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23 August 2009: The largest ever youth gathering on climate change was convened in Daejeon, the Republic of Korea from 17-23 August.
23 August 2009: The largest ever youth gathering on climate change was convened in Daejeon, the Republic of Korea from 17-23 August.
August 2009: The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has released three new publications under the joint UNDP-UNEP Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) capacity development programme in Eastern & Southern Africa, which, inter alia, aims to assist the region in increasing its participation in the CDM.
14 August 2009: The determinations regarding two Joint Implementation (JI) project design documents (PDDs) have been deemed final. This is pursuant to decision 9/CMP.1 (JI guidelines), which provides that a PDD determination shall be deemed final 45 days after the date on which it is made public, unless a request for its review is submitted by a party involved in the project or three members of the JI Supervisory Committee (JISC).
12 August 2009: In a message to mark International Youth Day, which is celebrated on 12 August, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon underscored that climate change "continues to compromise economies [...] saddling young people everywhere with an unjust `ecological debt´."
11 August 2009: In his remarks to the Global Environment Forum in Incheon, Republic of Korea, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon noted that some 80% of the Republic of Korea's US$38 billion national stimulus package is dedicated to green growth, and nearly a million green jobs will be created in the coming four years.
11 August 2009: The UN has announced that one of the US' most polluted sites, contaminated by heavy metals and radiation, will be redeveloped as a green technology complex.
7 August 2009: The Joint Implementation Supervisory Committee (JISC) has launched a call for public input on the establishment of a communication channel between the JISC and JI project participants.
3 August 2009: The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative Public Finance Alliance (SEF Alliance) has published a report titled "Why Clean Energy Public Investment Makes Economic Sense – The Evidence Base," which compiles and assesses evidence linking government clean energy spending with key indicators of economic health, such as job creation and growth.
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|Reviews for Legend of the Triforce
| DragonHunter21 chapter 21 . 11/28/2014
*clapping my hand* WOAH! THAT WAS AWESOME! I LOVED IT! MAKE ANOTHER ONE! I WANT MORE!
| Knuckles chapter 1 . 5/3/2013
I sooooo fucking hate you (figuretivly) you made Zoro-kun sound lick a wuse...but you are a good wrighter.
| Luigi's Wacky World chapter 21 . 10/4/2012
In my honest opinion, this story should have at least 100 reviews. Keep up the good work.
| Guest chapter 21 . 6/29/2012
I love this story!
Amazing job!
| anon chapter 3 . 1/7/2012
Why isnt the skeleton dude in this?
| Shadow chapter 21 . 1/3/2012
good story can you please make a sequal like have them end up in ocarina of time and confuse the link in that one with the one they met
| blaire1997 chapter 1 . 12/9/2011
i've never thought i'd see the day when luffy would meet link but this is amazing
| Kenshin El chapter 13 . 7/23/2011
this story is good
| GoldfishDanYAY chapter 5 . 2/12/2010
in this chapter you made it really like usopp! ya know, at the part when usopp is doing "Usopp Hammer!" in the middle somewee you should have put his rubber band attack thing like he always dose! that would have been hysterical!
| Mysterious Panther chapter 21 . 1/25/2010
Wow just wow! A amazing story with A great plot line and characterization of the original characters! I'm sorry that you didn't get the reviews you deserve but I hope that a lot filled with people will discover this story and be amazed as I was! Haha X) atleast. I'm not the only one who likes one piece females to be the damsels in distress. Anyhoo I am very grateful and thankful that you continued the story when only 2 reviewers have been with you all the way through. Thank you so much ! :)
| Komada chapter 1 . 10/14/2009
I love the story kepp it up.
