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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is following up on his promise to meet with news media representatives Thursday and Friday in the wake of outrage over the Justice Department's leak investigations, but it's an open question whether journalists of color will be present.
Holder "is expected to meet this week with the Washington bureau chiefs of several major media outlets to discuss the Justice Department's guidelines for dealing with journalists in leak investigations," Michael Calderone reported Wednesday for Huffington Post.
Ken Strickland, Washington bureau chief of NBC News and a black journalist, was expected to be among the bureau chiefs, but with word that the Justice Department wants the session to be off the record, "We're still discussing whether we plan to attend," NBC spokeswoman Liz Fischer told Journal-isms by email.
CNN said Thursday morning that it will join the New York Times, the Associated Press and the Huffington Post in refusing the off-the-record invitation, Jack Mirkinson reported Thursday for the Huffington Post. Politico will attend but McClatchy will not, Mackenzie Weinger reported for Politico. Later Thursday, Calderone added Reuters to the list of those not going.
Jeffrey W. Schneider, spokesman for ABC News, told Journal-isms on Thursday, "Yes we will attend and press for the meeting to be on the record."
Sonya McNair, a spokeswoman for CBS News, told Journal-isms on Thursday, "CBS News does not plan to participate in the off-the-record meeting with Attorney General Eric Holder. We would be willing to consider an on-the-record discussion."
The original Justice Department announcement said a week ago, "The Attorney General will consult a diverse and representative group of media organizations. In the coming days, he looks forward to meaningful engagement with these media representatives as well as other experts inside and outside government. . . ."
However, Univision spokesman Jose Zamora said Thursday his network was told it was not invited because it does not have a permanent presence at the Justice Department. "Univision does cover the DOJ, but we do not have a full time DOJ reporter," Zamora told Journal-isms.
George Curry, who runs the Washington-based National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service, representing the nation's black community newspapers, was asked whether he was invited. "Of course not," Curry replied by email.
Gregory Lee Jr., president of the National Association of Black Journalists; Hugo Balta, president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists; and Walt Swanston, interim executive director of Unity: Journalists for Diversity, said that to their knowledge, their groups had not been asked.
Each group issued statements of alarm about the Justice Department's acknowledgement that it had secretly obtained telephone records of Associated Press reporters and editors. Holder opened NABJ's 2011 convention in Philadelphia, telling the audience that he was once better known as "Ricky from Queens" and that he considered journalists "essential partners in the administration and achievement of justice."
President Obama ordered a review last week of the Justice Department's procedures for legal investigations involving reporters, "acknowledging that he was 'troubled' that multiple inquiries into national security leaks could chill investigative reporting," as Mark Landler reported then for the New York Times.
However, the Justice Department's condition that the meetings be off the record proved a stumbling block almost as soon as plans for the first meetings were reported on Wednesday.
Ron Fournier of the National Journal tweeted, "Re Holder convening bureau chiefs on leak probes: He may ask that meeting be off record. Chiefs should decline, record and report."
Jill Abramson, executive editor of the New York Times, said flatly, "It isn't appropriate for us to attend an off-the-record meeting with the attorney general. Our Washington bureau is aggressively covering the department's handling of leak investigations at this time," the Huffington Post's Calderone and the Washington Post's Erik Wemple each reported.
The Associated Press gave Journal-isms this statement: "We believe the meeting should be on the record and we have said that to the Attorney General's office. If it is on the record, AP Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll will attend. If it is not on the record, AP will not attend and instead will offer our views on how the regulations should be updated in an open letter. We would expect AP attorneys to be included in any planned meetings between the Attorney General's office and media lawyers on the legal specifics."
Wemple added, "And Ryan Grim, the Washington bureau chief of the Huffington Post, said, 'Off-the-record would not fly. … I don't need to go in there with a tape recorder and wiretap the meeting. But I imagine I'm free to talk about what's said in there.' "
However, Martin Baron, executive editor of the Washington Post, said he would attend. He told Wemple, "I prefer that any meeting be on the record. That said, journalists routinely participate in off-the-record sessions, whether they prefer those conditions or not, and then continue to report on events. I am going to this meeting in order to represent our interests as journalists and to raise our concerns. I'll also listen to what the Attorney General has to say. I trust that our journalists will report on this as vigorously as they would any other subject."
Adora Andy, Justice Department press secretary, did not respond to an inquiry from Journal-isms. But Wemple reported that a Justice Department official, "asked why on earth the meeting about media stuff between media people and the government would be off the record," responded on the condition that the official not be named: "This format will best facilitate the candid, free-flowing discussions we hope to have in order to bring about meaningful engagement."
Meanwhile, Jonathan Easley reported Tuesday for the Hill that the House Judiciary Committee is investigating whether Holder "lied under oath during his May 15 testimony on the Justice Department's (DOJ) surveillance of reporters. . . ."
In addition, Calderone reported that "Associated Press president and chief executive Gary Pruitt told staff at a Wednesday town hall meeting that the phone records obtained by the government included 'thousands and thousands' of calls in and out of the news organization, according to a staffer who attended. . . ." [Updated May 30]
- Editorial, Chicago Tribune: Now Obama wants to protect the press?
- Martha T. Moore and Aamer Madhani, USA Today: Is Obama at war with journalists?
- Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune: A drone war against the press?
- Walter Pincus, Washington Post: Circling the media wagons
- RecordsFerret.com Blog: Journalists: 9 Things You Must Do to Protect Your Sources — Even if served by a search warrant
Joyner Says Smiley Should Blame Low Ratings, Not Obama
Tom Joyner, host of radio's syndicated "Tom Joyner Morning Show," isn't buying a statement from Tavis Smiley, his former show partner, that members of the Obama administration, whom Smiley didn't identify, have pressured sponsors to drop their support of his projects.
Instead, Michael H. Cottman reported for Joyner's Black America Web, Joyner contends that Smiley's ratings are low and advertisers are jumping ship.
" 'Tavis here's the problem: Your sponsors are pulling out because you don't have numbers,' Joyner told his listeners on Tuesday's show. 'That's your problem. You don't have a platform. You're losing affiliates; you're losing sponsors, not because someone is plotting against you.' "
Asked for specifics, Smiley spokeswoman Leshelle V. Sargent told Journal-isms by email on Friday, "After 10 years and 2,000 shows on PBS, Mr. Smiley appreciates all of his underwriters. We are uninterested in subjecting former, present or future supporters to further scrutiny."
