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Amy Stamon
Dr. Davis
1 December 2010
Exploding the Language of Shock:
The Endurance of Trauma in Dickinson, Plath, and Jarpa
You're trapped. You're back in that old house, the cigarette smoke already enveloping you. You sit on the edge of that yellow and brown floral couch, the coffee and brandy stains creating a pattern on top of a pattern. You wait. You're supposed to be safe here, but you know better. You pick nervously at the cracked, bloody skin around your thumbnail as you wait for him. You hear him in the next room, knocking over the gold lamp you've seen too many times before on that night stand. Cursing. The smoke, coming from two lit and yet discarded cigarettes which sit in the ashtray, reaches your nose and you cough. You inch away from the ashtray just as he lumbers into the doorway, supporting himself with one rough hand. It's time. He invades you. You can't control it. He's stronger than you. You grit your teeth, focusing all of your energy on counting the little holes in each one of the dropped-ceiling tiles as he presses his sweaty body up against you. And then it's over. And your mother comes to pick you up. She smiles, you smile weakly. The silence becomes smoky, murky, swallowing you, drowning you. You thrash nervously in your sleep, clawing at your pillow, ripping out its stuffing. And they wonder why you burned that house down.
It is not the initial physical event that brings about such prolonged suffering and explosive violence in the victim. Rather, it is the suffocating silence, the projection and insertion of terrifying images into one's memory that overwhelms the victim and impels her to fire back at the individuals or groups which she perceives to have supported and maintained the numbing of her pain. The poems of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath, together with the visual artwork of Chilean artist Voluspa Jarpa, prove that this stitched-up, contorted, suffocated language of shock is cross-cultural and cross-generational, a universally painful experience of sexual and patriarchal trauma. The exploration of this language has led me to believe, however, that painful silencing and tongue-paralysis is not the end of the road. The second step to this world-narrowing process is the explosion in which these mangled, warped, boiled words are released in the form of fire-balls, gun-shots, and volcanic lava that explode the ever-shrinking limitations of the traumatized woman's world and perpetuate the violence which had shrunk it.
The specific details of the traumatic event are basically irrelevant in the analysis of the trauma-inspired works of Plath and Dickinson. What is important, however, are the images and subtle references to these events which have shaped their works. Echoes of abuse and subsequent trauma are evident in each artist's work, and it is the culmination of these haunted images that allows the reader to follow the process of traumatic endurance. In her book A Wounded Deer: The Effects of Incest on the Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson, author Wendy K. Perriman uses E. Sue Blume's internationally recognized checklist of incest survivor aftereffects to establish that Dickinson was a victim of some form of internal family abuse. Perriman uses evidence found in Dickinson's letters and poems to argue that the poet displays 33 of the 37 outlined aftereffects. Interestingly, many of these aftereffects, such as intimacy and abandonment issues, forgetting certain aspects of childhood, sexual issues, and relationship patterns, also manifest themselves in Plath's "Daddy," suggesting that not only do these two poets share unconventional and misunderstood personality quirks, but that the root causes of these aberrations may also be similar (Perriman 52, 53, 67, 69).
There are concrete images in Dickinson's and Plath's poetry to support Perriman's claim about incest, or at least about perverted relations as a source of trauma. In one of Dickinson's most notable sexual trauma poems, "In Winter in my Room," the speaker describes a "Worm-- / Pink, lank, and warm," as it grows in strength and power until it is a menacing, uncontrollable snake which overpowers the speaker both physically and mentally as it begins to usurp her power and drain her of her ability to express herself (Class Handout). This line, and the entire poem of which it is apart, is the manifestation of what Blume labels sexual issues: the terror that has been inserted not only into Dickinson's sexual relations, but also into her psyche as a result of her described experiences. Plath also portrays a specific aftereffect in the poem, "Daddy," when the speaker admits to the Imago of her father, "I made a model of you" (Vendler 23). It seems clear here that Plath is speaking of her primal need to recreate her father, for better or for worse, by marrying Ted Hughes. "Blume explains how an adult survivor often gets involved in relationships with older, more powerful lovers so that she continues to function as a child instead of an equal" (Perriman 69). This is also evident in Plath's child-like diction in "Daddy." It seems as though she has been paralyzed at nine years of age by the Imago of her father which occupies more and more space in her brain, forcing her to find a living human to continue to control her and "father" her.
The case of Jarpa's traumatized subjects is a little more difficult to define, as the events which prompted such paralyzing torment are unknown for each specific case. What is obvious, however, is that the painful recollection of these events has stolen the subjects' ability to express themselves. Jarpa's exposition, entitled "L'Effet Charcot" is a reaction to the early research of Jean-Martin Charcot, a French professor who was especially interested in the physical responses of traumatized and "hysterical" women who manifested the symptoms of body contortions and devolving language. His research took an unethical turn, however, when he began photographing these women without their permission in order to create a "living museum of pathologies." Jarpa has used these photos and this professor's motivation as fuel for her collection, for which she has created thousands of transparent stamps depicting the body coiling of these women. She hangs these transparent stamps from ceilings, and their culmination looks like a swarm of bees—an interesting contradiction to the fact that these women were unable to express themselves in any audible way as their worlds continued to contract and narrow.
While many of Blume's outlined aftereffects of incestuous trauma seem to apply to both Dickinson's and Plath's poetry, and perhaps to Jarpa's subjects, I will introduce a new aftereffect: the loss of language. In her book The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World, Elaine Scarry delves into this idea of "world-contraction" which Jarpa, Dickinson, and Plath explore with their art. Scarry describes it as the process that occurs during and after the trauma of physical pain which has the ability to rob capacities of expression (32). According to Scarry, as a person endures intense amounts of physical pain, their world shrinks until he or she only exists within a two-foot radius: a world of solipsism. She goes on to describe how physical pain, "does not simply resist language but actively destroys it, bringing about an immediate reversion to a state anterior to language, to the sounds and cries a human being makes before language is learned" (4). The trauma endured by Jarpa's subjects left them practically mute, with only groans and body contortions to express their pain. This devolving language is the first step in the process of traumatic endurance, and it is what I will refer to as the universal language of shock: the process of losing capacities of expression as a result of a traumatic or a series of traumatic events.
Philomela, the princess of Athens in Greek mythology, has come to represent the phenomenon of muted traumatized women. She was raped by her brother-in-law, who, in a cowardly attempt to cover up what he had done, cut out her tongue. Plath and Dickinson prove, however, that the perpetrators of traumatic events do not need to physically cut out a woman's tongue in order to take away her ability to speak of it. While Plath's poems are full of images of mouthless, plugged-up women living inside of bottles and shoes, devolving language is especially obvious in Plath's "Daddy" where she directly states, "I could never talk to you. / The tongue stuck in my jaw. / It stuck in a barb wire snare. / Ich, ich, ich ich" (Vendler 22). The reader can almost feel Sylvia Plath as she chokes on the unintelligible words, a hybrid of an unfamiliar German tongue and an increasingly forgotten English one. Otto Plath did nothing directly to take away her ability to speak. However, his looming presence in her life suffocated her, forcing her to spit out broken pieces of a language that felt foreign and wrong to her lips. And perhaps this is another devastating effect of trauma: it takes away the meaning of language. The language of shock, the language of trauma, if it even exists, does not make sense to the outside world. This loss of language further aids the process of vision-narrowing and world-suffocating, for it takes away one of the only outlets for the victim. She is trapped. Inside of herself.
