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MRC's Whitlock Serves Up Even More Hypocrisy on Corporate Whoring
The Media Research Center's Scott Whitlock is so filled with hate for any non-right-wing news operation that he disgustingly smears them as "WHORES" (his all-caps, not ours) for engaging in the common practice of offering promotion of other events or programs tied to corporate parents -- even though the MRC's "news" division, CNSNews.com, routinely treats corportate MRC doings as "news." Whitlock did this again in a July 8 post under the headline "Corporate WHORES at ABC Abandon News, Shill for Disney Overlords Instead" (bold in original):
Some liberal journalists and media outlets like to mock Fox as not real "news," given that the network doesn't parrot their left-wing agenda. But no one should ever consider ABC actual "news." The network is committed to producing propaganda for corporate overlord Disney. Thursday showcased yet another pathetic example as Good Morning America devoted more time to pushing Black Widow than covering the latest on the Surfside disaster in Florida.
Co-host Robin Roberts sounded like a talking Disney press release, opening the 7:30 hour by robotically cheering, "Black Widow finally hitting theaters tomorrow. It is one of the most eagerly anticipated movies of the summer! Fandango reporting that the Marvel movie has already zoomed past F9 in presales!"
Whitlock's reference to Fox News is interesting, since its parent companhy not only owns Fox Broadcasting but also owned 20th Century Fox studios until 2019. Is Whitlock really saying that Fox News has never engaged in the corporate synergy process to use Fox News to promote Fox Broadcasting shows or 20th Century Fox movies? It would be highly unusual if that didn't happen and would display a demonstration of ethics that Fox News is not known for.
Meanwhile, we've documented how -- just a few days after Whitlock's post -- the MRC turned its main websites, including CNS, over to Mark Levin for a weekend of shilling for Levin's new book. One CNS headline had a particularly whorish tone to it: "EXCLUSIVE: MRC President Brent Bozell Interviews 'The Great One' Mark Levin on His Timely New Book, 'American Marxism'." Bozell and Levin are friends, making this whordom a very personal one.
Whitlock has been silent about this. Apparently he believes whordom is a good and virtuous thing when right-wingers engage in it.
UPDATE: Whitlock also wrote a July 30 post asserting that "ABC "News" seems to exist to shill for the network's overlords at Disney" because one show "took their bosses side in the fight against Black Widow star Scarlett Johansson" regarding how the movie's simulatenous release in theaters and streaming violated her contract. Whitlock claimed that "ABC journalists repeatedly misrepresented how Disney+ harmed the box office totals," insisting that a movie that made $319 million "was not a hit." Whitlock concluded that ABC was engaged in -- you guessed it -- "corporate whoring for Disney bosses."
Curtis Houck joined the slur parade as well, declaring in a July 23 post that instead of covering Hunter Biden, there was "more corporate whoring on ABC's Good Morning America for parent company Disney with a new Disney+ "cinematic experience"starring Billie Eilish."
Updated: Monday, August 9, 2021 4:29 PM EDT
WND Columnist Attacks 'Fake News' Media, Forgets He Writes For WND
Michael Brown complained in his July 12 column:
According to a recent survey conducted by Rasmussen Reports, "58% of Likely U.S. Voters at least somewhat agree that the media are 'truly the enemy of the people,' including 34% who Strongly Agree."
If these statistics are accurate, this means that this extreme level of distrust cannot simply be blamed on former President Trump's rhetoric, from his calling the mainstream media "fake news" to referring to the media as "the enemy of the people." The distrust must go deeper than that.
As for Republican doubts about the reliability of the political news they are hearing, I would say the much higher numbers are due to: 1) the high percentage of mainstream news outlets that lean left; 2) Trump's incessant attacks on these outlets; 3) the amount of "fake news" that really is being propagated.
With regard to the second question, Nolte wrote, "When asked, 'how serious is the "fake news" problem in the media?' a WHOPPING 83 percent said very (55 percent) or somewhat (28 percent) serious. Only 14 percent said not very (9 percent) or not at all (5 percent) serious."
Again, the concern about "fake news" was bipartisan (92 percent of Republicans and 74 percent of Democrats agreed that fake news is either a very serious or somewhat serious problem), which also indicates the degree to which political news outlets in particular are known for being highly partisan themselves.
Just ask your average Republican if they trust CNN or your average Democrat if they trust Fox, and you're like to get the same answer from both, something like, "Are you kidding?"
Brown is feigning a lot of ignorance here. Right-wing hatred of the media didn't start with Trump -- he simply ratcheted it up to a new level. Right-wing orgs like the Media Research Center spend millions of dollars every year to reinforce the right-wing narrative that every non-right-wing media outlet is "liberal" and, thus, not trustworthy, conflating isolated incidents into blanket indictments.
Brown continued:
Again, I have no doubt that some of the mistrust and animosity toward political news outlets has been stoked by Trump. But it's also clear that he was not simply punching the air. Instead, he threw a match into a bucket of gasoline that was already there.
What this should mean to all of us who, in any way, report on the news is simple: We need to do our best to be as accurate and unbiased as we can be, making clear where the news stops and our opinions begin. And we need to encourage pushback and scrutiny and dialogue and debate.
Otherwise, we do everyone a disservice.
He does have a point there. What he won't do, however, is apply that standard to the main media outlet that publishes him, WND. We've repeatedly caught WND publishing fake news and misinformation. What has Brown ever said about that? What has he done to steer WND in the correct direction? Nothing that we know of.
If Brown won't hold the outlets that publish him responsible for the accuracy of their reportage, his words are hollow, and he's just parroting right-wing narratives.
MRC Psaki-Bashing, Doocy-Fluffing Watch, Full Man-Crush Edition
Peter Doocy had the previous week off, so the Media Reserarch Center's Curtis Houck was not able to man-crush over him at Jen Psaki's White House press briefings. So with Doocy's return on July 12, Houck was ready to go into man-crush overdrive:
With Cubans having taken to the street over the weekend to protest the 62 years of communist rule that worsened during the coronavirus pandemic, AP and CNN White House reporters used Monday's briefing to side with their friends in the Communist Party, and demand Press Secretary Jen Psaki blame former President Trump's posture toward the island nation for its economic ruin.
Fortunately, Fox News's Peter Doocy returned from a week off to call out the spin that the protests stemmed from coronavirus cases while the Daily Caller's Shelby Talcott asked whether the administration agreed with The New York Times that the American flag — which Cubans waved as they marched — was "alienating the some."
As for Doocy, he started with a back-and-forth about vaccine mandates (which left a flustered Psaki to sarcastically tell him, "welcome back"), but pivoted to Cuba and specifically the disconnect between Psaki claiming Cubans were upset with their government and the State Department blaming it on COVID cases.
Psaki tried to engage in damage control, but Doocy called out the insanity in claiming the Cubans protesting "freedom" and "enough" were demanding liberation from the coronavirus[.]
Of course, Houck was lying when he claimed reporteres were siding with "Communist Cuba," but the MRC is cool with any besmirching of the "liberal media," now matter how fanciful.
Houck's man-crushing continued on July 14:
Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy went toe-to-toe with Press Secretary Jen Psaki during Wednesday's briefing, challenging her on the hypocrisy surrounding Texas Democrats fleeing the state over proposed voter integrity measures and the administration's refusal to denounce the evils of communism that have ravaged the Cuban people for 62 years.
While Doocy actually did his job as a reporter to challenge those in power, others in the room pushed the White House not out of accountability, but from the left to help allies will policy proposals into existence.
Once again, Houck covered up the fact that Psaki actually owned Doocy, writing of a Doocy questionabout Democratic Texas lawmakers leaving the state to stall a Republican-pushed voting restriction bill that "Doocy called out Psaki's humorous dismissal, noting Biden's eye-popping assertion that voter integrity measures pose the greatest threat to American democracy 'since the Civil War.'"IN fact, as a more honest outlet pointed out, Psaki did not make a "humorous dismissal" of Doocy's question:
She went on to say the president believes these Democrats "were making a statement through action in opposition to efforts in their state to oppose restrictions on people's fundamental rights and their rights to vote in their state."
He "certainly applauds their actions and their outspoken opposition to efforts to put in place restrictive measures in their state," Psaki added.
"And maybe it is funny to think about it that way, but the president is talking about this as the most serious assault on democracy…" Doocy started to say.
Psaki jumped in to remark, "I don't think anything about this is funny."
The next day, Houck cheered even more hostile questions from Doocy designed to push right-wing narratives:
Three days after first asking her if the administration would condemn communism and the far-left ideology's gruesome affect on life inside Cuba, Fox News's Peter Doocy finally got White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki to condemn on Thursday both communism and demand the regime grant "freedom" to the Cuban people.
And, on another matter, Doocy pressed Psaki on the Biden administration inviting the United Nations Human Rights Council (which included oppressive regimes such as China, Cuba, Pakistan, Russia, Somalia, and Venezuela) to examine the U.S. government and trash it as repulsive and systematically racist.
On July 16, Houck gushed that another right-wing reporter joined Doocy in attacking Psaki (while making sure not to point out they are right-wing reporters) under the overexcited headline "BOOM":
Friday's White House press briefing grew tense as the Biden administration continued its collusion with Facebook and the rest of Big Tech to crack down on dissent (under the guise of fighting misinformation about coronavirus vaccines).
As usual, Fox News's Peter Doocy and Real Clear Politics's Philip Wegmann were the rare voices to raise concerns as they inquired about whether it could be seen as "spying on people's Facebook profiles," how long this partnership has been going on, and if there are any safeguards to protect speech.
Doocy set Press Secretary Jen Psaki up by leading with a question about China's lack of cooperation into the origins of the coronavirus, citing one Chinese conspiracy theory that the virus came from smuggled in "frozen food."
After Psaki said the administration is "concerned...about misinformation" from China, Doocy used that as a springboard to the federal government's work with social media platforms: "[S]peaking of misinformation and the announcement from yesterday, for how long has the administration been spying on people's Facebook profiles looking for vaccine misinformation?"
Psaki immediately became disgusted, telling Doocy he had offered up "quite a loaded and inaccurate question, which I would refute."
Yes, Houck thinks that spreading lies and misinformation about vaccines is merely "dissent" and that calling it what it is -- misinformation -- is a political term, not a statement of fact (as is the current MRC narrative).
Houck then proceeded to further denigrate Psaki, claiming she engaging in "word salad" and "gaslighting," two things he had no problem with when his beloved Kayleigh McEnany was doing them. Apparently still missing her, he went on to name-check her: "Exit question: If this were still the Trump administration with Kayleigh McEnany at the podium saying these things, what would the chances have been that everyone from Yamiche Alcindor to Jim Acosta to Peter Alexander to Brian Karem to April Ryan would have blown a collective gasket?"
And what are the chances McEnany would also be serving up "word salad" and "gaslighting" in response, and Houck would say nothing?
