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Chief executive officer
A chief executive officer (CEO) in American English[1] or managing director (MD) in British English[2] describes the position of the most senior corporate officer, executive, or administrator in charge of managing an organization. The CEO of a corporation or company typically reports to the board of directors and is charged with maximizing the value of the entity.[3] Titles also often given to the holder of CEO position include president and chief executive (CE).[4]
The responsibilities of an organization's CEO are set by the organization's board of directors or other authority, depending on the organization's legal structure. They can be far-reaching or quite limited and are typically enshrined in a formal delegation of authority.
Typically, responsibilities include decision maker, leader, manager, and executor. The communicator role can involve the press and the rest of the outside world, as well as the organization's management and employees; the decision-making role involves high-level decisions about policy and strategy. As a leader of the company, the CEO/MD advises the board of directors, motivates employees, and drives change within the organization. As a manager, the CEO/MD presides over the organization's day-to-day operations.[5][6][7] The term refers to the person who takes all the decisions regarding the upliftment of the company, which includes all sectors and fields of the business like operations, marketing, business development, finance, human resources, etc. The CEO of a company is not necessarily the owner of the company.
According to a study by Carola Frydman of MIT, from 1936 to the early 2000s, there has been a rapid increase in the share of CEOs holding an MBA; from approximately 10% of CEOs in 1960 to more than 50% by the end of the century. Earlier in the century, top executives were more likely to have technical degrees in science and engineering or law.[8] As of 2016, there were 20 female CEOs of S&P 500 companies, approximately 4%.[9]
Celebrity CEO[edit]
Business publicists since the days of Edward Bernays and his client John D. Rockefeller and even more successfully the corporate publicists for Henry Ford, promoted the concept of the celebrity CEO. Business journalists have often adopted this approach, which assumes that the corporate achievements, especially in the arena of manufacturing, were produced by unique talented individuals, especially the heroic CEO. In effect, journalists celebrate a CEO who takes distinctive strategic actions.
The model of course is the celebrity and entertainment, sports, and politics. Guthey et al. argue:
- These individuals are not self-made, but rather are created by a process of widespread media exposure to the point that their actions, personalities, and even private lives function symbolically to represent significant dynamics and tensions prevalent in the contemporary business atmosphere.[10]
Journalism thereby exaggerates the importance of the CEO and tends to neglect the harder-to-describe broader corporate factors. There is little attention to the intricately organized technical bureaucracy that actually does the work. Hubris sets then when the CEO internalizes the celebrity and become excessively self-confident in making complex decisions. Indeed, there may be an emphasis on the sort of decisions that attract the celebrity journalists.[11]
International use[edit]
In some European Union countries, there is a dual board system with two separate boards, one executive board for the day-to-day business and one supervisory board for control purposes (selected by the shareholders). In these countries, the CEO presides over the executive board and the chairman presides over the supervisory board, and these two roles will always be held by different people. This ensures a distinction between management by the executive board and governance by the supervisory board. This allows for clear lines of authority. The aim is to prevent a conflict of interest and too much power being concentrated in the hands of one person.
In the United States, the board of directors (elected by the shareholders) is often equivalent to the supervisory board, while the executive board may often be known as the executive committee (the division/subsidiary heads and C-level officers that report directly to the CEO).
In the United States, and in business, the executive officers are usually the top officers of a corporation, the chief executive officer (CEO) being the best-known type. The definition varies; for instance, the California Corporate Disclosure Act defines "executive officers" as the five most highly compensated officers not also sitting on the board of directors. In the case of a sole proprietorship, an executive officer is the sole proprietor. In the case of a partnership, an executive officer is a managing partner, senior partner, or administrative partner. In the case of a limited liability company, executive officer is any member, manager, or officer.
Related positions[edit]
In the US, the term chief executive officer is used primarily in business, whereas the term executive director is used primarily in the not-for-profit sector. These terms are generally mutually exclusive and refer to distinct legal duties and responsibilities which are incompatible. Implicit in the use of these titles is that the public not be misled and the general standard regarding their use be consistently applied.
In the UK, "chief executive" and "chief executive officer", are used in both business and the charitable sector (not-for-profit sector).[12] As of 2013[update], the use of the term director for senior charity staff is deprecated to avoid confusion with the legal duties and responsibilities associated with being a charity director or trustee, which are normally non-executive (unpaid) roles.
Typically, a CEO has several subordinate executives, each of whom has specific functional responsibilities referred to as senior executives,[13] executive officers or corporate officers.
In the United Kingdom, the term director is used instead of chief officer.
See also[edit]
- CEO succession
- Executive officer
- CEO of public schools
- List of books written by CEOs
- List of chief executive officers
- Occupational Information Network
- United States Department of Labor
- ^ CEOs and Presidents, UC Davis Law Review, available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2428371
- ^ Professional English in Use – Finance, Ian MacKenzie, Cambridge University Press, 2006, p.16
- ^ CEOs and Presidents, UC Davis Law Review, available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2428371
- ^ "Chief Executive Definition from Financial Times Lexicon". Lexicon.ft.com. Retrieved 2012-11-28.
- ^ "Chief Executive Officer - CEO". Investopedia. Investopedia US, a Division of IAC. Retrieved 2014-10-23.
- ^ "Chief Executive Officer (CEO)". BusinessDictionary.com. WebFinance Inc. Retrieved 2014-10-23.
- ^ Capstone Publishing (2003). The Capstone Encyclopaedia of Business. Oxford, U.K: Capstone Publishing. pp. 79–80. ISBN 1-84112-053-7.
- ^ Bertrand, Marianne (2012), "CEOs", Annual Review of Economics, Annual Reviews: 121–150, doi:10.1146/annurev.economics.050708.143301
- ^ Catalyst (2016) "Knowledge Center: Women CEOs of the S&P 500". Retrieved April 14, 2016.
- ^ Eric Guthey and Timothy Clark, Demystifying Business Celebrity (2009).
- ^ Mathew L.A. Hayward, Violina P. Rindova, and Timothy G. Pollock. "Believing one's own press: The causes and consequences of CEO celebrity." Strategic Management Journal 25#7 (2004): 637-653.
- ^ "Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations". Acevo.org.uk. 2012-11-16. Retrieved 2012-11-28.
