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Library Data Beyond the Like Button
No, really, it all fits together in the end. But to explain, I need to talk you beyond the "Like Button".
Earlier this month, I attended a lecture at the New York Public Library. The topic was Linked Open Data, and the speaker was Jon Voss, who's been applying this technology to historical maps. It was striking to see how many people from many institutions turned out, and how enthusiastically Jon's talk was received. The interest in Linked Data was similarly high at the American Library Association Meeting in New Orleans, where my session (presented with Ross Singer of Talis) was only one of several Linked Data sessions that packed meeting rooms and forced attendees to listen from hallways.
I think it's important to convert this level of interest into action. The question is, what can be done now to get closer to the vision of ubiquitous interoperable data? My last three posts have explored what libraries might do to better position their presence in search engines and in social networks using schema.org vocabulary and Open Graph Protocol. In these applications, library data enables users to do very specific things on the web- find a library page in a search engine or "Like" a library page in a Facebook. But there's so much more that could be done with the data.
I think that library data should be handled as if it was made of gold, not of diamond.
Perhaps the most amazing property of gold is its malleability. Gold can be pounded into a sheet so thin that it's transparent to light. An ounce of gold can be made into leaf that will cover 25 square meters.
There is a natural tendency to treat library data as a gem that needs skillful cutting and polishing. The resulting jewel will be so valuable that users will beat down library websites to get at the gems. Yeah.
The reality is that library data in much more valuable as a thin layer that covers huge swaths of material. When data is spread thinly, it has a better chance of connecting with data from other libraries and with other sorts of institutions: Museums, archives, businesses, and communities. By contrast, deep data, the sort that focuses on a specific problem space, is unlikely to cross domains or applications without a lot of custom programming and data tweaking.
Here's the example that's driven my interest in opening up library linked data: At Gluejar, we're building a website that will ask people to go beyond "liking" books. We believe that books are so important to people that they will want to give them to the world; to do that we'll need to raise money. If lots of people join together around a book, it will be easy to raise the money we need, just as public radio stations find enough supporters to make the radio free to everyone.
We don't want our website to be a book discovery website, or a social network of readers, or a library catalog; other sites to that just fine. What we need is for users to click "support this book" buttons on all sorts of websites, including library catalogs. And our software needs to pull just a bit of data off of a webpage to allow us to figure out which book the user wants to support. It doesn't sound so difficult. But we can only support to or three different interfaces to that data. If library websites all put a little more structured data in their HTML, we could do some amazing things. But they don't, and we have to settle for "sort of works most of the time".
Real books get used in all sorts of ways. People annotate them, they suggest them to friends, they give them away, they quote them, and they cite them. People make "TBR" piles next to their beds. Sometimes, they even read and remember them as long as they live. The ability to do these same things on the web would be pure gold.
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New mosque plans for Athens
by Kathy Tzilivakis
31 Jul 2011
ATHENS’ Muslim immigrants will soon have their own official place to pray - a former naval building in Eleonas. This is the latest twist in a long-running saga to establish the first mosque in Athens since Ottoman rule ended nearly 200 years ago.
Details of the government’s latest plan for an official mosque in Athens were included in a last-minute amendment to a new environment bill discussed in parliament on July 27. However, it was quickly removed at the request of far-right Laos party MPs who argued the mosque has nothing to do with environmental issues. Environment Minister Yiorgos Papakonstantinou agreed - as “a show of good faith”, he said - and announced the mosque amendment would be included instead in an upcoming bill to regulate illegal construction.
All the while, the city’s estimated 120,000 Muslim immigrants currently have to squeeze into basements and other rented spaces, which members of this growing community have converted into makeshift mosques. There are more than 100 unofficial mosques scattered around the city, according to Naim El-Ghandour, chairman of the Muslim Association of Greece.
“If we had an official mosque,” El-Ghandour said, “there would no longer be any need for all these underground places of worship.”
