absurd, at p. 58.
The Roman controversialists are accustomed to shew what the opinion of the church is on any point by quoting the testimonies of the leading fathers of every age. The modern Anglican writers have adopted a similar method, and illustrate from their standard divines the true doctrine of their church as occupying a middle position between Roman and latitudinarian extremes.—(See a work just published, entitled, " The Judgment of the Anglican Church on the Sufficiency of Scripture," &c. T. F. Russell, T.C.L.) And that they have been in some measure successful herein, the reviewer can hardly help admitting, (p. 60.) But then he begins to inquire, Who are the authorized divines—the " acknowledged authorities ?" This is not wise or Christian, because it is mere equivocation to pretend that this is a real and practical difficulty. Has any infallible council ever settled the question, Who are " the fathers ?" Yet we know that ignorant protestants have often urged this question seriously against Romanists. But such a method surely was unworthy of the reviewer.
Page 64. It is next urged as an objection to the Anglican doctrine, that, after all, it throws us back upon individual judgment. « Each one has to judge for himself whether the church be contradicting the doctrine of scripture." But I see not how any system can possibly steer clear of some such difficulty as this. I might just as well object against the doctrine of infallibility, that, after all, " each man has to judge for himself whether the church be infallible." And I leave the reviewer to decide whether, in this case, the private judgment Romanist has not a rather more difficult task than that of the Angli
And it may not be deemed, perhaps, an inappropriate comment on the whole of the additional remarks on the "obscurity" of the English system, that the same objections, at least, lie against the undefinable system of Roman infallibility. And is there not much of religious impatience in these complaints of obscurity, or these attempts to deny its existence? Is it not murmuring against Him who, for the trial of our faith, has ordained that now we see through a glass darkly?
Page 67. In order to shew what the reviewer calls the " practical inutility" of our speculative system of "authority," he puts a case : Is a man who surrenders his own opinion to the judgment of the Anglican church more secure of the truth by so doing? And it is answered,
that the honest and explicit" reply could, on our principles, be no better than this—"Our church, indeed, may err; but the immense advantage of joining us will be, that you are joining a part of the church catholic; and that church, taken altogether, all over the world, will never agree in teaching and enforcing what is not true"! Now, is this an impartial statement of the best that could be said by us? I will hope that the reviewer thought so; and I submit whether the following be not a better reply to such an inquiry as has been supposed : " The advantage of surrendering individual judgment to that of the church lies in this, that it is a thousand fold more likely that an individual should err than that a church which generally agrees with the holy church throughout all the world should, in a given particular, go fatally wrong."
From this passage in the Review the writer continues in a spirit very different from that in which he commenced his article. At the outset there was what might be termed a controversial fairness and impartiality in his remarks; but from page 67 his readers are doomed to meet with taunts instead of reasons—banter instead of argumentand sneers at our church's alleged misfortunes and imperfections, instead of the sorrow of a Christian sympathy. At p. 68, we are upbraided with our want of communion with other churches. Is this generous in point of feeling, or sound in respect of argument ? Have we not been goaded and alarmed into our exclusiveness? And will the Romanist say that a temporary suspension of the communion of any one church with the rest severs that church from all union with, and membership of, the body catholic ? If he will not say this, his argument amounts to nothing; and if he will, then, at certain periods of the history of the early church, the churches of Antioch and of Constantinople, and even of Rome, ceased to be parts of the catholic body. But who that bears in mind the anxious efforts made by our divines, at different times, to promote our communion with foreign churches who that remembers that our bishops are catholically ordained, our liturgies derived from catholic antiquity, and our efforts in spreading our succession and our " COMMON Prayer" in the new world are crowned with so divine a success—will, after all, venture to deny our union and communion in principle, and, as far as we can gain it, in practice also, with the whole body of Christ?
It is with unfeigned regret that I perceive, however, throughout the reviewer's remarks, the latent spirit of an ungenerous rivalry. Even when his statements are verbally impartial, he does not seem to try to enter into (if I might so say) the spirit of our theory, even so far as to appreciate our relative position. I confess, I long to see this controversy handled in a far different tone. Is it too much to ask of a serious-minded man, of any creed, to consider with candour and generosity the opinions and circumstances of others, equally sincere with himself, we trust, and not less intelligent or less informed ?
I honestly believe that the English church was literally driven into protestantism. I should be sorry for the state of that man's mind who can see in the Reformation nothing but an act of ecclesiastical rebellion. I put it to any Romanist of reflection to decide whether there must not have been some weighty cause, some fearfully latent evils, which could have compelled a numerous company of men (beyond all honest doubt, many of them men of lofty minds and holy lives) to revolt against the existing regimen of the church? The evils, indeed, which the church in this country has suffered since the Reformation we pretend not to deny: we publicly lament some of them in our servicebook; and for many of them we are indebted to the tyranny of the state. During our connexion with the state we have striven oftentimes for a purity as yet unattained. But are these ineffectual struggles of our church fit subject for taunt and triumph ? Is it not rather a spectacle to strike a thoughtful man with awe, to see a zealous and enlightened church thus fruitlessly striving, from age to age, in an evil world, each generation in turn leaving on record its faithful witness of holy discipline neglected and deplored ? I will not recriminate, or there surely might be room. If, however, the Romanist will still dwell on our imperfections, and consequent " insecurity," as though he himself were faultless, I must ask him to remember that there were once seven churches in Asia, some of them not very pure; but let him decide whether they were branches of the church catholic, or were their members in an insecure state altogether, on account of their corporate imperfections ?
Pages 71, 72. The reviewer next discovers another "inconsistency" in the Anglican system-viz., in our doctrine respecting general councils. The difficulty seems to be this : " If (as is allowed on all hands) the catholic church is indefectible, then its opinion, authoritatively declared, must be infallible ; whereas the Anglicans say that general councils may err." To this we reply, that, in the strictest sense, no council can be called so truly and properly general as to be able to claim, certainly, all the prerogatives of the church catholic scattered throughout the world. The indefectibility is in the church herself, and is only manifested in her councils in proportion as the idea of universality is realized in them. Hence this degree or proportion is to be tested by the nviversality of the subsequent reception of the decrees of any council. It is not tested by numbers: at the council of Chalcedon there were six hundred fathers; at Constantinople I., only one hundred and fifty. Yet they were, popularly speaking, both " general councils," because they both had the general imprimatur of the church catholic—i.e., they were universally received, or nearly so. If it were possible that the catholic church could, in the highest and exactest sense, meet in a CATHOLIC COUNCIL, we should receive its sentence as infallible truth. In proportion, then, as a " general council" realizes this idea, we hold its decisions. in reverence. Is there anything " inconsistent" in all this ? On the contrary, is it not most reasonable?
