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St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery on Oct. 12, 2018, in Kiev, Ukraine(Photo by Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)
The Crisis of Constantinople
After millennia, the Russian and Ukrainian Orthodox churches are splitting apart, fracturing the unity of Constantinople and possibly escalating the war between the two nations
By Vladislav Davidzon
October 16, 2018 • 10:00 AM
A hastily assembled two-day synod concluded in the Belarusian capital of Minsk yesterday—the city chosen as neutral ground for negotiations between Kiev and Moscow—with a declaration from the Russian Orthodox church of its immediate intention to sunder all bonds with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. The split between the churches, which could end a tradition stretching back almost two millennia, has been driven largely by political enmity and is widely viewed as a proxy conflict between Russia and Ukraine. The concern now is that it will feed back into that process, escalating the ongoing military conflict between the two nations.
Constantinople has been the primary seat of the Orthodox Christian patriarchate for more than 1,500 years. That long era came to an end yesterday when Moscow's patriarchate announced it would cease recognizing the authority of the patriarch of Constantinople as "first among equals." Moscow's decision was set in motion by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople granting de facto independence to the Ukrainian church. The Ukrainian church is still pursuing an official "Tomos of autocephaly," the document that would grant it formal autonomy within the Christian Orthodox hierarchy, but the preliminary steps to the break with the Russian Orthodox church have now been fulfilled.
The theological pretext for the split was based on unwinding a 1686 decision that allowed Moscow ordination rights over clergy in the Ukrainian church, which thus became subordinated to the Moscow patriarchate. That decision had, in effect, created a pair of competing Orthodox churches on Ukrainian territory.
The outcome of the Synod's decision in Minsk was essentially to codify the most important schism in Eastern Christianity in almost a millennium since representatives of the Roman Pope Leo IX arrived in Constantinople to place a bull of excommunication on the altar of the church of Hagia Sophia in 1054. The Russian church, which has close links to the Kremlin and is widely seen as actively supporting the political objectives of the Russian state, will now no longer be in communion with Constantinople.
The church schism is the latest in a series of volatile cleavages as Ukraine moves to separate itself from the Russian sphere of influence, a process that has in turn only intensified Russian aggression against the Ukrainian state.
The recent decision by Constantinople's Bartholomew to grant independence to the Ukrainian church fulfills a longstanding national ambition in Kiev going back decades (some would say centuries). It also represents a personal victory for Filaret, Patriarch of the Ukrainian church, who had been campaigning for ecumenical divorce from Moscow since Ukraine first achieved independence from the Soviet Union. In the political sphere, the formal separation of the Ukrainian and Russian churches offers a much needed personal victory for Ukraine's incumbent President Petro Poroshenko, who has staked much of his reelection campaign on his capacity to deliver an independent church. With presidential elections slated for next March, and with Mr. Poroshenko trailing badly in the polls, he is in dire need of such victories to present to a skeptical electorate in a country where incumbent presidents have not historically been given a second opportunity to govern.
Despite the split, the Russian Orthodox church remains the most powerful and numerous denomination within Ukraine. But Moscow's claims to leadership of the Orthodox world are in jeopardy now as they have been based partly on the numbers or worshippers it draws in Ukraine. Russia and Constantinople have long jockeyed for position as the legitimate leaders of the Orthodox world. Last month Patriarch Kirill of Moscow traveled to Constantinople in a last-ditch attempt to convince Patriarch Bartholomew to stop Ukraine's bid for autocephaly but he was rebuffed and informed that the decision has essentially already been taken.
Currently, the majority of Ukrainian parish churches in Ukraine belong to the Moscow—rather than the Kiev—patriarchate. But, while Moscow controls many of the most important monasteries and churches, many will now have an opportunity to switch allegiances. That process has been ongoing over the last four years with the schism driven by the view among many Ukrainians that the Russian Orthodox church took Moscow's side in the war between the two states. There have indeed been incidents of Russian affiliated clergy in Ukraine having refused to take part in funerals for Ukrainian soldiers killed fighting against the Russian occupation of Eastern Ukraine.
Ominous promises to "protect Russian Orthodox believers living on the territory of Ukraine", have emanated from Moscow over the last few weeks echoing earlier pledges to protect Russian speakers that served as a pretext to invade Ukraine in 2014. Many observers of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict have braced for a sharp escalation of fighting along the contact line in Eastern Ukraine. Though Radio Free Europe reported today that Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov claimed "earlier that day that Russia will protect the interests of the faithful in Ukraine if the historic split leads to illegal action or violence" even as "he promised that [the Kremlin] would use "exclusively political and diplomatic" means to do so".
The proxy war over social identity triggered by the church split has lit up Ukrainian social media with jubilant emotion in the wake of the announcement of the church's independence on October 11th. Even non-Christian Ukrainians have joined in with patriotic declarations that they are: "Atheists, Kiev Patriarchate" or "Ukrainian Jews, Kiev patriarchate by association" over social media. The political, cultural and historical implications of the split will likely be tremendous and will likely be felt for decades to come. In the meantime, one can only hope that the split will not trigger a renewed episode of total war in Eastern Europe.
Vladislav Davidzon, the Chief Editor of The Odessa Review, is a Russian-American writer, translator, and critic. He was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and lives in Paris.


