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Purdue basketball workouts begin: 'We want to be back on top'
Nathan Baird
Journal & Courier
WEST LAFAYETTE — The muggy conditions inside Mackey Arena testified that basketball season remains a few months away.
But the Purdue men's basketball team went through their first organized workouts since the end of the school year on Tuesday afternoon. Assistant coaches Jack Owens and Brandon Brantley put the Boilermakers through drills in three groups, separating the post players, forwards and guards.
NCAA rules allow two hours per week, but the players said a big tone can be set in a short amount of time.
"These are the guys at your position that you're battling with," sophomore forward Basil Smotherman said. "Every day, it's nothing personal, but on the court you've got to bring it.
"Today, we established that guys are competing. People are hitting shots, showing who worked on their game in the offseason and who didn't. Everybody's competing, because we're down about being in last place last year and we want to be back on top."
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Purdue's five freshmen — guards Dakota Mathias and P.J. Thompson, forwards Vince Edwards and Jacquil Taylor and center Isaac Haas — arrived on campus over the weekend. The veterans played with them in an open gym on Monday night and are busy answering questions on and off the court and helping ease their teammates' transition to college basketball.
The initial reviews, especially in terms of attitude, are positive.
"I love them already," junior wing Rapheal Davis said. "Coming into weights this morning, they were all, I think, 45 minutes early. After open gym last night, I was talking to Dakota and asked him what he was going to go do, if he was going to go eat or whatever. He told me he was going to go study.
"First day of summer school and he tells me he's going to study. That says a lot about them. Isaac came in and said the same exact thing. It says that they're a hard-working group and they're hungry for the task."
That task is turning around a program coming off of consecutive losing seasons, including a last-place Big Ten Conference finish last season. Purdue's roster contains no scholarship seniors and only two juniors on scholarship: Davis and center A.J. Hammons.
The Boilermakers need those five freshmen to acclimate quickly. Kendall Stephens, a Big Ten All-Freshman team performer a year ago, offered simple advice to the newcomers.
"You've got to take in as much as you can and listen to the coaching staff," Stephens said. "It's really their way. You come in with your own ideas, but when you get here, you need to buy into the philosophies and go as hard as you can."


Mark Sherry & 2nd Phase, Mac & Monday, Johnny Yono, Dash Berlin feat. Roxanne Emery, Will Atkinson and more.
This show was 20th in the global tech trance chart and 50th in the global uplifting trance chart.
2014. has been really good year for trance and myself.
I don't consider myself any kind of serious producer/DJ, but I must say it was great reading supportive words from industry's big names like Johan Ekman and Tom Colontonio.
Even it was also fun doing radioshow mixes and seeing my stuff being played on Europe's finest radios, I really hope I will be able jump on some serious production this year.
Until then, I would like to share this mix with all of my friends, especially with you who share the same pasion for trance music.
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Billy Joel and Lambeau prove to be perfect match
Legendary Piano Man gave fans nearly two and a half hours of music on a memorable Saturday night
Billy Joel and Lambeau prove to be perfect match Legendary Piano Man gave fans nearly two and a half hours of music on a memorable Saturday night Check out this story on jsonline.com: http://gbpg.net/2tgpyN2
Kendra Meinert, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 8:10 a.m. CT June 18, 2017 | Updated 10:07 a.m. CT June 18, 2017
Billy Joel performs Saturday at Lambeau Field.(Photo: Jim Matthews/USAT NETWORK Wisconsin/@jmatthe79)
He was a little off on the hour, but, otherwise, it was Billy Joel's own words that incomparably captured the mood at Lambeau Field.
"Sing us a song you're the piano man/Sing us a song tonight/Well, we're all in the mood for a melody/And you've got us feeling all right."
It turned out to be closer to 11 o'clock on a Saturday when that stadium-sized "Piano Man" sing-along moment came. The 68-year-old music legend saving his first song for last, the lyrics from 1973 a timeless testament to how good music can sweep you away to forget about life for a while, whether you're sitting in a piano bar with a tonic and gin or on the 50-yard line with a Miller Lite.
The crowd of about 40,000 to 45,000 — a pretty good crowd for a Saturday indeed — knew every word. Of course.
When Joel stopped singing to let the audience carry the chorus, he turned from the piano and surveyed the masses spread out before him. It was hard not to wonder how many times he's done that in the last 40-plus years, and if the night at Lambeau, in that instant, felt as special to the man on the stage as it did to the people in the seats.
It was the native New Yorker's first visit to Green Bay and only the third major concert in Lambeau's 60-year history. He talked about that after he and his phenomenal eight-piece band opened with "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)" and "Pressure," both accompanied by an electrifying light show.
For the history books: @billyjoel opened with "Movin' Out" when he played Lambeau Field, his first show in #GreenBaypic.twitter.com/cJURPTzYDJ
— Kendra Meinert (@KendraMeinert) June 18, 2017
"So this is where the Packers play ..." he said. "I've seen you guys freezing your ass off."
That was all it took for the crowd, which happily did The Wave during Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness' buoyant and vibrant 35-minute opening set, to hit Joel with a spontaneous round of "Go Pack Go!"
"Who's Pat?" Joel deadpanned. "Welcome to Lambeau Field, the holy grail of football."
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From then on, it was clear everybody was going to get along famously for what would be an impeccable and nearly 2½-hour performance by a man who epitomizes what it means to be a consummate pro. Keeper of one of the best-selling catalogs in music, Joel doled out a generous 26 songs — mostly monster hits, a few B-sides and a pair of covers that spanned The Beatles to AC/DC. Rock, pop, doo-wop, jazz ... all accounted for in the evening's seamless mix.
Name another artist who can preface what he's going to play with, "Neither of these were hits," and still have the crowd go wild. He did several of what he called a "fielder's choice," in which he let fan response determine which track off the same album he would play next.
Billy Joel: "Welcome to Lambeau Field, the holy grail of football." #Packers
"Can't do 'em all, so you guys pick," he said.
That's one way to take the pressure off when you're an artist who needs three volumes just for your greatest hits.
If you're keeping track at home: "Vienna" handily beat out "Just the Way You Are," "For the Longest Time" (with "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" serving as Joel's vocal warm-ups) trumped "An Innocent Man" and "All for Leyna" edged out "Sleeping with the Television On." He worked in live show staple "Zanzibar," featuring Carl Fischer on jazz trumpet, a cover of The Beatles "A Day in the Life" to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love and "New York State of Mind" as massive images of New York City swirled on the video boards behind him.
Saxophonist Mark Rivera plays with one hand during the Billy Joel concert at Lambeau Field on Saturday at Lambeau Field. (Photo: Jim Matthews/USAT NETWORK Wisconsin/@jmatthe79)
It was a conversational, relaxed and often playful Joel during the first half of the night, frequently chatting between songs and wielding a large yellow fly swatter to do battle with the bugs that were bothering him. Rain held off during the show, but it was still and sticky, and he said he was worried not about getting bit but about swallowing one. Bug spray was eventually delivered onstage, and he sprayed himself down while singing "Sometimes a Fantasy," never missing a beat.
Billy Joel battling bugs tonight onstage at Lambeau. Wielding a large fly swatter. Said he's worried that he might swallow one.
There was a beautiful "And So It Goes" with a single spotlight on Joel at the piano, and for the many couples in the crowd, it was a collective arms-around-waists/heads-on-shoulders moment when he sang "She's Always a Woman." But when Joel got up from the piano — set on a rotating platform and carefully polished by a stagehand between acts — and strapped on a guitar so a member of the road crew named Chainsaw could channel his inner Bon Scott on a mind-blowing "Highway to Hell," it felt like the NFL stadium version of the seventh-inning stretch.
Billy Joel plays during his concert at Lambeau Field Saturday, June 17, 2017 in Green Bay, Wis. (Photo: Jim Matthews/USAT NETWORK Wisconsin/@jmatthe79)
The pace of the show shifted gears for the remainder of the night. There was a dizzying "We Didn't Start the Fire" with Joel on guitar. "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant," showcasing saxophone ace Mark Rivera, got some of the biggest love of the night. By the time Joel returned for the encore — fly swatter in hand — to lead the crowd in "Uptown Girl," show he can still rough up a mic stand on "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" and mop the river of sweat from his face on "Big Shot," Lambeau was rockin' all right.
On a night in which the Piano Man took requests, here's one for the Packers: More concerts like that at Lambeau Field, please.