NBCUniversal Pays Its College Interns
NBCUniversal has begun paying its college interns, Kathy Kelly-Brown, a spokeswoman for NBCUniversal, told Journal-isms on Wednesday.
The move, which began with the spring interns, addresses a long-held contention that requiring interns to work only for the experience or for college credit amounts to favoring students with well-to-do parents. Others disagree, saying the college credit or the experience justifies the lack of salary.
"Not just NBC News – across NBCU," Kelly-Brown said by email. However, she could not say how many interns are affected or what the salaries are.
The NBC action comes with renewed focus on such internships. "In the past few years, unpaid interns have filed three class-action lawsuits against companies alleging the companies owe interns back pay, because the interns performed the same duties as employees," Blair Hickman and Jeremy B. Merrill reported for ProPublica this month.
They wrote, "In April 2010, the Department of Labor [called attention to] a six-point test to help determine whether an internship in the for-profit sector qualifies to be unpaid under federal law. One of the key criteria is that the position must be of more benefit to the intern than of benefit to the company. Companies can't just use interns to replace regular employees. . . ."
Rebecca Greenfield wrote May 9 for the Atlantic, "A judge may have thrown out class-action status for the lawsuit against Hearst for using unpaid interns at its magazines, but the disgruntled former coffee-fetchers will continue the fight. 'The case of the named plaintiffs and the people who opted into the case will go forward,' said Junot Turner, the Outten and Golden lawyer handling the case. That includes the 'Norma Rae' of unpaid interns Diana Wang, who interned for Harper's Bazaar, Erin Spencer, a former Cosmopolitan intern, and six others. . . ."
While paid internships are more common at newspapers, they are not necessarily the norm at magazines and in broadcasting.
Until now, NBC News in general has not paid its interns, but ABC News and CNN have. CBS News and Fox News have arrangements for the college to offer course credit.
On Tuesday, England's Guardian newspaper ran a piece by David Dennis, a recent graduate of at Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, that gained traction on social media. Dennis asked, "does your, that gained traction on social media. Dennis asked, "does your publication use unpaid interns as the prevalent mode of determining full-time jobs? If so, then I'm sorry to inform you that your publication is perpetuating a privilege-based upward mobility, and it's ruining journalism. . . ."
Chuck Collins, American Prospect: The Wealthy Kids Are All Right
Diversity Efforts Ebb Not Just in News Business
"As a partner and chief diversity officer at Thompson & Knight, Pauline Higgins was not afraid to press the issue of hiring minorities at the 126-year-old Texas law firm," Nelson D. Schwartz and Michael Cooper wrote Monday for the New York Times. "But when she left in 2008, she was replaced by an associate with less influence.
"Now, current and former partners say, the diversity committee meets less often, and the firm has fewer black lawyers than before. It is a trajectory familiar in many elite realms of American professional life. Even as racial barriers continue to fall, progress for African-Americans [overall] has remained slow — and in some cases appears to be stalling.
" 'You don't want to be a diversity officer who only buys tables at events and seats people,' Ms. Higgins said recently. 'It's about recruiting and inclusion and training and development, with substantive work assignments.'
"Nearly a half-century after a Texan, President Lyndon B. Johnson, helped usher in the era of affirmative action, the Supreme Court is poised to rule as early as this week on whether the University of Texas can continue to consider race as one of many factors in its admissions policy. It is a case that could have a profound impact on race-based affirmative action programs across the nation, and it has reignited a discussion of how much progress minorities, blacks in particular, have made in integrating into some of the most sought-after professions, especially since the recession.
"Only a little more than 1 percent of the nation's Fortune 500 companies have black chief executives, although there are some prominent exceptions, like Kenneth I. Chenault of American Express and Ursula M. Burns of Xerox. At the nation's biggest companies, about 3.2 percent of senior executive positions are held by African-Americans, according to an estimate by the Executive Leadership Council, an organization of current and former black senior executives.
"While about 12 percent of the nation's working-age population is black, about 5 percent of physicians and dentists in the United States are black — a share that has not grown since 1990, according to an analysis of census data that was prepared for The New York Times by sociologists at Queens College of the City University of New York. The analysis found that 3 percent of American architects are black, another field where the share has not increased in more than two decades. . . . "
In the news business, African Americans in the newsroom workforce fell from 4.68 percent in 2011 to 4.65 percent, according to the 2012 report from the American Society of News Editors, the National Association of Black Journalists reported then.
Kat Chow, NPR: The Questions People Get Asked About Their Race
Jesse Washington, Associated Press: 'I'm not racist': Common claim after racial slurs
Old Press-Pass Photos Unknowingly for Sale on eBay
"Early in this Memorial Day Weekend, I was confronted with a uniquely 21st Century 'First World' development: I learned that I am up for auction on eBay," media critic Amy Alexander wrote Sunday on her website. "Well, my 30 year-old self is, in the form of my official staff photos from my years at The Miami Herald. Opening bid price: $32.88.
"The McClatchy Company, owner of The Miami Herald, had made a deal with a third party company to sell most of the photo archives. Part of the deal included the acquiring company agreeing to digitize much of the photos, and, apparently the right to offer up the newspaper's historic photos for auction. Since those of us who worked at The Herald in Editorial had semi-regular photographs made (for press passes or columns that appeared in the newspages) there are presumably hundreds of these photos now up for sale by the group that purchased the images from McClatchy.
"After learning of this development from a friend and former Herald staffer who phoned me Friday night (she was moderately upset, two clicks below 'outraged'), I didn't immediately give it much thought. But after she'd sent me the link to the location at eBay where our photos are being auctioned under the rather tacky banner of the ROGERS PHOTO ARCHIVE (sic), I took a look.
"Journalist's Photos for Sale on eBay — What Am I Bid?
"Honestly, it is creepy to see my long-ago self in this location, and in such a context.
"I felt….cheap…."
Jim Romenesko blog: Press photos of former Miami Herald staffers go up on eBay
Univision Promotes Patsy Loris to V.P. of News
Patsy Loris, senior news director for Univision News, has been promoted to vice president of News, the Spanish-language network announced Tuesday.
"In this role, she will oversee Univision News evening and late night news, its weekend edition, news segments for 'Despierta America' (Wake Up America) and the operations of Univision's news division," a network announcement said. "Loris is also responsible for working with ABC to launch Fusion," the joint ABC-Univision English-language network, "hiring personnel for the news team and developing show concepts and ideas. She will report directly to Daniel Coronell, senior vice president and executive director of News at Univision."