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5 Things to Know About Joan Johnson, Milwaukee's New Library Director
New library director Joan Johnson addresses a crowd during the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Good Hope Library in July. Also pictured are former library director Paula Kiely and Mayor Tom Barrett. (Photo courtesy of Jeramey Jannene/UrbanMilwaukee.com)
Joan Johnson's time has arrived.
Johnson was officially named the director of the Milwaukee Public Library after Paula Kiely's retirement in August.
Johnson, 59, joined the Milwaukee Public Library system in 2006. She is the first African American woman and the fourth woman overall to be named library director.
Here are five things to know about Milwaukee's new library director.
The library was her sanctuary
Johnson grew up in Milwaukee in the Concordia neighborhood. As a child, her babysitter would take her to the library every week.
"The thing I remember the most, was the trip to and from the library," Johnson said.
Johnson loved going to the library, and it became a sanctuary for her. While attending West Division High School, now Milwaukee School of the Arts, Johnson began working as a library monitor.
A detour in interior design
After graduating from high school, Johnson went to UW-Madison, where she studied interior design and art. After earning her degree, Johnson worked in Buffalo, New York, on set designs, before returning to Milwaukee as a freelancer.
During her time as a freelancer, Johnson helped design the scenic designs for her high school's productions. She later temporarily relocated to Chicago to work on the film, "The Untouchables," before moving to Seattle.
"It was 10 years before I decided to go back and get my master's in library sciences," Johnson said.
From freelancing to her master's
Upon landing in Seattle, Johnson struggled to get a job in interior design. Instead she connected with a temp agency and began working various jobs. For a brief time, she worked in politics and helped on a senator's campaign. Eventually, she found a job related to the arts.
"I did a lot of different things," Johnson said. "I freelanced a lot and did a lot of research for other artists."
It was her research assignments that led her back to the library. Being in a library felt like home, Johnson said. Soon after, she chose to pursue a master's in library sciences and specialize in bibliographic instruction and government information.
While attending school, Johnson worked part time at the library. As part of her research, Johnson asked patrons if they were aware of the resources the library offered. A library is not only informational, it's empowering, Johnson said.
For 15 years, Johnson worked in the Seattle Public Library System as a branch manager and later as a department director. During this time, she helped rework and rebuild the library system.
Her return to Milwaukee
Johnson spent 20 years in Seattle before coming back home to be closer to her family.
"I saw an opportunity here in 2006 and was lucky to get in," Johnson said. "I joined the administration team."
Johnson started working on a building renewal project, as the lead for the internal design team.
"I brought my interior design experience to the table," Johnson said.
Sam McGovern-Rowen, project manager of library construction and former member of the library board, got to know Johnson through their work on the building renewal projects. McGovern-Rowen said that Johnson made sure the libraries were both functional and user-friendly.
"Our libraries are really wonderful places," he said.
"Joan has put her stamp on all those places."
McGovern-Rowen said Johnson had a clear vision down to the details on what she wanted for the library.
Under Johnson's leadership, the library expanded its programming for teens and adults. She also created an internship position for teens.
Her plans for the future of Milwaukee Public Library
Rachel Arndt, the public services area manager of the Central Library, has worked closely with Johnson for the last five years and said she's excited to see her take on her new role as library director.
"We're going from one strong leader to another strong leader," Arndt said, adding that Johnson loves people and loves Milwaukee.
Johnson isn't wasting any time in tackling the issues facing Milwaukee and improving the library system.
"We've got to get better at expanding our capacity and taking advantage of growth opportunities that come our way," Johnson said.
Johnson said the pandemic has exposed the disparities that exist in Milwaukee – including access to internet and digital technology.
Johnson said the library intends to double down on its digital resources, beginning with its hotspot lending program. The hotspot devices are always checked out, and Johnson hopes to have 500 of them in circulation.
In addition, the library system is responding to calls for social and racial justice and will be looking through an equity lens to see what barriers lie in the way of all Milwaukeeans.
Through its many partnerships, the library aims to help improve the quality of life for all community members, Johnson said.
McGovern-Rowen pointed out that one of the biggest challenges facing the library is the budget.
"We as the library system – we're good at shifting things around and keeping a good experience, but every year it gets tougher," he said.
McGovern-Rowen said that Johnson is tough and will be a good negotiator when it comes to the budget. She knows how to get creative and is up to the task, McGovern-Rowen said, adding that Johnson handles challenges well.
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Contexts Podcast: Cyber Racism
October 4, 2009 • Jessie Daniels • cloaked, cyber racism
The good folks at Contexts asked me to an interview for their podcast series a few weeks back about my new book, Cyber Racism, and now it's available online, here. The description from their website about the podcast:
Cyber Racism is about white supremacist groups online, and Daniels tells us how white supremacy online is important for how we think about education, free speech and multiculturalism.
If you've missed any of the discussion I (or Joe) have posted here about cyber racism, this provides a good introduction. There's a little bit at the end about the work Joe and I do here on the blog. One small correction, the scholar I refer to in the piece who developed the phrase "translocal whiteness" is Les Back (I mangled his name).
Cloaked Sites Key to Right-Wing Propaganda
September 25, 2009 • Jessie Daniels • cloaked, popular culture
I've got to give credit where credit is due and this week it goes to Rachel Maddow – who's been doing a terrific job with her investigations into the right-wing propaganda machine. On her show last night, she featured a devastating critique of Richard Berman, a Republican political operative profiled by CBS's 60 Minutes as "Dr. Evil" for his willingness, even enthusiasm, for taking on politically regressive causes. He's the one behind the most recent attacks on ACORN, an organization that mostly does things like advocate for poor black and brown people, get poor people registered to vote, and lobby for raising the minimum wage. Apparently, rich white people – like the ones that hire Berman – are very upset by this sort of activity.
Also featured in this segment is Peter Dreier, a professor of political science at Occidental College, who has a new research which demonstrates the way that the mainstream media bought into the lies that Berman put forward and missed getting out the accurate story about ACORN, including one finding that about 80% of news stories failed to report that ACORN itself was the group that reported irregularities in voting registration in the first place.
The part of this story that I wanted to call attention to is the bit about the websites that are key part of Berman's strategy. Maddow refers to them as "grass roots-ish" which is cute, but I'd like to respectfully suggest that she call these cloaked sites. Cloaked websites are published by individuals or groups who conceal authorship in order to deliberately disguise a hidden political agenda. In this way, these sites are similar to previous versions of print media propaganda, such as "black," "white" and "grey" propaganda. In my latest book, Cyber Racism, I write extensively about how racist groups are using cloaked websites to further their goals to subvert civil rights and affirm white supremacy in covert ways. I also write about the range of political movements that use cloaked websites in a recent article, "Cloaked websites: propaganda, cyber-racism and epistemology in the digital era," in the journal New Media & Society. While not the exclusive purview of the right-wing, it does seem that the right is amplifying their use of this technique.
Cloaked sites are a key piece of the propaganda machine that Berman is operating, and they're incredibly hard-to-detect and perniciously effective according to my research. According to this site which seeks to expose Berman, he has been the force behind dozens of cloaked sites, including "RottenAcorn.com" and anti-ACORN site that disguises the real authorship behind something called "Employment Policies Institute" which is a front group that Berman runs. Maddow mentions a couple of others, such as "UnionFacts.com" (with very similar graphics to the previous site) an anti-labor union site, again with the true authorship disguised in order to advance a hidden political agenda. And, "MercuryFacts.org" a cloaked pro-fishing-industry site that disguises its authorship and corporate agenda. In my study of how young people made sense of cloaked white supremacist sites, I found that most of the 15-19 year-olds I interviewed as they surfed the web could not easily tell they were white supremacist sites. It seems very likely that most of those people who visited the cloaked sites that Berman created were fooled as well.
What difference does it make? Well, it makes a difference in a lot of ways. If you're someone like me who is in the classroom, then you're going to have to deal with students bringing arguments found on cloaked websites into the classroom. This happens to me frequently and just happened to a friend and colleague of mine the other day. In a discussion on "racial profiling," a student in my colleague's class brought up a report called "The Color of Crime," which concludes that black people are inherently more dangerous than white people, published by Jared Taylor of the New Century Foundation, a white supremacist organization. In a recent class of mine, a student did a presentation on "post-abortion syndrome," not a medically recognized condition – as the student believed – but a rhetorical strategy of the pro-life movement. She had found information about this supposed "syndrome" on a cloaked pro-life site called "TeenBreaks.com."
Cloaked sites, websites that look legitimate yet disguise a political agenda, are like the Trojan Horses of the digital era. These sorts of sites make it possible to smuggle in ideas into current debate that have been discredited, and allow right-wing political operatives to undermine organizations, like ACORN, which are doing hard work on behalf of impoverished people of color. Fighting back takes much more sophisticated critical thinking about the information we find online and good, investigative reporting, like Rachel Maddow's on this topic.
Here's the clip from the show in case you missed it:
The Internet Angle: Cyber Racism and Domestic Terrorism
June 11, 2009 • Jessie Daniels • antisemitism, cloaked, cyber racism, denialism, racism, white supremacists
In today's New York Times "Room for Debate" series, The Editors have an online forum about the "Internet angle" on the recent acts of domestic terrorism ( photo credit: pasukaru76 ). In both recent cases – the murder of Dr. Tiller and the attack on the Holocaust Museum – The Editors write that "the suspect arrested was well-known among fringe "communities" on the Web" (the quotes around "communities" are in the original from The Editors). I'm going to leave the Tiller case for now, and focus on an examination of the Internet angle in the von Brunn case. I return to the Tiller case at the end of this post.
After von Brunn was released from prison he went to work for a Southern California bookstore affiliated with the Institute for Historical Review (IHR) a Holocaust-denial group.
I refer to the IHR site (and others) as "cloaked" sites because they intentionally disguise their intention in order to fool the unsuspecting web user about their purpose. As I've written about here before and in the book, the cloaked sites draw millions of readers each year.
Following that, von Brunn created his own virulently anti-Semitic website called Holy Western Empire (link not provided). If you're curious about his web presence, several writers at TPM have posted screen shots of von Brunn's overtly racist and antisemitic website and other online postings here, here and here. Von Brunn's sites appear to be "brochure" sites – that is, one-way transfers of information (rather than interactive sites where users can add content).
I've spent more than ten years researching hate and white supremacy online and in my new book, Cyber Racism, I discuss both kinds of websites: the "cloaked" sites like those of the Institute for Historical Review and the overtly racist and antisemitic websites like von Brunn's Holy Western Empire.
There is no denying that white supremacy has entered the digital era. And, the overt racist and antisemitic sites have proven even more popular in the Age of Obama.
Avowed white supremacist extremists, such as James von Brunn (and David Duke), were early adopters of Internet technologies. White supremacists were among the first to create, publish and maintain web pages on the Internet. The reality that von Brunn and other white supremacists were early adopters of the Internet runs counter to two prevailing notions we have: 1) that white supremacists are gap-toothed, ignorant, unsophisticated and uneducated; and, 2) that the Internet is a place without "race."
In fact, neither of these notions is accurate or supported by empirical evidence. There's plenty of data to show that some white supremacists are smart, as well as Internet savvy. And, the Internet is very much a 'place' where race and racism exist.
So, what's at stake here? What's the harm in white supremacy online?
I argue that there are a number of ways in which white supremacy online is a cause for concern, namely: 1) easy access and global linkages, 2) harm in real life, and 3) the challenge to cultural values such as racial equality.
With the Internet, avowed white supremacists have easy access to others that share their views and the potential at least to connect globally, across national boundaries with those like-minded people. I highlight potential because so far, there hasn't been any sign of transnational border crossing to carry out white supremacist terrorist acts, although while there is a great deal of border crossing happening online.
There is also a real danger that 'mere words' on extremist websites can harm others in real life (e.g., Tsesis, Destructive Messages: How Hate Speech Paves the Way for Harmful Social Movements, NYU Press, 2002). And, for this reason, I'm in favor of a stronger stance on removing hate speech from the web and prosecuting those who publish it for inciting racial hatred and violence. In my view, websites such as von Brunn's constitute a burning cross in the digital era and there is legal precedent to extinguish such symbols of hate while still valuing free speech (see Chapter 9 in Cyber Racism for an extensive discussion of efforts to battle white supremacy online transnationally). There is, however, lots of 'room for debate' on this subject and that's the focus of the NYTimes forum today.
It's important to highlight the cloaked websites I mentioned earlier. The emergence of cloakes sites illustrate a central feature of propaganda and cyber racism in the digital era: the use of difficult-to-detect authorship and hidden agendas intended to accomplish political goals, including white supremacy.
The danger in the cloaked sites is much more insidious than the overt sites, and here's why: even if we could muster the political will in the U.S. to make overt racist hate speech illegal – admittedly a long shot – such legislation would do nothing to address the lies contained in cloaked sites.
The goal of cloaked sites is to undermine agreed upon facts – such as the fact that six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust – and to challenge cultural values such as racial equality and tolerance. And, these sites are the ones that are likely to fool a casual web user who may stumble upon them and be unable to decipher fact from propaganda.
I'll give you one other example of a cloaked site and connect this back to the Tiller case. A student of mine a couple of years ago made an in-class presentation in which she included the website Teen Breaks to illustrate the concept of "post-abortion syndrome." Now, as savvy readers and those involved in pro-choice politics know, there is no medically recognized "post-abortion syndrome." This is a rhetorical strategy of the anti-abortion movement used to terrify women and keep them from having abortions. This pro-life propaganda is effectively disguised by the cloaked site Teen Breaks which appears to be one of many sites on the web that offer reproductive health information for teens.
This cloaked site takes a very different strategy from the "hit list" websites that publish the names, home addresses, and daily routines of abortion providers. Whereas the "hit list" not-so-subtly advocates murder, the cloaked sites undermine the very agreed upon facts about the health risks of abortion. These are two very different, but both very chilling, assaults on women's ability to make meaningful choices about their reproductive lives.
Similarly, the holocaust-denial sites and the overt racist and antisemitic websites are two very different, and both chillingly effective, assaults on racial equality.
Cloaked MLK Website Draws Millions This Time of Year
January 7, 2009 • Jessie Daniels • cloaked, cyber racism
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ran an article recently about the website about Martin Luther King that white supremacist Don Black publishes (h/t Charles Cameron). The site is what I refer to as a cloaked site, that is, a website published by an individual or group who conceal authorship in order to deliberately disguise a hidden political agenda. In the case of Don Black's website, the goal of the website is akin to what one scholar has called the discursive construction of uncertainty. In other words, the site is intended to make visitors to the website question the contribution of Dr. King to civil rights, and indeed, to question the goal of civil rights as a worthy goal. In my research with young people (ages 15-19), I've found that stumbling upon the site through a search engine frequently is confusing for novice web surfers. (I've written about this in a number of publications and this research also appears in my forthcoming book, Cyber Racism.)
Part of what was intriguing to me about the Atlanta Journal-Constitution article is that the reporter, Ty Tagami, takes up the comparison of the cloaked site and the legitimate King Center site, a comparison that I address in my research. What I found in comparing traffic to both websites using the web traffic site Alexa is that at this time of year, around Martin Luther King Day, there's a big increase in the number of visitors to both sites. Here, in a graph generated by me via Alexa, traffic to the legitimate site appears in blue, the traffic to the cloaked site appears in red. The time period covered is the first six months of 2006; and, the website traffic is graphed here in terms of "Daily Reach (per million)" along the left, and the months across the bottom.
There are several things worth noting in this graph. First, and perhaps most alarming, the traffic to both websites peaks in mid-to-late January, around the time of the national Martin Luther King holiday. I interpret this to mean that people are interested in learning more about Dr. King around the time of the annual holiday, and log on to find more information. Relying on a typical search engine, they find both sites and inadvertently end up at the cloaked site. Second, what's telling about this year in particular is that 2006 is the year that Coretta Scott King, Dr. King's widow, passed away (January 30, 2006) and the traffic for the King Center reflects a rather dramatic jump around that time. This is the only time that the traffic for both sites is noticeably different. Mostly, the two sites have very similar patterns.
This suggests a rather profound shift in the terrain of racial politics. Using a standard search engine and the search terms "Martin Luther King" this website regularly appears third or fourth in the results returned by Google. Before even viewing the content of this site, the URL makes it appear to be legitimate, in part because the main web reference is made up of only the domain name "martinlutherking," and the URL ends with the suffix ".org." The decision to register the domain name "martinlutherking.org" relatively early in the evolution of the web, was a shrewd and opportune move for advocates of white supremacy; failure to do likewise was a lost opportunity for advocates of civil rights. Recognizing that domain name registration is now a political battleground, a number of civil rights organizations have begun to reserve domain names to prevent them from being used by opponents of racial justice. For example, the NAACP has registered six domain names that include the word "nigger" and the ADL has registered a similar number of domain names with the word "kike." However, registering offensive epithets is only a small part of the struggle. The move by opponents to equality to register the esteemed symbols of civil rights as domain names, such as Martin Luther King, and use them to undermine racial justice is one that was clearly unanticipated by civil rights organizations.
To be effective, cloaked sites with seemingly legitimate-sounding domain rely on the naïveté of their target audience. This naïveté is about both new media literacy and about a racial consciousness that recognizes and resists the white racial frame. Cultivating both of these is important as we once again approach the national King Holiday and millions of web visitors look for information about Dr. King.
Cloaked Website Blames Hispanic Group for California Wildfires
October 30, 2007 • Jessie Daniels • cloaked, cyber racism
(This is a reblog from Thinking at the Interface.)
Linda Beyerstein at Majikthise (and via Alternet) and Katherine Zeleski at The Huffington Post are bringing attention to a website that they are referring to as a "hoax" site, but that I would argue is a "cloaked" site. And, I would argue that this is one of the prime examples of why the term "hoax" is inadequate and less accurate than "cloaked." Let me explain the story in question and then make I'll make my case for the term "cloaked." Here's the story, first reported by Zeleski (Oct.26):
At first look, "Separatists Claim Responsibility For California Wildfires" appears to be like any other story on CNN.com. The article claims that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger confirmed a radical Hispanic organization has taken responsibility for the fires that raged through southern California this week. The article even says there's photographic proof "of individuals holding Molotov cocktails, then throwing them into dry brush."
After the initial shock of the report, it then becomes obvious that it's a hoax. To start with, the site's URL is http://www.cnnheadlienews.com (note the headlie instead of headline). CNN's url is cnn.com and the url for its sister network, Headline News, is http://www.cnn.com/HLN/.
Anti-immigrant websites picked up on the story and ran it as fact (follow this url). Before realizing it was a hoax, the author of the site "Americanandproud" declared, "I am going to wait until all the facts are in, but it appears the first major shot of the next Mexican/American war has just been fired."
A domain name search for "cnnheadlienews" shows the site is registered to a company with a Nashville, Tennessee address called Bleachboy Heavy Manufacturing Concern. The website associated with Bleachboy, BBoy.net, is a homepage that cycles through four different logos. There's no other information on the site except for a warning on sweatshop products, a note that says "thank you for the traffic," and the ever-banal phrase, "spring is in the air."
While this story, like Beyerstein's, is useful for tipping off the unsuspecting to the disguised URL and the untruth of the story there, by calling it a "hoax" it relegates it to the universe of "fake news" and "truthiness" created by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, and misses the hidden political agenda of such a site. As I've defined it, a cloaked website is:
"published by individuals or groups who conceal authorship in order to deliberately disguise a hidden political agenda."
Although it's not clear who the owner of "Bleachboy" and the fake "cnn" site, by choosing to target MECHA, a Hispanic group, I would argue that the creators of the site had a hidden white supremacist agenda. Using the term "hoax" doesn't adequately describe this kind of deception, and therefore I think "cloaked" is a better, more accurate term.
These kinds of sites are even more disturbing when you look at them in light of some of the cognitive research on how people remember (or misremember) facts. Researchers found that false claims, if repeated, are remembered as true. (While there is some difference in this by age, the overall pattern seems to hold up.) This has tremendous implications for studying cloaked sites such as this one that publish false claims that are then repeated through the reverb chamber that is the blogosphere.


