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There isn't a varsity team for it — yet — and most of their opponents are about five times their age.
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Higher Ground, Winooski, VT
Set 1: Shugy, Waiting for the Polls to Close, The Eleven Headed, The Ibim > Face to Face, Carpel Tunnel > Riding On the Edge of the Sun, My Apartment
Set 2: Sing Sing, Eternitys Breath, Don't Worry, Beantown, 4 and 1[1] > People Say[2] > Making Flippy Floppy[3]
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[3] With Trey, Fish, and Jen Hartswick.
Notes: Trey sat in on guitar from "4 & 1" through the encore. Fish sat in on drums for "Making Flippy Floppy" and the encore. Jen Hartswick sat in on trumpet for "People Say" through the encore.
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No Honking at the Rugby World Cup
Rugby spectators wanting to share a World Cup match with their favorite car part are out of luck, as organizers have taken the unusual step of banning horns and all other auto gear this year.
Twenty-eight items have been named on the list, and they will be confiscated if brought to the stadiums. The World Cup kicks off on Friday in Auckland, New Zealand, with a game between the All Blacks and Tonga.
Car parts are already barred from the Wellington Regional Stadium in New Zealand's capital, which hosts the annual International Sevens competition each year.
However, Rugby World Cup 2011 spokesman Brian Finn said the move followed a similar ban at New Zealand's North Harbour stadium and was aimed at trying to rid it of anything that will be annoying or irritating to patrons. Car horns are the major concern, he said, but by eliminating all parts, the event is preventing the potential for people to bring other gear, like heaters, to the games.
Along with car horns, the vuvuzela, that plastic noisemaker that took soccer fans by storm last year, is also banned. And organizers are prepared for enterprising souvenir sellers to come up with something new but equally vexing — they have included a clause allowing them to ban other items as they see fit.
The bans include fast-food items, as well as groups in branded clothing, as part of the World Cup's efforts to protect its sponsors from unauthorized advertising. The event runs to Oct. 23 and will feature 20 teams from around the globe.
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Picture(s) A Day – 29 January 2009
Frequent commenter Kath and several others have asked about my living arrangement update situation and I finally have some news – I put a deposit on an apartment tonight It's an upstairs apartment, 626 square feet, one bedroom, and it has both a full size washer and dryer as well as a wood burning fireplace
Here's the floorplan:
And now for the rest of the pictures These were taken in a model just a few doors down from the one I will move into in about a month.
Yep, the whole place is gated with only one entrance gate and two exit gates. Happily I'm not too close to any of them.
OK, my view might be a little different, but not too much. I'm alright with that as it means that I won't hear the people at the pool as much. The grounds are very nice, though. Green grass, pathways, and HUGE aspen trees. There's also a fitness center, two pools, and a couple of nice covered barbecues as well.
I think I like the kitchen
This will get some use in the winter
No taking clothes to the laundromat !!!11!
The walk in closet is HUGE which is a really good thing
I think I'm going to like living here. It's close to just about everything including a Cost Plus World Market, Wal-Mart, and work I'll have enough space so that I don't feel closed in, and it faces east so I won't have the afternoon summer sun shining in the window and sliding glass door. I also like that it's on the second floor which means it's a bit more secure as there's no easy access to the window or glass door.
I promise to post more pictures once I get moved in, cleaned up, and get some stuff up on the walls
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- Be responsible for rolling out the Global Fund implementation plan for the service delivery area related to OVC care and meet the set targets for planned activities.
- Establish a mechanism of project resources management in line with World Vision Rwanda policies and procedures.
- Advocate for policies that honor & promote the rights of the child and people living with HIV & AIDS in accordance with WVR, partnership and government policies.
- Provide guidance and technical support to Global Fund field officers and CBO point persons in the areas of Economic Development, Nutrition, HIV & AIDS and OVC welfare and advocacy.
- Adapt the organizational capacity building modules of WV International and utilize this to build the capacity of CBOs partnering with WVR in Global Fund OVC care.
- Lead capacity building of project staff and OVC & other community members by providing training in sustainable development, Child protection, health and HIV & AIDS education, Economic Development in line with WVR training manual and identified community needs and MIGEPROF standards.
- Establish networks with other NGOs, government leaders, youth groups, churches, and community leaders to participate in program interventions according to WVR and government policies.
- Implement internal controls, ensuring compliance with pre-determined World Vision requirements, controls and procedures.
- Develop a project database and ensuring that it possesses relevant data to feed project design, evaluation, reports, support Offices and other stakeholders as required.
- Be responsible for the day to day monitoring and the mid-term and final evaluation of the Global Fund OVC project.
- Prepare and submit monthly, quarterly, midyear and annual reports on project functions and submit them to the Director of health in line with reporting procedures.
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Five Ways to Mess with Your Friends on Facebook
There are many creative ways out there to have a little fun messing with your friends on Facebook. Below are five I think would be great, and the screenshots to prove just how much fun I've already had with them. Remember, a true Facebook friend is a friend NO MATTER WHAT!
1. Put your friends' stuff up for sale in the "Marketplace."
Freakin sweet-ass ride. 2010 Jeep Wrangler with Hemi, twin supercharged and quad turbo. Recently replaced the Flux Capacitor with a newer one by Doc's Customs.
2. Invite all your friends to a drive-thru lunch event.
It has the Mopar afterburner upgrades and the doors extend outwards to stabilize the vehicle during flight. It gets roughly 43 mpg city (fuck you, Prius!). Yo yo yo, it's almost that time again, LUNCH TIME! Woo Hoo.
3. Comment on a post from years in the past.
4. Become a "public" Facebook stalker.
Come on out and show your support to that red-headed bitch Wendy! I can fit 4 in my truck, unfortunately passengers cannot ride in the bed within city limits so we might need to car pool.
5. Take your stalking to the next level.
Continue to Five Ways to Mess with Your Friends on Facebook, Part II »
My personal favorite is befriending pornbots then spamming the hell out of them.
Very funny.
Awesome stuff.
Love the pics, and their escalating ball of Wrong!
This gave me a good laugh. Nice article!
Haha Nice!
The only thing more fun than messing with people on Facebook is messing with them in real life.
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you are a homosexual, yes? Not that is anything wrong with that, but you might want to try some cleanser before you post your pic. I don't think the men will go for that to feminine side you show.
No I'm not a homosexual, sorry to disappoint you. Let's get something "straight" though, offering people advice on using cleansers is pretty feminine in and of itself. Not that [there] is anything wrong with that.
random person: My grandmother is in the hospital =(
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That is so funny. I want to see more of that.
awesome. thanks >:)
Great article!
My personal favorite is posting something offensive or sexually explicit as their status when they forget to log off on my computer.
our friends call it getting "pooped on"
We call that Fraping. Facebook raped.
Hilarious. I laughed out loud several times.
chance your name to the name of a friend, (and photo too )
My friends may hate me soon aha.
