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mummy's boySaltos de línea: mummy's boy
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Definición de mummy's boy en inglés:
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A boy or man who is excessively influenced by or attached to his mother.
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- There is a stubborn stereotype of young Spanish men as homesick mummy's boys, who live in the parental home until well into their 20s and are happiest among their friends from the pueblo.
- It's totally about the attitude, and there is no reason why playing quiet music means that you have to be a simpering mummy's boy.
- On one occasion she claimed she found a note in different hands which said: 'Adam's got big ears and if they were any bigger he would fly' and 'Adam's a mummy's boy, always crying'.
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Thanks again Gary, I think my grandfather and grandmother were divorce by then, I've bee looking for my
GGGrandmother Nanc Mullanix for a long time usually I get down to surrounding area in Graysville.
My gggrandfather Martin Partin I think was a gigalo (sp) he was married 4 times, during his last years he stayed with his son Preston Partin and is buried in Low-Ground.
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As he prepares to take on the role of House Speaker, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) has pledged to bring a new era of bipartisanship to Congress. "I think the best leaders are very good listeners," said Boehner in October. "Because if you are not listening, you cannot lead."
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They're called rogue sites, and they exist for one purpose only: to make a profit using the Internet to distribute the stolen, illegally copied and counterfeited goods and ideas of others. The economic impact of these activities—millions of lost jobs and dollars—is profound. That's why dozens of labor organizations, businesses and trade groups have come together to support legislation that will provide the Justice Department with new enforcement tools to combat this growing menace to the American economy.
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Few things are more frustrating to a former Congressman than to see a law he sponsored twisted in a way that undermines its intended purposes. Unfortunately, this is precisely what has happened during the last few years with the 1992 Cable Act, and in particular, with the provisions I sponsored dealing with "retransmission consent." These provisions require a cable operator or other video provider to obtain a broadcast station's permission to retransmit the broadcast signal to subscribers (unless the broadcaster elects a different option called "must carry"). Our goal was to ensure that the public would retain access to local broadcast programming as cable television gained in power and influence. But today, more than ever, broadcasters are using these provisions to claim that the Act gives them license to pull their signals from video providers and their subscribers unless these providers agree to pay rapidly rising fees. In essence, broadcasters are exploiting a law designed to prevent consumers from experiencing service disruptions to justify blackouts. This just happened in the New York and Philadelphia area, where Fox blacked out its network stations to three million households during the baseball playoffs and World Series.
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Jurors in Zimmerman trial ask about manslaughterBy TAMARA LUSH
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George Zimmerman, center, talks with his attorneys during jury deliberations Saturday in his trial in Sanford, Fla.SANFORD, Fla. Jurors have found George Zimmerman not guilty of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
Upon hearing the verdict after 10 p.m. Saturday, Judge Debra Nelson told Zimmerman he was free to go.
The six-member, all-woman jury deliberated for more than 15 hours over two days before reaching their decision Saturday night.
They had been given the chance to convict Zimmerman of manslaughter but did not do so, despite asking for a clarification of the charge earlier in the evening. That had been a possible indication they were considering the lesser charge instead of second-degree murder.
They also asked for dinner Saturday night, an apparent sign they planned to deliberate for at least an hour or more beyond the eight hours they already had put in during their second day.
May we please have clarification on the instructions regarding manslaughter, Nelson read from the six-member, all-woman jurys note before a courtroom that had rapidly filled up with lawyers, reporters and members of the families of Martin and Zimmerman.
As jurors awaited an answer, Nelson talked to lawyers at the bench and after a half-hour recess, they agreed to send a note back asking the jurors to elaborate.
The court cant engage in general discussion but may be able to address a specific question regarding clarification of the instructions regarding manslaughter, the note said. If you have a specific question, please submit it.
Zimmerman, 29, was charged with second-degree murder but jurors also had the options of finding him guilty of manslaughter or not guilty. He had pleaded not guilty, claiming he shot the 17-year-old Martin in self-defense.
To win a manslaughter conviction, prosecutors had to show only that Zimmerman killed without lawful justification. To win a second-degree murder conviction, prosecutors had to convince jurors Zimmerman acted with ill will, hatred or spite toward Martin.
Zimmerman faced a maximum prison sentence of life for second-degree murder and 30 years if convicted of manslaughter, due to extra sentencing guidelines for committing a crime with a gun.
Outside lawyers with no connection to the case said the jurys question could was an indication that it has taken second-degree murder off the table.
It does sound like at this point, theyre considering between manslaughter and not guilty, said Blaine McChesney, an Orlando defense attorney and former prosecutor with no connection to the case, a couple of hours before the verdict.
Added Orlando defense attorney David Hill: Why would they bother to ask for clarification unless they were thinking about manslaughter?
To convict Zimmermann of manslaughter, jurors had to believe Zimmerman intentionally committed an act that caused Martins death, according to the judges instructions. He cant be guilty of manslaughter merely by committing a negligent act or if the killing was excusable, the instructions said.
The jury started deliberating Friday afternoon. At the time jurors asked their question about manslaughter Saturday, they had been deliberating for a total of 11½ hours over two days. On Friday, they asked their first question: a request for a list of all the evidence.
Jurors were being sequestered, and their identities are kept anonymous they are identified only by number.
As jurors deliberated for a second day, there was little understanding between two camps assembled to support Martin and Zimmerman outside the Seminole County Courthouse.
He deserves some respect and appreciation, Casey David Kole Sr., 66, shouted about the former neighborhood watch leader. Its a tragedy.
Patricia Dalton, 60, yelled back: Its a tragedy that could have been avoided!
Dalton, like most of the 100 or so people at the suburban Orlando courthouse, says shes there in support of the family of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old black teen from Miami who Zimmerman fatally shot last year.
The supporters stayed peaceful for most of the day until in the afternoon when sheriffs deputies had to separate a Zimmerman supporter from a pro-Martin demonstrator after a heated exchange. There was no physical contact made and no one was arrested.
