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DOC job cuts threaten unique species and places
Forest & Bird is concerned that the protection of our unique species and places will suffer once today's job cuts have been implemented, as the Department of Conservation (DOC) will have lost ten per cent of its workforce in just the last year.
DOC announced today that it would be cutting 72 mainly frontline roles. This follows the loss of hundreds of jobs since 2009, when the government began cutting $13.5 million a year from the department's annual budget.
"While fewer jobs have been lost than originally planned, DOC will still be losing many skilled and experienced frontline staff," says Forest & Bird's Advocacy Manager, Kevin Hackwell. "The conservation and protection of our unique species and special places will suffer as a result."
DOC had been planning to cut 140 roles, as part of a restructuring plan released in March.
More than 1000 staff, members of the public and organisations submitted on the proposal, while Forest & Bird campaigned for the government to reverse several years of funding cuts to the department.
Last week Conservation Minister Nick Smith responded by announcing that this year's budget would contain $5 million more in funding for DOC than was planned.
"But that increase still leaves DOC $3.8 million short this year, and it will have to find savings of another $14 million over the next three years. I wouldn't be surprised if we see further rounds of frontline job cuts in the coming years."
Kevin Hackwell says that the government's continual reductions in DOC's funding are extremely short-sighted, for several reasons.
"DOC plays a critical role in looking after New Zealand's endangered species and precious places, and in looking after our clean green image, which is what most of the tourists who come to New Zealand want to see.
"Relying on sponsors and volunteers to fill the gaps as DOC contracts, which is at the core of this restructure, simply won't work. Volunteers cannot provide the expertise that is being lost from the department. And business will only ever be willing to sponsor the 'cute and fluffy' side of DOC's work, such as breeding programmes and the like, rather than for example the pest control that underpins the survival of our most endangered species," Kevin Hackwell says.


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The Creator Class has just released the final video in their five-part documentary series, A New Breed. This one features an introspective Chaz Bundick aka Toro y Moi, discussing his creative process. Really enjoyed the slower pace and cinematography in this one. Watch it below.

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Professor Benfer is founder and director of the Health Justice Project at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, a legal clinic in which students address social and legal issues that negatively affect the health of low-income individuals. In her practice as an attorney, Professor Benfer has fought for the rights and well-being of homeless families, children and youth, individuals with disabilities, and low-wage workers.
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This is my good friend, Mike Schulman. Mike is a die-hard burger guy. Nothing wrong with that, mind you. , but I will say that he and Ruth did also very creative alternatives there as well at their Labor Day party. 2 thumbs up!
Don't get me wrong. I like a good old juicy burger as much as the next guy. We are red-blooded Americans, after all. But I'm starting to hallucinate at nite, with visions of packaged chopped meat leaping over fences as I try to get to sleep.
Yes, the hamburger and "tube steak" are the go-to food items on Labor Day weekend. The Shulman's had their share of them, and I'm sure my brother and sister-in-law will have them when we visit them in New Jersey.
But credit where it is due. Ruth and Mike had some new and different alternatives on display as well, some being generously provided by other friends at the party.
They had some really nice GREEN alternatives. I don't mean that they were ecologically Al Gore-ish green. I mean the color green. Green salad, broccoli slaw ( think that's what they called it), and pasta with broccoli.) I think the other dish was some type of thin oriental styled noodles, but I'm sure I'll be corrected on that one!
They also had delicious chicken as well. These dishes once again were "pooled resources" from alot of the guests (Dorrie brought the shrimp – not pictured)
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And now my imaginary conversation with Mike, sitting in the chair next to me.
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1) The Week Just Past: Worried Job Creators = No Job Creation
2) By the Numbers: America's Jobs Picture
3)The Economic "Recovery"- Better Off Without the "Stimulus"
4) Noted With "Interest": Avoid a Default, But Cut Spending Now!
5) Carrying NATO's Burden
6) Safeguarding Women's Health
The Week Just Past: Worried Job Creators = No Job Creation
"Earlier this week, the nation's largest small business organization, the National Federation of Independent Business, released a report showing that unemployed Americans face the worst jobs prospects seen in the past eight months. The NFIB survey indicated that more small businesses are planning to lay off workers than are planning to hire new ones. As the New York Times puts it, this is "the latest sign that the economic recovery may have lost whatever modest oomph it had.'
"Of course, my constituents are keenly aware of this fact. Unemployment has been too high for too long and most of us know someone who has lost their job, or is holding onto one just to pay the bills and is essentially underemployed. Of course, there's a lot of concern about food prices at the grocery store, as well as the high prices at the gas pump, and how it's taking its toll on families as they try to make their way towards the summer vacation season.
"Together with the kind of issues that we are wrestling in terms of the debt and the fact that we are still borrowing 40 cents of every dollar we spend, it is clear we have a very sick economy and that people are hurting.
"In the House we have been focused, not only on getting our fiscal house in order in Washington, but trying also to encourage growth. We are committed to helping small businessmen and women and the middle class return to some sense of optimism.
"Which brings me back to my original point. The simple reality is this: job creators are not going to create jobs until they have the confidence to do so. Businesses and entrepreneurs are not going to build or invest until the President gives them the certainty needed to expand and employ more workers. Unfortunately, we have not heard the words "confidence' nor "certainty' come out of the President's mouth lately.
"Our nation's economic growth is still too low and too slow to restore the millions of jobs that have been lost in recent years. This Administration must understand that in order to boost job creation and grow the economy, we need to stop spending money we don't have and restore employers' faith in the economy. I regret to say that as long as job creators are worried about a spending-driven debt and tax-filled future, job seekers will be hard-pressed to find work."
Rodney Frelinghuysen
Recommended Reading: Thomas Friedman wrote in the weekend New York Timesthat "an epidemic of uncertainty about what the future holds for everything from health care to the rate of taxation to Social Security and Medicare spending to the availability of credit to the general direction of the economy -- the sum of which has people holding back "
By the Numbers: America's Jobs Picture
* 9.1%: The unemployment rate for the month of May.
* 28: The number of consecutive months that unemployment has been at or above 8 percent--the level the President said unemployment would never reach if the stimulus passed.
* 19.1%: The rate of underemployment during mid-May according to Gallup's monthly employment survey. This accounts for the unemployed, those unable to find full-time work and those discouraged from looking for work.
* 13,914,000: The number of unemployed Americans looking for work in the month of May.
* 44,587,321: The number of Americans receiving food stamps, the highest number of participants in history.
* 39.7: The average number of weeks that job seekers have been unemployed.
* 8,548,000: The number of Americans who are working only part-time because they cannot find full time employment.
* 6,200,000: The number of Americans unemployed and searching for work for more than 27 weeks.
* 2,206,000: The number of unemployed Americans who want work, but who have stopped looking because of the poor economy.
* 1,231,000: The number of job seekers that are new entrants to the workforce and have yet to find a job.
* 24.2%: The unemployment rate among job seekers between the ages of 16 and 19.
* 14.7%: The unemployment rate among Americans without high school diplomas.
* 6.8%: The level at which the Obama administration claimedunemployment would be today if the "stimulus" was signed into law.