The best way I have found is to get friends talking about a subject, respond, then delete your own comments.
changing a friend's birthday is great; by the next time they logon, they have 100 notifications from random people.. also changing their url name is funny but permanent.
The absolute best is changing your name to your friends name (and stealing their current profile pic). For best results, be sure to steal the identity of a super well known individual ("popular kids" and whatnot, with 1000+ friends who have like all of your friends added as well). It's always good ass fun :)
How bout tagging your friend in a 5 photos that go together to say something offensive with an arrow pointing to their profile picture?
haha thats a good one
I know this is meant to be funny. At some points it was.
However, joking about stalking is not funny. Stalking is a serious issue, and by pretending to stalk someone, the seriousness of the crime is instantaneously minimized.
Also, "Comment on a link from years in the past," is a hilarious idea, and I will probably do that soon. Looking beyond the surface though, the comment in the example was horrifying. Please consider who is viewing your page and who might be actually be affected by what is said.
Shut the fuck up, you little internet bitch.
yeah dont be such a cunt-fuck
Wow, really? Go be horrified somewhere else. Eat computer virus.
I, for one, am deeply affected by the shop vac comment. I will never be able to look at a shop vac the same again *shudder*
this person is a helpful citizen and contributes very much to the growing number of overly sensitive pussies who think the world needs to cater to them so they don't feel "offended"
This gave me a good laugh. Nice article!
But it couldn't stop me sucking that fat transvestite's asshole!
This is about to make my life a lot more amusing.
The first one was priceless.
ROfl WTF man u make ma day !!! :D
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Here's a look at the album cover we created with long-time friend Aaron Sprinkle, for his newest release, Water & Guns. The Album itself is phenomenal, and Aaron, as usual, gave us his unyielding trust to create something with no boundaries but our own imagination. Water & Guns speaks of (among many other things) Aaron's recent move across the country, and his long journey to complete this record. Our idea was to represent two polarizing landscapes using abstract shapes. In this case, all pre-printed materials from vintage magazines. Buy this record.
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How can I fix an iPhone that has been dropped in liquidcategory: Iphone
Setting the iPhone out to dry and praying it works is the best you can do. Take it to the store to see if they can fix it. Viva la !
How to make an IPhone turn on when you dropped it in water
Do not turn on your iPhone right away after it has been dropped in water. You need to make sure it is completely dry before attempting to turn it on or you could fry it permanently. Place the phone in a bag full of dry rice for 24-48 hours to dry it out, then try turning it on. If it doesn't turn on, chances are it's ruined. !
How to fix an iphone after dropped in water
There is no definite formula for fixing an iPhone that has fallen into water. Open up the phone entirely & lay it out to dry in front of a heater. The sooner you do this the better. Another solution is to wrap the iPhone in a cloth & place it in a bag of rice for about 2 days. This will suck the moisture out from the inside. You must change the rice after about 12 hours.
What do i do if i dropped my iphone 4 in water
Pack the iPhone in a sealed plastic bag among the packets of Silica gel and store it in a dry place for at least three days. That should ensure all the moisture is drawn out from the electronic innards of your iPhone.
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How do you fix a PokeWalker that has been in liquid?wait a day without touching it does not matter in light or not that is how i fixed my ds yesterdayBy ElmGoodie March 21st, 2013 at 17:26:42
Get your phone out of the water as fast as possible. Don't take your time because it can be salvaged. Take the battery out, and dry it off. You can wrap it in a towel and put it in the drier. that seems to work. You can dry it off the way you want juBy MaxBentum13 March 21st, 2013 at 20:00:26
lick it cleanBy Jamie40 March 21st, 2013 at 22:25:29
1 Wipe off all the snow off the iPhone . 2 Get to a hairdryer as quickly as you can . 3 Aim hairdryer at the bottom of the phone for 1 minute or until you see no more snow in it . 4 Turn off and on your iPhone until the sound has returned t…http://www.wikihow.com/Fix-Your-iPhone-4-when-You-Drop-It-in-SnowBy SteveOh_UK March 22nd, 2013 at 01:15:13
I dropped my cell phone in as I could. I dried it off as liquid, any ways to fix it glass of liquid and took? I dropped it in a the battery out as fast much as I could. I alsoBy Jamie107 March 22nd, 2013 at 03:01:20
dropped iphone in liquid? Ok, so what should I do if I dropped my Iphone in a bowl of noodles I was eating? o.0 I got it out 2 seconds later, did my best to dry it, (unfortunately because I didn't know I left it on), but it was working fine for the most part. The only things that are bothering me are:
1: Can't hear a thing unless earphones are plugged in. (Speaker problems? Can it be fixed?)
2: Keeps going to "Voice Control" screen (I can just exit but it's annoying)
3: And continuiously says something like this device cannot work with the iphone (Forgot what it exactly says but if anyone has a portable charger for the iphone you usually get this message alot if you don't plug it in all the way)
Overall, I got reallllly lucky (:D my iphone veryy hard to break, you have no idea how many different and dangerous ways I have dropped my phone, I have actually dropped it in water before and got it to work again right after I somewhat dried it, but noodle broth? o.0) so the touch screen and buttons work fine. Right now, i'm trying that weird rice absorbation trick, but apprently it takes a while, and I'm a tad impatient. Just wanted to ask if it will probably be better the next morning.
Update: 2/3 are fixed after turning off and on and letting it out to dry (for like 3hours) But the speakers still dont work. I'm afraid that it might have already been shorted out for the 2 seconds in fell in the water? Is there a good chance that it can be fixed if I just wait? Or will it be fixable (for free) if the speakers are brokent? (If not, will I have to pay for a new IPhone or speakers or whatever if I want it to work again?) I'm a little more patient with this problem because if I use the earphones it works just fine.
Woops, scratch that last update. 3 occasionaly happens. Along with that, the sound volume bar dissapears but can easily be fixed if you plug and unplug the charger, hopefully, that will be fixable too?
I_am_Priye if i hear.lolz. nah iphone 4s. u know say nah wetin most people dey use hear like how most naija peeps dey use BB.By jandm March 22nd, 2013 at 08:46:55


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- Building a design in Photoshop
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- Building navigation
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So we are in a great place right now, because we have our finished HTML and CSS template that we finished at the end of Chapter 2 and we just took a tour of the WordPress themes. So we can move that static stuff to this dynamic WordPress theme stuff. That's the plan. Move from one to the other. To do that, we are going to open up both projects side by side in TextMate and look at them both at the same time to do the moving. So I am going to open up the HTML and CSS by dragging the whole folder to the TextMate icon in the dock to open that whole project and open up the theme by dragging that whole folder to the TextMate icon at my dock.
So I have got both of these projects opened side by side. I am just going to arrange them just so, so we can be looking at both at the same time. So we are going to be moving static on the left. Our static HTML and CSS to dynamic on the right. Our WordPress theme on the right. Left to right. We have got a little bit of prep to do before we can start looking at that though. All these images from our sliced up CSS over here we are going to drag over into our theme. So I am going to Option+Drag all those images in to the images folder of our theme.