“Muslims - and I’m not just talking about immigrants, because there are also second- and third-generation immigrants, as well as Greeks, who are Muslim - feel like second-class citizens because of their religion,” he said. “Why should all these people be made to feel like this? I’m optimistic that things will now start to change. It is also very important for us to have an official imam [to lead prayers at the mosque].”
The imam, according to a 2006 law and the amendment, will be appointed by the education ministry. The mosque will be managed by a group of five Greek officials and two Muslim community representatives.
Once renovated, the old naval base will be able to accommodate some 500 worshippers at a time.
Arab ambassadors in Athens have been calling on Greece to build a proper mosque in the capital for more than 30 years. Athens is the only capital city of the EU-15 that does not have an official mosque.
The current plans for a mosque in Eleonas, three metro stops west of Syntagma, are a long way away from a decision a decade ago to construct a multimillion-euro Islamic centre and mosque in Peania, a town about 20km north of downtown Athens, near the airport. It was to be entirely funded by King Fahd of Saudi Arabia.
There will be no traditional dome or crescent-capped minaret - the familiar beacon known to Muslims everywhere. At least, not yet, said El-Ghandour, a naturalised Greek citizen who arrived in Athens some 38 years ago from Egypt.
“This is only a temporary solution,” he said. “The government explained to us that the navy building [a 1,000 square metre warehouse] in Eleonas is just a temporary solution until an actual mosque is built. This is because it could take years. We will need at least two years to actually build it, and we’ll also need about two or three more years before that to fight any possible lawsuits against this project in the courts.”
El-Ghandour and other members of the local Muslim community are in support of the plan. Many of them have even volunteered their services to paint and renovate the warehouse. “We have painters, craftsmen and construction workers who would be more than willing to volunteer,” El-Ghandour said. “We’re waiting for the authorities to get back to us about it.”
According to the amendment, the ministry of education and religious affairs will cover the cost.
Opposition
Apart from the anti-immigrant and far-right groups that have been quick to oppose any and every plan for a mosque in Athens, most political parties seem to be more or less in favour of a mosque in Athens. An exception is Laos, whose spokesperson Kostas Aivaliotis recently suggested that, rather than establishing mosques, Greece should find a way to send Muslims abroad to countries where mosques exist.
Greece is 97 percent Orthodox Christian but both ruling Pasok and main opposition New Democracy (ND) are in agreement about the need to have a mosque in the capital.
ND had first proposed establishing a mosque in Eleonas back in 2006. But even before that, former ND leader and prime minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis had publicly defended the plans for the mosque. He had said that even a public debate on the matter would be inexcusable and expose the country to condemnation. “As people of the diaspora, we build Orthodox churches from Australia to America and even South America. and Korea,” Mitsotakis said in 2000.
July 2000 Parliament approves plans to build an Islamic centre and mosque in Peania, on the northeastern outskirts of the city, near the Athens international airport.
June 2001 Ambassador Abdallah Abdallah of the Palestine diplomatic representation in Greece, the dean of Arab ambassadors in Athens, says King Fahd of Saudi Arabia will finance the building of the Peania mosque.
July 2002 In a report, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Alvaro Gil-Robles notes that “the secretary-general for religious affairs [Ioannis Konidaris], as well as Archbishop Christodoulos, assured [him] that they had no objection to the building of a mosque for Muslims established in the Athens district”.
October 2002 Father Epifanios, Church of Greece spokesman, says that the church will oppose the creation of a mosque in the downtown area because the average Greek is not yet ready to accept a minaret in the city centre.
April 2003 Asked why construction hasn’t begun in Peania, foreign ministry spokesman Panos Beglitis puts the blame on Arab ambassadors. “Six months have passed and, despite repeated calls by the Greek side to the head of the Arab negotiating team here in Athens, there has been no answer. The delay does not lie on the Greek side.” Foreign Minister George Papandreou renews the government’s pledge to build a mosque in time for the 2004 Olympic Games.
August 2003 Peania Mayor Paraskevas Papakostopoulos appeals to the Council of State - Greece’s highest administrative court - to block the building of the mosque in his town.
