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Convocation Address
I must tell you how particularly pleased I am to get this award because, well, I'll tell you my previous favorite credentialing story. This happened to me the morning after I won the Pulitzer. I opened up the New York Times and they had these little pictures of all of us and under my picture it said that I had graduated from college summa cum laude. I thought it was very nice of the New York Times to give me a "summa" since Radcliffe had neglected to. So I wrote a letter to the managing editor of the Times thanking him very much for my summa and he sent me back a telegram saying that "oh, it is our pleasure. You are now the first person in American history to have won a Pulitzer and a summa on the same day." So until now my highest academic award has been a newspaper error. And with that dubious credential I have been honored by the Lovejoy award, which should prove to all of the students here, at least, that it's never too late for grade inflation.
It also proves to those of us that need such proof that journalism is not error proof and we not only fall between the first draft of history and the final, we also fall increasingly somewhere between entertainment and information in that wonderful zone known as info-tainment.
"Journalism is not error proof."
So I thought a bit more about my own job description. I have been described tonight as a columnist. I remember many years ago overhearing my daughter talking to a friend and the friend said to her "what does your mother do?" and my daughter thought a minute and she said, "my mother is a columnist." And her friend quite logically said "what's that?" Katie thought a few more minutes and finally said, "well, my mother gets paid for telling people what she thinks."
Well, "telling people what you think" was also the name of a class I taught at Stanford about three years ago. When I arrived on campus I looked into the curriculum and saw that they had named my course, to my absolute dismay, "telling people what to think." So I went up to the registrar and I said this wasn't quite what I had in mind. And she said, "Oh my goodness. No problem at all. We'll be happy to change it," and she sent an e-mail off across the entire campus telling people that the name of the course had been changed to "telling people how they think." So in one day at Stanford I went from being a fascist to a neurologist.
Newspapers in general do two things. They tell people what has happened and they tell them what it means, and I am in the what-it-means end of the business.
Over the last years, as our personal lives and public life have become more complex, as we have been force-fed more and more information, it has become much more important to wrest some meaning from daily events. So as a bona fide member of 'what-it-means journalism' I have the unenviable task of trying to make some sense out of the world we live in.
Making sense is not easy when the news in front of us is a presidential sex scandal or the politics of anger. It's not easy when the media dialogue in America has been reduced to opinion-hurling contests on television in which people compete for the most extreme position, in which we fight rather than reason.
"Newspapers in general do two things. They tell people what has happened and they tell them what it means."
What I decided to do tonight is try to make sense of a major change that we are going through as Americans. A change brought to us by the media in the way we think about and write about the relationship between private and public life--between the personal and the political--and what I think that change means for the way we do and don't deal with our real problems in this country today.
Let me begin by telling you a little bit about my own history because when I first became a columnist, first began telling people what I think for a living, newspapers still divided life into neat sections. Politics, foreign affairs, public policy were out front. Families, homes, women, children, relationships, feelings, were all put "back there," as we used to call it, in the women's sections. Journalism packaged and separated the world into nice, neat little parts--into genders and into subjects. But men and women didn't stay put, and neither did life. Life, real life, has a way of spilling over the retaining walls. I deliberately set out to write about life as indeed we experience it. We are, after all, people who get up in the morning worrying about nuclear terrorism and our weight, about the state of the new world economy and whether there are any clean socks in the drawer. And I always wanted to make those connections between the private and the public--write across the walls--to write about life as it is lived.
I also began writing columns just about the time that the women's movement slogans starting filling the air and there was that famous slogan that said "the personal is political." That slogan meant many different things. As a young mother it meant that the decision about who did the dishes and changed diapers in a family could also be a political statement about power relationships between men and women. As a young journalist it meant that as long as we wrote about child care or about breast cancer or about abortion as problems for individuals, to be solved one by one each on our own, we would have to struggle with them on our own and separately. We would have no public discussion, no sense of how widespread these problems were, and no political solutions. Yet these problems were private and public, personal and political issues. But that slogan, "the personal is political," also suggested something about the way we should cover our political leaders. It implied that someone's character was fully understood only by knowing someone's private as well as public behavior. That a leader's personal life carried within it some meaning for everyone's political life. How they behaved to their family, to their office staff, had some message about how they would behave toward their constituents. Where they came from said something about where they were going and where they were leading us. It seemed to me that we couldn't exclude the personal man or woman when we wrote about the political, and I was an advocate of change, of personalizing -- even privatizing -- our coverage.
Well, be careful what you wish for.
"In Doris Goodwin's wonderful book on the Roosevelt presidency, she reminded us that Americans almost never saw FDR in a wheelchair. "
A half-century ago Americans knew their president almost solely by public behavior. In Doris Goodwin's wonderful book on the Roosevelt presidency, she reminded us that Americans almost never saw FDR in a wheelchair. There was an understanding among the small Washington press corps not to take pictures of him as he struggled in and out of a wheelchair. Indeed if a new photographer came on the White House beat who didn't understand that, the rest of the photographers would circle him, in fact shield the President from this prying eye. Imagine that today.
When I was in school and JFK was in the White House there was essentially a gentlemen's agreement among the small and nearly all-male press corps that they wouldn't tell "the little woman," in this case the public, about his private, sexual behavior. Slowly that agreement cracked as women cracked into the business, actually into the gentlemen's business. As we brought with us the "personal is political," we convinced our colleagues that the public should have a wider and deeper view. It wasn't just women, of course, who changed this perspective, nor was it just feminists. After all, feminists have had a wide range of opinions on this subject. Susan B. Anthony, the mother of us all, had once written "if a man's public record be a clear one, if he's kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been."
The intimacy of the up-close-and-personal television lens was also a big part of the story. So was the freedom of the rebellious new baby boomer journalists, the baby boomer irreverence for authority, their passion for spotting hypocrisy. All of this had a great effect on changing my profession. And this was before the massive increase in cable television stations or in Internet journalism.
By 1987 the splintering of the gentlemen's agreement was starkly shown. In that year Gary Hart became the first presidential candidate of the modern era to commit character suicide. In a national presidential campaign he dared the press to follow him and prove what many already knew. They followed him to a good ship called "Monkey Business." Adultery then became a national issue. The media went through a period of soul searching as well. This affair of the heart, Gary Hart, raised questions about what private infidelity means about someone's fitness for office. Something? Nothing? Does it mean that a wandering husband hates women or loves them? Is someone who is unfaithful to his marriage vows likely to be unfaithful to his campaign promises? Does it say something about his capacity for deception, or risk taking, or not? Does the whole thing say something about American culture? Imagine Americans looking at the scene the French saw at the funeral of their late leader Francois Mitterand, with his wife and his mistress and all of their children. It raised questions about journalism as well. Was journalism just giving the facts? Or some meaning? Were we gossiping? Or informing? But before--this is way before Monica Lewinsky--in the Gary Hart case we saw an odd coalition emerge not just between the serious and the sleazy media, but between the religious right and the secular left, between puritans and feminists. One may have been concerned with relationships and the other with commandments but they became an odd set of allies.
"Political reporting has, for example, become more a matter of psychology and less a matter of policy."
