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Nigeria awarded a $2 billion contract to Eni SpA's Agip and Oando Plc to build a natural gas processing facility at Obiafu in the southern Rivers state, reports Bloomberg. The plant will process wet gas from fields operated by Chevron Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell Plc to supply petrochemical and fertilizer plants to be built in the Delta and Lagos states, Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke said in Abuja. Nigeria plans to develop its gas reserves and build pipelines to supply power plants and export. The West African country selected 15 companies including Shell, Chevron and Oando in 2009 to participate in its development plan. It is yet to announce the final outcome. The country plans to spend $30 billion building domestic processing and transmission plants to send gas across the Sahara Desert by pipeline to Europe, according to the state-owned oil company. Nigeria's gas reserves are estimated at 187 trillion cubic feet, the world's seventh largest.


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The Lanham Act prohibits the registration of a trademark that would be "likely to cause confusion" with another, pre-existing mark. Petitioner owns the registered mark "SEALTIGHT." Respondent used and sought the registered mark "SEALTITE." When Petitioner initially sought to prevent Respondent from acquiring or using the mark, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) ruled that the mark was "likely to cause confusion." In the following litigation, the Eighth Circuit allowed relitigation of that issue under a different theory instead of precluding it.
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The Most Notable Examples
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Intro | Silents-1949 | 1950 -1966 | 1967-1969 | 1970-1974 | 1975-1977 | 1978-1979
1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983-1984 | 1985-1986 | 1987-1989
1990-1991 | 1992-1994 | 1995 - 1 | 1995 - 2 | 1996-1997 | 1998 | 1999
2000 | 2001 - 1 | 2001 - 2 | 2002 - 1 | 2002 - 2 | 2002 - 3 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007-Present
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Inchon (1982)
MGM/UA's and Terence Young's incoherent, anti-Communist Korean War epic (originally titled Oh, Inchon!) starred miscast, aging 73 year-old Laurence Olivier at the end of his long film career as General Douglas MacArthur. The war epic was a re-enactment of the UN-led, surprise amphibious invasion of Seoul's port of Inchon in 1950 to expel N. Korean Communists from South Korea.
The film flop was produced by Rev. Sung Myung Moon and his Unification Church (supported by thousands of obediently 'brain-washed' Moonies), financed by a newly-formed film production company named One Way Productions (led by Moon's associate Mitsuharu Ishii). It was supposedly created to provide a fresh look at the Korean War with its major 'divinely-guided' hero MacArthur, although it totally ignored the fact that Gregory Peck had just starred in the failed epic biopic MacArthur (1977). The film's screenwriter was Robin Moore, known as the author of the following books later made into films: The Green Berets (1968), The French Connection (1971), and The Happy Hooker (1975). The director was Terence Young, who had directed three James Bond films: Dr. No (1962), From Russia With Love (1963), and Thunderball (1963).
The Korean production company lavishly financed director Young at $1.8 million, and other cast members, mostly with cold hard cash (Jacqueline Bisset at $1.65 million after her memorable wet T-shirt role in The Deep (1977), Laurence Olivier at $1.25 million, Ben Gazzara at $750,000, Shaft (1971) actor Richard Roundtree at $200,000, and ex-Fugitive TV star David Janssen at $300,000 (whose scenes were ultimately deleted)).
There were various calamities on the set - two typhoons (Irving and Judy) and resultant mud, days of scorching heat, a chronically-ill Bisset with laryngitis, an earthquake (that washed a camera crane out to sea), continuing problems with the language barrier, and political strife between the Korean government and Moon's Unification Church. Long and expensive delays (at the cost of $200,000/day) occurred during the arduous process of securing permits and receiving government permission to shoot in Korea. Olivier's makeup took four hours to apply - and the results were hideous (an ill-fitting toupee, a putty nose, and feminine makeup). There were no speaking roles given to the Communists in the cast, to emphasize their subhuman, godless nature. Reshoots and extensive editing expenses helped to bloat the film's original budget by millions. When the controversial religious leader Moon himself publically admitted in January 1980 that he had contributed about $35 million to the film's making, everyone embarrassingly attempted to disown their association to the film.
This incompetently-made, turkey film (at an original running time of 160 minutes) that took four years to make and had a whopping budget of almost $50 million was an embarrassment that was quickly withdrawn after awful test screenings and previews (including its world premiere showing in Washington DC in May of 1981). Screened at Cannes in the spring of 1982 in a trimmer version, it was then pared down to 140 minutes long, and again edited down to 105 minutes. At the time, MGM/UA was approached with a remunerative offer to release the film domestically on September 17, 1982 (the 32nd anniversary of MacArthur's Inchon landing). Accusations that the Unification Church was trying to recruit converts with its promotional ploys to attract audiences to the film helped to discourage moving-going audiences -- one of many reasons for the film's low US box-office.
The film embarrassingly won four "Razzies": Worst Actor (Olivier), Worst Director, Worst Picture, and Worst Screenplay, and had a fifth nomination for Worst Supporting Actor (Gazzara). It was never released on home video or DVD.
One From the Heart (1982)
This stylized musical romance, two years in the making, followed the tremendous success of Coppola's Godfather films in the early 70s and Apocalypse Now (1979), but he was looking for a less difficult, more lighthearted production this time around. The film was originally budgeted at $2 million, but he eventually invested $14 million of his own funds through Zoetrope (plus $12 million from others) into the costly production (when some investors got 'cold feet' and withdrew). The film's failure ultimately caused the demise of Coppola's studio.
One reason for its inflated price tag was that it was one of the first films to use experimental video equipment that included live, in-camera feeds that could instantly be edited - something termed "electronic cinema". Coppola referred to himself as the film's "composer" as he directed the "live cinema" from a technological video control room. He hired Paramount to distribute his film, but then frustrated by the studio's nervousness, he pretentiously premiered it (in what he called its "final preview") in a Radio City Music Hall gala in NYC with reserved seats only. Coppola pulled the film from theaters two weeks after it opened due to a negative reception from "studio politics and media chatter."
The musical film was set in a re-created, artificial fantasy world of Las Vegas, although it was entirely filmed on a Hollywood soundstage (with a recreated city composed of painted backdrops and superimpositions), with no location shots or exteriors. Its main boring, unappealing, one-dimensional and ordinary characters (Teri Garr as an ex-waitress and travel agent, and Frederic Forrest as a mechanic/junkyard owner who salvaged old neon signs) were celebrating their 5th anniversary as a couple on 4th of July Eve and suffered a domestic breakup after exchanging gifts. When they temporarily parted ways, they were joined by two other short-term lovers (Raul Julia as a Latin waiter/professional dancer-musician and Nastassja Kinski as an exotic circus acrobat/performer). The humanity of all the characters was overwhelmed by the sets, complicated lighting schemes, special effects and production values.