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The Boston Globe thinks 58 percent of Americans are "mindless" because they express grave doubts about Barack Obama's constitutional eligibility for office.
In an editorial reflecting the official opinion of the newspaper Nov. 10, the Globe stated that the "conspiracy theory about Obama's birth certificate" is an expression "of unthinking anger."
"A mindless conspiracy theory representing an expression of unthinking anger"?
What is the "conspiracy theory" being put forward by American citizens who want to understand the countless contradictions between Obama's official narrative of his life and reality?
Obama tells us he was born in Hawaii, but refuses to release the one document that would positively affirm that claim – the long-form birth certificate, the same document Sen. John McCain released to U.S. Senate investigators to establish his own claims of eligibility to seek the presidency in 2008.
Obama tells us he lived with his father, Barack Obama Sr., and mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, in Hawaii for the early years of his life. But the facts uncovered by WND's Jerome Corsi reveal a different story – that Dunham and her son moved to Seattle days after his birth and that Obama Sr. and Dunham never lived together as husband and wife.
No marriage certificate has ever been produced for Obama Sr. and Dunham, and a letter written by him to a friend in Kenya in 1962, a year after Obama Jr. was born, shows him concerned about the welfare of his wife in Kenya, not Dunham or her son.
Two years into his term of office, no Hawaiian hospital has yet claimed the birth of the first black president of the United States.
I believe the American people show a healthy curiosity and skepticism about all this, not a susceptibility to swallowing "conspiracy theories."
Does the Globe suggest Americans should simply believe on face value whatever their politicians tell them?
Did the Globe follow that prescription in the kerfuffle over George W. Bush's National Guard records, which were irrelevant insofar as his constitutional eligibility to serve in office, but were simply a matter of curiosity?
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What is "mindless" about pursuing the truth?
Where is the "unthinking anger"?
It would seem to me that written expressions by editorial writers indicting large swaths of the American populace are indeed the real "expressions of unthinking anger."
Does the Globe have some facts to lay out that can clear up the misconceptions of the American people on this issue?
What the Globe and the American media establishment at large have done is to hurl invectives at those with whom they disagree – but, in this case, at people who have legitimate questions based on actual established facts.
The media continue to discount the notion that asking questions of national leaders and seeking documentation of their claims is a legitimate pursuit.
If it's not a legitimate pursuit, what is the mission of the Globe? What is the mission of the free press in America? What is the point of elections if the majority of Americans are just "mindless" and "angry"?
It's very insulting and very ill-informed when press establishments like the Globe take such positions – especially in an editorial lecturing the people about being "statesmanlike."
This issue of Obama's eligibility is not going away – no matter how much the press wishes it away.
They missed perhaps one of the biggest political stories of the century, thus they have a vested interest in seeing that it never amounts to anything.
But the eligibility issue is coming to a head.
At the very latest, we will know in two years. If Obama seeks re-election, he will be forced to prove his eligibility, because one or more states will require him to do so. If he does not seek re-election, his failure to be able to prove his eligibility will be the reason.