The atmosphere quickly cooled down. Two Orlando sisters, dressed in colorful African-print clothing and walking on stilts, sang Lean on Me with the crowd as a man strummed a banjo and people waved signs.
Were just here for peace and love, said stilt walker Bambi Loketo.
Prosecutors and Trayvon Martins family say Zimmerman profiled Martin because of the teens race. Those allegations, and a 44-day delay before police arrested Zimmerman, sparked nationwide protests involving leading national civil rights leaders and spurred emotional debates about gun control, self-defense laws, race, and equal justice under the law.
In Saturdays strong Florida sun, some people at the courthouse wore hoodies, as Martin had when he died. One woman lay in the grass, her arms spread, in a re-creation of Martins death. Those in the smaller pro-Zimmerman camp held small signs, saying things like We love you George and George got hit you must acquit.
Joseph Uy of Longwood was among an even smaller group: the few who said they had no opinion on whether Zimmerman was guilty. He said he came because he was just curious.
Im neutral, he said, while cradling his three tiny Chihuahuas in his arms.
By mid-afternoon, people rallied in the heat and chanted slogans as a looming thundercloud threatened a downpour.
Justice for Trayvon, some shouted. Others yelled, Convict George Zimmerman.
Police and civic leaders have pleaded for calm in Sanford and across the country after the verdict.
There is no party in this case who wants to see any violence, Seminole County Sheriff Don Eslinger said. We have an expectation upon this announcement that our community will continue to act peacefully.
In New York on Saturday, the Rev. Al Sharpton said that no matter the verdict, any demonstrations that follow it must be peaceful.
We do not want to smear Trayvon Martins name with violence, the civil rights leader said. He is a victim of violence.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson had a similar message. He tweeted that people should avoid violence because it only leads to more tragedies.
Benjamin Crump, an attorney for Martins family, said the parents are emotional but doing as well as expected as they await a verdict.
(Jurors) staying out longer and considering the evidence and testimony is a good thing for us arriving at a just verdict, Crump said.
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Remember that old Dylan song, "Somethin' is happenin', but you don't know what it is, do you Mr. Jones?" In the opening first scene of the two-person play, coming2terms, at the Vineyard Playhouse, we're all Mr. Joneses as we try to figure out what a particular attractive couple is up to. They're coming across with everything long-term couples tend to do. Bickering? Check! Avoiding larger issues? Check! Sharing their day? Check!
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was born in Columbus, Mississippi, with all the proper psychological accoutrements to become a great writer. His family was abysmally dysfunctional, his mother a narcissist with a streak of snobbery, denial and grandiosity (much like the mother in The Glass Menagerie), and his father an often-absent, smalltime businessman with a temper, active fists and an aversion to his delicate son, who, as we all know, was destined to grow up to be a homosexual, a tough row to hoe in the deep South.
First, let it be said that on the evening this critic attended the Vineyard Playhouse's outdoor performance of The Comedy of Errors, Friday, July 22, when the weather was so warm it felt as if the entire Island was holding a Bikrum hot yoga class (for those unfamiliar with the workout, the purpose is to reproduce a boiling afternoon in Calcutta), the heat itself became a starring character.
Not to start on too bossy a note, but do go out and catch all five plays and musical productions of the African American Theatre Festival being performed, mostly, at the Vineyard Playhouse and running this week through early September.
The festival began this past Wednesday with Root, a one-woman play written and performed by Vanessa German and directed by Heather Arnet. The play travels from 1980s Los Angeles to the Civil Rights marches of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to drug-saturated Juarez, Mexico to a battered and drenched New Orleans.
He never thought of the era when he wrote TV comedy as the Golden Age. For him that honorific was reserved for the earlier epoch of Sid Caesar and Carl Reiner. But Marty Nadler, staff writer and producer in the 70s and 80s of Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Chico and the Man, The Odd Couple, Perfect Strangers, Valerie, and Amen, was part of a time in Hollywood entertainment that, hands down, is considered Most Funny.
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This coming Monday, Nov. 7, at 8 p.m., the Vineyard Playhouse will present a staged reading of Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays. And they will not be alone. At the same time there will be simultaneous readings of the play worldwide.
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Health Benefits of Nuts
Excellent Health Benefits of Nuts
By Ann Martin
Nuts can be a wonderful way of adding flavor and texture to our dishes. We may use slivered almonds as a garnish for string beans, blend a handful of cashews in our strawberry smoothies for extra creaminess or add a sprinkling of fresh pine nuts to our salads for a healthy crunch.
Although nuts are great for baking, they also have excellent health benefits. According to medical professionals, nuts which contain unsaturated fatty acids and other nutrients are great for snacking. It is thought that eating nuts as part of a balanced meal can help lower your cholesterol and reduce your risk of heart disease.
Instead of reaching for a bag or chips or a chocolate bar the next time you're hungry, try incorporating the following four nuts into your diet and reap the health rewards.
Walnuts. Walnuts are considered great for heart protection. They contain potassium, calcium, magnesium, vitamin E and omega-3 fatty acids, which promote cardiovascular wellness. It is believed that the vitamin E found in walnuts can help prevent plaque from building up in the arteries. The beneficial omega-3 fatty acids they contain are said to help lower blood pressure and high cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart disease. Enjoy walnuts alone or chop up a few and add them to your green salad.
Almonds. Even though almonds are high in fat, the fat they contain is monounsaturated, the same kind of healthy fats found in olive oil. They're also rich in calcium, folic acid, vitamin E and fiber. Research indicates that these rock stars of the nut world contain properties that may lower cholesterol, reduce your risk for diabetes, improve cardiovascular health and positively affect your waistline. Blend a handful of walnuts in your next morning smoothie and savor the creamy goodness!
Cashews. In recent years, cashews have become a staple in the raw food community. Loaded with health benefits, they are prized for their versatility, lending themselves well to raw creams, milks and spreads. Cashews are high in magnesium, which helps promote strong bones and is thought to boost brain power. They're also a great source of antioxidants, those beneficial nutrients and enzymes which help prevent and repair damage to your body's tissues. Cashew cream can be used as a salad dressing, a dip for crudit?s or as a spread for a vegetable wrap. Enjoy a dollop today!
