Most reinforced concrete members are statically indeterminate because they are part of monolithic structure, i.e., in this form of building construction, slabs are cast monolithically with a beam-and –girder floor framing that carries the floor load to columns. A beam is a flexure member.
It may be of steel, wood or any other structural materials. Reinforced concrete beams are nonhomogeneous in that they are made of two entirely different materials.
A flexural member should suffer a axial compression force less than Ag fc´/10. The member must be at least 10 in wide and its clear span should be least 4 times the effective depth and the width-to-depth ratio should be at least 0.3.


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Foreign and Military Affairs
China strongly opposes US charges on internet freedom
By Xie Jingwei and Zhao Chunzhe (chinadaily.com.cn)
The United States' accusation on China's internet policy contradicts the truth and China firmly opposes such an allegation that damages the bilateral ties, said the spokesman of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu made the remarks on Friday when commenting on US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's speech on internet freedom. The speech, made on Thursday, called for China and some other governments to lift their restrictions on citizens' use of the Internet.
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Ma said the speech indicated China restricts internet freedom. "It is a far cry from the truth," he said.
China's Constitution protects citizen's freedom of speech and it is the country's long-term policy to promote the internet development, Ma noted.
He said China follows the international practice of administering the web by the law, which forbids hacking and any behaviors that violate personal privacy. China is one of the countries that is most attacked by the hackers. The Chinese government advocates international cooperation on battling hacking and protecting people's privacy.
China urges the US to respect the truth and stop its groundless charges on China's internet freedom. China wants to strengthen the communication and cooperation with the US, respect each other's core interest and major concerns to maintain a healthy development of Sino-US relations in the new phase, which are the consensus reached by the leaders of China and the US.
China's web is open and the country saw vigorous development of internet, said Ma. By the end of last year, China's population of web users soared to 380 million. There are more than 3.68 million websites and 180 million blogs in China.
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Growing Costs
Some sections of society have not benefited for the financial boom as much as others, and the growing wealth gap is described by analysts as the Sword of Damocles hanging over the economic giant.
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Q: Конфликт iptables (фаервола) и nodejs Всем привет. Пытаюсь поднять сервер на nodejs, сервер заводится, но подключиться к нему не удается. Когда отключаю фаервол - iptables в панели vestacp сервер становится доступен. С чем это связано, и как избежать ? Заранее спасибо за любую помощь !)))

A: Зайдите в косоль управления сервером как root по ssh
>ssh roor@ip_servera

и откройте нужный порт для nodejs
>iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport PORT -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT

/вместо PORT укажите нужный порт, например 3000
сохраните данные
>service iptables save