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Why the Slow-Burning Genius of Twin Peaks is Perfect for the Golden Age of Binge-Watching
Brea Grant celebrates the return of David Lynch's iconic show and explains why its rhythms fit so well with the current zeitgeist.
By Brea Grant | June 2, 2017
Brea Grant is a filmmaker/actress best known for her roles on Heroes, Dexter, and Friday Night Lights. Her second feature as writer-director, the horror thriller 12 Hour Shift, is out October 2 in theaters and on demand through Magnet Releasing. Her first feature, Best Friends Forever, an apocalyptic road trip movie, premiered at Slamdance in 2013. In 2017, she became a producer on the Emmy-nominated LGBTQ series EastSiders, and in 2018, she wrote and directed an episode of the show. One month after 12 Hour Shift wrapped in Arkansas, Brea starred in the film Lucky, which she also wrote. It is directed by Natasha Kermani (Imitation Girl) and was set to premiere at SXSW 2020 before it was cancelled due to COVID-19. Brea has directed many shorts, including the award-winning Feminist
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film essay
Two weekends ago, I made a homemade cherry pie. My friend Mallory brought donuts. My boyfriend made coffee.
That's right. We were ready for the return of Twin Peaks.
It was weird. It was bizarre. It was Lynch.
If "auteuring" were a verb, Lynch has been doing it since all of us gathered around my television last week were putting on plays with our stuffed animals, or maybe in the most advanced situations, figuring out how to take a great Polaroid (back when Polaroid was cool the first time around). Now most of my friends at my Twin Peaks viewing party have graduated to actual filmmaking or record producing or some other creative output and Lynch is still kicking it, doing what he does best – taking a current medium, which has changed considerably in the last 25 years, and making it his bitch.
When Laura Palmer said she would see Cooper again in 25 years (and by Cooper, I mean us because we all just wanted to be Cooper, right?), we didn't know how different television would be when Twin Peaks returned.
It's still in a box … but that's about the only thing about our current boob tube that resembles the television of a teenage Laura Palmer's time.
I won't bore you with the repetitive acknowledgement of the "golden age of television" we are experiencing. I want to talk about the experience itself. There are the obvious things. There's no appointment viewing. We aren't watching commercials. We aren't recording things on VHS or even on TiVo or DVR much anymore.
Most importantly, in the last few years, we invented a thing called television marathoning and it's not just for people who buy the entire VHS box set of Buffy, like we did in the '90s. Lots of shows are designed for binge watching, both ones released as big bundles and ones released week to week. I have given the following advice more than once about shows like The Leftovers and Westworld: "You should just marathon it. It's better that way."
And with the advent of not just binge-watching acceptance but almost binge-watching expectancy, I can't imagine a better time for Lynch.
Binge-watching has trained the average viewer to sit for hours in front of the same television show, getting to know each character not week to week, but hour by hour. And by hour 12, I'm usually pretty sure I'm best friends with all the women on Orange is the New Black.
Binge-watching has taught us patience. "It gets good around Episode 4," is not an unheard of phrase for a new television show. Let me interpret that for you: you have to watch three hours of something you don't like that much to get to something you do like. And we do. Most television shows in the past would be canceled if the pilot wasn't good, because people would quit watching it. And yes, on network television that still happens; good shows end up on the chopping block. But with the newbs like Netflix and Amazon and so many other networks bandwagon for shows that can build slowly, premature cancellation of shows is becoming less and less frequent.
Lynch utilized the binge-watching aspect of the medium well – releasing two hours of television on the first night, and then another two hours a week later. If you know you have an expanse of television to watch, you as an audience member will sit and stare without complaint at a glass box whose meaning hasn't been revealed to you for 10 minutes. We will watch a guy paint a bunch of shovels gold. We will watch a room float around in space. We will expect no quick reveals. Why? Because we have so much more to watch. We are trained to have patience. And Lynch has prepared us for this with his years and years of demanding patience from his viewers.
At one time in the history of television, we all would have turned it off after these episodes. Not to be sacrilegious, but come on. We got mad when there wasn't a reveal on Lost every week. With the first two episodes of Twin Peaks, I watched a show that seems to have a tree as a main character and ended one episode with a full song in a bar while various people stared at each other.
And that's OK. With Lynch, we don't expect immediate answers. He requires patience. He requires faith. He is literally perfect for the binge viewer.
To prepare myself for the new season, the recaps of Damn Fine Podcast have primed me for all the callbacks and histories. (Disclaimer: Ron Richards, one of the hosts of Damn Fine Podcast, is a longtime friend, and a few years ago taught me what Uber was!) On one episode, I learned that apparently Lynch shot the 18-episode season like a film. And that's exactly what it feels like – a filmmaker not afraid of a slow-burn.
So in this episode, we watch the shovels being delivered. Next episode, we watch them being painted. Who knows what could happen to the shovels in the next episode?! You have to wait and see!
If he did shoot it like a movie, Lynch shot all the shovel sequences together. So he doesn't care that he's parceling them out bit by bit. He knows where the shovel scenes are going. And we are just there to absorb them in all their shovel glory.
There's no urgency in the show to draw us in. If we're watching, we're probably in. We are ready for a long shot of people staring at each other. Just like we were willing to do the same in the original series. In fact, one of my favorite scenes in the original involves a man walking slowly across a bank floor and back. If you're a fan, you know it and probably remember it fondly as well.
So we are ready because Netflix and other bingeing mediums have prepared us but also because Lynch prepared us. There should be a disclaimer at the beginning: "You know what you are getting into."
In the age of changing attitudes towards television, the medium is the message. Television viewing has changed and those of us who make television have to learn to change with it. Whereas at one point, auteurs were drawn to cinema, now we see shows that have one sole voice behind them and they're pretty damn good. Mr. Robot, True Detective and Girls are obvious examples. Mindy Kaling and Issa Rae are also creating their own spaces and obviously Shonda Rhimes has been doing this since the Postal Service was popular. And those are just a few. Just google "auteurs in television" and you'll see that everyone is doing their best to point out all the shows out there with a singular vision.
And the medium truly allows it. We've figured out that maybe some of these creative television decisions shouldn't be made by the showrunner … along with the director … and the writers … and the network … and the studio … and, I guess, Jesus or somebody. Instead, we end up with rad shows like Transparent because a vision that comes from a genius like Jill Soloway driving it really thrives in the medium. It's a way to make great art that moves people. Because Jill Soloway conceived something she knew would move people. And that's what art is really about.
Note: I do understand that there are still network heads and studio execs to contend with. But in some of these mediums, I hear of wonderful, magical stories where they hire a creator and give them free reign. This is what I'm talking about. It's happening. At the very least, I think it's obvious that not too many people fussed with Lynch's vision.
In a world where which some of the best filmmakers I know are fighting for scraps to get their films made, thank God for the medium that is pouring money into content. Sure, not all that content is great. Not all of it is designed to last the ages. But some is.
So while I guess it would have been nice to have six seasons and a movie of the original Twin Peaks, I don't really hear any of the original fans complaining. On TV right now, we get to see creators do what they do best: create. Even if that creator desires us to watch people talk backwards, a woman with a log, and a tree with something that looks like a brain on the top of it.
Paul Scheer Talks with Ken Marino (How to Be a Latin Lover) for the Talkhouse Podcast
Lil Yachty Can Go Hard When He Wants To
Screenwriter and Producer Erik Crary (Uncle John) Talks Working for David Lynch
Brea Grant (Best Friends Forever) Talks Gareth Evans' The Raid 2
Brea Grant (Best Friends Forever) Talks Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland's Still Alice


