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Careful planning is both necessary and wise. You will be required to prove to the university, to the consular officer (the person at the U.S. Consulate who issues visa stamps), and perhaps to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service that you have sufficient funds to cover your living expenses (housing, food, clothing, etc) and health insurance, as well as university's tuition and fees.
So how much money will you need? You can get a general idea about expenses by looking at catalogs or application information provided by the university. Remember, however, that tuition rates vary tremendously. State (public) universities are generally, but not always, less expensive than private institutions. Some private institutions may be able to offer scholarships that state schools can not. Two-year or community colleges are usually less expensive than colleges and universities offering bachelor's and graduate degrees.
The cost of living in different parts of the United States also varies. In general, living in urban areas (in or near a big city) is more expensive than living in smaller towns or rural areas. Renting an apartment in a big city can cost twice as much as it does in a smaller town because there is such high demand for housing in large U.S. cities. Likewise, food, clothing, entertainment, and other living expenses may be more expensive in a city.
Budgeting is a continuous process. At this stage, work on a "big picture" budge that will include tuition, room and board, transportation, and living expenses, Later you can be more specific, taking into consideration all the additional expenses of moving and settling in. One very important factor in the "big picture" budget is health insurance, which can be as little as $1,000 annually for an individual or as much as $5,000 for a family.
Funding Packages
Undergraduate Assistance from U.S. Source
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Many international students put together a funding "package" from a variety of sources. You should explore the options your government or home university has available for students studying overseas. Many governments offer scholarships and low-interest or no-interest loans for academically promising students. Some international organizations offer scholarships and grants to students pursuing degree program in specific fields. Some private companies in your country may offer scholarships to bright students who wish to study abroad. The best source of information an such scholarships is the educational advising center.
Even if you are lucky enough to receive funding from sources such as the ones mentioned above, nearly all international students have to rely on personal and family funds as well. It is not uncommon for a family to use a substantial portion of their savings to pay for an education abroad. Your savings (or you family's) may be the only reliable source of funding you have as you begin your program of studies in the United States. In any case, the burden will be on you to explore funding options and secure the resources necessary for your studies. It can be challenging, and sometimes frustrating, particularly if your family funds are limited.
Many U.S. colleges and universities offer limited financial aid for international students through their financial aid offices. In general, however, there is much less money available for undergraduate study in the United States than there is for graduate study. Private institutions can sometimes discount or reduce the costs of tuition; public institutions seldom have this option. You should request information about financial aid when you request an application form from the institution's admissions office. In some instances, it may be possible for you to participate in a formal exchange between your home institution and the institution you wish to attend in the United States. You can get more information on such exchanges by contacting the international student offices at the U.S. institution or by contacting the corresponding office at your institution. This kind of person-for-person exchange can reduce expenses in some instances.
Many graduate departments at U.S. universities offer teaching assistantships or research assistantships to their graduate students (students pursuing a master's or doctoral degree). Assistantships usually involve a tuition award and some sort of salary in return for teaching or research duties. Such funds are generally controlled by individual departments at the university. It is often the case that a department will want to see how good a student you are and what kind of adjustment you make to university life before t will be willing to invest money in your education. In some cases, a department will accept only as many students as it can support with teaching or research assistantships. Although you will find some information about assistantships in a catalog or on university Websites, you may have to write directly to the department to inquire about this kind of funding. This exchange of information may occur after you have been accepted into the program. It is also important to inquire and apply early if you hope to receive financial assistance from the U.S. institution. Often deadlines for scholarships and assistantships are months before the normal application deadline.
Even if you are lucky enough to receive aid, you will still have to have sufficient funds to travel to the United States, and at least enough money to cover your first month's expenses.
Once you have selected the university you wish to attend, you will need to provide documentation to prove that you have at least the minimum amount of money the university estimates you will need. Providing that documentation is part of the admission process. Schools require a newly admitted student to submit proof of one year of funding (less if your program is under one year in duration). Acceptable forms of proof of funding are scholarship and award letters from your university, government, or sponsoring agency; sponsorship letters from private companies; personal bank statements; and affidavits of support for rela6tives or friends. Affidavits of support are formal, often notarized (formally witnessed), statements of financial support and should be accompanied by the bank statement of the individual who promises the funds. All financial documents should be in English or translated into English by a certified translator. They should specify precise amounts in U.S. dollars. Ask your bank to calculate and specify the U.S. dollar equivalency on your bank statement. Your name should be clearly indicated on each document of support. Generic or vague letters of support are not acceptable under any circumstances.
Your school, college, or university must evaluate your financial documentation before a certificate of eligibility for a student visa can be issued. The Form I-20 is the certificate of eligibility for the F-1 student visa. This document, which generally comes to you along with the letter of acceptance to the university, is used to secure a visa and to enter the United States. Students who plan to pursue a full-time program of study and are supported by personal or family funds, private sponsors, or funds from the school usually apply for an F-1 visa. The I-20 is an indication to the consular officer that the university has found you to be academically admissible, financial capable, and liguistically prepared for your studies in the United States.