* 1,908,000: The number of net jobs the economy has shed since the President's "stimulus" was signed into law in February 2009.
* $1,161,000,000,000: The total cost of the so-called "stimulus." Congressional Budget Office estimates the cost of the bill will reach $814 billionand interest on the debt for this bill will be at least $347 billion.
Recommended Reading II: Dan Molinski and Elizabeth Williamson write in the Tuesday Wall Street Journal that Colombian lawmakers have passed legislation they hope will open the floodgates of trade with China, as a long-delayed U.S. trade deal with the South American nation stalls in Congress.
The Economic "Recovery"- Better Off Without the "Stimulus"
Economic data over the past weeks, punctuated by recent dismal employment reports, confirm the diminishing impact of the "stimulus" efforts orchestrated by the Obama Administration and the Federal Reserve.
Record doses of both monetary and fiscal injections did not produce the desired results. In fact, the size and scope of the "recovery" of the past two years was weaker than would have been expected in a typical business cycle recovery without any stimulus whatsoever.
Recommended Reading III: Charles Krauthammer, writing in this morning's Washington Post, "Union Owned."
Noted With "Interest": Avoid a Default, But Cut Spending Now!
Negotiations on avoiding a debt crisis this summer continued this week.
No one really believes the U.S. will default on its sovereign debt. As of yesterday afternoon, 10 year Treasury bonds were selling at yields of 3.08 percent.
In contrast to that, many experts fear the Greek government may default on its debts, and so their 10 year bonds sold this week for yields of nearly 17 percent.
The Chairman of the Federal Reserve told the Wall Street Journal that "Failing to raise the debt limit could cause "severe disruptions in financial markets, including ratings downgrades of U.S. government debt and damage to the special role the U.S. dollar and Treasuries currently enjoy in global markets,' the Fed chief said."
According to the Financial Times, U.S. banks are "preparing to cut their use of US Treasuries in August as a precaution against any turbulence that could follow if warring Republicans and Democrats fail to increase soon the US debt ceiling."
"The new House majority has fundamentally changed the debate in Washington - away from blind devotion to a larger government, more spending and higher taxes. That's a significant shift from the start of the year, when President Obama was pushing hard for billions in dollars of additional "investments' in a range of domestic spending despite our growing ocean of red ink," Rodney said.
"I hope the prospect of an approaching deadline will spark new "seriousness' on the part of the Obama Administration in the official debt ceiling talks in Washington."
Carrying NATO's Burden
Outgoing Secretary of Defense Robert Gates delivered a speech last week in Europe and pointed out that the U.S. share of NATO defense spending is now more than 75 percent! Further, just five NATO members -- the U.S., Britain, France, Greece and Albania -- spend more than the agreed 2 percent of economic output on defense!
Safeguarding Women's Health
Rodney was one of the guest speakers on Monday at the HealthCare Institute of New Jersey's "Women's Health Summit" at the Morris Museum.
The summit focused on the latest research available to prevent illnesses that largely strike women, with a specific emphasis on chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke, arthritis, among others.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, chronic diseases are the leading cause of death and disability in the United States:
* 7 out of 10 deaths among Americans each year are from chronic diseases. Heart disease, cancer and stroke account for more than 50% of all deaths each year;
* Almost 1 out of every 2 adults have at least one chronic illness;
* Obesity has become a major health concern. 1 in every 3 adults is obese and almost 1 in 5 youth between the ages of 6 and 19 is obese;
* 25% of people with chronic conditions have one or more daily activity limitations;
* Arthritis is the most common cause of disability, with nearly 19 million Americans reporting activity limitations;
* Diabetes continues to be the leading cause of kidney failure, non-traumatic lower-extremity amputations, and blindness among adults aged 20-74.
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Guard Eric Maynor has a agreed to a multiyear deal with the Washington Wizards, Michael Lee of the Washington Post reported Monday.
Terms of the contract are not yet known.
Maynor played just 27 games for the Portland Trail Blazers last season, averaging 6.9 points and 4.0 assists. He missed the early part of the 2012-2013 season because of a torn anterior cruciate ligament he suffered in January 2012 while a member of the Oklahoma City Thunder.
With Washington, Maynor is expected to serve as John Wall's backup at point guard.
The Wizards are also trying to bring back Garrett Temple and Martell Webster, according to CSNWashington.com.


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If you have rugrats of your own or have ever tuned in to Saturday morning telly, the Rugrats will need no introduction: all you need to know is that 'Rugrats in Paris: The Movie' is as good as their last big-screen outing, but with goofy French accents, more movie references for the grown ups - most notably the wonderful 'Godfather' parody which opens the film - and a heartwarming storyline about ChuckieÆs search for a new mummy.
Thus begins les Rugrats' misadventures in Paris, where the adorable anklebiters get an Eiffel of EuroReptarLand, a bizarre Japanese theme park.
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The application period for 2017 Fellowships is now closed. The application period for 2018 Fellowships will open on October 1, 2017. Please check back then for updated guidelines.
Welcome to the new application period for the Switzer Fellowship. We encourage applicants to read the Become a Fellow page in detail before proceeding to the application. This year, our application process is similar to last year, but we are especially interested in receiving applications from qualified Master's degree students, first-generation graduate students and individuals from communities of color, low-income or other disadvantaged backgrounds. We welcome your inquiries about these guidelines.
All students applying for a Switzer Environmental Fellowship must submit an online application form. Each applicant will be prompted to create an account before gaining access to the application form. This will enable applicants to save their work, make edits and track progress during the application review process. Specific application instructions are available on the application form. General guidance is provided here to help you prepare the necessary documentation.
It is imperative that applicants review the eligibility requirements and guidelines prior to applying. Applications take a lot of time and work to complete, and ineligible applications will not be reviewed.
APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED COMPLETE UNLESS ALL OF THE REQUIRED MATERIALS ARE SUBMITTED AS INSTRUCTED. We cannot allow any exceptions. (Please note that if you need to convert hard copy documents to digital format, the online application has a 'Fax to File' capability that you can use for this purpose, but it requires immediate proximity to a fax machine. Further instructions are available via the online application form.)
For the application, you will be required to submit a 2-3 page original essay. The essay is a critical component of the application screening process. It is an opportunity for you to reflect on your accomplishments, how you contextualize your research and course work in society, and ultimately, your vision for your future leadership role in the environmental field, including the type of professional position you hope to pursue and the impact you hope to have. You may describe your academic work and how it furthers your goals, but it should not be the sole focus of the essay. Use the essay to talk about why your chosen field matters to you, to whom it is important, and how your background and personal experiences, combined with your academic course of study, will position you to be an effective leader for positive change. In other words, how do you plan to use your academic experience for environmental impact? Applicants should include examples of how you have been a leader or specifically contributed to solving an environmental issue or problem. If you have limited leadership experience, you may describe the impact you hope to have. You may also describe any personal and professional challenges you have overcome to achieve your goals. The essay field is limited to 10,000 characters in the online application. (This equates to approximately three pages, single spaced, at 12 pitch.)
