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UFC president Dana White says 'nobody should be defending me' after slapping wife
Dana White is openly taking the criticism from his New Year's Eve incident with his wife, during which the two exchanged slaps at a club in Cabo San Lucas.
ESPN Gave Dana White a Pass on Domestic Violence
The UFC president faces almost no consequences for publicly slapping his wife.
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Dana White's latest venture delayed due to physical altercation with wife: report
UFC president Dana White isn't out of the water yet after video surfaced of him and his wife getting into a slapping incident on New Year's Eve.
Oscar De La Hoya jabs Dana White over physical altercation with wife
Boxing great Oscar De La Hoya took a jab at Dana White over the recent altercation between the UFC president and his wife, Anne, in a Mexico club.
Phil Baroni, ex-UFC fighter, arrested in Mexico for allegedly murdering girlfriend: report
Former mixed martial arts fighter Phil Baroni was arrested in Mexico for allegedly killing his girlfriend. Prosecutors said a woman was found dead on Jan. 1 in San Fernando.
UFC President Dana White seen on video slapping his wife
TMZ has released video of UFC Pesident Dana White slapping his wife, Anne.
Endeavor shares fall after video shows UFC boss Dana White hitting wife on New Year's Eve
Endeavor, run by super agent Ari Emanuel, took full ownership of Dana White-run UFC in 2021.
Fighters react to Stephan Bonnar's sudden death at 45: 'Changed the landscape of the sport'
Several fighters and UFC personalities reacted to the death of former UFC fighter Stephan Bonnar, who unexpectedly passed away this week for an undisclosed reason.
UFC Hall of Famer Stephan Bonnar dead at 45
Stephan Bonnar, UFC Hall of Famer best known for his bout against Forrest Griffin on season one of "The Ultimate Fighter," died Thursday at age 45.
UFC gave an 18-year-old fighter a $50,000 bonus. Now, he wants to buy his mom a minivan — so she can drive him around.
In the latest UFC news, Raul Rosas Jr. looks set to become the next big thing in MMA and will use his bonus to get a minivan for his mom.
UFC's Dana White doubles down on Raiders' failed plan to acquire Tom Brady, Rob Gronkowski
UFC president Dana White appeared on the "ManningCast" and doubled down on the remarks he made about Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski nearly coming to Las Vegas.
Politicians seek to leverage celebrities to reach voters
Candidates in high-profile races nationwide are using celebrity appearances and endorsements as they try to reach voters.
This is what makes female MMA fighters 'unbelievable': Dana White
UFC President Dana White sounded off on the fighting abilities of women mixed martial artists in his combat sport on Friday on "Tucker Carlson Tonight."
UFC mysteriously closes show at Vegas campus to fans, media
The UFC is holding its next fight show without fans or media members in attendance, and the mixed martial arts promotion isn't saying why.
The UFC is holding its next fight show without fans or media members in attendance, and the mixed martial arts promotion isn't saying why. The UFC will stage a 13-bout Fight Night card at the Apex Gym on its corporate campus in Las Vegas on Saturday night, but no fans or reporters will be there. The UFC has held regular televised cards at the small gym since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, but has typically allowed in groups of fans and media representatives.
An MMA fighter seemed to take multiple knockout shots in a row during a 48-second UFC audition gone wrong
In the final Contender Series event of the summer, Mateus Mendonca began things with a bang as he scored a 48-second knockout win over Ashiek Ajim.
UFC's Dana White rips 'do-nothing' media attacking him during COVID: My employees had to feed their families
UFC president Dana White joined Fox News Channel's "Tucker Carlson Tonight" for an interview on his actions during COVID and friendship with Donald Trump.
Ex-NFLer-turned-MMA athlete thinks Packers QB Aaron Rodgers could make it as a UFC fighter
Austen Lane, a former NFL player, performed well during a UFC audition and earned a contract from UFC boss Dana White.
Loyd has 26, sends Storm over Aces in WNBA semis opener
Jewell Loyd scored 26 points, including Seattle's final six, and the Storm edged the Las Vegas Aces 76-73 to take a 1-0 lead in the WNBA semifinals.
An unbeaten 21-year-old earned an instant UFC deal when his hook shot bounced his opponent off the cage
Dana White handed five UFC deals to winning athletes from Tuesday's episode of Contender Series as they all won in awesome ways.
Rob Gronkowski confirms Jon Gruden nixed deal that would've sent him, Tom Brady to Raiders
Nearly two decades after helping bring Tampa Bay its first Super Bowl title, Jon Gruden indirectly helped deliver the Bucs their second Lombardi Trophy. At least, that's the way outspoken Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) boss Dana White explained it Saturday night, with no less an authority than former Tampa Bay tight end Rob Gronkowski seeming to confirm it. Speaking on "UFC 278 with The ...
Nunes beats Peña to regain UFC women's bantamweight belt
Amanda Nunes won a unanimous five-round decision over Julianna Peña in the main event of UFC 277 on Saturday night at American Airlines Center to regain the women's bantamweight championship that she lost last December.
An American fighter nicknamed 'Bodybagz' won a UFC contract on the spot after KO'ing his opponent in front of Dana White
Dana White's Contender Series returned Tuesday with four fights that aired on ESPN from Las Vegas. One fighter was deemed good enough for a UFC deal.
Big punchers shine as UFC packs Jacksonville arena again
The UFC made another stop in Jacksonville and delivered another blockbuster night.
Nevada court rejects bid to revive claim against UFC chief
A Nevada Supreme Court panel has rejected an appeal in a legal battle between UFC President Dana White and a Las Vegas man who went to prison for trying to extort White in a sex-tape case.
A Nevada Supreme Court panel has rejected an appeal in a legal battle between UFC President Dana White and a Las Vegas man who went to prison for trying to extort White in a sex-tape case. A lawyer representing Ernesto Joshua Ramos in his breach-of-contract lawsuit against the mixed martial arts mogul said Monday he will ask the full seven-member court to reconsider the decision handed down Thursday by a three-justice panel. The state high court panel noted Ramos and White previously reached a nondisclosure agreement and said Ramos didn't specify an error by a state court judge in Las Vegas who dismissed his claim.
Peña finds shocking UFC title victory at end of rocky road
Julianna Peña pulled off one of the biggest upsets in mixed martial arts history at UFC 269.
Namajunas, Usman fight in rematches in UFC return to NYC
Rose Namajunas puts her strawweight title up for grabs against Zhang Weil in UFC's return to New York.
Now a single mom, MMA champ Harrison finds new purpose
Kayla Harrison's biography now includes the words "single mom" alongside Olympic gold medalist and mixed martial arts champion.
Jacksonville in national spotlight after 15K fans attend UFC event
An article published in Rolling Stones questioned what the cost of "getting back to normal" will be, especially when half the capacity crowd was from out of state.
'I don't think it gets any better:' UFC thrills sellout Jacksonville crowd, plans to return
A packed crowd. Chants of Duval. Even more chants of USA. Stars and celebrities everywhere. A night that Jacksonville waited for was worth every bit of the wait. And it's just getting started.
Usman beats Masvidal for 18th straight as UFC finds normalcy
UFC 261 returned a sense of normalcy to the sports world with a packed house, a raucous crowd and another victory for Kamaru Usman.
Jacksonville ready for another moment in spotlight of the UFC
It's time, Jacksonville. The Ultimate Fighting Championship is back, packed with a championship card and ready for a full arena of fans on Saturday night at the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena.
UFC returns to Florida with fans, Usman-Masvidal rematch
When UFC President Dana White brought his mixed martial arts behemoth to Florida last May for a closed-door event, he promised a return trip once the state fully reopened.
Health experts urge caution as Jacksonville hosts UFC 261
All eyes will be on Jacksonville Saturday as it hosts Ultimate Fighting Championship 261, the city's first live sports event with a sellout crowd since the pandemic began.
That was fast: Tickets for UFC 261 in Jacksonville sell out 'in minutes'
FILE - In this Sept. 19, 2019, file photo, UFC President Dana White speaks at a news conference in New York. UFC 249 has been canceled after ESPN and parent company Disney stopped White's plan to keep fighting amid the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Gregory Payan, File)JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Tickets for the Ultimate Fighting Championship event in Jacksonville came and went in a hurry on Friday morning. UFC president Dana White said in a post on Twitter that tickets for UFC 261 "sold out in minutes," and was "one of the fastest sell outs in UFC history." Only resale tickets were left on Ticketmaster at noon Friday. AdThank you UFC fans!!!
