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Sectors
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Tags
Tags are more specific classifications which group content into different topic areas. Tags group together articles according to any number of features, including the subject of the articles, the country or city they are about, key events, individuals, corporations, decades or centuries.

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The libcom.org style guide is designed to give our website more consistency in our articles across all the different sections. A lot of great material and information in alternative media sources today suffers from simply poor quality production and style, and we aim to try and address that. Compiled with help from Freedom Press, this style guide applies to the News, Thought, Organise and Features parts of the site.

This guide may seem large but please do not be put off! The most important thing is that we want content. If you have an article you think would be good on libcom.org let us have it in whatever form you can. If necessary we can edit it so that it fits our guidelines and any random bits and pieces we can put in our Library. This style guide is included so people know why and how we might be editing any submissions, and for any people who feel they can take these suggestions into account when writing new content.

Tone
Different sites have different ways of conveying information. On libcom.org we decided
that the most effective way for us to get our message across is with a uniform tone and general style of writing across the site. The tone we would like to maintain on all sections of the site should have the following characteristics:

Article formatting guide

For a more detailed guide on how to write articles, please see our News report writing guide.

For tips on categorising your article - adding region, sector and tag information, see our article tagging guide.

Title
Enter article title capitalising only the first word and any proper nouns in the title. e.g.
Janitors in Houston reach deal to end strike

Try to keep article titles as short as possible, while still explaining what the article is about.

For news articles please include the country or city (if major) of the news story . e.g.
Bangladesh: Police open fire on striking workers

For library articles, include the date of that article, or the dates covered, and the author in the title in the following format:
GI opposition the Vietnam War, 1965-1973 - Howard Zinn

Image
Please add an image to any article you post up. Try to include the most relevant picture possible. Google image search is a great way to find photographs, but please do not post up images copyrighted by big companies like the BBC or Associated press.

If you cannot find a photograph of the exact story you are covering, please use one related to the person, company, or city that is mentioned, for example. Ideally the photograph will be a good image, with the bulk of the detail in the centre of the image, so that it will be visible in our site's thumbnails.

Introduction
Always include a short abstract explaining exactly Who, What, and Where your article is about. Ideally it should be about 130 characters, or 1-2 lines of text on the screen.

Article
Please add any extra summarising information in the first paragraph of the main part of your article.

Use short paragraphs.

In your article, if you include subheadings, please use bold text for subheadings, with italics for secondary subheadings. Please do not leave a gap between body text and subheadings. e.g.

The strike begins
Workers downed tools at 4.30pm on April 5...

or

Timeline
21 December
New employment bill becomes law.

27 December
First street protests held
...

Please credit sources at the end of your article with any relevant information such as author, edits or translations, in italics. e.g.

By Wildcat Germany, taken and slightly edited by libcom from www.prol-position.net

Thank you for reading, and for making libcom.org an easier and more attractive site to use!

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http://libcom.org/filter/tips/6

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Anchor (bookmark you can link to):
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Google link: BBCode
Wikipedia link: BBCode

Let's test some E-mail addresses:

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Quoting

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Quote with source:

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HOWTO: article submissions

A well formatted article is easier and more pleasant to read and should be easier for site users to quickly print off a readable copy. So a little extra work is worth it.

Many articles submitted to the library have been scanned in from hard copies of varying quality; the lower the quality of the original source book or magazine the initial scan comes from, the more errors needing correction in the scanned text. So proofread the scanned text as necessary for mistakes to be corrected.

Submitting and formatting

First, take a look at a formatted article - http://libcom.org/library/reds-green-short-tour-clerkenwell-radicalism. This will give you an idea of what we are talking about below. Also read the formatting guides for news and Library and History.

Submitting text/article
1) Click on 'create content' at top of page.
2) Click on library, history or news. This will take you to the appropriate page.
3) Type in the title of the article in the 1st box. This should use normal sentence case. I.e. "Strike continues at Ford". Rather than "Strike Continues at Ford".
4) Choose the appropriate categories for the article in the 'regions' and 'sectors' list. (If you are unsure on the correct choice, it can be done by an editor after submission.)
5) Enter a brief explanation of the article in the 'Introduction' box. If appropriate, this could be the 1st paragraph of the article. Otherwise, write a short descriptive summary of no more than 2-3 sentences. This will appear at the beginning of the article in bold type in the finished submission.
6) Paste in the article itself to the 'Body' box.