Another difficulty, urged in the same page of the Review, is this: " That because the same texts convey the promise of indefectibility and authority, then whoever pretends to the authority must, in consistency, pretend to the indefectibility also." To which I make brief answer, that this proves too much; because every individual priest has authority, and yet he is not indefectible, or infallible. It is plain that many things may be predicated of the church as a whole which cannot be predicated of all its parts. That which is the characteristic of the whole, as a whole, cannot (by the very force of terms) be attributed to all the distinct parts thereof, except in some inferior degree.
Page 76. The reviewer, in the next place, boldly affirms that his church claims " no more authority" in matters of faith than that of declaring and defining what had been believed" from the beginning.
66 Concerning which I only say to the reviewer, that he is grossly mistaken. Let him ask any parish priest of his communion in all Ireland, and he will learn that much more authority than this is claimed by the church of Rome.
Page 78. Another glance at this page induces me to lengthen this letter by a sentence or two more. Why is all this exultation at the prospect of the contentions of a synod of the English church? Would the Roman church herself wish to court the scrutiny of another" general" council ? I think there are certain remembrances connected with the history of Trent which might make her members rather more humble !
But why, I would ask, must our controversy be still conducted in this spirit? I would to God that our Roman fellow-Christians would soberly enter on the debate in a grave and honest temper. Why will they not look boldly in the face of the question, for example, of the validity of our English orders ? Either we are priests, or we are not. Why cannot this question be justly and honourably investigated and settled for ever. The present position of the Anglican church is an enigma which the Romanists are bound to try to solve, one way or the other. Without this, no step towards unity can be taken. I earnestly protest, that though my mind is fully satisfied on the point, I am as desirous as any man that this matter should be thoroughly gone into, for the sake of that universal church which our Saviour Christ hath purchased with his own blood.
I am, Sir, your faithful servant, William I. IRONS, M.A. Queen's College, Oxford.
COMMERCIAL EDUCATION.
SIR,—Will you allow me, through the medium of your Magazine, to communicate to "our bishops and curates" in particular, and the other members of the church in general, a few observations and suggestions respecting the present state of commercial education ? Of the different orders of society in this kingdom, it appears
that some are educated in the public schools, some in the grammar schools, and some in the proprietary schools, and the children of the poor receive their education in the national schools. Over all these schools the clergy exercise a control, more or less, and the consequence is, that, (saving always what may occur from want of church-room,) in these several grades of society, dissent is, comparatively speaking, but little prevalent.
On the other hand, over the education of the children of those who are usually denominated tradesmen, the clergy have scarcely any control whatever, and the consequences are such as we might naturally expect. There is in my parish, among other places of education, a commercial school, kept by a most respectable individual, assisted by bis son. Circumstances connected with the erection of a protestant episcopal chapel brought the schoolmaster and myself more than once into contact with each other. In the course of time, I suggested to him the propriety of my attending his school for the purpose of examining the boys in the Catechism, and giving them, at the same time, such instruction in religion as they might require. Though I disclaimed all interference with secular matters, the schoolmaster at first, as I expected, had some little reluctance to accede to my proposal but seizing my opportunity from time to time, I succeeded effectually in removing his objections. It is now something more than a twelvemonth since I have begun my WEEKLY visits to this school, and, setting aside the time spent in my church, there are few half hours in the week which afford me greater satisfaction than the half hour which I spend at this school ; not, I hope, because it is something new, but because it is something old,-I mean, an attempt to put more effectually into execution the rule of the church which requires that the youth of the several classes of society should be instructed in the Catechism by her ministers. The schoolmaster assures me that the behaviour of the boys is improved since the commencement of my visits, and traces of this improvement are easily discerned by myself
. The system which I pursue is nearly the same as that which is adopted in my national school. To learn the Catechism by heart is the first thing which I require of the boys. I then put into their hands, and they are pleased with the present, a neat blank book, which I call their textbook. In this book, week by week, they write down, and learn by heart, texts of scripture which prove the doctrines of the Catechism. This gives me an opportunity of stating, and, as far as may be, of explaining, these doctrines, and of proving to my scholars that the doctrines of the church are the doctrines of scripture. The text-book commences with " The necessity of baptism to salvation," or words to that effect; a line is then drawn under these words, and the scripture proofs follow, beginning, as is natural, with St. John's gospel, iii. 5, or passages of a similar import. Then comes the Baptismal Vow, then the several articles of the Creed, distinguished from each other with the line, the scriptural proofs following, and so on through the Catechism. Ken's Manual I put into the hands of my scholars as a book of devotion. This, and any other books which I may think it expedient to give them, I hope will be preserved in conjunction with the text-book as manuals of piety, records of sound doctrine, and as monuments, in after-life, of the anxiety of a minister to train up the child in the way in which he should go. I would rather recommend my plan for adoption from its conformity with the rules of " the holy catholic church" than from any visible effects which it may produce; but in the mean time I may say, that the present appearances are very encouraging. The boys are delighted with what they consider my notice of them; they greet my arrival with their innocent smiles, and they are ready to do or learn anything which I require them. I use my best endeavours to convey my instructions in a pleasing manner,


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From the Office of the New York State Comptroller
October 28, 2016, Contact: Press Office (518) 474-4015
Comptroller DiNapoli and AG Schneiderman Announce Conviction in $130,000
Pension Theft
John H. Eydeler, III Stole Pension Benefits Intended for His Deceased Mother
New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli and Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced today the conviction of John H. Eydeler III, 66, a resident of Glendale, Arizona, on his guilty plea to Grand Larceny in the Second Degree, a Class C felony. On October 12, 2016, Eydeler admitted to stealing pension payments from the New York State and Local Employees Retirement System intended for his mother, Dorothy Eydeler, a retired nurse who died in October of 1998. Today, he was sentenced to a five-year term of probation and a judgment in the amount of $131,038.60.
"My office has exposed more than $2.75 million in pension fraud in recent years, and we aggressively pursued prosecution in each case," said State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. "If you're stealing from the retirement system, we will track you down no matter where you live and make sure you pay it back. I thank Attorney General Schneiderman for his prosecution of this case and others through our Operation Integrity partnership."
"The New York pension fund cannot serve as a personal piggy bank for those looking to scam the system," said Attorney General Schneiderman. "I will continue to work with Comptroller DiNapoli to protect our pension system and send a message that fraudsters who steal from the state will be punished."
