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Goal Sets
While in middle school, I had a teacher who was very focused on building the minds of young children. I know educators should have this mentality, but she was extremely dedicated to pouring in as much positivity and empowerment as she could. She expanded our vocabulary, and knew exactly what to say to make us straighten up and fly right, however there was one concept that still chimes in my ear to this day. "If you fail to plan, than you plan to fail" was one proverb that she loved to ring into our ears everyday. Of course as a child, I thought that was a saying older people used just to confuse kids so they can see how silly our faces looked when we try to figure out their true meaning. I thought, "why not just say what you need to say? Why all of the riddles?", but as I've gotten older, and experienced life in different ways, I see the truth in what she said. Moving forward to high school and now into my adult life, goal setting not only helps with being more organized with your plans, but it's also a way to gain momentum and have a marker of growth. How many of us have issues with setting goals and following through? With social media on the rise, there's no surprise why many people have trouble focusing and getting things done. The endless drama of pop culture, and the constant stress of society's influence to fast track developments that should take more time can make it nearly impossible. However, as we prep for the new year, we can't be that person that believes that EVERYTHING is going to drastically change on January 1st. We all know THAT PERSON. You know, the "new year new me" person, don't be that person. However, let's focus on being a more enhanced, focused, and peaceful version of yourself instead of making unrealistic expectations.
Be On Fire!
In order to be success in anything you have to set goals. Of course that seems pretty simple, and it is, but simple doesn't always mean easy. Setting goals gives you direction and the speed at which you should move in that direction. Even though that does sound all well and good, but be sure to set goals that excites you and gets you fired up. Make sure you set goals that are important to you. If your goals aren't strong enough to help in the bigger picture of your success, than your chances or continuing and being motivated is slim to none. Try to keep your goals simple and concise, because setting too many goals at once, will definitely lessen out the time you have to complete them, and in turn frustrates many people, and they give up. For example, you have a huge mid term project that you have to complete by next Wednesday. You don't want to procrastinate, but seeing the long list that needs to be done in such a short amount of time is overwhelming you. However, planning out your tasks by setting goals of what portion of the project you're going to complete on which day and how much time it'll take to get the job done, is the best way to stay organized and avoid being overwhelmed. In the beginning of your goal setting process, I'd recommend establishing why you're doing what you're doing. Having a strong why is the weapon that can turn a "I don't know if I can do this", kind of day into an "I got this" kind of day.
Let's Be SMART
The SMART plan might be a practice that you've heard before, but honestly, how often do you actually exercise this concept? So SMART stands for:
Time Bound
"Set Specific Goals
Set Measurable Goals
Include precise amounts, dates, and so on in your goals so you can measure your degree of success. If your goal is simply defined as "To reduce expenses" how will you know when you have been successful? In one month's time if you have a 1 percent reduction or in two years' time when you have a 10 percent reduction? Without a way to measure your success you miss out on the celebration that comes with knowing you have actually achieved something.
Set Attainable Goals
Set Relevant Goals
Set Time-Bound Goals
Write The Vision
One of the sure fire ways to make your goal blossom into something amazing is to write your goals out and make it simple. Writing your goals out in your handwriting brings a personal touch and sparks a light in your brain as something real and flowing. I'm a strong advocate of journaling, and finding a space where you can focus with a clear mind. There's so much chatter from all angles that it's no surprise why people are having a difficult time focusing. Think about it like working out. There are many distractions in the gym. Someone being loud and obnoxious. It might be too hot that day. Your gym crush continues to obliviously walk near your direction, the list goes on and on. However, think about your centralizing your goals and ambitions into a journal or simply written down as you focusing to get that last press or that last quarter of a mile on the treadmill. Hone in on your goal and give it a direction to push forward to. Sometimes we can get distracted if we have too many options, but focusing on one or two goals at a time and writing them down, can make for a more smooth action plan.
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Cluster headaches are quite rare, but they are very strong and particularly stressful. The feelings that arise in some patients can go as far as the suicide impulse – which, luckily, happens very rarely.
Everything You Need to Know About Occipital NeuralgiaIt is estimated that the number of people affected is only about one in a thousand. Cluster headaches appear 4 to 5 times more often in men than in women and especially between the ages of 20 and 50. Women between the ages of 40 and 50 are the most affected.
Cluster headaches are similar to migraines but significantly more painful. The reasons are largely unknown. It seems that some brain malfunctions play a role. Nicotine and alcohol can worsen or even trigger the effects. Medications are often available for therapy.
What are the characteristics of cluster headaches?
There are a few things that make up this type of headache. This includes:
• Cluster headaches usually reach their full strength quickly, within 5 or 10 minutes.
• The pain in most of the cases is located only on one side of the head. In rare cases, when a new headache period begins, the pain can switch to the other side. The pain is usually felt behind or around the eye and spreads to the forehead, temple, nose, cheek or upper gums on the affected side.
• Cluster headaches usually last no longer than 90 minutes on average, even though they can last anything between 15 minutes and up to 3 hours.
• Cluster headache attacks appear to be linked to the circadian rhythm, which means that they tend to appear at the same time each day. This is especially true for those attacks occurring at night. Night attacks also seem to be more severe compared to day attacks.
• Most people get a daily headache lasting up to 3 months. Between these periods they can have no pain at all. Pain-free periods can last up to 12 months or longer.
What are the causes of cluster headaches?
Some experts are convinced that cluster headaches are a result of an abnormality in the brain reactivity compared to external and internal stimuli that lead to excessive synthesis and secretion of the neurotransmitters norepinephrine and serotonin. The reverse leads to enlargement of the brain vessels and inflammatory reactions that are responsible for pain.
A genetic predisposition, combined with other factors, leads to attacks. The following trigger factors can trigger, aggravate or accelerate a cluster headache:
• Mental or physical, chronic or acute stress
• Muscle tension in the neck, shoulders, eyes or face
• Climate change
• Diseases such as infections, meningitis, migraines, brain tumors, etc.
• Analgesics
• Use of nicotine, alcohol
• Lack of sleep
• Hormonal changes in pregnancy
• Excessive eye strain, etc.
How is a cluster headache diagnosed?
For the exact diagnosis of the type of headache, a very thorough medical history must be carried out, taking into account the personal and family history.
The medical history usually includes the following data:
• Beginning, location, and duration of the pain
• Attack frequency and pain intensity
• Type of pain
• Associated symptoms like dizziness, visual disturbances, loss of feeling, etc.
• Pain triggering factors
• Factors that increase or decrease pain
• Circumstances of occurrence
• Personal ability to cope with restrictions
• Professional activity, leisure, social relationships
• Family history
• Treatments received and effectiveness
• Taking medication
• Expectation and motivation.
Other diagnostic options at Pain Physicians include physical and neurological examinations, laboratory analyzes, CT and MRI to rule out possible diseases, tumors, etc.
How is a cluster headache treated?
You have several options when it comes to treating your cluster headache.
Drugs – like Sumatriptan, Zolmitriptan, Dihydroergotamine, Lidocaine, etc., are commonly prescribed and effective for the treatment of headaches.
Preventive measures can often stop headaches before they even develop. In the cases of cluster headache, your doctor may prescribe medication to shorten the length of the cluster and reduce the severity of your attacks. These preventive medications include corticosteroids, ergotamine tartrate, gabapentin, carbonate, topiramate, verapamil, etc.
The occipital nerve block is another option when it comes to dealing with cluster headaches. In this case, the doctor will inject a mixture of anesthetic and steroid into these nerves. They are located at the base of the skull and are often the starting point for headaches. This is a temporary treatment until preventive treatment can start to work.
Nerve stimulation, like the stimulation of the occipital nerves, can also help. Your pain doctor will surgically implant a device that sends electrical impulses to this group of nerves at the base of the skull.
Operative interventions – if nothing else works, surgery can be an option for people who don’t get a break from cluster headaches. Deep brain stimulation, in which an electrode is inserted deep into the brain, loses importance compared to less invasive options. Most procedures involve blocking the trigeminal nerve, a major pathway for pain. It controls the area around the eye, but a misstep can cost weakness in the jaw and loss of feeling on the face and head.
Lifestyle changes – these measures can help you avoid cluster headaches:
• Keep a regular sleep schedule
• Avoid alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine
• Reduce your stress level
• Exercise 3-5 times per week
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Mix Emergency Midi Mapping
edited January 2012 in MixEmergency
Just a question for Nick.
How many aspects can be controlled with midi mapping?
Im only asking as i'm thinking of making a custom midi controller dedicated for ME.
Things like slider, rotary controls, push buttons etc.
Any information would be great.
• edited 11:00PM
I guess it would be best if you simply figured out which ones you want to use. You can see most of them by pushing the MIDI button on MixEmergency, and then viewing the different windows (which will be coloured to show which controls are mapped or not).
In total (at least, in this current version I'm working on) there are 441 possible controls to be MIDI mapped - which is far more than you would ever want to control from a dedicated controller.
There are a few things coming in the next version that could be helpful for this type of thing though - so I would wait a little while before you finalise your design :)
• edited 11:00PM
Haha, cheers Nick.
Ill have a look at that and see what gives.
441 controls, are you going to be controlling a space ship or something?
Any idea how long to wait to finalise anything off?
• edited 11:00PM
A lot of those controls are for things like the Quartz Composition parameters (there are 32 button and 32 slider controls for each channel).
I can't give you a timeframe for the next release - still working on it.
• edited 11:00PM
Is there a way to delete the midi and start over.. and could one button be use for two function like image over lay and serato sp6
• edited 11:00PM
I need to add some sort of MIDI reset function....
The easiest way to do it is to exit MixEmergency, delete the file:
~/Movies/MixEmergency/Control Mappings/_AUTOSAVE.xml
Then restart MixEmergency.
Yes, you can map the same MIDI command to something in MixEmergency and Scratch Live.
• @nick
What does ME save the midi mappings as? XML?
• Yes, it's all saved in the XML format.
• I'm on the 5th or so midi controller..this time the Pioneer XP1. Previously tried Akai APC Mini, Numark Orbit, Native Instruments Kontrol X1 MK1 and the Akai APC 40 MK2.
Some buttons light up some don't when I map them.
The functions I can't get to light up
1. Sampler
2. Presets - I'm mapped the buttons on the left side for Fx Sequencer and Effects.
Does anyone know how to get buttons to light up? @nick any help?
Sampler Bank lights up
• @nick where is it saved...the XML of midi mappings
• It's in ~/Movies/MixEmergency/Control Mappings/
The Presets - you can't get these to light buttons because of the type of button that they are (they're essentially a button to trigger and event, the loading of a preset, instead of representing that a particular preset is loaded).
• Oh I see. I was pulling my hair out trying to make it light up.
I think midi light out for them will be useful though both in idle state and active state.
I use the Presets quite a lot and I will like a way to get visual feedback on which preset I'm triggering. I'm talking about the wee buttons on the left numbered 1 to 12.
What about the sampler slots? Do they have midi light out? I can get the A B C D (Sampler Bank) to light up but not the actual sampler slots.
It will be nice to know which slots have samples loaded by visual feedback and to know which sampler slot is active by visual feedback on midi controllers.
I'm going to peruse the XML and see if I can mod it to achieve midi out lights.
• The 1-12 buttons don't have a state (on/off), so they will never be able to light your controller.
The Sample Player slots have MIDI out, and these should light your device.
• The Sampler do light up in a weird way and I will try to explain
They stay lit irrespective if the sampler is triggeredor not when I mapped it.
How I think they should work is
1. They should have a lot state in the off state
2. Then if a sample is fired one shot they should light up brighter for the duration of the one shot
3. If the sample is set to look the buttons should stay on until I hit it again to stop the looping sample
• Currently they should only light up when they're playing (assuming that your MIDI controller is compatible with the on/off messages that are sent).
• I have tried many midi controllers with mixed results. It's pretty easy to map but it's visual feedback that is not straightforward.
Perhaps it's time for Mixemergency to have its own recommendations on midi controllers.
@Nick just pick up a few controllers and test the commonly mapped stuff.
I'm sure if you reach out to some hardware manufacturers they will gladly send you stuff to experiment with.
• edited July 2019
@dj_marv , sorry to bump on this old thread, i saw you tested several midi controllers.
i am also looking for a small controller only for ME.
wich one was your favorite and why?
as for now i have a korg NanoKontrol 1 and yes the visual feedback is not clear, sometimes.
i also did a small cardbox that i cutted into the shape of the nanokontrol to add text also to recall wich button is wich , and for a time i also sticked some glowing labels
• Also @Nick you said in this comment to look into an ipad.
do you have a head up on wich software to use ?
does this will be harder on an android device using a mac?
• edited July 2019
@DJCarlos i use the Pioneer DDJ XP1 now for Mixemergency. its a bit bigger but i like having all the pads without needing to switch pages.
I mapped the PAD FX page of the controller (left and right)
i basically have left side (16 pads) mapped to trigger FX Sequence
Right side (16 pads) mapped to trigger individual FX
I also mapped a few buttons for things i may use eg switch transition type, toggle sequencer banks, fx banks.
There is visual feedback as well on this particular controller which makes it appropriate.
I bought the XP1 because it was bundled with a free rekordbox license, i wanted to try rekordbox then, so killed two birds with one stone.
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Brain Computer Interface + Hologram AR Concept Companies Like WIMI Are Growing Rapidly
November 14 06:04 2020
Hong Kong – Mobius Trend releases a research report “Brain Computer Interface + Hologram AR Concept Companies Like WIMI Are Growing Rapidly”. The share price of WIMI soared at the beginning of October. Some believe the company has the potential of the technological interfaces between computers and human brains.
Ctrl-Labs, a company acquired by Facebook in 2019, is reported that its wristband hardware can send brain signals to computers. Neuralink is a startup founded by Elon Musk. The company recently made headlines by showing a device that can be implanted into a pig’s brain, displaying the brain signals of this pig on a screen in real-time.
Musk said in the press conference that the Neuralink brain-computer interface will be used to solve neurological problems such as depression and amnesia. In the future, it can also solve problems such as blindness, paralysis, and hearing loss. Musk also mentioned that in the future, people will be able to communicate with others directly by their thoughts, and they can also use their thoughts to summon or even drive a Tesla.
Facebook’s market value is close to $800 billion, and Tesla’s market value is worth more than $400 billion. It is reasonable for these tech empires and their founders to pursue such future opportunities. Small innovation companies like WIMI Hologram Cloud are on the same track in the hologram AR field as these IT giants.
WIMI Hologram Cloud, in terms of total revenue in 2017, has already been the leading hologram AR application platform in China. In addition, according to the data of Frost & Sullivan, in 2018, WIMI has established a comprehensive and diversified holographic AR content library among all holographic AR solution providers in China. In terms of revenue, the number of customers, holographic AR content, the number of holographic AR patents, and the number of software copyrights, WIMI ranks first in the holographic AR industry in China. WIMI owns about 4654 AR holographic contents, 106 software copyrights, and 219 technical patents.
WIMI’s commercial application scenarios are mainly concentrated in five professional fields, including performing arts system, home entertainment, light field cinema, commercial release system, and advertising display system. Until now, the artificial intelligence industry has not formed a large market, and no company can achieve absolute market monopoly. Companies are emerging in areas such as algorithms, frameworks, chips, modules, and accelerators.
In recent years, the application market of the face recognition industry has been expanding. In order to obtain better accuracy and quality, the applications of facial recognition present a trend of transition from two-dimensional technology to three-dimensional technology. Meanwhile, the reason for this trend is that two-dimensional facial recognition technology is susceptible to gesture, light, appearance, and other factors, which can reduce recognition rates.
Therefore, WIMI believes that 3D technology will gradually replace 3D face recognition technology. WIMI Hologram’s plan is to provide holographic cloud application services for 3D face recognition through artificial intelligence-based algorithms. The future plan of WIMI Hologram is to meet the needs of potential customers in various industries through WIMI’s 3D face recognition holographic cloud technology, such as home, retail, travel, telecommunications, finance, national security, robotics, education, social media, terminal devices, commerce, transportation, commerce, and other potential applications.
Holographic technology will grow substantially in the next few years. WIMI predicts that the market will show exponential growth over the next few years, and the total market will reach $500 billion by 2025. After the arrival of 5G, the first scene application will accelerate the development of VR (virtual reality) /AR (augmented reality), and the growth rate of the Chinese market will be higher than that of other countries in the world. Therefore, with the blessing of 5G, the communication and transmission shortcomings of immersive game scenes such as VR/AR will be supplemented, and it is expected that the speed of commercialization of immersive game VR/AR will be accelerated.
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HanRam and J-Kap
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I wonder if I'm the only person who knew who you were talking about right away when they read "J-Kap." At least, that's who I thought of first--I figured you couldn't have meant Kapstein, but I somehow should've known better.
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What Does Preparing Order Mean?
Is Ikea delivering during Covid?
Delivery options – IKEA.
To protect the health and safety of our customers and co-workers during this time, IKEA Home Deliveries will be going Contactless.
All deliveries will now be made to your front door, instead of to a room within your home..
What does preparing for dispatch mean?
Preparing for dispatch is automatically set on third party orders after the pending period has expired and payment has been authorised (but not taken out of buyer’s account). It means the seller is now aware of the full buyer details for the order only, nothing else.
Why is it taking Amazon so long to process my order?
How long does it take to receive a package from China?
How long does it take to ship from China to the US? Rules of thumbs for lead times are 1-2 weeks for regular post, 3 days for air express freight, 8-10 days for air freight, and 30-40 days for ocean freight.
What does your order is being prepared mean?
The order has been processed and has been prepared for packaging and shipment. From this point on, it cannot be canceled.
How long does order processing take?
Most brands state in their order rules what their standard order processing time frame is, but the average ship time is typically between 2-4 weeks.
What does it mean when it says origin post is preparing shipment?
When you see ‘Origin Post is Preparing Shipment’ your package has been shipped. Typically you will see this for an order shipping from abroad. … It could also mean that the package is being shipped by a different carrier and USPS has no data on it.
Why is IKEA not delivering?
Like many other companies, IKEA is experiencing shipping delays because of the coronavirus crisis, so be patient, as delivery times are running longer than usual. There’s no word yet on when IKEA delivery will return to its previous format, or what its post-pandemic format will be.
Is IKEA still shipping during Covid?
Like many other businesses, we’ve been impacted by COVID-19 in many ways, and we’re doing our best to support our co-workers while meeting the needs of our customers. With the increased volume of online orders and new safety processes in our warehouses, we’re experiencing significant delays with shipping and delivery.
How long does it take Apple to process an online order?
approximately 45 minutesIn most cases, Apple can begin processing your order in approximately 45 minutes from the time you place your order on-line and may take longer depending on large quantity orders or method of payment. Open: Your order or order line has begun processing but has not yet shipped.
What does it mean when Apple is processing my order?
The “processing” indicates that the order has not yet been fulfilled but that the order has been received and queued for fulfillment. Historically, the “processing” indicates that the order can still be cancelled or modified. The “prepared for shipment” is past the point of no return.
How long does it take for Origin to prepare shipment?
Usually means 4-7 days until depart SG lately, then off to your country. Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain. “Origin Post is Preparing Shipment” Means ur package is sitting in China in a container. When the container is full it will be loaded on plane or boat and head to USA.
What does it mean preparing for shipment?
The “Preparing for Shipment” status generally means that your desired product is in the process of packing, labeling, and pick-up preparations while at the same time Amazon has contacted your pick-up carrier.
How long does it take IKEA to prepare an order?
Why does my Amazon order still say preparing for shipment?
Preparing for shipment is when they order directly from amazon. You don’t have any control or settings to change. Its amazon’s standard procedure. ” SHIPPING SOON” is what your buyers will see till you confirm shipped within regular ship time.
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Can I cancel an Amazon order after paying?
After initiating a payment, Amazon Pay can’t cancel it. Amazon Pay can’t cancel or change an order on your behalf and can’t refund you for purchases. … If you email us for these reasons, we will ask you to contact the merchant, by which time they might have already shipped the item to you.
Can you cancel an order on Amazon if it says preparing for shipment?
Canceling an Amazon order is a simple process, so long as you manage to do so before your items ship. Amazon will try to cancel orders that are being prepared for shipment if possible, but you may not always be able to.
How long does it take Walmart to process an online order?
two daysHow long does it take to process an online order? Depending on the amount of orders in our system to be processed, it could take up to two days to process a standard parts order. Usually, however, we try to get orders out the same day. It also depends on the time of day the order is placed.
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Why is my package stuck in pre shipment?
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your cat is unsocial
Cat wants to be alone all of a suddenHave you ever wondered if your cat is asocial? Good! You can find out by simply answering the questions in this test.
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Is your cat unsocial? Find out by answering 4 simple questions (Pixabay Photo)
If you have a cat you know very well what he loves and what he hates. Above all, you know exactly how long yours is hairy friend loves to dedicate you.
It has always been thought that the cat compared to dog be an animal more asocial, who loves his spaces and who often prefers to be alone.
Yet there are scholars who claim that i cats are really men’s best friends. Want to find out if yours feline belongs to the category of asocial? Answer these simple questions.
TEST- Is your cat unsocial?
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The test consists in answering 4 simple questions, to find out if yours cat is unsocial or not.
1 Question
Does Puss know his name?
It is necessary, to understand if the your cat is interested in you or not, to know if kitty knows his name. To find out, try saying words similar to your cat’s name, using the same intonation. Then call him, if pussycat he turns to you, moves his ears or his tail only when you say his name means he recognizes it.
2 Question
Is the cat empathizing with you?
To understand if the cat is empathetic to you put yourself in a room with him and an object he is afraid of for example a vacuum cleaner. Approach the object and start giving it “compliments”. If your cat calms down enough to get close vacuum cleaner, means that trusts you.
3 Question
Is your cat independent?
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Put yourself in a room with yours cat, initially ignore him, then try to interact with him by calling him. If he turns and comes to you, fill him with cuddles and talk to him. That means yours cat is sociable. If instead your cat doesn’t consider you it means that kitty is very independent. In this case, we recommend that you spend a little more time with yours cat playing and talking to him.
4 Question
Does the cat prefer food or you?
Want to find out if the Does your cat prefer food or you? Then take the foods your cat loves most, lay them on the ground and sit next to them. If the cat approaches you and forget about food, it means yours cat is not at all unsocial. We remind you to try this small test at a different time, to make sure that if your cat gets close to food, he only does it because he is hungry.
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PUMA publications for /tag/repressor%20Glucosephosphate%20toxin%20carbon%20dehydrogenase,%20proteins,Fri Feb 09 13:18:17 CET 2018J. Biotechnol.dec4331--340Impact of different {CO}2/{HCO}3- levels on metabolism and regulation in {Corynebacterium} glutamicum1682013Alanine, Bacterial Bacterial, Biomass, CO(2)/HCO(3)(−), Carbon Corynebacterium DNA-Binding Dehydrogenase, Dioxide, Diphtheria Dissolved DtxR, Expression Gene Glucose, Glucosephosphate Proteins, Regulation, Thiamin Thiamine, Toxin, Valine, biosynthesis carbon dioxide, glutamicum, myown repressor toxin We investigated the growth kinetics and transcriptional responses of Corynebacterium glutamicum in environments with low (pCO2{\textless}40 mbar) and high (pCO2 ≥ 300 mbar) CO2/HCO3(-) levels compared to standard conditions. When cultivated at high CO2/HCO3(-)-levels, C. glutamicum showed increased (63\%) biomass to substrate yields during the initial growth phase. Other kinetic parameters such as growth rate (μ), specific glucose consumption rate (qS), and selected enzymatic activities of anaplerotic reactions, the pentose phosphate pathway and the tricarboxylic acid cycle were similar to standard conditions. However, microarray hybridization disclosed a complex transcriptional response involving 117 differentially expressed genes. Among those, 60 genes were assigned to the complete DtxR/RipA regulon controlling iron homeostasis in C. glutamicum. Impaired growth of a ΔdtxR mutant at high CO2/HCO3(-) levels validated the relevance of this master regulator to cope with excessive CO2/HCO3(-) availability. At low CO2/HCO3(-) levels, C. glutamicum grew in a bi-level manner with three distinct growth phases. Differential analyses revealed approximately doubled activities of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase accompanied by the formation of L-alanine and L-valine during the lowest μ occurring in mid-phase of the cultivation. DNA microarray analysis revealed more than 100 differentially expressed genes in growth phase II compared to phase I including almost all thiamin pyrophosphate (TPP) biosynthesis genes, which were significantly up regulated. Concluding, we hypothesize that C. glutamicum counteracts the lack of CO2/HCO3(-) by triggering TPP biosynthesis for increasing the activities of TPP-dependent enzymes involved in CO2 formation.repressor Glucosephosphate toxin carbon dehydrogenase, proteins,Community for tag(s) repressor Glucosephosphate toxin carbon dehydrogenase, proteins, | <urn:uuid:4279b428-a579-4812-80bf-9e62bb2ed94c> | https://puma.ub.uni-stuttgart.de/swrc/tag/repressor%20Glucosephosphate%20toxin%20carbon%20dehydrogenase,%20proteins,?sortPage=date&.entriesPerPage=100&sortPageOrder=asc&bibtex.entriesPerPage=100&bibtex.start= | en | 0.883771 | 0.049241 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Why Ballistic Properties Matter in Train Construction
Trains remain one of the most popular forms of large-scale transportation more than 200 years after the first steam-powered engine pulled a load of cars down a railroad track. Much of that longevity is rooted in the fact that trains can carry a lot of cargo and passengers at a relatively low cost. Yet making a reliable train is not as easy as it sounds.
Engineers putting together a new train design must rethink every part of previous designs and look for ways to improve on them. In the era of high-speed rail, one of the things that they have to look at is the ballistic properties of those materials they intend to use for body construction.
The ballistic properties of a given material relate to that material’s ability to withstand strong impacts at high speeds. Just as a projectile fired from a handgun can travel at amazingly high speeds, so can high-speed trains. The impact they make with airborne debris can be as devastating as the impact of a bullet on materials not strong enough to withstand it.
Testing Ballistic Properties
So, how do train designers test the ballistic properties of the materials they are working with? By firing projectiles at them. They set up experiments that simulate the impact that might occur in a real-world setting. Then they see how the material in question responds.
Any material not strong enough to withstand ballistic testing is not suitable as a body material for high-speed trains. Body materials have to be able to withstand impacts at high speed, otherwise a train could be compromised at any point during its journey. Everything from windshield glass to nose panels has to be tough enough to pass the tests.
Without materials tough enough to withstand ballistic testing, there would be no high-speed trains. Either that or rail companies would constantly be taking their trains out of service in order to repair impact damage. To avoid that, Rock West Composites says designers look to tough composites like carbon and glass fiber.
Glass Fiber’s Ballistic Properties
Russian scientists at South Ural State University have been working on developing a glass fiber reinforced plastic (GFRP) tough enough to withstand the high impacts modern trains are subject to. Glass fiber was chosen because, like carbon fiber, it is many times stronger than steel yet lightweight and resistant to a full range of environmental conditions.
When they began working on the project, the scientists were not quite sure how glass fiber would handle ballistic testing. It turns out they had nothing to worry about. Their GFRP is more than capable of handling the impacts associated with high-speed rail. But it gets better.
In order to test the GFRP, the researchers subjected it to a variety of conditions simulating different loads. They tested it in its natural state. They stretched it and tested it again. They even created preloaded plates of simulated fine elements and exposed them to ballistic impact as well. In short, they twisted and turned the GFRP in every possible way to determine how well it can handle various loads.
The tests turned out so successful that scientists think the material will be usable across an entire train body rather than just the nose. It handles light and heavy loads equally well, at both low and high speeds.
Carbon fiber is the composite of choice among aerospace and maritime manufacturers. It is also well received among train designers. But it looks like glass fiber might give carbon fiber run for its money in the train department. It will be interesting to see what happens.
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WWCh G3: Hou Yifan scores first win
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Hou Yifan scored the first win in the World Championship match in Tirana, Albania. The Chinese grandmaster, who defends her world title in a match over 10 classical games against Humpy Koneru of India, won the third game with the black pieces.
The start of the third game in Tirana | All photos © FIDE by Anastasiya Karlovich
EventWomen's World Championship | PGN via TWIC
DatesNovember 13th-30th, 2011
LocationTirana, Albania
System10-game match, tie-break if necessary
PlayersReigning World Champion Hou Yifan (China) and Challenger Humpy Koneru (India)
The third game of the Women's World Championship match was an intense and sharp struggle. Humpy Koneru, who played with white pieces, came out of the opening with a slight advantage. The Chinese, though, was precise in her play for queenside and center activity which eventually led to a win for her.
“I took my time to think about taking the pawn on a2”, said Hou Yifan after the game. “My king could get into trouble, but I decided to go for this principled continuation”. “I had a good position, but I wasn't playing good moves”, commented Koneru on her play in the middlegame.
The World Champion could have won earlier on move 25, but in the game she kept a big advantage. Further mistakes from Koneru's side made the game finish very soon.
Game 3
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[Site "Tirana ALB"]
[Date "2011.11.17"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Koneru, Humpy"]
[Black "Hou Yifan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D38"]
[Annotator "ChessVibes"]
[PlyCount "74"]
[EventDate "2011.11.14"]
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Groundwork Exercises for Horses
A better way to work with your horse on the ground.
Successful groundwork relies on having numerous exercises and routines in your repertoire. Read on to learn more about groundwork exercises for horses.
No groundwork patterns should be practiced to the point of boredom, dullness, or excess. The following are my top tips for using gymnastic exercises from the ground, followed by an upgraded longeline routine.
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Building Your Groundwork Routines
During any given week, rotate between five to 10 different exercises. Try not to repeat the same routines on consecutive days. Once a horse becomes familiar with a pattern, his neuromuscular system adapts to perform it more efficiently, meaning he no longer makes physiological gains from the exercise. The outcome of this is a dull response.
Be sure your patterns include plenty of straight lines. It’s critical not to keep your horse on a continuous curved line, as this strains his joints and ligaments once the surrounding muscles fatigue. Be creative with your groundwork to intersperse straight lines: This can be as simple as interrupting your circle work after two or three minutes to lead your horse around the arena in a straight line before resuming circles again.
Change up your terrain. If you often perform your routines in a sand arena, try working on grass one day, or get on some gradual inclines if you usually work on flat ground.
Plenty of exercises can be performed in various locations, including backing up, walking over ground poles, stationary bending exercises, turning on the forehand and turning on the haunches, to name a few. Changing terrain changes the stimulus, which allows your horse to continue to adapt his body in new ways.
Choose exercises that address your horse’s specific needs. Groundwork needs to be relevant to your individual horse, not only to hold his attention, but also to be purposeful in developing him physically.
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2. Now, walk or jog beside him as you guide him to a different area of your arena.
3. Now ask him to canter around a 20-meter circle. Return to a trot or jog.
4. Again jog beside him to a different area of the arena.
5. Now trot around a 20-meter circle. You might wish to include cavalletti poles on this circle.
6. Return to the walk and repeat the entire sequence several times in each direction.
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What is MERN stack and what are its Advantages for startups?
What is MERN stack and what are its Advantages for startups?
The startup world is competitive. That’s why they need the best tools, procedures, and methodologies that give their startup a competitive edge.
In this article, we are going to discuss one such technological tool, the MERN stack development -- which seems to be quite popular among the startups in 2019-2020.
The “stack” that we are talking about is what makes MERN so special.
MERN stands for MongoDB, Express.JS, React, and Node.js. It is a collection of techniques, solutions, and tools. The end goal of using a stack is to help developers be agile in their development.
Why need a MERN stack at all?
Startups are not similar to companies. The philosophy at a startup is entirely different. They build small(read prototype) and fast. Iterations are carried out at every phase of development so that the startups can create a working prototype and then build from there.
As you can see, it is all about agile development. To facilitate this state of thinking and execution, MERN stack or any other stack, in general, is used.
MERN stack is a JavaScript-powered stack. It’s four components below.
• MongoDB → is the document database that handles the backend of a web application. It stores data in JavaScript Object Notation(JSON) documents.
• Express.JS → Express.JS is a backend application framework. It runs on top of Node.js
• React → It handles all the front-end of an application. It lets developers create dynamic UI by running JavaScript in a web browser.
• Node.js → It is the last component of the MERN stack, is Node.js. It is a JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers implement JavaScript-based application backend.
MERN is getting popular with each passing day. That’s because it offers a complete set of tools to facilitate agile methodology. Another big reason behind its popularity is its JavaScript affiliation. JavaScript has always been the number one choice when it comes to building web apps.
But, MERN is not the only option for startups. There are other popular stacks that startups can use. Another JavaScript-focused stack is the MEAN stack. In this stack, angular replaces React as one of the components. MEAN is also popular among startups.
How does MERN stack works?
The interaction between the components is interesting. At first, the user interacts with the UI components developed using React -- the frontend of the project.
The frontend is then served by the backend part of the application using a server. The backend is handled by the ExpressJS, on top of the NodeJS.
The MongoDB database handles the database aspect of the web app. NodeJS handles the data request and fetches the required data from the MongoDB database. Once done, it then sends the data to the frontend, which is then shown to the user according to the UI components.
Advantages of MERN stack for startups
In this section, we will look into the advantages of using the MERN stack for startups. We already went through all the core components and what they have to offer. Each of the components has something unique and meaningful to offer and directly affect a startup agile development philosophy.
Great community: MERN has a great community backing it up. The reason behind its great community is JavaScript. As a startup, you can always access tons of resources related to MERN or its components. Each one of the components is well-documented and has people who are eager to provide solutions. This means that startups are free-to-play with their ideas.
Full Stack: MERN offers a full-stack development environment. This means end-to-end development. Startups do not have to worry about other technologies or tools as they get everything using the stack itself.
MVC Architecture Support: MERN supports Model View Controller architecture, which makes it easy for developers to develop workflow.
Low learning curve: MERN is easy to learn and implement. The learning curve becomes easier if the developer is already familiar with JavaScript. The availability of proper tutorials, documentation, and community support also helps new learners in pursuit of expertise. There are many instances where the non-technical team members have to learn the technology so that they can work on the idea. They only need to have a basic understanding so that they can understand the limitations and advantages of the technology used in the project. MERN’s low learning curve makes it possible for management and non-technical people to get familiar with it.
Talent availability: A startup always requires talent to bring their ideas to real-life. If they use a new technology that is still evolving, they will find it hard to find the talent they require to complete the project successfully. MERN is popular among developers due to JavaScript affiliation. In short, startups will find no problem finding the talent for their projects.
Open Source: All the four components are open source, which means that a startup does not have to worry about licensing problems with MERN.
Testing tools: MERN comes with its own set of the testing tools suite.
This leads us to the end of our article, where we briefly discussed MERN and then shifting our focus on the benefits and popularity of MERN. There is no doubt that MERN’s popularity stems from its components and the use of JavaScript. Another reason behind its popularity is its low-learning curve, easy implementation, open-source nature, and MVC support.
All these factors are more than enough to make MERN a viable technology candidate for any startup. Of Course, it is not the only stack that startups can choose from. MEAN is also a great alternative for startups who are looking for a Javascript-based stack for their project. The key difference here is the use of Angular.js.
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The decision to ban Samsung Note 7s from flights is not a new one, several other major airliners have taken the precautions since the phones have been known to spontaneously explode.
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We all use water in our homes. We use it to wash our clothes, clean the house and even take a bath. This means that most homes normally have a plumbing system. Some homeowners have an old plumbing system while others have actually upgraded their plumbing system. This is a good idea. However, did you know that plumbing systems also get faulty? This is the worst nightmare for
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You might think of checking the internet for some DIY tips but still fail to achieve your desired results. The situation can be worse if you are a busy homeowner. This is the reason why you need to get a professional plumber to help you out. The good news is that this professional can help fix different plumbing issues in your home. What are some of the issues that this professional can fix?
They are several, including:
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Ideally, a tap should stop letting out water after you close it. However, there are moments when your taps cannot stop dripping. This happens as a result of an inner breakdown of the valves present in you tap. Sometimes, these valves can get rubbed off and thereby make you tap to become loose. This can make water to start dripping. This can make you lose a lot of water in the long
run. You might end up paying higher water bills at the end of the month. This is the reason why you need to hire a plumber to help you out. He can help fix such issues in your home.
1. Leaking pipes
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bring a bad odor in your house. In this case, you should hire a plumber. He can help unblock the drains. Trying to unblock the drains on your own might not be very effective. You might end up wasting a lot of time. However, this plumber can help determine the section of the drain that is blocked and unblock it successfully.
1. Clogged toilets
There are moments when your toilet gets clogged. This can inconvenience you. You might not manage to use the facility effectively. If your toilet has this problem, you should not hesitate to contact a plumber to help you out.
1. Faulty water lines
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Almost two decades into the 21st century, some may think the cinema is in decline. At times there’s the impression that this century’s best films are products of nostalgia. For example, La La Land is a homage to Golden Age Hollywood and French New Wave musicals, or the works of Quentin Tarantino are mere pastiches of old B-movies.
To prove this view false, here is a list of great 21st century films that deserve more attention. With each film as evidence, it is clear that contemporary cinema is as innovative as in the older times. Some works on this list are by the old masters such as Werner Herzog, Ingmar Bergman, and Andrzej Wajda. While others are made by obscurer directors from non-English speaking regions such as Greece and Hong Kong.
Some of the movies deal with history, some are pure fiction. The films’ common feature is their deep attention to the universal human experience. These motion pictures are chosen for both their technical virtuosity and intellectual depth while being at the same time great entertainments.
10. Invincible (2001)
Werner Herzog’s minor masterpiece recounts the life of an extraordinarily strong Jewish blacksmith in Nazi Germany. The film treats historical cruelty with imaginative powers. In a dream sequence, crabs walk along railway tracks amidst the fog, waiting for the train to come, as if mourning the Jewish tragedy.
Tim Roth’s portrayal of the Nazi-affiliated astrologer, Erik Jan Hanussen, is particularly gripping. Like his intricate performances in Quentin Tarantino’s works (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, The Hateful Eight), Roth’s charisma dominates each frame. He crafts Hanussen’s fears and discontents with studied control while preserving the character’s mystery.
On a side note, Invincible should be compared to István Szabó’s Hanussen:Hitler’s Astrologer (1988). Szabó sympathizes with the character while Herzog sees him as wholly unpleasant. The films are two interpretations of the same history and are both masterpieces in their own rights.
Herzog’s other masterworks (Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Fitzcarraldo; The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser) overshadow this film. It is true that the movie sometimes diverges into the bizarre and the fantastical. While it may not be the director’s absolute best, it remains a treasure of 21st century cinema.
9. Gallants (2010)
This little-known kung-fu comedy won Best Picture in the Hong Kong Film Award. With its perfectly choreographed action sequences and in-depth characterizations, the film is more than mere entertainment.
Tinged with nostalgia for 70s and 80s kung-fu films, directors Chi-kin Kwok and Clement Sze-Kit Cheung use genre tropes to create absurd and sometimes cliche-ridden visual puns, but never delving into the vulgar and the amoral.
Gallants is soaked with the feel and smell of Hong Kong. The Chinese title literally means ‘fight in the ring’. The allusions to golden age Hong Kong cinema and the city’s colonial history ultimately construct its intellectual depth.
The didactic film is emotional and positive. It urges us to triumph over evil, to have faith in oneself, to fight against the odds, and to never give up. Yes, these messages are old; but the incredible blocking and the superb performances utter them with such sincerity and craft that it is worthwhile to hear them again.
8. One Man Up (2001)
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Paolo Sorrentino’s Academy Award-winning philosophical masterpiece, The Great Beauty, is no doubt one of the greatest 21st century cinematic achievements. His debut film, One Man Up, allows the audience to glimpse into the director’s obsessions. It is a forgotten great film.
Contrasting the lives of a football player and a rock star, Sorrentino depicts the decline of artists with sympathy. Narrating the two men’s reclusiveness and excess, desires and failures, the film forces us to consider the multitude of human experience.
This film is essential to the fans of The Young Pope. With a similar strange sense of humor, the audience peers into the nature of social influence when witnessing journeys of drunkenness and flashes of great beauty.
Sorrentino’s first exploration of the anatomy of art and power, followed by The Consequences of Love, Il Divo, and Youth, this film may not be his most maturely executed. Nonetheless, it reflects the portrait of the director as a young man and his undeniable talent. It is also a great pleasure to watch.
7. Trilogia (2004)
Theodoros Angelopoulos may be best remembered for his Palme d’Or-winning Eternality and a Day. His historical epic, Trilogia, however, is on the same scale of greatness. Depicting the events from the end of World War I to the start of the Greek Civil War, the film follows the life of a young woman, Eleni (Alexandra Aidini).
On the vast historical canvas, Angelopoulos paints the universal experiences of love, marriage, and family. In the tradition of the epic narrative, like Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks, the film explores the young individual’s coming of age in the face of historical chaos. History is seen from the microscopic scale.
Despite what the 19th century English ist Thomas Carlyle may argue, history is not the narrative of great men. The Napoleons and Julius Ceasers may be the most talked about figures, but it is the little men and women that drive historical events forward; for history is the story of people, not of the few individuals. This film demonstrates this point with poetic images beyond utterable words.
Nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, this movie deserves more attention. Its technical intricacy and deeply felt humanism make it a truly genuine work of art. Angelopoulos, one of the best directors of the last fifty years, is gradually being forgotten. His works should be more widely seen.
6. The Image Makers (2000)
The best remembered of Ingmar Bergman’s late works is the sequel to Scenes from a Marriage, Saraband (2003). The Image Makers, a TV movie and a love letter to the cinema, is often passed onto silence.
The film is about Victor Sjöström, the main actor of Bergman’s own Wild Strawberries, and the director of Bergman’s major influence, The Phantom Carriage. The event is Sjöström’s meeting with the first woman to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Selma Lagerlöf.
This work’s style stems from Bergman’s career as a theater director. The presentation is more stage-like and dialogue-based than most of Bergman’s widely known films. But the film is far from boring, its deliciously crafted conflicts raise the themes of language, sexuality, and death.
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The Elite program is a performance based program where players are selected through tryouts and other on-field play. Coaches are constantly evaluating players in 4 areas of soccer development-Technical, Tactical, Physical and Psychosocial.
Technical- Coaches look for the technical ability of a player at all times. Areas of focus are dribbling, passing, receiving, finishing (ball striking and placement). The more technically proficient a player is, the higher the rating. Often times, this is referred to as “touch” or “control” when a player is on the ball. Other technical considerations include, but are not limited to, placement over distance of a pass or shot, weight of a pass, and handling of the ball.
Tactical- Coaches look for the awareness of a player in many ways. Players who demonstrate tactical awareness do many of the following things with the ball:
-Check their shoulders to see where pressure is
-Place the ball into space for team members
-Keep the ball instead of passing when pressure is limited
Coaches are also looking to identify a player’s tactical awareness when off the ball. Players with a strong sense of tactical awareness demonstrate many of the following things without the ball:
-Communicate with team members throughout the game or training
-Make deliberate runs into space to support possession of the ball
-Make deliberate runs into defensive space to slow down opponents
-Recognize and anticipate changes in possession and react accordingly
Physical- Coaches are always looking at players in their many developmental stages. As a result, players are constantly demonstrating their strength on the ball, speed with and without the ball, quickness and agility. These characteristics are in a constant state of change. As the young athlete matures physically, there will be peaks, valleys and plateaus along the way.
Psychosocial- Coaches have a glimpse into the mindset of a player at numerous points during a training session and games. Often referred to as “attitude,” it goes much further than that. Interactions between players and others are a consideration: One such interaction is the player/parent interaction. Players who demonstrate respect for their parent before, during and after play show coaches plenty. This is especially true after a tough loss or difficult training session. Another interaction is the player/player interaction. When competing, the ability to maintain composure and show respect to your opponent is critical to overall success. This interaction is important before, during and after the game. Additionally, the player/adult interaction is truly visible at all times. When in games or training, are players demonstrating respect for the coaches? In games, do players demonstrate respect for coaches when with regards to position, starting, substitutions, correction, etc? And, does the player show respect to the officials at all times? Despite missed or ‘bad’ calls, does the player have the composure to persevere regardless of the outcome? Coaches refer to this as pressure.
Frequently Asked Questions- Elite
What are the costs involved? Elite level fees are determined based on the level of play and collected before play begins. The cost per season is $495. Each player will pay $95 to register once he or she has been offered a spot on a team. The remaining balance is due before league play begins. Check with TUSC administrators on the exact dates each season. The balance can be paid in one payment or in two installments of $200 per. Financial assistance is available through an application process and is need based.
How is playing time managed? Depending on the number of players on the team, coaches will determine the best, most appropriate playing time each game. It is important to understand, not all players are equal. Therefore, not all players will get equal time in games. The game may dictate more or less substitutions, and it’s important to recognize that Elite soccer is performance based. Attendance at training sessions is mandatory, and we recognize there will be things that interfere from time to time, but training makes players better which makes teams better, so it’s in your player’s best interest to attend as many sessions as possible. If you’re unsure why your player is getting less playing time or playing in a different position, please contact the coach, not the manager. The manager’s role is strictly logistical in nature. Soccer decisions are made by the club coaches.
What if my player plays high school soccer in the spring? Coaches have a responsibility to the program they coach for. That is the same for a high school and a club. The goal for both should be similar…develop the player’s skills and develop in the player a desire to return. The AHSAA rules regarding 6-man rule make small clubs have to do mental gymnastics in order to protect players. Sadly, the high school programs don’t seem to take the same care in many cases. What happens very regularly is that high school coaches communicate whom they want on club rosters so they can preserve their rosters for Varsity, Junior Varsity and Freshman teams. In a performance based program, this creates problems.
What if my child wanted to play club soccer in the spring? Tuscaloosa United is here to serve the soccer needs in the community. While we do not wish to compete for players against high school programs, there has been a ground swell of requests for spring teams for a variety of reasons. Beginning Spring 2019, TUSC will offer spring teams. Please note…a player cannot play for a high school and a club team in the same season. Additionally, Alabama ODP has a program if you are interested in spring soccer on that level. More information on that can be found at www.alsoccer.org under the ODP tab.
Are tryouts really needed? YES! Tryouts are a process to identify players in their age groups who may need to be placed on higher teams or lower teams based on performance. From time to time, new players show for tryouts and are able to unseat a player from his or her position on the current or previous team. That is competition…that is performance based sport!
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I just spent about 45 minutes sweeping up accumulated leaves and debris from the sidewalks and gutters around my house. This gives me plenty of time to think, and so I often wonder: Is there a martial arts drill or routine I could be practicing right now, and sweeping my sidewalk at the same time?
Sweeping with a push broom involves a fair amount of motion, including but not limited to:
• Full extension of the arms, closed stance (liquids, large debris)
• Short extension of the arms, closed or open stance (dust, small debris)
• Bending/stooping
• Footwork
I'd be particularly interested in learning about a traditional or contemporary form or drill specifically designed for practice with push brooms. There's an awful lot of inventive choreography in the entertainment industry using household items (umbrellas are popular), but this classic Stomp routine is the only bit I know of that specifically uses push brooms (and it's a musical ensemble number, not a martial arts routine).
However, any routine that focuses on the types of motions outlined above that could be adapted for practical use with the broom would be acceptable. It does not have to specifically be a weapon drill. It could be a long form, a single technique or anything in between. The only specifications are:
• I should be able to actually sweep the sidewalk. (Certain types of movement simply aren't practical for this purpose; e.g., slashes, blocks and parries, strikes at or above the knee.)
• The goal here is recreation/fitness, not self-defense. I'm looking for something low-impact that supports good posture. Vertical movement is fine but because this is going to be an extended, repetitive activity, bending from the waist might be something to avoid.
• Off-balance stances will probably be less effective for sweeping (but if they're really fun, it might be worth taking a bit longer to do the job!).
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You could practice some sort of footwork while sweeping. Use the broom/leaves as resistance training. I could write a little more but it feels like it would be a very short answer... – Sardathrion - against SE abuse Sep 18 '14 at 6:34
Try these footwork patterns:
• Stepping forward in a low bow/front stance as you push the broom, alternating legs. It will be a challenge to actually effect the sweeping while doing this.
• Fighting stance: step back foot together with front foot, step front foot out to fighting stance. Do right foot forward going one way, left foot forward coming back.
• Fighting stance: step lead foot forward, drag back foot into fighting stance. Do right foot forward going one way, left foot forward coming back.
• Fighting stance: imagine a diagonal zig-zag pattern. Step left foot out 45 degrees to the left, bring feet together, step out 45 degrees to the right. Repeat on the opposite side.
I'm assuming you have some MA experience and so my descriptions are brief. If you need any clarification, say so in the comments and I'll change my answer.
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Chinese city to investigate after six people die from carbon monoxide poisoning after burning ‘clean coal’
South China Morning Post 發布於 2019年12月05日10:12 • Phoebe Zhang
• Death toll includes a 13-year-old girl who was overcome by fumes as she slept
• Doctor warns people of need to ensure homes heated by fossil fuels have sufficient ventilation
Six people from a village in northern China have died from carbon monoxide poisoning in the past two months. Photo: Getty Images
Authorities in northern China have begun an investigation into a "clean coal" supplier after six people who bought the fuel for heating died from carbon monoxide poisoning in their homes, local media reported.
Among the victims was a 13-year-old girl who was found unconscious in her home in Tangshan, Hebei province, by her father on October 31, radio station The Voice of China reported on Tuesday.
The man said he had lit a fire using clean coal " which is supposed to have a low sulphur content " in his daughter's bedroom before she went to bed. In the morning he found her lifeless and called for an ambulance, but the child later died in hospital.
