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Great Game
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The Red Army Faction
A Documentary History: Volume 1, Projectiles for the People
Book by J. Smith and André Moncourt; Kersplebedeb Press & PM Press, Montreal & Oakland, 2009, 736 pp.
It's easy to forget that armed struggle within the "first world" was once the concern of organizations ostensibly dedicated to a social or even socialist liberation project. The Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army in the U.S., the Angry Brigade in the UK, the Red Brigades in Italy, the Revolutionary Cells in Germany, Direct Action in France, and the Fighting Communist Cells in Belgium are just a few such organizations. And there were many more who thought that it was enough for small groups of dedicated individuals, rather than the working class itself, to oppose and overthrow capitalism. But it is the West German Red Army Faction (Rote Armee Fraktion-RAF), that, long after its dissolution, still sparks the greatest amount of interest.
The RAF has spawned a virtual cottage industry of books, from Stephan Aust's liberal account to Jillian Becker's rightist one and Tom Vague's situationist telling, along with documentaries and feature films like Margarethe Von Trotta's Marianne and Juliane based on Gudrun Ensslin's story. The latest addition is J. Smith and André Moncourt's sprawling The Red Army Faction: A Documentary History. The first volume is more than 700 pages covering the group's origins to 1977. A projected second volume will continue the account to its dissolution in 1998.
Whether or not you accept the politics and strategy of the RAF, if you want to read their definitive history, this is the book. Available in English for the first time, it is an amazingly complete collection of documents from the RAF and its supporters. In addition, the book provides an informative and meticulously documented account of the social milieu from which the RAF emerged, as well as telling the group's story in a critical essay, while analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of the organization.
Near the end of the book, the efforts of the RAF to free its leaders are condensed to a maxim: daring to struggle, failing to win. Six years after its founding, its leadership was in jail and many of its members were dead. Yet the Red Army Faction was about to be part of a series of events that would become known as the German Autumn, an autumn which would shake the country.
West Germany after WWII was a country of contradictions. Although it had been defeated and divided, it was of strategic importance to the U.S. and the other Western powers in the fight against Soviet Communism. As a result, the allied powers massively aided the reconstruction of the West German economy, leading to a level of prosperity not enjoyed elsewhere in Europe. The West German government, too, was allowed to practice a level of repression against the left. Such was the confidence of the Adenauer government that the Stalinist Communist Party of Germany, never very radical, was banned in 1956 and not re-constituted until 1968. But if the left was repressed, the right was rehabilitated. After a rather tepid de-nazification, many prominent Nazis once again assumed leading positions in society.
A generation born too young to remember the war regarded these policies as the creeping hand of fascism. Then, on June 2, 1967 a spark ignited a fire. The Shah of Iran, no stranger to repression himself, visited West Germany. During a protest, a 26-year-old student, Benno Ohnesorg, was executed by a police officer (recently revealed as an undercover Stasi agent, though the killing was apparently unrelated to his spying).
On April 3, 1968, two department stores in Frankfurt were firebombed. No one was injured, but the flames caused several hundred thousand dollars in damage. Two days later, Horst Söhnlein, Thorwald Proll, Gudrun Ensslin, and Andreas Baader were arrested and charged with arson. The four put forward a confused defense of "solidarity with the Vietnamese," which was never fully explained. Nevertheless, within the activist community, the action was defended and applauded. Among its supporters were the noted journalist Ulrike Meinhoff and the radical lawyer Horst Mahler.
In October 1968, the four were sentenced to four years in prison, but were later released on parole. In November 1969, they were ordered to return to jail, but instead they went underground. Baader was captured in April 1970.
The Red Army Faction dated its birth to an "act of liberation" on May 14, 1970 when Meinhoff and others helped Baader to escape police custody. In the course of the escape, a librarian was seriously injured and the group went underground.
Almost a year later, in April 1971, the communiqué "The Urban Guerrilla Concept," which outlined the philosophy and strategy of the group, supplemented by generous helpings of Mao, was published. While it was conceded that Germany was not in a revolutionary situation, it argued the goal of the guerrilla was to: "Attack the state's apparatus of control at certain points and put them out of action, to destroy the myth of the system's omnipresence and invulnerability."
During the repression the state practiced in its struggle against the RAF, novelist Heinrich Böll characterized the RAF's struggle as a war of six against sixty million. In this, he sought to criticize the state's repressive actions as an unnecessary over reaction. Yet, while his overall point was correct, his math was faulty. The leaders of the RAF were not rootless. They came from existing social movements. They had roots in the student, leftist, and squatters' struggles, though these were abandoned. As they noted in their initial communiqué, individuals could not combine the legal and illegal struggle. The legal struggle was reduced to support for the guerrilla struggle. As it began its life, the RAF severed its links with its base. For all the RAF's subsequent talk about "serving the people," its strategy essentially dictated to "the people" what their role would be.
The year following the publication of "The Concept of the Urban Guerrilla" was intense. On July 15, 1971, 19-year-old RAF member Petra Schlem was killed in a shoot-out with the police. Soon after, three more RAF members were killed by the state, while many others were arrested and received heavy prison sentences. At the same time, the RAF began to put its urban guerrilla politics into practice: banks were robbed, bombings took place at U.S. army barracks and the Springer Press, and the assassination of a federal judge was attempted.
In June 1972, a few months after the RAF's initial bombs were detonated, almost the entire original leadership of the group, including Baader, Ensslin, Meinhoff, and Holger Meins were captured.
The RAF leadership was kept in Stammheim Prison in Stuttgart, a newly constructed high-security federal prison where the state was able to test various psychological and physical tortures, including isolation cells where prisoners were cut off from all human contact, cells where lights were never turned off, and suspension of regular privileges. When the prisoners responded with hunger strikes, they were force fed. On November 9, 1974 Holger Meins died while on a hunger strike. Over six feet tall, Meins weighed 92 pounds at the time of his death.
Hans Joachim Klein, later one of the Revolutionary Cell's members who participated in an attack at an OPEC meeting in Vienna a month after Meins's death, famously wrote, "I have kept this picture [of Meins's emaciated corpse] in my wallet to keep my hatred sharp." A few months later, in April 1975, the Holger Meins Commando group seized the West German Embassy in Stockholm to demand the release of the RAF prisoners. Within a day, the operation failed. One RAF member was killed and another critically injured, dying a few days later. It was a humiliating failure.