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Billy Joel and his band in concert at Lambeau Field
Billy Joel looks at the crowd during his concert at Lambeau Field Saturday, June 17, 2017 in Green Bay, Wis. Jim Matthews/USAT NETWORK Wisconsin/@jmatthe79
Billy Joel plays during his concert at Lambeau Field Saturday, June 17, 2017 in Green Bay, Wis. Jim Matthews/USAT NETWORK Wiscon
An audience member enjoys the Billy Joel concert at Lambeau Field Saturday, June 17, 2017 in Green Bay, Wis. Jim Matthews/USAT NETWORK Wisconsin/@jmatthe79
Bassist Andy Cichon plays during the Billy Joel concert at Lambeau Field Saturday, June 17, 2017 in Green Bay, Wis. Jim Matthews/USAT NETWORK Wisconsin/@jmatthe79
Saxophonist Mark Rivera plays during the Billy Joel concert at Lambeau Field Saturday, June 17, 2017 in Green Bay, Wis. Jim Matthews/USAT NETWORK Wisconsin/@jmatthe79
Guitarist Tommy Byrnes plays during the Billy Joel concert at Lambeau Field Saturday, June 17, 2017 in Green Bay, Wis. Jim Matthews/USAT NETWORK Wisconsin/@jmatthe79
Billy Joel talks to the crowd during his concert at Lambeau Field Saturday, June 17, 2017 in Green Bay, Wis. Jim Matthews/USAT NETWORK Wisconsin/@jmatthe79
Keyboardist David Rosenthal plays during the Billy Joel concert at Lambeau Field Saturday, June 17, 2017 in Green Bay, Wis. Jim Matthews/USAT NETWORK Wisconsin/@jmatthe79
The audience reacts to a song during the Billy Joel concert at Lambeau Field Saturday, June 17, 2017 in Green Bay, Wis. Jim Matthews/USAT NETWORK Wisconsin/@jmatthe79
Billy Joel sings during his concert at Lambeau Field Saturday, June 17, 2017 in Green Bay, Wis. Jim Matthews/USAT NETWORK Wisconsin/@jmatthe79
Saxophonist Mark Rivera plays with one hand during the Billy Joel concert at Lambeau Field Saturday, June 17, 2017 in Green Bay, Wis. Jim Matthews/USAT NETWORK Wisconsin/@jmatthe79
Billy Joel plays during his concert at Lambeau Field Saturday, June 17, 2017 in Green Bay, Wis. Jim Matthews/USAT NETWORK Wisconsin/@jmatthe79
The setlist
"Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)"
"The Longest Time"
"All For Leyna"
"A Day in the Life" (The Beatles cover)
"Don't Ask Me Why"
"Sometimes a Fantasy"
"She's Always a Woman"
"Highway to Hell" (AC/DC cover sung by road crew member Chainsaw)
"The River of Dreams" with "Heat Wave" (featuring percussion/sax player Crystal Taliefero on vocals for the latter)
"Nessun Dorma" (Puccini aria sung by guitarist Mike DelGuidice)
"Scenes from an Italian Restaurant"
"It's Still Rock and Roll to Me"
"Only the Good Die Young"
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A few days ago we found about about ZTE's new brand of mobile devices called Axon. Also, the Chinese company unveiled a website where we can admire their new phone and get to know a little bit about its specs. Today, the certification from FCC arrives too.
Thereby, we get to know that Axon Phone comes with WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, NFC, 4G LTE connectivity and a microUSB v2.0 port. ZTE Axon will be equipped with dual front-facing stereo speakers, a dual-camera on the back with dual-LED flash, 4 GB of RAM memory and Android 5.0 Lollipop pre-installed on the device.
According to the official page, this new phone will bring a great battery inside its package, and also a fast processor that promises high performance. ZTE Axon will be available in three different color variations: blue, white and gold.


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WATCH: SpaceX successfully launches first all-civilian mission
September 15, 2021 at 12:14 pm EDT
By Q McCray, WFTV.com, Mel Holt, WFTV.com and Adam Poulisse, WFTV.com
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. — SpaceX's first all-civilian mission successfully lifted off from launch complex 39-A at Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday evening.
See the launch again in the video below:
Liftoff of @Inspiration4X! Go Falcon 9! Go Dragon! pic.twitter.com/NhRXkD4IWg
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 16, 2021
The Inspiration 4 mission was commanded by pilot and billionaire tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments.
Inspiration4 launch Inspiration4 successfully launched from Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday. (wftv.com)
"From the beginning, Inspiration 4 has set out to inspire the world as to what is possible in space, but also what we can accomplish here on Earth," Isaacman said.
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Isaacman said he's using the Inspiration4 mission to raise awareness and money for St. Jude Research Hospital.
Isaacman is joined on the historic flight by medical officer Hayley Arceneaux, a childhood cancer survivor and physician's assistant, mission specialist Chris Sembroski, a U.S. Air Force veteran and aerospace worker and Dr. Sian Procter, a geoscientist and former NASA astronaut candidate.
READ: Inspiration4 launch: Here's how to watch
The crew will be conducting medical research during their mission, which will take them 575 kilometers about the Earth's surface. It marks the highest humans have gone into orbit since the Hubble servicing mission.
Once the crew entered the Dragon, teams will still need to conduct a number of additional checks before the launch director gives the go-ahead to begin fueling the rocket.
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The five-hour launch window is set to open at 8:02 p.m. Wednesday.
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Clinicopathological Features of Primary Bone Marrow Mature T and NK Cell Neoplasms
neutropenia and thrombocytopenia. At our institution from 2003 to 2016, seventeen patients with primary bone marrow mature T and NK cell neoplasms were retrospectively studied, including 12 males and 5 females, with median age of 66 years (43 to 85). Nine patients had T cell large granular lymphocytic leukemia (T-LGL), 6 T cell neoplasm of undetermined significance (TNUS), and 2 chronic lymphoproliferative disorders of NK cells (CLPD-NK). The diagnosis of T cell neoplasm was confirmed by flow cytometry and immunohistochemical studies, as well as T cell receptor (TCR) gene rearrangement in the questionable samples. All patients had peripheral blood abnormalities as the clinical indication for bone marrow biopsy. Anemia was present in 12 patients, neutropenia 10, lymphocytosis 6 and thrombocytopenia 5. Positive EBER staining was seen in 3 samples. Two patients with TLGL showed abnormal karyotype at diagnosis, trisomy 22 in one, and del (6q) and del (7p) in another. There was no documented specific therapy targeted at the primary bone marrow mature T and NK cell neoplasm, except for 1 patient with T-LGL who received chemotherapy. Supportive treatment with occasional red blood cell transfusions was the principle management strategy for most patients. No death was documented directly from T and NK cell neoplasm in these 17 patients. The clinical presentation and peripheral blood findings of primary bone marrow mature T and NK cell neoplasm are often nonspecific, and TNUS usually is not expected clinically at the initial evaluation. Unlike T-LGL which is typically a disorder of CD8+ T cells, most primary bone marrow TNUS in this study are composed of CD4+ T cells. To our knowledge, this is the first study focusing on the clinicopathological features of primary bone marrow mature T and NK cell neoplasms as a collective group of diseases. Bone marrow biopsy is necessary for definitive diagnosis. Supportive and conservative management is the treatment of choice in most patients with overall favorable prognosis.
T Cell Large Granular Lymphocytic Leukemia; Chronic Lymphoproliferative Disorders of NK Cells; T Cell Neoplasm of Undetermined Significance; Bone Marrow Biopsy; Anemia
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Discussion in 'Windows 7' started by chrisgun, Jul 30, 2018.
I am working on a couple of computers that are not on a domain and dont need to be on a domain. But i would like to configure the setting for the local group policy, But rather than having to configure the setting for all the computers is there a way the i can export and import the setting for every computer as the setting will be the same.


Are you thinking about doing a comprehensive reform in Banyoles of your apartment? You are in luck then! You have arrived in the right place, because in Construcciones Montero we are specialists in integral reforms throughout the area of Banyoles and neighboring towns.
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In 1199, Richard was in the Limousin suppressing a revolt by Viscount Aimar V of Limoges and besieging the puny virtually unarmed castle of Châlus-Chabrol. It is claimed that he only did this because of a treasure trove of Roman gold which had been unearthed by a local peasant which Richard claimed from Aimar in his position as feudal overlord.
In the early evening of 25 March 1199, Richard was walking around the castle perimeter without wearing his defensive chainmail, when he was struck in the left shoulder near the neck by a crossbow bolt. He tried to pull this out but failed. A surgeon then removed it but apparently without due care making the wound much worse in the process. Not long after, the wound became gangrenous. Accordingly, Richard asked to have the crossbowman - one of his own men brought before him. The man turned out according to some sources to be a boy. The boy claimed that Richard had killed his father and two brothers, and that he had tried to kill Richard in revenge.
Richard, as a last act of mercy, forgave the boy saying: "Live on, and by my bounty behold the light of day," before ordering the boy to be freed and sent away with 100 shillings. Richard then set set about putting his affairs in order, bequeathing all his territory to his brother John and his jewels to his nephew Otto.
Richard the Lionheart died on 6 April 1199 in the arms of his mother Eleanor of Aquitaine. Richard's last act of chivalry proved pointless as a certain infamous mercenary captain Mercadier is said to have had the crossbowman flayed alive and hanged as soon as Richard died.
Richard's heart was buried at Rouen Cathedral in Normandy, his entrails in Châlus where he died and the rest of his body was buried at the feet of his father Henry II at Fontevraud Abbey in Anjou.
He was later to be joined by his mother Eleanor of Aquitaine at the same Abbey.


