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Branded Reality: The Rise of Embedded Branding ('Branded Content'): Implications for the Cultural Public Sphere
Balint, Anat. 2016. Branded Reality: The Rise of Embedded Branding ('Branded Content'): Implications for the Cultural Public Sphere. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London [Thesis]
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This thesis explores the rise of embedded branding ('branded content') since the early 2000s, a funding model in which sponsors are integrated into media content. It examines its implications for the functioning of the media as a cultural public sphere. Located within the political economy approach, the research takes a critical perspective, arguing that 'branded content' is, in Habermasian terms, an act of manipulation.
Two case studies of British and Israeli reality television shows were used to explore three questions: 1. How does the 'branded content' market work? 2. Are we witnessing a new phase of content commercialisation and if so, what are its characteristics? 3. What are the implications for the media's functioning as a cultural public sphere and, consequently, how should regulators and policy makers cope with the phenomenon?
The findings uncover a niche market in which branded content agents facilitate formal agreements between sponsors and producers. As both sides have the need to look for alternative funding models in a growingly fragmented reality, these co-operations typically start as 'synergetic', however their implementation often becomes rife with conflict.
The data further suggests sponsors influence media content in two key ways. First, through 'deep integration': brands appearing through abstract and surreptitious representations in programming (rather than 'classic' product placement). Second, through 'continuous integration': the tendency of these agreements to encompass multiple platforms, and predominantly the Internet, which enables personal data collection. Embedded branding therefore should be seen as a new commercialisation phase, typical of the digital age, in which brands gain omnipresence in the cultural public sphere.
The two main potential harms caused by these developments are first, the saturation of the media with manipulative messages by sponsors, which distorts the editorial process and threatens freedom of expression. The second relates to the gradual loss of audience trust in the media as a platform for public debate, which is the gravest threat 'branded content' presents to the role of the media in democracies.
Branded reality, embedded branding, branded content, content commercialisation, deep integration, continuous integration, manipulative messages, audience trust, cultural public sphere

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Pastorates do many things better than traditional congregations.
Not only are pastorates better at doing many things than traditional small groups, they are also better for many things than the traditional congregation. Much of what the church does happens best in pastorates rather than in the larger congregation.
Pastorates excel at pastoral care.
One of the greatest things about pastorates is the level of care they can provide both for their participants and for others. Several of our pastorates have walked with a member of their group through significant illnesses, and some have experienced the death of one or more of their members.
In a congregation, a pastor often strives to provide significant spiritual care during this kind of crisis, but a single visit, or even two or three, is usually the best the pastor can provide.
In contrast, pastorates have often set up around-the-clock care for a person in need. They fill each other's freezers with meals during a hospitalization. They have done fundraisers to help cover medical costs. They become an extended family at a time of death, walking through grief with a new widow, for example, in ways beyond what one ordained pastor can provide. Recently one of our pastorates walked through lung cancer and death with a member. A few weeks before Adeline's death, she and her husband Hartley celebrated their 68th wedding anniversary. She was not able to move out of her home, but the pastorate hosted a wonderful anniversary party for the two of them. Pastorate members greeted guests at the door, provided refreshments, and made sure every guest understood Adeline's limitations. A few weeks later the entire pastorate attended Adeline's funeral along with hundreds of other people. That evening was the regular pastorate meeting. Even though he was exhausted at the end of a very long day filled with grief, Hartley was there and the pastorate suspended their regular plans as Hartley shared story after story of his 68 years of life with Adeline. The pastorate continues to walk with him through his grief, and he recognizes how important the pastorate is in his life.
Pastorates excel at getting God's Word into people.
The trouble with so many of the ways we do church is, as we've examined, that people are so often passive. Any teacher will tell you that the more active a learner is in the process of learning, the better the material will be absorbed and applied. And that is exactly the key -- not only absorption, but application.
In a pastorate, there are usually two or three people involved in directly teaching and proclaiming the Word of God. This means that you have two or three people digging deep into scripture as they prepare. If they are properly coached and encouraged, this act of preparing to teach can be fertile ground for the Holy Spirit to work in these teachers to deepen their knowledge of scripture and their ability to apply it.
Participants in the pastorate not only hear and discuss God's Word. Traditional small groups also do this. But the pastorate is actively seeking ways to apply that Word immediately. Pastorates are actively inviting others in, and they are seeking ways to do the mission work of the gospel in the world through serving in some hands-on way. This means that the Word that is heard in the pastorate is applied, and this means that the Word has greater opportunity to transform the lives of individuals and to transform the collective life of the community.
Mike Breen, who has worked with pastorate-sized groups for many years, points out that the basic problem with institutional Christianity is that its structure imitates the structure of social life that dominated the Middle Ages, a system known as feudalism. In many of our churches, a "lord" (the ordained pastor) and a few "nobles" (the staff, perhaps, or a church council or board of elders) have nearly total control over a large group of people who are responsible to do the work of the "serfs" (the members of the congregation). In return for their work, the "serfs" have a claim on the "lord" to feed them and protect them. Breen points out that this goes a long way to explain the conversation that happens in so many church parking lots after worship on Sundays. "I'm just not getting fed at this church" is a comment and criticism heard far too often after worship. This attitude and assumption about what's supposed to happen in worship sets us up with a faulty paradigm for what the church is about.
Breen goes on to say that Jesus rarely fed the masses. Instead what he did is he invited people in ("Come, follow me") and then challenged them ("You give them something to eat"). This invitation and challenge is the basic framework for discipleship.
Pastorates are full of invitation and challenge. We invite people in to attend, participate, eat, enjoy. About the time people really start to appreciate the fellowship of the pastorate we challenge them to serve beyond themselves. Individual pastorate members may be challenged to share their testimony, to provide teaching, or any of a number of other leadership functions. Anyone who has been around Christianity for any length of time -- and many who are brand new to it -- recognize that this is what it's all about. We are putting into action what has only been theoretical for too long.
One of the keys to the success of the pastorate model is that pastorates are expected to live out the gospel. Pastorates are expected to make disciples. And they do. The most effective disciple-making churches are those that structure themselves at all three levels of the church -- celebration, congregation, and cell -- capitalizing on the strengths found at each level of Christian community.


Whenever I find myself stuck in my head, I turn to this simple four-card spread for insight, reflection, and grounding in the body.
All too frequently we base our decision-making on the logical, rational workings of the mind. The Awareness Spread can be helpful for discovering how an activity or course of action impacts the various centers of self: use it to check-in with the body on creative, emotional, and mental levels, or to investigate the underlying dynamics of a confusing situation. The fourth card offers vital insight from the higher self regarding the path ahead.
As we learn to gather insight rooted deep in the wisdom of the body, we get closer to a more fully integrated way of being in the world. Add this spread to your repertoire and enjoy the expansive awareness it brings.
Creative CenterThis card shows the potential for a situation, person, environment or course of action to feed, nurture, or block you creatively. This card can also reflect where you are in your creative process.
Heart CenterWhat is your heart trying to tell you? Does this card signal nourishment, or point to disappointment?
Lower MindConsumed by our everyday worries and logistical thinking, the Lower Mind receives of a disproportionate amount of our conscious attention. This card reveals a particular mental pattern or rut we've fallen into.
The Higher SelfWithout the intruding interpretations of the lower mind, the insight offered here is clear and poignant. Surprises may lurk here, particularly if you've spent a long time caught in the rational mind: listen closely to what it has to say. What message is the higher self imparting?