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Q: Howto toggle scrollbar to all-way-up or all-way-down I am able to force the scrollbar all the way down, by animating it to a div at the bottom. I also know how to animate it back to the top.
But if I have code that catches the fact that I reached the bottom via animation, it either automatically starts going back up. Or after pressing up, it goes into an infinite loop of up and down when reaching the ends.
Or perhaps I should be doing this in a different way altogether?
  $("div").scroll(function(){
    if (emergency) return;
    $("span").text( x+= 1);
    if (!atTop() && !atBot()){
       animating = true;
       sayPos("mid");
       if (down)
           txtbx.animate({scrollTop: txtbot}, 10, animdone);
       else // up
           txtbx.animate({scrollTop: 0}, 10, animdone);
    } else if (atTop() && !animating) {
        animating = true;
        sayPos("top");
        txtbx.animate({scrollTop: txtbot}, 10, animdone);
    } else if (atBot() && !animating) {
        animating = true;
        sayPos("bot");
        txtbx.animate({scrollTop: 0}, 10, animdone);
    } else { // animation end: atEnd but was animating
        ended = true; //animating = false;
        sayPos("endAnim ----------------");
    }
});

and
function animdone(){
    scrlpos = txtbx.scrollTop();
    if(ended){
         if (down && scrlpos > 0)
            txtbot = scrlpos;
         ended = false;
         //animating = false;
         down = !down;
         sayPos("..ended");
     }
     else sayPos("..callback");
 }

function atBot(){ return scrlpos >= txtbot;  }
function atTop(){ return scrlpos == 0; }

Here's my fiddle

A: OK I found a simple way, in JQuery, using myelem.scrollTop(target) and putting a div at the end of the text.

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*myElement.scroll(... - to catch the event and then

*myElement.scrollTop(0) - for scrolling to the top of the element

*window.scrollTop(txtBottom) - for scrolling to the bottom, where txtBottom is a div element at the end of the text.

With scrollTop( somevalue ) I only get one extra scroll event, as opposed to the animation which was creating multiple evens.
The first scroll-event that we catch was caused by the user's click on the scrollbar, and the second event was caused by the code forcing the scrolling all the way to the top or bottom of the element.
If you want to catch the scroll event for the whole window (meaning the browser), you put the div at the bottom of the text and use

*

*$(window).scroll(... - to catch the event and then

*window.scrollTo(0,0) - for scrolling to the top of the window

*window.scrollTo(0,txtBottom) - for scrolling to the bottom, where txtBottom is a div element at the end of the text.