Five other people from villages in Tangshan have died from carbon monoxide poisoning since the start of October while 10 more have been treated in hospital for it, according to the report.
Jiang Cheng, a village official, told The Voice of China " China National Radio's flagship channel " that the local government had bought the coal from a company designated by a higher government agency, which had also set purchase quotas for each village according to its population.
The firm, Tangshan Borui, told news portal on Wednesday that all of its clean coal products met the appropriate requirements.
"All of the products out of our factory are up to standard, there are no issues," said Tian Yonggong, the company's legal representative.
"(But) I don't know the specifics of how the villagers were using it."
A doctor quoted in the website report said that regardless of whether people used clean or regular coal to heat their homes, there was always the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning if the homes were not adequately ventilated.
China's plan to reduce use of coal for heating still facing problems
Zhang Yongxin, the secretary of the Communist Party committee in Tangshan's Kaiping district, said the local government was investigating the matter and would release its findings to the public as soon as possible.
A publicity department official said that in response to the poisonings local authorities had been making regular broadcasts to advise people on how to use the coal safely and were planning to make home visits in the coming days.
The news reports did not say whether the government or coal supplier would compensate the families of those who died from carbon monoxide poisoning.
The problem with China's 'clean coal' push is that there is no such thing as 'clean coal'
The burning of coal for energy production and heating is one of the major causes of China's air pollution problems.
Clean coal technology is a collection of techniques being developed to mitigate climate change by reducing emissions of harmful gases such as sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and carbon dioxide.
At the end of last year, Beijing launched a nationwide programme to refit all of its coal-fired power plants with "ultra-low" emission technologies by 2020.
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Firmware Has to Be Reset
We recently encountered a lot of issues surrounding scanning with Windows 7 and Windows 8 clients. These are people who scanned well for years without problems, but we noticed that Xerox copiers need a few things done that are not expected. For example, reloading the firmware on a copier. Programmers designed firmware to only read memory, which tells the control panels how to display, and it tells the copier how to behave.
Because of recent software updates, a problem has occurred between Windows 7 or Windows 8 and the copier. Nevertheless, the process for updating your firmware will only take 30 minutes. Where does the issue occur most often? We have experienced this issue the most with the 3635MFP and the 7225.
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[INTERVIEW]... with Fontaines D.C.
"If you're a Rock Star, Porn Star, Superstar, doesn't matter what you are, get yourself a good car, get outta here" Fontaines D.C 'Boys In The Better Land
Dublin band Fontaines D.C. has blasted into the forefront of live music supporting the likes of shame and now with a massive USA tour with IDLES on the way. It's All Indie caught up with bassist Conor Deegan 111 at the last UK gig before they headed off to play Europe and asked about their time with shame as well as playing SXSW, how they met IDLES and the release of their first album.
You've had such a stellar year and your tour schedule is extreme!
Right now it's still fresh and we're getting to see new places we've never seen before so that's really exciting obviously. The whole experience of touring is new to us like being in a band and road-tripping but so far it's been great.
What was the tour like with shame, playing bigger venues?
That was playing like 1000 cap/2000 cap venues around the country. That was great, a real learning experience with how gigs in bigger venues work. The biggest venue we played as a headliner ourselves was 500/600 cap and a festival maybe more. Being in a London venue with a 2000 cap is the real deal. There was a lot of learning from the production end of things. The experience of touring with the guys was really great. We'd met them before. They'd come to Dublin for a gig in Whelan's and did a DJ set in our local bar and we got chatting to them there and became friends. It happened really naturally, touring and such.
SXSW, that's exciting!
Yeah, it's always been one of those things when you're a young band and you're looking at videos of bands you look up to on YouTube and stuff and you see them talking about SXSW and it sounds great. They're walking around meeting all the other bands and cutting their teeth as well and they're talking about how they're playing 10 gigs in 3 days and it's amazing. So now we're going over and I think we're doing....I'd like to up it but apparently it's not very practical so we're doing 8 gigs in 3 days. I'd like to do more! It's nice to test yourself and even if there's a small failure of some kind, from being tired or something, you do learn from that, from pushing yourself.
What happends after the tour? Have you announced any festival dates yet?
No, not yet, we do this 32 run of dates in the UK and Europe and then have 2 weeks off to write.
Can you write on the road at all?
We get some ideas and we get to jam in soundchecks sometimes. So we're writing for 2 weeks and then we go to SX in March for a week. We'll be in America for a little bit. We go to New York in April and then we're back here. In May we're off to America with IDLES.
Ah I saw IDLES play at Liverpool Sound City last year.
I was there! We played at that and then we went to see them at that venue. They gave us a shout-out! We didn't properly know them then, we'd met them 2 or 3 times and we got a shout-out!!
IDLES have gone stratospheric now.
Yes that 2nd album really did it for them.
That's inspiration for all bands when you see that can really happen in a relatively short time.
It's no accident, they work really hard.
What's your favourite song to play at your live shows?
'Boys In The Better Land', it just reminds me of that feeling of starting a band with your best mates and jamming songs and the kind of music you really love. Songs that it feels right playing, you feel that energy and it's light-hearted enough that you can really enjoy it.
Is that the crowd favourite as well?
No I'd say that's 'Too Real' because that's the newest one I guess.
What's next? The album?
Yep we're just gonna release another single in a month (ish) and then the album should be out mid-April.
So just in time for the summer festival season?
Yeah, can't wait to have it out. It's been finished since October so you can imagine we're really keen to put it out.
You just want people to hear it!
Thanks Conor I'll look forward to following what you get up to at SXSW.
I can't wait, it's really cool. We're playing a show in New York then onto Austin and we might go to Mexico City once we're out there. It's all in the planning!
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• Love in the time of war
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A century ago, many countries had to deal with the onset of World War I which was supposed to be the war to end all wars. Yet, a few years later, the reality of World War II ravaged again many people’s lives, as it devastated their motherland, their homes and their existence.
Today, these poignant episodes are recorded in various museums around the world, including the National War Museum in Valletta, wherein one finds several objects which recall these dark periods. However a visit to this museum will reveal that its exhibits are witness to more than that, since they also display how people confronted and survived these crucial moments, and how the ugliness of war never stopped their urge to live and to love.
During a recent visit to this museum wherein I was accompanied by Curator Charles Debono, I discovered how five particular items – a British Empire Medal, an RAF side cap, a uniform jacket, a tankard won at a sports event, and part of a manifold of a P38 Lightning aircraft – formed part of a fantastic narrative relating to a famous English couple who met in Malta and were united and separated by war. Indeed, as I followed the story of the legendary Wg Cdr Adrian Warburton and his lover Christina Ratcliffe, I was whirled back in the 1940s; a time when both the Maltese islands and their inhabitants were pushed to their limits and heroes were borne.
Adrian Warburton was born in Middlesborough on March, 10, 1918, but his father Geoffrey, a young submarine commander who had been awarded the prestigious Distinguished Service Order, decided to christen him in a submarine which was berthed in Malta. Apparently, a good number of Warburton’s family members were renowned for their eccentric behaviour, particularly where war was concerned, and as Tony Spooner said in his book Warburton’s War, “DSO’s were fairly commonplace in the family”.
In fact, during his brief life, even Adrian received this honour twice: one of which was awarded to him for his bravery when flying very low among the Italian battleships and cruisers in Taranto in order to read their names, after the cameras failed to work during a reconnaissance mission. This information enabled the Fleet Air Arm to dispatch an effective attack on the enemy later on that night.
Interestingly, during his training to become a pilot, Adrian had failed to impress his seniors and even though he eventually succeeded to pass his trials, his general assessment was deemed below average. Probably, besides his dare-devil acts, this was also the reason why he crashed his planes during some of his missions. Presumably, this was also the motive for the disbelief that he was dead, after he went missing during his last flight in 1944 …
It was on September, 6, 1940 that Warburton arrived in Luqa airfield after he was transferred on duty to Malta. Soon he distinguished himself for his fearless attitude such as when he and his two crewmen shot down an Italian Z.506B seaplane when they were only expected to shoot some photos.
His love story with Christina Ratcliffe took place after she was stranded in Malta, when Italy declared war on Britain and France on 10th June 1940. She had come to our islands together with her group in order to perform as a cabaret dancer but when they found themselves unemployed, these artists set up an ensemble which they called the Whizz Bangs and provided entertainment for the troops.
During her stay on the island, Ratcliffe made friends with a French pilot, Jacques Mehouas, who often spoke to her about Warburton and described him as a brave and formidable British pilot. Ironically, it was his death which brought them together, when Warburton, who was also a friend of his, approached her to give her his condolences. Ratcliffe considered this first encounter as love at first sight since in her later writings she admitted that with his golden hair and his beautiful blue eyes, Warburton resembled a Greek god.
In 1939 Warburton had married Eileen Mitchell after a very brief courtship but allegedly he had left her at once when he found out that she was divorced and had a child. However in Ratcliffe, he discovered a soul mate and soon they became one of the most renowned couples at the time. Like the British pilot, she was beautiful, charismatic and adventurous and as Spooner described them “With their personalities, zest and determination, they were to become living symbols of the island’s unconquerable spirit.”
In fact, besides working as an entertainer, after some time, Christina volunteered to work with the RAF as a telephonist and later as a plotter at the underground War Headquarters in Valletta. She was eventually appointed Captain of D Watch and then became assistant to the Controller, thus having to abandon the Whizz Bangs group.
This love story came to an abrupt end when on April 12, 1944, Warburton was sent on a reconnaissance mission during which he was supposed to take some photos over Germany, but he never returned. At first his disappearance was not given much importance because workmates, friends and even Ratcliffe were expecting him to return like he always did before. Yet by time, this matter became riddled with speculation as people started to question whether he had committed suicide or whether he had simply left his girlfriend and started a new affair.
After this incident, Ratcliffe changed drastically. Her neighbours recall that she became a recluse, preferring to live in isolation in her apartment at 7/3, Vilhena Terrace, Vilhena Street, Floriana, and forever waiting for her Warby to return to her. In his book Women of Malta, Frederick R Galea, states that “her last few years were unhappy ones, trying to drown her loneliness in alcohol; she became withdrawn and impoverished.” Certainly this was a pitiful end to a woman who in 1943 was awarded the British Empire Medal in recognition of her work during World War II. During her lifetime, Ratcliffe donated this medal together with the uniform and the tankard which belonged to her beloved Warburton, to the National War Museum in Valletta.
It was finally in 2002 when Warburton’s fate was identified, after Frank Dorber, a Welsh aviation researcher, discovered his remains in the cockpit of his wrecked plane, buried about two metres deep in a field near the Bavarian village of Egling an der Paar, 34 miles west of Munich. An examination of his aircraft showed that one of the propellers had bullet holes in it, thus indicating that Warburton had been shot down. Part of this plane was donated to the National War Museum in Valletta and now forms part of the exhibits which reflect this story.
Meanwhile, according to Commonwealth regulations, Warburton was given a formal funeral on May 14, 2003 and he was buried at the Durnbach Commonwealth War Cemetery. Curiously, this ceremony was attended also by his wife Eileen whom many believed to have been dead. After Warburton was found and buried, many sympathizers of the couple Warburton – Ratcliffe demanded whether it was time for these two lovers to be re-united, even if after death? But where is Ratcliffe?
A visit to the Addolorata cemetery in Paola where I was accompanied by Eman Bonnici, who is the cemetery’s assistant librarian and a researcher of this site, led me to the resting place of ‘Christina of George Cross Island’. He explained to me that the cemetery’s records show that Ratcliffe was originally buried in the common area of the Commonwealth section in 1988. According to a grave-digger from Floriana, Ratcliffe had become so poor that the neighbours had collected the necessary funds to provide her with a proper burial. Then, in 1991, an individual bearing the surname Ratcliffe, bought a grave for her so that her remains will not be lost in the common ossuary. This grave, marked no. 4, is situated in the East Division, Section MA-D. Bonnici informed me that Ratcliffe’s grave is regularly visited by foreigners, particularly from England and Scotland, who come to this cemetery in order to pay their tribute to a heroine of such a turbulent but fascinating love affair.
(This article was published in ‘Man Matters’ Supplement in The Times of Malta dated 20th September 2014)
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Cranky grandmother - Dramatic movie, suicide.
I'm bad at remembering character names and titles, but I am good at remembering the plot-line. So here is a description of it:
the movie starts with this young couple with children. It is the birthday of the dude’s mother so he finally tells her, she is a grandmother now and asks her to come. The dude’s wife is a terrible mother at educating her children, and the grandmother is a cranky old nag who left the house immediately after the children’s despicable behaviour. Then the movie starts showing the grandmother’s daily life and she meets a rich dude and she thinks she has met someone to spend her life, so the grandmother goes on a few dates with him, and she is certain, along him too, that they can spent their short span together. However, the rich dude passes away. So the grandmother goes onto the forest with a picnic bag, puts the picnic and she pulls out the gun and tries to kill herself. However, she hears some kids maunder, so she hides the gun.
I don’t remember if she does kill herself or not, but that is the main story.
Other details:
1.The Mother's son lives in a more rural environment, while he lives in the city.
2. Her son seems to dislike her because of her gripeful personality.
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Immigration News: Federal Judge Says Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Office Profiles Latinos
On May 24, 2013, a federal judge issued a ruling in a landmark immigration case. The case was brought against the United States' toughest sheriff and accused him of singling out Latinos. In a 142-page decision, United States District Judge Murray Snow decided that the agency was racially profiling individuals during immigration patrols. The Phoenix-based courtroom effectively backs up years of accusations by critics of Sheriff Joe Arpaio that his offers regularly violated the constitutional rights of Latinos that they suspected were illegal immigrants.
The latest ruling arrives eight months after a non-jury trial of Arpaio's deputies. Eight months ago, the seven-day trial ruled that the sheriff and his deputies detained people for unnecessarily long times once they were pulled over.
For immigration activists, the ruling is a victory. These individuals were not seeking compensation and just wanted the office of Arpaio to state that it engaged in racial profiling. Detractors of Sheriff Arpaio also wanted him to adopt policy changes. In the lawsuit, a group of Latinos alleged that deputies pulled over cars on a routine basis to perform checks for illegal immigrants. Due to these alleged checks, the group wanted a judge to issue an injunction that would stop them from occurring. At the end of the case, the judge ruled that additional injunctions or measures could be ordered in the future. Arpaio's attorney stated that they would appeal the ruling within 30 days.
The lead lawyer for the prosecution was Stanley Young. Young stated that Judge Snow was expected to set a hearing for June 14th. On this day, the judge will hear both sides of the case and figure out how the ruling will be carried out.
In the case, the group of Latinos accused Arpaio of acting on messages from residents of the area about darker skinned people meeting at a location or speaking in Spanish. In some instances, Arpaio responded to these complaints with thank-you letters. According to Arpaio's lawyer, there is nothing wrong with sending residents thank-you messages. Sheriff Arpaio responded to the allegations by stating that his deputies only pulled people over when they believed a crime had been committed.
The Result
Judge Snow's ruling on Friday effectively repudiates the immigration policies that have made Arpaio famous. In November, Sheriff Arpaio was elected for his sixth consecutive term. The 80-year old sheriff serves as the leading law enforcement official in Arizona's most populous area. During his tenure, Arpaio has developed a reputation for a tough approach toward immigration. According to detractors and the recent court case, Arpaio and his deputies frequently violated the civil rights of Latinos in the county. Arpaio is also famous for imprisoning inmates within tents and forcing them to wear pink undergarments.
Originally, Arpaio began working on immigration in 2006. He rose to prominence amid voter frustration over illegal immigration. Arizona serves as the nation's largest entry point for illegal immigrants. This status led to frustrated voters in the area who elected Arpaio to office.
The Ruling
Judge Snow stated that officers could not detain individuals without facts that would create probable cause. Deputies must have reasonable suspicion that someone is violating federal or state law. Arpaio's deputies, according to the judge, are not allowed to pull people over or detain them based on their Hispanic ancestry or other racial profiling. Evidence in the trial indicated that the MCSO aggressively detained individuals and enforced immigration even when it did not have legal justification for doing so.
The Earlier Case
Eight months ago, a trial was conducted that focused on Latinos who were pulled over during traffic and immigration patrols. These patrols were known as "sweeps". When a sweep occurs, deputies descend upon a section of the city. The area is normally comprised of Latino immigrants. Over a few days, the deputies pull over as many traffic violators as possible. Out of 1,500 people arrested in 20 sweeps, 57 percent were residing in the nation illegally. These arrests occurred in a time period starting in January of 2008.
During the trial, witnesses collapsed into tears as they described each encounter with authorities. The witnesses stated that they were detained because they were Hispanic and not because of any traffic violation. Officers allegedly sought to check their immigration status. With each witness, the sheriff's legal team sought to dispute this characterization.
To support their case, the plaintiff's lawyers showed figures that indicated that more Latinos were stopped during sweeps than on other days. Emails from the sheriff and deputies were circulated that contained offensive jokes about Latinos. The defense sought to negate the impact of these statistics by disputing each figure. The defense's legal team also stated that the individuals who made the jokes received disciplining. In addition, the defense denied that racially-based complaints from residents prompted any sweeps or action.
For the defense, some of the things Arpaio stated in the past proved to be detrimental. The prosecution used interviews about illegal immigration and comments made by Arpaio in news conferences against him. In one quote, Arpaio stated that deputies did not have to follow state laws when pulling immigrants over. Arpaio notably said that their program was to "go after illegals, not the crime first". In the ruling, the judge noted that some of the cars were pulled over because the deputies saw the vehicle pick up Latino day laborers.
Despite stating that racial profiling was not used, Arpaio and his deputies used darker skin to systematically target one group of people. Now that the trial is over, Arpaio's office has to figure out how to comply with the ruling. A hearing on June 14th will ensure that the defense complies with all of the required changes. During the next 30 days, Arpaio's defense team also plans on filing an appeal to Judge Snow's ruling.
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Personal choices create wage gap
The Equal Pay Act, passed in 1963, made it illegal to pay woman less than men based strictly on sex. So why, almost 50 years later, is there still a wage gap? It’s a fact that on average, men earn more than women, but no amount of legislating will change the lifestyle choices that create that discrepancy. It’s commonly stated that today women earn 80 cents for every dollar a man earns. But according to a study by economists Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn, when you factor in education, experience, industry, and whether they belong to a union, the gap narrows to 91 cents per dollar.
To really close the wage gap, you also have to factor in lifestyle choices. Women are more likely to take time off work, either taking a few years off to raise children, or just working part-time. When women take time off work to care for family, or seek jobs with more flexibility, their wages take a hit. A study by the National Longitudinal Survey revealed that women between the ages of 18 and 34 have been out of the labor force 27 percent of the time, in contrast to 11 percent for men.
When a woman takes years off to raise young children and then reenters the workforce, she is paid lower than someone who never took time off. It’s not sex discrimination. It’s paying fair wages based on career experience. It would be unfair to pay the worker who stayed the whole time the same as the worker who left and reentered the work force. According to June O’Neill, Congressional Budget Office former director, when you look at people ages 27 to 33 who have never had a child, women’s earnings approach 98 percent of men’s.
In fact, having a child is the biggest determinant as to whether women are paid less than their male peers. As much as feminists can try to make men and women equal, they can’t change the fact that women are biologically different from men. Women are going to take time off work to have children. In countries that have socialized childcare, like Sweden and Belgium, the wage gap is smaller than in the United States. The less time women spend taking care of their children, the more time they spend at work. Whether you prefer to drop the kids in childcare and work or stay at home with them is a personal choice, but as long as some women choose to stay at home, the wage gap will persist.
This isn’t just about the choices women make. Men are more likely to regularly work overtime and more likely to ask for a raise, reaping the financial benefits. Also, many male-dominated occupations pay more because of the “danger” factor. Firefighters, prison guards, and soldiers receive strong medical and retirement benefits, but for good reason: those jobs are more dangerous than most, and many people just aren’t willing to take the risk.
If anyone wants to complain about unfair wages, let’s not compare men and women, but the occupations that are still socially designated as female and male. Almost 80 percent of elementary and middle school teachers are female, and I think most can agree that anyone who takes charge of dozens of other people’s kids for eight hours a day deserves to be paid more. It would be great if they were paid the same and male-dominated fields, or if people stopped buying into occupations having a gender. But since we live in a capitalist society, wages will reflect society’s priorities and demands, which aren’t always equal or fair.
So what’s with all the hullabaloo over a wage gap? Rather than look at the differences in occupation choice or the time women take off from work, activists only cite the 20 cent discrepancy and cry sexism. They want equal pay. But does equal pay mean fair pay? Men and women approach work differently, and the wages fairly reflect that.
That’s not to say workplace discrimination never exists. Of course it does, but not on the wide-scale level feminist activists would have you believe.
The wage gap is not a result of discrimination against women but rather women choosing flexibility in their careers. It is a personal choice. For the woman who wants to “have it all,” she’ll have to expect lower pay than her strictly career-oriented male peer. That’s my two cents, whatever it’s actually worth. | <urn:uuid:af4552b9-8979-4dc3-9808-e2419a12bdfd> | http://www.tntechoracle.com/2010/10/01/personal-choices-create-wage-gap/ | en | 0.971606 | 0.128145 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Ito na ang huling araw ni Manuel (Albert Martinez). Will Salvacion (MJ Lastimosa) listen to the pleas of Lena (Yen Santos) and Ivan (Dentrix Ponce) and let Manuel live?
All of Me
Manuel (Albert Martinez) a devoted doctor, decides to leave his flourishing career behind by living in an island after his wife dies. He meets Lena (Yen Santos), a young woman who boldly challenges him to embrace life again and despite the age gap, they find themselves in love. During their honeymoon in the island, a hired killer tries to kill Manuel, but he escapes death when he stumbles upon a magic portal that transforms him back to his younger self. Now, a younger Manuel (JM de Guzman) who discovers that time has advanced faces another big challenge in his life – to seek revenge and win back Lena who is now happily married to his former protégé, Dr. Henry Nieves (Aaron Villaflor) or forget her entirely and start a brand new chapter of his life.
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Cybermetal from Freezing Finland!
After being in production for almost five years, the debut album “Unrecoverable Reality” by Insanity Check sees the light of day. On this album Insanity Check takes you back to a mix of an alternative Command & Conquer Red Alert soundtrack with underground Finnish beats and metal. But be aware, this record is not for everybody…
Besides music, the album delivers a strong message:
The story on the album is about the darkest time in my life. It was when my mental health started deteriorating really bad, and I became a serious hazard to myself. The point of the project is to highlight mental issues, and encourage people to seek help. It’s never too late!
Insanity Check is a project by Topias Svärd from Turku, Finland. Svärd is also known as ‘DJ Backstabber’ for his “Beats by the Dead” tape with ‘Shangó 404’ and as ‘8-Bitape’ for his two tapes (“8-Bitape” and “8-Breeder”). These 8-Bitape tapes have been baptized as chiphop by Scandinavian underground chiptune makers.
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Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism?
IN CAPITAL IS DEAD, McKenzie Wark asks: What if we’re not in capitalism anymore but something worse? The question is provocative, sacrilegious, unsettling as it forces anti-capitalists to confront an unacknowledged attachment to capitalism. Communism was supposed to come after capitalism and it’s not here, so doesn’t that mean we are still in capitalism? Left unquestioned, this assumption hinders political analysis. If we’ve rejected strict historical determinism, we should be able to consider the possibility that capitalism has mutated into something qualitatively different. Wark’s question invites a thought experiment: what tendencies in the present indicate that capitalism is transforming itself into something worse?
Over the past decade, “neofeudalism” has emerged to name tendencies associated with extreme inequality, generalized precarity, monopoly power, and changes at the level of the state. Drawing from libertarian economist Tyler Cowen’s emphasis on the permanence of extreme inequality in the global, automated economy, the conservative geographer Joel Kotkin envisions the US future as mass serfdom. A property-less underclass will survive by servicing the needs of high earners as personal assistants, trainers, child-minders, cooks, cleaners, et cetera. The only way to avoid this neofeudal nightmare is by subsidizing and deregulating the high-employment industries that make the American lifestyle of suburban home ownership and the open road possible — construction and real estate; oil, gas, and automobiles; and corporate agribusiness. Unlike the specter of serfdom haunting Friedrich Hayek’s attack on socialism, Kotkin locates the adversary within capitalism. High tech, finance, and globalization are creating “a new social order that in some ways more closely resembles feudal structure — with its often unassailable barriers to mobility — than the chaotic emergence of industrial capitalism.” In this libertarian/conservative imaginary, feudalism occupies the place of the enemy formerly held by communism. The threat of centralization and the threat to private property are the ideological elements that remain the same.
A number of technology commentators share the libertarian/conservative critique of technology’s role in contemporary feudalization even as they don’t embrace fossil fuels and suburbia. Already in 2010, in his influential book, You Are Not a Gadget, tech guru Jaron Lanier observed the emergence of peasants and lords of the internet. This theme has increased in prominence as a handful of tech companies have become ever richer and more extractive, turning their owners into billionaires on the basis of the cheap labor of their workers, the free labor of their users, and the tax breaks bestowed on them by cities desperate to attract jobs. Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet (the parent company name for Google) together are worth more than most every country in the world (except the United States, China, Germany, and Japan). The economic scale and impact of these tech super giants, or, overlords, is greater than that of most so-called sovereign states. Evgeny Morozov describes their dominance as a “hyper-modern form of feudalism.”
Albert-László Barabási explained the processes underpinning such a neofeudalism in his analysis of the structure of complex networks, that is, networks characterized by free choice, growth, and preferential attachment. These are networks where people voluntarily make links or choices. The number of links per site grow over time, and people like things because others like them (the Netflix recommendation system, for instance, relies on this assumption). Link distribution in complex networks follows a power law where the most popular item generally has twice as many hits or links as the second most popular, which has twice as many as the third most and so on down to the insignificant differences between those in the long tail of the distribution curve. This winner-takes-all or winner-takes-most effect is the power law shape of the distribution. The one at the top has significantly more than the ones at the bottom. The shape the distribution takes is not a bell curve; it’s a long tail — a few billionaires, a billion precarious workers. The structure of complex networks invites inclusion: the more items in the network, the larger the rewards for those at the top. It also induces competition — for attention, resources, money, jobs — anything that is given a network form. And it leads to concentration. The result, then, of free choice, growth, and preferential attachment is hierarchy, power law distributions where those at the top have vastly more than those at the bottom.
Power law distributions are not inevitable. They can be stopped. But that takes political will and the institutional power to implement it. The neoliberal policies of the 20th century, however, strove to create conditions that would facilitate rather than thwart free choice, growth, and preferential attachment.
Quinn Slobodian’s Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism documents the neoliberal strategy of undermining the authority of the nation-state over its economy in the interest of advancing global trade. Threatened by the organized demands of the newly postcolonial nations of the Global South for reparations, sovereignty over their own natural resources, stabilized commodity prices, and the regulation of transnational corporations, neoliberals in the 1970s sought to “circumvent the authority of national governments.” They advocated a multilevel approach to regulation, a competitive federalism that would let capital discipline governments while itself remaining immunized from democratic control. In the words of Hans Willgerodt, one of the neoliberals Slobodian studies, the new competitive federalism required the state to “share its sovereignty downward with federal structures and bind itself upward within an international legal community.”
Rather than focusing on the origins of neoliberalism, Albena Azmanova’s Capitalism on Edge demonstrates the ways neoliberalism in practice has led to a new precarity capitalism. Policies pushing deregulation and global free trade have had unexpected outcomes. The global market morphed from a system of “national economies integrated through trade agreements into transnational production networks.” Because of the unclear and uncertain contribution of these networks to national economies, maintaining the competitiveness of national economies has become “a top policy concern.” Competitiveness has replaced competition and growth as a state goal, leading states to prioritize not a level playing field and the dismantling of monopolies but “to aid specific economic actors — those who are best positioned to perform well in the global competition for profit.” Acknowledging how the private sector has always benefited from public funds, Azmanova emphasizes the novelty of a form of capitalism where “public authority handpicks the companies on which to bestow this privilege.” States don’t intervene to break up monopolies. They engender and award them.
Monopoly concentration, intensified inequality, and the subjection of the state to the market have transformed accumulation such that it now occurs as much through rent, debt, and force as it does through commodity production. Azmanova points out that the privatization of sectors of the economy relatively immunized from competition — energy, rail, broadband — gave owners “the privileged status of rentiers.” Globally, in the knowledge and technology industries, rental income accruing from intellectual property rights exceeds income from the production of goods. In the United States, financial services contribute more to GDP than manufactured goods contribute. Capital isn’t reinvested in production; it’s eaten up and redistributed as rents. Valorization processes have spread far beyond the factory, into complex, speculative, and unstable circuits increasingly dependent on surveillance, coercion, and violence.
Capitalism is turning itself into neofeudalism.
Neofeudalism does not imply that contemporary communicative or networked capitalism identically reproduces all the features of European feudalism. It doesn’t. In fact, as historians have successfully demonstrated, the very idea of a single European feudalism is a fiction. Different feudalisms developed across the continent in response to different pressures. Viewing contemporary capitalism in terms of its feudalizing tendencies illuminates a new socioeconomic structure with four interlocking features: parcellated sovereignty, new lords and peasants, hinterlandization, and catastrophism.
Parcellated sovereignty
Historians Perry Anderson and Ellen Meiksins Wood present the parcelization of sovereignty as a key feature of European feudalism. Feudal society emerged as the imperial administration of the Romans “gave way to a patchwork of jurisdictions in which state functions were vertically and horizontally fragmented.” Local arrangements taking a variety of forms, including contractual relations between lords and kings and lords and vassals, came to supplement regional administration. Arbitration replaced the rule of law. The line between legality and illegality weakened. Political authority and economic power blended together as feudal lords extracted a surplus from peasants through legal coercion, legal in part because the lords decided the law that applied to the peasants in their jurisdiction. Wood writes, “The effect was to combine the private exploitation of labour with the public role of administration, jurisdiction and enforcement.”
Under neofeudalism, the directly political character of society reasserts itself. Global financial institutions and digital technology platforms use debt to redistribute wealth from the world’s poorest to the richest. Nation-states promote and protect specific private corporations. Political power is exercised with and as economic power, not only taxes but fines, liens, asset seizures, licenses, patents, jurisdictions, and borders. At the same time, economic power shields those who wield it from the reach of state law. Ten percent of global wealth is hoarded in off-shore accounts to avoid taxation. Cities and states relate to Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, and Google/Alphabet as if these corporations were themselves sovereign states — negotiating with, trying to attract, and cooperating with them on their terms. Cash-strapped municipalities use elaborate systems of fines to expropriate money from people directly, impacting poor people the hardest. In Punishment Without Crime, Alexandra Natapoff documents the dramatic scope of misdemeanor law in the already enormous US carceral system. Poor people, disproportionately people of color, are arrested on bogus charges and convinced to plead guilty to avoid the jail time that they could incur should they contest the charges. Not only does the guilty plea go on their record, but they open themselves up to fines that set them up for even more fees and fines should they miss a payment. We got a brief look into this system of legal illegality and unjust administration of justice in the wake of the riots in Ferguson, Missouri, that followed the murder of Michael Brown: “[T]he city’s municipal court and policing apparatus openly extracted millions of dollars from its low-income African American population.” Police were instructed “to make arrests and issue citations in order to raise revenue.” Like minions of feudal lords, they used force to expropriate value from the people.
New lords and peasants
Feudal relations are characterized by a fundamental inequality that enables the direct exploitation of peasants by lords. Perry Anderson describes the exploitative monopolies such as watermills that were controlled by the lord; peasants were obliged to have their grain ground at their lord’s mill, a service for which they had to pay. So not only did peasants occupy and till land that they did not own, but they dwelled under conditions where the feudal lord was, as Marx says, “the manager and master of the process of production and of the entire process of social life.” Unlike the capitalist whose profit rests on the surplus value generated by waged workers through the production of commodities, the lord extracts value through monopoly, coercion, and rent.
Digital platforms are the new watermills, their billionaire owners the new lords, and their thousands of workers and billions of users the new peasants. Technology companies employ a relatively small percentage of the workforce, but their effects have been tremendous, remaking entire industries around the acquisition, mining, and deployment of data. The smaller workforces are indicative of digital technology’s neofeudalizing tendency. Capital accumulation occurs less through commodity production and wage labor than through services, rents, licenses, fees, work done for free (often under the masquerade of participation), and data treated as a natural resource. Positioning themselves as intermediaries, platforms constitute grounds for user activities, conditions of possibility for interactions to occur. Google makes it possible to find information in an impossibly dense and changing information environment. Amazon lets us easily locate items, compare prices, and make purchases from established as well as unknown vendors. Uber enables strangers to share rides. Airbnb does the same for houses and apartments. All are enabled by an immense generation and circulation of data. Platforms don’t just rely on data, they produce more of it. The more people use platforms, the more effective, and powerful these platforms become, ultimately transforming the larger environment of which they are a part.
Platforms are doubly extractive. Unlike the water mill peasants had no choice but to use, platforms not only position themselves so that their use is basically necessary (like banks, credit cards, phones, and roads) but that their use generates data for their owners. Users not only pay for the service but the platform collects the data generated by the use of the service. The cloud platform extracts rents and data, like land squared. The most extreme examples are Uber and Airbnb, which extract rent without property by relying on an outsourced workforce responsible for its own maintenance, training, and means of work. One’s car isn’t for personal transport. It’s for making money. One’s apartment isn’t a place to live; it’s something to rent out. Items of consumption are reconfigured as means of accumulation as personal property becomes an instrument for the capital and data accumulation of the lords of platform, Uber and Airbnb. This tendency toward becoming-peasant, that is, to becoming one who owns means of production but whose labor increases the capital of the platform owner, is neofeudal.
The tech giants are extractive. Like so many tributary demands, their tax breaks take money from communities. Their presence drives up rents and real estate prices, driving out affordable apartments, small businesses, and low-income people. Shoshana Zuboff’s study of “surveillance capitalism” brings out a further dimension of tech feudalism — military service. Like lords to kings, Facebook and Google cooperate with powerful states, sharing information that these states are legally barred from gathering themselves. Overall, the extractive dimension of networked technologies is now pervasive, intrusive, and unavoidable. The present is not literally an era of peasants and lords. Nevertheless, the distance between rich and poor is increasing, aided by a differentiated legal architecture that protects corporations, owners, and landlords while it immiserates and incarcerates the working and lower class.
A third feature of neofeudalism is the spatiality associated with feudalism, one of protected, often lively centers surrounded by agricultural and desolate hinterlands. We might also characterize this as a split between town and country, municipal and rural areas, urban communes and the surrounding countryside, or, more abstractly between an inside walled off from an outside, a division between what is secure and what is at risk, who is prosperous and who is desperate. Wood says that medieval cities were essentially oligarchies, “with dominant classes enriched by commerce and financial services for kings, emperors and popes. Collectively, they dominated the surrounding countryside […] extracting wealth from it in one way or another.” Outside the cities were the nomads and migrants who, facing unbearable conditions, sought new places to live and work yet all too often came up against the walls.
US hinterlands are sites of loss and dismantlement, places with fantasies of a flourishing capitalist past that for a while might have let some linger in the hope that their lives and their children’s lives might actually get better. Remnants of an industrial capitalism that’s left them behind for cheaper labor, the hinterlands are ripe for the new intensified exploitation of neofeudalism. No longer making things, people in the hinterlands persist through warehouses, call centers, Dollar Stores, and fast food. Phil A. Neel’s recent book, Hinterland, notes patterns between China, Egypt, Ukraine, and the United States. They are all places with desolate abandoned wastelands and cities on the brink of overload.
Politically, the desperation of the hinterlands manifests in the movements of those outside the cities, movements that are sometimes around environmental issues (fracking and pipeline struggles), sometimes around land (privatization and expropriation), sometimes around the reduction of services (hospital and school closings). In the United States, the politics of guns positions the hinterlands against the urban. We might also note the way the division between hinterlands and municipality gets reinscribed within cities themselves. This manifests in both the abandonment of poor areas and their eradication in capitalist gentrification land grabs. A city gets richer and more people become homeless — think San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Los Angeles.
The increased attention to social reproduction responds to hinterlandization, that is, to the loss of a general capacity to reproduce the basic conditions of livable life. This appears in rising suicide rates, increase in anxiety and drug addiction, declining birth rates, lower rates of life expectancy, and in the United States, the psychotic societal self-destruction of mass shootings. It appears in the collapsed infrastructures, undrinkable water, and unbreathable air. The hinterlands are written on people’s bodies and on the land. With closures of hospitals and schools, and the diminution of basic services, life becomes more desperate and uncertain.
Finally, neofeudalism brings with it the insecurity and anxiety of an overwhelming sense of catastrophe. There is good reason to feel insecure. The catastrophe of capitalist expropriation of the social surplus in the setting of a grossly unequal and warming planet is real.
A loose, mystical neofeudal ideology, one that knits together and amplifies apocalyptic insecurity, seems to be taking form in the new embrace of the occult, techno-pagan, and anti-modern. Examples include Jordan Peterson’s mystical Jungianism and Alexander Dugin’s mythical geopolitics of Atlantis and Hyperborea. We might also note the rise of tech sector neo-reactionaries like PayPal’s billionaire founder Peter Thiel, who argues that freedom is incompatible with democracy. In a lecture in 2012, Thiel explained the link between feudalism and tech start-ups: “No founder or CEO has absolute power. It’s more like the archaic feudal structure. People vest the top person with all sorts of power and ability, and then blame them if and when things go wrong.” Along with other Silicon Valley capitalists, Thiel is concerned to protect his fortune from democratic impingement, and so advocates strategies of exodus and isolation such as living on the sea and space colonization, whatever it takes to save wealth from taxation. Extreme capitalism goes over into the radical decentralization of neofeudalism.
For those on the other side of the neofeudal divide, anxiety and insecurity are addressed less by ideology than they are by opioids, alcohol, and food, anything to dull the pain of hopeless, mindless, endless drudgery. Emily Guendelsberger describes the stress caused by constant technological surveillance on the job — the risk of being fired for being a few seconds late, for not meeting the quotas, for using the bathroom too many times. Repetitive, low-control, high-stress work like that associated with work that is technologically monitored correlates directly with “depression and anxiety.” Uncertain schedules, lauded as flexible, unreliable pay, because wage theft is ubiquitous, are stressful, deadening. Neofeudal catastrophism may be individual, familial, or local. Getting worked up about climate change is hard when you’ve lived catastrophe for a few generations.
What’s the benefit of thinking of our present precarity capitalism as something post-capitalist, as neofeudal? For conservatives like Kotkin, the neofeudal hypothesis helps them identify what they want to defend — carbon capitalism and the American way of life — and against whom they need to fight — that segment of the capitalist elite that is enriching itself at the expense of the middle class, namely, green high-tech entrepreneurs and their allies in finance. Neofeudalism is part of a diagnosis aiming to enlist working-class support for a particular section of the capitalist class, namely, fossil fuels, real estate, and big agriculture.
For those on the left, neofeudalism lets us understand the primary political conflict as arising out of neoliberalism. The big confrontation today is not between democracy and fascism. Although popular with liberals, this formulation makes little sense given the power of oligarchs — financiers, media and real estate moguls, carbon and tech billionaires. Viewing our present in terms of democracies threatened by rising fascism deflects attention from the fundamental role of globally networked communicative capitalism in exacerbating popular anger and discontent. Underlying the politicization toward the right is economics: complex networks produce extremes of inequality, winner-take-all or winner-take-most distributions. The rightward shift responds to this intensification of inequality. When the left is weak, or blocked from political expression by mainstream media and capitalist political parties, popular anger gets expressed by others willing to attack the system. In the present, these others are the far right. Thinking in terms of neofeudalism thus forces us to confront the impact of extreme economic inequality on political society and institutions. It makes us reckon with the fact of billionaires hoarding trillions of dollars of assets and walling themselves into their own enclaves while millions become climate refugees and hundreds of millions encounter diminished life prospects, an intensifying struggle just to survive.
The neofeudalism wager also signals a change in labor relations. Social democracy was premised on a compromise between labor and capital. Organized labor in much of the Global North delivered a cooperative working class in exchange for a piece of the good life. Labor’s defeat and the subsequent dismantling of the welfare state should have demonstrated once and for all the bankruptcy of a strategy requiring compromise with capitalist exploitation. Yet some socialists continue to hope for a kinder, gentler capitalism — as if capitalists would capitulate just to be nice, as if they, too, weren’t subject to market logics that make stock buybacks more attractive than investment in production. The neofeudal hypothesis tells us that any labor struggle premised on the continuation of capitalism is dead in the water. Capitalism has already become something worse.
In the service-dominated economies of the Global North, majorities work in service sectors. Some find that their phones, bikes, cars, and homes have lost their character as personal property and been transformed into means of production or means for the extraction of rent. Tethered to platforms owned by others, consumer items and means of life are now means for the platform owners’ accumulation. Most of us constitute a property-less underclass only able to survive by servicing the needs of high earners. A report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics says that over the next 10 years the occupation that will add the most jobs is personal care aides, not health workers but aides who bathe and clean people. The dependence of the ruling class on the vast sector of servants — cleaners, cooks, grocers, cashiers, delivery persons, warehouse personnel, et cetera — suggests new sites of struggle, points of weakness where workers can exert power. Strikes of nurses, Amazon workers, and others target the neediness of the wealthy by blocking their access to the means of survival. If labor struggles under capitalism prioritized the point of production, under neofeudalism they occur at the point of service.
Finally, neofeudalism is an idea that lets us identify a primary weakness of the contemporary left: those left ideas with the most currency are the ones that affirm rather than contest neofeudalism. Localism encourages parcelization. Tech and platform approaches reinforce hierarchy and inequality. Municipalism affirms the urban-rural divide associated with hinterlandization. Emphases on subsistence and survival proceed as if peasant economies were plausible not only for that half of the planet that lives in cities (including 82 percent of North Americans and 74 percent of Europeans) but also for the millions displaced by climate change, war, and commercial land theft. Many who dwell in the hinterlands face political, cultural, economic, and climatic conditions that make it so that they can’t survive through agricultural work. Universal Basic Income is an untenable survivalist approach. It promises just enough to keep those in the hinterlands going and barely enough for urban renters to handover to their landlords. Catastrophism becomes that hip negativity denigrating hope and effort, as if the next hundred years or so just don’t matter.
Taken together these current left ideas suggest a future of small groups engaged in subsistence farming and the production of artisanal cheese, perhaps on the edges of cities where survivalist enclaves and drone-wielding tech workers alike experiment with urban gardens. Such groupings reproduce their lives in common, yet the commons they reproduce is necessarily small, local, and in some sense exclusive and elite, exclusive insofar as their numbers are necessarily limited, elite because the aspirations are culturally specific rather than widespread.
Far from a vision anchored in the emancipation of a multinational working class engaged in a wide array of paid, underpaid, and unpaid labor, popular left recapitulations of neofeudalism can’t see a working class. When work is imagined — and some on the left think that we should adopt a “postwork imaginary” — it looks like either romantic risk-free farming or tech-work, “immaterial labor.” By now, the exposés on the drudgery of call center work, not to mention the trauma-inducing labor of monitoring sites like Facebook for disturbing, illicit content, have made the inadequacy of the idea of “immaterial labor” undeniable. It should be similarly apparent that the postwork imaginary likewise erases the production and maintenance of infrastructure, the wide array of labor necessary for social reproduction, and the underlying state structure.
The neofeudal hypothesis thus lets us see both the appeal and the weakness of popular left ideas. They appeal because they resonate with a dominant sense. They are weak because this dominant sense is an expression of tendencies to neofeudalism.
Just as feudal relations persisted under capitalism so do capitalist relations of production and exploitation continue under neofeudalism. The difference is that non-capitalist dimensions of production — expropriation, domination, and force — have become stronger to such an extent that it no longer makes sense to posit free and equal actors meeting in the labor market even as a governing fiction. It means that rent and debt feature as or more heavily in accumulation than profit, and that work increasingly exceeds the wage relation. What happens when capitalism is global? It turns in on itself, generating, enclosing, and mining features of human life through digital networks and mass personalized media. This self-cannibalization produces new lords and serfs, vast fortunes and extreme inequality, and the parcellated sovereignties that secure this inequality while the many wander and languish in the hinterlands.
Jodi Dean teaches political, feminist, and media theory in Geneva, New York. She has written or edited 13 books, including The Communist Horizon and Crowds and Party, both published by Verso.
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10 reasons to drink fruit juice
Fruit and vegetable juices bring variety to any diet. Consumed for breakfast, juice gives a great boost of energy to start the day – probably even more than coffee – and it speeds up metabolism too. And this is not all! Take a look at why it is worth drinking fruit and vegetable juice.
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1. It is a great source of vitamins, antioxidants and minerals
Fruit and vegetables are full of vitamins, antioxidants and minerals our body needs every day. The simplest way to consume these is to make a fruit blend containing several kinds of fruit and vegetables that you can sip during the day.
2. Fruit juice is an excellent way to consume the recommended daily fruit servings
If you are bored of eating fruit, make a blend out of different kinds and flavor them according to your taste. You can take a bottle of homemade juice to your workplace as well, to enjoy it during the day. Combine the fruits in many ways to create a world of different tastes!
3. Freshly squeezed fruit and vegetable juice is tastier and healthier than any store bought juice
Why would you buy “100%” fruit and vegetable juice from the store, when you can make them at home? In this way, you know exactly what you have put into it, and avoid buying juice stored on shelves for a long time that may contain coloring, preservatives and flavor enhancers. Make them at home, and your body will notice the difference.
4. Homemade juice is low in calories
It is the best breakfast and snack, as it fills up our body with energy, being low in calories at the same time. Of course, this is not true about every kind of fruit, but you can pay attention to that.
5. Fresh juice fills the body with energy, calm nerves and are an excellent addition to many cures
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6. The body can process liquid nutrients much faster than solid ones
7. You can vary and mix fruits and vegetables as you like
You can innovate and experiment as you prepare the blends the way you like them. This way, you can make homemade juice exciting and impossible to get bored of.
8. Homemade fruit and vegetable juice doesn’t contain additional sugar, coloring agents and preservers
This is not true about store bought juice; you know what you added to the juice you have made at home, and you sure give it to your children with a better conscience as well.
9. You can prepare juice fast with a suitable device
It matters what device you use to make your fruit and vegetable juice. Fruit centrifuges heat up the juice because of their high speed rotation, therefore juice loses some of its vitamin and nutrient content. On the other hand, EuJuicers have a low speed rotation, by which they preserve vitamins and minerals. Besides, this solution is more efficient in squeezing out the juice out of fruits and vegetables.
10. Juice helps losing weight and are perfect for persons of any age
Because juice is easier to digest than solid fruits and vegetables, your metabolism will speed up, and you will lose weight faster. In a detoxifying cure, juice will make miracles, as you will be full of energy, and will feel great both mentally and physically.
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Putin And Trump vs The New World Order: The Final Battle?
We live in exciting times.
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He called a meeting with OPEC and killed the price of oil by refusing to lower Russia’s production, taking the barrel to under 30 dollars. Without any afterthought and certainly even less remorse, Vlad killed the costly Western oil production. All the dollars that had been taken out of the market had to be re-injected by the Fed and other central banks to avoid a down slide and the final disaster. By now, our dear bankers are out of solutions.
The Punchline
(short video) Did Trump just nationalize the Federal Reserve Bank?
Easter resurrection is coming. This might get biblical.
Source: by Sylvain Laforest | Oriental Review
Socialism’s First Big Win
Marxism-Leninism starvation policies coming to a neighborhood near you if you allow your socialist government to have their way. -h/t: WRSA
A poster calls attention to the famine Russia faced after W.W. I.
he stories began to appear in the Soviet press in the autumn of 1921, each one more gruesome than the last. There was the woman who refused to let go of her dead husband’s body. “We won’t give him up,” she screamed when the authorities came to take it away. “We’ll eat him ourselves, he’s ours!” There was the cemetery where a gang of 12 ravenous men and women dug up the corpse of a recently deceased man and devoured his cold flesh on the spot. There was the man captured by the police after murdering his friend, chopping off his head, and selling the body at a street market to a local restaurant owner to be made into meatballs, cutlets, and hash. And then there was the desperate mother of four starving children, saved only by the death of their sister, aged 13, whom the woman cut up and fed to the family.
The stories seemed too horrific to believe. Few could imagine a hunger capable of driving people to such acts. One man went in search of the truth. Henry Wolfe, a high-school history teacher from Ohio, spent several weeks in the spring of 1922 traveling throughout Samara Province, in southeastern Russia, intent on finding physical evidence of cannibalism. In the district of Melekess, officials told him about a father who had killed and eaten his two little children. He confessed that their flesh had “tasted sweeter than pork.” Wolfe kept on searching, and eventually found the proof he had been looking for.
At first glance, it appears to be an unremarkable photograph of six individuals in winter dress: two women and four men, their expressions blank, betraying no particular emotion. But then our eyes catch sight of the grisly objects laid out across a wooden plank resting unevenly atop a pair of crates. There are two female heads, part of a rib cage, a hand, and what appears to be the skull of a small child. The adult heads have been cracked open, and the skulls pulled back. Along with human flesh, cannibals had feasted upon the brains of their victims.
Wolfe stands second from the right, surrounded by Russian interpreters and Soviet officials. There’s a faint look of satisfaction on his face at having accomplished his goal. Here, at last, was the incontrovertible proof he had set out to find.