September 2003 The Greek Orthodox Church comes out against the plan for a mosque in Peania. Archbishop Christodoulos conveys his disagreement in a letter to Foreign Minister Papandreou. He urges Papandreou to change the location of the planned mosque because he is concerned that its dome and a minaret will send the wrong message about Greece, a Christian country, to visitors landing at the airport. Foreign ministry spokesman Panos Beglitis says the government has not and will not back down. “We remain firm on our position regarding the establishment of the mosque in Peania,” he notes. Papandreou tells The Guardian that the mosque will be built “in the spirit of multicultural, democratic Europe, of which Greece is a part”. He says that “the necessity of a mosque is even greater because Athens’ Muslim population has got that much bigger”.
April 2004 Ambassador Panayiotis Makris, the foreign ministry official overseeing the planned mosque, says the newly-elected New Democracy government is determined to push through with the construction of the mosque.
July 2004 Foreign ministry spokesman George Koumoutsakos says the mosque project is in “the final stage now and only bureaucratic procedures are outstanding”.
October 2004 Makris says new legislation concerning the Peania mosque will be discussed in parliament in coming days. He says it is a top priority.
March 2006 In a report, Gil-Robles expresses his dissatisfaction over the fact that Muslims in Athens are forced to “meet in secret in places unsuitable for prayer”.
April 2006 Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis is reportedly against the plan to build a mosque in Peania and says she prefers it be situated closer to the downtown area. Greece’s powerful Orthodox Church says it will not oppose efforts to build a mosque in Athens, dropping past concerns.
May 2006 As many as 10,000 local immigrant Muslims sign a petition demanding the establishment of a mosque in Athens. Representatives of the Muslim Association of Greece meet with the education ministry’s special secretary Athanasios Kyriazis to discuss the matter. The parliament approves several amendments to existing legislation, allowing non-Orthodox religious groups to build their places of worship without having to first obtain approval from the Church of Greece.
December 2010 Prime Minister George Papandreou announces in parliament that procedures for the construction of a mosque in the greater Athens region have been accelerated because the right to a place of worship is fundamental and adds that broad consensus has been achieved on the issue.
January 2011 Education and Religion Minister Anna Diamantopoulou tells parliament the mosque in Athens will be smaller in size than initially planned. She said the construction design will “respect the national framework and culture”.
Athens News 30/Nov/1999 page 10
New mosque plans | Athens News
My Comment:
Europe is going broke bailing out Greece, and Greece is spending its money on…mosques.
What economic crisis? Greek government spending $15 million to build mosque in Athens.
And no one, of course, will vet what is taught there. To do so would be “Islamophobic.”
Reminds one of the old saying that Nero fiddles while Rome burns!
If Muslims want a place of worship in Athens, let them build their own. After all, I have never heard of Saudi Arabia paying for any Christian Church in Mecca!!! Has anyone?
Any sourceTaxi strike destined for third week
by Constantine Callaghan 1 Aug 2011
AS THE taxi strike edges towards its third week, neither the government nor the unions have come close to reaching a solution.
Traffic around central Athens’ Syntagma Square came to a halt on July 26 as taxi drivers blocked the surrounding roads. Some 3,000 cabbies are estimated to have marched in central Athens waving flags as music blared from megaphones mounted on top of their vehicles. The protest was sparked by the government’s plan to liberalise taxi licensing laws and allow private companies to compete for business.
The European Union and IMF have demanded that Greece liberalise 135 protected professions to encourage competition and increase the economy’s competiveness. Taxi drivers, in turn, fear that the value of their taxi licences, for which some say they paid in excess of 100,000 euros, will dwindle to as little as 3,000 euros.
The taxi drivers, on strike since July 18, have vowed to continue their action until their demands are met.
Prime Minister George Papandreou reached out to the striking cabbies on July 27, urging talks take place to put an end to the strike, which coincides with the peak tourist season and has seen visitors endure blocked roads at airports and sea ports.
Infrastructure, Transport and Networks Minister Yiannis Ragousis was scheduled to hold separate meetings with taxi owners and drivers on July 29.
