This is a summary of the webinar presented by AKC Club Development which talked about clubs collaborating, not only with other AKC clubs, but other types of dog and community events and attractions.
Guy Fisher, Manager of AKC Club Development was the lead presenter for this webinar. Guy started off with some administrative best practices, and then gave examples of the types of events and collaborations that have been used successfully by clubs around the country. He also shared some innovative ideas for funding, promoting and staffing these events.
Best Practices: Get It In Writing!
Guy started by sharing links to a number of documents (pdf) that clubs will find helpful in navigating their relationships with one another in a multi-club collaboration. AKC has rules about clubs' priority rights to show locations and event dates, so there needs to be a written understanding of which clubs are doing what, when, and for how long so there's no confusion. A group of clubs collaborating is referred to as a cluster, and there are requirements for common event planning and paperwork submission for these events. Each club also has individual responsibility for its own event(s).
Many clubs have moved out of their original territories when venues have changed hands, closed, or significantly increased rental fees. I was affected by this when my club, the Progressive Dog Club of Wayne County was forced to do this when our venue decided to violate our contract and give our reserved dates to a different sporting event. Performance events occupy less space than an all breed conformation dog show. This means holding a performance only event may allow a club to move back into a smaller venue in their own territory, making it easier to engage with the population they were chartered to serve.
Michigan has at least four dog show weekends that include multiple AKC and non-AKC events, they are all held in large venues and include large all breed dog shows. At one of these large show clusters, I noticed a flyer for a performance only event hosted by the St Clair Kennel Club. This "Spring Fling" event which will launch in May, 2019 includes four rally and four obedience trials and a collaboration with the Barn Hunt licensed Scamper Detectives club, which is holding two barn hunt trials. The event also includes several sanctioned matches and a number of dog sport demonstrations open to all. They are using the same site as the kennel club uses for its all breed shows, which is in its assigned territory.
Guy emphasized that the AKC is supportive of multi-events. As long as clubs follow AKC guidelines regarding special attractions (pdf), they will do as much as they can to help clubs plan and execute a successful event.
Encourage members to participate in the AKC Mentor program to encourage new people in the sport of purebred dogs.
Personally contact local businesses to suggest ways they can support and promote your show. Sell space on banners that can be hung around the show site. Approach other clubs about cross-promoting events.
The AKC Public Education department has a Girl Scout Patch program that can be marketed to local Girl Scouts, allows members to get badges for participating in a program at the show which encourages safe behavior around dogs as well as learning about dog shows.
If you need more manual labor than your club can provide, consider reaching out to your community to see if they can offer your event as an option for people required to perform community service.
I've been looking for examples of multi-events and am reaching out to people involved with them. I you belong to a club are interested in hosting one such an event, AKC Club Development is a great place to start.
The number of performance event options is growing, and hosting these events offers conformation clubs an opportunity to grow an event that can help fund other activities. Since these events are open to all dogs, regardless of background, they offer a common ground for dog lovers of many backgrounds to come together. Performance can be a gateway to conformation and a way to get people exposed to purebred dog fanciers and conformation events like 4-6 month puppy and sanctioned matches that may be more accessible to newbies than a licensed all breed show.
If you are involved with an AKC dog club that is involved with a multi-sport event, I'd love to talk to you about it!
Cleo has been showing Bull Terriers in AKC events and working with dogs and dog clubs since she was a teenager. Her professional career has been spent working in marketing insights and analytics in a variety of industries, including automotive, advertising, and pet specialty retail.
I recently viewed the AKC's webinar on "Finding Your Social Media Voice" which featured Brandi Hunter, the AKC's Vice President of Public Relations and Communications. Ms. Hunter is clearly fluent in and enthusiastic about social media and covered a large amount of information in the hour scheduled. I think I've got a fairly good grasp of the topic, and still felt like I was drinking from a fire hose of information. I am going to provide a broad overview of the webinar in this post, and plan to come back to it to cover more of the tactical details. I hope AKC Education will bring Brandi back to share more of her knowledge of this topic in future webinars.
Brandi shared that over 3.3 billion people use social media and the average person has almost 6 social media accounts. More than 4 out of 5 of small to medium size businesses use social media. She feels all dog clubs can benefit from using social media to reach out to their members, potential members, exhibitors, and the dog-loving public.
Start with one social media platform that best fits your content and abilities, but please create a social presence! Social media is an important outreach tool, especially for younger audiences.
Social media is all about engagement, more important than the number of people who see or like your pages are the number of people who post and share your content. Give them a reason to comment on your posts and encourage their interaction by asking for shares, comments, pictures, and videos.
Post consistently, this can be one of the most difficult things for dog clubs who have one big event a year. Share what your club and members are involved with throughout the year, not just leading up to or on your event weekend.
Share relevant content from other places, the AKC has multiple social media accounts and plenty of content worth sharing.
Make sure multiple people have admin access to the club's social media, using a club email address as one of the admin accounts, for example, "social@myAKCclub.org" is a good idea to make sure someone from the club can always get access to the account.
Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are the three most popular social platforms. Each can be used to promote clubs and their events, and each has strengths aligned better with some uses than others.
Sixty-eight percent of all adults in the USA have Facebook accounts, and it is the second most popular place to watch videos (after YouTube). Half of all Americans who don't have Facebook accounts live with someone who does.
Facebook is the most versatile of the three platforms. It allows the use of videos, images and longer content than either Twitter or Instagram. You can create event pages, public and private groups and can live stream events through Facebook. Each of these tools can serve clubs to help build community and share news about their club and its activities. Creating a page for a specific event makes it easy to promote and also share content unique to that event. Facebook is second only to YouTube in video views. Clubs are encouraged to live stream events on Facebook as long as they are not duplicating a live stream that AKC is already doing.
There are roughly 1 Billion monthly users on Instagram. Instagram is very visual, it is a great medium for promoting events and sharing short videos, but not links or long text. Instagram is owned by Facebook and has the youngest audience of the three social platforms discussed in the webinar. Brandi emphasized that Instagram users LOVE dogs and dog-related content.
The heaviest Instagram users are susceptible to Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO.) Sharing photos and videos of dogs and interesting events might trigger enough FOMO to get Instagrammers to check out your club and events. Brandi suggested that behind the scenes videos, for example, dogs being groomed, vendor spotlights, and juniors profiles were all great Instagram features.
Key to using Instagram is adding hashtags, which are keywords preceded by a # symbol. Using 9-12 hashtags on your post is a good strategy, take some time to identify hashtags that are relevant to your club and events. For starters, #dogsofinstagram, #dogs, and #puppies are relevant hashtags many people are following.
Twitter has 1.3 Billion accounts, but only 326 Million users, it has the lowest proportion of active users of all 3 platforms. To use it effectively, you need to be one of those engaged accounts, a recommended posting frequency is 5 times a day; the volume of tweets moving through any given users feed is so high you need high frequency to get noticed.
This platform moves very fast and presents everything in chronological order, which can make it difficult to track and find tweets. It limits the length of messages to 280 characters and is not as easy to use for photos and video as Facebook and Instagram. Twitter can be used effectively for customer service or event updates, where real-time information is important.
I've said this before, but I strongly encourage dog clubs to use social media to connect with their members, potential members, and the dog-loving public. The tools AKC mentioned in the webinar are all free to set up. Identify someone with the time and computer skills to set the accounts up, then work to find and collect content to share. There is no doubt in my mind club members have lots of cute dog photos, pictures of club gatherings and other dog-related events stored on their phones and home computers, they just need to share the image files.
One way to make photo and video sharing easy would be to set up an account at an online photo sharing site like Google Photos. From there, members can share photos from their phones and computers so that your social media team can access and share them in club accounts.
I would love to see some club social links in the comments!