Loris joined Univision in 1989. "A news veteran with a career in broadcast journalism spanning more than two decades, she has traveled the globe covering the most important news stories, including the fall of the Berlin Wall, the disintegration of the former Soviet Union, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Hurricanes Andrew and Katrina, the immigration process, presidential debates, presidential and congressional elections and many other major news events around the world.
"She has also shaped news — securing interviews with some of the world's most influential leaders, including President Barack Obama, Senator John McCain, former Presidents George W. Bush, George Bush, Bill Clinton, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Speaker Newt Gingrich, Governor Mitt Romney, Vice President Al Gore, former Mexican presidents Carlos Salinas de Gortari and Vicente Fox, and dozens of other Latin American political figures. In 2007, she created and produced 'Al Punto with Jorge Ramos,' Univision's highly rated Sunday morning public affairs program. . . ."
Ex-FCC Chair: Broadcasters Should Refuse to Say "Redskins"
"Redskins owner Daniel Snyder refuses to change the name of his team. Should we do it for him? More specifically, should the media no longer recognize the official designation? A former chair of the Federal Communications Commission recently told me the answer is yes," Michael Smerconish wrote Monday for the Philadelphia Daily News.
" 'I would like to suggest something to you: Why don't you in your own job think about not using the derogatory name that Mr. Snyder has chosen?' Reed Hundt asked. 'Why not? Why doesn't it start on a person-by-person basis? Why don't people just say, 'You know what, standards have changed.'
"Hundt chaired the FCC from 1993-97 at the behest of President Bill Clinton and is perhaps best known for having prosecuted claims of indecency against radio's Howard Stern, self-proclaimed King of All Media. Now Hundt's nemesis is the King of All Redskins.
"Snyder has been under increasing pressure to alter a moniker some believe to be racist. In March, a bill was introduced in Congress that would cancel the team's trademark of the term redskin. The bill was followed by hearings before three judges on the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. While that challenge is ongoing, Snyder remains unbowed, recently telling USA Today: 'We'll never change the name. It's that simple. NEVER — you can use caps.'
"Which is why Hundt is suggesting a different approach, namely that broadcast journalists take the matter into their own hands. . . . "
The Lincoln (Neb.) Journal Star, the Kansas City Star and the Washington City Paper do not allow the team to be referred to as "Redskins." The Oregonian in Portland has a similar policy, although the name appears frequently on the newspaper's website. "There are wire feeds that flow onto the site that we don't edit," Oregonian Editor Peter Bhatia told Journal-isms by email this month.
Associated Press: Congress to Redskins: Team name reminiscent of n-word
Michael Bradley, National Sports Journalism Center: Absent responsible action by Washington's Snyder, its up to the media
Mike Freeman, CBS Sports: Redskins not offensive to you? How about the Washington N-Words?
Suzan Shown Harjo, Indian Country Today Media Network: Fighting Racist Stereotypes in Sports, One Poll at a Time, Part II
Vanity Fair's Newsy Best-Dressed List
Vanity Fair has issued its list of the 10 best-dressed newsmen, and CNN's Don Lemon and NBC's Lester Holt made the cut. The publication picked its list of best-dressed newswomen the previous week, when Mattie Kahn wrote, "We're comfortable saying this on the record: the news has never looked so good."
The women's list included Elizabeth Vargas of ABC, Tamron Hall of MSNBC and Natalie Morales of NBC.
The popularity of the web site WorldStarHipHop "can be partially attributed to outrageous videos captured on cell phones, like that of a Cleveland bus driver punching a female passenger in the face after a verbal argument," Noel King reported Tuesday for American Public Media's "Marketplace." "The site solicits videos from its fans. They don't get paid, but they do get bragging rights. The Cleveland video has nearly 18 million views on WorldStar alone and was picked up by dozens of other websites." King added, "The subjects of many WorldStar videos are African-American and critics say they perpetuate the ugliest stereotypes about life in urban communities. . . ."
C-SPAN3, "American History TV," plans a program this weekend on sisters Dorie and Joyce Ladner. As young women in the early 1960s, they "faced down threats and intimidation in their work as civil rights activists. They recall that time, including their friendship and work with Medgar Evers, the NAACP field officer who was murdered in Mississippi 50 years ago this June. The Ladner sisters were recorded for the Civil Rights History Project enacted by the U.S. Congress in 2009." The program airs Saturday at 8 a.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. Eastern time. Joyce Ladner, a sociologist, was later interim president of Howard University.
"The New York Times beefed up its politics desk Thursday by hiring Politico's Jonathan Martin as national political correspondent, a high-profile position once held by legendary Times scribe R.W. 'Johnny' Apple," Michael Calderone reported Tuesday for the Huffington Post. The Atlantic's Molly Ball and Politico's Maggie Haberman were also considered for the job, according to Calderone's sources. No journalists of color were mentioned as having been approached.
The family of Haynes Johnson, former Washington Post journalist and journalism professor at the University of Maryland, will hold a memorial service and reception at the National Press Club at noon on Sunday, June 23, the school announced. District of Columbia Court of Appeals Judge Kathryn Oberly, Johnson's widow, and the Johnson children also plan to designate memorial contributions toward a scholarship for students at Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism, Lucy A. Dalglish, dean of the college, wrote Tuesday. Johnson died Friday at 81 after a heart attack.
"An article published by Bloomberg News on Tuesday about the White House's efforts to reach out to Hispanic business leaders to help pass immigration reform provides a case in point," HuffPost LatinoVoices reported on Tuesday. "Latinos are the subject of the story, yet none of the five sources quoted appear to be Hispanic. . . ." The article provides a list of Hispanics "who can explain Hispanic politics from the left, right and center."
The Oprah Winfrey Network's first scripted series produced by Tyler Perry yielded record-setting ratings for the network on Tuesday, R. Thomas Umstead reported for Multichannel News, drawing 1.7 million viewers. But critics were not kind. "Well, it's official," Mary McNamara wrote in the Los Angeles Times. "The nine most frightening words to cross a television screen are: 'Executive Produced, Created, Written and Directed By Tyler Perry.' "
In New York, "Veteran Channel 7 reporter Jeff Pegues is moving onto a network platform. The personable broadcast journalist is joining CBS News as a Washington DC based reporter," Jerry Barmash reported Saturday for New York Media.
"Powell W. Caesar III, an astute, savvy and street-smart spokesman for some of Greater Cleveland's best-known people and organizations, died Monday," Rachel Dissell wrote Monday for the Plain Dealer. Caesar, 63, suffered a heart attack. He was a spokesman for the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office. Early in his career, he was a reporter and editorial writer at the Call & Post, worked for the Cleveland Press and was a popular Sun Newspaper columnist.
The USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism is accepting applications for the 12th annual USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program in Los Angeles. Applications are due July 9, 2013. To apply, visit http://annenberg.usc.edu/getty. " The program, funded by the Getty Foundation, is a fellowship for arts, culture and entertainment editors, producers and writers. Most costs are covered by the fellowship, including air travel, hotel, transportation within the city and most meals. The fellowship will be held in Los Angeles from October 23 to November 2, 2013. . . ."
In New York, "Fewer than one in eight of the city's public high schools reported having a newspaper or print journalism class in an informal survey this month by city education officials, who do not officially track the information," Winnie Hu reported Monday for the New York Times. "Many of these newspapers have been reduced to publishing a few times a year because of shrinking staffs, budget cuts and a new focus on core academic subjects. Some no longer come out in print at all, existing only as online papers or as scaled-down news blogs. . . ."
In New Orleans, veteran WDSU-TV anchor Norman Robinson is cutting back to anchoring the 6 p.m. newscast, the weekly "WDSU Hot Seat" segment and special assignments to include political, breaking news and other coverage throughout the year, the station announced Wednesday. "Norman's new shift will allow him to spend additional time with his family and in our community, while continuing to present the news and explore the issues that affect WDSU viewers. . . ."
"Veteran business reporter Jaquetta White, who spearheaded much of the Times-Picayune's daily reporting on the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, will be joining The Advocate's New Orleans staff next month," the Advocate, based in Baton Rouge, La., but expanding into New Orleans, announced on Tuesday.
"When Louis Casiano was deployed to Iraq in 2004 as a member of the U.S. Army, he was an active participant in a world news event that many experienced only based on what they read in the press," Eric Morgan, communications manager at the Orange County (Calif.) Register announced on Tuesday. "During his one-year deployment, Casiano happened to meet a few print and broadcast journalists. As he observed and discussed their professions, he was drawn to journalism. When returning to the U.S., he attended the University of Houston and graduated with a degree in print journalism and political science." Also a graduate of the New York Times Student Journalism Institute's two-week program in Tucson, Ariz., Casiano joined the Register as a general assignment reporter on May 20.
"Pui-Wing Tam, who has been with the Wall Street Journal since 1995, is leaving the paper for Bloomberg, where she'll serve as team leader for its Silicon Valley coverage," Chris O'Shea reported Wednesday for FishbowlNY. "Tam was most recently deputy bureau chief for the Journal's San Francisco bureau, a role she held since 2005. . . ."
"An eight-month-old Connecticut-based news site serving English language-dominant Latinos that will expand to Massachusetts and Rhode Island," according to the McCormick Foundation New Media Women Entrepreneurs, which awarded the site a grant. The project "also provides its news articles at no cost to other English-language media partners to ensure the stories reach as many readers as possible. The founder is Latino journalism leader Diane Alverio," a past president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
"When PBS's Gwen Ifill spoke at the Wake Forest University commencement last week, she shared the typical message of continuing to learn and making change in the world . . . ," Austin Price wrote Tuesday for FishbowlDC. But, Ifill added, "Here's a hint: don't take your guidance from what you see in Washington. I hate to say it, it's often the worst possible example of how to make change. . . ."
"The top 25 magazines reach more adults and teens than the top 25 primetime TV programs," Mary Berner, president and chief executive officer at the Magazine Publishers Association, told Diego Vasquez Wednesday in a question-and-answer session for Media Life Magazine. "What that shows is there's a shift in primetime TV, but to me it also says magazines remain a very visceral, tactile experience that people continue to enjoy. . . ."
In Uganda, "On the morning of 28 May 2013, police violently dispersed journalists who had camped outside of the Monitor Publications Limited's closed offices," the Toronto-based International Freedom of Expression Exchange Clearing House reported on Tuesday. "They arrested the national coordinator for Human Rights Network for Journalists-Uganda (HRNJ-Uganda) Geoffrey Wokulira Ssebaggala, amidst heavy teargas. The police also sealed off 8th street, along which the Monitor is located. The police engaged the journalists in running battles for over forty minutes. They confiscated two video cameras. A foreign journalist was hit with a baton on her left eyes. . . ."
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro lashed out at CNN's Spanish-language service on Monday, saying CNN was working to foment a coup against his government, the Huffington Post reported. "Television, I mean CNN, CNN en Español, is a broadcaster that works at the behest of destabilization, that calls openly for a coup d'etat in Venezuela," Maduro said in a speech carried by state television, according to Colombia's Radio Caracol. "CNN en Español has become the starting point to promote an intervention against our country. . . ." CNN en Español rejected the accusations.
"The latest audience survey, conducted in February among 4,000 Americans aged 18-64, underscored cable TV segmentation trends unfolding for years," Ali Velshi, the former CNN anchor now with the upcoming Al Jazeera America, wrote Tuesday for Qz.com. They want less celebrity, less extremism, a clear delineation between information and opinion, and more context, analysis and depth, Velshi said of the survey respondents.
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The Royals were out again today to cheer Zara and the GB team to a Silver victory. Kate wore skinnies, wedges, a striped tank top with blue blazer, and later an Olympic jacket when it chilled off and started to rain.
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Can I be hypnotized? What if I'm "resistant"?
People of average intelligence (unless there is some form of organic brain damage) can be hypnotized in most cases if they are willing and do not resist.
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How do I know if it is working? How will I know if I am actually hypnotized while listening to the sessions?
The experience of hypnosis is different for everyone. For many people, hypnosis is much like reading a good book. You are absorbed, but are still aware of your environment and your internal dialogue.
The depth of the trance has no effect on your results. The best way to notice if the hypnosis is working is to notice your decisions during the day surrounding food and exercise. Gradually, it will be easier and easier to make the right decisions.
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Will the program work if I fall asleep while I'm listening?
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What if I stay completely aware during the hypnosis session?
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Some people experience the sessions in the way you would experience a great work of fiction. You are totally absorbed, but are aware of the outside world. Other people (usually if they are tired or really need the relaxation) get so absorbed that they do not remember listening to the session. Either way, you will get results. The results are not tied to "going under," but instead are tied to the focusing.
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Jack Singer, Ph.D. is a sports psychologist who teaches sports professionals, college athletes, nationally ranked juniors, and serious "weekend warriors" how to maximize their performance. He has been recognized by the National Institute of Sports as a Diplomate in Sports Psychology, a designation given only on one-half of one percent of the sports psychologists who apply, and is certified in clinical hypnosis.
