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By DAN KARELL
Much has been made recently about the decline in viewers of regular season Major League Soccer matches on National TV, but according to the Sports Business Journal, MLS has a long way to go before it breaks into the living rooms of your average American.
Though this season's numbers weren't aided by being scheduled alongside the European Championships like in 2012 or the World Cup in 2010, the SBJ says in a report that regular season Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) games on national television earned higher viewership on average than MLS games.
The SBJ says that MLS' average numbers on ESPN/ESPN2 (220,000) and NBC Sports Network (112,000) were lower than NCAA Softball games, IndyCar races, the X Games, and even the Solheim Cup, an international golf tournament that was televised last August on the Golf Channel. The SBJ points out that due to soccer's traditional weekend schedule, their games were primarily outside of the primetime hours while the WNBA games were normally during the week in primetime.
In June, MLS hired Television veteran Gary Stevenson from the Pac-12 Networks to be president & managing director of MLS Business Ventures. It's thought that the hiring was to help MLS renegotiate their national television deals, which all end following the 2014 season. Currently the league has deals with ESPN (eight years, $64 million from 2006) NBC (three years, $30 million from 2011), and Univision (eight years, $80 million from 2006) for U.S. broadcasts, and MP & Silva for international broadcasts.
The SBJ reported last August that this fall, MLS would begin talks with their television partners over new deals starting in 2015.
What do you think of this report? Surprised at the numbers? Do you believe that the World Cup next summer can give the league a boost in ratings?
Share your thoughts below.
the original jb
This comes as no surprise to me and is a result of the horrible scheduling. I am more than a casual soccer fan and have wanted all season to try and catch more MLS matches, and have largely failed. Why? I am not going to pay an extra fee for MLS live or whatever mostly because I don't have time to watch enough to make it worth it. Like everyone else says, it's hard to figure out when a match is actually on, and when it is, it is usually a crappy team like DC (sorry DC fans). And the most irritating thing for me on the east coast is that the more exciting teams in the west (RSL, galaxy, seattle, Portland) have games that don't start until 10 or 11pm! I am not in college anymore and simply cant stay up that late.
1. flex scheduling
2. pick a consistent timeslot
3. start the west coast games earlier – I know this may annoy hardcore fans who go to these games but if we want the league to grow you HAVE to get these better teams on tv where the entire country can watch!
I have MLS Live and I'd add that having it is still not a 100% guarantee you can watch every game. Games that are natonally broadcast are blacked out from MLS Live. That is all well and good for games on NBC and for most people its all well and good if its on ESPN as well. However I'm not sure NBCSC is part of a basic cable package and Univision steals about one game a week which can then only be seen in Spanish even when you have MLS Live due to the blackout. Not very cool.
Gary Page
I have the Direct TV sports package and even without the MLS package I can watch at least about 3 MLS games a weekend. What with the games from Europe, I could be watching 60 to 70 hours a week of soccer. As big a a soccer fan as I am, even I get tired of it sometimes.
Also, this ignores ESPN Deportes figures which would easily tip the scales in favor of MLS. Unimas average was 229,000 for the year.
Pretty much everything people have posted contributes to the low numbers but my guess is the main cause is lack of a consistent schedule. If they picked a time slot and always had 1 or 2 games on Saturday after the last BPL match came on I'd watch both, no question. As is games can be at a number of times and days and I'm not sure there is a guarantee that there will even be one nationally aired game each week (that isn't on Univision at least; sorry no habla espanol).
I'm sure its not an easy problem to fix because of the networks wanting to air other sports on weekends during the day and due to scheduling conflicts in stadiums but it really needs to get fixed to allow people who aren't completely hardcore MLS fans (and how to become a hardcore fan without starting out as a casual one) or who aren't living in an MLS market to catch regular games easily.
Mike R
WNBA is crapola and those women are hideous !!
The again watching MLS hack a man is crapola compared to most other leagues.
I support my local team out of love of soccer but can't bring myself to watch the hack a man unimagintive league with low skilled players when other teams are playing. Heck I really don't even enjoy my teams games.
Playing a nicer styles and having more skilled players will lead to better viewership. Expanded the league to where the talent is so watered down and hacks can still find a place in a starting lineup will not help
The major problem no one seems to consider is the fact that TV viewership is all about fans in other cities caring enough to watch other teams, or for people in cities without MLS attach to an MLS team somewhere else. Getting supporters from other parts of the country for the teams seems to be a high priority.
I agree about the problem of caring about other teams and games other than my own home team. It is one of the reasons I don't like the 3 games in one's conference and only one against the other. If we played each team home and away, we would build up favorites and hated opponents. We would also care about all the other games being played, but when it is mostly (3 to 1)intraconference games, we don't care about or watch games in the other conference since they only rarely affect our situation in the conference standings. Unfortunately, the growth in the teams to 24 precludes the two (home-away) approach. I hope that at least, we will home-away in the conference and 1 game against all of the other conference. Hope they do not go for a three or four division situation which would make it a lot worse.
Tru dat. All 30k fans in Seattle are already at the stadium.
nobody home to watch
Lack of consistent schedule and the difficultly of local broadcasts. Are the KC games widely available in Missouri / Kansas? Can Salt Lake be seen through all of Utah? Still, people read too much into this. The fact is the NBA gets to go to bat for the WNBA, especially concerning TV interests. MLS does not have a larger, more powerful entity helping them.
It's not only WNBA.
"The SBJ says that MLS' average numbers on ESPN/ESPN2 (220,000) and NBC Sports Network (112,000) were lower than NCAA Softball games, IndyCar races, the X Games, and even the Solheim Cup, an international golf tournament that was televised last August on the Golf Channel."
My guess is that since MLS games are not on TV not so many people watch it.
Kingsly Alexander
God ppl, there's a job to be done you know. I DVR every televised match, whether I intend to watch it or not. If I don't watch I delete, but it counts the same.
Get to it!
unless you have a Nielson box or whatever, it does not matter.
As Bryan said you need to be a "Nielson Family" and I'm pretty sure Nielson has a second, less lucrative category for time shifted viewing (as opposed to watching as it airs) and even then it only counts shows that are watched within 3 days of the air date so all those ones you didn't get to watching wouldn't count.
Too many MLS fans treat the league like a charity. MLS has a bunch of billionaire owners who, unlike their Euro counterparts, are unwilling to take the risk of relegation in their investment. The league is (like the bad old NASL) increasingly reliant on expansion fees to make ends meet. In the big markets, MLS is an afterthought at best (does anyone doubt that LAG or NYRB aren't the most popular soccer clubs in their local markets?). The small markets clubs (sometimes) have great atmosphere and attendance but little outside appeal.
I'm a neutral soccer fan. I want to follow MLS. It's as though the league goes out of its way to turn me off. The model is there in the Bundesliga and J-League for a successful league. Play fall-spring; take a winter break; have secure finances but focus on player development; consistent scheduling; and take your domestic cup competition seriously.