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Schnader Honors Keith Whitson with Earl G. Harrison Pro Bono Award
On July 16, 2012 by Schnader in Aviation
July 16, 2012 – Pittsburgh, PA: Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP is pleased to announce that Keith E. Whitson has been recognized as the 2012 recipient of the Earl G. Harrison Pro Bono award. The award recognizes Mr. Whitson for his sustained record of performing pro bono work, numerous outstanding achievements of enduring value, and providing inspiration and mentorship to many of his colleagues.
"Keith has been one of the Firm's most prolific attorneys in terms of pro bono hours and matters, as well as a leader in the Pittsburgh office and throughout the Firm in mentoring and assisting other lawyers in pro bono matters," said David Smith, Chairman of Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP. "Over the past few years, Keith has worked on more than a dozen different pro bono matters, taking the lead in some, actively supervising the work of junior lawyers in others, and pitching in or offering advice in yet others."
Mr. Whitson has worked on death penalty and prisoner civil rights cases, among others, but much of his work and the focus of his mentorship and leadership, has been in immigration cases. He has handled a few cases that required him to advocate for expansion of traditional definitions of persecuted social groups. In one case, Mr. Whitson successfully argued that an Iraqi persecuted for giving assistance to the United Forces in Iraq was entitled to asylum and in another he obtained asylum for a Rwandan woman who was a victim of domestic abuse.
In the best pro bono tradition, Mr. Whitson has not avoided unpopular cases. A few years ago, he advocated in federal court, including the Third Circuit, for an Egyptian-born American nuclear physicist who had his longstanding security clearance suddenly revoked, thereby leading to the loss of his senior scientist position at a Pittsburgh-area nuclear power facility. Although the client was never provided an explanation for the revocation, it was widely believed to be the result of his work with Muslim prisoners and his criticism of U.S. foreign policy. Yet, Mr. Whitson advocated valiantly and zealously for the client's right to challenge the revocation of his security clearance.
He represents clients in all types of immigration proceedings, including asylum applications and removal proceedings and represents a variety of individuals and organizations in many different fields. He has participated in pro bono programs through the Allegheny County Bar Association and the Pittsburgh Pro Bono Partnership, and is a previous recipient of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Pro Bono Award.
"Mr. Whitson embodies the principles upon which the Harrison Pro Bono Award was founded," said George McGrann, managing partner of the Firm's Pittsburgh office. "He has been a role model for the Pittsburgh team by demonstrating these qualities that we hope will continue to be associated with work done by Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis."
ABOUT THE EARL G. HARRISON PRO BONO AWARD
The Earl G. Harrison Pro Bono Award was named for one of the Firm's original partners and is presented annually to a Firm attorney or staff member who has a distinguished record of pro bono service. The Firm selects an honoree with a demonstrated record that consists of outstanding achievement of enduring value to the public good, a leading role in inspiring and sustaining pro bono service by other Firm personnel, or a sustained record of personal pro bono service over a number of years. The award reflects the tradition and collective belief of the Schnader: that law is more than a business, and it should include using our skill, talent, and wisdom to improve access to justice for every individual and to advance the common good. Earl G. Harrison' in whose memory the Firm gives this Award' was both a great lawyer and a remarkable humanitarian, who – after World War II – worked to convince the western nations to both open their own borders to those displaced persons liberated from the Nazi concentration camps' and to support the creation of the State of Israel' where Jews who could not face returning to their former homes could emigrate.
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Home / Uncategorized / The Age of New Media: The Role of Al-Jazeera Satellite TV in Developing Aspects of Civil Society in Qatar
The Age of New Media: The Role of Al-Jazeera Satellite TV in Developing Aspects of Civil Society in Qatar
By Ali Al-Hail February 1, 2000
In 1995 censorship of the domestic press in Qatar was formally lifted. Since then, the press has been essentially free. Liberating the press from governmental interference, and permitting freedom of speech and public opinion through the media, especially radio and TV, have paved the road for a healthy civil society. Most notable of all was the unprecedented political initiative of founding the most popular Arabic language news and informational satellite channel al-Jazeera which went on air in 1997. It is the only independent satellite television news of its kind in the Arab world. Further, to ensure more free flow of information, the government dissolved the Ministry of Information and Culture in 1996. Thus with the rise of all these innovative developments the government manifested the fact that media are no longer confined to bureaucratic circles. Accordingly, a cable vision service was introduced for the purpose of providing people with more sources of information in a secured civil society in which people are entitled to have open access to information. This service has been divided into basic service and optional service. Ninety-three percent of Qatari people are subscribers to the basic service, and 74% subscribe to the optional service. Foreign subscribers to the basic service have reached up to 63%, while 45% are subscribers to the optional service (Al-Hail, Gulf Times, 29-30, 1997). This trend, though, has been criticized, because it reinforces the power of the government to censor through its gatekeeper which is QTEL. It has also been seen as contrary to the government's visible agenda of openness.
In 1996 Qatar entered the era of the Internet. At the time of writing there are 100,000 subscribers to Internet service. This figure includes Qatari individuals, foreign individuals, governmental subscription, private sector subscription and foreign embassies' subscription. Interestingly enough, females outnumber males in access to the Internet by nearly 2 to 1 (Al-Hail, Al-Quds al-Arabi, July 11, 1997). It is perhaps due in part to the popularity and dramatic spread of this service, especially among individuals, that the government decided in 1995 to lift censorship of the Qatari media. This action is based mainly on the premise that media are everywhere in our society. No longer constrained by geographical boundaries, technological limitations or the scarcity of radio frequencies, the new delivery systems of satellite, cable and video allow the universal, and virtually instantaneous, distribution of television and film productions. The only potential barriers left are those of state regulation, and even then it is unclear how they are going to stop (should they wish to) the bombardment from above (satellites) or from below (video piracy and smuggling). According to the author's research in 1995 there were 700 television sets for every 1000 people in the state of Qatar. Presumably, the number of TV sets has increased over the past several years for factors related to, mainly, development of media transmission and technology (Al-Hail, 1995).
These media developments were, on one hand, responding to the global revolution of information and media through microwave technology, while on the other gratifying people's needs for information. A civil society can not survive without knowledge and information, for which the media are the vehicles. Probably it was partly with this philosophy that the government of Qatar established the new channel al-Jazeera.
Aspects of the Role of New Media: A General Perspective
In this high-tech era of satellite television and Internet nearly every child and adult in Qatar has access to satellite television (and Internet, to an extent), plus other forms of media. But it is believed that some of the channels available, especially commercial types, are diverting the consciousness of their viewers from the real challenges of modern life to what can only be described as immoral trash (cf. Aseery, 1992: 43; Al-Hail, Gulf Times, 1997). By the same argument, the American President Bill Clinton has recently urged teachers throughout the United States to raise their students' awareness to avoid "unuseful" materials from the media.
Why the Need for Al-Jazeera?
In view of this, a question arises: what is the supposed role of the governmental official media in the Qatari society which is, of course different from al-Jazeera? Before addressing this question, it has to be made clear at the outset that, the implications of the answer to this critical question had shown the need for al-Jazeera, as a new "unofficial" style of televized media. Almost without exception, most Gulfian (my own term) countries place a special emphasis on the role of media in manifesting Islamic values and beliefs.
This role is consistently maintained when planning for programs in terms of content and most importantly in terms of schedules. The reason for this scheduling is that, regardless what is viewed on TV or transmitted on radio, playing the call to prayer and pausing five times a day every day for up to ten minutes characterizes Islamic TV and radio. Additionally, transmitting other Islamic worshipping activities such as Friday's speech and prayer, Ramadan's daily night prayer for the whole holy month of Ramadan and the annual hajj (pilgrimage) activities from Mecca are completely taken for granted as far as Islamic media are concerned. In societies such as Gulf states up to 40% - 50% (up to 60% in the case of Saudi Arabia) of daily TV programs are Islamically oriented. The percentage increases during the holy month of Ramadan, as the media in Islamic societies dedicates itself completely to Islamic programs. This includes live transmission of daily night prayer live from Mecca, which lasts up to one hour every night. The total air time filled with religious programming reaches an average of 80%.
The role of media in these societies is assumed to reflect peoples' interest in Islam and their needs for such programs, on one hand, while on the other it attempts to divert people from the external satellite channels which are perceived to feed very different ideas into the minds of the television audience in this part of the world. These programs are so widespread and so popular that they are assumed by the local programmers to carry out a "holocaust" against people's minds, young people in particular.
If one applies Herzog's theory of the 1940s and 1950s about the uses and gratifications of Western audiences in their perception of the media's output, one could say that the Islamic media "use" this particular role based on "satisfying the needs and gratifications" of the people in Herzog's terms. Herzog criticized those theories which implied that an audience is passive. She based her theory on the belief that an audience is selective and actively chooses those aspects of the media which might satisfy their needs. As a reference, research of university students in the Gulf states regarding the role of media, especially TV, concluded that for young women watch soap operas as relief from cultural crises arising from the difference between their own culture and other open societies. As for the young men, the culture leads them to feel loneliness and they find watching television alleviates this feeling of loneliness (Basher, 1984). This research started in 1984 and was updated until 1997. This indicates that the culture is not subject to a time factor. Therefore, the role of media serves their purposes in this respect. Interestingly, one western researcher (Howitt 1982) believes that western media help people "alleviate suffering" (p. 4). He refers to media entertainment which enables people to "drug" their stress. People in Islamic countries seek refuge in Islamic programs to eradicate their suffering from the hot climate and other types of strain. It is clear that the purpose is the same whereas the means are different.