Students whose studies are primarily funded by their government, international agencies, private company sponsors, or the school may request in IAP-66, which is the certificate of eligibility for the J-1 exchange visitor visa. If you are awarded a scholarship or grant from a government or sponsoring agency, you may be required by the sponsor to apply for a J-1 rather than an F-1 visa. J-1 students cannot be supported solely with personal or family funds.
Once you receive your I-20 or IAP-66 from your school, take the form, along with original documents of financial support, to the U.S. embassy or consulate in your country to apply for your student visa.
As you begin to think about funding sources for your educational and living expenses in the United States, remember that you cannot count on working in the United States unless you have been granted a teaching or research assistantship. When you submit evidence of your financial resources, you cannot reply on potential income. The income on which you base your application must be assured and must be equal to or exceed the costs of the first year of your studies.
Immigration regulations are very strict with respect to working while carrying a student visa. F-1 status, which is the most common status for full-time international students, allows for part time, on-campus employment (fewer than 20 hours per week.) J-1 student status allows for similar employment, with similar restrictions, as long as permission is given by the exchange visitor program sponsor. M-1 visa holders for technical and vocational programs are not permitted to work during the course of their studies.
Jobs available on campus typically do not pay much, certainly not enough to finance a university education. Do not count on this kind of a job for anything more than a supplement to other funds.
Careful long- and short-term planning are necessary to ensure that you will have a rewarding educational experience in the United States. If you are realistic about your financial needs, you will be better able to enjoy the exciting academic and cultural experience of living and learning in the United States.


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I reunite identified family photos that I find in antique shops and second hand stores with genealogists and family historians. If you see one of your ancestors here and would like to obtain the original, feel free to contact me at familyphotoreunion [ at ] yahoo [ dot ] com. I also accept donations of pre-1927 images to be reunited. I hope you enjoy your visit!
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David and Cornelia Crammond, Frontenac County, Ontario, Bef. 1865
The reverse of this carte de visite photograph has two inscriptions on the back. The first, in fountain ink, "Mr & Mrs. David Crammond" and, the second, more recently, in ballpoint pen, "Grandmother Dunham's Mother & Father."
The photographer's imprint simply reads, "Sheldon Photographer, Kingston, O.W [Ottawa West?]." We can narrow the time frame down to 1857-1865 because in 1866, Henry K. Sheldon, the only photographer in Kingston at the time with that surname, teamed up with Richard F. Davis, in the photographic partnership "Sheldon & Davis" which lasted until 19001. In the "General Directory for the City of Kingston and Gazetter of the Counties of Frontenac, Lennox and Addington for 1865", H.K. Sheldon works out of his home on King Street, near Brock.
I located a David Crammond family living in Wolf Island, Frontenac County in the 1861 Canada Census2. The family was comprised of:
David Crammond, b. 1825, Scotland, a farmer
Cornelia Crammond, b. 1833, Upper Canada
Barbary Crammond, b. 1828, Scotland
Adaline Crammond, b. 1849, Upper Canada
Hannah Crammond, b. 1850, Upper Canada
Ester A. Crammond, b. 1852, Upper Canada
Samantha M. Crammond, b. 1853, Upper Canada
Mallissa Crammond, b. 1855, Upper Canada
Anson Mitchell, b. 1855, Upper Canada
Alice E. Crammond, b. 1857, Upper Canada
James Mitchell., b. 1857, Upper Canada
The David and Cornelia Crammond family can also be found in the 1871 Canada Census still living in Wolf Island. But how can we know we have the correct Crammond family? Well, the second inscription does give us a valuable bit of information to research further. We know that one of David Crammond's daughters married a man with the surname "Dunham."
A search of Ontario Marriages lands a good result. On the 24th of January 1871, the couple's eldest daughter, Adaline Oliva [Olivia? Oliver?] Crammond, 22 years of age, married William Dunham, an engineer from Cape Vincent. They married in Wolfe Island3. Her mother is listed as "Melissa Bush" and not Cornelia. There are several possibilities for the different name, including the possibility of name variations. In my own family tree I have one distant aunt who went by no less than four forenames during her lifetime. I think the most likely reason in this case, is that Melissa is Adaline's mother, and she may have passed away prior to 1861. If so, then the woman in the photograph would be Cornelia, Adaline's step-mother.