Slap in the face: Da Crazy Hawaiian, rising slap fight star
Slap fighting, the art of striking another fighter with an open hand for sport, is the latest head-turning spectacular. Slap fighting, yes the art of striking another fighter with an open hand for sport, is the latest head-turning spectacular. Trying to poke fun at the slap-until-you're-knocked out-sport would be, yes, a slap in the face to the Da Crazy Hawaiian. He has has dished out the fiercest open-hand smacks in the United States in his bid to be the most punishing slapper in slap fighting. Da Crazy Hawaiian and Hillbilly Hippie got to lay the slap down round after round that led to a few punch-drunk stumbles but no decision.
They're back: Blockbuster UFC card coming to Jacksonville next month, with fans
(AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Ultimate Fighting Championship is headed back to Jacksonville with a blockbuster card and one very important addition: fans. The UFC held three events in Jacksonville last May, including UFC 249, in the first live sporting event held during the pandemic. Welcome back to Jacksonville 👊🏻 @ufc . There are three championship fights on the card. Welterweight champion Kamaru Usman will have a rematch with Florida's Jorge Masvidal in the main event of UFC 261.
Conventions highlight aggressive fact-check efforts
Both Maddow and CNN's Daniel Dale aired lightning-round fact-checks following President Donald Trump's acceptance speech on Thursday night. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)NEW YORK Rachel Maddow ended her fact-check mission with a lightning round after President Donald Trump's nomination acceptance speech 12 corrections in about a minute. You can't win.Some of the efforts also stretch the definition of fact-checking, like when MSNBC interviewed Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan after a convention speech where South Dakota Gov. There he goes, lying again, anchor Sean Hannity said in cutting off a speech by former President Bill Clinton. Maddow's anchor colleague, Joy Reid, said as the convention's third night was coming to a close that she saw why it was necessary.
WHAT TO WATCH: Trump's moment, Ivanka and Rudy Giuliani
What to watch on the fourth and final night of the Republican National Convention:TRUMPTrump is scheduled to accept his partys renomination in an address from the White House South Lawn. IVANKAThe president will be introduced by his daughter Ivanka Trump, the fourth of his five children to speak during the convention. RUDYDonald Trumps personal attorney Rudy Giuliani is scheduled to help close out the convention. BIDENThe Democrat has laid low this week but he's scheduled to appear at a virtual fundraiser Thursday. ET (a half-hour earlier than the Democratic convention last week) and runs through 11 p.m.
UFC legacies on line for Miocic-Cormier trilogy title fight
FILE - In this July 7, 2018, file photo, Daniel Cormier, right, fights Stipe Miocic during a heavyweight title mixed martial arts bout at UFC 226 in Las Vegas. The trilogy fight between Daniel Cormier and champ Stipe Miocic will crown the greatest heavyweight of all time. UFC 252 Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020, in Las Vegas could be Cormier's last fight ever. It is billed as the super fight to end all super fights -- well, until the next one -- with good reason. Theyll settle the score Saturday when Miocic defends the championship against Cormier in the main event of UFC 252 at the UFC APEX complex in Las Vegas.
No longer Dana White's dream, UFC's Fight Island is real
A few months later, the project that came to be known as Fight Island is real and ready for competition. And while Fight Island is not exactly the idyllic scene evoked by its name, the octagon inside an air-conditioned arena on Abu Dhabi's Yas Island also sits inside a bubble that seems highly unlikely to burst. Rather than a deserted tropical paradise, Yas Island is a modern tourist destination with amusement parks, malls and a Formula One racetrack. Fight Island will host four UFC events in 14 days, starting with three championship fights at UFC 251 this weekend. I dont know, White said.
One Championship making deliberate plans for return to cage
Sityodtong still plans to be a bit more measured on his own path to get One Championship back in the cage during this unprecedented public health crisis. One Championship definitely will return to action this summer, Sityodtong told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Sityodtong is working with government officials and health experts on the fastest path back in China, Thailand and Singapore, One Championship's hometown. Once he finalizes his plans, Sityodtong plans to speed up One's calendar to hold as many events as prudently possible in 2020. But One Championship, which held its most recent show Feb. 28, is proceeding down this difficult path more deliberately than the UFC.
UFC 'Fight Island' revealed in Abu Dhabi, will host 4 shows
The UFC's mysterious Fight Island is actually Yas Island, a popular tourist destination in Abu Dhabi where the mixed martial arts promotion will hold four shows in July. The UFC revealed the location Tuesday and announced a series of fan-free shows at Fight Island, starting with a card tentatively featuring three title fights at UFC 251 on July 11. The UFC has staged past fight cards most recently in September on the leisure island in the United Arab Emirates. The UFC will hold subsequent shows on Yas Island on July 15, July 18 and July 25. White told ESPN, his promotion's broadcast partner, that Fight Island will encompass a hotel and restaurants along with an octagon.
Conor McGregor makes 3rd retirement announcement in 4 years
Conor McGregor has announced his retirement for the third time in four years. McGregor abruptly made his latest dubious declaration Sunday morning on his Twitter account, where the former two-division UFC champion also announced his retirement in 2016 and 2019. Hey guys Ive decided to retire from fighting, McGregor wrote in a caption below a photo of him and his mother. If Conor McGregor feels he wants to retire, you know my feelings about retirement, White said. McGregor made his first Twitter retirement announcement in April 2016 during a spat with the UFC over promotion of his rematch with Nate Diaz.
UFC 249 results: Justin Gaethje dominates Tony Ferguson, claims interim lightweight belt
Gaethje (22-2 MMA, 5-2 UFC) quite simply put on an incredible performance against Tony Ferguson on Saturday night in the main event of a memorable UFC 249. The interim lightweight title bout was the UFC 249 main event at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Fla. It aired on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN/ESPN+ and early prelims on UFC Fight Pass/ESPN+. Ill be real, Its a long camp weight cut had nothing to do with it, Justin is a tough son of an (expletive).Up-to-the-minute UFC 249 results include:Gallery Justin Gaethje def. Tony Ferguson at UFC 249: Best photos view 38 images
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Georges St-Pierre headlines 2020 UFC Hall of Fame class
Georges St-Pierre will join the UFC Hall of Fame this summer. St-Pierre (26-2 MMA, 20-2 UFC), the former UFC middleweight and welterweight champion, will join the modern-era wing of the UFC Hall of Fame as part of the 2020 class. Georges St-Pierre is a pioneer of Canadian MMA who helped build the sport globally, UFC president Dana White said. He was the face of MMA in Canada, helping the UFC set a then-record attendance of more than 55,000 at UFC 129 in April 2011. All that equals up to an unprecedented place in MMA history, and now St-Pierre will be honored for it.
President Donald Trump congratulates Dana White for putting on UFC 249 during pandemic
Donald Trump is happy to see the UFC back in action. The U.S. president was featured in a pre-taped video during Saturdays UFC 249 preliminary broadcast on ESPN, congratulating UFC president Dana White and the UFC for resuming operations and hosting the card during the global coronavirus pandemic. Trump said the following during the broadcast:I want to congratulate Dana White and the UFC. Check out the video of Trump congratulating White and the UFC above. Gallery UFC 249 in an empty Jacksonville arena: Best photos view 16 images
UFC President Dana White says sports can resume but will 'lose a lot of money'
Ultimate Fighting Championship President Dana White said Tuesday he believes many sports leagues could resume competition but it would come at a price. You're going to lose your live gate, which is millions and millions of dollars," White said on "Closing Bell." "You're going to lose a lot of money. And it's going to cost you a lot of money now to put on the sport, to make sure that it is safe. The UFC events will be the rare live sporting event on television during the crisis.
For Dana White and the UFC, a hard lesson on perspective and power structure | Opinion
In the mixed martial arts bubble, UFC president Dana White is the master of the universe. Newsom had reached out directly to Disney executives to express his misgivings about the UFC running at Tachi Palace. If the UFC had persisted, Newsom could have had the commission pull its promotional license and never given it another thought. The rock-bottom dumbest takes out there are the trolls who think the media is actively rooting for the UFC to fail. How the company responds from here will determine whether the UFC can bounce back or whether the reputational damage is permanent.
Dana White says he's 'securing a private island' for fights, promises safe UFC 249
UFC president Dana White insists UFC 249 wont be a one-off return to action: The fight schedule will be in full swing again beginning April 18. After that, though, he claims the promotion will be setting up shop on a private island. I locked this venue (that will host UFC 249) for two months, White told TMZ on Monday. Im also a day or two away from securing a private island. Im going to start flying them all into the private island and start doing international fights from there.
Pro-Trump America First groups raise $50 million with $42 million on hand going into 2020
Pro-Trump outside groups America First Action and America First Policies combined to raise $50.4 million in 2019 giving the president a boost going into an election year. President Donald Trump, whose campaign raised $46 million last quarter, will also be seeing an advantage from his flagship super PAC in 2020 with America First Action finishing 2019 raising just over $19 million, according to the groups' spokeswoman. The nonprofit, America First Policies, which focuses on promoting many of the president's policy accomplishments, brought in $31 million. "America First Action is well-positioned to help the President deliver a crushing victory in 2020. Combining our year end fundraising, fundraising to date and total pledges, this places us at $106 million, well on our way to achieve our fundraising goal for the election year.