However, the findings of my observation research are that Islamic programs, both those made for children and those for adults, are observed to be dull and uninteresting, and underestimate people's intellect and tend to inhibit their capacity for imagination. Besides, these programs are broadcast like Friday mosque sessions. The result of my observational research matches with the research work conducted on the university students. There is much interest in the religion of Islam, based on the moderate nature and flexible way of life of Islamic beliefs properly understood. Programs could be made entertaining, and it is up to the media in Islamic countries to educate people to realize that the images they see on television are not always correct. Many people blame the West for stereotyping Islam, but the biggest offenders are the Islamic channels. For instance, the media play a negative role regarding the importance of women in Islamic societies. This is against the view of Islam about women, because in the early days of Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him) women were held in the highest respect. The prophet's wife Khadija was one of his staunchest allies, was involved in his everyday life, and stood by him until she passed away. If this is recognized in the origins of Islam, why then do media in Islamic countries underestimate the importance of women in relation to religious and life affairs?
The media in Islamic countries also alienates well-educated viewers, since the majority of programs are either Islamically oriented or sports, soccer in particular, while other types of programs are neglected. One reason for this could be the assumption that the well-educated viewers are more independent concerning their sources for information and entertainment. This diagnosis of the official media introduced an urgency for an independent satellite TV channel that would reflect the needs of all sections within the society.
The Emergence of Al-Jazeera
In spite of the political and cultural controversy that has surrounded al-Jazeera since its emergence in 1997, it has to be said that al-Jazeera shifted the visual media in the Arab world into a new era. Although some Arab states and a number of Arab journalists questioned its role and "presumed hidden agenda" in serving communicational purposes of "American globalization," its popularity among Arabs both in the Arab world and elsewhere appears to be increasing. It is claimed that 70% of Arabs with satellite TV rely on Al-Jazeera for news, documentaries and politically related programs (interview with al-Jazeera's general manager, 1999). The interpretation for this point could be that while Al-Jazeera's popularity reflects the thirst of Arabs for impartial information from which they are deprived through their regimes' media, and also reflects the eagerness of Arabs to eradicate traditional forms of censored media output, an eagerness which is tremendously civilized and highly human.
The Role of Al-Jazeera in Developing a Civil Society in Qatar
Although al-Jazeera focuses on major Qatari issues from an official view and tends to neglect other Qatari domestic issues of significant importance to the ordinary Qatari citizen, it has influenced certain sectors of the society--through its revolutionary challenge to some taboo subjects--into founding aspects of civic activity, that in turn may lead to civil society in Qatar.
This is exemplified by the turnout of Qatari women at the 1998 municipal election and the decision by some leading Qatari women to run for office. According to the Minister of Foreign Office, 47% of Qatari women voted in recent elections (Al-Sharq newspaper, 12/29/1998). He described this event as an indicator of rising feminist consciousness.
The analysis for this is that the fundamental precondition for the success of a creative work is the degree of freedom it has in its possession. This notion of relatively free media behind al-Jazeera enables certain programs to perform to a greater degree as the "mirror" of society. An example is the role of al-Jazeera in addressing questions about secularism and Islam, an issue which so many Arab media avoid because of the damage it would cause to traditional notions of reputation and pride. However, certain Arab and domestic writers disagree with some of what is presented by al-Jazeera. Al-Jazeera can play, under some circumstances, the role of "distorting mirrors"; the news can be selective, subjective and it focuses on some issues and neglect others.
This could be analyzed on one hand, within the nature of human being as never satisfied. If an individual lives in another country his view will probably be different, as human beings take what they always have for granted. On the other hand it may well be analyzed within the freedom of speech and the right to criticize, of which many nations in the Arab world are deprived. From the perspective of a comparative observation, the role of al-Jazeera in education, information and entertainment could well be seen as impartial realistic and informative rather than being manipulative, as is the case to varying degrees in other Arabic media.
As an example, al-Jazeera reported the banning of two Muslim girls from a school in France for wearing the veil from the perspective that the ban contradicts basic human rights which a reasonable society holds extremely high. Another example is related to the media's role of entertainment. Al-Jazeera does not seem to--with limited exceptions--focus on the notion of entertainment for its own sake, simply because it is a total waste of time providing the limited life people have. For example, the very popular program "Clothes Show" reinforces what people already know about fabrics and design; it makes people react with it and learn from it. It is very socially educating to a certain segment of audience. This concern of the role of media about educating and informing the public owes its roots to the rise of American styled TV in Dahran, in the eastern province in Saudi Arabia, in the early 1960s. Historically, the media was accused of creating "moral panic" in Qatar. Therefore, educators and others urgently called on the government to protect Islamic educational values, wanting Qatari children and youth to learn at school the negative side of the entertainment industry of Hollywood, which can be contrary to the Islamic beliefs. This understanding could be interpreted within the commercialization which characterizes the most popular American media. This orientation has also been imitated by al-Jazeera, which goes against a large section of Qatari society.
Recommendations for further research and policy development
Great stress must be placed on carrying out further research into comparative cultural areas of study between Islamic culture and Western culture. Although there are many forms of material cooperation between Islamic and Western countries, there are too few cultural attempts on both sides to understand each other's culture, an issue which has often been subjected to emotions and moral judgement.
Gulf countries' media should carry out frequent audience research to make sure that its programs meet the needs of all sections of society. This procedure would contribute to minimizing the phenomenon of alienation certain groups, such as the well educated and women, face.
Islamically oriented programs should be produced and presented on TV according to modern techniques of television. Cartoons and other programs children enjoy should be used in teaching them about Islam in its context to the living world.
Islamic media should promote the role of women in Islamic oriented programs as well as other types of programs. The media should also stop portraying women as merely domesticated and highlight their image as a well educated sector of the society, working as civil servants, and so on.
Further research by PhD students from Islamic countries studying at Western universities should include conducting cultural comparative research between their countries and the West by the use of qualitative methodologies, especially the method of interviewing. This strategy of research is more appropriate in social sciences for obtaining first-hand knowledge in the area under examination. From experience, this approach helps to narrow the cultural gap between the Muslim researcher and his/her interviewees and vice versa.
As one area of comparative cultural research, further research is needed into the role of mass media, rather than giving in to rhetoric and assertion without providing evidence into their claimed effects.
The media's institutions in Gulf states should adopt practical methods to content-analyse exported media's products, not for the sake of protection as much as for the sake of being aware of the contents of these products. They should subsidise, support and sponsor the ideas of Gulfian actors and actresses to produce indigenous productions of media that reflect the Gulfian, Islamic and Arabic culture and make these forms of production exportable to the West.
The educational authorities and the mass media agencies in Gulf states need to accept the urgency of introducing media studies into schools. Media institutions should also support attempts to introduce media education into schools as a means of enabling people of the Gulf from early age to become critical producers of their own media texts.
These suggestions could be carried out through subsidy of production, subsidy of distribution and subsidy of training. The media institutions should carry out frequent audience research to keep in touch with their audiences' response to what they do.
Educational organizations may pave the way for such a program of teaching media education and media studies by publishing teaching materials which could be stimulating to teachers of these subjects. These materials should be made pertinent to their concerns and ideas that they may want to teach about, as well as providing them with something new and up-to-date. These materials should be about ways of studying images, or studying television programs, or studying the aesthetic values of the cinema. Such publications could be potentially useful in establishing a starting basis. It could assist with creating an enthusiasm and an interest among teachers.
The Gulfian educational policy makers should realize that the principles of media education are similar to those grounded in the Holy Quran--namely, the urgency to motivate people to become conscientious and critical of what they watch, read and listen to. Hence, they should consider introducing media education into schools.
Further research is needed in relation to narrowing the gender inequalities in both Islamic and Western cultures because of cultural misunderstanding and stereotyping on both sides. Therefore, further research is required into the capability of media studies to further this goal.
The policy makers in the Gulf should acknowledge the fact that only through education can they enable people to grasp a conscientious awareness of the mechanisms and technology by which media's discourses are produced. Regardless of the high cost which training teachers of media studies could entail, the Gulfian policy makers should consider the long-term outcomes of such an investment.
One could say that Al-Jazeera has clearly contributed to civil society in Qatar in the sphere of raising women's awareness of their role within the society. This has been manifested in the Qatari women's participation in the 1998 municipal election. Al-Jazeera has also boosted the demands of the domestic press for more freedom of expression. Needless to say it was al-Jazeera which gave justification for the lifting of censorship from the press. Finally, al-Jazeera has had its main social impact by making Arabs talk about it and by creating moral panics about its observed effects.
About Ali Al-Hail
Ali Al-Hail has taught Mass Communications at Qatar University and elsewhere in the United States, Europe, and the Arab World. He is a consultant to Qatar Radio & TV Corporation.