By 1992, five years later, Bill Clinton ran for office, the Gennifer Flowers story broke, the media went through another one of those feeding frenzies, but the story seemed different this time and so was the outcome. This time the husband talked about causing pain in his marriage. This time the wife was a partner, not a victim; not--or so we thought--Tammy Wynette. The statute of limitations on infidelity seemed to be up. They'd been through a bad patch and we thought it had been patched. When Clinton survived that primary, many of us in the media became more comfortable. There was the sense the public was able to put the "A" word back into the alphabet soup of character. He survived only to strike again. But the truth is that even before Monica Lewinsky became a household name, we had not achieved as a country any sophisticated balance of the public and private side. It has become harder and harder for journalists to figure out when writing about private behavior is a matter of serious, thoughtful, character investigation and when it is an invasion of privacy. If anything today, we seem less concerned about public morality and more with private ethics. Before the Drudge Report, we had news stories coming from The Globe--not the Boston Globe I assure you--and news entertainment. And what on earth would William Allen White have made of the investigative character reporting on serious issues that ended up with Paula Corbin Jones telling the American public there were distinguishing characteristics on the president's genitals. Could our journalistic hearing, could Lovejoy himself, imagine a world in which Marv Albert led the paper with descriptions of his sexual behavior and his hairpiece? Was Bob Packwood's so-called private behavior a public abuse of power? Are we still able to distinguish between a Packwood's behavior and someone else's troubled marriage? Indeed it seems to me that in the past we counted divorce against candidates like, say, Adlai Stevenson, while in the present we count against candidates who stay together.
Way back in 1994 (we are moving our way up), the year of that angry white man, we had a contest in Virginia between Charles Robb, who had an extramarital massage, and Oliver North, who was true to his wife and false to Congress. Which is worse? To lie to your wife or to Congress? Each side regarded the other as a flawed character attacking American values, and each side ran ads calling the other a liar. And way back then the First Lady said "there have got to be boundaries." How do we measure those boundaries? And should we?
I want to add that politics has become personal in other ways. Political reporting has, for example, become more a matter of psychology and less a matter of policy. We have become more familiar with our leaders and, in this democratic process of bringing them close, we have also brought them and our institutions further down. Institutions have become so thoroughly personalized that the Congress sometimes seems to be nothing more than the dubious sum of its flawed members. These inherent contradictions, all these trends, all this concern about info-tainment, about the personal and the political, about men and women, came into unrelenting, intolerable, and interminable focus around the Monica Lewinsky scandal. All the pretensions came out, all the distinctions between the Internet and the New York Times, between sex and policy, character investigation and scandal-mongering, the personal and the political, were lost. There was no newspaper in this country that didn't run transcripts of the Monica and Bill tapes sonorously describing improper relationships. Though this will someday, I am sure, become the subject of a sitcom entitled 'Media Behaving Badly.' It isn't that we lost our capacity for judgment. In the confusion, in the press of time, in the turmoil, we voluntarily gave it up. There was precious little distinction between the newspaper, the network news, the cable news, the Internet news--it was All-Monica, All-The-Time--complete and final reversal of how we had handled JFK.
It was, by the way, a source of private hilarity for me last month when the Fox Company was talking about paying three million dollars to Monica Lewinsky to interview her. The money, however, they said very self-righteously, would not come from the Fox news division. It would come from the Fox entertainment division. How exactly they knew the difference was beyond me. No longer does the respectable, the senior media, vet the news. Everything goes out there. We are often reduced to simply being a transmission service. It's all out there on the Internet. The good, the bad, the ugly and, often, the inaccurate. The good news of this election and even this scandal is that actually the public did make up their own mind. They didn't need the Washington establishment to tell them the truth, to tell them what to think. They rejected wholesale the idea of the Washington media that Clinton had to go. They read and thought differently. This election proved perhaps that they were one step ahead of us.
Let me add, though, one final piece of this puzzle that I'm trying to describe. Before the All-Monica, All-the-Time news, journalists had also personally become what television producers always call on-air personalities. We, too, have become part of the cult of personality. We are not just observers, but participants in what I would describe as the high-decibel politics of the yell. Imagine if you can Walter Lipman or Walter Cronkite on The McGlaughlin Group or on Crossfire or on the gangs and groups and roundtables that are dotted across the journalistic landscape now. The places where our own stars hurl opinions across at each other. Food fights breaking out over ideas. Television journalism has become a performance-entertainment -- and the schtick trumps the insight. The worst of it is also that everyone, including journalists these days, are required to be so certain. No ambivalence need apply to any of these shows. They only do ambivalence by dividing up the issues and having two absolutely certain and opposite advocates duke it out. I must tell you that I myself have learned how to get out of some of these shows, especially those that are late at night. I shouldn't confess this, but I don't do many nighttime talk shows because I can't speak after 10. (We still have a little time.) So what I've discovered is that when the booker calls you--the booker is almost always a very nice young woman in an entry-level job who's assigned to call you and to work out the pre-interviews, to ask you how you feel about an issue--and if I don't want to do the show, I've found that the easiest way to get out of it is simply to say, "well I have kind of mixed feelings about that." You can hear the phone going back on the hook.
But in this atmosphere it has become harder, in general, to distinguish the reporter from the analyst from the pundit, even from the candidate. Sometimes they're the same person. The ultimate media creation of this peculiar era--the product of this problem--was for me the presidential candidacy of Pat Buchanan, an original member of The McGlaughlin Group and Crossfire. It was Buchanan who, during the New Hampshire primary, said, "You know, people mock The McGlaughlin Group and Crossfire, but the training I got there was extraordinary for a candidate." I must say that I long regarded Pat Buchanan as the petri-dish conception, the embryo created from the sperm of sound-bite politics and the egg of food-fight journalism. Even before the Lewinsky scandal much of journalism and politics were in a kind of collusion to over-simplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for personal attack.
Be careful what you wish for. I began by describing how people's real-life concerns were often left out of the political coverage of the dialogue in those not so good old days, how many of us thought the personal ought also be cast as the political, how instead politics has become so personal in every sense of that word--intimate, gossipy, humanized, trivialized, polarized. I've also described how much of this process was originally driven by some of the good impulses behind the movement of women who were less inclined to maintain that fence between these two worlds. In no way do I think we should go back, but in some ways we have come full circle. For all the humanizing of politics, and despite the attempts to bring the process up close and personal, to put a face on it, more people than ever feel that politics has little to do with their real lives. We may have brought our politicians into our readers' and viewers' homes, but we haven't brought our audience into the political process. We haven't even closed the gender gap. Indeed in the past few years a new gender gap of sorts has occurred in some of the new media. In the radio we have, for example, seen the emergence of talk radio as a political force. The hosts, from Rush Limbaugh to O. Gordon Liddy, are almost entirely men. So were the callers and so were the listeners. The subject of those shows is politics--high decibel, dysfunctional politics--and the tone is high-volume outrage. Indeed talk radio has been a kind of electronic male consciousness-raising circuit for angry men.
" We may have brought our politicians into our readers' and viewers' homes, but we haven't brought our audience into the political process."
At the same time we've seen an enormous increase in what you would call talk television. There the hosts -- with the exception of Jerry Springer, who is the exception for everything -- are often women, from Oprah to Ricky Lake to Jenny Jones, and the audience is overwhelmingly female. The subject of these shows is private life. Dysfunctional private life. Broken families, soured relationships, an endless parade of hapless, hopeless souls discussing their most intimate problems on the public airways. Or, as my grandmother might have said, "airing their dirty linen in public." In the mostly male talk-radio world the subject is politics. In the mostly female talk-television world there is no political content whatsoever, no political direction, no political solution. What after all can candidates for the Senate do about sisters who steal your boyfriend or daughters who strip-tease for a living? The personal is totally apolitical. These two most lively new worlds of communication are not only divided by gender, but by perspective. The female world is, again, personal; the male world, political, and segregated as ever.
