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Savez- I respect your opinion and the way it seems to be researched and thought out. My only concerns are concerns I've said before. It is very difficult to place modern values and ideals on historical people. Before dismissing Howe as a hypocrite racist, you have to place yourself in her shoes, in her period, with her education and upbringing. Maybe you have. Also, to have little respect for all abolitionists paints a pretty wide brush stroke. There is not enough room in this website for me to go into all the conflicts I have with John Brown and what he meant to the history of this nation. |
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This discussion has wandered a long way from Civil War music maybe Joe you could move it to a discussion of Howe ? |
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The only reason I let it go this far is because it was basically a dead thread when it started, but you are correct. Someone please open a thread on Howe or abolition or whatever and take it up there. I don't have the ability to move individual posts. |
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A friend recommended this restaurant to me and I must say it was a good choice. The food is excellent, staff friendly and very clean. Well worth a visit.
Excellent Seafood – After hearing favorable comments about the Salt Cellar we made reservations and went last night.
Service was prompt and courteous in the bar and at our table.
Although they carried a good selection of wine, the quality was subpar. Sutter Home may be a fair wine, but not what I would expect at an establsihment such as the Salt Cellar.
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Although the prices are high, you are paying for fresh flown in fish in the desert.
We will definately return and I highly recommend the Salt Cellar. I would have given them a 5 star if it wasn't for the wine list and clam soup.
Not Impressed – I was really excited about this restaurant. My brother had mentioned it to me a while ago and I had high expectations. The ambiance of the place was great. An underground restaurant is a cool idea.
However, the food wasn't cooked very well, the portions were small, and it was EXTREMLY overpriced. We had oysters on the half shell and escargot to start. This was excellent. My issue came with the main course. My husband and my brother both ordered crab and lobster. It was way overcooked and rubbery (a trend I noticed in other reviews AFTER I went to the restaurant). They were too polite to send it back, but my brother did mention it to the waiter when he asked if the food was good. He didn't even get an apology. Our vegetables were also way underdone. We basically got a huge chunk of raw broccoli. I like broccoli, but steamed broccoli shouldn't be crunchy. My brother's Irish coffee wasn't made right either.
The other thing I noticed was portion size. My plate was $30+ and I got one skewer of scallops, a SMALL baked potato, and broccoli. If I hadn't ordered an appetizer, I would still have been hungry. My husband and brother had the same issue. My husbands plate had 1 crab leg…..that's ridiculous!
I would expect this kind of thing from a place where I spent $50-$60, but we walked out with a tab of $211.00. I do not think I will be going back. I have had better seafood at Pappaduex!
The Salt Cellar – Alright, so i was told by a family memeber that this was his favorite restaurant, so I decided to take my wife for a nice dinner. I should have went somewhere else.
First off, we were laughed at by the lady greeting us and the lady who took us to our seat. Don't know why. They just looked at my wife and I, looked at each other and started chuckling. That was rude. Maybe I had somthing hanging from my face. Who knows?
Anyway, We started by ordering the maryland crab cakes. They were good but nothing to write home about. For my main course I ordered the lobster and steak. The lobster was way over cooked and very rubbery. The steak was cooked how I like it but tasted like it wasn't seasoned at all. Very bland. My wife ordered the stuffed lobster. Same story, lobster way over cooked. Whatever they stuffed her lobster with was terrible and the scallops inside tasted bland as well. My wife took one bite and stopped eating We told the server and she just said "sorry", walked away and gave us the $120 check. Normally when you go to a restaurant and don't like something, they offer you a different choice, discount on the check or both. We got none of that. I will never return to this place again. Severly over rated. We should have went to Red Lobster. I could have saved some money and had better food.
Final review, Over priced food, over rated food and rude staff.
What a joke.... but no one is laughing.
I love this place – We started off by making a reservation well in advance as they are busy most of the time from what I hear. We had another couple with us so that made 4. We sat at a great round table whee we could all talk. Nice!! The server told us about some specials and we all tried something different and shared. This is the place if you want FRESH-WONDERFUL-SEAFOOD. You will not be dissapointed.
Dessert and coffee were hard to get down as the portions are big but we had to try the Banana dessert.YUMMY
Great Sea Food in a hole in the middle of the desert!!! – A nice lady bartender at the airport Crowne Plaza Hotel in Phoenix reccommended Salt Cellar when asked about seafood places around Phoenix. I have traveled a great deal around the world. This was however my first visit to Phoenix. My wife Bonnie and I were very pleased and had a wonderful dinning experience at Salt Cellar Rstaurant in Scottsdale Az. We reccommend this unique experience.
Best Seafood in AZ period! – Our waitress, Christina, was really friendly and very helpful! She suggested we start of with the Sauteed Shrimp San Remo and we weren't disappointed at all! It was one of the best things I have ever had! The sauce it is made with is so delicious, you can dip the bread in it too. My husband got the stuffed baked lobster, which was absolutely awesome. I got the steamed lobster and that was delicious as well. The staff cracks the lobster so you don't have to do the "dirty work" and that's an added bonus as well. Overall the experience was great and we had an outstanding time. We just can't believe it took us seven years to find this place but then again, we live on the other side of town. We definitely recommend this place to anyone who likes seafood!!!