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Wednesday night was a wild night in college basketball as No. 4 UConn lost at Providence, No. 12 Miami dropped a game to Georgia Tech, No. 16 Duke smoked by NC State, and No. 22 Georgia battered Auburn and No. 17 University. California. He won on a last-second shot against No. 19 Baylor.
The drama continues on Thursday, with the first place Bordeaux Trying to bounce back from a loss RutgersAnd the Iowa is looking for a win And take the competition in Los Angeles Center stage in the Pac-12.
But in this piece, it doesn't matter what the game is or how overrated a particular match is. We are only looking for the value of the bet.
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The team logos in the table below represent each of the games the college basketball team is targeting on Thursday's slate of games. Click on the team logos for a match below to go to a specific bet discussed in this article.
Maine vs Umas Lowell
by Tanner McGrath
Bryant-Vermont is the biggest game on the America East roster tonight. However, I am more intrigued by this who–UMass Lowell Matching up, in part because these two teams are heading higher, and in part because it's going to be a much closer game than the streak would suggest.
I'm higher at UMass Lowell than anyone on the planet. my biggest Pre-season college hoops the River Hawks were to win the AmEast At 10 to 1. I like Max Brooks, Abdelkarim Coulibaly and Andy Hakim.
However, River Hawks is extremely overrated at the moment. They're 13-2 — with a quality cap against Rutgers and a win over UMass — but they've played the toughest 360 on the schedule.
In fact, ShotQuality ranks the River Hawks as the luckiest team in the country, with a record of just 7-6 by ShotQuality. Negative regression looms.
Or it might already be here. The River Hawks have failed to cover in three of their four games since the UMass win, barely snuck up by the St. Louis Cardinals. Francis Brooklyn and NJIT while losing a match in Rhode Island.
Meanwhile, the Black Bears are set to have a positive run and a big rebounding game. They've lost three straight and four of their last five, but the streak consisted of one-point losses against Harvard and Marist, along with tough games in Akron and Ohio State.
The slope factor, and the spread should not be double digits.
UMass Lowell has a solid frontcourt, but its backcourt is exploitable. The Black Bear backcourt of Kellen Tynes and Jaden Clayton is the most dynamic Orono has seen in years – Tynes is currently fourth in the KenPom conference MVP rankings.
Defensively, Maine has been very active in forcing turnovers, ranking 12th in steal rate. Meanwhile, MALO's exploitable backcourt is just under 340 in offensive turnover and 359 in offensive steal rate.
The black bears should be able to force a few shifts and pick up some easy hauling buckets. In addition, it is impossible to determine the prowess of Gedi Juozapait in making shots.
Chris Markwood has proven he can coach his team in the big moments, and this game is a monster throwback moment for Maine.
Look for the Black Bears to take the Hawkes River to the wire Thursday night.
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Maryland vs. Rutgers
by Shane McNicol
I'd like the Scarlet Knights' chances against the Terps on a neutral field, but I'm totally jumping on this one because the game is being played at RAC (since I happily ignore the corporate sponsorship that was imposed on this building, which will always be RAC to me).
Since Steve Bickel took over at Rutgers, his teams have defended their home court in one of the best sections in the country. Rutgers is 48-29-3 at the RAC during Pickell's six-plus seasons at the helm.
Meanwhile, these Terps were far from being road tested. Maryland He has only played three real road matches so far. Those games included a win over a feared Louisville team, as well as two very poor performances in losses.
Maryland scored just 0.89 points per possession against Wisconsin, thanks to a slow start.
The Terps started slower against Michigan, scoring only 13 points in the first half. The Terps totaled just 46 points—at 0.61 points per possession—in that game without a single player reaching double figures.
Give me the best team with the best coach at home.
by DJ James
Rutgers just passed perhaps its biggest test on the road in the Big Ten against Purdue. The Scarlet Knights will now host Maryland on Thursday night in another Big Ten battle.
The Crimson Knights thrive on the defensive end. They rank third in KenPom's Modified Defensive Efficiency rating while forcing opponents to use up to 17.9 seconds per possession on average. This is the slowest . 281 average in collegiate hoops.
They guard the arc well, holding the opposition by 25%. Even indoors, they hold their opponents by 44.5%.
They have a tendency to miss – they rank 110th in free-throw attempt percentage on defense – but that comes with the zone of defense-minded teams.
Meanwhile, Maryland is also a better team defensively than offensively. The Terps ranks 32nd in modified defensive efficiency. They also guard the arc well, holding teams to 28.2% from depth and 44.9% from inside with two runs.
She also ranks relatively low in free throw attempt percentage on defense (125th).
The Terps put opponents down with an even slower defensive pace of 18.3 seconds per possession, which ranks 336th in the NCAA. Rutgers mostly gets its points on two-pointers, so with how well Maryland can protect the inside, the Scarlet Knights won't find many open looks.
The only problem here is the Rutgers fouling, but it may have a slight advantage in this area since it's home.
Charlotte vs. FIU
by Brett Bond
If I could get a chance to vanish Financial Intelligence Unit With less than 10 points against strong teams, it's hard for me to pass, which is why I'm in favor Charlotte at -7.5 or better Thursday night.
The 49ers have already shown they can pull off solid wins away from home, winning at Davidson and taking down Boise State at the Myrtle Beach Invitational.
Meanwhile, the Panthers are 6-2 at the Oceanside Conference Center, but that's most likely due to a very poor schedule. They have defeated Florida National, Houston Christian, Stony Brook, Eastern Washington, Incornate World and Florida College.
Even with the weak opposition, FIU still allowed 72.25 points per home game this season. A Charlotte squad that is in the top 40 in EFG% (17), 2-point shooting (35) and 3-point shooting (23) — according to Bart Torvik — would love its chances of going above that.
This could be a great place for the 49ers to hover over anything that's around 70, but they're playing too slowly to be confident.
FIU lost by 15 to North Texas and 26 to Florida Atlantic, and I think this could be another double-digit loss for Charlotte.
Purdue vs. Ohio State
by Mike McNamara
1 ranked Purdue who lost for the first time earlier this week to Rutgers, I think the boilers will run low again Thursday night in Columbus.
The Buckeyes play as cool as any team in the Big Ten, with a great mix of veterans and talented freshmen.
Chris Holtmann's team was killer, scoring second in the AdjO rankings to Ken Boom.
Brice Sensabaugh should be able to attack Purdue guards and make plays in the paint, and Sean McNeil could have a big night against a Purdue team that was allowing some open looks from a distance.
Zach Edey is sure to get inside for the Boilermakers, but look for Holtmann to curb Purdue guards and try to eliminate any clean-surface appearance.
I expect Ohio State To be able to limit the number of second chance chances Purdue gets, with guys like Zed Key and Justice Sueing doing their part to keep Edey and Mason Gillis out of the cup.
The Buckeyes offense would continue to hum, allowing OSU to outpace Purdue in what should be fun at the Schottenstein Center.
Cal State Fullerton vs UC Riverside
by Cooper van Tatenhove
Cal State Fullerton He hasn't recorded a win against a team inside the top 230 since its November 13 double-overtime victory over Vermont.
Fullerton's only three wins in the month of December came against unranked San Diego Christian, No. 227 Sacramento State and No. 316 Cal St. Northridge.
To make matters worse, Fullerton has suffered losses to Utah Tech, North Dakota, Seattle and Southern Utah, who all sit outside the top 150.
Fullerton is now traveling for an assignment University of California Riverside A team with a lot of height and experience. Riverside has a 9-5 record this season behind an offense and a defense that ranks 170th best in modified efficiency.
Plus, her schedule is a full 98 points higher than Fullerton this season. Three of Riverside's five losses have come to teams ranked in the top 65 nationally.
Fullerton's struggles can be linked to the defensive end, as he ranks outside the top 300 in effective field goal percentage, two-point percentage and free throw percentage.
This struggling offense will now face a Riverside defense that ranks 45th nationally in middle age (6-foot-6) and 95th in DI tryout (2.32 yd).
This length will be decisive in the match between Fullerton's keeper Jalen Harris and Riverside's Zion Poulin. Both ballplayers are important to every team's offensive success, but I expect Pauline to have the edge.
Bolen has three inches on Harris and is a master at getting to the free throw line, hitting 5.4 errors per game.
Harris, meanwhile, has struggled with turnovers this season, giving the ball 13.8% of Fullerton's offensive possessions.
Overall, I'm happy to invest in a Riverside team that has the size, experience and home compatibility advantage.
Washington vs. Arizona
by Patrick Strollo
the Arizona Wildcats (13-1, 2-1) will host Washington Huskies (9-6, 1-3) out in the desert as we enjoy some Pac-12 games after dark in the middle of the week.
Arizona's offense is the best in the nation, with a consensus No. 1 ranking in AdjO by both KenPom and Bart Torvik. As one of the fastest-growing offenses in the country, the Wildcats translate a flurry of offensive action and sharp shooting into a sustained offensive attack.
Young striker Azulas Toplis is the leader of the attack. He leads the Pac-12 in scoring, with 20.1 points on an impressive 60.5% shooting percentage. He also ranks second in rebounds, at 8.7 per game.
Tubelis was just named to the Wooden Award Midseason Watchlist, which identifies the top 25 college basketball players in the country.
In addition to Tubelis, Wildcats get a great deal of productivity from big guy Oumar Ballo. In 14 starts this season, Ballo averaged 17.4 points, 9.3 rebounds and 1.6 blocks per game.
The frontcourt combination of Tubelis and Ballo – along with the vibrant backcourt combination – will cause outbursts for the Huskies defense.
Arizona will face a Washington defense that ranks 108th in AdjD (per Bart Torvik) and gives up 98.3 points per 100 possessions.
What is of particular concern to the Huskies is the relative weakness of offense they have faced this season. Washington has faced teams with an average AdjO rating of 176 nationally, which makes tonight's game against the Arizona Electric Attack a tough one.
On offense, things get even worse for the Huskies, as they are ranked in the lowest nationally at 50% in offensive efficiency. They struggled beyond the arc, making just 30.3% of their field goal attempts.
Washington doesn't have the offensive firepower to make up for the frontcourt productivity of Tubelis and Ballo.
The chalk is pretty low in Tucson, where I expect Arizona to be a 21.5-point favorite.
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University of Baltimore School of Law's Sixth Annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference
Posted on February 18, 2013 by lgoodmark
The sixth annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference will be hosted by the University of Baltimore School of Law on Thursday and Friday, March 7-8, at the school. Featuring a series of workshops and a keynote address, this year's conference will focus on "Applied Feminism and Families." Both family law specialists and experts from other areas of the law will present papers, join in discussions, and consider a host of questions related to the important issue of applied feminism's impact on families in the United States and in other countries. The event is free and open to the public; attendance details are listed below.
Papers presented during the conference are expected to address questions such as:
What have been the accomplishments or shortcomings of feminist legal theory for families?
How might feminist legal theory respond to the challenges facing families?
What sort of support should society and law provide to families?
Does feminist legal theory support state interventions into family life? In what circumstances?
How do law and feminist legal theory conceptualize the roles of family members, including mothers, fathers, caretakers, children, and others?
How does feminist legal theory help us understand changes in the institution of marriage and family structure?
How do the needs of families vary across cultural, economic, religious, and other differences?
Are theories of essentialism and intersectionality necessary or helpful in shaping laws that impact families?
In what areas outside of family law could or should feminist legal theory be applied to assist families?
This year's conference will attempt to address these and other questions from the perspectives of activists, practitioners and scholars. The conference will provide an opportunity for participants and audience members to exchange ideas about the current state of feminist legal theories. Conference organizers say they hope to deepen the understanding of how feminist legal theory relates to families and to move new insights into practice. In addition, the conference is designed to provide presenters with the opportunity to gain feedback on their papers.
U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota will serve as the event's keynote speaker. The first woman elected to represent the State of Minnesota in the Senate in 2006 and a strong advocate for middle-class families on a range of critical issues including economic growth, job creation and fiscal responsibility and accountability in government, Klobuchar will speak on Friday, March 8 beginning at 2 p.m. in the Venable Baetjer Howard Moot Court Room in the School of Law.
There is no charge to attend the conference, but pre-registration is requested as seating is limited. RSVP at law.ubalt.edu.