UPDATE: Houck engaged in more Doocy stenography in his July 16 post, touting that "Doocy pushed back on Psaki's claim that the posts are 'publicly open information' and thus fair game, asking whether the 12 people the administration believes hold the lion's share of blame for misinformation have been told that the government is surveying them." The Washington Post's Aaron Blake pointed out that Doocy was wrong to portray the government as spying on these people. In May, the Center for Countering Digital Hate issued a list of 12 people it found to be responsible for a majority of disinformation about vaccines, which were all taken from publicly available posts. Blake continued:
Nor did anything in Psaki's comments Thursday suggest that this was from some kind of government study or research project. But Doocy jumped from her stat to not just assuming that it was, but also that this amounted to "spying" and that the "spying" was specifically done by the surgeon general's office (perhaps because Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy appeared with Psaki on Thursday?).
This continues a long-standing, often tortured search on Fox for government spying on their allies.
Doocy's claim that the stat Psaki cited was proof of yet more supposed spying is just nonsensical, as he might have found had he done even the slightest bit of due diligence. But at least another spying conspiracy theory that can be turned into cable news segments has now been seeded.
Houck will never admit any of this, of course -- the man-crush must continue unencumbered by the facts.
Updated: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 4:24 PM EDT
Fake News: WND Hyped Alleged Transgender Spa Incident That Appears To Have Been A Hoax
WorldNetDaily knows a hot-button rioght-wing issue when it sees one, as demonstrated in a June 28 article by Art Moore:
A heated confrontation at a popular upscale Los Angeles spa captured on a viral video illustrates the problem with males who "identify" as female -- while maintaining their God-given private parts -- using facilities designated for women.
An irate woman is heard on the video demanding to know why a man was allowed to walk around naked in an area reserved for females, including little girls, BizPacReview reported
The response of the front-desk employee she confronted is muffled, but he apparently made a reference to sexual orientation.
"What sexual orientation?" the woman fires back. "I see a d***. That lets me know he's a man ... he is not a female."
Pointing out that other women were highly offended and traumatized as well, she demanded to know the company policy.
"So Wi Spa is in agreement with men that just say they are women, and they can go down there with their penis, and get into the women's section? Is that what you're saying?" she asks.
The woman drew widespread praise on social media.
Well done to that brave woman," said one Twitter user. "She didn't just stand up for herself, she stood up for all women. Shame on these men who think it's in their gift to give dictate and erase the boundaries of women and girls."
WND followed up with a July 4 article from the fringe-right Western Journal touting protests against the spa over the alleged incident that were joined by "antifa-related groups" (but made no mention of the fct that the anti-spa protesters included Proud Boys thugs). WND also stole -- er, republished a July 18 article from Fox News highlighting how "Protesters and counter-protesters descended on a Korean spa in Los Angeles that became the latest culture war flashpoint just weeks ago when a customer complained that a transgender woman allegedly disrobed in the women's area."
Just one problem with this story: The incident appears to have been a staged hoax. The Los Angeles Blade reported that the appointment-only spa said that none of its usual transgender clients were scheduled that day, and noted other evidence:
Several other factors cast doubt on the veracity of the claims in the video. Cubaangel's Instagram account is almost exclusively Christian memes, which begs the question why she chose to go to a spa well known for being LGBTQ friendly. During Cubaangel's video, no transgender person can be seen, and no other witnesses have come forward to confirm the allegations made. It's also not the first time Wi Spa has been targeted for catering to transgender people. After the alleged, unconfirmed incident, Wi Spa was deluged with 1-star Yelp! and Trip Advisor reviews.
It also remains a possibility that there was a person, unknown to the Wi Spa staff, who pretended to be transgender to create an inciting incident. In 2015, anti-transgender activists in Washington State deliberately encouraged men to enter women's facilities.
There's more to this story -- but WND doesn't want to know. Thus, it has allowed apparently fake news to remain uncorrected.
Updated: Friday, August 6, 2021 2:32 PM EDT
CNS Still Promoting GOP Rep. Boebert, Hiding Her Extremism
Craig Bannister gushed in a June 29 CNSNews.com article:
The more Democrats threaten to deprive Americans of their Second Amendment rights, the more Americans will buy guns, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) said Monday in a speech on the House floor.
The congresswoman began by sarcastically "thanking" Democrats for fueling the sale of firearms in the U.S., attributing purchases to Democrats' tolerance of violence and "threats to strip away our basic constitutional rights":
"So, my colleagues from the other side, they can keep running our mouths and we will keep adding to our arsenals," Rep. Boebert concluded.
CNS just loves Boebert -- and as with fellow far-right Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, it also loves to hide her extremism and controversies. So you won't read about any of the following at CNS that happened over the past month or so:
Boebert calling people who would come door-to-door to vaccinate people against COVID "needle Nazis."
A prominent Republican women's group rejecting both Boebert and Greene as "carnival barkers."
Boebert rudely throwing a mask at a staffer who asked her to wear one in order to adhere to a new masking mandate on the House floor.
Revelations of a mysterious late-night tour of the Capitol that Boebert gave to family members in December, three weeks before she was sworn in as a representative and about three and a half weeks before the Jan. 8 Capitol riot.
But if Boebert again says something clickbait-y that advances CNS' right-wing narratives, CNS will undoubtedly be all over it.
MRC Rages At Jill Biden For Being On Vogue Cover
The Media Research Center is looking for any reason, no matter how lame, to attack Jill Biden. Before the election, for instance, the MRC tried to make a huge deal out of her breaking up her first marriage nearly 50 years ago to be with Joe Biden -- while never disapproving of Donald Trump's multiple marriages and infidelities.
The MRC seems to be weirdly offended that the Bidens actually love each other, something there was little evidence of with Donald and Melania Trump (whom the MRC can't stop defending). In February, Tim Graham whined that the Bidens got a "puffball" interview from People for Valentine's Day (does Graham think People does any other kind?), and P.J. Gladnick complained that Politico "presented a politically weaponized Valentine to Jill and Joe Biden, appropriately on Valentine's Day" that "went full gush over the couple's "PDA" (Public Displays of Affection) that many would object to." Only the MRC would complain that it's offensive for a non-conservative couple to demonstrate affection for each other in public (not like we saw any of that from the Trumps).
Tierin-Rose Mandelburg raged against Jill wearing a scrunchie in her hair while picking up a Valentine's gift for her husband and was offended that anyone would think of her as relatable: "She's the First Lady of the United States. She is probably the least relatable person unless you've been a First Lady yourself. Her and Joe's net worth is like $9 million. #relatable." The rant continued: "Does a normal/relatable person casually spend over $100 on cupcakes and macaroons? Does a normal person have a Secret Service squad accompany them to a bakery? Does a relatable person have a quality camera man follow them around to take pictures of them picking up pastries?" A couple days later, Duncan Schroeder picked up the scrunchie-hating baton, huffing that "While the liberal media nastily smeared Melania Trump by reducing her to being "arm candy" and a "trophy wife," it has nothing but praise for Jill Biden."
And Graham returned to complain: "The Bidens may be great lovers. But everything at White House level has a large degree of calculation in it. Everyone should know the gushing liberal newspapers and magazines are aggressively engaged in the politics of humanization." He also tried for a calculated defense of Melania, insisting that she "began her tenure as First Lady behind the Eight ball. First, the liberal media always adores First Ladies who are Ivy League-educated lawyers or career educators, not just – ick – wives. Second, Melania Trump's beauty was deployed against her: she was seen as 'arm candy,' a 'trophy wife.' She resisted any attempt at public affection for the cameras."
So when Vogue did a cover story on Jill Biden at the end of June, it was a full-on knives-out event for the MRC. Scott Whitlock ranted:
If you're a Democratic First Lady, you can expect lots of puff pieces from outlets like ABC's Good Morning America andVoguemagazine. If you're a Republican? Not as much. GMA journalists on Tuesday gushed over Jill Biden appearing on Vogue for the first time, hailing the "inspiration."
ABC reporter Janai Norman sounded like she was a PR rep for the Democrat, fawning, "Dr. Jill Biden, the First Lady who is also a former second lady, a current professor who is sometimes called Dr. B. But according to Vogue, in informal settings she'll say to call her Jill."
Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour is a long-time Democratic donor, so we can consider this a donation.
Just like we can consider Whitlock's hit job a Republican donation?
Because a Biden could be trashed, Graham trotted out another column:
The cover story comes with a bunch of pretty, posed pictures -- of Jill Biden, and Jill with Joe, and Jill with precious Biden grandchildren -- all by star photographer Annie Leibovitz. Some have designer captions: "Dr. Biden wears a Michael Kors Collection sweater and skirt."
Troubling family topics – like Hunter Biden and his infernal laptop – are all airbrushed out.
There was no Vogue cover story for Melania Trump. Three years ago, Vogue instead was celebrating porn star Stormy Daniels (complete with posed, pretty Annie Leibovitz portraits) as a "catalyst of historic proportions," destined to ruin the Trumps.
These sticky valentines underline that overall, journalists shouldn't boast it's their job to ask tough questions and hold powerful people accountable. Because they seem to do that about half the time. That's the spin when the Democrats they supported didn't win.
Graham didn't mention that Melania already appeared on the cover of Vogue -- in 2005, when she married Donald Trump, and it gushed over her ostentatious $100,000 wedding dress. Ane we see once again Graham denigrating a woman for having an affair with Trump, another utter hypocrisy at the MRC.
A July 3 column by Jeffrey Lord rehashed all the right-wing talking points -- Wintour likes Democrats, Melania wasn't on the cover -- bizarrely called Vogue "corrupt," then whined: "Under the guise of being a so-called "women's magazine" Vogue is not about "women" or style or beauty or anything else. It is, like so many other American institutions that pretend to be about one thing, in fact about something else entirely. In reality Vogue is about a celebration of all things progressive. ... The Vogue< cover of Jill Biden is nothing if not a reminder of the game being played. And millions of Americans are now onto the game. The Devil may indeed wear Prada. But it is also very safe to say the Devil wears Liberalism on her sleeve — and her magazine covers."
UPDATE: We forgot to note that in March, Graham tried to revive the Jill-cheated story -- but he too apparently has no problem with Trump's multiple marriages and infidelities, so he looks like a hypocrite in doing so.
Updated: Thursday, August 5, 2021 11:45 PM EDT
WND Embraces Anti-Google Researcher's Dubious Work
We've documented how the Media Research Center embraced Robert Epstein as a legitimate critic of Google -- specifically for his claim that Google built bias into its search engine to influence voters in favor of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election -- despite his shoddy research (extrapolating a mere 21 undecided voters). Now, WorldNetDaily has fully embraced Epstein's anti-Google sentiments. Art Moore interviewd him for a July 6 article, which weirdly started out by his taking credit for supposedly not being any search bias for Georgia Senate elections:
After finding that Google's search-engine manipulation in the 2020 election could have shifted a minimum of 6 million votes to Democrat Joe Biden, Harvard-trained research psychologist and Democratic voter Robert Epstein turned his sights to the Georgia Senate elections.
