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Since his acquittal in November, Kyle Rittenhouse has made numerous media appearances to discuss the trial, his own feelings, and his future endeavors.
There are some merits to these media appearances. Discussions about the smear campaign that was coordinated against Rittenhouse are useful to display media malfeasance. However, some media figures care much less about the substance that can be gleaned from these discussions and more about getting clicks. Kyle Rittenhouse is being used by some as a celebrity, and the hype that surrounded the trial is being harnessed by companies who wish to attract attention to their own brand.
Even before he had a court date, Rittenhouse was being targeted by individuals who wanted to use his name to benefit their own pursuits.
Rittenhouse was initially represented by Lin Wood and John Pierce, two attorneys who have become "QAnon" celebrities over the past year. Both lawyers were later fired for leaving Rittenhouse in jail for 87 days, raising money for themselves under the guise of a bail fund, and abusing the platform given to them by infiltrating conspiracies into their messaging.
Rittenhouse was able to realize their true motivations because Wood and Pierce materially wronged him. Yet, when it comes to those in the media who want to use him as a piece of programming, it doesn't seem Rittenhouse has had the same epiphany.
Although Rittenhouse has made it clear that he does not wish "to be congratulated" on his acts of self defense, and that he wishes he "wouldn't have had to take somebody's life," he certainly has not been reluctant to attend events celebrating him as a right wing icon.
The Blaze TV podcast You Are Here had Rittenhouse on for an episode where the conversation about the trial itself quickly devolved into inquiries about Rittenhouse losing his virginity and whether he likes girls "curvy or thin." Steven Crowder also inquired about Rittenhouse's sexual preferences on his podcast.
At their December "AmericaFest" conference, Turning Point USA unleashed the spectacle of Kyle Rittenhouse, parading him out with music, confetti, pyrotechnics, and air horns. Of course, it was met with standing ovation.
Adults inquiring about a teenager's sexuality is unprofessional and creepy as is. But it also reveals that the focus of these individuals is even more so inappropriate. It's not about self-defense or justice to them, but rather about viral clips of the political celebrity du jour.
Groups like Turning Point USA and Blaze Media understand that harnessing the attention garnered by the trial is a good marketing strategy. Their intention is not purely to broadcast the voice of Rittenhouse, it is to use his voice and notoriety to promote their own brand.
He was being used by Lin Wood and he is being used by Charlie Kirk and Steven Crowder. The only difference, now, is that Rittenhouse is benefitting from the publicity. While Rittenhouse is ultimately responsible for how he conducts himself in the media, the conservative "icons" that are inflating his ego deserve their fair share of the blame.
This sort of publicity could encourage more kids to act as Rittenhouse did, putting themselves in dangerous situations where they may be forced to take a life. Rittenhouse, under his own admission, was foolish to have been in Kenosha that night and we should not glorify his actions even if they were lawful.
A discussion about Rittenhouse's actions, their legality, and the attempts from powerful individuals to smear Rittenhouse are one thing. However, many want to celebrate Rittenhouse as a personality of the conservative movement, which I believe is a road better left untraveled.
Dace Potas
Dace Potas is a sophomore at DePaul University, studying Political Science and Mandarin Chinese. He plans to pursue a career relating to political commentary or journalism.
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Alicia Silverstone Loves Her 30s
"I'm carving out the life I want to live."
By Margot Dougherty
Who'd-a thunk that the movie world's most iconic, and endearing, superficialite would grow up to be a one-woman vegan ambassador for the planet? What started out as a passion for animals has led Alicia Silverstone, the teenage Clueless superstar, to spend the last several years remaking herself into a champion of the reduce-reuse-recycle lifestyle. Both Alicia and her husband of four years, musician Christopher Jarecki, are big believers that simple green choices can have significant personal and environmental impacts. She's a cheerleader rather than a taskmaster, hoping to guide people to, in her words, "their deepest, bestest selves." This month, as Alicia turns 33, she amps up the effort with publication of The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet, which she coauthored with Neal Barnard, M.D. The book offers vegan recipes, medical info about the pros and cons of different foods, and handy tips for eco-conscientious living. She's also introducing a line of environmentally friendly cosmetics bags and makeup brushes in December called ecoTools by Alicia Silverstone; they'll be available at Walgreens and Target stores. "I'm always looking for inspiration," Alicia says over a plate of vegan nachos at the Los Angeles café Real Food Daily. "Like, Can I learn from you? Can you teach me stuff about this life? I always want to be inspired by people and keep growing. I feel more vibrant today than when I was 19!"
Looking back over your life so far, which birthdays have felt biggest?
When I was little, every birthday was big — you just couldn't wait to get older. But a lot of great things happened around 30. From 28 to now has been a time of incredible change and growth, deepening and ripening, good stuff. It's been hard too, because when you're going through that stuff you have to go down into the mud. They've been really interesting years.
What was the worst part of your 20s?
Anxiety. I had a lot of anxiety. I remember saying, "I want to get rid of this anxiety." Just feeling uncomfortable. And now it's all gone. It's like, What? I don't know what anxiety is like anymore.
The huge success of Clueless must also have been overwhelming.
It was overwhelming. And I was really isolated. From 19 to 28 there was a lot of turmoil in my life, but in a stuck way. Then, around 28, my life started to get shaken up. I realized I wanted to grow more and that anything that wasn't working in my life, I could fix it. I feel like I came into my womanhood. And that was when I got married. I wasn't attached to the idea of marriage, but something about Christopher and me — when we got married, things got more clear. My life and my decisions.
Maybe knowing you'd found "the guy" gave you the time and confidence to do what you really wanted to do.
Maybe. I think what Christopher did for me was to free up my head. Sometimes I think being single is fantastic. How exciting! But I can underestimate how being so happy in my relationship frees me to grow as a woman. When I hear my girlfriends stressing out about guys, I think, Wow, I'm so lucky, because I don't even think about those things.
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Plus, you share the same passions.
He's an amazing guy, my best friend. One of the things about him that inspires me continuously is how willing he is to grow. When people aren't willing to do that, it's really hard. When you see the potential and joy that comes from growth.... Yeah, it's hard when you have to step into the fire — but if you can get through it, it's beautiful. Christopher and I, we encourage each other to grow. He might nudge me: "Hey, lady, you're slacking." And I can nudge back: "Hey, dude, what's up?"
What else do you love about your 30s?
I have these tools that allow me to feel so good. Most people are getting older and older because they're just doing more damage. But when you're not doing damage, your body is healing and nourishing itself. I don't take any of the medications I took when I was younger: antibiotics, antacids, aspirin, asthma inhalers, ulcer medication, allergy shots.
That inspired your book?
I want people to realize that you don't have to be sick. A lot of girls can't poo! That is really bad. You can fix that. A lot of people have cholesterol or heart issues. I believe none of it's necessary if you just eat well. Every step of the book has been heart-opening. It's so great to get all my thoughts into one organized space. It's really how I want to say it.
What's less than great about the 30s?
This thing on my head's growing [points to the mole on her forehead]. It's got a life of its own. It's like a wart I've had my whole life, a beauty mark turning into a full-blown witch wart. A doctor's looked at it, and it's nothing. And I don't want to have it removed because — like, if my leg falls off, I'll go to a doctor. But until then, I'm okay.
Do you have any role models? Women you especially admire?
So many. I love Susan Sarandon. She's such a sexy, sassy, sophisticated woman — and playful. She's such a great example of what a hot woman is.
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Someone else you admire, your friend and cover mate Connie Britton, told me a funny story about how you met.
Oh, that I pulled over the car and attacked her? I just love her. She is so amazing.
[Here's how Connie remembers it: "I was walking down the street in L.A., and suddenly this hybrid — Alicia would want me to clarify that it was a hybrid — swerves over to the side of the road. The window rolls down and out pops Alicia's head. She was with her husband, and they said, 'We love your show!' It was such a hilarious and flattering moment."]
Can you see yourself at 80?
I hope I'm dancing a lot and doing yoga and taking long walks. I hope I live on the beach somewhere and have beautiful children and beautiful grandchildren and a really deep loving family.
So you want to have kids? This decade?
Yeah. This decade.
Do you think there's a sexiest decade?
I would think that every day that you're carving out the life you want to live, nourishing your body, and limiting the damage, that you keep getting sexier and sexier.
What's an ideal age in your mind?
Right now. And whatever "now" is until forever.
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Q: How do I read HttpEntity without consuming it? I've got org.apache.http.HttpResponse object, which I'm using at different places in the code. One of those places is for logging.
The problem is that when I run following log code:
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
try {
    String content = Base64.encodeToString(
            EntityUtils.toByteArray(entity), Base64.DEFAULT);
    sb.append(content + "\r\n");
} catch (Exception e) {
    sb.append("\r\n\r\n====EXCEPTION=====\r\n" + e.toString()
            + "\r\n");
}

