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Correspondence with a reader who liked The Revolution will not be televised:
...along with a review, of sorts, of that wretched movie,
and explanation of why I haven't been blogging for the last few months...
Email #1
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 17:56:01 -0800, "Paul Cheney" said:
> I have done a lot of reading about Venezuela, its traditions, culture, political
> history, etc., and I've checked out web sites and news organizations, both
> "Against" Chavez and "For" him. I've really enjoyed learning all this
> stuff, and I have you to thank for this.
> I think you're
> really mistaken about Chavez, and after seeing the movie The Revolution
> will not be televised (which I was prepared to view as totally biased) I
> think I came to realize how RACIST the opposition to Chavez is, and
> perhaps how racist you might be.
Hmmm...well, I suppose these days, if you're talking about Venezuela with a gringo, you can't help but talk about The revolution will not be televised. It's a convincing movie, that's for sure. It's very well made, very persuasive. Of course, that's what they said about The Triumph of the Will.
Top notch propaganda always is.
You're a Political Science professor, if I recall correctly, no? I would just urge you not to shut off your critical mind as you sit down to watch a movie like this. When you think about it for a third of a second, you could make a hatchet film of this sort about anything. If I'm a palestinian, and I'm DETERMINED to sway viewers opinions and get them on my side, what could be easier than splicing together 90 minutes of tape that shows Arafat as ONLY good and noble while the Israelis are shown as ONLY evil and mean? The movie practically makes itself: but what does it really add to our collective understanding? What's the point of making it?
Of course, if I'm an Israeli trying to do the same, it's not any more difficult! There are plenty enough crazy extremists on both sides that you can tar everyone on that side by implication, if you just paint with a broad enough stroke. It's really not difficult. I'm sure Chechen fighters could make a movie to make the Russian army look really ghastly, and themselves as heroic, but the Russian army could do the opposite just as easily.
In almost any deep human conflict, if you decide to be completely one-sided and propagandistic, you can make one of the sides look wonderful, the other horrendous! It's so easy to do, the exercise seems just barren...it barely seems worth doing!
So yeah, I won't go into the details of the many, many innacuracies and manipulations in Revolution will not be televised, inaccuracies that got them thrown out of the Amnesty Film Fest and that have put their Banff award under review, innacuracies that have been extensively documented by people with more time an effort on their hands than I do. I'll just point out one bit that especially incensed me: remember the bit where they're talking about how the coup was coming together and then they show the tanks rolling up the streets towards the Presidential Palace? The little shard of "information" they just blithely leave out is that, as Chavez himself recognized and as audio recordings of military radio frequencies show conclusively, it was Chavez who ordered them there! He called them out, to disperse the opposition crowds and protect the palace! The movie gives the precisely opposite impression.
Cuz the richness and complication that suffuses real life is anathema to propaganda producers. Because moral ambiguity, uncertainty, shades of gray, ruin a good agit-prop film. Because ethical simplification, the dumbing down of a situation to its Disney-esque components, is the stock and trade of propaganda producers. Because they need good guys who are completely good, bad guys who are completely bad, and nothing in between. Because, reality ruins a good story.
So I would just urge you not to turn off your critical mind, EVER, not even (especially not when) watching a movie like Revolution will not be televised. But, in general, it's quite simple really: when you see a representation of Venezuelan reality where one side is all good and the other is all bad, then take a step back, breathe, and realize you're being exposed to propaganda, which is no less loathsome when it comes from the right than when it comes from the left, that's for sure.
On the other hand, I really don't care that much anymore. These days I draw a stipend to figure out the behavior of dynamic models of economic development under the influence of technological innovation, which is a much dryer thing to obsess about, but probably has fewer harmful effects for my blood pressure and such and such. One thing that's really become clear to me since coming to Europe is how little people outside Venezuela really know about what's going on there, and how little it matters. Ultimately, only Venezuelans can work out the country's political crisis, and all people on the outside (including me) can do is hope and pray that common sense somehow, heroically, makes a come-from-behind recovery and wins out in the end - sorting the mess out without resorting to guns. Last weekend's signature gathering drive was a major step in that direction, next weekend's second drive (the one for the presidency) will be even more important.
Anyway, it's good to hear from you, and I am glad I've gotten you to research this stuff. If you keep at it, maybe travel to Vzla some time, I'm pretty confident you'll eventually come around and see that it's puerile extremism that's the problem, not the government as such or the opposition as such.
> ps: what's happened to your chronicles? Since I last
> communicated with you (when you seem to have mistaken a satirical web site, The Onion,
> for some real news reporting - about Syria if I remember correctly)
Hmmm, lets see: what happened to my blog? I emigrated, that's what happened! The stress of it all got to me...the unending deadlines, the anonymous threats, the crappy pay...usual set of complaints, I imagine. So I ran off and started work on a Ph.D. at a United Nations University institute in The Netherlands (www.intech.unu.edu). If all goes to plan, I should have a doctorate safely in hand by 2007 or so, which, hey, is just after the next elections in Venezuela.
(Oh, and I realize the Onion is not a serious site - just sent that piece on Syria because it struck me as class-a satire!)
ps for you: Do you mind if I publish this little back and forth in the blog, minus your last name, if you'd prefer it that way? People sporadically ask me why the blog has stopped, or about the movie, and this would clear it up for them.
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 14:07:06 -0800, "Paul Cheney"
> Hi Francisco! Congrats on entering the PhD program at the UN school! Now
> I know you're responding to email and want to publish this little back and
> forth, I'll send you a more extensive letter - maybe just some quick points
> now... Glad you DID get the satirical nature of The Onion - your response
> was kind of ambiguous, something like "your country is under attack and
> you laugh!" MANY people here in the USA do think their country is under
> attack and have no tolerance for satire any more - glad you're not one of them!
Well, I'll make no pretense to understand anything about U.S. politics - a conceptual black hole for me. All I know is that the notion of the CIA discovering that 95% of the people in Syria are arabs and being horridly scared of this all of a sudden struck me as hysterically funny. There are a lot of Syrians in Venezuela, by the way - second and third generation descendents of guys who came over right after decolonization. (Hence some of the rumor-mongering about a Chavez-Damascus axis...silly.) It strikes me as very odd but very cool that most Venezuelans are more likely to understand the joke-nature of that Onion piece than most Americans!
(There's another page to add to your file on Venezuelan racism - a highly integrated muslim-arab community of tens of thousands of members, living really with no communal problems whatsoever with the native Venezuelans!)
> As for The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - sure, I was aware of
> propaganda, and aware of the film-makers' biases - particularly around the
> character of Chavez himself (his stuff about his Grandfather - was
> he/wasn't he a murderer? He was a murderer!). Chavez clearly has an ego,
> loves to hear himself talk, etc. But what really surprised me was the
> arrogance of the "opposition" - I'd never seen the non-government media
> before, never heard how they planned the coup - I really had thought the
> opposition demo was "spontaneous".
Well, I think if you read back through my blog you'll find more than a few angry tirades against the pathetic propagandism of the Venezuelan private media as well. I was an active member of an NGO founded to FIGHT that kind of distortion (a membership which, ironically enough, ended up getting me tarred as an anti-government extremist by Al Giordano and not a few other blogscape denizens...)
Hell, I even got into a public argument on live nationwide television (virtual cadena broadcast, it was carried live on every channel except channel 8, the gov't station) where I accused the Assembled owners of the private TV broadcasters of applying psychological warfare tactics to scare people into opposing the government. I charged them in public with gross abuses of basic standards of journalistic ethics. I was even quoted by Chavez on an Alo, presidente, his Sunday TV talkathon!
That may have been the lowest point in my career, when I saw Chavez twist my words to shore up his banana republic autocracy. It made me literally sick to my stomach to see my words twisted in that way.
So believe me Paul, I know all about what it's like to be aggressively and maliciously misinterpreted. It became the story of my career!
To the right in Venezuela I was a closet chavista - hell, the comandante was even quoting me to make its points. To the left I was an evident stooge of imperialism, cuz I worked for the NYTimes, refused to suck up to the prez and write sycophantically about him, as they would demand, and because I was clearly an upper class toff. I was virulently attacked by both sides, repeatedly, and threatened by one of them (the government, need I add.)
And why? All for refusing to have a simplistic position, refusing to simply swallow the political fantasies of either side hook line and sinker. So I know how hard it is to be in the middle, to try to arrive at a principled independent judgement at a��time when there are enormous social, economic, and even family pressures to simply fold into one side of the propaganda war. I understand how much easier it is to play the part of advocate - to suspend all disbelief in the total, unlimited righteousness of one's side simply because it is one's side.