Set aside pro/rel (I think it's the one thing that would draw in otherwise uncommitted fans, but I digress). For one year, let's get back to balanced schedule; let's try single-table. Let's try fall-spring with a winter break (Heck, just follow the German schedule exactly, including when they play DFB-Pokal games). Let's get a consistent tv schedule going (maybe a Friday night marquee game; Saturday afternoon games in NFL markets; Sunday afternoon games in non-NFL markets?). Just a thought.
spot on. I think there are so many soccer fans in the US that think like this. The problem is whenever someone says something this they get called a "euro snob" by MLS homers.
It's definitely better to see this tan someone saying "Mickey Mouse League" without any explanation. If you are not watching now, I don't understand why a switch to Fall-Spring will make you watch? This can't possibly be a turn-off. Consistent scheduling – I agree. Single table just doesn't work in US and you definitely can't make it work with 20+ teams that we will have shortly.
calling MLS a mickey mouse league is not an argument. I agree. But saying "single table just doesn't work in the US" is also not an argument.
I don't think its just one thing that turns soccer fans off of MLS. It's not just the schedule. It's the accumulation of everything. I've tried to get into MLS but I can't.And I talk to a lot of soccer fans (I'm involved in my local American Outlaws charter) and the complaints about the league are not just "if they would only do X then I would watch." it's the accumulation of everything: parity that harms the quality, salary cap that harms the quality, lack of free agency that would bring interest to the off-season, drafts, pointless regular season, playoffs, unwillingness to implement a long term plan for promotion/relegation (99% of soccer leagues on the planet have it), discovery claims, bad scheduling. The list goes on and on.
Soccer fans are tuning out the league. Do you want to know why?
It's not unreasonable. However, I am pretty sure that if you or one of your AO brothers sat down with someone who follows MLS as closely as I do and took the time to discuss all these things, you would realize that there are valid reasons for all thins that MLS does. I may disagree with some of them, but at some point I have to also respect that there are dozens of smart people who are in charge and they know more than I do. For example, a single table with 21 teams assumes 40 games a year. It's just not doable. Average MLS team already travels about 20 times more per season than average EPL team. You can't just ignore things like this. 99% of soccer leagues in the world don't have 90% of constraints that MLS has.
Also, let's not forget that 99% of leagues in the world are pretty bad.
I don't understand why people say pro-rel will bring in viewers. That many folks burning to watch Orlando and the Cosmos get spanked around for a season?
People with reasons like 'no single table' or 'no pro-rep' as their justifications for not watching MLS are not being honest with themselves. And that's fine. I'd rather watch Bayern-Arsenal than Galaxy-Sounders any day. Who wouldn't? I confess, I don't watch a lot of MLS on TV, but I am a sth at rfk, frankly, there is too much soccer on TV, that's a good problem to have but MLS is competing with the noise from the big leagues, who frankly put on an often better show.
So it's enough right now, support your local (or favorite) club. Buy some tickets and a jersey. Watch their televised games. Watch the playoffs. (Seriously, do that) but a midweek Colorado-New England game? Eh.
single table might be more difficult now that they are going over 20 teams. But they never should have gone over 20 teams.
People have crunched the numbers on travel with balanced schedule vs unbalanced and if you double up games, meaning a road trips of a saturday game vs LA and Wed vs Chivas (and did this with other cities) you would be adding roughly 4k miles to travel depending on the team.
Parity and salary cap are only bad because the league is small. If you support the league now so that it grows parity could be great.
I still always envision MLS more like other US leagues than Euro Leagues. You get 32 teams with $50million+ payrolls and the league could be great. All of a sudden a lot of the top players are here playing.
The problem is it takes time and patience. Americans want a great league now but they don't want to support it now while it isn't as good as the Euro Leagues. The problem is if you don't support it now it never becomes great because you aren't going to get the owners to operate at a loss forever. If we as fans want a league here, we have to invest in it, and one of the ways we do that is by watching them on TV.
I think euor-noob or euro-pouser is much much more apt.
Ali Dia
At first this made me wince with embarrassment but it wore off after about a minute. MLS is so clearly moving in the right direction, it's actually good (in a weird way) to know that there is there is so much upside left if they can just take advantage of it. With a World Cup on the horizon (in our time zone, for the first and last time in a while), here's hoping they can leverage what they have and make another big step.
I have been supporting soccer in this country since 1974 when the NASL came to San Jose. I have all kinds of ideas on why MLS doesn't get TV ratings, but I would love to see somebody really ask people why they don't watch. MLS has to have conducted some focus groups and it would be nice to see some actual data.
I do agree with the point that having more names that the casual fan can identify with would make a lot of difference. Since Messi or Ronaldo are not coming here, this will need to come from young US and Mexican players who we develop. Even if MLS went out and started bidding for players that command ridiculous pay packages in Europe-how many extra tickets would say Gareth Bale or Vincent Kompany actually sell here? If the league had to start raising prices to EPL levels to pay for this spending spree, how many of the people who attend MLS now would still be able to pay for these elevated ticket prices? TV Sports is a star driven game, either talent or scandal created, and this can be seen by the teams and players that are always on national telecasts in the other sports. MLS just does not have the star power to compete and may never have it.
I am a Dynamo season ticket holder and have noticed that there is a much better understanding in the community about MLS and the Dynamo today than there was in 2006 when they arrived. This increased awareness, however, has not translated into a lot of people taking the next step and either paying to attend a Dynamo game or watching them on TV at home. The attendance at the midweek play in game against Montreal was pathetic. There were a million excuses offered, but if it were an Astros or Rockets playoff game people would have figured out how to make it to the stadium or arena. The fundamental issue is that MLS, and soccer for that matter, is just not that popular in many parts of the country. Spectators may attend once to see what it is all about, but there is little staying power. As for TV, I personally think a part of the issue has to do with the types of people who are attracted to MLS. A lot of the fans are young and many don't even have cable or satellite TV packages. Many times when they watch games they are in bars or restaurants or with a crowd at a friends house. A lot of them do not really focus on English language media either.
I personally think that MLS needs to spend most of their time and money capturing these kinds of audiences in the future. Trying to measure the success of MLS on the same playing field as the NFL, MLB or even the WNBA is a losing game.
I personally think this will take another generation and I am not talking about the sport of the future nonsense. I am not sure I will be alive to see it, but I believe the league will make it in a fairly big way eventually in a very different way than measured today.
This is an MLS problem, not a soccer problem. I'd bet that the average liga mx game gets more viewer than the average nhl game.
You are right on both counts. Now what? Does it mean that this is not a problem worth discussing?
You bring a dozen Mexican national team (past and present) players to MLS.
been done before
its about authenticity. MLS lacks it. People don't like the single entity model.
At the end of the day, it's about the level of play I think. That's one clear area for improvement. I think eveyrthing else is an excuse
Do fans really care about "single entity" as a reason not to watch a game on TV? People watch a sport because they are fans of the sport or they are emotionally connected to a team. Americans will watch sports they don't really understand if there is some national team angle (Olympic water polo anyone?)
Either the league doesn't have the quality/entertainment value to attract soccer fans or there isn't enough local/league interest to get more casual fans to watch. You can see things like single entity or the draft or the lack of free agency as holding back the quality, but I don't think most people say that the business model or even the competitive model is the *primary* reason they don't watch.
i don't think its one thing. It's just just single entity even though it turns off a lot of people. It's everything MLS does that is different that turns people off.