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Article: Spinning the Cyber War
I wrote a piece for the Guardian about the recent DDoS attack that was breathlessly described as 'breaking' the 'entire Internet'. I don't know that I'd go so far as to say the original reporting was "shoddy" (a sub-editor wrote that headline) but certainly scepticism was severely lacking. Unfortunately, as long as the public continue to expect something for nothing this is the type of journalism in store. Public relations people are constantly badgering journalists to run stories that serve some private interest. These journalists used to be paid a decent wage to report their own stories. Now their numbers are crashing yet they are expected to write more with fewer resources in less time. If you want quality journalism there's no way around it. We have to pay for it.
How a cyberwar was spun by shoddy journalism
The Guardian, Friday 29 March 2013
Journalistic scepticism was lacking when stories about a DDoS attack 'breaking' the internet surfaced. This is a real future risk
'A lot of people have a lot to gain from peddling scare stories about cyber "warfare". As with any type of politics it's important to know precisely who is making the claims and what their interests are.' Photograph: Daniel Law/PA
A veteran Reuters reporter related a piece of advice given by his editor: "It's not just what you print that makes you an authoritative and trusted source for news, but what you don't print."
He wasn't talking about censorship, he was talking about what separates journalism from stenography and propaganda: sceptical scrutiny. The professionalism of the craft isn't simply learning to write or broadcast what other people tell you. Crucially it is the ability to delve, interrogate and challenge, and checking out stories you've discovered through your own curiosity, or robustly testing what other people tell you is true.
Scepticism was in short supply this week when breathless claims about the collapse of the internet were published in such reputable publications as the New York Times, the BBC and even technical journal Ars Technica, all falling prey to the hyped-up drama of a DDoS attack against Spamhaus, a group that tracks spammers, and their alleged attacker Cyberbunker, a Dutch hosting company Spamhaus had blacklisted.
Ars Technica described the attack as at "a scale that's threatening to clog up the internet's core infrastructure and make access to the rest of the internet slow or impossible". "If a Tier 1 provider fails, that risks breaking the entire internet," it continued.
There is risk everywhere. Being alive carries the risk of death. It's no good just saying what might happen (that's the role of a screenwriter or novelist), what matters is the likelihood of it happening. The "risk" of the entire internet breaking from such an attack is very small. That should have killed off the worst of the scaremongering headlines and alerted the sceptical reporter that something was afoot.
A lot of people have a lot to gain from peddling scare stories about cyber "warfare". As with any type of politics it's important to know precisely who is making the claims and what their interests are.
In whose interest is it to hype up the collapse of the internet from a DDoS attack? Why, the people who provide cyber security services of course. And looking at the reporting, almost all the sources are directly involved and have a vested interest. The claims about the scale of the attack are from CloudFlare, the anti-DDoS firm hired by Spamhaus to ward off the attack. Eschewing subtlety they blogged about the event: "The DDos that Almost Broke the Internet".
As soon as you have a source with a direct involvement, scepticism should be your guide. Sadly, reporters don't always have the time or space for scepticism, and increasingly they are judged only on their ability to fill space at speed. In this environment there is no incentive to challenge a good yarn.
While the infrastructure of the internet might not be easy for reporters to understand, simply juxtaposing quotes from opposing sides isn't all there is to journalism. Yes, this was a big attack in terms of traffic directed against one website (approx 300Gbps), but the internet seemed to cope just fine.
Even if you knew nothing about technology, you could have done what Sam Biddle did at Gizmodo and simply asked some challenging, sceptical questions such as:
• Why wasn't my internet slow?
• Why didn't anyone notice this over the course of the past week, when it began?
• Why isn't anyone without a financial stake in the attack saying the attack was this much of a disaster?
• Why haven't there been any reports of Netflix outages, as the New York Times and BBC reported?
• Why do firms that do nothing but monitor the health of the web, like Internet Traffic Report, show zero evidence of this Dutch conflict spilling over into our online backyards?
This story wasn't just a failure to understand technology. It was a failure of basic journalism practice. To be willing to not write the story if it didn't stack up.
This is the danger of the "dark age of journalism", as it has been called. The training of the old Reuters reporter is replaced by one of political and corporate collusion. The separation between newsrooms and public relations agencies growing ever thinner as reporters rush to fill space at all costs, regardless of truth.
Even after she'd written the piece in the New York Times, tech reporter Nicole Perlroth tweeted how she was still getting targeted by corporate PRs to cover the "story": "Hi Nicole, News is just breaking on the biggest cyber-attack in history. Are you planning on covering?"
The collapse of journalism combined with complex, fast-changing technology offers a wealth of opportunity for propagandists. In the soil of ignorance, fear can easily be sown. So it is with cyberwarfare.
Article: Last of the Assange fans sees the light
Assange is no hero. He's just another Max Clifford
The Times (London), February 8, 2013 Friday
Jemima Khan so believed in the cause of WikiLeaks, of opening up state secrets to the public gaze, that she put up bail for Julian Assange, a man accused of rape and sexual assault. Now, in an article for the New Statesman she writes of her disillusionment, warning that he risks going from Jason Bourne to L. Ron Hubbard.
Mr Assange is an example of the crusading campaigner who equates righteousness with media attention. He hijacked a noble cause as a means of self-aggrandisement. Indeed, at his 40th birthday party he auctioned photographs of himself to the assembled celebrity admirers. Many people, not just Ms Khan, were so eager for him to be the person they wanted him to be that they failed or refused to see what he was: a morally questionable man exploiting idealistic supporters to advance his own fame.
Some cling to the fiction that Mr Assange "changed the game". Did he? As a result of his actions governments across the world have been frightened into ever greater internet surveillance. If a campaigner's ultimate aim is to change the law, WikiLeaks has failed.
WikiLeaks was at its best before Mr Assange took the credit for it, when it was a team publishing on the internet material that journalists couldn't report in their own countries. The "megaleaks" of thousands of documents – the Afghan and Iraq war logs and the US diplomatic cables – were certainly powerful. But the credit belongs to Bradley Manning, the US soldier detained since 2010, who risked his life to make them public. It's clear from his chat logs that educating the public was his goal, not granting Mr Assange a proprietorial licence to cajole journalists into writing sycophantic profiles. For that reason I was happy to break his monopoly and leak his most precious leak – the diplomatic cables.
"WikiLeaks exposed corruption, war crimes, torture and cover-ups," Jemima Khan writes. No it didn't. It was exposed by Private Manning and the reporters who spent weeks digging through the data to make sense of it and produce stories that stacked up. Mr Assange's contribution was to organise – or rather get his young interns and lackeys to organise – the huge press conference in which he starred as saviour.
Mr Assange is, at best, a middle man of the Max Clifford variety, brokering deals between source and newspaper. Except that Private Manning got only incarceration and a potential life sentence. Far from advancing the cause of openness worldwide, Mr Assange has gravely undermined it by so shamelessly making it all about himself.
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Anonymity is a Privilege Not a Right
A few notes on why I generally don't respond to anonymous people on twitter or in comments.
Anonymity is a privilege. Words are powerful and if that power is not to be abused it must be accountable.
There are some cases where granting the privilege of anonymity is necessary and warranted. Primarily this is where direct harm would befall someone if he or she were identified as the source of the words. Such is the case with whistleblowers, insiders or someone in a vulnerable position. If these people are identified, they face the immninent threat of losing their jobs, their livlihoods or their well-being. They may face personal attack (physical or legal) for speaking out. They may be breaking corporate confidentiality even though what they expose is in the public interest.
Others need anonymity to be able to voice inconvenient truths, or to simply tell their stories. Women posting about driving without a male overseer in Saudi Arabia, for example, need anonymity to avoid being arrested.
The primary justification for anonymity is provable harm.
There are other occasions where people use anonymity to take on a different persona in order to explore different parts of themselves or simply for fun. I don't see a problem with this so long as they aren't hurting anyone.
But the idea that anonymity is a right and not a privilege is wrong. There needs to be good reason to avoid being accountable for what we say or write, particularly if what we say affects other people. Too often online, anonymity is the tool of the bullying coward, a means to avoid responsibility for publishing threats, abuse and lies.
That doesn't mean writing only anodyne, inoffensive drivel. It does mean having the courage of your convictions and the ability to withstand criticism. If you believe in what you say, put your name behind it. People may disagree with you. That's fine. But if they launch an anonymous ad hominem attack that is not fine. It reveals a weak argument made by someone who is a coward, a fool and/or a nasty piece of work.