An American in Russia
Wolfe may have found the answer he had been seeking, but to us, a century later, the photograph raises a number of questions. What was Wolfe doing in Russia in the first place? What had led this young American to a remote corner of the globe, half a world away, in search of such horrors? And why would the Soviet government, the newly formed socialist state of Vladimir Lenin and his Bolshevik Party, dedicated to world revolution and the overthrow of the capitalist order, have helped Wolfe to uncover, much less document and publicize, its miserable failure at feeding its own people?
If we look closely, a clue to answering these questions is to be found in the three letters stamped on the box in the center of the frame: “ARA.” Facing one of the worst famines in history, the Soviet government invited the American Relief Administration, the brainchild of Herbert Hoover, future president of the United States, to save Russia from ruin. For two years, the A.R.A. fed over 10 million men, women, and children across a million square miles of territory in what was the largest humanitarian operation in history.
Why would the Soviet government have helped Wolfe to uncover its miserable failure at feeding its own people?
Its efforts prevented a catastrophe of incalculable proportions—the loss of millions of lives, social unrest on a massive scale, and, quite possibly, the collapse of the Soviet state. Having completed their mission by the summer of 1923, the Americans packed up and went home. Before the A.R.A. left, the leaders of the Soviet government showered the organization with expressions of undying gratitude and promises never to forget America’s help.
“An act of humanity and benevolence,” Machiavelli wrote in his Discourses on Livy, “will at all times have more influence over the minds of men than violence and ferocity.” Machiavelli was wrong. The Soviet government quickly began to erase the memory of American charity, and what it could not erase, it sought to distort into something ugly. But it wasn’t just the Russians. Back in the United States, where Americans had followed the work of the A.R.A. with great interest, knowledge of Hoover’s achievement faded. By the time Hoover was voted out of office a decade later, during the Great Depression, the story of this extraordinary humanitarian mission had been forgotten. Now, almost a hundred years later, few people in America or Russia have ever heard of the A.R.A. Here is the story of one of the most horrifying aspects of the famine, and how the Americans sought to document it.
All P.R. Is Good P.R.
During his stay in the Soviet Union, William Garner, the P.R. man for the A.R.A., pushed for information on a subject of particular interest: cannibalism. He said he was hoping to get a chance to sit down with a cannibal for an interview before heading home. This wasn’t just morbid curiosity on his part; rather, he had been directed by his bosses to find solid, incontrovertible evidence of cannibalism. The A.R.A. had received Soviet reports on the problem but wanted its own proof. “We have ’em,” William Kelly, stationed with the A.R.A. in the city of Ufa, told Garner, “but they won’t talk for publication.”
Kelly had heard plenty of stories since arriving in Russia. He was convinced there had been thousands of cases of cannibalism that winter, but it was difficult to get precise details. Few Soviet officials were willing to talk to the Americans about this most horrifying aspect of the famine, largely out of a sense of shame and embarrassment for what they felt it said about their country. Nonetheless, a few had shared with Kelly what they knew, telling him that cannibals were dealt with forcefully when caught—put on trial and punished, some of the guilty even sentenced to death for their crimes.
Once, Kelly saw the trial records of a case, complete with a photograph of the accused and a boiled human head. The official policy of the A.R.A. was to soft-pedal such “horror stuff,” in Kelly’s words, in order to avoid accusations that the Americans had been exaggerating for cheap publicity. In early February, the Moscow office wired London to say that “any implication that the American Relief Administration vouches for the existence of cannibalism should be carefully avoided.”
“There are continual rumors about cannibalism around here,” Henry Wolfe, the high-school history teacher from Ohio, wrote from Samara on February 12 to his little brother Eddie, a student at Phillips Academy back in Massachusetts. “It is said there are cases where starving people have been eating dead bodies. I have heard some weird stories, but don’t know whether they are true.” He left soon after for the village of Melekess, a journey of some 250 miles. Wolfe wrote Eddie again from there on March 5, describing his trip: “At nearly every village we visited we heard of cannibalism. The stories were told to me by reliable persons and their accounts were corroborated by everyone in the village…. There is a woman in prison here in this town who ate her child. (Keep this on the quiet.) I’m going to see her today. You can’t imagine the terrible straits the peasants in the famine zone are in.”
Famine in Stavropol, on the banks of the Volga River.
Wolfe had traveled to New York in August 1921 to hand in his application in person to join the A.R.A. A member of the staff told him they might be in touch later, but they’d already received 500 applications and couldn’t make any promises. He waited around for several days, hoping to hear something. “The more I think of this Russian proposition the better I like it and the more I hope they will need me,” he wrote to his mother. But nothing came through, so Wolfe headed back to Ohio to prepare for another year of teaching history to the kids in the public schools of Coshocton County.
This was a far cry from his days as a volunteer ambulance driver during the war, first with the American Field Service in France and then the Red Cross in Italy, where he crossed paths with Hemingway and Dos Passos. He sent letter after letter to the A.R.A. that autumn, but still there were no openings for him. Finally, in December, he received word that they could use him if he could be ready to sail from New York on January 7. The office made sure to instruct him to bring heavy underwear, high boots, galoshes, and his sleeping bag.
Bodies of Evidence
When he arrived in Moscow at the end of the month, he was shocked to discover that his war service had not prepared him for Russia. The stench of the railroad station was beyond description, as was the mass of ragged humanity lurking in the darkness. Two days later, on the ride from the station in Samara to the A.R.A. house, he passed two dogs fighting in the street over a partially eaten corpse. Wolfe looked at his driver in horror, but the man paid no heed. Such things had become commonplace. On a short walk after dinner, he counted 14 dead bodies lying in the streets around the personnel house.
Wolfe spent most of his time as the lone American in the town of Melekess (now Dimitrovgrad) in northern Samara Province. Touring the villages in the area, he encountered the same hardships witnessed by other A.R.A. men—the frozen corpses stacked like cordwood in locked warehouses awaiting burial in the spring; the fetid hospitals lacking beds, blankets, aspirin, and soap; the walking dead, their eyes sunken and dull, dragging one heavy foot after the other through the snowy streets before collapsing from exhaustion.
Two dogs fighting in the street over a partially eaten corpse—such things had become commonplace.
Wolfe had a particular curiosity about what he called “the infernal crimes” that hunger could drive people to. In village after village, he met peasants who admitted to eating human flesh, whether corpses they had found or victims they had killed for food. It became something of an obsession for Wolfe, and he spent several weeks “on the trail of the cannibal,” as he wrote in a letter to a fellow A.R.A. man, William Shafroth, in early March, aided by “definitive information concerning cannibals” from local officials. Just to be safe, he made sure to carry a revolver with him on his travels.
Hearing the stories of cannibals was one thing, but to be able to catch them in the act was another. “If it can be seen, perhaps it would be valuable information to the A.R.A.” Not long after this, Wolfe found what he had been looking for, and he posed alongside his Soviet helpers for the photograph with his find, a mission-accomplished look on his face. The A.R.A. had its proof. He sent the photograph on to his superiors in Moscow. Unfortunately, the details of the image—where it was taken, the names of the men and women surrounding Wolfe, and the facts behind the discovery of the body parts—have been lost.
Original Sin
According to official Soviet reports, the first instances of cannibalism appeared in late summer 1921. The government was, not surprisingly, alarmed by the reports; nonetheless, it permitted articles about them to be published in the leading newspapers—Pravda and Izvestiia. By the spring of 1922, however, some officials felt the press had gone too far. In March, People’s Commissar for Public Health Nikolai Semashko complained in the pages of Izvestiia that the press had begun to treat the matter as some sort of “boulevard sensation.” Secondhand stories were being reported as facts, and reporters were increasingly prone to unwarranted speculation and exaggeration.
The medical doctor and amateur poet Lev Vasilevsky was prompted by Semashko’s criticism to conduct his own study of cannibalism. In Vasilevsky’s opinion, the problem was too important to be swept under the rug or left to unscrupulous reporters. The truth needed to be known and the guilty punished or, if proved to be psychologically ill, institutionalized. So he set out to undertake a serious investigation, interviewing medical workers and state and local officials, and consulting the materials that had been collected by the city of Samara’s “Famine Museum,” created by two local academics both to document the horrors of the famine and to educate the public. Among the museum’s collections were a series of gruesome photographs of cannibals, typically shown alongside the body parts that had been found with them at the time of their arrest.
Three women arrested for cannibalism, with the evidence of their crime.
In 1922, Vasilevsky published a brochure based on his research, A Horrifying Chronicle of the Famine: Suicide and Anthropophagy. In sparse, unadorned prose, Vasilevsky compiled a chilling catalogue of murder, violence, insanity, and ineffable suffering. He quoted a Bashkir edition of Izvestiia: “In the cantons are very many cases of people consuming human flesh. Driven wild by hunger, they are cutting up their children and eating them. In the grip of starvation, they are eating the bodies of the dead.” Vasilevsky also quoted a provincial official from the village of Bolshaya Glushitsa, in Pugachëv County, who warned that they were being “threatened with the danger of mass cannibalism.”
According to Vasilevsky, there had been hundreds of cases of cannibalism, and he predicted that the numbers were certain to grow as the famine worsened and the taboo against eating human flesh weakened. Indeed, it was the fear of “psychological infection” that prompted Vasilevsky to publish his research with a warning on the title page stating that this work was not to be distributed within the famine zone: readers, he worried, might draw the wrong conclusions from his work.
The people’s commissar for public health complained that the press had begun to treat the matter as some sort of “boulevard sensation.”
Among the cases recounted in A Horrifying Chronicle was that of a group of three adolescents from Ufa Province. Before they were caught, they had lured little children to a remote hut, strangled them, chopped them up, then boiled and eaten their remains. The authorities never did manage to determine the exact number of their victims. The three youths were sent off to a special facility for juvenile criminal offenders, yet the overseers made certain to separate them, concerned that they might try to continue their crimes from inside the institution.
Vasilevsky spoke to the investigating medical doctor. He found the case particularly disturbing. It turned out that the three inmates had had plenty of food at home and had apparently ventured into this grisly business out of sheer curiosity. In their interrogations, they had appeared normal, quiet, and even respectful, but he had no doubt that their “derangement had reached an extreme stage from which there was no hope of recovery.”
Their case reminded Vasilevsky of something he had read in a Kursk newspaper: “People are no longer people. Human feelings have died out, the beast, devoid of all reason and pity, has awakened.” Although Vasilevsky had to agree, he insisted that this had nothing to do with the Russian character but was quite simply the logical result of years of misery and suffering. In this, Vasilevsky was correct. Acts of cannibalism have been recorded during famines throughout history in other parts of the world, such as Ireland during the Confederate Wars of the 17th century and China during the Great Leap under Mao.
Devil in the Detail
Around the time Vasilevsky’s brochure appeared, the Samara State Publishing House released The Book of the Famine, a much larger work filled with official documents—telegrams, letters, interrogation records, police reports, and photographs—describing in grisly fashion many cases of murder, suicide, and cannibalism.
One of the most complete records concerned a 56-year-old illiterate peasant from the village of Yefimovka, Buzuluk County, by the name of Pyotr Mukhin. On January 12, 1922, he testified before Balter, an investigator for the Samara Province Revolutionary Tribunal, that his family had not had any bread since Easter of the previous year. At first they lived off grass, horsemeat, and then dogs and cats. After that, they were reduced to gathering bones and grinding them into an edible paste. But then this, too, ran out, along with all the animals in the village.
“All over our region and in our own village a great number of corpses lie about in the streets and are piled up in the public warehouse. I, Mukhin, early one evening stole into the warehouse and took the corpse of a boy around the age of seven. I had heard that some people of our village were eating human flesh. I took him home on a sleigh, chopped up the corpse into small pieces, and set about to boil it that same evening. Then we woke the children—Natalya, 16 years old, Fyodor, 12, and Afanasy, 7—and we ate it. We ate the entire body in one day, all that was left were the bones.”
Soon after, a man from the village soviet came and asked Mukhin whether the rumor that they had eaten human flesh was true. Mukhin said yes, it was—many did it in the village, although they hid the fact. The man took him to the soviet for questioning. “We don’t remember what human flesh tasted like, we were in a mad frenzy when we ate it. We never killed somebody to eat them. We’ve got plenty of corpses and so it never crossed our minds to kill someone. There’s nothing more I can tell you …”
“Corpse-eater—Mukhin Pyotr Kapitonovich,” the original caption reads.
That same day, Balter questioned Mukhin’s 28-year-old son-in-law, Prokofy, a former Red Army soldier. He told Balter that, a week before he began eating human flesh, he had had to bury his grandfather, father, and mother in the course of just 10 days. All of them had starved to death. Earlier, in the spring of 1921, he had buried his only son, aged two, also dead from hunger. A week before Christmas, his pregnant wife, Stepanida, brought home some boiled human flesh from her father, Pyotr Mukhin, and they ate this together with Prokofy’s sister Yefrosinya. The three of them were arrested and taken to the village soviet, along with some human flesh found in their home.
They were held for three days with no food, and then conveyed to Buzuluk, a journey of four days. Given nothing to eat along the way, they asked one of the accompanying officials whether they might eat the pieces of flesh. He told them no: it had been entered into the police files as evidence. They ignored him and ate it anyway.
Mukhin, his daughter, and his son-in-law were all held in the Buzuluk House of Forced Labor, where they were examined by a psychiatrist from the faculty of Samara University in the middle of January. It was his judgment that none of them displayed any signs of “delirium, delusion of the emotions (hallucinations or illusions), maniacal agitation, condition of melancholy or similar signs of emotional disturbance.” They were neither mad nor insane, but in their right minds. It was hunger that had made them resort to cannibalism, and they presented no danger of committing violence against the community. “They present as typical normal subjects who have been placed in exceptional circumstances that have forced them to commit acts of an anti-human nature, at odds with the normal expression of human nature.” The subsequent fate of Mukhin, his daughter, and his son-in-law is unknown.
The matter-of-fact tone in which these flesh-eaters described their actions was typical. According to the report of the A.R.A. inspector in Pugachëv County, a man by the name of Svorikin, once the starving had eaten human flesh, they no longer considered it a crime. The corpse, devoid of any human soul, was food, either for them or for “the worms in the ground.” He noted: “They speak of these things with a curious kind of passiveness and quietness, as if the question were not of eating a person but simply a herring.”
The practice became so common in this district that the peasants approached state officials to request the government to permit it. That this took place in Pugachëv County in Samara Province is not surprising. This part of the Volga region, which included Buzuluk, home of the Mukhins, suffered like nowhere else. By July 1922, the population had fallen from 491,000 to 179,000 in just two years: over 100,000 had perished from starvation and disease, 142,000 had been evacuated by the state and various relief agencies, and roughly 70,000 people had simply vanished without a trace. Pugachëv County was particularly remote: cut off from the rail lines, isolated from the outside world, left to survive on its own. It was precisely in such places that the most desperate victims of the famine resorted to cannibalism.
Once the starving had eaten human flesh, they no longer considered it a crime.
But not all peasants were willing to accept their fate and take to eating the dead. On the morning of December 8, 1921, in the village of Pokrov-Tananyk in Buzuluk County, a group of almost 50 angry peasants dragging the body of a brutally murdered man on a sleigh arrived at the home of Comrade Golovachëv, the county chairman. They pounded on his door until he came out, and demanded he give them food or else they would come back and eat the man instead. They threw the bloody corpse on the doorstep and departed. Golovachëv’s response is not known, nor is it known whether the mob made good on its threat. The policeman who reported this incident added, “Crimes of cannibalism are becoming more and more prevalent.”
False Alarm
Even if the A.R.A. wanted to play down cannibalism in its publicity, the subject was too explosive to keep out of the Western press, which had a tendency to treat it with the same tawdry sensationalism that had so angered Commissar Semashko. In April 1922, Reuters reported that during a riot in Samara a member of the A.R.A. staff had been killed and eaten. That same month, a story appeared in a Parisian newspaper stating that the American boss of the A.R.A. in Samara had been murdered, cooked, and eaten by the locals. A bemused Wolfe wrote to his brother in mid-May to say he was sure Eddie had read of the reports that an American had been killed and eaten in Samara, and that the likely victim had been none other than Henry himself, but there was no cause for alarm: this was an old rumor that had been going around for months, and he was safe and sound.
“Help the Hungry of Volga Region,” a 1921 poster pleads.
On May 29, The New York Times carried a story on cannibalism that made reference to an exhibition of gruesome photographs recently set up in the Kremlin, only a few doors down from Lenin’s office. The article questioned the reason for the exhibition, surmising that the terrifying images and stories were part of the government’s strategy to wring more aid out of the West. Many of the photographs had been taken by G.P.U. agents to be used as evidence in criminal cases. Although the article gave a vivid, and horrifying, description of the images, the Times refused to publish some of the details, substituting in brackets the words “Here follow details too revolting for publication.”
By the autumn of 1922, Wolfe had had enough of Russia. On November 9, he wrote a letter to Colonel William Haskell, head of the A.R.A. operation in the Soviet Union, informing him that he was beset by “a depression and nervous tension which make it impossible for me to work as I would.” Given what he had seen, no one could blame him. He had gone to Moscow on leave for a time, hoping this would help his mental state, but as soon as he returned to the famine zone, he felt stricken once again with famine shock. The only thing for him to do was resign and go home. The comfortable normality of his native Ohio had never looked so good.
Stunning Footage Of Deadly Russian Strategic Bomber Crash Surfaces Online
Source: ZeroHedge
Petrodollar Demise Is Reshaping The Geopolitical World
In the early 1970s President Richard Nixon instigated two changes that had profound effects. The first of these was taking United States off the gold standard; i.e. henceforth US dollars would no longer be convertible to Gold. Ordinarily this might have been expected to have significant ramifications for the value of the US dollar.
Deleterious effects however, were avoided by another equally profound change. Nixon’s National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger negotiated an agreement with Saudi Arabia that henceforth all oil (initially from Saudi Arabia but rapidly extended to all OPEC countries) would be traded only in US dollars, the birth of the so called petrodollar.
It was a classic mafia style arrangement. In exchange for Saudi Arabia’s agreement to the sole use of the dollar for oil transactions, the US underwrote Saudi Arabia’s security thereby ensuring the continuity of one of the world’s most corrupt and repressive regimes.
Also unknown at the time, the US and Saudi Arabia entered an arrangement whereby Islamist terrorist groups (as long as they were Sunni) would be financed by Saudi Arabia and armed by the Americans and then used in pursuit of US geopolitical goals. Operation Cyclone, begun under the Carter administration in the 1970s was an early forerunner of this tactic, but it has been refined and utilized in different formats in a wide number of countries ever since.
The objective was always fundamentally the same: to undermine and if necessary replace governments that were insufficiently compliant with US geopolitical aims. As and when necessary, US troops and their “coalition” allies would be inserted into the target countries. The destruction of Afghanistan (2001 and continuing) Iraq (2003 and continuing) Libya (2011 and continuing) are only three of the better-known examples.
The huge financial cost of these military and geopolitical ventures did not impose a proper price upon the US because of the hegemonic role of the US dollar. The US, in effect, had their multiple wars of choice paid for by other countries as the dollar’s role in world trade created a constant demand for US Treasury bonds.
The role of the US dollar also permitted the US to impose sanctions on recalcitrant countries. The selective nature of the sanctions, always directed toward a US geopolitical or commercial advantage, were clearly an instrument of repressive power. Notwithstanding claims that they were to “punish” the alleged misconduct of the specified country, their actually use betrayed their geopolitical purpose.
Sanctions against Russia for its” invasion” of Ukraine “annexation” of Crimea, and against Iran for its “nuclear program” are two of the better known illustrations of sanctions being justified on spurious grounds..
The use and abuse of the dollar’s power is clearly unacceptable, but the capacity to invoke countermeasures was until quite recently severely limited. The single most important countervailing force is the rise of China as the economic powerhouse of the world, and importantly, the creation of alternative structures in trade, finance and security, that translate China’s economic power into a force for major change.
That change is assisted by the number of collateral developments. In 1990, the G7 nations (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the US and UK) had a combined GDP approximately six times greater then the seven economically most important emerging nations (Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia and South Korea).
By 2013 the “emerging seven” had surpassed the G7’s GDP total and according to the IMF’s estimates for 2017, the GDP of the two groups will be $47 .5 trillion and $37.8 trillion for the emerging seven and the G7 respectively. Turkey, which is growing at 5% per annum, has replaced Mexico in the top emerging seven.
BRICS, which contains four of the emerging seven nations and the Shanghai Corporation Organization (SCO), which includes China, India and Russia, are working together on the architecture of a monetary alternative to the dollar. The SCO alone contains 42% of the world’s population.
India’s role in BRICS and the SCO is one reason it is being assiduously cultivated by Australia, Japan and the United States in an attempt to set up a “quadrilateral four” to slow and undermine the role of China and Russia in creating an alternative to longstanding western domination and exploitation.
It was in this context that Russia’s President Putin at the recent BRICS meeting in Xiamen, China said that
“Russia shares the BRICS countries concerns over the unfairness of the global financial and economic architecture, which does not give due regard to the growing weight of the emerging economies.”
This speech developed a theme that Putin had developed in an article published prior to the BRICS meeting. Putin bluntly vowed to destroy the US led financial system, aiming to reform a system that gives excessive domination to a limited number of reserve (i.e. predominantly western) currencies.
China has developed a new Cross Border Interbank Payments System (CIPS) to replace the US dominated SWIFT system, itself used as a tool for financial bullying by the US. Russia has also taken steps to insulate itself from the ill effects of being excluded from SWIFT.
Other major changes are also occurring. Venezuela, with the world’s largest known oil reserves, has ceased accepting payment in US dollars. In the past US retaliation through regime change would have been immediate as happened to Libya’s Gaddafi (confirmed by Clinton’s leaked emails) and the Iraq’s Saddam Hussein who had announced that he would henceforth accept payment in euros and not dollars.
China and Qatar recently concluded a $50 billion deal denominated in Yuan. There were immediate threats and absurd demands from Saudi Arabia, undoubtedly acting as the voice of the US administration, but nothing more serious. The lack of military intervention or attempted regime change was probably attributable to Turkey’s military intervention, a series of agreements with Iran, and the probable implied threat of Chinese intervention should the Saudis further demonstrate their military incompetence (as in Yemen) by anything as rash as direct military moves against Qatar.
Saudi Arabia is rapidly reaching a crunch point in its relationship with China, a huge purchaser of Saudi Arabia’s oil. It is widely known that China wants future oil contracts denominated in Yuan. The attraction for Saudi Arabia is that the Chinese guarantee their Yuan with gold traded on the Hong Kong and Shanghai exchanges. Ironically, this puts China in the same position as the United States prior to Nixon’s withdrawal from the gold backed dollar.
The dilemma for the Saudis is that if they comply with the Chinese demands they risk losing the Americans underwriting their security. US instigated regime change in Saudi Arabia is a very real possibility and the recent maneuverings by Mohammad bin Salman to consolidate his power can be interpreted as a response to that possibility.
Typically, the western media focused on relative trivialities, such as women being able to drive motor vehicles from 2018 (in limited circumstances), rather than examining the underlying geopolitical power struggle.
The other major development worth mentioning in this context is the rapid increase in the number of countries doing deals with China using the Yuan or their own national currencies as the medium of exchange. China’s Belt and Road Initiative, currently involving 65 nations, will undoubtedly accelerate this trend. Russia and China are already each other’s critically important trading partners and all agreements between them are being denominated in either Yuan or Rubles.
It would be naïve to assume that this is all going to occur without a massive rear guard action by the Americans who know full well that their ability to defy economic logic is only possible because of the dollar’s unique role, allowing in turn military interventions to prop up their now rapidly declining power.
The United States’ aggressive and provocative actions in the South China Sea, North Korea, Ukraine, Syria and elsewhere our best interpreted as the flailing’s of a declining empire. The real question is will the United States accept the disappearance of the unique power that it has wielded since the Bretton Woods agreement of 1944 and adjust its policies accordingly, or destroy us all in their attempts to recapture a lost world.
By James Oneill | New Eastern Outlook
Putin Declares “Total Independence” From Rothschild NWO Banking Cabal
This is the greatest gift we can give them.”
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Putin’s Greatest Legacy
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Source: Political Vel Craft
Russian TV Begins To Educate Its Citizens About Rothschild ☭ Global Power
A weekend news broadcast, aired on Russia’s Channel 1 on April 2, 2017 reports on the history of the Rothschild family, using Nazi propaganda footage and antisemitic caricatures.
The item, which was broadcast following the death of American banker David Rockefeller, purported to shed light on another wealthy international banking dynasty, the Rothschilds.
The use of Nazi propaganda footage – and moreover, without explicitly mentioning the Nazi regime – is unusual in public broadcasts on Russian media. The broadcast describes the major conspiracy theories regarding the Rothschild family, claiming that it is part of an international Jewish plot to take control of the world.
The MEMRI TV clip has translated excerpts from the original news item.
Source: NWO Report
Biggest News Story Of The Year You Haven’t Heard About Until Now
The “Empire of Chaos” has Russia backed into a corner and Putin says we are on the brink of WWIII. Darrin McBreen talks to Paul Craig Roberts about NATO’s deployment of anti-missile systems surrounding Russia.
Russian TV Trashed Michelle Obama
New documentary series seeks to expose ‘American corruption’ and targets the Obamas
“Munitions Object” found near Baltic Sea gas pipeline (video)
Baltic Sea gas pipeline still closed after mysterious object foundGas flow from the Nord Stream Line 2 pipeline in the Baltic Sea is yet to resume following the halt earlier this week after a potentially explosive object had been found in the vicinity.
Nord Stream AG, the operator of the pipeline carrying Russian gas to EU, on Wednesday said that the Swedish Armed Forces were on site “to safely and professionally dispose of the munitions object.”
“They have to work under windy conditions, so there is no set timeline when the works will be completed,” the company said.
Transportation through Line 2, closed at inlet as a precautionary measure, is expected to be resumed as soon as the disposal of the object is confirmed.
The object, described by Nord Stream AG as a “piece of munition” is in the Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) approximately 120 km away from the island of Gotland.
As for the nature of the object, the Swedish armed forces said Wednesday that it was impossible to say what it was exactly until the identification is completed.
To remind, the Swedish media reported Monday that the mysterious object might be an expendable subsea drone used to destroy underwater mines by detonating a large caliber charge and destroying both itself and the mine in the process. Read more on that here:
Nord Stream Milestone
Nord Stream in October marked a significant milestone, having transported 100 billion cubic metres of Russian natural gas to the European Union.
The 1,224 kilometers long twin pipeline system crosses the Exclusive Economic Zones of Russia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Germany, as well as the territorial waters of Russia, Denmark, and Germany.
According to Nord Stream AG, the pipeline’s transport capacity of 55 bcm per year can provide more than 10 percent of the current gas demand in the EU.
Source: Offshore Energy Today
Baltic Sea Pipeline Reopens After Munitions Object Cleared
Nord Stream AG informed on Thursday that the munitions object, found last week near Nord Stream Line 2 in the Baltic Sea, has been cleared and the gas pipeline has been reopened.
According to Nord Stream, the operator of the pipeline carrying Russian gas to Europe trough the Baltic Sea, the Swedish Armed Forces have cleared the munitions object found near Nord Stream Line 2.
Line 2, which had been closed at inlet as a precautionary measure, was reopened and resumed gas transportation.
The piece of munitions was found in close proximity to the Nord Stream Line 2 on November 6, 2015 during routine survey operations as part of annual integrity assessment activities of the Nord Stream offshore pipeline system. The object was located in the Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) approximately 120 km away from the island of Gotland.
The pipeline operator still has not provided any details on the nature nor origin of the object found. However, Swedish media previously reported that the mysterious object was an expendable subsea drone used to destroy underwater mines by detonating a large caliber charge and destroying both itself and the mine in the process.
Offshore Energy Today reached out to the Swedish Armed Forces seeking more details about the nature of the object found near the pipeline. The article will be updated should we get a response.
Offshore Energy Today Staff
New Russian Military Might On Full Display In Syria
Source, The Blade
HEMEIMEEM AIRBASE, Syria — Sleek combat jets loaded with precision bunker-buster bombs roar into the skies as soldiers in desert-style uniforms march past rows of neat housing at this Russian military base at one of Syria’s largest airports.
The air campaign in Syria, Russia’s first military action outside the former Soviet Union since the war in Afghanistan, shows a revamped Russian military, which sharply differs in both capability and mindset from the old, Soviet-style force.
It is capable of quickly projecting power far from Russian borders, widely uses drones and precision weapons, and cares about soldiers’ comfort.
The thunder of Syria’s civil war couldn’t be heard at Hemeimeem, located in the coastal province of Latakia, which has largely been spared the chaos and destruction of more than 4 1/2 years of fighting in Syria.
Such missions were impossible just a few years ago, when the Russian air force had few planes capable of hitting targets at night.
As part of President Vladimir Putin’s sweeping military modernization program, the air force received hundreds of new and modernized aircraft, all equipped with state-of-the art electronics on a par with U.S. and NATO jets.
“All aircraft here at the base are equipped with targeting systems that allow hitting targets with pinpoint precision,” said Defense Ministry spokesman Maj.-Gen. Igor Konashenkov.
He dismissed Syrian opposition claims that the Russian airstrikes killed civilians as “sheer nonsense,” saying the aircraft have hit ammunition depots, bunkers and other targets away from populated areas. The ministry has released cockpit video to support its claims, just as the Pentagon did during the two Gulf wars.
The precision strikes differ sharply from Russian operations to quash two separatist insurrections in Chechnya, where the Russian military indiscriminately used obsolete, inaccurate weapons, reducing the Chechen capital of Grozny to rubble.
Latakia, the heartland of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s Alawite minority, offers the Russian military a safe environment — and a warm welcome from people blaring car horns and chanting “Thanks!” in Russian.
At a refugee camp in Latakia, which houses several thousand mostly Alawite refugees from other provinces in Syria, smiling kids shouted: “Thank you, Putin!”
Warmly greeted by the locals and at a safe distance from the front lines, Russian soldiers at the base look calm and relaxed.
Still, Russian military police manning checkpoints with Syrian security forces thoroughly check incoming vehicles, special forces guard key facilities and Mi-24 helicopter gunships sweep around the base on regular patrols looking for any suspicious activity. Pantsyr air defense systems are deployed at the edge of the airfield, completing the security bubble.
Soldiers at the base are visibly proud of their crisp new uniforms and comfortable sand-colored high boots, a stark contrast with the drab Soviet-style military attire worn until recently.
Air force support crew attaching heavy bombs and missiles under the warplanes’ wings wear shorts and white sports shoes for comfort in very un-Russian temperatures of nearly 30 Celsius (mid-80s Fahrenheit).
On a typical day, each jet flies several sorties during the day and at night.
Konashenkov shrugged off U.S. criticism that Russia was targeting moderate rebel groups fighting Assad instead of focusing on the Islamic State group, the main goal declared by the Kremlin. He argued it doesn’t matter which of the myriad militant groups owns facilities making suicide belts and rigging trucks with explosives for suicide missions, which the Russian warplanes target.
In another break with the old Russian military tradition, the planners of the Hemeimeem base took care of the troops, a marked departure from Soviet-style neglect of soldiers’ comfort.
The neat rows of housing units, each holding from two to eight men depending on rank, are equipped with air conditioning, a must in the scorching heat, and there are plenty of wash cabins available.
A field kitchen and a canteen look immaculately clean, a sight to shock anyone familiar with crude ways of the old-style Russian military.
At the base’s water treatment unit, Lt.-Col. Alexander Yevdokimov spoke enthusiastically about a multilayer filter system that purifies Syrian tap water to the highest drinking standard and prevents any threat of chemical or bacteriological contamination.
“Please try it, it tastes really good!” he told reporters.
The base bakes its own bread and cooks prepare no-frills but filling Russian dishes. An army store offers souvenirs, cosmetics and clothing, and smiling attendants at a nearby coffee shop sell candies, cookies and ice cream delivered from Russia.
Konashenkov, a veteran of the war in Chechnya and other post-Soviet conflicts, is keen to highlight the progress the military has made.
“Remember Chechnya, where everything was covered in dirt?” he asks, pointing at the base’s freshly paved grounds that help keep uniforms and housing units clean.
Officers at the base say its comfortable layout and logistics reflect the personal touch of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, who is widely popular in the ranks, unlike his predecessor, Anatoly Serdyukov.
Serdyukov, who was ordered by Putin to streamline the bloated and under-funded military after the 2008 Russia-Georgia war, conducted painful cuts of the officer corps and made other radical changes, but was eventually sacked amid growling in the ranks.
The military welcomed the appointment of Shoigu, who had served as Russia’s emergencies minister for two decades and won a reputation as one of the few Russian officials who could actually get things done.
A latecomer to Putin’s inner circle, Shoigu has developed strong personal ties with the president. They have gone fishing together and the defense minister now seems to be one of the few officials whom Putin particularly trusts.
Spending on the military increased under Shoigu’s leadership, financing hundreds of new aircraft and missiles and the commissioning of numerous other new weapons.
The armed forces have held a series of massive exercises, engaging hundreds of thousands of troops and hundreds of aircraft across vast areas from the Baltics to the Pacific and from the Caspian Sea to the Arctic.
The drills paid off when Putin moved to annex Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014. Within hours, waves of Russian transport planes airlifted special forces that quickly blocked Ukrainian troops at their bases without firing a shot. The swift operation took the West by surprise.
Unlike the past, when the military’s post-Soviet meltdown forced the Kremlin to rely increasingly on nuclear weapons, it has grown more confident about its conventional forces.
The rapid deployment of a sizable expeditionary force by sea and air, an air campaign in which dozens of jets relentlessly pounded targets round the clock for weeks and the launching of long-range cruise missiles from the Caspian were intended to send a clear message: Russia’s military could rival U.S. operational capability.
Putin has pointed at the launch of 26 cruise missiles from Russian navy ships in the Caspian at targets in Syria 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) away as a signal to the U.S. that Russia can pack a similar punch.
Konashenkov, the Russian Defense Ministry spokesman, shrugged off the Pentagon’s claim that four of the missiles crashed in Iran.
“All those targets (in Syria) must have exploded all by themselves then!” he said with a sardonic smile, insisting that every Russian missile hit its target.
What is Obama gonna do?
Mosaic Of Facts: what is the info war?
Can you tell truth from lies in mass media? Miguel Francis-Santiago delves deep to try to understand the intricacies of information war. He meets media experts and puts together the Mosaic of Facts, showing how public opinion is manipulated, not just over the Ukrainian Crisis but throughout the world.
Latest US Campaign To Overthrow A Mid-East Government Just Ended In Total Failure
One week ago, when summarizing the current state of play in Syria, we said that for Obama, “this is shaping up to be the most spectacular US foreign policy debacle since Vietnam.” Yesterday, in tacit confirmation of this assessment, the Obama administration threw in the towel on one of the most contentious programs it has implemented in “fighting ISIS”, when the Defense Department announced it was abandoning the goal of a U.S.-trained Syrian force.
But this, so far, partial admission of failure only takes care of one part of Obama’s problem: there is the question of the “other” rebels supported by the US, those who are not part of the officially-disclosed public program with the fake goal of fighting ISIS; we are talking, of course, about the nearly 10,000 CIA-supported “other rebels”, or technically mercenaries, whose only task is to take down Assad.
The same “rebels” whose fate the AP profiles today when it writes that the CIA began a covert operation in 2013 to arm, fund and train a moderate opposition to Assad. Over that time, the CIA has trained an estimated 10,000 fighters, although the number still fighting with so-called moderate forces is unclear.
It is this effort, too, that in the span of just one month Vladimir Putin has managed to render utterly useless, as it is officially “off the books” and thus the US can’t formally support these thousands of “rebel-fighters” whose only real task was to repeat the “success” of Ukraine and overthrow Syria’s legitimate president: something which runs counter to the US image of a dignified democracy not still resorting to 1960s tactics of government overthrow. That, and coupled with Russia and Iran set to take strategic control of Syria in the coming months, the US simply has no toehold any more in the critical mid-eastern nation.
And so another sad chapter in the CIA’s book of failed government overthrows comes to a close, leaving the “rebels” that the CIA had supported for years, to fend for themselves.
From AP:
CIA-backed rebels in Syria, who had begun to put serious pressure on President Bashar Assad’s forces, are now under Russian bombardment with little prospect of rescue by their American patrons, U.S. officials say.
Over the past week, Russia has directed parts of its air campaign against U.S.-funded groups and other moderate opposition in a concerted effort to weaken them, the officials say. The Obama administration has few options to defend those it had secretly armed and trained.
The Russians “know their targets, and they have a sophisticated capacity to understand the battlefield situation,” said Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., who serves on the House Intelligence Committee and was careful not to confirm a classified program. “They are bombing in locations that are not connected to the Islamic State” group.
With the US now in damage control mode, the finger pointing begins.
First, it is only natural that finger will point at Putin – after all he is an easy target:
U.S. intelligence officials see many factors motivating Russia’s intervention: Moscow’s reasserting its primacy as a great power, propping up Assad and wanting to deal a blow to the United States, which has insisted that Assad must go to end Syria’s civil war.
Russia is also interested in containing IS, an organization that includes thousands of Chechen fighters who may pose a threat to Russia, officials say.
But in the short term, “my conclusion is that the timing of their intervention was driven by Assad really going critical,” said Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., also a House Intelligence Committee member.
Alas, blaming Putin only underscores his latest victory over the US state department, leaving the US diplomatic corps no choice but to blame its own. This is imminent, and many heads will – or should – roll.
The administration is scrambling to come up with a response to Russia’s moves, but few believe the U.S. can protect its secret rebel allies. The administration has all but ruled out providing CIA-backed groups with surface-to-air missiles that can down aircraft, fearing such weapons would end up in the wrong hands, officials say.
Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the committee, says the U.S. should consider establishing a no-fly zone that allows rebels a safe place from which to operate, and shooting down Syrian helicopters that are bombing civilians. He said the U.S. also should provide arms to the Ukrainian government fighting Russian-backed separatists.
A no-fly zone would require the U.S. military to be ready to engage in air battles with the Syrian government, something it is not prepared to do.
Why? Because it is not the Syrian government that is flying those sorties above Syria, it is Putin, and despite all the posturing, Obama is unwilling to risk World War III just to stop a Qatar gas pipeline to Europe.
Which means Obama now has just one option: admitting that his latest gamble to overthrow Assad, one which started in 2013 with the fake YouTube clips of “chemical attacks”, and the resultant naval escalation, coupled with the CIA’s training of thousands of local rebels mercenaries, and which escalated with the “appearance” of ISIS in the summer of 2014, is about to end with Obama admitting yet another major political defeat.
The administration “is debating the merits of taking further action or whether they are better off letting Putin hang himself,” he said, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Because somehow handing over control of the Middle East to the Russian-controlled axis – incidentally the topic of another article yesterday in the WSJ “America’s Fading Footprint in the Middle East” – is now spun as a defeat for Putin.
“Our options are much narrower than they were two weeks ago,” said Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, who serves on the Intelligence and Armed Services committees. “I don’t think there is any simple answer. … Further air involvement has become very problematic because of the Russian engagement.”
And so Putin has once again “won”, or as the administration would prefer to spin it, “has hung himself.”
Incidentally, this is just the beginning. Now that the U.S. has begun its pivot out of the middle-east, handing it over to Putin as Russia’s latest sphere of influence on a silver platter, there will be staggering consequences for middle-east geopolitics. In out preview of things to come last week, we concluded by laying these out; we will do the same again:
The US, in conjunction with Saudi Arabia and Qatar, attempted to train and support Sunni extremists to overthrow the Assad regime. Some of those Sunni extremists ended up going crazy and declaring a Medeival caliphate putting the Pentagon and Langley in the hilarious position of being forced to classify al-Qaeda as “moderate.” The situation spun out of control leading to hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths and when Washington finally decided to try and find real “moderates” to help contain the Frankenstein monster the CIA had created in ISIS (there were of course numerous other CIA efforts to arm and train anti-Assad fighters, see below for the fate of the most “successful” of those groups), the effort ended up being a complete embarrassment that culminated with the admission that only “four or five” remained and just days after that admission, those “four or five” were car jacked by al-Qaeda in what was perhaps the most under-reported piece of foreign policy comedy in history.
Meanwhile, Iran sensed an epic opportunity to capitalize on Washington’s incompetence. Tehran then sent its most powerful general to Russia where a pitch was made to upend the Mid-East balance of power. The Kremlin loved the idea because after all, Moscow is stinging from Western economic sanctions and Vladimir Putin is keen on showing the West that, in the wake of the controversy surrounding the annexation of Crimea and the conflict in eastern Ukraine, Russia isn’t set to back down. Thanks to the fact that the US chose extremists as its weapon of choice in Syria, Russia gets to frame its involvement as a “war on terror” and thanks to Russia’s involvement, Iran gets to safely broadcast its military support for Assad just weeks after the nuclear deal was struck. Now, Russian airstrikes have debilitated the only group of CIA-backed fighters that had actually proven to be somewhat effective and Iran and Hezbollah are preparing a massive ground invasion under cover of Russian air support. Worse still, the entire on-the-ground effort is being coordinated by the Iranian general who is public enemy number one in Western intelligence circles and he’s effectively operating at the behest of Putin, the man that Western media paints as the most dangerous person on the planet.
As incompetent as the US has proven to be throughout the entire debacle, it’s still difficult to imagine that Washington, Riyadh, London, Doha, and Jerusalem are going to take this laying down and on that note, we close with our assessment from Thursday: “If Russia ends up bolstering Iran’s position in Syria (by expanding Hezbollah’s influence and capabilities) and if the Russian air force effectively takes control of Iraq thus allowing Iran to exert a greater influence over the government in Baghdad, the fragile balance of power that has existed in the region will be turned on its head and in the event this plays out, one should not expect Washington, Riyadh, Jerusalem, and London to simply go gentle into that good night.”
Which is not to say that the latest US failure to overthrow a mid-east government was a total failure. As Joshua Landis, a Syria expert at the University of Oklahoma says “probably 60 to 80 percent of the arms that America shoveled in have gone to al-Qaida and its affiliates.”
Which is at least great news for the military-industrial complex. It means more “terrorist attacks” on U.S. “friends and allies”, and perhaps even on U.S. soil – all courtesy of the US government supplying the weapons – are imminent.
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Putin Flying Ship Born Missiles From Caspian Sea Into Obama Terrorist Proxy Army Assets In Syria.
A Russian navy ship in the Caspian Sea launches a cruise missile Wednesday in an image taken from a video posted on the Russian Defense Ministry website. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said four Russian navy ships launched 26 cruise missiles at Islamic State targets in Syria.
The attack was announced on Russian state television during a televised meeting on Wednesday between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his top military advisers.
“Besides using aviation to destroy militants, this morning ships from the Caspian Flotilla were brought in, four destroyers launched 26 Kalibr sea-based cruise missiles at 11 targets,” Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told Putin in a meeting televised by Rossiya-1.
“The fact that we launched high-precision missiles from the Caspian Sea at approximately 1,500 kilometers [932 miles] and hit all of the targets says much about the good training in the military-industrial complex and good skills of the staff,” he added.
The Kalibr supersonic cruise missile was deployed this summer after seven years of testing and development. Although the missile system had been seen as a potential threat to Western European targets, the evidence it has an effective range of more than 900 miles surprised analysts of Russian military hardware.
The cruise missile strikes came as Russian forces based in western Syria unleashed what appears to be its heaviest day of strikes yet in the week-long air campaign against Syrian rebels, apparently in support of what Syrian officials told the Associated Press is a new ground offensive to retake rebel-held areas in Idlib, Hama and Homs provinces. Most of the Russian airstrikes of the past week have been concentrated in those areas.
After a summer of significant setbacks at the hands of both anti-government groups and the Islamic State, the Syrian government is widely expected to use Russia’s new support to push out from the government-controlled areas in the western third of the country.
Has Putin Has Just Put An End to the Wolfowitz Doctrine?
about Paul Wolfowitz who crafted the Bush Doctrine Obama follows today
Russian Propaganda Newspaper: declares World War III on America, promises to topple the U.S. by early 2016
war(NaturalNews) As news broke recently that Russian warplanes had dropped their first ordnance in civil-war-ravaged Syria, a noted Russian propaganda newspaper, the Komsomolskaya Pravda, was making a dire prediction: The U.S. will become embroiled in World War III by the end of 2015.
Only, it won’t be a war like the first two global conflagrations. The next world conflict will be waged economically, the article states, adding that, in fact, the first economic “shots” have already been fired.
The article, translated at the WatchingAmerica website, first claims that, during World War II, the U.S. “profited” by selling weapons to many of the countries involved in the conflict, “including the Soviet Union exclusively in exchange for gold.”
“After sewing chaos and instability throughout the world, the U.S. has received a strike in retaliation,” the article continued. “The thing that Americans feared most has come to pass: Russia and China’s united war against the dollar.”
It also contained a direct reference to covert acts of aggression that were exposed by Natural News editor Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, on August 17, who said sources in China confirmed that a chemical plant explosion was no accident, that it was caused by the U.S. in retaliation for Beijing’s recent currency devaluation.
“With maneuvers in the East China Sea and accidents at chemical plants, the Chinese decided they would no longer tolerate the situation, and so they pulled the trigger in the first economic world war,” the Pravda article said, which is a virtual acknowledgement of the revelations in Adams’ report. The piece continues with a mention of a Chinese yuan devaluation and the August stock market plunge on Wall Street.
“First, China devalued the yuan, which caused the collapse of the Shanghai Exchange Composite Index by 7.6 percent,” the article said. “Next, China began to interfere heavily in the exchange market by using its reserves. Within a short period of time, Beijing had sold a fantastic number of American bonds, and this has affected the profitability of those bonds.”
Continuing, the article stated, “As of Aug. 19, the traditionally synchronized movement of U.S. stocks and bond yields had been destroyed. This way of life had persisted for almost 30 years, but in one day, everything changed.”
“Since early 2015, China has sold $107 billion in treasury bonds. That was how it began, and now, the entire year will be defined by the last two weeks,” it said, noting that both Russia and China have been dumping U.S. bonds for a couple of years, only doing it slowly.
“Large quantities of American stock make China’s economy dependent on the U.S. because falling prices would hurt China as well. But everyone understands this, so they have been gradually getting rid of the stock in order to minimize loses,” said the article.
“According to experts, if sales continue at this same pace, it will allow the PBOC to carry out an intervention for another 18 weeks,” which will be January 2018, as of this writing.
‘Not Fought With Tanks And Cannons’
The article states that it isn’t clear that the U.S. economy can withstand such a blow, but opines that “more than likely” it will not because the U.S. financial system has never endured such a hit.
“Therefore, it is obvious that a military conflict is overdue. Specialists are of the opinion that with every percent that the market falls, the amount of infusion that would be necessary grows by roughly $200 billion,” said the article. It went on to warn that Russia would not support another ceasefire agreement in Ukraine, but would instead seek full capitulation of the country, and that Russia “has the right to a peacekeeping operation if force is used in Kiev, similar to what it did in Georgia in 2008.”
“However, there will not be a world war with tanks and cannons. Black Monday, Aug. 25, 2015, has already become the economic equivalent of Pearl Harbor and will likely go down in history as the beginning of the first economic world war,” the Pravda piece noted.
It’s important to note that article’s author is Alexander (Oleksandr) Luzan, the chairman of Ukraine’s Slavic Party, founded in the early ’90s after the Soviet collapse to campaign for improving and maintaining relations with Russia and other former Soviet Republics.
A cornerstone of Slavic Party ideology is the unification of all Slavic lands, which means uniting Ukraine with Russia, as well as other Slavic nations in Eastern Europe.
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Understanding The Importance: Russian airstrikes are targeting CIA-backed terrorists
by Justin King for The Fifth Column
Washington, DC (TFC) – US officials are crying and launching a media blitz about Russia’s airstrikes in Syria. The western media smiles and nods as it continues to support DC’s narrative without examining the realities of the situation on the ground or the intentions of Moscow.
Image Source: Vitaly V. Kuzmin, Wikimedia, Creative Commons
The Russian Air Force bombed areas held by a rebel group that engages in kidnappings for ransom, employs child soldiers, executes civilians, and tortures prisoners. This isn’t disputed by the US. The problem is that this particular rebel group is funded and trained by the CIA. These are the “moderate rebels” the US has been supporting. The air strikes are proof positive that Russian President Putin has no intention of abandoning Syrian President Assad and that Russia will not follow the US script. The US hoped that Russia would limit its attacks to the Islamic State forces, which were also clandestinely supported by NATO. By focusing the fight on the Islamic State, the “moderate rebels” of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) could continue to destabilize Assad.
The US Fails To Understand The Russian Plan
It should come as no surprise that the Administration which has led the US through one of the worst foreign policy disasters in recent history has failed to grasp the situation. Russian military doctrine and US military doctrine are very different. The Russians have no intention of engaging in a low-intensity conflict. The plan is simply to destroy opposition to Assad. The US screams that Russia has not targeted the Islamic State directly yet. US doctrine stipulates that since the Islamic State is more public and brutal while committing war crimes, they should be the priority. Russian doctrine focuses on destroying pockets of resistance, creating a single front, and then steam rolling over the opposition in battles of attrition. It should not have come as surprise to US intelligence that the Russian military targeted a pocket of resistance near Homs, the third largest city in Syria, and two fronts that threaten Hama and Latakia, the fourth and fifth largest cities. Latakia also maintains a port that will be important if there is a mass buildup of Russian troops. Air routes into Syria have to skirt the airspace of other nations; logistically the ports need to be secured. The Institute for the Study of War has produced a map that clearly illustrates why Russia chose the targets it did.