American soccer fans are tuning out the league. We know that much
Scott e Dio93
mexicans will never support MLS.
Luis Hernandez piss-off Centrel Americans that supported Galaxy, there was a drop in the Rose Bowl, and Galaxy had less fans.
Ok guys this news today is a cold splash of reality. Look MLS is in a tough spot one that I don't think they can fix any time soon. Americans unlike the rest of the world have no loyalty to (Professional) teams that A stink or B aren't talented which is mostly one in the same. The NFL has the best players for its sport in the world, so does the NHL, NBA, BASEBALL, GOLF, and even the WNBA. What you guys want is for Americans to ignore their eyes and watch anyway and most will not do that its even hard for me. And no college sports don't count because they aren't seen as the highest level of their sports and a lot of people don't watch them because of that anyway. The problem is that when Don Garber spoke about to much soccer on TV, in my opinion he knew the more soccer on TV the harder it would be on MLS. Not because casual people cant watch MLS its because they won't want to. Most casual Americans taste of soccer comes from two events, the Champions League final and the World Cup and so when they watch MLS they are expecting to see that skill and when they don't they tune out. Now with more high level soccer on TV now its just going to make MLS seem less and less appealing. And another thing stop boasting about attendance, its worth nothing in the grand scheme of things. If you asked any owner of any sport would you rather have 40k at the game and 200k watching on tv or 20k and 2mil watching he is taking the eye balls on the tv. That's where your money is, more money better players, better players more people watch, more people watch, more money and the cycle continues. So Seattle getting 35k means nothing really since nobody is watching it on tv. Nascar is another sport going threw a rough time, they still get a lot of people in the stands but TV numbers are down and they are losing money. In the end you have to have a good balance of both but if you had to choose you take the people watching over people in the stands. It takes time, but with so many options in this country MLS may not get to where people want it to be anytime soon. So instead of freaking out about this news just accept this is where MLS in the pecking order and enjoy it for what it is. That's what all other niche sports in the country have to do.
Mike R
WNBA is the top and best women basketball league in the world.
The NBA is the best basketball league in the world
The NFL is the best Football league in the world
NHL is the best hockey league in the world…..
MLS is minor league soccer compared to Premiership,
La liga, and serie A.
Mexican league soccer would be the equivelant of AAA baseball and
MLS would be AA. Therin lies the problem
no, that's not the problem
Soccer is way more popular than woman's basketball. You should be able to get a TV audience. MLS is just not connecting with the majority of American soccer fans.
Karl J
Time to pull the plug on this farce. If after 18 years you cannot attract more viewers than college softball then it wasn't meant to be.
Thanks to FIFA for forcing us to create this league but we're going to stick with football and basketball from now on.
oh please…
soccer is getting more and more popular in the U.S. It's the way that MLS is structured that turns people off.
Adam M.
To be clear, the ONLY thing the WNBA/MLS comparison proves is that more people watch tv during prime time hours when WNBA games are on than off-peak hours when MLS games are on. In fact, MLS is only a few thousand viewers shy of WNBA on ESPN DESPITE the non-peak hours. The report strongly suggests that MLS games during prime time would generally do much better than WNBA. It also suggests that MLS isn't maximizing its tv potential with its current schuedule (and that NBCSports needs time to move viewers to its new network). The report does NOT mean that WNBA is more popular or more of a tv draw than MLS. MLS clearly has a ways to go on tv, granted, but not because of this false comparison to WNBA.
MLS only has itself to blame.
what have we been telling you MLS fans? You've alienated the majority of soccer fans in this country with your constant "euro snob" BS anytime someone suggests changing something in MLS.
I suppose there is some of that, but when suggested changes are showing clear lack of understanding the constraints, there is not much of a choice. Examples: relegation, single table, playing in the winter
relegation could be done if planned properly. A 10 year plan to implement pro/rel would be ambitious and exciting.
single table – nothing preventing the league from adopting a single table.
fall to spring schedule would have a winter break.
Maybe this wouldn't be true if the league & networks would put the entertaining matches on TV instead of assuming that large market means greater viewership. Check out this tweet from John Ourand.
Of course, if more teams played entertaining football we'd have more entertaining matches.
the problem for MLS is that the majority of Americans are learning about the game of soccer through the Premier League. And then they look at the MLS with its conferences, playoffs, single entity, no free agency, franchises, no pro/rel, discovery claims, drafts(lol), salary caps and it just looks like a gimmick league. It's trying to be the NFL.
A lot of good comments here. The main point is that the league needs to get a time slot and stick with it. Soccer is an unusual sport in that as players get older they become fans but continue to play the sport meaning that you are either playing Sat or Sun morning. And if your no longer playing you are driving your kid to their youth game. I cannot think of many guys in their 20's and 30's who are playing hardball or tackle Football but I know a lot of guys in that age bracket who still enjoy playing Soccer. think the best time slot is Fri night 9:00pm ET. Yes it will be difficult for the fans in the West coast to attend but they are by far the most loyal fans today. Fri @ 9:00 does not conflict with any other major sport. It allows the 14 to 32 year olds to watch and then the 21 year olds and older can head out to the bars and have something to talk about. "Hey did you catch that Portland-Red Bulls game?" It allows for the older fans to turn in for the night to wake up early to take their kids to the Sat morning youth game. ESPN came out with an article on Sept 20th that pronounced soccer as America's second-most popular sport for those age 12-24. The league needs to capture this demographic and grow with them.
One thing that has not been mentioned and that is the quality of TV production namely the number of cameras picking up different views of the game. For example their are things that Nagbe does on the field that are not captured very well when watching the game in panorama sometimes you need the tight up close view and right now the production values are not there. The one thing I give the Premiere League credit for is good production value in televising the game which means having a lot of cameras on the field in comparison to the other major European leagues. Just like the best way to learn soccer is to simply play one of many ways to capture fans is to have good TV production.
I am not worried. Stadiums are getting packed, academies are producing talent, league is expanding. It isn't great, but they will figure the TV thing out.
the old NASL expanded to 24 teams. They had great attendance. During the peak years they were getting better than MLS gets now.
The old NASL also got better TV ratings than MLS does now. But there were fewer channels back then and they got on to network TV.
You said stadiums are getting packed. I disagree. I go to a few LAG games a year and they are maybe 3/4 full. I went to a Chivas game and it was really sad…didn't even look like 5k had showed up. People will say "yeah, that's just Chivas," but they are one of the teams in the top tier. There's no relegation rule to get rid of them.
in America revenues come from TV. Until MLS can get a TV audience they haven't really made it. Getting beat by the WNBA is shocking.
Panic! Everybody panic! Ignore the fact that average attendance is one of the highest in the world among soccer leagues! This will never translate to TV viewership!
Also, why is there a "but" in the first sentence of the post, and a "[t]hough" in the second? Those ideas are all complementary, not contrasting…
Is it really a surprise? MLS ratings have always sucked, soccer fans don't care about forced parity leagues with 3 million salary caps. HEll even Comsos Classics on SNY in NY got higher ratings than a live Red Bull gae on MSG inthe same time slot.
forced parity, no free agency, the whole single entity gimmick, drafts..what a mess. This is what happens when ex-NFL goobers try to run a soccer league. I have to suppress a gag reflex to follow MLS. And I think most American soccer fans feel the same.