The film received one Academy Award nomination (for Tom Waits' soundtrack, Best Original Song Score). However, the film's characters did not sing their own songs -- they were instead sung by bluesy Waits and country music star Crystal Gayle.
Still looking for an audience for his unconventional film, self-termed his "biggest flop" and financial gamble, Coppola produced a 15-minute video (viewable at one time online) marketing the recently-released 2004 DVD restoration (and reworking) of his film. In a statement, he said he hoped the video would help counteract "the bad press and premature criticism" that originally shot down his film.
Yes, Giorgio! (1982)
It seemed like a wonderful idea, to star the great tenor opera star (Luciano Pavarotti) in a musical romantic comedy. In this expensively-financed and escapist film, Pavarotti (in his screen debut) did star as famous Italian opera singer Giorgio Fini, who came to America during a performance tour, but lost his voice. During treatment by Boston throat doctor Pamela Taylor (Kathryn Harrold), the philandering married singing star fell in love with her, and invited her to experience an extravagant "fling" in San Francisco. She also helped him overcome a fear of performing opera at NY's Metropolitan Opera House, although there had to be a melodramatic finale of his return to his wife and family.
The film had one Academy Award nomination -- Best Music (Original Song: "If We Were in Love", performed during a hot-air balloon ride over Napa Valley). It also had three Razzie nominations: Worst Actor and Worst New Star (for Pavarotti), and Worst Screenplay (Norman Steinberg).
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Dancing With the Stars 2013: Will Jacoby Jones' Knee Injury Sideline His Dancing?
Keeping up with the Joneses just got a little too easy. Baltimore Ravens star Jacoby Jones, 28, recently had minor surgery on his right knee and it's going to delay his Dancing With the Stars Season 16 rehearsal time.
As his partner, Karina Smirnoff, told xfinityTV after last week's cast announcement, Jacoby will have to watch her do moves for 10 days to two weeks, then he can start practicing with her. Considering the show premieres on Monday, March 18 — that could be cutting it close.
xfinity asked if it will be hard for him to have to watch from the sidelines for a while. "Yeah. I hate sitting on the bench," Jacoby said. "But when I get in, I get in."
Do you think this rehearsal delay could affect Jacoby's first dance? He is an athlete, and they tend to do well on DWTS, so maybe this will just put him on the same level as some of the other contestants. Also, this spring, no one is going home the first week. They get two Mondays worth of dances before the first Results Show, which will probably help everyone, but certainly the extra time should help Jacoby if he's already behind.
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Authorities have not been able to identify the body of a woman found Sunday in Choctawhatchee Bay.
Jeff Martin, director with the Medical Examiner's Office, said an autopsy is scheduled to be performed today. He said fingerprints have been collected in an effort to positively identify the woman, but additional testing has to be performed.
The remains were found partially in the water and partially across a rock at the seawall by an occupant at an Indian Trail home, according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office.
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What are people's first impression of you?
What are people's first impression of you?
Recently I attended a conference in Los Angeles and while there had the pleasure of listening to clothing and style experts, among others, describe the variety of personalities and the typical looks from classic to artsy to eccentric.
As I listened I came to a startling realization.
Was I fully embodying my brand from head to toe? If I look within at my personality, was my clothing, color, style and type, representative of me?
Was it I who picked out some of these outfits, or was I instructed by my Mom or looking through magazines, watching tv commercials and more how to dress for success?
It was a strange feeling that came over me. It was like all of a sudden, I was one person on the inside, and another on the outside.
Some of the people at this conference I already knew, but others I was meeting for the first time after knowing them through social media. So, was there a disconnect in their minds about me? Was there a confused first impression?
They may have had an impression of my personality and only that little square photo from Facebook and Twitter to recognize me. But if they had a sense of me in their mind of innovative, funny, expressive, colorful and more and then see me wearing conservative colors and corporate type clothing, what message was I sending?
I am now in the process of revamping what's in my closet and what I put on, so it clearly expresses who I am and everything will be in synch. From now on knowing how important that first impression is, I plan to fully embody my brand.
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Reunion of '84 torments Cubs a little
Until two weekends ago, he could say he hadn't taken a pitch on the front of his torso since Little League, and now he's been struck twice in the chest by fastballs thrown by flame throwers Roy Oswalt of the Houston Astros and Carlos Zambrano of the Chicago Cubs.
Scary as Oswalt's pitch near his heart was – and Eckstein said he was desperate just to draw a breath and felt his whole body go numb with that one – Zambrano's high heater to Eckstein's right pectoral prompted him to leave the game at the end of the half-inning.
"I was very dizzy," Eckstein said. "If you saw me walk to first base, it wasn't even a straight line. It took me an hour to get back to feeling normal."
By then Eckstein had been removed from the game, and his upper right quadrant was still tight enough that last night's start went to backup Edgar Gonzalez. Eckstein was inserted as a defensive replacement in the ninth.


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Google doodles St. Patrick's Day with sober riverdance
To celebrate March 17, the world's unofficial drinking day, Google's doodlers have six dancers jigging the morning away.
They were already out on the streets yesterday, with their green Lucky T-shirts, green plastic glasses (on head and in hand), and very silly green necklaces.
Well, St. Patrick's Day happens to fall on a weekend, which means two days of reverence to Guinness and, well, alcohol of many other kinds.
Google's doodlers clearly understand and respect this.
So while you and your friends might be creating a river of beer, they have contented themselves with presenting a little riverdance on Google's home page.
One boy and five girls -- each representing one letter of the Google logo -- demurely dance away and leap up and down a little.
Naturally, this gives an extra meaning to the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button just below them.
However, it also reminds you that it is possible to have fun today without clutching a beer in your hand.
Should you choose to channel more than your inner Michael Flatley today, please remember that you don't have to drink until you flatline.


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THE year 2012 had several activities and events for the East African Community (EAC), a regional grouping of over 130 million people.
On a positive note, 2012 will remain memorable for the EAC as the year the regional bloc moved to its own headquarters.
The new complex covers a total built up area of 15,025 square meters, made up of three wings of four storeys each.
The construction project was officially commissioned by the EAC Heads of State on 20 November 2009, although actual construction work began on 28 January 2010. The project was fully funded by the Federal Republic of Germany to the tune of 14.8 million euros.