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Jack Vettriano: A Retrospective
September 2013
The first major retrospective exhibition of works by Jack Vettriano opened at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow on 21st September 2013 and ran until 23rd February 2014. This website features only a very small selection of the 101 paintings ranging in date from 1992 to 2012 that are featured in the Retrospective exhibition and which include all of Vettriano's most famous works gathered in from private collections around the world for the first time.
The Ballroom Spy
June 2011
Royal West of England Academy, Queen's Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 1RX Featuring twenty paintings by Jack Vettriano and over forty gorgeous black and white photographs by Jeanette Jones, The Ballroom Spy showcases the intoxicating and glamorous world of Ballroom dancing. www.rwa.org.uk
The Family Business
September 2010
Photographer – Fredi Marcarini An exhibition of portraits by Fredi Marcarini. 16th – 26th September 2010 – London.
Days of Wine and Roses
September 2010
30th September - 31st October 2010 – Heartbreak , 17 Bulstrode Street, London W1U 2JH Jack Vettriano's Days of Wine and Roses exhibition has a distinctly continental feel featuring paintings inspired by his visits to Milan and the French Riviera alongside some of his signature darker interiors. Click HERE to watch an interview with Jack Vettriano on this exhibition.
Days of Wine and Roses
March 2010
27th March - 2nd May 2010 – Kirkcaldy Museum & Art Gallery Jack Vettriano's Days of Wine and Roses exhibition will have a distinctly continental feel featuring paintings inspired by his visits to Milan and the French Riviera alongside some of his signature darker interiors. First exhibited in his native Fife and then laterally in London.
Homage à Tuiga
September 2009
On Saturday 19th September, the Yacht Club of Monaco celebrated the centenary of its world famous yacht, Tuiga, built in 1909 by William Fife, a west coast Scottish yacht builder. An exhibition of paintings by Jack Vettriano, inspired by Tuiga, opened at the Club on the launch night of its annual Classic Yacht Week in September 2009. BBC Coverage
Sports Portraits
October 2008
19 October - 22 October 2008 – London The five portraits featured by Sir Peter Blake, Rankin, Gerald Scarfe, Stella Vine and Jack Vettriano went on public display at Bonhams, Montpellier Street, London SW7.
Tension, Timing, Triumph
May 2008
A triptych of paintings entitled, Tension, Timing, Triumph – Monaco 1971 was unveiled by HSH Prince Albert of Monaco at a private reception at the Hotel de Paris in Monaco on Wednesday 21st May 2008.
Love, Devotion and Surrender
June 2006
June 2006 – France Vettriano had acquired a studio in the South of France during the period in which he was preparing for this exhibition.
November 2004
The fonetography exhibition in aid of Mencap was sponsored by Nokia in association with The Times Magazine and included photographs taken by Damon Albarn, David Bailey, Sir Peter Blake, Tracey Emin, Nan Goldin and Jack Vettriano. The contributors were each given a Nokia 7610 camera phone with which to take their photographs and their brief was simply to 'capture the moment'.
Affairs of the Heart
June 2004
19 June - 31 July 2004 – London Affairs of the Heart - London's Portland Gallery on 19 June to 31st August 2004. His first show for four years.
The International Art & Design Fair
September 2001
This exhibition was held at the 7th Regiment Armory, Park Avenue at 67th Street, New York City, USA, 29th September to 2nd October 2001.
Lovers and Other Strangers
June 2000
June 2000 – London Lovers and Other Strangers, Portland Gallery, London.
Between Darkness and Dawn
June 1998
June 1998 (10 June – 10 July 1998) This exhibition featured the painting Dance Me To The End Of Love, one of Vettriano's best known works.
Half Way to Paradise
November 1996
November 1996 – Hong Kong. Held at the Museum Annex.
The Bluebird Collection
June 1996
June 1996 – Private Collection These seven paintings were inspired by the life and achievements of Sir Malcolm Campbell, who gained the world land speed record at various times during the 1920′s and 1930′s. The paintings were originally commissioned by Sir Terence Conran for his Bluebird Club in London. A limited edition boxed-set of the seven Bluebird images was released on 3rd September 2010 to mark the 75th anniversary of Malcolm Campbell's final World Land Speed record broken at Bonneville in 1935.
The Passion and the Pain
May 1996
27 May - 15 June 1996 – London A total of 51 new Vettriano paintings were exhibited at the Portland Gallery including The Road to Nowhere and The Red Room.
A Date with Fate
August 1995
An exhibition of new paintings at 37 Heriot Row, Edinburgh during the Edinburgh International Festival August 17 to August 27
Chimes at Midnight
October 1994
October 1994 – London This exhibition featured the painting The Billy Boys, one of Vettriano's best known works and was held at The Portland Gallery in London.
Summers Remembered
November 1993
Summers Remembered – an exhibition of oil paintings by Jack Vettriano, Corrymella Scott Gallery, 12th Nov – 3rd Dec 1993.
Fallen Angels
May 1993
May 1993 – London This was Vettriano's second exhibition in London and his first with The Catto Gallery.
God's Children
October 1992
2 October - 11 October 1992 – London This was Vettriano's first exhibition in London and featured The Singing Butler, his best known painting.


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The benefit is supposed to be that your food is never overcooked, and always tender. But there are the critics who say the end result isn't thaaaaat amazing (and carries some health hazards if you're not careful). What say you, tech chefs? Is the case for sous vide cooking overstated?


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CPJ award winner Mazhar Abbas penned a strong Sunday op-ed piece, "Death is the only news--Challenges of working in conflict zones," for The News. It's about conditions for journalists working in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Baluchistan. As Abbas says, "The killing of one journalist is a message for another." He goes on to describe the situation in FATA:
The murder of tribal journalist Nasrullah Afridi a few months back [May 10, 2011] was perhaps the warning for Mohammad Khan Aatif [January 17, 2012], a stringer for Voice of America's Pashto service. Journalists in FATA are now waiting for the next target, as everyone seems to be hostage to "gun power" whether from the state or non-state elements, making it world's most dangerous area for reporting.
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"What about Bob?" is a hot topic of political gossip in California thesed days.
Former Assembly Speaker Bob Hertzberg, who has been a leader in the state's governmental reform movement (working both with the foundation-funded California Forward and with billionaire Nicolas Berggruen in his Think Long Committee effort), is considering a run for state senate.