UPDATE: July 19, 2013
Anne, who has researched this family, sent in the following supplemental information on the David Crammond families:
If the photo is of Adeline (nee Crammond) Dunham's mother Melissa Bush it would have to be taken after the birth of her youngest child Alice and before her death - pre husbands 2nd marriage 7 June 1859 (i.e. 1857/8- June 1859)
If the photo is of Adeline's step mother Cornelia (nee Abbott) Mitchell then most likely taken post 7 June 1859 marriage to David Crammond. (June 1859-1865)
David Crammond -
1st marriage- Melissa Bush – date/place unknown (died post c 1857/8 birth of daughter Alice and pre his 7 June 1859 2nd marriage)
Children of David Crammond and Melissa Bush
a. Adeline Olivia born c 1849 married 24 Jan 1871 to William Dunham (lists mother Melissa Bush)
b. Hannah May c 1851 m 24 Feb 1879 Moses Jay Knapp (-lists mother Malissa )
c. Ester Ann born 21 July 1852(per tombstone), born pre 2nd marriage- assumed d/o Melissa Bush
d. Michael 1854 (1871 census) born pre 2nd marriage assumed d/o Melissa Bush
e. Samantha Melvina b 28 Dec 1855 US, m 26 Oct 1881 James Donnelly – (lists mother Melissa Bush)
f. Melissa 1856 m 20 Dec 1882 Mathew Robert Davis – (lists mother Melissa Bush)
g. James 1857 (1871 census) born pre 2nd marriage – assumed d/o Melissa Bush
h. Alice c 1858 m 10 May 1882 William Henry Ross –lists mother Melissa Bush
2nd marriage – 7 June 1859 to Cornelia Abbott at St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Kingston, Ontario
(OGS Publication -Registers 1821-1869 St. Andrews Presbyterian Church Kingston, Ontario)
Cornelia Abbott was the widow of James Mitchell ( died 2 April 1857) - 3 sons of this marriage – Anglican Church, Wolfe Island baptism Edward Alexander Mitchell born March 19 1854, St Andrew's Presbyterian church, Wolfe Island - baptism Anson Mitchell born 21 July 1855 , death /obituary of James Mitchell born 23 July 1858 Wolfe Island.
3rd marriage – 14 September 1883 Elizabeth Porteous
1 Phillips, Glen C., "The Ontario Photographer's List Volume I (1851-1900)," Global Heritage Press, Milton, Ontario, Canada, 2002, p.41↩
2 "Ontario Census, 1861," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MQ7Z-MW2 : accessed 15 May 2013), David Crammond, 1861.↩
3 "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FMF5-D4Z : accessed 15 May 2013), William Dunham and Adaline Oliva Crammand, 1871.↩
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The guy looks a lot like me!ReplyDelete
Always happy to you post here. :)
Thanks to Anne for the update!ReplyDelete
David & Melissa ( Bush) Crammond are my Greatx 3 Grandparents, and Adeline Crammond & William Dunham are my Great x2 grandparents. Does anyone know how I can get a copy of this photo or get in contact with anyone who is also researching the Crammonds?ReplyDelete
Thank you!
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Before I get to the meat of this blog post, I need to do some housekeeping.
Tomorrow I'm off to the Novelist's Inc. Conference in Florida, which will be the last time I get up in front of a crowd and lecture for quite some time.
This decision didn't come lightly. For years, I jumped at every opportunity to open my mouth before a live audience. But I'm working my ass off, and something has to give, and I've decided it will be traveling.
Immediately after Ninc, I'm headed to San Francisco for Bouchercon. You won't find me on any panels, because I didn't register for any. I'm just there to hang out. If you're going, you can find me in the bar or the jacuzzi. I'll be the fat guy with the long hair and the beard surrounded by editors with stakes and hammers.
We just sent out advance reading copies of DRACULAS. If you wanted to review it and didn't get a copy, send an email to email@example.com. Draculas is being released on October 19, and we're hoping to have 250 reviews by then.
There's a fun interview with me over at BiblioBuffet by Lauren Baratz-Logsted. It will probably be the last interview I do for some time, though I am going to try to join my Draculas co-writers tomorrow on Diabolical Radio.
SHAKEN is being released on Kindle October 26. AmazonEncore has done a terrific job with it, and I'm thrilled to be working with a group of bright, talented, enthusiastic professionals.
Okay, let's talk numbers...
I just got my latest royalty statements from my print publishers. In a previous blog post, I estimated I was selling 400 ebooks of Whiskey Sour per month.
Boy, was I wrong.
From January until June, my publisher, Hyperion, sold 878 Whiskey Sour ebooks.
Let's compare that to my ebook The List.
From January until June, I sold 9033 copies of The List.
My publisher has priced Whiskey Sour at $4.69. The List is $2.99.
On the surface, the price difference isn't that dramatic. But considering I sold 10 times the amount than they did, I'd have to conclude that price does matter. A lot.
But here is where it gets interesting.
Since 2004, Whiskey Sour has sold about 60,000 copies in print and ebooks. That's earned me about $54,000 not including foreign sales. (Not bad considering I got a $33k advance for it.)
That means it has sold an average of 833 copies a month, and has earned me $750 a month.
These are Important Numbers. Because publishing isn't a sprint. It's a marathon. Sure, short term, I got a nice five figure check as my advance. But long term, even a successful book (Whiskey Sour is now in its fifth printing) only pays out $750 a month after six years. And that's more than most books earn. Trust me. I have hundreds of peers who signed with Big 6 publishers and haven't earned near that.
Compare those numbers to The List.
In six years, I'll have sold 108,396 copies. Almost double what Whiskey Sour has sold. And I'll have earned over $200k--almost four times what I earned with Whiskey Sour.
So my little self-pubbed ebook not only makes me more money in the long run, it also SELLS MORE COPIES.
Did I get a nice, fat $25,000 advance check for The List? No.
But I'd return my advance to get Whiskey Sour back, because if I had it I'd for damn sure be selling more than 147 copies a month.