Company F and G of the 84th Infantry was composed of nearly all Henry county volunteers, mostly from Harrison, Henry and Jefferson townships, and a few from Fayette and Wayne counties. This roster appeared in the New Castle Courier on March 30, 1865. This is Company G.
Moore, John M. - 1st Lieutenant, discharged by reason of wounds received in action at Chickamauga 20 Sep 1862.
Shirkey, John A. - 2nd Lieutenant, resigned 28 Feb 1864.
SERGEANTS Yost, Jacob W. - 1st Sergeant, promoted to 1st Lieutenant 1 Jul 1864.
Nicholson, William T. - Sergeant, died New Albany, Indiana.
Stretch, William H. - Sergeant, reduced to the ranks and detailed on detached duty 1 Jul 1864.
Benbow, Cyrus W. - Sergeant, appointed 2nd Lieutenant U. S. C. T. 26 Jun 1864.
Ice, Jesse A. - Sergeant, killed in action near Kenesaw Mountain 23 Jun 1864.
CORPORALS Pence, Franklin N. - Corporal, transferred to Invalid Corps by reason of wounds received at Chickamauga 20 Sep 1862.
Yost, Albert N. - Corporal, appointed Sergeant 1 Jul 1864.
Shepherd, William H. - Corporal, appointed Sergeant 1 May 1863. Killed in action near Kenesaw Mountain.
Widows, William H. - Reduced in rank 1 Jul 1864.
Cain, George W. - Appointed 1st Sergeant 1 Jul 1864.
Livezey, William E. - Appointed Sergeant 1 Jul 1864.
Holler, Frederick - Appointed Sergeant 1 Jul 1864.
McClelland, Isaac - Died at Cleveland, Tennessee 2 Apr 1864.
MUSICIANS Runyan, Abraham - Discharged upon Surgeons certificate of disability, Nashville 17 Sep 1863.
Kerr, Marcus A. - Appointed Principle Musician 15 May 1863.
Brookshire, Eli - Transferred to Invalid Corps April 22 1863.
Becktell, William M. - Appointed Corporal 1 Jul 1864.
Barre, Samuel - Mortally wounded in action at Rocky Face, Georgia 9 May 1864.
Courtney, Isaac - Rejected by Mustering Officer.
Conner, Martin V. - Died at Nashville 17 Mar 1863.
Clapsaddle, George W. - Died at Nashville, Tennessee by reason of wounds received in action at Chickamauga 20 Sep 1863.
Cripe, Rudolph - Appointed Corporal 1 Aug 1864.
Cripe, Jacob - Died at Cincinnati 17 Dec 1862.
Fawcett, Alpheus - Discharged on Surgeon's certificate of disability at Tullahoma 20 Aug 1863.
Good, Jacob - Transferred to Veteran Engineer Corps 25 Jul 1864.
Gough, Lemuel - Died at Nashville, Tennessee 3 May 1863.
Gates, James - Discharged on Surgeon's certificate of disability at Nashville 3 May 1863.
Gates, Richard - Killed in action at Chickamauga 20 Sep 1863.
Harry, Martin L. - Discharged on Surgeon's certificate of disability at Louisville, Kentucky. 2 Apr 1863.
Harvey, Levi - Transferred to Invalid Corps by reason of wounds received at Chickamauga.
Harvey, Henry - Discharged by Surgeon's certificate of disability at Cincinnati 7 Feb 1863.
Harter, Peter - Killed in action at Chickamauga 20 Sep 1863.
Hill, Alfred - Transferred to company I, 84th Ind., Captain Fellow's.
Hines, Herman - Died at Ashland, Ky. 27 Jan 1863.
Herford Hiram B. - Discharged on Surgeon's certificate of disability at Cincinnati 4 Mar 1863.
Heinbach, John P. - Killed in action near Kenesaw Mountain 23 Jun 1864.
Heinbach, James - Discharged by reason of accidental wound 18 Jul 1863.
Hoover, Harry - Transferred to Invalid Corps 20 Dec1863.
Jarvis, James - Killed in action at Chickamauga 20 Sep 1864.
Jackson, Jesse - Died at Nashville, Tenn. 31 Mar 1863.
Jenkins, Alfred - Discharged on Surgeons Cert. of disability at Cincinnati 4 May 1863.
Keeslor, John - Deserted at Ashland, Kentucky 14 Jan 1863.
Kissell, Alfred M. - Appointed Corporal 1 Aug 1863.
Livezey, George H. - Transferred to the Veteran's Engineering Corps 25 Jul 1864.
Luzzader, Moses - Killed in action at Chickamauga 20 Sep 1864.
McGraw, Richard - Deserted at Camp Wallace, Kentucky 1 Oct 1862.
McGraw, George W. - Appointed Corporal 1 Jul 1863.
McClelland, Eli - Taken prisoner of war near Lookout Mountain, Tenn. 24 Sep 1863.
Murphey, Henry C. - Appointed Commissary Sergeant.
Mallory, John E. - Sick in hospital at muster, discharged on Surgeons Cert. of disability.
NewComer, Benjamin F. - Mortally wounded near Marietta Georgia 18 Jun 1864.
Priddy, Willia, - Discharged at Cincinnati, Ohio 16 Dec 1862.
Personett, James - Died at Marietta, Georgia 12 Jul 1864.
Russell, Henry - Wounded in action at Lovejoy Station, Ga. 2 Sep 1864, transferred to Invalid Corps.
Rader, George W. - Died at Catlettsburg, Kentucky 6 Dec 1862.
Runyan, Marcus L - Discharged at Louisville, Kentucky 28 Mar 1863.
Reid, William C. - Appointed Sergeant 1 Jul 1864.
Ridge, Jacob - Appointed Corporal 1 Aug 1864.
Silvey, William L. - Appointed Corporal 1 Aug 1864.
Seely, George - Appointed Corporal 1 Aug 1864.
Scott, James M. - Killed in action at Chickamauga 20 Sep 1863.
Thompson, Joseph H. - Appointed Quartermaster Sergeant 1 Jul 1864.
Upham, Nathan - Appointed Corporal 1 Aug 1864.
Warner, Peter - Died at Nashville 30 Aug 1863.
Warner, John - Discharged at Cincinnati, Ohio 14 Mar 1863.
Wean, George W. - Died at Nashville, Tenn. 17 Dec 1863.
Wallace, David - Deserted from Martrace, Tenn. 12 Aug 1863.


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Bdale Garbee, especialista en computadores.
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David explains every evil act he's undertaken in the past to a stunned Gail, who refuses to press charges.
David has spent the night in a prison cell and and as he's questioned about his rampage by two police officers, he admits it was deliberate and is eerily calm as he admits to everything he's done. Audrey is stunned when Gail refuses to testify against him. He's charged with multiple counts of criminal damage and assault and is bailed to appear before the magistrates.
As they arrive home, Gail again asks why he did what he did and David confesses to all the evil things he's done in the past. Gail's stunned and when David claims he feels like everyone's against him and he can't promise his behaviour will improve - she's at a loss as to what to do. Gail's adamant they sort their problems out privately but David is determined to go to court. Will David and Gail be able to start afresh? Will David's get sent down?
Becky is flirting with builder Rick in the café and asks him to come over to the flat that night while Roy's at a railway convention. However, when Roy returns early to find Becky and her man in his flat, he's not impressed and infuriates Becky when he makes is disapproval known.
Roy expresses his concern about bats roosting in the new flats and Bill realises that it could mean serious trouble for their business if the site is closed for months. Tony tells Jason and Bill that if they don't sort the problem, they can say goodbye to their contracts. Will they risk breaking the law to save their business?