and than I try to read entry content in the actual processing code, that causes the code to throw following exception:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Content has been consumed

My question is: how do I read the entity without consuming it in the log code?
UPDATE
here's the full code of the function I use to transform httpresponse to string:
static String toString(org.apache.http.HttpResponse response) {
    try {
        if (response == null) {
            return "null";
        }

        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        sb.append("==============BEGIN HttpResponse================\r\n");
        StatusLine sl = response.getStatusLine();
        if (sl == null) {
            sb.append("status line is null\r\n");
        } else {
            sb.append(String.format("%s %s\r\n", sl.getStatusCode(),
                    sl.getReasonPhrase()));
        }

        for (Header h : response.getAllHeaders()) {
            if (h == null) {
                sb.append("header is null\r\n");
                continue;
            }
            sb.append(String.format("%s: %s\r\n", h.getName(), h.getValue()));
        }

        sb.append("\r\r\r\n");

        HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
        if (entity == null) {
            sb.append("content is null");
        } else {
            try {
                String content = Base64.encodeToString(
                        EntityUtils.toByteArray(entity), Base64.DEFAULT);

                sb.append(content + "\r\n");
            } catch (Exception e) {
                sb.append("\r\n\r\n====EXCEPTION=====\r\n" + e.toString()
                        + "\r\n");
            }
        }

        sb.append("\r\n==============END HttpResponse================\r\n");

        return sb.toString();
    } catch (Exception e) {
        return e.toString();
    }
}

A: Ok. So what I ended up doing is implementing my own HttpEntity class, and than just using  response.setEntity(...) to replace the previous entity. That class stores the result as binary array and returns it as many times as necessary.

A: It might give you some performance issues, but will work:
Example of my HttpClient with logging.
private CloseableHttpResponse invoke(HttpRequestBase http) {
        try {
            CloseableHttpResponse response = client.execute(http);
            if (http instanceof HttpPost) {
                InputStream inputStream = ((HttpPost) http).getEntity().getContent();
                String body = IOUtils.toString(inputStream, Charset.defaultCharset());

                HttpEntity respBody = response.getEntity();
                String responseBody = StreamUtils.copyToString(respBody.getContent(), Charset.defaultCharset());
                response.setEntity(new StringEntity(responseBody));
                LOG.info(String.format("Sending request: [%s] %s => [%s] \nPayload:\n%s \nResponse:\n%s", http.getMethod(), http.getURI(), response.getStatusLine(), body, responseBody));
            } else {
                LOG.info(String.format("Sending request: [%s] %s => [%s]", http.getMethod(), http.getURI(), response.getStatusLine()));
            }
            return response;
        } catch (IOException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException("HTTP request failed: " + http.toString(), e);
        }
    }

Main idea is following:
1. make http call
2. copy to string your response body:
 HttpEntity respBody = response.getEntity();
 String responseBody = StreamUtils.copyToString(respBody.getContent(), Charset.defaultCharset());

*log it

*set new response entity like response.setEntity(new StringEntity(responseBody));
This example work good for small test framework, not sure it's good code for production application