перезагрузите iptables
>service iptables restart

если вы под Win, то используйте как ssh клиент, например - PuTTY
Все тоже самое вы можете сделать и через панель vesta, просто указав нужный порт.
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Tag Archives: Roger Stone
Donna Brazile's cryptic "President Pelosi" tweet and rumors of plot to assassinate Trump
Posted on January 24, 2019 by Dr. Eowyn | 43 comments
Donna Brazile, 59, is a Democrat apparatchik, Al Gore's presidential campaign manager in 2000, and the interim chair of the Democratic National Committee in Spring 2011 and, again, during the 2016 presidential campaign when she deliberately sabotaged Hillary Clinton's rival, Bernie Sanders. See:
Hacked emails show Democratic National Committee to be corrupt arm of Hillary
Hey, Bernie supporters! This is what new DNC chair Donna Brazile thinks of your man
On January 18, 2019, Brazile posted this curious tweet (archived here), with a short time-frame reference:
#MadamSpeaker today
#PresidentPelosi shortly thereafter
#MLKWeekend is underway
Keep Hope Alive!
According to the 1947 Presidential Succession Act, if a sitting U.S. president is incapacitated, the line of presidential succession is:
Speaker of the House of Representatives
President pro-tempore of the Senate
Eligible heads of federal executive departments who form the president's Cabinet.
This means House Speaker Nancy Pelosi could only succeed as president if President Trump and Vice President Pence were both incapacitated, as in assassinated.
Rumors began to fly across the Alternative Media when netizens put together Brazile's curious January 18 tweet and President Trump's banning of Pelosi's planned overseas trip a day before, on January 17.
As an example, here's a series of tweets posted by netizen Greg Rubini:
why Nancy Pelosi was so eager to fly away from the country? with other 92 persons (Dem reps, +families) +a lot of luggage?
why on a Military plane? why Pelosi wanted to personally select the crew of the Military airplane?
Nancy wanted to be sure to have "Pelosi allied" Military guys as crew, perhaps?
why Pelosi first stop was Bruxelles – NATO headquarters?
"the Pelosi delegation planned to meet NATO commanders, US Military leaders" "and key allies"
Key allies = Soros cabal Merkel (Germany). Rothschild cabal Macron (France), DeepState cabal (UK) EU boozey Juncker
why was also [Rep.] Adam Schiff [D-CA] on that trip?
"prior to the John F. Kennedy assassination in Nov 1963, the Entire Cabinet was flown to Tokyo, Japan." "at the time of the JFK assassination, the Entire Cabinet was out of the country"
-same pattern with Pelosi and Adam Schiff? -preparing a new Nancy Pelosi Cabinet?
why Pelosi wanted to fly away at all costs?
why Pelosi wanted to fly away with Adam Schiff, plus other 6 Dem congressmen, plus 85 family members?
during a Gov't shutdown? isn't it weird?
is this a DeepState plot to assassinate Trump and Pence and replace them with Nancy Pelosi as President of the USA ?
we know from a trusted source – Dr. Dave Janda – that there have been "a dozen of assassination attempts on President Trump" cc: Dr. Janda @docdhj
In light of Brazile's January 18 "PresidentPelosi" tweet, Roger Stone's January 18 warning of a deep state coup to remove President Trump now makes sense. Stone is a GOP consultant and advisor to Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
As reported by InfoWars' Paul Joseph Watson:
Political strategist Roger Stone says that the deep state is planning to remove both President Trump and VP Mike Pence from office so that they can install Nancy Pelosi as President as part of a coup that will eventually see Hillary Clinton return as President.
"The deep state seeks to fabricate some misdeed by the Trump campaign that is sold as Russian collusion," said Stone.
"That way they can remove both Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, paving the way for Nancy Pelosi to become president."
"Pelosi will then appoint Hillary Clinton to the vacant Vice Presidency after which Pelosi would resign as president allowing Hillary to take the White House which alluded [sic] her grasp in 2016."
UPDATE (Jan. 25, 2019):
A day after I published this post, and a week after Roger Stone sent out the alert, in the pre-dawn darkness this morning, a team of FBI and SWAT agents raided Stone's home in Miami, Florida and arrested him on multiple charges "as part of the ongoing special counsel investigation led by Robert Mueller." (Blabber Buzz)
Meanwhile, the real criminals (Hillary Clinton, et al.) remain at large.
Posted in 2016 Election, Alternative media, Bernie Sanders, Congress, conspiracy, deep state, Deep State, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Liberals/Democrats/Left, Mike Pence, Republican Party, United States, US Presidents
Tagged Donna Brazile, line of presidential succession, plot to assassinate Trump, Presidential Succession Act, Roger Stone
Former Trump adviser Roger Stone survives assassination attempt
Posted on January 19, 2017 by Dr. Eowyn | Leave a comment
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Two days ago, on the Alex Jones Show of January 17, 2017, former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone revealed an assassination attempt had been made on him via a lethal poison.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwxIpE9FLZg
Stone told radio host Alex Jones he's usually very healthy, but became violently ill several weeks ago:
"I am generally a healthy person. I have been a runner and a weight lifter. I am very careful in my diet. I'm a user of the Infowars supplements. I have been treated with acupuncture by perhaps the greatest acupuncturist in the state of Florida if not the United States."
Stone said his symptoms presented themselves first as a "routine stomach virus," but that he eventually grew "exceedingly ill":
"So I ultimately went to the doctors at Mt. Sinai hospital in Miami Beach, my own personal physician. They conducted extensive blood tests. Those blood tests were passed on to CDC.
The general consensus is that I was poisoned. I was poisoned with, they now say, a substance that may have been polonium or had the characteristics of polonium. This made me exceedingly ill. The conjecture of all the doctors was that I did not receive a large enough dose to kill me, but I have never been this ill."
Polonium-210 is a radioactive substance that releases extremely harmful alpha particles throughout the body, producing cancer-causing free radicals. It has been used in numerous high profile assassinations, including that of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko, and was suspected in the death of former PLO leader Yassar Arafat.
As to who is responsible for the attempted assassination, Stone speculates:
"Who would want to do this to me? I am an enemy of the deep state. I think people know that I was an insider in American politics — I was close to power in nine presidential elections. Everything Glenn Greenwald says [about the 'deep state'] is true [referring to a recent The Intercept article on how the intelligence community is attempting to stifle Trump.]
The Republican/Democrat Bush Clinton deep state has manufactured this Russia fraud. They have compounded it by pushing a clearly fabricated document. Perhaps the fact that I'm effective on behalf of my beliefs has something to do with it."
The same day as his appearance on the Alex Jones Show, Stone sent out this tweet:
Yes, I believe I was poisoned to stop me from exposing the 'Russian Hacking' LIE b4 the Congressional Investigation @StoneColdTruth
— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr)
Posted in 2016 Election, acts & threats of violence, Conservatives, conspiracy, crime, Donald Trump, Liberals/Democrats/Left, Republican Party, Trump Derangement Syndrome, United States
Tagged Roger Stone
147 FBI agents are investigating Hillary & how Trump will deal with her
Posted on March 30, 2016 by Dr. Eowyn | Leave a comment
Robert O'Harrow Jr. reports for The Washington Post, March 27, 2016, that "from the earliest days" when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, her "aides and senior officials focused intently on accommodating the secretary's desire to use her private email account, documents and interviews show."
But "unknown to diplomatic security and technology officials" at the State Department, Hillary's BlackBerry "was digitally tethered to a private email server in the basement of her family home, some 260 miles to the north in Chappaqua, N.Y."
The tech officials took no steps to protect Hillary's private email server against intruders and spies, "because they apparently were not told about it." More damning still is that "Throughout, they paid insufficient attention to laws and regulations governing the handling of classified material and the preservation of government records, interviews and documents show. They also neglected repeated warnings about the security of the BlackBerry while Clinton and her closest aides took obvious security risks in using the basement server."
The FBI is now examining whether the server was hacked, and determining whether a crime was committed in the handling of that classified material. As many as 147 FBI agents have been deployed to run down leads, according to a lawmaker briefed by FBI Director James B. Comey. The FBI has accelerated the investigation because officials want to avoid the possibility of announcing any action too close to the election.
According to Trump adviser Roger Stone, co-author of The Clintons' War on Women, when Trump takes on Hillary, he will use the alternative media, including non-network TV, to give voice to the many women whom Bill Clinton had raped and sexually assaulted/harassed, with Hillary's complicity and scapegoating.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMLrUeYsHrI]
Hillary's war on women: Power-hungry Hillary will do anything to keep the Clintons at the top
Over 105,000 people are calling for Bill Clinton's arrest
Bombshell: Hillary's unsecured emails contained names of CIA spies
Shocker, not: Hillary's emails contained America's top secrets
Shocker, not: Hillary's team copied intel off top-secret server to email
Do you think Attorney General Loretta Lynch will indict Hillary?
Posted in 2016 Election, crime, Donald Trump, FBI, Hillary Clinton, Liberals/Democrats/Left, Obama's America, State Department, United States
Tagged Bill Clinton, Roger Stone
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Melissa Rivers, Daughter of Joan Rivers, Reveals New Details About Father's Suicide
By Libby Birk - April 24, 2019 03:21 pm EDT
Melissa Rivers, the daughter of the late Joan Rivers, spoke out recently about her father's suicide for the first time.
In a new podcast, Life After Suicide with Dr. Jennifer Ashton, Rivers, 51, discussed the aftermath of her father, Edgar Rosenberg's death in 1987.
The suicide left Rivers angry at everyone, even if it didn't make rational sense.
"I was angry at my mom. I was angry at my dad. I was angry at the UPS worker," Rivers said in a preview of her interview, which is set to premiere May 1, published by the Daily Mail. "I used to call it like this free-floating sort of anger."
She added that her mom, Joan Rivers, learned in the immediate aftermath of Rosenberg's death that she and Melissa were left with nothing, due to her husband's dire financial situation. The film producer had also burned through the Fashion Police commentator's income.
She said her father's suicide made her feel like an outcast.
"Oh my God you feel like you have a big giant stamp on you," she recalled. "Nobody knows what to say, nobody knows how to address you, nobody knows what's okay to bring up. You feel so alone."
Dr. Ashton, who lost her husband of 22 years to suicide, offered advice from her own experience. "I had to learn quickly how to keep living," she said, "for myself and my two children."
Joan Rivers died after a minor August 2014 throat procedure at an outpatient clinic in Manhattan. After she stopped breathing, she was resuscitated, transferred to Mount Sinai Hospital and later put on life support. She died in September 2014, having never woken up from a medically induced coma. The New York City Medical Examiner's Office said she died from brain damage caused by a lack of oxygen.
Melissa Rivers filed a malpractice lawsuit against the clinic and doctors who performed surgery on her mother. The suit was settled for an undisclosed amount in May 2016, with the docks accepting responsibility.
If you or someone you know are in crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741-741.
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Let Me Die in My Footsteps
Bob says, if there's war,
Let him die outside, not in
A fallout shelter.
Better to die standing up than on your knees, more or less. "Let Me Die in My Footsteps" is Bob Dylan's reaction to fallout shelters and the threat of nuclear war. Dylan suggests that it's better to enjoy the world and its natural wonders and if you must die, you die amid them rather than cooped in a living grave.
To quote:
I will not go down under the ground
'Cause somebody tells me that death's comin' 'round
An' I will not carry myself down to die
When I go to my grave my head will be high
Before I go down under the ground
There's been rumors of war and wars that have been
The meaning of life has been lost in the wind
And some people thinkin' that the end is close by
'Stead of learnin' to live they are learnin' to die
Let me drink from the waters where the mountain streams flood
Let the smell of wildflowers flow free through my blood
Let me sleep in your meadows with the green grassy leaves
Let me walk down the highway with my brother in peace
Go out in your country where the land meets the sun
See the craters and the canyons where the waterfalls run
Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Idaho
Let every state in this union seep down deep in your souls
And you'll die in your footsteps
Before you go down under the ground
The song was intended for the 1963 album "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan," but replaced by "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall." It appeared on the album "The Broadside Ballads, Vol. 1," and after that on the first edition of the Bootleg Series in 1991.
Labels: 1962, 1991, Let Me Die in My Footsteps, The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991
Music of Bob Dylan July 19, 2017 at 5:32 PM
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Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
Lily of the West
Like a Ship
The Levee's Gonna Break
Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
Lay Lady Lay
Lay Down Your Weary Tune
Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie
Kingsport Town
King of France
Kind-Hearted Woman Blues
Just Like a Woman
Journey Through Dark Heat (Where Are You Tonight?)...
Joshua Gone Barbados
Johnny Todd
James Alley Blues
I Was Young When I Left Home
I Wanna Be Your Lover
It's the Flight of the Bumblebee
It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
It's All Over Now Baby Blue
It Hurts Me Too
It Ain't Me, Babe
Is Your Love in Vain?
I Shall Be Free No. 10
I Shall Be Free
I Rode Out One Morning
I Pity the Poor Immigrant
In Search of Little Sadie
In My Time of Dyin'
I'm Your Teenage Prayer
I'm Not There (1956)
I'm Guilty of Loving You
I'm Alright
I'll Remember You
I Heard That Lonesome Whistle Blow
If You See Her, Say Hello
If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Or Else You Gotta Stay Al...
If You Ever Go to Houston
If You Belonged to Me
I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know
If Not for You
If I Were a Carpenter
I Feel a Change Comin' On
I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have M...
Idiot Wind
I'd Hate to Be You on That Dreadful Day
I Can't Make It Alone
I Can't Come in With a Broken Heart
I and I
I Am a Lonesome Hobo
Huck's Tune
House of the Risin' Sun
House Carpenter
Honey Babe
Honest With Me
Hiram Hubbard
Hills of Mexico