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- Two professional letters of recommendation. (Recommendation letters must be submitted directly to the Foundation per the Recommendation Instructions.) These can be from your academic advisors or other colleagues who know you and your work well. It is preferable to have at least one recommendation letter from your academic advisor, committee member, or academic colleague, especially for PhD applicants. (Please refer to the Frequently Asked Questions in the Become A Fellow section for guidance on choosing your recommenders.) Only two letters of recommendation may be submitted. You are responsible for ensuring that your recommenders send their letters by the application deadline, and that they carefully review the recommendation instructions to ensure they are giving us the information we need. Recommendation letters without the appropriate information can have a negative impact on your application.
- A current resume, including relevant work and volunteer experience. Your resume is an important part of your application. Please do not include a CV - we are more interested in your overall work experience than a list of your publications and presentations, particularly for PhD students. Please include the number of hours per week and number of months worked for each professional and volunteer experience noted.
- Most recent Graduate academic transcripts. (Undergraduate transcripts are not necessary except in the case of applicants enrolling in one-year master's programs with no other graduate school experience.) PLEASE NOTE: if you are unable to access your official transcript by the application deadline, you may upload an unofficial copy to your application and send the official copy when it is available. Specific instructions can be found on the application form.
- A brief outline of the general course of study or research planned. Depending on whether you are a Master's or PhD student, this can include a course list or (brief) summary of your research. Master's students should list courses to be taken, focus or concentration, and thesis topic. PhD students should include a summary or precis of their dissertation. This should not exceed four pages.
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Occupy Oakland Protest Taken Down By Police, Tear Gas
Police in Oakland, California, dispersed Occupy protesters there with tear gas, bean bags and flash bombs last night.
At least 100 people have been arrested in a massive crackdown on Occupy Oakland protesters. Police began rounding up the activists yesterday morning, after the crowd allegedly began throwing bottles, rocks and other objects at cops.
"We were in a position where we had to deploy gas in order to stop the crowd and people from pelting us with bottles and rocks," said interim Police Chief Howard Jordan when justifying firing tear gas five times. He also admitted that bean bags and sound cannons were shot at the group.
Though many of the estimated 1,000 activists left as soon as cops brandished batons and began firing tear gas, others refused, intent on exercising their right to protest. A few hundred remain in place, defiant against police in riot gear, according to CBS News.
One protester, Mario Fernandez, remarked, "This movement is more than just the people versus the police. It's about the people trying to have their rights to basic services."
Oakland police aren't alone in using heavy-handed tactics to disperse the growing Occupy movements: Atlanta cops arrested 53 people early this morning at a camp in Woodruff Park, and that city's mayor, Kasim Reed, said he may revoke the protesters' permit, and police elsewhere in the nation are reportedly planning on doing the same.
Meanwhile, in Maine, an unidentified person tossed a "chemical bomb" into a crowd of protesters there.
While authorities believe their actions will help hamper the growing Occupy Wall Street movement, they'll only serve to reinvigorate activists. In fact, the Occupy Oakland face-off may become a turning point that takes the entire Occupy movement to the next level, showing the public at large how state-backed powers are using force to suppress people's rights.
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There was something else, he said, something critical. On the eve of his death, he reminded me, Green had spoken to his friend Keen about an "American" who was trying to ruin him. The following day, Gibson said, he had called Green's house and heard a strange greeting on the answering machine. "Instead of getting Richard's voice in this sort of Oxford accent, which had been on the machine for a decade," Gibson recalled, "I got an American voice that said, 'Sorry, not available.


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From Russia With PR
Commentaries published on CNBC.com and the Huffington Post were written by seemingly independent professionals but placed on behalf of the Russian government by its PR firm, Ketchum.
Today, Vladimir Putin wrote an op-ed about Syria in the New York Times. The piece was placed by the public-relations giant Ketchum, Buzzfeed reported. On Nov. 16, 2012, we explored how Ketchum placed pro-Russia op-eds in American publications by businesspeople and others without disclosing the role of the Russian government. Ketchum's latest public filing says it was paid $1.9 million by Russia for the six-month period ending May 31, 2013. It received another $3.7 million for its work for Russian energy giant Gazprom over the same period. Here is our original report.
Several opinion columns praising Russia and published in the last two years on CNBC's web site and the Huffington Post were written by seemingly independent professionals but were placed on behalf of the Russian government by its public-relations firm, Ketchum.
The columns, written by two businessmen, a lawyer, and an academic, heap praise on the Russian government for its "ambitious modernization strategy" and "enforcement of laws designed to better protect business and reduce corruption." One of the CNBC opinion pieces, authored by an executive at a Moscow-based investment bank, concludes that "Russia may well be the most dynamic place on the continent."
There's nothing unusual about Ketchum's work on behalf of Russia. Public relations firms constantly peddle op-eds on behalf of politicians, corporations, and governments. Rarely if ever do publications disclose the role of a PR firm in placing an op-ed, so it's unusual to get a glimpse behind the scenes and see how an op-ed was generated.
What readers of the CNBC and Huffington Post pieces did not know — but Justice Department foreign agent registration filings by Ketchum show — is that the columns were placed by the public-relations firm working on a contract with the Russian government to, among other things, promote the country "as a place favorable for foreign investments."
In at least one case, a Ketchum subcontractor reached out to a writer and offered to place his columns in media outlets. The writer, Adrian Pabst, a lecturer in politics at the University of Kent, said that his views were his own and that he was not influenced or paid by Ketchum.
A spokesman for CNBC, which published the pieces on the Guest Blog section of its website, declined to comment. A Huffington Post spokesman said the column placed by Ketchum did not violate the site's policy.
Ketchum spokeswoman Jackie Burton told ProPublica that when the firm corresponds with experts or the media on behalf of Russia, "consistent with Ketchum's policies and industry standards, we clearly state that we represent the Russian Federation."
Russia, often criticized for human rights abuses and corruption, paid handsomely for the public-relations work. From mid-2006 to mid-2012, Ketchum received almost $23 million in fees and expenses on the Russia account and an additional $17 million on the account of Gazprom, the Russian state-controlled energy giant, according to foreign agent filings.
Op-ed editors interviewed by ProPublica said they work to include full disclosure of relevant financial interests or conflicts — or decline to run pieces that read like advertorial.
"People write op-eds because they have agendas. Separating out what's an ethical agenda from an unethical agenda is really tough," says Sue Horton, op-ed editor of the Los Angeles Times.
Horton said the role of the Russian government's public-relations firm in placing the CNBC and Huffington Post op-eds "absolutely seems like something the reader would want to know."
The op-eds placed by Ketchum for Russia, according to the filings, are:
- A March 2010 CNBC piece by Peter Gerendasi, then managing partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers Russia, that praises the government of then-President Dmitry Medvedev for its "strategic priorities [of] diversification, innovation, promoting small business, supporting families and strengthening the country's financial system so that it can provide the investment capital that will enable business to grow and people to realize their potential." Gerendasi declined to comment on the piece and PricewaterhouseCoopers said it did not pay Ketchum to place the piece and declined to comment further.