Terrible food – I had heard how good it was. What a disappointment. Very expensive restaurant with food inferior to the corner fish and chip shop back home in Australia, or MT, CT, NY.
The waitress was very good. But her support from the kitchen and the near teenage greeters at the front were not charming one bit.
If somebody eats here and says the food is good, then they do not know what good sea food is, from somebody who catches it.
Fishlover#1 – The Salt Cellar offers the best seafood in the entire valley. I should know, I eat seafood every chance I get. My husband and I dined at the Salt Cellar twice this month already (october 2009). We ordered the king crab legs and the shrimp san remo. It melted in our mouths- We decided to order the yako (?) tuna for an appetizer because we loved it the 1st time as a dinner. Every appetizer and entree we have ordered there has been cooked to perfection. The service was prompt when it needed to be but she also knew when we wanted some alone time. The servers there really know how to make the evening special. The bottle of wine we ordered was poured by the server and the cheesecake (snickers) was amazing. I would HIGHLY recommend this amazing restaurant to anyone who wants to impress their date (1st date or married for 50 years).
5 stars to the Crew of the Salt Cellar
Poor service and quality – I went here w/ my family the first and ONLY time last night. The prices are high and the quality of service and food are poor.
The hostess was extremely rude, commenting on our attire even though we were similarly dressed as other patrons. The food was average at best; I had the shrimp scampi which was inedible. I returned the meal unfinished and barely eaten as it tasted as if it were cooked in Pine-Sol. The prices were very high for the quality of food and rude and unprofessional greeting. The hostess, an older white female w/ above the shoulder length hair should at least wait until the guests of her place of employment have left before disparaging their attire with such disdainful comments as, "Have you seen the ones that just walked in?"
The table server, at least, was polite and professional, but that along w/ a "cool" building certainly do not justify the overly high prices. I WOULD NOT recommend this place to anyone, I know there is better service and seafood for less money somewhere else in the area. Do not waste your time and $$$ here.
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Connecticut Study: Oreos Are as Addictive as Cocaine
The study, by Connecticut College students and their professor, also found that rats eat the cookies the same way as most humans — the middle first.
At least that's the results of a new study by Connecticut College students and their neuroscience professor.
"In a study designed to shed light on the potential addictiveness of high-fat/ high-sugar foods, Professor Joseph Schroeder and his students found rats formed an equally strong association between the pleasurable effects of eating Oreos and a specific environment as they did between cocaine or morphine and a specific environment," the College writes on its website.
According to that article, the research was the brainchild of neuroscience major Jamie Honohan, '13.
It states, "A scholar in the College's Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy, Honohan was interested in how the prevalence of high-fat and high-sugar foods in low-income neighborhoods contributed to the obesity epidemic."
The CDC reports that "more than one-third of U.S. adults (35.7%) and approximately 17% (or 12.5 million) of children and adolescents aged 2—19 years are obese."
"Even though we associate significant health hazards in taking drugs like cocaine and morphine, high-fat/ high-sugar foods may present even more of a danger because of their accessibility and affordability," Honohan said.
The Oreo was first introduced in 1912, according to Wikipedia, and "Milk's Favorite Cookie" quickly became a best-seller in the United States.
Today, more than 34 million people like Oreo on Facebook.
In fact, a 2005 article by Food Processing states, "Oreo worldwide is so popular that if every Oreo cookie ever made (more than 490 billion) were stacked on top of each other, the pile would reach to the moon and back more than six times."
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If I'm not wrong the title is 'Stand By Me'.Originally Posted by babyblues
If I'm not wrong the title is 'Stand By Me'.Originally Posted by babyblues
Out to Win! or Bu Bu Wei Ying. It is definitely cute and funny.
I recommend 'Beautiful Illusion', which was broadcast this year. There are a few good ones like, 'Stepping Out', but they are a little 'old' already. I thought that the storyline in 'Beautiful Illusion' is pretty fresh, as compared to the other family-oriented family series we usually see on TV. It is about a girl who want to seek revenge.
It is time to move on, but I can't do that, coz there is still a place for you in my heart...
my fave is tofu street. the ending is one of the most memorable ones in MediaCorp drama history. it was so heartbreaking at the end.
Beautiful Illusion, Beyond the Axis of Truth 1 and 2, Immortal Love, The Unbeatables 1 and 2, Price of Peace, The Adventures of Wisely, etc. to name a few.
I am sorry that I even mention this, but I used to watch quite a few series back in 1988-89. I think they were good... I have no idea what the titles were, but it was something like "pien nien sau nien" about six naughty kids getting in trouble and pregnant, then about a girl from outer space "ET" she was real cute, then an ancient series, so funny called "the kirin". There are more but too bad I can barely remember anything else. Does anyone know what i am talking about?
边缘少年, starring Li Nanxing, Yang Libing, etc. Only watched a few episodes, so only vaguely remember it was about a group of gangsters. I remembered the song though.Originally Posted by kbelle
飞跃银河then about a girl from outer space "ET" she was real cute,
The hand sign that the alien made in the series was very popular among the kids back when it was aired. \\//
金麒麟then an ancient series, so funny called "the kirin".
Can't remember anything else except the title.
juz asking... what is tofu street and immortal love about? i watch them but forgot the storyline.. hee
I love the golden 80s period of TVB!!!