Eydeler concealed his mother's death in 1998 from the New York State and Local Employees Retirement System. As a result, between October 1998 and January 2010, over $130,000 in pension benefits were deposited into a bank account in the name of Eydeler's deceased mother. Eydeler then diverted these monies to himself by claiming to have power of attorney for his mother and writing checks to himself every month for over a decade. Eydeler altered his scheme to conceal the theft, and used the monies to prop up a small automotive repair business that he owned in Glendale, Arizona.
In August 2016, the Attorney General filed an indictment against Eydeler charging him with Grand Larceny in the Second Degree, a Class C felony. Eydeler pleaded guilty to the indictment on October 12, 2016. Today, he was sentenced by the Honorable Stephen W. Herrick in Albany County Court to a five-year term of probation. Eydeler also confessed to a judgment being entered against him for the entire restitution amount of $131,038.60.
This case is the latest joint investigation under the Operation Integrity partnership of the Comptroller and the Attorney General, which to date has resulted in dozens of convictions and more than $11 million in restitution.
The Comptroller's investigation was conducted by the Comptroller's Division of Investigations, working with the New York State and Local Retirement System.
The Attorney General's investigation was conducted by Investigator Mitchell Paurowski and Deputy Chief Antoine Karam. The Investigations Bureau is led by Chief Dominick Zarrella.
This case was prosecuted by Assistant Attorney General John R. Healy of the Criminal Enforcement and Financial Crimes Bureau. The Criminal Enforcement and Financial Crimes Bureau is led by Bureau Chief Gary T. Fishman and Deputy Bureau Chief Stephanie Swenton.
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421 POSTED: 4 Sep 2011 09:43
Gah, just ignore this. Stupid controversy. Is it bad that I never saw the character in the game though?
Cheesus333
DanielBrown:
I'm more bothered with the protagonists voice. What's happened to his throat?
The obvious answer would be "he done got effed up in the prologue mission" but Hell, he sounded like he'd been taking gravel to fix a sore throat even before that.
OT: I don't think it's racist. I think this guy's a moron, and Letitia is funny as Hell but there's no racism involved.
Therumancer
Uber Waddles:
Have you heard the Asian voice actors in this game?
They aren't much better. I don't think its people being overtly racist. Its just some black lady. Shes uneducated, unrefined, and uncivilized. How better to portray that than to have her speak broken English and just act in a dumb manner.
Racism isn't really something thats done by acting. Racism would be pointing to that display of acting, and saying "all blacks are like that because they're inferior". Blackface pretty much did this for comical effect. This just does it because it felt like doing it.
If you honestly think this is racist, you need to step back, get off your high horse, and get in touch. Pointing to things people do isn't racist. Even if it is a feature exhibited by a certain racial group. Do you know why stereotypes exist? Because a good chunk of them are accurate to some degree of a population.
Portraying a black person as an idiot isn't racist. There are black people out there that are idiots, just as there are whites, asians, hispanics. Racism would be pointing to them and saying "All blacks are dumb because of they have a different pigment in their skin"
Ill even go a step further, and go back to RE5. Portraying African tribals in leopard skin clothing isn't racist. Its been done before. And guess what - there are still African tribes who use spears. Spears didn't go extinct. There are still civilizations of people who live off the land, in makeshift houses with makeshift materials.
To be honest, I find it stupid that issues of race, sex, etc. can ever come up because there are actually people of a race, sex, etc. who act that way. If you find anything that doesn't overtly point to a race and say "they are inferior because they are different", you need to re-evaluate some things.
ITS. A. GAME. GET OVER IT PEOPLE
As I've said in my other posts in this thread, it's just rabble rousing for attention since people want to keep the belief in mainstream American racism alive for political reasons. The portrayal here is fine, and works.
It was the same thing with "Resident Evil 5", the problem wasn't the game, but with a media willing to give ridiculousness like this a platform. It's like saying that National Geographic should be attacked for showing tribals as tribals. "Resident Evil 5" showed a pretty diverse selection of african locales overall.
I dunno though, if this kind of thing continues I'm wondering if maybe we should get a bunch of "angry white guys" together to sue the guys who made '300' over the offensive portayal of whites. After all we aren't olive/dusky skinned greeks, those are the guys who enslaved us poor, primitive anglo saxons! But wait, who says we were primitive, WTF are those guys doing without proper armor, and wielding spears and swords!?1?!?!? everyone knows real white guys fight with guns and cruise missles. Obviously '300' is racist, and it being a work of "historical fantasy" is nothing butt an effort to insult and make fun of white people! I demand millions of dollars in repairations... and them to re-edit the movie to give the Spartans Kevlar and M-16s! At the end Leonidas shouldn't throw a spear at Xerxes, but call down a cruise missle strike....
AdumbroDeus
Therumancer:
The fact that this portrayal isn't racist doesn't change the fact that racism in america is still alive and well today. All you need to do is look at media, how often do you see an asian-american lead? Now add to that, how often do you see an asian-american lead that isn't playing a martial artist or a comedic character of some variety?
And if you think that RE5's portrayal of tribals was anything but a racist caricature, you have about as much knowledge of African tribesmen as Capcom seems to.
Mister Linton
AdumbroDeus:
Meaning, a lot more than you know. Visually, they look spot on (a quick Google Image search will confirm this for you) and their behavior is moot since they are infected in the game. I wonder where people get these stupid ideas about what is "racist".
On topic: Confirmed with my wife and her family, Letitia is NOT racist. Neither is The Help and The Blind Side as Moviebob continues to insist. Then again, I didn't need to confirm what is plain to see for anyone not blinded by liberal propaganda.
Batsamaritan
THOMAS!
this clip is hilarious!
Seriously though, did no one in the creative process question this, oh an resident evil 4 was documentary level realism in its depiction of spain...
Mister Linton:
Headhunter masks? Flaming arrows? Obviously larger and more organized society then isolated tribesman could create (which are the only group non-westernized enough to pull it off). Small poor isolated village (without the masks), cool.
Massive wooden cities whose inhabitants clearly evoke headhunters suggests a lot more, unless your telling me the organization and city was entirely due to being infected.
floobie
Ugh. People are way too easily offended these days. By this logic, as someone of German descent, I should be offended by every ridiculous portrayal of a German in every WWII video game ever. That certainly doesn't represent your typical German, even back in the 30s and 40s. Similarly, as a Canadian, basically every American depiction of a Canadian ever should be hugely offensive to me. I've never meet a Canadian that even remotely conforms to any of those stereotypes. I don't even know where they're coming from.
And yet, neither bother me.
As far as I'm concerned, as long as there's no malicious intent, it's all up for grabs.