For example:

Title:
The Chinese anarchist movement
Introduction:
A history of the Chinese anarchist movement in France, Japan and China itself from 1900 up to the formation of the Chinese Communist Party.

For formatting text in articles, please see our BBCODE and HTML FAQ.

Some articles in their original format have too many line breaks. to correct this use a site like this one; http://www.fwointl.com/FWOFormatter.html
- and set max characters to 999999 and Format.

Also ensure that you use (two) full line breaks for paragraphs to ensure readable text. One line break will not get caught by our automatic paragraph formatting.

Footnotes
Footnotes can be automatically generated at the end of articles. Where you would normally put the footnote number like [1] instead, put the text of your footnote wrapped in <fn>Footnote goes here</fn> tags. When you submit the article, Drupal will find all the footnotes and format the superscript numbers and link to them for you.

Submitting images
1. Use jpg or png files only.
2. Give the file a meaningful name.
3. Don't upload files over one MB. If you can only find a large version of a pic, various resizing applications can be found online, or download (http://gimp.org is a good one)
4. Do not use copyright images, and especially not copyright images from news agencies like AP.

Instructions for windows users:
To submit a main image that will appear at the top of the article, use the 'Image' box.
You will need to have the image stored locally on your computer.
Click the 'browse' button to browse your PC to find where you have stored the image. A 'file upload' window will appear.
Browse to the file on your computer, images downloaded from the internet usually default to your "Desktop" folder
Click 'Open' and the file will appear in the 'Image' field on the Libcom submissions page.
Then press 'Upload' to bring the image file from your PC onto the site and into the article.
Then you can add, if you want to, in the "title" field, a caption for your image. This caption will appear when readers hover their mouse over the image.

Finally...
When possible, always provide the source of the article and the date of publication.

Library and history

Information on posting content to the libcom library

News

Information on posting to libcom news

Tags - tagging your articles guide

A short guide to tagging and categorising your articles.

- Choose region for story, and industrial sector if appropriate (i.e. if about a strike in a particular sector, or a person who worked almost exclusively in that sector and did lots of stuff related to it). You can use multiple choice with CTRL-clicks
- In library or history, select any individuals or groups the article is about in the Authors box.
- Enter tags for the story. Try to enter between 2 and 10 keyword tags. Enter then in lower case, unless they're proper nouns, and separate with commas. Important things to include are:
---- The country the story is in – try to match the tags already in which will show up as you type. America is "USA" for example. UK stories don't need the country, unless Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland.
---- The city the story in, if it's a big city or US state
---- If it's about a big company, the name of the company, e.g. Asda-Walmart
---- If it's a history or library historical piece, enter the decade it's about if relevant, e.g. 1950s. Bere 1800 enter the century, e.g. 1600s, or else BC, or 1-1000AD if before that.
---- If it's about a union or mentions a union a lot, the acronym of the union. E.g. Unison or TGWU
---- The name of the sub-industry the story's about, e.g. rail, oil, coal, local government, call centres, supermarkets or whatever
---- If it's a strike add the tags strikes, if wildcat add wildcat strikes, if general general strikes
---- If it's an interview, add interviews, if a review add reviews
---- If the article is related to race or racism add race, women or feminism add women, fascism or anti-fascism add fascism.
---- Any other good keywords you can think of, like: riots, environment, climate change, police, etc. - make it things that will end up with quite a few articles on. And try to match to any tags already used.

Forums - posting guidelines

9 things...
1. Start new threads in the appropriate forum. Give relevant, precise titles, don't capitalise every letter ("LOOK @ TH1S!!" - is not acceptable).
2. Give meaningful post content which gives people something to discuss - relevant? coherent? formatted?
3. Be civil!
4. Don't post up large 'copy and pastes'.
5. No adverts.
6. Have a look at these tools which may come in handy for the forum.
7. No trolling/direct linking.
8. Overview & legal bit.
9. Threads and posts will be deleted.