We have the proof now. What us "euro snobs" have been saying all along. American soccer fans have rejected MLS. WNBA gets better TV ratings. That's all you have to say to the MLS homer that WONT LISTEN.
Lost in all the points mentioned is the obvious one, MLS just isn't popular as a soccer league in the USA. Ratings in this country for EPL,USMNT and UEFA CL are huge…the spanish language ratings for Mexico and Liga MX are great.
No one wants to watch MLS because the league sucks. Its forced parity and watching teams play boring games against each other, with no real stars, and no real great teams…18 average teams fighting in an average league run by a commish that allows jokes like Red Bull and Manchester City to run clubs to promote other things. Lame-o
when the whole narrative of the MLS regular season is all about who is going to make the playoffs and what seed they will get, how can you expect fans to tune in to watch the games? They'll just tune in when "the games matter". Except, they aren't tuning in "when the games matter" either. Probably because by that time they have no real relationship with the league. It's games are hard to find etc. It's not like the NBA where its in your face all the time.
Also, parity is killing this league. MLS is the only soccer league on the planet that purposely makes its product worse all in the name of fairness. Yeah, the NFL does this too. But the NFL is the only American football league. So it doesn't matter what they do. They are a monopoly.
I've been saying this forever but MLS is never going to get a TV audience with the current structure of pointless regular season + playoffs. Playoffs make work in the Mexican league but there's no evidence they will work in the U.S. Most American soccer fans are watching leagues without playoffs. They are being educated and socialized into the game through Europe.
Japan gets it. They made their reforms and the J-League is skyrocketing in popularity. Does MLS get it? Does Garber? I think Garber plays it too safe. I think part of him gets it but he knows he's stuck with MLS owners who really don't have any soccer DNA.
Lets be honest, the presentation just sucks for MLS, just look at the NFL, thats a league that knows how to present a sport on television and the numbers don't lie. Announcers, Music, just the whole feeling of watching a game is superior to all sports, the NBA does it well on TNT, its not always about the game, but you need to be entertained in the process, beyond the game itself. MLS lacks in this aspect and local coverage of games are just pathetic, even though it has gotten somewhat better in Los Angeles with the Galaxy, its still lacks that feeling.
I disagree. It's all about the game. Sports is not entertainment. It's sports. If a soccer match is not about the game then what is it about?
ESPN, NBC Sports numbers are bad, so what?
The only thing that is really "mickey mouse" about the league TV coverage are the amount of blackouts for those who don't spring for DirectKick- which, as a one team fan, I absolutely have no reason to buy. It stands to reason that a large amount of people aren't riveted to the one random "match of the week" on ESPN- who do we root for? Who cares, Golf is on.
It will take time for the average number of people willing to watch that "soccer thing" on ESPN to grow, but there should be a better way to give regional areas access to THEIR team with minimal black outs. That's a better way to attract viewers to the fold than hoping for a random surge in the larger broadcast numbers. First get a solid TV fix for the local team, it's the first step out of apathy.
Leon de Collao
I haven't had the time to check other comments but I am close to 100% sure that the wnba has always had better ratings. Not sure why the surprise or "embarrassment" as some put it.
Scott e Dio93
Real money comes from TV, not gates. Many clubs in Italy and Spain have smaller crowds than MLS teams, but these Latin clubs have more spend money from TV renueve. Garber has to do changes in salary cap and changes in DP rules, avoid failure Dynamo in Champions, and changes in turf (yes, that helps draw more stars and fans). This time I am giving my viewpoint as South American and not as an American, that lives in Florida now and still loyal to Galaxy.
the truth is most American soccer fans are what MLS snobs call "euro snobs."
not suprised and stop thinking people will watch mls because the want to watch the world cup. they are not the same. Unless you want to sign all the world cup players to mls teams it doesn't matter. the only thing that matters to mls viewership is improving mls quality. Not some other tournament that's got completely different players and the greatest players in the world at that.
TV is the last or perhaps I should say one of the last pieces of the puzzle.
First, we needed individual team ownership to stabilize the league – Done
Then, we needed soccer specific stadiums so we could create an atmosphere and control scheduling – Done
Then, we needed better pay to keep and attract better quality players – better on both parts but still a work in progress
Finally we need better TV numbers – also still a work in progress.
I didn't get into MLS until 1998 when I became a season ticket holder for the Kansas City Wizards. Ugh, some of those early games were painful to watch and the attendance was pitiful. But now, just a few years later the games are much more fun to watch as the quality of play is better and with the re-branding of my local team – Sporting Kansas City – the future looks very bright indeed.
Isn't going to happen overnight folks but things are definitely going in the right direction.


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Aspiring psychiatric nurse practitioners must meet the preliminary education and training requirements for becoming an RN. This is generally done by obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree (BSN). Courses in nursing degree programs generally include pharmacology and pathophysiology basics, anatomy and physiology, patient health assessment and nursing throughout all life stages. Student nurses also perform supervised clinical rotations as part of their graduation requirements.
Success Tip:
- Complete electives in psychology and psychiatric medicine. Student nurses who plan to pursue psychiatric nursing should choose electives that feature this area of practice to acquaint them with common psychological illnesses, their diagnostics, and treatment protocols.
Step 2: Obtain State Licensure as a Registered Nurse
All states require nurses to be licensed before practicing. Most states require candidates to pass the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN) administered by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing. There may also be additional state nursing board licensure requirements. Nurses who are licensed in one state may apply for license by endorsement in another state.
Step 3: Gain Experience
Most psychiatric nurse practitioner graduate degree programs require applicants to have one to two years of clinical psychiatric nursing experience as an RN before considering them for enrollment. Nurses can gain experience through a wide variety of specialties such as geriatrics, inpatient mental health facilities, or in/outpatient practice with families, adults, or children.
Success Tip:
- Verify enrollment prerequisites. Candidates should check with the school they plan to attend to the prerequisites for enrollment. This enables them to select work opportunities that meet the admissions criteria for a particular university.
Step 4: Earn a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Master's or Doctorate Degree
Master's degree programs for psychiatric nurse practitioners generally take one-and-a-half to three years to complete, depending on the school. Students develop psychotherapy skills and learn therapeutic approaches, such as cognitive behavioral therapy, group therapy, and other therapeutic modalities. Students also learn about all aspects of the brain as it affects mental health, as well as pharmacotherapeutics, biopsychosocial assessment, and diagnostic techniques. It's important to enroll in an accredited program, because this ensures that you can meet the educational portion of licensure and certification requirements.
- Obtain a DNP or Ph.D. Although a doctorate level degree is not necessarily a requirement, many aspiring nurse practitioners choose to obtain one as it increases their employment prospects, especially for individuals interested in conducting research. According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), there is a burgeoning need for more DNPs given the shortages in health care providers who are comparable to medical doctors in their training and education.