So now our theme can have access to them as well. There is a little bit of a thing to note here in that our CSS file was in a folder in our static thing before. It's no longer in a folder over here. So the relationship between it and the images are just slightly different. So if I open up that CSS file in our theme, first thing I am going to do is actually move that CSS to the theme. Open up the CSS file, literally just select all of it and just paste it over here.
So our theme and our static has the same. We don't have to do a careful line-by-line analysis of the CSS. That's just a straight copy and paste except for these file paths. It start with this dot, dot, dash over here. They don't need to start with that ../ anymore, because of that change in relationship, but TextMate has a really easy Find and Replace. So this ../ we will just replace it with nothing. Hit Replace All, close it, and now we can see that in that example we are looking at, it doesn't start with ../ anymore.
It's just gone and that's just replaced with the proper file path. So there we go. I am going to save that CSS file. Then we are going to start looking at the index.html file over here. We are going to start with the header.php file in our WordPress theme. Both of these start with the DOCTYPE. So we are starting at the top and working our way to the bottom. Anything that we see different, we are going to check it out on a line by line analysis and figure out what we should do. So right away on line 2 we can see that there is a bit of a difference.
So over here it just says html. Over here it says html and it's got this special php function in here. WordPress has a special function for outputting the language attributes. There is no reason to remove that. It's just nice. It's just saying WordPress is going to be setting the English language and just proper outputs that attribute there. So we got to analyze if WordPress is trying to do something smart for us over here. Not to remove it, just because we don't have it over here, but to leave it in because it's not affecting anything.
It's just WordPress trying to help out and be a little smart. It comes up again right away, because it comes up in this meta character set. We just have a static UTF8 over here. But WordPress is outputting it dynamically here and we might as well leave that. It's just WordPress trying to help us out with some smarts. This meta tag here right here in between these PHP tags is saying don't index. So that's a little weird. Why would we tell a theme not to index? Well, it's only telling it to index on very specific pages.
WordPress has this thing called conditional tags. So if we read this out loud in plain English, it says if is a search. So is_search is the conditional tag. It will return true or false, meaning that this meta tag is only going to get output if this is true, which is only if you are searching for something literally on a search result's page on your WordPress theme, and those type of pages can have a lot of repetitive content on them. It's good to not have search engines index those page and possibly penalize you for duplicate content and stuff like that.
Over here where we are linking the CSS files. That happens down here in the WordPress theme. It's fine. It's doesn't matter where that happens. Right here, we are linking to the style. css file, but in our CSS link here, it has the special WordPress function, bloginfo, stylesheet_url. It's just ensuring the fact that this URL that it outputs is absolutely going to be correctly pointed at the CSS file that's part of our theme. So it's nice to leave that there. But boy! What's going on with this title tag? That's a lot of code there.
That there is a lot of these conditional tags that we looked at. As we covered, WordPress works in this modular way. There is all these little chunks that are getting called. You remember how it calls the header, it calls the footer, and it calls the sidebar. Every single page on our entire WordPress site. At WordPress there is going to be thousands of pages. All over them are going to call header .php, all of them are going to use the same code over, and over, and over again. So it needs to do smart things with the title of the page.
If it's the homepage, it should probably just say what the name of the site is. If it's an archived page, it should probably mention the fact that it's an archive page. So this looks like a lot of code. Don't worry about it too much. It just kind of makes sure that what gets output in that title tag is a smart and appropriate thing for the title instead of here on our static side on the left it just says Widget Corp. We wouldn't want that just to be the title of our head in every single page of our whole site. That will be no good. We have some JavaScript going on up here.
We are going to cover JavaScript in the later chapter in this course. So let's not worry about JavaScript right here at this moment. We have the opening body tag then. So here is the opening body tag in the WordPress theme. WordPress has a special function for it called body_class. It outputs a bunch of classes based on the type of page that you are looking at. So if it was a search page, there is going to be class of search on it as well as a whole bunch of other thing. It's just a really nice and convenient thing that WordPress provides mostly for styling of CSS. Then we open up our page-wrap.
There is this class of group over here. We don't have a class of group here. So we detected a difference. We might as well put this class of group over here as well. So that's a match, div with an id of header, this h1 tag in here that links to Widget Corp. Over here it's the same deal, only it's outputting these links dynamically. So we are doing good. Then we just have a paragraph tag over here that says Established 1987. Over here we have a div of class description. That's different.
We might as well just do what we have already written in our page. So we are making those match, but we will leave in this dynamic part. That we can change through WordPress settings. Remember we looked at settings and how it said just another WordPress blog? We might as well make that say Established 1987 and that way we are staying dynamic. We are using the intelligence of WordPress. That's where this header. php file ends over here. So we need to be careful here, because notice we opened the body tag, we opened the page-wrap, but we didn't close either of those two thing.
We really need to be careful when we open tags to make sure that they are closed again. Make sure that our page looks right and validates and all that good stuff. Let's jump right away to footer.php. So this is what comes with the blank theme, but in our static we can just zoom all the way to the bottom to take a look at what's happening in the footer. Let's make sure that page-wrap is closed and notice we did all that scrolling. So sometimes when you do see a closing div tag, you are like what is that closing again? This is a nice comment to remind us what it exactly is closing.
So let's copy that and make sure that because we opened it, we are going to close it. Then grab this footer code over here. This is more appropriate of what's going on. We will just paste it in there and leave what was already there. So we can copy and paste. This is smart. It's about the same thing, outputting the copyright, but this is dynamically outputting the year and the name of our site. That's nice. So we don't have to change the copyright manually each year. Paste that in there. Get rid of the old stuff.
So we have made sure that the body is closed and that tag that we opened is closed. We are doing a good job there. We have this wp_footer in here that is telling us that's where the footer of this site is if a plug-in or something like that needs to know where the footer of your site is. Here it is, in case it needs to insert its own kind of stuff, and our nice, little, friendly comment reminding us about analytics. That's where we are. We have analyzed this as best as we can so far, going line by line and comparing what we already have and fixing it up in WordPress theme.
So we are doing a good job and we are going to continue looking at comparing these files to what we have already written and making it into a WordPress theme. So we have finished our line by line analysis of this theme, moving from the left to the right, making sure the tags are closed, and that we've moved and properly have everything that is from our working site into our WordPress theme. Let's take a look in the browser and see where we made it. Fair warning, this may not look super pretty, because we are not quite there. We are only half way through, but you should see some progress of this thing starting to take shape as it should.
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The White House on Monday said it doesn't favor considering amnesty for Edward Snowden, an idea floated by the head of a National Security Agency team dealing with the fallout created by the former government contractor turned leaker.
In an interview that aired Sunday on CBS's "60 Minutes," Richard Ledgett, who heads the NSA's Snowden response team, said it was worth considering whether to grant Mr. Snowden amnesty. "My personal view is, yes, it's worth having a conversation about. I would need assurances that the remainder of the data could be secured," he said. "And my bar for those assurances would be very high. It would be more than just an assertion on his part."