So it does make me angry to see the easy success the Irish movie got simply on the basis of being openly, militantly one-sided, and flouting the same standards of professional ethics, balance and integrity that they claimed to be reivindicating, and the same principles I had worked so hard to try to attain in my own work. Of course, FoxNews will always have more viewers than PBS, Disney more than Murakami, simplicity is always easier to sell than complexity. Personally, I refused to play along, and ended up here, studying in Holland instead.
> Now, the film was biased, but I don't think it made any pretense to be
> anything else. You know that we are ALL biased, and plenty of films at that
> festival were "biased". That the tanks were called by Chavez ? - I don't
> think that was, Francisco, a MAJOR "lie" in the movie.
It's not a major lie, it's just a taste for the kind of shoddy ethics that pervades the movie. Subtle silences that give wrong impressions, strategic omissions that distort the entire picture, half truths, exagerations, near-fabrications, etc.
What most irked me about the film was the crass caricaturing of the opposition position, of its leadership, of its ethical vision. Of our ethical vision. They essentially created a disney-style bad guy and tarred us as that. They took months and years of earnest organizing effort, of self-less idealism on the part of hundreds of thousands of people who refuse to allow their nation to slouch into autocracy, and they turned it into a Cruella DeVille caricature. Those of us who risked everything to raise a voice of protest against the continuing autocratic encroachment of the government can only consider it a slur - a deeply damaging slur at that.
Because, as my blog was always clear to admit, the very nasty side to the opposition you saw in the movie is real. It exists. It's there. It's a problem. Too many rich people in my country have always treated to many poor people in my country as second class citizens. Yes the reactionary upper class women firing their servants in case they might be chavistas are no lie. I know that's true. I have some in my family. And yes they meet. And yes this is a problem. And yes this has to change. All of this is true.
But to suggest that those people are the whole of the opposition is like saying that suicide bombers is ALL there is to the Palestinian resistance to Israel...a profoundly dishonest, nasty, ugly, unfair and mean-spirited falsification of reality - which is a lot to peg on a movie that sells itself as an angry tirade against media manipulation! Does no one else see the irony of this?
There are also thousands upon thousands, probably millions of earnest middle class venezuelans - middle class educationally (university trained), though poor in economic terms - with deep democratic ideals and a real love for their country who see Hugo Chavez's delirious ranting on TV and get earnestly freaked out, and angry, very angry. Not because of what the private media tells them, but simply because they posses ears and eyes, and they've been subjected to hours upon hours of the incredible string of incendiary, meant-to-inflame statements that constantly pour out from Chavez's lips during his hours and hours long cadenas, or forced national broadcast speeches.
(Anthropological side-note: these Cadenas are broadcasts that, by law, have to go out on ALL the TV channels and ALL the radio stations AT THE SAME TIME whenever Chavez wants, for as long as Chavez wants. This notion, as I've found, is not easy for first world people to quite wrap their minds around - imagine getting home, turning on the tube, and seeing George W. Bush speaking, live, on every single channel you have access to and every single radio station, for hours on end! You can't escape, unless you are middle class and have cable, or choose to turn off all electronic media and play chess for the evening. These happen all the time in Venezuela, several times a week even now - in fact, even my African colleagues here at the United Nations University are astounded by the scale of abuse of power implied by the president's discretionary use of the cadena system!)
The Cadenas are the reason a million people turned out to protest the government on april 11th, not the opposition leaders, not the media, not the oligarchs. It was the incredible, seething anger millions of people felt as they had their tv and radio programming interrupted up to 30 times EVERY DAY for government propaganda messages. I remember April 9th, it was incredible...there was a cadena at least once ever 20 minutes! It really really angered people to be treated this way, because they could see the nature of the abuse of power the government was undertaking, a near nationalization of the airwaves and a confiscation of the national media's right to broadcast for completely political purposes, for propaganda purposes, for matters of no interest to the state at all, simply as political tools.
This created a kind of media warfare, as the media lords - bunch of bastards - retaliated by running more and more hyper-shrill anti-government propaganda during the few minutes when their signals were not taken over by the government.
[Aside: I'm a big fan of nature documentaries, they really helped me relax in a place as tense as Venezuela in the Chavez era. I had no cable at home, but, happily, in Caracas, I had channel 5, a catholic church owned channel that shows only foreign made documentaries and nature programs all day, with no commercials. It was truly surreal to try to watch a documentary in those days. Just as you were getting curious about the mating habit of the platypus, you'd be interrupted for a propaganda message from the government that could last anything from 5 minutes to 4 hours. You could never tell. I never did find out how a platypus mates!]
But I digress. The point is that there was a propaganda war on the airwaves, and both sides were shooting. The documentary makes it look like Chavez never abused his power to take over the airwaves, which is transparently false. It glosses over a��long and dark history of repeated autocratic abuses by the government, of repeated flaunting of the rule of law on a wide variety of issues, and of government sponsored threats, intimidation and harassment against opponents that would make any Amnesty International supporter blush, if he had the guts to look into the cases carefully. Again, I speak from first hand experience here...this is not speculation.
Any way you slice it, if you take the time to look at it, there is NO WAY you can describe the Chavez government as fully democratic. Its autocratic control of every branch of the state is so well documented it barely seems worth hashing over again. His government's repeated, public flouting of certain symbolically charged laws, like the prohibition agaisnt using military facilities for political purposes ENSHRINED IN THE CONSTITUTION Chavez HIMSELF WROTE, are a constant reminder that the government is above the law, untouchable, owning the public prosecutors and therefore perfectly able to stop ANY investigation into ANYTHING the president does. Just imagine the symbolism of it: what would happen if the US if President Bush ordered the US Army to make a large army base on the outskirts of DC available to put up tens of thousands of Republican activists for the night so they could rest up for a pro-Bush march in Washington the next day? The climate of impunity and fear this creates is intolerable...bad enough to cause me to emigrate. (Walk a mile in my shoes here!)
Let me illustrate with an annecdote: I had a reporter friend in Caracas who worked for Globovision. He was a very good, very conscientious journalist working at a very bad, propagandistic news station. Jorge (we'll call him, to protect the innocent) refuses at all costs to compromise his professional integrity, and reports as evenly as is possible from the locations he's sent. Even though he never incites violence against anyone, goes out of his way to report both points of view, and is in general a top-notch TV journalist, his face was indelibly linked with the Globovision logo.
As a result, trying to schedule a time and place to go get a drink with Jorge is something of a nightmare. Whole areas of the city are simply no-go areas for him: he might be recognized by groups of chavistas, who have been incited again and again through the cadena broadcasts to consider opposition media as the enemy. So Jorge cannot not just nip down on foot to his local grocery to get a can of soda, like any normal mortal - he might literally be killed, or at the very least harrassed. It's happened before, and he's not taking any more risks. He has about 6 bars around the city where he knows the owners and feels safe enough to show his face. Otherwise, he avoids going out in public. He cannot go to a mall, or a sports stadium, or a gym, or not without running a certain level of risk. His life is effectively confined to a handful of spaces where he can go and know he'll be safe. (Walk a mile in Jorge's shoes here!)
Let me add here that Jorge is black, and gay. Neither has impeded his rise through the ranks of Venezuelan journalism, nor has his overt refusal to participate in the production of propaganda. There is some room for excellence��in the opposition, for tolerance and open-mindedness. I asked Jorge once if he had ever felt discriminated against because of his skin color at Globovision, and he just laughed at me. "What country do you come from?" he asked in broken English, before adding in Spanish "esa vaina sencillamente no se da aca" - it just doesn't happen here. I believe him.
I remember I was at a Los Del Medio meeting (that pro-media balance NGO) in a meeting right after the very��WHITE foreign minister Roy Chaderton accused the opposition media of being motivated largely by racism, of being institutionally racist. I was sitting in a room full of Opposition-owned media journalists, about 25 of us, and easily two thirds of us were on the toastier side of the white-black continuum, with a few white people, a couple of dark black guys, and the whole gamut of the color range in between, including a half-chinese girl, thrown into the mix as well. Some of us looked a bit more Indian, others definitely more African, a few more white, but virtually all of us were mixed in some way - which is the premise of that very good book I recommended, Cafe con Leche, which I would urge everyone interested to read - written in the pre-Chavez era, mercifully.
[A few days after the infamous Chaderton speech, deliciously, the incomparable Teodoro Petkoff sent a friend of mine who works for him at Tal Cual, the afternoon daily newspaper he runs, to investigate the racial make up of all ambassadors and top level diplomats that Chaderton had appointed as Foreign Minister - she found a miniscule number of darker skinned appointees! Many fewer, that's for sure, than those visible every day on the private news broadcasts! Where would we be without Teodoro?]