A rebuttal to the Leveson Inquiry circa 1938
Perusing some old books in the London Library, I came across this statement on the English press. It's as relevant today as it was in 1938.
But in England the links between government and newspapers are much more remote and subtle. The newspaper press is largely trustified – that is, controlled by rich men whose interests on the whole are bound up with conservatism. At the same time the commercial aspect of newspapers – reader-interest on the one hand and advertising on the other – make daily newspapers incline towards sensationalism, which means, towards opening their columns to anything which seems likely to increase circulation. And this sensationalism, bad as it is on the aesthetic and moral sides, does at least ensure a continuation of competition and rivalry in enterprise, which brings in its wake much of what we value as "freedom of expression of opinion."
From "Propaganda" by Richard S. Lambert (Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd, 1938)
Video: The Revolution Will Be Digitised
Random House have done a trailer for my upcoming book: The Revolution Will Be Digitised. Available from August 18th.
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Prince Andrew: Time to go
"The gas can be turned up and the gas can be turned down," the minister said, but stressed there was no question of removing the prince. "The royals go on, that is what they do," he said.
This was said not about the Saudi royal family in light of the pro-democracy movements sweeping the Middle East, rather they are the words of a UK cabinet minister speaking about the British royal family in today's newspapers. The power the Royal family wield and the public money they claim is entirely a matter for their own discretion. Prince Andrew apparently cannot be sacked from his 'voluntary role' at the UK Trade & Investment government agency despite becoming a national embarrassment with his cosy meetings with despots and criminals.
Former Foreign Minister Chris Bryant tried to raise the issue of Prince Andrew's position and lack of accountability on the floor of the House of Commons. "Isn't it time we dispensed with the services of the Duke of York?" he asked.
Amazingly he was scolded by the Speaker John Bercow for daring to ask this much-needed question:
"References to members of the Royal Family should be very rare, very sparing and very respectful. We have to be very careful in our handling of these matters."
Do we? Why? Are we living in Thailand where it is illegal to criticise the Royal Family? Or Brunei where the Constitution states "His Majesty the Sultan can do no wrong in either his personal or any official capacity" and further admonishes that "No person shall publish or reproduce in Brunei or elsewhere any part of proceedings that may have the effect of lowering or adversely affecting directly or indirectly the position, dignity, standing, honour, eminence or sovereignty of His Majesty the Sultan". It seems Prince Andrew shares a similar standing to the Sultan in John Bercow's mind.
It is remarkable we know as much as we do about Prince Andrew's activities as the Royal family are protected from public accountability by law. Last May in the wash-up of government an amendment to the Freedom of Information Act was pushed through granting the royal family an absolute exemption from the public's right to know. Even before this, the Royals were not covered by the law directly. Instead the public had a limited right to make FOIs to public bodies about royal funding and lobbying of public officials. Now even that minimal level of accountability has been eliminated.
This is a travesty. As long as the royal family can cream off public money and influence public policy all without any form of public accountability then we are subjects not citizens and in no position to lecture anyone about democracy.
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Public call for stronger data protection
UK Information Commissioner Christopher Graham has handed out the first fines for breaches of the Data Protection Act saying they will "send a strong message" to those handling data.
The commissioner was given the ability to fine organisations up to £500,000 for breaching the Act earlier this year. Hertfordshire County Council was fined £100,000 for sending two faxes regarding a child sex abuse case to the wrong recipient. Sheffield-based company A4e was fined £60,000 after a computer containing the unencrypted data of 24,000 people was lost. Both incidents occurred in June.
In these cases, both organisations came forward of their own accord. In some American states such as California, revealing breaches such as this is mandatory The system in the UK is currently voluntary although a recent poll published by LogRhythm showed that 80 percent of people wanted more stringent laws regarding data breaches.
Out of the 5000 people surveyed, 31 percent even suggested that company directors should be subject to criminal proceedings. Many have welcomed the commissioner's step towards protecting sensitive data. The Financial Times referred to Graham as a "privacy watchdog chief with a bite", and noted that the announcement follows criticism of the ICO's handing of the Google Street View data collection controversy.
Perhaps the ICO is trying to prove it is a watchdog with teeth.
Tags: A4e, Christopher Graham, Data Protection Act, Google, Hertfordshire County Council, ICO, Information Commissioner
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Facebook rival Diaspora goes live
A "privacy aware" social network called Diaspora went live on Wednesday. It was founded earlier this year by four students from New York University who saw an opportunity for a new type of service to counter Facebook which has increasingly come under attack for its dubious privacy policy.
One of Diaspora's founders, Maxwell Salzberg told the BBC: "We are going after the idea there are all these centralised services where people are giving up their personal information. We want to put users back in control of what they share."
It's refreshing to see a social network that doesn't require individuals to hand over reams of private data but with Facebook's 500 million members, is there a place for Diaspora? Although the company plans to roll out services gradually, subscription to the site is only available to a small number of invited users.
Salzberg says Diaspora, "is not just about Facebook. Facebook is not what we are going after." But the founders will have to progress past the "baby steps" they outline in a blog post on the site if they want their privacy-championing project to challenge the status quo.
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I've added three new listings to events page. If you were hoping to come along to the Edinburgh International Book Festival I'm afraid it's already sold out.
Thursday 12 August – 7.00pm – Frontline Club
Saturday 21 August – 12:00-1:00pm – Edinburgh International Book Festival
Monday 13 September – 7:00-8:30pm – Westminster Skeptics, London
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A few words on the Times paywall
Inevitably since I've written for the Times a few readers have questioned why, as the paper's online content is no longer free. Andrew Denny, for example, wrote: 'Is there not an irony in the fact that your Times articles are now online behind a paywall and not openly accessible?'
It's a point I'd like to address.
Firstly this comment is to miss the clear difference between a public body and private industry. The courts are paid for by the public. We have no choice but to pay our taxes – under threat of jail – to support this service which exists for the benefit of the public as a whole. Whether we like what we get is immaterial to the taxes we must pay. Transparency is one of the only ways to ensure this public body is working efficiently for the benefit of all, not just the elite.
The Times is a private company. Its survival depends entirely on whether people feel they get something of value for the money they pay. Newspapers are not free and they never have been. They can appear to be so but someone, somewhere is covering the costs whether that is through advertising, a patron's largesse or a license fee. Advertising is no longer subsidising the industry and so the cost must fall somewhere – why not on the people who use it?
I actually believe journalism must improve if the Times is asking people to pay for it, as readers are not going to pay for inaccurate rumour or propaganda. They can get that anywhere – for free. What quality journalism can offer is synthesis of a great amount of material which is then verified and put into language everyone can understand.
I believe the experience and skills I've gained over 22 years as a journalist and writer have value which is why I don't give away my work for free. I've written for the Times because they have valued what I do enough to pay me. The New Statesman magazine also asked me to write an article but they didn't want to pay me anything. To me, that shows how much they value quality journalism.
If you don't think there is any value in the work I, or any other serious journalists do, then don't spend your money on it. At least you have the choice. You'll still have to pay your taxes, though.
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It's no secret: It takes money to start a business or expand an existing operation. But as a growing number of people are discovering, it IS possible to start or grow a business using none of your own cash.
There are street-smart (but absolutely legal) ways to get the money you need when you don't have it yourself (or don't want to use your own cash).
In some countries it's called 'shoestring financing'; others talk about 'bootstrapping.' But whatever – the words mean exactly the same thing: getting started with small amounts (or none) of your own cash.
When you buy real estate using "nothing down" techniques, you're not buying property without cash – you're buying without your own cash.
The simplest example would be if you could borrow the total amount of the purchase price. You'd end up owning the property without having to lay out one cent of your own cash, but the seller gets the full price.
You can use no-cash strategies to buy an existing business (usually called a 'leveraged buy out' or LBO) without using your own money. It's done quite often.
A typical LBO deal might involve the buyers borrowing against the assets of the business being acquired – yes, the loan can be arranged before they buy! The proceeds of the loan are used to purchase the business, if necessary with a top-up using other no-cash methods.
In this technique, the buyers take over the company without having to put up their own money, and the cash receipts of the business being purchased are used to service the debt. No cash outlay, no on-going payments out of their pockets.
In these dealings the sellers get cash. It's just not YOUR cash. And you get to own the real estate or the business. Okay?
Likewise, no-cash startup and expansion strategies don't involve your own cash.
Sometimes you can use just one strategy to get your business started; more often it will require a mix. When you know what the possible options are, you choose the one/s that will work for you.
When you buy goods on credit, obviously you can sell them before they have to be paid for. You make the sales, take your profit, pay the supplier. That's a no-cash deal.
Can't get credit? What about selling from a sample, then paying for and supplying the goods after you've closed a sale? Again, you take the profits but require no up-front cash.