President Barack Obama's chief spokesman, Jay Carney, dismissed the idea. "There's been no change in our position," Mr. Carney said of Mr. Snowden. "He has been charged and accused of leaking classified information. He faces felony charges here. He ought to be returned to the United States — again, where he will face full due process and protection under our system of justice."
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Perhaps I am misunderstanding something...
I have made a child theme with the style.css like this:
however, the theme would not appear on my wordpress dashboard appearance>themes.
I have isolated the cause to the index.php file. in order for the theme to appear on the dashboard, index.php (blank) must be in the directory.
I have verified this on two domains although both run on the same host.
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I also have this strange problem, if anyone out there can help then it
would be very appreciated
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:31:13 +0200, Robert Spanjaard wrote:
> I've been using 7.10 amd64 for about two weeks now. First, I used an
> upgrade from 7.04 to the 7.10 beta, which worked fine. When the final
> 7.10 was released, I did a reinstall to get rid of some experiments I
> did under 7.04. :-)
> Under 7.04, 7.10 beta, and 7.10 final live-cd, the splash screen shows
> up as expected. After installing the final version, the console and
> splash screen use an incorrect videomode, probably 320x200. This means
> that the splash screen doesn't show up at all, both on startup and
> shutdown. The console screens (Alt-F*) are only 40 chars wide.
> Is there a way to solve this problem, except for supplying a videomode
> manually? Is there a way to fix the autodetection?
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Great plugin! Is there a way to set a limit on the size of the images uploaded?
The limit would be either dimensions or file size.
Great plugin! Is there a way to set a limit on the size of the images uploaded?
The limit would be either dimensions or file size.
Currently there is no way to set a limit on the size of the images being uploaded. I'll make a note of this and see about adding something like this in a future version.
I was having this problem also and changing the css for the plugin didn't work (noticed it was inactive after messing with it). I simply went in to my themes css and inserted the following code and it works great.
Comment Image Picture Control
.comment-image img {
max-width: 400px;
Of course just set the max-width to whatever looks good on your site. I hope this helps.
Thanks for sharing this. In the next version of the plugin, I plan to have this resolved.
Very nice idea. But the best feature should be a resize of the uploaded image so the page will not be too heavy to load.
Noted - will see what I can do in a future version!
Thanks for the suggestion!
Awesome, thanks for this short term fix. Looking forward to the updated version of a great plugin.
Would also just like to second (or third or whatever) the motion to be able to auto downsize images so they fit the area. Would gladly purchase a reliable supported comment image upload plugin.
Another awesome feature would be a lightbox type thing so double clicking a thumbnail image would expand it in pop up window.
I hear you loud and clear!
I always appreciate the feedback and I'm aiming to have these features baked in as soon as I can get some time.
Also, I appreciate the thought on paying for a premium version of the plugin. That's something I'll definitely consider.
Love all the feedback - keep it coming!
Sounds good. Just having a receptive developer is a bonus!
I've been through a few comment image plugins that either aren't quite good enough and/or no longer supported. Such a plugin is invaluable for our site so I'm surprised there there doesn't seem to be more demand for it.
Since the beginning I've had to use a programmer to add code or whatever to get them to do what I want. Having just discovered yours, they are working on it as I type. Hopefully they'll also get it to pull in all the previously uploaded images from the now defunct plugin I was using.
Completely understand.
I'd love for this to be the de-facto Comment Images plugin, but I've just gotta find the time to work in these feature requests.
Believe me: I'm just as impatient as you guys when it comes to want it done ;). Just have a backlog of some other stuff for the time being.
Just thought I'd "bump" this thread... I could use the image re-sample function.
Thanks for great work!
Thanks gnickoloff!
This hasn't been forgotten - just haven't had a chance to work on the plugin lately.
For those that are curious, this is likely how the plugin will work:
Hope this clarifies where things are heading (at least in the future :).
Haven't had time in ten months? You've got a very popular plugin man, at least stick it on Git and request a fork.
The plugin hasn't not been updated; however, this is one feature I just haven't gotten to implementing yet.
Good to know. I can get it to die if I do a file check but it does an ugly die and then posts the comments with the image stripped anyway. It's sub-optimal. I can remove the else and it posts the comment but silently strips the image.
// If the nonce is valid and the user uploaded an image that is less than 150kb, let's upload it to the server
if( isset( $_FILES[ $comment_image_id ] ) && ! empty( $_FILES[ $comment_image_id ] ) ) {
if ( $_FILES[ $comment_image_id ]['size'] < 153600 ) {
// Store the parts of the file name into an array
$file_name_parts = explode( '.', $_FILES[ $comment_image_id ]['name'] );
// If the file is valid, upload the image, and store the path in the comment meta
if( $this->is_valid_file_type( $file_name_parts[ count( $file_name_parts ) - 1 ] ) ) {;
// Upload the comment image to the uploads directory
$comment_image_file = wp_upload_bits( $_FILES[ $comment_image_id ]['name'], null, file_get_contents( $_FILES[ $comment_image_id ]['tmp_name'] ) );
// Now, we need to actually create a post so that this shows up in the media uploader
$img_url = media_sideload_image( $comment_image_file['url'], $post_id );
// And strip out the name of the image file so we can save this to the meta data
// Regex is usually bad for this, but WordPress is predictable in the format
preg_match_all( "#[^]#", $img_url, $matches );
$comment_image_file['url'] = $matches[0][0];
// Set post meta about this image. Need the comment ID and need the path.
if( false == $comment_image_file['error'] ) {
// Since we've already added the key for this, we'll just update it with the file.
add_comment_meta( $comment_id, 'comment_image', $comment_image_file );
} // end if/else
} // end if
} else { die; }
Hey Tom,
Enqueue this to the footer of comments.php (or ideally just hook it) and think about adding a theme option for file size.
document.forms[0].addEventListener('submit', function( evt ) {
var file = document.getElementById('comment_image').files[0];
if(file && file.size < 153600) { // 150k (this size is in bytes)
//Submit form
} else {
//Prevent default and display error
alert('File size is too large, please reduce and try again');
}, false);
That does the trick.
Also, in plugin.php, consider modifying the display code:

The rel won't do a thing if PrettyPhoto isn't installed but if it is, it'll trigger the plugin. You can ignore that or make it an option but the link to full size is nice.
Finally, the following CSS:
p.comment-image img {max-width: 45%;}
span.warning {color:indianred;}
In addition to a warning:
$html .= __( '
File must be smaller than 150k or submit will fail', 'comment-images' );
Makes a it a much more functional tool.
Thanks for sharing the code, Ian. For those that need this, this'll be a viable option.
Ultimately, my plan to make it a bit more flexible through the use of a setting, an option page, and so on; however, there are some parts of the core of the plugin that I want to improve first.
This is definitely a viable short term solution so I appreciate you taking the time to share it here!