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U.S. Judge Questions Campos Plea Deal
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan wants an explanation from the government on why it let Utah banker John Campos plead guilty to a misdemeanor instead of a felony. The government's plan to prosecute Campos and avoid an April 9th trail has hit a snag.
Of the dozen of individuals that have been charged from Black Friday last April, some have already pleaded guilty. Half remain at large and this is the only scheduled trail. Campos admitted the bank which he served as vice-chairman of its board of directors as well as part owner processed $200 million in gambling proceeds from 2009-2011.
Questioning Campos' sentence, Judge Kaplan asked why the government is "…basically walking away from the prosecution?" He will decide whether to except the pleas June 27th. Assistant US Attorney Arlo Devlin-Brown said that the deal is takes in consideration the risks of going to trail.
One of those risks is that a jury may find that it is not illegal to process money for online gambling companies. Devlin-Brown said, "There would be a risk that a jury on that basis could have a problem."
As part of his plea, Campas said, SunFirst Bank processed online gambling proceeds and that PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker promised to invest $10 million in his bank. He also said the investment was not because he agreed to process the gambling proceeds.
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A female neko with short hair padded in from the darkness. One of her legs was missing, and she looked like she was a bit older.
I was puzzled. Who was this?
"Lorraine," snowball rasped. "So...you're here?" the old neko nodded. "Yes, my old friend." the neko curled up close to Snowball.
I looked at Elizabeth in question.
"Lorraine....Snowball, is this the one you've told me about?" She asked the big white tiger. Snowball nodded. "Yes...she is. The one who took me and you out of Futago pass to safety." snowball collapsed at Lorraine's feet. "Lorraine...please...this kit must meet her father. Take her to see him, whatever the cost." he rasped. Lorraine nodded. "Of course...Snowball." the sick tiger smiled and closed his eyes.
I looked at Elizabeth confused.
"S-Snowball?" Elizabeth whimpered, nudging his head. The tiger didn't move. "snowball? SNOWBALL?" she screeched, crying. "Snowball!"
Tears came to my eyes. I hadn't known this cat for a day and he had died.
The young neko wailed and collapsed beside her caretaker and cried.
I walked over to Elizabeth and licked her ear sympathetically.
Elizabeth sniffed. "It's alright," Lorriane meowed. "We'll bury him in the morning."
I looked at her and sniffled.
The next morning, Elizabeth was crouched over snowball's grave.
I was sittig beside Elizabeth, trying to comfort her.
Elizabeth sniffed, and she cried some more.
[sure] Elizabeth sniffed, then looked at Lorraine. "Are you taking me to find my father?" Lorraine nodded.
I sighed. I probably couldn't come on this journey.
"Do you want to come, Kayla?" Elizabeth asked. "You could...get away from Sean forever."
My heart pounded at the possibility. "Could I?"
"That would be wonderful. Are you sure I wouldn't be a burden?"


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Texas Roadhouse is off to a great start in 2017.
Thriving Texas Roadhouse Has Big Growth Plans for 2017
The casual dining chain plans to open 30 restaurants this year.
Shares of Texas Roadhouse soared to record highs Tuesday as investors digested the casual dining company's better-than-expected first-quarter results. While Texas Roadhouse surprised analysts with the numbers, how it got there was far from complicated, executives explained in a conference call.
"… we've just keep doing what we're doing, which is [being] very protective of our food quality and our price points and our flavor standards, same things you've heard forever and we kind of just stuck to that and continue to do that and gets work for us," said Scott Colosi, president and chief financial officer. Shares were up as much as 11 percent to $51.22 on Tuesday.
The steakhouse chain reported comparable same-store sales gains of 3.1 percent year-over-year at company owned locations and 3.8 percent at domestic franchise units—around double the growth during the fourth quarter of 2016.
Applebee's could close 60 stores in 2017.
Denny's looks ahead after a volatile first quarter.
Outback helps Bloomin' Brands turn around sales.
Revenue also jumped 10 percent to $567.7 million, topping Street forecasts of $561.5 million. The Louisville-based company reported diluted earnings per share of 48 cents, down 4.4 percent—credited to a 13-cent charge related to a legal matter settled in March.
Perhaps the biggest note, though, was the company's intention to keep growing. Texas Roadhouse said it expects to open roughly 30 new units in 2017 and has already debuted seven company-owned restaurants and two franchise locations to begin 2017. That includes opening 24 new Roadhouses and six Bubba's 33, of which there are currently 16. Thirteen restaurants are under construction and expected to open by the end of September.
The company operates more than 525 restaurants in 49 states and six foreign countries.
"Overall, we feel very good about the direction of our business … We will continue to challenge ourselves to get stronger and create more value to our employees, our guests and our shareholders," Colosi said.
Texas Roadhouse isn't sitting quiet. The brand is readying to unveil new menus with small portion entrees.
"We will roll-out new menus this week at all restaurants that will include calorie counts, along with some small changes to the menu. The changes include the companywide roll-out of two smaller portion entrées with the addition of a 5-ounce salmon and an 8-ounce New York strip. We will also be implementing a price increase of about 0.5 percent as part of the roll-out," CEO Wayne Kent Taylor said.
Like many casual dining brands, Texas Roadhouse is leveraging off-premise service and technology in its climb back to the green.
The company said it expects its app to be available throughout most of the country by the end of the year. The app, which first tested in Houston, allows guests to call ahead, pay their bill, and order to-go meals.
Texas Roadhouse also has a guest management system in place. "We've got our back office system, which helps us better understand our food costs, P&L and look at labor and so forth, which we're very happy with," Colosi said.
At the moment, Colosi added, Texas Roadhouse doesn't have any plans to add table-side tablets.


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Interviewed by Mr. Maaucher Moadeb-Zadeh, December 11, 1969.
who spent four years of college at AUC and then for one year and a half, finishing up in 1945, tought with AUC. Mr. Ramses Nassif will answer a few questions first surveying his study times at AUC and will tell us something about the time and the duration and his relationship with AUC in general, also he will tell us something more about his activities at AUC, sports and other-wise, and all the other memories that would be help compiling facts for the AUC history that we intend to bring out on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the American University in Cairo.
AUC, when I received my B.A. in journalism in 1943, and then a little later, at the suggestion of Dr. Howard, who was the Dean of the University at the time, I joined the staff and I taught for about a year and a half, almost two years in fact, a course called an introduction to Egyptian journalism.
we all remember as long as we live, came at least two or three.Dr. A~ny was really at that time a sort of an elder statesman, and was a contributor to Akhbar El Yom and to Al-Missry. And he was also a delegate, for the delegation of Egypt who came to the United Nations several times. His greatest contribution later on was in the field of human rights, and the work of United Nations in the field of human rights So he came several time#. And Mr. Mohammed I-Taba'yee who was the editor in chief and publisher of Al-Assah, the old A1 Assah, came once. Mustafa Amin and Aly Amin came a couple oftifceg, and these are just some of the names that I can recall, and many others.
And as a result of that, I mean, this course of mine became so popular that the students wanted me to stay on, but I had to make a choice either between teaching or pursuing my career in journalism, and I chose the later. But it was a great experience. I think 1 learned as much from them as they learned from me.
And I came first to the United States as a correspondent Manucher: Excuse me To interrrupt you here Mr. Nass.if. Would you tel..! us something about the type of students you had how many women, how many men, how many of them are in the field of journalism now, and one more question, which I may aSK now before interrupting you again, and that is AUC inaugurated jounalism .in Cairo, Egypt. Is that true? it contributed to this area.
contributed a great deal to the formation of the Egyptian press as such. In actual fact the school of journalism at AUG predates by several years the faculty of journalism at the Egyptian University, at the Cairo University, and even after the Cairo University had started its courses in journalism, I know this first hand from several of my former colleagues, professors at both institutions, that they considered our courses and our way of teaching journalism much more practiced and more pealistic than those that were followed by Cairo University at that time. I'm a bit out of touch now so I can't really discuss the present system in the two institution^with any kind of accuracy or authority.
The composition of our class. What happened actually we followed some basic courses together like, you know philosophy and history and economics and English literature and what -have you and then we were sort of divided between Social Studies and Journalism. Of course I belonged to the Journalism course.
I think we were evenly divided between men and women , and we had some outstanding young ladies of course, young girls, in our class. One comes to mind immediately, that's Az Iza Sjhoukry, at the time, now Aziza Ahmed Hus; ein, wife of the former Egyptian Ambassador of Washington and a very distinguished lady in her own right. She represented our country, Egypt, with honor at the UN on several occasions.
She has contributed to the work of the third committes of the General Assembly of the United Nations. This is the committee which deals with social and humanitarian matters She has realty" left her mark in this field, and I can ..ay with pride that I am proud to have known such a distinguished lady, and to have been a classmate of hers.Another lady, since you were speaking about ladies, is Miss Aida G-uindy, a classmate of mine. We graduated the same year, in *43, who has a very important post in the Social Welfare Department of the Secretariat of the United Nations.
I understand, I haven't seen her nor heard from her directly but I have heard of her, is at the time a Miss Andree Sa'ad of the Sa'ad family wno apparently after graduation wrote two successful novels in Paris. She wrote them in French and established quite a name of herself. So I'm not saying that to brag about my former classmates, but these are names that come to mind at this particular time.
So I came to New York for the first time as a correspondent of Akhbar El Yourn and then aftur a couple of years I went back home, and then I came again in 1953. That's when I joined the Secretariat of the United Nations, section describing activities with UN and appointment as U Thant's press aide omitted.
activities at the University. We had the Masqueers club for example and that was the great love of our dear friend Dr. Howard. He was the coach; he was the director, the producer, and sometimes he was the main actor#. And we did produce a few plays successfully. That was one aspect. Then there was a great deal of parties; when I say parties, I mean one time at this one's house, the next week was at somebody else's house. We got together a great deal... dating how shall we put it now—individual dating wasn't quite fashionabtee at the time. Mind you this was a good many years ago. I'm tfrad this is one thing we have to put in historical perspective, and I didn't play tennis at the time, but I did play ping pong and there was an active tennis club.
mentioned several important people from AUC in the United Nations. Could you elaborate on some others aside from your own classmates, please?
the time, when you were a student, what was the student- teachers relation at the time ?
and informal, in most cases. In some case we sort of observed certain ruelds and I would say that the older members of the staff .... One of the most informal and most popular was Leslie Nichols, who was our professor of journalism; among those who were more formal was professor Smith, in philosophy and Dr. Cleland, certainchy the late Dr. Watson, professor of philosophy; Badeau was formal. Another gentleman, Professor Kiven, Marcel Kiven was formal. The only person I remember from my days who kas very informal and he encouraged this informalityeand r ally treat him as a colleague more than as approfessor was professor Nichols, who was the head of the journalism department at that tLme.
not like everyday— concerning your relationship with AUC during your four years at AUC?
Nassif: When you say significant, are you referring to ... .
This was the yearsa: the war ended, and luckily at the time Egypt was spared the horrors of war, but we did exercience at few air raids on Alexandria, on Cairo, especially Heliopolis where I used to live. That I remmember very well. I remember the German advance to Alaipein. There was. I believe there was a tense moment when according to the rumors and the fuinors mongers the Germans had entered Alexandria and some people were fleeing to Aswan and Luxor and to the Sudan. This is among things I remember and I can't think of anything in particular.
left an impact on some of us, who were aware that a war was being fought, that the allies were fighting against the Germans and the Italians that Egypt was on the side of the allies, and that ±t was an important historic event in the perspective of history. But I don't thinK it really hampered or hindred our studies, and things were more or less normal to the best of my recollection.
otherwise, tha. is Middle Esterners, compare during those years? How many of each did you have at the time.
correctly the majority was in the American. The only few non Americans that I remember one is you, sir professor Manucher; there was Mr. Namani, and among the staff there was Khalil Rizk, I believe, in education; no the late Khalil Rizk was the treasurer; and then there was Hanna Rizk, and then the psychology professor, the late Dr. Amir Boxtor. I had little to do with Yussef, but I knew who he was; I didn't take any courses from the others. We all new the late Khalil Rizk because he was the cashier and the money end of things . . .
But really apart from these names, unless I'm mistaken there were no other non-American professors of* members of the staff at that time of course. I'm sure things must have changed by now.
there were roughly about 20 or 22, and we had a different professor practically for ever: different subject.
There was Badeau who taught ethics; there was the late Dr, Watson who taught philosophy there was Mr. Smith who taught — I beg your pardon, Dr, Watson taught philosophy of religion Smith taught philosophy;^Nichols journalism Howard literature ; and Kiven e-conomics, so Niekeie the average was roughly different professors for different subjects and the size of the class was roughly twenty to twenty two, at that time.
any relations, did you as a student have relations with the university students of . . . Cairo University . The University in general, when you were a professor, did they have any relations betweexi professors and academicians ? members of the staff of different universities?would you throw some lights, please on this?
my first experience with international groups or international organizations was really at AUC. Because then It was a small university, with a small student body, a small teaching staff but there were so many nationalities there and when I left AUC which was about the middle of '45 or so,that was the year the United Nations was born, so it is an interesting coincidence in this instance. So I really had my baptism with internationalism oerse . different nationalities right there and then AUC.
I don't think that we had very much to do as students with students of other institutions in Sgypt, with the exception of the American Girls College. Tnere were always some exchange of parties and lectures, And they used tocome to AUG mite often. Very little to do with the Cairo University as far as I can remember. And I really couldn't speak about any relationship between the profess rs of both institub Lons. I just didn't know I wasn't aware of any.
the o is, one do you remember an outstanding event which is memorable at the time that you were studying at AUG? And second, what onecdote of any type struck you most and of course which has some bearings on the student. teacher or student staff life. Can you remember any of those two things, one outstanding event, second, an anecdote you have in your memory of AUC at the time.of your studies?