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yeah, i think that is the name, i got it wrong previously. jia shi is the one with zoe and ping hui i think?Originally Posted by iezkiub
if you want something romantic, the most memorable one would be 'looking for stars' starring fann and chris. if im not wrong its only 10 episode long and they have it on vcd.
Tofu Street was shown in 1996. It's about the life of an immigrant child-bride, Simei, her family (mother-in-low and little husband called Luo Tou) and friends in post-war Singapore.
There are many plot-lines in the show and one of the most memorable is the forbidden love between Simei and this rich guy who loses his memory. To repay her gratitude towards her family, Simei chooses to remain loyal to them and rejects the rich man's love. The rich man returns to his fiancee and they wed. Years later, Luo Tou grows up and he is expected to consumnate his marriage. However he confides in Simei that he only harbours sibling love towards her. More importantly, he's fallen in love with his classmate. Simei takes out her life-savings and asks Luo Tou to elope with his lover. Luo Tou leaves and weeps on the train. In the last scene of the show, we see smiling wedding guests streaming into Simei's home and congratulating the mother-in-low. This is juxtaposed against Simei's tearful face as she sits alone in her bedroom, waiting for the groom that she knows will never appear...
wonder if anyone rems this serial called "3 and a half women". think it was shown in 2001. it's pretty good i thought. about huang wenyong who plays a divorcee going thru mid-life crisis, and how he is upstaged by 3 incredibly capable women in his ad agency, or so they seem...
i also like romantic romantic de dramas. like zai jian ying guang lan and theres this angel show starring jacelyn tay and li lin if im not wrong. i like the teacher series with chen han wei. cant remember the female lead le. i also like fu man ren jian by chew chor meng and ann kok. and paino 88 acted by ann kok and a foreign actor showing a girl who aspires to be a singer. beautiful illusions not bad too. urm theres this show with nnadia chan and chew chor meng rite? i thought this show has no content. the costume dramas i like the lu xiao feng and the two shows acted out by ma jing tao.
magic is something science hasn't made boring!
Fann Wong in the 1st series, Ann Kok in the 2nd series. Ann Kok was also in the first as a student who got terminally illed. In the second, she played a teacher.Originally Posted by muddy_paws
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Hola, thanks for your reply, glad somebody knows what i am talking about i wonder if you or anybody have the link to these. i wanna refresh my memories, maybe rewatch, there is a few more that i try hard to recall, but my mind is so blank. where can I get these in USA? i stopped watching sing. series in 1989. i wanna try getting some that ppl recommend too.Originally Posted by hola!
边缘少年 webpage on Mediacorp's websiteOriginally Posted by kbelle
http://www2.ch8.mediacorptv.com/dramafest/fringe.html (English version)
I don't have any links to the other two though.
As I'm in Singapore, I don't know where you can get these in USA.
starting 2003... i realize that a lot of singapore's dramas have been aire in malysia..personally i like..
my love my home
zero to hero
stepping out
to mom wif luv...
still have some...but couldn't think it rite now..ehehe
I will say I like MediaCorp's series in the past, too many to name. Recently, MediaCorp's series are generally long family dramas. I feel that having 1 or 2 will be fine. Too many such dramas actually bore the viewers.
Nevertheless, there are also some rather creative series like 'Yin Chai Yang Cuo' and the one starring Zoe Tay as traid leader. Although the script for these 2 shows may not b v gd, i think it is rather innovative
Oh! Almost forgot. I think the best MediaCorp series I have seen in last yr/this yr is 'er fen zhi yi yuan fen'.
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Lots of webmasters are either clicking their heels or kicking their LCDs. Google's Pagerank Update is sweeping world wide and apparently, a lot of people lost overhyped pagerank than gained. That's where all the heat's blowing from.
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Steve, Carlos, Johel, and Lester from Connecticut stayed with us here at Propiedad de Paradise Lodge, Isla Paridas last week to get away from the hustle and bustle of the working world, catch a few fish, and have a good time! The waters east of Hannibal Bank, and near Isla Jicaron, were teeming with Yellowfin Tunas feeding on Squid, small Octopus, and small bait fish. No luck with the Marlin this trip but each day we encountered the Tunas around the same area running with big schools of Porpoises feeding. The bite was a bit slow one day then better the next. We did well one day with the poppers and live BlueRunners. In the afternoons we hit the inshore spots and got lucky with a nice Rooster and a few decent Cuberas. The YFT action is heating up even more here in the Gulf of Chiriqui and it's bound to be stellar the next few months! Enjoy the pics.....
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By Evan from USA on 2013-04-24 08:19:35 Things I liked:Gun was working great but spring piston just seemed like it had to much recoil, after a hundred shots or so gun started shooting very inaccurately. Shortly after I went to reload and when I snapped barrel back it shot by itself and nearly hit somebody next to me. I cocked again reload and went to close barrel and then same thing happenned. After this the gun stopped working the spring piston failed. Now that IGT technology is available I can't understand why they didn't use it for this version. The regular version is IGT and shoots at 100fps slower. Gas piston is the only way to go now, this spring piston just has to much torque and recoil and will eventually break. Benjamin came out with a 1500 fps gas piston platform that is trmendously powerful and reliable, Gamo needs to invest in more powerful IGT technology.Things I would have changed:Spring piston What others should know:Buy regular version with IGT- |
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Red Shale Fire Daily Update 9/5/2013
Incident: Red Shale Wildfire
Released: 9/5/2013
Current Activities: Due to the onset of the bow hunting season starting Saturday September 7th and to provide for hunter safety, trail closures have been expanded to area closures in the Red Shale area. No additional trails have been closed and still open is the Headquarters Pass trail #165. Also a segment just past the Mill Falls campground on the South Fork of the Teton Road will be closed for repairs starting Monday September 9th, for maps, descriptions and further details see inciweb.org. The Red Shale Fire is estimated at 12,379 acres. The Rock Creek Fire is estimated at 372 acres. A smoke monitor is in service in Augusta to monitor smoke conditions in the region. For more information, please go to www.inciweb.org and see "Incident Related Links."