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Home » News » xQc and Valkyrae Named Most Watched Streamers In Stream Hatchet's 2020 Yearly Report
xQc and Valkyrae Named Most Watched Streamers In Stream Hatchet's 2020 Yearly Report
In a detailed report published on January 12, Stream Hatchet broke down the metrics of game streaming across several platforms including Twitch, YouTube Gaming, and Facebook Gaming. They dove into which games were the most popular by view count and the role of streaming in politics, as well as identifying the most popular streamers across all platforms, separating them into two categories: male and female.
Stream Hatchet, a Spanish company founded in 2015, focuses on delivering data intelligence. It was developed by Eduard Monsterrat and Albert Alemany as a streamer tool to help identify one's audience by analyzing demographic data. They claim to analyze six million unique broadcast channels over 20 platforms daily in order to cater to the needs of game publishers, esports organizations, and marketing and influencer agencies worldwide.
In this latest report, Stream Hatchet says that livestreaming viewership has dramatically increased over the past year, rising as much as 81% from 2019. The top games streamed were League of Legends, with 1.97 billion hours watched in 2020, followed closely by Fortnite with 1.64 billion, PUBG Mobile with 1.38 billion, and Grand Theft Auto V with 1.35 billion. Minecraft, CS:GO, and VALORANT also made the top ten, making Riot Games the only publisher to have two titles on the list.
Then came the list of the top ten most watched streamers of 2020. At the very top of the list was Canada streamer Félix Lengyel, otherwise known as xQc. Lengyel, who has more than 7.4 million Twitch followers, netted over 148.9 million watch hours. He's closely followed by Gaules, a Brazilian streamer with 2.3 million followers who had 129.1 million watch hours, and summit1g, an American streamer with 5.8 million followers and 19.4 million watch hours.
Related: Fortnite Streamer Breaks Twitch's All-Time Concurrent Viewer Record
Following this list was a list of the top five "females of the year," which was topped by Valkyrae, an American streamer on YouTube Games, who had 23.6 million watch hours in 2020. Stream Hatchet reports her viewership experiencing a more than 7,000% increase over the course of the year, showing the massive rise in interest in women in the streaming world. Overall, Valkyrae ranks as the 63rd most watched streamer, but, according to the report, the gap between the top male and female streamers is closing rapidly.
The report also talks about the role of live streaming events in the 2020 election, specifically Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Among Us Twitch stream done to raise voting awareness and talk about political issues while connecting with constituents and fans. At its peak, the stream had 438,000 viewers, making it one of the most-watched streams in Twitch's history. It points to the rise of interest in live streaming by political figures as a method of maximizing their reach and project a more personal image to the public.
The 2020 Yearly Report is available in full for free download from Stream Hatchet's website.
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So, here's a short story that I've been working on. I'm a big fan of the man himself, H. P. Lovecraft, and so I tried to write a story in his style, but in third person. Here he is:
What a happy looking guy!
I was hoping for something more awesome though. Hmm….
What a happy guy!
Ah, yes. Excellent. Anyway…
This may seem like an unusual choice (lovecraft + 3rd person) to those of you who know that Lovecraft wrote almost exclusively in the first person, but I must also warn you that when I wrote the rough draft, the original Idea was to adopt Hemingway's technique of drinking copious amounts of alcohol before writing something, and then trying to crank out a story. I then opted out of the Faulker technique of continuing to drink until you pass out, and then wake up the following morning with a good drink and trying to edit.
Secondly, this story is meant to be a horror, and if you find it amusing, be warned that it was unintentional, and due to my occasional inability to slam together coherent sentences rather than any sort of concentrated effort.
The Red Medallion
The moon hung gibbous and eternal over the dark forest as Aaron crashed through the underbrush. Tree branches snatched at his coat and urged him to stop and feel they're spindly embrace. He almost did it, too. He almost just lay down and accepted what might come: death, an afterlife, oblivion. It was all fine with him, but then he heard it again, the haunting, bestial howl. He restarted his panicked flight with a redoubled effort, one thought on his mind: it's getting closer!
Trees, trees, more trees, roots and limbs. The soft thuds of his footfalls were diminished somewhat by the peat on the forest floor, but the franticness in their cadence was unmistakable. This was a man running for his life, they told you, a man running out of time.
He burst through a thicket of bushes and his footing came out from under him, sending him sliding, rolling down a precipice. Down! Down he rolled, down the steep embankment, over the rocks and roots that grabbed at his legs, sometimes threatening to break them. He cried out as he tumbled, knowing full and well the futility of this action. There was no one else around. No one at all. Just him and… it.
Splash! He barreled into the rocky stream at the bottom of the ravine, and a searing pain in his left arm stabbed through his mind, keeping him alert and conscious, though he could feel the tendrils of darkness creeping into the edge of his vision. He lay there for quite some time, in the mud and shallow water, waiting for the pain to stop. It didn't.
He stood and fell back down again. His leg had collapsed out from under him. He stood more carefully and managed to stay on his feet, at least until he gave his arm an experimental prod. Bad Idea. His vision swam and he nearly passed out as he crashed back into the water. Fuck. Fuckfuckfuck.
He looked up at the opposite side and scowled. He knew, he knew that only a mile beyond that imposing wall of dirt lay his town. Safety. Struggling, he managed to right himself once more, and cross over to the embankment, taking special care to not touch his left arm.
The wall was too steep to simply walk up. He would have to climb it, here and now, unless…
He looked left. The stream stretched for miles, bordered on both sides by steep walls of earth and the dark imposing forest on top of the walls. The right wasn't any better. No, it had be here. He wasn't even sure if he could walk much firther that night, not with his sprained ankle, but the thing following him, it certainly couldn't climb a–
The howl made Aaron jump and almost fall back into the water. This one sounded different, sort of anxious, like the howler was expecting this chase to be over and done with in the near future.
He threw himself bodily at the wall, cradling his left arm into his body and clawing like a madman at the dirt, trying to gain purchase on it's crumbly surface. He managed to snag a root that seemed relatively sturdy, and tried to haul himself up with it.
Foolish.
His right hand was not strong enough to support his weight, and it collapsed under the strain, sending him sprawling once more into the cold stream.
A howl broke the quiet of the night, bloodcurdling and, most frightful of all, close. Ever so close. Aaron cried, and banged his fist into the river bank's cold, damp earth.
Why why why why WHY? Why was the only thing he could think of: Why had he taken the dare? Why had he gone to that graveyard, that fucking gave yard? Why did they do this to him? It should have been easy. It should have been easy. It had been easy enough at first. Tom's map had led him straight to the graveyard, there had been a shovel behind the shed like Tom had told him, and the grave dirt wasn't to packed. It split apart like rotten meat to his shovel, and the coffin hadn't even been buried that deep. Once he pried the lid off and seen it… the red medallion.
Another howl snapped him out of his reverie. Shit. He stood and began to hobble down the stream, hoping that there was something, a ladder, some stairs, something he couldn't see further along it's course.
If I make it out of this, he grimly thought as he looked over his shoulder at the moon, which seemed even larger and more intimidating than before, I'm never going to play truth or dare again. At least not with my friends. He laughed at this, a cruel, barking laugh that was unlike him. Friends…
High school had been so hard that Aaron had jumped at the chance to hang out with anyone, and positively wet himself when the popular kids had invited him to a party Jerry was having at his uncle's house.
All the best looking girls were there. Ashlee, with her long, dark hair and curvy hips. Lilith, with her prodigious bosom and winning smile. Rachel, with the dimples and the jade colored eyes. All of them, and they turned and smiled at him when he walked in. Rachel even said his name, his name, as she passed him a drink. It was heaven.
They had started off the night with some drinking games. Aaron hadn't known any when they started, but he got a good hang for them by the time they finished. He hadn't ever drunk much alcohol before, so it all hit him rather hard. He had thought he could handle it. His father had occasionally snuck him sips of beer while his mother wasn't looking, and he had thought that his would somehow prepare him for copious dirnking, but he had been wrong. It seemed that it was always that way. Wrong.
They had played beer pong and kings cup, flip cup and quarters, and once he had become too drunk to think clearly, they had settled down to play truth or dare. He was between Rachel and Lilith, and counting himself rather lucky. Tom had started off with a truth, and told everyone about the time he lost his virginity, much to everyone's chagrin. It seemed like they had heard it before. Rachel took dare, and had to kiss Aaron on the lips. It was the single greatest thing that had ever happened in his life, and probably ever would. It got to Aaron's turn, and he was still swooning. He dumbly looked at Rachel, who mouthed the word "dare" with he perfect lips. He obeyed, and they dared him to dig up a grave.
Aaron splashed through the stream, tears streaking down his face. He was crying again and he wasn't certain why. It had just happened, like a summer storm, sudden and violent. He hoped it would break soon. He felt like it was slowing him down.
He wasn't sure what they had planned. Surley it was to scare him in some capacity or another. Maybe dress up as a ghost and hide behind a grave, or wait in the woods until he had dug deep into the grave dirt, and then pushed him in the grave and pretended to bury him. They had never gotten the chance. Once he had locked his hand around that medallion, once he had taken it–
A splash of fast approached feet drew Aaron out of his reverie. IT was hear. Run. Run. Run as fast as you can. Sprint god damn it and… ah, but there was never any hope, was there? He fell, like so many others before him, crashing down into the stream.
He rolled over, and it was on top of him. The fangs. The claws. The rancid stinking breath, like the breath of a corpse, or perhaps the breath of something made of corpses. It was hard for Aaron to tell. He had never smelled either, but for an instant, just an instant, he had seen something in the beast's hide, something that looked eerily similar to Rachel's face, screaming in pain and horror as it pushed against the creatures pale, hyper stretched skin.
It tore into him, ripping his throat in one clean bite. Aaron struggled briefly, and would have been proud to learn that he damaged the beast's leg. It didn't cause too much trouble, but it was a badge of honor that few of it's past victims would be able to claim before they went.
He felt it rummage through his pockets and take the medallion, and then it was gone, and Aaron was left with nothing but the cold water of the stream, and the moon, which cut through the encroaching darkness like a beacon, golden and lustrous, almost as if it were made of metal.
Oh, and I almost forgot to thank Ronni Noyce, Kathryn Jenkins and Kristy J. W. for nominating me for the "shine on", "sunshine", and "versatile" blogger awards, respectively. I promise you, I'm gonna do one big fucking awards post some time this months and it's going to be utter madness. So get ready, readers, I've got like 5 awards to give out, and one might be coming to you!
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Pastels are the perfect and prettiest colors for spring and summer. Naturally a cooler color combination anyway (you won't be nearly as hot surrounded by pastels), pastels lend a hand to creating a soft feeling on your special day. Ahead are a few fun ways that help you have a pastel colored wedding that still is elegant and sophisticated.
Start with your flowers!! Flowers might seem obvious, but it's a great starting point. You can add succulents to bring soft greens in. Play with different types of roses and hydrangeas to bring various colors (blue hydrangeas are perfect for this!). Remember that because the colors are soft, you will want soft looking flowers that are more delicate in appearance. You can create truly beautiful bouquets if you use pretty pastels.
How about the ladies standing next to you? Pastel dresses look good on a majority of people. Feel free to put them all in the same color or have them mix and match!! Want to really be bold? Look for watercolor prints!! They are so beautiful and help add a lot of dimension to the bridal party. Your wedding party will be looking sharp if you dress them in these pretty pastels.
Line the walls with pastel vases. This small pop of color is wonderful for blah spaces. You can also use these vases as centerpieces, at your sign-in table, or around your dance floor! These will make adorable decorations for your wedding.
One of my favorite ways to use pastels is at the dinner table. You have your obvious things like flowers to add to the table, but you can also get creative! Linens, napkins, even your plates can be pastel! Wrap pastel colored tulle around the back of the chairs and tie a bow to add a whimsical feel.