When, during the summer, I drive from Boston to our home in Maine, as a personal act of penance I listen to talk radio. And I have certainly come to the conclusion that women are driven away from this forum by the sound of it -- the hostile kind of winner-takes-all, vindictive, angry sound of it. But the only forum that is designated as ours is a highly traditional world of relationships, in which life is disconnected from policy.
The irony in the Lewinsky scandal, where the personal became political with a vengeance, where sex became an impeachable offense, is that suddenly women were called on to talk, to be analysts, in fact demanded to be our country's sexual arbiters. These shows may not be what we like to think of as journalism, but they are all part of a new world of communications. And as James David Barber once said, "everybody knows what adultery is and nobody knows what the word deficit means." It is sexier, in every sense of the word, to cover character than policy. This year the fullest coverage was not on HMOs or schools, but on sex. Not on whether Clinton's kind of politics was skewing the country, but whether he was, well, above or below the blouse. It's the connections that are still misfiring, although perhaps in a different direction -- the connections that would make us see the whole. If the Republicans learned in this last election that people want to hear less of Monica and more about their schools, will the media learn it? And how will we deal with it?
"The people we cover also have the right, maybe even the obligation (and I say this with a lump in my throat) not to answer our questions, not to cross the line between respect and distance. "
Now at this point in any speech we are expected to offer a perspective for the future. The truth is that journalists are terrible at this. We don't do windows, we don't do futures. Most of us just struggle on a daily basis with the pieces of the infotainment puzzle; this puzzle about how to cover the personal and political. We struggle too with the public, that wants to know and doesn't want to want to know about the private lives of public figures. But there are some principles to uphold. We can uphold that old principle that asks whether this piece of personal behavior is relevant to the performance of someone's public duties-thank you Susan B. Anthony. What is, after all, the reason for the public's right to know? Did we have more need to know about Ronald Reagan's health than about Bill Clinton's sexual conflicts? We can also uphold the principle of self-restraint; though that may seem like a laughable concept, journalists have actually been restrained in reporting, for example, on the life of Chelsea Clinton. Someone at least is off bounds and that's a decent model. The people we cover also have the right, maybe even the obligation (and I say this with a lump in my throat) not to answer our questions, not to cross the line between respect and distance. I would call this the Supreme-Court-Justice approach to the media. Who, after all, came out of this election respected? Hillary Rodham Clinton, who did not talk. Who went out on the campaign trail as if it were a victory tour, refusing to tell us her feelings, passing up Barbara Walters' interview, while at dozens of stops Americans gave her a collective cheer, "You go girl."
We can also I think be somewhat less hasty and more layered in our analysis. We can try to fit one event into the context of life or a career more sensitively than we do now. Fundamentally we have to encourage people to know more, not less, so that we are not at risk of being this bumper-sticker society.
And finally, of course, we can learn to make character judgments the way porcupines make love--very, very carefully. In the past most Americans lived in a small community in which everyone knew everyone else -- not unlike a college community. Today we are likely to live in the global community. We know less about our neighbors and much, much more about our public figures. We gossip about them the way we used to gossip about the people next door. But at the same time we have lost the sense that public policy has much to do with our lives-that politics matters. As the pendulum swings back, and it will, it must, that's the connection we have to restore. That's the still-unfulfilled meaning of the phrase, "the personal is the political and the political is personal." Restoring that connection is as hard a task as any we ever encounter. It's more likely to happen at a local level, where people can see the school, the waste dump, the programs-but it has to happen in our nation as well. And that's a tall, tall order for those of us who are journalists and for those of you who read and watch us and demand more. In fact sometimes I think Jack Kerouac, the Beat-generation poet, may well have written the best motto for journalism of the 1990s way back in the 1950s when he warned us all, 'Walking on water wasn't built in a day."
Thank you very much.


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Wednesday, May 9
11:56 a.m. - Caller reported two students at the Coakley Middle School received inappropriate photos on their phones. Police filed a report.
12:46 p.m. - Walk-in to the department reported vandalism to a vehicle on Andrus Pl. Police filed a report.
3:56 p.m. - Caller reported larceny from a vehicle at Brolly Construction on Chapel St. Police filed a report.
5:22 p.m. - Caller reported an argument over keys to a vehicle at Gymnastic Academy of Boston on Vanderbilt Ave. Police stated incident related to a past assault in Walpole. Walpole PD placed one under arrest, Norwood police filed a report on the disturbance.
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The most recent stats and figures indicate that the percentage of of our fellow citizens who are poor is at the highest since the Great Depression and the gap between the haves and the have-nots is at an all time high. America is experiencing the train-wreck many have been predicting.read more
A New Story is beginning to emerge, the foundation of which is The Universe Story. You are a child of the Universe. Everyone of whatever race, colour or creed is a child of the Universe. It is the great uniting story, of which I have written many times.read more
Do we need Jesus? I still do not know how to answer that. But I am pretty confident the modern secular world would not be as good as it is if it were not for the original input from Jesus of Nazareth. In any case, should we not rather be asking – Do we need to love our enemies?read more
I am convinced that this movement of the soul has an exact counterpart in the body. What happens to us physically when we smell delicious food? We get hungry.read more
It is my opinion that the current changes are moving us toward a spiritual awakening, a way of being never before experienced on earth. Something new is coming into existence. We are giving birth, with all its birthing pains, to a Mystery much greater than ourselves.read more
On the final day of the conference, Gregory Jenks conducted a seminar of his own in honor of the 400th Anniversary of the publication of the King James Version of the Bible.read more
The question of the historicity of Jesus' resurrection has been repeatedly probed, investigated and debated. And the results have varied widely. Perhaps some now regard this issue as the burned-over district of New Testament scholarship. Could there be any new and promising approach to this problem? Yes, answers Michael Licona.read more
For millennia the world has been driven by the differences between the great patriarchal religions. Western civilization–or Christendom, as it was once called–received its values and its confidence from a belief in God, the Father, and Jesus, his only son. But what if this conviction were founded on an error?read more
* How did monotheistic Jews of the early church come to see Jesus as a part of the unique identity of Israel's God? Offering an alternative to "functional" and "ontic" Christology, Bauckham convincingly argues that the divine identity—who God truly is—can be witnessed in Jesus' humiliation, suffering, death, and resurrection.read more
As ubiquitous as this concern for other peoples' salvation is, however, is it wise? I believe such questions betray a Christian myopia that can prove humorous (at best) and insulting (at worst) to people of other faith traditions.read more
The public may learn something important about Romney by understanding more about Mormonism, or it may learn nothing relevant to its decision about his candidacy. But that is a decision voters can make only when they have the information.read more
The books of the New Testament are not the infallible words of God. The texts were in a state of flux during the faith s early centuries. We can and should build on that flexible tradition.read more
Pentecost is perhaps the first festival appropriated from an ancient tradition to serve the purposes of the new Christian Way.read more
What impudence of these two upstart fishermen to demand anything of God! These two brothers went to Jesus, not so much with a question or a petition or a prayer, but they went with a demand: "we want you to do for us whatever we ask."read more
If we are honest, this parable of the wedding guests is perplexing and almost beyond understanding. It weaves here and there, turning expectations upside down and just when you think "I've got it!" – no you haven't because it twists again.read more
When will candidates learn that the cover-up is always worse than the deed itself? Buried in the middle of Mitt Romney's religious mea culpa was a twist of logic that would take a knotssmith (like me) to untangle. He asserts that there are some questions about faith that a candidate should answer. Then he carefully chooses the one question that allows him to sound the most like an evangelical Christian. "What do I believe about Jesus Christ? I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God and the savior of mankind."read more
Of course, the title of this post is kind of a joke. A Thomist is a follower of St. Thomas Aquinas, whose arguments for God Dawkins dismisses as "vacuous" in a couple of pages in The God Delusion (pp. 77-79). This dismissal is—as I've pointed out in Is God a Delusion? (pp. 101-105) and elsewhere—based on a mischaracterization of the arguments. He basically attacks straw men.read more


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Tre moderne
Quite hip and modern, very nice maritime theme through out the hotel.