In May 1976, Meinhoff was found hanging in her cell. The official verdict was suicide, but independent investigations reached other conclusions. In an almost comic afterword, one doctor who examined Meinhoff concluded that her actions may have been the result of brain surgery she received a decade earlier for a tumor—rebellion against the state as mental illness was a "medical" diagnosis often pursued in Germany.
In April 1977, the RAF leadership was convicted of the charges against it and the four prisoners were sentenced to life imprisonment. Five months later, on September 5, 1977, Hanns-Martin Schleyer, the president of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations, was kidnapped by the Siegfried Hausner Commando group. (Hausner was one of the RAF members killed in the Stockholm embassy occupation.) Freedom for the RAF prisoners was the price of his life. Schleyer was not an accidental victim. Months before his 18th birthday in 1933, Schleyer joined the SS. He was a young and enthusiastic partisan of fascism. After the war, he served three years in prison as part of the de-nazification process. However, upon his release, Schleyer played the role of the unapologetic face of German fascism, fiercely opposed to workers' rights. His kidnapping was a call to the original goals of the RAF and the leftist movement.
The negotiations dragged on, when on October 13, a month after Schleyer's kidnapping, a Lufthansa jet was hijacked. The hijackers were members of Waddi Haddad's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-External Operations, which since 1972 had been separate from the better known Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The demand of the hijackers, although they were personally unconnected to the RAF, was for the release of its prisoners. The plane was refueled and moved several times as negotiations were conducted. The plane eventually landed in Mogadishu. On October 19, the plane was stormed and all but one of the hijackers were killed. The same evening, Baader and Jan-Carl Ruste died from gunshot wounds, while Ensslin was found hanging in her cell. Irmgard Möller was stabbed in the chest four times. According to the authorities, the deaths were the result of a suicide pact.
Shortly after the news was made public, Schleyer was shot and killed and his body was dumped near the French border. Smith and Moncourt's narrative ends with the Stammheim deaths. While the RAF continued for another two decades, its first phase was over.
Despite their origins within an anti-authoritarian or anarchist milieu, the RAF saw themselves as Marxists. The RAF's theory, while it mentioned socialism, the working class, and opposition to imperialism, had an extremely flawed conception of what these things actually meant. Despite its assertion that "the urban guerrilla is a weapon in the class war," there is no evidence that the RAF had a working class orientation of any kind. In addition, the RAF's endorsement of what it called anti-imperialist politics had little to do with proletarian internationalism. The RAF's anti-imperialism was support for the nationalism of the "oppressed peoples," particularly the Palestinians and the Vietnamese. The RAF also identified repressive state-capitalist regimes like China, North Korea, and even Soviet states like East Germany, as some form of socialism. The words of Mao and even Kim Il Sung litter RAF documents.
To be fair, although some at the time realized and criticized the hollowness of Mao's Cultural Revolution, tens of thousands of leftists in the West were fooled into believing that it was genuine. Forty years on, the squalid truth of China's revolutionary credentials have been documented for all who have eyes to see. These regimes and politics were not working class or proletarian internationalist.
The subtitle of this first volume is "projectiles for the people," and it is the second part of this sentence which is troubling. One of Mao's most famous utterances is that "political power flows out of the barrel of a gun." Instead of serving the people, the guerrilla viewpoint is in fact an extreme vanguardist notion of leading the people. After all, aren't guerrilla fighters willing to die for the cause? But rather than a revolutionary conception, this is a liberal conception; the notion of a small group leading the way, stepping out of the crowd, and by eliminating elements of the ruling class, by propaganda of the deed, imperialism will be defeated. The working class does not need people to serve it. It doesn't need handfuls of urban guerrillas. It must be the class for itself.
The original leadership of the RAF spent a little more than two years as urban guerrillas. After their capture, the final years of their lives were spent in brutal conditions. Those that followed them had their lives cut short through the state's bullets or prisons. Those that supported them accepted the pessimism inherent in their worldview. The Red Army Faction is destined to become the definitive work on the group. Certainly nothing exists in English, perhaps any language, with such a detailed history of the organization. Readers can judge the organization by both their deeds and their words. Although, the authors defend the RAF against the slanders and outright falsehoods manufactured over the years, their account is not uncritical. However, despite these criticisms, the biggest weakness is that the overall thrust of the group's politics and its strategy are never seriously questioned.
Smith and Moncourt have produced an outstanding history. Yet, as good as this book is in documenting its subject, it will no doubt strengthen the mystique of groups like the Red Army Fraction.
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3. | bhangra | ||
The up-tempo style of music originating in the Punjab region of Northern India and Pakistan. Origianlly the rhymes and drum songs performed by Wheat Farmers during and after the harvest season. Contemporary interpretations of classic songs have had a large impact on the charts. Can also describe the traditional style of dance performed by the same ethnic group at traditional ceremonies. Even though Kevin is White, he can still Bhangra like Gurdas Maan or Jassi from B21.
1. | Bhangra | ||
Bhangra is a lively form of folk music and dance that originates from Punjab. People traditionally performed Bhangra when celebrating the harvest. During Bhangra, people sing Punjabi Boliyaan lyrics, at least one person plays the the dhol drum, and other people may play the flute, dholak drum, or other musical instruments. While Bhangra began as a part of harvest festival celebrations, it eventually became a part of such diverse occasions as weddings and New Year celebrations. Moreover, during the last thirty years, Bhangra has enjoyed a surge in popularity worldwide, both in traditional form and as a fusion with genres such as hip-hop, house, and reggae. As Bhangra continues to move into mainstream culture, an understanding of its history and tradition helps to appreciate it. Many people believe that Bhangra originated in the 1400s, however, it may be even older. Primarily men performed Bhangra, while the ladies performed their own fierce, yet elegent, dance called Giddha. The men wore the turbin, lungi (long cloth wrapped around the waist), and kurta (traditional Indian shirt), while the women, when performing Giddha, wore the salvar kameez (a long colorful shirt accompanied with a baggy style bottom piece) accompanied by their bright colored duppattas (cloth wrapped around the neck). Nowadays, because of Punjabi influence worldwide, people perform Bhangra in all parts of the world at occasions such as weddings, receptions, and parties. Bhangra has evolved from a dance and music only performed in the Punjab region, to a popular style of music and dance that people perform throughout South Asia and many parts of the world.
