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Maybe we should call the Associated Press "post journalism."
By the way, it's not the greatest Van Gogh painting in the world, so you can see why it got "downgraded." But then X-ray technology somehow got to the truth. It had Van Gogh insides:
A detailed X-ray of an underlying painting of two wrestlers and knowledge of the painter's period at a Belgian art academy led a team of researchers to conclude that the painting really is by Van Gogh.Nothing says "Van Gogh" like wrestlers! No, wait. Googling "Van Gogh wrestlers," I got to this much better written news story from The Independent, explaining the reasoning so it doesn't sound ridiculous:
The wrestlers' existence was known only from a reference in one of the Dutch master's letters, written aged 33, just four years before his tragic death. On 22 January 1886, he wrote: "This week I painted a large thing with two nude torsos – two wrestlers."Maybe Van Gogh wouldn't have been so "tortured" if he hadn't felt the urge to paint stodgy flowers over top of his nude male torsos!
There is no other painting of wrestlers. It is this painting that now confirms the still life's authenticity. They are both on the same canvas. Van Gogh painted the still life over his wrestlers which could not be seen until now.
Professor Joris Dik of Delft University spoke of the excitement: "What makes it very tangible is this letter which refers to a painting that was thought to have been lost or had not survived." He said that it was in Paris that Van Gogh became "obsessed" with flower painting, leaving behind his Dutch period, "where he used mostly dark colours".What happened in Paris? What was he really saying with flowers? Was there an underlying nude male torso message?

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Attorney negligence and death penalty habeas petitions
Below, Harvard Law School's Kate Wevers previews Holland v. Florida, one of two cases to be heard by the Supreme Court on Monday, March 1. Check the Holland v. Florida (09-5327) SCOTUSwiki page for additional updates.
Section 2244(d) of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) requires state prisoners to file their federal habeas petitions within one year after their direct appeals become final. On March 1, in No. 09-5327, Holland v. Florida, the Court will consider whether AEDPA's limitation period can be equitably tolled when the petition is not timely filed because of the "gross negligence" of the prisoner's lawyer.
In 1996, petitioner Albert Holland was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in a Florida state court. His direct appeals were unsuccessful: the Supreme Court denied certiorari, thereby triggering the start of Section 2244(d)'s one-year limitations period, on October 1, 2001. Approximately one month later, Bradley Collins was appointed to represent Holland in his post-conviction proceedings. Collins filed a motion for post-conviction relief in state court in September 2002, thereby tolling the limitations period and leaving Holland with approximately two weeks to file his federal habeas petition if his motion for state post-conviction relief was denied. The Florida Supreme Court did deny relief, and issued its mandate affirming the denial on December 1, 2005 "" at which point the limitations period continued to run.
Although Holland had repeatedly written to Collins asking about the state court proceedings and the AEDPA limitations period, and had instructed him to file his federal petition before the limitation period expired, Collins nonetheless failed to file a timely federal habeas petition and failed to even tell Holland that the Florida Supreme Court had released its decision affirming the denial of Holland's motion. In January 2006, after the one-year limitations period had expired, Holland eventually learned that the Florida Supreme Court had denied post-conviction relief. One day later, he filed a pro se federal habeas petition.
The district court dismissed Holland's federal habeas petition as untimely, holding that Holland was not entitled to equitable tolling because he had not been diligent in pursuing his rights. On appeal, the Eleventh Circuit affirmed. It assumed without deciding that Collins had been "grossly negligent," but, in its view, "no allegation of lawyer negligence . . . can rise to the level of egregious attorney misconduct that would entitle [Holland] to equitable tolling" unless there are allegations of affirmative misrepresentations, bad faith, dishonesty, divided loyalty, or mental impairment on the part of the attorney.
The question presented is whether "gross negligence" by a prisoner's lawyer can amount to exceptional circumstances warranting equitable tolling. It is not, however, entirely clear whether the Court will also decide an antecedent question: whether equitable tolling is available under AEDPA at all. The Supreme Court has twice assumed, without deciding, that § 2244(d) allows for equitable tolling (Pace v DiGuglielmo, 544 US 408 (2005); Lawrence v. Florida, 549 US 327 (2007)). Florida challenges that assumption, and asks the Court to find that equitable tolling is never available; asserting that the antecedent question is "fairly considered" part of the question presented. Clearly, the question presented could logically be answered in the negative on the basis that equitable tolling is never available. But this logically prior issue was not raised by Florida in the lower courts, and furthermore is an issue on which there is no circuit split: the eleven circuit courts to have decided the question have held that equitable tolling is available (the question is open in the DC circuit). One might therefore have expected the Court to indicate to the parties that it had this issue in mind, if indeed that was the case, when it granted certiorari. Instead, the Court's docket only records the questions presented as articulated by Holland, even though Florida's brief in opposition restated the questions presented to include this antecedent issue, and the Court occasionally makes clear that it is granting certiorari on the questions as rephrased by the respondent.
Holland accepts that equitable tolling is not available for "garden variety" attorney negligence but argues it should be available where a litigant can show "(1) that he has been pursuing his rights diligently, and (2) that some extraordinary circumstance stood in his way." (Citing Pace v DiGuglielmo, 544 US 408 (2005)). He argues that gross negligence by collateral counsel can qualify as extraordinary circumstances warranting equitable tolling.
In making this argument, Holland emphasizes that limitations periods are customarily subject to equitable tolling, and that habeas corpus is governed by equitable principles. Holland criticizes the Eleventh Circuit for creating a rigid categorical rule that fails to ensure the specific circumstances of a case will receive meaningful, equitable consideration. The Court's decisions in Pace v DiGuglielmo, 544 US 408 (2005) and Lawrence v. Florida, 549 US 327 (2007) are cited as providing a "workable standard" for equitable tolling.
Florida advances a number of arguments in response. First, as noted above, it claims that equitable tolling is never available under AEDPA, because the purpose and structure of AEDPA rebut the presumption in favor of equitable tolling. Second, Florida claims that even if equitable tolling were consistent with AEDPA, § 2254(i) inferentially bars petitioners from relying on attorney error (§ 2254(i) precludes incompetence of post-conviction counsel from being a ground for habeas relief). Finally, Florida argues that, even if some form of equitable tolling exists, it should be exceedingly rare and should not extend to circumstances within a litigant's control, disagreements between attorney and client, or mistakes concerning the applicable law. Florida is supported by an amicus brief filed on behalf of twenty two states addressed solely to the antecedent question: whether equitable tolling is precluded by AEDPA. The states argue that allowing equitable tolling would defeat AEDPA's objectives of limiting delay, expediting finality of state court judgments, and conserving state resources.
In reply, Holland counters that recognizing equitable tolling does not undermine the statutory objectives. Rather, the one-year limitation period will speed up habeas while retaining discretion to equitably toll in extraordinary circumstances. Holland notes that equitable tolling under AEDPA already exists nationwide, and he argues both that it has been "completely workable" and that its invocation has been "rare and limited". Holland criticizes Florida for failing to articulate what Holland should have done to be diligent, and he points out that Florida challenged Holland's pro se motions as unauthorized because he was represented by counsel.
The amicus briefs filed by the ACLU and Eleven Legal Historians in support of Holland focus on the antecedent question, but conclude that neither the statutory language, nor the context, nor the purpose, preclude equitable tolling. The ACLU argues that Congress can be presumed to be aware of the distinction courts draw between limitation periods (which typically allow for equitable tolling) and jurisdictional requirements (which typically do not), and that Congress, by choosing to create a limitation period rather than a jurisdictional requirement, has indicated an intent to allow for flexibility in exceptional cases. The amicus brief filed by the Legal Ethics Professors and Practitioners argues that the conduct of Collins goes further than "gross negligence", and suggests a number of tests the Court could use to identify exceptional circumstances of attorney behavior warranting equitable tolling.