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Wednesday, June 17th 2020 - 19:19 UTC
Ahead of Macron's London visit, minister warns France does not rule out a post-Brexit "no deal" with UK
France does not rule out Europe failing to reach a deal on its post-Brexit relationship with Britain but very much wants to avoid such an outcome, its foreign minister was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
Wednesday, November 20th 2019 - 08:42 UTC
French minister meets northeast Brazil states governors to discuss sustainable development
French minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian, met on Tuesday in Paris with the Brazilian governors of the nine states of the consortium for sustainable development in the northeast of the country.
Friday, September 27th 2019 - 09:51 UTC
Twenty countries sign an agreement to stop spread of fake news
Twenty countries, including France, Britain, and India, signed an agreement at the UN on Thursday that aims to stop the spread of fake news online. The signatories, which also included South Africa and Canada, committed to promoting "independently reported, diverse and reliable" information on the internet, under an accord initiated by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), a press freedom watchdog.
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Bolsonaro's haircut a coarse gesture from Brazil to France's FM
Brazil's authorities maintained Friday President Jair Bolsonaro's haircut was not the reason for leaving France's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian in the lurch and argued it was all a matter of agenda.
Friday, February 1st 2019 - 10:34 UTC
France, Germany and UK agree on new channel to trade with Iran and avert US sanctions
France, Germany and Britain have opened a new channel for non-dollar trade with Iran to avert U.S. sanctions, although diplomats say it is unlikely to allow for the big transactions that Tehran says it needs to keep a nuclear deal afloat. Washington's major European allies opposed last year's decision by U.S. President Donald Trump to abandon the 2015 deal, under which international sanctions on Iran were lifted in return for Tehran accepting curbs on its nuclear program.
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Minister Faurie in France addresses bilateral relations and Mercosur/EU talks
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John Knox talks about his family history in Atlanta, on both his maternal and paternal sides. His father and grandfather were both real estate developers who had a significant impact on the city of Atlanta. He also recounts his family's experiences during the Civil War. He goes on to recall his own experiences growing up in Buckhead. He attended Miss Bloodworth's Kindergarten, E. Rivers Elementary, and North Fulton High School. He tells several stories about pranks he and his friends played as kids.
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Chinese Communist Party Turns 100 With Spectacle, Fiery Xi Jinping Speech In a fiery speech at Tiananmen Square, Communist Party Chairman Xi Jinping vowed to keep an iron grip on Hong Kong and to conquer Tiawan, and warned foreign forces against trying to bully China.
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Today China's Communist Party starts celebrations for its 100th birthday. The country has been hosting party history lessons. And in the capital of Beijing this morning, the party threw itself a birthday parade.
UNIDENTIFIED SINGERS: (Singing in non-English language).
KING: NPR's Emily Feng is in Beijing. Hi, Emily.
EMILY FENG, BYLINE: Good morning.
KING: Just - even that little bit of sound is extraordinary. What did you see today in Beijing?
FENG: China kicked off a big performance in Tiananmen Square, in the center of the city. There were hundreds of singing children, some of whom you heard in the midst of those baritones. They had artillery fire. They had flying pigeons. But the real centerpiece was Chinese leader Xi Jinping's speech. He delivered it in front of the Imperial Forbidden City, flanked by other leaders wearing Western suits. But Xi was the only one wearing a gray Mao suit. And he made an hour-long speech about why this 100-year-old party is still needed today in China.
XI JINPING: (Non-English language spoken).
FENG: He said, "The Chinese people will never allow any foreign forces to bully, oppress or enslave us. Anyone who dares will have their heads cracked, and their blood will flow before the steel Great Wall built with the flesh and blood of 1.4 billion Chinese people."
These are really strong words.
KING: Yes.
FENG: And that's because the party's central animus over the last century has always been what it calls the great rejuvenation, making China strong again so it cannot be controlled by foreign powers.
KING: Now, Emily, this is not the same Communist Party that China had in 1921 for so very many reasons. What are the big changes over the last hundred years?
FENG: Well, when you think about it, the party is a very anachronistic thing. It began as a revolutionary party. And it was founded at a time when China was clawing its way out of an imperial dynastic system, and it was overwhelmingly rural farmers. But since then, the party has had to transform itself into a governing force. It's built its own schools to train members. It's put party cells in businesses and organizations abroad to extend its influence. So it's not just a political party, it's the actual fabric through which all political power's threaded in China.
KING: And then how does that work? - because China has a president and a premier who run the country. China also has a party chairman and millions of party cadres. How do they interact?
FENG: Right. You have the party, and then you have the government. In some ways, they're parallel. But in most ways, the party is above the actual government.
KING: Wow.
FENG: So Xi Jinping is president, but his far more important title is party chairman. And under him, we've seen this incredible resurgence of the Communist Party in all facets of life. It is the guiding force that is behind and in many ways above the government that channels resources towards ends it decides on that are supposed to help most citizens, for example, like containing a coronavirus pandemic. But because it sits behind everything, that's also created this ongoing tension between wanting absolute control and being pressured to liberalize. Here's Deng Yuwen, who was once a senior editor at a big party-run paper.
DENG YUWEN: (Non-English language spoken).
FENG: He describes the party like the patriarch of a traditional Chinese family. Everything this man says goes. If you respect him, he gives you some favors. But if you cross him, he banishes you from the party. And today, one of the biggest challenges that remains is making sure this party-run autocracy is efficient and responsive because modern China has always had this problem where local and top-level officials cover up their mistakes. And today, as Xi Jinping consolidates power, that risk is bigger than ever.
KING: Emily, thanks for your reporting.
FENG: Thanks, Noel.
KING: NPR's Emily Feng there. And we'll be hearing more about the evolution of China's Communist Party over the next month from our China correspondents.


