For more than two decades now, L'Etrange Festival in Paris became one of the most anticipated movie fest in Europe, side by side with other festivals such as SITGES, BIFFF, etc. This year's Etrange Festival will take place from 6th to 17th of september in Paris, and while waiting for the full line-up to be revealed in the upcoming weeks, a few titles have already been announced, traditionnally revealed by their long time partner 1kult.
4 movies from the competition have been announced this far.
Replace, first full-length feature of German director Norbert Keil, follows a young girl whose skin start to age rapidly, dry out and crumble away. She then realize she can replace her own skin with somebody else's.
The wild boys : artist Bertrand Mandico first full-length movie focus on a group of five boys, taken on a repressive cruise on a haunted sailboat after committing a savage crime.
Kuso, the Flying Lotus movie, seems to be one of a kind. Said to have gross-out the Sundance festival audience, the movie will confront its reputation.
Mon Mon Mon Monsters : The tennant downstairs screenwriter, Giddens Ko, comes back with his new feature recently awarded with the audience price at Bucheon festival.
Game of Death, from Sebastien Landry and Laurence "Baz" Morais, a canadian movie described as a mix of slasher, Jumanji and Natural Born Killers, is an adaptation of their web short serie.
Spit'n Split, from Belgian director Jerome Wandewattyne, a mockumentary about a real band, The Experimental Tropic Blues Band", which also composed the soundtrack of the film.
The vilainess : Confession of Murder director Jung Byung-gil is back with this story of Chinese woman raised to kill whose new and peacefull life in South Korea will be interrupted by some revelations about her past. The movie received a standing ovation after it premiered in Cannes Film Festival.
Meatball machine 2 : Yoshihiro Nishimura is back with this follow-up to his 2005 movie. Gory effects and crazyness are to be expected.
Liberation day, from Morten Traavik and Ugis Olte, follows the unexpected journey of an ex-Yugoslavian cult band, Laibach, that becomes the first band to perform in North Korea.
So help me god (Ni juge ni soumise, litterally "Neither judge nor submissive"), directed by Yves Hinant and Jean Libon.
In addition to these 10 movies, it is confirmed that a special program will be dedicated to spanish director Alex de la Iglesia. In addition to the screening of some of his cult movies Perdita Durango and The day of the beast, his latest feature, The Bar, will be presented to the french audience. We have no clue yet tho if Alex de la Iglesia himself will come as a guest.
Last but not least, the festival will honor their colleague of Sitges, the spanish festival, who will turn 50 next october ! Five movies plus a short-film program will be screened in order to celebrate the birthday of one of the oldest movie festival in the world.
Finally, the festival will also welcome an artistic performance of Tom de Pekin, who designed the official poster of Alain Guiraudie's Stranger by the lake.
So, what are your thoughts on these first annoucements ?


Actually, Market Hero is not even his only multi-million dollar company. He also founded the search engine optimization software development company Source Wave and he's running a nutritional supplement brand. He got a couple of classes out there from the marketplace teaching individuals to grow their email lists and sell more.
Anyhow, Market Hero is one of the best email Because it focuses on sales metrics autoresponders available on the market nowadays and it's so much better than its rivals.
I have used a bunch of email autoresponder software through time, such as MadMimi and Drip. Drip was my favorite up until I started using Market Hero. Drip allows you to perform a lot of stuff, like monitor your open rates and tag your subscribers.
But if you are anything like me, as you take care of open prices and click-through rates, the thing that matters most is SALES. Sales are the lifeblood of your enterprise and earnings is what places cold, hard cash into your pocket. Market Hero helps you track sales, plain and simple.
The service isn't amazing to the point where they provide you with detailed step-by-step videos and also hold your hand through every step of the way, however it isn't terrible. If you need that degree of hand-holding and coddling, possibly Market Hero is not for you.
Market Hero has English-speaking support team available to answer your questions through live chat for free. Like some unscrupulous companies do you do not need to be part of any plan or package that is updated to have priority support. You just log in and start chatting.
On Market Hero's homepage You will see states,"4X Your Email Business With Unequaled Delivery and Sales Metrics". This immediately set off my B.S. sensor because I know how difficult it is to 4X an email sequence, especially if you're any good at what you're doing.
However, Market Hero provides a free trial, and so I figured I'd register and see whether it had been any good. I guessed that I just need a small increase in sales for Market Hero to cover itself and when it did 4X my business, I would be flying high.
Now, in the interest of full disclosure I really do want to inform you Market Hero has NOT improved my earnings 4X (yet), but I am getting more sales than before and Market Hero IS paying for itself. Rather easily, in fact. I had my own email game tight and was doing well, so that I understood a 4X increase could be tough.
I know I already mentioned this, but the secret to Market Hero is how it keeps your customers' lifetime value (LTV) facing you constantly and it changes as you send emails out and tweak your autoresponder. As soon as you understand your customer worth, you can literally"buy" customers. What Market Hero does is every conversion for each and every guide on your listing and track every sale. It averages everything together and gives you.
If you were to do this manually, you'd probably have to go through different programs, different spreadsheets, and go back through your previous earnings. You may need to crunch on a lot of numbers that are unique that you most likely don't have anymore. Market Hero solves this problem better than anyone else on the market.
Let's say that I am running two different campaigns for the identical audience. Anyone who opts-in into the first campaign is going to be tagged as"A" and anyone who opts-in into the next campaign will be tagged as"B".
If you do this again and again, you can build a powerful business as you'll constantly be split-testing to see which types of people are worth more to your enterprise.
And getting this up and running is super-easy too. All you have to do is choose the pixel that Market Hero provides you and put it in the areas which you would like to track. From that point, Market Hero will keep tabs on all of your clients, sales, conversions, etc., to supply you with the information which you will need to grow your business.
I think that this is a smart move by Alex Becker because it indicates that he knows his market. He understands that the people that are serious about making money on the internet are likely using things and he would like to be certain his applications integrates.
My sole complaint is that lots of the software I use, for example OptinMonster and Thrive Themes hasn't been placed in the"integrations" tab. That doesn't mean that you CAN'T integrate them, because you can (you utilize Zapier to make them speak to each other) but it's not quite as easy as something like ClickFunnels or Shopify.
The best method for me to describe it is of The other autoresponders were created for email marketers. I have nothing against marketers that are email and I send mails but their thinking has its limits. Market Hero was constructed BY a business owner FOR company owners.
Market Hero differs because it provides you with a lot of different ways that will help you track ROI and generate more profit from your own emails.
For instance, one of the coolest features is the fact that it shows you just how much each lead is worth. Imagine logging into your email autoresponder and viewing that every guide is worth $6.87 to you. Meaning you could go out and"purchase" email addresses to create money. What you do is that you buy paid traffic from Google, Facebook, etc. and send that traffic into an opt-in page. If it's possible to find a successful than it is worth, you have a business. As you can simply rinse and repeat as many times.
From what I've seen, people have complained about his refund policy. These individuals are usually the individuals who have utilized Market Hero for weeks and attempt to get their cash. These are the actual scammers. If you aren't inclined to pay money you are scum. Plain and simple.
When I began composing this Market Hero review, I Was worried it went to lean a little too much. That is why I wish to stress this Market Hero can assist you in ANY business, not just Shopify.
On his YouTube channel, Alex has posted a great deal of different videos about Shopify. You find he provides a lot of useful information about the best way to earn money with Shopify, once you get past the clickbait-style names. Part of the reason is because he needs to get folks to check out Market Hero because he knows it can help them.
