Array-ne DOO RAG - mop down - waht we do (dependability)*DEAD MOON - walking on my grave - echoes of the past (sub pop)KING LOUIE ONE MAN BAND - beat up by a girl - gonerfest 2 (goner)RAGING TEENS - waiting right here - rock n’ roll party (rubric)BYRON LEE & THE DRAGONAIRES - fat back - dance the ska GARY U.S. BONDS - i wanna holler (but the town’s too small) - best of (rhino)JENNY JEANS - future fix - gonerfest 2 (goner)*THE ETTES - alley cat - shake the dust (sftri)KING KHAN &
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-ne AP/Houston Chronicle:An eight-term Democratic Louisiana congressman whose Capitol Hill office was raided earlier this year as part of a bribery investigation failed Saturday to win the endorsement of the state’s Democratic Party. But it marks the first time in recent memory that an incumbent failed to win the state party’s endorsement, said party member Elsie Burkhalter.
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-ne Edit note: The title of this post is not meant to convey a classist or elitist attitude. It would be one thing if they (houses) were within reach of buyers by traditional lending standards, not bought with creative or toxic loans, and (fundamentally) valued at or close to a historically normal level. Fraud - realtors and lenders helping people buy home that they really can’t afford, either through deception, or taking advantage of unsophisticated buyers, not advising them and not practicing full disclosure.
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First, the dealers:2: Larry Gagosian, dealer, five galleries around the world14: Iwan Wirth, Swiss dealer, part of Zwirner & Wirth15: Marian Goodman, New York-based gallerist16: David Zwirner, New York gallerist18: Marc Glimcher, New York gallerist (Pace)19: Jay Jopling, owner, White Cube gallery, London24: Barbara Gladstone, New York, gallerist26: Victoria Miro, gallery owner, London35: Sadie Coles, London-based dealer40: Jeffrey Deitch, New York gallerist44: The Wrong Gallery, New York, conceptual gallery (hmm… this probably should fall into the artists category - but we’ll try it in both places)54: Harry Blain & Graham Southern, London-based gallerists (Haunch of Venison)59: Javier Peres, Cuban-born dealer64: Max Hetzler, Berlin-based gallerist67: Gerd Harry Lybke, German dealer69: Maureen Paley, London gallerist70: Zach Feuer, New York gallerist76: William Acquavella, New York gallerist77: Matthew Marks, New York gallerist82: Lorenz Helbling, Swiss-born gallerist86: Gavin Brown, British-born New York galleristIt’s the second half that is most interesting.
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The identification between public and state that Nazi propaganda sought to create during the years of peace was a key factor in ensuring, during the war, that while support for Hitler and the regime would crumble, it did not collapse entirely.When Hitler wrote Mein Kampf [My Struggle] he believed that propaganda was an essential means of attracting support for a regime and achieving at least passive recognition and understanding of its ideological aims.[3] It could be used to gain the heart of the masses and, ultimately, to win increasing numbers of active advocates who were willing to fight for and defend the ideology that the regime represented.[4] Accordingly, when Hitler came to power he created the Ministry of Propaganda and Popular Enlightenment [the RMVP] under the direction of Joseph Goebbels.[5] In his inaugural speech, Goebbels explained to the press that the function of the Ministry was to create an open dialogue between the people and the state.[6] The Ministryâs name reflected the new governmentâs desire to do more than simply enlighten the populace by providing information; In turn, mismanagement of propaganda strategies relating to the Eastern Front, compounded by later military failures, resulted in a growing estrangement between the regime and the German people.[35] The announcement of war with the Soviet Union mirrored earlier aggressive actions, the Soviets were portrayed as traitors who had been preparing to strike at Germany and when Hitler discovered this, a pre-emptive strike had been ordered.[36] The RMVP was now able to renew anti-Bolshevist themes, however, there were differences of opinion as to how these themes should be expressed.[37] Some within the Nazi Party, such as Goebbels, wanted Germany to be presented as a liberator of the âoppressed Eastern peoplesâ, others, such as Hitler and Heinrich Himmler, saw Germany as liberating land and resources from their racial inferiors, who were only suitable as slaves.[38] This resulted in the RMVP producing propaganda that lacked consistency.[39] The Soviets were portrayed as subhuman, bestial, torturers who deserved to be destroyed but also as a suffering people in primitive conditions that required German assistance.[40]The inconsistencies within portrayals of the Soviets, and other Eastern peoples, were highlighted by the growing opportunities for the German people to interact with them.[41] Thousands of people considered to be of âinferior racial stockâ were brought into German controlled lands to be used as workers, predominantly on farms.[42] Those working with them soon realized that rather than meeting inferiors, they were meeting intelligent, hard-workers who often shared the same religious beliefs as them.[43] On the Eastern Front, soldiers were realizing that they were fighting soldiers as determined, intelligent and well-equipped as themselves.[44] Propaganda works best in an environment where alternative information is not available to contradict it. as bombing raids of German cities intensified, it became progressively apparent that the Luftwaffe [German Airforce] was inadequate to protect Germany from air attacks by the English and Americans.[46] Internal reports indicate there was a growing concern within the Nazi Party that state propaganda was being actively questioned by the public and compared with information obtained from other sources.