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Gallup: More Than 750 Million People Globally Now Wanting to Migrate
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More than 750 million people want to migrate to another country permanently, according to Gallup research published Monday, as 150 world leaders sign up to the controversial UN global compact which critics say makes migration a human right.
The Gallup World Poll survey, which interviewed 453,122 adults in 152 countries between 2015 and 2017, found that 15 per cent of the world's adult population would like to move to another country if they had the chance.
Noting this proportion had risen from 13 per cent between 2010 and 2012, and 14 per cent between 2013 and 2016, the pollster commented that rising populism and a backlash to mass immigration seen in many Western electorates has apparently not deterred would-be migrants from wanting to seek a better standard of living elsewhere.
Regionally, the desire to migrate was found to be highest in sub-Saharan Africa, where 33 per cent of adults wanted to migrate permanently, followed by Latin America and the Caribbean (27 per cent), European nations outside of the EU (26 per cent), and the Middle East and North Africa (24 per cent).
Gallup found there were 13 countries in which half or more of the adult population said they wanted to migrate to another country, with Sierra Leone (71 per cent) topping the list for its proportion of would-be migrants, followed by Liberia (66 per cent) and Haiti (63 per cent).
Africa Expert Warns Western Aid May Have Contributed to Next Migrant Crisis https://t.co/JM030ani5t
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) February 8, 2018
The U.S. remains by far the most popular country for people wanting to move abroad, with 21 per cent of potential migrants selecting it as their top destination, with Canada, Germany, France, Australia, and the UK each also ranking highly.
Politicians from around the world gathered in Marrakesh, Morocco, on Monday to sign their countries up to a UN accord declaring mass immigration to be "inevitable, desirable and necessary"; however a large number of nations including the U.S., Australia, Chile, Israel, and several EU countries withdrew from the agreement over concerns about national sovereignty.
Earlier this year, Breitbart London reported on data from the Pew Research Center which revealed that up to two-thirds of the 1.1 billion population — a number set to more than double by 2050 — of sub-Saharan Africa were wanting to migrate to Europe or the U.S., millions of whom were planning on making the journey within the next five years.
Analysts such as NumbersUSA president Roy Beck have long pointed out that mass migration into Western countries can never resolve the challenges faced by poor countries, especially as populations in the third world increase.
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The Settlement, dated to AD 850-1050, was excavated in 1949-52, 1954 and 1974. It consists of three groups of 'courtyard houses' and a burial ground. Each house had a long room divided to accommodate livestock at one end and it opened into a courtyard bordered by smaller buildings. Among artefacts uncovered at the time were fragments of the distinctive bar-lug pottery.
Following negotiations with the landowner and English Heritage NOCS Archaeology were given permissions to start clearing the overgrown site. It has been some years since the undergrowth was last cleared away and thus the first stage was to cut an access route through to the buildings!
The A-Team goes panning for tin on Porth beach on a bright and sunny November afternoon.
Visit to Doublestiles Cross, Cross Base at Church Street, St. Columb Minor, Penrose Cross Base.
Over the years a constant flow of water across the ground has caused the area to become water logged.
Channels cut through the accumulated silt . . . . .
St.Eval Longstone is one of several similar prehistoric monuments in the area and appear to mark a boundary; it would seem these standing stones were laid down to rest by the ancient peoples of the land once this function had been fulfilled. More recently 18th and 19th century Antiquarians - perhaps misguidedly - re-erected many of them. This particular monument was re-erected by our Society in 1932.
It appears on the 1840 Tithe Map as the 'Boundary Rock'- on the boundary between the parishes of St. Mawgan and St. Eval.
Over time the stone had become overgrown - time for the 'A' Team to step in.
The smaller stone re-appears once more thanks to Janet . . .
The bridge is an ancient pack horse bridge at the head of the river Gannel. In the 18th century Welsh coal was unshipped at Trevemper and Penpol Creek on the Gannel for the Truro Smelting Works. The route of the pack horse track can be followed today.
The Gannel was of some importance, having an Iron Age cliff castle above it, and being a port for nearby Crantock in the 13th and 14th centuries.
1839 Two arches washed away by storm water. Later rebuilt with one arch.
1939-197? Various attempts made by NOCS/FOCS to reopen bridge to pedestrians.
1977? Cornwall County Council announce they will repair the bridge and make a footpath across it.
2011 NOCS group tidy up the bridge as their first clearance work of historic monuments in the Newquay area.


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István Csók est un peintre hongrois né le  à Sáregres – mort le  à Budapest.

Biographie

Il commence ses études artistiques à Budapest en 1882 auprès de Bertalan Székely et Károly Lotz. Ensuite il se rend à Paris. Membre du Salon des artistes français, il y obtient une médaille de  classe en 1891. Mention honorable à l'Exposition universelle de Paris de 1889, il reçoit une médaille d'or à l'Exposition universelle de 1900.

En 1895 il travaille sur une scène avec Erzsébet Báthory.

Notes et références

Liens externes

Istvan Csok sur Wikigallery
Ses œuvres sur Fine Arts in Hungary

Naissance en février 1865
Naissance dans l'empire d'Autriche
Peintre portraitiste hongrois
Peintre hongrois du XIXe siècle
Peintre hongrois du XXe siècle
Décès en février 1961
Décès à Budapest


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Can anyone reccomend some good cyber punk / sci fi books?
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Check Credit History - At that time they were a first time homebuyer, it is necessary to had a down payment to their home. Without it, they may be denied a mortgage. Homebuyer's worry about the amount of money they had saved, thinking that it may not be enough.
Check Credit History, Bad credit mortgages were no longer what they used to be. The interest rates to home equity loans with bad credit had drastically decreased making them almost similar to a normal mortgage. People get bad credit histories because they don't had proper underscoring of their financial capabilities or end up taking more loans than they could actually pay off. Thereto it's always advisable to do proper research or lots of consulting be toe fixing up a mortgage deal.
Be careful with your old documents such as paid bills, bank statements, and receipts. Either keep them safely stored or destroy them if you don't need them anymore. Don't just throw them away, as fraudsters often start stealing an identity by searching for these very kinds of documents in household waste. Shredding or burning unneeded papers will prevent this first step.
Check Credit History, Begin by being up front and honest with your REALTOR and lender about your credit history. Your credit, whether good or bad, affects everything from your down payment to your interest rates. Your REALTOR or a professional mortgage consultant can often advise you as to how you can get credit problems cleared up or completely eliminated from your credit report before you apply for financing or make an offer on a new home.
But the biggest resource they need is patience, along with a good checklist of steps to take to start a do it their self credit fix program. As they go down their list of things to do to fix their credit, they will gradually see improvement their score will climb a little higher each month, or their debt will not be such a burden as they pay it off systematically.
Check Credit History - Comp were rates: The interest rates charged by a mortgage loan company on a home loan were bound to be higher than any other type of home loan, where credit, income or down payment were all optimal. Or they could vary greatly. There're some mortgage loan companies that, to the same set of qualifications, offer an interest rate of 7 percent, which is a bit over the bar, or then there were others who may quote 9 to 12 percent or more. Now, if this is all to the same qualifications, they could be shelling out hundreds of extra dollars a month in payments, just because they didn't search properly. Made sure not let the mortgage loan companies take advantage of their situation.
Credit repair is of immense importance or the need of the hour to all those who hold bad credit. Having bad or poor or sub-prime credit is love bearing a curse. Holders of bad or adverse credit were disadvantaged in all their loan or credit seeking ventures. They were either not provided the loans they apply to or they were made to pay higher interest rates or made to accept certain unfavorable terms while settling to their loans. Credit repair is the only way to them to be redeemed from the miseries of bad credit holding.
Check Credit History, Creditors recognize that people who enter a debt consolidation program were trying to repay their obligations in good faith. Creditors were more willing to extend favorable terms to such clients in the hope that they (the creditor) will avoid the significant expense of turning the account over to a collections firm or avoid an extended drawn out process if the account holder goes through the expense of declaring bankruptcy.


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Enter into a whimsical world of entertainment with fire breathers, stilt walkers and acrobats, as colorful fireworks light up the night sky. Flamenco, rockabilly, and jazz bands perform during dinner, while an electric reggae band and DJ maintain the dance floor. Drinks flow around the bonfires, Brazilian Capoeira dancers arrive, and a Bahamian Junkanoo Parade begins. It's an evening you won't soon forget!