Macadamia nuts. In the geography of the nut world, macadamia have a Beverly Hills address. These nuts can be pricy and are often found in premium desserts. But the nutritional benefits of macadamia nuts far outweighs their price. They contain selenium, which is considered a powerful antioxidant for cell repair. Macadamia nuts are rich in calcium and iron and a great source of fiber. If you're trying to watch your cholesterol, here's some good news: macadamia nuts are cholesterol free, so eat up! As people strive to cut back on unhealthy snacking, nuts are a great substitute to munch on throughout the day, especially during that dreaded 3:00 p.m. hour when you're bored at work and your appetite goes into overdrive. As you're snacking on a handful of walnuts or cashews, remember that you're not only satisfying a food craving, you're doing something wonderful for your body.
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Ann Martin is a contributing writer for Dinnerware Center, which specializes in dinnerware, the Noritake Collection and flatware sets such as Oneida Juilliard. She also contributes articles to nutrition and wellness sites. When Ann is not testing out a new recipe or cookbook, she enjoys traveling and spending time with her family.
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im 12 and my cholesterol is 211!!!!!! help me design a diet for the next three months b4 i go back to the doctor. my cholesteral is suppose to be 160-170
Read the nutrion facts on everything (its usually on the back of the product). If it has cholesterol, don't eat it. Food does not always come with the nutriton facts so don't eat it if you don't know whats in it. here are some high cholesterol foods: Food Chicken Liver Chicken Giblets Eggs Beef Liver Turkey Giblets Butter Pork Liver Sausage Shrimp Sardines Heavy Cream Veal Pork Ribs Lamb Turkey Neck Pork Shoulder Beef Chuck Lard Crab Duck Meat Salmon Fast Food Cake Chocolate Milk Top 5 Super Foods to lower cholesterol Oat for Soluble Fiber Oatmeal and oat bran are rich in soluble fiber, a type of fiber which lowers the bad Low Density Lipoprotein or LDL cholesterol without lowering the good High Density Lipoprotein or HDL cholesterol. In 1997, the FDA authorized a heart disease risk reduction health claim for beta-glucan soluble fiber from oat products. Food products containing oat bran and rolled oats, such as oatmeal, and whole oat flour can bear this health claim. How much do you need? Five to 10 grams of soluble fiber a day decreases LDL cholesterol by about 5 percent. Some studies showed that this amount can lower cholesterol by as much as 23 percent. One bowl of oatmeal contains about 3 grams of soluble fiber. Include other soluble-fiber-rich foods such as psyllium, apples, kidney beans, pears and barley. For more details, read Oats for High Cholesterol Fish for Omega 3 Fatty Acids Fish is a good source of protein and omega 3 fatty acids - which has been shown to lower LDL cholesterol and raise HDL cholesterol. In particular, omega 3 fatty acids are noted for its triglyceride-lowering power. How much do you need? In 2002, the American Heart Association recommended eating at least 2 servings of fish a week, particularly fatty fish such as mackerel, salmon, sardines, trout and herring. If you have high triglyceride levels, AHA recommends 2 to 4 g of EPA and DHA (two specific types of omega 3 oil) as supplements under your doctor's care. For more details, read Fish and your Heart Nuts for Healthy Fats Nuts rich in fiber, phytonutrients and antioxidants such as Vitamin E and selenium. These tasty snacks are also high in plant sterols and fat - but mostly monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats, which have all been shown to lower the bad LDL cholesterol. How much do you need? In 2003, the FDA recognized the benefits of nuts and their role in heart disease prevention by approving a health claim for seven kinds of nuts (almonds, hazelnuts, peanuts, pecans, some pine nuts, pistachios and walnuts). Limit your intake to ~ 1.5 ounces a day, as nuts are high in calories. The best way to reap the health benefits of nuts is to eat them in replacement of foods that are high in saturated fats such as meat products. For more details, read Health Benefits of Nuts Foods fortifed with Plant Sterols Plant sterols or stanols are powerful substances naturally found in plant to have the ability to block cholesterol absorption. Studies showed that eating two servings of sterols-fortified foods daily result in a 10 to 15 percent drop in LDL cholesterol levels. How much do you need? The National Cholesterol Education Program recommends that people who have high cholesterol eat 2 grams of plant sterols or stanols a day. You can find plant sterols in fortified foods such as margarine spread, orange juice, salad dressings, functional cookies etc. Most sterols-fortified foods contain at least 1 gram of plant sterols per serving. Please read the portion size and usage direction on the labels for details. It is important to note that plant sterols are not for everyone. The AHA recommends it only for people with high levels of LDL cholesterol. Soy Soy products are great substitutes for animal products. In 1999, the FDA recognized the health benefits of soy and heart disease by approving a soy health claim. However, due to conflicting results from a large-scale review performed by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the AHA Nutrition Committee no longer recommends eating soy to lower cholesterol. Should you avoid soy then? A simple answer is No. Although soy may not lower cholesterol to the extent we previously thought it could, the US Agency review showed that it can still lower bad LDL cholesterol by 3 percent. Since soy products contain high levels of polyunsaturated fats, fiber, vitamins, and minerals and low levels of saturated fat, AHA does consider soy products a healthy replacement for meats and other foods high in saturated fat and total fat.
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Governments move in on the Internet
Internet freedom is not something to be taken lightly, as anyone who has tried to gain access to forbidden sites in China will tell you. The countries that would like to censor Internet content, including Russia, China, Iran and others, were eager to see their authority to do so etched into a United Nations treaty debated at a conference last month in Dubai. The United States and other nations committed to a free and open Internet refused to sign the treaty. It was a largely symbolic protest, but the right thing to do.
The World Conference on International Telecommunications brought together 193 nations to consider revisions to principles last modified in the pre-Internet days of 1988. The principles govern the largely technical work of a specialized UN agency, the International Telecommunications Union. Much of the conference debate turned on whether the principles should be expanded to give national governments and the agency more voice in regulating the Internet.