VERY nice workout facilities on the top floor with georgous views.
Warm, yet sophistictated rooms. Try for the rooms on the maramagnum side, substantial views. Only downside not in a barrio where people actually live. Barcelona is it's people.
Lovely hotel
12/12/03 Christmas shopping in Barcelona! What a truly lovely hotel.
The attention to detail was just great and the staff were realy attentive to your needs. I would reccomend this hotel to anyone looking for 5*treatment. The hotel resturant was really good and the service superb. I would certainly return to this hotel.
Great View! Great Hotel!
We stayed at this hotel for a pre-cruise in early October. We had requested a junior suite and were upgraded to a bay view suite. It was absolutely fantastic. We had windows that overlooked the water as well as windows that overlooked the city. The location couldn't be more perfect, sitting at the base of La Rambla and close to all the action.
Definately worth its 5 star rating. We are going to be returning to Barcelona next November for a Transatlatic cruise next year and hope to convince our friends to splurge a little and the 4 of us stay at the Grand Marina.
Superb hotel in fabulous location
I selected this hotel for my trip to Barcelona having read the other Trip Advisor reviews .... and they were all absolutely right !
5* quality sums up this hotel - the location (5 mins to La Rambla, 5 mins to the marina), the breakfasts (free champagne!), the rooms and, particularly, the staff who recommended some fantastic, authentic spanish tapas restaurants. I also managed to book my rooms at a great rate and the hotel kindly upgraded my room as it was my birthday (although that may have been my friends but I cannot get them to admit it !) - would certainly recommend taking an upgraded room, preferably one at the front of the hotel with balcony and Japanese shower.
My husband and I just came back from Barcelona Oct 9th -Oct 12th. The Hotel was fantastic, the rooms were great and the staff could'nt do enough for you. We also we lucky to be able to use the rooftop pool, the views from there we great. even the pool was freezing. The breakfast in the morning was great and the waiters were very helpful.
We would recomend anybody to stay in this hotel it was worth paying the extra money.
A true pleasure!
Marvellous - this hotel oozes class and offers a 5 star feel as soon as you enter the lobby!The staff were superb - helpful, extremely efficient and warm and friendly (a true breath of fresh air when compared with many of the other hotels of a similar rating I've stayed at across Europe).Room was superb (paid 220 Euro's per night) and views of City are excellent.The position of the Hotel is also first class as it is only 5 minutes walk from the Ramblas and 10 minutes to the best fish restauants at Palau de Mar as well as being right next to Port Vell and it's facilities. I found it's location to be relaxing and peaceful and I was very pleased we chose this place as the noise levels at the other end of the Ramblas were horrific!Keep up the good work - I'll certainly be back!
Very Nice Hotel
I stayed here in August and September 2003, and it is a very nice hotel. The decor is first rate, very modern and sleek, and the materials were very inviting. The rooms have hardwood floors and granite and marble bathrooms. The walls are paneled in attractive cherry wood.
The service was excellent, and the location is near the Ramblas, but away from some of the hustle and bustle.
I would recommend this hotel for anybody traveling to Barcelona.
What a hotel!
This is a great hotel, in a good location only 5mins walk to the Ramblas, 15mins to the beach and in close proximty to loads of bars and restaurants. The view from the 8th floor is fantanstic and we made good use of the roof top swimming pool, jacuzi and sauna! We were greated with a smile and the service was fantastic. Anything we asked for we got (inc. late checkout till 4:30pm). The decor was plush and in true 5 star surroundings. The rooms are all of a very good size with great a/c, and some include balcony, and/or seperate power shower with multi-jets! The bath tubs are all jacuzi! In general, slightly on the pricey side but if you can afford it, it's definitely worth the money.
Try avoid ordering room service or from the bar - expect to pay 5 star prices!
Fabulous Hotel
Without a doubt,the finest hotel I've ever stayed at. Stayed in June,pre cruise for two nights. Everything about the hotel is first class,very modern in design and decor.
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Located right in the heart of Barcelona. A superb new hotel and we had a super price through hotel-... - Hopefully we will be there again soon


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iPhone 3.1 Beta 3: Copy/Paste to Send Full Quality Video
Following up on the recent release of iPhone 3.1 Beta 3, WhenWillApple has posted up a YouTube video (embedded above) showing the new copy/paste functionality for videos.
Like copy/paste for images in iPhone 3.0, this allows you to send copies of your videos without the compression that goes along with the Share function. Just pick a video, tap and hold for "copy", switch to email, tap and hold for paste.
Again, the size of the email boxes (sender and receiver) will likely still be a limiting factor. (MobileMe allows for 20MB per email, for example).
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Is the native format stored on the phone playable by any common software that GrandMa will have on her Windows box?
Interesting. But I'm still waiting for something groundbreaking. Guess I'll have to wait until OS 4.0.
I'd be satisfied it it just stopped dropping my wifi passwords.
Yeah, they are all .mov files.
Also, there seems to be a limit on what you can paste into an email. I've noticed on videos that are over 1 min will let you copy, but when pasting nothing shows up in the email.
@Dryland - I guess it doesn't seem groundbreaking compared to what most computers can do, but compared to earlier phones even a couple years ago it's pretty amazing. It will be more amazing if we ever get true worldwide coverage video conferencing on a mobile, stuff like that would be pretty groundbreaking.
sweet, sending a video through email it's such a long process now. they shouldve added that feature on 3.0. now all I need is for yahoo to allow me to send videos longer than 25 seconds and I'm good.
Looks like the cutoff for pasting video is 15MB, guess that isn't bad.
15MB limit is in place for images as well, so I guess that limit is nothing new.
This isn't new. I have not upgraded to beta 3 yet and I am able to do it. Sent a 14 second video from my phone to my email using this method and it worked. I got a 6 MB .mov file in my email. 6 MB for only 14 seconds...wow.
I would have expected this application to be out much sooner.
Can't be done in OS 3.0 yet. No way.
@Keith, I tried and failed to copy paste a video on Saturday and then this same video copy pasted after upgrading to beta 3. I have heard others say they were able to do it on beta 2, but I couldn't.
IceBike: the reason for your issue is because your ip address and dns match. Change your WEP to WPA and reset network settings and try again.
Remove any WPS wireless personal security to allow additional devices to connect to your router. Rules!
FYI, Windows 7 supports *.mov files through Windows Media Player, still I prefer Quicktime though...


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Very good if not short analysis. The PS3 is still very far behind in the console wars, and has allot of catching up to do. What made them get so far ahead in the last generation was their affordablity, massive licensing agreements, ease of publishing games for their system (see the flooded market of PS1) and ease of making controllers for (DDR, Guitar Hero, Light guns a-plenty...ect.), are all lacking in their ps3. It is as if they decided to ignore all the things that made them good in the first place and just copy xbox and wii.Originally Posted by lenitao3
Wii is suffering Nintendo syndrome, as in the limited game pool (Nintendo doesn't allow many publishers), and half worked concepts of controllers.