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How to avoid the infectious disease plaguing Flint, Mich.
The city of Flint, Mich., is facing an outbreak of an infectious disease called shigellosis, according to local reports.
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The bacterial disease is caused by Shigella bacteria and is often associated with crowded living conditions, poor hygiene, poverty and malnutrition in developing countries, according to Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
Shigellosis is one of the most common causes of diarrheal disease in the United States, according to Hotez. Many times those affected will experience fever, watery diarrhea which can become bloody, and abdominal cramping.
As with all bacterial infections, personal hygiene plays a large part in preventing the disease, according to Hotez, who is also Texas Children's Hospital endowed chair in tropical pediatrics. He notes that it's important for people to dispose of fecal material in sanitary way, and caretakers to remember to clean themselves after changing diapers and before preparing food.
"Hand washing with soap is really important," Hotez said.
Water is for all of us, so let's protect it
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reports show that Genesee County, which includes Flint, had 84 cases of shigellosis through September, the Detroit News reported.
More than half of the cases in the county have occurred in Flint, according to state records, the Detroit News reported.The Centers for Disease Control reports that Shigella causes about 500,000 cases of diarrhea a year.
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Miami Children's Hospital Recognized as a 2013 Computerworld Honors Laureate
IDG's Computerworld Honors Program has announced Miami Children's Hospital (MCH) as a 2013 Laureate. The annual award program honors visionary applications of information technology promoting positive social, economic and educational change.
Most recently, MCH launched a state-of-the-art Telehealth program, which utilizes mobile apps, interactive robotic devices, mobile medical carts, medical kiosks and more to support physicians in other countries in managing complex pediatric cases and patients with limited access to healthcare.
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Does Anyone Know That a Palestinian Created a Museum of the Holocaust?
Christophe Ayad,
Libération
In "The Arabs and the Holocaust," Gilbert Achcar, a Lebanese scholar, rigorously analyzes the history of the Arab world's perception of persecutions of the Jews, from Nazism to today.
Fifty-eight-year-old Lebanese intellectual Gilbert Achcar is a professor at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). He has just published Les Arabes et la Shoah: la guerre israelo-arabe des recits (Sindbad Actes Sud) [The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives] (Metropolitan, New York, and Saqi, London). This very comprehensive work studies the Arab world's perceptions of Jewish persecutions before, during and after the Holocaust. Its exhaustiveness allows the work to go beyond cliches, beginning with the one concerning the mufti of Jerusalem Amin al-Husseini, who was invited to attend an SS parade in Berlin right in the middle of the Second World War. Other voices are allowed to be heard in this book; other positions are related and explained in it. One learns, notably, that the Egyptian Anwar al-Sadat and the Palestinian Mahmoud Abbas, presented as champions of peace, were distinctly more anti-Semitic in their youth than Nasser and Arafat, unjustly criticized on this score. Achcar, impeccably rigorous both intellectually and morally, also describes the complexity and ambiguity of the relationship between the Shoah and the Nakba, i.e. the dispossession of Palestinians driven off their lands in 1948 (although the two words do not designate the same thing, they translate to the same word in French and English: the "Catastrophe").
Previously, Gilbert Achcar had published Le Choc des barbaries [The Clash of Barbarisms: The Making of the New World Disorder] (2002, 2006), L'Orient incandescent [Eastern Cauldron: Islam, Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq in a Marxist Mirror] (2003), La Guerre des 33 jours [The 33-Day War: Israel's War on Hezbollah in Lebanon and its Consequences] (2006) and, with Noam Chomsky, La Poudriere du Moyen-Orient [Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy] (2007).
Chistophe Ayad for Liberation: As an epigraph to your latest book, you chose a phrase from the Gospel of Matthew: "And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?"
Gilbert Achar: It's an excellent rule of life to acknowledge one's own faults before going after those of others. I applied it to myself in my position as a person who came from the Arab world in order to say things without concession. It should also be applied by those who blame the Arabs and do not see the injustice they themselves inflict on others . . .
Is your book the first exhaustive work on this subject by an Arab academic?
Yes, absolutely. There has not been any systematic study of this question. There are classics that cover the relations between Nazi Germany and the Arab world (1), but they are more concerned with diplomatic history than with a specific study of the perception of Nazism, anti-Jewish persecutions and the Holocaust in the Arab world. There is also a recent book by Israeli authors (2), that I criticize a great deal because it's a catalogue that puts unknown despicable persons on the same level as more significant personalities. They make no mention whatsoever of Arafat's visit to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam – a strong symbolic act intended to make up for his aborted visit to the Holocaust memorial in Washington.
What attitudes dominated the Arab world during the Holocaust?
In the first place, "the Arabs" do not exist. To speak of an Arab discourse in the singular is nonsense. The Arab world is traversed by a multitude of perspectives. At the time of the Holocaust, one could distinguish four major ideological currents that ran from liberal Westernizers through Marxists and nationalists to Islamic fundamentalists. Out of these four currents, two clearly rejected Nazism: liberal Westernizers and Marxists, in part for shared reasons (the Enlightenment legacy, the denunciation of Nazism as racist) and in part because of their geopolitical affiliations. Arab nationalism is contradictory on this question. However, if one looks closely, the number of nationalist groups that identified themselves with Nazi propaganda is ultimately very limited. There was a single Nazi clone in the Arab world – that was the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, founded by a Lebanese Christian, Antun Saadeh. The Young Egypt movement flirted with Nazism briefly, but it was a weathervane party. As for the accusations that the Baath Party owed the inspiration for its birth in the 1940s to Nazism, they are completely wrong. I am far from an admirer of the Baath, especially the dictatorial Baath of today, but Michel Aflaq (Syrian intellectual Christian and Baath founder) was a leftist.
What about the Islamists?
Fundamentalist Pan-Islamism has no reservations concerning Nazi anti-Semitism. That choice went back to the beginning of the 1930s; it was inspired by Rashid Rida (reformist Egyptian Muslim intellectual who died in 1935). At first, Rida was rather pro-Jewish – in rejection of the West. For example, at the time of the Dreyfus affair, he condemned the persecution of the Jews by Christian Europe. Rida even tried to parley with the leaders of the Zionist movement – to little avail. With the exacerbation of tensions in Palestine, he changed course after 1929 and went on to take up and Islamicize the European anti-Semitic discourse by applying a religious varnish to the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" (3) and Nazi propaganda. In a general sense, there are elective affinities between Islamism and Nazism: The two "essentialize" the enemy, one through a religious mode and the other, still worse, in the form of biological racism. Please note that I'm talking here about Islamic fundamentalism and not about Islam. In the end, two leading figures of the fundamentalist movement were to collaborate closely with Berlin: Sheikh Shakib Arslan (from one of the two great feudal Lebanese Druze families, along with the Jumblatt) and the mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini. The two had established tight relations with Saudi Arabia, which, itself, had approached the Nazis. The Saudi kingdom interrupted those contacts out of caution and fear of Britain as soon as they began to be known.
How representative was Amin al-Husseini? Did his alliance with the Nazis tarnish the Palestinian cause on a permanent basis?
In the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, the article devoted to Amin al-Husseini is exceeded in length only by the one on Hitler: that's completely absurd because this man was nothing but a little cog in the Nazi machine and because he did not participate in the execution of the genocide. I don't want to exonerate him from the abjection of his positions, but that's out of all proportion. As for what he undertook on the Nazis' account, it was a total fiasco. His exhortations generated no resonance in the Arab world. If we count the number of Arabs and Berbers who fought alongside the Axis forces, it is minimal compared to those who fought with the Allies, including among Palestinians. Moreover, when Husseini took refuge in Berlin (in 1941), he was already discredited, since he had accumulated defeats: both in Palestine with the Arab Revolt of 1936-39 and in Iraq in 1941. One must note in passing that Amin al-Husseini's memoirs are an antidote against Holocaust denial: He knew that the genocide took place and boasted of having been perfectly aware of it from 1943 on. I believe he is an architect of the Nakba (the 1948 defeat and the departure of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians driven off their lands) in the sense that he bears a share of responsibility for what has happened to the Palestinian people.
In the Middle East, the Palestinians are the first to have undergone the consequences of the Holocaust. Are they more inclined than others to deny it, or, on the contrary, to recognize it?
One finds two symmetrical attitudes among the Palestinians. Some of them have understood that the lessons of the Holocaust are universal and that to deny it is not only wrong but also counter-productive. But does anyone know that a Palestinian created a museum of the Holocaust? Does anyone know that the village of Ni'lin (on the West Bank), known for its struggle against the separation wall, organized an exhibition on the Holocaust? Western media show these kinds of attitudes far less than their opposite. . .
The obverse is that there is, to a growing extent, an attitude of Holocaust denial among Palestinians. Take the Arab citizens of Israel, who speak Hebrew and who, in the framework of their schooling, have been over-informed about the Holocaust: it has been found that the rate of Holocaust denial among them has gone from 28% in 2004 to 40% in 2006. This phenomenon shows clearly that it's not a matter of thought-out Holocaust denial, as one found in Europe, but a form of defiance. It's a way – the worst possible way – of expressing resentment over the systematic escalation of violence since 2001 and Israeli society's slide to the right. It's a way of saying: They use the Holocaust to justify what they do to us; therefore, the Holocaust is an invention. It's a simplistic argument, one which an enlightened minority fights against. To combat it, one must become aware that the lessons of the Holocaust are universal and that any oppressed people, including the Palestinians, may refer to them. Instead of denying the Holocaust, it is in the Palestinians' best interest to deny Israel the right to exploit the Holocaust to justify its actions and reject all criticism. That's what several Israeli authors, including Avraham Burg (former Chairman of the Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organization,, and former Speaker of the Knesset), are saying today.
Do Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's provocations concerning the Holocaust reveal a general tendency?
Stupidity is one thing, abjection another. Unfortunately, these kinds of obscenity are on the rise in the Arab world, a phenomenon which delights the specialized pro-Israeli sites that collect them. As for Ahmadinejad, who is not Arab but who belongs to the regional landscape, his discourse is riddled with contradictions. On the one hand, he says: The Holocaust is a lie, a myth. On the other, he explains that it's a problem for the Germans and the Austrians who should create a Jewish state out of their own territory.
Where is Anti-Semitic discourse the most widespread in the Arab world?
In Saudi Arabia where Wahhabism – a form of ultra-archaic fundamentalism – is the state ideology. Under American pressure, the Saudi government has tempered its attitude, but at the institutional Wahhabite religious level, strong anti-Jewish feeling remains. Apart from that, there is no country in particular where anti-Semitism crystallizes. You find it most frequently wherever the fundamentalists prosper: the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, the Palestinian Hamas, the Lebanese Hezbollah, even though Hassan Nasrallah stopped using this discourse three years ago. Some nationalists, such as those who consider Saddam Hussein a hero, also promote this type of idea.
Was Pan-Arabism, which dominated the Arab world ideologically during the 1950s and 60s less anti-Jewish than Pan-Islamism?
Neither Nasser nor the Baath party in its early years was anti-Jewish. Leftist Pan-Arabism promoted cultural nationalism versus religious affiliation. That went so far as to consider the Jews – to the extent they did not act against the Arab nation – as cultural Arabs.
One of the most vicious anti-Jewish campaigns of that period was conducted by a pro-British Iraqi, Nuri al-Said, while Iraqi Jews were very deeply rooted in their country.
Several Israeli historians have revisited their own history in the light of the Nakba. Have Palestinian historians taken the Holocaust into account in their analyses?
When we talk about the history of the Zionist movement, many Palestinians and Arabs have done so and still do so, even though access to the archives is not always easy. But if you talk about the history of the Holocaust itself, they don't feel involved. Israel's relationship to the Nakba is not the Palestinians' relationship to the Holocaust. The dominant attitude in the Arab world is not so much to say, "That never happened," but rather: "Nazism is hideous, but one should not answer one injustice with another injustice by developing the colonization of Palestine. Why must we pay the price for what the Germans did?"
(1) "The Third Reich and The Arab East," Lukasz Hirszowicz (1966).
(2) "From Empathy To Denial: Arab Responses To The Holocaust," Meir Litvak and Esther Webman (2009).
(3)This counterfeit document was produced by the Czarist police at the end of the Nineteenth Century. It supposedly revealed the Jews' and Free Masons' world domination master plan.
Translation: Truthout French Language Editor Leslie Thatcher.
Christophe Ayad