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Fairy Meadows famous for its beautiful lush green plateaus and World's ninth biggest mountain Nanga Parbat (the Killer Mountain) is located in Diamer District of Gilgit-Baltistan region, Pakistan. The place was named Fairy Meadows in 1953 by an Australian climber Hermann Bhul due to its mesmerizing beauty. He was here to climb the peak of Nanga Parbat. He became the first one to summit the mountain. Fairy Meadows is also called "Heaven on Earth" due to its matchless beauty.
A night camping or stay in traditionally constructed wooden cottage at Fairy Meadows with a breathtaking view of mighty Nanga Parbat's North face is very unique and wonderful experience. Even more if sky is clear and night is full moon. The cool moonlight reflecting from the gigantic majestic icy peak shows the real meaning of nature's beauty and peace.
The first stop near Fairy Meadows is Raikot Bridge. It is located at an altitude of 4595 feet (1400 meters) above sea level and about 540 kilometers (336 miles) from Islamabad (the capital of Pakistan), when coming through Karakoram Highway.
From Raikot Bridge you can hire a local jeep to reach Tatoo Village at an altitude of 9515 feet (2900 meters) above sea level. It will take about half hour of exciting journey to reach Tatoo Village.
Onwards from Tattu route becomes too narrow for a jeep to travel but not very difficult for trekking. After two to three hours of trekking depending on your fitness level, you'll reach Fairy Meadows.
There are several hotels and tourist lodges are available to facilitate tourists in Fairy Meadows. Most of them of are available at very reasonable prices. A few although are little expensive. Many tourists like to stay in camps on grassy places.
Food is expensive here as compared to cities. But availability of food at this remote place makes it worth paying.
The best time to visit Fairy Meadows is between end of June and middle of August. The place becomes inaccessible in winter due to heavy snowfall.


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A Woonsocket, R.I. man is facing a criminal neglect charge for allegedly overdosing on oxycontin last week in his vehicle while a 1-year-old child was in the back seat, police said.
It shows Krajczynski unconscious behind the wheel of his vehicle with his seatbelt wrapped around his arm.
After police officers and paramedics administered four doses of the anti-opiate overdose drug Narcan, police say Krajczynski regained consciousness and was rushed to Landmark Medical Center to be evaluated.
It's not the first time a parent has been accused of overdosing on an opioid while a child is in the auto.
Police responded to a call of a possible overdose near Victory Highway and North Main Street Friday night.
Cops booked Krajczynski on a charge of cruelty to or neglect of a child and released him with an August 30 date for formal arraignment, officials said.
A Rhode Island man took two white pills, police say, and quickly learned that was a "bad decision".
"My wife and kids don't deserve anything like that. I'm distraught you know, things of that nature, this isn't a thing for me it's not the norm to say the least".
After he came-to in hospital, Krajczynski told cops he took two white pills he believed to be Oxycontins - an opioid-class painkiller he wanted to use for shoulder soreness.
"We're assuming there was a high dose of fentanyl", Lafferty said.
While jarring, Capt. Tim Lafferty told Eyewitness News there's a reason they shared the image.
The following day, police say, Krajczynski spoke to officers about what happened.
Police say Krajczynski would not be facing charges if his baby had not been in the back seat because he was not driving at the time, and there were no other drugs in the vehicle. The boy was released into his mother's custody.


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Jeff Sessions Holds all the Keys to the Mid-term Elections
Note to America: Dianne Feinstein is no longer far left enough for California Democrats. – Yes, let that one sink in for a minute before you continue on.
Senator Feinstein, who has held her senate seat since 1992 and was the very liberal mayor of San Francisco from 1978 through 1988, was basically given a vote of no confidence by the executive board of her own political party in her home state on Saturday, as party delegates voted overwhelmingly to support her Democrat challenger in the November election. For those unfamiliar with California's odd voting system, candidates from all parties run in open primaries in June, and the top two vote-getters then face off in the general election.
In the June primary, the far-left Feinstein easily bested her far, far, far, far-left opponent, state assemblyman Kevin de Leon, winning 44 percent of the vote to his 12 percent. But de Leon won the endorsement vote from the executive board members by a whopping 65 to 7 margin, with 28 percent choosing not to endorse either candidate. Breathtaking.
I've been around a long time and I can't remember any long-time U.S. senator receiving this kind of overwhelming rebuke from their own political party. The only good news for Feinstein is that she'll no doubt get 90+ percent of the vote from Republican and independent voters who will find de Leon even more radical than she is. So she'll most likely survive to hold her senate seat into her 90s (she's 85 now), which is precious little comfort to normal people out here in flyover country.
Speaking of the November mid-term elections, I've had several inquiries about where I think things are headed, so now would be a good time for a mid-year update.
Those who followed me throughout the 2016 campaign will know that I believe the overall public mood is a far bigger and more important influence over the balance of power outcome of national elections than are the nitty gritty details that the inside-the-Beltway pundits tend to focus on. This is a more prominent influence during presidential election years than in mid-terms, but it is still a major factor.
That belief is why I began telling my clients and readers in October 2015 that I believed Donald Trump would win the presidency. The clear mood of the vast majority of the public in 2016 was for change – real, fundamental change in the direction of the country after our disastrous 8-year experiment with community organizer radicalism, which had corrupted every institution of our government. Among all of the primary candidates in both parties, Donald Trump, by October 2015, was the only truly viable candidate offering real change.
So, even while micro-analysts like Nate Silver were giving Hillary a 97 percent chance of winning and most of the polls showed her holding big leads in the months leading up to Election Day, I held to the belief that the overall mood in favor of real, radical change would end up prevailing and Trump would become the next POTUS. On the Sunday prior to Election Day, I predicted he'd win 311 electoral votes, overshooting his final total by five.
The overriding public mood this far in advance of Election Day, 2018 is more difficult to read. Which, frankly, is good news for the GOP, because the absence of a clear public mood mitigates in favor of the status quo.
Thanks to the tireless efforts of the Democrat Party and its fake news media guardians, the public is more divided than at any time since perhaps 1860. The President's base of support has only grown more loyal and unshakable over the first 19 months of his presidency, and he now polls better among self-identifying Republicans than any of his predecessors. But the radical leftist Democrat base of support has only grown more radical over the same period of time, making it very difficult to determine if the majority inertia among the electorate is for change or for preservation of the status quo.
Again, the lack of any clear indication that this will be a real change election also mitigates in favor of the GOP, which holds majorities in both houses of congress, and which is only defending 9 senate seats as opposed to 25 the Democrats must defend.
So, here's my current thinking on the ultimate outcome:
If the election were held today, the Rs would retain control of the House – barely – and gain a bigger majority in the Senate, with maybe 54 or 55 total seats. There would be no impeachment action on the horizon, and President Trump would be an overwhelming favorite to be re-elected in 2020.
But the election is four months away, and much can change between now and November. If November comes around and nothing has changed in the current status quo related to all the Obama-era bad actors, the election will go very badly for the Rs.
Right now, the GOP base is pumped up, but it's only because of President Trump, not due to anything the Republican congress has accomplished. The tax cuts are great, but they are also old news at this point, and voters in November are going to be asking what have you done for me lately? Congress's failure to act on Obamacare last year and the steadfast refusal by Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell to really make a push for funding the border wall will be big issues this fall in the minds of GOP voters. Should the Senate somehow fail to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court by Election Day, that also will be a huge negative for the Republicans.
There is also great and growing dissatisfaction among the GOP base with Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the lack of any real law enforcement action being taken against the myriad bad actors within his Department. If we get to November and no one has been indicted, Rod Rosenstein still has his job, Robert Mueller is still indicting Russian ham sandwiches at strategic moments, Peter Strzok still has his security clearances, Andrew McCabe and James Comey are still walking around free and unindicted men, and Hillary Clinton still appears to be immune from the laws of the land, then GOP voter enthusiasm will fall through the floor.
If, on the other hand, November comes around and a bunch of indictments have been served on a bunch of these terrible people and maybe Hillary Clinton and John and Tony Podesta to boot, then the GOP will pick up net seats in the elections and possibly finish the increasingly-radicalizing Democrat Party off for a generation.
It is not an overstatement to say that the entire future of our country hinges on the real nature of Jeff Sessions. Is he just another corrupt Washington, D.C. swamp rat? Or has he, along with Michael Horowitz, John Huber and others just been biding his time, executing a plan that will result in the beginning of real enforcement actions following the issuance of Horowitz's report on the abuse of the FISA process several weeks from now?
Good questions. The time for finding out is growing short.
Just another day in Jeff Sessions is holding all the keys America.
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Jeff "Eefing" Sessions!
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I just wonder what the Democrats have on AG Sessions that is so bad he has thrown the reputation he has spent his whole life building away to keep it from being revealed. An affair or financial shenanigans don't seem like they would be enough to force him to act as he has, it must be something far more troubling. Something so bad and disgusting that he can't even resign, let the Democrats do their worst and then depend on President Trump for a pardon.
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Impeach Sessions too.
Sessions drives me nuts… He refused to prosecute the IT techie who set up Hillary's private server and has done lots to undermine Trump and libertarian minded Republicans.