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«Ігдрасіль» — науково-фантастичний роман, написаний чилійцем Хорхе Барадітом і вперше опублікований у серпні 2005 року видавництвом Ediciones B в Чилі. У 2006 році книга отримала першу премію UPC за короткий науково-фантастичний роман, яку щороку присуджує громадська рада Політехнічного університету Каталонії.

Історія
У невизначену дату в майбутньому технологія вийшла за межі, можливо, розумного, релігія, наука, міфологія, магія, політика, мистецтво, психологія і навіть наркоманія втратили межі, які визначали їх як індивідуальні дії та дисципліни; до суспільства, де спокій у загробному житті більше не поважається або цінність душі перевищує цінність, якою вона може бути оцінена або якою вона володіє як інструментом; де будівлі є біологічними об'єктами або комп'ютер використовує дошку віджа як клавіатуру для доступу до духовного рівня, як якщо б це був Інтернет.

У цьому контексті мексиканські військові знайшли людину, яку використовували як об'єкт експерименту в пустелі, поза жахливим станом, у якому залишили її тіло, її душа стала жертвою експериментів, і тепер у ній існує лише частина, а решта в кактусі, камені та щурі. Сам факт того, що така істота знаходиться на цьому рівні, спричинив вплив на всі чутливі істоти на кілометри навколо, реальність і особливо психіку.

Мексиканські військові, які бажають отримати цю невідому технологію, викрадають дрібну залежну вбивцю на ім'я Маріана, змушуючи її виконати місію проникнення та крадіжки інформації, у якій її використовують як приманку та залишають на вірну смерть. Але, на подив усіх учасників, її рятує майже всемогутня сутність на ім'я Рече, яка посилає її на місію розгадати таємницю того, що руйнує реальність у цьому секторі Всесвіту.

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 Маріана: тридцятишестирічна чилійська наркоманка, наймана вбивця, яка живе в Мехіко. Вона суча дочка, яку мексиканська армія очищає від залежності, щоб виконати шпигунську місію в біологічних будівлях Банку Мексики. Звідти почнеться подорож, у якій йїй му доведеться наражати себе на небезпеку незліченну кількість випадків, як у реальному світі, так і в Інтернеті чи у світі духів. У супроводі Гюнтера та Реке їй доведеться зіткнутися з тисячами небезпек, у яких усі сторони захищають її, поки вони полюють на неї, і в грі, де все має приховане значення, набагато більше, ніж будь-хто з учасників може собі уявити.

 Гюнтер — молодий німецький солдат, загиблий у Другій світовій війні; за життя був вісімнадцятирічним юнаком, відповідальним за радіозв'язок свого взводу, загинув на полі бою з встромленим в око багнетом, ставши жертвою ворожої засідки; травма була настільки сильною, що не дозволила йому вийти за межі життя і він залишився в підвішеному стані. Там з ним зв'язалися мексиканці, яким він служить в обмін на відчуття, які він може повторно відчути, перебуваючи всередині людей, з якими він співпрацює. За дорученням військових він супроводжує Маріану в її місії, слугуючи лінією зв'язку та інтерфейсом для завантаження даних між нею та урядом через дошки віджa, яку використовують оператори. Він відчуває велику вдячність за чилійця, якого боїться розчарувати і хоче допомогти чим може.

 Рече: це селкнам, невідомого походження та не пов'язаний з корінною расою південного Чилі. Найкраще, чого він досяг як визначення самого себе, це те, що він є чимось на кшталт імунної системи космосу, яка з'являється, коли відбувається якась подія, яка компрометує або загрожує реальності. Його мета — виправити ці випадки та запобігти завданню шкоди Яхве, вмираючому богу, який підтримується в стані, схожому на кому, завдяки тому факту, що всесвіт є його штучною опорою для життя, а душі, які виходять із цього рівня, виконують таку ж функцію, як поживні речовини та кисень, утримуючи його в стані, що було б еквівалентно термінальній комі. Коли Маріану захоплюють і катують Perfectos, саме він рятує її і буквально перебудовує, щоб допомогти їй в її місії; оскільки вона включена в події і корисна для нього, але це не означає, що він має до неї якісь почуття, оскільки, якщо цього вимагає стабільність космосу, він без вагань вб'є її чи весь людський рід. Він є істотою з практично необмеженою владою, простір і час є елементами, які не мають влади над ним, і він може маніпулювати ними за бажанням, незважаючи на це, він визнає, що існує закономірність і що навіть зміни в часі та просторі, які вона викликає, вже є у цьому виді вищого сценарію.

 Тангата Ману: Шаман, який тримається на геостаціонарній орбіті на 500 км над пустелею Атакама, дивлячись на себе в кругле обсидіанове дзеркало 1 дм діаметром, розміщений у центрі великої мідної руни, вирізьбленої вручну біля солончаку Пунта-Негра, у цьому місці вона існує у своєму власному просторі, що міститься в порожнечі космосу.

 Його походження та мотиви все ще невідомі Селкману, але його функція полягає в тому, щоб керувати порядком по цей бік Всесвіту, його стан медитації привів його до рівня великої влади та розуміння, перебуваючи поруч, він випромінює велич і повагу, але Як і всі інші, він має власні цілі, допомагаючи Маріані та Рече.

 Імбунче: збочений лідер секти, що складається з працівників сектору профспілки Chrysler № 14, незалежно від своєї материнської компанії, перетворив об'єкти свого сектору на незалежну націю. Захоплюється екстремальним пірсингом, жорстоким і кривавим сексом, він володіє садистською і деструктивною жилкою, він насолоджується стражданнями інших, особливо своїх близьких співробітників. Для своїх послідовників він є пророком, який поведе їх на небо. Для ради директорів це один із багатьох внутрішніх недоброзичливців, хоча, на відміну від тих, які Chrysler мав у минулому, це не монтаж, створений ними, тому до нього ставляться з деякою обережністю. У молодості він був єдиним, хто вижив із групи, яка виступала проти Директорії; На основі цього випадку він створив релігію, яку сповідують у Секції 14, змінивши факти, щоб надати їй містичного відтінку, в якому народжуються євангелія, за які їхні парафіяни гинуть або вбивають. Вся правда про цю людину полягає в тому, що він не що інше, як досвідчений політик, готовий зробити все можливе для досягнення своїх владних цілей. Гюнтер при зустрічі з ним описав його як душу без попередніх життів, народжену на самих берегах чистого хаосу.

 Рамірес: відповідальний за розслідування в результаті відкриття, зробленого в пустелі, він є військовою людиною старого зразка, він віддає перевагу звичайним і прямим заходам, а не політичним стратегіям, які є в стилі. Він вимагає великої точності та ефективності від інших і від себе, оскільки перебуває під постійним тиском через те, що він є реінкарнацією жінки, яка кричала, вимагаючи розп'яття Ісуса, що може змусити церкву вимагати його вигнання з армії, а також має Це призвело до того, що його виключили з армії, що означає, що він змушений залишатися в прихильності багатьох своїх начальників, або, за його словами, «довго лизати дупу», щоб просто залишатися там, де він є. Він бачить в успіху цієї місії певну безпеку для свого майбутнього, тому він використовуватиме наявні в його розпорядженні засоби для досягнення успіху, незважаючи на це, він не вірить у Ла Чилену, оскільки він не військовий, а докази показали йому, що це найкращий варіант.

 Матіас Родрігес: провидець, освячений техніками проекту Ігдрасіль. Цей медіум пережив би психотичний пасаж, де він міг би побачити характеристики Долини Тіней, астрального простору, де живуть безтілесні привиди, і Тунелю Душ, системи труб, якими душі циркулюють у своєму транзиті до легенів Єгова (світло в кінці тунелю). Спостереження цього провидця послужили для визначення мети Los Perfectos і дали початковий поштовх до пошуку математичних зв'язків у паранормальних явищах (основа астральної інженерії). Після смерті його останки були розкидані в релікваріях різними частинами механізму, розробленого змовниками. Частина третьої півкулі головного мозку, розроблена Родрігесом, використовується як рудиментарний модем даних у старих процесорах Ygdrasil. Тонкі листи енцефалічної маси вводяться в трубки та прищеплюються під череп поліції Карми (поліція Карми), щоб створити мережу передачі даних, здатну координувати їх у їхніх поліцейських операціях, де вони борються одночасно в кількох площинах реальності.