For instance, Market Hero allows you to create abandoned cart strings. When someone starts the checkout procedure in Shopify (by entering their email) but doesn't complete it, that gets tracked in Market Hero. From that point, you can follow up with that person and get them back to finish their purchase.
based on the study which you read, the average cart abandonment rate for an online shop is generally somewhere in the neighborhood of 70-80 percent. Are there individuals with abandonment rates? Sure, but this is actually the typical.
Imagine that you have 100 people go through your checkout process and 80 of these people abandon your cart. This means you have 20 clients and 80 non-customers. Imagine if a cart retrieval sequence only got a mere 10% of the non-customers to purchase?
The motive Market Hero is so powerful is because you're able to apply tags and track LTV. When you link Market Hero to Shopify, it begins monitoring immediately. Purchase tags are applied that show you who bought which products.
Imagine that you have a Shopify shop selling print-on-demand dog tops. If someone bought a pug shirt, it would be silly to try and sell Golden Retriever things to this person, right? But that's because they don't have the right information in front of them what a lot of entrepreneurs do. Because Market Hero lets you determine what the individual bought, you can concentrate on selling only pug-related stuff.
You are able to totally geek out on this stuff. You can get as comprehensive as intricate as you would like. In my personal business, I use it to segment the topics that advisors are interested in. Since I market products that assist advisors GET clients and let them KEEP customers, if a person is interested in KEEPING clients, I do not want to bombard them because they would be irrelevant. That person would finally unsubscribe.
Oh, and in case you're interested, here is a video of Alex Becker showing you ways to raise your Shopify revenue 300 percent with Market Hero. Just keep in mind the Market Hero can be used with ANY business, not Shopify.
Market Hero is an email program because It is built for those that are currently trying to earn money on the internet. In Case You Haven't done So go around there, import your list and take advantage of this complimentary trial.


I will admit that pop music, with its terribly insubstantial lyrics, heavy bass lines and repetitive beats are as much of a guilty pleasure of mine as the next almost-twenty-something-year-old girl. But I don't think I can stand by the song recently released under the collaborative works of Rihanna and Chris Brown (no matter how catchy the beat may be). The last time I saw these two names linked together were within the extensive police report describing the night Brown attacked Rihanna, while the two were driving intoxicated.
The song Rihanna recently released entitled "Birthday Cake (Remix)" features Brown in a way that not only took me by surprise, but also successfully disgusted me (especially since Birthday Cake Remix is my favorite ice cream combination from Coldstone's Creamery; I can never think of the sweet concoction in the same way again).
The two artists have a long-standing dating history, which ended due to Brown's act of violence against Rihanna three years ago. Brown assaulted Rihanna while driving home from a pre-Grammy party three years ago. The police report states that Brown assaulted Rihanna because she had caught a glimpse of a conversation on Brown's phone between him and a woman he had previously had sexual relations with and asked him about it. Brown proceeded to beat her all the way home, causing contusions to form along the surfaces of her face, arms and legs, hitting her with so much force that he drew blood. A resident of the neighborhood the couple ended up in heard Rihanna's cry for help and called the police. After an investigation was conducted, Rihanna was issued a Domestic Violence Emergency Protective Order (EPO), placing a restraining order on Brown.
The police report, which was leaked earlier this month, was labeled with a trigger warning for people who have experienced similar situations to not read it, due to its detailed descriptions of abuse. It's understandable that the information was originally withheld from the public for the sake of Rihanna's privacy, however, I do think those who would be able to handle reading it should take the time to fully understand how serious this is; especially the girls who have been defending Brown's performance at the Grammy's via Facebook and Twitter, posting and tweeting things like how they "would let Chris Brown beat [them] any day" (which I assume is some strange, sick desire rooted in the singer's body and dance abilities).
Well, I sure remember how they did it and I'm certain several others do, too. Other disturbing lyrics include "I know you wanna bite this/It's so enticing/Nothing else like this/I'mma make you my b*tch," which Rihanna repeats several times throughout the song. I'm assuming the lyrics are hinting at the incident. The police report states that Brown bit Rihanna on two occasions throughout the night, on her left ear and her left middle and ring fingers. It's extremely disconcerting to have images of aggressive sexual activities depicted through the lyrics of this song, since they hint so heavily at the actual acts of aggression that transpired between the two paramours.
In addition to Rihanna's new track, Chris Brown also released a new track featuring her entitled "Turn Up The Music," which is far less racy than Rihanna's song title. This collaboration is confusing, since I'm not sure whether or not their romantic sparks are flaring up again (if that's even possible) or if they just want to continue producing successful tracks.
The thing that's so difficult to understand about this reignited collaboration is what this might teach to people who look up to Rihanna. She is a role model. Beginning to work with Brown again sends out mixed messages, especially about the acceptance of physical abuse. It's common for people to turn the other cheek when an incident like this takes place, but I'm not sure this song is a good indication of what the phrase "turn the other cheek" implies.


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George Osborne would stand in new constituency
George Osborne has vowed to stand for a new Northwich constituency if radical plans to scrap Tatton go ahead.
Government proposals to change electoral boundaries could mean the Tatton seat is abolished, with 60pc of its voters moving into a new Northwich constituency.
Mr Osborne said: "The great majority of the Tatton constituency is going to be in the new Northwich constituency. That will be the constituency I would like to represent in
Parliament. Of course, that ultimately will be for voters to decide." The Boundary Commission for England's shake-up would see Wilmslow North and South become part of Macclesfield.
It means neighbours on the same Wilmslow road could have different MPS, with Fulshaw in the Northwich ward and the remaining 20,000 Wilmslow residents in Macclesfield. Mr Osborne supports the proposed changes. He said: "It isn't fair that some constituencies have tens of thousands more people in them than others. It
means that not everyone's vote carries equal weight."
There will be parliamentary vote on the plans in 2013.

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The history of the insurrection is related in detail on this page.
A detailed report of the flags used during the Commune is given by Pierre Charrié in his book Drapeaux et étendards du XIXe siècle [chr92].
On 15 March 1871 (three days before the beginning of the insurrection), the Federation of the National Guard was made up of 26 legions, broken into 215 battalions. On 23 March, 25 marching battalions were created. Other units joined the Federation such as the Cecilia Franc-Tireurs, the France Volunteers of Commandant Olkowicz, and the sailors of the Commune gunboats.
The Tricolore flag was used by the units of the National Guard during the siege of Paris. In January 1871, however, a few plain red flags appeared. On 22 January, the 101st Battalion attached red pennons to the ends of their baionets. On 7 March, the 199th Battalion hoisted the red flag over the Bastille Column.
On 18 March, when the insurrection started, a red flag was raised on the City Hall, and the 130th Battalion used a red flag too. Not all of the battalion flags were red, but more and more battalions adopted red flags. These red flags were initially square pieces of scarlet fabric. Those which were too dirty or destroyed by bullets were later replaced by new silk flags with a golden fringe, provided by the Central Committee of the Commune, although the Tricolore flag was never abolished. The 147th Battalion used a new Tricolore flag.
There were no rules as to the flag designs, and most of these short-lived flags were destroyed during the fightings and repression by the Versailles Army. Only nine of these flags have been preserved or recently seen. Except the last flag described, all of these flags have letterings on the obverse only.
The flag used by the 147th Battalion is preserved in the Army Museum, Paris.
This flag is made of tricolor silk, with three equal vertical stripes and a golden fringe. The size of the flag is 123 x 159 cm and the fringe is 5 cm long.
is written in gold lettering on the white stripe, perpendicular to the hoist.