I pray this is part of the "plan"… I'd like nothing better than to be proven wrong by the AG.
Please, prove my doubts to be unfounded!
I laugh and laugh at the insane things Californians seem to do on a regular basis. Then I sit back and think on it for awhile. The I get the crap scared out of me because I live in Washington State, and realize just how much their insanity could effect my life. The left has gone over the edge and they are hellbent on taking everyone with them on the trip.
Connor Pierce
Sessions has been compromised and threatened by the FBI and the Clinton's. It's the only explanation for his treasonous behavior.


This is a difficult time to be entering a career in public education. As much as I am committed to this profession, it would be untrue if I said that I had never considered changing majors or moving to another state. Many of my peers already have. I will soon be graduating and looking for a job in our local public schools. As exciting as graduation will be, without legislative change, I know that I will be facing one of the greatest challenges of my life. I don't mean positive challenges, like working to become an effective and engaging educator. That's a challenge that I welcome. I mean the challenge of giving high-stakes standardized tests which undermine the idea of making meaning out of our learning. The challenge of having to teach a class where there are not enough books for all of my students. The challenge of not making enough money to take care of my family. We have to continue to demand that the state government revise and create policies that help, and not hurt, our public schools. We need to go out and vote in November and to encourage our friends, families, and neighbors to vote. Public schools depend on your support.
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Criminalizing first OWI would inundate courts but not make state tougher
By Dick Ginkowski and Guida Brown SPECIAL TO THE KENOSHA NEWS
A recent editorial in the Kenosha News indicated that "It's time to support efforts to crack down on first-time drunken driving," in response to a proposal by state Sen. Alberta Darling and Rep. Jim Ott, both Republicans, to make a first-time Operating While Intoxicated/Impaired offense in Wisconsin a misdemeanor punishable by up to $500 in fines and 30 days in jail.
Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, weighed in, saying he wants to criminalize first-offense OWIs as a deterrent.
Currently the first OWI in Wisconsin is a civil forfeiture … a ticket … with a fine of $150 to $300 and no jail time.
Criminalizing the first offense would make Wisconsin look tougher on OWIs, but is it, really? Currently the fine is $150 to $300. Under the proposed law it would be up to $500. So it could be a fine of zero dollars. Currently there is no jail time. Under the proposed law it would be up to 30 days … which still means it could be zero days.
And that's the rub: The law isn't necessarily tougher on the offenders, but it would be tougher on the system.
An unintended consequence of criminalizing the first OWI is that the courts will be inundated with people fighting that first offense, an offense for which today they mostly just pay the ticket and pay their consequences; the system will be inundated with plea bargaining to avoid the consequences the law intends for offenders to face.
A lot of heat is being generated by substance-impaired drivers and the perception that Wisconsin is too lenient in OWI cases. The numbers say otherwise. While Wisconsin's penalty for a first offense is a civil forfeiture instead of a crime, the law makes it easier to convict first-time offenders — roughly 94 percent are convicted — and get them services in order to prevent a second offense.
Wisconsin's recidivism rate is 24 percent (mostly males ages 20-40). Minnesota and Iowa, where a first offense ostensibly is punished more severely as a crime, have higher recidivism rates — a whopping 41percent in Minnesota! Illinois isn't far behind at 40 percent.
The key to reducing OWIs is to expedite cases and intervene before first-time offenders become second-time offenders. In Wisconsin we need to close more loopholes with respect to unlawful plea bargaining. Wisconsin's law is designed to make it easier to convict on a first offense in order to prevent second offenses.
Wisconsin has an appalling drinking culture, and messages such as the one in the original editorial, "If you stay home and get drunk, that's fine," don't help in dissuading it, but criminalizing the first OWI isn't the panacea people think it is, and just because the first OWI in Wisconsin is a civil forfeiture doesn't mean Wisconsin does "essentially nothing."
Our current system requires people to be assessed and follow through on those assessment referrals of treatment or education. In Kenosha the Hope Council on Alcohol & Other Drug Abuse goes one step further and requires abstinence from those ordered to treatment, then follows up with direct biomarker tests to determine abstinence.
Wisconsin isn't doing nothing. Criminalizing the first OWI is just a little more of the same.
Dick Ginkowski is Pleasant Prairie municipal judge, and Guida Brown is executive director of the Hope Council on Alcohol & Other Drug Abuse, Inc.
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Sara Fischer Jan 6, 2018
Comedy causes confusion in the Trump era
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A longtime parody Twitter account, @pixelatedboat, tweeted a fake excerpt from Michael Wolff's controversial new book "Fire and Fury," that implied President Trump likes to watch a made-up "gorilla channel" on TV. The riff instantly triggered a wave of viral memes and comedic responses, many of which came from users who thought the excerpt was real.
Why it matters: The unprecedented state of news and journalism during the Trump era has made it difficult for social media users to distinguish comedy from actual news and reporting.
The perfectly-timed joked was a recipe for viral success and confusion. It captured President Trump's well-documented obsession with television and fervor for fighting, as well as the absurdity of some observations made in Wolff's book and the state of utter chaos engulfing the news media, which has sometimes resulted in bad news judgement.
Other instances of good humor turned viral this year show just how susceptible the public has become to falling for parody news on social media in an era where any absurdity seems possible.
After the GOP health care bill was defeated in March, a satirical addition to a New York Times story about Paul Ryan listening to Papa Roach circulated on Twitter, but so many people believed the photoshopped image, the author had to clarify to his followers it was just a joke.
The problem becomes worse when examples of poor journalism from established news organizations create a narrative that nothing or everything is "fake news," depending on which bias one wishes to affirm.
The Washington Post's David Weigel apologized for tweeting a photograph that did not accurately represent the number of people that attended a Florida rally in December.
ABC's Brian Ross was suspended (and just returned) from the network after airing an erroneous report about Michael Flynn's plea that caused the stock market to crash over 300 points.
CNN was forced to correct a story about the timing of when candidate Donald Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr. access hacked WikiLeaks documents before they were publicly available.
Already, right-wing media is using the incident to drive a deeper wedge between conservatives and "liberal" media, arguing affirmation bias against the Trump administration caused some journalists to believe the joke was real. "The more conspiratorial elements of the anti-Trump Twitter world were hardest hit," writes The Washington Free Beacon.


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October 10, 2022 by Jeff Jarvis
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In 2006, Jürgen Habermas, the preeminent theorist of the public sphere, spoke of the internet for the first time, only in a footnote, all but dismissing the net as "millions of fragmented chat rooms." Many have waited for more. Now, in a paper recently published and translated, Habermas finally reflects on the internet and its impact on public discourse.
Habermas now calls the internet "a caesura in the development of media in human history comparable to the introduction of printing," an "equally momentous innovation" to the invention of movable type, and a "third revolution in communications technologies" whose result is "the global dissolution of boundaries" as "the communication flows of our garrulous species have spread, accelerated and become networked with unprecedented speed across the entire globe and, retrospectively, across all epochs of world history."
As someone who has a book positing just that coming out in June — The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet (preorder now) — I am gratified, indeed relieved not to be alone. In my book and now here, I will dispute Habermas. Agree or disagree with his provocations, though, they have a way of helping to clarify one's own thinking. (Sadly, Habermas' paper is behind high academic paywalls festooned with barbed wire — $351.83 to get inside the special issue — so linking to it does little good, and I am not up to the task of summarizing all he has to say. Instead, I will offer a few reactions and debates of my own about publics, media, and speech.)
Habermas has long sought the substantiation of the public sphere. Many say that ultimately eluded him in his seminal work, in which he asserted that a bourgeois public sphere mediating between populace and state emerged in critical, rational and inclusive discourse in the coffeehouses and salons of England and Europe. Problem is, that debate was far from inclusive, as it was open only to the privileged patrons of the establishments, excluding women and people of lower classes. Neither was the discussion necessarily rational, as coffeehouse historians Aytoun Ellis, Brian Cowan, Markman Ellis, and Lawrence Klein amply document. Nancy Fraser's feminist critique of Habermas' theory is convincing: "We can no longer assume that the bourgeois conception of the public sphere was simply an unrealized utopian ideal; it was also a masculinist ideological notion that functioned to legitimate an emergent form of class rule…. In short, is the idea of the public sphere an instrument of domination or a utopian ideal?"
Today Habermas seeks his public sphere on the internet, suggesting that "at first, the new media seemed to herald at last the fulfillment of the egalitarian-universalist claim of the bourgeois public sphere to include all citizens equally." He has a habit of proposing the emergence of a public sphere and then simultaneously mourning its passing. As for the seventeenth- and eighteenth- public sphere, he lamented its denigration via mass media and the welfare state. As for the networked public sphere of present day, he complains of echo chambers, the dissolution of boundaries, the blurring of private and public, and social media fragmenting this new institution as soon as it appears.