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Ahmed Wali Khan Karzai, född 1961 i byn Karz i Kandaharprovinsen, Afghanistan,död den 12 juli 2011, var en afghansk politiker och före detta restaurangägare, halvbror till Afghanistans president Hamid Karzai och son till Abdul Ahad Karzai.

Liv och karriär
Han bodde i Chicago, USA, där han drev en restaurang med sin familj., men återvände till Afghanistan 2001, efter att talibanregimen avsatts.

Som en av dom beslutande i Popalzai-klanen valdes han 2005 till Kandahars provinsstyrelse till dess ordförande. Har beskylldes för korruption och inblandning i knarkhandel men var ändå viktig för USA i deras militära närvaro.

Mordet
Den 12 juli 2011 sköts han till döds av Sardar Mohammad, en av hans livvakter. Enligt rapporter sköts han med en pistol, en gång i huvudet och en gång i bröstet. Fem dagar före sin död hade han uppträtt på brittisk TV, i ett program presenterat av Lyse Doucet. Han talade då om allmänhetens uppfattningar om honom. Tusentals personer slöt upp vid hans begravning, som leddes av president Hamid Karzai.

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Avlidna 2011
Afghanska politiker under 2000-talet
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Mördade afghanska politiker

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Here is The New Update of 2020 Nissan Altima. The Korean car manufacturer, Nissan, introduced their latest mid-size sedan in the 2018 New York International Auto Show (NYIAS). It is called as 2019 Altima, this car will be available in the American market.
This car is actually manufactured in Asian Market such as Indonesia, but it has a different name called Teana. From this new release, there is a possibility that Nissan will also produce 2020 Nissan Altima next year. New Nissan Altima will be the most wanted luxurious Sedan for businessmen. So, let us check the specifications of the next generation of Nissan Altima 2020 according to its rumor.
Will Nissan change the design of the 2020 Nissan Altima? Even though we have no idea when this new Nissan Altima will be released, we may assume that Nissan will not give a significant change to its design. It may still look like the 2019 model. In this case, Nissan wraps the 2020 Altima with a more modern and sporty design.
The most striking change can be seen in the long V-shaped grille and fill the front bumper. The sophisticated look is also contributed by the sharp headlight display. In addition, there are also LED DRL with similar concepts.
We can say that Nissan will keep the design of 2020 Altima as it is used in 2019 models. But, there may some changes that we have no idea. What about the exterior? Let us see the back side that is still in the same tone as the front side. The tail light and sein lights are also designed with sharp shapes.
You can also see a pair of exhaust combined with minimalist bumper to make it look sporty. Meanwhile, the front side really looks elegant with sharp black panther eyes primary lights. The monochrome v shape resembles the face of a tiger that is ready to catch its victim. So far, the exterior looks so extraordinary for such a modern and futuristic city car.
Next, we go to the main parts which you cannot see from the outside unless you get inside the cabin. The new 2020 Nissan Ultima may still look similar to the previous current model in which there are some amazing features to support drivers. First of all, you can see an 8 inches touchscreen display for a multimedia system. This is also completed with Nissan Connect SM, Android Auto, and Apple Car Play. Moreover, the seats are also coated with a leather material with a bright accent to make it look more luxurious and comfortable. Overall, the interior design will not make you regretful because it provides plentiful features.
The most important thing to know when you are about to buy a new car is the engine. What engine does New Nissan Altima use? It seems that the next generation of Nissan Altima will keep using an engine with a capacity of 2500 cc. If it is compared to the previous model, this new Nissan Altima will have better performance because it can produce 188 hp with a torque up to 244 NM. The power of the engine will be distributed by using the AWD system. This is the first time in which Nissan uses this system for the Altima 2019 and 2020 later on. There is also a Nissan Altima series that is no longer use 3500 ccs V6 engine and replaced with 2.00 cc turbo. This configuration can produce power as much as 248 HP with a torque to reach up to 370 Nm. But, this engine is only used for 2020 Nissan Altima SR and Platinum.
What are the most wanted features available in 2020 Nissan Altima? Of course, when you want to replace your old car, you want something better with cool features. 2020 Nissan Altima may have complete features such as available with all-wheel drive, new engine under the hood, little extra style on the outside, cool safety features, and available with pro pilot assist.
One important thing that you must pay attention to when buying a new car is the safety feature. 2020 Nissan Altima is a perfect choice if you want to get complete safety while driving. Some of the safety features offered are a forward collision warning system, driver alertness warning system, automatic emergency braking, adaptive cruise control, a surround view camera, road sign recognition, blind spot warning, pedestrian detection, rear cross traffic alert, lane departure warning and intervention, and much more.
As it is mentioned before, 2019 Nissan Altima has been released in 2018. So, you have a chance to get this new car model. But, if you want to get the 2020 Nissan Altima, it seems that you have to wait until next year. The fact is that the maker is still planning the production. It means that the maker is probably still producing before they release it. Somehow, nobody knows the exact release date before the officials inform it. There are so many opinions about this car whether Nissan will release the 2020 series or not. Everybody really wonders if the next Nissan Altima will be greater and stronger than the current model.
Talking about a new car, you must be thinking that Nissan Altima 2020 will be more expensive than the previous model. It may be true or the price may be not too different from the 2019 model. Somehow, you only need to wait for the official release date so that you understand the exact price of this car. Hopefully, the price is lower than the previous one despite it is not possible.
In conclusion, there are some rumors that 2020 Nissan Altima will be released in the middle of 2019. However, when we talk about the specifications, we cannot make sure that the next generation of Altima will look like the 2019 series. Somehow, it is just our opinion because the maker is not informed us yet about the redesign and the complete specifications. So, you must be waiting until next year because you may enjoy the current model of the Nissan Altima.