The flag used by the 269th Battalion is preserved in the Museum of Living History, Montreuil (east of Paris).
DEM SIZE="-1" QUE stands for DEMOCRATIQUE, N SIZE="-1" LE for NATIONALE and ARR SIZE="-1" T for ARRONDISSEMENT (district).
In the middle of the flag is placed the allegory of the Republic with the Phrygian cap.
The flag used by the 164th Battalion is preserved in the Historical Library Feltrinelli, Milan (Italy).
This flag is made of red fabric. It has a golden fringe on the three flying sides.
Below that, in an arched pattern is EREG GERMAIN et ses frères de la VILLETTE [and his brothers from la Villette]. This is probably the name of the funders of the flag.
The flag used by the 226th Battalion is cited by Bouillé (Le Drapeau français, Paris, 1875). Its current location is unknown.
This flag is made of red fabric. It is lettered in gold with 226e BATAILLON.
The flag used by the 220th Battalion is preserved in the Central Museum of the Societ Armed Forces, Moscow (Russia). It was displayed for the 100th anniversary of the Commune. First preserved by a Polish volunteer fighter in 1871, seized by the Germans in 1939, it was finally taken by the Russians from a Gestapo building in Silesia.
No description of this flag is available.
The flag used by the 30th Battalion is preserved in an unnamed museum in Moscow (Russia). It might have been the flag which was hoisted close to Lenin's mausoleum.
The flag used by the 67th Battalion was sold by auction in Hôtel Drouot, Paris, c. 20 years ago.
The flag used by the 143rd Battalion is preserved in the Museum of Art and History, Saint-Denis (north of Paris).
in black. Between these tow words, it is lettered with 143e Bon [Bataillon] Cies [Compagnies] DE GUERRE [of war].
The current location of the flag used by the 117th Battalion is unknown.
The reverse of the flag is identical to the obverse.
The flags of the 76th and 191st Battalions are plain red.
The six gunboats which constituted the fleet of the Commune each flew a red ensign, purchased 1.50 Franc.
A plain red flag, preserved at the Museum of Art and History, Saint-Denis, was hoisted on the Saint-Leu's church.
A satiric allegory by F. Mathis (National Library) portrays the Commune on the top of a column made of (from bottom to top) Louis-Philippe, the Second Republic, Napoléon III, the Third Republic, and Thiers. Behind Napoléon is an eagle, which is attacked by a roaster. The Commune is shown as a long-haired woman dressed in red, who is waving a red flag with Commune written on it in black.
A painting by Guerie (Museum of Art and History, Saint-Denis) shows a wedding being celebrated by a mayor wearing a red sash and waving a red flag topped with the Phrygian cap. The scene seems to be too allegoric to be historically correct.
A painting by Devambez (Historical Museum, Palace of Versailles) shows a barricade with a red flag in the background.
An anonymous painting (Île-de-France Museum, Sceaux) shows the fighting at the Pont de Neuilly (2 April). The leader of the insurgents is waving an orange flag (probably red when the painting was made) partially torn by bullets. In the backgournd, a Tricolore flag represents the Versailles Army.
A painting by Boulanger (Carnavalet Museum, Paris) shows the fighting on the Concorde Square. The flag hoisted over the building in the background seems to be plain red.
A so-called image d'Epinal (stereotypical, popular representation produced in large number in the city of Epinal) (National Library) shows the execution of the archbishop of Paris by the insurgents. A red flag is shown in a corner of the image.
A painting by Philippoteaux (Museum of Art and History, Saint-Denis) shows the last fighting in the Père-Lachaise cemetery, and a woman is bearing a red flag.
All of these representations do not prove that red flags were actually used during the events they depict. They only prove that the red flag was considered to be the emblem of the Commune and was used to identify it.
The black-and-white photograph of the barricade erected on Chaussée de Ménilmontant is more historically relevant but unfortunately not very helpful to vexillology. A man standing on the barricade is bearing a flag with a cravate. The flag appears white and the cravate black, but no other details can be seen.


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HOW I HAVE COME TO SOUND THE ALARM
I meant to post this earlier, so it's out of chronological order. On the other hand, it si also a good guidepost foro the last few posts.
On Dec. 4, 2021, I found a Facebook post that articulated the relationship of the right-wing Republican political operations to the religious right's dominion theocracy movement. As Ruth Larson Case posted, "They have been working steadily behind the scenes for years & years. It's no secret that the Republican Party/conservative Christianity is actively trying to turn this nation into some form of theocracy."
As a retired reporter and editor, I usually don't put much stock in or react to Facebook posts like this and am more than wary of conspiracy theories. But for years I had heard about dominionism and that Ted Cruz was part of the movement. The other thing I've heard about for some time is a book by renowned Duke University historian Nancy MacLean, "Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America." But I hadn't gotten around to reading it until diving into researching dominionism. That sparked a nagging recollection about MacLean's book, so after reading Heather Boushey's book review in The New York Times Aug. 20, 2017 Sunday Book Review I decided to read it. On Dec. 15, I got it through interlibrary loan.
You don't need to read beyond the book's Introduction (attached PDF) to see how she outlines how sinister is economist James McGill Buchanan's so-called public choice theory; and his stealthy plan being fully the progenitor of the Republican-right's agenda and concomitant behavior. This started in the late 1950s and certainly since the 1970s with the Koch Brothers involvement. That plan, which MacLean convincingly asserts is really a long-term movement, has unfolded before our very eyes. Even media at the highest level has written about the plan's tactics as increased bitter partisanship while missing the big picture.
While Boushey's review is a great summary of MacLean's thesis, with some examples, MacLean's introduction gives us the overview and context. So does The New York Times' obituary for Buchanan noting, "[he] was a leading proponent of public choice theory, which assumes that politicians and government officials, like everyone else, are motivated by self-interest — getting re-elected or gaining more power — and do not necessarily act in the public interest."
Importantly, Buchanan feared the expansion of government and government programs would result in taxing the rich to provide what the Republicans have called "entitlements" for the populace, a behavior he argued, designed to keep the political/government class in power and take money from the billionaire capitalist class. Meanwhile, one of the "stealth" parts of Buchanan's scheme was based on his notion that the political-government-populace couldn't be "constrained" — at least as long as the voters were allowed to vote their will.
As I said, I only recently realized that Buchanan's approach melded with the dominionist movement when MacLean and the obit pointed out that Buchanan "amplified on" this so-called "public choice theory" from the 1950s onward and "argued for smaller government, lower deficits and fewer regulations — a spectrum of policy objectives that were ascendant in the 1980s conservative agenda of President Ronald Reagan."
And part of that strategy was the Koch Brothers' founding of the Cato Institute (and many other "think tanks" to promote public choice theory. How stealthy this was and some indication of its links to the dominionist movement is another PRA essay by Peter Montgomery in April 2015 in "The Public Eye." In this article, "Biblical Economics: The Divine Laissez-Faire Mandate," Montgomery outlines how melded these parts of the movement are; and, how subtle they are.
So, where Case's Facebook post fell short was labelling these Christian zealots as agents of "7 Mountains Dominionism" thereby missing the Buchanan/MacLean connection. However, in short, those politicians openly or assumedly associated with the dominionist movement AND the radical right are both sides of the same coin. As allies of Buchanan's plan, they are, as MacLean reluctantly calls them, a fifth column allied with others to end our democracy. And how convenient the Christian overlay on the movement is.