- An April 2010 CNBC piece by Kingsmill Bond, then chief strategist at the Moscow investment bank Troika Dialog, that ran under the headline "Russia—Europe's Bright Light of Growth." It called Russia possibly "the most dynamic place on the continent" for investors. Bond, now at Citigroup, told ProPublica he could not recall Ketchum's role in the piece.
- A September 2010 Huffington Post piece, titled "President Medvedev's Project Of Modernization," by Pabst, the University of Kent academic. While acknowledging human rights and corruption problems, the thrust of Pabst's op-ed was praise for Medvedev's "transformational vision for Russia's domestic politics and foreign policy." Pabst told ProPublica he was contacted by a Ketchum subcontractor, Portland Communications, and that he was not paid to write the piece. The piece, as well as another he wrote for a web site run by Ketchum, "reflect my own ideas and arguments," he said in an email.
- A January 2012 CNBC piece by Laura Brank, the head of the Russia practice for the international law firm Dechert. Brank praised the Russian government for working to overcome the perception of an inhospitable investment climate "through the implementation and enforcement of laws designed to better protect business and reduce corruption." Brank did not respond to requests for comment.
While Ketchum maintains it always identifies its client when dealing with the media, the 2010 email sent by Ketchum to Huffington Post pitching the Pabst column did not mention that Russia was the firm's client. (See the full email.)
"Below is a piece from Adrian Pabst, a leading Russia scholar in Europe," wrote then-Ketchum Vice President Matt Stearns, who is now at UnitedHealth Group.
Ketchum says that Stearns had in previous correspondence identified Russia as his client to the Huffington Post editor, including to set up "a blog on the editor's site for a member of the Russian government." The company did not provide that correspondence.
Huffington Post spokesman Rhoades Alderson said the site has a policy requiring bloggers to disclose any financial conflicts of interest related to the issue they are writing about, but Pabst did not violate the policy.
"The job of our blog editors is to make sure all of our posts add value for our readers," Alderson said in a statement. "Part of that is making judgment calls about the transparency of each blogger's motive, even in cases when there is no technical violation of the disclosure policy. A submission by a PR firm raises flags but is not automatically disqualified if the blog adds value and is in keeping with our guidelines."
Placement of op-eds is a standard part of the influence game, but it's rare for readers ever to find out who is behind the curtain.
In 2011, top public-relations firm Burson-Marsteller came under criticism after it asked a blogger to author an op-ed criticizing Google's privacy standards. Burson was working on a contract for Facebook at the time.
Public-relations firms have also been known to write op-eds and have them placed under the byline of a third party, and even to pay experts to write favorable op-eds. There's no evidence Ketchum paid any of the authors of the Russia op-eds or that it ghost-wrote them.
Update: This post has been updated with more detail on Ketchum's correspondence with Huffington Post.
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HuffinPuffington is a mouth organ for every vile liberal, socalist, communist organization out there. They are more confused than their owners attempts at speaking english. Arianna, the communist version of Zsa Zsa.
Well, what do you expect from a communist rag?
Compared to all the Pro-Israel propaganda that constantly appears this seems very tame…lol.
Dog bites man, =/= news.
Man bites dog =/= news.
Now if you find out Huffpo published something *other* than propaganda, that will be newsworthy.
Funny, I'd say the Drudge Report links to Far Right agenda propaganda.
Yuri Bezmenov warned of this kinda thing in 1984.
He was dismissed as "crazy" though.
Anything the left (or right) want to dismiss without true inspection they just result to calling crazy.
Call me crazy.
ProPublica is SHOCKED-SHOCKED that Russia uses operatives to issue favorable comments about Russian politicians and policies, but says NOTHING about the operatives and war rooms that use propaganda (now called "social marketing") to issue favorable comments on behalf of pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, leftist activists - and the US Government agencies that support them.
Visit the CDC, NIH, HHS or most other government websites and ask any question. You'll receive a response not from the agency, but from a "social marketing" firm like AIR.org, EDELMAN.com and others. Click on the bottom of the Gov't website and you'll find disclaimers that warn that information received from the third-party websites they direct you to cannot be trusted. If you still demand answers, they direct you to talk to your doctor, who gets his/her information from the same unreliable sources.
Russia is simply doing what US companies and agencies do all the time: The difference being that Russia isn't required to pay $10 billion since 2009 to settle thousands of criminal and civil complaints related to the illegal marketing of drugs that kill or injure 2-4 million Americans annually.
What's worse, HUFFPO goes the extra mile by deleting comments that contradict their sponsors.
One country's propaganda is simply another country's "social marketing" campaign. It's an important story but ProPublica (and HUFFPO) doth protest too much, methinks…
You nailed it John G.
Really is this any different than the shilling the Huffington Post does for all Democratic nonsense? The founder of HuffPo has only gained any semblance of legitimacy as an unofficial voice for the wildly corrupt Democratic Party. It isn't news they report but rather simply opinions and rebranded news of real journalists.
That said, the Republicans have their own political nonsense at places like Brietbart.
News has become a reflection of the political control that now permeates all aspects of our lives. And, being news has become politicized it reflects the dumbed-down corporate state. News is not news but dystopian pablum puke spewed by nonsensical knuckle-draggers with some hidden motive.
That is why ProPublica must always maintain its transparency and some attempt at objective reporting of facts rather than opinions. You have a passing grade in that area. But, needs improvement.
Hey I just met you.
and call me crazy….
but here's my basement.
I'm John Wayne Gacy!
Errr…Clark, go to the main page. There's a story right now about a doctor being used as a pharmaceutical mouthpiece. They know. This story just happens to be about one instance.
It is a good point, though, that this article should link to the others, like the Bahrain, the whole "Dollars for Docs" investigation, the Dark Money and Free the Files material, and so forth. It's all the same story, at some level.
Liberal SCUM has always been friendly with the enemies of America. It's time that we purge them from our midst. By any means necessary. Who's with me?
From the website of the U.S. State Dept; "Incidents of unprovoked, violent harassment against racial and ethnic minorities regularly occur throughout the Russian Federation. The U.S. Embassy Moscow and Consulates General continue to receive reports of U.S. citizens, often members of minority groups, victimized in violent attacks by "skinheads" or other extremists. U.S. citizens most at risk are those of African, or those who, because of their complexion, are perceived to be from the Caucasus region or the Middle East. These U.S. citizens are also at risk for harassment by police authorities."
Hey ObamaPhone welfare blacks, you should tag along with Obama when he visits his love Putin in Russia. He's going to give away all American military and business industry trade secrets.
reply to Deadguin who wrote "Funny, I'd say the Drudge Report links to Far Right agenda propaganda"
FYI - Drudge Report has a link to the Huffington Post and many others including NY Times, MSNBC, CNN…
So now we know what Obama meant when he whispered into Medyved's ear that he would have more flexibility after the election. Maybe the Federal pension fund would like to invest their money in mother Russia!
To HELL with Obummer and this government! ANARCHY NOW!