Management Actions: Evaluation and mitigation of potential risks to the public, fire personnel, and resources remains the top priority. Heavy downfall, abundant hazardous snags and dense young lodgepole pine stands dominate the area. A long term management plan identifying activities to slow progress and reduce intensity of the fire and provide for public safety was completed on July 24th. The use of helicopter water drops is one of the strategies identified in the plan. This plan is being routinely reviewed by District Fire Managers to ensure management actions are adequately addressing concerns identified.
Restrictions and Closures: trail closures have been expanded to area closures in the Red Shale area for public safety, Also a segment just past the Mill Falls campground on the South Fork of the Teton Road will be closed for repairs starting Monday September 9th. All forest visitors travelling in the backcountry are urged to use caution and be observant of changes in weather and fire behavior. Trail and area closures are updated frequently; for a current detailed map, please visit inciweb.org
The following trails, and area around them are closed in full length as of Aug. 21: #108 Route Creek (w/in the Wilderness boundary); #109 East Side Sun River Tr. (from Jct. w/ Tr. #165 north to jct. w/ Tr. #108); #110 North Fork Sun River Tr. (pack bridge north to jct. w/ Tr. #116 Open Creek.); #111 Rock Creek; # 117 Washboard Reef (w/in the Wilderness boundary); #125 Moose Ridge Lookout; #130 Red Shale, #132 Moonlight Peak; #151 N. Fk. Lick Creek; #157 Nesbit-Oley Creek. (w/in the Wilderness boundary); #162 Gates Creek; #163 Ray Creek Cut-off; #164 Ray Creek; #166 Gates - Moose Creek; #174 North Wall Tr. (south of #132); #175 Chinese Wall, (from jct. w/#131 Moose Creek. Tr. To Larch Hill Pass); #187 Wrong Ridge; #188 Monroe Cutoff; #194 My Lake.


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This thread is a long time coming. I've only had marginal luck thus far with 1x1s; there's several I am in, but only a couple of active, due to the rather mysterious disappearances of my RP partners :o
I'm not going to BORE you with 50,000 rules. I do have a few and these are important to me; so do actually read them please. I don't want PMs or replies from people who haven't the slightest idea of my expectations.
I want someone who can post a few times a day at least. I don't mind if you vanish a couple of days--so long as you send me a courtesy PM telling me you are going to be gone. Don't bother sending a PM if it's only a day. Three days of no posts though, and I expect a PM--unless there are circumstances preventing you from doing so. I will provide you the very same courtesy.
When I say high casual, I mean that. I want to RP with people who are able to write at least 2 well written paragraphs. I'm not a grammar nazi, but if you are writing and don't use a single speck of punctuation, we probably won't RP well together. On the length, I encourage as much as you are willing to give, but two is the minimum I want to see. If you provide me with enough information in your posts, I can post several paragraphs.
I don't do Smut. Tactful romance, I will do, but no smut. Other than that, I don't really care; I like dark and mature themed RPs, so expect 18+ material.
I ***hate*** playing canon characters. I don't do it well, I don't like it. I prefer fandom's with OCs. You **might** persuade me to let you RP a canon character in a fandom, but I will not, under any circumstances, RP a canon character--unless they are an NPC such as a teacher in a Harry Potter fandom, that sort of thing.
That's all I can think of. I'm 28 years old, and would prefer to RP with people who are 18+ IRL...I am more comfortable RPing those closer to my own age group in 1x1s, lest certain "themes" pop up.
That's about it. Now onto the stuff I am into RPing. The "meat" of this, if you will.
In case you didn't READ MY RULES, these are all OCxOC
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Harry Potter*
Silent Hill*
Star Trek (Voyager universe)
Stargate (original plot preferably)
Fallout (can take place in any canon location, VERY familiar with series)
Star Wars* (can take place pretty much anytime; but I know little of the Old Republic verse)
High Fantasy
Science Fiction*
Post-apocalyptic (NO ZOMBIES)
Any other good idea you have
As for pairings, anything you come up with, except for MxM. I don't do those. Otherwise, feel free to shoot me an idea. Hope to hear from some of you


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The media's misunderstanding of Venezuela
Hugo Chavez is definitely going to lose, isn't he?
By Lee Salter Published 05 October 2012 10:18In the run-up to this year's Venezuelan election, one thing is clear. The incumbent, Hugo Chavez, may lose this time. Indeed he probably lost in 1998, 2000, 2005 and every election contested. At least that's what we can judge from British news media coverage. Tales of a "shock victory" and of winning an "unexpected majority" will no doubt animate reporting after, as is almost certain, Chavez wins.