The point of this story is that racism means very little in a society like ours, a society where almost everyone is of mixed ancestry and all of us talk and eat and dance and pray and read and think and act more or less alike, whatever the exact tonality of our skin. In this sense, if in no other, Venezuela really is a model society: skin color differences really are pretty irrelevant to most people's day to day life. While it is true that lighter skin people, in general, tend to be better off than darker skinned people, that generalization is riddled with very large numbers of exceptions - a situation quite radically unlike what you see in truly rigid social systems, like Colombia's or El Salvador's. If the irish film didn't represent that, then it might as well be made in another galaxy, it's not a social distinction most venezuelans would regard as particularly salient, or even important at all.
The real social fault line in Venezuela is all to do with money, very little to do with skin color. There's even an oligarchical little joke to that effect.
A: Did you hear they will no longer allow black people to become members of the Caracas Country Club?
B: Really?
A: That's right...
B: But what is their definition of a "negro"
A: A "negro" is anyone who does not have $1 million in the bank.
It's a horrendous joke, full of oligarchical conceit. But in its own twisted way, it shows how deep open mindedness about skin color really is. Even the foofiest of the elite understands that ultimately, skin color is not what matters in my country. Sadly, too often, money is. (And yes, that has to change!)
So, being as honest as I know how, and mindful of the way real racists will always vehemently deny such charges, I can tell you seriously that Roy Chadderton is full of shit. He simply is.
One more anecdote to make the point:
I have a sister-in-law whose last name is, somewhat incongruously Aleman. I say incongruously because she is anything but German, which is what Aleman means in Spanish. In fact, her father, Mr. Aleman, is quite dark skinned - Condi Rice color, about. For this reason, his friends, wife, and family have nicknamed him "El Negro", as a term of endearment. It's so much part of his social persona that he introduces himself as el Negro to friends of friends! His skin-color is so much a normal thing he 's totally owned it through his nickname, and it's a completely unremarkable part of his personality by now - a sign of affection and familiarity, nothing more.
The funny part being that since so many darker skinned people nickname themselves Negros, it is sometimes necessary to distinguish them by last name. "El negro is coming to dinner," you might say, and someone might respond, "which negro, el negro Suarez or el negro Arteaga?" But in my sister in law's dad's case, this turns him into "el negro Aleman" - or, literally, "the German black". I could never really figure that one out, but that's his name.
Another one for your racist opposition files.
> Anyway, back to the film. What imressed me was the treatment of the coup
> leaders! I'd assumed they were all in jail, or had been beaten to death!
> But, according to Amnesty International, it was the OPPOSITION that had
> resorted to "draconian decrees, including the closure of the National
> Assembly, and the summary dismissal of the Supreme Court, the Attorney
> General and the Human Rights Ombudsman (Defensor del Pueblo). Police
> carried out raids on a number of homes of supporters of President Chavez.
> Amongst those arbitrarily detained were a Minister and a National Assembly
> deputy. There was widespread condemnation of the unconstitutional and
> summary removal of President Chavez, the illegal detention of his
> supporters, and the arbitrary powers assumed by the de facto government."
But this is the whole point! There WAS widespread condemnation...from within the opposition! The film didn't choose to tell you the story of how Teodoro Petkoff, the venerable old man of the Venezuelan antichavista left, spent April 12th going from one jail to another demanding that the
human rights of detainees be scrupulously observed! It didn't show the way opposition majors in Caracas personally turned up to ensure that angry mobs did not harm detainees! It did not show the deep current of discontent that was already riling the opposition by the morning of April 13th, which helped as much to restore Chavez as the relatively small and much overhyped little gathering outside Miraflores later that same day. Yes, the coup leaders went way too far, but within the opposition there was enough intellectual space to rein them in, because there is a deep vein of democratic idealism and pluralism running through the opposition, along side some creepy authoritarian impulses (which, still, cannot be compared to Chavez's raging personalism.)
If the film-makers did not see that, they chose not to see, but more importantly they chose not to show��to pretend it didn't exist. And in so doing, they deeply misrepresent my country's political reality.
I wish people could understand that.
> THAT was what the film brought out. The idolization of Chavez - sure,
> that's what all film makers do!
> One more thing before I go - and I'll send you something more detailed
> later - you said:
> "Cuz the richness and complication that suffuses real life is anathema to
> propaganda producers. Because moral ambiguity, uncertainty, shades of
> gray, ruin a good agit-prop film. Because ethical simplification, the
> dumbing down of a situation to its Disney-esque components, is the stock
> and trade of propaganda producers. Because they need good guys who are
> completely good, bad guys who are completely bad, and nothing in between.
> Because, reality ruins a good story."
> I think you might be a bit guilty of this yourself! You seem to leave out a
> lot of unhappy history in your Chronicles - the sort of unhappy history
> that has produced a lot of people who see Chavez as their first hope for
> change. There is an awful lot of blood on the hands of the old political
> parties, and most of the "opposition" seem to be rather implicated in
> that unhappy history!
Well, as I wrote above I think I shoved more than enough shit the opposition's way in my time, gotten in trouble for it too. But I also don't accept the overall implication.
OK, last anecdote to make last point:
My first experience in Venezuelan politics was in the summer of 1996. I was about to become a Senior at Reed College in Oregon and needed a thesis topic. I decided to spend the summer shadowing a Venezuelan opposition politician, and writing about the experience. The politician
was Andr�s Velasquez, a trade unionist and a leftist who had campaigned his entire adult life - or, actually, longer, his first political speech he gave in high school, at age 15! - against the old system. Andr�s lists his profession as electrician, and that's what his job was: he was an industrial electrician at the giant Sidor steel plant, from a Lula-style trade-union based party. At 5'4", he makes up in girth what he lacks in height. His face, and his heritage, are almost purely indian, with a bit of white sprinkled in several generations back. He is a deeply charismatic leader, a man of the people, really, and many people believe he actually WON the 1993 election, the one before Chavez, but was robbed by a left-right stitch up to put Caldera back in Miraflores. I don't know if that's true or not.
The point is that I know Andres, I've travelled with him closely. He had spent twenty five years of his life in a determined fight against the corrupt old regime - more than half the regime's total lifetime! - organizing workers, working his ass off, being harrassed, persecuted and intimidated again and again by the adecos, raising an independent voice for workers that could not be well represented by big party-affiliated labor unions, which were in bed with the boss, which was the state in this case.
NOBODY can accuse Andres of selling out - on the contrary, his political history shows an almost fanatical determination to stay commited to certain democratic principles taught to him from youth by leftist intellectuals from the moderate branch of the communist party of the 60s and 70s. Andres is that most fearsome opponent: the committed life-long activist. And in his own, quiet way, he probably did much more to upset the two party grip on power as Chavez did - until 1998, anyway.
Yet, today, Andres is part of the opposition, because his democratic principles do not allow him to back a government that is as openly spiteful of the rule of law as Chavez's is. And, worse of all, the government insinuate darkly that he has been bought off by the oligarchs, impugning his integrity because they have no leg to stand on when it comes to impugning the worth of his arguments. To see Chavez virulently attack Andres on television, on cadenas, in more than one occasion, is something I found deeply revolting. For Chavez, only he and his sect ever could or ever will do anything for the poor in my country. They are rigidly, ideologically blind to the contribution of anyone but themselves. In their exceedingly simplisticly mannichean view of the world, those who are not with them are against them, enemies, demons to be fought and destroyed.
Worst still, this applies not only to the rich, not only to the powerful, not only to the radical shrill critics, or the openly reactionary, but against EVERYONE, including people like Jorge and Andres, who does not slavishly pay homage and swear to follow each and every single deranged idea the president might choose to express. People who display the slightest whiff, the merest suggestion of disagreement with Chavez, or even those who choose a nuanced version of agreement, are rapidly and reliably expelled from the chavista sect. Its autocratic verticalism is the polar opposite of democratic pluralism, of pluralistic decision-making. And that is what many of us in the opposition cannot, will not, and ought not to swallow, Paul. And, we won't.
Now, Paul Cheney, write to me and write to me honestly: would you stand by and allow this kind of hysteria to grip your society without making a peep, without trying to do something to curb it, to reverse it, to regain the basis for a sane citizen dialogue? Can you accept a society where any form of dissent gets you branded an "enemy of the people, of bolivar, and of the motherland" (Chavez's words, not mine) I want to believe that if something like this, difficult as it is to imagine, ever started to happen in San Francisco, you would not stand for it for ten minutes. And neither should you.
Again, urging you to think fairly about this, and looking forward to continuing this little correspondence, if you have the time.