- ^ Markus Menz (2011-10-04). "Menz, M. 2012. Functional Top Management Team Members: A Review, Synthesis, and Research Agenda. Journal of Management, 38(1): 45-80". Jom.sagepub.com. Retrieved 2012-11-28.
Further reading[edit]
- Huang, Jiekun, and Darren J. Kisgen. "Gender and corporate finance: Are male executives overconfident relative to female executives?." Journal of Financial Economics 108#3 (2013): 822-839. online
- Kaplan, Steven N., Mark M. Klebanov, and Morten Sorensen. "Which CEO characteristics and abilities matter?." Journal of Finance 67#3 (2012): 973-1007. online
- Shleifer, Andrei, and Robert W. Vishny. "A survey of corporate governance." Journal of Finance 52#2 (1997): 737-783.
- Vancil, Richard F. Passing the baton: Managing the process of CEO succession (Harvard Business School Press, 1987).
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chief executive officers.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics - Top Executives: Description and Outlook
- 2008–2010 Study: CEOs Who Fired Most Workers Earned Highest Pay – video report by Democracy Now!
- Global CEO Directory - Searchable list of chief executive officers


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"Through Independence Day, HuffPost Impact is running a series of stories called "Breaking the Roles," highlighting the servicemen and women of our armed forces who don't typically see the media spotlight, and the remarkable work of the USO, who are tireless in their efforts to support all who defend our country."
We're thrilled to announce this six-part series, running online at the Huffington Post's in partnership with Causecast, that tells untold stories of those who support our men and women in uniform! Check back each day to see the latest interview.
Today kicks off with a hilarious interview of Jeffrey Ross, by Jonathan Daniel Harris. Ross is a longtime supporter of the USO and the military. His directorial debut, "Patriot Act: A Jeffrey Ross Home Movie" captured his own life changing experience traveling on a USO tour and entertaining American soldiers stationed around Iraq during the early days of the war. It screened at many top festivals and even won Best Picture at the Montreal Comedy Festival. Click here to read our latest blog post on Jeffrey Ross and be sure to follow him on Twitter.
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USO and the What To Expect Foundation Host Special Delivery Baby Shower in Dover
Being pregnant isn't easy under the best of circumstances. But being pregnant and having a spouse in the military – or serving yourself – can make the expecting experience exponentially more difficult. That's why the USO and the What to Expect Foundation, led by best-selling author Heidi Murkoff, team to bring Special Delivery Baby Showers to military bases around the world.
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A Dish in the Desert: USO Piloting Expeditionary Satellite Internet Kit Program for Service Members Downrange
After months of research, two reinforced plastic cases arrived at Camp Shorab, a once-bustling Marine Corps base in Southwestern Afghanistan. When unpacked the packages' color-coded contents provided a free USO internet connection for troops on the ground.

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Tell me something, "Kerryheads." What do you want with Kerry? Do you want more affordable healthcare? What difference does it make how affordable it is if our hospitals have been blown up by terrorists? Do you want more money for education? What's the point if there is such a high risk of terrorists going into our schools and shooting our children? We know it's happened. It happened in Russia and there are plans for it to happen here. They got somebody on the news the other day with a disc outlining procedures for evacuation of our schools that are studying how to kill our kids. This election is about life and death - that's it. Bush wants to help keep us all alive. Do you know what really makes me angry? Having uninformed people strip our commander-in-chief of his duties while we are in a war and put some idiot in there who does not understand the scope of the situation. Kerry said himself that he does not know what to expect in Iraq by the time he gets to be in there, but he has a plan. He doesn't know what to expect, but he has a plan. Think about it, people. This is life and death.
A friend of mine recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq. He told me he couldn't help but notice that many of the cars that have the "Support Our Troops" stickers on them have "W" for president, also. He noted that he has not once seen a Kerry sticker beside a "Support Our Troops" sticker. I hadn't thought about that, but it is a very interesting thing to think about. I guess Kerry and support our troops can't be put together in the same sentence. That is a very scary thought.
Everybody who votes for George W. Bush is in trouble. If he can't straighten everything out in three years, how can he straighten things out right before the election? Please don't vote for this man. Let's get him out of office while we still have a country that we can call our country and make things better by electing John Kerry.
Some have said that John Kerry has lied about his record and didn't get a Purple Heart or anything. Go to www.washingtondispatch.com and all his service records are there. They show John Kerry and lots of other people, but they don't have George W. Bush.
Senior citizens, please pay attention. The president we have now is going to ruin America if he's in there four more years. Look at your Social Security, the things he's going to do to it, the things he has done and the don't-care attitude he has toward older people. We are left out of everything that is decided. Please, please, no four more years for this man.
I would like to thank Irwin Porter for his very good letter to the editor. I absolutely agree that the Bush presidency has been a failure and it's time for a change. Thank you, Mr. Porter. It is nice to see someone new writing letters to the editor.
George W. Bush is doing nothing about the high cost of gasoline, something he could do something about. The energy crisis is hurting old people and we can't do anything about it. Everything else in this country that is reaching sky-high prices, he just does not care. We need someone who does care. Vote for Kerry.
The greatest period of economic growth in 20 years, 20 million jobs created in the last year. Go, Bush! You rock!
I know the Standard mails out the newspapers every day but the Post Office really screws up. On Oct. 5, I received my papers for Sept. 21, 26 and 28. On Oct. 8, I got my papers for Sept. 17 and Oct. 3 and 4. The postal employees are paid better wages than most people in Southeast Missouri and everywhere else. It seems they could at least get the papers in the right place. Some of my papers come back from places like Wyoming and Montana because they were sent to the wrong place. Some of the postal employees either can't read or the falling down on the job.
The unemployment rate is 5.4 percent. That's what it was in 1996 when Clinton was running for re-election. But he was a Democrat; Bush is a Republican. So that figure isn't good enough - not even for the media. All those new jobs are just temporary anyway, they say. Baloney! In 1917, Lenin promised 0 percent unemployment to the Russians. When the communists took over, they made everybody a worker and gave everybody a job of some kind or other. Is that what the Democratic Party is, another socialist party? I really believe it is.