Now let's compare this to my recent Jack Kilborn novel, Afraid.
Afraid has sold, in all versions, about 62,000 copies. But it has done this in a year. Afraid was released in the UK at the same time as the US, and did pretty good in both countries. It has earned me about $34,000.
17,433 of these sales were ebooks. 10,235 were during its first month, at a reduced price of $1.99.
My publisher, Grand Central, has perhaps been reading my blog, because they recently reduced the price of Afraid to $1.99 again, after it being full price for over a year.
For the moment, let's disregard the month Afraid was $1.99 and average out the other 13 months where is was sold for between $4.99 and $6.99. During those months, it sold 554 copies a month.
Not bad. But not good, compared to Trapped and Endurance, the next two Jack Kilborn novels I released on my own. They're averaging 1400 sales per month, each.
If we add the sale ebooks, and all the print books, Afraid has been selling 4428 copies per month. The best month The List had was about 2600 copies, so it looks like there may be hope for print yet.
That is, until we realize that print numbers fall off rather dramatically.
In the past six months, Afraid has only sold 8,868 copies. That's only 1478 per month, and 3460 of those were ebooks.
So while Afraid is still averaging over 500 ebooks per month, the print copies sold have dropped off a lot, and they will continue to drop off. That's just how it works with print.
In comparison, Whiskey Sour had earned $33,000 during its first year. In other words, pretty much the same that Afraid earned during its first year.
Print books start out strong, then over the years they earn less and less. I expect Afraid, by year six, to do the same as Whiskey Sour (and the rest of my traditionally published books) and wind up averaging me about $750 a month.
So for the seven books I have in print, each averaging $750 a month after six years, comes to a combined total of $5250 a month. And I'm one of the (supposed) lucky ones, because my books are all still in print.
Contrast this to my seven top selling self-published ebooks. Those earn me $11,120 a month, and rather than slowing down, they're picking up speed. I'm selling more ebooks each month, and I expect a big boom come the holiday season.
So not only does self-publishing earn more money than a print deal does over the years, you can also reach more readers by selling more copies.
Think about that. I've gotten over a quarter of a million dollars in advances from the Big 6. That's more than most writers will ever get. And I've also earned out above and beyond that number.
But all by myself I can make a quarter mil in two years. And I can reach more people in six years than a Big 6 publisher with all of its distribution power.
Isn't that extraordinary? Or at the very least, messed up?
If you're a midlist author, crunch your numbers. Spread your advance (and royalties, if you made any) out over a six year period. Those naysayers who declare "You can't make a living self-publishing if you're only earning $750 a month" need to understand that "$750 a month" is what a print book earns, when averaged over time.
If you sign a deal for $50k, I'd guess you'll earn about that amount in six years.
Or you could have made $110k doing it on your own after only six years, by selling 750 ebooks a month at 2.99 each. That's a lot better than you'd do in all but the best print deals, and 750 ebooks a month isn't a huge number.
Now, your mileage may vary. If you get offered a big print deal, take the money and run. And print may pay off in a big way if you get lucky and land on a bestseller list. Then you can make better money (though I do seem to recall a NYT bestselling author who blogged about hitting the list and only earning $27k on that book.)
But if you're offered less than six figures, think long and hard. I believe you can sell more, and earn more, on your own.
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The dreaded El Niño phenomenon is wreaking more destruction. After victimizing farmlands, it's devastating power is now slowly spreading out to bodies of water.
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Today, families throughout the Land of Israel and around the world are celebrating the 7th and final day of Passover, commemorating deliverance from slavery in Egypt over 3,000 years ago.
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Personal Reflections With Monsignor Joseph Senger
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The Senger family lived in South Russia for more than one hundred years, after immigrating from Riedselz, Alsace-Lorraine Germany (present day France). They left Russia at the turn of the 19th century to homestead in north central North Dakota. It was a life of hardship and simple pleasures but also one of joy, strongly grounded in faith.
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Johnson, Andrea. "Continuing to Minister." Minot Daily News, 1 May 2004.
Kittelson, Cindy. "A Heavenly Star Shines: Monsignor Joseph Senger Shares his Personal Story on Film." Velva Area Voice, 24 October 2002, 1.
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Originally formed in Seattle in 1992, Sunny Day Real Estate featured Nate Mendel (bass), William Goldsmith (drums), Dan Hoerner (guitar,vocals) and Jeremy Enigk (vocals, guitar). Diary, the band's first full-length album, was released in 1994 on Sub Pop, going on to become the seventh-best selling record in the label's history with more than 231,000 copies scanned in the US alone. Diary was recorded at Chicago's Idful Studios with producer Brad Wood and released to critical acclaim. Following the completion of a US Tour to support the debut release, the group headed back into the studio with Wood to record the follow-up.
But during the recording sessions, internal tensions splintered Sunny Day Real Estate, resulting in a sudden break-up and the finished album being turned in to Sub Pop without a title or artwork. LP2 was released in November 1995, by which time both Goldsmith and Mendel had joined Foo Fighters and Enigk had begun a solo career. Without Mendel, Sunny Day Real Estate reunited in 1997 and released two more studio albums (the 1998 Sub Pop release How It Feels to Be Something On and in 2000 The Rising Tide on Time Bomb) before disbanding again in 2001. Sunny Day Real Estate's influence has grown exponentially since the band's initial split.