Given wii is trying to redeame their mistakes and is doing a pretty good job if not slowly, PBR is their first step to the way they should be going, fun lighthearted mulitplayer games. What the wii lacks that the xbox has is a larger online gaming base and more credible games. I'll say it, Halo is not that special, its just another run and gun title, that is severally out classed, in single player, buy things like gears of war, and even the battlefield series.
Then why does the Halo-box dominate the market? Easy, online multi player. It has the best their is to offer in that market. I can sit down to my roommate's xbox, hit matchmaker, and watch as dozens if not hundreds of emerging game types (that players are creating ) load quickly and pair me with people equile to his rating (hes good, I'm not)
Wii right now is greater than the PS3, witch has little to offer, while wii has the limited offering pool. I put my chips in with the wii, mainly for link and samus and the hopes of a awesome new smash bros.
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ROCK HILL — The mother of the Rock Hill native police say was the ringleader of a gunrunning ring that led to the largest seizure of illegal weapons in New York City history said Thursday her son is sorry for the hurt his accusations have caused his family and community.
In an exclusive interview with The Herald, Carol Roseboro, mother of Earl Campbell Jr., said she had no knowledge of his dark side.
She said her son is not the ringleader of the gun scheme that police say sought to capitalize on the ease of buying guns in South Carolina and selling them in New York where gun laws are much more strict.
Roseboro said she never saw any guns at her home during the times her son was there.
But police and court documents allege Campbell, 23, was at the center of the gun purchases, transportation and sales, and stood to make huge profits from the scam. Campbell made at least two dozen trips to New York with guns and argued with underlings over profits, police say.
Roseboro did not claim that her son is innocent. She did say that Campbell is only accused and has not been found guilty of anything, and she asked people to reserve judgment until the court case is resolved.
She acknowledged that her son has been accused of some terrible things.
The publicity has affected her son, Roseboro said, to the point that he is now on suicide watch in the Mecklenburg County jail, where he is in custody under $1 million bond.
New York officials announced Monday that he and 18 others had been arrested in the gun-running scheme that originated in South Carolina and North Carolina.
Campbell is accused by police and prosecutors in New York of being the South Carolina kingpin by recruiting others to get guns and selling them illegally in New York.
According to New York state indictments, Campbell sold 90 guns for about $75,000 from October to July during 24 meetings with an undercover officer. Campbell routinely requested photos of guns from his conspirators in Rock Hill, bought the guns from them, then delivered the guns to New York, police say.
Campbell and his girlfriend would take a bus to New York to sell the guns, police say. The scam was blown apart by an undercover law enforcement operation that led to the arrests of Campbell and 18 others.
Police in York County helped with the investigation and arrests and stand by the case against Campbell that paints him as the ringleader in South Carolina, said Marvin Brown, commander of the county drug unit that assisted New York authorities.
Campbell was indicted earlier this month on 237 felonies and arrested Aug. 5 in Charlotte, but the police undercover operation was not disclosed until Monday.
The case has attracted national media attention because of the New York connection, as well as throwing a spotlight on Rock Hill and South Carolina as the source for the gun pipeline that law enforcement has stated supplied New York with more than 250 guns, ranging from assault weapons to pistols.
I would like the nation to know, as well as the community to know, that my son has a good side, Roseboro said.
Roseboro is the second mother of accused members of the gun-running conspiracy to claim in interviews with The Herald to have no knowledge of their adult childrens alleged criminal acts before the arrests.
Campbell has a prior conviction for resisting arrest, yet his mother said he is a caring sibling. He played sports at Northwestern High School and before that in junior leagues, his mother said.
But Campbell has not lived with her at her Rolling Green Drive home in Rock Hill since soon after high school, she said. He lived mainly in New York where he attended college for a time and worked in jobs including sunglasses and clothing stores, she said.
Campbell took violin lessons as a child and was a good kid, Roseboro said.
Campbell moved back to South Carolina months ago, Roseboro said, but not to her home. He then moved to a Charlotte apartment with his girlfriend, she said.
Thats where Campbell was arrested, Brown confirmed.
The girlfriend, Kendall Jones, also originally from Rock Hill, faces five felony gun charges in the police sting.
In documents, police listed Campbells address as his mothers home. His S.C. driver license, still valid, shows Rolling Green Drive as his address, Brown said.
According to police and court documents, the charges could not be more serious.
Campbell faces the potential of life in prison if convicted of all the charges. For the charge of criminal sale of a firearm alone, which can carry up to 25 years in prison per count, Campbell faces 164 counts.
Campbell has so far fought extradition to New York, and it is unclear when his next court hearing in Charlotte will be.
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Sex — or rather the constraints and repressions surrounding it — played a central role in Plath's creative and psychological development. She realized, as she wrote in her journal in the autumn of 1950, she was too well brought up to disregard tradition, yet she hated boys who could express themselves sexually while she had no choice but to 'drag' herself from one date to the next in 'soggy desire.' The system, she added, disgusted her."


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Forests Events
Book Discussion: Peace Parks: Conservation and Conflict Resolution
November 07, 2007 // 2:00pm — 4:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
Peace Parks seeks to rigorously examine one way in which the environment can be harnessed to resolve disputes or build peace: transboundary peace parks.
Examining Environmental Links to Peace and Conflict in Sudan: The UN Environment Programme's Sudan Post-Conflict Environmental Assessment
September 21, 2007 // 10:00am — 12:00pm
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Efforts to end the ongoing violence in Darfur and build on the 2005 peace agreement must consider how environmental problems such as deforestation, drought, and desertification affect the balance between peace and conflict.
Book Launch: Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes, by Gomercindo Rodrigues
September 12, 2007 // 10:00am — 12:00pm
Brazil Institute
Gomercindo Rodrigues, a lawyer and activist, presents a rare and personal primary account of Chico Mendes' life and the struggle for justice in the Amazon.
Reception: Environment, Conflict, and Cooperation Exhibition
April 03, 2007 // 5:30pm — 7:30pm
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Environmental issues have played a part in some of world's worst conflicts, but they can also help build peace. These issues are the focus of a multimedia exhibit created by Berlin's Adelphi Research.
Seeking Peace and Saving Asia's Forests: Forest Conflict in Asia
January 30, 2007 // 2:00pm — 4:00pm
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Mismanagement of forests undermines efforts to strengthen governance, slows economic development, impoverishes rural people, and can contribute to instability, says USAID's Mary Melnyk.
Environmental Stress and Demographic Change: Underlying Conditions and Nepal's Instability
November 01, 2006 // 11:00am — 1:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
Bishnu Raj Upreti discusses the ways in which efforts to resolve Nepal's demographic and environmental problems could reduce conflict, alleviate poverty, and provide a pathway to peace.
Film Screening and Discussion: The Cardamoms: Have Forest, Have Life
October 11, 2006 // 3:00pm — 5:00pm
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A new community outreach film attempts to reverse years of ecological damage in southwest Cambodia by instilling in local communities a sense of stewardship in the land upon which they rely.
Minerals, Forests, and Conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
October 04, 2006 // 3:00pm — 5:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
The forest and mineral wealth of the DRC is critical to the country and its people's political, economic, and social future. John Katunga explores the interconnections between natural resource wealth and stability.