Step 5: Become Certified as a Nurse Practitioner
After attaining a graduate degree, psychiatric nurse practitioners must earn certification by passing an exam administered by ANCC. The exam tests students' knowledge of practitioner and patient relationships, patient assessment, disease prevention, and clinical management. Nurse practitioners who are interested in psychiatry can choose to be ANCC-certified in either adult or family psychiatric and mental health. Once the candidate passes the exam, the nurse practitioner will receive his or her Family Psychiatric Mental-Health Nurse Practitioner-Board Certified or Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner-Board Certified designation (PMHNP-BC).
Success Tips:
- Maintain certification. To maintain PMHNP-BC certification, every five years a psychiatric nurse practitioner must fulfill a minimum of 75 continuing education hours from an accredited provider and perform other specified demonstrations of competence and expertise that may include publication, research, or presentations to academic courses. The nurse practitioner is also required to complete 1000 practice hours and to have maintained his or her RN license in good standing. Recertification requirements for RN licenses vary from state to state.
Step 6: Obtain a State Nurse Practitioner License
Nurse practitioners must be licensed by the state nursing board beyond their RN licenses. General requirements include having a valid RN license, graduating from an approved nurse practitioner master's degree program, and holding valid certification. Additional licensure requirements and renewal requirements vary by state.

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Having finished his breakfast, showered and redressed, Jack decided to take another walk down to the stream, to think about what he would actually say to Hannah. It had been so long, would she still feel the same way about him?, or was he still burning a candle that went out for her along time ago? Rosie barked at him, he had forgotten to take her lead off. During the day, even with cars being few and far between, and even when they did drive down the lane, it was usually to make a U turn after a wrong turning, it was still safer to keep the little lab on the lead, till they were past the blue gate.
"OK, OK!", he told the lab, who was now trying to pull the lead out of his mouth, "just a sec!, there, GO!", and with that, the little dog ran off, towards the nearest brambles, and Jack thought he heard a scared little animal running deeper in the bushes, Jack smiled as she nosily pushed her sniffing snout deeper into the thicket,
"Rosie, you BULLY!", he play snapped at her as he walked past. As they reached the familiar sight of Snow Farm, Jack thought he saw a curtain, in the main farm house, move, he watched for a minute more, to see if there was someone home, but the curtain remained still.
As Rosie bounded round the corner, she ran straight through his legs, trying to get his attention,
"What?", he asked her as she stared up at him with big brown puppy eyes, "you don't need my permission, off you go!", and he pointed towards the field. Rosie ran to the second gate, pushed herself under the stye, ran out to the valley, then ran back,
"Well, whats your problem?", Jack climbed the gate, then saw what the problem was, the entire valley was full of grazing cows,
"Their just cows, Rosie?!", Jack was slightly confused, if anything, the cows were more likely to run from Rosie, not the other way round!
Jack began walking down the steep hill, allowing the amazingly fresh air to clear his head, as he reached the halfway point, he looked down towards the stream, his mind bringing back the image of the figure he'd seen the night before, he kept tryingt o focus on the memory, but a cow a few yards ahead insisted on walking up to him, pushing its face in his, rather like Rosie did when he was laying to the living room floor,
"Oh get outta the way!", Jack snapped at the animal, pushing its large head away from his,
"Look, I'm really not interested, you stupid cow!",
"Well, all these years and thats the welcome I get!", the cow moved, and Jacks face turned red, his mouth falling open, Hannah was standing right there!
'OH MY GOD!', was the only thought going through Jacks head,
"Hannah!", he said, in a very stupid, embarressed voice, "what are you doing here?!", Hannah looked around the field, at all cattle in a 'what do you think I'm doing here' way,
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…6 years old.. Riley Dashwood didnt choose the hug life.. the hug life chose her..
Her reactions are awesome!
Riley's Dad says she became obsessed with trick shots after seeing this video posted earlier in the year..
Team Riley claim no trick photography has been used and that the key to a tight trick shot game is patience.. some of these shots took 300 times to execute.. looks pretty sweet all the makes cut together though!
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Meet Grace, thirteen year old Londoner. Her life is perfectly normal until one day her dad loses his job due to the credit crunch. Her mum isn't all that well paid so she go's to stay at her aunt Lizzie's while her parents sort things out.
Aunt Lizzie lives in a large country house. Empty. And one day Grace gets bored...


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A Space for Rebuilding More Lives
Building on our history, experience, and expertise, and after rigorous study and planning, we are establishing a unique facility that will bring all our services together, including a new day health program.
Honouring the values of excellence and compassionate care established by our founders, our new home will be a 58,000 square foot glass and brick facility, which will embrace the heritage house at the corner of Jarvis and Isabella.
The 1875 residence (once known as the "Grey Lady"), a gift by a generous and visionary donor, is being carefully renovated as part of Casey House's new home, bridging the past and the future. The new addition along Isabella Street will be a spacious, light-filled home, merging our in-patient and community outreach services with the new Day Health Program.
This new and prominent presence on a busy Toronto thoroughfare will firmly establish Casey House as a health care leader, and HIV/AIDS as a critical health care issue.
- Groundbreaking: Spring 2015
- Topping off: April 2016
- Substantial completion: December 2016
- Occupancy: Late 2016- early 2017
Features of the new facility:
- massage therapy room
- volunteer lounge
- learning and education centre
- variety of meeting rooms to accommodate client activities and community groups
- rooms for quiet time for clients and their visitors
- administrative offices
Beautiful heritage features will be restored to the mansion, once the pride of Jarvis Street.
The Victorian garden facing Jarvis Street will be stunningly landscaped, offering a peaceful place for clients and their loved ones to enjoy, and for neighbours to appreciate.
The new health care facility, embracing the Jarvis house, has been designed with clients and their needs in mind. It will comfortably meet the accessibility requirements that result from aging, reduced mobility and complex medical challenges. A central atrium will bring sunlight into all three floors and provide an oasis of calm visible through the many windows.
- The ground floor will welcome clients and visitors with an inviting living room, stone fireplace and our reception and intake offices. It will feature extensive community, education and meeting spaces, along with a large dining room to seat 100 people – many who are often malnourished – for a hot, nutritious, daily meal.
- The second floor will be home to the Day Health Program, featuring a nursing clinic, allied health services such as psychiatry and social work, group therapy and activity rooms, individual counselling rooms, observation rooms for student learning, physiotherapy and exercise studio, and an art therapy studio.
- The third floor will be home to our inpatient program, for individuals who need intensive care, post-operative care, respite, or help while getting established on or changing medication regimes. Individual rooms have ensuite washrooms. The floor will have a private kitchen, and 14 bedrooms, two of which will be reserved for respite care.
- The fourth floor, housing administration offices, will feature a conference room and a rooftop garden for clients and visitors to enjoy.
The new building will have an abundance of natural light to help with the healing process and an interior courtyard that will bring light in to all three floors. The exterior of the new building, which is designed by renowned architect Siamak Hariri, will be reminiscent of a quilt, using different materials such as reclaimed brick. This represents the memorial quilts, made by volunteers in remembrance of the people in our Casey House community who have been lost to HIV/AIDS.


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Obama lied about meeting his uncle.
The White House acknowledged Thursday that President Obama lived with his uncle for a brief period in the 1980s while he was a student at Harvard Law School -- despite previously saying there was no record of the two having met.