Bhangra: Jazzy B, Panjabi MC, Gurdas Maan, Miss Pooja, Surjit Bindrakhia, DJ Vix, Daler Mehndi, Sukhshinder Shinda, Lehmber Hussainpuri, Sahotas, Babbu Maan, Bally Sagoo, Amrita Virk, Hans Raj Hans, Gubi Sandhu, Aman Hayer, Kulwinder Dhillon, Hunterz, Indy Sagu, B21, RDB Aka Rhythm Dhol Bass, K.S. Makhan, Bhinda Jatt, Sukhdev Sukha, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Inderjit Nikku, Jasbir Jassi, Heera Group, Sardool Sikander, Kuldip Manak, Harbhajan Shera, Apna Sangeet, Gursewak Mann, Amar Singh Chamkila, Jassi Sidhu, A.S. Kang, Amar Arshi, Parminder Sandhu, Yamla Jatt, and Sukhbir. |
2. | Bhangra | ||
Bhangra is a music that was invented in the early 80s by bands in the UK. The musicians in bhangra were influenced by classic Rock as well as Punjabi classical music. Some people who listen to folkhop way too much seem to think that bhangra is the music that you do bhangra, the dance to but they are nothing but shaved headed folkhoppers comitting khanda abuse, while sitting on PCs, mixing dead folk singers with dr dre, all day and all night long, in an effort to please their pendu parents. dj Pendupuk: hey man whats your favorite bhangra instrument
Ravinder: I like the synthesizer, cuz you can do solos n riffs on it. dj Pendupuk: whats a solow |
4. | bhangra | ||
1. the dance that originates from Punjab (India, Pakistan) but is known in Western world
2. cultural dance by farmers during the festival of "vaisaakhi" wheat harvesting season (13th April) 3. dance with "dhol" (original) 4. doorway to attract a punjaban in weddings, festivals and other social events 5. upbeat dance with remixes that varies from punjabi music to reggae, hiphop, and desi music |
5. | bhangra | ||
heavy music!!!! kangna by dr zeus
6. | Bhangra | ||
A dance that is performed excellently by Punjabi Sikhs. Punjabis have been performing bhangra ever since they had created it themselves. Most parties today are full of punjabi people doing bhangra. The common Hindu person is not really good at doing bhangra, but hey, what can we say, they try. "hey are those a bunch of hindus doing some crazy bhangra"
-"no they are punjabis, because if they were hindus they wouldn't be doing as good as those people on stage." |
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A type of primitive indian dance that is getting popular with the indian crowd in the US. . . unfortunately.
It involves twisting the wrists, but it resembles turning a light bulb and molesting a dog. Usually the dance is accompanied by equally primitive singing which sounds like "honky dinky dinky dinky dinky honky dinky dinky..." Me: look at all those indians across the street dressed in their robes. they they were just out for a night of bhangra dancing.
Friend: what is their problem? do us Asians get together and go lion/dragon dancing for fun on weekends? Me: screw that, the curry is just getting to their heads. |

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Allen Eager: An Ace Face (2007)
Allen Eager was one of those swing-through-bop tenor saxophonists who seem to have walked this earth in abundance in the late 1940s. An Ace Face is a two-disc set from that period, chronicling work both under his leadership and as a sideman. Within the canon of those players Eager was arguably the one who got closest to bop's creativity. He is thus further "out than, say, Flip Phillips, whilst he lacks the individuality of someone like Lucky Thompson.
He's certainly "out-bopped by Serge Chaloff on Al Cohn's "The Goof And I," recorded under trumpeter Red Rodney's leadership in January of 1947, but in that there's no disgrace. Few sax players apart from Charlie Parker himself got further inside the bop vocabulary than Chaloff did.
Eager makes more than a lot of his contemporaries would have of "Sweet Georgia Brown," and even manages to make it sound like something other than a staple. Having said that, once he's within the ranks of a Buddy Rich orchestra, as he is on "Nellie's Nightmare," his solo seems to act only as warm-up for the leader's usual display of drumming pyrotechnics. He's relatively restrained on this occasion.
Eager's predilection for what was then the new music comes to the fore in his work with a Tadd Dameron sextet. His work on "Anthropology" is on a par with that of ill-fated trumpeter Fats Navarro, both men burning with the intensity of true converts.
It's on the second disc that Eager seems to come more into his own, however. As a member of both a septet and quintet led by trumpeter Tony Fruscella something different and distinctly his own starts to emerge in his playing. His solo on "Salt" is a model of economy that's the product of a whole lot more than concern with the ticking of the studio clock, and whilst his phrasing is distinctly his own it stays on the right side of willful eccentricity. The not-always-useful benefit of hindsight reveals also how Fruscella fused Chet Baker's limpid style with something entirely his own, as demonstrated on his solo on "I'll Be Seeing You."
On "Metropolitan Blues" Eager puts out the message in uncommon fashion, his balance of the urbane and the trenchant amounting to something entirely his own, and the impression is underscored by his work on "Old Hat," where his tendency to phrase ahead of the beat singles him out amongst the crowd of Lester Young disciples despite any tonal similarity.
To this day it can be argued that Allen Eager is a neglected figure. If this is the case it might be down to something his work has in common with Lucky Thompson. Both men plotted a singular route through a musical upheaval and, as a result, have always avoided easy pigeonholing. This set is thus addressing a major imbalance.
Track Listing: CD1: Allen's Alley (AKA Wee); Rampage; Vot's Dot; Booby Hatch: Symphony Sid's Idea; Blues; The Goof And I; Sweet Georgia Brown; Daily Double; Nellie's Nightmare; All Night All Frantic; Donald Jay; Meeskite; And That's For Sure; 52nd Street Theme; Groovin' High; Good Bait; Anthropology; The Tadd Walk; Dameronia; Lady Bird. CD2: The Brothers; Mulligan's Too; Perdido; Zootcase; Muy; Salt; I'll Be Seeing You; Metropolitan Blues; Raintree Country; His Master's Voice; Old Hat; Blue Serenade; Let's Play The Blues; Vogue.