[quote="AdumbroDeus" post="7.310500.12579119]Headhunter masks? Flaming arrows? Obviously larger and more organized society then isolated tribesman could create (which are the only group non-westernized enough to pull it off). Small poor isolated village (without the masks), cool.
Massive wooden cities whose inhabitants clearly evoke headhunters suggests a lot more, unless your telling me the organization and city was entirely due to being infected.[/quote]
Ceremonial masks are quite common. Now the scale of the game environment and number of enemies was a racist design choice huh? Oookaayy.
theultimateend
Sylveria:
I'd be more offended by the people saying "This woman is an african-american stereotype" than by the actual character itself. You must be pretty darn racist to see something that over the top and say "Yup, that's what black people sound like."
Basically people saw that character and immediately had racist thoughts about it.
I'm interested in someone making a list of all the kinds of people you can't put in games, movies, music, or stories anymore.
Cause it seems like the list is growing.
"This kind of black person no longer is real and is racist, that kind of Chinese person is racist, that kind of white person is racist, oh and that Indian guy over there definitely is."
Generally the ones offended are the ones living their days judging people by the unimportant (ie. uncontrollable) factors.
floobie:
I'm reminded of all the pre-war videos of young German soldiers in camp. Looked like a bunch of kids who would rather be out singing, drinking, and playing games.
Shame what would become of their future.
(Also yes, yes, I know, anything that portrays German soldiers as normal humans is propaganda, they were REALLY summoning demons to aid them in the war against the holy alliance).
There are a lot of white people acting, a good portion of those white people play stupid characters, comic relief, or your generic imbecile/jerk.
For every one of these games you can just as easily do it with white folks.
Because movie directors tend to suck. There are a bunch of films out there, a phenomenal amount. Most of them portray people generically, regardless of race.
I'd be up for Lucy Liu replacing Sandra Bullock in all her films. Lets do this.
It won't change anything about the films, nor does it matter, but it'll make some sensitive people happy and I find Lucy Liu to be delightful.
Which reminds me, was she the only racist portrayal in Charlie's Angels? Cause I mean, she was doing martial arts.
SextusMaximus
This guy's the racist. Thankfully, we can be glad that he just gave press to n absolutely fantastic game!
Al-Bundy-da-G
What every black person in a video game gotta be a positive model?
Ceremonial masks for infected? Somehow I don't think that a parasitic infestation that basically turns people into zombies would make them very inclined to pick up ceremonial masks and use them because they are impractical. The only reason it makes sense is from a visual aesthetic, to recall headhunters.
Yes, because the scale recalls the large scale tribal nations prior to european conquest, this in turn makes it an unrealistic portrayal and turns them into this image of the head-hunter tribes of pre-european conquest africa that was held by the settlers.
If you wanna argue that it's not a racist portrayal because they're realistic up to the point that they turned by the parasites then even small mistakes are extremely grating. But this recalls them at the height of their power, and in turn recalls the fear that the europeans felt towards these "savage" tribes.
theultimateend:
The issue of racism is that no asian actors can be a lead unless it involves comedy or martial arts. That's the state of the movie industry today, even if the story behind a movie is about asian-americans and caucasians just don't work in that context. For example, the movie 21.
Regardless, it's not so much that an african-american character is stupid, it's stupidity in a way that blatently charicatures african-americans in general.
The portrary in deus ex didn't, and frankly the implication that ebonics=stupid and uneducated is racist. The gibbering headhunter tribesmen in RE5 did.
Naeras
Yeah, let's blatantly ignore the three far-less-clichè'd black minor characters that appears before the "racist depiction".
Racism is dead in the USA as a mainstream phenomena, there ARE a few racists on the fringe of society, but that is by definition not mainstream. What your talking about is what in sociology they call "invisible knapsack" theory which is a huge joke, but forms the backbone of liberal idealogy that otherwise can't justify itself, and acts as an excuse for minorities to justify anti-societal behavior and their own failings, as opposed to doing the actual hard work of trying to fit in.
"Invisible Knapsack" theory refers to the idea of there being a knapsack full of all these things white people take for granted, that non-whites cannot in the US. A sort of metaphor for unintentional racism, based on things like "well, can you rely on it being more likely than not if you ask for the person in charge, will it be someone of your own ethnicity?".
The theory is garbage and has been laughed out of most serious discourse on the USA because by definition most of the things this winds up being applied to are simply reflections of minority vs. majority status. In a country with the majority of people being white, of course your most likely to find white people running the businesses for example. Likewise just a programs made in China or Japan have mostly Chinese or Japanese actors, programs in nations like the USA are going to involve mostly white actors. We do see minorities represented in things like the cinema, and fairly accuratly numerically compared to their numbers in society for the most part. If you start making arguements that "equality means 50-50 with white people" it becomes a joke because you can't have a memory of every minority present in a melting pot in the US for every white actor in a given film. It's unworkable not to mention totally counter productive to the stated purpose.
The very fact that you need to qualify your comments on asian actors by saying "accept for these kinds of roles" is likewise evidence that racism is dead in mainstream society. To be racist you'd have to have people saying these people are inherantly inferior and thus unable to be on the screem. Even in being typecast people are pointing towards advantages and things people of that sort are "good at" which undermines the whole arguement... assuming you had one to begin with.
I'd point to the careers of Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park as examples of a couple of Asian/Asianesque actors that have played roles that had nothing to do with martial arts or being comedy relief. Daniel Dae Kim played on "Lost" for years, and previous to that he played a Lawyer on "Angel", and currently he plays alongside Grace Park who played a fighter pilot on "Battlestar Galactica" in "Hawaii 5-O". None of these roles have involved much comedy or the usage of martial arts, even in the action scenes when and where they have occured, and even so fisticuffs haven't been the big parts of the characters.
You can say "meh, exceptions" but see the thing is we're talking about a minority group here, you aren't going to find as many asians in the media as whites in the US cinema simply due to the population breakdown, if you did it would be very, very wierd. Given the population breakdown.
All told though if you want to deal with real racism though, try going to China and campaigning for more acceptance of whites as equals and in their media. I'll warn you, you will probably wind up not coming to a happy end though. See, racism does exist on the globe still despite the best interests of the USA to eliminate it, but the problem is that liberals feel it's too much work to deal with the real problems. It's easy to bellyache about it in the US where they know nothing bad is going to happen to them (freedom of speech) and the actual battle has already been one. It makes one feel important, and they can hold to their anti-war sentiments right alongside it. Dealing with the real racists left however is both hard, dangerous, and is probably going to involve a lot of war and violence... as a result people will sit in front of their computers and talk about evil white America... which happens because white america allows it and even has no objections to ceasing to be the majority (Hispanics will soon outnumber whites), as opposed to say going to a country where such freedoms don't exist and REALLY campaigning for civil liberties where it might matter.
bushwhacker2k
Greg Tito:
"The horrible broken English Letitia speaks is so far removed from any actual slang that it renders the character practically extra-terrestrial," Narcisse said. "It's not from an alien planet, though. That slang harkens back to the worst blackface minstrelsy of the last century."