The Double Edge of Legal Advocacy in Environmental Public Participation in China: Raising the Stakes and Strengthening Stakeholders
September 25, 2006 // 9:00am — 11:00am
China Environment Forum
Drawing on the feature article they wrote for the China Environment Series 8, Allison Moore, American Bar Association and Adria Warren, Foley and Lardner, LLP, discussed the political and legal dynamics of the development of public participation in the environmental sphere in China
Environmental Vulnerability in Haiti
August 02, 2006 // 9:00am — 5:00pm
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We're live at Buffalo State for one of what I think should be the best nights of the week.
Follow along below through the live chat.
DISCLAIMER: I won't be able to answer many questions because it gets pretty busy here, especially late in games, especially now that I've got the iPhone video going. THANKS for your understanding.
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There is a separate post up with VIDEO of Clarence's buzzer-beater and its fans storming the court.
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Here's my story that was in our final edition; a slightly different version was in the Niagara edition and a hindered-by-a-frozen-computer version was in the Western New York edition.
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And now the rest of the postgame show ...
Highlights and interviews from Jamestown's 57-34 defeat of NT:
Rivera hits a fallaway three late in regulation, his sixth of the game.
Jamestown reaction:
Coach Ben Drake starts here talking about Jamestown's defense against NT standout Aaron Davis.
NT coach Erik O'Bryan postgame:
"I don't know what it is. I'm not really sure what team that was out there tonight.
"I said at halftime, 'They made switches out, they had
[Fletcher] Larson on the wing, and we had Lucas [Pichette] in the post, and we don't give him
the ball.' I said, 'Yesterday in practice we give him the ball.'
"I thought Lucas, our big fella, showed up tonight. For whatever reason, we just didn't have the movement and the fun style of basketball that we've been accustomed to all year long.
"And let's not take away from how talented they [Jamestown] are. They're very talented. And the thing with Jamestown is you can't get down early. You get down early, and you're forced to play man, and coach Drake does -- and he always has -- they run great sets, and they know who to pick apart. You've got to get up, because they're a set team and they'll take advantage."
My take (and the scorebooks at right) ...
Yes, I picked NT. Swing and a miss. I discussed this during the chat, I believe, and coach O'Bryan mentioned it -- about how NT was not the team it had been late in the season. I only saw them at home, so perhaps that gave me a rosier-than-reality view of the Jacks, but they definitely didn't play like they had been playing. The ball movement wasn't there, the patience wasn't there and the turnovers were everywhere.
Jamestown, on the other hand, was the team we thought they'd be all season. A tremendous job by Rivera and the Red Raiders displayed all of its weaponry -- big guys, quick guys, good defenders, good shooters, deep bench, and, as always, being well coached and running good plays. I suppose I bought into NT having a good thing going, and I suppose I bought into Jamestown not quite being able to put everything together (as has been the case this regular season).
I think people know from my polls that I'm a I'll-believe-it-when-I-see-it guy, in that I need to have a team prove its worth for me to vote for it high in a poll or pick it in a game or whatever. Well, Jamestown definitely proved it on Thursday night. They were terrific. Next stop, Saturday against Cinderella.
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Highlights and interviews from Clarence's 67-61 overtime victory over OP:
Some great fourth quarter action as Clarence takes a 46-45 lead with 1:25 left on Tyler Funk's free throws, which are answered by a Dan Nesci drive for OP (47-46 OP), which is answered by a Greg Lucsok drive for Clarence (48-47 Clarence), which is answered by a Troy Nowak jumper while being fouled (49-48 OP) with about 45 seconds left.
Nowak would miss the free throw. Clarence came upcourt and called a timeout with 23.4 seconds left and then ran an inbounds play for Mahoney but his shot was blocked by Robert Kugler, who was then fouled. Kugler made two clutch free throws for a 52-48 lead for OP.
Clarence scored quickly on a drive-and-dish from Stephen Eckert to Tyler Funk, called a timeout with 11.5 seconds left, then fouled Nowak with 10.5 seconds left.
Here is the link to the buzzer-beating three by Funk.
Here's a good stretch of overtime action, including Nick Mahoney's whirling drive to put Clarence up for good at 63-61.
David Hill is all over a turnover and he bursts downcourt for a layup and a 65-61 lead with less than 20 seconds left.
Here is the link to the end of the game.
OP coach Bob Rumschik postgame:
"They made some tough shots tonight. I thought we could have done a better job on our offensive boards, we were kind of one and done at times; and we forced a couple of key shots when we didn't have to. So close, you know, one free throw in the game could make a difference. I'm really proud of these kids, they had a great season. We played a great team today."
My take (and the scorebooks at right) ...
The first half was more than a little sloppy, but the last four minutes of regulation and the overtime were outstanding. There is a point during the best games at Buffalo State where one team hits a big shot and the crowd goes nuts, and then the other team answers with a big shot and the crowd goes nuts again. This game had that big-time. Best drama of the week.
Also mentioned this during the chat, but Clarence is just playing so comfortably, so together. No one gave them a chance to be where they are (I stuck with my poll ballot and went with OP, just for the record), but they just don't care. Funk is a load to handle down low, Hill kept OP's defense occupied all game because he is a threat -- and other players stepped up; Lucsok is a multi-tasker, Mahoney is all over the court and Eckert stood up well to OP's late pressure with some great drives and dishes.
A great story. Also, great support from the Clarence fans, who not only came out in big numbers but were into the game big-time. Every time Nowak touched the ball, they booed, hockey-fan-style -- which is nothing but a huge compliment to a great player in Nowak, who hit plenty of big shots.
I feel bad for Robert Kugler of OP, who had a great block late in regulation and then went 2-for-2 at the line in a clutch spot (I'm pretty sure I've seen him struggle at the line in some games) to put OP up by four late in regulation.
---Keith McShea
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COVENTRY TWP.: Shirley Chuchu has a vision for the life-size Nativity display at Cornerstone Free Methodist Church.
"I want to see it return to the back of the church, so that people driving down Killian Road will get the feeling that it looks like the town of Bethlehem. It just looks magical back there," said Chuchu, 78. "I envision parents and grandparents pulling into the parking lot and explaining the Christmas story to their children and grandchildren, using the display as a visual connection."
Chuchu's hope is dependent on raising enough funds to build a proper platform for the huge white figurines that make up the display. The scene was moved from the east side of the parking lot to the front of the church several years ago because wind was knocking over the camels and kings.
Church leadership will explore whether Chuchu's idea is feasible to return the nativity to its original spot on the church property at 578 Killian Road (between South Arlington Road and South Main Street). The move, which couldn't happen until next year, is dependent on an evaluation of what it will take.
"The one thing I know for sure is we would need to make sure we could get electricity out to that spot," said Bruce Oberlin, facility care director at the church. "I think we all agree that we should at least explore it; after all, [Chuchu] is the reason we even have the Nativity."
Chuchu orchestrated the purchase of the Nativity 25 years ago from the former O'Neil's department store in downtown Akron, where she was employed. When the store downsized from seven floors to three because of a shrinking customer base, the overhang above the windows in front of the building was eliminated. That meant there was no place to display the Nativity.
"Even though we were renting space at the time and in the early stages of building our new church, I thought it would be very special to have the Nativity," Chuchu said. "There were several other potential buyers, including some pretty big churches. But somehow, we gathered the money ($1,000) to purchase it. I believe it was a gift from God to our small congregation."