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The wireless clock camera is powered by a regular 9 volt battery. The transmitting range is 100 metres (line of sight) to ensure that private detectives and private investigators can location the receiver in a appropriate position for maximum impact. The receiver can be plugged into a Television or recorder using scart or phono plugs, so the recordings can be viewed. This covert device is excellent for use within the numerous scenarios private detectives and private investigations discover themselves in as there are no wires in between the camera and the receiver as well as the results are top quality.


about 2 km from the town of St James.
Here lie 4410 soldiers graves in 4408 on an area of 14 hectares.
There are 4327 Latin crosses and Stars of David 81.
At this point, there was a temporary cemetery first opened August 5, 1944 after the liberation of the area by the 8th U.S. Infantry Division.
After the war, the soldiers whose families wanted a burial abroad were grouped.
We gathered the permanent cemeteries Oak-Guérin, Gorron, St. Cornelius, St. Andrée de l'Epine, Villeneuve sur Auvers and Marigny.


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Ghana Launches Online Mall
The Ministry of Business Development has launched a digital platform, Ghana Online Mall, to create jobs and also serve as a startup for micro, small and medium scale businesses in the country and to revamp marketing opportunities for the private sector.
An initiative under the ministry's National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Plan (NEIP), the Ghana Online Mall will also serve as a directory for all businesses that will come up onto the platform and make it possible for local vendors to sell hard-to-find handmade Ghanaian products.
Under the main portal, Ghana Online Mall will be the Africa Online Mall, the NEIP Online mall and the NEIP marketplace, all of which would connect Ghana to the international market, create platforms for jobs and market authentic made-in-Ghana products, respectively.
Mr Ignatius Baffour-Awuah, Minister of Employment and Labour Relations who launched the platform in Accra, said the digitised platform would showcase local products and encourage trading among all businesses on the platform.
"It will also help investors identify potential businesses for investment and enhance trade relations among the diaspora community and Ghanaian businesses," he indicated and said "about 500,000 businesses will be on the platform within a year."
The first phase of the online project, he said, would support 10,000 businesses with a full directory, product images as well as short videos.
He said the government was committed to empowering the private sector through the maintenance of macroeconomic stability in the long term while creating as many as 8,000 jobs within the first year of the implementation of the Ghana Online mall platform.
The country, Mr Baffour-Awuah pointed out, could not be left out in the digital marketing revolution and described the Ghana Online mall as a launch pad to accelerate the growth of businesses.
The Minister for Business Development, Dr Ibrahim Mohammed Awal, said one of the objectives of the government was to create a productive and knowledge-driven economy.
However, he said, that could only be done if the people were empowered strategically with skills and competencies to compete.
Mr Awal, therefore, called on young entrepreneurs to acquire the necessary attributes such as being disciplined, time conciousness and also add value to their products to make them competitive on the international market.
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Editorial: Are You Sitting Next To A Sex Offender?
Photo By: Angela Wolfe
Written By: Angela Wolfe, Metro Editor-in-Chief
Further research conducted by the Voice staff of registered sex offenders attending Cuyahoga Community College found an alarming number of registered sex offenders who have failed to report Tri-C as their school. This is a direct violation of the student code of conduct's general provisions, according to the college. It's also an infraction of the terms required by the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Department. That provision, according to sections four and five of the clearly worded, "Explanations of Duties to Register" which all offenders are mandated to sign upon determining their classification tier.
Our due diligence consisted of six staff members, six laptops, and a list of all 30,000-plus currently enrolled students of Tri-C. In a conference room for 6 hours, and only breaking for the restroom, we ran every name against the Cuyahoga County Sheriffs Department Sex Offender Registry-including yours – if you're currently registered as a student of course. This preliminary discovery unearthed a number of students who could be here by intentional misrepresentation. While the exact amount is still awaiting verification, the compiled list totaled 142 possible unreported students. This is a far cry from the 15 reported Tri-C students listed on the Sheriffs registry.
Now, please be advised, this investigation only focused on Cuyahoga County, which means, that the area of possibility that even more sex offenders are roaming around under false pretenses is extremely great.
It is also important for me to point out that the blame does not fully fall on Tri-C; the national, state, and local government also shoulders the responsibility to efficiently and effectively track sex offenders. Our investigation proves that there is a need for a universal database of all registered sex offenders-not county by county. It serves no purpose if people can so easily fly under the radar that is designed to catch them. The fact that a fair portion of Tri-C students live outside of Cuyahoga County, along with our diverse body of college student who come from all over the United States, and foreign countries for that matter, demonstrates why it is imperative for Tri-C to establish a workable policy to protect all students.
This policy is expected to be formed by the beginning of the Fall 2015 Semester. In response to a previous Voice story, "Sex Offenders Mingling with Minors, published in issue 8, volume 17, David Hoovler, Vice President, Integrated Communications, offered this statement:
"Because Cuyahoga Community College takes seriously sexual misconduct in any form, officials are in the midst of strengthening existing policies by developing admission standards for registered sex offenders for implementation Fall 2015. This effort will include more extensive programming being developed in concert with the Student Life and Public Safety departments to educate students and employees about sexual harassment and sexually related crimes, including steps to help protect themselves and others."
Even thought this proclamation is a direct contradiction in saying, "strengthening existing policies" when earlier this semester Renee Richard, Vice President of Legal Services, told the Voice in a statement, "We don't have a specific policy that addresses (tier II, tier III) sexual offenders." The Voice is encouraged that proper measures are being taken to secure this aspect of the open access policy.
"There should be a question on the enrollment application that asks, "Have you ever been convicted of a sexually motivated crime", due to high school student being in such close quarters." Said Isabelle Perez, Student Government Senator.
"The Sex Offenders Mingling With Minors article was enlightening." Said Business student Quentin Callans. "I have a 17-year-old daughter who was presented with the opportunity to attend Tri-C while in high school. I would want to know whom she is around and being influenced by. I suggest posting this information to My Tri-C Space."
To view a letter to the Editor submitted by a registered tier III sex offender who attends Tri-C, look below. The letter is in response to the Voice Editorial: Sex Offenders Mingling With Minors, published in the March 23rd edition.
Tags: angela wolfe, cuyahoga community college, eastern campus, Metro Campus, sex offenders, Tri-C, unmonitored sex offenders, western campus westshore campus
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Letter To The Editor: A Response From A Registered Tier III Sex Offender


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Q: Dividing memcached between sites? If I end up having 4 or 5 medium sites on one server, I want to be sure that each one that requires memcached has at least an allotted space. Is there a simple way to do this? The only ways that come to mind would be to have separate processes on different ports for each one. Is there an easier/other way? I just don't want one site hogging up all of the ram for memcached.
I have tons of ram, and say I want to give one of my magento sites exactly 512mb for memcached. I also want to give another custom application exactly 512mb for memcached. Ideas?

A: Memcached has no conception of namespaces, partitions, or similar. Therefore the only way would be to run multiple instances of memcached. That's no problem though as memcached is ridiculously simple to set up (purposefully).
It can just be bound to, for example, 5 different ports (one for reach site) or 5 different IP addresses.
See here for an example:
http://blog.nevalon.de/en/wie-kann-ich-mehrere-instanzen-von-memcached-auf-einem-server-laufen-lassenhow-can-i-run-multiple-instances-of-memcached-on-one-server-20090729

A: I agree with Niall here. Other possibility is this
you can use private IP space. Say your server can be assigned 4 IP 10.x.x.1 through 4.
You can launch Memcached with 4 servers and bind to each IP thereby giving all sites the same port but different memcache IP.
On top of that you can modify the init script for memcached to start all 4 servers and stop them together in one go. This can be used with either IP or the Port binding method. It will greatly simply things for you.
Here is an example of the multiple servers in one go Multiple Memcached server /etc/init.d startup script that works? (see question script source).
There is a reason memcached requires separate process, it is more to do with memory management  rather than memcached itself. Separate processes sharing memory does not seem like a good idea. Memory management is best left to system.

A: This is not necessary at all. If you consider that memcache storage is actually working as LRU stack then it becomes obvious that it's suboptimal to give some portion of memory to site that is used less when site that should be memcached more will have smaller portion of memory and records for it will be pushed out more often than needed while site receiving less traffic will have more less unused data stored in that dedicated portion which could have been used better for more active sites that will instead of using memcached records need to reach for the data in some SQL backend.

A: I agree with both responses here but wanted to add some more input.
I do not think there is a way to split out namespaced objects and associated ram usage in a single memcache instance.  So like the other responses say best to run multiple instances.
While this might be an easy task if this is large scale these also might be good resources to look at:
twemproxy
https://github.com/twitter/twemproxy
Allows you to setup a proxy in front of memcache.  This means all sites/clients connect in to nutcracker processes which load balance across your memcache pools.
moxi
http://code.google.com/p/moxi/
Another proxy solution to load balance memcache.
So again it depends on the size of your infrastructure but these might be tools that would helpful to you in a larger or growing infrastructure.  Splitting these out would allow you to have several smaller instances, and rather than adding say a new 512MB instance for every site you could stick to even smaller say 64mb instances and expand at a much smaller rate.