Those governments that hunger for more control are not paragons of freedom. China, which already maintains the world's most pervasive Internet censorship machine, tightened its controls at year's end, requiring users of social media to disclose their identities. Russia has been moving toward selective eavesdropping to tamp down dissent. The treaty debated in Dubai may not change anything they are already doing but could provide a veneer of political cover.
The United States objected to a resolution appended to the treaty saying that "all governments should have an equal role and responsibility for international Internet governance." Translation: Let national governments get their hands on it. The United States has maintained that Internet governance should rest, as it does now, with a loose group of organizations, including the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which manages domain names and addresses under contract with the U.S. Commerce Department. There are suspicions aplenty in the rest of the world that this is the equivalent of U.S. control -- suspicions that should not be ignored. While the Internet cannot fall into the hands of those who would censor and restrict it, the United States should put more effort into remaking the current model so it can serve what has become a global infrastructure.
Ambassador Terry Kramer, who headed the U.S. delegation in Dubai, was clear that a power grab by the repressive countries was a non-starter. "No single organization or government can or should attempt to control the Internet or dictate its future development," Mr. Kramer insisted.
The conference did serve to highlight broad, opposing camps over Internet freedom. After the United States pulled out, 89 nations signed the agreement, including Russia, China, Iran, Cuba and Venezuela. The blank screen of the Internet censor is not likely to disappear soon. A long and fateful battle looms for digital freedom.
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Some years back, I gave a talk at O'Reilly's ETech conference that urged the audience to spend less time thinking up clever ways dissidents could blog secretly from inside repressive regimes and more time thinking about the importance of ordinary participatory media tools, like blogs, Facebook and YouTube, for activism. I argued that the tools we use for sharing cute pictures of cats are often more effective for activism than those custom-designed to be used by activists.
Others have been kind enough to share the talk, referring to "the Cute Cat theory". An Xiao Mina, in particular, has extended the idea to explain the importance of viral, humorous political content on the Chinese internet.
I've meant to write up a proper academic article on the ideas I expressed at ETech for years now, and finally got the chance as part of a project organized by Danielle Allen and Jennifer Light at the Institute for Advanced Studies. They invited a terrific crew of scholars to collaborate on a book titled "Youth, New Media and Political Participation", now in review for publication by MIT Press. The volume is excellent – several of my students at MIT have used Tommie Shelby's "Impure Dissent: Hip Hop & the Political Ethics of Marginalized Black Urban Youth", which will appear in the volume, as a key source in their work on online dissent and protest.
I'm posting a pre-press version of my chapter both so there's an open access version available online and because a few friends have asked me to expand on comments I made on social media and the "Arab Spring" at the University of British Columbia and in Foreign Policy. (I also thought it would be a nice tie-in to the Gawkerization of Foreign Policy, with their posting today of 14 Hairless Cats that look like Vladimir Putin.)
So – Cute Cats to the Rescue? Participatory Media and Political Expression.
Abstract: Participatory media technologies like weblogs and Facebook provide a new space for political discourse, which leads some governments to seek controls over online speech. Activists who use the Internet for dissenting speech may reach larger audiences by publishing on widely-used consumer platforms than on their own standalone webservers, because they may provoke government countermeasures that call attention to their cause. While commercial participatory media platforms are often resilient in the face of government censorship, the constraints of participatory media are shaping online political discourse, suggesting that limits to activist speech may come from corporate terms of service as much as from government censorship.
Look for the Allen and Light book on MIT Press next Spring – it's an awesome volume and one I'm proud to be part of.
This is a hard day to write about issues other than sudden, unexpected disasters – the bombing in Boston, the earthquake in Iran – and horrific ongoing disasters of continuing violence in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. But I've been trying to get my head around a complicated situation in Bangladesh that's become very dangerous for bloggers and activists in that country: the aftermath of the Shahbagh protests and the arrest of Bangladeshi bloggers for alleged atheism.
Some background: When Bangladesh broke away from Pakistan in 1971, the Pakistani Army violently attempted to prevent "East Pakistan"'s breakaway, killing anywhere between 300,000 and 3 million Bangladeshis, raping hundreds of thousands of women and targeting intellectual and potential political leaders. In 2009, under a secular government in Bangladesh, the country began an international crimes tribunal, prosecuting local collaborators with the Pakistani Army, who include leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami, the largest Islamist party in the nation.
The court convicted Abdul Quader Molla, assistant secretary general of Jamaat, of war crimes in February 2013 and sentenced him to life in prison. Many Bangladeshis were dissatisfied with this sentence and demanded capital punishment. On February 6, demonstrators began occupying Shahbagh intersection in Dhaka to demand Molla's execution.
Bloggers and online activists were prominent in urging people to take to the streets, where the protests expanded beyond demands for punishment and into a call to oppose political Islam. Supporters of Molla's party reacted with counter-demonstrations. CLashes between demonstrators and counter-demonstrators killed at least four and injured over a thousand.
A Bangladeshi blogger, Ahmed Rajib Haider, who wrote under the pen name "Thaba Baba (Captain Claw)" had written about war crimes for years and was active in calling for the Shahbagh protests. The 26 year-old was brutally murdered near his home on February 15th. Bloggers speculate that he was killed by Islamists, as his laptop was left at the scene of the crime, implying he wasn't a mugging victim.
Arrested bloggers and the tools of their trade. Image by Demotix
As protests continued, Islamists groups argued that the bloggers helping instigate the protests were anti-Islamic, anti-social and atheistic and demanded their arrest and prosecution. The Bangladeshi government responded by founding a committee to track anti-Islamic activity on Facebook and other online media. On April 1st, the police arrested three bloggers for their alleged "derogatory content".
Global Voices, Reporters Without Borders and others have condemned these arrests, but arrests continue, most recently targeting Asif Mohiuddin, whose blog has been banned, and who was stabbed by Islamists in January, before protests began – his arraignment was scheduled for yesterday. We understand that Bangladeshi bloggers are terrified of arrest or assault, and some have gone into hiding.