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California stands to receive as much as $700 million next month in federal Race to the Top funds, which are to be used to improve the state's lowest-performing schools. Unfortunately, the funds are unlikely to reach California's lowest-performing students – the 100,000 a year who drop out before obtaining a high school diploma.
That's because the federal funds will be used almost exclusively to promote college preparatory instruction, whereas one in five California high schoolers have little or no desire to pursue post-secondary education.
Rather than force those students to take three years worth of college preparatory classes, California should offer them the alternative of vocational education.
The education establishment tends to view vocational education as somehow inferior to college preparatory instruction. Most share the view of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that "every student is capable of success in the classroom."
But the question is how California defines "success" in the classroom. If it's based on how a student performs in such college prep classes as Algebra or Chemistry or European History, then every student will not succeed.
If the definition is expanded to include vocational prep classes – curricula that has relevance to students uninterested in spending four years in college – then Gov. Schwarzenegger is right on.
Indeed, California should acknowledge that it is quite possible for students to enjoy productive lives and successful careers without college, as several well-known state residents have proven.
Steve Jobs doesn't have a college diploma, but he is co-founder and CEO of Apple. Hilary Swank didn't even graduate high school, but she's a two-time Oscar-winning actress.
Wolfgang Puck eschewed higher education, yet the celebrity chef boasts more than a dozen restaurants around the country. Gisele Bundchen never set foot on a college campus, yet she is the highest-paid model in the world.
Why shouldn't California high schools offer career prep coursework for aspiring entrepreneurs like Jobs, actors like Swank, chefs like Puck and models like Bundchen?
Or how about instruction in other fields and industries that do not necessarily require a college diploma such as automotive services, computers and information technology, home building, hotel and restaurant management, and sports and entertainment?
The 100,000 or so youngsters who drop out of California high schools year by year represent unrealized potential. Many, if not most, could be encouraged to stay in school and to earn a diploma if they had the option of taking classes that prepared them not for college, but for a vocation.


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Fake taxi: UVA victim offers assault details
The UVA student who reported being assaulted after getting into what she thought was a taxi at around 2:30am on Sunday, February 17 has met with police and provided more details about her alleged attacker, whom she describes as a "tall and chubby" middle-aged male of Indian descent who spoke in broken English. According to a release from UVA Police, the student entered the vehicle, a dark colored four-door sedan that was not marked as a taxi, near 513 Rugby Road, and the driver continued past her Alderman Road residence to an area near Kellogg House, where she kicked him and escaped the vehicle after he attempted to assault her.
Anyone with information about the incident should call 434-924-7166, email firstname.lastname@example.com, or contact Crimestoppers at 434-977-4000.
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She's racist. An Indian guy driving a sedan, must be a taxi.
Can you say "Harrington"? I have wondered about the possibility of a transient taxi driver being involved. This needs close examination by the authorities, and not just UVa police!
I'm glad she talked to police, because it's true he'll just try the same game on another girl. At least the police know what's going on, which is important. The next time he does something similar, they'll have a better idea of who they're looking for.
As far as the Harrington case, I doubt he's involved. The main suspect is black, and I happened to have been assaulted (non-sexual, just hit me hard, apparently trying to knock me over) by a similar-looking man on the same night, and long story short he was with three other dark white males, and then there was another older white male who I saw with one of the men from the night of the abduction separately, a few days later. The circumstances in both sightings were incredibly suspicious.
Of course I'd love to see what the other witnesses saw, because I'd like to know whre my piece of the puzzle fits in. But I guess none of us will know the whole story unless they finally take it to trial.
Here's one tidbit -- one of the white accomplices I saw has a loooooong history of predation from out of state and Northern Virginia, and you guessed it -- cops never took him very seriously that I know of. Once again, it appears he'll get away with murder (or at least being an accomplice) in the Harrington case. Apparently the cops only have DNA from the black guy. Just like a serial criminal -- as long as he gets off, who cares how many accomplices go to jail or die for helping him out with his crimes? Black guy is hunted down, white guys get off (although it's possible two of the white guys have been in trouble since, one may even be dead). It's not only giving Virginia's law enforcement the appearance of prejudice, but it leaves men on the streets who are incredibly dangerous.
I've come to the conclusion that Morgan Harrington's death is the culmination of everything that's wrong with our criminal justice system. It was no accident -- these men had histories, and they could have been caught earlier if people had done their best to protect other women from them. That includes numerous law enforcement agencies in various jurisdictions. And the predator I knew changed jurisdictions a lot, as if it was a criminal strategy with him.
They really should beef up the sexual crimes portion of the FBI, or at least give interstate stalking a higher priority than zero. If I told everyone what I've seen of that one predator since the year 2000, possibly even 1993 or 1991, your jaws would drop. Why is this guy still on the streets? I have no idea. It's not like I haven't given the cops and FBI the full license tags of almost every vehicle he and his accomplices have used through the years.
@ Hard work wins the game February 24th, 2013 | 8:43pm
Well, everyone has a right to speak.:
Nothing above from 'Hard Work' is even close to what we believe. But we do encourage you to call FBI and mention Dino, VSP and the Harrington case. Going through the FBI insures you that a VSP person did not loose your info and maybe in the past valuable tips were lost! I hope that you do have credible info on the Harrington case.
But this article is about a totally different woman, not seemed to be related. Just as Hugley murdering Ms. Love had nothing factually to do with the Harrington case.
If it is suggested that UVA and V-Tech is a heaven for abuse, I agree. But I do think UVA is now trying. What is in the past is in the past. UVA should look at digital cameras and place them in various places. This doesn't infringe on anyone's rights.
Last year in Hollywood we caught the sick arsonist by using the digital images. They released the images and within 24 hours he was captured. It does not infringe on anyone's rights. His capture was before he had the chance to kill hundreds in a high rise fire. My friends and neighbors were spared our lives.
Video data is very cheap now, it can be stored for 100's of years. A great tool and it is inexpensive. UVA could even offer classes in the time lapse and facial recognition science.
Digital recordings are a gift, not to be abused. There is nothing infringing on one's rights by having a camera where this victim was solo and the car could easily have been taped.
Wake up. That is not big Brother.
If they see a drug deal go down, well its not the same, they would have to examine what exchanged hands with boots on the ground. But a car, a driver, come on, just step it up.
On a different note if all Virginia Law enforcement stopped the pursuit of citizen's simple possession and not-for profit collective dispensaries and cannabis use the money saved would be enough to triple if not more the sexual crime enforcement.
UVA look at your endowment, tell me you can't do it? Jefferson did grow cannabis and yes a small portion was for recreational use.
Not a cool thing to say in Virginia but tobacco and alcohol are much more of a gateway drug to hard drugs than Cannabis.
I have never heard of a case in my lifetime when a group or individual got stoned on cannabis and went nuts and rapped a woman! It is just the other way around. Ladies it is like temporary castration. Marijuana does not lead to men acting as they are driving a cab and assaulting women.
UVA: you've got a problem..Almost all Colleges do, but take the lead.
If she had listened to the VP she could have shot her shotgun twice and everything would be ok.
CCW always. "She must be racist?Please!!!!!!! Typical lib. Story is about attempted sexual assault and that is what you get from story? You need some help!
M Sutton, video is not stored for 100's of years. It's written over (most places) after a few weeks on the hard drive.
M Sutton, also remember the concert area DID have videos ---a lot of them. Just so happened that all the videos of Morgan Harington disappeared the next day when she was reported missing. Doesn't do you any good to have videos if you let staff erase and alter them at will. Concert promotion company has never answered why every one of their cameras malfunctioned when Morgan came up to it---she did go to each entrance trying to get back in. They, shortly after the event, promoted the manager and transferred him out of C'ville. When people are concerned about accountability, physical evidence has a way of disappearing--even videos.