I watched the first two presidential debates and the vice-presidential debate and haven't heard any of the politicians say anything about welfare. They haven't brought the subject of welfare up in any conversation or questions and answers. There are some who need welfare, but I know of too many who are on welfare and are able to work. They are committing fraud and our state and government seem like they're not concerned about it. There are many of us who work and have no medical coverage, we have to pay for our medication and medical bills because we don't have a Medicaid card like the deadbeats who don't work. There is just too much fraud in the welfare system today. I would like to see one of these politicians have enough nerve and enough guts to come down on welfare.


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Lynn J. Good Named Duke Energy CFO; David L. Hauser to Retire June 16, 2009
Duke Energy today named Lynn J. Good group executive and chief financial officer to replace David L. Hauser, who is retiring from Duke to become chairman and chief executive officer of FairPoint Communications, Inc.
For the past 18 months, Good has been group executive and president of Dukes commercial businesses. She previously served as senior vice president and treasurer. Before the merger of Duke Energy and Cinergy in April 2006, Good served as executive vice president and chief financial officer for Cinergy.
James E. Rogers, Duke chairman, president and chief executive officer, described Good as a seasoned financial professional. Rogers said, After proving herself in a series of leading financial roles, Lynn welcomed the challenge to lead our commercial businesses. During that tenure, she applied excellent leadership and vision to those businesses and proved her ability to manage a significant profit and loss operation.
Hauser, who joined Duke in 1973, will take the helm at FairPoint on July 1. The company is headquartered in Charlotte and owns and operates local exchange companies in 18 states, providing services such as local and long distance phone and broadband services. Hauser has served on FairPoints board of directors since 2005.
During his 35-year career at Duke, David has demonstrated a unique blend of financial acumen, business savvy and focus on shareholder value, Rogers said. He has helped lead Duke through some of its most challenging times, most notably, the collapse of the energy markets following the Enron bankruptcy in late 2001.
Before joining Cinergy in 2003, Good was a partner with Deloitte & Touche. She started her career at Arthur Anderson. Good serves on the board of directors of Hubbell, Inc. She is also a board member of the Bechtler Art Museum in Charlotte. She is a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Good assumes her new role July 1. Rogers said a successor to lead Duke Energys commercial businesses will be named in the near future. In the interim, Good will continue to lead that business.
Duke Energy is the third largest electric power holding company in the United States, based on kilowatt-hour sales. Its regulated utility operations serve approximately 4 million customers located in five states North Carolina, South Carolina, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky -- representing a population of approximately 11 million people. Duke Energys commercial power and international business segments operate diverse power generation assets in North America and Latin America, including a growing portfolio of renewable energy assets in the United States. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Duke Energy is a Fortune 500 company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol DUK. The companys web address is www.duke-energy.com.
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A Rat Summit Is No Joke To Conferees; New Laws Are Proposed As the Rodents Increase
By THOMAS J. LUECK
Published: November 29, 2000
It is a struggle between beauty and the beast.
On one side are defenders of the common plastic garbage bag, that highly popular container for orderly trash removal and recycling, beautiful in its simplicity and in most ways preferable to the metal can. On the other are crusaders against the common Norway rat, that highly populous city dweller that gnaws through plastic garbage bags like pie crust.
Such is the backdrop of the Rat Summit, ''War on Rats,'' a conference today at Columbia University where experts from academia and pest control are to meet with officials from City Hall, the Department of Health and the City Council. The intent is to find solutions to what many have called an explosion in the rat population this year, or at least in rat sightings on subway platforms, public housing playgrounds and in an unsettling array of other locales, like Central Park.
Although the conferees will look at many options, including the increased use of rodenticides and better ways to clean up construction sites, a main focus promises to be the ticklish question of how New Yorkers package their trash.
Like the rat itself, this could get ugly.
''For years, communities have suffered in silence, but now they are being loud and demanding,'' said Bill Perkins, a member of the Council from Harlem who will be the Rat Summit's master of ceremonies.
Along with the Manhattan borough president, C. Virginia Fields, he is leading the charge down the city's political corridors for tougher regulations on rodent control. Mr. Perkins has proposed a law requiring that all garbage be enclosed in metal or heavy plastic cans with attached lids.
So far, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has declined to say whether he supports the proposal, though the Health Department has begun an advertising campaign that urges people to put trash in cans to control the rat population.
''We make unprecedented efforts to kill rats,'' the mayor said at his daily news conference on Monday. ''We kill more of them than any place else. We probably lead the country in rat killing.'' On the proposal to require cans, Mr. Giuliani added, ''We are looking at what kind of impact that actually would have.''
A chorus of office building managers, real estate executives and restaurateurs say that enclosed garbage containers may be fine for other cities, which have basements, loading docks, back alleys and room at curbs, but not in the cramped confines of New York City. And just imagine, the opponents say, the stink of soiled cans and the deafening din as they are strewn about the street.
''Start putting everything in cans with lids and they will take up entire city blocks,'' said Ronni Lynn Arougheti, president of Heron Ltd., a real estate company that manages 100 large apartment buildings, mostly in Manhattan. The buildings dispose of garbage by shredding, crushing and packing it into small mountains of plastic bags, with barely a can in sight.
Warren Wechsler, first senior vice president of the Real Estate Board of New York, a group whose members include most of the largest landlords and developers in Manhattan, agrees.
''This would be a heavy lift in every way,'' Mr. Wechsler said. ''Even though there is a problem that has to be attended to here, this doesn't seem to be a feasible way of protecting ourselves from rats.''
The Columbia conference comes in the aftermath of a year in which rats repeatedly surfaced as the focus of contentious debate at City Hall. Ms. Fields, among others, has accused the mayor and his staff of making the rat problem little more than the butt of jokes.
Mr. Giuliani is to be represented at the summit by Joseph J. Lhota, his top deputy mayor, who since July has presided over a rat control task force of health and sanitation officials and has engaged in a tongue-in-cheek exchange with the mayor over his role. For months, the door to Mr. Lhota's City Hall office has had a sign reading ''The Rat Czar: Allied Command Headquarters.''
City Hall has begun an advertising campaign, budgeted at $600,000, in which television spots and posters on buses and sanitation trucks depict cartoon rats gleefully feasting from plastic bags and uncovered cans. But the campaign, financed from a $14 million allocation in the Health Department's annual budget for rodent control that has remained almost unchanged in three years, has not been accompanied by any increase in extermination or by more rat control efforts.