The invisibility of this story in international media is making the prosecution of bloggers and activists possible – with international attention, it is possible the Bangladeshi government would be less likely to cooperate with demands to prosecute activists for alleged atheism, which isn't a crime under Bangladesh's constitution. If you can help by calling attention to the story, particularly by pitching it to reporters who cover international news, Global Voices would appreciate your help.
I tweeted earlier today about my horror regarding the shootings in Newtown, CT, and my connections to the community. I grew up nearby and have friends who attended the school where the shooting took place.
An editor at CNN's opinion section read earlier commentary I'd posted here about the difficulty in opening a debate about gun control in the US. He asked for my reactions to today's shootings, and I responded with a brief commentary. It is currently running on CNN's site, and it begins:
I logged onto Facebook this afternoon, terrified of what I would read.
I grew up near Newtown, Connecticut, and went to high school in Danbury, Connecticut. A close friend spent her childhood at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the school where a shooter killed at least 26 people today, police said, most of them children.
Police reports are still coming in, and we are only beginning to grasp the scale of this tragedy. Friends are describing their panic as they try to reach their children in schools that are on lockdown. One of my high school classmates is trying to support her best friend, whose daughter was one of the children killed.
My Facebook timeline is filled with expressions of relief for those who escaped the violence, sorrow for those lost, and prayers for recovery. It's also filled with friends demanding that America take action on gun control. Their calls are answered by others who protest that this is a time to mourn, not a time for politics.
A tragedy like today's shooting demands we both mourn and take action.
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Predictably, for a post about the difficulty of having open dialog about gun control in the US, it's generating thoughtful and reasoned debate. Here's one of the carefully reasoned tweets engaging with my argument:
Looking forward to more and less helpful responses.
The World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT, pronounced "wicket") opened Monday in Dubai. If you're heard about the conference, it's likely because many articulate and smart proponents of an open internet have been waving arms and warning of the potential dangers that may come from this meeting. Fight For the Future, an organization focused on mobilizing individuals to the defense of a free and open internet, have switched the Internet Defense League's vaunted "cat signal", urging supporters to stop an internet coup by the International Telecommunications Union, the UN agency responsible for communication technologies.
There are reasons to be concerned about WCIT and about the ITU asserting more control over Internet governance. But there's also a great deal of exaggeration and fear-mongering that's making it hard to see the issues clearly. And one of the reasons offered for defending against an ITU "takeover" is a disturbing one, the idea that the Internet works well enough as it is, and that we should be opposed to any changes that would alter how it functions and is governed.
It's possible to oppose increased ITU involvement in internet governance without demonizing the organization. It's possible to believe this is the wrong venue and wrong mechanism without concluding that the Internet works as well as it ever will and ever could. I'm interested in trying to pull some of these arguments apart because I worry some opponents of WCIT are accepting these arguments as a whole package, not considering their individual merits, and may be swallowing some unhealthy presumptions that hinder future debate about internet governance going forward.
I"m far from expert on the topic of WCIT, so I'm going to point to some of the better arguments I've heard in the past few weeks. (My friend Sunil Abraham tweeted many helpful links earlier today, and I recommend his Twitter feed for WCIT links from various perspectives.) For general background, I'd recommend Jack Goldsmith's "opinionated primer" on the topic. To summarize, Goldsmith (who knows a thing or two about internet governance):
– Because WCIT is about amending international rules through a treaty process, it's a slow, consensus-seeking process that nations can opt out of. In other words, we shouldn't expect US net regulations to change because of it.
– It's relevant not because lasting changes will come out of these meetings, but mostly because it gives us a window into what some nations would like in terms of internet governance, and may seek to accomplish through their own national telecoms laws.
In effect, Goldsmith argues that impact isn't a good reason to pay attention to WCIT, as the gathering is likely to have little direct impact. In that spirit, I want to consider some better and worse reasons to be concerned about the ITU, the WCIT meeting and the broader question of how internet governance is and is not changing.
Good reasons to be concerned about WCIT include:
WCIT is open to member governments and to hundreds of corporate and organization members, but their proposals and deliberations are secret. This makes it very difficult for civil society and the general public to be aware of what's going on in the meeting and to influence the process. As with other international policymaking organizations that work in secret, like the WTO, there's a good case to be made that these organizations need to be pushed to greater transparency before they are given public trust. WCITleaks, a project from Jerry Brito and Eli Dourado, both researchers at George Mason University, is a laudable effort to increase transparency by inviting WCIT participants to share documents in a public repository.
Censorious governments:
Many of the anti-WCIT arguments begin by asserting that China and Russia would like to take over internet governance and manage the global internet in ways that would restrict speech. Those are valid concerns, and both countries will likely negotiate for an internet governance structure that increases state control over net content. That nations attempt to control the internet isn't new, nor is the argument that states should have more influence over net governance – as Milton Mueller points out in this helpful piece, states have been seeking increased roles in internet governance since 1996 and have been thwarted. Their response has been to restrict internet usage within their own countries.
Yes, it would be dreadful if China's internet regulations applied to the whole world. But the current situation isn't great either: countries create their own regulations to control the internet in part because they can't get what they want in international fora. The battle over "internet freedom" has devolved into building expensive and unwieldy tools to invite a small set of Chinese and Iranian users to use the American and European internets, instead of the Chinese internet… a solution that won't and can't scale. The challenge of Chinese censorship is a helpful reminder that we don't have binding international internet regulation, and probably never will. WCIT is worrisome because proposals to control the internet through widespread filtering and corporate regulation (China's approach) or through legal and extralegal intimidation (Russia's approach) may gain adherents and allies, and because nations that haven't taken major steps to regulate the internet may look at these nations as examples to follow. But this is an argument for the US to engage in multinational processes like the ITU, to influence nations still on the fence, not to contest the legitimacy of the process.