Cat perhaps they felt that someone would try and pin responsbility for the abduction on them by twisting the video to look like they were negligent. So because juries give away money too easy they play defense. If Juries were more fair this kind of behavior wouldn't happen. As cold as it sounds their first obligation is their own survival and they are under no legal obligation to take a chance on going bankrupt because a murderer used their parking lot to kidnap someone.
The reason they cannot answer the question is because a jury would defy logic and hold them responsible BECAUSE they erased the tapes when they are not even obligated to make them in the first place. There is no law against destroying evidence that could be incriminating to oneself even in a civil suit.
Suppose you were quoting from django unchained and said the "n" word on tape and you knew your enemies would cut ut the snippet and label you a racist. would you not destroy it to protect yourself or would you wait until it was broadcast on newsplex out of context and defend it on page 11 in the progress thursday edition?
As a suggestion to women... if someone offers you a ride ask them if you can take a picture of them and email it to a friend First. That way at least we wil know who to look for.
@ Hard Work
Very interesting post. So many theories going around for the last few years nobody knows who did it. The ones that do won't tell. I know that you aren't going to just come out and say who it is, but a couple of key hints would help. Lets just say that you got my attention. It may confirm something for me.
Hunter, "Hardwork" has posted about this before,beginning at the time the sketch was released. She says she has talked to all the appropriate authorities. My advice is to call the FBI -AGAIN (all three locations for this case)! Ask specifically to speak to the Agent handling it. (See previous posts below):
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It's great that the Harringtons are trying to raise awareness about this guy in the DC area, where one of his other attacks happened, but I was assaulted by a man who fit his description on that very night, and his tags were from out of state. Also, I think the sketch is a little dated. If he's the same man who hit me, his facial expressions are more psychotic and he looks older, plus his hair is cut closer to his head all the way around, no more of this "longer on top" stuff from his old 80s hairstyle.
She also says:
GET REAL: .....I had an encounter with a man who may have been her attacker on that very night, and before I even saw or heard him or knew he was there, he slammed into me really hard, so hard that it stung. I didn't report him to police at the time because it could have been an accident and my past experience with police in other cities is that they don't like taking reports even on serious crimes, so reporting things that may have been accidental will never go anywhere. But at least now I understand what happened, and you should all understand that the man doesn't care who you are, he just wants someone to atttack physically. Fortunately for me, I was bigger and heavier than he was, and so I didn't fall over. Rather I got angry and took down some info on him, toying with the idea of calling police anyway. Police now have that information, even though I decided against calling them on that particular night. And why do they have it? Because the Harringtons made the case public, because the police released the sketch -- that's the only reason I knew the old license tag was significant enough to find and report.
The man attacks women about a second after seeing them, he has no idea whether they've been drinking or not and doesn't care. I wasn't drinking at all that night, in fact I'm a middle-aged computer nerd who was enjoying coffee and free wifi when I was attacked, he probably saw me through the large windows. And they say that's what he did to the Fairfax victim too, grabbed her from behind before she saw him and choked her until she passed out. It's like a martial art he practices, immediately disabling his victims. He's just a predator looking for a victim, and although alcohol may play a role in some things, based on REAL experience it's extremely unlikely that the Harrington disappearance had anything to do with alcohol. And everyone can thank the Harringtons and police if he's caught, so that YOUR daughter isn't next!
suspicious of him because he was out on the same night and hit me in a sneaky, deniable way that seems to resemble the immediate attempts at disabling his victims like the Fairfax rapist, and he does look a lot like their sketch. But again, we'll have to wait and see. There's still a chance that the man I saw just happened to be a jerk on the wrong night, and is someone different entirely. I'd say that's a small chance, but you never know.
@ ?
There is no reason that data cannot be stored for 100' of years.
Try a little reading, I suggest Ray Kurzweil.
The cost of storing data is now cheaper than the efforts to erase it. There is also the fact that data not writing over old data can be magnified with much ease. The images preserved now will be able to be enhanced to even the possibility of the 100 degree.
UVA should be going into these sciences, even if V-tech's name suggest it be the better suitor.
If an event takes place then for 2 years all data can be easily kept. Example: 20 intersections, 4 angles each gives you 80 feeds synchronized. If the person happens to be watching a particular feed that is not an issue. The other 79 feeds are also being recorded.
After 2 years if there is nothing that may be useful for law suites or LE, then compact it and store it. It is not like someone pulls out a VHS tape and stores it on a shelf.
It is the 21 century, data storage, legal cannabis and yes racism will be seen in a light yet seen by many in Virginia.
Funny how they embraced the familia DNA with open arms, but addressing the raciest hatred created by the PR firm is not seen inside your community.
It is so easy to see that Virginia needs to come out of the 19th and 20th century, Very many even the majority are perfectly fine and understand the on the face it seems to represent all. So they are not as vocal as the less educated.
There is no reason that video should not be present if she got into the vehicle where the reports indicate.
Free up law enforcement from spending money and helicopters looking for 1 plant. Look at the cost of using that equipment. Put the money into cameras and boots on the ground. Use undercover police to entice the perverts. Careful of the fruit from the poisonous tree, let DA's teach the officers the right way, no entrapment.
Don't allow wild rumors to work up the raciest into a mob! Don't discouraging other victims to hide and not come forward. AND stop blaming the victims.
@cat February 25th, 2013 | 5:18pm
The video's you refer to have nothing to do with this young person and her being picked up.
What you stated is not accurate. Rader did see many many recordings. You are repeating a release that is not from those named in the lawsuit
I suggested to Dan and he got it. We urged him to file the suite in March. The statement by Gil on CNN, theirs HHN show where Jill clearly sated that the police told her Morgan was dressed provocatively.
This was enough to to let the FBI take the lead and to file many Lawsuits. They were engaged in PR knowing that the majority of their readers hated SUING HUNGRY people. They bowed to the PR and let months go by. Valuable months.
Law enforcement is being represented in this lawsuit and what they know, what recordings they did view and what sources of video will be up to a judge to release that information to the public. That is if the lawsuit is not settled, if it is settled the parties will decide what is released.
To stop the events like what happened to THIS young person cameras and focusing on physical harm by patrolling cops will certainly help.
Digital recordings are here to stay, In Britain they certainly help not only deter crimes but to arrest and to prosecute. Where I live 70 percent of what I do daily is recorded by cameras and is a great source for peace of mind. Using ATM's getting parking stubs, walking past the Israel Temple, approaching the Dolby Theater, Getting on and riding the sub-way, all of it is welcomed by me. If a friend wants to stop into a dispensary and buy a 8th and roll it and smoke it, so what the tapes are not going to lead to any hassles by the police.
I don't smoke anything, but I am not afraid of being associated with it. It is an outdated police practice and is not prosecuted. Bigger fish to fry. Grow it here and you stop a large portion of the border crossings. Focus on the hard drugs that require lab's, not something that God gave us that grows from the ground.
The camera's catch someone throwing out a beer can or whisky bottle, take the tags and have a patrol car pull them over, stop a drunk driving death! Just like Morgan's friends did, they stopped her from driving drunk and killing an innocent person or family.
This young person chose to take public or private transportation and not drive, who knows or cares if she was drinking, but we know one thing she was not behind the wheel and we need to encourage this. But we need to also provide safety.
Encourage UVA victims to offer assault details!
@cat February 25th, 2013 | 5:18pm
The video's you refer to have nothing to do with this young person and her being picked up.
What you stated is not accurate. Rader did see many many recordings. You are repeating a release that is not from those named in the lawsuit
I suggested to Dan and he got it. We urged him to file the suite in March. The statement by Gil on CNN, theirs HHN show where Jill clearly sated that the police told her Morgan was dressed provocatively.
This was enough to to let the FBI take the lead and to file many Lawsuits. They were engaged in PR knowing that the majority of their readers hated SUING HUNGRY people. They bowed to the PR and let months go by. Valuable months.