If her slang isn't similar to anything in the past hundred years... maybe, just maybe!... she ISN'T A RACIST STEREOTYPE :OOOOOOO *the world collapses in upon itself*
I wish we had enough other things to talk about then one person who scans things looking for things to get offended and write articles about...
Al-Bundy-da-G:
Indeed, lol, is that a family guy reference?
[Yes, because the scale recalls the large scale tribal nations prior to european conquest, this in turn makes it an unrealistic portrayal and turns them into this image of the head-hunter tribes of pre-european conquest africa that was held by the settlers.
If you wanna argue that it's not a racist portrayal because they're realistic up to the point that they turned by the parasites then even small mistakes are extremely grating. But this recalls them at the height of their power, and in turn recalls the fear that the europeans felt towards these "savage" tribes.]
You can't think of any other reason why the game environments would be big and have that many enemies in it? (protip: don't get into game design if you can't)
What are you talking about? The fact is the vast majority of roles in cinema no asian american male will ever have a chance in, because those of very specific roles. Even when we're talking about comedic actors or action heroes, there are so few roles given to them that it no way makes of for roles they can never receive.
Furthermore, you're missing the bigger, but implicit point. OTHERNESS. Asian Americans are no perceived as american, they are perceived as exotic, and therefore suitable for roles of mystical martial artists, or sources of amusement through wacky cultural hijinks (which bridged somewhat into them being acceptable in other wacky roles).
While I was talking about male leads, there are other roles written, notice that when something is set in america or with Americans asians are almost never americans, they're always foreign tourists. There is another steriotype for female asians, various "exotic" love interests. Furthermore, supporting actors like in lost have their own steriotypes, but they're incredibly rare in cinema and emphasize the otherness (granted, the other asian-american in lost was an exception, but an incredibly rare exception).
Also, ever wonder why asian males (including leads) almost never get the girl in the end?
Here's the thing though, it isn't so much that asians aren't commonly in cinema, it's that they're signifigantly less common then their percentage of the population would suggest. Are 4.8% of roles in movies taken by asian americans?
This is especially true when you consider that asian americans are concentrated on the coasts, and especially the west coast asian americans have been here for generations and have fully assimilated, so go into the arts in comparable rates. Since the coasts, especially the west coast is so dominant compared to the american heartland one would expect that asian americans would have at least a comparable percentage in movie parts, but that's not true.
And bringing it back to the movie 21, the story that it was based on was about asian americans and their ethnicity played a significant role in why the scam worked (playing on the racism of the casino owners), but the execs decided to rewrite the roles as white, why? They felt it would be more marketable. If that doesn't tell the story nothing does.
But you're missing the point, there were other ways to accomplish the same thing.
In any work of art, the artist is responsible for the symbolism the work carries. The reason why they made the environment large and relatively advanced is obvious, but if it would carry a meaning that they didn't intend and would be counterproductive then they should've designed in a way that had the advantages without carrying that meaning.
For example, separate isolated villages that you had to fight through while traveling through the wetlands. That would've worked, and if a wetland didn't allow you to use the same effect, a mountainous region would work. Nix the ridiculous headhunter masks.
It would've been pretty easy to nip this in the bud before the fact, but capcom is unfortunately not known for cultural knowledge or sensitivity, so I doubt they even realized it would be an issue.
Lopende Paddo
I'm black and didn't find this racist. i also think its stupid to take a character in a game and turn it into an insult.
stop complaining and stfu if you are offended, and don't buy anymore games if your going to complain about something that shouldn't have any personal impact on you at all.
This kind of thing really pisses me off, for example I live in the Netherlands and I grew up with a pastry that when translated is called a Negro Kiss, it has been called that for decades and the pastry thingy is very tasty. now because of one oversensitive black person they had to change the name. that shit is just insane. the only thing that was implicated by the name is that black people know haw to kiss. the shit was tasty. "ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble.
Razorback0z
Lopende Paddo:
Being Australian I had never heard of that pastry. However once I read the description of it I realised we have the same basic thing and its called "Choc Marshmallow Biscuit". Pretty imaginative us Aussies.
McMarbles
You misspelled "posamative".
xXCrocmonXx
So we flip out because Latissha here actually depicts people as they are today, and is blatantly accepting of varying ethnicities by including them in the game, and having characters pretty much not care.
Where was this guy when Bridget Tenenbaum of Bioshock fame was called a Kraut? Where was he when Dr. Yi Suchong was voiced? He spoke in (at times) broken English and his accent was heavily influenced by his Chinese heritage. But did we care then? No.
It's honestly a good thing that games can do stuff like this and the only reactions they get for it are nutjobs like this. Maybe someday soon, video games will have made huge steps in racial acceptance in people by exposing them to all the different people and going "Yea, people like her exist. Guess what: there's no problem with that. They're people just like you, and just like all the other characters in this story. That's pretty much life in a nutshell."
were there any women on any any of the police forces?
MaxwellEdison
No, I know plenty of people who talk like that.
Get over the fact that accents sound silly, humanity.
So it was obvious that the design choices were for gameplay reasons but instead you decide to ignore that and assign a meaning they didn't intend so you can show righteous indignation about the game?
I can misinterperet any piece of art and consider it racist, that doesn't make it so.
SenseOfTumour
Firstly, she's a single character, not all black characters in the game speak like her.
secondly she's a hobo and an alcholic it seems, I imagine Stephen Fry may sound a little different after 10 years living on the street and eating out of bins. (Not that it would happen, most Brits would give money out of their own pocket to keep him in tweed and Duchy Original biscuits!).
Thirdly, she'd asked for a beer, not some fried chicken and some watermelon, ending it with 'massa'.
Fourthly, some people talk like that. Some rednecks sound Larry the cable guy, some english women sound like they just stepped off the set of 'Keeping up Appearances'.
Fifthly, the complainer is an arse.
If we can't have one black character sound like she's based in the ghetto, when...she's based in the ghetto, perhaps it'd be more realistic to have all black characters voiced by this guy, he has at least been homeless.
I've seen white homeless types in games that were utterly incomprehensible, but I didn't take offense, as that's the 'hobo' part, not the white part. I understand blacks n whites of different social classes CAN sound different, but don't have to.