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On new recruit Alex Mella: http://northeasternhockeyblog.com/2017/shattuck-st-marys-forward-alex-mella-commits-to-northeastern-huskies-jim-madigan-jerry-keefe/
nice, informative, write up. thank you.
Split-N
ZAR has been named College Hockey News (CHN) Player of the Year. Congrats and well deserved.
NU_Husky
Also named to the Hobey Hat Trick, with Vecchione and Will Butcher
Rhett Hot
Surprised more of you aren't going crazy over this :p:D
I've been all over the place on social media. But I agree, the silence here is...odd
Agree. Embarrassing.
this is a great honor for him (and the NU hockey program). Wishing him the best.. hope NU can acknowledge this in some way as well.. on campus & off. I know season is over.. still.
Making the trio itself is achievement.
SkinsFan09
John Buccigross says he thinks ZAR should win the Hobey Baker as well!
This is cool, having someone as mainstream as him backing ZAR. Was this on social or on air?
Tilldog40
Go ZAR!!!!!
I think this is a good sign for his Hobey chances!
Much of the so-called smart money thinks ZAR has it locked up. And if you go by the award criteria, it would seem he's the guy to beat. But my fear is that some the voters, being human, could be swayed by the fact that Butcher's team made it through to the FF while ZAR's team went out in the HEA quarters, even though that has nothing to do with the criteria. We'll have to wait and see.
And as someone over on DHD said, let's hope the auditors deliver the right envelope when the big announcement is made.
mookie1995
didn't colin win that, then matty won the hobey?
Shhhhh! I'm trying to be helpful!
Also, I have no idea if that happened.
Alex and I had a Q and A session over Twitter. Very impressed by his responses. http://northeasternhockeyblog.com/2017/q-and-a-with-new-recruit-alex-mella-shattuck-st-marys-northeastern-uniervisty-huskies-hockey-east/
poised indeed. wishing him the best for nxt season & hopefully will see him grow in his endeavors at the U.
Happy Husky Victory!
It's a complete disgrace that the school can't be bothered to actively promote ZAR. Frankly, it's unheard of for NU to actually have a legit finalist for Hobey and there is nothing from the school about it. Yeah...they'll point to a few tweets and a story on Gonu.com but realistically, that's essentially just going through the motions to say you did some promotion. What an accomplishment, but it's "radio silence" from the Athletic Dept. No doubt Peter Roby is behind this. God forbid the only actual team that people care about and go to watch is in the spotlight..... Roby must go! Best of Luck Zach!!
Actually, it's not unheard of for NU to have a Hobey Hat Trick finalist. Brad Thiessen did it in 2009.
I have been (and remain) a critic of the current athletic administration but, in fairness, the sports information people did much more than what you refer to. I criticized them for getting a late start on promoting ZAR's case but, credit where it's due, once they got out of the blocks, they seemed to do some excellent work that went well beyond a few tweets and a story on gonu.com. This includes working the "back channels" and other behind-the-scenes stuff.
But I'm with you on the larger issues regarding marketing, promotions, the game day experiences, and the fact that Matthews has become more like a mausoleum than the snake pit it was only a few years ago. Many reasons for this that have been discussed ad nauseum both here and over on DHD, some within the AD's control, some beyond it. But for starters, stringing together some consistently successful seasons that include an occasional Beanpot and deep post-season runs, would go a long way toward fixing what's broken.
To this end, I really thought this was the year for NU to build on the momentum gained from the hockey and hoops championships of the last two years but it was not to be, and I can't really point the finger of blame at either of those teams. The simple fact is that presumed mainstream hockey players missed 53 games because of injuries (JStevens - 10; NStevens - 18; Jozefek - 25) while hoops limped through the latter part of the season with only seven serviceable players. I hate to play the injury card but no program can lose that many players for protracted periods without paying a price in the W column. Don't know why but the hockey and hoops gods hated NU this year.


Using advanced computing techniques, UCLA researchers are developing a virtual model of the entire 4,000 sp mi Los Angeles basin. Accurate to the level of graffiti on the walls and store window signs, the database for the model will soon reach 1 terabyte (1 trillion bytes) in size. The goal of the model is to help urban planners and others in solving urban design problems. For example, an architect could view the effect of a new development on an existing community and make appropriate changes before the design is completed. Other possible applications for the modeling technology include accurate tracking for emergency response teams, interactive hazardous waste simulations for students, mapping of conduits, wiring and other in-wall elements for ease of maintenance, and in-car navigations systems.


An eleven-year-old girl goes missing while cycling to her after-school judo class. Four years later she is found by police, but is it really the same girl? Reminiscent of Ian McEwan's A Child in Time, recently adapted for the BBC, Elly will have wide appeal.
Extensive police searches and media coverage fail to find Elly until she reappears on a Danish beach four years later, severely traumatised, having supposedly been held captive. Elly is reunited with her family – her mother Judith, father Hamid and older sister Ines – but doubts surface about whether this is in fact the same girl, irreversibly damaged, or a stranger. Elly's older sister tests her with references to childhood games and memories and her grandmother refuses to accept her, but Elly's mother wants to believe that her daughter is back. The family flee to a secluded location to escape the uncertainty and rebuild their family life.
Much of the novel is narrated in the present tense by Judith, Hamid and Ines, who reflect on their own lives before and after the disappearance. As the characters speak, doubts are sown about the family, and more of their back story emerges. Elly's mother Judith has a history of drug use and goes on wild nights out with her friends. Is she only pretending to believe that Elly has come back? Father Hamid is something of a mystery, and suspicions are raised that he has something to hide – a second family, or even an involvement in Elly's death? Elder sister Ines meets another young girl in hospital and manipulates her into pretending to be Elly – an oblique opening to the story which unsettles the reader and also gives the lie to Ines' apparently unaffected demeanour in the rest of the novel.
Towards the end of the book, the girl who claims to be Elly speaks, revealing her own history of abuse and neglect, followed finally by a short section narrated by Elly herself, who appears to have been the victim of a hit-and-run accident. After the rollercoaster ride of Elly's apparent return from the dead, the ending is bleak, but the sense of finality in hearing from Elly herself offers readers some consolation as well as catharsis. Yet as the novel closes, the story remains open: will Elly's family continue to pretend that the other girl is their daughter and sister?
Maike Wetzel's fresh, original take on the popular literary theme of missing children is delivered in her clear, understated prose with its unflinching eye for detail.
Maike Wetzel was born in 1974, attended film school in Munich and the UK, and lives in Berlin, where she writes fiction and screenplays. Her debut novel Elly won the Robert Gernhardt Prize and the Martha Saalfeld Prize. Her short stories have been translated into numerous languages and received multiple awards.