The substance of proposals Even if we discount Jack Goldsmith's suggestion that little is likely to come out of WCIT, it's worth considering what potential impact proposals that have been put forth might have on Internet governance, if only to see what rival visions are competing with the status quo. Michael Geist argues that the most significant proposals on the table are not about who controls the internet, but who pays for it. He references a proposal from ETNO, an organization of European telecoms, that would start charging large content providers a carriage fee for delivering content – i.e., YouTube would pay a European network operator to reach European viewers. (Large internet content providers, predictably, hate this proposal. The one defender I've found of the proposal is Jean-Christope Nohias, who offers this stem-winder of a piece, accusing Google and other internet giants of hypocrisy in advocating for a system in which the poor pay money to access wealthy country's networks.)
Dwayne Winseck sees concerns about the ETNO proposal, and other attempts to change internet billing, as overblown, but offers a long list of proposals to worry about, affecting the militarization of the internet, threats to privacy, anonymity and government control. In some cases, the proposals try to solve legitimate threats (like spam) and over-reach in terms of implementation, while at other times, they are simply trying to assert more government control, and bear opposition on principal. But we'd have a more intelligent debate about the future of the internet if we could address proposals individually, rather than attacking the process and the institution of the ITU as a whole.
Here are three reasons I've seen for opposing WCIT and the ITU that I think are unjustified, and may cause long-term harm to our conversations about internet governance.
Fear of multilateralism:
Steven Strauss argues we should oppose WCIT because it has UN sponsorship, and pulls out a laundry list of anti-UN complaints to justify his opposition. He offers faint praise to distinguish the ITU from the UN's "standard meaningless international boondoggles", suggesting that it has real power and might lead to substantial rule changes. But his argument centers on the strong representation of repressive governments on the UN's Human Rights Council.
Yes, the presence of the UAE, Pakistan and Ethiopia on the UNHRC is an embarrassment. But the ITU and the UNHRC are two of dozens of institutions within the UN, and even most critics of the UN don't want to see institutions like UNICEF, the World Food Program or the High Commission on Refugees disappear. Defenders of human rights on the internet often point to Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a UN document, as a broadly adopted document that protects freedom of expression. Frank LaRue, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, has been a powerful advocate for protecting online speech. It would be a shame to disrespect the work a figure like LaRue is trying to do by dismissing UN institutions as a whole.
The reason so many controversial issues are being brought up in multilateral venues like the ITU is that existing "multisectoral" internet institutions like ICANN, IANA, IETF and others have had a hard time ensuring broad international representation. Some of the frustration other countries feel about internet governance comes from the slow pace these institutions have taken towards supporting global concerns, like providing full support for non-English domain names and suffixes. My friend Rebecca MacKinnon has an excellent essay on this topic in Foreign Policy, pointing out that there's very little developing world participation in these groups and that they are very slowly finding ways to change their culture to be more welcoming to participants who don't have years of experience in the internet engineering community.
The solution to these problems is not a retreat from multilateralism – it's to find ways that existing internet institutions can better represent voices and perspectives from around the world. The good news is that many of the folks within the IETF, ICANN and other institutions understand this challenge, even if some people attacking the ITU don't.
Because governments should never regulate
FCC commissioner Robert McDowell attributes the success of the Internet to the ITU's failure to oversee it in 1988: "This insulated the Internet from economic and technical regulation and quickly became the greatest deregulatory success story of all time." Only a regulator for an agency as broken and corrupted by corporate influence as the FCC would dare to suggest that the role of a regulator is not to regulate.
How's the FCC's lassez faire policy working out in the US? We've got internet access that's almost four times as expensive as it is in France and roughly one tenth the speed. Why? Largely because the FCC has failed to ensure that markets remain competitive, that open access policies allow small players to build competitive businesses, and that broadband services reach rural areas. Yes, it's fantastic that the internet now reaches over 2 billion people. But we've got more than five billion more people who can't access the internet, which is becoming increasingly important as a space for political discussions, a channel for delivery of government services and a pathway towards education. If regulators want to take seriously the challenge of ensuring universal access, as American regulators did with telephony and electricity in generations past, that's something to be lauded, not dismissed.
Because the Internet is perfect.
This argument is rarely stated outright, though this piece by Mike Masnick in TechDirt does us the favor of making it explicit: "The internet works just fine. The only reason to 'fix' it, is to 'break' it in exactly the way the ITU wants, which is to favor a few players who have done nothing innovative to actually deserve it."
I can think of several ways in which the internet doesn't work just fine. It's too expensive for too many people. In the developing world, it's largely spreading through mobile operators whose pricing makes it unlikely that citizens of these nations will become content creators. The process of peering and interconnection creates a great competitive advantage for large network operators and leaves developing nations with very high charges for access. The current configuration of the Internet neither does a great job of protecting anonymity for those who want and need it, or authenticating identity when it's critical. It's surprisingly fragile to malicious attack like DDoS or accidental misconfiguration.
Do I think the ITU is likely to propose helpful solutions to these problems? No. Do I have good solutions to these complex problems? Not especially. But we have no hope of solving these problems if we declare that the Internet functions perfectly and needs no improvement.
There's a tendency for people who love the Internet to become conservative, almost reactionary, about its governance. We've seen so many good intentioned attempts to improve the Internet fail and know of so many ill-intentioned plans to break the Internet that we may have raised the ad-hoc and improvisational methods of governance that have worked well into natural laws. Breaking the Internet – as some proposals in front of the ITU might well do – would be a bad thing. Concluding that we can never change the Internet for the better would be almost as bad.
It's a good time to be PSY. The Korean rapper has become an international celebrity with the unexpected success of Gangnam Style, the absurdly catchy song that's introduced much of the world to K-Pop, while simultaneously critiquing and subverting the genre. The star recently met with UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon, who politely relinquished his status as the world's most famous South Korean, and suggested that PSY was so cool, he might singlehandedly be able to help mitigate global warming. In perhaps the most astounding development, Gangnam Style has surfaced in North Korea, remixed into a parody making fun of a South Korean political candidate, a development that calls into question some commonly-held assumptions about North Korea's insulation from global media dialogs.