For the first time -- after having monitored three national elections -- he said in an interview with WND that his growing team of field agents found no political bias in Google's search results.
But Epstein believes that's a direct result of his monitoring efforts, and he plans to exponentially expand them.
Actually, Epstein's claim that millions of votes were moved by Google in the 2020 presidential election is disproven by the election itself, as the Washington Post's Philip Bump noted: "Of course, the idea that people primarily base their decisions on what they learn from Googling candidates — particularly at the presidential level — is dismissible on its face. President Biden got a record level of support from Democrats even as Trump earned near-universal support from Republicans. Which of them was influenced by his or her search results?" Also, no evidence was presented to back up that claim, with Epstein himself apparently conceding the speculative nature of it by having WND say it "could have" happened.
Moore gave Epstein space to push his allegedly liberal-leaning bona fides, claiming that "He emphasized to WND he is not a Trump supporter but a "supporter of democracy." He wanted Joe Biden to win, but wanted the election to be fair, recognizing that in the future the tech giants could put their massive power behind a candidate who is not of his choice." Moore also rehashed Epstein's defense of his earlier work by insisting that tht results "were based on an analysis of 13,207 election-related searches, along with the 98,044 web pages to which the search results linked" -- which still doesn't make up for the fact that the research was based on the work of 95 people, 21 of whom were undecided, and that his conclusions were based on how those 21 undecided voters reacted.
WND editor Joseph Farah touted Epstein again in his July 30 column:
Did you know that Google and Facebook have the power to throw elections?
Robert Epstein, a Harvard Ph.D. in psychology, has long studied Big Tech and its ability to swing massive numbers of votes.
In conjunction with the apolitical, nonpartisan American Institute of Behavioral Research and Technology, Epstein has watched carefully Big Tech's involvement with U.S. elections since 2016.
Stop right there. There's no evidence that Epstein's AIBRT is "apolitica" or "nonpartisan" -- indeed, it appears that Epstein is quite partisan given how much he caters to right-wing media with his research and wild anti-Google bias. Farah continued to be a reliable Epstein messenger:
You may recall what happened in the election for 2016. That was the year Donald Trump upset Hillary Clinton. Trump didn't have tens of millions of Twitter followers then. He didn't get any help from Big Tech that year. But Hillary did. At least 6 million votes – a combination of illegal ballots and manipulated data. But it still wasn't enough for Hillary.
Then came the next election – in 2018. Epstein estimated that Google and Facebook were in a position to turn about 12 million votes due to their overwhelming pro-Democrat bias demonstrated in their virtual monopoly dominance of search and social media platforms. That was the year Nancy Pelosi became speaker of the House.
But 2016 and 2018 were probably rigged elections, according to Epstein's projections.
Of course, that's all speculative extrapolation -- Epstein has no proof that 1) Google searches were definitively biased, 2) they were so biased they caused any voter to change his or her vote, or 3) that so many votes were changed to make those elections "rigged."
Epstein is saying what Farah and WND want to hear, and Farah and Moore are lapping it up.
NEW ARTICLE: The MRC's War on Jen Psaki (And Man-Crush On Peter Doocy), Part 3
In April, the Media Research Center's Curtis Houck crushed harder (on Fox News' Doocy) and raged more viciously (against Psaki) than ever in his writeups of Psaki's White House press briefings. Read more >>
CNS Is Mad Again That CPAC Doesn't Hate LGBT People Enough
Back in February, CNSNews.com was quite angry that the Conservative Political Action Conference was committing the offense of not hating LGBT people by giving an award to an "openly gay" man. With the summer edition of CPAC in July, it was outraged again. An anonymous CNS writer complained in a July 10 article:
The 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference, which is being held this weekend in Dallas, Texas, will feature two speakers who are self-professed gays.
Former acting Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell, who also served as ambassador to Germany, had an on-stage "conversation" with American Conservative Union President Matt Schlapp on Saturday morning. Radio talk show host Tammy Bruce will moderate a panel discussion on Sunday that is entitled "Fuel for Thought" and will look at energy policy issues.
The anopnymous writer never explained why Grenell's and Bruce's appearances were problematic beyond singling out their sexual orientation, though the headline of the article put "Conservative Political Action Conference" in scare quotes without further explanation. CNS managing editor Michael W, Chapman, a notorious homophobe, singled out Grenell's appearance at the February CPAC, making sure to note that Grenell "is gay" and "lives with his long-time partner Matt Lashey." CNS also attacked Grenell's sexual orientation during his moves through the Trump administration.
The only coverage CNS gave the actual CPAC itself was for Donald Trump's speech, which somehow warranted two articles from Susan Jones:
Trump Jokes That CNN, MSNBC Will Endorse Him Just to Boost Their Low Ratings
Trump: 'All We Talk About Is Race...We Don't Talk About Our Country Being Great Anymore'
Neither Jones article noted what actual news outlets did: that Trump repeated his usual false and never-proven claims that the presidential election was stolen from him.
Updated: Friday, August 20, 2021 12:10 AM EDT
MRC's Double Standard on Rooting Against America
Under the headline "CBS Roots for Team USA to Fail at Olympics," Scott Whitlock complained in a July 26 post: "According to CBS guest William Rhoden, arrogant Team USA need to be "humbled," and maybe losing several medals at the Olympics was the way to do it. Appearing on CBS This Morning, Monday, the liberal sports journalist derided the opening ceremonies as too nationalistic, saying they reminded him of 'white nationalism.'" He added that "Seeming to root against the U.S., the former New York Times columnist took pleasure in the American basketball team's struggles," going on to criticize the "trashing of American athletes."
You know who else has been trashing American athletes and rooting against America at the Olympics? The MRC.
We've already documented the seething hatred the MRC has for any athlete -- particularly American ones -- who aren't heterosexual, and one got the sense they were rooting for the failure of these athletes at the Olympics solely because of this.
Jay Maxson explicitly did in a July 11 post exactly what Whitlock accued Rhoden of doing -- taking pleasure in the American basketball team's struggles:
How the mighty – and the woke – have fallen! The dominant international men's basketball powerhouse forever, Team USA, suffered a shocking, embarrassing pre-Olympic exhibition game loss to lowly Nigeria on Sunday. The NBA's wokeness sure doesn't fly on the world hoops stage.
Ranked 22nd in world, Nigeria downed the Americans 90-87. It was the USA's first-ever loss to an African team. The USA is now 54-3 since NBA players took over U.S. Olympic basketball, and the team had won its last 39 games. In two previous games against Nigeria, the USA had won by a whopping 127 points combined.
Greg Popovich (at right in photo), the most woke and politically outspoken coach in the NBA, coached the U.S. to this disaster. It's certainly a red alert for him and all the American NBA players who have been disgracefully carrying on about social justice, Black Lives Matter and Donald Trump in recent years.
Once again, we see that all the money and wokeness in the world - and the complacency that can come with it - doesn't always beat heart, hunger and desire.
This was followed by a July 21 post in which Matt Philbin took immense pleasure in the U.S. women's soccer team losing its Olympic opener:
The U.S. Women's National soccer team lost 3-0 to Sweden in their Olympic opener on Tuesday. That probably hurts the team's chances for the gold. But let's not forget that this was a victory of sorts too. The U.S. ladies proved they could maintain a busy schedule of politicized grousing, kvetching and posturing, and still find time to lose a soccer game. You really can have it all, gals!
Just in case sports fans forgot how deeply the team feels the world's every injustice, they and their opponents knelt before the game to strike a blow against racism or something. Then they got down to the business of being trounced.
Oh sure, they missed the net and maybe the ball sometimes. But the Angry Amazons for Equity have other targets dead in their sights: " racist infrastructures," sexism, and reality based economics. And attractive women's lingerie is toast.
The same day, Tim Graham used his podcast to ask: "How do we feel about kneeling American Olympians? Should Americans root for them anyway....or root for them to lose?" He admitted that MRC staff members "tend to root for these Americans to lose, even though they're Americans," but he didn't name any MRC staff members who believe that "Americans should always root for Americans." Graham then declared his "swishy Susan Collins-type centrist" position that "I root for the Americans, but I'm not going to be too upset if Megan Rapinoe loses."
So, yeah, the MRC is utterly hypocritical about this.
CNS Touts McCarthy Noting That Confederates Were Dems, Hides That 120 Republicans Voted Against Removing Confederate Statues
Susan Jones wrote in a June 30 CNSNews.com article:
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 285-120 on Tuesday to remove more statues of Confederates from the U.S. Capitol.
Sixty-seven Republicans voted with 218 Democrats in support of the bill, and one of those voting for removal was House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who seized the occasion to note past Democrat racism, even as he condemned present Democrat attempts to stoke racial division in the United States.
"The bill we're voting on today we voted (on) before," McCarthy said in a floor speech. "And I supported it. I support it now. But let me state a simple fact: All the statues being removed by this bill are statues of Democrats," McCarthy said.
(The House resolution removes statues of John C. Calhoun, Charles Aycock, and James P. Clarke, all of whom defended slavery and fought for the Confederacy. And it replaces a bust of the late Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, author of the Dred Scott decision, with one of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court justice.)
McCarthy noted that the Confederate portraits removed from the Capitol one year ago were all of Democrats as well. And he noted that the statues identified in the House resolution were sent to the House of Representatives by states controlled by Democrats.
What Jones was careful not to mention: All Democrats voted for the statues' removal, and that all 120 "no" votes on this removal were cast by Republicans, which would seem to drive home the point that Democrats have repudiated its history or racism, while Republicans have picked up that mantle. While Jones gave McCarthy space to declare that "I'll vote for this bill today, just as I voted for it before," she gave no explanation for why 120 Republicans voted against it (and the leader of their caucus).
Jones went on to uncritically quote McCarthy making the case for Democrats changing the name of their party despite it not being germane to the issue of removing Confederate statues:
Just a few years ago, then-Vice President Joe Biden praised Democrat Senator Robert Byrd [D-W.Va.]. He was the exalted cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan. In his eulogy for Byrd, he said, for a lot of us, he was a friends, a mentor, and a guide.
Another leading Democrat who praised Byrd at the time was Speaker Pelosi. She called Byrd a friend, a great person, and a great American patriot.
Jones censored the fact that Byrd repeatedly apologized for his KKK involvement, and even the NAACP acknowledged upon his death in 2010 that he"went from being an active member of the KKK to a being a stalwart supporter of the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and many other pieces of seminal legislation that advanced the civil rights and liberties of our country."
Newsmax Cheers Evidence-Free Attempt to Defund NPR
Charles Kim complained in a July 5 Newsmax article:
National Public Radio (NPR) is in a bit of hot water after posting an article during the Independence Day holiday Sunday that claimed the Declaration of Independence was "a flawed" document with "deeply ingrained hypocrisies," leading to yet another call from people on the right to defund the organization.
"I've seen enough," Republican Congressional candidate Irene Armendariz-Jackson said responding to the NPR post on Twitter. "Defund NPR."