New tradition begins
The first lighting of the Nativity at the church was Thanksgiving 1987. The congregation now has a tradition of lighting the display each year, after its Thanksgiving Eve service. It remains lighted each night throughout the Christmas season.
Chuchu said when she looks at the Nativity — it includes white figurines of three wise men atop camels, four shepherds, an angel above the stable, Jesus, Joseph and Mary — she recalls the days when the streets in downtown Akron were packed with people who wanted to get a look at the animated figurines and decorations in the windows of O'Neil's and a competitor store directly across the street, The A. Polsky Co.
"The windows would be draped with curtains for many weeks before Thanksgiving so that the workers could get them ready for the children of Akron to gaze upon and scream with delight," Chuchu said. "Once the drapes were removed, there were teddy bears that moved, elves, wooden soldiers, Santa Claus, trains circling fireplaces, life-sized dolls with beautiful smiles and Christmas trees twinkling."
Chuchu said sometimes she didn't know who was more excited, the children or the fathers and grandfathers.
Oberlin, who is charged with setting up the Nativity each year, remembers being in those crowds as a child.
"It really does bring back some great memories. I just love putting it up. It's one of my favorite things to do," said Oberlin, 56. "Because I remember it as a kid, I think that makes it really special to have a chance to set it up here at the church."
Over the years, the church has received feedback from people who have stopped to view the Nativity. Overwhelmingly, they express their appreciation for the church's commitment to displaying the Nativity as a reminder of the true meaning of Christmas.
"Members of the church and the community have always been so generous in donating to help pay the electric bill to keep the lights on the Nativity and to take care of repairs," Chuchu said. "I think it brings back great memories, and we hope that it will be the source of new memories for years to come."
For information about Cornerstone, go to www.cornerstonefmc.org/ or call 330-644-3937.
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Limelight Actors Theater, Gilroy's Downtown Theater, and recently voted Best Theater in South County twice, opens their Summer comedy show, "Run For Your Wife" by Ray Cooney, on June 29th. One of the funniest British Farces ever written. John Smith is a taxi driver with two wives. They don't know about each other and he wants to keep it that way. But, after getting hit on the head, his secret lives start to unravel. With the help of his best friend, he tries to balance the chaos of two detectives, two wives, an upstairs neighbor and the press. It's non-stop action with non stop laughter.
Owners Kevin Heath and Alan Obata continue Limelight's signature "Bring Your Own Dinner" Theater, where you can bring dinner, wine and enjoy the company of your friends and family before the show.
Starring Steve Spencer, Tina Elder, Angela Doss Santiago, Benjamin Smith, Chris Souza, Lance LaShelle and Kevin Heath as John Smith.
Performing Fridays and Saturdays June 29 through July 21 at 8:00pm. Doors open at 6:30pm for BYO Dinner.
Matinees July 8 and 15 at 2:00pm.
Tickets are $18. Reservations 408-472-3292.
For more info www.LimelightActorsTheater.com and in the June/July issues of Out and About Magazine.


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Russell Flannery, Forbes Staff
I was in grad school in Madison, Wisconsin learning about China's economic reforms back in the 1980s, and it was hard not to imagine that you were looking at the buds of an important change in the world. Taiwan, Hong Kong and the U.S. were homes to remarkable Chinese success stories. Why not the mainland, too, if it were to reform? I was part of a group of UW-Madison faculty and student volunteers that helped visiting Chinese students and scholars get acclimated to Madison and the U.S., and was able to hear first-hand the enthusiasm and remarkable tales of China from that era.
Ping Fu harkens back to that time in her new book "Bend, Not Break." Fu, today a successful American entrepreneur whose company is to be acquired by 3D Systems , this month discussed her book, her experience in China during the Cultural Revolution and subsequent immigration to the U.S. in an interview with my New York-based colleague Jenna Goudreau, who writes about women's issues for Forbes. Jenna was approached by the book's publicists and attracted by the remarkable story presented by Fu. I haven't read the book yet, nor do I know Fu, except for exchanging email this week. Jenna, not a China hand herself, initially got a few key details of Fu's comments wrong, but has since corrected them online. Here's a link to Jenna's story (click here) and the Chinese-language version of it published by Forbes China, our licensed Chinese-language edition (click here).
In fairness to readers, however, it needs to be noted that criticism of some elements of the book's accuracy has been ferocious, both in and outside of China. For a flavor, you can click here on Amazon.com. You can also see a range of reader comments at Jenna's blog.
Jenna will have some follow-up comments from Fu later today about the controversy. If you're following this discussion, you'll want to keep an eye out.
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Russell, Thank you very much. I don't have a stake in this debate about Ping Fu's book, but I despise people who play dirty.
I agree. I also lived through cultural revolution. The red guards at that time mainly fight against another opposing group of red guards and against "class enemies" or other adult group whom Chairman Mao considered problematic to his rule. If one is the child of the persecuted, one was often called "a kid of a dog or dogs " (狗崽子), usually the red guards leave them alone (of course, I can not say there could be no exception).
About the alleged gang rape of a 10 year old girl by red guards, sound highly unlikely and at least I have never heard of it happening openly. Here is why: the red guards needed to show themselves to be politically correct and need to be towing Chairman Mao's line. Rape is considered a serious crime by everyone (both culturally and politically) even then and the sentence could be very severe and often death sentence. If one bold red guard did the rape in private, nobody there to be the witness, this maybe possible. But a large group of 14-18 year old red guards did gang rape, I have never heard of such thing, I doubt anyone dared or having such mentality to do this kind of thing. China was very conservative on sex at that time. If the alleged gang rape really happened in the university compus, they can not be total strangers to people in the university, there should be witnesses.
Quartering people was not ever documented in Cultural revolution. Ping Fu already conceded that the killing of a teacher by horse quartering probably did not happen and was her " emotional memory".
Not sure if anyone have pointed it out here. She lied again about she is not a red guard. If you looked at the picture, even without special software, you would notice that every girls in that picture wear a band on the arm. Those bands are Red Guard Arm Bands.
Hope you have a nice trip back to the States. Would you write another report on this topic? I don't expect you or Forbes to take sides. I only hope for a fair report that looks from both sides. Most of posts at Amazon said they just want to set the record straight. It is a regret there were emotional comments from both sides. However, twisting words to fit an agenda is despicable (like the Daily Beast did).
As a contrast, UK media did a much better job. See the reports at the Telegraph and the Guardian.
Please don't let us down.
1. I was born in 1954 in China and had similar experiences as Ping Fu. During the culture revolution, my mother she attempted suicide in 1968 when she was detained by people about a year. My father was in a labor camp since 1958, I lived alone from 1967-1969 without any adult relatives in home. In Summer of 1969, I were sent to a "May 7th" Cadre school, a kind of labor camp, where we worked in farmland for three years. The culture revolution, a horrible experience for me , left scars never heal. but from my personal experiences , Ping Fu simply went too far in distorting facts regard to the Cultural Revolution. Since Chinese Communist Party always hid and lies in modern history , most of young Chinese do not know how evil Mao and his dictatorial system was, we need to tell them and people in world modern history of China, but we still should base on the truth.
2. I came to the US in 1984 to study, even though I was not major in English and my English was not good enough in my graduate studies, I learnt more than 3 sentences.
3. Ping' s case is a good example in differences between Chinese and American. American should not be too fond of adventures. Since honesty was never been very important in China's education after Communist party took over, and the Party directly taught or pressing lying. As a Chinese , it will be long time to make correction no matter where they are . As a media, please do more study and investigation before you report somebody as a model.