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Q: How to route packets from bridged network interfaces to localhost? I am setting up an Orange Pi to bridge two network interfaces. One of them is connected to a gateway, the other to the network interface of a thermal receipt printer. I would like to capture packets send from the network which are destined for the printer on port 9100 so I can modify them before sending them to the printer.
My hardware setup looks as follows: eth1 is connected to the gateway, eth2 is connected to a thermal receipt printer with static ip 192.168.0.20.
On my Orange pi I run Linux 4.18.7, build from Yocto with the OpenEmbedded board support package.
I take the following steps to initalize a bridge:
brctl addbr kc_bridge
brctl addif kc_bridge eth1
brctl addif kc_bridge eth2
ifconfig kc_bridge up

At this point I can ping the printer from any device in the same network, and send it things to print (e.g. echo "Hello World" | nc 192.168.0.20 9100)
Then, I enable routing to localhost, enable ip forwarding and modprobe br_netfilter to enable routing on bridges:
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/route_localnet
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
modprobe br_netfilter

Next I add the iptables rule that should change the destination address to localhost of any packet that is destined for the printer on port 9100, and I start listening to this port:
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -d 192.168.0.20/32 -i kc_bridge -p tcp --dport 9100 -j DNAT --to-destination 127.0.0.1:9100
nc -l 9100

I would expect this to show any data that is routed to localhost, but when I send data to the printer from another device on the same network, it is neither shown here nor printed.
Using tcpdump I can see that the packets are not routed to localhost and no connection seems to be initiated:
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on eth1, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 262144 bytes
09:31:14.821538 IP 192.168.0.50.43362 > 192.168.0.20.9100: Flags [S], seq 2236984100, win 64240, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 3578716123 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0
09:31:15.839876 IP 192.168.0.50.43362 > 192.168.0.20.9100: Flags [S], seq 2236984100, win 64240, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 3578717141 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0
09:31:17.856296 IP 192.168.0.50.43362 > 192.168.0.20.9100: Flags [S], seq 2236984100, win 64240, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 3578719157 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0
09:31:22.020901 IP 192.168.0.50.43362 > 192.168.0.20.9100: Flags [S], seq 2236984100, win 64240, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 3578723321 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0

What am I missing in order to route packets from the bridged network interfaces to localhost?
Update
Using iptables command I can confirm that the iptables rules are being hit:
iptables -t nat -L -n -v
Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT 400 packets, 77939 bytes)
 pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination
    6   360 DNAT       tcp  --  kc_bridge *       0.0.0.0/0            192.168.0.20         tcp dpt:9100 to:127.0.0.1:9100

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 2 packets, 120 bytes)
 pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 291 packets, 25966 bytes)
 pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination

Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT 405 packets, 49112 bytes)
 pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination

Packets are accepted on all ports:
-P INPUT ACCEPT
-P FORWARD ACCEPT
-P OUTPUT ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 9100 -j ACCEPT

A: *

*Check the counters of the DNAT rule with iptables-save -c -t nat command. It shouldn't be zero.

*Also you should allow the incoming packets for this port.

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 9100 -j ACCEPT

*Use the conntrack tool to list the conntrack table. You can use conntrack -E to monitor conntrack events in the real time.

*Check output of ip route get 127.0.0.1 from 192.168.0.50 iif kc_bridge command.