But there never has been and never will be a singular public sphere; that is the fundamental fallacy of the theory. Instead, there are multiple, overlapping imagined communities, publics, institutions, and markets that vie for power and attention through debate, privilege, and protest. Michael Warner proposed counterpublics: the idea that some publics "are defined by their tension with a larger public." Fraser wrote that alongside Habermas' bourgeois public "there arose a host of competing counterpublics, including nationalist publics, popular peasant publics, elite women's publics, and working-class publics. Thus there were competing publics from the start, not just in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as Habermas implies."
Habermas repeats the mistake much of mainline media make when he interprets January 6 as "the emotive response of voters who for decades have lacked a sense that their ignored interests are taken seriously by the political system in concrete, discernible ways." He blames political elites, saying they had "for decades disappointed the legitimate, constitutionally guaranteed expectations of a significant portion of citizens." No. It's not that the insurrectionists — white men — had been neglected by the power structure; they were that power structure. It's that white men see their power slipping away at the hands of so many counterpublics — read: people of color and women — who had been neglected and now may finally be heard via the internet. As a European, Habermas fails to account for race in the public Reformation (#blacklivesmatter) and Counter-reformation (MAGA) occurring now in America.
In Habermas' worldview, there is today a public sphere online that decomposes into "competing public spheres" and "shielded echo chambers." (Note well that the echo chamber is a trope with little empirical data and research to support it. See Axel Bruns' Are Filter Bubbles Real? and its answer: No.) Fraser suggests the opposite, a public not decomposing but growing out of "a multiplicity of publics" as "an advance toward democracy" to "promote the ideal of participatory parity." She warns: "Where societal inequality persists, deliberative processes in public spheres will tend to operate to the advantage of dominant groups and to the disadvantage of subordinates. Now I want to add that these effects will be exacerbated where there is only a single, comprehensive public sphere." That is, the vision of a single public sphere brings with it the presumption of norms and standards set on high, from those with the power to impose their vision upon all. (See, for example, journalistic objectivity — and Wesley Lowery's critical op-ed exposing that institution's roots in white power.)
Fraser says that with a single public sphere, "members of subordinated groups would have no arenas for deliberation among themselves about their needs, objectives, and strategies." Fraser labels such groups "subaltern counterpublics." In André Brock Jr.'s book, Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures, which I quote and teach often, he calls Black Twitter a "satellite counterpublic sphere." All this is to say that rather than imprinting Habermas' worldview on the internet, it would be more productive to understand the net for what it is becoming and adjust one's worldview accordingly, not to pursue a single, decaying public but instead to study an interlocking ecology of many publics.
One need also adjust one's view of media. In his foundational 1962 book, Habermas lamented the damage wrought by mass media on his first public sphere of the coffeehouse. In his current paper, he laments the supersession of mass media by social media and its effect on his new public sphere of the internet. He still imbues in mass media the power — the responsibility, in fact — to shape public opinion. "The function of the professional media is to rationally process the input that is fed into the public sphere via the information channels of the political parties, of the interest groups and PR agencies, and of the societal subsystems, among others, as well as by the organisations and intellectuals of civil society." He goes farther: "[T]he public communication steered by mass media is the only domain in which the noise of voices can condense into relevant and effective public opinions." He longs for "a professionalized staff that plays the gatekeeper role." Habermas says that mass-media journalism "directs the throughput and … forms the infrastructure of the public sphere."** Extending his electronic imagery, he argues that institutions provide the input, the public receives the output, media throughput. But I say he needs to reverse his wires.
Actually, Habermas made me understand that I have reversed my wires. I now see that the role of media is not to shape public opinion but instead to listen to public opinions now that the internet makes that possible. The goal is not to direct the views of the powerful in institutions toward the public but instead to direct the needs, desires, and goals of citizens to those in power. What has to be shaped is not public opinion about public policy but instead policy to the needs of the public. Whether media have a role in that process — that reversed throughput— is yet to be seen.
Today, media use polls as a proxy for a discerning and disseminating public opinion. Polls are fatally flawed, carrying the biases of the pollster, reducing citizens' nuanced opinions to preconceived binaries, and warping identities into to prepackaged demographics. As James Carey — whom I also often quote — teaches us, polling preempts the public conversation it is intended to measure. In fairness, it's all media had: one-size-fits-all publications carrying all-fit-in-one-size polls to represent vox pop.
But the internet changes that, as Habermas acknowledges, "by empowering all potential users in principle to become independent and equally entitled authors." Now, instead of measuring people in binary buckets, we may listen to them as individuals. Habermas and countless others might consider that the ruin of democracy. He regrets speech occurring "without responsibility" or regulation: "Today, this great emancipatory promise is being drowned out by the desolate cacophony in fragmented, self-enclosed echo chambers." No, in that cacophony, which media cannot manage, is the opportunity of democracy to hear citizens on and in their own terms, in their own communities of many definitions, as their own publics. That will require a new institution, a media of reversed pipes, to build means to listen well. That does not yet exist.
What shape would that new institution take? On the one hand, I am overjoyed that Habermas acknowledges — as I often argue — that "the new media are not 'media' in the established sense." Yet he then turns around to reveal his expectation that people talking online should meet the standards of media and journalism. He is nostalgic and he is worried. He heralds "post-truth democracy" and regrets the passing of print and even of daily newspapers taking on "the 'colourful' format of entertaining Sunday newspapers." German newspapers are particularly gray. "[T]he dramatic loss of relevance of the print media compared to the dominant auto-visual media seems to point to a declining level of aspiration of the offerings, and hence also for the fact that the citizens' receptiveness and intellectual processing of politically relevant news and problems are on the decline." When radio emerged as print's first competitor, newspapers denigrated the receptivity of ear versus eye and called for the new technology to be regulated, just as Habermas demands that "platforms cannot evade all duties of journalistic care" and "should be liable for news that they neither produce nor edit." Let us hope the Supreme Court does not read this in its deliberations over Section 230.
At least Habermas acknowledges that this process, whatever its shape and purpose, will take time. "Just as printing made everyone a potential reader, today digitisation is making everyone into a potential author. But how long did it take until everyone was able to read?" He expects speakers online to aspire to the roles of journalist and author, to "satisfy the entry requirements to the editorial public sphere…. The author role has to be learned; and as long as this has not been realized in the political exchange in social media, the quality of uninhibited discourse shielded from dissonant opinions and criticism will continue to suffer." No. I say we must learn to accept online speech for what it is — conversation — and value it for what it reveals of people's opinions and for the opportunity to engage in dialog. Habermas is rather befuddled by public spaces that carry the kind of content that used to be reserved for handwritten letters: "they can be understood neither as public nor private, but rather as a sphere of communication that had previously been reserved for private correspondence but is not inflated into a new and intimate kind of public sphere." Is he not describing Montaigne's place in the development of print culture?
In the end, I wish for what Habermas desires: democracy underpinned by inclusion and by public discourse as "the competition for better reasons," as he said a half-century ago. Or as he says now: "I do not see deliberative politics as a far-fetched ideal against which sordid reality must be measured, but as an existential precondition in pluralistic societies of any democracy worthy of the name." He is an idealist. "The point of deliberative politics is, after all, that it enables us to improve our beliefs through political disputes and get closer to correct solutions to problems. In the cacophony of conflicting opinions unleashed in the public sphere only one thing is presupposed — the consensus on the shared constitutional principles that legitimises all other disputes." Unless, of course, one is a MAGA Republican, an AfD populist, or the leader of Hungary or Turkey, for whom the goal is not Habermas' wished-for rational consensus but instead the visceral attractions of hate, fear, power, and insurrection.
Media have failed to get us to Habermas' promised land. So far, so have so-called social media. Perhaps we have expected too much of either. Perhaps we have expected too much from the mere serving of information. Perhaps media must take on a new role, as educator, for education is the only cure for the ignorance reigning in the land. Or instead, should education take on the role of informing the public after school? (See this recent thread about academics leaving the academy to pursue public scholarship.) Or will we need to create new institutions to serve public enlightenment and discourse, just as we had to await the creation of the institutions of editing and publishing and journalism after the invention of print?
The shape of public discourse is changing radically and trying to pour new wine in an old Weltanschauung will not work. I can hardly blame Habermas for trying to do that, for he has spent a brilliant life crafting his theories of democracy and discourse. I find his effort to understand this new world useful not because I agree but because it focuses my perspective through a different lens. The worldwide network does not corrupt some ideal that was never achieved but instead allows us to imagine new ideals and new paths toward it.
* Not Jürgen Habermas but Dreamstudio's AI image of him online
** Habermas is oddly italics-happy in his essay; his itals are his. In my book Public Parts, I got in trouble with Habermas adherents for likening his prose to wurst. I cannot pass up the temptation to quote one footnoted and much-italicized sentence of his here: "The lack of 'saturation' concerns the temporal dimension of the exhaustion — still to be achieved in the political community and still to be specified as regards its content — of the indeterminately context-transcending substance of established fundamental rights, as well as the spatial dimension of a still outstanding world-wide implementation of human rights."