Russia nee Soviet Union has been funding the left since the anti-war protests of the 60's - 70's. Their coup de gras was the election of 0 by these aging dinosaurs and the ignorant children they've taught over the last 40 years. California used to be number 1 in education; now they are 57th. They are now retiring and will soon depart for Berkeley in the sky.
Russia is going through the low grade civil wars all over its vast declining territory. In order to prevent that Russia's 's next move is to abolish ALL republics within Russia, including Chechnia, Ingushetia, Dagestan, Tatarstan - de facto, independent state recognized by Yeltsin, run by moderate Muslims wth hugeg minorities of Polish Catholics, Russian Orthodox, Buddis, etc. Tatarstan, of course, will be turned into Chechnia, with any renewed attempts to gain independence. In the meantime, Russia continues to destabilize not only Central Europe, especially Poland; after the assassination of the Polish President in Smolensk by Putin, the poliltical assassinations are being committed in the broad day light all over Poland - targeting the pro-western politicians s well as the people who wants international. Speaking of the Western Europe; every child in Skandynavia knows that the collapse of Iceland was caused by two Russian billionaires who, through the Dutch and British banks invested billions and then, withdrew all investment money causing the total collapse of the country. At the same time, the EU willingly put a noose around its neck by letting Russia to be almost the sole provider of gas and oil. Europe is heading for a total catastrophy that will end with Russia's control of the whole continent. Selling and stealing of technology from the West is going on as usual. So, it seems that Russia is winning… If one looks at Russia closely, though, one can see the slow disintegration of the old empire just in front of one's eyes. Enter Moscow, the Russian capital and you will be entering a CENTRAL-ASIAN MUSLIM CITY [80% of inhabitant are muslim]; Russian army, truly a laughing stock of the world eats dog food, Air Forces and Navy are in total decline On top of that, ecological catastrophy all over Rusia, dying population is truly 'winning combinaon'. Russia is just another 'empire' crambling and NOTHING will stop it…
When I was a kid, we made fun of the Soviet Union. There were corrupt officials funneling money to their friends while the citizens starved. They manipulated the economy to keep people powerless. They exaggerated real enemies and invented other enemies to excuse abuses of power like bullying people taking pictures in public spaces. They sunk money and lives into a losing war in Afghanistan. They tortured political prisoners.
Thank goodness we had the Republicans, here, otherwise we might see things like Wall Street bailouts, the Patriot Act, indefinite detention, and voting machines that aren't accountable.
You can pretend that there's a left and a right, but if you grow up and open your eyes, you'll notice that both "sides" use exactly the same tactics with exactly the same goals. They want to exploit the rest of us, whether they're commanders-in-chief or captains of industry.
Hint: Who funded Lenin and Trotsky? You can't run an organized revolution without money, and it doesn't grow on trees.
Or, you know, if you're really that upset at Obama's reelection (or the lack of a Romney election, even though the bailouts and ObamaCare were his ideas), then leave. There are countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia that have exactly the hawkish, anti-populist governments you want to live under.
commie bastards. I'll see you in hell.
Who is surprised ?
Communism, Maoism and Marxism are being taught as good things in our schools .
The only problem is they were run the 'wrong leaders " .
Todays leaders would make it great professors moronically all say .
Of course there is no mention over 200 Million were Murdered , Starved to death and enslaved , Politically ,imprisoned, worked to death not to mentioned left as poor as third world Africans .
Communist Goals
# 15 - Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
# 20 - Infiltrate the press
# 21 - Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
The cold war may be over but Communism is still around. Stay alert & be informed - from sources other than HuffPo
I don't see why they need to bother with "planting" anything like this. They have RT.com and the Russia Today channel now carried by Comcast and Dish. It's slick, weasley leftist propaganda like a video version of Kos. They do permit some financial commentary that is outside the narrow channel permitted on the U.S. news networks, but what does it say that something funded by the Russian government is consistently left wing and engaged is historical revisionism to suit the really far left (one of their shills ,Hartman, was on the other evening disposing of the Reagan administration's irrational fears and how the Cold War was the product of…U.S. militarism and imperialism. The disturbing thing is there is a generation in college now that is not even dimly familiar with the Iron Curtain or Berlin Wall. One side built a fence to keep their people in, but you are an evil fascist if you want to defend yourself to keep people out.
Curiously a channel called Russia Today seems to be mostly about the U.S. They concern themselves with political dissidents here, not much about Russia or China though. It's like "Brezhnev Vision".
time to do a petition to revoke Arianne's citizenship.
This is news? I am sure that you could include, ABC,NBC,CBS, MSNBC ,CNN, Democrat National Committee and a bunch more.
Let me get this straight. Someone thinks it's news that Huffington Post would publish communistic propaganda. Is that right…?
If the federal government were not full of Marxists, Arianna Huffington would be answering to charges of treason. Her efforts to turn this country into one patterned after USSR or Communist China are dispicable. Shame we just re-elected the first Marxist President. This country is committing national suicide right before our eyes and it is people like those at HuffPo that are working day and night to bring about the end of the USA and substitute the USSA.
HuffPo = Pravda
There is no one entity any better than the Russians in successfully tossing piles of propaganda and making it stick. Up until now, the Russians and the KGB have been the undisputed Kings and have been for decades. Probably their most successful scam is the one that had the main stream media believing and portraying J Edgar Hoover as a pervert and a cross dresser. Although never corroborated, most of the public familiar with the allegations, still believe them to be true.
Sadly, the Russians have yielded the number one propagandist position to our own American born and ill informed Main Stream Media. Witness the recent re-election of one of the worst presidents in history.
What's new? They're just communists anyway, they wouldn't notice if something about Russia was part of their daily wallow. They spend all their time trying to bring down America anyway.
This is the tip of the iceberg on how PR firms push the media to either publish their clients' political views or how PR firms try to get free advertising by providing "information." When you call the PR people on it, they either lie, run and hide or deny. Here is something I send back to them when they are so obvious:
An open letter to PR firms and publicists
Here's a perspective from a working journalist. Most press releases from PR firms are crap. They try to push something that should be an advertisement. By trying to get a freebie, in the long run, they undercut the business model that is already in enough trouble as is. In cannibalizing the system, also in the long run, they are eventually going to kill the information channel that gets the word out about whatever they are touting.
I've gotten into heated discussions in which PR people say a quid pro quo is unethical. Really? More unethical than some of the stuff PR firms pull?
If you're putting out a release about a new legitimate service (for example, a new program at a hospital or something similar), and the news outlet picks up on it, don't turn around and stab the news outlet in the back over advertising later. Example: A local PR firm that put out a news release on a new senior day care program. We picked up on it and did a story. A few weeks later, at a board meeting, one of the board members suggested including our outlet in the advertising campaign and the PR firm killed off that advertising. Now anything that firm puts out — worthy or not — is ignored. Truth is, it's all a quid pro quo, and if the news outlet is important enough for a press release, it's important enough for advertising.
And, in touting something, don't send out an "alert." Alerts from public safety agencies and similar news releases are appropriate. From PR firms, not so much.
Then, if you fax or email something, don't follow with a phone call to ask if we got the fax or email. Maybe we're considering your information; or perhaps ignoring it. If we're interested, we'll probably call for more information. Let it be. And, for God's sakes, don't "circle back." That is such a stupid phrase and makes you sound like some kind of jargon jockey. Keep that stupidity in your own shop.