"I wasn't around for the second version of the band that recorded the 3rd and 4th albums, so I've always had a feeling of unfinished business there," Mendel explains. "We had all these out-sized ideas back then, 'Everyone's going to learn a new instrument,' and 'Let's do a rock opera,' but before we could get anywhere with them, the band broke up. We left behind all these weird and beautiful songs, though, and they've stuck with me all this time. I'm really happy that we get a chance to play them together again."
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But Stephon Marbury might wind up having the last laugh.
At a time when NBA teams are hawkishly monitoring payrolls and squeezing contracts, particularly those to which pricey veterans might have grown accustomed, Marbury has signed a three-year deal that might keep him playing to age 39, 20 years beyond the night he was drafted as the NBA's overall No. 4 pick.
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When Yao Ming retired from basketball, the worry was that the sport's popularity would wane. With Yi Jianlian unable to carry the torch overseas, the focus turned to the CBA and while it's no substitute for the NBA in terms of quality, the Chinese league has definitely improved over the past few years.
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Economic Apartheid and Resistance in South Africa
By Naomi Klein - November 21st, 2001
On Saturday night, I found myself at a party honouring Nelson Mandela and raising money for his children's fund (I'm still trying to figure out how I ended there). It was a lovely affair and only a very rude person would have pointed out that the party was packed with many of the banking and mining executives who refused to pull their investments out of apartheid-run South Africa for decades.
Mr. Mandela was in Canada this week to receive the highest honour my country has to offer: he was the second person in our history to be made an honorary citizen. So only someone with no sense of timing would have mentioned that, as the Liberal government was honouring Mr. Mandela, it is ramming through an anti-terrorism bill that would have sabotaged the anti-apartheid movement on several fronts had it been in place at the time. (Many other countries are passing similar laws.)
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By Naomi Klein - November 16th, 2001
This weekend, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf asked the U.S. to show a little love in return for his cooperation. Specifically, he is fixated on some F-16 fighter jets, sold to Pakistan and then withheld because the country was developing nuclear weapons.
It's the kind of back-scratching diplomacy we've come to expect since September 11: an aid package here, a loan there. And then there are all the smarmy understandings that the U.S. will look the other way when the Chinese or Indonesian militaries beat back liberation movements within their borders, since all state repression seems to be part of the war on terrorism now.
Are these back-room pay-offs and gentlemen's agreements really going to be the only legacies of September 11, or is there more the world community could be demanding during this, the most multilateral of moments?
Doha's Kamikaze Capitalists
By Naomi Klein - November 7th, 2001
What do you call someone who believes so firmly in the promise of salvation through a set of rigid rules that they are willing to risk their own life to spread those rules?
A religious fanatic? A holy warrior? How about a U.S. trade negotiator.
On Friday, the World Trade Organization begins its meeting in Doha, Qatar. According to U.S. security briefings, there is reason to believe that al Qaeda, which has plenty of fans in the Gulf state, has managed to get some of its operatives into the country, including an explosives specialist. Some terrorists may even have managed to infiltrate the Qatari military.
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Instead, U.S. delegates have been be kitted out with gas masks, two-way radios and drugs to combat bio-terrorism (Canadian delegates have been issued the drugs as well). As negotiators wrangle over agricultural subsidies, softwood lumber and pharmaceutical patents, helicopters will be waiting to whisk U.S. delegates onto aircraft carriers parked in the Persian Gulf, ready for a Batman style getaway.
Battle Boring
By Naomi Klein - October 24th, 2001
Just hours after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, Republican Representative Curt Weldon went on CNN and announced that he didn't want to hear anyone talking about funding for schools or hospitals. From here on it, it was all about spies, bombs and other manly things.
"The first priority of the U.S. government is not education, it is not health care, it is the defense and protection of U.S. citizens," he said, adding, later: "I'm a teacher married to a nurse—none of that matters today."
But now it turns out that those frivolous social services matter a great deal. What is making the U.S. most vulnerable to terrorist networks is not a depleted weapons arsenal but its starved, devalued and crumbling public sector. The new battle fields are not just the Pentagon, but also the post office; not just military intelligence, but also training for doctors and nurses; not a sexy new missile defense shield, but the boring old Food and Drug Administration.
Bye Bye Mike Harris
By Naomi Klein - October 17th, 2001
For almost a year, I carried Premier Mike Harris's $200 tax cut in my wallet. Its edges frayed and the ink began to smudge. I looked at it from time to time, then put it away.
Refuse to cash it—what does that prove? The money had already been taken out of public accounting. It's not like my uncashed cheque was going to go to a high school teacher's salary or to a homeless shelter. Many people, confronting this dilemma, gave their tax cuts to charity, trying to plug some of the gaping holes in the social fabric left by Mr. Harris's cuts.