20 Post-it provocations on media
October 9, 2022 by Jeff Jarvis
Internet, journalism, Media, unconference
Recently, I was asked to open an unconference with students and grads from our News Innovation and Leadership program at Newmark. I was also preparing for a Newsgeist unconference (which I unfortunately had to miss). Thus my mind has been its own unconference; I sneeze Post-its. So, for our event, I decided to present 20 provocations for discussion about news and media as virtual Post-its (that is to say, tweets):
I'm thinking about the half-life of media forms. Magazines are going out of print. Studying the form, I've come to see how evanescent any publication can be and perhaps so is the genre. Television is in shambles as the institutions of prime-time, networks, linear television, broadcast, and even cable fade. Recently, The Times had a story about the unsustainable resource and risk it takes to make a best-seller. And the death of the print newspaper has been oft foretold but might finally be upon us, for it is fast becoming unsustainable. Nothing is forever. So what might follow?
Journalism is unprepared to cover institutional insurrection. News organizations still seek balance, fairness, sanity, tradition, and the establishment and enforcement of norms, while much of the country seeks to tear down the institutions of society — journalism, science, education, free and fair elections, democracy itself. As Jay Rosen points out, we have no strategy for how to cover this coup.
Should journalists be educators? Educators deal in outcomes, telling students what they will learn, teaching them that, and asking whether they learned it. What if journalism aimed for outcomes — such as reporting why people should get vaccinations or vote or believe election outcomes — and judged its value and success accordingly? Then do we become advocates? Activists? Propagandists? At a gathering of internet researchers we convened a few weeks ago, one of the academics asked whether all propaganda is bad. If the bad guys use it, should the good?
Internet leadership. I'm turning my attention from news leadership to internet leadership. For I think we in journalism need to broaden the canvas upon which we work past stories, content, and publications to the connected society and its data. What should we then we teaching in journalism schools? What of the humanities and of ethics and historical context should technologists and policymakers be taught?
The story as a form is an expression of power. It empowers the storyteller. It extracts and exploits others' stories. It can tempt journalists into fabulism — witness the scandals over time at Der Spiegel, the NY Times, and Washington Post. It carries with it the expectation of neat arcs and endings. The story is an excellent tool, no doubt. But do we concentrate on it too much? Do we sufficiently warn students of its temptations and perils? Do we imaginatively teach many possible alternatives in journalism?
Death to the mass! In two books I've just completed (plug: The Gutenberg Parenthesis, out in June, and another on the magazine as object, both from Bloomsbury), I write about the arc of the mass: its birth with the mechanization and industrialization of print, its fall at the hands of the net. What the net kills is the mass media business model, with it mass media, and with it the idea of the mass, an insult to the public, a way not to know them as individuals and communities. Said John Carey: "The 'mass' is, of course, a fiction. Its function, as a linguistic device, is to eliminate the human status of the majority of people." How do we recenter journalism around individuals and their identities in communities?
Our definition of "local" is too narrow. Communities are not just geographic. I am closer to the people on my Twitter List of Book History Wonks and all the media wonks here online than I am to my frequently Trumpian neighbors. How do we expand our definition of local to communities writ large, to people's own definitions of themselves and their affinities, circumstances, needs, and interests? Yes, save local journalism — but redefine "local."
We have much to learn about communities making spaces for themselves from Black Twitter. I recommend Charlton Mcilwain's Black Software and André Brock Jr.'s Distributed Blackness and I await Meredith D. Clark, PhD's upcoming book. They chronicle efforts by communities to establish their own spaces, not under mass or white gaze. Communities do not need us. We in journalism need them.
Jack Dorsey regrets making Twitter a company. He wishes it were a protocol so one could speak anywhere and anyone could build enterprises atop that speech layer, adding value — curating, verifying, editing, supporting. Especially now, I eagerly await what happens with his Bluesky. How might journalism fit into such an ecosystem?
Censorship is futile. At the birth of every medium, incumbents fret about bad outcomes — fake news from print (witchcraft) or radio (War of the Worlds) or television (the "vast wasteland" where we "amuse ourselves to death"). How much better it is for us to turn our attention to finding, nurturing, supporting, and improving the good.
Paywalls damage democracy. When disinformation is free, how can we restrict quality information to the privileged who choose to afford it? What is our moral obligation to democracy, to society as a whole?
Fuck hot takes. The answer to abundance in media is not to pile on more abundance.
Journalism is terribly, fatally inefficient. Every outlet copying every other outlet's stories to make their own content on their own pages to get their own clicks and ads. Enough. We must concentrate on unique value.
We desperately need more self-criticism in journalism. Especially after the departures of David Carr, Margaret Sullivan, and Brian Stelter. Media are actors in the story of democracy but they go uncovered.
We desperately need more research on public discourse and media today. We must consider the entire media ecosystem, not just Facebook and not just The Times and not relying on such baseless tropes as the filter bubble. Doubt me? See Axel Bruns' book, Are Filter Bubbles Real? His answer: No. We need to work with researchers to examine what we do, what works, and what does not.
We need to reinvent advertising. The attention economy — invented by media and imported into the internet, is obsolete and damaging. Advertising must shift to value, permission, relevance, and utility. We will still need advertisers. Advertisers won't reinvent themselves. So we have to.
Media are engaged in a moral panic about the internet. See Nirit Weiss-Blatt's book, The Techlash, in which she marks the pivot from utopian to dystopian coverage with the election of Donald Trump: Media wanted someone else to blame. News industry organizations have become lobbyists, cashing in journalism's political capital for the sake of protectionism and baksheesh. At a time when freedom of expression is imperiled, we must do better and fight to protect the speech of all.
Facebook is not forever. Even Google is not forever. And Twitter? Who knows what the next day brings? What new functions might we build?
We have time. It is 1480 in Gutenberg years. I do not advocate longtermism. Our obligation to tomorrow begins today. In print, great innovation — the essay, the novel, the newspaper — did not come until 150 years after movable type. How long must we wait for such bold innovation online? Will you be such innovators?
When will the first editor in chief or publisher of a major news operation come from the ranks of the people now known as "audience" or "product?" These are the new disciplines — new to news — that base their work and value on the relationship they have with, to borrow Rosen's term, the people formerly known as the audience. I hope someone hearing this now will be that person.
The story media miss: themselves
brian stelter, cnn, journalism, Media
Media are not merely observers in the story of democracy's demise; they are players. Media require coverage. Who will cover media? Not media. Then no one.
The New York Times and The Washington Post eliminated their ombudsmen long since. With the death of David Carr and the departure of his short-lived and inconsequential successors, with the retirement of Margaret Sullivan, and now with the cancellation of Brian Stelter's Reliable Sources on CNN, there is no one covering media as a story for the public. Yes, there are pontificators aplenty — present company included — and there is inside-baseball coverage for media people from the likes of the Columbia Journalism Review. But who is holding media to account for its impact on the political process for the public? No one.
This is a shameful abrogation of responsibility by our field, journalism.
I have been shouting — even on MSNBC's air — that we must cover the impact of Murdoch's Fox News on public discourse. I begged MSNBC to create a feature: We watch Fox News so you don't have to. I wrote an executive there a proposal, never answered. So I arranged funding of an alum of the Newmark J-School, Juliet Jeske, to start Decoding Fox News on Twitter and Substack. (Someone in media should hire her to continue this important work.)
Fox News is only part of the story. The impact The Times and The Post have on political discourse — hell, on political outcomes — deserves coverage, criticism, and accountability. The impact of polling, bisecting America into simplistic and combative binaries, requires research. The slow death of local news must be studied. The entrance of pink-slime and evangelical news needs to be watched.
Now more than ever, media are a story media should cover. But media — so eager to criticize everyone else — are frightened of criticism themselves.
Were I to summon the spirit of David Carr, I wonder whether he would nominate Stelter as his legitimate successor as media columnist of The Times. I wonder whether anyone would have the freedom Carr and Sullivan had there to question the ways of journalism. I wonder whether any editor or producer or network executive will ever again display the cajones to critique their own.
Media are not objective, impartial, neutral, distant observers on society. Media — as in any other circumstance, media otherwise would love to convince you — have impact. If only media gave themselves a fraction of the attention that they give to so-called social media these days. If only media listened to media scholars and their research. If only media were open to criticism.
But no, media use their power and privilege to to turn spotlight on others, no longer themselves. That is wrong.
The history of print, media & journalism in 45 minutes
gutenberg, history, journalism, Media, News, printing
Here is a video I made for all our incoming students at the Newmark Journalism School about the history of media and journalism. In years past, I've had the high honor an opportunity to brainwash the entire incoming classes in orientation, giving them some context, history, and theory of journalism. It is usually a string of all-morning discussions. But what with COVID, it was decided that this year, staring at my face for three hours straight would be inhuman, and so I recorded the substance of each session as a video for later discussion.
In this one, I start with movable type and cover a half-millennium of history, up through the creation of the newspaper, steam and the penny press and mass, the telegraph and broadcast.
I made other videos about the business of journalism and the role and goals of the journalist that I'll post later.
In defense of targeting
advertising, facebook, google, gutenberg, mass media, Media, targeting, trump
In defending targeting, I am not defending Facebook, I am attacking mass media and what its business model has done to democracy — including on Facebook.