Similar advice goes for op-ed pieces. The first helpful thing for you to do is know the outlet. I get crap from a variety of conservative outfits that send us pieces that are 180 degrees opposite of our positions. Usually I respond with a one-word "pass," but a week later get an email asking if we had a chance to read the piece and if we're running it. If I've already passed on it, what part of the word "pass" do you not understand? And don't tell me it's a "both sides of the issue" thing for our editorial pages. It's our outlet and if you want to pander the opposite of our views, we have a large corporate out-of-town-owned daily here that spews plenty of right-wing garbage. They'll not only help spread the spew but will spin the news for you. We don't.
And my final thought on this lovely dose of reality: Don't call me by my first name when you send me stuff if you don't know me. It's disrespectful. And spell my last name right. That not only shows respect, but that you've done your homework. And every communication I've gotten from a PR firm is signed "all the best." All the best what? How about something more neutral and businesslike? "Sincerely" or "respectfully" work fine.
If you think this is all harsh, fine. It's a reality.
George Schwarz, publisher and editor
The Amarillo Independent
It figgures!!!! I am sure you dont really expect anything more form this rag!!!!
John, it's so rich how you tell us there's no left or right and that both sides are bad. You then proceed to slam Republicans and tell us to leave because we aren't licking Obama's boot. Why don't YOU leave and put us all out our misery you moron. Just admit what you are, another Socialist sympathizer disguised as some moderate, give us all a break.
Deadguin, let me educate you since no one else in your life seems to have bothered. Drudge links to ALL sites, not just one side like most of your ILK. You cannot be this stupid, can you?
Fascinating, and thanks for the eye-opening look at scallywags we may have missed.
But now I'm curious about the 27 or so American newspapers which ran editorials, their papers backing Romney. Who paid them? Not all the VA local papers that just went under via Buffet. It must be the ones too big to not save that are still open for business. Was it part of the Obama back-up catch-all for a sympathy vote. Ain't politics something else and a half.
If it came from the Huffington Post or any part of NBC then it can only be a bunch of lies.
Call the office.
Huff-Po is Irresponsible Journalism personified ... Arianna is a total Dingbat !!
Golly gee whiz. Ketchum Public Relations does fake journalism for so many sketchy organizations….Like Putin's communist Russia…IBM…and the U.S. Army.
Save your boring, endless outrage, right-wingers. If you think American Spectator, Fox News, or World Nut Daily don't run blatant PR pieces by amoral corporate spinmeisters, you're delusional.
Having lived in Moscow and attending its "finest" schools, nothing has changed in that decrepit shithole. Thugs everywhere and drunks pissing themselves in the Metro. Plus, now we have a former KGB doink running the place with guns and threats. Nothing is new under the sun.
Is anyone similarly tallying China's op-ed strategies ?
They've already used BLJ to create a counter-narrative on Tibet and operate through US text books (paragraphs near the end:) http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/washingtons-syria-lobbyists-hard-power-necessary-to-quell-rebellion/2012/07/06/gJQA0jBWSW_blog.html
Also, who's following China's shareholder influence strategy ?
HuffingtonPost is but a propaganda tool for the oligarchy so why should we be surprised? Putin is fixing Russia's PR problems in the United States so his buddy Obama can be more even "flexible" with this thug after the election. Nothing is hidden that shall not be revealed. But Burnam Wood is moving in.
Huffington post just like Newyork times is a puppet for a faceless party. And the proof is in their old days 1way communication style.
Fools think everyone is fool.
DAMMIT ANARCHY NOW! This is crazy!
Well big DUH!
How could anybody read some of the pablum hp tries to sell and not see Russian propaganda behind it?
My granddad left Czechoslovakia in the early 1900s, when he was a kid. All I know about the USSR is what he told me, and before he died at 103 in 1997 he said he was glad. He said could see the U.S. turning into the USSR faster than he expected.
No word yet on the endless streams of pro-US (either slanting from the left or right, depending on which is in power at the time) and pro-Israeli propaganda dished out on a much larger scale in the majority of our media. I don't care if it's MSNBC, FOX, or everything in between, I wish the media would stop trying to tell us what we should think, and just start telling us the truth for a change; just give us the facts, and we'll make up our own minds.
LOL! Other commenters here actually think Putin is a communist. It's even more laughable than the HuffPo being busted as the frauds that they are.
It proves that Media is still in the grip of unscrupulously wealthy thugs. People often die in thousands of head count in some part of the world as a result of human Brutality or Natural disaster. (e.g. Bangladesh, Srilanka, Nigeria etc.) and no outcry even in the cases of Saudi-Arabian type beheading atrocity.
And sometimes death of only 100 becomes big deal like WW3
e.g. 50 semites die in retaliation of a death of 1 single terrorist of semitic origin and all the top media get flooded with news, images and pictures in ways to brainwash ordinary folks with the impression of a exploded hell that doesn't even in the cosmos.
Dumb practice but who cares for it in this rapid communication era?
Use of common sense is now better than the judgments of old style warlords and a few nards with knowledge based on memorized words of stinky law books of outdated old.
HuffPo printing Russian propaganda? When did they not print it?...lol
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Thanks for the fixes, Thomas. I'm checking in this docs patch. In
future, you can submit patches directly against gcj.texi if you like.
Regards Bryce 2005-04-20 Bryce McKinlay <[email protected]> * gcj.texi: Fix typos and bogus example. --- gcj.texi 7 Apr 2005 15:48:02 -0000 1.80 +++ gcj.texi 21 Apr 2005 00:05:37 -0000 @@ -1546,7 +1546,7 @@ reference to the object points to the dispatch table pointer.) The fields are laid out in the same order, alignment, and size as in -C++. Specifically, 8-bite and 16-bit native types (@code{byte}, +C++. Specifically, 8-bit and 16-bit native types (@code{byte}, @code{short}, @code{char}, and @code{boolean}) are @emph{not} widened to 32 bits. Note that the Java VM does extend 8-bit and 16-bit types to 32 bits when on the VM stack or temporary registers. @@ -1560,7 +1560,7 @@ @{ public int i; public Integer (int i) @{ this.i = i; @} - public static zero = new Integer(0); + public static Int zero = new Int(0); @} @end example @@ -1630,7 +1630,7 @@ Accessing a static field also requires the class of the field to be initialized. The Java compiler will generate code -to call @code{Jv_InitClass} before getting or setting the field. +to call @code{JvInitClass} before getting or setting the field. However, the C++ compiler will not generate this extra code, so it is your responsibility to make sure the class is initialized before you access a static field from C++. Mike Stump wrote:
From the gcc list: Begin forwarded message:From: Thomas Zander <[email protected]> Date: April 20, 2005 4:11:32 PM PDT To: [email protected] Subject: Typo in online GCJ docs. In page: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcj/Objects-and-Classes.html - Specifically, 8-bite and 16-bit native types + Specifically, 8-bit and 16-bit native typesOn the same page there is a Java example that will not compile, I found andfixed 3 bugs; Please replace with: public class Int { public int i; public Int(int i) { this.i = i; } public static Int zero = new Int(0); } On page: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcj/Class-Initialization.html Both JvInitClass and Jv_InitClass are used; which one is it? Please forward to the maintainer or if you can, fix it in the source. Thanks! -- Thomas Zander
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Snow accumulating in southern NC; state of emergency declared
Posted February 10, 2014
Updated February 11, 2014
Raleigh, N.C. — With snow already falling in south-central parts of the state, Gov. Pat McCrory on Tuesday morning declared a state of emergency as officials prepare to respond to the second major winter system to impact North Carolina in as many weeks.