"The president did stay with him for a brief period of time until his apartment was ready," White House spokesman Eric Schultz said in a statement. "After that, they saw each other once every few months, but after law school they fell out of touch. The president has not seen him in 20 years, has not spoken with him in 10. "
Onyango "Omar" Obama faced a deportation hearing earlier this week following a drunk-driving arrest. During the hearing, he said that the president had lived with him while he was a student at Harvard.
The Boston Globe reported in 2012, after Omar Obama's arrest, that the White House said he had "never met his famous nephew." The White House now says it only told the Globe that there was no record of the two having met -- not definitively that they hadn't met.
In its report Thursday, the Globe confirmed that the White House initially said that there was no record that they had met. It said the White House never asked for a correction.
White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters at Thursday's White House briefing that, when the issue of Obama's uncle came up in 2011, the press office "looked at the president's records, including the president's book" and found no reference to him.


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So there I was last Saturday lunchtime, sans kids, eating asparagus in a country pub (and sorry, but as a middle-aged woman who appreciates a buttery spear at this time of year - and all the more so if accessorised by a half of Olde Speckled X-Factor - I'm not even slightly embarrassed about any part of that sentence), when who should appear in front of me, wearing jeans and wellies and scrutinising the blackboard specials, but Nicholas Bateman!
"Nicholas who?" I hear you mutter (as indeed did my luncheon companion), but for an off-duty TV critic the sight of a free-range Bateman in the "natural" environment of a rural gastropub was equivalent to a twitcher stumbling across a Golden-winged Warbler while on their way to Waitrose.
"Ha, only 'Nasty Nick', infamous star of Big Brother 1... Hello Nick!" I said cheerily, for we had met a few years ago when I had been pleasantly surprised to learn that he wasn't a psychotic loon planning to serialise his life story in OK! for all eternity. Indeed, it turns out that although still regularly asked to comment on all things Reality-related, Nick is married, lives in his home county of Kent and works mostly as a travel writer.
And though I was off-duty with a mouth full of asparagus, there were a couple of questions I should've chucked at Nick while I had the chance: does he ever regret Big Brother, and, more importantly, is he still in touch with Edie "Carmela Soprano" Falco, whom (somewhat awesomely) he briefly dated? And how ultra-bonkers does he think the world has gone since his ejection from Big Brother made the front page of every newspaper in the land, thus effectively heralding the arrival of The Age of Bonkers?
All of which brings me to Susan Boyle, who in the space of three weeks has ceased to be merely the last remaining fortysomething-year-old female in Britain ever to visit a colourist/flirt with the idea of Botox/have a picture of Cheryl Cole stuck on her fridge, and has become the poster-woman for some sort of retro-frumpy New Realism, as endorsed, rather ironically, by Demi Moore, 46, whose glorious looks may conceivably be down to more than Kabbala and a good colourist.
And, of course, the reason Susan has been dragged so speedily into the global media slipstream isn't because of telly, which, love it though I do, is just so 20th century, but because of the Twitter/YouTube nexus, itself almost inconceivable in the pre-Cambrian communications era back when Nick Bateman was public enemy No1...
I love a talent show, though it is beyond bonkers that so much fuss should a) be made about a woman who can sing beautifully while looking so dowdy, as if the two things were in any way related, and b) that the fuss should escalate to fever pitch when she decided, perfectly sensibly, to be a bit less dowdy.
However, it is less bonkers to imagine that Susan would ever have found her audience without the assistance of a format designed to help the un-Cheryls of the world; and though there may conceivably be hundreds of equally talented plain Janes littering the nation's choirs, we all know there can only ever be room for one plain middle-aged female singing superstar who may never again be able to pop into a rural pub without being harassed by, at best, the locals, at worst an off-duty TV critic. However, by the time this column is published Susan Boyle will probably have joined Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Denise Richards and co for some professional "comedy" rebranding on Will Ferrell's funnyordie.com.
Hell, I'll bet Bateman is glad he can't sing (an assumption, admittedly, but I feel as though we would already know if he could), because whether loved or loathed, 2009 is a minefield for the newborn Reality "sleb"...
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The Real Dangers of Distracted Driving
SANTA MARIA, Calif. - Eric Okerblom's life was cut short. He was home in Santa Maria from UC Berkeley, during the summer of 2009.
Eric's mom, Eilene Okerblom tells hers son's story at least 60 times a year. It's difficult for her to tell the story of how her son died, but she does it to show the very real danger of distracted driving.
"He was home on break, it was such a wonderful time in his life, he was looking forward to going back to Berkeley. He would've been leaving in about three weeks."
Eric was on a straight road in broad daylight when he was hit and killed by a distracted driver.
"He was really the kindest companionate gentle soul, what killed him was the opposite of who he was; the most mindful person," Eilene said.
On April 1st, the California Highway Patrol kicked off 'Distracted Drivers Awareness' month with Eric's story.
Coastal Division Chief Reginald Chappelle said, "We all have a choice, choosing to use our phones while driving is not worth the devastating results that follow."
Eilene said her son's story is too common. Distracted driving killed 3,328 people in 2012 and an additional 421,000 were injured.
The national distracted driving effort focuses on ways to change the behavior of drivers through legislation, enforcement, public awareness and education – the same activities that have curbed drunk driving and increased seat belt use.


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Marriage of Major Richard Lloyd George and Roberta McAlpine at Bath in England. David Lloyd George attends the wedding. Bride gets off the car. Bride and groom walk under the swords. They get into a car and leave. Soldiers stand with rifles. Other guests come out and walk. Crowd stands and watches. Soldiers march. Bride and groom walk in a garden.
A U.S. arms manufacturing in World War 1. Hundreds of workers seen at shift change, waiting for their respective trolley cars passing on tracks between arms manufacturing plant's buildings. Women at work on metal working machines in an arms factory. Racks of Browning Automatic Rifles (Rifle, Caliber .30, Automatic, Browning, M1918) are being moved about. Assemblers are seen hand fitting parts for the Browning M1917 water cooled machine gun. One man makes final assembly adjustments to one of the machine guns set up on tripod in the factory. He enjoys firing the Browning M1917 machine gun. (Note:The M1917 and M1918 BAR were manufactured by numerous American arms makers. Colt, Remington, Marlin, Royal typewriter, Winchester. Most of the M1917 machine guns were manufactured by New England Westinghouse.)
New school for kennel-maids in Haslemere, England. Girls, wearing uniforms, seated in an arc on a lawn outside a building in a school. The girls in the new school for kennel-maids. A teacher in front of them, with a dog on the table. Two girls bathing a puppy on a tub. Other girls seated around, watch. A group of girls giving food to a few dogs. The girls make the dogs eat from their bowls. Four girls, with four puppies in a basket.