The last line of "The Soul has Bandaged moments" deals with this. The speaker says that the experiences she has endured "are not brayed of tongue" (Class Handout). This word, "brayed," is indeed a powerful one. Donkeys bray, not humans. Therefore, this word implies the dehumanization that occurs when rights are violated and the value of life is stripped. In all three of these poems, the perpetrator is not described as being fully human, and as the perpetrator continues to wreak havoc in the victim's life, she loses some of her human capacities of expression, differentiation, and comprehension. The "Marble-heavy, a bag full of God", the "ghastly…Goblin", and the "snake with mottles rare" are the projections of a type of trauma that is so haunting, so other-worldly, so omnipresent, that it could barely be considered human (Vender 21, Class Handouts).
As this language-devolving process continues, the speaker's world begins to shrink, and its walls begin to collapse in around her. Not only does her language become deformed, mangled, and limited, but her other senses become limited and contracted as well. It seems that as the memories and the visions of the traumatic event begin to occupy space in the woman's mind, all other thoughts and visions are pushed to the corners and eventually eliminated. In her poem, "'Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch," Dickinson's speaker endures this world-narrowing process as the storm closes in on her. The tone of the poem becomes increasingly solipsistic and menacing as the maelstrom, "Kept narrowing its boiling Wheel / Until the Agony / Toyed coolly with the final inch / Of your delirious Hem" (Perriman 149). While Dickinson's speaker explicitly refers to a violent whirlpool which is circling ever closer to her, threatening to swallow her up, the inanimate storm is not only capitalized, deeming it a personal pronoun, but it also develops human capacities, such as the ability to reach out and touch in such an intrusive way. This poem, with its images of a swarm-like whirlpool of a storm, is an interesting parallel to Jarpa's artwork of the swarms of traumatized and mangled women. This idea of being engulfed and swallowed up by a more powerful, controlling Master-presence seems to be another universal aftereffect of trauma. The speaker is left "helpless in his Paws…And sense was setting numb" as she is suffocated, frozen, and overpowered by the strength of the storm of trauma, and then the most explicit mention of robbery of the senses: "And when the Film had stitched your eyes / A Creature gasped 'Reprieve'"(Perriman 151). The poem ends with a stitched-up speaker who is all-consumed and blinded by pain and anguish, as she asks, "To perish, or to live?" (Perriman 151). Her senses have been robbed, her eyes have been stitched, and she has been absorbed into an ominous, whirring storm.
Sylvia Plath was very interested in these images of stitched-up, mouthless, eyeless women that Dickinson describes. She was captivated by Georgio De Chirico's painting The Disquieting Muses (1918), with its images of faceless, stitched-up statue-women whose heads look like darning eggs, and she wrote a poem of the same title as a response. Perhaps, instead of a sexual violation, Plath's speaker feels oppressed and traumatized by the constant feminine expectations that surround her. In both "The Disquieting Muses" and "Medusa," Plath's speaker is suffocated and torn apart by traditionally feminine and motherly items: darning-eggs and placenta. This is still the same basic psychological trauma of restriction and possession, whether the speaker feels controlled or possessed by a specific man or the whole host of men who have established masculine and feminine roles which endured from Emily Dickinson's era in the 19th century until Plath's era in the mid-twentieth century and beyond. In a tone similar to that of Plath's speaker in "Daddy," her speaker in "Medusa" suffocates. "I could draw no breath," she gasps, calling out to an omnipresent mother-figure who lives, "Off that landspit of stony mouth-plugs, / Eyes rolled by white sticks, / Ears cupping the sea's incoherences" (americanpoems.com).
Again, the speaker is overwhelmed by expectations, suffocated by the rows of nodding, silent women and fascist, abusive men. While the speaker in "Daddy" has lived like a mouthless, eyeless, faceless foot inside of a black shoe for thirty years, Plath's speaker in "Medusa" has lived inside of a bottle, still feeling deprived of a voice and breath. Instead of calling out to her father or mother specifically, the speaker moves on to the whole hierarchy of the Catholic church, calling on the "Ghastly Vatican" which seems to have enslaved her with its "Communion wafer(s)" and its "Blubbery Mary(s)" (americanpoems.com). These kinds of institutions are notorious for keeping secrets of misconduct and abuse, and the penultimate line, "Off, off, eely tentacle!" seems to suggest not only that Plath feels burdened and choked by the Church, but also at a more specific kind of trauma: a personal experience of sexual trauma which was kept silent and never revealed.
This silencing is the first stage in living with trauma, and Jarpa, Dickinson and Plath explode these walls as they cave-in around them, perhaps not only to save themselves from their own painful memories but also to save women such as those studied by Dr. Charcot who never broke out of the silence. While many psychologists, based on the Freudian concepts of psychoanalytic therapy and free-association, would argue that the simple act of writing and expressing oneself is the first step to recovery, I will argue that these words, after being soaked and boiled in violence, will only be released in the form of boiling, warped, mangled words and violent actions.
One of Dickinson's lesser-known poems, "On my volcano grows the Grass" is a clear manifestation of the volcanic, explosive power of her language. In this poem, Dickinson describes the calm, green grass which grows on top of her volcano, numbing, cooling, and hiding the white-hot rage that boils beneath it. She admits, "How red the Fire rocks below / How insecure the sod, / Did I disclose / Would populate with awe my solitude" (americanpoems.com). Here, she contrasts the outsider's view of her person: a peaceful, picturesque recluse when held at a distance. However, upon closer inspection, Dickinson is discovered to be Veusvius: a volcano ready to explode with words that would shock those around her. Dickinson took the eight lovely notes set aside for women of her day to write about, chewed them up, and spit them out. She was not interested in flowers and birds and bees, at least not in the accepted sense, and she continues to "disclose" herself, she dares to appall her Victorian counterparts with the fiery language held within. The lava overflows.
While the poem as a whole reveals the way that words are denatured when held in the acidic world of internalized trauma, the word "disclose" warrants special attention. Jarpa's artwork and Scarry's insight draw attention to the process of closing-in. Physical and psychological pain close doors to the outside world by closing capacities of expression. Patriarchal society and traditional expectations close outlets of opportunity. Women such as Dickinson and Plath felt obligated to close themselves off from the rest of the world, to hole up in an intensely isolated space in order to create. And yet with these explosive poems, they begin to dis-close their world: to open it back up, regardless of the negative backlash they might receive. It is the job of artists and poets to use their tools to open up new worlds. However, after these artists and poets have been so suffocated by the violent world in which they live, the words and pictures that escape their minds and mouths are often not the prettiest, and eventually the violence which has infiltrated their psyche will be thrown back at the world which bore it.