With targeting, a small business, a new candidate, a nascent movement can efficiently and inexpensively reach people who would be interested in their messages so they may transact or assemble and act. Targeted advertising delivers greater relevance at lower cost and democratizes advertising for those who could not previously afford it, whether that is to sell homemade jam or organize a march for equality.* Targeting has been the holy grail all media and all advertisers have sought since I've been in the business. But mass media could never accomplish it, offering only crude approximations like "zoned" newspaper and magazine editions in my day or cringeworthy buys for impotence ads on the evening news now. The internet, of course, changed that.
Without targeting, we are left with mass media — at the extreme, Super Bowl commercials — and the people who can afford them: billionaires and those loved by them. Without targeting, big money will forever be in charge of commerce and politics. Targeting is an antidote.
With the mass-media business model, the same message is delivered to all without regard for relevance. The clutter that results means every ad screams, cajoles, and fibs for attention and every media business cries for the opportunity to grab attention for its advertisers, and we are led inevitably to cats and Kardashians. That is the attention-advertising market mass media created and it is the business model the internet apes so long as it values, measures, and charges for attention alone.
Facebook and the scareword "microtargeting" are blamed for Trump. But listen to Andrew Bosworth, who knows whereof he speaks, as he managed advertising on Facebook during the 2016 election. In a private post made public, he said:
So was Facebook responsible for Donald Trump getting elected? I think the answer is yes, but not for the reasons anyone thinks. He didn't get elected because of Russia or misinformation or Cambridge Analytica. He got elected because he ran the single best digital ad campaign I've ever seen from any advertiser. Period….
They weren't running misinformation or hoaxes. They weren't microtargeting or saying different things to different people. They just used the tools we had to show the right creative to each person.
I disagree with him about Facebook deserving full blame or credit for electing Trump; that's a bit of corporate hubris on the part of him and Facebook, touting the power of what they sell. But he makes an important point: Trump's people made better use of the tools than their competitors, who had access to the same tools and the same help with them.
But they're just tools. Bad guys and pornographers tend to be the first to exploit new tools and opportunities because they are smart and devious and cheap. Trump used it to sell the ultimate elixir: anger. Cambridge Analytica acted as if it were brilliant at using these tools, but as Bosworth also says in the post — and as every single campaign data expert I know has said — CA was pure bullshit and did not sway so much as a dandelion in the wind in 2016. Says Bosworth: "This was pure snake oil and we knew it; their ads performed no better than any other marketing partner (and in many cases performed worse)." But the involvement of evil CA and its evil backers and clients fed the media narrative of moral panic about the corruption and damnation of microtargeting.
Hillary Clinton &co. could have used the same tools well and at the time — and still — I have lamented that they did not. They relied on traditional presumptions about campaigning and media and the culture in a changed world. Richard Nixon was the first to make smart use of direct mail — targeting! — and then everyone learned how to. Trump &co. used targeting well and in this election I as sure as hell hope his many opponents have learned the lesson.
Unless, that is, well-meaning crusaders take that tool away by demonizing and even banning micro — call it effective — targeting. I have sat in too many rooms with too many of these folks who think that there is a single devil and that a single messiah can rescue us all. I call this moral panic because it fits Ashley Crossman's excellent definition of it:
A moral panic is a widespread fear, most often an irrational one, that someone or something is a threat to the values, safety, and interests of a community or society at large. Typically, a moral panic is perpetuated by news media, fueled by politicians, and often results in the passage of new laws or policies that target the source of the panic. In this way, moral panic can foster increased social control.
The corollary is moral messianism: that outlawing this one thing will solve it all. I've heard lots of people proclaiming that microtargeting and targeting — as well as the data that powers it — should be banned. ("Data" has also become a scare word, which scares me, for data are information.) We've also seen media — in cahoots with similarly threatened legacy politicians — gang up on Facebook and Google for their power to target because media have been too damned stubborn and stupid, lo these two decades, to finally learn how to use the net to respect and serve people as individuals, not a mass, and learn information about people to deliver greater relevance and value for both users and advertisers. I wrote a book arguing for this strategy and tried to convince every media executive I know to compete with the platforms by building their own focused products to gather their own first-party data to offer advertisers their own efficient and effective value and to collaborate as an industry to do this. Instead, the industry prefers to whine. Mass media must mass.
Over the years, every time I've said that the net could enable a positive, I've been accused of technological determinism. Funny thing is, it's the dystopians who are the determinists for they believe that a technology corrupts people. It is patronizing, paternalistic, and insulting to the public and robs them of agency to believe they can be transformed from decent, civilized human beings into raging lunatics and idiots by exposure to a Facebook ad. If we believe that and believe our problems are so easily fixed then we miss the real problems this country has: its long-standing racism; media's exploitation and fueling of conflict and fear; and growing anti-intellectualism and hostility to education.
We also need to fix advertising — in mass media and on the internet in the platforms, especially on Facebook. Advertising needs to shift from mass-media measures of audience and attention and clicks to value-based measures of relevance and utility and efficacy — which will only occur with, yes, targeting. It also must become transparent, making clear who is advertising to us (Facebook may confirm the identity of an advertiser but that confirmed information is not shared with us) and on what basis we are being targeted (Facebook reveals only rough demographics, not targeting goals) and giving us the power to have some control over what we are shown. Instead of banning political advertising, I wish Twitter would also have endeavored to fix how advertising works.
I hear the more extreme moral messianists say their cure is to ban advertising. That's not only naive, it's dangerous, for without advertising journalists will starve and we will return to the age of the Medicis and their avissi: private information for the privileged few who can afford it. Paywalls are no paradise.
What's really happening here — and this is a post and a book for another day — is a reflexive desire to control speech. I've been doing a lot of reading lately about the spread of printing in early-modern Europe and I am struck by how every attempt to control the press and outlaw forms of speech failed and backfired. At some point, we must have faith in our fellow citizens and shift our attention from playing Whac-a-Mole with the bad guys to instead finding, sharing, and supporting expertise, education, authority, intelligence, and quality so we can have a healthy, deliberative democracy in a marketplace of ideas. The alternatives are all worse.
* I leave you with a few ads I found in Facebook's library that could work only via targeting and never on expensive mass media: the newspaper, TV, or radio. I searched on "march."
When you eliminate targeting, you risk silencing these movements.
Opening photo credit and link: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/wagakkh5
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One of the things I miss most about 'the real world' here in Ibiza, is going to the cinema. I love everything about it. I love movies. I love movie stars (note: different to actors, though I also love them), I love cinematography, I love soundtracks, I love scores, I love movie posters, I love cleverly written scripts, I love surround sound, I love the big screen, I love red velveteen chairs with cup holders for your oversized Coca Cola, I love oversized Coca Cola, I love previews, I love reading the credits as they roll… It's just magical.
I'd often thought if I didn't live in Ibiza and write a blog, perhaps I'd live in Hollywood and work (like everyone else) in the movies – but then one day I went to Hollywood and didn't find the real thing quite as magical as a silver screen experience, so I came back to my life as a mild mannered anonymous blogger and continued to pine about the lack of cinematic experiences in my life on the white isle.
You see, when I first moved to the island, movies were only screened in Spanish. Very occasionally there'd be a film shown in VO at the multiplex in town, but it would always be some old arthouse movie I had already seen years before, so the magic just wasn't quite the same. The very first thing I did when I took a holiday to NYC in 2013, after living in Ibiza for seven years, was go to the cinema in Time Square (in case you're wondering – I saw Frozen and have subsequently watched the DVD about once a week ever since. It was that special). I flew to Barcelona to go to a midnight screening of Star Wars: The Force Awakens on the opening day last December. Just to give you an idea of how much I love the movies.
Anyway! Back to Ibiza, I was thrilled a few years ago when a company called Lime in the Coconut (rebranded this year as Cinema Paradiso Ibiza) started screening films in an open-air cinema setting in the magical setting of Dalt Vila. My hood. And then the year after that, Amante started hosting open-air cinema nights, and then during the winter just gone by, the retro-esque (it's just authentically old, it wasn't styled by a hipster) Cine Regio in San Antonio started screening movies in English twice a week. I was in heaven.
Movies are finally creeping into expat Ibiza culture, and so when I was invited to attend the exclusive premiere of the new set-in-Ibiza flick called White Island, adapted from author Colin Butts' book 'A Bus Could Run You Over' (adapted by the same author), I couldn't have said RSVP'd 'yes' fast enough. It was a film about my favourite island, shown in my favourite place (on the pink tennis court at Pikes at Ibiza Rocks House) and set up by my favourite open air movie team (Cinema Paradiso Ibiza), which meant comfy beanbeds to replace the velveteen chairs and wine to replace my oversized Coke!
Of course, like any Ibiza invitation, I was instantly set back by the dress code. WHITE. Obviously. You'd think by the nature of my job, I'd have a wardrobe full of the shade, but I have to admit, it's just not my colour! And let's be honest – white is a summer colour. I do have some little white shorts and some light white tops… but it's May. It was late at night. It's cold. And annoyingly, I couldn't just 'borrow' from our fashion boutique, because it was a weekend and our office was locked!