It is unsurprising that reporters in the UK remain confused after each election. After all, the business and private media elite take great pride in assuring the world that real Chavez supporters are few, and those that there are are largely brainwashed.
Indeed mention Hugo Chavez to a reasonably well-informed person in the UK and the response will probably be one of suspicion. The outspoken president of Venezuela does manage to get himself noticed, but rarely with a favourable reception in the British press. Often those who may otherwise support a left wing movement that has made significant advances in social welfare at a time when the West seems only capable of punishing the neediest know little of such progress but a good deal to be cautious of.
The challenge is to understand how the vague notions that there's something perhaps illegitimate, undemocratic and maybe corrupt about the Venezuelan president emerge. To this end, it helps to look to the source of most people's information on foreign affairs – corporate news.
Venezuela was hardly on the news radar in 1989, the year of the Tiananman Square massacre, when repression of protests in Caracas against IMF-imposed austerity led to a massacre of roughly as many as perished in China. However, when Hugo Chavez was first elected ten years later the press did take interest.
Chavez won a landslide victory in 1998, with 56 per cent of the vote. A new constitution was passed in 1999, supported by 72 per cent of the electorate, all parliamentary votes have been won by Chavez's supporters since, and Chavez has been re-elected President with between 59.8 per cent and 62.8 per cent of the vote.
Despite this democratic mandate, as Chavez began to confront Venezuela's internal elite and its allies in the US, reporting on Venezuela was found to be biased in a number of studies (1). One I've conducted examined 10 years of BBC online coverage. Within a year of Chavez's election, the BBC reported that "Opposition leaders in Venezuela have appealed to the international community to intervene to protect democratic rule" (12 April 1999). Four months later it had reported that Venezuela was already a dictatorship.
Few reports referenced Chavez's electoral legitimacy, and only a tiny percentage even mentioned the widespread social programmes implemented by the government.
At times the BBC's reporting was beyond comprehension. A subheading in one article referred to the 2002 coup as "Restoring Democracy". Despite the coup leader having assumed office by military force, the BBC reassured us that "In forming a transitional government, Venezuela has looked not to an existing politician, but to the head of the business leaders' association". What was meant by "Venezuela" was obvious yet unexplained.
There is much to be concerned about in Venezuela, as any honest supporter of the government will admit: corruption, crime, inadequate water supplies, repression of journalist by all sides, inadequate housing... the list goes on. Yet a dominant theme in BBC online news reports throughout the 2000s was the legitimacy of the president.
It should therefore be no surprise that a scoping survey I conducted this year (2) found that 20 per cent of respondents thought Venezuela was a dictatorship (only 46 per cent knew it was a democracy), and only 40 per cent thought Chavez was elected by a fair vote.
The same study of the UK press identifies interesting trends. Sixty percent of articles published by six major British newspapers between March 2011 and February 2012 characterised Chavez as "mismanaging", "threatening", "misguided or dishonest" etc. Only six per cent included positive characterisations. Much of the coverage of Venezuela's foreign relations focussed on Iran and Libya, which, whilst problematic in the eyes of many, are not very dissimilar to Britain's relations with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
Again, many of the progressive policies introduced in this period were roundly ignored. There was apparently no room to mention the proposal to construct 1,200 public healthcare projects, the free treatment of 100,261 people for visual impairment, the Special Contribution Law for Oil to ensure that oil profits be shared among the Venezuelan people, or for news that the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean's found poverty to have been halved in Venezuela between 2002-8 (in spite of the coup and the oil industry lockout). The introduction of a plan to assist up to one million poor children in leisure activities passed without mention, as did the launch of a mission to build two million houses. The sequestration of "idle land" belonging to collapsed banks passed without comment.
There was little or no reporting of USAID funding of "the opposition", nor of opposition attacks on pro-government journalists. It was also unimportant that a Colombian senator accused Venezuelan Presidential candidate Capriles of having paramilitary ties in Colombia.
We did hear that the person the Express called "Venezuela's crackpot wannabe dictator" was, according to The Times and Telegraph, teetering near the edge, facing growing hostility from Venezuelans. It is indeed a long-established trend that before each election the number of stories predicting Chavez's decline increases dramatically.
The concern of many in the Bolivarian movement is that such stories act as priming for the inevitable announcement from "the opposition" and perhaps from the odd US diplomat the elections were questionable or perhaps even invalid.
The big news was Chavez's cancer, the story of which read as an allegory for Venezuelan politics. The Sun told us that "medics claimed" and "sources said" "bungling surgeons" "botched" the operation on Chavez, leaving him just months to live.
It's not difficult to see the links between the "botched" operation, Chavez's health and the fate of Venezuela. In its article "World's worst dictators", the Times found Chavez's cancer may lead to the fall of a "dictator". One may assume that with the cancerous dictator gone, Venezuela would be healed.
In spite of this prospect, the Telegraph informed us that without an "authoritarian" to rule, colleagues in government would initiate a power struggle that would lead to crisis at "unprecedented levels".
It also used the opportunity to remind us that "Critics accuse [Chavez] of authoritarian instincts, mismanaging the economy and squandering billions of dollars of oil revenues". Given that his only well-wishers seemed to be Castro and Ahmadinejad, Chavez's cancer was a good opportunity to note that "His stridently anti-Western foreign policy and vigorous promotion of his "socialist Bolivarian revolution" across Latin America has left him with few allies beside President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran". Kirchner, Zayala, Rousseff, Correa, Ortega, Humala, Morales and Funes must have felt somewhat jilted.