Law enforcement is being represented in this lawsuit and what they know, what recordings they did view and what sources of video will be up to a judge to release that information to the public. That is if the lawsuit is not settled, if it is settled the parties will decide what is released.
To stop the events like what happened to THIS young person cameras and focusing on physical harm by patrolling cops will certainly help.
Digital recordings are here to stay, In Britain they certainly help not only deter crimes but to arrest and to prosecute. Where I live 70 percent of what I do daily is recorded by cameras and is a great source for peace of mind. Using ATM's getting parking stubs, walking past the Israel Temple, approaching the Dolby Theater, Getting on and riding the sub-way, all of it is welcomed by me. If a friend wants to stop into a dispensary and buy a 8th and roll it and smoke it, so what the tapes are not going to lead to any hassles by the police.
I don't smoke anything, but I am not afraid of being associated with it. It is an outdated police practice and is not prosecuted. Bigger fish to fry. Grow it here and you stop a large portion of the border crossings. Focus on the hard drugs that require lab's, not something that God gave us that grows from the ground.
The camera's catch someone throwing out a beer can or whisky bottle, take the tags and have a patrol car pull them over, stop a drunk driving death! Just like Morgan's friends did, they stopped her from driving drunk and killing an innocent person or family.
This young person chose to take public or private transportation and not drive, who knows or cares if she was drinking, but we know one thing she was not behind the wheel and we need to encourage this. But we need to also provide safety.
Encourage UVA victims to offer details!
The civil suit still makes no sense to me.It seems wrong to blame jpja for her own decision to leave the arena and grounds.
All those cameras in the UK are not deterring crime, and they have more per capita than anywhere in the world, I believe. But the stats just don't show them having an effect. What would have deterred THIS crime is the student NOT getting into a car with a stranger. Same with Morgan. Don't need cameras for that. Just need common sense (which of course can be eroded by drugs, inebriation unfortunately). Cameras only help after the fact anyway. Morgan would still be dead, this girl still nearly assaulted.
M sutton find me a business that stores it's date from it's video cameras in Charlottesville/Albemarle for more than a year? Maybe a military base, NGIC maybe....it's not happening at this point locally....
@ ?
It's nice to see your showing interest, and I hoped you would read a little about storage from the writer I suggested on the subject.. When was the last time you looked at UVA endowment? The Getty Museum keeps data and never erases the video. They use facial recognition on each and every person that enters and as they walk through. They are trying to see if a group is there to gather info or what is commonly said "case the joint". Banks commonly keep the video data for years. For other business two years is the time suggested by security professionals due to the legal limits of a lawsuit.
You are aware of "flash" drives "The Cloud" and other advances. Look at the new google glasses. Look at the Chrome notebooks. There really is no reason to argue what businesses do, UVA has the funds, it is very cost effective and actually is a price plus.
As far as: Anja Mima February 26th, 2013 | 8:06am
".........Cameras only help after the fact anyway. ..." is the only thing I care to touch upon. The student in THIS article reported a while AFTER the fact. That is my point.
As to Harrington I agree totally with you and even suggest there are even more factors that certainly had influence on her death.
@Anja Mima February 26th, 2013 | 6:20am
The civil suit still makes no sense to me. It seems wrong to blame jpja for her own decision to leave the arena and grounds."…
Filing a suit is more of a way to get some info, any info going through the discovery phase. I certainly agree with it seeming wrong to blame JPJA, but the filing is going after them only peripherally. BUT Jill's Attorney I hope has relayed that discovery is a two way street. That they have a right to look at every single post on Findmorgan.com.
You ask why, well using Gil's own words can just destroy her whole argument. When someone blames in print the things she has, this claim seems to be just another of dozens of pipe dreams. Morgan wanted to reach the place that she asked potential drivers to give her a ride to.
As to this student, I am sure if there is a link to other cases Ms Stuart will let us know if it doesn't interfere with the students life or the potential arrest.
A far as contacting LE on this Driver and Car please call UVA police
@Hard work wins the game February 24th, 2013 | 8:43pm
Please not at all discounting your info. Did you not use a seldom used section on FM to reach out prior to the PHAM murder/ If so the FBI does know and did acknowledge.
There was another person, not at all saying that is possibly you' that was in constant contact as to the Jefferson Area Drug Enforcement (JADE) task force. It is wise to contact the FBI as the first report. Even on FM I stressed so much to do that, KJ and the army seemed to treat me as that I was from General Grant's army invading Robert E Lee's bedroom.
I think almost all can agree that the calls I took expressing the utter disgust that the 3 attempts to UVA, C'Ville and VSP were mis-filled were just the tip of bad Law Enforcement! These actions acknowledged in Rader's letter prove that in the future certainly call a Federal Agency!
Rader was not at fault and the agencies' actions were prior to his getting a handle on it, but he took the fall, he stood up and took one for the team!
I remember explicitly and recording all of it that the FM mods insisted that I call some tip line. Finally I begged them to give the closest FBI office. Only then did the info get through. After this VSP acknowledged that the person did infact report the valuable information, not once, not twice but three times.
That information and another contact pinged of the charts as to undisclosed information. Still is and will be. But this does allow for the possibility that " Hardwork" 's information may be credible. Harrington had been floating like a social butterfly those TWO days. As that this was not the first time but one of many times. I will state this and you can BANK on it, it was far from being the first time that the phone seemed to loose power. It was almost the normal thing! There is absolutely nothing wrong with her behavior, she was an adult and after being forced to remain a caterpillar and then kept in the cocoon what would one expect? Her Aunt can attest to these things CATerpillar. There is nothing CORNEY about it.
FBI was involved from the first 2 weeks with the Harrington case and it is documented. As you so easily explained the reason the East Coast Rapist.
As to this case the student last week ,UVA police is certainly the best place to report anything matching the descriptions.
As much as it seems that the vocal masses [not the majority of people] want a murder trial or for an accused to be gunned down, it is impossible. There will never be a conviction of murder in any degree in a trial. Not impossible is a confession, no trial and that could take 40 years and even then not conceding murder.
The young WOMAN was a social Butterfly and do not judge her! She was not murdered by the person that contacted me, nor the other two people that she was with! Maybe after, HARDWORKS THEORY WORKS, BUT THEN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT 72 HOURS AT LEAST!
SHE WAS A SOCIAL BUTTERFLY IN FLIGHT, that night, the next day and even later!
Hardwork, don't stop, call the FBI!
As pointed out to me by a dear woman friend.
Do we not have a true double standard here? If Morgan were a man and getting around she would be held up as a STUD. Patted on the back and she would wear it well. Even old Dan and Jill would have said, oh that kid he's just sowing wild oats. Use protection he's a great kid!
Are you starting to see the family dynamics, the sadness, the truth, the reasons to blame everyone else at no matter the cost. And I dare anyone to say if Morgan were a man and had been floating about that Morgan would not have been treated as a normal young adult, even in death!
Can't you people see the denial, it is like right infront of your faces. Just took 3 years to see the picture inside the picture. Speaking of, look at the eye and the eye in the eye of her painting.
The lady had promise, she truely did, thats the shame, but only the true shame. The rest is a back-fire of PR and that is not her shame, it is shame that she never had! She was proud, she was not ashamed! At all, ever!
As to Now, as to Morgan, well you know there was a communication to an individual on the phone that was not at the concert. In discovery the timing of that communication, the party on the other end and subject matter is certainly relevant to any civil case.
Law Enforcement was very nice as to say the person had been ruled out as to a subject in an abduction. But as my very dear friend J.me pointed out, yes maybe ruled out if the VSP held to their official timeline. But as J.me and I so often shared intimate information we jointly discovered perhaps that person may have possibly made contact if the time line were altered.
In a civil case presented by Jill. do you realize that everything from birth control, the above mentioned and 2 other people she dated. Not to mention her brother, the clubs in C'ville.