As for my research on dominionism, I found work by Frederick Clarkson; Ph.D., senior fellow at the non-profit think tank Political Research Associates helpful. In several articles in the PRA's "The Public Eye" he and others make clear the movement is more complex than the 7 Mountains or 7M branch of the movement.
For example, in a Feb. 14, 2016, post, he writes, "The term 'Dominionism' was first popularized in the 1990s by researchers, including Chip Berlet, scholar Sara Diamond, and myself, who needed a term to describe the political aspirations of Christian Rightists who believed that they have a biblical mandate to control all earthly institutions — including government — until the second coming of Jesus."
Clarkson continues to describe how the movement predated the label by several decades. In a later essay, he offers a more complete understanding of the movement in "Dominionism Rising: A Theocratic Movement Hiding in Plain Sight," in the Summer 2016 The Public Eye. His article shows the dominionist movement is far more complex and broader than simply saying the permutations of the movement have the common goal of domination of governments with a fundamentalist Biblically based legal system — some going so far as an Old Testament underpinning. Think the "Christian" version of Sharia law.
The important understanding of the movement impacting United States politics threatens the Constitution by rejecting of Thomas Jefferson's separation of church and state. A dominionist U.S. Constitution would hold the U.S. was founded as a Christian nation — a belief that flies in the face of historical facts. One of the many goals of Buchanan's plan.
None of this is to discount the 7 Mountains part of the dominionist movement. As David Brockman, Ph.D. reports, in a June 2, 2016, Texas Observer story, "The Radical Theology that Could Make Religious Freedom a Thing of The Past" one of the movement's most prominent politicians is Texas junior Republican Sen. Ted Cruz.
Clarkson reports in "Dominionism Rising …" that former Texas Gov. Rick Perry and current Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick are part of the movement. In "Christian Americanism and Texas Politics Since 2008," published in March 2020 by the Baker Institute, at Rice University, Brockman adds Rep. Louie Gohmert, Gov. Greg Abbott and Texas Rep. Dan Flynn.
Brockman continues, "Several other state legislators may well belong in this list of Christian Americanism in Texas. …., [backing] legislation that arguably privileges Christians and/or overlaps with the Christian Americanist agenda has been authored by state Representatives Dustin Burrows (R-Lubbock), Matt Krause (R-Fort Worth), Phil Stephenson (R-Rosenberg), and Bill Zedler (R-Arlington), along with state Senators Charles Perry (R-Lubbock), Brian Birdwell (R-Granbury), and Bryan Hughes (R-Mineola). Whether these and other conservative officeholders are full Christian Americanists or simply proponents of Christian right policies would be a fruitful question for future research."
Of course, dominionist or dominionist-allied politicians aren't confined to Texas. As Clarkson reports in "Dominionism Rising …" Alabama Justices Roy Moore Tom Parker; failed vice president candidate and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin; former Minnesota U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann; former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee; and current political operative and former U.S. Rep. Newt Gingrich are part of the movement. So are Gov. Sam Brownback, R-Kan.; Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla.; and Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa. A USA Today opinion piece adds Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo. Surely there are others.
Note that the 7M branch calls for discrediting institutions — also part of Buchanan's agenda. And as MacLean points out, "He therefore helped lead a push to undermine their trust in public institutions. The idea was to get voters to direct their ire at these institutions and divert their attention away from increasing income and wealth inequality."
Of course, this discussion only skims the surface of the dominionist movement. It's clear the Donald Trump's victory, as unexpected as it was, jumped started the dominionist agenda. The scary part of this is that Trump's outrageous breaking of norms and corruption — while very much in line with dominionist techniques — distracted political analysts and media from the higher altitude insights. Evidence of this can be seen in how far below the radar and public consciousness this agenda flew. But PRA's Dominionism expert Clarkson, didn't miss the movement's massive agenda in April 27, 2018 when he linked the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to the dominionist movement's "Project Blitz."
Other than this and The Guardian's Dec. 11, 2021 article "Radicalized Christian nationalism is a growing threat to American democracy" by Arwa Mahdawi, I am unaware of other coverage since Trump's election and during his administration. Mahdawi deconstructs the right-wing radical activity, including the Jan. 6 coup rehearsal, in the context I've suggested here.
I am clearly concerned that our democracy shaped by Reconstruction on through the New Deal and up to the "Reagan Revolution" is on the cusp of losing to the Buchanan-dominionist alliance with the table for that already laid for the upcoming mid-terms and the 2024 presidential elections. That little of the Buchanan movement and how it links to dominionist theocracy are seen since the run-up to the 2016 election is a result of the mainstream media — also under fire as part of the strategy — being purposefully distracted by Trump-like antics from the right wing and the Republican Party.
Thankfully, The Guardian's Dec. 11, 2021, article opened the door to covering this issue focusing on two points tied to the movement's hegemony of the right-wing and the GOP. One prong clamps down on women's rights with the Draconian anti-abortion legislation. Second, and far more dangerous, is the movement's well-organized Project Blitz. From a journalistic perspective, one could approach this movement, which is heavily populated by Texans, from either the dominionist or Buchanan/MacLean perspective. Both are important to understanding what's happening.
Even J. David Goodman's Dec. 12 New York Times story on Greg Abbott's hard right turn, misses this overarching Buchananist connection and the dominionist movement. The peg for an investigative reporting effort would be to show that Abbott, other Texans in politics and others such as his wealthy contributors are the movement — unwittingly or not. My thesis is that Abbott has been part of this movement for years — a credit to his skill at retail politics. However, he also is aware that being open about how it would alienate what little remains of the thoughtful moderate Republican Party and the rationally conservative independents. His alliance with Trump and doing Trump's bidding on the election audits are only a few indicators of his embrace of this fifth column treason. Simply look at his agenda.
I have to wonder as a journalist what a spate of public records requests for his emails and other materials would show. And what digging into the others would also show. Would threat like this justify bringing IRE and others into the effort not unlike the work done after Don Bowles was assassinated? It would be a massive undertaking fraught with obstacles. But wouldn't it be a hellava story?
Thanks for reading this and I hope you take my analysis seriously.
Democracy in Chains -- A Summary and Warning
Lynn Passmore wrote a piece for the Institue for New Ecoonomic Thinking called "Meet the Economist behind the One Percent's Stealth Takeover of America." It's not "fair use" to past in the whole piece, so I am going to paste in only excerpts. The value of Passmore's work, according to MacLean herself, is it's a good summary of the book.
From the beginning of Passmore's piece: James McGill Buchanan is a name you will rarely hear unless you've taken several classes in economics. And if theTennessee-born Nobel laureate were alive today, it would suit him just fine that most well-informed journalists, liberal politicians, and even many economics students have little understanding of his work.
The reason? Duke historian Nancy MacLean contends that his philosophy is so stark that even young libertarian acolytes are only introduced to it after they have accepted the relatively sunny perspective of Ayn Rand. (Yes, you read that correctly). If Americans really knew what Buchanan thought and promoted, and how destructively his vision is manifesting under their noses, it would dawn on them how close the country is to a transformation most would not even want to imagine, much less accept.
That is a dangerous blind spot, MacLean argues in a meticulously researched book, Democracy in Chains, a finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction. While Americans grapple with Donald Trump's chaotic presidency, we may be missing the key to changes that are taking place far beyond the level of mere politics. Once these changes are locked into place, there may be no going back.
Further in: In 1965 the economist launched a center dedicated to his theories at the University of Virginia, which later relocated to George Mason University. MacLean describes how he trained thinkers to push back against the Brown v. Board of Education decision to desegregate America's public schools and to challenge the constitutional perspectives and federal policy that enabled it. She notes that he took care to use economic and political precepts, rather than overtly racial arguments, to make his case, which nonetheless gave cover to racists who knew that spelling out their prejudices would alienate the country.