The article NPR posted Sunday included its tradition of staff members reading the document of America's founding, a custom of some 32 years on the radio station, but also referred to the riots of last summer and the need to understand that the document contained things that some find offensive, like referring to Native-Americans as "merciless Indian savages."
But Kim did not explain what was factually wrong with NPR's interpretation, nor did he quote anyone who did. Instead, he touted the history of right-wingers trying to defund NPR.
Meanwhile, even obsessive NPR hater Tim Graham at the Media Research Center didn't see enough in NPR's interpretation to devote a post to it. Instead, all it warranted is a couple paragraphs in his July 7 column trying to blame the "liberal media" for dividing America":
So-called National Public Radio tweeted out a thread of the original Declaration of Independence, blasting it as "a document with flaws and deeply ingrained hypocrisies." It says "'that all men are created equal' — but women, enslaved people, Indigenous people and many others were not held as equal at the time."
See? You can't see the text as a statement of idealism, a promise to be fulfilled in time. The Declaration is painted as a lie perpetuated by malignant, propertied white men...with your taxpayer dollars.
Graham conveniently omits the fact that it took the better part of 200 years for indigenous people to be treated as full Americans -- probably because that would bolster NPR's case.
Cashill Tries To Rewrite History Of Waco Siege, Tulsa Massacre
Jack Cashill served up a little, um, alternative history in his June 2 WorldNetDaily column:
"Some injustices are so heinous, so horrific, so grievous they can't be buried no matter how hard people try," said President Joe Biden in Tulsa on Tuesday.
Biden knows something about burying injustice. On April 19, 1993, he was serving on the Senate Judiciary Committee when a Democrat-controlled, FBI-led tank assault on the Mount Carmel religious community outside of Waco, Texas, left 74 people dead, more than half of them racial minorities.
As chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Biden had the responsibility to redress the injustice that took place at Waco. He passed on that responsibility.
f the 74 killed that day, six were Hispanic. Six were of Asian descent. And 27 were black. The victims ranged in age from 6 to 61. And no, this is not something I read on the internet. I found a verifiable list of the dead, broken out by age and ethnicity, and counted them.
At Tulsa on Tuesday, Biden repeated his blood libel that "terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today." Biden's goal at Tulsa, indeed the goal from the day he announced his candidacy, has been to frighten blacks into remaining within the Democratic fold.
Truth be told, Waco represented the single greatest federally orchestrated one-day slaughter of racial minorities on American soil since Wounded Knee in 1890, and there, at least, the Indians fought back, killing more than 30 American cavalry.
In Tulsa the blacks had better odds than they did at Waco. The initial encounter between black and white mobs left 10 whites dead and two blacks. A 2001 commission confirmed a total of 26 black dead and 13 whites, notwithstanding Biden's insistence that "the likely number is much more than the multiple of hundreds."
Actually, while the commission was only able to confirm the 36 dead, it also stated that "credible evidence makes it probable that many people, likely numbering between 100-300, were killed during the massacre." In other words, Biden is correct.
Of course, it's ridiculous for Cashill to try and diminish the Tulsa massacre by invoking the Waco siege. He, of course, leaves out inconvenient facts to the Waco narrative. For instance, he omitted nearly all mention of David Koresh, whom even former Branch Davidians admit was highly controlling and had sex with girls as young as 12. (There is dispute about whether Koresh could be accurately described as a cult leader.) Whatever mistakes federal officials made in handling the Waco siege, there's also evidence that the Davidians lit the fire that destroyed the compound and killed Koresh and his followers, but Cashill doesn't want to remind you of that either. Indeed, he still wants to whine:
For Biden and other Democrats, it is now axiomatic that black lives matter only when they are politically useful. As Biden has proved since his election, blue lives matter only when they, too, are politically useful.
The police are to be defended when serving the interests of the Deep State against the white supremacist hordes. So the killer of Ashli Babbitt remains unknown, and Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick is elevated to martyrdom though dying of natural causes.
In fact, the medical examiner pointed out that "all that transpired" at the Capitol riot "played a role in his condition" and led to SiIcknick's death. And Cashill is on the wrong side of history yet again, defending Babbitt, a domestic terrorist who was engaged in criminal acts as the time she was killed while breaking through a window inside the Capitol.
MRC Still Inexplicably Defending Crowder's Hate Amid Removal From TikTok
There's a boatload of misinformation in a June 28 Media Research Center post, in which Alexander Hall inexplicably continues to defend hateful right-wing ranter Steven Crowder, under the headline "China Strikes":
TikTok can be subservient to the genocidal Chinese government, but the platform's real offense was allowing conservative commentators, a leftist organization said.
"Comedian and conservative commentator Steven Crowder has been banned from China's TikTok viral video platform," Reclaim The Net reported June 26. Leftist organization Media Matters proclaimed it was behind the purge: "Far-right internet personality Steven Crowder has been banned from TikTok following a June 8 Media Matters report highlighting his bigotry on the platform," the organization wrote in a June 24 update. "A TikTok spokesperson confirmed to Media Matters that Crowder's account had been removed for violating its community guidelines."
Media Matters leadership has received extensive funding from leftist megadonor George Soros, the record shows. Soros' Foundation to Promote Open Society (OSF) tax forms has shown five separate donations between 2010 and 2014 totalling $1,575,000. Soros gave the organization money every other year during that time. The leftist group released a report earlier in June sliming Crowder for "using TikTok to spread hate to a younger audience."
First: Hall offers no evidence that the Chinese government even knows Crowder exists, let alone that it ordered TikTok to remove him from the platform, as he suggests -- or, for that matter, that the Chinese government is so involved in TikTok that it polices all users or eve the those in America.
Second: Hall's complaint about Media Matters receiving funding from Soros interests is a red herring. He offers no evidence that any of it was used to target Crowder -- highly unlikely, since even its own documents notes that the last bit of Soros funding came in 2014. It's also a pittance compared to the money the MRC receives from rich conservatives like the Mercers.
In addition to claiming that Media Matters "slim[ed]" Crowder, Hall also asserted that it "spread fearmongering rhetoric about Crowder's popularity" ... by pointing out his record of hateful rhetoric. Hall did not prove anything Media Matters said about Crowder to be false or misleading. Hall also laughably claimed that noting TikTok's "young user base" meant that "Media Matters may have also revealed the main reason why liberals are terrified of conservative commentators accessing platforms like TikTok to spread right-wing humor." The MRC likes to portray what Crowder does as "humor" -- giving him the comedian defense it won't offer to those whose sense of humor is farther to the left -- but offers no evidence that any of it is funny.
Indeed, Hall didn't quote anything from Crowder Media Matters found offensive -- just like it didn't directly quote the nastiness that got Crowder suspended from YouTube in May.
Crowder's TikTok suspension also made the June roundup of what the MRC claims is the "WORST censorship"; Casey Ryan laughably called Media Matters an "extreme far-left organization" and repeated Hall's complaint that it "spread fearmongering rhetoric about Crowder's popularity."
It's just another reminder that Media Matters lives rent-free inside the collective heads of the MRC -- perhaps because it does its job more effectively than the MRC does.
Updated: Wednesday, August 4, 2021 12:47 AM EDT
WND Columnist Mad That Victoria's Secret, NFL Will Seek Customers Beyond Heterosexual Men
Wayne Allyn Root spent part of his July 5 WorldNetDaily column melting down over Victoria's Secret ratcheting back on catering to lustful men (like himself?)
This is stupidity. This is insanity. This is suicide. American companies and institutions are purposely destroying themselves. They're ripping apart billion-dollar brands that have taken decades of hard work to build. And they're doing it in a matter of days.
They're marching off cliffs like sheep.
Keep in mind sheep are idiots. They have no brainpower. They can't think for themselves. If one sheep walks off a cliff, they'll all happily follow. Did you ever imagine CEOs of billion-dollar companies could be as dumb as sheep?
Who committed suicide this week? Some of the biggest brand names in America.
Let's start with Victoria's Secret. I have a secret for them. You just killed your business. How clueless can you get? Victoria's Secret sells lingerie, bras, bathing suits. This isn't brain surgery. Those products are sold by beautiful female models. Always have been, always will be. They're so beautiful they're called "angels." And here's another secret for clueless Victoria's Secret: Men open up their wallets for beautiful women.
Most women want to look like angels, too. Even if only for one night with dim lights on. Even if only while wearing Victoria's Secret lingerie.
They've decided to fire all their sexy, gorgeous, skinny, busty models. The angels are being replaced by overweight, unattractive, feminist icons and transgender models.
Even if you personally believe this leftist, feminist drivel, that's fine. Be a Stepford wife in private. But to attach this insanity to your billion-dollar brand is suicide. No one will buy clothing, let alone bras, panties and lingerie from unattractive, overweight feminists and transgender models. Your business is ruined, thanks to your radical, absurd, insane political philosophy.
But that's not all. Root is also enraged that the NFL is trying to expand its audience beyond aggressively heterosexual men (like himself?):
But the NFL could be even more stupid and reckless than Victoria's Secret. Have you seen the latest TV ad for the NFL? It says, "The NFL is gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender." Insanity does not even begin to describe how clueless this is. I'm Exhibit A. I'm the prototype for your typical NFL fan.
I've loved the NFL since I was 5 years old. I live for Sundays to watch NFL football. I live and die with my Dallas Cowboys. I love America, faith, family, freedom, my fiancee and my NFL. That's not a brand. That's a religion. The NFL is part of my life. It's the DNA of America.
Why would the NFL ruin its brand by getting involved with politics? And not just any politics, but the most controversial and radical politics possible.
The NFL is about sports, gambling and violence. It's a perfect mix that attracts mostly macho, straight males – a majority of whom are conservative, Christian and unabashed patriots. I'd bet my life's fortune that a large majority of the fans sitting in the stands at NFL games voted for former President Donald Trump.
Like it or not, that's your audience. Like it or not, a majority of the NFL's paying customers have conservative views and values. They go to church; they believe in God; they own guns; they vote Republican; and they idolize Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone and Donald Trump.
Why offend your customers? Why get involved in politics at all? But if you do, why pick a stand that alienates a majority of your most loyal fans? I have nothing against lesbians, bisexuals or transgenders, but how many pay for NFL season tickets? Maybe a dozen in a stadium that seats 75,000? Maybe.
Is the NFL trying to attract 0.0000000001% new fans while driving away 60% of their current fans forever? Is that a smart business decision? Actually, this is business suicide.
The NFL shouldn't hate gays, lesbians or transgenders. I don't. But what does anyone's sexuality have to do with football? Will there be a straight male Pride Month? Will future NFL television ads say: "We are macho, straight, Republican and proud"? I doubt it. But why not? That's your audience. That's who buys the tickets.
Actually, Root is very much showing his hatred for the LGBT community by insisting they don't deserve to be football fans.
Updated: Tuesday, August 3, 2021 2:32 PM EDT