Will you need premises to sell the products or operate from? There are a lot of ways to get into possession of the right space before you have to pay.
"Customer financing" is another straightforward way to get cash to pay for what you need before you have to supply the goods or services.
When you can offer what the customer wants, getting cash to start can be quite easy (either from the customer OR from a third party). No need to think small, either. A large company may be prepared to totally fund even a sizeable startup or expansion if you offer something they need.
Another very obvious no-cash strategy is to begin as a partnership. When two people join together to start a business, it's quite common for one partner to only bring ideas and/or expertise but no money. The other puts up the capital.
From the point of view of the person who has the ideas and expertise but no cash invested, that's a no-cash deal.
You don't want to be married to a partner forever? Then set up a 'buy-back' arrangement in advance, where you agree to take back the other person's shares (and get full ownership) at some pre-agreed stage.
There are hundreds of different possible approaches to get cash. Things get a lot more interesting than these easy examples, but you get the idea.
In fact, I believe you'll be astonished at the range of possibilities. No-cash strategies allow you to select from a huge range of ways to put your project together using none of your own cash.
The fact that you have capital isn't a guarantee that your venture will be successful. Many businesses that start out with a tonne of money end up broke, while operators using no-cash strategies often become seriously successful.
How come? One crucial reason is that they force you to start out mean, and they keep you focused on staying lean. You learn the best ways to find money, how to stretch and maximize every single dollar, and the smartest deals to do.
However, don't make the mistake of thinking that starting lean and fostering frugality means reducing quality or doing anything else that could hurt the business.
I'm talking only about taking advantage of every opportunity to conserve resources and eliminate waste.
And don't think that a focus on frugality and the proper use of resources is only necessary if you haven't got a lot of cash to throw at your business. It is NOT some second-best solution just for people who don't have enough money.
Today it's the way every business must start out – and continue operating.
In fact, many times it is lack of capital and the need to follow the no-cash techniques that is a major reason a business succeeds.
Apart from anything else, being forced to get everything you possibly can out of the resources you have makes you a much better business person: Learning to use money carefully becomes a part of your business culture.
When tough times come, frugal habits and knowing the options will be the difference between the business that lurches or falls, and the business that wins.
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Marshall Bird LL.B, LL.M is an international lawyer, and the author of a number of business texts. His recently released "No-Cash Startups: How to Start a Business Using None of Your Own Cash" is the total toolbox for no-cash startups. Its 900+ pages are jam-packed with the shrewdest ways to set your venture up using minimum money, and the smartest ways to ensure that it makes money from the start. Many of the strategies have never been revealed before.


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Women's Leadership Initiative: Women Supporting Women
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Cadwalader's Women's Leadership Initiative is hosting a winter social focused on the theme "women supporting women." We are partnering with Sozo Gallery and local artist Laura McCarthy, who will speak about her art and her community involvement with Charlotte's homless population.
For more information about the event or the artist, please contact Cori Niemann at cori.niemann@cwt.com or at +1 704.348.7857.
More Information About Artist Laura McCarthy:
Laura Alma McCarthy received her BFA from the University of North Carolina Charlotte. She earned another undergraduate degree in History from Davidson College in Davidson, NC. Her awards include an Emerging Artist Grant from the North Carolina Arts and Science Council to develop a new body of works on paper. She has received residency fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and Virgina Commonwealth University Studio Program. She was integral in the founding of the artist collective ARPA, a group of 10 artists who met during a 2005 residency here at McColl Center.
Laura McCarthy also runs the non-profit One-breath. The mission of One-breath is to end the cycle of chronic homelessness, incarceration, and trauma that often accompanies the disease of addiction and mental health issues through the use of yoga and mindfulness practices.
Laura McCarthy and the Sozo Gallery will be donating 10% of any sales at the event to go to One-breath.
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Peter Guralnick Gets Lost in Profiles of Musical Giants
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Music journalist Peter Guralnick (left) In New Orleans with Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis, September 2011.
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Peter Guralnick didn't set out to be a music journalist. The occupation didn't really exist at the time when a combination of luck and bluster led the obsessive blues fan to interview a "rediscovered" Skip James in 1965 for a non-existent magazine assignment.
His piece was eventually published, and it started him on a path of music and discovery that's lasted 50+ years, with a body of work that includes many seminal books of musician profiles, a novel, and the definitive biographies of Elvis Presley, Sam Cooke, and Sun Records founder Sam Phillips.
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His latest effort is the door-stop sized compendium Looking to Get Lost: Adventures in Music & Writing (576 pp., $30, Little, Brown & Co.). Featuring reprinted, revised, and unpublished pieces—with a dash of autobiography—it's an in-depth and compelling summation of his life's work and encounters to date.
"Writing about music is, as more than one dismissive wag has pointed out, a little like dancing about architecture," he writes in the book. "What I was trying to capture, though, I realized from the start, was the feeling, not the technique. [Writing] that would in a sense mimic the same emotions not just that I experienced, but that I believed the musician had put into the music in the first place."
On the phone the day after Thanksgiving, Guralnick says the excitement of holding a finished copy of one of his books for the first time has never diminished. "That never goes away. After the entire process, the thrill never wears off. And this one developed into something more, going across genres and to an extent that my own story intersects with it," he says. "But if I called it a summation, I'd get worried because I think 'What's next?' I looked at it more as a gathering of old friends."
Guralnick talks to and digs deep into the giants of country, bluegrass, R&B, soul, and early rock like Ray Charles, Bill Monroe, Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynette, Howlin' Wolf, Joe Tex, Jerry Lee Lewis, Merle Haggard, Chuck Berry, and Solomon Burke (with whom he'd have a closer relationship). Along with pieces on songwriters Mike Leiber, Jerry Stoller, and Doc Pomus, and Elvis' manager Col. Tom Parker—larger than life characters all.
The reader will also encounter Delbert McClinton, Eric Clapton, Elvis Costello, Allen Toussaint, and a couple of non-musical subjects. One of the unpublished pieces is practically a short regular biography of lesser-known classic country star Dick Curless. That one is particularly close to the author's heart and 20 years in the making, but only actually written in the past two or three. Guralnick says that Looking to Get Lost was the perfect outlet for the end result.
At the Lone Star Cafe: Doc Pomus in front, unknown, Ben E. King, Peter Guralnick, Solomon Burke, and Don Covay.
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Along the way, he also reveals a bit about his journalistic approach, and how even the friendliest of subjects has a certain wariness meeting a writer. When he tells the story of having to read a published piece he wrote about Howlin' Wolf – out loud to the man himself just before he stepped on stage for a club gig — the sweat and nervousness coming off a young Guralnick fairly oozes from the page, his experience fleshed out from the piece as originally published in his 1971 book Feel Like Going Home.
Success for conducting a good interview, he adds, has little to do with technique and everything to do with respecting the subject and his/her work, gaining their trust, getting them to speak honestly and intimately, and preparation, preparation, preparation. Guralnick knows that the kind of artist access he had is a rarity in modern times, though he points out that his subjects weren't huge pop or rock stars of the day.
"Many of the people I wrote about hadn't been written about in much detail before. So hanging out for four or five days with Lonnie Mack was something that could happen, even though I was [ostensibly] down for a record release party," he says. "What became the story wasn't the original purpose. You're around and you just see what develops. You don't always know the story going in."
Peter Guralnick today.
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One of the more interesting chapters recounts Guralnick's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-organized "The Summit of Rock" event in 2011 when he interviewed Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Fats Domino all in the same room at the same time. Of that Mt. Rushmore of early rock, only Lewis survives today.
"That was quite an experience. The most fun I've ever had, but also the most daunting," Guralnick offers. Perhaps the biggest surprise was how the age and mutual respect of the quartet softened some historically sharp edges and grudges.
Berry talked about poetry and his father's love of it (reciting lines from memory) as much as music. Richard went to "great lengths and was incredibly kind" to try to coax and encourage the mostly-silent Domino (suffering from early dementia) to be part of the conversation by singing snippets of his own songs back to him.
When asked to play some Domino songs on a piano in the room, the normally ready-for-any-challenge Lewis demurred out of respect. In fact, all three were so fond of Fats, any well-documented quarrel they might have with each other (usually about careers and credit) just disappeared.
"Chuck's memory was failing, and he was much more mellow and open to talking about things he otherwise wouldn't. And you have to be open to going where the particular moment takes you in a profile rather than have a pre-determined [agenda]," he says. "You have to be prepared to make abrupt left turns, right turns, and U-turns! Jerry Lee told me in the group interview how much of an influence Fats Waller was on him. The next day, during the individual interview when I asked [more] about that, he said he didn't know what I was talking about! So you just have to go along."