But I decided to be more proactive: I gave the money to the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP), the most committed Harris haters this province has to offer. So there was a certain poetic justice to yesterday's news: a militant anti-Harris demonstration, organized by OCAP, turned into a street celebration of Mr. Harris's resignation. Victories are rare these days, they must be savoured.
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User talk:Dan Hoey
Talk page of Dan Hoey, also a wikipediaTalk editor.
Until I get erfwiki e-mail working, I suggest you use my WP talk page for comments.
Another experienced editor! Do me two huge favors, and:
- Add {{mainpagecontrol}} to your page
- Change up the Featured Article, Did you Know, etc from time to time.
Sad to say, I'm pretty much the only person who does 'em. Oh yeah and help with the Improvement Drive would always be great.
Miment 11:16, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
- If I count for experienced, we're all in trouble. But I don't know what you're asking. Did you want me to put {{mainpagecontrol}} on my home page, talk page, or where? Where do I get the data to fill in all the empty slots?–Dan Hoeytalk 13:55, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
- Well, I was thinking more like... ummm, from time to time, follow the various links and update the content. {{mainpagecontrol}} has links to the Featured Article, Latest Update, etc. You know, the front page stuff. So if you stumble across a really good article, or think of something for the Did You Know section, feel free to add it :P Miment 03:32, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
Editing annotations, especially footnotes
Up to TBFGK_86 so far.–Dan Hoey(talk) 13:51, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
- Why the booping boop doesn't the talk link work? –Dan Hoey(talk) 00:42, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
- Something that works everywhere except User_talk: pages? There's gotta be a technical reason for this, but it's still ridonkulatious.–Dan Hoeytalk 00:48, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
Up to TBFGK 100 so far–Dan Hoeytalk 03:03, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
To TBFGK 112, another page with numeric footnote tags.–Dan Hoeytalk 03:28, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
Done TBFGK 121–Dan Hoeytalk 22:38, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
At LIAB Prologue 24–Dan Hoeytalk 21:41, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
Now at LIAB Prologue 26–Dan Hoeytalk 23:23, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
References on Annotations pages
User talk:SteveMB gives a standard form for TBFGK and therefore other Annotations pages. I wrote some of this there, but it's here so I can look at it more. If someone else enters this discussion, we can put it in one place.
The problem is that the standard is hard to follow, and does not prompt one to follow it. If someone adds a footnote to the page-by-page without adding the footnote to the panel-by-panel, it looks fine on the page-by-page. But the panel-by-panel has a footnote ref that doesn't have a footnote note. Similarly, someone can add a footnote to the panel-by-panel without adding the note to the page-by-page. Again it looks fine on the panel-by-panel but the page-by-page is screwed up. –Dan Hoeytalk 03:28, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
- You know, I've always wondered why anybody even bothered with a the panel by panel bit. It seems pretty wasteful. You can't hit "random page" without getting a panel. Like, every page that the comic updates creates 12-14 new pages on the wiki :/ Miment 00:22, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
- The page-by-page is scaled down so you can't read it, and the relevant notes are too far away. But in panel-by-panel, you can see the whole thing, full size, in one screen. That's what does it for me.–Dan Hoeytalk 01:20, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
- By the way, it would be good to be able to make "random page" skip the panel-by-panel pages.–Dan Hoeytalk 22:03, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
- You know, I've always wondered why anybody even bothered with a the panel by panel bit. It seems pretty wasteful. You can't hit "random page" without getting a panel. Like, every page that the comic updates creates 12-14 new pages on the wiki :/ Miment 00:22, 9 December 2009 (UTC)


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No slap dash effort, directors Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick crafted Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media from a rough assembly of 120 hours of archival and original footage. The archival material was culled from nearly two hundred sources; while the original material was filmed over four years, in 23 cities across seven countries.
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media is a call to action which identifies a problem and proposes a solution. The problem is that a cabal controls the United States' government through the manufactured consent of the electorate by major media. The proposed solution is for the public to question the legitimacy of all sources of authority, and where that legitimacy is found wanting, to act to divest that authority.
The 168-minute documentary is divided into two parts. Part one, entitled 'Thought Control in a Democratic Society', frames the problem. Through a series of debates and interviews, Chomsky challenges the common wisdom that the media is a public watchdog keeping the government accountable to an informed citizenry. Contrary to this view, Chomsky argues that corporate media is a propaganda tool for manufacturing consent.
The title of this documentary and of Chomsky's 1988 book, Manufacturing Consent, originates with media critic and philosopher Walter Lippmann (1889-1974), who proposed that because democracies are circumscribed in their ability to use force on their citizens as totalitarian states may, they must resort to propaganda. Manufactured consent is a benign necessity because most people are too irrational and myopically self-interested to vote for the common good, Lippmann asserted.
Under this propaganda theory of democracy, the citizenry is divided into two target groups: the political class composed of educated elites, and the non-political class composed of the remaining four-fifths of the citizenry. The propaganda targeted at the political class is intended to cajole support and marginalize dissent through selecting, shaping, controlling, and restricting the information provided by agenda-setting elite media sources like The New York Times. The non-political class, on the other hand, is controlled through diversion media intended to induce political apathy. They are fed a steady diet of mindless infotainment, and taught that political activism is a sucker's bet.