Be civil!
The internet is not as far removed from real life as you'd like it to be. People are real, have real feelings and thoughts. Do not abuse people because of their ideas and beliefs for no reason. Be aware that not everyone has read as much Bakunin as you. Be nice to new posters and people developing their ideas. ANY KIND of oppressive, sexist, racist, unreasonable personal abuse, discrimination etc. is not allowed and threads will be removed and offenders banned. Please respect people's privacy and refrain from posting up personal details without their permission.

Copy and pastes
Do not post up large chunks of cut and paste text, but make things easier for others by summarising the article and including a link to the unabridged version. If your text is not available elsewhere online you need to find somewhere to host it - perhaps our library or news section if it is relevant, otherwise use one of these sites to paste the article in then use the link to it - http://docs.google.com (free registration), http://writer.zoho.com (free registration) or http://paste.turbogears.org (no registration required). Post a comment on your summary in order to arouse interest in discussion around the article. What is a long piece of text? Think - would anyone be prepared to sit and read it in the context of a discussion forum?

Advertising
Any form of commercial or personal advertisements will be removed and the poster dealt with. Relevant adverts should be posted in the relevant form. This is a discussion forum, not a free advertising resource and offenders will be warned and then banned. Signature files/avatars are disabled and putting in links to your own website with every post isn't permitted either: we want to hear your opinions, not see the same link with every post!

Useful forum tools
All tools are free and nothing to do with libcom.org, where free registration is required look for the [R].
- http://www.box.net - upload any kind of files publicly and link to them from the forum [R].
- http://imageshack.us - upload, resize and link to images.
- http://docs.google.com - upload long text files (articles, pamphlets) here for referencing on the forums [R].
- http://tinyurl.com/ - turn long web addresses into short ones, or just use the URL button above the comment box.

Trolling/direct linking
Do not directly link to 'hostile' websites (leave gaps in the URL if you wish to refer to them or prefix the URL with http://anonym.to?). Anyone found posting up malicious links on other sites and/or trying to stir up 'board wars' will be banned. Persistently disruptive posters will be banned.

Overview & legal bit
Please remember we run these forums out of our own time and money. Please respect the boards and people putting effort into them. This is not a haven of free speech for some wackos with weird ideas, we have clear aims and ideas about what we are trying to encourage with this project and will strive to maintain those ideas. Forum posts represent the views of the respective posters, we do not take any responsibility for the contents of message boards posts and cannot be held responsible for any information in a post or any actions and events resulting from information within posts. All opinions stated on the forums are those of the individual authors and are not the responsibility of libcom.org.

N.B.
If your thread or post goes against any of these guidelines it is likely to end up in the bin or deleted. You have been warned. Old threads may be deleted without warning. PLEASE MAKE COPIES OF THREADS IMPORTANT TO YOU.

And lastly...
Watch this.

Terms of service

Libcom.org services are currently limited to website hosting. These services may change from time to time and are provided AS IS. You understand and agree that Libcom.org assumes no responsibility for, among other things, any service outages or interruptions, the unavailability of particular features or services, and your inability to access or make use of all or part of our services. Furthermore, you understand and agree that Libcom.org assumes no responsibility for deletion, loss or mis-delivery of information stored or delivered through our services. Libcom.org makes no warranties or guarantees as to the security of any machine or wesite operated or hosted by Libcom.org, nor do we make any warranties or guarantees at all.

In consideration for your use of the Libcom.org services you agree to the following conditions:
You acknowledge and agree to not sell, resell or exploit the use of our services, access to our services or any of the content accessable through our services for any commercial purposes except to use such information or content for the sole purpose of listing our service in a search engine or other service directing users to our site.

You also agree not to use our services to:
* harass other people;
* harm or exploit minors;
* impersonate or cause others to believe that you are another person;
* send unsolicited messages; and
* interfere with or disrupt our services, those of our users or any other person or service;

Further, you agree to:
* avoid excessive use of our services, including but not limited to network bandwidth, computer system resources;
* be responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your accounts and passwords;
* be responsible for the actions of any person who uses your account or passwords to gain access to our systems;
* notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your accounts or any other breach of security at any time with relation to your account(s);

Libcom.org does not claim ownership of content you upload or otherwise transmit through our servers or networks.