Much of the conversation has been about the pure politics, and the redistricting angle, on Hertzberg's decision.
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He'd be taking on a fellow Democrat, Fran Pavley, who has been backed by the top Democrat in the state senate, Darrell Steinberg.
Hertzberg told the Daily News that the proposed senate district where he lives in the San Fernando Valley fits him. If it survives challenges, he'll decide to run.
Whatever you think of Hertzberg personally (and this former LA mayoral candidate is both liked and loathed), a campaign by Hertzberg would be a significant political event, for reasons that go beyond his particular situation and race.
Hertzberg, because of who he is and because of his efforts as a reform, would offer a useful test of a variety of California political premises and hypotheses, some of them previously untested.
Here are five premises that would be tested by Hertzberg.
5. Moderates can gain under redistricting.
Hertzberg is very much a moderate, pro-business Democrat whose candidacy is likely to be opposed by union leaders (who aren't big fans of his efforts to help labor foes such as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger).
The senate district he's targeting would seem to be the kind of place that a moderate would have a chance.
If Hertzberg, a strong and well-known moderate, were to run and lose, it might well refute that premise.
4. Compromise and deal-making can break the political logjam.
Hertzberg is a consummate dealmaker. He once told me he thinks in deals.
He has long experience as a public official, as a behind-the-scenes advisor to public officials, as an attorney, and as an entrepreneur in cutting deals.
Putting Hertzberg back in the legislature would be the acid test of whether dealmaking savvy can make the unworkable California governing system workable.
Pavley's supporters are already arguing that Hertzberg couldn't get anything done; in the Daily News, Pavley campaign manager Parke Skelton all but says that party loyalty is the far more important value than deal-making: "We hear he is being encouraged to run by business interests. No one in the (Democratic) caucus will support him. He will become toxic in Sacramento if he is elected."
3. Old hands with deep experience and knowledge could make the system work.
This is related to premise #4 (above). Advocates for loosening or limiting term limits say the state legislature would get more done if it had more seasoned, experienced elected officials like Bob Hertzberg. Of course, Pavley, who sponsored groundbreaking environmental legislation in the assembly and previously served as mayor of Agoura Hills, would represent a test of the same proposition.
2. Broad government and budget reform is still possible within the existing system.
Hertzberg hasn't broadcast all his intentions in running.
But as someone who has spent much of the last decade pushing publicly and behind the scene for big changes in how state government does business, he almost certainly would pursue similar big changes in the legislature.
Hertzberg would join a legislature with a handful of allies inclined to reform, including his fellow Angelenos Mike Feuer and Mike Gatto in the assembly, and the Bay Area's Loni Hancock and Mark DeSaulnier in the senate.
Could a small Big Reform Caucus get things done? The smart money says they wouldn't have a chance. But throwing Hertzberg into the mess might change the odds.
1. Hostage-taking could be used to end hostage-taking.
This is my own premise, and not a widely shared one.
But here it is: Republicans, particularly moderate Republicans, have used the leverage provided by supermajority rules to make demands. This sort of hostage taking -- I won't give you my vote unless you meet my demands -- is a huge problem for the state.
But the only way to end such hostage-taking is to get rid of supermajorities and other levers that allow for hostage-taking.
If you're a legislator, the only way to attack hostage taking is to take hostages for one-self -- and make the demands constitutional and rules changes that would end hostage-taking.
For example, the fastest way to get a constitutional revision process in the state approved is probably for one legislator or a small group of legislators to take a legislative hostage and make the revision process their ransom demand.
There's nothing to stop a moderate Democrat from using this Republican trip. Hertzberg probably isn't inclined to try anything like this -- he's much more interested in making deals and getting along. But, as a test of various ideas for breaking the Sacramento gridlock -- and for sheer entertainment value -- it would be hard to beat a Senator Hertzberg.
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Heidi Klum Is a 'Wash and Wear' Type of Gal
The supermodel admits her hair care routine is quick -- and that she especially loves the bed-head look
Four kids and a crazy career mean that Heidi Klum has little time to think about her morning routine. "I'm more wash and wear," Klum, the new face of Clear Scalp Hair & Beauty Therapy, tells PEOPLE. "I just go in the shower, wash and condition [my hair] and just let it air dry." And if she's feeling crazy? "I put my hair behind my ears and I let it dry like that, so when I take it out it has a little bit of a wave."
Sounds simple, but once you start talking color, it gets complicated. "It's a pain," she admits. "Every five weeks I have to get my roots done. Even though now it's cool to have some roots, you can't have seven-inch roots and blonde from there on!"
The supermodel is taking better care of her tresses these days; she was just named the first-ever face of the new Clear product line. "I thought they had a great, different approach to hair care," she says. "I don't think anyone usually thinks about feeding hair from the scalp, but if you think about it, it makes total sense. That's where the hair starts."
Saying the products make her hair soft and sweet smelling, Klum points out that many consumers often buy the wrong shampoo and conditioner. "You need to look at what kind of hair type you are," she explains. "You have to think about not just hydration and moisture, too, because that can make your hair really flat and limp."
Klum has her own secret for adding volume to her locks, but admits it's not the best tip. "I know it sounds horrible, but I feel sometimes [my hair] looks cooler when it is a little bit bedroom-y — and sometimes I literally did just get up," she says of the un-brushed bed-head look. "Sometimes I think it looks better if you wash it right before you go to bed and let it dry when you're sleeping. It goes a little bit all over the place and I like that. And if it's really bad, it just goes in a bun!" Tell us: How do you wear your hair on a daily basis?
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Whence you're in total trouble, a debugger is the way to help out. It is also the proper tool to report information back to the citadel development team (like Mozilla will do with its talkback facility). There are several instances of debuggers around, mdb / dbx for Solaris for example, but the one we will talk about here is the in the open source world most used GDB that you can also operate through DDD, KDevelop, Emacs or plain through its command line, which all of the above front ends also offer. We will show some basic operations here, you may want to search the gdb man page if you want to go deeper into detail.
Please remember that its always a good idea to check whether your troubles persist with the SVN Head revision (after doing a backup of your data).
Which kind of binaries produce useful output?
By default your binaries installed to your system are stripped to safe system resources. You can find it out like that:
# file /usr/sbin/citserver /usr/sbin/citserver: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.4.1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
These will produce allmost meaningless output in gdb, just maybe the addr2line utility can gather some information from that. However, the better method is to use an unstripped binary (the install process does this), that you will find inside your source tree. If you like to do stepping and not want gdb to jump back and forth, compile it with -ggdb -o0 compiler flags.