It goes on and on. They are being attacked in a civil lawsuit. They have discovery and thats Gil's night mare. But wait, all of this, every single word! Things that may have been ruled out as a fishing expedition in the civil case? Well people in a murder trial, it will all be explored. Every single line of every single post on every single bloogger and every anonymous name and every single action will be available to a man who's life or being sentenced to life!
He has aright to all of this, there is no-doubt and go and read the little consents all of you just blow past. I only use my real name and my copyrighted name, now, here's the news. If you post anywhere and do not attack anyone, you are say a woman and just do not want your information as to who you are, but you have what you feel is relevant, your fine. If you post here on The Hook then you have a double shield, in the land of Jefferson The Hook has rights to keep their sources.
If you attack someone using their real name, you maybe found if the Harrington's continue.
That is in a civil case if you are a party.
In a murder case, the defendant's right to a fair trial supersedes all other rights! If it is a Capitol crime there is no limit to what the defense can bring in! Every theory, every word. Every multiple use of screen names. Every anonymizer software aided printed word.
This is where PR will be the downfall. Yet it seems, the real truth has never been the goal on that case that you mentioned.
The good things are that this student this past week is alive. Good for the community is that she ave information, we are sure it was difficult. We hope she goes on and has a healthy life, that she thrives!
Thank God she survived!


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Many of my friends have asked about how to connect through multiple Databases from different Server using single Dynamic Connection. I want to explain this feature in this article. Basically, I want to execute one query (to calculate Record Counts for a given table) on a set of servers (which can be Dev, Test,UAT, PreProduction and Production servers). In my example, I am using ForEach Loop to connect to the servers one by one--> Execute the Query --> Fetch and store the data.
So here is the approach:
- Create a Table in your local database (whatever DB you want) and load all the connection strings. Within SSIS package, use Execute SQL Task to query all the connection strings and store the result-set in a variable of object type.
- Use ForEach Loop container to shred the content of the object variable and iterate through each of the connection strings.
- Place an Execute SQL task inside ForEach Loop container with the SQL statements you have to run in all the DB instances. You can use Script Task to modify your query as per your need.
To begin, Create two tables as shown below in on of the environment:
-- Table to store list of Sources
CREATE TABLE SourceList (
ID [smallint],
ServerName [varchar](128),
DatabaseName [varchar](128),
TableName [varchar](128),
ConnString [nvarchar](255)
-- Local Table to store Results
CREATE TABLE Results(
TableName [varchar](128),
ConnString [nvarchar](255),
ActionTime [datetime]
Insert all connection strings in SourceList table using below script:
INSERT INTO SourceList
'(local)' ServerName, --Define required Server
'TestHN' DatabaseName,--Define DB Name
'TestTable' TableName,
'Data Source=(local);Initial Catalog=TestHN;Provider=SQLNCLI10.1;Integrated Security=SSPI;Auto Translate=False;' ConnString
Insert as many connections as you want.
Add new package in your project and rename it with ForEachLoopMultipleServers.dtsx. Add following variable:
|Data Source=(local);
Initial Catalog=TestHN;
Integrated Security=SSPI;
Auto Translate=False;
|To store default connection string
|SELECT '' TableName,
N'' ConnString,
0 RecordCount,
GETDATE() ActionTime
|Default SQL Query string.
This can be modified at runtime based on other variables
|To store the list of connection strings
|Any Table Name.
It can be blank.
|To store the table name of current connection string.
This table will be queried at run time
Create two connection managers as shown below:
Local.TestHN: For local database which has table SourceList. Also this will be used to store the result in Results table.
DynamicConnection: This connection will be used for setting up dynamic connection with multiple servers.
Now click on DynamicConnection in connection manager and click on ellipse to set up dynamic connection string. Map connection String with variable User::ConnString.
Drag and drop Execute SQL Task and rename with "Execute SQL Task - Get List of Connection Strings". Now click on properties and set following values as shown in snapshot:
Result Set: Full Result Set
Connection: Local.TestHN
ConnectionType: Direct Input
SQL Statement: SELECT ConnString,TableName FROM SourceList
Now click on Result Set to store the result of SQL Task in variable User::SourceList.
Drag and drop ForEach Loop container from toolbox and rename with "Foreach Loop Container - DB Tables". Double click on ForEach Loop container to open Foreach Loop Editor. Click on Collection and select Foreach ADO Enumerator as Enumerator. In Enumerator configuration, select User::SourceList as ADO object source variable as shown below:
User::ConnString,User::SourceTable as ReadOnlyVariables and User::Query as ReadWriteVariables. Now click on Edit Script button and write following code in Main function:
public void Main()
String Table = Dts.Variables["User::SourceTable"].Value.ToString();
String ConnString = Dts.Variables["User::ConnString"].Value.ToString();
MessageBox.Show("SourceTable = " + Table + "\nCurrentConnString = " + ConnString);
//SELECT '' TableName,N'' ConnString,0 RecordCount,GETDATE() ActionTime
string SQL = "SELECT '" + Table + "' AS TableName, N'" + ConnString + "' AS ConnString, COUNT (*) AS RecordCount, GETDATE() AS ActionTime FROM " + Dts.Variables["User::SourceTable"].Value.ToString() + " (NOLOCK)";
Dts.Variables["User::Query"].Value = SQL;
Dts.TaskResult = (int)ScriptResults.Success;
catch (Exception e)
Dts.Log(e.Message, 0, null);
Drag and drop Data Flow Task and double click on it to open Data Flow tab. Add OLE DB Source and Destination. Double click on OLE DB Source to configure the properties. Select DynamicConnection as OLE DB connection manager and SQL command from variable as Data access mode. Select variable name as User::Query. Now click on columns to genertae meta data.
Double click on OLE DB Destination to configure the properties. Select Local.TestHN as OLE DB connection manager and Table or view - fast load as Data access mode. Select [dbo].[Results] as Name of the table or the view. now click on Mappings to map the columns from source. Click OK and save changes.
Finally DFT will look like below snapshot:
STEP 9: We are done with package development and its time to test the package.
Right click on the package in Solution Explorer and select execute. The message box will display you the current connection string.
You can check the data in results table:
Here is the result:
SELECT * FROM SourceList
SELECT * FROM Results


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The closing liturgy will be at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, July 4 at 12:10 p.m. EDT. The Mass in the nation's capital will be celebrated by Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington. Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia will be the homilist. EWTN television will carry the Shrine Mass live.
Further details about the Fortnight can be found at www.fortnight4freedom.org.
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In addition to the Baltimore and Washington liturgies, national efforts include establishment of the fortnight4freedom website. The site hosts resources such as frequently asked questions about religious liberty, including quotes from the Founding Fathers, the Second Vatican Council and Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI. Another valuable resource is a study guide on Dignitatis Humanae, Vatican II's document on religious liberty. In addition, the site provides several one-page sheets outlining current threats to religious freedom both in the United States and abroad.
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Like the reliability of the engine and drive train. The roof rack is nice to tie things down. The windshield spray pump quit working a few years ago. the factory radio has the national wx service channels built into the system.
Memory seat is a joke! Interior so noisy the big bucks radio is a waste as you can't hear it at normal volume levels. Transmission lags and stalls randomly in low gear at critical merging times. Factory say this is normal, dealer says engineering defect, I say a serious safety hazard, wife says she won't ride in it for fear of being T-Boned!
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Halo Wars showed us that a Halo game in a different genre can do moderately well without Master Chief, but a first-person shooter? Can O.D.S.T. pull that off?
Master Chief is such an iconic gaming figure that it almost seems wrong to have an FPS with the Halo name on it without him. It's like a Mario game without Mario in it, or a Team Ninja game without breasts. Yet here we are, with a brand-new single-player adventure in the Halo universe with no sign of the big man.
O.D.S.T. began as a little bit of downloadable content that got too big for its own classification, making the leap to full-fledged game. The question is, is it worth its own game, and if so, how are they pulling it off without old MC?