So, given the stature of the giants and titans of many genres of music Peter Guralnick writes about in Looking to Get Lost, the reader if left to ponder (in the words of the George Jones song), "Who's gonna fill their shoes?" And the answer that comes to mind first is "nobody."
"I don't know if that's true. I've also written about people far less well-known, but of no less significance," Guralnick counters. "What you don't have today is the centrality there was then. Someone like Johnny Cash could Ray Charles could span generations and genres and reach audiences from such different backgrounds around the world, and they had a staying power. You really don't have that anymore."
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Bob Ruggiero has been writing about music, books, visual arts and entertainment for the Houston Press since 1997, with an emphasis on classic rock. He used to have an incredible and luxurious mullet in college as well. He is the author of the band biography Slippin' Out of Darkness: The Story of WAR.


The editor is ready to trade in her Easter basket for a delicious Egg Fu Yung omelet from Asian Mix.
With April 1 right around the corner, I suspect many of you are gathering the kids around to decorate and dye your eggs, then stow them away in secret corners of the backyard for an epic Easter egg hunt. Well, here at Dining Out, we do love seeking out all of those candy-wrapped chocolate bunnies hidden about, but we also have a few other ideas in mind for what you can do with those eggs. I'll give you one hint: It's all about eating them.
Not surprisingly, this time of year sees a spike in cravings for "egg-cellent" fare, from deviled eggs and egg salad (my mom makes the best one every Easter!) to tamago, hard-boiled eggs and those yolky ajitama gems in our bowls of ramen. And let's not forget about flan and egg tarts for those of us with a nagging sweet tooth.
Now that I have you salivating over eggfilled bites, I'm going to turn your foodie attention toward a morning-time specialty, and I'm not talking about a simple scramble or sunny-side-up. I'm referring to the delicate art of omelet-making, and though we normally associate this with the French omelette, this dish has become somewhat of a global phenomenon that, as you'll see here, is not only eaten for breakfast!
We Americans love our omelets, and when you want the perfect mix of all-American diner fare and local-style favorites, you can find it at the comfort-food mecca known as Big City Diner.
Although the local dining chain, complete with six locations around Oahu, is known for such indulgent dishes as guava barbecue baby back ribs, burgers and kimchee fried rice, the menu also is home to a host of healthier options, from salads to veggie-filled stir-fry and fresh fish options in between. In fact, Big City Diner's Kailua and Windward Mall branches offer dishes that are in accordance with the Blue Zone Project, a large-scale initiative aimed at helping communities across the U.S. lead healthier lifestyles.
This showstopper is packed with lean, healthy ingredients like 6 ounces of egg whites, tofu, tons of veggies — spinach, local tomatoes, fresh mushrooms, sweet onion and broccoli — and some cheddar and jack cheeses. With the addition of whole wheat toast, brown rice and a choice of drink (orange juice, coffee or tea), there's no way you won't feel satisfied, and guilt-free.
Patrons also have the option of building their own omelets, so don't hesitate to be the chef of your own marvelous combo of veggies, cheese and meat — such as Portuguese sausage, Spam, ham and bacon.
Before leaving, Franks let Dining Out in on an insider secret: Ask about the chili or kalua pig omelets, both off-the-menu favorites (limited availability). Last, but not least, the chef reminds readers that Big City Diner's Famous Guava Barbecue Sauce is now available by the bottle at all restaurants.
If you haven't tried the Chinese-style omelet egg fu yung, I urge you to make it your next meal. And whether it's your first time tasting this dish or it's already one of your favorites, be sure to order it from Asian Mix.
Owner Daniel Leung says that the dish may be a rather simple recipe, but it remains popular with patrons because it is a comfort-food staple.
Asian Mix prepares its Egg Fu Yung ($8.95) with green onion, shredded onion and bean sprouts, while sesame oil and a touch of white-pepper ensure it is well-seasoned and flavorful. What I love most is that the large, lightly pan-fried egg patties are deliciously soft and fluffy. The dish is made with five to six large eggs, so it's quite a filling portion, but if you would like to add even more heartiness, you also can order fu yung with barbecue pork or shrimp incorporated into the egg mixture (prices vary).
The traditional way to enjoy Egg Fu Yung is with gravy poured on top, so Asian Mix offers the option of adding gravy for 50 cents. The light yet flavorful gravy is prepared with chicken broth and oyster sauce. Also good to note: This is not a breakfast dish, but rather commonly enjoyed as part of a lunch or dinner spread. Leung recommends savoring it with steamed rice on the side.
If you like what you taste, be sure to consider Asian Mix the next time you need catering, as that side of the business continues to grow in popularity.


The group of the intestines to them the methods of advocacy in the Islamic call and is first: to make the celebration of the principle of advocacy of the outreach of the two parties to apply the public domain. Second: The duration of the celebration is about seven hours, from night to morning. Third: The subject of discussion in the monthly celebration is the current problem of the society and the nation. Fourth: the community of the intimacy and gave a new face of the Islamic call. Fifth: its monthly celebration in a place outside what can be attended by everyone without coercion and coercion. Sixth: The use of the media and these means match the present time. Seventh: Making Islam an Islamic society and soon solve their problems.
Who are Maiyah Community? This question must be asked before we know their ways to call. It is the intestinal group who are concerned with the idea of intestines. The same intimacy was issued from the word "with" in Surat al-Tawbah: 40 (Do not grieve that Allah is with us). This word is in the migration of the Prophet Muhammad with Abu Bakr al-Siddiq and they are hiding in Ghor Thur. After that, the idea of intimacy is divided into three, which is the meaning of God and the meanings of the Prophet and the people. These three will get the subject of the religion of Islam and is the ethics of dignity.
The idea of Maayyah was explained by two sources: first, from the biography of the Prophet Muhammad and his companions. And the second of the late scholars mystified, and the largest references to the group Maia are Ibn Arabi and Sheikh Yusuf al-Maqsari. These two worlds said the idea of intimacy, was the son of an Arab says with a fondness for self-affirmation and is the struggle of the soul for a passion for one: Taharha to reach God. Sheikh Yusuf Al-Maqsari used the word Mu'iyyah in Jihad to fight the colonial kingdom of the Netherlands. And from their words, the word "intestines" is used for jihad, either to be superficial or to be apparent.
From this definition, Mohamed Ain Najib in the book "Salk Maayah" that the Maia is a monthly celebration or an increase of the month in a place outside and attended by a group of people about seven hours, and those who came there without coercion and coercion. The celebration was from night until morning. And the question here, what is the program about seven hours? And what made the attendees stay in it until the end of the program about seven hours? Is this celebration of the Council of Science or the Council of the male or more? What is the relationship between this group and the application of the public domain? The most important of these questions, what are the methods that the community of Maia in the Islamic call?
He was born on May 27, 1953 on Wednesday, 13th of Ramadan, in Mentura Sumobito, Jombang, East Java Province, Indonesia. Mohammad Najib was the fourth child of fourteen children, the name of his father Mohammed Abdul Latif and his mother, Halima. He was a student at the modern Institute of Dar es Salaam Contour Fonoroko and then moved to the first high school of Muhammadiyah in Jokjakarta. He then continued his studies to Gajah Mada University in the Faculty of Economics, but this study did not continue. Later, he learned literature from one of the literary experts of the time, Umbu Landu Paranggi.
After the stage of reform in 1998, he resigned from the media and applied politics, and then moved and moved from one place to another and met with the community of any division, village and level and other so that he can work to motivate them and spread the idea of deconstruction of thinking And value and look at them from a face. This deconstruction is a piece of reform that Mohammed Najib has done in terms of writing, rhetoric and singing since the last several years.
He gathered his family and friends and Kiai Kanjeng in mid-2001, and then called the attendees to achieve real reform because of the widespread corruption in the whole field of society. Here is the first intestinal idea present phenomenon. So far, the so-called familiarity has continued.


Will Messi help Tata Motors dribble ahead?
For this story, we met an elated and recently appointed president at the passenger vehicle business unit of Tata Motors, Mayank Pareek (pictured - right). Elated because he'd just got to know that Tata Motors had made it to the haloed 3rd ranking for the first time in the J.D. Power's Customer Satisfaction report. Pareek has taken on an ambitious revival plan at a company that has been battling both a perception issue and a real challenge – of being a laggard in the passenger car segment. (As per Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) April- September figures, Maruti Suzuki still holds 53.42% market share as against 5.65% of Tata Motors.) He does have a task at hand, most would agree, even as he is getting ready to fire from all quarters.
The country's largest automobile company, in a first-ever, has announced a global brand ambassador for its passenger vehicles: the Argentina–born soccer icon Lionel Messi (pictured - left). Says Pareek, "The biggest challenge that is being addressed with this association is that we want customers to associate our brands with the 'cool' quotient." Besides being a huge fit, Tata Motors is on the rebound and like Messi achieved success with his relentless hard work, we will succeed too, he adds. The brand has just launched the first campaign from this association #madeofgreat that has been conceptualised by Soho Square and filmed in Barcelona.