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A film is a slice of life. When you make a film, whether it be ninety minutes or two-hundred, it is absolutely impossible to squeeze the essence of an entire life that may span eighty years into such a small window. It would be like trying to swallow an entire five-course meal in one mouthful, chances are most of it will end up on the floor and the only debate that will arise will be on the definition of success.
Watching a film is like having a conversation with someone. The great ones are the ones you think about and go back to, the ones that you relive and are full of ideas and nuances of expression that are so much more than the simple relaying of historical facts in loosely connected scenes that is the staple of the biopic, films such as Ray (Taylor Hackford, 2004) or Chaplin (Richard Attenborough, 1992), that attempt to capture the lives of men but say less about them than the men's own bodies of work.
The main problem with the long recounts of a person's whole life is that it requires jumps through time and eras each with their own unique period style, the use of child actors to portray characters in their youth or old actors – or worse, old make-up – for the golden years all of which works to disrupt the mood and the tone of a film. Even a couple of years between the beginning and end of a film's time-span can have this effect, where it is the capturing of a specific place and time that is the essence of great cinema, whether it be a scorching summer day in a forest in medieval Japan or a cold and bloody winter in some Minnesotan town.
The truly great films are the ones in which you are simply dropped into a brief moment in time, often like one of the characters themselves, as if you have walked straight from your own life into somebody else's world and that these scenes on the screen are a part of your life for this short time. Take Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942). Rick Blaine is a character with a past and with a future that we know little about, we hear he ran guns in Ethiopia and Spain and that ten years before he met Ilsa while she was having a brace put on her teeth he was looking for a job.
In Casablanca information is scant, there is a mystery behind everybody but all the characters are so vividly and successfully realised that you do feel very much like you have walked off the street into Rick's Café Americain. One flashback to Rick and Ilsa's time in Paris disrupts the events that take place over two nights in Casablanca to give an insight into the relationship of these two central characters. The flashback here is completely in service to the main narrative, for us to understand Rick's bitterness we must live the pain he lived and relives when Ilsa returns to his life. In this way it is a journey into Rick's mind within the film's time span rather than a real omniscient flashback, as we later learn when Ilsa reveals why she abandoned him the day the German's marched into Paris.
The past is always a thing that can oppress and define characters, so its presence can be completely necessary to the short time-span being shown for the simple fact that some past event can be a thing that is always on the character's mind. The problem then is to reveal this information in such a way that it does not disrupt the film around it. Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966) is an example of this done perfectly. In the presence of the mute Lisbeth on a secluded Swedish island, Nurse Alma starts to open up about her own insecurities. She recounts the story of her becoming impregnated on a beach by a boy, the excitement of the event itself and the guilt of the resulting abortion. It is all told in dialogue but it is so vividly expressed that you feel like you were there, or that these events were shown onscreen. While it happens outside the time-span of the film it would be unthinkable to exclude it because it is clearly something that is on Alma's mind during the time the film looks at. To have characters thinking about things from outside the time-frame of the film is what gives them life, to not have them expressed in some way would be madness, to express it poorly would mean death.
A grander example of this is Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) which may seem like one long biopic from childhood to death but the main narrative of the film is that of a reporter in pursuit of an article that explains the life of this man. The great bulk of the film is flashback with the goal of understanding the man's last word, "Rosebud". This is not to say simply sticking a biopic in a framed narrative solves everything as the framed narrative of Cate Blanchett in the hospital in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher, 2008) proves. That film is the kind that does not work, because the purpose of the flashback is simply to recount the events of a man's life from birth to death, which is the point of the biopic anyway and makes the framed narrative here pointless. Once Upon A Time In America (Sergio Leone, 1981) is less clear cut than either of the above examples as the flashbacks seemingly take place in an opium-induced dream. The various versions of this film that exist make the overall purpose unclear but it could be said to take place inside Robert De Niro's head, like the flashback in Casablanca.
The sequel culture of modern cinema has stripped much of the magic of the medium. Any number of direct-to-video sequels of beloved animations appeared throughout the '90s and '00s such as The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride (Darrell Rooney, Rob LaDuca, 1998) or The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea (Jim Kammerud, Brian Smith, 2000) but now these films receive major theatrical releases and even Pixar has begun a shameless nosedive in this direction. Taking characters we grew to love in some way and then examining every aspect of their lives before we knew them then after we knew them is not how we tend to live life and is anti-cinematic. If we go back to see the birth of Rick Blaine in New York and follow his upbringing there then follow his school years as an awkward teen then his release into the wide world then his gun-running activities then his post-Casablanca adventures with Captain Reno then his marriage to whoever he finally settles down with do we still feel the magic of cinema or have we simply picked the carcass clean like vultures with an unquenchable desire for facts rather than humans in pursuit of something beautiful.
The Breakfast Club (John Hughes, 1985) follows its characters outside the grind of day-to-day life and is a reaction against routine and the societal expectations of what we should be and how we should act so all the time that takes place outside of the film is seen as oppressive and debilitating. This is addressed directly when Claire tries to get Andrew to admit that having now become friends in the solitude of detention back in the real world he will simply ignore Brian if he greets him in the hallway with all Andrew's athletic friends around. The film is the perfect example of film as a slice of life. Jack Bender's hostile home environment is theatrically brought in, with cigar burns as proof and Andrew's recounting his empathy for a boy he feels he embarrassed for his own father's approval takes the physical act of sitting in a circle and talking about life and people into that realm in which time starts to flow like sand through your fingers, and cinema is the act of catching that sand in an hour glass, to be turned and let flow again and again without ever losing a single grain. The Breakfast Club is an expression of pure idealism and any sequels or even flashbacks within the film would have robbed it of its rebellious optimism.
A number of films take place over many years but do not wear the passage of time on their sleeves. Films like The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1971) and The Searchers (John Ford, 1954) do not change actors or bury them under tonnes of aging make-up eventhough they take place over a number of years. These films are epics and there is certainly a place for epics in cinema just as much as there is for films that take place over the course of a day or a week, but the difference is that these particular films do not condescend to try and explain the life of one man in their respective run-times, or to show all the key moments of their lives. As Scorsese observes about The Searchers one subtle glance from Ethan at his brother's wife explains the entire narrative of why he would spend years tracking the Indians who kidnapped his niece. What exactly Ethan's relationship is or was with his sister-in-law is something we will never know nor will ever need to know to enjoy the film. Like Rick's flashback and Alma's confession Ethan's glance says as much as needs to be said.
Real-time is not a commonly used time-span but it has so much potential that it is a great pity it is not utilised more often. The tension in High Noon (Fred Zinnemann, 1956) as Gary Cooper searches futilely for anybody to help him rid the town of the three criminals who have returned for vengeance against him to the backdrop of his having just married Grace Kelly is excruciating and brilliant. As a person living in real time you are aware of exactly how long he has to find someone to take these three men and the result is one of the greatest westerns ever made. Similarly Clèo de 5 à 7 (Agnès Varda, 1962) follows a woman for ninety minutes through Paris as she awaits the results of a medical examination and the long takes of driving through the city feel like real ennui expressed in deep breaths while the scene in which her songwriters arrive to practice a new song which she then sings passes in a flash; it is relativity captured on film. Hitchcock's Rope also explores the possibilities available to telling a story in real time, but it is largely unchartered territory in cinema.
One of the most interesting American directors is Richard Linklater whose first three films Slacker (1991), Dazed & Confused (1993) and Before Sunrise (1995) all take place in one day, whereas his film Waking Life (2001), for the fact that it takes place completely in a dream, and time passes faster in dreams than in reality, could be said to cover a time-span even less than its run-time. His sequel to Before Sunrise, Before Sunset (2004) follows the same characters as the earlier film only nine years after they first meet. It is a rare sequel that manages to utilise the fact that too much information strips away the magic of certain moments as an artistic tool to show the realities of these characters now in their thirties. It is simply one of the most powerful uses of the effects of time passing ever put to film. His upcoming A Boyhood is another experiment in time in that it began filming in 2004 and has continued intermittently until the present day allowing its actors to age naturally.
A number of recent releases have represented interesting uses of time. Elena (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2011) is a 109 minute film that sets its pace from the very beginning with one long drawn-out shot of the window of a house with a branch in front of it. It does this as a way of cooling off the hectic minds of any cinemagoers who have probably just walked off a busy city street or taken a drive to get to the cinema and now need to be eased into the considered pace of the film. The image cuts to the inside of the house, everything untouched in the early morning and finally we see Elena in bed and watch as she gets up. Very little seems to happen when you watch the film as we follow this woman through her uninteresting daily activities, but when you think back on it you start to realise that the few terrible things that happen in the film creep up on you as they would in reality, you don't even quite realise something has happened until the film is over, much like a real-life trauma puts a person into shock and denial.
Samsara (Ron Fricke, 2012) uses time in a very unusual way. There can be said to be no overall time-span for the film, what it portrays is the world at a whatever time it happened to be filmed, but the cuts between places are purely aesthetic, like that from a sand-filled old church in Louisiana to a Gothic cathedral in Europe. Time-lapse is used as a method of perspective, as the sun floats along the sky we are shown the angles and imperfections of a number of stone heads through how the shadows move, extending from the nose and brow and it is far more impressive than anything 3-D cinema has shown us.