Citadel brings you untripped/citserver, which matches your active citserver. Use this to analyse your core files.
How do I make my system produce core-files?
On Linux this can be achieved with the ulimit command which is documented in the bash man page.
ulimit -c 999999
The core files are created in the working directory. Be careful, they can grow and eat up your disk space. Making the whole system create core files on crashes in a central folder can be achieved like that:
- local to citadel by editing /etc/init.d/citadel or /etc/init.d/webcit and add in the second line:
ulimit -c unlimited
- systemwide by doing:
echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/core_uses_pid echo /tmp/core-%e-%p-%t > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
Analyzing Core files
If a program crashes due to illegal commands its state may be conserved into a core-dump. You can use this core dump with gdb to find out at which point it ceased operation.
gdb citserver core dump
From now on you can do all data examination you could do if you just stopped the program.
backtrace bt thread apply all bt
will show you a stack trace of the functions in the citadel binary that were active. If you just want to report the bug, please use the output of
thread apply all bt full
If you want to save the contents of a pointer, you can do it like that:
dump binary memory /tmp/decoded decoded &decoded[10000]
would save the found 10k bytes after the place decoded points to.
Running Programs in GDB
Setting a breakpoint can be done with
break main
for example. start it with
run -x7
(which will pass -x7 to the debugged process as commandline parameter) and it will stop at the start. you can make it step forward with
and enter a function with
print variables with
print varname
or on every step with
display varname
handle SIGPIPE nostop
will stop gdb from stopping on other programs disconnecting from a citadel server.
Using Valgrind
Nobody's perfect. Valgrind is the most decent tool around these days to detect tiny flaws in programs and bust memory leaks. (the process growing constantly because of it forgets about memory it demanded from the system) We use valgrind to ensure the quality of citadel. This is how you can run it:
valgrind --log-file=/tmp/valgrindlog \ --show-reachable=yes --leak-check=full citserver
Sometimes code doesn't work as expected in special situations, a program develops hotspots. Profilers can help here, gprof does in our case. It needs special binaries, heres how to create them: If you want to create them via the deb-build, just do
export DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="debug profiling" dpkg-buildpackage
If you want to configure and compile yourself, do
CFLAGS = -O0 -ggdb -rdynamic -MD -MP
and add --with-gprof to your configure files
Now you're equipped with those special binaries, run them, produce the high load situation you've experienced, and stop them regularly afterwards, so they can write their 'gmon.out' file containing the profiling raw data. WebCit can be shut down with 'killall -HUP webserver', citserver will finish its job with 'sendcommand down'.
Both of them will write a gmon.out into their working directory:
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Moderator: Cartographers
Ditocoaf wrote:Excellent map; looks fun. Esp. like the large territory in the middle, bordering practically everything; adds some interesting aspects to gameplay. There should be some bonus for holding it, though. If you can grab it and the tower, it should be easier to defend.
edbeard wrote:My problem with the map at the moment is that none of the bonus areas stick out. Perhaps consider colouring the buildings to help players further distinguish between bonus areas without having to read.
edbeard wrote:I'm not quite sure how you can show connections between areas without them, but I'd say the red lines are a bit of an eyesore. They jump out too much for my liking. You need them to be different than your regular paths showing the landscape of the area, but I just don't know how to make them clear without sticking out. Maybe you can think of something.
edbeard wrote:I don't like how those connections move directly into your continent names. It just doesn't look right and might confuse some people.
edbeard wrote:A further reason for colours distinguishing continents is that the areas in the corners could belong to either avenue. Obviously the lower left could only be in Jenkins, but the upper right could be part of Lee or Remembrance.
edbeard wrote:What are the names of the checkered 'hall' areas in each Battalion? Doesn't seem to be space for labels but maybe you can mention this in the legend?
edbeard wrote:The problem with having it the way you have it is that army numbers are going to cover up those flags so no one will see them. There'll be no way to know what is a company and what is a battalion. Furthermore, at the moment you can't tell which is which because you haven't labeled them specifically.
Maybe you should consider using different shaped army circles for the battalions and a different shape for the companies. Diamond and Square. Or, perhaps something more significant to your experience at the citadel. Just remember that shapes can be more important than colour because of colourblind players.
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Checking in on… the SoConPosted by jstevrtc on December 19th, 2009
Justin Glover is the RTC correspondent for the Southern Conference.
Standings (conference/overall)
- Western Carolina 2-0 / 10-1
- Appalachian State 1-1 / 6-4
- Samford 1-1 / 3-7
- Elon 1-1 / 3-8
- UNC Greensboro 1-1 / 2-6
- Chattanooga 0-1 / 5-5
- Charleston 3-0 / 5-3
- Furman 1-1 / 5-3
- Citadel 1-1 / 6-5
- Davidson 1-1 / 3-7
- Wofford 0-2 / 5-6
- Georgia Southern 0-2 / 3-9
Quick Hits. After making a call to my old boss at Western Carolina I made the three-hour trip from Atlanta, GA, to Cullowhee, NC, to see this impressive Western Carolina team in person take on my alma mater, the Campbell Fighting Camels, on December 10th. Having previously covered both teams I knew this game was going to be a good one. Western Carolina can really shoot, hitting ten threes including four from its senior point guard Brigham Waginger. The one player who impressed me the most was junior-college transfer Mike Williams who the fans call "And One" because he makes a ton of lay-ups while getting fouled, as you'd guess. Williams was lightning quick and scored 16 off the bench to key the win for the Catamounts 66-59. Campbell ran a nice half-court trap that forced Western Carolina into 15 turnovers and Jonathan Rodriquez scored 18 points and grabbed 10 rebounds but it wasn't enough. Watching the hottest team in the SoCon live gives you a different perspective on how good this team really can be. Two days later they defeated Louisville on the road and ran their win streak to nine straight games thanks to 23 points from Mike Williams. In the college insider mid-major top 25 rankings the Catamounts are currently ranked 8th and are receiving votes in the national Top 25 poll. Keep a close eye on this team as they head on the road to play Clemson before Christmas.
Other Notes. College of Charleston is really coming on strong and showing why they are also a favorite to win the Southern Conference crown come March. Now 5-3 overall and starting 3-0 in conference has put the Cougars right where they want to be. With the non-conference schedule about to end, the conference season will really start to shape things as a whole proving what teams are looking to make a push come time for March Madness.