Shares Kunal Jeswani, CEO — Ogilvy Group, India Board Member in charge of Soho Square, "Tata Motors is embarking on a brand transformation journey and the core task (given) was to increase brand relevance amongst the under 35 consumer." The digital leg of the campaign has been co-managed by DigitasLBi and Starcom Convonix through a gamut of initiatives. These include owned social (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram), paid social (all major platforms, including LinkedIn), display on all major publisher platforms (desktop and mobile), search, mobile specific ads and ideas, online and offline blogger engagement, amongst others, shares Amaresh Godbole, managing director – India, DigitasLBi.
It is indeed an unenviable position to be in for any company: to be the largest automobile company in the country and yet in the fast-growing and (the sexier) passenger car segment, not being seen as cool enough. And that is also the core of the company's biggest challenge – in a world getting increasingly younger in age and in mindset – the auto behemoth's brands are not particularly scoring high in the consideration set.
She candidly admits that at a macro level it has meant an internal transformation journey that really started off in 2013, around pillars like the product pipeline, manufacturing, and customer experience transformation. For each of these and many others, a deep-dive was done to decipher where the customer is headed and where is the company lagging. For instance, customer experience where Tata Motors has struggled with sales, after sales, and importantly, the dealer experience. The dealership as a channel needed a refresh at multiple levels: from infrastructure point of view, from processes point of view, from capability point of view, even from the selling capability scope, she adds. It was equally about consolidating the brand portfolio and rationalising the marketing investments, that was something of a crying need for the auto company. Continuing with its launch of Zest, Bolt and GenX Nano this year, Tata Motors has lined up an aggressive roll-out strategy and plans to launch two products every year right up to 2020.
Even as the company embarks on this re-invention journey, in a country where Bollywood and cricket occupy the maximum mindspace, when it comes to any kind of endorsements, how much cut-though would a football association get and at what cost? Aditya Hitkari, CEO, Globosport Platinum Rye Entertainment, the agency that executed the much-talked about Micromax - Hugh Jackman endorsement last year feels that it may just work. "While the Hollywood celebrities and international athletes are expensive, the right association can be clutter breaking and refreshing in a space where Indian celebrities sign multiple brands and are over-used," he says. It is a fact that majority of the Indian celebrities today are multi-brand endorsers and rarely do they stand for anything unique. Darshana Bhalla, co-founder & CEO, Mates, a unit of Madison world, has a rider on the association, "International celebrities will have the requisite traction amongst the aware in largely big cities (essentially metros). However outside that demographic the cost of acquisition of such celebs becomes very high because of lack of awareness." As a part of the deal, the football icon is locked in with Tata Motors for two years, for now.
On choosing football and hence Messi, Pareek says, "We chose football because all our research and surveys prove that football is the new 'cool' and the current generation connects better with football. Soccer has a huge following in India and Leo is a different league, making it the apt choice for us", he adds. Getting Messi on-board is not just a play in the Indian market but equally much for the company's global footprint. The association ties him with the brand's aspirations, so when the auto-brand goes into Indonesia, or South Africa, or later on into Latin America the journey would be it that much easier.
For now Tata Motors is hoping that Messi's superlative dribbling skills would hopefully create a rub-off and do the magic.


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Plot C
For more than a decade a singular giant pin has pierced the life-size map of Manchester: the Beetham Tower, marking Deansgate's south end and visible city-wide, guiding drivers to town better than sat-nav. Now two unfinished towers loom alongside:
This view is from Hulme Park near the Zion Centre on Stretford Road.
From here, you can cycle directly towards the towers across parkland… towards the Mancunian Way. There's a footbridge, although the traffic roar and fumes are overwhelming…
And on the other side is an industrial estate, south of St George's roundabout.
Vast stockpiles of building materials lie fenced off among low-rise industrial units, car parks, and apartment buildings towards First Street… everything dwarfed by the mammoth towers and their attendant cranes.
These towers are a residential development by SimpsonHaugh and Renaker, called the Owen Street Project, in conjunction with Greater Manchester Housing Fund:
I pity the poor people living in the apartments next to this massive building site. Did they know this was going to happen? Were they consulted?
One apartment block has the towers on one side and this dusty demolition on the other:
And then round the corner, there are the beginnings of yet another tower:
It turns out there will be four towers eventually – and the South Tower will be 64 storeys high! The development has been renamed Deansgate Square, although the signage still states "Owen Street Project"…
The history is all here on the internet:
http://www.constructionenquirer.com/2016/07/01/manchesters-tallest-skyscraper-plan-approved/
https://www.knauf.co.uk/news/funding-agreed-for-manchester-prs-project-646
https://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/news/renaker-plots-52-storey-great-jackson-street-tower/
https://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/news/plans-in-for-next-renaker-tower-as-great-jackson-street-masterplan-gathers-pace/
Meanwhile, the Evening News reported 6 months ago that 25 towers could be built in the Great Jackson Street area, providing around 6,300 new homes:
But I haven't heard anyone discussing this development, even though we can all plainly see it! Meanwhile people have been up in arms about the (as yet unrealised) Neville Brothers' ambitions in Stretford and the city centre!
I hope Manchester City Council doesn't rush all these schemes through without first demonstrating that people actually want to live in sky scrapers like these… it's quite hard to imagine that they will after the London Grenfell Tower disaster, even though these new towers by Ian Simpson's company are beautifully glazed rather than sub-standardly clad.
Remember Wilson & Womersley, Manchester City Council? You put too much trust in that design partnership and look where it got you? Don't make the same mistake all over again.
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Deansgate Square Great Jackson Street Greater Manchester Housing Fund Mancunian Way Owen Street Project Plot C
Hello Ursula,
Very interesting article. It seems as if the City centre is in a constant state of flux. 'All that is solid melts into air'.
Did you ever work backwards from these towers towards the Simpson designed Urbis centre & then go with the flow. Sites of key events in the recent history of Manchester seem to be connected by alignment!


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Couple years ago I'd read where some couple was in the Drive-thru lane at local "calorie adder" and told the guy/gal at the pay window that they'd pay for the car behind them. That car had an older couple in it, and the old man driving could just barely see over the steering wheel. Certainly made their day when they learned that their meager meal was purchased for them !
So, a couple times last year, and 3 times this year at our local Wendy's – Jack 'n The Box (usually on a Sunday) when I'd throw on some duds and drive to either one ( the wife don't like to do breakfast on Sunday) and look for a need person (s) waiting for their meal, I'd tell the cashier that I'd pay for such 'n such's meal. Gotta tell you it's like being Santa Claus just looking at the reactions on their faces ! And yes my good friend, it IS a warm 'n fuzzy feeling !
Hey good for you. I did that once on the Turner Turnpike, picked up the car behind me and then this van comes shooting by with about a 100 little kids waving like crazy! Another time we picked up the ticket for an RV at the Painted Desert in AZ.
And you are right, it is just like Christmas.


The Broadway production will begin previews July 19.
Gettin' the Band Back Together is gettin' ready for its Broadway debut this summer at the Belasco Theatre, and now the show has released a new music video. Check it out below.
Featured in the cast are Kelli Barrett (Dani), Marilu Henner ("Mitch's Mom," a.k.a. Sharon Papadopolous), Mitchell Jarvis (Mitch Papadopolous), Jay Klaitz (Bart Vickers), Becca Kötte (Tawney), Garth Kravits (Ritchie), Tamika Lawrence (Roxanne Velasco), Manu Narayan (Dr. Rummesh "Robbie" Patel), Sawyer Nunes (Ricky "Bling" Goldstein), Noa Solorio (Billie), Paul Whitty (Michael "Sully" Sullivan), and Brandon Williams (Tygen Billows). The ensemble includes Ryan Duncan, J. Elaine Marcos, Rob Marnell, Jasmin Richardson, and Tad Wilson.
Directed by Tony winner John Rando, Gettin' the Band Back Together has music and lyrics by Mark Allen and a book by Ken Davenport and the Grundleshotz with additional material by Sarah Saltzberg. The creative team also includes Chris Bailey (choreography), Derek McLane (sets), Emily Rebholz (costumes), Ken Billington (lighting design), and John Shivers (sound design). Previews begin July 19.
An earlier, developmental staging of Gettin' the Band Back Together opened at New Jersey's George Street Playhouse in 2013.


Another proof that when Western and Eastern traditions are combined together the result can only be amazing.
Lulwa Al Amin is woman who was born and raised in Bahrain. In 2004 she moved to London to complete her studies. In 2009 she graduated from Central Saint Martins with a BA Degree in Textile Design.