The documentary provides examples of propaganda targeted at each group. For the political class, it contrasts how The New York Times allotted 1175 column inches to coverage of human rights abuses committed in Cambodia by a regime unfriendly to the United States, against only 70 inches for similar abuses in East Timor committed by an American ally. As a second example of how skewed the information presented to the political class is, the documentary identifies a study conducted of ABC's Nightline finding that out of 865 programs reviewed, 92% of the American guests were white, 89% male, and 80% professionals (n.b., Chomsky was one of these white, male, professional guests).
For the non-political class, Chomsky selects American football as an example of targeted propaganda. He asserts that the non-political class is indoctrinated from an early age to love spectator sports and to feel a possessory interest in a team which they will then mindlessly root for. This indoctrination builds up irrational attitudes of submission to authority in the non-political class and shunts attention away from important issues. Thus, a football fan may know a lot of esoteric trivia about a sports team, but know little about what the government is up to. The role of Hollywood entertainment is not addressed directly, but no doubt Chomsky has a similar view on the purpose and effect of Hollywood movies as a means of indoctrination and distraction.
Chomsky counters the argument that a liberal elite controls the media this way: the propaganda system works best when there is a perception of liberal bias expressed as a hostile attitude to government because this suggests an outer limit of what is a reasonable contrary position. In other words, if The New York Times is perceived as extremely liberal, then few will question whether The New York Times' message is actually still supportive of the system. Chomsky notes that 23 corporations own more than half of the newspaper, magazine and book publishers, radio and TV stations, and major motion picture studios, and that it is these corporate masters that ultimately call the shots. Since this documentary was made the number of corporations controlling the majority of media has fallen from 23 to just 5.
Having identified the problem, the second part of the documentary, entitled 'Activating Dissent', suggests a course of action: question the legitimacy of institutional power in all its guises, and strip that authority where it is illegitimate. Chomsky provides two examples of legitimate institutional power for him: the authority of a parent over a child, and the use of totalitarian techniques of coercion by the U.S. government during the Second World War. Chomsky applauds the civil rights and feminist movements for challenging some institutional sources of power, but he alleges that the most important source of power, corporate-capitalism has not being meaningfully challenged.
Unrestricted access to information and the means to coordinate activity is necessary to change the system. Here Chomsky recommends independent alternative media, and the documentary gives individual attention to a leftist news zine, an alternative publishing house, and an independent radio station, as examples of the 5000 alternative publications, 800 alternative radio stations, and 2200 community and public access stations operating in Canada and the United States in 1993.
In 2008, many of the challenges identified by Chomsky appear worse. Even fewer corporations control even more of the traditional media, while many alt media sources have folded or come under corporate control. On the other hand, access to information and conduits for collective action provided by the internet are far beyond anything that could have been imagined in 1993. Surprisingly, and I think mistakenly, Chomsky finds no cause for heightened dismay or joy in any of this. In the follow-up interview conducted in 2007 for the bonus disc, Chomsky declares he sees little difference between 23 corporations in 1993 controlling traditional media and 5 today because they all share identical interests. Similarly, though the internet provides a good means of disseminating information, Chomsky asserts that too much energy is siphoned off into meaningless online activities when that time could be better used affecting change in the real world. I think Chomsky is too short sighted on the harms that further traditional media consolidation is causing, and the benefits that the internet has provided the Left through the growth in action groups and networks of like-minded individuals.
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media was a freshman effort for its directors, Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick. Nevertheless, it's been remarkably successful in its effort to provide exposure to Noam Chomsky's ideas about the media to an audience beyond that reachable by his books and lectures. However, there are faults in this documentary that more experienced editor-directors would not have made. The ideas conveyed require a lot of time to unspool, but not 168 minutes. Achbar covers far more material in less time in his 2003 documentary The Corporation. Too often Achbar and Wintonick include material that a more experienced hand would have left on the cutting room floor, or in this age of DVD, left for the bonus disc. There are too many excursions and diversions from the central storyline in pursuit of tangential topics like how the citizens of Media, Pennsylvania are served by their local newspaper, too much repetition, and too many silly visual accompaniments. Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media is good filmmaking, but it could have been even better with a less diluted 120-minute runtime.
The DVD
This review is of the 2-disc 15th anniversary release of Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media by Canadian label Mongrel Media. This release is only available in Canada, and should not be confused with the inferior 2002 U.S. release by Zeitgeist.
The Video:
The video is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.37:1. This documentary uses a variety of source materials none of which is particularly great looking, but this release by Mongrel Media appears better than I recall the Zeitgeist release looking, though a side-by-side comparison would be needed to confirm this impression.
The Audio:
This audio is provided in a serviceable 1.0 mono.