EALA elects new Speaker
Away from the EAC getting a new home, the regional bloc also got a new East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) Speaker, after a rigorous election exercise that pitted two Ugandan legislators; Dora Byamukama and Margret Zziwa Nantongo.
Zziwa, who was shortly after elections sworn in by Kenneth Madete clerk of the Assembly, obtained 33 votes in the second round of voting.
Byamukama, 40, got 12 votes in the second round, down from 18 votes she got in the first round. Forty five MPs from the five EAC member countries voted.
The Ugandan legislator succeeded Kenya's Abdulahin H. Abdi who had headed the Assembly for the last five years, having taken over from Abdulrahman Kinana from Tanzania.
The elections were a Ugandan affair after the Burundi candidate pulled out leaving Zziwa and Byamukama to tussle it out. According to the Rules of Procedure (rule 7) of the Assembly on election of Speaker, the members directly elect the speaker by secret ballot from among themselves on rotational basis.
Arusha-Namanga-Athi River Road commissioned
As part of the many envisaged regional projects, the Heads of State of the EAC Partner States in November 2012 commissioned the rehabilitated Arusha-Namanga-Athi River Road in Athi River town in Kenya.
South Sudan, Somalia applications deferred
The year 2012 was characterised by postponements in EAC integration process.
The monetary union was postponed to November 2013.
And then hopes for South Sudan and Somalia to join the regional bloc dashed after the Heads of State for the second time deferred their decision on the two countries' applications.
In April 2012, regional leaders meeting in Bujumbura [Burundi] deferred their decision on the country's application to November.
The Heads of State while meeting in Nairobi in November 2012 directed the Council of Ministers to conduct more negotiations with South Sudan, while taking into consideration the findings in the verification committee's report.
South Sudan applied to join the EAC only months after it seceded from Sudan, in 2011, while Somalia had submitted its application in February 2012.
The overall objective of the verification exercise was to establish South Sudan's level of conformity with the criteria for admission into the EAC as provided under article 3 of the EAC Treaty.
The regional Presidents directed the Council to engage the Federal Republic of Somalia and undertake a verification process of the application and report at the next summit of EAC Heads of State.
Rwanda unveils national policy on the integration process
2012 also saw Rwanda under the Ministry in charge of East African Community affairs unveil the national policy on the integration process that will enable it pursue her interests in the region.
The new policy focuses on different five key strategic areas, including mainstreaming regional integration into Rwanda's development, engaging EAC institutions, mitigation and safeguard measures that will focus on reducing negative implications of the integration process for Rwanda.
The policy enables follow-up on EAC decisions and obligations, and institutional framework that will coordinate, monitor and evaluate the implementation of EAC commitments in Rwanda.
Rwanda became the first country to initiate such a strategy among all partners in the region.
EAC affairs Minister Monique Mukaruliza explained that the region continues to encounter implementation challenges, observing that it was imperative for such plans to be initiated.
"We have been facing hindrances in implementation of protocols and to address such challenges we needed a coordinating framework to guide us in the process hence coming up with the policy," she said.
Elimination of Non Tariff Barriers
The community witnessed the introduction of Transport Observatory Project that was established to monitor the movement of trucks carrying cargos within the region using electronic devices to detect the causes of delays on the corridor.
Launched in Mombasa, the progamme is being funded by TradeMark East Africa (TMEA) and is spearheaded by Transit Transport Coordination Authority (TTCA) of the Northern Corridor (TTCA) and Kenya Transport Association.
Under the project, trucks are equipped with Global Positioning system (GPS) devices which monitor how many times a truck is stopped on the way.
With this system, drivers are also given the forms where they write the reasons why they are stopped.
Appointment of EAC Deputy Secretary General - Jessica Eriyo
Uganda's Eriyo replaced Beatrice Kiraso formerly EAC Deputy Secretary General (Political Federation), whose two-year mandate had expired.
Her appointment was confirmed at the 10th Extraordinary Summit of the East African Heads of State at Arusha in Tanzania on 28th April 2012.
Eriyo is Uganda's former State Minister for Environment.
Also during the 10th Extraordinary Heads of state summit, the contract of Jean Claude Nsengiyumva (Deputy Secretary General - Productive and Social Sectors) contract was renewed.
EAC Youth Ambassadors
It is also in 2012 that the EAC with the support of the EAC Nyerere Centre for Peace Research (NCPR) and Germany Development Cooperation (GIZ) initiated the concept of EAC Youth Ambassadors.
The five EAC Youth Ambassadors (picked from each of the five EAC partner states) were nominated after they emerged as best debaters during the 1st EAC University Students Debate on Regional Integration.
The main objective of the Debate, which is mooted to be an annual event, is to promote continuous dialogue among the youth and interest them in advocating regional integration initiatives.
In addition, the Debate is expected to provide a platform for the youth to participate in and contribute to policy formulation on issues that constitute the EAC youth agenda.
Museveni assumes Chairmanship of EAC
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in December took over the Chairmanship of the regional body for the next 1 year; during the 14th Ordinary Summit of the East African Community (EAC) Heads of State and Government that took place in Nairobi.
During the summit, the EAC leaders also witnessed the signing of the letter of intent of promoting trade relations between the EAC and the Government of the United States of America.
President Museveni commended his Kenyan counterpart, President Mwai Kibaki, for shepherding the regional bloc for the past one year.
President Kibaki, noted that among the achievements of the East African Community was the establishment of the Customs Union and the Common Market.
Still at the Heads of State Summit in Nairobi, the Presidents approved the different protocols including the EAC protocol on peace and security, protocol on information, communications and technology networks.


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WHILE bird expert Tony Silva was publicly criticising the illegal trade in exotic birds, he was secretly running a smuggling ring dealing in rare species from South America, a grand jury in Illinois charged last week. According to US government prosecutors, between 1985 and 1992 the ring smuggled 186 highly endangered hyacinth macaws into the US. The birds were alleged to have been trapped in the wild in Paraguay.
The International Council for Bird Preservation estimates that only 3000 hyacinth macaws survive in the wild, mostly in Brazil, but with small numbers in Paraguay and Bolivia.
Last week, the grand jury formally charged Silva, his mother and two other people with 15 violations of US law and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. If convicted on all counts, Silva could be sentenced to 45 years in jail and fined $2.5 million. His mother, Gila Daoud, faces an even ...
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For weeks after I finished playing Spec Ops: The Line, I would scribble down snippets of thoughts about the game that I would explore at a later date. Maybe it's because I couldn't complete the game on "FUBAR," which prevented me from claiming 100% completion and mentally archiving the game. Let's take a moment to examine some of my takeaways from the game, some parts of the game where execution didn't meet intent, and the concepts explored in the game that I'd like to see explored further.