One of Dickinson's more famous poems which illuminates this idea, in a notoriously misunderstood and enigmatic way, is "My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun." In this poem, Dickinson blows the doors off of femininity – a world in which women are expected to be passive, silent, and obedient. She opts instead for a genderless, dehumanized world in order to have her freedom of expression. While she still seems to be owned by a certain kind of master, a recurring theme in both Plath and Dickinson's poetry, the power-struggle has flipped, and Dickinson, or her dehumanized speaker, is in control. She and the "Owner … roam in Sovereign Woods -- / And now [They] hunt the Doe" (Cameron 107). In order to live freely in the realm of her aforementioned volcano world, a world of explosion and honesty, Dickinson's speaker becomes a hunter, a murderous warrior. Dickinson and her owner are not just hunting deer, but they are hunting female deer, a doe. Like Plath's speakers, Dickinson seems to turn her anger out against not just her specific perpetrator, her Master of sorts, but upon all of the people, men and women, who allowed the abuse to continue. Perhaps Dickinson felt that she had the same kind of ominous female presence in her life: a row of nodding, silent women whose stitched-up mouths and statue-feet kept her silent and paralyzed, and for that reason, she hunts them in order to regain control of her life. She develops a somewhat animalistic protective instinct as the poem continues: "I guard My Master's Head" (Cameron 107). This process also seems to follow the forced suppression and silencing of traumatic memories. At first, the victim feels compelled to protect the perpetrator out of fear: she lacks the power to speak out against what had happened. However, after the memories of the event occupy more and more space in her brain, and she is forced to live with the recurring sights and smells of the pain, this psychological trauma eventually taints her words, actions, and outlooks with violence and bitterness.
She says, "every time I speak for Him -- / The Mountains straight reply" (Cameron 107). Instead of the muted speaker who bemoans that her perverted relations, "are not brayed of tongue," at the end of "The Soul has Bandaged moments," the empowered speaker in "Loaded Gun" has begun the final stage of traumatic endurance: when violence is so absorbed that it is eventually turned outward onto the world which created it. She uses gunshots as her words: explosion, smoke, and gunpowder as her violent means of expression. This is very clearly portrayed in the fact that Dickinson is only able to express herself through a smile on a "Vesuvian face" (Cameron 107). Again, Dickinson's speaker threatens to shock those around her with the hidden explosiveness of her words. The destructive power of the speaker is solidified in the last two lines: "For I have but the power to kill, / Without – the power to die" (Cameron 108). Language, one might argue, has the power to kill without the power to die. Violence has the same properties. By the end of the poem, Dickinson's speaker has become the manifestation of violence. Dehumanized and degendered, she is so full of rage that it is the sum of her makeup and all that she is able to produce.
Dr. Sharon Cameron, a professor of nineteenth-century American literature and twentieth-century American poetry at Johns Hopkins University, comments on this particular poem in her chapter in Harold Bloom's anthology Modern Critical Views: Emily Dickinson. She goes so far as to suggest that, "the poem is thus the speaker's acknowledgment that coming to life involves accepting the power and the inescapable burden of doing violence wherever one is and to whomever one encounters" (Cameron 109). Victims of traumatic events, or those who live traumatized beneath oppressive expectations, she argues, live half-lives -- lives covered in pretty green grass which serves to cool off the fire below. Cameron does not see this as a dis-closed life, and these poets realize this as they begin to write and their words ignite with rage as they hit the air. She suggests that violence, in any one of its many forms, is an irrevocable part of life.
While fire is inevitably destructive, it can also be purifying. Ecologically speaking, fire is required to regenerate and bring to life certain kinds of plant species. Fire, in the form of violent expression, is what brings these women back to life: it purifies their muddled and tainted perceptions until their senses are restored to their original capacities. Without that fire, they would continue to live within a two-foot radius, their arms and legs betraying them, contorting and coiling without the heat. Cameron notes the life-giving power of fire as she says, "fury grown larger than life disassociates itself in terror from the one who feels it and fantasizes its own immortality" (109). In other words, as rage grows into something expansive and uncontrollable, the victim begins to live outside of herself and outside of the fear which had controlled her for so many years. Based on Dickinson's and Plath's poems, it is not just the act of self-expression which acts as the antidote to oppression and trauma, but it is violent expression which expands the victim's world, endowing her with the same kind of negative power which had been used against her too many times before. None of the poems I have studied have a particularly cheerful or self-actualizing ending, but this raw violence is more productive, more human, than the paralysis of the language of shock.
While Plath's speakers seem to find their voices by the end of her "trauma poems," the evolution of their language of shock is also a violent one. The speaker in Plath's haunted and haunting "Ariel" echoes Dickinson's speaker in "My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun" by dehumanizing herself and embodying a sort of weapon. Amid bloody mouthfuls, shadows, unpeeling, and dead body parts, Plath's speaker transforms into an arrow: a dehumanized tool for killing. While she has found her voice through poetry and expression of these haunting images, once again, the speaker does not end on a self-actualizing note. Rather, she ends on an inwardly and an outwardly destructive note. However, this is still a new note, one that provides empowerment to the victim, who now feels armored against a violent world. Beyond the image of the arrow, Plath's speaker delves even further into a self-destructive place, identifying herself with, "The dew that flies / Suicidal, at one with the drive / Into the red / Eye, the cauldron of the morning" (Bennett 157). It seems that the speaker envisions herself diving into a boiling cauldron, perhaps to boil out the pain and trauma she deals with internally. She sees that its heat could possibly bring her into a fuller life—one of raw emotions and power. Again, Plath takes traditional housewife items, turning what could have been an ordinary coffee or tea pot into a boiling witch's cauldron: the very symbol of the culture in which she felt suffocated. Like Dickinson, she dares to de-feminize herself, even to dehumanize herself in order to regain some semblance of the control which she seems to continue to lose. The speaker feels dead, like a peeling potato among the world of heels and thighs and hair. She lives in a world of black and white and shadows, where she cannot or will not connect to that crying child in the background. She forges on, sharp and rigid and warrior-like, for she has realized that she must defend herself and take arms against against a world which has thrown nothing but violence and judgment her way.
Plath's speaker in "Daddy" blames a specific person, or the Imago of that person, for the culmination of all of this violence and the perpetuation of it inside of her mind. The poem is, as Sharon Cameron labels it, her acknowledgement that violence is an inevitable part of being alive. The reader can sense the Plath's struggle to kill the Imago of her father as he continues to grow, "Big as a Frisco seal / And a head in the freakish Atlantic" (Vendler 21). Her rage grows throughout the poem, beginning with threats such as, "If I've killed one man, I've killed two," in reference to her father, Otto, and his recreation in the form of Ted Hughes. However, the culmination of her rage comes in the last stanza of the poem. Instead of ending it with a calm assurance that, "Daddy, you can lie back now," as many readers would have preferred, Plath's speaker begins a tirade (Vendler 23). The speaker in Plath's "Daddy" seems to harness her voice and lose control of it all at the same at the end of the poem, as she screams, "And the villagers never liked you. / They are dancing and stamping on you" (Vendler 24). The image of the villagers stamping on her father is the last one we are left with, and it is indeed a violent one. However, it seems that the only way for Jarpa's, Plath's and Dickinson's subjects, and perhaps the artists themselves to regain control is to take the violence in the form of oppression and silencing that had been thrust upon them for so many years, wad it up, and throw it back, on fire.