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Michael Cronogue
Talking About Faith
Benefits Rules for the Terminally Ill need changing. They don't have time to waste!
Today is Global MND Awareness Day when we highlight the need to raise awareness of a disease which in the UK kills on average around six people per day. MND or Motor Neurone Disease, is a fatal, rapidly progressing disease that affects the brain and spinal cord.   It attacks the nerves that control movement so muscles no longer work. MND does not usually affect the senses such as sight, sound, feeling etc.   It can leave people locked in a failing body, unable to move, talk and eventually breathe.  It affects up to 5,000 adults in the UK at any one time.   Currently there is no cure.
Over the past decade or so I have been privileged to be part of a campaigning network which seeks to improve treatment and services to those living with this condition. Recently BBC News did a feature on three sportsmen each of whom are living with MND. Former Leeds Rhino's legend Rob Burrow, footballer Stephen Darby and Scottish Rugby and British & Irish Lion, Doddie Weir who fronts the My Name'5 Doddie Foundation. It has been at the forefront of a campaign called United to End MND which seeks to persuade the Government to increase the amount of money being spent on research into MND which could include potential benefits for other acquired neurological conditions such as Parkinson's and Multiple Sclerosis. Currently Government spending stands at less than £5 million a year. The campaign which has already attracted over 100,000 petition signatures and celebrity backing from film star Hugh Grant, GMB presenter Charlotte Hawkins, entrepreneur and 'Dragon' Deborah Meaden, and broadcaster Jeremy Vine, is calling for £50 million over five years to ensure gains made in research can be accelerated in the hope of finding an effective treatment and ultimately a cure to end MND once and for all.
Another ongoing campaign being run in conjunction with Marie Curie is to change the rules on benefit payments for terminally ill people known commonly as #scrap6months. Currently benefit rules for terminally people stipulate that there must be an expectation of death within six months in order to attract the higher rate of disability benefits without need for re-assessment. Not only is this grossly unfair, but for some terminal illnesses such as cancer and MND, from diagnosis to death can often be longer than six months and is far from an exact science. Recently The Guardian published a story which highlighted how terminally ill people were being made to suffer financially due to strict interpretation by DWP Assessors of the rules around terminal illness in rejecting of initial claims for higher rate disability benefits. Many of these assessors are not medically qualified and routinely ignore the supporting evidence provided by qualified clinical staff forcing some claimants into a lengthy appeals process – if they live long enough – causing further stress to already vulnerable people. The paper reports that data collected between April 2018 and October 2019 raised concerns about how the DWP recognised when someone was approaching the end of life. It is estimated that in this period 1,860 people died within six months of having their claims rejected.
Former DWP Secretary, Amber Rudd, instigated a review of how the benefits system supported those living with terminal illness. This commenced in July 2019, and although now completed the Government are withholding the findings despite calls to do so not only from both charities, but also the All-party parliamentary group (APPG) on MND, currently chaired by Conservative MP for Northampton South, Andrew Lewer. Despite repeated questions to ministers in the House of Commons, it seems the Government is still no nearer sharing the findings which means that for people with little time to live particularly with conditions like MND which not only is incurable but degenerative, causes further undue stress for them and their families in ensuring they get the benefits which they are entitled to.
Social media today has been full of messages in support of #GlobalMNDAwarenessDay and #United2EndMND in particular MP's Brendan Clarke-Smith and Chris Evans, both vice-chairs of the APPG. Perhaps it is time the APPG on MND pressurised the DWP to stop its foot dragging. The evidence is clear: that for anyone living with a terminal illness people can and do live longer than six months but their condition won't improve only get worse. Neither will the financial worry go away to pay for the additional heating and special dietary and other requirements that are so often part of living with such conditions.
The mark of a civilised society has often been recognised as how it treats its poor and vulnerable. In the case of those living with a terminal illness, we are sadly found wanting. People under diagnosis of early and possibly painful death need re-assurance that their final days will be as comfortable as we can make them. No more so than freedom from financial stress and worry.
It is time to #scrap6months once and for all.
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Ninja Tune est un label indépendant de musique électronique qui a été créé en Angleterre en 1990 par les deux DJ Matt Black et Jonathan More, mieux connus sous le nom de Coldcut. Le label a diffusé le travail en studio et en live de nombreux DJ et producteurs du monde de la musique électronique. La musique du label est difficile à qualifier. On peut toutefois y entendre de l'électronique, du jazz, de l'ambient, du hip-hop, du breakbeat, souvent en même temps.
Une importante agence existe à Montréal au Québec.