She argues that unlike even the most property-friendly founders Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, Buchanan wanted a private governing elite of corporate power that was wholly released from public accountability.
"The United States is now at one of those historic forks in the road whose outcome will prove as fateful as those of the 1860s, the 1930s, and the 1960s," writes MacLean. "To value liberty for the wealthy minority above all else and enshrine it in the nation's governing rules, as Calhoun and Buchanan both called for and the Koch network is achieving, play by play, is to consent to an oligarchy in all but the outer husk of representative form."
Nobody can say we weren't warned.
RIGHT WING AGENDA REVEALED
As a retired reporter and editor, I usually don't put much stock in or react to Facebook posts like this and am more than wary of conspiracy theories. But for years I had heard about dominionism and that Ted Cruz was part of the movement. The other thing I've heard about for some time is a book by renowned Duke University historian Nancy MacLean, "Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America." But I hadn't gotten around to reading it until diving into researching dominionism. That sparked a nagging recollection about MacLean's book, so after reading Heather Boushey's book review in The New York Times Aug. 20, 2017 Sunday Book Review I decided to read it. On Dec. 15, I got it through interlibrary loan and can confidently assert that MacLean's case is meticulouslydocumented. It's clear that in connectingthe dots this nation is at a tipping point.
WE FACE A GRAVE DANGER
Someone I don't know on Facebook by the name of Ruth Larson Case posted the following. I thought it added much to my perspective of the right-wing movement. If you've followed me or know me then you know I believe the Republicans want to return the United States to the Gilded Age of the Robber Barons. Ms. Case's post adds another layer or dimension to it in a way that I can see how the two notions embrace one another. Here is what Ms. Case posted Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021:
They have been working steadily behind the scenes for years & years.
It's no secret that the Republican Party/ conservative Christianity is actively trying to turn this nation into some form of theocracy.
But beneath this continued push to turn the United States into a theocracy lies a much deeper, more dangerous movement that most people aren't even aware of. This movement is called the "7 Cultural Mountains," or is sometimes referred to as the "7 Mountains Dominionism."
What is this, you ask? Well, it's an effort to place "Christian" control over seven areas of our lives these radicals have labeled as "pillars of society."
The 7 areas are:
• Family
• Religion
• Business
• Arts and Entertainment
The 7 Cultural Mountains website describes their movement as follows—
In 1975, Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade, and Loren Cunningham, founder of Youth With A Mission, had lunch together in Colorado. God simultaneously gave each of these 'change agents' a message to give to the other. About a month later, Francis Schaeffer (at one time, he was leader in the evangelical movement & is the author of numerous books) was given a similar message. That message was that if Christians are to impact any nation for Jesus Christ, then they would have to affect the seven spheres (or mountains) of society that are the pillars of any society (there are many subgroups under these main categories). Basically, "God told them" that ONLY CHRISTIANITY should control these seven key areas of society.
They believe that the following is absolutely true—
• This nation was founded on Christian principles. (Government)
• Social policies should be crafted based on religious ideology, i.e., what defines a marriage and when life is created. (Family)
• The government must be controlled only by people who believe this nation is a Christian nation. (Religion)
• The continued push to cut funding for public education to such low levels that private school is the only alternative for a decent education — private schools which are often religiously-based. (Education)
• They constantly attack any and all media entities that don't agree with them, while perpetuating the belief that only THEIR media can be trusted. (Media)
• They're heavily backed by radical right-wing billionaires, many of whom advocate for open discrimination in the workplace based on religious beliefs. (Business)
• They often blame gun violence on video games, claiming it is entertainment —not guns— that needs more regulative control. (Arts and Entertainment)
If you don't believe this movement has already worked its way into our government, you're fooling yourself. And this isn't just some radical movement that can be easily dismissed. There are prominent figures in American politics RIGHT NOW that subscribe to the "7 Mountains" ideology. Of course they won't admit that this is their plan, because it would freak out everyone who isn't some right-wing radical. However, as they slowly continue to inch their way into the mainstream, they're hoping we don't realize what it is they're actually trying to do.
It's the escalated attack on a woman's right to have control over her own body. It's new voter ID laws that disenfranchise voters who don't vote for these radical right-wing politicians. It's attacking any and all media sources as "left-wing propaganda" if they don't spread the message of the GOP. It's trying to have a Constitutional Amendment that defines what is or isn't a marriage. It's saying there's such a thing as a "traditional family," a definition that's pulled from their religious beliefs. It's a whole host of issues they'll continue to chip away at, hoping to eventually gain their majority rule victory before they openly push forward with their "conquering of the 7 mountains" agenda.
Now, I don't know about you, but I'm absolutely terrified by the thought of this.
(Excerpts from Allen Clifton & The 7 Mountains website.)
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One of the more radical aspects of PIEs 2.0 and the Pizazz approach - so radical that it could be easily overlooked - is that is that it creates an opportunity for services users, alongside staff and volunteers, to also give their own views on a service, and to what extent it works for them, as a PIE.
The PIE Abacus software in particular is being designed in such a way that it is made possible for service users, whether individually or as a group, to in-put their own views and experience of the service, from their own perspective.
It is not necessary to be computer-literate to participate - or in fact, to be literate at all. Using the 'proxy in-put' feature, a key worker, a volunteer, peer support or admin worker can in-put the views of anyone, on their behalf.
Where it seems suitable - where, for example, middle managers or researchers may wish to hear directly service users' opinions - users can be identified by some designation of their role, just as any members of staff may be. This is, however, entirely at the discretion of the service. NB: Users' views can only be shared where they have given permission for others to access them.
For this service user in-put to be most effective, however, we suspect we may need to modify and customise the language of the PIEs framework in some cases. This is little different in principle to the ways that all facilitators must to some extent customise the language and the contexts of the framework to any one particular service.
We are therefore currently embarked on the process of developing a language for the key elements of the PIE approach that may often be more suited to the experience of users; but this will surely need to be customised for each context, and each individual. The ambition to keep one framework that works for all concerned is demanding; but it seems the right challenge to have.
The simplest, most effective way to evaluate and improve your PIE from Daniel O'Brien on Vimeo.


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The politics sketchConservative leadership
Can you negotiate with people who are certifiable? Ask the EU
John Crace
The Brexit secretary's out of the loop, the clock's ticking and the cherry-picking farce proceeds as Europe looks on
The Brexit secretary, Stephen Barclay, the one member of the cabinet whose job description is to know nothing whatsoever about Brexit. Photograph: House of Commons/PA
Thu 14 Feb 2019 14.14 EST
Cometh the hour, cometh the man. And who better to deputise for the prime minister during the latest debate on why the government still doesn't have a clue about what it's doing about Brexit than the Brexit secretary himself? Stephen Barclay's the one member of the cabinet whose job description is to know nothing whatsoever about Brexit. A man put on the payroll for the sole purpose of being kept out of the loop.
In a parallel, fairer, world, Barclay would be an anonymous financial adviser, whose only success was to have been runner-up in a lifetime achievement award hosted by the north-east Cambridgeshire regional chamber of commerce for being the only person dim enough to have mis-sold himself his own pension.
Brexit: blow to May's authority as MPs reject her motion by 303 votes to 258 - Politics live
Instead he finds himself charged with misleading the country over the government's Brexit policy. A job he does with ease, as he doesn't even know what it is he doesn't know.