It burns. Edges curl up, coil, and flake away. The curtains catch, and the fire climbs quickly upward, smoke filling each one of the holes in that drop-ceiling. The yellow-and-brown floral couch incinerates. Its dark brown stains evaporate, the flames eating up the cushions and pillows, leaving only the black, jagged skeleton. You stand in the front yard, watching through the window as the fire melts the icicles which hang from the brown gutters, and the flames warm your cheeks as they shoot through the melted glass. The flames swirl out of control, reaching up to the roof, their unbridled dance reflected in your blue eyes. You are ignited. You've been heard. You are outside of yourself. The memories, you hope, have burned up with those crumpled sheets of stained paper, with the discarded cigarettes, with the half-empty beer cans. You have heard him cough for the last time. You have waited for the last time. You have held your tongue for the last time. The ashes blow away with the wind. The smoke is absorbed and dissipates into the black night sky. You run.
Works Cited
Cameron, Sharon. "'A Loaded Gun': The Dialectic of Rage." Modern Critical Views: Emily Dickinson. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1985. 99-128. Print.
Davis, Robert. Class Handout: English 200, Wittenberg University, September 2010.
---. Class Handout: English 200, Wittenberg University, September 2010.
Dickinson, Emily. "On my volcano grows the Grass." americanpoems.com. 9 Jan. 2004. Web. 15 Nov. 2010.
Plath, Sylvia. "Ariel." Bennett, Paula. My Life a Loaded Gun: Dickinson, Plath, Rich, and Female Creativity. University of Illinois Press, 1986. Print.
---. "Daddy." Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology. Ed. Helen Vendler. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's , 2010. 21-24. Print.
---. "Medusa." americanpoems.com. 20 Feb. 2003. Web. 14 Nov. 2010.
---. "The Disquieting Muses." americanpoems.com. 20 Feb. 2003. Web. 14 Nov. 2010.
Perriman, Wendy K. A Wounded Deer: The Effects of Incest on the Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006. Print.
Scarry, Elaine. The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Print.


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Can I frame with wood on a building instead of metal studs
Hi I am renovating my bathroom moving toilet pipe in a 6 stories building condo. I have a 8" slab of concrete between floors. All the old structure is concrete blocks and plaster. I did the demo and I want to ask if I can use wood studs instead of metal studs.
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Massive Fraud in Haiti's Sham Elections - by Stephen Lendman
On November 28, Haiti held first round legislative and presidential elections, a previous article explaining that democracy was off the ballot, accessed through the following link:
The entire process was rigged, 15 parties excluded, including by far the most popular, Aristide's Fanmi Lavalas. Under the most dire conditions, it was a cruel joke, not even equivalent to what Edward Herman called "demonstration elections" in his 1980 book by that title, sham ones assuring installation of US-friendly candidates, elections in name only.
On November 28, it was worse, so bad, in fact, that world headlines explained it. For example, New York Times writers Damien Cave and Randol Archibold headlined, "Haitian Candidates Call to Void Election," saying:
"Two-thirds of Haiti's presidential candidates said Sunday's election was so tainted by fraud that it should be invalidated, but late in the evening, national election officials ordered the vote to stand, saying that problems at most polling sites had been minor."
They lied. Washington orchestrated the entire process to assure its choices take over, its usual imperial heavy-handedness, this time including ballot box stuffing and other irregularities. Nonetheless, initial results will be known on December 5, officially announced on December 20.
"At an afternoon news conference here, 12 of the 18 candidates still in the race had called on the election council to void the results because of "massive fraud,' which they described as an effort by (Preval's) Unity Party....to stuff ballot boxes and turn away voters who opposed Mr. Preval's chosen candidate, Jude Celestin. The candidates, in an unusual display of unity....urged their partisans to peacefully take to the streets, and many did."
Haiti's US Embassy spokesman said only that it was monitoring the situation. Organization of American States (OAS) observers cancelled a news conference, saying it was gathering information for "our assessment of polling day activities." A UN statement expressed "deep concerns over the numerous incidents that marred the election." Neither Preval or a spokesperson said anything as expected.
On November 30, Al Jazeera said that "The joint observer mission from the Organization of American States/Caribbean Community said that although there had been widespread problems, including acts of violence and intimidation and poor organization blocking many people from voting, this was not enough to doom the polls."
The mission's Colin Granderson said:
"The joint mission does not believe that these irregularities, serious as some were, necessarily invalidated the process."
Nicole Phillips, observer from the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, said at every polling station she visited there were flaws. "Streams of people, dozens and dozens of people were unable to vote because they couldn't find their name on an electoral list."
In Acul du Nord and Trou du Nord, two northern towns near Cap-Haitien, voting was cancelled after people fired gunshots in the air and trashed one voting station. A Port-au-Prince one was also ransacked.
Financial Times writer Benedict Mander headlined, "Haiti poll denounced as 'massive fraud,' " saying:
"Allegations of 'massive fraud' (challenged) the legitimacy of a government that will have to rebuild a country decimated by an earthquake in January," and is now dealing with a cholera epidemic ravaging the country.
"We denounce a massive fraud that is occurring across the country....We demand the cancellation pure and simple of the elections." They also accused Preval of conspiring to "perpetuate his power and keep the people hostage to continue their misery."
A crowd awaiting them burst into Haiti's national anthem when they arrived and chanted "Arrest Preval!"
A later Reuters report said two more presidential candidates joined the others, leaving Preval's choice, Jude Celestin, "virtually alone among the contenders in upholding the legitimacy of the polls."
According to Markus Shultze-Kraft of Britain's Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex:
The electoral farce "is a big, potentially explosive dilemma. Haiti's government and its international friends needed the elections to choose a legitimate post-quake government to lead the reconstruction." That was impossible, of course, with Fanmi Lavalas and other parties banned.
Besides a sham process most Haitians boycotted, polling stations opened late. Voter names were missing on electoral rolls, and angry accusations cited ballot box stuffing. According to Alex Main, an unofficial observer from the Washington-based Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR):
"Things are incredibly tense. We visited one voting center in Carrefour where a group of PREVAL/INITE thugs got in and demolished everything and beat people up. Everyone was pretty upset. Mostly there's a lot of frustration. People can't find their names on the lists. They go expecting to be able to vote and they can't."
Main said the problem was widespread, not limited to a few isolated cases. Official observers were from the OAS, Caribbean Community, the association of francophone states, and the EU, not there to assure a free, fair and open process or serve Haitian voters' interests, their final statements to be taken with great caution.