“The Greek family makes a living from tourism,” Tourism Minister Pavlos Yeroulanos said. “It is a sector we should all protect. This is not the time to turn the tourism sector into a battlefield.”
Tourism contributes almost 16 percent of gross domestic product and is seen as vital to the recovery of the struggling economy.
The British foreign office has warned Britons about the strikes. Last year, some 2.35 million British citizens visited Greece.
The cabbies had scaled down their strike at the beginning of the week, allowing for roads, airports and ports to operate without hindrance. However, on the morning of July 28 the striking drivers re-emerged, blocking the exit and entrance to the Piraeus cruise ship terminal.
Some 2,000 cabbies gathered at the cruise terminal gates in Piraeus, upon the arrival of five cruise ships, and attempted to disrupt the disembarkation of tourists. Police said that two protesters threw oil on a nearby street in a bid to prevent vehicles from exiting the port. Fifteen of the scheduled 35 tourist coaches could not leave the port.
Taxi strike destined for third week | Athens News
Any source1º de Agosto-2011 = Se cumplen 20 años de la Mayor Nevada de la Ciudad de Mar del Plata.
La Nieve se extendió entre las 00 y las 09 de la mañana, dejando a toda la Ciudad Blanca.
La Temperatura Mínima de esa jornada fue de 1ºC bajo cero, a las 06 hs, y la Temperatura Máxima, nada más que 3º7 a las 14 horas.
Se cumplen entonces, 20 años de esa Histórica Nevada.
--- Fuente de las Fotos: Diario La Capital de Mar del Plata.
SEGUIMIENTO METEOROLÓGICO ESPECIAL 30-7-2011 ESPECTACULAR DÍA DE TORMENTAS EN EL MEDITERRÁNEO
Pero vamos por partes. Primero destacar la megatormenta que se formó entre la zona de Castellón y Baleares, un auténtico monstruo que fue viajando de oeste a este y que dio fenómenos muy severos, incluso se pudo captar un tornado tocando tierra muy espectacular en Mallorca.
En las imágenes del radar se ve perfectamente las dimensiones de esta tormenta que se formó en esta zona.
En la siguiente imagen se puede apreciar como se forma otra tormenta sobre el mar cerca de Tarragona.
En el mapa de Rayos del METEOCAT y del AEMET vemos la espectacular cantidad de rayos caídos durante la jornada.
En las imágenes del radar del AEMET se ve las precipitaciones que dejaron las tormentas entre la Comunidad Valenciana y Baleares y después la gran tormenta que nos afectó en nuestra zona, provinente del norte de Catalunya.
En las imágenes completas del día del satélite se ve la evolución de estas tormentas perfectamente.
Este es el fotoseguimiento de este fantástico sábado, donde podréis ver en modo time lapse, como se fue acercando la tormenta echándose literalmente sobre nosotros.
En estos dos vídeos que os pongo a continuación realizados por mi desde mi observatorio en Sant Boi, podréis ver la potencia que tenía esta tormenta a su paso por nuestra ciudad. En el primero podréis un cielo realmente espectacular. En los dos siguientes un par de rayos nube tierra.
Este es el vídeo que realizó mi compañero Cristian Gaspar desde la zona de Montjuich de la auténtica tromba de agua que cayó en Barcelona.
ESPECTACULAR TORMENTA EN BARCELONA (DIA 30 DE JULIO 2011) from CRISTIAN BARCELONA (ZONA SANTS) on Vimeo.
Estas son las fotos que hizo tembién Cristian después del paso de la tormenta, de los desperfectos y destrozos por el viento huracanado que se produjo en la montaña de Montjich, realmente espectaculares.
En este podemos ver la espectacular pedregada que estaba cayendo, esta vez en el interior.
En este se puede ver la espectacular intensidad con la que caía la lluvia y el viento fuerte.
En este vídeo, la calle se convirtió en un río.
Otro vídeo de la tromba de agua.
En este vídeo se puede ver como varias palmeras del Paseo de Colón no aguantaron el embiste del fuerte viento huracanado que las tumbó directamente.