Barclay opened the debate by mumbling that it was still government policy not to have a policy. And he was happy to confirm that, as the prime minister had been taken hostage by the European Research Group, the natural consequence of accepting the impossible demands of the Brady amendment calling for the renegotiation of the withdrawal agreement, was that the UK would almost certainly be leaving the EU on 29 March with no deal.
Several Tory Brexiters could scarcely believe their luck. They had been expecting far more of a fight than this and hurriedly sought reassurances that their preferred "no deal" was still on the table.
Owen Paterson wanted confirmation that the Malthouse compromise really was as pointless as his appointment to the Alternative Arrangements Working Group had indicated. Barclay was delighted to confirm this. He had spoken at length to Jean-Michel Jarre and they had agreed that squads of highly trained, armed, badgers were the key to solving the Northern Ireland backstop.
Yvette Cooper asked whether Barclay was still 100% committed to a no deal even if it meant people losing their jobs or dying. "Absolutely," the Brexit secretary beamed. No greater love and all that. Besides, it would only be the weak and the unpatriotic who would be out of work or croak. Those who were prepared to hold their nerve would be absolutely fine.
This didn't go down well with the Tories' Caroline Spelman, who was disappointed to discover that her own amendment that had been passed – expressing parliament's aversion to a no deal – was not being taken as seriously by the government as the Brady amendment.
Barclay had an answer ready. The only way the government could send a clear message to the EU showing we were a nation that could be trusted in negotiations was to act in a thoroughly untrustworthy way by cherry picking the best amendments.
Corbyn to hold Brexit talks with Barnier and Verhofstadt
Keir Starmer becomes more impressive with each outing at the despatch box. Mainly because he now merely has to reiterate what everyone, except Barclay, knows – namely that the prime minister was merely running down the clock and, if push came to shove, was quite happy to leave the EU with no deal if that was the price of keeping the Tory party more or less together.
But he is also helped by getting to fend off witless interventions from some Conservatives. James Cleverly tried to claim that May running down the clock was conclusive proof she couldn't be running down the clock, while Alex Chalk didn't even seem to realise he had voted against the government's withdrawal agreement by backing the Brady amendment. This is politics 101. And these are supposed to be two of the Tory party's rising stars.
The one flaw in the shadow Brexit secretary's performance was that Labour had yet to come up with an alternative plan of their own. Every time Starmer produces something vaguely sensible, Jeremy Corbyn puts a red line through it. At this rate, Labour and the Tories are in a race to see which party will split first.
Thereafter the debate followed a predictable course. It was the same as every other Brexit debate, only a bit more rubbish. The more serious the situation becomes the more it resembles a third-rate farce.
The only thing that comes close to uniting the Brexiters and remainers is a mutual distrust of anything said by the government front bench. The idea that a minister might actually be able to distinguish between truth and lies – or even achieve something – has become unimaginable.
It ended in chaos. First Anna Soubry pulled her amendment as the government had indicated it would provide an impact analysis of a no-deal Brexit. Then both the leaver and remainer Tories abstained so that the government was defeated on the main motion it had won two weeks previously.
You couldn't make it up. May could not even win a meaningless vote. Which, ironically, in itself had meaning. Humiliation. For her and the country. The EU must be pissing themselves. How can you negotiate with people who are certifiable?
Corbyn immediately demanded that May got to the despatch box to give a statement declaring she accepted that her strategy had failed and that she would come back with a plan that could win a majority in parliament. Which would have been a start.
Only there was no sign of the prime minister. And none of her ministers was prepared to take the hit for her. Only the sound of a clock ticking to break the silence. May was holed up in Downing Street. Her software stripped bare. Searching for a programme. Any programme. Control. Alt. Delete.
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They have chopped up the text into so many small parts, and brought forth so many concordant passages to suit their own purpose that to some degree they confuse both the mind and the memory of the reader and distract it from understanding the literal meaning of text.
The irony is that I wanted to copy this quote and went to Google Books to highlight it and copy it but was blocked and could only see a small part of the text, so I had to pull my dead tree copy out as well to make sure I had the whole passage.
Over at the e-book test, Mike Cane had a very short post called, "The Eleven Axioms of 21st Century Book Publishing." It takes all of a minute to read and should be the signpost for any publisher starting to build an electronic infrastructure for their traditional print material.
My personal favorite is number 6. I think the first 8 axioms are key to changing the trade publishing industry.
Last spring one of my students came to me with a great research idea: look at comments and online commentary with an eye towards how it relates to what we consider traditional publishing. She developed a proposal and spent the summer working on the project (as a blog, naturally).
I got an e-mail from Kerry last week to let me know that the project started getting retweeted by Richard Nash, formerly of Soft Skull Press.
The site was also picked up by Utne! I'm really glad her work has been recognized outside the small world of academia (which some days feels like 5 people).


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I question square-enix business choices very regularly at this point.
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Oh my. They should have used some other style. I loved this game, but the style I don't think works with this.
I really hate how disjointed this entry in the series feels. However in saying that I still think all this effort would have been better put towards telling another story in FFXV's universe rather than just a re-telling of the main game.


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Sealed 2014 Gatefold Original With Custom Hype Sticker On Shrink. "Entering A Long Line Of Artists Who've Drawn Inspiration From The Everly Brothers, Billie Joe Armstrong And Norah Jones Serve Up A Unique Tribute With Foreverly. Unlike Many Others -- Including Will Oldham And Dawn McCarthy, Who Released A Trippy Everlys Covers Album Earlier In 2013 -- The Duo Doesn't Dig Deep Into The Brothers' Catalog But Rather Concentrates On A Single LP, The 1958 Cadence Classic Songs Our Daddy Taught Us. Just A Year Into Their Career, The Everlys Took The Unusual Step Of Abandoning Rock & Roll For Traditional Folk And Country Tunes They Learned From Their Guitarist Father Ike. Songs Our Daddy Taught Us Was One Of Rock's First Roots Albums -- The Everlys Returned To The Concept And Use "Roots" As A Title A Decade Later -- And It's A Bit Of An Anomaly In Their Catalog, A Spare, Sweet Showcase For Their Close Harmonies Where The Brothers Are Backed By Nothing More Than Their Own Guitars. Foreverly, An Album That Contains All 12 Of The Songs From Songs Our Daddy Taught Us But Not Precisely In The Same Sequence, May Recall Jones' Country Cabaret Act The Little Willies Yet It's Something Of A Departure For Green Day Lead Singer Armstrong, Who Has Often Shown A Love For Rock & Roll's Past (Most Notably On The '60s Garage Rock Raver Foxboro Hot Tubs) But Has Never Quite Spent Much Time In The '50s, Not Even With The Stray Cat Strut Of "Hitchin' A Ride." Even Though The Songs Here Date From Much Earlier, Foreverly Is Grounded In That Decade, With Armstrong And Jones Not Only Patterning Their Two-Part Harmonies After The Everly Brothers But Fleshing Out The Arrangements By Incorporating Other Sounds From The '50s" – S.T. Erlewine, AMG... more details


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£6m boost for gene mapping bid
People in Scotland with cancer and genetic diseases are to have their DNA mapped to better understand, diagnose and treat their condition.
The Scottish Genomes Partnership - led by the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow - has received a major package of investment worth £6 million from the Scottish and UK Governments.
Scotland's Chief Scientist Office has awarded £4m to the project with an additional £2m from the UK's Medical Research Council.
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The funding will allow scientists to decode and analyse the entire genetic make-up of more than 3000 people in Scotland.