[47] Morale reports, formulated by the Sicherheitsdienst [Secret Service],[48] showed that repeated delays in announcing important events occurring during the war, vague information and a fear that the government was couching setbacks within optimistic phrases prompted the public to turn to rumours, letters from soldiers, and foreign radio reports for additional information with which to form their own judgements on the war situation.[49]As public distrust in state media increased and the German military moved, largely, onto a defensive footing, propaganda produced by the RMVP shifted from focusing primarily on positive themes to negative integration.[50] The Nazi government needed to retain at least the passive support of the populace; it needed the factories to keep producing and the soldiers to keep fighting.[51] In the final years of the war, propaganda emphasising the mythic status of Hitler and the Nazi state was intensified.[52] Despite shortages and poor working conditions, as film supplies ran out and infrastructure was destroyed by bombing raids, new films were produced that promoted Germanyâs great destiny or compared Hitler with Frederick the Great, whose visionary leadership saved the Germans from defeat.[53] The government was aware, however, that support for the Nazis, and even for Hitler, was deteriorating, as victory seemed increasingly unlikely.[54] Therefore, as the Soviets began to move towards Germany, domestic propaganda sought to retain the obedience of the public through fear of the enemy.[55]When the RMVP was first created in 1933, Goebbels expressed a desire to genuinely win the support of the German public for the Nazi Party and its ideology. this ranged from accounts of the Katyn Massacre, to assaults on German non-combatants as the Soviets reached German occupied areas.[59] The aim was to produce a sense of terror within the population and a determination to continue fighting, whatever the cost, because the alternative was too horrifying to consider.[60] Years of being exposed to anti-Bolshevist propaganda, combined with the very real threat that Soviet troops posed, made the German population particularly receptive to these terror tactics.[61] Goebbels believed that if the German people were not willing to fight to defend the Nazi regime, then they would have to be convinced that they were fighting for their lives and Germanyâs continued existence.[62] The Soviets, English, and Americans, unified by international Jewry, were presented as a combined enemy force determined to destroy Germany.[63] The threat these countries represented, and the fear resulting from it, was designed to unify the German people and keep them focussed on these external enemies, rather than looking inwards and potentially challenging the regime itself.In 1945, Germany was forced to surrender to the superior military forces of the Allied nations, however, this surrender was significantly different to that offered in 1918. When the war ended, the Nazi Party was not loved and Hitlerâs cult-like status had greatly deteriorated.[65] It was only in the final year of the war that domestic propaganda was completely centralised and run along unified themes determined by the RMVP.[66] Prior to that the RMVP suffered, as did all the ministries, from the competitive conflict and duality of responsibilities that Hitler promoted in state-run bureaucracies.[67] Propaganda issued by the RMVP, for instance through the radio, could be contradicted by press releases authorised by Otto Dietrich, as Reich Press Chief and adjutant to Hitler.[68] Similarly, the daily communiqué issued by the Wehrmacht and edited personally by Hitler, often took a different, and far more positive, approach to interpreting events than did the RMVP.[69] As the war progressed the German public increasingly sought information from non-state sources and actively questioned the information they received.
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-ne From: The AdvocateFormer Representative Gerry Studds, who became the first openly gay member of Congress when his homosexuality was exposed during a teenage page sex scandal, died early Saturday. The origin of the second clot was not immediately determined, said Hara, who married Studds shortly after same-sex marriage was legalized in Massachusetts in 2004.Hara said Studds gave courage to gay people by winning re-election after publicly acknowledging his homosexuality. Studds later became an advocate for a stronger federal response to the AIDS crisis and was among the first members of Congress to endorse lifting the ban on gays serving in the military.In 1983, Studds acknowledged his homosexuality after a 27-year-old man disclosed that he and Studds had had a sexual relationship a decade earlier when the man was a teenage congressional page.
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Let me know if you do it so I can read yours :)01. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive05. Taken a candlelit bath with someone08. Visited Paris12. Grown and eaten your own vegetables18. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon22. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking37. Visited all 50 states41. Taken care of someone who was drunk42. Taken a road-trip48. Visited Ireland52. Visited Japan55. Visited the Great Wall of China67. Taken a martial arts class71. Eaten shark88. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country100. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking103. Held someone while they were having a flashback108. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild118. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states124. Visited all 7 continents125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days126. Eaten kangaroo meat127. Eaten sushi128. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about130. Eaten fried green tomatoes … Read The Iliad - and the Odyssey135. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language139. Had to put someone you love into hospice care143. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you145. Caused a car accident 150.