If you do not fulfill your obligations under this Agreement, or you solicit others to breach their agreement with Libcom.org, OR FOR ANY OTHER REASON OR NO REASON, at Libcom.org's sole discretion and without limiting its other remedies, Libcom.org may terminate your access to part or all of our services. However, our failure to act with respect to a breach by you or others does not waive our right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches.

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General Headings in this Agreement are for reference purposes only and in no way define, limit, construe or describe the scope or extent of such section. This Agreement sets forth the entire and exclusive understanding and agreement between you and Libcom.org with respect to the subject matter hereof. This Agreement supercedes and cancels all previous and contemporaneous agreements, commitments and writings with respect to this subject matter. You agree that if any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be struck and the remaining provisions shall be enforced.

The good

You have put together a terrific site
Loren Goldner

In a short space of time, libcom.org has proved itself indispensable - a great site
Steve Wright - Australia

On the Greece unrest archive:
Http://libcom.org have been following the occurences closely and have been doing a sterling job at sourcing and providing a flood of vital information on the disturbances.
http://toypirate.blogspot.com/

Libcom is divided into a discussion board and a article archive.
The history section is a treasure trove of obscurity, as past articles... have been refound and then digitised.
This site is purely concerned with politics, and only that of the left, but it sets a standard that other historians should follow... past articles should be freed for all to read.
On this site you'll find an item on origins of the pirate flag, the Jolly Roger; a history of revolutionary song in France and the Merthyr Tydfil uprising in 1831 amongst hundreds of other items.
www.historynexus.net

On our people's history of Mexico:
It's great! I knew most of it since I studied Mexican History in college, but it's well written and gives a good intro to Mexican politics and valuable background knowledge.
Clayton - www.infoshop.org/wiki

Hello!

I’m a postal worker (as well as commie) from Gothenburg, Sweden. Me and
my friends have with excitement followed the wildcat strikes at Royal
Mail...
We have been reporting, with
libcom as primary source, on the wildcat strikes at Royal Mail.
A member of Postverk - Sweden

Cracking good site!
Stuart Christie - TV Hastings, UK

Libcom has improved immeasurably over the last year, to the point where I check its newswire for many of the stories I'll be writing tomorrow. Probably the best libertarian site in the english-speaking world at the moment, among the best leftist sites period.
Rob Ray, Journalist - Freedom Press, UK

On our article on the Spanish resistance in France in World War II:
As a Basque resident on the French-Spanish border and a WWII historian, I would like to commend you on this article.
Max - Spain

This is the most useful site for libertarians in Britain
A - UK

Our sister site in Britain
infoshop.org - US

...Thought I'd drop you a very brief line to express how much I like your site, particularly after the revamp! It's an inspiration to the admin teams of uglier and less useful sites all around the world, I'm sure...
Cheers, and keep up the excellent work
Christian - UK

We love Libcom... Your library section is excellent
Pauline - Openmute/Mute magazine/Metamute, UK

Just wanted to say how much I like the site redesign. We've been reposting some of your excellent material
Alex - UK

Excellent site, wow very impressive. I had a link to your original site on my blog. Now this is really useful.
Eugene Plawiuk - Le Revue Gauche Left Analysis and Comment, Canada

This is one of the best anarchist resources I've found on the net.
Colin - US

The site looks great
Chris - Baltimore, US

On our article on the Battle of Lewisham:
Well done. The only other thing I'd read about this was on Indymedia, and it was shite.
Nigel - London, UK

Hi - good site!
Michael - UK

On our history of the Rwanda war and genocide:
I wanted to thank you for your interesting and highly accurate historical account of the genocide in Rwanda
L - France

Your website in certainly very interesting and informative. I am glad to see that there are people who are well-informed of most things.
L - by email

I'm a very big fan - in most respects it's the best lefty site I know. I think it should be pushed more by everyone using it.
Nick Durie - Scotland, UK

So I just visited enrager.net [now libcom.org] and it's bad ass! When I first learned about it, I was told it was "Britain's version of infoshop.org." I don't think that really does it justice. In fact, the more I look at that site, the less impressed I am with infoshop and think it should be taking notes from enrager.