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InvestigationsPolitics
The messy story of the influencer who raised £48,000 for victims of the Sri Lanka Easter bombings
When the money that Ishini Weerasinghe raised 'disappeared', the internet had questions.
Donya Jeyabalasingham
Ishini Weerasinghe, a 21-year-old Sri Lankan TikTok creator and Instagram influencer who lives in Edmonton, Canada, is always beautifully presented. Whether she's glistening in blue velvet or celebrating her Sinhalese heritage in a sari, working against white ideals of beauty is an integral part of her social media presence and she's recently begun to gain a large following due to a few viral videos.
But behind her dance and fashion content is a dark story which has been dubbed "IshiniGate". The influencer, who has also been called out for her problematic content (including cases of colourism, anti-blackness and cultural appropriation), is at the centre of a quiet scandal.
In April 2019, Ishini created a GoFundMe following the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka, a series of terrorist attacks across Colombo, Batticaloa and Negombo resulting in over 250 deaths. Sri Lanka has a long history of civil war and state violence, but to many in the West, the Easter bombings were a shocking occurrence in what was seen as a safe tourism hot-spot. Because of this, the attacks garnered a lot of sympathy worldwide and relief funds were set up by individuals and organisations to help the civilians affected.
"When the tragic event took place I felt the urge to do something about it because it's the home I love and cherish, my heart yearns for my family and friends effected (sic) back home," Ishini wrote on the GoFundMe she created. "I am also a social media influencer on Instagram (@ishiniw) and decided to put it into good use by raising funds and bringing awareness among my following on my media."
The statement suggests that, at the time, Ishini's intentions were genuine and philanthropic. When I speak with Ishini over a video call, she says she had been in tears as she drove home after hearing the news. After around two hours she had set up the GoFundMe and it quickly shot up to nearly £50,000. What followed, however, is completely unclear.
At the time of writing, the money, in full, has not reached survivors. There has however been a string of evasive and contradictory updates. First Ishini announced on 30 September, exactly 502 days after the GoFundMe closed, that all the money would be returned to donors. Then on 24 October, she released another update, claiming that she had worked with GoFundMe to find a new charity to hand the money over to. The name and details of this charity are yet to be released.
According to Ishini, the name can only be made public once the funds have been transferred to them – as both herself and her team are concerned about "people looking to dissuade charities from using our funds". She simultaneously asserts that she's "sure that everyone will like this decision because we've been listening to the donors and people in regards to who I should've given the money to".
"At the time she set up the GoFundMe, Ishini's intentions were genuine and philanthropic"
So what happened in those 502 days? For the most part, we have no idea. While my conversation with Ishini makes it clear that the timeline of the fundraiser was staggered because of a breakdown in communication between Ishini and one of the organisations she attempted to work with, it still remains unclear why there was such a large gulf of time between Ishini's groundwork in 2019 and the eventual decision to backtrack and transfer the remaining funds to a new charity in October 2020.
Between the 23 and the 24 April 2019, Ishini announced that the money would be dispersed by Sri Lankan State Minister Ranjan Ramanayake. However, due to the Sri Lankan government's alleged history of internal corruption (which includes siphoning relief funds for Tamil civilians during the civil war), an unsurprising amount of criticism for this partnership followed.
By the end of the next month (29 May 2019), there was another update announcing a partnership with the FourSquare Gospel church, a large international non-profit organisation and denomination with its Sri Lanka branch based in Negombo. Then, the updates dried up. By autumn 2020, Twitter and Instagram users were furiously questioning why none of the money had been dispersed to the victims of the attack.
On 26 September, Ishini argued that £11,800 did go towards some families' rehabilitation, following a visit she took to Sri Lanka in December 2019. This claim was evidenced by some unverifiable receipts released at the beginning of October (with one even dated 1 October 2020) and photos of herself with various Sri Lankan people. On our call, Ishini lists some of the help she claims to have given victims in Negombo – including "a hearing surgery" and "two homes being built".
Days later, on 30 September, she also had to officially apologise for implicating FourSquare in the scandal and notify all donors that the church was not involved in the dispersing of the funds. In the same update, it was announced that around one-quarter of the money was offered to the Alpha Trust, a social arm of Foursquare, who claimed that they received it but then – when unable to use it – returned the money to Ishini who held the sum in a Canadian bank account.
When I ask Ishini how this happened, her answer was fairly vague, calling it a "complete and utter mistake". "[I didn't read] a paper about this social arm church that GoFundMe sent me," she explains. To the public, it seemed unlikely that when the Alpha Trust was given such a large amount of money (£11,000) to help their own community, they were unable to come up with any ways to spend it. When I point this out to Ishini, she shares a similar frustration, claiming that they "didn't do the work that they were supposed to do. They promised me updates, but they didn't do that, they said they would find victims and they didn't."
"Most of the investigative work that uncovered the holes in Ishini's GoFundMe updates were done by Twitter users"
IshiniGate shows the power of social media. Most of the investigative work that uncovered the holes in Ishini's GoFundMe updates were done by Twitter users sharing information under the IshiniGate hashtag. Comms consultant Crystal Koelmeyer and news personality Dasuni Athauda were amongst those applying significant pressure on GoFundMe and Ishini to be transparent about the dispersion of the funds.
However, it is clear that Ishini still feels that the criticism she faced online was disproportionate. "Certain individuals were even calling the wrong FourSquare in Wattala instead of Nugegoda. [They] added a lot of fuel into the situation when they shouldn't have, distorting the actual facts," she says. While the public pushed for more transparency and evidence from Ishini, it seems that it also paralysed progress. Ishini mentions she is currently holding back further receipts for fear of triggering a second wave of ridicule and criticism.
As this story gained more attraction, mockery and online abuse followed. This escalated to the point where Ishini had to address false claims that were being made about her using GoFundMe to pay for her breast reconstruction surgery, her car and her house. In her response, Ishini outlined that these claims were impossible – as she underwent surgery and purchased her car in 2018, prior to the attacks happening in Sri Lanka.
Online bullying is abhorrent and Ishini posted that after being "bullied, harassed and called a clout chaser", she began to struggle with her mental health. Unevidenced accusations that Ishini intentionally and maliciously siphoned the money in order to fund a materialistic "influencer lifestyle" relies on tired and damaging tropes about young women. But another frustration in this scandal is that this narrative took away from legitimate criticism being made about her handling of the fund.
The outrage towards Ishini is understandable. When you compare the achievements of her GoFundMe to the £150,000 Red Cross fundraiser, which established the Easter Sunday Attack Recovery and Response Programme, helped over 100 families financially, retrained Sri Lankan families in starting businesses and gave them bursaries for their projects, Ishini's inaction seems particularly wrong. Almost £50k was diverted away from other immediate relief funds – effectively withdrawing aid that could've been given to many more victims of the attack (of which there were over 500 injured).
Ishini's influencer career is now inextricably linked to the tragedy of the Easter bombings. Her Instagram handle is on her GoFundMe page and those trying to keep up with the scandal must engage with her various socials. Throughout September and October, updates regarding the fundraiser were always posted on Instagram, and most recently Ishini posted a blithe and upbeat TikTok of her dancing and lip-syncing with a caption that reads "'Didn't forget' Check out my instagram SLEB highlight for an update". This light-hearted video, which could be interpreted as self-promotion, was extremely jarring. We're talking about relief funds potentially being held back from victims of a terrorist attack because of her own negligence.
"The online crowdfund age is marred individuals mishandling donations due to malice or negligence"
It is a harsh truth that the online crowdfund age is marred by hundreds of cases where individuals mishandle donations due to their own malice, negligence and/or disorganisation. There's also a rich history of influencers engaging in fundraising irresponsibly and exploitatively, profiteering off of social justice issues in order to build and bolster their platforms. Following a typhoon in the Philippines in 2013, Kim Kardashian set up a charity auction of her own clothes to raise funds but was quickly called out for only donating 10% of the profits. Shaun King, a writer and civil-rights activist with a large Twitter following used the death of actor Chadwick Boseman to promote his new book.
Shaun King is using the death of Chadwick Boseman to sell his book and it is GROTESQUE.
What is wrong with him? What is wrong with YOU THAT YOU KEEP SUPPORTING HIM?
(images via @VeryWhiteGuy) pic.twitter.com/KhfCaivj57
— Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) August 29, 2020
Over the last few years we've seen more and more companies conclude that there's a profit in social causes, and you'll often see large brands like Pepsi or M&S co-opting movements responding to great tragedies or ongoing injustice. The quasi-righteousness of media personalities and influencers is a thread drawn from the same cloth. The more the line is blurred between the influencer as an individual and their brand, the more they stand to financially gain from optical activism, just like large corporations do.
Similarly, the choice to create new GoFundMe pages rather than divert followers to fundraisers already in existence is not innocent. It specifically centres and places the individual on a pedestal of virtue. As argued by Rachel Monroe in The Atlantic, "GoFundMe campaigns that go viral tend to follow a template: […] A relatively well-off person stumbles upon a downtrodden but deserving 'other' and shares his or her story" and they go on to cite what Teju Cole terms the "White Saviour Industrial Complex" weaving into the GoFundMe model. Teju believes that this complex enables "the banality of evil to transmute into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm".
"As a second-generation Sri Lankan Canadian not directly affected by the attacks, Ishini was far more privileged than those she sought to help"
The ironic idea that severe humanitarian issues can be pithily solved with a bit of "enthusiasm" and a viral GoFundMe is exactly what sits behind examples like IshiniGate. Teju's tongue in cheek comments are a response to a very real and dangerous naivety that appears in a lot of GoFundMe activism. Crucially, much like the "White Saviour" trope, the "activist" always gains more than the victims they seek to help.
Of course, Ishini is not a white woman, but, as a second-generation Sri Lankan Canadian who was not directly affected by the attacks, she was far more privileged than those she sought to help. Her actions still played into the economies of "wokeness" that, behind a disguise of "giving" and "charity", contain subtle systems of exploitation of trauma and tragedy. Activism is for the benefit of the many, relief funds are vital and distribution is complex; neither should be viewed as a marketing opportunity.
So, what's next? The take-away shouldn't be to not trust influencers with fundraising, because there are many occasions when online platforms truly have been used for good. Funding remains crucial to implementing aid and helping social justice movements across the world. But activism and campaign organisation is at its best when it is both transparent and strategic. In this specific case, the main mistakes made by Ishini and GoFundMe were that there was not a clear goal about how the money would be spent and a blatant lack of book-keeping. Ishini openly admits that she "didn't have the experience or the knowledge going into this; going in you have the best intentions but it can go very wrong. If I could do it again, I'd love to use my platform but I wouldn't start a campaign myself."