 Los Perfectos: більше, ніж група осіб, це колективний персонаж, присутній у роботах Барадіта. Дуже таємничою та потужною є група, відома як Los Perfectos або Los Danzarines, яка так чи інакше була присутня протягом всієї історії людства, втручаючись і маніпулюючи нею відповідно до своїх бажань і потреб, які є дуже темними. Кажуть, що вони безсмертні або що вони не існують повністю в цій реальності, також що вони володіють здібностями та знаннями, яких інші люди не в змозі досягти; про них відомо те, що вони контролюють і володіють великими організаціями та ресурсами, які вони використовують для своїх цілей, водночас отримуючи економічний і політичний контроль. Вони дуже жорстокі і кровожерливі, насолоджуються стражданнями інших, вони практично винаходять способи тортур, граючи з особиною. Кажуть, що вони народилися, коли Ісус (який, згідно з теоріями та твердженнями деяких пророків і візіонерів, насправді був антихристом) здійснив розмноження хлібів, тим самим вводячи в нашу реальність нову матерію, створену з нічого; ті, хто його їв, уже не повною мірою керуються рівняннями нашої реальності й не підкоряються їй, тому, побачивши їх, створюється враження, що вони повинні прагнути залишатися матеріальними. Вони є справжніми власниками Chrysler і замовили експерименти, які були проведені на предметі, знайденому мексиканськими військовими; все це, щоб мати можливість закінчити Емпальме Родрігес і здійснити проект Ігдрасіль.

Впливи
Серед впливів, помічених у романі, можна виділити вплив Х. Р. Гігера, Вільяма Гібсона, чилійської та латиноамериканської міфології та їхніх відповідних етнічних груп, манги та аніме та парапсихології.

Х. Р. Гігер

Його концепції органічних конструкцій широко використовуються в житлових будинках, які є розширенням домашньої автоматизації, зосередженою більше не на комп'ютері, що контролює процеси, а на мозку, який замість розподілених електронних датчиків поширює свою нервову систему по коридорах. У цих житлових будинках навіть є видільна система, за допомогою якої Маріана проникає всередину.

Вільям Гібсон

Хоча Барадіт ніколи не читав «Нейроманта», коли писав «Іґдрасіль», потужний архетип жіночого героя з'являється в образі Маріани, хоча й не так очевидно, як у «Привиді в обладунках». Неможливо не пов'язати Моллі, сильний персонаж Нейрмант, з Маріаною, оскільки обидві жінки вирушили на небезпечну та, можливо, смертельну місію, пов'язану з використанням кіберпростору (у випадку Моллі) або астрального плану (у випадку з Мар'яною).

Крім того, обидва є найманими вбивцями, добре навченими вбивати, яких штовхають або змушують виконувати доручену їм місію.

Міфологія та етноси

Використання імен, взятих із міфології Чілот (Імбунче та Тонто), а також використання етнічних груп, що походять з Чилі, у створенні персонажів, таких як Селкнам або ім'я шамана на геостаціонарній орбіті Тангата Ману (з міфології острова Пасхи), роблять очевидним різноманіття впливів первісних культур, включених у роман.

Манга і аніме

Декілька персонажів використовують броню, що нагадує екзоскелети Robotech, вплив японської культури також видно у використанні традиційного японського короткого меча вакідзасі.

Парапсихологія

Основна частина сюжету книги спирається на душі, які викликані, ув'язнені та втиснуті в кремнієві мікросхеми. Крім того, оператори цього містичного Інтернету використовують як клавіатури ouijas для підключення.

Книга
YGDRASIL Хорхе Барадіт. 272 стор., 15х23 см ISBN 956-304-005-8 . Editorial Ediciones B — Чилі, Nova Collection. Чилі, серпень 2005 р.

У першій половині 2007 року було опубліковано «Трінідад», другу частину трилогії, в якій Ігдрасіль є першим томом, хоча він містить підсумок всього.

Трилогія, нарешті, складатиметься з трьох самодостатніх книг:

 Ігдрасіль, розв'язка історії та перша опублікована книга.

 Тринідад, друга частина повісті та друга опублікована книга.

 Ллускума, перша частина трилогії та шоста опублікована книга.

Примітки

Посилання

 Офіційний веб-сайт  2008-08-28
 Офіційний блог автора
 Тексти, написані на TauZero
 La Nación : * Мікель Барсело посилається на Хорхе Барадіта та Ігдрасіля
 Офіційна заява UPC Award Хорхе Барадіта

Фантастичні романи 2005
Фантастичні романи Чилі
Іспаномовні фантастичні романи
Науково-фантастичні романи
Сторінки з неперевіреними перекладами

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"Europe and Asia May Have to Defend Themselves"- Trump Vows 'America First' Foreign Policy
Republican White House frontrunner Donald Trump promised a top-to-bottom overhaul of US foreign policy Wednesday to put "America first" and make its allies pay up.
In a major foreign policy speech short on specifics that left Washington experts scratching their heads, Trump warned that Europe and Asia may have to defend themselves.
He vowed to tear up trade deals, retool NATO to oppose migration and "radical Islam" and put US national interests ahead of all other considerations.
"'America First' will be the major and overriding theme of my administration," Trump told supporters, co-opting the slogan of America's pre-World War II isolationists.
The speech had been billed as a chance for Trump, the runaway leader in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, to win over a skeptical foreign policy establishment.
"Our foreign policy is a complete disaster," the billionaire businessman said, dismissing the record of all presidents since the Cold War, both Republicans and Democrats.
"We're rebuilding other countries while weakening our own," he said, decrying nation-building missions in the Middle East and the US trade deficit with China.
"Our allies are not paying their fair share," he warned, pointing the finger at NATO and close Asian allies such as Japan and South Korea.
"The countries we are defending must pay for the cost of this defense. And if not, the US must be prepared to let these countries defend themselves."
– 'Not good' –
But in an apparent contradiction, the 69-year-old Trump, buoyed by his latest big win in the polls, also attacked President Barack Obama — accusing him of abandoning US allies like Israel while reaching out to Iran.
"We picked fights with our oldest friends and now they're starting to look elsewhere for help. Remember that. Not good," Trump said.
He was clear, however, on where the greatest threat to the United States lies, accusing Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton of a refusal to name it.
"Containing the spread of radical Islam must be a major foreign policy goal of the United States and, indeed, the world," he said.
David Pollock, a former senior State Department advisor and now Washington Institute fellow, told AFP: "It seemed to be a more appealing presentation of Trump's themes in a softer and smarter way, but left many questions unanswered.
"And a key test of that will be what kind of new advisors he can find who will publicly side with him and join the team."
Trump has been mocked for failing to secure big-name foreign policy endorsements and relying on a coterie of right-wing fringe figures.
But he defended his team, slamming the available talent in Washington circles as tainted by the chaos unleashed in Iraq under President George W. Bush.
"My goal is to establish a foreign policy that will endure for several generations," he said.
"That's why I also look and have to look for talented experts with approaches and practical ideas, rather than surrounding myself with those who have perfect resumes but very little to brag about except responsibility for a long history of failed policies and continued losses at war."
– Confronting allies –
But many experts noted that Trump was announced at the podium by one of Bush's closest advisors on the Middle East, former ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad.
This was seen as a sign that as Trump's nomination appears more likely, more leading Republicans would come to his side.
Tom Wright, director of The Brookings Institution's Project on International Order and Strategy, said Trump remains far from the Republican mainstream.
But the speech may provide a "comfort blanket" for non-foreign policy specialists who want to believe he can mount a credible campaign come November.
"He said he wanted to be a reliable ally, that he was focused on American interests but that America had a role to play," he said.
"But then he also said that if the allies didn't pay for a large proportion of the cost… then he would walk away."
For Wright, smoother presentation aside, nothing in Trump's address will reconcile him with the conservative foreign policy establishment.
Trump failed to mention Ukraine and suggested he could negotiate a new relationship with Russia.
He also discussed China's power as an economic challenge, not a geopolitical one.
"There'll be a lot of concern that he wants to cut a deal with our rivals," Wright noted.
Michael Pregent, former intelligence advisor to Iraq war commander general David Petraeus and a fellow of the Hudson Institute, called the speech "disjointed."
And he expressed concern over the presence of Khalilzad, recent author of an op-ed entitled "The Neoconservative Case for Negotiating with Iran.
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Gymnangium hians är en nässeldjursart som först beskrevs av Busk 1852.  Gymnangium hians ingår i släktet Gymnangium och familjen Aglaopheniidae. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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South Asia is a populous region. Many South Asian immigrants or migrant workers travel to distant places around the world in search of a better education, job or better living conditions. However they have close ties to families and friends back home and their remittances play a major role in the economy of their respective countries. In recent times due to global recession and other factors we have seen that a reverse trend is in effect.
Back in the 70s and 80s, Indians had a huge craze for anything western. Migrating to the UK, Canada or the US was the ultimate dream for many. Opportunities to migrate to the West were so earnestly sought after that divine intervention was regularly sought to facilitate this ambition.
However, in recent years, things seem to be changing. The economic growth in the west has slowed down and that has led to many immigrants re-evaluating their choice to move away from home. Over the past few years many NRIs (non resident Indians) in western countries have decided to give up their immigrant status in their adopted countries and return to India.
The population of South Asia is almost 1.5 billion. Millions of families depend on the money sent by workers to their families. So, the first fear that we may have about the coming back of migrant workers from developed countries is the possibility of social unrest in 2009 in South Asia. The economies of these countries will surely suffer a lot. If migrant workers come back in large number then this can hurt the foreign exchange reserve's health in some countries like Bangladesh. Unemployment will increase and so will poverty. There is no debate about the adverse impacts of this phenomenon.
It was a bit of a rude awakening here when Malaysia recently canceled 55,000 visas for migrant Bangladeshi laborers. The visas that were canceled had already been approved, but the workers had not yet traveled – they were scheduled to replace other workers when their jobs finished. Now the Malaysian government says that with the downturn, it needs to save more jobs for Malaysians.
Manpower is a huge export for Bangladesh – many people say it is the country's main export. The remittances that the workers send home are Bangladesh's second-largest source of foreign exchange. The money – almost $10 billion dollars a year – is crucial in supporting families back in the villages and contributes to local economic development.
The first positive thing that may happen is that many workers will come back and they will bring a lot of saved money. I mean that they will bring all their wealth and it can generate a lot of extra money in short term for all these economies. If the governments can handle this extra foreign exchange (channel in productive sectors) then it can help them to fight against the recession in a better way.
Most of these migrant workers hail from rural areas and after they come back to their own villages, some of them will surely try to start some ventures and this can contribute to the development of some villages. On the other hand, some highly educated people are coming back from Europe and North American countries and this can be a good blessing for some big cities in South Asia.
India – which has once in a century opportunity of returning migrants, must take advantage of this to become a great nation. These people, educated and entrepreneurial, can turn the economy and bring a new dynamism into it. The country, however, must facilitate this.
So in other words, Indians have come to our country (America), taken jobs from Americans, because he/she is willing to work for less. Now that the jobs that they have taken from Americans have all dried up, they are ready to go home. They now see that the low wages that they have forced upon the American workforce is not enough to live on in this nation, so instead of using their savings to help revive the American economy, they would rather go home and live where their money will go further. I don't blame them for wanting to get more for their money, but Americans must suffer for their greed.