| GameJunkie7 chapter 21 . 9/1/2009
NO! It can't be over! This story was so epic don't put yourself down and all that it was amazing! It kinda reminds me of the plot idea I had for a Fairy Tail/One Piece crossover since the characters and the overall theme are so similar it would be a perfect fit since Natsu the main character of FT is practically referred to as a clone of Monkey D. Luffy in his mannerisms, beliefs and overall stupidity and simplicity only unlike Luffy he has a specific weakness...the inability to tolerate any kind of transportation...including being carried lol. Anyway this story was amazing and I can easily imagine a sequel to it only in that case it would have to be Link who ends up with Luffy and his crew due to either a dimensional paradox...dark magic...or a desire to see them again mysteriously granted through some magical means unintentionally on his part. Anyway you showed amazing descriptive talent throughout this story and it was almost like I was reading a manga rather than reading text. Oh and I'm sure you know already but Luffy and his crew were royally defeated by Shichibukai Bartholemew Kuma and scattered across the Grand Line and currently there is a war going on between the pirates and the world government (Boo WG!) and Luffy managed to escape the Ultimate Prison the undersea Gaol Impel Down thanks to Mr. 2 Bon Clay sacrificing himself again but this time he will die...sob he was a true character...even though he was somewhat weak his bonds of friendship would have made him an excellant Nakama! That aside crazy things are happening I'm sure you know already but as a fellow Once Piece obsessed fan I just had to blab about it I hope I didn't spoil anything for you.
If you can make it better do it don't make excuses! If incorrect grammer is required do it! Aim for the essence not the perfection!-GameJunkie7
| JakeCrusher chapter 21 . 8/19/2008
Well ended
| JakeCrusher chapter 20 . 8/19/2008
Just when Link seemed to be getting the glory Luffy stole the spotlight. Oh well it is still a finely written chapter.
| JakeCrusher chapter 4 . 8/5/2008
I've got no question or bad things to say about this or the previous chapters.


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A Gathering of None, or "AGON" as their initials state, is a band that is bringing back a certain 90's inspired edge to rock music that is missing in the indie/DIY music scene these days. Let me enlighten you folks a bit. A Gathering of None is a New England based ensemble with the likes of former co-founder/singer/songwriter & guitarist whom most of you have come to know as TB Monstrosity of the Virginia based band Blitzkid. Let's fast forward to 2015 and just call him Tracy Byrd, and a band that is a whole new beast to be reckoned with!
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Silent Horror - Self-Titled
"Giant Monsters from outa Space"(2009) and the "Beware"-ep (2008). the main diffrence to the original songs is, the singer that was summoned by the Red Spectre for this album: Argyle Goolsby (ex-Blitzkid). together the trio known as Silent Horror gave new life to the classic SH-songs. the new atmosphere of the music definitely makes this album one of the best releases in 2014 (even without new songs) and is a must-have for all horrorpunks outthere.
EDIT: the fact that the band doesn't exist anymore in this constellation doesn't make the music on the album bad. just saying.
EDIT: the fact that the band doesn't exist anymore in this constellation doesn't make the music on the album bad. just saying.
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You've been warned to "Be Prepared". Now it's time to get "Relentless". With their second album, the Reckless Dodgers give you 10 songs filled with all kind of emotions and tunes full of energy. Mountain punk at its best. This new release is a must-have for everybody who likes punkrock - especially fans of Green Day, Face To Face and such. So my advice is: put the album in your player, grab a drink...and get relentless!
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In the last two years, Dr. Hell evolved from being "just a little ghoul" to one of the best german horrorpunk bands. With their second full-length album Drunken Zombies, they continue to bring the "punk" into horrorpunk. But while the band kept their humor in the lyrics, the music definitely changed. Compared to their debut, Drunken Zombies has more energy and sounds a bit heavier and snottier. you can hear on this album that, thanks to many live shows and partys, Dr. Hell grew as a band.... but still delivers raw punkrock and drunken fun for all you undead listeners out there.
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Students at Coesse Elementary School were encouraged to create a pumpkin that looked like a character from their favorite book.
The project was done in conjunction with the Parent Teacher OrganizationŌĆÖs annual read-a-thon.
More than 50 decorated pumpkins will be on display through parent-teacher conferences this week.
Pictured, ŌĆ£Fly Guy,ŌĆØ created by Carter Copeland, is one of many pumpkins at CES. The projects mimicked characters from studentsŌĆÖ favorite books.
WARSAW ŌĆö The skeletal remains located in Kosciusko County Sunday have been identified.
The Kosciusko County CoronerŌĆÖs Office determeind that the remains belonged to a missing 18-year-old girl from a near-by mobile home park ŌĆö Aurora Shoemaker.
Shoemaker went missing Aug. 16 of last year. Official determination of the remains was conducted by Stephen P. Nawrocki, Ph.D., DABFA, Board Certified Forensic Anthropologist with the University of Indianapolis and Dr. Craig Nelson, DDS, Forensic Dentist with the Allen County CoronerŌĆÖs Office.