''This is a problem that has to be taken seriously by the mayor,'' said Ms. Fields, whose staff has answered a rat complaint hot line since July and has forwarded 473 complaints to the Health Department.
For its part, the Health Department says it, too, has been receiving telephoned rat complaints, so many as to make Ms. Field's efforts redundant. Sandra Mullin, a department spokeswoman, said its line had fielded more than 10,000 complaints since May.
Whether the flood of calls means that New York City's rat population is surging remains unclear, since experts say there is no way of estimating how many of the rodents lurk in the city's dense labyrinth of pipes, foundations and tunnels. Pest control experts say one reason for alarm is the city's high level of construction, which has simply forced underground rats to the surface, but few dispute that their numbers are growing.


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Pac the Man X
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Great! Really fun and fresh. My number one distraction.
Excellent incarnation of classic pacman.
Can this get updated with the new url:
It's really cool, but I want an official PacMan.
In Pac The Man X, the ghosts are faster than Pac-Man, unlike the original.
This is simply the best way I've found to kill time... especially during the more boring lectures I have to attend...
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it's a bit hard to control using the arrow keys on my macbook. not super responsive. don't know if it's the arrow keys themselves (macbook arrow keys have been known to not be that great), or the program...
Awesome with the 2-player mode! Ms. PacMan... :)
Quite simply, an awesomely-done blast from the past with great music and sound effects too.


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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy expressed his strongest doubts to date about pending legislation that would allow physicians under certain circumstances to prescribe, but not administer, lethal drugs to the terminally ill.
"I don't think in society we should be viewed as encouraging suicide," Malloy told reporters Friday. "I would have to understand what the safeguards are with respect to that. A lot of what I'll say and do in the future about that issue is dependent on the language I've been presented."
Malloy said he is fully supportive of a separate bill that would create a pilot program making it easier for dying patients to decline treatment.
"I then become a little uneasy when it comes to saying that as a matter of state policy, that we're going to take proactive actions to end" life, Malloy said. "There's a difference, and there's a distinction."


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Issue No.05 - September/October (2010 vol.12)
pp: 56-63
David Horner , US Army ERDC, Vicksburg
Owen Eslinger , ERDC, Vicksburg
Stacy Howington , ERDC, Vicksburg
Steve Ketcham , ERDC, Hanover
John Peters , ERDC, Vicksburg
Jerry Ballard , ERDC, Vicskburg
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCSE.2010.75
A loosely coupled suite of physics-based geotechnical, geospatial, hydrogeologic, and thermal simulations are integrated into a virtual testing facility aimed at resolving terrain-related warfighter problems. This article describes the key aspects of the research conducted by the US Institute for Maneuverability and Terrain Physics Simulation and provides two examples of the virtual testing facility applied to subsurface threat detection.
High-fidelity simulations, simulating near-surface environmental processes, physics-based modeling, virtual testing
David Horner, Owen Eslinger, Stacy Howington, Steve Ketcham, John Peters, Jerry Ballard, "Integrated High-Fidelity Geoscience Simulations for Enhanced Terrain-Related Target Detection", Computing in Science & Engineering, vol.12, no. 5, pp. 56-63, September/October 2010, doi:10.1109/MCSE.2010.75


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Novell is Closing Novell Forge
Novell launched Novell Forge a few years ago to host open source application projects on. I have an open source application for GroupWise called MailSaver, which lets users save whole folders worth of email all at once to text files from GroupWise to disk. I moved it to being hosted on Novell Forge when it opened.
I have now moved the download again to a place that won't go away when Novell Forge shuts down in December. You can find the link to the installer and the source code on the MailSaver page of this site.
2009-11-20 at 20:32
Scott, Mailsaver could be the answer to all of my problems and a wonderful way to save on endless email printouts, and I mean ENNNNDLLLLEEEESSS. You see, I'm an attorney and, as you know, attorneys push a lot of paper. Anyway, I downloaded mailsaver. I selected a collection location on our firm's mainframe. I attempted to save an entire folder's worth of email to that location from my cabinet in groupwise and, unfortunately, when I check to see if my emails (and related attachments) were sent to that location, they aren't there. I've done this process repeatedly and have even changed locations repeatedly, but to no avail. What do I need to do that i'm not already doing. By the way, I'm clueless when it comes to computers. So, I'm assuming that I'm doing something wrong here. Please help. I've been at it for over 2 hours and have made no progress.
2010-02-04 at 10:18
I am trying to install mailsaver. It goes through the install process but when I try to run the exe, nothing happens. I am running XP with Service Pack 3. Thanks for your help.
2010-02-08 at 16:45
I've downloaded the mailsaver app and when I try to install it, the install windows opens up and then goes away. I'm not seeing the mailsaver menu available in groupwise. Any suggestions? What are the pre-requisites for installing it?
2010-02-08 at 16:47
any suggestions would be welcome… Thanks!
2010-02-08 at 16:48
Did you close Groupwise and reopen it after you installed it? It shows up when you right click on a directory name.
2010-02-08 at 16:59
Guess that would explain my difficulty. I see mailsaver in my directory and after a right click, but its just not saving. Thanks for your help nonetheless.
2010-02-09 at 10:07
I'm running 7.0.2HP on the server and client. when I try run the exe, I get a dos window popping up briefly and then going away. After re-starting the computer, no mailsaver. I've right-clicked on the inbox and various other folders and no mailsaver option.
Any ideas?
2010-02-10 at 09:15
re-downloaded the file and it worked. Something must have gotten scrambled during the initial download.
2010-04-08 at 16:22
Dear Scott,
Our university is switching from GW to Gmail (which I'm not that happy about) and I'm using MailSaver (first v 3, now v 4) to save the large number of messages I've put in GW archive as text files.
I expected that I'd have to bring the archived messages back from the archive, then use MailSaver to create the text files. I then found to my joy that MS works on the archived files directly.
However, I've found that MS seems to only consider messages that are dated 2009 or 2010. If I point it at a folder in which all messages are earlier than that, it creates no text files at all.
Before I try bringing back messages to GW, then operating on them, I thought I'd ask your advice.