Este vídeo es impactante a la vez que simpático, ya que los containers navegaban por la calle como si barcas se trataran, parecía que iban haciendo carreras.
Otra zona donde cayó la tormenta con mucha intensidad de la ciudad condal. Esta vez la fuerte lluvia incluso penetra en la terraza donde se está grabando el vídeo.
También en otras poblaciones del área metropolitana cayeron muchos litros haciendo que rieras normalmente vacías sufrieran crecidas bastante espectaculares, como esta en Cerdanyola del Vallés.
En este vídeo espectacular podemos ver un impresionante tornado que se formó en Mallorca por causa de la tormenta que os he mencionado más arriba que afectó la zona por la mañana, antes de que nos afectara a nosotros por la tarde.
Y aquí, por último, os dejo un par de vídeos de la repercusión mediática que ha tenido esta tormenta.
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Estos fueron los registros de este fabuloso día tormentoso. Fijaros en las cantidades de precipitación de Barcelona. Aquí en Sant Boi poca cosa en comparación.
REGISTROS DE MI ESTACIÓN METEOROLÓGICA EN SANT BOI CIUDAD COOPERATIVA:
TEMPERATURA
MIN.19.5ºc
MAX.28.4ºc
HUMEDAD
MIN.62%
MAX.82%
PRESIÓN
MIN.1010.7 HPA
MAX.1014.8 HPA
VIENTO
MAX. 34 KM/H
PRECIPITACIÓN
7.6 mm.
REGISTROS DE CATALUNYA:
Temperaturas máximas (ºC)
Observatorio Máx.
Mora d'Ebre (Tarragona) 32,3
Alcarràs (Lleida) 32,1
Ulldecona-S. Joan del Pas (Tarragona) 30,8
Balaguer - (Nord) (Lleida) 30,7
Tortosa (Tarragona) 30,7
Piera (Barcelona) 30,6
Ulldecona - Pou Jua (Tarragona) 30,5
Fals (Bages) (Barcelona) 30,3
Castellnou d'Ossó (Lleida) 30,2
Olesa de Montserrat (Barcelona) 29,9
Temperaturas mínimas (ºC)
Observatorio Mín.
Refugi d'Amitges (CEC) (Lleida) 7,0
Refugi J.M. Blanc (CEC) (Lleida) 7,4
Refugi Ventosa (CEC) (Lleida) 8,5
Barruera (Lleida) 10,4
Tregura-Vilallonga de ter (Girona) 11,1
Bagergue (Lleida) 11,1
Queixans - La Cerdanya (Girona) 12,2
Queralbs - La Manet (Girona) 12,4
Ribes de Freser-Càmping (Girona) 12,7
Prades - Tossal Baltasana (Tarragona) 12,8
Racha de viento (km/h)
Observatorio Máx.
Barcelona - Parc Guinardó (Barcelona) 101
Mollet - Barri Santa Rosa (Barcelona) 86
Roda de Ter (Barcelona) 74
Sant Pere de Riudebitlles (Barcelona) 68
St. Fost de Campsentelles (Barcelona) 64
Mollet-Estació de França (Barcelona) 64
Barcelona - Eixample (Barcelona) 64
Sant Cugat del Vallès (Barcelona) 61
Berga (Barcelona) 61
Montmeló-T.de la Bandera (Barcelona) 60
Precipitaciones (mm)
Observatorio Act.
St. Fost de Campsentelles (Barcelona) 69,6
L'Hospitalet GV2 (Barcelona) 57,4
Barcelona - Sant Gervasi (Barcelona) 50,9
Barcelona - Sants (Barcelona) 47,7
Alella (Barcelona) 46,8
Montmeló-T.de la Bandera (Barcelona) 46,2
Cerdanyola - Centre (Barcelona) 45,8
Sabadell - Centre (Barcelona) 44,8
Mollet-Estació de França (Barcelona) 44,6
Barcelona - Can Bruixa (Barcelona) 43,8
REGISTROS DE ESPAÑA:
Temperaturas máximas (ºC)
Observatorio Máx.