Nashidar
Ummm - how can an accent or voice be racist?
That's just how somebody sounds. I'm pretty sure there are plenty of black/white women/men out there that speak like this.
mokmoof
AdumbroDeus, both of your arguments seem to hinge on the issue of realism. Latisha is not a racial caricature because some people sound just like her, and because homeless people really do hustle for money, is what you seem to be saying.
Thing is, whatever Edios et al intended when they put Latisha in the game, I really don't think that what they were going for was realism. This isn't The Wire. The idea is not for an actual homeless person to see the character and say "Yeah, that's just what it's like." Quite the opposite, the company's reaction seems to indicate that the world of DX:HR is supposed to be, in some sense, post-racial--quite unlike our own.
Latisha is not supposed to sound like a real person. It's a stylized performance, which is totally fine in and of itself. What's interesting, again, is that for whatever reason, the specific style they've chosen is pretty closely aligned to minstrel dialogue (which is why I provided a YouTube link in my previous post, to show that that connection is real).
It is also interesting that people see that very mannered characterization and think "That's exactly how homeless black people really are!" or worse yet, "If you're reading racial stereotypes into that totally harmless dialect, then you're the racist one!" The fact that such an historically-situated archetype can just read as generically "poor" or "uneducated" or whatever else people have said in this thread? That proves my point, not yours.
1. The accent and speech style is common today (ebonics, look it up).
Latisha's speech patterns sound much more like minstrelsy than like modern-day Ebonics. And yes, there is a difference. Snoop Dogg doesn't sound anything like the Kingfish, and Latisha sounds much closer to the latter.
And look, even if you're right, and if there are a whole bunch of people saying "I bees right here waitin' for you, Cap'n" in casual conversation (which I frankly doubt), characters in books and games and movies aren't real people. In media, subservient black characters who talk like Latisha have a very long and odious history, and it's that tradition (not that of the real black people whom you or I happen to know) to which Latisha belongs.
2. The reality of homeless people is most want to SURVIVE, so they will perform services. Try going to a subway in NYC, homeless people will very commonly perform or do some other type of service to make ends meet in addition to simply begging.
The mere fact that Latisha is a homeless black person "performing services" is not in any way what's at issue here. What's at issue is the specific ways in which this minor black character relates to the white protagonist--the specific way that she genuflects to him, and how she's willing to help him out a whole bunch whether she gets paid or not, and yes, the fact that she sounds more than a little mammyish while doing so.
And again, I think it would be really hard to argue that Latisha is supposed to closely resemble a real homeless person. Edios certainly isn't making that argument, and there's not much in the text to support it, so I'm honestly not sure why you're making it.
Furthermore, the implications that people are drawing from her dialect (namely that they imply lack of education and sub-subservience) extremely ignorant of black urban culture or openly racist. The message is this, if you want to be judged as an equal, you need to talk like a white person, a different speech pattern automatically identifies you as inferior. On the other hand, other unusual ways of speaking english are nowhere near as looked down upon.
First, the representation of black people is a different matter than the depiction of white southerners, or of Asians, or of whoever it is you're thinking of when you talk about "unusual ways of speaking." Slavery, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow segregation all relied on systematically representing black people as less than human, or incapable of caring for themselves, or irredeemably violent and/or stupid. While there have certainly been horrific racial caricatures of Asians, Irish, Italians, Jews, and others throughout American history, and while those are real histories that should be remembered and addressed, they are not automatically equal to the tradition of dehumanizing or infantilizing black people.
Put simply: There was no period of American history when any of those other groups was considered property, nor were Irish Americans ever joyously and publicly lynched, in large numbers, by white mobs with de facto legal impunity.
Second, you're not arguing honestly when you talk about people "automatically" ascribing inferiority to Latisha because of her shuck-and-jive dialect. She reads as inferior because the text marks her as inferior. Her dialect doesn't exist in isolation; it appears along with her low social status and her subservience to the gravel-voiced white hero. A lot of people seem to think that it lines up naturally, in fact, which is exactly what makes it a problem: Of course she looks and sounds like that! That's just how poor people look and sound!
If Jensen's boss sounded like Latisha, for example, then we would have something to talk about.
Finally, you didn't say that this was a censorship issue, but you're sort of inching toward that argument when you talk about how we "can't" depict homeless people "performing services." So I just want to be clear: I'm not saying Edios shouldn't be allowed to but a minstrel show sort of a character in their game, or any of that sort of alarmist, "PC Police" nonsense. I'm just saying that they wrote the character badly, and I think they did so because they didn't have a handle on the history of the trope they'd chosen.
That Latisha exists is not surprising, or shouldn't be. That people want to talk about Latisha is potentially constructive. There is absolutely no need to get angry at those who want to talk about Latisha, as though racism would suddenly disappear if only we would stop talking about race. That's defensive, unproductive, and tedious.
teisjm
Honestly, aren't they primarily portraying a hobo, who secondarily just happens to be black? If it had been a white hobo, with whatever accent, would it have been bad?
Is it racism if the bad guy in a movie is black? Or to phrase it otherwise, if they cast anything but a white person in a role not the hero, is it racism?
Which leaves the question, what happens when someone accuses you of racism, for not casting minorities as bad guys or other "negative" roles, when you have chosen to do so, because casting them as such would get you a cryout for beeing racist as well?
If you cast minorities for those roles, you're a racist, but If you cast only white people for those roles, you're a racist as well.
There's racism, and theres racial over-sensitivity, and somehow, the two is getting mixed a lot.
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Lol, this.
Its the same as when people say, "Im not racist but...", you know that they are most definetly racist on some level or they wouldn't be thinking it in the first place.
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And look, even if you're right, and if there are a whole bunch of people saying "I bees right here waitin' for you, Cap'n" in casual conversation (which I frankly doubt)
You're from the northern states, aren't you? If so, that'd explain your refusal to accept that people actually do talk like that. I went to a high school that was predominantly African American (was formerly a school created for the sole purpose of Segregation), and it was either ebonics or this that I heard from that ethnicity. To be fair, it was the older people that spoke like this.
It's a fact of life that people sound ridiculously different. You're being ridiculous in trying to make racism where there isn't. Just because it was a caricature way of talking way back when, certainly doesn't mean anything of the sort now.
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this is pathetic
bubble man clearly has no idea what he's talking about
and square enix are kissing up to anyone offended no matter how rediculos the claim
accents in deus ex games can be very exaggurated, because they're all racits, no.
remember this guy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLkokNuIojw
THAT is more racist than a very stong south african accent
super mario is more racist than this
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I'm going to Kentucky tomorrow and pretty much everyone from around there talks like this, black and white.