COLUMBIA CITY ŌĆö Whitley County Patriots gathered with Ind. Representatives to discuss the impact of educations standards in public schools Tuesday night.
Ind. Representatives Kathy Heuer and Dave Ober addressed questions and comments from those in attendance in regards to the stateŌĆÖs implementation of Common Core standards.
ŌĆ£This will be a lesson well-learned,ŌĆØ Heuer said about her research into Common Core. ŌĆ£It was a good wake up call.ŌĆØ
COLUMBIA CITY ŌĆö College preparations can never be made too early, according to high school guidance staff at Columbia City and Whitko high schools.
With a college fair set for Monday from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Columbia City High School, guidance counselors across the county are encouraging parents and students to attend.
ŌĆ£We tell our students to get up there,ŌĆØ said Mark Rickerd, guidance counselor at Whitko High School. ŌĆ£Parents should tag along and ask a lot of questions. They will think of things to ask that wouldnŌĆÖt cross their childŌĆÖs mind.ŌĆØ
COLUMBIA CITY ŌĆö Purple ribbons and banners were hung around the Whitley County CourthouseŌĆÖs gazebo Tuesday in observance of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
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ŌĆ£This is important to our county. We need to get the word out,ŌĆØ said County Commissioner Don Amber. ŌĆ£Tell people what the purple stands for. ThatŌĆÖs how we will make change.ŌĆØ
COLUMBIA CITY ŌĆö As school safety is ramping up around the country, many parents are asking ŌĆö ŌĆ£How much am I entitled to know?ŌĆØ
The answer to that question is not always clear, as schools can be locked down for a variety of reasons ŌĆö some that are open to the public, and some that arenŌĆÖt.
As some schools in Whitley County have been on ŌĆ£lockdownŌĆØ in the last few years, many administrators struggled with parents who were concerned with the safety of their child, demanding details of the schoolŌĆÖs situation.
WARSAW ŌĆö Farmers, landowners, bankers and farm managers can benefit from attending the upcoming program ŌĆ£Finding Balance in Farmland Lease Contracts.ŌĆØ
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SOUTH WHITLEY ŌĆö What started out as a dream for Hugo Fox became a reality in 1949 as he established a Bassoon manufacturing company in South Whitley.
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The organization recently announced that for the 10th consecutive year, certificates for free mammograms are available to Whitley County women who do not have insurance and would not otherwise be able to afford the vital screenings.
Friday, a group of students gathered on the Whitley County Courthouse lawn for a history lesson brought to life.
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Was her gay son there cheering Mommy on?
seriously..this is thier topics..? How To Counter The Homosexual Extremist Movement," "How To Stop Socialism In Health Care" and "How To Recognize Living Under Nazis & Communists."
…look at the shrews reflection in the mirror…all / mostly old farts…and bigited wack jobs….what pathetic sick people.
Dizzy old white coot.
If it were The Gong Show, the hook would have made its way in to take her down.
ugly americans. inside and out.
I'm surprised she had a reflection…Evil usually doesn't.
Hey stop the ageist shit. The Southern Baptists have the same mind set and behave the same way and I don't see you people calling the Black Americans that attend **niggers**. It's not the age of the person, nor the race of the person, nor the religion of the person that makes them a bigot. It's the hateful heart they have.
One day you'll be "old" too. Can I start calling you names and treating you like shit then?
Hate them for their behavior and not some uncontrollable factor. Christ get some brains Gay people.
One of these days, I think I'm gonna pick up a gun & express my thoughts.
Thanks Sargon.
We demand fairness from the majority but many of us can't be fair ourselves. And for the 30 years that I've been watching, the community has done nothing to correct that. It totally gets on my nerves.
Hysteria, Obsession, and Narcissism in the Homophobic Right By Austin Cline
Thursday November 16, 2006
Isn't interesting how often religious conservatives treat homosexuality and gay marriage like they are the most pressing and dangerous issues facing Western culture? Even if we grant, for the sake of argument, that there are legitimate reasons to oppose them and be concerned about them, how can anyone justify acting like they threaten the very foundations of civilization? William Eskridge, a Yale law professor, has written that anti-gay prejudice has been marked historically by three characteristics. These are: (1) "hysterical demonization of gay people as dirty sexualized subhumans"; (2) "obsessional fears of gay people as conspiratorial and sexually predatory"; and (3) "narcissistic desires to reinforce stable heterosexual identity . . . by bashing gay people." The primary historical traits of homophobia are thus hysteria, obsession, and narcissism.