The fundamental idea behind David Hume's explorations of epistemology is the problem of how people make inductive inferences, or extending conclusions made from observed behavior of objects to their behavior when they are unobserved. In short, his work critiqued the tendency to assume that just because we have seen a ball fall to the earth when dropped, the ball will always fall to the earth when dropped. One of the building blocks our mind uses to make these inductive inferences is continuity in time and space, or how we link thoughts of disparate events to other events that happened at the same time. Extending it further, the mind associates events that were experienced at around the same time or ideas that seem similar.
This is how my brain came to tie Spec Ops: The Line to Silent Hill 2 and The Dark Tower series of books.
While I was playing Spec Ops: The Line, I was also revisiting Silent Hill 2 through a video Let's Play and re-reading The Dark Tower. This proximity of contact blended them all into one associated idea.
At the end of Spec Ops: The Line, the player is presented with a choice. I could have chosen on my avatar's behalf to commit suicide because of the weight of my actions was unbearable or to deny reality, kill the nagging voice in my head, and ask to be rescued by the US Army. Once I requested evacuation, I have one more choice to make. In one possible ending to Spec Ops: The Line, the player's avatar, Delta Force operative Captain Martin Walker, and I could choose to surrender peacefully or to kill the soldiers sent to save me and wander back into Dubai ready to repeat the cycle. That image of walking back into the hell of our creation to repeat the cycle reminded me of what Roland found at the top of the Dark Tower. Once Roland's journey reached its end, he was stripped of his belongings and lessons and sent back into the desert to chase the man in black. His only hope is that he'll one day learn the right lessons during a cycle so he can escape it. At the end of The Dark Tower, Roland and the reader are told that perhaps the next journey may end differently. For the player of Spec Ops: The Line, we can try to play again (perhaps even on "FUBAR"), and we can choose to end the game differently.
Of course, the hell that we created in Dubai is, as the game points out in loading screens, all our fault. We chose to continue to play after we burned those civilians with white phosphorus. We chose to reload and respawn if we fall. We chose to pull the trigger to kill those soldiers who opposed us. At one point, Walker and I encountered an armored heavy assault soldier who bore the likeness of Sergeant John Lugo, One of Walker's squadmates who perished in our quest for redemption. I was too stunned to shoot back, so I was felled by the enemy's bullets only to respawn to realize that it was a hallucination. In the next attempt, a regular armored heavy assault soldier appeared. This time, I had no problems gunning him down.
If you've played Silent Hill 2, you may remember Laura, the eight-year-old girl who sees no monsters in Silent Hill because she is innocent. When I first played Silent Hill 2, the realization that James Sunderland only saw monsters in Silent Hill because he was not innocent and that the monsters that he saw reflected reflected his sins shook me. To think that these were all hallucinations of a guilt-wracked mind made James an unreliable narrator deepened Silent Hill 2 much as Walker's hallucination of the armored heavy assault soldier deepened Spec Ops: The Line's exploration of Walker's post-traumatic stress syndrome.
II. Moral force at the end of a barrel
I can think of no single player narrative that places the player in the position of wrong or evil party. In Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, I played as the American or British soldiers, never the insurgent or terrorist. In Gears of War 3, outside of the downloadable "RAAM's Shadow" campaign, I played as Marcus Fenix and his group of loyal, strong, heroic soldiers, never the invading Locust or the parasitic Lambent Locust. Even games like Dungeon Keeper or Overlord, I'm either rightfully resisting invasion or I'm secretly the force of good (or at least less evil) than my antagonist. So, it's only in multiplayer modes of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Gears of War 3 where I can assume the role of the other, the enemy, and it's only there where I'm ostensibly on equal footing with the heroic protagonist.
Video games have consistently taught us that might makes right. I am a COG in Gears of War 3, so I am right to mow down the Locust, who are trying to escape from an infection for which COG were possibly responsible. I am an American soldier in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, so I am right to kill faceless, nameless people re-classified as enemy combatants who may only resist what they believe to be needless and senseless violation of their block/neighborhood/country.
Spec Ops: The Line confronts the idea in video games that the player derives moral force through violence and condemns it primarily through my massacre of civilians. But it also forces the player to reflect on this through smaller but no less dramatic scenes that I mentioned last time. The game, through Walker, lectures the player about how I am only a passive observer while the soldiers do the real work. But what work are we really seeing them do? I can try to save a CIA operative instead of three civilians, but he dies anyway, so it was ultimately pointless. I can try to save a civilian, but he was killed in the crossfire between my soldiers and the enemies. I can try to ally myself with a CIA-led insurgency, but I ended up dooming anyone left alive to death by dehydration. I can reach the top of my personal dark tower, but I just found that I was the villain all along.
The game's dialogue with the player extends to something that we, by inductive reasoning, assume to be useless. Just because most loading screens offer useless advice doesn't mean that all loading screens can be safely ignored. As I progressed through the game, the game began to communicate with me through messages in the loading screens.
At at first the game condemned me:
-"This is all your fault."
-"Can you even remember why you came here?"
-"Do you feel like a hero yet?"
-"If you were a better person, you wouldn't be here.".
Then, the game tried to provoke me to think:
-"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."
-"Cognitive dissonance is a feeling caused by holding two conflicting beliefs simultaneously."
-"To kill for yourself is murder. To kill for your government is heroic. To kill for entertainment is harmless."
-"The US military does not condone the killing of unarmed combatants. But this isn't real, so why would you care?"
Finally, the game tried to console me:
-"You are still a good person."
As I did in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, I killed countless enemies in Spec Ops: The Line. Not only was I a survivor, but I was the victor. I was the unstoppable force capable of feats that no other character in the game could achieve. (That is I appreciated the Grunts' exclamations when I was spotted in Halo 3: I had become, in their minds, more than just an enemy soldier. I was a force of nature, a god who was able to deal death to them and resurrect. And that is why I appreciated the enemies' panicked shouts when my squadmates or I were spotted in Spec Ops: The Line.) Because I was special and because all who opposed me fell to the wayside, there was no alternative. I was right because I was mighty.
Through in-game events and the loading screen messages, Spec Ops: The Line forces the player to reflect on how far the idea in video games that the player, because the player's avatar is usually the protagonist of the story, is not necessarily the hero or moral force of the story.
III. Please Learn from This
The deterioration of Walker and his men, particularly in their chatter, needs to be copied in future games. There is no reason, in the next Gears of War game for example, that I should hear Marcus and Cole banter as though what they were doing didn't affect them. The characters should react to what's happening in their world as much as producers ask us to react to what we're seeing on screen.