Linking this genetic data with clinical information will enable more precise molecular diagnoses for patients in the Scottish NHS, leading to more personalised treatment and selection of drug therapies.
This extremely generous funding builds upon recent visionary investment by the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow to enable a major step forward in Scotland's ability to understand diseases and more precisely target treatments, initially for cancer and inherited disorders.
Professor Jonathan SecklVice Principal for Research, University of Edinburgh
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It will also bring new understanding of the causes of both rare and common diseases, opening the door to the development of new treatments.
The universities will work closely with the Scottish Regional Genetics Centres, data experts from the MRC Farr Institute and colleagues from Genomics England to maximise healthcare benefits for people in Scotland.
The Scottish Genomes Partnership was founded following a £15m investment by the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow in January 2015.
This initial funding enabled the Universities to partner with Illumina - the global leader in sequencing and genomics - for the purchase of state-of-the-art equipment for sequencing human genomes.
Large-scale
The equipment enables researchers and clinicians to study the genomes of both healthy and sick people on a large scale and faster than before.
The latest funding builds on a £4 million investment that was announced by the First Minister of Scotland for the Scottish Precision Medicine Ecosystem, which will link to the Scottish Genomes Partnership.
An additional £3.5 million has been made available by Scottish Enterprise to support industry-led projects in the field of genomic medicine that will stimulate business opportunities.
This funding creates a unique opportunity to translate the investment of Scottish Universities into immediate healthcare benefits for Scottish patients. The remarkable advances in genome technology over the past five years will now be available to patients in the Scottish NHS, bringing a new dimension of healthcare to Scottish patients with cancer and inherited diseases.
Professor Tim AitmanCo-Chair of the Scottish Genome Partnership and Director of the University's Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine
Scottish Genomes Partnership
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This article was published on 28 Mar, 2016


From 1st January 2017 we have changed the way membership of the Teen Yoga Foundation works.
When we originally set up the Foundation, a few months before the first Instill conference, it seemed logical to raise funds through membership to get the work off the ground. So we offered this, with various incentives such as discounts for the conference and CPD courses, and many signed up for that first year's membership.
Since then, we have got our charity status, which was early in 2016, and after some debate, we have decided that fee-paying membership does not sit so well as a model for fundraising, as collecting fees pushes us towards a transactional relationship where the fee is seen as a payment for the provision of services, rather than simply support for our charitable activity. It feels more appropriate to work with donations and grants, and especially the valuable work that our volunteers contribute.
So, as of 1st January 2017, we are not collecting fees for membership. We will rely on donations for the different campaigns we organise. We do however ask you to register, and update your data regularly. By doing so, you are showing solidarity with young people everywhere and supporting our work to promote the inclusion of yoga in education. It also helps us to keep in touch with you, and it is valuable to be able to talk about the numbers of members we have when we are requesting funding.
We will continue to maintain our member's area (thanks to the volunteers who are helping with the resource collection) where we provide a collection of research articles and other publications relating to yoga and young people's well-being.
There also other benefits of membership. These include a discount on our annual conference, and on other events and activities run by the Teen Yoga Foundation, including CPDs run by affiliated organisations.
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Facebook Oversight Board Will Not Restore Donald Trump Back on the Platform
But the panel punted back to Facebook, ruling that the decision should be reviewed again within six months.
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Facebook's Oversight Board, the independent panel charged with making final content moderation decisions, is upholding the company's decision to keep Donald Trump off of the social media platform. But the decision to ban Trump without a set timeline, the panel ruled, was not appropriate. The board is recommending the company review the issue once again within six months.
The closely watched announcement on Wednesday comes after Facebook decided to temporarily ban Trump in the immediate wake of the January 6 Capitol insurrection, later tasking the board with making a ruling on whether to restore the former president down the road.
"The Board has upheld Facebook's decision on January 7, 2021, to restrict then-President Donald Trump's access to posting content on his Facebook page and Instagram account," the panel wrote in a statement.
"However, it was not appropriate for Facebook to impose the indeterminate and standardless penalty of indefinite suspension," adding that, "the Board insists that Facebook review this matter to determine and justify a proportionate response."
As my colleague Pema Levy wrote, the decision marks a critical moment for the social media giant, which has faced years of intense criticism over its refusal to clamp down on disinformation and harmful content, particularly during the Trump era. In 2018, amid growing calls for government regulation, CEO Mark Zuckerberg offered the Oversight Board as a potential alternative. But serious questions over its independence and utility loom:
While the company has touted it as an independent body that will make final content moderation decisions, thus far, the board has only decided a handful of cases, and concerns about its true independence remain. The outcome of the Trump case could either help build the body's reputation among academics and civil and human rights advocates as a valuable shield against harmful content—or dash hopes, both in the board and in Facebook's broader future as an ally of democracy and enemy of hate.
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Virtual Roundtable: Fashion retail wakes from hibernation
From the C-Suite newsletter: Leaders at Hudson's Bay, Indochino, CF and GroupM discuss reopening strategies.
This is the latest in a virtual roundtable series co-hosted by strategy and Media in Canada that explores advertisers' branding, marketing and media investment strategies throughout the COVID-19 crisis.
In this instalment, MiC's Bree Rody and strategy's Justin Dallaire look at the unique challenges facing the fashion retail industry at a time when many brands are in the midst of their reopening strategies.
The roundtable brought together Meghan Nameth, SVP of marketing at Hudson's Bay; Peter Housley, chief revenue officer at Indochino; Jason Anderson, SVP of brand, marketing, communications at Cadillac Fairview; and Monique Brosseau, president of GroupM Quebec.
You can listen to the roundtable audio-only version below, or view the video version at the bottom of this article.
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On drawing customers back into stores
"We're seeing the demand already pick up again. [But] I'm not seeing, for the balance of the year, a store or showroom where I have 30 or 50 customers in it [or] wedding parties of seven or eight and their fiancés and their friends all getting measured in the showroom at the same time." – Housley
"We are seeing that people will return to a different experience, where it's much more a blend of online and offline… We're seeing that omnichannel shopping experience continue to [grow] on steroids. We have leaped forward 10-plus years." – Nameth
"People are slow to come back… But the traffic growth is growing at a rate faster than I had personally expected… Our retailers have also been slow to open… We're three weeks [into opening] in Winnipeg and still only have half our stores are open right now, because, for our clients, it's a lot of work to get something reopened." – Anderson
On aligning media spend with fluctuating demand
"We did see search trends for sweatpants go way up… But we also saw other categories like personal care, beauty products [and] home products do extremely well… So we shifted a lot of performance marketing into the categories that were maybe more relevant for consumers in the moment." – Nameth
"We really went with a greatly pared down – literally a 70% or 80% reduction in media – for about seven or eight weeks… And then, about six or seven weeks into it, I started turning it up slowly, watching cost-per acquisition and keeping it very efficient. And I'm still relatively in that mode today for June." – Housley
"The lower funnel is key right now. However, some of our clients are also looking at the long-term, because they do know… things will shift and change and they need to address that. There's been an opportunity for some clients to accelerate their presence and their business online." – Brosseau
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Japanese Watch Enthusiasts Come To See Three Recommended Nissan Watches
I have watched more Swiss watches, and occasionally have to taste slowly. Today, Watch House recommends three watches from Japanese brands for you to see what is different from Swiss watches.