A: Its extremely unlikely that Memcache will ever consume more than around 32MB RAM for a Magento store anyway. When you consider each cached page is around 4Kb - you've got a fair bit of scope for cached content.
I would suggest setting up multiple Memcached instances using unix sockets (its faster and safer than TCP/IP). You can start Memcached with the following flags
-d
-m 32
-u myuser
-s /home/myuser/cache.sock
-a 0700

From http://www.sonassihosting.com/blog/support/implement-memcache-for-sonassi-magento-optimised-dedicated-servers/
Your memcache local.xml config would look like this, and read this to see why the slow_backend is necessary - http://www.sonassi.com/knowledge-base/magento-kb/what-is-memcache-actually-caching-in-magento/
<cache>
 <slow_backend>database</slow_backend>
 <fast_backend>Memcached</fast_backend>
 <fast_backend_options>
 <servers>
 <server>
 <host>unix:///home/myuser/cache.sock</host>
<port>0</port>
<persistent>0</persistent>
 </server>
 </servers>
 </fast_backend_options>
 <backend>memcached</backend>
 <memcached>
 <servers>
 <server>
 <host>unix:///home/myuser/cache.sock</host>
<port>0</port>
<persistent>0</persistent>
 </server>
 </servers>
 <compression><!--[CDATA[0]]></compression-->
 <cache_dir><!--[CDATA[]]></cache_dir-->
 <hashed_directory_level><!--[CDATA[]]></hashed_directory_level-->
 <hashed_directory_umask><!--[CDATA[]]></hashed_directory_umask-->
 <file_name_prefix><!--[CDATA[]]></file_name_prefix-->
 </file_name_prefix></hashed_directory_umask></hashed_directory_level></cache_dir></compression></memcached>
</cache>

A: The easiest way will be, as your suspected, to have multiple instances of memcached. memcache is purposefully kept as simple as possible for speed so offers no internal forms of separation like what you're looking for. It doesn't even offer any form of authentication for the same reason!