That's now confirmed, according to a November 30 Al Jazeera report saying:
"The joint observer mission from the Organization of American States/Caribbean Community said that although there had been widespread problems, including acts of violence and intimidation and poor organisation blocking many people from voting, this was not enough to doom the polls."
The mission's Colin Granderson said:
"The joint mission does not believe that these irregularities, serious as some were, necessarily invalidated the process."
Main, however, added that it's:
"clear that the sentiment here is that the international community should have done something to provide for people's basic needs" post-quake as well as dealing with raging cholera before holding elections. Having them under appalling conditions adds to their illegitimacy.
On November 29, a CEPR press release headlined, "International Community Should Reject Haiti's 'Sham' Elections," its Co-Director, Mark Weisbrot, saying:
"From the banning of the country's most popular party from the ballot to election day irregularities including numerous reports of ballot stuffing and the disenfranchisement of numerous eligible voters, these elections were an obvious farce from start to finish."
Short of international community condemnation and rejection, "Haiti (will) be left with a government (seen) as illegitimate."
Weisbrot recommended Preval's hand-picked Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) be replaced and that new elections be held. That prospect is exceedingly dim to say the least, leaving Haitians again stuck with imperial Washington calling the shots, having no concern whatever for democracy or their interests at a time millions have dire needs.
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Well, according to the title of the article cholera has arrived in Cuba, but you wouldn't know this from what the article says, which presents good news for Haitians receiving care from the professionals Cuba sent.
"Cholera Deaths in Cuba"
by Fidel Castro Ruz, Nov. 30th, 2010
GR has the copy a little screwed up, question marks appearing where copying failed, and I think it's quotation marks that were botched, say.
Yesterday I explained that in Haiti 1,523 persons had died as a result of cholera and at the same time, the measures adopted by the Party and Government of Cuba.
Yesterday I explained that in Haiti 1,523 persons had died as a result of cholera and at the same time, the measures adopted by the Party and Government of Cuba.
I didn't think I would be writing anything today about the problem. However I give up that idea in order to write a short Reflection on the subject.
Dr. Lea Guido, PHO-WHO representative en Cuba ?at this moment is representing both organizations in two countries and is a person with a wealth of experience ?, stated this afternoon that under current conditions Haiti can expect that the epidemic will affect 400,000 persons.
On the other hand, the Deputy Minister of Health of Cuba and Chief of the Cuban Medical Mission, our country's ambassador in Haiti and other comrades in the mission, have been meeting all day with President René Preval, Dr. Lea Guido, the Haitian Minister of Health and other officials from Cuba and Haiti, drawing up measures that will be urgently applied.
The Cuban Medical Mission is looking after 37 centres dealing with the epidemic where, until today, they have cared for 26,040 persons affected with cholera; to these they will immediately add, along with the Henry Reeve Brigade, 12 more medical centres (for a total of 49) with 1,100 new beds, in tents that were designed and made for those purposes in Norway and other countries, already purchased with earthquake funds, delivered to Cuba by Venezuela for the reconstruction of the Haitian health system.
Late today encouraging news arrived from Dr. Somarriba: during the past seven days there has not been one single death from cholera in the centres looked after by the Cuban Medical Mission. That figure would be impossible to keep up since other factors can come into play in that result, but the acquired experience, suitable methods and the degree of dedication achieved provides us with a very cheering idea.
We are also pleased that President René Preval, whose term in office ends next January 16th, has made the decision to transform the struggle against the epidemic into the most important activity of his life, one he will leave as a legacy to the people of Haiti and to the government that follows him.
Fidel Castro Ruz
November 27, 2010
Indeed, I see nothing in that article about cholera in Cuba. GR's gotten a little sloppy since moving from the University of Ottawa to McGill University and while that's not really surprising, it's still unpleasant; if a person was accustomed to the better quality that existed when GR was at U. of Ottawa, anyway.
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Technically, ALU just bounced off the bottom of the long-term uptrend channel. The stock recently achieved the golden cross, which is bullish. The stock is resting at the apex of a descending triangle signaling a break out is imminent.
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ALU lowered its headcount by 5.4 thousand in the first quarter due to contract cancellations related company's review of managed services deals. ALU's Managed Services sales fell 4% year over year in the first quarter. Even so, its Networks and Platforms services sales rose 33%.
Telecom industry growth in the U.S. and China should mean improvement in revenue and the bottom line for ALU. I think ALU is about to break out to the upside. The stock has recovered nicely since slightly missing earnings expectations. You can read the transcript here. The stock is a buy at this level.
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Technically, the stock actually looks good here. The stock is in an uptrend and has recently broken through major resistance levels.
My Take
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) sent out an invite Wednesday to a May 21st event pretty much stating the next Xbox will be unveiled. The rumor mill suggests the console will have an 8-core AMD CPU, similar to the chip in Sony's (NYSE:SNE) PS4. All this recent news of AMD chips bodes well of the stock. I posit the risk/reward equation favors longs at this point. I like the stock here.
Micron Technology Inc. (MU)
The company is trading 8% below its 52-week high and 24% potential upside based on the consensus mean target price of $11.68 for the company. Micron was trading Tuesday for $9.42, up nearly 1% for the day.
Fundamental Review
Fundamentally, Micron has some positives. Micron's forward P/E is 14.49. Micron is expecting EPS to be up 247% next year according to Finviz.com. Micron has a price to book ratio of 1.34 and a price to sales ratio of 1.21.
Technical Review
Technically, Micron is in an uptrend. The stock reversed trends at the beginning of November. The stock broke through major resistance at the 50-day and 200-day SMAs. The gap up after earnings was recently filled.
My Take
Though Micron was hit by a general rout in chip stocks, a report from Taiwan's Commercial Times indicates DRAM and NAND flash prices continue to march higher. Contract prices for mainstay 4GB DDR3 PC DRAM modules are said to have risen 8% to 10% in early April. Furthermore, contract prices for 32Gb (4GB) MLC NAND chips reportedly rose 5% to 12%. This is good news for Micron.
Moreover, Micron stated on its earnings call it sees "a favorable supply and demand balance" for NAND due to strong SSD and mobile device demand combined with slowing manufacturing process shifts. I believe the risk/reward still favors longs. The stock is a buy here.
Nokia Corporation (NOK)
The company is trading 31% below its 52-week high and slightly above the consensus mean target price of $3.30 for the company. Nokia was trading Tuesday for $3.38, up almost 2% for the day.
Fundamental Review
Fundamentally, Nokia has several positives. Nokia has a price to book ratio of 1.26 and a price to sales ratio of .34. The company has $3.62 in cash per share. EPS next year is expected to rise by 600%, according to Finviz.com. EPS is up 70.73% quarter-over-quarter.
Technical Review
Technically, the stock is in a long-term downtrend, yet has bounced back nicely after taking a hit by recording an earnings miss. You can read the transcript here.