The few times policies in Venezuela get mentioned, more often than not they act as vehicles for speculation on Chavez's prospective threats to democracy.
The policy to repatriate Venezuelan gold reserves from the UK was designed provide for economic stability and further economic integration in Latin America. But we hear in the Times that "others suggested" Chavez's was motivated by his worry "about international sanctions in the case of violence during the presidential elections ... the transfers will allow him to keep control of the country if he refuses to accept defeat". Presumably that's why he "planned to siphon off Venezuela's gold wealth for personal gain."
It is no surprise then that the British public's perceptions of Venezuela, on the left as well as on the right, are largely of a dysfunctional state ruled a megalomaniacal tyrant.
Venezuelan politics can be difficult for British journalists to report outside liberal democratic and bureaucratic capitalist frameworks. It is true that there are genuine concerns about the political situation in the country. The concerted efforts to destabilise the government over the past 14 years have met with government responses that have restricted the freedom of some media outlets, and have not lessened the existing tension between social classes.
Vehemently anti-Chavez news reports are rare in the UK press, but this does not negate the softer power of anti –Chavez voices, whose claims often frame reporting. These voices also often act as the originators of memes that spread around copy.
There was the odd expression of old-fashioned imperialism, as when the Telegraph told us Iran was "audacious" by launching a Spanish language Iranian television channel in "America's backyard", a month after the Times reported Ahmadinejad's "tour of America's backyard", but in the main the memes of "opposition concerns", political instability, and the threat of Chavez dominated.
Many of these memes arise from rumours and speculation that circulate in Latin American news and opinion programmes, and from discussions in well-to-do parts of Caracas (where most correspondents are based). One need spend only a few minutes in conversation in an Alta Mira cafe before one is struck by tales of government wrongdoing.
The selection of memes reflects the affinities between the dominant culture of UK journalism and preoccupations of Western states. Yet the need for information, and the rarely adhered to professional ethic of balance, provides some space for filler memes from the "other side". For example there was an admission that Chavez has some support, but that was only in reproduced Reuters copy that reported he "appeared on the balcony of his presidential palace in front of thousands of supporters".
There was also the odd reference to the 2002 coup. The same sentence, that Chavez was the target of a failed coup attempt that year and the claims of plots against him, was reproduced in four articles in different papers published in July 2011, seemingly pasted from agency copy. It's probably worth noting that of those four mentions, one was in an piece titled "Chavez's absence makes rivals and older brother grow bolder" (Times), and one in a piece titled "Region in turmoil as Chavez reveals battle with cancer" (Times).
One of the biggest restrictions on accurate journalism has been one of resourcing. With foreign reporting budgets – especially covering Latin America – ever reduced in most news companies, the reliance on agency copy, stringers, and domestic media is increased. But when this is received with ideological suspicion of a government, the latter will always be at a communicative disadvantage. So too, the beneficiaries of government social policies are marginalised when they lack international communicative power.
In the meantime corporate media audiences remain largely uninformed should. They'll know of this or that spat, of some concerns about democracy and a little about a president who seems rather like a tyrant. No doubt they will be surprised at the outcome of the election, and will take the opposition's challenge to the legitimacy of the vote as necessary.
(1) Castillo, A. (2003) 'Breaking Democracy: Venezuela's Media Coup' Media International Australia #118 pp145-156; Abalo, E (2012) 'First hegemony, then democracy: On ideology and the media discourse on the coup against Hugo Chávez' Observatorio Journal, vol.6 - nº3 (2012), 105-128; Gill et al (2006) 'Covering Chavez in U.S. media: How the elite newspaper reports a controversial international figure. Investigación y Desarollo 14(2), 240–267; Salter, L. and Weltman, D (2012) 'Class, Nationalism and News: the BBC's reporting of Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution', The International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics 7(3)
(2) A random selection of 84 people
Dr Lee Salter is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the University of the West of England
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Rob Marchant is a political commentator and former Labour Party manager who blogs at The Centre Left
This morning, news came in of Hugo Chávez's not entirely unexpected win in Venezuela's presidential election. Now, today is not the time to review the man's record in office on areas such as the economy, human rights or foreign policy, although these things are important – but, from this election result hangs an illuminating tale of the British left.
Despite Chávez's regular use of state TV for campaign broadcasts, and concerns about voter intimidation, he has always gone out of his way to preserve at least an appearance of democratic choice to his electorate. The problem was, that with its hi-tech thumbprint identification, many voters were frightened away from using it, worrying their details might be used to find out how they voted (by the way, just think about how civil liberties groups would react to a national database of thumbprints in the UK).
This time, though, Chávez didn't even try that hard to keep up appearances.
For the first time this election, there was no official, institutional election observation (EU, UN, and so on) other than the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), a relatively new organisation rather dominated by Chávez and his friends among South American leaders. His supporters have recently become fond of quoting President Jimmy Carter of the Carter Centre, who praised their voting process. They fail to say other vital things outside the technical voting mechanism, such as media access, were criticised and remain unaddressed.