Personnel: Allen Eager: tenor sax (CD1#1-21, CD2#1-14); Red Rodney: trumpet (CD1#7); Fats Navarro: trumpet (CD1#8, CD1#15-21); Tommy Allison,: trumpet (CD1#9-10); Stan Fishcelson: trumpet (CD1#9-10); Phil Gilbert: trumpet (CD1#9-10); Fats Ford: trumpet (CD2#3); Tony Fruscella: trumpet (CD2#5-13); Jimmy Deuchar: trumpet (CD2#14); Don Elliott: mellophone (CD2#3); Bill Harris: trombone (CD1#8); Bob Ascher: trombone (CD1#9-10); Chucky Koenigsberger: trombone (CD1#9-10); Chauncey Welsh: trombone (CD2#5-6); Billy Byers: trombone (CD2#14); Pete Brown: alto sax (CD1#1); Eddie Caine: alto sax (CD1#9-10); Jerry Therkeld: alto sax (CD1#9-10); Charlie Parker: alto sax (CD1#15-16); Rudy Williams: alto sax (CD1#17 -20); Coleman Hawkins: tenor sax (CD1#1); Illinois Jacquet: tenor sax (CD1#6); Charlie Ventura: tenor sax (CD1#8); Mickey Rich: tenor sax (CD1#9-10); Wardell Grey: tenor sax (CD1#21); Stan Getz: tenor sax (CD2#1); Zoot Sims: tenor sax (CD2#1); Al Cohn: tenor sax (CD2#1); Brew Moore: tenor sax (CD2#1); Phil Urso: tenor sax (CD2#3); Serge Chaloff: baritone sax (CD1#7); Gerry Mulligan: baritone sax (CD2#2); Danny Banks: baritone sax (CD2#5-6); Jimmy Jones: piano (CD1#1); Ed Finckel: piano (CD1#2-5); Ken Kersey: piano (CD1#6); Al Haig: piano (CD1#7); Ralph Burns: piano (CD1#8); Harvey Leonard: piano (CD1#9-10); Duke Jordan: piano (CD1#11-14); Lennie Tristano: piano (CD1#15-16); Tadd Dameron: piano (CD1#17-21); Walter Bishop: piano (CD2#1); George Wallington: piano (CD2#2); Harry Biss: piano (CD2#3); Dick Twardzik: piano (CD2#4); Bill Triglia: piano (CD2#5-13); Martial Solal: piano (CD2#14); Terry Gibbs: vibraphone (CD1#11-14, CD2#3); Mary Osborne: guitar (CD1#1); Al Valente: guitar (CD1#8); Gene Dell; guitar (CD1#9-10); Billy Bauer: guitar (CD1#15-16); Al McKibbon: bass (CD1#1); Bob Carter: bass (CD1#2-5); Chubby Jackson: bass (CD1#6-8); Tubby Phillips: bass (CD1#9-10); Curley Russell: bass (CD1#11-14, CD1#17-21); Tommy Potter: bass (CD1#15-16); Gene Ramey: bass (CD2#1-3); Phil Leshin: bass (CD2#2); Bernie Griggs: bass (CD2#4); Earl Anthony: bass (CD2#5-13); Benoit Quersin: bass (CD2#14); Shelly Manne: drums (CD1#1); Max Roach: drums (CD1#2-5, CD1#11-14); J.C. Heard: drums (CD1#6); Tiny Kahn: drums (CD1#7); Buddy Rich: drums (CD1#8-10, CD1#15-16); Stan Kay: drums (CD1#9-10); Kenny Clarke: drums (CD1#17-21, CD2#14); Charlie Perry: drums (CD2#1); Walter Bolden: drums (CD2#2); Sid Bulkin: drums (CD2#3); Gene Glennon: drums (CD2#4); Junior Bradley: drums (CD2#5-13); Gail Madden: maracas (CD2#2); Kenny Clarke: drums (CD1#17-21, CD2#14); Charlie Perry: drums (CD2#1); Walter Bolden: drums (CD2#2); Sid Bulkin: drums (CD2#3); Gene Glennon: drums (CD2#4); Junior Bradley: drums (CD2#5-13); Gail Madden: maracas (CD2#2).
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Graffiti Alphabets in The Art Of Dance Painting
Sep.24, 2010, under graffiti alphabets
Graffiti art is cool too, perhaps with a combination of traditional dancers painting graffiti alphabet letters are used for decorating a show. It seems the art of graffiti has been to collaborate with other arts.
Tags ::dance painting, decorating, graffiti alphabet, graffiti alphabet letters, graffiti art, graffiti painting, traditional art


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Repealing the 14th Amendment is wrong for America
For well over a century, children born on American soil have been American citizens. Changing that guarantee is not a new idea, but Arizona Senator Jon Kyl's proposed hearings on the subject have given it new life. A close look at the history and purpose of the citizenship provision makes clear why changing it would harm us all.
The authors of the 14th Amendment forged a provision that changed our country forever, making us truly one nation after a long and bloody Civil War. The Amendment requires every state in the union to ensure equal protection of the laws, due process, and the privileges and immunities of citizenship. And it declares that "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
The Framers of the Amendment, like the provision itself, were at once visionary and pragmatic, courageous and unifying. And their handiwork has rightly stood the test of time. By contrast, repealing part of the 14th Amendment to change what it means to be an American is wrong for our country precisely because it abandons those principles.
The Framers were visionary because, among other things, they recognized that there would always be groups in our country who are so reviled that the citizenship of their American-born children would be threatened. So while the Amendment was aimed primarily at ensuring the full inclusion of African Americans emerging from slavery, it does not single out any one racial group, but instead guarantees the citizenship of "all persons" born here.
The Amendment's implications for the children of immigrants lacking legal status—Chinese immigrants, who were prevented from ever becoming American citizens due to the Chinese Exclusion Act—were debated at the time. That the Amendment discusses neither "Negroes," nor ex-slaves, nor the Chinese, but rather "all persons," bespeaks the vision of a homeland that would transcend the hatreds and politics of any one moment in the nation's future—including this one.