I hope that other producers see the reaction that Spec Ops: The Line has received as incentive to take chances. We don't need another dumb blockbuster action shooter. We need more games to explore the wider spectrum of emotions beyond "excitement" and "fear" and to treat what we do on screen in their game worlds with gravitas. The unreliable narrator who may be reliving experiences on his deathbed might be a popular trope, but it's not one that's commonly used in video games. We can accept more interesting framing devices in our stories.
IV. What Could Have Been
For all the right decisions that the producers of Spec Ops: The Line made, there are some decisions that should be critiqued.
With an unreliable narrator comes a set of problems about what can be interpreted as "real" and what should be dismissed. The game's producers have posited that Walker may have died in the helicopter crash (which is why Walker asked out loud when we played the helicopter sequence the second time whether they had done this before) and that everything after was just Walker's dying hallucination. But ambiguity enters the picture at that moment. Are we to interpret that everything we played was Walker's hallucination, and that the only moment where we actually see Walker is the helicopter sequence? How seriously can we take the game's critique of "might makes right" if that's the case?
Within the game's world, we are meant to take the revelation that Konrad has been dead as a breaking point. But it also raises questions about the chain of command if Konrad and his high ranking officers are all dead. It's possible that the conflict between the Damned 33rd and Walker's men is the result of a misunderstanding (you fight them for the first time when you see them chase civilians in the mall by firing guns into the air, which Walker and his men interpret as intent to collect them and possibly kill them). Even so, why wouldn't what remained of the 33rd make an effort to reach out to Walker and his men, especially when the 33rd controls the airwaves?
There are points where the game gets in its own way. The edged weapons expert strain credulity, but the armored heavy assault soldiers (the game's mini-bosses, though there really isn't an end-game boss in the traditional sense) bend it to the breaking point. The fact that enemies spawn and react pretty much the same way from load to load feeds the idea that this is Walker's deathbed hallucination, but the fact that executing enemies creates more ammo, various turret sequences and the infinite grenade launcher sequence go past cognitive dissonance to almost ludonarrative dissonance. The worst example might be the random placement of collectibles that unlock more background information about what happened to Dubai. But then that opens the door to a conspiracy in Dubai that seems ludicrous at face value.
And that brings us back to association. Conspiracy theories are comforting because they create causal associations between random events, giving order to chaos. It can't be my fault because larger events have guided us to this moment, and I cannot be held responsible for my actions. And then game emphatically says otherwise and insists that we evaluate how responsible we are for what we do, even if it is in as harmless a form as a video game.


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Last night in my post on the Bistro Double IPA fest, I wrote about a brewer and a craft beer fan who always bring cans of Falstaff to the Bistro Double IPA fest for a toast to the past. Here's some background on poor old Falstaff, taken from a column I wrote in 2004:
A reader, Steven Johnson, asked me what ever happened to Falstaff, a beer he truly loved. I used to like Falstaff too. The first brewery I ever toured was Falstaff in Omaha, NE.
To me, Falstaff was about the same as the other beers available in Omaha in those days (circa 1968), a bit more body than Storz, not as sweet as Country Club Malt Liquor or Coors (which we got in Colorado and Wyoming), not as dry as Budweiser or Hamms.
Wow, what a crappy selection, huh. And homebrewing was still against the law. But researching Falstaff the other day, I discovered this legendary Midwestern lager came to a sad end.
According to a history on a Falstaff fan's Web site, the company fell from the nation's third largest brewer in the 1960s with breweries from coast to coast to near anonymity. The assets were purchased in 1977 by a Marin County holding company that also owned the assets of General Brewing (Vancouver, WA), maker of Lucky Lager.
Eventually what was left of Falstaff, General Brewing, Olympia (remember Oly?), Pabst Blue Ribbon and Pearl (Texas), and finally, Stroh's, were lumped together like cards in a Monopoly game. Most of Falstaff's brewing equipment was sold to China. The beer is now brewed in La Crosse, WI at the City Brewery _ once a G. Heileman brewery. Whew! American brewing history in a paragraph.
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Most New Zealanders support the introduction of a minimum alcohol price, even if it means the end of bottles of wine below $10, according to the latest ONE News poll.
The Labour Party, along with many alcohol advisory groups and medical professionals, wants to bring in a minimum price for each unit of alcohol sold at supermarkets and liquor stores.
The policy has won the support of 54% participants in a ONE News
Colmar Brunton poll, with 62% of women supporting the scheme.
Only 42% did not support the scheme, while 3% were unsure.
The results of the survey have surprised Labour's associate justice spokesperson Lianne Dalziel who is campaigning for the policy to be included in the Alcohol Law Reform Bill currently before Parliament.
"Well I have to be honest and say I was surprised, but pleasantly surprised," said Dalziel.
"I think that people have finally cottoned onto the fact that we have to do more than just look at the age, we have to look at some serious interventions."
The regime would likely see an end to cut price liquor in New Zealand where currently one standard drink of wine can be bought for as little as 60 cents, spirits for 81 cents and beer for 85 cents.
But Justice Minister Judith Collins is unconvinced by the results and is continuing to refuse to consider a pricing clause in the Alcohol Reform Bill.
"I think if you ask people if they want to have their $10 bottles of wine suddenly be $16 a bottle, and for the profits to go straight into the pockets of the alcohol industry, I think the answer would be something different," said Collins.
The Bill will be debated in Parliament again in the next few weeks. It is proposing to split the alcohol purchasing age to 18 for bars and clubs and 20 for off-licence purchases, limiting the alcohol content of RTDs, and reducing the hours liquor shops can be open.


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NEW YORK—An international sale that boldly proposes to trade emerald jewelry to support conservation of elephant life in India is launching this month. The event will culminate in a grand auction conducted by Sotheby's, which will take place on Oct. 14 at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai, India.
The "Emeralds for Elephants" sale involves an international collaboration between 10 of India's leading jewelry designers; Gemfields, a mining company specializing in ethical production of colored gemstones; World Land Trust; and many others.
Gemfields selected 10 elite jewelers across India to design unique creations that feature Zambian emeralds and draw inspiration from elephants and their natural habitat.
The most notable of the bejeweled and elephantine offerings is a Ganesha sculpture—boasting a 638-carat Zambian emerald from Gemfields—created by Arzan Khambatta, a well-known Indian artist.
The estimates for this year's collection range from approximately $41,000 to $200,000.