The Extras:
This 2-disc release comes packed with four hours of additional footage. The bonus video includes 2007 interviews with the directors about the making of the documentary (22 min.) and with Chomsky about the impact of the film and what's changed since 1993 (41 min.). There's also extended footage from debates excerpted in the documentary between Chomsky and conservative pundit and PBS television host, William F. Buckley, Jr. regarding U.S. involvement in Vietnam (28 min. 1969), French philosopher Michel Foucault regarding human nature (31 min. 1971), and Boston University President John Silber regarding U.S. interference with the Sandinista government of Nicaragua (16 min. 1986). There's also a 2005 debate between Chomsky and law professor Alan Dershowitz about the future of Palestine (93 min. 2005). All of these interviews and extended debate materials are interesting. The only bonus footage that seemed completely unnecessary was the directors' 1986 demo tape (15 min.) which I suppose is intended to show how far the project evolved during production but comes off as merely self-indulgent.
In addition to all the bonus footage, this release includes Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky's 1988 book Manufacturing Consent in its entirety as an Adobe PDF file.
Short of perhaps a video of Noam Chomsky crowd surfing at a Negativland concert, I'm not sure what more one could ask for in terms of bonus material.
Final Thoughts:
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media has aged well, with its core argument at least as relevant today as it was in 1993. Whether you're inclined to agree or disagree with Dr. Chomsky, you owe it to yourself to hear him out. This 2-disc, 15th anniversary release by Canada's Mongrel Media label is impressive. I doubt this documentary has looked as good since its theatrical release, and I'm unaware of any documentary DVD sporting more bonus features at such a reasonable price than this one. To obtain this release you'll have to order from a Canadian retailer, but it's well worth the effort. Mongrel Media's 15th anniversary release of Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media is highly recommended.


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Is it defamatory to call someone gay? If so, why? Via Romenesko, I found this story about a priest suing a newspaper over their lack of diligence in publishing a letter to the editor. The East Central Illinois News-Gazette has the story:
DANVILLE — The headmaster of a Catholic boarding school in Georgetown has filed a civil action against the Paxton Record, claiming the weekly newspaper defamed him when it published a letter to the editor in support of gay rights that erroneously identified him as the author. ...
The suit claims the Paxton Record didn't contact McMahon or the academy to confirm the letter's authenticity before running it on April 6, 2011, and representing to "its readership that a gay rights organization, headed by Father McMahon, was being run out of a Catholic boys boarding school." In addition to not writing the letter or leading the group, which the suit claims doesn't exist, it says the letter's views directly contradict McMahon's."The representation that Father McMahon, who is charged with the safety and spiritual growth of young Catholic men, was the leader of a sexually active, gay advocacy group headquartered at a Catholic boarding school imputes to him an inability to perform and want of integrity in the discharge of his duties as a Catholic priest and Headmaster," the suit says.
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The second example came when a Fox News talking blonde tweeted out a response to the news that abortion rights activist Sandra Fluke is engaged. Her response? "To a man?" Hardy har har har har. Oh my sides are splitting. OK, but is that something the media would consider rude or defamatory? In the prank of example one, we're told it's not defamatory to suggest that a Catholic priest leads a gay organization. In the so-called joke of the second example, many media figures weighed in that it was homophobic and bigoted. For instance, the Washington Post's Alexandra Petri wrote a piece headlined "Joel Ward, Monica Crowley and the Twitter cafeteria problem":
It's getting harder to be a casual bigot.
Once, you could be a racist, homophobic, sexist jerk in the privacy of your own home.
And we get many words on how awful Crowley was to make her attempt at a joke. Crowley apologized for what Fluke called her "hate speech."
I'm in that rare camp of people who thinks both the prank and the joke were defamatory. I'm not entirely sure why someone who supports same-sex marriage would view a question about the sex of one's betrothed to be "hate speech," and media reports should explain that. I imagine, although I could be wrong, that it involves whether the person doing the prank or joke attempt has approved-of political views. But it seems a consistent standard should be called for. What do you think? Perhaps we could agree that the newspaper and the talking head should be more polite both to headmasters of boys' schools and newly engaged activists?


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Founded by Princeton/Wharton alumn Roger Collins in 1983, Xante had plans to be a major player in the videogame software distribution market. With a business plan similar to Romox, Xante planned to establish attended kiosks that could produce cartridges on demand from a catalog of games. The customer would choose a game, the game would be downloaded over a phone line, and then burned to an EPROM right on the spot. A simple label and instruction sheet would be produced to accompany the game, as well as a rather generic box. According to Collins, the cartridges were actually reprogrammable like Romox's, however they were not marketed as such, and a new cartridge was created with each purchase.
Although Xante had plans to produce cartridges for many different game systems, they concentrated on the 2600 since that was the most popular system at the time. They had secured licenses from many software companies such as Imagic and Twentieth Century Fox, but negotiations with Atari were stalling. Retailers were more open to the idea because it reduced their inventory costs.
The project was started with a limited catalog in Tulsa, Oklahoma convenience and grocery stores. Unfortunately, before it could take off on a national level, software licensing issues and the videogame market crash of 1984 caused Xante to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. They never made it outside of Tulsa, and consequently their cartridges are very difficult to find. Their games are instantly recognizable from their blue casing and embossed logo. Xante was well funded and ahead of its time, but were an unfortunate casualty of licensing and the great crash that hurt so many other companies.
Today, Xante founder Roger Collins operates RBC Ventures, a Tulsa based venture capital company.
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