One possible problem is (now that I look), I'm using GW 7.0.3, with no SP, apparently (because of the switch to Gmail, GW things have been run down).
I'd value your advice, and thanks for the application – it works beautifully on the messages dated 2009-2010.
Alan Taylor
Macquarie University
Sydney, Australia
2010-04-08 at 16:58
Whoops, silly me. I see what's happening. Despite my being in the archive, MailSaver is saving only the messages in the current version of that file.
Ah well, it seemed too good to be true.
2010-05-20 at 06:43
Is GroupWise 8 Client supported at any SP level?
2011-06-03 at 09:45
I also noticed that mailsaver is saving email only from 2010-2011. I have GW 8.0.2. Is there a way to change this – I tried changing the computers date… but no luck. Thanks for any help.
2011-08-16 at 07:08
Has anyone had any luck getting Mail Saver to work in Windows 7 Enterprise? It works great on my computer (Windows XP Pro), but not on my coworker's.
2011-11-09 at 08:30
Does MailSaver work with the GroupWise Archive?
Thanks – Eric
2011-12-14 at 05:02
Great program ;-)
One notice, our Gruopwise language is finnish and Mailsaver menu did not be visible in tools menu. We have windows 7 64-bit & Groupwise 8.0.2 hp2.
If we change Groupwise launguage to English menu works ok.
2012-03-21 at 09:01
I am unable to get to the mailsaver software by your link provided. It appears dl.getdropbox.com is unavailable. I will try again later but wanted you to know. Is there any other place I can get this software?
Thank you,
2012-03-26 at 11:35
Nevermind. Looks like DropBox is blocked at work. Thank you for your time and effort on this software!
2012-04-12 at 06:19
Hey Scott. Is there a place where you still can download MailSaver2 for Groupwise 5.5?
2012-05-31 at 06:56
Hi Scott. Thank you very much for making this software freely available!
Two questions for you:
(1) Did you ever make progress towards implementing a feature where an entire directory tree of folders can be saved/exported at a time? I have about 275 Groupwise folders I'd like to export, so such a feature would obviously be very useful to me. :-) I'm going to take a look at the VB source code later tonight to see if I can figure out how to go about doing this, but if you have a partially-complete version of this feature that I can use as a starting point and you were willing to share that, that might be a great help to me!
(2) Is MailSaver designed to work with exporting folders from the Groupwise "Archive"? When I try this, I see that the destination folder for the messages gets created, but nothing gets saved to the folder. (Exporting folders from my regular mailbox, not the Archive, does work fine for me.) MailSaver reports that it completed, but Groupwise displays a dialog with the error "An error occurred executing a C3PO command. Contact your system administrator." Any insight into what might be causing this? Again, I'm planning to take a look at the source later to see if I can figure out what's going on, but any advice you might be able to offer would be very much appreciated.
Thanks again!
2012-06-19 at 19:26
Hi Scott,
I've successfully completed and tested (on my local PC!) updates to MailSaver to implement the features I mentioned (automatic export of an entire subdirectory tree, and ability to export messages from the GroupWise "Archive").
Are you interested in the updated source code?
If you're not interested in the updated code (e.g. you've moved on to other projects), do you mind if I post the update to my blog in case it might be helpful to anyone else?
(If I haven't heard back from you after a while, I'll go and and post the updated code and executable, crediting you as the original author.)
Thanks again!
2012-07-25 at 11:16
Has this new version been posted anywhere? Our company is getting rid of our archives and I need a way to save large groups of emails plus associated attachments.
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2012-07-25 at 12:33
Hi Dharhas,
I still have posting the updated version to my blog as a to-do item. One reason I've been hesitant is that a couple of others at my company have tried to use it but it hasn't "installed" properly, that is, they don't see the new MailSaver options in their GroupWise even after going through the install process. I normally don't like to "release" something until I'm fairly confident that it's free of high-severity bugs like that one.
That being said, if you're still interested in a copy of my modified version of MailSaver that can export an entire subdirectory tree of folders at a time, feel free to contact me (or provide your own contact information here, if that's easier), and I'll send you a copy.
2012-07-25 at 19:53
I'm interested in trying it out, my email is my name at gmail
2012-08-07 at 15:03
Also very interested, especially needing to save archived messages and attachments. my add is cynthia_eden at yahoo
2012-08-18 at 08:43
Hi Cynthia,
As mentioned above, I have an updated version of MailSaver which can handle messages in the GroupWise Archive, but when I've had other people test it, they sometimes don't see the new MailSaver menu options appear in their GroupWise client, or else they get an error about a missing "COMDLG32.OCX" file.
I think one or both of these issues are resolved by running Scott's original MailSaver installer, but I don't have access to the installer — only to the MailSaver source code itself.
Scott, is there any chance you could let me know what the MailSaver installer does when it is run? (Does it make changes to the Windows registry? Does it create a copy of that COMDLG32.OCX file?)
Once I have that figured out, I'd be comfortable posting the updated version of MailSaver on my blog at that point. Until then, I'm hesitant to post to because I'm concerned that many people who download it would be unable to successfully get it working with their GroupWise client.
2012-08-21 at 14:10
What if I loaded your fix over Scott's version that's already installed?
2012-09-18 at 11:06
Jon, what's ther latest on testing the installer.
2012-09-18 at 19:23
Hi Darius,
I have a version that's ready for testing!
Since my company has completed its migration away from GroupWise, I've only been able to test this version on one PC (running Windows 7 64-bit); I have not been able to test on a variety of systems. Therefore, I consider this a "beta" release — it may or may not work for you, there's no warranty, etc.
If you'd like to try it anyway, you can get it from here:
If you do try it, please post a follow-up comment here and let me know how it works!
2012-12-19 at 11:17
I installed your 5.0.0b version and the subfolders are indeed also being saved. I'm running under Windows 7 SP1 (32bit) and had no C3PO errors. Will you be posting the (revised) source?
Thanks for sharing your revisions, and of course thanks Scott for sharing your work.
2013-01-03 at 14:55
Donald, I can share the source with you if you'd like — just let me know. I wasn't really planning to post it, because it isn't very "clean" — I got it just to the point where it would run once for me, and then I was done with it.