In its loftiest realm, the sale aims to raise awareness and funds for a conservation initiative that would benefit the increasingly threatened Asian elephants in India.
"As India's farmlands and cities expand, the Asian elephant population is experiencing large-scale habitat fragmentation and loss," states the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) on its website. The wandering elephants sometimes run into conflict with humans by destroying locals' crops and property. The result is that elephants face huge trenches, firecrackers, and sometimes poisoning from locals.
Approximately 60 percent of all Asian elephants in the world reside in India, according to WTI. The nonprofit organization has identified "88 vital corridors for elephant movement" across the country and is working to protect these regions to allow for conservation of elephant habitat and life.
This year's "Emeralds for Elephants" sale follows a similar, and successful, sale held last year in London, which resulted in a direct contribution of $120,000 to the World Land Trust, one of WTI's partners in the conservation effort.
"Our London auction for the 'Indian Elephant Corridor' project helped to raise a significant amount last year, and we are sure of a good response in India," said Gemfields CEO Ian Harebottle, according to a press release. "We sincerely hope that our efforts in giving to the environment will help build larger and more viable habitats."
With a mining process that complies with fair-trade standards and environmental best practices, as well as an established certification program, Gemfields says it can confirm the ethical provenance of every Zambian emerald it puts on the market."Gemfields have not only demonstrated their ethics, but are also committed to helping the natural environment of elephants, both in Africa where their emeralds are mined, but also in India where many of them are sold," said John Burton, CEO of World Land Trust. "In 2010 they were one of the major contributors to the program, … creating corridors to allow elephants to move freely between protected areas."
Other sponsors of the sale include Jaguar Land Rover and the Gemological Institute of America.


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The pipelines were first proposed in 1940 by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, when it became apparent that large-scale shipment of oil by sea would become untenable in time of war. By 1941, planning was initiated, with construction the following year. Two lines were built by the quasi-public War Emergency Pipelines, Inc. (WEP).
The Big Inch was a twenty-four inch pipeline for crude oil, running from the East Texas Oil Field at Longview, Texas to an interim terminal at Norris City, Illinois, and later extended to Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. At Phoenixville, the line branched into twenty-inch diameter segments, one serving New York and terminating at Linden, New Jersey, and the other serving Philadelphia and terminating at Chester Junction, Pennsylvania. The Little Big Inch was a largely parallel twenty-inch diameter line intended for refined products that ran from Beaumont, Texas to Little Rock, Arkansas, where it joined the path of the Big Inch. From there it ran along the same right-of-way as the Big Inch to New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
The first crude oil arrived at Phoenixville via the Big Inch on 14 August 1943, and the first refined product in the Little Big Inch arrived on 2 March 1944. The lines were capable of transporting in excess of 300,000 barrels of oil per day, and the lines were among the largest industrial consumers of electricity in the United States .
WEP was a consortium of the largest oil companies in the United States and included the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, Cities Service Oil Company, Gulf Oil Corporation, Atlantic Refining Company, Tidewater Associated Oil Company, Consolidated Oil Corporation, Shell Oil Company, Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, Sun Oil Company, Pan American Petroleum and Transportation Company and the Texas Pipe Line Company . While the WEP was in charge of building and operating the lines, they were owned by the federal Defense Plant Corporation
Until the 1930s, steel pipe did not exceed twelve inches (305 mm) in diameter. Advances in technology led to "big inch" pipe in diameters of up to twenty-four inches .
The Inch Lines were transferred to the War Assets Administration on 2 December, 1946 for disposal . Pending sale, the lines were leased and used for natural gas transmission. On 8 February, 1947, the pipelines were sold to the Texas East Transmission Corporation for $143,127,000, the largest disposal of war-surplus property following World War II. . TETCO immediately began to convert the pipelines for permanent use as natural gas transmission lines. However in 1957, the Little Big Inch was converted back to use for petroleum products .


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Senate Blocks DADT, Delays DREAM Act
Senate Republicans blocked an effort to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" today, garnering 57 of the 60 votes needed. The Senate attempted a vote in September to change the military's policy barring openly gay members from serving.
One Republican, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, voted yes. The Wall Street Journalreports that other Republicans were willing to support the repeal but said the Senate needed to consider tax and spending legislation first.
The Senate delayed a vote on the DREAM Act, which carves out a path to legal status for foreign-born children brought to the United States illegally. The House passed the the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act Wednesday. Last week, Regent University President Carlos Campo was included on a White House conference call supporting the DREAM Act.


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My new favorite dish!
I was fortunate enough to dine in Morgan's last night for dinner, and needless to say, and once again, I was overwhelmed when the vegetarian dish came out and was placed in front of me.
"Crispy falafel, labne, naan bread, grape tomatoes, avocado, cucumber and sweet potato gaufrette"
I regret not having my camera with me as what I wanted most to do at that moment was take a picture and run to my blog to talk all about it!
The naan bread was layered with the avocado, the tomatoes, cucumbers and then topped with the falafel balls – yummy! Next to it were the most amazing sweet potato gaufrette – you have got to try them! I've never had them before and will certainly plan to have them again!
Morgan's Restaurant – be sure to try it when you visit Interlaken!


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Rocket Ship Craft
Learn to make a rocket ship so you can fly to outer space.
- 1 container (oatmeal container works best)
- Card stock or construction paper
- Markers
- Pencil
- 1 plate or bowl (to help draw a circle)
- All-purpose white glue or tape
- Safety scissors
- Use construction paper or card stock to cover the outside of the container.
- Using the plate or bowl, trace a circle that is larger than the bottom of your oatmeal container on a piece of card stock paper.
- Using safety scissors, cut out the circle and cut a slit towards the middle of the circle.
- Overlap the edges of the slit to create a wide cone-shaped top for the rocket ship. Tape or glue the edges together.
- Flip the oatmeal container upside down.
- Cut four slits about 2.5 inches up from the bottom around the opening of the container. The slits should be equally spaced.
- Cut out two equally sized triangles from the card stock paper, that are larger than the bottom of the oatmeal container.
- Cut halfway down the middle of one triangle and halfway up the middle of the other. Slide the two triangles together to make an X.
- Take the X you have made and slide it into the bottom slits of the oatmeal container.
- Tape or glue the coned shape top to the other side of the oatmeal container.
- Decorate the rocket ship however you like and blast off!


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In an initiative to effectively manage the forest, authority of the Forestry Development Authority (FDA) has launched its policy that would provide control over forest products and create the need for government to share benefits with its people in the country.