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Nick Turse, The Changing Face of Empire
Posted on June 14, 2012 May 15, 2021
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The frustration has long been growing. Now, it's been put into words. On his recent trip to Afghanistan, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, who has earned a reputation for saying whatever comes into his head, insisted that Washington had just about had it with Pakistan. "Reaching the limits of our patience" was the way he put it (not once but twice). Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Martin Dempsey spoke only slightly more mildly of being "extraordinarily dissatisfied." The Obama administration, so went the message, was essentially losing it in South Asia. It was mad and wasn't about to take it any more!
How far Washington has come from the days (back in 2001) when an American official could reportedly march self-confidently into the office of Pakistan's intelligence chief, and tell him that his country had better decide whether it was for us or against us. Otherwise, he reportedly added, Pakistan should expect to be bombed "back to the Stone Age."
In the ensuing years, the great imperial power of our age repeatedly recalibrated its Pakistan policy in growing frustration, only to see it run ever more definitively off the rails. The Obama administration, in particular, has sent its high officials, like so many caroming pinballs, flying in and out of Pakistan in droves for years now to demand, order, chide, plead, wheedle, cajole, intimidate, threaten, twist arms, and bluster, as it repeatedly flipped from good-guy ally to fierce, missile-wielding frenemy, and back again.
Recently, in the wake of U.S. air strikes that killed 24 Pakistani border guards (without a U.S. apology), it has faced a more-than-six-month closure of its crucial Pakistani war supply lines into Afghanistan. Its response: to negotiate ever more frenetically, and pull the trigger in its drone war in the Pakistani borderlands ever more often. Recently, it even announced a multimillion dollar cut-off of funds for Pakistan's version of Sesame Street, while reaching a highly touted agreement with some former Central Asian SSRs of the former Soviet Union to transport American equipment out of Afghanistan (as our forces draw down there), at up to six times the cost of the blockaded routes through Pakistan.
If you want a living, panting, post-9/11 parable of imperial self-confidence and mastery gone to hell, Pakistan is the first (but not the last) place to look. Behind the visible failure of U.S. policy in that country lies a devastating self-deception: the thought that, in the twenty-first century, even the greatest of powers, playing its cards perfectly, can control this planet, or simply significant regions of it.
If you want a prospectively breathtaking version of the same disastrous principle check out the latest piece by TomDispatch Associate Editor Nick Turse, co-author of the new book Terminator Planet: The First History of Drone Warfare, 2001-2050. A new American global way of war is emerging to replace the double disasters in Iraq and Afghanistan. Turse puts its sinews together strikingly, suggesting that Washington is once again bedazzled by the possibility of mastering the planet — in a new, cheaper, less profligate way. Once again, the top officials of our ever-expanding national security state are evidently convinced of their own prospective brilliance in organizing the next version of the global Great Game. As with Pakistan in late 2001, so — from Central Africa to the Philippines — this, too, looks like a winner in their eyes. Much on this planet is unpredictable and yet the crash-and-burn fate of what Turse calls the Obama doctrine is painfully predictable. Unfortunately, as it goes down in flames, it may help send the world up in flames, too. Tom
The New Obama Doctrine, A Six-Point Plan for Global War
Special Ops, Drones, Spy Games, Civilian Soldiers, Proxy Fighters, and Cyber Warfare
It looked like a scene out of a Hollywood movie. In the inky darkness, men in full combat gear, armed with automatic weapons and wearing night-vision goggles, grabbed hold of a thick, woven cable hanging from a MH-47 Chinook helicopter. Then, in a flash, each "fast-roped" down onto a ship below. Afterward, "Mike," a Navy SEAL who would not give his last name, bragged to an Army public affairs sergeant that, when they were on their game, the SEALs could put 15 men on a ship this way in 30 seconds or less.
Once on the aft deck, the special ops troops broke into squads and methodically searched the ship as it bobbed in Jinhae Harbor, South Korea. Below deck and on the bridge, the commandos located several men and trained their weapons on them, but nobody fired a shot. It was, after all, a training exercise.
All of those ship-searchers were SEALs, but not all of them were American. Some were from Naval Special Warfare Group 1 out of Coronado, California; others hailed from South Korea's Naval Special Brigade. The drill was part of Foal Eagle 2012, a multinational, joint-service exercise. It was also a model for — and one small part of — a much publicized U.S. military "pivot" from the Greater Middle East to Asia, a move that includes sending an initial contingent of 250 Marines to Darwin, Australia, basing littoral combat ships in Singapore, strengthening military ties with Vietnam and India, staging war games in the Philippines (as well as a drone strike there), and shifting the majority of the Navy's ships to the Pacific by the end of the decade.
That modest training exercise also reflected another kind of pivot. The face of American-style war-fighting is once again changing. Forget full-scale invasions and large-footprint occupations on the Eurasian mainland; instead, think: special operations forces working on their own but also training or fighting beside allied militaries (if not outright proxy armies) in hot spots around the world. And along with those special ops advisors, trainers, and commandos expect ever more funds and efforts to flow into the militarization of spying and intelligence, the use of drone aircraft, the launching of cyber-attacks, and joint Pentagon operations with increasingly militarized "civilian" government agencies.
Much of this has been noted in the media, but how it all fits together into what could be called the new global face of empire has escaped attention. And yet this represents nothing short of a new Obama doctrine, a six-point program for twenty-first-century war, American-style, that the administration is now carefully developing and honing. Its global scope is already breathtaking, if little recognized, and like Donald Rumsfeld's military lite and David Petraeus's counterinsurgency operations, it is evidently going to have its day in the sun — and like them, it will undoubtedly disappoint in ways that will surprise its creators.
The Blur-ness
For many years, the U.S. military has been talking up and promoting the concept of "jointness." An Army helicopter landing Navy SEALs on a Korean ship catches some of this ethos at the tactical level. But the future, it seems, has something else in store. Think of it as "blur-ness," a kind of organizational version of war-fighting in which a dominant Pentagon fuses its forces with other government agencies — especially the CIA, the State Department, and the Drug Enforcement Administration — in complex, overlapping missions around the globe.
In 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld began his "revolution in military affairs," steering the Pentagon toward a military-lite model of high-tech, agile forces. The concept came to a grim end in Iraq's embattled cities. A decade later, the last vestiges of its many failures continue to play out in a stalemated war in Afghanistan against a rag-tag minority insurgency that can't be beaten. In the years since, two secretaries of defense and a new president have presided over another transformation — this one geared toward avoiding ruinous, large-scale land wars which the U.S. has consistently proven unable to win.
Under President Obama, the U.S. has expanded or launched numerous military campaigns — most of them utilizing a mix of the six elements of twenty-first-century American war. Take the American war in Pakistan — a poster-child for what might now be called the Obama formula, if not doctrine. Beginning as a highly-circumscribed drone assassination campaign backed by limited cross-border commando raids under the Bush administration, U.S. operations in Pakistan have expanded into something close to a full-scale robotic air war, complemented by cross-border helicopter attacks, CIA-funded "kill teams" of Afghan proxy forces, as well as boots-on-the-ground missions by elite special operations forces, including the SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
The CIA has conducted clandestine intelligence and surveillance missions in Pakistan, too, though its role may, in the future, be less important, thanks to Pentagon mission creep. In April, in fact, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced the creation of a new CIA-like espionage agency within the Pentagon called the Defense Clandestine Service. According to the Washington Post, its aim is to expand "the military's espionage efforts beyond war zones."
Over the last decade, the very notion of war zones has become remarkably muddled, mirroring the blurring of the missions and activities of the CIA and Pentagon. Analyzing the new agency and the "broader convergence trend" between Department of Defense and CIA missions, the Post noted that the "blurring is also evident in the organizations' upper ranks. Panetta previously served as CIA director, and that post is currently held by retired four-star Army Gen. David H. Petraeus."
Not to be outdone, last year the State Department, once the seat of diplomacy, continued on its long march to militarization (and marginalization) when it agreed to pool some of its resources with the Pentagon to create the Global Security Contingency Fund. That program will allow the Defense Department even greater say in how aid from Washington will flow to proxy forces in places like Yemen and the Horn of Africa.
One thing is certain: American war-making (along with its spies and its diplomats) is heading ever deeper into "the shadows." Expect yet more clandestine operations in ever more places with, of course, ever more potential for blowback in the years ahead.
Shedding Light on "the Dark Continent"
One locale likely to see an influx of Pentagon spies in the coming years is Africa. Under President Obama, operations on the continent have accelerated far beyond the more limited interventions of the Bush years. Last year's war in Libya; a regional drone campaign with missions run out of airports and bases in Djibouti, Ethiopia, and the Indian Ocean archipelago nation of Seychelles; a flotilla of 30 ships in that ocean supporting regional operations; a multi-pronged military and CIA campaign against militants in Somalia, including intelligence operations, training for Somali agents, secret prisons, helicopter attacks, and U.S. commando raids; a massive influx of cash for counterterrorism operations across East Africa; a possible old-fashioned air war, carried out on the sly in the region using manned aircraft; tens of millions of dollars in arms for allied mercenaries and African troops; and a special ops expeditionary force (bolstered by State Department experts) dispatched to help capture or kill Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony and his senior commanders, operating in Uganda, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Central African Republic (where U.S. Special Forces now have a new base) only begins to scratch the surface of Washington's fast-expanding plans and activities in the region.
Even less well known are other U.S. military efforts designed to train African forces for operations now considered integral to American interests on the continent. These include, for example, a mission by elite Force Recon Marines from the Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force 12 (SPMAGTF-12) to train soldiers from the Uganda People's Defense Force, which supplies the majority of troops to the African Union Mission in Somalia.
Earlier this year, Marines from SPMAGTF-12 also trained soldiers from the Burundi National Defense Force, the second-largest contingent in Somalia; sent trainers into Djibouti (where the U.S. already maintains a major Horn of Africa base at Camp Lemonier); and traveled to Liberia where they focused on teaching riot-control techniques to Liberia's military as part of an otherwise State Department spearheaded effort to rebuild that force.
The U.S. is also conducting counterterrorism training and equipping militaries in Algeria, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mauritania, Niger, and Tunisia. In addition, U.S. Africa Command (Africom) has 14 major joint-training exercises planned for 2012, including operations in Morocco, Cameroon, Gabon, Botswana, South Africa, Lesotho, Senegal, and what may become the Pakistan of Africa, Nigeria.
Even this, however, doesn't encompass the full breadth of U.S. training and advising missions in Africa. To take an example not on Africom's list, this spring the U.S. brought together 11 nations, including Cote d'Ivoire, The Gambia, Liberia, Mauritania, and Sierra Leone to take part in a maritime training exercise code-named Saharan Express 2012.
Back in the Backyard
Since its founding, the United States has often meddled close to home, treating the Caribbean as its private lake and intervening at will throughout Latin America. During the Bush years, with some notable exceptions, Washington's interest in America's "backyard" took a backseat to wars farther from home. Recently, however, the Obama administration has been ramping up operations south of the border using its new formula. This has meant Pentagon drone missions deep inside Mexico to aid that country's battle against the drug cartels, while CIA agents and civilian operatives from the Department of Defense were dispatched to Mexican military bases to take part in the country's drug war.
In 2012, the Pentagon has also ramped up its anti-drug operations in Honduras. Working out of Forward Operating Base Mocoron and other remote camps there, the U.S. military is supporting Honduran operations by way of the methods it honed in Iraq and Afghanistan. In addition, U.S. forces have taken part in joint operations with Honduran troops as part of a training mission dubbed Beyond the Horizon 2012; Green Berets have been assisting Honduran Special Operations forces in anti-smuggling operations; and a Drug Enforcement Administration Foreign-deployed Advisory Support Team, originally created to disrupt the poppy trade in Afghanistan, has joined forces with Honduras's Tactical Response Team, that country's most elite counternarcotics unit. A glimpse of these operations made the news recently when DEA agents, flying in an American helicopter, were involved in an aerial attack on civilians that killed two men and two pregnant women in the remote Mosquito Coast region.
Less visible have been U.S. efforts in Guyana, where Special Operation Forces have been training local troops in heliborne air assault techniques. "This is the first time we have had this type of exercise involving Special Operations Forces of the United States on such a grand scale," Colonel Bruce Lovell of the Guyana Defense Force told a U.S. public affairs official earlier this year. "It gives us a chance to validate ourselves and see where we are, what are our shortcomings."
The U.S. military has been similarly active elsewhere in Latin America, concluding training exercises in Guatemala, sponsoring "partnership-building" missions in the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Peru, and Panama, and reaching an agreement to carry out 19 "activities" with the Colombian army over the next year, including joint military exercises.
Still in the Middle of the Middle East
Despite the end of the Iraq and Libyan wars, a coming drawdown of forces in Afghanistan, and copious public announcements about its national security pivot toward Asia, Washington is by no means withdrawing from the Greater Middle East. In addition to continuing operations in Afghanistan, the U.S. has consistently been at work training allied troops, building up military bases, and brokering weapons sales and arms transfers to despots in the region from Bahrain to Yemen.
In fact, Yemen, like its neighbor, Somalia, across the Gulf of Aden, has become a laboratory for Obama's wars. There, the U.S. is carrying out its signature new brand of warfare with "black ops" troops like the SEALs and the Army's Delta Force undoubtedly conducting kill/capture missions, while "white" forces like the Green Berets and Rangers are training indigenous troops, and robot planes hunt and kill members of al-Qaeda and its affiliates, possibly assisted by an even more secret contingent of manned aircraft.
The Middle East has also become the somewhat unlikely poster-region for another emerging facet of the Obama doctrine: cyberwar efforts. In a category-blurring speaking engagement, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton surfaced at the recent Special Operations Forces Industry Conference in Florida where she gave a speech talking up her department's eagerness to join in the new American way of war. "We need Special Operations Forces who are as comfortable drinking tea with tribal leaders as raiding a terrorist compound," she told the crowd. "We also need diplomats and development experts who are up to the job of being your partners."
Clinton then took the opportunity to tout her agency's online efforts, aimed at websites used by al-Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen. When al-Qaeda recruitment messages appeared on the latter, she said, "our team plastered the same sites with altered versions… that showed the toll al-Qaeda attacks have taken on the Yemeni people." She further noted that this information-warfare mission was carried out by experts at State's Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications with assistance, not surprisingly, from the military and the U.S. Intelligence Community.
These modest on-line efforts join more potent methods of cyberwar being employed by the Pentagon and the CIA, including the recently revealed "Olympic Games," a program of sophisticated attacks on computers in Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities engineered and unleashed by the National Security Agency (NSA) and Unit 8200, Israeli's equivalent of the NSA. As with other facets of the new way of war, these efforts were begun under the Bush administration but significantly accelerated under the current president, who became the first American commander-in-chief to order sustained cyberattacks designed to cripple another country's infrastructure.
From Brushfires to Wildfires
Across the globe from Central and South America to Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, the Obama administration is working out its formula for a new American way of war. In its pursuit, the Pentagon and its increasingly militarized government partners are drawing on everything from classic precepts of colonial warfare to the latest technologies.
The United States is an imperial power chastened by more than 10 years of failed, heavy-footprint wars. It is hobbled by a hollowing-out economy, and inundated with hundreds of thousands of recent veterans — a staggering 45% of the troops who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq — suffering from service-related disabilities who will require ever more expensive care. No wonder the current combination of special ops, drones, spy games, civilian soldiers, cyberwarfare, and proxy fighters sounds like a safer, saner brand of war-fighting. At first blush, it may even look like a panacea for America's national security ills. In reality, it may be anything but.
The new light-footprint Obama doctrine actually seems to be making war an ever more attractive and seemingly easy option — a point emphasized recently by former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace. "I worry about speed making it too easy to employ force," said Pace when asked about recent efforts to make it simpler to deploy Special Operations Forces abroad. "I worry about speed making it too easy to take the easy answer — let's go whack them with special operations — as opposed to perhaps a more laborious answer for perhaps a better long-term solution."
As a result, the new American way of war holds great potential for unforeseen entanglements and serial blowback. Starting or fanning brushfire wars on several continents could lead to raging wildfires that spread unpredictably and prove difficult, if not impossible, to quench.
By their very nature, small military engagements tend to get larger, and wars tend to spread beyond borders. By definition, military action tends to have unforeseen consequences. Those who doubt this need only look back to 2001, when three low-tech attacks on a single day set in motion a decade-plus of war that has spread across the globe. The response to that one day began with a war in Afghanistan, that spread to Pakistan, detoured to Iraq, popped up in Somalia and Yemen, and so on. Today, veterans of those Ur-interventions find themselves trying to replicate their dubious successes in places like Mexico and Honduras, the Central Africa Republic and the Congo.
History demonstrates that the U.S. is not very good at winning wars, having gone without victory in any major conflict since 1945. Smaller interventions have been a mixed bag with modest victories in places like Panama and Grenada and ignominious outcomes in Lebanon (in the 1980s) and Somalia (in the 1990s), to name a few.
The trouble is, it's hard to tell what an intervention will grow up to be — until it's too late. While they followed different paths, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq all began relatively small, before growing large and ruinous. Already, the outlook for the new Obama doctrine seems far from rosy, despite the good press it's getting inside Washington's Beltway.
What looks today like a formula for easy power projection that will further U.S. imperial interests on the cheap could soon prove to be an unmitigated disaster — one that likely won't be apparent until it's too late.
Nick Turse is the associate editor of TomDispatch.com. An award-winning journalist, his work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Nation, and regularly at TomDispatch. He is the author/editor of several books, including the just published Terminator Planet: The First History of Drone Warfare, 2001-2050 (with Tom Engelhardt). This piece is the latest article in his new series on the changing face of American empire, which is being underwritten by Lannan Foundation. You can follow him on Twitter @NickTurse, on Tumblr, and on Facebook.