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It's worth stopping for a moment to consider how these same characteristics are also true when it comes to other demonized minorities. The exact same things could have been said about the hysterical anti-Semitic beliefs in Germany in the first half of the 20th century. Dale Carpenter describes how these three characteristics have been popping up in the context of the Foley scandal…
Hysterical Demonization:
We can see the first of these characteristics, hysteria, in some of the reactions to the Foley scandal. "While pro-homosexual activists like to claim that pedophilia is a completely distinct orientation from homosexuality, evidence shows a disproportionate overlap between the two," declared Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council.
What Tony Perkins says isn't true, but it's also not the worst of the accusations which Christain extremists have been hurling at gays. It's frankly no different from when vicious anti-Semites were accusing Jews of killing Christian children in religious rituals, a myth that goes back to the middle ages but which was also used by the Nazis to pave the way for their own anti-Semitic policies.
Conspiracy of Gays:
The second characteristic of anti-gay prejudice, obsession, has been on full display. Some Republicans in Congress and religious conservatives told reporters that they suspect a "gay subculture" has infiltrated the party. This "Velvet Mafia"—as some have called it—allegedly consists of a number of gay Republican congressional staffers and other personnel. A conservative website asserted that the gay conspiracy includes nine chiefs of staff, two press secretaries, and two directors of communications for prominent congressional Republicans.
Once again, there is no evidence for the truth these accusations — but it's easier to accuse gays of these sorts of misdeeds when they have already been the targets of so much demonization over the years than to admit to mistakes on one's own part. Jews, too, were accused of all sorts of anti-German conspiracies; indeed, the idea that Jews threatened to undermine German culture was a primary motivating factor behind a significant amount of the hatred of Jews.
Sexual Purification:
Finally, the Foley mess has demonstrated the third characteristic of anti-gay prejudice, narcissism. If the GOP loses one or both houses of Congress in November, one supposed lesson will be that the party was too lenient on homosexuals—turning off the party's base of religious conservatives. Some thus see the scandal as a chance to cleanse the GOP of the impurity of homosexuality, to reassert the party's stable, pro-family heterosexual identity.
The obsession with purity is a common characteristic with fundamentalist and extremist movements. Usually the purity involved is sexual in nature, though some other types appear from time to time. Many are surprised to learn just how much of a role ideas about sexual purity played with the earliest Nazi storm troopers. Their writings contain many images of fear of being overcome with sexual desire, female sexuality, the presence of women, and so forth.
Extreme homophobia and extreme anti-Semitism have a lot in common because they stem from similar, deep-seated drives in a person's personality. They both involve a need to exclude some minority as violently and absolutely as possible in order to solidify one's own sense of self. A person's identity becomes so bound up with what they are not that everything they do becomes part of denying that Other, even to the point of extermination.
Types of Narcissists
Types of narcissists include:*
Classic The classic narcissist is overly self-confident and sees themselves as superior than other people. Think of a child who has always been told by mom and dad that they would be great, and then that child takes and internally distorts that message into superiority.
Compensatory The compensatory narcissist covers up with their grandiose behavior, a deep-seated deficit in self-esteem. Think of a child who felt devalued but instead of giving up on life, resorts to fantasies of grandeur and greatness. This person will either live in that fantasy world or decide to create that fantasy world in real life.
Inverted The inverted narcissist is a co-dependent who caters to the emotional needs of a classic narcissist. Often a relative or mate of a narcissist– this person feeds the narcissistic supply of adulation, admiration, coddling etc. that the classic type requires.
Narcissists are also either:*
1. cerebral — people who feed their narcissistic needs from their intelligence, academic, or professional achievements. Examples would be evangelists, CEOs, professors, physicians etc.
2. somatic — people who feed their narcissistic needs from their physicality, exercise, physical and sexual prowess including their "conquests". Examples would be models, professional athletes, actors etc. To break it down even further, we can take a look at the 9-point model presented by Bruce Stevens in his article: 'Narcissism: A Nine Headed Hydra? Exploring Types of Narcissism'. In it he describes:
1. The Craver has a lot of love to give but always with strings attached. This type has a great fear of abandonment and clings to people they can connect with, but they are never satisfied.