And, whether or not Carter was right, this time he was unwisely making a statement on Venezuela's fairness without actually having sent observers; the Carter Centre, the only other 2012 invitee, rejected its invitation, sent only two months before the election, and no other institution was even invited.
It was also the first important election which he had a chance of losing (the only other which came close was a referendum about abolishing presidential term limits in 2007, but Chávez just kept right on going, until he got the answer he wanted two years later); no, this time it was UNASUR alone, and Chávez was left with a conundrum: how to lend credibility to elections in which it was sorely lacking?
Step forward, a few hundred helpful individuals from abroad, invited to "observe". Now, we do not know whether people leaning towards Capriles balanced out in number those leaning towards Chávez. But the idea a few hundred individuals, however they might be chosen, can substitute for bona fide, independent electoral observation by a respected institution is absurd.
Think: why would a democrat want to abolish term limits on a presidency, if not to cling to power? Why would a democrat decline to invite election observers from the EU or the UN, after previously inviting them? Why would a democrat use the advantage of state TV over their opponent? Can you imagine the outcry if Obama were to do any one of these things?
And for the really hard questions, you cannot hope to know the answers: you have to use your gut from what you already know about the man.
Do we honestly believe this man would have gone quietly, had he lost? And that, with a government machine stuffed full of his own party members, he would not simply have supplied a different voting figure, had his state-of-the-art computer system produced an unpalatable one? The answers to these last two questions we will probably never know, but the fact that we cannot reasonably give a negative to them in all conscience leaves a highly unpleasant taste in the mouth.
And then there is the British connection. Labour MPs Jeremy Corbyn Grahame Morris and Diane Abbott, long-time Chávez supporters, have been out in Venezuela for the elections along with such reputable figures as, er, George Galloway and Jody McIntyre.
More interestingly, with no trace of irony, Abbott and Corbyn Morris are going in the capacity of "official election observers". Official observation, naturally, implies unquestionable neutrality. Diane Abbott even went to the trouble of tweeting me from Caracas that she "made a point of saying I wasn't supporting a particular candidate". But let's look at that a little closer, shall we?
Abbott is patron of the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign an organisation which claims to be a friend to Venezuelan democracy but, strangely, does not seem to contain a single supporter of Chávez's opponent, Henrique Capriles. One of its stated aims is "To defend the achievements of the Bolivarian Revolution", i.e. Chávez's political movement.
In any event, the state apparatus is so stuffed full of Chávez's party members, and the vital democratic dividing lines between party and state so faint, that anything which supports the Venezuelan government effectively supports the party of Chávez and the man himself. In short, the organisation might as well be called the Chávez Solidarity Campaign.
It is also difficult to imagine, had Capriles won, that the VSC would not have immediately challenged the result and campaigned for his ousting. But that last part, of course, is merely speculation.
Even in the cognitive-dissonance-soaked world of the far left, it is difficult to countenance the idea these MPs can reasonably claim to be honest brokers, neutral to both candidates. At least Galloway is honest about his love for Chávez; "Chavez fears no-one but God" and "Viva Comandante!", he tweeted this morning.
Finally, Capriles has accepted the election result because, frankly, he has no choice. You cannot choose to stand and then decry the process when you lose. He made his bed, and he has to lie in it, for the good of his country. But that does not mean the election has been free and fair.
Neither can we really even know if Capriles would have been a better president than Chávez. But he certainly deserved the opportunity for Venezuelans to find out.
The simple truth is you are either fully democratic or you are not democratic at all. There are no in-betweens. You cannot be "almost democratic".
But even if, against all odds, you believe Venezuela have just had free and fair elections, it is simply astounding to find our own Members of Parliament expecting us to accept the story they were acting as observers of unquestionable neutrality.
Thanks for this, very insightful. And unfortunately it's the same situation with many foreign policy issues - I live in Russia and am constantly dumbfounded by the juvenile bias the western media continue to display regarding this complex society.
I can understand the bias in commercial news, but surely as a public broadcaster BBC has a mandate to present unbiased news? And if it is not doing this, then where are the mechanisms to redress the balance, to ensure that the organization is meeting its objectives and the tax-payer is getting something he has a right to expect?
When I got up this morning I didnt hear or see the result. Despite this I KNEW that Chavez had won . If he had lost there would have been screaming headlines everywhere. Incredible bias!!!
Good chance Porky is done....good luck with the chemo!
Great piece, great man. God what media distortion we suffer in our 'free' democracies, with our 'free press' ! No chance missed to influence by misrepresentation, according to the corporate interests. One of the latest favourites in seething media reports is Chavez' use of "fatherland". Presumably to create associations with fascism, Hitler; pursuing the 'dictator' line. I suppose the word he used was 'patria' , a word untainted by any of those sinister connotations. All we get are lies and half-truths; which double up as a stick to beat our own dissidents with, like Livingstone and Galloway.
We are led by the noses like sheep. Viva Chavez!
With so much media misrepresentation of this election (especially with regards to polls) this piece really is a breath of fresh air.
Jimmy Carter recently said that Venezuela's elections were the best in the world and Chavez has always won "fairly & squarely" - lets hope people do not believe false claims from extreme right-wing elements on Sunday..