If enough people are interested, though, I may do a little additional work to get the source cleaned up and posted. If anyone else is interested in the code, please let me know (by posting here).
2012-09-21 at 08:01
I have Windows 7 64 bit. I loaded your version and it seemed to work fine. It saved my archived files as well as the online files. It also saved all the cabinet files and subfolders and files in one step.
My only concern is an error message stating that there was an error executing a C3PO command.
Everything still seemed to work fine.
2013-01-03 at 14:56
Yes, I was getting that C3PO error as well. As far as I could determine (without doing any significant investigation into the root cause), it was harmless.
2013-08-12 at 01:08
Dear Jon,
This is regarding the software Mailsaver , I need some information that, other than the manuall procees can this process get automated. Like : automatic archive after some days.
2013-08-13 at 05:35
Hi Rohan, it might be possible, but I haven't looked into specifically how it could be done. I no longer have a copy of GroupWise to work with, so I'm no longer actively working on MailSaver development. Good luck with your situation!


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BOSTON -- Four days have passed since the Red Sox outrighted Alfredo Aceves to Triple-A Pawtucket, removing him from their 40-man roster. If the move was going to be made to clear roster space for the addition of a player by trade, it hasn't materialized.
Asked about the decision on Thursday, the first time he'd met with the media since the Aceves move was announced, Farrell offered something of a vague explanation. Aceves this season has a 4.86 ERA in 37 innings pitched in the major leagues this season, including a 4.45 ERA in six starts.
"It came down to performance-related," Farrell said. "We saw Alfredo from this point forward contributing out of the bullpen. While he did a great job in the spot starts that he made -- and that's not to say he might not find himself in the same situation, coming up and making a spot start -- we felt like with (Brandon) Workman's addition and (Drake) Britton's addition, we're at the point of finding out about guys internally, particularly in the bullpen."
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So, because I am lazy and unconcerned about facts, I often use Wikipedia when looking for such information as "How do you build a nuclear reactor?" and "What is my middle name?" Occasionally, I'll use Wikipedia to make me laugh because, well, obviously. Once, they called my town, St. Charles (IL, not MO) "the land of the drunks" and once they quoted Brian "I Hate The North Shore" Parkins as saying, "I hate the North Shore."
If I had screen shots, it would be better.
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But the last time I was searching Wikipedia for "why are oranges called orange?" I had this horrible, awful thing happen to me. It was so bad that I had to lay down and shake like a purse dog (if I were on Wikipedia, I'd know what they were called) until I could get up again.
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I've never been so afraid of the internet before. Look at his scary creepy eyes!
It's like he's one of those old time paintings from a haunted mansion and his eyes follow you EVERYWHERE.
Those eyes are JUDGING what you're LOOKING UP. Jimmy Motherfucking WALES was JUDGING my Wikipedia searches. I knew it! I knew he was judging me! HOW DARE HE JUDGE ME WHEN HE PUT UP SUCH A HORRIBLE GUILT-RIDDEN "PERSONAL APPEAL?"
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I think he jumped of a bridge into the icy waters of the Wiki River because no one, and I mean NO ONE took the time to read his personal appeal. Poor wiki bastard.
Ha! It looks like he's trying to fart. *pfft*. Ah, now he feels better.
He looks more give me money you lazy bitches or I'll put you in cement shoes than a personal appeal kind of guy.
Sooo good! He was creeping me out too. Now what i really want to know is that given your penchant for using the middle names of celebrities is MF REALLY Jimmy Wales's last name and if so, does wikipedia answer the question, "What in the name of all that is holy were the parents of Jimmy Wales thinking??"
You must be positively drunk with power! Or pain meds! Either way, I'm in! And I have lots of exclamation points! So there!
He may not be on the website anymore, but his eyes have been burned into your soul. He's with you always.
Obviously, he's reading your mind.
Okay, so I just did a John C. Mayer Google search and you beat Wikipedia, with the 2nd and 3rd search results. Twitter was the 1st result for me.
He looks like a serial killer. And you definitely don't want a serial killer knowing what you search for.
Don't be mean. I don't think he is creepy.
Whew – I was also so tired of Jimmy. Glad we've got some new Wikipedia blood.
Which reminds me, I should learn more about blood.
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Just 'cause.
DUDE, I am so glad I'm not the only one who found those pictures creepy!!!
That was his second attempt at hustling for Wikibucks.
He's like a turd that won't flush – he keeps coming back.
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You are so warped it's awesome!! fuckin' love that you killed someone with a name like Jimmy fucks Wales.
Are you off your meds, yet?… Now, I want you to do the same thing to Mickey Mouse!…
I just spent Thanksgiving weekend in St Charles and there were a lot of really drunk people there. Just sayin. I mean, sure most of them were my family, but still.
Wow, good job y'all. Now could you focus on my sister in law growing the fuck up or at the very least shutting the fuck up. Cuz that bitch is driving everybody crazy or at least I know she would if you knew her.
Yeah. Trying having those eyes stare at you while you are reading about figging.
Does it mean anything when I do not know, nor care, who Jimmy Effing Wales is? I never use Wikipedia. There are just a couple of subjects where I have some very deep and detailed knowledge. I looked on Wikipedia about those topics and they were so full of misinformation and downright lies that I figure why try to use them about things with whichI am not highly conversant.
So, Becky, I'm glad you killed him. Do you need any help hiding the body?
That's also why I gave up newspapers and TV news. Not Jimmy Effin' Wales but because I had a job I was good at, the kind of job that sometimes made the news. I have a hobby that demands a certain amount of learnin' that also sometimes made the news. Well, every time I saw something in the paper or on the teevee about those, they were not only wrong but flatassed silly about being far from the possibilities. So, no Wiki, no teevee news and no newspaper. I'll still help you hide Jimmy Effin' Wales' body, though.
The fact that you actually looked up MF and it offered you motor cycling was the best part of my day!!!!
That guy reminds me of someone and that's kind of scary because I can't remember who it was – but yeah you're right – it's the eyes. The. eyes.
Aunt Becky, bravo! That was some funny shit. That pretty much describes how I feel about those pleas. I didn't like the way he was staring at me either, like a creepy uncle.
i love that you found jimmy motherfucking wales staring at you on the scopophobia page! btw, i got kartika today and she's way too young to be an author, but ding dong the wales is dead.