At the official launching ceremony in Monrovia Wednesday, the FDA Managing Director, John T. Woods said following a series of consultations with local and international partners, the FDA authority decided to launch the national forest policy document which bears the three pillars of forest sector development in Liberia.
In a statement delivered at the occasion, the FDA boss emphasized that the forest sector development is about integrating commercial and conservation forest.
This is in line with Article of the constitution of Liberia, he said. Under this Article, government is to ensure that the benefits from the nation's resources be equitably shared with it people.
The National Forestry Policy document took into consideration the role of the local communities in community forestry and the factors that hamper development and how to tackle development to benefit local communities.
Under the policy document, the issue of social benefits, cultural benefits, women empowerment, economic benefits, job creation, health and education, have been highlighted.
The FDA is to work closely with community based organizations, international NGOs, private farmers, and local communities for equitable distribution of community forest resources.
This should be the primary concern as it within the context of the national forest law of Liberia, according to the document.
Under the challenges facing local communities, the forest policy further focuses on key opportunities for communities' enhancement, improvement, livelihood, empowerment, and capacity building. It also considers training as well as developing a framework that would attract aid to Liberia.


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Archive for December, 2010
Missel Toes
I have no idea why I chose that title it just sort of popped so I'm sure it'll work its way into our conversation. You: never call me back, never read my drafts. I want what I can't have, have been known to take a drag. Queen bee me: looking endlesslessly through blue-green eyes. I […]
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I have been having really strange dreams. Dreams where I am trying to snap a picture of my dead cat. She is never dead in my dream even if she is sleeping under a foot of snow and inches of dirt in my Grandmother's backyard. Sometimes her leg is maimed, other times she is blurry […]
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Tags: blizzard, christmas, eve, Ginger, kitty, missy, snow, xmas
Naughty Right Before Xmas
Father forgive me for I have not blogged… but I do have a bad back you know. I have been working and baking AND forgetting to get it on film. Forgive me. I have multiple days off in a row. Yes, count em, four! Four wondrous days off to recuperate and relax and get down […]
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Tags: blog, father, naughty, update
Pucker Up
I was dilly dallying and didn't make my midnight deadline to blog for the 17th but it was so called for after the day I just had. It wasn't horrible… just long. I have two days off in a row coming up followed by three in a row for the holiday, a most rare occurrence. […]
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Tags: confessions, drunk
Trouble w/ Coke
This kitty is named Trouble and he is enjoying his very white Christmas… and this very empty Coke box… It was too cute, I just had to share. He also likes to steal plastic bags or anything else we leave on the floor and make a toy out of it, silly boy!
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Tags: animal, box, cat, christmas, coke, fun, silly, soda, toy, xmas
Imagine Us in Technicolor
V.1 PROSE-ISH Spark remembrance from Technicolor dreams. More clues than mystery novels, much more difficult to read. Don't recall the last time you called but recount encounters on counters, chairs and floors imaginatively. Plan to wrap this up, out with the new in with the old. Be compassionate and patient. This just might be a […]
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Tags: clues, dream, encounter, horoscope, imagine, mystery novel, Poetry, Prose, recall, rendezvous, spark, technicolor, void
10,023 people accidentally ended up here… finally! I will gather my thoughts and be with you shortly… now I celebrate! Today was an extremely strange day and I want to do it justice. It all began at sometime around 10 am and is just wrapping up at midnight. I plan on staying up late into […]
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Tags: 23, blog, bus, celebrate, content, count, day off, december, hy-vee, lucky, mall, mongolian grill, numbers, snow, store, treats, work
Story Untold
I wrote this a few days ago. I like to record myself reading poems and then rearrange the words a bit. I may choose to edit this some more but I like where it's going. This is random footage from the fall of 2010. It includes a lot of me around my place and a […]
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Tags: blastedgoat, fall, footage, Friends, karaoke, old, poem, story
Ginger ♥
This is my kitty, she will be missed dearly by me. This song is A True Story of a Story of True Love by The Books, they are an awesome band. (Did you see their link in the music section on the right side of my blog?) I am working on several poetry videos to […]
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Tags: alternative, cat, Death, family videos, found sound, Ginger, lost, love, rainbow drive, story, the books, true, video, YouTube
Toe The Line
Apologies for missing a day of my blog. I got paid. Dyed my mother's hair before taking her to the store to buy milk. Drank and sang karaoke with my friend from out of town and paid a visit to some kitty cats and an old friend that I haven't seen in a while who […]
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Tags: brain, cat, christmas, duet, frame, friend, happy holidays, homemade gift ideas, iowa, kitty, line, mother, Poetry, seasonal, smile, snow, wreath
Just think: what is this new machine? What happens between a key and its effect? I can manipulate read what I want, think what I want. First, I could only play chess. Now, I have artificial intelligence that stretches between rapidly moving fingertips. Words form between us actions have no sound: right-click, close […]
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Things I've Lost
I have probably thrown away those "standing for Obama" stickers, I know the blue painters tape is looong gone. Zach may have even ripped that exact DEX telephone directory in two. We gave the kitchen table to Kasey and Emily who don't use it very much either. I tucked the worn purple collar Emily bought […]
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Lagos — At a two-day summit recently hosted by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Lagos, women leaders across Nigeria came out with a position paper on certain gender imbalances that must be addressed in the on-going constitution review exercise.
As women of different faiths, cultures and ethnicities strolled into the cool ambience of the prestigious Eko Hotel and Towers to participate in a two-day retreat that hinged on gender recognition in the on-going constitution review process, not a few of the participants have at the centre of their minds; the need to redefine the status of Nigerian women in the nation's socio-political climate.
The retreat was facilitated by UNDP and its counterpart, Democratic Governance for Development Project (DGD). For two days, the women representatives brainstormed and were able to arrive at key target areas of action where they hope their desires can be reflected as the federal lawmakers are putting final touches on their plan to amend the 1999 constitution for the second time in 14 years.
Leading the agitation was the Minister of Women and Social Development, Hajia Zainab Maina. Maina, who was represented by a Deputy Director in the ministry, Bola Labintan, said for any constitution to be acceptable to all and sundry, it must be reflective of men and womens' opinions. She went down the memory lane, recounting how the ministry had also put in place summits and retreats geared towards increasing women participation in socio-political developments in the country.
"One of the outcomes of the national political dialogue organised by federal ministry of women affairs, was that for democracy to thrive in the country, there must be equal participation of men and women in the policy and decision making process. This needs to be entrenched in the constitution and backed with appropriate actions. It is our belief that a gender-balanced constitution is the one that has the inputs of all categories of people," Maina said.