Ils fêtent leurs vingt ans de carrière en . Pour cette occasion, un site spécial est ouvert Ninja Tune XX, ainsi que la vente d'un coffret collector limité (3500 exemplaires) et l'organisation de plusieurs concerts.

Solid Steel, une émission de radio affiliée à Ninja Tune et qui fait référence à l'album Solid Steel, est diffusée sur Radio Campus en France.

Sous-labels
Il existe plusieurs labels « fils » ; affiliés à Ninja Tune :

 Ntone: C'est le plus ancien sous-label de Ninja Tune, il était spécialisé dans la musique électronique expérimentale. Ntone a fonctionné de 1994 à 2001, avant de fermer. Sur ce label, on peut retrouver Animals on Wheels et Hexstatic.
 Big Dada: Lancé en 1997 par Will Ashon, Big Dada est spécialisé dans le hip-hop. Roots Manuva et Spank Rock ont sorti plusieurs albums sur ce label.
 Counter Records: Il a été lancé en 2006 pour promouvoir les artistes de Ninja Tune tournés vers le rock.

On peut aussi noter l'existence d'autres sous-labels ou labels affiliés, comme Brainfeeder, Girls Music et Motion Audio.

Artistes
Liste d'artistes du label :

Bibliographie
 Ninja Tune, Trax Hors-série, numéro 5, Août/.
 Ninjalogy, Ninja Tune Japan Newspaper, numéro 1, .
 Ninjalogy, Ninja Tune Japan Newspaper, numéro 2, .
 Ninjalogy, Ninja Tune Japan Newspaper, numéro 3, .
 Ninjalogy, Ninja Tune Japan Newspaper, numéro 4, .
 Ninjalogy, Ninja Tune Japan Newspaper, numéro 5, .
 Ninjalogy, Ninja Tune Japan Newspaper, numéro 6, .
 Ninjalogy, Ninja Tune Japan Newspaper, numéro 6.5, .
 Ninjalogy, Ninja Tune Japan Newspaper, numéro 8, .

Références

Liens externes
  Site officiel du Label UK
  Ninja Tune sur Discogs
  Ninja Tune sur Soundcloud

Label de musique électronique indépendant
Label de musique électronique ayant son siège au Royaume-Uni

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Inspirational Quotes by Charles Dudley Warner (American Essayist)
Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1900) was an American editor, critic, and essayist. A friend of Mark Twain's, he is best known today for his collaboration with Twain on the novel The Gilded Age.
Born in Plainfield, Massachusetts, Warner graduated from Hamilton College (1851) and practiced law in Chicago until 1869, then settled as an editor in Hartford. His first mature book, My Summer in a Garden (1870,) a series of essays about his farm, portrayed Washington Irving's quiet humor and mellow grace. In 1884, he became co-editor of Harper's Magazine, where his papers on the South, Mexico, and the Great West appeared.
Warner published several books of essays, recollections of his childhood, and travel sketches. He co-wrote the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Mark Twain. Warner also wrote literary criticism, most significantly The Relation of Literature to Life (1896.) His trilogy of novels on the corrupt accumulation and overindulgence of a great fortune is A Little Journey in the World (1889,) The Golden House (1894,) and That Fortune (1899.)
American writer Annie Adams Fields wrote the biography Charles Dudley Warner (1902.)
More: Wikipedia • READ: Works by Charles Dudley Warner
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently!
—Charles Dudley Warner
Topics: Regret, Acceptance, Miscellaneous, Try, Progress, Remorse, Change, World, Disappointment, Yin, General, Reason
We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Fondness for theground comes back to a man after he has run the round of pleasure and business, eaten dirt, and sown wild oats, drifted about the world, and taken the wind of all its moods. The love of digging in the ground (or of looking on while he pays another to dig is as sure to come back to him, as he is sure, at last, to go under the ground, and stay there.
Topics: Gardens
There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
Topics: Values
Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.
Topics: Memory
Politics makes strange bed-fellows.
It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
Topics: Realization, Awareness, Realistic Expectations, Acceptance, Expectations
One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.
Did a woman ever love who would not give all the years of tasteless serenity for one year, for one month, for one day of uncalculating delirium of love poured out upon the man who returned it.
Topics: Love
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
Topics: Simplicity, Journeys
If there was any petting to be done…he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented.
Topics: Dogs
Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
Topics: Food, Aspirations
The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.
Topics: Expectation
To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.
Topics: Simplicity
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
Topics: Generosity
The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is, who find the least fault.
Topics: Acceptance
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
Topics: Opinions
Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being occasionally, and learns about how far to attempt to spring.
Topics: Possibilities, Being True to Yourself, Potential
No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have but a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.
Topics: Property, Perspective
Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting.
Topics: Gardening
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Topics: Gifts, Excellence, Giving
The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
Topics: Taxation, Taxes
Barring some piece of luck I have seen but few men get rich rapidly except by means that would make them writhe to have known in public.
Topics: Wealth
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
Topics: Friends and Friendship, Friendship
Ken Kesey American Novelist
Edward Hoagland American Essayist
George William Curtis American Essayist
Edwin Percy Whipple American Literary Critic
Jorge Luis Borges Argentine Writer
William George Jordan American Essayist
Gore Vidal American Novelist
Kurt Vonnegut American Novelist
Reynolds Price American Novelist
Barbara Kingsolver American Novelist, Essayist