As Max Fisher points out, the success of Gangnam Style has everything to do with PSY's colorful and energetic video, and less to do with the tune itself. The lyrics are incomprehensible to most of the song's fans (and require significant contextualization for those who understand Korean), but it's got a memorable hook, an amusing dance and an easily parodied video. Earlier songs that meet these criteria – "Dragonstea Din Tea" by Moldovan band O-Zone comes to mind – have spread by becoming internet memes. Like a cute cat photo that begs for a satirical caption, the Gangnam Style video is made for remix. It's clear that PSY is poking fun at his own unhipness, which gives permission to anyone parodying the video to make fools of themselves. And it's not hard to parallel the (lightweight) narrative of PSY's video by mimicking a few dance moves and paralleling the locations PSY chose for his antics: a beach, a stable, a parking garage, an elevator.
And so we've seen goofy remakes of the video from the US Naval Academy and from Filipino prisoners, to full remixes, celebrating subcultures as diverse as Star Trek fans (you MUST turn on subtitles to fully appreciate Gangnam Klingon Style), to Minecraft players.
And now, a version from Ai Wei Wei.
The dissident Chinese artist's version of Gangnam style combines clips from the PSY video – though only clips where PSY is not present – with scenes of a raucous dance party in the courtyard of Ai Wei Wei's Beijing studio. Like PSY, Ai Wei Wei is dressed in bright colors, a pink shirt complementing a black suit, and like the rapper, he's an energetic and goofy dancer. As Gangnam Style parodies go, it's not an especially compelling version – it gets repetitive very quickly, with the same group performing the same few dance moves in scene after scene.
Is this the embattled artist blowing off a little steam? Having some fun on a sunny afternoon? Ai Wei Wei's sense of humor is one of the great halmarks of his work, but it's unwise to dismiss anything he does as purely humorous. As James Panero observed in an article in The New Criterion, Ai Wei Wei is intensely aware of popular culture and, in the past, has taken inspiration from the New York City punk rock scene. Perhaps PSY's subversive rethinking of K-Pop has inspired a subversive response?
There are two clear signs that Ai Wei Wei's Gangnam Style is meant to challenge Chinese authorities. About a minute into the video, Ai Wei Wei pulls out a pair of handcuffs and spins them, which is hard not to read this as a comment on the Chinese government's tendency to arrest and detain the artist for any number of arbitrary reasons. And his version is titled "Grass Mud Horse Style", a reference to Chinese censorship that's immediately understandable to viewers in the know. "Grass mud horse" – "cao ni ma" – is a homonym for a rude and graphic Chinese insult, one of the many terms censored on the Chinese internet. Chinese netizens subvert automated censorship, using homonyms, and "cao ni ma" was introduced into the lexicon by an activist who created a viral video where children sang a rousing song about the victory of the grass mud horse over the evil "river crab", another homonym animal that symbolizes the Chinese censors. But if the video is a commentary on Chinese censorship, why is it so… lame?
My friend Molly Sauter solved the mystery for me this morning, observing that this is the first Gangnam style remix that reads as sad, not joyful. Ai Wei Wei and friends dance frenetically, but they never leave his walled garden, while in PSY's original, and most of the parodies, a wide range of backdrops frame the dancing. PSY's tour of the Gangnam neighborhood is an idiosynratic one, focused more on parking garages than lavish megamalls, but it's a tour of the physical world. Ai Wei Wei is confined in his garden, dancing defiantly, but he's dancing grass mud horse style, constrained by censorship.
An Xiao Mina, who coordinates translation of Ai Wei Wei's twitter feed into English, is an astute scholar of Chinese internet memes. Reacting to my observation that platforms used mostly for playful speech (cute cats) are powerful tools for activists, she's postulated that memes are the dominant form of political expression on the Chinese internet. In a talk at ROFLCon at MIT, she offered a tour of politically subversive memes: Ai Wei Wei and friends posing nude as a commentary on his arrest on trumped up pornography charges, pictures of sunflower seeds standing in for Ai Wei Wei in reference to his famous Tate Modern exhibition, people posing in sunglasses to evoke blind activist Chen Guancheng. Because the memes are images, not text, they're difficult for authorities to censor, as well as being great fun to make. Given the emergence of Gangnam Style as this year's remixable meme, how could Ai Wei Wei sit on the sidelines?
Not everyone is a fan. Anthony Tao observes that Ai Wei Wei's video is posted on YouTube, which is blocked in China, rather than on a domestic service like Youku. As such, it's less of a middle finger to the Chinese government, Tao argues, than the artist "refilling his cache of cool with the Western World."
Subversive defiance, or an attempt to stay relevant? Or just some harmless fun? As Freud once said, sometimes a grown man doing a horsie dance is just a grown man doing a horsie dance.


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February 7, 2013 by Maureen McCarty, HRC Associate Director of Digital Media
In his State of the State address yesterday, Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton took the opportunity to express his support for marriage equality, joining a cadre of politicians in support of loving, committed same-sex couples.
In his address, Dayton stated:
"Let me mention one other cause, which is controversial, but consistent with my faith and my principles. And, more importantly, consistent with this country's founding principles and its Constitution. I believe that every Minnesotan should have the freedom to marry legally the person she or he loves, whether of the same or other sex.
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Dayton is not the only governor this week to press for marriage equality. Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn called on lawmakers to take the step toward equality for LGBT Americans.
Last year, fair-minded Minnesotans prevailed, defeating an anti-marriage constitutional amendment at the ballot box. Now momentum is building toward passing marriage equality in 2013.
HRC is partnering with Minnesotans United for All Families as a major partner working to bring marriage equality to the state.
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I see on your site that you have already visited the historic highway through the Gorge, but it would merit a visit again, and the fall colors should be reaching peak color around the time or your visit.
You may also be interested in the Hood River Fruit Loop as your timing will put you at the peak of harvest season there, and yet more fantastic fall color.