Blue Lion Heritage Collection SBGA211G
Product model: SBGA211G
Official price: ¥ 40300
Watch diameter: 41 mm
Case material: High-strength titanium
Movement type: Spring Drive movement
Movement model: 9R65
Watch details: Seiko crown blue lion watch, 41 mm diameter, made of high-strength titanium material. It also has a name: SNOW FLAKE. Because its undulating pattern on the dial is different from ordinary ripples or radial patterns, it is more like the ground brushed by snowflakes, pure and soft. This watch is not only unique in appearance, but also equipped with a movement. The exclusive movement of the Grand Seiko series watch-the Spring Drive 9R65 movement, has a power reserve of up to 72 hours and a precision of 1 second, which exceeds the Swiss Observatory standard. Calendar display window at 3 o'clock and power reserve indicator at 8 o'clock.
Seiko PROSPEX SNR029 watch
Model: SNR029
Watch diameter: 44.8 mm
Case material: titanium alloy
Movement type: automatic
Movement model: Cal. 5R65
Watch details: The LX series is a new watch launched this year. An ultra-light watch with a diameter of 44.8 mm in titanium. Among the many Seiko watches, professional diving watches have been loved by fans of sports watches for generations. This diving watch follows the traditional diving watch's appearance, but at the same time moves the center of gravity of the case lower, which improves the wearing comfort. The watch is equipped with a Seiko 5R Spring Drive movement, with a precision of one second, and is shock-resistant and not easily affected by temperature. Water-resistant to 300 meters.
Citizen Eco-Drive Satellite Clock Series CC3067-11L Watch
Product model: CC3067-11L
Official price: ¥ 8980
Case material: Stainless steel covered DLC
Movement type: light kinetic energy
Movement model: F150
Details of the watch: Summary: Japanese watches pay great attention to detail design, and they are excellent in practicality and performance. If you have a passion for Japanese watches, all three of them are good choices.
Let The Music Fly Parmigiani Wood Inlay Craft Tourbillon Watch
Parmigiani launches watches inseparable from music every year, highlighting the long-term cooperation between the brand and Montreux Jazz Festival. These unusual watches allow music and haute horlogerie to meet on the dial, and the exquisite wood inlay craftsmanship creates a unique look for each watch. The common features of this type of watch are: the dial has a color matching the national flag; and a guitar is painted, and in the open sound hole, there is a tourbillon.
There is no doubt that the newest member of the wood inlay series, Tonda Mambo, is the most sophisticated and complex product in the series to date. On the dial, Cuban guitarists playing their hometown Mambo dance improvised strings, bringing a strong Latin style to the watch.
The beauty of details
The wood inlaying process requires careful cutting of wooden blocks in accordance with specific patterns, and then assemble these wooden blocks one by one in a prescribed space to form a life-like figure, and finally complete the work. A slight mistake in the cutting process will make the entire damascene process useless. The smaller the wooden block, the more complicated the inlaying process.
Therefore, it is not difficult to imagine the complexity of the Tonda Mambo watch. This inlaid fine work product sets an unprecedented 'high standard' for this craft, and the shocking picture creates a valuable quality for the watch. For example, a guitarist's polka dot shirt includes two dot patterns. On the dial, the details of the clothes are reproduced, maybe a polka-dot pattern is sufficient; however, in accordance with the rigorous aesthetic spirit of fashion designers, Tonda Mambo is decorated with two polka-dot patterns. With such fine workmanship, Parmigiani's enthusiasm for improving the inlaying process can be seen; the extra attention to detail brings the most exquisite products, even if the process is difficult.
Other similar details are as follows: black lines less than a hairline outline the guitarist's figure, hands, hat, and guitar. The lines are intertwined to form a clear boundary, which is not necessary. However, these lines construct the outline of the mosaic process, which creates a sense of contrast and relief, giving the character a personality. Such a structure requires extremely careful processing in order to create a precious and delicate dial.
From wood to graphics
Each piece of wood fiber is unique and has a very special effect. Choosing every piece of wood inlay requires a full understanding of the characteristics of the wood, which is especially important. The carefully selected wood is a special feature of Tonda Mambo.
The guitarist's straw hat is made of Koto Maille wood, which naturally has a woven texture, like the pattern of a straw hat; the face and hands are made of pear wood, which has a delicate, shiny skin-like texture; the shirt is made of Burr walnut The fibers of this wood have natural wrinkles, which perfectly reflect the wrinkle feeling of the fabric. In the process of wood selection, let various types of wood block fibers make the best use of them to create different patterns; even the wood blocks themselves are patterns, as if they have naturally achieved the art of wood inlaying.
Stylish and luxurious mosaic work
Because of the craftsmanship, it is commendable, and Tonda Mambo is just that. The infinite pursuit of perfection penetrates into the most subtle parts of the fiber. The inlaying work is no longer just a simple and representative design, creating a unique feeling that combines the beauty of rare, contemporary and delicate.
In order to further enhance the texture of the dial, the wood is dotted with several small gold nuggets, so the entire dial is shining. The soft halo, together with the 30-second tourbillon oscillation, breathes life into Tonda Mambo.
About wood inlay craftsmanship
This is an awe-inspiring ancient art form that has been passed down from generation to generation. It was not until the 20th century that it finally regained its vitality in the fine watch industry.
The inlaying process is mainly to cut out some wood on a plane for the assembly and decoration of the dial of the timepiece, thereby creating an extremely delicate decorative effect. Inlay craftsmen are often trained as furniture technicians. They are hardworking and precise. From drawing the initial sketch on paper to the final stitching pattern to create a wonderful enough to subvert the original design-a series of high-tech processes of mosaic art they are all at their fingertips.
The work of the mosaic craftsmen began with the original design of Lintong, and they used a special tool (Rotring drawing pen) to carefully draw each element. This copying work is the basis of the mosaic work, from which the size and contour of each design block can be determined. Next, inlay craftsmen reprint ten or more design drawings on paper, and they will use these drawings to cut out different design blocks. The cutting phase is the most critical. Prior to this, the craftsman had to select the wood, the selection criteria involved the color and surface texture of the wood, and then piled the 10 pieces of wood carefully selected. The wood is firmly nailed together with nails, and then the copy map to be processed is glued to the top of the pile of wood. Use a saw blade to carefully cut along the boundary of the copy map, so as to obtain 10 mosaic blocks with the same shape. Even if all that is needed is a wooden block, the inlay craftsman always cuts it with a pile of wood, and then only keeps the most successful cut of the 10 blocks. Every design block has to go through this process. Even if there is only a slight difference between each design block, each block must be cut according to this set of procedures. There are as many different woods as there are differences. Blocks and how many different colors.
Once the last block was cut, there seemed to be no more complicated procedures, at which point the craftsmen began to assemble the design block. However, even this last step is not easy, and often there are unexpected 'surprises'. Although the entire process strictly follows the dimensions, when the block assembly is started, the craftsman may still find very small errors or small eye-catching cracks, so the entire work is ruined. The craftsman must start from scratch and patiently copy and cut again as needed.
Engaging in mosaic work requires patience and precision. Even the smallest details must be carefully considered, and the overall situation must be kept in mind. It's all because: the success of the inlaying work will only show up at the last moment. At this time, each block is perfectly embedded in its own position, and together guards the reputation of the wood inlay craftsmanship.
About Parmigiani Fleurier
The world-famous Swiss fine watch brand Parmigiani Fleurier was founded in 1996 in the heart of Waldtravel, Switzerland. The soul of the brand lies in its expertise in antique watch / mechanical restoration and its completely independent manufacturing capabilities. The brand focuses on independent production capacity and pursues the superbness, creativity and quality of watchmaking. Today, Parmigiani has grown into one of the very few top Swiss watch brands that are completely independently manufactured today.
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