The reason I say this is that Enrager seems to be designed to really generate anarchist activity. It has news like infoshop, but it also has easily accessible links to information on how to do things. Infoshop seems to just be a bunch of pages on news and information, which is important but so is doing something about it. Ya know, the whole "education, without action, does nothing" deal.

... With enrager, the tools are right there for everyone to see under "organise."... Also, this section should be visible and easily navigable Enrager.net's "organise" section is what comes to mind as a good example of this.
Johnny Applecore - Colorado, US on the infoshop forums

libcom.org is a UK wide anti-authoritarian site, the largest Anarchist based website in the UK. The forums are awesome.
af-north.org - UK

This is one of the best anarchist pages on the internet.
jesusradicals.com

Class War welcomes the introduction of www.enrager.net [now re-named libcom.org]. This website aims to fill a real void in the UK anarchist movement. Serving as a moderated newswire and also providing discussion forums, we encourage all our members and supporters to get involved, contribute and have your say.
London Class War - UK

I'd just like to express my sincerest respect to the libcom collective for a brilliantly vibrant website. Both the library and the news on here have been pure cool, and updated so regularly. Like, I'd never heard of eh, (*copy and pastes*) Paresh Chattopadhyay until I saw it in the highlights. Seriously, thanks you guys.

I will definetely tell all my libertarian friends.
Volin, Manchester, UK

I ... celebrate the existence of LibCom, it is wonderful and nice. Thanks to you all.
Chris, UK

I like it here a lot.
I've learnt quite a bit from the forums and the news and history sections.
Jef, London, UK

The library is the dogs bollocks IMO, and the other resources are great as well - thanks to anyone involved.

I have been plugging some texts in the library to others as much as possible.
The love/hate relationship with the forums continues though ;)
JD - Manchester, UK

Excellent site and has improved alot!
Bobby, Northern Ireland, UK

Buffs Libcoms shiny bottom and worship the ground that Libcom walks on.
Big Bro - UK

On the Everyday Manifesto articles:
They look pretty ace.
...
Read them again and I take back my judgement of ace. They are really fucking ace. Very impressed.
Luke - Cambridge, UK

The library's wicked. I still think the name's a bit naff, though.
Garner - UK

The forums have improved immensely by driving away certain elements that were both pointless and fruitless.

The name is a distinct improvement.

Longterm posters have figured out (or at least are in the process of doing so) how to interract with each other and even gained a certain element of tact (with the exception of one or two who frankly just seem to want constant attention).

I now feel far more politically motivated than I did 6 months ago.
There.
Alan - UK

The numbers using libcom must be very, very significant. Especially since, with the news feature, libcom is being used more and more, and frankly since the launch of that part of the website it is THE way to find out what's going on in the world. It'll grow monumentally just for that - especially coz it's got a feed from all the other sites - ZNet et al - that are trying to do roughly approximate things in that 'class struggle news' bitty.

www.citystrolls.com is trying to do a similar (but different) thing in Glasgow. That gets 50,000 hits a month (server stats ASFAIAK). By virtue of being for the whole of the British isles and being much, much, much, much better than anything else about any lefty (of which there are 100s of thousands in Britain) with an ounce of computer literacy is going to be bookmarking it shortly. With internet usage on the increase and the google referals for libcom soaring and the fact that the collective running libcom seems very highly aware of how people access information online, libcom is certain to be a very powerful propaganda tool if it isn't already. You certainly couldn't say that about the socialist worker, the morning star, indymedia or even something as cool as Znet.

Only criticism I think could be levelled is that it is a bit 'REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISM! YAAAARGH!' but initiatives like the 'everyday manifesto' seem to suggest moves towards more of a 'punter's pop-in' approach.]
Nick - Glasgow, UK

Excellent work with Libcom... keep up the good work,
J - UK

GREAT SITE!!!!!!!!!
Steve - UK

The bad

Not everyone appreciates what we're doing. If you don't like us, you too can let us know and if we think you're interesting or funny enough we'll put your comments here.