She pauses, before saying that she is "truly apologetic". "It is also something that I have to face and I want to correct this. At the end of the day, it's not about me, it's about finding an end to this problem, a solution. No matter the negativity or whatever, the truth will prevail at the end of the day, as it has, and I know the best thing I can do now is to be transparent." Once the final charity has been announced it is her intention to release more receipts and evidence. It's a step in the right direction, just at the wrong time.
It's hard to maintain empathy for privileged or powerful individuals whose mistakes consequently affect those who have far less than them. The more social media and activism intersect the more we must look at these relationships with clarity and know they're always not purely altruistic. IshiniGate will no doubt be old news within a few weeks but the real loss remains with all those in Sri Lanka who, as it stands, still have not received the help they were entitled to.
The ripple effects of these attacks are still ongoing, as the coronavirus pandemic will have stunted Sri Lanka's recovering tourism industry. Seeing as social welfare is not perfect in Sri Lanka, there would have been many who didn't receive enough help after the attacks. IshiniGate should be a lesson that fundraising, no matter who it's organised by, should be professional and strategic and also carried out with compassion and integrity.
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There needs to be a MacArthur Foundation that focuses on emerging talents. It should give no-strings-attached grants to emerging talents in the same way MacArthur does for established talents. The grants would be given regardless of type of talent, though it would emphasize those demonstrating extraordinary creative potential yet who do not have much money. (I support economic affirmative action at young levels; I do not support racial affirmative action.) The current MacArthur genius grants are terrific in that they're given to individuals instead of causes or projects, but oftentimes the people don't really need the money or recognition. This "Junior MacArthur" program would involve placing riskier bets on still unproven individuals who nevertheless display great potential and tremendous self-direction. Grantees would use the money however they see fit to make the world a better place.
The first grantee should be Colin Marshall. Colin is a talented artist. He is one of the clearest thinking writers on the web. He runs a successful radio interview program. He runs a site about podcasts. He writes columns. He writes essays. He writes blog posts. He makes films. He tweets prolifically. He's 25 years old.
Kinda trippy that I've biologically persisted nearly to the age of 25 without any idea whatsoever of how to make enough money to buy a car, isn't it?…I react to the mechanics of moneymaking with the same befuddlement that many of these well-heeled vehicle owners do when they stare at the dark, occult forms under their hoods.
I've seen more than a few people fall into this basic scenario: get some McJob or cultivate an unengaging "fallback" career to support whatever it is they "really" do; grow dependent on the entity providing said McJob/fallback; build up a lifestyle whose monthly expenditure requires said employment; gradually, imperceptibly forget about real endeavors in the name of shorter-term concerns; become some hideous institutional creature, like a blind fish that feeds whatever nutrients happen to float across the ocean floor.
Of course, Colin could (and should) learn more about how to monetize his talents. But beyond a basic increase in entrepreneurial savvy — which would not require selling out by the way — beyond that, it becomes difficult to do the kind of work that he does (esoteric film reviews, for example) without spending a huge amount of time trying to raise money or work dull side jobs.
If Colin could focus on his art and not worry about the cash bucks, the world would be a richer place. I realize there are a million other people who think of themselves as falling into this category. Many writers, for sure. I'm highlighting Colin because a) he's a friend, b) he's young, c) a small amount of money could go a long way for him.
Bottom Line: Someone should start a program that gives no-strings-attached grants to high potential individuals under 30 with extraordinary creative potential (yet little money), and a demonstrated ability to self-direct and self-manage. Person-driven philanthropy.
I couldn't agree more (both with the praise for Colin and the idea of Jr McArthur). I am convinced that Colin is one of the web's best writers, interviewers, and thinkers in any age group and I am extremely disturbed by the lack of awareness that he even exists. This fact, more than any other, has persuaded me that "if you build it they will come" is completely, utterly false.
Colin, if I ever make lots of money, I promise to fund your film endeavors. You could call it goodwill, but I selfishly want to see what you are capable of.
After seeing Paul Allen's philanthropy announcement yesterday, I hoped that the billions of Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Allen allocate at least some fraction toward the arts and non-economic research rather than throwing it all down the rathole of palliatives for the suffering caused by overpopulation and oppressive governments. This is one such idea.
This reminds me vaguely of the thrust fund and other life investment models that have been floating around- investing in a person, rather than a business, and then receiving a set percentage of that individual's future earnings with the investee having the option to buy out the investor's stake down the line. Here's the venture beat article: link to deals.venturebeat.com. That model tends to target high potential individuals going into business and other high-wage potential areas, of course, but there's definitely a similar focus on enabling young, high potential people at critical moments in their careers. As a former theater kid watching many of my talented friends slog through jobs they hate so they can eventually pursue their passions, I find your model really appealing. Fascinating stuff.
I think it's fascinating that someone with the background you (Ben) have would see the solution as a foundation.
Why shouldn't Colin partner with a twenty-something who does know how to monetize and start a company and while Colin is doing his art, the partner works the business?
It seems there are lots of people who think they are great at business and just need the idea, or the talent, or whatever. Apparently Colin doesn't have too much to lose in finding someone he likes, trusts, and who may be able to help him. I'm sure you could help Colin filter the applicants, no?
Maybe there could be a website that exists to match artists with business people for the purpose of creating companies. My understanding is that many artists don't want to be bothered by learning about the business background. It's a lot of work, and it isn't their passion or skill set.
Build your strengths, partner with a complementarian.
You know what I call uber-intellectual, non-sell-out, can't fathom working a McJob/fallback career people? Bums. Pretentious bums at that.
and improve humanity a bit.
He needs to get out of his head, get his hands dirty and provide for himself.
Your friend sounds like an extremely talented guy with a promising future, but I can't help thinking his disdain for the McJob could harm him not only financially but also creatively.
As an artist, isn't it dangerous to become too far removed from the concerns of Everyman? To be so lofty and displaced from the concerns of regular life that your art no longer resonates with people? Surely he can find a way to (at least temporarily) integrate his work life and his artistic pursuits so they both fuel one another. How many famous successes have attributed their brilliant works to the struggle they went through to hone their craft and become recognized for it, while working a crappy job to get by? Most of us have wished to be bankrolled at one time or another (including me), but this is usually followed by self-loathing for feeling entitled to stuff. And then it's time to get back to work. Hope your friend works it all out!
Ben, the best you can do is to tear a page off your career building prowess and send it across to him… He seems to be truly creative and will grab it fast…!!!
I gotta concur in part with several of the comments above: isolating a guy like Marshall from the grubbier things could have some downsides.
At the same time, they hardly seem like dealbreakers: what's wrong with a patronage system for the 21st century? It's not quite a "no-strings attached" system, but a patron who wants you to produce something creative can give you a lot of latitude. Does that sound like a reasonable (and feasible) compromise?
Could this be a bigger, vaguer version of Kickstarter?
Maybe he should apply for a feature journalist in some leading dailies or magazines, for a limited stint, as a career-experiment –that preserves his artistic idiosyncrasies and pays relevant too. Maybe there's a future Malcolm Gladwell into making; the New Yorker awaiting him.
Maybe he should run for a job in reputed Ad agencies (trying with a short stint I mean). We are in dearth of sensible marketers in this world, who don't just sell products, but also beautiful ideas to live by.
Maybe he should write a book and get it published (fiction/non-fiction). A book is a tradable token of collective, cohesive, extended human thought, with an overwhelming, timeless physical presence and that sells well –dissimilar to the unindulgent web stuff.
the work regardless of the savvy of a business partner.
I completely agree. I am one of those creative types who often "jokes" that if only I had a benefactor I could fully pursue my real life instead of wasting 40+ hours a week at a job that is somewhat prestigious and yet wholly underpaying and soul-sucking. My one adjustment to your call-for-grants is that the age limit be 35 and under, as those of us who have spent time cultivating a back-up career usually realize around the age of 29 that we need to make a major change in our lives if we are to live our dreams. At that point it is a terrifying thought to give up stability, meager though it may be, which includes health insurance and enough money to live alone (so as not to live with the parents in one's childhood home) and in the place of one's choosing. I am exactly 29 and for the last six months have decided to give up the job very soon, and to make a break from the traditional life by taking a leap of faith. I would benefit from a grant greatly, and you're right, it wouldn't need to be a huge amount. $30,000 is a lot of money when you are simply a person who wants to work hard and be free to live your own mission, instead of working for someone else's mission and feeling totally fraudulent and unfulfilled. Thanks for this idea. I would apply immediately. Good luck to your friend.
I have long wondered what life would be like if a modern-day Medici swooped down and touched me with the golden wand of patronage.
I have come to the conclusion that for me, it would have been a disaster, and while I can't speak for every artist (using the term collectively, not just the fine/visual type), I think that a certain amount of rubbing up against difficulty on a daily basis is a good and important thing both for oneself and for the usefulness/urgency of one's art.
I think people's hackles go on "raised" alert when the idea of patronage gets floated out there because all kinds of icky stuff like sloth, entitlement, and strings tend to attach themselves to ongoing forms of support. Time-delimited solutions, on the other hand, can be extraordinarily useful, especially if they come at the right time: a sponsored sabbatical at an artists' colony like Yaddo or Esalen when you're trying to finish a major work, for example, or a windfall that frees you up for six months to a year.
A word to @A, re: "creatively fulfilling" corporate work: in my experience, that's the deadliest of all. I wrote ads for 10 years and it was some of the most soul-sucking work ever. If you throw yourself into it, which more sensitive types will, you're left with nothing at the end of the day to do your own work. I was far, far happier AND more creatively productive in my off-hours when I quit and took a Stupid Day Job™ as the world's oldest gofer at big, boring company.
The hardest thing about all of this is that because every artist's temperament and tolerance levels are different, it's hard to come up with prescriptives that will really help All Artists. In my experience, it comes down to a mixture of reducing costs, making hard decisions about lifestyle, a lot of trying/failing, and, yes, a certain amount of luck.