Once these pockets are destroyed and the major cities are secured, Russia will begin moving it’s operations further East. While Russia may engage in some bombing of the Islamic State to degrade capabilities prior to this, these operations will be attacking targets of opportunity and serve little genuine purpose beyond public relations. As Syrian government and Russian forces move East, the Islamic State will decline to go toe to toe in pitched battles. They will instead flee across the border into Iraq, and Frankenstein’s monster will once again become the problem of the United States.
US officials made veiled threats about the dangers of Russian and US warplanes operating in the same vicinity. Of course, the Russian military, via an emissary to the US Embassy in Baghdad, provided the US with a one-hour warning to clear Syrian airspace. While the US may posture all it wishes, the fact remains that Russia was invited by the recognized government of Syria to conduct military operations in its territory. The United States has not been invited. The US is unarguably the aggressor in Syria. It has funded groups that by all rights should be regarded as terrorist organizations. The US has no moral authority and is not in a position to tell Moscow how to run its war.
It is important to remember that the US Defense Intelligence Agency has stated that Syria is unlikely to survive as a nation. There is no reason for the United States to escalate in an attempt to place a friendly regime in Damascus. The best strategy for the US at this point would be to cut its losses and allow Russia to clean up the mess that has left millions homeless and hundreds of thousands dead. The United Kingdom has already decided to cooperate with Russia.
Sadly, another difference in Russian and US military doctrine is the consideration of civilians. While Russia does not historically target civilians, it also makes little effort to avoid them. The threshold of what is considered acceptable collateral damage is much higher. The world should expect the civilian death toll to rise. This will most likely cause another spike in the number of refugees fleeing the country.
Editor’s Note: The Fifth Column has repeatedly proven itself adept at analyzing raw intelligence, however, we are not an intelligence agency. This leaves the American reader with a very uncomfortable question. Is it more likely that a news organization with a minimum staff, which hasn’t reached its first birthday and that pays most of its sources in beer better at analyzing intelligence data than the combined US intelligence community with tens of thousands of analysts and its multi-billion dollar budget; or is the US government once again misrepresenting intelligence to the American people at the risk of American lives?
Russian Report States Total Defeat Of US Military Would Take 3 Weeks
A comprehensive Ministry of Defense (MoD) report circulating in the Kremlin today stunningly states that a total defeat of all United States military forces by Federation forces is possible to achieve in about 3 weeks should President Putin order the activation of the Ministries “first strike” war plan against America and its NATO allies.
According to this report, a total defeat of all US military forces would begin with the immediate destruction/disablement of all 19 US Navy aircraft carriers and capable aircraft carriers , the destruction/disablement of all US-NATO military satellites, a strategic takeover of US-NATO heavy arms depots in Norway and Germany by airborne Spetsnaz (Special Forces) troops, the “obliteration” of all US bases in the United Kingdom, the saturation of European Union airspace utilizing special weapons technology and the “preparation for use” of 500 tactical nuclear weapons.
Once having accomplished the foregoing, this report continues, total US-NATO troop losses would exceed 35,000 (dead, wounded, captured and missing) with an accompanying loss of, at least, $15 trillion in US-NATO equipment (ships, aircraft, armour, etc.).
Having then achieved an initial tactical advantage over US-NATO forces within the first 24 hours of war, this report notes, a stipulation to end hostilities would then be issued to the West demanding the immediate removal of all American forces, nuclear weapons and equipment from Europe which when accomplished Federation forces would then disengage and cede their territorial gains.
If rejected though, this report grimly warns, Federation forces would then begin tactically nuking US-NATO military bases in Europe while simultaneously initiating EMP/Electronic Warfare against the United States and Canada and “preparing for use” the Federations intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM’s).
Most bizarre/ingenious in this MoD report, however, is its stating that the political machinations that will erupt in the West, especially the United States, upon the initial outbreak of war involving global warming alarmists, and other such environmental and social engineers, and their fears of total global nuclear war occurring, will cause both the US and EU to lose their political will to fight nearly immediately.
The global warming environmental factions in the West, this report explains, will call for an immediate halt to war over their fears of the catastrophic damage to the environment that would occur due to nuclear war, while Western social engineers will fear losing their anti-Christian global agenda should the Christian forces of the Federation prevail.
Critical to note, also, in this MoD report is its actually stating that tens-of-millions of Christian-Americans could very well provide another “fifth column” of Federation support due to their having to either defend their own “demonic” leaders destroying their nation, or, defend the Christian-Federation forces seeking to liberate the United States, Europe and the rest of the world from the blatant reordering of Western society towards “satanic design”.
And should these “fifth column” Christian-Americans support the Federation, this report claims, an all-out nuclear catastrophe would be averted and the United States, under new Christian leadership, would then be able to return to its peaceful ways and quit terrorizing the world.
With US Army readiness levels now being reported being at historic lows, and half of all US Marine Corps units at their home bases now below the levels of required war readiness too, this report further states, the mass exodus of Christian-Americans from their military forces have also left this once feared fighting force nothing short of a training ground for Obama regime sexual/gender experimentation incapable of waging war.
Among the numerous shocking examples cited in this MoD report detailing how far the US military has fallen into sexual deviancy under the Obama regime are US Marines in Okinawa now performing while wearing women’s clothing (in drag) and US Army troops being forced to wear women’s high-heel shoes as part of their “diversity” training.
With President Obama having just appointed an openly gay man, Eric K. Fanning, to now lead the US Army, this report continues, he has refused to listen to his own Center for Military Readiness who in June warned that the Pentagons new gender orders take “diversity” to extremes thus further weakening America’s fighting strength.
And in Christian-Federation forces facing such a “sexual-deviated” force, this report estimates, it would only take 3 weeks before these Americans “will to fight” was extinguished.
To if President Putin would authorize the MoD’s “first-strike” war plan against US and NATO this report doesn’t say, but with America now becoming a nation where one of their top comedians is a 10-year-old child named Saffron Herndon who gets laughs from her audiences telling such jokes as “Online dating is tough. Every time I meet someone new they end up in jail”, and one of that nations top magazines, Salon, has now started openly supporting adult-child sex in their promotion of the Virtuous Pedophiles website stating that pedophilia is just another “sexual preference, one could clearly see why he might.
After all, things from Hell belong in Hell…maybe its time for someone, anyone, to put these monsters back where they belong.
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Obama In Ecstasy As “Nuclear Tsunami” Ignites Islamic End Times Fears
An absolutely shocking new report prepared by the Ministry of Defense (MoD) for the use of President Putin during his upcoming meeting with President Obama at the United Nations warns that the American leader has become “ecstatic” (defined as the mental transport or rapture from the contemplation of divine things) and is “without doubt” under the influence of Sunni Muslim messianic fervor believing that his actions will accelerate the coming of the Al-Mahdi (the Mahdi).
According to this report, since taking office in 2009, President Obama has affiliated himself with the Sunni Islamic theocracy of Saudi Arabia, which by law forbids religious minorities from practicing their religion, and has created for himself a de facto alternate capitol city in Beverly Hills, California, which hundreds of Saudi princes now call home, some of them even being allowed to sexually brutalize women.
Of the closest of these Saudi princes to President Obama, this report continues, is prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, who in 1988 helped his young protégé, who would become the future American President, to enter into Harvard Law School.
Another of prince Al-Waleed bin Talal’s protégés, this report explains, was an Iraqi Islamic scholar named Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi who, in 2009, President Obama ordered released from the US militaries Camp Bucca detention center in Iraq where he had been held as a “grave security threat” since 2004.
Upon President Obama ordering al-Baghdadi’s freed in 2009, this report says, US Army Colonel Kenneth King, then the commanding officer of Camp Bucca, failed to comprehend that this Saudi trained Sunni Islamic scholar would become the world’s most feared terrorist, but did note that al-Baghdadi stated upon his release, “I’ll see you guys in New York”.
Immediately after al Baghdadi was released, however, this report continues, President Obama further ordered the US military to turn over to the Iraqi army billions-of-dollars of weapons, armor and other war making materials which were then stationed in and around the Iraqi city of Mosel.
This is a critical point to note, this report explains, because when President Obama failed to come to an agreement with Iraq to allow US forces to remain in Iraq, and they were subsequently all removed in 2011, al-Baghdadi’s forces captured Mosel as Iraqi government forces fled thus giving him, in essence, a “ready made army”…along with over $425 million in cash and gold making al Baghdadi and his followers “the world’s richest terror force”.
Once armed with weapons and war material generously supplied by President Obama, this report says, al-Baghdadi then solidified his forces becoming what is known now as the Islamic State…ISIS/ISIL…declaring that he was the now the rightful leader of Islam, immediately after which he began receiving massive funding from not only Saudi Arabia, but Kuwait and Qatar too.
Critical to note about why President Obama and his Saudi and Gulf State allies have supported al Baghdadi and his ISIS/ISIL terrorists, this report states, is the Sunni Islamic belief that our world is in the “end times”…a belief also shared by Shiite Muslims.
In the competing “end times” narrative between the Sunni and Shiite branches of Islam, however, this report explains, President Obama has sided with the most radical version supported by Saudi Arabia and its Sunni allies…which calls for a world being led by Muslims and the extermination by genocide of all disbelievers, or their conversion.
Chillingly, this report continues, this “end time” view of President Obama’s and Saudi Arabia’s ISIS/ISIL was recently confirmed by German journalist Jürgen Todenhöfer, the only Western reporter ever allowed to have access to the high command of this terrorist state, who grimly warned that ISIS is a ‘nuclear ‘tsunami’ that wants to wipe hundreds-of-millions from face of the earth and stated: “I don’t see anyone who has a real chance to stop them.”
Even though Todenhöfer doesn’t see anyway to stop ISIS/ISL, this report says, President Putin does, and as evidenced by the tacit” agreement secretly reached between the US and Russia this past week.
Standing in President Putin’s way, however, of actually achieving this agreement to end ISIS/ISIL, this report warns, is President Obama himself…who on 19 September requested a meeting with President Putin proposing two possible dates, but then yesterday lied and said President Putin requested this meeting stating that Russia’s leader was “desperate.
Even worse, says this report, President Obama, in his and Saudi Arabia’s latest effort to protect ISIS/ISIL, blocked Russia’s proposal to include the ISIS/ISIL on the UN Security Council’s sanctions list as an independent organization.
And going from the merely frustrating to the outright comical in dealing with the ISIS/ISIL global threat, this report continues, President Obama not only supported making Saudi Arabia the head of the United Nations Human Rights Council this week, his administration actually said they welcomed it!
As to how President Obama can morally justify making Saudi Arabia the UN leader in human rights, this report states, defies all common logic as that nation has not only beheaded over 100 people this year, including children, but has, also, copied ISIS/ISIL and reinstated the barbaric ritual of crucifying to death those who break their religious laws.
To if President Obama’s messianic fervor in Islamic “end times” theology can be stopped, this report concludes, is not known.
What is known though is if President Obama’s madness isn’t stopped, our world will plunged into total war.
by Sorcha Faal. Read more on What Does It Mean
China warns Russia that ‘State Of War’ now exists with United States
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) is reporting today the Federation has been informed by the State Council of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) that a de facto “State of War” now officially exists between that Asian nation and the United States of America.
According to this report, following the “provisions and protocols” of the 8 May 2015 Russian-Chinese Cyber-Security Agreement that states a signatory to this pact that anticipates the outbreak of hostilities is obligated to immediately inform the other so that “war preparations” needed to protect critical infrastructure can be undertaken, the PRC has informed the Federation that these “conditions now exist”.
Leading to this grave war warning from the PRC, this report explains, has been the catastrophic loss of over $3.7 trillion in wealth from Chinese stock markets over the past fortnight that has seen them plunge by over 30% and has led to panic among financial investors and ordinary citizens alike.
As to the cause of this devastating melt-down, this report continues, PRC experts have stated that “evil” market forces are going short to ruin the Chinese economy, and even suspecting Western-backed investment “predators” of lurking behind the turmoil, with US banking giant Morgan Stanley among the names mentioned.
Similarly, this report notes, five professors from China’s top universities issued a widely distributed public letter on 2 July alleging sinister market forces were exploiting weaknesses in China’s financial system for profit, comparing the situation to when President Obama’s “puppet master”, financier George Soros, and others bet against East Asian currencies during the 1997-98 Asia Financial Crisis.
To what precipitated this devastating Obama regime-led financial attack upon the PRC, MoFA experts in this report say, was detailed early last month by the Washington Post News Service, who, in part, said:
“Hackers working for the Chinese state breached the computer system of the Office of Personnel Management in December, U.S. officials said Thursday (4 June) , and the agency will notify about 4 million current and former federal employees that their personal data may have been compromised.
As to the wisdom of the Obama regime attacking the PRC’s financial markets in retaliation for their alleged hacking of US government servers, this report continues, it appears to be both “juvenile” and “ill timed” as China, with its holding of over nearly $4 trillion in foreign reserves, compared with the United States $121 billion…and with China’s citizens having a staggering $21 trillion saved compared to their American counterparts who have only $614 billion…is more than prepared to retaliate.
And making this situation even more fraught with danger, MoFA experts in this report warn, in a further response to the Obama regimes attacking them, two senior Chinese military leaders yesterday called on the People’s Liberation Army to beef up its naval capacity and combat readiness amid a higher risk of “warfare on the doorstep”.
In a 5,000-word article published yesterday in People’s Daily, the Communist Party’s flagship newspaper, General Cai Yingting, commander of the PLA Nanjing military area command, and his political commissar General Zheng Weiping, warned that the PLA should learn lessons from the war with Japan that ended 70 years ago.
These Chinese generals further stated, “There have been profound challenges from territorial disputes on our country’s periphery, geopolitical competition among big powers, and ethnic and religious friction. Tensions in surrounding hot spots are also on the rise, and the risk of chaos and warfare on our doorstep has increased. We should be more vigilant … and put combat preparedness at the front of our minds.”
To how the Obama regime is “responding/preparing” for war with China, however, this report notes, World War III is now the hot news with Pentagon brass as the Wall Street Journal just reviewed “The Ghost Fleet” by Peter Singer and August Cole.
Singer, “one of the United States pre-eminent futurists” is now “walking the Pentagon halls with an ominous warning for America’s military leaders: World War III with China is coming.”
In fact, Singer warns, even America’s advanced new F-35 fighter jets may be “blown from the sky by their Chinese-made microchips and Chinese hackers easily could worm their way into the military’s secretive intelligence service … and the Chinese Army may one day occupy Hawaii.”
Speculation? No, the Wall Street Journal’s Dion Nissenbaum reminded readers that Chinese hackers have already got into “White House computers, defense industry plans and millions of secret U.S. government files.”
Also important to note, this report continues, China has just overtaken the United States as the world’s largest economy, and as, perhaps, best written about by the Vanity Fair News Service who recently wrote:
And as to who would win a war between the PRC and the US, this report concludes, the Market Watch News Service in their article yesterday titled “4th of July Fireworks: World War III with China Dead Ahead” summed it up best by writing:
“When Rand released a report in 2000 describing the potential outcome of a Sino-American conflict over Taiwan, the United States won the war handily. Nine years later, the nonpartisan think tank revised its analysis, accounting for Beijing’s updated air force, its focus on cyber warfare and its ability to use ballistic missiles to take out American satellites.
Rand’s 2009 conclusion: “The United States would ultimately lose an air war, and an overall conflict would be more difficult and costly than many had imagined.
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Paul Craig Roberts: “Washington Is Impotent To Prevent Armageddon”
The doctrine states:
Putin went on to say:
Perhaps intellectuals can help to bring this hope to fruition. If European politicians were to break from Washington’s hegemony and instead represent European interests, Washington would be deprived of cover for its war crimes. Washington’s aggressions would be constrained by an independent European foreign policy. The breakdown of the neoconservative uni-power model would be apparent even to Washington, and the world would become a safer and better place.
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by Mike “Mish” Shedlock
Here’s a brief update from “Ellen” who lives in Lviv, a city in Western Ukraine.
Hello Mish
We have quite a panic over the collapse of currency. People buy any food product that can be stored. Everyone wants to rid of Hryvnia. We haven’t seen anything like this since 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed. Stores are empty.
It is hard to say what the exchange rate is these days, somewhere between 34 and 42
There were riots in downtown today. A group of protesters was beaten up by police. They marched through downtown and gave a last warning to government officials. Next time they said they will shoot some officials.
Ukraine is on a brink, but the West is not in a hurry to give us money. Perhaps they want something. Maybe they know the money will end up with corrupt officials who will steal it.
Either way, the few billion dollars they promised in March won’t save our economy, not after this panic started.
Best wishes
Strategic Food Reserve Empty
Well guess what? There was no food in the reserve. It has either been looted (like the vanishing gold), or it was fed to the army.
Here is a nice translation from Russian by J. Hawk: Ukraine’s Strategic Food Reserve…Runs Out Of Food.
Ukrainian food prices are rising at a rate faster than in the ‘90s. But the Yatsenyuk government is still blaming the situation on the ignorance of the population and speculation by supermarket chains.
They used to blame currency exchangers, now they are blaming supermarket directors. However, you can’t feed the people with such tales.
The government’s “economy block” hastily summoned the director of the Ukrainian State Reserve Vladimir Zhukov. They demanded that he open the storehouses and fill the shelves with flour, sugar, canned meat, and buckwheat from its stores. In response the keeper of Motherland’s strategic stores revealed a terrible military secret to Yatsenyuk and Poroshenko: the storehouses are empty.
It would seem Ukraine’s Black Hour is here.
J.Hawk’s Comment: There indeed were earlier reports that the strategic reserve was being “unsealed” to support military operations on the Donbass. The army has to eat, after all, and maintaining several tens of thousands of soldiers for nearly a year is likely to make a dent. The second factor was the junta’s desperate need to earn hard currency to somehow plug up the many budget holes opened up by its adoption of “European Choice” neoliberal economic policies. Therefore anything that could be sold, was sold, including Mariupol’s huge grain reserves. Finally, there’s the small matter of corruption. One gets the impression Ukraine is a giant organized style “bust-out” operation, whose objective is to stash as much loot in foreign accounts and then leave the mess for someone else to clean up. To say that the Kiev junta has some kind of a strategy would be giving them entirely too much credit. It’s a collection of loosely coordinated individuals pursuing their own venal agendas and living hand-to-mouth, without any thought given to Ukraine’s long-term prospects.
Here is a link to the original article that J. Hawk translated: Ukraine State Reserve Doesn’t Even Have Buckwheat. Everything was Stolen.
Buckwheat is a Russian staple. I believe, “out of buckwheat” would be the equivalent of Japan being out of rice.
Mish note: One person accused me of bias over the word “junta”. I did not choose the word. I quoted someone, just as I quote Colonel Cassad.
In context, it certainly appears J. Hawk went out of his way to not just translate, but to mention the possibility reserves were unsealed to feed the army.
World War III Has Started
by Greg Hunter
“The strength of the U.S. dollar is a fear trade. When you see the dollar going parabolic with a flattening yield curve, this is a huge tell.”
The Baltic Dry Index is another tell that says the economy is not good because the shipping of goods has come to a crawl.
Russian Inflation Watch – Hookers Hike Rates Up To 100% Amid Crashing Currency Tyler Durden
On the (high) heels of sanctions and oil-price-collapses, the plunge in the Russian Ruble is even impacting the oldest profession in the world as brothels begin pegging transaction fees to the dollar. As LiveLeak so eloquently reports, the cost of getting laid in Russia just became more expensive – thanks Obama!! An escort agency in the northern port of Murmansk has raised rates 30-40% (a friend told us) from the $130-per-two-hours “spending time with an employee” but it is workers in The Urals that are really suffering where sex workers have raised rates between 50 and 100%. It appears someone has crossed a red line…
Getting laid in Russia just became more expensive.
The crime of buying sexual services is becoming more expensive in Russia as prostitutes increase their rates to offset the free-falling ruble, regional media reported.
An escort agency in the northern port of Murmansk has raised prices by 30 to 40 percent, news website reported.
The pre-crisis price was 3,000 to 7,000 rubles ($55 to $130 at Thursday’s rate) per two hours of “spending time with an agency employee,” Flashnord said Tuesday.
The price will likely be pegged to the dollar in the future, the website said. Though prostitution is illegal in Russia, the report gave the name of the alleged brothel, Madlen.
A representative of another “escort salon” named World of Sex in Murmansk was cited as saying that the enterprise “is trying to keep prices as they were, but life’s getting more expensive, and girls can’t work at a loss.”
In the Urals, sex workers have raised prices by between 50 and 100 percent, said Wednesday, citing unnamed clients of prostitutes.
In addition to the falling ruble, the sex tariff inflation may have been boosted by an influx of sex workers fleeing war-torn Ukraine, the website said. The new competition is forcing local sex workers to hike their rates in order to pay their bills, the report said.
The ruble has lost almost 40 percent of its value against the dollar since the start of the year due to an economic downturn.
Sex workers make up about 1 million of Russia’s 142 million population, Deputy Interior Minister Igor Zubov said last year.
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Having A hard Time to Sleep? Try to Avoid These 9 Things Before Bedtime
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We know that getting a good night sleep is very vital for our overall health, it’ll improve our mood, energy levels, more. But, there are a lot factors that contribute to having a good sleep depending on your activities during the day, your diet, how mentally stimulated you are especially in the night time.
We list down the common culprits you might want to avoid, so that you’ll get the best of your snooze.
1. Drink Uppers
“Alcohol tricks you into thinking you will sleep better, because it often makes you drowsy and makes it easier to fall asleep,” says Dr. Rosenberg. “But as your body begins to metabolize the alcohol, REM sleep, the period where our sleep is most restorative, is reduced.” Impaired REM sleep often leads to waking up tired and unable to concentrate, he adds. Did you know that alcohol is a diuretic- promotes the product of urine, tendency is to get up in the middle of the night so you ornate, thus interrupting your sleep.
2. Habit of using Blue lights
Most studies have suggested that when using electronic devices like e-readers, smartphones, or even simply watching television can disrupt your sleep. Robert Rosenberg, DO, author of Sleep Soundly Every Night, Feel Fantastic Every Day, recommends avoiding these devices for at least one hour before bedtime. Blue light given by these light-emoting gadgets prevents melatonin production- that helps in making us sleepy. So try to avoid chit chatting at night, reading ebooks, watching your favourite series or even working if you want to a have that rest. If it’s impossible for you not to do this, try keep the device at least 14 inches away from your face and turn down the brightness of the screen.
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3. Take pills or medicines
If you are on a daily medication that may also cause you of sleeping problems, ask your doctor an alternative if possible. “The effects may be subtle, but some medicines can make you alert for several hours after taking them,” says Grandner. For example, antidepressants can have strong effects on sleep in either direction, and some pain medications may upset your stomach and make sleep more difficult.
4. Consume spicy and fatty foods
It is believed that when you eat meat during the night may help you sleep better because it’s protein has tryptophan that but having a large meal too close to bedtime can make falling asleep uncomfortable because you will eventually feel bloated or painfully full. Spicy or fatty foods are associated with acid reflux, which often rears its head when a person lies down at night. We know that you become more sleepy after that sumptuous meal but ideally, you should have be in bed at least 2 hours after dinner to give your body enough time to begin digesting it. If you’re used to eating something right before bed, try to assess yourself if you really need it more that sleep you’re not getting lately.
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5. Drink coffee or tea
You probably know that these drinks are diuretics and should be avoided during the night, because this really disturbs your sleep. Did you know that the caffeine in coffee or tea can stay in the body for up to 12 hours. Tea or even herbal teas could say it’s caffeine-free but there are varieties that are stimulants too like tea that has black, green or white tea.
If you love tea and can’t go a day without it, try to dunk your teabag quickly into a cup of hot water, then dump it out and make a second cup using that same tea bag. Most of tea’s caffeine is released early on in the steeping process, so this may help you enjoy the flavor and warmth without so much of the stimulant.
6. Smoke
Another stimulant is the nicotine found in all cigarettes. Most people claim they smoke to relax, but nicotine is a stimulant and if you have insomnia- this can worsen it, especially if you light up close to your bedtime. Other this, avoid e-cigarettes, patches, cigars, pipes and even chewing tobacco- all this can all keep you up all night.
7. Intense Workout
We don want you to get the idea of not working out if it’s too late because it’ll disrupt your sleep. But if it is too strenuous, it’ll not help a lot for sleeping. In fact, getting regular exercise has been shown to actually help treat insomniaand promote good sleeping habits.
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8. Eat chocolate
Chocolates are another sneaky source of caffeine, especially dark chocolate with high cocoa contents. “People might not think about ice cream that contains chocolate or coffee as something that might potentially keep them awake, but if they’re sensitive to caffeine that could definitely do the trick,” says Grandner.
9. Drink lots of water
Like coffee or tea, if you choose to stay hydrated, it is a good choice to do it during the waking hours, so as not to keep you awake at night- just to urinate.
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SEO or Search Engine Optimization is a term used to describe practice and methods to optimize a web site for better representation in search results. These practices and methods are usually based on the rules and best practices provided by the major search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo! and other major search engines. The guidelines from most of the major search engines are pretty similar to each other. They generally promote use of organic backlinks, relevant and unique content, genuine discussions on the topic and discourage spam links, posts, and contents.
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Black men are thriving in America
In recent years, being a black man in America hasn’t been safe. More so, like a nightmare that you can’t seem to wake up from–For many black men, living in America seems to have only become a modern day reminder of historic injustice, inequality, prejudice, and Bias. A detrimental life changing reality check, and wake up call. The racial divide has impacted black men more negatively than any other race of men in this country.
Reported in a recent CNN article-there’s good news about African-American men. Aaccording to a 2006 study by the Washington Post, Kaiser Family Foundation, and Harvard University, believed that crime, unemployment, and poverty are endemic among African-American men), the truth is that most black men will not be incarcerated, are not unemployed, and are not poor — even if black men are more likely than other men to experience these outcomes.
In fact, millions of black men are thriving in America today. CNN also reported, in their new report, “Black Men Making It In America,” which spotlights two pieces of particular good news about the economic well-being of black men.
“First, the share of black men in poverty has fallen from 41% in 1960 to 18% today. Second, and more importantly, the share of black men in the middle or upper class — as measured by their family income — has risen from 38% in 1960 to 57% today. In other words, about one-in-two black men in America have reached the middle class or higher”. –CNN.
Black men are succeeding in America (Opinion) – CNN
Correcting overly negative depictions and attitudes regarding black men is important because they shape how black men are treated, and how black men view their potential. Alan Jenkins, executive director of Opportunity Agenda, a social justice organization, noted that “Research and experience show that expectations and biases on the part of potential employers, teachers, health care providers, police officers, and other stakeholders influence the life outcomes of millions of black males.
Tracking black men from young adulthood through their 50s using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, CNN journalists identified three factors that are associated with black men’s success: education, work, and marriage.
CNN-Black men who worked full-time, had some college education, or were married were much more likely to be members of the middle or upper class by the time they got to their 50s. We found, for instance, that the odds that black men make it to the middle or upper class are at least three times higher for those men who marry, compared to their peers who never married. Their financial well-being is higher partly because married black women contribute a higher share of income to the household than other married women.
Adding to the chances of black men achieving middle class and higher status is the US military. Findings show that serving in the military was associated with a 72% increase in the odds that black men made it into the middle class or higher as 50-something men.
By providing stable work, good health care, housing, and opportunities for advancement, by championing virtues such as duty, responsibility, loyalty, and perseverance, and by pushing racial integration, the US military has served as an important route into the middle class.
Given that racial segregation, poverty, and bias affect the odds that young black males get caught up in the criminal justice system, systemic racism limits the economic fortunes of black men. What’s more: right now, only a small minority of black men graduate from college: 17%. Schools and colleges need to do more to identify, recruit, and support young black men so they are accepted, attend, and graduate from four-year colleges and universities in the US.
Amidst all that’s wrong about race in America today, we cannot lose sight of two sets of social facts: today, about one-in-two black men have made it in America, and these men have traveled routes into the middle class that can be replicated.
The evidence suggests that if more Americans knew how many black men were succeeding, and more about the routes they are taking, it would reduce racial prejudice and engender hope among today’s young black males that they too have a shot at making it in America.–CNN Reports.
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Why Can't Bunnies Get Wet?
By Naomi Millburn
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When it comes to owning a pet rabbit, one of the goals is to make sure that the floppy-haired sweetie always stays as dry and comfortable as can be. If your bunny gets wet, it puts her at risk for possible disease, freezing and perhaps even death, so don't take the matter lightly.
Problem With Wet Rabbits
Wet bunnies are a true dilemma. When a rabbit's coat becomes wet, it prevents her fur from being able to shut in heat alongside her physique. This, in turn, can lead to the freezing of the poor rabbit, specifically in times of frigid winter temperatures. This is a major risk, particularly for pet bunnies that spend a lot of time outside. Colder weather extremes are perilous to rabbits, whether rain, snow or hail. All of these things can potentially make bunnies sick.
Cold Weather Meets Wetness
Although it's important for rabbits to never be kept in the cold, they're actually often pretty good at handling decreased temperatures. If a rabbit combines cold weather with wetness, however, he has a serious problem. A rabbit that is simultaneously damp and cold can get sick -- quickly. Illnesses caused by being in both damp and cold conditions can sometimes cause life-threatening consequences in bunnies.
Chilling is a danger factor for rabbits in that it induces stress. Stress makes bunnies susceptible to a lot of dangerous respiratory infections, with pasteurellosis -- or snuffles -- as just one example. Being wet causes chilling, chilling causes freezing and freezing can bring upon stress, a prominent immunosuppressive in rabbits. The weaker a rabbit's immune system, the bigger chance he has of getting sick.
Persistent Matting
Aside from wetness in bunnies being a major hazard and pathway to disease, it can also lead to frustrating and persistent matting and knotting of your pet's coat. Matting undoubtedly looks unpleasant, and also doesn't feel too cozy for your rabbit either. Always try to remove pesky knots in your rabbit's coat through carefully combing them out. Clipping the mats can be a potential hazard, as you don't want to get too close to the skin and cut it unintentionally.
Drying Your Bunny Rabbit
If your dog was just out in the rain and got a little water on your rabbit's coat, don't panic. Instead, promptly take action to dry the little rabbit. Don't forget about your canine cutie, either. Grab a smooth towel and then diligently massage your bunny's coat. It should only take a couple of minutes for you to restore your rabbit back to her former dry glory.
Note that baths are unnecessary for rabbits. Not only is water a hazard for rabbits, it can also make them feel extremely nervous.
Pay Attention
If your bunny's fur ever appears inexplicably wet around her rear area or her chin, pay attention, as it could signify a health issue. Also look out for any matting in those areas. Notify your vet if you observe either of those signs.
Other Stress Sources
Apart from wetness, other stressful circumstances can bring upon infection and disease in rabbits, including both cramped quarters and lack of fresh air circulating. Keep your rabbit's immune system strong by keeping him stress-free as can be.
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Overnight The Register posted an article claiming that Nutanix is about to buyout PernixData…this has apparently come through reliable sources and hasn’t been denied by those who have been asked at PernixData. I tweeted that I was pretty bummed at the news and as a PernixData Customer and PernixPro I feel inclined to comment on why I do feel that PernixData missed out on being able to maybe go at it alone. This isn’t going to be a post around Nutanix or why they felt they needed PernixData technology, though it’s apparent that they potentially required a performance boost somewhere along the line in their architecture. Possibly they where after the advanced analytics that Architect provides…or maybe they needed both.
FVP is Brilliant Tech!:
There is no doubt that FVP is brilliant and pretty much anybody who has it deployed will attest to the fact that it delivers as promised. On a personal note it came to our rescue when we had performance issues in one of our storage platforms and allowed us to deliver services with low latency and decent performance. The ease and elegance of the solution meant that you could install FVP within 15 minutes across an existing Cluster utilizing investment in flash or memory meant that it should have been a no brainer for a lot of people with existing performance issues.
Apart from the “band-aid” use case the premise of in host caching should have lead storage and platform architects to consider installing FVP into hosts for accelerated performance of read and write IO and allow for cheaper dumb storage to provide the capacity. It’s something that I guess serves as the basis for more storage platforms but the beauty here was that you could potentially cater the solution to fit specific requirements or budgets and have the flexibility to upgrade/downgrade when required.
The introduction of using memory to cache was truly amazing and the possibilities for extreme caching though FVP does have some limitations and gotchya’s but overall it’s very slick technology.
Architect is Very Handy:
Architect was released last year and is installed with the FVP binaries so it’s implanted into the kernel ready for action. Once unlocked it presents probably the best set of platform analytics in the industry. The granularity of the data and metrics it presents is brilliant for any architect or operational person to use in either planning for, or managing storage. The potential to combine FVP and Architect into a full self healing analytics platform was pretty exciting. The Register post mentioned the fact that PernixData where looking at developing their own storage platform to combine all elements…this would have…and still may make sense though there is a lot of competition in the storage array space and maybe the risk of getting into the hardware game means this was just a rumour.
The Problem:
While I don’t pretend to fully understand the ins and outs of how a company prices their solutions, but I can say from experience that FVP and Architect are expensive. I’ve been involved in trying to justify spend on FVP internally and I can tell you that it was/is a hard sell. For the most part if there wasn’t a need to solve a storage problem most would, and have, found FVP too expensive. This isn’t to say that it doesn’t add value, cause certainly it does, however when you break it down and look at the cost of FVP compared to a physical storage array the numbers look kind of sick…especially given that FVP is just software that utilizes existing or new hardware.
Based on some internal workings, breaking it down the cost of FVP over three years could equate to the cost of 2 or 3 New Generation Flash Based Arrays or legacy SAN systems. That’s a hard pill to swallow and it comes down the crux of why I think FVP was priced too expensively for it to gain the market penetration that might have meant this sale to Nutanix could have avoided.
Maybe the exit was always planned and I am coming to understand more and more that startups in todays technology world are governed by the investors who want a return on their risk…VCs don’t pander to what’s cool or what’s great tech…they want their investment to be realized. In this case it looks as though PernixData missed a golden opportunity to get the pricing right, not sell FVP as traditional hardware and penetrate the market more. I know lots of people who would have looked at and implemented FVP if the price was right.
Again, I might be over simplifying the economics of it all but proof is now possibly in the pudding. I’ve blogged about FVP Freedom which was a great initiative to get FVP into as many labs and peoples platforms as possible. Rather than give it away for free maybe the focus should have been on getting the pricing right for FVP. Would have gone a long way to many today not feeling bummed, disappointed and annoyed that a company with such great people and technology may be swallowed up. I am guessing that in today’s tech sector with so many vendors playing in the same space we should come to expect more situations like this…doesn’t make it easier to swallow.
End of the day I feel that the pricing model forced people to see FVP as a purely band-aid only solution that was used only in times of desperation…it didn’t deserve that reputation, but it was widely known as truth both inside and outside of PernixData. Be interesting to see how this pans out after/when/if the deal is finalized. To quote one person …FVP users seem to be the big losers if this goes through.
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If those over whom we have authority properly manage themselves, manage us, manage their peers, and replicate the porcess with those they employ, what is there to do but see they are properly recognised, rewarded and stay out of their way? It is not making better people of others that management is about. It’s about making a better person of self. Income, power, and titles have nothing to do with that.
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Andalusian nationalism
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Andalusian nationalism is the nationalism which asserts that Andalusians are a nation and promotes the cultural unity of Andalusians. In the past it was considered to be represented primarily by the Andalusian Party, [1] however the party disbanded in 2015; there are also lesser political organisations that identify with Andalusian nationalism. Some political forces without parliamentary presence like Nación Andaluza and Asamblea Nacional de Andalucía may be found advocating independence.
Brief history[edit]
Monument to Blas Infante, Father of Andalusia,[2] erected in the same place where he was executed without trial by Franquist insurgents in 1936
The predecessor of Andalusian nationalism is the peasant anarchism which was quite active during the 19th century. During the reign of Isabella II of Spain, Andalusia was a hotbed of anarchist insurgency. Later, these anarchist cores became protagonists in conflicts between local people and Madrid.
With the declaration of the First Spanish Republic in 1873, various nationalist currents began to emerge in Andalusia. In 1883, an assembly gathered at Antequera drafted a constitution styling Andalusia as an autonomous republic inside a federal state (República Andaluza o Estado libre o autónomo de Andalucía, in Spanish).[3] This constitution is known as Constitución Federal de Antequera.[4]
Blas Infante, a Georgist idealist and founder of modern Andalusian nationalism,[5] initiated an assembly at Ronda in 1918. This assembly adopted a charter based on Antequera Constitution and also adopted the current flag and emblem as "national symbols".[6] During the Second Spanish Republic, the Andalucismo was represented by the Junta Liberalista, a federalist political party led by Infante.
Andalusian nationalism was revived when Alianza Socialista de Andalucía or ASA (Socialist Alliance of Andalusia) was founded in 1971, at the last period of Francoism in Spain. Andalusian nationalism drew limited but considerable support from the western part of Andalusia, particularly from provincial capitals like Cádiz and Seville.
The road to autonomy[edit]
After dictator Francisco Franco's death, the new Spanish Constitution of 1978 established in its Article 2 the right of "regions and nationalities"[7] to self-government. This followed a popular outcry in Andalusia for its own right to autonomy, with a total of over a million and a half people demonstrating in the streets of most Andalusian towns and cities on 4 December 1977, while the constitution was still being drafted. This campaign would lead to the inclusion of two articles regarding autonomy in the finished constitution text: Article 143, which would give all Spanish regions the chance to become autonomous communities, with fewer devolved powers; and Article 151, that would set the roles of autonomous communities with a higher degree of autonomy.
Article 151 was automatically applicable to the so-called historic nationalities, which have previously enjoyed autonomy during the Second Spanish Republic, as reflected in the Spanish Constitution of 1931.[8] Nevertheless, this article also offered the possibility of other regions or nationalities accessing the same level of autonomy if approved on referendum.
A separate statute of autonomy for Andalusia had been written by Blas Infante and submitted, approved by parliament in June 1936, to be voted in referendum in September 1936. However the start of the Civil War in July and the assassination of Infante by Franco's rebels in August of the same year put an end to the autonomist project for Andalusia.
In spite of this, Andalusia was never recognised as a "historic nationality" in the 1978 constitution. This caused a great deal of indignation at the time and fired the fuse of a popular campaign which would lead the region seeking autonomy under the vía rápida (fast route) proposed for the historic nationalities by article 151 of the Spanish constitution. The "fast route" required an approved referendum by an absolute majority of all eligible voters in the region as well as in each constituent province. The referendum vote on 28 February 1980 did succeed in gaining the absolute majority of eligible voters in the proposed region, and in all provinces except for Almería, where it fell just short of a majority of all "eligible voters". Due to this, Andalusia could not achieve autonomous status under the "fast route" proposed by the Spanish constitution.[9]
In response to this situation, where a clear majority of voters wished for autonomy to be granted to the region but fell short of the actual requirements of the chosen autonomy process, the Spanish Congress of Deputies passed "Ley 13/1980" allowing for the substitution of the approval by the deputies and senators of Almeria province instead the required approval of an absolute majority of the voters of the province.[10] The new Statute of Autonomy was approved by the Spanish parliament in 1981 under the requirements of article 151.[11][12] [13]
A proposal for the reform of the Statute of Autonomy for Andalusia was finalised by the Andalusian Parliament on May 2006.[14] After being debated and posteriorly approved in the Spanish Parliament, the original wording of the statute was amended to define Andalusia as a "Nacionalidad" (Historic Nationality). This has led to severe criticism by the Andalusist Party and other political forces for falling short of the steps taken in the 2006 Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia, where this territory defined itself as a Nation.
The amended text was approved by both the Senate of Spain and the Congress of Deputies of Spain[15] and was voted in referendum on February 18, 2007.[16]
See also[edit]
1. ^ The Andalucista Party was originally known as Partido Socialista de Andalucía or Socialist Party of Andalusia (Not to be confused with the regional branch of Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, known as PSOE-A). It was born out of the Asamblea Socialista of Andalucía but later on it dropped the denomination socialist and veered to the political centre.
2. ^ (in Spanish) Parliament of Andalusia: Blas Infante, Father of Andalusia [1]
3. ^ Article 1, Constitution for Andalusia, drafted by the Asamblea de Antequera
4. ^ Asamblea de Antequera (1883). Constitución Federal Regional para Andalucía [Andalusia Regional Federal Constitution] (in Spanish) – via Wikisource.
5. ^ Blas Infante is considered as the Father of the Andalusian Fatherland (Padre de la Patria Andaluza), officially recognised in Law 6/83, passed by the Andalusian Parliament on 13–14 April 1983
6. ^ (in Spanish) Junta de Andalucía: Symbols of Andalusia [2]
7. ^ Understood as those regions where a language other than Spanish was also spoken
8. ^ The Basque Country, Catalonia and Galicia, till the Spanish Civil War crushed this experiment.
9. ^
10. ^
11. ^
12. ^ (in Spanish) The Statute of Autonomy for Andalusia was approved by "Ley Orgánica 6/1981, de 30 de diciembre, Estatuto de Autonomía para Andalucía", published in Boletín Oficial del Estado n. 9, 11 January 1982. As for "Decreto Ley 11/1978" a provisional Autonomous Government (Junta de Andalucía preautonómica) had already been created.
13. ^ (in Spanish) El Mundo: Especial "La España de las Autonomías" [3]
14. ^ (in Spanish) Parliament of Andalusia: Proposal for the Reform of the Statute of Autonomy [4]
15. ^ (in Spanish) Proposal for the Reform of the Statute of Autonomy of Andalusia "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-01-08. Retrieved 2007-01-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
16. ^ (in Spanish) Orden PRE/3908/2006, de 22 de diciembre, por la que se da publicidad al Acuerdo de Consejo de Ministros por el que se autoriza la convocatoria del referéndum para la reforma del Estatuto de Autonomía de Andalucía [5]
External links[edit]
Political Parties and Unions[edit]
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027 MDB Rising: When to Sell Your Six-Figure Business with Sara Dean
Motherhood is an incredibly challenging undertaking, especially when added to the ambition and focus required to build a six- or seven-figure business. Mothers often feel lonely, anxious, and guilty, but many of us hide away these insecurities instead of reaching out for community or support. When today's Million Dollar Badass became a mother herself, she realized that she could build a space for moms to share these feelings and feel supported. What started as a podcast has now grown into a successful, sustainable, scalable business, and Sara is here to tell us today all about that process!
Sara Dean is the host & founder of The Shameless Mom Academy, a community that aims to help women rediscover their identity after motherhood and reconnect to things that are just for them. Sara has previously built two six-figure businesses, and decided to move away from her gym business once she became a mom herself. She decided to build a business that's more aligned with her core values, more time-flexible, and which allows her to spend time in her zone of genius: community building.
Sara and I talk about how she sold her six-figure gym business and built a new brand in less than a year. We discuss the challenges of motherhood and why it's so important to have community & support in each season of your life, and how her Shameless Mom Academy provides that space for moms. We chat about transitioning out of one business into another, doing scary things before you feel totally ready, and why it's important to remember that everything is figureoutable.
What You'll Learn from this Episode:
• How Sara got the idea to build the Shameless Mom Academy after becoming a mother herself.
• How she used her experience as the owner of a gym & successful business owner to build this new brand.
• What the transition from brick-and-mortar business owner to online business owner felt like and what Sara learned in the process.
• Why it's important to think about your vision for the future and take steps today to make that vision a reality (even if it means doing things before you feel ready).
• Why it's not a waste of time to build a business that you end up wanting to close or sell.
• How Sara took the leap to host her first live event this year after some encouragement from her fellow Million Dollar Badass Masterminders.
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Sara Dean: I was talking with her about it and freaking out. She's like, “You know, at the end of the day you're still going to be on a real short list of women who have sold businesses.” And I was like, “That's all I need to know. Done. I don't even care about…” It was like $100,000 I was like, “Bye, you're going to put me on a list of people who… Very few people are on? Cool.”
Sara Dean: So really reframing things to look at how they can be wins and how they can be successes versus me just harboring resentment over $100,000.
Welcome to the Million Dollar Badass podcast. I'm your host Rachel Rodgers; wife, mother of four children, lover of Beyoncé, coffee drinker and Afro wearer, and I just happened to be the CEO of a seven-figure business. I am on a mission to help every woman I meet become a millionaire. If you want to make more money, you are in the right place. Let's get it going.
Rachel Rodgers: Hello friends. I'm sitting here with Sara Dean after many technical issues trying to get this podcast started, and it ties very well into your brand of being a shameless mom, right?
Sara Dean: Totally, 100%. Shameless imperfect action every damn day.
Rachel Rodgers: Talk about imperfect, this has been very impressive. Oh my God, you guys I need some technical skills for sure. Thank you for being so patient, Sara. So tell everybody who you are so that they know a little bit about you, who you are and what you do.
Sara Dean: Sure. So I'm Sara Dean. I'm the host of The Shameless Mom Academy podcast. I help moms find their identity again after motherhood, and a lot of that is about just helping moms step into their power and build an identity outside of being a wife, a mom, coworker, a colleague, a sister, a mother, a daughter. All those things just being themselves and connecting to something, or a lot of things that are just for them rather than always being observers.
Rachel Rodgers: Yes. I love it so much. Also, you didn't have terrible podcasts on that, which would include me. By the way, can we just talk about this whole back to school period as moms because I feel like we should just get a pass for being on point for like the first… I don't know, the week leading up to the kids going back to school and then like for one or two weeks after. I think we should just get a pass for being on point. What do you think?
Sara Dean: Yes. This is the first summer I haven't had full childcare the whole summer, so I would like a pass for the whole summer, and we still have some time before we go back to school, so I'm still in it, but I think that it's okay to acknowledge seasons where things are just super chaotic. And right now my motto for the summer was to embrace adventure over chaos so that I could be in the mess and appreciate it rather than feeling stuck in the chaos.
Sara Dean: And I know in motherhood a lot of times we're counting down time for chaos to be over, like I'm counting down til vacation is over, I'm counting down until the kids are back in school, I'm counting down to this, and so I was really focusing on being in it, enjoying the magic, even when the magic is super messy sometimes. So that's kind of where… I'm in the last couple of weeks of that.
Sara Dean: And then I'm also real excited to get back to full time routine, and so recognizing… I'm constantly talking about recognizing the season that you're in, giving yourself grace in that season and also keeping yourself accountable. You can't use the chaos as a crutch every single day and it would be really…
Rachel Rodgers: Totally. Especially when you're a mom with little kids, there's basically constant chaos.
Sara Dean: Yeah. There's no day where you're like, “Today I have extra time. Maybe today's the day I can pursue a hobby.” No, you're always going to have to find time that you think you don't have to do anything that will move the needle anywhere.
Rachel Rodgers: Yeah, 100% I totally agree. I also think too, I forgot… Yesterday I had the realization we went to go see the kids. It's like the open house so they get to go see their new classrooms, and so my kids are going to first grade and second grades. We got to meet their teachers and go see the new classroom, and then we went to go get pizza and my daughter had a complete meltdown and started sobbing while we were eating pizza.
Rachel Rodgers: And I'm just like, “Oh, I forgot.” Kids are like a complete mess when they go back to school because it's like the emotional turmoil of like changing from the summer routine back into a school routine, it's a new class, new teacher, I forgot. I usually I'm on point with this stuff, but this year I was like, “Oh yeah, this is the part where you guys act like a hot mess for like the next two weeks.” Yay.
Sara Dean: I booked my son a dentist appointment on the first day of kindergarten. This was last year, the first day of kindergarten, and then I was like, “We'll just go to the dentist at 3:00, what could go wrong?” Oh my God. Worst parenting move. He hates going to the doctor or the dentist. It was the first day of kindergarten after he'd been in the same preschool for four years, worst move ever.
Rachel Rodgers: The only thing he needed was a snack and a nap after-
Sara Dean: Right.
Rachel Rodgers: … preschool. Oh my gosh. Yes, this is why I think being a shameless mom and talking about this stuff and having comradery around it and not pretending like we get it all perfect is essential. And also taking that time for ourselves, for our own dreams is also essential. It can feel really hard when you're in the mess, and I have to keep reminding myself that this is this season, it's like literally two weeks, maybe two and a half, and then we'll be back in our routine, back in a groove and it'll be awesome.
Rachel Rodgers: So I'm like, it's just messy right now because I'm like, “Oh, let's have a meltdown this morning.” I need to have my own personal meltdown just because holding space for everybody's emotions. Then I'm like, “Oh yeah, it's just because it's this particular week of the year that's always a little bit messy.” So I think talking about it with other moms and realizing we're all going through it and none of us are on point is essential.
Sara Dean: So that's a huge… I think the connection with other moms, and this is something we talk about in my community all the time that… So among women and among moms specifically, there's an epidemic of loneliness, isolation, depression, and anxiety. And it's because we don't connect with other people.
Sara Dean: We put on a happy face and put happy faces on social media, but we don't acknowledge like this is a really hard day, or a really hard season, or I'm in a really bad place, or should I really have had the second or third child because oh my God, it's feels like a million kids now. And we don't talk about, and the experience-
Rachel Rodgers: It is a million kids, it is definitely a million kids.
Sara Dean: You're like, “FYI PS it is one million.” One two equals one million. So I think absolutely you have to have a place where you can connect with people along those lines and have those kinds of really open conversations where you can all share like today was horrible, I hate my husband, don't really love my kids that much either, and for other people to be like, oh my God, me too because otherwise we just sit and we think we're all alone and we're like, I'm the worst person in the world because I don't love my partner and my kids today.
Sara Dean: And we internalize that and make that our identity rather than reaching out and connecting with other moms.
Rachel Rodgers: Yes, exactly. I think that community is so huge for motherhood, for business. This is like… Essentially, I think there's parallels between being an entrepreneur and growing a human. It's a ton of responsibility and there's so much growth happening and so much stretching happening all the time that you really need that community to lean on.