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Are you hoping for more Halo 3? Are you looking forward to another adventure in that game's grandly exaggerated yet comfortingly familiar universe? Are you excited to wield the same crazy weapons and vehicles in brand new battles, to encounter the same smart enemies in unexpected new situations and to witness the same epic war from an entirely new perspective? Are more missions and more multiplayer enough? If so, then ODST is the answer. You will definitely not be disappointed. But what if you got carried away by the hype? What if that amazing live-action trailer, or that significant September release date, have you convinced that ODST is the next major milestone in the Halo phenomenon? What if the talk about detective characters, film noir settings and gritty close-quarters combat have you anticipating a bold departure from the Bungie formula? Then yeah, you might be in for a bit of a letdown.
Halo 3: ODST does present a compelling alternative to the Master Chief, but the smartest thing about the game is that Bungie faces down this intimidating challenge by realising it cannot do so through one man alone. Although you control the Rookie, a seemingly fresh-faced but faceless new tip of the spear in the battle against the Covenant, the developer prefers to tell the story of New Mombasa through a series of playable vignettes, each of which showcases individual acts of very human heroism on the part of a scattered group of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers.
Halo 3: ODST retains the familiar Halo AI, which we still hold in high regard. Stronger enemies react according to your behaviour and will never rush until they are certain they have the upper hand. Grunts and weaker enemies such as the Jackals lose their nerve in battle if you take out nearby Brutes or other Covenant Chieftains. However, with help of the new VISR (standard addition for all ODSTs) enemy threats are easier to make out. When switched on the VISR allows you to see areas of interest and tell friend from foe. It sounds like it makes things too easy, but thanks to the well-balanced AI the game remains challenging throughout the entire campaign. Also, you'll enjoy the freedom that was given to the main character. Yep, the game is not as linear as Halo 3 or other titles in the series. Now, you can choose where you can go and which opponents to tackle.
Length aside, the campaign is not without other problems. The story is a largely un-engaging affair. The mysteriously silent Rookie is hard to love, and certainly lacks the heroic appeal of Master Chief. His squad mates are classic cliché-ridden space marines, with personalities that aren't explored to any great detail. The plot makes more sense than previous Halo titles, but is still hugely silly. The ending is barmy, and seems as if it should have had a massive bearing on the Halo universe as a whole, but clearly didn't because it's ramifications never came up in Halo 3.
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Aside from the single-player game (which can also be played through in co-op), Halo 3: ODST also features a co-op multiplayer mode called Firefight. Similar to the Horde Mode in Gears of War 2, Firefight pits four human players against wave after wave of Covenant forces. The waves are randomly generated, though things do get progressively more difficult as you progress due to the skull modifiers. Firefight is a true test of skill, as it doesn't have an ending. Your team simply fights until it is dead. The catch is that you have a shared pool of lives, so one weak link can bring down an entire team. While reviewing the game, we saw some Firefight matches exceed an hour in play time. There's no doubt that this is going to be a popular gameplay mode on Xbox Live.
If you want to judge ODST for its fun without worrying about its price and the contents of its case, then know that its campaign hits the peaks of Halo 3 less often due both to its relative brevity and its uneven, experimental hubworld. The campaign can mostly be a joy. Firefight with a group of players is a blast. The main hero may be a bore, but the fiction is at least as interesting as it was in prior Halo games. Bungie's done good this time. That's a victory, even if that's a departure from a series which has often seen Bungie do great.
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The chances of being bitten by a shark are 80 million to one. This incredible documentary features and analyses two such cases illustrating how future attacks could be stopped.
In Romania, Lucica Bunghez is being eaten alive, consumed by an 11-stone tumour growing out of her back. Dr McKay McKinnon travels from Chicago to see if he can save Lucica's life.
The story of the world's heaviest woman, Renee Williams, a 64-stone, 29-year-old mother of two who, in a desperate bid to save her life, undergoes major surgery.
Kenneth Brumley, 40, weighed 73 stone when he prepared for a do-or-die operation. This is the story of a father, his family and his country, America, with 15 million morbidly obese people.
The story of 19-year-old Billy Robbins from Houston, Texas. Weighing 60 stone and reportedly the world's heaviest teenager, he now wants to shed much of his weight and turn his life around.
This Bodyshock special meets Jyoti Amge, a normal Indian teenager who enjoys going to school and socialising with her friends, but Jyoti is only one foot 11 inches tall.
The incredible story of seven-year-old Alamjan from Kazakhstan who underwent surgery only for doctors to discover his own twin was growing inside him
Exploring the extraordinary and disturbing story of Armin Miewes, a 41-year-old man from Germany who advertised on the internet for willing victims he could kill and eat.
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Dzhambulat Khatokhov, aged seven, weighs in at 16 stone - as much as a baby elephant. British doctor Ian Campbell travels to the far south of Russia to uncover a disturbing story.
Two-year-old Lakshmi was born with one of the world's rarest physical abnormalities: joined at the pelvis to her half-formed conjoined twin, she has four arms and four legs
China's 'Elephant Man', Huang Chuncai, tells his own moving and extraordinary story as he undergoes life-saving surgery to remove tumours weighing 20kg
In 2008 in rural India, against odds of 50 million to one, a baby, seemingly in perfect health, was born with two faces. This is the amazing story of baby Lali.
First broadcast in 2009, as experts considered a review of UK guidelines for treating transgender children, this film follows children in the US who told their parents they were born in the wrong body
For two years 13-year-old Twinkle has inexplicably cried tears of blood. She meets leading religious and medical figures to determine the cause of her condition.
Lakshmi Tatma was born with four arms and four legs. This Bodyshock Special revisits her a year after she underwent a life-saving operation to remove her half-formed conjoined twin's limbs.
Ten-year-old Shiloh Pepin was born with sirenomelia, which leaves her legs fused together. Bodyshock spends six months with Shiloh and her family as their lives change for ever.
Three-year-old twins Krista and Tatiana are conjoined at the head and can never be separated. Bodyshock presents a rare portrait of a family determined to give the twins a fulfilling life.
Tanya Angus is 6ft 8ins, weighs almost 32 stone and is still growing. This Bodyshock special meets Tanya, other people affected by acromegaly, and the medical experts trying to help them.
A sensitive and intimate portrait of a family in which both the parents are gay men - who were born as Jessica and Laura - and are about to have a third child
This film in the series about the world's most extreme human bodies explores the extraordinary life of Edward Hernandez, who at the age of 24 is just 27 inches tall
At over eight feet tall, Sultan Kösen from Turkey is the world's tallest man. This documentary follows his journey around the world in search of a cure for his gigantism.
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Apr 23, 2012
In response to Mona Eltahawy's hate argument
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27 comments:
- AnonymousApril 23, 2012 at 11:07 PM
I'm a woman, a feminist, and your article is bullshit.ReplyDelete
and you are anonymous!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 24, 2012 at 12:14 AM
Great piece here but I must say if you are going to just blame the media for the story of others in the region then you are wrong...this is what I dislike about your argument here that you obviously disagree with what Mona has written and I understand that. But what I don't understand is to why you fail to acknowledge the truths of her writings? The truth must be told millions of women go through the painful feelings of not being able to effectively be aroused due to traditions that have no basis in any godly believing ways...before you go ahead and criticize Mona's right to write of the truths that go untold in the region, please understand in a world where there is many opinions, those untold are the echoes of a silenced passive ways. Please tell me why the Media in the region has failed to cover issues such as this...I will post a reply to this soon.ReplyDelete
I read both... And I'm sorry to add but your article lacks any Contextual body. Your counterarguments seem merely for the sake of countering her claims. That's one of the major problems I've seen; the demand for logic when none is needed. if someone is being beaten, hidden or considered to be the only one who is the measure of a family's honor and virtue, what logo do you need to determine how that person is going to be treated... Or rather how that person is feared to taint family values. We live in an irrationally barbaric patriarchal society where religion is our greatest Barrier to thinking on a humane level...ReplyDelete
Very well written and very BALANCED! Good job...ReplyDelete
Tanya and Ibn Omran. Thanks for your comments.ReplyDelete
Please do not argue with me over what I haven't said: the violations she mentioned are there and I do not disagree. I disagree with the reasoning she has: MEN HATING US! Please consider re-reading. I do not wish to repeat this; I am very clear about this, all this horrible status exists, the objection is to the reasoning. I repeat: the objection is to the reasoning. Thanks
While talking about hate, we all know most people oppose Mona for her siding with the French ban against Niqab, this is where the polemy and opposing camps strated. And you mention it in the article while it was mentioned in hers.ReplyDelete
Niqab is undeniably one of the faces of patriarchal society domination. And talking about choice is irrelevant in that case, I can find you plenty of Arab Women that are conviced they are less important and of lesser status than men. They speak the things that the patriarchal society taught them since they where kids with such conviction it makes you afraid for the future. So no, saying people choose to wear this way is wrong. Wether fighting the Niqab is a piority, there I don't agree with her. But saying it's not a problem that reflects extreme patriarchal dominance is not realistic.