Vegas del Genil (Granada) 39,0
Alhaurín de la Torre (Málaga) 37,5
La Orotava (Tenerife) 37,4
Moraleja - San Cristobal (Cáceres) 37,2
Villa de Ingenio (Gran Canaria) 36,3
Badajoz - Ciudad Jardín (Badajoz) 36,2
Benacazón (Sevilla) 36,1
El Rosario - Radazul (Tenerife) 35,9
Santiponce, Itálica (Sevilla) 35,8
Madrid-Moratalaz (Madrid) 35,7
Temperaturas mínimas (ºC)
Observatorio Mín.
Los Ángeles de San Rafael (Segovia) 0,2
Refugi d'Amitges (CEC) (Lleida) 7,0
Refugi J.M. Blanc (CEC) (Lleida) 7,4
Duruelo de la Sierra (Soria) 7,4
Puente Pumar -Polaciones- (Cantabria) 8,3
Refugi Ventosa (CEC) (Lleida) 8,5
Sopeña de Curueño (León) 9,4
Cidones (Soria) 9,7
Sta María del Condado - O (León) 9,7
Barruera (Lleida) 10,4
Racha de viento (km/h)
Observatorio Máx.
Barcelona - Parc Guinardó (Barcelona) 101
Mollet - Barri Santa Rosa (Barcelona) 86
Roda de Ter (Barcelona) 74
Sant Pere de Riudebitlles (Barcelona) 68
St. Fost de Campsentelles (Barcelona) 64
Mollet-Estació de França (Barcelona) 64
Villa de Ingenio (Gran Canaria) 64
Valverde (El Hierro) 64
Barcelona - Eixample (Barcelona) 64
Los Baldíos (Tenerife) 61
Precipitaciones (mm)
Observatorio Act.
St. Fost de Campsentelles (Barcelona) 69,6
L'Hospitalet GV2 (Barcelona) 57,4
Barcelona - Sant Gervasi (Barcelona) 50,9
Barcelona - Sants (Barcelona) 47,7
Alella (Barcelona) 46,8
Montmeló-T.de la Bandera (Barcelona) 46,2
Cerdanyola - Centre (Barcelona) 45,8
Sabadell - Centre (Barcelona) 44,8
Mollet-Estació de França (Barcelona) 44,6
Barcelona - Can Bruixa (Barcelona) 43,8Any source
Mardi 16 Août 2011 orages
Matin :
Nous aurions un flux d'Ouest mou, c'est-à-dire que les perturbations défileraient très lentement au sein d'un gradient de pression faible.
En conséquences, une dégradation orageuse particulièrement virulente concernerait les régions allant du Sud-Ouest à l'Alsace en passant par le Massif Central : l'activité électrique pourrait être remarquable tout comme les précipitations parfois soudaines.
A voir aussi le risque de fortes rafales de vent.
Autrement, la journée commencerait dans le calme pour les autres régions.
Les températures minimales oscilleraient entre 11°C à Rennes et 21°C à Ajaccio en passant par 12°C à Grenoble, 14°C à Paris et à Brest, 15°C à La Rochelle, 16°C à Lacanau et 19°C à Hyères (Var).
Après midi :
Une amélioration serait possible en marge du retour d'une bulle anticyclonique.
Cependant, une nouvelle évolution orageuse se produirait sur l'ensemble des régions cette fois : elle devrait être moins intense que les précédentes.
Cette tendance sera évidemment à confirmer avec les modèles déterministes quelques jours voire plusieurs heures avant.
Les températures maximales seraient globalement contrastées par rapport aux normales de saison (à confirmer) : elles partiraient de 19°C à Perros Guirec (Bretagne) pour aller à 21°C à Rouen, 22°C à Nantes, 25°C à Blois et à Rueil Malmaison (Ile de France), 26°C à Bourges et 27°C à Strasbourg.