According to the minister, the federal ministry of women affairs is already working with the National Assembly to seek harmonisation of all memoranda revolving around gender recognition and empowerment submitted before it, in the on-going constitution amendment process. Maina, however, appreciated that much awareness campaigns still need to be put in place to change entrenched perception about gender issues, especially at the level of political parties.
The minister's sentiment was perhaps, one that was shared by other advocates at the summit. Speaker after speaker dwelled extensively on perceived low awareness campaign on women rights and recognition, a development they argued have hampered efforts to change the status quo over the years. Dr Mourtada Deme, the UNDP Project Director even felt more strongly about it.
"Experiences at the recent public hearing as widely reported in the national dailies showed that lot of awareness need to be created just as we have to maintain active engagement while the review process lasts. We, at UNDP, believe that we need to bring together stakeholders who are passionate about gender issues in Nigeria to agree and fashion out modalities to push forward various demands of Nigerian women.
"We don't have to give up our efforts based on the poor outing of women at the public hearing. If anything, the campaign has to be sustained. The struggle must go on. The effort has to be sustained. Nigerian women must be able to speak with one voice so as to address whatever gaps that might be in different agitations being put forward," Deme said.
Deme, who was also represented by Anne Ikpeme, a DGD Senior Gender expert, further noted that UNDP/DGD with the support of UKaid and Canadian International Development Agency have succeeded in organizing public fora wherein the media and the civil society organizations were engaged in the crusade of currying better deals for women folks in the constitution amendment exercise.
While the proceeding lasted, each of the women representatives took turns to launch vigorous campaigns against whatever is considered as "injustice" in the existing constitution.
Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, National Coordinator, Gender and Constitution Reforms Network (GECORN), while speaking on "Gender Gaps in the 1999 Constitution", was quite agitated as she listed array of "inhuman treatment" being hurled at the women folks. Her argument was hinged on the fact that Nigeria has over the years treated gender issues with levity anytime the constitution amendment process is in place.
"Constitution making in Nigeria has persistently marginalized women and this dates back to the colonial times when women were not allowed to vote. Same scenario repeated itself in 1979 when the country worked on a new constitution for the second republic. It must be noted with pains that there was no female member of the Constitution Drafting Committee set up by the military government of Olusegun Obasanjo at the time. In the same vein, the 1999 constitution making was an all male affair, as the Provisional Ruling Council (PRC) of Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar's regime was made up of 26 military officers, all male," Akiyode-Afolabi said.
She listed some grey areas where she observed women rights are being violated and the need to adequately address them in the on-going constitution review exercise. These, among other things, include non-sensitivity of the constitution language to gender issues, non-recognition of reproductive health as developmental rights in the constitution, the denial of inheritance, ambiguity in the indigeneship of women, non-recognition of women political rights and constitutional restriction in section 6 (6) (c) on women social economic rights.
According to Akiyode-Afolabi, the non-sensitivity of the constitution language to gender issues is well manifested in that the pronoun "he" appears 235 times in the 1999 constitution while the word "woman" is only reflected twice. She insisted that women are not comfortable with the idea of calling a female political office holder "chairman", saying "it is a deliberate attempt to box the women folks to the corner".
While buttressing her point on challenges confronting Nigerian women on issues of discrimination as related to citizenship and indigeneship, the women group leader said ambiguity still trails women's place of origin and that of their husbands in appointive and political circumstances. She used the recent brouhaha generated in the elevation of Justice Jumbo Offor of Abia State to the Appeal Court as a case study.
"Though Justice Offor has been sworn-in into office, her initial denial because she hailed from Anambra was wrong. She was being accused of using the slot of Abia State, where indeed her husband hails from and where she has put all her years of judicial services. Such trend must not be allowed to continue. Thus, it would be right to demand that in the on-going constitution review exercise, a Nigerian woman shall have the right to enjoy the indigeneship of either her place of origin or that of her husband," Akiyode-Afolabi said.
Similarly, Prof. Ayo Atsenuwa, a lecturer at University of Lagos (UNILAG) who spoke on "The Importance of a Gender Responsive Constitution in Nigeria's Democratic Process", urged the women to start taking "do-able" steps that can help actualize their dream of having an acceptable constitution.
"It is critically important that our constitution states what our rights are but the current 1999 constitution speaks from both sides of the mouth. We must not deceive ourselves. We must start making 'do-able' statements and steps if we are to get anywhere with the crusade," Atsenuwa said.
The retreat formed five technical groups, each of which was saddled with the responsibility of identifying and negotiating strategic points on five minimum achievable demands. The demands dwelt on 35 percent affirmative actions, conferment of citizenship/indigeneship and residency, language of the constitution, discrimination, economic and social rights.
At the end of the summit, the technical groups submitted their reports, having arrived at five key target areas they sought to pursue at the National Assembly when the review exercise begins.
The five positions, arrived at according to Mufuliat Fijabi, DGD National Gender Expert, include the need to re-draft the 1999 constitution so as to make the language gender friendly, amend section 26 (2) which confers citizenship by registration to a foreign spouse of a woman just like her male counterpart and allows Nigerian woman to enjoy indigeneship of either her place of origin or that of her husband.
Others are the need to amend section 6 (6) (c) of Chapter two of the constitution so as to remove the restriction placed on women's socio-economic rights, to amend Section 42 (3) which already discriminates against women aspiring to certain public offices, including the military or police appointments and an explicit constitutional provision, affirming 35 percent affirmative action for women in both elective and political appointive positions.
In her remark, Fijabi said the essence of pruning down the demands to the five target areas is to provide the women with solid position before the lawmakers, stressing that if all other issues are not considered in the constitution amendment exercise, priority will be given to the five minimum achievable demands.


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But Twitter did introduce me to short-rib tacos. And it didn't keep me from an engrossing, cross-country conversation — touched off by a question about iPhone apps — with my Alaska Airlines seatmates Axel Woolfolk and Rick Reyes.
Woolfolk, spokesman for an Internet-based documentary film company called Brave New Films, was returning home to L.A. with Reyes, an Iraq and Afghanistan Marine veteran who'd just testified about the dangers of a stepped-up Afghanistan military operation at a Senate hearing chaired by Sen. John Kerry.
In true 21st-century style, the two had met through Facebook only a month or two earlier — after Reyes sent a message to Brave New Films' founder congratulating him on his work.
KateNasser People-Skills Tip: Expand ur Twitter networking efforts by talking 2 ppl u meet in life. Recent trip:I learned loads by talking 2 travelers!
Thx, @KateNasser. I couldn't have tweeted it better myself.