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07.12.2005 Levon Aronian: Friends call me a cheap tactician!
Armenian GM, Levon Aronian, is one of the greatest players on the World Cup, together with Carlsen is the most interesting figure for everybody. But if all follows the games of 15-years old Norwegian with surprise and admiration - for how long will he go on – the Aronian's successes are not surprising for anybody for a long time. During the last year Levon came into the first World ten top and is not going to stop on it. The same is in Khanty- Mansiysk – he won first five games and only the sixth was played draw. Aronian who easily agreed to take part in a conference charmed the public with his sincere answers and laugh...
– Share your impressions, how is it for you to play here on the World Cup?
LA: The game is still going successfully! I like it here: good organization, we play place and live in the nice places. Everything is great… In general from the chess point of view I performed the game of not a really high quality – I won the games because of the luck.
– For how much is the chess the unpredictable kind of sport?
LA: Generally, the Psychology is playing a great role in chess. Something that is hard to understand happens but in fact everything can be easily explained: for example, a person had a bad sleep or food and then he had a bad game. Absolutely everything can influence the game.
– According to your game you sleep and eat well…
LA: Yes, everything is great! But yesterday I woke up only at 20 past 2 and I had only 10 minutes for getting ready. I even didn't eat…
– But the result is the same – a victory!
LA: I wouldn't compare myself with a computer. I can only say that I count rather quickly and this differ me from other players. What else? I'm always self assured and try to win, I always have this ''fighter spirit''.
– And what about the style?
LA: I don't think that I have any special style, I play usually.
– Do you have a special attitude towards chess?
LA: I like to play very much and I try to look assured, sometimes I feel really bad when I play no so successfully but I try not to show that, and of course I get nervous.
– You managed to raise your rating almost not playing in big tournaments…
LA: It's clear that it's easier to raise rating when you don't play in opens. And future invitations (I hope I'll get them) will show either I'm good enough for such a rating or no.
– Do you believe in yourself?
LA: I tell you – I'm lucky here…
– Lately there was a Sadvakasov's conference which at one moment turned into Aronian-show. Your weak and strong points were discussed. The conclusion was that Aronian plays as well as a good computer.
LA: Yes, how else? That's why I think that my main games are still ahead.
– When did you start playing chess? And who was your first teacher?
LA: I started to play when I was on my father's motherland in Byelorussia. The older sister taught me to play... I was fond of chess but when we came back to Armenia parents brought me to a chess school where I was seriously taught.
– Did your sister play well?
LA: When I played in tournaments for the third... she also came to the club, and began to move figures. But... she doesn't really like chess though her husband is a chess amateur. He can sit on Internet during the hours and to play blitz.
– Did you have favorite chess players in the childhood.
LA: I've always liked the book "50 unforgettable games" by Bent Larsen, I've read it for many times. From the players of the past I like Stein very much. But Fisher, in spite of that I consider him to be the greatest player of present time, seems a little borried.
– What impression do you have having read Kasparov's books?
LA: I don't really like this book. I like fiction and I like chess book if there is fiction in it too. This book is for people who are really interested in the chess analysis and want to find the nuclear in the game. I am not interesting in that...
– What rating will you have by the first of January?
LA: I don't know, if the tournament "1 Stepanakert" is counted, then it will be about 2729.
– How did you appear on the very top so suddenly?.. Where were you before?
LA: This question was asked by Kasimdzhanov once: I had rating 2520 and he – 2700. We played the game and I won rather surely. I played before not bad too (Levon is the World Champion "under20" and of some other tonaments), and now when I'm in the city with my family I've found piece and started to play with confidence.
– When will you get the family of your own?
LA: I'm not in a hurry with the marriage, my father got acquainted with my mother when he was 28.
– You live in Germany and it's interesting what links with the motherland are left?
LA: I live in Germany but that fact that after the finishing of the tournament I'm going to Armenia to my friends speaks about something. I'm in a close connection with Armenia, it often happens that my friends come to Berlin to me. To get engaged or just for visit.
– How many languages do you speak except of Russian and Armenian?
LA: I don't even speak German I only understand it. I can speak English and German, watch films but I speak really well only Russian...
– What games of World Cup impressed you more?
LA: I can't say that I followed other games attentively. I always watch games of my friends or of those people whose play I like.
– And whose play do you like?
LA: Gelfand's, Mamedyarov's, Sasikiran's. The first two are already out of the World Cup that's why I'll follow the Boris's games.I hope that after I' watch the games of this tournament I'll like someone's else style...
– It's funny, Mamedyarov is younger than you are!
LA: Why can't you like the game of a person who is younger?
– Are you superstitious? Do you believe in signs?
LA: No, I've never believed in any signs and I've never performed any "rituals".
– What do you about San-Luis results?
LA: I'm glad that such an aggressive player as Topalov took there the first place. I always like such a fate's turns when such aggressors come to the place of calm players.
– Then from what type are you?
LA: Generally, Friends call me a chip tactician and it's not far from the truth. I try to play for the victory when I need it…
– So, does it mean that you are a favorite of the tournament?
LA: No, I'm very far from such thoughts.


Tackling your closet is a very hard task and it takes a lot of courage to even consider doing it; especially when you have a closet overflowing with stuff!!! I do not organise my closet that often but when I do, I go all out. I cannot understand how a closet can get so messy or how I manage to accumulate so many things in such a short span of time. Either way, it feels sooo good to clear out my closet and organise it again from the very beginning. I feel like a clean, tidy closet makes me feel like my whole life is in order (even though we all know it's not).
Alex and I just barely bought our wardrobes a few days ago and up until that point, I had clothes everywhereee. Of course, I did not have nearly enough space to keep my stuff and for the most part, I was just living out of my suitcase. However, that is all in the past. Now I can finally live like a normal person being again, whose coats are hanging nicely in the closet and sweaters and jeans are all nicely folded away in the drawers. Knowing how tiring, time-consuming, and sometimes even boring, a closet clear-out can be, I wanted to write this blog post and give you 5 simple steps to follow in order to organise your closet in the most efficient way possible.
STEP 1: Get EVERYTHING out of your closet and put it in a huge pile on your bed (or floor if it works better for you). This will allow you to see all the closet space you actually have available so that you can make the best use out of it! This will also remind you of how many or how little clothes you have and if you have to go do some shopping or if you have to donate 5 bags to a charity shop and take a break from using your credit card.
STEP 2: This is the most fun step of them all! This is the part where you actually have to start going through clothes and decide what you are actually going to keep and what you are not. Make three piles: one with the clothes you will keep, one with the ones you will donate, and one with the ones that are so old that just have to get thrown away. I feel like this is where most of us struggle the most! I have suchhhh a hard time getting rid of things, however, once I do it I feel so much better. I do not have any rules in place as to how I go about this but basically, if it is something very basic like a t-shirt or a sweatshirt which I have not worn in over a year then it has to go. For nicer clothes like a dress or a pair of trousers, I only get rid of if I have not worn them in over two years (or a really long time anyway). I think most people say, if you have not worn it in 6 months, then it has to go, however, I find that that rule does not work for me.
STEP 3: I think this step might not apply to everyone but I always like to do it. So with all the clothes, you decided that you are keeping, separate them into summer or winter wardrobe. All the clothes that are off-season, put them away at the very top shelves.
STEP 4: Hang up all your coats and jackets and then depending on how much more space you have, hang your dresses, jumpsuits, shirts, long skirts and/or any other clothes you have to crease easily.
STEP 5: Now start folding alll the clothes that you have left and put them in categories so that they are tidy and easy to find. Some of the categories I have are jeans, t-shirts, leggings/workout clothes, 'going out' bottoms (skirts/trousers/leggings), hoodies/sweatshirts, nice tops, knitwear etc.
And this is pretty much what I follow to organise my closet. This time it has been particularly hard because obviously, I had to share almost half of the space with Alex, however, I am proud I made it all work! I mean my sweaters' drawer is still overflowing but that is only because they are winter items and take up a lot of space.😇 Thank you for reading and I hope that you found this post helpful! Good luck with your closet organisation mission.


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The 17th Commonwealth Foreign Affairs Ministers Meeting (CFAMM) takes place on 27 September 2018. Ministers from across the Commonwealth will convene during the UN General Assembly in New York.