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Home News	Does Sheriff Roundtree have a regime?
Does Sheriff Roundtree have a regime?
by The Insider March 14, 2018
written by The Insider March 14, 2018
Just last month, The Insider wrote a column about an explosive Facebook post by former Sgt. Shane McDaniel of the Richmond County Sheriff's Office.
Former Sgt. Shane McDaniel
McDaniel was once the public information officer for the sheriff's office, and he stunned many local Augustans in February by posting several scathing remarks about Richmond County Sheriff Richard Roundtree's leadership style.
"I am sitting back and watching (with a HUGE SMILE) some GREAT & INTELLIGENT people leave a cesspool of an agency. Congrats to you courageous people for standing up for what's right for YOU. You men and women deserve so much more… And you definitely deserve a better leader," McDaniel posted on Facebook in February. "If a leader doesn't understand the concept of 'service above self,' they will not gather the trust, confidence and loyalty of their subordinates. Any leader is only as good as his or her team's desire to be led by them. An over abundance of EGO, PRIDE and ARROGANCE are NOT positive leadership traits. Real leaders take the blame and give the credit — not the other way around. Long story short: if a leader receives a vote of non-confidence from their subordinates… Then the subordinates WILL seek alternatives."
Well, apparently McDaniel had a lot more to say about Roundtree and the sheriff's office.
This past Sunday, McDaniel was a guest on WGAC's "Law Talk" radio show hosted by local attorney P.J. Campanaro.
During the hour-long program, he discussed the growing number of veteran officers who are leaving the sheriff's office due to low morale. And he didn't hold back.
McDaniel insisted there was some "very negative stuff" happening within the sheriff's office.
"For example, enforcing policy and procedure 50 percent of the time and turning a blind eye the other 50 percent of the time," McDaniel stated on the air. "Or promotions. Promoting people that are just strictly not qualified. That happened several times recently."
McDaniel said that the sheriff's office is "bypassing" people who are college educated or have "serious tenure" and, instead, the sheriff is promoting officers who are not qualified for the higher ranking positions.
He said these tenured officer could do the job with "their eyes closed," but they are not being seriously considered for these positions.
"That's almost a slap in the face," McDaniel said, adding that he believes the "good ol' boy system" is still affecting the sheriff's office.
"You still have the good ol' boy system under this regime," he stated. "It's just a different regime."
As a result, McDaniel said that many of the officers within the sheriff's department are not being treated fairly.
"It's not fair to those who have put in the time," he said. "It's not fair to those who have gotten their education. There is one guy right now, he's working on his master's degree and does a fantastic job."
But this individual is being ignored within the department because he's not part of Roundtree's regime, McDaniel said.
As the conversation continued, McDaniel was asked whether he believed the regime within the sheriff's office fell along "racial lines."
McDaniel paused for a moment, and then said he didn't really feel comfortable answering that question.
"For me, it wasn't racial. Now, do I see things happening along racial lines?" McDaniel asked. "It can be interpreted that way. Yes. It can."
But McDaniel insisted that the problems within the sheriff's department aren't centered on race.
"I'm saying some of the people who have been promoted, don't meet the qualifications to be a supervisor," McDaniel said. "Now, what other deputies and other supervisors are telling me, they are venting to me that they think those folks are being promoted based on race. That's some of their opinions. They have told me that."
McDaniel said it's a shame because he, at one time, thought he had a good working relationship with Roundtree prior to him becoming sheriff.
"I considered the sheriff a friend of mine because we went back to the old Augusta Police Department days together," McDaniel said. "We were on the same shift at one point. We were privates together. I considered him a friend."
But now, McDaniel said he no longer speaks to the sheriff.
In fact, he was surprised that Roundtree regularly insists on a closed-door policy in his department.
"I have not spoken with the sheriff," McDaniel said. "He usually, the majority of the time, keeps his door closed. When I was employed there as a sergeant in internal affairs, … I only went up there if it was strictly work related, and I would have to knock on his door."
It's pretty bad when your own staff feels like you're unapproachable.
As an elected official, the sheriff needs to listen to his veteran officers before it's too late because McDaniel said the morale in the department is so tremendously low right now that he hears from discouraged officers on a regular basis.
"My cellphone has been blowing up for the last several weeks," McDaniel said. "Since leaving the sheriff's office, I feel like a whole new person. I feel great. I feel relieved. I am stress free."
But McDaniel said he still feels bad for his former colleagues within the Richmond County Sheriff's Office who are stuck in a no-win situation.
"I wish I could do something to help them out because those men and women work their butts off," McDaniel said. "Those are the real workhorses."
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Air New Zealand claims damages from Z Energy over fuel supply fiasco
Saurav Kumar March 11, 2019 Headlines
Air NZ is claiming millions of dollars in damages from Z Energy as it failed to deliver jet fuel
Z Energy supposedly prioritized full stocking of petrol stations over Auckland Airport
Air New Zealand is reportedly claiming millions of dollars in damages from Z Energy as it failed to deliver jet fuel to the airline during two weeks in 2017, which led to several cancelled flights. Apparently, the fuel pipeline was out of action between Sept. 16 and 30, and during the time Z Energy provided only 30 percent of the jet fuel required to operate its international and domestic flights.
Nathan Gedye, lawyer of Air New Zealand, told the Auckland High Court that the airline suffered losses and had to cancel flights, when the 168 kilometer fuel pipeline from the Marsden Refinery in Northland was damaged by a digger operator.
Air New Zealand treasurer Paul Kelway stated at the court that Z Energy prioritized keeping petrol stations fully stocked, after the pipeline was closed, in order to avoid a backlash from motorists ahead of the general election in October. He suggested the supplier may have been encouraged by the National-led government to do so.
Further from the reports, Air New Zealand has no written contract with Z Energy, however, Gedye mentioned that there was an implied contract which meant Z Energy had to supply it with jet fuel continuously. Representing Z Energy, Victoria Heine denied there was such an obligation, though if there was one, it would only require Z Energy to make reasonable efforts to fulfil it, and that the ability for doing so had been frustrated by the damage to the pipeline, which is an event outside of its control.
Gedye mentioned that Air New Zealand was seeking damages of US$4.1 million and the airline had already settled a damages claim with BP. Gedye further said that the fuel companies supplying airlines knew that relying on a single oil pipeline, as well as limited storage of jet fuel supplies at the airport, posed a supply risk.