I catch the first iteratin caused by the user's press on the scroll bar, and push it all the way. I decide which way to push according to the last scroll position. If its zero then it's up and top and needs to go down to the div at the end. Otherwise it goes back up to the zero at the top.
I then simply ignore the second iteration of .scroll, caused by my code pushing the scrollbar on to its end.
var isSecondScroll = false;
var lastScroll = 0;
myElem = $("#myelem"); // my scrolling element
// or: myElem = $(window);
txtBottom = $("#myelembottom").offset().top;  // dev at end of text
myElem.scroll(function(){
    if ( !isSecondScroll )
       isSecondScroll = false;
    else { // first iteration
        if (lastScroll == 0) // top
            myElem.scrollTop(txtBottom);
            // or: myElem.scrollTo(0,txtBottom); // for scrolling full browser window

         else // not top
            myElem.scrollTop(0);
            // or: myElem.scrollTo(0,0); // for scrolling full browser window

    }

    isSecondScroll = true;  // mark for next iteration
    lastScroll = myElem.scrollTop();

}); // .scroll()

The HTML would look something like this

here comes long text more than the 100px high

Here's a working corrected fiddle
And here's a working corrected fiddle (with cleaner code) for scrolling the whole browser window.

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Until the middle of the 17th century, the Acropolis' most important monuments remained generally intact, as shown by the drawings of European travellers. In 1645, however, the Propylaia suffered severe damage from an explosion of stored gunpowder ignited by a bolt of lightning. Furthermore, in 1686, the Turks, facing a threat from the Venetian army led by General Morosini, dismantled the Temple of Athena Nike to use its building material for reinforcing the Acropolis walls and for construction of a defensive rampart in front of the Propylaia. Then, in 1687, came the Parthenon's turn. Many of the building's architectural members were blown into the air and fell in heaps around the Hill of the Acropolis due to the explosion of the gunpowder stored inside the temple. In the 18th century, as more and more travellers visited the Acropolis, they often made a point of taking away something ancient as a memento. Systematic looting of the site, however, occurred at the beginning of the 19th century, when Britain's ambassador to Constantinople, Thomas Bruce, the 7th Earl of Elgin, managed to secure an authorization (firman) from the Ottoman Sultan for investigation of the Acropolis - but not for stripping the monuments of their sculptural decoration. Nevertheless, Elgin's team removed a large number of the sculptures until then preserved on the Parthenon, as well as one of the Caryatids from the Erechtheion, four frieze blocks from the Temple of Athena Nike and other antiquities, which were shipped off to Great Britain.
In 1833 the Turkish garrison withdrew definitively from the Acropolis which, in 1834, became an archaeological site proclaimed by the newly established Greek State. Then began efforts to gather, preserve and protect the antiquities scattered on the Rock. Their number, which was increasing steadily due to the archaeological excavations being conducted in the hill's ancient deposits, made it pressing to create a museum on the site. Thus began the search for a suitable location, which finally led to the decision in 1863 to establish the Museum in a hollow in the ground, southeast of the Parthenon. The Museum was founded in 1865, completed in 1874 and housed the finds of the first excavations on the Acropolis; however, it proved insufficient to accommodate the abundance of new finds which had been brought to light during the large, ongoing excavations, leading thus to the construction of a second small building in 1888, next to the previous one. Finally, following the Second World War, a radical architectural refurbishment was undertaken resulting in the creation of a new building that continued to operate until 2007.
In 1975 is formed the Committee for the Conservation of the Acropolis Monuments (ESMA), with a view to examining all the dangers of the Acropolis monuments and submitting studies. The first building that was taken care of by ESMA is the Erechtheion, from which the Caryatids were removed in 1979 to be saved from the relentless damage caused by outdoor exposure and they were transferred to the Museum on the Rock. The problem of insufficient space arose once again and the idea of constructing a new Acropolis Museum emerged - this time, however, not on the Sacred Rock.
The architectural competition was held in 2000, which led to the selection of the proposal by Bernard Tschumi and his Greek collaborator Michael Photiades. The new Acropolis Museum was constructed on the south side of the Acropolis at a distance of 300 metres from its monuments. The Museum's foundations were completed on the 30th of January 2004 and its opening took place on the 20th of June 2009.


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Category: Mastiha
On September 30, 2019 September 30, 2019 By toultoulineIn Ceramics, Chios island, Greece, Mastiha2 Comments
Twenty four years ago Nikos Balatsos decided to make a new beginning in his life, in a place where he had never been before. So, he came to Chios from Karditsa (mainland Greece). All he knew about the island was that mastiha (mastic) was cultivated in the southern part of it, the only place in the world. Maybe that's what brought him here, he says.
Nikos Balatsos' work
After school he started looking for something to study that would allow him to do creative work and be his own boss. Then he discovered ceramics. He went to Italy to a school for ceramics where, as a very young man, he also learned a lot about life. He is happy about his choice, now.
A younger Nikos Balatsos with his son and his work today
When he arrived to Chios he met good people who supported his decision to stay and find the right place for him. One day, by chance, he found an old half ruined olive press mill in Mesta. That is where he housed his ceramics workshop and set up a new life. Now he has a beautiful shop-workshop, at the entrance of the mediaeval village, with a sunny little courtyard where his clients sit and talk with him.
Nikos Balatsos ceramics, Chios
All his work is based on shapes. He forms the clay on the potter's wheel and then shapes it again by hand, trying to extend it beyond its limits. Then comes the colouring. That is what makes his work even more personal. He works mostly in blues and greens mixing mineral salts and silver nitrate, using his own recipes. By changing even slightly the proportions of the materials, colours keep changing. Even the humidity in the air, he says, makes a difference. He feels humbled by all this, realizing that he knows very little although he has worked on it for so long. After all these years he keeps experimenting, making new discoveries, and learning. Every batch of ceramics is fired three times. Whenever a round of work has finished, he starts a new one.
Nikos Balatsos
Nikos' work expresses, consciously or unconsciously, his experiences in life, his feelings, everything that's inside him, even the weather, the environment, the light… That is why there are variations, so much depth, so many layers of colour. It is a pity that most of this is lost in the photos.
For the future, he wants to keep experimenting, making new discoveries and doing what he loves, for as long as he can. Life is good here. He ended up in one of the mastic producing villages, after all, in the southern part of Chios island!
About mastiha / mastic
https://toultouline.com/2017/10/20/the-mastic-gum-of-chios-greece/
https://toultouline.com/2018/11/27/the-mastic-museum-chios-island-greece/
The mastic gum of Chios, Greece
On October 20, 2017 By toultoulineIn Chios island, Greece, MastihaLeave a comment
Living in one of the 24 mastic gum (mastiha) producing villages of Southern Chios, I have been exposed to the cultivation of mastiha since I first came here. Almost everyone in my village is involved in the production of this magical resin, valuable for many uses: for medicines, cosmetics, art paints and varnishes, sweets, etc.
It was always cultivated on the island but started becoming known in the 10th century by travellers visiting Chios. The trade became more organized in the 14th century.
The mastic tree/bush (skinos, Pistacia Lentiscus var. Chia) grows all over Chios, also all over the Mediterranean area, but only produces mastic gum in the southern part of Chios. It is one of the strongest plants, it can live without water, in bad soil, and lasts for many years. The mastiha production is worthwhile from about the 5th year of the life of the plant and reaches its best at around the 15th year. It can live up to 100 years. A mature tree produces about 200 grams per year.
White soil under mastic trees
The cultivation of mastiha starts around May-June and ends in September-October, depending on the weather. First, they prepare and clean the area under each tree, then spread a white soil on that area so that the drops (the tears) of resin falling are kept clean. Next, with a special sharp and pointed tool, they "wound" the tree by making incisions on the trunk and the branches (see the beautiful film at the end of this post).
Photo at the Chios Mastic Museum
After the mastiha has fallen on the ground, and become hard, it is collected very early in the morning, while it is still cool and the resin remains hard. Then they "bring it in", to the village, where they continue with the "cleaning" of it. This involves sifting it through different sizes of sieves to clean it from the soil and leaves.
Sieves at the Chios Mastic Museum
Old photo at the Chios Mastic Museum, 1930-1950
Next comes the washing. Some people who live near the sea still go there to wash their mastiha.
Washing mastic gum in the sea, Southern Chios (2016)
Sifted and washed mastiha
The final cleaning is done by the women. They usually gather around a round tray (sini), now a round table but still called sini. They clean the resin drops, one by one, by removing any impurities using a needle, work that demands strong eyes and a lot of patience. This takes a few months, depending on the quantity of the harvest. When they finish they take it to the Chios Gum Mastic Growers Association for the final processing.
Cleaning mastiha, at the Chios Mastic Museum
Cleaning mastiha (2017)
A few days ago I visited the new Chios Mastic Museum, a very modern building housing a very old trade. It is located in the middle of the mastic producing villages and is surrounded by mastic trees where one can follow their cultivation, an open-air museum exhibition.
Chios Mastic Museum
"The aim of the Chios Mastic Museum is to highlight the production history of the cultivation and processing of mastic, also incorporating it to the cultural landscape of Chios. Through the inclusion of traditional mastic cultivation in the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2014, the emphasis is on the timelessness and the sustainability of the product of Chios" {Copied from the Museum's brochure}
Old distiller for the production of mastic oil, Chios Mastic Museum
Old "machinery" for the final processing of mastic gum. Chios Mastic Museum
I am definitely going back. Although mastiha production is part of my fellow villagers lives, there is a lot to see in that museum, details from the past and from the other villages, in a very organized and pleasant way. It made me see that not much has changed since the 19th-20th centuries. Also, there is a nice cafe with views over many mastic trees and the sea far away. Coffee was served with a cookie filled with mastiha cream. There is also a lot of modern art on the walls of some parts of the museum which connects the past with the present.
"The tree we hurt" 1986 , English subtitles
This film shows how the mediaeval fortress type villages of Southern Chios, where the mastiha producers lived for centuries (and still do), were around 1985. Not much has changed, they are only better preserved (see my blog post "Start where you are"). In this film you can also see the landscape of Chios, mastic trees, cultivaton, and follow a sweet story with beautiful music.