An intriguing post indeed, good sir, and not just because I happen to be the subject of it. I've actually given some thought myself to how I would distribute money to creators my age and younger, if I had a MacArthur-style fund to manage. I'd like to run a Paul Graham Y Combinator-style operation, but for individuals rather than tech startups.
While I certainly wouldn't turn down this sort of grant myself, I also share the concerns of some of the commenters here. One of the reasons I avoid academia is precisely to avoid being insulated from the wider world; my whole deal is to connect with it, not to stand outside it. (I'd rather not become the type who's always cranking out projects their next meal isn't coming from.) But then, MacArthur Foundations and such are part of the real world too, aren't they?
It's maybe slightly disingenuous for me to say that I don't understand how to make money. I mean, I do understand how people who have made money made it, but at the same time, the part where I integrate that into my own life remains unclear. Yet I suspect that was also the case for quite a few moneymakers in their younger, less moneymaking days. Somewhat ironically, I suspect that the sort of unrelated-to-anything work I do for money is actually stunting my entrepreneurial development, since it puts out the fire that would be otherwise under me to sustain myself with the things I'm actually good (or very nearly almost getting good) at.
But yes. Thanks indeed for the vote of confidence. Means a lot.
I think that a certain amount of rubbing up against difficulty on a daily basis is a good and important thing both for oneself and for the usefulness/urgency of one's art.
I definitely agree with that. When I make stuff, it's to engage with the world, not to escape from its demands. I whine endlessly about academics' no-stakes projects for this very reason.
I wonder if there's some sort of secret way to accept grants like the ones Ben proposes without retreating into your own personal ivory tower? Maybe something like, "Okay, we'll give you this money, but now you have to do your creating in one of the grubbier third-world nations." Hell, I'd jump at that.
I'm actually getting the same suite of feelings as you are, though at 25 rather than 29. Though how much of a difference does just the age make? I suppose it comes down to, as you say, the career element. I have long lived in terror of establishing a "real" fallback career and inadvertently building up a lifestyle to match. Then I'd be stuck, or at least I'd feel more stuck.
Part of why I don't have a car, house, wife, or kids is that I don't have the scratch to support them. But the other, bigger part is that I know those things, as delightful as they might be, would draw too much life bandwidth to allow me to make the kind of things I need to make.
All intelligent thoughts. After interviewing Seth Godin a couple months back, I became quite interested in how to approach marketing in a way that's actually interesting, as he does. There's a part of me — maybe a part of everybody — that wants to find the fascinating and the exciting in the supposedly un-fascinating and un-exciting.
I'm not, for instance, the biggest Gladwell fan, but I'd be interested to take that form in a direction that aligns more with the sensibilities of people like me. Same goes for advertising. I'm not anti-advertising or anything; I just don't feel anything about it either way. But then this raises a fascinating question to explore: what would it take to make me and others like me fired up by advertising?
And as for books, I've recently started exploring a question that's only now become relevant in the public mind: what substance works for the physical, printed book form that wouldn't work for any other? The industry seems to be (literally) dying for an answer.
So maybe the lesson one could draw from your thoughts is this: you just gotta find the interesting question and work like hell on answering it. But the first part is the hard one.
It definitely could have downsides — more than some, I'd say. I am gripped by a mortal terror of isolating myself from the world, be it in academia (which I, with perhaps ironic studiousness, try to avoid) or in the realm of (effective) charity or elsewhere.
As I mentioned in another comment here, I'd really like to see or be involved in some sort of operation like Paul Graham's Y Combinator, but for individuals doing interesting things rather than tech startups. As Ben pointed out, even small amounts can take their projects, in the parlance of the day, nxtlvl.
I've definitely been learning from Ben, though I could stand to learn more. That's one of the reasons I interviewed him on The Marketplace of Ideas back in 2007, which is how I first got to know him: I sought insights into the entrepreneurial mind. Through him, I've encountered a diversity of examples of it.
Agreed. I have less disdain for the McJob, though, than disdain for myself for not figuring out a way to avoid it sooner. If I have a strong artistic interest, it's in making stuff that isn't separated from the world at large but stuff that's in it, of it, and for it.
You're absolutely right about the dangers of being bankrolled, but before Ben posited the idea it had never crossed my mind. I think that's just because I've got enough self-loathing as it is!
Pretty much. My main thing is to avoid detachment from the world, partial or total. If I'm making something, it's got to be with full engagement in the world, or else it's just an autistic pursuit.
I do object to the adjective "artistic," though. I'm not sure I qualify for that except in the broadest sense of making stuff, but then it applies to a meaninglessly large number of people.
Indeed, I live in awe and fear of the power of collaboration. It's sort of a market itself, isn't it, the matching of one collaborator with others? Only it's not a very well-organized one at present.
I'm not sure how many people are specifically good simply at the thing known as "business" — if that thing truly exists — but I like your line of thinking. I take if you have a degree of complementarianism going on in your own endeavors?
I find this line of thinking terribly interesting. As I mention a few times in comments below, I feel like there's space for a Y Combinator-style venture that invests (relatively) small amounts of money in promising individuals, rather than promising tech startups. The precise mechanics of this escape me as yet, but as I've come to realize, the precise mechanics of every new venture escape people until they actually move forward with them.
"Here lies the once-living refutation to 'If you build it, they will come'": how I picture my tombstone.
I do realize that marketing and promotion are essential to any effort, no matter how well you're doing with the effort itself. Doing that without being a self-promoter type is trickier. But I have so far realized that collaboration and overdelivery are both, effectively, forms of promotion; surely other realizations are to come.
All companies are simply areas where complementarianism is needed. Comparative advantage, after all.
We are slowly adding complementary pieces to my company, and my clients, my partners, and my life are all better for it, even when it means less cash in the short term for me (always).
It is dangerous to sit around waiting for the winning lottery ticket to float down into your lap like Forrest Gump's feather. I don't think Colin is doing that, but there seem to be a lot of artists here who have dreamed about it. Just like beginning business-people dreaming of VC millions.
That isn't the way it works. You have to 37signals it and scale your way up.
Could Colin start with arranging some personal appearances to discuss topics, stated or otherwise? Would he be able to charge $5 for people to get together with him? Maybe, maybe not, but if folks like Ben think that Colin is that good, it seems like at some level he could do that.
No doubt, finding the right partner will be tricky. Probably you'll go through some that won't work. But you can start with very specific skill sets around things you do want to monetize, whether the website, limited edition products (ex: Hugh McLeod), discussion meetings, webinars, etc.
I'd recommend checking out Josh Kaufmann's Personal MBA Crash Course if it is still open. Lots of great ideas about all the different types of businesses that might stir your mind around where you want to monetize, then you can search for a (perhaps temporary) person to help you do that.
Hell, bring in the big guns. RAMIT!!
I'm sure Colin has run across KK's 1000 fans? Thoughts?
Make this a one semester non-paid internship for someone to prove they do have these skills to others. Poach Godin's private MBA grads.
no man is an island. at least, not a large one!
It's bad enough that Colin Marshall in profile looks like me– high forehead, aquiline nose, jutting chin, and strong jawline– but he has to top it all off by stealing my swept-back hairstyle.
Maybe Colin wouldn't be so intimidated by the dark, occult art of making money if he made a sea-change in his thinking.
This is not the kind of thinking that will get him where he wants to be, unless it's an early grave.
If you want rich people to give you money, take a page from Andy Warhol's life and go to where the rich people are.
Consider how Warhol, when he wasn't busy destroying painting, taking the artistry out of art, and changing it into postmodern kitsch, spent much of his time rounding up rich new patrons.
If you don't want to lie down on the whorish casting couch, follow Andy's example and think of your art as a commodity and the artist as C.E.O.
I actually have been thinking about that whole "1000 fans" concept of Kevin Kelly's. The numbers tell me that my radio show alone commands more fans than that. I don't know how many fans I've made with the other stuff. Converting that total number into any meaningful effect, though… I 'unno.
Bottom line: I probably need to read more Kevin Kelly.
To be fair, those quoted phrases were mostly meant in jest. Well, at least half of 'em. Probably.
But you're right, moneymaking is one of the least mysterious human activities. I just forget to think about it.
I think if you read KK article closely, it's '1000 true fans'. Not 1000 free newsletter subscribers, not 1000 people who pop onto your webpage once a month. No, 1000 people who LOVE you! Who will travel to see you, pay to hear you, buy your stuff, tell their friends, and live your content!
I would pay money ($100/year? more?) For Bill Simmons content. Ben Casnocha, Scott Adams, Trent Hamm. Josh Kaufmann. I have bought their books, internet programs, etc. Are there others? Who are you a true fan of?
The tradeoff is numbers vs revenue. Think Stock market newsletters. There are some really good ones (I guess) that people pay a lot of money for…but I don't know what they are because I don't pay for that info. But some people do, gladly, and the content creator is happy to mean something to a smaller circle of valued clients who value them and what they give.
So how could you find out who your true fans are? Hint: start small.
Re: the Jr. MacArthur – there is something similar at the College of All Souls in the University of Oxford. The Prize Fellowship offers a salary and fellowship of the college for seven years, for young people to explore what ever they want. One has to sit an exam to win this very prestigious fellowship.
I'm not sure that it necessarily follows that by paying him money, he'll produce more equally good work. He might only be able to produce so much good stuff – or perhaps even worse, his quality of work might decline outside his current state. For example: the Australian Film Industry. Great actors, good talent, lots of unconditional government support and terrible product.
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Shauna Rohbock's sports career started out on the football (soccer) pitch, playing for Brigham Young University, where she set school records with 95 goals in her career, which at the time ranked her sixth all-time in the NCAA for women. Rohbock also ran sprints on the track team at Brigham Young. She then played professionally with the San Diego Spirit of the WUSA in 2003. Turning her attention to the bobsled, she has teamed up with Valerie Fleming and together they have won the most medals ever on the World Cup circuit for a US pair, male or female. At...
Shauna Rohbock's sports career started out on the football (soccer) pitch, playing for Brigham Young University, where she set school records with 95 goals in her career, which at the time ranked her sixth all-time in the NCAA for women. Rohbock also ran sprints on the track team at Brigham Young. She then played professionally with the San Diego Spirit of the WUSA in 2003. Turning her attention to the bobsled, she has teamed up with Valerie Fleming and together they have won the most medals ever on the World Cup circuit for a US pair, male or female. At the World Championships, they were third in both 2005 and 2007, and have had 19 podium finishes on the World Cup circuit, with Rohbock earning two more with Elana Meyer as her brakeperson. Rohbock and Meyer were second at the 2009 World Championships, while Rohbock and Fleming have won three World Cup races.
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