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The King of Kong - A Fistful of Quarters details
Format: | PG DVD |
Starring: | Walter Day, Derek Wiebe, Adam Wood, Billy Mitchell, Mark Alpiger, Steve Wiebe, Greg Bond |
Director: | Seth Gordon |
Genre: | Documentary |
Studio: | REVOLVER ENTERTAINMENT |
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The King of Kong - A Fistful of Quarters |
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Run time: | 1 hour 23 minutes |
Rental release: | 16 Jun 2008 |
Main languages: | English |
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Only 1 Winner
By Carsey (89 reviews) from Wisbech , 29 Aug 2008[Highly rated reviewer]
I never usually sit watching TV shouting at the screen and telling certain individuals to F@*K OFF (unless watching the mighty Arsenal) but with this film i found myself doing exactly that.
It starts off with facts and figures of certain classic computer games and 80's gamers doing 80's gamers stuff and unless you are one of these people, you do find you actually have nothing in common with them.
Apart from the sexy prom queen from high school the next person any geeky gamer wants carnal relations with is BILLY MITCHELL, the gaming champion of the world, completeing Pac-Man without losing a life and racking up a 874,000 score on Donkey Kong, this man has it all! apart from a hair-cut and any real personality, he thinks he is god and to some he is, but to 99.99% of the universe..... HE IS A COCK!!!
So what a breath of fresh air when a regular, married with 2 kids bloke challenges BILLY MITCHELL to a Donkey Kong Off at the Funspot in Florida.
I could go on but there is only one person you will be routing for and half way through the film it ends up not being about Donkey Kong scores anymore but self image, pride, respect and courage. The film turns a stupid subject matter on its head and ends up making the viewer as emotionally invovled in the story as you actually bargained for.
Brilliant film, a must see, and you don't need to be a hard core gamer to appreciate it.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(77)May the Kong be with you.
By orangeboy (63 reviews) from Cardiff , 09 Sep 2012This is addictive viewing. Weird and wonderful characters abound in this battle for slightly geeky supremacy.
There are some frustrating moments when we see how focussed some of these people are. I won't say any more but the scenes I am referring to will become obvious.
Anyone born after 1990 will probably not understand what all the fuss is about. It is impossible to watch this without deciding who you are rooting for which makes it all the more enjoyable.
A better then average documentary (on a par with the likes of Spellbound) into a lesser known world of obsessive competitiveness where men just sometimes fail to grow up.
Have fun nerdlingers - I did.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Fascinating documentary starring some very odd characters!
By MrStrange (46 reviews) from Isle Of Wight , 01 Jun 2012A classic documentary that transcends its subject matter and can entertain anyone, even the missus enjoyed it!
The stars of the show are undoubtedly the roster of eccentric uber-nerds who game 24/7 and take it all very seriously. It's like taking a trip into the world of underground cage fighting or something, except these guys play Asteroids, Pac Man and Donkey Kong.
The 'human' aspect of the film comes from a very likable, down to earth everyman who enters into the world of hardcore gaming as an outsider and is not treated well by the clicky gang of super nerds who make up the 'inner-circle'
Touching, funny and very entertaining!- Was this review helpful to you?
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Rocky for the gamers or old. Complete with training montage.
By Melthane (1 review) from Leeds , 01 Apr 2012Absolutely riveting! I actually applauded with no one around. Twice.
Amazingly well structured documentary that really sells the underdog story. At points you could be forgiven for mistaking this as a piece of gripping indie fiction; all the narrative beats hit the right marks and there's a strong cast of slightly oddball archetypes.
Seth Gordon really gets under the veil of a community of competitive gamers, exposing a turgid underbelly of idolatry and manipulation that almost engulfs newcomer Steve Wiebe.
The one flaw in the whole film, in my opinion at least, is the presentation of Steve Wiebe and arch-rival Billy Mitchell. The two are positioned to operate as the polar axis of good and evil, seemingly naturally. But in underplaying Steve's obviously flawed relationship with his family and Billy's other commitments, has Gordon himself manipulated our view of the situation to sensationalise the drama?
Nevertheless, a truly involving experience. You'll soon find yourself rooting for the lowly contender as he strives for moral victory against a pantomime villain you won't mind boo-ing out loud. There's even a perfect moment for the good old 'he's behind you'!- Was this review helpful to you?
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Entertaining yet slightly depressing
By Bassman71 (701 reviews) from Didsbury, England , 26 Mar 2012Man sets World Record High-Score on Donkey Kong video game back in 1982, another man beats it, sends in tape to adjudicators, not convinced, goes to live event to prove them wrong.
Entertaining yet slightly depressing documentary about a mans ambition to become World Champion against the cliques in the video game judging panel and a thoroughly despicable mulleted title holder.
You do feel sorry for Steve Wiebe during the film but also its a bit sad that hes always been a nearly man and puts all his effort into doing this to get recognition.
I do feel a lot of it though was done for the film with certain events not quite sitting right and feeling set-up in some parts to maintain the drama.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Nerds play dirty too!
By Copey007 (34 reviews) from Wolverhampton , 09 Feb 2012[Highly rated reviewer]
Interesting doc about what made be classed as a bunch of nerds, but nonetheless world leaders in what they do. Probably would be heroes to the X Box generation if they had better PR!
And, as with any competition, there is a fair bit of politicking and machiavellian goings on which basically makes the film...as do the cringe worthy haircuts, clothes and butt kissing!!- Was this review helpful to you?
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