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This is about installing Gentoo on my shining new ThinkPad X40 - US0H9GE Its a little brief... but was requested many times. So here it is.
2005/Oct/09: Rickard Lundin from Sweden suggested to add cdroot to the append parameters, to get aware of the 2005.1 "give-root-pass" dialog. Thanks for the feedback!
Cause I have no USB CD-ROM drive, I needed to boot Gentoo via PXE - Thank god, we have an Intel E1000! The idea is: PXE Booting, getting PXELINUX loaded, loading the kernel via TFTP, getting an initrd and have a ready-to-shoot Gentoo LiveCD.
Get SYSLINUX that contains PXElinux.
Plug in your X40 and boot it. Press F12 and select PCI Lan as boot device. And now you can see the entire bootprocess passing by.
Just follow the regular guide available at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml I usally start at stage3 to save some time. But this is up to you.
CPUfreq: conservative governor. Speedstep Centrino.
So my config.gz migth be a good start.
/etc/conf.d/local.start to change the default govenor for cpufreqd and make shure IBM Hotkeys get enabled.
Install acpi and acpid to get the basic ACPI features. Now you need to improve ACPI event routing.
This causes, that every event results in calling my ibm_x40-acpi.sh script.
This script has some prerequisites... Please have xosd installed. You might need to edit the way to find out the current XUSER. Its just the way, it works for wdm.
After rebooting, FN-F12 should put your X40 into suspend-to-disk. FN-F4 into suspend-to-ram. FN-F9 should display current CPU-Speed and remaining battery time. FN-F8 cycles the ath_hal driver, FN-F5 starts bluetooth and all the required deamons.
To swith to another "profile" just change a symlink to the desired config.


We had recently heard about Imoo bringing world's first educational smartphone. And now Lenovo CG Slate is the latest education tablet in India.
Of the latest Android devices in India, the Lenovo CG Slate is one of them. It is ConveGenius which is continuously contributing in reforming the interaction in the field of education in India. And Lenovo is a new partner of this organization. The CG Slate is a tablet, running on Android. The software suite is pre-installed in the device which allows access to the content of ConveGenius which was earlier available only via the B2B clients in countries like India, Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia, in state and government centers and also through some NGOs.
According to Jairaj Bhattacharya's comment on launch, who is the MD of the ConveGenius Group, this device contents has been customized for its educational use to Grade K-5. This new educational Lenovo CG Slate seems to be promising as it offers interactive learning and helps the many ways.
The Lenovo tablet seems a bit similar looking to the Lenovo Tab 2 A7-20 in its hardware features. CG Slate comes in dimensions of 105 x 9.3 x 189 mm and just weighs 269 grams. With a wide IPS display of 7-inch it comes with 1024×600 pixels resolution. It runs on a MediaTek MT8127 processor with quad-core CPU. Though its offers the storage with either 8GB or 16GB which seems to be sufficient for its purpose, it has an expandable memory. Though being an educational tablet it comes with a rear camera of 2 megapixels and a front camera of 0.3 megapixels. It is well connected by Wi-Fi and 4.0 Bluetooth and has a sufficient battery of 3450mAh.
As it is specifically aimed for the Indian market, the Lenovo CG Slate has already arrived here. The device is offered exclusively on Flipkart at a price of INR 7,499, which is actually its promotional price as it is only offered for the first 1000 units. Later, the device is going to cost INR 8,499. The store not only offers the tablet in this amount but also provides a branded carrier bag along.


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Q: Trying to compile and debug C++ from Vim I've been learning C++ and Allegro using Code::Blocks on Windows XP, and recently felt like learning Vim. However, I have no idea how to compile a program "manually" (i.e., without using an IDE).
For compiling from within Vim, I have gotten as far as setting the makeprg to gcc, but I understand I also need a makefile. What is that and how do I write one? Is it with the makefile that I can use libraries such as Allegro?
Also, I've gotten quite fond of the CB debugger (I'm using gdb). Is it possible to do something similar with Vim?
Thank you.

A: You don't necessarily need a Makefile, but it's the preferred (and possibly sanest) way of compiling code on UNIX-like systems.
I don't know if GNU Make has a Windows port, but you can probably run it under Cygwin.
To learn more about GNU Make and Makefiles:

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*make (Wikipedia)

*GNU Make

*GNU Make Manual
Also, see this question: compile directly from vim
Mandatory edit: I don't use Windows or Cygwin. You might want to take epochwolf's advice on that department.

A: Look at MinGW. I would avoid Cygwin if you only need gcc and make. You'll want both MinGW and MSYS. MSYS has a windows port of make.
If you're interested in more unix utlities for the windows command line I recommend CoreUtils.
For learning make see the manual

A: I'm not in expert in makefiles and debugging but I know that Vim lets you do many things.
For example if you want to compile a file with gcc, it's not very different from the usual way. In normal mode type:
:!gcc file.c -o file

In fact you can use (almost) every system command just by adding "!" in front of your command.
gdb also works with Vim
:!gdb

I hope it will help you.