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Эсба́р () — коммуна во Франции, находится в регионе Бургундия. Департамент коммуны — Кот-д'Ор. Входит в состав кантона Сен-Жан-де-Лон. Округ коммуны — Бон.

Код INSEE коммуны — 21249.

Население
Население коммуны на 2010 год составляло 758 человек.

Экономика
В 2010 году среди 466 человек трудоспособного возраста (15—64 лет) 334 были экономически активными, 132 — неактивными (показатель активности — 71,7 %, в 1999 году было 65,6 %). Из 334 активных жителей работали 308 человек (173 мужчины и 135 женщин), безработных было 26 (6 мужчин и 20 женщин). Среди 132 неактивных 50 человек были учениками или студентами, 49 — пенсионерами, 33 были неактивными по другим причинам.

См. также
 Список округов Франции

Примечания

Ссылки
 Национальный институт статистики — Эсбар

Коммуны департамента Кот-д'Ор

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When am I going to finish that darned LOUIE LOUIE documentary?
That's a question I get asked all the time. I wish I could provide a concise answer. It's a complicated situation, to say the least. Clearances are a major part of the hurdle. I just found a great article about other filmmakers that faced similar problems in that particular department, thanks to the Larry Lessig blog.
Someone produced a documentary titled "Mad Hot Ballroom" which told the story of New York public school kids in a citywide ballroom dancing competition. A lot of music was used in this film. The one thing that really surprised me was that the folks that administrate the music of C+C Music Factory demanded a $5,000.00 license for someone to use the phrase "Everybody dance now!" Just one phrase- no recorded music by the band. Just three words.
Read all about it at the StayFree blog .
If I had the power, the money, and the know-how, I'd help you get this puppy finished and out.
Until then, I hope to have a front row seat to the premier one day.


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In very noisy environments, the level of the noise floor can be higher than the receiver sensitivity. (For example greater than -110 dBm in the above example). In this case, it does not help to increase the receiver sensitivity or using a higher gain receiving antenna. The only solution if the source of the noise can not be eliminated is then to increase the power of the transmission so that signal strength at the receiving radio is higher than the noise. However, in some cases, moving the receiving antenna can reduce the noise impact.


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En Irlande-du-Nord, le découpage des zones de gouvernement local hérité du Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 est mis en place à compter d' et abrogé en .

Histoire
L'Irlande est divisée en deux échelons de gouvernement local par le Local Government (Ireland) Act du . Le niveau inférieur se constitue de districts ruraux ou urbains (rural districts et urban districts) tandis que le niveau supérieur se structure autour de comtés (counties) et de boroughs de comté (county boroughs). Le découpage entre en vigueur le .