Most Disappointing Teams. In recent weeks the two biggest disappointments have been Georgia Southern who is now 3-9 and 0-2 in the conference. The Eagles have lost five straight games and are giving up 76 PPG, which doesn't help. Also, Davidson has been hit by a tough opening schedule, as they are 3-7 overall and 1-1 in the conference. The Wildcats are trying to earn some non-conference wins in the upcoming weeks.
Sizzling players. There are three players who really have stood out this week with Donald Sims from Appalachian State third in the conference in scoring at 16.9 points per game. Andrew Goudelock from College of Charleston averaging 16.8 has really been scoring to help the Cougars open up 3-0 in conference play. Finally junior-college transfer Mike Williams from Western Carolina who is averging 10.7 points per game off the bench but dropped 23 points against Louisville in the upset.
Upcoming Important Match-ups:
- Sat. Dec. 19 College of Charleston @ Clemson 7:30 p.m. – Another chance for a SoCon school to knock-off an ACC opponent.
- Sat. Dec. 19 Wofford @ South Carolina 7:00 p.m. – Wofford looking for two wins against SEC opponents with Georgia being the first.
- Tues. Dec. 22 Western Carolina @ Clemson 7:30 p.m. – A chance for the Catamounts to continue its winning streak against an ACC opponent.
- Tues. Dec. 22 Georgia Southern @ Georgia State 7:30 p.m. – Two mid-majors renew its in-state rivalry.
- Wed. Dec. 23 College of Charleston @ Hawaii 12:30 a.m. ESPN 2 – Christmas Tournament in Hawaii for CofC hoping to earn some wins for the SoCon.
Team Breakdowns:
- Appalachian State (6-4). The Mountaineers continue to be a sneaky team with a 1-1 record in the SoCon after a key road win against Wofford, 77-76, with Donald Sims scoring 25 points. Appalachian State followed that up with a 113-91 victory against Milligan on December 17th. Donald Sims led the way with 23 points to run the win streak to two games.
- Chattanooga (5-5). The Mocs have been in the middle of the pack in the SoCon but have dropped two of their last three games including a 19-point loss to Elon to fall to 0-1 in conference play. They responded with a 22-point win against Mississippi Valley State 82-60 on December 12th. On December 14th the Mocs lost to Georgia Tech 95-64 but Ty Patterson did have 22 points in the defeat.
- College of Charleston (5-3). The Cougars have hit their stride putting together a 4-game winning streak in December winning three straight conference games to start 3-0. After beating Davidson 67-55 the Cougars followed it up with a tight road win against UNC-Greensboro 67-64 thanks to 28 points from junior Andrew Goudelock. On December 16th College of Charleston defeated Charleston Southern 87-74 for its fourth straight win.
- Davidson (3-7). The Wildcats have struggled this season but also have played a strong schedule against some really good teams. Davidson lost to College of Charleston 67-55 to drop to 1-1 in conference play. On December 12th the Wildcats took on mid-major powerhouse Gonzaga on the road losing 103-91. Jake Cohen scored 16 points and has been coming on strong of late. On December 17th Davison defeated New Jersey 90-49 thanks to 23 points from Cohen.
- Elon (3-8). Elon is sitting at 1-1 in the conference after a key victory against Chattanooga 82-63 on December 5th. The Phoenix traveled to Raleigh, N.C., to take on N.C. State and put a scare in the Wolfpack but fell in the end 79-76 getting 26 points from senior forward Adam Constantine. Elon had a four-point lead with four minutes to play but just couldn't hold on.
- Furman (5-3). The Paladins have only had two games in recent weeks both coming as losses with the first a tight 64-57 loss against Western Carolina. Junior Jordan Miller led the team in scoring with 15 points. Furman then traveled to Clemson on December 13th losing 82-53 with Miller scoring 11 points in the loss. The Paladins sit at 1-1 in conference play.
- Georgia Southern (3-9). The Eagles have been struggling of late dropping three-straight non-conference games first at N.C. State 75-57 on December 12th and home against Coastal Carolina 69-58 on December 15th. Georgia Southern lost to Evansville 75-58 on December 17th with Willie Powers scoring 11 points in the loss. The Eagles are also 0-2 on the SoCon hoping to get back on track in the next coming weeks.
- Samford (3-7). Samford has only played two games, going 1-1 in them. They defeated Spring Hill on December 12th 58-48 with Trey Montgomery scoring 12 points in the victory. Samford then traveled to in-state rival Alabama on December 16th losing 60-45 with Josh Davis scoring 13 points in the loss.
- The Citadel (6-5). This is a very interesting team that loves to get up a lot of shots. They defeated Georgia Southern on December 5th 68-43 with Zach Urbanus scoring 20 points. After watching the Michigan State game on ESPNU, you could tell this team could present some problems to other SoCon teams in the future. The Bulldogs lost 69-56 to the Spartans but were within single digits a couple of times in the game as Cameron Wells scored 16 points in the loss. Also the Citadel hosted Michigan State in that game and really gave the Spartans a scare.
- UNC-Greensboro (2-6). UNCG has started conference play at 1-1 right in the middle of the pack but has lost two-straight games against College of Charleston 67-64 and Princeton 65-50 on December 13 with Ben Stywall scoring 14 points in the loss.
- Western Carolina (10-1). The Catamounts are clearly the hottest team in the SoCon and could make the argument for one of the top mid-majors at the moment. They are riding a nine-game winning streak that includes some impressive victories. First, Western Carolina defeated Furman 64-57 to open up 2-0 in conference play. Then the Catamounts defeated a solid Bradley team on the road, 75-67, on December 7th. On December 10th they kept the winning streak going against Campbell 66-59 thanks to 16 points from Mike Williams. Western Carolina finished the run by going on the road and stunning Louisville 91-83 thanks to 24 points off the bench from Mike Williams, who earned SoCon player of the week thanks to that performance.
- Wofford (5-6). The Terriers have lost two of its last three games and started 0-2 in the conference by only a combined six points. The second loss came to Appalachian State 77-76 at home with Noah Dahlman scoring 25 points in the loss. Wofford then lost 73-62 to Navy on December 12th. Dahlman (18.3 ppg) has been unreal this season leading the team in scoring eight out of the first 11 games this year.


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Gilad Atzmon
The Wandering Who? A Study of Jewish Identity Politics
Washington, D.C.: Zer0 Books, 2011
Gilad Atzmon (born 1963), is an author I have followed for years without even trying, thanks to the efforts of helpful anti-Semitic spammers who make sure that I receive at least five links to every new Atzmon piece. Read more …