That kind of depends on the area. May be in eastern KY but it ain't in western. We still have accents but they aren't quite to THAT level.
Nonsense, my friend. I've only been here three days and already heard someone use 'hootenanny', plus you all seem to enjoy crawfish like it's going out of style. Stereotypical? Yes. Offensive? Only if you accept it like I'm trying to be mean.
Thedek
I don't take it offensive. I just question the validity is all.
Granted I use the word "reckon" I great deal. So I'm not saying I'm exempt or nothing. I would think crawdad's are like shrimp and I don't much care for those. You sure you aren't thinking about cajuns? Granted there ain't much a canjun WON'T eat.
Frankly, it's supposed to be comparable to homeless people in real cities because that improves the immersion. To use upper class british accents for random real people is immersion breaking.
I don't think that Deus Ex claims to be post-racial, though racial issues didn't directly come to the fore, deus ex doesn't imply those issues have been solved or gotten worse. And different dialects of english will always be present.
And they're not historically situated, the fact that it bears ANY resemblence to historical archtypes is because language evolves over time. The way that she said "sheeeet" alone identifies her as a product of modern urban culture.
As far as the fact that it doesn't match your image of urban culture has a lot to do with the fact that Hollywood's image of suberbia doesn't represent actual suberbia. Media and fantasy are one thing, reality is another.
Finally, your implication of that it's generally infantile is disturbing and racist in and of itself. That the language marks you as poor and uneducated is patently false, it's just part of urban culture and people who hold that culture have a wide variety of educational levels. But ebonics is present regardless, not the dialect of ignorant people but the dialect of a culture.
This is yet another attack on ebonics cloaked as an attack on racism, and these attacks on ebonics while ignoring all the other dialects that are spoken by primarily white populations. Frankly, it's sickening.


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Wikipedia Is Post-Truth, Not a 'Savior'
written by Joe Bast October 18, 2016
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Below is an email I sent last night to John Thornhill about his article in the 11 October 2016 Financial Times titled "Wikipedia is a savior in the post-truth world." (FT online is behind a subscription paywall, but here's a PDF of the article. The online version has a different headline.)
Heartland has some experience with Wikipedia's policy of allowing opponents of organizations such as ours to fill the entries with lies and not allow others to correct them with the truth. You can read more about what Heartland is trying to do about that here. Meanwhile, below is my correspondence.
Mr. Thornhill:
I read with interest your column titled "Wikipedia is a savior in the post-truth world" in the 11 October issue of the Financial Times. Your article is only slightly more critical of Wikipedia than this foolish title, which I hope you did not choose.
You say "Wikipedia does, though, possess some glaring flaws," among them that most of its contributors are men (I'm not sure why that's a flaw, but I guess I'm gender privileged and just don't see it) and sometimes its editors war over an entry, with the result that "Truth on Wikipedia is always a malleable commodity." Thank you for pointing that out.
What I take exception to is your claim that "its volunteer contributors stick to a neutral point of view and agree among themselves what constitute reliable sources" and then your assertion, by references to entries on Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, that even entries on controversial subjects are "studiously neutral." No, far from it.
Wikipedia may have started out neutral, but it has tilted farther and farther left over time. In 2008, Canadian journalist Lawrence Solomon wrote, "there is no doubt where Wikipedia stands: firmly on the Left. Try out Wikipedia's entries on say, Roe v. Wade or Intelligent Design, and you will see that Wikipedia is the people's encyclopedia only if those people are not conservatives."
That bias is clearly on display on the issue of climate change, or "global warming," where a single editor, William M. Connolley, was allowed to hack 5,000 Wikipedia pages and make hundreds of thousands of changes, even removing some entries altogether, to defame and distort any individuals or organizations that deviated from his alarmist perspective on the issue.
The profile of my 32-year-old nonprofit organization, The Heartland Institute, on Wikipedia was completely taken over and rewritten by left-wing environmental zealots, resulting in libelous attacks on our credibility. Most of the 147 sources cited on our site are left-wing publications and advocates. Virtually all our attempts to remove the lies have been reversed and refused by Wikipedia's editors. My description of the situation (now a few months old) is here.
It's hurtful to have friends and even family members say they read about me or my organization on Wikipedia and "didn't know" or were "surprised to learn" that The Heartland Institute is a 'front group" for the tobacco or oil industries or that I'm a serial liar for hire.
Wikipedia isn't the "Free Encyclopedia," as its slogan reads. It's the "Fake Encyclopedia." There are thousands, probably millions, of victims of Wikipedia's bias and lies. Please think about them the next time you write about it.
One of these days, someone with deep enough pockets to overcome Wikipedia's army of lawyers will win a class action suit against it, and if justice is served, Wikipedia will join Gawker Media in well-deserved extinction. Until then, please don't bestow unearned praise on these Wikibullies.
Thornhill, to his credit, responded. We will see if he follows through.
Dear Mr Bast,
Many thanks for your thoughtful email. I'm sorry to hear about your experiences.
I shall certainly read your link with great interest and contact you next time I write about Wikipedia.
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THE 2021 MARCH OF LIFE CONFERENCE MORE INTERNATIONAL AND INTERCONNECTED THAN EVER BEFORE
The 2021 annual March of Life Conference took place on the 13th Of February 2021 despite the lockdown.
"Now more than ever – United to be a Light!" was the title of the conference.
And indeed – the March of Life Conference has never been as international and interconnected as this year.
Approximately 5,000 participants took part from more than 30 nations – among them many Holocaust survivors.
On Friday afternoon, the 150 national directors and March of Life organizers from 24 nations gathered together in a large Zoom meeting to look back on the past year, but more importantly, to start planning for 2021. With a visionary opening input, March of Life founder Jobst Bittner encouraged participants to take action, despite the restrictions, as local regulations allow.
Then on Saturday afternoon, the official part of the conference began with a wide variety of short presentations that addressed both history as well as the most current social issues. A central issue is the response to the worldwide rise of antisemitic conspiracy theories related to COVID-19. "Antisemitism knows no vaccine," emphasized Jobst Bittner in his opening speech. If there are openly antisemitic flyers distributed in Berlin's public transportation, there is an urgent need for action: "If you want to take responsibility for the future, you must not become trapped in the lethargy of the lockdown."