Lulwa Al Amin – the brand – was born in 2010 in London. Before that moment Lulwa made work experience beside some important names in the fashion Industry, such as Matthew Williamson and Brown.
Season by season Lulwa developped her own collections, becoming a name in the Middle East. It's easy to recognize her dresses because of the beauty and the prints used.
Here some random looks that I love from her last collections. See the SS14 collection here.
go http://whatiworebyjessicadelacruz.blogspot.mx/ and look what i have to show you!
Those outfits and dresses are so cute!
La prima e l'ultima sono decisamente i miei preferiti!
Oh this collection is beautiful!
Grazie per avermi fatto scoprire questo brand!!! Che creazioni uniche!!!
What a breathtaking collection! I love the graphic prints that are quirky yet wearable. So lovely!
I´m so glad that I found this brand through your blog, I didnt know it and I already like it.
stupendi questi abiti, che fantastica collezione!
Il bio look preferito è il numero 3, perfetto!
Originale e bellissima questa collezione!
I just love this talented designer !! These dresses are so elegant and whimsical too! I am so glad you shared these, I I will look for this brand in the US.
The pieces are stunning! Lucky you get to go to their events.
Thanks for your lovely comment on my new post bonita.


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I mean: actually, it does, but adopting new and modern methodologies, you can dramatically improve your team productivity.
I once worked as a team leader in a startup. I was in love with XP, studying Scrum and looking forward to be able to put into practice what I was reading.
Unfortunately, my boss explicitly told me to use Waterfall. I never blamed him: before him, the company had no process at all, and was governed by anarchy; no documentation, no requirements, no clear roles. Actually, introducing a Waterfall process, he made a great revolution, and let the company succeed.
Perché vengono promossi sempre i meno meritevoli? Perché anche nelle aziende che dichiarano di essere meritocratiche si promuovono per anzianità gli incompetenti e si deludono sistematicamente gli entusiasmi dei più promettenti e giovani talenti? Perché al livello gerarchico immediatamente superiore al tuo sembra essersi stabilita una casta impenetrabile di incompetenti?


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The artisans and designers incorporate their own cultural heritage in each pattern, each prints tells a story of their creator and there's such a timelessness in each garment, that can solely be a results of choosing traditional rural artisan production over following fast fashion tendencies. What really impressed me with these pants is how unexpectedly versatile they are, one thing that I find unusual in clothes with assertion prints since they tend to clash with other prints, however this match and print are the exact opposite. If these pants may speak they'd say, relax, be comfy, put on anything you need with me, I've obtained you covered.
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Intact stems help prevent pumpkins from rot.
1 How Long Will Pumpkins Keep on the Vine After They Are Ripe?
2 Does it Hurt to Pick a Pumpkin When it Is Green?
4 When Does the Pumpkin Fruit Appear After Flowering?
In an ideal world, pumpkins (Cucurbita maxima) are picked at full maturity when the fruits are completely orange, the rinds are hard and the tendrils at the stems start to die back. Because of an early frost, disease or pests, you might need to harvest your pumpkins while the rinds and stems are still soft and the fruits are a bit green. Harvest immature pumpkins in a similar manner as you would mature pumpkins; however, you must cure them in an artificial environment to help them mature and harden before use.
Look for pumpkins that appear healthy, pest- and disease-free and are not rotting on the vine. Even though you are not looking for pumpkins that show signs of maturity, picking ones that appear healthy is a must.
Slice through the vine 3 to 4 inches away from the fruit with a sharp knife. You can also use a pair of loppers to cut through the vine.
Carry the harvested pumpkins by the fruits, not by the stems, and rinse them with water. Dry completely with an absorbent rag. To reduce the chances of rot, wipe down the fruits and stems with a bleach solution made with 1 tablespoon of chlorine bleach and 1 gallon of water.
Cure immature pumpkins for 10 days in an area that is between 80 and 85 degrees Fahrenheit and with a relative humidity between 80 and 85 percent. You also store the pumpkins in full sunlight, provided the temperature is still between 80 and 85 degrees Fahrenheit. During this time, the rinds harden, wounds heal and fruits ripen.
Lewis, Melissa. "How to Pick Pumpkins When They're Not Ripe." Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/pick-pumpkins-theyre-not-ripe-65035.html. Accessed 19 April 2019.
When Does a Pumpkin Stop Growing?


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Farley's & Sathers Candy Advertiser Profile
1 Sathers Plz, Round Lake, MN US 56167
www.farleysandsathers.com
Farley's & Sathers Candy is part of:
Farley's & Sathers Candy is part of Ferrero International, S.A.. They spent under $100 million on advertising in digital, print, and national TV in the last year. They are currently not investing in any premium ad units, but advertised on under 50 different Media Properties in the last year across multiple Media formats. Farley's & Sathers Candy launched and advertised 2 new products in the past twelve months.
We have 24 people on file in marketing roles at Farley's & Sathers Candy, and 3 at their agency.
We have identified 27 decision makers for you to contact at Farley's & Sathers Candy, including Executives, Strategists, Media Buyers and Agency contacts.
Lukas K.
Innovation Brand Lead
Director, Digital
Brian C.
Director of Digital, Social & Community
MediaRadar captures creative run on the top websites, magazines and national television stations for over 3 million brands. Here are 3 recent advertisements placed by Farley's & Sathers Candy and its subsidiaries.
Last ran on Wal-Mart on 10/20/2019.
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Last ran on NACS Magazine in the 10/2019 issue.
Farley's & Sathers Candy Advertising Spend:
Farley's & Sathers Candy launched campaigns supporting 2 new product lines in the last twelve months, including Brach's Chocolate.


Annabel did silence well, and I learned that if silence were my first course in our daily encounter, guilt would almost certainly be the second; liberally served, allowed to cool, before congealing into a suffocating, glutinous mess.
Her silence wasn't really silent though. It involved plates smashing, carpet-sweepers banging, and the odd hissed expletive to send the dog scurrying under the kitchen table.
Since she left, there is a different kind of silence in the house; the gentle ticking of the clock, the occasional snore from the dog's basket as he dozes peacefully, and the murmur of lawnmowers from neighbouring gardens; all things unheard before, as Annabel thundered silently about her business.
There is still the business of guilt to deal with, though that has been sublimated somewhat, blunted by the glorious peace of my daily existence.
It's the dog who's been my undoing of course; his exceptionally acute hearing convinced him that he could hear the silence under the cherry tree in our back yard. So much so he felt compelled to dig up the source of the noise, to check whether it was that which he'd imagined.
As indeed it was, much to the horror of my neighbours.
Sunday Photo Fiction invites short stories of up to 200 words in response to a photograph. This photograph reminded me of this story, which was published by Postcard Shorts a few years ago. A little judicious editing was necessary.
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There is a peck of murder coming with this prompt. Neel also has blood coming from his story. This is a good one Sandra.
We all house a murderous muse beneath our pleasant exteriors. Thanks for reading, Joe.
Yes Sandra, I murder quite often in my little Tales.
I loved the language in your story Sandra – how do you do that? When I last tried my hand at flash fiction, I always ended up agonizing over which words to take out to meet the limit. The turns of phrase that I liked most were usually the ones that had to go.
On a different note, I don't know whether you looked at the two stories I posted for this prompt, but there's a spooky similarity with yours. The strangest aspect for me was that we've both included a dog and cast it in the same role. Hand on heart, I'd never heard of Postcard Shorts, let alone visited it, so any similarities are entirely coincidental. Great minds and all that … ?
There are only so many story-lines in the world. We're all bound to collide some time or another. 🙂 Thanks for reading.
I figured once she had disappeared she would be cropping up under the tree! Pesky dog. Lovely writing.
That's dogs for you. Always poking their noses where they don't belong. 🙂 Thanks for reading, Iain.
I like the banality of the horror, and silence congealing is a wonderful image. Well done.
Lovely writing, the dog hearing the silence under the ground, brilliant.
There are some people who can do silence to perfection. Annabel was one such. Thanks for reading Sally.
I really must get some counselling… 🙂 Thanks for reading Dee.
That tree has seen a lot of murders this morning.
A pesky dog would certainly sniff around under the earth. Love the sheer casualness of your prose. Brilliant is too small a word.
Fantastically written! I loved it. The mystery slowly unraveling!
Silence is wonderfully explained. Enjoyed reading the beautiful writing.
Exquisite as the blossom, the use of silence is just brilliant.
What a delight to see you here, twice the words, so twice as good as FF!
Lovely building of tension and suspense. Figured Annabel was under the tree — loved how the dog heard the silence.
Oooh… you are good, Sandra. Much as I know you like to show your killer soul, I was not expecting that immediately. Thought maybe Annabel had decided to leave – of her own free will!
Great story. Undone by a dog.


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