My Take
Two recent developments are most likely the culprits for the recent run in the stock. First, Bloomberg recently reported Verizon (NYSE:VZ) is "set to unveil a plan next month" for the anticipated Lumia 928. The phone is said to feature a 4.5-inch display, metal body, 8MP camera, and wireless charging support. This should be a significant catalyst for the stock.
Second, a Dutch court recently granted Nokia an injunction for HTC's flagship One smartphone, declaring the phone's microphone chips use Nokia's IP. This was good news for Nokia going forward. The risk/reward ratio in the stock seems favorable at this point. The stock is a buy here.
Sirius XM Radio Inc. (SIRI)
The company is trading at its 52-week high and has 8% upside potential based on the analysts' mean target price of $3.51. Sirius stock was trading Tuesday for $3.25, up nearly 6% for the day.
Fundamental Review
Fundamentally, this stock has several positives. SIRI has a PEG ratio of .22. The PEG ratio is indicating SIRI is substantially undervalued. SIRI has a forward P/E of 25, and trades for 29 times free cash flow. EPS for the next five years are expected to rise by 30%. Quarter-over-quarter sales and EPS are up 14% and 127%, respectively. SIRI's TTM ROE is 98%, and the company's net profit margin is 102%.
Technical Review
Technically, Sirius is still in good shape. The stock has been consolidating at the current level since the beginning of the year. The stock spiked up Tuesday after reporting earnings before the market opened. You can read the transcript here.
My Take
First quarter EPS of $0.02 was in-line with expectations, yet revenue of $897 million missed slightly by $12.85 million. Pretty much the same as many other companies have done this quarter.
The reason for the pop in the stock was the company said its total paid subscriber base increased 9% year over year to reach 24.4 million. The resurgence of the U.S. automobile industry helped bring in first-time subscribers as expected. Furthermore, subscriber acquisition costs per gross addition declined during the period. Guidance for 2013 is for total net subscriber adds of 1.4 million and revenue of over $3.7 billion. These are strong numbers by the company.
On top of all this, a share buyback program should underpin the stock. The stock is a buy here. Use the three day rule prior to starting a position though. The stock may cool off a bit after the spike.
The Bottom Line
The risk/reward ratio for these stocks looks favorable for long trades at the time. We are talking about long-term yet speculative investments. I suggest you take your time and layer into new positions. With the markets at all-time highs, there may be more buying opportunities ahead. Additionally, always remember to have a well-balanced diversified portfolio containing several asset classes. Never allocate more than 5% to speculation.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, but may initiate a long position in SIRI, AMD, ALU, MU, NOK over the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.
Additional disclosure: This is not an endorsement to buy or sell securities. Investing in securities carries with it very high risks. The information contained within this article for informational purposes only and is subject to change at any time. Do your own due diligence and consult with a licensed professional before making any investment.


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Alfalfa Protocol
Wish I could turn on AA, though, that probably wouldn't help much when the engine as a whole was utilized pretty poorly... reminds me of UE2 or something.
Still, amazing game.
Glad I gave it another chance.
Alfalfa Protocol
Wish I could turn on AA, though, that probably wouldn't help much when the engine as a whole was utilized pretty poorly... reminds me of UE2 or something.
Still, amazing game.
Glad I gave it another chance.
so i've decided to play fallout new vegas again
howdy, cunts
Have some Guild Wars 2 PVP.
They took our keep which is shown in the last shot and the outpost that I was defending in the first picture.
That looks like a ton of fun, reminds me kind off of Age of Conan and Warhammer Online.
I can't fucking wait for GW2! Got it reserved but not payed for, don't have the money yet.
ok wtf
im sitting here with my pc linked to a 42" tv. i load up the page and get a giant fucking face and mustache looking at me. those fallout images are huge.
what the christ kinda URL is that Spectre?
Also, DO NOT USE IMGUR.
they've stopped links to/from facepunch. So any images that are uploaded with imgur will break and not show.
I'm using Google Drive now, since Imgur doesn't show any pictures.
I tried using SkyDrive, but I ended up getting a blank box.
The images are still broken for me, try a different uploader.
back in the day of auto bans, post that link or a link from the site that contains the URL would get you banned for a week.
Wow wtf imgur.
you were the chosen one
Apparently garry is trying to get imgur to unblock FP. but that could just be GMF bullshit.
Some Arma 2 crap.
I'm terrible for actually making youtube videos. Most of the time i just record stuff then never bother to upload it. This time i decided to and its not even worth the watch.
Don't watch this if you hate autism
Thinking I should add a new rule, well not a rule, but a guide line.
If your image is 1920x1080 or bigger then it needs to be [t]'d.
Updated the OP with the [t] rule. Yea i made it a rule not a guide line. What of it.
I wish there was a way to define image size with tags.
[t] is too small for most pics, min.us' forum option is a bit better, but I'd like a mix between that and full size. Say, 1200 width.
edit: have some GT5
and some more here:
There was that thing we had for like a week on here where you could resize images yourself, but it got abused so fast that garry removed it.
True, I forgot about the left hand side of the screen.
Oh wow, thats a pretty high limit. I wonder why the guy in the GMOD construct map section went over his limit.
I use it all the time and have never gone over a limit, I wasn't even aware there was one
That could be why then, at least they've raised it.
I guess that means feel free to use dropbox.
Can you hotlink pictures from Google Drive? I didn't find anything, maybe I missed it.


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FISHY ASSIST 5 Points Allow a fish to die and plug his own hole.
GLUG GLUG 10 Points Destroy at least eight blowfish in a single game with other dead blowfish.
SUCKER 10 Points Make a diver accidentally swim into a mine.
BLOW ME 25 Points Kill at least eight BP divers in a single game with dead blowfish.
MINE YOUR BUSINESS 25 Points Destroy at least eight mines in a single game with dead blowfish.
OCEAN DEFENDER 25 Points Last long enough to destroy BP and Tony Hayward on his yacht.
TORPEDO TERROR 25 Points Get a single Bullet Bill torpedo to kill two BP divers.
AQUAMAN 50 Points Survive long enough to destroy BP and Tony Hayward without dying.
EMPLOYEE MERCY 50 Points Kill no divers or submarines, but still destroy the BP oil rig in a single game.
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Rated 4 / 5 stars
the died fishes makes me cry
Rated 1.5 / 5 stars
nice game to play for less than 2 minutes cause its literally all the same
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars
whoz bp
Rated 5 / 5 stars
This game makes me feel like an NBA all-star!
Rated 5 / 5 stars
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WOW, I gotta look in to a single stack handgun. At the 9 O'clock (or 3 in my situation) with my S&W Sigma I'd look like the Elephant Man.
Nice set up you got there.
This is a discussion on Invisible 1911: Thank you SuperTuck! within the Defensive Carry Holsters & Carry Options forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Originally Posted by adaman04 Nice. Only downside is the huge metal clips standing out like a sore thumb over your 1 1/4" belt. Just wear ...
WOW, I gotta look in to a single stack handgun. At the 9 O'clock (or 3 in my situation) with my S&W Sigma I'd look like the Elephant Man.