Some South Carolina electric utility customers will be getting a break in their bills, thanks to the work of the state Legislature.
State Reps. Bill Hixson and Tom Young and Sen. Shane Massey addressed the North Augusta Chamber of Commerce's Legislative Update Breakfast on Aug. 17, spending a large portion of their time discussing the situation with the V.C. Summer nuclear plant project. The project was canceled earlier this year.
Massey said it has taken some time for the Legislature to address the issue.
That work has included adding an advocate for the consumers. Before, the only advocate had been for the utility companies. The Legislature is also asking the Public Service Commission to consider additional factors before setting utility rates. In the past, if the regulatory office and the utility agreed, the PSC essentially had to rubber stamp that agreement, regardless how it might affect the consumers.
One benefit from the Legislature's activity for SCE&G customers is some extra money. To fund the V.C. Summer project, a fee of 18 percent was added to the bills. That figure has now been reduced to 3.2 percent.
As a result, customers in August saw a one-time credit to make up for what they'd been charged in prior months. The September bills will show another reduction as it is adjusted for the new rate. Massey said the average customer had been paying $27 per month for the V.C. Summer project, and the new rate will reduce that to about $5 per month.
A new permanent rate will be established in 2019.
An interesting part of the discussion about the defunct nuclear project was a definition of the words "prudent" and "imprudent." The project is allowed to be reimbursed for prudent expenditures, but without a specific definition a wide range of items fell under that designation. Defining the terms narrows the scope of items V.C. Summer can claim.
The South Carolina Legislature is also considering whether to keep or sell Santee Cooper, a 1930s New Deal power plant that is state owned. Hixson said it has been a valuable asset for the state.
In other areas, Young noted that while the state's teachers overall received a 1 percent pay raise, all Aiken County school employees received a 2 percent pay raise. With a $32,000 minimum starting salary, Aiken County has the highest-paid teachers in the state.
Young noted that South Carolina's unemployment rate, 4 percent, is the lowest it has been in 18 years.
South Carolina also plans to build a new forensics lab and erect higher fences around state prisons to keep people from tossing cellphones across them to prisoners, which has become a problem.
One of the big issues for the Legislature in 2019, the speakers said, will be handheld cellphone use while driving. A new law in Georgia went into effect in July prohibiting drivers from holding their cellphones while on the road. South Carolina legislators plan to monitor the effects of that law over the next few months to decide whether the state will institute a similar ban.


When three of Russia's finest lawyers agreed to represent the investment fund Hermitage Capital, they thought they were taking on a routine tax case.
Their plight highlights the hazards of practicing law in Russia's corruption-ridden courts despite nearly two decades of reforms supported by hundreds of millions in U.S. and European aid. Prosecutors and police continue to dominate the judiciary as they did in the Soviet era, but unrestrained by the institutions of the old Communist system or the checks of a genuine democracy, the opportunities for abuse have grown.
No crime illustrates the state of the legal system better than what is known as "reiderstvo," or raiding — the takeover of businesses through court rulings and other ostensibly legal means with the help of crooked judges or police. The practice is so widespread that local media have reported what raiders charge: $10,000 to alter a corporate registry, $50,000 to open a criminal case, $300,000 for a court order.
Hermitage, once Russia's largest foreign shareholder with more than $4 billion in holdings, says it encountered a bold variation on reiderstvo: When raiders failed to seize its assets, they looted the Russian treasury instead, then went after the lawyers who caught them.
President Dmitry Medvedev, a lawyer himself, has called "legal nihilism" the main obstacle to growth in Russia and has condemned raiding as "shameful." But neither he nor his government has responded to Hermitage's pleas for help or the protests of the Moscow bar association and international legal groups.
In a statement last month, the Interior Ministry touted its success in solving the tax theft. But the money has not been recovered, nor have any officials been arrested. Prosecutors have charged only a convicted killer named on documents as Hermitage's new owner.
A taciturn former cop and judge, Khayretdinov, 50, was among a pioneering generation who joined the bar in the early 1990s as lawyers first began to operate independently of the state. It was a hopeful move, he recalled, made as then-President Boris Yeltsin's reformers were trying to build an impartial judiciary.
Nearly two decades later, Russian lawyers are the embodiment of that incomplete task. Some are corrupt middlemen, pulling strings and delivering bribes. Others risk arrest and violence in pursuit of justice. Most try to avoid trouble, though figuring out how is more difficult than ever. If the party once controlled the courts, now the highest bidder often does.
Khayretdinov tried to make a difference. In a nation with a conviction rate near 99 percent — higher, some say, than under Joseph Stalin — he managed to win the release of five clients in 15 years. "I understood that our system was getting worse, but every time I prepared to speak in court, I honestly believed the court would hear me," he said.
In October 2007, he discovered that lawsuits had been filed in St. Petersburg against three Hermitage firms that once held shares of Gazprom, the state energy giant. Without telling his client, judges had issued more than $400 million in rulings against the firms.
Photographing each page of the court files, Khayretdinov realized that lawyers representing the firms had essentially pleaded guilty in every case. But Hermitage had never hired them.
In Moscow, Hermitage checked the government's corporate registration database and was astonished to discover that it no longer owned the subsidiaries. A business in Kazan, 400 miles from Moscow, was listed as the proprietor.
Raiding, a mix of extortion, identity theft and simple thuggery, has emerged as major problem for the Russian economy, where property rights remain clouded by the chaotic privatizations of the 1990s. A U.S. Justice Department official in Moscow has described it as "a new and sophisticated form of organized crime" that "poses a serious threat to foreign investors" and has even spilled into American courts.
In one high-profile case, the Norwegian telecom giant Telenor is battling an attempt to seize its stake in a Russian mobile operator after a Siberian court issued a $2.8 billion ruling against it. But smaller domestic firms are usually the victims. One veteran police official has estimated that as many as 10,000 takeovers occur annually but that fewer than 100 are prosecuted and result in convictions.
Raiding is difficult to investigate because it relies on police and judicial corruption and often involves complex legal maneuvering. Hermitage turned to Sergei Magnitsky, 37, a specialist in tax law at Firestone Duncan who was also a licensed auditor. "The best I ever saw," Firestone said.
To take ownership of the firms, Magnitsky concluded, the thieves would have needed original corporate seals and founding documents — items that police had seized in the raids.
The lawyers suspected the involvement of Lt. Col. Artem Kveuznetsov, an Interior Ministry official who supervised the raids and had been poking around Hermitage bank accounts. He had no clear link to the lawsuits, but raiders often use criminal cases to smear their victims and obtain key documents.
On Nov. 29, 2007, Hermitage confronted Maj. Pavel Karpov, the officer supervising the tax probe, with its findings. The company says he blanched and motioned one of its attorneys to his desk. Apparently worried that his office was bugged, he typed a message: Kuznetsov had pressured him to open the inquiry.
Kuznetsov and Karpov referred a reporter's queries to the Interior Ministry, which did not respond to faxed questions.
Only one law enforcement agency opened a probe into Hermitage's allegations. But when Magnitsky showed up 10 minutes early for a meeting with its investigator last summer, Kuznetsov was in the office.
Why would anyone go to the trouble of obtaining multimillion-dollar judgments against companies that no longer hold any assets?
The mystery stumped Vladimir Pastukhov, 46, a longtime Hermitage adviser and a law professor at the Higher School of Economics. "No one knew what the crime was, but it was clear that if we didn't immediately argue our case, Hermitage would be blamed for something," he recalled.
He and the others filed a series of court motions. Prosecutors responded by indicting Hermitage executives in absentia and disclosing that the powerful Federal Security Service, the domestic successor to the KGB, had initiated the tax inquiry.
It was Browder, the company's British chief, who first suggested that the raiders might be using the court rulings to erase profits on paper and apply for a huge tax refund. The lawyers were skeptical. Magnitsky noted that it often took years to get a refund in Russia.
But then they discovered that the firms had opened accounts at two banks that reported a spike in deposits afterward. With more digging, they confirmed that $230 million was deposited days after the companies applied for a tax refund. The money quickly disappeared overseas.
When Hermitage reported the fraud in July 2008, police went after the lawyers, summoning them to Kazan.
Khayretdinov was sure he could prove his innocence and hid in Russia for months. But then police accused him of improperly representing the stolen firms because Hermitage no longer owned them. He decided he had no hope in court and flew to London.
Magnitsky never considered leaving because he didn't believe he could be jailed for nothing, colleagues said. But in November, police charged him with helping a Hermitage firm evade taxes in 2001. His attorney said he didn't even begin working with the firm until 2002.
Original article was printed in The Washington Times.