The moisture-rich system is expected to drop snow and ice across the majority of the state, with areas in central and eastern North Carolina seeing a rain-snow mix.
"Here we go again, but this time it may be even more serious," McCrory said. "It's probably going to be more unpredictable. Our goal is to be over-prepared and hopefully underwhelmed by the storm. Again, like two weeks ago, this storm is going to be impacting the entire state."
Cold air will filter into the area from the north throughout the day Tuesday, creating ideal conditions for wintry precipitation. Temperatures were in the upper 20s across the Triangle at 11 a.m. after starting in the mid-30s.
Moisture that will feed the winter storm was moving across South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi early Tuesday, slowly making its way into North Carolina from the south and east.
"There is a lot of moisture with this system, and it will begin to impact our southern counties by mid-morning today," WRAL meteorologist Elizabeth Gardner said.
The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for several central North Carolina counties, including Person, Orange, Lee, Moore, Durham, Wake and Johnston. The warning is in effect from 9 a.m. Wednesday to 6 p.m. Thursday.
Southern counties, including Hoke, Harnett, Wayne, Cumberland and Sampson, were placed under a winter storm warning at 5 a.m. Tuesday.
Agencies prepare for brunt of storm
Road crews across the Triangle spent much of the day Monday spreading brine on major roadways.
Department of Transportation Secretary Tony Tata said Tuesday that road crews are ready to respond once precipitation begins to fall.
"There are about 2,000 employees on the roads right now with about 700 trucks," Tata said. "We've put down 1.9 million gallons of brine in the last 24 hours. We will re-brine those areas where the rain may have washed it away. We will continue to monitor conditions."
In Johnston County, NCDOT crews have sprayed 120,000 gallons of brine within the last 24 hours. There are 60 employees who will be working in shifts throughout the storm.
Crews have been monitoring roads along with overpasses/bridges today looking for trouble spots and treating them as necessary.
Duke Energy is bringing in hundreds of crews from around the country to help with power outages that could come from this week's winter storm, company officials said Tuesday.
A total of 150 power workers are on their way to Greensboro from Ohio and Kentucky. Another 200 are coming from Florida to Florence, S.C. That's where they'll wait until they see what areas in North Carolina need attention, a company spokesperson said.
Although the full brunt of the storm hadn't hit Tuesday, it was already disrupting transportation. At Raleigh-Durham International Airport, about 20 arrivals and departures scheduled for Wednesday were canceled as of 2 p.m. and travelers were urged to check their flights before heading out.
Amtrak passengers were also encouraged to check schedules after train service was suspended in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic regions for Tuesday and Wednesday.
Many schools closing early
Areas in the southern coastal plain could end up with 2 to 4 inches of snow mixed with sleet or freezing rain, an event that could create power outages and dangerous road conditions.
Areas closer to the Triangle could see some light snow accumulations or light wintry mix Tuesday before the entire area gets a brief respite overnight.
"Late Tuesday into Wednesday is when we will see the bulk of this system moving in," Gardner said. "Wake, Durham and Orange counties are under a winter storm watch for Tuesday, but that is likely to be upgraded at some point during the day Tuesday."
Several school systems reacted to the impending winter weather early Tuesday. Students in Cumberland, Johnston, Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Sampson and Wayne counties will not have classes on Tuesday. Moore County and Edgecombe County schools will close at 11:30 a.m., and Chatham County schools will also close early.
Wake County schools will release one hour early Tuesday afternoon, officials said. After-school activities in Wake County have also been canceled for Tuesday evening.
Durham and Orange county schools, as well as Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, have not made announcements regarding Tuesday classes. Wake Technical Community College will close at 2 p.m.
Cumberland County and Fort Bragg schools will be closed Wednesday. See a complete list.
The second round of precipitation, which will likely start as snow, will move into the area during the day Wednesday from south to north. All of central North Carolina will see some impact, and spots in the Triangle could see the precipitation change to sleet or freezing rain later in the day.
Highs Wednesday will top out near freezing.
Areas east of Interstate 95 will mostly see rain Wednesday, and communities between I-95 and Raleigh will see a mix of wintry weather.
"We're going to see widespread snow and ice on Wednesday," Gardner said. "The northern part of our viewing area will likely see more snow, but those areas where we see some frozen precipitation will really be spots to watch."
Storm impact will vary across state
McCrory reiterated the dangers of an unpredictable system, saying the constant changes make logistics difficult for those responding to the storm.
"Each part of the state will have different timings with this. Some may see more rain, some may see more sleet, some may see more snow," McCrory said. "There is the potential for power outages. Avoid travel once the storm hits the part of the state you are in."
The system will begin to clear the area Thursday, but the area could continue to see a rain-snow mix during the first part of the day. Temperatures will top out in the upper 30s.
Drier and warmer air will return on Friday, and sunshine will be the dominant feature of the forecast throughout the weekend.


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The first official trailer for Jerry Bruckheimer's The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is now up for all the internet to see [update: we've added our embedded version above -- and read our in-depth analysis right here]. The long and short of it, it actually looks pretty good. Of course, the trailer is comprised mainly of quick cuts of action and narration filled with cliched adventure story tropes. Then again, as a video game adaptation, maybe that's to be expected.
Still, there doesn't appear to be anything overtly awful just yet, so the hope is still alive. If Bruckheimer can turn a theme park ride into a successful film franchise, maybe, just maybe, he can do it with a game too.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's largest mosque, the Islamic Cultural Center (ICC) on East 96th Street in Manhattan, is getting applause from an unexpected quarter -- the city's influential Jewish community.
Rabbis who've spoken there call it an open and welcoming community. The Jewish Theological Seminary and the ICC are planning a joint soup kitchen for the homeless. The mosque is organizing an inter-religious studies program for teenagers.
Much of the credit for the upbeat mood goes to Mohammad Shamsi Ali, the ICC's Indonesian-born imam who arrived here only 12 years ago and has been rated by New York magazine as the city's most influential Islamic leader.
"Westerners often wonder what they're preaching in the mosques, and Jews particularly worry about that," said Rabbi Burton Visotzky, who spoke at the ICC in April along with Ali.
"What I heard Shamsi Ali preach was as fine a sermon on brotherhood as has ever been preached," said Visotzky, professor of midrash (scriptural interpretation) and inter-faith studies across town at the Jewish Theological Seminary.