Rachel Rodgers: Okay. So I want to talk a little bit about how you wound up here. Tell us how you wound up starting this Shameless Mom Academy brand and business. Where did you come from? Where were you, let's say spring of last year? I'm just randomly choosing that, not really. But tell me where you were spring of last year and why you decided to start this business and brand.
Sara Dean: Sure. I'll back it up a little bit further than that because it's important to the story. I owned a gym, I'm here in Seattle, I owned a gym for a few years before I had my son, he's almost seven. So I had this gym for a few years, then I had my son. I had built this gym all around transformation programs, so basically selling weight loss programs to women. And I was extremely proud of the community.
Sara Dean: It was, is a really amazing community of women. I felt really good about how I operated it. But after my son was born, I realized that I had built a brand that was all about helping women shrink their bodies, and that was not at all in alignment with my core values after I became a mom myself. So I had this community of moms who were always coming in with goals around like I want to lose 20 pounds by this date, or I want to work on my belly fat. And their identity for their whole lives in many cases had been wrapped up in shrinking their bodies.
Sara Dean: And the more I saw this after becoming a mom myself, the more I was like, I can't do this. And so I did rework a lot of my messaging, but still people were coming in wanting weight loss as like their primary goal, that it'd been their primary goal of their life forever. So what started happening over time is I realized that I had built a business at a certain point that was no longer in alignment with my core values, and so I decided that I wanted to be talking about motherhood, my experience in motherhood, and really be having conversations around helping women take up space rather than always trying to shrink.
Sara Dean: And so that's where the podcast is born. And it started off as a passion project where I was like, I'm just going to do this, have conversations and just have fun with it and see how it feels, so it was very experimental. And within a few months I was like, this feels really good. So then I decided that I would figure out how I could grow it and evolve it, turn that into a business, I ended up selling the gym and building a business around the podcast.
Sara Dean: And so come last year, the gym sold in April of 2018, and then as that was happening, I was looking for a new business coach. I had been looking for a little while. I had found Rachel a Little bit prior to April of 2018, but I knew when the gym sale was going to be done, I was like, I need to go all in, and my goal was to replace multiple six figures that the gym had been making as quickly as possible.
Sara Dean: And so I was like, okay, if I hire a super strong badass coach, I want someone to lead me to make this business a six-figure business within the first year of selling the gym, and so that's what we did. So I gave myself from May 1st, 2018 to May 1st, 2019 to get those first six figures, and I beat it by like a landslide, which was awesome. So now the podcast has six streams of income and is on track to do multiple six figures in its second year of full time.
Rachel Rodgers: Awesome. I love it. Okay. So tell us a little bit about the transition because I think transition is something that people struggle with a ton. So when you first got this idea of like, okay, this gym isn't it anymore, was your first thought like, okay, I definitely need to sell it? Did you think, should I just get rid of it? Or did you try to make it work for you where you were like, no, I need to stick with this, I've already built it?
Rachel Rodgers: People really struggled to leave the thing that they've already been doing, so tell us a little bit about what that experience was like.
Sara Dean: That's a really good question and it's something that I've given some thought to, especially as I've been coaching women through transitions as well. One of the things I was able to was that the gym brought me a ton of security and stability because it brought me good income. And so I knew it was really risky to walk away from that, but I also knew after I started the podcast and I was like six months in or so, I knew that in five years I did not want to be in the gym anymore.
Sara Dean: And so I think what you have to look at for transition is to look down the road. And when I signed the last lease on the gym because I had such a hard time getting a lease, commercial real estate in Seattle is wild, and so when I got that lease, I was like, I want a 20 year lease. I want to have this locked in forever because I had had to move multiple times. It was just really stressful.
Sara Dean: So it's funny, I went from like give me the longest lease you can possibly give me to then suddenly over the course of just a few months being like, I don't want to be in this business five years from now. And that was very clear to me. I didn't feel ready to sell at that time, I just knew I didn't want to be in it. So I just got really curious and I started… I always talk about data collection, so I was like, I just need to collect some data, see what my options would be.
Sara Dean: At that time I was like, I have no idea if this is even something that I could sell. I don't know the first thing about selling a business. So I got two referrals to people who are basically business brokers and I just went and met with them and got information around like, do I have something I can sell? Is it worth my time to sell it? If I'm going to make like three grand, it's not worth my time. If I'm going to make a hundred times that let's talk.
Sara Dean: So I met with two different people and I was like, oh, I totally have built something I can sell, I had no idea, which was also another big lesson to me. I talk to women a lot now about building something that you can sell, but… Anyway, so I started getting that information and then I also… So I took action before I felt ready. So I met with these brokers and I was like, “I don't want to do this right now, but I'm just collecting information.” And the second woman I met with, she's like, “You know, we could just list it and see what happens.”
Sara Dean: She's like, “It might take a few months.” And I was like, “I don't know.” And I remember we listed it and I was terrified. I think it was October that I met with her and we had it listed by Thanksgiving time, and I was dying because I was like, “What if this happened super-fast? I'm not ready and I don't know how I'm going to replace this income.”
Sara Dean: Then it took 18 months and it was awful. Oh my God. And I was so glad. And not that that would happen to anyone in my team helping me with it was great, but just a bunch of circumstances made it really complicated and it took forever, so by the time it actually went through, I was like, somebody take this, like I will sell this for $10.
Rachel Rodgers: Anybody.
Sara Dean: Yes. Up for grabs.
Rachel Rodgers: Give 20 bucks. Free, I'll pay you to [crosstalk 00:14:33-
Sara Dean: Yes. Not because I didn't love. Again, I love the community, I loved everything I built, but oh my gosh, the process and dealing with banks and lawyers and oh, it was just… And it kept everything just was so complicated. So the lesson to me was like, look down the road five years and decide where do you want to be, and then you have to look at like where do I need to be taking action today? And you have to take action before you feel ready.
Sara Dean: And that's in everything. No one is ever… When you have kids, you're not like, today I feel super ready to be a mom or I'm super ready to add a second kid, third kid, whatever. You always are taking action a little bit before you feel ready a little… Rachel is always like, “I'm going to take action even though I feel like I'm going to have diarrhea right now.”
Rachel Rodgers: We talk a lot about diarrhea in our confessions.
Sara Dean: Yes. Rachel stresses out my GI tract in a big way, but it's also always really good. It's always for the benefit of growth and evolution in my business. That was what that transition looked like for me was looking at what I wanted the long-term plan to look like and getting clear on that, and then also taking action before I felt ready, just knowing that I never would be like, “Today's the day I'm ready.”
Rachel Rodgers: Yes, exactly. And the day you're ready also is not necessarily the day that a buyer shows up, so that's why you got to plan for it and start moving in that direction even if you don't feel ready today. I love that you shared that and it always… I feel like what happens too is that it feels like your life is on hold when you're waiting for a transaction like that to go through or you're waiting to…
Rachel Rodgers: I remember when I was transitioning out of my law practice and I was waiting to get these cases wrapped up and I was closing cases one by one and not taking new clients, which is also super scary, but then bringing in new clients for coaching and it's super messy because I'm coaching, I'm wrapping up legal work, I'm saying no, I have a ton of inquiries for people who want legal work and I'm like, “No, you can't hire me for that anymore, but hire me for this thing over here that no one knows me for.”
Rachel Rodgers: And also too, it actually went better than I could have planned, but it is a little bit messy, but I do think you have to think about like do I… For me it was like, do I still want to be practicing law in five years or in two years? I don't, I want to be done. I'm tired of the deadlines and I'm tired of the repetition, I'm bored. So I decided to do the much more complex work of coaching women to build businesses, which is way more challenging than being a lawyer just so you guys know, just FYI.
Sara Dean: Right. No, I would say the same like telling people how to work out and helping them count their reps, way easier, but also not stimulating. There was moments for sure when people had breakthroughs or whatever, and also you just outgrow things. And so like recognizing like I've done something really awesome here and I'm ready for the next thing, and I'm ready for a bigger stage, and I'm ready for a bigger platform, or to help people in a more profound way, or there's all of it.
Rachel Rodgers: Yeah. And I think an important thing to think about in the transition period is just… People I think get into this mindset of like, oh, I've wasted this time. I've wasted all this time building this gym, I've wasted all this time building this brand or building this community around my law practice or whatever, or I've wasted time on a law degree and money.
Rachel Rodgers: But it's not wasted, it's an essential step and it's your catapult to your next level. I 100% would not be doing what I'm doing today if I hadn't been a lawyer first and practiced law the way that I did first. Do you agree?
Sara Dean: Yeah. I also think it's a huge credibility and authority booster. So now when I look at making that transition, I talk really openly about I've built three businesses, and I've built two of them to multiple six figures. It's like one of my accolades, it's not like this wasn't working, I decided to walk away or I didn't want this anymore or anything, it's like it's on the list of accomplishments and it's a big one.
Sara Dean: So yeah, I think that it's important to reframe that in a way that's not like, oh, I got tired of it, that's like I was ready for a bigger stage and I was ready to build something that was going to impact people on a different level, on a more deeply impactful level. So yeah, I think it's all how you choose to frame it.
Sara Dean: I actually had… There was a situation that happened in the sale of the gym where we ended up losing a big chunk of money from the original sale price that was agreed upon, which was really painful and I was really bitter about it for a while. I was working with a coach at the time who had sold businesses and I was talking with her about it and freaking out. She's like, “You know, at the end of the day, you're still going to be on a real short list of women who have sold businesses.”
Sara Dean: And I was like, “That's all I need to know. Done. I don't even care about…” It was like $100,000, I was like, “Bye, you're going to put me on a list of people who… Very few people are on? Cool.” So really reframing things to look at how they can be wins and how they can be successes versus me just harboring resentment over $100,000.
Rachel Rodgers: Exactly. And that's not an easy loss to take, but I agree. I think when you really look at, like look at what I've done so far, and I think it's good for women in general to take stock of like look at my accomplishments so far. Even in a corporate career or whatever you've done, you have a track record of success and use that to catapult you to the next level.
Rachel Rodgers: Awesome. Okay, so fast forward, you started this brand. Tell us why you chose Shameless Mom Academy. How did you come up with that as the brand for your podcast?
Sara Dean: I wanted a space to talk about women, to talk about moms specifically being unapologetic, stepping into their power, taking up space, being loud, shining over shrinking, all the big things that women struggle to do, struggle to be I think especially in motherhood, and also a place that gave moms permission to build something for themselves outside of all of their obviously defined roles like wife, mother, et cetera.
Sara Dean: So I really wanted it to be a place where women got to show up and be themselves and build an identity just about them without asking for permission, without needing other people's support, without being apologetic about it. And so that's where it came from, and it's been really awesome. I will say it started off as The Selfish Mom Academy, and I got a cease and desist in my first week after launching the show.
Rachel Rodgers: Wow.
Sara Dean: Yeah. That was a whole experience as well. There was a trademark infringement issue, and I learned some lessons about how selfish moms do business. Basically, the women who came after me could not have been less pleasant. That was the whole thing, it was awful. But anyways, so we ended up having to change the name super quickly before I got sued, but it all worked out.
Sara Dean: What ended up happening is we switched from Selfish Mom to Shameless Mom and it's worked out way better. I've been able to build a brand that really helps women build their identity and step into their power and not feel like they need anyone's permission or anyone's blessing to do whatever the heck they need to do for themselves or they want to do for themselves.
Rachel Rodgers: I love that. I really like that you wound up changing it, I think Shameless Mom is actually a more powerful brand. And also that's a great lesson to you guys to do your trademark searches for your brand names-
Sara Dean: Yes.
Rachel Rodgers: … before you launch them.
Sara Dean: It's a great lesson for that, and it's also a great lesson that as Marie Forleo says, “Everything is figureoutable.” So when I got the message, I was getting on a plane and I saw this email come through and I was like, “Oh my God.” And it was right when they were like, “You need to put away your phones, put them in airplane mode.” I sat on a two-hour flight from Seattle to LA like-
Rachel Rodgers: Oh my God.
Sara Dean: … about to throw up. And I was so nervous and I was like, “This is it, it's over. That was nice for one week.” But it was such a great lesson that that kind of stuff's going to happen all the time. You're going to mess up, people are going to get mad at you. You're not going to know what to do, you're not going to sleep, you're going to have an anxiety attack, you're going to have diarrhea, and the next day you're going to figure it out and you're going to move on.
Rachel Rodgers: Yes. Exactly.
Sara Dean: I was so panicked about it because I put so much work into launching and then it was like such a blip on the radar in the grand scheme of things.
Rachel Rodgers: Right. Exactly.
Sara Dean: But we're often in the moment, we're like, this is going to be a defining moment, and you're like, maybe it is, maybe it's not. It's not going to stop me from moving forward.
Rachel Rodgers: Exactly. And that's just a choice and how you're going to respond to it. And you chose to say, “You know what, that's fine. Going to change the name, keep going and I'll have a little meltdown and then I'll move on.”
Sara Dean: And I now have a good story at the end of the day.
Rachel Rodgers: Exactly. It's a great story. Okay. So you launched this podcast. How far were you into the podcast last year when it was like April 2018, you sold the business? How long had you been doing the podcast at that point?
Sara Dean: At that point I had had the show for two years. The first year I didn't do anything to monetize it, it was just strictly a hobby. It was like my reward at the end of the week with all my gym stuff. As soon as I finished my gym work for the week, on Friday afternoon, I would record. So it was just passion project. Then the second year I did a little bit of monetization, but low, low five figures, like maybe 11 grand, something like…
Sara Dean: I did a little bit of monetization, like just dabbled my toes in a couple of ways to do small little coaching programs, some one off, one on one clients and a couple of very small sponsorship things. So then when we started, when I sold the gym, then I was all in, and so that's when I was immediately trying to figure out how am I going to build this and scale it.
Sara Dean: And I was really conscientious around… I was so aware that with the gym I had built something that I didn't… Like I said at the beginning it was no longer in alignment with my core values, so I was really conscientious around how I was going to build something that was in alignment with my core values. And also with the gym, I had really worked myself into a position of being the COO, and so all my trainers were on site and they were running all the stuff with clients and I was sitting at home behind spreadsheets, which is not my zone of genius.
Sara Dean: So I spent a lot of… It was not fun for me anymore. It was really fun if I went into Saba class, which I did about two times a year by the time I sold it. I would go in and I'd be like, “Oh my God, this is amazing.” But the rest of the time I was sitting at home with my child doing spreadsheets and it was not fun. So I had worked myself into a position in my company that was not my zone of genius and was not like lighting me up at all.
Sara Dean: So with the podcast I was like, I need to make sure I build something that is in alignment with my core values as they are right now, and also that I'm not going to work myself out of the best spaces in this business-
Rachel Rodgers: Yes, for you exactly.
Sara Dean: … which are like… Yeah. That was where I was very early on starting from a year and a half ago.
Rachel Rodgers: Okay. I love that. And I like that too you're pointing out your strengths that you really like to be on the mic or onstage, in front of a crowd and that's what lights you up. And I had done that too in my law practice where I wound up drafting contracts, reviewing briefs that my attorneys were drafting and everything about my job sucked. And every time I got to do a Webinar, I was like, “Yeah. People.”
Sara Dean: Right. Yeah. The teaching and the coaching, and the connecting, and seeing people change right before your eyes, that is all so much better than an AutoSum in Excel.
Rachel Rodgers: Exactly. But there are people who live for the spreadsheets and like want to die at the thought of like standing in front of a room all day. Okay. So what was the problem… So the problem that you wanted to solve is that you wanted to basically replace your income from the gym and do it in a way that really aligned with your core values and allowed you to do what you loved. Is that right?
Rachel Rodgers: Okay. And tell us about the time constraint because I feel like this is something that… And that is not necessarily unique to you, I think all moms and all women building businesses don't want to work a hundred hours a week, but some of them are more strict about their boundaries than others, and I find you being really strong with your boundaries of like, I don't want to work all the time. I'm not doing things that's going to require me to work 80 hours a week. So tell us a little bit about why that's a priority for you.
Sara Dean: I knew that I've always wanted to be pretty hands on with mothering. And when I say pretty hands on, I mean my kid's still is in school and then goes to after school care every day. Pretty hands on is like parenting from like 5:00 to 7:30 PM. Before he was born, before I had my son, I loved working from like 7:00 AM to 8:00 PM every single day. I loved it, it was great, and my husband did the same thing, and we didn't feel like that was suffering or struggling.
Sara Dean: So with him I wanted to make sure that I was able to be done at a certain time, I was able to make it to practices and games and all that kind of stuff and have a super flexible schedule. And this actually came up in one of our early calls with Rachel and I where I was able to identify time freedom is my highest value. And so I will work my butt off, and I will work actually as many hours as needed, but I want them to be the hours that I choose.
Sara Dean: And so when I was looking at building the business and figuring out what I wanted to scale this or how I wanted to go about scaling to six figures and beyond, I was really clear that this isn't going to be me doing one-on-one life coaching with clients because that won't give me the time freedom that I need. And so I ended up building around a membership model where I have very few locked in hours on a weekly basis, and I have a big community that's always running. They're always in communication with each other, but I don't have to be there all the time.
Sara Dean: I pop in daily, multiple times a day often, but it's when I have time, around the things that I have scheduled. This summer, for example, there's been weeks where I've worked less than 20 hours a week, and it hasn't impacted my bottom line. And I've been able to work… Like I was at my mom's house for a week, and I worked from like 6:00 to 8:00 AM, and from like 8:00 to 10:00 PM and spent the whole day with my mom and my child running around, going to pools and doing family things.
Sara Dean: And so those kinds of things, I knew where my top criteria when I looked at what I was going to build and what it was going to look like.
Rachel Rodgers: Yes. Awesome. I love that. And I love too that you're modeling for people that you can have a multiple six figure business, a seven-figure business. This July I had my biggest month ever. Last month was my biggest month ever, and I didn't work for three weeks. I worked one week in the month of July and I was like, hmm, what is the message here?
Sara Dean: I actually had, and you heard me talk about this I think over in our MDB community, but yeah, I had a similar thing in July where I had taken multiple days off during multiple weeks and still was able to bring in way more than I had expected. I had thought like, oh, I probably won't really bring in much revenue in July because I have a lot of things going on, and then at the end of the month I was like, oh wait, I made like five times more than I've ever made.
Rachel Rodgers: Funny how that works, right? It's really about that focused work and not necessarily hustling all the time.
Sara Dean: Yeah. I will say it wasn't accidental, it was being thoughtful around like, okay, if I'm only going to do three things this week or if I'm only going to work five hours this week, what am I going to do with that time? It means I'm not going to sit in my inbox and return emails, and I'm not going to return Facebook messages.
Sara Dean: There's a lot of things that I opted not to do knowing that like every time you say yes to one thing, you just say no to a bunch of other things. So I'm not going to say yes to Facebook messages because that means I can't say yes to like writing email promos that are going to allow me to connect with people and be of service to them in order to invite them into my membership community or in order to invite them into one on one coaching with me.
Rachel Rodgers: Yes, exactly. Okay. So tell me so far… We worked together for a little bit over a year now, so I think we're on like 14, 15 months at this point. So tell me what three parts of the system that you learned in Million Dollar Badass have been the most effective for you.
Sara Dean: What three parts? Are there three specific parts that you're looking for or just three things I've learned?
Rachel Rodgers: Yes, three things.
Sara Dean: Three take aways.
Rachel Rodgers: Yeah.
Sara Dean: Okay.
Rachel Rodgers: Three things that you've learned, three strategies that you've used.
Sara Dean: Okay. Is it a multiple choice? So building something that's scalable, definitely for sure. And this is something that you constantly push me on, defining my value and charging what I'm worth.
Rachel Rodgers: Oh my God, yes.
Sara Dean: That's-
Rachel Rodgers: These are all-
Sara Dean: … hard.
Rachel Rodgers: Every time I have to talk to Sara about a pricing issue, that's always fun. And usually there's diarrhea involved.
Sara Dean: Yes. For sure. And I walk away every time. Just our last call you were like, “So what do you think?” And I was like, “Uh-huh?” In my mind I'm like, I'm not doing that. And then literally like two months later I'm always like, I guess I am ready to do that thing now that Rachel suggested two months ago.
Sara Dean: So building something that's scalable, establishing my value. And I would say looking ahead at the bigger vision and being clear on… I think in the past, and this is something that I've seen you model so beautifully. In the past there was a little bit, maybe a lot of scarcity around like, if this doesn't work, or if it goes poorly for x amount of months, then how will I get out of it kind of a thing. Always having a backup plan for like if this fails.
Sara Dean: And I think now I have really wrapped my head around that even if something fails in a day or something breaks or doesn't work as I want over the course of a month or two or whatever, that doesn't mean that the whole thing is going to fall apart. And I've proven to myself because I'm in my 17th year of entrepreneurship and in my third business, I've proven to myself that the trajectory is always onward and upward.
Sara Dean: So even if something's really hard and bumpy, that doesn't mean I'm going to move backwards. There might be a hiccup or a detour, but this trajectory will continue to be forward and up. I see you talk about that all the time, and I've used your example of the first three retreats I did with you and the things that happened at those retreats that were so beyond your control and every single one was still amazing.
Sara Dean: And so this idea that nothing really needs to be a showstopper, and you have modeled that. Like you had a retreat where you couldn't leave your hotel room because you were so violently ill yet everyone who showed up got a ton of value from the way your team was able to deliver. And so I've seen that nothing really needs to be a show stopper as long as you know I'm just going to keep going.
Rachel Rodgers: Exactly. It's a really just a choice. It's like the plan B, because you have that plan B, you allow it to take over and you allow it to rule. And it's like, no, no, no, if you didn't take the plan B and just decided that this is going to work one way or another and that went wrong, that's fine, we'll fix that and then we're going to keep going. It's really about that decision is so much more important than the external factors that could happen.
Rachel Rodgers: Okay. Tell us a little bit about the event that you did because I think that was so huge and I know that you had a lot of fear around doing it, so talk a little bit about the event that you had and how that went for you and what you enjoyed about that.
Sara Dean: I had so many great lessons and it happened very fast. I had decided that I wanted to do a live event. I mentioned it really casually at one of our MDB retreats. When you mention things casually at an MDB retreat, all of a sudden you have to do the thing that you don't feel super casual about. And so I had mentioned like maybe I'll start live events in 2019, and I'm thinking maybe on like December 30th of 2019, like let's like wait till the very end of the year to have as much time as possible.
Sara Dean: And Rachel and a couple other people were like, “Cool. So by the next retreat?” And I was like, “Crap. I was not thinking like in three months or two months.” But that's what I ended up doing. So I had had people in my community who had said… I have a membership community, and in the membership community they were all saying like, “When are we all going to get to meet?”
Sara Dean: And they had all gotten so close online through our… We have weekly calls and we have a Facebook community, so they were like, “We all want to meet in person.” And I thought, okay, I can put something together for them to me. And what if I just make it an open, it can be for members and nonmembers and it can just be a big Shameless Mom Events.
Sara Dean: So we did Shameless Mom Con, and this was in the end of January that I was considering it, and I started looking at my calendar and I was like, okay, I can do this in April or I can do it in September. And because I was at MDB, at the retreat, it was like we have to make three-month goals, so I guess I probably should try to do this in three months.
Sara Dean: And I also knew if I had it hanging over me til September, I was like, I'm just going to be terrified. I don't need diarrhea for nine months, let's just-
Rachel Rodgers: Yes, let's just pull off the Band-Aid and get it out of the way.
Sara Dean: Right. So we did it two and a half months later. We did the retreat, I had 51 moms show up from all over the country and I had one million and a half stories about like, people aren't going to be able to afford the event, just the event ticket, they're not going to be able to afford buying plane tickets and hotel and all these things. I'm like, everyone's going to have a million reasons why they can't make this work.
Sara Dean: And then my members, I had 30 members come, which was a lesson to me, like people who are already in your community are the people who are going to be most eager to make-
Rachel Rodgers: To deepen that relationship, right?
Sara Dean: Exactly. Yeah, deepen the relationship.
Rachel Rodgers: To work with you in other words.
Sara Dean: Right. So I had 30 members, I had 21 non-members. And then I again at the end of the retreat was like, “Maybe in 2019 I'll have a higher-level offering.” And so then of course Rachel and other people at the retreat were like, “Yeah, so you could just offer that at the event.” And I was like, “Yeah, no, no. We're not ready for that.” But then it occurred to me that some of the people in my community were ready for higher level of coaching and higher-level community, and some people, I didn't really love the one on one coaching model I had been using.
Sara Dean: I had been signing people up for like a whole year of coaching, it was feeling a little bit long, so I ended up putting together a higher level group coaching program, like a mastermind program and selling that from the live event, and it sold out at the live event. And I had never sold from the stage before. I was absolutely terrified, convinced like two people will sign up maybe, but it ended up selling out.
Sara Dean: So I sold 10 spots at the event and then an additional five after the event, I saved some spots for my numbers, my existing members who couldn't make it to the event because I didn't want it to be super exclusive to people who were already in the community. So that's how that all worked out.
Sara Dean: And I learned, again, like speed of implementation for sure and do it scared. And also my biggest lesson, and I sent this to Rachel at the end of the event, was… So selling out this program was obviously a big impact on revenue that I hadn't expected, so that was exciting, but I said in my messages to Rachel at the end of that weekend, I was like, “That feels good, but it's nothing compared to the magic of being in this room and being like, holy cow, I created this space. Like these are my people and they want to be here, and the magic and the energy and…”
Sara Dean: It was just an intensity and it was life changing for me. Immediately I was like, we're clearly doing this again, it's already booked for 2020. The numbers were exciting, but the feeling and the value that I felt I walked away from, non-monetary value, and I felt like everyone else walked away with was just beyond what I ever could have imagined.
Rachel Rodgers: Yes. That is so beautiful. And I love that when you're doing the right thing, the money becomes a byproduct. The money is amazing and you make great money, but the magic of the work that you're doing is so much more meaningful, and that's the stuff that gets you out of bed every day.
Rachel Rodgers: Okay. So I know you got to go soon, so just tell me really quick, would you recommend the Million Dollar Badass mastermind and who would you recommend it to? What kind of people do you think are a good fit for it?
Sara Dean: I think people who want to show up and do more with their business, but they need some strategy around it. They also are ready to be pushed. So I was ready to be pushed out of my comfort zone for sure. I knew that I needed to take some steps and be pushed in bigger ways. Also I knew that I needed some specific strategy and support with strategy, and I had had a lot of coaching prior from multiple people that was excellent, but it was more around mindset.
Sara Dean: There's plenty of mindset stuff in MDB, but I really wanted some specific strategies. So I remember at our very first retreat, one of the things you had us do was build a Facebook group while we were sitting right there. And I was like, “I don't know, I'm not ready. I don't know.” Now I have a Facebook group of thousands of people and it's been amazing to have people connect. So I love the strategy and the implementation on the spot has been really, really good.
Sara Dean: So I would say yeah, people who are looking for that support around strategy and then they're looking to really step into their power in ways that they might not hold themselves accountable to, or that they keep saying like, “I'm going to wait until this milestone or that thing.” They just keep pushing it off, which I think all of us do. I'm just going to wait until next year, or when the kids are a year older or whatever, and they know that they need to like hashtag do it scared and do it now.
Rachel Rodgers: Yes. And be shoved off a cliff because that's basically what happens to…
Sara Dean: Right.
Rachel Rodgers: But it's always good. The results of being shoved off the cliff are multiple six figures in a single year, which is awesome. And now it's time to smash that seven-figure goal, which I'm super pumped about, yeah, let's do it.
Sara Dean: Yes.
Rachel Rodgers: Awesome. Okay. So tell everybody where they can find you.
Sara Dean: One other thing I want to add, I also think people who want to… It's a really good fit. So I have, and I think this is probably common among women business owners. We have ideas around making money and around that can feel uncomfortable and it can feel braggy, and it can feel all these things that it can feel about… greedy, whatever. And so I think for me getting… It's also been really helpful to get clear on and really confident in the level of value that I am providing in conjunction with making good money.
Sara Dean: And so it doesn't feel greedy and it doesn't… Because I feel like I am changing lives in huge ways and there's no doubt about that in my mind. So then I can say with pride I have a multiple six figure business, and there's a difference between that, and just like walking around being like, and I've seen this in the fitness community like, “Oh, but I did x amount of dollars in revenue last year.”
Sara Dean: It's not necessarily around a priority of changing lives, it's more about like why these many people on AutoPay and half of them aren't even showing up. And so I'm like, I have people on AutoPay and oh my God, they show up all the time and it's amazing. So that value piece, that value that you're adding and then seeing how that impacts people is really… it's completely life changing and that again makes some money secondary.
Rachel Rodgers: I love that so much that you said that and I think it's absolutely true. And I think it's true for women that we default to adding value and changing lives, but then we don't ask for money for the value that we're creating in the world. And so that's a big thing that I want to shift and that's why we have this podcast and the mastermind and all the things.
Sara Dean: Right.
Rachel Rodgers: Okay. So now tell them how they can find you.
Sara Dean: Yes. You can go to shamelessmom.com is my website, and any podcast app, Pandora, Stitcher, iTunes or Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, we're in all those places at The Shameless Mom Academy, on social media at The Shameless Mom Academy. And our Facebook group is shamelessmom.com/facebook.
Rachel Rodgers: Tell us when The Shameless Mom Con is for 2020
Sara Dean: March 26th and 27th, 2020 in Seattle, Washington.
Rachel Rodgers: Awesome. So you can go check that out. I think tickets-
Sara Dean: Yes.
Rachel Rodgers: … are going on sale soon from what I've heard.
Sara Dean: Tickets will be on sale soon, yes. I cannot wait.
Rachel Rodgers: Awesome. Thank you so much. I think this was very impactful for people. Thank you for sharing your story.
Sara Dean: Thank you for having me.
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How to Arrange Your Living Room
• Living rooms are a fundamental part of any home. Some people use their living rooms for hosting family gatherings while others use them as showrooms only for when guests come over.
• To ensure that your living room remains functional and stylish, you should know the furniture arrangement basics.
• This guide will share with you some principles that are easy to apply and help you create an aesthetically appealing and practical living room.
There are several factors you should be aware before starting arranging the furniture in your living room. These include where your windows and doors are positioned, the number of family members in your home, and your preferences. If you’re looking for some ideas on arranging furniture in your living room, you’ve come to the right place.
Things to Note When Arranging Furniture in Your Living Room
Before you begin arranging things in your sitting area, there are some important things you need to remember, these are:
• Your living room’s focal point should guide you during the furniture arrangement. It can be something that appears naturally like a built-in fireplace or you can also create a focal point yourself using a television or other media units. Whatever your focal point is, ensure that you arrange furniture around it as much as you can.
• Homeowners should create conversation areas using furniture. Ensure that people can comfortably talk with each other without shouting or straining. If you have a large space, creating several conversation areas can be a great idea.
• Keep the traffic flow in mind during the arrangement. Don’t forget that people need to move with ease from one side to another.
• Don’t place furniture too close to your walls. One big mistake that individuals make is having their furniture touch their living room’s walls. Instead, place your pieces of furniture close to create an intimate setting.
How to Place Different Furniture
Side Tables– While they’re usually an afterthought, they’re important. How many you need depends on the seating you have. But, ensure that individuals will be able to set down their drinks without getting up or walking to a table. Place them on either side of the sofa or between chair pairs. Aim at having enough space that doesn’t make your room look overcrowded. Also, these tables should be almost similar in height as the sofa’s or chair’s arm they’re placed next to.
Coffee Table– This is often placed at the center of conversation areas. If you have one, make sure that its height is some inches below the seat’s and chair’s height around it. The recommended length for this table is ½ to 2/3 of your sofa’s length. Alternatively, you can use smaller benches or tables to achieve the same look, however, don’t buy too small sizes. Individuals sitting around them should be able to pick up or put down their drinks without having to get up from their seats. But also, ensure that you leave enough leg room between chairs and tables of approximately 14-18 inches.
Rug- rugs help define seating areas. However, many people often use an area rug that’s too small, which messes with the design. But, if you have a small space, ensure that at least the front legs of upholstered pieces are on your carpet.
Sofa and Chairs– because they’re the most significant items, make sure that they suit your space. We advise that you measure your space before purchasing these pieces. If they’re too big or too small, they’ll mess with your interior design. It’s why individuals should have a floor plan in advance. Using appropriate measurements sketch out your room on a piece of paper then decide what size of sofa and chairs will be suitable for it. When arranging sofas and chairs consider the traffic flow in your house. Ensure that you leave enough space where people can walk in, out, or around with ease.
The Living Room Furniture Layout
Maximize a Corner Sofa– a corner sofa provides lounging luxury even for less massive rooms. As it does the most significant work for you, you’ll not worry about how to place things out. It sits up against the wall and its dimension matches the room. Therefore, it won’t swamp things. Additionally, it can be your living room’s focal point. So, consider its color, shape, and number of seats when purchasing.
Don’t Overcrowd Your Room– your living room’s space often dictates which layout you’ll go for. But, to maximize it, individuals need to be more creative. Also, a tidy space can be achieved by having a wall-mounted cabinet that keeps things from your floor.
Take Advantage of Living Room Accessories– items like window treatments and artwork such as a TV or some sconces make rooms more appealing. It’s wise investing in them. To eliminate spaces between your sofa back and skirting, consider built-in sofas. However, think hard about where and how you’re going to place them as you do with your furniture.
Consider a Sofa and Two Chairs – placing two sofas on smaller rooms will make them feel swamped. Plus, they make the budget go up. Also, even if you place one sofa against your wall, placing the other too close to a window may not be practical. Instead, go with one sofa and a couple of armchairs. Also, it’s a wise idea to opt for Scandi-style furniture as it makes a room look more organized since its structure is wooden.
Use the Two Plus Two Power– this brings a twist on your sofa layout as you’ll bring two armchairs into the mix. It creates enough seating space for your guests.
Create an Attraction with Opposites- classic living rooms usually have two matching sofas and enough space between them for a coffee table. This creates a relaxing and sociable place as individuals can comfortably view the fireplace or TV in the middle. If you have extra seating, a footstool on the side of each sofa would work best. Ensure that they can be brought once your guests arrive.
Final Thoughts
Well, everyone can design an appealing and functional living room. However, it requires one to have a well-thought sectional plan. If you’re unsure of what will work and what won’t, you can simply test out different looks to determine what’s suitable for your lifestyle.
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TV, in this case, most likely will be the focal point of your living room. Therefore, you should arrange all the furniture around it as much as you can.
To arrange your living room most effectively, you should start from analyzing the size of your room, the number of windows and where they are positioned, and the doorways. Once you do that, look for the focal point of your living room and then start arranging the furniture around it.
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Testimonials - Working for Lloyds Banking Group. "You can go home at the end of the day feeling good about what you have acheived"
Elysabeth's Story
Elysabeth has been a customer service advisor for Lloyds Banking Group since October 2017.
Why did you want to go for a job in a call centre?
I really wanted to do something different after spending 20 years working in fundraising it was time for a change and I saw an advert for Lloyds.
What does a normal day look like?
Most of my day is spent on the phone, all of my conversations are about helping people with something. We have short breaks in between calls.
How did you find the application process?
It seemed quite intense, they wanted lots of info and then extra info on top of that so there was lots of communication about it. It was a bit challenging, but it is understandable why they have to be so thorough.
What is the best part about working in a call centre?
I find it completely stress free, especially compared to my job before. It is just really nice to leave work knowing you have done everything you had to do, you don’t leave and still think about all of the things you need to get done.
What is the worst part about working in a call centre?
Probably the rigid schedule, you do have set breaks and it is quite regimented for someone like me who came from a role that had more freedom but you do get used to it quite quickly.
What surprised you most when you started working there?
The dress code was quite a surprise, I thought with it being a banking group that it would be stricter but it is really relaxed.
What were you most worried about?
I was worried about the change. It is always a bit nerve-wracking when you start somewhere new.
What is your team like to work with?
They are such a great team, they are a good laugh. It is so much fun, it is a real breath of fresh air for me.
What kind of supervisory support do you receive?
In our team there are about 12-15 people and we have a team manager who is there to support us with anything we might need. Outside of our immediate manager there is a really big support system of people who are all keen to be there for you.
What skills do you think you have gained?
I have learned not to take things too personally when I may have caught the rough end of someone having a bad day. Before I probably would have taken it to heart. I also think I have really learned how to diffuse a situation and resolve problems quickly.
Have you made many friends at work?
Yes, I have made lots of friends of all ages, they are so friendly. We go out for drinks together, and we are organising our Christmas do.
Is there room for career progression or self development?
Yes, I was just taken on as permanent, it has worked out really well for me. They implied at the start that if we worked hard it might be a possibility, so I just did my best.
What is the best call you remember taking?
There is one that stuck in my mind, I got a call from an elderly gentleman. The call wasn’t too complicated, and it was resolved pretty fast, but I stayed on the call with him as it was so clear that he wanted to chat. He was so overwhelmed by the kindness and the time I had taken to talk with him, it was really nice to hear that I had made his day.
What is the worst call you have taken?
You do get people who are just unreasonable and no matter what you do sometimes you just can’t resolve it in a way that they are happy with, it is not very often at all though. You can escalate an issue and we do get a huge amount of support from management for any call that we are unsure about.
What would you tell someone who was thinking about applying for a job like yours?
It can take a while to get used to it but once you are settled in the days go really quickly. It is a job where you know you can go home at the end of it feeling good about what you have achieved that day.
Would you recommend your job to a friend?
I recommended it to anyone I talk to who say they feel they need to change their job to something stress free and flexible.
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Volume 5, Issue 2
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Eclogue 6 of the Roman poet Virgil (70-19 BC) is one of the most famous poems in Latin pastoral poetry. It has an individuality of its own. In this poem, Virgil, as a poet with a sophisticated and philosophical mentality, forms a new kind of pastoral poetry. He merely employed the pastoral genre as a frame to allow him to touch upon intellectual, philosophical and literary subjects of the day. Silenus, who was one of the old rural deities, is here the bard of Virgil's song. He could surpass Apollo and Orpheus by his charming song. There is not one common theme in all the stories Silenus touches upon in his song. The song starts with a non-pastoral context, a piece of Epicurean philosophy, which reveals Virgil's early and real interest in philosophy. Then it moves from didactic description to human race and mythology. What concerns me in this paper is Silenus' talk about the origin of the universe (Eclogue 6. 31-40), the creation of the world, and the beginnings of life, with echoes of scientific poetry. In order to gain a better understanding of Virgil's poetry in general, and the song of Silenus as a particular, not only a knowledge of philosophy and cosmology is essential, but also a perception of Alexandria as a centre of sciences. I give Virgil credit for a real interest in Alexandria, both as a matter of poetical technique, and as sharing the scientific interests of Hellenistic Alexandria. | <urn:uuid:40c0e27b-e871-4a71-a2a1-4d1e59f2df2a> | https://www.electryone.gr/article-keywords/epicurean-philosophy/ | en | 0.945366 | 0.072795 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
It's a common problem for leaders who want to know exactly what takes place in their companies: How do you determine reality from fiction spun for your benefit? In an upcoming episode of Undercover Boss, Fatburger CEO Andy Wiederhorn donned an elaborate disguise — complete with a full wig, a set of eyebrows, a mustache, glasses, gold jewelry and a hat — which took two to three hours to put on, and visited locations in Arizona, Nevada and L.A. in disguise. As for why he went to the trouble — it was Wiederhorn's idea.
Fatburger; Credit: Flickr/SimonDoggett
Fatburger; Credit: Flickr/SimonDoggett
“I wanted to check out what was going on inside the company, and I've seen Undercover Boss, so we approached the CBS production company and asked them if they'd consider letting me appear,” he says.
Wiederhorn found the experience of interacting with employees under a different identity altogether fun, enlightening — and hard work. “It's something I wouldn't be able to do walking in the front door with a suit on,” he says.
Squid Ink: What were your expectations going into the show?
Andy Wiederhorn: I thought I would focus more on whether the procedures in the restaurant were being followed properly and whether there was anything I can learn about how to do things better. What I ended up learning was that there weren't any procedural problems. It was really disarming. It was good to see that everybody is doing it the right way, but I discovered more HR-type issues, such as employee recognition issues that needed attention. I didn't expect to come in and find out that the franchisees in our system weren't really recognizing the employees the way they should be.
SI: What are you implementing to address these issues?
AW: Fatburger used to have about half of its stores as corporate and the other half were franchised. Today, 99 percent is franchised as we've grown. When we had all these corporate stores, we had all kinds of recognition programs in place. I thought the franchisees that acquired those stores from us and operate them now as their own stores were following those programs. But they're not; they've gotten into their own routines. I instituted a new employee-recognition program again for the franchisees to follow and also an employee feedback system where employees can get their ideas to the top. We created a type of hotline where they can give us their ideas and share what's going on, either anonymously or not.
SI: What was the most memorable part of the experience?
AW: It was working with employees I know with a disguise on and having them try to figure out what's going on. That's just entertaining in and of itself.
SI: What informs your approach as an executive today?
AW: The bottom line is that the customer has to have a great guest experience and the employee needs to feel like they're part of the family. We operate Fatburger like a family business. It's one of the things I've learned with my other businesses and along the way of my career, is that you need your employees be a part of the family. When you feel like you're part of a family, then you're connected to it.
SI: When you were undercover, did you find that your employees felt like Fatburger is a family?
AW: What was surprising to me was all these employees, just like everybody else you know in your life, have their own issues going on in their personal lives wherever they are and yet they come together at work. It's a safe place for them to work together and connect with each other. I've discovered, with some of the employees I've met, there are some really tough things going on in their lives, which you'll see on the show, and yet they're giving 100 percent when they're at work. At the end of the day, they have to hang up their aprons and go back to these personal problems. It's really heartwarming to see how committed they are to the company and their fellow employees while they're still dealing with all the other stuff in their lives.
SI: How were the locations selected?
Fatburger; Credit: Flickr/grahamc99
Fatburger; Credit: Flickr/grahamc99
AW: It was selected by the producers. However, I did target a few areas, such as Arizona, with a few underperforming stores, because the economy has been hit so hard. I'd suggest that's a market we should go see, because I wanted to see what's going on there.
SI: What defines the Fatburger experience in various regions?
AW: The U.S. market is pretty true to form in what you'd experience if you grew up in L.A. or Las Vegas eating Fatburgers. If you're in Canada, there are regional taste profile differences — like gravy on french fries. In China, we have more chicken items on the menu or rice available. In the Middle East, we have some spicier toppings you can add to your burger.
SI: What's on the horizon for Fatburger for 2013 and beyond?
AW: We have 150 restaurants opened and another 300 under development right now in 27 countries around the world. We'll open approximately 60 of those 300 this year. We just opened last week a restaurant in Amman, Jordan. In April, we will open in Abu Dhabi and Beirut. In May, we will be opening three locations in Istanbul; then in Lahore, Pakistan, Cairo and Manhattan.
SI: What's your advice for aspiring entrepreneurs?
AW: You may be more successful in an established business where you can take it to a whole different level, growing it and expanding it, than dealing with the trials and tribulations of a startup, because very few startups succeed. As much as I'm an entrepreneur, I'm pretty realistic about the difficulties. I generally don't advise people to jump into it because they have a good idea. If you really want to dig into it, then you have to be tenacious and you can't take it so seriously, because you're going to go through a lot of ups and downs. You better have a way to deal with that.
SI: How do people avoid taking things too seriously?
AW: I think you have to have a sense of humor about what you're trying to achieve. You have to have realistic expectations. You've got to be able to scale your business. People don't think about how scalable their business is when they come up with an idea. You can't take your problems home with you every night. There are going to be a lot of delays and challenges and roadblocks. You just have to be prepared to have a pretty good attitude to get through that, otherwise you're going to stress yourself out. I think that happens with a lot of entrepreneurs.
SI: How do you maintain balance for yourself?
AW: It took a while for me to realize you have to be able to turn it off at some point. I have six kids who keep me busy and distracted. The things that are important to my 12-year-old put in perspective the things that are important to me at work, and I learned quickly that there's just no connection to one of my problems. I need to leave it at my office, because it's not going to get solved talking about it with my 12-year-old. It's realizing that you have to adapt to the environment that you're in. When you're with your family, you can't be tackling your work problems at the same time.
Wiederhorn will appear in the episode of Undercover Boss scheduled to air Friday, April 5, at 8 p.m.
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Stress Management and It's Impact on Weight Loss
Have you been eating “healthy” and going to gym regularly but haven’t seen any progress? You might actually be neglecting a key factor when it comes to reaching your goals!
Stress is something we all cannot escape. It happens to us, our friends and family, you can even sense it on the kind lady at Poke Doke making your sushi bowl because there is a massive line behind you and only two workers. It is everywhere!
Your body does not care about reaching your goals when you are stressed. To your body, nothing else matters. Does that mean you won't reach your goals? No. But, it’s a lot like running a marathon while giving your three your old a piggy back ride. You will get there, but it is way harder than it should be.
We only have so much energy and so many hours in the day. When you have to deal with stress or even the aftermath of a stressful situation, you don’t have time to focus and implement your regular healthy habits. We don’t sleep, we don’t plan our meals accordingly, we decide to skip the gym which, in return, adds even more stress.
Our bodies produce the hormones insulin and cortisol. Insulin is a hormone produced in our pancreas that allows our body to use sugar from carbohydrates in the food that we eat for energy or to store for later use. Insulin controls our blood sugar level from becoming too high or too low. When we are stressed out our bodies produce an excess amount of cortisol and insulin. Cortisol has been linked to triggering cravings for comfort food. When our insulin increases our body has a hard time burning off calories from those comfort foods. Therefore, when you are stressed and have increased cortisol and insulin levels, you go and eat a not so healthy meal and your body is going to store that as excess calories.
You highly stressed individuals are in luck. There are many ways to manage acute and chronic stress.
• Eat a well-balanced, non-inflammatory diet
• Sleep 7 to 9 hours a night
• Meditate or do yoga
• Set boundaries on work and allow yourself downtime
• Don’t rely on alcohol and drugs
• Say no to requests that would add excess stress in your life
• Accept that there are some things in life that you cannot control
• Remember you cannot control events but you can control how you react to them
• Work on time management and focus prioritizing your health with your life
• Seek out social support. Spend time with the ones you enjoy
Not every suggestion has to be done to be less stressed and not every stress relieving method is going to work for everybody. Begin by trying a couple and find what works best for you! You can be as healthy as
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How Do You Repair an Over-Wound Music Box?
By Staff WriterLast Updated Mar 26, 2020 2:41:17 AM ET
Repair an over-wound music box by applying a lubricant, and carefully freeing the governor. This allows the mechanism to turn. This task requires a special cleaner and lubricant, such as Alum-a-Lub.
1. Obtain the correct lubricant
Purchase Alum-a-Lub at either a local hardware store or through the Alumalub website. Alum-a-Lub is preferable to a standard lubricant or oil because it does not clog the music box mechanism.
2. Inject the lubricant into the mechanism
You may have to remove screws to access the mechanism if there are no holes or openings in the box. Inject the Alum-a-Lub into the music box mechanism. Cover all metal areas of the mechanism, including the top, base and center. Let it stand for at least 20 minutes.
3. Turn the key backwards
Slowly turn the key backwards to unwind the spring and release the governor. If this does not restart the music box, move on to the next step.
4. Tap the mechanism
Tap the mechanism several times, preferably at the bottom. Repeat several times if necessary. If neither of these attempts is successful, move on to the next step.
5. Move the governor around manually
Add additional lubricant, and move the governor around with your hand or a soft piece of cotton. Be gentle to prevent the governor from becoming misaligned. It may come free immediately, or the box may restart on its own over time.
6. Restart the music box
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In the UK community based prehabilitation is being spearheaded by the Prepwell Initiative, supported by a grant from Sports England. Their pioneering work is a great example of the way in which prehabilitation is gathering pace at the moment.
The “PREP: Preoperative Risk Education Package” website is here: https://www.prepwell.co.uk/
What are the economics of such a programme? Why did the project start to get referrals from initially sceptical surgeons? How did the programme impact the lives and treatment of patients?
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Veganism is Not “Food Ethics”: Veganism is about Social Justice
Mother cow and calf nuzzling
I was beyond disappointed after reading Olivia’s (from Skepchick) recent post and the discussion that followed in the comments section concerning veganism. First of all, there was absolutely no serious conversation about the connections between atheism and veganism. I am always at a complete loss to explain the lack of interest in veganism in atheist spaces. Atheists appear to be critical as long as they remain within the tiny sliver of conversation surrounding God-beliefs but lose all capacity for this critical thinking when it comes to narratives that those God-beliefs underpin. I would argue that the consumption narrative, with respect to animals, is one such narrative. Second, and the subject on which I will comment today, the conversation was carried out in an overly simplistic manner, which has been a depressing trend lately, even among other vegans. As usual, this overly simplistic treatment of veganism was derived from the assumption that veganism is individually based ethical action rather than a proper social justice position and movement founded on particular ethical beliefs. Key features of this myopic construal of veganism are:
(a) At its root, veganism is an ethical matter grounded in the individual.
(b) Veganism is an unattainable ideal. It is a guide rather than a realizable goal.
(c) Veganism is a food practice, a food ethic, and/or a diet.
(d) The bulk of veganism is to try “the best one can”.
(e) Veganism naturally entails moments of “guilt” because one cannot be a “perfect vegan”.
(f) Veganism is a practice conceptually isolated from other social justice practices.