Do the entire loop around Mount Hood following Highway 35, and make a stop at Timberline Lodge to get up close in personal with the mountain. It may even greet you with some fresh snow.
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The Kincardine District Secondary School senior girls basketball team has opened the OFSAA A basketball tournament in Ingleside, near Cornwall.
A live feed of their opening game against Villanova College can be found here:
Kincardine fought back from a 20-11 deficit at the half to push the #4 seeded Villanova to the final buzzer. The Knights, the #10 seed this week, simply ran out of time in this one, and it ended in a 33-30 Villanova win.
KDSS play next at noon tomorrow (Friday) against either Rideau District High School or St. Paul Secondary School.
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On Friday afternoon, Kincardine was thumped by the Rideau District High School Lady Lions 60-19. The hot shooting Lady Lions dominated from the start, outscoring the Knights 21-2 in the first half.
Kincardine District Secondary School has won a CWOSSA championship in senior girls basketball.
The KDSS senior girls and OSCVI in the BAA semi-finals last week. (Josh Howald photo)
The Knights defeated Walkerton District Community School 32-26 yesterday to claim the CWOSSA A title and qualify for the OFSAA provincial championship tournament next week near Cornwall.
Kincardine came from behind in the CWOSSA final to beat their BAA rivals from Walkerton after cruising through earlier games at the CWOSSA tournament played in Wiarton.
The junior Knights, meanwhile, came up just short of making the trip to OFSAA as well. The girls were edged out by a single basket in overtime by the host Peninsula Shores District School Phoenix.
For the full story, don't miss next week's print edition of The Kincardine Independent.
Windsor's Josh Ho-Sang watches Chris Bigras Saturday night in Owen Sound. Bigras' assist on Zach Nastasiuk's goal was his 100th point as a member of the OHL Attack, and helped Owen Sound to a 3-0 win over the Spits. Michael McNiven made 33 saves for his first career shutout in an entertaining game at the Harry Lumley Bayshore. The Attack has back-to-back games with London this weekend, with the clubs meeting Friday night in London and Saturday night in Owen Sound. (Josh Howald photo)
Jade Jones of the OSCVI Falcons grabs the ball away from a falling Marley Martyn of the KDSS senior Knights in today's BAA semi-final game played in Kincardine. The Knights saw an undefeated season come to an end in this game against the Falcons, but will still advance to the CWOSSA tournament. For the full story, don't miss next week's print edition of The Kincardine Independent. (Josh Howald photo)
Jade Jones of the OSCVI Falcons grabs the ball away from a falling Marley Martyn of the KDSS senior Knights in today's BAA semi-final game played in Kincardine. The Knights saw an undefeated season come to an end in this game against the Falcons, but will still advance to the CWOSSA tournament. For the full story, don't miss next week's print edition of The Kincardine Independent. (Josh Howald photo)
The Kincardine Cubs are Thames Valley Senior Baseball League champions.
Pitcher Adam Marseilles and Ryan Fraser share a chuckle after sending the Oakridge Reds back to the field in Game 3 of the TVSBL finals yesterday at Connaught. The Cubs claimed the league title with two wins, both of them laughers. The mercy rule was invoked in both games. (Josh Howald photo)
The Cubs pasted the Oakridge Reds in Game 2 of the league championship series, and then again in the third and deciding game later in the day at Connaught Park.
For the full story, don't miss this week's print edition of The Kincardine Independent.
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A Thames Valley Senior Baseball League championship will be won tonight in Kincardine.
The Kincardine Cubs won Game 2 of the league championship series this afternoon with a 13-3 pasting of the Oarkdidge Reds. The game was ended early, by mercy, when veteran 1B Ryan Enright hit a grand slam home run with Kincardine holding a 9-3 lead. Nate Kraemer went the distance on the hilll for the Cubs, the reigning Ontario Baseball Association "B" provincial champions.
Perhaps Game 3 of this series, tonight (Sunday) at 6 p.m. at Connaught Park in Kincardine will last an entire nine innings. That hasn't been the case with the first two - Game 1 was called early due to curfew restrictions at Labatt Park in London. Game 2 this afternoon, obviously, was called due to the mercy rule.
The Thames Valley Senior Baseball League won't have a champion until Oct. 5.
There is a 16-day gap between Games 1 and 2 of the TVSBL championship series between the Kincardine Cubs and the Oakridge Reds. If a third game becomes necessary, however, the gap between Games 2 and 3 will be only minutes.
The Cubs trail Oakridge 1-0 in this best-of-three series after dropping a 9-8 decision last Friday night at Labatt Park in London. Kincardine spotted the Reds a 9-1 first inning lead, but clawed back into the game, making it 9-8 before the umpire ended the game early due to time restrictions.
The Kincardine Cubs will play for a Thames Valley Senior Baseball League championship this weekend.
Kincardine, which claimed an Ontario Baseball Association B provincial title earlier this month, advanced to the TVSBL finals with a 5-3 win over the St. Thomas Cardinals on Sunday night in Byron. The Cubs will now face the Oakridge Reds in a best-of-three series for all the marbles this weekend.
Game 1 of the finals will be played in London at 8 p.m. Friday night. Kincardine will host Game 2 of the series at Connaught Park on Saturday. First pitch is at 5 p.m. on Tout Field. Should a third and deciding game be necessary, Kincardine has home field advantage, with Game 3 scheduled for 8 p.m. Sunday night.
A large fire drew firefighters from Kincardine and Tiverton to the Bruce Bowling Lanes last Wednesday morning.
Municipality of Kincardine Fire Department Fire Chief Kent Padfield said his men responded to a call of heavy smoke coming from the building shortly before 7 a.m. It took crews several hours to bring the fire under control. They were able to contain the fire to the centre of the building. Unfortunately, there is now heavy damage from smoke and water to the bowling alley.
Padfield requested assistance from the South-Bruce OPP and the Office of the Ontario Fire Marshal and Emergency Management. An OEFM Fire Investigator visited the scene on Monday looking for a cause of the fire.
- Josh Howald