Rabbi Marc Schneier, who spoke at the ICC last year and invited Ali to speak to his New York Synagogue in midtown last month, said: "It was impressive when he spoke to the congregation about Israel's territorial integrity and how suicide bombings are a perversion of the Koran and Islam."
One community publication, The Jewish Week, portrayed Ali as a "charismatic and compassionate leader" who can "mesmerise listeners with sermons in fluent, lightly accented English."
The soft-spoken imam, 41, attributes his inter-faith success to New York's ethnic and religious diversity and to the freedom Muslims enjoy in the United States despite what he calls "some interruptions due to security" after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
"One of the blessings of living in New York is that we can do this very easily," he told Reuters at the mosque, which was financed by Kuwait and other Muslim countries and opened in 1991. "Here in America, we feel easy practicing our religion."
Cooperation begins at the mosque itself, where Sunnis and Shias pray side by side in a congregation of Muslims from about 70 different countries, including U.S. black Muslims.
Ali was born in Makasar on Sulawesi island in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation. After attending a madrassa there, he studied at the International Islamic University in the Pakistani capital Islamabad and then taught in Saudi Arabia.
Arriving in New York in 1996 to head an Indonesian mosque in Queens, he soon began giving lectures on Islam for the New York Police Department. This contact led the NYPD to ask him to say the Muslim prayer at an inter-faith memorial service in Yankee Stadium two weeks after the September 11 attacks.
Ali has also been active in larger inter-faith initiatives such as the National Dialogue of Muslims and Catholics and Imams and Rabbis conferences in the United States and abroad.
Because of the Middle East conflict, being Indonesian rather than Arab may also help in relations with Jews, Ali admits.
But he says it's more important that he separates politics from religion. He supports the idea of a Palestinian state, but adds: "It is unacceptable for me to say that Israel does not exist. How can we say there must only be one country?"
This is a clear change from the ICC's previous imam, Omar Abu Namous, a Palestinian who upset Jews on his first visit to speak at Schneier's New York Synagogue in 2006.
"It was a dialogue and everything was going along just fine until we got to the Middle East conflict," Schneier recalled. "He proposed a one-state solution and it wasn't exactly a Jewish state solution either. All hell broke loose."
Namous has since retired. Ali is officially the ICC's deputy imam. The mosque's board of trustees -- which includes several United Nations ambassadors of Muslim countries -- will meet in September to decide if he should get the top post.
That vote will be "a test of the viability of Shamsi Ali's moderate line with the Muslim community," the Jewish Week wrote.
Open criticism has come from a handful of radicals called the Islamic Thinkers Society, which has attacked him as an "FBI mouthpiece" and a "moderate Uncle Sam Muslim." Ali dismisses them as isolated, "ignorant and in need of an education."
Schneier read Ali's openness to working with Jews as a sign of a wider trend in Islam, citing a recent initiative of Muslim scholars for talks with Jews and comments by Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah promoting Muslim-Jewish-Christian dialogue.
"Shamsi Ali is not only the head of America's most prominent mosque," he said. "The funding for that mosque comes from the Saudis and Kuwaitis... He very much reflects a new tenor in Islam. It's not a major tremor but there are shifts taking place towards inter-religious dialogue."
Progress in dialogue is not limited to New York. Visotzky noted the Islamic Society of North America invited Reform Rabbi Eric Yoffie, head of the country's largest Jewish denomination, to address its convention in Chicago last September.
Last month, Schneier brought together six imams -- including Ali -- and six rabbis from across the country to film a television commercial in which the imams denounce anti-Semitism and the rabbis speak out against Islamophobia.
Soon afterwards, some of the Muslims expressed reservations about meeting Pope Benedict during his U.S. visit. Benedict angered Muslims around the world in 2006 with a lecture that implied Islam was a violent and irrational religion.
"I find it ironic that here in America, you have Islamic leaders who are more comfortable doing a project with rabbis than meeting the head of the Roman Catholic Church," Schneier said. "You don't find that anywhere else in the world."
(Reporting by Tom Heneghan; Editing by Eddie Evans)
For more on religion, see the Reuters religion blog FaithWorld at blogs.reuters.com/faithworld


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Legends and Logging Days fun for all ages
Legends and Logging Days events Friday and Saturday were fun for all ages.
Chainsaw artists completed masterpieces over the last day and a half and pieces were auctioned off Saturday afternoon.
World Record-Breaking Lumberjacks and Lumberjills competed in wood chopping and sawing contests Saturday afternoon for an audience eager to cheer.
See photos and a wrap-up of events in Wednesday's Enterprise.


text: dirac Report post Posted March 27, 2013 Reviews of the Mikhailovsky Ballet in 'Giselle.' The Independent Though this is now their home company, Vasiliev and Osipova still look like guest stars, their dancing grand and expansive against the softer approach of the Mikhailovsky. They're extraordinary, but it takes them longer to build excitement. The Guardian Yet, watching this production on opening night, it feels like a ballet being pulled in conflicting directions. Natalia Osipova is a prodigiously talented dancer who resembles Sylvie Guillem in her attempts to reinvent the roles she performs. Her Giselle is a headstrong young woman who's stumbled into a gothic horror; while she dances much of the first act with a sunny buoyancy, dark cracks of apprehension zigzag across her happiness, eventually imploding into a mad scene of psychotic intensity. The Telegraph Perhaps inevitably, these two Titans here eclipsed everyone else on stage to a distracting degree: those used to the Royal Ballet's corps (and indeed orchestra) may have been disappointed, besides which it remains to be seen how the remaining Giselle casts will fare by comparison. Still, anything's possible, and at any rate this truly remarkable duo will be fronting other works by the Mikhailovsky between now and April 7. I'd get booking. Share this post Link to post


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November 26, 2013
Trailer Wizards says it will host "Haul Away Hunger" Holiday Food Drive from Nov. 25-29 across Canada at all participating Trailer Wizards branches.
Each of Trailer Wizards' branches nationwide will collect on behalf of local food banks in their communities.
"Close to 850,000 Canadians rely on food banks each month," says Doug Vanderspek, President of Trailer Wizards. "This is something I know we're all good at as, with the help of our customers and suppliers, we made a huge impact collecting food during Hunger Awareness Week and our 50th anniversary celebrations."


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NAVTEQ recently announced the launch of NAVTEQ Traffic in Brazil, delivering comprehensive, real-time traffic information to nearly 48 million people in six major cities, including Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Salvador, Curitiba and Porto Alegre.
NAVTEQ Traffic is currently available throughout North America and 14 countries in Europe, and its availability in Brazil is part of a significant global expansion effort.
NAVTEQ's Brazilian coverage includes nearly 15,000 kilometers across the six cities, encompassing nearly 48 million people.
To deliver the most comprehensive traffic solution, NAVTEQ has selected best-in-class data sources with years of experience in their local markets.
In Brazil, this includes GPS probe data from consumer devices, including Nokia handsets.
NAVTEQ's advanced data aggregation methods, proprietary traffic modeling capabilities and stringent quality verification processes optimizes and blends this data into a high-quality traffic service that is consistent with NAVTEQ's global traffic offering.
Source: NAVTEQ.