2. The Power Broker desires…well, power of course! They will do almost anything to gain power, and rarely consider any consequences of their actions. They can be bullies, arrogant, and cold. By any means necessary is their motto.
3. The Rager is someone on the edge, and when their narcissism is bruised, they will lash out. These types are often verbally and/or physically abusive. Very controlling.
4. The Fantasy Maker is the type that has retreated into their own reality, because they are living in defense of the painful reality of their lives. They do not live in truth and therefore have difficulty forming "real" relationships with others.
5. The Special Lover is the type that believe love is the answer to all things. They believe that they have a special capacity to love and tend to idealize love and the people whom they love. Of course, they face deep disappointment when they realize that their love and/or the ones they love are not perfect.
6. The Body Shaper is highly focused on their physical image. Fashion. glamour, Youth. Beauty. They live very shallow and empty lives, and they tend to deny ageing.
7. The Trickster is an extremely charming and social type. These types can trick people into trusting them, but is very malicious and ruthless in these relationships. They feel a sense of entitlement and are without remorse.
8. The Martyr revels in their suffering. They are victims and love telling people about it. THey totally identify with the pain they are dealing with in the present. They want care and support and will exploit others to get it. They tend to form relationships with others who have a need to be needed and then they are exploited. This is their way of controlling other people.
9. The Rescuer is virtuous. They always take the high road in relationships. They appear kind, considerate, and they try too hard. They find it easier to give than to receive. This could be because they were a parentified child in a dysfunctional family.
Narcissists I've known also have odd religious ideas, in particular believing that they are God's special favorites somehow; God loves them, so they are exempted from ordinary rules and obligations: God loves them and wants them to be the way they are, so they can do anything they feel like — though, note, the narcissist's God has much harsher rules for everyone else, including you. [Many readers have questions about narcissism and religion. Here is an interesting article on the Web: "Narcissism Goes to Church: Encountering Evangelical Worship" by Monte Wilson. "Modern American Christianity is filled with the spirit of narcissism. We are in love with ourselves and evaluate churches, ministers and truth-claims based upon how they make us feel about ourselves. If the church makes me feel wanted, it is a good church. If the minister makes me feel good about myself, he is a terrific guy. If the proffered truth supports my self-esteem, it is, thereby, verified."] [More on grandiosity.] ^
care only about appearances
critical of others
disappointing gift-givers
don't recognize own feelings
envious and competitive
feel entitled
flirtatious or seductive
hard to have a good time with
hate to live alone
hyper-sensitive to criticism
lack sense of humor
strange work habits
unusual eating habits
weird sense of time
…and afterward the gang enjoyed some apple sauce before being tucked in bed by their nurses.
Seriously, if the reflection behind Grandma Moses is any indication, most of them won't make it to the end of the year.
Good riddance to old rubbish.
@SARGON BIGHORN You fel better now that you got to say the "N" word online? You really could have made your point another way. Methinks you have more in common with the people in that room than you care/dare to admit.
When is that bleeding c*nt just going to die?
Uh, Layla. I think you've wandered a tad far from your podium.
Uh, Layla. I think you've wandered a tad far from your podium
Old or not, she's still a cunt.
And that sick shit has a gay child.
Phyllis Schlafly is such a closeted dyke. I met her with some college friends about 33 years ago in Illinois and after our meeting with her we all agreed she was the most masculine dyke we had ever met.
That was before she became famous for spreading lies about gays & lesbians.
"How To Recognize Living Under Nazis & Communists" – isn't that the pot calling the kettle…they already know about those things. Copy and paste link below:
"Hate them for their behavior and not some uncontrollable factor." Extremely well put, Sargon Bighorn.
I find it so unfortunate to see people, on this blog and elsewhere, bash people for uncontrollable factors, which includes things like
— someone's name (e.g., calling Peter LaBarbera "LaBabs")
— someone's appearance (e.g., that crowd in the picture is "ugly")
— someone's age (e.g., that of Ms. Schlafly — YES, ABSOLUTELY, BET YOUR LIFE ON IT, YOU WILL BE OLD, TOO, SOME DAY, IF YOU ARE LUCKY ENOUGH)
— someone's gender ("cunt")
— someone's gender appearance or identity (e.g., Ann Coulter's prominent Adam's apple)
Also, I cannot believe how so many people apparently think it is OK to bash people as "retarded" or x"-tard" or whathaveyou. To me, that is insanely insensitive.