At the same time, the citizenship provision is intensely practical. Those of us born here need take no blood oath, nor research our lineage. We need not prove our parents' heritage or pedigree, nor are we segregated into different classes or castes. We are Americans.
This decision was courageous, bringing into the American family people, and their descendants, who many in the country still saw as inherently dirty or dumb, inferior or foreign, deceitful or disloyal. The Framers recognized that seeing past the prejudices and pettiness of the day was crucial to building one nation, indivisible. As one indication that they were right, it was at this point in our history that we began to refer to "the United States" as a singular rather than a plural noun.
Repeal would be as short-sighted as the provision is visionary. It would allow the rancorous politics of the moment to deny a core constitutional freedom to 300,000,000 Americans citizens. It would carve a single group of people—babies no less—out of a guarantee that was rightly granted to all of us.
At the same time, the proposal is not practicable. If two-thirds of a gridlocked Congress and three-quarters of all state legislatures somehow mustered the consensus to repeal the provision, the result would be chaos—with citizen parents having to apply to a new bureaucracy to establish the citizenship of their children, and victims of fire or flood, among millions of others, no longer able to point to their birth place as proof that they are Americans.
Because opportunity and freedom are the reasons why immigrants come here, this damaging change would also fail to fix our broken immigration system. Instead of eroding our constitutional freedoms, Senator Kyl and his colleagues should enact workable solutions to that system that uphold our nation's values and move us forward together.
The vast majority of Americans support commonsense immigration reform that includes smarter border security and in which the 12 million undocumented immigrants in our nation pay all taxes, learn English, register, and begin an orderly path toward citizenship. That's a change that would uphold, rather than deprecate, the values that the 14th Amendment represents.
Alan Jenkins is Executive Director of The Opportunity Agenda, a non-profit public interest organization headquartered in New York City. He is a constitutional attorney who has served as Assistant to the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as Law Clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun.


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Thought leader: Knowledge briefs - The social value of knowledge
First, lets face it: there is *no way* to automate the creation of meaningful knowledge flows. Academic information scientists and AI proponents have been trying to crack the problem of automatic classification for more than 20 years, with little success, after wasting what must be hundreds of millions in dosh. People still mostly interact with sources using shot-in-the-dark word searches. I have been monitoring the failure of the automated approach (along with most colleagues who work in the practical side of information retrieval and knowledge management) for most of that time. Indeed there is a chapter on the subject in Taxonomies: Frameworks for Corporate Knowledge.
Partly, there is no automated solution because computers are not conscious (although they might appear to be, but that is fakery see the Turing Test). Partly, the difficulty starts because the question behind it presupposes that meaning exists in some unchanging platonic world outside of the influence of a social context. Over the past 2000 years, science and philosophy have pretty much disproved the existence of Platos Ideal Forms. So it is pretty safe to say that fully automated classification is literally meaningless.
And, even if an automated solution were possible, it would have no social value. Who cares what a computer thinks (especially when it cant really think at all anyway.) The massive trick being missed by pursuing the automated approach is the opportunity to tap into peoples own native intelligence as a component of a greater social intelligence.
If you want to create knowledge communities the last thing you want to do is to automate tagging and categorisation. The acts of tagging and classifying are of key significance and create the opportunity for people to collaborate as never before. Each act of classification is an important contribution to the group, and adds to the value of the information streams being created.
The first thing you want to do is keep it simple for people and build up gradually, interest group by interest group. For example, start with a group of people interested in environmental or economics topics. Huge value would then be added by giving them the opportunity to tick, say, five boxes, plus a dont know option. Imagine if many people collaborated on, for instance, the environment, simply by ticking the most pertinent boxes such as air, land, water, species or simply environment (if the item is about the whole shooting match). Its easy, quick and very social, since the collection that is built by the users goes far beyond what any of them can do alone. Massive value is added from the start. Much, much more can be added by introducing facets one by one. That is the Google beater!
Another advantage of this approach is that the statistics of what people are clipping become meaningful because they reflect a human choice, rather than a computer algorithm. Our Open Intelligence software shows these kinds of self signifying statistics changing in real time.
Jan Wyllie is a founding director of Open Intelligence and Trend Monitor. He is also author of one of Ark Groups most successful reports, Taxonomies: Frameworks for Corporate Knowledge. He can be contacted at email@example.com.
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Washington men's basketball coach Lorenzo Romar on Monday said he is not going anywhere, after rumors popped up that he may be under consideration for the new job opening at UCLA.
Romar's name has been floated as a potential candidate for the Bruins' vacant head-coach spot, now that UCLA has fired Ben Howland after 10 years at the helm. But during a conference call with reporters Monday, Romar insisted he is staying put in Seattle.
"I've said I don't know how many times," Romar said, as reported by 710 ESPN Seattle, "Washington wants me and I want to be here."
Over the past decade, Howland has led the Bruins to seven NCAA Tournament berths and three-consecutive appearances in the Final Four from 2006 through 2008. But after No. 6 seed UCLA lost big (83-63) to No. 11 Minnesota in the second round of the NCAA tourney Friday, the Los Angeles school fired him despite a 233-107 overall record as head coach there.
Romar, meanwhile, has been the head honcho at UW for 11 years, and despite missing the NCAA Tournament for the past two seasons has led the Huskies to three March Madness berths in his tenure — including Sweet Sixteen appearances in 2005 and 2010. This season, the 18-16 Huskies went to the NIT and lost 90-79 to BYU in the first round last week.


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We have a N router listed today for 1/2 the price.
So I've been hearing that wireless-N isn't really worth it unless the router is 5Ghz, to maximize the speed. True? Anyone know? I'm happy with the ol' WRT54GL but I'm N-curious.
If you are going to upgrade you will be best served with simultaneous dual band N, so the router can send both 2.4 and 5.0 at the same time.
I bought this instead last year for $28. free shipping, no tax.
I have 2 hard wired devices and 4 wireless (1 G, 3 N) connected to it.
No issues at all. Great range, 300 mbps (most of the time)
...and the easiest setup of any router I have ever used.
It just hangs on my wall doing its job.
This was a noticeably faster router than my dlink n150. Very easy setup, good range, and a bullet proof signal - no drops.