I'm very impressed! I finally found out what was bothering me about her article. I totally agree with you and it's exactly the points you're mentioning. Thanks alot, Mona :)ReplyDelete
That was a fun read, I must say I did not read Mona's article yet but I remember her interview about the ban on Niqab, she said that sarkozy was a racist but she still supported the ban. I myself am in no place to critize women's right to wear it but if I had the power to impose a ban I'll most likely use that right, in my humble knowledge Niqab is a mere accessory that Islam neither stopped or encouraged, it was just like anyone tribal dress, the concern now though is the imposition of Niqab itself on women in the name of Islam, which Niqab isn't part of, which I think is a crime on its own. Still I support a woman's right to dress however she wishes as long as she is not tricked into thinking it is something it isn't.ReplyDelete
Cheers :)
Maybe Hussein Ibish said it better than ElTahawy:ReplyDelete
"Religious conservatism invariably focuses on social and sexual control. Women are the most immediate targets and primary focus of the authoritarianism of the religious right, wherever they may be."
- AnonymousApril 24, 2012 at 6:49 AM
I agree with all u say except my objection to Niqab is that it takes away my right as a woman to see the face of the personal sharing my social space or interacting with me in public. I feel if someone goes to the extreme of covering their face, an important element in any social interaction, they should stay home...ReplyDelete
This is a fascinating controversy for the Western eye. Mona Eltahawy is dangerously persuasive. She hist all the right words that we (as a Colombian I regretfully view the world through a somewhat underdeveloped Western looking glass) want to hear to proclaim cultural superiority against muslim barbarism. But its always more complicated. Two takeaways: form @charquaouia if you dare to take the first person plural be prepared for some close personal scrutiny; and from my dear Mona Kareem, hate and patriarchy: very different, easy to confuse.ReplyDelete
I think people are too quick to point the Islamophobe and Orientalist finger. While I would have liked some more big picture context and public polling data from Tahawy, she brings up issues that should be addressed. I see some of the same problems here in Africa. In Latin America it's called machismo. Currently, the topic of women in the Arab world is one that brings up emotional and polarized views. Regardless of your like or dislike of the article, it sparked an important dialogue.ReplyDelete
منى الطحاوي وأمثالها نتاج فاسد لثقافة الرأسمالية والعلمانية والمصلحة الخاصة.. لا عاشت ولا درست ولا يهمها تدرس ثقافة المرأة المصرية والعربية ولا سلبيات الغرب أنفسهم في إزدراء وإحتقار المرأة! هي بتعمل ده بإختصار عشان أكل عيش مش عشان إيمانها بحقوق المرأة!ReplyDelete
The same I say Very well written and very BALANCED! Good job...What the deferantReplyDelete
- Monira Al QadiriApril 24, 2012 at 8:29 AM
Great rebuttal, really on point.ReplyDelete
The problem I have with Mona El Tahawy's article is that it actually stems from the same logic that extremists use against women all the time : "Arab men are hateful sex-driven beasts that need to be tamed" - thus women need to be protected & veiled, schools should be segregated, cinemas should be banned, etc.
Its not so much about the women than it is about the portrayal & definition of men and their urges.
If Arab men were seen & treated as rational mature people who think about things other than sex, the root of the problem could be countered, or at least examined with more clarity.
She reaffirms that negative image of Arab men that the West / media / extremists have been perpetuating all along, which is really sad and will help no one.
Bravo, Mona. I applaud you on your last point in particular! THANK YOU.ReplyDelete
The context in which Mona ElTahawy published his text, can not be ignored, because it is the occasion for a public appearance. We had 1) a repressive system 2) revolt of workers against a) poor social position b) corruption regime c) repression of the regime. Among all who had rebelled, there were men and women. Now, a social rebellion, ElTahawy interpreted as a "feminine revolution". She brings to the fore something that could be described as a struggle for the liberation of women from centuries of cultural constraints. So, my question is whether in Egypt we have a revolution for Social Justice, or another, for the rights of women? Or is that a single process?ReplyDelete
Well written, read both articles, well done Mona!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 24, 2012 at 11:55 AM
@Monira Al Qadiri, you have made the most sensible point I have read today (and I spent my day reading Mona El Tahawy's article, all the comments, 4 responses to Mona's article and all their comments, haha). Really, I think you've nailed it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 24, 2012 at 12:34 PM
Mona, I can't believe you are stuck on the "hate" part. We know culture norms can support what seems to others as "normal" as they do things to others that suggests supporting that old form of hate. It's done in racism, it's done in gender issues, it is done in other area's as well. Her use of "Hate" in this was really reflective of that, more then what your claim in actually meaning of someone "hating". There is a long history of using norms to support old behaviors that treats groups differently. This is a form of supporting misconceptions, and yes - hate.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 24, 2012 at 1:31 PM
There is a war on the poor, women, minorities, disabled, metrosexuals.ReplyDelete
Ok, the last one I can't disagree with.
But this war is intended to prevent the affected from developing a stable independent consciousness.
The poor are treated as lazy so as to keep the mildly successful from offering help and as such keep the poor willing to accept starvation wages.
The hidden jewel meme is meant to make men extremely reactive to the idea of a woman as a prize and to distract women from more important concerns. Head coverings are the same as lipstick.
But the Men Hate Women rhetoric doesn't work. In the West we are very confused. We use the word hate to amplify an issue from our relative safety and isolation. We don't feel hated. We feel oppressed in a more abstract sense. But to get a point across we use simplified language.
When this Warholesque caricature is transferred to the East, something absurd happens. Men and women in the East hear this phrase literally and associate it with direct physical trauma, which of course doesn't make any bloody sense to them.
Which brings us the issue of the maturity of the Arab male society. How many Arab men are able to talk a woman in Saudi without fearing persecution or retaliation? How many of these men are mature well-balanced individuals? How many of them believe in the societal standard of women being second-class citizens who shouldn't be treated equally?
These are important matters to think about out. How the general population thinks of women, and how governments contribute to that. Only then one will know. And it depends on each country. Men in Kuwait are different from men in Saudi and men in Egypt. But what is the common standard used by all?
And so? All these is really happening trough Middle East and North Africa, as Mona has written. They should not be denied, but writings like yours are denying them.ReplyDelete
Virginity test, genital mutilation and the cruel fact that Middle-Eastern Woman don't enjoy equal status under the law in many North-African or Middle-Eastern Countires (e.g. getting divorce is more harder to woman) are bigger problems than some "orientalist" pictures of women in the magazine. The issues what she was writing are still real and they are really happening.