Hi US anarchos,

Some valid points about sectarianism from libcom.org, but listen-

Forget about libcom.org, they don't represent fuck all in the UK. They are an isolated clique who hate most of what is happening in the uk anarchist movement. The Libcom bulletin board is populated with outdated social-democratic forms of ideology. Libcom.org is totally irrelevant in the UK, nobody really knows anything about it other than the people on the boards are intolerant, arrogant idiots.

In a few years most of them will drop the 'libertarian' and just stick with the 'communist' definition. Broadly speaking, most of the forum participants hate the insurrectionist currents, they hate any form of critique of technology or industry. They do not support the ELF or ALF. They are navel-gazing twats who slag off the US scene endlessly, and love taking the piss out of anyone who doesn't conform to their definition of what it means to be an anarchist/libertarian communist.

Fuck libcom

UK anarchist (posted on indymedia)

FUCK YOU ALL
HEIL HITLER YOU FUCKING POSH ASS COMMUNISTS!!!!!!
GO DIE IN A DITCH WITH STALIN!
Addid - BNP, Pershore High School, Worcestershire, UK

An appalling resource... a port of call for lazy radicals...
anarchist hairdressers... Stealing pens from the office and calling it class struggle. And who are they useful to? Students, office boys & the idle curious?
"Montevideo" - Wombles, UK

Stop blaming the white man for the cost of burying niggers [sic] . They don\'t [sic] accept food stamps. When a love [sic] one die\'s [sic] You [sic] pay. Get off welfair [sic]. GET A JOB NIGGER, STOP HAVING (6) KID\"S [sic] THAT YOU CAN\"T [sic] SUPPORT AND STOP BLAMING THE WHITE MAN FOR EVERY THING [sic] THAT HAPPENS TO YOUFROM [sic] THE DAY YOU WERE BORN TO THE DAY YOU DIE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Niggerhater" - US

Self-referential activist bollox... anarchist middle management... [you] and the rest of your cliche [sic] are putting yourself [sic] up for a big fall...
"Raw" - Wombles, UK

Felt like Libcom is run by a bunch of pussies and pissant mooks? Here's your fucking proof.

The words of the moderators Joseph K and John. have finally fucking succeeded in pissing me off to an extensive fucking degree. I'd make it clear to all those who think Jonny Toy Boy and Jospeh KKK are sane, rational and well read people to consider what their motives are behind their creep-up-behind-you-and-stab-you-in-the-throat "politics" exactly are.

Libcom seems to be run by a bunch of whiny immature liberals, extremely immature. ones who would rather point fingers and make shit up, then find out the truth of the matter, "John" is an example.

Fuck them. They want to fuck things for us, then be assured we won't take it laying down with our legs spread like the whores who spawned these two fucking stronzes.

If that John moderator is unwilling to apologise for the verbal attack on the League and it's members, I challenge him to a fight, wherever he likes on equal terms. If by chance John knows how to use a Katana (y'know a big fucking sword), then i'd love to have a duel.
It's all about honour here, without your balls to back it up, what good is your word?

Barkan, Communist League

Die red scum!
By email - UK

Enrager/ liberal.com is fucking irrelevant & 'Freedom' is totally fucking shit
From an email address beginning "smoke crack" - UK

With activists and activist forums this place has a bad rep for cointel-trolls. This forum is reckoned to be dead dodgy.
"Messy," UK

[...] It is the appearance of anarchists like yourself, communists
like your brother Mengistu Haile Mariam and your uncle Meles Zenawi, the
terrorist viceroy of Tony Blair that brought corruption, tribalism,
extra-judiciary killings and associations of citizens. Get out of your
cave and go visit Kaliti prison in Addis. Or eat your Crowe; Sir! Shame
on you for posting such a dishonest, deceptive and fabricated article, the
sole purpose of which, I believe is character assassination.
From "Haile Selassie", with the e-mail address

, address not supplied.