No point in running Wireless N unless your router & device support 5Ghz.
2.4 gives you greater strength and speed. 5Ghz if for when your 2.4 band has a lot of interference on it. It doesn't perform as well in a clean direct comparison.
I get good performance with both bands, but as #7 indicated I get greater speed for longer range on 4 I have one router providing a 802.11b/g signal on one channel and another providing 300Mbps N coverage on a different channel so they don't interfere, then 5Ghz N channel as well. Works well.
Nothing wrong with 2.4ghz only N routers. I have a netgear single channel and my laptop and get real world SMB transfers of about 80-90mbps from two rooms over.
5ghz can be a little tricky. It doesn't penetrate as well thus shorter range on that channel.
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Yep its true fellas, the sweet sexy Danica is up for grabs! DIBBS!
She announced her divorce from husband Paul Hospenthal on her Facebook page today. She said the two have amicably decided to end their marriage. (if there truly is such a thing?)
Hospenthal is a physical therapist who met Patrick while treating her for a non-racing injury. The two were married in 2005, and he is 17 years older than the 30-year-old NASCAR driver.
Danica, call me!


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7 Layer Chocolate Overload Pie
1/2 cup unsalted butter
1 cup graham cracker crumbs
2 Pillsbury Pet-Ritz Frozen Pie Crusts
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup butterscotch chips
1 cup dark chocolate chips
1 cup coconut
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup sweetened condensed milk
Melt the butter. Mix in graham cracker crumbs. Pat crumb mixture in the bottom of a Pillsbury Pet-Ritz deep dish frozen pie crust and up the sides. In layers, sprinkle semi-sweet chocolate chips, then butterscotch chips, then dark chocolate chips, then coconut, then walnuts over the crumb mixture. Drizzle the sweetened condensed milk over all. Do not stir. Use the second Pillsbury Pet-Ritz pie shell to decorate the top of the pie. Bake in a 350 degree for about 25 minutes.
Recipe created by Scott Hobbs of Lebanon for the Wilson County Fairs' Pillsbury Pet-Ritz Pie Baking Championship
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19th International Congress on Palliative Care open 11 October 2012 News | Education 19th International Palliative Care Congress in Montreal The 19th International Congress on Palliative Care was opened officially on 9 October 2012 . The opening reception was held in the Exhibition/ Poster Hall and was a great opportunity to meet friends and colleagues from around the world who have gathered for the conference. Many of the participants, planning committee and faculty attended; socializing and visiting the various exhibitor booths. Congress Chair Anna Towers gave a brief speech, welcoming the delegates to what is sure to be an intensive three day congress. Dr Towers welcomed back old friends, and gave a warm welcome to Montreal to all those who have not been before. She encouraged participants to make the most of the congress, enjoying both the presentations, the exhibitions, the posters and of course the networking with friends and colleagues. Wednesday morning's events began with a welcome from Heather Munroe Blum, President and Chair of McGill University, thanking the delegates for their international contributions to hospice palliative care, and reflecting on Governor General of Canada David Johnson's words, "Canada is a Wise and Caring Nation." Professor Monroe-Blum said that she was honoured to welcome such a wise and caring group. For the first time the Congress will have live webinar streaming so that palliative care professionals in developing countries can attend the plenary events. Before each plenary there will be a reflection, the first reflection illustrating faith, hope and the redemptive power of hope. Wednesday's conference plenary was titled, "Stress and Coping for Caregivers" presented by Susan Folkman PhD, University of California San Francisco and Harvey Max Chochinov PhD, University of Manitoba. Dr Folkman discussed the effect of stress on caregivers, the way it affects someone's social psychological and physical well-being. She explained the stress and the toll caregivers face when caring for someone with a complex and devastating illness. The storm of psychological stress. helplessness, caregiver exhaustion, prediction of death, and depressed mood all contribute to caregiver stress and breakdown. She then discussed the discovery process, and ways caregivers cope in response to a stressful event. Her research can be implemented into all settings of care, and focuses directly on caregiver stress and coping mechanisms. Harvey Max Chochinov PhD then took to the podium to discuss "dignity therapy" and emerging opportunities in palliative care. His empirical research focused on asking patients about the notion of dignity at the end of life, and what it meant to them. asked what people affiliate with their sense of dignity. He advocated that hospice palliative care professionals need to change they way they see and perceive patients, another aspect of dignity therapy. Dr Chochinov then showed some excerpts from some of the University of Manitoba's dignity therapy sessions. Read more about the first plenary session with commentary by Professor Julia Downing- Makerere University Uganda, ICPCN today on ehospice. Other program highlights from Wednesday October 10th included: Research Forum discussion focusing on help in dealing with anxiety or sadness during the end of life. The continuation of the paediatric palliative care stream with a focus on student education and palliative sedation. A special seminar on the fundamentals of palliative care nursing. A special seminar on pharmacotherapy and palliative care Workshop: Palliative care in Japan Proffered papers: Non-cancer end-of-life care The sessions were insightful, informative, and extremely varied. At the International Congress, there truly is something for everyone! Stay tuned for a detailed description of Thursday's plenary and other key events. Follow the conference with daily updates on ehospice.


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The Triple M Commitment asks you to commit to coming to services a specific number of times over a 12 month period. The number of times you commit to come is up to you--but once you commit, your commitment must be iron clad, just like any other commitment you would make to God and your community.
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The May Friday Night Shabbat Dinner & Lecture will feature shaman and healer Roger LaBorde. LaBorde, also known as Wakan Sa Hunka of the Rides the White Horse Clan, became well known as a healer for his work with no-hope coma cases, beginning in 1992. He has appeared on ABC's "That's Incredible," NBC's "The Other Side," FOX's "Sightings" and in the New Age Journal. His lecture is entitled "An Evening Dialogue With a Shaman."
Open bar and drinks at 6 p.m. followed by short Kabbalat Shabbat Services. This is followed by Kiddush and a buffet dinner that is accompanied by the question and answer portion of the lecture. Dessert is then served. Services and buffet for kids also held concurrently. Register here.