Throughout her post, Olivia consistently referred to veganism as “food ethics” or a “diet” (c) and the rest of (a) through (f) can be seen in just one passage:
“We can see that not every abstract ethical conclusion demands perfect compliance because our own well-being should be part of our ethical calculations. Each of us has a finite amount of time, money, and energy, and we have to decide which arenas to focus those resources in. There are an amazing number of things we could do to improve ourselves and our communities, and we simply cannot do all of them. If changing our diet deeply depletes our resources, it may hurt us, or leave us anxious, angry, unhappy, and incapable of acting ethically towards the people around us (as an example I know that I am a cranky bitch when I don’t get adequate protein). If one particular ethical choice leaves us without anymore energy or resources, it may not be the most effective way of improving the world.”
Let me address (a) through (f).
(a) Veganism, at its root, is a social justice position grounded in the political collective. This means that mass exploitation and torture of animals can be eradicated only with social and political restructuring. Notice that we demand social and political restructuring also to address the plight of other oppressed groups . . . because to be anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-homophobia, etc is to take a social justice position. These are not individual ethical stances (although they are founded on ethical concerns and ethical implications do follow). There is no talk of “do you!” when it comes to social justice positions because to take a social justice position is to make some sort of claim about rights. Rights are a universal notion, not a “do you!” notion.
Not only is veganism a social justice position but also it is one grounded in a critical stance. It is a position funded by the critique of our inherited consumption narrative with respect to animals. We take issue with the assumption that animals must belong in the consumption narrative and we hold that it is partly because of this flawed assumption that animals remain without rights. If animals are simply beings for us to consume and use, whether as food, clothing, entertainment, research subjects, etc, then it is contradictory to also hold that they are beings deserving of protection from violation. As long as we assume that animals belong in the consumption narrative, they will never be granted rights. (Refer to my past post to read why I believe animal rights are the proper end goal for vegansim).
(b) Achieving vegan goals is certainly a realizable project. The only obstacle in the way of seeing this is the tendency to misconstrue veganism as an individually based ethical project! Obviously, ethical efforts made by isolated individuals cannot possibly dismantle the myth about animals’ place in the current consumption narrative. The consumption narrative is a systemic story complete with, economic, cultural and political forces; thus, if we are going to find a good strategy to tackle the problem, it will have to be at the systemic level. The abolition of chattel slavery was not the mere sum of individually based ethical projects. Rather, it was the result of calls for social and political restructuring. Abolition would have certainly been an unattainable ideal had abolitionists failed to see that the root of this oppressive tradition was based in a narrative systemically sustained. In other words, our great social injustices do not exist simply because there are “bad” people who are not willing to strive for abstract, unrealizable ideals. Great social injustices exist because structures are built and kept in place that function to perpetuate those very injustices. These structures are the very things giving rise to the illusion that ridding ourselves of particular social injustices are “abstract” ideals devoid of reality or mere phantoms of optimism that human nature can never accommodate.
(c) Veganism is not merely a food practice or food ethics or a diet. This is not to say that food practices are not social justice issues. They certainly are and deserve more attention. However, veganism is a social justice position with the aim of securing animals rights and, as such, is not exhausted by what we eat or wear. It grates me to even hear the phrases “veganism”, “food practice” and “food ethics” in the same sentence. If, as I’ve argued, vegans properly come to the social justice position by critiquing the assumption that animals must belong to the consumption narrative, then it follows that vegans do not conceptually regard animals as food. Calling veganism a “food ethic” or a “diet” or “food practice” is a lazy misnomer.
(d&e) Feeling guilty only makes sense when viewing veganism myopically as an individually based ethical project. I will have to support this claim by way of an example. One of my favorite films unfortunately has one short scene with needless misogynistic crap. When the dreaded scene approaches, I -as a staunch feminist- do not feel guilty. Rather, I feel frustrated and -at most (and at worst)- powerless as an individual. As a vegan, I am aware that I cannot currently live a life free from animal exploitation. As mentioned above, our society has systematized and institutionalized human dependence on animals and animal exploitation and torture. When I learn that my wall contains (most likely) exploited animal product, it seems inappropriate to feel guilt. I am not culpable in this matter. Rather, I feel frustrated at how pervasive the problem is and -at most (and at worst)- powerless. The feeling of powerlessness ebbs away after a while and the frustration that remains reminds me where the proper site is for my activism: at the systemic level. Momentary realizations of powerlessness, which is naturally grounded in individual powerlessness, and frustration are productive emotions because they indicate that the problem transcends the individual. Guilt is not productive because it indicates that the problem stems from the individual.
Shakespeare character holding a bunch of carrots asks, "To vegan or not to vegan?"
Some might object that I have given little to no attention to feeling guilty when it comes to “slip ups” or being “lax” in certain company or to those in dire situations who -regardless of social justice positions- must rely on animals for food and clothing. Regarding the first: as I’ve already stated, I think veganism is properly understood as a critique of the consumption narrative and animals’ place in it, which means that animals no longer conceptually qualify as “food” and that it is a social justice position, which means a vegan actually thinks animals are rights-deserving subjects. I think adopting the critical stance makes impossible “slip ups” or “laxity”. I (controversially) believe the “slip up” and “laxity” phenomena have a lot to do with adopting the individual-ethical-stance, which rely on vague notions of moral statuses and “cruelty” and does not do much to conceptually or critically alter the person.
I (again controversially) don’t consider situations that involve dire straits to be of any immediate concern to vegans. As vegans, we should be concerned with the consumption narrative; we are concerned with the story we as a society tell about animals and how they fit into our consumption routines. When people are eating or using animals for basic survival, they are not interested in creating a consumption narrative that gives animals the short end of the stick because of some perceived privilege. They do not have the power to institutionalize these notions. They are simply trying to stay alive. Professor Will Kymlicka refers to such a situation as residing outside of the “circumstances of justices”. This is a different issue than what vegans should take issue with. (Similarly, when you spray an insect in your kitchen with roach spray, subsequently killing it, this is a different issue than what vegans should be taking issue with. Such isolated incidences have nothing to do with maintaining the current consumption narrative in the same way that spraying an intruder’s face with the same roach spray has nothing to do with current human rights violations.)
(e) Veganism is not a social justice issue isolated from other social justice issues. Above Olivia states, “Each of us has a finite amount of time, money, and energy, and we have to decide which arenas to focus those resources in.” Such a view is rampant among both vegans and non-vegans. According to this “single-issue” mindset, activisms are structured to address one issue and it addresses this issue as being fundamentally independent of and different from other issues. As a result, we have to prioritize issues. The single-issue approach obscures the reality of how racism, sexism, classism, ableism, homophobia, speciesism, ecocide, etc are all not only connected but dependent on one another to form what I call a ‘pernicious holism’. If one sees this reality, the single-issue approach appears completely incoherent. If all of the issues we wish to fight against are enmeshed in a deep, interconnected web, then it makes absolutely no sense to structure your activism as if they are not connected and interdependent. Isolating one issue from the web is to misjudge the root and depth of the problem, in which case any further activism from this isolation is futile. Most times, single-issue approaches are espoused simply due to lack of diversity. It can be difficult to spot how particular issues are connected if you lack the relevant experiences.
For instance, feminist movements have historically focused solely on the gender aspect of their struggle simply because their members and the women they targeted and spoke for were all white women of a particular class. Until recently, it never occurred to mainstream feminist organizations that race and class are social forces that shape gender. This illumination was afforded by the voices of women of color and women from lower socioeconomic rungs. Although vegan organizations like to draw upon the likeness of human and animal exploitation, rarely do they take it to the next logical step to conclude that these likenesses have something to do with the same structure underpinning these exploitations. The anatomy of this structure on which all exploitations hinge is the pernicious holism that exists among all of the regressive –isms. To make a commitment in the right way to veganism, then, is not to take away time, money and energy from other valuable commitments. Making a commitment to veganism is just to make a commitment to attack the underlying structure of speciesism, which is structurally embedded with all of the other regressive –isms.
As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, this is not to say that vegan activism is feminism is anti-racist activism, etc. However, to take on the force that shapes animal exploitation requires also taking on the social forces that shape and intersect with that force. Gender, race, class, ability, sexual orientation, and other forces are so wrapped up in animality that tackling animality and how it undergirds speciesism requires taking into account gender, class, race, ability, sexual orientation, etc. This is the multi-issue approach or as it’s sometimes referred to as “intersectional activism”. For a good demonstration of this approach, consider this point Dr. Breeze Harper makes when she argues that there is something inconsistent about calling vegan products “cruelty-free” when they are made by child slaves!
Conclusion. The take away from all of this is that viewing veganism from the individual perspective as a practice that exhausts itself in personal ethics is diametrically opposed to the aim of veganism, which is to eradicate the myth that animals belong in the consumption narrative. Since legal protections are the only things that could meaningfully prevent the exploitation of vulnerable beings and since rights-language is the only language that can ensure formal vulnerability and violability of beings, our task as vegans is to secure animals rights if we are to meet our aim. The ethical implications which follow from this view do just that: they follow the critical stance that give rise to our social justice position and subsequently fix our practices. We need to insist that we are involved first and foremost in the business of social justice. Morality talk merely tells us something about us- about our character, about whether we are good or bad. Rights-talk tells us something about animals– about what they deserve and what they still don’t have.
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With hybrid cryptography, I want to encrypt a message intended for multiple recipients.
This can be archived (as described here by creating a symmetric secret key, encrypt the message with this key, and then include an encrypted version of the secret key, encrypted with all of the recipients' public keys.
I wonder if it is possible to have a "master recipient" who can decrypt all messages, and then have less privileged recipients who can only decrypt messages encrypted with their specific public key. Will it be possible by some sort of hierarchical keys, to enable a master recipient able to encrypt the secret key even though the secret key is not encrypted the master recipient's own key and added to the message?
Maybe I ought to look into "attribute-based encryption"?
Yes, this is possible. The most natural option is to look at identity-based encryption (I point to the wikipedia page, as it gather some links to various schemes), such as the Boneh-Franklin IBE. An IBE allows to encrypt a message with the identity of the user. After interacting with some trusted authority once in a setup phase, each user can receive the secret key associated to this identity, and decrypt all messages encrypted for their identity. The owner of the master secret key (which is used to derive identity-based secret keys) can decrypt all messages, for any identity. Your intuition about looking into attribute-based encryption is essentially correct, as IBE is a special case of attribute-based encryption.
In fact, you do not need the full power of IBE here, so there is an alternative possibility. The exact feature that you are looking for is enjoyed by the Bresson-Catalano-Pointcheval cryptosystem. Close variants of this scheme were invented simultaneously the same year, by Damgа̊rd and Jurik, and by Cramer and Shoup. It allows to perform the following operation:
• Generate a pair (master public key, master secret key) $= (\mathsf{mpk},\mathsf{msk})$
• Given the master public key $\mathsf{mpk}$, any user $P_i$ can generate a pair public key / secret key $(\mathsf{pk}_i,\mathsf{sk}_i)$
• A message encrypted with $\mathsf{pk}_i$ can be decrypted either with the corresponding secret key $\mathsf{sk}_i$, or with the master secret key $\mathsf{msk}$.
Note that unlike IBE, you cannot simply encrypt using the identity of a user in this system. However, generating a pair $(\mathsf{pk}_i,\mathsf{sk}_i)$ can be done by any user, using only the master public key (while in IBE, the mastersecret key is needed to derive the secret key associated to an identity), so you do not need to have a trusted authority at this step. This might make this scheme more suited than IBE for your exact application.
If you are familiar with the Paillier cryptosystem and the ElGamal cryptosystem (otherwise, ignore what follows), the idea of the scheme is quite natural: a ciphertext is of the form $(g^r \bmod n^2,(1+n)^mh^r \bmod n^2)$, where $n$ is a product of two safe prime, and $(g,h)$ is some specific public key. Given the factorization of $n$, one can decrypt this ciphertext exactly as a Paillier ciphertext, by ignoring the first part of the ciphertext (the second part is exactly a Paillier ciphertext). Alternatively, given $s$ such that $h = g^s$, the ciphertext can be decrypted with a standard ElGamal decryption.
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• $\begingroup$ Thank you very much for your detailed answer! You're probably right about not needing the full IBE in my use case. So, for any identity to create the identity's public/private key-pair derived from the master's public key, I would need the Bresson-Catalano-Pointcheval (or related mentioned) cryptosystems? Could this also be done using Paillier or ElGamal - for which there already exists implementations. My cryptography teacher at university always warned us about "rolling your own crypto"... $\endgroup$ – Per Erik Gransøe Aug 17 '17 at 11:13
• $\begingroup$ Paillier and ElGamal do not enjoy this specific feature, unfortunately. I do not know whether any implementation of the schemes I mentioned is available. There's still the option of going for an IBE, for which you should be able to find easily implementations. $\endgroup$ – Geoffroy Couteau Aug 17 '17 at 15:42
I'd keep it simple. The previous answer is indeed very deep and very complete, this answer is more like an addition :)
Depends on what/why you want to achieve, what is often used in enterprise systems is "key escrow" service. You can see it as a "system/master" user (or multiple sytem users in your case). Every message (or document) encrypted for multiple recepients is as well addressed for these system users having their own keys.
Advantage of this approach is - you can use existing and out-of-box implementations. The issue with this approach is that the keys of the key escrow service become very critical.
As a note - seems I will have to study the mentioned "double trapdoor schemas" mentioned in the other answer, it looks vey interesting :)
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Alibaba Says Its AI Copywriting Tool Passed the Turing Test
It's generating copy for sites like Taobao and Tmall
Alibaba says its AI copy generator is used "nearly a million times a day" to create copy like this. Alibaba
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Alimama, the digital marketing arm of ecommerce platform Alibaba, has released an artificial-intelligence-enabled Chinese language copywriting tool that it says passed the Turing test and can produce 20,000 lines of copy a second.
It wasn’t clear if Alimama actually conducted a Turing test—in which humans judged whether copy came from a person or AI—or if Alimama means more generally that its AI-generated copy sounds like it was written by a person. (But, if it did, it would join an elite club with just a few members, including computer program Eugene Goostman, which simulates a 13-year-old boy, and possibly Google’s appointment-booking voice technology Duplex.)
Alibaba wouldn’t provide any details about how the test was conducted as a company rep declined to comment on the record.
In a blog post, Alimama said its AI copywriter uses deep learning and natural language processing to learn from “millions of top-quality existing samples [on ecommerce sites Tmall and Taobao] to generate copy.”
To use the AI copywriter, brands insert a link to a product page and click the “Produce Smart Copy” button for suggestions. They can adjust the length and tone with options like promotional, functional, fun, poetic or heartwarming. Alimama said the tool is used an average of “nearly a million times a day” on Taobao and Tmall as well as fashion flash sales website and Chinese language wholesale site The post cited clothing brands Esprit and Dickies as users.
Alimama stressed efficiency, saying “copywriting involves a certain degree of repetitive, low-value work that can be made more efficient” as a single product might require up to 10 versions of copy for different ad formats.
Christina Lu, general manager of Alimama marketing, added this “allows people to devote more energy to richly creative work.”
ShaoZhang Ding, head of ecommerce for the Asia Pacific market at Esprit, for one, agreed.
“Based on a massive database of existing copy and advanced AI technologies, the tool can reduce the repetitive and tedious copywriting workload for our teams,” he said in the post.
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Sharing elements across specializations
OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Specialization enables easy reuse of elements from ancestor specializations. However, it is also possible to reuse elements from non-ancestor specializations, as long as the dependency is properly declared in order to prevent invalid generalization or conref processing.
A structural specialization can incorporate elements from unrelated domains or other structural specializations by referencing them in the content model of a specialized element. The elements included in this manner must be specialized from ancestor content that is valid in the new context. If the reusing and reused specializations share common ancestry, the reused elements must be valid in the reusing context at every level they share in common.
Although a well-designed structural specialization hierarchy with controlled use of domains is still the primary means of sharing and reusing elements in DITA, the ability to also share elements declared elsewhere in the hierarchy allows for situations where relevant markup comes from multiple sources and would otherwise be developed redundantly.
Example: A specialization of concept reuses an element from the task module
A specialized concept topic could declare a specialized process section that contains the steps element that is defined in the task module. This is possible because of the following factors:
• The steps element is specialized from ol.
• The process element is specialized from section, and the content model of section includes ol.
The steps element in process always can be generalized back to ol in section.
Example: A specialization of reference reuses an element from the programming domain
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A Continuing Orthodoxy: A [Fairly Short] PCA History
In telling the story of the Presbyterian Church in America there are a number of different places one can start. One could begin with the Reformation. Presbyterianism places itself in the Reformed tradition and thereby traces its roots back to the Reformation in the 16th Century, where the Reformers broke off from the Catholic church in order to work towards a purer theology. | <urn:uuid:08c753ed-b7e1-4d71-8743-63b2d7d2e10b> | https://presbyformed.com/tag/religion/ | en | 0.922798 | 0.066465 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Home for hip hop is standing
Community. Big boy's neighborhood. Hey, Natalia. First presidential debate is in the news, but I think there is one thing that we can all agree on. When it came time of Kim check for this the first presidential debate and it was it was so tough to watch. Like, seriously it was It was so bad and I actually I'm upset that we can't have a presidential debate where people can actually walk away and say I see the vision that you Biden has already see what with Donald Trump still wants to do for people who are undecided. It must like I can't Imagine how confused they must be. Because seriously the moderator Chris Wallace, like, bless his heart, but seriously, he had he needs he needed to get way more control or I don't know what they needed to do. They need to change the rules when it comes to these debates big because it was not working here last you know, the other night. I thought Joe Biden should have should have been more aggressive, too. You know,
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The Rules
Maintaining a group of over 45,000 members discussing such sensitive topics is hard. Help us keep things on track and do real education by reading and following the rules for our group.
Rule 1: Respect All People's Identities and Pronouns
1. When you enter this group, you must respect ALL people’s identities and ALL pronouns. Accidental misgendering (Rule 8) is ok as long as you acknowledge the mistake and quickly correct it (meaning editing your comment/post).
2. No purposely using someones birth name if you know it (Rule 6).
3. If you don’t know someone’s pronouns, ask! “What are your pronouns?” “What pronouns do you use?” When in doubt, use they/them/theirs
4. We don’t really care if you think someone’s identity or pronoun is “fake” It is not your place to judge others identities. Making fun of different gender identities will result in a mute and/or ban
Rule 2: Remain Civil in ALL Discourse
1. When we say “ALL” discourse, we mean “ALL” discourse. “ALL” =/= “remain civil all the time unless someone seems like a troll, then it’s ok.”
2. We mean ALL discourse you have in this group should be informative to others in some way. We mean it when we say behave and be civil in ALL discourse. We mute anyone that we see not being civil.
3. This includes:
1. Ableism: calling someone stupid/idiot/dumb/R-slur for not knowing the answer to a question or ignorant about a certain topic. Punishment is a mute.
2. Name calling: Self explanatory. Same as above. This includes calling people TERFs, Truscum, Tucute, Trolls, etc. Please avoid name calling, it causes people to become defensive, which in return, makes them unwilling to listen or learn any further. Punishment is a mute. *Racial/homophobic/transphobic/xenophobic/etc comments are an auto ban
3. Dog-piling:Dog piling is when several people “jump on” or “attack” or “overwhelm” the person asking a question, usually in the comment section. This can cause multiple different conversations to be happening in the same comment thread.
1. Only comment if you read through the thread and you are adding in information that had not been said yet or share sources. Don’t reanimate an dead thread that is several hours/days/months old. You’re just stirring up more drama that already was finished. Punishment is a mute
4. Sealioning: “A type of trolling or harassment which consists of pursuing people with persistent requests for evidence or repeated questions, while maintaining a pretense of civility. It may take the form of "incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate".” Punishment is a mute
5. Oppression Olympics: Telling someone you have it worse than them/someone else when the person is expressing their personal struggles. Punishment is a mute
6. Dirty Deleting: Deleting a post or comment. We keep up comments not only for accountability, but others can learn from your comments too. Not to mention the time and effort people made into answering your question. Imagine spending hours or even the whole day arguing , getting sources, and giving emotional energy, only for the person delete it all. Punishment is a mute
1. If you made a comment by accident and wish to delete it, tag an admin and ask for permission first, most of the time we say it’s ok.
7. No “Google it”: Don’t tell others to google it, or do their own research. They are doing their own research. That’s why they are in this group. This is literally a space for people to ask questions. Not all questions can be answered by google. Not everyone is neurotypical and can have their questions easily answered and understood by a quick google search. Not everyone is familiar with what sources are reliable and which are not reliable. Punishment is a mute
8. No self-modding, this is when the average member tells other average members what to do, what they think should or should not be approved, and what rules they think they’re breaking. They tend to be really bossy, especially towards other admins,
1. Letting a member know something is against the rules is fine. attempting to treat the situation as if you were a mod/admin yourself will result in a mute
1. Hey, I just wanted to let you know this group doesn’t allow violent comments towards the opposition, so you may want to edit your comment” <- This is ok
2. “Admins can we ban this person? you realize this is against the rules right? they’re a troll” <- not ok
9. No “laugh reacting” to serious responses
1. When someone is trying to explain a topic, or talk about a serious experience, it doesn’t feel great when someone laughs at you. We know it sounds silly, but the way people respond to us online affects us in real life. Shocker. “Laugh reacting” is just the same as laughing at someone’s response. It gives the same feeling, and causes people to become defensive and less receptive to information. Don’t do it.
10. No suggesting to unfriend/block/Dump them or to not bother trying
1. Many people are coming here to get resources to have a conversation with their friends or family who they care enough about to want to try to save that relationship by educating them.
1. Example: If someone makes a post saying
“my [parent/friend/coworker/sibling/relative] just posted this, how to i explain to them this is transphobic and bad?”
2. DO NOT just comment saying “I would just block them, fuck transphobes!” or “cut them out of your life, you don’t need that transphobic energy in your life!
3. Many people are asking advice for relatives, not everyone has the ability to just block a parent/sibling/relative over a Facebook post, especially if they live with that person. It may cause issues and punishment in real life for that person.
4. We are here to have a conversation and educate, just blocking people right off the bat or not bothering is not going to educate anyone. People tend to be more receptive towards new challenging information if it’s coming from someone they are friendly with. They may also have no idea what they posted was transphobia, and will continue to post the same content because no one had told them otherwise.
Rule 3: No Hate Speech or Bullying
1. This means any degrading comments about race, religion, sexual orientation, sex, Gender identity/expression, disability, employment status, immigration status, political views, etc, will not be tolerated. As stated in Rule: 2 Any derogatory slurs results in an auto-ban.
Rule 4: Banned Topics
1. Dating/genital preferences: This subject is largely debated in the trans community, unfortunately, no one can really give one single straight answer, everyone has widely different opinions and it’s an extremely deep layered complex topic. 9/10 times it ends in a dumpster fire. We currently have a master post on this topic, so please search for that if you have questions regarding any part of this. If the thread is closed down, it means moderators/admins are unavailable to properly watch the thread, and it will open up later.
2. Trans people in Sports/Athletes: This topic is also a difficult one as different sports have different requirements, different requirements for different teams, leagues, levels, skill, etc. Only one of the admins is skilled/knowledgeable enough to handle or cover this topic and they are currently needing to focus on school so cannot devote the time to keep an eye on any/all threads that might arise from this topic.
1. We now have a MEGA THREAD on this topic where it can be discussed. LINK
3. Certain “celebrities” or well known names within the transgender community or who are transgender: We wind up receiving multiple posts on the same person with either little to no variation/difference in the posts being submitted and often during times when the title is something like, “Have you seen what person X has done now?!” or asking for discourse about the person’s thoughts/opinions.
1. People such as Jessica Yaniv, Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints), and similar.
2. As these people are not part of the group and as such cannot defend themselves or explain/clarify their points to us, we feel it’s best to avoid discourse on them when it comes to their actions or “validity” of what they do.
4. ACAB, police focused, and similar discussions: Because we are a group that allows EVERYONE regardless of political views, many people have different views on police and law enforcement. However try to avoid any cop discourse at all as any disagreements causes a dumpster fire and derails the post.
1. Spamming “ACAB” on a post does not help educate others. It creates defensiveness, derails the conversations, and starts fights among people who are here to learn. Yes, sometimes people need to be led gently away from their ignorant or harmful views. Simply posting ACAB doesn’t help and has only shown to repeatedly hinder the work here. The admin team can understand the sentiment and feeling behind it, however it is not conducive to a learning environment.
1. Because this apparently has to be said regarding a single post regarding a dead former police officer: Posting comments mocking a dead person (regardless of their profession) is in violation of rules 1 and 2.
2. Generally all posts dealing with the police are denied. There are a few posts that have been approved, however the focus of the post has not been on the police, but on the topic of the trans person in question. For example, the article of the trans woman who was a police woman who upon death was dressed as a man and referred to as a man. The topic in question is the wishes of the dead not being honored, not that they were at one point a cop.
3. This rule came about because people couldn’t follow rules 1 and 2. The admins have a long open history of being critical of all forms of law enforcement, and are open to making a master post if they can get enough accurate and available information to create a master post, but until then please let’s remember rules 1 and 2.
5. Medical Topics
1. Do not share any dosage information for yourself or for others.
2. You may share medical advice only in the form that it is being presented by an authoritative source, study, etc.,
3. We do not discuss DIY HRT or allow discussion about herbal supplements that can be used to DIY HRT.
6. Genderless Theorycrafting
1. Discussions about a world without gender might be interesting but they are not practical education.
2. Gender Abolitionist Posts
1. For the same reason above, these discussions are seldom helpful to our members and are often unnecessarily divisive.
3. We may start a master thread to group these topics together at a later day.
Rule 5: Content Warning Requirements
1. A CW/TW is a Content/Trigger Warning. It allows members to see what the post is about before they see the actual post, just in case it triggers a PTSD flashback and/or anxiety/panic attack.
2. This group has a blanket content warning for transphobia. You WILL see transphobia in this group, accidental or purposeful, you will see it.
1. No need to “CW: Transphobia” on a post. It’s like putting a CW: Tattoo, while being in a tattoo group. It’s redundant.
3. For example:
1. CW: description of sexual assault,
[Post involving description of sexual assault]
2. Posts showing/talking about violence, threats of violence, gore, blood, sexual assault/harassment/abuse, child abuse, self harm, eating disorders, suicide, derogatory slurs, and other major serious topics are required to be added in order for the post to be approved.
3. Other possible triggers must be added per request.
4. Refusing to add CW/TW’s will result in a mute and admins will repost your post with the appropriate CW/TW’s
5. Making fun of ANY triggers or requests will result in a mute
1. To avoid the zucc™, please censor ALL obvious slurs Even if you’re reclaiming them. Please censor them.
Rule 6: Respect Everyone's Privacy
Respect Everyone’s Privacy
1. We do not allow doxing in this group. This is an Auto-Ban
2. Do NOT out anyone in this group. This is an Auto-Ban
3. Do NOT profile creep
1. Do not look at a person’s profile as a means to dig up dirt about the person you are talking/arguing to. We allow EVERYONE in this group regardless of political ideations.
2. Some people may not be out on their public profile.
4. If you know someone’s birth name DO NOT USE IT. We will ask you to edit your comment/post. Refusal to do so will be a mute. Fighting with admins to justify using someone’s birth name or refusal to call a certain person anything but their birth name at all is an Auto-Ban.
5. Do not screenshot posts and share them (Even if you censor the names and the group) in other groups without permission. This is an Auto-Ban
1. IF YOU GET CONSENT TO SHARE: please say so in the comments in this group AND acknowledging you had permission to share it in whichever group you shared it to.
2. We do this to protect people’s privacy as we want people to ask questions and talk openly without fear of being harassed or made fun of for their ignorance or beliefs. As well as many individuals are trying to figure out their identity and are not our of the closet just yet. Sharing screenshots without permission could put someone in danger. Don’t do it.
6. Censor names, faces, and groups, to avoid doxing
1. Censor ALL names, groups, faces, etc to hide the person’s identity
2. You DO NOT have to censor names or faces of politicians, celebrities, businesses, etc. or if it’s a public post.
3. Please write in the post Not censored: public post.” If not, we will assume you forgot to censor your post and delete it and notify you via deletion ticket on why your post was deleted.
7. DO NOT Send unsolicited friend requests or messages to members, mods, and/or admins of this group. Ask permission to message members/mods/admins of the group or interact with their profiles in any way.
1. This is for the protection of parent/guardian and child against doxxing.
Rule 7: Do Not Make Threats Towards The Opposition
1. In this group, we assume all who oppose trans people are just uneducated. In this group, its our job to educate those people in a civilized manner.
Treat this group like school. If you wouldn’t say it in the middle of class to a classmate, student, or teacher, don’t say it here.
2. This includes known and obvious transphobes. Not only do these threats make us look bad, but it also risks us getting zucced. So please don’t.
1. If you make a threat you’ll be asked to edit it out of your comment/post. If you refuse, it will be deleted and you will be muted.
2. You may however expression your disapproval however you’d like towards criminals.
Rule 8: Terminology/Accidental Offensive Posts
1. We all make mistakes we all have to learn at some point, so its totally ok if you accidentally use the wrong term, or ask or say something offensive. As long as you are open to correcting your mistakes (which may include editing your post/comment)
2. If you are unsure if you are correct, using the right terminology, or are understanding something correctly, please write it on the post and we’d be happy to correct you on your mistakes.
3. If you are cis, do not argue with trans people about what terms are ok and not ok to use. You’re here to listen to us
4. DO NOT harass or yell at the OP for using the wrong terminology or saying something offensive. Politely correct them and move on answering their question.
1. For example:
1. Q: "What kind of difficulties do transgenders face in the workforce?"
2. Preferred Answer: "Transgender people* face a lot of discrimination during the hiring process due to XYZ...(and so on)
*Transgender is an adjective, not a noun, so transgenders is incorrect. instead say transgender people, person, man, woman, etc."
3. Not Preferred Answer: "Why would you think thats an ok thing to call someone?! How do you not understand that trans people face so many problems in the workforce?! Admin! Get this troll out of here!"
5. If you are unsure what someone’s pronouns are, please ask! It's ok and we encourage others to ask each other their pronouns!
6. If you fight against the members and try justifying your reasoning for using an offensive word, or argue its not that offensive, etc will result in a mute/ban depending on the situation.
Rule 9: We May Not approve Posts If...
1. Break one of the rules.
1. Example: All posts regarding children under the age of 18 MUST be sent in anonymously. Photos/videos must have the child's face censored.
1. This is to protect the family and child from acts of doxxing that can result in false reports of child abuse.
2. General LGB stuff....
1. We are a group about transgender education. We focus on gender identity, not sexual orientation. Posts asking us to define the difference between bisexual and pansexual, what is asexual etc.
2. Or posts that are generic gay themed such as sharing photos of a rainbow flag saying love is love. Or what your city is doing for pride, or a religious protester saying gays go to hell. Those have no educational value about trans people and gender identity.
3. Asking members to spam/post/leave
1. Swaying votes on a poll
2. Spam positive/negative comments on a persons post/page/business
3. Asking people to leave a group or warning people about a group because they did/said something transphobic
1. "X group is transphobic cuz X mod did XYZ. You should all leave this group"
4. You may share a post and acknowledge the comments horrible. However, please do not ask people to spam the comment section.
4. Fundraisers
There is a special thread for fundraisers: Here
5. Selfie Threads/self promo
1. Sunday is selfie day. Post there!
2. No introduction posts.
1. Example: “Hi! Im Alex! He/him, really happy to be apart of this group! ” Is not allowed
2. Example: “Hi! I’m Alex, he/him, really happy to be apart of this group. I need some help learning terms, and resources on how to come out. Any advice?” Is allowed
3. Thursday is of course Throw Back Thursday, where trans people only post their before and after photos.
4. Selfie threads that are allowed for educational purposes. "Here's me x years on HRT, these are the changes I saw...This was my experience with X surgery"
5. No "look i got my first haircut!" or "just a new [clothing] !" with a picture of you attached
6. No self promo, we'll have special threads for that. This includes friends and family too.
7. Obviously no spam
6. The question has already been asked or similar question had been asked recently
7. Asking for roommates, to live with someone, or requesting to do something where you’re asking/giving people address’
1. DO NOT try to move in or meet with anyone you just met over a Facebook group. I would hope no one in here would do anything to harm another member of this group. We cannot allow vulnerable members, especially younger ones, to meet up with a stranger they met on Facebook. `
2. You MAY If you (a trans person) or a trans friend needs shelter of some sort, make a post about asking for resources on how to get into a homeless shelter, food, medical care, etc.
8. Your post was already posted/something similar was already posted recently
1. Especially if an event or a conversational thing recently happened, we may put a pause on posts similar to that topic until it has died down.
9. Random rants
1. We get a lot of rants that look like this: "Dear cis people why do ya'll think its ok to misgender us its not ok!! how would you like it if we did it to you!!!! i am not a girl i am a BOY!!! what don't you get about that my name is X not Y!!!! stop calling me ahfkjasfejbfef kwejfa bjfbdjfb wdjkfb........ etc etc"
2. It’s random, confusing, no real point, just an angry rant with no context.
3. Instead try "My parents keep misgendering me and it makes me really upset. What are some ways I can educate my parents and get them to call me X"
4. Try providing some context as to why you are upset and if you are in need of resources to use.
5. Random Rants may also include posts that have general common knowledge within the group and it doesn’t need to be said such as making posts to let cis people know misgendering trans people is bad.
1. Instead try making a post to showcase what trans people go through when we are bullied for our identities. “What have people said about your gender identity?” “What is your experience with people bullying you over your gender identity” This gives more context
2. We want people to be able to learn from your post. Just ranting about your personal life is not helpful. Turn it into a conversation starter, Who, What, When, Where, Why, How.
10. Support group type posts
1. Things that are not allowed:
1. “Just started HRT today!”
2. “I’m so excited i’m getting surgery next week!”
3. “Ugh I had a hard day at work, all my co workers misgendered me.”
2. Instead try:
1. “I just started HRT today, what are some of your experiences that aren’t talked about as much?”
2. “Im so excited im getting surgery next week! What was your experience like?”
3. “Ugh, I had a hard day at work, all i did was get misgendered. What are some ways to prevent it? How do you cope with getting misgendered at work?”
11. Medical Advice
1. No "I missed dose of HRT what do i do?" or "does this look infected" Call your doctor. Not Facebook.
2. You may ask how HRT, blockers, and surgery work and the process of medical transitioning
12. Just posting a link to a video without explaining what it is
1. We don't have time to sit and watch a video each time they get posted to make sure it belongs in the group. And especially trans related videos are super long.
Especially if its transphobic, because then we have to watch it even if we don't have the spoons to do so.
2. No Live videos
3. Just give a little description as to what and why you're posting it.
4. No posting a link and just writing "thoughts?" or “opinions?"We are looking to have actual conversations in this group and looking to debunk any arguments people witness.
5. Try "hey my [relative/friend/coworker] posted this video, how do I respond to it?" or "I've been seeing this video around, and I’m confused" etc.
13. Posts without discussion prompts, questions, or valuable educational content.
14. "Does anyone else..." style posts.
1. "Has anyone else seen this movie? What did you think about it?"
2. Does anyone else think this is phobic? (these questions are best directed to the Transphobia Check mega thread which you can find here: https://soundsliketransedu.com/mega-threads/)
3. "What's your opinion on this meme?"
Rule 10: Trans First, Listen First
1. For the first 6 hours the comments in each thread are open only to the original poster and to trans, non-binary, and metagender persons.
1. The point is to highlight trans voices and to give cisgender peoples a pause to listen to trans people before they speak in the thread.
2. Many cases cis people think they are answering something correctly, however, because they do not have the experience of being trans and being active in the community, they may miss certain nuances, causing their answer to be incorrect or outdated.
2. Cisgender individuals are expected to defer to trans voices on topics that concern transgender peoples even after the post is open for general comment.
3. Threads may have special instructions or be open to different audiences based on poster request or admin discretion. Please check the FIRST COMMENT in any thread for guidance on how to interact with that thread.
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Flickr 3006348550 - Reader Question: My Husband Doesn't Spend Any Time with MeEvery Monday I like to answer a Reader Question. I give some quick thoughts, and then you all can chime in, too, in the comments section. Today we’re tackling a thorny one: “My husband doesn’t spend any time with me!”
I recently received an email that said this:
My husband likes to hang out with “the guys” after work, and he’s rarely home. I’m lonely. Is that normal?
That’s tough, isn’t it? A lot of couples get into these situations where, once they’re married, they rarely spend any time together anymore.
So let me give a few quick thoughts.
First, it is absolutely fine for men to hang out with friends.
They do need male bonding. That being said, everything should be in balance, and if he’s consistently with his friends, and he’s never with you, that’s not healthy for your relationship.
However, nagging rarely helps anything. If you complain about it, then he will feel like he’s being attacked, or that you’re pressuring him, and that could cause him to withdraw further.
You still need a friendship
Let’s just think about the dynamics of your relationship. Often when people marry, they marry because they love each other and they want to be together. But they don’t necessarily have a really good friendship. They don’t necessarily have things that they enjoy doing together (other than sex). So, once you’re married, it’s easy to start to drift apart because you didn’t have regular things that you did together.
Guys, when they don’t have something specific planned, will then often say, “I’ll hang out with the guys, because nothing else is on at home tonight.”
So what I would recommend is that you sit down with your husband and ask what sorts of things he enjoys doing that you can do with him. Does he like to fish? Then start fishing with him (even if you don’t like to fish!). Does he like taking bike rides? Then start riding bikes together. Does he like watching sporting events? Then try going to some. Or take up a new hobby, like tennis together.
Find something that you can do, rather than just hang out at home.
If you have something specific planned, he’s more likely to come home. And if it’s something that he enjoys, all the better! Find ways to laugh together, instead of nagging him to just be home. Saying to him, “Let’s go bowling tonight!” is much better than saying “you never want to spend any time with me.” Be specific with your ideas. Many men don’t want to “just be home”. They need a reason, like something that they are going to do together. Of course, that’s tricky if you have little kids, but see if you can find things to do as a family, or swap baby-sitting with another couple, so you can have some one-on-one time.
Also remember that men tend to communicate side by side, rather than face to face.
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Chapter 21: He likes this girl
“Leo, are you okay?” I ask, walking into the dining room with Enzo. Enzo pulls me to his side and sets me in the seat beside him, dragging it closer to him.
“Yeah, I’m much better. Thanks for getting rid of my brothers, Belle,” Leo replies with a small chuckle as he watches us. They all watch us, with smirks on their faces.
“I didn’t see either of you yesterday,” Rafael comments. I’m starving, seeing as I haven’t eaten anything and as breakfast is served by Gia and Sofia, I dig in. Enzo places a hand on my thigh, making sure he has a hold on me at all times. “But we definitely heard you.” The other two brother laugh along with Rafael as they raise their eyebrows at us. Enzo stays silent but a smirk can’t be taken off his face. I just sit there, eating away.
As we finish breakfast, the guys clear out, having been sent to carry out different orders by Enzo. Leo, of course, is issued to rest, much to his dismay. He did take a bullet to the heart. The bullet came from the Morettis, and gunfire means officially war. Enzo’s family is at war with mine, if I can call them family. Only by blood...
“Are you serious?” I exclaim, my eyes widening in disbelief.
“He trusts me. I can take you outside, discreetly, of course. Where do you want to go, tesoro?” Adriano asks with a grin on his face.
“Anywhere? I can go anywhere?”
“Well, within an hour, sì,” he replies. "Anywhere you want, Isabella."
"Central Park," I state. He scoffs, cocking his head at me.
"You could go anywhere, amore, and you're choosing the park?" I nod wildly and he shakes his head with a little chuckle. "Come on then, piccola. Let's go."
“Gattina,” Enzo calls out, snapping me out of my trance.
"Yes?" I say in a sweet tone, turning to him.
"We're interrogating the guy who shot Leo, figuring out why they were given orders to do so. After, I'll take you anywhere you want, tonight," he declares with a small smile, suppressing it as I'm assuming he doesn't normally smile.
I can't leave here with him. If the Morettis are spying on him and one of them knows what I look like and recognizes me, I'm finished. But it will be dark, they won't be able to see me too closely, hopefully.
Oh no, there's still the matter of Ranger. He's the mole.
"Enzo," I call out as he makes it to the door. He turns to face me with a questioning expression. "It's... it's about Ranger."
"Oh, I heard about that. You don't get on with him. I'll have Marissa look out for you. Ranger's coming with me. I have to go, bambina," he says and quickly hurries out and out the door of the house, I'm assuming with Ranger. I need to tell him. But I don't have proof. Would he believe me? I need to find proof.
I travel into the kitchens and am greeted by Marissa suddenly in front of me, startling me a little.
"I'm meant to keep you entertained today. Whatever that means," she declares, raising an eyebrow at me.
"I'll just help Sofia," I reply, giving her a small smile before walking over to the two girls.
"Hey," I greet, joining in on washing dishes.
"Never heard the boss that loud before," Joe comments, smirking and looking over to me from across the counter. I just furrow my eyebrows at him in a questioning look.
"We all heard him groaning yesterday. It was like the grumbling of thunder throughout the house," Sofia giggles. "It was kinda scary. We were quite worried for you." I stay silent, feeling the heat rush to my cheeks in embarrassment that they all heard us.
"Ah, she's blushing," Joe smirks and I flip him off. "Whoa, tesoro, we had to listen to it all day. What did you do to him? I've never heard him so... animalistic." I like his growls and groans. They're hot. And in amidst sex, it was quite the turn on. "But I guess we should be careful what we say around you now. You're his girl."
"Why would you have to be careful?" I ask, raising my eyebrows in an accusing way.
"Well, Ranger certainly got an ear-bashing after he heard about your standoff with him. All because you don't like him," he replies.
"When did this happen?"
"Early this morning. Marissa told him." Maybe Enzo will believe me if I told him. But how could I be sure myself? He didn't actually admit anything to me. He didn't even hint that he was working for my family. But I just know. I feel it. I know my own family, even if I left a few years ago. Not all of them were the same though...
"We're here, principessa. We've got 40 minutes because we also have to get back," Adriano says, sitting down next to me on the bench. I open my book and start to read, a book written in French. It's more of a collection of poems, beautiful poems. And I'm sitting in a beautiful park. Thanks to Adriano.
"Thank you."
"No problem. You deserve something, even if this is the best I can get you," he replies with a smile.
"Why?" I question, looking up to him. He works for my father. Why would he show me such kindness? He's always been polite and sweet towards me, but this is very generous. He is new, he was only initiated into the family last year. He's young, only twenty. His father is a relative of my own, so he trusts blood family more than his crime family.
"You're twelve years old and you haven't been out of that house since you were seven. I'd say you need the change of scenery." I smile at him and he brushes the hair out of my face and behind my ear. "How could your father think of hurting you?"
"I don't know. He made me... he made me be with that man. Why?"
"Tesoro," he begins, cupping my cheeks. His eyebrows pinch together in sadness. "A girl's virginity is worth a lot, especially in a girl as beautiful as you."
"Will I have to do it again? It hurt," I sniffle, biting my lip.
"I don't know. It's up to your dad. It shouldn't be, but it is."
"Because you belong to him."
Now I belong to Enzo. And I'm glad about it. My father started hurting me after my mother died when I was seven. After that, I wasn't allowed out of the house either. I was trapped, no freedom whatsoever and no safety. But when I was twelve, he started selling me off. I was a tool to him. I could be used to get what he wanted. Five years later, I killed him, and escaped. Three years later, I get kidnapped by the rival family, the Calabrias. Hell of a timeline.
"Did he hurt you?" Sofia whispers, snapping me out of another trance I went into today.
"No, why would he?" I question.
"He's never sounded like that with me," Gia comments, looking a little disappointed as we move into the laundry room. "He kept you in there all day."
"We were just sleeping for a lot of it." Gia raises her eyebrows at me in question but I shrug. We were sleeping a lot. We fucked, then slept, then fucked again, then slept and it went around again. We did so many different positions and he seemed so insatiable, and so was I. But he made me feel wanted and I wanted him.
"Well, they are all on edge about the Morettis. After Leo got shot, Luca and Rafael went crazy on their hunt for his shooter. The Morettis are all savages. I'd much rather work for the Calabrias than the Morettis," Sofia says.
"Did you know that the boss was meant to marry one?" Gia tells us. Of course I know. I'm that one.
"He'd never have gone through with it. They all hated Christian Moretti as much as they hate Alfonso," Sofia declares.
"Why would they make that deal then?" I ask.
"Because Tony Calabria, the boss' dad, wanted a treaty, preferred it over war. But I think war was always inevitable," Sofia answers.
"You two hear a lot of gossip," I say.
"Yeah, when we serve their tables, we listen in to names. And the guys always know more than us," Gia comments.
"I don't really see a lot of the other guys around the house," I mention.
"That's because they don't usually meet here unless it's a party or official meeting. The Calabrias own a strip club for the guys to pick up the girls there, they have different bars and restaurants. They can take their pick of meeting places. They normally meet in the strip club though. I was a dancer there before the boss saw me and decided he wanted me working in his house. But he lost interest quick. It's probably because I'm Italian that he chose me. But he then chose other girls and tossed them aside after me, not even letting them work here," Gia explains.
"He's never kept a girl as long as he has you," Sofia says with a little smirk.
Why am I so special?
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Documentary History of Greece: 1943-1951
Documentary History of Greece: 1943-1951
Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan
Τομαή, Φωτεινή
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Greece emerged from its participation on the Allied side in World War II deeply wounded, with heavy military and civilian losses, its natural and national resources pillaged, its merchant marine destroyed, its economy almost non-existent. The Greek people could not survive without international assistance. The humanitarian aid (primarily American) dispensed through UNRRA kept hundreds of thousands of Greeks alive. But to achieve the massive aid flows necessary to rebuild the Greek economy and make it sustainable, Greek politicians saw no alternative but to enlist their country in the broader geostrategic calculations of the United States. The Marshall Plan truly helped Greece. It remains a powerful historical bond between Europe and the United States, between Athens and Washington. Among the heartening lessons of these documents is their reminder of the depth of the reservoir of shared idealism and good will that tie our peoples together both in good times and in bad.
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Books and Tech: "Evil Genius" by Catherine Jinks
I read this in high school and randomly remembered it today. It's a book that made me want to be involved with network infrastructure.
This is the Australian cover. Doesn't it look cool?
It's very well-researched (though some of the concepts it touches on seem to have died in real life). Also, terminology kind of marches on - "computer phones" is something constantly said. Searching that in 2020...You get smartphones and various 'use your PC as a phone' links from CNET.
I won't be breaking down every section of the entire book.
"They sent in sniffing programs to intercept his access code."
The main character, Cadel, is making a dating website. He goes on hacker forums...and apparently, let them know about his plans. URL, name, and everything. Someone could have used WHOIS to find out the name of the owner - or the domain could have been registered privately. That’s a thing.
"Mostly I was doing application back doors, remote log-ins, tracking down personal keys, information gathering. No bombs or anything. No viruses."
I really like how it's clear Cadel doesn't know everything about systems and networks.
He still has to study and learn, and he still gets things wrong. There's a dialogue between a professor who works with computer viruses, and Cadel says he's worked in backdoors, remote logins, access code-cracking - but not viruses.
So many stories think "the tech guy" can automatically do everything in the realm of tech, and that simply isn't true.
"We have a circuitry room [...] - it controls the security system and the phone system and the air-conditioning-[...] half the time, when you turn on the television, the garage door opens."
This book came out in 2005, and this is still not the first instance of a 'smart home' in media. Remember those 'futuristic' shows from the 70s?
There's a mention of network segmentation at the Institution he attends - The computers are "on a different switch, too" than the halon gas outlets. That doesn't necessarily mean a different network unless they're throwing some VLANs on it, which is possible.
"He knew that keyboard shortcuts - or mouse keys- were usually employed by disabled people who couldn't use a normal mouse, but he hadn't been aware that special keyboards were being made. And special mice, too, by the look of things."
I didn't know that either, so super cool. I wonder if I should re-read the next two books, if they talk about (late - 2000s) web accessibility.
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (widely abbreviated and cited as TLP) (Latin for Logical Philosophical Treatise or Treatise on Logic and Philosophy) is the only book-length philosophical work by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein that was published during his lifetime. The project had a broad goal: to identify the relationship between language and reality and to define the limits of science.[1] It is recognized by philosophers as a significant philosophical work of the twentieth century. G. E. Moore originally suggested the work's Latin title as homage to the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus by Baruch Spinoza.[2]
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Title page of the 1922 Harcourt edition in English
Title page of first English-language edition, 1922
AuthorLudwig Wittgenstein
Original titleLogisch-Philosophische Abhandlung
TranslatorOriginal English translation by
Frank P. Ramsey and Charles Kay Ogden
SubjectIdeal language philosophy, logic and metaphysics
PublisherFirst published in W. Ostwald's Annalen der Naturphilosophie
Publication date
Published in English
Kegan Paul, 1922
Media typePrint
Wittgenstein wrote the notes for the Tractatus while he was a soldier during World War I and completed it during a military leave in the summer of 1918.[3] It was first published in German in 1921 as Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung. The Tractatus was influential chiefly amongst the logical positivist philosophers of the Vienna Circle, such as Rudolf Carnap and Friedrich Waismann. Bertrand Russell's article "The Philosophy of Logical Atomism" is presented as a working out of ideas that he had learned from Wittgenstein.[4]
The Tractatus employs an austere and succinct literary style. The work contains almost no arguments as such, but rather consists of declarative statements, or passages, that are meant to be self-evident. The statements are hierarchically numbered, with seven basic propositions at the primary level (numbered 1–7), with each sub-level being a comment on or elaboration of the statement at the next higher level (e.g., 1, 1.1, 1.11, 1.12, 1.13). In all, the Tractatus comprises 526 numbered statements.