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The \ub\ package consists of a Perl script which edits \BibTeX\ style
files (|.bst|) to add a \btfield{webpage} entry type, and which adds a
few new fields -- notably including \btfield{url} --
to all other entry types.  The distribution includes preconverted
versions of the four standard \BibTeX\ |.bst| style files.

It has a different goal from Patrick Daly's \package{custom-bib}
package~\cite{url:daly} -- that is intended to create a \BibTeX\ style
|.bst| file from scratch, and supports \btfield{url} and
\btfield{eprint} fields.  This package, on the other hand, is intended
for the case where you already have a style file that works (or at
least, which you cannot or will not change), and edits it to add the
new \btfield{webpage} entry type, plus the new fields.

The added fields are:
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format matching that recommended in
\url{http://arxiv.org/help/faq/references}.  If the option
|--doi| is present, we include support for a |doi| field, referring
to a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) as standardised by
\url{http://www.doi.org/}.  And if |--pubmed| is present, we include
support for a |pubmed| field, referring to a PubMed identifier as
supported at \url{http://www.pubmed.gov}.

If either of the |--hypertex| or |--hyperref| options is present, then
the generated .bst file includes support for hyperlinks in the
generated eprint entries in the bibliography, with the format being
either Hyper\TeX\ (see
\url{http://arxiv.org/hypertex/#implementation}), supported by xdvi,
dvips and others, or using the support available from the
\package{hyperref} package.  These options have no effect unless one
of the |--eprint|, |--doi|, |--pubmed| or |--inlinelinks| options is given:
when URLs are included
in the bibliography, they are written out using the |\url{...}|
command.  The \package{hyperref} support is more generic, and more
generally supported, and so you should choose this unless you have a
particular need for the Hyper\TeX\ support.  The |--nohyperlinks|
option, which is present by default, suppresses all hyperlinking.

By default, any URL field is displayed as part of the bibliography
entry, linked to the corresponding URL via the mechanism managed by
the |--hypertex| and |--hyperref| options.  If the |--inlinelinks|
option is present, however, then the URL is not displayed in the
printed entry, but instead a hyperlink is created, linked to suitable
text within the bibliography entry, such as the citation title.  This
option does not affect the display of eprints, DOI or PubMed fields.  It makes
no sense to specify |--inlinelinks| with |--nohyperlinks|, and the
script warns you if you do that, for example by failing to specify one
of the link-style options.  This option is (primarily) useful if
you're preparing a version of a document which will be read on-screen;
the point of it is that the resulting bibliography is substantially
more compact than it would otherwise be.

The support for all the above behaviours is always included in the
output file.  The options instead control only whether the various
behaviours are enabled or disabled, and if you need to alter these,
you may do so by editing the generated |.bst| file and adjusting
values in the |{init.urlbst.variables}| function, where indicated.

The generated references have URLs inside |\url{...}|.  The best
way to format this this is with the \package{url} package
(see~\cite{texfaq} for pointers), but as a poor alternative, you can
try |\newcommand{\url}[1]{\texttt{#1}}|.  The \package{hyperref}
package automatically processes |\url{...}| in the correct way to
include a hyperlink, and if you have selected \package{hyperref}
output, then nothing more need be done.  If you selected Hyper\TeX\
output, however, then the script encloses the |\url| command in an
appropriate Hyper\TeX\ special.

When the style file generates a link for DOIs, it does so by
prepending the string \texttt{http://dx.doi.org/} to the DOI.  This is
generally reasonable, but some DOIs have characters in them which are
illegal in URLs, with the result that the resulting
\texttt{dx.doi.org} URL doesn't work.  The only real way of resolving
this is to write a URL-encoding function in the style-file
implementation language, but while that would doubtless be feasible in
principle, it would be hard and very, very, ugly.  The only advice I
can offer in this case is to rely on the fact that the DOI will still
appear in the typeset bibliography, and that users who would want to
take advantage of the DOI will frequently (or usually?) know how to
resolve the DOI when then need to.  As a workaround, you could include
a URL-encoded DOI URL in the \btfield{url} field of the entry (thanks
to Eric Chamberland for this suggestion).

The \ub\ script works by spotting patterns and characteristic function
names in the input |.bst| file.  It works as-is in the case of the
four standard \BibTeX\ style files |plain.bst|, |unsrt.bst|,
|alpha.bst| and |abbrv.bst|.  It also works straightforwardly for
many other style files -- since many of these are derived from, or at
least closely inspired by, the standard ones -- but it does not
pretend that it can do so for all of them.  In some cases, such as the
style files for the \package{refer} or \package{koma-script} packages,
the style files are not intended to be used for formatting; others are
sufficiently different from the standard files that a meaningful edit
becomes impossible.  For the large remainder, however, the result of
this script should need only relatively minor edits before being
perfectly usable.

\section{New \texttt{.bib} entry and field types}

The new entry type \btfield{webpage} has required fields
\btfield{title} and \btfield{url}, and optional fields
\btfield{author}, \btfield{editor}, \btfield{note}, \btfield{year},
\btfield{month} and \btfield{lastchecked}.  The \btfield{url} and
\btfield{lastchecked} fields are new, and are
valid in other entry types as well: the first, obviously, is the URL
which is being cited, or which is being quoted as an auxiliary source
for an article perhaps; the second is the date when you last checked
that the URL was there, in the state you quoted it; this is necessary
since some people, heedless of the archival importance of preserving
the validity of URLs, indulge in the vicious practice of reorganising
web pages and destroying links.  For the case of the \btfield{webpage} entry
type, the \btfield{editor} field should be used for the `maintainer'
of a web page.

For example, in Figure~\ref{f:ex} we illustrate two potential |.bib|
file entries.  The \texttt{@webpage} entry type is the new type
provided by this package, and provides reference information for a
webpage; it includes the new \texttt{url} and \texttt{lastchecked}
fields.  There is also an example of the standard \texttt{@book} entry
type, which now includes the \texttt{url} and \texttt{lastchecked}
fields as well.  The difference between the two references is that in
the \texttt{@book} case it is the book being cited, so that the
\texttt{url} provides extra information; in the \texttt{@webpage} case
it is the page itself which is of interest.  You use the new |eprint|,
|doi| and |pubmed| fields similarly, if the bibliographic item in
question has an e-print, DOI or PubMed reference.
\begin{figure}
\begin{verbatim}
@Manual{w3chome,
  url =          {http://www.w3.org},
  title =        {The World Wide Web Consortium},
  year =         2009,
  lastchecked =  {26 August 2009}}

@Book{schutz,
  author =      {Bernard Schutz},
  title =       {Gravity from the GroundUp},
  publisher =   {Cambridge University Press},
  year =        {2003},
  url =         {http://www.gravityfromthegroundup.org/},
  lastchecked = {2008 June 16}}
\end{verbatim}
\caption{\label{f:ex}The new \texttt{@webpage} entry type, and the \texttt{url}
  field in action}
\end{figure}

How do you use this in a document?  To use the the
\texttt{alphaurl.bst} style -- which is a pre-converted version of the
standard \texttt{alpha.bst} style, included in the \texttt{urlbst}
distribution -- you simply make sure that \texttt{alphaurl.bst} is in
your BibTeX search path (use the command \texttt{kpsepath bst} to find
this path and \texttt{kpsewhich alphaurl.bst} to confirm that BibTeX
can find it) and add |\bibliographystyle{alphaurl}| to your \LaTeX\ document.