Early slates allude to failed attempts at peaceful resolution of issues between Germany and England, in World War 1, and the Kaiser's consequent decision on February 1, 1917, to intensify German submarine warfare against Britain. Slate refers to Churchill's admitted concerns expressed in the "Sunday Pictorial," about the resulting constraint on England's control of the seas around the British Isles, referring to the U-boats creating a magic girdle (Magischen Gurtel) around England, which becomes the title for the film. In the first part, Captain, Lothar von Arnauld de la Periere of the German submarine UB-35, stands in a skiff as he is rowed out to his submarine. He exchanges salutes with his officers, as he boards the U-35, nestled against a German ship. He gives the order to cast off the lines and proceed half power in reverse. The crew scrambles to get underway. German sailors on the nearby ship watch from her railings. Sailors use a long pole to help move the submarine away from the ship. Officers and men on the ship wave as the U-boat pulls away. Views from the submarine deck as it moves on the surface of the water heading toward the Mediterranean Sea. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Queen Elizabeth recounts events in life of King George VI during dedication of his statue in Carleton Gardens, London, England. View of the Statue of George VI. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth standing in bombing rubble, and visiting suffering Londoners during the Blitz, in World War II. As Prince Albert, he stands with companions watching boys engaged in sports activities at a camp for boys that he established after World War I. Prince Albert in bathing suit at the beach, and participating in a group sing with campers. As the first British sovereign to enter the United States of America, king George VI, rides in an open car with President Franklin D.Roosevelt. The King is seen with British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, visiting the war zones and decorating British Colonial troops, during World War II. The Queen says "Today is Trafalgar Day."
American soldiers reach France and other European nations crossing the Atlantic Ocean during World War I. Soldiers of American Army march on Fifth Avenue in New York City and then seen boarding troop transport ships bound for France. Thousands of American soldiers crowded onto ships and transported to Europe. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson seen drawing the first draft number for World War 1 draftees in the U.S. military. Vice President Thomas Marshall seen drawing the second draft number. U.S. Navy ships and soldiers aboard during their voyage to Europe. View of female Red Cross nurses and YMCA workers posed in groups for the camera aboard ships. Soldiers in chow line receive a meal and eat it below and up on decks. A soldier holds a puppy dog from home and feeds it some of his food. The sailors aboard fire a deck guns and drop depth charges after sighting a torpedo from a German U-boat. A Y-Gun is seen firing TNT depth charges from the centerline deck of a ship to each side. Waves seen crashing over bow of ship in the transport fleet during heavy rough seas. First troops of American soldiers disembark from a transport ship at a harbor in France in June 1917. U.S. soldiers march on streets of Paris. In London, England, American soldiers are seen marching through the streets and the British monarchs and officials including the Queen Mother, King Edward, and Prime Minister Lloyd George review the marching American troops at Buckingham Palace.


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Valencian Museum of Fine Arts San Pio V
The artistic journey starts with the Valencian Primitives exhibition, which covers the 14th to the 16th centuries.
It includes works by Alcanyis, Nicolau, Jacomart and Reixac, among others. The Valencian School is well represented by Joanes, the Ribaltas, Espinosa, Vicente Lopez, Sorolla and Pinazo.
There are also paintings by Pinturicchio, Andrea del Sarto, Van Dyck, Murillo, Velazquez, El Greco and Goya. The museum has an interesting collection of contemporary art, a sculpture pavilion, and an archaeology section.


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HSBC says it's worried that UK might leave EU. So threatens to move HQ to Asia. Can anyone explain logic of that?— Andrew Neil (@afneil) April 24, 2015
Iain Dale Reads Guido's Corbyn IRA List to Diane Abbott
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HSBC says it's worried that UK might leave EU. So threatens to move HQ to Asia. Can anyone explain logic of that?— Andrew Neil (@afneil) April 24, 2015
Well worth reading in full.As he put it towards the end of his premiership: 'The British people are sensible enough to know that, even if they have a certain prejudice about Europe, they don't expect their government necessarily to share it or act upon it.'Got that? You may want something; but you secretly yearn for politicians who will ignore you. There is the authentic voice of the Euro-integrationist: smug, vain and wrong.
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3. Will foreign spouses of "jihad brides" be able to settle in the United Kingdom/become eligible for British citzenship through the various "family (re)unification" channels, or similar?2. Will children born abroad to "jihad brides" be able to settle in the United Kingdom/become eligible for British citizenship?1. Will such women be free to return to the United Kingdom whenever they please, without penalty?I would like to know the following:One of them posted a picture on Twitter of her toddler holding a Kalashnikov, describing him as "my mini mujahid". According to the Daily Mail, the father is a Swedish-born ISIS fighter: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/In recent weeks, the press have reported on "scores" of women holding British citizenship travelling to the Middle Meast, to marry fighters for groups such as ISIS.Dear Sir/Madam,re: Freedom of Information Request
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4. Will the authorities be unable to prevent entry into the United Kingdom of foreign jihadists such as the one mentioned in the above Daily Mail article, by virtue of their having EU/EEA citzenship?5. Will the authorities be unable to deport the children and/or partners of "jihad brides" who do travel to the United Kingdom, owing to the "Right to a Family Life" and related legal provisions?Yours faithfully,
|Horatio Chapple planned to follow
his parents into medicine
"Horatio Chapple, an Eton pupil, was killed by a polar bear in 2011 while on an adventure holiday. ... Troublemaker has long supported campaigning for the environment. Now we have another reason to save the polar bears."
|The EU jobs myth has been
debunked time after time
The duty-free lobby estimates that up to 100,000 jobs will be lost at ports and airports and amongst airline and ferry staff - with 30,000 jobs at risk in the UK alone. A spokeswoman for Luton airport in Bedfordshire called the decision "a major blow", arguing that 11% of the airport's total income came from duty-free. "This is likely to lead to higher costs for travel and it could hit jobs in the travel industry", she added. British Airways warned the abolition could translate into increased landing charges for airlines by about 15%.
|Hovercraft Swift meets her end at
the breaker's yard
The structures that made the City prosperous — a stable political environment, the rule of law, a measure of self-government — existed centuries before the EU was ever thought of.
|The black banner of al-Qaeda flies over rebel-controlled Raqqa
|Fighters for the National Army of Cyrenaica, which
declared autonomy from Tripoli unilaterally this March
|North Korean rallies have always been
more Red Square than Third Reich
Many see North Korea as a communist state. One year ago, [portraits of] Marx and Lenin still had pride of place [in Pyongyang's main square]. But this year, on our trip, they've gone. ... So what sort of system is this?
|The Dear Leader's true role models came from
places closer to home than Austria
[T]he form of our government should ... be fitted to the specific conditions of our country. Does our people's power have exactly the same form as in other socialist countries? No, it does not. They are alike in that they are based on Marxist-Leninist principles, but their forms are different. ... Many comrades swallow Marxism-Leninism whole, instead of digesting and assimilating it. It is therefore self-evident that they are unable to display revolutionary initiative. ... Marxism-Leninism is not a dogma, it is a guide to action and a creative theory. So, Marxism-Leninism can display its indestructible vitality only when it is applied creatively to suit the specific conditions of each country.
BNP: the patriotic labour party your greatgrandparents voted for!
— Nick Griffin MEP (@nickgriffinmep) November 4, 2012
|What happened to that "innate sense of compassion"?
|"Everything you need to celebrate the big day!"
I suspect Osborne views public sector workers and benefit claimants in much the same way as I view livestock.
[H]ave you even met any Tories? They're like a cross between Fagin & Goebbels...
I don't belong to any party, but i can draw real comparison between Conservatives & Nazi's [sic].