I only got BSOD's when i'm using both of my memories, and they are the same. I tested one stick at a time, and got no BSOD.
What does the error message on the BSOD say?
Sometimes ''CRITICAL PROCESS DIED'', sometimes ''KERNEL DATA IN PAGE ERROR'', sometimes ''SYSTEM SERVICE EXCEPTION''.
What OS and version number are you using?
What BIOS version are you using on the motherboard?
What graphics driver version are you using?
What have you done to try to fix this problem?
Reinstalled OS or drivers? Updated BIOS?
This thread he started a while back will answer all your questions: BSOD issues .


Are you a Christ follower? Before you answer that question think about the words of Jesus here in Matthew 16:24. I am very concerned based on what Jesus has said for the future of many who say they are born again, who claim they love Jesus, but are you basing your love on what you say, or what Jesus said? Why is this important? Because one of the many examples in scripture is the church at Laodicea that had a totally different view of themselves then what Jesus did. In fact they are completely opposite views. Without going into a lot of details which you can read about them in Revelation chapter 3, Jesus said when He returned that He would vomit them out of His mouth. These are believers He is speaking to.
What does it take to be lukewarm? Simple, do little to nothing for the kingdom of God. If you take a hot cup of coffee, set it down and do nothing with it, it will turn lukewarm. It is amazing to me how many believers who say they know Jesus don't really follow Him according to His own words. What was the purpose of giving your life to Him if not to follow Him? Jesus said if you want to be His follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross, and follow Him. To give up your own way means to stop living life for you, the way you think you should live, and instead follow His example. Jesus went to church. That's right, and even with people that wanted Him dead. Many believers are not consistent at all in going to church. It is not about attending a service, but being equipped for the work of ministry. Learning how to give up your ways for His. Yet many have no problem living out their lives committed to other activities, but church is not one of them.
Jesus walked in love, Jesus did only what He saw the Father doing, Jesus said only what the Father wanted Him to say, and to summarize His life He was focused on using His gifts and abilities to build God's kingdom. Jesus said we are to seek first the kingdom of God, that would mean we take up our cross, giving our lives as a living sacrifice to build God's kingdom. How much of your time, money, and giftings are used to help build God's kingdom? If we truly are "Christ Followers", then we are taking the new life He gave us and using it to bring glory to God. Sad to say not everyone who just prayed a prayer and attends church now and then and gives occasionally to God's work will hear, "Well done good and faithful servant". If you are not giving up your way to follow Christ's example, why then did you call upon Him to be the Lord of your life? To live a life that really will mean something in the end, you must choose to "Follow Him".
Sanctification is what God did to separate us unto Him. Our spirit man within was sanctified (separated) from sin because we were given a new spirit. The old sinful spirit is gone. Consecration is our response to sanctification. Because of God's work of sanctification (giving us a new spirit man within) we now consecrate ourselves (dealing with outward actions), separating ourselves unto God to have fellowship with Him in the beauty of holiness.
Without consecration you cannot have intimate fellowship with God. God loves everyone the same, but He does not fellowship with everyone the same as 1 Peter 1:15-16 tells us, that as God who called us is holy, we too should be holy in all our conduct. Consecration is what holiness is all about, for to be holy means you now set yourself apart from the world unto God.
If we do not consecrate ourselves from sin we will harden our heart toward God. God is a Spirit and He bears witness with our spirit. If we don't consecrate ourselves from sin we sear our conscience (the voice of our spirit man), and that will hinder our ability to hear from God and to therefore be led by Him. So live a consecrated life in gratitude of the sanctified work of Christ and you can develop an intimate walk with God.


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Gentleman på luffen är en amerikansk film från 1938 i regi av Norman Z. McLeod. Filmen nominerades till fem Oscar, bästa kvinnliga biroll (Billie Burke), bästa foto, bästa ljud, bästa originalkomposition och bästa scenografi, men vann inte i någon kategori.

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Constance Bennett - Jerry Kilbourne
Brian Aherne - Wade Rawlins
Alan Mowbray - Grosvenor
Billie Burke - Mrs. Kilbourne
Patsy Kelly - Etta
Ann Dvorak - Minerva Harlan
Tom Brown - Kane Kilbourne
Clarence Kolb - Mr. Kilbourne
Bonita Granville - Marian Kilbourne
Marjorie Rambeau - Mrs. Harlan
Phillip Reed - Herbert Wheeler

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Filmen på TCM Movie Database

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Amerikanska filmer 1938
Amerikanska komedifilmer
Engelskspråkiga filmer
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Online auctioning has attracted serious in-auction fraud, such as shill bidding, given the huge amount of money involved and the anonymity of users. Due to the fact that shill bidding is difficult to detect as well as to prove, very few researchers have been successful in designing online shill detection systems that can be adopted by auction sites. We introduce an efficient SVM-based two-phased In-Auction Fraud Detection (IAFD) model. This supervised model is first trained offline for identifying 'Normal' and 'Suspicious' bidders. For this process, we identify a collection of the most relevant fraud classification features rather than uncertain or general features, like feedback ratings. The model then can be launched online at the end of the bidding period and before the auction is finalized to detect suspicious bidders and redirect for further investigation. This will be beneficial for other legitimate bidders who otherwise might be victimized if an infected auction is finalized and payment done. We propose a robust process to build the optimal IAFD model, which comprises of data cleaning, scaling, clustering, labeling and sampling, as well as learning via SVM. Since labelled auction data are lacking and unavailable, we apply hierarchical clustering and our own labelling technique to generate a high-quality training dataset. We utilize a hybrid method of over-sampling and undersampling which proved to be more effective in solving the issue of highly imbalanced fraud datasets. Numerous pre-processing and classification experiments are carried out using different functions in Weka toolkit, firstly to verify their applicability with respect to the training dataset and secondly to determine how these functions are impacting the model performance. Once the final model is built incorporating the relevant functions, this model is tested with commercial auction data from eBay to detect shill bidders. The classification results exhibit excellent performance in terms of detection and false alarm rates. Also when compared to other SVM-based fraud detection systems, our model outperforms the outcomes of those systems.
A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Computer Science, University of Regina. viii, 113 p.