I don't think Mona wanted Arabic women to look like helpless, stupid victims. At least in my eyes she did not that. I know women everywhere are powerful and able to think and make their own decisions. We western people are not always rasictic and orientalist, even if you would like to think so. Mona was just telling the fact how Islamic law is treating arabic Women. Unequality, genital mutilation, not same position under the law.. These are true things and even if I'm western person, I'm feeling these things should be changed. It's not orientalistic or seeing arabic women as a helpless victims, if I want that arabic women would enjoy the same status under the law as arabic men do. Or that there wouldnt be all these grievances what Mona was writing about.
And is it always and only Western Powers who enslave, colonize and otherwise subjugate. Why are there not more women in Arab parliaments? Is it because of colonialism only?
Is it not possible that Arab society has its own reasons for female inequality as well as other inequalities?
If nothing else, do not be a deflector using the West as the reason for all Arab problems. At some point you must stand behind your own decisions.
1. I'm with Kareem on the niqab.ReplyDelete
2. I'm with FP on the photos. They're more honest in their anglophone feminism than the text is: the Western package is the vote, a car, and freedom defined as nudity, take it or leave it (what do you mean, "a 3rd way"?). As Eltahawy believes the niqab is always oppression (besides being stereotype) I think she'd agree with the photos.
3. I'm not convinced Eltahawy meant "they" to be "Arab men": "so many lowercase patriarchs still opress us... the woman who heads the women's committee of the Brotherhood's political party said recently that women should not march or protest because it's more dignified to let their husbands and brothers demonstrate for them."
4. The charge of Arab monolithism is nitpicking. It's a convenient way to speak of societies with many commonalities in the way they discriminate women. Kareem mentions it is actually over 20 cultures - isn't this State monolithism?
5. Its interesting that Eltahawy derives part of her international legitimacy from being Arab - Arab critics of Arab countries are reformers, Western critics are imperialists (and imperialists do love examples of non-Westerners who have seen the light). Kareem protests, her ideology is Westernized, we must seek "authentic" Arab feminists in the grassroots. Kareem, Eltahawy, and the head of the women's committee will disagree about what Arab women "authentically" want.
- Grand pharaohApril 25, 2012 at 7:15 AM
Well, sometimes you need two arguements. One for the West and the other for close minded Arabs. It is not contradiction it is more of custom made arguements.ReplyDelete
Despise is perhaps more accurate although hold in contempt is a bit less confrontational.ReplyDelete


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Three people were immediately arrested on unrelated warrants and officers remained at the house late Friday morning to continue the investigation. Glenn Tefft, 35, the primary resident at the house, was arrested on two outstanding traffic warrants. William Jacobsen, 40, was arrested on two warrants for domestic violence and a probation violation. Patricia Doody, 34, was arrested on a failure to appear warrant in a harassment case, police reported. A fourth was arrested after additional investigation. Shannon DeHerrera, 41, was arrested on suspicion of criminal possession of an identification product, a misdemeanor.
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I'm redirecting my message here because of Kurt's suggestion. Actually, in my opinion: - the part on the overconstraining sanity checks is a small bug notice - the part on the scope of the suffixAlias refers more to software use issues - the part on the proposal for a sort of dn masquerading ldap proxy is a truly devel issue Thanks, Pierangelo
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- Subject: Re: siffixAlias
- From: "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
- Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 11:25:52 -0800
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- In-reply-to: <email@example.com>As this is primarily a development issue, please redirect any discussion to email@example.com. Thanks. Kurt At 10:17 AM 12/4/00 +0100, Pierangelo Masarati wrote: >Hi. > >I submitted to OpenLDAP a patch for default suffix handling >(ITS #723, incorporated in 2.X). >By digging into the code, I found out that the same result could >have been obtained by using the lines > ># inside database definition >suffix "dc=my, dc=org" >suffixAlias "" "dc=my, dc=org" >suffix "" > >I wasn't able to obtain this result previously because I was >erroneously writing > >suffix "dc=my, dc=org" >suffix "" >suffixAlias "" "dc=my, dc=org" > >and, since the code that reads the "suffixAlias" card in >servers/slapd/config.c performs overconstraining, brain-damaged sanity >checks simply resulting in a >warning, it didn't work as expected. >In fact, to check if the aliasing suffix had been already defined, it >uses the >select_backend function from servers/slapd/backend.c; if the aliasing >suffix >has already been appended to the list of legal backend suffixes the test >fails; >however, if the aliasing suffix is not appended to the backend legal >suffix list, >there is no way the select_backend routine will ever succeed when a >request with >the aliasing suffix come in! So all the suffix_alias calls > >grep suffix_alias *.c >bind.c: ndn = suffix_alias( be, ndn ); >compare.c: ndn = suffix_alias( be, ndn ); >delete.c: ndn = suffix_alias( be, ndn ); >modify.c: ndn = suffix_alias( be, ndn ); >modrdn.c: nnewSuperior = suffix_alias( be, nnewSuperior ); > >modrdn.c: ndn = suffix_alias( be, ndn ); >saslauthz.c: searchbase = suffix_alias( be, searchbase ); >saslauthz.c: searchbase = suffix_alias( be, searchbase ); >search.c: nbase = suffix_alias( be, nbase ); > >are plainly useless if there is no "suffix <aliasingSuffix>" in the conf >file, >but the "suffixAlias" directive fails if it comes after the extra suffix >lines. > >The checks (today's devel branch) should correctly read > > >--- config.c.orig Mon Dec 4 09:28:08 2000 >+++ config.c Mon Dec 4 09:58:24 2000 >@@ -471,16 +471,16 @@ > "%s: line %d: suffixAlias line" > " must appear inside a database definition (ignored)\n", > fname, lineno, 0 ); >- } else if ( (tmp_be = select_backend( cargv[1], 0 )) != NULL ) { >+ } else if ( (tmp_be = select_backend( cargv[1], 0 )) != be ) { > Debug( LDAP_DEBUG_ANY, > "%s: line %d: suffixAlias served by" >- " a preceeding backend \"%s\" (ignored)\n", >+ " a preceeding backend \"%s\" (ignored)\n", > fname, lineno, tmp_be->be_suffix[0] ); > >- } else if ( (tmp_be = select_backend( cargv[2], 0 )) != NULL ) { >+ } else if ( (tmp_be = select_backend( cargv[2], 0 )) != be ) { > Debug( LDAP_DEBUG_ANY, >- "%s: line %d: suffixAlias derefs to differnet backend" >- " a preceeding backend \"%s\" (ignored)\n", >+ "%s: line %d: suffixAlias derefs to" >+ " a different backend \"%s\" (ignored)\n", > fname, lineno, tmp_be->be_suffix[0] ); > > } else { > >(a couple of typos have also been fixed! ;-) > >Finally, a better solution would require the select_backend funtion to >check also >for the aliased suffixes in order to be able to select the proper >backend even when >it is accessed in aliased form, without the need to add the aliased >suffixes as extra >suffixes. > >What I'm wondering about is: what's exactly the meaning of the >suffixAlias stuff? >Is it intended as I'm using it - i.e. to allow requests with a different >base to be >satisfied - or does it have other purposes? In my opinion, with little >effort we could >exploit it to implement a ldap reverse proxy for any backend, i.e. a >server that accepts >requests for a certain base, satisfies them by calling a backend with a >different base >and the masquerades the result by changing the base of each dn with the >aliased suffix >the request came in with. This could be particularly useful in hiding >existing, legacy >distributed directory servers in a big organization behind a common >search base, >or in allowing access to an existing server behind a firewall with a >different, legal >base by means of the back-ldap backend. > >If you find it interesting, I'd be pleased to contribute. > >Pierangelo Masarati >SysNet s.n.c. <firstname.lastname@example.com> > >-- >Dr. Pierangelo Masarati | voice: +39 02 2399 8365 >Dip. Ing. Aerospaziale | fax: +39 02 2399 8334 >Politecnico di Milano | mailto:email@example.com >via La Masa 34, 20156 Milano, Italy | http://www.aero.polimi.it/~masarati
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