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Prince William: Princess Charlotte is going to be 'trouble'
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The Duke of Cambridge is well aware of what he's in for when daughter Princess Charlotte gets older, and he's getting ready.
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"She's going to be trouble when she gets older," Prince William told Pagan Tordengrav while visiting with patients at Aintree University Hospital on Thursday. "All fathers say that to me — watch out for the little girls."
The royal's joke comes a few months after the 2-year-old princess threw a royal fit on a tarmac in Germany. Luckily mom Duchess Kate came to the rescue and calmed her down, but the adorable photos still circulated online. Even earlier this year, the Duchess of Cambridge admitted Princess Charlotte is "the one in charge" of their household.
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Enter North America: a continent of contrasts, with mammals in every realm. Some are adapted to forests, some to deserts, and others to icy peaks.
Through the dioramas in the Jill and Lewis Bernard Family Hall of North American Mammals at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, you can explore North America's chief environments and encounter some of its remarkable residents face to face. Each of the dioramas shows an actual place on the continent, at one moment in time, with plants and animals you'd see there. The hall, which first opened in 1942, features mammal species ranging from the Alaska brown bear to the jaguar, and its dioramas are widely considered the finest in the world.
Many of the places depicted in these scenes are protected as refuges for wildlife, a legacy of Theodore Roosevelt's presidency in the early 1900s. Even now, those places still largely resemble their depiction in the dioramas—a tribute to that conservation effort. Several of the dioramas re-create scenes from national parks Roosevelt signed into being or national monuments he declared, including Crater Lake National Park, Grand Canyon National Park (which Roosevelt set aside as Grand Canyon National Monument), and Devils Tower National Monument, among others.
The American Museum of Natural History in New York City is one of the world's preeminent scientific, educational, and cultural institutions, drawing millions of visitors each year. Visit amnh.org for more information.