La possibilité de modifier les limites, de supprimer ou d'ériger des zones de gouvernement local est confiée au , une agence de l' créée en 1872.

En , l'île est séparée en deux entités politiques distinctes en vertu du Government of Ireland Act 1920 : l'Irlande-du-Nord (Northern Ireland) et l'Irlande-du-Sud (Southern Ireland).

Les fonctions du Local Government Board sont exercées à partir de la partition par des départements ministériels du comité exécutif du conseil privé d'Irlande-du-Nord, le  (Home Affairs) à partir de 1921, puis  (Health and Local Government) en 1944.

Les zones de gouvernement local héritées du Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 sont totalement abolies par le Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 au .

Zones de gouvernement local

Comtés et boroughs de comté

Districts ruraux et urbains

Comté d'Antrim

Comté d'Armagh

Comté de Down

Comté de Fermanagh

Comté de Londonderry

Comté de Tyrone

Évolution des limites des zones de gouvernement local

Échelon supérieur
Une portion du comté de Londonderry est transférée au comté d'Antrim pour l'extension des limites du district urbain de Portrush au .

Échelon inférieur

Antrim

Armagh

Down

Fermanagh

Londonderry

Tyrone

Notes et références

Notes
 Changements de noms

 Changements de statuts

 Autres changements

Sources
 The Belfast Gazette

 UK Statute Law Database

Références
 Local Government Board for Ireland

 Autres références

Annexes

Bibliographie

Articles et ouvrages
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Recensements de la population
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Articles connexes
 Gouvernement local en Irlande-du-Nord
 Liste des districts de gouvernement local d'Irlande-du-Nord
 Découpage des zones de gouvernement local en Irlande-du-Nord (1973-2015)

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Q: Panel vector autoregression models in R? Are there any R packages that can estimate panel vector autoregression (panel VAR, or PVAR) models from pooled time-series data?
I've searched several ways and come up empty. I'm hoping I've overlooked something that you know where to find.
If you're wondering what panel VAR models are and how they might be useful, this paper is not a bad place to start.

A: There is your solution. Code will be available soon.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2896087
Panel Vector Autoregression in R: The Panelvar Package:
This paper considers two types of generalized method of moments (GMM) estimators for panel vector autoregression models (PVAR) with fixed individual effects. First, the first difference GMM estimator is implemented. It is an extension of the single equation dynamic panel model. A GMM-estimator for single equation dynamic panel model is implemented in the STATA package xtabond2. Some of the xtabond2 features are covered in the R package: plm. Second, also the so-called system GMM estimator is extended from single equation dynamic panel models to PVAR models. In addition to the GMM-estimators we contribute to the literature by providing specification tests (Hansen overidentification test, lag selection criterion and stability test of the PVAR polynomial) and classical structural analysis for PVAR models such as orthogonal and generalized impulse response functions, bootstrapped confidence intervals for impulse response analysis and forecast error variance decompositions. Finally, we implement the first difference and the forward orthogonal transformation to remove the fixed effects.

A: Christoph Adolph makes it possible:
For panels with long T:
      # Load libraries
      library(nlme)      # Estimation of mixed effects models
      library(lme4)      # Alternative package for mixed effects models
      library(plm)       # Econometrics package for linear panel models
      library(arm)       # Gelman & Hill code for mixed effects simulation
      library(pcse)      # Calculate PCSEs for LS models (Beck & Katz)
      library(tseries)   # For ADF unit root test
      library(simcf)     # For panel functions and simulators
      # Estimate a random effects AR(I)MA(p,q) model using lme (Restricted ML)
      lme.res1 <- lme(# A formula object including the response,
        # the fixed covariates, and any grouping variables
        fixed = GDPWdiff ~ OIL + REG + EDT,

        # The random effects component
        random = ~ 1 | COUNTRY,

        # The TS dynamics: specify the time & group variables,
        # and the order of the ARMA(p,q) process
        correlation = corARMA(form = ~ YEAR | COUNTRY,
                              p = 1,  # AR(p) order
                              q = 0   # MA(q) order
        )
      )

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Suvrikri of Suvrikri Den Haag, een acroniem voor Surinaamse Vrienden Kring, was een Nederlandse basketbalclub uit Den Haag dat een aantal jaren uitkwam op het hoogste niveau in Nederland.

Geschiedenis
De club werd op 15 april 1961 opgericht en binnen 5 jaar bereikten de sterk met het basketbal geëngageerde Surinamers de hoogste top: de eredivisie. De meeste spelers waren voor studie naar Nederland gekomen.

Suvrikri promoveerde in 1966 naar de eredivisie, na een ongeslagen seizoen. Over de kampioenswedstrijd schreef een Nederlands sportblad destijds: 'Voor een volle tribune, waarop o.a. bondsvoorzitter Piet Storm had plaatsgenomen, speelde Suvrikri zich in de Haagse Academie via een overtuigende overwinning van
60-49 op het Leidse Bona Stars naar de hoogste klasse van het Nederlandse basketbal: de Eredivisie. Na de degradatie van Argus verleden jaar in Den Haag dus weer
topsport door toedoen van de sympathieke Surinamers, die terecht met trots kunnen wijzen op het feit, dat diezelfde middag het 2e en het 3e team eveneens kampioen
waren geworden van respectievelijk de 2e en 3e klasse District Den Haag. Een overweldigend succes!' Suvrikri kwam 6 jaar uit op het hoogste niveau. De 6e plaats in het seizoen 1970/1971 vormde het hoogtepunt (in een competitie met 12 teams).

De club degradeerde in 1972, waarna de hoogtijdagen voorbij waren.

Externe link
 ANP, Foto: Suvrikri (met mouwen) - Flamingo's (mouwloos), 9 februari 1969

Nederlandse voormalig basketbalclub
Sportvereniging in Den Haag


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Saturday 30 June 2018 11:03 am
Oyster card hits the 15 year mark: Five things you didn't know about the London smartcard
Emily Nicolle
As the Oyster card celebrates its fifteenth birthday, we've built a list of five things you might not know about Transport for London's smartcard.
By 2041, Transport for London predicts that there will be a staggering 32 million trips will be made on the Tube each day. You may already know some more common facts like how an Oyster has no expiry date, but here's some we think you might not have pegged just yet.
There's a lot of money left on them
According to figures from TfL, there's more than £321m of balances and deposits sitting on Oyster cards that haven't been used for at least one year.
This is partly due to the number of people switching over to using their contactless bank cards or mobile payment technology for travelling on the network. Just five years ago, the total was only at £47m.
Since it was launched 15 years ago, more than 100m people have used an Oyster card to travel.
It almost wasn't called an Oyster
Before TfL settled on Oyster, two other names were shortlisted as potential monikers.
Perhaps in an alternate universe, Londoners could be using Gem or Pulse cards to pay for their transport.
Tech trials started almost 12 years before the card was born
Development of TfL's smartcard system for ticketing began back in 1991, with the first trials being carried out on the 212 bus in Walthamstow.
A more widespread trial followed in Harrow in 1994, before Oyster was officially launched to the public on 30 June 2003.
Do you own a special edition Oyster?
A number of limited edition Oyster cards have been designed over the years to commemorate special events in British and London history.
These have included the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the 2011 royal wedding between the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, and the 150th anniversary of the London Underground.
Contactless travel is speeding up time
The Oystercard system can handle 40 people per minute passing through a set of Tube barriers, which is 15 more than those with paper tickets.
If you're on a bus, boarding is now an average of three times faster than the old days when buses still accepted cash.

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Well looks like I was a week too early with the Webb Simpson pick.
I picked him at the Wells Fargo 2 weeks ago and he really couldn't get anything going there. I didn't see anything really outstanding about him this week so I didn't back him at 100/1 and….yeah.
What a performance from Simpson. It's a tournament where anyone can really win it and it's one where I'll be looking back wondering if I missed the boat on Webb after having picked him the week prior.
What a frustrating tournament the Players Championship was too. Spieth was an utter disaster to start and I don't know if him playing much better in round 2/3 made me happy or not. I mean on one hand I was happy he was at least competitive near the end as it got me interested in the final round, but on the other hand it made me bloody angry that he played so bad in the first round.
Oh well it was what it was. We turn our attention to the Byron Nelson this week where I've been able to get a place win the last two years. Let's hope for three in a row.
In saying that, the Byron Nelson is at a new course this year so course form is thrown out the window. Going to be an interesting one. I've spent the last day just reading everything about the course and honestly it's a real wild card in terms of what will factor in here.
Based on that I'm just going with 5 small bets more for entertainment purposes than anything else. FYI I think Spieth really will match up well with this course but I'm not betting him at his price.
This is a real crap shoot of a tournament though to be honest and I think its Spieths to lose. Last time I said that was about Rahm at the Spanish Open and he won that however that was a similar ludicrous price.
Honestly I'm probably betting it more because I spent so much work on it research wise ha.
Lastly a quick shout out to my new website WhereToBet.net. It covers various sports so hey if you wanted to know Where To Bet Golf Online then that's the place to go!