I'm so glad to know it was you who got Jimmy MOTHERFUCKING Wales off of that site. I should have guessed.
Some religious lady told me that Jimmy Wales only pops up if your name is on the going to hell list.
So after I threw her off a steep embankment, well guess what?
Jimmy Wales popped up on my next WIKI search. That proves it's true
The eyes are only the beginning of it!
I wonder when the news media will figure out that the Wikimedia Foundation spends on program services only 41 cents of every dollar they scam from donors, which earns them ONE STAR (out of four!) from Charity Navigator in organizational efficiency. In fact, their KPMG audit discovered that it only takes about $2.5 million to keep the servers running, provide ample bandwidth, and staff a team of code developers to keep things running smoothly. Why, then, is the ask for $20 million? No wonder he looks so nervous — like someone is about to blow the cover on his financial scam.
I also wonder why the news media never thought to cover the 2009 story of how the Wikimedia Foundation needed extra office space, and as if by magic, they hand-picked Jimmy Wales' for-profit corporation to be their landlord, THEN obtained competitive bids, THEN asked Wales' for-profit company to match the average of the competitive bids.
I too wonder why the media don't seem to care that the 2010 market research study of past Wikimedia Foundation donors was awarded to the former employer of the WMF staffer running the project, without any competitive bidding whatsoever. And when the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation was asked how much the project cost, the guy asking the question was banned from the online discussion.


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Dave Thomas, an aide to Speaker Sam Smith, R-Jefferson, told Capitol reporters that the total amount of new transportation funding in the bill was likely to be between $2.2 billion and $2.4 billion a year. The state Senate voted overwhelmingly in June for a $2.5 billion proposal, but that proposal stalled in the House.
Thomas said he expected talks between House Democrats and Republicans to go through the weekend.
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Decked out in customized t-shirts, bandanas, Army Combat Uniform pants, boots and temporary tattoos displaying the colors and unit of their Soldier; these ladies and gentlemen completed a variety of basic warrior tasks in the form of a friendly competition.
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The Ironhorse battalions were broken into four groups and competed for a trophy in four graded events: room clearing exercises, Engagement Skills Trainer, Ironhorse history challenge scavenger hunt and an obstacle course.
In true Army style, the day kicked off with a short Physical Training session. The spouses laughed as they learned the proper PT formation and some of the exercises their Soldiers perform daily. After the session the groups rotated through the four events.
The participants wore Army Combat Helmets and body-armor vests when using simulated weapons to complete a room clearing exercise. A rectangular area was taped off on the floor creating a 'glass house,' representing the boundaries of a room. The spouses rehearsed the room entry and clearing procedure before entering the house simulation that Soldiers use to train.
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"It's something we get to experience that we don't normally do, so I get a better appreciation of what (Soldiers) go through," Hector said.
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"When it's real there's no hesitation," Miranda said. "You just have to get in and get done."
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Vanessa said the tasks did not appear to be exceptionally challenging for the participants. Although the team members were not familiar with one another, they were able to get together and have a good time and likes that her husband had the chance to meet other spouses as well as her chain of command.
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"I've been on Fort Hood since 1989 and I just support my phantom warriors," Hector said. "I'm ready to do it again."
After all of the events were complete and scores were tallied, the Spouse Spur Ride wound down with an awards ceremony and some chow.
Each spur candidate was given a certificate explaining the significance of the spur ride. The winning team, consisting of spouses from the 1st Squadron, 7th "Garryowen" Cavalry Regiment, and 115th "Muleskinner" Brigade Support Battalion, both of the Ironhorse Brigade received the Spouse Spur Ride trophy.
After presenting the trophy, Soldiers and spouses feasted on hot dogs and hamburgers as they cheerfully described their experiences from the busy day.
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Issue No.02 - February (1992 vol.41)
pp: 159-177
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This work deals with the general case of processors with multiple, possibly pipelined, functional units that operate concurrently and presents a method for the minimization of the actual computation time n/sub sys/*t/sub sys/. The selection of a linear scheduling function, which minimizes n/sub sys/*t/sub sys /is formulated as a combinatorial optimization problem, which is shown to have a bounded search space. An efficient branch-and-bound method for the solution of that problem is proposed and applied to several examples.

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The U.S. Army kicks off nationwide the Army Community Covenant April 17, a new campaign formalizing community support for Soldiers and their Families. Secretary of the Army Pete Geren and Sergeant Major of the Army Kenneth O. Preston will participate in the first Army Community Covenant signing ceremony in Columbus, Ga., today with members of the Fort Benning community.
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The Army Community Covenant is a formal commitment of support by state and local communities to Soldiers and Families of the Army, Active, Army National Guard, and Army Reserve. It is designed to develop and foster effective state and community partnerships with the Army to sustain and improve the quality of life of Soldiers and their Families, both at their current duty stations and as they transfer to other states. The Army Community Covenant is tailored to the local community.
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10 April 2011
Review: TEN LITTLE NIGGERS, Agatha Christie
aka AND THEN THERE WERE NONE (1940)
also TEN LITTLE INDIANS
My edition: Fontana books 1975
190 pages
Source: my father's library
Publishers blurb
10 people are invited to a fabulous mansion on Nigger Island off the coast of Devon. Though they all have something to hide, they arrive hopefully on a glorious summer evening... But soon a series of extraordinary events take place: the island is suddenly bathed in a most sinister light .. panic grips the visitors one, by one ... by one... by one...
My take
You will have noticed that I have unapologetically used the original title of this novel, because that is the title of the copy that I have in hand.
This really is a novel with an extraordinary history.
Complaints about the perjorative nature of the original title resulted in it being renamed with the last line of the original rhyme And Then There Were None for the American publication. The island became Soldier Island. In the version published as TEN LITTLE INDIANS, we have Indian Island.
That people still feel very strongly about the use of THAT word was an issue I raised in a post earlier this year: Creating P.C. Reading by whitewashing the classics.
Wikipedia tells us that "it is Christie's best-selling novel with 100 million sales to date, making it the world's best-selling mystery ever, and one of the best-selling books of all time". There is more about the history of the publication here.