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UQ Business School was Australia's first business school to achieve dual accreditation from AACSB International - The association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business and EQUIS - the world's pre-eminent accrediting bodies. UQ Business School now joins the ranks of:
- London Business School
- Thunderbird
- Warwick Business School
- Rotterdam School of Management
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- University of St. Gallen
- University of Washington
- HEC Montreal
- Asian Institute of Management
as holders of dual full accreditation from EQUIS and AACSB.
EQUIS, the quality assurance body of the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD), awarded full accreditation to UQ Business School in June 2004. Prior to the EQUIS award, UQ Business School was the first comprehensive business school in Australia to be awarded full AACSB International accreditation in April 2003. In June 2009, UQ Business School earned EQUIS re-accreditation for a further five years. The EFMD has awarded EQUIS accreditation to just 127 business schools worldwide.
AACSB International accreditation originated in the North American Ivy League business schools and has expanded to cover the Asia Pacific. With the granting of the European EQUIS accreditation, UQ Business School is now recognised globally as a premier business school, whose graduates are recognised for the quality of their degree worldwide.
Our programs (degrees) are accredited with professional associations such as:
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- Australian Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAA)
- Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
- Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI)
- Australian Computer Society (ACS)
- Australian Property Institute (API).
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His music has tackled everything from neocolonialism to racism but Pataphysics – AKA outspoken soul hip-hop artist Patrick Marks – deems his debut album Subversive, a musical assault on Australia's anti-terrorism laws, as a collection of his best work yet.
44 anti-terrorism laws were passed by the Australian Federal Government between 2001 and 2007 and Marks passionately opposes those he feels infringe on freedom of speech. "With Subversive, I wanted to shout out against these laws that breach civil liberties and human rights, and test boundaries as far as I could."
With heavy subsonic beats and potent lyrics, it's insurgent rap at its most compelling. In one of the tracks, Treason, Marks actually breaks the Australian Terrorist Legislation, an Australian first for a released song. And in One More Thing, his powerful lyrics demand accountability for those in power and vigilante justice when the system fails to do so. On this track, we hear Arundhati Roy's words on resistance rhythmically aligned by Pasobionic (Tzu).
So determined was Marks to do his protest justice, he spent seven years perfecting Subversive, which he describes as "hip-hop with soul, at times with a post-bop edge". It also features his trademark trumpet, creating a highly unique sound compared to other rappers on the scene.
Marks wrote, produced, recorded and mixed the entire album himself, with cameos by hip-hop royalty such as Rob Swift and Stic.Man (Dead Prez). "It's rare to have artists of this calibre be interested in collaborating on an independent album. I feel very honoured." Marks says New York legend Swift collaborated with him on Cause It, the track he nominates as his "standout" on the album. "The turntable mastery of Swift on this song is just awe inspiring."
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American Express Co Stock Buy Recommendation Reiterated (AXP)
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- American Express (NYSE:AXP) has been reiterated by TheStreet Ratings as a buy with a ratings score of A+ . The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its growth in earnings per share, increase in net income, revenue growth, notable return on equity and solid stock price performance. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally poor debt management on most measures that we evaluated.
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- AMERICAN EXPRESS CO has improved earnings per share by 7.5% in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. The company has demonstrated a pattern of positive earnings per share growth over the past two years. We feel that this trend should continue. During the past fiscal year, AMERICAN EXPRESS CO increased its bottom line by earning $4.08 versus $3.35 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($4.40 versus $4.08).
- The net income growth from the same quarter one year ago has significantly exceeded that of the Consumer Finance industry average, but is less than that of the S&P 500. The net income increased by 0.6% when compared to the same quarter one year prior, going from $1,331.00 million to $1,339.00 million.
- Despite its growing revenue, the company underperformed as compared with the industry average of 7.8%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly increased by 3.9%. This growth in revenue appears to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, improving the earnings per share.
- The return on equity has improved slightly when compared to the same quarter one year prior. This can be construed as a modest strength in the organization. When compared to other companies in the Consumer Finance industry and the overall market, AMERICAN EXPRESS CO's return on equity exceeds that of the industry average and significantly exceeds that of the S&P 500.
- The stock has not only risen over the past year, it has done so at a faster pace than the S&P 500, reflecting the earnings growth and other positive factors similar to those we have cited here. Looking ahead, the stock's rise over the last year has already helped drive it to a level which is relatively expensive compared to the rest of its industry. We feel, however, that the other strengths this company displays justify these higher price levels.
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VAL DI FIEMME, Italy (AP) — Marit Bjoergen anchored Norway to its second straight 4x5-kilometer cross-country relay world title Thursday.
Bjoergen, Kristin Stoermer Steira, Therese Johaug and Heidi Weng won in 1 hour, 36.5 seconds, beating the Swedish team of Ida Ingemarsdotter, Emma Wiken, Anna Haag and Charlotte Kalla by 26.2 seconds.
Bjoergen, who has now won 11 world titles in her career, even had time to grab a Norway flag from the crowd as she skied down the final straight.
Olympic champion Norway was the favorite going into the race. The quartet had already picked up six individual medals and took the top four places in Saturday's skiathlon.
"We weren't sure of making it, it wasn't easy out there," Bjoergen said. "All four of us had to work very hard and focus, and our skis had to be perfect. We knew we had to fight the whole time."
A fast final leg from Yulia Tchekaleva — who won bronze in Tuesday's individual 10K — enabled Russia to finish third, 45.8 seconds behind Norway. It was also the fastest leg of the race.
Team sprint winner Jessica Diggins also raced a quick final leg for the United States to finish fourth. Finland had tussled with Sweden for second for most of the race, but crossed the line in fifth.
Poland had led at the halfway stage after a fast second leg from Justyna Kowalczyk, which saw her make up nearly 40 seconds to overtake Johaug.
However, the Poles ended the race in ninth.
Bjoergen won her third gold medal in Val di Fiemme. The three-time Olympic champion, who also won silver in the 10K, is only three victories away from matching Yelena Valbe's record of 14 world championship wins.
It is the 32-year-old Bjoergen's 18th championship medal, beating Bjoern Daehlie's record of 17.
"I don't focus on how many medals I have," Bjoergen said. "I'm living in the now. When I stop skiing, then I can think of how many medals I have."
Norway leads the medal table with 15, including six gold. Russia is second with four, one more than the United States.