Main thesesEdit
Illustration of the structure of the Tractatus. Only primary and secondary statements are reproduced, while the structure of the rest is indicated pictorially.
There are seven main propositions in the text. These are:
1. The world is everything that is the case.
3. A logical picture of facts is a thought.
4. A thought is a proposition with a sense.
6. The general form of a proposition is the general form of a truth function, which is: . This is the general form of a proposition.
Proposition 1Edit
The first chapter is very brief:
• 1 The world is all that is the case.
• 1.1 The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
• 1.13 The facts in logical space are the world.
• 1.2 The world divides into facts.
Propositions 2 and 3Edit
• 2 What is the case--a fact--is the existence of states of affairs.
• 2.0141 The possibility of its occurrence in atomic facts is the form of an object.
• 2.02 Objects are simple.
• ...
His use of the word "composite" in 2.021 can be taken to mean a combination of form and matter, in the Platonic sense.
The notion of a static unchanging Form and its identity with Substance represents the metaphysical view that has come to be held as an assumption by the vast majority of the Western philosophical tradition since Plato and Aristotle, as it was something they agreed on. "[W]hat is called a form or a substance is not generated."[5] (Z.8 1033b13) The opposing view states that unalterable Form does not exist, or at least if there is such a thing, it contains an ever changing, relative substance in a constant state of flux. Although this view was held by Greeks like Heraclitus, it has existed only on the fringe of the Western tradition since then. It is commonly known now only in "Eastern" metaphysical views where the primary concept of substance is Qi, or something similar, which persists through and beyond any given Form. The former view is shown to be held by Wittgenstein in what follows:
• 2.024 The substance is what subsists independently of what is the case.
• 2.025 It is form and content.
• ...
• 2.026 There must be objects, if the world is to have unalterable form.
• 2.027 Objects, the unalterable, and the substantial are one and the same.
And Aristotle agrees: "The universal cannot be a substance in the manner in which an essence is ..."[5] (Z.13 1038b17) as he begins to draw the line and drift away from the concepts of universal Forms held by his teacher Plato.
The concept of Essence, taken alone is a potentiality, and its combination with matter is its actuality. "First, the substance of a thing is peculiar to it and does not belong to any other thing"[5] (Z.13 1038b10), i.e. not universal and we know this is essence. This concept of form/substance/essence, which we've now collapsed into one, being presented as potential is also, apparently, held by Wittgenstein:
• 2.033 Form is the possibility of structure.
• 2.034 The structure of a fact consists of the structures of states of affairs.
• 2.04 The totality of existing states of affairs is the world.
• ...
• 2.063 The sum-total of reality is the world.
Here ends what Wittgenstein deems to be the relevant points of his metaphysical view and he begins in 2.1 to use said view to support his Picture Theory of Language. "The Tractatus's notion of substance is the modal analogue of Kant's temporal notion. Whereas for Kant, substance is that which 'persists' (i.e., exists at all times), for Wittgenstein it is that which, figuratively speaking, 'persists' through a 'space' of possible worlds."[7] Whether the Aristotelian notions of substance came to Wittgenstein via Immanuel Kant, or via Bertrand Russell, or even whether Wittgenstein arrived at his notions intuitively, one cannot but see them.
The further thesis of 2. and 3. and their subsidiary propositions is Wittgenstein's picture theory of language. This can be summed up as follows:
• In order for a picture to represent a certain fact it must, in some way, possess the same logical structure as the fact. The picture is a standard of reality. In this way, linguistic expression can be seen as a form of geometric projection, where language is the changing form of projection but the logical structure of the expression is the unchanging geometric relationship.
Propositions 4.N to 5.NEdit
Proposition 6.NEdit
At the beginning of Proposition 6, Wittgenstein postulates the essential form of all sentences. He uses the notation , where
• stands for all atomic propositions,
• stands for any subset of propositions, and
• stands for the negation of all propositions making up .
Proposition 6 says that any logical sentence can be derived from a series of NOR operations on the totality of atomic propositions. Wittgenstein drew from Henry M. Sheffer's logical theorem making that statement in the context of the propositional calculus. Wittgenstein's N-operator is a broader infinitary analogue of the Sheffer stroke, which applied to a set of propositions produces a proposition that is equivalent to the denial of every member of that set. Wittgenstein shows that this operator can cope with the whole of predicate logic with identity, defining the quantifiers at 5.52, and showing how identity would then be handled at 5.53-5.532.
The subsidiaries of 6. contain more philosophical reflections on logic, connecting to ideas of knowledge, thought, and the a priori and transcendental. The final passages argue that logic and mathematics express only tautologies and are transcendental, i.e. they lie outside of the metaphysical subject's world. In turn, a logically "ideal" language cannot supply meaning, it can only reflect the world, and so, sentences in a logical language cannot remain meaningful if they are not merely reflections of the facts.
From Propositions 6.4-6.54, the Tractatus shifts its focus from primarily logical considerations to what may be considered more traditionally philosophical foci (God, ethics, meta-ethics, death, the will) and, less traditionally along with these, the mystical. The philosophy of language presented in the Tractatus attempts to demonstrate just what the limits of language are- to delineate precisely what can and cannot be sensically said. Among the sensibly sayable for Wittgenstein are the propositions of natural science, and to the nonsensical, or unsayable, those subjects associated with philosophy traditionally- ethics and metaphysics, for instance.[10] Curiously, on this score, the penultimate proposition of the Tractatus, proposition 6.54, states that once one understands the propositions of the Tractatus, he will recognize that they are senseless, and that they must be thrown away. Proposition 6.54, then, presents a difficult interpretative problem. If the so-called ‘picture theory’ of meaning is correct, and it is impossible to represent logical form, then the theory, by trying to say something about how language and the world must be for there to be meaning, is self-undermining. This is to say that the ‘picture theory’ of meaning itself requires that something be said about the logical form sentences must share with reality for meaning to be possible.[11] This requires doing precisely what the ‘picture theory’ of meaning precludes. It would appear, then, that the metaphysics and the philosophy of language endorsed by the Tractatus give rise to a paradox: for the Tractatus to be true, it will necessarily have to be nonsense by self-application; but for this self-application to render the propositions of the Tractatus nonsense (in the Tractarian sense), then the Tractatus must be true.[12]
There are three primarily dialectical approaches to solving this paradox[11] the traditionalist, or Ineffable-Truths View;[12] 2) the resolute, ‘new Wittgenstein’, or Not-All-Nonsense View;[12] 3) the No-Truths-At-All View.[12] The traditionalist approach to resolving this paradox is to hold that Wittgenstein accepted that philosophical statements could not be made, but that nevertheless, by appealing to the distinction between saying and showing, that these truths can be communicated by showing.[12] On the resolute reading, some of the propositions of the Tractatus are withheld from self-application, they are not themselves nonsense, but point out the nonsensical nature of the Tractatus. This view often appeals to the so-called ‘frame’ of the Tractatus, comprising the preface and propositions 6.54.[11] The No-Truths-At-All View states that Wittgenstein held the propositions of the Tractatus to be ambiguously both true and nonsensical, at once. While the propositions could not be, by self-application of the attendant philosophy of the Tractatus, true (or even sensical), it was only the philosophy of the Tractatus itself that could render them so. This is presumably what made Wittgenstein compelled to accept the philosophy of the Tractatus as specially having solved the problems of philosophy. It is the philosophy of the Tractatus, alone, that can solve the problems. Indeed, the philosophy of the Tractatus is for Wittgenstein, on this view, problematic only when applied to itself.[12]
At the end of the text Wittgenstein uses an analogy from Arthur Schopenhauer, and compares the book to a ladder that must be thrown away after one has climbed it.
Proposition 7Edit
The picture theoryEdit
A prominent view set out in the Tractatus is the picture theory, sometimes called the picture theory of language. The picture theory is a proposed explanation of the capacity of language and thought to represent the world.[13]:p44 Although something need not be a proposition to represent something in the world, Wittgenstein was largely concerned with the way propositions function as representations.[13]
According to the theory, propositions can "picture" the world as being a certain way, and thus accurately represent it either truly or falsely.[13] If someone thinks the proposition, "There is a tree in the yard," then that proposition accurately pictures the world if and only if there is a tree in the yard.[13]:p53 One aspect of pictures which Wittgenstein finds particularly illuminating in comparison with language is the fact that we can directly see in the picture what situation it depicts without knowing if the situation actually obtains. This allows Wittgenstein to explain how false propositions can have meaning (a problem which Russell struggled with for many years): just as we can see directly from the picture the situation which it depicts without knowing if it in fact obtains, analogously, when we understand a proposition we grasp its truth conditions or its sense, that is, we know what the world must be like if it is true, without knowing if it is in fact true (TLP 4.024, 4.431).[14]
Pictures have what Wittgenstein calls Form der Abbildung or pictorial form, which they share with what they depict. This means that all the logically possible arrangements of the pictorial elements in the picture correspond to the possibilities of arranging the things which they depict in reality.[16] Thus if the model for car A stands to the left of the model for car B, it depicts that the cars in the world stand in the same way relative to each other. This picturing relation, Wittgenstein believed, was our key to understanding the relationship a proposition holds to the world.[13] Although language differs from pictures in lacking direct pictorial mode of representation (e.g., it doesn't use colors and shapes to represent colors and shapes), still Wittgenstein believed that propositions are logical pictures of the world by virtue of sharing logical form with the reality which they represent (TLP 2.18-2.2). And that he thought, explains how we can understand a proposition without its meaning having been explained to us (TLP 4.02), we can directly see in the proposition what it represents as we see in the picture the situation which it depicts just by virtue of knowing its method of depiction: propositions show their sense (TLP 4.022).[17]
However, Wittgenstein claimed that pictures cannot represent their own logical form, they cannot say what they have in common with reality but can only show it (TLP 4.12-4.121). If representation consist in depicting an arrangement of elements in logical space, then logical space itself can't be depicted since it is itself not an arrangement of anything; rather logical form is a feature of an arrangement of objects and thus it can be properly expressed (that is depicted) in language by an analogous arrangement of the relevant signs in sentences (which contain the same possibilities of combination as prescribed by logical syntax), hence logical form can only be shown by presenting the logical relations between different sentences.[18][14]
Wittgenstein's conception of representation as picturing also allows him to derive two striking claims: that no proposition can be known a priori - there are no apriori truths (TLP 3.05), and that there is only logical necessity (TLP 6.37). Since all propositions, by virtue of being pictures, have sense independently of anything being the case in reality, we cannot see from the proposition alone whether it is true (as would be the case if it could be known apriori), but we must compare it to reality in order to know that it's true (TLP 4.031 "In the proposition a state of affairs is, as it were, put together for the sake of experiment."). And for similar reasons, no proposition is necessarily true except in the limiting case of tautologies, which Wittgenstein say lack sense (TLP 4.461). If a proposition pictures a state of affairs in virtue of being a picture in logical space, then a non-logical or metaphysical "necessary truth" would be a state of affairs which is satisfied by any possible arrangement of objects (since it is true for any possible state of affairs), but this means that the would-be necessary proposition would not depict anything as being so but will be true no matter what the world is actually like; but if that's the case, then the proposition cannot say anything about the world or describe any fact in it - it would not be correlated with any particular state of affairs, just like a tautology (TLP 6.37).[19][20]
Logical atomismEdit
The Tractatus was first published in Annalen der Naturphilosophie (1921)
Russell's theory of descriptions is a way of logically analyzing sentences containing definite descriptions without presupposing the existence of an object satisfying the description. According to the theory, a statement like "There is a man to my left" should be analyzed into: "There is some x such that x is a man and x is to my left, and for any y, if y is a man and y is to my left, y is identical to x". If the statement is true, x refers to the man to my left.[21]
Whereas Russell believed the names (like x) in his theory should refer to things we can know directly by virtue of acquaintance, Wittgenstein didn't believe that there are any epistemic constraints on logical analyses: the simple objects are whatever is contained in the elementary propositions which can't be logically analyzed any further.[13]:p63
A fact might be thought of as the obtaining state of affairs that Madison is in Wisconsin, and a possible (but not obtaining) state of affairs might be Madison's being in Utah. These states of affairs are made up of certain arrangements of objects (TLP 2.023). However, Wittgenstein does not specify what objects are. Madison, Wisconsin, and Utah cannot be atomic objects: they are themselves composed of numerous facts.[13] Instead, Wittgenstein believed objects to be the things in the world that would correlate to the smallest parts of a logically analyzed language, such as names like x. Our language is not sufficiently (i.e., not completely) analyzed for such a correlation, so one cannot say what an object is.[13]:p60 We can, however, talk about them as "indestructible" and "common to all possible worlds."[13] Wittgenstein believed that the philosopher's job was to discover the structure of language through analysis.[15]:p38
Anthony Kenny provides a useful analogy for understanding Wittgenstein's logical atomism: a slightly modified game of chess.[13]:pp60–61 Just like objects in states of affairs, the chess pieces do not alone constitute the game—their arrangements, together with the pieces (objects) themselves, determine the state of affairs.[13]
Through Kenny's chess analogy, we can see the relationship between Wittgenstein's logical atomism and his picture theory of representation.[13]:p61 For the sake of this analogy, the chess pieces are objects, they and their positions constitute states of affairs and therefore facts, and the totality of facts is the entire particular game of chess.[13]
We can communicate such a game of chess in the exact way that Wittgenstein says a proposition represents the world.[13] We might say "WR/KR1" to communicate a white rook's being on the square commonly labeled as king's rook 1. Or, to be more thorough, we might make such a report for every piece's position.[13]
The logical form of our reports must be the same logical form of the chess pieces and their arrangement on the board in order to be meaningful. Our communication about the chess game must have as many possibilities for constituents and their arrangement as the game itself.[13] Kenny points out that such logical form need not strictly resemble the chess game. The logical form can be had by the bouncing of a ball (for example, twenty bounces might communicate a white rook's being on the king's rook 1 square). One can bounce a ball as many times as one wishes, which means the ball's bouncing has "logical multiplicity," and can therefore share the logical form of the game.[13]:p62 A motionless ball cannot communicate this same information, as it does not have logical multiplicity.[13]
Distinction between saying and showingEdit
According to traditional reading of the Tractatus, Wittgenstein's views about logic and language led him to believe that some features of language and reality cannot be expressed in senseful language but only "shown" by the form of certain expressions. Thus for example, according to the picture theory, when a proposition is thought or expressed, the proposition represents reality (truly or falsely) by virtue of sharing some features with that reality in common. However, those features themselves is something Wittgenstein claimed we could not say anything about, because we cannot describe the relationship that pictures bear to what they depict, but only show it via fact stating propositions (TLP 4.121). Thus we cannot say that there is a correspondence between language and reality, but the correspondence itself can only be shown,[13]:p56 since our language is not capable of describing its own logical structure.[15]:p47
However, on the more recent "resolute" interpretation of the Tractatus (see below), the remarks on "showing" were not in fact an attempt by Wittgenstein to gesture at the existence of some ineffable features of language or reality, but rather, as Cora Diamond and James Conant have argued,[22] the distinction was meant to draw a sharp contrast between logic and descriptive discourse. On their reading, Wittgenstein indeed meant that some things are shown when we reflect on the logic of our language, but what is shown is not that something is the case, as if we could somehow think it (and thus understand what Wittgenstein tries to show us) but for some reason we just couldn't say it. As Diamond and Conant explain:[22]
Speaking and thinking are different from activities the practical mastery of which has no logical side; and they differ from activities like physics the practical mastery of which involves the mastery of content specific to the activity. On Wittgenstein’s view [...] linguistic mastery does not, as such, depend on even an inexplicit mastery of some sort of content. [...] The logical articulation of the activity itself can be brought more clearly into view, without that involving our coming to awareness that anything. When we speak about the activity of philosophical clarification, grammar may impose on us the use of ‘that’-clauses and ‘what’-constructions in the descriptions we give of the results of the activity. But, one could say, the final ‘throwing away of the ladder’ involves the recognition that that grammar of ‘what’-ness has been pervasively misleading us, even as we read through the Tractatus. To achieve the relevant sort of increasingly refined awareness of the logic of our language is not to grasp a content of any sort.
Similarly, Michael Kremer suggested that Wittgenstein's distinction between saying and showing could be compared with Gilbert Ryle's famous distinction between "knowing that" and "knowing how".[23] Just as practical knowledge or skill (such as riding a bike) is not reducible to propositional knowledge according to Ryle, Wittgenstein also thought that the mastery of the logic of our language is a unique practical skill that doesn't involve any sort of propositional "knowing that", but rather is reflected in our ability to operate with senseful sentences and grasping their internal logical relations.
Reception and influenceEdit
At the time of its publication, Wittgenstein concluded that the Tractatus had resolved all philosophical problems.[24] He would later recant this view, leading him to begin work on what would ultimately become the Philosophical Investigations.
Alfred Korzybski credits Wittgenstein as an influence in his book, Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics.[30]
In 1989 the Finnish artist M. A. Numminen released a black vinyl album, The Tractatus Suite, consisting of extracts from the Tractatus set to music, on the Forward! label (GN-95). The tracks were [T. 1] "The World is...", [T. 2] "In order to tell", [T. 4] "A thought is...", [T. 5] "A proposition is...", [T. 6] "The general form of a truth-function", and [T. 7] "Wovon man nicht sprechen kann". It was recorded at Finnvox Studios, Helsinki between February and June 1989. The "lyrics" were provided in German, English, Esperanto, French, Finnish and Swedish.[31] The music was reissued as a CD in 2003, M.A. Numminen sings Wittgenstein.[32]
The Tractatus is the English translation of:
A notable German Edition of the works of Wittgenstein is:
Both English translations of the Tractatus, as well as the first publication in German from 1921, include an introduction by Bertrand Russell. Wittgenstein revised the Ogden translation.[33]
• C. K. Ogden (1922) prepared, with assistance from G. E. Moore, F. P. Ramsey, and Wittgenstein himself, for Routledge & Kegan Paul, a parallel edition including the German text on the facing page to the English text: 1981 printing: ISBN 0-415-05186-X, 1999 Dover reprint.
1. ^ TLP 4.113
3. ^ Monk p.154
4. ^ Bertrand Russell (1918), "The Philosophy of Logical Atomism". The Monist. p. 177, as published, for example in Bertrand Russell (Robert Charles Marsh ed.) Logic and Knowledge Archived 2013-05-17 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 2010-01-29.
5. ^ a b c Aristotle's Metaphysics: © 1979 by H.G. Apostle Peripatetic Press. Des Moines, Iowa. Online translation: "The Internet Classics Archive | Metaphysics by Aristotle". Archived from the original on 2011-01-06. Retrieved 2011-02-20.
6. ^ "Blue Book on Universals citation". Archived from the original on 2011-10-05. Retrieved 2011-12-10.
10. ^ TLP 6.53
11. ^ a b c Morris, Michael; Dodd, Julian (2009-06-01). "Mysticism and Nonsense in the Tractatus". European Journal of Philosophy. 17 (2): 247–276. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0378.2007.00268.x. ISSN 1468-0378.
12. ^ a b c d e f Rowland), Morris, Michael (Michael (2008-01-01). Routledge philosophy guidebook to Wittgenstein and the Tractatus logico-philosophicus. Routledge. pp. 338–354. ISBN 9780203003091. OCLC 289386356.
14. ^ a b Diamond, Cora (2013-06-20). Beaney, Michael (ed.). Reading The Tractatus with G. E. M. Anscombe. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Analytic Philosophy. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199238842.001.0001. ISBN 9780199238842. Archived from the original on 2017-04-18.
15. ^ a b c Stern 1995
16. ^ Sullivan, Peter. A Version of the Picture Theory. pp. 90–91. Archived from the original on 2017-10-29.
17. ^ Sullivan, Peter. A Version of the Picture Theory. pp. 108–109. Archived from the original on 2017-10-29.
18. ^ Sullivan, Peter. A Version of the Picture Theory. p. 110. Archived from the original on 2017-10-29.
19. ^ Ricketts, Thomas (1996). "Pictures, logic, and the limits of sense in Wittgenstein's Tractatus". The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein. pp. 87–89. doi:10.1017/CCOL0521460255.003. ISBN 9781139000697.
20. ^ Diamond, Cora (1991). "Throwing Away the Ladder". The Realistic Spirit: Wittgenstein, Philosophy, and the Mind. MIT Press. pp. 192–193. Archived from the original on 2015-05-02.
22. ^ a b Conant, James; Diamond, Cora (2004). "On Reading the Tractatus Resolutely". In Kölbel, Max; Weiss, Bernhard (eds.). Wittgenstein's Lasting Significance. Routledge. pp. 65–67. Archived from the original on 2015-10-17.
23. ^ Kremer, Michael (2007). "The Cardinal Problem of Philosophy". In Crary, Alice (ed.). Wittgenstein and the Moral Life: Essays in Honor of Cora Diamond. MIT Press. pp. 157–158. Archived from the original on 2016-08-02.
24. ^ Biletzki, Anat & Matar, Anat (2002-11-08). "Ludwig Wittgenstein". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Editorial Board.
25. ^ Richard H. Popkin (November 1985), "Philosophy and the History of Philosophy", Journal of Philosophy, 82 (11): 625–632, doi:10.2307/2026418, JSTOR 2026418, Many who knew Wittgenstein report that he found it extremely difficult to put his ideas into words and that he had many special usages of terms.
26. ^ Conant, James F. "Putting Two and Two Together: Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein and the Point of View for Their Works as Authors", in Philosophy and the Grammar of Religious Belief (1995), ed. Timothy Tessin and Marion von der Ruhr, St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0-312-12394-9
28. ^ Read, Rupert, and Matthew A. Lavery, eds. Beyond the Tractatus wars: the new Wittgenstein debate. Routledge, 2012.
30. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-08-11. Retrieved 2011-05-20.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
31. ^ "M.A. Numminen – The Tractatus Suite". Retrieved 16 March 2015.
32. ^ Numminen, M. A. (2003). "M. A. Numminen Sings Wittgenstein. EFA SP 142". Zweitausendeins. Missing or empty |url= (help)
33. ^ a b R. W. Newell (January 1973), "Reviewed Work(s): Prototractatus, an Early Version of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus", Philosophy, 48 (183): 97–99, doi:10.1017/s0031819100060514, ISSN 0031-8191, JSTOR 3749717.
External linksEdit
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• Project TLP (Ogden translation / Data visualization graphs / English, German)
• Multilingual Tractatus Network (German, English, Russian, Spanish, French, Italian / Data visualization)
• University of Iowa Tractatus Map(Both the Tractatus and the Prototractatus presented in the style of a subway map / German and English)
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By Mark Fishbein
Honorable Friend
Traditional partisanship holds less sway at a time when fewer people identify with the major parties. And bipartisanship, understood as some soothing landscape where less entrenched Republicans and Democrats meet to “get things done”, is similarly on life support if it hasn’t flatlined completely.
But if we are willing to cast aside preconceptions and accept a new paradigm, there is a developing consensus between political adversaries that goes well beyond mere coincidence.
We’ve all heard this is the political season of the outsider. The cliché is well worn, but the facts on the ground are somewhat unique. Most of the clamor has been on the GOP side, where the first results saw well over 60% of voters turning to candidates for whom the political class has no great love. The size and enthusiasm of crowds for Donald Trump, a real estate tycoon in the public eye for decades but a political novice, defy convention. Bernie Sanders went from a 25-year obscure novelty backbench congressman to a 74 year old rockstar.
At first glance, the Sanders throngs and Trump throngs would appear diametric opposites. Interview some Trumpies and they’d dismiss a bunch of naïve granola eating, America dissing PC types enticed by government handouts while blaming their woes on “the man”. Ask folks “feeling the Bern”, and those Trump gatherings are dark nativist places driven by xenophobic anger and unwelcoming to an American vision of compassion and modernity.
So goes the conventional wisdom, which is always conventional and rarely wise.
But if you ask the people in each crowd, both would describe their candidate as listening to them when their pleas fall on deaf ears in Washington. Both turn on their televisions to a media who talk past them and only into an elite echo chamber. Both crowds see an entrenched political class, bought and paid for, that they aren’t allowed in and a genuine candidate that can’t be had. Neither crowd knows a Beltway cocktail party or Hollywood gala. Both know the burden of loans and the realities of foreclosure and unemployment in the face meaningless positive economic indicators. Both know that politicians live a certain way and talk a certain way, but their candidate talks straight. One crowd was so hopeful for change in 2008 and 2012, victorious, yet still sees little future and a mountain of debt while Wall Street coasts along. One crowd sought constitutional restoration in 2010 and 2014, reigned victorious, yet saw their deceitful leaders take them for fools and pursue the status quo.
Are the throngs cheering for Sanders and Trump really that different, or are they the unorthodox occupants of our Bipartisan Lounge?
Our talking heads blather on in an outdated concept of this place between right and left where government is supposed to work for the people. But it doesn’t. It works only for the governing and not for the governed. Our leaders are elected to serve us, not to perpetuate themselves. The Bushes and Clintons, for all their dollars and aggregate sense of entitlement, still haven’t gotten the memo.
There’s an entrenched political class, and there’s us. We the people are the bipartisans, even if we come at it from different sides. So imagine the supporters of Sanders and Trump/Cruz, backs to one another, weapons drawn, and beginning to pace opposite directions as opponents in an old fashioned duel. But in a nod to David Bowie, they do not pace in a straight line, but instead travel the width of a circle until eventually they meet face to face in exactly the same place and join hands.
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The Perfect Toys For 5 Types Of Dogs
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Earlier, US President Donald Trump tweeted that Navy veteran Michael White, who had been detained in Iran for over 600 days, was now on his way back to the United States.
US President Donald Trump tweeted thanks to Iran after Navy veteran Michael White was released from a prison in the nation, noting that it shows that "a deal is possible". According to Trump, White travelled to Zurich after leaving Iran and is set to be on a plane to the US "shortly".
POTUS also declared that more than 40 American detainees have been brought home since he took office.
The veteran was sentenced in 2018 in Iran for "security crimes". According to Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi, White was released "after satisfying the plaintiffs in respect to the cause of action", and was granted "Islamic mercy for his other crimes".
"He was released from jail given the time served and his respect of human rights considerations, and left Iran on Thursday", Mousavi said in a statement.
The statement confirmed that the US had released Dr. Majid Taheri, an Iranian scientist, who had been imprisoned in the US for allegedly violating US sanctions imposed on Iran, under a rare agreement between the US and Iran on prisoner exchange.
Commenting on the exchange, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zariff tweeted that "this can happen to all prisoners", noting that another Iranian detainee, scientist Sirous Asgari, had returned home after spending three years in a US prison. He had been accused of stealing trade secrets from a research project at a university in Ohio, but denied the charge.
Cooperation between Iran and the United States on prisoner exchange began in December 2019, when Chinese-American researcher Xiyue Wang and Iranian scientist Massoud Soleimani were released.
This comes amid increasingly tense relations between the two countries after Trump unilaterally abandoned the 2015 JCPOA nuclear deal with Iran in May 2018 and imposed new economic and energy sanctions on Tehran. That move was followed by the assassination in Iraq of the Islamic republic's senior general, Qasem Soleimani, conducted by the United States, which has seen retaliation from Iran.
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cup packed light brown sugar
cup honey tablespoon butter teaspoon salt
If you are looking to try out a new kind of recipe, you should try what I call “Trail Mix Cereal Bars.” I’ve listed the basic ingredients, but feel free to try variations. This recipe can be tailored towards being a healthy breakfast, filled with cranberries, raisins, and dried fruit, or can be made into a sweet treat consisting of marshmallows, chocolate chips, and coconut. You will need a microwave to melt together the ingredients for the syrup. Begin by mixing Cheerios and the rest of the “trail mix” ingredients together and spreading them in a 13X9 in. pan. Melt the butter, and combine with the sugar, honey, and salt. Pour the syrup over the trail mix, and let cool for 30 minutes. Cut the bars to desired size, and store in a tightly covered container.
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Microwave Quick Bread
5 tablespoons of flour
1 teaspoon of baking soda 1 teaspoon of vanilla
1 egg
2 tablespoons of milk
2 tablespoons of water
2 tablespoons of oil
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Thursday, November 20, 2014
First person chronicles, Chapter I: Urban legends.
It isn't like they say it is, you know. Like, this whole urban legend of it being like someone stuffing you into a cannon and exploding you straight out into the sky is actually just that. Legend. I think the folks who never tried it before are the ones that make those kinds of stories up.
Like just yesterday when I was on the MARTA train and heard some older lady talking about how people who smoke rock do it because they're always trying to chase that very first high. "It's like they go crazy, " she told her friend. Then she went on and on with more bullshit that I'm sure she didn't know first hand. And it was sort of pissing me off the way she kept talking with so much authority like she was the damn Surgeon General on street drugs or something. I started to lean over that plastic orange seat and give her an earful. Like a mean, cussing, one. But instead I just stared straight ahead and spoke loud enough for her to hear me.
"That--what you just said--ain't really true."
She swung her head from side to side like it's no way possible I was speaking to her. So I repeated myself. "That's not the truth what you saying. Obviously, you ain't never got high."
And would you believe that old lady was so stunned that she didn't even bother to respond to what I said? I guess she looked at me and made up her mind not to fool with me. Like a person riding in one of those open door buggies in a wild animal park where you ain't s'posed to feed or touch the wild animals. But me? I ain't no wild animal. Regardless of what I look like, I'm not.
I'm really just a regular person. A regular person who got caught up.
You might define regular as going to college and being filled with what everybody thinks is promise. Well. I didn't go to college but I did finish high school. I had me a good job with some benefits, too. That said, I could still be regular without all that. To me, regular mean you got your head screwed on and you have a damn clue. I did have a clue, too. I did. And I still do. It's just that over time, I got caught up. And now I'm like I am now.
I had just got off the MARTA that day when I started to feel I was losing my breath every time I tried to walk. I'd walk for like a few feet then have to stop. Then my chest started tightening up. I knew enough to get back on and ride down to the Georgia State station right by Grady. With what I'd smoked that morning, I wasn't sure what this all meant but I wasn't gonna wait forever to find out.
Most of what they said flew over my head. I guess they think I had a light heart attack and all of it they relate to me smoking. So they talk at me and scold me and all that like that's all it would take. And me, I just sort of tune it all out because it's almost as annoying as that old lady on the MARTA.
There was one person I liked, though. This little medical student who works with my doctors came in my room every day asking me all about my life.. Like, she wanted to know about the first time I ever used crack and like, what all was going on when it happened. She seemed like she for real wanted to know, too. Then she made a reference to that same thing everybody is always saying that ain't true about running behind that first big rush.
"That's not how it is," I told her.
Her eyes got all big like saucers. Then she said, "Tell me, then. What is it like?"
I sat and thought on it for a few seconds then I asked her a question. "You ever had sex with somebody that you know you ain't got not business having sex with?"
Lawd. What did I ask that for? That child turned fifty shades of crimson when I said that. And I swear I wasn't trying to embarrass her. I was just trying to find an analogy that fit and, hell, she looked grown. At least, grown enough to be in medical school which means she already went to college before that.
"Look," I went on without making her answer, "it's kind of like the first few times you have sex with somebody. Especially somebody that you ain't got no business getting with. The first time, it's mostly that you are caught up in the moment or curious. It's not necessarily great but you find yourself thinking about what you did. Next thing you know, you made up your mind to try it again. 'Fore you know it, you can't stop yourself."
"So . . . no crazy fireworks? Or like a really intense first high?"
"Naaaah. That's that bullshit people always feeding the world about crack. It ruins your life slowly. Like somebody ripping pages out of a book or pulling hairs from out of your head. Take you a minute to notice, you know? But once you do? Man."
She got that. It made sense to her and I could see her wheels turning.
That medical student sat and talked to me for two whole hours. She made me feel better than anybody else on that team. Maybe since she was't busy or maybe it was just that she knew how to not seem busy that I liked her.
She came back and told me that I didn't have a full on heart attack. The heart doctors had thought about having me do the test that checks to see if you have blockages in your heart vessels. But then when they heard I was still using crack, they shifted the plan. At least that's what I think.
Now, I get to go home. Which, at the moment, I'm not so sure what that's gonna be. And even that, not knowing where you really live, isn't like what people think. But that's another story for another day.
So anyways. My point in all of this was really just for you to know that the only way to know about the real deal stuff happening with real patients is to just ask them. And if you want to know the real parts of the things that are mostly urban legends, it's best to ask the legends themselves. You find out some cool shit that way.
I'm just saying.
Happy Thursday.
1. When I first starting reading this I thought, "Crystal's got her riding the MARTA to work now". Obviously, my reading comprehension kicked in a few sentences later and I am soooooo happy you are going to be speaking to me every day through this blog and filling me up with food for my mind and soul. Good stuff Doc.
2. We say "don't judge, don't hate" but it seems that some people are exempt from that mercy. It's good that you extend it to them anyway.
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What does the game need?
• eXxPLoSiOneXxPLoSiOn Senior Member Registered Users 844 Posts
DuceRee said:
Perks for people with sc would not be to.bright for many reasons such as unfair advantages when racing unless ...it's perks such as benefits the t1 teams recieve after turf
Really like that idea, street credit on this game is basically worthless. If you could use your street credit to earn some type of benefits then more people would push to obtain that street credit. Would also be cool to see it drop if you don't maintain your stature.
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• Tu66yTu66y Registered Users 27 Posts
I'm excited that this forum is open and these suggestions requested. I hope that they're reviewed carefully and that many get implemented into the game. After all, it's the players who are in the game every day and know what could be helpful in improving the game. Obviously, not everything can be done and not all things immediately implemented, but at least there's some food for thought and steps being taking in the right direction. It seems that Glu either ignored their results or was hugely lacking in their ability to conduct heuristic tests prior to update releases. Hopefully, with the changeover, these oversights can be corrected.
So, here's a few of my thoughts:
- CAR SELECTION: Easier way to skip to cars (eg. click letter of alphabet). With hundreds of cars, it becomes a mission to get to the K-N range.
- CAR ORDER: When selecting turf/showdown eligible cars, it makes more sense to list them from highest to lowest rating, rather than the other way around, like it is now. Nobody is using their lowest rated cars first.
- TURF/SHOWDOWN CHICKEN BUTTON: The chicken out/forfeit button should be in all events, not just multi. I can think of absolutely no reason why it's removed from turf and showdown. It's ridiculous and annoying. I usually race max lobbies and when I'm in R class or below and constantly get challenged by R3, I often will have to sit and wait for 30 seconds for 5 or 6 races in a row before I'm even able to challenge someone myself.
- RACER SHOWDOWN TOP 5 REWARDS: Reintroducing better rewards, eg. special cars or other incentives, for players who come 1-5 in showdown would welcome. It seems a bit unfair on the person who comes 1st that they get the same reward as someone who comes 75th.
DISPLAY PLAYER'S RATING: This will stop lobby jumpers joining lower lobbies and tricking people into pinks with their maxed cars. People generally know what a car's rating is based on the lobby they are in anyway. People's tunes are still secret.
It seems, therefore, that nobody will really be disadvantaged by having their rating displayed when clicked on, except for lobby jumpers. And quite frankly, nobody gives a shit if lobby jumpers are called out and shown as the bottom feeders they are.
- ADDITIONAL LOBBY RATING: A lobby in between 68 and 85 would be good. Maybe 74, allowing for all maxed S class to race each other.
- CAR TRADE/SALE: I know it's been requested a million times, but it would be amazingly beneficial to the game to introduce a trade function, whereby once both parties submit the car and then bot agree, the trade happens automatically. You'd avoid losing countless players who get annoyed by the dishonest players and decide to never play again. It should incorporate but car and rrc capabilities, including combinations of vehicle/rrc.
- INVENTORY TRADE/SALE: Introducing a way to also trade/sell Inventory would be amazing! So many people end up with left over blueprints and to be able to swap with people so that cars can be completed would be so great. It would mean a lot of extra cars in the game and a lot less disappointment when you're missing one blueprint and the car gets vaulted. Same with wheels/paint/ underglow/headlights. Currently, it's a massive risk to hand over a car to someone to trust them add something and then give it back. A way to just trade inventory would eliminate this risk and also free up some space for people with full inventories who want to make room.
- TURF WAR CAR CLASS / NEW CARS: It would be great if you could show what class the turf cars are prior to beginning. There's nothing more disappointing that thinking you're going for an R or R2 class and then finding out it's B class at the end of turf.
And PLEASE, put some new turf cars in. Lately, with the exception of the Mazda rx7 RE and the Ford GT RE, it's just the same old cars popping up again with a different wrap on it.
- CHAT 'UNAVAILABLE': Have an 'unavailable' or 'silent' function whereby you are unavailable to chat. Sometimes, people just want to play without chatting to other people, even their in-game friends. It could be as simple as the player appearing to be offline.
- HIGHER MAX LEVEL/ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS: Add another 250 levels to achieve and maybe make the level up reward a little more encouraging than 4 gems or $1000.
- ADDITIONAL CAMPAIGNS: PLEASE add more campaigns to complete. Like an Extreme Campaign and make it difficult AF so it's a real achievement to complete it. It would give more reasons to continue playing and provide content through which players could aim for level 500 instead of stopping at 250.
- OCCASIONAL PLAYER INCENTIVES: A little more appreciation of players would be nice. eg. Happy Holidays gift of ANYTHING and not passing off things you have to purchase as 'gifts'. I spend plenty of real money and am not in the habit of asking for free gems like a cheapskate, but the occasional gift on a significant day would go a long way to showing players that it's not all take, take, take with this game.
- SPECIAL OFFER REWARDS DELIVERY: I know this one is Fyber's problem but maybe you could have a discussion with them about the process of delivery of the gems on the larger special offers. I had to deliver the same proof 3 times and it quite literally took 2 and a half weeks for me to get my reward gems from them. This is not the first time it's happened. More often than not I have to submit follow up requests, and it's just painful and unacceptable.
I could go on and on but hopefully these are a few helpful suggestions that open up discussions on your end. I'm sure more will follow later on.
Happy racing!
• The_Rumor_TrollThe_Rumor_Troll Registered Users 140 Posts
A lot of great ideas in here guys and gals, keep it up!!!
I just wanted to say all of these are being read. At some point I will try and address all of them, even if its a simple "We like this idea" or "We'll revisit this at another time" or even a "This would be to hard to do without rewriting the game"
That being said, we are definitely approaching the game from a player experience stand point. We feel that if the player experience is awesome, we won't have to worry about the bottom line.
This also means that not everything suggested will make it into the game, and as you can see there are a lot of great suggestions, not all of these will be implemented right away. Many of these may be simple enough, a lot of them may be more complex and would need a lot of work. So please be patient. We will try and be as forthcoming as we can.
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• DualShocker182DualShocker182 Registered Users 5,256 Posts
I think crates that you can purchase for RRC would be cool
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• casique23casique23 Registered Users 2,778 Posts
@DualShocker182 Yeah like 300k per bronze 600k for silver and 1mil for gold or maybe even more
• DualShocker182DualShocker182 Registered Users 5,256 Posts
@casique23 that sounds pretty decent
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• greenburnout303greenburnout303 Junior Member Registered Users 1,975 Posts
@DualShocker182 gems are literally the only way this game is still alive, no way that will ever happen
• JohnKIVJohnKIV Registered Users 3,620 Posts
@Tu66y all fantastic ideas. Except for the ability to sell blue prints. I see why you would want that but I feel that would give ppl with multuple accounts an unfair advantage. Example my last team had 16 accounts on it that where all the same person.
• DuceReeDuceRee Registered Users 13,675 Posts
@eXxPLoSiOn yeah when I first started in always wanted to earn some sc but when I got some it was like wait what's the point lol
• EllusionistGioEllusionistGio Registered Users 1,256 Posts
• casique23casique23 Registered Users 2,778 Posts
Please make it so you can take off Nos it will make certain prices for cars be more stable or u can charge maybe 50 gems to take it off
• dwdtuningdwdtuning Registered Users 12,932 Posts
edited February 2017
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• casique23casique23 Registered Users 2,778 Posts
• aubassplayeraubassplayer Junior Member Registered Users 2,725 Posts
How about being able to buy boost with rrc???
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• AshoSpeedAshoSpeed Registered Users 4,151 Posts
The game needs to stop being gayy -drops mic-
• AshoSpeedAshoSpeed Registered Users 4,151 Posts
Seriously it needs to drop fyber immediately those scamming scumbags
• Burnout671Burnout671 Registered Users 3,975 Posts
Can yo make a multi delete for friends list I hate having to delete one person then it goes back to where you first started it's annoying to scroll all the way to the end after each person you unfriend
• streetxxracer22streetxxracer22 Registered Users 1,094 Posts
• dwdtuningdwdtuning Registered Users 12,932 Posts
#keepthenos. Build your garages like we did!
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• kingpen126kingpen126 Unregistered / Not Logged In, Registered Users 8,115 Posts
Remove the nos stop the greed I don't care what value I lose from it
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• aubassplayeraubassplayer Junior Member Registered Users 2,725 Posts
Remove the nos option..#bottlesareforbabies
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• dwdtuningdwdtuning Registered Users 12,932 Posts
Its not a stock part! Its a conversion. And like all conversion they should stay!
So y'all want to be able to take off stg1 weight too? Take none conversion cars back to all motor too?
We had to build our garages. We had to grind our tunes. We had to win. We had to lose. We had to learn. Y'all should to. And so should every new person. Like I said the correct step would be for carbonated to change the campaign and actually teach people how to proper tune. Campaign makes you No's of the rip. Giving the last years worth of players to now the wrong impressions.
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• C y r u sC y r u s Junior Member Registered Users 293 Posts
Copy and paste tune option. If you want to tune 20 civic si's, it would be so much easier to copy it to a bunch of cars rather than do one at a time. You would still have the parts install time and gem option to complete tune. This would make it easier for players to be competitive in turf and showdown. Either that or unlock the parts so you don't have to install stage by stage. If I want a pro part, why not just click that part, get the install time and gem option to complete? Seems to me that an option like this would increase playability and make a lot more teams competitive in turf
• f150lifef150life Registered Users 177 Posts
I would like the garage to have every ex: m3 under 1 car and every Camaro in your garage under 1 Camaro then listed by rating. It takes forever scrolling around.
Being able to buy multiple cars from the showroom instead of 1 at a time.
Reduced time of upgrading especially at R class and above.
Reduced delivery times.
A lot of people are crying about the R class in performance crates since many spent 1600 gems on it. I'm not complaining about it but I understand their side of the argument.
• FugyeaFugyea Junior Member Registered Users 408 Posts
I hve seen this before but nothing has been corrected. SCROLLING through the garageis a horrible experience. Sometimes its scrolls great. Sometimes just one car and other times not at all.
• aubassplayeraubassplayer Junior Member Registered Users 2,725 Posts
@dwdtuning if I put nos on my car in real life. I can take it off later.. same thing with sc or turbo. Not saying it should be free but if I can take it off in real life why not in game.. I understand about you wonderful garage value. But that doesn't mean a thing to me...
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• BlitzChaosBlitzChaos Registered Users 419 Posts
As much as i dont really dont want to, i agree with @dwdtuning
• D4NG3R 72D4NG3R 72 Junior Member Registered Users 1,399 Posts
Well, idk if anyone already mentioned this but I'm trying get my car which is old tuned 45 to get into new tune 45, I'm dropping parts bit by bit and it's frustrating, costing rrc and time, I just had my first go at test car in the tuning menu, I don't want to race myself, I want to race against a top of lobby tuned car... this seems a waste of space, I'm going into showdown and giving points away, fixing this would help, thanks
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The 9 Most Anti-Science Candidates in America
These House and Senate candidates don’t like that book learnin’.
In 2012, America landed an adorable robot on Mars, found oxygen around one of Saturn’s icy moons, and discovered a headless ladybug in Montana, among countless other achievements. A great year for science, right? That depends on whether you’re watching the 2012 election. This year, candidates for Congress are actively denying climate change, slashing science funding, and even disputing basic facts of human anatomy. Here are nine of the worst offenders:
The race: Republican candidate for US Senate in Montana
The issues: Climate change, environment, health
Why he makes the list: Rehberg has been making Montana scientists cower in their cowboy boots since 2001. He calls climate change mitigation policies “unnecessary and economically destructive.” He’s voted twice against science and technology funding and also against stem cell research, according to Project Vote Smart. He also opposed AIDS funding in 1994, because, according to him, “The problem with AIDS is, you get it, you die, so why are we spending any money on people that get it[?]” He inexplicably doesn’t want to ban human cloning
The race: Republican candidate for US Representative of Georgia’s 10th congressional district (incumbent)
The issues: Evolution, astronomy, geology
Why he makes the list: It’s pretty easy to figure out where Broun stands on the whole evolution issue. He said recently that “all that stuff I was taught about evolution, embryology, Big Bang Theory—all that is lies straight from the pit of hell.” Broun also thinks there is a scientific plot to hide the true age of Earth, which he believes is “9,000 years old.” He serves on the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, but even Bill Nye “the Science Guy” says Broun is “unqualified to make decisions about science, space and technology.”
The race: Democrat candidate for US Senate in West Virginia (incumbent)
The issue: Climate change
Why he makes the list: Manchin sort of believes in global warming: He told the Register Herald that “I don’t think all the evidence is in it—that it’s conclusive. That being said, there’s 6 billion people on this planet earth and we’re going to emit and we’re going to use more and we’re going to have an effect. Anyone that doesn’t believe that, I think would be disillusioned.” But does he actually support efforts to stop it? Not exactly:
The race: Republican candidate for US Senate in Indiana
The issues: Climate change, reproductive health
Why he makes the list: Mourdock made the “most anti-science lawmakers” list long before he said that conception from rape is God’s will. Although the tea-party-backed candidate holds a master’s degree in geology from Ball State University in Indiana, he calls climate change “the greatest hoax of all time” and says basing energy policy off of it “is a threat to our national security.” At a news conference last week, he also told reporters, “I believe God controls the universe…I don’t believe biology works in an uncontrolled fashion.”
The race: Republican candidate for US Senate in Nevada (incumbent)
The issues: Climate Change, environment
Why he makes the list: Apparently environmental issues don’t exist in Nevada: The “issues” section of Heller’s website makes no mention of them. But Heller’s voting record speaks louder than words: He’s voted against cap and trade, voted to bar the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gasses, and voted against tax credits for renewable energy, energy production, and renewable electricity. He does, however, support stem cell research.
The race: Republican candidate running for US Senate in Oklahoma (incumbent)
The issues: Scientific research
Why he makes the list: Don’t be fooled by the “M.D.” after Coburn’s name: He authored a report last year attacking the National Science Foundation for funding “wasteful and controversial projects.” The diverse projects listed in the report seem only to have one thing in common: Coburn doesn’t like them. The studies include a well-known nature vs. nurture experiment, a citizen science program for urban youth to study birds, and the impact of YouTube on the 2008 election.
The race: Democrat candidate running for US Representative of Georgia’s 4th congressional district (incumbent)
The issue: Geography, Environment
Why he makes the list: Johnson seems to have confused islands with sailboats. But at least he shows some concern about climate change:
The race: Republican candidate running for US Representative of Minnesota’s 6th congressional district (incumbent)
The issues: Climate change, environment
Why she makes the list: Bachmann is on the League of Conservation Voters’ list of the worst environmental offenders in Congress. She calls global warming “all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax” and dismisses climate change by saying “Carbon dioxide is natural. It occurs in Earth. It is a part of the regular lifecycle of Earth. In fact, life on planet Earth can’t even exist without carbon dioxide.” This of course, goes against the scientific consensus that higher atmospheric CO2 levels caused by human activity are causing climate change.
The race: Republican candidate running for US Senate in Missouri
The issues: Reproductive health, climate change
Why he makes the list: Akin is famous for popularizing the term “legitimate rape.” In August, he said that women who are raped won’t get pregnant because “the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” (Akin also wants to ban the morning-after pill because he mistakenly believes it causes abortions.) Akin also has an unusual perspective on climate change. “In Missouri when we go from winter to spring, that’s a good climate change,” he said in 2009. “I don’t want to stop that climate change you know.” Despite confusing the change of seasons in Missouri with global climate change, Akin serves on the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology with Broun.
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5 Awkward Things That Might Occur During Intercourse but Are Nothing to Be Embarrassed About | They Are Completely Normal
When we focus only on the end goal, we forget to enjoy the journey, when it comes to physical intercourse.
People might fear physical intimacy with a partner, old or new, because their body would make strange sounds and sights. However, we forget that our partner might be equally nervous about the experience. Nobody has a perfect body and it might let out a sound or air from an unwanted place without us intending it to happen. Physical intimacy in real life is rarely how the movies and series make it out to be, where everything is perfect and coordinated. In real life, it can be messy. It's nothing to worry or be ashamed about. We can just laugh a little and move on with the act. The best way to do get past the embarrassing moment might be through communication.
1. Not climaxing
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Climaxing is not easy for many women, and even for men. If we are with a new or a long-term partner, both or one of the partners may not be able to climax. It can feel like a matter of shame or embarrassment, but it's actually very common. Intercourse isn't just about the climax, but also about intimacy. Channa Bromley, a dating and relationship coach for Relationship Hero with a specialization in sex and empowerment, tells Bustle that "by focusing solely on one desired outcome, you miss the pleasure of the journey."
If we fixate on the climax, it can make people nervous and they could feel pressured to perform. She added that intercourse is not a performance but an experience, something we might forget. "Release any pressure you feel towards reaching" the end and "simply be present," Bromley says. "You can offer your partner reassurance if you feel they are sensitive to their own performance."