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Grant Project Aims to Reduce Gaps in STEM Doctoral Pipeline
May 2, 2019 | OIED Staff
NC State, together with North Carolina A&T University and UNC Charlotte, has received a $2.2M grant from the National Science Foundation's Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate.
The grant, titled, "Collaborative Research: AGEP North Carolina Alliance, An Institutional Transformation Model to Increase Minority STEM Doctoral Student and Faculty Success" funds a five-year project that began last June.
Rather than fund students directly, the project focuses on faculty and departments. Thirteen NC State departments are participating, with eight departments participating at each of the other two institutions. Each department's goal is to develop a more inclusive doctoral program that creates "institutional, department-level and faculty change to promote historically underrepresented minority US citizens who are completing their STEM doctoral degrees and progressing into faculty positions," as stated on the National Science Foundation's AGEP website.
NC State departments from four colleges — Engineering, Sciences, Agriculture and Life Sciences and Veterinary Medicine — participated in a two-stage selection process during which they designated a department head, director and a faculty fellow for the project.
Faculty fellows serve as the point person for AGEP-NC project activities in their departments for a two-year term, joining a cohort of other faculty fellows. Fellows meet monthly, attend a reading and discussion group and become knowledgeable about underrepresented minority (URM) graduate students1, cross-cultural and culturally-responsive mentoring and what current research says about how to best make changes to the cultures of large institutions.
Fellows also collect and examine data about the doctoral completion rates in their departments and student's pathways through the dissertation stage, where there is often a completion gap between URM and non-URM students.
The project is currently in an information-gathering phase in preparation for each department creating a formal plan to increase doctoral completion rates of URM students. During this phase, participants research mentoring practices and URM student experiences. Another component involves looking at institutional change-making practices, examining models of change and what makes them work.
Marcia Gumpertz, professor of statistics and a major writer of NC State's portion of the grant, says, "We're hoping that the climate for and the knowledge about mentoring will increase in these departments over the period of the grant, and that the students will have positive mentoring experiences. Long-term, we're hoping that the gap of completion rates will decrease and more URM doctoral students will progress into faculty careers."
To meet these goals, an external advisory board with expertise in institutional change, assessment, cross-cultural mentoring and graduate student diversity, as well as a student leadership council comprised of doctoral students nominated by each institution for one-year terms, serve to help guide the project.
The project will delve deeply into the social science of student experiences to discover the issues involved in enhancing student success and share the findings broadly throughout the participating departments and campuses, hosting a conference at NC State on May 13, 2019.
But the AGEP project aims to develop models that can be adapted for other institutions in addition to continuing within the grant institutions, creating knowledge that can be developed, tested, modified and applied globally.
Why Is this Work Important?
Gumpertz notes that some of the typical ways in which institutions attempt to improve URM doctoral completion rates miss the mark for complex reasons.
"In interviews, focus groups on mentoring, evaluations and surveys, one thing we've seen is a difference between what students say they experience and what faculty think they're experiencing. When we ask the faculty, 'Is the environment welcoming?' most faculty say yes, or definitely yes, but when we ask the students if they are experiencing welcoming learning environments, as many as a quarter don't agree across our participating departments."
Gumpertz emphasizes that the grant focuses on changing programs, adjusting them to be more inclusive and making faculty more aware of things that students might be facing, rather than trying to change the students.
"Education is so important, and it's so important that everyone — that all groups of people — get to participate in higher ed and get all the benefits that we can get from advanced degrees. Everyone should have the opportunity to become faculty, and it's important that students have the opportunity to learn from diverse faculty. Underrepresentation happens all along the academic pathway, and grad school is a critical link in that chain."
See the AGEP-NC website for more information about the project.
1 Underrepresented Minority (URM) is defined in this project as African American, Hispanic/Latino, American Indian, Alaska Native and/or Pacific Islander.
AGEP, doctoral, Marcia Gumpertz, National Science Foundation, NC A&T University, NSF, pipeline, statistics, STEM, UNC-Charlotte, URM


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The Daily Republican: Protesters object to Bost's 'yes' vote on GOP health care act
http://www.dailyrepublicannews.com/news/20170508/protesters-object-to-bosts-yes-vote-on-gop-health-care-act
About 75 Southern Illinois residents marched in front of Congressman Mike Bost's Carbondale office Monday, protesting Bost's vote in favor of the American Health Care Act last week.
Outside of the Hunter Building at 310 E. Main St., marchers chanted "Hey, hey, ho, ho, Bost has got to go," and "When is judgment day? November 2018."
Bost was not in his Carbondale office Monday afternoon, nor did anybody come out to address the crowd. Unlike past protests, the crowd stayed outside of the building and did not attempt to enter Bost's office.
However, the crowd was definitely seen as several cars and trucks honked and yelled out of windows as they passed on Illinois 13.
The protest was without incident, until a truck attempted to pull into the parking lot near the Hunter building. The driver was attempting to get past the crowd when somebody struck his vehicle. The driver then circled the building's parking lot and sped back near the crowd, but stopped short of hitting anyone. A few arguments that ensued, but nobody was injured, and the driver went on his way.
Billy Rodgers of Du Quoin, said he came to protest as a bipartisan voter, adding Monday wasn't about being a Democrat or a Republican, it was about people.
"It is about what's right, and I don't believe that what is right is the federal healthcare program," he said. "I'm not here as a Democrat or a Republican. I'm here as a human being."
The march was organized by the same group that promoted the Carbondale Women's March in January. Unlike that event, Monday's protest was not part of a larger movement.
The group sent out an email on Sunday announcing the protest.
"Many Southern Illinoisans are feeling uncertain of their futures and have lost confidence in Congressman Mike Bost, who has supported every version of repealing the Affordable Care Act," the email stated.
It added that despite saying he did not support taking coverage away from people with preexisting conditions, Bost voted for a bill in which "coverage for people with pre-existing conditions will be either non-existent or financially out of reach."
"Mike Bost has irresponsibly let loyalty to his party and to Donald Trump get in the way of reality and the loyalty he should have to his constituent."
After the march, Bost told the Carbondale Times in an email that the AHCA is not perfect, but it's a step in the right direction to decrease premiums and expand and enhance health care options so Americans can find a plan that's right for them.
"Obamacare was based on a one-size-fits-all approach that put bureaucrats in Washington in charge of your health care," Bost wrote. "Many of the counties in the Illinois 12th Congressional District only have one option through the exchange under Obamacare, and that plan's premiums have skyrocketed by 70 percent. In some states, insurers are fleeing entirely."
"We can stand by and watch Obamacare collapse by allowing health care options to become increasingly unaffordable and inaccessible … or we can take action to return control of health care from Washington back to the states and restore the free market so Americans can access quality, affordable health care options."
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https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Northwood-sports-roundup-7137752.php
Northwood sports roundup
Published 9:00 pm EDT, Wednesday, September 25, 2002
NU soccer splits with Concordia
ANN ARBOR – The Northwood University women's soccer team scored five first-half goals Tuesday on the way to a 7-1 win over host Concordia College.
Jaclyn Singer, Carly Wadsworth, Amy Snyder, Celina Kwolek and Sarah Depape scored to give NU a 5-1 halftime lead. Julie Surma put in two goals for the Timberwolves in the second half.
Snyder had two assists and Margaret Humiecki had one. NU goalie Amanda Mullins made two saves. NU had a 46-4 shot advantage.
The Timberwolves are 5-0 and ranked fourth in the Great Lakes Region. They host Davis & Elkins (W. Va.) Sunday at noon.
The NU men's soccer team lost 2-1 in overtime to Concordia on Tuesday.
After Concordia's Jeremiah Belton scored in the first half, NU's Drew Steeh tied the game 16 minutes into the second half with an unassisted goal.
Concordia won the game 12 minutes into overtime on Belton's second goal.
The Timberwolves (5-2) outshot Concordia 50-10. NU goalie Mike Null made three saves, while Concordia's Kirk Mulligan made 24.
Ferris edges T'wolves in tennis
BIG RAPIDS – Ferris State University edged Northwood University 5-4 Tuesday in Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference women's tennis action.
The teams split the six singles flights. NU winners were Carina Kaempfer at No. 1, Jenny Johansson at No. 3 and Fatima Arshad at No. 5. Losing were Berenice Ferrer at No. 2, Sara Smith at No. 4 and Kate Deupree at No. 6.
Kaempfer and Johansson won the No. 1 doubles match, while Ferrer/Smith (No. 2) and Arshad/Deupree (No. 3) dropped their matches.


Details on the new album from As I Lay Dying have hit the web. You can see the cover art and track list for Awakened below along with some new European tour dates. The album, due out September 25 via Metal Blade, was recorded at The Blasting Room with Bill Stevenson and the lead off track "Cauterize" can be heard here.


As mentioned in Short Trip from Kyoto: Where to go?, Osaka can be a perfect destination for a one day trip from Kyoto.
People, food, and culture in Osaka are very different from those in Kyoto. The minute one gets off at Umeda/Yodoyabashi Station in central Osaka, a different world will emerge.
For those who like shopping for the latest products, Osaka will provide a fantastic experience. There is a large underground shopping arcade attached to the station. But be careful not to get lost! Additionally, there are several other department stores surrounding the building which specialize in stores for different ages or fashions. Here are a couple of pictures of Grand Front Osaka, which is one of the biggest and newest shopping centers in Osaka.
To get to Grand Front Osaka from Kyoto, the easiest way should be using the JR line from Kyoto Station and getting off at Osaka Station (Tokaido Line) or using Hankyu Line from Kawaramachi/Karasuma Station and getting off at Umeda Station.