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Biodynamics and Active Systems
This course examines the ways in which biological organisms achieve complex 'emergent' structures and performances from simple components, relating this to an exploration of current architectural/industrial component design, prototyping and production. The aim is to suggest the possibility of a radical bottom-up programme for architectural design proceeding from a component strategy derived from an analysis of biological systems. The course explores the concepts that are driving the implementation of new material systems, particularly in 'smart' or adaptive structures. An introduction to the ways in which organisms have evolved their form, materials and structures in response to varied functions and environments will be followed by an account of the way in which engineering design principles have been abstracted from nature in current research projects for industry and material science. An in-depth study of a natural system (general form, anatomy and energy flows and behaviour) will be carried out, and the interrelations explored and the engineering principles abstracted.


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Intrinsic or extrinsic population growth in Iron Age northeast Thailand? The evidence from isotopic analysis
Cox, K.J., Bentley, R.A., Tayles, N., Buckley, H.R., Macpherson, C.G. and Cooper, M.J. (2011) Intrinsic or extrinsic population growth in Iron Age northeast Thailand? The evidence from isotopic analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38, (3), 665-671. ( 10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.018).
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Here we present strontium, carbon and oxygen isotope measurements from the tooth enamel of 34 adults from Noen U-Loke, an Iron Age site (c. 300BC–500AD) in the Upper Mun River Valley (UMRV), northeast Thailand. The Mun Valley is rich in archaeological sites from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, with evidence for changes in social complexity, new technologies and population growth. Whether the population growth in the UMRV was intrinsic, as opposed to extrinsically due to immigration, is an unresolved question. Our results suggest low levels of long-distance immigration, with only three (two females, one male) of the thirty-four individuals as probable immigrants from outside the region. We discuss the implications of this result as a contribution to longer-term investigations of population growth, human mobility and fertility during this prehistoric period of substantial societal changes in mainland Southeast Asia.
Item Type: | Article |
ISSNs: | 0305-4403 |
Keywords: | Southeast Asia; Strontium isotope analysis; Oxygen isotope analysis; Palaeodemography; Migration |
Subjects: | Q Science > QD Chemistry Q Science > QE Geology |
Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Ocean & Earth Science (SOC/SOES) |
Item ID: | 179485 |
Date Deposited: | 01 Apr 2011 12:31 |
Last Modified: | 01 Jun 2011 05:46 |
Contributors: | Cox, K.J. (Author) Bentley, R.A. (Author) Tayles, N. (Author) Buckley, H.R. (Author) Macpherson, C.G. (Author) Cooper, M.J. (Author) |
Date: | March 2011 |
Status: | Published |
URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/179485 |
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Real Madrid confirm the end of Mourinho 0
There has finally been official confirmation from Real Madrid about what everyone seemed to know anyway. Jose Mourinho will leave the club at the end of the season. The statement claims it is a mutual decision between the club and the Portuguese manager, so maybe they have come to some arrangement.
Both sides had not wanted to be the one to instigate it, although it seemed clear that it was what they both wanted. Mourinho's position became untenable this season after more high profile bust ups with various members of the team and a degrading relationship with the fans and the Spanish media. His failure to get the results which made the problems worthwhile last season is probably the crucial factor, though.


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Office Depot, OfficeMax to merge
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NEW YORK Office Depot Inc. (ODP) said Wednesday it agreed to buy OfficeMax (OMX) in an all-stock deal that would transform the $21 billion office supply retail sector.
U.S.-based Office Depot Inc. and OfficeMax said holders of OfficeMax shares will receive 2.69 shares of Office Depot for every OfficeMax share they own.
That's equal to about $13.50 per share, based on Office Depot's $5.02 per share closing price Tuesday, giving the deal a total value of about $1.2 billion. OfficeMax had about 86.7 million shares outstanding as of Oct. 26, according to SEC filings.
Office Depot posted the news in its earnings release on its Web site on Wednesday morning, but the release later seemed to be taken down from the site. Office Depot and OfficeMax did not respond to requests for an explanation. The New York Times reported that the merger release had surfaced prematurely.
The move would combine the No. 2 and No. 3 office supply retailers and lead to consolidation in an industry that analysts have said for years is overstored. It reflects the changing retail landscape as "big box" stores become outmoded and more people shop online.
The office supply sector is worth about $21.2 billion, according to research firm IBISWorld Inc. Of that, Staples holds a 35 percent market share, Office Depot 26.1 and Office Max 15.6.
Office Depot and OfficeMax, along with Staples Inc., were founded in the mid- to late 1980s and helped pioneer the big-box boom in the 1990s, expanding rapidly in the U.S.
But the rise of Web retailers like Amazon.com and more expansion into office supply categories by discounters like Costco and Wal-Mart has been tough on the sector. In addition, office suppliers were slow to bounce back from the U.S. recession.
Rumors about possible consolidation have swirled around the sector for years but nothing ever materialized.
The Wall Street Journal reported the possibility of the deal on Monday, sending stock across the sector soaring on Tuesday.
Analysts say that if the deal closes it would likely benefit the Staples since the combined entity will likely close stores.
"We think a potential merger would result in a significant number of store closings, and thus an improvement in the overall economics of the office supply retail business," said S&P analyst Ian Gordon on Tuesday. "This area has been under pressure from a weak business spending environment and competition from non-traditional channels like Amazon, in our view."
Staples is much larger than its smaller rivals, with 2,295 stores worldwide and a market capitalization of $9.56 billion. In contrast, Office Depot's market capitalization is $1.43 billion, and OfficeMax is $1.13 billion. Market capitalization is the market value of a company's outstanding shares and can be used to measure a company's size.
The deal still has to go through shareholder and regulatory approvals, and office supply mergers have been questioned by regulators in the past. In 1997, Staples Inc. attempted to buy Office Depot but the deal was nixed by the Federal Trade Commission due to concerns the combined company would have too much of a competitive advantage in the marketplace.
Office Depot shares rose 46 cents, or 0.2 percent, to $5.48 in morning trading. OfficeMax shares rose $1.43, or 11 percent, to $14.43 in premarket trading, and Staples shares rose 15 cents to $14.80.
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