I went over the script with my PHP guy and we decided that, without restructuring your logic a bit, it would be difficult to make the kinds of changes I wanted in a practical way. Ideally, the plugin would invoke the WP media uploader and display a resized thumbnail in the comment body.
The JS solution made a nice stopgap though and I hope someone finds it useful :)
For now, combined with NicEdit, it creates a much slicker interface than what is presented by default.
Hi, I have the same problem with the very good comment images plugin. I want to set a limit on the size of the images uploaded.
I tried with
document.forms[0].addEventListener('submit', function( evt ) {
var file = document.getElementById('comment_image').files[0];
if(file && file.size < 153600) { // 150k (this size is in bytes)
//Submit form
} else {
//Prevent default and display error
alert('File size is too large, please reduce and try again');
}, false);
at the end of comments.php but I can not make it work.
I use the latest version of worpress and Webfolio Theme.
Any idea that this solution is working for me? Thank you and sorry for my google english.
I stand corrected. The code works perfectly.
In twenty twelve theme and I suppose in other wordpress.
The problem is the theme I use, Webfolio.
Do not get it to work there.
Anyone know what can be wrong?
Thanks and apologies for the misunderstanding.
I correct myself.
The problem with the theme Webfolio was silly, "document.forms [1]" instead of "document.forms [0]".
the problem of error image is added, I fixed it by adding a couple of lines. To see what you think:
document.forms[1].addEventListener('submit', function( evt ) {
var file = document.getElementById('comment_image').files[0];
if(file && file.size < 153600) { // 150k (this size is in bytes)
//Submit form
} else if (!file){
//Submit form
} else {
//Prevent default and display error
alert('Tu imagen tiene un tama\u00f1o superior a 150Kb, reduce su tama\u00f1o o env\u00edanosla por email.');
document.getElementById('comment_image').value = '';
}, false);
works for me, let me know if you see any corrections.
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Illegal immigrants who entered the country before their 16th birthday would have a chance at citizenship through the DREAM Act if they can graduate from high school, go to college or into the military, and stay out of trouble.
"They didn't come here through their own free choice," said Congressman George Miller, D-Martinez, who is helping line up House supporters for a vote on the bill that could happen as early as this week. "Why would we not get the benefit of their achieving an education? Many of them are performing at very high levels in high school."
California is home to more than a quarter of the estimated 2.1 million people under age 35 who could be eligible for green cards through the DREAM Act, according to a study by the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute. Still, a much smaller number of people is likely to meet all the requirements to achieve citizenship through the act, the same study says.
The DREAM Act requires potential beneficiaries to complete at least two years of college, or two years of military service with an honorable discharge. Those who apply for legal residency would get a conditional green card for six years, and if they complete all the requirements and not accumulate a criminal record, they can become American citizens. They also must have been living in the United States continuously for at least five years before the DREAM Act was passed.
A poll taken after the Nov. 2 midterm elections found that three quarters of California voters, including most Republicans, are in favor of a policy resembling the DREAM Act. Eighty-five percent of Democratic voters and 68 percent of Republican voters in the state support granting citizenship to people who came to the country illegally as children and have since gone through college or military service, according to the poll by the University of Southern California and the Los Angeles Times.
Both of California's senators, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, say they intend to vote for the bill, as will much of the state's Congressional delegation, but the bipartisan support the DREAM Act once enjoyed has diminished in recent years.
Some lawmakers once held out on supporting the DREAM Act because they wanted it to be part of a more comprehensive overhaul of the immigration system. The last time it was voted on was 2007, when the bill fell eight votes short of winning a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. But immigration has been a toxic issue in national politics, and some Republicans who once championed the bill have changed their minds.
Meanwhile, some Democrats who once opposed piecemeal immigration legislation are now pushing for this bill to pass before the year ends, believing it might be their only chance to get some kind of immigration reform. And to win, they are targeting moderates, conservatives in areas with growing Latino populations, and lawmakers who are on their way out and have nothing to lose.
To make the bill more palatable to on-the-fence lawmakers, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., introduced alternate versions just over a week ago. One would lower the age limit to 30 from 35, a response to complaints that a program that promises to help students will also be used by adults if they have been living in the country since childhood.
Defenders of a higher age limit say it stems from the fact that Congress has been debating the DREAM Act for a decade. College students who advocated for the DREAM Act when it was first proposed in 2001 are now in their late 20s and early 30s. Many cannot work in their chosen fields, or work at all, because they have no legal right to work in the United States, said Shuya Ohno of Reform Immigration for America, which advocates for the DREAM Act's passage.
"It allows all those people who have been waiting for ten years, so they don't age out just because Congress waited so long," Ohno said. "That's the rationale and I think it's a sound one."
Prerna Lal is ambivalent about whether the DREAM Act will pass in the coming weeks, but she doesn't believe it would even be on the radar of Congress were it not for the nationwide student movement that has spent more than a year pressuring President Barack Obama and lawmakers to act, organizing sit-ins at Senate offices, staging phone banks and hunger strikes and coming out publicly as undocumented. Bay Area students are holding more rallies Monday, one in San Francisco and another in Pleasanton outside the office of Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Pleasanton, who recently won a bruising re-election campaign and has not yet indicated how he will vote on the DREAM Act.
The 25-year-old former Antioch resident, who is now studying law at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., said the growing awareness of students like her, and the problems they face, has made a difference.
"It's been a strategy to tell our stories, because I think it's our biggest weapon," said Lal, who was born in Fiji and would be eligible for the DREAM Act if it passed. "We realized, somewhere along the way, that visibility matters more than staying quiet about these things."
Proponents say the measure is the right thing to do for minors brought here illegally by their parents, and also benefits the economy and society in the long run, because it allows people already educated in the nation's schools to work, make money and contribute to their communities without fear of deportation. The Pentagon sees the measure as a recruiting tool -- illegal immigrants are presently barred from entering the military. Educators say it would be an academic incentive for high school students who otherwise get discouraged by the obstacles posed by their immigration status, especially their inability to work.
"For many of our students, it would be very motivating for them," said Thomas Kadelbach, principal of an Oakland charter school, the Lionel Wilson College Preparatory Academy. "They want an education. Their parents want them to go to college. And we want them to have that opportunity."
Opponents say the bill unfairly rewards families who broke immigration laws and that any amnesty measure encourages more illegal immigration. Opponents also cite the costs of making undocumented students eligible for the same federal loans and work-study programs as U.S.-born children, and say that, years later, new citizens can apply to bring some family members to the United States. And they don't believe the requirements of the DREAM Act are strict enough.
"It's a much broader amnesty than its proponents want everybody to believe," said Ira Mehlman, spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which seeks to reduce immigration. "It's not just a little special thing for high-achieving kids. Anybody who can get a GED and take a couple courses at community colleges could qualify."