Nice set up you got there.
"Don't hit a man if you can possibly avoid it; but if you do hit him, put him to sleep." - Theodore Roosevelt
I use velcro clips on my tuckable IWB (The Answer, from Tucker Gun Leather). With velcro clips it really hides. Get the velcro and NO ONE will know. My wife (who is also a CHL) and my daughter (who wants to be) can not tell when I am carrying (which is almost always -- even at home) if I am tucked.
Great holster from SuperTuck and it sounds like you are carrying a nice weapon. What kind of 1911?
I do recommend you get yourself an extra set of clips though. I am told that one of the problems with tuckables is that the clips will break over time. And I sure would not want to be walking around without my Glock while I was waiting for replacements!
....a politically incorrect right-wing fiscally-conservative libertarian NRA card-carrying gun-toting self-sufficient gainfully-employed Bible-believing church-going fundamentalist evangelical Christian. Perhaps you should avoid my company. I might contaminate you.
Until I started carrying, I would not of notice a black clip. Now I look for people's bulges.
"When the people fear the government you have tyranny...when the government fears the people you have liberty."
--Thomas Jefferson --
Harley rider
Kimber CDP II Compact, SA XD SC40, Ruger LCP
Favorites: "If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you can read this in English, thank a soldier."
Admiral Gary Roughead, CNO: "I never, ever, want to see my sailors or Marines in a fair fight."
if anyone asks about the clips just say it's your insulin pump hehe


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Electronic health records (EHR) have unilaterally transformed health care by improving all aspects of patient care, including safety, effectiveness, communication, education, timeliness, and productivity. Strange as it may be, however, the implementation of this technology was a nearly unheard of practice just ten short years ago. Though EHR systems have existed for nearly thirty years, it is estimated that as of 2006 less than 10% of all United States hospitals possessed these technologies.¹ Most hospitals and other healthcare facilities, either resistant to change or under financial restrictions, were unable to make the leap into the 21st century. Intuitive technology that actively protects a patient's health was not being utilized, leaving doctors prone to the same errors that their predecessor made thirty years before.
Recognizing the importance of these applications in healthcare software, the US federal government, in an unprecedented program, became a catalyst for the deployment and improvement of EHRs. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) made billions of dollars in funding available to health care enterprises and eligible providers though a provision entitled the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH). With the enactment of this provision, the government delegated billions of dollars to be doled out as incentives for hospitals that invested in EHR technology. The government's investment in the future of its public's health was initiated by setting forth a group of evolving requirements for certified EHR software. These requirements were designed to roll out over a period of years, and divided into different groups of requirements, known as stages.
Stage 1 was the initial phase, and consisted of an attempt to improve overall quality, safety, and efficiency, reduce health disparities, engage patients and families in their health care, increase care coordination, and improve population and public health, while maintaining privacy and security of the individual. As a testament to the program's success, The United States government disbursed nearly $20 billion in incentives to eligible healthcare providers in Stage One alone. In June of 2011, Meta Healthcare IT Solution's full suite of EHR products received ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 Complete EHR Certification, enabling providers to meet the measures for Stage 1 Meaningful Use and apply for government funding.
Stage 2 is a much more rigorous and challenging set of requirements, both for software providers seeking certification, and health care providers looking to attest to their deployment. The new criteria will hold all healthcare IT providers to a higher standard, but, in our opinion, still only provide the foundation for what solid EHR software should contain. For Meta, Stage 2 certification laid out requirements that we wanted not only to fulfill, but surpass.
Stage 3 is the most recent phase of EHR adoption, which focuses of improving patient outcomes, electronic reporting, and interoperability among EHR systems. The changes are also meant to increase the flexibility and simplicity of the Meaningful Use program, which allows facilities to more easily apply for reimbursement.
¹ Smaltz, Detlev and Eta Berner. The Executive's Guide to Electronic Health Records. (2007, Health Administration Press) p.03


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It has taken nearly five years for the president of the United States of America to finally address the most important issue confronting planet Earth, pollution! In speech at Georgetown University he announced new federal plans to lauuch the first ever federal regulations on heat-trapping gases emitted by new and existing power plants in order to "put an end limitlesss dumping of carbon pollution." His plan calls for boosting renewable energy production on federal lands, increase efficiency standards and educate the population about the world that will one day arrive on this planet unless its inhabitants take action to address the issue of pollution.
Forty percent of US carbon dioxide emissions and one third of greenhouse gases come from power plants. Naturally, Republicans who seek to protect the unborn from death intend to protect the born wealthy folk from the loss of their money. They are against such action. If one's choice is pollution of the planet or damage to their campaign contributions, which is more dangerous to the health fo this planet?


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It's been 3 years already and I hit 50k miles on the water pump that I already replaced.
Just wondering when these should be replaced? I'm almost at 60k however I drove alot and the pump is only 3 years old
Wondering do they fail more with age or with mileage?
In my experience its generally the seal around the shaft that goes on a water pump. A few things can affect the life time of the seal. Extremes of temperature change, coolant quality for example. Mileage is one consideration but not the only one. You say you are on your second pump in 50K. I think you must have had a dodgy pump to begin with because that's a bit extreme. I had 140K on my first E36 pump and the replacement was still ok when I got rid of it at 250K. My E46 has 108K on the original pump. I live in relatively mild climate and drive easy. Coolant is to spec.
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Chemistry major...team captain...Andrew J. Rider Scholar...ranks fourth in career scoring with 36 points and 13 goals...is fifth in career assists...a veteran of 56 games, including 52 starts...ranked ninth in the MAAC in scoring and shots (49) last year...scored both goals in 2-0 win over Delaware State...compiled two goals and an assist in 4-1 win at Lafayette...scored in just the sixth minute of play to lead Rider to a 2-1 win against Wagner last year...was sixth in the MAAC in shots in 2008...led the Broncs in assists the last two years...as a freshman scored two goals in her collegiate debut in 2-0 win over George Mason...in 2007 scored to give Rider 2-0 lead in 3-2 win over Longwood...scored the game-winner with six minutes left in 2007 3-2 win over Saint Joseph's...compiled a goal and two assists in 2007 MAAC win over Saint Peter's...earned MAAC Rookie of the Week and Rider Athlete of the Month honors in her first collegiate September...led Rider in goals and points as a rookie.
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Earned First Team All-Conference, All-Area, All-West Jersey honors...led her team to the Group IV State finals...her school's Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year...a National Honor Society member who ranked sixth in her class...played on the Super Y League National Champions.
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text: Great episode! So interesting to see the Governor back and yet not the way he was. It sort of makes more sense of what we were seeing before - I didn't realize the scene with the fire and the three tents and the walker was from...well...from last season end. Then he is left and just wanders. The whole new dynamic of him and the three women that need him and especially him and what he is seeing Megan as his new Penny. A big thumbs up for this one.