Almost all miserable experiences she claimed she had in the book are either against the common sense, the social/financial/economical condition of China back then, or apprarently grossly exaggerated to Chinese who lived through the same period of time. Here are the most important examples in my opinion:
1. Wrote a thesis about forced abortion caused by one-child policy, got published by People' Daily which resulted in exile to US. People' Daily is the Party's mouthpiece and would have never published an unknown college student's thesis criticizing the Party's policy. If it did, it would be such a political incidence that everyone noticed it, but no one heard her name until this book came out. Being able to study overseas, in US particularly, was a huge prize, not a penalty. Unless Ms Fu was already a US citizen, there was no reason for Chinese government to force her to leave China for US as a penalty of political offence.
2. Was gang raped at 10 years old by teenager Red Guards on campus during the day. Sexual crimes are sometimes committed by people in high power privately at the time. But it was impossible even for them to drop their pants publicly, not alone for teenager Red Guards! They would have be heavily senteced in jail if they were caught.
3. Was forced to live in "government controlled environment" and worked for free as a child. This is apparently delibrate mis-presentation of the facts. As I explained in another post, dormatroy provided by the government was a major benefit for university faculty and staff, most of people would have to compete for the rights to live there. Almost all Chinese city residents lived in "government controlled" housing for many years until private real estate market started to develop in 1990s. Children were sent to factories and farms to learn farming and factory experience during certain period of cultural revolution. They were under supervision, and their involvment was largely nominal. For people who had similar experience, their would never count it as forced child labor.
4. Witnessed a cruel execution of a teacher with 4 horses. Execution without appropriate trial was not uncommon during cultrual revolution. But nobody had ever heard of anyone being excuted in such a bizzarly horrifying way since horses were not easily available in eastern China, especially in the cities.
We can go on and on with the list. If you examine all the details in her books, you will find too many abnomaly and incongruities to make her book believable, even for a person who does not know much about Chinese history. Ms Fu did not have to lie to make her case. She did start humbly, for US standards, and she did succeed as a business woman, but there are too many success stories like hers on the market. Her book won't sell without all the sensational details.
Most Chinese are infuriated not because she is successful, or because she paint a sureally bad picture of certain dark period of Chinese history, but because she is trying to capitalise on the misery of people who really suffered. It is a insult to all the people who genuinely believe in the virtue of hard work, resillience, and honesty, Chinese or American. History should not be remembered through lies.
I bet Ping Fu used the same lies to get her green card. She repeated lies over and over and she now believed in what she fabricated. Will USCIS revoke her citizenship if it turns out she is a liar?
Dear Russell,
It seems that only you and Jenna want to know the truth and not just label all these comments as "smear campaign" from a gang of Internet bullies. You also asked some major and important issues that need to be addressed. From what I read online (I haven't read the book and have no intention to read it), most of the stories in her book/interviews are just made up by herself and do not make any sense to me neither. However, she has her right to tell stories, even as a memoir. But everybody need to obey the law.
One thing you may do, if you are truly interested to know the truth, as suggested by Minghui above, is whether she violated the law when she was a student. I suspect that she did.
Two things:
1. Green card application. Did she use false, fabricated documents/materials to get her green card?
2. Employment. Did she work illegally as a student? She claimed she worked as waitress and employed in a company during that time. Did she have the work permits and pay tax?
I assume Forbes has the right to get her greencard application documents using the FOIA. But I doubt Forbes would be interested to publish the results, as she was awarded "Outstanding America by choice" in 2012.
"killed two teachers right in front of us: One teacher was tied up on 4 horses on the field and when 4 horses going 4 different directions, SHE just got split and we were forced to watch it"
While this might fit the imagination of some about that evil Chinese communist government, it does not fit the memory of many Chinese who lived there during the cultural revolution. This is why there is such outrage to Ms. Fu's book. It's not about writing history in a fiction manner but is about writing something that could not have existed.


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Stones Throw: "We've been talking with Lotus for a long while about a mix for the Stones Throw podcast. Here's one he just sent over … no theme, no loops, just "records found in the valley." Lovers Melt, mixed by Flying Lotus. No track list available at the moment."
Flying Lotus – Stones Throw #66
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Hello everyone. Been lifting now for about 6 months. 13 weeks on WBB I
and random stuff prior to that when I first started. I've made some decent progress i think. Started at 140lbs and I am now between 178 and 183 lbs using creatine/protein and eating everything in sight I think i'm finished with WWB1 and am looking for my next step? Which routine to move to? Should i continue to bulk? Constructive critisism is welcome. I think i need some legs O and i am 5'8 if that helps
Starter pics, skinny as hell
Front flexed
bad pic of legs
Don't mind the bacne
Wow keep up whatever you are doing bro! I would continue to bulk. You look great!
5'11" 185lbs 9% BF
S/D/B PR's 445x1, 495x5, 335x1......Looking to get stronger and do a PL Meet this summer!
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looking great man! Really a huge difference!
Keep eating, bro. that's some good work.
Make Shift IF diet
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CF WOD and Recomp...
"My fault. I was fiddling with the Gravitational Constant of the Universe again.
I've set it back - you might need to reboot, though..." -Built
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal--
nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude" - Thomas J
"Obsessed is what the lazy call the dedicated" - Slim Schaedle
yeah thats an amazing transformation there.
for a next routine, might i suggest bill starr's 5x5? i am having lots of fun with it, and for once, all my lifts are increasing.
lotsa articles here, and somewhere on there is a excel template you can download for the workout if you're not interested in reading the articles
Thanks for compliments guys. I do appreciate it. I am just starting Starr's 5x5 today. I found a new gym to that is walking distance from my place. I'm shooting for 200lbs then a cut to 190 hopefully be the end of this year
Nice transformation! Looking pretty solid and bigger than 180 IMO. I'm 5ft 8 180 and you're bigger than me!
Crazy what some food and weights can do. Look like a totally different person. Keep up the good work.
I vote for BGB routine.
Nice progress, height?


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A Temple in Ogden
Originally dedicated in 1972, the Ogden Utah Temple is currently undergoing an extended renovation.
The Ogden Utah Temple renovation continues to progress.
The temple was closed in April of 2011 in order to remodel and architecturally change the appearance and the grounds. An artist's rendering of the completed project is below.
When completed, there will be an open house for the public. Dates for this open house period have not yet been announced. The Ogden Utah Temple was the 5th temple built in Utah.
Facts about temples
Latter-day Saint temples are aesthetically beautiful buildings with meticulous landscaping. Everything about the architecture is designed to honor God and complement the local community.
Temples differ from the tens of thousands of local meetinghouses throughout the world where members typically meet for Sunday worship services and midweek social activities — and where visitors are always welcome. Temples are used solely for the performance of sacred ordinances and religious instruction aimed at strengthening members' relationships with God, their family and others around them.
To members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, temples are houses of the Lord, the most sacred places on earth. Temple services bind families together forever, teach the purpose of life and explain God's plan of salvation. Temple attendance strengthens Latter-day Saints' commitment to living Christian principles, emphasizes personal spiritual growth and increases devotion to family.
Temples are not constructed with large meeting rooms like a cathedral and are not designed to hold large numbers of people at one time. Rather, they are constructed for smaller groups that attend the temple throughout the day. The temple is closed on Sunday.
In keeping with our standards of temple building, the materials and workmanship will be of the highest quality, and the grounds will be created and maintained to bring a sense of peace and tranquility to those who enjoy the grounds and the surrounding community.
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