A study by the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute evaluated the potential effects of the DREAM Act. According to the study:


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The University of the Cumberlands (UC) Men's Basketball team hosted two Mid-South Conference (MSC) games this past week starting back from the holiday break. The Patriots took on the NAIA #5 Georgetown College Tigers on Thursday and hosted the Shawnee State Bears on Saturday.
The Patriots only trailed the Georgetown Tigers by five points in the first half of the game scoring 30, to their 35. Unfortunately, the Tigers held onto their lead for the remainder of the game. Although, the Patriots came close to a comeback as senior Matt Daniel (Morehead, KY) was fouled after making a three with 17 seconds left on the clock. Daniel making the free-throw afterwards only left the Patriots trailing by only two. Time ran out for the Patriots resulting in a score of 75-73.
Senior guard Zavion Neely (Chicago, IL) led the Patriots with 23 points, 2 rebounds, 6 assists, and 2 steals. Senior Matt Daniel followed with 18 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists, and 1 steal. The Patriots did shoot 48% from the floor in the game, but were held to 25% from three point land. The Patriots and Tigers captured the same number of rebounds (31) during the game.
On Saturday, the Patriots were ready to play after their tough loss on Thursday as Shawnee State University came to town. The Patriots led almost the entire game holding an 8 point lead to end the first half. The Patriots continued playing strong in the second half as they continued to out-score the Bears shooting 96% from the free throw line along with 50% from the 3-point line in the 2nd half en route to a 78-65 win.
Sophomore Steve Goins (Chicago, IL) led the Patriots on Saturday with 18 points, 9 rebounds, and 3 blocks. Senior teammate Matt Daniel added 16 points, 6 rebounds, an assist, and 3 steals. During this game Daniel also scored his 1,000th career point, becoming just the 16th person in UC history to join this illustrious club. The last member to join the 1,000 point club was Luke Fitzgerald back in 2009.
The Patriots are now 10-6 on the season and 3-3 in the MSC. UC will travel to St. Catherine this coming Thursday with tip-off set for 8:00 p.m. The Patriots will be away on the road again that Saturday as they will take on neighboring Campbellsville University at 4:00 pm.


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Dub Selekta Podcast 23: Sub Antix (with Q&A)
It feels like it's been a minute since we had some Drum and Bass vibes in our podcast series (save for Smasha's Some Like it Hot mix from Valentine's Day) so we're jazzed to be back with the latest installment in our podcast series! Up this week we have Sub Antix!
Dub Selekta Podcast 4.0: DJ Dubconscious
We're quite stoked to be presenting our 4th installment of our podcast series with a good homie of ours here at Dub Selekta.
Bass Parties: June 16 – 23rd
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CUSTOM ITINERARIESWe create exclusive yachting itineraries based on your desires. If you want a heavy dose of adventure mixed with relaxation, or a cultural immersion, or wildlife focused vacation, we will custom-design a route, including local stops, guides and must-sees, arranged only this once, and only for you.
The Arctic and Antarctic are vast regions, with many yacht routing options.
Here are a few ideas for itineraries we can help you coordinate:
The Greenland Explorer: Sail up the west coast of Greenland, from the warmer Southern tip, defined by green plains and delicious lamb, to the jaw-dropping splendour of Disco Bay, where you can watch much of the world's icebergs calve off before your eyes.The Historic Northwest Passage: You'll begin your journey way, way north, at 75 degrees – the start of the historic Northwest Passage. This is a region rich in the history of ancient shipping pursuits, captains and mates from around the world trying in vain to push through the ice and find a short route to Asia. Most perished in the ordeal, but not before leaving behind remnants and wonder about their fascinating journey. In the modern age, with the easing of the ice pack, this obsession over the Northwest Passage has picked up steam again. Now it is your turn to navigate through what so many vessels before only dreamed of doing before. The route will take you from Northern Baffin Island, alongside Beechey, Somerset and Victoria Islands, and across to the Bering Straight and Alaska.
Baffin Island Polar Bear Express: The Eastern edge of Baffin Island is an awe-inspiring landscape of hard-cut and towering fiords, plunging into pure ice water, intricately sculpted icebergs. It's a region where polar bears, along with walrus, muskox, caribou and wolves can still be seen roaming in their natural environment. You will sail North from the tiny Inuit community of Qikiqtarjuaq, where polar bears are spotted all summer long, to Pond Inlet, tucking inside the endless fiord systems for up-close experiences with some of the most exotic wildlife on Earth.
Antarctica: The Ice Continent: Once past the legendary Drake Passage, sail through the breathtaking Antarctic Peninsula and the historically rich South Shetland Islands. Get up-close to literally thousands of friendly penguins, and carve off pieces of towering icebergs and glaciers for your afternoon cocktail. You are one of very few who have ever explored the magical Iceworld.
Mini-Trips from the Yacht: Our commitment is to design for you the best experiences the Arctic and Antarctic has to offer. Therefore, in addition to the overall yacht itinerary, we recommend adding overnight or multi-day trips to your voyage. Here are a few of these "vacations within a vacation" we have done in the past:
Greenland Ice Cap Caving, Kayaking and DivingThe Greenland Ice Cap covers roughly 80% of Greenland, and 1,710,000 square kilometres (660,235 sq mi). Within this icescape are enormous glacial caves, some 90 metres (300ft) deep. We've partnered with the world's leading ice-cavers to take us spelunking deep inside these massive caves, near Sondrestromfiord and Illulissat (Greenland's Arctic Circle region.) The cap also features twisting, pure, bright blue, glacial rivers and deep glacial lakes which provide an exhilarating new place to kayak and dive.
Soper River Raft Trip
The Soper River connects Frobisher Bay to the quaint Inuit community of Kimmirut, on southern Baffin Island. The Soper River Valley with its own micro-climate, is a beautiful lush valley which provides food, vegetation and shelter for wolves, caribou, Arctic hare and other Arctic wildlife. During your 4-day intermediate rafting trip, see caribou herds along the scenic rolling tundra covered in colourful wildflowers, pass through both white-water rapids and lazy, slow-moving sections and view gorgeous 2000 foot waterfalls multiple times a day. Spectacular hikes follow caribou trails and a landscape resembling Scotland. Near the end of the journey catch Arctic char and cook it over the fire. This is one of the best mid-level canoe trips in the world.
Hike Mt. BarbeauA vigorous hiking expedition high above the Arctic Circle in the most northerly National Park in the world – Quttinirpaaq National Park. We'll explore Ellesmere Island's rugged natural environment of glaciers, ice shelves and deeply incised fiords, as we journey to Mt Barbeau – the highest peak in the Canadian Arctic islands at 2732m (8965ft) – which we will summit, just 550 miles from the North Pole. The total trip, including the 4-day ascent and 2-day descent, and travel to and from the Park, will be 9 days.


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Silver City Brewery, located in Bremerton, will be celebrating their 15-year anniversary this September in two events – one at their own brewery, and another at Naked City in Greenwood (8564 Greenwood Ave N).