It is not merely clueless to do such things, it reduces our moral authority in what is — never forget — a CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE.
Conservatard cunt.
Good Lord! Is that right wing fossil still creaking along. I thought she dropped dead years ago. 95% feminist? AS for"How To Recognize Living UnderNazis and Communists" take a look at your fellow bigots Ms. Schlafly! Why should we not call attention to her age? Age does not necessarily confer respectability. Old crooks, old whores and old bigots need not be shown respect. Respect has to be earned!
I continue to be amazed at how easily they throw the term "Nazi" around. Have they forgotten the horrible and vile crimes of the Nazis? It's highly offensive to even use that word to describe what they consider oppression.
Don't expect the narcissist to get better with age. By the time they are old they have pushed everyone who has ever tried to care about them away. Their narcissistic characteristics also seem to increase after the death of parents or loss of others that have exerted some type of control over them.
The narcissist ages without mercy and without grace. Her/His withered body and her/his overwrought mind betray her/him all at once. She/He stares with incredulity and rage at cruel mirrors. She/He refuses to accept her/his growing fallibility. She/He rebels against her/his decrepitude and mediocrity. Accustomed to being awe-inspiring and the recipient of adulation – the narcissist cannot countenance her/his social isolation and the pathetic figure that she/he cuts.
That cunt geezer is still obsessed with the feminist movement as if it was still 1975 and the ERA was just about to become law. But then the entire GOP is living in the past.
They want their men to go earn the money and come home to the wife baking cookies at home. Gays and feminists don't fit into that … Hell, a woman who wants to get an education doesn't fit into that.
…and my analysis of Schlafly is that she is 5 percent lucid and 95 percent wack-job. More to the point, she is beyond relevance. As Glenda said to Dorothy, "She has no power over you…"
It was men that loosened divorce laws in the sixties and seventies, thus rapidly increasing the rate of divorce. Feminists have largely pushed abortion rights, but this has little impact on families because most abortions are for unmarried women–what it does do, this is probably what she is thinking–is stop young couples from marrying because of accidental or unplanned pregnancies. Yes, she wants to see the return of the good old shotgun wedding. The social problems of unwed mothers is very well understood, but it is more a confluence of social trends than a vast conspiracy against marriage.
Schlafy is living proof that only the good die young.
Let's see. I'm gay AND a feminist. So, I guess that makes me a 100-percenter. Ms. Schlafley has been around since the 1950's, pushing her rather extremist world-view and she has been very effective. If anyone cares to remember, she almost single-handedly was responsible for the failure of the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment) to pass. In fact, it was the ERA that was one of the galvanizing issues for the right-wing in the 1970's, along with Roe v. Wade. Ms. Schlafly claimed that the ERA would lead to acceptance of homosexuality and homosexual marriage. She was wrong on the ERA (very sadly) and because of Ms. Schlafly, women still cannot be considered fully equal in American society. She still will not comment on her gay son, saying it's a private, family matter. She has been a formidable opponent for the LGBT community. She is still a large draw on the right-wing lecture circuit. You can dismiss her at your own risk. She is repugnant, there is no doubt about that. But, it cannot be denied that she has been very, very effective in her crusades against full, civil equality for women and for the LGBT community.
She's still alive? What is she like 100?
As usual, thanks, Derek. They'll find any topic to use their favorite slur. What in the world would SARGON do if the subjects of the story were "old black people". He'd say, "don't use an ageist" slur against those niggers."
That bitch is still alive? I'm surprised the flying monkeys haven't attacked her yet.
That old bag of cells is still going at it? Unbelievable.
Every social ill is equality – and inequality is good – stupid old woman – hates her own gay son so much he is still hiding in the closet
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Never mind Nick Davies's suggestion that overworked 'churnalists' are being hoodwinked by PRs, Mark Borkowski says flaks and hacks are both struggling to cope with the news cycle
Monday 18 February 2008
So the media world is flipping over and over like a gigantic overdone pancake because of the ethical fix caused by publication of Nick Davies' book Flat Earth News. I have to declare an interest as I did spend an enjoyable couple of hours with Davies about two years ago in a down at heel coffee bar in central London when he was researching the thing. I made sure that I had a Fairtrade green tea rather than the frothy cappuccino that might have coloured his opinion of my views on the state of modern PR. I tried to drive home to him that the world of public relations had changed in a way that journalism had failed to truly comprehend. PRs have not got better but more pragmatic, morphing into something unrecognizable to many hacks.