Au Sud, entre 21°C à Saint Jean de Luz (Pyrénées Atlantique) et 31°C en Isère en passant par 25°C à Bordeaux, 26°C à Marseille, 28°C à Bastia, 29°C à Toulouse et à Perpignan, et 30°C à Montpellier.Any source
Previsión semana 1-4 de Agosto de 2.011
Fuente:
www.meteored.com
www.aemet.es
www.meteociel.fr
www.chebro.es
What if US failed to increase Debt Ceiling? (31 July 2011)
- US bondholders will get paid first, while other payments such as social security, military payment, and Medicare services will stall.
- Downgrading by rating agencies is unavoidable, which will lead to an increase in Treasury's borrowing costs.
- US will be losing its AAA ratings, damaging the important role of USD as one of the world's preferred currency.
- USD will slump to yet another all-time low, while Gold price will recorded yet another all-time high
- Commodities prices traded in USD will shoot up.
- Inflation rate in Emerging Markets will pushed up by rising resources and food prices.
- Hence, this will dampen the growth of the economy and China being the world's growth engine will stall by high inflation, lower domestic consumption.
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Dominique Strauss Kahn: Marie Victorine M. témoigne! Bientôt les expertises psychiatriques?
De nombreuses questions restent posées... |
Madame Marie Victorine "M"... |
Témoin dont la réponse à une question d’Arnaud Bédat, journaliste à l’Illustré, est pour le moins sans ambiguïté:
«DSK a-t-il été parfois violent avec vous?
Kenneth Thompson m’a aussi posé la question. C’est quoi la violence? Un homme qui vous plaque au mur et qui vous embrasse, c’est violent? Il y a violence et violence. Pour moi, ce n’était pas violent. Il ne l’a jamais été avec moi. Ni physiquement ni verbalement. Je considère notre relation davantage comme de la passion que comme de la violence. Nous étions dans une relation consentie. Donc, même s’il l’avait été dans l’intimité, ça ne regarderait que nous.»
Un témoignage qui intervient alors que pointent des critiques sur la méthode des investigations en cours. Plusieurs bruits font état de questions pour le moins ciblées et jugées parfois clairement "salaces" ...dans les détails. Le bureau du procureur et les différents investigateurs "commandés" par la défense tout comme l'accusation semblent toujours plus lancés dans une forme de surenchère de la recherche de témoignages "en tout genre" pour creuser le "parfait sillon des faiblesses des deux parties..."
Un point que ne partagent pas d'autres observateurs qui parlent plus d'une personne acculée et devant "coûte que coûte" obtenir "son salut" en obtenant la chance d'une nouvelle vie. " Enfermer la présumée victime dans un tel portrait de simple menteuse patentée ne serait pas sérieux, tous les experts en sociologie et surtout psychologie comportementale clinique vous indiqueront qu'une personne qui fonde un "espoir sincère" ou "ultime" peut logiquement tomber dans le piège de certaines facilités ou maladresses, à savoir la "prise de risques extrêmes". Il serait donc plus important de voir comment madame Nafissatou Diallo s'est "après son prétendu mensonge rapporté par différentes sources" comportée aux Etats-Unis, "a-t-elle abusée du système social? A-t-elle refusée de travailler dignement pour retrouver sa dignité de femme et par ailleurs, beaucoup plus important, celle de très jeune maman confrontée aux pires difficultés? Enfin différentes analyses comportementalistes de spécialistes en analyse transactionnelle et programmation neuro-linguistique semblent toujours plus accréditer que l'interview réalisé par ABC New-York ne souffre pas "d'altérations" comportementales "manipulatoires de la présumée victime." Comme de nombreux experts le soulignent, "elle pratique des gestes amples" (une critique formulée par certains observateurs qui parlent "d'exagérations poussées..."), alors que les experts parlent plus "de gestes ouverts", "le regard plutôt fixe et en avant, ne ferme ses yeux ou baisse la tête que dans des descriptifs -clairement identifiables- comme traumatiques". C'est toute la difficulté "de voir une personne propulsée" dans une "logique démesurée... pour le commun des mortels!". Une personne qui "ne maîtrise pas les codes de la communication propres aux coutumes des médias" qui sont dans une posture "clairement inquisitrice" au sens très psychologique clinique par les effets induits " sur une personne en état traumatique".
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