"We really wanted to present the opportunity for our friends and fans on both sides of the Puget Sound to join us in celebration of our 15 years. That's why we decided to do two celebrations," said Kurt Larson, Director of Marketing for Silver City.
The Naked City event will take place Tuesday, September 6th beginning at 6pm and will feature 15 Silver City beers on tap to celebrate the 15 years in business. Here's the full lineup for the evening:
- Ridgetop Red Ale
- Clear Creek Pale Ale
- Bavarian Hefeweizen
- Panther Lake Porter
- Indianola IPA
- Whoop Pass Double IPA
- Fat Scotch Ale
- Fat Woody Scotch Ale
- Ziggy Zoggy Summer Lager
- Oktoberfest
- Prima Donna Belgian Blonde
- Katy (Saison)
- Winter Bock
- Copper Mountain Bock
- Bier de Strong (a Bier de Garde)
Silver City was founded in 1996 by Steve & Scott Houmes. Last year, they opened a new production facility in Bremerton, which will soon include a retail and tasting room. Their beers have won more than 50 awards.
I'm looking forward to another Prima Donna blonde – what's your favorite Silver City beer?


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Historians today are only coming
to understand the complex and sophisticated individual that was Joseph
Stalin, who ruled Russia for nearly thirty years until his death in
1953. Much of the information shedding light on the character of the
dictator is being unearthed from the archives of the Soviet Union,
opened in the 1990s after the collapse of Communism, and which is the
source material for a series of some 25 books titled The Annals of
Communism, published by Yale University Press. Now Jonathan Brent,
former editorial director of the Press, has written a companion "Inside
The Stalin Archives" to help get at what he terms is "a true
understanding of one of the giant phenomena of the 20th
century" that was Soviet Communism.
Brent said in an interview with host Lawrence Velvel on the television show Books of our Time, produced by the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, that understanding the archives is vital not only for political and educational reasons but for "the moral education of our children and of future generations." Even during the height of the Cold War, Brent says, the West did not recognize "the true dimensions of the system that was being fought by the United States." It was "a system that attempted to define everything in your life, from the toothbrush you used, to the wife you married, to the children you had, to the profession you had, and to your belief system in general." Brent asserts that Soviet Communism "was successful to a greater extent than we understood, which is why today Russia is returning in many respects to that world that we thought collapsed in 1991."
To begin with, people err who
dismiss Stalin as some sort of paranoid madman. The man was not a
criminal who personally beat, tortured, or shot people, even if he was
responsible for the deaths of millions of human beings. He didn't,
himself, torture people, not like Ivan the Terrible who threw people
out the window, who killed his own son. He was a highly
functional individual who was also a man of simple tastes and the father
of three children "who did not believe that he was constrained by any
moral law, because all moral laws were relative to him," Brent says.
Stalin would never criticize things on the basis that they were bad or
approve them because they were good.
"He would never use the word 'kind,'" Brent says. "He would never use any of those words that are in our moral vocabulary. He had no moral vocabulary. If he wanted to denounce you, he would say you were an opportunist, or a deviationist. He wouldn't denounce you on the grounds you're a bad person because you broke a moral code." Those denounced were accused of breaking a code of discipline of the Communist Party. In the world that he constructed, he was "utterly rationalistic," Brent says. "You could say that Stalin was blind to pragmatic solutions to a problem, which would from time to time be brought to him, and the people who brought (the solutions) to him would normally be shot," the historian said. Where the U.S. today has many institutions that help disperse power by breaking it up into bits and pieces "that keeps us sane," Soviet society concentrated its power all in one place, so that it was "monstrous and utterly horrendous---murderous."
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Stalin even arrested the wives of his closest associates, including General Alexander Poskrebyshev, the personal secretary who made his appointments and was a keynoter at Communist Party conventions. Stalin had the general's wife, Bronislava, arrested in 1931 and ordered her execution ten years later. When Poskrebyshev learned his wife had been arrested, he threw himself at Stalin's knees, saying, "Comrade Stalin, this is clearly a mistake. My wife is a decent person, a loyal Communist, a devoted member of the Party. Please, I beg of you, bring her home." To which Stalin replied, "Get up, we'll find you another wife." In 1948, Stalin also ordered the arrest for "treason" of Polina, the Jewish wife of his powerful deputy Vyacheslav Molotov, and had her sent into exile. (The woman was only rehabilitated after Stalin's death five years later.) Thus, wives could be held hostage to ensure the loyalty of Stalin's intimates. Over time, many of Stalin's closest associates and/or their family members suffered as the result of Stalin's cruelty.
Thus, when Stalin's principal intimates feared once the dictator got the hydrogen bomb he would initiate a pre-emptive strike against the United States, they may have had personal reasons as well as political ones to decide he must be eliminated. There were few families untouched and there was literally no individual in the vast Soviet Union who was not in danger. Brent believes Laverentiy Beria, who headed the KGB secret police during WWII and later Soviet nuclear bomb development, and Nikita Khrushchev, the boss of the Ukraine province, "developed a way of poisoning Stalin in his dacha" to get rid of him.
According to Brent, Stalin was intent on showing the U.S. planned a first strike against Russia and planned to break this headline to coincide with the release of news about a sensational "doctors plot" against his life. Because Israel then was showing itself a firm ally of America, Stalin decided to define the alleged plot as one by Jewish doctors even though Brent says only one of the group of nine doctors arrested was Jewish and she was a technician. "The two things would have come to a head at exactly the same time. The doctors were in league with America, Soviet intelligence was in league with America, and America was planning to invade the Soviet Union using nuclear weapons."Immediately after Stalin's death on March 5, 1953, at the age of 75, Beria and Khrushchev repudiated the doctors' plot and rehabilitated all the physicians within three months. At the same time, the KGB sent "all kinds of signals" to U.S. President Eisenhower "that they want to back away from confrontation," Brent said, adding, "The world didn't know that it was on the brink (of nuclear confrontation) in 1953." The world thought the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was the first such East-West showdown.
Despite the trumpeted Jewish doctors' plot, Stalin was not necessarily anti-Semitic, Brent says. In May, 1939, he arrested the famous Jewish writer Isaac Babel and had him executed eight months later. This, however, was not because Babel was Jewish per se, but rather because Stalin could use him to send a message to Hitler "that he knows what to do with Jews," Brent says. It also served to send a message his Politburo "about how he is going to deal with the problems of Germany and the Jews." Babel's execution served a "useful purpose" in Stalin's mind. Similarly, Stalin demoted Maxim Litvinov, a Jew, in May, 1939, not for anti-Semitic reasons but because he would not have a Jew negotiating with Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. And when Stalin replaced Litvinov with Molotov, he used the fact that Molotov's wife was Jewish to tease him as "Molotstein." Later, when Stalin had Molotov's wife purged from the Central Committee, Molotov was so fearful that he did not vote against the motion but only abstained.