\section{Sources}

There are various sources which suggest how to format references to
web pages.  I have followed none specifically, but fortunately they do
not appear to materially disagree.

ISO-690~\cite{url:iso690} is a formal standard for this stuff.  Walker
and Taylor's \emph{Columbia Guide to Online Style}~\cite{walker06}
provides extensive coverage (but is only available on dead trees).
There are two style guides associated with the APA, namely
the published APA style
guide~\cite{apastyle} (a paper-only publication, so should be
ignored by all, if there's any justice in the world), and what appears
to be the 1998 web-citation proposal for that~\cite{url:weapas}, which
also includes some useful links.
The TeX FAQ~\cite{texfaq} has both practical advice and pointers to other sources.%
\footnote{Emory University's Goizueta Business Library once had a collection of
useful links on this topic, but they've whimsically changed the URL at least twice
since I first distributed \ub, and I've got fed up fixing their broken link.}

\section{Hints}

If you use Emacs' \BibTeX\ mode, you can insert the following in your
|.emacs| file to add knowledge of the new \btfield{webpage} entry:
\begin{verbatim}
(defun my-bibtex-hook ()
  (setq bibtex-mode-user-optional-fields '("location" "issn")) ; e.g.
  (setq bibtex-entry-field-alist
        (cons
         '("Webpage"
           ((("url" "The URL of the page")
             ("title" "The title of the resource"))
            (("author" "The author of the webpage")
             ("editor" "The editor/maintainer of the webpage")
             ("year" "Year of publication of the page")
             ("month" "Month of publication of the page")
             ("lastchecked" "Date when you last verified the page was there")
             ("note" "Remarks to be put at the end of the entry"))))
         bibtex-entry-field-alist)))
(add-hook 'bibtex-mode-hook 'my-bibtex-hook)
\end{verbatim}
After that, you can add a \btfield{webpage} entry by typing |C-c C-b webpage|
(or |M-x bibtex-entry|).

It is a \emph{very} good idea to use the \package{url} package: it deals with
the problem of line-breaking long URLs, and with the problem that
\BibTeX{} creates, of occasionally inserting \%-signs into URLs in
generated bibliographies.

See also the URL entry in the UK \TeX\ FAQ~\cite{texfaq}, and
references therein.

\textbf{Acknowledgements:} Thanks to Jason Eisner for suggesting
the |--inlinelinks| option, to Pawe\l{} Widera for the
suggestion to use |\path| when formatting DOIs and to Michael Giffin
for the suggestion to include PubMed URLs.

\bibliography{urlbst}
\bibliographystyle{plainurl}

\end{document}

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Q: MVC File Import and Validation without sending file back to user I have a scenario where I want the client to upload a file. I've got this working, and it pulls the file into my controller. I get the first 3 lines of the file and I send that back to the user in another object and view.
What I want to do is keep the file on the server and have the client verify that the contents were good. If the client responds back then we keep the file, and I continue processing it, if they don't like it we delete it.
The two issues I'm trying to figure out is:

*

*when I send back the 3 lines of the file, I don't want to send the file with it but I dont know a good way to reference it

*if the user doesn't respond, I want the file to be removed.

Right now it does this:
User Uploads file to HttpPostedFileBase
I use a stream reader to get the first 3 lines
I send back the 3 lines in an object

A: *

*Create properties in your view model to support storing both the file and the contents. Populate this and send back to the user for approval.

*Ultimately, there is no way for you to accurately do this from a web session. You could attempt to use the Session_end, but this is extremely unreliable. You are going to have to write a batch file that assumes that if the file has been in location x for more han y, delete it.

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Best Dog Walkers in Riverview Terrace of Davenport, IA | Wag!
Riverview Terrace is a neighborhood in Davenport, Iowa, centered around Fillmore Street and Claymore Street and the Riverview Terrace Park. This region is a designated historic district comprising 15 acres with many historic buildings and homes. There are some businesses on Marquette Street and to the north on Washington Street including local pubs, bars, shops, and services that residents can walk to on foot.
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The namesake of the region, Riverview Terrace Park, is a 3-acre park located on a very large, steep hill. It has lots of open areas with trees on the border. Paved paths with stairs provide access to the summit of the hill where a hilltop panoramic view of the river is provided. There is a gazebo picnic area and coin-operated binoculars to take in the view. Your dog can catch their breath while you appreciate your surroundings!
Jefferson Park is located nearby and this 12-acre park provides recreation facilities like a baseball field, playground, and basketball courts adjacent to the local school. Your furry friend may not be welcome on playgrounds or sports fields, but trails around the outside of the park where trees border the area are accessible to your pup and create a greenway that you can enjoy if you keep your them on a leash.


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We elaborate a cultural framing theory of legal cynicism—previously used to account for neighborhood variation in Chicago homicides—to explain Arab Sunni victimization and insurgent attacks during the U.S. post-invasion occupation of Iraq. Legal cynicism theory has an unrecognized power to explain collective and interpersonal violence in international as well as U.S. settings. We expand on how "double and linked" roles of state and non-state actors can be used to analyze violence against Arab Sunni civilians.
Religious Attendance and the Mobility Trajectories of Older Mexican Americans: An Application of the Growth Mixture Model
Although several studies have examined the association between religious involvement and physical functioning, there is no consistent empirical evidence concerning the true nature of the association. The Hispanic population is also surprisingly understudied in previous work. In this article, we employ seven waves of data from the Hispanic Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Study of the Elderly to examine the association between religious attendance and performance-based mobility trajectories among older Mexican Americans.
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A large literature has documented that Hispanic immigrants have a health advantage over their U.S.-born counterparts upon arrival in the United States. Few studies, however, have disentangled the effects of immigrants' arrival cohort from their tenure of U.S. residence, an omission that could produce imprecise estimates of the degree of health decline experienced by Hispanic immigrants as their U.S. tenure increases.
Inhabiting Latino Politics: How Colleges Shape Students' Political Styles
To comply with ideals of multiculturalism and diversity, postsecondary institutions incorporate Latino students into distinct campus cultures. These cultures influence how students interact with one another, the university community at large, and communities outside of campus, ultimately shaping how students inhabit Latino politics. Drawing on data from 20 months of ethnographic fieldwork with six student organizations and 60 in-depth interviews, I compare Latino student organizations in a liberal arts college, a research university, and a regional public university.
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Did rising immigration levels change racial and ethnic exogamy patterns for young adults in the United States? Adding local demographics to Qian and Lichter's national results, the authors examine the relationship between the sizes of the local immigrant populations in urban and rural areas and U.S.-born individuals' exogamy patterns in heterosexual unions, controlling for the areas' racial compositions.
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This article uses archival research to explore important differences in the discursive and institutional positioning of Mexican American and African American men during World War II. Through the focal point of the riots that erupted in Los Angeles and other major cities in the summer of 1943, I examine the ways in which black and Mexican "rioters" were imagined in official and popular discourses. Though both groups of youth were often constructed as deviant and subversive, there were also divergences in the ways in which their supposed racial difference was discursively configured.
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Prior U.S.-based research examining the collective remembrance of racially charged events has focused on the black-white binary, largely bypassing such remembrance among U.S. Hispanics. In this article, I ask how a group of Mexican-origin Hispanics in an historic Houston barrio remember two racially charged events as well as whether and how these events are publicly commemorated. Additionally, race and collective memory research has often highlighted the role of collective memory in shaping race relations.
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