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If you want to know what drives the advertising tycoon Sir Martin Sorrell, then watch an interview with him and a ditzy lady in pink for the Valley Girl Show in the US. Sitting on a pink and leopard skin stiletto shoe, Sir Martin talks about how his Ukrainian grand-parents had to put Xs on their marriage certificate when they came to the UK in 1907 because they couldn't write English, and ends up tying a pink tie in a bow around his neck.
It's clear this man will do anything for WPP; it's his baby.
Sir Martin laughed out loud when I mentioned the interview: "It was so embarrassing. I felt like a complete berk but you've got to communicate. If you don't make your case and communicate, no one listens."
Right now he's hoping that WPP's investors are listening to why he's worth his £12.9m pay package. But if Sir Martin is worried investors will shoot him down at next week's annual meeting, he's not letting on: "You tell me," he said with a smile and a shrug. "We will see on the day. My pay is linked totally to how WPP does – 85 per cent of it is performance-based. When WPP suffered in 2009, my pay suffered too."
But what Sir Martin does find offensive is when investors claim he acts as an owner: "Well, I am an owner – I have nearly 2 per cent of WPP shares. If they said I am acting like 'the' owner, then they might have a point. I have been entrepreneurial since the day I started in 1985, and I still am today and that's why I have skin in the game."
He added: "You feel self-conscious bragging about what you have achieved so I don't often point it out. But I founded this company with £250,000 – borrowed against my Saatchi shares – and it is worth £10bn today. There is something curious about the way the British criticise success rather than admire it."
Sir Martin has done well too: since starting WPP he has invested, including all the stock he's been granted from direct shares and co-investment schemes, about £40m and the stake is now worth about £140m: "Keeping stock for five years can be a suicide pact with yourself, but it's one I make because I want to be part of WPP's success."
But he can also be "fired at will", as he has no contract. "I'll keep going until they can take me out and shoot me like they do horses. That's my risk." And, if the proverbial bus comes along and runs him over, he said there is a succession plan in place.
For now, the 67-year-old looks fighting fit. We meet in the WPP mothership which is hidden behind a canary yellow door in unremarkable offices in Farm Street, Mayfair.
He's as combative as always, claiming that his pay has become contentious for political reasons: "The debate used to be about reward for failure – which I disagree with too – but it's moved on to what is fair pay. That's a political issue and everyone is scared of government threats to bring in new legislation to make votes binding on remuneration. What will government do about the bosses of hedge funds, private companies or even fund managers who get paid as much or more than those of listed companies?"
He will find out just what investors think next Wednesday when the vote is read out at the Four Seasons hotel in Dublin. Up to 40 per cent of investors are said to be voting against. Others say they will punish the chairman Philip Lader and head of the pay committee, Jeffrey Rosen, by not re-electing them.
In his defence, Messrs Lader and Rosen say Sir Martin is worth every penny because 2011 was a record year: WPP's billings were up at £44.8bn, revenues 7 per cent higher at £10bn and pre-tax profit at a high of £1.43bn. They also say he hasn't had a pay increase for five years, and that investors are not comparing like with like in the international peer group.
So what does he think? Is his pay fair? "That's not for me to say – the compensation committee sets my pay. But investors in WPP have done well."
He pointed out that if a shareholder had invested £1,000 in WPP in 1985, those shares would be worth £46,000 today – that includes dividends – or £31,000 on share price movement, and allowing for all share dilutions: a compound annual return of 15 per cent or 13.3 per cent respectively.
"The UK has done well too – we've paid millions in tax over the years and are creating new jobs all the time: 1,500 over the last two years."
On a screen in the corner of the boardroom are the logos of the 150 or so advertising, PR and marketing companies that WPP controls in 108 countries. It's a monster of a machine which includes some of the best names in the ad world including JWT and Ogilvy & Mather and employs 158,000 people in 2,500 offices and has 730 clients around the world.
Even more pertinent than the pay debate is how he manages to keep track of the business: "I don't try to," he said. "It's a messy organisation; we call it horizontality and it works because we have great people on the ground running the agencies, and local areas."
Instead, the WPP central portal acts like a brain for the global network; sharing recruitment and training, IT, knowledge, talent management and financial services, he said.
"For Ford, we created a new agency, Team Detroit, out of six agencies, and they work for the company around the world. We have a similar model for Bank of America."
But there is work that slips through the net – the latest Argentinian advert in the Falklands being one example. "That was disgraceful," he said.
This year the WPP advertising machine will be in charge of handling some $75bn (£49bn) of advertising and media buying for its clients across media platforms from newspapers to online sites. Sir Martin claims clients do get better service and return on investment from being part of the machine: "Clients, like Ford or Bank of America, get the benefit of a world-wide team. WPP does too. We've done the analysis. There is a direct correlation between the artistic side, the awards our agencies win, and the margins."
He's so persistent making his own case I ask whether he's ever been tempted to advise on advertising?
"God, no," he laughed. That's the day to short the stock."
Online advertising is the new Holy Grail and he estimates there is about $20bn of new advertising to be spent on the web; clients spend an average of 19 per cent of their total online now but he predicts this could go to 30 per cent over time. For example, client spending has gone up by only 4 per cent to $2.5bn for News Corporation this year, but spending with Google has risen from $1.6bn to $2bn and has doubled on Facebook from $200m to $400m.
"Just look at Amazon – it's proving a real threat to many companies. Our media day has expanded – the number of hours people spend online and watching TV has shot up."
He predicts another shift in the geo-political axis towards the south, alongside the east: "The 21st century is not for retiring minds; there are some big challenges which we could all get very wrong. But if we get it right, there will be interesting opportunities emerging in South America, the Middle East as well as Africa; the World Cup in Brazil will bring big benefits just as it did to South Africa."
Famed for coining the alphabet to analyse economic growth, Sir Martin says his LUV-shaped recovery has turned out to be more LuVVY in shape and predicts recovery in the West will take years. Indeed, he wonders whether corporates – which are sitting on trillions of cash in the US and Europe – will ever behave as they did before 2009.
"Companies are terrified of spending, and investing. It's not simply about confidence, they fear making mistakes; the shock to corporate confidence after Lehman was almost as profound as the impact on the banks."
At the same time advertising is changing – more focused towards responsible consumption: "In the long-term, companies know they have to be responsible, particularly in these tough times; they are not paying lip-service to corporate and social responsibility, their staff want it as well as consumers. So do ours. It makes business sense."
What will he do if the WPP vote goes against him?
He shrugged again, and you sense he's been bruised by the controversy: "The Government makes the rules and we make our choices. If government or institutions think pay is excessive, tax it. Don't fiddle with the market."
Long-term rewards: Sir Martin Sorrell
Sir Martin's salary rose by 30 per cent in 2011 to £1.3m, there was a £2m cash bonus and £3m in shares, a pension contribution of £585,000, plus other benefits of £459,000, making a total of £7.34m. Add in the long-term incentive plans from 2006 to 2010, and that's another £5.6m – which he was allocated in shares – bringing the total up to £12.9m.Reuse content