A: To integrate vim with devenv, you can use devenv from Visual Studio to complie the project in vim. The command as follows:
Devenv SolutionName /build SolnConfigName [/project ProjName [/projectconfig ProjConfigName]]

Typicatlly, the devenv should located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE. Set it to the path of environment to make it callable from vim. We also need to make vim recognize the error messages thrown by the commandline build tool devenv. Just put the following lines in your vimrc:
" Quickfix mode: command line devenv error format
au FileType cpp set makeprg=devenv.com\ /Build\ Debug\ *[SolutionName]*
au FileType cpp set errorformat=\ %#%f(%l)\ :\ %#%t%[A-z]%#\ %m

Then You can use :make to compile and build the program from vim.

A: EDIT1: A few bookmarks you might find useful:
GNU make tutorial (this one uses gcc and make, so it should be right up your alley)
Another one
Win port of some of GNU utils Can was mentioning; I personally use these and haven't had any problems with them on Windows platform.

Yes, you can compile without the makefile. If your program is simple (for example, one file only) you can compile by calling the compiler and including the name of the program in the same line (don't remember how it goes with gcc). Of course, to make things easier this can be mapped to a key within vim, so you don't have to jump to command prompt and back.
If you are working on a bigger project, which consists of several files and such, than a makefile is useful. It will "search" through the files, determine dependencies, include them in the build, maybe put the source files in one directory and the resulting exe file in the other and such. So it is more of a linking and building system than just compiling.
Although the GNU make mentioned in Can Berk Guder's answer is a popular one, there are quite a number of other tooks for "building makefiles" ("makefile" has become a type of synonym for that kind of operation) - here, you can see some other options on this link. Due to its part in history vim has good support for :make, but others can be easily used as well (there are a lot of texts on this subject on VimWikia.
Well, that's it. Just my 0,2 euros :)

A: As long as you have GNU-make installed (with cygwin or mingw under windows), you don't need to write a makefile for single-file projects. Just run :make from vim, and that's enough.
If your project is made of several files, then you will have to write a makefile (or any equivalent for scons, aap, (b)jam, ant, ...), tune your &makeprg in consequence, and finally call :make from vim. See the relevant category in vimtips. You can of course run the compiler as you would have ran any other external tool, but you would loose the possibility to jump to the line(s) of the error(s).
NB: if you are using the win32 version of vim, and gcc-cygwin, you'll need to translate the error messages obtained. I used to maintain a perl script for this purpose, it is now part of a bigger suite (still in beta stage)
Regarding your question about debugging, it can't be done from vim under windows for the moment. The only debugger that can be integrated so far is gdb, but under linux only ; see the pyclewn (.sf.net) project.

A: I'm not sure about debugging, but I know an easy way to compile and run the current program as I wrote a small vim plugin to do so.
http://pastebin.com/qc5Zp2P7
It assumes you are using the g++ compiler. If not, just change the name to the compiler you're using. Save this file to whereveryouinstalledvim/ftplugin/cpp.vim
In order to compile and run the currently open program, just type shift-e while in non-editing mode.


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My life has changed quite a bit since I started playing the ukulele. I've been playing actively for over 12 years, but only in the last 3 years have I been playing consistently with the Ukulele Workshop at Boulevard Music in Culver City, led by musician Cali Rose. The workshop is great. There are anywhere from 6 to 12 people in the group. We all bring in songs from different sources. After we analyze a song, we work on embellishing it with intros, outros, chord substitutions, etc. It's a group effort, led by Cali. We really do have a good time. We have members who have only just graduated from the beginners class and people that have been playing for years. It all works out. Cali structures the classes for all levels.
Natalie! Come back! We miss you!
In between all of those weekly workshops, I also attend ukulele festivals around the country. I've been to festivals in Palm Springs, Torrance, Port Townsend, WA and am looking forward to one this year in Las Cruces, NM. I also try to drop in on The Pluckin' Strummers every once in awhile, cross-town, in Atwater. This is a jam group, playing songs mostly from the Jim and Liz Beloff ukulele song books. The group also offers arrangements for more modern songs. I've met so many ukulele players from different backgrounds.
My ol' pal, Ruth just started Cali's beginning uke class at Boulevard Music. Ruth and I have many common interests, including jazzy eyeglass frames, costume jewelry and mid-century architecture of Los Angeles. I'm hoping that Ruth graduates to our Workshop soon so we can explore Googie coffee shops for lunch after class!
Our upcoming Ukulele Workshop starts on February 16th. Call Boulevard Music and join us!


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Like many little girls, when Elissa Barber was young, she loved to colour. There are home videos that show her parents wandering around the house looking for her, only to discover her off in a corner, quietly creating her own little world with markers and paper. For her, though, it wasn't just childhood escapism. Even then, she was honing her craft.
"The same way it's kind of compulsive for me now, it was like that when I was a child," Barber reflects. "In high school I did well in a different range of subjects, but I would tell my parents, 'It doesn't really matter, because I'm just going to go to art school and become an artist anyway.'"
And she did. Based in Hamilton, Ontario, Barber has established a loyal client base of collectors who are drawn to her minimal yet emotional linework. Pared down to their essence, Barber's expressive figure drawings—which show up on large canvases, woven paintings, hand-carved ceramics, notebooks, even face masks—toe the border between realism and whimsy, an act of looking inwards that she often creates with one continuous, breathless, curving line.
"My work is always about self-reflection, a passage through time: past, present, future," she says via video from her home. Her pieces often feature three silhouettes in them as a way to represent her three selves. "The figures always resemble each other, but there's always a slight shift," she explains. "It's this idea of transformation of self and trying to constantly be very aware of where you're at, and where you've been to get there, and where you're going to go from that point."
Self-reflection is undoubtedly one of the themes of the current global climate—a time that has forced all of us stop and think about who we really want to be and what we really stand for. Whether we're just getting by or we're lucky enough to be able to take the opportunity to experiment, the pandemic has forced a reckoning within each of us. For Barber, it has meant retreating from the commercial side of her work in order to reconnect with her creativity.
"I think as soon as we got into November and things started to shift again, I just knew I needed a break from having to make it a business," she says, reflecting on making art at the end of 2020, which saw more social restrictions and lockdowns. "I wanted to just be able to take a step back, enjoy my time with my family, keep creating in the background, and feel really loose and free with it."
She works out of a home studio, which is where she shuts herself away to create larger pieces in quiet. But Barber is also the mother to a two-year-old daughter, who was taken out of Montessori school when the pandemic hit; as is the case with many parents today, it's been a delicate juggling act for Barber and her husband.
"We have a rotating childcare schedule," she says. "So we're just making it work. I feel like that's what so many people are doing: doing our best to make it work. And I think it's taken more of a toll on me than I thought it was going to."
Hence the desire to peel things back, to focus on the passion. And to channel that passion into quality time with her daughter. "She's at an awesome age," Barber says. "We're going to make snowflake ornaments today and that's so fun—it brings work and my child into the same domain, and that's the best thing I could do."
She also loves going for walks, taking long baths, and reading (she's in a book club with friends). When it comes to her home, it's all about creating a comfortable environment, whether that be through scent or texture.
"Fragrance is a huge thing for me," she says (she has a particular affinity for musky, warm aromas and has a Stone Diffuser in Charcoal). "Candles, diffusers, room sprays—even perfume. As soon as my daughter was old enough not to be sensitive to fragrance, I just went right back to it. I love certain fragrance houses, scented baths, and moisturizers—anything that smells good, anything that's sensorial. And we buy really nice textiles: blankets and throws and pillows. Anything soft that makes the house feel cozier."
Home as a physical space has become more important than ever, and we're all searching for ways to make ours feel both fresh and familiar—whether that be through an aroma diffused into the air, a soft pillow on the couch, or a beautiful art piece on the wall.
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