The publicity campaign for his book has been extraordinary; rarely has a tome about the fourth estate caused so much debate and, as a PR, I pray this has resulted in sales. I think Davies might be intimating in the book that information supplied to journalists by us PRs is dodgy. I suspect this suggestion of an unhealthy merging of gate-keeping and poaching might itself be a device to generate more ink and boost sales. If so, I applaud the mischief – it has made the publication an event. Usually a book is lazily promoted by a shallow survey disguised as a story – one of the issues he highlights in the book.
Colin Byrne's excellent (Byrne Baby Byrne) blog on the Davies book was right on the money. "Of course some PRs do send out vacuous rubbish and bogus surveys dressed up as a story. Of course some political PRs do try and manipulate the news. And of course some journalists are bone idle and recycle rubbish as news. But on the whole most journalists and PRs are being better trained for their jobs and are trying to do them to the best of their abilities. Interesting to see that the 'holier than thou' Guardian occasionally lets its eye for a good puff or a shapely figure get the better of news values. Witness its report on Martha Lane Fox's and Brent Hoberman's new internet business venture. The Times gives it a sober short report. The Guardian does the same but accompanies the story with a near page deep colour photo of Martha looking foxy (groan) in what looks like a black rubber dress!"
With resources under pressure in the new world of "churnalism" I do think there are PRs who take advantage. I see a generation of publicists who think smart and don't feel the need to work hard. This breed is quick to take advantage of the overworked journalist who is time poor and looks for the easy route when standing up a story. Many journalists have been sucked in. Diverted by the idea that PR is all about the world of fighting flak, they have found themselves consumed by the PR industry and made an extension of it rather than a necessary foil.
In this declining press market, promotional stunts and giveaways can now make bigger news than the key story of the day. Witness the Mail on Sunday pulling off the greatest coup of last year not with a breaking, agenda-setting story but a PR and marketing exercise in the circulation war – the cover mount of a Prince CD. When I represented Prince a decade ago he was one of the Mail on Sunday's main targets for a turnover story, someone they would have loved to have nailed and tried to on numerous occasions. But 10 years is an age in PR and journalism.
It's significant that many very good modern PRs – or media strategists – are former editors. Stuart Higgins (ex-editor of The Sun), Ian Monk (a former Daily Mail executive and deputy editor of the Daily Express) and Phil Hall (former editor of the News of the World) have all upped the stakes after swapping codes. Perhaps they saw the writing on the wall years ago?
I have just handed the manuscript of my book, The Fame Formula, to my publishers. It's a seven-year journey on understanding these changes we are seeing, what is inside the dark souls of some publicists and how strategies have been changed to try to gain the upper hand. The industry has morphed into something different to the previous notion of PR. Technology has changed the business. Five years from now, PRs will be describing the media tools of today, such as email, as archaic. I recently told an audience at Westminster University that a generation of PRs will die if they do not keep up with technological changes.
Have PRs got any better at their jobs? Let's face it, agencies are multiplying like a virulent strain of the bubonic plague. It's deadly because they will do the work at any cost – something which will devalue the craft. The hard truths are that you don't have to have any knowledge of the workings of the media to open up a PR shop – just subscribe to Gorkana and Media Disk and you can track down any journalist you like. It's like handing a chimp a Kalashnikov AKS-74U assault rifle. I am not sure if anybody cares because we never have time to put the vehicle in neutral.
The American PR man Michael Levine told me that in this crowded market only the most determined PR companies will survive. "The new game is not easy and the game is not fair. But with enough burning rage the game is winnable." Not just journalists but PR clients themselves are struggling to understand the role of modern public relations. As Levine says: "PRs [have to] spend time justifying the work to a marketing man who thinks PR is a form of direct marketing or sale promotion."
These are testing times for journalists and PRs alike. Davies has defended his book's glorification of a previous golden age of journalism. But really, who cares about the past? It's being on the money with the new idea that counts. The speed of the 24-hour news cycle has changed the rules and everything is only going to get quicker. The facts are that we all now work in a very different media universe. It's not better and it's not worse, it's the now and we better get on with it.
Mark Borkowski is a media commentator and head of www.borkowski.co.uk brand and entertainment publicists.
'The Fame Formula' is published by Macmillan in August. The book's blog can be found on www.markborkowski.com
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