In his presentation, Dr. Boris Zabarko, Holocaust survivor and historian, took an in-depth look at the invasion of the former Soviet Union by the German Wehrmacht and the associated extermination of Jewish communities in Ukraine. 2.7 million Jews lived there in 1941, 98 percent of whom were murdered in mass shootings by the Einsatzgruppen in their villages in front of their neighbors and friends. The Babi Yar ravine massacre in Kiev marks a turning point in the Holocaust. In just two days, more than 33,000 Jews were shot under the auspices of the Wehrmacht.
The crimes of the Wehrmacht in the Eastern Campaign still lie under a veil of silence in which the perpetrators are reinterpreted as victims. However, each country has its own historical responsibility and guilt to face up to. Denial and repression is the common characteristic. Jobst Bittner shared the universal keys with which every nation can break its veil of silence.
Michel Gourary, European Director of the March of the Living, gave a very personal account of what motivates him to be active for remembrance and for Israel. After being imprisoned in various concentration camps, Gourary's grandfather was shot on the roadside during a death march from Flossenbürg to Dachau. He had been a supporter of Zionist Zeev Jabotinsky, who advocated self-defense for Jews. Alexander Gourary, Michel's father, was part of the Zionist youth organization Beitar and went to Belgium for paramilitary training where he was captured by the Gestapo in 1943. "My father smuggled candles into the prison and built a hanukkiah to give hope to the prisoners. That's why it is so significant for me that your movement started with the lighting of the hanukkiah," Gourary says.
The secretary of the Council of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic, Dr. Tomáš Kraus, also told the story of his parents, who were both survivors of the Shoah and dealt with this experience very differently. Before the war, his father had been a very well-known journalist who reported critically on the National Socialists and was therefore taken first to Theresienstadt and later to Auschwitz. After the end of the war, he returned to Prague and wrote about his experiences in Auschwitz. Kraus' mother, on the other hand, represented the majority of survivors: they did not talk about what they had experienced or their lost families. At the end, Kraus appealed to the participants of the conference not to accept the isolation imposed by COVID-19: "When it is possible again – come and visit us! Especially during the crisis let's stay in contact. The worst thing is to fall into a ghetto mentality."
The public Night to Honor Israel was another highlight of the conference, which was translated simultaneously into six languages. Dr. Thomas Feist, Commissioner for Jewish Life of the State of Saxony, spoke about the celebratory year "1,700 Years of Jewish Life in Germany." "If we use this year to bring Christians and Jews closer together and try to heal existing wounds, it will benefit not only Germany, but the whole world," emphasized Feist. In his view, March of Life takes the right personal and practical steps to achieve this, starting with the acknowledgement of guilt and the request for forgiveness.
The guest of honor for the evening was Holocaust survivor Ruth Steinfeld from Houston, whose family was from Ladenburg near Mannheim. She spoke of how difficult it had been for her to talk about her experiences and face her past. But when she visited her former childhood home in 1981, she was able to forgive the Germans and make peace with her history, which changed her life forever. To honor her, part of her biography was performed in a piece of drama, "Forgive, but Never Forget," in which dancers danced in front of her old house in Ladenburg.
At the conference, the motto for the marches and events on and around the Jewish Holocaust Remembrance Day Yom haShoah in April was introduced: "United to be a Light! Together for a Better Future without Antisemitism and Hatred of Jews". The program will include local events with the reading of the names of victims of the Holocaust, a joint international online conference and, depending on COVID-19 regulations, larger or smaller marches.
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Thailand Posts Slowest Growth in Three Years after Coup
BANGKOK – Thailand's economy barely grew last year as tourism, investment and exports fell after months of anti-government protests and a May coup.
The National Economic and Social Development Board said Monday the economy grew 0.7 per cent in 2014, falling short of expectations of 1 per cent growth.
The government agency predicted Southeast Asia's second-largest economy behind Indonesia will expand between 3.5 and 4.5 per cent in 2015 as world growth picks up and tourism, exports and investment recover.
Renowned for its pristine beaches and high quality rice, Thailand is also a manufacturing base for electronics manufacturers and several global automakers, including General Motors Co. and Toyota Motor Corp.
Thailand was hit by months of anti-government protests before the May coup, which was the latest major episode in a decade long battle between the country's ruling class and a populist political movement started by telecoms billionaire and former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
The coup has ushered in a period of relative calm but deep divisions remain.
The agency said the political instability made the number of tourists decline by 1.77 million people compared with 2013.
Export volumes rose slightly last year but prices fell, producing a 0.3 per cent drop in export value overall. Thailand temporarily lost its crown as the world's top rice exporter as it stockpiled rice in an attempt to force up global prices after introducing large subsidies for rice crops.
The agency said the economy grew by 2.3 per cent in the October-December quarter, 1.7 per cent higher than in the previous quarter. It shrank in the first half of the year.
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There's 5 parts of the page Home/About Us/Services/Portfolio/Request a Quote. When the page is on a small screen and the navbar collapses to that menu button. I can't select all of the links properly when I'm on some of the pages. For example, on the home page when it's collapsed everything works just fine. However, if I go to the About Us section I can only select the "Portfolio" or "Request a Quote" section. The Request a Quote section only allows me to select the "Portfolio" section. I find this weird because my navbar code is the same for each bar with the exception of the active tag.
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I came across some discussion by evangelical Christians about "egalitarian marriage". This is in response to the concept of "complementarian marriage", which is all the rage in evangelical Christian circles. It's basically the latest gloss on patriarchy.
I step back and think that I'm glad that these more reasonable folks are having the argument, but to me it's astonishing there's a need for the argument at all. But this is the continuing strength of patriarchy today.
This light of feminism among evangelical Christians, while of course moderated by "I'm not a feminist" caveats, is quite encouraging. Two recent events show the core, solid character of feminist gains over the last few decades: the brouhaha over the Susan G. Komen foundation's withdrawal of funding from Planned Parenthood, and the shitstorm over the right wing's attempt to treat contraception as a truly controversial subject like abortion. Part of the outrage is over the simple fact that Congress had a discussion about contraception and "religious liberty" with several invited speakers – not one of whom was a woman. It wasn't too long ago that it would have been normal to exclude women's voices from a discussion of women's reproductive health.
I think a change is coming, and right now, the swell is far off in the ocean, and so it is barely noticed. But as it approaches land, it will rise to tidal wave uprising of people who see God, church, and Scriptures in a new, liberating light.
I agree with the imagery, except I see this as the swell of the next wave of feminism, of which the conversation among evangelicals is only one part.
There is another, deeper swell. In some ways Christians make the best communists, and life is going to get really interesting when that conversation starts among evangelicals.
Six and a half years later, we have a large patriarchal (even fascist) counter-movement, but there's no question that the wave of feminism in the intervening time, with #YesAllWomen and #MeToo, has been and continues to be massive.
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