Even despite Stalin's crimes, "the horror, the terror, despite everything, this is a country that believes so strongly in this idea of the great socialist Russian state that it is willing to have pictures of Stalin on boxes of chocolate being sold in Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow right now," Brent says. As one KGB (secret police) general told him, Stalin was "a monster but he pulled Russia up." And that is the mindset of countless Russians today who claim Stalin gave Russia "dignity" and the ability to be on a par with Western nations. As Stalin wrote to author Maxim Gorky in 1928, "There will be no more beggarly Russia, that's over with. There will be a vanguard Russia based on socialist principles." Brent says it was this dream "that ignited the country. They wanted to get out of the mud. They wanted to get out of the unbelievable poverty of their lives…and this was the way to do it. And it was a great nation that was originally founded entirely on socialist principles." Under Stalin, the Russians started building airplanes, dams and modern apartment buildings. "The fact that the dams were often the result of slave labor, the fact that the workers were being treated just as badly as proletariats in England or the United States or Germany or France in the 19th Century never occurred to anybody," Brent says. "What Soviet citizens saw was that this land that had formerly been a land of slaves under the absolute power of the Tsar was now a land that they all owned. And they envisioned great miracles ahead." Without a moral compass, Stalin did not empathize with the millions who died of famine as he collectivized the peasants' plots and forced them to take industrial jobs in the cities. This led to "a tremendous upsurge in productivity" in Russia at a time when the rest of the Western world was mired in the Great Depression. When famine struck the Ukraine in 1932 he sealed the province off from foreign aid and "pulled resources out" to ensure the starvation of 5-million people so that he could seize control of their land and collectivize their farms, Brent says. Collectivization also enabled Stalin to force most of the surviving peasantry into the cities where they would largely find work in the factories of the newly industrialized Soviet Union. Stalin also destroyed the Church so he could eliminate a competing power center. As well, he held a whip-hand over artists in order to control the nation's culture.
Stalin pushed industrialization because he recognized early on that a rearmed Germany would be a threat for Russia. Even though he had long cast wary eyes at the resurgence of German militarism under Adolph Hitler he nevertheless continued to sell Hitler critical raw materials and oil and allowed Nazi officers to train with his troops on Soviet soil. The KGB heaped extraordinary piles of documentation on Stalin's desk warning him of the impending Nazi strike but Stalin produced a letter from Hitler pledging he would never attack Russia and, incredibly, believed what Hitler wrote. Stalin's fundamental errors of judgment and lack of preparation were so great that when Hitler did strike on June 22, 1941, his panzers pushed deep into Russian soil, took Kiev and Kharkov in the Ukraine and were shortly pounding on the gates of Leningrad and Moscow. Unfortunately for Russia, Brent says, in The Great Terror Stalin had "eliminated almost every ranking officer" and took personal control of the Army, which he badly overextended. He pushed its defensive line to the far western Ukrainian border with Poland but did not build sufficient emplacements for guns, tanks, and soldiers, and had inadequate lines of supply to their positions, Brent says. Because of this, as well as the performance of his depleted officer corps, Hitler's forces steamrollered through Russia's western defenses and captured tens of millions of people whom the Red Army could not protect.
One of the remarkable findings of "Inside The Stalin Archives" is Brent's discovery that Stalin, a man who wrote no memoirs, was in the habit of expressing his views on the books he was reading by writing extensively in the margins. Examining Stalin's copy of Leon Trotsky's History of the Bolshevik Revolution, Brent found in Stalin's handwriting in the margins--phrases such as "this is not true, maybe this is true," and so on and so forth all the way through. At the top of some pages, Stalin wrote 'lie, liar, betrayer.' And then with his big blue pencil, he would just cross out of the book what Trotsky was saying." Pointing out that Stalin had no intimate friend to whom he confided his deepest thoughts and no lover to whom he wrote love letters, Stalin's notations reveal who the man was "in the quiet of his own study at 4 a.m. when nobody is looking; we can see how his mind is working," Brent says. Trotsky was Stalin's hated enemy but Stalin nevertheless read Trotsky's book because "he wanted to know what his hated enemy was thinking."
Stalin recognized that he was a living symbol of the Great State he was endeavoring to create. When his dissolute son, Vasily, terrorized his teachers and schoolmates by saying, "I'm Stalin, you can't do that to me," Brent says his fed up father grabbed him and said, "Listen, you are not Stalin. Even I am not Stalin. Stalin is Soviet power. Stalin is what is written about in the newspapers and what is in the portraits." This illustrates that Stalin recognized that he "was greater than himself" and that his power was "transpersonal."Actually, Brent goes on to say, Stalin was "in some ways rather ascetic, but he wasn't overly ascetic, not a Robespierre." However, he understood that this other Stalin had to represent something---the larger-than-life Stalin that was on the blimps flying over Red Square and pictured on the airplanes. Brent believes, "That was the embodiment of power, the capstone of power, and that kept the country under control."
Stalin's methods have not gone unnoticed by his successors in the Kremlin. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin today copies Stalin's tactic of allowing corruption to flourish by ridding Russia of wealthy oligarchs and seizing their property for the state. He's "abetting corruption" because he knows that "weakens the rule of law, and the weaker the rule of law is, the stronger is the government," says Brent. Business executives who enriched themselves through their crony capitalist ties in recent years are being demolished by the "very Stalinist tactic" in which Putin informs his subordinates, "Now, I'm not telling you 'No man, no problem' but somehow, you know that's what I need and so you do the dirty work for me, and somehow I reward you for it," Brent says. "Nobody sees it, nobody knows it, but you understand it, I understand it." One entrepreneurial capitalist toppled was Mikhail Khodorkovsky---formerly Russia's richest man because of his holdings in oil company Yukos. He was arrested in 2003 on fraud charges and sentenced to eight years' in prison. With him out of the way, the Russian government could auction off the Yukos production unit Yuganskneftegas. And like Stalin before him, Putin attempts to suppress any publication that is critical of the government. Brent recalled that Putin came down "very hard" on a professor who wrote that the Soviet army had occupied Lithuania for six months prior to the outbreak of World War II when the Moscow line was that the army had liberated it. "In fact, there is a new law…by the (Dmitry) Medvedev government concerning the falsification of history," Brent noted, "so if you produce such a book arguing that the Soviet army had occupied Lithuania…you would be sued in a court of law today in Russia." Putin's use of Stalinist tactics fits in with the resurgence of Bolshevik nationalism Brent says that is "a very, very powerful force in the minds of people in Russia today, so that the rehabilitation of Stalin that you're seeing on the street corners of Moscow and all of the provincial cities in Russia is connected to their deep seated and utterly unsatisfied need to see the realization of those dreams." If only for this reason, understanding Stalin's mind is essential to understanding much of what occurs in Russia today.
Brent was interviewed by Lawrence Velvel, dean and cofounder of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, a law school purposefully dedicated to providing a quality, affordable legal education to students from minority, immigrant, and low-income backgrounds who would otherwise be unable to afford a legal education. Sherwood Ross is a media consultant to the law school. Reach him at email@example.com .
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