"The idea that Conservatives want to take Britain back to a world of the Victorian workhouse ..." is absolutely correct.
[L]etting miners starve and hunger strikers die plus systematically decimating the working class doesn't quite compete with a bit of saliva on your blue rosette. [This in reference to Mr Montgomerie describing how a Labour activist spat in his face during the '92 election campaign.] No matter how many doors you open or how politely you eat your fucking soup.
I have always found [Conservatives] to be nasty, selfish, lying, despicable, evil, grasping, ignorant, duplicitous wastes of oxygen.
If the disgusting morons in the Tory party don't want people to think they take pleasure in stamping on the hopes of decent folk maybe they shopuld stop looking as if they're enjoying it all quite so much and start apologising for their rich city scumbag masters.
The Tories have opposed every progressive policy that sought to relieve the plight of the poor. If the Tories had their way we'd still have children working down the mines. ... Tories are only happy if they have some poor clod to look down upon and whom they can treat like shit. ... Tories are spivs by definition and are ruled by the motto - "I'm all right Jack - fuck you.
Genuinely delighted that people are actually toasting the news. Your pics are making my life #Thatcherisdead
— Amy Blacklock (@LpoolCityGirl) April 8, 2013
Just seen Maggie Thatcher's grave. Quite nice, but the dancefloor could of been bigger #dingdongthewitchisdead
— Paul Dean (@PaulDeanKop) April 9, 2013
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Comrades! The insurrection of five kulak districts should be pitilessly suppressed. The interests of the whole revolution require this because 'the last decisive battle' with the kulaks is now under way everywhere. An example must be demonstrated.
- 1. Hang (and make sure that the hanging takes place in full view of the people) no fewer than one hundred known landlords, rich men, bloodsuckers.
- 2. Publish their names.
- 3. Seize all their grain from them.
- 4. Designate hostages in accordance with yesterday's telegram.
- Do it in such a fashion that for hundreds of kilometres around the people might see, tremble, know, shout: "they are strangling, and will strangle to death, the bloodsucking kulaks".
Telegraph receipt and implementation.
Yours, Lenin.
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Rest in peace, Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías. As a Venezuelan, I didn't agree with most of your policies and politics, but I do not rejoice in your death and I do respect the pain of your family and supporters.
In 1998, when you campaigned for the presidency — and promised to end corruption — despite my disappointment with the traditional parties, I did not support you because you had led a coup against president Carlos Andres Pérez. I didn't like Pérez, but he was elected by our people and attempting to overthrow him was proof that you did not respect the will of Venezuelans.
I didn't oppose 100% of what you did. I was grateful, for example, that you placed the issue of poverty on the table and you put the spotlight on millions of Venezuelans that until then had been excluded. I knew that the Cuban doctors in the slums were unprepared and unequipped, but I understood that they meant the world to the mother that knocks on their door at 3am.
I was also happy of the way most Venezuelans started to care about politics again (some because they supported you; others because they opposed you). The anti-politic feeling we saw in the 90's was precisely what got you elected. And I also kept in mind that a majority of Venezuelans did support you, so you certainly had a right to be in office.
These are my 10 reasons why I will not miss you:
1. Your authoritarian manner (which reflected a flaw probably most Venezuelans have), and your inability to engage in an honest dialogue with anyone that opposed you. Even from your death bed, you had a Supreme Court justice fired because she didn't agree with your politics.
2. Your disrespect for the rule of law and your contribution to a climate of impunity in Venezuela. In 1999, you re-wrote the Constitution to fit your needs, and yet you violated it almost on a daily basis. With this example, it is no surprise that crime exploded in Venezuela. In 14 years, our homicide rate more than tripled from 22/100K to 74/100K. While judges were busy trying to prove their political allegiance to you, only 11% of homicides led to a conviction.
3. Your empty promises and the way you manipulated many Venezuelans to think you were really working for them. In 14 years you built less public housing than any president before you did in their 5 year periods. Hospitals today have no resources, and if you go there in an emergency you must bring with you everything from medicines to surgical gloves and masks. The truth is that you were better at blowing your own trumpet than at getting things done.
4. The astounding level of corruption of your government. There was corruption before you got elected, but normally a government's scandals weren't made public until they handed power to the opposing party. Now we've heard about millions and millions of dollars vanishing in front of everybody's eyes, and your only reaction was to attack the media that revealed the corruption.
The only politicians accused of corruption have been from parties that oppose you, and mostly on trumped up charges. For example, Leopoldo Lopez was never condemned by the courts but you still prevented him for running for office. His crime? Using money from the wrong budget allocation to pay for the salaries of teachers and firemen — because your government withheld the appropriate funds.
5. The opportunities you missed. When you took office, the price of oil was $9.30, and in 2008 it reached $126.33. There was so much good you could have done with that money! And yet you decided to throw it away on corruption and buying elections and weapons. If you had used these resources well, 10.7% of Venezuelans would not be in extreme poverty.
6. Your attacks on private property and entrepreneurship. You nationalized hundreds of private companies, and pushed hundreds more towards bankruptcy. Not because you were a communist or a socialist, but simply because you wanted no one left with any power to oppose you. If everyone was a public employee, you could force them to attend your political rallies, and the opposition would not get any funding.
7. Your hypocrisy on freedom and human rights. You shut down more than 30 radio and television stations for being critical of your government, you denied access to foreign currency for newspapers to buy printing paper (regular citizens can't access foreign currency unless you authorize it), you imprisoned people without trial for years, you imprisoned people for crimes of opinion, you fired tens of thousands of public employees for signing a petition for a recall referendum and you denied them access to public services and even ID cards and passports.
8. Your hypocrisy on the issue of Venezuela's sovereignty. You kicked out the Americans but then you pulled down your pants for the Cubans, Russians, Chinese and Iranians. We have Cuban officers giving orders in the Venezuelan army. Chinese oil companies work with a higher margin of profit than any Western companies did. And you made it clear that your alliances would be with governments that massacre their own people.
9. Your hypocrisy on the issue of violence. You said this was a peaceful revolution but you allowed illegal armed groups like Tupamaros, La Piedrita and FBLN to operate. You gave them weapons. You had the Russians set up a Kalashnikov plant in Venezuela. You were critical of American wars but yet you gave weapons to the Colombian guerrilla, whose only agenda is murder and drug-dealing.
10. Your hypocrisy on democracy. Your favorite insult for the opposition parties in Venezuela was "coupists", but you forgot you organized a coup in 1992, and the military that was loyal to you suggested they would support a coup in your favor if the opposition ever won the presidential elections.
There was no democracy in your political party: you chose each of the candidates for the National Assembly and for city and state governments. When the opposition won the referendum that would have allowed you to change the Constitution in 2007, you disavowed the results and you figured out a way to change the articles and allow yourself to be reelected as many times as you wanted.
You manipulated the elections in 2010 to make sure the opposition didn't get more than a third of seats in Parliament even though they got 51% of the popular vote. Your democracy was made of paper, you made sure there were no meaningful checks and balances and all institutions were your puppets.
So no, Hugo I will not miss you. Rest in peace now, while we try to rebuild the mess of a country that you left us.


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