A few creative twists on the variation resulting in a look that was a cross between a toga party and a snowman meant I was finally dressed for the occasion. And so it was off to Pikes, the happiest place on earth!
We arrived to red carpet (I guess white just would have been impractical), a free-flowing bar (WAY better than an oversized coke) and free-popping popcorn, served up by the cutest chicas in vintage styled cigarette girl outfits, complete with pillbox hats. The pink tennis court was illuminated by the light of the full moon and awash with white (although of course there was ONE disrespectful – let's call him a pop-hopper – who dressed head to toe in black), some very chic and stylish, some perhaps could have done with a stylist's touch (remember, white does NOT hide a multitude of sins and pigtails and lace just don't work on anyone over 40), but who am I to criticise? I looked like Olaf from Frozen!
In typical Ibiza style, most of the guests were late and almost all refused to take their beanbed until the very last minute – the invite list was a veritable who's who of Ibiza spanning about three decades, with around 40-percent of the attendees flying in from the UK for the occasion, so it seemed there was a lot of catching up to do. When Colin Butts took to the microphone to make a speech prior to the screening, there really wasn't a dry eye in the house – it was a pretty special moment.
Then it was time. That magical minute as the production house logo comes up on the screen and the movie is about to start. I was on the edge of my beanbed in anticipation. Having never read the book, I had no idea what the film was going to be about (shame on me, yes – I've downloaded it for this weekend)… but as it had been shot in Ibiza, I knew quite a few people who made an appearance as an extra, which I figured would be worth looking out for if nothing else.
Onto the movie itself. Beautiful production. Amazing shots of our beautiful island. Lots of fun guessing which venues had been transformed into make-believe beach bars and even more fun trying to guess if any of the characters were based on people we know. I was surprised to discover that I thought the soundtrack was fabulous (as I think often movies these days lean more towards poppy EDM but it wasn't the case) and the actors, well, they weren't all that bad either. Mostly unknowns. An East Ender here. A chubby Billy Zane there. A quick cameo by the back of Carl Cox's head. A British girl faking a Spanish accent (why they didn't hire a local girl I'll never understand). And the aforementioned pop hopper holding a gun like it was the most unnatural thing in the world. OBVS. He's not an OG hip hopper (nor, some would say, an actor).
I'm not a film critic by any means, so I'm not going to spoil the film for anyone who hasn't seen it, but I'll just say it's yet another Ibiza movie that I'd prefer my mother didn't see as it shows the darker, seedier side of the island that – while admittedly it does exist – tends to present the island in a bad light to those who don't know and love it as we do. It sometimes makes me a bit sad that there doesn't seem to be any movie or TV show about Ibiza that captures the true essence of the island, that magic so many of us feel (whether you live here or not) – and then other times, I'm kind of happy, because I think, if the rest of the world only KNEW how special it was, we'd be overrun!


Good start in the season with three SK racers on the first five places. And surprisingly was it sim-racer Danny 'HuskY' Engels who saw the checked flag first in Brands Hatch. And it was even a quite dominating race for him with almost 20 seconds gap to the second placed ALTERNATE|Schw4rz and SK's Christoph 'DreaF' Hörenbaum on third.
Niklas 'Sliver' Timmermann qualified himself in second position, but had an incident in the first laps where he lost a lot of positions. He still finished fifth after a huge comback though. Last but not least, Robin 'Xanatos' Lagler was able to qualify himself for Grid 1 like all of his teammates and finished in eighth position.


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Hundreds of clubs win Football Foundation cash
668 teams in Northumberland FA area score £25,500 of Club Preparation Funding
Football across Northumberland FA was given a boost today with £25,500 worth of investment from the Premier League, The FA and Government's Football Foundation.
The funding is being awarded as grants from the Foundation's Club Preparation Fund. This has been created to help clubs prepare their buildings to safely reopen in line with Government guidance around hygiene and social distancing, and The FA's plans for a 'phased return' that were announced on 18 July.
51 grants were awarded to clubs across Northumberland Newcastle and North Tyneside totalling £25,500 This will benefit 668 local football teams across the county.
These Club Preparation Fund grants will go towards football sites to satisfy the extra hygiene measures that Government guidance requires. This includes:
Installing hygiene facilities, such as hand sanitiser dispensers, soap dispensers, paper towel dispensers and waste bins
Modifications, such as safety screening, contactless payment systems and signage
Facility maintenance work, such as repairing hand basins and hot water provision
Professional inspections that may be necessary due to the prolonged period of closure resulting from the pandemic – including inspections of water quality, gas and ventilation.
NFA's Acting Chief Executive, Andrew Rose-Cook, said: "We know from talking to our local clubs that everyone is keen to get back to football as soon as they can. Covid-19 has had a huge impact on club finances, so we're delighted that so many of our local clubs have won funding from the Football Foundation for this vital work."
The investment follows the Foundation's Pitch Preparation Fund that awarded £7m to 2,902 organizations across the country. This is enabling over 9,000 football pitches to be made match-fit, and is benefiting more than 33,000 football teams.
The Football Foundation is a charity funded by the Premier League, The FA and the Government, through Sport England.


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Camp Cardiac is a 1-week (Mon. to Fri.) summer day camp 8:30am to 4:00pm. The camp is open to HS students (including 2019 graduates) 15-18 years of age as of first day of assigned session and currently residing in the US.
See Camp Cardiac website for details and application.
Dates: June 10 - 14, 2019 at UNM School of Medicine.
The camp is run by local medical students and serves as an ideal introduction for any HS student interested in exploring a career in medicine. With a focus on both education and real world experience, Camp Cardiac provides students with a unique opportunity to learn directly from experts in the medical field; it also provides a foundation for heart healthy living with an emphasis on both diet and exercise.
1) A year-round after-school program, which meets once every 2 weeks. This is a voluntary program, but APS students who complete YEP Level I receive .5 elective credit on their HS transcript for "Service Learning" at UNM. To apply for the 2019-20 school year, see YEP website , which will be updated in Spring 2018. Deadline is typically in late June. YEP is a multi-year program, and students are invited to participate throughout high school and into college, if desired.
2) Free, 3-day summer intensive programs on a variety of medical topics. Summer 2018 topic was Surgical Intensive and in past years a Pediatric Intensive has been offered, as well. Check YEP website later in 2018-19 school year for Summer 2019 program info and application!
Questions on either of these YEP programs? Contact Ms. Velhagen.
Students interested in going to medical school may want to investigate BA/MD programs at colleges & universities outside of NM. Here is a helpful article and list, and here is a helpful website.
Considering a career in a medical field? It's important to commit time & energy to volunteer work in a clinical setting (hospital, doctor's office) and/or to shadowing a professional in the field you're interested in. This can be done in the summers or during the school year. Some hospitals, like UNMH, allow HS students to apply to volunteer in summers only. Contact those programs directly to apply, or think about volunteering for/shadowing doctors, nurses, dentists, PTs, OTs or other providers to prepare for a medical career.
This highly competitive program accepts only 28 students per year from across the state of NM, and is designed to educate a new generation of doctors who commit to staying in New Mexico to practice medicine in underserved communities. BA/MD provides a full-ride scholarship for the undergraduate program, and students are reserved a spot in UNM's highly-rated medical school. See UNM's Combined BA/MD website for information and to apply, in the fall of senior year.
Take part in the Undergraduate Health Sciences Enrichment Program (UHSEP) at the UNM the summer before your freshman year at college. You'll build skills not only for your academic career but your future as a health professional.


Neil Coleman | Author of Roskill and Talk to Me: One gets the very best advice on the Coast!
Every day I seem to hear a great tale or receive a piece of very god advice. Today was particularly interesting and possibly very good for 'our' health, in the first case.
You may remember our little white Toyota Tercel got rammed in Auckland last week. I took the car to the panel beater down here in Thames and started the process off to get it back on the road. The car is drive-able but the back hatch doesn't lock. OK, so we were told to contact the firm this week and when i did today,Ii was informed that there is a huge line-up for the assessors and a few other issues. It doesn't really matter, given that the car is safe. This is where some very sage advice was really appreciated on our part from the company.
When I called in to the panel beater today (That was only about one kilometre donw the road---Jeeze I love the convenience of not having to travel fat for service!) I leaned about having to wait, but his concern re the back hatch was re the possibility of fumes coming into the car and possibly causing carbon monoxide poisoning. The danger is that one may not know that this is happening. I was advised to keep the windows shut and to turn on the heater at low or use the air conditioning, to keep the car ventilated. I would have opened the windows but he said that that only increased the flow of the fumes across the nose.
He also advised us to keep a milk based drink in the car, because that counteracts carbon monoxide poisoning! I intend to find out more, because his words brought back memories of driving a car in the past, whereby I had nearly fallen asleep. As it turned out, the car had a leaking manifold, if memory serves me correctly and I well remember the things I did to stay awake, ranging from open windows, slapping my face and drinking coffee. How stupid---on reflection. I'd love some feedback on my 'explanations, because sometimes I get it wrong.
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