Each of the ten guests has been responsible for at least one death, and in each of their rooms is a framed copy of the original "Ten Little.. " rhyme which details how each of the ensuing deaths will occur. The reader will find himself/herself consulting that page in the book to see how the next death will be accomplished. The guests do that too as they realise that the person committing the murders has to be one of them. On the dining room table are ten china figurines and as a guest dies, so the number of figurines is reduced.
The guests are stranded on the island by the weather and the novel is consequently an example of a very clever "locked room" mystery.
Even though this was far from my first reading of the novel (I used to teach it as a text back in the 1970s), it was still enjoyable to try to pick up finer details. Even when the police finally investigate the sequence of events that led to the ten deaths on the island, they don't get the chronology right. The reader knows that because of course we were there as the deaths happened. But even the reader doesn't know, unless they are clever, who the murderer is. Christie does give us just one tiny clue. In general, readers will need the final ten pages when a message in a bottle, picked up at sea, reveals all.
I have read TEN LITTLE NIGGERS as my next novel for the Agatha Christie Reading Challenge and I will also be listing it in the British Books Challenge
My rating: 4.5
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11 comments:
- Margot Kinberg said...
Kerrie - That title does have an interesting history, doesn't it... Thanks for the reminder of this fine novel. Christie was said to have liked this best of her work, and it's certainly one of her toughest "nuts to crack."
- 10 April 2011 at 20:59
- Margaret @ BooksPlease said...
I've found that her books are just as enjoyable the second or third or whatever time around. I really must read this one again!
- 10 April 2011 at 22:13
- Uriah Robinson said...
I think the N word is particularly offensive, but its use in an educational historical context could be justified. Certainly writing books set in Alabama in the 1920s and having klansmen refer to black people as "African Americans" would be ridiculous. We should perhaps differentiate the offensive use in language from the historically accurate use in books. I did not read your post Creating PC at the time, but I believe that books should be left as they were written, in order to show the younger generation what attitudes were like in the past.
Start removing the xenophobia and anti-semitism from authors such as Sapper, Buchan and Sayers and their books might be very thin. But frequently it is the villains who express these opinions, and they do not reflect the authors own views.
The doll on the cover of TLN has also had a history of controversy. Since my childhood, when the image was all over jam jars, the only place I have seen them for sale was ironically at Carter's Grove Virginia, in 1995, where there was a reconstructed slave settlement near the house.
Shops in England were prosecuted for selling these dolls in the 1990s.
I read today that the Elder tree fungus named Jew's Ear [from Judas Iscariot hanging himself on an Elder] has been renamed Jelly Ear!
I must reread this book using my new copy purchased from Greenway in 2009, and of course titled And Then There Were None.
- 11 April 2011 at 01:55
- Dorte H said...
I agree that this is a very fine Agatha Christie, and it is so interesting how the titles (and the covers) have changed.
Who knows which aspects of our time will be considered offensive by our grandchildren.
- 11 April 2011 at 05:00
- Uriah Robinson said...
Dorte, I just hope they don't rename the Danish pastry. ;o)
- 11 April 2011 at 06:38
- Dorte H said...
Danish pastry?
Oh, you mean wiener-brød :O
- 11 April 2011 at 06:44
- Kerrie said...
I did think about not reading this one yet again, but I'm glad I did. I agree with Margaret that there is always something new that pops up during a re-reading. Australia rather missed out on the furore over the N word even back in the 70s because it is basically a word we have never really used. So the change of title was always a bit of a puzzle.
However we were on the fringe of the "golliwog" furore that Norman mentions.
BTW I think the artist incorporated a bit of a "spoiler" in this particular cover - if you have read the book, you may spot it. The murderer is depicted.
- 11 April 2011 at 07:15
In good conscience and because I have a tough moral code, I have to say that it nearly knocks me over to see this heinous word in print; it is a word I have never spoken nor written nor will I ever do that. I would not read a book with this word on the cover.
In the States, African-American people are very offended by this word, and ask that it not be used; it, as many people have said, brings up images of slavery, Jim Crow unequal laws and even horrific lynching, which was a horror here for decades.
It took the Civil Rights movement, where many lost their lives, were seriously injured and showed enormous courage, despite vicious beatings, attack dogs, water cannons, arson and more.
The Civil Rights legislation of the mid-1960s helped with legal rights, but awful attitudes remain, especially in the South.
These days, with an African-American president, there is still use of these words, and in the South, politicians are using this and other awful words and phrases to try to appeal to their political bases.
It's not a done deal, but still a problem here, and it is important to take a stand -- and I have to to live with myself.
- 11 April 2011 at 13:00
- Uriah Robinson said...
Kathy as I said the N word is particularly offensive.
I agree it is still a problem in the USA, and here, but it is infinitely better than the 1960s or 1970s. I shall never forget the reaction by some people when I shared a flat with a black Jamaican, a great friend, back in 1966.
We understood to never ever use that word with our black friends, even though we joked around constantly. They would occasionally use the H word to us whites, but we did not mind. They said we were not as good as them at sports or picking up women, and even though that was not true, about sports anyway, we learned that people of different races could live and work together under stressful conditions.
- 11 April 2011 at 19:03
Of course, people can live and work together from different cultures, communities, backgrounds, races, religions.
Eight million people live in my city cooperating every day, and I swear people from every country live here -- and it's fantastic. It's a great social and learning experience.
But, as far as using insulting words, it shouldn't be done no matter who is or isn't around.
It's part of one's morality not to do this. I and folks I know won't put up with this in their houses; I surely won't, not that it's come up.
- 12 April 2011 at 06:49
- Adrian O Sullivan said...
This book was just put on the School curriculum for 12 year olds here in Belgium with the original title.!!!!!
This word was the key to enable the slave traders, King leopold of Belgium, colonizers , Slave owners, etc to dehumanize, degrade and destroy an entire continent.
Agatha Christie knew exactly what she was doing when she choose this "poem" as the basis of the story.
I will not accept this in a school setting without proper historical context and explanation. here in Belgium there is no book on the school curriculum about King Leopold mass murder in the congo. so any one who has any doubt about the word and how it has huge significance. I suggest you start and read the book called "King Leopolds Ghost". by Adam Hochschild. and then go from there to USA and beyond to read the endless evil the African people had to endure with this word as its host.
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