2. Interruptions
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This might be the cutest way a session in the sack with your partner can go wrong. If you get interrupted by a pet, who just wants to paw at your door and howl or meow while you're at it, it can distract us easily. It would be stranger if you lock eyes with your pet when you're with your partner during your quality time, as per Elite Daily. These are unexpected kinds of interruptions, including the doorbell ringing right when you're busy. The most awkward this can get is when you forget to lock the door and your child walks in at an inopportune moment. It's nothing to be embarrassed about. Deal with the interruption and pick up where you left off.
3. Unexpected noises
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Our bodies make all sorts of sounds like queefs and farts. "It is not uncommon for gas to be released while [having sex]," Bromley told Bustle. Even with a partner of decades, queef from your vagina during intercourse can bring hot shame to our cheeks. "This can be embarrassing," Bromley says, "but it happens to everyone at some point. No one is going to be grossed out by it." You can laugh it off or offer an apology before continuing forward. After all, a good partner would understand how we feel about this.
4. No arousal
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Sometimes, whether it's a man or a woman, people just don't feel aroused for intercourse. It's quite a common problem but it might feel like a rejection from the partner if a man loses his erection or a woman isn't able to get wet. Menstruation changes a woman's body and aging also affects men. So, these common problems shouldn't be seen as disinterest in sex.
"Use fingers and toys and add lube until things are how you like them to be again," Cyndi Darnell, a sex coach, relationship therapist, and sexologist, tells Bustle. It is also completely okay to tell our partner if we want to stop or pause the physical intimacy. "No one has perfect sex and no one is 100% comfortable 100% of the time," Darnell says. "That's a myth." People have off days all the time and not feeling aroused isn't an indication of a bad experience.
5. Wet spots
When women get excited, they get naturally lubricated, and sometimes it drips onto the sheets. We may not be aware of it but it doesn't do us any good to feel ashamed of it. Instead, we should feel pride that our reaction to our partner was intense enough for this tiny little unexpected incident. Just change the sheets once you're done with your quality time or put a towel on top of it, as per Elite Daily.
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Quick Answer: Should I Tell My Parents How Much I Make?
Can you be paid less for doing the same job?
People doing the same job or work of equal value should get the same or equal pay; but in many cases they don’t, even though though the law says they should.
You are entitled to the same pay as anyone doing the same or broadly similar job, or a job of equal value, regardless of gender..
Should I tell my parents how much I earn?
How much is enough to never work again?
Why is it rude to ask how much money someone makes?
It Is Rude To Ask As a result, you don’t know how much you should be making. You are at a significant disadvantage when negotiating wages with your manager as he/she is privy to this knowledge. Thanks to the workers not knowing what average wages are, they can negotiate lower wages.
Can you live off 2 million dollars?
How much is rich?
Why don’t people say how much they make?
People are reluctant to disclose their income just because its one more criteria for others to judge you. In private jobs, people with same education and same years of experience make different earnings. This is because of different skill levels, hard work and other factors. But many people fail to accept this reality.
What should I ask for salary?
Should you tell your teenager how much money you make?
Some rich people might like to show off their money, but most of them don’t like to talk about it—at least, not with their kids. Just 17 percent of parents who make more than $100,000 per year said in a recent survey that they had told or will tell their children before age 18 how much money they make.
Why is it rude to ask a woman her age?
It’s rude to ask a woman her age, because women are judged only by what they look like. … It’s generally considered rude and puts the person in the position of either feeling as if they have to answer or to refuse to answer which is also awkward for them.
Is it rude to ask how much a gift costs?
It can be very rude and unbecoming of the asker. It is OK to ask, though, based on two things: your relationship with the person, and if you plan to purchase that item yourself. For instance, if you see someone in a beautiful jacket, you can ask because it’s that time of year and you want to get one for yourself.
Is it rude to discuss salary?
Should I tell people how much money I have?
Unless your discussion is directly relating to the amount of money you have (like if you are talking about investing in a business or something to that effect), there is no reason to tell people how much money you have or do not have. It will only bring you negative attention in either case.
Why is salary taboo?
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Spin-orbit coupling and the resulting spin splittings in the band structure of lead halide perovskites were proposed to strongly influence the optical and transport properties of these novel materials. Calculations predict that Rashba-type spin splittings strongly enhance carrier lifetimes and electron-acoustic-phonon scattering. While spin-orbit coupling is a necessary consequence of the contribution of the Pb 6p orbitals to the conduction bands, few studies are available that determine the actual strength of the resulting Rashba splitting.
The most direct method to probe the electronic structure of a solid is angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (ARPES). The technique is surface-sensitive with an information depth in the nm range and thus requires high-quality crystalline surfaces. ARPES measurements on (CH3NH3)PbBr3 single crystals cleaved in ultrahigh vacuum show circular valence-band maxima centered around the high-symmetry points, characteristic for a Rashba system. This interpretation is supported by the circular dichroism found in laser-based ARPES experiments. The extracted Rashba parameters are amongst the largest reported to date, with a Rashba energy of 160 meV (240 meV) in the low-temperature orthorhombic (room-temperature cubic) phase. These values are significantly larger than the ones found in calculations for the bulk material. The difference can be attributed to the breaking of the bulk crystal symmetry at the surface, resulting in additional fields which increase the Rashba splitting. The symmetry-breaking goes in hand with a preferential orientation of the long axis of the unit cell along the surface normal in the orthorhombic phase. The possibility of a Rashba splitting in the bulk material is investigated using photoluminescence and photocurrent spectroscopies. Both measurements find two optical transitions close to the band gap, consistent with a direct-indirect character of the band gap. The splitting between the two is larger in the low-temperature orthorhombic phase than in the room-temperature cubic one. For the lower-energy transitions, photocurrents induced in orthorhombic (CH3NH3)PbI3 by circularly polarized light depend on the helicity of the photons. This phenomenon is known as the circular photogalvanic effect. It implies a band structure with spin-splittings, in which spin currents are optically induced.
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December 5, 2019 | By: Bill DeRoche
Perfect Asymmetry
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Why minimizing losses can lead to bigger gains in an investor’s portfolio.
The late stage of a market cycle is always a difficult period for investors. While gains can still be had and often end up being significant, they are usually accompanied by increased volatility and the growing prospect of a major correction. But this is also the kind of environment that well-diversified portfolios are made for and those who complement their mix of stocks and bonds with non-correlated asset classes and long-short strategies may benefit the most.
In fact, due to the asymmetric nature of investment returns, investors who use alternatives to help minimize potential losses in the short term could end up having a much easier time outperforming in long run.
Take for example, a portfolio that loses 50% in value, a rare occurrence perhaps, but one that many investors experienced during the financial crisis and bust. It would need to gain 100% in a subsequent rally just to break even. Now consider a portfolio that loses 40%. It only needs to return 67% to get back to square one, while a portfolio that falls 30% requires an even smaller subsequent gain of 43%.
In other words, the larger the loss is, the more significant the rebound needs to be. And by limiting losses, investors also start with a higher base when the next market turn begins, leaving them better positioned to outperform in a full cycle of sell-off and recovery.
Furthermore, the ability to avert large losses also goes a long way in keeping people invested. Market corrections or extended slumps in individual stock prices too often lead to poor decision-making with investors either trying to win back what they lost by taking on more risk than is suitable or abandoning their investments all together and negating the opportunity to participate in future gains.
That is why a diversified portfolio that includes a variety of asset classes and strategies for minimizing losses is so important. It has the potential to balance growing risks with opportunities for return, while offering the possibility of a smoother, more favourable experience that can help overcome the emotional highs and lows of being an investor.
Breaking even: Large losses require larger gains
Source: AGF Investments Inc. Illustrations for example purposes only.
Bill DeRoche is Chief Investment Officer, AGF Investments LLC, and Head of AGFiQ Alternative Strategies.
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Becoming a Jiu-Jitsu black belt takes time and a lot of work. Everyone has their own path whether recreationally or through competition or both. There are people from all ages starting Jiu-Jitsu and getting to the real start, the black belt, at various times in their lives.
For two students at GMA Yemaso BJJ in Sacramento, CA they found that their promotion was met last month and given by Marcos Torregrosa.
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EDITORIAL: Budget blues
It's budget season, the time for panic, self-preservation and posturing.
If Mills River wants to continue park improvements, then board members have to find a way to pay for it. The Mills River town manager, Jaime Laughter, put together a detailed, persuasive report on why the Town Council ought to raise taxes by 1½ cents per $100 valuation. Over the past three years the town has gone from leased space and no home or property of its own to a brand new Town Hall, town library and town park. These are all fine additions for Mills River citizens, and everyone else for that matter (it has a small-dog park and a big-dog park!).
But all these good things for Mills River folks cost money to operate. "Mills River has the lowest tax rate in the county but not the lowest number of services," Laughter said. If keeping the tax rate the same "drives your budget decision, it needs to drive your decision The council tentatively agreed to 1-cent of the increase, which is enough to fund operating expenses without using the fund balance.
Minutes after the manager completed her budget presentation, the council voted to spend $85,000 to add tennis courts to the park and spend $9,400 for an ATV. The council took the money from reserves. At least it stopped the bleeding with the decision to increase revenue by a little.
Spending down reserves like there is no chance of rain is not the problem in Henderson County. The Board of Commissioners is sitting on a $13.5 million rainy day fund that even fiscal conservatives like commissioner-elect Grady Hawkins are saying is higher than it needs to be. The schools say they're standing in a downpour. They have asked for a $1.6 million increase, which would restore a big cut last year.
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Stress Failures versus Decay Failures
There is a rich history to the idea that the state of your personal environment reflects the state of your mind. So a cluttered office reflects a cluttered mind, for instance. This is why I made the connection explicit and foundational in Tempo by assuming that designed environments are primarily projections of mental models, created via codification and embedding into fields-flow complexes (the big brother of systems and processes).
Clutter is the most obvious manifestation of the mind-environment mapping, but I want to comment on a less-appreciated one: brokenness.
There are environments where things are in a constant state of disrepair and brokeness. What do such broken environments reveal about the mental models that created them?
Brokenness implies a physical failure in the past.
There are two major sources of failure: operational stress and decay.
Operational stress failure happens when a heavily used system is subjected to a rare loading condition that breaks it.
Decay failure on the other hand, happens when a rarely used system is degenerating internally through disuse, until a common loading condition is enough to break it.
An environment that is in a constant state of brokenness because operational failures are coming in faster than repairs can be made is a state of war. One that is in a constant state of brokenness because things are decaying and collapsing is in a state of atrophy.
Neither is sustainable. A state of war must eventually lead on to victory or defeat. This kind of brokenness requires stepping back to rethink mental models and modification of field-flow complexes. If the rare loading condition is truly rare (example, Katrina), you might need to rethink your insurance model. If a once-rare loading condition is suddenly common, you need to redesign the whole thing operationally.
Atrophy happens either because nothing is happening in your life (so you need to get some action going) or because you built useless/non-functional environments. A state of atrophy is also not sustainable. It can turn into gangrene. You must either excise the decaying portions to protect the healthy portions, or start subjecting them to stress so that they start to regenerate.
Healthy environments aren’t unbroken ones. They are environments where different things get broken as time progresses, repair is mostly able to keep up and the brokenness does not spiral out of control. The variety in what breaks down suggests that your mental models as well as the environment are evolving in a healthy way. If the same thing keeps breaking down, there is something stupid in your thinking.
Repair must also be able to keep up. If it overtakes to the point that your environment is routinely in a state of perfection, you are not doing enough. If on the other hand, brokenness accumulates to the point where you are constantly fighting fires, you need to upgrade capabilities all around.
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1. I tend to think of clutter as an overloading of several distinct but related concepts:
* Clutter as cache. Its genesis is often a vague awareness that there are costs to repeated unpacking/repacking or being lost out of sight. Why not leave the book out and open to the page we need? Why not leave the $15 off car detailing coupon on the table?
* Clutter as exception cases of an implicit taxonomy. AKA “what the heck should I do with this?” That indecipherable “437 page welcome to your new health plan VERY IMPORTANT document”? Maybe it stays on the kitchen table for a bit…
* Clutter as a holistic lack of taxonomy (or pathological taxonomy). See: hoarders, druggies, mentally ill, etc.
* Clutter as defined by social expectations. Society does not care about your awesome dirty clothes sorting algorithm. Society dictates that responsible, proper people should not have piles of dirty clothes directly on the floor.
* Anti-clutter as societal communication. CEOs generally have barren work desks. DMVs generally have barren countertops with bolted-down pens. Bank tellers generally don’t have piles of cash laying around. This can be considered a social communication mechanism.
Depending on perspective, the first two (cache / taxonomy exceptions), even in their healthy forms, can run afoul of societal expectations. Like it or not, often societal expectations form the basis of the concept of brokenness.
This brings me to the following question, from a real-life incident. If you don’t know what to do with a cable, do you (a) leave it out for classification (societal clutter) or (b) stash it away wherever there’s space (taxonomic clutter)?
Well, when it’s me looking for the cable, I’d prefer that it’d not be lumped in with the KNITTING YARN! At the end of the day, if you don’t know what you’ve got and where it is, then all you’ve got is clutter.
This brings me to my second point. In some respects, this kind of yin/yang narrative, whether within or without, allows a kind of “brokenness discovery” which cannot occur if any side has scored a completely decisive victory.
So perhaps it’s important that we all just keep arguing, maybe switching sides when the other has advanced too far (i.e. The Game of Pickaxes but with things other than wealth).
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How To Tell If You’re a “Danielle”
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OK, first off, what the heck is a “Danielle?” Well, for starters, it’s a good thing. Danielle is a character in a new novel by super-genius Ray Kurzweil—an inventor and futurist who predicts humans will merge with machines by the year 2030. He’s been right about a ton of techy things so while it might sound crazy, yes, your consciousness could live in the cloud in about 10 years. Whoa.
Back to Danielle. She is a superhero with super intelligence who tackles some of our world’s biggest challenges: providing clean water in Africa, brokering peace in the Middle East, nuclear disarmament, and more.
Like the fictional character, there are real-life Danielles doing really amazing things. People like Natalia Orlovsky. As a teenager, Natalia was struck with how many supposedly healthier alternatives to smoking traditional cigarettes there were. Flooded with all of these claims, she became suspicious. How could something as toxic as smoking nicotine suddenly have a healthier alternative? So, she decided to start asking questions and doing research of her own.
During a summer program at the University of Pennsylvania, the trailblazing teen monitored lung cells, noting the differences in their reactions to traditional tobacco smoke and e-cigarette smoke. She found that a single JUUL pod has as much nicotine as 20 cigarettes.
While e-cigarette smoke didn’t change the lung cell’s DNA like tobacco smoke does, it did alter the viability of the lung cells. What she found showed that what was being advertised as a healthier alternative to smoking really wasn’t that healthy at all.
Her groundbreaking results earned Natalia second place and $175,000 at the Regeneron Science Talent Search, a contest widely considered one of the most prestigious science competitions in the nation. In fact author, Ray Kurzweil, was a finalist in the same competition when he was 17 and got to meet President Lyndon Johnson.
Among the 1,800 applicants that applied to the competition this year, Natalia was one of the 40 finalists that traveled to Washington DC to meet lawmakers and top scientists and compete for the grand prize.
This fall the self-proclaimed “everything nerd” enrolled at Princeton University where she’s already taken on rolls as a Peer Review Board Member for the Princeton Undergraduate Research Journal (PURJ), a Chemistry Section Staff Writer for Innovation Magazine, and a Pride Alliance First-Year Board Member. Yes, Natalia is a Danielle.
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40 Ways To Stop Feeling So Damn Bloated
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One day you're pulling on your distressed denim with ease; the next, you're wrestling with your zipper, and wondering why the jeans you just wore yesterday don’t fit anymore. The good news: You're likely just bloated and it happens to everyone. It's totally preventable or even fixable—though, TBH, it's not like having a headache and popping some ibuprofen. Still, there are some super-simple remedies for how to reduce bloating ASAP, so you don't have to give up jeans forever in lieu of your stretchiest pair of leggings.
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Fill up on probiotics.
Some over-the-counter probiotic supplements can cause gas, bloating, or other GI symptoms, but chowing down on real foods packed with this healthy gut bacteria can be beneficial, says Courtney Schuchmann, R.D., a dietitian at the University of Chicago Medicine.
"Yogurt is one of the easiest ways to get probiotics in your diet," she says. "You can also eat fermented vegetables, like sauerkraut, or things like kombucha and kefir—but be cautious, because those products may also contain a lot of sugar, which can be counterproductive for GI health."
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Stay hydrated.
You've probably been told before that you should be drinking more water, but this is especially true if you find yourself bloated all the time.
Drinking water will soften your stools, which makes them easier to pass and reduces bloating in the form of gas and constipation, says Matthew Bechtold, M.D., a gastroenterologist at University of Missouri Health Care. Good hydration also increases the mucous secretions in your bowels and your overall bowel motility...so drink up!
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Watch your sodium intake.
If you're feeling bloated after an especially salty meal, you can blame the sodium—too much of it in your diet causes your kidneys to retain water.
The good news is that cutting back on sodium helps your kidneys flush out all that excess water in your body, says Bechtold, which will help you lose the puffiness.
He recommends choosing fresh meats and produce over the prepackaged kinds, putting down the salt shaker at dinner in favor of flavorful spices, preparing your own meals at home instead of dining out, and reading food labels closely for sodium content. And just so you know: The Food and Drug Administration recommends consuming no more than 2,300 milligrams of sodium per day (that's just one teaspoon of salt, FYI).
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Add more potassium into your diet.
Speaking of how sodium can make you retain water, if you're regretting those French fries you ordered at lunch, try snacking on a potassium-rich banana to combat bloat.
"Potassium can help the kidneys get rid of salt, which may help with water retention," says Bechtold. If bananas aren’t your thing, oranges and strawberries are also good sources of potassium.
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Don't skip the skin on fruits.
Put down the fruit peeler. In fruits like apples and pears, the skin is where you find insoluble fiber, a.k.a. the kind of fiber that aids digestion by keeping things moving through your bowels. Munching on these fruits with the skin intact can help increase stool bulk and give you more regular bowel movements, says Schuchmann.
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Cool it on the LaCroix.
I know, it's amazing, but there's a side effect to all that no-cal sipping you've been doing at your desk every day: It could be causing belly bloat.
"Carbonated beverages may add air in the GI tract," says Bechtold. "The more air that is trapped, the more bloating [you'll have]." Replace some of your sparkling water with the flat bottled or tap kind, and see if there's any improvement.
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Work up a (light) sweat.
You don't have to go for a five-mile run every day, but fitting in some regular physical activity might keep things moving more smoothly in your tummy.
According to Bechtold, there are two reasons why a short walk—especially after eating a big meal—can significantly reduce bloating. First, exercise increases the motility of your colon, which reduces the amount of time your stool sits in your belly making gas. Secondly, exercise increases your heart and respiratory rates, which also increases blood flow to the guts; this encourages your bowel muscles to work harder to push stool out.
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Swap your pistachios or cashews for almonds.
Nuts are full of healthy fats that fill you up, right? Well, yes—but depending on the kind of nut, they may also be full of a certain kind of carbohydrate (fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides, and polyols, or FODMAPs for short) that your stomach can't fully digest—which leads to your colon producing more gas that will leave you bloated.
If you're a fan of pistachios and cashews, Schuchmann suggests swapping them out for almonds, walnuts, or pecans, all of which are lower in FODMAPs and gentler on the stomach. As an added bonus, almonds are also a good source of protein and omega-3s.
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9 of 40
Give yourself a stomach massage.
If you don't want to make any dietary changes to beat your bloat, you could try your hand at some amateur abdominal massage, which Bechtold says is a safe way to help clear constipation.
According to Bechtold, a basic massage will involve moving your fingertips in a circular motion over the abdomen, starting on your lower right side and traveling clockwise up to your rib cage, then across and down to your pelvis.
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Don't overdo it on the broccoli.
I’m not here to tell you to eat less vegetables, but if you’re going to town on some of your nutritious faves—like broccoli and cauliflower—they could actually be the source of your woes.
These cruciferous veggies are high in a sugar called raffinose, says Bechtold, which doesn’t break down super easily in your GI tract.
Luckily, you don't have to swear off those mini trees for good. Schuchmann says it’s just a matter of finding your threshold: some people can tolerate one cup of broccoli at a time, others more or less. You may also have better luck eating cooked broccoli versus crunching raw florets.
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11 of 40
Swap your brown rice for white.
Brown rice is generally considered to be healthier than white, but white rice may be gentler on sensitive stomachs.“Brown rice contains much more fiber than white rice [and that] acts as a food source for colonic bacteria,” says Bechtold.
When colonic bacteria has a lot to dine on, it produces gas, which—you guessed it—causes bloating. To reap the health benefits of brown rice without maxing out your stomach, try mixing equal parts of brown and white rice together.
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12 of 40
Always look for ways to get your leafy greens.
Since leafy green vegetables, like kale and spinach, are a good source of insoluble fiber, they help your colon produce stool, thereby reducing gas and bloating, says Bechtold.
These veggies are also low in calories, so they’re pretty versatile: You can eat them raw in salads or incorporate them into your soups, stews, eggs, smoothies, sandwiches, and tacos without adding a lot of calories to your meal.
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Aim for a few small meals each day.
If you’re waiting several hours between meals, you’ll end up ravenous when it’s time to eat again—and that might result in overeating.
Bechtold explains that overeating causes the stomach to both look and feel larger than normal (hello, food baby!), but eating several small meals over the course of the day can prevent that awkward distended belly.
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14 of 40
Drink lemon water in the morning
Lemons are one of nature’s best bodily waste removers, according to Bechtold, who says they work as a subtle laxative to move stool out of the colon as well as a diuretic to flush out your kidneys. So they may keep you from getting constipated and retaining water—two major sources of bloating.
Add a wedge of lemon to eight ounces of warm water every morning before breakfast to reap the benefits.
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Consider cutting back on dairy.
“In patients with lactose intolerance, lactose is inadequately digested and acts as a food source to bacteria in the colon, producing more gas and that bloating sensation,” says Bechtold.
Since dairy products contain lactose, avoiding dairy is the best route to less bloat for people who are lactose intolerant in any way.
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Choose grilled, broiled, or baked chicken over fried.
Obviously fried chicken is delicious, but it should be more of an exception, not a rule: Fried food is tougher on your stomach and may be to blame for all your gas and bloating.
“Fried versions of food typically absorb more of the fat [they’re cooked with],” says Schuchmann. “That can cause GI distress.” As often as possible, opt for meat and seafood that’s grilled, broiled, or baked rather than fried.
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Go ahead, drink your coffee.
Coffee drinkers, rejoice: according to Schuchmann, black coffee can keep your bowel movements regular. The connection is mostly anecdotal at this point, but lots of people feel the urge to run to the bathroom pretty soon after their morning cup of joe, so if it works for you, stick with it. (Just be sure you don’t overdo it on sugar-laden milk or creamers, which might negate some of the GI benefits.)
If you’re not a coffee fan, Schuchmann says herbal teas are a good way to get the all-important hydration your colon needs to keep things moving.
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Ditch the artificial sweeteners and go for the real thing.
FYI: Any ingredient that ends in the letters “-ol,”—erythritol, sorbitol, and xylitol—is an artificial sweetener, and it is probably making you bloated.
These chemicals are called sugar alcohols, and they’re found in tons of sugar-free snacks, like candies and gums, as well as in many of the dressings, beverages, and condiments you eat every day. They’re also hard for your stomach to properly digest, so they create gas and GI problems (like bloating!). Stick to small servings of real sugar if you don’t want to totally cut out the sweet stuff.
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19 of 40
Go easy on processed foods.
Processed foods are quick and easy when you're pressed for time, but they're not doing you any favors in the bloat department. "Processed foods are usually high in sodium which causes water retention and thus bloating or a bloated feeling," says Sonya Angelone, RD, a spokeswoman for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
If you love having something crunchy to munch on, try keeping healthy, non-bloating snacks handy, like carrot sticks or unsalted almonds.
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20 of 40
Increase your ginger intake.
Ginger can help increase motility in your GI system, Angelone says. "It helps food pass more quickly through the digestive tract," she explains. "This decreases the amount of time food stays in the gut, so it is less likely to undergo fermentation which leads to gas and bloating."
You can try adding ginger to your tea or sprinkling it over foods for a kick of flavor.
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21 of 40
Have some artichokes.
Just like ginger, artichokes can help get things moving in your GI tract, Angelone says. Basically, this veggie can help you poop.
Try making a salad with artichoke hearts or adding them to your favorite dish.
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Cook your veggies.
Raw vegetables are delicious and all, but they can contribute to bloating. If you're having serious bloat issues, "eat vegetables cooked, especially cruciferous vegetables," Angelone says. "The cooking helps break down or soften the fibers so they are easier to digest."
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23 of 40
Be smart about your dairy intake.
Lactose, the sugar in dairy, can pull water into your gut and cause gas and bloating. While it may seem like a good idea to take a solid pass on dairy if you notice you tend to puff up after having it, you actually might benefit from having certain kinds of dairy, Angelone says.
She recommends looking into dairy products like milk or yogurt with the lactase enzyme added. These can help cut down on bloat while still allowing you to get your calcium fix.
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Be wary of 'low sugar' nutrition bars.
There are a bunch of nutrition bars on the market that boast about their low sugar content. While it's definitely not great to load up on added sugar, these bars tend to have a lot of sugar alcohols instead—and those can cause bloating, Angelone says.
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Skip happy hour.
It seems weird that drinking would cause you to bloat, but hear us out here. Alcohol is fermented, and that fermentation can cause gas and bloating in your belly, Angelone says. When you throw carbonated drinks in the mix, like beer or a fizzy cocktail, it can be even worse.
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Avoid foods that brag about their high fiber content.
Certain bars and crackers boast about being high in fiber but...that's not so great for your bloating. "Often, they have inulin added which boosts the fiber content, but also can cause bloating in sensitive people," Angelone says. "I see this a lot."
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Add fennel seeds to your diet.
Fennel seeds are calming for your stomach. The seeds "relax the GI tract, allowing gas to pass," Angelone says, adding that they also relieve existing bloat.
You can sprinkle the seeds over pretty much any dish for a kick of (bloat-busting) flavor, or try fennel tea, which can also help.
28 of 40
Sip mint or chamomile tea.
Both mint and chamomile teas are known for relaxing your GI tract, Angelone says. Make it a point to sip one in the morning to combat bloat before it even starts, or try having one when you're already feeling bloated to help de-puff.
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29 of 40
Consider charcoal tablets.
Charcoal works in your body by binding with gas and then passing it through your system, Angelone says. This is a good option to try if you're having a particularly bad bloating experience. However, Angelone warns that you shouldn't use charcoal tablets on a regular basis, since they can also bind with other nutrients. And, if you're on any medications, talk to your doctor before trying this, since charcoal may also make your medicine less effective.
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Nosh on quick oatmeal.
There are different cuts of oats out there, and some are more gassy than others. "The more refined are easier to digest," Angelone says. That's why she recommends having quick oats—they'll cause less gas and bloating. And let your oats soak for a while before eating.
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TSKD 212
Vs Fermus — The Battle Begins
「Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen, and welcome the Martial Arts Tournament’s final set of events. The weather’s looking great today folks, it’s a perfect day to finally buckle up and watch this year’s last two matches. The first we’ll have today will be a showdown for third place!」
It seemed that today would be the last time we heard the caster and his commentary. Realizing that almost caused me to feel a sense of solitude, the same kind you’d feel as a festival you enjoyed came to a close.
（Master. Feeling off?）
『Nah, it’s just that it hadn’t really struck me that today’s the tourney’s last day.』
（Will play all cards.）
『Yeah, that we will.』
Fran was unlike me in the sense that she didn’t feel even the slightest bit of lament. She was too busy being totally pumped. The young black catgirl honestly appeared to be thinking of nothing but the duel she was about to engage in.
Seeing her like that made me feel that she was extremely reliable.
「Entering from the west, we have a C ranked adventurer that’s used this tournament to make a name for herself! Fran, the Black Lightning Princess! Don’t be fooled by her, folks, ’cause she packs one hell of a punch! Her fangs are so sharp that they’ve even allowed her to take down an A ranker! Let’s hope we once again get to see her unleash that daunting black lightning of hers onto the field!」[1]
We heard our last welcoming roar as we entered the ring. I figured that most of the audience members present were here to see the finals, but they ended up cheering Fran on regardless.
「Mmph. Here.」
『Unfortunately, he looks like he’s in great condition today.』
Fermus walked towards the stage with a relaxed smile decorating his face. He didn’t seem even the slightest bit nervous. It was something I really should’ve seen coming given that he’d once won three of these things in a row.
（Not unfortunate.）
『Well, all’s good if that’s how you feel, I guess.』
Fran, unlike me, wished to see him in perfect form. Her nature as a battle maniac made it so she would’ve actually ended up being rather disappointed if he wasn’t.
「And from the east, Fermus, the Dragon Hunter! They say he’s retired, but, to me, it doesn’t look like his strength’s faded even in the slightest! He unfortunately lost the final round, but is definitely still going strong!」
Fermus’ gear was just as light as usual. He didn’t seem to be wearing anything more than just a white shirt and a pair of black slacks if you looked at him from afar. The dandy looking older man had a bit of a rough but professional air to him, like a butler that’d taken off his jacket and was ready to brawl. That said, his attire was actually made up of parts he’d gotten from dragons and whatnot. Looking at him more closely would allow one to tell that he was basically wearing scalemail.
「Hey, long time no see.」
「Would you get mad if I told you that I never expected to have to compete with you for third place?」
「Same thought.」
「I guess the feeling is mutual then.」
I’d been expecting to fight Royce, but Fermus had proven himself the stronger of the two. I had to admit, Fermus’ thread based techniques were a real threat. We didn’t know how they worked, nor what he could even really do with them. Guessing at his tactics was way out of the scope of our abilities. Worst of all was that he was way more experienced than us.
Our stats were higher than his, so if we were to lose, it would definitely be due to our lack of knowledge or experience.
Fighting Amanda had proven that we weren’t good enough at coming up with functional tactics, as she’d managed to completely dismantle our less than sane strategy of whipping out our trump card right off the bat.
「This match’ll be one to look forward to! A young adventurer in the middle of growing stronger will be pitted against an experienced A ranker. Which of the two will come up on top!?」
「No, it’ll be me.」
Fran took a stance, which soon prompted Fermus to do the same. He looked empty handed, but I knew there was no way that was actually the case. His position was undoubtedly one from which he could deploy and manipulate his string-like weapons.
General Information
Name: Monarch Whale’s Beard War Threads
Attack: 100~489
MP: 500
Durability: 500
Magical Conductivity: C~A
Space/Time Element [2]
Flash Element
Greater Water Element
Ice/Snow Element
General Information
Name: Dragon-Eating Spider’s War Threads
Attack: 55~455
MP: 300
Durability: 700
Magical Conductivity: D~B+
Flame Element
Sand Element
Greater Earth Element
Storm Element
Lava Element
Lightning Element
His threads had a huge number of elemental affinities attached to them. I wasn’t really sure how they functioned, but if I had to guess, I’d assume that each individual thread could have its own element. Likewise, each individual thread seemed to have a different value for its attack and magical conductivity.
「It looks like they’re ready! Without further ado, let the battle for third place… begin!」
We created a barrier and fired off several offensive spells the moment the caster signaled for us to start.
『Gale Hazard.』
『Blaze Wave.』
『Acid Venom.』
Immediately spamming spells wasn’t something that had worked on Amanda, but I figured the tactic could still be effective against someone like Fermus.
All four of our spells were targeting Fremus’ threads. We wanted the lightning-based spell to run through his threads and shock him, the fire-based spell to burn his threads down, the poison-based spell to melt them, and the wind-based spell to simply blow them away and prevent him from using them for offense.
And it worked. Our spells were able to null the first wave of attacks he’d thrown at us as the match began.
Despite that, we hadn’t actually gotten any hits in, as his threads had suddenly pulsed with magical energy and dispersed our spells. The density of the mana that fluxed through his weapons was so high that I didn’t even need to look to understand exactly what had happened.
It didn’t seem like we’d be able to put too much pressure on him with magic alone.
『Looks like we’ll have to engage him in close combat.』
Under normal circumstances, we would’ve held the advantage at a range. We could have simply continued bombarding him with magic from a couple hundred meters away until we forced him to yield. The arena, however, was far too small to allow for the aforementioned tactic. The barrier made it so we were always in reach of his threads and the ever-changing attacks he could use them to launch from any which direction.
That was why we decided to fight him up close, where it’d be a bit harder for him to manipulate his threads to his will.
We made use of the lesson Amanda and taught us and avoided using Physical Damage Nullification because we understood that Fermus was the type to deliver quick hits in rapid succession.
（First, approach.）
「Brilliant Lightning Rush!」
Fran accelerated towards Fermus. He reacted by creating a wall with his threads, but was ultimately unable to stop us.
（Master! Executing plan!）
『Got it! Dimension Shift!』
『Short Jump!』
I teleported us, and this time, made the explicit assumption that we would be completely seen through. The reason I was willing to make such a move was because I’d eliminated the risk associated with it through the use of Dimension Shift, a spell that took a few seconds to activate, but could prevent all sorts of different attacks. It was more than enough to shield us from getting hit the moment we reappeared.
And that was in fact exactly what happened — a series of threads assaulted us from four different directions the moment we finished teleporting.
The application of our contingency caused them to pass right through us without doing any sort of damage.
「Hmph! I knew it. You really can use Space/Time Magic after all.」
Fran tried raising me above her head and crashing my blade into Fermus’ body, but wasn’t able to. He had already figured out our goal, and so, he created a barrier with his threads and stopped me in my tracks
Each individual thread was rather weak, but he was able to strengthen them and turn them into a shield by channeling magical energy through them and using a couple dozen in conjunction.
We couldn’t take advantage of our higher weapon skill level because we still had absolutely no idea what Fermus’ threads could do. There was just no way we could see through his techniques or predict his actions without further knowledge of his style.
『But that’s fine! ‘Cause we’re not done just yet!』
We didn’t need to have me come into contact with Fermus’ flesh for us to damage him. The black lightning that enveloped Fran’s body would shock whatever she attacked.
In other words, attacking Fermus’ threads would cause them to be struck by lightning. The electrical energy would conduct its way through his threads and ultimately damage him.
Or at least, that’s what should’ve happened.
「That won’t work.」
The black lightning did begin coursing through Fermus’ threads, but it began petering out and losing its power as it moved, only to disappear completely before reaching him. He had managed to use his threads’ sheer volume to disperse all the electrical energy before it reached him.
Fran continued attacking Fermus while parrying the threads he countered her with, but to no avail. None of her lightning reached him; it all dispersed and flowed into either the ground or the air instead.
He was easily handling our technique with a method we’d never imagined possible.
『Dimension Shift.』
『Short Jump.』
『Multiple Doppelganger Synthesis!』
I teleported us again, but this time, also threw in a few doppelgangers to distract him while we did. It was kinda obvious that Fermus would manage to defeat the doppelgangers in an instant, but I didn’t care. What mattered was that the doppelgangers were more than just illusions. Their physical forms forced Fermus to invest time in actually dealing with them.
Watching my doppelgangers die was something that used to make me cringe, but I’d gradually gotten used to and grown completely desensitized to it over time because of all the practice we had in using them.
None of the three doppelgangers I spawned had taken on the form I’d been expecting them to have.
General Information
Name: Doppelganger
Attack: 100
MP: 50
Durability: 100
Magical Conductivity: C
They didn’t have the form I had when I was still human, but instead, happened to possess my current form. Appearance wise, they were basically perfect replicas of me; it was impossible to tell us apart at a glance.
Fortunately, they still did their jobs; Fermus’ eyes ended up getting pulled to the newly formed blades.
I was really curious as to why my doppelgangers had suddenly all turned into swords, but ended up shelving the thought for the time being. I needed to concentrate on the battle.
I telekinetically propelled my doppelgangers towards the dragon hunter. I hadn’t planned on them actually damaging him, so I’d only put just enough force in to cause them to move towards him at the same speed they would have been at had they been free falling.
None of the replicas really had much durability, so he destroyed them in an instant. But again, they served their purpose.
We were really quite fortunate that Fermus had just fought and lost to Forrund. The experience he gained from the battle was still fresh in his mind, so he ended up paying much more attention to the doppelgangers than was actually necessary. We’d basically slipped his mind as a result.
We took advantage of the opening and attacked him. Though Fermus managed to avoid a direct hit, he still did end up bleeding. It was a pretty good outcome considering that I’d activated Magic Poison Fang and laced the attack with venom.
The old dragon hunter had a skill that made him resistant to abnormal status conditions, but I didn’t care. My goal was once again not dealing him any direct damage, but instead detracting from his ability to focus. There was no way manipulating that many threads didn’t require an incredible amount of concentration.
Fran continued rushing him down and attacking. Shallow wounds began appearing all over him as she did.
His threads were powerful and difficult to deal with, but we were still capable of defeating him so long as we stuck cl-
『Fran, watch out!』
A piece of thread rose from beneath Fran’s feet and attempted to both trap and attack her.
Fermus had lured us to one of the traps he’d prepared upon figuring out that we wanted to engage him in close combat.
I’d only barely noticed it in time for Fran to avoid a direct hit from it because of my Trap Detection skill. It was extremely difficult to pick up because of how high leveled Fermus’ Trap Creation skill was. It was the type that activated if we touched one of many specific threads.
We needed to watch out and be more careful of being baited going forward.
He took the opportunity caused by us recoiling from the trap to retreat and widen the gap between us.
Holy shit! Dealing with him and his god damn threads was a huge pain in the ass!
[1] Here, the author specifically denotes that Fran’s title is, in Japanese, pronounced “Kokuraiki.”
[2] I literally translated the second halves of these skills for now because I’m not sure what they’re supposed to do. I’ll update them accordingly once the author reveals their properties.
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30 thoughts on “TSKD 212
1. Hey, you forgot to delete a sentence from the RAW. It’s just after Fran uses Brilliant Lightning Rush.
Curious, does the doppelganger form adjustable or is it the result of the Goddess’ binding?
1. I think that it was written that the doppleganger’s appearance could be altered based on the users imagination. Like the clothes and other stuff.
2. Thank you for the chapter!
“…Fermus had proven himself the more stronger of the two” => “…Fermus had proven himself the stronger of the two”
“…will bit pitted…” =>
“…will be pitted…”
“I knew you it.” => “I knew it.”
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3. Thanks for the hard work.
Expecting the finale with great anticipation.
With the way things are going, I think Fran is ptted to win, but a false move and they are done.
4. I think naked guys coming at you are more distracting than swords coming at you. Or copy naruto Erokagebunshin no jutsu.
5. Thanks for the chapter!!
“a name for herself, Fran, the Black Lightning Princess” -> “…for herself. Fran, …” or “…for herself: Fran, …”
“Fermus had proven himself the more stronger of the two” -> “the stronger of the two”
“hoping for the lightning magic would run through his threads” -> “hoping for the lightning magic to run through” -> or “hoping that the lightning magic would run through ”
“the ever-changing attacks they could launch from any which direction” -> “attacks the could make”? I know it’s because of magic N’ stuff but launch would be more for him to launch attacks (with threads) not the actual threads themselves launching the attack
“where it’d be a bit more difficult for him to” -> “a bit harder for him to”?
“he created a barrier of thread” -> “barrier of threads” (or “thread barrier”)
“it was impossible actually tell us apart” -> “impossible to actually…”
“The old dragon hunter had skill that let him resist abnormal status conditions” -> “had a skill” and “that lets him resist” or “that allows him to resist”
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6. The author needs to think up some more creative fighting tactics for them. Currently their tactics consist of
1) Spam magic
2) Teleport behind enemy for sneak (lol) attack
3) Teleport into sky to give finishing move that seems incredibly easy to dodge or counter with the right skills
Despite the mc being a sword and them having basically the highest level sword skill, they don’t really use close combat techniques and sword arts. Fran’s current build and strategies seem much more suited for a magic archer that uses their agility to kite and bombard the enemy.
1. I think it’s just Shishou who doesn’t pay much attention to sword-swinging, because he doesn’t get to participate actively.
Also, at this powerlevel, most opponents can either tank their close-combat assault, or not let them get into close combat. I expect there to be more sword-swining when they’re up against monsters once again.
7. Thanks for the chapter ^_^
Wow, his dialouge was interupted. Not expecting that lol. And shihou should do parrelel teleports, like teleport to position A, but teleport the second they arrive at A to B, and so on. But the specefics and time intervals aren’t specefied (the only thing mentioned is a brief gap or something of stillness when they finish teleporting) so it’s i bit difficult to think up of other moves. Someone mentions he and fran have like 3 moves, and I totally agree. The author isn’t making full use of the toys he has.
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The chiefs sail to Kailua, 1846.
The Chiefs. The Chiefs landed in Kailua on this past 15th of May; there was a 22-gun salute.
Puhi was tried for murder at Kau, earlier, and he was found guilty, pertaining to murder. How sad is the end of those who do wrong!
Kalama, the wife the of the King is sick.
Steamship: Cormorant [Kormorant] is its name. It sailed on this past Saturday [la hoomalolo]; it is a very amazing ship; there were many people who boarded it to see; the Governor and the chiefs as well.
(Elele, 6/4/1846, p. 40)
Ka Elele, Buke II, Pepa 5, Aoao 40. Iune 4, 1846.
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Anyone else feeling like they could use not just a little, but A LOT of encouragement right now? You're not alone...
Within our church family, people are grieving the loss of family and friends due to COVID, mourning the loss of beloved pets, trying to comprehend hospitalizations. Beyond on our congregation, there have been local evacuations as a result of fires, people are losing their homes, life is just plain messy and chaotic. Just this morning I received a text from someone saying...
I know God is here but I don't hear or see him. I know he is active but I sense his silence. What I know and believe isn't jiving with my feelings of abandonment...I can choose to trust, which I do, but what the heck...?
Sound familiar?
Let me just say it: our world is a complete mess right now, and there doesn't seem to be any sign that it's going to let up any time soon. What do we do? How do we respond? WHERE IS GOD?!
At Morning Joy this morning, we looked at Revelation 1:4b-6, 8. As we read, contemplated, and meditated on these words, we were all struck by just how timely they felt. We needed - YOU need - to hear what God says through John here...
What Revelation 1 is saying is that no matter what is happening, God is bigger than all of it! Everything begins and ends with him! He is the Almighty!
And with that comes freedom, and grace, and peace, and hope.
I know that this truth - as true and incredible as it is - might not fix anything or take away the anxiety, stress, and trauma you may be experiencing or feeling right now. But that's where the lament Psalms come in - to give us the words to speak when we are mute, to grant us permission to struggle and question, and push us forward in holding on to what we know when our heart simply isn't feeling it.
A while back I preached a series on listening to God in the midst of various life seasons. Perhaps you're in winter right now. Maybe you would benefit from going back and listening to that series (or that specific sermon). Or maybe all you need is to simply hear someone say, "It's okay to be feeling the way you are. Lots of things really suck right now. God's still there in the silence and the chaos, he's still in control, and he promises grace and peace."
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Why Do Campaigns Even Exist?
I think we can all agree that last week’s presidential debate was the debate from hell. There was screaming, petty insults, and general tomfoolery from both sides. For the majority of the evening, however, there was a bigger baby either prompting or doing most of the insanity. The debate not only brings up questions about itself as a viable format, but of the campaign trail as a whole. Why do we use such an arbitrary process to decide who is going to lead the nation? You can raise money, bully opponents, and gather big rallies. Who cares? The issue with the race for presidency is not the candidates (ok this time it kinda is), but it is the idea of campaigning as a whole.
Debates do one of two things: they either entrench supporters further onto their own side—which happens a lot—or they change people’s minds—which happens almost never. One thing a debate does not do is prove or disprove if a candidate will make a good president. When will the President ever have to speak in such a way on the public stage? A president has speeches that are pre-written, is surrounded by experts in every meeting, and almost never has to defend legislation on the fly. Why do we use a campaign as a mark of a good candidate when everything that goes into being a good campaigner is the opposite of what makes an effective president?
Donald trump at a rally Photo by Gage Skidmore from Flickr
Not only is the campaign ineffective, it is entirely too long and costly. Many elections across the world only last a few months. Countries have laws put into place so candidates cannot raise funds or declare candidacy until a particular window. Sure, news pundits may have less to cover for a few months, but goodness wouldn’t it be nice if campaigns actually took place within the election year. And then they were done. Americans are too focused on the fight, on the race and on a winner. Not the best winner; “your side’s” winner. Everyone is guilty of it on both sides of the aisle. The focus on the campaign is the reason why a candidate like Trump can win, have record disapproval ratings, and still put up a close fight in his reelection campaign. It’s why the Joe Bidens and Hillary Clintons will always struggle against him. Most importantly, it is why America is so divided.
Part of the solution is to shorten the campaign trail, yet even then, we are left with good campaigners and bad presidents. In the latest season of Revisionist History, Malcolm Gladwell looks into this issue. Gladwell highlights democracies by lot as an effective system for choosing a candidate to lead. A campaign is an arbitrary judge of what makes a good president, arguably as arbitrary as a random lottery would be. Gladwell found programs that have utilized the lottery system in schools with great success. If you are not convinced, I highly recommend checking it out (Season 5, The Powerball Revolution). Gladwell is far more articulate and thorough than I.
November is coming protest signs Photo by Rosemary Ketchum from Pexels
Americans will most likely never go for the lottery system. Perhaps a new society will be able to utilize this form and spread it in the future. As for now, we are stuck listening to senile men scream at each other to win an office defined by its peacemaking promises. God bless America. | <urn:uuid:da19689d-559b-4bd4-bf3b-cb80ccaf4597> | https://www.hercampus.com/school/cnu/why-do-campaigns-even-exist | en | 0.969105 | 0.647755 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Myasthenia Gravis
MG: What is it?
Myasthenia gravis aka (MG) is an autoimmune disease that weakens the voluntary muscles of the body, such as eye and eyelid movement, facial expressions, chewing, talking, swallowing, arms, legs, neck and occasional breathing. Weakness is brought on with exertion and activity. It’s known as the snowflake disease because no two cases or MG are exactly the same.
What causes it?
MG is caused by a miscommunication between the nerve and muscle. The body’s immune system makes antibodies that prevent the transmission of the nerve signal to the muscle. Think of a lock and key, the antibodies are gum, clogging the lock, prevent the key from fitting. Basically your body is attacking itself and prohibiting normal function. It is not contagious and there is no strong research that indicates MG being genetic.
What are the signs and symptoms?
A person with MG may experience some or all of the following:
• Drooping of one or both eyelids
• Blurred or double vision
• Problems walking
• Change in facial expression
• Having a hard time swallowing
• Trouble talking/heavy tongue
How do you treat it?
In lucky rare cases, people go into remission or improve without treatment. But for the rest of us, treatment for MG may include medications to improve nerve signals and suppress antibody production (steroids), thymectomy, iVIG or plasmapheresis. Depending on your MG, your doctor will develop a treatment plan tailored to you.
Want more info about MG? Check out the links below:
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This is the fourth article in 'Creating Your First Umbraco Page' series. So far we've split a very boring HTML page into a master layout, header component, footer component and a homepage template. So far the page is all hard coded and content editors can't update any of the text.
In today;s guide, we're going to change that and add several properties that will put the power in the content editors hands. Every web page in your websites will have shared data, like a page title for instance, as well as unique properties, like a homepage welcome banner. This means we need to add global properties to the master template and the unique properties to each individual template.
To get started, open up the master document type we created in the second tutorial. If you're just joining now, this process works with any layout, or, template.
When you load the page you should be presented with a page similar to the above. This page is the properties builder. The first thing you can do is create'tabs'. Each tab that you create here will be a tab the content editors see when they create to try and create a page using the template. Some standard tabs tat get created on most projects include:
Metadata: A tab to store all your pages meta-data properties, e.g. page title, meta keyword etc.. Settings: A tab for page, related settings, these types of settings could include things like 'include in breadcrumb', 'exclude for search results/do not index', 'exclude from sitemap' etc.. Main Properties related to a pages main bits of content.
The names you want to call your tabs is completely up to you, however, one common mistake I see on a lot of projects is that developers don't spend that much time thinking about names that make sense to the content editors who will be using the site.
If you find yourself in this situation, my advice is to always ask the people who will be using the system, what names and tabs they find best. In some instances it might not make sense to you, but, in all likelihood, you won't be the person updating content!
As we want to create a page title, a good tab for this would be 'Metadata'. In the 'Metadata' tab, you should see a giant 'Add Properties' button as seen above.
Clicking on 'Add Properties' will open up the 'Property Settings' dialog. As we want to create a property for the page title, we add the appropriate title and description. Since every page needs a title we also need to tick the 'Field is mandatory' checkbox.
Lastly, we need to define the type of element the content editor can use to enter in the data, this is done by clicking the 'Add editor' link. Clicking on this will load the dialog above. For a page title, we only need a string to represent the page name, but we could use rich-text, a date, an image etc.. you can even create and add custom ones you build yourself, but, that's definitely something for a later date.
After defining the page property, click the 'Save' button, in the bottom left-hand side. Now we have a property defined, the next step is to render it within a template.
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Christine commented ·
I agree. My boys have been enjoying this free app for years than you have the audacity to take it away from us. Why not make the new subscribers pay why are you taking away from the long time users. We have no working games now. I explained to my boys that we have to pay now but they don't quite understand that they also don't understand expensive. Please bring yours games back to our children. Thank you
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