For the Japanese university, see Sophia University.
For the American university, see Sofia University (California).
The University of Sofia (St. Kliment Ohridski) or simply Sofia University (Bulgarian: Софийски университет "Св. Климент Охридски", Sofiyski universitet "Sv. Kliment Ohridski") is the oldest higher education institution in Bulgaria, founded on 1 October, 1888. The edifice of the university was constructed between 1924 and 1934 with the financial support of the brothers Evlogi Georgiev and Hristo Georgiev, whose sculptures are now featured on its façade, and has an area of 18,624 m² and a total of 324 premises.
The university has 16 faculties and three departments, where over 21,000 students receive their education. In addition, it also disposes of a university library, a university press, a computer centre, a sports centre and several other structures. The current rector is Ivan Ilchev.
Sofia University has been consistently ranked as the top university in Bulgaria according to national and international rankings, and is constantly among the best 4 percent of world universities according to QS World University Rankings.
The university was founded on 1 October 1888, 10 years after the Liberation of Bulgaria, to serve as Bulgaria's primary institution of higher education. Initially, it had 4 regular and 3 additional lecturers and 49 students. It was founded as a higher pedagogical course, it became a higher school after a few months and a university in 1904. The first rector was Bulgarian linguist Aleksandar Teodorov-Balan.
During Sofia University's first years, it had three faculties, a Faculty of History and Philology (since 1888), a Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (since 1889) and a Faculty of Law (since 1892). History, geography, Slavic philology, philosophy and pedagogics, mathematics and physics, chemistry, natural sciences and law were taught. The first women, 16 in number, were welcomed to the university in 1901, and 25 November (8 December N.S.), the day of St Kliment of Ohrid, became the university's official holiday the following year.
In 1907, as Prince Ferdinand opened the National Theatre, he was booed by Sofia University students, for which the university was closed for 6 months and all lecturers were fired. Not until a new government with Aleksandar Malinov at the head came into power in January 1908 was the crisis resolved.
At the beginning of the Balkan Wars, 1,379 students (725 men and 654 women) were recorded to attend the university. A fourth faculty was established in 1917, the Faculty of Medicine, the fifth, the Faculty of Agronomy following in 1921, the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and the Faculty of Theology being founded in 1923. In 1922–1923, Sofia University had 111 chairs, 205 lecturers and assistants and 2,388 students, of which 1,702 men and 686 women.
The foundation stone of Sofia University's new edifice was laid on 30 June 1924. Funds were secured by the brothers Evlogi Georgiev and Hristo Georgiev. The rectorate was built according to the initial plans of the French architect Henri Bréançon, who had won a competition for the purpose in 1907. The plans were developed by Nikola Lazarov and revised by Yordan Milanov, who also directed the construction, but died before the official opening on 16 December 1934.
On 27 October 1929 the first doctoral thesis, in natural science, of the university was defended by Vassil Tsankov. The second one, in chemistry, followed on 1 July 1930 by Aleksandar Spasov. In 1930–1931, the university had four more doctors.
After the political changes of 9 September 1944 and the emergence of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, radical alterations were made in the university system of the country. At that time, 1944–45, 13,627 students attended the university, taught by 182 professors and readers and 286 assistants. Communist professors were introduced to the higher ranks of university authority, with others that did not share these views being removed. Specific party-related chairs were established and the university was restricted after the Soviet model. Three new faculties were founded in 1947, one of forestry, one of zootechnics and one of economics and major changes occurred, with many departments seceding in later years to form separate institutions.
The Sofia University Mountains on Alexander Island, Antarctica were named for the university in commemoration of its centennial celebrated in 1988, and in appreciation of the university's contribution to the Antarctic exploration.
The university main building (Rectorate).
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No ending: Garrett pushing DE Clowney to re-sign with Browns
FILE - Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett (95) and linebacker Jadeveon Clowney (90) play against the Baltimore Ravens during the second half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 12, 2021, in Cleveland. Myles Garrett doesn't want Jadeveon Clowney chasing quarterbacks and wrecking games with anyone else or anywhere else. "I want him here," Garrett said.(AP Photo/Ron Schwane, File)
Credit: Ron Schwane
By TOM WITHERS, Associated Press
Browns star defensive end Myles Garrett has enjoyed his one season as Jadeveon Clowney's teammate
CLEVELAND (AP) — Myles Garrett has enjoyed chasing quarterbacks and trying to wreck games alongside Jadeveon Clowney this season. He'd love to do it again.
"I want him here," Garrett said.
And what Garrett wants, he usually gets.
For all that went wrong with the Browns during a disappointing season, one thing worked as well — or better — than planned: the pairing of Garrett and Clowney, fellow No. 1 overall picks, disruptive forces and freakish athletes.
Garrett is finishing his best season as a pro (15 sacks heading into Sunday's finale against Cincinnati) and credits some of his success to playing up front with Clowney, who signed a one-year, $8 million free agent deal — with $2 million more in incentives — in April with Cleveland, his fourth team in four seasons.
And now that he's teammates with Clowney, Garrett wants their partnership to continue.
Last week, Garrett said he would make a strong pitch to Clowney about staying, and he said Friday that has happened.
"A couple times," he said. "He had two sacks last game. He was disruptive. I feel he's disruptive every time he's out there, especially when we're out there together and they can't just key in on just one of us.
"So the guy's hitting his stride and he has a lot of football left and he doesn't know that."
Clowney has said he's open to re-signing with the Browns (7-9), but there haven't been any formal talks with the team. He's scheduled to become a free agent in March.
Browns general manager Andrew Berry had unsuccessfully pursued Clowney several times before finally landing him last year.
And now that the Browns have had a taste of Garrett and Clowney together, it would be surprising if they didn't try to keep it that way.
With Cleveland, the 28-year-old Clowney has seven sacks, his most since 2018 with Houston. He also has been healthy, playing in 13 games and missing just two after testing positive for COVID-19.
He also has had some of those dominating moments that seemed too infrequent over the past few seasons.
Clowney said last week he has enjoyed everything Cleveland's had to offer.
"It's been one of the fastest seasons because of the guys I've played with," he said. "Great group of guys, fun group, coaching staff's been laid back and everything's been going pretty smooth. I enjoyed my time, enjoyed this year so far. Looking forward to see what happens next year in the future for me."
Browns coach Kevin Stefanski said Clowney has not only meshed well with Garrett, but he's blended in nicely with a defensive line that also added tackle Malik Jackson and end Takk McKinley.
"Great camaraderie amongst that group," he said. "Malik Jackson is right in the middle of that. That group really practiced hard, just watching them go through their individuals, the amount of energy and effort that they use out there on the practice field.
"And then they play hard during the game. So Myles and Jadeveon and how they play, how they pressure the quarterback, attack the run, those type of things are very indicative of the entire position group."
When Clowney and Garrett are lined up at opposite ends, it forces offenses into the uncomfortable position of accounting for each of them.
If Garrett is double- or triple-teamed (as has been the case at times), that leaves Clowney free to beat his man and get to the QB — and vice versa.
"It does work both ways," Stefanski said. "It's hard as an offense to give attention to multiple players. You have to make some decisions in terms of how you're going to do that, whether you're sliding a line one way each time or you're putting a tight end or a running back over on this side each time.
"So the more guys that you have on defense that get the offense's attention certainly plays to the advantage of those players."
NOTES: Clowney (neck/shoulder) was limited in practice Friday and his status for Sunday remains unclear. RB Nick Chubb (chest/ribs) is also a question mark. Stefanski didn't rule out any players, saying, "I would expect if guys can play, they will play."


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Supercross 2014 Results from 0.Com Coliseum in Oakdland, Calif.
Though podium results were mixed for Monster Energy Kawasaki's Ryan Villopoto, the KX-F 450 rider dominated Saturday the 20-lap action at O.Co Coliseum in Oakland, Calif.
Villopoto, who also took his first win of 2014 SX at Phoenix, was joined on the Oakland SX podium by Yoshimura Suzuki's James Stewart and TwoTwo Motorsports Kawasaki's Chad Reed.
This gives Villopoto on early season advantage as he chases his fourth consecutive title, a feat only completed by Ricky Carmichael and Jeremy McGrath.
When the 20-lap main got underway ahead of 47,399 fans at O.Co Coliseum got underway, Factory Metal Works/Honda's Vince Friese won the ulcer Cowboyz Holeshot Award, and was Toyota/Yamaha/JGRMX's Justin Brayton. But on that opening lap Villopoto took over the lead, followed by Discount Tire Racing/TwoTwoMotorsports' Chad Reed.
Behind, Stewart began charging through the field, eventually taking fourth on lap four and third on lap seven. As Villipoto remained untouched up front, Stewart would challenge Reed, eventually taking second.
Stewart wold finish second, 4.2 seconds behind Villopoto. Reed would finish third, his second podium finish since winning at Phoenix Supercross.
Rounding out the top five was Red Bull KT's Ryan Dungey and Brayton, respectively.
With his win, Villopoto now moves into the points lead, seven ahead of Reed – who won at Anaheim II – after three of 17 rounds. As for the rider who won the opening round – Red Bull KTM's Ken Roczen – the German finished sixth at Oakland; he trails Reed by a single point in the overall standings.
In the Wester Regional 250SX class, Rockstar Energy Racing KTM's earned his third win of 2014.
Monster Energy/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki's Dean Wilson edged out his teammate Justin Hill for the Nuclear Cowboyz Holeshot Award in the Western Regional 250SX Class Main Event. Hill quickly moved into the lead and by the end of the opening lap, Anderson moved into second place with Wilson assuming third place, Fed Motor Sports says.
Hill and Anderson traded places on lap six, and while the two jockeyed for position in a corner, Wilson passed Anderson for second place and a few turns later, he passed Hill for the lead. Anderson tracked down Hill on the following lap to moved into second place, Feld Motor Sports says.
Anderson – for the third time this season – made a pass on the last lap to move into the lead and eventual win. Wilson finished a season-best second place and Hill finished a career-best third place, Feld Motor Sports says.
Troy Lee Designs/Lucas Oil/Honda's Cole Seeley came into tonight race with the points lead but dropped to second place as Anderson now moved into the number-one position in season standings and has a six-point lead.
Monster Energy Supercross heads to Anaheim next Saturday, Feb. 1, for the third and final race at Angel Stadium for Anaheim III.