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Order of Battle: Pacific
By Nik Gaukroger 30 May 2014 0
Reviewing our coverage of Slitherine?s Home of Wargamers I realised that we had inadvertently left out one game ? Order of Battle: Pacific. I?m sure Lukas Nijsten of The Artistocrats, the developers, will forgive us for this, especially as it means he gets a whole article to himself ?
Just for a bit of history Lukas used to work with The Lordz Games Studios and was part of the team that created Panzer Corps ? so that seems like a reasonable pedigree in creating a successful game. Order of Battle has now been in development for just over a year and it is lined up for an autumn/fall release if all goes well. Certainly what we saw was looking pretty good; however, Lukas did say that there was still much work to do to get it into shape for release ? mainly around the scenarios and game balancing. The plan is for PC, Mac, iPad and Android releases as is becoming the norm for Slitherine Group games these days.
The basis of the game is, unsurprisingly, the Pacific Theatre of Operations in WW2 and stretches from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor through to the planned, but ultimately not needed, invasion of the Japanese home islands. There will be campaigns for both the Allies and the Japanese and the latter will end with the (again planned but not carried out) invasion of Australia. Both single and multi-player (up to 4 players) options will be catered for and there will be a comprehensive editor for players to create their own scenarios.
Given The Artistocrats background it is no surprise that the game has something of a Panzer Corps look and feel about it, as these screenshots show:
As you might expect I asked Lukas about this and he was quite frank about the inspiration; a certain degree of ?if it ain?t broke, don?t fix it? I think, plus it is a familiar look for the target gamers who are going to be the sort of people who like Panzer Corps. I suppose we can?t expect revolution with every game alas ? The aim is that more things will be represented visually for example dug in units will sprout sand bags to show this, and to help keep game play moving you will not have to wait for animations to finish before activating another unit. Commanders, who will have special abilities, can be attached to units and supply, and the effects of going out of supply, is going to be a key part of the game ? if you look at some of the screenshots you?ll see a red line that indicates the limits of supply. Oh, and of course, naval action will play a fair part as well, including supply to troops landing on enemy shores.
Suggesting to Lukas that the game is going to just be a series of ?island hopping? scenarios he explained that this was not going to be so ? quite emphatically in fact. Yes there will be some, but only if they are important and interesting ? so you?ll get the ?biggies? such as Iwo Jima ? but a lot were quite dull in terms of a game, so there will be more variety than that. However, he did slip in that he was thinking about a possible ?Marine Corps? DLC which would cover more island assaults for those who want them and/or are real Marine Corps fans. We also chatted about other parts of the war in Asia and if these are on the agenda for future expansions. Again Lukas already has some ideas and he is clearly looking for this to be a series of games to be developed over the next few years. Mentioned ware China and Burma, which would be a bit different, and Lukas immediately started to speculate about the effects of weather that could be modelled for Burma especially in order to get the feel of those jungle campaigns. Can?t fault the man on his scope of ideas. The thing he was wary of though, was that he?d need a load more units represented, and he said there are 450+ in the game already.
Scenarios will include some purely naval ones, and these are the ones that are proving most difficult to balance it appears. The key according to Lukas is setting the objectives. As these will tend to revolve around carrier forces use of your aircraft in CAP will need to be handled carefully as CAP effectiveness deteriorates as action occurs ? modelling battles like Midway where the initial US aircraft attack by torpedo bombers pulled the Japanese fighters to low altitude allowing the dive bombers a clear(ish) run in to devastating effect.
Finally he mentioned a couple of ?stealth? units that feature in the game, although I got the impression that these are still a bit in development ? ?commando? type units and subs. The former will be able to operate behind enemy lines and be somewhat ?invisible? to carry out raids on enemy supply lines and the like. Air dropping them may well be a possibility. Subs can operate either submerged or on the surface. Submerged they move slowly, have a short LoS, but are hard to spot, whilst on the surface they move fast but are vulnerable. All sounds reasonable to me, and gives choices to players which is good.
Overall it?s looking good, I think my only concern is if they are trying to pack a bit too much into this game. Hopefully beta testing will thrash that out.
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Okay, it's taken me a little time, but here is the first column that I wrote for the Newbie Writers Newsletter, about my self-publishing journey. Hope you enjoy!
I've wanted to be an author since I was about eight years old, and I'm finally now taking the necessary steps to make that dream a reality. Though I've been writing for years, it was only in 2009 that I finally wrote a full-length novel, using the technique devised by Chris Baty, founder of Nanowrimo and author of "No Plot? No Problem!". Since then I have written another two and a half novels, all in various stages of progress. Despite wanting to be an author more than anything, I've found it difficult to motivate myself to actually get my book edited to perfection (or something near) and published, so I decided that in 2011 I would make myself accountable to someone, in order to make it happen. This is where you come in.
I started a blog, called "Confessions of a Self-Published Author", where I have been writing about my progress with getting my novel out there into the world. There's nothing like having all of your friends and relatives (not to mention plenty of strangers) read your blog and hassle you every now and then to "just get on with it". So far, it's working well, I am currently in the midst of another massive edit of the novel, and am finding that I need to make not only a few spelling and grammar edits, but also change entire scenes that don't actually work!
I suppose it may well be a good thing that I have waited until now to properly pursue my dream of being an author, it is certainly a whole different ballgame these days. In the past, self-publishing had a stigma attached to it, as it was usually associated with 'vanity publishing' whereby you paid hundreds or even thousands to print your book, then you would end up with a garage-full of boxes of your novel that you would then have to sell. You can still publish in that way today, but why would you go to the expense now that Print on Demand exists? It's the perfect way to publish, especially if, like me, you are not a particularly well-off writer. For no initial outlay, you can usually print a very professional copy of your book for just a few pounds, and it will be available to buy online, and the price that you set not only covers manufacturing costs and fees, but could even give you a nice little royalty. So, self-publishing using POD, certainly to me, seems like the way to go. I also like that fact that you can easily upload your novel to be available on the Kindle, which is something else that I will be looking into once my novel is ready for publication.
Finish the final edit of the novel.
Get reviews for the back copy.
Compile a bibliography of any books I have found inspiring of helpful, and also for any quotes used in the novel.
Use social networking sites and websites related to the subject matter of my novel to drum up some interest in it before it is published.
Build a website for the novel.
The other thing I have been considering doing is a trailer for my novel. It seems to be quite a popular thing to do these days, having a book trailer, and I would really enjoy the challenge of putting one together. The main problem will be finding the time to do it! As well as having a challenging full time job, writing books and self-publishing, I also have many hobbies which I'm trying to fit in, all the while still doing everyday things like food shopping! It does seem that the busier I get, the more I get done, but my mind still boggles when I try to figure out exactly how to get everything organised and completed.
Before I sign off and get some very much needed sleep, I thought it would be a good idea to give an idea of what my novel is about, and then a short excerpt from the novel itself.
The title is: The Earth Angel Training Academy. It's based on the other side, in an Academy for beings from all different realms. There are Angels, Old Souls, Faeries, Mermaids and Starpeople. They go to the Academy to learn how to become human, so they can go to Earth and help with the Awakening. The novel follows several of the characters as they experience the final term of the Earth Angel Training Academy. Anyone who has read any of Doreen Virtue's books will understand the term Earth Angels, and maybe even know which realm they themselves are from!
Amethyst and the little green Faerie gazed around their room in awe.
"Welcome new students! I hope your room is everything that you desire.
To change the décor, simply touch the item and state your desire.
To manifest anything, just speak your request out loud, three times.
The Faerie's eyes widened. "We just touch things, and they change?
sheets. "Green!" Instantly, the sheets turned the colour of spring grass.
looked like the inside of a kaleidoscope.
The Angel went to the bed opposite and touched the sheets.
of them, and a massive ant ambled past. The Faerie flew around in circles.
image of the ladybug. "I wonder how Larry is," she muttered to herself.
It's weird to look back at where I was six months ago, it seems like both five minutes ago and a lifetime ago. But apart from number three on my plan, I did actually achieve what I set out to do six months ago. Which is pretty amazing for me! I will post February's column soon!


Welcome to the 17th issue of the Primary Magazine. Our famous historian is Blaise Pascal and we explore the art of Andy Goldsworthy. We explore the misconceptions in fractions, decimals and percentages and National Number Day. Up2d8 considers whether a 16-year-old could make a good headteacher!
In this issue, we consider the October report from Cambridge University that states that children should not start formal learning until they are six and that KS2 SATs should go! We also give the promised details of the work of two students who were part of the NCETM's Inspiring Mathematics Champions project.
This issue of Up2d8 is based around the amazing Babar Ali, a16-year-old student who is headteacher of his own school in India, with over 800 pupils and ten other teaching staff who are also students of around Babar's age. There are opportunities for work with such mathematical concepts as money, calculation (particularly multiplication and division), currency exchange involving ratio and data handling.
We explore the art of Andy Goldsworthy, an artist known for producing work using as his materials, anything at hand in the remote, open air areas he chooses to work in, e.g. stones, mud, flowers and ice. For his tools he uses his own hands, teeth and things found around him.
In this issue we focus on Number Day on 4 December. This day is part of a fundraising campaign organised by the NSPCC. It also provides an excellent opportunity to raise the profile of mathematics in your school and have a fun time with number for a day or even a whole week.
To complement the focus on National Number Day, our Starter of the month suggests ideas for a variety of fun activities to start your daily mathematics lessons.
We look at a potted history of Blaise Pascal, a well-known mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher. In primary schools he is probably best known for his special triangle – Pascal's triangle.
We continue our series on mathematics subject knowledge. This time we concentrate on fractions, decimals and percentages. It would be helpful if, before the session, you ask colleagues to read the paper Fractions: difficult but crucial in mathematics learning Nunes, T., Bryant, P., Hurry, J. and Pretzlik, U. (2006).